The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-11 00:00:00

ONE Y MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK , The Disco un t M arket is a little easier again to day, and the supplies of bills on cffer are by no means large. A favourable effect has been produced in mone tary and commercial circles by the Bank of Eng llnd retur n f or the week to Wednesday last, which i leBB unfavourable than might have been antici• Pated. Annexed are the particulars Active Circulation 120,193,040 Bull Decrease .. 829,585 ion ••• l3 008,617 Decrease .. 39,858 Rest • • • • • • • 3 , 218,937 • 4 1 4 , .0 Increase • • 34,744 Public Deposit;* • • 8629,856 I ncrease . . 1 , 39 0" Other Deposits., 12,981,276 Increase • • • • .• 56,731 S even Day an d ot h er Bills .. 608 , 16 7 Decrease 54,940 G overnment S ecur i ties * 7. 10,712,330 Increase 2,000 Other S ecurities • • .. 21,813,329 Increa se • • .. Increase 639,770 Not Unemploy • ed 6,735,535 .. 6 7 3 ,77 0 About X 51,000 in bar gold was taken into the ( Tank yesterday ; but 9,000 sovereigns were with- Alexandria. An for Alexandria. An interim dividend of ss. per share will be PtoposE.d at the forthcoming meeting of the Ceylon Co tnpany, the last few days there has been rather m ore activity in the Foreign and Colonial Produce 41ake ts. Tea at p u bli c sa l e h as rea li se d en h ance d Dt r 'ea, while an advance of ls. 6d. to 2s. per cwt. ,as tak en placo in sugar, and 6d, per cwt. on coffee. ftied fruit has been inactive, while there has been Itt k aninaatien in the tallow market, the operations both present and forward delivery having been tea ttieted. The profit on the working of the St. 11 13 ' 44 del Rey Mises for the past half-year b i as been £34,162 18s. ld. Adding thereto 0 -13 amount received and due for interest 1 , - , 13 ., 11 10neys unemployed, and the balance of nndi 'ed profits carried forward last year, and deduct " the London expenses, £1,056 16s 6d., the I ,ount ava i lable for d i vidend is £36,034 ss. ld. 4 , 110 director s , th ere f ore recommen d a di v id end of ' 3 Per s h are, free of i ncome-tax; carrying ten per 'lat. thereon, as usual, to the Reserved Fund. Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse thi s morn i ng, according to .49titers telegram, the 3 p er C ent . R entes were 67f. ih , v 2 e. to 67f. 30c. H eavy . io Some favourable alterations are apparent in the B ank of France r e t urn f or t h e past month. The ' 4 llio n has increased £310,000, and the current a 4a aants £ 100,000 ; w hil e t h e di scounts hate ilen o ff £1 , 7 30,000, the advances on stocks and , 448 £875,000, th e no t es i n c i rcu l at i on £2,110,000, and the Treasury balances £293,300. 41 14 °re firmn ess h as b een apparent to-day in the "' te e for th e E ng li s h F un d s, i n consequence of te e easier con di t i on o f monetary affairs, and the et issued by the Banks of England and France. at:11 little quotable change is reported, but' e tendency is more favourable than it was 4 0 , t he close of business yeste r d a y after tyll' When a little heaviness was occasioned sti i t he advices relating to Holstein, and • tr e e ' s ing prices on the Paris Bourse. Console for 4atieter are 90' 911 , an d f or th e accoun t 9118. Th e c l e t l° Threes an d R e d uce d A nnu iti es h ave b ee n 12: 91 ; Bank St oc k 235 237 ; E xc h equer Bill s , 10 6 ' 1 1 ° 7s. dis.; India Stock, 221 ; do. 5 per Cents., 8 . 1 11 3 z flfaced do r, 103 I ; do. 51 per Cents., 1122 st IV and th e B onds, Bs. to ss. dis. I)re aa 6o reign M ar k e t opene d w i t h a very d e - si te ett :' aPpearance, but a recov er y has since tlitt,:red• Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70} ; 2,ll;eonsolides, 46: f Mexican, 34Z 35; heck, a 1 1 4 1 4 ; Spanish Passive, 331 a ; ditto Certificates, as P ortuguese, 481 ; and the Confederate as 4o . us; • till„,,' n ese in th e R a il way Sh are M ar k et has con l'qy." dull, and in some instances prices have given ted ea Cheat Eastern and Great Western have re apd 68 .; and Great Northern, North Western, 14. igt7 t ith Western, 10 s . ; w hil e L on d on an d T ti tan have improved £l. 1404'3 P oreign and Colonial lines have been in ter o 0 req uest, at about previous quotations. Oetti.4l' a nd Miscellaneous sh ares h ave b ee n in f a i r t41:1111. London and County have improved to tieel:*3 Chartered of India, Australia, and China Iti lper lil !ti to 358 ; East London brought 7Z ; and Cot ~23 lel Ottoman h ave d ec li ne d to 1 8k 1; D iscount vor k • tion hav e d ec li ne d to 61 ; London Financial ad - L ! 1r ; Peninsula r an d O r i ental Steam, 83 ; 'eYptian Trading Company, 71. tt •----- - tilt BR ITISH FUN i p tr oe to ck . DS—CLOSING PRICES 235 7 41. _e4r. it!, ...... 90k 1 90 ; 1 il * fit Coed Annuities 0, a p er c ent. le Annuities 9O/ 1 901 1 • Per C en (Annuities - 1 - ; tl t 21 ht. P e r Ce • Annuities - Cent, A ' lt . Au 8 ~,,_ nuities.. b i nitie s , 30 '-uAluties J an. 1873 .. _ 4 1 .t t t i e o for 30 y r 3 7:: 8 41 3 1 . re Sth Jan., 1880.. - IPSt'oln S ea Terre sth April, 1885. -.. _ Itt e 187 egraph) Aum b 0 , , 4 , _ a . 1908. titnt u p o e t - to 4 Ce nt- 1870 1 , t o Per c e „ . , i . iitt o ~ 91 1 fa ced " .. ISBB looi _ it , oo „e_ Cent Pa l er, 4 per Cent — 1 ° e•,` . • bi t ver Cent lO3l 3 1 April 1864 1121 13k - k, k it t o ditto ; 13 t o ditto Aug. ' _ titto t e lt for Account g. 864 or 66 - tto eind . ... . 14 , , 4 ,,,,, 811,000 8 die - Icii; t wo t n m r 4 er £l,OOO S dis _ _ stq l k:,.. 4 ecount, Jan, 7.. h t Eio ter % t tO p r ,s Account,S per Cent lO6l - oltiO' 1 .. 1 , £l,OOO, 3 per Cent 7 12 6 7dis - Sre a l l X• 500 4 '() 44 4 It EIG - B ri t o X FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 1 til• .13 . "s) 5 per Cent .. ta„ itto 0t,,,,' 6 Der 1859 __, 'N o , 183 9 Cent b. 4 1 p er and 1859 99 f (1 , IN bi tt Cent., 1852-58-60 , 1), ; tl i • 1 . 4 ; ri 6D , 1 8,,63, _.;30 1863 paid 11 dis /I tc t l l ', e er en " ? 1;15 P d knit , 2. rovie _ ~ 1863 i to 11 Per `6r l Land Warrant. t a .i c t i,or V3entDr_nt., Ex. 12, Guilders -•- 11 .6, 4 1 .1 0 7 e i v: c on 7 B o per Ct., Oct., 1863 l e pk se w eel:al:dated, 1 per Cent — 98 i 9 eto 4 t e r C o ljseue . - v b! i t t to o 9 0 %7 101 i:1 1824-5, es-Coupons — 'lto 'tee 48 .' 26k 51 6 1 tit t 4 41 ° lllat 1 1'0 " Per 12 PP ecet nat Cent ' - k b itZ° a e ' C •• 4 ,, ,i 4 e , ce (paremmana Railway) ~w, ,4 °ltet , .... k) .r it r i I,,ltt t to t o..e bri c i , . a . 1 . 5!:: Cent o ,o ttit f ki e s Cent.d Re tit l itt a ) ll4 I'4, B4 ti t t t o AZ Per Cants (Hectares) — 0 1 4 ° (05.1 ant " t • t . t h ° 4, Per ee u 1-1, ve.o ut , 1862.. i lk A ee e eeo 3 4 p n e t ; •..... .............. 86} 003N.111ft.Cent., 1853 — Oto Aeon Cent"i4; ... .. _ 8 Itt 'lB6 t iut - u6, '7l'9, '69 62 4Bi 1 Le ~ t 3 ........ i", ) ; )14; rip.. t pe, v paid.... 4 t4 1 r eeu b it ui t i Per Cent 1822 £St ,titt4 3 0 1850 ' g ki• t° 6 P er C e 1860 b b i N,Per , Ilt., 1859 N i :.tp :t 6 pe r t' 'nt, 1862 hi 'Ph e t , o) Cent Ditto p e 'nt .......... tto Cen t ...... ditto ,44111 at t ry Ac e° Defe r red 5 - 3/ : ti b ll i t 4 , ee l il v tlt . . 47i fi t , 4 4 ei ..?4lit .................... .. - 'LSlieo' l °l CO 4 not funded . b• t to 4 pe rt ... 0,,, A, co u c en , ................ l -3 i jpit'e c i? :It . '................. 4 ~.itt e per B on a. ••• . • 701' iTeztl3eco_uet i„,... itt o "la 3 'lnt . 1 ° 6 2 ... lit A Per • 6 . f.„ ~,..0 . ~, ........... m , ttzi 6 p er ° l t ... "" D• Ac co e4t *) 18.6 „ki 1 ,,, i , Uut . 2 .......... 231 on th ....... : 1 b t111124 414 P erl er qs .... above 5- 51 ttte l Per c e cent E payable in II •, x London . li e h 1 Der C ent , Ex • 25 f. ..... 9 'l b li . %te 4.teneotes,. P e r Cent., ... 64 7 4 * p) • +5 p 'li lt. Ex 25f 991 ' N'' Ae er Cen t • , • "" tzlolateesount. ~ 1864 E . ; . z — • 5 francs.. e, 6 '" . - ... • 2 ',,, Per Cent .... 7°l t " -x 25f — 4',,1, N .,. .tp A '• loz e , . Acc ou i l v t ........ THREE O'CLOCK. 90i 1 ....... ...... ••• 914 HARE MARKETS,---This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STQO.KS, Closing Busineto. lare i Railways. Paid• Price. done. 13.14. t Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. 