The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-20 00:00:00

IN XONEY MARKET AND tIOMMIROILL INTELLIGENCEI CITY, TwELVt O'CLOCK. I The demand for discount acc:anmodation con.. tinues active, and the rates remain very firm. The active inquiry for money let'ely experienced has somewhat trenched upon tte floating capital in the open market, and the supply is becoming daily more limited. The orokers are therefore charging 6 per cent. far the best three months paper, and will only negotiate business at a fraction lower for short date'd bankers' acceptances. Recently there has bean withdrawn a large amount of gold for Aley.andria, and it is very generally believed that krther heavy sums will be dispatched to the same destination in the course of another day or two. Should this prove to be the case, and there is every reason to believe it will, the effect it will have upon the future course of the money market will not be favourable. At the Bank yesterday about 29,000 sovereigns Were withdrawn for Alexandria. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have ap. pointed Thursday next a special settling day in the Scrip of the United Danubian Principalities Loan of £916,000, which is to be marked on the official lists, £l5 paid and fully subscribed. . _ . An order was made on Saturday last by the Master of the Roils to wind up the British Copper Company, Limited, under the supervision of the Court of Chancery. Mr. H. Threlkeld Edwards, of the firm of Cash and Edwards, the accountants, Was appointed liquidator. Doting the last few days there has been less activity in the Markets for Foreign and Colonial Produce. Sugars, however, have maintained full rates ; coffee, cocoa, and rice have been dealt in to an average extent at former prices, while tallow has been in moderate request at fully late quotations, for both present and forward delivery. At a special meeting to-day of the shareholders of the London and Colonial Bank, the agreement made with the International Bank was confirmed, Two O'CLOCK. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's Telegram, the 3 per cent. French Rentes were 65f. 40c. Inanimate. Dealings in stocks and shares continue very limited, and quotations necessarily tend down- Wards. In the English market the business nego tiated has been very limited, and the Funds show a fractional decline. Consols for money are 891 1, and for the account 89/. The New Threes and Re duced Annuities are 881 1 ; March Exchequer Bills, 6 3 to Is die. ; India 5 per Cents, 1021 103; and the Bonds, 3s 8s prem. In the Foreign Market there has been rather less firmness, with very little business. Turkish 6 per Cents,, 1862, are 72 / ; ditto Consolides, 471 1; Mexican, 29k ; do. New, 271 1 ; Greek, 23 ; Spanish Passive, 311 ; do. Certificates, 131 14 ; the Confederate ,Loan, 61 63; the Egyptian, to 1 preen ; the Danubian, 1 to -1 prem; and the Monte• Videan, Ito 1 prem. In the Railway Share Market there has been very little animation, and in several instances prices have given way. South Eastern have de clined 10s.; and Great Western, Brighton, North Western, North Eastern (Berwick), and Great Eastern, each ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without any material alteration. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in very bloderate request. London and County have de tiined to 801 ; Alliance Bank to 361 I; and Na• tional Discount Company to 16. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK, • GOVE R NM E NT FUNDS. '' Per Cent. Consols , Do Account, Jan. 10 2per Cent. Reduced ~,wbw 3 per Cent "ew 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — kraluities, 30 yrs, expire ~ s th J an., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — 1/o (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — 4 chequer Bills, £l,OOO, 41per Cent. 1 5 3 Do £5OO D 0 £lOO and £200 Bank England Stk, 5t per Ct. o INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Lida Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874.... shut Do Account .. 1)0 5 per Cent. July, 1670 .... Do Account 130 , i_per Cent., Oct, 1888 — ... Do Certificates Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — Bo 4i pei Cent. Po Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent - 1 , 0 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 — ..„uo 5f per Cent., May, 1879 .. i \ - 1, 0 4 per Cent., Aug. 18661 .. 'Loki 80nd5.61,000 3 0 0 under £l,OOO .. FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. ttlitrian Bonds, 5 per Cent rdzili an 5 per Cent 1) o 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 t Do 1863 B3l 4 ,,enos Ayres 6 erl Cent u h uo Account... . 0 4 ,lian 6 per Cent. e4ombian 6 per Cent — , 13 a, 6 per Cent. - 1 3 '-'0 5 per Cent. 1864 kaish 3 per Cent., 1825 per Cent, 864 p AI 0 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — pm 1 4 a.dor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — eo, Provisonal Land Warrant — ZYptian 7 per Cent 951 ij y, o £lOO Bonds 4 J O , Second Issue 1 ., Do 1864 .. "0 Scrip, £l5 paid — Pro r ,, u 6 ek 5 per Cent 1824-5, ex-Coupons — D O Account .) 4 -'0 Coupons t "0 Account Ilateinala 5 per Cent. lt, 1) „ 0 19 and 1859 kmutn 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) ° ,,zioan 3 per Cent . ... " 0 Account ..... "'291 I , Do ' 1864 ................ 27 i "„ 0 6 per Cent. Anglo-French........ dis t. "O Scrip, £53 paid --dis tiC° French Scrip, Ex. 2 5 f 20 c — dis a d oorish Imperial 5 per Cent '',"\'• Granada — 1 7) 2 per Cent.... • 1 •," Deferred " 1 , 0 Land Warrants (Hectares) - ' 0 Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 - N,,,.. Do do Aug., 1866 — ' 4 vian. 41 per Cent .. b° 2 per Cent. (Uribarren) .. — DO 4f per Cent., 1862 ' A,,,, 0 Account.... irguese 3 per Cent., 185 3 I \ o Account • • 1 .-ci 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, ' 6O , .62,'3.. / -0 Account DO 4i per 4 . 6 per ent. , C CentlBso 1822, £ St. .. 87 3 / 4 D o 0 D„ , 1860 B3 .' 3 per Cent 1859 53% IP 6 per Cent, 1862 D 0 I) 1554 It 4 ° scrip, £65 paid il -li nian o per Cent ti, tJtuai..o Accountu , c 3 per Cent D° Account 1) 0 New Deterred b ° Account , b° Passive - 1 / 4 ° Account 3 ll I I D 4 iski Cert. of Coup not funded RI, ° AcA.lount — 41. e d1 ‘ 6 . 811 , 4 per Cent — if l 'ila 6 per Cent. 1851 — D° Account DfAc p count ° er Cent..lBsB ° 70 3 /4 i l 0 £lOO Bonds j ° 6 per Cent. 1862 D o Account .. 72h h 2 b° £lOO Bonds b ° Guaranteed, 4 per Cent..... I r tI CI 1803 Scrip, £4O paid b 4zl leia 3 per Cant. , e U o Account bo Per Cent., 1862 bo Account 62i D o , 6 P Cent., 1864 - ~i, per Cent *l l , ulvidonds on the above payable in London g li°4l , 5 per Cent.. Es. 10 Florins. qt - oin 4} per Cent., Ex. 2 5 f... — 0,4) per Cent., E . x. 12 Gull 0 4 , Per Cent. Certificates 'lli h " Rentea, 3 per Cent .. 11 1 )'; ‘ , _ 6 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. ,11,„ ; i , courit 64i 'No l a? ' Dollar Bonds, 4f per Ct. Ex. 4s. o otese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f — TWO O'CLOCK, kq o i bo 410311011ey. ourt B9t Li verpool Cotton Market—This Day. 41, 4 1.: th et steady, and again dearer. Sales, pro= 12,0 00 bales, SHARD MARKETS —This Day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOU&S. Share; Railways. i paid Closing Business Price. done. 13.14. Wol., and Str. Val.' all at Wyllie and Tyne. st Bristol and Exeter 100 87 89 at Caledonian lOO 131 132 50 Cork and Bandon a:l Cornwall oAA all 6 7 6 gets no div 2 1 1 0 00 go B till6pc.pan.hasi an been paid to B.! all 50 Dublin & Belfast Junc.l all ' 31 36 25 Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Junc.; all 16 17 at Edinburgh & Glasgow.' 100 I 90 92 st tilasg. and S. Western.' 100 106 108 at Great Eastern, Ord. stici 100 48 49 481 7; at Ditto A stock st Ditto East Anglian at' 100 71 81 at GreatNorthot Scotland' 100 at Great Northern.. 'l 100 1131 136 st Do A stock at Do Bdo at Gt. S. and W. of Irelan 1! 100 88 90 at Great Western,Original 100 781 79} 79 84 at Do Str Val Erna. stook 100 at Do. South Wales ; :CO 67 09 at Do. West Mid. —Oxford 100 58 60 Newport 100 44 46 at Do Hereford 100 100 11,2 100 at Lancashire & Yorkshire; 160 1161 )17} at London and Blackwall; 100 82 84 831 3 at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast' 100 105 106 1051 st Lan., Chat., and Dover 100 38 40 391 at Lon. & North Western 100 120} 12 I 120} at Lon. & So%th Western 100 97 98 at Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 100 651 06 651 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all 121 Dot share5... st Metropolitan all 120 k ;211 121 st Midland , 100 1381 139}L st Do Birming. & Derby! 