The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-22 00:00:00

s~-- ,hysi envi" ail' 9t to the park► town Airiet" nerous bel2G- fence , ?glace , : entlY ;st the tenaYl al and How Capt. t the Elgin. dying peror nional s pay- aving irt of yester- ho has Lsiness of tho ily a t- R. At 5 sic : 11 the gated it aP: ;ended kennY at all ) f ruCD, Dgie to 1 4° . :St be ' at li me ' Tnien t g but to icurity im and iu who turned ting in ❑g ; at 1, like bullets i afraid when I mime_ c. hill , ' )10 sely )1.1 may let the I have I gra" kiabl ° jyrcod In. tile /1203 Y . ore or ;iOl2 Of Lune lB 9_ owe () f iarar 'al and ced in r souid of tb° r and 'jape' ea te, ~a d o, i g the RoY 3I •oubi° rig to newt" 310NEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is a steady demand for discount accommo dation to-day, and the average rate for first class three months' bills is 7/ per cent. A further sum of £140,000, in bar gold, was taken into the Bank yesterday. The City of New York has arrived from America With £220,000, and the Monarch from Port Phillip with £247,332. The committee of the Stock Exchange have de cided upon closing the house on Saturday next, so as to give its members and their employis the op portunity of remaining away from Thursday even ing till Monday. The prospectus has been issued of the Consolidated Discount Company, with a proposed capital of £1,000,000, in 20,000 shares (one half of which will comprise the first issue) of £5O each. The under taking has met with a favourable reception at the Stock Exchange to-day, and the shares are at a Premium of 2t each. The object in view is to Purchase the business of Messrs. Sandeman and Co., of Abchurch-lane, and the three members of the firm will occupy seats at the Board. During the last few days there has been rather less animation in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets. Sugars have been held for fully previous rates, while an increased demand has been expe rienced for coffee, Tea, rice, fruit, and apices, have remained without material change as regards values, 'while a better tone has prevailed in the tallow Market, owing to an increased demand for expor tation. The Royal Insurance Company have just issued their almanack for the new year, and certainly a More elegant or neat present could not have been trade its thousands of members. In addition to the usual information the pretty little volume contains a great quanity of highly intesting matter, all of 'Which will be found of the greatest utility to the Mercantile and commercial world. The "Royal" is One of the largest life and fire insurance companies 1 11 the world. No other office hns, under any cir cumstances, ever before paid so large a sum in bonuses on life policies. The sum assured on new life business, in 1862, amounted to upwards of £700,u00, which placed the "Royal" in the highest rank of life offices. The revenue from fire insurances amounted, for the same period, to £300,000, and this within _lB years of the com pany's establishment. The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed the following settling days :—National Steam Navigation Company (Limited), Wednesday, Dec. 23, to be officially quoted ; East Cambrian Gold Mining Company, Monday, Dec. 28, not to be marked. The Committee have also ordered the shares of the Upper Assam Tea Company to be officially quoted. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning (according to Mr. Reuter's telegram) the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 40e. Firm. In the market for the English Funds to-day the changes have been unimportant. At one time there Vas a little more firmness, but the alteration did not exceed 1-16th per cent., but since then prices have . returned to their former level, and Consols are again 914 7 4 for money, and 911 for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 911 ; Exchequer Bills, 9s. 4e. die.; India 5 per Cents., 1061 2 ; do. Enfaced 5 per Cents., 103 t ; do. 51 per Cents., 1134; and the Debentures, 991 1. There is very little alteration in the Foreign Market, and business is very quiet. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 701 71 ; do. Coneolides, 461 6 ; Greek, 241 25}; Spanish Passive, 33 4 ; Mexican, 36.1 ; Portuguese, 481 49; and the Confederate Loan, 37 39. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been limited ; prices, however, generally ex hibit an upward movement. Lancashire and York shire, South Eastern, and Great Northern have advanced 55., and Great Western and Midland, 10s, The Foreign and Colonial lines show little varia tion of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in fair request at about previous rates. West India and Pacific Steam are quoted 2 to 21; National Shipping Company 11 2 prem.; Contract Corporation, 21 31- prem.; and Consolidated Discount, 11 21 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Rank Stock --- 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities a per Cent. Consols Annuities 914 4 4 New 3 per Cent. Annuities "New 31 per Cent. Annuities New 21 per Cent. Annuities.. b per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — India Stock, 1874 Ditto 5 pei Cent. 1870 1064 5 Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 ... Ditto Eufaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. 95 Ditto 5 per Cent IG34 Ditto 55 per Cent Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 994 i 4 - Sank Stock for Account .... dis DI tt 9 B on d s £l,OOO - dis Ditto under £l,OOO - C onsols for Account, Jan. 7.. 9l/ 5 4 ladia. Stock for Account, 5 per Cent.... Xxcliequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cont. 4 dis Ditto £SOO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Atistrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. • Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 .. 93 B uenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Ditto Account Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) C olombian 6 Scrip £l5 pd Ditto Scrip, 1863, £3O paid Cuba, 6 per Cent. Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 -- Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent - -lonian 6 per Cent Ditto 45 per Cent, 1 2anish 4 per Cent., 1863 Dutch, 25 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders Ditto Provisonal Land Warrant EgYptia'n 7 pet Cent Gpeeit,to Second Issue . . 99/ ‘D r ii: ic ,:l i Z e e oc r ueoir Ci nti lt.., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — , , •• • 241 I a _ Ditto A ccotuit .............. Guatemala 5 per 6 ...... Ditto Account ellts Italian 5 per Cent.(i .. ............... • • Mexican 3 per Cent ........... Railway) Ditto Account..,,... — ..... 36 51 6/ 6 Moorish Imperial 5 p ereer a _ New Granada ............. Ditto 2 per Cent.. ..... Ditto Deferred Jitto Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) ....... 81 Peruvian 3per Cent. .......... .......... Vitt() Account ........ Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 ............ Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 Ditto Account 4B/ Ditto, 1863 Ditto Scrip, £l5 p a id Russian o per Cent., 1822, £ St Ditto 41 per Cent 1350 Ditto Ig6o Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1362 . — Sardinian 5 per Cent ........... Ditto Account ....................... Spanish 3 per Cent ........... . ...... Ditto A count ..................... -57-1 Ditto New Defer red ............... . . Ditto Account ...................... Ditto Passive ..........•........... Ditto Account...... Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded -- Ditto Account Swedish, 4 per Cent Turkish 6 er Cent. 185 4 Ditto Account. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account Ditto, £l6O Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 nitto Account 7Ditto 0a 1 6 per Cent. 1863 — Venezuela 3 per Cont. I)itto Account 231 Di tto 6 per Cent., 1852 .. D itto Account Dividends on the above payable in London, uutch2l per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates F rench R en t es, 41 per Cent., E x . 