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

NONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market to-day presents a firm and active appearance, but the stringency and increased inquiry have been produced by exceptional causes peculiar to the present quarter. The commitments that have hitherto been made have now to be pro vided for, and hence the demand. After the lapse of a few days only the ordinary business of the time will have to be transacted, and then also the dis tribution of the Government dividends increasing the available floating balances, money will be more plentiful, and lower rates may be looked for. To day the quotations for the best three months' bills Was flt ic per cent. Several very important alterations are shown in the return of the Bank of England authorities, published yesterday afternoon. The other securi ties have been materially augmented, and, as a con sbquence, there is a reduction in the reserve of notes. These changes, however, have been expected, owing to the inquiry for money to provide for bills due at the end of the year. Active Circulation £20,126,030 Increase .. 969,215 Bullion .. • • .. 14,362,605 Increase 145,538 Rest • • • • 3,251,018 Increase 15,647 Public Deposits .. 10,841,991 Increase .. •• • • 575,449 Other Deposits.. .. 13,021,212 Increase • •• • • • • 309,575 Seven Day and other Bills .. 560,508 Decrease .. • • • • • • 56,476 Government Securities 10,762,330 Increase 195,000 Other Securities .. .. 22,383,824 Increase .. 972,868 Notes Unemployed .. .. 8,206,210 Decrease .. 290,135 Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have received by this mail, on account of New Granada Dividends, rom the Custom-house of Santa Marta, £79875. 7d.; do. Cartagena, £500; do. Sabanilla, £305 95.: total; £1,603 16s. 7d. Messrs. Baring Brothers and Company's agents in Venezuela advise that they have received for 55 per cent. of the import duties for about two weeks— From the Custom-house of La Guayra, 42,087.75 dols. ; Puerto Cabello, 16,471.86—t0ta1, 58,55961 dols. Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have re ceived by this mail on account of Mexican dividends 81,13326 dole. The directors of the National Bank have taken the house 54, High-street, Camden Town, as the temporary office of their Camden Town branch, during the building of a suitable banking honae at the corner of Park-street; and business will commence on Monday next, under the management of Mr. Edward A. Chaston. Two O'CLOCK. The English Funds have been adversely influ enced this morning to the extent of 3-16ths per cent. through the uncertainty surrounding political affairs on the continent, especially in Paris. Sales have consequently been effected, and a decline pro duced. Consols for money are 911, and for the account 91/ 1. The New Threes are 911; the Reduced Annuities, 901 911 ; Exchequer Bills, 7s. to 4s. dis.; India 5 per Cents., 1061 ; do. 4 per Cents., 1001; and do. Enfaced 4 per Cents., 96. In the Foreign Market at the commencement of business prices were rather lower, but more firmness has since prevailed. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 671 671 ex div. ; do. Consolides, 471 48; Mexi can, 361 H ; Greek, 241 ; Spanish Passive, 341 I • do. Certificates, 141 1; Portuguese, 471 1 ex. ; Italian, 671 681 ex div. ; and the Confede rate Loan, 37 39. Business in the Railway Share Market has been less animated, and prices have shown a slight deprm3sion. Great Eastern, Great Northern, Lanca shire and Yorkshire, North Western, and South Eastern have receded ss. ; and Great Western 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained inactive, at former rates Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have continued in limited recinest. London and Brazilian have declined to 54 ; Alliance have improved to 47 ; and Union of London to 401 j ; National Shipping Co. are quoted 1 to 11 prem. ; Contract Corporation, 34 31 prem. ; Consolidated Discount, I 11 prem.; and Mauritius Credit, 1 to 11- 1 - prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Rank Stock 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9ll 1 Console for Account, Jan. 7.. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 3i per Cent. Annuities 5 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l4t Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent 4 7 Ditto £5OO Ditto Small India Stock, 1374 Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870 Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 loo} Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 96 Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 6} per Cent Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 )3ank Stock for Account Ditto Bonds £l,OOO Ditto under £1,000.. India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent.... FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 .. — Ditto 4} 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 Coml. — chillan 6 per Cent. Ditto 4/ per Cent, Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 Dutch, 2f per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders Ditto, £lOO Bonds — Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 per Cent lOOl a Ditto, Second Issue .. Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. Ditto Account Ditto Coupons — Guatemala 5 per Cent. Ditto Account — Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 36i 6 a Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Ditto 3 per Cent... Peruvian 3per Cent. .. Ditto Account Ditto 4i per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Piedmontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25' Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 .... .. —. Ditto Account.. 47/ Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 Ditto Account 471 1 Ditto, 1863 Ditto Scrip, £l5 paid — Pm Russian 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 4i per Cent 1850 B5l 6 Ditto 1860 .. Ditto Account — Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Ditto 6 per Cent, 1862 B9} 9 Sardinian 5 per Cent . Ditto Account., Spanish 3 per Cent • Ditto Account — Ditto New Deferred s ,Ditto Account 46/ Ditto Passive ................ ... D itto Account ' 341 1 i S p a nish Ce r t. o f C oup not funded .. l4l Dit to Account Turkish 6 Per Cent. Ditto 186 4 A —ccount Ditto 6 p er Cent. 1853 Ditto Accou nt — Cent Ditto 6 pe r c e _. • 1862 Ditto Accoun t. 671 .. D;tto £lOO Bond; . ::: .. 681 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863 ............. -- Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Debentures, 4 p er et , O ct.,Venezuela 3 per Clint. ... . ' 1863 .. ..... Ditto Account ............. Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account ................... .. . • .. _— Dividends on the above PaYabl . in London, Austrian, 5 per Cent,. Ex. 10 F lorins. Belgia n 4 per Cent., Ex. 25f. .... Dutch2l p er C ent., Ex. 12 Gai1 ........ . Ditto 4 per C en t . C ert ifi cates ..... .. French R en t er, 4h per Cent., Ex. 25f, I)it fo Account. .. Ditto Scri (1863)3d Ditto Account.... THREE O'CLOCK . Consols Money 9l 1 Ditto Account ........... SHARE faARKETS.---This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Bir.. Wol., and S tr. Val Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleal.,andMid.Uo Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cora and Bandon Cornwall Do A(A gets no div Do. B till 6pe.p an.has been paid to B. Dublin ,t Belfast June. Dun.,Pertla,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. IGreatEastern, Ord. stk 8 £j Ei 86 83 F 5 1211 1221 7 7i 37 .39 1t 17 97 09 107 109 50 51 47 49 8 8 Ditto A stock Ditto East A nglian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Valgua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blaokwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & Scr.th Western Man., She!., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do # shares Metropolitan Midland Do Neva . Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwich Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle... 127ê 1281 133 134 134 136 97 99 661 661 1111 1121 i 72 74 108 tlO 43! 444 108; 1081 101/ 1021 51 52 111 112 130 Isi it j 99 10l 53i 54} 25 t 6 104 105 59 60 91 92 : orth London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock 119 121 1 2 p 785 796 11 116 122 128 Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews, and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern ,South Wales S. York. and River Dun staines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton .1; Darlington 98 100 Do Do New, 186& Taff Va1e....... , Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny %Vest Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford Closing Business Railways. Paid., p r i ce . done. BRITISH Pi Railways tiantic tt St Lawrence Bom.,Baroda&Cent Inc Gu. s.per Do. New . Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Laze llama Do. Preterunce Builalo,Brant,&Godricl. p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 1571.1 Do. do. July 1, 187? 1 Do. do. June. 1,167 i Clcutta..aS.Eastn. in Cape Town Dock Sail' Eastn. Bengal g-u. sp. Last Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext..... Do. do. 11 do. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Fret'. Bonds Do. no. deferred 1)0. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred__ Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Gt.ludtaPentn.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. 6 Do. January, 1862 Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New . Do. 6 p.c. '73 wittet opt Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. Indian Branch Limited Madras• guar., 5 p. o. Do. VI p. o. Extension Do. 4A do. Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Buds. Melb. & ilobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. a Kong. Bds Newlir u►swick a Caucia Class A and B N.M.C'da6 pc let pt bds &lin& ........ •.1 Do. Delhi I 9 ` ; Do. d 0...... d r 4 Do. Punjatib Do. Do. Do. In dus.St. Flo ) 63 64 33 34 Cal g6l 98 ICO 91 101 as 381 9 10 i) 7 t 158 160 5 51 21 p 83 85 170 175 SSESSIONS. Paid. all 1 1 100 Closing Price. 60 62 -- 104 1(5 i 1 p 4 1 p 6 6,1 8i oi 102 104 lot 103 106 )07 U 5 106 I*p l*P 20 21 74 76 60 (12 68 70 53 5) 50 52 40 42 27 29 23 t 5 10 107 lip' 1034 104 k 10 101 11 1066 92 95 86 88 it in 1 013 )07 100 101 16 100 57 59 S 5 82 84 104 105 106 107 I iP 105 i MI 101 tO3 T SECURITIES. 105 107 ,1(3 105 to 3 1( 1.3 95 92 94 106 108 109 111 109 111 112 114 110 112 IQ6 108 1 , 8 110 104 106 100 102 101 102 101 i 1021 110 112 LOIS 107 1:1 113 111 113 107 109 109 i 110 i 1 id 34 35 560 670 f 8 60 id par 27 28 6 64 5 54 8 10 4 44 12 13 4 44 87 39 24 3' # I 14 16 St 61 1} 90 100 2 11 11 t 3 41 5} 42 44 415 425 60 65 28 30 18 19 94 104 18 20 190 200 85 90 22 3 / 4 273/4 1 14 114 12 150 100 21 22 2f 2f PREFERENCE SHARES. South Eastern 41 per cent.. 102 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. South Eastern 41 per cent. 1859, 1004 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Lancaster and Carlisle, 2134 London and Chatham, 44 per Cent., 92 Northern and Eastern, 5 per cent., 56} FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Belgian Eastern Junction, 11 Dutch Rhenish, 17j i San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 81 Turin and Savona, Ditto (all), 14i FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper, Rm.. 61 / 7 Cobre Copper, 32 1 / • Fortuna (Inn.), 4} Santa Barbara sold Mine (lim.), 9 United Mexican (iira;, 5i JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Agra and United Service (11m.), 125 3 4 Alliance Bank of Lonaan and Liverpool (Um.), 451 1 7 Ditto, new, 31/ Anglo Austrian, 6/1 7 Australasia, 771 Ditto, new, 47 1 Bank of London. 154 3 Bank of Wales, lira., 10 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China, 381 71 8 Consolidated Bank, lim., 103 it 101 111 East London, lira.. 71 European Bank, lira., 4 Hindustan, china, and Japan (Um), 331 21 Imperial Ottoman, 17/ 181 London and Brazilian aim.), 55 1 4 London and County, 59 1 London and South African, 27 17.1 London and South American. lim., 71 London and Westminster, 801 Merchant Bank, lim. 1 Mercantile and Exchange. lira., 141 National Provincial of England. Ditto, ditto, 311 South Australia, 41 Union of Australia, 551 Union of I.ondon, 401 1 MISCELLANEOUS. British Indian Tea, bin., 31 Canada Agency Association, lira., 1 Ceylon Company, 101 Commercial Union (Insurance), 9 8,1 1 Electric Telegraph, 109 English and Australian Copper, 21 1 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 61 7 Hudson's Bay. 171 4 4 1 International Financial Society, lim., 101 91 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavouri, 31 Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 831 Joint •stock Discount, 7 1 7 1 Ditto, new, 51 1 4 7 London Finamial Association, lira.. 241 4 1 Mercantile Credit Association, lim., 8 ocean Marine (Insurance), 20 194 Oriental Commercial, lim., 12 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 261 Royal Mail steam, ?8 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), llm., 74 POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Bay. COLONIAL GOVER. l ru.liov.ep.aJa&..l tit) 1677-S4 ..... Do. 6 p. a Feb. & Aug. Do. d p. c.Mar.& Sept. D0..5 p. c. Jan.&July. I Do. 6 Inscribed stock 'Cape G.llope, 6 p Do.Ap & Oct. 188 b Do. 1890 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c Mauritius 6 per cent Natal Goy. 6 per cent N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. a.&Jul), Do. dp. c.Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 180 Du. 5 p. c.,18,1 to E7t , Do. d0.,1888 &upwds +New Zealand 6 p cent. Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 - Queensland Gcv. 6p. c ,6.Aus G6p.c.187&& up - Vlo.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July Do, to 6 ma. A.n.&00,.. BRITISH MI: Cambrian Consol. Gold, luititord Amalgamated.. , Devcn G. Con.. (Tavist.) East Bassett (Illogan).. East Clogau Gold Ltd. East Caradon ..... East Cam Brea... W'l Russel (Tavistk.) Gam.&St.Auhyn(Gwen.) reat South Tolgus.... G. Wheal Vor (Heiston: Grenville .. ilemd's-Foot ...... Hingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret ( Ony Lelant. Clarke Valley.. Nlyndy Iron Ore (Lim ; New Setun North Downs N.Wh'l Basset(lllo2;an; North Wheal Crotty Par Consols(St. Blaze),) Providence (Uny Lelnt.) South Caradon(St.Cleer; S. Cara Brea (Illogan) i.Wheal Fran. (Illogan, Stray Park famar Silv.& Lead Min. fin Crott West Basset (Illogan) W CY radon (Liskeard) West Seton • •••• Wheal Basset (Illogan) Wheal Buller (Kedruth) Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) WhealLudcott Wheal Mary Ann Wheal 3eton Wheal Trelawney (Lis.) Wheal Union 19[ 21 3.1.0 2.6.9 10.6.7 1R.1R.9 30.17.6 474 1 5 2.0.8 3.u.8 8 58i 7 &17 TUE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY . 1 1864. BOW-STREET. Patrick Weston was placed at the bar on remand charged with stealing a piece of beef from the shop of Mrs. Wright, Ship-yard. James Coglin said on Boxing-day he saw the prisoner with a large bit of beef. On hearing that such a piece of meat had been stolen from Mrs. Wright's shop, ho went to look after the prisoner, and found him about seven o'clock in the evening, when he asked him how he got the meat. Prisoner said it was all right. He asked some other ques tions about it, when the prisoner said he " nailed" it from Wright's; and that he (witness) need not say anything about it and he'd " square" the thing all right. He how ever went and told Mrs. Wright. George Hutton, foreman to Mr. Wright, butcher, Ship yard, said the beef was stolen on the afternoon of Boxing day from the shop of his employer. It was missed very soon after it was stolen, but until information was brought to Mr. Wright he did not know who was the thief. Police-constable F 152 said from the description given of the prisoner he took him into custody, but he denied all knowledge of the robbery. The meat had not been found. A boy, No. 24 in the Shoeblack Brigade, said on the day in question, about four o'clock in the afternoon, he saw the prisoner with a big bit of beef. He was walking away with it. Prisoner—Saw me with a big lump of beef I Well, you must have good eyes. Why, I never had no beef, and I don't know anything about it. As to stealing it, that's a mistake. It was in doors all the afternoon, and I can prove Mr. Henry—Well, you can do so at your trial. Prisoner—But I never had the beef. If I had I shouldn't have minded, but it is hard to get sent for trial for nothing. • Mr, Henry—Well, two witnesses saw you with the beef, and a piece of meat like that you were seen carrying was stolen from a shop at the corner of Ship•pard. Mason, a coal-dealer in Ship yard said—A few days ago he saw the prisoner hanging about in Middle Series-place, when he asked him if he would carry out a few coals. He said he would, and he accordingly sent him with a couple of hundred to a laundress. Ho got the money, which he kept, and he also stuck to the sack. Prisoner—Well, you'll make something of it presently. 1 never did a day's work for the man, and I never bad the beef. Mr. Hanry—l shall commit you for trial on the first charge, and remand you on the second, in order that the person who paid you the money may be in attendance. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A DIFFERENCIS OF OPINION BETWEEN VETERINARY SURGEONS-THE CASE OF ♦ POOR C♦B HORSE.-Mr. John Harris, cab proprietor, of Burwood-mews, Edgware road, and Wm. Warwick, a driver in his employ, were charged by Mr. Wm.lLove, of the Royal Society for the pre vention of Cruelty to Animals, the former with having caused a horse to be tortured, and the latter with having tortured it by working it whilst in an unfit state for labour. A solicitor appeared for the defence, and both cases were heard together. Mr. Love stated that on the 24th ult., he was in Regent street, and saw Warwick driving a horse in a four-wheeled cab. The horse was lame in both forelegs and its general condition was bad, and the driver who was tugging the reins had a difficulty in getting it along. In conjunction with Mr• Cherry, the veterinary surgeon, who was with him, he stopped Warwick, and, on examining the horse, he found an exten sive raw wound on the inside of the fetlock joint of the near foreleg, evidently of some long standing, and covered with a piece of cloth; also three wounds just above the fetlock joint. Its fore and hind quarters were much shrunken, it trembled, and seemed exhausted, and had apparently been hunted, overdriven, and overworked, and in his opinion it was totally unfit for cab work. The defendant Warwick admitted that he had a difficulty in earning his money with the horse, The defendant Harris admitted he sent the horse out to work, and that he placed the cloth where it was in the habit of cutting itself, and that he considered it fit for work. In cross-examination, Mr. Love said his complaint was not simply of the wounds, but of the horse's general unfit ness for work. He had seen the horse that day, and it was manifestly improved since he made the complaint— eight days ago—still he considered the horse unfit for cab work. In his opinion, the horse was not worth more than food for " knackers" at the present time. Mr. Arthur Cherry, the Government veterinary surgeon and inspector, proved examining the horse on Thursday week last, with ➢lr. Love, and ho found it poor, weak, and exhausted, and lame in both forelegs, the fetlock joints being swollen and deformed. There was a wound of con siderable size on the fetlock joint, covered with a piece of cloth, quite raw, and of long standing. The horse was altogether unfit for work, and he directed the driver to take it home. He had seen the horse that day, and, although it was in a beam condition than it was then, it did not alter his opinion as to its general unfitness to work in a public carriage. In cross-examination Mr. Cherry said he attributed the injuries to the deformity of the fetlock joints. The defendant's solicitor said the complaint proceeded from the over zealousness in carrying out their duties of the gentlemen who appeared as witnesses. He would call another veterinary surgeon, who would put a different face on the matter, and show that the horse was net only fit for the work, but that it was in reality a valuable animal. Mr. Dollar, veterinary surgeon to several public com panies, and residing in Bond-street, said he examined the horse on Monday last, and again that day, and he consi dered its value about £lO. It was not an old horse, its con stitution was sound, it was in good condition, and he consi dered it perfect►y capable of working in a cab. The wounds on the fetlock joints were but trifling, and it might have cut itself on the day the complaint was made, but it might go for weeks without doing so again, He staked his pro fessional reputation in saying that the horse was quite fit to work in a public carriage. Mr. Knox said that veterinary surgeons sometimes differed in opinion, and when a person like Mr. Dollar oame forward and took oath, and staked his professional repu tation that the horse was fit for the work it was put to, he (the magistrate) was bound to accept his evidence, and therefore the charge against the owner must fall to the ground. But with regard to the driver, unless he dis• believed the positive testimony of Mr. Cherry, the veteri nary surgeon, and that of Mr. Love, of the society, he must convict him. It had been sworn to that the horse on the day in question was lame, weak, exhausted, overdriven, and overworked, and in a miserable state. That no doubt was the work of the driver, and placing, as he (the magis trate) did the fullest reliance upon the evidence of the wit nesses, he should convict the driver in a penalty of 205., or 14 days in the House of Correction. The fine was paid by the owner of the horse. THAMES. ROBBERY ET A SERVANT Mary Sullivan, a large Irishwoman, aged 22 years, and described as having no home, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with stealing property of considerable value belonging to Joseph Salomans, a Jew, the landlord of the Duke of Sussex pub lic house, in Rosemary-lane. The prisoner had been in the service of Mr. Salomon s for five months. She left her situation about six weeks ago. A good many things were lost while the prisoner was in the house, but she was not suspected. Very re• cently the duplicate of an article belonging to the prosecu tor, and pawned by the prisoner, was found in the house, and an inquiry was set on foot, and this property was traced to the prisoner, and she was taken into custody by a con stable at a coffee-shop in the Minories, and in her box a portion of the missing property, consisting of linen, female wearing apparel, blankets, and towels, valued at £lO, was found. „The prisoner said she did not know how the things got into the box. The prisoner was identified by one pawnbroker with whom she pawned some of the missing property. Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner for a week. TRUE SHERRY is produced in a district of limited extent in the neighbourhood of the town of Xeres de-la-Frontera, about twenty miles from Cadiz. But an immense quantity of the wine we drink as sherry in Eng. lamd does not trace its origin to these favoured vineyards It is brought either from adjacent districts or from Malaga and other places along the coast, and is shipped on board vessels loading in the bay of Cadiz with a bill of lading de scribing it as pure sherry. However, we ought not per haps to say much on this point, for so long as the substi tuted wine is sound and pure, no great mischief is done, which is more than can be said for other practices to which it is often subjected before it appears on our dinner-tables, Like port, the sherry shipped to England is made up for our market, about ten gallons of spirits being generally added to each butt before exportation. It is almost quite pale at first, brown sherry being obtained by the addition of " doctor." RAPID GROWTH OF THE IRON TRADE IN ENG LAND.—It was not till Cort, in 1783, introduced his pud dling furnace and rolling process that we began to be self dependent. We are no a• able not only to supply our own wants, but also to export iron to other nations. The make of pig-iron increased nearly sixfold between 1800 and 1835, and fourfold between 1835 and the present time. It at present amounts to about three million tons a year, being worth about twelve millions sterling. Britain yields nearly a twelfth of the whole produce of iron ore throughout the world. THE COLLIERY ACCIDENT IN GLAMORGANSHIRE, —lt has been ascertained that 14 lives were lost by the explosion at the Gin Colliery, Macsteg, near Bridg end. The majority of the men were married, and leave large families. The colliery is the property of the Llynvi Vale Iron Company, and was worked to supply their iron works with coal. Mr. Evans, the Government inspector of mines for the district, has visited the scene of the accident, and the result of his observations will be made known at the inqtzst. Banquet to Prince Gortschakoff at St. Petersburg, - We have received St. Petersburg journals con taining very long reports of the speeches at the banquets which we stated on Wednesday had been given to Prince Gortschakoff, at the rooms of the English Club in the Russian capital. Prince Gortschakoff spoke amid the greatest en thusiasm. The following is a passage from his address : " All Russia, enraptured, raised its voice in sup port of our replies, of which the object was to con found and repel pretentious attempts on the dignity of our country. It has lavished encouragements so flattering to the writer of those replies, that we could not help saying to ourselves If this feeble manifestation of the will of the Czar has produced such an impression, what will Russia not do if God sends her new trials, and the Emperor makes a solemn appeal to the nation.' " (Great applause,) Among the other speeches was one by Count Orloff, who said— " After the conclusion of the treaty of Paris, which put an end to a war not less glorious than un fortunate for us, Europe generally was penetrated with the idea that Russia would become powerless ; that she had lost for long years her influence; and that her only resource was to remain a wounded spectator, powerless in the political affairs of Europe. And here we must recall the significant words of the Prince whom we have the honour to entertain to-day, ' Russia does not sulk—she col lects her strength. Without losing time in useless complaints, we occupied ourselve ardently with our internal affairs. Examine all that has been done in this time—all the useful materials which have been prepared for the future. . • I was abroad when the late despatches of Prince Gortechakoff were expected with feverish impatience. The prince did not for an instant lose his verve and coolness at the time when he wrote those despatches, the holy anger of which, excited by foreign intermeddling, led the Times to say that no Minister in Europe cut his pen so finely as Prince Gortschakoff." At this part of the count's speech Prince Gorts chakoff appears to have suddenly risen. He said— " Prince Orloff has made it a great merit in me to have kept the smile upon my lips and remained calm and gay in a difficult moment. But, gentle. men, my calm is easily explained. I had before me Russia, such as she really is, calm, majestic, and powerful, and not as her enemies would have her to be, feeble, divided, undermined by revolution, and powerless. Europe sees us through a deceptive cloud, and does not perceive what we really are. We breathed upon this cloud which obscured our great ness, and it vanished, and Europe has suddenly seen us in the true light of the day; she is con vinced of the holy and indissoluble union which exists between the Sovereign and the nation, she has recognised that our power has not diminished. May this union, which constitutes our strength, remain for ever !" STATE OF TRADE, MANCHESTER, Dec. 31.—We have had one of the most excited markets for yarn and cloth known here for a long time past. The statement telegraphed here to-day that the stock of cotton at Liverpool in excess of the ordinary returns does not exceed 18,000 bales has taken every one by surprise. The matter had been previously discounted, and there was but one opinion, that the excess would be at least 100,000 bales. Whatever credit people may be dis posed to attach to it, there is no doubt of its effect on the market. The yarn-market has been very excited, and most of our spinners have been asking ld. per lb. advance on the rates of Tuesday, and, indeed, upon the prices they would have accepted yesterday. The advance asked by some spinners is as much as 2d. per lb., and the market for ship. ping yarns closes buoyantly, with a decided tendency to further advance. The rise in prices has checked business. It is believed that but for the higher rates some considerable sales would have been effected, For cop yarns a very ex cited market is also reported. Sellers are generally asking Id, per lb. higher, with but little offering. The advance in yarns, with a reported advance in Liverpool of id. per lb. on cotton, has not been without ice effect on the cloth market, though a fair amount of business has been done. On India shirtings an advance of 6d to 9d per piece has been obtained, and in some instances rather more, as compared with the depressed rates of Tuesday. For 71b. shirtings sales have been made at 18s per piece. The advance on other goods has been in the same proportion ; but many people have withdrawn their stocks and decline to name a price. There has not been much purchasing for the home trade, the business having been chiefly among shippers. There is a general opinion that the sudden and unexpected rise in prices to-day will decide many of our spinners as well as manufacturers, who had not made up their minds upon stopping their mills, as the change comes very inoppor tunely upon the recent bad accounts from the East. A spinner received a telegram from Liverpool to-day stating that the cotton houses had advanced lid per lb. since yes terday, and people so situated, with a prospect of their goods, if turned off tho spindle, having to go into stock, naturally feel disposed to show some hesitancy about going on. We hear of one of the largest firms in the district of the spinners and manufacturers (a firm using a large amount of cotton, because makers of heavy goods) having given notice to close, but stating that they will advance their workpeople three days' wages per week. BRADPORD, 31st.