100 108 210 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all 25 Do. 1 shares 26 Mid Kent at North British at Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 256 i6l at Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 114 1141 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.12.4 at Do Leeds lOO 1 721 731 at Do York at Do Carlisle lOO 25 Do. Stock. & Darling all 271 881 25 Do do 1855-58 l9 11 12 p ii Do do 1t0t,..61 12 9 10 , at INorth London 10 Do New 10 Do New, 1864. 4 j 114 st North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction ' all i 10 11} at Scottish Central I 100 J 138 142 Pt Scot N. E., Aber. stock , 100 at Do Soot. Mid. stook ; 100 10 Shrews. and Welchpooe all at Shropshire Union 1 100 58 63 at South Devon .. ! 100 43 45 441 st South Eastern :Staince,Wok.,andWok all 8 9 at Taff Vale ; 100 163 168 10 Do C ......... 2 i 31 46 p st Vale of Neath st Waterford & Kilkenny 100 at West Cornwall lOO 38 40 at W. Hartlepool Hard:R lOO j BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Prioe. 58 60 lO2i ( , )3i idis ip 5 bi 8 9 75 80 98 100 8) 90 102 k 1031 104 105 21 22 8; 91 70 72 61 44 1 66 68 56 68 53 54 47 50 30 32 28 30 1031 10 , 4 pr ip Pr 41, 101 103 9 9i 116 11 88 80 80 62 1 d 1021 1031 96 98 91 93 59 61 It 6 82 S 4 10; 103 102 i 1031, 103 P d lO6 05 97 1031 41 'l' SiCU 97 99 97 99 97 99 86 90 86 89 103 105 105 107 Ic6 108 109 111 10a 104 1.19 112 115 107 109 109 106 108 1 , 4 106 08 101 08 100 95 97 94 96 105 107 90 101 101 105 107 109 1061 104 6 7i 13 :3 660 600 f 1 47 49 19 20 6 7 51 6 141 151 5 51 5 7 19 20 14 z 35 87 51 6 85 37 4 44. 8 9 4 4i 1 i 1 i 3 ',. GO 70 I II 7 12 1i 2 2 21 2 3 3 36 20 540 33 36 18 20 )6 17 7 9 5 8 55 60 kO6 215 00 93 9 11 * i 13 15 195 200 18 20 t 4 Railways ' ttlantio, & St Lawrene , tom.,Baroda.t.Cent In , Gu. 5 per Do. E. 'Shares... and Laae tluror Do. Preference lufralo,Brant,&Godriel p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 187 Do. do. July 1, 187 )0. do. Juuc 1. la; ;leutta.e.;,S.Eastn.(l.l,, lapeTown 4-, Dock Sor , Demerara 7 p.c. per. pf P:astn. Bengal ga. a p. avast Indian, gu. 5 p. Do. do. J Ext.. rand Trunk of Canao: Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 per cent Do. Ist rret. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deferred (3 t.lndlalentn.gua.sp.e Do. Gui. 5 per cent Do. New putt. 5 p. c. • • , it. South.ot India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Do. 44 per cent Do it. W. of Canada Sharer Do. New Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. do. 5i p. o. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Limited Aladrils guar., 5 p. o. Do. 41 p. o. Extension, Do. 44 Do. Fifth Extension. delb.Corp. 6 p. o. Buds ge1b.451 Ilobson's Bay. Newßfunswtok Candy Class A and 8.. Itl.C'da6 po Ist pt 1;b. Soinde Do. Delhi d Do. do . 00. Punjaub Do. Indus.St.Floq) LON lAL O 0 V Eft British Columbia, 6 per t cent., Dec. 31, 18'72—.1 Do. do. 1883.... io7.6p.c.Ja &4 1113 1877-81 Do, Ap. c. Feb.. Aug. Do.A p. o. Mar. & Sept. Do. E p. o. Jan.&July.l Do. 5 Inscribed stoCI, ape G.iiope, 6 p o,187: Do.Ap &Oct. 188( Do. 18th )0. Jan. & July. 1891. eyion, N0v.1£.69, 6 p uo. 1878, do. Ilauritius 8 p.cent.lB73 Do. 1878 'BB2 catal Gov. 6 per cont 4.8.G0v. 6 p.c..) a.&July S.W. Gov. 5 p 1,18, Du.sp.c.,lBiltol2i Do. d0.,1888 kupwdE ew Zealand 6 p cent ova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling., 1875 2ueensland Gcv. 6 p. e i.Aus Gov. 6 p.c.lr 68-' Do. 1 76 dui ward 4 Vic. Gov. 6 p,e. JaAJul) Do. io 6 p.c. An.,5100.. Business don BRITISH MI ar.ioriau Coneol. Uolu Chiver ton ,Lalora Amalgamated.. )evon G. Cone. (Tavist. Drakewalis • , ,ast Basett (Illogan).. Mast Caradon ..... .:ast Carn Brea cast Grenville ... „ Nast Lovell ••••• W'lltussel (Tavistk. latn.&St.Aubyn(Gwen Great Laxey, reat South Tolgus... ;. Wheal Vor ;renville.. I en:Ws-Foot lingston D0wn5...... Aargaret (lJny Lelan ,larke Valley.. yndy Iron Ore (Lim. ......... .ew Sewn •or Downs..., . • North Roskear.. 117 u'l tsasset(lllo,rau •'orth Wheal Crotty Prosper United....,... •rovidenee ( Uny Lelut. iouthCaradon(St.Cleer .Wheal Fran. (Illogan Stray Park Cin Cron Nest Basset (Illoaan).. ,tip Cr radon (Liskeard West Chiver ton . West Seim. sVheal Basset (Mogan Wheal Buller(Redrutli, WhealLudeott ...... Wheal Mary&nn (:den.,, Wheal 3eton . Wheal Trelawney (Lis., kVheal Union 2.1.0. t.14.t 2,7.0. 2.13.0. 00, all cis 7 8 . 6.13 4.18.( i,3 ~- 211 3 201 3.1 , .6 2.8 0 7.1.. 10 0.7 11 13.1h.t ,30.17.( 5 1 8 58 7 Great North PREFERENCE SHARES. Northern, 5 per cent., 112 Etto, 5 per cent., redeemable . at 10 per cent., 107 Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Lao 4i per cent. red., 98 FOREIGN RAILWAYS: Bahia and San Francisco kliAn.) gua. 7 per cent., 141 10 i Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), t Ban Paulo (lim.),lgua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 19 BANKS. Agra and Masterman's (lim.), 134 Alliance Lim.). 863 1 Anglo-Italian, Urn., 81 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 35 City, 1 3 , Consolidated Bank, Bra., 11 1 European Bank, lim., 9 Imperial Bank (lira.), 34j Imperial Ottoman, 17 1.; International B ki,k, lim., 101 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 4; 5 London B..nk of Mexico and S. America, lim., 71 London Bank of Scotland, 11m.. Ditto, new, 101 London and County, 813 603 Merchant Bank, lim , 21) Mercantile and Exchange. Um., 10 Provincial Banking Corporation, lira., 2} South Eastern, lim., 113 Union of A ustralia,:s4; Union of Ireland, Um., 193 201 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 71 3 MISCELLANEOUS. Continental Union Gas, lim., 10 3 Contract corporation, lim., 21 Ebbw Vale, 4i 3 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, lira., 53 3 Gen. Credit and Finance of London. lam., 63 1 Home and C donial A ssurance, lira., 53 International Financial 'ociety, Um., 71 International Land Credit, lim., 63 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 86 Joint Stock Discount, lim., 73 M idras Irrigation and Canal, 53 Ditto (all), 204 National Discount Company, lira., 18 Ocean B arine Insurance), 253 Societe Financiere d'Egypte, lira., 4 3 Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada, 51 M. Weiss, librarian to the town of Besancton (Doubs), has just offered a sum of 30,000 fr for the erection of a statue of Cardinal de Grandvelle, in the court-yard of the Palace of Grandvelle, recently purchased by the munioi pality of that town. The only condition imposed by the donor is that the statue should be executed by M. Jean Petit, a local sculptor, which stipulation has been acceded to by the authorities. Cardinal de Grandvelle was a re markable statesman of the sixteenth century, and endowed the town of Besangen with its present public library. His father•was Chancellor to the Emperor Charles Y., and built the palace in which the statue is to be placed. IRE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1864. LAW INTELLIGENCE,—This Day, COURT OF DIVO EWE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) CODRINGTON V. CODRINGTON AND ANDERSON. This case came on to-day upon the question of costs. - - Mr Bovill, Q.C,, asked that the costs, except those against Lieut. Mildmay, be paid by Col. Anderson, the co-respon dent. Mr Price, Q C., for Colonel Anderson, opposed the ap plication, The case was proceeding when we went to press. LORD MAYOR'S COURT. (Before the Recorder and a Common Jury.) SINGULAR PLEA OF INFANCY.— IMPORTANT RULING ANDVERDICT.—SYMONS V. Ross.