The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-04 00:00:00

ONE Y MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The u nsettled condition of monetary affairs shows little signs of abatement. The demand for money B ff atill active, but as accommodation is sparingly orded by the joint-stock and private establish tLetits, the public are obliged to seek what assistance _"7 requir e at the Bank of England. Discounters, '° f act, refus e all aid but to their regular customers, chess ' must even then be short dated and first therefore, No quotable rate for the open market can, its e e refore, be given, and at the Bank of England as the movements of the directors are so erratic Bta preclude any quotation being given for that stablishment, although the official minimum is still Per Cent e : rile Bank o f E ngland returns published l ast ft : rl , i ng, for the week to Wednesday last, very reflects the unsatisfactory position of affairs itt the discount market, chiefly occasioned by the e xhibit Withdrawals of gold. The other securities duceau increase of more than £1,150,600, while u e B , t ; D ek of bullion has been very considerably re d4,..eeut as also has been the reserve of notes. An nexed are the particulars : Active Circulation .. n 1,022,625 sull ln • • • • • • .. 517,415 13,048.475 Decreas • •• • • .. 319,857 —est (3 •• •• • • , 3,184,193 coterie:• ▪ ablicDeposit;* 17,158 7,234,894 Increase . 194,360 'then Deposits.. 12,924,545 Inc rease .. 12p34 ' p en Day and other Bills .. 663,107 n Incre ase ** • • 14,065 uovernntent Securities .. 10,710,330 alteration. Oth er securities No 21,173,559 Increas e 1,150,673 , N° Increase Unempl o y e d 6,061,760 'PL e Decrease 762,270 tei 4 e re Was a further withdrawal of 163,000 sove- A ,Rns fr om the Bank yesterday for exportation to ''Lezan dria. 1) „, ` lr ing the l as t f ew d ays t h ere h as b een l ess e xhibited in the Foreign and Colonial Pro z:ce Mark ets. Sugar has in some measure b een 4 O li eet ei, and a cons id era bl e quan tity announ ce d 8 Public s a l e h as b een w i thdrawn . C o ff ee h as i n f ctna instan ces so ld f or rat h er eas i er ra t es , w hil e °l tiers of r i ce have demanded fu ll y l ate pr i ces. In 44 and spices the operations have not been very v eltet tsive, while tho tallow market has continued . 4 3' dull, with a slight downward movement i n Priem Two O'CLOCK. The proprietors of the London Bank of Scotland held a meeting to-day for the purpose of applying to Parliament for power to issue bank notes in S cotland. Si: John Hay, Bart., M.P., presided, ri nd the necessary resolutions were carried. It was stated that the bank commenced business on the 2d . e vemlser last, and that its present operations were gel s as to enable the directors to anticipate a great m osses. 4 better feeling is evidently now being mani ;e!ted, and symptoms of buoyancy once more pre -4'llu all the Stock Exchange markets. Th ere i s littlel,. r eason to doubt, how ever , th a t t hi s fi rmness 4 111 not be of l ong d urat i on , an d t h at i f money i °4l (l becom e d ea r er ano th er revu l s i on w i ll be of 4t , tle esed, Th e E ng li s h F un d s ex hibi t no change ' ln Portanc e , though early in the morning they m er e Ratt er. A few transactions have, however, 1 0 1 18 ',"ed strength to quotations, and Consols are h for money, and 907 91 for the account. The Threes and the Reduced Annuities are 89,1 oul; India 5 per Cents, 1061; do. 4 per Cents., Mt, 4 , () :, 5 Per Cent. Enfaced,ll3; the Debentures, 99/; ;the Bonds, ss. dis. to 2s, prem. uses is Stocks are rather active, and more firm (,,,,88 is perceptible in values. Turkish 6 per ints., 1862, are 69 4 ; ditto Cmisolides, 44a i;xican,33i; Ureek, 25 1 ; ditto Coupons, 11 ; Spanish Passive, 32' '1 ; Certi fi cates, 121- 13 ; and a, 471 48 1; ditto Scrip, par prem. ; the C on f ederate li Loan is 48 52. i nae usiness in the Rail way S hare M ar k e t h as b een Liv,tive• b u t r pri ces show rather more firmness. Forth eashi and York s hi re , N ort h W estern , an d 44t ti Eletern (Bet wick), have each advanced 55.; depi• Met roPOlitan, 10s. ; w hil e S out h W estern h ave t i ned B s. b o ' he Foreign an d C o l on i a l li nes ex hibi t l i ttle or 4ti atioti in values. It t4 4l ' l shares continued flat English, Scottish, k et Australian Chartered have declined to 221; i.t°Politan and Provincial, to 21i; Oriental 4 , 4 ' to 57; and Union of London, to 39/. tioti"kthe Miscellaneous Market Discount Corpora and y4"B i m pro v ed to ; General Credit, to 68, , 4'cinclen Financial, to 23/ I-. 4tIetZLITISII FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. A -,-.onds, 5 per Cent .. 'atil t s,-uitto •1859 . ,0 0 , !, Per Cent, ...... „ „.,... p • -90 gW . 991 , ',Per lteduced'Annuities ' 00 1 i i N,4, a :11..t... Consols Anntiitles . ~ - 89/ 90i 90 't i ;,,eoz per Cent. Annuities ' ' • Eie w 2 1 Per Cent. Annuities * Per d Per Cent. Annuities,.. • AQ44ln..,Annuities, Jan. 1873 -bit, le f s ) 6 0 yrs, expire 6 - th Jan., 18 1 8 8 0 8 . 5 / bitt() for 3° expire sth Aug. - ft B ‘..•ed Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. -a- Di,tt o A t° e } r 1871 — Duitt o - t P e t Cent. 1870 itt o ' Per Cent. 1888 ... 1 00 i Ditt b itt e ° Per Y4llEteCent ed Paper, 4 per Cent .. bitt ° 5 i Per C ent 113 - I , tto Ditto ditto A pr il , 1864 99k i -.-, 1-3, ditto ;Aug.B64 or 66 Ditto, "1 t)" D. 5 dis 2 pm , rider tl' (Znit Stock for Ai°°° ott . n . ; 5 dis 3 inn .... I•ct-,Ns for ikeeo..'ee ktelhaeBcmtoeksfor9oh 1 90i t i „ er zon An.elleto,tmjatn;s 7... Cent.... —.. .. 6 ) £l,OOO, 3 per Can t.... 8 dis /3i;tot° Stull £ 50 0 .. -- 5 dis kar'lt?ltlGlsT FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. uit i t i Per Cent 1)1° ' 18:39 A , and 1859 to '1 Per Cent 1852-58-60 ~ ,bi tt , Ditto 1863 .. ttl e „2 ocrip, 1863, £3O paid bi't:Ja Ayres 6 per - Cent _ Ditt o Ikeecnul l• • • l i t . 0 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 36 k.., 144 6 Per Cent h r , br'' 4l l 7 pet Cent 971 8 1 i q t Itte, Second Issue fl it per 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — toi,!t Account --qto Coupons _ I, ' uitto Account lli 11 / a A l latemala 5 per Cent . t/ L. itto Account -- • • bjBiittn 5 per Cent.(Maremutana Railway) q mean '3 per Cent 33 i 2/ 3 2I 31 ; Oitto Account Isrtrish Imperial 5 per Cent 13i ,\'' Granada at.to 2 per Cent. ~,"0 Deferred 4. 4 l ", ii t c' Land Warrants (Hectares) b it Ztn 3 per Cent. b - i i 3 O Account t° / per Cent., 1862 ** t, IN A 85 4} 5 o r , ccount Iptnes e 3 per Cent., 1853 bilkit Account .. it, ° 3 Per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — t o . 48 1 72 8 bi tt - .•ecount ... 4, t t 0 44° 1 , 186 3 ......... 1 14 i4 - 'oerip, £lO paid.... bi t , 4 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St — D 4' 4 )4 per Cent 1850.. I l itt a ltt° 1860 — Ditto - Per Cent., 1859 • • 4041 el4i: SerePr Cent, 1862 B6l / I Cent ....... Da • ''' .41 Ac,•o i l k ,t, 3 , unt l ift Per Cent bill? it eMunt i t , ) itt"' I\l A ew Deferred ,i. ° ...tee/ .--. ,to runt d itt o ,, ' A .8 11 Vb i'illifil 41C OUnt . 32 11 2 0 1 .' 1 (, e-4 • , not d — ;le c.) A,,, 'of Coup 'uncle t, e(li g h ,fount l2l I !3 'riti ' ' Per Cent .qt ll , Ditto 4,der Cent. 1854 -cunt b . G , , itt, Per Cent 1358 ' ) itt 4 9eount b. % A' i 76 b?tto -i () Londe Oto Per Cent 1862 I ,ltt o p punt. 631 i 9 ; 11."ictto "c i P: 4 s. ' , Cent. ~. z051,,.":.4t1eed, 4 per Cent. . •• -- -'itt, A ' '' Per Cant. ,tt,',-ccnant .......... , 0 iiiLto t'APer Cent., 1862 b''' , -%unt I ‘ , .,ti. , s Lnos on the above payable in Loudon. D u ail 4 Per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. R t e') / Per C , Ditto' I)" Cent • Ex. 25f. ~ l ' ~ -Ex. 12 Gull t!) A It p©r Cent. Certificates I t 'N o tlites, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f --- M i„, ie ecant.l . 0 ~ Per Cent., li;11, Ex. 25 francs 7O; l. () , .4 , 1 01 . , THREE O'CLOCK. Li t -, 4 0 , 0 , a ‘‘, A _ _ J' :io ''''''CQUiat .............. SHARE MARKETS.