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

X ONE Y MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLocIC. T he unsettled con di t i on of monetary affairs shows littlesigns of abatement. The demand for money IS still act i ve, but as accommodation is sparingly afforded b y the joint-stock and private establish tieuts' the p they public are obli ge d t o seek what assistance e Y require at the Bank of England. Discounters, in fact, r e f use all aid but to their regular customers, ? hose bills moat even then be short dated and first class. No quotable ra t e f or the open market can, ther efore, be ' g i ven, an d at t h e B an k o f E ng l an d itself,it_ the m ovements of the directors are so errat i c to precl u d e any quotation being given for that establishment, although the official minimum is still 6 Per cent. ~T ll, B Bank of En g l an d re turns published last . ! th hg, for the week to Wednesday last, very fairly re flects the unsatisfactory position of affairs i large t he discount market, chiefly occasioned by the Withdrawals of gold. The other securities exh ibit an i ncrease of more t h an £1,150,C00, while e stock of bullion has been very considerably re 4liceut as also h as b een th e res erve of notes. An .' ~ zed are the particulars : Active Circulation .. 121,022,625 Increase • • • .. .. 517,415 .. 13,048,475 Decrease • • • • 319.857 Rest " I' 3,184,193 Dec;ease • • • • .• 17,158 Public Deposit; 7 234 894 , , Increase 360 Othe r D eposits :: 12,92 194 4, , 545 Increas e .. 122,134 Increase .. • • i even Day and • Other Bills .. 663,107 Government 14065 ' lov ernment Securities 10,710, , 330 No alteration. Other S ecurit i es .. 21,173,559 Increas e 1,150,673 IN'otes Unemployed 6,061,765 TuL er e Decrease .. • • • 762, 270 re was a further withd ra wal of 163,000 Bove- I na from the Bank yesterday for exportation to Alexandria. activity the last few days there has been less exhibited in the Foreign and Colonial Pro duce Markets. Sugar has in some measure been 6eglectei, and a considerable quantity announced f or Public sale has been withdrawn. Coffee has in , so me instances s o ld for rather easier rates, while e olders of rice have demanded fully late prices. In fruit and spices the operations have not been very e xtensive, while the tallow market has continued v ery dull, with a alight downward movement in prices. Two o'CLOox. 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 Scotland. Sir John Hay, Bart., M.P., presided, and the necessary resolutions were carried. It was stated that the bank commenced business on the 2d November last, and that its present operations were Such as to enable the directors to anticipate a great success. _ A better f ee li ng i s e7 i dently now being mani fested, and symptoms of buoyancy once more pre °4ii, in all the Stock Exchange markets. There is little reason to doubt, however, that this firmness Will not be of long duration, and that if money should become dearer another revulsion will be witnessed. The English Funds exhibit no change Of importance, though early in the morning they were flatter. A few transactions have, however, imparted strength to quotations, and Consols are for money, and 901 91 for the account. The 41 evir Threes and the Reduced Annuities are 891 908; India 5 per Cents, 1061; do. 4 per Cents., 1001-; d o. 5 per Cent. Enfaced, 113 ; the Debentures, 99;; and the •B onds, 55. dis. to 2s. prem. Forei gn Stocks are rather active, and more firm ness is per cept ib le in values. T ur ki s h 6 p er Cents., 186 2, are 69 1 ; di t t o Consolides, 44a- ; Mexican, 33 ; creek, 25' ; ditto Coupons, 11 .p l 2 ; Spanish Passive, 39' 1 ; Certificates, 12f 13 ; ortuguese, 47i prem. ; ' 8 1; ditt o - Scrip, par and the Confederate Loan is 48 52. Business i n t h e Railway Share Market has been inac tive, but prices s h ow rat h er more fi rmness . Lan cashire an d Y or k s hi re, North Western, and ° rth Einem (Bei wick), have each advanced 55.; an d Metropolitan, 10 3 . ; whil e S ou th W es t ern h ave declined ss, The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit little or ° variation in values. s auk shares continued fiat English, Scottish, an d Australian Chartered have declined to 221; etropolitan and Provincial, to 21i; Oriental a tar, to 57; and Union of London, to 39 1. do n the Miscellaneous Market Discount Corpora. and have improved to 71 ; General Credit, to 681; "d London Financial, to 231 1. da.t, BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. -.LEtti Bonds, 6 per Cent Sa. Ditto 1859 3 p er Stock — 390 81 90k Per Oent. Reduced Annuities 901 i it 4 New Cent. Consols Annuities 8n 90i 90 New"' 3 per Cent. Annuities , 3 “i per Cent. Annuities 6 " 4 4 per Cent. Annuities.. Per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 • Ditto 444 tut 30 • exp ire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto fo ' r 30 } yr re, ex pire sth April, 1885 — India Ditto 6 pet' (Red Sea s' Telegraph), Aug. 1908. Stock 1874 Ditto Cent. 1870 bDitto 6 4 p e r Cent. 1888 lOOl per Cent ih.tto Enfaced pa per , 4 per Cent .. itto AI 113 -2 t o r Cent Ditto e April, 1864 99} ditto D itt: l)i tt tt° ditto :Aug. 1864 or 66 Dittos dia 2 pm ' — ' 4l derl,ooo - _k end £ l ,000 Batt Stock f or A Indiaeo___, account 90i 1 rtbois for ACCOUnt, Jan. 7.. St per Cent — Ea c h ock for Account, 5 ch eqUer Ditt o Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Con t — £5OO Ditt o small /Irazilian 6 REIGNFO FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 1-. l)t t°, 1839 and 1859 -unto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 Ditto BuenosScri Ayres 6p, 1863, £3O paid per Cent Ditto Account.... ~, Ditto 1 per Cent. (D e f erre d 3 per C ent ) 36 ' - 'B'Vptian 7 per Cent 971 8k Ditto, Second Issue .. Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-6, ex-Coupons.. Ditto Account Ditto Coupons Ditto Account ll4 11 / Guatemala 5 per Cent. Ditto Account Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent .... Ditto Account 33 1 21 3 21 Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent hew Granada l3l 1 Ditto 2, per Cent. Ditto Deferred — , Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — reruvian 3 per Cent. bitto Account — Ditto 4i per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account — c ortugues e 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account — - bitto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — Ditto Account 4B 1 71 D itto, 1863 it Gi tto Scrip, £lO paid 488 ian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Ditto 4f per Cent 1850.. .... .... 88 , Ditto 1860 4iitto 3 per Cent., 1859 Ilittian 5 per Cent • a ' 4O Account P Asth 3 per Cent Ditto Account 53 -uitto New Deferred Ditto Account Ditto p_ -,, wirilve '''to Account 32 1/ 2f I knish Cert. of Coup not funded N nit to A.ccount l2l wea; 12., " 41 1, 4 per Cent — mrk i k Ditto G per Cent. 1854 — b!"0 Account • — Vitt 6 per Cent. 1858 .. ipto Account .. niiil,ttitteo'l'loo Bonds per Cent. 1862 D itto ACCOTITit 691 A 9 . 1). ., 0 6 per Cent. 1863 Vetletzto,,,,G,_ii.ararteed, 4 per Cent. — 1)4,7 4 3 per Cent. bit, >Account — b i „ c o G per Cent., 1862 ‘,O Account .. A u .. Di vidends o n th e a bove payable in London. .11 e iV i an, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. —an 4 i per Cent, Ex. 25f. Ditto'lt',h2 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — b ,iper . _ , r lleh , Pe, ertincates ~_,„ _ oi ,_ .it elites, 4 Cent., Ex. zot It a C° Aecount .. 413 , 5 per , Cent. • 1861, Ex. 25 francs 7ok •-, TWO O'CLOCK. "lsols, N T 1) ; „ 4 oney `"° Account .. , 90/ 1 SHARE MARKETS.—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCK g• 8 8i Bir.. Wo]., and Str. Val Blythe and 'Tyne Bost.,Sieat.,andMid.L u Bristol and Exeter ...• (Caledonian ........... . Cork and Bandon Cornwall ........ • A nets no div Do. B Do A I tillpc.pan.has been paid to B. Dublin .3D Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June,. lEdinburgh /t Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock 8 Si 81 83 118 119 82 1171 61 7,} 38 40 16 17 05 97 107 1( 9 484 491 44 46 71 8i Ditto East Anglian at GreatNorthoi Scotian° Great Northern........ Do A stock 125 127 130 13t 134 136 99 tot 63 63} Do 14 do ;Gt. S. and W. of Irelan( Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & Nor'h Western Lon. & So•Ah Western I Man., She., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle , Do t shares Metropolitan Midland Do New . Do Birming. & Derby Mid. (it. W. of Irelano Do. t shares ,Mid Kent 1071 1081 71 73 10fl 11l 44 15 1031 1041 101 102 47 48 1121 1131 1264 :27 It 11p 96 98 Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Soot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpooi Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,andWok. Stockton te Darlington Do . • • • Do New, VW Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland —Oxford Do Newport Do Herelord 62 63 24 16 1001 1011 - u 586 59 886 8? 119 121 1 2 77 78 11 110 124 126 42 44 98 100 51 32 31 32 95 sls} 96 18 10 • 104 I :171 871 9 10 71 71 P 158 160 5 64 21 81 pi Railways. Paid' Price. 1 1 IF Closing Budsoinne.est. 85 88 170 175 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing ihart Railways Pald. Prioe. Business don( 100 At !antic &Si Lawrenut all 60 63 BkJ Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Inc 100 105 f 1064 Gu. 5 per oent. 20 Do. New ....... 8 4 1 P 20 Do. E. Shares... 74 4 1 p 204 Buffalo and Laxe Huron all 64 61 10 Do. Preference all 84 94 )00 Bulfalo,Brant,&Godricl; - - ti p. at. bds. Aug. 1,187 k 100 Do. do. July 1, 187: 100 - - 100 1)o. do. June 1, 1871 100 - - st Clcutta,v S. Eastn. (LI n 100 103 105 st Cape Town (1-. Dock Scrii 100 101 103 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. 100 108 109 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 1(.61 1 , 74 1 0 61 4 74 20 Do. do. G Ext lO 1 lip 11 20 Do. do. II do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada tun 20/ 214 100 Do. Ist Pre% Bonds all 73 1.5 731 100 Do. do. deterred-- all 60 63 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 66 69 100 Do. do. deferred....., all 50 53 100 Do. 3d Pi ef. stock 100 Do. do. deterred all 38 42 100 Do. 4th Pref. sto ck all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred all 23 26 stook GLlndiarenin.gua.sp.c 100 ICB 109 108 74 20 Do. New gua. sp. o l2 14 14j 20 Do. January, 1862 stook GL South.of india(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent 100 1044 11.54 20 4 Gt. W. of Canada Sharer all 91 10 g; 204 Do. New . • 18 101 101, 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 9t 95 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-& . . all 86 88 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 4 fp stock Madras. guar., sp.c. .. 100 1054 1064 o,oo k Do. 44 p. C. Extension 100 100 101 stock Dc. 4* d 0........ 100 16 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- - stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. BndY. 100 - 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 59 100 Do. 7p. c. Kong. Bds. all - - 20 Newßr unswudt Ganda Class A and B all 3 5 N.ll.l.C'da3 pc Ist t bds 100 82 84 stack Soinde .......... (100 ICSt 1064 1051 stock Do. Delhi 4 100 1044 105 1 fP st Do. Punjaub C all 144 1051 Do. Do. stock Do. Indus. St. Flo ) k . lot. lO l 103 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. - n p.e.J a sul La) -. 1877-84 . . . 100 103 105 103 - Do. ap. c. Feb . . At * Amt. 100 102 104 - Do. 6p. (.1.31ar. & Sept 100 102 104 - Do. Sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 vi 83 911 2 - Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 - Cape G.Hope, 6 p c,187:i 100 108 110 Do.Ap & Oct. 188 100 109 111 Do. 1891 100 109 1l 1 1094 - Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 112 114 - Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p t 100 110 112 - Mauritius d per cent .. 100 106 108 - Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 130 07 109 -- I N.B.Gov. o p.c. a.