The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-23 00:00:00

IIONEY MARKET AND COMMRCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The position of the discount market still denotes an abundant supply with a comparatively moderate demand. The quantity of paper on offer this morn ing is by no means excessive, and first class descrip tions are still negotiable at 7a I per cent., so that the business taken to the Bank of England continues Moderate. A further supply of gold, viz. £17,000, was sent yesterday into the bullion vaults of the Bank of England. Business in the City is extremely quiet, owing to the preparations for the Christmas holidays. A statement just published gives the total ailpments of specie to the East by the steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental Company during the Year 1863 to have been £16,308,474, of which £4,323,400 was gold and the remainder silver. Th e proportion from Southampton was £11,000,026, and from Marseilles and other Mediterranean ports £5,308,448. Last year the total by these Steamers was slightly larger—namely, £16,907,415, but in 1863 a sum of £5,284,829 has been shipped by th e steamers of the Messageries Imperiales, in cluding £3,091,492 in gold for Constantinople and Egypt. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning (according to Mr. Renter's tel egram ) the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 661. 40c. Quiet. Very little alteration has resulted from the trans actions entered into to-day in the market for the English Funds, but upon the whole the tendency of Prices has indicated greater firmness. This has atisen principally from the favourable specie move ment and a more confident feeling regarding the progress of monetary and political affairs abroad. Consols are at advance of 1, the prices being 91i for money, and 911 _a for the account. The Reduced Annuities and New Threes are 9111 ; India 5 per Cents., 1061 g ; Enfaced 5i per Cents., 113 1 4 ; the Bonds are quoted par ; and Exchequer Bills, 9s. 4s. dis. Foreign Stocks have been in greater favour this Morning, and general buoyancy has consequently prevailed. Ureek Bonds show an advance of I per cent., the prices being 251 I; and the Coupons are steady at 111 Z. Mexican have risen about i per emt., viz., 378 Z. Spanish Passive remain firm at 3 3 4, Turkish Consolides have improved to 478 Z, Which is a rise of i per cent., while the Confederate Loan, after touching 39 41, has descended to 38 40. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been of moderate character, and prices gene. rally show increased firmness, Great Eastern, North Western, North Eastern (Berwick), and South Eastern have improved ss. ; Great Western, and Lancashire and Yorkshire, 108. ; and Mid land, 15s. The Foreign and Colonial lines continue dull at about iormer rates. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have, in most instances, exhibited a firmer tone. Imperial Otte man have improved to 174 181. ; Chartered of India, Australia, and China, 364; National Shipping Cotn- Pally are quoted 2 prem. ; West India and Pacific Steam, 11 ; 2 prem.; and ConeolidatediDiscount Cor poration, lf 2 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 234/ 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9lk 4 New 3 per Cent. Annuities N .,''''" 3 3 / 4 per Cent. Annuities Yew 2f per Cent. Annuities.... 6 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 5 -Lnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 188.5 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — India Stock, 1874 Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870 Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 — Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent . . Ditto 5 per Cent — Ditto 5} per Cent Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Bank Stock for Account Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — Ditto under £l,OOO . ... par Console for Account, Jan. 7 India St ock for Account, 5 per Cent.. • • —9li & Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2t k 3 per Cent. 4 9 dis Ditto £6OO .. •-- die Ditto Small - FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto • :1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Ditto Account — Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Colombian 6 Scrip £l5 pd .. Ditto Scrip, 1863, £3O paid Cuba, 6 per Cent. .. Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 .c.quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Lliilia.o 6 per Cent. .., Ditto 4f per Cent, ,llatish 4 per Cent~ 1863 -u utch, 2f per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders -, Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant — t4/' v p tiau 7 per Cent lOO Ditto, Second Issue - Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. Ditto Account 2sh Ditto Coupons —' Ditto Account — 6 uateruala 5 per Cent. 1 Ditto sper Account — x s t 'Llian Cent.(slaremmana Railway) •"kelliCall 3 per Cent Moorish Account •. 36/ 7 6a 7} New Imperial 5 per Cent 44 e..,w Granada — Ditto 2 per Cent. — Ditto Deferred p Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — et uvian 3per Cent. .. !lift° Account — P Ditto 4i per Cent., 1862 ° ,-, r tuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account.. — Ditto 3 per C t 1856, '7, '9, en ~ '6 o, 62;3 Ditto A ccount • • • 49 Ditto, 1863 Ditto Scrip, £l6 paid Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 _ Ditto 1860 -- Ditto Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 Sardinian Ditt s : 6 e c r opune C r e tc n e t . .: t lB62 .. 891 Ditto Account A N c e z v o , Spanish 3 per Cent uDnetfarr d — Ditto Account e ..... Ditto Paesivo Ditto Account :: ******************* Spanish Cert. • of * c c :" "•• •• • • ••"" — I)itto Account . uP not funded — Swedish, 4 per CeZt: Turkish 6 per Cont. 18:54 Ditto Account. .... . ............. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 701 Ditto Account ................. Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863 ................ 71 ' Venezuela 3 per Cent. ................ -- Ditto Account -. Ditto 6 per Cent,, 1862 .. Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch2l per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 'renoh Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f — ~ Ditto Account... Italian, 5 per Cent., 186 1 . bitto Account.... , Ea. 25 francs 7 Ol 1 70 Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 8 8 . 3 d. paid — Pm TWO O'CLOCK. Consols ' Money .Uitt,oAccount ... .... 91 +. i Liverpool Cotton Market—Thi Da. Cotton market remains quiet and steady, p ro bable sales about 3,000 bales, half spec. 4 " 1 export TUE WATERLOO ROAD MURDER.---Great e e orts Ore being made to induce the Home Secretary to reeulnmend her Majesty to commute the sentence of death . 11 Samuel Wright, convicted for the mu rder of Maria Green 'a the Waterloo-road on the 13th inst. A numerously 6 , i gabd petition is being prepared in the borough of Lam ueth in favour of the commutation; and, with the same (l e.a b f j o e r e t t ' sp a r(. l3 v n e blic meeting is to be held on T hursda y evenin g at t he Natio na l Baths, Westminster-road. Should these unavailing, it is understood that t he execu tion will t a k e place at Horsemonger -l a ne Goal on the first Tuesday in January next. The prisoner still preserves the ilsaitn ceo cool a n d co ll ecte d manner w hich has characterised nd uet throughout. He is described by those of his fellow -workmen employed in the same establishment as a t ' l l l l t, let and inoff e n s i ve man. Th e p r isoner still asserts that wonauanfortuaate occ urren ce took place by the deceased Lim i first tak ing up a knife and endeavourin g to stab u her excitement aggravated by drink, Share 3.14. 