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

ONE Y MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE o'CLocx. Money continues in moderate demand for com /nercial purposes, and the quotations remains as before. The Agra and United Service Bank have received the following telegram from Bombay : " Exchange —Bank Bills, 2s. 2:d. ; Rupee Paper ilLsaleable." About £105,000 in bar gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. „ I n the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon there was a slight downward movement in several instances. _ Since Monday last the imports of specie have ?toeunted to £619,400, and the exports to £785,670, i ncluding £527,490 taken out to day by the Ceylon, 'Which left for Bombay. I t appears that soveral inquiries for goods, espe e`allY in the woollen districts, have lately been made, Purporting to come from a firm at Copenhagen, and referring to a highly respectable house in that city. This is believed to be merely an attempt to obtain Property from merchants and manufacturers on t his side, and the house in question disclaims any uvourable knowledge of the firm referring to them. The Bankers' Almanack and Directory for 1864 "ntilins a variety of useful matter, the information r espectin g the recent formation of banking esta blishments having largely increased its value as a W ork of reference, Besides the ordinary banking and commercial retrospect, the annual chronology, ~t he account of failed firms, there is a list of the direct ors of the principal joint-stock banks, the 4 kince and credit companies, and the discount un dertakings. It is still edited by D. Morier Evans, Who has had the superintendence of the volume ReYeral years. Two o'CLocx. The market for the English Funds closed yes terday with a very heavy appearance, but rather more firmness is now exhibited, and Consols are 90 i 91 for money, and 911 a for the account. Busi ness has been very quite. New Threes and Re duced are a b ou t 901, 90 ; India 5 per Cents., 106 k , do. 4 per Cents., 100 1; Exchequer Bills, lls. to 7s. dis. The Foreign Market opened with a very de pressed appearance, but a partial recovery has since occurred. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70 i t ; ditto Cmsolides, 461 i ; Mexican, 341 ; Cireek, 254 26; Spanish Passive, 32i 33k; Russian, 884 and the Confederate Loan, 36 38. The share list of the Floating Dock Company will close on Wednesday next, the 16th inst. The Present price is a It, prem. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been limited, and prices have shown little ehange of importance. South Western have im proved 1, and North Western 1; while North Eas tern (Berwick) have declined 4. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings continue i nactive at about former quotations. Bank abd Miseellaenons shares continue in mode rate request, and show little change of importance la values. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. /3ank Stock _ Per Cent. Reduced Annuities Ne w Cent. Consols Annuities 9l 901 N ew 3 per Cent. Annuities New 3i per Cent. Annuities ''evi' 2f per Cent. Annuities 'Per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 cities, 30 yrs, expire ,Sth Jan., 1880 — bitto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — India Stock, 1874 1)* i ., , 1061 Ditto u pet k,ent. 1870 -, 1) it , 0 4 per Cent. 1888 looi a - r ,' l tte Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. , itto 5 per Cent lO3 li itto 5} per Cent DiftO ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto) Aug, 1864 or 66 341, 1 k Stock for Account Oitio Bonds £l,OOO 8 dis r, D itto under £1,000.. o nsola for Account, an. 7 9lk i tatiia Stock for Account, 5 per Cent lo6i Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 p er C en t 7 7dis Ditto 1500 Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES. Atintrian Bonds, 5 per Cent 11ra kilian 5 1tto 1859 — per Cent Ditto, 1 839 and 1859.....- Ditto 4/ per Cent. , 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 .. nitt o 41 per Cent, Ditto Scrip, 1863, £3O paid D itto 1 6 per Cent -U itto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Q llia n 6 per Cent. 4 ,,ba, 6 per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent. D itto 6 per Cent. 1863 td i tto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent olo mbian 6 Scrip £l5 pd Dish 4 per Cent., 1863 , Ditto, Provisona Land Warrant -uuteh, 2f per Cent., Ex. 12, Guilder! ,,, -- Ditto D ebentures, 4 per Ct., Oct,, io°° sUador New C onso lid a ted, 1 per 99} 8k ri 7 per Cent Cent ~ Ditto, Second I ssue - '*l'eektt per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 7 5 .1 i 1 bio Account Ditto Coupons — Ditto Account l2l I.Uttelzala 5 per Cent. tilt , k r 4 0 Account .1 4 Jaz 5 per Cent.(Alaremmana Railway) 7 8 i eti lq .b.,14c0 an Account 3 per Cent ... • 34 ,„1 i liZlish Imperial 5 per Cent i,. Granada 1,-,-?tto 2 per Cent. D i tto Deferred rift° Land Warrants (Hectares) — e ii t . l ,N o an 3 per Cent. Ditto Account . — t 4k per Cent., 1862 44) Acc ount Muguese 3 per Cent., 1853 1) . 4 0 Account at° 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — bitto Account Ditto, 1863 — Ditto Scrip, £l5 paid ~,,3ian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — .•uit o 4,1 per Cent 1850 , Ditto 1860 — -- Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 . Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 cardinian 5 per Cent .... Ditto Account ....... •85: ... 9 Panish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred....... ::: Ditto Account ...... Ditto Passive .......... ~ Ditto Account .......... .. . 32 / ... 1 3panish Cert. of Coup not funded .... Ditto Account 121 S wedish, 4 per Cent .......... ,_ l 3k t arkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto Account B9 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 u s,itto Account 7l D itto, £lOO Bonds — i 4 itto 6 p er C e nt. 1862 v v tto Account l lezuel a 3 per Cput. Atm itto Account 24k b Dl4O t p Accounter Cent., 1862 551 i . 11 Dividends on the above payable in London. 1 • 97k e i Aarl• 4k per Cent.,Ex. 25f. 61i 1) -- e....k2i per Cent., x. 12 Guil 99a r e per 4 per Cent. Certificates • tTeh Rentes, 4f, per Cent., Ex. 25f.... Itaitto Account Ditto 4 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ai m Account... -400ntese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f — TWO O'CLOCK. 0 .... -1 !301s, Money .. 90i I '4O Account 9lk I Oz ta b , -P°111 ) BOAT RACE.—The trial race of the best of t ' ill en of the University, previous to the selection wi th Oxford crew to contend in the forthcoming spring tit er C4itbridZ t place on Thursday, the 10th inst., tit the u sual - c e Our o s o e x , from Abingdon lasher tnth e Island kit, 1 , 1111 : ham. The crews were as follows :-1. E, B. 3 S,e-e,", Magdalen ; 2. T. B. Fenwick, Christ Church ; Core, Brasenose; 4. F. F. Lambert, Corpus; 7 ' Parson, Trinity; 6. T, Wood, Pembroke; ' v at ker, University ; 8. D. Pocklington ' Brasenose; ' 2 lt . . B. Gardiner, Wadham. 1. C. P. Roberts n . 0 • Harris, Brasenose ;3.5. E. Illingwor th ; 11 „° 1 : ti n . e ,L4../. S. Warner, ;5. R. Pound, Brag ) : vv. Goddard, Exeter ; 7. F. Beachcroft, Exeter , 1 7 t ert . Sethouse Christ Church ; .coxswain, J. E. Shaw, bees e i T Mr, Senhouse , against whose boat long odd!h had \ l'lli e t t a t ' i l , had the good fortune to obtain the inside position, bevery netirly 4°86 who understand the course consider to er had Roh,equivalent to two lengths. Mr.Pocklington, how h e e v di no t rata 'hat the best of the start, which advantage d ! ell 'ad 1 3 44 I°rl g, as on rounding the first turn, L e house, 4rto er th Y e the station, drew up level. As the boats passed h e " of h o , lil waY bridge Mr. Pocklington had acquired a rowingl; 4 l , Ik u ir'il awhit r , ste l a e :gt o h, which, i n sp ize c . f a great effort on the Ilhouse, was ultimately increased to a length, w as co the race was won. On the whole the aag l-e boa tb• nsidered up to the average, a o lth uol the win t h ar, t la Year was hardly as good as the winning boat SHARE MARRTITS.