25 Blythe and Tyne. 10 Bo st. ,Sleat. ,and Mid.Co et Bristol and Exeter st Caledonian 50 Core and Bandon 20 Cornwall 10 Do A (A. .vets no div ' 10 Do. Is . ( pc.pau ha= been paid to B. 50 Dublin & Belfast Juno. 25 Duu.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. at Edinburgh & Glasgow. at Glasg. and S. Western. st , Great Eastern, Ord. stk et Ditto A stock at Ditto East Anglian st st GreatNorthof Scotland at Great Northern at Do A stock at Do I; do at Gt. S. and W. of Ireland et Great Western at Do Str Val gua. stock at Lancashin & Yorkshire at London and Blackwell at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast et Lon., Chat, sad Dover at Lon. & North Western at Lon. & Scvsth Western at Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 50 Maryport and Carlisle. 124 Do # shares... et Metropolitan at Midland (5.4.0 Do New at Do Birming. & Derby 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland 25 Do. 4 shares 26 Mid Keut 10 Do Cray Line at North British at Edin., Perth, & Dundee at Nth. Eastern—Berwick I 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase 11 at Do Leeds 1 at Do York at Do Carliale...... • • 1 at North London 1 0 Do New .16.4 North Staffordshire 1 10 N. and S. W. Junction t at Scottish Central at Scot. N. E., Aber. stook 1 at Do Scot. Mid. stock 1 10 Shrews. and Welchpool at Shropshire Union at South Devon ..... 1 at South Eastern ;t South Wales it S. York. and River Dun I 0 btaines,Wok.,andWok a 5 Stockton & Darlington a Do Do New, 1866 it Taff Vale- .0 Do B 10 Do C ;0 Ulster 8 8] 8 8i 81 R 3 1171 118! 82f 118 25 Do :.10 Do st Vale of Neath st Victoria sta. and Pim st Waterford (4; Kilkenny, st West Cornwall I it W. Hartlepool Har.&R it West Midland —Oxford it Do Newport it Do Hereford BRITISH POS Railways Atlantic tit St Lawrence a - I Bom.,Barodadr.Centlnci Gu. 5 per cent.. 0 I Do. New . ...... I 20 Do. E. Shares.. !O1 Buffalo and Lake Huron a 10 Do. Pretcronoe ...... a. ll3uffalo,BrantotzGoclricl, p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 187 , ll 00 00. do. Jude 1, 16;1 10 at CleuttaAS.Eastn. (Liu:; 10 st Cape Town & Dock Seri} 10 ock Mastn. Bengal gu. sp. , 10 , ock Last Indian. go. 5 p. c. 10 , 20 Do. do. G Ext..... II 20 Do. do. 11 do. .„ 11 ock Grand Trunk of Canada 11a DO Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. al O Do. ao. deferred...... al O Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. al O Do. do. deferred...... al O Do. 3d P, ef. stock ... al O Do. do. deferred...... al 0 Do. 4th Pref. stock... a O Do. do. deferred...... a ok GLlndlaPentn.g-ua.sp.c. 20 Do. New gua. - 5 p. 0.. 20 Do. January, 1862 .. took Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 1 2 04 Gt. W. ot Canada ShareF a, 204 Do. New . 100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. al 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.... al 10 Indian Branch Limited ,ock Madras. guar., sp. o. ' ,ock Do. lip. o. Extension ,ock Dc.4,y d 0........ 20 Do. Fifth Extension. ock slelb.Corp. 6p. c. Bnds 10t 50 Melb. & llobson's Bay. al 00 Do. 7p. c. 3lortg. Bds ali 20 Newßrunswicka Cands Class A and B al' N. Ill.C'da6 pc Ist pi bds twit Soinde .......... (1 ock Do. Delhi +; c 0 Do. do st Do. Punjaub E Do. Do. • • • • • )ck Do. En dns.St. Flo.) COLONIAL U 0 VER. .can.uov. p.c.J a&J al) • 1877-84 ..—........ 100 103 105 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 102 104 Do. dp. o. Mar. & Sept. 100 102 104 Do. p. c. Jan.&July. 100 91 93 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 9: 93 Cape G.Hope, d p 0,1873 100 106 108 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 109 111 Do. 1890 100 109 111 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 112 114 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 106 108 (Natal Gov. 6 per cant 100 107 109 IN.l3.Gov.6p.c.Ja.dtJuly 100 104 106 I Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oct. 10 - , N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 18tit 10 Du. sp. c.,lB‘i to 1'.37( 10 —• Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 10 New Zealand 6 p cent. 10 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 lOl 'Queensland Gcv. 6p. c loi Anti G6p.c.1878.& up lO - .Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&.July 10 Do. 10 6 D.O. A.D.,t00t.. 10 100 102 101 102 101 102 110 112 104 106 1:1 113 111 113 [O7 109 108 j 1091 BRITISH INES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 Id - uhilord Amalgamated.. 33 34 - Deven G. Cone. (Tavist ) 1 550 660 - East Bassett (Illogan) 30 IV 60 1 East Clog - au Gold Ltd. sa. *d par - East Caradon ..... . 7 2.14.6 26 27 - East Carn 8rea....,, - E. W'lltussel (Tavistk ) 8.9.0 46 5 - Gam..kSt.Aubyn(Gwen ) 581 8 10 - Great South Tolgus 17s 4} 41 - G. Wheal Vor (Helston, 4 0 114 ltf - Grenville... 6.16.t 4} 4f - fler;:d's-Foot . 8.12 38 40 • Kingston Downs 4.18.0 n 2f • Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant: 9k 14 16 Marke Valley.. Alyndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 2, 1 If New Setun 9O 100 North Downs lf N.Wh'l Basset(Illoon 3.1.0 21 2f North Wheal Crofty Par Consols (St. Blaze>) !Providence(Uny Lelnt.) 10., South Caradon(St.Cleer; 1; S. Carn Brea (Illogan) Fran. (Mogan) 18.' Stray Park 30.: famar Silv,t Lead Min 4. fin Cron 9 West Basset (Illozan) W Cr radon (Liskeard) 5 West Seto Wheal Basset (Illogan) 51 Wheal 13 uller(Redruth) 5 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0 WhealLudeott Wheal Mary Ann (Men.) 8 WWhheestalt Ttthianwney (Lis.) 'T Wheal Uni0n......... 6; 7 38 10 16 17 94 96 107 109 49 50 45 47 74 84 124 t 26 13,/ 13t 134 136 96 98 63} 64 108 t 109, 71 73 107 109 43 44 1051 100 j 101 102 47} 48i 11 ii 112; 1271 i,28 1i Ilp 96 92:1 51i 621 24 t 6 101 101 58 58i 88 88i 119 121 1 2 p 77 78 11 11& 122 128 42 14 98 100 61 62 Bli 82i 95i 96 97 49 91 lo} 47e 37/ 9 10 D, 168 * 160 P 5 Si p 21 p 83 81 170 175 ESSIONS. Closing Price._ 59 61 [OO 1! 6 IL7 8i 1 p 71 A 1 p II 6 6i 11 ti 94 103 105 101 103 108 109 1064 1076 i l i p 20 21 72 '74 68 61 66 69 50 53 48 61 38 42 26 28 22 o 4 )0 ICB 109 12 1f 1f p 8 1 } lip 105 106 . 91 10 ts 11 10e 11 92 95 11 86 88 2 )0 10 5 } 106 IP , )0 100 101 10 46 100 2 -- 11l 11 57 59 it - - 8 5 [OO 82 84 [OO 106 107 [OO 105 1(6 2 fp all 1041 1054 au lOn i 101 103 MhA 1 6.NeUltlllt,S. A 142 405 18.9 60 65 17.6 80 32 ki k 0 18 19 9 10& 18 20 205 215 87, 92i 224 274 01 1 1i 11f 12 iBf 160 170 17 I 21 4 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 2, 110 Great Western, Chester gua. stock, 79 Gt. Western,West Midland, Oxford, 2d guaranteed tock. London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref 99 NI " 120 Slid. Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, " Ditto, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 137 South Eastern (Reading Anne., £1.0.6), 231 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., Ditto, new, 21 London, Chatham, &c., 6 per cent. 2d pf., 71 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. Nottingham and Grantham R. & C., 96 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (Rm.) gua. 7 per cent., 181 Eastern of France, 19 Great Luxembourg, 11; Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 12 11i Ban Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per sent., bt Ditto (all), 21# 2 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 201 Southern of France, 27# Turin and Savona, Ditto (all), 19# FOREIGN AIDTES. I Cape Copper, lim., 51 Port Philip, 11 1 Don Pedro, Nor. h Lel Rey, 1 United Mexican (lim;, 51. Yudanaxnutana of S. Australia 21 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Agra and United Service (lim.),T3 0i m 0,141 4 Alliance Bank of Lon 4an and Liverpoo l Australasia, 751 5 Bank of Egypt, 251 Bank of utago, lim., 21 Bank of Wales, Rm., 1z Chartered Bank of British COlnnthia, 11 Chartered Bank of India, Australi a , and C hina, 334 City, 1076 Consolidated Bank, lim., 94 East London, lim., 71 6 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 224 34; Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim.), 28 Imperial Bank (lim.), 231 Imperial Ottoman, 14 4 174 131 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lirn., 4a 1 London Bank or Scotland, lim., 76 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 491 London London Candhartered Bank of Aust ra li a , 2 8 County 551 1- London and Westminster, 794 Merchant Bank, 11m , 6; Mercantile and Exchange, Um 141 1 Punjaub, a nd Delhi Wm. 1 , 54 1 1 Union of London, 401 40 Midland Bank (R m.), 84 Oriental Bank Corp oration, 564 Australia, 526 S u c n i ni Union 'of Doctc s. London, 7( A REOLts. MISCELL Ceylon Company, ak Discount Corporation, limited, 7 6i 7.1. 