—This was an action to recover a balance of account, to which defendant pleaded infancy, Plaintiff averred that there was a ratification of the contract after defendant came of age, and defendant replied that he was still an infant at the time of such rati fication, Mr Henry James and Mr Morgan Howard appeared for the plaintiff, Mr Kemp representing defendant. Mr James having opened the case, called a witness named Grub, who said that in November, 186.3, defendant declared himself of age, the goods now sued for having been delivered since then, the ratification being in the fol lowing July. Mr Kemp said that his client would prove satisfactorily that he was an infant by the production of the baptismal certificate and evidence of his grandmother. Mary Ann Nayler, the grandmother, said she was pre sent at the birth of defendant on Nov. 23, 1843. In cross examination she said she thought the second child, who was three years younger than the defendant, was born in Jan., 1848. His lordship said the witness must be mistaken. Defendant said he obtained the certificate from Somerset House. In cross-examination he said he had tendered an amount of £6 8s 6d, which he considered to be due, but he decidedly refused to pay even that now. He did not deny having told the witness Grub that he was of age in Nov., 1863. Mr Kemp said he was not disposed to uphold the morality of the plea, but as it was a legal plea nothing could be said against it. Mr James was proceeding to comment on the evidence of the defendant and his grandmother, when his lordship said it was clear that the certificate was not evidence ae against third parties. Mr James agreed that it clearly was not, and as to the other evidence the old lady who had been called was not at all certain upon dates. If the jury were not quite satisfied that the plea had been proved, the plaintiff was entitled to the verdict. His Lordship, in summing up to the jury, said they must net strain the law against the defendant. If they considered the plea proved and the grandmother spoke positively, the defendant was entitled to the verdict; but it should not be said that the certificate proved the age at all. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH.STREET. THE EFFECT REFORMATORIES HAVE UPON SOME BOYS. .—ROBBERY BY A SHOEBLACK.—John King, a shoeblack lad, was charged, before Mr Tyrwhitt, with stealing 47 yards of tweed cloaking, of the value of .613 17s. 6d., the property of Mr Scott Adi 3, Scotch tweed warehouseman, Regent-street. Mr Samuel Sage, assistant to Mr Scott Adie, said that while in the shop about five o'clock the previous afternoon, he saw the prisoner enter by the side door in Vigo-street, and afterwards leave it with a piece of tweed 47 yards in length, and of the value of £l3 17s. Gd. He followed the prisoner, who dropped the tweed, and after a sharp run secured him and took him back to the shop, where he was given into custody. Police-constable Henry Palmer, 323 A, said that on receiving the prisoner into his custody, and asking him how he came to steal the tweed, he replied " I cant grumble. I have had a pretty good run, but I suppose my luck is out." At the station the prisoner gave the name of King, but he had since ascertained that his real name was Phillip INlTann, and that he had been in a reformatory. The prisoner asked the magistrate to settle the matter, and he would plead guilty. • Mr Tyrwhitt said he was sorry reformatories should have such little effect. They seemed to make some boys more sharp and cunning. He should commit the prisoner for three months with hard labour. As the prisoner was leaving the court he exclaimed— Here's luck. I can do that on my head, THAMES. MURDEROUS OUTRAGE ON A WOMAN.—Dennis Dris coll, a notorious thief and brother of a ticket-of-leave con vict lately returned from Portland Prison, was brought up on a warrant charged with violently assaulting Margaret Gibbons, a woman about 30 years of age. The complainant stated that on the 15th of October last, at a quarter before 12 o'clock,she was leaving the Half-moon and Seven Stare publichouse, in Rate Ml-highway, when the prisoner, who was in the street, called her an informer, to which she replied " You never knew me to be locked up for stealing a pig's head," He then swore at her, and used most foul language, and knocked her down by a blow with his fist on the face, and when she was down he kicked her on the back of the head, She got up and retreated to a side street and was knocked down again• The prisoner kicked her again until she was quite insensible. When she came to her senses she was in the London Hospital, where she remained under medical treatment for five weeks. She was now a pauper, and had left the workhouse of St George-in-the-East to give evidence. In answer to questions by Mr Paget, the witness sail she wont to the station-house in King David-lane, Shadwell, one night, and gave information to Police-sergeant Suther land, 46 K, that several police constables were being at tacked and beaten in Ratcliff• highway, and he sent other officers to their assistance. The prisoner had been in cus tody for stealing a pig's head. John Holley, police-constable, No. 501 A, said he found the woman Gibbons in the passage of a house in Bluegate fields, Shadwell, on the night in question. She was bleed ing copiously from wounds on tho head, and quite insen sible. He caused her to be conveyed to the hospital. Her life was in danger for several days. The prisoner was sought after until yesterday and then apprehended. John Stimpson, police sergeant, No. 21 li., said the pro secutrix gave useful information to the police of a serious outrage. Several constables were severely maltreated, and one of the constables, named Kenny, was stabbed on the eye with a penknife. A man named Macarthy, a ticket of leave convict, was tried and convicted and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. His two sisters Julia and Margaret Macarthy were convicted at the same time. Julia was sentenced to 4 months and her sister to 18 months' imprisonment. Two others were tried, convicted, and sen tenced to 6 months' imprisonment each. Mr Paget—Was the prisoner concerned in that outrage, which I well recollect ? Stimpson could not say, but his brother returned from transportation with the convict Macarthy. The prisoner, a morose and impudent ruffian, said he only brushed the woman, and that he was not a thief but a hard working man. Mr Paget said the prisoner had committed a most savage and dastardly assault on a woman who had done good ser vice to the public. The prisoner had narrowly escaped penal servitude for life. If the woman had died of the in juries received the prisoner would have been tried for murder, and in the event of a conviction his life would have been forfeited. He sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for six months and kept to hard labour, and further to find bail to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for three months longer, The sureties required would be two householders in £25 each, and the prisoner's own personal recognisance in £5O. The imprisonment would amount in all to nine months unless sureties were provided. MARKETS—This Day, HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 43 to £6 6s Od ; clover, 63 to £6 Os Od ; and straw, £1 Cs to £1 10s per load. Trade firm. CUMRBRLAND—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 7s 6d; clover, £5 es to £6 6s Od ; and straw, £1 68 to 10s per load, Supply short. WIEITECHAPEL,—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 5s Od ; clover, 5s to £6 6s Od ; and straw, £1 68 to £1 108 per load. A steady demand. The Distress in Lancashire. A meeting of the Central Executive Committee was held yesterday in the Manchester Town Hall, the High Sheriff (Sir J. K. Shuttleworth, Bart.) in the chair. Mr Maclure, honorary secretary, reported that £273 4s Gd had been received during the last three weeks, and that the balance in the bank was £78,611 10s 2d. He also reported on the circumstances which had led to a defalcation of £2,041 in tho moneys entrusted to Mr Paine, the treasurer of the Hulme relief fund. A letter was also read from the secre tary of the Hulme relief fund, in which the following state ment was made : The ;genets made by the Central Executive and the Mansion-house Committees, ate.,have been regularly paid into the bank, the embezzlements being in sundry donations and subscriptions which, instead of paying into the bank, Mr Paine appropriated to his own purposes. The amounts thus embezzled were subscribed by members of the general committee. The committee have resolved to pro secute Mr Paine, and aro acting under legal advice. At a meeting of the general committee, held on Thursday 1 at, the committee pledged themselves to use every effort to raise the amount deficient, As this will be a work of some weeks, I em reqaested to apply for a grant for the relief of the distress in the township in the meantime. It was re solved, " That a letter be sent expressing the satisfaction of this committee as to the resolution of the Hulme i elief com mittee to make up by fresh subscription the amount of the defalcations in the funds confided to the late treasurer." Mr E. Ashworth inquired if the large reduction in the amount of pauperism in Ashton-under-Lyne during the past week arose from increased employment in the milli or from additional men being engaged upon public works. Mr H. Mason said it arose from both these causes. There was a reduction of 330 in the number of unemployed cotton ope ratives in the town of Ashton, and of 292 in the borough of Stalybridge; and there were also fewer of this class un employed in bloesley, In addition to this the expenditure from the rates and relief committees' funds had been light • ened by the entire families of several hundreds of men en gaged on the waterworks, &c., being cut off from relief, The Hon. Secretary, in reply to a question from Major E. Leigh, stated that, from a report received from the office of the Public Works Act in Manchester, he found that on the 26th ult. there were engaged on public works in Manches ter (including the townships of Manchester, Ardwick, Chorl ton, Cheetham, an 1 Hulme) 339 skilled workmen and 208 factory operatives. The committee adjourned for a month. SHAiisrERE RELICS.