The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-22 00:00:00

DIONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is a steady demand for discount accommo dation today, and the average rate for first class three months' bills is 71, per cent. A further sum of £140,000, in bar gold, was taken into the Bank yesterday. _ _ _ _ The City of New York has arrived from America 'with £220,000, and the Monarch from Port Philip with £247,332. The committee of the Stock Exchange have de cided upon closing the house on Saturday next, so as to give its members and their employs the op portunity of remaining away from Thursday even ing till Monday. The prospectus has been issued of the Consolidated Discount Company, with a proposed capital of £1,000,000, in 20,000 shares (one half of which will comprise the first issue) of £5O each. The under taking has met with a favourable reception at the Stock Exchange to-day, and the shares are at a premium of 2± each. The object in view is to purchase the business of Messrs. Sandeman and Co., of Abchurch-lane, and the three members of the firm will occupy seats at the Board. During the last few days there has been rather less animation in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets. Sugars have been held for fully previous rates, while an increased demand has been expe rienced for coffee, Tea, rice, fruit, and spices, have remained without material change as regards values, while a better tone has prevailed in the tallow Market, owing to an increased demand for expor tation. The Royal Insurance Company have just issued their almanack for the new year, and certainly a more elegant or neat present could not have been made its thousands of members. In addition to the usual information the pretty little volume contains a great quanity of highly in testing matter, all of Which will be found of the greatest utility to the Mercantile and commercial world. The "Royal" is one of the largest life and fire insurance companies in the world. No other office has, under any cir cumstances, ever before paid so large a sum in bonuses on life policies. The sum assured on new life business, in 1862, amounted to upwards of £700,000, which placed the "Royal" in the highest rank of life offices. The revenue from fire insurances amounted, for the same period, to £300,000, and this within _lB years of the com pany's establishment. _ _ The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed the following settling days :—National Steam Navigation Company (Limited), Wednesday, Dec. 23, to be officially quoted; East Cambrian Gold Mining Company, Monday, Dec. 28, not to be marked. The Committee have also ordered the shares of the Upper Assam Tea Company to be officially quoted. Two o'CLocK. At Paris this morning (according to Mr. Reuter's telegram) the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 40c. Firm. In the market for the English Funds to-day the changes have been unimportant. At one time there Was a little more firmness, but the alteration did not exceed 1-16th per cent., but since then prices have returned to their former level, and Consols are again 91; for money, and 911 for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 911 ; Exchequer Bills, 9s. 4s. dis.; India 5 per Cents., 1061 ; do. Enfaced 5 per Cents., 1031; do. 51 per Cents., 1131; and the Debentures, 991 1. There is very little alteration in the Foreign Market, and business is very quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 701 71 ; do. Consolides, 461 1 ; Greek, 241 251; Spanish Passive, 33 1; Mexican, 36; a ; Portuguese, 481 49; and the Confederate Loan, 37 39. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been limited ; prices, however, generally ex hibit an upward movement. Lancashire and York shire, South Eastern, and Great Northern have advanced 55., and Great Western and Midland, 10s, The - Foreign and Colonial lines show little varia tion of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in fair request at about previous rates. West India and Pacific Steam are quote d 2 to 21 ; N a tional Shipping Company 11 2 prem.; Contract Corporation, 21 31 prem.; and Consolidated Discount, 11 21 prem. BRITISH. FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock ' — 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9ll k New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 31 per Cent. Annuities New 21 per Cent. Annuities.. 6 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 .. ilnnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880.. Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. India Stock, 1874 Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870 Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent 1631 Ditto 5i per Cent Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 991 i Bank Stock for Account I) , iio Bonds £l,OOO — dis Ditto under £l,OOO Consols for Account, Jan, 7 9li India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 24 & 3 per Cent. 4 9 dis Ditto £500 Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859.....- — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Ditto Account 93 Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Colombian 6 Scrip £l5 pd Ditto Scrip, 1863,130 paid Cuba, 6 per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — .. , :talian 6 per Cent. — Ditto 41 per Cent, — Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 D Dutch,itt o .... , 2 1r p u e v r is C un en ul t. Lan Ex a . W 12 ar , Guilders rant... ... -- Cent Egyptian 7 pei. orttos, p S e e r co c n e d u l .. 99 7u18e24-6, ex-Coupons.. -- Ditto Accountt Ditto Coupons ............ Ditto Account . : ... **************** Guatemala 6 per Cent. Ditto Account. - Itali.z. 5 per Cent.c.Nlai:e . m . IL L . ,' Mexican 3 per Cent . ..... a Railway) Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent ......... . New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent ............... ----- Ditto Deterred ...................... Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) ...... ...... Peruvian 3per Cent. .. i!itto Account -- Ditto 4i per Cent., 1862 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account ........ ' .......... . . . . -- Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9) GO, 62 ;3 Ditto Account ................... Ditto, 1863 Ditto Scrip, £l5 paid Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 .............• 166 t Ditto 1860 - Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent .... Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account 54 Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account Ditto Passive Ditto Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded _ Ditto Account — Swedish, 4 per Cent tariti6U 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account Ditto, f;100 Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Account. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863 Venezuela 3 per Cent. Account 23a Ditto 6PerCent. 1862 .............. Ditto Account 541 4 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch2l per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil ........ -- Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ... ...... 100/ French Routes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f.... A ecutuit. ...... 5 per Cent., 1851, Ex. 25 francs.. Ditto " . Ditto Scrip (1863) £1.2 Sc. 31 paid.... pm TWO O'CLOCK. 1 Consols, M oney .............. . ‘., 9 .. 91 Ditto Account IM . s borne se, for. ) Ger ,rne. ondoc• jog mortal aveyea Funeral day g ust', of the Irning' E treeta raY are , s balf. i p tiono life of reenw °flour' on tb° which ger; e : L wbi" rati °l33 41Vit pF Grave' 'DO ) iys 51 Lid Ige aoIVICY P b r! ' 10 ea vi ; w ain 4. to b ac° it g°°r° f a raili liefd.evt t even, uko ai : a ,ver,r t to the rax' ft town rChri't- S ar ah 4 ar3r) l3ll- Leir way araerous ly bene° l idenc e ' palaccl , ecentlY , ngs t urteaa 37 ", drat and ,te, 1 " 1° rid flow Le, OLIO. at th e Btayl°g : m peror ceptiool ay's h avi°g, ;ourt o f yester whol33s busiLL ° :: ce of t'" daily tit' ;es• ge s lieatlpo —ln the ich 6 P: is salts• is, it ar escoodc a Cilterlo9 3cl at :: elong i ; 7 J u stic e It IV° d l ty , pet e io ew"- wra the 120 t0 n,. , . 