6 , Best India Irrigation and Canal, 4} Egyptian Commercial and Tracing, lirn, 31 Gen. Credit an d Finance of London, int., Hudson's Bay, l2k International Financial Society, Rm. , gi Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cen t . Bon d s, redeni, 1670, issued 90, 86 nu SEM LONDON, FRIDAY EVENINCI, DECESIBER 11, 1863, MISCELLANEOUS —Continued. Joint : stock Discount, -- Ditto, new, sii" London l'inamial Association, lira., 23? ( 1 5 Mercantile Credit Association, lim., 71 2 National Discount Company, lien, 9/ Oriental inland Steam, lim., to Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 831 3 Ditto, new, 50/ 2 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, Ditto (.£4), 4i Van Diemen's Land, 1013 The. People's Theatre —alias the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton, (Trod: the Queen Entering the portals inscribed " box-entrance," we were not long in finding Mr. S. Lane, the proprietor and mana ger of both theatre and tavern, waiting to receive us. Hav ing been kindly treated by this gentleman on a former occasion, I had given him notice of our purposed visit, and the hospitable good-nature with which ho received us made me very glad that I had done so. Ho at once led the way, through the handsome, well-appointed tavern, into the theatre. As we passed the money-taker's place we noticed that the prices were set at the moderate rate of °s. for a seat in the stage-boxes; Is. for the boxes and stalls ; pit, 6d. ; lower gallery, 4d. ; and upper gallery 3d. There is half-price to the boxes, pit, and gallery, beginning at eight and half-past eight o'clock respectively. The performances begin every evening at half -past six, and all is over by eleven. As we passed up the stairs and lobbies leading into the house, we could not help noticing first, the almost unadorned solidity of the building; secondly, the ample width and commodiousness of the passages, affording the easiest means of rapid exit and entrance to the large audience which this theatre is capable of containing; thirdly, the scrupulously cleanly state in which everything was kept ; and, fourthly, the excellent ventilation. These qua lities are, moreover, equally noticeable all through the theatre. The auditorium (as Mr. Boucicault has it) was as fresh and cool at the end of the evening—having been oc cupied all the time by a very numerous audience—as it was at the beginning. The decorations of the lobbies and stair cases are very simple—the brickwork being left quite bare of plaster, Lord Palmerston's favourite stucco, or imitation marble. A few sky-borders (as they are technically termed), imitating umbrageous foliage, and lighted up with coloured oil lamps, are the only decoration employed, and they have a very fresh and tasty effect. Mr. Lane ushered us into a very confortable stage-box, whence a very good view of the audience could be obtained. The reader who hears of the Britannic for the first time, may be surprised at hearing that the salle is nearly as large as Drury-lane, and, that it will hold 4,000 people, exclusive of babies in arms. Nor must it be supposed that these extra little—vocalists, not auditors —make an insignificant addition to the sum of human souls who enjoy their evenings under Mr. Lane's auspices. If their pre sence and numbers were not made everywhere, and at all times, manifest, by the cries and demonstrations around you, the playbill itself must call attention to the important part which they play at the Britannia Theatre. " Person• bringing children," enjoins that document, "must please keep them quiet, or take them out of the theatre; the public complaining of the obstruction to the acting." The audience generally seemed to be composed of what poli tical writers call the lower middle classes, small shop keepers, and the better kinds of artificers, with their wives and families. Comparing this with former experience at other cheap theatres, we saw no ill-manners, heard no chaf fing, saw no symptom even of a brawl or of a drunkard, nor any blackguard smoking a pipe with his coat off. Indeed, if the truth must be spoken, we have seldom seen a West-end audience behave with such uniform good temper and good taste as the audience at the People's Theatre, Hox ton. They laughed when they ought to do, and melted to tears at the proper places. Not once in the evening did we hear the cry, "Turn him out," nor did they even commit the vulgarity so common at more fashionable houses, of cheering and "jollying" the footmen when they came on to clear the stage, a witticism which a West-end audience sel dom omits. Indeed, a greater contrast than between this la:•ge body of decent, orderly:people, and the ramping, roar ing, swearing, swilling, and odoriferous audience of the New Cut, it would be difficult to imagine. The difference between the people who occupied the various parts of the house was not very perceptible to the unassisted vision ; in deed I question whether it consisted of much beyond the willingness of some to pay a shilling and others but six pence. The playbill informed us that "no person" could be " admitted to boxes or stalls unless suitably attired," but I failed to discover any very remarkable standard of suit ability, seeing that cloth caps were as common wear in the stalls as in the pit, and that babies in arms squalled, as if aroused thereto by the biz drum, right under the shadow of the footlights. In answer to a question put by myself, Mr. Lane replied that the audiences by no means came exclu sively from the neighbourhoods immediately surrounding. "Oh I they come from much farther than Charing-cross, I can assure you ; we have families come five or six miles; from Greenwich and Woolwich, and from Hackney and the East India Docks, and sometimes out of Essex." The house itself has a handsome ornate appearance, as well decorated, in every respect, as need be. The lighting comes from a number of small gaseliers, suspended from the ceiling. Mr. Lane recommended us, before addressing ourselves to a careful consideration of the performances, to take a tour of inspection, through which lie vele , kindly conducted us. " Behind the scenes" (that region so fairy like and so desirable to the imaginative young gentleman who has never penetrated it, and so commonplace to all who have ever wandered within its sacred limits) we found everything as like the same kind of thing in the West-end theatre as it was possible to be. The same maze of flats and flies and slots and grooves ; the same kind of car penters (vulgarly called scene-shifters) lurking in the win gs and down in the mezzonine floor; similar fierce• looking neroes, mustachioed, feathered, red-legged and slashed as to their breeches; similar fairies in tights and tarlatans, flit ting and sparkling about. It is true that the latter displayed a little more emotion and surprise at the sight of strangers than the nonchalant young ladies in the employment of Mr. Gye and Mr. Mapleson would have done; but this was, in our case, attributable—at least, so we thought —to the pre sence of our juvenile companion. Girls are so fond of in fants you know. In the painting and property rooms, we found active pre parations already going on for the Christmas pantomime. Masks of grotesque appearance and Dutch -metal glories, intended to beautify the Bower of Bliss, or the Region of Calm Delight, were mingled in profusion with gorgeous sky-borders and triumphal cars of wondrous splendour. Mr. Lane assured us that he was spending £l,OOO upon his forthcoming pantomime, and I have no doubt of it. Nor do I doubt that he will be well repaid ; for the house, when filled, will hold, even at the small prices charged, a hun dred pounds. But the most interesting part of the whole establishment to us all was certainly the large refreshment room on the ground floor. As exemplifying some of the best features of a refectory, intended