The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-30 00:00:00

_.-~-:- pears th lB daY) , or 11 ° ithout )11blie. ishi°g host )rkin 6 a tforv l LbW°! 00. -- * o ff 00 :1110 39e. of by, the thorP e ' 00 R at starter ,lace in .ghout, broke ast the by lo t ras for 1g this „ that tooth cn the ° f he Gin do Iron )y fire" B rough t rpentert ly Da vid tarried ; 1303P ° J oricot s One° ntlero.ea Sl lO ;;; IDI , 70 /lON' I PCS.° bit-lc:10OP 3 vo ls. vs- ;or /18 ) ) 93' MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is a fair demand for money in the general discount market, but not more than is usual at this period of the year, when numerous payments have to be provided for, and the rate for first class bills is 6 per cent. About £3,000 in bar gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon there was no alteration. The Agra and United Service Bank have received the following telegram from Bombay :—Eachange, Bank Bills, 2s. 2t-d ; Government paper, no quota tion. The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap pointed Friday next, the Ist of January, a special settling day in the shares of the Muntz's Metal Company, to be marked in the twice a week list ; and have also ordered that the shares of the Anglo- Brazilian Gold Company be officially quoted: The Mauritius Land Credit and Agency Company, with a capital of £250,000, in shares of £2O each, 1,500 of which are reserved for the colony, has just been announced. There is to be a local board in addition to the London directors, and the under taking is introduced by the International Financial Society. It is stated that a strong desire for its success has been evinced by the Chamber of Agri culture and the commercial classes generally of the Mauritius. The business it is proposed to enter into is very remunerative, the legal rate of interest on mortgages there being 9 per cent. The com• pany seems to have been organised on a safe basis, and the manner in which it has been introduced to notice will no doubt insure it liberal support from the investing public. The shares are already quoted 1i 2k prem. Two o'CLocic. At Paris this morning (according to Mr. Reuter's telegram) the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 35c. Heavy. A dividend of £1 per share was declared at the meeting, to-day, of the Canada Company. Only a very small amount of business has been transacted to-day in the market for the English Funds, which, however, although dull, are ex ceedingly well maintained. The favourable pros pects of tho money market give support to the quotations, although they fail to stimulate spec lation, or to promote investments. Consols for transfer are 914 2, and for the account 911 1. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 911 e ; India 5 per Cents. 1062 Enfaced 5 per Cents., 1041 ; Exchequer Bills, Bs. to 4s. dis., and Bank Stock is marked 234. A general improvement has taken place in the Foreign Market, and business is rather more active. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 701 71 ; do. Conso lides, 471 481; Mexican, 371 -I; Greek, 344 35 ; Spanish Passive, 341 ; do. Certificates, 131 1; Portuguese, 49 4; Egyptian, 1001 ; Italian, 704 ; and the Confederate Loan, 37 39. Business in the Railway Share Market has been more active, and a slight upward improve ment has taken place in prices. Caledonian, Great Eastern, Great Western, and North Western have each advanced ss. ; and North Eastern (Berwick), 155.; Lancashire and Yorkshire, however, have declined 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remain without change of importance. Bank shares have been quiet. London and South African have improved to 264; National of Liver pool have declined to 191 ; Bank of London are firm at 153. Is the Miscellaneous Market International Finan cial shares have improved to 91 WI; Hudson Bay Company realise 121 ; National Shipping Company ate quoted 14 prem. ; West India and Pacific Steam t 11 prem ; Consolidated Discount 4 to 1 prem. ; Contract Corporation 51 4 prem. ; and Mauritius Credit, 15 25 , prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. n } lank Stock 234 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities New Cent. Consols Annuities 9l/ 1 i'ew 3 per Cent. Annuities New 31 per Cent. Annuities 5 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894.... - Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880.. Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. 14 13-16 Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. India Stock, 1874 — Ditto 5 pee Cent. 1870 lO6/ I Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 .. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent...... Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 5f per Cent Ditto ditto April, 1864 -- . Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 sank Stock for Account .... dui Ditto Bonds ELMO — Ditto under £l,000 Consols for Account, Jan. 7 9ll India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 6 3 per Cent 4 8 die Ditto £500 Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 .. Ditto Scrip, 1863, £3O paid Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Colombian 6 Scrip £l5 pd Cuba, 6 per Cent. — Lanhan 6 per Cent — Ditto 41 per Cent, --. Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 Dutch, 2} per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders Ditto, £lOO Bonds _ Lquador New Consolidated. 1 per Cent — Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant 0, `4gvptian 7 per Cent looi a Ditto, Second Issue - .. Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. 24/ i Ditto Account Ditto Coupons Guatemala 5 per Cent. ** Ditto Account — Italian 6 per Cent.(Alaremmana Railway) ::, i Mexican 3 p er Cent Ditto Account ...... 371 k I Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent .......... New Granada — Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deferred .............. Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) ...... Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Ditto 3 per Cent. Peruvian 3per Cent. .. Ditto Account ...spl)itt° Acc o u ntant., 1862 't — , te ledraoni, Po ~, —se, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f D r '''',4 l l B : 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 3 peer° C e t n . t . .,18 . 6 . 6, '7 . , '9) _ _ Ditto Account Ditto, 1863 . '6O, 62;3 49k Ditto Scrip, £l6j Pm Russian 5 per CenrallB2i_'.o St Ditto 41. per Cent 1860 ' '''' — Ditto 1860 ..._ Ditto Acc0unt........ ..... Ditto 3 per Cent., 15 9 .............. Ditto 5 per Cent, 1362 .............. -- Sardinian 5 per Cent .................... 891 Ditto Account Spanishptto New Account Centr ............ Ditto .. Deferred Ditto Account Ditto Passive Ditto Account 331 Sp D an it i t s o h A C c e c r o t u . n o t .. of C oup not funded .. 34 Swedish, 4 per Cent: . 13 1 Turkish 6 per Cent. 1354 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account ................ , Ditto £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863 .... • Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Venezuela 3 per Cent. • Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. 23 eIginn 4 per Cent., i.x. 25f. .. Dutch2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Gail Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Ditto Account French Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f.... I) itto Account.... Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 Bs. 3d. paid.... pm Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. 70} TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Account Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Geld, steady market, at firm prices. Sales will Probably reach 8,000 or 10,000 billed. SHARE MARKETS.—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOES. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter 1 Caledonian Cork and Bandon Corn wall Do AIA frets no div ti ll 6p c.p an. htv Do. B been paid to 8.1 Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock _ 8 8i 8 8i 82 F 4 121 122 122/ 61 7} 37 39 16 17 96 98 107 109 49 50 45 47 8i Ditto EastAnglian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stocl, Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright ot S. Coast Lon., Chat., aad Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So'.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do f shares.. Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kept Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds 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 Welohpool Shropshire Union South Devon... South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton & Darlington 127 128 131 132 134 136 97 99 64i 6it 1111 1112 72 74 107 i IoBt 43 44 1071 1072 101 102 50 51 111 k 112 i 1201 Ip 90 lul 521 E3} 25 to 102 i 103 —d 58i sgi 89 92 119 121 1 2 p 78 78 11 11i 122 126 42 14 98 100 M 62 32 33 961 061 97 49 91 10} a 38, 9 10 n 7 P' 168 160 5 6i 2f Do _ Do New, 1866 Taff Va1e.......... Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.dzß West Midland -Oxford Do Newport, Do Hereford Closing Business Railways. raid' t Price. done. BRITISH P Railways Atlantic & Lawrenci. Bom.,Barodadz.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent... Do. New . .• • Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Lase Huron Do. Preference Buff alo,Brant,&Godrich p. et. Ods. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 187-1 Clcutta. sr S. E astn. (Li n Cape Town t Dock Sail /Castn. Bengal gu. 5 p. h:ast Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist I'ref. Bonds.. Do. do. deterred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d PI et. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... Gt.lndlarenin.gua.sp.c. Do. New gua. 5 p. a... Do. January, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per oent. Gt. W. of Canada Sharet, Do. New ...... Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. Do. 5i p. o. do. '77-8.. •. Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. 0. .. Do. 41 p. o. Extension' Dc. 41, d 0.... I Do. Fifth Extension. Ilielb.Corp. 6 p. o. Buds. dr Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. o. alortg. Bds. Newßrunswick a Canda N.M.C'das pa Ist t bds Soinde .• Do. Delhi 4 Do. d 0........... Do. Punjaub Do. Do. tu.2' Do. indus.St. Flo.) 83 86 170 175 ISSESSIONS. Closing Price. 60 t - 106 i Lo t 6 1 P 1 6i 6 8i 9i 10t 106 101 103 108 109 117 168 1 1P 20 21 ltP 73 75 59 81 65 67 50 53 48 51 38 42 27 29 22 74 ICBi 1091, 1 t 11i/ 1 1 11P 1054 108 i 10 104 11 104 h 92 95 86 88 * IP 106 107 100 101 16 100 57 59 8 5 82 84 106 107 106 107 IP 1051 1061 101 103 S'ock COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. t,swkioy.ti p.a &July j 1877-84 100 165 107 I Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 IC3 1(5 Do. 6p. c. 31ar. & Sept. 100 1( 3 1(5 Do. p. o. Jan.&July. 100 1.3 05 93 1 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 in 94 Cape G.llope. 6p 0,1870 100 106 108 Do.Ap &Oct 1880 100 109 111 Do. 1818 100 109 111 - Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 112 114 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 'Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 108 INatal Gov. 6 per cunt. 100 1 , 11 110 N.B.Gov. pm. a.&J uly 100 104 166 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. W. G ov. 5 p 18ta 100 100 102 Du. sp. c.,18t9 to 1t26 100 101 102 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 1014 1024 1024 ,New Zealand 6 p cent 100 110. 112 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterlin„,cr, 1875. lOO 105 107 ,Queensland Gcv. 6p. a 100 111 113 IS. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up.. 100 111 113 Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 107 109 Do. to 6 n.c. An.&Oot. 100 109 3 / 4 110 3 / 4 110 if --- BRITISH MINES. 2 {Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 id Callord Amalgamated.. 34 35 Devon G. Conn. (Tavist.) 1 500 670 East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 NI 60 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. sa. 4d par {East Caradon 2.14.6 27 28 'East earn Brea.. - E. WlRussql (Tavistk ) 8.9.0 5 5 3 / 4 515 IGam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen ) 581 8 10 ,Great South olgus l7s 4 44 -I G. Wheal Vor (Ralston) 40 12 13 Grenville... 6.16.6 4 44 Benxi's-Foot . 8.12 37 39 llingsten Downs 4.18.0 24 3 ' - ILady Bertha 'Margaret (Gny Lelant 14 16 llarke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 2/ 14 4 d New Setun l9l 90 100 • North Downs l4 - 1 N.Wh'i Bassetallogan 3.1.0 2s 3 INorth Wheal Crotty - Par Consols (St. Blazeyl 20 It'rovidence(Uny Lelia.) 10.6.7 , 42 44 44 louthearadon(StCleer, 14 415 925 - Care Brea (Illogan) — - I F.. Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 18.18.9 60 65 {Stray Park 30.17.6 28 30 ramar Sil v.& Lead Min. 44 4 4 fin Crott 9 18 19 West Basset (Illogan) l4 94 104 WCr radon (Liskeard) 5 18 20 214 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 54 85 90 Wheal Buller(lledruth) 5 221 271 f Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 - IWhealLudcott 3.0.8 1 14 • {Wheal Mary Ann ;Men.) 8 114 12 !Wheal 3eton . . 584 150 160 1484 - Wheal Tretawney (Lis.) 7 21 22 Wheal Union 3.17 21 21 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Union 4 per cent. guaranteed. 86} London and Brighton, 5 per cent. gua. stock, No. 1, Ditto, 7 per cent. pf. st., 154 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Cheater and Holyhead, Ditto, 5 par cent, 116 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81 Namur and Liege gua. 14f. per annum, Si Namur and Liege, gua. 6 per cent. pf., 2O FON,EIGN MINES. Cape Copper, lim., 6k Fortuna (lirn.), 4 f, Scottish Australian, Um., f JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Anglo Austrian, 71 Bank of London. 153 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 33 City, 110 Consolidated Bank, Rm., 111 Nast London, lira., 71 8 71 Hindustan, china, and Japan (lira.), 32& imperial Ottoman, 181 18 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., London Bank of Scotland, lira., 7f London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 49 for Money London and County, 58 London and South African, 26/ National of Liverpool, limited, 191 Oriental Bank Corporation, 50f Seinde, Punjaub, and Delhi aim.% 7/ Ditto, new, 3i Standard , of British South Aftjea aim), Ditto new, Union of London, 401 St. Katharine, 701 DOCKS. MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, lim., 9/ Hudson's Bay, 121 InVanttional Financial Society, Um., 9 101 Joint.stock Discount, Ditto, new, 61 London Financial Association, Rm., 231 Oriental Inland Steam, lira , 2 Peel River Land and Mineral, 48 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 271 Ditto (£4), 5 the ship pi ll E MUTINY ON BOARD THE GOLDEN EAGLE. brought before Mr e ten men belonging to the ship Golden Eagle, bound fro,,, Liverpool for Sydney, and who, having brought the captai n P back from Holyhead to Liverpool, were charged by hours, the case was with assault and mutiny, were again yesterday. A fter r an * Itatties at the Liverpool Police-court The evidence showed thrt i h BBed ' i nvestigation which lasted for several proper manner, and the men7acaptain had not behaved in a in the ship said they did not and the men discharged. deem the passengers who Were ship under such a commander. sorry to to say anything r a it safe to proceed in a Mr. Rabies said he should be very dismissing the charge Pliaoners were which would lead men circumstanced to believe they were justified in seizing the e ship and acting as they had done; still, the evidence was not mind would warrant him in punishing them.; 4611" in his Paid. all ' 100 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1863 POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ROBBING A NIGHT HOUSE-KEEPER.