The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-29 00:00:00

3 2 ON. sday. n, from . 0. She pecie. n. 16. A to the r peace, (mission t of the rring to he says he com- ss judg human ntented xtermi- t assas- abstain issioned procla ie state ie state king in- ssels off ning. le Con- lericks- Lbers of at Port ;e, 161. Illinois iddling Wheat, of le. es very ling. Davis's papers iat the vithout seceded ing the Federal Seceded at the ational North .en the mplain United vateer- igerent )erated depriv h some of the fired an nd am- to re -3 Con tid of led by trans- a the , use of autho lboats, in d of d On- resign rs and soaped is the I as a eed it days Df the ied to conse y the Royal s, fall His 3irty- Prin- in in ;ienne raised ining bably 3ging ration hied, 6rried long hat a sense. well lomi - tildes )n.-- aging ferent bdul -sent- who essed e dy of 3SterU MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The money market is firm at the advanced rates, Very little accommodation can be obtained under 5 per cent., an unsettled feeling still prevailing with regard to the future course of events. There is an idea in some quarters that increased restrictions may have to be adopted, and under these circumstances capitalists are anxious to obtain full rates for all the business they negotiate. The City of Washington has arrived from New York with £187,300 iri specie. These returns are in most instances of a very satisfactory character. On the Great Western there is an increase of £1,986, on the North Western of .£9,994, on the South Western of £2,689, on the Brighton of £l,lBl, on the Midland of £2,253, on the Great Northern of £757, on the Great Eastern of £1,306, on the North Eastern of £1,292, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £1,216, on the South Eastern of £1,290; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln of £757; and on the Great Western 3f Canada of £371. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under : 1863. 1862. Great Western L 50,016 £ 48,030 No rt h - Western South- Western Brighton Midland Great Northern Great Eastern North-East ern Lancashire and Yorkshire 3d,894 29,678 1 Bristol and Exeter 5,136 5,051 19. South-Eastern Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 13, 7 53 12 , 996 North British Glasgow and Southern Western Great Western of Canada Two O'CLOCK. The Three per Cent. Rentes opened to-day, at Paris, at 69f. 70c., being se. lower than yesterday. The Liverpool cotton market to-day opened very dull, owing to the Bank rate being advanced; sales about 3,000 bales, at prices id. in Surat, and ld. in Egyptian and American lower than Friday. There has been scarcely any movement to-day 1 in the Market for the English Funds, but a heavy tone has nevertheless prevailed. Consols are 92k1, both for money and the account. Very little busi ness has been transacted either on speculative ac count or for investment. The New Three per Cents. and the Reduced remain at 92/1 ; Exchequer Bills, 3s. dis. to ls. prem.; Bank Stock is 235 and 237; and India 5 per Cent. Loan, after being 108 k 1., has receded to 108. 91 A general upward movement has been perceptible s i ' t in the Foreign Market, and business has been rather active. Greek Bonds have been in especial favour, and have advanced to 171 and the Coupons to 71 ; Egyptian are firm, at 961 97 ; do., 2d issue, at 961 ; Mexican, at 324 1-; Portuguese New Loan, I 461; Russian do., 951 4; Spanish are 54; ditto, Passive, 261 ; ditto, Certificates, have risen to st s 1081; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, are 701 71 ; do., 1862, 661 ; the Consolides, 403 3; Italian, 691 ; st and Venezuelan New Loan, 601 611. The chief operations in the Railway Share Market have again been in connection with the liquidation, 11 and prices generally have exhibited less firmness. 8 1: North Westerns, South Westerns, and Midlands have declined ss. ; Great Westerns, Lancashire and a t; Yorkshire, and North Eastern (Berwick), 10s.; South Easterns, however, have improved 10s.; I ' Edinburgh and Glasgow, 55.; and Great Northern 1 A Stock, IL at In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings the e s t variations have been unimportant. Bahia and San t. Francisco realise 201 1; Dutch Rhenish, 16k; Cape et; Town and Dock, 1081; Great India Peninsula, 105 to 1051 ; and Great Western of Canada, 121. Joint .Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con tinued inactive at about previous quotations. al Metropolitan and Provincial realise 121 131 ; Otto- MR Bank, 341 ; Crystal Palace Stock, 31Z 34 ; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 73k. at BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock 23 11 Ditto 5 per Cent lOBl 3 8 , Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Cent Ditto 5 per Cent 1054 Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1003 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO Ditto under £1,000 Consols for Account, Feb. 5 921 3 Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent par 3 dis 1 pm Ditto £SOO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Egpptian 7 per Cent 961 7 6 Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons l7 1 3 Ditto Coupons Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada 2 per Cent Ditto Land Warrants .. 51 1 Ditto ex over-due Coups. & Hectares 131 Palivian 4/ per Cent. .. Ditto 1862 Ditto Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 1862 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1860 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 9 53 i i Ditto Scrip, £56 Bs. paid Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account Ditto, £lOO Bonds 725 35 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1852 Ditto Account 661 4 Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 651 ltaiian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f... 693 Ditto Account...... THREE O'CLOCK. Console, Money Ditto Account COTTON SUPPLY ASSOCIATION.—At their usual weekly meeting, held on Tuesday last, the execu tive committee of this association had an interview with Mr. Manuel Quintana, of Peru, who submitted samples of cotton grown on the Elias estates, worth respectively from 2s ld to 2s 3d per lb. He stated that three millions quin tals of such cotton might be grown in Peru equal in qua lity to New Orleans ; that adequate labour may be obtained from China and Polynesia, and the cotton profitably grown for 7d per lb. The great advantage of Peru consists in the soil yielding two crops each year. Two very interesting reports on the result of experiments in growing different species of exotic cotton in Oude, by Dr. Bonavia, were re ceived and read, as were also some other interesting reports and letters from India, and a letter from Natal, stating the difficulty of obtaining labour for cotton cultivation. Two applications for seed were received from Queensland and Venezuela, and granted. THE WEDDING OF GEN. TOM THUMB AND MISS WARREN.—The excitement and interest in the mar riage of Gen. Tom Thumb and lldiss little Queen of Beauty, increases with the i days Warren' the a tt e nd her levees to pay their respect, , and crowds previous to her re tirement to the private and domestic circle. The is to be a rich and recherche affair. In fact it promis es wed r di wed ding be the great fas hionable event of the season. They a be married on T uesda y , Feb. 10. The nuptial ceremonieset g o will take place at one of the most fashionable churches in this city. Cards of invitation will be issued to the relatives and friends and to some of the first families of the city. A s the number of tickets will correspond with the number of seats in the church, no person will be admitted except those invited. At the close of their honeymoon the illustrious little couple will make the tour of Europe, the trip being merely one of pleasure, as they never intend to give public exhibitions. They expect to be absent several years. We can but wish them the fullest measure of happiness and joy.--lhe New York World. MIL AN GERSTEIN, M.P., AND HIS CONSTITUENTS. --Last night at 8 o'clock a crowded public meeting of the electors of the boroughs of Greenwich residing at Woolwich, Plumstead, and Charlton, was held at the Lite rary Institution, Nelson-street, Woolwich, to hear an ad dress from Mr. Angerstein, M.P. The chair was taken by Mr. Jolly. Mr. Angerstein, in a lengthened address, reca pitulated his views on various public questions, as at a previous meeting at Greenwich, and stated, with reference to the national defences, that he had heard from officio authority that the inside forts at Plymouth had been con demned. He believed that no more o f th ese f or t s would be constructed. The experiments at Shoeburyness had proved that 41 inch iron plates could be penetrated at 800 yards range with rifled ordnance; and he had ascertained that Government experiments carried out in France fully proved that iron plates six inches thick had been shot through at 1,000 yards range. The hon. member concluded hie ad dread by referring to local matter'', SHARE NLARIKETS--This Day. Share) Railways. 