The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-07 00:00:00

3TOIT-EY MARKET AND COIGORCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELE O'CLOCK. There is a f a i r d eman d for diiscoun V t accommoda bon to-day, at full rates. Gold is now about 1-10th per cent. cheaper in London than in Paris, and about 1-10th per cent. dearer here than in Hamburg. The latest advices from New York report the continued easiness and abundance of money. Gold was quoted 32 premium, and the demand was not very active; the exchanges also were dull, and the rates had a downward tendency. A return to sound financial policy would cause gold and ex change to decline rapidly. The stock market, how ever, presented a more active appearance, and quo tations were advancing. The Agents-General for Crown Colonies invite tenders for a Vancouver Wand Government Loan of £40,000, in 6 per cent. debentures. The traffic receipts of the Great Luxembourg Railway, for the week ending the 4th inst., were £3,187 against £3,732 last year. .....,...... 1.....1 Two o'CLocK. At the half -yearly meeting of the C o l on i a l B an k , held this day, Mr. Marryat in the chair, the report was unanimously agreed to. The chairman, in the course of some few pertinent observations, stated that the report of the past year's operations was far more satisfactory than could have been anticipated. The West Indian trade had been greatly depressed in conse quence of the slave grown sugar compet ing in the market with free grown. The consumption of that staple i n E ng l and in 1845, before the introduction of slave- grown sugar, was 255,000 tons; in 1861 it had reached to 447,000 tons, showing an increase of 192,000 tons, of which 135,400 tons were slave grown, leaving only an increase of 46,000 tons as British produce during a period of 16 years. Cuba bad grown, in 1847, 255,000 tons, while, in 1861, s he had increased that amount to 425,000. The chairman, in reply to a question, stated that the London and Colonial Bank had not yet announced its intention of establishing a business in the. West Indies. The directors were re-elected, and after some congretulary remarks by several shareholders respecting the management of the Bank, votes of thanks were passed to the directors and managers, and the meeting separated. The dividend was ordered to be paid on the 13th inst. Continued buoyancy has prevailed in the Market for the English Funds to-day. The latest prices yesterday a ft ernoon showed a further improvement, and this morning another rise of full y per cent. 1 took plac e , C onsols being 93 1 1 for transfer and th e meat Bth, and 931 for Feb ruary. The important move vv•is produced by some extensive purchases for investment, coupled with the abundance of Money, the limited supplies of specie exported, the firmness of the Paris Bourse, and other encourag ing symptoms. IV hen quotations had attained the elevation above reported there were a few sales to realise profits, which led to a reaction of 1- per cent. The prices are 931 for money and the Bth inst., and 931 1 for February. A further advance has taken place in the New Three per Cents, and the Reduced, viz., to 931; th e 5 Per Cent. Annuities, 1091 ; Exchequer Bills re main at B s. to 12s. prem. ; Bank Stock has ad vanced to 236; and India 5 per Cent. Loan, 104 t. There has been rather more animation in the Foreign Market Port e d, , and p r i ces h ave been well sup- Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, have improved to 844 the 841 85 11 do., 1858, 71 k ; d o., 1862, 671 681 ; Consolide s 391 a; Egyptian are 95k 96 ; do., second issue, 95 ; Greek, 161 ; do., Coupons, 7 ; Mexican, 311 321, showing very little change; Moorish, 971 ; Peruvian New Loan, 891. I ; Por tuguese do., 47 i ; Russian do., 951 961 ; Spanish Passive have advanced to 2411; and Italian ar e 704. The operation s in the Railway Share Market have been restricted, but price s in some instances show rather more firmness. Great Northern, Great Northern A Stock, and North Western improved 108. ; and London and Brighton, 15s. ; Great Wes terns, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and North British, however, declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines were without change of i mportance. b South-A us t r i an and Lom ardo-Venetian realised 24; Gr ea t W estern of Ca nada, 121 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 22; ; East Indian, 1071; and Great Indian Peninsula, 106. Joint -Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares con tinned steady at about previous prices. Alliance of London and Liverpool realised 20k 1 ; London and South African, 251 ; Oriental Bank, 55 Palace S tock b 1; Cryst a l brow ht 331 • and Rio d e ' J ane i ro Im- Prove ; ment shares were firm at 29. --- BankBRITISH FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. S tock . . ... .. .............. 236 N . Re 8 per Cent ew per Cent. Annuities ch;ced. Annuities ........ 93 i 3 6 per C ent. Consols Annuities .......... 921 3/ 3 I 3 3 . 1 per Cent. A nnuities .... ........... 92 ............ 10 91 3 t 3 Atmuities, 3 0 yrs, expi re sth Jan., 1880.. IndiDitto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. 15 1-16 Ditta Stock .......................... o 5 per Cen t .................... 1081 / • IDitte Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. ..... 961 .) tto 5 per Cent. ............... 1051 1 1 Ditto Deb entures, 4. per dt., •Oct,, 1 863 100 t Ditt o ditto April, 1864 1001 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001 Ditto tionds El,OOO .................. 28 Consols for Account ............... Exchequer Bills, £1000,•21 per . Cent.... 8L}1231 DiDitto £5OO ................ 812 tto Small ........................ 12 8 FOREIGN er Cen FUNDS—CLOSIN G PRICES. BuenoFs Ayres 6 pt . .............. Di tto Account. .... .. ............. 981 8 Chilian 6 pe r Cent. .................... oitt o 4/ per Cent .................. E gpptian 7 pet Cent.. 841 4 .. Ditto, Seco n d 1 55ue .............. 96 / 51 6 51 ............ 95 creek 5 per Cent., 182,i-5., • ex-Coup.ms.. 161 1 Ditto Couons ............. . ...... 7 t Italian 5 peril ent. (Marernmana Railway) 735 Mexican 3 per Cent .................. -- Ditt,o Account ...................... 32t 11 21 Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent .......... 97t 1 New Granada 2 per Cent .............. 28 I' ruvian 41 per Cent. ......... Ditto 1862 ................ r Ditto Account ..................... 8 91 I Potuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. .......... Ditto 1862 ........ 47/ i I Ditto Scrip, £25 paid.... . ..... . Russi an 6 per Cent., 1822 ........... 31 Pm, £St ........ Ditto 41 p er Cent., 1850 Ditt 5 per C en t ., 1 862 .............. 94 Scrip, £l7 •'• •••• 961 51 6/ tipanieh 3 per Cent Ditto p . aid ............. 2 1 2 pm ... ............... Ditto Ane onnt .. Ditto New Deferre .................. 544 Ditto Account. ..d .............. ..................... 46} Ditto Passive ...... ._ .............. 24 t t 1 1 1 Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 - Ditto Account. ......... ....... ...... ........ 85 1 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 .............. Ditto 6 per C en t . 1862 D itto Account .. .................... 711 1 .............. VenDitto Account, ..................... 68 17} 81 8 Diezuela, 3 per Cent ................ tto Account ..................... 24 Ditto 6 per Cents., 1862: (Scrip ll dis :Dividends on the above payablein London. Dutch 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil ........ Italian, 5 A per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. ...... 66 Ditto ccount ...................... 701 Consols, Money THREE 0'CL0CK....................... 93 Ditto Feb. Account ................ 93 4 .......f____..--,„--...„ _ ....