---This slay, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCAS. ' Closinc , , , Business Share Railways. Paid. , Price.' I done. 13.14.1 Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. all 8 84 25 Blythe and Tyne. 10 flost,Sleat,andlilid.Co all ' 8 84 at Bristol and Exeter et Caledonian . 100 1174 1184 118 50 Cork and Bandon all 20 Cornwall all I 64 7 A gets no dil ) ~ 10 Do A till Op e p an.hap " 10 Do. B been ' paid to B. i all . 50 Dublin & Belfast June. all 38 40 25 Dun.,Pertli,&Ab. Juno. all 16 17 164 et Edinburgh & Glasgow. 100 114 96 st Glasg. and S. Western. 100 j 107 109 I at Great Eastern, Ord. stk 100 49 50 494 49 . at Ditto A stock at Ditto EastAnglian at 100 74 84 at GreatNorthof Scotland 100 et Great Northern lOO 124 126 1258 st Do A stock lOO 130 331 1294 at Do Bdo st .Gt. S. and. W. of Ireland 100 96 98 at Great Western et Do Str Val gua. stock 100 et Lancashire & Yorkshire 160 1084 1091, 109 at ,London and 'Rockwall 100 71 73 72 at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 100 107 109 108 478 at Lon., Chat., and Dover 100 43 44 st Lon. & North Western 100, 1054 1 06 4 , 105 5 4 6 4 at 'Lon. & South Western 100 101 102 101$ at 'Man ., Shot., & Lincoln. 100 47 4 48 4 48 4 7 1 50 IMaryport and Carlisle. all 124 I Do 4 shares.. st (Metropolitan all 1114 1124 1114 12 at 'Midland 6.4.0 Do New st Do Binning. & Derby 100 96 98 50 Olid. Gt. W. of Ireland all 25 Do. 4 shares 25 Mid Kent 10 Do Cray Line at North British at 'Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 24 56 st INth. Eastern—Berwlok 100 101 1011 1014 1004 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 —ti e at Do Leeds lOO 58 684 at Do York at Do Carlisle lOO at North London 1 0 Do New (9,16.4 North Staffordshire lu N. and S. W. Junction all 11 11 4 at , Scottish Central at 'Soot N. E., Aber. stock 100 42 44 st 1 1)0 Scot. Mid. stock lOO 98 100 10 IShrews. and Welohpool all at ;Shropshire Union at !South Devon lOO 314 324 st South Eastern at South Wales et !S. York. and River Dun 100 97 19 20 'Staines,Wok.,andWok. all 91 101 25 !Stockton & Darlington all 374 374 25 Do 25 Do New, 1860 8 74 74 p at Taff Vale.. ....—.. 10 Do B 8 5 64 0 10 Do C 3 24 34 50 Ulster 25 Do 12.10 Do 54 st 'Vale of Neath st Victoria sta. and Pin lOO 170 175 st 'Waterford & Kilkenny' 100 at ,West Cornwall I 100 st iW. Hartlepool Har.&R 1 100 et /West Midland —Oxford, 100 at Do Newport', 100 st Do lierefordl 100 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Squirt Railways Paid. Price. Business don( 100 Itlantic &St Lawrence all 59 61 60 sk Bom.,Barodadr.Cent Ind 100 IL 6 117 Gu. 5 per cent. 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares 201 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 6 6} 10 Do. Preference . all 81 91 • Buffalo Brant &Godric . l, 100 ' 10u p. ci bds. Aug. 1, 18% 100 Do. do. July 1, 187. , 100 100 Do. do. June 1, 187 , 1 100 st Clcutta.arS.Eastn. (Lin,, 100 103 105 st Cape Town Dock Seri) 100 101 103 stock klastn. Bengal gu. sp. 100 1(6 109 stock East Indian. go. sp. C. WO 1065 1071 1071 20 Do. do. ti Ext lO lip 20 Do. do. II do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 20 21 20} 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 72 04 731 100 Do. do. deterred all 58 61 100 Do. 2d Pret. Bonds all 66 69 67 100 Do. do. deferred all 50 53 I 100 Do. 3d P, ef. stock 100 Do. do. deferred all 38 42 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock all 26 28 100 Do. do. deferred all 22 c 4 stook Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.o 100 1(8 109 1084 2 0 Do. New gua. sp. 0... 12 15 lfy. 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 15 lfp Stook Gt. South.of India(Lim ' guaranteed 6 per cent. 100 105 106 201 Gt. W. olCanada Shares all 94 10 201 Do. New .. . .. . . 18 11 105,, 100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. all 92 95 100 Do. 55 p. c. do. '77-8.... all , 86 88 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 * Op stock Madras. guar., sp.c. .. 100 1051 1061 1061 6 stock Do. 44 p. o. Extension 100 100 101 stock Dc. 4a do 100 16 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bud. 100 • 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 59 100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. all 20 Newßruivrtvick 43t Ganda Class A an a B. all 3 5 N.ll.l.C'das pc Ist pi bds 100 t-2 84 stock Soinde (No 106 107 106 stock Do. Delhi l ri 4.; 100 1(5 106 2u Do. do • t 2 st Do. Punjaub c;. all 1041 105/ Do. Do. .... _ , , 190 stook Do. In dus.St. Flo.) 000 , 101 103 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Cau.Uov. 6 p.c.J a. &J ul) 1877-S4 lOO 103 105 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 102 104 Do. 6p. a. Mar. & Sept. 100 102 104 Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 91 93 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 Cape G.pope, 6 p c,187:1 100 106 108 Db.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 109 111 Do. 1890 100 109 111 - Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 112 114 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 108 1071 Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 147 109 91.8.G0v. 6 pm. J a.dr•July 100 iO4 106 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oot. 100 N. S.W. G ov. 6 p a.,lBtt 100 100 102 991 Du. sp. c.,18/1 to Id7t 100 101 102 —. Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 101 102 102 - ,New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 'Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. e. sterling, 1875. lOO 104 106 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 t:1 113 ,S. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up.. 100 111 113 Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 107 109 Do. io 6 p.c. An.&00t,.. 100 lOBl 1091 1091 9 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 Id Clifford Amalgamated.. 33 34 Deven G. Con.. (Tavist.) 1 550 660 East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 57 60 1 East, Clogau Gold Ltd. sa. 5d yar a East Caradon ..... ..... 2.14.6 26 27 East Cam Brea... 3.4.0 6} 64 - E. WlRussel (Tavistk.) 8.9.0 45 5 IGam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) 581 8 10 ,Great South Tolgus.... 178 45 44 !G. Wheal Vor (llelstoW 40 111 14 !Grenville 6.16. t' 4} 44 I Hercd's-Foot „. 8.12 68 40 I llingston Downs 4.18.0 14 25 I Lady Bertha iMargaret (Uny Lelant` 91 14 16 Marke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 21 1} 5 d New Setun l9l 90 100 • North Downs 24 1} 15 N.Wh'l Basset (Mogan, 3.1.0 25 24 North Wheal Crafty Par Consols (St. Blaze 20 ( Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 42 44 iSouthCaradon(St.Cleer, 1} 405 215 Carn Brea (Illogan) — - IS.Wheal Fran. (Illogan) 18.114.9 60 65 ;Stray Park 30.17.6 30 32 5 I famar Silv.& Lead Min 44 G rin Croft 9 18 19 West Basset (Illogan) ll 91 101 W. Cr radon (Liskeard) 5 18 20 West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) 5* 875 921 Wheal Buller(Redruth) S 221 271 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLudcott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) 8 115 12 - Wheal 3eton . 581 160 170 - Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 21 22 - !Wheal Union 3.17 21 3 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western Orig. 4i per cent. pf., 99# 991 . North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent. rd., 93 4 North Eastern, York, H. and Selby purchase, 10f PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., 101 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. B uckinghamshire, 97 C L h o e n i ff t t t o 4 o , l :s ll p ), 3 ° 9 r:c h en ea t. d , ' l - 15i Nottinn_and Chatham 44 per Cent., 91} and Grantham R. & C., 94 51 "`" a ourY and Hereford, F OREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Antwerp and Ro tterdam, 81 m Pra:saw (Uxn.) gua. 7 per Cent, 181 Copenhagen, lim., 2. Great Luxembourg, 11, Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean, -371 Southern of Fr ance , San Paulo (lim. a. 2 7 per c ent., 82 2 4 FOREIGN nanus. Fortuna alinA . 