for hungry people to refresh them selves with good and simple food, and at reasonable charges, I beg respectfully to recommend this to the notice of the lessees of some of our more fashionable theatres. It is true that the shelves were not laden with so many gilt bottles, inscribed with the unpronounceable names of impossible liqueurs, as one is accustomed to see; and I must admit that I missed the attenuated but indurated sandwiches, placed under bell-glasses, as if to make them grow bigg er; and the quarters of pork-pie, and the fossil sponge-cakes and sausage•rolls, and the acidulated drops, and the other undesirable and indigestible condiments to which the West end theatre-goer is compelled to habituate himself. But, as some compensation, there were vast dishes full of hand some substantial sandwiches of beef and ham, neatly made, of capital meat and bread of unexceptionable whiteness. The price of these sandwiches (oneof which would be ample supper for a man of moderate appetite, whilst two would gorge an ogre) is twopence each. These were flanked with freshly made pies of veal and ham ; huge wedges of bread, supporting large slices of rich golden Cheshire or double Gloucester; heaps of savoury polonies, and bushels of apples, oranges, and nuts. I saw no spirits vended in the refectory, and believe that those who want them must go outside the theatre, to the tavern, to obtain them; but the beer engine was in active work, pouring forth potent floods of capital foaming porter and beer, and, for the more ab stemious, there was quite an army of ginger beer bottles with their corks:carefully tied down. THE MEMOIRS OF WEBER, by his son, a work of great interest, published in Germany, will, it is probable, shortly appear in au English translation. PICTURE AUCTION-TRAPS.—On tho morning of the sale—or the attempted sale—about half-an -hour before the official arrival of the auctioneer—a little crowd was always collected on Ludgate-hill turning over the fluttering leaves of the catalogues that were nailed upon green-baize boards at the doorway, or looking at the great picture with which the trap was baited on that particular occasion, and which was displayed so as to catch the eye of passers-by at the single window in front. The greatest part of this crowd consisted of a number of middle-aged men, who were made up to play a part in such a manner, that they ought not to have deceived a child. A ragged-edged yellow collar on a starch : caked yellow shirt, a high black stock worn threadbare at the sides, a well brushed thin black dress coat, and rather shiny black trousers that would bear no violent exercise, a pair of mended Blucher boots, and a pair of ragged cotton gloves, is not the costume usually worn by wealthy collectors of art. Yet these were the highly polished men who were supposed to be regardless of money when a itubens or a r Corregio came in th e i r way, and who, if not investing for themselves, wer e th econ fi dential agents of Lord 3luurbi epe , g, a devoted buyer o f pi ctures, who was prevented by P r e a t r c al Y e s . is from attendi ng personally at the sales. P they looked with th e i r c l ean-shaven, melancholy faces, h f w aces, as if the slightest whi s p ere d i nv i tat i on to a s ubstantial dinner at a snug warm City t avern wou ld h ave thro:n cloud of them off th e i r balance, and have ca use d t h em to fly, like swal lows, from the barr en f eas t o f paint. Inside the auction trap was a sprinkling of eager confederate dealers ; the and four or five porter s , w h o were pro bably "junior part ners, " who looked lik e pr i ze fi g ht er s; and the usual number of "picture agents." As soon as a promising stranger ent ere d the room, it was the business of one of these latter m en to fasten on him, and to explain the beauties and defects of the collection under sale. It must always be delightful to a man of refinement, to have such agreeable guides at his elbow, and to overlook their flavour of onions, t o b acco, and stale clothes, in admiration of their intense a ppreciation of art. There can, of course, be nothing to jar the moss sen sitive nerves in hearing a thick hoarse Spunging-house voice enlarging upon the minute rendering of the crown of thorns, or in seeing a grimed knobby finger half hooped with brassy rings, employed in pointing out the hidden touches of the agony in the garden,. .oick e a s the Year .I?Quitd," just published, LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day, COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before Sir. P. Wilde and ,a Special Jury.) CROWTHER V. CROWTHER AND GRIFFITHS, 49j I 130 if 63 i i i After the examination of several witnesses, the jury re. urned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages, £4,000. Decree nisi, with costs. SECONDARIES' COURT. (Before Mr. Potter and a Common Jury.) SINGULAR SAME IMPRISONMENT CAGE.-BOLTON V. BRYANT. Plaintiff was called and said there was not the slightest ground for charging him with the robbery. He had known defendant for about four years, and believed his income to be about £4OO per annum. The learned Secondary having summed up, the jury awarded plaintiff 41.0 damages. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the Illustrated News.) The will of George Stoddart, Esq., her Britannic Mbjesty's Consul, and a British merchant in the island of Madeira, was proved in the London Court by his two sons-in-law, John Walter Savill, Esq., and David Holland Erskine, Esq., of Portugal, British Consul; and James W. Weldon, Esq., of the London and Westminster Bank, three of the executors and trustees. The personal property in the United Kingdom vs as sworn under £140,000. The testator died at Torquay, Devon, on the 4th of October last, having executed his will in July, 1857, and a codicil in November, 1861. To his wife he has bequeathed the whole of his furniture and per sonal and moveable effects in Madeira, England, and elsewhere, together with " The Quinta," in Madeira, and an annuity of £l,OOO. The silver cup, cover, and stand presented to the testator by her late Majesty Queen Adelaide is to be held as heirloom with the Ballendrick estate, in Scotland, which estate is entailed on his eldest daughter. All other estates and property in Eng land, Scotland, Madeira, the East and West Indies, and in the United States, he leaves amongst his children. The will of Vere Esse Ward, Esq., of Southamp ton, was proved in London by his relict, to whom he has left the whole of his personalty absolutely, and has bequeated to her his landed property and farm ing stock for her life, and upon her decease to their issue ; but if none, then to his stepson and step daughter. The late Mrs. A. E. Ward has bequeathed to the Sussex County Hospital £5OO ; London Hospital £500; Rateliff Charity School, £2OO ; Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum, £2OO ; and the Church Missionary Society, £lOO. THE GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY IN THE STRAND_ —A reward of £2OO has been offered for the capture of the burglars who broke into the premises of Mr. Boore, the extensive dealer in antique and other jewellery in the Strand, on the night of the Bth December. The property stolen consisted of diamond rings of great rarity and value, earrings, bracelets, watches, mosaics, gold chains, cups, and flagons; all of whi2h, in addition to its intrinsic worth, was nearly priceless en the score of antiquity. FLUCTUATION OF FASHION IN REGARD TO WINE. —Rare Lisbon, it has been recently re marked, may still be procured, but the public will have none of it. They ask for Madeira, and get some mixture of sherry ; yet when Madeira was at its best, that same public grew weary of it, because the Prince of Wales had d—d it out of fashion and cursed sherry inta beings la mode ! PERISHED IN THE SNOW. --On the forenoon of M S a a n o k d a a y y , a the drover, de a b d , o b o o g d i n y g t o o f a man, named Tames Edinburgh, was f oun d on Middleton Moor, in the parish of Heriot. The deceased left Edinburgh on Thursday mornin g in charge of a bul lock, which he was to take to Blackhope. I n consequence of the severity of the weather he was unable to take the animal to its destination, and