The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-28 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is still an active demand for discount ac commodation, and full rates are required for all descriptions of mercantile bills. An impression prevails in some quarters that an advance in the minimum of the Bank of England will be speedily announced. A dividend at the rate of 8 per cent., and a bonus of 16s. per share, have been declared by the directors of the National Bank. The next drawing for bills of exchange on India will take place on the 4th proximo, to the amount of £600,000. The Asia Minor Comp .ey is a new undertaking, formed for the purpose of encouraging the growth of cotton in the country which bears the title of the association. The nominal capital has been fixed at £500,000, but only one-fifth of that amount is to comprise the first issue in shares of £lO each. The promoters are connected with the manufacture of cotton in that country, and have already proved, by a satisfactory test, the capabilities of the country, and the desire of the cultivators to improve the quality of their crops. Asia Minor is spoken of as being peculiarly adapted for the production of the plant, as containing abundance of free labour, and possessing a ready means of transit by railway and otherwise to Smyrna, which is within 15 days' steam communication with Liverpool. The direc tors do not intend to engage directly in the culti vation of cotton, but by means of agencies in the interior to stimulate and offer assistance to those desirous of extending the culture of the plant. His Imperial Majesty the Sultan has, moreover, inti mated his intention to encourage the growth of cotton in his empire, and has consequently remitted certain taxes on the lands. The company anticipate to find abundant remuneration from making ad vances to cultivators, from the purchase of cotton, and from the introduction of machinery for clean ing and baling the material. The directors of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad Company have announced their intention of receiving subscriptions for 1,500,000 dols. 7 per cent. mortgage bonds on the line. The capital is required to complete the construction of the exten sion to Cincinnati. Pending this new line the com pany are using, at a rental, a portion of the Little Miami Railroad, and the accounts published show that the revenue is in excess of the expenditure, and the amount required to pay the interest, &o. on the new loan. These bonds are a first charge on the income of the company, and the interest and prin cipal are payable in London at a fixed rate of ex change of 4s. per dollar, yielding about per cent. to the investor,besides the premium on redemption, which is rather more than 11, per cent. per annum on the 30 years which the bonds have to ran. The London and Midilesex Bank held its first ordinary meeting to-day, for the purpose of ap proving the appointment of Mr. George Cooper, the professional auditor to the establishment. After a few remarks from the chairman, the appointment was agreed to_ Two o'CLocx. A recovery of 1 per cent. from the depreciated quotations, current yesterday afternoon, has taken , place in the English Stock Market to-day, Consols being 92k for money, and 92k I for the account. The New Three per Cents. and Reduced are steady at 941 ; Exchequer Bills have ,declined to 2s. dis. and par. Bank Stock is 235 and 237 ; and India 6 per Cent. Loan, 1081 1. In Foreign Securities the transactions have been of a moderate character, and prices in some in stances have shown less firmness. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are steady at 86k a ; do., 1858, 701 71; do., 1862, 661 t; and the Consolides, 401 I; Egyptian are 96f 97 ; do., 2d issue, 96 ; the New Peruvian Loan has declined to 861 871 ; Portuguese do. is heavy at 46: ; Russian do., at 951 1; Spanish have been very depressed, dealings having taken place at 25: and 26i ; and the Certificates are 91. Business in the Railway Share Market continued dull, the preparations for the half-monthly settle ment occupying the chief attention of the dealers and speculators. A heavy tone, however, has pre vailed. Caledonians, Great Westerns, London, Chatham, and Dover, North Westerns, and South Easterns have declined 55.; Midi...a., Brighton, 15a. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without change of importance. HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK. ADVANCE IN THE BANK RATE OF DISCOUNT. The Bank of England authorities have this day advanced the rate of discount from 4 to 5 per cent. The measure has not created so much surprise, although it has been adopted on Wednesday instead of the usual court day, Thursday, because it was generally perceived that the efflux of bullion was of such a character as to necessitate a restric tive policy. Within the last few days the with drawals have been of magnitude, and there was every prospect of their continuance, owing to the situation of affairs in Paris, and the directors have done quite right is the course they have adopted. The private discount firms will now allow 4 per cent. for money at call, and 41 per cent. with seven days' notice of wit hdrass , al. The Joint Stock Banks will only give 4 per cent. The Three per Cent. Rentes opened to-day, at Paris, at 69f. 70e., being sc. lower than yesterday. The Liverpool cotton market to-day opened dull ; sales about 4,000 bales, at yesterday's rates. BRITISH FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 237 5 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92} A New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent 1055 1 Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 1001 Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001 1 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100 1 Dtt Bonds £l,OOO Ditto under £l,000 Consols for Account, Feb. 5 921 1 1 Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 25 per Cent par 2 dis 2 par FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 6 per Cent Ditto 45 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent t • itto £lOO Bonds 95 Equador New Consolidated Egpptian 7 pet Cent 97 Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Coupons Italian .5 per Cent. (Mareinmana Railway) 72 Mexican 3 per Cent Now Granada 2 per Cent Ditto ex over-due Coups. & Hectares 13 113 Peruvian 45 per Cent. Ditto 1862 .. 871 61 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 1 1 8 8 6 2 2 2 Russian 5 pe r Cent , z St. •. • 461 1 ~ 185 0 Ditto 41, per Cent., 9 - 34 1 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 ...... . - Sardinian 5 per Cent. ............ .: 92,5 1 1 Spanish 3 per Cent ......... 63 Ditto New Deferred . ........ . 4 - 65 Ditto Passive ;Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded.....; 94 Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 i D )i i t t t t o o A 6 ecpeoruCnetnt. 1858 701 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 103 5 Ditto Guaranteed., 4 per Cent 235 Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 ........... Dividends on the above payable in Italian, 5 par Cent., 1861, EL 25f GOB THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 924 } Ditto Account THE ACCIDENT AT THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE. — In reply to inquiries made at the Middlesex Hospital last night, shortly before 11 o'clock, it was stated that Miss , Smith's conditio n w a s much the same as it had been on Monday. The hopes of her recovery were extremely faint. llrs. Hunt's illness was not considered dangerous. The various persons connected with the Princess's Theatre in dicate by their numer ous i nqu i r i es a t th e hospital the deep interest they feel in the fate of the sufferers. They speak of them as decent and deserving women. HEALTH OF LONDON.