25f i 3itto Account.... 5 per Cent., 1851 Ex. 25 francs.. • Ditto A. " 3 CCount Ditto • ••• -- Scrip (1863) £42 Se. 3d. paid.... pm THREE O'CLOCK. Con sols Mon e y 4 Di -a° Account SHARE 111ARKETS,—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Share' Railways. Closing Business Paid.l done. 13.14. 1 10 Bt st 50 20 Bir., Wol., artfi Str. Val. Blythe r."iid Tyne. CA) Bristol and Exeter 'Caledonian Cork and Bandon Corn wall A gets no dig Do A till 6p c.p an.hag Do. B been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,PerthsAb. Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. IGreatEastern, Ord. stk 8 Ei 8 8i 82 E 4 119 120 Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern.. , I Do A stock Do ti do et. S. awl W. of Irelan,' Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashae & Yorkshire London and lilaokwal: Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western' Lon. & Scr.th Western Man., She!., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Dot shares.. Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Binning. & Derb) Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwioe Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle— • • • • North London Do New 'North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stoci , Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welohpoo ! Shropshire Union !South Devon...— !South Eastern ;South Wales S. York. and River Dun staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington L 9.16. 41 Do _ Do New, 186 Taff Vale.. .. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath 'Victoria sta. and Pim IWaterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool liar.&R West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 106 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 61 7 37 39 16 17 £6 £8 107 tO9 49 50 45 47 125 ‘27 131 132 V 4. 130 97 9;) 63/ (41 1101 110 f 71 73 1074 :03, 43 44 1078 1074 101 1 02 48 49i 11 1 12 i 129 :2911 11 - ) 97 ;9 51i 62i 25 W 1021 103 584 5° 89 691 119 121 1 2 p 78 78 ll 122 126 42 44 98 100 61 62 32 33 951 061 97 19 91 ioi t 8 38 9 10 71 7 i GI 158 160 5 54t. 2/ 3i P 83 86 170 175 si 1191 i 491 i 1261 i 131 4 98} 641 1 4 111 101 724 108 71 1074 f I 102 49} 1281 91 P 1022 i sq I} i - - I BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Share Railways Paid. Price. Business done 100 it !antic &Si Lawman , all 60 (2 605 Sk Bom„Baroda&.Cent 1110 100 116 117 106 Gu. 5 per cent. 20 • Do. New ..._•••• 8 5 1 p 20 Do. E. Shares.. 74 1 p 201 Buffalo and LAKC Duro)) all 6 65 65 10 Do. Prefer/nice .. •• .. all 85 95 Braut,&G tOO 10.1 p. et. bds. Aug. 1,1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1871 100 100 Do. do. June 1, 18:1 100 at Clcutta.s S. Eastn. (Lin , 100 10f 1(6 at Cape Town Dock Seri) 100 101 103 stock Eaatn. Bengal gu. sp. / 100 ICB 109 stock East Indian. gu. 5, p. c. lOn 117 8 108 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 15 I*p 20 Do. do. H do. .. 15 k 1 5F stock Grand Trunk of Canada Ice 20 21 100 Do. Ist Pre(. Bonds.. all 73 75 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 59 61 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonus.. all 65 67 100 Do. do. deferred..— all 50 53 100 po. 3d P, et. stock ... all 48 51 100 Do. do. deterred.-- all 33 42 100 Do. 4th Pref. stork... all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred.-- all 22 (..'4 stock Gt.lndiarenin.gua.sp.c 100 118 109 109 85 20 Do. New gua. 5p.0. • • 12 14 111. 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 15 14;) stock Gt. South.ot India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1055 1061 205 Gt. W. of Canada Sharer all 91 10 205 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 92 95 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 * a „ stock Madras guar., sp. o. stock Do. 44 p. c. Extension 100 100 101 1005 stock Dc. 100 16 100 98 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stock lielb.Corp. Ip. c. Bndh 100 50 Nlelb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 59 100 Do. 7p. c. Hong. Bds. all 20 Newßr uuswick cC Candc Class A and B all :1 5 N.lll.C'da6 pc Ist pt .tack Scinde • • bat" 1 00 82 84 (100 106 107 stock Do. Delhi , • «.! 100 lt 6 117 4U Do. do 2 4 tp 24 at Do. Punjaub all .055 1061 Do. Do. ........, , 0 ,100 fi r mk Do. lndus.St. Flo.) 00 , 101 103 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ti p.e.J a. i&J (ti; - 1877-St Do. 6p. c. Feb & Aug. 100 t( 3 it 5 Do. 6p. 0.31ar & Sept. 100 113 1( 5 Do. p. c. Jan &July. 100 (3 94 931 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 !Cape G.Llope, 6p c,187:1 100 106 108 I Do.Ap & Oct. 1881 100 109 111 i Do. 1891 100 109 111 I Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 103 112 114 'Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cent. 130 l' 8 110 -. N.B.Gov. 6 p.c.J a.&,Jul; 100 104 106 I Do. 6p. e.Ap. & Oct 100 - N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 100 100 102 Du. sp. c.,lBti to ITil 100 101 102 ' Do. do. ,lBBB.kttpwde 100 1011 1021 1021 1; 'New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 ;Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. I sterling, 1875 lOO 105 107 'Queensland Gcv. 6p. e lOO la 113 iS.Aus G6p.0.1.378.& up lOO 1/1 113 - IVio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 107 109 Do. in sum. &n.&Oct.. 100 lO9 l 11 0 4 1 1091 BRITISH MINES. 2 (Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 id uliftord Amalgamated.. 31 35 Devon G. Con.. gavist., 1 560 570 East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 rs 7 60 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 52. fd par East Caradon ..... 114.0 261 27 East Cam Brea.... ME. WI Russel (Tavistk ; 8.9.0 5 5 3 / 4 51 , Goin.3zSt.Aubyn(Gwen ) 581 8 10 Great South Tolgus l7s 4 ,G. Wheal Vor (lieleton 40 12 13 (Grenville... 1.16.r 4 48 lierc:d'o-Foot 8.12 37 39 ilingston Downs 4.18.0 21 - i Lady Bertha ilargaret ( Coy Lelaut 9k 14 16 31arke Valley.. 4 Slyndy Iron Ore (Lim ! 24 1 3 / 4 New Setun l9l 90 100 -- North Downs 2l 11 14 N.W lei Basset (Mogan 3.1.0 28 3 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (st. Blaze); 20 Providence ( Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 42 44 ;South earadon(St.Cleer 1 3 / 4 415 125 —S. Carn Brea (Illogan) — - le-Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.10.9 60 65 Stray Park 5 ' Planar Silv.& Lead Min. 43 k fin Croit 9 18 19 West Basset (Illogan) ll 01 101 %V rcdon (Liskeard . 5 18 20 West Setort Wheal Basset (Illogan; 51 85 90 Wheal Buller(Redrutli) 5 221 271 Wheal Kitty (U.l.elant) 2.0.6 WhealLedtott - Wheal 31aryAnn (Men ) 8 111 12 Wheal 3eton . 581 150 160 Wheal Tretawney (Lis.) 7 21 22 Wheal Union 3.17 21 21 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 4 per cent. irred , 88* Great Western, 5 per cent. red prf., 103 Gt. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford, Ist guaranteed stock, 129 Manchester, Sheffield. and Lincoln, 6 per cent., 127 Stockton and Darlington, A 5 per cent., 28k South Eastern (Lteading Anns., 41.0.6), 23 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., 1041 Kent Coast, 6 per cent. pref. B, lei LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Shrewsbury and Hereford (V), 91 i FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (Urn.) gua. 7 per cent., 181 Great Luxembourz 12 Recite and San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 17 San Ditto ((lim),.), gua. 7 per cent., 81 all 211 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian,[2o4 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Alliance ank of Lon .ian and Liverpool (Um.), 43} 1 Dittoß, new, 281 Anglo Austrian, 7 1 7 Bank of Egypt, 261 • Braz ili a n and Portuguese, lira., 8 y vv t a a g le o s , 24, 10 BCBtiaananrkkteoorffed Bank of British Columbia, 111 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 341 4 Consolidated Bank, Urn., 10 English and Swedish, lira., 5 z Hindustan, china, and Japan ( lim.), 31 1 21 imperial Ottoman, 1 71 Land 31ortg,rage Bank of India, lim., 44 Loudon and Brazilian (limo, 53 21 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 271 London and Colonial (lim.), 71 London and County, 56} 8 6 London Joint Stock, 46 7 4 London and South-Western (lim.), 131 London and Westminster, 80 Merchant Bank, lira , 64 M Un et io r : National Provincial of England, . and Prov. Bank (hrn.), 201 1 204 11 Oriental e D pn t i i a t t Ditto, o o anne ditto,vk , Corporation,32B British Indian Teal,li s eDE e 3,B : g: d olt teaus,li Discount 1 1.dt lu acon n itocia j r pc e a z u , an d ( 5 1 3 13 1 - 1 . 