The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-15 00:00:00

- - ------ _ - ...._-_.......;=.............M 0N E Y MARKET SHARE MARKETS.---This day, AND ORDINARY SHARES AND STOUR S. , 44 .S. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Paid. Closing* ' Business Share ) Railways. ; [ Price. i time. • CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market continues steady with 13.14. sir., Wol., and Str. Val. all a _ 8 84 ~ 45 Blythe and Tyne. d _ t ;0 11 abundant supplies, and a fall average demand for 10 I.ost.,Sleat.,an Mid. . all - 8 - 85 1. ac commodation. at Bristol and Exeter .... 100 81 83 st Caledonian lOO 11741/84 MU' t • and Bandon all - - The bullion operation at the Bank yesterday coma- 50 i- jo orr a 4,,l all 64 7 prised an influx of £4,000 in bar gold, and the te Do AjA gets no di` ) all - - '9 Of with 10 Do. B 1 till 6p c.p an.lta, I j all - - , drawal of 20,000 sovereigns. ( been paid tfo 1;. gto Duringso Dublin & Belfast June. all 38 40 the last few days there has been ratherthe 25 Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. all 16 17 more a ninaetion in the Foreign and Colonial Pro- at Edinburh & Glasgow. 100 91 96 ven st. Glas,g. and S. Western.' 100 107 1( 9 t hee Markets. Sugars have again been dealt in to st ,lreatEastern, Ord. stk 100 484 991 the i some st Ditto A stock extent, and, prices have shown a recovery from st Ditto East Anglian st 100 Si and the late depression. In the refined market an ad - stGreatNorthot Scotlau,i 109 - - ,red et Great Northern.. ..... . 100 124 126 ° anee of is. per cwt. has been established, owing st Do A stock to an increased demand for home consumption. Cot- :t Do Bdo t Gt. S. an iW. of Irani lOO 96 98 and fee has been in moderate reouest at full rates, while st Great Western c/a. th e operations in fruit and spices have been to an . st Lancashize & Yorkshir, st Do Str Val gnu. stock 100 - 100 1081 - 1091 1091 sore average extent at late quotations. For tea there st London and Blackwal; 100 71 73 will Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 100 107 ;09 107/ h as been a very limited inquiry, and the few st Lon., Chat., awl Dove' 100 434 411 ards stNor'h Western 100 1061 1071 1061 i bargains reported have been at former prices. In st Lou. & So'.th Western 100 101 162 1011 sing 28th t he tallow market more activity has prevailed in at Man., Stet., & Lincoln. 100 474 484 50 Maryport and Carlisle, all --- Co nsequence of an increased demand both for home 124 Do a shares... 1 0 1 Metropolitan ; all - - cons the umption and for exportation. Prices, however, .idland 100 1271 1221 reat e xhibit little change of importance. 6.4.0 Do New st Do Binning. & Derby 100 96 98 at l\ - utice has been given to the shareholders of the 50 Hid. Gt. W. of Ireland all - - cent , H udson's Bay Company that a dividend of 58. per 25 25 Mid DoEtc t . shares .., all - - - - nio- Share, free of income tax, will be payable on the Ist 10 Do Cray Line - - )keu o f st North British - st Edin., Perthot Dundee 100 24 16624 511 st Nth. Eastern-Berwici, 100 101 1014 and lion to be announced hereafter; the amount will be 25 Do, G.N.E. purchas, 16.13.9 i for deducted from the final instalment of £5 per share at Do Leeds lOO 58 584 st Do York nese due on the scrip at the same date. st Do Carlisle lOO - - am- The transfer-books of the Royal Sardinian Rail- st North London 10 o New w ay will close from the 20th to the 3lst inst., pre- 4 .104 Nor D r th Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction all 11 114 ane Paratery to the issue of interest w arran t s for th e st Scottish Central tire, Past half-year. A report will also be furnished re at Sc i o ) t d ' 11. 0 1 i 1 ,. . ,itii be rs.tos std c . k't 12 g 100 htiVe to the position and prospects of the company. 10 Shrews, and Welchpoo; all - - wa st Shropshire Union ,ord We are informed that M. W. Thompson, manager at South Devoll lOO 314 121 o f the Dublin branch of the Ulster Bank, has been et South Eastern a -South Wales - - :In appointed Chief Colonial Officer and Inspector of st S. Y or k. an d Ri ver D un 1 0 0 97 19 20 Stockton ok.,andWok. all 91 104 ion t he London and South African Bank, and will 25 z Darlington all 371 374 lent shortly proceed to the Cape of Good Hope. 25 Do l7 9 10 '25 Do New, 1866 8 74 71 p for A circular has been issued by the Mercantile st Taff Vale... lOO 158 164 that Union Assurance Company, 10 Do C 3 21 31 p in which the directors 10 Do B 8 5 65 ards- - p l edge themselves to the maintenance of the non- t 2 I 5 0 Ulster s ) ter all 20 - - P tariff system upon which the undertaking was 12.10 Do 5 - - i ng at Vale ot Neath started, despite the increased exertions made by the st. Victoria sta. and Pim._ 100 170 175 t ariff offices to prevent an extension of business at st ;Waterford & Kilkenny; 100 - - Fat st I West Cornwall 1100 - - ad valorem rates. st W. Hartlepool Ilar.&R ' 100 - - stWest Midland -Oxford; 100 - - ;9'sThe directors of the Assam Company have an- - Do Newport 100 --- st Dad.' pounced a bonus of £4 per share out of the amount at Do Licrefordl 100 - - received from the sale of the company's plantation otel in Cachar. A fud explanation will be given at BRITISH POSSESSIONS. n a the next general meeting why the board have Closin,,; oar. thought it desirable to retain a part of the purchase Share aailways Paid. Price. liusiness don , money, in order to form a working capital for the ice At,antic &Si Lawrenct all 59 el eve 8k Boni.,aroda&.Cent Ino loi, 1:6 161 annually increasing business of the company. ( Gu. s per cent. . is of 20 Do. New _______ 20 Do. E. Shares • Two O'CLOCK, 204 Buffalo and Lam; Huron alt 6 61 . Do. Preterunce , ..., At Paris this morning (according to Mr. Renter's , 1 : 0 1 dutlalo,Brant,&Godricl . E . Tx telegram) the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67.20. Bp. et. bds. Aug. 1, 18;": 10 " - - and 100 Do. do. July 1, 187:, 100 - - tort, Reavy. 100 t.io. do. Juin: 1, It-, 100 - - ided Only a limited amount of business has taken place s al &1e11 e t i t , a 0 . , (779 I , ostn.(l 11 100 103 105 p vu . . t ' Dock Sort 100 lot 103 tell, t s stock Sastn. Bengal g,u. 6p. t 10u 1(8 1119 0-day in the market for the English Funds, specn. In 1 tock East Indian. £SI. sp. c. 100 101 174 %tors being indisposed to operate in the present 20 Do. do. G Ext lO 4 14p and 20 Do. do. 11 do. the un settled position of Continental politics. Consols stock Grand Trunk of Canada leo 20 21 aof for transfer remain at 901 I, and for the account 91-k - I. 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bond.s all 73 5 . 5 100 Do. do. deterred-- all 58 01 heir The New Threes and Reduced are 90/ 91 ; Ex- too Do. 2d fret. Bonus., all 66 69 100 Do do deferred...... all 50 53 ting C hequer Bills, lls. to 63. dis.; India 5 per Cents., 12 Do.. 3d . P. ef. stock hiell 14 4 1 ; do. 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 104 ; do. 100 Do. o. do. 4i d i ;t e e! . r5e1i0a...... allal 1 2 3t; 7 3 g 21, a 81 per Cent., 113 ; and do. Bonds, 6s. dis. Bank 100 Do. do. deferred.-- all 22 e 4 oCe' stock GLlnchaPenin.gua.sp.c 100 118 109 108 the s tock is 234 to 2361. 20 Do. New gua. sp. 0... 12 14 141- 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 15 14p also In the Foreign Market there is very little anima stock Gt. South.of In.dia(Lim and , ti°l a, and prices which have been flatter are now a guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 105 106 Bad li ttle firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 70 -1 ; :{3 Gt o N o V ;s la e t w eanada Shares all 91 10 . ... is 11 101 250- ditto Consolides, 461 1 ; Ureek, 261 1 ; Spanish 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 92 95 oya 1 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.... all 86 88 1411 8sive, 321 33k; ditto Certificates, 131 i-, ; Mexi- 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 5 ip ring C an, 311 7,- ; Portuguese, 481 49 ; and' the Confede- stock Madras guar., sp. o. the stock Do. 41 p. 0. Extension 100 100 101 pri- r ate Loan, 37 39. ' stock De. 4* d 0........ 100 46 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- - up/. In the Railway Share Market the operations have stock nelb.Corp. ap. o. Buds. 100 - tom again Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 59 a gain been principally connected with the settle- 10 Do. 7 p.c. Mortg. Bds. all - - ring 20 Newßrun.s.wick & Cando tl ent, and prices have not varied to any important the Class A and B all 3 5 :t is e xtent. Lancashire and Yorkshire have improved N. lll .C'clits pc Ist pt bds 100 82 84 68 4t,0,1, Soinde ..........) (100 106 107 tau- ,' ; Metropolitan, )C's. ; and North - Eastern stock Do. De1hi........ 1 4 .:: ; 100 115 N 6 1064 ting (tereeick) 15s. ; while Great Western, Brighton, zu Do. do ... ' zl , 2 5f p st Do. Punjaub .... NI c. < all 105 NO s ad South Western have each declined 5 - s. Do. Do. ........ , ~?, ,no - - i:ItY sock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) :( 100 101 103 The Foreign and Colonial lines continued inactive ter " Previous rates. COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. new up tank shares are very dull. Chartered of India, 77 - k, ,, ,n.u0v. 6 p.c.Ja. ts/.1 ut) . 1877-84 The A ustralia, and China have receded to 33' ;An lo- -- 2)0.6 p.Aug 100 ivz :04 Lrti- 4uatrian to 61 7 ; Union of Australia are quoted - I Do. op. c.Mar..l6 Sept. 100 102 104 had 62 - ; Do. Ep. c. Jan.&July. 100 t 2 83 353 ; and London Joint Stock 37. - ! Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 atts to. the Miscellaneous market London and Finan- Ca )eG_.llope, 6p c 187 t, 100 106 108 - 1 Do.Ap &Oct:lBSL 100 109 111 le eied shares have improved to 231; Discount Corp- - I Do. 1891 100 109 111 Ind. - i Do. Jan. & july, 1891.. 100 112 114 ration to 71 ; while Mercantile Credit have - Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p ( 100 ltd 112 ) to 1 I - Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 1 ( )6 108 declined to 8 • - ;Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 1.()7 109 _ jay' --'N.B.Gov.C.p.o.JaAJul,} 100 tO4 106 BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. - I DO. <I p. o.Ap. & Oct. 100 - - tol .1.,18 , ,, 100 100 102 tank Stock 2301 4 - ! Dv. sp. c.,18,1 to 10/1 100 101 102 the 'Per Cent. Reduced Annuiti es Jz 91 901 - I Do. d0.,1888 upwch 100 1015 1024 102 14 24 70 11 g Per Cent. Consols Annuities 9l 904 1 - ,New Zealand 6 p cent. too 110 112 li - 'Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. oss" 4 ew 3 per Cent. Annuities - i sterang, 1875 lOO 105 107 tree X ev i -3 i, per Cent. Annuities .......... - - Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO 1:1 133 6 e u - 24 per Cent. Annuitie5............ - per- ;S. Aus G6p.c.1678,1i up lOO 1.1 113 Per Cent, Annuities, Jan. 1873 - Vic. Gov. Cp.°. Jn.daul) 100 107 109 :ion 1 4 "nuities, 30 yrs, expire 4th Jan., 1880 - - Do. to limo. An...talot.. lOO 109 11 0 I 109 5 ' an D itto for 30 yrs, expire s th April, 1885 . - _____ - 11/Y I ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 20 15-16 BRITISH MINES. on - a Stock, 1874 - ii i . .tto 5 pet Cent. 1870 i n g - - 'ulitlord Amalgamated.. - 33 31 Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 ,ns. - Devon G. Cons.,"Tavist., 1 550 160 18 a 4-a.tto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent.... - Dittos.,, per Cent lO4 - East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 V 7 60 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 52. id ,ar, d the Ditto 54 per Cent - East C ara d on ...... .... 2.19. , 26 `i.7 bait Ditto ditto Atoll, 1861 994 - East Cam Brea.. . 1 .4.0 51 6; : 13 ,, Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 99 i - ,1 'l• WI Russel (Tavistk. ) 8.9.0 41 51 are" - dis - itiam.&St.AuDyn(Gwen '''..Bl 8 10 'llk Stock for Account - !Great South Tolg - u5.....: 17s 4/ 44 the Ditto.N. tiotads 111,000 - , 1 6. Wheal Vor Odelston 40 12 13 ,ub- Ditto under 11,000 - - !Grenville.. 200 I ri ols for Account, Jan. 7 914 i - tlercePs- Foot • 8.12 08 40 - itiingsten Downs 4..8.0 2 21 _ la Stock for Account, 5 per Cent.... - ex' - ;Lady Bertha ',Chequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Cent.... 11 dis - !Margaret (lJny Lelant ~ f,' 14 16 , 4 - l itt o £5OO - - I Garlic Valley.. /Off 4 - l itto Small this - New Scion l9l 90 100 li FOREIGN FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. -- North Downs - 1 14 14 ore, -- N.Wh'i Basset (111o4an 3.1.0 2 1 21 TPlian 5 per Cent _ „ c o, - North Wheal Crotty ..12.6.9 5 5a Ditto, 1839 and 1859 tea, D itto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 - Par Consols(St. Blaze),l - - - 20 i'rovidence(Uny Lelnt. !, 10.6.7 42 44 trrY 6. 4 Ditto 1863 - - South Caradon(St.Cleer,l 11 415 125 bia, 'I \ 4tl a 41 per Cent, - - S. Cant Brea (Illoran).. - - - lug- dis - ~.. Wheal Fran. (I llogan 1%1.1 R. 9 60 65 -13 4 4- 4 tt O Scrip, 1863, £3O paid 91f - Stray Park bra Ayres 6 per Cent thea fatnar Silv.& Lead Alin. 44 4 if rl itti t to 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) - ca;l fin Croit 9 18 19 - C u CbY l6 Cent : 4 70 t. 6 per jaer Cent. - West Basset (Illogan).. 1 14 91 104 - Leo)- W C , radon (Liskeard;i 5 11 20 1).4'0 3 per Cent. .............. - - West Setort ..... 475 205 215 Opi o l L t °, . Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. ........ - - Wheat Basset (Illogan) 54 87, 921 „...--, 11,,,. - Lulau 6 Scrip £l5 pd ............ - - Wheal Bulleratedruth) 5 225 274 - Wheal Kitty (U.Lel4nt) 2.0.6 - - :01" .ish . A per .... Ditto - e ..Cent., 1863 - WhealLudcott ,of 'Dut ch erovisonal Land Warrant...... - Wheal MaryAnn(Men ) 8 114 12 'a, 24 per ~ ,0 1 1i a t . ,t o Deb entures, Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders .. - - Wheal Beton . . 584 1 155 163 0 3 1; - Wheal Tr e'awileY (Lis.), 7 21 22 ottr 4 per Ct. Oct., 1863 - _ Wheal Union I 3.17 25 3 -I;vntui°r.r New Consolidated, iper Cent.. - dis 13 4-I , i , t t° ip, 1863, L3O paid 911 11)_:.,os Ayres 6 per (Deferred Cent 3 t` Dit to 1 per Cent. c I Llan. 6 per Cent. per Cent.) 4° ., 6 Cent. ..... 3) . per Ditto 3 per Cent. .............. eio • ltto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent :-.._ o rubian 6 Scrip £l5 pd ......... B4 44 i13. 4 per Cent., 1863 -„bitto Provisonal Land Warrant D ebentures, per Ct., Oct., 1863 _- --4quatior New Consolidated, 1 per Cent r`. Ijitt'l Second Issue .. .. 08 1 trreek 6 per Cent 1824 5 a-Conpons.. 26/ Dit to Accon " - 2 e Ditto Coupons, Ditto Account . ............ 'Guatemala, 5 per 6Zi.""""*" -- Ditto Account, ...... Italian 5 per Cent .(Marel li . ZZ .. ............ - i Mexican 3 per Cent ......... kDitto Acc0unt ... ..... oorish Imperial 5 per Cent ....... key; Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. ............ bitto D, • A PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Midland New 435 shares, 2* LINES LEASED A. - r FIXED RENTALS. London, Tilbury, and Southend, 1012 Nottingham and Grantham R. & C., 951 Shrew6bury and Hereford, 1371 Wilts and Somerset, 93i FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 181 Great Luxembourg', 12 Sambre and Meuse, Si San Faulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 8i FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper, lim., 6 ~to Deferred ..................... 1 , Ditt o Land Warrants (Hecta res ) .. : . ttUviariA count 3perunt Cent. .. 1 -litto . -- 86i I) z i ltf o 41 pe r Cent., 1862 86 1 , ,to A ccoun t ())., tuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 On to Account.. Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, Ditto Account -- 1344), 1863 ,11,,, Di tto Scrip, £l5 paid -- '6O, 62 ,'Wan 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St — iff , 4)41 ' 0 41 per Cent 1850 i., Litt() 1860 .............. 8 8 t -uittd 3 ner Cent., 1859 .............. tabc!tto 5 'per Cent. 1862 tj t i !lan 5 per Cent .......... 13 A i r ,"'to Account t 1 11 3 per Cent ..,1,0 Acc.,ount -Ditto N . Deferred ''t New 4 3 L , ) ) ! to Account b!to Passive 331 S t I ` t ° Account ''',Y)",:ili. Cert. of Coup not funded l3h 'itto A ~,,,,, , ,, , W e d. ,--• ~u Urtr, Tzi, S 1 1) 4 per Aisk Cent. iij i „ -, 6 per Cent. 1554 bi:.o Account — ........ 701 1)., t " 6 per Cent. 1853 010 Account i.),', t c s , $.,'100 Bonds - I)l'''' ) 6 Per Cent. 1862 ' 7O 1 k b1:10 Account .... V ~I lt° 6 per Cent. 1863 ( if i'z ' l 'la 3 pe;Cent. c--i'.tlo Account 0 1 ' 4 13 Per Cent., 185'2 Ito Account " • . blit Dividends on the above payable in London. i;" 42 1 per Cent.,Guil 65 p l. itto 4 per Cent. Certificates `ol;ol3.ltentes, 44 per Cent., Ex. 251 — 14, 1 1. 1 t ° Acco unt C? I ') 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs 7Ol ' , lto k e o count., . Ditto Scrip (1E63) P 42 Ss. 3d. paid — pm THREE O'CLOCK. ( . ..!,,'" - r mi ........._ _. v _ . e k ,, - 90a 1 i)i t , ' Rl`, .............. . ACC ou u t . ............. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Anglo Austrian, 61 7 Bank of Que ens l and ( U m ) , 14 Imerial Ottmn 13 Lon p don Chart o ere a d , Bank of Australia, 271 London and Westminster, 79 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (lim. 1 , 6 1 Union of Australia, 53 L 9 MISCELLANEOUS. Electric Telegraph, 100.1., Gen. Cr( dit and r•inance of London, Jim, GI Hudson's Bay, 12 International Financial Society, Bin., 9/ Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavourj, Ditto, 6 per cent. Bond; redein. 