— We recorded last week, the discovery in Birmingham of some ancient deeds re lating to properties adjoining Shakspere's birthplace in Henley-street. We are now enabled to give some partici'+ lass of the documents thus recovered, and which it will be observed are particularly interesting to Birmingham Shake pereens, from the fact of one of the properties dealt with being possessed for a period of 67 years by families resident in the outskirts of our town. The deeds are as follows : August 28, 15th Elizabeth, 1573.—Grant William Wedg wood, cf Stratford-upon - Avon, to Richard Hornebye, of Stratford-upon-Avon, smith, of a piece of land at back of tenement belonging to said Horneby, fronting Henley. streete. The seal in this deed bears the initials W.S„ and the sealing was witnessed by John Shaxper and other. 45 Elizabeth, 1602.—Lease of tenement last mentioned with the land at the back, Richard Hornbye, Anne his wife, and Thomas, his son and heire, to Frauncis Horneby. April 16, 1614, 12th James.—Conveyance by Thomas Horneby to Thomas Jelffe, of Old Stratford, yeoman. March 12, 1620, 17th James.—Conveyance Thomas Jelfe to Thomas Nasshe of LYncolnes-inn, gentn., of tenement adjoining the Bell of Thomas Bragden. The above property is bequeathed in the will of Thomas Nash, of 1642, to his cousin, Edward Nash, but is not included in the Chancery proceedings between Edward Nash and Shakspere's granddaughter, Elizabeth Nash. 20th September, 17 Elizh., 1575.—Grant William Wedgwood to Edward Wyllies, of King's Norton, yeoman, of two tenements in Henlye-streete, adjoining the tenement of Richard Hornbye, and the tenement of John Shakespr., yeoman. The sealing of this deed is witnessed by John Shaxpr. and others, but the seal is gone. 20th July, 1609, 7 James I.—Conveyance, Edward Willys to Osborn and Austyne, Trustees, for Edward Wyllies and Thomas Wyllies, of Handsworth, of a tenement (formerly two), known by the signe of the Bell, adjoining the tenement late William Shakspere. The word "late" is interlined in this deed. April. 1611, 9 James I.—Conveyance, Edward Willis to Wastell and Willies, as Trustees for Symon Wastell, of Astor, of small piece of land, 17 footes square, behind the Bell, and adjoyning the freeholdo of ono John Shakespere. This piece of land was purchased from John Shakespere about 1589, but the conveyance, is lost. January 22,1613, 10th James.—Grant. Edward Wyliss to Edward Willys, Mary, his wife, and Thomas, his son, of the Bell, occupied by Robt. Brooks, adjoining tenement, late William Shake spere. December, 1613, 11th James 1.--Conveyance of Edward Willis to Symon Wastell, of land 17 footes square. April 24, 1615, 13th James I.—Alice Bragden, widow of Thomas Bragden, release of dower on the Bell, occupied by Thomas Rumney, to Eld. Willis. March 5, 1637, 12th Charles I.—Grant of: annuity, Thos. Willis and Son to Henry Osborn, of Perry Barr, in favour of Anne Willies, on rho Bell, occupied by Joyce Rumney, widow. February 18, 1639, 14th Ch. I.—Conveyance, Allen Wastell, of Saltley, to Thos.Willis, of land 17 footes square,adjoining tenements late Willm. Shakspere. It of March, the 22d of Ch. I.— Conveyance T. Willis and Wife, and Nash, of Stratford, and Osborn, of Great Barr, farmer, to Thomas Nasb, of the Bell, adjoining premises occupied by John Rutter (the Maydenhead). The above property is not included in the will of Thos. Nash (being purchased only one month before his death), and therefore passed to Edward Nash, his cousin as heir-at. law, The 14th of Ch. 11., 1633. Lease. Edward Nash, citizen of London, to James Strayner, of the Bell, adjoining the Maydenhead, then occupied by John Tomes. The witnesses to the above documents comprise, besides John Shakspere, Frauncis Collyns, the executors and witness of, and a legatee under, the poet's will, George Nashe, John Nash, J. Green, Thomas Greene, &c. Both the properties are described as bounded on the north by the Gillpitts or Guyldpytts. To the first mentioned deed of 1573 is affixed a ea, n bearing d bearing h a close e knot, resemblance to the engraved signet gpreserved n h Birthplace Museum as a relic of ring t i e initials t Shakespeare ; so much so that Mr J. 0. Halliwell, upon visiting Birmingham recently to inspected the deeds, believed it to he impressed from the ring seal, but he since writes— " The seals are not identical ; in fact, the letters on the sealing wax are very much smaller than those on the ring." The discovery, however, of a seal so similar to the signet ring is very remarkable, and will doubtless lead to investi gation as to whose seal it really was, the greatest proba bility being that it belonged to Mr John Shakespeare, the principal witness to the deed, and the only one present whoseit being necessary at that period f present when the seal was affixed. Theor h h —EWE) been presented, through Mr Halliwell, to the National Aluseutn in the birthplace of the twe initial witnessesole of letter th to deeds was b S h poet.—Birmingham Daily ! p ose. says —Author ities writer in the Times mean ing of the term "billion." b IirHATISA BILLri A respecting the ..ome dictionaries define it as a thousand millions ; others,'a million of millions. Entick, that most perverse of lexicographers, has, s , Billions, two or twice millions." Elementary Works on arithmetic are equally at variance, on this point. That published by the Commis sioners of National Education in Ireland teaches that a billion is a thousand millions ; a trillion a thousand billions ; and so on. Butler's " Tutor's Assistant," on the other hand, defines a billion a million of millions. If, as I suppose, the latter definition is correct, it is 9 matter of surprise and regret that the Commissioners to whose superintendence is intrusted the enlistment of the rising generation should have failed in the first step ft, the ladder of abstract scienoe, and endorse an error involving the entire system of nume• ration. By the latest telegrams of the News Association Mr Lincoln is reported to have said that on the Ist of July last the Public Debt of America amounted to one billion seven hundred and forty thousand millions one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, Is this a mistake of the Pre sident or of the telegraph? If it were correct there would be nothing but " the sand which is upon the sea shore' fitted to convoy an idea of the number of dollars owed by the Northern States. Omnta saqlorate. SINGULAR AND FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. — A young man, named Henry Wilkinson, residing at Grimsargh, son of Mr Robert Wilkinson, limeburner, of Chipping, died last week from injuries he received on the Longridge Railway. The deceased took a ticket on the evening before his death at Longridge for Grimsargh. The train which he had to go down in started at the proper time, but on its arrival at Grimsargh the guard, who had noticed Wilkinson at Longridge, could see nothing of him. Appre hending soma mishap, the guard and others proceeded to make inquiries about Wilkinson, and a messenger was sent back to Longridge. All was quiet there —no one seemed to know anything about the missing young man ; but while a search was being made about the line some blood was ob served on the ground, and eutsequently Wilkinson, in a terribly mutilated and very exhausted state, was found in an old carriage shed on the opposite side of the station. From what has since transpired it