7 4 7 Stand a B r i tish South Africa (limi), r of London, 40 i i :l , S li C n E lit L e L d, A B N 4 EOUS. Australian Copper, 14 2 Gen. Credit and 12 finance of London, J l H nle d r t s n on's , aastock pril's n o t u nya4 , soci e t y, u m ., 9: Ditto, new, I 7 4 61 k Mercantile Credit Associati on , it National Discount Comp an y 81,- for Money NerbudJa Coal and Iron, 36 ' 91 Ditto. new, 11 Oriental Commercial, lim., 9 Oriental Gas (lim.), 11 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 274 Royal Mail Steam, ?5 4 Scottish Australian Investment, Um., 146 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DhCEMBER 22, ISM POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH - STRE ET. BURGLARY.—SINGULAR CAPTURE OY THE BURGLAR. —William Wilkes, a rough, thick-set fellow, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with burglariously breaking and enter ing the Hereford Arms Tavern, Cleveland-street, Fitzroy square, and stealing an iron safe containing money, and also other articles, altogether of the value of about £l2, the pro. perty of Mr. George Meacock, the landlord. Mr. Meacock said—At twelve o'clock last night I saw my house safely closed. About five o'clock this morning 1 was aroused by the police, who told me that my door was open. On going down into the bar I found all the money had been taken, also the sate, and other articles, a coat, a pair of silver sugar tongs, Bce., altogether of the value of about £l2. The whole of the property produced belongs to me. Charles Hanwell, a plasterer, residing at 4, Ogle-street, Foley-street, said--I was awakened by my wife th's morn ing, about five, who said she had heard a noise as if some thing had fallen in the passage. Shortly after, a boy named Moffat was going down stairs, so I called to him to mind that he did not fall over anything in the passage, as I believed something was there. Shortly after, Moffatt called out " There is a box here." I then went down stairs with my wife and found an iron chest near the street door, wrapped in a coat and black wrapper, so as to form a bag. I then went for a constable, and while we were examining the chest we heard a cab draw up to the house and then go on again. Thinking this suspicious, the policeman rushed out, followed by me, and the prisoner jumped out of the cab and made off, but while being pursued he was stopped by a constable and brought back to the house, and then, with the iron chest, was taken to the station. Edward Gall, a constable of the E division said—At half past five this morning I was called by the last witness, I found the iron chest in the passage wrapped in an old coat (the prisoner's) ho wearing the landlord's. Hearing a cab stop at the door and then go on again I followed it, and saw the prisoner running alongside the cab. I chased him for about 500 yards when he was stopped by 153 E. I then took biro back to the house, 4, Ogle-street, and with the chest afterwards took him to the station. On searching him I found six keys—three skeleton keys—upon him, a box of matches and two knives. In the cab a pair of silver sugar tongs were also found. 158 E deposed—l heard a rattle spring, and stopped the prisoner in Howland-street. I asked him what was the matter, when he replied, " I will go to the station quietly. lam beat." He had on the landlord's coat when I stopped him. Sergeant Franklin, 20 E, said—While at the station I heard the prisoner say, " This is not my coat I have on, it belongs to the man that the chess belongs to." I went to the house and found this rope hanging from the open win dow, so as to let any one down. I found a screw-driver and crowbar, and that some one had got in from a window at No. 2, Cleveland-street. A dark lantern was also found in the bar. _ _ . •Y John Ritchie, a cab-driver, deposed—l was on the rank in Portland-road this morning, when th© prisoner came to me and said, "Go to Ogle-street to take up." In Ogle street the prisoner jumped out, and then the policeman came out of the house and said " Stop," and I said, " Here is the man you want," pointing to the prisoner. Inspector Garforth—l wish for a week's remand, your worship. Prisoner—l admit I did it. I was driven to it by poverty. Mr, Tyrwhitt—The prisoner will be remanded for a week. INDIA• We have received, via Trieste, in anticipation of the mail,.Calcutta papers of the 20th of November. We take the following from the Calcutta Eng lishman of that date : "As for the situation' on the North-west fron tier, further accounts appear to confirm the intelli gence that, as :the Highlanders used to say of old in troublesome times, ' the heather is all on fire' along the border, that almost all the tribes are arming against us, and that the country is thoroughly up. Intell4,ence arrived in town on Wednesday, but without any full particulars that we have received, of another severe affair between Chamberlaine's force and the enemy, in which the latter are stated to have suffered a greater loss than in any pre vious encounter ; having, in addition to a consider able slaughter inflicted by her Majesty's 101st—the fine old Bengal Fusiliers—been also brought under the close fire of artillery in a narrow pass, and got handsomely cut up. Her Majesty's 93d Highlan ders, ordered up from Sealkote to the frontier, have been directed to leave the wives and families of the officers, and the women and children of the regi ment, behind them; and we believe that there is a general order forbidding any ladies whatever to accompany the corps going up as reinforcements. This is an additional proof that the flames are spreading on the North-west frontier, and, more over, the sound of the battle has come es far south as the Presidency. On the 17th inst. Major P. Lucasien, Deputy Quartermaster Geceral of the Army, received an order by telegraph directing him to start from Calcutta with the least possible delay and join his Excellency the Commander-in- Chief, proceeding towards the frontier. He left on the evening of the 18th by railway, expecting to overtake his Excellency, by travelling without a halt, six days, at Sealkote in the Punjab. Major Lumaden has passed the greater portion of his ser- vice on the frontier which is now the scene of active hostilities, and is well acquainted with the country, the tribes, and their mode of warfare. He accom- panied his brother, then commanding the Guides, and now the Hydrabad Contingent, on the mission to Candahar in the eventful year 1857, Dr. Bellew and Fouzdar Khan, brother of the Chief of the llehra Jat tribes, being also of the party, and the latter remaining behind as our vakeel after the return of the mission to India. From the number of additional troops regular lino regiments, cavalry, and artillery—moving up to the fron tier, and this sudden call for an experienced officer at so great a distance, and with his hands full of occupation at this season of the year, it is natural to suppose the work across the Indus is enlargieg, and will last for some time to come. The arre nge silents here consequent upon Major Lumsden's de parture for the north-west, and the positive uncer tainty as to the length of his absence or the exi gencies of the service allowing.him to return to the Presidency and his appointment at all, are as fol lows—Lieut.