9.16.4 1 12.10 11'00 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. csp.c.Ji st..l - 1877-84 luo 1( 5 106 105} - Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug,. 100 1(3 its - Do. dp. 0.31ar..k Sept. 100 1( 3 1( 5 - i Do. p. o. Jan.&July. 100 13 114 93 - Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 - 'Cape G.Hope, 6 p 0,1873 100 106 108 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 109 111 Do. 181.1( 100 109 111 - Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 112 114 - Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 - , Mauritius 6 per cent lOO le6 108 - Natal Gov. 6 per cent 100 VS 110 N.B.Gov.6p.o.Ja.&July 100 104 106 1041 - I Do dp. & Oct. 100 - - • N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 3.,18 0 t 1 00 10 0 102 - Du. sp. c.,18t1 to Ic7t 100 101 102 - Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 1015 1025 - ;New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. - sterling, 1875 - ;Queensland Gm 6p. c lOO 1:1 113 - lb. Aue G6p.0.1878.& up lOO 111 113 - INTIO.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 107 109 - Do. to so et. An. tO ot.. 100 109 $ 1105 1 1091 101 • - - - - BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 I id - !Ulf:ford Amalgamated.. -3/ 55 - Devon G. Con, cravist., 1 580 67 0 I - East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 F 7 60 1 lEast Clogau Gold Ltd. 52. }d par - East Caradon ...... ?..14.r, 265 27 - East Cara Brea. - E. W'l Russel (Tavistk ; 8.9.0 555 - Gam.&StAubyn(Gwen , 581 8 10 - Great South Tolgus l7B 4 45 G. Wheal nor (Ralston, 40 12 13 I - Grenville 8.16. r 4 4 3 / 4 - tler,d's-Foot 8.12 87 39 - i llingston Downs 4 . 18.0 25 5' - i Lady Bertha - Margaret (City Lelant 95 14 16 - Marke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lim , 25 It t - New Setun l9l 90 100 - • North Downs vi 1} lf 1 N.Wh'i Basset(lllo4an 3.1.0 21 3 - inorth Wheal Crotty - I Par Consols (St. Blaze) - 20 j l'rovidence(Uny Leila) 10.6.7 42 44 - South Caradon(StCleer, 13 115 425 • - S. Carty Brea (lllogan) - - - ,F.Wheal Fran. (11101, - ran MI 8 .9 60 65 - Stray Park fulmar Silv.& Lead Min. it fl • - fin Crott 9 18 19 - ; West Basset (Illogan) l5 95 105 - W C. radon (Liskeard) 5 18 20 - ' West Seton - Wheal Basset (Mogan; 55 85 90 - Wheal Baller(Redruth) 5 225 275 - Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 - WhealLuthott Wheal MaryAnngten ) 8 115 12 - Wheal i3eton 585 150 160 1525 - Wheal Treiawney (Lis )' 7 21 22 - Wheal Union I 3.17 2} 21 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 5 per cent. red, prf., 1011 Mid. Consolidated, 6 per cent. stook, Ditto. Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 140 South Eastern (Heading Anns., A 1.0.6), 23i 3 S. York. and River Dun, 5 per cent. gua., 91 PREFEtOENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Vale of Neath, 4} per cent., 201 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London and Chatham 4i per Cent., 91i Ditto, Corn. Fund Stock. 5 per cent., 103 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (Um.) gua. 7 per oent,, 181 Dutch Rhenish. 17} Turin and Savona, 3} Ditto (all), 1i FOREIGN MINES. United Mexican (11n4Z6 5i JOINT-STOCK BANKS. • Alliance Bank of Lon aan and Liverpool (Um.), 434 Anglo Austrian, 7 Australasia, 76 Bank of Wales, lira., 01 Brazilian and Portuguese, lira., 8 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 114 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 351 64 6 Consolidated Bank, lira., 101 1 East London, lim., 74 European Bank, lira., 4 lllndustan, china, and Japan (lira.), 314 2 1/ Imperial Ottoman, 817 a 184 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 271 London and Comity, 56 London Joint Stock, 373 London and South African, 261 National Provincial of England, 130 Oriental Bank Corporation. 56 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (iim.), 7 Union of London, 404 MISCELLANEOUS. Eastllndia Irrigation and Canal, 41 Gen. Crtdit and leinanoe of London, Hudson's Bay, 124 International Financial Society, Urn, 01 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavourj, 34 Joint •stock Discount, 61 7 61 Ditto, new, 4i London General Omnibus Company, lira., 23 rcantile Credit Association, lim., 7/ Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada, 51 . - - - --, TA.1181110tN:01:Clial of the 200 millions required by Austria. at the expense of M. taken 75 out V—, Whose bead of hair is black and beard grey, is not bad :—" He has reflected less than he has eaten." THE FIRST W OMAN (name unknown) WHO AP PEARED IN A REGULAR DuAwca, on the English stage, according to " Draw a ti cus, " in Orchestra, played Desde• mona about the year 1660, A MAN breathes 20 times a minute, 1,200 times an hour, and inhales in quantity about 18 pints of air a minute, 1,067 an hour, or 57 hogsheads, 1 gallon, 7 pints per day. SHARE MARKETS.—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuRS. Railways. raid j Closing Business P r ice. done. 8 811 8 8i 82 84 119 120 37 3) 16 17 96 98 107 109 49 50 45 47 71 8i 125 i 27 131 132 134 139 97 99 631 64j 1101 1101 71 73 107} lOS 43 44 1071 1071 101 1 0 2 481 491 111 1121 129 :29.} iO 61} 62i 25 15 1021 103 68i 5 0 i 89 691 119 121 1 2 I, 78 78 It Ili 122 126 42 14 93 100 51 62 92 33 951 96} 97 S 9 9 0} ti 38, 9 10 a 7 1 I' 168 160 5 64t 2f 3} p 83 86 170 175 SIONS. Closing Price. 60 c 2 106 107 A 1 p A 1 p 6 6i tii gi 10t 1(6 lot 103 108 109 lt7 1( 8 lip lif• 20 21 73 75 59 .31 65 67 50 53 48 51 38 42 27 29 22 t'.4 1(8 109 ltpl 1051 106 i 91 10 11 10i 92 95 86 88 * 105 W 7 100 101 co 100 57 59 3 5 82 84 106 107 11.6 1(7 I $l 3, 105 i 1001 101 103 32i 96} & I Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat,and Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A crets no diN B been e.p an. hat. been 6p pai d to B. Dublin Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow., Glasg. and S. Western. , Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock _ I Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do Li do Gt. S. an 1 W. of Irelaw: Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.ot S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. Sr North Western Lon. Si So•Ah Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln.l Maryport and Carlisle. Do # shares... Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. (it. W. of Ireland Do. A shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwiok Do, G.N.E. purchase Do'Lecds Do York Do Carlisle orth London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central (Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpooi Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,andWok. Stockton 416 Darlington Do _ I- Do New, 1866 ITaff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterfbrd & Kilkennyl %Vest Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland -Oxford' Do Newport Do Hereford BRITISH POSSE gailw‘ye atlantic & St Lawrenet Bom.,Baroda&Cent Ind Gu. s_per oent ..... Do. New ... -- • • Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Laze Huron Do. Breton/ince ..•• • • Bulialo,BrantAGodrich 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 18721 Do. do. June 1, 1h74 Clcutta.,t S. Eas tn. ( ; Cape Town Dock Seri! Eastn. Bengal gu. 6 p. East Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. (I Ext..... Do. do. II do. .. Grand trunk of Canada Do. Ist Frei. Bonds.. Do. do. del erred- Do. 2cl Fret. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d P , ef. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. sto,k... Do. do. deferred...... Gt.lndtaPentn.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. 0... Do. January, 1882 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. I Gt. W. of Canada Sharet. l Do. New ... I Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt., Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Limited Madras. guar., 5 p. o. Do. 4! p. c. Extension Dc.4h d 0......... Do. Fifth Extension. 