-- SINGULAR RETELATIONS.--Minnie Wilson, a good-looking girl, about 17 years of age, an "unfortunate," was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with breaking open a box and stealing 15 sovereigns, the moneys of Mr. Thomas Howard, who described himself as a tobacconist of 51, Haymarket. Mr. Sayer, from the office of Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the defence. The prosecutor said—l keep an oyster shop in the Hay market. lam the cook, and look after the place. I lived with the prisoner some time ago, bgt as she associated with pickpockets I complained, and then she left me, saying that she could live with a man who could get £lOO a night. Mr. Sayer—Will you come to the charge. Prosecutor—She came to the house the night before Christmas-day, and asked me to lend her some money, and to let her live there. I agreed to let her sleep there at Is 63 a night. A few nights ago she said that if I would lend her £3 bs. to get a black moire antique dress out of pledge she could get on very well. I lent her the money. Mr. Sayer—This has nothing whatever to do with the charge. Prosecutor—The night before last she came in and went up stairs about 12 o'clock, and presently the barmaid came running down stairs, and told me that the prisoner had been to my box. I ran up stairs, and saw the prisoner leaving the house with a man in a hurried manner, I then went into my bedroom, and found the box broken open and all the money gone (D. 5) which I had put aside for the rent out of my hard earnings. I then gave information to the police in London and Brighton, but the prisoner was taken in Piccadilly. The man I saw the prisoner with is only just out of prison. By Mr. Sayer—l am a cook at 51, Haymarket. lam not the proprietor. I have not been living on the prisoner's prostitution for the past two years. I have never been convicted of felony. I once lived in Rupert street, but I did not keep a brothel there. I kept a cigar shop, but not a "dress woman." The place was not used as a brothel. I kept a coffeeshop in the Haymarket. It was not a brothel- I did not keep women there. My house is not a brothel. I do not dress women up to send them out, so that I may live on their prostitution. I did not give the prison., Jss charge because she did not give me the money she received from a Frenchman. The man the prisoner was with was a pickpocket. The girls tell me so. They are not respectable girls, or they would not know him. I have D. a week from Mr. Trinder, the proprietor of the place. I dont know where he comes from, but he is a billiard place keeper in the City. Mary Walton, but who gave her name as Polly Walton, said she was the barmaid.—l heard a noise up stairs, and on going up I saw the prisoner with a bundle in her hand and a box open in her master's room. Mr. Sayer—The master ? Witness—Yes, Mr. Howard. I said " Minnie, what are you doing," and she said, " Looking for some paper." I then went down stairs, and as soon as I got down she came down and left. _ . . Mr. Tyrwhitt—Hal the box been broken open. Witness—lt had. By Mr. Sayer —Mr. Trinder is the master, but I call Mr. Howard the master, as he hired me and pays me. I don't know who has given the prisoner her dress. Mr. Sayer—Now will you swear that you don't know how that poor girl became possessed of her clothes. Witness—l don't know. We do not keep clothes for girls. Prisoner paid some money for her baby, &c. Mr. Sayer—ls Mr. Howard the father of the prisoner's child ? Witness—He is very good to it. It is said he is the father. They do not sleep together. I will swear there are not four or five girls in the house, Mr. Trinder is a cousin of Mr. Howard's, and is a billiard-player in the City, and has a place of his own. Prosecutor—l've got another witness. (To her.) Now, go on, and speak up. Mr. Sayer—This is very indecorous. Mr. Tyrwhitt (to prosecutor)—Keep quiet, sir. The witness's evidence was not immaterial. Wm. Watson, 299 A—The prosecutor gave the prisoner into custody last night in Piccadilly. She said she had not taken the money, and said that why she left the house was because she went with a gentleman who gave her £3, with which she bought a jacket. I have seen the chest, and it is a very strong one, and I can scarcely believe a girl like the prisoner would have strength sufficient to break it open. The prosecutor last night made a very dif ferent statement to that which he made this morning. He also admitted that the house in the Haymarket was formerly a brothel, but not now. By Mr. Sayer—l have known him some years. I have not the last hesitation in saying that the house in the Hay market is a brothel. Mr. Sayer then addressed the magistrate in a most for cible manner on the prisoner's behalf, and called Sergeant Appleton, 26 C, who said—l have known the prosecutor five or six years. He kept a brothel in Regent • street, and was indicted, but he absconded. He also kept a brothel in the Haymarket, and the house in the Haymarket which he keeps now is one to all intent and purposes. He has been living on the prostitution of females for years. I have seen him following poor girls about, and he has four or five women in his house and sends them out "dressed." On one occasion I heard cries of " Murder" in the place, and on breaking open the doer saw him having hold of a poor girl by the hair of her head. Many of the girls are frightened fur him, as, if they do not give him money, he charges them with robbing him. He has dose so two or three times. Mr. Tyrwhitt, after animadverting in very strong terms on the prosecutor's mode of life, said he believed he had broken the box open himself and trumped up tho charge against the prisoner. He (Mr. Tyrwhitt) did not even be lieve that the prosecutor had the £l5 in his possession. The prisoner was then discharged. The decision seemed to cause much satisfaction in court, WESTMINSTER. COMMITTAL OF A. GENTLEMAN WITHOUT A FINE,-Mr, John James Barlow was charged with the following dis graceful behaviour at the house of a lady considered to be in a dying state : The prosecution was supported by Mr. Dodd, solicitor, who went into very lengthy details of the relation in which the lady and defendant had stood, and his habits and ordi nary conduct, which hal given cause to the present com• plaint. The defendant was an officer in th• navy in former years, and he and his mother—a lady of the greatest re • spectability—had long been on terms of friendship, and had visited at the house of Mrs. Barker, a lady of property, in Onslow-square, but circumstances had arisen which had compelled Mrs. Barker and family to forbid him the house. He was in the habit of getting intoxicated, and while in that state wrote threatening letters, and went to the house, where he made great disturbances. Every remonstrance which kindness oould suggest had been used to induce the defendant to