__ 0 the l • ____________---_,._ _ _ n at of January, Cornelius Hackett, aged 1 08 years, died in the city of Arm agh, possessed of all his faculties. He was born on the property of Lord Charlemont, in the county of Tyrone, and when the French landed at Carrickfergus, in 1760, he accompanied his fathe r (being then six years of age) to the scene of action. Thisrie 108 prove s hi s b irth to be in 1754, and his age years. ceased w as a sawyer by trade, and, even up to a few month s of his d ea th , he was able to move about the st reet and use the spade or rake. The journal du Havre announces that the teleg raphic meteorological information organised io England by Admiral Fitzroy will, for the future, be re gularly transmitted to France. Yesterday the first despatch Was Posted up in that port, containing. the words, "A gale may b 3 expected from the north-west." The system of the admiral is based upon the fac , that the telegraph is amore rapid th an the most violent storm. The most terrible hurricane does not travel more than 2,700 metres a minute; so that, kilometres at, on warning by tel egra ph seamen at a distance of L n. (five-eighths of a mile each) in the direc which the storm is taking, they would have seven hours to ;hepare for tte tempest. The accounts of the weather, which came in yes dg o f p r 'l a Y n 111°rn ing by telegraph, from different parts The wind e, state that the atmosphere wit violently agitated. lad that very fresh from the S W. all along the western COI t Th . _ „, . land was gradually extending to the interior. general regien is not excepted. There is a „., a l aPrearance of bard weather. It rained yesterday •-,..0r0it, at . I , Ta , Peueou-Vendee, Marseilles, and Besancon. Rai n a l so tell lo • ''' R l 4 yesterday, MIAMI MARKETS—This Day. harf , Railways. t Bir., Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleaf.,andlididAJo Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and 8ann0n,,,,,_ Corn wall 1" Do A A. L , , , t no di 1 60`'. B til l6 pc.pan.ha,- I been paid to B. 'Dublin Az Belfast Juno. ,IDun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. IGlasg. and S. Western. 'Great Eastern, Ord. stk 1 Ditto A stock Ditto East A nglian At, GreatNorthof Scotland I Great Northern... I 8 81 I ri 86 88 116 117 6! 7 Do A stock Do B do Do. £5 shares Gt. S. an W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val g - ua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire ;London and Blackwalr Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western 11 an., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do t 5hare5........ Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Binning. & Derby mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. f shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwin. Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.. North London Do New ;North Staffordshire .. ;N. and S. W. Junotion Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Deron South Eastern 1 9.16.4 South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok. ,an dWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale. Do B Do C 'Ulster , Do ~ 12.10 Do Vale of Neath 'Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall INV. Hartlepool Har.&ll. West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 41 43 13 14 87 88 105 107 45i 48 43 45 24 25 127 12~ 132 133 136 138 104 if/6 67 (II 109 i 110 72 73 118 119 :?.74 38i 971 48 1014 10N, 41 4.i 9} 94 [2Bf ;2 lf 9} if 97 99 531 541 25 27 100 100 56 67 881 'Bl 126 128 108 110 i 1p 4 3f d 11 116 118 120 476 486 104 106 47 49 336 346 88t 891 684 "44 100 103 7 8 39 40 101 10-1 p' 7 1 7 P 198 150 46 5 r• 26 3 p 556 AN 26 36 p d 6 I, 87 90 140 145 29 31 43 45 35 37 N 26 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuliS Pain : Closing Businet. Price. , clone. 116 k 14 127 j 8 1311 2 J 671 i 1091 96 1024 41; 6 4 1 12 1- 91 i 98 li }i p 51 31 57* 881 89 f 9 f 88 4 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. dal I wß.vb Paid, Closinv Price. 67 69 105 106 Atlantic Rr St Lawrene. Bom.,Barodaet.Cent Gu. S per cent........ Do. New Buffalo and Laxe Huron Do. Preference Buffalo, Brant,&Godriel 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, Do. do. July 1. P , 7:- 1 . Do. do. Juns• 1. 1 Cleu tta. S. f, ('apeTown ,t Dock ser: l Eastn. Bengal gu. 6 p. c East Indian, gu. 5 p. e. Do. do. G Ext..... Do. do. H do. .. Grand trunk of Cana& Do. 6 per cent. Prel Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct.. Do. 6 per ct. Debenti. Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. Do. do. 1867.. Do. do. 1872.. GLlndlaPenin.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. c... Do. January, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. VV. of Canada Shares 51 511 71 8t 77 80 106 100 100 100 10n Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 with' t opt. Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Limited 51 adras guar., 5 p. c. Do. 41 p. o. Extension Dc 4 , .. . - . Do. Fifth Extension. melb.corp. e p. o. Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Mortg. New Br unswick t Cancl. 73 76 73 76 104 106 1(8 119 105 I. 7 107 1.8 1 lip 22 u 74 76 64 66 34 36 48 52 34 36 34 36 105 Re 1 1} p i ; llp 103 105 12j '2i 714 98 100 91 43 d j 103 l ot 97 99 93 5 _ .... Claes A Capital Shan. Do. do. B Capital d 0... IN.RI.C'da6 po Ist it bds Scinde .......... Do. Delhi . I Do. do . dz: , Do. Punjaub .::: ( s.' l' !; Do. Do. .. .. • • ...., Do. Inclus.St. Flo.) 52 53 100 r;( c li 2 15 'Co 3 5 3 s 83 15 1( 5 105 1( 3 10 4 I P P 103 i 104.6 99 101 )LON IA I, 4i4 Klit.,‘ li,L• I SOUL uan.Gov. 6 p.e.J a ,Y.July 1877-81 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. 4z Aulz.. 100 Do. 6 p. c. Mar. az Sept., 100 Do. 5 p. c. Jan.&July.' 100 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 Cape G.Hope, 6p c,1873 100 Do.Ap & Oct. 18801 100 Do. 1890' 100 Do. Jan. & July, 1891_ , 100 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p c 100 N.B.Gov. °p.c. J a.&July 100 Do. 6p. e.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c.,1866 100 Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876 100 Do. d0.,1888 & upwds 100 New Zealand 6p. cent 100 Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. b. Aus G6p.c.187&& up Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.SzJuly Do. to 613.0. A.D.,toot. 11 05 f 1061} 106 108 106 108 97 97i 05 97 101 110 111 113 1112 114 111 118 1041 1(5 100 100 lOU 100 100 99} 1004 994 ICOI 99 99i 108 110 105 106 1 1(8 110 109 111 105 107 It9l lto RRTTIS (Cambrian Consol. Gold Ulinorn Amalgamated Devon G. Con.. (Tavist East Bassett (Illozan) East Clogau Gold Ltd j East Caradon ...... East Cam Brea W'l Russel (Tavistk Gam.arSt.Aubyn(Gwen ) 1 Great South Tolgus Wheal Vor (Helston !Grenville .. Elerod's-Foot ilingston Downs (Lady Bertha ..... ... Margaret (Uny Lelant., Marke Valley.. ‘ivndy Iron Ore (Lim ) New Setun .......... A orth Downs h '1 Basset ( filo pan Forth Wheal Crotty l'ar Consols Blazey t'rovidenee(Uny Lel nt. douth Caradon(St.Cleer S. Cam Brea (Illogan) Wheal Fran. allog - an Stray Park Tamar Silv.,t Lead Min Pin Crott West Basset (Illogan) W Caradon (Liskeard West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan clheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) WhealLud ott heal Mary Ann (Men ) Wheal Seton V heal Trelawney (Lis )1 Wheal Union 471 51 5 2.0.6 2.10.8 8 581 7 3.13 PREFERENCE SHARES. Edinburgh and Glas_!ow, 5 per cent., 111 Great Northern, Luton purchase, 95 Gt. Western ( erks & Hanta Ext.), rd., 4i per cent., 971 London, Chatham, and Dover per cent. pref., 96 Mid. Consolidated, Bristol and Birm., 4 per cent. irrd., 104 Stockton and Darlington, A, 6 per cent., 2 Ditto, C, 64 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London and Brighton &c., 4i per cent., 1861, 104 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED Ex/VIALS. London and Chatham 4. per Cent., 91 Midland, Bradford pref. stock, 97 Nottingham and Grantham R. & C., 97 1 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent, 211 1 Dutch Rhenish, 17} N. Rail of Buenos Ayres, gua. 7 per cent (Urn.), 3 Recite and San Francisca (11m.), gua. 7 per cent., 19 Sambre and Meuse, lo; ; t San Paulo ,lim ), gua. 7 per cent., oi 10—Ditto (all), 24 31 Western and North-Western of France, 2 it OREIGN MINES. Dun Mount. Copper F Min. Co. (lim.), f Mont. Aureos israz. Gold Min. Co. (an.), Santa Barbara Gold Mine (lira.), Yudanamutana of S. Austrhlia (Um.), 3i 6 London, 61 60} DOCKS. J T-STOCK . Alliance Bank of OIN London and LiverpoolßANKS(im.), 201 I Bank of Queensland (lhm), 4t Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 10} 10 Hindustan, China, and Japan (Urn ), 7# London, B. Ayres, and It. Plate (Urn.), 6) London and South African, 25j London and Colonial (Um.), 44 4 Ottoman Bank, : - t34 Standard of British South Africa (lira.), 10 C rystal Palace, n t MISCEL LANEOUS. Nationalltalianl prriza:anontCcaonmalp,a, 811 iny, M adras Irr igation and Canal, 34 RAORD I Saturday last, at EXT ______......,................... NARtirheEPSCAPE FROM CHOKING.