1870, issued 90, 86 7 } Joint •stock Discount, 6} London Financial Association, lira„ 231 Mercantile Credit Association, lira., i; peel giver Land and Mineral, 17 At the half-yearly meeting of the Ceyl on Com pany, just held, it wsks stated that the business of the company has largely increased since the last geuvral meeting, and the reports received from th e managers in Ceylon and Mauritins are mini satisfactory. The accounts show that the amount of profit resulting from the operations of the half-year may be justly estimated at £7,550, out o f which the Directors recommen d th a t an interim dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum on the capital paid on the 30th September, be declared, free of income tax, payable on the 17th inst. The proposad dividend, which will absorb £4,593 15Y., is at th e rate o f s s. per s h are, an d if ca lculated with reference co the dates at which the calls were paid, it will be found to be at about the rate of 121 per cant. per annum. MR. HOGARTEI, the theatrical critic of the Daily _News, was knocked down by a man on horseback, and seriously ieijurcd, one day last week. TUE DUKE OF SAXE C°BURG h? F., it is reported finished suothcr opera. ,OS S the tri coat eet, ash we b. a 111' THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1863, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) THE FORGERIES ON TIIE EARL OF WESTMORELAND. Frederick George Heatley, who described himself as a captain in the army, was indicted for forging and uttering two bills of exchange for £l,OOO each, also one for £5OO, purporting to be drawn and accepted by the Earl of West moreland, the Earl of Uxbridge,and the Marquis of Angle sey, with intent to defraud, &c. Mr. Lewis appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Sleigh defended the prisoner. The facts connected with these forgeries have already appeared a: length in Ihe Sun during the examination of the prisoner at the Mansion-house. The grisoner, it will be recollected, had taken the bill in question to a discounter, representing that the several noblemen whose names appeared on them were personal friends of his, and that he had received the bills from them in the ordinary way. He also represented th,t he held a corn missim in the al my. Suspicion having been aroused, an inquiry was set on foot, when it was ascertained that not only were the signatures forgeries, but also that the prisoner was totally unknown, and had no intimacy with either of the noblemen whose names he had-forged. At the conclusion of the examination of witnesses, Mr. Sleigh addressed the jury for the prisoner, admitting at the commencement of his address, that he could not struggle against the uttering. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Sentence deferred. THE WATERLOO-ROAD MURDER. In the case of Samuel Wright, who stands charged. with the wilful murder of Maria Green alias Fanny Wright, with whom he cohabited at No. 11, Waterloo-road, on Sunday morning last, and who was yesterday committed from the Southwark police court for trial, that Mr. Sleigh has been instructed by the court to conduct the prosecution. Unless any application is made for postponment, the trial will take place to-morrow before one of the judges. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ASSAULT ON THE MARQUIs OF TOWNSHEND BY A NOTORIOUS BEGGING IMPOSTOR,--Eliza Croker and Ca therine M‘Ray, two notorious beggars, were charged before Mr. Knox with begging in Piccadilly, Croker being also charged with assaulting the Marquis of Townshend, of No. 6, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square. The prisoners accosted the Marquis of Townshend in Piccadilly abont one o'clock this morning asking him for alms. Knowing the prisoner Croker to have been about the streets daily for years begging with a poor child, and as she had called upon him and proved herself a gross im poster, his lordship gave her into custody,when she slapped his face. 'The other prisoner having been seen begging by Waterton, 144 C, was taken into custody by him, when she became vary violent. Fryer, ono of the Mendicity Society's officers, said he had known both prisoners for years, and they had been several times convicted. Croker had been known to the society for years. A constable having corroborated the Marquis of Townshend, Croker said she did not know who the gentleman was, whether he was a policeman or not. Mr. Knox said she well knew, whether it Was the Marquis of Towushend or a policeman, she had no right to beg of anybody. M'Ray said she only asked the gentleman to buy a pair of cuffs. Committed for a month each. THAMES. VIOLENT ASSAULTS PROPERLY PUNISIIED.—John Mitchell, an engineer, aged 40, of i 7, Dean-street, Shad well, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with assaulting Kate Finnerty, a tailoress. It appeared there was a quarrel among the women in the house where the prisoner and his family were living, and in the course of the disturbance a man named Driscoll in terfered, and the prisoner's daughter struck him with a knife and cut him. The prisoner then took up a billet of wood, about 18 inches in length, and struck Mrs. Finnerty on the back of the head with it. She was stunned by the blow, and it was only a miracle she was not killed, for the prisoner raised the weapon with both hands and dealt the blow with all the force of which he was capable. The woman's head was dressed by Dr. Ross, of High-street, Shadwell, She was in great pain. The defence was great provocation on the part of the Driscolls and Finnertys, and that the prisoner was beaten. There was not a mark upon him. Mr. Woolrych said he had sifted this case at great length and he could find no extenuating circumstances in favour of the prisoner,who had inflicted a violent blow with a for midable weapon and severely injured the poor woman. He sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for six calendar months with hard labour, Timothy Desmond, hammerman, of No. 2, Francis-street, Victoria-read, Limehouse, was brought up on a warrant charged with a savage assault on his wife Mary. The complainant said that her husband came home on Thursday evening and called her into the bedroom, where he beat her on the left arm and shoulder with a poker, and bent it. (The poker was produced—it was bent.) Mr. Woolrych—Let me see your arm. The complainant bared her left arm. It was one mass of black contusions. She accounted for her arm not being fractured by saying that it was hanging by her side when the first blow was struck, and she could not raise it after wards. Four other blows were inflicted on her arm with the poker. She could not use it. The prisoner, in defence, said that when he came home on Thursday night his wife was from home. She detained him five hours. He was provoked with her conduct and her insolence to him, and he struck her once with the poker. Mr. Woolrych—You ought to be ashamed of yourself to make such an admission. You ought not to strike your wife at all, but to strike her with a poker is very savage and quite unjustifiable under any circumstances. The wife explained her absence from home. She took her husband's dinner to the factory where ho was employed. On latr way home it rained last, and she called on a female friend, and remained with her until the rain ceased. On reaching home she found her husband had arrived before her. He had to give up work for the day in conse quence of the rain, and was at home before her. His con duct to her was generally very good. Mr. Woolrych said he could not pass over such a das tardly assault by a man on his wife as this was without some punishment. The complainant had been severely beaten, and there was no justification for such an out rage. He convicted the prisoner of an aggravated assault, and sentenced him to be imprisoned for three months and kept to hard labour. THE VOLUNTEERS, The annual distribution of prizes to the successful com petitors in the 29th (North) Middlesex Rifle Volunteers cook place yesterday evening at the Vestry-hall of St. Pan cras, Camden-town, and in the presence of a numerous company of ladies and gentlemen. Lord Enfield, M.P.; the honorary colonel of the corps, presided. Lieutenant-Colonel Whitehead, in opening the proceedings, congratulated the regiment upon its healthy condition. The Government aid had reached them, he said, at the right moment, and had enabled them to reduce the amount of subscription, and to do certain things which would otherwise have been almost be yond their power. At the annual inspection Colonel Morris had expressed himself stroagly in approval of their effi.