---This day. Share' Railways. Paid. 13.14.' lair., Wol., and Str. Val. Illy - the and Tyne. IBristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall A gets no div Do A ti II 6p c.p an.lias Do. B been paid to B. Dublin Z.; Belfast June. ,Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. , Edinburgh & Glasgow.; I Glitsg. and S. Western.; Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthol Scotland Great Northern... Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an 1 W. of Irelano (Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock , Lancashlze & Yorksh icy !Loudon and Blackwall Lon., liright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lou. & North Western Lou.. & Scr.th Western. Shef., & Lincoln., Maryport and Carlisle. Do a shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birminz. t Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kert Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwtok Do, G.N.E. purahabe Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle.. ,North London I Do New 'North Staffordshire IN. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Soot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welclipoo, ,Shropshire Union !South Devon.. South Eastern ;South Wales 'S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,an d Wok. Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1861. Taff Vale. . Do B Do C Ulster Do Do !Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall VV. Hartlepool Har.&R 1 West Midland -Oxford, Do Newpor Do Hereford I 8 81 _ - 8 8i 81 83 B 7 118 61 7 38 10 16 17 £4 96 107 9 48i 49i 45 4 71 K 5 127 J3J 731 13-1 136 99 101 ti 3 (31 1071 1081 71 73 10 111 14 (5 1(41 1041 101. 102 47 43 112} 114 1264 27 ; 1i lip 96 98 52 63 24 t 6 1002 101} 58/ 69 881 8,) 119 121 1 2 I , 77 78 H )1i 124 126 42 i 4 98 100 (9.15.4 51 52 31 92 P 5 j 12.10 97 SSI 10 :0j ;,7i 372 9 10 I, 7i 7 2 158 IN 5 52 2f Si p 8.5 88 170 175 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOurtS. Closing 1 Business I Price. done. 82 117& 49 131 304 63 k I k 1084 8 110 9 104} 1011 471 1 114} 113 f f 12/ 1:101i 101 l 1 88 i 772 7 95 g BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing 4 h an Railways Paid. Price. Business dont 1 )0 ktlantio &St Lawrener all 60 t 3 Sk Bom.,Baroda&.Centlno lot, 1051 1061 106 Gu. 5 per cent. 20 Do. New . ...... 8 6 I p 20 Do. E. Shares. 204 Buffalo and Laxe Huron all 61 64 10 Do. Preference WOBullalo,Bt,&Godncl 1 ran ... 10u p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 18,2 100 Do. do. July 1, 187:1 100 100 Do. do. June 1, liC, 100 at Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (I.m. 100 103 105 st Cape Town & Dock Scrii 100 101 103 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. 100 1071 1081 stock East Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 lt 66 1,7, 106/ 174 61 20 Do. do. G Ext lO 1 14p 11 20 Do. do. H do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada Rai 20 21 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 73 75 731 100 Do. ao. deterred.-- all 60 63 100 Do. 2d Pret. Bonas all 66 69 100 Do. do. deferred all 50 53 • 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock 100 Do. do. deferred...— all 38 42 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred all 23 26 stock GlLlndiarentn.gua.sp.c 100 1071 1081 108 71 20 Do. New gua. sp. n l2 14 nit 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 11 Itp stock Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1(41 1151 "a Gt. W. 01 Canada Share, all 91 10 9; 20 4 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 9! 95 100 Do. 51 p. a. do. '77-8.. . all 86 88 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 49 stock Madras. guar., sp.c. .. 100 105 196 stock Do. 11 p. o. Extensiou 100 100 101 1001 stock De. 4A d 0........ 100 06 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stock )telb.Corp. ap. o. Trod, 100 50 Melb. & Ilobson's Bay. all 57 59 100 Do. 7p. Bds. all 20 N ewlir at:smelt aCanak Class A and B. all 3 5 N. ItlC'da6 pc Istptbas 100 82 84 4tor Scinde (106 105, 1061 1051 stock Ito. Delhi.. lqw i 100 1t45 105, to Do. do at Do. Punjaub ce all 1(45 1051 Do. Do. ........ , stook Do. Indua.St. Flo.) X loo 101 103 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIEs, - k.,an.(iur. 0p.0.J aad of) . 1877-84 j Do. 6p. c. Feb . . .t Aug 100 102 104 1014 Do. 45 p. c. Mar. & Sept, 100 102 10* Do. Ep. c. Jan.&July. 100 91 03 911 2 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 92 93 Cape G.Hope, 6p c,lBn 100 108 110 Do.Ap & Oct. 1886 100 109 111 - i Do. 1891 100 109 11l 109/ ; Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 112 114 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p t 100 110 112 111 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 146 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cent. 1)0 R 7 109 - N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. a.StJ u ) 100 104 led ; Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 186, 100 100 102 Do. Sp. e.,18,1 to 1,7 t 100 101 102 Do. d0.,1888 & upwd* 100 101 102 1011 - New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 'Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.' sterling,, 1875 lOO 104 106 Queensland Crev. 6p. c lOO Cl 113 tB. Aus G6p.c.1678.& up lOO 112 114 - .Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 107 109 -- DO. 10 Sox. An.dlot.. 100 108 _lO9 1 1081 8 BRITISH MINES. - 2 ;Cambrian qop,soi. Gt?l4 • I I. Id uhllord Amalgamated — 23 ; 21 Devon G. Con.. Tavist , I 545 655 East Baseett(lllogan) 3O t 7 60 t 1 !East Clogau Gold Ltd. 53. Id par. East Caradon' East Cam 3.4. 0 GT 7 4 E. WlRussal(Tavistk.,i 8 9.0 4 41 • - Gam..&SLAubyn(Gwen.; 58 11 13 Great South Tolgus l7s 41 41 'G. Wheal Vor (Heiston 40 114 Ic4 Grenville 6.16. t 41 5 t1er2.4.1' s- Foot 8.12 19 41 Li ingston Downs 4 . 18.0 11 21 !Lady Bertha I Margaret (tiny Lelact 9A 16 i 8 NI ark e Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lim ; 21 11 New Setun l9l 90 100 • North Downs '4l 15 2 Baaeet(lllo4aD 3.1.0 21 3 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey . 20 t Providence ( Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 13 15 g ot ar h n e l f r a e d a o=C a l n er 11 415 125 . Fran. (Mogan 18.1 11 .9 60 65 - ;Stray Park 30.17.6 34 36 5 famar Silv.& Lead 61in 44 4 1 fin Croft 9 181 19 West Basset (I llogan) l4 10 11 W Cr radon (Liskeard, 5 22 24 West &ton Wheal Basset (Mogan; 51 87, 924 Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 221 271 f Wheal Kitty (ILLelant) 2.0.8 WhealLcdLott • Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) 8 114 121 Wheal ileton . . 581 170 180 Wheal Trefavvney (Lis.) 7 191 201 !Wheal Union 3.17 21 34 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., 116 Great Western, Chester gua. stock, 786 7 1' London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 97 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext 13,6 per cent., Ditto, 6 per cent. C. Bt6 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Hull and Selby, 112 Nottingham and Grantham R. & Q, 96 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 8,1 Bahia and San Francisco (Inn.) gua. 7 per Oent., 18j 17 18 Great Luxembourg, lii Sambre and Meuse, 81, San Paulo . (lim.)o.lua. 7 per cent., Ditto ( s ail), 2l Turin and Savona, Ditto (all), lit FOItEIGN MINES. Don Pedro, Nor. h Del Hey, t I United. Mexican (liin;, 51 6 Si a Yudananiutana of S. Australia (lim.), 2i JOINT-STOCK HANKS. Alliance Bank of Lon a m and Liverpool (Um.), 441 - Ditto, new. 21 Anglo Austrian, 7 j 6j- 7j Bank of London, 15Ij Brazilian and Portuguese, urn., 7j Consolidated Bang, Urn., t) Continental, lira., 101 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 23 21 3 Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim.), 27& j Imperial Ottoman, 161 17 j 17 j London and Brazilian aim.), 51j London Chartered Bank of Australia, 2E4 71 8 London Joint Stock, 37j 61 London and South-Western (Um.), 13j Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 21k National of Liverpool, limited, 151 National Provincial of England. 133 Oriental Bank Corporation. 