The Sun. — London, England, 1863-11-27 00:00:00

NONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCS. CITY, TWELVE o'CLocK. The transactions in the general discount market, this morning, have failed to produce any new tea ture. The general charge for first class bills still continues at 5Z- per cent., with occasional operations at 54 per cent. About 128,000 sovereigns were withdrawn from the Bank yesterday for shipment to the East. The amount of specie to be conveyed by the p elt; which leaves to-day for Bombay is £624,120, of which £250,000 is in gold for Alexandria. The return published yesterday evening by the 'lank of E ngland authorities is generally regarded DB presenting some very favourable features. The bullion has not been so largely decreased as ex- P e eled, while the reserve of notes has been increased, and a falling off is shown in the amount of other securities. Annexed are the particulars: — Active Circulation .. £20,505,210 Decrease e• oe 40 592,260 Bullion .. ' 13,368,332 Decrease .. .. • • 51,270 Rest ee ee ee , 201,351 In crease .. .. • • 8,150 Public Deposits 0. 7,040,534 Increase .. es, es oe 588,681 Other Deposits.. .. 12,802,411 Decrease 601,031 seven Day and other Bills .. 649,042 Decrease • • • • " • • 31,842 G overnment Securities .. 10,710,330 Decrease .. • . .. 100,000 Other Securities • • • • .. 20,022,886 Decrease .. • • .• 477,049 Notes Unemployed .. .. 6,824,035 Increase .. • • .. .. 645,565 Arrangements have been concluded by which the old established firm of Messrs. H. and S. Johnston a nd Co. have amalgamated their banking and a gency business with the Merchant Banking Com pany of London; and also that Messrs. C. Butler, firlet Pryor, and J. G. Magaw, partners of the have joined the board of the company. The bank will commence business on the Ist proximo in Ca nnon-street. The progress of business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Market daring the last few days bas been animated, particularly as regards sugar, in Which large speculative dealings have been entered into at fully previous rates. Coffee has been in moderate request, while there has been a more active inquiry for rice and cocoa. At the public Niles or tea, Assam qualities have realised an advance of ld to lid per lb., while China descrip tions remain without change. Fruit, at public sale --vie., currants, raisins, and figs—have been at rather lower rates, while in the tallow market considerable depression has prevailed, quotations for both present and forward delivery showing a downward tendency. The shareholders of the lonian Bank held an extraordinary general meeting to day for the pur pose of electing two directors. Mr. 011iver Ferrar occupied the chair, and in proposing that the names of Mr. Alexander Pendia Petrocochino and Mr. Richard Ferrer be added to the list of directors, took the opportunity of stating that the question for extending the business of the bank In the neighbouring country of Greece bad be en deliberated upon, but no final reso lution had, however, as yet been made. Before de termining upon that subject the directors would se ek the advice and approbation of their pro- Pttctary. One of the gentlemen proposed as a directo r w as l arge ly c onn e ct e d with th e commerce ooth of this country and Greece, end it was believed th at he would be able to afford the executive great assi etance in arriving at a satisfactory conclusion. , busicess of the bank within the past year or so had considerably increased, and it was found neces sary to strengthen the board in order to secure an adequate attendance of gentlemen efficiently to c onduct its affairs. At a general meeting of the shareholders of the .., r ust and Lo a n C om p an y o f U p p er C ana d a , th e 'tight Hon. E. P. Bouverie, M.P., in the chair, the dividend as proposed by the directors, namely, at th e rate of 81 per cent. per annum, less income tax, Was declared payable, and the report unanimously adopted. It was stated that the net profits for the bus iness Silt months remounted to £14,804, that the o f the co m p an y con ti nue d prosperous, an d t he wealth of th e C ana di an p rov i nces s h owe d in lePutable 4 signs of increase. Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr. Iteuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 66 f. 95c. to 67f.—Dull. The transactions is the English Stock Market to -day have been very limited. Speculation, as ttBual of late, being very dull, the fluctuation has been unimportant, and there is consequently no material feature to comment upon. Consols for transller are 921 a, and for the account, less the dividend, 91* 1. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 90a j; India 5 per Cents., 108: 109 ; the 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 104 4; and Ex chequer Bills, 6s. 2s. dis: There has been an absence of fluctuation in the Foreign Market, and business is quiet. Turkish 6 per Cer,ts., 1862, are 70 1; do. Consolides, lot 47 ; Greek, 30: ; Spanish Passive, 344 ; do. C ertificates, 131 I; Mexican, 37: ; Portuguese, 48 1 ; do. Scrip, 11 pm.; Italian, 70: 71 ; and the o c'•nfederate Loan, 55-1 56f. 13 w4iness in the Railway Share Market has been t4 t11 , ..r dull, the arrangements for the half monthly tte ttlenaent having occupied the chief attention of the d ealers and shareholders. Great Northern A stock 1 1 ' 4 8 advanced £l, and the North Western and Mid -444d, 103.; while Great Eastern have declined 55., 411 c1 Metropolitan, £l. In the Foreign and Colonial Markets there has "ete no change of importance. - ISank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in fair r equest and generally sustain former rates. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. dank BRITISH 235 7 3 a per Cent. R e d uce d Annu i t i es per Cent. C onsols Annuities 921 1 i i N e e w 3 p er Cent. Annuities New 21 Irr CCeenutt. A Ann ianut t i i e e s s ... . India Stock 18 . Ditto 5 '74 6t4iefeltr. cu C ede e n n pt t . 1888 Ditto pet Cent. 1870 Ditto 1081 9 Ditto_ aper, 4 per Cent .. ... 104/ Ditto 5f per Cent Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 991 C onsols., for A ccount, Dec. 3.. tidia Stock tor Account, 5 per Cent — ' - 'zciaequer Bills, 21,000, 3 per Cen t 6 dis ditto X5OO .. 6 dig Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Ilrazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 — Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-53-60 Ditto 1863 ;Yptian 7 per Cent bitto, Second Issue G re ek 5 per Cent., 182 , -5, ex-Coupons 3o} -..exican 3 per Cent p p itto Account 7 11 vian 3 per Cent. I) itto Account — lido 4i per (2 , int., 1862 I:.Ditto Account ci r r ,tuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 - ; 14 0 Accormt .. — ' -uitto 3 pe'.. Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 4B/ Ditto Ac , •ount — Ditto, 1,863 etto Scrip, £lO paid 81 an. 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — c ki.".to 41 per Cent 1850 BB i'44l 3 per Cent 111 ' 0 Account — Diet New Deferred cAccouut Ditto , assive 3,l)Ditto Account , :ani . Bh (art. o f C ou p n o t funded 44 rkish 6 ?r Cent. 1854 Ditto Actunt Ditto 6 peeent. 1858 Ditto Accov, t — Pitta, £lOO nude— Ditto 6 per Co t, It;G2 - 70 i Diviaelicima the above payable in London. -, talian, 5 per Cen, 1851, Ex. 25 francs 7Ol 4 1 TWO O'CLOCK. Consoi3, money •• • ... 92 91A ex div, - Ditto Account Liverpool Cott. Market—This Day. Sales of the week, 74 '00 bales, including 21,260 on spec. and 15,689 for -port. Actual export, 8,363 bales. Quotations: riddling Orleans, 28; Upland, 271 ; Fair EgYP-n, 29. Eqimateci Stock, 256,100 bales. lin Its of the week, 4 3,999 bale s , S ura ts, 15.264. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing hare hallways Paid. Price. Business done 1)0 Atlantic &St Lawrenct all 60 63 skf Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent lOO 106 107 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares.. 205 Buffalo and Laxellurun all 65 61 10 Do. Preference 10 0 Buffalo,Brant,&Godricb too ( 6 p, at. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. J uiy 1, 1878 100 WO Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 st Clcutt a.