—The weekly return of the Registrar-General shows that the number of deaths in London registered in the week that ended last Saturday was 1,426. The average number in corresponding weeks of ten years 1853.62 is, with a correction for increase of popu lation, 1,483. The deaths in last week were, therefore, leas by 57 than they would have been if the average rate of mor tality towards the end of January had ruled. The births in last week exceeded the deaths by 660. Share 100 etk t 20 20i 10 1 001 00 100 stock stock stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 stook stock 20 20 100 100 stock stock stock stock stock stock SHARE MARKETS---This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND 5T01.;16, Closing Business Share Railways. Paid. Price. done. Mr.. Wok, and Str. Val Llythe and Tyne. .... Bost.,Sleaf.,andMid.eo Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Z;ornwall nets no (iiv Do A till 6p c.p an.has Do. B been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast Juno. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk fi 7 86 S 8 1141 114 1141 15 6i 7 41 43 13 14 86 87 105 107 96 47 92 44 24 241 E 7 61 46} I Ditto A. stock Ditto East Anglian st' GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Do. --e.5 shares Gt. S. an , l W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., aad Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do Z 5hare5........ .. Metropolitan Midland 128 129 131 132 138 138 1321. 11 104 106 66} 6 6 1 i 2 5 1 109} 109} 1091 72 73 116 118 40 41 9 , 4 97} lOti 103 i 40} 41} 117 16 4.'j 97. 1 1031 2 12 121 1274 128 I I It 7 96 98 12t t 2 4 I 127/ S 4 _ Do New Do Birming. Derby Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwio k Do, G.N.E. purchase, Do Lecda 53 53t 25i 26 99} 991 - -d 99i d 566 576 88 881 128 130 110 112 6 1 1) 151 14 11 14 118 120 48 49 104 106 Do York Do Carlisle...—. •• • North London Do New North Staffordshire . • N. and S. IV. Junction. Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock y Do Scot.'Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton & Darlington 47 49 33 34 90 904 68 70 101 104 6 7 384 394 10 104 p 71 71 p 149 151 41 5i 21 h p 554 566 26 34 p cl p 87 90 140 145 Do _ Do New, 1860 Taff Vale.. ...... Do B ..••• Do C 'later Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford do Kilkenny' West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.adt West Midland -Oxford' Do Newport! Do Hereford! 29 31 111 1 92 44 34 36 94 36 BRITISH POS'-;ESSIONS. Railways Paid. all Closing Price. 65 — 67 104 f tOsi Atlantic & St Lawrence Bom.,Baroda&Cent hid Gu. s_per cent........ Do. New . • • Buffalo and L axe Huron Do. Preference . •• • • Buffalo,Brant&Godrich 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1,79 Cl cutta.& S. Eas tn. (1, , ) Cape Town & Dock Scrip Eastn. Bengal gu. 6 p. c East Indian. gu. 5 p. C. Do. do. G Ext..... Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. Do. 2d Pref. 6 per et.. Do. 6 per et. Debentr. Do. 7 per cent. 1882 .. Do. do. 1867.. Do. do. 1872.. 4i 5 7} 8 80 83 73 76 73 76 104 106 108 i 109 106 1(.7 106 107 1 l ip 21 22 iP 73 75 63 65 32 84 47 50 32 34 32 24 105 106 P it.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.o. Do. New gua. 5 p. 0... Do. January, 1862 . • Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. i Gt. W. of Canada Shares 104 106 12f 121 81 71u, 99 101 92 94 li 11p 102 103 96 98 93 P 8 Do. New - Do. 6 p.c. '73 withl'opt. Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-5.... Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. C. .. Do. q p. o. Extension Dc. 4+ do .... Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnci, Melb. & Hobson's Bay. 52 53 Do. 7 p. c. nortg. Bds. New Brunswick et Cand, Class A Capital Share i Do. do. B Capital d 0... N.Rl.C'da6 pc Ist pt bds Scinde .... •••• • • Do. Delhi Do. _d0...... .• • • k all all 100 (um 1 100 I DO. Punjaub Do. Do, Do • Indus. St. Flo. 3 5 3 h 83 15 105 106 102 104 I IP kP 104 105 99 101 !oLONIA.L GOVERNMENT SECO Can. Gov. 6 p.e.Ja &July 1877-54 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug. Do. 6 p. e. Mar. & Sept. Do. 5 p. c. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stock ('ape G. Hope, 6 p 0,1873 Do.Ap & Oa 1880 Do. 1890 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. CeElon, N0v.1861, 6 p CI 100 100 100 100 100 Do. a p. - 0. Ap. & Ocf N. S.W. G ov. 5 p c.,1866, Do. 5 p. c.,1871 to 1876 Do. d0.,1888 & upwde New Zealand 6 p. cent.i Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c , sterling, 1875 j 100 Queensland Gov. 6 p. a' 100 S. Aus G6p.c.1876.& up.; 100 Vic. Gov. 6 p.e. Ja.&Julyl 100 Do. to 6 ti.o. AD.&04.. .1 100 .105 106 'lO6 108 106 108 931 96i 93 95 10s 110 112 114 112 114 ,111 113 100 101 991 1001 99 100 109 111 losi 104 1(9 111 109 111 107 109 ,1c llO 4 1091 4 10 fi RTTISH MI Cambrian Consol. Gold Chttord Amalgamated Devon G. Core, rfavist East Bassett (Illozan) East Clo,gau Gold Ltd East Caradon ..... East Carn Brea... E. WI Russel (Tavistk.) Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.), Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor (lielston‘ (Grenville Herod's- Foot Hingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant , Marke Valley.. Myody Iron Oro (Lim ) New Seton North Downs N. Wh 'I Basset(Illo 2;an' North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey, providence (Uny Lelnt. South Caradon(St.Cleer) S. Cam Brea (Mogan). • -..Wheal Fran. (Iliogin) Stray Park Tamar Silv.& Lead Min Tin Crott West Basset (Illogan) W Caradon (Liskeard) West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) Wheal Buller (Redruth) Wheal Kitty (U. L elant) WhealLud• ott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) Wheal Seton Wheal Treiawney (Lis ) Wheal Union Ipar 23 25 516 525 51 63 18i P 494 itP 11 12 51 6 18 20 68 61 6 84 5 5i 50 52 21 3k 1 33 (0 81 91 idltpr 140 150 2/ 3 2t 181 41 5} b 6 , 1 43 900 410 2} 2/ 874 021 It 4k 2.4.9 lk 10A7 5.15.6 18.1k.9 28.9. llf x 'sl 13 14 31 33 285 295 75 80 60 65 71 81 9 91 151 161 HO 250 161 171 51 6 471 51 5 2.0.6 2.10.8 8 58} 7 3.13 PREFERENCE SHARES. at vorthern,7s per cent., red. at 10 per cent. prem., 112 itto, 41 per cent. red. ditto, 106) 5 Western (i'erks & Hants Ext.), 5 per cent. red. pf.. 101 don, Chatham, and Dover per cent. pref., 1001 100 th Eastern 4a per cent., 1031 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Kent Coast, 6 per cent. pref. B, 21 London, Brighton, &c., 41 per cent., 1858, 1033 London, Chatham, Metrop. Ext., B 6 per cent., 10; LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. Clydesdale Junction, 105 London and Chatham 4 per Cent., 94 3 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 7} Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) guy.. 7 per cent., 201 Belgian Eastern Junction, I a Great Luxembourg, 141 Namur and Liege, gua.l4f. per annum, 5) Recite and San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 19# San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 91 4 Western and North-Western of France, 211 GO Lon Soul FOREIGN MINES. Cobre Copper, 211 East del Hey (Um.), II Mariquita, Mont. Aureos Braz. Gold Min. Co. (11m.), 2i Santa Barbara Gold Mine (lim.), - ,1 St. John del Rey (lim.), 55f .1 Yudanamutana of S. Australia (11m.), JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Alliance Bank of London:and Liverpool (11. m.), 241 ; Australasia, 771 Bank of Egypt, 26 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 211 1 City, 92 90 Eng., Scot., and Australian Chartered, 211 1 London and Brazilian aim.), 31 1 London, B. Ayres, and R. Plate (lim.), 13 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 261 1 , LLooLondonOttomannndd:nn ja a and dan nts C ko o : t3o S t o c k,h4nii C olon i al African,l t t n ts 2 , i 3 e wi siiiti London and County, 381. 9 u London and Middlesex London and Westminster, 7- , St) 29 Standardl3out h A u Australia , ali British 3 4 4S4olth Africa ), 10 Union of Australia, 504 50 Union of London, 321 3_ _ DOCKS. East and West India. 