-011 shoemaker, Freemasons' dinner, in his observed to be choked by John Somerville, eating. lie was a piece of meat lodging have been caused by his speakinhgroate lifekeep and- tuweildiii:lwt y i i n s P d es r;o P rnTe e c d l the th pe is doing well. carried out apparently dead, diately procured, when Dr. Ridden promp al tl aid was imme diately operation of tracheotomy, or opening the ing up artificial respiration—by which the maPni's saved. The piece of meat was afterwards extracted, and we understand the man, though confined to bed, —Border Advertiser. A touching proof of the depth of woman's love was witnessed at Canterbury, Connecticut, recently, at the funeral of Sergeant Charles Lewis, who was killed at Antietam. A young lady, Miss Hyde, to whom he was engaged, upon bearing of his death, was taken fatally sick and died in a few days, and was buried at the same time as her lover.—/Llissout i paper. In pursuance df the orders of the _Emperor, a stone pillar, two metres high, in the form of a Roman milestone, is now being sculptured at Laon, to be erected in the centre of Caesar's camp at Mauchamp. The design anti inscrip tion have been supplied by Ist Viollet-Leduo, share 100 stir 1 20i 10 100 i stock stock stock 100 100 stock stock stock stock stock 20 stock stocs vtock ss. 3.0.0 7.19.0 17; 40 A. 15. t 4.12 4. 7.0 2.06 ;i4 4.3.0 !.17.( 2.4.9 10. t,.; li 5.15.6; VIA .91 28.9. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENEN 1, JANUARY ft it POLICE INTELLIGENCE---This Day. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.---This Day. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) THE GREAT BANK ROBBERY. This morning four of the men charged with being en gaged in the late extensive robbery of Bank-note paper from the Laverstoke Mills, viz., Buncher, Brewer, Bur nett, and Griffiths, were placed in the dock. The first two prisoners pleaded not guilty, the other two guilty. Cummings and Williams, the other two men charged with being concerned in the robbery, will be tried on sepa rate indictments. Sir F. Kelly, Q.C., standing counsel to the Bank of England, with Mr. Bovill, Q.C,, Mr. Giffard, and Mr. Mathewes, appeared for the prosecution. Sergeant Ballan tine, Mr. Keane, and Mr. F. Lewis appeared for Brewer; Mr. Greenoaks for Buncher. Sir F. Kelly, in opening the case for the prosecution, explained at great length the manner in which bank-note paper was manufactured, dwelling particularly on the mode in which the paper was prepared at Laverstoke, and ex pressed the gratification he had in stating that henceforward it would be impossibl i for forged Bank of England notes to be printed on genuine paper, the most complete arrange ments having been made to guard against such imposition■ in future. When the first forged note came into the Bank the most.diligent inquiry was made, and after the greatest exertions of the p , lice, the Governors had been able to bring the principal participators in the robbery before the court. The learned council then proceeded to give a snort sketch of the antecedents of the four prisoners, one of whom, Griffiths, had been engaged at Birmingham in printing and circulating forged Bank notes for the last 16 or 17 years. He then proceeded to detail the manner in which paper was abstracted from the mills by Henry Brown, a young man formerly engaged by Messrs. Portal, who had been actuated to the commission of the offence through the persuasion of the prisoner Burnett. The learned gentleman then remarked that the great contest which would take place between the learned Sergeant who defended Brewer, would be the credibility of the approver, Henry Brown. He was of opinion that the statement of the young man was corroborated in every particular by witnesses of the utmost respectability, and if they should agree with him, then there could be no doubt that his evidence was worthy of belief, and was such as they could safely act upon. Having referred to the evidasaiv‘ as it affected the other prisoners, he concluded by saying that he felt certain that the jury, in the performance of their arduous duty, would give the case their best consideration, and that justice would be fearlessly done both towards the prisoners and the public. The examination of witnesses was then commenced by Mr Bovill, Q.O , the first person examined being Henry Webb, the City detective, who detailed the circumstances con nected with his apprehension of Giiffiths, the printer, at Birmingham. At the conclusion of this witness's evidence, each of the prisoners were asked if they wished to put any questions. All replied in the negative but Griffiths, who was about to make some observations. The learned Judge reminded the prisoner that he could only ask questions, and he should like to know whether he wss about to put any to the witness previous to his quitting the box. Griffiths—No. I only was about to tell who was the man who has put me away on the present charge. He has had thousands of pounds out of me, and his o! ject in selling me has been to get the reward. The learned Judge told the prisoner he would have ample opportunity of making any statement he might desire at the groper time. The approver, Henry Brown, and Ellen Mills, other wise Mrs. Burnett, having repeated the evidence which has already appeared in The Sun, the case was adjourned. NEW COURT. ((Before Mr. Justice Keating.) ATTEMPTING TO MURDER. William Collier, shoemaker, 34, was indicted for attempt ing to strangle Mary Elizabeth, his wife, with intent to murder her. He was also indicted for attempting to com mit suicide by cutting his throat. The desperate quarrel arose at a drunken orgie, the par ties residing in Pleasant-place, Lambeth. The evidence disclosed a case of such depravity belsween nearly the whole of the parties that we forbear to publish them. The jury acquitted the prisoner of attempting to murder, and by the advice of his counsel the prisoner pleaded guilty to a common assault. Sentence deferred. THIRD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) STEALING SHIRTS. Karl Anders, 24, was indicted for stealing a number of shirts, the property of Ann Cooper. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and the learned judge sen tenced him to six wontha' imprisonment. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick William Grey, the senior Lord of the Board of Admiralty, arrived at Portsmouth dockyard, yesterday from London. Rear-Admiral Robinson, Controller of the Navy, and Capt. Drummond, were also expected at the yard from the Admiralty during the after , noon. Sir Frederick, who arrived soon after 2 p.m., made a tour of the yard immediately after his arrival, visiting the Royal Sovereign, turret ship, the Royal Alfred, frigate, for iron casing, the shop containing the machinery for landing the armour plates, and other points of interest in the yard. He was accompanied by the master ship.