The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-03 00:00:00

enter 3 pro. rough oom's of the Dnsort, unt to by the bat the a mar apel is 3 busy e—the be re a win ad late 3, more for the count )Iy to prpora for the rkation to ac by the Lnicipal ttion of nmark, in this Iy, that s is de- lmuni- 7iew to in the ,ce Pier Le event rrange rEx." L ' s mar- remony burgo- Ition of )f those an ad- warmly is said, ki-lieni, , having lane for a mem , Pasha. fter the )r some imam of sty pre aorses-- tables." reed to ufort, at y, from Dn-par k y Mary wening- —Our Ave the atthEir ting Mr• ?.rhead. arrived d at her rt•gate enniker its. Her wrow for son on )- square' y• arrived Earl of Wilson an d the ' rneeting of Fun d, by meal. A ft° ry dUtieej bas leroP l ` . em blon ee hick ha o rives, ar e Ili a the 0 def t / artis t 0 e a to ) a yrne et, Fe e " - : D cash ir° . 10 . 11. to. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The discount market continua quiet and easy at the current quotations. Although 5 per cent. is the charge at the Bank of England, accommodation is obtainable elsewher, at 4-1 per cent., and bankers and others are more anxious than they were a few days ago to secure business. To-morrow, the 4th, a large number of mercantile engagements will have to be adjusted, but the preparations hitherto have not stimulated the enquiry for accommodation to any appreciable extent. _ _ The E. A. Bright, from Australia, has brought £40,000, and the Africa, from New York, £8,841 in specie. The Ceylon, which leaves on the 4th inst., with the India and China mails, will take out £84,641 in specie. At the ensuing meeting of the Bank of Egypt proprietors the usual dividend, at the rate of 7 per cent. for the half-year, will be proposed, leaving £4,663 to be carried forward. Friday, the 6th inst., has been appointed by the Committee of the Stock Exchange as a settling day in the shares of the English and Irish Bank and the Cape Copper Mining Company, both of which are to be marked in the official lists. The directors of the In.lian Branch Railway Company have resolved to issue the reserved shares to the existi ng propr i etors at par; t h e p r oportion will be one new share for every five of the original shares. DuriEg the past week there has been very little activity in the foreign and colonial produce markets. Tea has been dull, pending the approach of the public sales. Sugars have heft in some instances rather eheaper, while coffee has brought full paces. Tallow has been in increased demand at slightly enhanced rates. In the cause of Mr. M'lntosh, the contractor, against the Great Western R tilway Company, which bas been in litigation for several years, the chief clerk of the Vice-Chancellor Stuart, before whom the accounts have been, has now terminated his in vestigation. and it is understood that the amount of the plaintiff's claim is found to be, i❑ round num bers, £BO,OOO, with interest from the opening of the line in 1838 or 1840. The costs of the suit will pro bably amount to a further sum of £20,000. There is another suit of a similar character between the same parties, the accounts in which have not yet been entered on. Two O'CLOCK. The Market for the English Securities has re mained without the slightest alteration, Consols being 921 I for transfer and the sth inst., and 924 for the March account. Speculation continues inactive, and the operations of the public are un important. The New Three per Cents. and the Reduced have remained at 921 'I; Exchequer Bills, at 4s. die. to par ; Bank Stock has declined to 236 ; India ditto, 229 and 231 ; and the 5 per Cent. Loan is flat, at 1078. Rather an active business has taken place in the Foreign Market, and prices continued buoyant. Greek Bonds have been in considerable favour, and the latest price is 208 211 ; while the Coupons have advanced to 91 Q. Spanish Passive are steady at 268 271 ; and the Certificates, 10 1. Egyptian .have risen to 981. Russian 5 per Cent. Loan of 1862 has been dealt in at 941 951. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, are buoyant at 72 ; do., 1862, 678 68k ; and the Consolides, 414 42. The dealings in the Railway Share Market have been limited, but prices in one or two instances have varied to some extent. London and Black wall and North Eastern (Berwick), improved £l, and South Western, 108.; London, Chatham, and Dover, and Great Westerns have declined £l, end London and Brighton, £1 102. The Foreign and Colonial lines remained dull, without any material change in values. Great Western of Canada have improved ss. Joint-Stock Bank and Misc , lianeous shares generally :main tained previous quotations. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 236 2 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 921 4 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .. New 3 per Cent. Annuities untuties, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., P3BO — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 211 x d 2281 30 29 31 India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent D t,,,this t 1." . • Consols for Account, Feb. 5 924 Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent par 4 die Ditto £SOO Ditto Small par 4 dis FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 44 per Cent., 1852-58-60 titian 6 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent, EgPPtian 7 pet Cent b7l 7 84 Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ms 2Ol 1 1 204 4 Ditto Coupons 1, aiian 5 per Cent. (M.aremmana Railway) 721 Mexican 3 per Cent ((Ito A ccount New Granada 2 per Cent Ditto Land Warrants .. 64 7 6/ Ditto ex over-due Coups. & Hectares i 4 P t ucian 41 per Cent. Ditto 1862 Ditto Account .. 861 7 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 1862.. 464 7 64 / Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Spanish Ditto ri i t 5 toN3 p e e C New Deferred per i e n n t t . 98 :D a nii Ditto Account.. I f ...... Turkish sitrt. 1. 17 8i4 461 t funded Ditto 6Account nt. 1858 Ditto, 6Lpleoro Cent t; 1 1. 8 ... i2 . e . . r den ..........i. ... .. •. •. 6 7 7 . 68 2 i i 2 Ditto 7 4 Ditto Account ..... p Ditto Guaranteed, 4. Venezuela, 3 per Cent .. T lO 4 1i Ditto Account Ditto 11 per Cent: . ....... - l2l Dividends on the above payable in London Dutch 24 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil ........ 651 . Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ...... 1024 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Account 921 1 POLYTECHNIC.—Mr. Stokes, who has delivered several courses of popular lectures at the Royal Colosseum, upon the culture of the memory, and who has been signally successful in the development of an easy sys tem for the imp rovemen t o f th e retentive powers is about to in ,roduce som e f res h id eas at the Polytechnic, ' SUFFOCATION OF FIRST-BORN CHILDREN. On Saturday aft ernoon an i nqu i ry was held by Mr. H. Homes Waithew, the deputy coroner, at the Pitt's Head T yson - street, B e th na l- green, respecting the death of Eliza ' f B o h l l o o r w ; i a gen g e d i :cuthree months, wh o was su ff ocated under the and on w ---- cinesd a . tances :—Deceased w as a healthy child, :Jai l e d the and at halt -past t y w " l" eni parents went t o bed. The last w as pl ace d i n b ed as usual, mother pressed the her t o keep it warm, and in two hours afterwards it close to twEs found d ead from suffo cation. The mothe r was only T ab h o e ut 20 coroner said that the years of age, and annually was deceased was her first child. number of children destroyed by . uf r, masotthh:rsi,ne°u mUch to be deplored. One great sonreacenoiserwthe distressing extent of infant mortality from this siderate and over-eager fondness of young clasped their first-born close in their arms, and beliewvhedo they were doing their infants a