The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-17 00:00:00

lONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The money market continues quiet, and business 18 very inactive, owing to the expected alteration in the minimum of the Bank of England. There is an increase of £2,062 in the traffic receipts of the South Eastern Iteilway for the past 'week. The Committ ee o f t h e St oc k Exchange have ap pointed Friday next for a special settlement in the shares of the following companies, viz. :—Anglo- Portuguese Bank, New Zealand Trust and Loan, British and Foreign Marine Insurance, Oil Wells 0 f Canad a , an d St. Cuthbert ' s L ea d S m elting, deal ings in each to be officially recorded, the three last, however, to be marked in the bi-weekly list only. The transactions in the Foreign and Colonial beendays , have folly very extensiv e . Sugars, coffee, and ric e, how ever, sustained previous prices. The public sales of tea commence to-day, a large quan tity being announced for competition. Saltp etre has continued in moderate request, while some fluctuation has taken place in the tallow market, the decline at one time being fully 2s. per cwt . ? N.C. on th e spot, h owever, i s quo t e d 445. 3d. , and last th ree months delivery 465. 3d. t o 4&. 6d., per cwt. Two o'CLooS. At Paris this day at 12.45, says Reuters tele gram, the French Rentes were 70f. 45c.—flat. The half -yearly meeting of the Bink of Egypt took place to-day—Mr. W. Tite, M.P., in the chair. Th e report, which was adopte d , recom mended that the usual dividend, at the rate of 7 per cent. per ann um f or the h a lf y e ar (i 8,750), free of in come tax, be declared, leav i ng £4,663 5 s. 10d. to be carried forward to the next account. On the Bengal division of the Ea st Indian Railway the traffic receipts for the week ending Nov. 30 last amounted to £9,761, against £8,17 9 in the p rev i ous year. On the N ort h-West Pro.. v awes division the earnings were £a,376, against £ 3 ,392 in 1861. , The Engli s h S toc k M ar k e t is exceedingly dull , nut n otwithstanding the paucity of business prices continue steady, Consols being 921 d for transfer, and 921 93 f or th e sth prox. There is no t the sli ghtest featur e o f interest to comment upon with I regard to the current of speculation and the tend- en cy of the quotations. the New 3 per Cents. and the Reduced are firm at 921 93 ; Exchequer Bills sh r , Rat t ls. di s . ; B an k S toc k is buoyant at 237 and 239 ; India do., 227 ; and the 5 per Cent. Loan re mains at 108 1.1 For eign Securities have been dea lt in to a fair extent, and pric es have undergone no m aterial enange. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are firm at 891 90 1 ; do., 1858, at 731 ; do., 1862, 701 ; and the Consolides, 411 42; Egyptian are buoyant at 100 1 ; Greek have improved to 21 1; do., s s i Coupons to 91 ; Mexican 331 ; Moorish 94 ; Peruvian New Loan 881 891; Portuguese 47 1; et Russian 931 1 ; Spanish 53 ; do. Passive, 261 ; and 1, Venezuelan New Loan 601 611. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been rather limited, and prices have shown a downward movement. Great Eastern, London and Brighton and north Western receded ss. Midland and North Eastern (Berwick) 10s., and Manchester Sht ffield, and Lincoln, 15s. r ine Foreign and Colonial undertakings remained inactive without any material alteration in value. Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares in some instances are a shade firmer. Ottoman Bank g have improved to 421 ; Union of Australia realise 57; and Royal Mail Steam, 561 BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock i 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .. New 3 per Cent. Annuities .i.nuities, 30 yrs, expire r9thJan.,l l l : I — .)/ 227 Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, India Stock Ditto 5 p e r Cent Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. ---% 3 / 4 Ditto 5 per Cent lOO Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct, Oct„ 1863 100 Ditto ditto April, 1864 100 Ditto w i bonderds Xl,O El.ota,oo 10 C onsols for Account, March. 5 Exc hequer Bills, £lOOO, 2 3 / 4 per Cent 1 die Ditto X500 FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60 - hilian 6 per Cent. , Ditto . 4 3 / 4 per Cent. — 831 100 i 100 "qPptian 7 pet Cent .. 1001 100 Ditto Second Issue Greek4littos pCe‘fuet., 9l ex-Coup,ms New :ll ::oiirteiGt:o; Granada lmperia l ac p doe 3 3 1 2; 94 Ditto 2 per Cent 10Pruitto Deferred 5 Cent 304 71 ' %nail 4 3 / 4 per Cent. Ditto 1862 Ditto Account., Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Scrip, £25 paid Ditto 47± 7 Russian 5 per Cent., 1862 3i pra 18 . )2, £ St 971 Ditto 44, per Cent., 1850. aunt Cent i.p8e2.1.4:•5, _ Ditto 5 per cent. 1862 tiardinian 5 per Cent. Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 26 i / 6 Ditto Account ... . • Ditto 6 per C ent. 1858 ... Ditto Account .. ... Ditto 6 per Cent .lB6 ************** 731 I i Ditto Account * -- Venezuela, 3 per Cent .********* * **** * * 701 1 Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 *** : ********** --- 4 Dividends on the above \;;;E:itien 1 •i* l Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. ** London. Ditto Account *********************** 69 1 1 i Consols, TWO O'CLOCK. Money 921 w Ditto Account 92i 3 Liverpool Cotton Market. --This Day. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 17. Very quiet. Sales, perhaps iibout 2,000 bales, Inl l 3oll , 7,897 ; previously, 2,115. GARIBALDI AND THE POLES. The following is the text of Garibaldi's address to the Poles who fought under him, menti n of which has already been wade : " C Februay 5. "My B ro th ers i n Arms,—You ask aprera, me for a word, r and I Nish 1 could give you facts. For you, who have shed your blood upon the fields of battle of Italian redemption, it is but just that Italy should move, and I hope she will do so. The struggle into which your unfortunate country has been hurried by despair, should excite the opinion of Europe in favour of the oppressed —your fellow countrymen. Upon this earth there is no lack of brave men —and they hold out to you the hand. May God save Poland ‘‘ GARIBALDI?' The ex-Dictator has also sent the following ad dress to the people of England : Caprera, Feb: 5. " In your meetings—free expressions of liberty, protected by great civil institutions —among your good wishes for the triumph of justice, for the fraternity of all men, my name 4 ' B o was pronounced. lam proud of it as of the highest honour. The light of liberty makes the English nation p o werful and generous. 'Whilst it is bitterly suffering from the misery caused by want of labour, it isnot discouraged, nor forgets its duties—the duties of humanity ; no—you show a gloriousexample of charity to Europe in yourown country, and aid the slave by your powerful voice and moral support, and cheer those who redeem him to liberty. Englishmen! the sons of nobl e Poland, too, require your aid and support. you; do not let them T hey have l ong b een protecte d b y perish unde r th e k nout—under t h e b ar b a rous lance of the Cossack. Th ey fi g h t for the indepen d ence o f their county and for liberty; for which you already have foug ht and have triumphed . will Proffer your hand unto them ; you end an oppression protested against so long—you will re suscitate a nati on. "G. GARIBALDI.' The Judicial Commitee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. An appeal from Barbadoes, " Daniel v. Trotman," part heard, was concluded. Judgment was reservei. The Lords present were —Lord Kingsdown and the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner. he Bishop of l'a,maniit had an interview with thv Duke of Newcastle yesterday. Sir George Clerk also had an interview with his Grace at the Colonial -office, Str Ttiurnas Frew .ritle, Chairman of The Customs. and Mr. Stephenson, Chairman of Inland Revenue, had all interview with the Chancellor of the Exchegucr yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. SHARE MARKETS—This Day ORDINARY SIIARE -, AND STOuh3. Closing Business Price. done. Sh are Railways. Paid. 3.14. Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val 1 25 Blythe and Tyne. 10 Bost.,Sleat.,and at Bristol and Exeter at Caledonian 50 Cork and Bandon 20 C0rnwa11........ ~ z ets no di% 10 Do A ti 11 5p c.p an. has 10 Do. B been paid to B. 50 Dublin & Belfast Junc. 25 Dun.,Perth,& Ab. Juno. at Edinburgh & Glasgow. at Glasg. and S. Western. st Great Eastern, Ord. stk st Ditto A stock st Ditto East Anglian st st GreatNorthof Scotland st Great Northern at Do A stock st Do B do at Gt. S. an IW. of Ireland st Great Western et Do Str Val gua. stock st Lancashire & Yorkshire at London and Blackwell at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast at Lon., Chat., and Dover at Lon. & North Western et Lon. & South Western at Sian., Shef., & Lincoln. 50 Maryport and Carlisle 1261 Dot shares 10 Metropolitan at Midland 5.4.0 Do New at Do Binning. & Derby 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland 2 5 Do. 6 shares 25 Mid Kent 10 Do Cray Line St North British at Edin., Perth, & Dundee at Nth. Eastern—Berwick 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase at Do Lecds at Do York st Do Carlisle...... at North London 10 Do New 9.16.4.N0rth Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction st Scottish Central at Scot N. E., Aber. stock at Do Scot. Mid. stock 10 Shrews. and Welchpool at Shropshire Union .• • • et South Devon I at South Eastern at South Wales at S. York. and River Dun 20 staines,Wok.,andWok. 25 Stockton & Darlington 8 81 fi 7 88 90 117 118 ei 7 41 43 13 14 88 87 106 108 48 49 44 46 23i 21i i 5 Do 25 Do New, 1860 st Taff Vale.. 10 Do B 10 Do C 50 Ulster 25 Do 1 - 10 Do it Vale of Neath it Victoria sta. and Pim it Waterford & Kilkenny ; t West Cornwall it W. Hartlepool Har.&R It West Midland Oxford it Do Newport ) ;t Do Hereford 127 i 12871 13% 1311 136 138 104 SO5 63} (81 110} 110; 744 754 114 115 41 43 391 991 101 1(2 45 40 14 14 129 29 I f lf p 96 98 55 56 254 264 1024 103 57 58 90 9C 128 130 111 114 )1 16 lai 11} 11f 119 121 46i 471 103 105 49 51 32 31 074 08 68 70 103 105 7 8 384 394 10 11 p. 7i 8 tY 150 162 5 5i 21 33 R 551 664 26 Si p it d 87 P 86 87 140 145 29 31 44 46 37 42 96 100 491 i i 1291 131} i 6di f 75 114,E } } 11}f1 451 i 4i 181 I / / 129 stl 27 4 7 104 33 vs} R 69 44} I BRITISH POSSESSIONS. ( ;lost shar. hallways Paso• Price. Business don. 100 k t land° &St Lawrene. All 65 67 ,u r 1 tom.,Barodadz.Cent In. p.. 1045 1155 1051 I 5 Gu. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares.. P 205 Buffalo and Labe Hun., ti 5 bi 10 Do. Preference 100 Buffalo,Brant,&Godricl 0 , 77 t , o p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1.•-•;),' 100 Do. do. July 1, 187', let 75 76 100 Do. do. June 1, ls-4 100 73 76 st Clcutta.& S. Eastn. a, 100 1(3 1(5 st CapeTowtt & Dock Sort. 100 IP 8 109 Stock Eastn. Bengal gu. S p.' 100 1(54 065 1061 stock Vast Indian. go. sp. c. 101 1055 1 1 :65 1065 5 20 Do. do. GEx 5 5 I I P 20 Do. do. H do. stock Grand Trunk of ('snnd ha 21 ,2 211 100 ho. Ist Pre , . Bonds - Alt 67 70 100 Do. c.o. deferred.... all 50 55 100 to. 2d Pref. Bon , . s all 56 58 100 Do. do d-fer ed all 43 •.8 100 Do. 3d P ef. stock all 42 45 100 Do. do. d -ferr d, . al , 35 40 100 Do. 4th Pref. so k all 27 30 100 Do. do deferred all 23 25 stock Gt.lndiaPenoi.gua.sp; 10f 1045 55 1055 1 20 Do. New gua. sp. a.- 12 5 1 ) 20 Do. January, (862 stock Gt. South.of India (Lin guaranteed 5 per cent to. 5 103 10 205 Gt. W. of Canada Share all 13 ,3) 13i 5 2 0 5 Do. Nev' ....... Ti 7 5 16 5 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 wlth't opt all 99 101 100 Do. 55 F . c. do. '77-8.. all 92 24 10 Indian Branch Limited 15 , IP „„, 4tock Madras guar., sp. c. (01 2. h 35 10s5 stool. Do. 45 p. e. Extensio , 10( 96 97 stock De. 4 . 100 92 -4 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 - - ..rock kl , •ib.t. p. 0. 800 - slelb. & Hobson's Pay. all 52 63 100 Do. 7 p. c. Hong. Bd.. al - N Br unswlck Can 7 ( las. Ain B allloo 83 3 c 5 15f . !! 't I C e el d h • t 6. .°• 1100 114 5 1. ( 04 5 1035 "t 1 Do. do 20 Do. Puniauo t 5 ) 2 ,t % st Do. Do. . . I .t 104 1 0 5- 5 ec. )0. Indus. St. k • 98 100 9 ' 9 3 • ,4 r... i • s• I p.C..1 a Ate) 1877 .. 54 - Do. 6 it. c. Feb. & Au.. 101 o 3 00 Do. 6p. & Sept 100 106 1(18 - Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 10 ,, 96 97 965 - Do. 5 Inscribed stool. 100 05 97 95 - ,t 'ape G. one, 8p 0.18 7 : 100 :0 110 Do.Ap & Oct. 188( 100 112 114 114 Do. 189 , 1110 (13 115 - Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 111 113 - Ceylon, N0v.1 8 61, 6 p 100 - - Mk u itius I per cent .. 100 110 112 - Na '.a Gv, 6 per coot . 100 9 111 -- IN. 1 1. G ov . 6 p.c..) it.&J u 1• 10 , 1(5 106 - Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 10u - - N. S.W. G ov. 5 p c.,186 , 101 , 100 101 - Do. Ip. c.,1871 to 1871 100 100 101 - I Do. d0.,1888 &upwdt 100 99 100 1.91 - New Zealand 6p. cent. 100 109 111 - INova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. - sterling, 1875. lOu 106 107 - Queensland Gov. 6p. c. 100 09 11: - Aus GBp.c.lB7a& up. 100 109 111 - IV(e.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 107 109 - Do. to *o.o. AnitOrtr. 100 11C 1105 1105 BRITISH MINES. 2 'Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 5d 5n - Aitiord Amalgamated.. - 21 23 - 11)evon G. Con.. (Taoist.; 1 530 640 - (fast Bassett (Mogan 1.. 30 48 so 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. ss. 5d SP - East Caradon - East Carn Brea . 3.0.0 10 (1 - WlRussel (Tavistk.) 7.19.0 15 5 - 4am.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) 574 17 19 - I rent South Tolgus 17r , 65 75 ;. Wheal Vor(lielston' 40 55 65 - Irenyille 6.15.. 5 5 - 'lerod's- Foot ..... 8.1'2 50 52 - , lingston Downs 4. 7.0 25 3 - Lady Bertha tlargaret (tiny Lelant 35 35 (0 - llarke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) ds pr - NOV Setun l 9l 135 145 - North Downs 's 21 35 Basset(Illo-fan , -.17. 0 35 4 - vorth Wheal Crofty 2.4.0 46 5 - Par Consols (St. Blazey 15 5 6 80 ''rovidence(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.3 .1 43 - youth Caradon(St.Cleer; 15 395 403 - 3. Cam Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 25 21 Wheal Frau. (Mogan 18.1 .9 875 025 - - 1 6 0 ' S F r t arn y c a r r P o S a t r l v k . tz: . e ....... ..... 28 45 1 3 112 i 4 1 11 t 11 ‘ W v es ca t B r a a s ci s o e n t West- tV ll ea S I e S t Basset O te ; a: a r.) n d: 1 4517 i 7 235 C 35 28'7505 - - Bulleratedrutli; 05 75 heal Kitty (15.Lelant ) 7.0.6 75 8 5 WhealLud ott Wheal M ary Ann (Men ) * 154 165 - Wheal Seton . . 685 v2O 230 2376 426 t w at Tretawney (Lls.) 7 17 18 - Wheal Union 3.17 45 51 York 1 was U Ia- a waS The sting laves. n the ,o the nade, The ative, enate 3ate's with , f the 'orth, its to Bill ndtt- Dte of 'k on the en to by a sent port. e in- ouno on of f the lg and Lg the id the i thus 3erned iendly 1 their t Gal- ing. iraph pies of tle by of the hope to the ) effect Ilse to camp sburg, Third com- ack on Le wile as sp.., esti rdered peared nsnP t and Loyal, n the ni by i frogs crew , and eight gun -0 the mope, o her are of L won , 1, S•C• L from 3d the cargo• ankee ►aking Le was to run 30%0, lee for it wee r Eng s were of the We Capt. heal there, every a rther Gage- to the 3 since a s(nt that ,y that at the sels of of the days my is Tlie9 s peota treU' little is ¢t" PREFEREN , E SHARES. North Eastern, Yoi k. H. and Selby purchase, 9; West Midland, Oxford, Ist guaranteed stocx. 129 p EFE et E.\ CE nHARES AND STOCKS. Metropolitan, 5/ North British (r,din., Perth, and Dundee) 4 percent, 8: FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 8/ Bahia and s,in Franc , see gua. 7 per cent., 21t Great Luxembourg, .6 o ottoman (Smyrna to Aid n), 11 Sambre and Meuse, 11 / San Paulo Rm.), gua. 7 per cent., 9/ Ditto (all), 236 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 23} Western and North-Western of France, 22,f FOitEIGN MANES. Cape Copper (Hrn.), 34 For una Abu.), 4/ Port Philip, if Santa Barb Ira Gold Mine (11m.), St. John del Rey (lim.), 54i Yudanamutamt of S. Australia (Urn.), Pt / JOLT T-STOCK bANKS. Australasia, 801 Bank of Egypt, 251 British North American, 501 London and County, 40 39 London and Westminster, 77} 61 Oriental Bank Corporation, 55 Ottoman Bank, 414 6 26 to. D id t a t on o n , lDr n i . e ijas w vitirdt :l3 12 .1 if 51 L tke a l. im A L n. O w 2 1:: 4 S 3 . Union lNnoaritahn o ßc f ra A i trir u sy s hi t n r A a gu l Austr ali a , Telegraph3'ion e C i n l a t S n a C a i l E s , Jan , Peninsulaßoyal Mail Steam, 56, MARKETS--This Day. lIAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. —. Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 4s Od ; clover, do., £3 lOs to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 10s to £1 18s per load. Supply only moderate—trade steady. I%IBEIAL ANI).--Mers'lOVv tat), £2 Os to £4 4s; clover, £3 lOs to £5 15. 0.1 ; And straw, £3 10. to £1 18a per load. A moderate demand. ri Rett..vBl,.—Meado. hay, £2 Os to Li 43; clove, do. £3 108 to £5 ; and straw, z 1 lOs to £1 188 per load. A. steady trade. COLONIAL. TEA.—There has been a very limited business transacted, operations having been deterred until the public sales which commence to-day. SUGAR. --A lair amount . of business ha s b ee n done in good grocery descriptions, and prices have been well main tained. Io the refined market also a slight advance has taken place in the value of dried goods. COFFEE. — The operations in Plantation Ceylon have been to an a vera g e extent andprice , and are we ll sus t a i ne d. RICE. —For the latter description of East India there has been more inquiry, and . late quotations are current. SALTPETRE.—Busmess continued rather dull, end the few bargains entered into have been at about f ormer ra t es . TALLOW.— t he market at one time exhibited increased depression, and a decline of about 2e. per cwt. took pl ace . A rally, however,' has since occurred, 1 .Y.C., on the spot, being quo t e d 445. 3d., and last three me nth e delivery 406. t o 9,06. 3 d per cwt. THE SUN, LO-NDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE--This Day. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) GIPPS V. GIPPS AND HUME. His lordship gave judgment in this case, which was be fore the Court a short time ago. The learned judge referred to the principal facts of the case, and said it appeared to him that the proceedings would never have been instituted if a sum of 24,000 had been paid. He thought the circumstance as near collusion as possible, and that the petitioner ap peared to show but little compunction at the state his wife had been living with the co-respondent. Having well con sidered the subject, he had made up his mind to dismiss the petition. Petition dismissed accordingly. MOH V. COOS. This case also stood over for judgment. It will be recollected that the suit was instituted by the wife against the husband, the kcumbent of Scymer, Mr. Ipswich, who sought for judicial separation on the ground of cruelty. The petitioner said her husband treated her with the greatest indignity, that he removed her from presiding at the table at meals, that he took the keys from her and gave them to his daughter, and also that after she had left his house through ill-treatment, he refused to allow his chil dren to visit it. His lordship granted a decree nisi for dissolution. SHERIFF'S COURT. (Before Mr. Kerr.) UPSETTING A COSTERMONGER AND HIS DONKEY,..-BRADLY V. BRASS. This was an action to recover £3 2s for damage done to a donkey. Mr. Buchanan, for the plaintiff, said that Lis client was a costermonger, who owned a nice little donkey, and on the 19th December plaintiff was in Duke's-place. He was standing still, and the defendant's man came up with a heavy cart. Though called on to stop, he refused, and went right on runniag over the poor little donkey and in juring his foot. Plaintiff and a witness proved the above facts, and added that defendant's driver was told what would be the result of his recklessness, but he ran right on. Defendant's clerk said that the man had left the service of Mr. Brass, and it was not likely he would have gone on in ouch a manner. His Honour considered that in the absence of the driver it would be impossible for defendant to dispute the case. Defendant mutt pay for the donkey. Mr, Buchanan applied for the costs, which were obtained. CABBY AND 'BUS MEN.-GRANT V. LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY. This was an action to recover for damage to a cab ; Mr. Buchanan appeared for the company. Plaintiff said that on a certain day he was in Cornhill, and defendant's driver knocked the cab on to the pavement and broke the springs. Mr. Buchanan called the 'busman, who described the language used by cabby; the latter calling out "Why did you drive me on t the pavement, you pig." Witness said, " I didn't ;" when plaintiff retorted, "You're a liar ;" to which witness answered "Thank you." All the witnesses described plaintiff's language as being higbly figurative, and much interlarded with adjectives of an expletive character. Plaintiff, in answer to the defence, said—Why, it is a well-known fact that the company can get as many wit nesses as they like, as I was told to-day in court. After asking one of the witnesses if he had ever been employed in that capacity before for the company, plaintiff closed his case with' Oh, it is no use going on, they will swear anything." Verdict for defendants. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. COMMITTAL OF A WELL-KNOWN THIEF.—A PROSE CUTOR REBUKED.—Ann Manning, a woman known to the police, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a gold watch, of the value of £2O, the property of Mr. John Frederick Howriett, watchmaker, of 21, Brewer-street, Golden-square. The prosecutor said that at the prisoner's solicitation he treated her with some ale at the Feathers, in Oxford-street, and afterwards accompanied her to another house and had more drink, and then to a house in Union-street. On going up the stairs he was pushed or knocked from the top to the bottom by a man or woman, and on getting up missed his gold watch at.,d money. The watch produced was his property, and of the value of £2O. Police-constable Tidy, 118 C, said that at three this morning, seeing the prisoner suddenly leave the prosecu tor, he went up and asked him if be had lost anything. At first he said he had not, but afterwards said he had lost his watch. He (the constable) then went after the prisoner, who ran away across Oxtord-street into Cavendish-square, and on asking her where the gentleman's watch she dr..pped it on the pavement, with the remark, "There it is." He then took the prisoner to the station, and went back to the prisoner in Union-street, when he identified the watch. The prosecutor and prisoner had been drink ng. Boden, the messenger of the court, said prisoner had been sentenced to three years' penal se, vitude, Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for trial. After the case was over, the prosecutor said he wished to make a complaint against a constable he spoke to ou first finding he was robbed. Mr. Tyrwhitt told him he ought to be ashamed of him self, as he had gone about drinking with the prisoner and got robbed, and had had the good fortune to get his watch back entirely through the exertions of the police. He (the magistrate) would listen to no complaint at all, and if the prosecutor liked, he could go to Scotland-yard. SPORT. .GENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-MONDAY. The members were occupied to-day with selecting their Committee of Management, and other purely local matters. The few offers made upon racing business indicate no change since Saturday. Closing prices : LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. Bto 1 agst Satellite (offered) 100 to 8 agst Jealousy (offered) 25 to 1 agst Lincoln (taken) WATERLOO CUP. 100 to 8 agst Mr. Blackstock's nomination (wanted) 25 to 1 agst Mr. Gregson's nomination (taken) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Knowles' nomination (taken) TATIERSALL'S—LAST EVENING. LINCOLN HANDICAP. Bto 1 agst Hubert (taken) 10 to 1 agst Sea Nymph (taken) 10 to 1 agst Douche (taken) 10 to 1 agst Libellous (taken) 11 to 1 agat Lopcatcher (taken) 20 to 1 agst Peignoir (taken) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. Bto 1 agst Satellite (taken freely) 100 to 8 agst Jealousy (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Master Bagot (taken) 20 to 1 agat Shropshire (taken) 30 to 1 agst Anatis (offered) NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STARES. 