137 MISCELLANEOUS,. Canada Land, 94/ 5/ Crystal Palace, 3l East India Irrigation and Canal, 1/ glish and Australian Copper, 2 Italian Irrigation Canal, 1 London General Omnibus Company (lim.), Madras Irrigation and Canal, 3g National Discount Company, 8/ North British Australasian, 'Oriental Inland Steam (lim.), 8} 'Peninsular and 0 iental Steam, 73/ 41 Rhymney Iron, 196 . 1 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements (2', 3 / Royal Mail Steam, 571 The leaden roof of the Temple Church is now in course of being thoroughly repaired, for which purpose a lofty scaffold has been erected on the south side of the circular vestibule. Tho rubble work on the north side of this portion of the church and the western porch hate just been restored with !much care under the super vision of the Temple architects. A portion of this ancient structure was recased with atone by Mr, Smirks in 1828. 13.14 5.4.0 19.16.4 12.10 90 f ,Business done 105 4f lost 9 1061 1061 ; ; 1051 6 II i ' It!•El} S. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. —4— COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir Cresswell Cresswell.) DAVIES V. DAVIES AND HUGHES. This was a suit instituted by the husband against his wife for dissolution of marriage. It appeared that the parties were married at St. George's, Wolverhampton, in 1843, and they then Loth entered the service of a gentleman named Preslaud, at Cosforth, in Staffordshire. The marriage was a secret one, and it was only on the occasion of a quarrel that the fact .as disclosed to a person named Thomas Nicholls, a gardener, in the ser vice of the same gentleman. After the quarrel the husband left Cosforth to seek other employment, and during his absence the respondent became familiar with Hughes, who succeeded her husband in his situation. They had been seen " clipping and kissing" each other, but nothing further. Mrs. Davies and Hughes afterwards left Cosforth, and the next he saw of them was at Wolverhampton. When he met Hughes he asked him how the " missus" was, meaning Mrs. Davis, and he said she was very well. They were then living at that place as husband and wife. A gentle man named Rosier, of Bedford-place, London, said the petitioner had been in the service of his father for 16 or 17 years, and it was only lately that he had mentioned the fact that he was married. He had holidays to go into the country to see his friends, but he never asked for leave of absence to visit his wife during the whole of the time he had been in London. The Judge Ordinary said it was a case requiring grave consideration. As the matter at present stood, it seemed as if the petitioner had voluntarily separated from his wife en the understanding that he was going to try to better his situa. tion. That took place nearly 20 years agc, and there was nothing to show that during that time he made the slightest effort to see his wife. Under all the circumstances he would reserve his decision for the present. MILNES V. MILNES AND EARP. This was a suit also for dissolution of marriage instituted by the husband. The parties were married at Nottingham in 1856, and lived happily for about four years. The separation took place in 1860. Mrs. Davis, a person residing at Newnham terrace, Lambeth, said Mrs. Milnes, whom she knew as Mrs. Earp, occupied apartments in her house for some time with a person whom she thought was her husband. On one occasion a gentleman named Jordan called to serve a paper (the citation) on Mrs. Mlles, when she took it. He also said he had one for Mr. Earp, when Mrs. Milnes told him she would take him to where he would see him. Mr. Jordan produced a photo graph of Mrs. Milnes, when she tookit out of his, hand and broke it to pieces, stamped upon it on the floor, and said, if her husband was there she would serve him the same. She also said when the business (meaning the petition for di vorce) was over Earp and her intended to get married, A question arose as to the identity of the person named in the citation being Mrs. Milnes, but after some difficulty, the fact was established to the satisfaction of his lordship who granted a decree nisi. HAVILAND V. HAVILAND. This was a suit instituted by the wife for a dissolution o marriage. The parties were married in 1848 at Leamington, from whence they proceeded to Yentnor. On coming to London they went to live in Cambridge-square, Hyde-park. Mr. Haviland was at this time a lieutenant in the 62d Regiment. The separation took place in 1855, in consequence of Mrs. Haviland discovering an improper intimacy between her husband and Mrs. Desborough, who resided at Chelsea. The petitioner, when she became aware of the circum stance, accused Captain Haviland of the fact; when he packed up his trnnk, put a ring on her finger, and went away. Mrs. Haviland went to Boulogne after this, but left word that apartments would be prepared for him ; but he never came, and from that day down to the present Mrs. Haviland had never seen her husband. Decree nisi with costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ATTEMPTED MURDER BY .A. BROTHER.—James Smith, alias Donovan, a determined looking young man, and who appeared in the dock without coat or waistcoat, was charged with feloniously cutting and wounding Catherine Hawkins, his married sister, with a knife, with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The prosecutrix, a young woman, whose head was en veloped in bandages, said—l live at 24, Tower-street, and am a married woman, but I am living apart from my hus band at present. I am staying with my mother. Yesterday morning, about 8 o'clock, the prisoner, who is my brother, came in and began ill-using my mother because she had a shilling he wanted. He then began beating my mother, and got her on the floor and jumped upon her. I begged of the prisoner not to ill-use my mother, and seeing that her mouth was bleeding I ran for assistance and called " Police." As soon as I did so the prisoner ran away up Tower-street. In about two hours he came back, I then being in bed, when he said, " You—, I'll do for you for trying to give me in charge this morning." He then seized a knife off the table, and stabbed me in the temple with it. I then called for the police, but before they came he ran away a second time. I was covered with blood, and was taken to the Charing-cross Hospital in a cab. Mr. Tyrwhitt—You have your arm bandaged, did he cut that also? had burst in consequence of the wound on my head. Mr. Tyrwhitt—How long was it before the constable came ? Prosecutrix—ln about ten minutes. I did not remain at the hospital, but after my wound was dressed I went home. When he came home again in the evening I got a constable and gave him in charge. Once before he stabbed me. Mr. Tyrwhitt—When ? Prosecutrix—About a twelvemonth ago, in Shorts-gar dens. He then stabbed me in the shoulder. Ido not wish to hurt him. I only want to be protected from him. Mrs. Ann Donovan, a widow, living at 24, Tower-street, said --The prisoner is my sin and the prosecutrix my daughter. My eon works, and I wish him to be kept quiet Mr. Tyrwhitt—What did he inflict the wound with ? Witness—l was not in the room when he used the knife. When he ill-used me I was intoxicated, and don't know what he did, but I recollect that he knocked me down and jumped upon me. Oh yes, I recollect that. I don't wish to punish him, but I want him to "run loose," provided he behaves himself. He quarrelled with me about a shilling. William Walters, 143 F, said—At half-past eight yes terday evening, I was called to 24, Tower .street, and there saw the prosecutrix, and she said that she had been stabbed by her brother, the prisoner, and she gave him into custody. The prisoner was at that time lying on the bed and the prosecutrix had her head bandaged, and also her arm. I took the prisoner to the station. This knife was brought to the station by the constable who was called in in the morning (a knife with blood in it was produced). Mr. Tyrwhitt—You had better keep the knife just as it is. Constable—The prisoner said that he was very drunk at the time, and recollected nothing about it. Mr. Tyrwhitt—l shall commit you for trial. I have no doubt your sister and mother would like nothing to be done with you out of kindness, but 1 am determined there shall be. Mr. Tyr whitt, after the depositions had been signed, -aid —Prosecutrix, I would advise you to go to and remain at the hospital, as there is evidently danger in the wound. Prosecutrix—l would rather go home, sir. The mother of the prisoner here fell down on the floor of the court, having fainted, and was carried out by some of the officers. MARKETS—This Day. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. THE SPRING HANDICAPS. ACCEPTANCES FOR Age st lb Asteroid .. .. 6 9 4 Caller Ou .. 5 8 6 Buckstone .. 4 8 6 Knutsford .. 5 8 2 Cowley .. 5 8 0 Ben Webster 6 3 0 Zetland .. 4 8 0 Bellman .. 5 8 0 Cariebrook.. 4 8 t)1 Dulcibella 6 7 121 Avalanche.. .. 6 7 12; Bally Edmond .. 5 7 12 1 K;ng of Kent .. 5 710 Flexmore .. 4 7 9 Hartington .. 4 7 9 Carnerino .. 5 7 8 Gardener .. 5 7 61 The Knave .. 4 7 6 Chere Amie 6 7 5 Henham Lass 6 7 51 Pizarro (late Duke Rollo .. 4 7 6 1 , Dusk .. .. 4 7 41 Straddle .. 4 7 41 Fitz-Avon.. .. 6 7 41 Earl of Surrey .. 4 7 2 Liorse 4 7 2 Haddington 7 2 Viscount Brignall.. 5 7 0 Queen of Spain .. 4 7 0 Barbadoes .. 4 6 12 Catch 'em Alive .. 4 6 10 Kill or Cure 4 6 101 Victor .. .. 4 6 10 Roman Bee .. 3 6 101 Dalesman .. 4 6 8 Jealousy .. a 6 8' Bernice .. 5 6 7 Freeholder .. 4 6 5 Killigrew .. a. $ 4 The Brewer .. a 6 4 The Plover .. 3 6 3 Le Marechal 3 6 2 Valentine 3 6 2 Canace 3 6 2 ACCEPTANCEEVFOB ST Bt Ivanhoff 9 Stampedo .. 6 9 Rapparee 5 8 Fairwater 5 8 Oldmicater 5 8 Carisbrook .. 4 8 Croagh Patrick .. 5 8 Hartington .. 4 8 Knutsford .. .. 5 8 King of Kent .. 5 8 Balham .. 5 7 Rouge Dragon .. 5 7 Gardener .. 5 7 van-at-Arms .. 6 7 Somebody's Lug gage .. • • a 7 .. 4 7 .. 4 7 .. 4 7 4 . 7 .. 4 7 „4 7 .. 4 6 ~ a 6 Ganiston Gorse .. Benjamin Harlequin Lord Stanley Bonnycastle Incitatus .. M. Philippe ACCEPTANCES FOR T] Age st lb Lawyer .. 5 9 11 Crater 6 8 9 Cowley 5 8 2 Prince Plausible .. 5 8 0 Man-at-Arms .. 6 7 9 Fig .. 4 7 8 Rouge Dragon .. 5 7 8 Wetsail 4 7 4 8 Charles Fox 4 7 Agag 4 7 4 Benjamin .. 4 7 2 overton .. 5 7 2 Canwell 4 7 2 Buckenham .. 4 7 2 Eastern Princess .. 5 7 2 Interduca .'. 4 7 0 Incitatus 4 6 13 Camperdown .. 66 12 Itenham Lass .. 6 612 WEIGHTS FOR THE HAN Age st lb Asteroid .. .. 59 5 Lawyer .. .. 58 13 Sawcutter .. 6 8 12 Fairwater .. 5 8 11 Cape Flyaway 6 8 9 Brown Duchess .. b 8 7 Crater .. .. 68 5 Croagh Patrick 58 5 Feu de Joie .. 4 8 4 Stradella .. 4 8 4 General Hess .. 6 8 3 Prince Plausible .. 5 8 2 Investment .. 4 8 1 Batbilde 5 8 0 Umpire .. 6 8 0 Wingrave .. 4 8 0 Argonaut .. .. 4 7 13 Alvediaton.. .. 4 7 13 Aln.torwit.n. .. 5 Z b 7 12 Johnny Armstrong 4 7 11 Welcome .. .. 4 7 11 Earl of Surrey 4 7 11 Partisan .. .. 4 7 10 Gemma .. 4 7 10 Welland .. 4 7 10 Exchequer.. .. 4 7 10 Beachey Head .. 4 710 Costa .. .. 4 7 10 Henham Lass .. 5 7 9 Fitz-Avon.. .. 6 7 9 Eastern Princess.. 5 7 8 Benjamin .. 4 7 7 Attica .. a 7 7 Flirtation 5 7 7 Humphrey .. 4 7 7 Chere Amio .. 6 7 7 Spencer .. 5 7 6 Noelie .. 4 7 6 Solferino .. 4 7 6 Choisy lo Roi 4 7 6 Joey Jones .. 5 7 6 Brighton .. .. 4 7 6 Myrtle .. 5 7 6 Buckenham .. 4 7 5 Canwoll 4 7 5 Berkeley .. .. 4 7 5 Michael Grove .. 4 7 4 Turn of Luck .. 4 7 4 Fig 4 7 4 Gardener 5 7 4 Overton .. 5 7 4 Lord Stanley .. 4 7 3 M. Philippe • . a 7 3 Blackcock .. 4 7 2 Provocateur .. 4 7 2 Polynesia .. 4 7 2 Rubens .. 4 7 0 Sappho .. .. 4 7 0 Hubert .. .. 4 7 0 Rescousse .. 4 7 0 Agag .. 4 7 0 Harlequin .. 4 6 13 Queen of Spain .. 4 6 13 Miss Livingstone.. 4 6 13 Cairncastle .. 3 6 12 Charles Fox .. 4 6 12 Innellan 4 6 12 Lady Evelyn colt.. 4 6 12 Manrico .. 4 6 12 Tetet rine .. 4 6 11 Alchymist .. 4 6 10 Catch'em Alive .. 4 6 10 Canary .. •. 5 610 Bosh .. .. 4 6 10 Valentine 3 6 8 Attaman .. 4 6 7 interducit 4 6 7 MARK-LANE. A very large supply of English wheat was received fresh up to this morning's market. Both red and white qualities, however, moved off slowly, at Monday's currency. The supply of foreign wheat on the stands was tolerably extensive. In all descriptions sales progressed slowly, on former terms. Floating cargoes of grain were in moderate request, at late rates. Malting barley ruled firm, at extreme currencies. In grinding and distilling qualities a limited business was transacted, at the late decline in their value. Malt was in slow demand, yet prices were supported. Oate, the supply of which was very moderate, ruled arm, at extreme rates. . _ In the value of beans and peas no alteration took place, but the inquiry for them was far from active. The flour trade, on the whole, was steady, at late cur rencies, ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English...". 130 250 i 550 280: 1 1,160 1ri5h.......... 1.1,550 8,870 2,150 I 470 sackl 8,70 brls BOROUGH HOP. The business doing in our market is very moderate, yet prices are stee.dily supported. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the demand, on the whole, rules steady, as follows :—Beef from 2s 6d to 38 10d ; mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4a 4d per Blbs, by the carcase. O w in g to the unfavourable state of the weather for the past few weeks es the operations of the Royal employed in th e woo d s a dj o i n ing Upnor Castle, Chatham, in makin ce g od g r a inly been bi g ons andfa:iv cin e e n for s for that the Royal En gin eer es tablishment, a ablishment, have been much retarded. Ord ers have which willil without returning the non employed onm. wlth b y to work in the woods from 8 a.m. till 3 30 to barracks for dinner, them on their return at the latter hour, An unuk- a . ally large quantity of gabions and fasci nes w - 411 be required during the approaching summer, WEIGHTS FOR THE NEWMARKET HANDICAP. Age at lb Carbinecr .. 5 9 5 Lawyer (h b) .. 5 8 13 Fairwater .. 5 8 10 Cape Flyaway 6 8 10 Stampedo 6 8 9 Z etland .. 4 8 8 Brown Duchess .. 5 8 7 Paste 5 8 5 Carisbrook .. 5 8 5 Dulcibella .. 6 8 3 Ba.ly Edmond 5 8 3 croagh Patrick .. 5 8 0 Bathilde .. 5 8 0 Black Prince .. a 7 13 Loiterer .. 6 7 13 Gabrielle d'Estrees 5 7 13 Hartington .. 4 7 12 Man at Arms .. 6 7 12 Welcome .. .. 4 7 12 Earl of Surrey .. 4 7 11 Guiding Star .. 5 7 10 Rouge Dragon .. 5 7 10 Partisan .. .. 4 7 9 Alerte .. 4 7 8 M. Philippe .. a 7 7 Myrtle .. 5 7 7 Canwell .. 4 7 5 Noelie .. 4 7 4 Solferino .. 4 7 4 Amy .. .. 5 7 3 Sappho .. .. 4 7 2 Blackcock.. .. 4 7 2 Harlequin .. 4 7 0 Polynesia .. 4 6 13 Rubens .. 4 6 13 Lady Evelyn colt.. 4 6 12 Watchman .. 4 6 10 Age st lb Valentine 3 6 9 Victrix .. 4 6 9 Villette .. 4 6 8 Percy • • •.5 6 8 Barbadoes .. 4 6 8 Bedouin. .. .. 4 6 7 Physician .. a 6 7 Magnum Bonum.. 4 6 7 Barchettina 6 6 Fee.. .. 5 6 6 Attaman .. 4 6 5 Dunkeld .. 3 6 5 Lapidist canace .. 3 .N 6 4 Ernest .. 3 6 3 Cistercian .. .. 36' 2 Amelia .. .. 36 0 Amazonian 3 6 0 Equinox .. .. 35 13 Battery .. 3 510 Perseverance 3 5 10 Monitor .. .. 3 5 9 Fantail .. .. 3 5 8 Scamander .. 3 5 7 Glance colt .. 3 6 7 Sandford .. 3 5 7 Jack o'Newbury .. 3 5 7 Bro. to Springbok.. 3 5 7 Chaff .. .. 3 5 7 Eleanor .. .. 3 6 7 Curacao .. .. 3 5 7 Falcon .. .. 3 5 7 Colleen Rhue 3 5 7 Sylvanie .. 3 5 7 King of Italy 3 5 7 Warhorse .. .. 3 5 7 Physalis colt .. 3 5 7 LINCOLN SPRING MEETING. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25. The Lincolnshire Handicap. One mile. _ Age st lb Rupture 5 6 13 Remunerator Manrico 4 6 12 Drumstick 4 6 10 Paresseuse Engineer, by Volti geur Golden Drop 3 6 8 Honest Tom .. 3 6 6 Comet Alcibiades 3 6 5 Oakapple 'Revolver Souveraine ' Sea Nymph .. 3 6 0 Safeguard 3 5 13 Fontenoy A.ntar 3 512 Invasion Dualla Refuge Mrs. Somerville Lady Maria Dinah filly . . 3 5 10 Jenny Wren 3 5 9 True Heart Douche Westn. inster 3 5 7 Hypermnestra age. About four miles. Age at lb. Suburban 6 8 12 Joey Jones Libellous The Monk 6 8 2 Maggiore Lord Stanley 4 7 12 Michel Grove Charles Fox 4 7 11 Knight of the Bath 4 7 to Miss Livingstone 4 7 10 Lopcatcher Churchman Henham Lass 5 7 6 Peignor 4 7 6 Flash in the Pen a 7 5 Ethel .. 