&J uly 100 104 106 - I Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - - S.W. 01 '• 5 P 18,;. 100 100 102 - 1 Do. p. c.,18/1 to 1.71 100 101 102 - ; Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 101 102 1011 - ;New Zealand 6 p cent 100 110 112 - ;Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. C. - I sterling, 1875 lOO 104 106 - Queensland Gcv. 6p. c 100i:1 ll3 - IS. Aus G6p.c.1873.& up lOO 112 114 - Vic.GoV. 6 p.c. Ja.Aauly 100 107 109 - Do. to 6D.°. An.&001... 100 108 109 1081 8 BRITISH MINES. 2 !Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 id - tAitiord Amalgamated.. - 34 4 354 - Deven G. Cons. (Tavist.) 1 545 655 - East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 87 60 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. ss. 4d par - East Caradon ...... 1.14.8 25 26 - East Cart 8rea........ 3.4.0 04 74 - WlRussel (Tavistk)l , 8.9.0 44 41 - IGam&StAubyn(Gwen.) 58l 11 13 ;Great South Tolgus.... 175 41 41 - G. Wheal Vor (lielston, 40 114 Itl - Grenville 8.16. r 41 5 - herd's-Foot . 8.12 19 41 - Hingston Downs B.O 1/ 24 - Lady Bertha - Margaret (tiny Lelant 01 16 18 - SI arke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 2i 14 f - New Setun l l ll 90 100 -• North Downs t4 11 2 1 S.WII '1 Basset (111ozau 3.1.0 24 3 - North Wheal Crotty - Par Consols (St. Blazey) - - 20 l l'rovidence(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 13 45 - iSouthCaradon(SLCleer, 14 415 125 - 3. Carn Brea (Illogan) - - - S. - Wheat Fran. (Illog - an. 1108.9 60 65 - ,Stray Park 30.17.6 34 36 5 Tamar Silv.tt Lead MID. 44 4 1 - fin Croft 9 181 19 - West Basset (Illogan) l4 10 It - WC , radon (Liskeard) 5 22 24 234 - West Seton - Wheal Basset (Illogan) 54 871 921 - Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 224 274 - Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 - - IWhealLutkott • !Wheal Mary Ann (Men ), 8 114 124 - Wheal Oeton ..1 584 1170 180 - Wheal Tretawney (Lis.), 1 7 1 20 21 -!Wheal Union 3.17 1 24 34 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., 115 London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 97 LINES LEASED Af FIXED RENTALS. Bull and Selby, 112 Nottingham and Grantham R. .1c G. 96 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Great Luxembour g, and San Frcisco aim) gua. 7 Per cent., 181 171 Turin and Savona, Ditto (all), lit FOREIGN MINER. Don Pedro, Nor. h Del Rey, f United Mexican (lim`„ 5h6 51 Yudanamutana of S. Austrada (Rm.), 23 JOINT-STOCK HANKS. &Mance Bank of I.on ;on and Liverpool •(tim.), Ditto, new, 26 Anglo Austrian, 7 Bank of London. 1514 Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 7} English, Sco[ch, and Australian Chartered, 23 2f Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim.), 276 Imperial Ottoman, 161 17 London and Brazilian 514 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 281} 71 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 21i National Provincial of England. 133 Oriental Bank Corporation. 57 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (lim. ) , 51. Union of London, 394 MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Palace, P 6 Discount Corporation, limited, 7 I 61 7; Gen. Cr( dit d l an Finance of London, Rm., 61 Hudson's Bay, i:l2 International Financial Society, lim., Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Ronda, redem. 1870, issued 90,186 London Finan3ial Association, lira., 2.3 k London General Omnibus Company, lira., 2} Oriental Inland Steam, lim., Peninsula and 0, iental Steam, 84 Ditto, new, 521 2 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 27i Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. 4,- Sales of the week 51,580 bales, including 15,220 on Spec and 10,690 for export. Actual export, 4,819 - Quotations :—Middling Orleans, ; Up land, 262 ; F a i r Egyptian, 27i ; 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 some eminence in France, lately died at Paris. Among his works are " The Landscape Painters" (in the Luxembouts Gallery), "A Forest in Autumn," "Under the Apple Trees," several views of Jersey (belonging and numerous sce nes i n Normandy, to the Emperor), THh 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. He further said it would be most ridiculous for him to have entered the house without lucifer matches if he had intended to have committed a robbery. The jury found the prisoner guilty. No former conviction being proved. The Recorder sentenced him to nine months' imprison ment with hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST Two RESPECT ABLE PERSONS.—Mr. Win. Winchester, tailor, of Mad dox-street, Regent-street, and Mr. Charles Edmonds, of Brown street,Edgware •road, were charged before Mr. Knox with stealing from the person of Susan Stroud, a licensed hawker, of 6, 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 coming up she gave Winchester into custody, and eubse quently 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 times 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. He told Mr. Winchester that he had b e tter go to the station, and subsequently the other prisoner to Mr. Lewis, the constable said ho knew the prosecutor answerafs given into custody. In a or years, and to be out late a t nights. He had u d gt M w r. Winchester to be a m as t er tailor in Maddox street, and and a highly respectable person. M r . Knox said it appeared to him to be an impudent lie got up by the woman ; she could not have known how pinch Ale 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. - STBILING 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 employer. 