3l Linares, 61 7 Mont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 21:i wor. hing (limited) , v Un an it e t o d uv D e l r ex c ic o a a n l, (litre;, i Australia ce i NT-STOCK BANKS. Yudanaututana of.sjSoerv., Ara and United (1 11:1 2 4 2 Anglo Ansa , Alliance Bank of L 7 o i Australasia, 75 naJn and Liverpool (Um.), 941 Eastßrit nd British Nor American, 49} th Imperial Bank (him), 23 4 - a Imperial Ottoman, 18k 172 14 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lint, 41 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 28 London and Colonial dim.), 7k I London and Comity, 55k London Joint Stock, 362 London and Northern (lim.), 15i London and South American, 11m., 6k London and ' Westminster, 782 Merchant Bank, lim , 61 Mercantile and Exchange, Urn., 142 15 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (11m. ) , 01 Union of Australi a, 52 Union of Ireland (limo, 10 Union of London, 40 3012 MISCR LLANEOUS. British Indian Tea, Um., 3 21 Discount Corporation, limited, 61 7 Esst India Irrigation and Canal go Egyptian Commercial and Tracin g, u rn 31 Ge n . s Cr s it a n ß 12 Finance of Lonuon, 11'1;1, Ilu, -4 International Financial Society, lint, g Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 86 Joint •stock Discount, 64 London Financial Association, lim., 234 London General Omnibus Company, Bin., 24 Natal Land and Colonization Company, Bin., 51 Oriental Inland Steam, lira., 11 Peel River Land and Mineral, 484 Peninsula and Okiental Steam, 83,1 _ . A rtir SUN, LONDON, SATUEJJAy EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1863, LAW INT.ELLIGENCE—(This Day). COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before Sir, P. Wilde and a Special Jury.) LIDSTONE V. LIDSTONE AND EDMUNDS. This was a suit instituted by the petitioner, a shipwright in Devonport dockyard, for a divorce on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent. The charge was denied by both the respondent and co-respondent. Damages were laid at £3OO. The petitioner was married in 1850, both parties being then vary young, the respondent being only 17. After the marriage they went to live atsTrankfort-street, In 1852 they left Plymouth, and went to live at East Dere ham, but returned again to Plymouth;where she contracted an intimacy with Mr. Edmunds, a solicitor practising at Plymouth, with whom it was alleged she had committed adultery. The respondent was a well educated girl, but the petitioner was rather illiterate. Quarrels ensued between them, owing to her intimacy with Mr. Edmunds, and, finally, she left her husband, and was afterwards found living in lodgings in Victoria-street, Plymouth, where he constantly visited the respondent. John Carkect said he knew the parties both before and after marriage. They lived very happily together until the intimacy with Mr. Edmunds. After that she objected to her husband as a person unsuitable for her society. The learned Judge—What did she mean by that ? Witaess—That he was uneducated. HA afterwards heard Mrs. Lidstone talk about a divorce, and she further said that after it was obtained she should be Mr. Edmunds's lawful wife. Mr. Lidstone he considered to be a respectable, upright man. His failing was over-kindness. Howard Davis, an undertaker, said he knew Mr. and Mrs. Lidstone, He recollected her leaving her husband's house in 1862; and in October of the same year he met her at Devonport-park. He asked her whether sho had not been to Wales, and she replied "Yes, with Bob ;" and afterwards she asked him not to tell Mr. Lidstone. He asked her if she was living under the protection of Edmunds. She said no, but that he visited her of an evening. 'She did not say where she was living, but on another occasion he met her, and then followed her to No. 15, Victoria-street, New Passage, Stoke. He afterwards watched the house, and frequently saw Mr. Edmunds go there. He had seen Mrs. Lidstone let Mr. Edmunds out, and wish him good night, and further say she hoped he would not get wet. Mr. Chambers—Did she always say that? Witness—Only when it was raining. (Laughter.) Cross-examined by Mr. Ruddlestonc—When he was at home he lived in Scotland. He could write. Mr. Huddlestone—Have you any objection to write me two words ?--" possessed" and " Wednesday" for instance? Witness took up the pen and wrote the two words, spel ling the first " pocessed" and the next " Wensday." Mr. Huddlestone (handing witness a letter and the paper upon which he had written the words)—ln the letter you will find the words spelled precisely the same way ; is, or is not, the letter, which is a fac simile of the words you have just penned, in your handwriting ? Witness—The letter is not in my handwriting. That I swear. Mr. Chambers, Q.C., for the petitioner—l object to the witness being examined on the point. It is a piece of legerdemain to trick the witness. The letter is not in evidence. The Judge Ordinary—l think the witness can be asked whether the letter was written by him or not. (To witness) When you have thoroughly looked at the letter, tell the jury, upon your oath, whether it is in your handwriting or not. Witness—l swear I did not write that letter, and know nothing of it. Mr. Huddlestone—l now propcse to put the letter and the paper, en which the witness has written the two words, into the hands of the jury. Mr. Chambers objected—The letter was not at present evidence, and it was merely a clever trick on the part of the learned counsel to attack the witness's credibility. A long discussion then followed, during which the word Wednesday was then marked in the letter and witness was asked whether he wrote it positively denied it. The learned Judge here, after reading the letter, thought it very material to the case that the fact mentioned in the letter should be fully investigated, and with that view he thought the witness could be asked whether he wrote it or no. Mr. Huddlestone—Now, after cautioning you, I ask you deliberately whether you did not write that letter ? Witness—l did not, The learned counsel again wished the letter to be placed before the jury, but the learned judge thought it better be deferred till all the matters connected with it were before the court. Mary Ann Wild, a domestic servant, at Mr. Williams's 15, Victoria-street, deposed to the visits of a gentleman to Mrs. Lidstone, whilst she was residing there. Mrs. Higgins said she resided at Ross, in Hereford. She recollected two persons coming to lodge at her house some weeks. He had since seen both Mr. Edmunds and Mrs. Lidstone, and was positive they were both the parties. Mr. Rundel, a solicitor, residing at Davonport. said the two preceding witnesses had seen Mr. Edmunds, while pro fessedly engaged in the County-court, at Dovonport, and identified him as the gentleman who visited Mrs. Lidstone. Evidence was called for the respondent to show that Lidstone had invariably treated his wife with the greatest coldness aLd neglect. The case was proceeding when we went to press. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) A. NEW POINT IN THE LAW OF MASTER AND SERVANT, -GARNHAM V. BOSS. This was an action to recover a sum of money actually earned as wages, and wages in lieu of notice. Plaintiff is a journeyman umbrella maker, and he had worked for de fendant. He found that he could better himself by going to another place, and in accordance with the rules of the trade give a week's notice. Upon this the defendant said he could go at once, but plaintiff worked until some period in the day, when he received peremptory orders to quit. His Honour —How do you say that you are entitled to a week's notice. Plaintiff—By the rules of the trade. _ _ Defendant's son—We make a special bargain in our house. When the men enter our service we point out that upon leaving theymust give us a week's notice, but we may discharge them at a moment. His Houour—That appears to be a very one-sided bar gain, but if the men chose to agree to it, of course 1 can say nothing. Plaintiff—But surely you know the men are entitled to the same consideration as the master. If a man leaves their service at a moment's notice they enforce the week, and ths men ought to be able to do the same. Defendant—The rule is well understood in our house, and we consider that we are quite at liberty to make rules for our own protection. His Honour—Oh I certainly, but it does not seem to work very well so far as I can see. It appears that the moment a man gives the customary notice the master can turn him out forthwith and deprive him of the week's mon ey. The bargain is a legal one, but it is also a hard one. If, however, the men choose to agree to it, they cannot depart from it now. There is money paid into court, in addition to which plaintiff is entitled to recover for the time he actually worked (25.), and for that sum he will have a verdict. Verdict for plaintiff, only for the actual money earned. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Dec. 12.—Wind this day at noon—South- West ; light breeze, and fine weather. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Palermo, screw steamer, from Scilly—Ellen Catherine, from Huelva —Lucy, from Riohibucto. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lady Milton, from Otago, N.Z. KINGROAD, Dec. 11.—Wind W.—Arrived—Red Coat, from the West Coast of Africa. CLYDE, Dec. 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Acme, Cuth bert;, and Empire, trom Quebec—Perseverance, from Montreal. RAMSGATE, Dec. 1 1.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Kate Evelyn, from Hartlepool for Garrucha—assisted in with loss of stanchions, &c. DOVER, DQC, 11.—Wind W.—Arrived—Murillo, screw steamer, from London from Santander. - CARDIFF, Dec. 11.—Wind 10, from Marsala. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Premier, from Newfoundland. OW MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived—William Walker, from Archangel. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Passed—Asia, screw steamer, from Sunderland, for 6al eutta—Cid, screw steamer, for Bilboa, and Tivy, schooner, for Falmouth, both from London—Scotland, ship, from the North, for the West. LORD STAMFORD'S SALE,—Mr. Naylor, as the last bona fide bidder, has claimed the yearling filly, Sloth, by Idle Boy out of Lena, which was knocked down to Mr. Ten Broeck, for 250 gs ; and we embrace this oppor tunity of explaining that there is not the slightest truth in the statements which have appeared in our contemporaries. as to Captain White having acted for Mr. Nuylor at the sa le. Captain White did not bid for a single lot for Mr. Naylor, nor did the latter bid, directly or indirectly, for either Cambuscan or Archimedes, us represented.—Sport ing Gazette. SUICIDE BY A GREENWICS PENSIONER.—Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, yesterday held an in quest at the Admiral Hardy Tavern, Greenwich, into the circumstances attending the death of William Day, a pen sioner of Greenwich Hospital. The evidence proved that the deceased had been drinking for several days, and was apparently suffering from the effects of intemperance. He was admitted to the infirmary of the hospital, where he committed suicide by cutting his threat with a sharp knife in a most determined manner. The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity, which was induced by habits of in temperance, LITER ATI7RE. Barbara's History. By Amelia B. Edwards, author of " My Brother's Wife," &c. Three Vols. Hurst and Blackett. When the interest of a story is concentrated upon one or two individuals, it generally gains in inten sity. " Barbara's History" belongs to the class that Mr. Disraeli has called Psychological novels, novels in which the emotions of one heart and the develop ment of one individuality, occupy the chief atten tion of both writer and reader. In portraying to us the development of her own character and the vivid emotions of her excitable nature, Barbara has been very successful, but the story of which she is the heroine is singularly improbable, and the hero of the tale, Hugh Farquhar—Farquhar of Broomhill —is one of those paragons of perfection, an impos • sibility, such as assuredly never stopped out of,the _ . pages of a romance. He takes a rifle from the hands of one of the German free•shooters, "the best riflemen in the world except those of the Tyrol," and fires two bullets in succession into the centre of the target until the amazed marksmen exclaim " He is Tell come hack again!" He borrows a guitar from a wandering musician, and sings a ballad of his own composition to the delighted wonder of all hearers. He gives six thousand pounds for a Paul Veronese. He travels through Europe with black 'rippoo as his avant courier, engaging in advance the best rooms at every hotel, and ordering in advance recherché dishes to suit the fastidious palate of this fashionable Crichton. Added to which our wonder fully romantic hero has "a mystery in his house"— an Italian lady secreted behind a secret panel, to the dismay and distraction of the hero's wife, who is herself notwithstanding the object of her husband's idolatrous affection ! We have said enough, and more than enough, to corroborate our assertion that Barbara's History" is, to say the least of it, some what improbable, and the character of her lover in our matter-ot-fact opinion somewhat (almost) im possible ! Barbara herself very simply and tenderly reveals to us the trials and troubles of her young heart. In the opening chapter she exclaims— When I was young They are but four words ; and yet, at the very commencement of what must prove a labour of many months, they have power to arrest my pen, and blind my eyes with unaccustomed tears. Tears partaking both of joy and sorrow; such tears as those through which we all look back to childhood and its half forgotten story, Oh, happy time 1 so islanded in the still waters of memory; so remote, and yet so near ; so strange, yet so familiar ! Come back once more—come back, though never so briefly, and light these my pages with the pale sunshine of a fade& spring. lam answered. A pleasant calm steals upon me; and, as one might step aside from the troubled streets, to linger awhile in the quite sanctuary of a wayside church, so I now turn from:the eager present, tread the dim aisles of the past, sigh over the inscriptions graven on one or two dusky tablets, and begin with the recollections of infancy this narrative of my life. Barbara's childhood is lonely snd isolated. Her first happy experience is her visit to her great-aunt Mrs. :Sandyshaft, a strong-minded country lady, who delights in agriculture and farming, and more especially in pigs! Here is Barbara's introduction to these new acquaintances— " There they are I" said she, with grim• satisfaction. " There they are I" There they were, indeed pigs of all sizes, ages, and tempers. Black pigs, white pigs, spotted pigs, little pigs, big pigs, fat pigs, lean pigs, pigs with curly tails, and pigs with no tails at all. Quiet enough till we came into the yard, they no sooner beheld my aunt's green bonnet than they broke into the most appalling chorus imaginable, and came rushing up to us with an alacrity that soon brought the whip into service, and sent some of them shrieking away. But to see them fed was the great sight —to watch the perpe tual replenishment of the groat round troughs—the circles of tails, uplifted and quivering with excitement—the play ful disturbances that broke out now and then among the younger members of the company, and the friendly bites, flights, and scuffles that diversified the graver interests of the performance. Meanwhile, my aunt stalked about with her whip in her hand ; inspected the condition of the sties, and the quality of the food; rated the farm-servants ; discussed the question of bean-meal and pea-meal; gave orders that one youthful family should have their noses ringed; con demned two haples, porkers of middle growth to solitary confinement—and ended by taking me round to visit a very fierce dowager in an adjoining yard, who had the evening before presented society with no less than fifteen little ones, as black as jet, and not much bigger than kittens. Having dismissed the pigs, we went into the stables ; aad then round to the bullock yard ; and, after that, went a leng way off to a clover-field lying on the slope of a hill, where we saw the sheep and the little white lambs all feeding and gambolling about, to the number of three hundred aad more. And throughout all this ramble, my aunt's vigilant eyes were on everything and everybody. Nothing escaped her ; and not a servant on all the land but started into activity at her approach, and seemed to regard her not only with respect, but with some degree of terror. The next scene of our heroine's history is a German lady's