4 7 5 M. Philippe Everlasting Conundrum 1 Gleam Prologue Hubert Weatherwise Squire Percy 5 7 0 Misfortune .. , 4 7 0 The Norman 5 7 0 Tithonius Court Martial Adventurer Tke Grand SteeplechE Age at lb Jealousy Maritana Romeo Yaller Gal a 10 12 Jerusalem The Dane Sinking Fund ,oubtful Avalanche a 10 4 Satellite Ravenstonedale Northern Light Heads or Tails Light of other Days a 10 2 Lincoln Cockatoo Cuirassier --- Age st lb Chester Mary Ann a 10 0 Multum in Parvo a 10 0 Remedium Pineapple Countess Wilful Mutineer Magician Broomstick Climax Discrepancy .. a 9 2 Cherokee .. a 9 2 Cheery Chap a 9 2 Birdbolt Canteen a 9 0 Confidence 6 9 0 CITY BETTING-THIS DAY. CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Stradella (taken) 2500 to 100 agst Black Deer (taken freely) 600 to 20 agst Anfield (taken freely) 25 to 1 agst Le Marechal (offered) 1000 to 15 agst Pizarro TWO THOTTSILND. 500 to 30 agst Tom Fool (taken) 16 to 1 agst Pratique (taken) THE DERBY. sto 1 agst Lord Clifden (offered) 5500 to 220 agst Carnival (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Queen Bertha (taken) BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY. The only investment we saw made on Chester Cup was on Anfield, about whom 500 to 15 was taken. For Liver pool Steeple Chase, 100. to 6 each was taken about Master Bagot and Avalanche; but at the close 100 to 6 was the current offer on the field. For the Derby there was an evident wish to lay against Saccharometer, although no higher over was made than 100 to 9. Carnival appeared friendless. 2,000 to 60 was taken about King of Utopia. Very little was done on Waterloo Cup: 100 to 8 was offered against Mr. Spicks' and 100 to 7 against Mr. Wor ralr s nominations, but those figures did not suit the backers. 1 Closing prices : LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHISE. 100 to 6 agst Avalanche (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Master Bagot (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Anatis (offered) 20 to 1 agst Tho Dane (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Jealousy (offered) CHESTER CUP. 20 to lon the field—offered 25 to 1 bar one—offered 33 to 1 agst Anfield (taken) THE DERBY. 11 to 2 agat Lord Clifden (offered) 11 to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered) 100 to 8 agst Hospodar (offered) 25 to 1 agst Carnival (offered) 30 to 1 agst Jarnicoton (offered) 33 to 1 agst King of Utopia (taken) 50 to 1 agat Cairncastle (taken) 50 to 1 agst Glenochty colt (taken) 50 to 1 agst Avenger (offered) 100 to 1 agst Bright Cloud (taken) 100 to 1 agst Trojanus (taken) 100 to 1 agst Baldwin (taken) Thcre is no change in the batting on the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes. WATERLOO COT. 100 to 7 agst Mr. Spinks' nomination —wanted 100 to 6 agst Mr. Worrall's nomination —wanted 100 to 6 agst Mr. Blacketock's nomination—offered 25 to 1 agst Mr. Gibson's nomination—tk and offrd 100 to 3 agst Mr. Knowles' nomination—offered 100 to 3 agst Mr. Hammond's nomination—offered 40 to 1 agst Mr. Hayward's nomination—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Lawton's nomination—taken. GUNPOWDER v. RAIN. The Geographische Mittheilungen of Petermann contains several curious communications concern ing the influence of the concussion produced in the atmosphere by discharges of artillery and musketry upon the weather. Among them is one from Mr. Lewis, one of the editors of Silliman's Journal, who distinctly rejects the popular idea that clouds are dispersed by the roar of artillery, and contends that a brisk cannonade is often fol lowed by a pelting shower. Thus, in October, 1825, the salvos which were fired on the occasion of the inauguration of the Erie canal were followed by torrents of rain ; and several other instances are adduced, in which discharges of artillery caused the condensation of equeous vapour in the atmosphere, and a subsequent violent shower either on the same day or on the day after. It is well known that the battle of Solferino was interrupted for a while by a most copious fall of rain. In July, 1861, M'Clellan's army had to fight for four successive days, and every evening closed with a heavy shower. The first battle of Bull's Run was fought on the 21st June of that year, and the 22d turned out to be a rainy day. Another correspondent, M. Schropter, of Buda, states that on the 4th May, 1849, the citadel of that place, defended by 84 gnus of heavy calibre, was attacked by a suitable power of artillery. The weather, which had been extremely fine for several weeks past on that day became cloudy, and a driz zling rain fell, which lasted from midnight until morning. The sky then remained clear until the 17th, when a violent storm broke out, that nearly coincided with a bombardment which lasted six hours. But after this storm the weather became fair again, and not even the storming of the fortress was followed by a drop of rain. This single nega tive result, however, does not entirely, as a third correspondent rightly observes, disprove the opinion that rain may be called forth at will by a loud can nonade; and if this were true, the effects of a pro longed drought might be considerably mitigated. FRENCH MEDIATION IN AMEBIC/I.—Th° Nord of yesterday says that 'AI. Drouyn de Lhuys has without o addressed a note to the French Ministers at St. Petersburg, London, Vienna, and Berlin, instructing them to sou n d an ati ar e r n a a ng to ement these Courts upon the fitness, not . of mediatiomn,igbbUtt beof simple counsels which might. be given to the belligerent parties at Washington and Richmond, advising them to name commissioner,: charged to examine, with o r manadaermwisittihce,thuepovnieww hoaft puttingbase s war. the calamitous The Glasgow police return for the year ending September last, include upwards of 17,000 "drunk and disorderly" cases, THE CHESTER CUP. Age st lb Port Royal .. 3 6 2 Brother to Scent .. 3 6 0 Erin-go-Bragh .. 3 6 0 Mainstay .. 3 6 0 Forester .. 4 6 0 Physician a 6 0 Real Jam .. 4 6 0 M. Philippe .. a 6 0 Bohemia 3 5 13 Glenochty colt .. 3 512 Double X .. 3 5 12 Donne Canne .. 4 512 Emily di Lona .. 4 612 eatherspy .. 3 5 12 Barchettina 3 5 12 Dunkeld .. 3 5 12 Count Cavour .. 3 510 Lady Fauconberg.. 3 5 10 Black Deer .. 3 6 10 Monitor .. 3 5 10 Dr. Syntax .. 8 5 10 Glance colt .. 3 5 10 Dualla .. 3 6 8 1 Ernest .. .. 3 5 8 ILady Superior .. 3 5 8 Conical .. 3 5 8 Alcestis .. 3 5 8 Lufra .. 3 5 8 Anfield .. 3 5 8 Luscinia 3 5 7 Fantail .. 3 5 7 Middledatch • . 3 5 7 Amelia . .. 3 5 7 Jack of Hearts .. 3 6 7 Contralto .. 3 5 7 Venison .. 3 5 7 Chaff .. 3 6 7 Serf •• 3 5 7 Canzonette .. 3 5 7 Muffler .. 3 6 7 King of Italy .. 3 5 7 Voluptus .. 3 5 7 Laertes .. 3 5 7 Lady of the Isles.. 3 5 7 Liston .. .. pays ft. THE NORTHAMPTON KE S. Age at lb Lady Evelyn colt.. 4 6 11 Physician .. a 6 11 Berkeley 4 6 11 African .. .. 4 610 Attaman .. 4 6 10 Freeholder .. 4 6 8 Fee .. 5 6 6 D ansinane (late Moorcock) .. 3 6 4 Equinox .. .. 3 6 2 Muffler 3 5 12 Ernest 7 3 510 Luscinia (late En nerdale) 3 5 10 Canzonette .. 3 5 10 Voluptas 3 b 9 Jack of Hearts .. 3 5 9 Falcon 3 5 8 Chaff 3 5 7 Sylvanie 3 5 7 Sister to Sage .. 3 5 7 Springbok .. .. 3 5 7 Zeloo 3 5 7 Little Nelly .. 3 5 7 1E ST. LIZ HANDICAP. Age et lb Lady Evelyn colt.. 4 6 12 Watchman .. 4 6 12 Teterrinia .. 4 6 12 Merry Maid .. 4 6 10 Hungerford .. 6 6 10 Hnbert .. 4 6 10 Stampede .. .. 3 6 9 Tithonius .. 4 6 8 Middlewatch .. 3 6 4 Tiptoe .. .. 46 4 Br. to Morocco .. 3 6 4 Revolver .. .. 3 6 3 Muffler .. 3 6 3 Ernest .. .. 3 6 1 Jenny Wren .. 3 5 11 Jack o' Newbury.. 3 6 11 Antidote .. 3 6 10 Sylvanie .. 3 5 9 ' Hypermnestra 3 5 9 IITY AND SUBURBAN lICAP. Age st lb Barbadoes .. 4 6 7 Golden Dust .. 3 6 6 Glenochty colt .. 3 6 6 Black Deer 3 6 6 Lapidist .. 4 6 5 Gunner .. .. 3 6 4 Lady Emma .. 36 4 Bryn Gwyn .. 46 4 Barchettina .. 3 6 4 Soapstone .. 4 6 6 Dunkeld .. 3 6 4 Dr. Syntax .. 3 6 3 Rapture .. 5 6 3 Bohemia .. .. 