100 to 8 agst Grimstone (taken) 20 to 1 agst African (taken) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 20 to 1 agst Gardener (taken and offered) 25 to 1 apt Queen of Spain (taken) 60 to 1 aget Mies Livingstone (taken) CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agat Stradella (offered) 25 to 1 agst Zetland (taken and offered) 30 to 1 agst Le Marechal (taken) 33 to 1 agst Caller Ou (taken) 60 to 1 aget Cowley (taken) 50 to 1 agst Middlewatch (taken) 50 to 1 agst Jack of Hearts (taken) TWO THOUSAND GB INEAS. 4to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered) 9to 2 agst Hospodar (taken and offered) 9to 1 aget Michael Scott (taken) 20 to 1 agst Pratique (taken) THE DERBY. 11 to 2 agst Lord Clitden (offered) 10 to 1 agst Saccharometer (taken freely) 23 to 1 agst Automaton (offered) 27 to 1 agst Carnival (taken) 28 to 1 aget National Guard (taken) 30 to 1 agst King of Utopia (taken) 40 to 1 agst Michael Scott (taken) 40 to 1 agst Rapid Rhone (taken) 40 to 1 agst J arniootou (offered) 50 to 1 agst Woldga (taken) 50 to 1 agst Early Purl 50 to 1 agst Melrose (taken) 50 to 1 agst Glenochty colt (taken) 20 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's lot (taken) RACING FIXTU FEBRI Lincoln Nottingham Spring...... 3 Derby Spring .......... 6 Liverpool 5pring........ 10 Shrewsbury ......12 RES FOR 1863. UARY. Newmarket Craven...... 6 Durham . 6 Knighton ......... 7 Llanboidy . . 7 Catterick Bridge. .. 8 Abergavenny "OP 9 25 Cheater .. Bath l2 Marlborough l4 Harpenden l5 Doncaster Spring l6 Warwick Spring 18 Northampton 24 27 Croxton Park ILiverpool Hunt Club 10 Thirsk l4 Epsom Spring 16 Newmarket F. S 20 York Spring ...28 Salisbury :AY. Epsom l9 Radcliffe 25 Manchester 27 RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. WEST MIDLAND. The directors report th at the a gg r egate net receipts of the West Midland and G reat Western Companies, includ ing the South Wales and Shrewsbury Railways, after pay • meat of rent charges to South Wales, Worcester and Here f Severn Valley, and other companies, amount to £705,743, which, in conformity with the agreement between the companies, are divided in the pi °portion of 171 per cent., or £123,505, to the West Midland, and 82i per cent., or £58z,238, to the Great Western Company. The above amount of £123,505 is divisible between the Oxford and Newport section. in the following proportions, viz., Oxford, 78 per cent., or £96,331, and Newport, 22 per cent., or £27,171. The result to the Oxford section will be that, after payment of interest on debentures, amounting to £41,710 ; dividend on Chipping Norton Railway capital, at the ra e of 4 per cent. per annum, £4BO ; dividend on the first guarante d stock , at 6 per cent. per annum, £25,439; and dividend on the second guaranteed stock (includi nthee portion held by the company) , £14,577, ere rema balance of L 14,127. Private Businel >e of Commons. The following bills were read a second time last night : Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway Accrington Gas and Water Ashbourne, Sudbury, and Yoxall Bridge, and Uttoxeter and Collingwood Road Aylesbury Markets Baggotrath, Donnybrook, &c., Improvement Bala and Dolgelley Railway Barnet and Great N orthern Junction Railway Barnsley Coal Railway Belfast, Holywood, and Bangor Railway Berks and Hants Extension Railway Berwickshire Roads Birkenhead Improvement Blackfriars Bridge Blackrock, Monkstown, and Booterstown. Improvement Bonelli's Electric Telegraph Company Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds Railway Bristol and :Exeter Railway Bristol and North Somerset Railway Bristol and Portishead Pier and Railway Bristol Docks Bristol Port and Channel Docks Busby Railway Caledonian Railway (Bredisholm Deviation) aledonian Railway (Carstairs and Dolphinton Branch) Caledonian Railway (Granton Branches) Caledonian Railway (Improvements, &c.) Cambridge, Saint John's Lane Stoppage, &c. Central Wales Extension Railway Cheltenham Roads Cleveland Railway Cockermouth and Workington Railway Cockermouth, Keswick, and Penrith Railway Cork and Youghal Railway Denbigh Water Dublin Corporation Water Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction I ungarvon Harbour, Markets, and Improvement Edinburgh and Dunfermline and Perth (North British) Railway Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Elginshire and Nairnshire Roads, Bridges, &c. Elsecar, Wentworth, and Hoyland Gas Ely Valley Extension Railways Evesbam and Redditch Railway Exeter Gaol Flint, Holywell, and Mostyn Roads Formartine and Buchan Railway Furness and Midland Railway Furness Railway Company and Barrow Harbour Com missioners Glasgow and South-Western and Ayr and Maybole Junction Railways Glasgow and South-Western Railway (additional powers) Glasgow and South-Western Railway (Capital) Glasgow Gas Great Eastern Railway (Additional Powers) Great Eastern Railway (Chatteris and Ramsey Branch) Great Northern Railway (Cheshire Lines) Great Northern Railway (Owston to Cottam) Great Western Railway (Branch at Great Bridge) Guildford and Leatherhead Railway Haddingtonshire Roads Hadlow Railway Hamilton Water Harrogate Gas Hemel Hempsted and London and North Western Rail way Hereford, Hay, and Brecon Railway Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway Isle of Purbeck Railway Itchen Bridge Kendal and Ulverstone Junction Railway Kettering and Thrapstone Railway Kington and Eardisley Railway Knighton and Central W ales Railway Companies Landport and Southsea Tramway Leeds Gas Leominster and Kington Railway Letterkenny Railway Leyland and Farington Gas Liverpool Licensing Llanelly Railway and Dock London and North-Western and Lancashire and York , shire Railway Companies London and North-Western Railway (New Branch Lines) London and South-Western and Andover and Redbridge Railways London and South-Western Railway London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Dorking to Leatherhead) London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Extensions and Alterations, &c.) London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (New Lines to the Crystal Palace, &c.) London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (South London, Tooting. &c. Junction Railways) London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (No. 2) London, Tilbur y, and Southend Railway Loughborough, Ashby de la Zouch, and Rempstone Road Maidstone Water Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction Railway Manchester Corporation Water Market Harborough and Loughborough Road Marshland Smeeth and Fen Drainage Mayo (County) Grand Jury Cess Mercantile Marine Service Association, Liverpool Mid Kent Ra lway Midland Railway (Extension to London) Mid Wales Railway (Branch, &c.) Mid Wales Railway (Capital) ilford Haven Dock and Railway Montrose and Bervie Railway Newcastle and Carlisle Road Newcastle-upon-'l:vne and Gateshed Equitable Gas Newhaven Harbout and Ouse Lower Navigation New Milford Docks Newport Pagnell Railway Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway North and South Staffordshire Junction Railway North Bierley Gas North British Railway (Wansbeck Railway, &c.) North Eastern and Stockton and Darlington Railway Companies Amalgamation North Eastern Railway (Hull and Doncaster Branch) North Eastern Railway (Newcastle & Starbeck Branches) North Staffordshire Railway (Additional Powers) Norwich and Spaldingßailway (Powers to Great Northern Railway Company) Norwich and Spalding Railway (Wisbeach Extension) Norwich Poor Nottingham Gas Oswestry and Newtown Railway (Branches, &o.) Peterborough, Wisbeach, and Sutton Railway Portadown, Dungannon, and Omagh Junction Railway Pucklechurch Roads Queen's Roads (Battersea) Extension Ramsey and St, Ives Railway Rickmanswoith, Amersham, and Chesham Railway Rixton and Warburton Bridge Rotherham and Kimberworth Local Board of Health Rugby Water Rusthall Manor Saffron Walden Railway Saint Asaph Road Saint Luke's (Middlesex) Workhouse and Vestry Hall Scarborough Water Scottish Central Railway and Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction Companies Scottish