left it at a farm steading. He then proceeded across the moor to give information to the owner of the animal, and further no trace of hint was found until his dead body was discovered lying in a bed of snow on the moor by a shepherd. Tho body of the unfortunate man, who was 63 years of age, was removed to his residence in Edinburgh,-- Scotsman. On Thursday, Mr. Gregory, a surgeon, residing at Youlgreave, near Bakewell, eloped with a young married woman, named Brassington. - The woman packed up all her clothing, and took what money she cound find from her own home. Her husband being a postman from Bakewell to Youlgreave, and being away a good portion of the day, afforded her an opportunity of going away without exciting suspicion. The fugitives were taken in the doctor's carriage to the Rowsley Station, en route for Manchester. The foolish young woman has left four little children behind hen—Sheffield Independent. THE WESTMINSTER PLAY is to be given in the College Dormitory on the 10th, 15th, and 17th instant. The play chosen this year is the " Adelphi," and will be per formed under the management of Mr. Trevor. THE WORK OF PILE-DRIVING FOR THE EM BANKMENT of the southern side of the Thames has been been begun opposite Lambeth Palace. Very shortly it is expected that works will be commenced to recover from the river the land on which new St. Thomas's Hospital is to stand. The Queen's Advocate, Mr. Huddles ton, and Dr. Spinks, were for the petitioner, Sergeant Parry and Dr. Fresham for the respondent, and Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Har man for the co-respondent. The Queen's Advocate stated the case. The petitioner Mr. William Crowther charged his wife with adultery with the co-respondent Mr. William Heckford Griffiths who denied the allegation. The respondent, in ad dition to denial of her adultery pleaded that her husband had deserted her wilfully, and left her without adequate maintenance. Damages were laid at £5,000. Mr. Crowther was an extensive tenant farmer, renting about 1,000 acres of land when he married the respondent, who was the daughter of a wealthy retired tradesman, residing at Hasler, near Hounslow, named Sherborn. The mar riage was solemnised in May, 1855. Mr. Crowther, at the ' time, resided at Somerville Aston, in Gloucestershire, and there was considerable desparity between the ages of the parties, the petitioner being turned 40, and the respondent only 18. There was one child the issue of the mar riage, which was dead. The parties lived on terms of the most perfect harmony until the intimacy Mr. Crowther and his wife came to London to see the Ex hibition, and took lodgings in Grafton-street, and were ac companied by a female friend of Mrs. Griffiths In May, 1862, Mr. Crowther's suspicions were aroused by the constant attendance of Mr. Griffiths at his place, and his coming to London whenever Mrs. Crowther came. On the 27th of May, 1862, Mr. Crowther went with his wife to her father's at Hounslow with the co-respondent. In 1859 Mr. Crowther received a considerable accession to his property, and purchased Weddington-hall and the estate, near Leamington, in Warwickshire, where the parties went to reside during the rebuilding of his house at Somerville, Aston. Mr. Griffiths was a solicitor, who lived at Chipping-Camden Gloucestershire, and who was in extensive practice, having inherited a very large business from his father. Mr Griffiths was what was called a sporting solicitor, and Mr. Crowther, who kept his bunters, and whose residence was distant from Chipping Camden about eight miles, formed an acquaintance with Mr. Griffiths in the pursuit of field sports. On the 30th of April, 1862, an altercation took v lace between them, and they agreed to separate. Subsequently she left her home, and it was not until the November following that it was discovered, through a female servant of Mrs. Griffiths, that Mrs. Crowther had been living with Mr. Griffiths, at his house, up to the 25th of June. The learned counsel then read letters from Mrs. Crowther to her husband to show that they were living on the most affectionate terms. So far from Mrs. Crowther having been left without sufficient moans, Mr. Crowther allowed her £6OO a year, which she actually received during the time she was living in the house of her paramour. Since the marriage Mrs. Crowther's father died, leaving £40,000 to his widow, which at her decease was to go to her abso lutely, in the event of her having no children Tha learned counsel concluded by a very Barnes. and eloquent appeal to the jury to mark their sense of the conduct of the co-respondent, and to show by the amount of damages they awarded that parties could not with impunity invade domestic peace and produce misery where only harmony and happiness had previously existed. This was a writ of inquiry to assess the damages in a false imprisonment case, plaintiff being an attorney out of practice, and defendant a sculptor. Mr. Joyce, for the plaintiff, said that his client had been concerned, for the defendant, in some proceedings in the Lord Mayor's Court. Defendant accused plaintiff of steal ing some money and a ring, and the result was that plain tiff was given into custody, and figured at the station house in the iron enclosure known as the dock. The acting inspector found that the defendant had been drinking, and that his account of the affair would not warrant the detention of the plaintiff, who was accordingly discharged. For the unreasonable conduct of defendant, plaintiff now sought damages. 714 2 1074 8 434_ 1061 5i [Olt 1 1121 111 12 12S 1 71 Business don, sq 106 i 6 101 108 a 107 a 1081 i 106 51 6; [O9l 9 f POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. THAMES. DEAD Dnunk.--William Hind, alabourer, was brough before Mr. Partridge, charged with being insensibly drunk in the West India Dock, Blackwall. John Warrington, a constable in the employ of the East and West India Dock Company, stated that he found the prisoner lying on one of the quays, close to the water's edge in the West India, Dock last night. The prisoner was quite insensible, and smelt very strongly of rum, of which he had imbibed a large quantity, and was to all appearance dead when found. He had great difficulty in restoring the pri soner. Ile had ascertained the prisoner was at work on board the Pusileer, a wrecked ship, which was brought back to discharge cargo yesterday, and spirits were landed from the vessel, The prisoner, in defence, said he was very sorry indeed. The rum he drank got the better of him. Mr. Partridge —You take it like a glutton, and have nearly fallen a sacrifice to your propensity for drink. You are fined .ss, HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—John Grffiths, a seaman, who appeared to have been terribly ill used, was charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself, Archer, a police constable, No. 101 H, stated that the prisoner was knocked down ani robbed last night by two lads who were in custody, and would be brought up on the charge of felony, when the drunk and disorderly cases were disposed of. The poor fellow was asking his way to his lodgings, and the boys, under pretence of showing him the way, led him astray, ill-used him, and robbed him. Mr. Paz tridge regretted very much the sailor had been ill-used and robbed. He should discharge the prisoner. Dennis Macarthy and James Calvert, boys, were then charged with assaulting and robbing Griffiths in Wellclose square last night. They knocked him down and kicked him, and robbed him of his cap, scarf, and 38. or 48. in money. The prisoners, while running away, were cap tured. Griffiths said his ship would sail to-morrow. Mr. Partridge sentenced the prisoners to two months' imprisonment with hard labour. WESTMINSTER. SERIOUS ROBBERY OF A FAMILY.