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." He then took him into custody, and on searching his box he found a bag containing 78. worth of farthings and seven pots of jam. Mr. Fletcher said that he saw the constable mark the money produced. It was the practice to leave the coppers and the threepenny and fourpenny pieces in the till all night, rad 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. THE FINANCIAL STATE OF FRANCE. The 2lfoniteur publishes M. Achille Fonla'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 the country, and submit to your Majesty for your appreciation a measure which it appears to rno necessary. The nature of my propo sal will justify the delay which has occurred in pre senting it to the Emperor. "The Council of State has under consideration the ordinary and extraordinary Budgets of 1865. " Its labours are so far advanced that I can already announce to your Majesty the proximate presentatvin 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 intended to cover the supplemen tary expenses caused in 1863 by the war in Mexico. " The 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 on 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. " 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 favourable 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 farseen for 1863, we come to a maximum of 75,000,000 f. "The extraordinary expenses occasioned by the Mexican war in the years 1862 and 1863, the ac counts of which have been made up to the Ist 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. Our 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 (securite) 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 tee facility with which we can support all the ordinary charges of our Budgets, and even largely support great enterprises which have so powerfully co ntributed to develops the prosperity of the country, and which will develope it still more. "As regards the Budget of 1864 the resources realised will exceed 4 the provisions agreed upon between the Government and the Legislative Body. This surplus will diminish the estimates w hi c h 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 this 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 we consider the extraordinary calls that were made ; but, added to our 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 normali proportions. "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 ha nd, kayo 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 cuff .irs 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 hindrance to commerce. " A regards myself, Sire, I had entertained the hope that I need not have opened the ledger (grand lzvre), 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 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 millions. Oar deficit would thus be reduced to 672 millions. " The floating debt will remain beneath that sum, because the settlement of debts is always s lower than the collection of taxes. The sums due to the Trea sury exceed 600 millions. " This debt will be all the more easily settled when we have succeeded in the steps which we have taken to obtain repayment for what we have advanced to Mexico." * This includes the credits called over from 1861 to 1,-62, and from 1862 to 1863. The Saturday Review is certainly very delightf u l. It goes up to a great stately reputation and smacks it in the face I This ver y week, for exampl e, i t says— " The Fdinburgh Renew is now about the most ponderous, timid, and conventional organ of L;ndon Whig society. The old Scotch devil 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 R-:miniscenci4 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 'era milk," 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 the house in which the prosecutor lived, in one of the back streets in Poplar. At about helf.past Bin 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 one ot those ordinary Irish scrimmages so common in the localities inhabited by natives of the Emerald Isle. The learned Judge said—Supposing it was so, he never heard that in either Ireland ot England was a hammer invariably used as an instrument of defence. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The Record2r 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 p trt of the stolen property was found, and the only account the prisoner gave of it was that he 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 he 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 0 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. Tho Recorder—Then during the last 12 years ho has been in prism 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, he 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 the duck 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, caged 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 pooket of which there was 4s. 6d., 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, Thursday. • 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, has been followed by the suicide of the intending murderer. The circumstances are briefly these :—A young ma n, 22 years of age, named George Hooper, a native of Bur nham, in Buckinghamshire, about three miles from this place , was employed as coachman and groom to the Rev. Mr. Gres le y , incumbent of All Saints' Church, Boyne Hill, whose name will be remembered in connection with certain charges brought against him of alleged ultra-traetarian practices a year or 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 HO, 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 the shop of Mr. E :ward Thomas, gunsmith, in Maidenhead, and requested to look at some pistols. He selected one, and having asked the price, which he 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 pr.,mised Mr. Thomas that he would call again in the evening to let him know whether his friend would have the pistol or not, he went to another shop, kept 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 obj,ct 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 him, but she repeatedly declared that she would have no more to do with him. lie then asked her to accompany him to the trout 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 bt a i n , the house being full. In the meantime Mr. M‘G raw , su p er intend e nt of the Maidenhead borough p ol r i oc ce e , e h d a e d d to bee ß n h a ni pp h r u is in ed , circumstances,tohfethreesideheeofHopper's and he a e father, thinking to find him there. Not succeeding in doing so, he returned to Maidenhead, and there learned that the body of the murderer had been found on the moor, a piece of waste ground near the town, he having literally blown out his biains. Dr. Piumtre 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. LONDON, Dec. 4.