3.14 ljr., Wol., and Str. Val Elythe and Tyne. 10 liost.,Sleat.,andnicWo. it 131 J etol and Exeter 8 84 fi 7 86 es 1141 115 at Caledonian 50 Cork and Bandon 20 Cornwall 10 Do AI k ets no div - 10 Do, B tillopc.pan.has been paid to B. 50 Dublin & Belfast June. 25 Dun., Perth,& Ab. June. at Edinburgh & Glasgow. at Glasg. and S. Western. at Great Eastern, Ord. stk at Ditto A stock at Ditto East &tip:llan at at GreatNorthof Scotland at Great Northern... at Do A stock st Do B do 5 Do. £5 shares 64 7 41 43 13 14 86 87 105 107 45i 46i 42 44 23i 24j 127 128 131 132 136 138 it Gt. S. an iW. of Ireland it Great Western it Do Str Val gua. stock it Lancashire & Yorkshire it London and Blackwall it Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast it Lon., Chat., sad Dover it Lon. & North Western it Lon. & South Western it Man., Shef., & Lincoln. $0 Maryport and Carlisle. L 24 Do f shares LO 11Ietropolitan at Midland .4.0 Do New it Do Birming. & Derby 50 lid. Gt. W. of Ireland L 5 Do. shares 104 106 f 5 1084 109 724 73} 116 118 40 4t 961 971 1024 IG4 41 421 12f la l2"if [2B 'a l&P 96 98 25 Mid Kent 10 Do Cray Line st North British at Edin., Perth, & Dundee at Nth. Eastern—Berwick 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase st Do Lecds at Do York at Do Carlisle et North London 10 Do New .16.4 North Staffordshire .. 10 N. and S. W. Junction st Scottish Central at Scot N. E., Aber. stock at Do Scot. Mid. stock 10 Shrews. and Welchpool st Shropshire Union at South Devon st South Eastern at South Wales st S. York. and River Dun 20 Stabies,Wok.,andWok. 53 53! 25i 26} 99i 991 664 574 I 88i 881 128 130 110 1:2 4 1 PI 164 164 11 11 118 120 47i 484 104 106 47 49 321 33i 9o} 90} 68 70 102 104 25 Stockton it Darlington 25 Do 25 Do New, 1860 st Taff Va1e............ 10 Do B 10 Do C 50 Ulster . 25 6 7 884 39} 10 10* p 7i 8 p 149 151 21 1 54 t, p 55i 54 32 2i d Ai p p'* E 6 88 140 145 Do [0 Do t 'Vale of Neath it Victoria sta. and Pim it Waterford St Kilkenny it West Cornwall it W. Hartlepool Har.&R it West Midland -Oxford it Do Newport it Do Hereford 29 31 41 48 34 36 94 26 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOUFs.S. a id 1 Closing Business 'i Price. done. 651 2 721 3 Ofik I 102} 121 1 127 k 1/ 97 p 991 56} 7 BRITISH POSSE Railways Atlantic & St Lawrence Bom.,Barodadt.Cent Ind; Gn. 5 per Cent........ Do. New . . •—• • • Buffalo and Lake Huron.' Do. Preference Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich! !6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 18721 Do. do. July 1, 1872.; 00 Do. do. June 1, 1879 st Clcutta.etS.Eastn.(Liii st Cape Town & Dock Scrir :ock Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. c ock East Indian. gm 5 p. c. 20 Do. do. G Ext..... ) I Do. do. H do. .. k Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. ) Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct.. ) Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. ) Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. 1 Do. do. 1867.. ) Do. do. 1872.. Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c ) Do. New gua. 5 p. c... 1 Do. January, 1862 .. :k Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. )i Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New ..... 10 - IDo. 6 p.c. 13 with't opt. 10 IPo. 5i p. o. do. '77-8.... 10 ,Indian Branch Limited >ck 'Madras guar., 5 p. c. )ck Do. 41 p. o. Extension )ck Dc. 4 , (10 !O Do. Fifth Extension. )ok Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnds . SO Melb. & Hobson's Bay. )0 Do. 7p. c. Mort. Bds. 10 Newßrunswick Cand, Class A Capital Share 10 Do. do. B Capital d 0... N.Rl.C'da6 po Ist i bds :OCR Scinde .......... et s Do. Delhi. d e Do. do z 20 Do. Punjaub st Do. Do. pea Do. Indus. St. Flo.) ,SIONS. Closing Price. 65 67 104 1( 5 51 80 83 75 76 73 76 1(3 1(5 108 i 109} IC5 f I(6a 1051 100 I lip IP 21 22 73 75 63 65 32 34 47 50 32 24 32 84 Jolt 1051 P P 104 106 121 121 8 nct 99 101 92 94 1f Ifp 102 103 96 98 93 15 52 53 all all 100 (100 1 100 3 5 3 5 83 85 105 106 1021 1631 AP A t P 103 104 98 100 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECU Can. Gov. 6 p.c..la. &July 1877-81 . . Do. 6 p. C. Feb. & Aug. Do. 6 p. c. Mar. & Sept. Do. 5 p. c. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stock Cape G.Hope, 6 p c,1873 Do.Ap &Oat. 1880 Do. 1890 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p c N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. J a.&July Do. Bp. c.Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c.,1866'' Do. 5 p. 0.,1871 to 1876 Do. d0.,1888 &upwde, New Zealand 6 p. cent.' Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c , sterling', 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. S. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up , Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July Do. In 6 p.c. Ap.&Oet ! 'lO5 108 'lO6 108 106 108 95 96 93 95 110 112 114 112 114 111 113 103 105 100 101 99} 1001 99 99} 109 111 105} 106} 109 111 1109 111 'lO7 109 11C9i 110 BRITISH MINES. 100 100 100 100 100 Cambrian Consol. Gold Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Con.. (Tavis East Bassett (Illogaul East Clogau Gold Ltd , ,East Caradon East Carn Brea... E. WI Russel (Tavistk.; Gam.tlzSt.Aubyn(Gwen.)' Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor (Helston` Grenville .. flerod's-Foot ilingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (Uny Leland Marke Valley.. Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) New Seton North Downs V.Wh'l Basset (Ill° an North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazer f'rovidence (Uny Lelnt.) , South Caradon(St.Cleer, S. Carn Brea (Illogan) id in 23 25 ' 515 525 51 63 48 49 114 (2 5 54 18 20 64 7 6 64 5 54 50 52 24 3 1 14 31 40 84 91 4 di pr 140 150 24 3 34 44 5 6 •1 43 400 410 21 24 874 024 40 41 I S.Wheal Fran. (Illogain; \ Stray Park 6 Tamar Lead Min 10 Tin Croft West Basset (Illozan) W Caradon (Liakeard) West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) ;Wheal Buller (Redruth), ' Wheal Kitty (li.Lelant)l WhealLud ott Wheal— ) 1 — e e a . T A s i re a et r io y an, A nn( v n ey An ( I L e is .) !Wheal Union -I 11 16 13 14 32 34 285 295 75 60 60 65 74 85 9 94 154 164 MO 250 165 174 55 6 PREFERENCE SHARES. London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 100 North Staffoidshire, 22i Smut' Eastern 44 per cent., 1041 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Northern, £5 shares, 51 Kent Coast, 6 per cent. pref. B, 2i LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, 57 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (Um.) gua. 7 per oent., 2014 Dutch Rhenish, 16t- Recite and San Francisco (Urn.), mut. 7 per cent.. 19 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 23 FOREIGN MINES. Mont. Aureos Braz. Gold Min. Co. (Um.), 2/ Vancouver Coal, 5 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London and Brazilian (lim.), 31} 1 London and County, 391 8/ London and Westminster, 7. 8) Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lira.), 12; National Provincial of England, i2l Oriental Bank Corporation, 53 Standard of British, South Africa (1110, 10 1 Kr Union of Australia, 501 01 • MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Palace, 31, r Ei glish and Australian Copper, 1; Peninsular and 0 iental Steam, 731 Ditto, new, 441 4 Royal Mail Steam, 561 DEATHS OF CENTENARIANS. —WiIIiam Power, aged 113, died at Droumtacker, near this town, on Sunday l as t. He was a soldier in the ' " Old Kerry," and was present a t t h e battle of Vinegar Hill. His intellect was perfectly clear nn:i t l il a short time before his demise.— .7 1a r o a d / e o e f u r m n Chronicle. h y o on the e e 17th inst. there died in the town state andof Lord Cremorne, a man familiarly known in the town neighbourhood by the name of Jack Owens; he had attained the extraordinary months f ho used to age of 112 years. Up to the last fe walk into Monaghan, and retained all aculties perfect up to his death.-111ortaghara Standard. A GAROTTER'S LETTER.