3 6 2 Newmarket 3 6 2 Portland .. 6 6 2 Donnybrook .. 3 6 2 Debdon. .. 3 6 2 Eruaat 3 6 2 Amazonian' g Jacqueline colt .. 4 6 2 Weatherspy .. 3 6 0 Honest Tom .. 3 6 0 Souveraine .. 3 6 0 Laura .. 3 6 0 Miss Armstrong .. 3 6 0 Odine .. 3 6 0 Escape .. 3 6 0 Melandra .• .. 3 6 0 Physician (by Chan ticleer) • • a 5 13 Adventurer .. 4 512 Beneventunt • • 4 5 12 His Excellency .. 3 5 12 Comet •• •• 35 12 Oberon • • ••4 5 12 Liston •• ••3 5 12 Erin-go-Bragh .. 3 5 12 Tresham • • •.4 5 12 The Royal Stag .. 3 5 12 Victor • • •• 4 512 Newchurch .. 3b 12 Ossian .• •• 3 5 12 Summerside .. 35 12 Dualla ~ • 3 5 11 Coupon •• .. 35 11 Sea King •• •• 3 5 11 Newfoundland .. 3 511 Merry Maid .. 45 10 Celombine.. .. 35 10 Misfortune • . 4 5 10 Conical .• ••3 5 10 Perseverance .. 3 510 Ch eer ful .. ••3 5 10 Sister to Allington 3 5 10 Battery • • " 3 5 9 Father O'Leary .. 3 5 9 Stampede .. 3 5 9 Colleen Rhue •. 3 5 7 Pillion •• 3 5 7 Mrs. Somerville .. 3 5 7 Gl ance colt .. 3 5 7 Sandford .. 3 5 7 Jack &Newbury .. 3 5 7 Jack o'llearts .. 3 5 7 Lady of the Isles .. 3 5 7 Middlewatch .. 3 5 7 Voluptas 7 Tademas .. 3 5 7 Gelert •• •• 3 5 7 Sister to Sage .. 3 5 7 King of Italy .. 3 5 7 Jenny Wren .. 3 5 7 Luscinia .. 3 5 7 Reserve .. 3 5 7 Te - ase.me-not .. 3 5 7 Sylvanie .. 3 6 7 Birdlimo .. 3 5 7 WEIGHTS POR THE GREAT METROPOLI TAN STAKES (Handicap) of 25 says each, 15 ft. and only 5 if declared on or before Tuesday, February 3d, with 100 added ; the owner of the second horse to receive 50 sous out of the stakes ; the winner of any handicap of 200 nova value after publication of the weights (Jan. 28, at 10 a.m.) to carry 51b of any two such races or more, 101 b extra; Great Metropolitan Stakes Course, two miles and a quarter—to start at the Winning -chair (91 subs.) Age st lb Asteroid .. 5 9 5 Ivanhoff .. 5 9 0 Lawyer .. 5 8 12 Fairwater .. 5 8 11 Zetland .. 4 8 7 Compiegne .. 5 8 7 Stradella .. 4 8 4 Bally Edmond .. 5 8 4 Cariebrook .. 4 8 4 Dulcibella .. 6 8 2 Croagh Patrick .. 5 8 0 Investment .. 4 8 0 Rouge Dragon .. 5 8 0 Hartington .. 4 7 12 Umpire .. 6 7 11 Welcome .. 4 7 11 Guiding Star .. 57 11 Earl of Surrey .. 4 7 9 Costa .. .. 4 7 9 Boachy Head .. 4 7 9 Dusk .. .. 4 7 9 Partisan . , 4 7 9 Gardener .. 5 7 8 Joey Jones .. 5 7 7 Brighton .. .. 47 7 Alerte - . .. 4 7 7 Buckenharrt .. 4 7 5 Myrtle .. .. 57 4 Berkeley .. .. 47 4 Flirtation .. .. 5 7 4 Solterino .. .. 47 4 .. 7 4 Nuelie .. Haddington .. 47 1 Somebody's Luggage it 7 0 Sappho .. .. 46 13 .. 4 6 13 Gorse .. Harlequin .. .. 46 13 .. 4 6 Polynesia .. 13 .. 4 6 li lionnyeastle Physician (by Chan ticleer) ... .. a Real Jam .. .. i Barbadoes • . • • % Canary • . .. 5 Charles Fox .. 4 Magnum Bon= .. 4 Age at lb Catch'em Alive .. 4 6 6 Attaman 4 6 6 Villette .. 4 6 6 Bedouin .. 4 6 5 Lioness 4 6 4 Glenochty colt 3 6 4 Black Deer 3 6 4 Valentine .. 3 6 4 Watford .. 3 6 3 Golden Pledge 3 6 3 Bryn Gwyn .. 4 6 3 Adventurer 4 6 2 Donnybrook 3 6 2 Dunkeld 3 6 2 Debden .. 3 6 2 Fanscombe .. 6 6 1 Kill or ''tire .. 4 6 0 ' Dr. Syntax .. 3 6 0 Weatherbow .. 3 5 13 St. Lawrence .. 4 513 Citadel .. .. 4 512 His Excellency 3 5 12 Double X.. • • 3 5 1 Battery .. 3 5 10 Colonabine.. .. 3 5 10 Odine 3 5 10 The Royal Stag .. 3 5 10 chaff 3 5 7 Falcon 3 5 7 Bullet .. 3 5 7 Hampton Court .. 3 5 7 Scamander .. 3 5 7 Glance colt .. 3 5 7 Sandford .. 3 5 7 Jack o' Hearts .. 3 5 7 Bro to Springbok.. 3 5 7 Canzonette .. 3 5 7 Event colt.. .. 3 5 Voluptas • 3 5 Conical ..• 3 Netherby.. • • :5 7 Sister to Sage Lady Fauconberg.. 3 3 5 7 King of Italy •• 3 5 7 ' Luseinia .. • • • Lady Superior .. 3 5 6 7 6 7 6 7 6 7 6 7 6 6 LITERATURE Roba di _Roma. By William W. Story. 2 vols. Chapman and Hall. There are probably few more striking contrasts existing in modern social states than between the civilisation of Rome and that of America. They represent the opposite extremes of idealism and practical life, of beauty and utility, of venerable age and reckless enterprising youth. The atmos phere whieh reigns in the one is the dreamy twilight of the realm of art; in the other, the hard, (old morning of worldly experience. Among the po pulation of the one we find a faith which its enemies assert, partakes of superstition ; among that of the other a matter-of-fact tone of thought which its antagonistsoo eclare to arise from want of principle- At first sight,.thon, it would seem that there could be little sympathy between such opposing systems, thatrillie citizens of the one could hardly do justice to the other, and that ally description of Rome from the piski of an AmeriCan, or of the great New World from an inhabitant of the Eternal City would hardly be a faithful. and friendly portrait. That such need not always, be the7ease is, however, apparent from the two godly volumes before us. Mr. Story, an American by birth and education, has under taken to set forth " Rib di Roma," or, in other words, " everything from rubbish and riff-raff to the most exquisite product of art and nature." And this promise he fulfils, taking us from the crowded cafe to the desolate Campagna, now bidding us pause to examine the wonderful ruin of the Colosseum, and now leading us through the dark and dismal streets of the Ghetto; showing us alike the smiling beauty of the Italian May and the gay doings of the vintage. V e listen with him to the clamour of the beggars and the piping strains of the Pifferari ; we stand to look at the games of Morra or Pallone, which have come down from the days of the Pharoahs and the Caesars, and join the anxious crowd awaiting the drawing of the lottery. We smile at the bon tnots of Pasquin, and sigh over the recollections of the stern and cruel " good old times," whieh he points out to us. It is a book which could only have been written by one thoroughly conversant with Rome and Romish ways ; who had himself lingered in the markets or watched the fountains playing; had mixed freely with its people, and habitually spoken its language. A genuine love for the ancient city is another quali fication possessed by the writer. Even its very dirt is sacred in his eyes, and more than once he attacks those lovers of modern cleanliness and order who would repair its ruins and whitewash its many coloured walls. " The Romantic," he says, " will not consort with the monotonous—Nature is not neat—poetry is not formal—and Rome is not clean." The great marvels of Rome have all been described a myriad times, and every traveller knows what he is expected to see ani to admire. "Every English man carries a Murray for information, and a Byron for sentiment, and finds out by them what he is to know and feel at every step. All the pub lic and private life and history of the ancient Romans, from Romulus to Constantine or Julius the Apostle (as he is sometimes called) is perfectly well known. But the common life of the modern Romans, the games, customs, and habits of the people, the everyday of To-day, has been only touched upon here and there, sometimes with spirit end accuracy, as by Charles Macfarlane, sometimes with grace, as by Hans Christian Andersen, and sometimes with great ignorance as by Jones, Brown, and Robinson, who see through the eyes of their courier, and the spectacles of their prejudices." A residence of many years in Rome has enabled our author to undertake the office of cicerone, not to the wonders of art, but to the routine of everyday existence, and to combat the hasty conclusions which strangers, especially English and American, are so ready to arrive at after a slight and super ficial acquaintance with Rome and its people. With these objectsbefore him it was to be expected that Mr. Story's work should be somewhat diffuse. We think, however, it might have been judiciously curtailed. He might with advantage have kept to the matter in hand, the Rome of the present day, and have spared us the catalogue of the crimes o the unworthy aspirants to the Papal dignity. I was not to be expected either that the religion of Rome would be otherwise than antagonistic to an American, yet