51elb.Corp. 4 p. o. Buds. Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. o. Mortg,. Bds. New Br onswick ac Cands Class A and B N.ltl.e'das po lat tbds Soinde .......... Do. Delhi... 4.: Do. do •• • • 1 e Do. Punjaub cc c•_, Do. Do. •• •• tj : l' Do. lndus.St. Flo. 100 100 100 100 100 ion tut) all all all all Pald. all 100 I all 100 (100 1 100 2 all I 100 i 100 TIIE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day). SHERIFFS' COURT. A VICTIM TO LACY-EXTRAORDINARY STORY---SAITEES V. HEMINIETT , This was an application for a warrant judgment having gone against defendant in consequence of his absence upon the original hearing. Defendant now appeared and made the following extra ordinary statement :—He said that he went to an attorney to take him through the Bankruptcy Court, and that attor ney sent him to plaintiff, who is an accountant, Plaintiff refused to do anything at all until he was paid £25, and he soon after required £l5 more. In all £lO had been paid, and yet plaintiff wanted more. He had refused to go cn with his work, and the consequence was that defendant had not been able to carry out the bankruptcy proceedings Plaintiff had received £4O, and he (defendant) was not out of his troubles. Mr. Buchanan (for plaintiff)—Your Honour will under stand that my client has a complete answer to this case as stated by defendant, and I may say that, although he has received £4O, it was not a large BUM considering the nature of the accounts. His Honour (to defendant)—What are your debts ? Defendant—About £l,OOO, and my assets were about £7,000. My wife had an annuity, and I have somehow got into Chancery. For a whole year I have not been able to touch the interest. The Court of Chancery has got my £4,500 neatly locked up, anti I cannot get it. The Court of Bankruptcy has my estate. Mr. Linklater has my title deeds, and I am left without a penny in the world. My going into the Court of Bankruptcy in the first instance was all through getting into law. I was imposed upon and overcharged, and I was advised to go to the Bankruptcy Court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. BOW- STREET. WHOLESALE POT STEALERS.—TWO men, named John ston and Brown, were placed before Mr. Henry, charged with stealing a number of licensed victualler's pots. Mr. Chit tenden, of the Black Prince, Chandos -street, said the prisoners entered his house a few days ago, and as they left his suspicions were aroused that they had stolen some thing. They were pursued, and, on Johnston being cap tared, four or five quart and pint pots were discovered con cealed about his clothes. Brown had frequently been to his house on former occasions : when pots had been missing. The pots were worth 6s, The prisoners did not deny the charge; they only said they were not going to starve in London at Christmas time. The landlady of the Falcon Tavern, in Suffolk-street, Soho, said the two men entered her house and called for a pot of porter, with which they were served. She saw them leave the house in about an hour and a half after they arrived, and on looking into the tap-room, which was then empty, found the quart pot missing. The potman was sent in pursuit, and on coming up with the men, Brown, who had the pot in his hand, threw it on the ground. They were both taken into custody. Mr. Fairwater, landlord of the George Tavern, George court, Strand, said the prisoner paid him a visit a few days ago, and having drank the porter, which they had ordered in the tap-room, walked off with the pint pot. They also stole the brass fastenings of one of the shutters. Police-constable F 173, said the real name of Johnstone was Eastering, and he had been previously discharged from a printing office on suspicion of theft. Ho thought the other was a deserter. Francis Campbell said he knew the prisoner Brown, he was formerly in the 36th Regiment. He was drummed out of it for desertion. He (witness) had served in tho same regiment as Brown, his name, while in the ser vice, was John Saunders. Brown— Well, my right name is Saunders. I was not drummed out of the 36th Foot. I was discharged. Both prisoners asked for a summary settlement of t e case. They would plead guilty. Mr. Henry refused to do so, and committed both prisoners for trial. Johnston, on hearing the determination of the magis trate, turned round to one of his companions in the body of the court, and said—lt's all up, Johnny : it will be a "lag" (transportation). Mr. Buchanan—Ohl you made yourself a bankrupt ? Defendant—Yes; and I had enough to pay 40s. in the pound, instead of doing which I am now an uncertificated bankrupt. Mr. Buchanan—The Court of Bankruptcy will adminis ter your estate, and hand over the surplus. Defendant—There is the Chancery Court. (Laughter.) His Honour considered that defendant ought to have a new trial on the payment of the costs. MARKETS---This Day. MARK-LANE. There was a fair average show of samples of home-grown wheat on the stands to day, in tolerably good, but by no means excellent, condition. The demand for all qualities was in a sluggish state, at fully Monday's decline in the quotations. With foreign wheat the market was fairly supplied. In all descriptions sales progressed slowly, and the amount of business transacted was small, at Monday's prices. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, at late rates. . The supply of barley on sale was tolerably large. Both for English and foreign produce, tho trade was dull, at fully the late decline in the currency. The malt trade was very dull at fully the decline in prices. Oats—the supply of which was only moderate—moved off slowly on recent terms. Beans were a dull inquiry, yet no change took place in their value from Monday. Beans met a slow sale at the late fall in the currency. The show of samples was tolerably large. In flour there was a limited inquiry, at about stationary prices. The Corn Exchange will be closed on Friday next. ARRIVALS THIS 'WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flout. English.— 1,020 550 1,730 400 1,090 Irish.. — - Foreign 17,340 7,160 1 2,990 340 sks, BOROUGH HOP. The amount of business doing in our market is very mo , derate. Prices, however, rule firm. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is large. Generally speak ing, the trade is quiet, as follows :--Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s ?d; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 6d; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 4d per 81bs by the carcase. HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS. It appears, from the weekly return of the Registrar-General, that the deaths in London, which were 1,357 in the previous week, declined to 1,291 in the week that ended last Saturday. The deaths under 20 years of age declined in the same period from 690 to 658; those at 60 years of age and up wards from 267 to 244. The average number of deaths in the ten weeks corresponding with last week (taking the fifty-first in each of the years 1853- 62) is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,401. The actual number is, therefore, less than the estimated mortality by 110. The births in the week exceeded the deaths by 636. Small-pox was returned in 19 cases; measles in 18; scarlatina in 101 ; typhus in 51. Six deaths from scarlatina occurred in Kentish-town ; 7 in the East sub-district of Isling ton ; 6 in Mile-end Old Town East ; and 6 in Bow. The deaths referred to pulmonary diseases (exclusive of phthisis) were 261 against:a corrected average of 316. Those from bronchitis were 147; from pneumonia 92. Phthisis was fatal in 150 cases. Forty-nine persons died at the age of 80 years and upwards. A widow is registered as having died in the workhouse, Hampstead, on the 13th inst., at the age of 100 years. At 12, Devonshire-square, St. Botolph, on the 9th inst., a man, aged 42, died from " an overdose of chloroform taken without in tention to destroy life."