—The last market in the year shows a somewhat improved state of things. The cotton-market is a little more buoyant, and it is now pretty well known to what extent failures will affect the trade, and these causes tend to restore confidence. Theie have been more inquiries for wool during the last two or three days, and transactions are more numerous to-day. There is greater firmness in prize, but no advance. Quietness still prevails in the worsted yarns. Th 3 export houses are still influenced from operating by the unsettled state of the German question. Still, there are more inquiries for Russia and Germany. The home trade is pretty good, and though not many new orders are given for autumn, spinners tontine pretty well employed on old contracts. Business in pieces is very limited. Still, there is great cheerfulness and confidence pervading the market. MARBETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. Fresh up to Mark-lane to-day the arrivals of English wheat were very moderate, but the condition of the produce was good. There was a better attendance of buyers,•and the trade exhibited more activity, fully Monday's quotations being obtained in all transacticns. With foreign wheat the market was but moderately sup plied. Millers, however, operated somewhat cautiously. Nevertheless, prices ruled firm. Floating cargoes of wheat were in improved request, at extreme rates. Spring corn afloat, however, was a slow sale. The supply of barley on sale was large. For all qualities the trade w sluggish state, yet no further change took place in the currency. Malt—the n a s i upplyof which was large—sold heavily, at barely late rates. The supply of oats on sale was very moderate. Good and fine corn ruled steadily, at full prices ; but inferior produce commanded very little attention. In beans and peas, the amount of business transacted was small, previous quotations. Barrel flour was very scarce, and nominal in value. French, Spanish, and country parcels were, however, in fair supply, and a moderate business was transacted, on former terms. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Melt. Oats. FiOUT, English__ 040 I 730 i 3,060 ...._ 190 Irish Foreign-- 3190 12,340 1 6,770 1,856 aka. NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat on sale is moderate. Good and grime beef and mutton rule firm, otherwise the trade is dull. Per Sib, by the carcase. H ii e d Inferior beef .. 2 10 3 2 :diddling do. 3 4 3 8 ['rime large do. 3 10 4 0 Do. small do. .. 4 2 4 4 Large pork 3 6 3 10 Inferior mutton. 3 6 3 10 BOROUGH HOP. dad Middlingmutton 4 0 4 4 Primo do .. 4 6 4 8 Vea). 3 10 4 8 Small pork 4 0 4 4 Lamb .. 0 0 0 0 Our market is hat moderately supplied with English and foreihu hops. The demand, however, is by no means active ; nevertheless, prices are well supported. Mid and East Kents. •£5 Os to £9 Os per owt. Weald of Kents 4 lOs to 6 Gs „ Sussex . 4 lOs to 6 Os „ Yearlings Olds ... lOs to 1 10s „ Belgian Bavarian sss to 8 Os „ American COLONIAL. Public sales of colonial produce have been suspended, the market being closed for the Christmas holidays. Business, however, will be resumed on Tuesday next, the sth inst In the tallow market a more cheerful tone has prevailed. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 51i Gd to 51s 9i, and for spring delivery, 43s to 42s 9d per cct. THE COURT JOURNAL.—Established 34 years.— See the Court Journal of ziaturday, which contains a vast amount of exclusive news of public interest, and perfectly original Courtly, Fashionable, Theatrical, Naval, Military, and SpChing Intelligence, Club On Dits, &c., not to be found in any daily or weekly paper. Price Od ; stamped, 6d.—W. Thomas, 26, Brydges-strtet, Strand; sold by aU news agents, and at the railway shtions, The late Extensive Seizure of Watches and Jewellery, At the Clerkenweli police-court William Bull Clarke and Hannah Ann Clarke, man and wife, and Charles Cul lingworth were again placed at the bar, on remand, charged with having a large number of gold and silver watches, gold earrings, and other articles of jewellery, of which they could not give a satisfactory account. On their being placed in the dock, Matthew Charter, aged 25, a gasfitter, of 9,',Wharf. road, Old Ford, was charged with stealing from the count ing -house, 6, Newcastle- place, Clerkenwell-close, a quantity of gold chains, gold pins, gold brooches, and gold earrings, value £250, the property of Mr. Sidney Cherrill, wholesale jeweller ; and Frederick Levin, age 40, of 6, Mill-lane, Dept ford, common lodging-house keeper. with receiving part of the above property, well knowing the same to have been stolen. • Mr. Lewis, of Wilmington-square, Clerkenwell, attended to prosecute on behalf of tho Precious Metal Protection As sociation. The facts of the examination of the first three prisoners have already appeared, and it may be stated that owing to the publicity that has been given to the proceedings owners have been found for some of the property. There are still some gold and silver watches, amongst them a valuable gold openfaeed one by Dent, still unclaimed, and which can be seen at the Old-street police-station. Mr. Lewis said that before he went into the case of Charter and Lewin he intended to complete the case against the other prisoners. He intended to indict Charter as the prin cipal in the robbery, and the others as receivers of the pro perty well knowing it to be' stolen. Inspector Bryant produced a gold chain, which he stated he found on Cullingworth when he searched him on the 4th of September. He also saw Police-constable Fowell take a gold chain from him. On asking him how he became pos sessed of it, he said " You know all about it. The chains belong to Mr. Cherrill." Mr. James William English said—l manage the business for Messrs. Cherrill, wholesale jewellers, of Clerkenwell close. The two gold chains produced by the last witness, and which he stated he took from Cullingworth, are two of the gold chains stolen by the witness Connolly, on the 4th of September, from Messrs. Cherrill's premises. I identify another gold chain, produced by Mr. Farmer, pawnbroker, of Amwell-street, Clerkenwell. Police-sergeant Evans, said he took the pawn ticket of the gold chain produced out of the pocket-book which Cul lingworth had in his possession. Walter James Burgess, assistant to Mr. Farmer, pawn broker, produced the gold chain alluded to, and said it was pawned on the 14th of September last by a man who gave the name of Henry Martin. He could not say that either of the prisoners were the party who pawned it. The duplicate produced by Sergeant Evans was given to the person pawning it. Mr. Lewis stated that that completed the case against the prisoners Cullingworth and Clarke. Mr. D'Eyncourt asked if there was any other case against Cullingworth. Police-sergeant Evans said that the watch which ho was wearing had been identified as one that had been stolen at the Croydon Steeplechase. _ _ The prisoner Cullingworth said it would be seen from the evidence of Connolly that he (Connolly) sold the chains to Clarke. He (the prisoner) did not deny that he had pur chased them from Clarke, and as for the other property, Clarke gave them to him to pawn for him. He had no guilty knowledge, Mr. D'Eyncourt said that would be a case for the jury to decide as to the guilty knowledge or not. Mr. Lewis then went into the case against the other pri soners, and called Joseph Connolly, now a prisoner in the House of Correc tion for the robbery from Messrs, Chorrill's. His statement having been read over, ho added the following with reference to Charter and Levin. He said—Charter asked me to rob my employers, and he enticed me to do it. He was at the work shop door on the 4th of September,when 1 took thejewellery and I then gave him two bags, containing geld chains, gold brooches, and other articles. Mr. D'Eyncourt—You say he enticed you; how did he do that? Connolly—He said he would take me into the country if 1 could get some things out of the bags and bring them to him. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Were you to have any share of the ? Witness—Yes ; and he would take me into the country and give me some money. I gavehim the two bags ofjewel lery, and he did not give them back to me. I went to Clarke's with Charter. Charter asked me to go with him to Whitechapel, as he had a man to buy the goods. I know the prisoner Levin, and he lives at Mill-lane, Deptford. Charter and I went to live in Levin's house, I went there out of the way, and Charter took me there. There was a woman with Charter of the name of Eliza Richardson. I have seen her in court to day. I heard a conversation with Levin and Charter about the jewellery. He had shown some of the brooches to Levin, but he did not say where he had got them. Levin said that if Charter would wait his brother-in-law would buy the whole of the jewellery. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Was Levin asked if he knew anyone that would purchase the goods? Witness—No. Charter said he had some nice things up stairs, and showed him the brooches. He gave him a pin, and sold him a pair of earrings for 10s. which were worth about V. There was no question asked by Levin as to how Charter came possessed of the property. When Levin said his brother-in-law would purchase the property, Charter said he had a man in London who was purchasing it. A few days afterwards there was a quarrel between Levin and Charter about the jewellery. That was after we had been to ClarKe's in London. We then found that Eliza Richard- son had taken the jewellery and £32 lOs to Levin's private house, in the Broadway, Deptford. Charter asked Levin for the jewellery, saying, " Give me that parcel and the money." Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did ho say what parcel? Witness—No. Levin said, " I have thrown the parcels and the money into the river.'' Charter said, " You dont mean to tell me that you have thrown nearly £lOO worth of goods and and £32 10s. into the river ?" Levitt said, " I have;" and Charter said that such an answer would not do for him. Afterwards Levin gave up the £32105. I did not see the parcel again. I afterwards returned to my father. Cross-examined by Charter—l gave the bags to you at the door. Charter—There was another man that you gave the bags to in Red Lion-street. Cross •examination continued—l did not give the bags to young Cavanagh. Charter—This is not the first time he has robbed his master. He stole a pair of earrings. Witness—l purchased a pair of earrings, and gave them to a young woman. Charter—l do not deny that lam a thief, but the witness has told me on several occasions that he has robbed his master, and also that he took gold out of the men's boxes. Mr, English said that Connolly did buy a pair of earrings of him. Susannah Welsh—l went by the name of Eliza Richard son. I have married since. I reside at 32, Cambridge-street, York-street, Bethnal-green, but not with my husband. I know the prisoners Charter and Levin. I took Charter and the witness Connolly to Levin's, and lodged with Charter there. T saw the jewellery he had with him. I gave it to Levin's wife. I gave her some money as well, but I do not exactly remember the amount I gave to the wife, because I wanted her to take care of it, as I was afraid. I asked Levin for it the next morning, but he would not give it to me. He said, " I have thrown it over the bridge." I said, " Give me the money," and he said he had thrown that over as well. He said he had done so because he was afraid, and that he had given it to one of his lodgers, and his lodger told him he had thrown it into the water. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Was Levin ever told where it came from ? Witness—He asked me if it came from town, and I told him I did not know. Mr. D'Eyncourt said the case had better stop where it was at present, as it was getting late. Levin—l deny all that the witness has stated. If the bag had been dropped over the bridge it could have been easily seen, as there was not water enough to cover a boot. Mr. D'Eyncourt remanded the whole of the prisoners to a future day. Levin—Will you take bail for me ? lam a respectable man, and have never been in trouble before. Mr. D'Eyncourt declined to take bail at present, except for the female Clarke. Bank of England Return,•--Last Evening. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria. cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 30th day of Dec., 1863: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ........X28.332,240 Government Debt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities 3.634,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 13,62,240 Silver Bullion .... ,£28,332,210 £28,332,240 BANKING D : Proprietors' Capi tal £14.553.000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and :PARTMENT. Government Seen- rities ((including Dead Weight A nnuity) £10,957,330 Other Securities 22.383,524 Notes Gold and Silver 680,365 Coin Dividend Ac counts) 10,841,991 Other Deposits 12,0..1,212 Seven Day and other Bills 560,508 £ 12,227.720 .M.. £42,227,729 ARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dec. 31, 1563. WARSAW, Dec. 30.—The Russian authorities have commenced calling on the inhabitants to sign addresses of devotedness to the Czar. Grzybow, the commissary of police of the Jewish quarter, was the first functionary employed in this business. The Canon Rezewuski, who performs the episcopal functions during the absence of Mgr. Felinski, has refused to sign a pastoral letter in favour of such Addresses. , 50f 1 1271 133 1 I I 66 2 1 1 111 73 1081 I 302 i f 51f 11't 130/ 105 4f 33 96 I Business don, 28i 71 } 107 6} 11o}; d 271 7 Denmark and Germany since 1852. (From the Exanuner.) It was on the 25th of January, 1852, that the King of Denmark announced by Proclamation the scheme of the new Danish Constitution, which was afterwards comraunicated to the Federal DiLt . , and formally accepted by it in the July of the 6411.1 C year as satisfactory. This was the schema that con verted the Government of Denmark from an ab,;o lute to a constitutional Monarchy. By the Procla mation the King became pledged not to incorporate Slesvig with Denmark Proper, to connect together all parts of his dominions in equality of political rights, and to deal even-handed justice to the Germans and the Danes in Slesvig. Now Denmark Proper had already obtained, in 1848, a free Constitution, and the first step to the establishment of the promised gefieral Constitution was that the Parliament of Denmark Proper should be reduced from a Sovereign to a Provincial Assem bly, retaining a deliberative vote. To this it con• seated, and the Danish Government then established by octroi, in 1854, a Constitution—somewhat mo dified in 1855—for all the King's dominions. A General Council of the Realm, or Rigsraad, was founded, based upon equal representation of all parts of the monarchy, according to the ratio of population and taxation. Denmark Proper, with