57 Seinde; Puujanb. and Delhi (lim. ) , 5 7 6 51 6 Standard of British South Africa (limo, 221 3 Union of Australia, 521 3 Union of London, 391 j MISCEL LANEOUS. British Indian Tea, lira., 2i; Crystal Palace, ?i6 5 Discount Corporation, limited, 7 4g East India Irrig-ation and Canal, 4i Gen. Crt dit and tit - lance of London, lint., Iludson's Bay, 12 *l2 International Financial Society, lira, 9i 8Z- Italian irrigation (Curial Cavour), 5 Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1670, issued 00,185 Joint stock Discount, 61 London Pinannial Association, lira., London General Omnibus Company, litu., 2i Mercantile Credit Association, Lan., :t National Discount Company, Um., 91 Oriental Inland Steam, Rm., 2 Peninsula and Oriental Steam 84 Ditto, new, 52a 2 2 , Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 271 Scottish Australian Investment, lira., 144 THE RAILWAY BRIDGE now being. constructed on the east of Southwark Bridge and intended to carry trains into Cannon-street, is to be widened. TIM SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1863. CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day,) OLD COURT. BURGLARY. Charles Wright, aged 28, fitter, was indicted for bur glariously entering the dwelling-house of David Lyon, Arundel-square, Islington, with intent, &c. On the 28th of October the prosecutor and his wife were awoke from their sleep by hearing a noise of breaking of glass, and soon after they heard the window on the landing raised, and afterwards shut down again, and then some one proceed down stairs. On the prosecutor getting up and proceeding to the drawing-room he there found the prisoner hiding behind the sofa. The prisoner had not, owing to the rapidity with which he was followed, time to remove anything. A police-constable was sen for, and he was given into custody. The prisoner's defence was that he was so drunk that he did not know what he was doing when he entered the prosecutor's house. Ho furthet said it would be most ridiculous fur him to have entered the house without lucifer matchw if he had intended to have committed a robbery. The jury found the prisoner guilty. No former conviction being proved, The Itec3rder sentenced him to nine months' imprison ment with hard labour. FELONIOUSLY WOUNDING. Daniel Henwright was indicted for feloniously wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The prosecutor and prisoner belonged to two factions, the prisoner being a Kerry man and the prosecutor a Lime rick boy, and on the night of Oct. 17 there had been some quarrelling between the prisoner and some women lodging in tilt house in which the prosecutor lived, in one of the back streets in Poplar. At alyiut half-past 8 in the evening mentioned, prosecutor was sitting in his room at supper, when the prisoner entered, and, without the slightest ob servation, struck him on the head with a hammer. On his turning round to see who struck the blow, he saw the pri soner, who struck him again violently three times on the head. He became insensible, and on recovering, he found himself in Poplar Hospital suffering from a circular fractured wound on the back of the head of a very dangerous description. Mr. M. Williams for the prisoner, said the present was only ono of those ordinary Irish scrimmages so common in the localities inhabited by natives of the ErneraH Isle. The learned Judge said—Supposing it was so, he never beard that in either Ireland oz England was a hammer invariably used as an instrument of defence. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The Recorder sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment. A STOPPER FOR " CIVIL JOE." Joseph West and Susan Palmer were indicted with having in their possession a quantity of property the produce of a burglary, well knowing it to have been stolen. The prisoner West was suspected, and on the police proceeding to his lodgings a pat of the stolen property was found, and the only account the prisoner gave of it was that ho bought the coat and boots of a man in the Seven dials, The Recorder said there was no evidence against the woman. The jury, without the least hesitation, returned a verdict of guilty against West, and acquitted the woman. On it being asked by the Recorder whether anything was known of the prisoner, A police-constable said he had been frequently in custody. About eight or nine years ago be was in Parkhurst Prison for uttering counterfeit coin, but before the expiration of his sentence ho committed a violent assault upon one of the warders of the prison, for which he was sentenced to a further 18 months' imprisonment. The next time he was in custody was for stealing some pieces of cloth, the property of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, for which he was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. In addition to which he had been in July, 1861, sentenced to two years imprisonment, but shortly after his admission it was found necessary to send him to the County Lunatic Asylum, from which he escaped, after he had attempted to commit suicide by cut ting his throat. There was another conviction against the prisoner, for which he was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour. The Recorder—Then during the last 12 years he has been in prison no less than six years ? Police-constable—Yes, my lord. The Recorder, addressing the prisoner, said it appeared that short terms of imprisonment had been totally without effect. For the present offence, ho should sentence him to six years' penal servitude. The prisoner, who is known amongst the thieves of the metropolis as " Civil Joe," ..on hearing the sentence, gaily turned on his heel, and afterwards hopped down :he dock stairs in the most jaunty manner. SECOND COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) FELONIOUSLY WOUNDING. Catherine O'Brien was indicted for cutting and wounding Thompson Edward Downs, a sailor. The prosecutor, about 1 o'clock in the morning of the 15th of November, was wandering about a notorious place in Poplar, called Parker's Folly, where he met the prisoner, whom he asked where he could get a lodging. The prisoner, who was drunk at th • time, took him to a house kept by a woman of the name of Williams. When he wished to leave the prisoner detained his coat, in the pocket of which there was 4s. 61, and a struggle ensued, and the landlady of the house hearing the disturbance went out and found the prosecutor bleeding from a wound behind the ear, which the prisoner admitted to have done. The wound was an exceedingly dangerous one. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The Common Sergeant sentenced the prisoner to 18 months' imprisonment. Attempted Murder in Berkshire, and Suicide of the Murderer. MAIDENHEAD, Thurbd ay. This town has just been the scene of an attempted mur der of the most atrocious description, which, though hap pily not terminating in the, death of the intended ,victim, bee been followed by the suicide of the intending murderer. The circumstances .e.re .briefly these :—A young:-man, 22 years, of age, named George Hooper, a native of Burnham, in Buckinghamshire, ab ou t th r ee miles from this place, was employed as, coachman and groom to the Rev. Mr. Gresley, incumbent of All Saints' Church, Boyne Hill, whose name will be remembered i n connec ti on w ith certain charges brought against him of alleged ultra-tractarian practices a year 9r two since. This young man was attached to a girl. named Lydia. Eliza Baker ) a housemaid in the service of Captain Fyfe, adjutant of the Berke Rifle Volunteers, who resides at Folly Hall, immediately contiguous to this town, but his passion was by no means reciprocated, the young woman having repeatedly told him that she was deter mined not to have anything to do with him. This seems to have determined him to take revenge upon the unfortu nate girl, and on Tuesday last, between 11 and 12 o'clock, he went to th e s h op o f M r. E Awar d Th omas, gunsm ith, in Maidenhead, and requested to look at some pistols. He selected one, and having asked the price, which be was told was 165., took it away with him, saying it was not for him self but for a friend, whose approval he must have before purchasing it. Having promised Mr. Thomas that he would i o n r g o t o o t e b t o ti w i n k t n t o o w a w n o h t e h t e h r e r e h h o i h friend ept callwould h