—Wind this day at noon —South• West ; moderate breeze and fine weather. CLYDE, Deo. 3.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Julia, from Quebec. MILFORD, Dec. 4.—Wind 'W.—Arrived —Amber Witch, from Madras for Liverpool. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH PLYMOuTII, Friday, 10 30 a.m. The weather has moderated—wind westerly. HerAia jesty's ship Black Princa (41), Capt. Wainwright, is now proceeding trou► Hamoaze into the Sound. The steamship Hydaspes, from 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. (JIY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. No arrivals. Sailed—Dolphin, for Antwerp. DEA.L, Friday Morning. Passed—Marian, screw steamer, irom London, for Forms. Maxwell, from Calcutta, riding close to the Goodwin Sands, having cut away her mizenmast, and during the night cut away her mainmast, is now riding well, and weather very mderate. 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, who could identify the prisoner as haying 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 " This definition was received with some derisive laughter. He then proeeeded 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 ft-11. 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. I am certiin Lynch is the man. Evidence was given that the prisoner was several weeks in custody while 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 several daring robberies. He was apprehended on the night of Monday the 23d ult. 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• saWts not being complete, the prisoner was again remanded until Tuesday next. MARKETS--This Day. MARK-LANE. The arrivals of home-grown wheat fresh up to this morn ing's market were small. Both for red and white qualities the trade ruled firm, and Monday's advance in the cur rency 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. Beans and peas were in steady request, and the quota tions had an improved tendency. In flour a fair average business was transacted at full currencies. ARRIVALS THIS WUBK. Melt Barley. Malt Oats. Flow. 910 1 , 4 20 1390 ' 430 2,190 1340 111 - 117,710 600 ske, 4,280 brlo 1ri5h.......... 7;0 2,580 130 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat on sale le moderate, and the trade rules firm, at our quotations : Per 81b. by the carcase. .. stied @dad Inferior beef .. 3 0 3 '2 Middlingmutton 3 10 4 4 Middling do. .. 3 4 3 8 Primed° ....... 4 6 4 8 Prime love do. 310 4 0 Veal ....... 3 8 4 6 D La o r . g s e m p a o l r cd o .. 3 4 31. 4 2 440 Lamb Small .. 4 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8 large, but itlayredemriovdederafterolmy— the B OROUGH HOP. We have to report a steady .demand for E ng li s h h ops' and prices rule firm. Fine f orei g n parcels mo ve off freely , at extreme rates, and tue value of inferior foreign produce t is he we s i u l p s p u i p i e p s o r a t r e e d . a t p T r h e s e e n i ra t p c o h r Con tinent. New Mid and East gents.. Li 10s to £ 8 lOs per cwt. New Weald of Kents.. 5 05 to 6 68 New Golding ........ 6 6s to 6 10s " 4 10s to 6 6 8 If New Sussex ........ 3 05 to 6 O s " Yearlings 3Os to 3 10a " Olds ................ Bavarian ............ 668 t0 8 0 8 ' Belgian ............ 3 105 to 3 18s ,: A m erican .......... 6 56 to 6 Os „ .__.....—. _ COLONIAL. TBA.—The public sales have continued to progress very s lowly, a nd pr i c es have shown a decline of ld to 2d per lb. awl a large quantity of West India announced for public ' SUGAa.—There has been very little business transacted. sale has been withdrawn, holders showing little disposition to renuce prices. In the refined market common lumps quoted 52s per cwv. COFFEE. —Only a moderate amount of business ha s b een reported in Colonial Plantation; Ceylon, however, has been rather cheaper. RicE. _o w i tv e to the high rates demanded by holders the operations have been restricted to a few parcels for home consumption. Lis- FRUIT.—The dealing i n raisins, currants, and figs have been limited, taking into consideration the season of the year, and prices genera ll y have shown less firmnes s. GREEN FRUIT.— the sale of oranges continues good, and prices, considering the qu antit y on hand, well maintained. Some parcels St. Michael, Terceira, Fayal, Valencia, bon, Seville, China, and Si cil y , sold b y Keel ing and Lis- Hunt at public sale, went at prices equal to those obtained last week, excepting for St. Michael, which may be quoted higher. Spanish nuts well supported. Almeria grapes, of fine quality, realise a high figure. A. small cargo of Bilboa arrived. French walnuts in moderate demand ; a good crop is reported. TALLOW.—Market continu es dull, very little bein g transacted, either for pres en t or for wer in ddelivery.busess P e • r • w. Y c •e i Qn the spot is quoted 41s, and spring delivery 42 s p 131 301 63} a lesi 8 1041 101 i 473 4141 131 13 il7 lion tool 101 l 881 i 771 7 TEE CRAWLEY COURT-MARTIAL. (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) FOURTEENTH DAY. [The following appeared in the Third Edition of " The Sun" of last evening] ALDERSIIOT, Thursday. The Court was opened this morning at half-past 10 o'clock, when Colooel Shute was early in attendance, with a view to being cr G ss-examined by the prisoner. The members of the court martial remained in consulta tion for some time before the opening of the court. The President and members having taken their Feats, Colonel Pipon said that the prosecutor had stated yester day that he had received a letter from the Adjutant General. directing him to decline the production of the letter of the Commander in Chief to Colonel Shute. The Court would request the prosecutor