7; but I to a s P irE3 Gv , j ,ttar i t 6 a ,--_ OO you a turned firing . e uuri, ay 11- - bulle te. tt ‘: s o ::; I init° ° ' d to fiitvr ty cios eu you r , Il e est D:3l SHARE MARKET S.—This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Closing ,I Business Share Railways. Paid. Price. t L14., 1 Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. ',45 Blythe and Tyne. 10 Bost.,Sleat.,audMul.t.,o st Bristol and Exeter st Caledonian 50 Cork and Bandon 20 Cornwall A gets no tin 10 Do A ( till 6p c.p an.ha, 10 Do. B been paid to B. , 50 Dublin A Itcllast June. 25 Dun ~Per th,& Ab. J uno. st Edinburgh & Glasgow. st ,Glas;, , . and S. Western. st 'Great Eastern, Ord. stkl st Ditto A stock st Ditto East Anglian st st GreatNorthot Scotland st Great Northern st Do A stock st Do B do et Gt. S. alit W. of st Great Western et Do Str Val gua. stool, 51; Lancashlye & Yorkshire at London and Blackwal! st Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast et Lon., Chat., and Doves et Lon. & North Western st Lon. & Ser.th Western st Man., Shef., A Lincoln. 50 Maryport and Carlisle. 12i Do # shares.. st Metropolitan et Midland i. 4.0 Do New st Do Binning. A Derby 50 Slid. Gt. W. of Ireland 25 Do shares 8 8i 8 fii 82 84 1181 119 a 25 Mid Kent 10 Do Cray Line st North British at Edin., Perth, & Dundee st Nth. Eastern—Berwicis 2 5 Do, G.N.E. purchase at Do Lecds st Do York st Do Carlisle... st North London 10 Do New .16.4 North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction. st Scottish Central st Scot N. E., Aber. stock st Do Scot. Mid. stock 10 Shrews. and Welchpooi st Shropshire Union st South Devon f .' st South Eastern et South Wales at S. York. and River Dun 20 6taines,Wok.,andWok. 25 Stockton & Darlington 25 Do .. •••• 61 7 38 40 16 17 94 96 107 109 481 49/ 45 47 71 8i 125 127 1 1301 1311, P 4 136 06 98 63} 6i 1104 110/1 71 73 1074 'OS, 43 41 107 107} 101 102 4Si 40i Ill} 1124 1281 1 281 14 11p 96 Q 8 51i 62i 25 16 1011 1021 58i 51 S 9 694 119 121 1 2 I , 77 78 11 11i U 2 129 42 44 93 100 all all 100 100 100 Do New, 186 C it Taff Vale.. LO Do B LO Do C i 0 Ulster 15 Do .0 Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford do Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har..tß West Midland -Oxford NewportDo Do Hereford 51 62 :2 33 951 o6i 158 11 83 86 170 175 1191 1261 t 131 64* lli 101 721 101 i i 102 491 1281 91 P 1021 / 961 I BRITISH POSSESSIONS. share- Railways _ . 100 atlantic &St Lawrenct all 60 (2 601 Bom. Baroda,t.Cent Inu " - Gu. 5 per ..... 100 106 107 20 Do. New . 8 6 1 p 20 Do. E. Shares 201 Bufialo and Lake Huron all 6 6. 10 Do. Preference [OO IButlalo,Brant,&Godrieli 10u 8 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 100 Do. do. June 1, l 8 100 st Clcutta.2zS.Eastn. (Liu 100 103 105 st CapcTown Z..: Dock Seri! 100 101 103 stock Eak,tn. Bengal gu. sp. c 100 ICB /09 stook East Indian. of. s p. c. 100 lu7 1 8 108 20 Do. do. G Ext l5 / 11p 11i, stock Grand Trunk of Canada luu 20 21 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 73 75 100 Do. co. deferred-- all 59 61 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonus all 66 68 100 Do. do. deterred all 50 53 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock 100 Do. do. deferred all 38 42 100 Do. 4th I'ref. stock all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred.., all 22 c 4 stock Gt.lndiarenus.g,ua.sp.c 100 ItB 109 109 81 20 Do. New gua. s p. 0 " l2 11 111. 20 Do. January, 1862 stock Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 105 106 20i Gt. W. of Canada Share. all 91 10 201 Do. New ....... .• . 18 11 101 , 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 92 95 100 Do. sp. c. do. '77-8.. . all 86 S 8 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 I T , stock Madras guar., 5p.0. •. 100 106 107 1061 stock Do. 41 p. o. Extension 100 100 101 1001 stock De. 4A d 0........ 100 16 100 98 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stock nelb.Corp. r, p. o. Bnd.. 100 80 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 59 100 Do. 7p. o. Mortg. Bds. alt 20 Newßr unwick x Can& Claas tk and B N.ll.l.C'daB pc leapt bds 100 82 94 .tuck Scinde ..........) (100 100 107 stock Do. Delhi. l *• 100 u 6 ICI su Do. d 0...... ' E. 2 tp 21 at Do. Punjaub all 1(5 106 Do. De. ........ , t,2 , luu sock Do. indus.St. Flo.) 100 lOl 103 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ~ ,,,L.tiov. 0p.0.J a. srJ al:, ! 1877-S1 .. .... Lk IC4 105 105 k I Do. 6p. c. Feb. & .An., 100 iut YO4 D 0.6 p. c. Mar. & Sept 100 102 141 ! Do. sp. c. Jan.&July 100 925 935 933 ! Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 'Cape G.Hope, 6 p c,187:-; 100 106 108 i Do.Ap & Oct. 1881, 100 109 111 i Do. 189 8 100 109 11 1 !Do. Jan. & July, 1891 103 112 114 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 166 108 'Natal Gov. 6 per cant 130 1 , J7 109 —. N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. J a.& July 100 104 106 ! Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 !N. S. W. G ov. 5 p 3., 18,, 100 100 102 Du. Sp. c.,18r Ito 1:!;7( 100 101 102 i Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 1015 1025 1023 13 iNew Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 !Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. I sterling, 1875 lO3 105 107 'Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO Cl 113 lb. Ala G6p.c.1878.& up lOO r l/1 113 !Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 107 109 Do. to 81).0. An..t00t... lOO 109) 1105 1091 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 f id Ulitlord Amalgamated.. 33 34 550 660 Devon G. Con., (T av ist., 1 East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 t , 7 60 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 52. 3d par d East Caradon ...... .... 2.14.0 263 275 East Carta Brea.... !E. WI Russel (Tavistk ; 8.0.0 45 5 5 i I Garn.&St.Aubyn(Gwen ; 581 8 10 ,Great South Tolgus l7s 43 44 !t..4. Wheal Vor (lielston 40 12 13 Grenville R ercA's- Foot 8.12 88 40 I Elingston Downs 4.'8.0 2 25 !Lady Bertha !Margaret (Uny Lelart 9i 14 16 Marke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lim., 24 15 1 d New Setun l9l 90 100 • North Downs '4 13 14 I N.Wh'l Basset (111o.ran 3.1.0 25 24 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (5,4. Blazey . 20 ,Providence(Uny LelnL 10.6.7 42 44 i South Caradon(St.Cleer, 15 1 413 125 !3. Carta Brea (Illogan) — - - I 5.11 7 11 eal Fran. (Mogan, 18.18.9 60 65 Stray Park 30.17.6 30 32 5 1 Eamar Silv.& Lead Miu. 45 is i - I Pin Cronl 18 19 West Basset (Illogan) l5 94 10 I 5 W C , radon (Liskearti 5 18 20 West Seton mt , 475 205 tl5 Wheal Basset (Mogan:. 53 87* 925 Wheal Buller(ltedruth) 5 225 275 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 - - yWh ea lLudcott • I Vl' heal Mary Ann (Lien ) 8 114 12 Wheal fileton 585 1155 165 Wheal 'Frei awney (Lis ) 7 21 22 }Wheal Union 3.17, 25 3 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 5 per cent. red. prf., 103 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 6 per cent., 127 Stockton and Darlington, A 5 per cent., 281 South Eastern (Reading, ATMs., £1.0,6), 23 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., 1041 ' LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Buckinghamshire, 961 Chester and Holyhead, Ditto, 5 per cent., 1154 Colchester, Stour Valley, 67 North Western, 17i FOREIGN RAILWAY& Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 18 1 1 Copenhagen, Urn., 21 Eastern of France, 19} Great Luxembourg . , 12} Parts, Lyons, and Mediterranean, 39 Recite and San Francisco (lira.), tztia. 