—lnquest. Last week the births of 994 boys and 933 girls, in all 1,927 children, were registered in London. In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number (corrected) was 1,817. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 30.121 in. The mean daily reading was above 30 inches on five days of the week. The reading fell to 29.62 inches on Wednesday, and rose to 30.34 inches on Friday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 42.1 deg., which is 2.3 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean temperature was above the average on each day except Friday. The highest day temperature was 50.2 deg. on Wednesday. The lowest night temperature was 32.2 deg. on Friday. The range of temperature in the week was there- fore 18.0 deg. The mean daily range was 11.7 deg. The difference between the mean dew•point tem perature and air temperature was 4.4 deg., the mean degree of humidity of the air was 85, completesatu ration being represented by 100. On Thursday and Friday the wind was generally north and north-west; on other days the prevailing direction was south-west. There was no rain in the week. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 45.3 ; that of the lowest was 43.1 dig. THE LEEDS MURDER.—REPRIEVE OF THE CUL PRIT.—The Secretary of State for the Nome De partment has thought it, on the recommendation of Mr. Justice Mellor, to commute the sentence of death passed upon Patrick Farley, for the murder of Anthony Goulding at Leeds, on the 23d August last, to penal servitude for life. The fact will be announced to the wretched man this morn ing by the governor of York Castle, the official intimation having been sent off last night. WRECKS ON THE NORFOLK COAST.—LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—BACTON ABBEY, December 22.—Mr. W. Cubitt reports;—At daybreak this morning six large vessels were seen riding in the offing, and drifting towards the shore. The wind was blowing a heavy gale from N.N.E., with much sea on: The crew of the Becton lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution were at once mustered, and the lifeboat was taken down to the Sands in readiness, At 8 a.n:L the brig Orient, of South Shields, parted irera her cable and came to the beach, but as the tide was ebbing fast the boat's services were not required to save the crew. At 10 a.m., at low water, the brigantine Ellen, of Jersey, slipped her sables, when she drifted nearly to the beach, and as the vessel would not wear, she also came en shore, amidst a very heavy surf. The lifeboat was immediately launched, and after much difficulty succeeded in saving the crew of the brigantine, eight in number. Both vessels are probably become wreaks. It will probably be remembered that on the 3d inst., during a heavy gale of wind, this valuable lifeboat was the means of rescuing the crew of 14 men belonging to the barque Ina, of North Shields. THE CASE OF PARRY V. THE GREAT SHIP COM- P/INF.—The Great Eastern, which has been so frequently before the public, came before Mr. Justice Mellor, at chambers on Monday, in a somewhat novel shape. The plaintiff had levied an execu ti on on thi s s hip an d s to res at Liverpool. Claims to £lOO,OOO had been made on the pro perty, and on the application of the Sheriff of Lancashire, an interpleader issue had been directed to try the question. The stores, &c., were to be sold, and the money paid into court to abide the result of the interpleader issue, which was to be tried in London, On the part of the claimant it was sought to sell some of the property on board the vessel, and counsel appeared in the case. NT'. Justice Mellor made an order that the stores should be sold on shore, and the furniture and other articles which could not be removed without damage to the ship to be sold on board, a sufficient sum to be realised to satisfy the execution. The public to have access to the ship. THE HORRIBLE STORY. On Monday, at the Magistrates' Office., Falmouth (before Mr. J. K. Kinsman, Mr. T. Moor Horsiord, and Mr. M. V. Bull), Samuel Porter, on remand from the previous Monday, was brought up, charged with the horrible cruelty to his brother at Flushing, particulars of which have already appeared in Ihe Sun. Mr. H. S.lLaw, solicitor, London, appeared to pro secute on behalf of the Lunacy Commissioners; Mr. Moo:man, of Falmouth, appeared for the defendant, who did not exhibit the slightest concern at the position in which he was placed. The first witness examined was Edwin Elliott, a merchant, of Flushing, who deposed to taking a housa from the defendant at Christmas last. The defendant lived in the same house till the 25th of March last, when he removed to a. new house in Flushing, where he now resides. During the time between Christmas and March witness heard strange noises at nights, more like the roaring of a bull than sounds proceeding from any human creature. Wit ness proceeded :—I took the noise to come from a lunatic. On the evening that the defendant was going to remove to a new house he came to me and said, "Neighbour, if you hear any noises in the night, don't be alarmed or trouble yourself to get up, because I think of taking Robert away to• night." [Defendant sometimes called his lunatic brother " Robert."] I offered my assistance, but he said, "No, I can man age it myself." In the course of the night, between 12 and 1 o'clock, I heard a wheelbarrow being wheeled to the back-door, where it remained about five minutes, when it was wheeled away again. The next morning defendant came to me and said, "Did you hear us in the night P" I replied that I heard the wheelbarrow. He said, "Me and my wife removed Robert ourselves. We told him we were going to take him to a new house. We put him in the wheelborrow, and he was quiet till we got there." About 5 o'clock on the morning after the removal I went to the room where the lunatic had been confined. When I opened the door I was obliged to draw back, the stench was so horrible. After a time I returned to the room and found it in a most dreadful state; it wail worse than any pigstye I have ever seen in my life. Both the walls and the floor were strewn with human dung, and there was some rotten straw on the floor, but the straw was so rotten as to be merely dung. Just inside the door was a large blue flagstone, raised about four inches from the floor. This stone was the lunatic's bed, and it was covered with human dung to a depth of four inches, and there was the mark of the man's body in the centre, where it had sunk down to the bare stone, just as if a vessel had been lying in the mud. Later in the day, with the assistance of two boys, I cleaned out as much of the dung as I could remove with a shovel. There was half a cart load. The walls were thickly covered with human excre ment. A great portion of the flooring was com pletely rotten. There was a small window which was nailed up, and was so covered with green mould that it admitted scarcely any light. There was no communication between the house and the room. Entrance was gained by going up a narrow alley about 18 inches wide, and through the garden. Cross-examined bj Mr. Moorman—l mentioned the case the day after I had examined the room to Mr. Joseph Tong, but since then I never mentioned the case to anybody but Dr. Byrne. I saw a room in defendant's new house, where he said he was going to put his brother. It was a new-built room, but not quite finished then. That was about eight months ago. I was perfectly friendly with the defendant while in the house with him. I never knew defendant apply any violence to his brother Robert. The defendant took food to his brother twice a day—breakfast