seems that Wilkinson missed the footboard while attempting to get into one of the car riages at the Longridge station, that he fell down by the side of the platform, which is very deep, in front of the station, was run over by the latter portion of the trade. and then managed to crawl on hie hands and knees to the shed where he was found. One of his legs was completely cut off, and the other terribly injured. Medical assistance was obtained as speedily as possible, but the unfortunate young man died at an early hour on the following morning. The deceased, we regret to add, has left a widow and three or four children. —Preston Chronicle. The Memorial Diplornatique says :—The state ment that the next legislative session in France will open about the middle of January next is premature. We have reason to know that the Council of Ministers has decided on not assembling the Chambers until about the middle of February, in order to enable the Government to present the budget at the opening of the session. The day is not yet fixed, but there is every reason to think that it will follow very closely after the convocation of the English Parlia ment, which takes place on the Bth_Feb." The Liepsig University in the present term con tains 952 students, of whotn 664 are waives of Saxony, and 318 foreigners, Sherman's March, The 1i ex has issued the following interesting letter re specting the march of Sherman, under the impression that it is a thoroughly reliable account of the state of affairs up to date, and that it will throw much light on the news brought by the next two or three mails : Washington, Dec. 2, 1864. I think that the Government will be perfectly satisfied if Sherman manages to reach a point of safety with but half his army. Finding that Grant intends to keep quiet, every energy of the Confederacy has been concentrated for Sher man's defeat. The remarkable skill with which they have managed is just showing itself. Sherman's raid is already defeated, and now the only question is whether he will get off in safety. Hood and Breckinridge have no little part in the great campaign of the South-west. Breckin ridge has shown great ability. He defeated Gillem, and all the Federal troops in East Tennessee, so badly that they could neither invade South-western Virginia during his absence, nor leave Knoxville to help the garrison at Nashville. All Gillem could do was to keep quiet at Knoxville. Breckenridge then sent a small force, making a great show, north to Cumberland G ip. At once Burbridge collected every available regiment in Kentucky, and rushed off to that remote quarter of the State to defend the Gap. Burbridge was thus proveated from aiding the Federal troops, either at Knoxville or Nashville, As soon as the Confederate force sent to Cumberland Gap was well on its way, Breckinridge with his main body started on a swift march due south into Georgia to assist in opposing Sher• man. He would have to go about 140 miles before reaching Sherman's line of march against Augusta. He started on Nov. 10. By Nov. 28, at the rate at which he would move, he coull easily be ia a position to operate against Sherman. Hood, too, has done well. It was long thought that he was nowhere within reach of Nashville, and that Forrest led that portion of the Confederate army. But Hood was there, and by his quick movements has shut up Thomas in Nashville—cut off communication with Chattanooga— compelled the abandonment of nearly all country south of Nashville—and by destroying the railroads has made it im possible for Thomas, even if unmolested, to give any aid to Sherman. These things being secure, Beauregard at an early date began his arrangements for the direct opposition to Sherman. As quickly as possible he loaded his army on the cars at Corinth, Mississippi. Ho moved the trains to Atlanta by two routes, one through Mobile, the other through Selma. A small force was sent overland by way of Rome to watch the Federal rear. Wheeler with the advance of the main army from Corinth, reached Macon on November 18. From that time until the 22d troops were continually arriving, and on that day Beaure gard himself reached Macon. Wheeler, with all the forces he could gather, and Howell Cobb and Gustavus Smith, in trenched themselves 20 miles north of Macon. Slocum's Federal column, after au almost uninterrupted progress from Atlanta, was checked by these troops, and Slocum encamped until the 20th, getting his troops up, and appar ently not very certain what he would do. Kilpatrick came down with his Federal cavalry to a point 12 miles east of Macon, captured Milledgeville, but made no attempt on Macon. Suddenly Slocum decamped. He moved eastward and on Nov. 21 began his march towards Howard's column, which had been sent+ from Atlanta against Augusta. Kil patrick moved on the same day. crossed the conee, abandoned Milledgeville, and on Nov. 22 he and Slocum were reported 30 miles east of Macon, moving north-east as fast as they could go. A Confederate reconnaissance went on that day to Griffin, 30 miles south of Atlanta, and found no Federal troops; they had all gone east of that line. Macon was safe ; every one breathed freely; gold went up; and Beaurt gard and all his army started in pursuit. He was following Slocum when last heard from, and harassing his rear. Equally skilful were the Confederate movements in oppo sition to Sherman's other column. Howard had gone many miles east from Atlanta on the direct road to Augusta when he was suddenly brought up bX a large Confe derate force posted in a strongly defended position 40 miles west of Augusta. The Confederates had taken care of this part of Sherman's expedition. From Florida, Charleston, Savannah, and Wilmington, large numbers of regulars had been Bent to Augusta. Gen. Ewell, it is said, left Lee's army with his corps, and reached Augusta before Nov. 22. Howard halted; the Confederate force in front of him was very strong, and he began at once to entrench. Sherman seeing the successful opposition made to both his columns, appears to have changed his plan. Instead of hoping to capture Macon and Augusta, he gave up the expeditions against both. Slocum was sent for to march with all pos sible celerity to reinforce Howard, and there is every indi cation that Howard has turned aside from his 'ath, and that now Augusta is safe. No effort has been made, so far as is known, to cross the Savannah River, so that Charleston is not the next point that Sherman will hope to reach. Slocum and Howard probably effected a juuction about Nov. 30. They then no doubt turned southward to try and get to Savannah. Fatigued, and to a certain extent broken up by the long marches, Sherman's army would then have had but a poor chance of doing anything. Beauregard and Forrest from Macon, Bragg and Ewell from Augusta, would follow him down to the seacoast, and you as easily as I can tell his plight upon reaching it. Sherman's raid bas done its worst, and now the only ques tion is whether Sherman can save himself. SINGULAR MURDER IN SCOTLAND.—The county of Sutherland, the most remarkable in Great Bri- Om for the lightness of its criminal calendar, has for the first time in many years been disgraced by the perpetration of a murder rivalling in atrocity most of those that have of late been committed. The foul deed, committed on the per son of a respectable and aged female, was done at Dornoch, without the slightest provocation or justification, and is almost without a parallel in the history of the crimes of blood. The following are the leading facts of the case : Between two and three o'clock on Saturday morning, a young unmarried man, named Alexander Ross, a native of Dornoch, while in a state of intoxication, went to the house in the burgh occupied by Mr Sutherland and others, and alarmed the inmates by drawing up the lower sash of the window in the house. In the room occupied by Mrs Sutherland there were two persons sleeping, Mrs Suther land and a young girl, the latter of whom escaped by a back window in her nightdress on hearing the noise, and run ning to the next house, alarmed the inmates, who had only recently gone to bed. While raising the alarm the girl observed a light in another house, and running there, she obtained entrance, and apprised the inmates that a man had entered the house of Mrs Sutherland, and was then in it. For some unexplained reason no one went to Mrs Sutherland's assistance, nor was the girl allowed to go to the house till nearly 6 o'clock in the morning, the hour of the north mail's arrival, when the master of the house to which the girl ran went and informed a relative of Mrs Sutherland's of the girl's statement, Both then went to the house, and forcing open the door, they entered the room and found Mrs Sutherland lying on the floor in her night dress dead, and Ross lying and sleeping by her side. The police constable's house being next door, Ross wase immediately taken in charge, and he has since been committed to prison. Ho gives no intelligible account of himself, but it is believed that, while under the influence of drink, and ignorant of the hour, he had gone to the house to visit the girl, with whom he had some previous acquaintance. The body afterwards underwent a post-mortem examination by Drs. Ellison, of Tain, and Souter, of Golspie, who have reported that Mrs Sutherland, who is 72 years of age, died from violence, and there is no reason to doubt that a foul murder was commit ted. Mrs Sutherland was mother of Mrs Gunn, of the Dornoch Inn, and was a native of Caithness. Ross is a 1 slater by trade, and has hitherto borne a good character. CONVICT NOTABILITIES IN WESTERN Aus- TRALIA.