—James Ryan, a youth of eighteen, was placed at the bar charged with stealing a garden-full of linen from the model-lodging build ings, Fulham-road. Thomas Souks, a journeyman plasterer, with a wifo and family, said that on Friday last the linen, which had been washed, was hung out in the garden at the rear of the house. At about half-past seven in the evening he had occasion to go into the garden, and then saw the linen safe. lie immediately afterwards went out, and as he did so he saw the prisoner at the end of the entranee, who was making some remark about the model lodging -houses to some others, as though to divert attention. Witness thought prisoner's conduct so suspicious that he would have gone back to tell his wife to take the linen in, but was so pressed for time as to be unable to do so. When he returned home at nine o'clock he found the garden had been stripped of this linen. Prosecutor here enumerated a vast number of articles of clothing indispensable to the cleanliness and comfort of a family. Last night prosecutor saw the prisoner in company with one of the same boys be had with him on Friday, and gave him into custody. ' Ann Consahause said she saw two lads come from the direction of the garden on the night the clothes were stolen. Mary Ann Gowan said that on Friday night the prisoner was near the prosecutor's, and asked her the way to the model lodgings. _ _ Prisoner--I was not there at all that night. Wm. Hunt, 107 B—l took prisoner, and I found this dress (not identified) tucked up in the rafters of the house where he lives. I asked his father if he knew anything about it, and he said he did not. Joseph MiGrath proved seeing the prisoner near the garden on the night in question. Re observed them last night and called the prosecutor. Mr. Selfe—ls there anything known of the prisoner? Dennis, the gaoler—Re has been in custody before, but has not been convicted. Prisoner—Well, I was here, but I was not done any. thing to. Prisoner was remainded. 3IA RLBOROUGH-STREET. REMOVAL OF HUMAN REMAINS.—THE VESTRY OF ST. PANCRAS AND THE TOTTENHAM• COURT-ROAD CHAPEL. —Mr, Thomas Curtis, the sanitary inspector of St. Pancras garish, applied this morning to Mr. Knox, on behalf of the vestry of St. Pancras, for a summons against Mr. Nathan Woolf Jacobson, of Oxford-street, for unlawfully removing the remains of certain bodies which have been interred in the ground attached to Tottenham-court-road Chapel (once known as Whitfield's Tabernacle), without the license of one of her Majesty's Secretaries of State, as required by the Burial Act, in respect to all places not con secrated. It appears that some years ago the greater portion of the burial ground was levelled and paved over, but a part was left undisturbed till lately when the persons having the control of the place disposed of some of it to Mr. Jacobson for building purposes. In excavating the ground for the purpose of preparing the foundations several coffins have been exposed to view, and a large quantity of human re mains , thrown up. A good deal of excitexnent has been caused in the neighbourhood, more especially as in 1856 a riot took place in the same ground through a number of men being employed in destroying the graves with the view of levelling the ground. The matter has been brought before :the vestry of the St. Pancras parish, in consequence of the complaints of the inhabitants of John-street, Totten ham-court-road, who feel much annoyed at the proceed.• ing, and in consequence they instructed Mr. Curtis to apply for a summons against Mr. Jacobson. Mr. Knox granted the summons. URGING A DOG TO ATTACH A CONSTABLE.—PoIydor Polin, a French cutler, residing at 14, Newport-market, was charged before Mr. Knox with unlawfuily setting on and urging a dog to attack Police -constable George Henry Mayhew, 27 C. Mayhew said that about two o'clock that morning he saw the prisoner with several other persons in Denman street, St. James's. The prisoner had a dog of the bulldog breed with him, and set it on an orangeman. He (Mayhew) was called up by the man to interfere, and as soon as ke did so the prisoner got over some railings and set the dog on him, urging it to bite him. The dog then flew at him and bit his hand, and he had been obliged to go to the Charing cross-hospital to have it cauterised. The prisoner in his defence, said the dog was playing at the time, and flew at the constable. Mr. Knox asked the constable whether the dog flew at him in protection of its master, or whether prisoner set the dog on him. Mayhew said the prisoner urged the dog to attack him, and he was badly bitten. Mr. Knox fined the prisoner 20s. or seven days in defau MARKETS —This Day. MARK-LANE. The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to this morning's market were very moderate. Good and fine samples moved off steadily at full prices ; otherwise the trade was dull, at about Monday's currency. The supply of foreign wheat on sale was by no means extensive. The demand for all descriptions, however, was in a sluggish state, but no alteration took place in the currency. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates. The supply of barley on sale was large, and the t ra d e ruled heavy, at about previous quotations. Malt sold heavily, at barely late rates. With oats the market was very moderately supplied. The trade, however, was far from active ; nevertheless prices ruled firm. Beans met a slow sale, or former terms. For peas, the demand ruled inactive, at late rates. In flour only a moderate business was transacted at pre vious currencies. ARRIVALS THIS VIOL Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flom, English...... 390 no 1330 1 : 480 ..... no x • 9,810 26,250 6,6 80 1040 ska, e,OlO brio, LEADENHALL. at these markets is moderately 1e demand is less active, and the carcase. dad Middling mutton 3 10 4 2 Prime do ..... • . 4 4 4 6 Vea1........... 3 8 4 8 Small pork ....a 4 2 4 6 Lamb ........ 0 0 0 0 NEWGATE AN: _ The supply of meat on sale large. Generally speaking, t prices rule somewhat easier. Per 81b. by Ailed Inferior beef .. 3 0 3 2 Middling do. .. 3 4 3 8 Prime large do. 3 10 4 0 Do. small d 0... 4 2 4 4 Large pork .... 3 6 4 0 Inferior mutton. 3 6 3 8 BOROUGH HOP. We have to report a firm trade for all good and fine hops at fully previous rates. For inferior produce. however, the trade is dull, and the quotations are barely supported. The supply of foreign hops on sale is tolerably largo. Mid and East Kents.. £4 108 to £9 Os per cwt. Weald of Kents ...... 4 10s to 6 ös , 7 Sussex 7, Yearlings Olds . 1 108 to 3 10s ~ Bavaria n 5 5s to 8 043 Belgian American ~ COLONIAL. SunAn.--There has been a good speculative demand, and an advance of is Gd to 2s per cwt has been sustained. Business in the refined market has also been active, at en hanced rates. COVFER.—A good demand has been experienced for colonial descriptions, and plantation Ceylon has advanced to 6d per cwt, TEA.--At the public sales there has been rather more ani mation, and prices have slightly advanced. FRUIT. —The public sales have proceeded very slowly, and prices have again shown a slight downward move ment. TALLOW.—Business has continued inactive. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 40a 9d to 41s, and spring delivery 41 8 9d to 42e 9d per ewt, Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Sales of the week, 32,220 bales, including 5,160 on spec, and 11,370 bales for export. Actual ex port 7,256 bales. Estimated stock, 253,220 bales. Quotations—Middling Orleans 271 ; Upland, 27 ; estimated fair Egyptian, 271; Surats, 12 to 251. Imports of the week, 26,912. Market steady and firmer. Sales probably 5 ; 000 or 6,000. Extraordinary Bigamy Case at Sunderland: At Sunderland, on Wednesday, John Grieve, lately assistant civil engineer to the River Wear Commissioners, was charged with bigamy. The history of the man is somewhat peculiar. In Sep tember, 1856, he was married to Matilda Blench, at Bishopton Church, describing himself as a professor of mathematics, named John Dixon Grieves, and the son of a barrister. He was in fact at this time engaged at the Tyne Docks. After living with his wife a month he left her, and was not heard of till May, 1862, when he wrote from the Glasgow Gaol, asking for a few postage stamps and some letters to comfort him. He soon afterwards obtained his appointment under the Wear C ommissioners. While employed thus in Sunderland, he called at the shop of a Miss Waldie, and introduc,ll himself by saying he knew the late Mr. Waldie, banker of Kelso, and asked if she was any relation. A few days afterwards, Miss Waldie received a l e tt er proposing marriage, in which the