and dinner time. The food I saw was bread and treacle. It was not often I had an opportunity to see the food because he would return into the kitchen the moment he saw me about. When he took the food he did not remain with his brother a moment. The defendant never alluded to his brother during the three months I was in the house till the eve of his removal. I did not hear the lunatic cry out on that night, nor anything to lead me to think the lunatic was being removed against his will. By the Bench —The bedroom was about 12ft long and about 61t wide, and 18ft high. There was no chimney in the room, and the door which formerly communicated with the house had been blocked up. Julia Tregiddgo, an old woman who had lived in a house next door to that occupied by the defendant for 25 years, said, defendant occupied th e house as its owner for ten years previous to March last. I knew his brother Robert, who was a fine young man about 25 years ago. I never saw him from the time his mother died, in 1842, till about three years ago. The noise at the time was so violent that it made me very nervous and timid, as the door of my living room went into the yard. I therefore determined to find whether he could get out or not. I went to the back door of the room from which the noises had come. The door was latched, but not locked. I saw a human being there. He was a frightful object. He had not a bit of clothing on. He was stark naked, and doubled up in a crouching posture. It was Robert Porter. I was afraid to speak to him, and ran away. I heard these horrible cries during the 10 years that the defendant lived there. I frequently heard the lunatic cry "Challa, Challa," alluding to his Char lotte, who is now in America, and of whom he was very fond. He was not a cripple when I knew him. Cross-examia®d by Mr. Moorman—Robert Porter lived with his mother till her death, 1842. I w as intimately acquainted with her. She never said that she had any objection to Robert being sent to a lunatic asylum. He lived some years after hi s mother's death with his father and sister. His father died about 14 years ago. It is about 11 years, I think, since he went to live with the defendant. I don't know what state he was in when he went to live with defendant. I never complained of the noises to any magistrate, policeman, or other per son in authority. Before Dr. Byrne came to me I never thought of complaining. Re-examined by Mr. Law—l did not know that the confinement of Robert Porter was illegal. This concluded the case for the prosecution. Mr. Moorman submitted that there was no charge which could be substantiated against the defendant- He had on the previous occasion shown that the Bth and 9th of Victoria, cap. 56, did not apply to the case; and the 16th and 17th Victoria, cap. 96, sec. 9, only applied to persons having charge of a lunatic by legal authority ; in which case there were cer tain duties to perform, for the neglect of which there were certain penalties. But in the present case there was no duty, and, therefore, there could be no breach of duty. He then alluded to the deci sions in the case of " The Queen v. Rundle," of Chief Baron Pollock, and Baron Parke. It was a case where a husband had been accused of ill treating his lunatic wife, and keeping her in illegal confinement. There were seven counts in the in dictment, six under the statute and one for common assault. The jury found the prisoner guilty on all the counts, but on a case being reserved to the supe rior courts, the learned Barons ruled that the Act did not apply to cases of domestic relation. Neither would an indictment lie in common law, for in order to constitute a misdemeanour at common law the offence must be one agai ns t the p ublic, and hnot ag ainst any merely private indiv idual; and e t was not the slightest eviden ce of an assail' . xl• t....r e r ep of the therefore, submitted th at it was et to the growl - magistrates to declare, wit hout respeth as e duty n o Act under ing from without, t hat the defend a nt iv ; and the which they could comm it the i f they thought Lunacy Commissioner s could still, proper, file an indi ctment at the assizes. Mr. Law directed attention .t o the 16th and 17th 9,hich, after alluding t o of Victoria, cap . 90, sec. duties of public officers and keepers of lunatic the a (3 ,. if a ny person taking, or p having n I a, says, ^ ' aY'nrti'' - charge, or concerned or taking the c ult a, care, or treatment of any lunatic or boa_ lunatic, in any way abuse, ill the custody, person alleged tu _cslect such lunatic, he shall be treat, or wilfully ei . ,r, and shall be subject to an guilty of a misdemeano, gindictment for every such e'flence." It was unneces sary for him to do more than a' in the present case, which wag efer to the evidence ..et the o n : i t:of the most horrible he had ever had anything ta' show the magistrates that 0;14047ith, to not and WESTMINSTER. LAMENTABLE PERSEVERANCE IN VlCE.—Alice Fitz gerald and Emily Bunting, two wholesome-looking girls, about 15 years of age, were charged with unlawfully hav ing property in their possession, supposed to have been stolen. Richard Randall, a police-constable, said that at half past eight last evening he was in the Fulham-road, when he saw the prisoners together, and knowing them, watched them. They went into a great many trades men's shops of different descriptions, and at length were finally hastening away when he stopped them, and found two boxes of figs under Fitzgerald's shawl. Mr. Arnold—What is known of Fitzgerald Constable—She was here only a fortnight ago, charged with stealing some stockings, and on that occasion her sister, who is a highly respectable young woman, came forward and promised to take her into the same employ ment as herself, and to keep her out of bad company ; but she did not succeed in doing so, for the very first night after her discharge from hero she was out in the streets in com pany with two notorious thieves. Mr. Arnold—Had she been in custody before the time you mention ? Witness—Yes ; she had been tried and convicted at the Sessions, and after that she was sent to a reformatory, but that was no good. They had tried to reclaim her before, but it was useless. Mr. Arnold—She was sent to a reformatory you say ? Witness—Yes, your worship. Mr. Arnold—How did she get out? Witnes . s—She was sent for three years, but was there only a very short time. She told them she was over age, and in consequence of that they told her that she might go, and she did. Mr. Arnold—What is her age ? Witness—We cannot ascertain. Sometimes she is said to be 13, and at others 16 years of age. Mr. Arnold—She ought not to have been told that she might leave the reformatory—it was very improper and irregular, and demands an inquiry if it really is as stated. Mr. Arnold—What is known of Bunting ? Witness—She is a common associate of thieves. Fitzgerald, in defence, said—The figs were lying on the pavement, and were very tempting, and as we did not know they belonged to anybody, I took them up. Bunting—She told me she had got them. Bunting's mother stood forward and said her daughter had fallen into bad company, and stood a good chance of being ruined. Mr. Arnold was of the same opinion, and said he thought he would deliver her up to her mother. Bunting—l won't go home any more, if you please. Mr. Arnold—Won't you? Bunting—No. Mr. Arnold—Then you are committed for 10 days to prison. Fitzgerald will find bail for her good behaviour for six months. Committed.in default. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. STEALING WINE AT THOIIAB'S HOTEL.