—One of the ruffi ans who attacked Mr. Addlesee on Wednesday last, at Nottingham, has addressed the following letter to a local journal :—" Northampton, Red Lion-street, January, 1863. Sir,—i see in your paper today that Mr. Adlesee, chew maker, in pelham street, has reported to you that he was ataced by too men near the railway, on wenesday morning, and that he fired a pistal at one of the men in his face. i say he did (not) fire a pistal, had he done so he whold been a ded man. whe might hav made it wright with him that night, but whe like to do hour whork cleen. So who promise Mr. Adlesee the fast time whe can doe it for him whe shall —we may have to huse pistal. I should feel glad if you whould put this in your pappers, to let him see we can do it for him when we like.—Signed JERRY TRUTON." The above communication has been placed in the hands of the head constable, who is diligently prosecuting inquiries t with a view to the apprehension of the garotters. IBusiness done HITIE 1051 41 15.1 9 01 i it:i 1091 lO 9i 471 51 5 2.0.8 2.10.8 8 581 7 3.13 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) ROSKRUGE V. ROSKRUGE. This was a suit instituted by the wife against the hus band for a judicial separation on the ground of cruelty. The petitioner, Mrs. Roskruge, said her marriage with the respondent took place at Cornwall, in 1846, and there were seven children. For some time they lived happily together, but in consequence of certain rumours in the year 1854, she accused him of being too familiar with a female domestic. She wished him to discharge the person, but he became very violent, and kicked her over the stairs. On another occasion he absented himself from meals, and one day she ventured to remonstrate with him about not taking dinner with the family. He, without assigning any cause, went into an inner room, and procured a piece of rope used in securing horses to a cart and struck her very violently with it. In 1856 she discovered he was carrying on an intrigue with another female servant named Grace Bro;,ks. She went unexpectedly into the stable, and there she saw the respondent and the girl try ing to secret themselves. After the discovery he followed her (the petitioner) into the house, expressed contrition, and promised to act better for the future if she would dis miss the girl, She did so, but in a short time after the ill-usage recommenced, and then he told her for the re mainder of her life she should lead the life of a cat. He also said she was a raving lunatic, and threatened to confine her in a lunatic asylum. She went to her sister's, and after remaining there for some months he wrote a letter representing that one of her children was ill, and she went to his house to see it. When she got there the respondent wished her to remain. While she was there the girl Brooks came in and treated her with the greatest indignity. She told respondent of her conduct; he promised to send her away if she (petitioner) would remain. She consented to this proposal, and the girl lett ; but in a short time the ill-usage continued. Towards Christmas he twice threw the contents of the washing basin over her while she was in bed ; in addition to which, on the last occasion, he thrust her out of doors in her night dress, and the servant had to throw her a blanket from the window to cover herself with. The final separation took place in the early part of 1857. The respondent, in reply to the allegations in the peti tion, denied the cruelty, and recriminated that the un governable temper of the petitioner was the cause of the separation. Decree nisi granted. LORD MAYOR'S COURT. (Before the Recorder and a Common Jury.) IMPORTANT DECISION AS TO ATTACIEMENTS-BARTROLO- MEW V. HUNT-LOVERING (GARNISHER). This was an action to attach certain names, alleged to be in the hands of Mr. Lovering, the garnisher, to the use of defendant, who was indebted to Mr. Bartholomew. Mr. Butler Rigby appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Henry James for the garnisher. Mr. Rigby said he should save the time of the Court, and call Mr. Lovering, who had been subpoenaed. Mr. Lovering admitted that he had moneys in hand, but such moneys were held jointly, and another person besides Hunt had an interest in them. His Lordship did not see how Mr. Rigby could go on. Mr. Rigby—No ; I am much obliged to your lordship for this intimation. His Lordship—lt is perfectly clear that you cannot at. tech moneys which are held by the garnisher in a joint in• terest. Mr, James—Then there will be a verdict for the gar• nisher ? His Lordship—Oh, certainly-. Verdict for the garnisher. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. iMIERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 48s 4d barley, Ms 8d ; oats, 2Oi9d ; rye, 30s 8d ; beans, 36s 3d and peas, 38s 10d. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 46s 10d; barley, 34s 8d ; oats, 20s 5d ; rye, 34s Od ; beans, 36s 7d ; peas, 37s lld. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 84,579; barley, 96,361; oats, 18,677; rye, 96; beans, 4,498; peas, 1,224 qrs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A CABMAN'S LICENSE REVOKED.—WiIIiam Si., cab driver, badge 8,496, was charged before Mr. Kr, r with being drunk in charge of his cab, with furiously !riving his horse, and injuring Mr. George Barron., engr,ver, of 35, High-street, Camden-town. From the evidence of complainant it appeared that, at two o'clock this morning, he got into the prisoner's cab at the stand in Dean-street, Soho, and the prisoner, who had been called out of the cab by the policeman, jumped up, and started at a furious rate, whipping his horse violently. He called out to the prisoner to stop, but he paid no atten tion, and went on at the same rate as before, till he came to Rathbone-place, when he drove on the pavement, and a last caught the kerb and pitched him right out, and in the fall he severely cut his knee and bruised his side, besides being severely shaken, In addition to this he had his trousers spoilt and his hat smashed. Prisoner said his horse was one that turned corners very quickly. Mr. Knox said such a man as the prisoner was totally unfit to drive a cab, as he was endangering the lives and limbs of those who employed him. It was a fortunate thing for him (the prisoner) that he was not at the bar for a more serious offence. He should commit him for one month with hard labour, and should take measures to pre vent his ever driving again by revoking his license. A BATCH OF JUVENILE - PICKPOCKETS IN REGENT STREET.—Joseph Gardener, 15, Edward Heslop, or Hunt, 13, and William Yates, 12, all well dressed, were charged with attempting to pick pockets in Regent-street. Joseph Chas. Cole, 23 C, and Mr. Edwin Coathupe, sur geon, at present residing at 11, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy. square, having given evidence, and been cross-examined by Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, and Mr. Nash, tho latter gentleman stating that he should call wit nesses to speak to Hunt's character. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoners for a week, that in quiries might be made as to the boys' previous character. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPIL At the usual weekly meeting of the Society of A ts, held yesterday evening at the institution in John-street, Adelphi, Mr. T. A. Masey contributed a paper, the object of which was to exhibit the eauses of the failure of the last attempt to establish telegraphic communication across the Atlantic, and to open a discussion as to the best means of providing against similar mishaps for the future. The chair was taken by Mr. W. R. Grove, Q.C., F.R.S. Mr. MASEY began by giving a history of the invention of submarine cables, from which it appeared that in 1840 Pro fessor Wheatstone prepared plans for a submarine telegraph, which he either did not complete, or circumstances pre vented him from making any practical use of at that time or since. Professor Morse,in 1842, laid an insulated wire across from Castle Garden to Governor's Island, in the harbour of New York, and demonstrated the practicability of submarine telegraphy. His experiments, however, went no further. Mr. Brett, in 1845, took out a patent for the invention of a submarine electric cable, the insulating medium to be caoutchouc and other substances. Receiving no support or encouragement from the British Government, he turned his attention to France, and in 1847 received from the Go- vernmeut of Louis Philippe an exclusive grant to lay cables on the French coast for 10 years, which was