&S.Eastn. (Lin 100 104 106 st Cape Town rf: Dock Seri' 100 101 103 stock Eastn. Bengal gut. sp. c 100 108 109 stock East Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 107 ItB 1075 20 Do. do. U Ext lO 1 15p 20 Do. do. H do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada too 201 215 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 73 16 100 Do. do. deferred all 60 63 100 Do. 2d Prel. Bonds all 66 69 671 100 Do. do. deferred-- all 50 53 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock 100 Do. do. deferred all 38 42 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred all 23 26 stook Gt.lndiaPenln.gua.sp.c lOO 108 109 10S1 SO Do. New gua. sp. o l2 15 111 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 15 11, stook Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 105 106 SO/ Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 10 105 204 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all ge 95 100 Do. 55 p. o. do. '77-8.... all 80 88 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 # 4O stock Aladras. guar., 5p.0. .. 100 1051 101 stock Do. 41 p. 0. Extension 100 100 101 stock Dc. 4d d 0........ 100 16 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stock Melb.Corp. tt p. 0. Buds. 100 50 llelb. & Ilobson's Bay. all 57 59 575 100 Do. 7p. o. 51ortg. Bds. all =0 Newßrunswiok& Ganda Class A and B all 3 5 N.ll.l.C'da6 po Ist f bds 100 82 84 stork Sande .......... (100 106 107 stock Do. Delhi 4.: ; 100 105 106 105 au Do. do . ,„z 1 2 at Do. Punjaub S 1 all 105 106 Do. Du. E L „Pg , , lot) stock Do. Indus. St. Flo. k 100 101 103 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT S EC URITIEN. 6 p.c.J a. sz,J uly 1877-84 ............... 100 103 105 101 Do. 6p. 0. Feb. & Aug. 100 .02 114 ' Do. 6p. c.Mar. & Sept. 100 102 105 Do. fp. c. Jan.&July. 100 92 93 , Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 (Cape G.Hope, 6 p 0,1873 100 108 110 Do.Ap &Oct. 1880 100 109 111 Do. 1890 100 109 111 I Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 113 115 'Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 tiO 112 - .Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 107 108 :Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 107 109 I N.l3.Gov.lsp.o.Ja.aJul) 100 Of 106 Do.' 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - N. S.W. Gov. 5 p a., 12a 100 101 102 Du. sp. 0.,18/i to 1.:„ . 7( 100 101 102 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 1011 1025 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. o - steriing, 1875 lOO 104 106 - ,Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO 1:1 113 S. Aus G6p.e.1873.& up lOO 111 113 Vio.Gov. 6 p.e. Ja.dOuly 100 107 109 'Ho. to 6 ma. An.&Oct.. 100 1091 1105 BRTTISH MIN ES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 8 id ..1111'ord Amalgamated.. 36 5 57 4 Devon G. Cows. ,"Tavist ) 1 550 660 I East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 62 1 ' East Clogau Gold Ltd. 52. 5d Par lEast Caradon ..... 2.14.6 255 265 - East Carn Brea... 3.4.0 75 75 tll.l. Russel (Tavistk.) 8.9.0 51 65 - IGeum&StAubyn(Gwen.; 881 11 13 ,Great South Tolg - n5.... 175 5 5 1 ',G. Wheal Vor (Holston, 40 1 1 15 !Grenville 6.16.6 45 55 herd's-Hoot 8.12 59 41 tlingston Downs 4. 8.0 1/ 25 Lady Bertha Margaret (lJny Lelant ok 20 22 Nlarke Valley.. I llyndy Iron Ore (Lim ; 2X New Setun lll 00 100 • North Downs <B 15 2 ' S.WWI Basset (1110 'll.l 3.1.0 21 35 North Wheal Crotty 2.6.9 5 55 Val' Consols (St. Blazey ; 20 Vrovidence(Uny Lehat.) 10.6.7 345 ,SouthCaradon(St.Cleer, 15 410 120 —S. Caro Brea (Illogan) — _ •i.Wheal Fran. (Illogan ) 18.15.9 60 65 Stray Park 30.17.6 35 37 5 CanaarSilv.& Lead Alin. 45 k fin Croft 9 19 20 IWest Basset (Illogan) ll 91 101 W Cr radon (Liskcard) 5 19 21 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 55 87/ 925 I Wheal Buller(Redruth) 8 225 271 - ( Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLutb ott , 3.0.8 15 25 Wheal MaryAnnt s :den ) 8 12 13 Wheal Oeton . 585 jl7O 180 174 wheal Treiawney (Lis.), 7 20 21 !Wheal Union 3.17 21 3 Etion royal 'Suing ached dson, South ckeu- Mr. t, the item, sham in as with sham ijest7 e and a ptaia 3 Hon. had a ;urrey• to be -office. ive in ) duke iondoa been rby at mong owsley enter- ;entle- ing at private select ur has Lerset's latif. ,estOn e vres' were rence• iouslY onnier I am Be call A hear lident, beard, I prin nment 3 prin. more e. ” ) _ rs diS" vowed n Idol hear• it they in hag ;I, and Lorney edings of our L Pre- it deli' , e hon. i I iu of the 'vation, X.II2ONY chat g° ps, and ent. rtiality icd out sans of marltS are, ou imentS , . _ 0 noise , during .a y thu here 19 L inter us 10311 assurc a Lot WV repor t rs; but .ornark ° will not 3 Or °l/t future vatio' alone Ttain ly I i n the latid stony SHARE JAARKETS.—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOu.K.S. Share Closing Business Railways. Paid., Price. done. I t , . 13.14. Mr.. Wol., and Str. Val all 8 8 4 25 filythe and Tyne. 10 dost.,Sleat.,ands.lid.Lio all 8 8 4 at Bristol and Exeter st Caledonian •• 100 118 119 1181 5 0 Cork and Bandon all 20 Cornwall all 4.1 74 10 Do A 10 Do. B f A gets DO diN ) a ll 50 Dublin & Belfast June. all 38 10 t ti e l e l .han6pre,a.pidantoß,. i all 25 bun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. all 16 17 at Edinburgh & Glasgow., 100 ' 15 97 at Glasg. and S. Western . ; 100 I 107 b;9 at Great Eastern, Ord. stk' 100 I 49 50 491 / at Ditto A stock 1 100 45 47 at Ditto EastAnglian st 1 100 71 81 st GreatNorthot Scotland, 100 at Great Northern ; 100 127 128 at Do A stock I 100 132 13; 1321 at Do Bdo llOO I<4 136 st Gt. S. an IW. of Irelanul 100 99 101 at Great Western .. st Do Str Val gua. s t oc k , 100 at Lancashve & Yorkshircl 100 1081 1091 1081 I at London and lilackwali , 100 71 73 at Lon., Bright.,& S . C oas t; 100 110 112 ' at Lon., Chat., and Dover! 100 44 16 at Lon. & Nor'h Western' 100 1031 104 1031 41 st Lon. & So'.th Western 100 101 A 1021 1011 st Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 100 48/ 491 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all 121 Dot shares.. all st Metropolitan all 11 0 117 116 st Midland 6.4.0 Do New at Do Binning. & Derby 100 96 QS 50 hid. (it. W. of Ireland all 25 Do. 4 shares 25 Mid Kent 10 Do Cray Line at North British st Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 24 t 6 st INth. Eastern—Berwlos 100 1011 101, 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 —— il r, at Do Leeds lOO 581 59 58/ at Do York at Do Carlisle.. ..... .., 100 at North London 1 0 1 Do New 5 1 2 p 1 6 1 .16.4 North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction all 11 111 st Scottish Central at Scot N. E., Aber. SLOW( 100 42 44 at Do Soot. Mid. stock lOO 93 100 10 Shrews. and Welohpool all et ;Shropshire Union at ;South Devon... ..... et South Eastern at 'South Wales at 'S. York. and River Dun 100 96 18 20 1 Staines, Wok.,andWok all jlO ,04 35 ;Stockton & Darlington all is 7 371 25 Do l7 9 10 it 25 Do New, 1866 8 75 7/ p st Taff Vale 10 Do B 8 5 64, 10 Do C 3 24 31p 50 Ulster 25 Do 12.10 Do 54 st ,Vale of Neath at ,Victoria sta. and Pim 1 100 170 175 at 'Waterford & Kilkenny; 100 at ;West Cornwall t 100 at tW. Hartlepool llar.&R ' 100 at West Midland -Oxford, 100 at I Do Newport' 100 —-- at Do Hereford' 100 i— rIiEFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm., 113 Great Western Orig. 44 per cent. pf., 99} 100} PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pt, 1016 Kent Coast, 6 per cent. pref. B, 7i London, Chatham, ac., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., 101} LINES LEASED Ar FIXED RENTALS. London, Tilbury, and Southend, 1016 Preston and Pyre, 441 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Great Luxembourg, 121 amur and Liege gua, 14f. per annum, 8/ Sambre and Meuse, 9 FOItEIGN MINES. Santa Barbara Gold Mine (lira.), Yudananiutana of S. Australia 2f DOCKS. London, 71 JOINT-STOCK RANKS. Alliance Bank of Lon _on and Liverpool (11m.), 16 Anglo Austrian, 74 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 11 Consolidated Bank, lim., Continental, lim., 104 11 10,1 East London, lira., 74 English, Scoich, and Australian Chartered, 23i Imperial Ottoman, in 4 London Bank of Scotland, lim. - , 7} London and County, 551 London Joint Stock, 364 London and South African, Ditto, new, 264 London and South American. 11m., 2i 1 London and Westminster, 781 9 Mercantile and Exchange. Bin., 11) National Provincial of England, Ditto, new, 39 Oriental Bank Corporation, 57 Union of Australia, 554:64 MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Palace,;,-- Ditto, pref., 119 Discount Corporation, limited, 101 Egyptian Commercial and Trading, lim., 4 Gen. Credit and Finance of Lonaon, lim., Hudson's Bay, 13 13 London Financia l Association, lim., 231 madras Irrigation and Canal, Ditto (all), :22t, National Discount Compiny, lim., Oriental Inland Steam, inn., lA The Price of Gold. _ The quotation of gold at Paris is about 21 per mill° pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.30 per .