—William Miller, a porter,was charged with stealing wine at Thomas's Hotel, Charles-street, St. James's, the property of Mr. Chas. Thomas, under the following circumstances : It appears that the prisoner was employed by Mr. Thomas, in the cellar, to wash some bottles, yesterday. In consequence of information given him by a boy in his em ploy, Mr. Thomas went into the cellar in the afternoon and found the prisoner in a state of intoxication, he having knocked the necks off two bottles of wine, of the value of 155., and managed to consume a bottle and a half of the wine. On accusing the prisoner he became very insolent, said the wine was his own, and threatened to knock Mr. Thomas's head off, He was then given into custody. Prisoner said he was at work, and certainly did have a drop of wine, and it was generally allowed. Mr. Tyrwhitt—What, to break the bottles? I shall commit you for 7 days, with hard labour. SEASONABLE BENEVOLENCE.—Duriag the pastiew days several sums of money have been received for the poor box of this court—amongst others the usual annual dona tions from the Merchant Taylors, the Goldsmiths, and the Mercers Companies. A large nnmber of poor persons, many of them aged, and several of them with families, havo been assisted; no one receiving anything till proper inquiries have been made (under the direction of the chief clerk, Mr. Leadley), by the warrant offfeers of the court, O'Shaughnessy, Trower, and Hubbersty, to ascertain whether the persons applying are really deserving. THAMES. A MOST UNGRATEFUL THIEF.---A coloured lad, who gave the name of John Freeman, was brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with stealing 81bs of beef, 2 shirts, a pair of drawers, and other property, from the schooner Eliza beth, in the Regent's Canal Dock. Mr. William Wales, mate of the Elizabeth, said the pri soner came on board on Monday morning last in a destitute condition, and said he was starving, and in want of a berth. Some questions were put to him, and as it appeared he had been a sailor he was provided with food and clothing, and treatei in the most hospitable manner. When the captain came on board in the evening he allowed the boy to remain on the ship and signed the articles of agreement to proceed on her intended voyage. In the night time the prisoner helped himself to the beef, shirts, draweA, and other pro perty, and went on shore in the ship's boat. Alfred Nicholl, a police constable, No. 496 A, said he found the prisoner in the Ratcliff Cross Refuge last night, and on taxing him with the robbery, he admitted it, and said he had disposed of the beef and one of the shirts to a man on Tower. hill. One of the shirts and the drawers were found upon him. Mr. Woolrych—Where are they ? Witness—Here, sir ; I made him take them off. The prisoner, on being asked if he had any account to give of himself, said that he was a native of St. Helena, and that he had made a voyage in an American ship to Ham burg, where he was discharged. He fell into distress, and was sent to London by the British Consul as a distressed British subject. Mr. Woolrych—And you were treated with ki n d n ess. warmed, and fed on board the Elizabeth by very kind hearted people, and the captain agreed to take you to sea with him. You are a most ungrateful fellow, and have w ade a very bad return . f o r the kindness shown you. I sen t e nce you to one month's fraprisonment and hard labour. TEIR NEW LIVERPOOL WATERWORKS.—On Mon day afternoon, as some men Were employed in working at the foundation of one of the pillars which sup ported a number of arches constructed for the purpose of some important portions of the new Liverpool rear the junction of Dudley-lane with the carryibg the p i:?nr suddenly gave way, carrying with r fall they severely—indeed, it is feared, fatally--injured a nuro Nr of the workmen, who Were carried to the Royal Infirmary. . 1 72uce of the sufferers 1 i t V flueltonf. W aterworks,te d' arches. are said to be I n a Yet i dangerous state. r!URIOUs S NAPP ING OF A TELEGRAPH WINE. — ACCIDENT.—Yes t e rda y morning, about nine o'clu'rk4 the telegraph wires 81:alining the Thames from Cannon-ro to Messrs. Maudsl e y 's factory snapped, fallin g across the hats of the away the fore cabin and knocking off the f pa ssengers. Luckily the vessel was eazed on d fu s n cl nce o l!o a ve C r i t t u i r z n en ing s t t e h a e m h er e , av e y arr s y e i a n ts g , nearing the p i g s, or the damage might have been most serious. PAT " WORRING THE TELEGRAPH."—S3id an Irishman to a telegraph operator :—,. Do you ever charge anybody for the address in a message?" ,4 No," replied the operator. " Aud do ye charge for name, air ?" said the customer. .. No, sir. 44 4, Ws igning his ell, thin, will ye ple as e send this; I j ist - vant me bro ther to know I'm here—bearing the following-" To John a`F linn-- at New York—(signed)--Patrick M`Flinn." The mes sage was sent as a tribute to Pat's shrewdness. 64! 1111 11 1071 108} 7/ 101 L 2 1291 30 103 2/ Business don? 1081 - 1071 7 " wilful neglect" had been of the most flagrant kind, With regard to the else alluded to by Mr. Moorman, the facts were directly opposed to his statement of them, kAnd it was because he was the husband and that it was his duty to take care of his wife that the Act did not apply. The magistrates, after a few minutes' considera tion, declared that the conduct of the primer was a statutory offence, as well as one at common law, and they should therefore commit him for trial at the next assizes. The prisoner was admitted t o bail, himself in £5OO and two sureties in £250 each. A large crowd had collected outside the court, and though they were not so vio:ent as on the pre vious week, it was found necessary to remove the prisoner under a strong guard of constables. He was followed by the mob, hooting anc yelling, till he was conveyed to a place of safety. WASHINGTON. As DESCRIBED BY MR. G. A. SALA, THE " DAILY TELEGRAPH?' CORRESPONDENT. That it resembles in any way the metropolis of a great, powerful, and wealthy commonwealth can at once, without much fear of contradiction, be de nied. It contains, certainly, some noble public buildings, but they are scattered far and wide, with all kinds of incongruous environments, producing upon the stranger a perplexed impression that the British Museum has suddenly migrated to the centre of an exhausted brickfield, where rubbish may be shot; or th at S t. Paul ' s Cathedral, was h e d q uite white, and stuck upon stone stilts, has been transformed to the centre of the great desert of Sahara, and called a Capitol. There is a perpetual solution of continuity at Washington. There is no cohesion about Pennsylvania-avenue ; its houses are as Hudibras's story of the bear and the fiddle — begun and broke off in the middle. It is an archi tectural conundrum which no body can guess, in which I cand idl y believe there is no mean and meaning. The Nitruviuses and Palladios of Americ a have per: perpetrated a vast practical joke, and called it Washington. There is no beginning, no centre, and no end to Washington. It is the most bogu s of towns—a shin-plaster in bricks and mortar and marble. The people seem to be very fond of building houses ; but when they have run up three or four storeys which threaten to attain the altitude of the Tower of Babel, the confusion of tongues sets in; the builders abandon their work; bat, nothing dis heartened, erect three or four storeys of fresh houses elsewhere. It is said of those patrons of the drama who habitually avail themselves of half price that they hate seen nothing but denouements. Wash ington, on the contrary, is a collection of first acts without any catastrophes. It presents a converse to Mercutio's description of his wound. Its avenues are as deep as wells, and its blocks as wide as church doors; but they do not serve any purpose that I am aware of. Washington will be, when completed, the most magnificent city on this side the Atlantic ; but it is not quite begun yet. We are still at the soup and