—At Fremantle the visitor is sure to fall in with Redpath—now on his ticket of leave—a tall man of good address, living on the proceeds of small shipments of fancy goods consigned to him by English friends. JAedpath has always maintained a position above the ordinary class of ticketers. Even in prison he never wade his own bed nor cleaned out his, cell. These menial offices were performed by some obsequious convict, anxious for the reward of the great man's smile—a reward not unfrequently but judi ciously bestowed. Now that he is at large, ticketers touch their hats to their distinguished brother, who promenades the street, writes clever letters under a nom de guerre to the local press, i■ the founder and honorary secretary of the Working Men's Association, and is specially shunned by the free classes, who profess to regard him as a social agitator. At Fremantle, also, there resides a remarkable individual, who found it necessary in ,England to dissolve his marriage by the simple operation of cutting off his wife's head. Ile now fills a highly respectable situation. Not deterred by his matrimonial mishap, he has taken to himself a second wife, to console him during his long sojourn in the land, and he is now bringing up a nume rous family. Robson, who is also at large, does not receive at all a good character. He lost one or two situations at Perth through his own misconduct. Atter this he went into business as a photographer—and he now keeps an academy—while the colonial Mrs Robson assists him with a preparatory school. Next to dissipation, Robson's principal recreation seems to be poetical effusions, whioh duly obtain publicity through the medium of the Perth newspapers. In these productions he lays Byron and Gray under heavy contributions —in fact, is guilty of an unblushing appro priation of their verses. As Byron and Gray do not ap pear to be " familiar as household words" in Western Australia, Robson enjoys a great reputation as an utterer of " thoughts that breathe and words that burn."—llfel bourne Argus. _ __....._ _ The committee charged:with superintending the erection of the monument to M. Billault last week held its sittings in the museum at Nantes for the purpose of examining the designs presented by 29 competitors. They gave the preference in the fol lowing order—to tour designs sent in by M. Cheva lier, of Paris; by M. Menard, of Nantes; and by Beaujault and M. Frison, both of Paris. The committee then decided that these four artists should be requested to compete again between them• selves, and to send in their sketches by March 10, on a scale twice the size of the first. Each of the four competitors is to receive an equal indemnity for the four new designs. COLONIAL. TEA.—Business has been dull, and the few dealings en tered into have been at about previous ratee. SIJOAR.—The market has shown very little animation, although prices generally are well supported. In the re fined market superior kinds of dry goods realise full rates. COFFEE—The demand for colonial descriptions has been steady, and late prices are well sustained. IticE—A moderate amount of business has been done, and Wily late prices are maintained. TALLOW—A. fair amount of business has been done for both home use and on speculation, and quotations are steadily maintained. P.Y.C. on the spot is marked 41s, and January to March delivery 41s 3d per cwt. THE TUBBISH NAVY.—A London private letter of the 24th ult. says :—" In a lawsuit now pending here in reference to certain commissions on orders for steamers in course of construction for the Ottoman Govern.. ment by a large Thames building company, startling disk closures have been made, which seriously compromise at least one high Ottoman official. A commission, now on its way out to take the depositions of Col. Amet Bey before the judge of the Supreme Consular Court, will probably throw additional light on the alleged venality of the parties im plicated. All contracts between the Porte and English shipbuilders contain a clause striotly prohibiting the latter from giving, directly or indirectly, any bribe, commission, gratuity, or reward whatever to any person in the service either of the Ottoman or English Government. It would appear that in this case the covenant in question has not been respected•"—,Let'anf Herald of Dec. 7. 091 701 11 RITIES. 1061 7 The Devastation of Georgia. The Augusta Chronicle publishes the following from a correspondent who recently traversed the country between the Oconee and Ocmuljee rivers, in Georgia, where Sherman's forces had been ope• rating ; Going to M'Credel's place we found his fine house in ashes and his ginhouse burned, and every horie and mule gone. In his lot were about one hundred horses lying dead ; they looked like good stock, and were evidently killed to deprive planters of them. A number of M'Credel's negroes were gone. Proceeding on, we found every plantation on the road similarly devastated, except that no other dwell ng-houses were burned until we reached the fine farm of the lion. Joshua Hill. [Probably the llill rr•ho ran against Brown for Governor of Georgia.— Ed, Herald.] This is a perfcct wreck; a large ginhouse full of cotton, corn cribs, dwelling, all a smouldering ruin. His loss was greater than that of any planter in this section. Besides the cotton, several thousand bushels of corn, potatoes, several hundred of wheat, and much other valuable property, wHe every horse and mule, and many negrocr, are gone. No farm on the road to this place, and as far as we can hear towards Atlant escaped their brutal ravages. They ravaged the country below here to the Oconee river. The roads were strewn with the debris of their progress. Dead horses, cows, sheer, hogs, chickens, corn, wheat, cotton, books, paper, broken vessels, coffee mills, and fragments of nearly every species of property that adorned the beautiful farms cf this country, strew the way side—monuments of the meanness and rapacity of the people who boast that they are not rubbers and do not inter fere with private property. In Madison they burned the depot and one or two old warehouses, with the gaol and market house. 