The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-05 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Great firmness still continues to be the charm,- teristio of the discount market, though the appli cations for accommodation have been now mate rially diminished. The enquiry latterly became active through the provision that traders had had to make for liquidating their bills, which were du3 at the end of the year, as well as on the 4th, and these arrangements having been concluded the rates are now kept up because there is an idea very generally entertained that in addition to the require ments of tha Bank of France, sovereigns will be de spatched to the Brazils. The rate prices for the best three months' bills remain at 61, and 61 per cent. About £3,000 in bar gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. The Pera, which left yesterday with the India and China mails, conveyed £80,078 in specie. The Canada has arrived from America with £27,128. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have ap pointed Friday next a special settling day in the shares of the National Bank of Liverpool (new), to be marked in the official lists, and the Lundy Granite Company and the Star and Garter Hotel Company, to be marked in the twice a week list Only. Arrangements are in progress for the establish ment of a new line of steamships between Liverpool and Montreal, where a company has been formed for the purpose, with a capital of £500,000 sterling. There is to be a weekly communication wi:h Liver pool, and a fortnightly or monthly service with London. The success of the Glasgow and Mnntrattl lines, and the requirements of trade, are stated to justify the introduction of the project. A prospectus has been issued of the Panultiillo (Chilian) Copper Company,' with a capital of £200,000, in shares of £4. The object is to purchase and work a well-known copper mine about 43 miles from the port of Coquimbo, with which it will soon be placed in connexion by railway. The ores are of low percentage, but in greater available quantity than at any other mins in the world. The price to be paid for the property, including seven furnaces, tramways, and plant, is £120,000, of which £40,000 is to be in shares and £BO,OOO in cash. At the half-yearly meeting to-day of the share holders of the London Dock Company, an increased dividend of 11, or £1 15s, per cent. for the past six months was ordered to be paid. Two o'CLocK. At the Paris Bourse this morning (according to Mr. Reuter's telegram) the Three per Cent. Rentes were quoted at 66f. 70c. Rather firm. The Market to-day for the English Funds has presented a rather active appearance. The improve ment of about percent. yesterday induced a num ber of operators to come forward and effect sales, which at one time sent Consols down f, but they again show a slight recovery, and the quotations are 91 1 for money and the 7th inst., and 911 1 for the February account. The New Threes and the R e d uced Annuities are 901 911; Exchequer Bills 2s. die. ; India 5 per Cents., 1061 and do. 4 per Cents., 1008. There is a decidedly firmer tone in the Foreign Market, and business is rather active. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are t.)71 , 4 ; do. Consolides, 471 I Mexican, 37 1; Greek, 241 e ; Spanish Passive, ! t ., o t t iltugcie, ; Portuguese, Certificat es , 14 1 ; P e ruvian, 851 86 ; 38 40 . 471 4; and the Confederate Loan, theln R a ilway Share Market the dealings have be • been l imited, and prices have, in severs' instances, exhibited less firmness. London, Chatham, and , Dov er, South Western, Midland, and North Eastern t er Wick) have declined Se.. and South Wales 10s. M etropolitan, however, have improved 55., and South Eastern 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings continue Without material alteration in value. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in limited favour. Metropolitan and Provincial have improved to 221 231; Imperial Bank to 241 4; and Bank of Wales to 11 ; National Shipping Com pany are quoted 4 to 1 prem.; Pacific Steam 2 to 24 prem. ; Contract Corporation, 24 3 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 3 1per Cent. Con so l e Ditto Account 3 per Cent, Reduced New 3 per Cent. 9l 90/ 1/ New 2± per Cent. Jan. 1894 New 3t per Cent. Annuities 5 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire Sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 &3 per Cent 2 die Ditto £.500 Ditto £lOO and £200 India Stock, 1874 Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870 ............ Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 lOOl Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 4 per Cent Ditto ditto April, 1864 99± Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — Ditto under £ 1 ,000.. FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 Ditto Scrip, 1863, £45 paid Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Colombian 6 Scrip £l5 pd Cuba, 6 per Cent. ultutu 6 per Cent. — itto 4± per Cent, Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 Dutch, 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders Ditto, £lOO Bonds - Equador New Consolidated. 1 per Cent — Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 pet Cent — Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. Ditto Account 23± ± 44 Ditto Coupons — Ditto Account ll/ 104 Guatemala. 5 per Cent. Ditto Account • • • --- Italian 6 per Cent.(Marewmana Railway, 77i Mexican 3 pe r Cent.— .. Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deterred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Ditto 3 per Cent. P tuvisti 3per Cent. .. I!itto Account — Ditto 4i per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Piedmontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f — Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account.. Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 451 Ditto Account Ditto, 1863 Ditto Scrip, £l5 paid.... — pm Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 92 Ditto 4% per Cent 1850 • Ditto 1860 .. Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 .. Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 894 Sardinian 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account...... Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account — Ditto Pas‘ive s D itto Account 34 1) , % , 11 , ;Dish Cert. of Coup not funded — ,_"_,.`tte Account t a - Dr emi ititeh h , 64.B 4 ccp p eo e ru r nc C te e n n t t . 1854 Ditto— Ditto per .. 69± ent. 1858 Ditto £lOO Bonds 7O 73± " Di ' 6 per C en t. 1862 Ditt o A ccount 67 3 / 4 Ditto 6 p er Cent. 1863 — Ditt ° Guaratteed, 4 per Cent lO2 Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Venezuela 3 per Cent. ditto Account Ditto Ditto 6 per Cent 1862 Account " .. Dividends on the above payable in London. P.Aeustriati, 5 per Cent . Ex. 10 Florins. u lgian 4 per Cent., Ex. 25f. " Ditto per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates French Renter, 41 per Ex. 25f — Cent., Ditto Acs ter, . Ditto Scrip (186 - 3) £42 Bs. 3d. Paid•• • • pm it 't p h i a t t t i c: A 5 e o c e o r u C til ei . n., 1861, F.x.!5 . , r , ants — . . Cons o l s T WO O'CLOCK Mone x 91 Ditto Ditto' Accouot • • 00000000000 •••• • • • • k F'eb ....................... •••• 91 1 i SHARE MARKETS,---This day, dharel Railways. I Paid. 3.14. 