fish, and have not got to the first entree. Nevar was there so interminable an overture. "Two piastres more, , ' cries the Arab funambulist, unworthily parodied by the London street mounte bank, "and the ass shall ascend the ladder." But those piastres are never forthcoming, and the donkey never goes up. Only two hundred million dollars more, and two hundred thousand inhabitants, or thereabouts, and Washington would be able to rival the Empire City and the Crescent City, and all the other cities to which the Americans have given, to use the diction of Mr. Artemus Ward, " magnolious and spanglorious" appellatives. Pendente lite, Washington doesn't precisely languish, but it wal lows in the dust like an eel in a sand-basket, deli cious when fried or stewed, but slightly repulsive to the sight before he is skinned and cooked. Wash ington will be, I have no doubt, some day uproar ously splendid, but at present it isn't anything. It is in the District of Columbia and the State of the Future. And yet I must, for the sake of those who 'will never probably visit this rambling mass of streets without houses, and houses without streets, liken it to something. Well, it is like a j umbled-up collet tion of children', toy villages seen through the opera glass of the King of Brobdignag. Again, it is not unlike the Old Kent-road grown out of all patience. Stay, it is like Brentford run mad, with a dash of Highgate out of its wits, and a spice of Barnet at the fair time—for ragged horseflesh is here abun dant—the whole mingled with Holborn-hill, and set in the midst of Salisbury Plain. After this imagine a tokobohu of Canterbury Hills and dancing saloons, Government offices and old clothes' shops, Bath and Cheltenham like private mansions and log cabins, oysters, negroes, lagerbeer, mules, oxen, waggons, dragoons, ladies in crinolines and loafers in " sit on 'em" hats, and the very faintest notion of Wash ington may begin to dawn upon you. The Capture of the Chesapeake by the Con. federates. It has already been stated that the merchant steamer Chesapeake had been seized by sixteen Con federate passengers, while on the passage from New York to Portland. The Confederates were headed by a Southern officer, who had regular instructions for carrying out the seizure. The Chesapeake was taken to St. John's, New Brunswick. where her captain and crew were landed. She then left in the charge of the Southerners, her supposed desti nation being Wilmington. The St. John's Evening Globe, of the 10th instant, says :—" The scheme was matured here by Confederate agents. Meet ings were held, and the passage money of parties to make the seizure was paid through to New York. They were promised 500 dols, each on the steamer's being safely taken into 'Wilmington. It was also arranged that at a certain store in New York each of the parties were to call at different times for a parcel containing a revolver, ammuni tion, and a pair of handcuffs. It is believed that the cargo which was shipped by Confederate agents was valuable to the South, and that it was arranged chat she should be seized on this particular trip. L. The manager of the plot represented that t to run Chesapeake had been taken while attempting the blockade, and this was a harmless names eo of five back Southern property. We have the ff rt t o get They belong of the parties engaged in the selzu with Ca . ptain Brains. to this city, and left here They are of the worst of them was just out of species of humanity de-. nominated "roughs." v On i e l went from here by the the penitentiary. the hT ahre. steamer Chesapeake dn oEnglandeToi i e d i l toei Cup the p. tas i 3dhne Parker to ,formerlyt h bour, and took on is a copy r 0 the captain o T o ffht ethe following privateer hereby Retribution to , it, ordered e officers. .to proceed o t t h o e capture C it nbeotarirbution who took of the ' order f c°l3attland:, e h e: — o Lieut. John Clibbon Braine city of the Chesap ai& i i r d s t Collins, Lieutenant sai l i H. New Yo York oarrhe sewaie t n h d th L e ie fol t l e o n w an in t g i : )a F v A. p a rr, and crew of 11 men. You i:c!reronCieoarrgrievll, Robinson, e i ngage _ passage on board the steamer, and use your discretion as to the proper time and place to capture Your action towards the crew and passengers will be strictly in accordance with the President's instructions. You will, as cir cumstances will permit, bring your prize to the island of Grand Menan for further orders. Seal Cove Harbour, if accessible.—(Signed) J. PARKER, Ca p tain Privateer Retribution." —The Chesapeak e is said t o b e of the same s i ze an d nearly the same model o f th e S umter , b u t m uch strong er and faster.ew Several steamers were at once desp atched from N York iu search of " the pirate." be ]as' STEAMBOATS AND PRIZE FIGHTS. —At t— weekly p e tty sessions h eld at Dartford, the „ner intendent of the Waterinan's Steam Packet C om pany appeared for the directors, to answer a summons at the i ns t an ce of the Boa rd of Trade, charging the defendants cou veying passengers in the Gannet steam• with illegally vessel to a rint farther than that for which the vessel was duly licensed. It appeared that on the 16th Sept,mber the Gannet embarked two pugilists, named Roberts and Morri son, with a n umber of their adherents, who lauded at 6, point below Gravesend, where a fight took place. The Ganne t is licensed to convey passengers a fluefromgersof 40e. 4a Loh t do a n o e G ra vesend only. T he bench inflicted £5 costa. LONDON GAZETTE---Last Evening. WHITEHALL, DEC. 21, The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint the Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D., to be Dean of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter, Westminster, void by Ciao resignation of the Very Rev. Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Hugh Fraser to the church and parish of Berriedale, in the pres bytery and county of Caithness, vacant by the transporta tion of the Rev. Hugh Fraser, to the church of Macduff, is the presbytery of Turriff. CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 19. The Queen has been pleased by letters patent under the Great Seal of the - United Kingdom, to constitute and ap point William Shee, one of her M a j esty ' s Sergeant's-at- Law, to be one of the Justices assigned to hold Pleas before the Queen herself, WAR OFFICE Roßyo:l'eEnnhgianseberese—n Lieutenant-be , PALL MALL, DEC. 22. PermittetirtYo—Lloienuetlenananatß\r‘e" Royal Regiment of Artid , resign his Commission. i v i l e i Brevet-' o n l o i n c e e l Richard Clement Moody to deceased—Captain and Brevet-D; vice Robinson, t racott Scott to be Lieutenent- o d r nelHenry Young Dar- Second Captain Lionel Charles i 3a o r , vice Moody— vice S co tt—Lieutenant Reginald G ber to be Captain, Got her Captain, vice Barber, her Thorold to be Military Train—Captain Martin Samuel Share 4th Foot, to be Captain, vice Willans, wh p, from the 4th Regiment of Foot—Captain St. John . ?_exchanges. the Military Train, to be Captain, vice Sharpe,‘villians, from ex changes—Ensign Charles Frederick th,o who tenant, by purchase, vice Richard Boyee,Pewrhto be Lieu tenant, retires— Thomas Edward Stoptord Hickman. Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hooper , Gth Foot—George Malcolm Fox, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice M'Vicar, transferred to 93 d Foot. gn ' 12th Foot—Ensign Henry Duppa Alfred Cutbill to b ° Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Edwar d Ja mes Dud g eon who who retires—Henry Stewart Bolton , Gen t . , t o be En sig n ' by purchase, vice Cutbill—Harry Jermyn Cooper, Geg; to be Ensign, without purchase, vice D avi d Papillon .- transferred to the 92d Foot—Staff Assistant - Surgeon Thomas Walsh to be Assistant -Surgeon, vice Arthur Henry Francis Lynch, appointed to the Staff. 