- eiency in drill and smartness in manceuviing, and in point of numerical strength they were progressing. He hoped, however, that it would not be long before their numbers were doubled, as with a recruiting district containing a popu• iation of 200,0.0 he thought the local corps ought to equal in strength the London Itifle Brigade and the Queen's Westininsters. Lord Enfield having then addressed a few words to the meeting proceeded to distribute the priz?s, which were considerable in number and varied in kind, cash prizes not appearing atnang them. The awards hqd been made solely on account of excellence in shooting, and several members had succeeded in carrying off two or more prizes—Private Kennedy, Sergeant Humphrey, and Cor poral J. Wells being especially prominent. At the con clusion of the distribution a vote of thanks was passed to the visitors for their attendance, in response to which Lord Llanover expressed the pleasure he felt at meeting his old constituents upon such an occasion, and hoped the corps would accept from him a prize to be contended for next year—an offer which was of course received with the warm est applause. Lord Fermoy and Mr. H. Lewis, the mem bers for the borough, followed, the former on the part of himself and colleague, also giving a promise to offer next year a prize to the corps. Colonel Erskine, Assistant- Inspeotor of Volunteers, then spoke, and said the practice of giving prizee to Volunteers for efficiency in musketry practice was productive of much good ; but he would remind them that, while good shooting was one of the requisites of a good soldier, it was only one of -several, and therefore should not be exclusively cultivated to the neglect of other important acquirements. Antid the smoke and confusion of battle exact aim could not be taken, and only rapid and sustained fire could be looked for. It was true That there were many occasions upon which marksmen were of great value, and although all officers were not agreed as to the amount of advantage which accrued to an army from efficiency in musketry among the men, yet there could be no doubt that skill in shooting was a benefit to the individual soldier. In consequence of the melancholy memory attaching to the day, the meeting abstained from the cheers for the Queen which are usually given with such heartiness at all Volunteer gatherings, the National Anthem being listened to in silence. The proceedings were brought to a close by three cheers for Lieut.-Colonel Whitehead, given with sufficient vehemence to prove his high popu larity with the Volunteers under his command. Our Commercial Interests. -4.- We desire to call the special attention of President Lin coln, the next Congress, and the American public to the correspondence between several leading merchants of this city and the Secretary of the Navy. The subject of this correspondence has for a long time engaged the attention and wounded the pride of every patriotic citizen of this re public, and since Secretary Welles promises no redress and proposes no remedy for the evils of which our merchants complain, we wish to appeal from him to higher and more efficient authorities. It is indeed most galling to national pride that four or five fleet Anglo-rebel cruisers should be allowed to drive our commerce from the seas, and defy our navy of five hundred or six hundred vessels of war. Practically we have now no American commerce. Neutral ships do all our carrying trade, and the majority of these neutral ships are owned by Englishmen, who thus reap the only profits of the Anglo-rebel depreda tions upon our merchants. Trading vessels are advertised in our columns to sail on such and such days "under neutral flags,' as if the flag of the Union, whose shelter commerce once eagerly sought, were now to be avoided like a pesti lence. Three years ago twice as many American than European vessels cleared from New York. Now the pro portion is reversed. The number of foreign vessels clearing trom this seaport is double the number of American ves sels, and of course the number of arrivals is divided in the same ratio. No American can consider these facts with complacency or indifference. The sentiments which they arouse are of a decidedly different sort. We have been grumbling about them quite long enough. The time has now arrived for prompt and deci- SiTB action. If we were at war with some great naval Power;we might look upon this destruction of our commerce as one of the necessary evils of war, and might console our selves with the reflection that we had at least the chance of retaliation. But the rebel Confederacy is not a naval Power. The four or five ships with which England has supplied Jeff. Davis cannot be said to compose a navy. The rebels owe their success upon the seas not to their own efforts, but to the assistance of England and the supineness and imbecility of the Navy Department. Secretary Welles has obliged his friends with percentages and contracts, and has thus largely increased the number of our ships of war; but chat part of his duty which ought to be esteemed the most important he has utterly failed to perform. He is a secretary of a land navy, not of an ocean navy He or his agents can purchase ships, or charter ships, or have ships built ; but when the ships are once upon the blue water he appears to lose all further interest in and control of them. Six hundred vessels against five—that is the relative strength of the Union and the rebel navies. But it' any one were to base an estimate of their comparative strength upon the records of the work which each has done at sea, he would IKs. compelled to state that the rebels have 600 men-of war and we five slow and leaky tubs. This disgraceful dis crepancy must be laid to the account of Secretary Welles. The war in 1812 conclusively demonstrated that we had then the fastest vessels in the world. How have ships built at private yards in England been permitted to surpass us ? We have now the best sailors in the world, and our ironclads are indubitably superior to any others afloat. There remain, therefore, only two points of naval excellence in which we could be surpassed, and those are range of guns and speed. Our heavy guns aro unequalled, as all the recent experi ments have abundantly proven. We lack only speed. Sin gularly enough, we, the fastest people on the face of the earth, do not possess a navy of the fastest ships. 'We have a few swift war vessels, like the Vanderbilt and Iroquois ; but the great majority of our men-of-war are so slow that Noah's Ark would have the advantage of them in a stern chase, or could choose her own position in a fight, Some persons say that this is the fault of the model, and other that it is the fault of the engines. 'We assert that it is the fault of Secretary Welles. It is his business to select the proper models, and to order the pro per engines, and he does not do it. Why ho does not is known only to the initiated. There are whispers of fine contract pickings, and rumours that certain parties lead the venerable Welles by the nose, and throw sawdust in his eyes whenever they like; but whether these whispers and rumours be true or not we decline to decide. We do know, however, that although the present style of vessels is en tirely inefficient, secretary Welles goes on building hun dreds more like them, and that this is a most promising subject for Congressional investigation.—New York Times, MARKETS—This Day. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 08 to £4 lOs Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, 5s to £1 lOs per load. Trade slow. CUMBERLAND. — Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs ; clover, £4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £1 5s to £1 10s per load. A slow demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4loa Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 5a to £1 10a per load. Trade inactive. FRANCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] PARIS, DEC. 15. It is asserted that the amount of bullion held by the Bank of France was this morning 204 millions. The impression prevails here that the Austrian provinces on the Adriatic littoral will probably be come the theatre of important events next spring. ST. NAZAIRE, DEC. 15. The steamer Florida has arrived from Vera Cruz. The sanitary condition of the troops was satie- factory. LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening, FOREIGN OFFICE, DEC 15. Copies of a letter from Earl Russell to the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty, and of a despatch from the Duke of Newcastle to the Governor of the Bahamas : Foreign-office, Jan. 31, 1862. My Lords, —Her Majesty being fully determined to ob serve the duties of neutrality during the existing hostilities between the UniTd States and the States calling themselves "the Confederate States of America," and being, more over, resolved to