keep away from the house, but without success. Mr. Dodd had himself, in kindness, as the lady's solicitor, endeavoured to prevent a repetition of the annoyances to which she had been subjected, but de fendant, although quiet enough when sober in the morn ing, got drunk by night, and then visited Mrs. Barker's house, On the 7th and Bth inst. particularly he was there, and in consequence of the continued clamour and disturb ance he made a warrant was obtained against him, and he was taken to the Hammersmith Police Court last Saturday, when ha was held to bail, himself in £lOO and two sureties in £lOO each to keep the peace. As there was a desire to grant the defendant every indulgence, his mother and a person having charge of her lodgings were accepted as bail, although not elegible in point of law. Last night, notwithstanding these proceed ings, the defendant again presented himself at the house and created a fresh disturbance, and the family and servants had deemed it imperative upon them for the safety of Mrs. Barker to give him into custody. Mrs. Barker was in a most deplorable and lamentable state of illness, lying upon a bed from which she was never likely to rise again; her sleeping apartment was in front of the house, and the dis turbance made by the defendant was likely to increase her malady or produce fatal results. Defendant came last night in a Hansom cab, and was, as usual, drunk. He pretended he wanted to see the lady's maid, although there was no pretence for doing so, and when told that she could not be seen that night, declared he would not leave till he did see her, used threats, and made such a disturbance that the police was sent for. Dr. Christian, the medical attendant of the lady, was now pre sent, and would show that Mrs. Barker's condition required that the defendant should be restrained. Dr. Christian—She is afflicted with a fearful disease, and her life may almost be despaired of. Mr. Selte—ls she in such a state that agitation would in crease her malady ? Dr. Christian—Yes, sir, hemorrhage succeeded one of his recent visits, as I understand. Mr. Selfo (to defendant)—What have you to say ? Defendant—l have nothing to say. lam disgraced by being in such a position as the present, and really don't know what to say. Mr. Selfe—lt is no use to bind the defendant over to keep the peace. He is already under recognisances which have been estreated. Defendant—Will you take my solemn assurance that I will not repeat this. Mr. Selfe—No, I will not. You gave an undertaking not to repeat this when at Hammersmith on Saturday, and you have broken' it. You have been guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, and 1 can see no reason why you should not be treated like other defendant s of a lower degree, having forfeited your position as a gentle man. 1 shall convict you without a fine for five days to the House of Correction, and I shall require such security for three months as shall satisfy me that the lady is pro- tected. Mr. Dodd made some suggestions to test tho respons] bility of the proposed bail. THAMES. ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE.—This morning at 11 o'clock, after Mr, Woolrych had disposed of the applications for warrants, summonses, protection orders, and advice, Dr William Giles, of Canton-place, called the attention of the Magistrate to a case of great urgency where a poor Irish man, named Jeremia Maher, had been waylaid and nearly murdered by his countryman, Brian Dunn. The wounded man was in great peril, and he had to request that the case should be at once investigated. Mr. Woolrych—Certainly. Let the prisoner be at once put in the dock. Brian Dunn, a very tall, portly man, about 40 years of age, answered to his name. Inspector Phillip Beare, of the K division, said he caused the prisoner to be apprehended last night, and was informed that the man he had waylaid and injured was not likely to survive. Mr. Robert Nightingale, M.D., surgeon and apothecary, of Commercial-terrace, Limehouse, said he was called upon to attend Jeremiah Maher, on Monday night at half-past nine o'clock, and found he had received a most extensive lacerated wound on the left eye which penetrated the globe of the eye. He believed the sight was entirely destroyed. A blunt or heavy ?instrument might have caused the in jury. The pulse of the patient was this morning be.ow 60, and he was in a very critical state. Dr. Giles said---I do consider the life of the poor man is in great peril, I don't think he will recover. There is a deep cut over the eye lid. Bridget Maher, of No. 1 Jamaica-place, Limehouse, said her husband was brought home on Monday night by his brother and another man with his eye injurtd, and he had been very ill ever since. Thomas Ward, a lammerman, stated that on Monday evening he was in Thomas-street, Limehouse, and saw the prisoner come from his own place and strike Maher a blow with a brick on the eye. It was a very heavy blow, Maher fell to the ground insensible, and did not move for some time afterwards. Mr. Woolrych—The blow stunned him ? Witness—lt did, sir. Dr. Giles said erysipelas had commenced, and the patient was very bad indeed. The prisoner, who was very restless, made no defence, and Mr. Woolrych remanded him for a week. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of wheat from. Essex and Kent were small, but most samples came to hand in fair condition. The trade for all qualities ruled heavy. and previous quotations were barely supported. With foreign wheat the market was fairly supplied. For all descriptions the trade was in a sluggish state, on former terms. Yy Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates. There was a full average supply of barley on the stands. Malting qualities were a slow sale, on former terms. Other descriptions sold heavily, at fully the late decline in the currency. The supply of malt on sale was large, and the trade ruled heavy, at drooping prices. Both home •grown and foreign oats met a dull enquiry, at about previous currencies. The show of samples was rather limited. Beaus and peas wore in slow request, at late rates. In flour, sales progressed slowly, on former terms. There were scarcely any barrels on offer. ARRIVALS THIS WEEIE. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English...... 630 650 1,880 320 I N r o is r h sign...... 20 20 — 5,9 70 ;., 9 0`5,1 77(;sks. .. r•••••••.•,,..1 BOROUGH HOP. The market is very moderate supplied with hops, yet the trade rules quiet, but at full prices. WIIITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the trade rules inactive, at the subjoined currency : Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 6d; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and pork, 3s 64 to 4s 6d per 81bs by the carcase. AN ADMIRABLE SPEECH ON THE PRESS By a Catholic Priest, The Edinburgh Courant gives the following re, port of at lecture delivered by a priest in the Catholic Church, Cowgate, on Sunday night : Dr. Marshall, after a few introductory remarks said—l often thought, What did our early ancestors do without books and newspapers, the circulating library, the teeming Press, and the various periodi cals that come out quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily, supplying us with food for thought? Great and glorious things were achieved by our ancestors, and yet there was no Press. Men married and were given in marriage —marriages of lust, marriages of convenience, marriages of love; deaths, coming and going, buying and selling ; dynasties were founded, arose, fought, and conquered ; poets