7 per cent., 17 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian,Poi Turin and Savona, Ditto (all), 19} FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper, lira.; 6} Don Pedro, Nor h Del Rey, & Kapunda 01m.), 11 Linares, Bi- Pontgibaud Silver, Lead Min. and Smelting, 61 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. ligra and United Service Wm.), 111 9.lllance Bank of Lon can and Liverpool (Um.), 43 4 Ditto, new, 28 9 Anglo Austrian, 7 Australasia, Ditto, new, 47 6} Bank 01 Quernslal lira., 0 Bank of Wales, f British Columbia 11 26i id (Urn), 14 131 Australia, anu China, 341 Chartered Bank of I . 10 Hindustan, china, and , i' Imperial Ottoman, Bank Chartered o f E gY Bank t , ri 171 India, lira., 4} Bank of " o - ndia, London and Brazilian (u n.), Da Consolidated l 3 i I d: r i t e:l a Bang, lim. ja . - , ( . 17.), 31 i : London and County, 56} 6 6 London Joint Stock, :in ~, ~ MourneirieocullitiaaonittuinTi London, London Lond and aii ISvoeustthin-liVnsetsetre,ruto(linl.), 131 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 201 1 o 3 ii i n p 4 o o ' r 6 a 4 tion. 561 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (11m. 1 , 'n i MISCELLANEOUS. British Indian Tea, lim., 2; 3 Crystal Palace, 336 1; Discount Corporati on, limited, 6i EL:glish and Australian Copper,2 Gen. Crcdit and Fin ance of London, Rm., 61 Hudson's Bay. 1 21 International Pnancial Society, lim., Joint-stock Discount, 61 7* Ditto, new, 'a I National Discount Company, li m., or!ental Gas (lice.), Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 271 oaacat Royal Mail atram, 7 5 t .1- ; • THE SUN, LO DON, TUESDAY EVENING, DhCEMBER 22, 1863. POLICE INTELLIGENCE —This Day. MARLBOROUGH - STR EET. BURGLARY.—SINGULAR CAPTURE OF TAP BURGLAR. —William Wilkes, a rough, thick-set fellow, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with burglariously breaking and enter ing the Hereford Arms Tavern, Cleveland-street, Fitzroy square, and stealing an iron safe containing money, and also other articles, altogether of the value of about £l2, the pro. perty of Mr. George Meacock, the landlord. Mr. Meacock said—At twelve o'clock last night I saw my house safely closed. About five o'clock this morning 1 was aroused by the police, who told me that my door was open. On going down into the bar I found all the money had been taken, also the sate, and other articles, a coat, a pair of silver sugar tongs, &c., altogether of the value of about £l2. The whole of the property produced belongs to me. Charles Hamel], a plasterer, residing at 4, Ogle-street, Foley• street, said—l was awakened by my wife th.'s morn ing, about five, who said she had heard a noise as if some thing had fallen in the passage. Shortly after, a boy .named Moffat was going down stairs, so I called to him to mind that he did not fall over anything in the passage, as I believed something was there. Shortly alter, Moffatt called out " There is a box here." I then went down stairs with my wife and found an iron chest near the street door, wrapped in a coat and black wrapper, so as to form a bag. I then went for a constable, and while we were examining the chest we heard a cab draw up to the house and then go on again. Thinking this suspicious, the policeman rushed out, followed by me, and the prisoner jumped, out of the cab and made off, but while being pursued he was stopped by a constable and brought back to the house, and then, with. the iron chest, was taken to the station. Edward Gall, a constable of the E division said—At half past five this morning I was called by the last witness, found the iron chest in the passage wrapped in an old cott' (the prisoner's) ho wearing the landlord's. Hearing a cab stop at the door and then go on again I followed it, and saw the prisoner running alongside the cab. I chased him for about 500 yards when he was stopped by 158 E. I then took him back to the house, 4, Ogle-street, and with the chest afterwards took him to the station. On searching him I found six keys—three skeleton keys—upon him, a box of matches and two knives. In the cab a pair of silver sugar tongs were also found. 158 E deposed—l heard a rattle spring, and stopped the prisoner in Howland-street. I asked him what was the matter, when he replied, " I will go to the station quietly. lam beat." He had on the landlord's coat when I stopped him. Sergeant Franklin, 20 E, said—While at the station I heard the prisoner say, " This is not my coat I have on, it belongs to the man that the chest belongs to." I went to the house and found this rope hanging from the open win dow, so as to let any one down. I found a screw-driver and crowbar, and that some one had got in from a window at No. 2, Cleveland-street. A dark lantern was also found in the bar. John Ritchie, a cab .driver, deposed—l was on the rank in Portland-road this morning, when the prisoner came to me and said, "Go to Ogle-street to take up." In Ogle street the prisoner jumped out, and then the policeman came out of the house and said " Stop," and I said, " Here is the man you want," pointing to the prisoner. Inspector Garforth-1 wish for a week's remand, your worship. Prisoner—l admit I did it. I was driven to it by poverty. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Tho prisoner will be remanded for a week. INDIA• We have received, via Trieste, in anticipation of ,he mail, Calcutta papers of the `Oth of November. We take the following from the Calcutta Eng- lishn2an of that date : " As for the ' situation' on the North-west fron tier, further accounts appear to confirm the intelli gence that, as ;the Highlanders used to say of old in troublesome times, ' the heather is all on fire' along the border, that almost all the tribes are arming againstns, and that the country is thoroughly up. Intelligence arrived in town on Wednesday, but without any full particulars that we have received, of another severe affair between Cnamberlaine'e force and the enemy, in which the latter are stated to have suffered a greater loss than in any pre vious encounter ; having, in addition to a consider able slaughter inflicted by her Majesty's 101st—the fine old Bengal Fusiliers—been also brought under the close fire of artillery in a narrow pass, and got handsomely cut up. Her Mejesty's 93d Highlan ders, ordered up from Sealkote to the frontier, have bee❑ directed to leave the wives and families of the officers, and the women and children of the regi ment, behind them ; and we believe that there is a general order forbidding any ladies whatever to accompany the corps going up as reinforcements. This is an additional proof that the flames are spreading on the North-west frontier, and, more over, the sound of the battle has come es far south as the Presidency. On the 17th inst. Major P. Lumsien, Deputy Quartermaster.GeLeral of the Army, received an order by telegraph directing him to start from Calcutta with the least possible delay and join his Excellency the Commander-in- Chief, proceeding towards the frontier. He left on the evening of the 18th by railway, expecting to overtake his Excellency, by travelling without a halt, six days, at Sealkote in the Punjab. Major Lumsden has passed the greater portion of his ser vice on the frontier which is now the scene of active hostilities, and is well acquainted with the country, the tribes, and their mode of warfare. He accom panied his brother, then commanding the Guides, and now the Hydrabad Contingent, on the mission to Candahar in the eventful year 1857, Dr, Bellew and Fouzdar Khan, brother of the Chief of the Dahra Jat tribes, being also of the party, and the latter remaining behind as our vakeel after the return of the mission to India. From the number of additional troops regular line regiments, ' cavalry, and artillery—moving up to the fron tier, and this sudden call for an experienced officer at so great a distance, and with his hands full of occupation at this season of the year, it is natural to suppose the work across the Indus is enlarging, and will last for some time to come. The arrange ments hero consequent upun Major Lumsden's de parture for the north-west, and the positive uncer tainty as to the length of his absence or the exi gencies of the service allowing:him to return to the Presidency and his appointment at all, are as fol lows—Lieut.