again theve n th e pistol by Mr, Gurney, and bought some percussion caps, He then returned to his situation, at Boyne Hill, where he asked the butler for some powder and shot, observing that he wanted to try a pistol. • The butler said, if he wanted to try a pistol, he should have bullets, but nevertheless supplied him with the powder and shot as requested. The same evening between 9 and 10 o'clock, he went to the house of Captain Fyfe, and obtained an interview at the back door with the object of his affections in the presence of her fellow-servant, the cook. Some conversation took place between them, and Hooper begged her to reconsider her refusal of bite, but she repeatedly declared that she would have no more to do with him. He then asked her to accowpany him to the front gate. This she refused, however, and wished him good night. She was about go to into the house, when Hooper, exclaiming " Then take that," discharged the con tents of the pistol into her neck, and she immediately fell back into the cook's arms, crying out " I shall die." Hooper decamped instantly, and went to the Red Lion Hotel, where he asked the landlord for a bed, which, how ever, he was u na bl e t o o b ta i n, t h e h ouse b e i ng f u ll . I n t h e meantime Mr. M'G raw, super i nten d ent of the Maidenhead borough police, had been apprised of the circumstances, and he at once proceeded to Burnham, the residence of Hooper's father, thinking to find hiss there. Not succeeding in doing so, he returned to Maidenh ea d and there learned that the body of th e mur d erer had been found on the moor, a piece of waste ground near the town, he having literally blown out his brains. Dr. Pim:rare had in the interval been summoned to attend the unfortunate young woman, who, it was at first thought, could not possibly survive, but she has since recovered her senses, and hopes are entertained that she will recover. The coroner's inquest on Hooper will be held this day (Friday), when it is expected some impor tant additional evidence will be given. SHIPPING—This Day. -----o-- LONDON, Dec. 4.—Wind this day at noon —South- West ; moderate breeze and fine weather. CLYDE, Dec. 3.—Wind S. W.—Arrived—Julia, from Quebec. Al ILFORD, Dec. 4.—Witid W. — Arrived—Aluber Witch, how Madras for Liverpool. Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PLYMOUTH, Friday, 10 30 fk.rn. The weather has moderated—wind westerly, fie, Ma jesty's ship , Black Prince (41), Capt. Wainwright, is now proceeding from II amaze into the Sound. The steamship Hyd a spes, trout London, will probably leave the Sound to day, for the Cape and Calcutta. 11 A.M. The ship North of Liverpool, with loss of rudder, is now coming into the Sound. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. • No arrivals. Sailed—Dolphin, for Antwerp. DEAL, Friday Morning. Passed—Marian, screw steamer, trout Loudon, for Forms. Maxwell, trout Calcutta, riding close to the Goodwin Sands, having- cut away her mizentnast, and during the night cut away her mainmast, is now riding well, and weather very moderate. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST Two RESPECT , ABLE PERSONS.-Mr. Wm. Winchester, tailor, of Mad dox-street, Regent-street, and Mr. Charles Edmonds, of Brown street, Ed g ware - road, were charged before Mr. Knox with stealing from the person of Susan Stroud, a licensed hawker, of 5, Selby-mews, Portman-square, the sum of 4s. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, ap peared for the accused gentlemen. The prosecutrix said that on the previous night while on her way home through Oxford-street, Winchester seized hold of her and Edmonds grasped her dress, and then ran away, and she missed 4s. from her pocket. Winchester would not let her pursue the other man. On a policeman comiog up she gave Winchester into custody, and subso gum, ly the other. _ _ _ Mr. Lewis cross-examined the prosecutrix in a most searching manner, and at considerable length, in the course of which she admitted that she had been in custody twice charged with felony, and several tunes for being drunk, but said she was not convicted. She might have been iu cus tody other times, but did not remember it, and she was always being looked after by Sergeant White, of the D division. She had never been charged with robbing chil dren of their clothes. She did not know what felony meant without it was stealing. She had been to see a respectable servant home, and had two pints of ale with her at a public house, and stayed till it was closed. She did not know whether her friends paid the person she was once charged with robbing the money that she should not appear—but she did appear, and she was discharged. She thought the man who grasped her dress and took her money was like Edmonds. Benjamin Leadsmen, 83 D, said on going to the spot he found Mr. Winchester held by the prisoner, and she at once charged him with stealing 4s. from her, saying that he held her while the other grasped her dress and took the 4s. out of her pocket. Ho told Mr. Winchester that he had better go to the station, and subsequently the other prisoner charged was given into custody. In answer to Mr. Lewis, the constable said he knew the prosecutor for years, and to be out late at nights. He had found Mr. Winchester to b 3 a master tailor in Maddox street, and a highly respectable person. Mr. Knox said it appeared to him to be an impucl3nt lie got up by the woman ; she could not have known how much she had lost, as the constable found her holding Mr. Winchester when he came up. He should discharge both the accused, who would leave the court without the slightest stain on their character. Mr. Edmonds said that he had never seen Mr. Winches ter before he was given into custody. The accused then left the court. STEALING MARKED MONEY.—SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY. Samuel Knapp, a young man in the employ of Mr. John Fletcher, baker, 12. Nassau -street, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing some marked money from the till of his em ploy cr. From the evidence of Richard Aylett, 192 C, it appeared that, about 11 o'clock the previous night, he went to Mr. Fletcher's, and in consequence of what Mr. Fletcher in formed him, he marked a quantity of money, consisting of threepenny and fourpenny pieces and copper, and placed it in the till. He then concealed himself in a kitchen level with the shop, and, some time after, he heard the shop door close, and on stepping from his hiding-place and asking the prisoner what he did there, he replied " Who are you ?" Having told the prisoner he was a police constable, he asked what money he had about him, and on his turning out the contents of his pocket, 55. 4id. in marked money was found upon him, which the prisoner admitted was " the governor's." H e th en too k h i m i n to cus t o d y , an d on searching his bo x h e f oun d a b ag c ontaini ng 7 s . wor th o f farthings and sev en pots of jam. Mr. Fletcher said that he saw the constable mark the money produc e d. I t was t h e pract i ce t o l eave t h e coppers and the thr eepenny and fourpenny pieces in the till all night, and it was in consequence of money being continually missed that he communicated with the police. He believed the prisoner had been systematically robbing him. Remanded. THAMES. A DESPERATE OFFENDER.—MichaeI Lynch, a well known thief, was brought up on remand before Mr. Part ridge, charged with violently assaulting Joseph Cummings, a labourer, and breaking his leg. Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor, said a friend of his was in court, whc could identify the prisoner as having attacked him and stolen his watch, A police constable said the prisoner was also wanted for entering a shop and committing a robbery therein. Mr. Partridge said there was only one charge entered on the police-sheet before him, and he would hear that first. It appeared from the evidence of Cummings that on the 21st of August last, he was in Dock-street, Whitechapel, with a woman named Mary Ann Bryant. "He was not sober and he was not drunk, but only half and half " Thi. dtfinition 'was received with some derisive laughter. He then proceeded to state that three or four men came up and threatened him, and one of them hit him on the back of the head and he fell. While he was on the ground with his leg across the kerbstone a man jumped on it and broke it. He never saw the man before, and was not certain whether the prisoner was the man or not. He lost his cap and handker. chief. Mary Ann Bryant, who said she obtained a living by hawking fruit in the streets, and had lived 20 years in one place, deposed that the prisoner Lynch was the man who knocked down the prosecutor, and then seized him by the hair of the head. Mr. Partridge—Now, describe in what way the prosecu tor was assaulted, and be very particular about it. Witness—Lynch ran across the road, caught him by the hair of the head, and knocked him down. He got up again, and the prisoner gave him the leg and threw him. lam cort tin Lynch is the man. Evidence was given that the prisoner was several weeks in custody whilo Cummings was in custody, and was even. tually released on his own recognisance to appear and answer the charge. He did not do so, and afterwards committed revoral , daring robberies._ HeAvas apprehended on the night of Monday the 23d vitt by Francis Kelly, 130 H, on a charge-of stealing a-watch, -The prisoner had been since remanded twice, and all the charges of.robbery and a- sauas not being completei the prisoner was again remanded until Tuesday next. • • MARKETS—This Day. MARK -LANE. The arrivals of home-grown whetit fresh up to this morn ing's market were small. Both for red and white qualities the trade ruled firm, and. Moneay's advance in the our roncy was well supported. With foreign wheat the market was by no means exten sively supplied. In all descriptions a fair average business was transacted at the extreme rates of Monday last. Floating cargoes of grain ruled firm, and prices had an upward tendency. The supply of barley was tolerably large. Good and fine malting parcels sold steadily at full currencies. In ferior produce, however, was a slow sale on former terms. Malt changed hands slowly at previous quotations. The supply of oats on sale was moderate. On the whole, the trade ruled firm at full prices. steady f ip a m i e r pars s ow v v e ee r dr a et g e oi:dbaeusiness was transacted at f u ll request, and the quota tions i n Beans h a flourd and a n and currencies. AItItIVALS THIS wu jr. Wheat. Barley. Malt, Oats. Flom. •• 950 1,42 0 1390 430 2,190 I [ri5k.......... 130 1340 gn...... 7, 470 2,560 —• 117,710 I 600 s k e , Vona' 4,280 brie. NENVGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the trade rules firm, at our quotations : Per Sib. by the carcase. ti o d nded Inferior beef .. 3 0 3 '2 Middlingmutton 3 10 4 4 Nliddling do. .. 3 4 3 8 Prime do ....... 4 6 4 8 Frime large do. 3 10 4 0 Vaal 3 8 4 6 Do. small do. .. 4 2 4 4 Sm all p ork 4 0 4 4 Large pork 3 4 3 10 uamb .... 0 0 0 0 Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8 BORO UGH HOP. We have to report a stetdy .demand for En g li s h h ops, and prices rule firm. Fine foreign p arcels mo ve off freetY, at extreme rates, and the value of inferior for eign produc e is well supported. The imports are mode large, the supplies are at present chiefly derived from the Con t tinent. New Mid and East Kents. •£4 lOs to £8 10s per cwt. New Weald of Kents.. 3 0 0 8 5 toto 6 to 6 10a 0: " 2,„: New Golding ........ 6 6s __ New Sussex ........ 4 10s to 6 6 8 Yearlings . . Olds 3 Os to 3 10a Bavarian sbsto 8 Os :' Belgian American 9 . COLONIAL- prices have shown a d ec li ne of ld to 2d very slowly, o an publie sales have continued to progress a per lb. SUGAL—Thev has been very little business transacted, and a large quantity of 'West India announced for public sale has been withdrawn, holders showing little disposition to reouce prices. In the refined market common lumps quoted 52s per cwt. CoFFEE.—OuIy a moderate amount of business has been repotted in Colonial Plantation; Ceylon, however, has been rr.ther cheaper. RICE.-0 wing to the high rates demanded by holders the operations have been restricted to a few parcels for home consumption. Furn —The dealing in raisins , currants, an d figs have been li m i te d, ta ki n g into considera tion th e season of the year, and prices generally have sh own less firmn ess. HEEN .FRUIT.— I.bo s ale of oranges continues good, and prices, considering the quantity o n band, well maintained. , Some p arce l s S t. Mi c h ae l, Terceira, Fayal, V a l enc i a, Lis bon, S ev ill e Chi na and Sicily, sold by Keeling and Ilunt at public sale, went at prices equal to those obtained l ast week, excepting for St. Mich tel, which m ay be quoted higher, Spanish nuts well supporte d. Al meria grapes, of fine qua.itY, realise a high figure. A small car g o of Bilboa arrived, French walnuts in moderate demand ; a good crop iS reported. 1 'ALLow.—Market continues dull , very little business Le i n e;transacted, either for present o r f or ward delivery. per .C. on the spot is quoted 41s, and spring delivery 42s per owl, TEE FINANCIAL STATE OF FRANCE. SECOND EDITION. The /lion/tour publishes M. Achille Fould's offi cial statement of the actual position of the finances of France. We translate this important document in extenso. "REPORT TO THE EMPEROR. " Sire,--I lay before you a statement of the finan cial condition of th e coun t r y, a nd s ubmit to your Majesty for your appreciation a measure which it appears to me necessary. The nature of my propo sal will justify the delay which has occurred in pre eenticg it to the Emperor. "The Council of State has under consideration the ordinary and extraordinary Budgets of 1865. "Its labours are so fat• advanced that I can already announce to your Majesty the proximate presentation to the Legislative body of the projects which do not differ essentially from those of the Budgets voted for 1861. " A Bill for supplementary credits amounting to 93 millions, of which 63 millions are for the army and navy estimates, and about 30 for the finances, has been laid before the Legislative body. " The estimates for the army and navy depart.. ments are chiefly intendrd to cover the supplemen tary expenses caused in 1863 by the war in Mexico. ‘"rbe sum asked for by the Minister of Finances, destined chiefly to provide for the insufficiency of the credit opened as premium for the exportation of sugars, is only the compensation of the duties levied ou importation. " As regards these outlays there are 50 millions of resources assured by the recent laws which have settled the agreements with the railway companies. These agreements have rendered disposable bonds to the amount of about 17 millions, and 1,430,000 f. rentes. They are derived from the reimbursement ' made by the companies ; the rentes being destined for the allowances (subventions), which, from the agreements I have alluded to, have been converted into annuities. The excess of the credits to be asked fur extra ordinary expenses will be 43 millions. 4 , It is to this sum of 43 millions that the deficit of the budget of 1863 will be reduced, although the indirect revenues do not promise to reach the expectations of the rectifying Budget. The political anxiety which has weighed throughout the whole year on public business has been especially felt upon the registration of landed property ; but the differ ence will probably be compensated with some re turns and by an improvement in certain branches of the revenue. " Nevertheless, if the movement of progress has been slackened, it has not been stopped. The un favourab:e influence of circumstances would have been more seriously felt if there had not been such an abundant harvest and the recent monetary em barrassments which I trust will shortly be removed would have been much more serious if we had been compelled to purchase the necessaries of life in foreign countries. "The result of the Budget of 1862 is known. I had announced that the deficit would amount to 35 millions. It will be below that figure, and the deficit of the year will scarcely exceed 32 millions. Adding to that deficit what may possibly be forseen for 1863, we come to a maximum of 76,000,000 f. . . "The extraordinary expenses occasioned by the M ex i can war in the years 1862 and 1863, the ac counts of which have been made up to the lst of January next, and sent to the Mexican Govern ment, amount to 210 millions. To this must be added the expenses caused during the same year by the occupation of Cochin-China and the presence of troops and ships of war in other parts of the ex treme East. Those expenses may be estimated at 60 millions. Oar war expenses have been, there fore, 270 millions. " The deficit of these two years being only 75 millions, there is a difference of 192 millions, more ' than half of which has been provided for by the surplus of the ordinary revenue. " This result allows us to look with more gratifi cation (aecurite) upon the general condition of our finances, as it has been obtained Without any re laxation in our public works, granted in 1862, with 121 millions, and in 1863 with 125 millions.