kindness, when the de prived them of all access to the air in order to " keep off th e cold." By such means children, even when healthy, bu especially when delicate, were killed as effectually as it they were strangled. Even where death did not immediately result from asphyxia, there was no doubt that in number berless instances the constitutions of children were under mined, and death eventuated from consumption or other diseases which the most ordinary attention to common place hygienic rules might have obviated. The jury re tui ned a verdict that deceased died from suffocation— how caused there was no evidence to show. The pulpits or trlr Chuion ot England are tt‘e noblest vaorage gr o u n d wn i c h r evea l e d truth has in our world for the publication and maintenance of its verities; and the priests of the Church ot England who minister in those pulpits are a noble race of men, and draw their lineage from as noble a race of sires. Well may every bishop and layman of broad Britain be proud of the Chris tian gentlemen who serve amongst us in holy things, take them as a class : the best taught, the highest principled, he most benevolent, disintet ested, and unworldly ministry in the world. Of all Europe, with all its ministries, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, or Greek, the clergy of the Episcopal Church—the Church of Crantner, Latimer, and Ri iley the Church purified by the Marian and Cromwel Tian persecutions—the Church revived with ad the light and zeal of the nineteenth century—its clergy are the elite aad aristocracy, by their learning, their bearing, their toler ance, their discipline, their self-denial, and their devotion to their duties.—. Dublin University diagazine. BRITISH POS'4ESSIONs. Closing Share lallways Patel. Price. Business don• 100 5. t 'antic &St Lawrenc. all 65 67 Rom.,Baroda&.Cent Inn 1,.. 1041 losi 1011 54 Gu. 5 per cent........ 20 Do. New - • 2 - 201 Buffalo and Laxe Huron all 43- 51 to Do. Preference ...• • • all 7 4 8 100 I Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich 1,1 7 7 8 0 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 10 0 Do. do. July 1. 1873 10 71 76 100 Do. do. June 1, 1.- 4 too 73 76 st Clcuttadz S. Eastn. 1, 100 1(.3 105 1035 st CaoeTown .t Dock scr 100 II 8 ;09 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. r 100 1(51 1 .61 stock I,:ast Indian. gm. sp. c. 10 0 1051 1r 64. 1051 6} 20 Do. do. is- Ext.... 5 1 IJP 20 Do. do. H do. .. 5 1 fl 7( stock Grand Trunk of Canal'l.. 21 2 22 1 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pro.. ;I. 73 '75 100 Do. 2d Pref. 6 per c' . all 63 05 100 Do. 6 per et. Debenl al; 32 34 too Do• 7 per cent. 1862 .. al 47 50 100 Do. do. 1867.. all 32 34 100 Do. do. 1872 .. all 32 24 stock G t.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c ttrl 1044 '054 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 4 k stock Gt. South.of I n di a (Lim P ' anaranteed 5 per cent. 100 103 105 105 204 Gt. W. of Canada Share, all 121 13 121 18 205 Do. New , 7 i t 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 9llOl 100 Do. 54 r. c. do. '77-8.. all 92 74 10 Indian Branch Limited L 15 lip 351 gtock Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 102 tu3 103 stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 96 98 97 stock Dc. 4 do . 100 92 -4 935 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 - - stock Melb.toro. p. C. Bnd- 100 - - 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 52 53 524 100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. al, - - 20 Newßrunswick #.t Cold Class A Capital Shar. all 3 5 20 N Do n . i d .c o. ,d ß a C 6 apital d 0... alt 3 st B 7 c k ..... (ton 105 106 1051 St Do. 1035 Do. D d o o . ...... pc Ist pf id:: • 11°°0 2 0 180 4 235 16 ;1: 31' 20 Do. Punjaub t ▪ e. 15 P ICO 103 104 ock Do. indus.St. F▪ lo.) I inn 98 100 1 ; :OLONIAL (i#) V t•iftiNM #1,1.N StOUt ICI tl. , it. Gov. 6 p.c.#la. &Jut,' 1877-81 - Do. 6p. c. Feb. &Au g.l 100 106 108 xd - Do. p. c.Mar. & Sept.! 100 106 108 - Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 95 96 - Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 93 95 954 - I ape G. Hope. 6p 0,1873 100 10- 110 Do.Ap & Oct 1880 100 112 114 Do. 1890, 100 112 114 - Do. Jan. & July, 11391 H 100 111 113 - Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p o, 100 - N.h.Gov.6p.c.da.&Julyi 100 103 105 1. 41 14 5 - uo, (i p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c.,1866. 100 100 101 I Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876 100 991 1001 - Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 99 160 984 - New Zealand 6p. cent., 100 109 111 - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c , sterling, 1875 lO l, 106 107 1061 - Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO ;19 11: - b. Aus Grip:o.lB76.AZ up lOO 109 111 Vlc.(lov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 107 109 ' - 'Do. 10 0.0. A1#.& 001 . 1 00 1(94 1104 100 - - '314.171‘311 MIN 'Rs. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 id -11 - Glitlord Amalgamated.. - 23 25 - Devon G. Conn. Javist. 1 510 520 - East Bassett alloc'an).. 30 51 63 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. Is. p 4p - East Caradon ..... OP; 494 49 - East Cam Brea. - E. VIT'l Russel (Tavistk 7.19.0 51 6 - Gem.&StAubyn(Gwen ) 57, 17 19 - Great South Tolgus l7. 61 7 - Wheal Vor (Heiston 40 6 61 - Grenville .•. ;1.15 55 51 - Herod's- Foot, •1.1 50 52 - I ingston Downs 4. 7.0 26 3 - Lady Bertha - Margaret (Ony Lelant h 33 10 - Mark e Valley. 4 11vndy Iron Or e (Li m , 2; 6ds pr - New Seton . 191 140 150 •- A orth Downs j 2 1 34 WWI Basset (illo4att t. 17 t 3 34 - 'Corth Wheal Crotty . 2,4.9 gi 5 - Par Consols (St. Blazey 11 5 6 20 l'rovidence(Uny Lelnt.; 10.11.7 1 43 - South Caradon(St.Cleer: t 6 1395 405 - S. Carn Brea (Illogan) 5.15 01 25 21 - Wheal Fran. (Illogs 18.1 9 871 921 - Stray Park 5 Tamar Silv.& Lead Mit]. 4; 0 Fin Croft # 151 '6l xd . 13 14 % %: v 1 e e hi le t ta a si ß r e a ß a t d s ao s o zsi e n s t : t l . l l l c; g a n . a r . ) n d . • 4 5 7 1 5 ; 7253855 2958, - - - xd r ‘ e e a l K B n a l , e y r ( (Ruth; u. e L d e r i a n t 2.1: 5 100.6.8 6 97 5 4 7 98 1 95 - Wheal Lud ott _ wheal 51aryAnn (Men ) b 151 lei - Wheal Seton . . 585 245 265 heal Trcia•vney (Lis.) 7 161 171 - Wheal Union 3.13 54 51 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Union 4 per cent. guaranteed, 844 Great Western, 5 per cent. red. pref , 101 l 1 PREFErtENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, Metrop Ext., Bti per cent., Loudon and S.-IN estern 46 per cent., 105/ North British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., 821 LINES LEASED Ai FIXED RENTALS. Hull and Selby, ll - FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia Luxembourg,and San t Francisco l4 (Um.) gua. 7 per cent., 201 Great San Paulo gua. 7 per cent., 231 West Flanders, 5 , per cent. pf., 10} JOLS T-STOCK BANKS. Australasia, 78 Bank of Egypt, 251 Bank of London, 162; 3 London and Brazilian 31 i London. B. Ayres, and R. Plate (lim.), 13f London and County, 3 London Joint Stock, 364 London and South African, 24; London and Westminster, 77, 6 1 tittoman Bank, 34 7—Ditto, new, 91 lok Union of Australia, 51 606 Union of London, 3ta MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, 7 Crystal Palace, 6 per cent. perpetl. deb., not a National Discount Company, 84 1 1 North British Australasian, 71 Peel River Land and Mineral, 5i IS. African Irri , ation Investment (11m.), la treq ue MAD AME t TIJSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.