-Col. Cox, C. 8., commanding the let Battalion of her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, in Fart William, and recently Embarkation Officer at the Presidency, has come forward in the moment of difficulty and offered to take charge of the Quarter master-General's office,until the arrival of Capt. H. Maxwell,Deputy-Assist. Quartermaster-Gen. of the Meerut division, who has been ordered down to the Presidency to officiate as deputy quartermaster general during Major Lumsden's absence. AU these changes are peculiarly inconvenient just now, when the season of arrival of the troops from England and the upper provinces, their embarkation and dis embarkation, keep the quartermaster-general's de partment fully employed ; and there is no doubt moves here noticed would not be made except under the pressure of emergency and when urgently re quired." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CALCUTTA, Nov. 20. On the morning of the 11th inst. the steamship Nubia, with the mail from London to the 10 h of October, arrived in the river, and her mails were delivered at a late hour of the same day. We are 5150 in receipt of the London mail via Bombay, to the 29th, The steamer with the European mails to the 26th of October is due at Galle on her inward voyage, and ought to arrive there within the next two days. Produce Market—Since our last the markets for nearly all articles of export have been quieter. The tone of home advances, coupled with the late rise in rates of exchange, has materially tended to lessen the number of transactions. Tis season's indigo sales have commenced. Rice and sugar have been taken to a moderate extent, the latter almost exclusively for Bombay. In the jute market a good business has been done in raw jute, at a further advance of four annas per maund, but in the cotton market there has been less excitement, but no alteration in the rates demanded, which still figure as high as 48r. to 50r. In silk but a small business has been done at pre vious quotations, holders asking late fates in face of limited supplies. _ _ _ Money Market—The Bank of Bengal has raised its rates 3 per cent. since our last-1 per cent. on the 9th November and 2 per cent. 16th November. 1 and Confederate Cruisers, QUEENSTOWN, Monday.—The Government in quiry respecting the Kearsage continues. Fifteen men, in Federal uniform, have been for the third time examined at the police barrack. They were asked about their treatment and wages, and conver sations with Captain 'Winslow. The press were ex cluded. The Liverpool Daily Post says:—" The Govern ment employes at the dockyard, Sheerness, who volunteered to fit out and equip the Rappahannock as a war ship for the Confederates, have been dis charged for violating the neutrality laws of the country; It is understood, also, that the names of the crews of the Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, who belonged to the Royal Naval Reserve, have been struck from the list, with the loss of all pay and pensions, and are'not to be allowed to re-enter the service." AMERICA. QUEENSTONVN, DEC. 21. The Inman steamer City of New York has ar rived here. She left New York at noon on the 12th inst., and has made the voyage in 8 days 19 hours, being the fastest passage yet made by a screw steamer. She brings the United States mails, 146 passengers,and 1,097,893 dols. and £2,000 in specie. NEW YORK, DEC. 11, EVENING. A short summary of Mr. Davis's message, deli vered to the Confederate Congress on the 7tb, has been received here. Mr. Davis speaks despondingly of the loss of Vickbburg, Port Hudson, and many other points. There has been no improvement in foreign rela tions since last, Januarys message. On the con trary, there is a greater divergence in the conduct of European nation s, assuming a positively un friendly character. The marked partiality of Eng land in favour of the Federals is strongly evinced in their decisions regarding the blockade, as well as in their marked difference of conduct on the subject of the purchase of supplies by both belligerents. This difference has been conspicuous since the commencement of the war. Prompt and efficacious remedy for the present condition of the currency is necessary to secure the full performance of the operations of Government. Mr. Davis re commends taxation. The currency must be promptly reduced to prevent the present inflated prices reaching more extravagant rates. Mr. Davis recommended the abolition of the sub• stitute system and the modification of the exemp tion law, so that the army may be largely increased as rapidly as possible. He regrets the suspension of the exchange of prisoners, and the communica tion with the trans-Mississippi districts is greatly obstructed. He says:—" The enemy refuse propo sals for the only peace possible between us. The only hope for peace now is the vigour of our re- aistance." Advices from Charleston to the Bth state that the Federals have ceased firing on Fort Sumter, and are altering their batteries entrenching Fort Gregg to the eastward. One Monitor has timber around her to protect her from torpedoes. Southern despatches state that General Long- street has raised the siege of Knoxville, in coon sequence of reinforcements reaching General Burn side. Longstreet fell back to Morristown, where he would probably make a stand. He lost 600 men at Knoxville. Southern despatches from Dalton to the Bth inst. state that the Federal cavalry had been driven a mile beyond Ringold. Some despatches assert that the Federals have been defeated at Sollersville,Ken tucky, with a loss of numerous prisoners, and that the Confederates have made a raid on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, near Pocahontas, captur ing 400, and killing 300 Federals. The Senate of Georgia has ordered the enrolment of all citizens over 15 years of age for the defence of the State. The people of Tazewell, Tennessee, are determined to sell corn at 1 dol. per bushel, and were freely furnishing the Government with one-tenth of their crops. President Lincoln has pardoned General Gaunt, of Arkansas, and returned him his property, except the negroes, under his new amnesty pro clamation. _ General Banks has returned to New Orleans. The plot to seize the Chesapeake was matured at St. John's, New Brunswick. Her cargo con sisted of fat for a Southern port, it being intended to run her into Wilmington. Capt. Parker, formerly of the privateer Retribu tion, went on board the Chesapeake at St. John's to take command of her• President Lincoln's health is improving. The Etna and Bremen have arrived out, a n d t h e Canada has reached Halifax. NEW YORK, DEC. 12, Morning. Federal despatches confirm the report that Longatreet is at Morristown, East Tennessee. The monitor Weehawken, lying at the entrance of Charleston Harbour, sunk suddenly at her an chorage during a gale. She went down very r apidly. Four eng ineers and 26 of her crew were drowned, She is lying in five fathoms of water. and will be raised, when the cause of her sinking will be ascertained. A fuller summa r y of President Davis's message has been received. He says—" Whatever obstinacy mcy be displayed by the enemy in his desperate sacrifices of money, life, and liberty in the hope of enslaving us, experience of mankind has too conclusively shown the superior endurance of those fighting for home, liberty, and independence to permit any doubt of the result. He bitterly criticises Earl Russell's policy in regard to the blockade, and refer rin g to Earl Russell's speech that Englishmen would