25 10 8t St 50 20 13 13i 8} 8i 83 R 5 120} 121} 7 7i 37 39 lei 17 97 99 107 1(9 50 51 47 49 8 Si 127 128 134 132 i 134 136 97 99 65 651 111 11111 72 74 108 110 43, 444 107 k 1071, 101 104 501 51 110 111 129; )221 11 ;/ 08 1,0 53 64 25 46 104 105 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOoh.S. Closing Business . 1 Price. f done. 132 j i 444 4 107/ 1021 2 1041 not 11 14 1291 Bir„ Wol., and Str. Val. ;Blythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter " 'Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A ,ets no dix - "Do. B till6pc.pan.hto• been paid to B. Dublin & Bellast June. "Dun.,Pertb,&Ab. Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Wester', "Great Eastern, Ord. stk" Ditto A Oto.ok 1 Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthot Scotland 'Great Northern........ Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an 1 W. of Irelaw: :Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock I Lancashu'e & Yorkshire London and Blackwall !Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast !Lon., Chat., and Dover ;Lon. & North Western ;Lon. & Scr.th Western 1M an., Slid., & Lincoln. 'Maryport and Carlisle. Dot shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birminz. & Derby Mid. (it. W. of Ireland Do. 9 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwiots Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle... orth London Do New 'North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpoo; Shropshire Union !South Devon ISouth Eastern ;South Wales S. York. and River Dun, Staines, Wok.,andWok !Stockton lz Darlington Do Do New, 1866 Taff Vale Do B Do C Ulster Do Do • • • • , 'Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny, West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R.l West Midland --Oxiorc:t Do Newport Do Hereford, BRITISH Pi Railways Nt tantio tip St Lawrence tiom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent.. . Do. New Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Lake Huron Do. Preference ...... Ruflalo,Brant,&Godriell t) p. ot. bds. Aug. 1,1 M Uo. do. July 1, Ifin' 00. do. June I, IrT; Clcutta.k,S. Eastn. ( .1( Cape Town tt Dock Seri} Hutu. Bengal gu. 5 p. Last Indian. gu. 5 p. c. I Do. do. G Ext..... Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Prey, Bonds.. Do. do. deterred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. defer Do. 3d et. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th l'ref. sto3z... Do. do. deferred...... Gt.lnclitPenin.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. n... Do. January, 1882 Gt. South.of Jndia(Lim avu ranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 56 p. c. do. '77-5.... 'lndian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. o. Do. 41 p. c. Extension Dc. 4k d 0........ Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. A p. Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Mortg. Bds. Newiltunswick AG Canda CIaSE4 A and 8........ N.ltl.C'da6 pc let t bds Soinde Do. Delhi I Do. do ••• E Punjaub DODO. Do. In due. St. Flo. !OLONIAL GOVER: ,i 1.6 OY. tl p.c.J a. acJ Lit; 1877-84 ...... Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. d p. c.Mar.& Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan.&•luly Do. 5 Inscribed stock Cape G.Hope, 6 p c,1873 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 Do. 1890 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6 p c 'Mauritius 6 per cent 'Natal Gov. 6 per cont N.II.Gov. 6 p.o. J a.&July Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. N. S. W. G ov. 5 p C.,186i , Du. sp. c.,1 8 / 4 to 197 C Do. do., ;888 &upwds 'New Zealand 6 p cent. Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gcv. 6 p. C 6. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up Vio.GOV. 6 p.c. Ja.&July Da io 6 D.C. AD...WC:45.. 59 60 91 92 119 121 1 2 p 784 794 11 114 122 126 98 100 63, 64 33 Si 95} 06 98 100 10 LOLI E 8 38) 9 10 L . 7} 7 P 158 160 5 54 L. 21 Sip 83 86 170 175 ISIONS. Closing Prioe. 60 t - lo4i 1( 5i P 6 1 P 6 6i 8i 9i 102 IC4 101 103 106 107 11.5 i 106} !WI) 20 21 74 76 61 62 68 70 53 51 60 62 40 42 27 29 23 15 106 107 I tl , iiP 103{ 104. 10 101 11 100 92 95 86 88 i 106 107 100 101 96 100 57 59 S 6 82 84 104 105 166 107 I /1 3, 1056 1066 106/ 6 lot 103 T SECURITIES. 105 107 103 105 103 1(5 03 05 94 94 106 108 109 111 109 111 112 114 110 112 I'o6 108 1(8 110 104 106 1021 1041 100 102 1 101 102 1014 1021 110 112 100 100 100 100 100 1041 991 100} } 100 tea 105 08 110 108 110 IC4 106 109 i 1101 ma 3i no} 2 1 BRITISH MINES. 2 'Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 id clifford Amalgamated 34 35 Devon G. Con.. (Tavist ) 1 560 670 East Bassett (Illogan) 30 1 , 8 60 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd sa. fd par East Caradon ..... '1.14.0 27 28 East Caru Brea.... E. W'l Mussel (Tavistk ) 8.9.0 5 5 3 Gam.StSt.Aubyn(Gwen ; 584 8 10 Great South Tolgus l7s 4 (3. Wheal Vor (Rolston 40 12 13 14 Grenville 4.111( 4 43 her d's-Foot 8.1? 37 39 r 1 ingston Downs 4. 8.0 23 3 ' Lady Bertha Margaret (Guy Lelant 9i 14 16 31arke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 23 13 fc. New Setun l9l 90 100 • North Downs lt 11 N.Wh'i Basset (111o4an 3.1.0 25 3 North Wheal Crotty 2.6.9 4} 53 51 Par Consols(St. Blazey; 20 i'rovidenee(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 42 44 SouthCaradon(St.Cleer 13 415 125 S. Carn Brea (Illogan).. leran.(lllogatt 18.18.9 60 65 Stray Park 30.17.6 28 30 PamarSilv.4l; Lead Alin 43 Ein Croit v 18 19 West Basset (Illogan) l3 93 103 W C' radon (Liskeard; 5 18 20 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 53 85 90 Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 223 273 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelwat) 2.0.6 WhealLudcott Wheal 31aryAnni s rden ) 8 113 12 Wheal Beton . . 58k 150 160 Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 21 22 Wheel Union 3.17 2f 21 PREFERENCE SHARES. Gt. Western, South Wales, gua. 4 per cent., 89 Ditto, 4. per cent., 1859, 100 Llnctoo. Chatham, and Dover per cent. pref., 99i Midland per cent. pf. stk. rd., 103 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 41 per cent., pf., 981 London, Brighton, &c., 11 per cent., 1858. 101 LINES LEASED Ar FIXED RENTAL& Chester and Holyhead, Ditto, 5 per cent., 1 5 London and Chatnam, 4i per Cent., 92 Wilts and Somerset, bOl FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Great Luxembourg, 12 Turin anti Savona, Ditto (all), 14f FOREIGN MMES. Cape Copper, Bin., 7/ Via Cobre Copper, 3i 21 3} Mont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 21 Yudanantutana of S. Austrq.lia (lim.), 21 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Agra and United Service (lim.), 124 &mance Bank of Lon.kin and Liverpool (Urn.), 471 Ditto, new, 33 Bank of Wales, lira., 11 Consolidated Bans, lira., 101 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 231 English and Swedish, lira., 5 European Bank, lira., 31 Hindustan, china, and Japan (Um.), 31} Imperial Bank (Lim.); 24} 1 imperial Ottoman, in. London and Brazilian (Um.), 531 London and Couuty, 61 60 London Joint Stock, 39 London and South American, lira., 711 . Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lira.), 224 National Provincial of England. Ditto, ditto, 384 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (lim.), 7 Standard of British South Africa (11m1), r.:51 5 Union of London, 41 MM.,. di... • DOCKS. St. Katharine, 71i MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 18 * Ceylon Company, 10/ English and Australian Copper, 21 * Gen. Cr( dit and Finance of London, lira., 6/ 7 Hudson's Bay, 171 1 6 International Financial Society, lira., 14 0/ Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 3/ Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 93i Joint• stock Discount, 7 7 i Ditto, new, 61 1 1 7 London Financial Association, lira., 241 4 1 Mercantile Credit Association, lira., 71 Ocean Marine (Insurance), 19/ 1 Peninsula and Oi iental Steam, 79 The execution of the policeman Luke Charlea has been fixed for Saturday next, He no w lies at Ki r k. dale. lie wa3 in the Bury force, and murdered his wife by throwing her into the canal at Pendleton. No movement has been made to obtain a reprieve for him. THE SUN, LOIDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1864. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) Adelaide Hyde, Emma White, and Henry M'Cormack were indicted for highway robbery, committed on the per son of Harriet Pease, The prosecutrix met the prisoners accidentally near Cranbourne-passage, when an angry discussion arose, and ultimately the prisoners asked the prosecutrix whether they were thieves. She said they knew best themselves whether they were so, which led to a quarrel, during which she was robbed of her purse containing 3s. A constable came up, when the three prisoners were taken into custody, but not before she was violently assaulted, and also were the police constables. The jury acquitted the prisoners of the robbery. They were then indicted for the assault. The former evidence was repeated, when the jury found them guilty. The police-constables gave all the prisoners a bad cha racter. M'Cormack said the witnesses were mistaken as far as he was concerned, for he was at work at Hampstead-road when the asssult took place. The Recorder directed some inquiries to be made at the place mentioned by the prisoner before he passed sentence. William Smith, a potman at the Roupell Arms, Lower Charlton, was indicted for stealing a quantity of brandy, rum, gin, two legs of pork, a leg of mutton, and half a cheese, the property of his master. The evidence was entirely circumstantial, and the prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery. He further stated that ho was in bed when the property was removed, and instead of stealing the property of his master, he should have done all in his power to protect it. The jury acquitted the prisoner, and he was at once dis charged. A man named Reeves was indicted, with certain other persons not in custody, with robbing Henry Stevenson, the captain of a trading vessel named the John Murray, of Whitby, of £47. The prosecutor, it appeared, met the prisoner and some other people in Bermondsey, and after a little conversation they adjourned to a public house where the captain insisted on treating the whole of the people in front of the bar. They then went to different other public houses in Tooley. street, and ultimately a row took place, when the purse of the pro. secutor was stolen. The prisoner was present, and some of the witnesses said that he was the person suspected of the robbery, ani from certain matters that took place after wards, he was taken into custody and charged with the offence. Mr. Lilley addressed the jury for the prisoner, and con tended that the witnesses were in such a state of inebreity when the captain was robbed that their testimon) was not to be relied on. He said it was just as likely tke man had lost the money as that he had been robbed of it. The jury found the prisoner guilty. A police constable said the prisoner had twice before been summarily convicted for stealing whatever he could lay his hands upon in dockyards during the hours the workpeople were at meals. On one occasion he cut a supply pipe from a ship, which would occasion the greatest inconvenience when it was discovered, the ship having proceeded to sea before the loss was discovered. He had also been taken into custody with a quantity of Muntz's metal concealed about his person. The Recorder asked the constable if he had ever known the prisoner do any honest work. The constable said the prisoner had worked now and then in different dockyards as a lumper. The Recorder sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ROBBERY AT A LICENSED VICTUALLER'S. Macarthy, in the service of Mr. Robert Lemon, of the Crown Tavern, Cranbourne-passage, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with robbing her employer of some spirits. From the evidence of Mr. George Lemon, son of the pro secutor, it sppeared that this morning about 7 o'clock, while lying on the sofa in the bar parlour, where he had placed himself for the purpose of watching the bar, in consequence of money being missed from the till every morning, he heard the window of the room open, and on looking up saw the prisoner. She instantly retreated on perceiving him, but on going to her bedroom shortly after with a constable two bottles of spirits taken from the bar were found in the prisoner's dress pockets, and on being taxed with taking them she admitted doing so. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the prosecutor (Mr. Robert Lemon) said the prisoner had only been in his service about five weeks, and that he had been seriously robbed while she had been in his service. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was one of the worst class of rob beries, as the prisoner lived in the house, and trust was therefore placed in her. Committed for two months with hard labour. THAMES. AN IRISH Row.—Catherine Briant, an elderly woman, was brought up on remand, before Mr. Woolrych, charged with violently assaulting and wounding Mary Leary. The parties live in an Irish colony in Glasshouse-build ings, Rosemary-lane. On the night of the 25th ult., after keeping up Boxing-day, Mrs. Briant invited Mrs. Leary into her room, whch she had no sooner entered than she called out "Take that you theiving w—," and struck her a violent blow on the head with a poker. Mrs. Leary fell senseless at her neighbour's feet, and was revived only by finding her finger in Mrs. Briant's mouth. The prisoner was biting her finger and lacerated it. William Brown, 82 H, said that when he was called into the house where the parties lived Mrs. Leary was covered with blood, which was streaming down her face from a wound on her forehead. Mr. J ohn Comley, surgeon, 71, High-street, White chapel, stated that at half-past 12 o'clock on Saturday, the 26th, or rather morning of the 27th, he was called to the poor woman Mrs. Leary. There was a wound on her fore head an inch and a half in length, and penetrating almost to the bone. The woman had suffered a good deal since, and there was a very great effusion of blood. Mr. Woolrych again remanded the prisoner until Tues day next. ATTEMPTED MURDER.—Samliel Ford, who was re manded on the 28th ult. for attempting to murder a girl named Margaret Mahoney, at a house in Burton-entry, White Horse-street, Ratcliff, was again brought up. Mr. George King said, when the girl was brought to the London Hospital, where he was officiating as house sur geon, she was bleeding from a cut in the neck behind the ear. It was between three and four inches long. The patient was not in a fit state to be removed. Mr. Woolrych again remanded the prisoner until Wed nesday the 13th inst. MARKETS—This Day. HAY MARKZT S. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £1 Ss to £1 lOs per load, Trade steady. CUMBERLAND.