The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-23 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET e AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. a The position of the discount market still denotes an abundant supply with a comparatively moderate demand. The quantity of paper on offer this morn ing is by no means excessive, and first class descrip lions are still negotiable at 7a I per cent., so that the business taken to the Bank of England continues ;S Of moderate. ,ouise, roline A further supply of gold, viz, £17,000, was sent yesterday into the bullion vaults of the Bank of England. clock, ess of r rived , y the e ppel, )r the ly, en Business in the City is extremely quiet, owing to the preparations for the Christmas holidays. A statement just published gives the total Shipments of specie to the East by the steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental Company during the year 1863 to haie been £16,308,474, of which £4,323,400 was gold and the remainder silver. The proportion from Southampton was £11,000,026, and from Marseilles and otker Mediterranean ports £5,308,448. Last year the total by these steamers was slightly larger—namely, £16,907,415, but in 1863 a sum of £5,284,829 has been shipped by the steamers of the Messageries Imperiales, in cluding £3,091,492 in gold for Constantinople and Egypt. 'brist - inary )a loori greet were Their Dee t° e y via „port e a for ended Two O'CLOCK. royal ~ and ) ector iri at- as n° their lia at iOl l Of more, out a !ough y for r naiils f the 'tone e.- 4 to iraes. ; aline, I to be net ievr of Place B Vie' a') 01 ;USIA the Christ a stical ate of tomes, of the 31:1 30vY There *res . ,„ n , of eV. J. 'aB no Alder ate Of chars ? T ough. .:Aster, H. will Ser 3anon. Shee ham- Mon til the is seat 3ident ea, as rtially arked ,id the other ;, Com- :dosed. itiOn ) 1 the 3 zolv , the Tided ,airt; y Ivo me. that List 0 1 with The way ;rand wuto• ma' as t° e d to )iece sion wally eves' ears• At Paris this morning (according to Mr. Reuter's telegram) the 3 per Cent. Routes were 66f. 40c. Quiet. Very little alteration has resulted from the trans actions entered into to-day in the market for the English Funds, but upon the whole the tendency of prices has indicated greater firmness. This has arisen principally from the favourable specie move ment and a more confident feeling regarding the progress of monetary and political affairs abroad. Consols are at advance of I, the prices being 91; for money, and 91; 1 for the account. The Reduced Annuities and New Threes are 91;1 ; India 5 per Cents., 1061 4 ; Enfaced 5; per Cents., 1131 ; the Bonds are quoted par ; and Exchequer Bills, 9s. 4s. dis. Foreign Stocks have been in greater favour this morning, and general buoyancy has consequently prevailed. tireek Bonds show an advance of ; per cent., the prices being 25; 1; and the Coupons are steady at 11; 1. Mexican have risen about I per cent., viz., 37; 1. Spanish Passive remain firm at 3 3 I. Turkish Consolides have improved to 47f L which is a rise of * per cent., while the Confederate Loan, after touching 39 41, has descended to 38 40. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been of moderate character, and prices gene rally show increased firmness, Great Eastern, North Western, North Eastern (Berwick), and South Eastern have improved ss. ; Great Western, and Lancashire and Yorkshire, 10s.; and Mid land, 15s. The Foreign and Colonial lines continue dull at about former rates. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have, in most Instances, exhibited a firmer tone. Imperial Otte- Man have improved to 17 . 1 181; Chartered of India, Australia, and China, 364; National Shipping Com pany are quoted 11 2 prem. ; West India and Pacific Steam, 11 2 prem.; and ComolidatediDiscount Cor poration, 1; 2 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 234k 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per C en t. C onso l s A nnu iti es 9ll I New 3 per Cent. Annuities Nev 3} per Cent. Annuities New 2} per Cent. Annuities... — 6 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 41 -inuities, 30 yrs, expire bthJ an., P3BO — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — India Stock, 1874 Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870 Ditro 4 per Cent. 1888 — Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent — Ditto of per Cent Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Bank Stock for Account Ditto bond 011,000 — Ditto under £l,OOO par Consols for Account, Jan. 7.. 9l} a India Stock for Account, 6 per Cent — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2i k 3 per Cent. 4 9 dis Ditto £5OO . dis Ditto Small ..... .. dis FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent — Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 4f per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto :1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Ditto Account — Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Colombian 6 Scrip £l5 pd Ditto Scrip, 1863, £3O paid Cuba, 6 per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. ....Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 4 quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Lhilikua 6 per Cent. Ditto 4f per Cent, Dutch, 4 per Cent., 1363 - uutch, 2f per Cent., Ex. 12, Guilders , Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant — - -..`4vptiari 7 per Cent lOO Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. 1 Ditto Account 25 f Ditto Coupons Ditto Account — Guatemala 5 per Cent. Ditto Account It 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent ..Ditto Account 361 7 6i 7i Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada — Ditto 2 per' Cent. Ditto Deferred — Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) reruvian 3 per Cent. .. bitto Account .... Ditto 4} per Cent., 1862 P ortugu ese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account.. — Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 Ditto Account 49 Ditto, 1863 Ditto Scrip, £l5 paid It tissiati 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 41 per Cent 1850.. Ditto 1860 — Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Ditto 6 per C ent. 1862 B9/ Sardinian 5 per Cent — Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto o —r,Nkcezwounnetforred vitro Ac(T Ditto 1) • e v ilt Ditto Acco e . Epaniala Cert lint c e .: lit-to Aecouut C°ll P not funded Swedish, 4 per c ent l3 Turkish 6 per C ent, ;:. Ditto Accoum ; ' ' B ° 4 .. Ditto 6 per 'Jen . I: 4.8 . 6* ....... _ Ditto Acc'Junt .. .. 8 Ditto 6 y . eer Lent . 1862"' : ' v Ditto Account ............. 70 Ditt'..!, £lOO Bonds . . .............. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863 Ve.nenuela 3 per Cent. .................. .... .ciNtto Account ditto 6 per Cent., 1852 ........ Ditto Account ....... . 611 Dividends on the above payable in London. - Dutch2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Gun ........ Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates French Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f — Ditto Account..., Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs 7ot Ditto Account.... .. ... 70 Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 88. 3d. paid.... Pm .Con so l s , Money ........... TWO O'CLOCK. ..... 91i A Ditto Account ................. ....... 911 Liverpool Cotton Market —This Da' -..--__ Cotton market remains quiet and atead Pro bable sales about 3,00 0 bales, half epe e . andy export. h of TUE WATERLOO ROAD 1111:IRDER.