North-Eastern and Dundee and Arbroath Rail way Companies Amalgamation Seaton and Beer Railway Shrewsbury and Welchpool Railway Southampton and Itchen Floating Pier Southampton Port, Harbour, and Pier South Staffordshire Railway South Yorkshire Railway and River Dun Company South Yorkshire Railway (Alteration, &c.) South Yorkshire Railway (null Extension) Sowerby Bridge Local Board Standedge and Oldham Turnpike Trust Stonehouso and Nailsworth Railway Stourbridge Railway Swansea Municipal Corporation Tamworth and Harrington Bridge Roads Tees Conservancy Tendring Hundred Railway Thames Conservancy Tramore Docks Vale of Llangollen Railway Wakefield and Abertord Road Wakefield Ings Road Ware, liadham, and Buntingford Railway Waterford and Passage Railway and Ferry Wear Navigation and Sunderland Docks West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway West Midland Railway West Riding and Grimsby Railway Wexford Free Bridge Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway Whittle Dean Water Wimbledon and Streatham Railway Wolverhampton and Bridgnorth Railway Workington Dock The second readings of the London and Epsom Downs Railway Bill was deterred un it Thursday; the Newton and Machynlleth Railway (agreement with Great Western) Friday; and the South-Eastern Railway until to-day. MID-KENT. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yes. terday at the office, Da.e-street, Westminster— Mr. W. A Wilkinson in the chair. _ _ The report, an abstraot of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. Resolutions were passed adopting the report, declaring a dividend at the rate of 2i per cent. for the half-year, re electing Mr. Wilkinson, the retiring director, and Mr. Chrissian, the retiring auditor. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceed ings. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. It appears that 53,968 ordinary shares were recorded in favour of Mr. Anderson's amendment, and 48,433 for the motion of the directors, showing a majoity of 5,535 ordinary shares; and that 30,316 preference s pares were recorded in favour of the motion of the directors, and 2,196 in favour of the amendment, showing a majority of 28,120 preference shares ; the result being a majority of 22,585 shares, or 3,841 votes, in favour of the directors' motion for the adoption of the report. HULL AND SELBY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday at Hull, Mr. J. R. Pease in the chair. The Secre tary read the report, which stated that the balance in favour of the company was L 33,557, and the directors recommended that the dividends to be declared out of it should be L 2 9s. 6d. per whole, or £5O, share ; £1 4s. 9d. per half, or £25, share; and 12s 40. per quarter share, on the capital stock of the company, subject to deduction of income-tax retained by the lessees. Mr. Whitaker was doted a director in the room of Mr. T. Digby, deceased. The Chairman moved that the report be received and adopted, and the dividends therein recomended be declared. The motion having been agreed to, the retiring directors were re-elected, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. STAINES, WORINGHAM, AND W OKING The report of the di rec t ors s t a tes that the receipts on capital account during the past half year amount to £1,200 for sale of surplus land, and the payments amount to £3,054. The gross traffic receipts for the half year amount to £9,394, against £8,404 in the correspon di ng period of 18 61 , showing an increase of £990. The sum of £1,1 99 9 ca rried forward at the last meeting, h as b een app li e d towards liquidating £2,091, the residue of th e amount carried temporarily to the debit of capital, and which is now reduced to £592. There will remain £l,BOl, out of which the directors recommend the proprietors to declare a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the preference shares, amounting, less income tax, to £1,203, leaving a balance of £598. RAI LWA.-Y-13ILLS. Yesterday before the examiners the bill of the Manches ter and Milford, for powers to construct new lines in that district, to purchase lands and make arrangements with other companies, and increase the share capital by £32,000, together with the bill of the Tunbr,dge Wells and East bourne for an extension from the South-Eastern at Tice hurst to the London and Brighton at Hailsham, and to raise £370,000, were declared in some respects not to have complied with the formal proofs required by Parliament. The bills for the proposed Greenwich and Woolwich Railway, and the Kensington, Knightsbridge, and Metro politan Junction Railway were withdrawn. SHIPPING—This Day, LONDON, Feb. 17.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly light breeze and very fine weather, with frost. Rum,. Feb. l7.—Wind W. — Arrived—Wemetlye, from Shields for Genoa, leaky. CARDIFF, Feb. 16.—Wind E — Sailed—Victoria Reed, for New York. FLEETWOOD, Feb. 16.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Mary Hannah, for Cuba. CLYDE, Feb. 16 .—Arrived—Ride, from Havannah; Witch of the Wave, from Smyrna. Sailed—Livonia, screw steamer, for Gibraltar. GRIMSBY, Feb. 16.—Wind N.—Sailed—Caprecio, from Monte Video. (ET MAGNI3*.CIC TELEGRAPH.) SouT HAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Arrived—New York steamer, from Bremen; Alliance, steamer, from Havre. Sailed—Charlotte, for Gaernsey. GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Feb. 16—Ha . , riiott, fro m L ouva i n. Arrived, Feb. 17—Sen ie, steamer, from Boulogne. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed, Feb. 16—Rig . late, for St. Michael's; Finsel, for Shanghai; Sybil, for Gh Ibraltar; Lorg en Vlyt, for Aspin wall—all from London. A nc hored —Frank Fli !nt, from London, for Cardiff. The Reina del . Sud, from Buenos Ayres, did not arrive, nip a s reported last ght. LIFEBOAT SERV (CF.—DROGHEDA, FEB. 14. The schooner Mary Ann, laden with Indian corn from Liverpool to Lregl lode, came ashore today in a heavy swell on North Bull San .ds, near Drogheda. On seeing the perilous position of the ship the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution put off to the rescue of the crew of five men, and afterwards saf, rly brought them on shore. This valuable lifeboat haes only been a few months on this station, and admirably die A 40 De) 'lave ell this her first trip. THAMES. EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—James Macdonald, a man about 48 years of age, who appeared to be halt starved and very ill, was brought before Mr, Wool rych charged with attempting to commit self-destruction. A police•constable named Meades, 488 A, stated that at two o'clock this morning he was both alarmed and surprised at the discovery of a man hanging to the railings in front of a house in Hardwick-place, Commercial-road. He cut him down immediately, removed him to the station-house, and obtained medical assistance, The man was nearly suffo cated, and in a few minutes would have been dead it he had not discovered him. Mr. Woolrych—How did the prisoner hang himself ? Meades—He made his handkerchief fast to the railings, and made a slip noose for his neck, which tightened when he threw himself down. He was quite black in the face when I came up. The constable then produced the old cotton handkerchief which the prisoner had used. He added, the prisoner said he "was tired of his life, and in great poverty and distress." Mr. Woolrych (to prisoner)—How came you to do this rash and wicked act? The prisoner feebly replied that what the policeman said was true, and that he was in great distress, and in want of food. Mr. Woolrych'remanded the prisoner to the Clerkenwel House of Detention for a week. A SCAMP.— Richard Stollard, a lighterman, was brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with deserting hia wife and six young children, and leaving them ch.rgeable to the parish of St. G eorge- in • the -East. Mr. 