-Col. Cox, C. 8., commanding the let Battalion of her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry, in Fart William, and recently Embarkation Officer at the Presidency, has come forward in the moment of difficulty and offered to take charge of the Quarter master-General's office until the arrival of Capt. H. Maxwell,Deputy-Assist. Quartermaster-Gen. of the Meerut division, who has been ordered down to the Presidency to officiate as deputy quartermaster general during Major Lumsden's absence. All these changes are peculiarly inconvenient just now, when the season of arrival of the troops from England and the upper provinces, their embarkation and dis embarkation, keep the quartermaster-general's de partment fully employed ; and there is no doubt moves here noticed would not be made except under the pressure of emergency and when urgently re quired." COMMERCIAL. INTELLIGENCE. CALCUTTA, Nov. 20. On the morning of the lith inst. the steamship Nubia, with the mail from London to the 10. h of October, arrived in the river, and her mails were delivered at a late hour of the same day. We are also in receipt of the London mail vice Bombay, to the 29th. The steamer ,with the European mails to the 26th of October is due at Galle on her inward voyage, and ought to arrive there within the next two days. Produce Market—Since our last the markets for nearly all articles of export have been quieter. The tone of home advances, coupled with the late rise in rates of exchange, has materially tended to lessen the number of transactions. Tis season's indigo sales have commenced. Rice and sugar have been taken to a moderate extent, the latter almost exclusively for Bombay. In the jute market a good business has been done in raw jute, at a further advance of four annas per maund, but in the cotton market there has been less excitement, but no alteration in the rates demanded, which still figure as high as 48r. to 50r. In silk but a small business has been done at pre vious quotations, holders asking late rates in Bate of limited supplies. Money Market—The Bank of Bengal has raised its rates 3 per cent. since our last-1 per cent. on the 9th November and 2 per cent. 16th November. F ederal and Confederate Cruisers, QUEENSTOWN, Monday.—The Government in quiry respecting the Kearsage continues. Fifteen men, in Federal uniform, have been for the third time examined at the police barrack. They were asked about their treatment and wages, and conver sations with Captain Winslow. The press were ex cluded. The Liverpool Daily Post says:—" The Govern ment employes at the dockyard, Sheerness, who volunteered to fit out and equip the Rappahannock as a war ship for the Confederates, have bee❑ dis charged for violating the neutrality laws of the country: It is understood, also, that the names of the crews of the Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, who belonged to the Royal Naval Reserve, have been struck from the list, with the loss of all pay and pensions, and are not to be allowed to reenter the service," A YANKEE DEMONSTRATION. As SKETCHED BY MR. G. A. SALA, AS THE " DAILY TELEGRAPH" CORRESPONDENT. The Americans regard a public meeting as an en tertainment of the most exhilarating kind. It is to them a physical as well as an intellectual treat. In England we are apt to look upon these assemblages as bores, if not of nuisances. I don't think 1 c an call to mind half-a-dozen people in the possession of their sober senses who ever attended a meeting at the London Tavern or the Freemasons' un less they had some end to gain. The public who cram the halls on such occasions are a public apart, and are kindred, I surmise, of that pub lic who listen to ranters in Waterloo-place, sit on the forms in the damp colonnades of the Royal Exchange, and fill the back benches of the Court of Queen's Bench to hear a demurrer in an action about a patent in iudiarubber overshoes. But the Americans enjoy their meetings with the heartiest gusto. It only neods a little paint to the faces and a few spangles to the coats and pants of the speakers to make the whole thing like a play. " The flag," of course, had it all its own way. It hung, in duplicate, from the capital of each column in the hall The chairman, Mr. Opdyke, sat in a bower of bunt ing; and a bust of Washington was swathed in the folds of the same glorious s tandard. I don't i k n ow whether Cotton is King; but it s certain that Calico, decorated with the stars and stripes, is Great Mogul in this country. These ensigns had mo ttoes attached to them, to which Mr. Long fellow's device of " Excelsior" appears tame and trite. What do you think of this : " Our columns rush wherever our banners lead, And every heart responsive beats for Meade." Or this one : " 'UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER GRANT. The captured heights of Chattanooga prove His readiness on rebel works to move." Or this, inimitable, I think, for vigour and terse. DCSB: -- • " THE CONTRAST. Bragg, the great retreater, Grant, the great repeater." The Americans are distinguished for proficiency in the distich and triptich, you may remember : " I wish I was a geese, For they live and die in peace, And accumulates much grease." Likewise the couplet of the aspiring bard, who, wishiug to improve on the received version of the national hymn, began :- 4 , Hail, Columbia, happy land ; Buckwheat cakes made out of sand.' But all these are, I think, outdone by the anony mous poet who, on the wall of the splendid mansion built by Dr. Jacob Townsend, in Fifth Avenue, chalked the simple lines : Old Sarsaparilla Built this villa Among the speakers at the Cooper Institute meet ing were Gen. Strong, an enthusiastic Union man, but a very worthy and amiable gentleman, lately in authority at St. Louis, and who summarily expelled Mr. George F. Train from that city ; Mr. Nicolay, private secretary to the President ; Judge Daley ; Colonel Billy Wilson ; the rather too famous Colonel Daniel Sickles, and others, whom names will not be familiar to you. And as a bonne bouche, at the close of the meeting, Major-General Anderson, so well known in con nection with Fort Sumter and the first rebel shot fired, was introduced, amidst rapturous applause, to the audience. Tne speeches made were not very violent against Great Britain. There was some scratches of the old sores about the Alabama and the concession of belligerent rights to the South, and increased armies, and ironclads which should not flounder in the water like porpoises, as the War rior and the Prince Consort did," were recommended as correctives for any future infraction of neutrality. Still, old Mother England emerged from discussion without much of her hair being pulled out. WESTMINSTER. THE EXTRAORDINARY MATTER OF HERR STRAUS. BERG.—The public attention has been much excited by the extraordinary circumstances attending a complaint made last Saturday by Herr Strausberg against Mr. Thos. Napper, member 'of a Sussex family of respectability and position. The charge was one of assault arising as it seems from the circumstance of Herr Strausberg having two of Mr, Napper's daughters under his roof, one, as it was ad mitted, either as his wife or living in that position. Yes • terday the case was to have been resumed, and Mr. Napper appeared before the magistrate, but Herr Strausberg did not attend, and so the matter finished. This morning the landlady of the house in which Herr Strausberg had resided, in Ebury-street, Pimlico, came to this Court and solicited the magistrate's advice. She said that Herr Strausberg and the lady who passed as his wife had left her apartments on Sunday, and had subsequently sent for some of .the things they had left, and her object now was to inquire whether she should bo right in giving them up. Mr. Arnold—l don't know anyiling about the matter excepting what I have seen in the newspapers, but why should you not give them up ? _ _ _ Applicant—Mr. Napper came to me and desired me not to do so on any account. After that Mr. Strausberg sent his servant for the things with money to discharge his bill at my house, and I would have given him the property, but I did not know whether I should be doing right