- Aright and his staff, the chief engineer, and other officials of the yard. Had the whole Board, with the Duke of Somerset at their head, visited Ports mouth-yard they would just now Ind enough to in terest them in the somewhat singular spectacle, the result of their own orders, of wooden ships stand ing in frame stopped in their further progress of construction, in order that iron-armoured ships might be brought forward, and those very iron cased ships in their turn all but abandoned, in order that repairs might be carried out to a wooden frigate and corvette now about to be despatched on three or four years' foreign service. It is urged as a justification for the course taken by the Admiralty that vessels are immediately r, quired to relieve others on foreign service whose term of ser vice bas expired. We have no small class iron cased ships to send, and therefore the Admiralty must draw from the wooden screw lists of the Re serves, the majority of the vessels in which require heavy repairs to both hull and machinery before they can be commissioned. This, from our know ledge, is the truth ; but, at the same time, it is a truth of which we, as a practical nation, can feel anything but proud. For 20 years the immense re sources of England have been largely employed in creating a steam fleet worthy of her rank and posi tion in the scale of nations, and the result appears to be at present that we have four of what are consi dered to be perfect men of war, afloat and in com mission ; we have a few more building, some nearly ready for launching, one indeed launched, and others just begun ; a large number of wooden ships, the greeter number of which require relieving, our Re serves unavailable for went of repairs, and three fourths of the vessels in those Reserves composed of either " paddles" that can never become war ships again, or vessels so rotten or decayed that they can scarcely float at their snug harbcur moorings. Such a plea needs bat one kind of reply. The Steam Re serves of the navy represent so much national capi tal, the serviceable nature of the ships representing the interest. In the event, however, of any of the ships being really unserviceable, the interest upon the capital is not only lost but to it is added a con siderable sum which goes by the official name of " preservation of hull and machinery." The Ports mouth Reserve figures under this head for about £20,000 per annum. This sum is expended by the Steam Reserve Department alone ; it has nothing to do with repairs to machinery by the steam fac tory, or repairs to hull by the master shipwright's department. All our present Reserves have been thus preserved, useful and useless alike, and the result is that a large number of ships figure in the official Navy List, of which very few in deed are efficient. In the recent official return issued from the Admiralty, the gunboats at Has lai-yard figure largely, and make a somewhat for midable total of vessels, and, as it is now become the fashion to put it," Armstrong" guns. What is the supposed condition of these vessels at the pre sent time P Repaired under the sheds at Has'ar, at an almost fabulous cost, yet in accordance strictly with the Admiralty order to make good only visible defects, the invisible defects were therefore closed in with the new work, and it is now believed that sufficient time has elapsed for the natural results to ensue, and that our famed Haslar gunboats are now rotten past all redemption. The answer to the Ad miralty plea, therefore, is that if the known ineffi cient and useless vessels of the Reserves had been disposed of for the best price they would fetch in the market, the capital thus realised would have placed every other vessel in the Reserves in a sea going condition. Even if the vessels or their machi nery could find no buyers, the money which would be saved annually would, as represented by the " preservation" items of the Refservers, by absolutely giving them away, would go very far towards ren dering the Reserves really efficient. Sir Fred. Grey yesterday had an opportunity of seeing the some what extraordinary number of about two score men employed upon that important experimental ship the Royal Sovereign. He may calculate upon her being ready for ber trial at the measured mile in about 12 or 15 months' time. Broad lines of rail, on which stand two powerful cranes for transporting the ar mour plates, run along each side of the ship. These .• lines of rail are in communication at the bows of the ship with a line of rail which runs down to the workshop at the north end of the yard where the armour plates are bent, drilled, and otherwise pre pared for fixing on the ship's side. This process of bending, &c., was inaugurated with considerable ceremony some time since, but as yet no armour plate has reached the ship, nor according to present appearances will they do so yet, in any number, it at all, for some time to come. The iron cased, or to be iron cased, frigate Royal Alfred is in as bad a plight as the Royal Sovereign. Every shipwright has been taken off her, and the only men now at work upon her are a few from the millwrights' shop at the pumps, a few rivetters and men from the steam factory and probably half-a-dozen joiners. The dockyard officials are, however, much in advance of the Ad miralty with this ship, inasmuch as they have blacked the bottom nicely over and have got the launching ways and cradle all in position. The chief resources of the yard are now employed upon the Curacoa and Esk, both of which ate crowded with hands, and the energy displayed yes terday when it became known some of the " Board" were expected was astonishing. Another important addition was yesterday made to the Royal Navy by the launch of her Majesty's iron screw steam vessel Tamar, of 2,811 tons, and 500 horse power, from the premises of the builders, Messrs. Samuda, Poplar. There was a large num ber of spectators. Shortly aft er 1 o'clock, all being ready, the ceremony of christening was performed by Miss D'Aguilar Samuda, daughter of the builder, and, the dogshores having been removed, the vessel glided gracefully from her launching-ways into the Thames. She was then taken in tow, and hauled into the East India docks, under the mast-house, where she will be fitted with her screw machinery and engines, manufactured by Messrs. Ravenhill, Lalkeld, and Co. The Tamar was laid down in Nov., 1861, and is in every respect a fine vessel. The following are her principal dimensions: — Length, 300 ft. ; breadth, 44ft. 7in, ; depth in hold, 34ft. ; burden in tons, 2,811 82-94 old measurement. After receiving her machinery she will be removed to Woolwich dockyard to be rigged and fitted with her armament, consisting of four rifled guns, and she is expected to be ready for service by April next. A large number of workmen are now em ployed at the premises of Messrs. Samuda upon the construction of her Majesty's armour-plated screw cupola ship Prince Albert. She will be iron-cased throughout with 41-inch plates, and fitted with four armour-cased shields or cupolas, of immense strength, upon Capt. Coles's plan recently adopted by the Admiralty. She is the first cupola ship laid down for the Government, and is named the Prince Albert by express desire of her Majesty. Tir arma ment. of this magnificent vessel will consist of 71 monster rifled guns, two of which will be fitted each cupola. Letters, dated " Fortress Monroe, Virginia, Dec. 21," received by our Chatham pince la on the 18th correspondent, an_ nounce the departure from that of Dec. of her Majesty '$ screw ste a mer to the assistanceer Cadmus, 21, 400 horse power, Capt. F. no of a British mercha nt ship, the Ocean W ave, which she fell in with in a distressed condition. Af ter ren dering her assistan ce, the Cadmus returned to For tress Monroe, where, at the departure of the mail, her Majesty's screw sloop Peterel 11, 150 horse w er, Com. G. W. Wat son, po was also lying. The officers and crew of both vessels were all well. The fitting of the screw frigate Arethusa, 61, 3,141 tons, 500 horse power, preparing for the se mud division -of the Chatham Steam Reserve, has been suspended t , y order of the Admiralty. The Are thusa is intended to" take the place of the Leander, 51, in the Steam Reserve, should the latter be com mission d. The other 51 gun screw frigates now at tached to the Chatham Steam Reserve are the Undaunted, 3,039 tons, 600 horse power; the Bris tol, 3,027 tons, 600 horse power; and the New castle, 3,035 tons, 600 horse power. The hired transport Cordelia arrived in Chatham harbour yesterday from Moulmein. She brings a cargo of 900 tons of teak timber for the dockyard. The naval transport Rochester, Mr. Heather, second master, having made good the defects she sustained during the recent gale, is ordered to take in a cargo of naval stores at Chatham dockyard, for Portsmouth. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CREATING A DISTURBANCE AT A REFRESHMENT TIOUSB.—Catherine Joyce was charged with creating a disturbance at 41, Haymarket, a refreshment-house. Mr. John Tucker said—l keep a refreshment-house, eating-house, or whatever you like to call it. Prisoner was in my service for a few months and left. She sued me for a week's wages, but could do nothing. She gets drunk and comes to my house and calls me and my wife names. Last night sha came and called me this and my wife that. She got a crowd round the house, would not go away, and I gave her in charge. She stopped my business. ➢Zr. Tyrwhitt—Oh, that wculd be a great pity indeed. Prisoner—l called for a letter which had been left at the house for me, and the complainant said that the letter had been given back to the postman. I made inquiries, and found that it was not the case, and on going to tell the com plainant what the gentleman at the post-office said, the letter was given to me opened. Mr. Tyrwhitt—l suppose there was no remittance in it. Prisoner—No, sir. It is a night house the complainant keeps. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Anything else ? Prisoner—Yes. Bad business is carried on. Mr. Tyrwhitt—l have had enough of the case. I shall dismiss the young woman, and I hope if you detain any more of the letters she will bring you here for larceny, WESTMINSTER. JusTICB IN A Fix.—A man between 60 and 60 years of age, attired in a large smock frock, was placed before Mr. Arnold, who having in vain looked for his name amongst those who had been locked up at the station, inquired who he was. Policeman—We don't know. Mr. Arnold—What is his name ? Policeman—He can't talk. Mr. Arnold—You have asked him, of course—does he re fuse to give it P Policeman—We don't know about that, your worship, but he seems to be deaf and dumb. He does not speak at any rate, and he does not pay the least attention when one talks to him, and that of course makes us think he is deaf and dumb. Mr. Arnold—What offence is he brought before me for ? Policeman—Begging. He was in Chester-square with a placard upon his breast, stating that he was deaf and dumb and compelled to solicit assistance, and I took him into custody. Mr. Arnold—Cannot you find any one who can interpret to a deaf and dumb person ? Policeman—Yes; I have a person here who can talk with his fingers, but defendant either can't or won't under stand him. We have traced him every where, but we can't make anything of him at all. Mr. Arnold—Try again. The person acquainted with the finger vocabulary stood forward and made up a sentence, but the defendant stood as motionless as a statue. Mr. Arnold—Write on a bit of paper and see if you can make him understand. Policeman—We have tried that, sir, and it is no use more than any other way ; he either won't or cannot understand. Mr. Higgins, the clerk, wrote something on a piece of paper and handed it to him, but he appeared to be blind as well as suffering under the other infirmities, and nothing came of the experiment. Mr. Arnold—l don't know what to do with the man. I can't bear the case unless the accused can be made to com prehend what is said against him, or without affording him the opportunity of reply. I must remand him until Friday, and every possible inquiry must be made about him, and somebody to make him understand if possible. THAMES. IMPrDENT ROBBER:T.—William Haines, a rough look ing fellow, about 20 years of age, who said he belonged to the London, an American ship, but who is supposed to be a regular long shore thief, was brought before Mr. Wool rych, charged with stealing a concertina, a coat, and other property belonging to John Richardson, a seaman. Yesterday afternoon, while the crew of the ship William and Ellea, lying in the Regent's Canal Dock, Ratcliff, were at tea, the prisoner managed to board the vessel and sneak into the prosecutor's bed cabin, from which he took a concertina, a coat, and other property, and managed to get into the ship's boat with his booty, when some of the crew made their appearance on deck, and saw him about to row towards the quay. He was pursued and overtaken with the property in his possession. He was asked if he belonged to any ship in the dock, to which he replied, "No, I hail from the London, an American ship. Tire prisoner on being called upon for his defence, in a sullen manner said—l have nothing at all to say. Mr. Woolryoh—You have committed a very audacious robbery—stolen that young man's things, and if he had not recovered them it would have been a severe loss to him. You are not known, and therefore I can deal leniently with you. I sentence you to two months' imprisonment and hard labour. LOOK AFTER YOUR TlLLS.—George Thompson, a well known thief, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with`a daring till robbery in the shop of Mr. James Everett, corn chandler, in High •street, Poplar. The prosecutor was absent from his shop a short time and on his return saw the prisoner with his hand in the till which is attached to the counter. The prisoner was in the act of taking some silver out of the till when Mr. Everett arrested his hand, detained him, and gave him into custody There were silver coins in the prisoner's mouth, and it is supposed the prisoner swallowed them, for when he was searched only 5/d. was found upon him. It was proved by Inspector Griffin and other officers that the prisoner had been three times convicted, and on each occasion gave the name of Thomas Hancock. He was con victed summarily in March last for stealing a copper coal scuttle frum a public house, and sentenced to one month's imprisonment and bard labour, and a former conviction was then proved against the prisoner for stealing lead for which he also underwent a month's imprisonment. The prisoner had also been summarily convicted and sentenced to three months' imprisonment for " picking a till" in the Victory public house, Rhodeswell-road, Stepney. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. Woolrych—l now sentence you to four months' im prisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. MARKETS—This Day. MARK LANE A very moderate supply of English wheat was received fresh up to this morning's market. Dry samples sold freely, at fully Monday's advance of is per quarter; but damp produce commanded very little attention. The supply of foreign wheat was large. Nearly all de scriptions weie in fair average request, and Monday's cur rency was well supported. - - Floating cargoes of grain changed hands to a fair extent, at full quotations. Malting barley ruled firm, at extreme rates. Grinding and distilling sorts moved off slowly, but at full prices. Malt ruled steady, at previous quotations. The supply of oats was very moderate, and the trade ruled firm, at an advance for fine sweet corn of 6d per quar ter. Beans and peas were in slow request, and prices had a downward tendency. Flour moved off steadily, and in some instances rather more money was demanded. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. O a t s. F lour. English...— 150 4lO ; 2,210 i 100 1 830 sack - Irish - I?oreign 12,340 1 1,4T0 1 -- I aro 1 470 sacks 8,410 brim BOROUGH HOP. A fair business is passing in most kinds of hops, at pre vious quotations. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat is moderate, and the demand rules inactive as follows : Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 2d; veal, 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 4d per 81b. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. LONDON, Jan. 7.—Wind this day at noon—North. Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. CHATHAM, Jan. 6. —Wind S.W.—Arriv3d—Cordolea, from Moulmein. PORTLAND ROADS, Jan. 6.—Arrived—Otto, from Ham burg for Porto Rico. OFF PILL, Jan. s.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Dauntless, from New York. TORBAY, Jan. 6.—Wind variable—Sailed—Burlington, for Swan River. Most of the windward bound were get- ting under w;.-.igh. PLYXOUTH, Jan. 6.—Wiud S.W.—Arrived—Athens, screw steamer, from Southampton, and proceeded for the Cape of Gnod Hope, HOLYHEAD, Jan. 6. —Wind S.—Sailed—Hannibal, and Poll Star, from Demerara ; Fleur de Lis, from Bombay ; Arbitrator, from Havannah. MILFORD, Jan. G.—Arrived—Kate, from the Clyde, for Berbice. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) Arriv e d GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. cashire fro m MJa n. 6 —Vivid Light, from Phil a delphia ; L an - Newo G reat Britain l mein; Nursery Packet, from Ni c k er i e ; ,fr Tuticorin ; Alkali, from Dun kirk ; Cadmus from Oporto ; Hermann, from Rio Grandel; Acis, from St. Forrest, from Alexan Mich a el's ; Vi ctoria, from Seville Wm. Arrived Jan. 7.