* " This is a proof of the facility with which we can support all the ordinary charges of our Budgets, and even largely support great enterprises which have so powerfully contributed to develope the prosperity of the country, and which will develope it still more. "As regards the Budget of 1864 the resources realised will exceed! the provisions agreed upon between the Government and the Legislative Body. This surplus will diminish the estimates W hi ch the maintenance of our troops in Mexico might ren der necessary in case the negotiations entered into with the Mexican Government should not respond to the expectations of your Majesty. " Whatever confidence I may entertain in thi s respect it is, nevertheless, my duty to call the Em peror's attention to the importance of our deficits. The deficits of 1862 and of 1863 are not great if consider 'the extraordinary calls that were made ; but, added to onr former deficits, they amount' to 972 millions. This amount exceeds the figure which ,prudence ought to allow, and It is necessary to re duce it, by the consolidation .of a portion .of the floating debt to normalfproportionsp " This operation will not throw new burdens upon the Treasury, as the interests of the floating debt will be relieved of the amount; which will be carried over to the Budget, for the interests of the consolidated debt. _ " I had fancied that it might have been possible to avoid this necessity, and that a prompt solution of the affairs of Mexico might, on the one hand, hive limited our expenses to a sum less than what we have expended, and, on the other hand, effected by a loan contracted with Mexico the reimburse ment of our advances. But, despite the confidence which we entertain of seeing a regular form of government established in Mexico, we cannot place the safety of our finances upon its settlement of the debt to us. "It must also be admitted that the floating debt, when it is out of proportion with the ordinary re sources which supply it, costs more than the con solidated debt, and that it is not without disturb ing the general transactions of the country that capital is sought for by the State at a high rate of interest. Every branch of commerce suffers from it, and, instead of reducing the rate of interest, which ought to be the case, the Treasury helps to raise it. "Everyone will understand how important it is to shield the State against inopportune claims which would compel it to have recourse to onerous operations which might compromise public credit. " Such a state of affairs is a cause of anxiety and hindrauce to commerce. " A regards myself, Sire, I bad entertained the hope that I need not have opened the ledger (grand /lyre), and it is not without mature refltction that I submit to your Majesty the proposal of reducing the floating debt by an appeal to credit. " This loan differs from ordinary loans in this favourable sense, that as the produce is to be em ployed for the repayment of Treasury Bonds issued, it will return an equal sum for circulation., It i s a transformation, not an increase of debt. " The amount of the loan remains to be considered. I propose to your Majesty to fix it,at 300 mill ioOs ' Our deficit would thus be reduced to 672 4 " The floating debt will remain beneath that sum, because the settlement of debts is always slower than the collection of taxes. The sums due to the Trea sury exceed 600 millions. " Tejo debt will be all the more easily settled when we have succeeded in t he steps which we have taken to obtain repayment for what we have advanced to Mexico." • This includes the credits carried over from 1861 to 1662, and from 1862 to 1863. Tho Saturday' Review is certainly very delightful. It goes up to a great stately reputation and smacks it in the face! This very week, for example, it „y F , " The Edinburgh Review is now about the most ponderous, timid, and conventional o rgan of I,, n d on Whi g society. The old Scotch devi l is quite gone out of it, and we must own that the substituted London devils do not appear to us to be an improvement.' BISHOP BLOMFIELD S Chesterford Reminiscences included among them the answer of a school-boy, who, on being asked what was meant in the Catechism by succour ing his father and mother, replied promptly, "Giving on 'em milk." bUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 O'CLOCK. THE PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, Dec. 3.—The Nation published s,hme days back, the draft of a Constitution which is said to have been submitted to the Powers by Prince Couza. The statement made by that journal is unfounded. The Committee on the Address in the Chamber is entirely composed of members of the Opposition. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. REPLY OF THE QUEEN OF SPAIN TO THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON, (REUTER.'S EXPRESS.) MADRID, Nov. 30. The .Epoca publishes the following as the text of the reply of the Queen of Spain to the Emperor Napoleon's letter of invitation to a Congress : Sir, my Brother,--The very important letter which you have been so good as to address to me from Paris, under date the 4th of this month, could not but be taken into con sideration, both by me and my Government. I consider your Majesty's project very laudable in aiming at the complete pacific solution of the ardu ous political questions which now keep the peoples in profound agitation. In order that calm be re stored,may Providence deign to accord your Majesty the happiness of seeing your projects realised, and aid in subduing the immense difficulties which the strife of adverse interests always brings with it. I agree with your Majesty that the Treaties of 1815 are attacked by the debility produced by time and use, besides the forced influence or serious events which, in many cases, have resulted in noto rious and capital infractions of their letter and spirit. I also agree with you that if war has always been a great calamity for peoples, it would be still more so now, on account of the disastrous perturbation that it would produce among nations, every day more closely united, by the community of their moral and material interests. Consequently, if your Majesty's idea be realised by the assembly of the European Powers in a pacific Congress, I do not hesitate to afford your Majesty the assurance, in concert with my Government, that Spain will participate therein, either at Paris or any other point that may be selected for the delibe rations, and that Spain will cause her voice to be heard in words of justice, peace, and concord, con tributing within the limits of her conciliatory councils to the pacific solution of the serious ques tions which the Congress has in view, in order to consolidate peace and tranquillity in the Old and New World. I profit by this opportunity to renew to your Imperial Majesty the assurance of my consideration and sincere friendship, with which I am, Sir, my brother, your Majesty's good sister, The Palace, Nov. 14, 1863. ISABELLA. TEE CRAWLEY COURT-MARTIAL. (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) FIFTEENTH DAY. ALDERSHOT, Friday. The Court reopened this morning at 10 o'clock, and Lieut.