'William Rolston, a relieving officer of St. George, said he was desired by the Board of Guardians to prosecute this case, which was a very bad one indeed. The prisoner was in the receipt of good wages, and had abandoned his lawful wife, the mother of his children, and been living with a loose woman who knew he was married. The parikhhad been allowing six shillings per week for the support of the wife and five children. The sixth was maintained by a relative. The prisoner was before the Board of Guardians on the 30th of January. He then promised to maintain his family, but that promise had never been realised. Yesterday (Monday) morning he visited Mrs. Stollard and her five children in a miserable room, No. 84, Old Gravel-lane, Rateliff highway. There was no furniture in the room, the children were in a state of nudity, the wife cold and insufficiently clad. It was a scene of desolati ,n such as he had never before witnessed. " The place," continued the witness, stunk so dreadfully that I was compelled to run into the street to recover myself in the fresh air—l shall never forget it. Mr. Woolrych—What has the parish expended for the relief of Mrs. Stollard and her children ? Mr. Rolston-4 2 5., I believe, sir; the prisoner promised to pay that, but he has not done so. The prisoner, in defence, said his wife neglected his home and children, and was a very dissipated and drunken woman. When he allowed her £2 per week she expended nearly the whole of it in strong drinks. He found 65 dupli cates in her possession for property she had pawned. He was in one situation for 13 years. He obtained others, snd his wife came to the residence of his employers and made a disturbance, and he was thrown out of employ several times by her bad conduct. He gave his wife 6s. on Saturday. Mr. Woolrych said the English vocabulary was insuffi cient to express his detestation of the conduct of the prisoner, Who left his wife and family to the cold charity of the parish while he was carrying on an adulterous intercourse with another woman. He sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprisonment and hard labour, and he ( Mr. Woolr y ch) would repeat th a t sen t ence every time prisoner w a s brou g ht before him, if h o did not pro p e rly support his wife an d children. Mr. Rolston —The wife into the workh ouse. Mr. Wool r y e n — I am very glad to hear it, and family will now be taken Bureau d es L ongitudes, " up to Dec. 31, POP ULATION OP ALGl ERS.— A ccor ding to the a European p o p u l ation of 205,888 souls, which shows an increase of 11,183 h eads within the last three years, com pared with the cen sus of 1858 of the same date. In the course of the year 1861, 1 ,885 marriages, 8,227 births, and 5,850 deaths took place in Al g i ers. Among the births were 7,072 legitimate, 671 recognised, and 419 illegttimate born. 1861, Algiers had The proportion of deaths was 1,603 men, 881 women, and 3,366 children. Compared with the statistics of Pari-, Algiers has less marriages, the number of births is larger and that of deaths swelter than in the 20 arrondissements of the capital. [ THE .TES. The navy estimates for the year 1863-64 were published yesterday. It appears that the Govern ment is able to reduce the expenditure by more than a million (X 1,05 8 .273) without injury to the effective service. The number of seamen is 39,000, against 40,000 last year; of boys, 9,000, as last year; of coast guards, 9,000, being 1,150 more than last year; of marines, 18,000. The naval coast volunteers are taken at 8,000, and the royal naval reserve at 16,000 —making, with the men, boys, and marines, a total of 100,000; exactly as in the year 1804. The following is an abstract of the particular votes which will be asked, with the corresponding votes for the last year expended, showing the increase or decrease under each head 1863-64. Wages to seamen and marines £2,921,951 Victuals and clothing for ditto 1,416,986 Ad miralty-office . 165,322 Coast Guard Service, Royal Naval Coast Volunteers, and RDyal Naval Reserve 299,69 Scientific Branch Her Majesty's establishments 1862-63. £3,078,121 1,362,093 170,832 _ at home Her Majesty's establishments 297,602 68,045 183,316 176,624 The Dispens. (From the Examiner.) Home Office There has been some conversation in the House of Lords on the subject of ticket-of-leave. Lord Stanhope and Lord Carnarvon regretted that Go vernment had not taken the matter in hand, in stead of referring it to a commission ; and we think them quiteright in this question. When people well know what to think, a Commission is the best of all devices to make them not know what to think, by bewildering them in a throng of conflicting evidences and arguments. What nuisance has there ever been that has not had its champions The pollution of the Thames was defended on sanitary grounds; and it was contended that the only real evil resulting from it was the inordinate appetite it gave to people who worked on the river. Burial in metropolitan churchyards, too, had its zealous advocates, and mothers were brought forward to show that for the health of their children they pre ferred walks in the festering graveyards to any other places. The smoke of London found voices in opposition to Lord Palmerston's bill, and it was maintained stoutly that but for the smoke our fogs would be damp and injuri ous, and that it was by the smoke they were, in the household phrase, so " well aired" and in nocuous. A fog in Paris wets you through, it was observed; a fog in London wraps you as in a blanket. There is nothing so bad as to want advocates, and the ticket-of-leave will have plenty of zealous champions. The public has, however, made up its mind upon a, question of which it has had so much prictical ex perience—upon a tree known by its fruits, and its judgment is for a return to law and justice in their utmost certainty. Judicial sentences must no longer be subject to a sort of discount, or pass like a base coin for less than their nominal value ; and, above all things, the dispensing power of the Home Office must be very considerably restricted. Indeed, the mere fact that any Minister desires to retain the dangerously large dispensing power of the Home Secretary argues him unfit to possess it., Let us see a Minister anxious to surrender it, or to have it considerably curtailed and checked, and we shall see in him one who may with least chince of misuse possess it, but whom it would, nevertheless, be wise to relieve of it, large as it now is. To return to the specific question of the ticket of leave, the general judgment, we repeat, is for au improved certainty of punishment, instead of the high degree of uncertainty of punishment which has of late years prevailed. Against this proposi tion it is objected, and by some thinking minds entitled to respect, that fixed terms of punishment cut off the opportunity for the criminal to work out his deliverance by good conduct and industry in his prison. They say, let his liberty be the price of a certain amount of work, and be sure that the habit of the industry he must exercise will be a pledge for his future conduct. This is specious, but we suspect fallacious. See what men will do to break prison, how they will work their way through stone walls, burrow like rabbits or moles, labour night and day, with a rusty nail for their only tool. But is this marvel lous industry any pledge for their future conduct ? And when we hear what wonders a convict has done to work his way out of jail, do we feel the slightest assurance that he will therefore renounce crime and turn to honesty ? Industry is avirtue or not, we must remember, according to its object. Crime has its industry in its bad way, as well as honesty in its good way. Johnson defines industry, laboriousness to a particular end ; and as a body it is probable that few are more actively labori ous than the thieves, and few worse paid, consider- in g their highly sharpened ingenuity and unflagging assiduity, both of which would be admirable for worthy objtcts. The bad labour they love physics pain ; they want no holidays, take no rest it a booty be in prospect. They are planning some villany when not executing, executing when not planning. The lawyer, the merchant, money-makers of all denominations, will refuse to trouble themselves with business in certain seasons of relaxation. The thief is always ready for his work, he puts aside everything for it; never does it come amiss, never, indeed, is it unsought. Hardy