—MatIy of the ere to thi s o l d established exhibition will probablny r,rseraber to have s een , some two or t h ree years Dent portraits o f th em i: of - ara t i l l t a b i l e , on whi c h were d ep i cted striking gniaceu since, a raa France d ur i ng t h e period of the rule of th e Fi rst Na po on , nani:eln,rd since its rem ova l t o F rance a rising you ng artist t c , 0 3 1 t y data to guide him) from memory , and with searoel urner ' has (almost entirely a n d efts the ildaiitzetnius as great original;" producul a table similar in desi gn 7 and which, from the cleverness of it s e ll : ec " highest possible credit on Mr. Turner's sk:itol an artist, and who, we doubt not, will at attain to the greatest pre - eminence in the prof e asion.PerZe table is now deposited in the Napoleon rooms of the exhi. bition. THE LATE ACCIDENT TO THE GREAT EASTERN. —A letter has been addressed to Captain Paton by the directors of the Great Ship Company, who, on the arrival of the Great Eastern in the Mersey, promptly held an official inquiry into the facts connected with the acci dent which occurred to the " big ship" in August last, while off Montauk Point, It is satisfactory to know that this investigation entirely absolved Captain Paton from all blame, and the directors express their wish that Captain Paton may yet have a long and prosperous career in the Great Eastern. The inner shell of the Great Eastern was in no way injured by the accident, and the promptitude and skill with which it was repaired w, re due to the ad mirable manner in which the engineers and mechanics of New York carried out Captain Paton's plan of repairing th e fracture in the hull by means of a 'submerged caisson. SHARE MARKETS—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOUI share! Railways. 13.14 Mr.. \Vol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. 'Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cora and Bandon Corn wa 1 Do A (A 2ets no tliN tillGpc. , Do. B been pai p d to ae.ha B. Dublin & Belfast Junc. Efun.,Perth,& Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern... . Do A stock Do B do Do. £5 shares Gt. S. an 1 W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Vala. stock Yor kshire London & Yorkshire London and Blackwal l , Lon., Bright,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do shares Metropolitan Midland DoNew ....... • Do BirMillg. & Derby Slid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwic‘ Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.. North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot.. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welohpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun stain es, Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1860 'Taff Vale Do B Do C Ulster Do . Do . Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland Oxford, Do Newport Do Hereford' I Paid,' i Closing Business Price. done hi ci 7 85 V 115 116 Gi 7 41 43 13 14 86 87 105 107 40 476 42 44 23 24 127 128 1301 1311, 136 138 104 106 641 Isi 1091 109 73.75 113 114 42 44 97.1 971 1021 Ic3, 41 42 H 14i 128 S2ti li lb 96 98 521 53} 256 26 991 100 50 571 88 89 128 130 110 112 i 1 T 16/ 10 11 11,E 118 120 471 481 104 106 47 49 32i 33 934 94 68 70 102 104 6 7 48,E 39i 10 10} pi 7 i 8 PI 149 151 4t 3;p2/ 55} 554 2., Ai p, d A 86 88 140 145 29 31 47i 7 434 i 64 i 3 1 II 741 51 111 i 11 xd 421 *l , 981 7i 103; I 141 6 128 i 1 P 52i 1001 f 194 31 lif 6) 41 13 34 36 94 26 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 3, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE (Before the Judge ordinary.) WINDHAM V. WINDHAM AND GITJGLINI. In this case an application was made by the petitioner for leave to amend the petition. Dr. Wamby this morning intimated that he had received instructions to withdraw his motion. Mr. Searle, on the part of the co-respondent, asked for costs. The Judge Ordinary asked how the co-respondent came into court. Mr. Searle said it was not stated whether he was charged with adultery or not. The Judge Ordinary thought the co-respondent was en • titled to his costs. Dr. Spinks presumed that the respondent was entitled to costs as a matter of course. The Judge Ordinary replied that he did not say as much as that at present. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.) CLARE Y. THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY. The examination of witnesses was resumed this morning in this case, which was an action brought by the plaintiff against the Lords of the Admiralty for an infringement of his patent for the construction of iron-plated ships. The case is not at all likely to conclude to-day. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.---This Day. OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) George Greenwalt, a clerk, pleaded guilty to two indict• ments, charging him with forging acceptances to two bills of exchange, one for £3OO, and the other for £6B. The Recorder sentenced him to four years penal servi tude. John Gordon and William Davis pleaded guilty to bur glariously breaking and entering the warehouse of Messrs. Truscott, Suffolk lane, City. The Recorder sentenced Gordon to 6 years penal servi tude, and Davis to 12 months' imprisonment. Benjamin. Leggett, a traveller, was indicted with em bezzling several sums of money, the property of his ern ployer, David Alfred Lurie, warehouseman, of Bartholomew close. The Jury found him guilty, but recommended him to mercy. The Recorder sentenced him to 18 months' imprison ment, with hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH STREET. SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY AT TILE UNIVERSITY CLUB.— Sarah Essam, kitchenmaid at the University Club, Pall mall, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a quantity of glasses, decanters, linen, and other articles, the property of Sir Charles Blunt and others, the trustees of the club ; and Ann Farley, of 10, Lit. Paul's-terrace, Camden-town (but who, when taken into custody, gave the name of Ann Barnes, said to be her maiden name, she some time since having married from the Club, where she was a servant), was charged with receiving the same, well knowing them to be stolen. Mr. Talbot, of the firm of Talbot and Tasker, Bedford row, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Lewis, sen., of Ely-place, for Essam. A large quantity of property was produced in court. Sergeant Joy, 9 C, said—Yesterday afternoon, about two o'clock, I saw the prisoner who now gives the name of Farley go down the area steps of the University Club. At that time she appeared only to have a small basket with her. At twenty minutes past two she came up the area steps from the kitchen with a very large parcel under her apron. I fancied she was very heavily laden, and followed her to Trafalgar-square, where she got into an omnibus. I got in also, and on the journey to Somer's-town I felt that there was something heavy in the bundle. On her getting out of the omnibus I followed her some distance and then stopped her, feeling certain that she had some thing besides clothes in the bundle. I told her I was a police officer, and asked her what she had in the bundle. She said, "only clothes I am going to wash for a friend." I told her that I believed there was more in the bundle than clothes, and she then said that if that was the case the things had been put in by her friend. I told her that I knew where she had got the things from, for that I had followed her from the University Club. I then got a cab and conveyed her to Vine -street police-station. On open ing the bundle the prisoner was carrying I found a quan tity of dour and two glass cloths with the club mark on them, and in the basket some eggs and butter. The pri soner was then searched by the female searcher, who found on her some wine glasses and a tumbler. At the station she gave the name of " Ann Barnes," 4, St. Paul's-road. I went there, but nothing was known of her. I afterwards went to the University Club and saw Essam. I told her that I was a police officer, and