defendant said he had never met with any one he could love but her. Af ter a few inquiries she c, n sented, and they were married on October 23. Three days afterwards, he left for Liverpool to ob tain a situation, and wrote several times asking for money, which was always sent to him, till the unfortunate lady discovered that he had been previously married. He was apprehended in Ire land, and on Dec. 3 his second wife received the following letter from him, dated from the Sunder_ land prison :—" Through the great goodness of Mr. Stainsby I am permitted to drop you a few lines. How strange and mysterious are the ways of Pro vidence. Little did I know the last Sabbath that I spent with you that you would be the means of sending me here. I look to the future with trem bling despair. Good heavens! what a situation lam in. The sight of a green field and the great silent sky above it—O I why should it be denied mortal man ? But there is a day coming in the history of man kind--that grand universal inquest when the secrets of all hearts shall be laid open, it will be known then how I was so treacherously betrayed by the Blenches, they drugged my drink and made me quite stupid. They had the licence and the ring prepared. I have no more recollection of that fatal day than I have of the deluge that destroyed the earth. The c;ergyman when he saw that I was stupid with drink, said he had committed a most illegal act in reading the service. The Blenches knew this right well, and they have no claim upon me. I am truly sorry for you ; but you must remember that you are and will be my wife in the sight of heaven. I married you with my will but never any other. I am heavy - hearted, lonesome, and sad. I do not know what to do a long dreary winter in prison. New Year's Day was the day appointed to com mence my situation in Liverpool. Oh, what a change ! lam very hungry ! For the days that are departed will you not condescend to send me a small piece of something to eat ?" A number of witnesses were called to prove that the statement of his being intoxicated at the wedding was entirely untrue, and he was committed for trial. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Dec. 11.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather, with rain. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GrRAYEsEN4, Arrived, D ec . 10—Zephyr , from Gal rid e ; August sng fr om Taganrog; Pander, from New York ; Elizabeth Wright, from Dantsic ; Admiral Nelson, from Guernsey; Anniver sary and Palladium, from Danteie ; Aima, from Gravelines, Sailed, Dec. 10—Cologne, steamer, for Rotterdam; Dol phin, steamer, for Antwerp; Triton, steamer, for Bou logne; Cid, steamer, for Bilbao. A short time ago the drivers engaged in search tng the pool where the Royal Charter broke up four years ago, came upon a very rich store of gold. They found in the same spot, in the course of a few days, about £1,200 in sovereign s and a bar of pure gold, weighing 9Alb., which was br , ught up to London this week. The treasure was far from being exhausted when the storm came on and put a stop to the diving operations for the season. Messrs. Giggs, Bright, and Co. the owners of the vessel, sold, about a year ago, to some persons in Anglesey all claim to the treasure found en the spot, and it is said that the specu lation has already paid 300 or 400 per cent, profit, although the cost of working it is very considerable. CAPTURE OF A LIVERPOOL THIEF.—On the 13th of August, 1862, a robbery was committed in the middle of the day at the office of Mr. S. Hughes, Duke street, Liverpool. A clerk, named Lewis, said a man came into the office and struck him a violent blow on the head with a blunt instrument, rendering him insensible. On s ent to an examination of the premises, a bag con t a i n i ng £219 was missed. The surgeon who attended L ew i s f o und th a t his skull had been nearly fractur e d b y th e bl o w. Th e wasalso 0 en police, however, were afterward s l e d t o d ou b t Lewis's state ment, e and n n the in l ocustody, and subsequently imprisonment. It ascertained that a ma n name d Th oma s Tho mas, who sentenced t h o e n was ine taken was living at a fashi ona bl e hote l i n Covent- gar d en, was mixed up in the ma t ter. A Lon d on detecti ve was this hotel, and f oun d Thomas, w h o was very i ndignant at such a charge, but offered to treat the officer to a Pint of half-and-half. While the officer wasb drinkin g T homas escaped, and was not heard of t w t a . about a fortnight ago, when it was discovered that ho as in e habit of calling in Fleet-str for letters at the Post-office his . eet) London. lie was arrested, and in spite . of _e indignation. he was this time safely lodged in prison.. II was then taken before the and sent to Liverpool magistrates Where he arrived on Wednesday night. LIFE IN A COUNTRY H O USE,Prom the eve of the 12th o everywheren f August i the North , and of the Ist of September else, hundreds of country houses MSC : m ble frequent parties, man., of Which are scarcely with er u t visitors The custom till the beginn ing of th e f o ll ow i ng London sea n. is mainly confided to the British Isles; foans, r, though it is hi ghly app rec i ated by the French, Bel , the law relative to the division of pro perty will always so dwarf the majority of fortunes as to prevent it from eve r figuring conspicuously as part of th e i r social system ; and the amount of wealth and prosperity which it indicates amongst us must be enormous, looking at the style in which things are done. No house where entertainment is the order of the autumn and winter months can be kept going with a less income than £lO,OOO a-year. The different degrees to which things aro well or ill done depends chiefly upon whether the host or hostess (whichever happens to reign) is " understanding" and zealous, or the reverse. The scale aimed at varies but little anywhere. Smaller fortunes of say £4,000 or £5,000 a year, simply entertain fewer paople, and less often ; but everybody gives the same number of dishes for dinner, and champagne each day; everywhere there are carriages drive people out, keepers in readiness, .fc. - 3. There are, it is true, exceptional cases, but they are rare. At Wes" a bachelor, on going t o d ress for dinner, beholds h i ni self reflected on every side in vast sheets of looking glass, by the light of no fewer than 18 wax candl es, which K-- each married couple has a private sitting rono. is brilliantly illuminated both at the fall of day, a again the principal when the party breaks up at night ; editionsot uset and even newspapers are provided for their especialw, at can. astonish postage envelopes are not forgotten ; but h at a placs where 13 d a y s ' fi rst - ra t e co ver -shooting can be ° 1" ? had without going over an i nc h o f gro und twice —Conthill Magazine. THE -GREAT FIRE ON additional YoRKSTIIRE W OLDS. fa particulars respectin g t h e incendiary fire which occ u rred —The following a re n cn Tues,day n i g h t, and greater part o -a- r - , ednesd ay , upon continued burning the g r g IN. 0 ,. ~0 0kr. a , e , 1 1 in the Yorkshire the farm of Mr. T. G t r a e c e k o; I -t 1 , ard contained nine large copings \Vold district. The s ed stacks, common on the Welds. Of —rectangularly-ell t a P 1 barley, and one of ,ono oats are entirety those, two of whea ining five being saved b , d _the ren'a . 3r the efforts of consume , who continued to work up to noon. The the Melton fireinen loss of co r n and straw is roughl • y put down at £ 1.200 to £1,600, t h e property destroy e d b e i ng insured. Suspicion two men who had been at Mr. Green's to beg a tell on t time before the fire, and Police -constable Farrah traced e hor them to the Weld village, Weaverthorpe, where he appro.. handed them in a lodging house, The prisoner s are y oung men who have served as farm servants, but have not been engaged since Martinmas. They gave the names of William and John Marshall, of St. John-street, Burling ton, and are brothers. They state they were travelling the Welds in search of e mployment, and admit having been at Rookdale. The prisoners are expected to be examined at Melton to-morrow. SAVE Us PROM OUR FRIENDS.