—.0 reiat efforts are being made to induce the Home SeeretEwy to 2.e "lnillend her Majesty to commute the sentence Samuel Wright, convicted for the murder of Maria Gre e n la the Waterloo-road on the 13th inst, A numerously 'sigaEd petition is being prepared in the borough of Lam be:h in favour of the commutation; and, with the same object, a public mee',ing is to be held on Thursday evening at the National Laths, Westminster-road. Should these effo r t s P - CGVO unavailing, it is understood that the execu tion will take place at Horsemonger-lane Goal on the first Tue sday in January next. The prisoner still preserves the s ame coot and collected manner w hi c h h as c h arac t er i se d his conduct throughout. He is described by those of his fellow -workmen employed in the same establishment as a quiet and inoffensive man. The prisoner still asserts that the unfortunate occurrence took place by the deceased talr., first taking up a knife and endeavouring to stab lu her excitement aggravpted by drink. SHARE 111ARKETS.--This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOO&R. sine Share Railways. P Cl rice. osing Buclone.sr Bir„ Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cora and Bandon Cornwall Do A A gets no div till 6.p an.haf. Do. B been p e paid t...) B. Dublin & Belt ast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk 8 84 8 8i 82 E 4 119 120 Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian at GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern.. Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an I W. of Irelatv: Great Western st Do Str Val gua. stock st Lanoashite & Yorkshire at London and Blackwah at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast at Lon., Chat, and Dover st Lon. & Nor'h Western at Lon. & So*.th Western st ylan., Shef., & Lincoln. 50 Maryport and Carlisle. 1.2 f Do = shares... at Metropolitan t Midland %,4.0 Do New . Do Birming. Az Derby Slid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Kert Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds 1 1 Do York Do Carlisle orth London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpooi Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun staines,Wok.,and Wok. Stockton .k Darlington, Do Do New, 18OG Taff Vale.. . ....... Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria eta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland -Oxford NewportDo Do Hereford ei 7 37 3) 16 17 96 98 107 109 49 50 45 47 74 83 125 127 131 132 134 136 97 99 631 641 1101 1101 71 73 107,1 !08 43 44 107 i 1071, 101 102 481 491 Ilia 1121 129 1291 14 11: , 97 99 51i 62,E 25 t 6 1021 103 58} 54 89 691 119 121 1 2 78 78 11 11i 122 126 42 0 98 100 61 62 32 33 951 061 97 49 ot rot MI 38, 9 10 I 158 160 5 64 21 St p 83 86 170 175 t 2.10 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing 'han Railways Paid. Price. Business dom 100 Ntlantic &Fi Lawrene, all 60 <2 604 Sk Bom.,Barodra.Cent Inc 100 106 107 Gu. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. New . ...... 8 1 1 p 20 Do. E. Shares.. 204 Butialo•and Lake _Huron all 6 61 10 Do. Preference liutlalo,BrantAGodrich , o , 100 6p. ct. bds. Aug. 1,187'4 ' 00 Do. do. July 1,187 100 100 Do. do. June I, iN, i 100 st Clcutta.,4S.Eastn.(l,l,, 100 104 ICI st Cape Town 2,- Dock Seri! 100 101 103 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. bp. • 100 108 109 1081 stock Last Indian. gu. sp. a 10 1, 1(7 1( 8 1071 7 20 Do. do. G Ext l5 f lip 20 Do. do. H do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada it,u 20 21 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 73 75 100 Do. ao. deferred all 50 M 59 100 Do. 2d Pret. Bonus all 65 67 100 Do. do. deferred all 50 63 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock 100 Do. do. deferred all 38 42 100 Do. 4th Pref. stook all 27 29 100 Do. ao. deferred all 22 24 stock GtlndiaPenin.g - ua.sp.o 100 1(8 109 109 8f 20 Do. New gua. sp. c l2 14 if 1 , 20 Do. January, 1862 stook Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent 100 1054 1061 201 Gt. W. of Canada Share,. all 91 10 10 201 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. all 92 95 100 Do. 51 p. a do. '77-8.,.. all 86 88 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 4 fn stock Madras guar., 5p.0. .. 100 106 107 stock Do. 44 p. a Extension 100 100 101 stock Dc. 4* d 0........ 100 16 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnd.. 100 50 Helb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 59 100 Do. 7p. o. 51ortg. Bds. all $0 Newßrunavnok Canda Class A and B. all 3 5 N. itl.C'da6 pc fat pt bds 100 82 84 1061 400 , Soinde .......... (100 106 107 stock Do. Delhi r di ' 100 116 107 au Do. do ce 2 f fp et Do. Punjaub all 1054 1061 1061 Do. Do. ........ , cacn , 100 work Do. Indua.St. Flo.) k.lo o 101 103 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. —1 au.tiuv. a p.c.J a .Iz,J to) ' 1877-88 100 1( 5 106 1061 / Do. p. c. Feb. & * Aug. 100 103 (05 Do. dp. c.Mar.& Sept. 100 1(3 1( 5 Do. Bp. c. Jan.&July. 100 13 84 93 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 Cape G.Hope, 6p c,1873 100 106 108 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 109 111 Do. 1890 100 109 111 I Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 112 114 N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 (Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 106 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cant 100 Pi 110 'N.8.G0v.6p.0.J a.&July 100 (04 106 1041 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 0.,186( 100 100 102 Du. sp. c.,18t1 to 1071 100 101 102 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 1015 1025 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 lO9 105 107 Queensland Go/. 6p. c lOO El 113 --IS. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up lOO 111 113 I Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&..July 100 107 109 Do. io 6p,a An.&Oot.. 100 lO9l 1105 10913 101 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 id Clifford Amalgamated.. 31 35 Devcn G. Con.. Javist., 1 660 670 East Bassett (Mogan). 30 fl 60 1 East Clog au G o ld Ltd. 52. Id par East Caradon ...... ?..14.t. 261 27 East Carn Brea.... 13.4.0 6 61 Wlituesel (Tavistk ,' 8.9.0 555 iGam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen ; 'Ai 8 10 I— G mat South Tolgus 17 8 4 G. Wheal Vor (lleiston 40 12 13 Grenville 0.16. t 4 4; er;.4'l3-Foot 8.12 47 39 Hingaton Downs 4.'8.0 24 it Lady Bertha Marke Valley.. 4 Ilyndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 25 11 g d New Setun l9l • 90 100 - • North Downs t 11 11 1 N.W h'l liasset(lllo;an 3.1.0 28 3 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blaze , 20 Vrovidence(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 42 44 South Caradon(SLCleer, 11 415 125 S. Carn Brea (Illogan) — heat Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 60 68 Stray Park 30.17.6 28 30 5 Tamar Silv.,t Lead Min. 45 fin Croft, v 18 .19 West Basset (Mogan) l5 95 105 C. radon (Liskeard; 5 18 20 West Setun Wheal Basset (Illogan 55 85 90 Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 225 275 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLuthott Wheal Mary Ann ;Lien ) 8 115 12 Wheal 3eton 585 1150 160 1524 Wheal Treiawney (Lis ) 7 21 22 I Wheal Union , 3.17 21 21 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 5 per cent. red. prf., 101 f Mid. Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto. Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 140 South Eastern (Reading Anna., £1.0.6), 23t 3 5, York. and River Dun, 5 per cent. gua., 91 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Vale of Neath, 41 per cent., 20} LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London and Chatham 41 per Cent., 911 Ditto, Com. Fund Stock, 5 per cent., 103 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (Um.) gua. 7 per cent., 1811 I Dutch Rhenish, 17/ T u rin and Savona, 3/ Ditto (all), 14t FOIMIGN MINES. United Mexican (lam; ::6 5/ Jr.JINT-STOCK BANKS, Alliance Bank of Lon .ion and Liverpool (lira.), 431 „Anglo Austrl_an, 7 Australasi's, 76 In British i Bank of Wales, a,A C u o s l t u r m all b a, la, an ift BrazP.lan and Portuguese, lira., 8 China, 351 61 6 Consolidatod Bank, liin„ 101 East London, lira.. 7} European Bank, PA I L, 4 *hor4arrtteeredred Bank ank " o f t Ilindustan, 0 7 . 