have been for ever infamous if for the sake of their interests they had violated the law of nations and made war with the Slaveholding States against the Federal States, he says Earl Russell would probably have omitted his remark regarding the slaveholding States it he had remembered that these States were, when colonies, made slaveholding by the direct exercise of Eng land's power, whose interests in the slave trade were then supposed to require that her colonies should be slaveholding. President Davis says there are only two measures applicable to the present condition of our foreign relations. One is to imitate the wrong under which the Confederate States suffer, namely, to retaliate by declaring a paper blockade of the Federal coasts and capture all neutral vessels trading to Northern ports. This course I do not recommend, although it would only be following the precedents of France and England in the Berlin and Milan decrees. The other measure is not so objectionable. The Paris declaration proviees that a neutral flag covers an enemy's goods, except contraband of war. The South acceded to this declaration by the treaty of August, 1861, but the consideration ten• dered for that concession has been withheld, and she is therefore not bound b y the compact. As, however, the South approves of the principle of the Paris declaration, she will uphold it and hope for redress from the returning sen se of justice o ff the great people who will awake to the ons that the war " in which the South is enga ed ought g b e arance of an rather to be a reason for for advantage than the occasion for unfriendly con duct." COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, DEC. (Evening). Money tight. Gold opened this morning at 52, but has since declined, and closed at 501, under the influence of S ecretary Chase ' s me ssa ge. Exchange o n London, 165; on P a ris, 3. 35 . Stocks heavy. New York Centrals, 132 ; Illinois Central, 117.1 ent. United State Bond, 1041 Erie, 10 5 4; 6 per C ex dividend. Cotton quiet. Middling Upland, 71c. to 79c. Flour and corn quiet. \\ 7 heat ad vancing. Provisions dull. Coffee quiet. Sugar dull. Molasses heavy; Petroleum quiet and un changed. Crude, 32 to 331 ; refined, 46 to 48, BRESLAU, Dec. 19.—The Gazette says—" In the town or Bialystock, in the Government of Grady° , all the shops have been closed and sealsplaced o_ ll them by the police, assisted by the armedtor"' All of them Were rigidly searched." WESTMINSTER. THE EYTRAORDINA.RY MATTER OF HERR STRAUS• itERG.—Tho public attention has been much excited by the extraordinary circumstances attending a complaint made last Saturday by Herr Strausberg against Mr. Thos. Napper, member lof a Sussex family of respectability and position. The charge was one of assault arising as it seems from the circumstance of Herr Strausberg having two of Mr. Napper's daughters under his roof, one, as it was ad mitted, sither as his wife or living in that position. Yes terday the case was to have been resumed, and Mr. Napper appeared before the magistrate, but Herr Strausberg did not attend, and so the matter finished. This morning the landlady of the house in which Herr Strausberg had resided, in Ebury-street, Pimlico, came to this Court and solicited the magistrate's advice. She said that Herr Strausberg and the lady who passed as his wife had left her apartments on Sunday, and had subsequently sent for some of the things they had left, and her object now was to inquire whether she should be right in giving them up. Mr. Arnold—l don't know anything about the matter excepting what I have seen in the newspapers, but why should you not give them up ? Applicant--Mr. Napper came to me and desired me not to do so on any account. After that Mr. Strausberg sent his servant for the things with money to discharge his bill at my house, and I would have given him the property, but I did not know whether I should be doing right or wrong. Am I authorised to keep them, or, if Mr. Strausberg sends again, shall I give them to his servant? Mr. Arnold—l repeat that I don't know anything about this case as a magistrate ; but I may say that, as a general rule, the owner of property left at :odgings is entitled to it upon payment of all just demands, and it is unimportant whether the application is made for it by the owner himself or his servant or other person known to be representing him. This property is bound to be restored to the owner or his authorised agent. Applicant—l have no claim to detain it, and am anxious ,o get rid of it, but I don't know what to do, as Mr Napper claims the things. Mr. Arnold—What are they ? Applicant—Principally the lady's wearing apparel. She has always passed in my house as Mrs. Strausberg, but Mr. Napper says she is not. She is his daughter, and he claims the things as belonging to him, and says I am not to give them up. Mr Arnold—On what does he found his claim ? Applicant—He says that his daughter's wearing apparel is his, because she is not of age. Mr. Arnold—What is her age ? Applicant—l should think about 18. Mr. Arnold—Then, I must say, I think he is wrong. If the daughter is 18 years of age I think her personal wearing apparel is her own. Applicant—Then I shall let Mr. Strausberg have it when he again sends for it. 1 really have no desire to keep the things. THAMES. SAVAGE Assitv LT.—J ohn Smith, a tall man of respectable appearance, who was stated to be a seafaring man, was brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with assaulting Mary Ann Shelt, the wife of a builder, residing in Alderman's row, Bermondsey. Mr. and Mrs. Shelt were passing over Tower-hill last night on their way home, when the prisoner accosted them and put his arm round Mrs. Shelt's neck. She pushed him away, and he immediately struck her a violent blow on the stomach. Mr. Shelt immediately seized the prisoner and called for assistance. The prisoner attempted to get away. The bystanders however interfered, and the prisoner was secured. In answer to a question by Mr. 'Woolrych, the husband said the blow inflicted on his wife was so violent that she could not walk home. The prisoner, in defence, said that he was on his way home, with his right towards the rails which sur rounds the glade between Tower-hill and the Tower moat, and met Mr. and Mrs. Shelt, who also kept the same side, and did not make way for him as they ought to have done. He said this is my right side, and you ought to make way for me, and at the same time he put his hand on the lady's shoulder and pushed her aside. The husband then laid hold of him, and five or six men came up, who were going to kill him. Mr. Shelt was recalled, and said the prisoner caught me round the neck with one arm—with the other he struck Mr. Woolrych (to the prisoner)—The woman denies that your defence is true. You are fined £5, and in default two months' imprisonment. MARKETS--This Day. HAY MARK2TS. SmiTHrtELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 108 Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 5s to £1 lOs per load. Trade dull. C UMBE RLAND.—Metvlow hay, £3 5s to £4lss Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 Gs to £1 12s per load. A slow demand. WHITECRA.PEL.—Meadow hay, £3 5s to £4 108 Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 103 Od ; and straw, £1 Gs to £1 103 per load. Trade inactive, COLONIAL. TEX.—Business has been rather inactive, but the few dealings reported have been at full prices. SUGAR. —The market has remained dull, owing to the high rates demanded by holders. Good grocery descrip tions generally sustain former prices. In the refined market there is no material ehangetorpecriocreds haveasre boon gardspr w ic e elel.CoFFEE —The demand f or colonial descri p tio ns has been moderately active, and sup ported for superior qualities. The stocks on hand compared with those of the same period of last year show a slight increase. Rice. —A limited amount of business has been done without any material change to record in values. TALLOW.