16th Foot—Captain Alfred William Adcock, from 24th Foot, to be Captain vice Gibson, who exchanges. 17th Foot—Ensign Harvey Lambart Manning Ravenhill to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Williaw Frederick Woods, who retires—Laurence James William Hussey, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ravenhill. 19th Foot—Lieutenant Andrew Stewart, from half-pay 84th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Samuel Gordon M`Dakin, who retires upon temporary half pay. 24th Foot —George Gibson, from 16th Foot, to be Captain, vice Adcock, who exchanges. 25th Foot—Lieutenant George Augustus. Elliott to be Captain, by purchase, vice Peter Charles Gillies Web ster, who retires—Ensign Charles Francis Barnardiston to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Elliott—Thomas Stanhope Gildea, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Barnardiston. 38th Foot—Major and Brevet Lieutenant -Colonel Frederic Arthur Willis C. 8., to be Lieutenant -Colonel, b y pur chase, vice William James Loftus, who retires upon hall- PRY —Captain and Brevet-Major Horatio Page Vance to be Majo r ,_ by purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenan t-Colone l -W -Lieutenant illis- L . Robert Johnston Stansfeld to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet -Major Vance—En vB,.g George John Skinner to be Lieutenant , by purcha s e , vice S tansteld—John Dalton Chase Serrell, G cnt,, to be Ensign, by purch • ase, vice Skinner. 45th Foot—E ns the 58th Foot, Henry John de Berniere Smar t, from H oo'tt;s tobe Ensign, vice Ralph Richardson Handy, wh o h retired. 58th Foot—Robert .or purchase, vice don Home, Gent., to be Ensign, by Gist Foot—Lieutenant Smart , transferred to the 45th Foot. Adjutant, vice Lieutt el . 2 Edward Waugh Rumsey to be re signs that appointraenat.tlt Charles Henry Boileau, who 64th Foot—Lieutenant And to be Lieutenant, r ice '' costa, promoted to an U na ttached Company, without '' 66th Foot —Ensign Stephen Dixon Power by purchase, vice William Henry to be Lieutenant, retires —Ensign Benjamin John. Yuji,ohn Westby, who Foot, to be Ensign, vice Power. -In treY, from 87th 87th Foot—William Western Taylor, Gent by purchase, vice Benjamin George jduru!.., to be Ensign, to the 66th Foot. trey, transferred. 90th Foot—Lieutenant George Robert Mille, to b tain, without pu rchase, vice Percy Julius Deverr'le° Cap : ceased —Ed w ard Richard Albert Nolan to be , d e _ Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Miller. 93d Foot—Lieutenant Edward Septimus Wood to be Cap" fain, by purchase, vic e Geor g e Roe Fenwick, who re tires—Ensign Frederick 'William Welch to be Lieut er ant by purchase, vice Edward Septimus Wood—Ensign John Archibald M‘Vicar, from the Gth Foot, to be Ensign, vice Welch. 4th West India Regiment—Charles Ramsey Gibb,Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice John Sheil, whose appoint_ went has been cancelled. MEDICAL DEPARTNIESI—Assistant-Surgeon Arthur Henry Francis Lynch, from the 12th Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Thomas Walsh, appointed to the 12th Foot. BREVET. Captain John Tobin, Unattached, to be Major. Brevet-Major John Tobin, Unattached, to be Lieutenant. Colonel. Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, Francis Edwin Maunsell, 4th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major. Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, William Archibald Kidd, Royal Artillery, to have the honorary rank of Major. Captain Hugh llamilton Goold, Royal Marines, Light infantry, retired upon full-pay, to have the honorary rank of Major, under the Order in Council of 13th November, ISSS. MEMORANDUM. — The undermentioned officers have been permitted to retire from their service by the sale of their commissions, under the conditions of the Horse Guards' Circular Memorandum of Feb. 15, 1861 :—Major Ch u.les Henry Leslie, half-pay, Depot Battalion, and Captain John Tobin, Unattached. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 21. The following flag promotions, dated the 15th instant, have been made in consequence of the death of Admiral of the Blue Sir Henry William Bruce, K.C.8., on tho 14th instant:— Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir George Robert Lambert, K.C.B. to be Admiral of the Blue. Vice-Admiral of the White Henry Smith, C. 8 ., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red. Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Right Honourable Lord Edward Russell, C. 8., of be Vice• Admiral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir George Rodney Mundy, K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White Robert Fanshawe Stopford to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue Richard Collinson, C. 8., to Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain Sir Frederick William Erskine NiCOlBOll, Bart., C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. Retired Vice-Admiral James Gore to have the rank and title of Retired Admiral.to ht ualavtneeetoi theroe of the Captain tahnekoarn des titleJ i o n s e co p fo h ußn P ect e r eo s df e I tt a he n iis d ri , A V y Course th e Exchan N s 1 13 1 , u ge—liest is e srscl. aY. lor t.kt. 11 17 11 17t Amsterdam Ditto 3 Non . l-•- 1 - - 1 191 12 03 5 70 25 5 Antwerp .......... • • __ 25 70 7 4 Rotterdam . . ..-- 2 Brussels ..... 13 71 ~ 2 .. 5 75 Ilamburgh Vials Short. 25 27 i ;,1 81 3 M t o_nths , 25 25 7 7 0 21 2 , 3;5 , Ditto Marseilles . ..... 0 "71 25 77 1 Frankfort on Maine. _ _1 2 19 5 Vienna ..... 1 2 25 1191 Trieste _ 12 35 Petershurgh — 33 12 35 Berlin — 33i ... ‘•••• Madrid ...... Milan ....... Genoa .... .... . Naples . Palernio LCaegdhiz0rn............... Messina Lisbon 44 - 48 476. 48;-, 25 90 25 95 25 921 259! 25 90 25 96 25 92 25 97i 25 92! 25 97 25 92± 25 97 52 ,52i .., _ Foreign Oporto Gold in Bar s (Stajard), per 42: 01... ... £3 . . 0 52i 17 g Mexican Dollars ...... 0 0 0 giber in Bars (Standard . .... ' 0 0 0 South American Doubluns ..... ••• SHIPPING—This Dag• LONDr,„, --.-- '''', Dec. 0 3.—Wind this clAy Westerly ; at noon—South- D ovER, Dec. 22. strong breeze, and fine weather. FAIztoLTH, Dec. 22.— Win d N.W. — A rrived—Ro y al Sailor, f rom Taganrog . _Arrived-Entraa Wilson, from Monte N.W.—Sailed—Pharisee. ) Vi P de L o y . motrii, Dec. 22.- —Wind for Canterbury, N.Z. - A rr ived—Fasido, from Bathurst, LivEßrooL, Dec. 22. Sailed—halals, for 'Valparaiso. (lIIC MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Pee. 22—Frederick, from Konigsberg; Julia, from Irivien—Devonshire, fromDEA St. Kitt's. L, Wednesday Morning. passed--Millwald, for Sydney—Scawfell, for Hong Kong —Catherine Pemberton —all horn London. Snowden, from the Sunderland ter Carthagena—Meggt Anstroco, from west for London. Sailed —England's Rose, Astrca, and Contest—all three for London. a inajolity M. l e pi fe l: rB e e6 r i l e r ei cotes, e has beingobtained2l,227 PERPIGNAN, Dec. 22.—The result of the election c uo . 22.—The electoral law corn here is, that M. rra l lNn s comprised in the constitutio❑ of the 18th ult. h vofoA t 6 e: 3T6 6 o6 n: v:3 l : t l ep . s C (f, has been pro mulgated in Schleswig under the Royal sanction of the 4th inst. A letter from Cannes says t--..." Visitors here are enchanted with the almost indescribable mildness of the weather. The thermometer marks 48 degrees Fahren heit at eight in the morniug, and 58 at midd ty. The orange trees and many others are covered with flowers. A concert was given at the Grand Cercle yesterday by:M= B ' Leona and Dorseni, of the Scala Tlv.atre, at Milan. The hall was f u ll , and Lord Brougham was present among the by tb- numerous comp an y , i n w hi c h many f ore i gn l a di e s shone their beauty and elegance." M. 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