-Colonel Frederick Fitzwygram, of the 15th Infantry, was called, and said in reply to Colonel Sir A. Horsford—This is my letter, and I have no objection to its being read. The letter was as follows : " Newbridge Barracks, Nov. 15, 1863. "Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 13th inst. requesting information as to the evidence which I can give regarding the character of the late regimental Sergeant Major Lilley, of the 6th Dragoons, I have the honour to state that I knew the deceased well from his entry into the service up to the period of my exchange with Lieut.-Colonel Crawley. I re member his joining at Nottingham Barracks a month or two after I joined myself in the latter part of 1843 ; and I never lost sight of him whilst I remained in the regiment. In 1853 he became my troop sergeant major, and in the sum • mer of 3855 had the pleasure of recommending him to Col. White, then commanding the regiment, for the vacant post of regimental sergeant major. From the circumstances of his having been my sergeant major, I continued to know and sae more of him during his later service than pro bably I should otherwise have done. I can honestly say that during those many years, whether in the lower grades, or as my troop sergeant major, or in his after more important capacity as regimental sergeant major, ho was one of the best men I ever met. " With regard to his sobriety, to which point I presume your inquiry is more immediately directed,, I believe my intercourse with him from the time he became my sergeant major up to the time I left the regiment in 1860, was so constant and so continuous, that it is impossible that he could have been addicted to drink without my having some knowledge, or at least suspicion of it.—l have the honour, &c., (Signed) W. FITZWYGRAM, Lieutenant •Colonel, Comamanding 15th Hussars. " The Deputy Adjut. General, Horse Guards. Sergeant Lewis Kwles said he placed sentries over Ser. goant Major Lilley: No written orders to' do so were given. Sergeant rilbean said he was on guard over Sergeant Lilley. He never saw Mrs. Lilley in her bedroom, neither could he see into the apartment. Troop Sergeant Galloway said he was orderly troopser geant over Lilley four times. He never made any com plaints to hi m. Sir A. Horsford- - -Did• you resPeet SergeadMajor Lilley? --Yes, I did, - • Will the :Joint ask the'prisoner whether he has any regimental order books. If so, I should like to look at them to ascertain whether it will be necessary to put them in for the prosecution.—Yes, I have some here. (Books handed in). Colonel Crawley—ls it true that Sergeant Major Wake field was raving mad at the time of Sergeant MajorLifiey's death?—He was mad. Was he raving ma d ?—I did n ot notice him raving mad. Did you notice anything whaiever, if $O, He was slightly deli r ious. sta t e what P From what cause P—Drink. Did he drink much during his arrest? —lrea• Have you ever seen him the worse fo r liquor during his arrest?—Yee. Colonel Crawley Private Thomas Newton, or Lilley on the --said he was sentry over Sergea nt I" night of the Ist of May. Corporal Blake was placed under examined by arrest for posting him outside instead of inside the ban. galow. After Blake was placed un d e r arrest, witness was posted inside the room 4, the servants room. He did not know why Corporal Blake posted him outside instead of inside. He saw Mrs. Lino- walking about the house while he was sentry. No co mplaints were ever, at any time, made to him either by the S er geant Major or Mrs. Lilley. He was sentry in the second bungalow also. In that bun galow Sergeant Major Lilley sle p t in the verandah . He saw him twice sle e p ing in the verandah. Mrs. Lilley used :ir ou t and sit with her husband in th e ra her do so several times while I w as on is the ndah. day-time list of wit duty. Sir A. norsford—When the sergeant-major slept in the propose to put in verandah where was your proper post ? Witnass—Beside him in the verandah. prisoner, and I now . t. Sir A. Horsford—l have now exlmustedny evidence the regimental order books February, 1862, to the 31st of May, 1862 , in the 24th of wit nesses supplied to th e necessary they may refer the court to certai n in order that if m their reply. At present, of course, .. parts of them say whether it will be necessary to they are unable to The prosecutor handed in also refer to them or not. Mhow court-martial, callint, a certificated copy of the pages 78, 79, 80, 167, 168, as t he particular attention to particularly refer the Court. Pa ge 90 will also b e b rought pages to which they under the notice of th e C ourt, The ings of the Mhow c our t martirhe whole of the proceed in order that the al are put in by the Courtprosecu tion, may be refer to any matter which the Court may jud ge to be relevant to the issue. Col. Crawley protested against the re g imental o r der books being put in, and contended that the passages on which the prosecurion -ielied sh Sir A. H o • ' ould be specified and read. iuturd said that order bucli its with regard to the regimental ) production was ' l slurp yto enable the pro secutor, it found desirable, t o show of adiutant were performed by persons. As to the proceedings o f th e Mh ow court martial ' only specified w o uld b e r ef e r re d to, and it would be the pages competent for both the :prosecutor and the prisoner . , to direct the at tention of the Court to all the. e matters in the concluding addresses. 1 Colonel Pipon said the court ruled yesterday that ever?' thing which was required to be in evidence must be read and recorded in the proceedings. Sir A. Horsford sa►d that all he wanted from the regi mental order books was the names of the adjutants who performed the duties on certain days. The court then adjourned. PIRIITED POPULARTTY.--i, R o m is now added to the Tauchnitz series of English reprints; and " Tales of a Wayside Inn" and "Miles Standish" form the third volume of Tauchnitz's authorised edition of " Longfellow's Poetical Worip." LONDON GAZETTE—This Ey-ening., WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, DEC, 4. 2d Regiment of Lite Guards--Veterinary Surgeon Thorn. ton Hart to be Veterinary Surgeon of the First Clam 4th Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon Herbert Sewn to ba Veterinary Surgeon of the First Class. 13th Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon William Varley to be Veterinary Surgeon of the First Class. 14th Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon Dawson to be Veteri. 15th burgeon of the First Class. retires—Geor Hus sars —Veterinary Surgeon Martin Mence to be VeterinarylBth Surgeon of the First Class. _ Husaers—Cornet Frederick Charl es Hooper to be w L h i oltenant' by purchase, vice William Owen Whiteside, Foot to be Ensign and e-e Watson, ' Gent., to be Cornet, by CocptluhisraterrhleeaasZ:vGvalucteearrdilis:—:PeE. I,F n r i . s; i n v,,, i i i rj r;r pr F :m it u r o t t l e u l li . ar from 62d Lieutenant, by purchase, vice 7th Regiment of Foot to be Ensign .? i lincis Wingfield Douglass, Gent., (lent. , v t i o ce be J E oh n n sign l : o i s jy ac p k ti , rc tr h an as s e, ". 10th Foot—George Hood, ferred to the 14th Foot': by route vice Jasper N. Andersoz., tr . a ;erred to the 76th Foot 14th Foot—Lieutenant Freder' n* . * Ick Gerard Arnstrong to be Captain, by purchase, vice Geor ge J. Newman Beam' , *sh who retires—Ensign John D al ' purchase, vice Ariestrong—P. y to be Lieutenant, by -- nsign John Hose k from , 71h Foot, to be Ensign, vine D a l .., c ' Y— Iv illiam Brown Churchward, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Charles Curtis, who retires. 23d Foot—Captain Frederick Chandos Clifton, from a 3d West India Regiment, to b e Captain . r a a , vice Hewer., who exchanges. 58th Foot—Quartermaster Sergeant Daniel Munro, to be Quartermaster, vice Patrick Hopkins, who retires up on half.pay. 62d Foot—Thomas Hamilton Forsyth, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Arthur Farquhar, promoted i n the Coldstream Guards. 76th Foot—Ensign ' Wiper ',Nicolls Anderson, from 10th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Alexander, promoted—Lieu tenant Edward Le Breton Butler to be Adjutant, vi ce , Lieutenant L. E. O'Connor, promoted. 