-11 dria ; Ch r i stiania, from Dunkirk. from Marseilles elen Baire, from Mauritius; R u b an , The Amazon ; C foronNew cordia, f rom Boulogne. lass damaged. , 'York, h as returned, with wind- and lost both her masts. The DEA-14 Wednesday Morning. o to west, got night,duringsch t o h o e ner, of whole of her crew gut on board the and the schooner will proceed to Ramsgate next tide in charge of boatmen. /3eilvd—.Qprouct, for ,Liondolli to ItoP let*, i n The collisionßobert, FRENCH COCHIN-CHINA. The Anumite Code.—Like all official documents in Cochin-China, the code is written in Chinese. It was first conceived by Gia-Long, and is an imita tion of the Chinese code. It prescribes three kinds of capital punishment—decapitation, strangulation, and slow death, now rarely applied. After the punishment of death comes that of exile, then irons, and lastly, the bamboo. The latter may be applied to the extent of 60 strokes for slight ofiences ; be yond that it is replaced by the stick, which is always a concomitant of irons ano exile ; the dimen sions of the bamboo and stick are perfectly well defined; and the number of strokes can never ex teed a hundred. Except the members of the Royal family, no one is exempt from the punishment of the bamboo; but big h dignitaries,man darins, generals, and colonels may buy themselves off, a favour also granted to rich individuals. The chief object of this code is to enforce an exaggerated reverence for the Royal authority in the first instance, and next for the hierarchy which descends from it; the authority of the father over his children, the master over his servant, and the husband over his wife. Casting a stone at a royal pagoda or palace, is punished with death. Approaching the palace, or going along the road through which the King is to pass, may often be a capital offence. The physician is obliged to taste all the medicines he prescribes; if he com mit a mistake, he is liable to bastinadoed , So also are the valets that do not keep the King's clothes in pro per order; the master of the stables that neglects the carriages or litter of the Court; the cook who may have sent up dishes not in harmony with each other, &e. The proclamations, seals, and other matters relating to the King are inviolable on pain of death. Slavery my or i g i nate in the follow i ng ways Either by a po or person ' s sell i ng hi mse lf, or b y : parents selling the children they cannot maintain ; or by war, all prisoners taken in battle being liable to be sold as slaves. Most of the slaves in the Anna mite empire, however, belong to a race of moun taineers called Moi, who sell either themselves or their children to slave-dealers. Kid-napping is severely punished. A slave cannot redeem himself except with the consent:of his master. In criminal proceedings generally, all persons having any con nection with a delinquent are considered more or less responsible for his acts. Although the code visits the slightest transgressions with severe punishment, it nevertheless displays some tenden cies to philanthropy. Thus, during the rainy sea sons, or in case of drought, persons imprisoned fot slight delinquencies are released, lest epidemics should break out in the prisons. Women to be basti nadoed, must have their persons completely covered; there are mitigations prescribed for children and old men, and abuse of authority on the part of functionaries is severely punished. JEWS' FREE A CHOOL, SPITALPIELDS.—On Sun day Mr: Moses Angel, head master of the Jews' Free School, which affords instruction to 1,800 children of the humbler orders of the Jewish faith, was presented with a testimonial subscribed for by numbers who have had the best opportunities of estimating this gentleman's zealous and able fulfilment of his trust. The spacious school-room was crowded on the occasion, and the pro ceedings of the day were opened by the chairman, Mr. M. D. Davis, a principal teacher, an i formerly a pupil in the school. Having feeling dwelt on Mr. Angel's many excellent qualities, and enumerated his especial claims on the gratitude of all connected with the institution, he presented the testimonial, consisting of a pair of very superb salvers, an elaborately chased claret jug, and two very handsome goblets. The inscription on one of the salvers was as follows: —" The grateful offering of the past and present pupils and teachers of the Jews, Free School to Moses Angel, twenty-three years head master, in recognition of his untiring zeal in promoting their moral and intellectual welfare.—Jan., 1863 (5623)." An address was afterwards read by Mr. L. B. Abrahams, expressive of the sentiments of the contributors, and speeches were made by several gentlemen formerly students in the institution, the principal orators being Mr..G. J. Emanuel, 8.A., Mr. James Bethell, LL,B., and the Rev. A. F. Ornstrin ; the last-named gentleman quitting im portant duties in Birmingham in order to be present. The head master acknowledged the honour thus bestowed on him by his pupils and co-labourers, and the meeting, which numbered more than 1,000 persons, separated in excellent humour, after giving Mr. Angel three cheers expressive of their goodwill. AN UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCE.—AB an instance of the unusual mildness of the season, we may mention that a peach tree, in the garden of Captain Douglas, at Sonthsea, blossomed a few days since. It was attached to a wall having a south-easterly and open aspect. liusinefis done 1074 i I in xn xn 22i i 71 106 xn 35 q 103 i i 31 xn 24 xn 104 xn xn 106 xd 107 97 xd 09k 991 4 ad 110 191 10} 48 # # 150 2 THE LAST OF LYON'S INN. There remains nothing now but a waste of old bricks, a half acre of desolation, to mark what once was "Lyon's Inn I" It was "as old at least as Henry V,," says Pennant. "It is small and old, and hash a back door into Wych street," quoth Stowe, speaking disparagingly of it, as some thing musty, in 1598. "It was an Inn of Chancery in King Henry V.'s time, as we read in the steward's accompt books, rays Dugdale, in his Ortgines, reverently, as an an tiquary speaks of everything ancient, " and how long before it is uncertain." "It dates from 1420," says Maitland. In an old picture map of London, supposed to be by Ralph Aggas, and taken in the early days of Queen Elizabeth when the first timber structure of Whitehall Banquetting House was not yet raised, ere Lamb's Conduit adorned Holbourne, and enabled the citizens— " Their steeds to water at those springs At Holbourne's gate that lies ;" era the munificent Gresham, with a prophetic foresight of his native city's commercial glories, had reared a rival to Antwerp's famed Bourse in the Royal Exchange of London —a map, in which are long gardens to all the houses on the north side of the Strand, with fields behind, between them and Holbourne, stretching up unbroken to. Highgate-hill; with foot-paths, and love-lanes, and hedges, and high trees, and cattle pasturing; and in which Drury-lane and the Strand are two yet rural streets, alike starting from Temple Bar. divided at their junction by St. Clement Dane's Church and an intermediate row of houses on either side beyond it —we find Lyon's Inn, a small square surrounded by ancient buildings, with the present three old houses in Holywell street pertaining to it—the first existing, as they will be the first to be eradicated, in that unsavoury locality. Lyon's Inn, with Clement's Inn and New Inn, were ap purtenances to the Inner Temple, much after the manner that halls at the universities originally belonged to colleges, and have dropped from them into independence. When our Kings presided in courts of law, the judges, of course, tra velled about with them, becOming resident for occasional periods in inns or large houses of temporary resort; but when Henry 111. domiciled the law permanently in West minster Hall, the lawyers, invited to attend there, finally fluttered down, and settled in the present Inns of Court and Chancery. Why the latter name was given is not known, and, curiously enough, has never been made the subject of inquiry. All that is known is that Clifford's Inn, Thavie's Inn, Bernard's Inn, and Staple's Inn, within the walls, with Clement's Inn, New Inn, and Lyon's Inn, outside the City, were Inns of Chancery to the Inner Temple. Why this outer locality was chosen seems evident, for opposite " Chester's Inn," where the bishop dwelt when in attendance on the court (it was on the south side of the Strand, and just