The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-17 00:00:00

went. the Re td jury, t week. ns now quarter bject of juriem, d; and d given cussion wing in at has charge [many. g your inie is y, it is ;. The -e ana be, to 1 had 58, by seen in 1 more luced which xl the it for A any inals. vhioh man, salon, s as a ter as in de- MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is no further change to report in the gene ral Money Market to-day. An easiee feeling, how ever, prevails, because the available supplies are abundant, and the demands for commercial pur- Poses are moderate. An unfavourable feature at the present moment is the continuous outflow of gold, and thi s movemen t, which, it appears, is likely to be maintained, precludes the expectation o f any material reaction in the rates of discount. Since Monday last the imports of specie have been about £437,000, and the exports £532,000, Which includes £5,890 taken out to-day by the West India steamer Shannon. The Continental Exchanges, yesterday afternoon, Were, iu most instances, rather higher. The suspension has taken place of Messrs. Hol royd and Norton, iron mercht.nts, of Laurence Pount n ey -hill. A. dividend of 3i per cent. for the half-year, making 6 per cent. for the year 1862, will be pro posed at the ensuing meeting of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company. _ _ The first general meeting of the shareholders in the Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool has been convened for the 6th proximo. Two O'CLOCK. The Three per Cent. Renter opened to-day, at Paris, at 704. being sc. better than yesterday. The market for English Funds to-day has been dull and heavy. Speculation is curtailed, but the operators are effecting sales in preference to pur chases, and the quotations consequently tend down ward. Consols have been 921 for transfer, and 928 for the sth proximo. The New 3 per Cents. and the Reduced have receved to 921 8; Exchequer Bills 6s. to 10s. premium ; Bank Stock is flat at 23 5, and India' ditto 227 and 229, and ditto 5 per Cent. Loan 1081 I. Very little change can be reported in Foreign Securities, and a fair amount of business has been negotiated. Spanish Passive Bonds have been in request, and have improved to 24 125 ; ditto, Cer tificates, to 101 1; Greek are firm at 161 ; Italian at 691 ; ditto, Railway Loan, at 73; Peruvian Stock is 881; Portuguese New Loan, 461; Russian ditto, 951 6 ; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, 85 6 ; do., 1858, 701 711; ditto, 1862, 66/ 671; and the Con solides, 401 4 ; Venezuelan Loan, 611 1. heavy tone is again apparent in the Railway Share Market, and prices have shown a downward movement. Lancashire and Yorkshire, Brighton and North Western have declined ss. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and North Eastern (Ber wick) 10s.; and Great Northerns 55.; Bristol and Exeter improved ss. The British and American Exchange Bank shares are 51 6 prem. The Foreign and Colonial lines were inactive at about previous quotations, Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares exhibited, in one or two instances, a slight improve ment. Bank of Australasia advanced to 784; Lon don and Westminster to 811 ; Red River Loan rea lised 54 ; and National Discount Company, 81 1. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 235 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Cons o l s A nnu iti e s .. 921 1 l ‘levz 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock 229 7 Ditto 5 per Cent Ditte Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent ° 'tto Oi per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 1101 Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001 Consols for Account, Feb. 5 921 t Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 2} per Cent 6 8 pm Ditto £5OO Ditto Small lO pm YOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60 gpptian 7 pet Cent Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent 1824-5, ex-Coup.ms l6f Italia n 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 73 Peruvian 41 per Cent. Ditto 1862 Ditto Account. Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account Ditto 1862 Russian 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St -- Ditto 41 per Cent, 1850 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account] Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account 7ll 701 11 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account.. Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 6ll 1 Dividends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f — Ditto Account 691 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Account 93i 1 BRIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. LONDON, Jan. 17.