we warn Catholic readers that they will often have something to forgive in his lan • guage. We must regret also a want of reverence in his tone, which will jar upon Protestants also, but this is possibly the result of a semi-humorous style which occasionally degenerates into flippancy. The author expresses at the outset his hope that he shall not be dull—a hope that is fulfilled—but we must admit that he is sometimes diffuse. He is thoroughly well versed in Roman history, ancient and modern, sacred and profane. He can tell us when giraffes were first brought into the amphi theatre of the Colosseum, what long processions laid the stately dead in the chambers of the Mausoleum of Augustus; how the Arch of Titus, and the Baths of Caracalla slowly raised their imposing structures— how successive Emperors persecuted the miserable Jews, and crushed them back into the narrow streets of the Ghetto. Of this singular colony he speaks as follows : THE GHETTO. Let us pass round this gigantic hulk that towers and gloomy over the low, miserable houses near it, and we are into the Ghetto. We have entered, appropriate enough, into the Piazza del Pianto—the Place of Weeping—for sorrow and tears have been the heritage of the children of Israel ever since their splendid city was destroyed and they were scattered to the four winds of heaven. On the very spot where we now stand, or within a short distance from it, this Roman colony of Jews have lived for more than 18 centuries, despised and degraded—the pariahs of Europe and the Church. Through all the sad vicissitudes of these ages of ignominy, here they have clung with a pertinacity which is unaccountable. No savagery of persecution has been able to drive them away from the place where they have suffered most. Enslaved, and thrown to the wild beasts of the arena as sport for the imperial populace, out lawed and denied all intercourse with Christians by the Popes, branded with infamy, oppressed by cruel laws, irri tated by constant insults, banned from the city, and crowded in wretched and unwholesome houses, they have hovered about Rome as moths round the lamp that burns them, and are now the oldest unbroken colony of Jews in Eu rope. Close by the side of the Pa p al Church, which claims to have been instituted by C hrist, the Jewish Church, dedi cated to Jehovah, has stationed itself, and maintained the law of Moses with unflinching faith. Persuasions and threats have been tried on it in vain, Under the unre mitted burden of their woes, the Jews have obstinately re sisted conversion, and on the ruins of the Pagan temples, and within the precincts of the city dedicated to Jove, the two churches of Moses and Peter have held their hostile camps. Of the beggars of Rome we have a lengthened his tory, beginning, as in duty bound, with Beppo, king of the confraternity. This interesting indi vidual deliberately selected his profession in youth, being, incapacitated from active exertion by lame ness. Ho has now amassed a comfortable fortune, and rides home at night on his donkey. His throne is on the upper step of the Scale di Spagna, close to the Trinita di Monti. The country festal are grand harvests for Beppo and his tribe, who out strip all visitors. BBGGARS AT A FETE. becomesthe As you reach the gates of the town, ttltieeitrhoewr hide furious. There are scores of beggars tte 1 0 l far the town road, screaming in chorus. be from the city, there is not N aoofwmtrheetcohleido, s t ma imed who cripple have of your acquaintance, not one of not a ragged baron who dodged you round a Romsansagce through the public squares has levied toll for his p a ssage a privileged robber wh o t subtle shut up for you a pleasant interesting church, but he is they got there is as inexplicable • • street or waylaid yioluovar sure to be there. as how the apples g ot into the dumplings in Peter Pi n d ar ' s poem. Bat at the first ring of a festa - bell they start up from under -ground (those who are legless getting only half -way up), like Roderick Dhu's men, and level their crutches at you as the others did their arrows. An Eng lish lady, a short time since, after wintering at Rome, went to take the baths of Lucca in the summer. On going out for a walk, on the first morning after her arrival, whom should she meet but King Beppo, whom she had just left in Rome ! He had come with the rest of the nobility for recreation and bathing, and of course had brought his profession with him. The charities of the Roman Government are large, says the author, but the money is not always ad ministered to the best advantage. There are hos pitals of many kinds, besides establishments for the care of orphans and for the provision of y oung girls. He speaks warmly of the good qualities of the Italians, and by no means shares the depre ciating prejudice which he affirms to be so common among visitors who know little of the people they condemn. He represents thew As a prudent a abstemious people, and angrily refutes the charges of unhealthinest: which foreigners bring against his beloved Rome, by bidding them do at Rome as the Romans do—live temperately and regularly, avoid heats and chills, and keep their windows closed at night to avo'd the miasma from the Campagna. They are, as we all know, a cheerful people ; suicide is a thing almost unknown ; and one of their great amuse • ments—in fact, almost a necessity of life to them — is the theatre. They are good actors, being en tirely devoid of exaggeration and pretence. Of course, as the theatre is in such demand among citizens who are by no means remarkable for wealth, it is indispensable that prices should be low, and that such is the case is proved by the accom panying picture of— AN ITALIAN TLI.EATRE. Theboxes areill-furnished, with common straw-bottomed chairs without arms, sometimes a mirror, and generally a velvet cushion in front on which to rest the elbow or arm or to place the lorgnette ; no carpets are on the brick floors, which, in the winter season, numb one's feet with cold. One of the servant , , of the theatre, however, always comes to the box to offer footstools, for the use of which he asks a few baiocelti. But comfort is not an Italian word, nor an Italian thing ; and if you aro dissatisfied and begin to grumble at the desol a t e an d co ld pa l e hi , an d con t ras t it w ith the cushioned and carpeted ones at home, please to pause and count the cost of that comfort, and remember that here you pay three sixpences and there a guinea to hear the same singers. I was never so struck by this as once on coming from Italy into France. I had just been hearing the " Trovatore" sung by the troupe, in which were Beau carde, Pence, and Goggi, for whom it was written; and when the season came on in Paris nearly the same com pany were advertised to sing the same opera there. I was inclined to hear them again, but after having heard them six months before for three pauls, I experienced a decided sense of unwillingness to pay ten francs for identically the same singing, merely because my seat was an arm-chair well-padded and covered with velvet. So t too, after for years purchasing the privilege of listening to Elston and Salvini for two pauls and a half, or a shilling English, I rebelled in London against paying half a guinea for, the same thing; the chair in this case being scarcely more comfortable, and the house much more close and stuffy. As a contrast to these gayer passages, we will cite our autheAs-clescription of— THE ARA CCELT. It was here that Romulus, in the gray dawning of Rome, built the temple of Jupiter Feretrius. Here the spolia °pima were deposited. Here the triumphal processions of the Emperors and generals elided. Here the victors paused before making their vows until, from the Mamertine pri sons below, the message camp to announce that their noblest prisoner and victim, while the clang of their tri umph and his defeat rose ringing in his ears as the pro cession ascended the steps, had expiated with death