that she had sent some things to be washed that day. She said she had, and I then told her that I should take her into custody for stealing a number of things from the club. She said, " Yes, I know I have been very foolish, and that I have taken many little articles for which I am sorry." From in formation I afterwards received I went to 10, St. Paul's terrace, and in the parlour occupied by Farley, I found 9 tumblers, 9 wine glasses, 6 decanters, 6 quarterns of flour, 2 gallons of split peas, and some towels and clothes marked with the club mark, and a number of other articles. On Es-am seeing the property that morning she said that some of the things belonged to the club, but not all. Farley said that some of the things had been given to her, but that some jars of jam were her own property. I shall, how ever, be able to produce a witness from the club who wrote the names on the papers covering the jars. Mr. Talbot said I shall call no other witness to-day, but ask for a remand, the committee of the club feeling that the tlstem has been carried on for a long time and wishing to make further inquiries. Mr, Lewis—l cannot resist a remand so far as my client is concerned. Prisoners were then remanded for a week, WESTMINSTER. WALKING INTO THE LION'S JAWS.-Emily Chester, a well-dressed female, was placed at the bar, charged with passing off a spurious half-crown, at the Prince of Wales Tavern, Exeter-street, Sloane-street, Chelsea. George Edwards said that last evening the prisoner and another woman came to the house and called for a small quantity of spirits, which came to Ilvepence, in payment for which she gave half-a-crown, which was discovered to be spurious. _ _ Mr. Paynter—Did she in any way account for the pos session of it ? Witness—She said she had it in change for half a sovereign. Prisoner—l gave him a good half-crown afterwards, your worship. Mr. Paynter—Did she have good money upon her? Witness—Yes, she had. Mr. Paynter--What makes you think she knew that this half-crown was bad? Witness—l suspected her when she came in. Mr. Paynter—From what reason ? Witness—She and another female came last Friday and passed a bad half. crown at our house. The other female is in the court-room—there she is amongst the crowd (pointing to where the publio assembled). Inspector Butler—Let her be immediately brought for ward. Prisoner—l assure your worship she is a very respecta ble woman; she is my sister-in-law. Mr. Paynter—Have there been any inquiries made about the prisoner ? Inspector Butler—None; she has given two or three different addresses, and as yet we have not found out where she lives. Prisoner—lt is not right about my sister. in-law and me being there last Friday and passing a bad half•crcwn. Edwards—But it is ; the half-crown was discovered to be bad directly you had gone. There was no ether half crown in the til: at the time it was taken, and here it is. Mr. Payntet—l shall remand the prisoner till Monday. Inspector Butler (to Edwards) —Do you wish to charge the other woman for the offence on Friday ? Edwards—Certainly. The woman was then taken into custody, and Edwards went with her to the station-house formally to enter the charge. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Feb. 2—Amelia, from Guernsey; Hermoni de Trasminda, from Matanzas; Iris, from Dunkirk; Marianne, from Bathurst. Arrived, Feb. 3—Thomas and Mary, from Dunkirk ; Johns, from Dunk rk. Sailed—Seine, steamer, for Boulogne ; Light Brigade, for Queensland. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. No arrivals three MURDER IN THE COUNTY TYRONE.-- OMAGH, COUNTY TYRONE, Jan. 29.—James Rafferty, farm labourer, was murdered last night about 11 o'clock in the provocation, and villag e of l errnonrock, about 10 miles from this, by Peter Nugent, a aided by S ephen Gorman and Michael Nugent, staliboufiwhorn were immediately after arrested by the con paeryr.stationed in the locality. The deceased, with tne public-hoops ina custody, h•~d beeen drinking together in a d on their return home they, without any different paerxtpairoefdue: s o nb body, , from inflicting the e effects sstabsof o h f ic a h k h n e if i e m in . nesday ; W mediate] pa. the news from America portent ' we annex the AMERICAN NEw s. A is daily becoming more 8- names of the steamers due thi n : York, on the 24th, from 'lek with United States t :--:- Qi C ie it e y ns o t f own ßal o t n im vvoreed , on the 24th, due at Londonderry Jura,to-da_ from Portland, tonic, from New York, on 24th, due e i c ( o T w uesday) ; Ten mails ue a Hamburg, on Thursday next; and the China,s en f route to York, on the 29th, due at Queenstown ma Saturdayrota New next. With the exception of the Teutonia, all the steamers come 1 to Liverpool. LITERATURE. A Point of Honour. By the author of " The Morals of Mayfair,"" Creeds," and' The World's Verdict." 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This is a story which is simple enough in its outlines, and most natural in its plot. Doubtless hundreds have been similarly situated, and the same sad tale of suf f ering has been again and again enacted in the dark annals of the world. It is the touching manner in which these sorrows are de scribed that gives a pathos and an interest to this narrative. It is the forcible manner in which selfishness is exposed that imparts the excitement to its course, and keeps up the attention till its close. Gifford Mohun was a man of a very common stamp. His name is legion. They rarely do any very kind action, and they never perform any sacrifice of self, but they keep up a decent appearance, conform to the laws of a society never requiring great exertion on the part of its wealthy members, hence they live and die respected, if nothing extraordinary is re quired of them. But let auy of those mental trials or moral shocks occur to them which try the inner most heart and prove the boldest spirit, and they do not come out unscathed from the fiery ordeal. They are not found not wanting when weighed in the balance which tests the sterling from superficial, and only allows real metal to stand, not counter feit presentments. Jane Grand is a charming cha racter, not from outward attractions or superior gifts in a mental capacity, but from her gentleness, her truthfulness, and her decision. She did not fathom facts or question motives ; she only acted up to her own convictions of right and wrong, and, if all took her standard, how different would be the course of events and the destinies of mortals. This simple country girl might have taught the proudest and grandest. It is a pretty picture that meets our eye at the outset, when she was " in the pride and fulness of her youth, a soft-faced girl of twenty, standing beneath the shade of broad-leaved forest trees, and with the gloss of a June sunset lighting up her lips and eyes and hair with radiant gold." This is pleasing, some may exclaim, but of such are heroines ! Had Jane been happy in her choice, had she married Gifford without any shadow of evil overcasting her, she might have passed her life in a hum drum sort of manner, but, as it was, she was elevated, sanctified, and purified. The trial that proved her showed her to possess qualities whose existence robbed disappointment of its sting, and took from sorrow its victory. She saw and recognised that there were other things than happiness for the traveller through this world's wilderness. Having learned this lesson, she was a gainer and not a loser, and when succeeding years and subsequent events taught their crowning mercy in showing Gifford in his true colours, and she put the false idol of her youth from the shrine he had so long and so unworthily held, she was not to be pitied but envied, inasmuch as she had recti fied an error and retrieved a false srep. Had she married G fford, either