7 ina, and japan (11m.), 311 2 11 Imperial Ottoman, 78 171 18/ London Chartered Bank of Australia, 271 London and County, 56 London Joint Stock, 371 London and South African, 261 National Provincial of En,c.fland. 130 Oriental Bank Corporation, 56 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (lim. l , 7 Union of London, tOl MISCELLANEOUS. Easttlndia IP:igation and Canal, 4/ Gen. Credit, and Finance of Lonaon, Rm., 6] / lindson's Bay, 124 1 International Financial Society, Um., 91 Italian Irrigation ' (Canal Cavour), 31 Joint •stock Discount, 6i 7 '6l itto, now, Lon D don General Omnibus Company, Urn., 21 Mercantile Credi t Association, lim T rust and Loan Company of Upper Canada 51 T-- - of th e 2 00 millions required by Austria. -T E R ROSTHSCHILDS are id to have taken 7 5 out A Bort-qvoT lately made at the expense of M. V--, whose bead of hair is black and beard grey, is not bad :—" lb has reflected less than he has eaten." THE FIRST W OMAN (nam e u n k nown ) WHO AP PEARED IN A R EGULAR DRAMA, according to " Dramatieus," in Orchestra, played Desde mona about the year 1660 . on the English stage, A MAN breathes 20 times a minute, 1,200 times an hour, and inhales in quantity about 18 pints of air a minute, 1,067 an hour, or 57 hogsheads, 1 gallon, 7 pints per day. 3.14. 9.16.4 TIM SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEINIBER 23, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day)• SHERIFFS' COURT. I VICTIM TO LAZY-EXTRAORDINARY STORY , .-SAITERY V. HEMMETT. This was an application for a warrant judgment having gone against defendant in consequence of his absence upon the original hearing. Defendant now appeared and made the following extra• ordinary statement :—IIe said that he went to an attorney to take him through the Bankruptcy Court, and that attor ney sent him to plaintiff, who is an accountant, Plaintiff refused to do anything at all until he was paid £25, and ho soon after required £l5 more. In all £4O had been paid, and yet plaintiff wanted more. He had refused to go en with his work, and the consequence was that defendant had not been able to carry out the bankruptcy proceedings Plaintiff had received £4O, and he (defendant) was not out of his troubles. Mr. Buchanan (for plaintiff)—Your Honour will under stand that my client has a complete answer to this case as stated by defendant, and I may say that, although he has received £4O, it was not a large sum considering the nature of the accounts. His Honour (to defendant)—What are your debts ? Defendant—About £l,OOO, and my assess were about £7,000. My wife had an annuity, and I have somehow got into Chancery, For a whole year I have not been able to touch the interest. The Court of Chancery has got my £4,500 neatly locked up, and I cannot get it. The Court of Bankruptcy has toy estate. Mr. Linklater has my title deeds, and I am left without a penny in the world. My going into the Court of Bankruptcy in the first instance was all through. getting into law. I was imposed upon and overcharged, and I was advised to go to the Bankruptcy Court. Mr. Buchanan—Oh I you made yourself a bankrupt ? Defendant—Yes; and I bad enough to pay 40s. in the pound, instead of doing which I am now an wacertificated bankrupt. Mr. Buchanan—The Court of Bankruptcy will adminis ter your estate, and hand over the surplus. Defendant—There is the Chancery Court. (Laughter.) His Honour considered that defendant ought to have a new trial on the payment of the costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE —This Day. BOW- STREET. WIIOLESALE POT STEALERS,—TWO men, named John ston and Brown, were placed before Mr. Henry, charged with stealing a number of licensed victualler's pots. Mr. Chit tenden, of the Black Prince, Chandos•street, said the prisoners entered his house a few days ago, and as they left his suspicions were aroused that they had stolen some thing. They were pursued, and, on Johnston being cap• tared, four or five quart and pint pots were discovered con cealed about his clothes. Brown had frequently been to his house on former occasions, when pots had been missing. The pots wore worth 6s, The prisoners did not deny the charge; they only said they were not going to starve in London at Christmas time. The landlady of the Falcon Tavern, in Suffolk-street, Soho, said the two men entered her house and called for a pot of porter, with which they were served. She saw them leave the house in about an hour and a half after they arrived, and on looking into the tap-room, which was then empty, found the quart pot missing. The potman was sent in pursuit, and on coming up with the men, Brown, who had the pot in.his hand, threw it on the ground. They were both taken into custody. Mr. Fairwater, landlord of the George Tavern, George court, Strand, said the prisoner paid him a visit a fow days ago, and having drank the porter, which they had ordered in the tap-room, walked off with the pint pot. They also stole the brass fastenings of one of the shutters. Police-constable F 173, said the real name of Johnstone was Eastering, and he had been previously discharged from a printing office on suspicion of theft, He thought the other was a deserter. Francis Campbell said he knew the prisoner Brown, he was formerly in the 36th Regiment. He was drummed out of it for desertion. He (witness) had served in the same regiment as Brown, his name, while in the ser vice, was John Saunders. Brown—Well, my right name is Saunders. I was not drummed out of the 36th Foot. I was discharged. Both prisoners asked for a summary settlement of t e case. They would plead guilty. Mr. Henry refused to do so, and committed both prisoners for trial. Johnston, on hearing the determination of the magis trate, turned round to one of his companions in the body of the court, and said—lt's all up, Johnny : is will be a "lag" I (transportation). MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. There was a fair average show of samples of home-grown wheat on the stands to day, in tolerably good, but by no means excellent, condition. The demand for all qualities was in a sluggish state, at fully Monday's decline in the quotations. With foreign wheat the market was fairly supplied. In all descriptions sales progressed slowly, and the amount of business transacted was small, at Monday's prices. Floating csrgoes of grain were in slow request, at late rates. _ _ _ The supply of barley on sale was tolerably large. Both for English and foreign produce, the trade was dull, at fully the late decline in the currency. The malt trads was very dull at fully the decline in prices. Oats—the supply of which was only moderate—moved off slowly on recent terms. Beans were a dull inquiry, yet no change took place in their value from Monday. Beans met a slow sale at the late fall in the currency. The show of samples was tolerably large. In flour there was a limited inquiry, at about stationary prices. The Corn Exchange will be closed on Friday next. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat iSarlev. Malt. Oats. Fiont. English i,020 I 550 1,730 1,090 Irish — 400 - Foraign 17,340 7,160 2,990 340 sks, BOROUGH HOP. The amount of business doing in our market is very mo derate. Prices, however, rule firm, WHITECHAPEL. ----- The supply of meat on sale is large. Generally speak ing, the trade is quiet, as follows :—Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s 2d; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 6d; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 4d per Blbs by the carcase. HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS. It appears, from the weekly return of the Registrar-General, that the deaths in London, which were 1,357 in the previous week, declined to 1,291 in the week that ended last Saturday. The deaths under 20 years of age declined in the same period from 690 to 658; those at 60 years of age and up wards from 267 to 244. The average number of deaths in the ten weeks corresponding with last week (taking the fifty-first in each of the years 1853- 62) is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,401. The actual number is, therefore, less than the estimated mortality by 110. The births in the week exceeded the deaths by 636. Small-pox was returned in 19 cases ; measles in 18 ; scarlatina in 101 ; typhus in 51. Six deaths from scarlatina occurred in Kentish-town ; 7 in the East sub-district of Isling ton ; 0 in Mile-end Old Town East ; and 6 in Bow. The deaths referred to pulmonary diseases (exclusive of phthisis) were 261 against:a corrected average of 316. Those from bronchitis were 147 ; from pneumonia 92. Phthisis was fatal in 150 cases. Forty-nine persons died at the age of 80 years and upwards. A widow is registered as having died in the workhouse, Hampstead, on the 13th inst., at the age of 100 years. At 12, Devonshire-square, St. Botolph, on the 9th inst., a man, aged 42, died from " an overdose of chloroform taken without in tention to destroy life."