beyond Essex House, as you approach the City from the fields of St. Martin's, or the vil lage of Charing . ), was the " Cross"or stone, on which, up to 1204 (the reign of King John) the judges sat, without the City," to administer justice ; " and some times they used the bishop's house for the purpose." This was in 1204, and lawyers were then encouraged by special Royal invites to resort to London from all parts ; but in 1244, these flocks of lawyers, with their law schools, and their noisy students, became so rank a nuisance, that a pro clamation of Henry 111., about that period, enjoins the sheriffs and mayor to put them down. Of Clifford's Inn we find a conveyance in 1318 ; of Lyon's Inn a record of 1420 ; Clement's Inn is mentioned in Edward's IV.'s •time ; and " in New Inn," on Pennant's authority, " the students of the Strand Inn nestled after they were routed out from thence by the Duke of Somerset," the proud Protector, who pulled down inn, and college, and hall, and church, to make room for his palace, and was hardly hindered from destroy ing Westminster Abbey itself, at the dissolution of its monastery, to supply stones for the building of his Somer set House. In Queen Elizabeth's time Lyon's Inn numbered 80 students in term, and thirty out of term, to whom " Read ings" and " Mootings " went on with great regularity. Wb at went on after those exercises we can infer tolerably well from Shakspere's report. Hark to " the chimes at mid night I " See what a party of "swinge-bucklers" are com ing round the corner towards St. Clement's Why, as we live, there's Little John Dolt of Staffordshire, and Black George Barnes of Staffordshire, ant Francis Pickbone, and Will Squele of Cotswold ; ay, and young Squire Shallow, too, of Gloucesterdtire--a lean. long, lathy stripling, such a one as you would carve, after supper, out of a cheese paring ; and with them the merriest and most mischievous of the party, strapping Jack Falstaff, John o' Gaunt's page 1 Rare lads, these. How bravely they ruffle along, with their watchword, "Hem, boys I" on their way, perchance, from shooting at the butts with Prince Arthur's archers, or from the Old Mill at Vauxhall, to young Shallow's chambers in Clement's Inn. Shakspere places his Justice Shallow in IlenrylV.'s time, but he had seen such a scene, so he describes, with his own eyes, in coming home with Ben Jonson from the Devil Ta vern, when, "by reason of the frequent disturbance and unthriftiness of the gentlemen in the Inns of Chancery in the streets at night, the inhabitants (as old Strype tells us piteously), were obliged to keep watch; and in 1482 "the Recorder himself, with six men of the honest inhabitants (a scene worthy of Rowlandson, and from which, or some thing of the kind, Shakspere must have been indebted for his Dogberry and Verges), stood by St. Clement's Church to see the lanthorns hung out, and watch for some of these outrageous dealers." And whom do you think they caught? . . „ Why, "at 7 o'elock at night they saw young Mr. Robert Cecil (he that was afterwards Queen Elizabeth's secretary). the Lord Treasurer's son, pass by the church." But Mr. Robert Cecil, a wise youth, albeit noisy withal, must have smoked their purpose ; for " he gave them as he passed a civil salute," which so pleased the six men of the honest inhabitants of St. Clement's Danes, that they exclaimed, " See the good youth, he pulleth off his cap •to poor men. The Lord bless him l" And so the Recorder wrote next day to his father, the Lord Treasurer, congratulating him on the possession of such a treasure in so worthy a son. Who Lyon was is unknown, if ever there was such a per son ; although the arms of the Inn, " upon a checkie or an az. a lion salient, and tongued and armed gules," would seem to point to some distinct family, whose place had been sold, just as was Clifford's Inn, of whose conveyance to the Middle Temple by the Clifford family there is existing record. Of Lyon nothing is left now but the outward sign of the lion on the hall; which, albeit, afforded some amusement on the day of the rubbish sale, from the eager ness with which certain Jews in the vicinity bid for the usdess relic—too old for a modern sign, and too now to be valuable from antiquity, a . its date hardly reached 1700. What could these Jews want with it ? What was Lyon's Inn to them ? That lion was not the lion of Judah. At last it came out that a waggish bidder had hinted to some six or seven chosen Hebrews, each separately, that the lion on that hall was made of lead, and had been painted over, in day s long gone by, to look like stone. The possessors of this valuable "tip" duly attended the sale—each unconscious of the others' equal knowledge—and as the effigy was perched up too high to be reached or handled, the specula tion became a dashing one, and the biddings were vivid. The successful Jewish gentleman who waited throughout that foggy afternoon to receive his lumbering stone trea sure, went home a wiser, but if we were to judge by his language on the occasion, assuredly not a better man. Down with that lion came the hall, in later years the scene of sucking forensic celebrities; for two or three legal debat ing clubs held it on hire for their oratorical exercises, thus unwittingly replacing the ancient " mootings" and read ings, over which Sir E. Coke had presided for two years (it was here he won his spurs and his clients as a great lawyer), and for refusing to attend which, when chosen by the an cients of Lion's inn out of the six outer barristers sent tip t: them by the Inner Temple benchers, as reader, 1:1 0 . 1 , :: in man than the great John Seldom suffered 1624, by the loss of his " commons" and a Pinretor's lodge de from the walls to the obscurity of w o n fx rt 2 Y o. Down theEds:rd with the long o s t , h ,, ing but many rotten de scended the venerable portrait of Sir the engravings ,• pointed beard and ruff, so well known from , reCOras ofthe the In u ' tY - and opened to the air were . went chest f o4t t h e kept in various old volumes o of d e faulters in rent, items " f " law hands;" list bill; credits of or a new rental £4OO, for the spit" and a painter's rlemish account whole Inn, and ''' this sum was expend d b of the manner in which e ; bonds of fellows admitted (to what hewcijacourhudnl': wasiat tell)ccd toau done seticalculationsed°2nk7 securities) andsoO 4 t o i. , 4 r o e 0 - (which never was done, as the money couldtbuildo repair privileges n t a e e v t e l ihn r aeo b l l T e o la(n r wne a raised) ; records of a tricky suit at law with the Inner Temple about the rents of the three old houses in Holywell-street ; a tax-gatherer's receipt, with advertise• Mental at the back of it (there wore men of genius in those days I) ; and last, not least, the will—signed, sealed, and delivered—of old Sir Josiah Child, goldsmith and hanker. With Selden's refusal to read to its students, died, appa rently, the glories of Lyon's Inn ; for we hear nothing more of its lawyers, and find nothing in its muniments but re ceipts for small beer for the "Ancients" and tallow-candies tor the porter, until we land upon a certain " A. Bailey, Esq.," of Lyon's Inn, who leaves in his will £2,500 to erect that monument to the Earl of Mansfield (Pope's Mar. ray), which the great patriot lawyer had hoped to escape, but which, thanks to "A. Bailey, Esq.'s") posthumous munificence, now adorns the walls of Westminster Abbey. The final ignominy that fell upon Lyon's Inn was agg:ra: I Tated to intensity by Theodore Hook's wickedly improvised ballad on the murder of Mr. William Wearep by Thu tell, at Gills Hill, in Hertfordshire They cut his throat from ear to ear, His brains they batter'd in; His name was Mr. William Weare, And he lived in Lyon's Inn I" After those verses, no one liked to give his address as " Lyon's Inn," so that, gradually deserted by its tenants it soon wore the appearance oi the ancient mansion in the story. The " Ancients," one after another, died out; it was worth no one's while to look after rents that never accrued, or, accruing, never were paid. The steware, it may be' imagined, went out fishing one dismal wet afternoon, and was heard of no more. The porter was starved out, Tbe beadles called in vain from the vicine parishes for annual. charity to the poor. The dreary old square and its dirty tumble-down staircases fell into charge of one miserable charwoman, who took in washing in the hall, and hung up wet clothes in the cloisters. There was no corporate bad) , to rebuild the houses as they decayed into irreparable rot tenness. The " feoffees in trust" dwindled down to a feoffee in possession. There was no one to elect, no one to be elected—no one to represent, and no one' to be represented. The very man who called, so very perseveringly, for the water-rat e during three years, and always went away so angrily, could find no one to threaten with his so terrible ultima urn. The inn remained a desert and a profitless blank i n the very midst of the great arterial thoroughfare of Lond on ; until, suddenly, the bright idea arose of re storing it to its original destination of an hotel for travel e er iti .k n o favourable wu frontage a " Sam'se i n Hotel."th e Strand Lyon's by ally ingnn s it h a s, therefore, disapp eared ; but a Strand Hotel, with half l 'ac w q i u th iri theng a w an acre of bedchambers behind it, and a Great Hall, to rival that of Exeter, and with a similar appropriation, will speedily re-appear on its site, as one of the :-few architectu ral ornaments of the centre of the metropolis..