—Th e market has continued rather inactive, although symptoms of improvement have occasionally ap peared. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 40s 9d to 41s, and spring delivery, 42s 3d to 42s 6d per cwt. THE LATE PRIZE FIGHT BETWEEN HEENAN AND KING.— Summonses have been taken out against Heenan and King for committing a breach of the inst. t d . h u T r sh two t e by engaging in the late prize fight on pugilists, with their seconds , and o th er s who took an active part iu promoting the fi g ht— six in all—have be en summoned to appear b efore the Mark cross Bench of Mag istrates, in which pet t y sessional divi pthasetleO a 10th n divi sion Wadhurst is situated, this day (Tuesday), to answer the charge of committing end inciting to a Preach of the I peace. FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, At the last sitting, M. Pasteur adverted to c er tain articles publish e d a t various times by M Bechamp on fermentaci on an d spontaneous genera. tiot and iu which there appears, "to an attentive eye," a tendency to claim the propriety of certain observations published by M. Pasteur. The letter admits that M. Bechamp has shown pure water to exercise no power of inversion over cane-sugar ex cept when the surface has become mouldy ; also that creosote prevents the development of mould, and that the same effect is produced when sugar and water is boiled in contact with air which has passed through sulphuric acid. But these facts, M, Pasteur contends, have nothing to do with his own experiments ; nor do they, in his opinion, add anything either to the theory of fermentation, or to that of spontaneous geaeration.—M. Pierre communicated some curious facts on the yield of corn, One decilitre of corn used for sowing contains 1,773 grains ; so that 40 litres, sown on 17 ares (the are is one-40th of an English acre) contained 623,300 grains, allowing on an average 40,800 grains to each are, which in return yielded only 14,600 stalks ; so that about 64 per cent. of the grain sown produced nothing, either because of its rotting in the soil, or by its being eaten by the birds. There being usually 6.35 per cent. of bad grain in a given quantity, this if deducted from 64 per cent., will still leave 97.65 per cent. of clear loss.—A paper was received from Dr. Cadiot, on the sub• ject of marriages between relations. He states that out of 54 marriages within the third and fourth degrees of consanguinity, 14 were barren, '7 pro duced children wh ich all die d before arriving a t a n age,t: and 18 produced scrofulous, ricketty, con- deaf and dumb, or idiotic children. There t h ere fore, 15 families whose issue for the sar p ued r mm e l lapt e i n tni t :e is healthy, though there is no answering for the future. M. F. Thomas sent in a description of a method of his for analyzing alloys of silver and lead. u e proposes to treat the chloride with a so lution of ammonia, which will dissolve the chloride of silver, 'whereby the nature and quantity of the chloride ()fiend may then be easily determined. STRAND THEATRE.—Mr. Belford announces a ben e fit at this pop ular little theatre to-morrow. The programme of the evenin g will include the drama of " Miriam's Crirae," and Mr. Burnand's burlesque, " Patient Penelope;" whilst, in addition to these stock pie•ces, Mr. the A. Sket e fil ey w ill relate the adventures of " Mrs. Brown at Play ;,, and the performances conclude with " nigh Life Below Stairs." CRIME IN FRANCE. The Court of Assizes of the Maine-et-Loire last week tried a man named Maubert, aged 50, charged with having on the 16th July last, murdered his wife by shooting her through the body. The prisoner had been for 20 years in the service of M. Boguais de la Boissiere, at Avrille, and occupied a lodge at the entrance to the park of La Please, his master's residence. On the morning of the 16th July a report of firearms was heard in the lodge, and a few minutes afterwards the prisoner rushed out calling for help. M. Boguais and some of his servants hastened to the spot, and on entering the lodge found the prisoner's wife sitting on the floor, leaning against a low chair. Sloe was quite dead, having received a gunshot Wound near the left breast, but from her 'position she bad evi dently been placed where she sat after the shot was fired. The prisoner pretended that his gun had gone off acciden tally when his wife was handing it to hint for the purpose of shooting a wood pigeon which had just settled in a tree close by. This explana'don was believed at first, but the post-mortem examination showed that the gun must have been fired by a person standing on a considerable higher level than the woman, as the charge had passed downwards into the abdomen. The prisoner was accordingly arrested, and he then gave several other explanations of the pre tended accident, none of which accorded with the nature of the wound. The motive for the crime was easily found. The prisoner had for years given nearly all his earnings to a woman with whom he cohabited, and had even spent on her a sum of money which he had received for his master. Having been called on to settle his accounts, ho appears to have shot his wife for the purpose of obtaining a little property which he would be entitled to sell after her death. All the circumstances ch cameseemed to indicate that he had fired at her from the stair s h down into the room. In court the priso ner ff o ' erect to show ow exactly how the accident occurred. His gun was accordingly handed to him, and a gendarme sat down that in a low chair to represent th e mur d er ed woman. This ex paesriitmeelne clearly lyshow ed however, was m th o e st g u uti nfcaovuoludranbolte, in no beingthe prisoner, r handed isoner, to him, have got into the position required inflicting for the f a t a l wound, and the falsehood of his story became ev ident. The jury consequently brought in a ver dict of guilty, but allowed the prisoner the benefit of extenuating circumstances, and the Court sentenced him to hard labour for life. A horrible parricide has just been committed at Tillers (Iliarne), on a farmer of that place named Leclapart, by his son, a young man aged 20. The latter was of a most de praved character, and had already undergone a year's im prisonment for theft, and eighteen months of the same punishment for an assault on his father. Two mornings back the son, after a dispute with his mother, whom he struck and menaced with a knife, left home to aid his father in some work in a garden which the latter possessed in the wood of Itodemat. He returned in the after noon, but alone, saying that he had left his father on the road coming home. He then seated himself by the fire, and remained for some time silent, smoking his pipe ; the mother at length, not seeing her hus band arrive, became alarmed and set out in search ci him with some neighbours—in a short t ime the body was d covered in the wood, frightfully disfigured. The fury ot the murderer had been such that the head of the victim was battered to pieces, and brains and teeth were found at some yarns' distance from the body. The son, who had also left the house on the pretence of aiding in the search, disap peared, leaving some part of his clothes on the banks of the Marne, in order to lead to the idea that he had committed suicide. The police are in search of the murderer, and a description of him has been circulated. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts.-. Railways. 1863. 1862. 1863. 1862 £ £ 2,008 1.946 650 576 1,624 1,97 7 5,812 5,934 17,640 16,102 186 245 324 332 128 163 Belfast and N. Counties . 136 136 Belfast and County Down .... 49 49 Blyth and Tyne . 28 28 Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1214 Caledonian Cockermouth & Working - ton— 8i 81 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 Cork and Youghal .... 