—Mewiovrhay, £3 Os to £4los Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 108 Od ; and straw, £lsa to 10s per load A moderate demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4los Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, 5a to £1 ]Os per load. A fair inquiry. COLONIAL. During the last few days there has been very little busi ness transacted in Foreign and Colonial produce; no public sales have been held, owing to the market being closed for the Christmas holidays. Business, however' will be resumed to day. In the tallow market there has been a more hopeful feeling, and prices for both present and:forward delivery have shoWn an improved tendency. LUCIFER MATCHES vice FLINT AND STEEL. — Looking back at the old tinder-box of our boy hood is like looking back at the old wheel-lock muskets we see in the Tower. On one or two occasions when starting by the mail, the miseries of making a fire—that middle passage, to a desolate breakfast in chambers—was indelibly imprinted in our memory. The difficulty of hit ting the flint against the steel with due accuracy and force, and the chances of abrading the knuckles in this act, in the darkness of a winter's morning, are things the youngsters of this generation aro charmingly ignorant of; and then when the priceless spark was obtained, the un happy Prometheus either had the mortification of seeing " people and parson going out of church," or of blowing the light tinder into his eyes in his endeavours to make it kindle. What a piece of barbarism was the sulphur match I There are old women now in the street who thrust these abominations, done up fanwise, in your face, evidently with the idea of proving how old they are. But these preliminary agonies were small compared with the attempt to light the rough faggot-wood of a past age, often damp, and always too bulky to seize and retain the fire applied to it. When we recollect all these dismal prepara tions which Betty had to encounter in years past, and then compare them for a moment with the manner in which things are made easy to our Abigails, we see that civilisa tion is not confined to a class, and that science is at work to lighten the drudgery of the servant as energetically as it is to increase the comforts and enjoyments of the prince. Who invented the first lucifer-match ? We do not mean that abortive nitric acid bottle and phosporus match, that as often burned everything about it as it produced a light, but the clean little lucifer. How is it that we know nothing of the ,man who save millions all over the world endless trouble, whilst we are so eager to cumber our market-places with statues of obese alderman and purse-proud bankers ?— Spectator. THE "GRAND PRIX CIIITIER," founded in honour of the iflustrious naturalist, and which is given triennially by the French Institute, has been recently awarded to Sir Roderick Murchison, Director-General of the Geological Survey, author of " The Silurian System of Rocks," &c., &c. This is the first occasion on which that honour has been conferred on a geologist, it having previously been granted for advance made in the other branches of science in which, as well as in geology, Cuvier was pro eminent. Brutal Assault by a Policeman at Bramley, Oa Saturday evening last, Police-officer Linfoot, who was on duty in the Rodley district, Bramley, called at one or two public-houses, where he asked for , a hisky i &c., tendering no payment in return for it. He then proceeded to some of the shops in the village, and at Mr. B. Gott's went behind the counter, helping himself to figs, nuts, &c., in a most officious wanner. The night being very cold, the liquors appear to have had a powerful and exciting effect upon him, for he afterwards threatened to take into custody nearly every person whom he met. Between 10 and 11 o'clock he met Joseph 13 ernes, a wool scourer, of Rodley, who was quietly proceed. ing home, and. pounced upon him, and in a most cruel manner felled him to theground with his staff, cutting his head in several places,and breaking his jaw-bone. Sume persons residing is the neigh bourhood hearing a noise, went out to see what was the matter. Barnes was crying out, "Lord have mercy upon me, he is killing me," the officer at the same time kicking him in the ribs with his heavy shoes, and replying, "If I haven't killed him, I will do so before I have done with him." The man was bleeding most profusely, and the neighbours assisted him into Mr_ Thackray's, shopkeeper, the officer beating his staff against several doors, making in dentations an inch in diameter. He then went into Mr. Thackray's and insisted on taking Barnes a prisoner to the police station at Bramley, a dis tance of more than a mile. The neighbours remon strated with the officer, but to no purpose, the brutal policeman asserting that, .'lf he (Barnes) died on the road he would take him." They arrived at the police station about one o'clock, and the ser geant was called up. Barnes was found to be in a very exhausted condition, and some stimulants were provided by his friends who had followed. Mr. Laycock, surgeon, was sent for, and on examination he found seven cuts on the head penetrating to the bone, the lower jaw broken, and many severe bruises on other parts of the body. Under his direction the injured man was removed shortly afterwards to the Infirmary, and Liufoot was taken into custody v esterday, and conveyed to the Town Hall, at Leeds. Our correspondent adds, considerable dissatisfaction exists at Bramley, in consequence of the overbearing conduct of some of the police officers stationed there. During the past week, a ratepayer, holding an official position in the town went to the police station to complain of the conduct of one of the men, when the sergeant, withcut any just cause, forcibly took him by the neck andshoulders and pitched him out of the office into the street. Another account states that Barnes was perfectly sober when Lin foot—who, it appears, had been teased just pre viously by some men, one whom. had escaped from his custody—came up to him and at once felledhim by a blow on the head with his staff, and then re peated the blows in a most determined manner whilst the man was on the ground. There are numerous cuts on the head, all reaching to the bone, and in one place the skul, is fractured ; the lower jaw is also broken. The man is in a very dangerous condition, but was able yesterday (Sunday) to give his evidence before the Mayor, who, with Mr. Barr, attended him at the Infirmary.