prevent, as far as possible, the use of her Majesty's harbours, ports, and coasts, and the waters within her Majesty's territorial jurisdiction, in aid of the warlike purposes of either belligerent, has commanded me to com municate to your Lordships, for your guidance, the follow ing rules, which are to be treated and enforced as her Ma jesty's orders and directions. Her Majesty is pleased further to command that these rules shall be put in force in the United Kingdom and in the Channel Islands on and after Thursday, the 6th day of February next, and in her Majesty's territories and possessions beyond the seas, six days after the day when the Governor or other chief authority of each of such territories or possessions respectively, shall have notified and published the same,i.tating in such notification that the said rules are to be obeyed by alt persons within the same territories and possessions. I. During the continuance of the present hostilities be tween the Government of the United States of North Ame rica and the States calling themselves the " Confederates States of America," or until her Majesty shall otherwise order, no ship of war or privateer belonging to either of the belligerents shall be permitted to enter, or remain in the port of Nassau, or in any other port, roadstead, or waters of the Bahama Islands, except by special leave of the Lieu tenant Governor of the Bahama Islands, or in case of stress of weather. If any such vessel should enter any such port, roadstead, or waters, by special leave, or under stress of weather, the authorities of the place shall require her to put to sea as soon as possible, without permitting her to take in any supplies, beyond what may be necessary for her immediate use. If, at the time when this order is first notified in the Bahama Islands, there shall be any such vessel already within any port, roadstead, or waters of those Islands, the Lieutenant-Governor shall give notice to such vessel to de part, and shall require her to put to sea, within sueh time as he shall, under the circumstances, consider proper and reasonable. If there shall then he ships of war or privateers belonging to both the said belligerents within the territorial jurisdiction of her Majesty, in or near the same port, road stead, or waters, the Lieutenant-Governor shall fix the order of time in which such vessels shall depart. No such vessel of either belligerent shall be permitted to put to sea until after the expiration of at least 24 hours from the time when th 3 last preceding vessel of the other belligerent (whether the same shall be a ship of war, or privateer, or merchant ship), which shall have left the same port, road stead, or waters, or waters adj scent thereto, shall have passed beyond the territorial jurisdiction of her Majesty. 11. Daring tho continuance of the present hostilities be tween the Government of the United States of North America and the States calling themselves " the Confede rate States of America," all ships of war and privateers of either belligerent are prohibited from making use of any port or roadstead in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in the Channel Islands, or in any of her Ma jesty's colonies or foreign possessions or dependencies, or of any waters subject to territorial jurisdiction of the Bri tish Crown, as a station or place of resort for any warlike purpose or for the purpose of obtaining any facilities of war like equipment; and no ship of war or privateer of either belligerent shall hereafter be permitted to sail outof or leave any port, roadstead, or waters, subject to British jurisdic tion, from which any vessel of the other belligerent (whether the same shall be a ship of war, a privateer, or a merchant ship), shall have previously departed, until after the expira tion of at least 24 hours from the departure of such last mentioned ,vessel beyond the territorial jurisdiction of her Majesty. 111. If any ship of war or privateer of either belligerent shall, after the time when this order shall be first notified and put in force in the United Kingdom and in the Channel Islands, and in:the several colonies and foreign possessions and dependencies of her Majesty, respectively, enter into port, roadstead, or waters, belonging to her Majesty, either in the United Kingdom, or in the Channel Islands. or in any of her Majesty's colonies or foreign possessions or de pendencies, such vessel shall be required to depart and to put to sea, within 24 hours after tier entrance into such port, roadstead, or waters, except in case of stress of wea ther, or of her requiring provisions or things necessary for the subsistence of her crew, or repairs ; in either of which cases, the authorities of the port, or of the nearest port (as the case may be), shall require her to put to sea as soon as possible after the expiration of such period of 24 hours, without permitting her to take in supplies, beyond what may be necessary for her immediate uso: and no such vessel. which may have been allowed to remain within British waters for the purpose of repair, shall continue in any port, roadstead, or waters, for a longer period than 24 hours after her necessary repairs shall have been completed : Provided, nevertheless, that in all cases, in which there shall be any vessels (whether ships of war, privateers, or merchant ships), of both the said belligerent parties in the same port, roadstead, or waters within the territorial jurisdiction of her Majesty, there shall be an interval of not less than 24 hours between a ship of tweenthe departure therefrom of any such vessel (whether war, a privateer, or a merchant ship), of the one belli gerent, and the subsequent departure therefrom of any ship of war or privateer of the other belligerent; and the times, hereby limited, for the departure of such ships of war and privateers respectively, shall always, in case of necessity, be extended, so tar as may be requisite for giving effect to this proviso, but not further or otherwise. IV. No ship of war or privateer of either belligerent shall hereafter be permitted. while in any port, roadstead, or waters subject to the territorial jurisdiction of her Ma jesty, take in any supplies, except provisions and such other things as may be requisite for the subsistenee of her crew; and except so much coal only as may be sufficient to carry such vessel to the nearest por t of her own country, or to some nearer destination ; and no coal shall be again supplied to any such ship of wa " r or privateer, in the same or or any other port, roadstea d ', w aters subject to the territorial jurisdiction of her Maiesql of without special permission, until after the expiatee ay three months from the time when such coal ma said. ..4 last supplied to her within British waters as f" e have, &c., RussELL, (Signed) tar N ie O s T OT — Sta A te si f m or il partneents, and to the Lord ' s Commissione r of her Ma tahr e l e i t i t o e m r h e a s c b o l e o e n n i a a l d , d ‘ r v e a s sr,edd and t o t l h n e d a e c D r o e- . jesty's Treasury. street, Oct. 6, 1663. Do °liesngsed as to whether under Sir,—Doubts having been exP r i n 1862, which were em the regulations of the 31st Jazilba Commands te 11th March , roadsteads, bodied in a proclamation je su the r of a bellige. th l s hould obtain the permission following, it is nvired rent ship of war or p P s out-islands, when the Governor of the local authorit or waters of the Bahamas / to acquaint you that Earl Russell is net there presenty,6 pleasure thereupon, and you are to has taken her Mail lersivaefore entering th© port the out-islands, as at Nassau the understand that Governor himself is required ( unless tha in special leave of 0. by . any belligerent vessel desiring to stress of wea i' ~tirexception only, that in cases of grave emer gency er enter, with t•- ne cessity and distress, such as a sailing ves tal(' Tea' gency asted, or accident happenin the I being diaw gto machinery se „,„ ve ssel, the vessel may enter the ports, roadsteads, of a ate' btainin leave f sera on o g rom a resident officer, to whovta Governor shall have m th e , f e delegated his authority in that behal wi t h a view to give effect to her Majesty's intentions, you will be pleased to convey to the efficers in the out islands to whom it may best be confided, the authority in question, taking care to communicate to them copies of the regulations of the 31st, January, 1862, and calling their especial attention to the limits of the authority delegated, and to that clause of the regulations of 31st January, 1862, iu which it is directed, that vessels enteritis - under stress of weather, or by special leave, shall be required to put to sea as soon as possible.