£1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 i 7s. Wad. per ounce for standard gold, it appear that gold is nearly 3-lOths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By adyices fromilamburg the price of gold is 4251 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.5 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Iflirtlprice is, therefore, about 1-10 th per cent. dearer In Hamburg than i n L on d on . The course of exchange at New Yo r k on L on d on f or bill s a t 60 days' sight is 1.5.)1.t0 IGO per cent., and the premium on gold is 954 to 951 per cent. At these rates there is scarcely any profit on the importation of gold from the United 6 tates THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEVIBER 27, 1863, LAW INTELLIGENCE---This Day. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Before Mr, Baron Bramwell.) WILKINS V. SMITH. This was an action for libel brought by the plaintiff, the proprietor of the refreshment rooms at the Peterborough Railway station, against the Telegraph newspaper. Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Keane were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. F. H. Lewis for the de fendant. Mr. Hawkins said the plaintiff claimed compensation and damages for the injury he had sustained in consequence of some comments of an unfair nature which had appeared in defendant's newspaper. A special reporter from the paper in question accompanied the Prince of Wales on his journey to the north, and' the train stopping at Peterborough station to take refreshment. On the pub lication of the report of the journey the following day the special reporter said he trusted his royal highness had not tasted the detestable pure sold at the Peterborough station, and which was composed of a mixture of horsebeans, with other such like delicacies. The plaintiff feeling naturally indignant at such a reflection on the refreshments supplied, wrote to the defendant complaining of the report, and asking for an apology, when the following day an announcement appeared in the Telegraph, stating that they had been requested to state by Mr. Wilkins, that the soup sold at the Peterborough station was not made of horse beans. Finding all attempts to obtain an apology vain, the present action was brought. (The copies of the paper con taining the objectionable stricture and the announcement mentioned, were put in and read.) Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, for the defendant, argued that although a misrepresentation respecting the ingredients of the plaintiff's soup had been made by the gentleman en gaged to supply an account of the journey of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to the north to one of the newspapers, yet it was not of that damaging character alleged by the plaintiff. The public, he contended, were under a debt of gratitude to the press for the manner in which a reform had been brought about in the hotel system. Before the subject was put in its true light before the public bills of inordinate length were the invariable result of any person staying the shortest space of time at an English hotel. But, thanks to the press, hotel bills had been shortened, accommodation had improved; in fact, a com plete revolution had been the result of the comments made upon the objectionable system, and now an altered state of things was in existence. It appeared to him that the most had been made of a very ridiculous mistake, and it also seemed to him that some allowance ought to be made for the disappointment that usually attends the first visit of a traveller to a railway refreshment room, He would not detain them. by describing the contents usually to be found in those places—the antiquated and mathematically cut sandwiches—(laughter) — the suspicious bits of indestructible pork which might, pie -- (laughter)— it was true, fill up a vacuum, but which certainly would obstinately resist digestion--(laughter) —he would rather ask the jury their opinion of the soup usually sold to cold and hungry travellers. He had never been to Peter borough, so his remarks did not apply to that particular place ; but, speaking generally, he was sure that the man who had once taken soup at a railway station would be greatly indisposed to undergo the miseries of a second basin. (Laughter.) Supposing a soup was made of horse beans, he did not think it was the first article that was manufactured, and of necessity, bad, because it was made from somewhat coarse ingredients. To his mind it, appeared that the flavouring was the principal thing — (laughter) and although the plaintiff had called his cook that important personage had not been asked of what the identical soup prepared for royal travellers was composed. (Laughter.) The whole matter he thought was perfectly riaiculous, and he felt certain the jury would form a cor rect estimate of the damage the plaintiff had sustained for the publication of the observations. Baron Bramwell summed up the evidence. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff with £25 of damages. DIVORCE COURT. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde.) BAILEY V. BAILEY. Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Mr. Pritchard for the petitioner. This was an undefended suit by Clara Bailey for a disso lution of marriage with her husband, Loyd George Peachey Bailey, on the ground of cruelty and adultery, and also for the custody of the children. The parties were married at Hunstone, in Sussex, on March 10, 1852, and there were three children issueof the marriage, two of whom are living. After the marriage they resided at Brighton for four months, and then emigrated to Aus tralia, where they lived for several years. The ill-treat ment was alleged to have taken place as early as June, 1855, and amongst the different acts detailed was striking or kicking the petitioner violently a week before her con finement with her first child. The object for which the respondent, who was originally a wine merchant, went to Australia having failed, the parties returned to England at the end of the year 1862. The respondent opened a confectioner's shop at 1, Duke street, Brighton, and in the beginning of 1863 he resumed his violence. On one occasion he followed her to her bed room and struck her a violent blow on the back of the neck which knocked her down and rendered her insensible. • She was laid up for a considerable time afterwards from the blow in question. On another occasion he tore her mantle to pieces, and while she was washing a bottle in the kitchen he came in and knocked it out of her hand, and flung the piece at her. In the February following, while they were at tea in the parlour, without any provocation, he took the bottles and flung them at her one by one. He was addicted to intemperance, and had threatened to shoot her with a gun. The petitioner left her husband on the 23d March last, and had not since returned to cohabitation with him. The adultery was proved to have taken place with different females at Brighton ; and on one occasion, during the absence of his wife, the re spondent brought home a woman named Lee, who re mained in the house for an hour. The petitioner and other witnesses were examined, whose evidence fully proved the case, The learned judge made the decree nisi., with costs, and directed the petitioner to have the custody of the children until further orders. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Nisi Prins, before Lord Chief Justice Cock- burn and a special jury.) SYSIK V. FRAZER AND ANOTHER. The cross-examination of the plaintiff in this case (the particulars of which will be found in another column of The Sun), was proceeded with this morning. At its con clusion some friends of the lady were examined, who stated that they had never known her to be guilty of anything that could be considered the act of an insane person. The case for the plaintiff was proceeding when we went to press. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLB OROUGH-STREET. A PEST.