—Leeds Mercury. A Vessel carrried over Niagara Falls. An obliging ccrrespondent at Chippawa sends us an account of a melancholy occurrence which took place on the Niagara River on Monday last, which resulted in the death of one man by being carried over the fall, and caused imminent peril to five others, as well as the loss of a small vessel. Aboat eleven o'clock in the morning, the steamer A. D. Griffin, of Buffalo, reached that port, having in tow two scows, the Abby and the A. Murray, of Port Robinson. The captain of the steamer, not knowing the depth of water kept too far into the river with not sufficient steam to keep headway on the scows, One of the latter, the A. Murray, striking against the spiles at the entrance of the harbour, swung around with the current almost into the jaws of the mighty cataract. The captain and four men who were on board, seeing the helpless position into which the vessel had got, and the great peril with which they were threatened—being within less than five minutes distance of the great fall—leaped from the vessel and boldly struck for shore. Four of them, the captain included, succeeded by great exertions in maintaining themselves above the surface; but, sad to relate, the fifth sank amid the leaping and boiling waters, and was carried over the cataract. In the meantime a boat, manned by two brave men, shot out from the mouth of Wel land River to the assistance of the helpless beings in the scow, The oarsmen, Messrs. F. Lauzan, j an., and George Morse, pulled boldly and swiftly out, rescued the mea from their perilous position, and succeeded in reaching the shore just above the first rapid. One minute more and they would have been carried over the Falls to the great gulf below. Too much praise cannot be given to the men by whose presence of mind and courage four human beings were thus rescued from certain destruction. The scrow glided along the stream till it reached the rock almost en the brink of the cataract, where its 'course was stopped, and where it will probably re main till broken up by the ice in the spring.— loronto Lectier. ARTIFICUL STONE.—A Frenchman has patented an invention for pulverising the refuse of slate, and mixing it with some substance to produce an artificial material ap plicable to the purpose of some of the best kinds of slates. AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS DUE AT LIVERPOOL THIS WEEK,--The following are the names of the American mail steamers due at Liverpool this week, viz. : —The City of Washington, with dates from NEW York to the 26th December, may be expected at Queenstown in the course the Nova Scotian, from Portland, of teoc_enimobrerro,w ; Maine, on the 26th alt., may also be looked for at London derry to-morrow. On Saturday next the Cunard steamer Australasian, with dates from New York to December 30, will no doubt reach Queenstown. Should the present easterly wind continue, however, the steamers raay be de layed much beyond the regular time. THE WEATHER AT LIVERPOOL.—Such has been the severity of the weather at Liverpool and in the district during the past few days that portions of the Mersey not exposed to the rapid wash of the tide have been inckicewhile the various sheets of water frozen to ad extent not equalled for many inlandcyoe v a e r r s e past.d have w i th been Exchange flags were deserted yesterday by a large number of constant frequenters, who betoA themselves for enjoyment to the various skating-fields in the neighbourh, od. In tact, to use Exchange parlance, iee is " lcoking up" everywhere. We hear that the Count de Paris, who is now at &Mlle, is engaged to be married to the eldest daughter of the Duke of Montpensier, the Infanta Isabel. May next is stated as the period fixed for the wedding; but, in the meantime the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier have gone to Madrid to seek the consent of the Queen. ACCIDENT TO MR. NEWDEGATE, M.P.—A few evenings ago Mr. Newdegate, M.P., had a narrow escape from being seriously injured. On the day in ques tion, it would seem, the hon. gentleman, after visiting a friend residing near Leamington, left that town early in the afternoon in his gig, his servant driving. At Coventry the horse was changed, and Mr. Newdegate started on his way in the direction of Arbury alone. While passing along the road he was met by a small low coal cart drawn by a pony. From some cause, at present unexplained, the pony turned right across the way, immediately in front of the horse Mr. Nowdegate was driving. The animal, a spirited one, took fright at the sudden obstruction, and made an attempt to leap over the cart, in which effort the gig was turned over, and Mr. Newdegate thrown out. Fortunately the hon. gentleman so fell that he sustained no serious injury.— Bir mingheon Daily lost. INTERESTING TO PLACE•HUNTERS.—WhiIe Pre sident Lincoln was confined to his house with the varioloid, some friends called to sympathise with him, especially on th© character of his disease. " Yes," he said, "itis a bad disease, but it has its advantages. For the first time since I have been in office I have something now to give to every body that calls." Cut BoNo ?—On Thursday, the London press offered its annual sacrifice to custom. Each paper omitted its articles to make room for a dreary history of the year, too lengthy for human perusal, too brief to be of the slightest use for future reference. The anathemas uttered at breakfast tables must have been an awful addition to the daily sins of London, and all gobetnouches, conversationists, old gentlemen, and club loungers displayed a perceptible increase of stupidity and weariness. A dictionary, or in dex, or concordance, or collection of Mr. Byron's puns, is lively reading by the side of these things, and a London Directory would afford a great deal more amusement. Who are they written for ? Even the penny papers insert them, though they at least cannot aspire to the honour of the " fi!e." It they did, they would print themselves on paper lasting more than an hour and a half, SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS. The island called l'Etang de Diane, near the eastern coast of Corsica, is exclusively composed of oyster shells mixed up with the remains of certain other molluscs which are not edible. Ther© is a tradition in the country, according to which the island at the time of the Romans carried on a brisk trade with the continent in pickled oysters, and all the shells were thrown into the sea at that spot. Whether this be true or not, certain it is that in Danmark and other parts of the shores of the Baltic there are similar accumulations cf sea shells, all considered to be the work of human hands ; nay, Professors Worsae and Steenstrup are clearly of opinion that they date from the first inhabitants of Europe, whom they take to have been contemporary with the great mamtnalia, such as the Elephas prinzigenius, which many geologists stili persist in considering as much anterior to the human race. Vegetable ivory, in contact with concentrated sulphuric acid, takes a splendid red colour, almost qual to magenta. At first it is pink, but gradually becomes deeper until it attains a purple when the acid has been allowed to act for twelve hours.—ln a recent lecture delivered by Dr. Pigeaux at the Jardin d'Acclimatation, we find some useful remarks on the subject of noxious creatures. Those birds which are particularly noted for the ravages they commit in corn fields are, on the other hand, ex tremely useful in exterminating insects. Hence Dr. Pigeaux recommends that their nests and eggs be respected, but that a corrective be applied to their excessive fecundity by destroying a part of them in autumn and winter. As to insects, even those which are considered noxious are useful in a certain point of view, inasmuch as they chiefly attack such plants as are originally diseased or weakened by some peculiar cause, whereby they promote the return of their constituent elements to the common fertilising stock, upon which the fruitfulness of crops and the consequent support of animal life depends. If by any accident the whole of the insect world were swept away at one blow, the consequence would be the most horrible famine ever witnessed.