—loquest. Last week the births of 994 boys and 933 girls, in all 1,927 children, were registered in London. In the 10 corresponding weeks of the yeHrs 1853-62 the average number (corrected) was 1,817. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 30.121 in. The mean daily reading was above 30 inches on five days of the week. The reading fell to 29.62 inches on Wednesday, and rose to 30.34 inches on Friday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 42.1 deg., which is 2.3 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher), The mean temperature was above the average on each day except Friday. The highest day temperature was 50.2 deg. on Wednesday. The lowest night temperature was 32.2 deg. on Friday. The range of temperature in the week was there fore 18.0 deg. The mean daily range was 11.7 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point tem perature and air temperature was 4.4 deg., the mean degree of humidity of the air was 85, completesatu ration being represented by 100. On Thursday and Friday the wind was generally north and north-west; on other days the prevailing direction was south-west. There was no rain in the week. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 45.3; that of the lowest was 43.1 deg. THE LEEDS MURDER.—REPRIEVE or THE Cut- PRIT.—The Secretary of State for the Nome De partment has thought It, on the recommendation of Mr. Justice Mellor, to commute the sentence of death passed Ripon Patrick Farley, for the murder of Anthony Goulding at Leeds, on the 23d August last, to penal servitude for life. The fact will be announced to the wretched man this morn ing by the governor of Yolk Castle, the official intimation having been sent off last night. WRECKS ON THE NORFOLK COAST.—LIFEI3OAT SERVICES.—BACTON ABBEY, December 22.—Mr. W. Cubitt reports :—At daybreak this morning six large vessels were seen riding in the offing, and drifting towards the shore. The wind was blowing a heavy gale from N.X.E., with much sea on: The crew of the Becton lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution were at once mustered, and the lifeboat was taken down to the Sands in readiness. At 8 a.m, the brig Orient, of South Shields, parted from her cable and came to the beach, but as the tide was ebbing fast the boat's services were not required to save the crew. At 10 a.m., at low water, the brigantine Ellen, of Jersey, slipped her cables, when she drifted nearly to the beach, and as the vessel would not Wear, she also came on shore, amilst a very heavy surf. The lifeboat was immediately launched, and after run& difficulty stledeeded in sating the crew of the brigantine, eight in number. Both vessels are probably become Wrezka. It will probably be temerpbered that on the 3d inst., during a heavy gale of wind, this valuable lifeboat was the means of rescuing the crew of 14 men belonging to the barque Ina, of North Shields. TIIE CASE OF PARRY V. THE GREAT SHIP COM PANY.—The Great Eastern, which has been so frequently before the public, came before Mr. Justice Mellor, at chambers on Monday, in a somewhat novel shape. The plaintiff had levied an execution on this ship and stores at Liverpool. Claims to £lOO,OOO had been made on the pro perty, and on the application of the Sheriff of Lancashire, an interpleader issue had been directed to try the question. The stores, &c., were to be sold, and the money paid into court to abide the result of the interpleader issue, which was to be tried in London. On the part of the claimant it was sought to sell some of the property on board the vessel, and counsel appeared in the case, Mr. Justice Mellor made an order that the stores should be sold on shore, and the ae sufficient BUM to be realised to satisfy the execution. The p ublic to es to w b h e ic s h old eou on ld b n oa o r t d furniturewiout damageand other to thaer shipticl have access to the ship. THE HORRIBLE STORY, On Monday, at the Magistrates' Office, Falmouth (before Mr. J. K. Kiodman, Mr. T. Moor Horsiord, and Mr. M. V. Bull), Samuel Porter, on remand from the previous Monday, was brought up, charged with the horrible cruelty to his brother at Flushing, particulars of which have already appeared in Ike Sun. Mr. H. S J Law, solicitor, London, appeared to pro secute on behalf of the Lunacy Comnfssioners ; Mr. Moorman, of Falmouth, appeared for the defendant, who did not exhibit the slightest concern at the position in which he was placed. The first witness examined was Edwin Elliott, a merchant, of Flushing, who deposed to taking a house from the defendant at Christmas last. The defendant lived in the same house till the 25th of March last, when he removed to a new house in Flushing, where he now resides. During the time between Christmas and March witness heard strange noises at nights, more like the roaring of a bull than sounds proceeding from any human creature. Wit ness proceeded :—I took the noise to come from a lunatic. On the evening that the defendant w as going to remove to a new house he came to me and said, "Neighbour, if you hear any noises in the night, don't be alarmed or trouble yourself to get up, because I think of taking Robert away to night." [Defendant sometimes called his lunatic brother " Robert.") I offered my assistance, but he said, "No, I can man age it myself." In the course of the night, between 12 and 1 o'clock, I heard a wheelbarrow being wheeled to the back-door, where it remained about five minutes, when it was wheeled away again. The next morning defendant came to me and said, "Did you hear us in the night ?" I replied that I heard the wheelbarrow. He said, "Me and my wife removed Robert ourselves. We told him we were going to take him to a new house. We put him in the wheelborrow, and he was quiet till we got there." About 5 o'clock on the morning after the removal I went to the room where the lunatic had been confined. When I opened the door I was obliged to draw back, the stench was so horrible. After a time I returned to the room and found it in a most dreadful state; it was worse than any pigatye I have ever seen in my life. Both the walls and the floor were strewn with human dung, and there was some rotten straw on the floor, but the straw was so rotten as to be merely dung. Just inside the door was a large blue flagstone, raised about four inches from the floor. This stone was the lunatic's bed, and it was covered with human dung to a depth of four inches, and there was the mark of the man's body in the centre, where it had sunk down to the bare stone, just as if a vessel had been lying in the mud. Later in the day, with the assistance of two boys, I cleaned out as much of the dung as I could remove with a shovel. There was half a cart load. The walls were thickly covered with human excre ment. A great portion of the flooring was com pletely rotten. There was a small window which was nailed up, and was so covered with green mould that it admitted scarcely any light. There was no communication between the house and the room. Entrance was gained by going up a narrow alley about 18 inches