-- - Dan Mahomed, a man of colour, who is well known to West•end tradesmen as a beggar, and about the greatest pest in that line in the metropolis, was charged before Mr. Yardley with wilfully demolishing two panes of glass in the window of Mr. Feodor Leihtwitz, tobacconist, of No. 3, Old Compton-street. Mr. Leihtwitz was standing at his door yesterday after noon when the prisoner passed, and after going a short distance rushed back. M. Leihtwitz, fearing the prisoner was about to attack him closed the door, and the prisoner finding he could not get into the shop broke two panes of glass. Mr. Yardley asked how many times the prisoner had been in custody Barnes, the gaoler, said at least twenty times ---for ruf fianly and unprovoked assaults, stealing meat. publicans' measures, begging, in fact, for nearly every offence, and h e spent the best part of his time in prison. ➢ir. Yardley committed the prisoner for two months' with hard labour for the wilful damage. Mr. James Spence, of Liverpool, on Southern Independence. Last night the City Hall of Glasgow was crowded to excess by a promiscuous audience, including all the chief business men, to hear an address on Southern independence by Mr. James Spence, of Liverpool. Mr. James Hannan was in the chair. Mr. SPENcE, on rising, was received with loud cheers. He said he appeared in answer to a requisition signed by 200 of the citizens of Glasgow, inviting him to address them on the subject of Southern independence. It afforded him the utmost pleasure in responding to the request. Glasgow had a right to speak on such a subject, and any opinion it might express on a matter on which it had means of infor mation, not common to the whole country, would carry weight in every other part of the kingdom. Before enter ing on the subject, he proceeded to clear the way by re moving two misconceptions which existed in some minds, He had no hostility to the Gjvernment of this country, and while ho nenwunced this cruel and unjust war, whilst he claimed for the Southerners that right of self-government which we accord to every other powerful community, he was no advocate or defender of slavery. He deplored it for its own sake, and for the sake of the Southern people. lie entertained the opinion held by many of the greatest men the South had produced—viz., Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Clay—all of whom regarded slavery as an evil to their country; and advocating the independence of the South, amongst other benef ts which he believed it would confer, he held it to be the only issue of this war that pro , tnised a hope to the termination of the evil. He then showed, from the early history of the Union, that its pre sent constitution not only originated in rebellion, but was the fruit of a secession. He stated that the principle of the present constitution was that each State was a sovereign community, governing itself except in regard to those mat ters which, iu common with the rest, it committed to the general government of the country. There was not a word in the constitution to forbid any of the States retiring from it as they had dyne from its predecessor. Hence the coer cion now attempted by the North had not only no warrant in the constitution, but was the wrongful exercise of a power which was deliberately excluded from it. lie affirmed not only that secession was a just right of every State, but that the ingenuity of man could not combine those sovereign States into a Federal Republic without the right of seces sion. He did not advocate this principle of secession, he was no believer in republics in any form, but right was right and it' the American people thought proper to adopt certain principles or forms of government, it was their duty now to' accept the consequences. The Southern States had not only a right of accession inherent in the Federal compacts, but they had the same right from a still higher source, the da , claration of independence, the fountain head of American political principles. Ho then quoted Abraham Lincoln's justification of Western Virginia receding from the rest of that state, and asserted that any one who sought would find an authority for the very grossest form either of rebellion or secession in Mr. Lincoln. Thus the Southern States had right upon their side ; they simply do what the Northern slaveowners did before them, and have taught them to ad mire ever since. But it might be asked whether, admitting the right, there was sufficient ground to exercise it. H e then recited the causes which had led to secession, laying stress on the fact that the people of the North and South are distinct from and antagonistic to each other. The North preached religious liberty, and practised it by persecuting and slaying all who differed from themselves. In like man ner they were the first to threaten secession; they were the first who took measures to secede; but now that others fol low their example, and they lose by it, they deem it the deadliest of sins. This was not an attempt to cut one na • time into two, but to compel two nations to be one. The fact that the Southerners ate another people, and the na tural desire which it created to have an existence and government of their own, that was the cause of this convul sion ; but there was another, in the conviction which had long pervaded the South that the Union was worked to the profit of the North and their own loss. Some might be surprised that he did not mention slavery as one of the causes of secession. The very smallest reflection ought to show any one who took the trouble to reflect that slavery, so far from being a cause, was the strongest of all possiblereasons against secession. He then went on to show that in all the other cases of war or threatened war in America slavery had no part, and asserted that if slavery was the first object of Southern thought, they would have clung to the Union with the most desperate tenacity, but some might ask, Was not slavery declated to be the corner-stone of the. Southern Confederacy ? That was a popular and parrot cry of the Northern advocates. It was true that a Southern orator said that the difference of race and the inferiority of one race to another was the corner-stone of the system ; but did they ever before hear of such a thing as taking a metaphorical expression of an orator and fixing it on 8,000,000 of people ? Leaving metaphor for fact, every man knew where to find the corner-stone of any confederacy. There was but one thing to which that epithet would apply, and that was its constitution. Now, in the constitution of the Southern States there was not a single principle in support of slavery which was not in the old one. Strange to say the only new principle was opposed to slavery, and that was the absolute prohibition of the slave trade. There was not one word in it to prevent any State freeing its slaves, and remaining a member of the Confederacy as before. What did they think of the capacity of those who took up the sound of a phrase, and had not the penetration to discern the sense of it, and the limits of its application ? There was another question, Was it true that this war was carried on by the North in order to free the slaves ? Now, it was true there was a small band in the North of fanatical men who had made this sub ject a passion, and who, to gratify that selfish passion, were not only hounding on this bloodshed, but were ready to exterminate men of their own race, and to level every re straint of law and humanity in order to carry out their ends, But these men were a mere handful of the 21 millions in the North. The infinite majority regarded the negro with aversion, and maintained the war, some for the sake of Southern trade, some because they feared that separation now would lead to other divisions in the future, but by far the greatest number because, under the pernicious moral effects of the Union, boastful ambition had become the leading characteristic of the Federal mind; and as their idea of greatness was the gross idea of greatness in size, they shrink from this reduction of dominion. Could there be any possible doubt on that point ? Mr. Lincoln never wielded despotic power over what were called the Free States. If his objects were to free the slaves, would he not proceed with those who were within his reach ? He had all the slaves in Delaware,Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, ab solutely in his power. Why did he not tree them ? They were told the constitution stood in the way ; that was a miserable excuse. The constitution might be laughed at when Lincoln wanted to imprison men, but it must be re spected when he wished to f ree t h em. But t h o ugh he would not free those within hi s reac h h e was qu i te re ady to free all who were beyond it. Th ose were the pr i n ciples, this the style of virtue they ware t o sympath i se w i t h and admir e . He characterised Lincoln's celebrated emancipation procla maticn as a complete farce, and then asked the meeting to consider the subject o f s l aver y, not as ran ting declaimers but as thou g htf u l men. I t was a grea t, terrible f ac t 4,000,000 of n egroes — and the people of th i s country took these negroes from Africa to slavery in America. How was this evil to be removed ? Certainly not in the philanthropic manner proposed by the North of setting at liberty men who were powerless to make their way 5 n the world; but in his judgment, the first step to terminate this evil was the independence of the South. Ihe problem, how to effect a change in the condition of so vast a multitude without anarchy or industrial paralysis, was the largest and moat difficult ever presented to the mind of the statesman. When he reflected on the wonders the people of the South had aecompllshed, when he considered how they had raised a nd equipped great armies , how they h a d created manu• ctu calmness res, or in that the senate, what heroi s m in th e field, he was convinced th e y were e q u al to this further task. What ended slavery amongst ourselv es ? H ad the people of fa sena, self-devotion they had displayed, what France invaded us to force emancipation upon us, should we have assented ? Nay, they knew better. In that case we should probably have been slaveowners to this day. It was ended under a 'calm conviction of duty. Carry that convic tion to the Southern mind, and they would gather the same fruit. He thought, in considering the question of inde pendence, they must also weigh the consequences of the other issue. He held that the first result of Northern sue coos would be a war with this country, which would be most disastrous to ourselves. The independence of the South appeared to hi m t o be essential to th e well-bei ng of the whole American people, and the p rolonged continuance of the war would be fraught with great evil, both of which points he 'illustrated at some length, and vividly portrayed the terrible effect of its prolongation on the Americans of both sections, and asking what could be done to end that mass of evil. They could at least make the attempt to do some thing. Neutrality did not necessitate inaction, Ho did not urge recognition, but whathe did urge was that Govern ment should enter into relations with the other Powers of Western Europe, and i n their unite d wisdom decide as to the measures to be taken. Our ina ction was, in deed , con venient at the moment, and saved re sponsibility and excuse d irresolution. This country did not attain its pl ace among nations by a policy of hiaction. It was not by doing nothing that we were ourselves w h a t we are, and our emi nence would hardly be maintained if we were always to leave it to another Power to regulate the destinies of the world. It was the duty of this co untry not to follow, but asmen to hold out a hand when the voice of outraged humanity i m plored it. It was our auk) es politicians to consider the balance duty a ns , and ef poweritthe New World as well as the Old. It was our citizens to lead. It was our duty,country, to give some regard to the interests this o t try the dang er threatening it in future. i f was a duty wo owed i p s r e c s u e n d t r b y y , a the desire for self-government to our traditions to respect the it was a duty which expressed by wh ich they tempest powerfulparent of eAopinlee.rican,dowed to its descend.. ants to make an effort to assuage the blessings of peace they were tern, and restore to them eve endure and that lie concluded amid was the independence of the South' loud applause. 11 received and a f The lecture having been very we liv ered the ' vast a few ssem questions having been put and ens blage broke up. A NEW THEATRE at Alex an dria, with acc ommo . modation for 1,500 people, and with two tiers o f homes, is to be open e d in December with Italian orera. Uncle Baby, or (shall we say) the Born Idiot, Under the title of " Shadows," &c., we find the following amusing sketch, in the newly published number of Punch : Enter now our Theatrical Shadows, and at once we take off our hat to Mr. Fechter, expressing a hope that his Thea trical Shadow may never grow less i The romantic melo drama "Bel Domenic.," has been preceded by a charming little piece, entitled " Uncle Baby." Any one with the slightest pretension to taste in theatrical matters ought to go early and see " Uncle Baby." For the benefit of those who, either by reason of a light dinner or dyspepsy, circum stances over which they have no control, may be prevented from witnessing this truly delightful comedietta, we will attempt to give some slight notion of the plot, dialogue, and interesting situations. The curtain rises r.p_d discovers Miss Carlotta Leclercq, dressed as Mary (shall we say Mary? very well), and seated at a desk. Miss Leclercq looks at the audience, and everybody cheers enthusiastically for about the space of two minutes, by Mr. Barnett's, the acting-manager's, watch. When this has subsided the play begins in earnest. Mary (putting some money in a secret drawer)—Abl for these many years- (Goes on saying something which evidently affects her deeply, but which is totally inaudible in the gallery, and not heard in the other part of the House, in consequence of there being some confusion in the Box keepers' mind as to the precise numbering of the seats.) Enter Mr. SHORE, lightly. (He is supposed to be in love with Mary—Shall we call him Arthur ? we never heard his name and it wasn't in the bills : —very good then, Arthur be it.) Arthur (aside)—Ah, she little knows who's down-stairs. (Aloud.) Mary I Mary (turns suddenly and almost crying)—Arthur I (Pouts.) How you frightened me. [Looks at the carpet and pouts again. Arthur (who evidently has very limited ideas on any sub ject—aside)—Sho little knows who's down-stairs. (Aloud.) Mary I [MIRY pouts and locks up sixpence in a secret drawer. Arthur (opening a door—aside)—She little knows who is down-stairs. THAMES. THIEVES DISTURBED.—Three lads named James Lowe alias Law, Thomas Perkins, and Henry Upson, were brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with being in a stable in North-street, Limehouse j for the purpose of com mitting a felony. Ja two o na , o e l s o o ßr k i t d h e i n s , mo p t, n o g e s h e o r o e u a t N d, the o . 4 pr o , stated ers h in a t s t a u t b a l e t i t no theN o r s t t h a - b s al t en r a e db e y t b , hro L oaa ud i r n a do. e vu h i ou r 3 Agu business some 0 . smi tnholee' of e pt y rhii h a se prisoners nt d it el the b ess t on hu i n sat e taha d be a hl re d oo mi mo wfe:shsaii and o displacin g contained two horses, harness, sacks, corn, and pro perty. He knew all the prisoners. They were notorious thieves. The youngest, Upson, who was only 11 years of age, had recently come out of prison. after an imprison ment of 2] days for stealing a till in a shop. Perkins had been imprisoned three months in Canterbury Gaol for a robbery, and was recently discharged, atter a week's remand, from the Woolwich Police-court. Lowe had been sum. warily convicted for stealing a till, and sentenced to one mouth's ituprisonmeut. lie believed the intention of the prisoners, after remaining in the stable a part of the night, was to go out and plunder anything they could lay their hands on. They belonged to a gang of juvenile thieves who were the terror of small shopkeepers in Limehouse. The little fellow Upson was in the practice of going round counters and stealing money out of tills, and was the most dangerous thief of the three. Love, who is is years of age, on being called on for his defence, said I went to the play last night, and it was not not like n t o o igbor beingho me outto msyo ld did " parents, over'i late. n because a e u o s ' e c otchke,yats.l:lo Perkins, who is 16 years of age, said I went to the play and didn't like to go home. Upson—l say nothing. Mr. \Voolrych sentenced Love and Perkins to 21 days' imprisonment each, and ordered that Upson should be de tained in the Felthain School of Industry for ihree years. The father of the boy Upson would bl compelled to ccntri bute to his support. Enter a Girlish Young Lady, whom we'll call Ellen, Ellen (with feeble passion)—Mary I Mary (emotionally affectionate)—Ellen I Sister I they embrace three times. Arthur (aside)-- She knows who was down stairs. (Aloud and bashfully)—As it's your birthday, Mary, I've brought you this. (" This" appeared from where we were sitting to be a small cabbage leaf, but as Mary called it violets on the spot, we suppose she was right.) Mary (rapturously)-01a, Arthur I [Shakes his hands heartily. Ellen—And I've brought you this. (We forget what.) Mary (more rapturously and sobbing)—Oh, Ellen I [Embraces her several times. Enter a Little Boy about nine years old, whom we will call Jimmy. Jimmy (squeaking)—l've brought you some Vi-lets, be-cos Sister loves Vi-lets. [Finishes in a very high key. Mary (ecstatically)—Real Violets. (The others weren't then 1?)