sung, philosophers taught, society existed and flourished, and yet no Press, no books, no newspapers ! The Press came up at the time that tobacco did ; I like them both. But when there was no Press and no printed books, was there anythi ng to supply their place ? Yes; there was. So c i ety could never have progressed, nor civilisation existed, if there had not been something as powerful in that day as the Press is in ours. They had their orators, poets ; dramatists, tragedians, philosophers, school men, heralds, and bards. When I speak of the Press, I don't merely mean iok, paper, types, ma chines, and compositors, but I mean the great talent behind—those who direct it, and make us happy possessors of it. Whether the power of the Press will increase, I don't know. I can hardly imagine that it will become greater or more glorious than it is at the present moment. Here we have the won derful machinery that can impress so fast— that can bring the printed impression before us at every hour of our existence. Here we have he electric wires—the flashing telegraphs from he most distant regions of the world, with news rue ana raise, with euoik apccol that ao man can speak in Parliament, or utter a single sen timent anywhere that is for the advantage of his fellow men to hear, but almost as soon as he has uttered it, and perhaps before he has finished speak ing, it is in print. Here we have not only labour, skill, and industry, but we have the most intelli- gent men of the day, men of the greatest learning and intelligence, employed on the Press. Not that everything that is in a newspaper is true, for I can- .. _ not believe that all that is said about the wonder- turnips or the ,magnified gooseberries—(laugh _ _ ter)—l cannot believe all that is contained in a Reuter's telegram ; I do not believe all the critiques that are printed in regard to every songster that sings or every painter that paints. Bat we are not to suppose that the Press is all evil ; and so at the present moment it gives us what the Pagans, the early Christians, and the inhabi tants of Europe possessed. We have but small poets now compared with those that went before us ; we have Lo wonderful philosophers that would compare with those of old—with Plato or Aristotle-;with men of such talent as Socrates or Julius Caesar; but here we have something to sup- ply the places that these men occupied. We have all this in the wonderful Press that we possess at the present moment, whose powers cannot be exagger ated ; and there is not a single preacher in the uni verse who would bestow more praise upon it and do' more homage to it than the humble individual be fore you. Now comes the question, How does the Press affect religion and society ? Many men, and I believe no men more than the respectable gentle men of the Press themselves, have an idea that the Press is hostile to religion. All ignorant men think so, all superstitious men think so, all bigoted men think so. God preserve me from being classed with any of these ! Still, men think so, and many members of the Press, in their writings, and what they put forth in books and newspapers, seem to imagine that this is really the case. I must tell you honestly that I cannot believe that the Press can ever be hostile to religion or destructive to society. I can give you my reasons for my opinion. In the first place, my great guide is the Church. What does the Church itself do with regard to the Press ? Decidedly it makes use of it. At Rome, Milan, and Venice, the Press is worked with wondr ous power; and i n th e first few years after the disc over y of t he art of printing, Italy issued works, w hich the y specially tell us are on theology and the classics, in the pro portion almost of ten to one that resulted from the German Press. Under the influence of the Popes, under the influence of the most leading and power ful families of Italy, the Press arose in that country to a wondrous power ; and from it there issued printed books that are to be counted in the first century of the invention, not by hundreds, but by thousands. Therefore, if I find in God's providence such gifts, skill, and discovery, so active, earnest, and energetic, i n making use of the Press, I would never think that the Press can be hostile to the Church. I find that rem. the Church has outrivalled all other powers to th e present day, until in spite of Printing-house-squa r and the enormous engines that are at work to give us the great Times newspaper, I will challenge all England, France, and Germany to touch, in t h e race, the great Propaganda Press in Rome, which gives us not only the Fathers, the Scriptures, th e classics of Greece and Rome, but such remains of literature as may be found in the treasures of Arabia or spread before us in the Sanscrit. I have other reasons, however, for my assertions. In the first place—pardon me, gentlemen of the Press, if I should knock a little of the conceit of you—l admit your power, I glory in your energy ; but I must remind you that you are not an institution, though you often assert it. I must tell you plainly that you are not an Estate' though you pretend to be. Great and powerful and valuable as you are, you are no more an institution than a looking -glass is a young body's face—(a laugh)—or a duet a pianoforte, or a telescope an astronomical observa tion. Like the orators, er the bards, or the heralds, or the actors of old, you only reflect the public mind—no doubt an immense service, an immense use to society. The Press only reflects the public opinion; and just as men think, or wish to think, or desire to think, the Press is obiiged to utter. Tory to Tory, Whig to Whig, Radical to Radical —each man has his own newspaper. The commer cial man reads the " City article ;" the prizefighter takes in Bell's Life in London. Go and write a paper that the public does not like—put St. Paul and St. Peter to edit a Times and a Morning Chronicle in Rome and Athens, and how many subscribers would they have ? Give me the power to write a journal in Edinburgh, and see how long I would be out of the Gazette (Laughter.) Gentlemen of the Press, you do well, but remember you are only a portion of society, not the masters of society; you have no head, no orga nisation, no principle, no aim but to se :l your paper and get men to read it. Do it with all the inge nuity you can. Those who write truthfully and sincerely will earn a good and honest existence, but the false man, the untrue man will do the same for his own purposes. As the orators of Greece and Rome spoke the minds of the Grecians and Romans, so you speak the minds of Frenchmen, Scotohmen, Englishmen, and Irishmen. You are a wonderful power, a great engine, but you are no institution ; and therefore the Church cannot fear you, except as it dreads and fears society. In connexion with the Press there is plenty of lies, plenty of errors, plea ty of what is bad ; but u nless society is all lies, and all falsehood, and all sin—which I don't believe —then the Press is not all falsehood or sic. I leek upon the Press merely ay e ba. a s the tongue of society — not as its head or its heart. Thu p r e ens What is the Press in America —what i the Pre s s in France—in spite of the act i v ity of the one, end t h e wo nderful intellect of t he other ? Wh a t is the Press in our country described by itself ? There it—plenty of falsehood s. ar e plenty of evils in you spe a k 80 But then it ma y be asked —Why do favourably of it ? Because the freedom of fh e p ress corrects itself. The newspapers correct themselves b y ac cusing one ano ther, laughing at one another, and in sulting one a nother. I should be sorry to see the slightest restriction put on the liberty of t h e Press. Give it rope enough and it will hang itself — (l aug hter) —and since its charges against the Church are untrue, all I hav© to say is, that ;4 w hen rogues fall out honest men get their own." (Laughter.) But it may be asked, does riot the Church restrain the Press ? No. True, the Church condemns what men print, just as it condemns what men say, but it merely condemns by saying, " This is contrary to Catholic truth." The Church just puts the label " poison" on what it knows to be poison. It merely says, " This is Christianity, that is heresy." But if I give the Press liberty, it must give me liberty too; if the Press is to be free, let the Church be free ; if the Press is to sit in judgment on the Church, let the Church do the same, and then see whose judgment God will ratify. Dr. Marshall concluded by saying, "In the name of good society I protest against any idea of fetter ing the Press. Liberty I love, and tyranny and licence are its opponents." THE BRAZILS. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) (By telegraph from Lisbon.) RIO DE JANEIRO, DEC. 9. Exchange on London, 271- to 27a. Coffee good, first 6,600 to 6,700. Shipments since the departure of the last steamer, 80,606 bags, of which 18,000 were for the Channel. Sales, 45,000 bags. Stock, 135,000 bags. Freights, 408. to 478. 6d. BAHIA, DEC. 12. Exchange on London, 271. Cotton, 26,000 reis. Sugar, 2,400 to 25,000 reis. --- PERNAMBUCO, DEC. 15. Exchange on London, 27i to 28k. Sugar, 3,800 reis ; browns, 2,200 to 2,600 reis. Cotton, 26,000 The Messageries Imperiales steamer Estramadure arrived here on the 13th inst. The " Great Eastern" Lottery Scheme. A correspondent of the Manchester Exawiner furnishes the following details of the scheme for the disposal of the great ship by lottery :—The proposal is that subscriptions for tickets shall be reserved to citizens of Great Britain. With this proviso it is proposed that all subscribers of £1 and upwards shall receive a numbered certificate for each £1 sub scribed, and the subscription to cease when £240,000 has been subscribed. Should the associa tion not become the purchasers of the ship, all holders of certificates to receive their money back free of any but actual expenses, in no case to exceed ls. per share. Should any holder of certificates not reclaim c his money within six months of a publica tion in all the London and Liverpool daily papers of the inability of the trustees to purchase the vessel, the amount of such unclaimed subscriptions to be forfeited. Should the association become the pur chasers, the trustees will immediately proceed to make a division of the property among 200 of the subscribers in the following manner :—A public lottery to be held in Frankfort, with all usual pre cautions as to integrity, and the drawings to take place in the presence of two or more Notaries Public, and of the secretary and one or more of the trustees. The successful numbers to be of the following values (should the full amount have been subscribed, and rateably in proportioN), and represented by proportionate shares in the ship :-1 prize, value £40,000 ; 1 prize, value £20,000 ; 3 prizes, £lO,OOO each, value £30,000 ; 6 prizes, £5,000 each, value £30,000; 12 prizes, £2,500 each, value 130,000; 35 prizes, £l,OOO each, value £35,000 ; 50 prizes, £5OO each, value £25,000 ; 25 prizes, £4OO each, value £lO,OOO ; 65 prizes, £3OO each, value £19,500; 2 prizes, £250 each, value £5OO. 200 prizes. Total value £240,000. Less a commission of five per cent. and charges, and the necessary disbursements of the ship from the time of her purchase until her trans fer by the trustees to the 200 successful subscribers, a published account of which, and a list of the win ning 200 numbers, will be advertised in the leading journals. The remaining shares to be blanks. All precautions have been taken not to infringe any enactments, and thus any interference with the lottery taking place cannot be reasonably antici pated. Should, however, any unforeseen difficulty after the purchase of the vessel arise, the trustees bind themselves to again cause the ship to be put up to auction, and to return the proceeds propor tionately to all holders of certificates of subscription. Fatal StaV Men. A frightful case of stabbing took place in :Liver pool on Christmas night, by two Manilla seamen, named Narioz Vrumea and Lorenzo Carpus, belong ing to the brig Florriana, lying in the King's Dock. From a statement made by a young man, named Thomas Gallagher, it appeared that he and two men, named Joseph and William M'Grath (cousins) the former 22 and the latter 25 years of age, were drinking together, at the counter in Mr. Holden's publichouse, in Lowe: Frederick - street, between 10 and 11 o'clock on Christmas night. William M'Grath, after drinking, laid the glass on the counter, and said ho would not have any more drink till next Christmas. He was rather drunk, and etatrgered back against the coloured seamen, who were passing behind at the time. This made the seamen very angry, and one of them said he would have revenge. him, "Mr goo d man , no one but the colo ure d man (C arpus ) w ish es hero offendsaid y t o o u m repeated that he would have his revenge. The two coloured men then went out, but it would seem re mained close to the public house door, for when the cousins M'Grath went outside they were oeized hold of by the Manilla men, one of them (Carpu,) stab bing Wm. M'Grath in the back between she shoul ders, and the other coloured man stabbing J oseph M'Grath several times in the abdomen. This state ment is borne out by that of a sailor who witnessed the occurrence, but it differs from what is said by Police-constable 92, who arrested Carpus. This officer states that he saw Joseph M'Grath running away from Carpus, and saw that the former stopped and moved up the street, when he was stabbed by Carpus. Joseph M'Grath fell down immediately, and Carpus, who was about to repeat the stab, went with much violence against the wall. Just then Carpus observed him (the officer) and ran for about 20 yards, when he turned round, and seeing the officer still in pursuit he ran a short dis tance further, when the officer came up with him and seized him. The prisoner dropped the knife when taken hold of by the constable. It was after wards picked up, but there did not appear to be any blood upon it. It was, however, very dirty from being in the mud. Both of the coloured seamen were taken to Bridewell, and the two injured men were conveyed to the Southern Hospital—Joseph M'Grath on a bearing barrow, and William in a car —where they received every attention from Drs. Wollaston and Hamilton. _ On Saturday morning the police authorities re ceived a note front Dr. Wollaston, stating that " Joseph MeGrath is suffering from a wound in the abdomen. I think there is but little chance of his recovery, and that it would be well to take his de positions. Wm. M‘Grath is suffering from a wound on the back. Both, of course, are not fit to appear." Mr. Thomas Mills, one of the borough magistrates, accordingly went to the hospital on Saturday forenoon, accompanied by one of the magis trates' clerks, and in his presence the following M‘Grath, and downstatement writingm a made by :__ Joseph taken " I an a (look labourer, living at N o . 