college,. where her education is completed, and where her taste for painting is developed. Barbara becomes an artist, and wins the prize-medal from the hands of the Grand Duke of a German princi pality. Many years of Barbara's life are passed abroad. The authoress portrays the southern landscape with a glowing pencil. Here is a glimpse of some of the heroine's wanderings in what ahe calls her— HALCYON DAYS. How like a painting of Turner's it opens before us, this broad and beautiful valley I Rich sloping vines " combed out upon the hillsides" skirt the mountains on either hand; sometimes divided from the road by flats of emerald meadow, and sometimes trailing their ripe fruits within reach of the passing wayfarer. Behind us, the stupendous precipices of the Gemini still tower into sight; and in advance, far as we can see, the valley is bounded right and left by the Vallaisan Alps, which mingle their snow-peaks with the gathering cumuli, and fade away to air. Midway along the shadowy vista rise two steep and solitary hills, each crowned, like a Roman victor, with its mural coronet of ruins. A glorious landscape, so stately with poplars, so garlanded with vines, so thoroughly Italian in its beauty, that it might well b e on the other side of the Alps, for any difference that th e eye can see! Thus, as we go forward through the plain, passing villages, and towns, and vineyards where the merry vintage is at its height, the scene becomes more and more Italian. In Sierra, through which our postilions rattle at full speed, the houses are high and dilapidated, with arcades running along the basement stories, and Italian signs and names above the doors. in Sion there are Capuchins at the cor ners of the streets ; and sullen, handsome women, who throw up their windows, and lean out to look at us, in true Italian fashion. Even the farm-houses scattered all about the valley are stuccoed white, or built of stone ; with loggias on the roof, and sometimes a trellised vine before the door. We are now, it would seem, in the very heart of the grape district. Here are vineyards in the valley, vineyards on the hillsides, vineyards down to the road on either hand 1 From some the harvest has already been gathered—some then rutp friar, a couple wh o are still heavy with white and purple fruit - --aud some are filled with gay groups of vintagers, sunburnt as th e so il . By and by we come upon a long procession of c ar t s , a ll laden with high wooden cans of grap es ; then upon a n o p en shed, where some five or six swarth?, . h fello ws, armed w ith impress of his s an d a ll e d l s printsos short o g r t ra poles, foot at each impatient stride. Then come more f arms, more villages, more h u ll o s r v t e y e l r- mashingoad hatted w it h t A h t b e h b e re fi s d , r m fr anduiimt' s by a r oa d s id e cross,and presently who" Wains omen-drawn, Laden with grapes, and dropping rosy win e ;,, we c hpaarsistya in nlitnhde namebegga rofsatthttemßle a 3 ed Mary. Thus the day wanes, and, towards a ft ernoon, we reac h a famous vineyard of the Muscat grape , where the vi gnerons load our carriage with armfuls of the porfumed fruit. H ere asks the cottages are more than ever Italian, with tiled roofs, and jutting eaves, and ingots of Indian corn festooned about the upper casements. Here, also, the wild peaks of the Diablerets come into sight—grim sentinels of the legen dary Inferno of the Vallaisan peasant. And now, as the sun sinks westward , we hear the chiming of the chapel•bells far away, and see bands of vin tagers trudging wearily home; and still the long road lies before us, bordered by tremulous poplars, dusty, direct, in terminable as ever I The lo ves o f B a rbara and Hugh are very f ee li ng l y described. There are many scenes of p ass i onate tenderness which will touch the hearts of th e romantic, but the conduct of both hero and heroine l i o s s s es o w ra i u ld e l h y improbable t t, h at the story, as a whole, while isolated portions reveal great artistic power. ---- Memoirs of Jane Cameron, Female Convict. By a Prison M atron, Aut h or of " Female Lif e i n Prison." melodrama, as i mpress i ve picturesque as a as a discou rse f rom th e T wo Volumes. Hurst and Blackett. As inte rest i ng as a romanc e, as lips of some gifted pulpit orator, this " ower true tale" of the life and death of a Female Convict will, while it at once enhances and in a manner confirms the writer's reputation both as a moralist and as a humanitarian, tend, moreover, we are perfectly well satisfied, very considerably to popularize it. The authoress h a s a d vance d f roea a consideration cf "the general" in "Female Life in Prison"—to a con sideration of " the particular" in these very dread ful but also very affecting " Memoirs of Jane Cameron." The Female Convict, so entitled, has her wretched history recounted thus mercifully under a pseudonym. Dates and localities are also here transformed—as a kindly shelter of the poor creature referred to from the chance of identification. Otherwise the narrative is, from first to last, miserably veracious. It so assumes to be. And we needs must credit the validity of the claim thus put forth. The work h as a purpose. It undertakes to show, and indeed we may assert at once that it does quite comprehensibly demon state that th e poor and ignorant are l ed into crime and are in innumerable instances taught to regard it as simply a business, the evil nature of which is to them not apparent." Nor is this all —for the thread of the narrative, while affording a clue to the mystery of , temptation, leads the practical philanthropist on, thereby, to the detection of what ought, in truth, to constitute the first endeavour made by him in order to bring about the criminal's reclamation. The unfortunate, here called by the name of Jane Cameron, it should be said, at once, is before the close of the book, veritably reclaimed. She dies, but dies penitent. Transformed from a heinous offender, from a thief and a prostitute, into a repentant sinner, who enacts, in her later years, the humble part of an honest and virtuous domestic, Jane Cameron, as we road of her here, at the ter mination of her adventures, in and out of prison, remains (we are told) "to the last a good servant and a faithful friend. She died," it is added by the authoress, " truly penitent for all past sins, and truly thankful for all the mercies which had been vouchsafed to her. This was the last new, of Jane Cameron the last and the best." Having quoted which simple, but most touching comment upon the poor Female Convict's life and death, we may say at once confidently enough that—although the history of Jane Cameron is at times very frightful indeed as a revelation of the filthiest depravity, and of the most utter abandonment, it may, in the recollection of her death, be regarded at any rate with some sentiments of consolation, even at its end of actual satisfaction. Born and bred in Croiley's Land, in that swarming and festering back-slum of the vast and populous city of Glasgow, called the New Vennel, Jane becomes at a very tender age, indeed, one of the 240,000 children who are known to be given up to a life of theft in the various towns and cities of the United Kingdom. One of that little infant army of 240,000 thieving children! The fact that there is fully that number of young criminals scattered among our population is unde niable. It is proved beyond a doubt by reliable statistics. And—one of that youthful swarm, one of that childish host of the depraved to the number of 240,000 in all, one of those ill-fated little ones, not brought up, as Charles Lamb has it, but dragged up, is Jane Cameron ! When a mere toddle of five or six she is—what shall we call it ?