to hand in the letter which formed the grounds of their decision yesterday. Colonel Sir A. Horsford said that the letter had nothing to do with the proceedings of the court-martial. He had no objection to hand it to the Court, but not for the purpose 01 its being recorded in the proceedings. Colonel Crawley stated that having had an opportunity, by the kindness of the court martial, of considering the course he should adopt on the subject, recapitulated what had taken place on the subject, and the pledge given by the prosecutor atter he had a knowledge of the contents of the letter, also of that of the Adjutant-General, and after expressing regret that the production of the letter should be considered detrimental to the public service, he begged to suggest that in order that the Court might fully appreciate the difficulties with which he had to contend, the letter of his Royal Highness should be handed to the members of the Court, not for pub lication, but to enable them who were his judges to form a just opinion of his case, lie felt that under the circum stances he could not make any further attempt to cross examine Colonel Shute in the circumstances in which he (colonel Crawley) was placed. By the course he suggested substantial justice would be done ; and the court would be come acquainted with the difficulties in which he stood, and the facts on which he relied in justification of the course he had pursued. Colonel liorsford, in reply, stated that anything handed to the court would become evidence, and must be recorded on its proceedings, which would be in violati on o f t h e or d ers he had received, which were not to produce a letter of a confidential character. The letter from the Adjutant- General, so far from conveying information relative to the inquiry, was a mere official letter, conveying instructions to himself why he could not lay before the court the evidence they required, lie had no objection to that letter being recorded on the proceedings. Colonel Crawley said that the same course that he wished to be pursued with the leitttherthoef Adjutant e ju C ta o n m t Commander in Chief was now being pursued v, letter. The court retired to consider the point. On their return into court, Colonel Pipon announced the decision of the court to be that the letter produced should be recorded, and they de cline to receive any communication which is not to be recorded on its proceedings. The letter was then read, which simply stated that, his Royal Highness objtcted to the production of any letter, or any extract, which was strictly confidential in its character. George Cowley, private of the 6th Dragoons, was re called and re-examined by the prosecutor. Sir A. Horsford—llow long have you been in the regi ment ? —Four years and five months. Colonel Crawley--Were you ever posted sentry over Ser geant Major Lilley, and if so, state where F—l was posted sentry once only over the sergeant major in No. 2 room in the first bungalow at the door of No. 2. Did you ever see Mrs. Lilley in her bedroom ?—No. William Clerk, private of the Gth Dragoons, called. Sir A. Horsfori—Were you sergeant during Sergeant Major Lilley's confinement?—Yes. Did you attend Sergeant Major Lilley in his exercise, and if so, how often F—Twice, but I do not recollect the dates. When you attended him did you go behind him or by the side of him ?—The first time by the side of him, the second time 10 or 15 yards in the rear of him. Were you armed ?—Yes, with side arms. Colonel Crawley—Did you ever visit the sentries over Sergeant Major Lilley, and if so, where were they posted ? _They were posted in the little room in the rear of Ser geant Major Lilley's bungalow, No. 4 room, Did you consider the position of the sentries any annoy ance to Mrs. Lilley F—No. Did the sergeant major or Mrs. Lilley ever make any complaint to you El—No. Do you consider the place where Sergeant Major Lilley was exercised a good place fur such a purpose ?—Yes, a very good place. Is it usual on all duty for a sergeant to be armed with his side arms ?—Yes. Sir A. Horsford said he had to inform the Court that it was not the intention of the prosecution to examine any more sentries in chief, nor would they call any more had it not been that they had given the prisoner a list of them, and it was usual to call all in order that the prisoner 'alight cross-examine them if he desired to do so. Colonel Crawley said that with every desire to save the time of the Court, he was advised he could not, without injuring his defence, release the prosecution from calling the witnesses. He did not think that to take a different course would save any time. If the prosecution would call his witnesses in succession it was probable that with regard to most of them he should not have any questions to put. John Love, late of the 6th Dragoons, was called — Sir A. Horsford—Were you orderly-room clerk during the time of Sergeant Major Lilley's arrest?—Assistant orderly room clerk. Col. Crawley—l have no question to put. Sergeant George Robins of the 6th Dragoons called. Sir A. Horsforci—l do not propose to examine this witness. Col. Crawley—l have no question to ask him. William Rhodes, corporal of the Gth Dragoons, called. Sir A. Horsford—l don't propose examining this witness in chief. Col. Crawley—l have nothing to ask him, Private James Doherty of the 6th Dragoons was called, and was not examined either by the prosecutor or prisoner. Private Francis Dribble, of the 6th Dragoons, was called, and there was no examination in chief. Colonel Crawley—Did you see Sergeant Major Lilloy drink any brandy when he was under arrest. It' so, state what F—l saw him drink several glasses of brandy. Did he drink several glasses of brandy on one occasion when you were on sentry, or on several ?-011 one occasion. What sort of a glass was it he drank it out of ?—A tumbler. Did he offer you some brandy ?—Yes, he asked me to drink, but I did not take any. How much brandy was there in the glass when he offered it to you ? Well, there might have been a good dram in it. What became of the brandy he offered you w hen you refused to drink it ?