—l have, ice., Governor Ba (Signed) NEWCASTLE. yley, C.B , &c. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, DEC. 15, Notice is hereby given, that the State Apartments of Windsor Castle will bo opened to the public, under the usual regulations, on and after Monday, the 21st inst. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 11. ent The following promotions, dated the 3d inst., conscqu tbe on the death of Admiral of the ' Red Jam Ayseuugh," 2d inst., have this taken place White : , - 13,, to Admiral of the Sir Ed ward Harvey, li- u * be Admiral o the Red. i s t ' to be *g' Admiral of f the Blu 731 e Sir James Stirling, . be Vice Adm -Admiraliral of the the Right Hon. Charles rh ilip, Earl of Admiral on the llardwieke, on the Reserved List, to b e saßu Chads, m list. a Sir h enry of the Re K.C.B. to be Admiral of the Btu.ob,rt Lambert Baynes, Vice-Admiral of the White Sir P iii ,d . gig© he 1i.C.8. to be Vice-Adm i r al Ri g ht llon. Lord George Vice ' Admiral of the Blue al of the White. _. . d ra ir Paulet, C. 8., to be I, ice-. , 's pi ffargoed, Sir Thomas Rakes Rear-Admirals 3 ou the Reserved List, to be Vice. Trigg° Thompson, 8aF. 4 ,. Admit als on the same las hes Itelprt Sm ar t, li-"II.) to be Rear-Admiral a ale ' a Blue. Vi ce -Ad m i ra l of tll 1 o f the White Sir Lewis Tobias Jones, I K Rear- to l'Admira e suer-Admiral of the R e d, ,C,8,, Rear-Admiral of the Blue William Henry Anderson Morehead, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Whit D. Captains—Bartholomew James &divan, C:B ~ H enry Bagot, Hon. Walter Bouchier Devereux, and Si'. George Nathaniel Broke Middleton, Bart., C. 13,, to be RLear-Ad mirals on the Reserved List. Captain George Giffard, C.B„ to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. Retired Vice-Admiral George Garry Lempriere to , hav e the rank and title of Retired Admiral, in pursuance of tine Order in Council of 7th May, 1858. BANKRUPTS "'he following are the only bankrupts of commercial fro.. port ance in the Gazette:— Edward Haskayne, auctioneer, Liverpool William AVildish, wheelwright, Maidstone James Alidgley, publican, Smallblidge, near Rochdale John Dodds, merchant, Cecil-street, Str a nd George Boddy, builder, Gray's-inn-lane Paynter, commission agent, Kingsland Timothy O'Regan, grocer, Abcrgavenny Vo r l , e 1 tini John Edwards, I t o st j e a: b t o t , r x i v h a butcher, t tu c u h t l i c r e ti h j3r a: r l r i , d e r g Swansea'vßaat Bishopet rh Wilton Philip Cooper, corn factor, Ashford Joseph Attrick, brewer, Wolverhampton John J. Barker, picrure dealer, Bath Peter Jacob Homer, commission agent, Hoxton Philip Scholey, licensed victualler, Eynshaua renl Chesterfieldet 072, ,n.L iirnkedo William Jones, heershop keeper, Honey Geurge Howard, shoemaker, Tempsford Nathaniel Cox, iron ship builder, Chester Matthew Sykes, green;;Tover, Dewsbury Martin Slack, bee i r ca h a b:toultesteodme dealer, keeper, leari tBo a h /e B , hi L N anca- , lumber, Cambridge sh F ire ranci Jame Whitaker, grocer, Bradford r Richard Joseph s Mutton, J-Lindley, ii ib g p John Ronald, general merchant, St Andrews Nicholas L a ck s e c n o by T , C h H air E d A re N ss i e i r it l u 'o p k Ts. J C o o h li n n s ll m lu i n th ro , , gr fa o r e m er e , r c , B,osehill, Renfrewshire George Lindsay, farmer, Arbroath Edward Goo ' ilier, farmer, James Drife tenant, Sanquhar , Dumfriesshire STEALING LEAD. Two men, named Standing and Seymour, were indicted for stealing a large quantity of lead from the roof of a coal•shed at Walton's Wharf, Greenwich. The lead was stripped from the roof during the night, and afterwards the prisoner Seymour was taken into custody while attempting to sell the metal at a marine-store dealer's. Standing was seen by a police man to enter the shop, and the person who kept it said he informed him that a man outside had a quantity of lead for sale. The Jury found both prisoners guilty. The Recorder sentenced Seymour to six months' and Standing to three months' imprisonment, with hard labour. THE FALL OF A HOUSE AT ISLlNGTON.—Yester day morning Dr. Lankester, the coroner, resumed the inquiry at the Music Hall, Islington-green (Sam Col lins's), into the deaths of John Peake and Joseph Pearce. These persons, it will be remembered, lost their lives by the falling of a house in Islington. At a previous inquiry the jury all agreed in the main point—a verdict of accidental death in both cases. Bat the jury were of opinion that the accident was caused by the insufficiency of the central piers, they being much too slight for the purpose; and as they were built according to the plan of Mr. Williams, the archi tect, they were of opinion that he deserved the severest censure. The Foreman said it was the latter part of the verdict which he did not agree to. The Coroner said he would enter a verdict of accidental death, and then thejury might embody their views in a resolution. This was done, and the proceedings terminated. THE METROPOLITAN BOARD AND THEIR " WORKS."—Forty-five miles of sewer have been constructed since the Board commenced operations, and the outlay for works of this description, during the past year, has been £720,229, exclusive of the cost of land, and the expense consequent on various contingencies. The total value of the main drainage contracts, either completed or in course of construction, is about two millions and three quarters. The entire amount of engineering work done during the year, represented in sterling coin, is 5805,000. Plans for the embankment of the Thames on the Middlesex shore, between Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges have been prepared, and adver tisements have been issued for the necessary con tracts. Southwark-street is getting on, having been been struggling into existence during the last five years, to the woe and damage of the good old liorongh. TLe cost of this street, thus far, appears to bo close upon half a million. Among the outer deeds of this redoubtable body, we find recorded the carrying through Parliament of the Bill for the formation of the new street from the Mansion-House to Blackfriars-bridge, a measure which we are told met with considerable opposition in both Houses, from the Corpora tion and the Commissioners of Sewers, thereby causing "much delay and a large pecuniary expenditure." On the other hand, it appears that the Metropolitan Board, being apprised of they-four "railway and other Bills," took active measures early in the Session for opposing " the greater number of the scheme." What amount of de lay and expense resulted in the promoters we are not in• formed; but doubtless the Board considered itself justified on public grounds for the " active measures" which it so promptly adopted. Among the achievements of the event ful year which forms the subject ot this report, we find the abolition ot 610 names of streets, and the revision and ad justmene of 10,295 " number of houses." It may thus be heped that the metropolis will have less than a dozen streets of the tame name, and not more than two " numbers One" in the same street. The report contains further particulars as to what was said and done by the Board, and its chair man, aad its engineer, and its superintending architect, and the 56 district surveyors, and the 27 seven special sur veyors, and other officials ; but as we do not pretend to exhaust so mighty a subject - , we leave it with some still unexplored particulars, for the encouragement of those who may come after us.—City Tress. THE FLUSHING LUNACY CASE.—APPREHEN SION OF THIt VICTIM'S BRO?.IIER.—On Saturday, instructions were received at Falmouth from the Lunacy Commissioners to prosecute Samuel Porter for the ill treatment and neglect of his brother Robert. Porter was accordingly apprehended at his residence at Flushing by Sergeant Currah and Polica-constable Westlake, of the county constabulary. In the afternoon he was brought be fore Thomas Moor Horsford, Esq., and Major M. V. Bull, county magistrates, at Falmouth, when Dr. Bryne having briefly stated a few of the circumstances, asked for a re mand until Monday. The magistrates accordingly re manded the prisoner until 12 o'clock yesterday. Porter, who was accompanied by his wife and John Henry James, his brother-in-law, asked to be allowed to remain at liberty until Monday, offering to produce necessary and sufficient bail. The magist rat es, however, said that it appeared to be a serious case, and they could not grant bail. Porter, how ever, pleaded hard to be allowed to give bail, and remarked that the newspapers had over-stated the circumstances, and that he wished to go to Truro to consult a solicitor. The bench still persisted in their decision, and be was locked up in the county police-station, and informed that his soli citor might consult with him there.