she would have recognised his weakness and want of principle as years turned the youth into a man, or else she would have gra dually sunk down unto his level. For this world she could hardly have had a more uncomfortable and undesirable lot than to find it impossible to re spect her husband, and for a better state of being she could hardly have been more unfitted than by mix ing her pure faith and high sense of rectitude with the material notions and selfish doctrines of such a one as Mohun. For such an unat tractive and in some senses repulsive being as Matty Fergusson was, there seemed re served a sort of special mission to perform in the quiet village to which her ambitious views had taken her. We cannot regret any amount of an noyance that Gifford was doomed to suffer in his union with such a person as Matty, when we reflect how he had introduced, by his cruel coldness and hard selfishness, the blight that had destroyed the flower, and the canker worm that had eaten into the freshness of Jane Grand's youth. Her best and brightest years were spent in mourning, and if the result ended in blessing to her, it was but fair that a curse should rest on him who had marred the order of things as arranged by the beneficent hand of Providence to give sunshine to the spring of youth and gentle gales to fan the path of those not yet strong enough to bear the wintry blast of adversity. Mr. Follett, the vicar, though not intended to be otherwise than dull, prosaic, and solemn, really seems quite an attractive character with his straight forward manner and his precious gift of compre hension and ready tact. When nine out ten would have made the sufferer worse by his officious meddling, he wisely left the afflicted one to her God and herself. When at last she allowed him to visit her, he never mentioned her trouble, but told of his own agony far away in the days of his youth, but too deeply impressed not to retain its memory to the extremest verge of extended existence. this is the secret of strength to the weak, the source of consolation to the afflicted, to let them see that others are crushed as they have been trampled upon, and yet by the mercy of Heaven have seen something on this fair earth again to engage their attention. Jane Grand listened to the tale, and the recital was of service to her. It would have been well for her had she then possessed suf ficient principle to recognise the unworthiness of her heart's idol, but that was not to be expect, d from one so young and so inexperienced ; perhaps it was more in accordance with her gentle heart and gracious spirit, that she should go on heaping up treasures on the shrine of memory instead of weav ing garlands for the chaplet of hope. The past threw a dark shadow on the present, which might have been bright with the promise of the future. Great blame is attached to the friends and ad visers of Jane Grand. They could not have done a more cruel or mischievous thing had they meant to be the destroyers of her peace. They furnish a striking instance, and present an excellent warning to well-meaning but weak persons, who are always trying to put off the evil day, and circumvent or substitute in some way rather than be downright and straightforward. Concealment never yet did any good, but in a thousand cases has created in numerable evils, and wrought direful calamities. It is a sort of nightmare in the waking life of those whom it concerns, and they come to their senses to find that the real is worse than the imaginary evil. So it was with our poor heroine, when she sat in the lawyer's room at Russell-square. That scene is admirably pourtrayed which tells of the momentous interview between the young girl, just fresh from the country, and her simple routine, and the old man, versed in the shuffling of a crooked career and steeled to the encounter of sorrow, shame, and suffering as they met him in the dark ways of his profession. There is an impressive passage which points out some of the opportunities that men of Mr. Clitheroe's profession possess of ob serving the great struggles of humanity in their engagements, that involve some of the saddest and hardest trials of mortals. " Talk of what phsicians, of what clergymen see of humanity in extremis. The physician sees us only when bodily weakness has robbed mental suffering of the pasaionate vitality of life, the parson, when we have reached the senile days of repentance or de spair. The lawyer sees men and women in the heat and burden of the fight, sees them in their greatest strength, and greatest weakness, in their intensest interest, in their utmost self-abnegation, in paroxysms of basest fear, in moments of most sublime and heroic moral courage. The healers of soul and body often hear half truths, but to his lawyer what man ever lied ? Mr. Clitheroe's halt century of ordinary solicitor's work had brought him face to face with as many difficult situations, as many varied phases of deep passion as would suf fice to make any dramatist immortal, could he but embody them in art." This work can be fairly re commended to the reader, in the full assurance and confident expectation that it will interest him from its truthful p ictures of humanit y , i ts pat h et i c de scriptions of su ffering, and its real and earnest views of life and its highest interests. "A Point of Honour" exposes some of the greatest errors into which men tall wilfully, or accidentally ; an d also tells of the highest attributes that can ado rn this world, and lead on to the contemplation of a better state of being. William and Rachel Russell. A Tragedy. By , Andreas Munch. Translated from the Norwe- gian by J. H. Burt. Trubner and Co. Sir Aberiour ; or the Sceptic. By W. J. Purcell, Esc., of the Inner Temple. Pickering. Short Poems. By F. O. tiV ilson. Hurst and Blackett. Parvula. A few little Rhymes. By Minimus. Trubner and Co. There must be something very fascinating in the art of writing verses, since so many attempt it to whom the occupation is neither likely to bring fame nor profit. It is to be conjectured that on the principle of " virtue being its own reward," the satisfaction of thinking oneself a poet is sufficient repayment; and, probably, in most cases an ad miring and non-captious public may surround the writer and listen with awe-struck attention to spasm3dic tragedy, halting verse, and incompre hensible sonnet. If the publications before us do not exactly come into this category, they are cerNinly not far enough removed from it to soar very much above mediocrity. The tragedy of Lord and Lady Russell appears under the great d;sadvantage of a translation, but it is not entirely devoid of power, and we can readily fancy that in its native form it might be a thrilling and effective piece. The story turns upon the offence given by the refusal of the pure and high-minded Lady Russell to receive the worthless Duchess of Portsmouth when she visited her house. This belongs to those appendages to history known as " embroidered facts," and it is not probable that with Lady Rus sell's fervent devotion to her lord, and calm sense, she would so far have outstripped the borders of prudence. The work is written with care, and rises in power towards the close, indeed the last scenes in the noble victim's prison are almost eloquent. The translation has received the approbation of the poet, so we must conclude that it is faithful to the text, and it is interesting as introducing us to a part of that Scandinavian literature whose strong sym pathies with our own are manifested by the subject of this very play. Of " Sir Aberdour, or the Sceptic," there is not much to say, except that it is a very poor imitation of Childe Harold, if, indeed we may compare such an indifferent production to one of the masterpieces of the English tongue. The hero