wide, and through the garden. Cross-examined b.f Mr. Moorman—l mentioned the case the day after I had examined the room to Mr. Joseph Tong, but since then I never mentioned the case to anybody but Dr. Byrne. I saw a room in defendant's new house, where he said he was going to put his brother. It was a new-built room, but not quite finished then. That was about eight months ago. I was perfectly friendly with the defendant while in the house with him. I never knew defendant apply any violence to his brother Robert. The defendant took food to his brother twice a day—breakfast and dinner time. The food I saw was bread and treacle. It was not often I had an opportunity to see the food because he woula return into the kitchen the moment he saw me about. When he took the food he did not remain with his brother a moment. The defendant never alluded to his brother during the three months I was in the house till the eve of his removal. I did not hear the lunatic cry out on that night, nor anything to lead me to think the lunatic was being removed against his will. By the Bench—The bedroom was about 12ft long and about 61t wide, and 18ft high. There was no chimney in the room, and the door which formerly communicated with the house had been blocked up. Julia Tregiddgo, an old woman who had lived in a house next door to that occupied by the defendant for 25 years, said; defendant occupied the house as its owner for ten years previous to March last. I knew his brother Robert, who was a fine young man about 25 years ago. I never saw him from the time his mother died, in 1842, till about three years ago. noise at the time was so violent that it made me vary nervous and timid, as the door of my living room went into the yard. I therefore determined to find whether he could get out or not. I went to the back door of the room from which the noises had come. The door was latched, but not locked. I saw a human being there. He was a frightful object. He had not a bit of clo;hing on. lie was stark naked, and doubled up in a crouching posture. It was Robert Porter. I was afraid to speak to him, and ran away. I heard these horrible cries during the 10 years that the defendant lived there. I frequently heard the lunatic cry "Challa, Challa," alluding to his Char lotte, who is now A m erica, ahe was very fond. He was not a cripple when I knew hi m . Cross-examined by Mr. Moorman—Robert Porter lived with his mother till her death, 1842. I was intimately acquainted with her. She never said that she had any objection to Robert being sent to a lunatic asylum. He lived some years after his mother's death with his father and sister. His father died about 14 years ago. It is about 11 years, I think, since he went to live with the defendant. I don't know what state he was in when he went to live with defendant. I never complained of the noises to any magistrate, policen2an, or other per son in authority. Before Dr. Byrne came to me I never thought of complaining. Re-examined by Mr. Law—l did not know that the confinement of Robert Porter was illegal. This concluded the case for the prosecution. Mr. Moorman submitted that there was no charge which could be substantiated against the defendant. He had on the previous occasion shown that the Bth and 9th of Victoria, cap. 56, did not apply to the case; and. the 16th and 17th Victoria, cap. 96, sec. 9, only applied to persons having charge of a lunatic by legal authority ; in which case there were cer tain duties to perform, for the neglect of which there were certain penalties. But in the present case there was no duty, and, therefore, there could be no breach of duty. He then alluded to the deci sions in the case of " The Queen v. Rundle," of Chief Baron Pollock, and Baron Parke. It was a case where a husband had been accused of ill treating his lunatic wife, and keeping her in illegal confinement. There were seven counts in the in dictment, six under the statute and one for common assault. The jury found the prisoner guilty on all the counts, but on a case being reserved to the supe rior courts, the learned Barons ruled that the Act did not apply to cases of domestic relation. Neither would an indictment lie in common law, for in order t o constitute a misdemeanour at common law d n ot t and a offence must be one a g ainst the public, against any merely private individual ; ssauu. there n He, was not the slightest ev idence of an a he duty of the therefore, submitted that it w magistrates to declare , without respect to the growl magistrates no Act under ing from without, that tthedefendant ; and the whistle they could comm it s till, if they thought Lunacy Commissioners could the assizes. proper, file an indictment at. to the 16 th and 17th Mr. Law direct ed attention _ 9 W ech, after alluding to of Victoria, cap. 96, Bee' an d keepers of lun a ti c the duties of public officers nr f any person t ak ing , or having as ylums, says , f i or co ncerned or takingpart in th e care or cha t he custody, care, or treatment of any lunatic or person alleged to be a lunatic, in any way abuse, ill treat, or wilfully neglect such lunatic, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be subject to an indictment for every such offence." It was unneces sary for him to do more than refer to the evidence in the present case, which was one of the most horrible he had ever had anything to do with, to shove the magistrates that the misconduct and WESTMINSTER. LAMENTABLE PERSEVERANCE IN VlCE.—Alice Fitz gerald and Emily Bunting, two wholesome -looking girls, about 15 years of age, were charged with unlawfully hav ing property in their possession, supposed to have been stolen. Richard Randall, a police-constable, said that at half past eight last evening he was in the Fulham-road, when he saw the prisoners together, and knowing them, watched them. They went into a great many trades men's shops of different descriptions, and at length were finally hastening away when he stopped them, and found two boxes of figs under Fitzgerald's shawl. Mr. Arnold—What is known of Fitzgerald ? Constable—She was here only a fortnight ago, charged with stealing some stockings, and on that occasion her sister, who is a highly respectable young woman, came forward and promised to take her into the same employ- . ment as herself, and to keep her out of bad company ; but she did not succeed in doing so, for the very first night after her discharge from here she was out in the streets in com pany with two notorious thieves. Mr. Arnold—Had she been in custody before the time you mention ? Witness—Yes ; she had been tried and convicted at the Sessions, and after that she was seat to a reformatory, but that was no good. They had tried to reclaim her before, but it was usaless. Mr. Arnold—She was sent to a reformatory you say ? Witness—Yes, your worship. Mr. Arnold—How did she get out ? Witness—She was sent for three years, but was there only a very abort time. She told them she was over age, and in consequence of that they, told her that she might go, and she did. Mr. Arnold—What is her age ? Witness—We cannot ascertain. Sometimes she is said to be 13, and at others 16 years of age. Mr. Arnold—. She ought not to have been told that she might leave the reformatory—it was very improper and irregular, and demands an inquiry if it really is as stated. Mr. Arnold—What is known of Bunting? Witness—She is a common associate of thieves. Fitzgerald, in defence, said—The figs were lying on the pavement, and were very tempting, and as we did not know they belonged to anybody, I took them up. Bunting—She told me ehe had got them. Bunting's mother stood forward and said her daughter had fallen into bad company, and stood a good chance of being ruined. Mr. Arnold was of the same opinion, and said he thought he would deliver her up to her mother. Bunting—l won't go home any more, if you please. Mr. Arnold—Won't you? Bunting—No. Mr. Arnold—Then you are committed for 10 days to prison. Fitzgerald will find bail for her good behaviour for six months. Committed in default. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. STEALING WINE AT THOMAS'S HOTEL.—William Miller, a porter,was charged with stealing wine at Thomas's Hotel, Charles-street, St. James's, the property of Mr. Chas. Thomas, under the following circumstances : It appears that the prisoner was employed by Mr. Thomas, in the cellar, to wash some bottles, yesterday. In consequence of information given him by a boy in his em ploy, Mr. Thomas went into the cellar in the afternoon and found the prisoner in a state of intoxication, he having knocked the necks off two bottles of wine, of the value of 155., and managed to consume a bottle and a half of the wine. On accusing the prisoner he became very insolent, said the wine was his own, and threatened to knock Mr. Thomas's head off, Ho was then given into custody. Prisoner said he was at work, and certainly did have a drop of wine, and it was generally allowed. Mr. Tyrwhitt—What, to break the bottles? I shall commit you for 7 days, with hard labour. SEASONABLE BENEVOLENCE.—During the past . few days several sums of money have been received for the poor box of this court—amongst others the usual annual dona tions from the Merchant Taylors, the Goldsmiths, and the Mercers Companies. A large number of poor persons, many of them aged, and several of them with families, have been assisted ; no one receiving anything till proper inquiries have been made (under the direction of the chief clerk, Mr. Leadley), by the warrant officers of the court, O'Shaughnessy, Trower, and Hubbersty, to ascertain whether the persons applying are really deserving. THAMES. A MOST 'UNGRATEFUL TILIEF.-.-A coloured lad, who gave the name of John Freeman, was brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with stealing 81bs of beef; 2 shirts, a pair of drawers, and other property, from the schooner Eliza beth, in the Regent's Canal Dock. Mr. William Wales, mate of the Elizabeth, said the pri soner came on board on Monday morning last in a destitute condition, and said he was starving, and in want of a berth, Some questions were pun.) him, and as it appeared he had been a sailor he was provided with food and clothing, and treated in the most hospitable manner. When the captain came on board in the evening he allowed the boy to remain on the ship and signed the articles of agreement to proceed on her intended voyage. In the night time the prisoner helped h.mself to the beef, shirts, drawers, and other pro perty, and went on shore In the ship's boat. Alfred Nieholl, a police constable, No. 496 A, said he found the prisoner in the Ratcliff Cross Refuge last night, and on taxing him with the robbery, he admitted it, and said he had disposed of the beef and one of the shirts to a man on Tower-hill. One of the shirts and the drawers were found upon him. Mr. Woolrych--Where are they Witness—Here, sir; I made him take them off. The prisoner, on being asked if he had any account to give of himself, said that he w . as a native of St. Helena, and that he had made a voyage IR an American ship to Ham burg, where he was discharged. He fell into distress, and fife Elizabeth by Ve ry kind was sent to Lond on by the British Consul as a distressed British subject. were treated with kindness. sin agreed to take you to sea Mr. Woolrych--And you the es ung . rateful fellow, and hate indness shown you. Ie and er ° et t t t u h ra n for the k hearted w awi madetrhm h e a d i m :p e. e a r y o u p y d l be You ud el ar sentence you to one month's imprisonment and hard labour. T HE NEW LIVERPOO.,_/, WATERWORKS.—On Mon day afternoon, as some men !fere employed in working at the foundation of one of the plMars which sup ported a number of arches constructed for the purpose of carrying some important portions of th e new Liverpool W a t e rworks, near t he junction.of Dudley-lane with the gave way, carrying with stl the , the arches.pillar In suddenly their fall they severely—indeed, it is feared, fatall y --injured a number of the workmen, who We r e Carried to th e Ro y al Infirmar y . Three of the sufferers are said to be in a ver y dangerous state. SNAPPIN G OF A TELEGRAPH WIRE.—CURIOUB Wit fiveoo lto o nit o ACCIDENT. —Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, the telegraph wires spanning the Thames front Cannon-row to Messrs. Maudsley's factory snapped, falling across the deck of a Citizen steamer, carryin— g away the fore cabin fu n nel, overturning. the heavy seats, and knocking off the hats of the passengers. Luckily the vessel was eased on nearing the pier, or the damage might have been most serious. PAT " WC/WONG THE TELEGRAPH."—S3id an Irishman to Et telegraph operator :—" Do you ever charge anybody for the address in a message?" " No, replied the operator. " And do ye charge for signing his name, sir ?" said the customer. '•No, sir." " Well, thin, will ye please send this; I jist want me brother to know I'm here —bearing the following—" To John M'Flinn— at New York—(signed)—Patrick M'Flinn." The mes sage was sent as a tribute to Pat's shrewdness. 49!i 64; 1111 11 1071 1081 7t 1011 2 1291 30 103 2i 32 96} / i I " wilful neglect" had been of the most flagrant kind. With regard to the cisc alluded to by Mr. Moorman, the facts were directly opposed to his statement of them, and it was because he was the husband and that it was his duty to take care of his wife that the Act did not apply. The magistrates, after a few minutes' considera tion, declared that the conduct of the prisoner was a statutory offence, as well as one at common law, and they should therefore commit him for trial at the next assizes. The prisoner was admitted to bail, himself in £5OO and two sureties in £250 each. A large crowd had collected outside the court, and though they were not so violent as o❑ the pre vious week, it was found necessary to remove the prisoner under a strong guard of constables. He was followed by the mob, hooting and yelling, till he was conveyed to a placs of safety. WASHINGTON, As DESCRIBED BY MR. G. A. SALA, THE " DAILY TELEGRAPR'' CORRESPONDENT. That it resembles in any way the metropolis of a great, powerful, and wealthy commonwealth can t once, without much fear of contradiction, be de nied. It contains, certainly, some noble public building.,,, but they are scattered far and wide, with all kinds of incongruous environments, producing u_po n the strang er a pe r plexed impression that the British Museum has suddenly migrated to the centre of an exhausted brickfield, where rubbish may be shot ; or th at S t. P aul ' s C at h e d ra l, washed q uite white, and stuck upon stone stilts, has been transformed to the centre of the great desert of Sahara, and called a Capitol. There is a perpetual solution of continuity at Washington. There is no cohesion about P e n nsylvania-avnue ; its houses are as Hudibrasts story of the bear and the fiddle — begun and broke off in the middle. It is an archi tectural conundrum which nobody can guess, and in which I can didl y believe there i s no meaning. The Nitruviuses and Palladios of Am erica have per perpetrated a vast practical joke, an d called it IWashington. There is no beginning, no centre, and no end to Washington. It is the most bogu s of towns—a shinplaster in bricks and mortar and marble. The people seem to be very fond of building houses ; but when they have run up three or four storeys which threaten to attain the altitude of the Tower of Babel, the confusion of tong ues sets in; the builders abandon their work; but, nothing dis heartened, erect three or four storeys of fresh houses elsewhere. It is said of those patrons of the drama who habitually avail themselves of half price that they have seen nothing but denouements. Wash ington, on the contrary, is a collection of first acts without any catastrophes. It presents a converse to Mercutio's description of his wound. Its avenues are as deep as wells, and its blocks as wide as church