—" s a yers, the champion Pugilist, is about the worst second that ever crossed the ropes, lifting his man by the hair, or ear, or nose, or where ver he first catches hold of hire."— lilllCS' leper[ of the Great Fiyht. A NEW PARK OF SIXTY Acnas is proposed at Rotherhithe• Foreign Mail Packet List, MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Dec. 19 a Marseilles Dec. Brazil and Cape Verds, by vi an British packet. J. 4. 13 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Dec. 19. via Marseilles Dec. 13, Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dec. 19 via Marseilles Dec. 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Dec. 12. Portugal.... via Marseilles D ec. 6. Malta, Jan. 1 1. Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 12 Newfoundland via Marseill es Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Dec. 9, by U.S. packet.... banadian packet. Dec. 12 W.C. of Africa, M a d e i ra, and Te y n C eride .. Dec. 10. Bahamas, via New Y or k Mexico . ...Dec. 29. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, California. and Briti s h C o l um bi a. Peru, I Dec. 14. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864. FEBRUARY. Lincoln Spring .. 23 MARCH. Nottingham Spring .... 1 Derby Spring 3 Liverpr,ol Shrewsbury Chelmsford Spring .... lb York Spring .... 19 Durham ......... 28 N0rthampt0n.......... 29 AP Croxton-park 1 Epsom Spring MI Chester Salisbury l2 Bath Ju: Ascot Chelmsford 2B I Newmarket Craven .... 11 Newmarket First Spring 25 IY. Manchester Harpenden Epsom rNZ. INe weastle•on-Ty ne ...• F,5; WoroestQr (Summer)" I Nottingham l9 ;UST. lOxford .... 25 Derby Lichfield ........... 30 30 :MEIER. Richmond 22 Monmouth .... Newaiarketf irat October 27 Newmarket July Readin g 11 Egharu 23 York 23 Warwick SEPT] 6 Leicester 8 Doncaster B r econ l9 OCTOBER. Newmarket Second Oct. 10 /Newmarket Houghton.. 24 Gloucester NOVEOBER. Worcester Autumn ~ ...... 1 STEEPLECHASING FUTURES FOR 186 4 JANUARY. Manchester 1 FnnituAßy. Lincoln MARCH. ........ 24 L i ver pool 0000000000 Tog BARTLOW HILLS. —At the ______ the Ar recent meeting of read chgeological Institute Mr. Purnell, the secre t ary , the corres pondence that had passed with the Great Eastern Railway Comp any in reference to the contemplated destruction of these famous grave mounds, The engineer in chief in one of hia letters deprecated the idea that it was ever his intention to injure the hills ; but as in the same two letter oht e confesses his d es i gn to bring the new line between them, we fail to see his meaning. The institute, awaiting the plans and sections that are to be laid before them by the company, took no action in the matter. We may, however, observe that the man who can bisect two adjacent tumuli without injuring them is able to perform a greater engineering feat than has over yet been accom plished. TniEns, it is said, will make three speeches on the discussion of tho address—one on Mexico, one on finance, and another on official candidature. 111: BERRyER intends to speak on official candidatures, and also on foreign policy. A. CURIOSITY HUNTER.—Some days ago, " 5.3 a 'Washington letter, a woman visited the President's Wan.' Skin, cut off a full half-yard from the curtains of one of the windows iu the green room, and made her exit without discovery. Such things have been frequently done lately. —G'ineinnati Enquirer. THE CONTEMPLATED R EDUC TION OF 10,000 MEN IN THE ARMY ESTIMATES for next year will be effected, we understand, by numerous diechirges that will occur, owing to the expiration of the ton years' men's service, en listed in 1853. ALEXANDRE DUMAS has been offered 60,000 francs down, and 10,000 francs a year to write a cookery book. SECOND EDITION. UN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 0 . CLOCK. T HE CONGRESS. Soreral Palls journals remark that the Memoria Dip the luniatiqzte that wn altoaltogether in error in announcing King of Holland had made his Consent to Join the Congress subordinate to the acceptation of the Emperor Napoleon's proposal, by all the States to which it had beon addressed. THIRD-EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK LONDON GAZETTE, —This Evening, Highness tosk his At the Court of Windsor, the Bth 1 dap f u D ,, j e e c s e t m y be i r n , Council. c i p l . re sent, s t d h a e y Qhui his e n it ' s o ya Most H igteeeslBl the Prince Wales was, by her Majesty's command, introduced into At the Court at Windsor, the Bth day p th la e ce P a ri t v i y he C ti o p u p n e c r il e , nd wh of er t e he h ß is oa l r t d o . yal of December, 1863, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty j u Council. This day the Right Hon. Sir William Gi Craig, Bart., th e L or d Clerk Register and Keeper of b the son Signet in Scotland, was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his seat at the Board accordingly. WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 11. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of George Frederick Edmonstone, Esq., late Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West-ma Provinces of Bengal, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath; and of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Robert West Hervey, of the Bombay Staff Corps, sometime General Superintendent for the suppression of Thuggee and Dacoity, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the said Mcst Honourable Court. FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC, 9. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Philip Wwiehouse Currie, Emil., of the Foreign-office, to be an Acting Second Secretary in her Majesty's Diplomatic Ser vice while employed abroad. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Thomas Henry Sanderson, Esq., of the Foreign-office, to be an A ct i ng Third Secretary in her Majesty's Diplomatic: Service while employed abroad. S. The Q ueen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Francis Dutton as Consul in Australia for his Majesty the King of Wurtemberg. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 10. THE PRIAC&O, Kinder Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas William , EBq., to be Master of the Mint for the colony of The names of thoPNB Hong Kong. eu hAo_i‘iEl VALEShave eC GATE,O U been NDCnEIoemL. nominated ted by t CHAMBER,. h.e of p T 4 r e L r ° L i ff is e I v A E L s n q .. E., ' Council of his Royal sheriff of t ehness the Prince of Wales to serve John Michael Williatnesconnty of Cornwall : the office of Thomas Simon Bolit ~,,c;tpCeanerlhayes Castle, Esq, Day PmeyArryßLoepGFr.ricceE, Esq, c. 11. Honourable Artillery Company o f L ' Lon don — Lieutenant Henry Goodevo liowra to no Captain — Ensica Muss Defries to be Lieutenant —Ensign li,. obert Helsham to be Lieuteant—Sergeant Edward Itiontagne to 1 on to be Second Lieutenant—Sergeant John Pope Cox Bb —Sergeant Henry Howard Hayward to be E n °4 Co A" m ' t geant Henry Jervis Alfred to be Ensign. - b er " testy has been graciously pleased to accept the ravergnation of the commissions held respectively by Lieutenant _Ur-chard Dawes and Ensign Fletcher C. Norton. BANKRUPTS The portion of the Gazette containing the bankrupts had not arrived when we went to press. Course of the Exchange—Thi6 Day. Amsterda m . Ditto .... .... Short. 11 171 11 181 Rotter da .. .......... 3 Month!, 12 Oi i 2 01 : m .......... 12 Of 12 01 Antwerp„ .......... 25 70 25 75 Brussels ............ -- 2.5 70 25 75 Paris Hanaburgh .......... 13 8} 13 9 Ditto ............ Short 25 30 25 35 ........ .. 3 Months. 25 70 25 75 Marseilles .......... 25 70 25 75 Frankfort on Alaine.. ...... 119} 1191 TVienna ............ 12 40 12 50 rieste ........... 12 40 12 50 Petersburgh ........ 32 32f Berlin .............. Madrid ... Cadiz ......... 47 4 4Si ......... . ..... 48 1 Leghorn .. 25 90 2.5 48 97f Milan .... 25 92} 25 97/ Genoa .. ,—, 25 90 25 95 Naples Palermo • .. . 25 92i 25 971 Messina sb on Li Oporto 5 21 52A Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per >zo ...... f.. 3 1 527 9 Nlexican Dollar s Silver in Bar s (St andard) 0 0 0 5 South American D ou bl ons 1 0 0 0 0 ... . it 0. and ' rin- Qua the t:ng• I rith and ~ the u iSet ceSS noro e of of illys rest his 181 . t Lies OF the ave sels 11011 vea •om $ of 1041 f 331 3 ~71