a population of about 1,600,000, sent 47 of the 80 re presentatives; Slesvig, with a population of about 410,000, sent 13; Holstein, with a population of 556,000, sent 18; and Lauenberg, with a population of 50,000, sent 2. A normal budget was framed for the regular housekeeping expenses of the monarchy, and the financial control of the Assembly limited to grants asked in excess of this. This constitution was established by octroi ; for the one good reason that in no other way could a constitution ever be obtained. The whole policy of the German Duchies, Holstein and Lauenburg, being to make themselves untenable by Denmark, to make the establishment dependent upon the good pleasure of their provincial assemblies would have been to continue for ever the confusion that the octroi was meant to abate. So it remained only for Holstein and Lauenburg, according to the usual policy of obstruction, to pro test against the attempt thus made to thrust on them fulfilment of the King's pledge for their bene fit. Little Lauenburg complained to the German Federal Diet, and the Diet demanded abrogation of the Constitution of 1855, for the two Duchies, of Holstein and Lauenburg, within the Federation. Many form of concession were tried, but none would satisfy the malcontents, and by an ordinance of November 6, 1858, Holstein and Lauenburg were put out of constitutional union with the other parts of the Danish monarchy. Rights and liberties were thus thrown away, but there was a point gained towards further agitation. Holstein and Lauenburg being cut off, there re mained Slesvig attached to Denmark Proper by the common constitution. Could they not construothis into incorporation of the Duchy with the monopoly. True, there was no change whatever in the inde pendent local jurisdiction of the Slesvig Assembly, or in any of the distinct privileges of the Duchy. No matter. Holstein was out of the constitution, Slesvig in; that could be mystified easily into a case of incorporation. But the next claim made for Holstein against Denmark by the Federal Diet was by a decree of March 8, 1860, and another of February 7, 1861, that until Holstein left off disputing over the constitution, the Assembly of that German Duchy should have equal power with the Rigsraad in controlling the affairs of the whole Danish monarchy I This absurd claim was compromised by Bri tish intervention, it was simply agreed that Holstein should be asked for no more than its share under the nor mal budget towards general expenses of the Monarchy, a modest share fixed in proportion to its smaller population. Negotiation was continued, and in the summer and autumn of last year the German claims gradually advanced in impudence until they settled into these demands : That whatever was left of the Danish Constitution should be destroyed. That anew Constitution be submitted to the four Provincial Assemblies of Denmark Proper, Slesvig, Hol stein and Lauenburg, and that until these agreed--in other words, till Doomsday—the four Assemblies shoulp divide, among themselves into four equal parts the power over the affairs of the whole Monarchy I Could there be more im pudently iniquitous proposals for the ruin of Denmark than that 50,000 Germans of Lauenburg should neutralise the million and half of Danes in Denmark Proper, and so leave it to the Holsteiners with the help of the Government As sembly of Slesvig to execute the will of Fatherland on the whole Danish Monarchy ? Yet even in this direction the temperate counsels of the Danish Government went to the utmost limits of prudent concession and forbearance. An ordinance of March 30 last decreed that no law should be valid in Holstein until it had obtained the sanction of the Holstein Assembly, also that no expenditure beyond the sums fixed by the Normal Budget of 1856, should fall upon Holstein without its Assembly's previous approval. The Danish Govern ment at the same time expressed willingness, if the Diet wished that it should be so, to abandon its claim of right oven to Holstein's share under the Normal Budget, and leave to the Holstein Estates unrestricted control over the finances of the Duchy. Only, if the Assembly of Holstein, in using the rights thus conceded, differed from the Rigs read as to general laws, it was defined that it could do so only by an act of separate legislation that, so far as it went, divided Holstein from the rest of the Monarchy, as a Duchy that had enacted far itself such independent laws. To readjust the Constitution of 1855 in accordance with the new concession of autonomy to Holstein, it was modi fied, without touching any of the existing rights of Slesvig, inta the new common Constitution for Denmark Proper and Slesvig sanctioned on the 18th of last month. It was impossible for the Diet to meet this extreme policy of concession otherwise than by rushing into an extreme of violence. And so it was under threat of Federal execution that, by a decree of the 18th of last July, and by another decree of the Ist of last October, the Federal Diet demanded the repeal of this last inconvenient concession to the utmost rational demands of the llelsteiners, and was compelled to bring to the front its iniquitous arrilre pensee, by passing beyond the affairs of Holstein and Lauenburg to express interference with tho Danish Duchy of Slesvig, after which the Germans hunger. So matters stood when with a little sense of the nakedness of its bad cause, Germany took eager advantage of the death of the late King of Denmark and the uprising of the wretched Augustenburg pretender, to raise a fresh cloud of false issues, and by adding wrong to wrong, muddle them• selves or others into the belief that if they could see it all through the confusion they would find themselves some where at least a little in the right. It is quite cosy, as we have shown, to blow the smoke away and see the plain truth that professorial Germany delights to darken with a far-fetched gibberish of irrelevant archmalogy from the creation downward. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Jan. I.—Wind this day at noon—North- East; moderate breeze, and fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 31.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Cyclops, screw steamer, from Amsterdam for Genoa, with damage to shifting box. CARDIFF, Dec. 30.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Shamrock, for Havannah. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 31.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Bellona, screw steamer, from Havre for New York—Rienzi, from Shields for Bilboa. COWES, Dec. 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Grukaten, from Jamaica. CLYDE, Dec. 31.—Wind W.—Sailed--Margaret Smith, for Demerara. (13Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PLYMOUTH, Friday Morning. The four-masted steamship Bellona, from London and Havre for New York, came in last night, to fill up this morning. The steamer Alexander 11. arrived this morning. The True Brion sailed for Melbourne, and her Majesty's ship Royal Oak came down harbour. The bark Cuba, from Shields for Alexandria, has just put into the Sound leaky. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived, Jan. I.—Alsom, from St. Michael's; John Buil, from Hamburg; Perseverance, from Medemblik ; Tartar, from Guernsey. DEAL, Friday Morning. No arrivals. NEW BOOKS FOR JANUARY.