doors; but they do not serve any purpose that lam aware of. Washington will be, When completed, the most magnificent city on this side the Atlantic; but it is not quite begun yet. We are still at the soup and fish, and have not got to the first entree. Never was there so interminable an overture. "Two piastres more/ cries the Arab funambulist, unworthily parodied by the London street mounte bank, "and the ass shall ascend the ladder." But those piastres are never forthciming, and the donkey never goes up. Only two hundred million dollars more, and two hundred thousand inhabitants, or thereabouts, and Washington would be able to rival the Empire City and the Crescent City, and all the other cities to which the Americans have given, to use the diction of Mr. Artemus Ward, " magnolious and spanglorious" appellatives. I4ndente lite, Washington doesn't precisely languish, but it wal lows in the dust like an eel in a sand-basket, deli cious when fried or stewed, bat slightly repulsive to the sight before he is skinned and cooked. Wash ; ington will be, I have no doubt, some day urroar ously splendid, but at present it isn't anything. It • is in the District of Columbia and the State of the Future. And yet I must, for the sake of those who will never probably visit this rambling mass of streets without houses, and houses without streets, liken it to something. Well, it is like a jumbled-up collec• tion of children'., toy villages seen through the opera glass of the King of Brobdignag, Again, it is not unlike the Old Kent-road grown out of all patience. Stay, it is like Brentford run mad, with a dash of Highgate out of its wits, and a spice of Barnet at the fair time—for ragged horseflesh is here abun dant—the whole mingled with Holborn-hill, and set in the midst of Salisbury Plain. After this imagine a tohobohu of Canterbury Halls and dancing saloons, Government offices and old clothes' shops, Bath and Cheltenham like private mansions and log cabins, oysters, negroes, lagerbeer, mules, oxen, waggons, dragoons, ladies in crinolines and loafers in " sit on 'em" hats, and the very faintest notion of Wash ington may begin to dawn upon you. The Capture of the Chesapeake by the Con. federates. It has already been stated that the merchan steamer Chesapeake had been seized by sixteen Con federate passengers, while on the passage from New York to Portland. The Confederates were headed by a Southern officer, who had regular instructions for carrying out the seizure. The Chesapeake was taken to St. John's, New Brunswick. where her captain and crew were landed. She then lett in the charge of the Southerners, her supposed desti nation being Wilmington. The St. John's Evening Globe, of the 10th instant, says The scheme was matured here by Confederate agents. Meet ings were held, and the passage money of parties to make the seizure was paid through to New York. They were promised MO dole. each on the steamer's being safely taken into Wilmington. It was also arranged that at a certain store in New York each of the parties were to call at different times for a parcel containing a revolver, ammuni tion, and a pair of handcuffs. It is believed that the cargo which was shipped by Confedera te ag was valuable to the South, and that it was arranged that that she should be seized on this particutl:at the The manager of the plot represe nted . Chesapeake had been taken while attemp...tTft tt the blockade, and this was a harmless n e ames of five back Southern property. 'We have o o run They belong of the parties engaged in the e i i t z h u ' Captain Braine. to this city, and left here species of humanity They are of the worstosepof them was just out of de nominated "roughs." ° all went from here by the the penitentiary. e l here. She called off the har e - The- on the 3d to Boston. steamer New England on board Captain . Parker, formerly Chesapeake did n of the order of the captain allceotpriybution, who took command." b of o u t r h , e a and took vate o r The following 's of the Retribution o the L d to capture the Chesapeake. o teut. John s detached t capture the CbessP' : 'To Lieut. John Clibbon Braine toTo.ffice r —You are hereby ordered to proceed to the city of First Lieutenant H. David Collins, Sailing A N .ewr 4Yror,rkseweiotnhdt hLieutenant g Maste r George Robinson, and crew o f 11 men . You w ill, on arr i val , engage passage on board the steamer, and use sour discretion as to the proper time and place to capture. Your action towards the crew and passengers will be strictly in accordance with the President's instructions. You will, es cir • cumstances permit, bring your prize to the island of Grand Menan for further orders. Seal Cove Harbour, if accessible.—(Signed) J. PARKE:e , Captain P r i vateer Retribution." —The Chesapeake is said t o b e of the same s i ze and nearly thesme faster. model of th e S u mter, but much strougeri nd from New Several steamers were a once despatchec. York in search of " the pirate." --------5--________ _ STEAMBOATS AND PRIZE FIGHT S. —At the last weekly petty sessions held at Dartforr:, the super intendent of the Waterman's Steam Packet Comp;my appeared for the directors, to answer a summons at the i nstanc e of the Boar d of Trade , char g ing the defendants conveying p a ssengers in the Gannet steam. with illegally vessel To a point farther than that for which the vessel was duly licensed. It appeared that on the 16th September the Gannet embarked two pugilists, named Roberts and Morri son, with a number of their adherents, who landed at a point below Gravesend, where a fight took place. The Gannet is licensed to conve y p assen g ers from London to Gravesend only. The bench inflicted a fine of 40s. and £5 costs. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 21. The trial of Count Stanislaus Zamoyski is not closed ; the statement of his condemnation to death is altogether false. LONDON GAZETTE---Last Evening, W HITEHALL,DEC. 21, The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint the Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D., to be Dean of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter, Westminster, void by the resio-nation of the Very Rev. Richard Chenevix Trench, The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev, Hugh Fraser to the church and parish of Berriedale, in the pres bytery and county of Caithness, vacant by the transporta tion of the Rev. Hugh Fraser, to th e church of '.'..lacduff, frl the presbytery of Turriff. CROWN-OFFICE, D EC , 19, The Seatof Quee the n ha sbeenpleased by lett ers patent under the Great United Kingdom, to constitut e and ap point William Shee, one of her !Slajestv'f3 Sergeant's -at- Law, to be one of the Justices assigned to hold Pleas before the Queen herself, WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, DEC. 22, Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant William ,Ri co Bowen has been permitted to resign his Commission. Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Col onel Richard Clement Moody to be Colonel, vice Robi nson, deceased—Captain and Brevet-Major Henry Young Dar. racott Scott to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Moody„ Second Captain Lionel Cnarles Barber to be Captain, vice Scott—Lieutenant Reginald Gather Thorold to be Second Captain, vice Barber. Military Train—Captain Martin Samuel Sharpe, from the 4th Foot, to be Captain, vice Willans, who exchanges. 4th Regiment of Foot—Captain St. John Willians, from the Military Train, to be Captain, vice Sharpe, who ex changes—Ensign Charles Frederick H , oper to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Richard Boyce, who retires— Thomas Edward Stoptord Hickman, Gent,, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hooper. 