or wrong. Am I authorised to keep them, or, if Mr. Strausberg sends again, shall I give them to his servant ? Mr. Arnold—l repeat that I don't know anything about this case as a magistrate ; but I may say that, as a general ruse, the owner of property left at :odgings is entitled to it upon payment of all just demands, end it is unimportant whether the application is made for it by the owner himself or his servant or other person known to be representing him. This property is bound to be restored to the owner or his authorised agent. Applicant—l have no claim to detain it, and am anxious to get rid of it, but I don't know what to do, as Mr, Napper claims the things. Mr. Arnold—What are they ? _ Applicant—Principally the lady's wearing apparel. She has always passed in ray house as Mrs. Strausberg, but Mr. Napper says she is not. She is his daughter, and he claims the things as belonging to him, and says I am not to give them up. Mr Arnold—On what does he found his claim ? Applicant—He says that his daughter's wearing apparel is his, because she is not of age. Mr. Arnold—What is her age ? Applicant—l should think about 18. Mr. Arnold—Then, I must say, I think he is wrong. If the daughter is 18 years of age I think her personal wearing apparel is her own. Applicant—Then I shall let Mr. Strausberg have it wheWhe again sends for it. 1 really have no desire to keep the things. THAMES. - - _ SAVAGE ASSAE LT.—J ohn Smith, a tall man of respectable appearance, who was stated to be a seafaring man, was brought before Mr. Woolrych charged with assaulting Mary Ann Shelt, the wife of a builder, residing in Alderman's row, Bermondsey. _ . . Mr. and Mrs. Shelt were passing over Tower-hill last night on their way home, when the prisoner accosted them and put his arm round Mrs. Shelt's neck. She pushed him away, and he immediately struck her a violent blow on the stomach. Mr. Shalt immediately seized the prisoner and called for assistance. The prisoner attempted to get away. The bystanders however interfered, and the prisoner was secured. In answer to a question by Mr. "VD oolrych, the husband said the blow inflicted on his wife was so violent that she could not walk home. The prisoner, in defence, said that he was on his way home, with his right towards the rails which sur rounds the glacis between Tower-hill and the Tower moat, and met Mr. and Mrs. Shelt, who also kept the same side, and did not make way for him as they ought to have done. He said this is my right side, and you ought to make way for me, and at the same time he put his hand on the lady's shoulder and pushed her aside. The husband then laid hold of him, and five or six men came up, who were going to kill him. Mr. Shelt was recalled, and said the prisoner caught me round the neck with one arm—with the other he struck Mr. Woolrych (to the prisoner)—The woman denies that your defence is true. You are fined £5, and in default two months' ireprißonmtnt. MARKETS--This Day. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 os to £1 103 per load, Trade dull. CUMBERLAND.--Meaiow hay, £3 5s to £4158 Ocl ; clover, £4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £l6.s to £1 12s par load. A slow demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 5s to £4 10a Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 10s Od and straw, £1 Os to £1 lOs per load. Trade inactive. COLONIAL. TEX.—Business has been rather inactive, but the few dealings reported have been at full prices. SITGAIt —The market has remained dull, owing to the high rates demanded by holders. Good grocery descrip tions generally sustain former prices. In the refined market them Is no material change to record as regards prices. COFFEE. —The demand for colonial descriptions has been moderately active, and prices have been well sup ported for superior. qualities. The stocks on hand compared with those of the same period of last year show a slight increase. Rica.--A limited amount of business has been done without any material change to record in values. TALLOW.--The market has continued rather inactive, although symptoms of improvement have occasionally ap peared. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 40s 9d to 41s, and spring delivery, 42s 3d to 42s 6d per cwt. THE LATE PRIZE FIGHT BETWEEN HEENAN AND KING. Summonses have been taken out against Heenan and King for committing a breach of the peace at Wadhurst, by engaging in the late prize fight on the 10th inst. The two pugilists, with their seconds, and others who took an active part in promoting the fight—six in all—have been summoned to appear before the Mark cross Bench of Magistrates, in which petty sessional divi sion Wadhurst is situated, this day (Tuesday), to answer the charge of committing and inciting to a breach of the peace. FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. At the last sitting, M. Pasteur adverted to eel , tain articles publish e d at var i o us times by M Bechamp on fermentation and spontaneous genera. Lion, and iu which there appears, " to an attentive eye," a tendency to claim the propriety of certain observations published by M. Pasteur. The letter admits that M. Bechamp has shown pure water to exercise no power of inversion over cane-sugar ex cept when the surface has become mouldy ; also that creosote prevents the development of mould, and that the same effect is produced when sugar and water is boiled in contact with air which has passed through sulphuric acid. But these facts, M. Pasteur contends, have nothing to do with his own experiments ; nor do they, in his opinion, add anything either to the theory of fermentation, or to that of spontaneous generation.—M. Pierre communicated some curious facts on the yield of corn, One decilitre of corn used for sowing contains 1,773 grains ;so that 40 litres, sown on 17 ares (th are is one-40th of an English acre) contained 623,300 grains, allowing on an average 40,800 grains to each are, which in return yielded only 14,600 stalks ; so that about 64 per cent. of the grain sown produced nothing, either because of its rotting in the soil, or by its being eaten by the birds. There being usually 6.35 per cent. of bad grain in a g i ve n quantity, this if deducted from 64 per cent., will still leave 97.65 per cent. of clear loss.—A paper was received from Dr. Cadiot, on the sub• ject of marriages between relations. He states that out of 54 marriages within the third and fourth degrees of consanguinity, 14 were barren, 7 pro duced children which all died before arriving at an adult age, and 18 produced scrofulous, ricketty, eon or idiotic children. There con sumptive, e t , h df andeeraefore, dumb, 15families whose issue for the present is healthy, though there is no answering for the future. M. F. Thomas sent in a description of a method of his for analyzing alloys of silver and lead. lie proposes to treat the chloride with a so lution of ammonia, which will dissolve the chloride of silver, whereby the nature and quantity of the chloride of ledd may then be easily determined. STRAND THEATRE.