--Observer. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 3d contains a Royal decree, stating that the Queen has accepted the Marquis de Is. Havane's resignation of his functions as her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, - and expressing approbation of his conduct. The Minister of Finance, M. Salaverria, has pressnted to the Chamber of Deputies a number of bills, one having for object the liberty of making awl selling gun powder in 1861; the abolition of octroi duties on various articles of food; the levying of a small tax upon travellers and goods going by express trains; and . a modificatio n of the customs' tariff on iron, cotton, and other articles. Th e Correipondencia says that a steam carriage for common roads has been tried at Alcala with complete sucOess. THE O'DONOGHUE OUTRAGE. The O'Donoghue, if capable of the least reflec tion, must have repented before this of his conduct at Tralee. It has been strongly condemned in every quarter, even where he probably expected sympathy and support. The people of Tralee themselves, through their Chamber of Commerce, have just joined in this general expression of condemnation. At a meeting, specially called for the purpose, its members have declared that "they feel deep regret at the want of respect and the forgetfulness of his sacred office with which the Rev. Dr. Moriarty was received" on the occasion of The O'Donoghue's dis• graceful escaped. They also state that the " utmost reparation in their power is due by tae people of Tralee for the irreverence thus evinced to his lord ship." These resolutions are a strong comment upon the course pursued by The O'Donoghue. They show that the respectable portion of the Roman Catholic community in the very neighbourhood of the district where he alleged the deepest distress prevailed—distress so serious that he felt called upon, according to his statement, to divert the vo , lun tary subscriptions of his co-religionists in Lanca shire into that quarter—wholly repudiate his leader ship and his conclusions. The chamber, before break ing up, resolved to present an address to his lord ship embodying the foregoing resolutions, and bearing the signatures of all its members. It will be recollected that at the meeting in Tralee extracts were read from the letter of a Roman Catholic clergyman the Rev. Edward Fitg gerald —expressing the warmest sympathy with the Lancashire operatives, and recalling the muni ficence of England during the Irish famine. Feel ing called upon to protest agairst the scandalous attempt to tuJu,. the collection in Tralee for Lan cashire, he has published a letter in which he thus warmly repeats his former testimony on the subject : " I cannot forget the summer of 1822. I was then occupied day after day for several weeks in Mill town and Listry in distributing kiln-dried corn plentifully, and held in store a large quantity of breadetuffs and a cargo of potatoes, all for the relief of the poor of these parishes, all at the expense of our English neighbours. The late famine years are fresh in the mind of every one. On looking over some of the late Right Rev. Dr. Egan's papers, I find an account of monies rtl'tnitted to him from the England people' in 1847, with ,the name of the cor respondents and the amount of C. ;Leh remittance, making a total, so far as I can ascertair: at present, of £1,217 9s. 10d. for the relief of the poCY of his diocese. If this distinguished bishop, of acknow ledged retiring habits, were then living, would he not attend the Tralee meeting, if it were only to proclaim the generosity of the benefactors of the poor of his diocese ? Would not, I ask, the Right Rev. Dr. Moriarty, his successor, be guilty of a de reliction of duty did he not take a prominentpa rt in that meeting, for the same laudable purpose, and confirm his sincerity with any subscription he could afford for the relief of the Lancashire operatives ? I rejoice that he has done SO. The senti ments and the pr inciples propounded by the Bishop of Kerry in his pastoral and in his speech at the meeting are t oo soun d and too co mprehensive to lose their effect in tumult. They a re lauded by eve r y respecta bl e j ourna li s t, an d every righ , tminded lay man w ill su b scr ibe to them." The O'Donoghue has the discredit of introducing the bitterest animosities into Tralee and its neigh bourhood ; but he has also, much as he must regret it, been instrumental in arousing a spirit among a part of the Roman Catholic population quite at variance with his designs. The letter of Mr. Fitz gerald alone would establish this, without the an nexed extract from a reply to an attack made upon a trader, in Tralee, who has been assailed by Th e O'Donoghue faction for having subscribed .£1 to tb!! lE7:glad to this Lancashire fund, while he only gave los. to a local relief fund:— " Though not a very old mfraonm, w ell remem bertoongst us . cannot even ra. a gland having before received several occasions on which r elief has been sent on of her with a right imperial hand m co e u m n b tr e y; a ; oldes t t b r u a t di t t h io e nott.r. people. And is it ed because I, an humble indi- L o dfnl of the many benefits received by my charity for ana' countr ymen from to m ler y a the free and noble English people humble mite to relieve the tem porarybvtale:fa:lf the r efore distresscontributed existing in a district of that coun try, co-operating with others to repudiate the Stigma of a national ingratitude, which a few self-elected leaders of the people would seek to attach to us, that I am to be called to account by an anonymous scribbler, whose ideas of charity are so perverted that, had he lived in Samaria of old, he would have held up the good Samaritan' as a man who had done an injustice to his countrymen.' Mr. Bright has accepted an invitation to the annual dinner of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, the 16th inst. for the East FUTURE MOVEMENTS OF THE ALABAMA.—M uch speculation continues to exist regarding the future movements of this steamer. "We are enabled to state on the best authority (says the Liverpool Journal of Commercc) that Indies.Ca Cap t, Semmescontemplated icruising ground on the part of the Alabama has been known , for some time by ntendsto ch s a a n il g i e in o m f et el the initiated, and is onlyearrYing nal programme." The general dulness of the Palmeritan theatres has been broken by the appearan ce among t h e au dience at the Garibaldi of Fut Pantaleo, just returned from Aspromonte,.exdr, and priso n . Of course there was a de monstration m his favour. lie asked for cheers for Gari baldi; and the house echoed with the " Vivas I" for the wou nded of Aspromonte. The fighting friar has been re quested not to assi s t a t any mor e performances, as his presence is too exciting, and he has appealed against the order. There were also disturbances at the Teatro Rossini, and the usual cries for the hymn. 'the St. Ala , have : the ancl their' efore hort ssful sent d a rued, it is 0 is d as tate- hip :her. ping )0M is--- 32- 'ow two r.g.- ity, ap s or