2 , Forrest street, Liverpool. On last night (Dec. 25) at about half-past eleven o'clock , I wa s with my cou s i n Wm M'Grath in Lower Frederick - street, and We went into a publichouse there (Hoiden's), and on comi ng out we saw a row. The two prisoners and other coloured men like them were engaged in it. w e stopped to look on, end one of the two prisoners, I cannot say which, but am sure it was one of them, turned round, saying, This is one,' and the other prisoner pulled out a knife and struck me with it in my left side, the lower part, and caused the wound lam now suffering from. I fell when I got the stab, and the two prisoners ran off, followed by some of the crowd, who shouted, They have killed a man.' I had seen the two prisoners before that night in a public-house. They were drinking together. I did not speak a word to them, and never gave them any provocation. I think they must have taken me for another person. I was about half drunk. I knew well what I was doing. I did not see Wm. M'Grath stabbed. I cannot say whether the person said, ' This is one' in English or not, but he pointed to me, and I understood him to mean that I was one. There were other coloured men near me when I was stabbed, but only the pri soners were very near. One of the prisoners only ran at me, and I saw the other run towards William 111‘Grath ; and the one who seized hold of me had a, knife. I saw it in his hand as he held me." This deposition having been interpreted to the prisoners by a sworn interpreter (Mr. Peter Bog giano), Carpus replied through the interpreter. " I will swear by the cross of Christ I never saw the man. I never done the deed. I had no knife." The other prisoner, Vrumea, said, " Somebody gave me a blow here (putting his hand to his head). I struck back at the person, but did not hit him. I had no knife." The magistrate decided to remand the prisoners for seven days. They were then removed to their cells, and on Mr. Boggiano acquainting them with their remand, Vrumea said, "I left my knife in the cabin, and there were eight of the crew on board. Some them took my knife, and I never done it." About midnight on Saturday Joseph M•Gratla died at the hospital from the effects of the wound. William M'Grath still lies at the same.institutiou in a dangerous state."—Liverpol Courzer. _ Al L ex a a s n t der E rr v u e l ui:g o . t WAR :DE p c le . a 2 se 9 d . to LONDON GAZETTE —Last give orders The Queen has beenf graciouslyl for the appointment o. Royal Artillery, Colonel tem o • haVing s t the Di p rec i the t lry rank of Major- General while he servedt!L an Ordinary Member the Civil Div • Ordnance, to be of o the Most 11 Class, or Companiono ot t h e Third Bath. nottrable Order of the wHITEHALL, D EC. 28, gintore, to be Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal The Queen has been pleased to appoint Francis Alexan der, of Aberdeen, in the room of Charles, Alarquis of the shire deceased. of Nol l 'h The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Sir James Burnett, Bart •, to be Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal Morn-s Alexan der, the shire of Kincardine, i , n the room of Franc' of of Kintor • Earl e, resigned. Bal-to in L t e h a e: r az z e l tt e : Philip . , Cream BANKRUPTS The fallowing are the only bankrupts of commercial im. 1 Carver, Hull p o Pr Georget h a n n c i p e Robert Brown, brickmaker, Bradford _ _ chant, Woolwich Ihnry D , '"'' ass Nieto' esplan, surp.oeon, Georg e a lden•bil;, near P. , inbroke Oglebey, butcher, -- - il ° 0 , pyou, Ilereturashiro Wllliaau Watkins, grocer, -air►• Jump, Yorkshire Joseph Trout, beerhousekeepi 'Niton, Isle of Wight Charles Bright, coal merchant,-oeer Twickenham Edward Abrahams, aual clerk' Woolwich Anthony R. Pi ke ' Saffron-hill, Holborn Charles Walter, publican,etti, Raquet-court, Fleet-street George H. CoPPell;:3r dealer, Everton James beck, tim.a clerk, Western Hill, Durham Robert Jacksa_ g l e w , ~, d farm bailiff, Biddenden, Kent William 13 Wilson, general dealer, Durham 'Wilkinson V. labourer, Greystoke Thomas B 2 uh lton directory compiler, Leeds ,T . AT n, rd eu. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. R o bert Marshall, gardener, Edinburgh , ar l smith, farmer, Haddington John Ch- es s. H ar kness, Wright, Glasgow Mungo Scott, flour merchant, Edinburgh . Tffnatius Roche, draper, Glasgow William -. Rutberfoord, Rule, and Co., carpet warehousemen, Glasgow John Mitchell, farmer, Meadowbank, by Polmont Alexander Munn, farmer, Auchintulloch, Dumbartm. shire 50 491 501 1261 133} 112 111 724 _ _ . jai 1 108 a 811 2 loti i 961 i Business don, SUIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Dec. 30.—Wind this day at noon—North- Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. HOLYHEAD, Dec. 29.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Hanni bal, and Admiral, from Liverpool for Bombay; Antonio from Liverpool for Havannah. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 29.—Wind N.—Arrived—True Briton, from London for Melbourne—M. M. Jones, from London for Newport. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Dido, screw steamer, from Alexandria. Sailed—Sea Queen, for for Calcutta. FALMOUTH, Dec. 29.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Grace and Jane, for St. Kitt'e. SWANSEA, Deo. 29.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Florence, for Cuba. CARDIFF, Dec. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Chareten. from Bilboa. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her Majesty's ship Dromedary, from Ascension. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Dec. 30—Faret, from Graveliness—Asterdalen, from A:lora—Providence, from Gravelines—Gabalod, from Shanghai. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Anchored—Glencal, for Valparaiso—Columbine, for Canaries—Thomas Powell, screw steamer, for Liverpool— all from London. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. RACING FIXTL JANU, 'RES FOR 1864. MT. Manchester Pi ... 1 itrißY. Lincoln H.angerford ICH. ' Warwick Spring Durham 2B Northampton 29 Catterick .. 30 Harrow Chelmsford Spring Nottingham Spring 1 Derby Spring 3 Liverpool Shrewsbury Doncaster Spring Croxton•park 1 Edinburgh Spring .. 2 Abergavenny o Thirsk 5 'Rm. Epsom Spring Newmarket Craven Newmarket First Spring Chester .. 3 York Spring Salisbury.. l2 Bath Manchester rarpenden Epsom Ascot .. Hampton l5 Newton ' l5 Odiham Bibury .. 22 Stockbridge Chelmsford Ne xcastle-on-Tyne Worcester (Summer) Ipswich Newmarket July Carlisle Abingdon Liverpool July Pontefract Au, LY. Nottingham . gtam ford ...... Winchester l9 Southam pton .. 2O Goodwood .... 26 UST. Plymouth Derby 30 Lichfield S toc kton .... 3O Devon and Exeter .... 30 Li c hfield .... Brighton 2 Brighton Club Lewes .... 6 Reading Egham .. l6 Oxford .. 18 York August 23 SE P' Weymouth 1 Warwick .September 6 Leicester 8 Doncaster .. l3 Brecon •• 19 OCTi Northallerton .. 6 Newmarket Second Oct 10 IBER. Richmond Monmouth 22 Manchester Autumn Newmarket First October 27 --- Gloucester Newmarket Houghton 24 NOVEMBER. Shrewsbury Autumn. STEEPLECHASING EBE FIXT AB*. PRES FOR 1864 , FT Carmarthen Harrow Cambridge IL MARCH. Grand Military (Rugby Hunt) ...... 14 on January 1 , and is run for on Wednesda y the 4th Ma y , C H ESTER Cur.—The Tradesm en 's Plate, which closes has reached 108 subscribers , The nominations for this event have been very languid for the past fortnight, and if a degree of activity is not displayed during the ensuing two days, it does not seem as if the Rhodee prize of 1864 will be equal to that of Asteroid's year, when 172 horses were entered. Fox FAMINE IN AYRSHIRE.