—Mr. Belford announces a benefit at this popular little theatre to-morrow. The programme of the evening will include the d rama of " Miriam's Crime," and Air. Burnand's burlesque, " Patient Penelop e ;" whilst, in addition to these stock pieces, Mr. A. Sketchley w ill relate the adventures of " (sirs. Brown at the Play ;" and the performances conclude with ")Nigh Life Below Stairs." CRIME IN FRANCE. The Court of Assizes of the Alaine-et-Loire last week cried a man named Maubert, aged 50, charged with having on the 16th July last, murdered his wife by shooting her through the body. Th e prisoner had been for 20 years in the service of M. Boguais do la Boissiere, at Avrille, and occupied a lodge at the entrance to the park of La Please, his master's residence. On the morning of the 16th July a report of firearms was heard in the lodge, and a few minutes afterwards the prisoner rushed out calling for help. M. Boguais and some of his servants hastened to the spot, and on entering the lodge found the prisoner's wife sitting on the floor, leaning against a l ow c h a i r . She was quite dead, havin g received a gunshot wound near the left breast, but from her position she had evi dently been placed where she sat after the shot was fired. The'prisOner pretended that his gun had gone off acciden tally when his wife was handing it to him for the p urpose of shooting a wood pigeon which had just settled in a tree close by. This explanation was believed at first, but the post-mortem examination stiowed that the gun must have been fired by a person standing on a considerable higher level than the woman, as the charge had passed downwards into the abdomen. The prisoner was accordingly arrested, and he then gave several other explanations of Ihe pre tended accident, none of which accorded with the nature of the wound. The motive for the crime was easily found. The prisoner had for years given nearly all his earnings to a woman with whom he cohabited, and had even spent on her a sum of money which he had received for his master. Having been called on to settle his accounts, he appears to have shot his wife for the purpose of obtaining a little property which he would be entitled to sell after her death. All the circumstances seemed to indicate that he had fired at her from the stairs which came down into the room. In court the prisoner offered to show exactly how the accident occurred. Hi s gun was accordingly handed to him, and a gendarme sat down in a low chair to represent the murdered woman. This ex periment, however, was most unfavourable to the prisoner, as it clearly showed that the gun could uot, in being handed to him, have got into the position required for inflicting the fatal wound, and the falsehood of his story b ecame evident. The jury consequently , brought in a ver dict of guilty, but allowed the prisoner the benefit of extenuating circumstances, and the Court sentenced him to hard labour for life. A horrible parricide has just been committed at Millers (Marne), on a farmer of that place named Liclapart, by his son, a young man aged 20. The latter was of a most de praved character, and had already undergone a year's im prisonment for theft, and eighteen months of the same punishment for an assault on his father. Two mornings back the son, after a dispute with his mother, whom he struck and menaced with a knife, left home to aid his father in some work in a garden which the latter possessed in the wood of Itodemat. He returnsd in the after noon, but alone, saying that he had left his father on the road coming home. He then seated himself by the fire, and remained for some time silent, smoking his pipe ; the mother at length, not seeing her hus band arrive, became alarmed and set out in search of him with some neighbours—in a short time the body was dis covered in the wood, frightfully disfigured. The fury of the murderer had been such that the head of the victim was battered to pieces, and brains and teeth were found at some yards' distance from the body. The son, who had also left the house on the pretence of aiding in the search, disap peared, leaving some part of his clothes on the banks of the Marne, in order to lead to the idea that he had committed suicide. The police are in search of the murderer, and a description of him has been circulated. I THE IRONWORKS OF SOUTH WALES.—The advance in the price of iron has imparted a large amount of activity to the iron trade of South Wales, and all theworks of the district are in full employ. Many hundreds of addi tional hands could be employed at both the iron and coal works, and when the establishments which are about to comm e n ce operations are in full work t he scarcity ofEveniein_ catatot fail to be more severely felt than at preatenatie larger gration Continues, and after every pay works it has become quite an ordinary mactiteYr of 30 or 40 fore the Northern skilled hands to lea; e, the xuajority of dhethme success of con- States. The reports of Jaigh wages inducements which in nexions and friends gee the rest e fiuenee the men to leave their na:sdir country. It is gene demand for iron, the rally believed that the increast coos : maces will not only scarcity of workmen, and other ci i r ike ihoo a that another rise keep:prices up, but there is e ve_r a y the s l upply or over-produc will take place. An increase i point to be guarded agaimit, or else tion is one particular pow as fast as they have gone up. prices will certainly go dow n of furnaces in blast and The following are the numb er _ out present time, at the South Wales Works : of blast, at the owlais, in blas t 13, out of blast 5 ; Ebbw Vale, 2, ou t o f D blast 2 ; Victoria, 2, out of blast 2 ; Sirhowy, 3, out of blast 2; Aberyachan, 4, out of blast 2 ; Beaufort, 6, o u t o f bl a st 1; Varteg, 1 ou t of blast 1; Pontypool, 4 ( all) in blast ; Curnavon, 5, out of blast 2; Golynos, 1, out of blast 3; Cyfarthfa, 11 (all) in blast; Conterd9.we, 1; out of blast, 1. There are also several works at a complete standstill. CURRAN.-+The Judge interrupted Curran in the midst of his speech, when an ass began to bray under the window, by saying, " One at a time, Mr. Curran, if you please." Presently the judge began his charge to thejurh and the ass began to bray 8 gain, and Mr. Curran remarked, ~ Does not your lordship hear a remarkable echo i n the court ?'' THE EXECUTION OF TOWNLEY. It has hitherto been the custom at Derby to exe- cute condemned criminals at noon on the market day (Friday), but the present High Sheriff (Sir E. F. Every, Bart.) has determined to alter both the day and hour of execution in order to diminish, as far as possible, those demoralising scenes which are attendant upon such occasions. The execn cution, therefore, of Townley is fixed to take place at nine o'clock on Thursday morning, the 31st instant. Great exertions are being made in Derby and the neighbourhood to obtain a com mutation of the sentence on the ground of insanity, the mayor (Mr. 13,0 e) and other magistrates having attached their signatures to the memsrial, of which the following is a copy : " To the light Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart,, her Majesty's secretary of State for the Home Department. "The humble petition of the inhabitants of Derby and the neighbourhood sheweth :—That George Victor Townley is now confined in Derby gaol under sentence of death for the murder of Elizabeth Goodwin. That by the evidence in this case the following facts appear — namely, 1. That there was no premeditation whatever on the part of the prisoner. 2. That there was, and is, here ditary insanity in the prisoner's family. 3. That during . the week prior to the commission of the offence the prisoner (to quote the words of Mr. Baron Martin in his summing up) " suffered as much agony of mind as it was possible for any man to suffer." 4. That the prisoner's mind is now in a diseased state. We therefore humbly urge upon you to advise her most gracious Majesty to extend her royal mercy towards the unfortunate prisoner, and to commute his sen tence, in order that his lite may be spared. And your pe- titioners will ever pray," &c. Course of the Exchange—This Day. •. 3 Short, 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 91 Amsterdam Dittol l2 l 1 0 71 Rotterdam ...... 2151 70 1 25 7592 12 Ot Antwerp ...••••••••• Brussels Hamburgh Faris Ditto 25 771 Nlarseilles F ran kfort on M aine — 119± 12 25 1191 Vienna ............ 12 35 12 25 Trieste ............ 12 35 33 Petersburg,h ........ —3 3 i Berlin .............. .... 47,1 48 Nladrid ............ Cadiz Leghorn — 25 90 25 05 Milan ... 25 92f 25 97} ..... 25 90 2 5 55 Genoa Naples - 25 92/ 25 9 71 .-- 25 921 25 971 Palermo .. Mess i na — 25 921 25 9 71 Li s b on — 52 52/ 5 21 521 Oporto er 0z.... £ 3 17 9 Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) , p Mexican Dollars .... . .... ~ .............. 0 0 0 Silver in Bars ,(Standard) South American Doublons ............... ... 