the crime of being the enemy of Rome. Over these very steps, nineteen centuries ago, the first great Comer climbed on his knees after his first triumph. At their base, Rienzi, "last of the Roman tribunes," fell. And, if the tradition of the Church is to be trusted, it was on the site of the present high altar that Augustus erected the " Ara prirno genito Dei," to commemorate the Delphic prophecy of the coming of our Saviour. Standing on a spot sl thronged with memories, the dullest imagination takes fire. The forms and scenes of the past rise from their graves and pass before us, and the actual and visionary are mingled together in strange poetic confusion. Truly, as Walpole says, " our memory sees more than our eyes in this country." The work of an author who thoroughly identifies himself with his subject is always interesting, and when the subject is one of such world-wide inte rest it cannot fail to be doubly so. Notwithstand ing the defects we have alluded to, the book is full of attraction from its life-like sketches of a fasci nating people, while the writer combines, in a singular degree, the enthusiasm of an artist with the keen observation of a quick-witted American. TURIN, JAN. 22.—Signor Rattazzi is at the Lake of Como, where, it is said, he does not occupy him self overmuch with political matters. The Marquis Gual • terio left to-day for Genoa, where he will occupy the office of prefect, left vacant by the departure of the Marquis d'Affiitto to Naples. The Marquis Gualterio is from the Marches. In IS4B he followed Charles Albert in the Lom bardy campaign, and afterwards wrote an excellent work upon the Italian revolutions. Baron Ricasoli appointed him Prefect of Perugia, but from this post he was recalled by Rattazzi, who did not like the somewhat unfavourable manner in which he had been spoken of in the work just alluded to. Parliament definitively opens on the 28th. Financial questions will be the order of the day, and politics will be shelved as much as possible. This course will meet with pretty general favour out of doors. UNINFLAMMABLE LADIES' DRESSES.—A writer in a contemporary says :—Permit me to offer a simple but effectual remedy against the ignition of ladies' dresses. When the dress has been cleaned in the usual manner, mix a handful of common salt in water or starch water, then saturate it well in this before wringing it out. The salt will be found to possess two virtues—that of preserving the colours and making the dress perfectly non inflammable. The objection to sulphate of ammonia or tung state of soda is their tendency both to perish colours and fabrics. Any family can in two minutes test my receipt, and should it be found to possess the Virtue I plaint for it, then a cheap, simple, and effectual remedy will be provided against a repetition of these terrible fire accidents. FAIRSTAR AND DARKSTAR.—I remember how mightily I was enchanted and honoured when my my ;Lady Fairstar did me the unfathomable honour of asking me to dine at her splendid mansion in a glorified re gion of Belgravia ? It seemed to me, then a poor strug gling barrister, on a mythical yearly allowance, that I was on the htgh road to fortune at once ; and that I had only to follow my Lady Fairstar's cavalcade to be landed safe in the very heart of the gardens of Aidann without delay. I went, I made no manner of doubt that I went to fascinate and to subdue, and that I should make such deep dints on the heart of our delightful hostess as not even the incessant rubbing of high life would be able to efface. And certainly my lady was gracious to me. But I found, in the end, that all I had made by the white elephant of her countenance, was a portentous bill at my tailor's, another portentous bill at my bookmaker's, an unnecessary supply of embroidered shirt-fronts, and French cambric handkerchiefs, and my laundress left unpaid owing to the transfer of her funds to the pockets of the cabmen. That was what I found, when I took the two columns and added up the cost and the gain of my Lady Fairstar's Russian dinners, with scented ringlets laughingly shaken, and bewildering smiles prodigally bestowed. It was a white elephant ; nothing but a white elephan : and I ran away from it, Those grand visits are terrible matters generally. You are asked to a country house. You are acknowledged to be a crack shot and a first-rate rider, you tell a story capitally, and pocket e very ball on the board ; but at what a cost do you thus ad minister to the white elephant of your pride ? At the cost of a year's income compressed into the six weeks of your stay. Butlers and footmen and pages and grooms and girlies and coachmen and the odd men about the place, and the odd women too—all to fee, all to pay—and the little wife left at home to fight with an unruly butcher who hasundisciplined notions of trade, and to tell taradiddles to the landlord, who finds himself under the necessity of " looking you up." That is your white elephant when you get Lord Darkstar's invitation to his country-house in the hunting season.— Dickenss " All the Year Round," just published. A communication from Zurich states that conside rable sensation has been produced in that place, by the arrest of the cashier of the Bank, a man about 60 years of age, who has always enjoyed the unlimited confi dence of his employers. A complaint had bee n made that m a sum paid by that establishment some ro uleaux supposed to con tain gold were filled with pieces of lead cut to the sam e size. The cashier was arrested , and on a rigid invest igation taking place, a deficit of 183,000 f. was discovered. Th e prisoner, soon af ter his detection, endeavoured to commit suicide, but did not eneee?d, and is now getting better from the wounds which he inflicted on himself. No ono knows what be ca n have dine with such a large sum." THE PLANET MARS in very many particulars in its resemblance to our earth is very striking. It would appear from vario us d raw i ngs ta k en w h en diff eren t portions of the planet were presented to us, that at times parts of these features were blotted out by clouds, while at others they were observed in the greatest detail, apparently through a cloudless atmosphere ; the dark parts, which are presumed--and as far as evidence can go in such matters proved—to be seas, having on these occasions appeared nearly black, as if a perfect tranquillity of surface had re duced the irregular reflection of light to a minimum. Note worthy and bearing on this is the fact that the spot observed to be the blackest, both in 1860 and last year, is land locked, or nearly so, supposing it to be a sea, while the brighter portions of the so-called seas are nearly always farthest from the sheltering influences of the land. As seen inverted by the telescope, there is a sea very like the Baltic in shape; but the most remarkable feature, per haps, is a long sinuous arm of the sea, extending far in land, sometimes resemtling a vast "pothook" laid on its back from east to west as if a channel as wide as that between Liverpool and Dublin existed in Equ atorial , Afric I, and ran inland for a thousand miles or so. .1 he blue colour of the darker portions has . on many occasions been st rik ingly apparent, the red tinge . hav ing been more rarely noticed. From these observations it would appear that, if lite exist in Mars, it exists at all events under some of the conditions with which we are acquainted.—The Reader. A report is current that a despatch from Constantinople has been received at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, announcing the decision arrived at by the Conference of Ambassadors assembled to se ttl e t h e a ff a i r o f t h e arms Bee t into Servia. The opinion of the Conference is said to be that there was no kind of infraction of the convention of the 19th August, and that consequently there was no need for the Porte to send a commission into the Principalities. 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