—a confirmed cadger. At twelve she has as her " cash"—a boy of fourteen. When, herself, barely but fifteen she is already a mother. "I didna think muckle o' the wee bairn the first nicht," she says, " but on the second day I luved it awfully !" Ah, the poor soul ! but her " wee bairn" dies, and therewith "dies out with the child she had loved," the little spark of her own better nature ! Her first fall had come to her from that source of evil to so many children elsewhere than in the purlieus of the Glasgow Vennel—the dancing saloons! The low penny dancing saloons called in the squallid Glasgie Life— THE SKEELS I Entrance to these dancing " skeels" is generally by an unlighted close, up a common stair to a large room on the first floor. The door of this room —on which " Dancing here" is legibly inscribed—is kept by a scowling individual —probably the proprietor of the establishment —who receives the pennies of his young patrons, unlocks the door, admits them, and locks them in. In this room, lighted by gas or candles according to the taste or means of the proprietors, a hundred or a hundred and fifty are speedily assembled—ranged around the room on forms placed against the wall. They are of all ages from the boy and girl of seven or eight years old to the men and women of two or three and twenty, but the majority are girls and boys averaging from 12 to 15 years. me boys are chiefly apprentices or young thieves ; the girls are of the usual poor class—more than usually poor prhaps—thrse fourths of them without shoes and stockings, and all of them bonnetless, as is usual amongst the Scotch girls. The boys are several degrees removed from clean, but the " hassles," as they are generally termed, are, without an exception, bright-faced, glossy-haired damsels, who have evidently been at ro ordinary pains to render themselves attractive and presentable. Here and there is evident a little effort at finery in the shape of a pair of ear-rings, or a necklace of sham coral, and their poor and scanty gar ments aro in many cases destitute of any signs of ragged.. ness. The master of the ceremonies, carrying a fiddle or kit under his arm—occasionally bag-pipes are substituted for the violin—calls out the dance. In all cases a Scotch dance of the simplest character is chosen ; the dancers are arranged, music is struck up, and the festivity begins with a hideous clatter of thick soles and heels from the masculine portion, and a soft pattering of naked feet from the majority of the feminine. There is much setting to partners, and an infinitude of solo performances, winding up with the usual twirling and twisting common to Scotch dances in general ; and in the midst of all this heat and dust and bustle, the man sits perched above his scholars, fiddling rapidly, and glaring at them like the evil genius of the place, They are all known to him—every face is familiar. To the elder girls, who may have encouraged strangers there, he is friendly and fatherly and watchful ; he knows that before the evening is out the strangers will probably bo robbed, and there will bo an uproar, and it may be necessary for some kind friend to turn the gas out or knock the candles over, and leave the entire company to grope their way down the com mon stair into the close —,or the man at the door, who is a prize-fighter by profession, will be called in to keep order, silence the remonstrants or turn them out of the room. As a rule, the proprietor objects to robbery in the " skeel" itself, and has a room on the other side of the landing whore such things may be conducted with greater ease and save the " skeel" from falling into disrepute. Night after night, in these Scotch cities, still goes on this hideous revelry; still are attracted girls and boys from their homes, still are engulphed the heedless youth of both sexes. Many innocent children of poor, even respectable, parents are lured hither to imbibe a love for danciag and bad company. The ap - prentice robs to get here, the girl begs in the street, or thieves her way to admittance ; step by step to ruin surely and swiftly proceed these untaught, uncared-for children, and they are past hope, and have left all childhood behind them, at an age that is horrible to dwell upon. Deprived of her infant child by death (a death for the child itself perhaps very merciful) Jane Cameron becomes a confirmed and hardened criminal of the very worst class. Her adventures are numerous and most affecting. She suffers frequent imprisonment, at the last for a series of years, during which she passes through the system of a reformatory charac ter in vogue at Millbank and at Brixton. Fortunately the eventual result of this probationary period, proves to be most bene ficial. When released she relapses. But her reclamation is at length completely efficacious. It is beyond the Atlantic, while still in service as a good and honest domestic, that she breathes her last, this poor repentant creature of whom wo have read here at times, no doubt, with loathing, but at length with an overmastering pity. Several of the minor characters flitti ng b e f ore us as w e read th i s work—individuals w ith w h om J ane Cameron comes her into contact durin g th e c h equere d period most woful history— are ve ry cleverly depicted cf ted amongst them Ma r y L ogg i a " the friT d, Jock, Jan e ' s b o y-"C us h"—poor that in terrible 6 macvee the kind-h e art e d eve n m a t ma ker—and Black Barney, Jane's older " Gus h , when she has fairly gone out into the world as awotnan, Black to others, Barney, who is so fierce and formidablefTt; though to her ever all gentleness . e work as a whole is eminently well worth havingbeen written, and—now that it is written—eminently well worth also being Foul and dark though the p at h i t leads us trough, road. there are light and purity shi n i ng brightly upon us at the close. The Children's Friend. Illustrated. One Vol. pp. 192. See l ey , Jackson, and Halliday. This is a charming gift-book for the young. It abounds with short , pleasing, and Instructive tales, well adapted to point a moral for the juvenile ap preciation. Teaching hor - 1 example is at once the most easy and the most practicable mode of impart ing instruction. The story of naughty "Kitty,'' who objected to say " please"—that of the generous Meta, who gave aw a y her ,‘ New-year's gift"—and many others of a kindred character, will effect more good in the nursery and school-room than a hun dred sermons, or scoldiugs without end. The volum e is prettily illustrated, and contains many easy hymns and poems. The Comic News Christmas Box. Edited by Henry J. Byron. Maddick and Pottage. Capital news for the boys and girls—for all those young people who like the good things of this life, and among those good things one of the best of all, a goad innocent hearty laugh ! Capital news, that is, in the mere announcement of this large-sized four penny Christmas-box, in which, like a store ofcandied citron peel, and muscatel raisins, and sugar and spice, and all that's nice, as the nursery song has it, there may be found by all those who care to speculate to the extent of that little rough-edged fourpenny bit, all sorts of comicalities in prose and verse and woodcut illustrations. Among these—a collection of rhymed nonsense, written by Charles Matthews ! An account of a trip e su pp er , b y W. B rong h. A Plutonic Dream, by Edmund Yates. A chapter on The Smiths, by Sterling, Coyne. One onThe Browns, by Arthu r Sk e t c hl e y. The Editor's description of Christmas in a Chop-house. And —plentif u lly sca tt ere d t h roug h the lette rpress—comi Brunton, a n d illustrations by Bennett, M 'Connell. Perhaps the best among these illustrations, is the frontispiece, in which the bright young face of the Byron of Burlesque upon th e h o lid ay- l ov i ng looks laughingly d own children. As about the very worst of the literary contributions to the " Chri stmas Box " is Mr. ary and the H a i r D resser. (if it really be a Sothern's wretchedly feebl e j oke joke !) about Lord Dun dee Our only comment upon which efete whimsicality, must be a mere echo from Mr. Sothern's better self --" Th-th-that's wong !" Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market firm. Sales about 5,000 bales. MARKETS—This Day. COVENT GARDEN. The supply of fruit on sale in to-day's market was sea sonably good, and the show of most kinds of vegetables was large. Generally speaking the demand ruled steady, as follows : FRUIT. Pine a s. d. s. d. 8 0 to 1 0 Colonial ples do., each 0 0 t o 00 0 Grapes,per lb 4 0 to 10 0 Foreign do 1 0 to 2 0 Melons 0 0 to 0 0 Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0 Apples, per hf-sv. 2 6 to 4 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100..3 6 to 8 0 Lemons, per 100 3 6 to 7 6 Gooseberries hf sveo 0 to 0 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 0 s. d. s d Mulberries,prpt 0 9to 1 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Foreign ditto, punt) oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb 0 9to 1 0 Walnuts, per 100 1 oto 2 0 Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Figs, per doz. 0 oto 0 0 Peaches.. Currants, per h.sv 0 oto 0 0 Plums, per do 0 oto 0 0 Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 ~, ' % Ar ---- , YEGETAULES. Greens, dz bunch 4 0 to 4 0 Cabbages, pr doz. 0 10 to 1 3 13:::€1 ditto 1 6 to 3 0 Savoy do., pr dz. 0 10 to 1 9 Cauliflowers, p dz 1 0 to 2 6 Brocoli, per bus. 0 0 to 0 0 Potatoes, per ton 60 0 to 110 0 New ditto, pr lb ..0 0 to 0 0 Turnips, dz bunch 2 0 to 2 6 Carrots,pr do 4 6 to 5 6 Cucumbers 0 0 to 0 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 0 to 0 0 Green peas, h.-sv. 0 0 to 6 0 French beans, h.s. 0 0 to 0 0 Onions, doz. bn 1 6 to 2 0 , New Do., dz bun 0 0 to 0 0 Spinach 0 0 to o 0 ' Turnip radishes 0 0 to 0 0 Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0 S Horseradish, pdo 1 oto 2 6 Parsley, per ditto 0 3to 0 4 Celery, per ditto 1 oto 1 9 Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 0 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 Mushrooms,p ptl. 0 oto 0 0 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Cos lett, score .. 0 10 to 1 3 Mint and savory..o 3to 0 4 Endive, per score 0 oto 0 b Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0 Tomatoes, d0z....0 oto 0 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 oto 0 0 Asparagus, pr do. 2 oto 4 6 Seakale, per bun. 0 oto 0 0 POULTRY. Turkeys, 4s Od to 9s Od ; geese, 55 Od to 7s Od each ; goslings, Os Od to Os Od ; ducks, 2s Od to 2s 6d ; ducklings, Os Od to Os Od; rabbits, is Od to is 9d each; wild do., 9d to is 2d 1 • pigeons, Os 6d to Os 10d eac h ; S urrey f owls, 7s Od to 14s Od ; chickens, Ss Od to lOs Od ; barn-door fowls, 3s Od to 5s Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; ptarmigan, Os Od to Os each ; pheasants, 2s Od to 2s 6d ; partridges, is 4d to 2s Od ; woodcocks, 2s to 2s 6d; snipes, 9d to Os Od; teal, Os 9d to Os Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to is 6d ; widgeons, Os Od to is Od ; plovers, Os 9d to Os Od each ; guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od each; Ostend fresh butter, lld to is Od ; English, is to is 3d per lb ; English eggs, 12s Od to 14s Od ; French do., 8s Od to lOs 6d per 100 ; leverets, is 6d to 2s Od ; grouse, 2s Od to 2s 6d. BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, Os Od to Os Od ; trout, Od to Os ; eels, 5d to 10d ; prawns, Os ; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, 6d per lb. ; turbots, 8s Od to 30s ; cod, 5s Od to 20s Od ; brills, 2s Od to 6s Od ; doreys, 6s Od to 6s Od ; mullets, Os 6d to is 6d ; lobsters, is to 4s Od; crabs, Gd to 3s Od ; plaice and gurnets, Od to Os Od each; soles, is to 3s Od per pair; common oysters, 108 to 15s ; natives, 60s to 63s per bushel ; whitings, 4s Od to Gs; haddocks, 4s to 12s ; smelts, Os Od to Os Od; flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, Os per 100 ; fresh herrings, 6s to 8s per 100 ; bloaters, Os to Os per 100 ; carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace. WHITECHAPEL. Bret; from 3s 4d to 4s 6d; mutton, 3s Gd to 4s 8d ; veal, 35 10d to 45 8d; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s Gd per 81bs by the carcase. NEWPORT. Beef, from 38 6d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 38 10d to 4s 8d; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d ; pork, 33 10d to 4s 8d ; and lamb, Os Od to Os Od per 81bs by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 61d to 7d , of household do., 5d to 6d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2id to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to aid ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 31d ; 801 b to 881 b, 31c1 to 4d ; 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 41d ; 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to Od ; 1041 b to 1121 b, 4id to sad. Horse bides, 9s Od to lisOd ; calf skins, light, 2s 6d to 4s Od ; full, is 6d to Os Od ; polled sheep, lOs Od to 12s Od ; half-breds, 8s Od to 9s 3d ; Downs, Gs Od to 7s 6d; lambs, Os Od to Os Od; sheallings, Os Od to Os Od. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 Gs to £1 12s per load. Trade dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4l2s 6cl ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 6s to 12s per load. Supply moderate. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, .L 1 6s to £1 12s per load. A slow trade. LIVERP 0 OL —Frida i SlltrriNG INTELLIGENCE.—Arrived (10th) : Contra (s.s.), from Oporto—Annie Laurie, from Newfoundland — Marie Francisco, from Marianople. 11th Lord Elgin, from Demerara—Clarissa Currier, from Quebec—James M'Queen, from Alexandria—Monitor, from Quebec — Stromboli (s.s.), from Havre—Eliza, from Girgenti—Eliz a O'Keefe, from Tabasco—Margaret Dean, from Demerara —Etta, from Quebec. No sailings. STOCK MARKET.—SaIes to-day: Caledonian Stock, 117 i ; Great Eastern, 49 1 1 ; Great Western Stock, 631 64/ ; Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 104 10 9 1 ; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 106 107; Lond on and North-Western, 106 a ditto Shropshire Union, 53 54 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln , 471 4S& ; Metro politan, 112 113 ; Midland Stock, 1271 1281 ; North British Stock, 52 521 ; North-Eastern (York) ap ital Stock, 88881 ditto Carlisle Stock, 130 131; North Staffordshire, 77 771 ; St. Helens Railway and Can al, 101 103 I South-Eastern; 951 96 ; NV est Yorkshire, 421 43i; IVhitehaven and Fur.. demand for ness, 25 25i. T.~Th© market was but thinly attended CORN to-dayMARKET.-- whThe tone was eat, and the de decline of 3:1 auTiyerisi.rnitecl, at a to 4d on the week. era ny neglected, and generally Flour was gen quoted Gd eat ü b n y su b restricted Fine Irish oats had a l o wer on the we ek. sale at beans former r ates. Egyptian slow, but witho aboutwithout •I alto rationn va lue. heavy, and Indian corn was any business t a re daction of 63 per quart ',no was a e...L. on the week. IRELAND The celebrated " LL Whi s k y ,' in t h e Court of Chancery I F petition from the Messrs. Carlisle , buildings, strain Mr. Bolton, DUBLIN Dec.l. case ' Was decided esterde.y. It was a Rinahan and Co., of the Dublin, asking the Court to re of Westmoreland-street, from using on his whiskv-bottles their trade mark " LL. The Lord Chancellor said he had no diffi culty in cornin— s to the conclusion at an early period of the case that the letters " LL" constituted at trade mark in the strictest and plainest sense of the words. It was proved that the I" culia i r ,: s in in which t he whisky in question was pr e p a are t t here was vented byla former memberof the firm, th 40 years the a secret connected with it, which is keptt carefully in a book under lock and key. For e,and it was a whisky had been sold under that n stances, he was in the trade. Under all the distinctci'.c a trade mark well known article of commerce to those engaged of opinion that "LL" was as cognisance of a court of as ever came under the c e o t g enc l e of licence to use justice. There was Bolton.no pretence placards was a proof his labels, advertiseme nts, it on the part of Mr. sandff runningsome risk in using is habit of changing that he was conscious ofvertisements were stopped the letters, and the advertisements The Court would not allow for a year and 1 , 1.1 half. ciadesign belonging to an article a trade•mer.- ahad discovered to be usurped and which one man n ier man, so as to lead the public to used 3 7 that they were purchasing from him the m> a rticle -'as the one prepared and sold by the in ventor. The Court would always jealously guard sbatic:be-t property of that kind. The petiti oners, th ere for e , were entitled to maintain the suit ; the respondent should pay the costs and account for all his sales for the last six years. . SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. HANOVER. - A letter from Hanover states that a military had taken place in that city. A marcher of cul diets traversed the streets crying cut, " Lawn with the Lanes P' " Lead us against the enemy!, Several civilians were insulted and windowa broken , and the officers only succeeded with great difficulty in quieting the soldiers. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLO CK TURK B y. Constantinople letters and journals to the 31 have arrived. The Turkish official journal, the Djeride Havadis, publishes the following i nte n i . gence from Herat of November 4 : "Mohamed Cherif Khan, son of Dost Aloha /fle a Khan, had declared himself independent chief or Herat. Azfal Khan's party in Caboul gained strength, and Chir Ali Khan, the recognised chief at present in Candahar, is marching on the capital. The Turcomans, aided and abetted by Mohamed Cherif Khan, hud committed great depredations on. Persian territory; end Marad Mirza, the King of Persia's uncle, had marched with a powerful force to , stop their progress. The British and Persian. Governments are in perfect accord on this ques• tion." M. DE GIRARDIN'S NEW HOME. la BP re ru th ug e hotels u Among the handsome constructions which have l built tha t and at no great boulevard d • and now d fo i r re m cti a o r n io, w o i u th r in fav th ou e r l i a te st te y n e o a r r , distance, at an angle of the same a Rol de Rome, that lately built for t tenanted by, Mand M. Mme. Emile de Girardin. It o f by i ts has bat recently b een t a k en posses sionoccasion by a. propri e t ors , w h o i naugurated the di nnergiven to intimates only, the Princess M at l ailde forming the sol e excep ti on to t h e rule. The so i rees of M, de Gi rar di n h ave a well deserved reputation for which has becomew wit and causerzes, a wor d almo s t are cncerned in obsolete as far as s a l ons with iis small porticois, and those ,at the c of his old h o t e l, Ely:6es, so well known in the d rner of the Champs ay the talented D-Iphi ne yGs of th e i r f ormer Mme. de Girardin) are said to ha ve aY (the f ormer lost none of their prestige by being transferred somewhat fur ther on their present site. A written description rarely gives a very satisfactory idea of a locality. I will, nevertheless, endeavour to convey to y our readers some conception of a modern hotel, suc h as the improvements of the day, and the require ments of French life, have succeeded in producing, The style of the hotel belongs to the era of Loai- s XIII., and is simple, and not overloaded with deco rations. An iron gateway shuts out a square court yard, from the avenue in which it is situated. o n one side of this court-yard are stables and coach houses, while on the left side stands the main dwelling. This is reached by a flight of stone steps, sheltered by a portico, and leading into a square vestibule of ordinary dimensions, which, in its turn, is terminated by a handsome staircase leading up the first floor. A door at the right-hand side of this vestibule opens out into a long and magnificent gallery, not less than 90 feet long, lighted by two windows at each end, and by a skylight from the top. This gallery is repeated above and below, where it is used for cellars, while on the first floor it serves as a point of reunion forall 1" • • those lying in the several apartments distributed along its lenath. _— whose doors open o u t thi s well-lighted and warmed closed-in verandah. The ground-floor gallery, however, is the chief point of attraction, for within its walls are gathered all the master-pieces of sculpture and art with which M. do Girardin has for years loved to surround himself. There you can see and admire the exquisite statue of Pradier, placed on a pivot, and known under the name of the "Pandora,"several beautiful statuettes in bronze, and one or two precious antiques, among others one brought from Athens, in 1854, by Prince Napoleon ; two busts of the owner's first wife, Delphine Gay, by Solomon; several masterpieces of Boucher, lieu bens, and Delacroix, and some interesting relics of Rachel, the tragedian, such as her picture of Gerome, and the last piece of work her fingers ever plied on, a piece of tapestry, done during her sojourn at Cairo. These and an infinity more of objects of interest well repay a visit to this san ctuary of the arts and of taste, over which M. de Girardin's pre., sent wife, a remarkably pretty and elegant young i ra ble tact and good woman, presides with adm taste. A small saloon is entered into from the gallery, which is . striking from its utter and, in turn, leads to the larger and handsome reception-room, Modern, contrast to any of the ordinary saloons ofth taste, usually overloaded, it must ba said, with Et prrojects e o h r angings. , gilding and meretricious ornamentation. Th e walls the colouring are pannelled with a deep red-colour e d i bordered with black, on which are lines and cloth, which are the likewise ceiling, boldly, divided oldly , into and ' in gold, relieving the sombre effect designs eiat; The ceiling, of a light sea-green is compartments by oak designs, „ ii ; hi o is n tic ti i i: lesi employed for the doors and other portions saloon. The chimney, which gr.b,tPoarrteleo is of large dimensions, corresponding with of f gla and sculpture. Tastes effect produced by the com bination i I I T uri tgdoaehhtletigtlhdhd( quite throughout i ffui j oett n fert g a . l perfectri repgtoha 0 Pt i seat ra - i 8 green,ob o ttandh noe designs, des p doubts red eas no colourdt existthe e artistic idea whi c h senlble 111 is entirely pervades the whole. infringem ent on with every imaginable undergroundand other dependencies in mahogany (another Panels of our English ideas of taste), inlaid s green marble, and is fitted tip with the table. l abia device to facilitate the service of ri fi deed this and the distribution of the English mode, of ll the s floor given up for Icittchieor. tgim, cellars, a nd the especial objects of interest to , some of the French party With whom I was visiting the new hotel, Just then ready to receive its new proprietors. The antiquities and bronze statuettes had elicited some words of praise; the saloon, with its deep coloured panellings , and rather heavily-carved oak designs, had suggested the usual ter, applie to what is in reality th ou g ht ugly, but is m odd ; c'est d tres distingue! But when the arrangements for conveying dishes hot f rom the kitchen into an ogic e , adjoining the dining-room, and thence . into that, room , were duly exp lained and exhibited, praise grew into raptures, w h ic h continued unab a t e d ns we e xamined the minutest details of undergrou n d . i t i t e r i ( i ) 0 1 i r of li f l e 1:1 ' n:: 0, 1 , It i Y i i i i. ( 0 : 1 :4 1 life, so familiar to ourselves but so deficient here, where a simple kitchen, very frequently small and incommodious, is the sole retreat and aceotnmoda ' t , i , on set , . e distribution of alike for cook and men and women servants saddle-room, stables, and coach-houses d• . 1 I 'j " itdheoess,aampeplieiudiittoattihoen eoamndforatpopireicoi to each set thohauevr have i ii ro e s o i t g t- il l s i neighbours o o Ir a erts apartments,s n a o i w da tryw da:fiduo , and that of visitors. Tile 13 ,droome, dressing-roams, blue thilhiY• to adopt. I imagine. Those destined fora;lußise of apartments, aside for family use and boudoirs, belonging Chinese pattern rouging ever (thick silk), with a are as complete in their . d it e G is ir p a o r s d s ii i b i l e to ever the ground, and looked her self were hung in the picture of comfort the bath-room, sit ,as did the arrangements for _ situate on the grouud-floor--Ta luxury y ou sec as frequently as 1 'Ovi in modern french hotels qu ite in cur newly-built town ID.-,uses. MR. GEOR GE A ziIIGUSTUS SALA has written, CM nomiciug, his safe arrival in America. DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS. —As a plou,gh. wan Was at Work en the farm of Mr. Hunt, of Arrow, I ,ear Alcester, on Sr.turday, his plough turned up a human al, null Further and deeper diggings have since been made at the spot, and have resulted in the exhumation of no less th an 2 1 human skulls. No other bones were found, and the skti its appear to have been placed with the face downwards. l- \- \` ' Ss.-