is a sceptic, who has forfeited the favour of a fair maiden of high estate for that reason, and consequently betakes himself to wander over the continent and muse on the destinies of Italy, with a result more gratifying to himself than to the reader. We should decidedly advise the author to abandon the profession of letters for the more lucra tive one which he claims on the title page, and rest his hopes of distinction on briefs and pleaders, rather than on such rhymes as " mamma" and " saw," or such Alexandrines as "Ay tremble; the Calabrian fiends here may fl ock." We have heard a r iyming dictionary gravely re commended to an ambitious versifier by a well meaning but unpoetic friend, and really the advice would not always be unprofitable. We leave Sir Aberdour and his Dandreary transformation of " a" into "ow" and we come in Mr. Wilson's "Short Poems" to such exquisite melody of words as "Italy" and "bitterly," and still more astonishing, " armies" and " calm is." Truly double rhymes under such circumstances are questionable advantages. We begin to wish for the regulation which proves so great a fetter w French poets, by making the rhyme to consist of the three last letters of the words being the same. It is not ofte❑ that either writer we have mentioned offends in this way, bat once is once too often. We fear that for misdi rected ambition they are somewhat on a par, though Mr. Wilson's work, from being much less pretentious, is much the more pleasing. There is certainly neither original thought nor elevated ex pression, but many of the verses flow melodiously enough. It is when he is simplest that the writer is most successful, when he sings the lament of the little orphan shepherd boy, or tella the thoughts of the dying girl looking wistfully over the meadows ; but when he aims at effect, and de scribing his lady-love toying with the waters, in forms us that— " The old river shook with a terrible delight," we are less sensitive than the river, and decidedly not impressed. The little volume " Parvula" comes before the public with the disadvantage of an ab surdly affected title-page, which prejudices the reader at the outset. It is manifestly the work of a very young writer, and as such gives grounds for hopes of future improvement. Notwithstanding many defects, it has something of the freshness and spirit a a genuine singer, but it is extremely un equal, and if ever the author hopes to do better things, ho must study carefully and prune his com positions with an unsparing hand. Diffuseness is one of his great faults, but the equally common error of extravagance is not met with. Indeed, he is often too plain in his language, as when he begins a poem— "I walk'd too far the other day." Studied simplicity may be very effective under the pen of an experienced writer, but such lines as this are not poetry. He is sometimes happy in his images, and we will cite oue as a favourable speci men. He is just fresh from a course of astronomi cal study, and goes out on a starry night to " con sider the heavens." He is surprised to find a little peasant girl, apparently bent on the same errand, and questions her. "Those eyes assumed unwonted light, 'l'm thinking, Sir,' said she, If Heaven's wrong side be so bright What must the right side be I' How vain is knowledge then, I thought, E'en though to Heaven it reach, If that which science never taught, A little girl can teach I And ye who live in peace and health, Twin blessings from above, And revel daily in the wealth Of friendship and of love; Oh, think when joys like these delight Though this side Heaven are ye, If Heaven's wrong side be so bright `What must the right side be !" If "Minimus" will be content to carry out his objectionable title, and write only a " few" rhymes for some time to come, he may, with care, produce something better. Let him not aim at writing much, but at writing a little well, and instead of "Parvula," let him endeavour to describe his next volume as "Multum in Parvo." The Newspaper Press Directory and Advertiser's Guide. By C. Mitchell and Co. With the Newspaper Map of the United Kingdom. There is little room for criticism with regard to this old-established Directory, which bears the same regard to the newspaper press of the United King dom as Kelly's monster volume does to the citizens of the great metropolis. Opening with a summary of the law of newspapers, which will be useful to novices, we come, after the alphabetical index, to the London papers, the provincial papers, the Welsh, Scotch, and Irish papers, followed by a list of the journals published in the British Isles, and a catalogue of the ever-increasing company of maga zines, reviews, and periodicals. The journals num ber 1,206, the magazines and quarterlies 537, of which no less than 217 are of a decidedly religious character. The information giving respecting each of these periodicals is very serviceable to adver tisers, and entitles the Directory to assume the ap pellation of " The Advertiser's Guide." We must not omit to mention the newspaper map, showing the newspaper representation of each county, and coloured so as to distinguish the agricultural, i; min ing, and ma nu f ac t ur i ng di s t r icts. The map boldly drawn an d e ff e ctively coloured, an e, is con junction with the Directory, affords v ery ery the Fourth clear And comprehensive information respecti n g Estate. Ethnology and Phrenology as an , aid to th e Ill s _ toriczn. By J. W. Jackson. Irubner and C o. This volume tr eats of two kindred sciences which, a lthough too d r y and abst u se for g ener al study i a s r o el no t without value to t he hi storian and the ptiio / alien Although the writer puts '• Phrenology" on his title page, it must not be supposed that he dis courses on the minor details of the science as it is popularly represented, but he refers rather to his consideration of the mental types of the varying branches of the great human race. It is a work which is the result of much thought and labour, and whether or no the reader subscribe to its in genious theories, he will be favourably impressed by the cliligencti and learning of the author. Professor Iluxley's Lectures to Working Men. Hardwicke. This is a reprint of some very interesting and able lectures addressed by Professor Huxley to working men, and designed to give them some idea of those great principles of natural science which are so fascinating to thoughtful minds in all classes. They are simple in style, and clear in meaning, although by no means " spoken down" to their audience. There is probably a great deal in them that few working men would readily follow, but there is much more that they could easily grasp, and the difficulties would only stimulate them to increased mental effort. Such lectures are an honour to both speaker and audience, and we are glad to see them in a form which secures their per manent utility. Sin : its causes and consequences, a series of Lent Lectures. By the Rev. H. Christmas, M.A. Allen and Co., Leadenhall-street. The reputation of the Rev. Mr. Christmas is so well established that the republication of a series of his lectures can hardly fail to obtain an exten sive circulation. At the present time their appear ance is especially appropriate, as they were de livered during the season of Lent at St. Peter's on Cornhill, and St. Mildred's in the Poultry. They have consequently reappeared in time for the annual return of that epoch, although the great and ♦ital questions of which they treat ale suitable to every season. They bear evidence of deep thought and care, and those who have already heard them delivered by the able lecturer will probably be glad to procure them for more deliberate study. Australian Agricultural Company. MEETING THIS DAY. At the half-yearly meeting held to-day of the