—Oh [She embraces Jimmy, who stands with his hands in his pockets. Then crosses and embraces Ellen, who embraces Mary, who shakes hands with Arthur, who pats Jimmy's head. Arthur (suddenly)—Let's hide I [They all get behind tables and chairs.] Enter Uncle Baby, played by Mr. Widdicomb._ Uncle Baby (in a wandering manner) —I met a friend, and I said, there's my Mary at home. [They all come out of their hiding-places.] Mary—Oh, you dear Uncle Baby. [Embraces him, he embraces Mary, she embraces Ellen, Ellen hugs Uncle Baby, Uncle Baby hugs Eden and Nary, Arthur shakes hands with Jimmy, and then the business of the scene continues.] (Ellen begins telling her secret, supposed to be only in tended for her sister's ear, either ear of course, probably the one farthest from the audience.) Gentleman in Pit—Speak up I Gentleman in Boxes (angrily)—But l've got number 48, boxkeeper, and this is the third time that— Everybody (in every part)—lisssasssassssssh I Enter an aimless young man, played by Mr. F. Charles, let us call him Dumpkins. Mary (politely)—Mr. bumpkins —my sister—Ellen—my sister Ellen. _ Dumpkins (jumping a good two feet from Mary by way of indicating a start, aside)—Ha I Ellen (giving a little cry)—A---(it doesn't get to "h.") Mary (cleverly)—You've met before. Uncle Baby (who knows nothing about it) —They've met before, Arthur (who has not said anything for some time)—l know what's down-stairs. (Goes to fetch it whatever it is). Mary (severely)—l understand it all. Gentlemen in Pit (loudly)—That's more than we do. [Exeunt everybody except Mary and Ellen, who being alone, embrace one another in the right hand corner of the stage, Mary (sweetly)—Ellen I (Ellen is supposed to say " Mary," as perhaps she does. Anyhow they walk to the left-hand corner and embrace again by way of novelty. Ellen tells her long and melan choly history, during which the following observations are made by the deeply interested audience.) Indignant Paterfamilias (in Dress Circle)—Look here, boakeeper. Where's 48 ? I've been put into— A. Voice (close at hand)—A passion. [Paterfamilias turns, but owner of voice remains undiscovered.] Paterfamilias—l've been in 97 and 84— Somebody —'B4l Good vintage. [Remains undiscovered. Boakeeper—Let me see your tickets. Lovers of Order—Hassssimissssssh I Paterfamilias—l've given you my tickets. I've got none now. .Boakeeper—Well, Sir, if you've got no tickets you must go out. Paterfamilias—But I've paid, I tell you, and I've given you— __ Lover of Order— Hush, Hush, Hush! [Exit Patetfamilas with Boxkeeper, and they are heard having it out in the lobby. In the meantime Ellen has told her story, and Mary has embraced her and appealed to the picture of her mother over the door; Uncle Baby enters intoxicated. Uncle Baby—Mary, lendmertenpounds I Mary (opens desk) —My earnings— Ellen—Oh, Uncle I [Embraces Mary. [Exit Uncle Baby, and enter aimless Dumpkins, Jimmy, and Arthur. Dumpkins—Oh, Ellen I [Takes her hand. Arthur (bashfully)—lf she only knew what was down stairs. Enter Uncle Baby, sober. (Uncle Baby—l've seen him and sold the annuity, and got permission for you all to be married. Take her—bless you—be happy ;—and if our friends in front will only join, then there will not sit down a happier party to supper than' Uncle Baby.) Curtain descents. This piece, turned into a very pretty ballet, with costumes a la JVatteau, and sparkling music by Mr. W. H. Mont gomery, would open the evening very well ; but who that knows how to give a good entertainment will dose his guests with a glass of sixth-rate Chablis with his oysters, simply because the remainder of the dinner is to be washed down with the very best sparkling Meet and Chaudon No, no, Mr. Fechter , Bel Demonio will suffice for every body, and begin at eig ht by all means ; but if there must be a comedietta, by way et first course, then let it be some thing better of its kind than Uncle Baby. An absurd effect was produced one night last week at Marseilles, where they were playing the "Huguenots." When the soldiers tried to fire on Marcel, Valentine, and Raoul, in the last act, it was found that the powder had not been put into their muskets ; naturally the caps alone exploded ; but this did not prevent Valentine and Raoul falling down dead, amidst the roars of the au dience. Marcel, an older soldier, stood up like a man till a scene-shifter took a shot at him from the sli p s, when he fell over the bodies of his prematurely deceased friends, and the curtain fell upon the group . A GREAT GARDENER'S FIRST ATTEMPT.—I will relate an anecdote of the great Thomas Andrew Knight, who, when a child, on seeing the gardener one day planting beans in the grounds, asked him why he buried those bits of wood, and was told that they would grow into bean plants, and bear beans. He watched the event, an d ' finding that it happened as the gardener had foretold, deter mined to plant his pocket-knife, in the expectation of its also growing, and bearing other knives; and when be caw that that did not take place, he set himself to consider the ' ca use of the difference in the tw e cases , an d thus was led to occ upy his earliest thought s with those attempt s at tracing the vital phenomena of plants to their causes, and upon which he eventually constructed so brilliant a reputation, for a greater vegetable physiologist never lived than the late Mr. Knight, ffibberd' s Gar of D own t on Castle. — Gar dener's er' s Magazi ne . GIANT PREDECESSORS OF LE GEANT .— Of former ballons with whi c h a comparis on ma y be made We have first Egg's Folly, a g igantic ba lloon built of skins, and in form l i k e a fish, having internally a small gas bladder, and this app en d age even Was o f dimensions sufficient to take up, i n a f ter year s, when the fish balloon itself w as no more, Barnum's Tom Thumb at the Surrey Gardens. The Globe, a French balloon, which ascended from C ro . morn° in 1852, would take up five-and-twenty persons, and was, we believe, fully a s large as the Geant. The n , agai n , Heare's immense fire balloon, which played such sad antics at the Beulah Spa—starting off without due notice of its intentions, and carrying off in its netting some o f t h e poor workmen, to land them with broken bones. Indeed, the vagaries of this monster brought it to au untimely end, for, refusing to go up on another occasion at the Surrey Gardens, it was cut to pieces with halfpence shied by the infuriated multitude. Lowe's aerial ship in America, which was built to cross the Atlantic sonic three years since, was double the I size of the Gout. .PRISONERS OF WAR, The exchange of sick and wounded prisoners, but of no others, still proceeds; 185 Confederate sol• diers, all maimed and wounded, were delivered at City Point on Oct. 29. In exchange for them 185 Yankee prisoners, all in the same or a worse con dition, were placed on board flag of trace boat. A detachment of the Richmond Ambulance Committee went down to take charge of the moving of these mangled wretches, and provided also with refresh ments and comforts for the alleviation of the suffer ings of their feliow.creatnres on both sides. This is sad work. All these prisoners on both sides were unfit to be moved in their present condition, and many of them forfeit their lives in the procees of recovering their liberty. It is a cruel necessity which our enemies impose upon us, by sending us none but the maimed and suffering, who are likely, as they hope, to be o 2 no further