—Oa Tuesday Eglinton,meeting of of w byLordesdaylast a en, convened rms Hotel, Ayr, for the purpose consideration the scarcity of foxes. t The Marquis of A ilsa p resided. Lord E g linton stated that taking as countyel d into the l e King's in A g he had convened the meeting for the purpose of explain ing to them the scarcity of foxes within the county, and, if possible, of devising a remedy. He knew of 29 litters of foxes having been bred in those parts of the county which were hunted, and only 18 of these had been found some of them never having been but once aeon, and ho was anxious to consult his friends as to the best means oi having more foxes, and of ascertaining what became of so many of them. Considerable discussion ensued as to the best means to be adopted for attaining the end desired. Mr. Oswald, of Auehincruive, said it rested entirely with the landed pro prietors and lessees of s hooting, who could always guarantee having foxes if they chose to let We keepers know that they must have them. lie thought it would be nothing short of a disgrace to Ayrshire if, after Lord Eglinton'a liberality in the matter, he were not better supported by the proprietors. It was afterwards resolved to give dinners at Ayr and Kil marnock, or balls, if preferable, to the occupiers of the farms hunted over, and also to give similar entertainments to the keepers in charge of the coverts drawn by the hounds. A committee was appointed to make the necessary arrange ments and to collect subscriptions, the noble chairman heading the list with the sum of £2O. After a vote of thanks to Lord Ailsa for presiding, the meeting separated,—North .thitish Daily Mall' I BER. HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS. (From the Registrar's-General's Weekly Return.) The total number of deaths in London in the week that ended on Saturday was 1,312. It differed little from that of the previous week ; but the deaths at 60 years of age and upwards rose from 244 to 285. The average number of deaths for the 52d week, derived ft om the returns of that week, in ten years, 1853-62, is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,558. The actual number is less by 246 than that obtained by calculation. There were 14 deaths from smallpox and 44 from measles Six of those caused by the latter disease were returned in Somers-town, and five in the sub-district, Lambeth Church, second part. Scarlatina was fatal in 78 cases, six of which were in Kentish-town, eight in Islington. Bronchitis was the most fatal in the week of all the dis eases on the list ; it was recorded in 154 cases, while the corrected average in ten corresponding weeks is 185. The deaths from bronchitis rose, as compared with the numbers of two previous weeks—but those from pneumonia, which were 81, showed a decrease. Whooping-cough increased decidedly; it was fatal to 49 children. There were 138 deaths from phthisis. Three cases of murder or manslaughter, 2 of which were deaths of infants, were recorded in the week. Only 2 nonagenarians died; they were widows, aged 92 and 95 years. Last week the births of 805 boys and 727 girls, in all 1,532 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor responding weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number (corrected) was 1,828. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.970 in. The mean daily reading was above 30in. on three days of the week. The reading was 30.30 in, on the morning of Sunday— and fell to 29.70 in. on Tuesday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 42.5 deg., which is 5 deg., above the average of the same week in 43 years (nn determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean temperature was above the average on every day, except n ail Tues and on the last three days the excess was from 8 n deg, deg. The thermometer fell below the freezing poit of water on two nights ; the lowest reading was 26.5 deg. on Wedr s : day ; the highest day temperature was 51.9 deg. on s : 9 ', u _f_ day. The range of temperature in the week was rangetho win on 25 . 4. The mean daily range was 12.2 deg. three days was only 7 and 8 deg. The differencolhbee ature was 4.6 mean dew point ; temperature and air temPaerir S 4, complete deg. The mean degree of humidity of i i li h e e wind blew from preen the saturation being represented by 10 0 . the nor thwest, and a westerly point—on Tuesday fron t. Th e re was no rain afterwards from south-west a nd West' temperature of the measured. The mean of the high dam.; that of the lo west was water of the Thames was 44.2 42 deg. victims MINCE-PIES AND TEIEIR ORIGIN IN WHAT L EIGH H UNT CALLED '6 MINCEPIETY !" misrui M umm i n g and ' Wesse l are no more , ha ving fallen 6 and to the seythe o f Time. Mince-pie, and Carol, and New Year's Gift have been more fortunate, blessed ifis as de t s h t i e n y ed a o r e w i t h a healthy constitution, and fish with his snowy ' havi ng in l i e s d e life i n t h e ir younger days. Christmas h• a less riotous survive all his children, and to n on • beard long after the last mistletoe grave of the las t mince p ie. But all 18 planted above the -11 true patriots will j oin in Wishing Mince-pie a long and bably about the eldest child of merry term. Re is pro spices indeed presented by th e hangs of the Bast, at Beth selves. Nor has his hi remain and to perpetuate them- He hastee rough ti e been always peaceable and placid. Virulent theological limes and had his portion of abuse. reverend person. iai contests have been fought over his evil report, and --o has gone through good report and known what it Li to sutler the tortures of religious reproa to be tr anvil • ell. His future day s are probably destined 'and when he passes away, he will pass away i n a green. old age, when th e chequered history of his ear lier career is either unremembered or unknown. Exp., ~AORDIN ART VO YAGE OF A SAILOR'S CHEST. — A sailor's chest was recently lost in Ramsey Bay, and has actually been east up nut far from its owner's door in Whitehaven. It seems that a sailor, named Thomas O'Nsii, of Whitehaven, sailed in the schooner Sisters, of Fleetwood. On the 3d inst. the Sisters lay windbound in Ramsey Bay, Isle of Mby a n, when she was run into large Glasgow schooner, tound to Liverpool, and a immedi ately. a fterwards sank. The crew got on board the Glasgow vessel, saving their lives, but nothing veyed to Liverpool. O'Neil afterwards made way home to Whitehaven, where he arrived on the 11th inst., and, strange to say, his chest, which had gone down with the It is Sisters , arrived the day after. I North Wall at the time, and caw said he was on the v by a ' head. It was picked upit floating past t he p ier taken man at Redness r o int, and its ow to the Custom Ho ner. 11 . e) mad subsequentiy restored to ! Course of the Exchange—Yesterday. Amsterdam Ditto .. 3 Monthz, 11 194 12 04. Rotterdam .. 11 101 12 01 Antwerp •• 25 671 25 72 1 Brussels — 25 071 25 721 Ilan'laugh — 13 71 13 ~ Paris .. Short. 25 25 .),- " c, 2 Di tto Mtn-6611es - ~.) i 0 5 75 Frankfurt uu Maine --119 b 75 Vienna Trieste 12 30 Peteniburgh 3 3i 334 Berlin - Madrid ......... :adiz 47i 48k Leghorn —2 i., ~,. 25 95 Milan .......... - 25 ' 0 8 g 25 921 (3 cr.Oft ........ , -.-. 25 s 5 25 ! , 1) Naples - 25 871 25 D2l Palermo L 25 9') , " 2.5 872. • - .z Messina .. _ 25 8 71 25 9'zi Lisbon ...... ..... 02a lOVig-on Gold in ......... 52a Mexican Dollars ......... Silver in Bars ( 61 and ird .................. 0 0 0 South Intericau D' ) .... oublons .......... ....,,. (Stan—dar.l), p.er55022[... 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