'I bey gutted every store, and plundered more or less on every lot. They fired the drug store and several other houses, and their officers, with a show of magnanimity, aided to put out the flames. !Many families have not a pound of meat or peck of meal or flour. Many negroes were enticed away from homes of comfort to share the uncertain fortunes of a winter march to the coast, and then forced to starve. Families of wealth have not a house servant left, and those who were the most trusted were often the first to leave. The Yankees entered the house of ray next door neighbour, an old man of over threescore years, and tore his wife's clothes and bedding, trampling her bon net on the floor, and robbing the house and pantry of nearly everything of value. There was no provocation for any of these acts of violence, for everybody treated them civilly and offered them all they wanted to eat. Their excuse is that they cannot control their men. Many of them, include ing their effacers, behave civilly, and my humble domicile escaped any serious depredations. Those citizens who re mained at home and watched their premises lost little save horses, food, and stock. Those who from any cause chanced to be away lost all, A lady on the Eatonton road, whose father is in the army, feeling afraid to stay at tome. went to the house of a neighbour, and on re urning found every plate broken, every knife and fork and spoon gone, and her own clothes stripped to sheds and scattered about the lot. No definite estimate can be formed of the plans or future movements of the enemy, or their numbers. Those who passed through hero wore said to consist of Slocum's corps, under command of General Williams, and were esti mated at eight or ten thousand. They were chiefly infantry, with three batteries of artillery. They had quite a large waggon train, with pontoon bridges. They boasted that they were now whipping us out effectually; that they would destroy Macon, Augusta, and Savannah, and then go into South Carolina, and end the war at Charleston. They evidently went through Milledgeville, and their other column has doubtless by this time reached Macon. From all that I can learn they left Atlanta with four corps, of about thirty-five thousand men, nearly one-half of whom are raw drafted men, who have no stomach for the war. They are being captured in the vicinity continually. Several have come in to-day, who had been lying in the woods until their rearguard left, in order to desert. By the time they reach the barren pine belt below Milledgeville they will find Georgia a " hard road to travel," and it we can confront them with a small force and, harass their flanks vigorously they will meet few ships to greet them when they reach the coast, It is a desperate game, and in this fertile belt they can play it successfully:; but the swamps will be fatal to them. They have unquestionably caused much suffering, and to-night families who bad an abundance last week have subsistence, The greatest inconvenience is felt. There is plenty in the country yet. But there are no horses to haul it. Our citizens are in distress also for wood, for the same reason, New Railways in the North of London, The Hampstead Junction on the North London Railway and the new Hammersmith line have done much to supply the want of railway communicadon on this side of the me tropolis, but they contribute but a small part of what is really required by the public. The Midland Railway, from Bedford to St. Pancras, will perhaps do much for the hard worked citizens who like resorting at night to a home far removed from the smoke and noise of Cockneydom. A still greater boon to them may also be the branch which is now being rapidly proceeded with from the Great Northern Rail way at the Seven Sisters-road to the town of Edgware. It is nine miles long, and traverses a district of remarkably attrac tive features,which only wants a railway to render it available for building purposes. This is the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway. Starting front the Seven Sisters road Station it goes by Mount-pleasant, Hornsey, and Crouch-end, to Highgate—that famous and quiet rural spot which it is so difficult to reach even by omnibus—then it passes to Crouch-end, Finchley, East-end, Finchley, Mill hill, near Hendon, and so on to Edgware. The whole works are being carried on with great energy. Two tun nels at Highgate are completed, and some large cuttings and embankments are in a very advanced state of progress. Most of the bridges have either been finished or are rapidly approaching completion. The works are also being actively prosecuted at Church-end, Finchley, and down as far as East-end. At this point the line passes on a viaduct GO feet high over the Valley of the Brent. The whole piers of the viaduct have been built, and some of the arches are now being turned. This is a structure of considerable magnitude for a local line near London, and will form a striking object in the surrounding pleasant scenery. The railway is being constructed by an inde pendent company, but the Great Northern have contributed one-third of the capital. There is to be a branch from the Highgate Station to Alexandra Park of about a mile long. The bill for it was obtained last session. The works have been let, and the land is in course of being purchased. Mr John Fowler and Mr Brydone are the engineers of both these railways, which before long will be in full operation. —.Railway News. A riot lately took place among the prisoners confined in the prison of Stein, in Austria. The outbreak had been planned for some time, and a baker's son, who had been condemned to several years' imprisonment for incendiarism, was chosen as the leader. At last, when about 200 of the prisoners were assembled in the central workshop, one of the jailors entered the place bringing the breakfast. Some of the men began to murmur "We do not like the food I Death to the jailor 1 " and at the same time the turnkey was knocked down and the breakfast thrown about. The rest of the prisoners, thinking that the moment bad come for the proposed outbreak, tore down the doors, broke the windows, and wrenched the iron bars out. Eight of the men, laying hold of a large bench, used it as a battering ram, with which they beat down a part of the wall, and ob tained access to the passage leading to the outer wall. Here, however, their progress was stopped, for an alarm having been given, a picket of soldiers arrived, and the rio ters retreated in disorder uttering violent threats. When order was restored, all the prisoners were ordered to stand up in the courtyard, and 100 of the most violent were:picked out and sentenced to receive the bastinado, 25 to 30 bluws being given to each. One of the men named Kramer, who had during the riot endeavoured to set fire to the building, was in addition condemned to imprisonment in irons for five weeks. The other prisoners were all sentenced to punish ments of various kinds. IMPORTANT GAME CASE.—At Lincoln, on Friday, Mr William Rawding, farmer, at Swinderby, was summoned by Mr Gale, supervisor of excise at Newmark, for killing a pheasant, on the 19th of September last, with out having taken out a licence. From the evidence it ap peared that on the morning of Sept. 19, Henry Walker, a gamekeeper in the employ of Mr Grahame, while going his rounds, saw a trap on the defendant's land, in which was a young cock pheasant. He ordered a person named Munt to watch the trap, and about nine o'clock the defendant was seen to go up to it, take out the pheasant, and walk home with it. The defendant said he sprung the trap and let the pheasant go. A very curious point of law was raised by the magistrates' clerk, Mr Burton, as to whether the case came within the provisions of the 4th section of the 23d and 24th Vic. cap. 9v, by reason of the pheasant having been killed out of season, when even a certificate would have been of no avail. The Bench advised the supervisor to acquaint the Board of Revenue with the poirt raised, and ask them to obtain opinion of counsel upon it. The case was ad journed. THE DANISH COLONIES IN THE WEST INDIES. — On the lst of January next and thenceforward letters trans mitted between the United Kingdom and the Danish West India Colonies—viz., St. Thomas and St. Croix, posted un paid, will be charged on delivery with an additional rate of Is. each letter, besides the usual postage, and letters posted insufficiently prepaid will also be charged the amount de ficient, and Is. additional. A later from Toulon says :—" The rough weather which has prevailed on our coast during the last few days has caused numerous disasters, Contrary to 1 what is seen in the Mediterranean, the sea roes above the level of the quay; but this phenomenon, which takes place every five or six years, has not occasioned any damage, and merely impeded the communications between the vessels and the town. The coasts of the Adriatic have been visited by fearful tempests. The Eldorado, steam frigate, which left this port for Alexandria with 1,000 pas gers on board for China, was obliged to return to Messina after having endeavoured is vain to croes the mouth, of the Adriatic, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S--MoNDAT, THE DEILEY. sto 1 agst Liddington (offered) 10 to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken and offered) 11 to 1 agst Duke (take 12 to 1) 22 to 1 aget Christmas Carol (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Brother to Minnie (offered) 33 to 1 agst Broomielaw (taken) • 33 to 1 agst Longdown (taken and offered) 1000 to 15 agst Friday (taken) 1000 to 15 agat Congress (taken) 1000 to 10 aget Grappler (taken) EACING FIXTURES FOR 1865. JANUARY. Manchester • .. 