—I had occasion to take the sergeant major to the rear, and he drank the brandy when he came , back, Private James Duffy, and Private Huss, of the 6th Dra goons were called, but there was no examination os either side. Sergeant Francis Johnson, 6 th Dragoons, called. There was no examination in chief. Colonel Crawley—Were you servant to Sergeant Major Lilley three years before he wa s placed in arrest Was Sergeant Major !Alley in the hr bit uf drinking a certain amount of spirits the first thing in the morning ? He used to drink a certain amount but not to excess. He would take half a draw of atrack iu a cup of coffee the first thing in the morning. In your opinion after his arrival in India, was he a strong man or was he frequently ailing'—He was ill three times in India before his arrest. Was he a man who could drink a considerable quantity of spirits without showing its effects 2-4 could not say. Private Jame, Nye called. Sir A. Horsford—Were you at any time sentry over Ser geant Major Litiey, _and if so when F—To the best of recollection on the 2/ 7th of April. ... my 27th April. I don't remember the second ee times ' Lill How often were you sentry, and when ?—Three bungliNvvvhaha seel aloes w hi y et f o r — e u eY to the second to the second, on nn the e e ?—Yes. C e S n . t from the first buns ight of the 11th of May. Did you go over with Sergeant Major date, and wasa chick down there, could see e S it s ometimes throu where were you posted ?—ln the small the second bungalow. room, No. 2. nothing in sometimes down F—Yes. it—couullad and ever see the bed ?—Not i n the room when I went Why F—There was • down. Was there anything in the second bungalow at any time when you were sentry ? In the first bungalow could you see the bed ?—When there was a light in the room I could just discover the bed. Colonel Crawley said he had no questions to ask him. Private John Mackey was called, but was not examined in chief. Colonel Crawley —Were you a guard over Sergeant Major Lilley in the second bungalow on the 15th of May ?—Yes. 111 d you ever see Sergeant Major Lilley in the verandah of the second bungalow before that day ?—Yes. Private E. 'leaden called—There was no examination in chief, f Colonel Crawley—Where were you posted when you were first sentry over Sergeant Major Lilley ?• —Outside the first bungalow. Do you remember being moved from tiere, and why were you moved ?—I was removed about 4 o'clock. I don't know why I was removed, but I suppose it was on account of the sun. Were you sentry a second time inside the house P— Yes, in No. 2 room. Could you see through the chick w hich hung in the door. way into Mrs. Lilley's bedroom F—l could not. At what distance from her b edroom were you posted ? I should think about 10 or 12 feet. Private James Kelley ca lled. Sir A. Hot stord—Wer e you po sted over Sergeant Major Liiley wben he was in the s econd bungalow was. Did he make any complaint?—He made no complaint. Colonel Crawley—What was the room used for in which the sentries were placed ? A servant's room, and for holdinn saddlery. Colonel Crawley said he wished to know whether the pr o _ sccution intended to eNatitine any more sentries in reference to the annoyance caused to Mrs. Lilley. If not, he was con. tent to rest his case on that point where it stood. Sir A. llorstord said the prosecution thought it IntwiFe to rsay more about th e i r mo d e o f con d uct i ng th e p r o secu ti ons Ihe Court shortly afterwards adjourned. HOMICIDE BY AN OFFICER, The Military Tribunal:fTa -l— ris on Tuesday tried Lieutenant Fleury, thlieeof 28, gu 4th Regiment of Volti. geurs of the Guard, aged on s t last, a charge n s, n married fhaving a murdered, o n t h e 18th e o l i n ) a i n a nthaemepdasPseagiie d Petit, aeCherbourg. clear.starcher 'W ho had a, a the case, as ascertai ne d f rom the prisoner's prison l e l r e 's f c a o ct n s fe n ;a f gnumerous witnesses, may l Petit for the Passagefe 1 first yrhthetft her. Ile apo time, sion and the evidenpeuessoifo be briefly stated as followstl u - Cou, h ,h the the prisoner, when e Cherbourg, saw the woman and at once conceived a strong passion returned in the evening with the intention ob taining an interview. In this he succeeded, anti was chagrined to learn that she was married ' an d .' had a husband living, who was a painter m b This discovery, however, did nut deter hi saw her again on the follow in g da y , and she th en o consented to visit him at his own lodgings. s he kept her word, and remained with him alone for several hours. A day or two later the prisoner w ent to the woman's shop, under the pretext of having linen to wash, and was introduced to her husband. From that time he spent all his leisure hours at the shop, often going in full unitorm, and sometimes stayed all night, sleeping on a bed made up tau purpose tor him in the same room where the wif e and her husband slept. This continued for two months, when the woman persuaded him to leave his lodging in the Rue de Vienne, and to partiallz, furnish au apartment which he had hired in the Rue St. Nicolas, and from which they atterwards re moved to the Rue Laborde. Here they led a very t a ti tt e e ir nd m ed ist b r y es t s t es e . pris o o n ne s r o 's m f e . ri o e f nd th s, es a e cco t m h gay life, frequently giving p art i es w hi c h wer e p occasionsAugust,ecli t b h h y i e her conduct Icnonn especiallyd P uc c t i towards exc itedthe prisoner's jealousy by case tthhee o naal nte visitors. the 9th when a lieutenant named Giuganti and his mistress wile present. Tne prisoner was so much offended on this occasion that ha even threotened to cease all connection with her, and even w rote to his rath er for m his accounts with her, o ney to enable him t o settle Unfortunat e ly th e money was refused, an d the prisoner's resolve to br ea k w i t h his mistress was not carried into execution. On