service in our , army, because our authorities have no alternative but to drag an equal number from their beds of pain to make the suitable return. it is a wanton and barbarous aggravation of the inevitable horrors of war. We understand very well the policy of the enemy in making so many difficulties about the exchange of prisoners, and in breaking the arrangement of the cartel, save as regards the sick and wounded prisoners. They feel themselves strong in the numbers of their people, such as they are, and in their ability to bring over hordes of hungry Europeans to replace those who may fall or be taken ; and they hope by degrees, if they have luck, to make our armies dwindle in numbers, being quite Willing that we should keep their men in prison till the end of the war, knowing that they have far more than a compensation in keeping from the field an equal or even smaller number of ours. It is a compliment to the Confederate soldier; and in that point of view we may derive some comfort from this policy, but it is not the less a barbarous, brutal one. We believe there are too many prisoners taken in this war—far more than in any other of which history makes mention —and perhaps some thing will be gained if the breaking off of the cartel shall induce soldiers on both sides not to be taken prisoners.We certainly recommend it to our men not to surrender ; if they do so their lot is pro bably t 3 be crowded in such filthy dens as Fort Delaware till the end of the war, only to be exchanged when their health is broken bitterly, so that they can be of no use either to the cause or to themselves. If our words could by any means reach the Yankee soldiers we would tell them their fate also, if they come here as prisoners, cannot be a very bright one this coming winter. It is true our authorities do what they fairly can—with jus tice to our own people—to give them humane usage, and that our medical officers afford them every assistance in their power, but there are 13,000 of them now in Richmond, not to mention those de tained in other places. There is here, if not a scarcity, at least a great dearth of provisions, and not less of fuel; while, as to the medicines, they are contraband of war, and our enemies use extreme diligence in keeping them from us altogether. We would assure those Yankee soldiers that death on the field were far ,better than captivity here this winter, and would accordingly counsel them also not to be taken alive.—Richmond Enquirer. MARKETS—This Day MARK-LANE. A moderate supply of home grown wheat was on sale here to-day, and the trade ruled firm both for red and white qualities. Selected parcels were held at is per qr. more money than on Monday last, and inferior produce commanded extreme rates. _ _ . There was a fair averge show of samples of foreign wheat on the stands. Holders of all descriptions were very firm in their demands, and an advance of is per quarter was in several instances realised. Floating cargoes of grain ruled firm, and quotations had an improved tendency. _ _ _ The supply of barley was tolerably large. Good and fine malting qualities moved off steadily, at full prices. Other wise the barley trade was dull, at the late decline in prices. Malt was in fair average request, at fall quotations. The supply of oats on sale was small. Both for English and foreign qualities the trade ruled firm, at an advance of 6d per quarter from Monday last. Beans and peas met a steady sale, and Monday's currency was supported. The flour trade was firm, and quotations had an upward tendency. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flout. English 1,130 I 1,620 l9O i 110 6lO Irish.. Foreign— 2,130 10,020 2,200 620 eke, 1,730 brim. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat on sale here is moderate. Generally speaking, the trade is heavy, and prices are rather lower. Per Sib, by the carcase. tided Enferior beef .. 2 10 3 0 Middling do. .. 3 2 3 6 Prime large do. 3 8 3 10 Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Large pork .... 3 2 3 8 Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 6 eclad Middlingmutton 3 8 4 2 Prime do .. 4 4 4 6 Vaa/ .......... 3 6 4 2 Small pork •... 3 JO 4 2 Lamb . ... 0 0 0 0 BOROUGH HOP. On the whole, the hop trade is steady. The amount of business doing is by no means extensive ; nevertheless prices rule firm. The imports from the Continent are mo derately large, bat from America the receipts continue small. New Mid and East Kents lOs to £8 10s per cwt. New Weald of Kents 6 Os to 6 Ss New Golding New Sussex Yearlings Olds . COLONIAL.f business 0 A limited amount TEA.— has been done in China descriptions, at about previous rates. Good ship ping congou is quoted 11d , to 12d per lb. SUGAR .....T • he market has been active, owing to specu lative dealings, and the late advance in We st India has been fully supported. In the refined market, however, less firmness has prevailed, owing to a bett er supply of goods being on offer. COFFEE.--A strong business has been done in colonial descriptions, at about previous q uotations. RlCE.—There has been rather more de g o o d en d and fine descriptions of East India, which hand :for hanced rates. and quotations TALLow.—Bnsiness has been very dull, exhibit les firmnss. F.Y.C. on the spot is marked 4289 d December, s 42s 3d e to 43s 6d; and spring delivery, 43s 3d per cwt. GREEN FRUIT. —The arrivals of oranges are of an exten sive character, some cargoes of St. Michael and Terceira, together with parcels of Lisbon, Malaga, and Palermo, sold were taken freely by by Keeling and Hunt at p ublic sale, the trade, the moderate figure inducing purchases. Lemons sustain their value. Black Spanish nuts are held firmly. New Barcelona to hand, and the opening price moderate. Chestnuts dull of sale, owing to the mild weather. Almeria grapes of good quality in demand. ____........... SHIP PING —This Day. LONDON, Pi"' 27. — Wind this day at noon—South- East light breeze, and fine we a t her . EINGRADAn, Nov. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Elinke, Nov. 26,—Wind S.W.—Arrived—harvest frost (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday froz:koioytroesk.. Arr i v ed, Nov. 26—Onward, fro m it Morning. ouen ; Flirt, from wyboyg; ,arrived, d, Nov. 27—Gustaf Was a , f rom Gotten b urg . DEAL, passed'—Caldon, from LondonD Friday Morning. Patentaus Barque, from Grimsby,tor Buenos Ayres; Mel and B. C. J. M. Commercial Code , for New Orleans; Mel bonene, from Shields, for r b i o a t ; h Sti fromatt ofn north, for the west. Sailed—All the outward bound. The brig Glengarry, of Liverpool, from London to Car diff, Stillwell, nmstrr and owner, got on shore near St. Margaret's bay, at 6.30 last evening ; was assisted off by Deal galley, apparently without damage. THE CELEBRATED VIOLINIST HERR JOACHIM AND RIS YOUNG VIPE will, it is understood, visit Louden in the spring. Ho is at present giving a series of quartet concerts at Hanover. . A Mom', MANAGER.—Villebecque acted be comingly to the young charge which Stella had bequeathed to him. Be was himself, as we have intimated, a man of enterprise, a restless spirit, not content to move for ever in the sphere in which he was born. Vicissitudes are the lot of such aspirants. Villebecque became manager of a small theatre, and made money. If Villebecque, without a sou, had been a schemer, Villebecque with a small capital was the very Chevalier Law of theatricil managers. He took a larger theatre, and even that succeeded, Soon he was recognised as the lessee of more than one, and still he prospered. Villebecque began to dabble in opera. houses. Ho enthroned himself at Paris; his e nvoys were heard of at Milan and Naples, at Berlin and St.Petersbarg. His controversies,with the Conservatoire at Paris ranked among state papers. Villebecque rolled in chariots and sup pers to great drove cabs; Villebecque gave refi ned Villebecque nobles, who were honoured by the invitation frock, and more wore a red ribbon in the button.hole of than one cross in his gala dress.' .Disraelt's Coningsby, THE CRAWLEY COLT RT MARTIAL. ~- - FRO3I OUR SPECIAL REPORTER. NINTH Dt VY, [The following appeared in the Third Edition of " Tho Sun" of last evening.] : _ ALDERSHOT, Thursday. The proceedings were resumed this morning at a quarter past 10, all the members being present with the exception of Colonel Lodder, who is still too ill to leave his bed. Sir G. Wetherell, K.C.8., presided. Assistant