Vaux, pickpocket and swindler, whose curious autobiography is published in Murray's Collection, tells us that once he deter mined to forego his habits of business, in order to give his wife the pleasures of a play ; but that, as he was mounting the steps of Covent Garden Theatre, he espied a pocket-book peeping out of a gentleman's pocket, and could not resist the temptation of filching it, though for that night, and that night only, he had resolved on total abstinence. This devotion to busi ness led to his arrest and conviction, and ultimately to a most curious piece of auto-biography, revealing all the hopes and fears, the outer and inner life of a thief, and the unwearied application to the preda tory arts. To rely, then, on the good conduct and industry of people of this class in gaol, as any secu rities for future good behaviour, is a delusion, for the one will be simulated, and the other only the means to the desired end of liberty, and neither will be a pledge for the right use of liberty when obtained. Royal Marriage Procession in the Olden Time. In 1236 Henry 111. married Eleanor of Provence, at Canterbury, and journeying to London with his bride, they were met in Southwark by the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and the principal citizens, to the number cf 360, all being mounted on stately horses, dressed with splendid furniture. The busier streets were adorned with tapestry and plate. At night fall torches were kindled all over the city. Henry V. entered London with his Queen (Kathe rine), being welcomed by an immense multitude of the Londoners, the Corporation having prepared a magnificent pageant for the occasion. Previous to this, Edward the Black Prince had wedded the beautiful Joan, Countess of Kent, much to the joy of the whole nation, and especially of the Londoners, who kept holiday for many days to celebrate the event. This warrior Prince of Wales kept another grand festival, when, in 1357, he entered the City from Southwark, in company with his prisoner, John, King of France. The Royal captive rode on a noble white horse, but the Prince accompanied him on a mean-looking black peney. They were met by the whole Corporation splendidly attired, who conveyed them to the Savoy, where John was to lodge. The procession was several hours in passing through the City. Henry VI., a good but weak Sovereign, married Margaret, a daughter o f the blind King of Anjou. Their reign was little but a succession of tr ou bles ; yet she was a noble-minded Queen, and upheld the red rose of Lancaster with no feeble hand. Her hapless son, Edward, Prince of Wales, married Ann of Warwick, at Amboise, but while a mere lad was mercilessly slain at Tewkesbury, 1471. His widow afterwards became the wife of Itichard 111., and is the Lady Ann of Shakspeare's drama. Henry VII., by espousing Elizabeth of York, united the contending factions, and gave his people a reasonable cause for rejoicing, as he thus termi nated long years of intestine war. His son Arthur, Prince of Wales, when hardly 14, was married to Katherine of Arragon, a princess much his senior, who, on the demise of her boy-husband, was induced to wed his brother Henry, afterwards Henry VIII. The history of that learned, accomplished, and popular Monarch and his six unhappy wiv..e! , .. ari a lic his eu brutish fohies and caprices, his cruelty tiousness (sparing neither man in h anger nor a woman in his lust), are well kn n o e wa. o ey n through was remarkably The procession of Lady ari l a n ge, London, previous to er I h ,s3B in all the citizens were busy gorgeous. May sl, from early morn The streets were covered with h ip Tower (where she lodged, and gravel from wa is t e ocn to die on the block), the foot.. "irot bi ected by barriers, and occupied by w ah er e e in full livery. Cornhill and Grace church -street .were tapestried and hung with rich p t w a ah e the C rse aropanie s, arras. Cheapside had a still richer dressing of cloth of gold and fancy velvets. At a signal from the Tower guns the procession issued from the fortress. First came the French amba ssa d or an d hi s tra i n , 12 knights in blue velvets, th e i r h orses d ecora t e d with white crosses ; a troop of English gentlemen, two and two; the Knights of the Bath in full cos tume ; the abbots, bishops, and peers on horseback, robed, and with massive gold chains; the Lord Mayor, with the City mace; Garter Kieg-at-Arms, and the Lord Marshal; the Queen's household, in , scarlet robes; the High Constable with his wand office; lastly, a splendid chariot draped with white_ silk, and drawn by white palfreys in housings of white damask, Anne Boleyn keeping her state under a gilded canopy hung with silver bells.— C t tyi rs AN ANCIENT COSTUME REVIVED. ---The readers Of the Contheutionnel (says a Paris letter), who knew that the great and novel feature of the late ball at the T u il er ies was to be the r e p resentation of the heroine of M. Flaubert's novel, " Salammbo," were disappointed at not seeing the name of the lady who personated that character, or any description of her dress. But, on referring to the P re sse, I find the following paragraph, which the Constitu tionna, for some mysterious reason, has struck out from its otherwise literal production :—" The Countess de Cas tiglione was attired as Salammbo, with her hair given to the wind, a golden diadem above, bare arms, and naked feet in golden sandals ; the long train of her robe was borne by the Count de Choiseul as a negro, who held an antique parasol over her head. The dazzling beauty of the countess never ceased to captivate general attention." 36,370 33,610 abroad - Wages to artificers, &c., em ployed in her Majesty's establishments at home 1,121,878 Wages to artificers, &c., em ployed in her Majesty's establishments abroad Naval stores for the building, repair, and outfit of the fleet ; steam machinery, and ships built by contract : Section I. Storekeeper- General of the Navy 1,334,051 Section 11. Controller of the Navy New works, improvements, and repairs in the yards, &c 433,298 Medicines and medical stores 66,000 Miscellaneous services 1,147,678 69,957 66,081 1,774,184 867,349 1,453,561 464,170 66,000 98,708 Total for the effective ser vice Half-pay, reserved half-pay, and retired pay to officers of the Navy and Royal Marines AlilitAry pensions and allow ances Civil pensions and allow- £10,228,029 719,341 702,308 antes 194,932 194,282 Total for the naval service.. £10,465,882 £11,605,655 FOR THE SERVICE OF OTHER DEPARTMENTS OF GFOYERN- MENT. Army department (conveyance of troops) £270,150 £183,650 Grand total £10,736,032 £11,794,305 It will be observed that the principal decrease has taken place in the Storekeeper General's Depart ment and that of the Controller of the Navy, which have to do with timber, steam engines, and iron plated ship-building. There is a large increase in the cost of convey ing troops between Great Britain and the colonies, which must mean, we hope, the return of regiments at present out. The Murder at Kingswood Parsonage. It may be remembered that in June, 1861, Mrs Halliday, the wife of the parish clerk of Kings wood, near Reigate, was murdered at the par sonage-house there, of which she had charge in the absence of the incumbent's family. In the room where the poor woman was murdered there was found a package of papers, which proved of the highest importance. There were several letters in a foteign language, bearing date so recent as the Friday before the murder. These letters were in a pocket-book, which also contained the names of several persons, and the name of the person to whom the letters belonged—Johann Carl Franz. There was also a letter from the cele brated vocalist, Mdlle. Titiens, which, it appeared, had been written by that lady, in reply to an application for money, from a distressed German, who wanted assistance to ecable him to reach his own country. After a time the police succeeded in apprehending this man Franz, and he was committed for trial at Croydon assizes, when it was proved that he had been seen near the parsonage-house on the day of the murder, along with another foreigner, and that some cord which it was proved that they had