afterwards re- newed by the Emperor of the French; and in August,lBso, he laid the first experimental line across the Channel, from Dover to Calais. This cable was simply a gutta percha covered copper wire,vrhich broke very soon after it was laid, and the permanent cable now in use was laid in 1851. The author proceeded to give an account of the various steps taken in reference to the laying of a cable across the At lantic, which ended by the formation of a company for that object. He expressed his opinion that not sufficient time or attention was given for proper experiments to be made as to the adaptability of the cable to its future resting place, and the work which it had to per form when there. The form of cable adopted weighed 931 b to the mile, with a breaking strain of 3 tons. The rapidity with which this cable was made was most remarkable, but Mr. Masey thought that this had in some degree prevented its receiving the necessary watchful super vision in every detail of the manufacture, which would have been the case had it been proceeded with more deliberately. The treatment to which it was exposed previous to being laid was, in the author's opinion, very likely to have injured it. It appeared to have been available for use for only a few days, and to have transmitted in all about 4,000 words. The currents sent through it were too weak to affect an ordinary instrument, and the author described the delicate apparatus called Thomson's Marine Galvanometer, which was actually employed to receive the messages. The com mittee appointed by the Board of Trade to inquire into the cause of failure, reported that it was " due to causes which might have been guarded against had adequate preliminary investigation been made into the question," and they did not discourage future efforts in the same direction. Mr. Masey discussed the relative merits of the various routes proposed for the laying of a cable between this country and America, giving the preference to that between Ireland and Newfoundland. He referred to the great improvements that had been made in the manufacture of the insulating medium, and as a proof of the confidence of the manufacturers in the success of the ontorprioo, ...forted to the offer of Messrs. Glass and Elliott to take, under certain conditions, the risk of making, laying, and working a cable for one year across the Atlantic. The CHAutseANsaid he was old enough to remember when grave, and as it appeared to him plausible reasons were advanced against the practicability of electric telegraphy at all, whereas now not only had it become established as a means of land communication, but submarine cables were working successfully for very long distances,'and the fact had been proved that signals could be carried across the Atlantic. To establish a more permanent telegraphic com munication between Europe and America was, therefore, now only a matter of time, and the questions raised by Mr. Masey's paper were, which of the several routes suggested for the purpose was the best, and what means should be employed for insulating the wire and for protecting the in sulation. The author gave his preference to the V alentia and Newfoundland route ; but it appeared to him that the objection to the Iceland route on account of the influence of the aurora borealis was not a serious matter, while the fact that it would be divided into three portions was a strong argument in its favour. Admiral ELLfor observed that while the paper noticed several of the reasons assigned for the failure of the Atlan tic cable, it omitted to mention the principle one, which was that the specific gravity of the cable laid down was so great that even if the work had been perfect in a scientific point of view, it must have been destroyed. He gave great praise to the Atlantic Telegraph Company for what they had hitherto done, and for what they were now doing, but he thought that they should be regarded only as the pioneers of this great undertaking, for if 20 cables were laid down they would hardly supply the demand. With regard to a proposal which had been made, that a survey of a belt of five miles should be made across the Atlantic preparatory to laying down another cable, he thought that if such a re sult could be accomplished the delay in the laying down of the cable would be advantageous; but he did not believe that any vessel starting from the coast with the best men and the best instruments on board could be kept within a belt of five miles. Of the two elements into which the question of submarine cables was divided the scientific was at present the Letter developed. Electricians appeared to be agreed as to the construction of the core, but when they came to the covering for the protection of the core there was a great diversity of opinion. If it were necessary to pr3tect the insulating material from the attacks of the sea worm he still could not agree that the best protector was iron wire, because from its own weight iron wire L. came an agent of destruction instead of a security. In hi opinion the lighter the cable and the smaller its size tl,o more likely was it to be injured in laying down. Dr. WARRINGTON contended that the evidence hitherto obtained of the nature and contour of the sea-bed was totally inadequate to the successful laying down of an Atlantic cable, and he recommended a survey of a belt, not of five miles but of two, which he maintained was perfectly practicable. What he advised was that they should ascer tain the result of a more perfect survey before consigning another half million of money to the bottom of the Atlantic. Sir E. BELCHER declared that a survey within a narrow belt could only be accomplished by an arrangement which would make allowance for the drift in taking the soundings. Captain SELWYN gave his opinion that a rocky bottom was not the most destructive to a submarine cable in deep water, and alluded to . the fact th at divers were a b le i n 15 fathoms to pursue theF work without interruption even in the heaviest gale of wind. The opinions of several other members having been ex pressed with regard to scientific details connected with submarine cables, a vote of thanks to Mr. Masey was pro posed and unanimously accorded. THE MURDERER TAYLOR'S WIDOW.—On her acquittal, Mrs. Taylor, the wife of the murderer of Mr. Mellor, of Manchester, left Liverpool for Somerset shire, accompanied by a relative. Since that time she has been residing at several places, but of late had taken up h( abode at Shepton Mallet. There she made the acquain. tance of a tailor's apprentice, a young man of 19 years, who was captivated by her face and flowing hair. The attach ment appears to have been mutual, for after meeting last Wednesday at a public-house on the Frome road, on the next day they left Shepton Mallet in company. The elope ment having become known to their friends, a pursuit was instituted, and the young man, feeling ho had not the means wherewith to successfully elude his relatives, deter mined on surrender, and quietly returned to 3, is home. What has become of the lady we cannot say. 1 corres • pendent states that Mrs. Taylor, like the Milo: appren tice, has returned to her h ome. —Bristol Daily Pcdt. THE MURDER IN L EICESTERSHIRE.—The young man, Busswell, who is charged with the murder of his fellow-servant by shooting him, was examined be fore the Melton magistrates on Tuesday morning. The prisoner's sta tement is, that he was not aware that the g un was loaded, that he took it up to frighten his fellow-ser vant,: p u t it to his ear , and pulled th e trigger. This stat 0 t ment, however, is at variance w i t h t h e f ac t that the pri soner was shortly afterwards found to be dealing with the property 9i the man ho had shot, HIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATIERSALL'S—Tuts EVENING. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 15 to I aget Croagh Patrick (taken) CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Stradella (taken) 25 to 1 agst Black Deer (taken) 33 to 1 agst Le Marechal (taken) 33 to 1 agst Anfield (taken) TWO THOUSAND. 