6th Foot—George Malcolm Fox, Gent., to be Ensign,ley purchase, vice al‘Vicar, transferred to 93d Foot. 12th Foot—Ensign Henry Duppa Alfred Cutbill to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Edward James Dudgeon, m ho retires—Henry Stewart Bolton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cutbill—Harry Jermyn Cooper, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice David Papillon, transferred to the 92d Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Walsh to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Arthur Henry Francis Lynch, appointed to the Staff. 1 6th Foot—Captain Allred William Adcock, from 24th Foot, to be Captain vice Gibson, who exchanges. 17th Foot--Ensign Harvey Lambert Manning Ravenhill Gent,Woods, t. who b ere Ensign,ti retires—Laurence L y aurence purchase, Jamesvice to Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Frederick 11.1 . Dakin, G 84th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Samuel 19th Tvaileminiauhmeilll,HGaosrsdeoyi Foot—Lieutenant Andrew Stewart, from half-pa vice Adcock eo w r who retires upon temporary half pay. exchanges. 21th Foot— Foot —George Gibson, from 16th Foot, to be Captain, 25th Foot—Lieutenant George Augustus Elliott to be Captain, by p urchase, to be Lieutenant, 1 1 3 1 y sign who retiree vice Peter Charles Gillies Web ster,Ntinajor and Brevet Lieutenant -Colonel, Frederic Charles Francis Barnardiston purchase, vice Elliott—Thomas Stanhope Gildea, Gene, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice C. 8., to b e s h n e o u: or r v td— N i i c Vlikt s i r s i , llia in James Lof i t e u u , tenant- Colon el, Matsjorsre, Page Vance to Horatiov.tao retires u 3813A c t p h h a a ryaFrt_captain and 13revet- Lieutenant-Colonel p obny half -.. ' olk a Stansfeld to be Richardson be Major, by purchase, vice boye ia Vance t., — t be Willis—Lieutenant Robert Johnston purchase, Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet. sign George John Skinner to be Lieutenant, vice Stansfeld—John Dalton Chase Sorrell', Ensign, by purchase, vice Skinner. nbe 45th Foot —Ensign Henry John de Berniere smar t, from the 58th who has t r o et b ir e ed. Ensign, vice Ralph Handy, w 58th Foot—Robert Gordon Home, Gent., to be Eneig., by purc hase, vice Smart, tra nsferred to the 45th Foot. ' 61st Foot—Lieutenant Edward Waugh Rumsey t o be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Charles Henry Boileau, wh o resigns that appointment. 64th Foot—Lieutenant Andrew Stewart, from 19th Foot, to be Lieutenant, lice Louis D'Acosta, promoted to an, Unattached Company, without purchase. 66th Foot—Ensign Stephen Dixon Power to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Henry John Westby, who retires—Ensign Benjamin John Huinfrey, from 87th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Power. 87th Foot—William 'Western Taylor, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Benjamin George Hatutrey, transferred to the 66th Foot. 90th Foot—Lieutenant George Robert Mille, to be Cap tain, without purchase, vice Percy Julius Deveriile, de ceased—Edward Richard Albert Nolan to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Miller. 934 Foot—Lieutenant Edward Septimus Wood to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice George Roe Fenwick, who re tires—Ensign Frederick William Welch to be Lieuten ant by purchase, vice Edward Septimus Wood—Ensign John Archibeld M'Vicar, from the 6th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Welch. 4th West India Regiment—Charles Ramsey Gibb,Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice John Shell, whose appoint ment has been cancelled. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT—Assistant-Surgeon Arthur Henry Francis Lynch, from the 12th Foot, to be Staff assistant-Surgeon, vice Thomas "Walsh, appointed to the 2th Foot. BREVET. Captain John Tobin, Unattached, to be Major. Brevet-Major John Tobin, Unattached, to be Lieutenant.. Colonel, Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, Francis Edwin Maunsell, 4th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major. Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, William Archibald Kidd, Royal Artillery, to have the honorary rank of Major. Captain Hugh Hamilton Goold, Royal Marines, Light Infantry, retired upon full-pay, to have the honorary rank of Major, under the Order in Council of 13th November, 1858. MEMORANDUM. — The undermentioned officers have been permitted to retire from their service by the sale of their commissions, under the conditions of the Horse Guards' Circular Memorandum of Feb. 15, 1861: —Major Charles Henry Leslie, half-pay, Depot Battalion, and Captain John Tobin, Unattached. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 21. The followinc , flag proniotions, date d the 1 5 th in st a nt, have been made in Consequenceof the deliathe.oßf.Aodamitrhael of the Blue Sir Henry -William Bruce, • , 14th instant:— t ot h h f e e t o b ‘ l3 : o 7 lue ollinson " '-' Vice2eAdwina Rodney the White. K l'i . c ß e . -A to dm be ir A al d O m f irtahleoßf ethdeS.BirluGe.eog_rghet .iitiooinboefrutraLtsak.mt,obpLeforortra,ci Vice-Admiral of the White lienry Smith, C. 8,, t o be Vice-Admiral of the Red, Edward I-i c e arse and e to Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir the Blue. MunoV, A n d u ni s i s r e a l l l , of c . the ß ~ Blue the si K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral. of hniteedit.Ricohbaerrat Fanshawe c. be e iam Erskine Nic o l: '..141 8 " f the Blue, to Rear -Admiral 'to. Rear-Admiral of the 'Willie::: C,8., to be Rea . al James Gore Retired Vice-Admir .. have the rank and vi a ll, rtt t . l title of Retired A 1 dra Joseph Pe Captain Sir Frr.eAdedNcFolliorifl Order in Council ear-Adtoirals, in ur :lance of the of ith Ma 18 - S I) ---------- Y, a . have the rank and title of Retired R Retired Captains c o urse of the Exchange —Yesterday. Amsterdam Ditto .•.. • R o tterdam .. --- 11 191 1- , „ Aatv , erP • • -- 25 70 25 i' B r ussels 13 flamburgh .......... 13 7i 25 35 84 Ditto .......... .. 3 Short. 25 5 7;27°: 25 7771 1191 1191.4 12 35 lk:l a r a a r r n i s s k ei t lie t s . 0 . .. u ... 1‘ : .............. : ..... Vienna 12 ' 12 35 ............ Trieste 331 ............ 12 33 25 Petersburgh — Berlin — 471 48 'Madrid - 47k 48i Cadiz - 25 90 25 95 Leghorn — 25 921 25 971 Milan -- 25 90 25 95 - Genoa 25 921 25 971 "-. IC aples Pihlesrina ........ . . o 52 921 25 52_ 9 1 7 i i‘ es in Lislwn .............. Oportt, Foregn. Gold in liars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars ........... .............. 0 0 0 Silver in Vars (Standard) South Atnelican 'I:I.IPPING—This Day. LONDON, Dec, 23.—Wind this day at noon—South.. Westerly; strong bi-eeze, and fine weather. FAL,atovill, Dee, 22.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Royal. Sailor, from Taganrog. DOVER, Dec. 22.—An ived—Emma Wilson, from Monte Vid e o. Dc z . ind E.Yo oL, Dec. 22.—Arrive.'.—Faside, from B a th urst, foi !' c L a Y n 3 t r e o r u b r ry , , ,N e . ca LE ileid—lrmena, for Valparaiso. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesd a y M orning. A rr ived, Dec. 22—Frederick, from Konigsberg; from Irivien—Devonshire, fr p o E tn AL S 7 t. Nvcan Hilt's. e sdk.'y Morning. passed —l‘lillwald, for Sydn e y —s eavytelit in , H ong Kong —Catherine Petnbertou—all It Um London. Suowden, from Sunderland for Carthagentt—Meggi Anstroco, from the west for London. Sailed—England's Rose, for London. A.etrea, and Contest---all thre A letter from Cannes says:—" Visitors hero ar enchanted with the almost indescribable mildness of the weather. The thermometer marks 48 degrees Fahren heit at eight in the morning, and 58 at midd3y. The orange trees and many others are covered with flowers. A concert was given at the Grand Cercie yesterday by:Ames, Leona and Dor sen i, of the Scala Theatre , at I\lilan. hall was f u ll , an d L or d Broughamwas present among numerous company, in which many fo rei g n ladies shone their beauty and elegance." A DEER ALBINO !—A pure w hite deer NVIS u re milk white with recently shot in Minnesota. It is p, pink eyes and hoofs, and has not a spot of auy other colour , on its hide, 1 "1