—Among the new works announced by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett for appearance during the present month are " Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne," edited from the Papers at Kimbolton, by the Duke of Manchester, 2 vols. Bvo., with fine portraits; "A Young Artist's Life," by Alexan der Baille-Cochrane, M.P., in 1 vol; •' Wildfire," a novel by Walter Thornbury, in 3 vola. ; and "Ella Norman; or, A Woman's Perils," by Elizabeth A- Murray, 3 vols. Loss OF AN AUSTRALIAN PASSENGER SHIP. — Information of the total loss of the well-known clipper Great Britain was posted in the Underwriters' Rooms, Liverpool, on Wednesday. She was from London for New Zealand with passengers, and was wrecked on the Bth of December, at St. Jago, off the Cape de Verd Islands. Tho crew and passengers were all saved. Sho was built in Poole in 1843, and was the property of Messrs. Alexander and Co., of London. SECOND EDITION. tS UN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocil: AMERICA. ~._ (R EL TER'S 'TELEGRAM.) SOU fiIAUP FUN, Ji3N. 1. The North German Lioydo' steamer Bremen, from New York on the 19,:h inst., hss arrived off Cowes. She brings 63 passengers, 102,950 dols. for England, 162,000 dais. for Franco, 500 dols. for Bremen, and 36 mail bags for England. Her news has been anticipated. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,---This Day, MANCHESTER RACES—Tuts DAY. (Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) MATCH. Gaiety w. 0. CITY STEEPLECHASE. Sir William The Screw The Flat Twelvo ran. Many fell. Only three finished. HANDICAP HURDLE RACE. Pilot Butterfly 2 Ace of Clubs TRIAL HANDICAP, Jessie colt Captain Knight David Ann 3 Nine ran. Won by a neck. RACING FIXTti JANU. RES FOR 1864. LIM Manchester FEN Harrow Chelmsford Spring 1 .UA.RY. Lincoln Hunger ford Nottingham Spring 1 Derby Spring 3 Liverpool Shrewsbury Doncaster Spring Warwick Spring l6 Durham 2B Northampton 29 Catterick 3O AP Croaton-park Edinburgh Spring 2 Abergavenny Thirsk 5 M. Chester York Spring Salisbury l2 Bath Epsom Spring Newmarket Craven Newmarket First Spring 25 Manchester rarpenden. Epsom .. 24 LONDON GAZETTE---This Evening. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Dxc. 29. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs an extract of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Madrid, reporting that the Spanish. Government with the view of making the regulations re , - b ..rding vessels passing Tarifa (notices respecting which were inserted in the London Gazette of the 3d and 31st December, 1858), for the future more lenient, have directed that after the discharge of one gun loaded with blank cartridge, two shots with ball will bo fired aside of the vessel, in the way of warning, instead of one, as has hitherto been the rule. DEC. 30. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade having received from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Port-au-Prince, enclosing a copy of a law issued by the Government of the Republic of Hayti, abolishing the extra charge of 10 per cent. on the weighing, wharfage, &c., of goods, and replacing those charges by an additional duty of 10 per cent. on all ar ticles imported into or exported from that republic. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 30. Royal Marine Light Infantry—Second Lieutenant Charles Surtees Chapman Webb to be First Lieutenant, vice T. L. Grant, placed on half-pay. BANKRUPTS The portion of the Gazette containing the bankrupts had not arrived when we went to press. Course of the Exchange—This Day. kmsterdam Ditto Rotterdam .. 11 19 11 19.4 Antwerp — 25 65 25 72 Brussels — 25 65 25 72± Hainburgh — 13 7! 13 St Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine —• 1191 1194 Vienna Trieste Petemburgh Berlin 12 30 12 40 33i 33,1 Madrid -• 4 __ Cadiz Leghorn — 25 85 25 90 Milan — 25 85 25 90 Genoa Naples - 25 87} 25 90 Palermo — 25 87i 25 90 Messina — 25 87± 25 90 Lisbon —52 a Oport0...- Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17 v Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) South,,American lloublons .. 0 0 0 COMMERCIAL PROSPECTS. The new year dawns with favour upon the com mercial world. Merchants, it is true, must yet pay very high for monetary accommodation—nearly double the amount this time twelvemonths. But even so, a low rate for money does not necessarily imply national prosperity. Last January the pros pect was bedimmed with the Lancashire distress and uncertainty. The dogged perseverance of Englishmen, however, carried their enter prise to other climes, and no w the cotton importations from other sources than the old fields in America, are setting our mills at work, and although that working be only for three or four days a week, yet by this employ ment how much national poverty will be alleviated, and if so much has been done in one year towards relieving us from solely relying upon foreign depen dence, how much may we not reasonably expect to be accomplished when 1865 shall have made its ap pearance. The commerce of the country has been substantially enlarged despite the utter collapse of the principal branch of our native industry. The misfortune which the civil war in America en - tailed upon us served only to quicken our energies; new paths of enterprise were im mediately sought after, and operations comm meneed. There was no quailing in the hour of need. The national spirit rose with the emergency, and like the British pluck that saved India slipping through our grasp, Englishmen relied upon their own strong arm, and by their unflagging efforts have with their enterprise even overtopped the most prosperous years. Speculation has indeed been in - dulged in to an almost unprecedented extent, 13.7 negotiable property have escaped the notice of ope rators at the Stock Exchange, nearly every foreign loan, and the shares of nearly every joint stock association were taken in turn and received due at tention, but for all that, prudence invariably guided the transactions, and if certain stock were at one time unduly inflated, no one has materially suffered. It was, indeed, natural that with so large an unem ployed floating capital speculation should be every where active ; in fact, it was the rock upon which it was thought the good old ship might strike, and it is marvellous, now that the danger has passed, t,) learn how skilfully she eluded the shoals. it. COXWELL'S BALLOON AT WOOLWICH. -- Every preparation was made at Woolwich Arsentel yesterday morning for the ascent of Mr. Coxwell's larro balloon, but as Mr. Coxwell and other gentlemen were about to enter the car, it was observed that a thick, hazy atm , )- sphere was gathering overhead which would render the taking of observations practically nugatory, and the ascent was therefore deferred until this day (Friday) when it vi ifl take place at eleven o'clock, from the Royal Arsenal, should the state of the weather prove favourable. The balloon is now inflated with 75,000 ft. of gas, and it is in tended to make a high ascent, the object being not for purely military purposes, as on a formes ascent at \Voo 1 with, but to enable Mr. J. Glaisher to make a report to the British Association as to the state of the atraospltere at various altitudes about the period of the shortest day, it being a matter of doubt with scientific m en whether the higher regions are much colder in winter than in summer. Mr. Glisher has presented Mr. Coxwell with a barometer bearing the following inscription:— In admiration of the judgment, skill, and great p resence of mind displayed in the several balloon ascents made from Wolverhampton and_ other places in 1862 for the British Association, this ban ~ meter is presented to H. Coxwell, Esq., by his fell° , Ar. traveller, James Glaisher, F.R.S." 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