100 to 30 agst Hospodar (offered) 4to 1 agst Saccharometer (taken) 16 to 1 agst Torn Fool (taken) 100 to 6 agst Pratique (taken) THE DERBY. sto 1 agst Lord Clifden (offered) 28 to 1 agst National Guard (taken) 50 to 1 agst Pratique (taken) 66 to 1 aget Tambour Major (taken) 100 to 1 agst Munich (taken) 100 to 1 agst Queen Bertha (taken) BETTING AT MANCHESTER—WEDNESDAY. Very little was done to-day. Nothing was done on either the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes or the Derby. For the Chester Cup, 200 to 9 was booked about the favourite, and 100 to 40 agst Black Deer. At the close 200 to 9 was offered on the field, and 25 to 1 bar one. During the day offers were made to take 33 to 1 agst Anfield, 40 to 1 agst The Plover, and 50 to 1 each eget Caller Ou and Zetland. Queen of Spain and Ben Webster were each supported at 50 to 1 to small amounts. There was no change in the betting on the Waterlto Cup. One feature of the day was an unlimited commission to take 100 to 6 agst Mr. Worrall's nomination, but anything less was refused. Closing prices METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Our market to-day was fairly supplied with beasts, both as to number and quality. All breeds moved off slowly, nevertheless Mcnday's prices were supported. The top quotation was 4s 10d per 81bs. The show of sheep was again limited, nevertheless sales progressed slowly, at late rates. The best Downs realised 5s 10d per 81bs. Calves, the sup ply of which was limited, commanded a steady sale, at an advance in prices of 2d per 81bs. The quotations ranged from 4s 2d to 58 2d per 81bs. There was a fair demand for pigs, at full currencies ; but mulch cows were very dull. The highest price for pork was 4s 8d per 81bs. Per Sib. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 6 Secondquality do. 3 8 4 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. 4 2 4 10 s. el. s. d. Primecrs-wool d 0.5 0 5 6 Pme. S' thdown do. 5 8 5 10 Large orse. calves 4 2 4 8 Prime small do 4 10 5 2 Large hogs 3 8 4 4 Small porkers 4 6 4 8 Suckling calves, lie to 21s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 21s to 30s. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOUEIGN SUPPLY. ____....-. Beasts _ l,OOO Beasts Cows l4O Sheep Sheep .. 3,520 Calves Calves 2OO Pigs .... Pigs 312 ME AT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEA.DENIIALL.—The supplies of meat are moderate, and the trade rules inactive, at previous quotations :—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 2d , mutton, 3s Od to 4s 4d ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 8d per 81bs, by the carcase. . - SOUTHALL, January 28.—The supply of stock was moderate, and the trade ruled inactive, at barely late rates. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 10d; mutton, 3s N to 5s 10d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d; and pork, 4s Od to 4s 8d per Blbs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, January 28.—Prime breasts and sheep com manded a steady sale, at full prices ; otherwise the demand was in a sluggish state. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 10d ; mut ton, 3s 8d to 6s Od ; veal, 4s Odto 4s 8d ; pork, 4s Od to 4s 8d per Blbs ; suckling calves, 10s to 18s; quarter-old store pigs, 21s to 30s ; and milch cows, £l4 Os to £lB Os each. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 5s Od ; clover, do., £3 lOs to £5 10s; and straw, £ll2s to £1 16s per load. A slow trade. CUMBERLAND.•—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 8s; clover, £3 10s to £5 88 Od ; and straw, £1 128 to £1 168 per load. Trade dull. WurrEcHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £1 58 ; clover do., £3 108 to £5 108 ; and straw, £1 12s to £1 168 per load. Supply good. COAL 1 Mee of Coal per Ton at .ARKET. the dole of the market. s. d. Hastings Hartley ....16 9 Byass's Bebside West Walls End. Tunstall ........ ....16 3 Hetton .....•18 0 South Kelloe.. ........ 17 6 Heugh Ha 11.......... 17 3 Hartlepool.. ......... 17 9 Riddell..... ......... 16 Haswell .........18 0 South Hetton ...... • ..18 0 Hedley .............. 16 3 Br's Hetton ..... 17 0 Stewart's ............17 6 Russel's Hetton.... • Framwellgate ........16 6 Harton ••.••'l6 Cassop 18 0 it, 95; sold, 62. Hartley ...15 9 Carway and Doffryn Malting Do. Anthracite 20 0 Lambert's West Hart- ley 15 9 North Pelton Ga 5..... 14 6 raeield Moor l4 3 Eden Main ...16 6 Holywell ..16 0 Walls End. Thorpe l5 31 Hilda l6 0 ( Ships at market SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. ----.---- LONDON, Jan. 29.—Wind this day at noon—West; moderate breeze, and fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Tier Majesty's ship Geyser, from the Eastward. DARTMOUTH, Jan.—Wind W. — Sailed—Cynosure, for Martinique. PENZANCE, Jan. 28.—Wind S.W., strong.—Arrived_ Qucely Shiel, from Liverpool for Lisbon, with loss of bul warks, sails, &c. CARDIFF, Jan. 28.—Wind S.—Sailed—Arctic Hero, for Havannab. RAMSGATE, Jan. 28.—The Convoy, from Shields to New York, which was assisted in here on the 26th inst., is discharging her cargo. JERSEY, Jan. 26.—Wind W.—Sailed—Escr.pe, for Rio Janeiro. LOWESTOFT, Jan. 28.—The Fellowship, of and from Seaham for Southampton, with coals, foundered on the 25th inst. QITE S E t i SIeT, fro m VN ' Ja Nw Jan. 29- -Arrived—City of Wash in g ton, screw (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, Jan. 28—Sarah Scott and Darcy, for Shanghae; Der Nord, for Guatemala. Arrived Jan. 29—Alfred, from St. Michael's; D ol p hin, from Minitlan ; Queen, from Palermo; Forester, from Demerara ; Treaty, from Dunkirk ; Constance, from Memel. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed—P en i nsu l a, screw steamer, from Cadiz , for Lon don; Sicilia screw steamer, from London, for Glasgow Assyrian, from London, for Shanghae. Putting back —A number of those which sailed yesterday A QUIET AFFAIR.—As it is now finally settled that the marriage of the Prince of Wales is not to take place in London, but in an obscure village in Berk shire, remarkable on l y for an old castle and non -sanatory arrangements, Mr. Punch ventures to suggest that the secrecy of the proceeding should be carried out to the ut most, and that all the intimation the nation should have that the Heir Apparent is wedded should be the following advertisement among the Marriages in the Times of March 13 :—" On the 12th instant, at -Windsor, by Dr. Longley, assisted by Dr. Thomson, Albert Edward England, LG., to Alexandra Denmark, No cards,",--zotm. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. 100 to 6on the field—offered 100 to 6 agst Avalanche (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Master Bagot (offered, take 20 to 1) 20 to 1 agst The Dane (offered) 33 to 1 agst Jerusalem (taken) CHESTER CUP. 200 to 9 agst Stradella (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Black Deer (taken and offered) 33 to 1 agst Plover (offered) 33 to 1 agst Anfield (wanted) 40 to 1 agst Zetland (offered, take 50) 40 to 1 agst Caller On (offered, take 50) . 50 to 1 agst Queen of Spain (taken) 50 to 1 agst Ben Webster (taken and offered) 66 to 1 agst Knave (taken and offered) WATERLOO CUP. 100 to 8 aget Mr. Spinks' nomination—offered 100 to 6 agst Mr. Worrall's nomination—wanted 25 to 1 agst Mr. Gregson's nomination—offered 33 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's nomination—taken Bank of England Return.---This Day. An Account, pursuant to f cap. 32, for the week endinil Or Jan., 1863 : the Act 7th and Bth Victoria ion Wednesday, the 28th day ISSUE DET Notes issued ......X27,387,475 'LRTMENT. Government Debt £11,015,1C 0 Other Securities .. 3.634,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 12,737,475 Silver Bullion .... £27,387,475 1 £27,387,475 BANKING Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- :PARTMENT. Government Seen- rities (including Dead Weight A nnuity) £10,606,648 Other? Securities 19,535,217 Notes Gold and Silver 874,348 Coin counts) 6,416.863 Other Deposits 14,414,763 Seven Day and other Bills 670,066 £38,302,518 W. £38,302,518 MILLER, Deputy Cashier. Jan. 29, 1863. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, & LINCOLNSHIRE, The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Manchester yesterday—Mr. Chapman, M.P., in the chair. The report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report and accounts, said he could not congratulate the meeting on the state of the traffic, which had been affected by the badness of trade arising out of the American war. He was glad, however, to say, that they were able to pay in terest on bonds and guaranteed stock, carrying over £5,000 to next half-year's accounts. There was a decrease of £3,000 in the passenger, and £15,000 on goods traffic, but he was glad to say that their working stock was in good condition, and they had hopes of decreas ing their working expenses. Ho congratulated them that they had no bills before Parliament. The amount received from the preference shareholders towards the Central Itelief Fund was £695. He concluded by announcing that Mr• Gamble had tendered his resignation to the Board. Mr. BARKER, deputy chairman, seconded the motion. Mr. G. WILLS complained of the accounts at great length, and was of opinion a change was necessary both in the direction and management. Mr. BAZLEY, M.P., thanked the shareholders for the re sponse which they had made to his recent appeal, and having succeeded in effecting a change at the Board he would retire from the meeting. Mr. FITZGERALD complained that in Mr. Gamble's re tirement they had lost a valuable member of the Board, and he did not approve of the conduct of Mr. Bazley in this matter. He said the accounts would not bear investigation: He also condemned the making of the Cheshire lines, which, he said, would never pay working expenses, and were only made with a view of forcing the London and North-Western Company into an amalgamation. He expressed an opinion that the accounts ought not to be passed. Mr. FILDES expressed satisfaction in the election of Mr. Mendel and Mr. render, M.P., on the Board. He then reiterated charges made at former meetings, to the effect that one of the directors had only a small holding in the stock of the company, while he held the position of director in other companies connected with this company, and derived a re muneration out of in proportion to his stake in the com pany. He ultimately moved that the relation of Mr. Lees to parties interested in the professional business of the com pany rendered his individual action at the Board a breach of the spirit of the law, and that he be requested to resign, and that in the event of his refusal the Board be requested to exclude him from committees and from all other direc tions, the qualifications for which were derived from this company. The consideration of the report, at the wish of the meet ing was postponed in order that the motion might be taken first, and, after a long discussion, the motion having been seconded, was carried. Mr. E. WATKIN said he could speak of the executive in the highest terms of praise, and, considering the badness of the times in the last six months, the directors deserved cre dit for the result they had to show. He could not help look ing back, however, with regret, to what he believed to have been those last chances, the realisation of which might have placed this company today in a totally different position. Reference had been made to the South Yorkshire Agree ment, on which:there was a loss. lie wanted to know how it was that, having taken that line, not only for a commer cial, but for political purposes, the directors had hitherto made no use of it in a political direction. The Great North ern Company were exulting in the anticipations of paying 9 per cent. But were they aware that this dividend was in great measure derived from the £lBO,OOO a year of coal traffic out of the South Yorkshire district, of which this company (the lessees of the South Yorkshire), who paid the whole of the loss, chose for some reason, or on account of some difficulty, to make a clear present to the Great Northern ? Were that' aware also that the value of the Lancashire traffic exchanged with this company, via R et ford, was nearly £200,000 a year ? Mr. Denison ought to be reminded that Parliament gave last year extensive powers to the Great Eastern, and it could not be expected that that company would keep out of the manufacturing districts. If the railway map was now going to be altered, the part. nership of this company and the Great Northern should be adopted ; the various .adjTuhseterdeponorstqwuaasreunanandimeVoeuilsltyeramdos. p gua ranteed dividends were declared; Messrs. Withers, Fender, and Mendel were re-elected directors; Mr. A. M'Dougall was elected director in place of Mr. Gamble ; Mr. Unwin was re-elected auditor, and the directors were authorised to borrow on mortgage £75,000 in pursuance of the Garston and Liverpool Railway Act. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the ' chairman. Ler RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the railway bills declared to have com p lied with the standing orders of both houses were those of the London and South-Western, for amalgamation of the North exten sion Devon Railway and Bideford Extension and for the lease of the Andover and Redbridge Railway; the Stonehouse and N a ilsworth, for an extension from the Bristol and Bir mingham Railway to Stonehouse, at an ; e F st o im rni at a e r d ti c n o e st an of d £66,000 ; the North and South Staffordshire Junction, for te P n o s r io ts n oy to , aFnrdasSetrrbauthr o. is h la, a f n o a r extensions from Rugeley to Uttoxeter and Abbott's Brom ley ; the Ely Valley Extension Railway, for new lines and to Portgordon and to raise £llO,OOO B t o u r c a h i a s o n ,Xt9os,aoboaon;dßo abandon Banff, substi tute another line; the Banff, Macduff, and b extension to the harbour of Macduff and Turriff, for an the Glasgow and South-Western, to raise to raise L 6,000 ; nect Gl a sgow and Paisley with Paisley £286,000 to can to use the Ayr and Maybole Railway and Renfrew, and Glasgow Railway, for a line to Dunfermline ; the Edinburgh and ferry and subsidiary branches andunfermline by esti matedQueens- cost of V 500,000 ; the Merth' piers, &c., at an ),r, Tredegar, and Aber gaYenny, for extemions to joie, aise £100,000; the Milford Haven Dock and Railway, to revive powers for purchase of lands and to extend tims for completion of works ; the North-Eastern, for branches at Newcastle and Starbeck and raise £56,000; the Midland, for an extension from Bedford to London and branches to unite with the Great Northern Railway in London and to raise £1,750,000; the South-Eastern, to improve Folkstone Harbour, make new lines at and near Folkston() and Rams gate, and raise £135,000. The'bills for the Marton and Har bury Railway, and for the Dover, Deal, and Sandwich Rail way, were withdrawn. MR. KINGLAKE ON NAPOLEON 111. The Times' Opinion of the Exceedinc , Malignity of this Attack. Now comes a very remarkable part of this very remark able book. For some purpose which we cannot divine,with motives quite above or below conjecture, Mr. Kinglake stops short in his interesting narrative of tho events of July, 1853. Ile suddenly considers it "necessary to glance at the operations of a small knot of middle-aged men, who, in the winter of 1851, were pushing their fortunes in Paris." If the book were a great epic we could understand the episo dical pieces which recorded the bravery of some Diomed or the baseness of a Thersites. But it is a history of the transao- ions which led to the Russian War. It is,indeed, impossible :o read this interpolati , in without admiration for the power of the writer. Erinnys and all the Furies accompany him through every page, the lash and the flaying-knife, the scorpion's sting, the angry tooth, the nail, irony, sarcasm, inv eetive are used with unsparing, indiseriminating strength. But it strikes us that this exhibition of power and poetical rage belongs to another drama, or that it at one time was intended to appear alone, and that it has been incorporated here by a great mistake. If anything is to be deduced from the splendid fragment it is this—that the Emperor Louis Napoleon, feeling his want of status after the coup d'etat in 1851, prepared the war of 1851 as a means of stabilitating his throne, and of humiliating the Czar, who refused to fraternise with his ill-sprung Power. To that end he ca joled England, hoodwinked Ministers, statesmen, Parlia- ment, and people, moulded them like wax to his purpose, and finally succeeded in securing for himself and his posi tion the ineffably great support which tho friendship of Queen Victoria and the entente cordiale between England and his Government must inevitably confer. And what manner of man was he who did all this—who overcame the cold jealousy of a proud and ancient race—who broke in on the guarded friendship of our grayest diplomatists—who wrapped Great Britain in the folds of an entangling alli- ante—who alienated our rulers from their natural allies, and led them far away from safe traditional paths ? Mr. Kinglake describes him. And, if the description be true, surely two great nations were never so befooled, never before has Fortune been so blind, never has France been so degraded, never has England been suoh a miserable dupe, and never have our great statesmen in council exhibited such unmitigated foolishness. A man of blank, wooden looks, of opaque features, with the bearing and countenance of a weaver oppressed by long