Surgeon Oliver Barnett was recalled, and his examination in chief continued by Col. Sir A. Horsford as official prosecutor. The last question put last evening and answered was read as follows Q. Is the opinion expressed by you and Dr. Turnbull as to the causes is the detailed medical report of Sergeant Major Liliey's death correct, or do you wish to qualify it in any way ? A. Iclasider it correct, and I do nct wish to qualify it in any way. Colonel'Sir A. Horsford repeated the question this morn ing, and the witness said I du wish to qualify it, inasmuch as in a subsequent report made by Dr. Turnbull, in which I concurred, that opinion was, to a certain extent, mo dified. Colonel Sir A. Hersford—Can you state to the court to what extent that opinion was modified ? Witness—lt was modified to a certain extent, to 'what extent I cannot positively state, but I believe it left the original statement substantially the same as before. The cross-examination was postponed. Cornet William Thomas Skinner Snell was recalled, and cross-examined by Lieutenant .Colonel Crawley, who said— Mr. President and gentlemen, before I proceed to put any questions to Cornet Snell, I wish to put into his hands a certain paper, not for the purpose of putting it in ev id ence, but that ho may refresh his memory. I consider this to be a fair course, so that he might not be taken by Bur , prise. - Colonel Sir A. Horsford did not object. Colonel Crawley—When you became acting adjutant 04 the 4th May, was it at the request of Lieut. Fitzsimons that you might perform the duties of adjutant for him while he was unwell ? Witness—Yes ; and the request was made through me. Further questioned, when witness continued—i am not prepared to say whether the orderly room was in the bar rack yard or in Lieut. Fitzsimons' bungalow. A request had been made some time previously that I should go into the orderly room and see the duty of adjutant done, in order that I might be able to undertake the duties of the office, if the adjutant should fall ill. I can swear that I made that request myself, and it was also made I believe by Lieut.Fitzsimons. From the 4th to the Bth May I was acting for Lieutenant Fitzsimons as adjutant. I lived in the same house with Mr.Fitzsin►ons, but I do not remember his giving me any instructions whilst I was doing the duty of adjutant. The first morning Mr. Fitz simons did examine the papers I brought to you for signa ture, but to the best of my recollection not afterward.. I received the first orders as to the prisoners under arrest frain Mr. Fitzsimons, but they were not in writing. When I revisited the sentry afterwards I did not make any re mark or report to you when I found the sentries were not in the same place where I posted them on the 7th of May. As a rule, I always asked Sergeant Major Lilley if he had any complaint to make, and he never made any. I cannot say my visits were confined to twice a day. I visited him frequently. I asked Ser geant Major Lilley frequently, to the best of my recollection, but never received any complaints. I was never actually put in orders to 'act as adjutant. lam not aware that on the Bth of May, the day I ceased to act as adjutant, Mr. Fitzsimons was reported sick., (Order book produced.) On looking at the order book, I am aware of it most d e .. cidedly—(a laugh)—the order is there, and it is so stated, but I am not aware of it more than I was before, except from what I see in the book. I remember going with Ser. geant Major Cotton to visit the sentries but not to post them. Ido not remember going with Sergeant Major Cotton to alter the position of the sentries. Sergeant Major Bernard recalled and cross-examined by Colonel Crawley—Lieut.Fitzsimons acted as adjutant at thrs time of the conversation detailed in my examination in chief. I occupied quarters next to Sergeant Major Wakefield when he was under arrest, and once put notes and papers through a hole in the wall for the sergeant major. The President cautioned the witness not to say anything that might criminate himself. Cros;:examination continued—l received some money from Sergeant Bennett for Wakefield, and gave it to a native to give to him. I never told Bennett that I had made a hole in the wall, and could pass money and notes to Yaks field without the sentries seeing it. I never asked Bennett to get money from Sumles to Wakefield at the time of the arrest. Colonel Crawley said ho had no questions to ask Mrs. Cotton in cross-examination. Major James Hyde Champion was recalled and cross. examined by Colonel Crawley as to the contents of a letter produced and reported yesterday, but the evidence merely recapitulated the facts in the letter. Assistant-Surgeon Barnett recalled and examined by Colonel Crawley.—l believe that Mrs. Crawley visited Mrs. Lilley during her illness before the arrest of the sergeant major, but lam not quite sure of it. Ido not recollect ever meeting Mrs. Crawley at Mrs. Lilley's house. Mrs. Lilley's back was inspected long before the arrest of her husband. I remember you giving Sergeant Major Lilley leave to precede the regiment to Mhow on account of the death of one child and the illness of another. Ido not remember the dates of the death of the children. One died while we were on the march, and the other shortly afterwards. Ido not believe you were aware that the close arrest of Sergeant Major Lilley was inflicting fatal ,injury to his health. I was on intimate terms with you during the time of the arrest of Lilley, and was daily and nightly in your house in consequence of illness in your family, and was in almost hourly attendance on your wife and her mother at that time. I never, that I re member, made any representation official or non-official to Colonel Crawley, or to any member of his family, with reference to Sergeant Major Lilloy, nor with regard to Mrs Lilley, as b the position of the sentries and the annoyance caused thereby. I have always found Colonel ae Crawley to thede sirous to carry out any suggestions m ade l by me the absence condition of the regiment, but it -WBl ony in ever acted for myself. cely, s that Sergeant Major Lilly's streofet,r stt reported goona illness f eo t it h r emeuinBtrs . regimentLd a nd the position of sent r i es before Dr. Turnbu ll, and it was en, joy recommendation to th e d o ctor that the thre e serge ant majors were allowed exerci se. I believe Dr , Turnbull did n ot make any representation to you as to the inc onvenience caused to Mrs. Lilley by the position o f the sentries, but I: have not any r eco ll ect i on th a t the doctor s aid he would not do so. F rom w h at I k no w of Col. Crawley, I believe /hat if I or any o ne e l se b a d re presented that the close arrest of S ergeant Major Lille) , was likely to prove fatal, steps would have been taken to avert that sad calamity. No one could have anti cipated Lilley's death. I did not know he was in his usual health the day before his death. After some further evidence, the court adjourned. Bank of England Return,:—Yesterday. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 25th day a Nov., 1863: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. : ,, otes issued ..,X27.329.245 Government Debt £11,015,10 Other Securities .. 3.634.900 Gold Coin & Bullion 12,679,245 Silver Bullion .... X 27,329,245 £27,329,214 DAN er°Prietors'XlNG DEPARTMENT. Capi tal 414.553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis - Miesioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac counts) 7,010,534 Other Deposits 19,502,111 Seven Day and other Bills Government Secu rities (including Dead Vi eight A nnuity) £10,740,330 Other Securities 20.022,886 Notes Gold and Silver 6SO,Vb? COlll • 619,042 .£38,246.33S hi. 838,246,3:15 [A ItSJIALL, Chief Caßilicr. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Dec. 19. _ via Marseilles Dec. 1 3 . Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Dec- 4 ' Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Nov. 2 9 . Chula, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton p,e. 2.). via Marseilles .•I sl°v • -7 ' Nov. 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton ................ . D „ . 2 India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southaninn Nov. 26, India (Bombay), via Southampton via Marseilles ............... Dec.. 6. Dec. 4. Portugal.... ................. •?• tnaoptou Nov. 26. 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