previously purchased of a Mrs. Pitcher at Reigate, resembled the cord with which the legs of Mrs. Halliday had been tied. Wben the Superin tendent of Police showed Franz the package of papers which had been found in the room he for a moment turned pale, and then hung down his head, seemingly absorbed in thought. Some days after, he made a statement to the effect that while travel ling in the company of two Germans from Hull, they robbed him of a bundle containing his clothes and the papersin question. The inference which the pri soner wished to be drawn from this was, that the men who had robbed himihad committed the murder. At the Croydon assizes, held on the 6th of August, Fianz, who was described as a native of Saxony, was placed upon his trial and acquitted. Here the matter rested, and the police did hot succeed in gaining any further clue until Saturday last, when a supposed accomplice in the murder was apprehended at Hull. Two months before the commission of the murder, a f ore i gner , named Edward Schmidt, came to th e house of Joha nn Pifer, a German lodginghouse ke e p er, residing in Myton-street, Hull. He remained there eight days . and then went away. Before going . he gave Pifer an old coat in lieu of payment for his lodgings, as he had no money. Two days after the man Schmidt had left a person named Franz came to lodge at the house. Pifer bad previously observed in Schmidt's possession a faded brown pocket-book. Schmidt and Franz appear afterwards to have met at the village of Cave, and here while asleep it is supposed Schmidt took Franz's papers from him and put them in his own pocket-book. When Franz was tried for the murder Pifer atated that he beli e ved th a t th e pocket-book which was found in the roomiwhere the murder had been committed was the same h e had seen in the possession of the man Schmidt. On Saturday last, Pifer saw Schmidt in High-street, Hull, and passed him. He afterwards met him again about half-past four o'clock, near the Wilber force monument. Pifer stopped him and said, " Why did you steal the papers from Franz P" Schmidt replied, " I am the man who committed the murder, but you cannot prove it." Pifer then seized him and held him until the arrival of a police constable. Yesterday, Schmidst was placed at the bar of the Hull Police Court, and was remanded until to-day. The Fish in " The Field" Window. Mr. Frank Buckland, 2d Life Guards, in a letter ,o the Field, say st — " The y oun g trout, salmon and salmon trout, are growing ver y fast ; in many absorbed, and the mouth. ot !hey e t y h e w m i l thel i n a umbil f ewicaldays It is interesting t o observe how, as the bag de bbaeggiiun to nearly feed creases, the form of the fish grows into shape and assumes the proper fish colour. My bridge experi ment has succeeded well, but for plates of zinc I have eubstiteted bits of common slate, such as are used for roofing houses. These, supported by four stones, form capital " hides" for my young fish, and it is most amusing to see them all run away fright ened when I lift up the slate. I have found from painful experience that the quantity of water sufficient, say for five hundred eggs, is not suffi cient for 500 live fish. When born from those eggs, FEES ON PRIVATE BILLS. — The Parliam entar y return to which we referred lately with re ference to the actions of hundreds of tiny gills soon absorb the the House fees charged on private bills also contains a list oxygen from the water, and I have been obliged to of all the appearances of counsel on the railway bills of 1861 increase the stream and thereby the labour in sup and 1862. It is in one respect ambiguous, as the House plying the water. We are rearing fish under con exacts fees on every petition which is appeared on, jointly siderable disadvantages, A warm sun during the or separately; though it is a common practice for a num- day, and gaslight during the night (to say nothing ber of landowners' petitions to be represented under one of the heat of the steam engine below, which is used brief, given to one counsel or set of counsel. Allowing for for printing off the Field) are not the most fa this, so far as the return enables us to do, in the year 1861, vourable conditions for young fish ; not withstand when there was the largest number of committees or ing all these most un-salmonlike conditions, I have groups of Railway Bills, the House fees, amounting to a merry nursery of baby fishes, though, of coursy.ol £6 -1 ,372, appear to have exceeded the counsel's fees by 30 have to pick out the dead ones every morning. per or l ; 1 0 per cent., taking them all at 15 guineas a day; that is, as- not, however, think I lose more the ltlion. Our friend, suming a consultation to take place every day, which may per cent. of the number, but theen lutlue wretches re or may not be, according as the particular case or :petition Quire a great deal of care and att e, that I must be a happens to be under discussion in the committee. The Mr. Ponder, thinkieg, !,., PP usi I doctor , has kindly sent me return does not include the fees on counsel's briefs, of which the House has no knowledge, but they a u s p h a u b s o w tt e le ll already hatched out a most generally amount to much less than the daily fees Hampton. •Imenurnyself, viz., a trout with two heads, or "refreshers," which appear to have also come curious spuenact bilical vesicle. This double fish is alive fauulliaaofhveucrian les from his apparatus, at into use, with the leading counsel at least, in the and one um Mr. Ponder has sent me not only a oimi common law and other courts, in consequence of the great c l length to which important trials now extend. The names tail a P nd two heads, which are joined together ; also, of 51 counsel appear in the list for 1861, of whom 16 are a charr with four eyes, a trout with body twisted la:r sweecimen (also alive), but also a fellow with one Q.C.'s, The return to be complete as a basis for legistleal-1 like a bell spring ; besides this, a trout with body tion or regulation (except as to the house fees, whie h which as round as a ring, as well as numerous other acients fit for the Orthopeedic Hospital. their own tale), ought to comprise many othersittohme Allies, of Worcester, has sent me an enormous Mr. the companies could give in the g ross, s uc s h , salmon, which ho found dead, and rather high, on for short hand notes, agents and solicitor s' hparrecis. urinary engineering expenses, coat of distinguish the banks of the Teme, near Worcester. He has a s l e o : w qu e i r te j a i w n . the o s f h h ad im e, bag the engineers from o thers, an s L. er 001, Monday ; and the skin is worn off his nose which places Punch's no THE GEORGE GRIsWoLD.-- Iv . p f o w f i o tn rt e h s . se : s h , argessc: Evening. —The captain and lieutenant of the I' Pr°Pose to make a post-mortem to-morrow, pro ber of Commerce to the Vious to his being sent to the British Museum, t o -day at St. George's-hall, a ddress from the Liverpool Cham- i T and enthusiastic The ayor of an 1,/ k where Dr. Gunther has scientific designs upon his at a crowde d dings. apparently worthless carcase. cheater took part in the procee dings. Through George Griswold was present ed meeting. n Through the kindness of S. Gurney, Esq., M.P., MYSTERIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT. he Paris corre. and J. Hibbert, Esc., of Chalfont Park, I have been spondent of the Times says :—" The Emperor of enabled to restock my glass rods with some fine ape- Russia is coming to Paris in the spring ; such, a t least, is civaena of trout ova, some of which I took from the hi s present intention, as well as that of his imperial friend. fish, others I took from the fishes' nests—rather cold The object of the pr o j ected visit is said to be to come to an wo r k — but all giving good p r omise of future l ife. u nderstanding as to a common action i n B e l g ian affairs It will be curious to see w h e th e r town or cou ntr y Will after the demise of li.bag Leopold," be able to hatch these fish out first. es is abate 'ploy :r an s the Caine 7 ernot S t ate t pill Go reline , tot -0 juion rebel 4.N I)) ,dal 1, de" 4 on ew er tool gills ,rtso tan° ads)