0 0 0 .................. 0 0 0 SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Dec. 22.—Wind this day at noon—North - Westerly; fresh breeze, and fine weather. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 21.—Arrived—Hermione, from Mauritius. FAiotouni, Dec. 22.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Royal Sailor, from Taganrog. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Dec. 21—Helen, from Gefle—Oden, from lludiekswall—General Slade and Esther, from Guernsey— Stevans Flori, from Taganrog—Providence, from Antwerp —John and Martha and Middleton, from Guernsey—Fos terland, from Hernosand—Decide, from Quebec—Specula • Lion, from Memel—Minerva, from Gibraltar, DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Anchored—Tynemouth, from Shields for Carthagena— Tempest, from Sunderland for Bombay—Grace and Jane, for Guadaloupe—Bride, for Swan River—General Chase, for Cardiff—all from London. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. ------- - Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Dec. 18 via Marseilles Jan 12. Lirazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Jim. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Dec. 29. Chi n a, Penang, and Singapore, via Southarnpton Jan. 2. via Marseilles Dec. 27, Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Dec. 27. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton. Jan. '2. -- via Marseilles Dec. 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton via Marseilles Dec. 21. Portugal.... Jan. 4. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 27. via Marseilles Dec 21 gewfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. b. and 13ritish N. America, by p Brit. acket... Dec. 23 • by U.S. packet.. ... by Canadian packet.. Jan 1. I.V.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Tan. 10. Bahamas, via New York :lexico Dec. 29, j All parts of West Indies , includin g Chili, -Peru' Dec. 29, C a lifornia. and British Columbia.. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.30 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 I7s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, it appear that gold is nearly 2-10th per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices fromllamburg the price of gold is 1251 per mark and the abort exchange on London is 13.41 per £1 sterling. standard gold at the English Mirt,price is, therefore, about 3-10th per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 160 to 166 k per cent., and the premium on gold is 'about 513 per cent. At these rates there is scarcely any profit on the importation of gold from the United States. KILLED AT A RAILWAY STATION.—Mr. Black• burn, the coroner for Leeds, held an inquest in that town, on Friday last, on the body of Mr. Samuel Sagar, aged 13: The deceased, who was a partner in the firm of Messrs. Sager and Walker, stuff merchants, Bradford, had been on business to Knaresborough and Jiarrogate on Monday last. On the evening of that day he had returned as far as Leeds, and he went to the Holbeck station of the Great Northern Railway. It appeared that he left his luggage outside the refreshment-room door, and a train came up for Wakefield five minutes before that by which he intended to travel to Bradford. As that train stoppe d he was seen running from the refreshment room, and ho stepped on to the down line, as if meaning to get to the train on the &her rails. A s he got upon the down line a train came up from Bradford' and he was knocked down. The six wheels on o.ne side of the engine and tender all passed over his legs, and h e wa s removed in a shocking state to the Leeds intim:loY. O n n Tueslay one of his legs was amputated, and on Thursda he died. It appears that the tra in was not due for five fi minutes ; and after the accident h e stated to bis m to see that other And friends that he was hastening a cross the line his luggage was not sent off by the train then t his luggage in. t h e station. At the moment he had qui te forgotten tha was not on the up platform. it was proved at the inquest that the train from Bradford went very, slowly into the station, and the driver bad whistled as 111110. As Mr. Sagar was making his way across the platform, Edward Moore, the ticket collector, and others called out to him, 1 but he regarded not their warnings, and they state that with suc h impetuosity that no cry he was rushingOf this opinion was Mr. Mr . c ould have stopped hira. B oo th Swan, a m edical student, who was on his way t o Laister Dyke, but woo on w itne;sing h th N e calamity attended of uipperbohne, was another witness of th e Mr. Sager to the infirmary. Mr. Joseph ealham, a , -ommer the jury re turned and to blame. eifautalltoraccvteririx!ernce, and be gave evidence to the same effect a o i f i wiiy "Accidental company wereD eat Death," Mr. Swan. After a full and patient inquiry the as Coroner ROSES AT CRRISTILAS.—'the , stated tahavtethrdeictr ' 'WO large flower beds in the reserved garden of the Tuileries several roses in fall bloom. Gardeners now contain state Phenomen on has not been witnessed since the beginning of that such a the present century, A GENEROUS ACT OF s his late visit to the IR R. PEEL. —During smith Robert Peel. happened to d southern part of this county, Sir morning, in the latter end rive on a wet and cold Sunday of Sheem. The of November, through the vil lageof the parish were poor villagers and other inhabitants.t was celebrating in a hearingsmall shed in whicht e th t e . " A ri s sh th p er r els actually no chapel, all Were kneettmheons the re wet and miry road, the heavy rain pourinc , down on their bare heads. Immediately on his return to Dublin Sir Robert fcrwarded £5O to the bi s h op , ex pressing a t the same time a hope that others connect e d with the locality might assist in getting up a chapel in which the poor people might be shel weathe r. tere during Divine service from the inclemency of the d As the noble Earl of Dunraven had already contracted for the erection of a 123 W and beautiful Catholic c h urc h in Sh eem , the gift of our C hief Secretarycould not, of course be accepted ; but the g enuine goodd nature which promptedthis the offering is no t less appreciate by the Catholics of county.—Tralee Chronicle. The Courtier de Nice states that great alarm was caused at Grasse (Vat) three nights since by the fall of two o ld houses near the Place des Aires. One of the houses t e d and there were only two persons in the wag unoccup y tailor named Fagnaire, aged 59, and his mother, other, a tat With great difficulty thd man was soon extri aged PO. • , the ruins, but he was so much injured by his sa ted from fall from the fourth floor that he died almost immediately afterwards. Had the poor fellow remained in hie bed, h e m i g ht have escaped unhurt, for the part of the floor on was found his bed stood did not fall. The woman's bod y found during th e da y , but life had long been extinct. SECOND EDITIO SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. THE DANISH CONSTITUTION, ALTONA, Dec. 22.—The electoral law comprisea in the constitution of the 18th ult. has been pro mulgated in Schleswig under the Royal sanction of the 4th inst. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. PRANCE. THE ELECTIONS. PERPIGNAN, Dec. 2 2.—The result of the election here is, that M. Lase Pereire has obtained 21,227 votes and M. Corand 14,861 votes, being a majority of Q 366 votes for M. Pereire. LONDON GAZETTE--This Evening, te and appoint 'E p a A s e L d L t , D c E o c n . s t i 2 t l u , The Queen ha W s !L. the Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D., to be I).' t of Collegiate Church of Sain t Peter, Westminster, vocli the by the resignation of the Very Rev. Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Hu g h Fraser to the church and p arish of Berriedal e , in the p re' s bytery and county of Caithness, vacant by the transporta tion of the Rev, Hugh Fraser, to the church of .Macduff, the presbytery of Turriff. CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 19. The Queen has been pleased by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, to constitute and ap point William Shee, one of her Majesty's Sergeant's-at- Law, to be one of the Justices assigned to hold Pleas beforo the Queen herself. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, Dm 22, Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant William Rica Bowen has been permitted to resign his Commission. Royal Engineers—Lieutenant -Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Richard Clement Moody to be Colonel, vice RoLinson, deceased—Captain and Brevet-Mejor Henry Young Dar racott Scott to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Moody— Second Captain Lionel Charles Barber to be Captain, vice Scott—Lieutenant Reginald Gother Thorold to be Second Captain, vice Barber, Military Train—Captain Martin Samuel Sharpe, from the 4th Foot, to be Captain, vice Willans, who exchanges. 4th Regiment of Foot—Captain St. John Willians, from the Military Train, to be Captain, vice Sharpe, who ex changes—Ensign Charles Frederick IL oper to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Richard B o y ce, who retires— Thomas Edward Stoptord Hickman, Gent., to be Ensign, 6thFootchase, ase vice Hooper. George Malcolm Fox, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice MaV . 2th Foot mar, transferred to 93d Foot. Lieutenant .Ensigni Henry Duppa Alfred Cutbill to be who retire; T i nurchase, vice Edward James Dudgeon, by purchase, viceenry Stewart Bolton, Gent., to be Ensign, to be Ensi gn, Jermyn Cooper, Gent., transferred to the ;out purchase, vice David Papillon, Thomas Walsh to b2d Foot—Staff Assistant -Surgeon Henry Francis Lynch, Assistant-Surgeon, vice Arthur 6th Foot—Captain Altreacplpointed to the Staff. Foot, to be Captain vice Gibson, Adcock, from 24th 17th Foot—Ensign Harvey I,B:n' who exchanges. to be Lieutenant, by purchase, Lambert Manning Ravenhill Woods, who retires — Laurence,T vice Frederick G e nt, to be Ensign, by purchase, viceJaynes William Hussey, 19th Foot—Lieutenant Andrew , Ravenhill. 84th Foot, to be Lieutenant, Stewart, iee from half-pay Samuel M‘Dakin, who r etires u p on tem p or ary halt' Gordon 24th Foot —Georg e Gibson, from 16th Foot, pay' v i ce Adcock, who exch an g es. to be Captain, 25th Foot—Lieutenant George Augustus eElliott to be Captain, by purch ase, vice Peter ()aeries G 11l' s Web ster, who retires —Ensi g n Charles Francis Barnard nr, ist-- to be Lieutenan t, b y p urchase, vice Elliott—Thomas Stanhope Gildea, Ge nt., to be Ensign, by purchase, vlco Barnardiston. 38th Foot —Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Frederic Arthur Willis, C. 8., to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by p ut _ chase, vice William James Loftus, who retires upon half pay—Captain and Brevet -Major Horatio Page Vance to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Willis—Lieutenant Robert Johnston Stansfeld to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet -Major Vance—En sign George John Skinner to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Stansfeld—John Dalton Chase Serrell, Gent,, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Skinner, 45th Foot—Ensign Henry John de Berniere Smart, from the 58th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Ralph Richardson. Handy, who has retired. 58th Foot—Robert Gordon Home, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Smart, transferred to the 45th Foot. 61st Foot—Lieutenant Edward Waugh Rumsey to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Charles Henry Boileau, who resigns that appointment. 64th Foot—Lieutenant Andrew Stewart, from 19th Foot., to be Lieutenant, Nice Louis D'Acosta, promoted to an Unattached Company, without purchase. 66th Foot—Ensign Stephen Dixon Power to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Henry John Westby, who retires—Ensign Benjamin John Ilninfrey, from 87th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Power. 87th Foot—William Western Taylor, Gent,, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Benjamin George Hanifrey, transferred to the 66th Foot. 90th Foot—Lieutenant George Robert Mille, to be Cap tain, without purchase, vice Percy Julius Dev mile, de ceased—Edward Richard Albert Nolan to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Miller. 93d Foot—Lieutenant Edward Septimus Wood to be Cap.. tain, by purchase, vice George Roe Fenwick, who re tires —Ensign Frederick William Welch to be Lieuten ant by purchase, vice Edward Septimus Wood—Ensign John Archibald M'Vicar, from the 6th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Welch. 4th West India Regiment—Charles Ramsey Gibb,Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice John Shed, whose appoint ment has been cancelled. MEDICAL DEPARTMENI—Assistant-Surgeon Arthur Henry Francis Lynch, from the 12th Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Thomas Walsh, appointed to the 12th Foot. BREVET. Captain John Tobin, Unattached, to be Major. oohed6ol : _ l atth: i tinN3.7 orovce, u I l h l r i b. a rt m l re : Colonel, of Captain, Francis Paymaster, with the honorary rank the honorary rank of Brevet-Major John Tobin, Unattached, to be Lieutenant- Edwin Maunsell, 4th Foot, to have Major. the honorary Archibald Kidd, Royal Artillery, Paymaster, rank of Major.• Goold, Royal Marines, Light Captain Hugh Hamiltonll. ay, to have the honorary rank with Fiaebc.,ola r s a : n eif: Infantry, retired upon tu p The undermentioned officers have been MEMORA.NDUN.-- Te their service by the sale of their permitted to retire fromthe of Major, under the Orde f r conditions of the 1-101-6 e Cuarda' commissions, under Depot Battalion, and C • Henry Leslie, half-pay, of the death of Admiral Captain John Tobin, Unattached.ADMlßA.LTY, DEC. 21. dated The following flag Promotions, the 15th instant, Circular Memdoerani consequencecaluuio have been ma of the Blue ace, o f on `h ~ I. e 14th instant!— ' f the Red Sir Sir Henry William Br • Robert Lambert, Vice-AdrnberAaAdmiral of the Blue. N. c . 8., to . l of the Whit e Henry . Smith, C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral the Vice-Admiral of Red. Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Right Honourable Lord Edward Russell, C. 8., of be Vice• Admiral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir George Rodney MundYs N. c.R., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White Robert Fanshawe Stopford to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. R e . e ß a r . : A t o d b m: riatle Rear-Admiral : Rear-Admiral of the Blue Richard Collinson, C. 8., to title of Retired Admiral.rnirila Captain Sir Frederick William Erskine Nicolson, Bart., Retired Vic rid • Vice- Admiral James Gore to have the rank and i l t o e . f the avc, Retired Ca • plains Joseph Pearce Admirals in pur. have the rank and title Retired Ke — ~,,. ' ofWillia.m Nevill, to .. tt , gay, L.OO. cuance of the Oder in Council of i ----- BANKRUPTS i_ n f il ing trio b an k rupts had . 11 The portion of the Gazette co i taming not arrived when wo went telifft. •_.-•-.-____----------- RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864. FEBRUARY. ring 23 L i nco ln Sp ~. .. 3 York Spring MARCH. Nottingham Spring ••• . 1 Chelmsford Spring Derby Spring ...... 19 28 Shrewsbury .......... 10 Northampton Liverpool ............ 8 Durham 29 APRIL. prom .......... 1 I Newmarket Craven Epsom S P ........ 7 'Newmarket First Spring oi MAY. -.' Chester .............. Salisbury .............. 12 Lath ................ 17 ji Manchester Harpenden Epsom INE Ascot ................ 7 Che l ws ford.. .......... 23 . _ Newcastle-on-Tyne . • • 29 Worcest.r (Summer) .. :30 JULY. a I Nottingham . ........ 19 Newmarket July AUGI.: ST. 9 toolnAll 'IIOIIY rq tz; • I.IIY flitg.a a I .19101[0111IN 'IIIYiIK.V f 1991 '2303 saunixia oxisvmarmans * • Uantmy aevaolosi liatticaA.o . K .. 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