— Gah'. rnani. SIX BOYS DROWNED, On Sunday three boys were drowned in the Bold Venture Lodge, Over Darwen, and two others nar rowly escaped a similar fate. It seems that a num ber of boys and young men were sliding and skating on the ice, and while several of them crowded on one part the ice broke. In the rush which followed five boys fell into the water. Several of the by standers immediately rendered all the aid they could, but only two of the boys were rescued. The other three very suddenly disappeared under the ice, and the most vigilant efforts failing to rescue their bodies, the police were communicated with, and a large portion of the ice broken. The lodge:was then dragged, and after a search of nearly two hours the bodies were recovered. The names of the boys are George Fish, 13; James Bennett, 11; and Eli Mather, 14. A similar accident occurred at Macclesfield on the same day. A number of boys ventured on the ice on a pool in Park-lane, Macclesfield, which was not an inch in thickness. One of them, named Eli Atkins, a youth 14 years of age, slid on till some 30 yards from the side, followed by two younger boys, John Edwin Hilton, aged 13, and William Burgess, aged 12. Suddenly the ice at the spot which Atkins had reached broke, and the little fellow was plunged into the water. His two playfellows went to his assistance, standing on either side of the hole from which Atkins was struggling to extricate himself. ' But the ice was not strong enough to sustain their weight, and they too fell into the water, and disap peared immediately. Atkins still continued struggling, but was unable to get more than his elbows above the ice. A rope was thrown to him, which he seized with his mouth ; but he sank back exhausted, leaving some of his teeth embedded in the rope which he had seized in the last struggle for life. Murders on the High Seas. The five men who were brought home from Montevideo in the Brazil mail steamer Parana, and landed at Southampton on Saturday, charged with the murder of the captain and some of the cre w of the ship Flowery Land, and scuttling the vessel were taken before the Southampton magistrates yesterday for examination. There are in all ten of the crew implicated in the crimes, five of whom, with two witnesses, were sent away from Monte- video in the steamer Uruguay for Liverpool, and the other five, also accompanied by two witnesses, came home in the Parana. The British consul was afraid to send them all in one batch, they being such a desperate set of characters, and offered to send a file of soldiers to keep guard over them, but the above arrangement was ultimately adopted. The men brought by the Parana were heavily manacled. Their names are Marco Varto, a native of the lonian Islands ; Marciliano De Lacroix, a Greek ; Miguel Lopez, a Malay ; George Carlos, and John Williams, three of them being men of colour. The magistrates on the bench yesterday were Messrs. J. R. Stebbing, F. Perkins, J. H. Cooksey, and R. Coles. The facts of the case will be found detailed in the evidence of James Early, whose examination was taken. This witness stated that he was a sailor on board the Flowery Land, which sailed from the Woat India Docks on the 28th of July last, and the five prisoners, four of whom could speak a little English, also formed part of the crew. The captain's name was George or John Smith, and the vessel was bound to Singa pore. All went on well for five or six weeks, but on the 10th September one of the crew, a Brazilian, not among these who arrived by the Parana, struck the mate. Witneess was on the look-out house, and spoke to the mate, when they struck him again, and told Early to go into the deckhouse. He did so, and called the carpenter, who was aleep in his berth, and he went out. The mate was then lying on deck. Some of the men struck the carpenter, who went back to the deckhouse and stayed with witness all night. Daring the night he heard a noise on deck, but was afraid to leave the deckhouse. Between 5 and 6 o'clock in the morning witness went on deck, and thence into the captain's cabin, where he found the second mate and some of the men. They were around the dead body of the captain, which was covered with canvas, and the prisoner Lopez put a rope round it and pulled it up, and then they throw it overboard. There was a good deal of blood about the decks and the men washed it away. Witness also missed from the vessel the chief mate and the captain's brother. The sailors then got the money and the clothes that were in the cabin. One of them took com mand of the ship, and the second mate navigated it. They sailed the ship for 22 days, until they arrived at the entrance to the River Plate, where they determined on scuttling her. Witness got into a boat with the steward, cook, and second mate. The sailors ordered them to re turn, and they all did so, excepting the steward at whom they threw bottles of wine, which struck him several times. He remained in the boat till he was very much cut about, and then he got out into the water and was drowned. The sailors threatened what they would have done with him if they had had him on deck, and said it was too easy a death for him to die. After the steward was dead the men ordered Early to go down and clear the bottles out of the boat. The ship sank in about two and a half hours from that time, and witness thought that the cook and lamp.trinamer went down in her, for he never saw them again. Some of the men stopped on board till within a quarter of au hour of her sinking. They placed in the boats some clothes, bread, ham, and bottles of wine, and proceeded to the shore, landing on the open beach, and went into the country. The second mate managed to escape from them and made his way to Montevideo, from which place a maw of-war was immediately de spatched in search of them, and after a few days they were all taken prisoners. At the termination of the witness Early's evidence the magistrate re manded the five prisoners for a week, to afford time for communication with the Board of Trade. The Bordeaux journals announce the death in that city of Madame Marbeau de Terrelonge, aged 100 years and some months. Business done AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) (Per the Canada.) QUEENSTOWN, JAN. 4. The Royal Mail steamship Canada arrived here at 1.20 p.m. to-day. She brings 63 passengers and 135,644 dole. The Canada landed 87 sacks of mails and seven passen gers, and proceeded at 1.40 pm. for Liverpool, all well. During her passage home the Canada expe rienced severe easterly weather. NEW YORK, DEC. 21, Afternoon. The Richmond papers of the 19th report from Charleston that the Ironsides and three monitors became entangled whilst endeavouring to pass the obstructions in the harbour. The Ironsides would probably have to be abandoned, and two monitors were badly injured. Three pirates captured on board the Chesapeake were taken from the authorities by the mob whilst being landed at Halifax, and set free. The schooner Genety, from Matamoras for New York with cotton, has been captured at sea by six men who shipped as passengers. The situation is generally unchanged. NEW YORK, DEC. 22, Evening. (Per the Canada.) All is quiet in Virginia. Averill's Federal cavalry have destroyed six miles of the railroad between Staunton and Gordonsville. The report of an engagement with Longstreet at Bear Statioa is confirmed. The Federals withdrew to Blair's Cross roads with a loss of 200 killed and wounded. 