32r 321 Cornwall s6:t 531 Deeside l7 17 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9ll 481 Edinburgh and Qlasgow 1691 164 Furness, &C 5O 5 ) Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union Great Northern 353 351 Great North of Scotland 5B 58 Gt. Northu. Sr Westn. (Irel.) 7ll t6l `it Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3731 329 Great Western 10561 10321 Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 864 86i Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 Irish .North-Western 145 145 Lancashire & Yorkshire 4J.2 395/ Limerick and Ennis.. Limerick and Foynes 264 251 Llaneliy 461 461 London & North-Western London and Blackwall 5/ 51 London & South-Western Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast London, Chat ham, & Dover 7 121 724 Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 51 Loud., Tilbury, & Southend .. 421 421 Man.,Sheilield,& Lincoinsh .. 2391 '2394 blanch. S.J un.& Alt rincham.. 91 91 Ilaryport and Carlisle 2B 28 Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6141 Midland G tWestn. of Irind 2591 1921 s.lonkland 7ll 714 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 11 North British, Edin., Perth a nd Dundee .. N-Eastern and Stock. & Dad. 1095 10171 N o rth London 0 9 North Staffordshire 251 252 Oswestry and Newton... 5O 42 Rhymney l9 19 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 62 52 S co ttish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B 1321 Somerset and Dorset 66 391 South Devon South-Eastern 306 306 Tail Vale 57 55 Ulster Vale of Clwyd ' 10 10 Vale of Neath 321 251 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 Waterford and Limerick 77 77 West Cornwall 271 271 W.Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail 4B 48 W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7 7 Whitehaven Junction l3 12 Whitelia.ven & Furness Jun 35 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam s2 Austrian B2B Belgian Eastern Junction 26. Bombay, Baroda, & Len. India 185 Buffalo and Lake Huron lid Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish lOBl Eastetn Bengal llO Eastern of France 1167 East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O Great Indian Peninsula 5381 Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southeen of India tireat Western of Canada 345 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 650 Northern of Canada ... ..... Northern of France 697 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn lBO5 Paris and Orleans 1614 Pernambuco 77i Royal Danish 69 Sambre and Meuse 6B South Austrian Southern of France ..... 770 Victorian 196 Welland ........ 25 West Flanders 75 W. and N.W. of France 368 202 1,352 1,087 224 216 1,340 1,431 1,621 1,605 171 126 2,034 1,537 7,382 7,005 2,864 2,780 8,263 8,538 30,707 26,668 33,408 27,964 1,554 1.646 460 343 7,903 8,099 58,963 53,896 1,0_5 829 _ . 872 1,572 1,710 35,080 31.452 1 5 163 54 134 545 506 03,286 86, 77 1,756 1,589 20,056 17.350 15,2:30 17,010 4,379 3 4.,05 " - 'b 0 210 1,014 0; 2 10,78 15 205 1,162 1,0.,11 1,387 1,2L6 2,135 41,980 40,164 4,227 4,006 1,573 1,6 r 2 2,335 2,250 11,792 54,587 3,315 8,547 1,053 X9ll 2,099 6,103 4,800 b 97 3,404 19,039 6,698 1,968 145 2,3u2 318 1,256 64.5' 3.897 5O 002 871 10,801 53,254 3,311 7,945. 875 860 2,138 4,743 4,512 342 2,980 17,071 5,002 1,738 1,331 615 4.215 52 1,164 1,055 828 30,0b8 35,500 2 , 4 .._7O 2 , 6 1674 2,603 1,369 1614 2,734 2,041 189 5,33 k 4,454 1981 3,461 3,572 59,476 50,973 _ _ 1090 493 8,928 5,046 134 3,713 ,b 76 79 612 123 3, 5 13,009 13,916 490 17,229 14,179 99 668 58,8)2 51,0))7 44 ,1,051 881 481 1676 139,392 123,423 1434 70,611 59,397 479 69 1,057 474 68 1,356 ,sbl 1315 48,181 45,634 660 28,780 22,398 1 51 8,010 8,42 25 5 0 552 75 9,4 9)3 8 1 3 40,935 35,442 The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mine pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. lOad. per ounce fbr standard gold, it appe.( that gold is therefore, about nearly 2-10th per cent. dearer lu London than in Parini. By advices fromliamburg the price of gold is 1256 Per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per .E 1 sterling standard gold at the English Mint:price is, out . 3-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 166 to 1661 per cent., and the premium n „ gold is:about 514 per cent. At these rates there is scarcely-- any profit on the importation of gold from the United ____ ferhamonnt of States. , and all the works THE IRONWORKS OF SOUTH W AL a E I S ;ra in the price of iron lies imparted Y hundreds of addi e advance Many the iron and coal activity to the iron trade of South Wales of the district are in full employ. after felt commencet id al couldhanosper at i 0 n b be areemployed i n full l a t 8 which are about to work the scarcity of naen works, and when the establishment than at present. Emi gration fail to be more severely continues, and works it has become quite an every pay -day at the larger S killed hands to leave, the ordinary matter for 30 or 40 States. The reports of w thajority of them for the Northern con nexions and friends are .0 1 wages and the success of con fluence the men to the great inducements which in rally believed that leave their native country. It is gene scarcity of workme the increased demand for iron, the keep:pri rites up, ri, and other circumstances will not only will take place. butthere is every likelihood that another rise tion. is one articular . An increase in the suppi) or overproduc tion point to be guarded against, or else prices willce p rta Li 0 ,. are the number of furnaces in blast and out The t blast, at the present time, at the South Wales Works :-- Dowlais, in blast 13, o ut of blast 5 ; Btlow Vale, 2, out of blast 2 ; Victoria, `L, out of blast 2; Sirhowy, 3, out of blast 2; Aberyeehan, 4, out of blast 2; Beaufort, 6, out of blast 1; Varteg , 1 o ut df blast 1' Ponty pool, • 4 (all) in blast ; C ur navon, 5, out of blast 2; Golynos, 1, out of blast 3 ; C y f ar thfa, 11 (all) in blast ; Conterdawe, 1 ; out of blast, 1. There are also several works at a complete standstill. The Courtier de Nice states that greet alarm was caused at Grasse (Vat) three nights since by the fall of two old houses near the Place des Aires. One of the houses was unoccupied, and there were only two persons in the other, a tailor named Pagnaire, aged 53, and his mother, aged 90. With great difficulty the man was soon ext ' cated from the ruins, but he was so much injured by ri tall from the fourth floor that he died almost immediately his ' afterwards. Had the poor fellow remained in his bed, he have escaped unhurt, for the part of the flour 'd he which his bed stood did not fall. The woman's on found during the day, but lite had body was long been extinct. 1081 639 THE EXE I WNLEY. It has hitherto been the cue:tom at Derby to exe- cute condemned criminals at noon on the market day (Friday), but the present High Sheriff (Sir IL F. Every, Bart.) has determined to alter both the day and hour of execution in order to diminish, as far as possible, those demoralising scenes which are attendant upon such occasions. The execu cution, therefore, of Townley is fixed to take place at nine o'clock on Thursday morning, the 31st instant. Great exertions are being made in Derby and the neighbourhood to obtain a cori mutation of th e sen t ence on t h e groun d o f insanity, the mayor (Mr. R oe ) and other magistrates havi;og attached their signatures to the memeriai, of w,lich the following is a zopy :-- " To the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., het Majesty's '!ecretary of State fur the Home Department, Derby eth :-1 1 ; a hat t under George se Victor iaten co " The humble petition of th e i n h a bi tants cf Der b y and Townleythe isnowneighbourhood shew confined in of death for the murder of Elizabeth Goodwin. That by the evidence in this case the following facts appear— namely, 1. That there was no premeditation whatever on the part of the prisoner. 