— Western Morning News. THE STAVELEY COLLIERIES AND IRONWORKS, at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, employing upwards of 3,000 workpeople, kc., so long known as the property of Mr. Richard Barrow, have just been sold to a joint-stock com pany, through Messrs. Chadwick, Adamson, and Co., financial agents. The value of the property exceeds half-a million sterling, and the amount of the capital was all pri vately subscribed in Manchester in three da3s only. KIDDLE-A-WINK is, it would appear, the Cornish name for a beer-house, and it is in this sense that the title has been chosen for a series of stories supposed, after the good old fashion which has run down from Boccacio and Chaucer to Longfellow and Dickens, to be told by guests benighted or snowed up in an inn. These kiddie-a-wink tales, constituting the resistance-dish of Mr. Beeton's Christmas Annual, are certainly full enough (says a Satur day Reviewer) of ghostly incident, and blood-freezing pathos, and of the most exasperatng puns I NEW METALS.—In examining a Swedish mineral containing silica, aluminia, yttria, oxide of iron, cerium, didymium, lime, maganese, and several other metals or metallic oxides, M. Bahr lately observed what appeared la to be th e ox i de of a new metal resembling aluminium. stages of Having ext racted it lay a complicated process, the principal f solutionacid efpe in tee h h y , dr h oc e hl e o h ri t c eined and precipitation which withch were oxalate the oxalate of the oxide of the supposed new metal, which appeared under the form of a white powder slightly tinged with red. M. Bahr did succeed in separating the new metal, which he called Wasium, and repre sented by the chemical symbol Ws. The specific gravity of the oxide he found 3 726 ; before the blow pipe, it gave with borax a clear and colourless glass , l • gexamination of its spectrum was without result. IL Nickles has since maintained that M. Bahr's oxide of wasium is nothing more nor less than impure yttria, containing some didymium and tubium. MM. Reich and Richter announce a new metal which they have fo und in examinin g a s pecimen of ariseni cal pyrites in the mining laboratory of Frieberg. Th e chloride of this new metal, which the call Indium, is vola tile, and was obtained along with chloride of zinc, The spectru m of the now metal contains a line of indigo blue light more refrangible than the strontium blue line. There is a second faint blue line, which almost, but not quite, coincides with the blue line Gf potash. The reactions of the new metal are the following :—Sulphuretted hydrogen gas dens not give any precipitate in the acid solution of the chloride. Ammonia throws down the hydrated oxide from the solution of the chloride. The dry chloride of indium, is deliquescent. The oxide of indium gives a bead of the metal itself when it is ignited with charcoal and soda. The metal itself gives a yellow sublimate when heated before the blow. pipo ; this subli mate gives no characteristic reaction with cobalt solution, The metal is lead grey, ductile, and very soft. Eminent chemists have declared their opinion that there is no delu sion in this case. MISSING VESSELS.—The Zampa, which sailed front Christiania on or about the 20111 of August for Hull, and the Emanuel, which sailed from Hazer on or about the 28th of October for Hull, have not since been heard of, LIFEBOAT SERVICES. MIMS°, CAITHNESS-SHIRE, Dec. 12. This morning, while the wind was blowing very hard from the W N.W., the bark Graces, of Shields, was ob served in the bay with a signal distress flying. The life boat of the National Lifeboat Institution at once put off to the assistance of the crew, and succeeded in bringing the whole of them, consisting of 15 men, safely ashore. The vessel was dragging her anchors when the lifeboat was launched. It is however hoped that she will be ultimately saved. The expense of this excellent lifeboat was presented to the society by A. W. Jafpay, Esq., of London. IRVINE, AYRSHIRE, Dec. 12. _ _ _ While it was blowing a gale from the W.S.W., and a heavy sea running, on Monday, the smack Lewis, of and for Campbelton, attempted to take the bar with the ebb tide, but got amongst the rocks at the entrance of the harbour. Seeing the imminent peril in which the crew were placed, the lifeboat belonging to the National Institution was forth with manned and launched. The smack was in a very dangerous position amongst the broken water, but fortu nately the lifeboat succeeded in saving the crew of three men, although the mate was severely hurt in getting into the boat. The cost of this lifeboat was the gift to the in stitution of Miss Pringle Kidd, of Lasswade Bank. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Dec. 15.—Wind this day at noon—South- West ; light breeze, and cloudy weather. CLYDE, Dec. 14.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Johannes, from New York. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 14.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Excel sior, for Queensland. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 14.—Wind N. W.—Arrived—Lady Elgin, steamer, from London for Calcutta. LIVERPOOL, Dec, 14.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Monitor, from Quebec. BnisToL,:Dee.l4.—Wind W.—Arrived—Joan Strinley, from Quebec. KINGROAD, Dec. 14.—Wind W.—Arrived—Catherine, from New York. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Dec. 15— Providence, from Wyborg ; Dart, from Landscron 9.. Sailed, Dec. 15 —Triton, steamer, for Boulogne; Bruiser, steamer, for Havre. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Anchored—Jane Porter, from London for Calcutta Savanneta. from London, for Trinidad; Lord Maidstone, from Sunderland for Malaga. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Dec. 19. via Marseilles Dec. 13, ,brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Dec. 19, via Marseilles Dec. 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Dec. 19. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dec. 19. via Marseilles Dec. 13 India (Bombay), via Southampton Dec. 27. via Marseilles Dec. 21. P0rtuga1.......... .. Jan. 4. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampto n Dec. 19. via Marseilles Dec. 13 Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo ........... U. S. and British N. America , by Brit. packet.... Dec. 17 by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Dec. 18. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritfe .......... Jan. 10. Bahamas, via New York ......................Dec. 17. Mexico .... Dec. 29. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 14 California. and British Columb ia .. .......... Dec. THE WATERLOO-ROAD MIIRDER.—The inquest on the body of the unfortunate woman, Maria Green, was held to-day, but the evidence was merely a wilful murder has already been returne d by the Grand Jury re petition of that we published yesterday. A s a t rue bill for at the Central Criminal Court, a coroner's inquiry appears to be totally unnecessary. M. BENEDicr is engaged on an opera di camera, entitled, " Rentla ;" the libretto by Alr. H. B. Fantle, which has recently a a u tt t r h a o c r te o d f t t h h e e a s t t t o o r n y t i o o f n ‘ o ‘ fPtettlelSQlaujoeerine:" A GENUINE LONDON " most im pertinent yokingsparrow of a monkey whi s tling with dirty shoes on thy clean steps and pl a y in g the harp on the airy railings with a hoopstiek.—Dickens's last Christmas Triumph. A GOOD CREATURE—RATHER IN THE WAY. — When somebody tried to convince Dr, Johnson that the Wesleyan Methodists ought to be admitted to the Univer sity ocOxford on the ground that they were "very good creatures," he replied, "Sir, a cow is a good creature, hut we don't want her in a flower-garden," HIGH TIDE IN THE RIVER.—On S un day after. noon there was a very high tide in the Thames, which caused considerable damage. The Temple-gardens were flooded to the sun-dial in the middle of the greensward. Dr. AV. B. Parkes, who some years ago, mailed Miss Amy Sedgwick, the well known actress, died in Lon don, on Friday. COLONIAL. TEA.—Business has been dull, and prices have remained without material alteration. . _ SUGAIL—The market has shown symptoms of returning activity, and quotations for good qualities of West India tend upwards. In the refined market an advance of 1 per cent. has been established. vv COFFEE.—The demand for colonial descriptions has been steady, and late rates are fully maintained for superior qualities. RlCE—Only a limited amount of business has been re corded, without any material change to report in prices. TALLow—There has been rather more activity, owing to an increased demand, for both home consumption and for exportation. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 40s to 40s 6d, January 40s 9d to 41s, and March 42s per cwt. COAL MARKET. Prfoes of Coal per Ton at tne close of the market. a. d . Bower's West Hartley.l6 9 byass's Bebside West Hartley ....16 9 Cowpen Hartley 16 9 Lambert's West Hart ley Davison's West Hart- Walls End. Russell's lB 6 Il ar t on ..... • l l BB 6 3 Wharncliffe H noc a ut s tt i ho v 2 1 2 2 ( 9 0 0 ) Russel's H atton Brr.ddyll'a lietton 1 19 8 3 6 Tunbtail . ..... Hartlepo on H ol ..20 0 riw artlepool...l 8; ilartlepool ...... 20 3 13e11•• 18 3 136Iniont . ...... 13 6 North 1.5 Hartlepo u i.... .., Caizop 9 ....... .. 19 3 ritinglon Thornle Heugh Y " 18 3 Fralinve.., .. ........ 19 3 . l3 0 250 ; sold, 199. ley 16 9 West Hartley l6 9 ilolywell l7 9 walker Primrose 16 0 Ilastings Hartley 16 9 lautield Moor 15 6 l'autieid Moor Butee l5 6 Wylam 17 6 Nest Edell Main ...16 6; Walls End. i Kelloe ... 19 0 South Kelloe.. ...... . ...... 19 3 Ships at market, --..._ A QUARREL CHARACTERISTIC OF PARIS LIFE took place, w e aro told, the other d ay i n the Varieties. The discourse was as fo llo ws Monsieur Sortez, you intuit me. ,, 4, How is that, sir ?" " You are looking at my wife continually." " Sir, it is a glass eye, and fixed." " Take it out, sir, then," "You are unreasonable ; I will look at bar with the other," "You shall not, sir." "Ahno I I will not, sir, for one look is enough ; she is very ugly." SECOND EDITION. bUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 o'CLoCK. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. The Warsaw official organ declares that the in telligence published in the French journals of fre quent engagements in various parts of Poland is altogether unfounded. While these efforts are made to mislead the West, similar ratans are em ployed to deceive the Poles as to the dispositions of the West with regard to theta. With that view a pretended letter of the Emperor Napoleon is being circulated iu Poland, encouraging the Polish insur gents, and promising them "id. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. Course of the Exchauge—This Day. Amsterdam Ditto ' Rotterdam .. 12 0 i 12 „9± Autwerp • • 25 70 '5 ") Brussels — 25 70 25 75 Hamburgh — 13 8 1 13 81 Paris Ditto Nrarseilles -25 721 25 771 Frankfort on Maine -- 1191 1191 Vienna Trieste Petersburgh Berlin — - Madrid Cadiz Leghorn — 25 90 25 95 Milan .......... Genoa — 25 90 25 55 . Naples Palermo Messina .. 25 90 25 97/ Li 5 b 0n ............ 521 52a Oporto ......... -52 g Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17 9 ............., Death of Mr. John Henry Green, F.l S, The medical profession and the public generally will regret to hear of the death of this estimable and a ccomplished surgeon, which took place at his residence, Hadley, near Barnet, an Sunday evening, the 13th inst. To the Council of Medical Education an d Regis tration, of which he was president, and especially to that of the Royal C olle g e of Surgeons of E ng ., land, of which be h ad been twice president, as a ctive member, the loss will be irreparable, aarsaba most le. Mr. Green was an only child of wealthy parents, and having received a liberal education, and studied for some time at Berlin, pursued his pro fessional studies at St. Thomas's Hospital, under the auspices of his maternal uncle, Mr. Cline. He was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons on the Ist of December, 1815, having for is o years previously acted as demonstrator, the best proof of his proficiency as an anato mist, and so creditably were the duties attached to this office performed, that in 1818 he joined Mr. (afterwards Sir) Astley Cooper as joint lecturer in anatomy and physiology. In 1820 he succeeded the younger Cline as surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, and with Sir Astley Cooper delivered lectures on surgery and pathology. As an operative surgeon he was unequalled in the skill wi'h which be performed the operation for lithotomy, having in 1827 operated in 40 cases, and lost only one. This unequalled SUCCE O SS created a great sensation at the time. In. 1830 he was appointed to the professorship of sur gery in King's College, of which institution he was at the time of his death a member of council. On the opening of the session no man was more eloquent in his address ; his deportment was simple, chaste, refined, dignified, and he was most successful in impressing his principles and points of practice on his class. In 1831 he wrote a pamphlet, called, " Distinction without Separation," addressed to the President of the Royal College of Surgeons, to prove that the distinction between physician and surgeon did not really exist, and that such division was highly injurious where it did. About this time he was unfortunate in entering into a wordy war fare with the medical press about the publication of his lectures, a contest in which he was severely handled and totally discomfited. In 1834 he wrote his memorable letter to the ?infer, suggestions re specting an intended plan of medical reform, pro posing that the medical student should have a sound classical and mathematical education, and that there should be a higher and lower grade of distinction. As showing; the wisdom of these eng , gestions, it may be mentioned that the coun c il of the Royal College of Surgeons has since adopted the whose of them; and in the preliminary and s evere professional exami nations to which the me dical t o .e Public has the stu dent the the councils best assurance isnows of obtainingubjected, k the general in rato lveeliB3s, m to e, Mr. i Green ster s dwHeaoasstphit unanimouslyfl , lk i i ,d r. aLcyoenul e n nc , ctieild surgeon o r of the college, h tothe chair i n of that c olle g e of which he had become so bright a mem b e r. In 1840 he was deputed to deli verthe annual ora tion in memory of John Hunter, which at the earnest request of his colleagues gelled under the titl e Of he afterwards pub- Vital Dynamics;" and egain, in 184 7, he becam e Hunterian orator, and published the lecture under the name of "Mental Dynamics." They thoughtful were the most eloquent and discourses ever heard in that hall. Partly on this ac based op the count and partly because they were Coleridge, p } lilesophy of his friend and master, they were neither of them popular. In 1846, on the resignation of Sir Benjamin Bro die, Bart•, Mr. Green became a member of the Court of Examiners, an appointment he held up to the time of hi • s decease, and in 1849 obtained at the hands of his colleagues the highest appointment they had it in their power to confer, viz., the pre sident's chair, an honour again conferred on him in 1858. From her Majesty's Government he received the appointment of President of the Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom. The death of Mr. Green, though at last sudden, was not altogether unexpected ; he had been labouring for some months under a sharp attack of gout, complicated with disease of the heart, from which it was hoped, by the kind and skilful treatment cf Dr. Brinson, his attached friend and physician, he had recovered. This gentleman had suggested the resignation of several offices held by the deceased, in order that by affording rest so valuable a life might be spared for some time ; and he had so far recovered as to be able to g o to his sitting room, when on Sunday which last h e was sud denlyhis fatal illness, seized w ith carried him off in bis 728 year. lle leaves awi • dow and a • friends to d e plore large circle of One of the greatest losses which has occurred in the 1 -11 E d• ical profession for Wa n y , Was years. No man more deservedly honour ed. His very person proclaimed his dignity. Tall, of noble presence, the purity of his morals, the sustaincd elevation o f • intellect, his character, the active penetration of a stron g of a superior his amiable and firm, his gentl•enebs, at once , tranquil modesty, his un varying rectitude, Were all peurtreyed in his noble features. A GROAT kIENIUS, BUT (we rather suspect also) GREAT LODE.---Wheu ATAdanne De Steel visited Germa ny, the treat minds there shuddered at the mere rip- P r°ae ll of this impersonation of' , 1 tench volubility." Her inconceivable facility, her capacity of talking with freedom 'ad fluency on every subject, simply annoyed and digustcd Goetile, who hated being cut oat of his way; and the more amiable Schiller—who pronounces her "of all living crews tures the most vivacious, the most ready for argunvat, t h o most fertile in words"—while he owns her to be the most cultivated and intellectual of women, yet groans over the " weary hours ho has to pass" in her cowpany,