800 Guerillas are reported to be preparing to move through Pound Gap for a raid through the eastern portion of Kentucky. Another force is concentrating for a raid on the Louisville and Nashville railroad. Forrest, Richardson, and other guerillas are actively campaigning in the interior of Tennessee. The Confederates have been repulsed in an attack upon Fort Gibson, Arkansas. Kirby Smith's forces are concentrating to attack Little Rock and Fort Smith. The Confederates have been repulsed in an attack upon the outposts of Natchez, Mississippi. Reports, said to be exaggerated, are current at New Orleans of a mutiny among the coloured troops in Fort Jackson. The Federals have aban doned the Teche country, leaving a small:garrison at Brashear. General Butler has ordered an enrolment of white and black citizens in his department between the ages of 18 and 45, to be completed by Jan. 1. General Rosencranz is to supersede General Schofield in Missouri. General Burnside is in New York receiving much public attention. The Federal Commandant of Wilmington denies the statement that blockade running into Wilming ton is frequent. The destruction of the steamer Daylight is denied. The House of Representatives has voted an ap propriation of 20,000,000 dols. for bounties and ad vance pay to volunteers. The action of the people of Halifax in rescuing the pirates of the Chesapeake has caused considera ble ill-feeling here. The New York Herald has commenced a syste matic attack upon President Lincoln, saying that his fatuity and imbecility, where his personal par tialities are concerned, pass all belief, and that he is an amiable sort of man, but his works'are too costly. It is reported from Mexico that Fidaurri, Gover nor of Nueva Leon, has declared in favour of the French. The Bavaria has arrived out. (By Telegraph to Halifax). NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (Afternoon). The report that the Ironsides and two Monitors were caught in the obstructions in Charleston Har bour has proved untrue. The Federal transport Star of the South, from Hilton Head on the 21st inst., reports that the Monitor Lehigh got aground while on picket duty near Fort Johnson, and was got off with the assist ance of two ironclads, but not before she was so badly damaged that she had to be towed to Hilton Head for repairs. One account states that she was damaged by the Confederate batteries, another that she sprung a leak. The shelling of Charleston continues. . Southern accounts of Longstreet's engagement at Belt. Station state the Federals, after a stubborn resistance, retreated towards Knoxville, The Con federates lost 800 men, bat captured a large number of waggons and prisoners. The Richmond papers of the 20th announce that a battle with Longstreet was expected near Jones• boro, Tennessee, General Joe Johnstone is moving from Meridian to reinforce Hardee. Southern despatches assert that Johnson will command Hardte's army. Averill has cut the Virginia and Tennessee Rail road at Salem, damaging Longstreet's communica tion with Richmond. A large Confederate force endeavoured to cut off Averill's retreat but failed. General Corcoran has been killed by a fall from his horse. The substitute system has been abrogated in the Confederate Congress. The Federal Congress has - voted against submit ting the constitutionality of the Conscription Act to the Supreme Court. The passport sy stem for passengers leaving by American vessels has been revived. Federal war vessels have been stationed off the Narrows to overhaul vessels leaving New York. The steamer Vanderbilt has captured the barque Saxon, off Cape Town, and the Angela Pequina on the West Coast of Africa. The contest between Heenan and King has created great excitement throughout the country, and the result caused much disappointment. The Edinburgh and Asia have arrived out. NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (Evening). The steamer Saint Louis sailed yesterday from San Francisco, for Panama, with 1,250,000 in specie for England. . The National Conservative Union Convention assembled at Philadelphia, are reported to have re affirmed the nomination of M'Clellan for the presi dency, and nominated Judge Campbell for the vice presidency. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Gold 52,1 prem. Exchange on London, 166; on Paris, 335. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 1324 ; Illi nois, 116 ; Erie, 106 ; Six per Cent. U. S. Bonds, 105. Crude petroleum, 31 to 32 ; do. refined, 45 to 46. The Russian Government has issued an order pro hibiting the exportation of cattle after the 15th inst. from Southern Russia. It is believed that this step has been taken in consequence of the great drain of cattle now taking place, caused by the large purchases on account of the Vice roy of Egypt. THE VALUE OF LAND IN ENGLAND.—There is nothing in the " Arabian Nights" more surprising than the value of land in the great centres of commerce, The little tablecloth area at the south-east corner of St. Paul's, which gives the foreigner the best eoup d'ceil of our architectural masterpiece, is worth £60,000. The value of land around the Bank and the Royal Exchange is still greater. When New Oxford-street was made, the land cost £s7,ooo'an acre. In the improvement of Charlotte-street the land was purchased at £67,000 an acre. When the new thoroughfare was driven through Coventry -street and Long-acre, the land cost £llO,OOO an acre. Mr. Cowper, the First Commissioner of Works, has carried an act for the construction of a new street from Blackfriars-bridge to the Mansion-house. Having brought in a bill which gave the street a width of 70 feet, he proposed to increase it to 80 feet. The street is a very short one, but it was found that the addition of 10 feet would add £lOO,OOO to the expense, so the right bon. gentleman gave up the proposed extension. In some of the great provin cial towns prices are still higher. In Manchester, land had been sold by the square yard, and as much as £200,000 an acre has been given for sites in the best part of the town. At Liverpool, land has been sold at £3O per square yard, or nearly at the rate of £150,000 per acre. In some situations more than this has been given; in other parts of the town the price is £lOO,OOO per acre. In Bir mingham, the land held by the London and North-Western Railway was sold at about £60,000 an acre. SPORTING IXTELLIGENCE. TAT l ERSALLS'.-LAST EVENING. The hard frost having put a check upon hunting for the nonce, induced several members who combine a love of the chase with their racing propensities to pay a visit to Tatter sall's this afternoon. But besides, several wended their way westward in expectation of seeing the complete list of the Chester Cup entries, in which, however, they were disap pointed. For the reasons already mentioned, there was a better attendance than we have seen for several weeks, but speculation did not take a wide range, nor were there any very heavy investments made. For the Two Thousand sto 1 was offered on the field, and 13 to 2 taken about Paris, half a point more being offered against Cambuscan. Scottish Chief was decidedly "fishy," as, after 1,000 to 90 had been laid, there were frequent offers to go on at the price, with no takers. The cnl; feature of the day's movements was the advance of Paris, 100 to 8 having been booked in his favour to £250. Carnbuscan did not seem tw suffer by hay. ing been recently the object of so much solicitude in certain quarters, 100 to 7 being taken about Captain White's horse, although, before the close, the same price was obtainable to any amount. 