2 FEBRUARY. Lincoln spring Nottingham Spring .... 28 MARCH. Derby Spring 2 Liverpool Springy Shrewsbury Spring 9 Doncaster Spring .... • l4 Warwick Spring Chelmsford Spring IL. Cattcrick Bridge Thirsk Epsom Spring Ar. Northampton 4 Croaton Park 7 Durham Newmarket Cruven 17 Newmarket Ist Spring.. 1 Chester York Spring Salisbury ls Bath 2 3 Epsom Summer .... 30. Epsom Summer (con.).. 1 Manchester .. 7 Ascot .. Alexandra Park 2O Hampton .. 21 Newton Newcastle Worcester Summer 'LY. Newmarket July Carlisle Pontefract Nottingham Summer IS Chesterfield Goodwood AUG Huntingdon Reading Egham Oxford l7 York August 22 Plymouth .. 93 , Liebfie:d Devon and Exeter 29 Darby Summer . . 30 Weymouth M13E11.. SEPTE Weymouth (continued) 1 Leicester 7 Doncaster Brecon is Richmond Monmouth Manchester Autumn Newmarket Ist October 2(3 OBER OCT Northallerton Newmarket Second Oct 9 Novi Newmarket Houghton.. 23 Worcester Autumn .... 31 IBER. Worcester Autumn (continued) 1 EALING STEI Weights for the Middlesex I] IPLECHASES. andicap• Three miles and a st lb Serious Case . 12 7 Ironsides Portland ll 10 Sly Fox ll 7 Globule Dobbyn Premier Gorsehawk Piggy Wiggy .. ll 2 Bravo Fenton . st J:6 The Rogue Yaller Gal Shuttlecock Agag Old Squire lO 7 Bracknell Little Dick .. 10 7 Attaman Overton Aggressor Ned of the Mils Now ready, G. SUELTON'S Derby Guide, la. Glenie, Connaught-terrace, Hydirpark ; 6unday Times Oface, Fleet-street; and all agents. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, Dec. 20.—Wind this day at noon—North- Westerly; moderate breeze, axd fine weather, but rather cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 18.—Wind from Hamburg for Rio Janeiro, Sailed—Her Majesty's ship Geyser, for Plymouth: FALMOUTH, Dec. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived--Henry Reed, from Sulina. MILFORD, Dec. M.—Wind W.—Arrived—Asia, from Tarragona. POOLE, Dec. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrivod—Stanclloy, from Newfoundland. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Helena, from Havannah. CLYDE, Dec. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Kighlatd Mary, from St. John's, N.B. Sailed—River Thames, fur Valparaiso. QVEENSTOWN, Dec. 19.—Wind S.E,—Arrived—Ra Ga!antumo, from Salina. BRISTOL, Dec. 19.—Wind S.W,—Arrived—Grelmo, from New York. SWANSEA, Dec. 19.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Dorsetshire, for Coquimbo. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGIUPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Dee. 19—Queen of tha Chase, from St. Michael's. Sailed, Dec. 20—Lord J. Russell, steamer, for Dunkirk— Triton, steamer, for Boulogne._ _ _ DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed Sparkler, of Glasgow, from Calcutta, for London. The Paris papers of yesterday evening publish a despatch from Messina announcing that disturbances had broken out in Zante from political causes, and that several persons had been wounded. THE WESTERN FISHERIES.—Herrings were very plentiful during the past week. and the (large catches were disposed of without much difficulty. The Cornish drift boats, particularly those at St. Ive's, took several hogsheads of fine mackerel, and a few hogsheads of pilchards. Two other ;vessels, with cured pilchards, started for Mediter ranean ports. TRACTABILITY OF GLASS.—Glassblowing, in its simpler adaptations, is very easy of acquirement, and ca., pible of affording much recreation at a small expense; while, if the experimenter be of a philosophical turn, he may turn his skill to very useful account. Even cold glass may be worked with a faoility known to few. It may be drilled in holes very easily, the only implement needed being a common watchmakers' drill. stock. A diamond point is not at all necessary, as itinerant operators often assert ; a steel drill of good quality, well hardened, will do the business perfectly ; and even if the edge of the tool should give way before the hole is pierced through, a little emery-powder and oil will ramove every difficulty; or with the help of these, the hole may be bored with a copper drill. Not only so—glass may even be turned in a lathe, Strange as it seems, this is literally true. No special tools even are needed ; any amateur turner who has operated on either of the metals, may chuck a piece of glass in his lathe, and turn it with the same tools, and in the same way, as ho would a piece of steel, only taking care to keep the chips from his eyes. Thil strange discovery was made almost accidentally, in the early part of 1860, by one of our most celebrated me chanical engineers, and might have been patented, but the inventor contented himself with simply putting it on record, and generously presented it to the nation. The consequence was, that no one cared or thought about it, and the idea has been suffered to lie nearly barren, though c:spable of being turned to great account. Let any amateur mechanic make the experiment, and he will be surprised at the ease with which this seemingly intractable material may be cut and fashioned according to his will.—Chambers's Journal. FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last sitting a paper was received from M. Gaeymard on the question whether the leaves of trees are good for manure ? which he answers in the affirmative, because forest trees as well as copse-wood receive no other manure but the leaves that fall and rot on the spot, and if those leaves were removed every year vegetation would diminish considerably in the forest. To ascertain what may be the proportion of active elements for manure in the leaves of trees and vegetables in general M. Gueyniard took 100 gms. of leaves in a dry state, and, after incineration, ascertained by Emily sis the composition of the residne,arranging the num.' bera thus found in a table. From his researches it appears that the dead leaves of the potato plant, if spread out in suc cessive layers, alternating with stable manure, and left to ferment so, will make a very powerful manure. Leaves of any kind should never be incinerated fur the 1 urposo of s u a s l i t n s g w t o h u e l d a s b h e e sseftor at m i b a e n r u ty r e a , n since r e h d e r o e ff b m y l t l h o t h i i e r et solu ble rai ns. Leaves and similar vegetable substances are slow of useddecom position, action f for of amanure,ir a nd water;ren de r theth e speoisli ibibu l ous d and therefore,apen to the roots of the plant grow and s p read with ease, and even the when worst soil improves. For corn of all kinds those residues of plants should be selected as yield the largest quantity of phosphates. Captain Laussedat sent in a paper on a survey of Grenoble and its environs, executed by means of photography. The country surveyed comprises a surface of 20 square kilometres ; the objects glasses used were f.O centimetres focus fur large distances, and 27 for smaller ones, the latter not being under 940 metres; the generality of distances ranging between 1,500 , and 4,500 metres. M. Luther, the celebrated amateur astronomer of Bilk, near Dusseldorf, wrote to announce the discovery of a new telescopic vlanet, the 82d in order, on the 27th ult., to which he ha s g i ven th e na me of Alcuaen a at the suggestion of MM., de Littrow, Weiss, and Oppola,r, of Vienna, M. Tissot sent in an account of a fireball observed by him at 9 p.m. on the 9th ii.st. He was in the Rue des Fosses St. Jacques at the time. The altitude of its path was 8 deg, its azimuth 61 deg, and its tangent at that point appeared to make an angle of about 30 deg with the horizon. The motion was from north to south. Th e phe nomenon was unaccompanied by any noise. ENGLAND AND SANTO DOMINGO.—The Corre • spondence de Espana of the 15th says :—" We know positively that the English Minister in Madrid has received instructions to communicate to the Spanish Government the resolution of the English Cabinet to recognise the rebels of Santo Domingo as belligerents. The English 11Iinister yesterday requested a conference with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, but it is said Senor Benavides considered that, having already presented his resignation he could not meanwhile enter into this grave question,l! Share 8k steok stook 20 stook 1( 0 stook 'took stock stock stock stock stook stook d took stock stock Paid. all 100 (100 I 100 < 2 1(0 k.lOO MEN 100 100 100 100 100 100 101 i 1(2& 1