82d Foot—Lieutenant Charles Neville to be Adjutant, viee Lieutenant Edward Snow Mason, who resigns the ap., pointment. 84th Foot—Ensign lerew George Saunders, from the ry Milita Train, to b ...;cisign, vice Knight, promoted. 88tH Foot—Lieutenant H. Garrett Moore to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Thomas H. Cuthbertson, who resigns the appointment. 92d Foot—Ensign David Papillon, from 12th Foot, to be. Ecaign, vice Arthur Bryce Murray, deceased. 104th Foot—Lieut. Horace Moule Evaus to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. Archibald Logan Douglas, promoted. 107th Foot—The surname of the Assistant-Surgeon ap pointed from the Staff, Nov. 17, is Dustan not Dun stan. 3d West India Regiment—Captain Charles Hewett, from 23d Foot, to be Captain, vice Clifton, who exchanges, MEDICAL DEPARTMENT—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Robert Graves Burton, M.D., has been permitted to resign his Commission. The services of Staff Assistant - Surgeon James Samuel Currie Collier have been dispensed with, from 14th November, 1563. VETERINARY DEPARTMENT—Veterinary-Surgeon of the First Chits William Thacker, front 10th Hussars, to be Staff Veterinary -Surgeon, vice Matthew Poett, de ceased. Quartermaster Patrickß ßEVET Hopkins, half-pay, late 68th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Captain. The undermentioned Officers having completed the qualifying service in the rank of Lieut.-Colonel, under the provisions of the _Royal Warrant of 14th October, 1858, to be Colonels : Lieut.-Colonel Bartholomew O'Brien, Military Train. Lieut.-Colonel Jamas Holt Freeth, Royal Engineers. BANKP TS The portion of the Gazette containing the bankrupts had not arrived when we went to press. Course of the Exchange—This Day. Amsterdam Short. 11 17 Ditto 3 Month!, 12 Of 11 12 1 1 Rotterdam — 12 0 1 2 1 Antwerp — 25 67/ 25 721 Brussels 25 671 25 72/ 13 9 13 9 Hamburgh i Paris Ditto --25 75 25 80 Marseilles 1 Frankfort on Maine Vienna 12 119 a 5O 12 191 60 12 50 12 GO Trieste 4 Petersburgh Berlin — -- ._ 47t 48 Madrid .. •• • • . Cadiz Leghorn — 25 ss 25 55 M Ilan — 25 9:10 25 95 Genoa .-- 25 55 25 95 Naples Palermo —. 25 90 25 95 M ess i na — 25 90 25 95 Lisbon — 521 521 Oporto —52 t Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doublons Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Sales of the week 51,580 bales, including 15,220 on spec and 10,690 for export. Actual export, 4,819. Quotations:—Middli ng Orleans, 26i ; Up land, 261 ; Fair Egyptian, 274 ; Surats, 281 29. Imports of the week, 20,781 bales. Very little doing at the opening, prices nominal, Sales probably 2,000 bales. M. DESJOBERT, A LANDSCAPE PAINTER Of BOIDO eminence in France, lately died at Paris. Among his works are " The Landscape Painters" (in the Luxembourg Gallery), "A Forest in Autumn," "Under the Apple Trees," several views of Jersey (belonging to the Emperor), and numerous scenes in Normandy. _ THE RAJAH OF SARAWAK, SIR J. BROOKE, has recently arrived in England. Previous to his departure from Sarawak he was presented with an address, signed by all the officials of the Government with but one exception, pledging the fidelity of the subscribers to his person and. Government, and their determination to maintain his rights as Rajah and founder of Sarawak. THE " FALSE COAST" OF THE DELTA OF THE NIGER, as described by a F. R. G. .5., in his " Wanderings in Western Africa" :—Nothing is more simple than to sketch the - view as seen from the sea. Above, an azure space based upon a band of dull and btight greens, resting upon a thin line of golden sa c_ n oi d ivi , ti a ilil nd eiblt in the foreground a little deeper ultramarine than in the air. In the rainy season, change the blue above to a heavy thant—W thhteahrtee is t r ht i river errs. say, eh e e x a i p s ‘r t v s aur i et t en :;ll be de noteduneven notch in the land, and, as a rule, themass of clouds, reposing upon the land, and the blue below into islands, and subdivided into ents, at ory _,, m y somewhat to Dol ipee b bwr r ehb oin authnn o it sd l i hp v oe dividedri.n islets,no R hy a r o iv L er E .. l — One - e ha l u i n n te Le d e er c ee o k r e r . espond in the controversy just going on on the diseaszs of ca ttle, vouches for the truth of the fol lowin g ,among was followed, buried and; a which disease broke out—one was o o f l d so fr m i eenlidi kind, which ha da h g e re d a i t d l o n t o of t pi know, pigs, second died, and was alsose i seized e buried and ur ied d ; i e a d t , and h ir d for the butcher to kill an d dress all8 on that seized, until at last m y friend th e"' t w i l l e r t e h l e e f t number dead and buried got int o th e t e . and still others were ought it was time to send. he could not help his a meat lost to the State in The butcher, knowing all thoughtfully, for bein g bit of a political economist the circumstances, set to work my friend to buy the this :--Havin g th oughts running to the quantity of the buried pigs, and the result was resist such a n There were the bright sovereigns, and. a Londonneor,onWeo won't goffb: offer t this a private vou c her for the pigs he killed, he proposed to buried pigs also. What farmer could there the buried I i t.s Well, tr troth, , l o l r i vlef,esairr you,, the b p e iignsgonlywere dug up, d ressed, rigs. arise, send li v e an d sent to market. I will send you rith t believe it. My friend is a jolly good fellow— etter ; no one has a better reputation, or is n io g n in ell th eu em ld more trust e d . oxen• SVhy t , o then, market should wi th n n o o t t l h , in if s o w cc r a o s but lung lu disease i?" SOPHIE ARNOULD'S COMICAL COMPASSION.— Hearing one day that a capuchin monk had been devoured by wolves, " Poor beasts," said Sophie, compassionately, " hunger must be a dreadful thing l"—/Itiss Clayton's " Queens of Song." Tots FOR SICK CHILDREN.—The Hospital Or Sick Children in Great Ormond-street has oga il l been fortunate enough to receive an especial mark efi l° r; favour in the kind consideration of her Majesty for t " a " most helpless class of her subjects—" sick child r n." A valuable present of a quantity of toys of all descriptions has been received by the managers, sent by Queen ; aho a similar present from ' heritoyel I ll g huese the Princess Helena and his Ro3 al Highne ss PrILICe Alfred. borne by The value of these gifts will, we hav e 1:: : ::::dbeoffutlhlye appreciated by the little people for whose particular gratifi { ro yal h o ,, cation this condescending instance °' - of lightening some o f been evinced. It must be the wen ° the weary hours of suffering ge° erallY so patiently e m i :i n th tim a s a m t ea d emanager EB. —Villebecque acted be charge which Stella had these little prisoners. A MODEL MA y N a il u a ng comingly to the aspirants, aeanste : h e ll ui.v i: eiri. s i, e e_‘ l b f, ici a lci s eub w ee e cbg h eu av e bequeathed to him. ab a man of enterprise, a restless sprit, not content to move- for ever in the apbero in which he was born, Vicissitudes s the very Chevalier Law of theat;7l o a w r fi e tha t ( h ms e int lo : t i.l o o and made illebecque, f u th , su n ea c a h t a re, money, if v . ,er capital wa s He took a larger theatre, and even that 1 inallagere * ho was recognised as the lessee of succeeded. Soon still he prospered. Villebecqu e b more than one, and houses. He enthroned himselfat gala to dabble in opera. heard of at Milan and Naples, Paris ; his envoys were His controversies with the Lo at Berlin and St. Petersburg. among state papers. -A,,,,et: Conservatoire at Paris ranked drove cabs ; v illebecqu v ill becque rolled in chariots and nobler, who were honoured by refined suppers to great wore a red ribbon in the .' hy the invitation ; Villebecque than one cross in his button•hole of his frock, and more RAILWAY gala dress.—Disraeles Coningsby. - VANDALISM.—The famous Roman grave mounds- known as the Bartlow Hills, after having been spared by the plough and the harrow for more than a th ousand years, have at length been condemned t o destruction,in order to accommodate a minor feeder of the Great Eastern Railway,