2. That th ere was, and is, here ditary insanity in the prisoner's family, 3 . That Burin the week prior to the commission of the o ff ence the prisoner (to quote the words of Mr. Baron Martin in hissummingunin up) " suffered as much a g on y of mind as it was pos s ibl e f or any man to suffei." 4. That the prisoner's mind is now in a diseased state. We therefore humbly urge upon you to advise her most gracious Majesty to extend her royal mercy towards the unfortunate prisoner, and to commute his sen tence, in order that his lite may be spared. And your pia, titiouers will ever pray," &C. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALLS'.-LAST EVENING. TWO THOUSAND. 6to 1 agst Paris (taken) THE DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Scottish Chief (offered) 15 to 1 agst Cambuscan (offered) 100 to 6 aget Blair Athol (taken) 20 to 1 agst Forager (taken) 25 to 1 agst Historian (taken) 30 to 1 agst Appenine (taken) 30 to 1 aget Birch Broom (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Horse Marine (taken) RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864. FEBRUARY• Lincoln Spring .................... 31Ancn. Nottingham Spring 1 Chelm s ford Spring .... 15 Derby Sp r i ng 3 York Spring Liverpool .... 8 Durham Shrewsbury . .. 10 NorthamP tun 29 Ar Croxton-park .......... 1 Epsom Spring ........ 7 .IL. Newmarket Craven .... 11 Newmarket First Spriug 25 Chester Salisbury l2 Bath ... 17 Manchester . 1$ Harpenden . 2O Epson' 24 rIVE Ascot Chelipstord .. 2B Newcastle-on-Tyne .... 29 Worcest-T (Summer) .. ;30 :JULY. 5 I Nottingham Aufairsr. Reading .......... Egham York ................ 23 Lichfield ............. 30 SEFTEMBER. .......... :30 W a rwick .............. 6 Richmond Leicester.. ............ 8 Monmouth ........ .. 29 r .... 13 NewmarketFiratOctoll . er V Doncagte ........ Brecon ................ 19 OCT Newmarket July .. , BER. Newmarket Houghton.. 2A Newmarket Second 0 , 10 Gl ou cester ............ 18 NOVEMBER. Worcester Autumn STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864. jANUART. Manchester ...................... FEBRUARY• Lincoln MARCH. Liverpool 6 SHIPPING—TiIIs Day. LONDON, Dec. 22.—Wind this day at noon—North. AVesterly ; fresh breeze, and fine weather. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 21.—Arrived—iiermione, from lqauritius. FALMOUTH, Dec. 22 —Wind N.V.—Arrived—Royal Sailor, from Taganrog. (n MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) G RAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, tec. 21—Helen, from Geffe—Oden, from Iludiekswall—General Slade and Esther, from Guernsey— Stevans Flori, from Taganrog—Providence, from Antwerp —John and Martha and Middleton, from Guernsey—Fos terland, from Hernosand—Deeide, from Quebec—Specula • tion, from Memel—Minerva, from Gibraitar. DEL, Tuesday Morning. Anchnred—Tynemouth, from Shields for Carthagena— Tempest, from Sunderland ior Bombay—Grace and Jane, for Guadaloulie—Bride, for Swan Itiver—General Chase, for Cardiff—all flout London. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUB. Australia and Mauritius, via Southa tn pton. ...... Dec. 18. via Marseilles ......... Jan. 12. drazil and Cape Verds, by British paOtet. ....... Jam. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and Sr. Helena—Dee. 29. china, Penang, and Singapore, via Southaulpton.Jan. 2 via Marseilles ...Dee. 17. Falkland Islands ............... • • Dec. 27. Gibraltar, via Southamp ton ....outhampton . 2 India Caleutta), and Ceylon, via S 3an via M ar seilles.. • . Dec. 27. _ i:idia (Bombay), via S outhampton Dec. ~7. via. Marseilles Due, 9, . l'ortugal.... .............. .‘ ... • ....... l aim, Egypt, and Aden, via l.,outhanipton De _ . ‘L via Marseilles D ee. 27. D€ o . 21 N• Arica t'y Brit. IA puck ***** D ce . 7 )3' UpU. o w 6 r f . t ° o ari un' a d u d d ia D V i ri d t i i g e t: .............. .......................... .......... ....................... -2113.1. ••• by Canadian W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneride .......... an. 10. i3ahxmat~ via . ................. ... .. d. .......... ....Dec. 29. Au parts of I. u ing California. and Britidi Columbia. . Dec. 29. .......... - - KILLED AT A RAILWAY STATION.—Mr. Black burn, the coroner for Leeds, held an inquest in that town, on Friday last, on the body of Mr. Samuel Sagar, a ged V. Sager and Walker, stuff merchants, Bradford, had The deceased, who was been l on business to Knamsborough and Harrogate on Mo nda l c l , a partner in the firm of 3lessrs. and he went to the Holbeek station of the On the evening of that day he had returned Grent outside the Railway. It appeared that he left his luggag e for Wakefield refreshment-room door, and a train canto P ti ded to travel to aB far ; a orthern five minutes before that by which he intended running from Bradford. As that train stopped he the refreshment room, and he ste;P u a s s a d the other rails. As line, as if meaning to get to the train on up seenon to the down from B redford he got upon the down line a train cams wheels on one side of and he was knocked down. l'hcleosver his legs, and. he was the engine and tender all Pas:: the Leeds Infirmary. On removed in a shocking state am putated, and on Thursday Tuesday one of his legs vas t a the train was not duo for five he died. It appears ing across the line to see that fritnds that he was hasten off by the train then in the station. his luggage was not had quite forgotten that his luggage minutes; and after thetahasaccident he stated to bis mother and At the moment Bradford went very slowly into the that the train frodmriver had whistled as usual. As Mr. and the aphaplatform. It was proved at the inquest his way across the platform, Edward Sagar was m aking and others called out to him, the ticket collector, . bioore• r egarded not their warning , . g and they state that w st a a s tio n n o , t on the rushing' with such this opinion . but be with impetuosity that no cry be was rhim. Of this opinion was Mr. W. medical student, who was on his way to 13°°th Swan, a but who on witnessing the calamity attended the jury re ',sister Mr Joseph Needham, a commer cialgaff tr; the infirmary. • Mr. Sagar f Hipperhohne, was another witness of the traveller, o , and he gave evidence to the same effect as fatal occurrence, Mr. Swan , of " Accidental Death," d h After a full and patient inquiry d a verdict an t o Coroner re turned could stated that the railway company were not at all to blame, have stopped bedsit OinSEtSheArTeseCrvHeßdlSgTa3lrctenS.—oilttee Tuileries l ie a s r li g o e w li c o o n w t a e irn several roses in fall bloom. G3rdeners state that such a phenomenon has not been witnessed since the beginning of the present century, A GENEROUS ACT OF SIR H. PEEL.—During his late visit to the southern part of this comity, Sir Robert Peel happened to drive on a wet and cold Sunday morning, in the latter end of November, through the vil lage of Sheem. The poor villagers and other inhabitants of the parish were hearing mass, which the parish priest was celebrating in a small shed in the street. As there is actually no chapel, all were kneeling on the wet and miry road, the heavy rain pouring down on their bare forwarded Immediately on his return to Dublin Sir Rober a t bope that £5O to the bishop, expressing at the same tine in getting others connected with the locality m i g ht . assis t ut be shelteral up a chapel in which the poor peopleiemnyg of the weather. during liivine service from the inc.lealready contracted for As the noble Earl of Ducraven had siful Catholic church in the erection er;f a new and he4u (mild not, of course, Sheem, the gift of our Chief Secretaryood nature which prompted be accepted ; but the genuine by the cutholLo ulf th:6 the offering is not less app-c i t county,—Tralee Chronicle. , 18. - ~'