the contrsry, his infatuation became and the woman irritated hi m greater than ever , more and more by h a ving rendezvous the object ofwhich she refused to explain. On the mornin g a t the 18 pro mised to be at home when he came, but 18 th she Wa and he then learned from one of her wash s w omen aent) that she was out with a gentleman. A f ew el later he saw her alight from a hackney co ac h a n t ut " end of the passage, and he received her with trhen re proaches, which she answered in the most offensive manner. She even told her work women that if Bebe (such was the nickname given to the prisoner at the shop) were ever troublesome they must smack his face and turn him out. Peace, however, w as restored by the arrival of a stranger, and the pri soner afterwards asked pardon for the language h o had used, and said that he would come and take her out for a walk in the evening. She replied that she would not go with him, as she had an engagement which she intended to keep, but would not say will whom. The prisoner then exclaimed—" I will take care to prevent your going." He soon afterwards withdrew, but returned just before eight in the evening. After his arrival, the four women who were ironing in the shop fancied they smelt gun powder, and one of them went out to see if any boys were letting off crackers in the street. The prisoner appeared to take no notice of what had been said. About 9 o'clock the woman Petit seeing Lieutenant Giuganti passing before the shop, calved him and said, " How proud you are, wont you come in and. kiss rue ?" Giuganti did as she wished, and after ! wards asked tier to go with him and the prisoner to the latter's lodgings, which she refused, saying that she had an engagement elsewhere. About ten the woman Petit sent one of her women atter a man who had just passed the door. Ia a minute the mes senger returned and said that the gentleman was waiting for her mistress in the Rue d'Anjou. The latter was going out at the back door, when the pri soner seized her by the band to detain her. She re. f used to stop, and he then discharged a pistol at her head. The ball did nat penetrate the skull but stunned her, and, leaning on a table, she exclaimed —" My sight is going. . . ." She had scarcely uttered these words when the prisoner stabbed her to the heart, and, rushing out into the street, gave himself up into the custody of a sergent de ville. Giuganti, who was present when the pistol w as fired, seemed to have lost his wits, for instead of arresting the murderer he ran away as fast as he could. All these facts were fully established by the evidence given in court, and the only doubtful points were whether the murder was premeditated, and whether the prisoner was insane at the time, A. great many witnesses deposed that his family, b oth. on the father's and mother's side, were subject to i n . sanity. His two grandmothers had died raving mad, an d he has a sister at the p resen t moment in a luna tic asylum who fa ncies that she is the spouse of Jesus Christ, and has been told so by an an ge l The medical witnesses who gave evidence re - specting the prisoner's sanity all agreed that, Whatever he • might have been at the moment of the crime, he has not been mad since. The prisoner's counsel (M. Lau chaud) endeavoured to show that the disease here ditary in his client's family might reasona bly b e supposed to have bee n the cause of the crime. The Tribanai, however, did not consider such to be the case, for it declared the prisoner guilty of wilful murder, and unanimously condemned him to 20 military years' hard labour, degradation, and to bo under the Bu r y •ii ei a n ee of the police for Galignani. Bank of England Return,•--Yesterday. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, eq. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 2d day Lit Dec., 1863: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. oteri Issued ..,,...X27,084,39) X 27,051,390 BANKING D eroprietors' Capi tal .£14.553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- counts) :,234,894 Other Deposits— 12,924,545 Seven Day and other Bills 663,107 £38,559,730 AL Government Debt £11,015,101 Other Securities 3.634,90 d Gold Coin & Bullion 12,434,390 Silver Bullion .... £27,081, 39 / ..PARTIIIENT. Government Secu rities ((including Dead W eigh tAn nutty) Other Securities . ,11 • 171 = 4) Notes 014,v,z5. Gold and Silver Coin £38,559,73t A RgSALL• Chief Cashier. ...,- " .---1 7 - i ne representative of COPENHAGEN, Dee. • „ bi t hat nothing was changed IX., assuring his 310.i.es":„iating between the two l's--erecluntials to Cnristiall Sweden has presented in the friendly relations existing has been named Grand countries. Gen. d u ' Equerry of the Court . y , sARAwAIi, SIR J. BROOKE, has THE RA 3 A ll ii ; E ng l an d. Previous to his departure recently arrived „,, was presented with an address, signed by from Sarawak he the Liovernmeut with but one exception, °C's :dairy of the subsciibers to his person and , and their determination to maintain his Government, h a nd founder of Saravvuk. rights m 614 9: 0 „ " THE " /ALSE .vOAST OP THE DELTA OF THE N I GER, as described by a F. 8.. G. S., in his 66 wanderings in Westeln Africa„ apillerdring thet :—Nothing is more s imple than to sketch the view as seen from the sea. Above, au azure space based upon a band of dull and bright greens, re s ti ng upon a thin line of golden sand, and in the in the foregrou n d a little deeper ultramarine than air. In the rainy season, change the blue above to a heavy mass of cl o ud s, reposing upon the land, and the blue be low to a brown o li ve. Where a river gap de noted by an uneven notch in the land, and, as , ar will b proper right p o i nt — t h at i s to say, t h e Avestan somewhat hi g h er t h an t h e ot h er. Th e continent apparen t will be f oun d di v id e d i nto i s l an d s , a nd subdivided into d creeks. islet s , b y river like mangrove-haunted exists it will be the if in. id )11 Share 3.14. t 5.4.0 , 9.16.4 ~ <~` :114