hours of mono tonous indoor work, which makee the body stoop and keeps the eye downcast, turning a greenish hue in moments of danger, with a sluggish flow of ideas, of dull intellect, pass ing the hours of a studious youth and the prime of a thoughtful manhood in contriving how to apply stratagem to the science of jurisprudence—with just enough of daring to lead him into dangerous enterprises, and without the nerve to behave well in or get well out of them—nay, it is more than insinuated by Mr. Kinglake, a coward in the presence of an enemy such is the man who, he says, succeeded in thoroughly conquering the pre judices and allaying the antipathies of the wisest and best men of England after the perpetration of the most atrocious and fiendish crimes. This is not our language ; it is but a most meagre reflex of the tremendous sentences in which Mr. Kinglake has exacted vengeance for some wrong done to his country, to humanity—or to himself. What the Emperor Napoleon 111. did in France is not so much to us as what, according to Mr. Kinglake, one so ill gifted did with us in England. It may tend to raise suspicions respecting the impartiality of our his torian's estimate of the character of the man who now fills such a place in the eye of Europe—and who will probably go down to posterity without Mr. Kinglake's stigma—that the satirist does not, in his sketch of the last days of the Republic of 1848, say one word of the evils which afflicted France and appalled society and property. He is, indeed, obliged to confess that the army, the great body of the working men, the clergy, and some of the noblest intel- lects in France accepted the coup d'etat with thankfulness, as a measure necessary to save the country from socialism and anarchy. But they are not France. They do no re present Mr. Kinglake's France, at least. It is not iur intention to be the apologists of the Emperor Napoleon. We did not disguise our horror of the scenes which occurred in Paris after the 2d of December. We do not accept success as a divinity. Our honest sympa thies cannot be with a rule which interferes with free speech and crushes the liberty of the press. But the Em peror has proved himself to be no vulgar, incapable impos tor ; to the outward eye, and before the world, he fills well the Imperial robes he has won. Surely it is a libel to say that the man who stood unmoved amid the bombs of the assassin is a poltroon, as it is unworthy of Mr. Kinglake to measure the quality of the Emperor's daring in the battle field by the losses inflicted on his escort in the crowning victory of Solferino. It is especially unworthy of Mr. Kinglake to do this, be cause he represents Lord Raglan and his Staff at the Alma as being exposed to a fire—nay, to a cannonade, a bombard ment—deliberate, well-aimed, long-continued, so powerful that, had it been brought to bear, he declares, on the English line, "it might have maimed it in a vital part of the field 1" For three pages we have an elaborate description of the storm of shot and shell which was directed, as we are assured, from "a great number of guns," against the Head-quarters Staff, conspicuous by the white flowing plumes of the officers. Shells, " sometimes in a black flight, exploding nearly at the same moment, or briskly, one after another, right and left, and all around," fol lowed the round shot, and whenever Lord Raglan and Staff were obliged to cross the road " they rode at it briskly as at a leap, and spanned it with one or two strides, thus leaving the prepared storm of shells to burst a little behind them." Of course the slaughter among the Staff was dreadful in such a fiery furnace of battle, and the wonder is how a man escaped from an " effort of the Russian artillery against Lord. Raglan and the group surrounding him, which lasted a long time, and was carried on upon a scale better propor tioned to the destruction of a whole division." But Provi dence protected them, as it guarded the Emperor at Solferino. Not one of the Stall was scratched, nor had oae of them a hair of his head singed. As an introduction to the history of the coup d'etat, after thometaphysical and personal sketches of the young Louis Napoleon and his studies, all written in the same spirit, the historian of the Invasion of the Crimea considers it necessary" to give full and detailed accounts of the Prince's attempts to overthrow the Government at Boulogne and Strasbourg, and reiterates his charge of something worse than want of personal courage. Mr. Kinglake drags into this narrative, in the rudest manner an English gentleman can do it in words, the associates, the Ministers, and agents in the coup d'etat, and introduces us with scant courtesy to " Fialin dit Per signy," Fleury, Morny, Maupas, Magnan, and St. Arnaud, whom Mr. Kinglake seems to think it very clever to call "formerly Le Roy" all through this part of his book. To none of them does he deign eve n an "M.," and what he says of them had better be left unrepeated here. This chap ter, no doubt, was written long ago, and has been since re touched and polished again and again, still it is as sharp as the serpent's tooth. One hundred and thirteen pages, or nearly one-fourth of the whole of the first volume, which purport to be an account of the " transactions which brought on the war of 1854-5," are occupied in this ruthless on slaught on the Emperor of the French, his early associates, and the men of the 2d of December and 4th of December, 1851. At the close of this long chapter, wherein—every line abounding—are fullest traces of a labour of love in his work, he attempts to justify the digression by the remark that the policy of France was moulded by the personal exigencies of its new ruler and his friends. But he fails entirely to show that any change took place after the coup d'etat in the general principles on which France had uni formly acted with respect to the Latin Church and the Eastern question. Although in 1853 the army, the clergy, the working classes—" the people"—of France were pro foundly content, Mr. Kinglake says that at this time the tranquillity of Europe " portended gaol and ill-usag e and, death" to the Emperor Napoleon I So he labours to prove that the language, which he admits to be temperate, just, and moderate, of the Emperor in the Courts was but a cloak to his design to engage Eng land of in naval wa n the Turks h movements tending to provoke war. But, of England and in a panic flew to the representatives' fleets to repai r France, the latter ordered Lill errespective A d m iral did not come. Th e to the Levant. The E ngl . French Admiral obeyed the summons. If we a re to read history by the light , of events which have occu rre d , and a dopt Mr. Kinglake ' s summary ( page 3 -14) of the E mperor ' s showed g there might be some reason for maintaining that he b reater foresight than his ally, and that the adop • tion of his plans might have prevented the naval disaster at Sinope, which attached a certain disgrace to our arms and rendered war inevitable. The Duke of Wellington, no mean master in the art of swearing, seems to have appraised oaths by some sort of monetary standard. When asked by the Go vernment of the day what he thought of the proposal on the part of the French Government to remove Napoleon's bones from St. Helena, the Great Captain is reported to have replied :—" Well, I don't see why they should not have his bones if they want them. Why should we ob ject? They'll say we're afraid. But I don't care what they say ? Who cares what they say? I don't care ad— what they say, I don't care a two penny d-- what they say." According to this au thority, then, if there is such a thing as a twopenny damn, it seems rather hard to amerce this contemptible and low-priced profanity at the rate of two shillings, it would certainly have cost his Grace ; and t here should h e an ascending scale from the twopenny oath of a ca bman to the affluent commination of Shimei and Eraulplause... 