Australian Agricultural Company, Mr. Edward Hamilton presiding, the report stated that the greater part of the cash in hand may be considered as realized revenue, and is distributable as such, and as a remittance of £6,000 had been received during the present month, the directors proposed to appro priate the sum of £7,500 to the payment of a dividend of 7s. 6d. per share. The agent in the colony reported the coal trade to have been unusually dull, which was in a great degree attributable to the feeling of uncertainty which the occurrence of the two strikes of the colliers within the past twelve months was sure to create in the minds of distant customers. A drought had also prevailed for many months, and the agent had determined to postpone for a time the purchase of breeding sheep. The chairman moved the adop ion of the report, and stated that the trade of New South Wales was reviving. Negotiations were now pend ing for a new postal service via Panama, instead of as at present by way of Suez. The Governments of New Zea land and New South Wales had offered a subsidy of £BO,OOO for the new route upon certain conditions being accepted by the Government at home. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S-MONDAY. The room was well attended, several gentlemen having gone to Hyde-park Corner for the sale of Mr. Hawkesley's stud. Betting, however, did not take a very wide range, although a fe a' outsiders for the Derby appeared to have a rising tendency. Michael Scott had friends for both that race and the Two Thousand, but the investments upon him were not large. For the Chester Cup Le Marechal was in better odour than on Thursday, and Ben Webster had friends who did not like to desert a quondam winner. The City and Suburban was touched upon but very lightly; and the Liverpool Steeplechase attracted some attention from the admirers of that description of sport, Master Begot being on equal terms with Avalanche. Mauchline again found supporters, but the rest of Lamplugh's lot were un mentioned. Light of Other Days was backed by people who like a horse which they know can jump, and Med Gra found friends among those who admire intrinsic worth, and will back an old favourite let the weight be what it may. The only double event bet that came under our notice was 20 to 1, taken to £lOO, that Hospodar won the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, and Lord Clifden the Derby. At 5 o'clock the closing prices were as follows : LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 100 to 6 agst Avalanche (taken) 100 to 6 agst Master Bagot (taken) 20 to 1 agst Northern Light (taken) 20 to 1 agst Medora (taken) 25 to 1 agst Light of other Days (taken) 25 to agst Brewer (taken) 25 to 1 agst Anatis (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mauchline CITY AND SUBURBAN. 33 to 1 agst Beechy Head (taken) 33 to 1 agst Queen of Spain (taken) 33 to 1 agst Misfortune (taken and offered) CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Stradella 1000 to 35 aget Le Marechal 40 to 1 agst Bet, Webster 50 to 1 agst Zetland 50 to 1 agst Bellman TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 7to 2 agst Hospodar 4to 1 agst Saccharometer (taken and offered) 11 to 1 agst Brick (offered) 15 to 1 agst Pratique (taken) 15 to 1 agst Michael Scott (taken) 100 to 6 agst Tom Fool (taken and offered) THE DERBY. sto 1 agst Lord Clifien (taken and offered) 9to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered) 100 to 8 agst Hospodar (taken and offered) 1000 to 45 agst Tom Fool (taken) 25 to 1 agst Blue Mantle (offered) 25 to 1 agst Carnival (offered) 28 to 1 agst National Guard (taken) 28 to 1 age Automaton (offered) 30 to 1 agst King of Utopia (taken and offered) 40 to 1 agst Taje 40 to 1 agst Michael Scott (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Bright Cloud (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Munich (taken) 100 to 1 agst Baldwin (taken and offered) 100 to 1 aget Clarion (taken) 100 to 1 agst Overstone (taken) 20 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's lot (taken) 2000 to 100 agst Hospodar winning the Two Thousand and Lord Clifden the Derby. READING STEEPLECHASES,—YaIIer Gal and Sir Bobby were struck out of their Reading engagements at 2 p.m., Feb. 2. LINCOLN SPRING MEETING.—YaIIer Gal was scratched for her Lincoln engagements at 2 p.m. yesterday, Feb. 2. MARKET S—This Day. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay,' £2 Os to £4 5s Od ; clover, do., £3 lOs to £5 lOs ; and straw, £1 14s to £1 18s per load. Supply moderate. Trade steady. CUMBERLAND.--Mealow hay, £2 Os to £4 ss; cloves, £3 lOs to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 14s to £1 18s per load. A slow demand. WHITECHAPEL. — Meadow hay, £2 Os to LI ss; clover do., £3 10s to 15 lOs ; and straw, tal 14s to £1 18s per load. Trade steady. COLONIAL. TEA—The dealings have been limited, operations having been suspended until the public sales, which commence to-morrow, SUGAR—The market has been dull, and prices have exhibited no material variation. In the refined market there has been no alteration in values. COFFEE—For plantation Ceylon there has been a rather active demand at full rates, and other descriptions have been in fair request. RICE—The dealings have been limited, and no change can be reported in prices. SALTPETRE—Business has been exceedingly dull, and prices tend downwards. TAELow.—The market has been moderately active, and quotations for both present and forward delivery tend upwards. P.Y.C. on the spot is marked 455. 9d. ; March delivery, 465. ; and last three months, 475. 3d. per owt. REPRESENTATION OF REIGATE.—The writ issued on Saturday morning, and the returning officer has appointed to-morrow morning for the nomination. The polling will take place on Thursday morning. Both par ties express themselves confident of success. GLASGOW, Jan. 31.—Cotton. --The cotton-market has been very dull through out the week at a redue _ tion of Id. to Id. per lb. I ron. —The pig-iron market, which was quiet and drooping during the eariy part of this week, became very flat upon tho a dvance in the rate of discount becoming known. The decline, however, was not material, —s3s. 9d. cas h for warrants being the l owest point reached. i r n more inqui r y, s . D ur i n g the last t wo da y s t here has been th i s m orning the tone was very firm • ' and 3d. cash freely o ff er ed, and 545. Gd. asked. G.m.b. N ') o. 1, 545. ; No. 3, 625. 3d; No. l Gartsherrie, 675. Gd. ; Coltness, 575. 6d• ; Calder, 555. Gd. President Lincoln has presented to Senator Sumner, for transmission to Mr. George Livermore, of Cam bridge (Mass.), the pen with which ho signed the emanci pation p r oclamation.—New Fork Paper. CHANGE IN THE TICKET-OF-LEAVE SYSTEM.--We (Birmingham Daily Post) learn, on the best autho rity, that Sir G. Grey has determined upon an immediate and most unexpected change in the convict system, so far as regards the granting of " tickets-of-leave.' ' The arrange ment hitherto has been that, however often he may have been sentenced, a convict has received a conditional pardon before the expiration of his sentence, provided his conduct has been satisfactory while in prison. Henceforth this pri vilege is to be greatly restricted. In all cases where a con vict has been previously sentenced to penal servitude no future sentence to the same punishment will receive any remission ; so that a man twice convicted will be unable to obtain what is popularly called a ticket-of-108 Tel. The change is to take effect immediately. AMERICA. ---.