1,000 to 60 each was accepted about the t "dark" cracks, Blair Athol and Forager, after 20 to 1 h%d been laid against the latter. A few outsiders were intro duced, but the transactions in their- avour, as well as the other animals backed, require no comment beyond the fol. lowing list of quotations. Closing prices :-- TWO THOUSAND. sto 1 agst Fille de l'Air (offered) 100 to 15 agst Paris (taken) 7to 1 agst Cambuscan (offered) THE DERBY. 11 to 1 agst Scottish Chief (offered) 100 to 8 agst Paris (taken) 100 to 7 agst Cambuscan. (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Blair Athol (taken) 100 to 6 agst Forager (20 to 1 laid once) 25 to 1 agst Coup d'Etat (taken) 27 to 1 agst Historian (taken) 33 to 1 agst Birch Broom (taken) 33 to 1 agst Appenine (taken) 40 to 1 agst Claremont (taken) 1000 to 15 agst FitzAdine (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Horse Marine (taken) 1000 to 10 agst The Count (taken) RACING FIXT 'RES FOR 1864. :lIARY. Harrow Chelmsford Spring Lincoln llungerford .cri. Nottingham Spring 1 Derby Spring 3 Liverp00l Shrewsbury Doncaster Spring Warwick Spring Durham Northampton Catterick :3O Croxton-park 1 Edinburgh Spring .. 2 Abergavenny Thirsk 5 Epsom Spring Newmarket Craven Newmarket First Spring 25 Chester York Spring Salisbury.. Bath Manchester . is Yarpenden .... 20 Epsom .. 24 Ascot' 7 Hampton l5 Newton Odiham Bibury Stockbridge Chelmsford.. 23 Newcastle-on-Tyne Worcester (Summer) Ipswich .... 'LY. Newmarket July Carlisle Abingdon Liverpool July Pontefract Nottingham . l9 Stamford l4 Winchester l9 Southampton .. 2O Goodwood , UST. Plymouth Derby Lichfield 3O Stocktcn Devon and Exeter Lichfield 3O Brighton 2 Brighton Club ... Lewes Reading Egham .. l6 Oxford lB York August 23 Weymouth 1 Warwick ,September 6 Leicester Doncaster Brecon .. 19 Richmond Monmouth 22 Manchester Autumn Newmarket First October 27 Northallerton 6 Newmarket Second Oct lO Nov] Shrewsbury Autum: I Gl ouces t er I Newmarket Houghton 2A MIBER. 14 Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Cotton market open quiet. Prices quite steady. Sales about 5,000 bales. Awaiting trade report from Manchester. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Jan. s.—Wind this day at noon—North- East ; moderate breeze, and ;line weather, with sharp frost. LIVERPOOL ; Jan. 4.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Fanny, for Matamoras. _ _ _ CLYDE, Jan. 4.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Camilla, from New York. _ _ COWES, Jan. 4.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Ca3sar Godef fray, from Hamburg fur Valparaiso. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 4.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Ocean Chief, for Adelaide. FALMOUTH, Jan. 4.—Wind E.—Sailed—Prince Rupert, from Jamaica. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Jan. 18. via Marseilles J an. 12. Jrazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Jan. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Jan. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Jan. 13. via Marseilles Jan. 24 Falkland Islands aibraltar, via Southampton Jan. 9. [ndia (Calcutta), and. Ceylon, vi. , .. Southampton Jan. 13. via Marseilles Jan. 10. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. via Marseilles Jan. 5. Portugal.... Jan. 11. ,laltit, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 10. via Marseilles Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Jan. 6, by U.S. packe by Canadian packet..J an S. Vir.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritre Tan. 10. Bahamas, via New York Jan. 14, Mexico All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, l Jan. 2 ,. California. and British Columbia. THE CONVICT SAMUEL WRIGHT.—The memorial on behalf of Samuel Wright, emanating from a meet ing of working men held at the Lambeth Baths on Chris t mas Eve, was yesterday presented at the Home Office. It contains 2,540 signatures. Other memorials have been forwarded to the Home Secretary, numerously signed by housekeepers and others. Several declarations prepared by Mr. Scott, solicitor, of Staples- inn, containing important statements with reference to the prisoner and the deceased woman, were also handed to' Sir George G:ey yesterday morning. ARMY MEDICAL SUPPLIES.—The Lancet com ments on the serious complaints, by the officers of the Indian Medical Service, of the defective supply of medicines, and states that the disasters of the Crimea, though not meeting with an exact parallel in India, are, in the aggregate, vastly exceeded. The important medicines which of late years have been introduced into the practical treatment of various familiar diseases—such as podophylliir in liver affections, saracenia in smallpox—are completely sthuechpraisvap t e e p p s i u n r e ch a n a s d e s l tohfi thea— a s r u r e g o e nl o n y e, so una tt a inable; and others, in constant use in England— oinurlncdoniateinthproarusgrhy.. also points to deficiency in the supply of instruments, and well asks, why, in a country where opthalmia is so preva lent, the opthalmoscope is not available, and why the microscope, laryngoscope, and the hypodermic syringe are still withheld ? ' DOUBTFUL IRRESPONSIBILITY.—III all times there has been the fiction of some necessity for involun tary crime. In antiquity there were the Fates, superior to the gods in ruling the destinies of men. In the middle ages the stars had to answer for all human iniquities. Well says Moliere's Argante in reply to the plea of destiny— "Ah; Ah 1 Voici une raison la plus belle du monde. On n'a plus qu'a commetre tousles crimes imaginables, tromper, voler, assassiner, et dire, pour excuse qu'on y a Cite pousse par sa destined." The French more latterly discovered the force of circumstances to be the prime cause of offence, And our mad doctors, changing the external for the inter nal, call it uncontrollable impulse, the impunity allowed to which is too certain to appear iu multiplied crimes of un controlled impulses. PRINCE TORLONIA has lately bcrne the cost of the restoration of the " Gesu" Church, the marbles which were employed on the occasion having been of the rarest:and most exquisite kind,exhibiting, moreover, in their superb mouldings and cornices proofs of the most elaborate workmanship. The Prince is further pledged to have exe cuted at a later period, and in the richest style, the gilding of the vaulted ceiling, and the decoration of the several altars. Nor are his donations confined to the churches of this city, as the interesting cathedral in course of constr he uc tion at Boulogne-sur-bier will ere long attest, in which has engaged to erect the pz incipal altar, and to fl have ar it in every way worthy of the grand proportions and ne c • tecture of that imposing edifice. • learn that IVlaittlebury Lodge, the seat of W e regret to L Southampton, near Towcester, Northampton, was totally DESTRUCTION OF WIIITTLP;PURY LODGE.—We ' destroyed such by a fireid g early e sm orning. The flames o ul f the mansion w are saved ; and the noble lord and his iv:), pror and infant daug hter narrowly escaped with their lives. ade r ons th Sunday e of the valuable contents FEB SEPT: OCTI MBER. lEEE. left lire, in' er 6 )ine tter. lief and the roul the s of lot kW 08 G ill% 10 1 lg a I 5 i ;hie' LOo° ° alto lus.4 hare 100 Sk 1 20 toc!. stock stock 100 stook stook stock stock stock stock 4tock stock B'ook SSE Paid. all !00 100 100 100 100 100 100 (100 100 2 all 100 Ikloo 33 i i 96k k 1061 101!