'Saturday ,Review, LITERATURE, JUVENILE BOOKS. Kinder Garten Educational Employments for Children. By Jane Mill. Barton and lodge. The advantages and peculiarities of the system of the Kinder Garten are beginning to be more generally discussed among us, and, in consequence, more highly estimated. Tne great and lasting evils resulting from the forced application of young and tender minds to long hours of dry and (' o them) unintelligible study, have long been insisted ou by those best qualified to judge, but, in spite of doctors and moralists, in spite, too, of the sadder warning of the drooping health and flag ging spirits of their children, parents too often persist in exactions which are really cruel. No rational person would expect a child of six or eight years to carry heavy weights or walk long distances, yet overteaching is quite as senseless, though more insidious. Why should the brain be less cared for than the limbs P Assuredly it is not of less value, and its influence on the general health is more powerful and more lasting. The mental result is generally disappointing—the physical is too often disastrous. We trust the inauguration of the Kinder Garten system, which is based on the sound principle of training rather than teach ing, will tend in some deg, ee to mitigate this evil, for so long as parents expect children of five to be fluent readers, and at eight or nine to be proficient pianistes, teachers by the ordinary method are very awkwardly situated. The Kinder Garten is only intended for very young children, and is designed as an introduction to the ordinary method rather than an opposition to it. It aims at employing those superfluous energies of children which usually are only shown in devastation, in construction and in genuity. The devices and models made by some children are really surprising, and those less skilful are equally interested in learning how a thing is made by seeing it put together instead of broken to pieces. Instruction is conveyed in various forms, but the games of the children are one of the prin cipal means by which they learn order, ingenuity, and harmony, along with the principles of geome try, arithmetic, music, and design. The little work before us represents many of these games, and thus affords parents an opportunity of becoming ac quainted with some of the leading features of the system. The Two Cousins.—Three Years After.—Made Clear at Last. By H. S. E. Wertheim, Mac- intosh, and Hunt, Paternoster-row. These are three pleasant little tales for girls of the working class just beginning life, written with a purpose, but yet full of daily interest. As they are adapted to an age which finds the fascination of fiction all-powerful, we should hope that they may be productive of benefit. Were employers and parents more careful to place such works in the hands of girls, they might be able by their means to turn the taste for romance, which is often pro ductive of evil, into a channel for mental and moral elevation. Tales of Life in Earnest. By Miss Crompton, Author of " Tales that are True," &e. Barton and Hodge. This is an elegantly bound and handsomely illus trated volume, reciting anew some of those old tales that never wear oat. The stories of " Elizabeth of Siberia," " Alfred the Great," " George Washing ton," and " Hofer," never lose their charm. They are fresh to every succeeding generation, and their lessons are never tedious or unprofitable. Miss Crompton's little work, however, does not confine itself to "twice told tales," for there are many new sketches with such titles as " The Life Boat," " Three Months under the Snow," &c. We subjoin one of these which tells briefly a story which some of us have heard before, but which can scarcely be heard too often : A HERO. The name of John Maynard is still kept in mind amongst the pilots of North America. He was a pilot on board a steamer which was going to the town of Buffalo, one summer afternoon. At that time the steamers had no boats. Smoke came up from under the deck, and the cap • tain sent a sailor down to see what was the matter. The man soon came back in terror, and said, " Captain, the ship is on fire 1" Then rose a fearful cry of " Fire I fire I the ship is on fire 1" Buckets of water were thrown down, but it was of no use ; for they had tar and resin on board, and nothing could save the ship. The passengers rushed about to find the pilot, and asked, " How far are we from Buffalo ?" " Seven miles," was the reply. " How long before we can reach it ?" "In three quarters of an hour, if the steam keeps up." " Is there any hope of our lives ?" "Go to the fore-part of the ship," said the pilot, "and I will save you if I can." Men, women, and children were soon crowded in the fore part of the ship, and John Maynard, their brave pilot, was left by himself at the helm. Clouds of smoke rose up, and the flames burst through them. The captain called out through his trumpet, " John Maynard !" " Ay, ay, sir." " Are you at the helm ?" " Ay, ay, sir." "Head her south-east, and run her on shore." Near and more near they came to the shore. Again the captain cried out, " John Maynard !" The voice in reply was very feeble, " Ay, ay, sir." " Can you hold on five minutes more, John ?" " God help me, T will." The fire was round him fiercely blazing, when the ship was sent right on shore. Every man, woman, and child was saved when John Maynard died at his awful post of duty. The Abolition of Metropolitan Tolls Bill. Yesterday a numerous meeting of the vestry of St. Pancras was held at the Court House, Camden town, for the purpose, amongst other subjects, o f considering the report of the Public Works Com mittee as to the bill about to be introduced in the next session of Parliament, at the instance of the Metropolis Roads Commissioners, for the abolition of turnpike tolls within a radius of about five miles throughout the metropolitan suburbs. Mr. Church warden S. Taylor occupied the chair. Mr. Lawford, as chairman of the Public Works Committee, stated that, having carefully considered the bill for abo lishing turnpike tolls in the vicinity of the metro polis, they recommended that the vestry of St. Pan cras should invite the parishes of Marylebone, Pad dington, and Islington to unite with them in calling upon the borough and county members to secure the introduction of a clause in such bill, compelling the Metropolis Roads Commissioners to put all the roads under their charge in a thorough state of repair,and leave them so at the time of delivering them over to the respective parishes. Mr. Lawford mo ved the adoption of the report, which having been seconded, Mr. Ross expressed his surprise at the exceedingly mild way in which the committee proposed to deal with a matter of so much importance to the crease their general taxation. parishioners, seeing how enrouHsley i t t ho w o o g u h l t d tihne lemen took a similar view of the questions the Chairman rEatrvmerasn rfieepi d o t M b by nStockton,means w a e n n d r f o a t r h oe when o lag u ee g nn h t . on, said the resolution of the committee had been sug gested by the parish solicitor, who thought it better that they should endeavour to save the first year's outlay, which would entail on that parish an expen diture of £9,000, than set up a useless opposition to a measure brou g ht i n b y the Governmen t. Mr. R. Bishop den ounce d the coolness with which the com mittee proposed to agree to a bill which would be a perpetual extra tax of £9,000 per year upon that parish alone. There never was a more fitting subject for Popular agitation. At such a time the Govern ment could not stand the defection of even 10 mem bers of Parliament, and now was the time to insist that they should not be permitted to apply local taxation to imperial purposes, but that those who ground up these roads should be made 100 pay those who kept them in repair. The General Omnibus Company would put £12,000 a year into their pockets if this bill passed, and the general public would be taxed for their benefit. Instead of adopt ing this report he moved as an amendment that a special committee be appointed to communicate %, ith other parishes, and to insist upon some equivalent from the Government for this extra taxation to be thrown upon the parishes. Several members rose to' second the amendment, and it was staled that St. Pancras would have 71 miles of metropolis roads e a?,ur e , but tt not e c fora call the th e thrown upon it. Lieut. -Col . Wi lkinson agreed with the appointment ofa to special committee,measure, purpose of opposition a ttention of the legislature to the unequal mode in which imperial taxation fastened upon local re ceipts. After some further discussion the amend ment was put and carried, and a special committee appointed. --- RUSSIAN REFORM.—The Emperor of Russi has recently issued a ukase, to the effect that all public functionaries, no matter how high, shall hence forth be liable, like other persons, to arrest and, imprison ment, if they do not pay their debts. New just only inter- ) was very ulets, ad EA) act intrY imed vhich ntry from aned vat'," er the AV r the the nest all! ;elf. cain Paid. _ all 100 1041 1051