•,------ The following appeared in a portion of our impression of yesterday evening : (Per the Atrica, via Roahe's Point, 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, SAN. 22. Resolutions have been introduced in the Senate, declaring that the attempt by France to subjugate Mexico is hostile to the United States and to free institutions anywhere, and that it is a violation of international law and a violation of the faith of France, pledged by the London treaty of OCtober, 1861, between France, Spain. and England, and repeatedly assured to the Federal Government through the American Minister in Paris. The re solutions further declare that it is the duty of the Federal Government to require the withdrawal of the French forces, and now and always to lend such aid to Mexico as is required to prevent forcible European intervention in her political affairs. Pre sident Lincoln is requested to communicate to the Mexican Government the views expressed by Con gress, and to negotiate a treaty with Mexico to make these of active. The resolutions will be discussed on the 22d inst. The rumour of General Burnside crossing the Rappahannock has not been confirmed. Despatches from Fortress Monroe state that the Confederate authorities have ordered that Federal officers cap tured after January 12 should be delivered to the governors of the states where captured. General Halleck has ordered that no more Con federate officers shall be released on parole. President Lincoln has signed the bill for a fur ther issue of 100,000,000 dols. treasury notes for the payment of the army, and has sent a message to Congress urging it to restrict the issues of irre deemable paper currency, and to tax the circula tion of the banks. A bill has been reported to the Senate to autho rise letters of marque. The privateer Retribution is cruising off St. Thomas. The Washington Star states that General Burn • side has issued an address to Es army, and that General Hooker's division crossed the Rappahan nock on the 20th. The remainder of General Burn side's army is now said to have also crossed the river, and his forces to be above and below Frede ricksburg. • The New York 7imes contains a rumour that General Sumner's division bad succeeded in flank ing the Confederate position and advancing two miles, and that General Hooker was mortally. wounded. Longstreet's division was not with drawn into Tennessee, and General Lee's army re mained intact to encounter Burnside. It is impossible to say if the above accounts are accurate, and great public curiosity exists for more authentic details. The Government has furnished nothing officially. The Southern journals conjecture that a storm upon the coast disarranged the Federal plans, and prevented their advance front Newbern. The Federals drove in the Confederate pickets 18 miles below Kingston, North Carolina, on the 16th, and were advancing 60,000 strong, with 20 days' rations. The Federals have attacked Fort Caswell, guard ing the approaches to Wilmington, without result. The Federal steamer Columbia ran ashore at Masonboro' Inlet, North Carolina, and her com mander and crew had surrendered to the Confede rates. The correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer asserts that a mutiny has occurred among the troops in Fort Sumter, which has been subdued. Much general dissatisfaction was said to exist among the Confederates in South Carolina• The Governor of Jersey, in his message to the legislature, denounces the Emancipation proclama tion, and the illegal arrests, and recommends peace upon the basis of the union of the states with their quality and rights unimpaired. Another Republican caucas has been held at Washington. General Fitz-John Porter has been found guilty of the charges brought against him, and dismissed from the service. A bill has been introduced in the House of Re presentatives appropriating 10,000,000 dols. for the emancipation of the slaves in Maryland. The steamer Sacramento, Capt. Boggs, will sail immediately in search of the Alabama. The Richmond Inquirer says a new financial scheme has been introduced into the Confederate Congress proposing an amendment to the Constitu tion, and legalising the issue of notes, to be legal tender during the war, and five years after its ter mination. The scheme also includes a proposal for purchasing the whole of the Southern cotton crop, the present crop to be purchased at 10 to 15 cents. per pound. A steamer, supposed to be the Huntress, laden with 400 bale . s of cotton, was burned while endea vouring to escape out of Charleston. The excitement at Albany continues concerning the election of a speaker for the Assembly. The balloting has led to no result as yet. The civil authorities have taken steps to prevent any breach of the peace. The American press generally approve the senti ments of the resolutions introduced in Congress concerning the French expedition to Mexico, but consider the moment inopportune for their intro duction and the carrying out of them imprac ticable, ;; p:~ The Lady Explorers of the White Nile. The fact that three adventurous ladies have as cended the White Nile, above Khartum, in a steamer fitted at some cost, is already known. Sir Roderick Murchison now publishes their names, and further particulars. The eldest, Madame Ti nne , an d h er s i ster, t h e Baroness van Cappellen, are daughters of the re nowned Dutch Admiral, Baron von Cappellen, who was the coadjutor of Lord Exmouth in the memo rable capture of Algiers in 1816. The youngest of these ladies is Miss Alexandrina Tinne, who is a British subject. As the daughters and granddaughter of the chi valrous Dutch Admiral, these ladies seem to have im bibed the spirit which he displayed in liberating slaves. In the former letter alluded to, attention was specially called to the touching scene in which Miss Tinne procured the liberation of a negro family, forming part of a cargo of slaves, who had. been torn from their native village by the cruel marauders, who, under the guise of being traders of Khartum, pillage and burn villages, and tarty off the women and children into captivity. The following is an extract which I have been permitted to take from the last letter of Madame Tinne, which was finished on her return to Khar tum, and is a description of the environs of Gondo koro I have not told you that, except for the illness of Alexine, we liked Gondokoro very much. There was a beautiful terrace belonging to a house the Tyrolese missionaries had built, and deserted on account of illness. Such fine citron and tamarind trees ! We went an excursion of four hours before Alexine was ill, to what they call the mountain Ballaria, over a rich plain with fine trees, nume rous flocks of cows, sheep, and goats, and many vil lages, with negroes dancing and singing ,day and night, as long as their corn lasts. They have a feast by turns in every village, They are a fine, warlike race, but rather quarrelsome. We also went a trip wish the steamer to see if it was true that t:he river was not navigable higher up than Goodokuro. We went about five hours' steam, but then it .got too shallow, and as we could proceed no further, e came home. " As to finding the source of the Nile, people here laugh at it. Once past tho river Sobat, then are a hundred streamlets flowing into the Nile. A t Gon r dokero there is rain ever y day for six o eight months—not constant rain, but such showers ! that there does not seem a want of any other sourc e. As to mountains, there are some further up, as Te saw them at a distance, but nothing striking—n+ othing like a great European chain. They rise ab, ruptly from a sandy or watering plain." In the course of some further details and ren larks) Sir Roderick intimates that there are masa nable doubts as to the accuracy of the report of the, death of Mr. and Mrs. Petherick by drowning. f ' t"; 4r- ~.. 4 ~. ~}~~ ,~ .m -and ned nan om - two, Lion. heir !hief finial o be 3ked fiats 11 be tore, ed in ain a ;h, in B in. T Caa 81 mi nide- loyal ,mpo there n. 31. 4.4.0 1916.4 1 12.10 ■