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather 61 0114. Thomas. Jan. 1 5.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Padre, fo r St. t • SHIELDS, Jan. 16 . —Wi n d N.E.—Arrived—Constan -1110, from Buenos Ayres. NEWPORT, Jan. 16.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Bidewell , from Havannah. f ro t IrsilulinaJ.an. 16.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Challenge, tullenooLaiyErAeps, Jan. 15.—Wind N.E. —Sailed—lnal, for SERIOI7B FIRES.--This morning a fire broke out In the premises occupied by Mr. W. East, in St. Ann's -court, Sho, Through the instrumentality of the Ilre-escape no less than four lives were saved. A fire also broke out in the premises occupied by Mr. Pinch, an 413.01ster er , inGibraltar-walk,Bethnal-green ; another in the premises of Mr. Robinson, baker, of Bretton-terrace, Chel sea ; and another in the premises of Messrs. Bell, the lucifer match makers, at Wandsworth, but through the exertions of the fire brigade ihe fires were prevented de stroying the premises. A. great loss of property, however, has been occasioned. A prospectus has been issued of the Anglo- Parisia❑ Brewery Company, with a capital of £200,000 (of which one-half is to be first issued), in shares of £2O. The object is to purchase a freehold brewery at Ivry, near Paris, with 20 acres of land, which is described to be expressly adapted for Bavarian or Lager beer, a description largely consumed in Paris. MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—The following extraor dinary act of benevolence has just been reported by the chaplain to this noble charity :—A lady, being per mitted to visit the wards on the 6th inst., went from bed to bed, and in the most quiet and gracious manner presented half a sovereign to almost every one of the patients as a new year's gift, and as a thank-offering for her recovery from a dangerous illness. The number of patients so re lieved amounted to nearly 300. GLOUCESTERSHIRE Q UARTER SESSIONS. Mr. Parnell, who has occupied the chair at the Glou estershire Court of Quarter Sessions for many years, has esigned the position, and Mr. C. Hayward, the vice-chair luau of the Court, has been elected chairman. On the Motion of Earl Ducie, seconded by the Earl of Ellenbo ough, a resolution was passed by the Court at the Sessions list held, requesting Mr. Parnell to allow his portrait to be taken and hung up in the grand jury room, as a testimonial by his brother magistrates of his long and arduous term of office, COTTON GROWING IN NEW SOUTH WALES. —The Assembly has agreed to imitate the Queensland plan of encouraging the growth of cotton by a bounty. The bounty is to be 3d. a pound fur common cotton, and 6d. a Round for Sea Island cotton. Nothing less than a bale of 30 0 lbs. weight will take the bounty, and the cotton must b e Bound and clean. The bonus is not to exceed 10,0001bs. altogether ; and, in case there are more claimants than can be satisfied, the first applicant , are to receive it.—.Aus ralian and IVew Zealand Gazette. In order to satisfy in some degree the Neapolitan lo ngings for a court the King has resolved to send , sister-in-law, the Duchess of Genoa, now married to the Marquis Rapollo, to take up her residence at the !,outhern capital. The duchess is said to possess very pleas ing, affabl e manners, and to be in all respects we ll ca l cu l a t e d t create a favourable impression upon the Neapolitans. Rem stay will probably be prolonged fur three or four teooths, during which time she will be surrounded by all the tt • a ributes of a court, give receptions and balls, patronise local induetry and charitable institutions, and in fact dis charge all the extra-official duties of a crowned head, SHARE MARKETS—This Day. OItDINARY SHARES ALCD STOCI).S. 7: kilways. Bir,, Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. ;;;;.it.,Sleaf.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian i:'ort, and Bandon Cornwall A , rets no div Do A Li e.p Do. B been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatN'orthot Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Do. £5 shares M. S. an i W. of Ireland Great Western ... Do Str Val gun.. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwal! Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. DO a t shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent _ Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick'. Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds j Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire ..j N. and S. W. Junction ] Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock. Do Scot. Mid, stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union ;South Devon (South Eastern 'South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton do Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R. West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford raid. Closing Business Price. done. H Si 11 1 86 68 115 1151 6f 7} 41 43 13 14 Fe 87 105 107 45 46 42 44 24 25 128 129 131 133 136 138 104 106 661 (7 110 1101 72 73 1171 1181 18 29 971 98 1021 1031 414 42;1 120 AQ 129* iR 1p 97 99 53 53k 25k 26* 99} 100 67 58 FBl 891 128 130 110 I'2 1 p 16 161 II 11i 118 120 48 49 104 106 47 19 334 34} 69 684 fOi 100 103 7 8 39 40 10} 101 p 7} a A 149 151 41 5 o 2! 32 1 p 55i fiii4 26 Sip d * p 87 90 140 145 29 31 87 115* 92 $4 35 37 94 26 BRITISH POSESSION:s. Rai 1 ways Atlantic & St Lawrence Bom.,Baroda&Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent........ Do. New . . Buffalo and LaKe Huron Do. Preference ...... Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1879 elcut ta.,r S. Eastn. (Li Cape Town Dock Seri! Eastn. Bengal gu. 6 p. c East Indian, au. 5 p. c. Do. do. 'G Ext..... Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. Do. 2d Pref. 6 per et.. Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. Do. - do. 1867 .. Do. do. 1872.. G t.lndiaPenin.g - ua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p.„0... - - . Do. January, 1882 .. Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Share,, Do. New . . Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. . Indian Branch Limited 'Madras guar., 5 p. c. Do. 41 p. c. Extensior De. 4, d 0....... Do. Fifth Extension, Nielb.Corv. p. o. Bnd - Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Slortg.f. Bds, Newßrunswick &t Cand Class A. Capital Share Do. do. B Capital d 0... N.1.1,1.C'da6 pc Ist p 1 bde Seinde Do. Delhi ~ Do. do Do. Punjaub C —:: s r " Do. Do. ........ , g _,,gp Do. Endue. St. Flo.) 100 100 100 100 100 100 all all 100 (100 100 2 15 100 110, Paid. Closin , 4 Price. 67 69 105 106 Si 51 71 8} 80 83 73 76 73 76 104 106 IrSi iC9} 1( 6 08 107 0 8 1 lip 6 iP 214 224 76 78 65 67 34 36 48 52 31 36 34 36 105} 1064 4 P I P 104 10t1 12f 12; 8 74,1 99 101 91 Q 3 ip 10 1 34 104 97 99 93 . 5 52 53 3 5 3 5 83 65 IPSI 106 i 10 8 81 104t13 1 104 iP 103 100 102 Share 13.14 !ULUN iAL tiOVERNMENT SE CU Cau.Gov. 6 p.c.J a &J uly 1877-Si Do. 8 p. c. Feb. & 100 Do. 6p. e. Mar. & Sent. 100 Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 Cape G.Hope, 6 p 0,1873 100 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 Do. 1890 100 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p C 100 N.B.Gov.6p.o.Ja.&July'loo Do. 6p. O.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. W. C ov. 5 p c.,1866 1 100 Do sp. 0.,1871 to 1876 100 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 I New Zealand 6 p. cent! 100 Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c 1 sterling, 1875 1 100 Queensland Gov. 6p. c 100 b. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up ; 100 Vie. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 Do. In op.n. , 100 BILITIBII Ott 1 1(5 108 106 108 1(6 108 £6 97 (5 07 ►oi 110 411 113 112 114 Lll 113 104 105 103 101 99} lON 99 99} 109 11l [O5 106 10 lit [O9 111 [O7 109 [lO 110 i Cambrian Consol. Gold iClitlord Amalgamated Devon G. Con.. (Tavist I East Bassett (I1lozan) East Clogau Gold Ltd East Caradon ...... East Cant Brea.... E. W'i Russel (Tavistk. Gam.drSt.Auhyn(Gwen.) Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor (Helston Grenville Herod's-Foot Hingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (Cny Lelant M ark e Valley.. myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) New Setun • • North Downs J.Wlt'l Baseotallo;au 'forth Wheal Crotty . Par Consols (St. Blazey Providence (Uny Lelnt.) South Caradon(St.Gleer) S. Carn Brea (Illogan) *i.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tamar Silv.ez Lead Min I Tin Croft West Basset (IIloaan).. W Oaradon (Liskeard West Soton Wheal Basset (Illogan) Wheal Buller (Redruth) Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) WhealLud ott Wheal Mar yAnn (Men ) Wheal Seton ........ Wheal Trelawney (Lis.) Wheal Union.... 47i 5 1 1 5 2.0.8 2.10.8 8 58} 7 3.13 81 xd P-----REFERENCE SHARES. Mid. Consolidated, Bristol and Birm., 46 per cent. pf., 1041 I North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., 94 5 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, /cc , Metrop. Ext., B 6 per cent., 106 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, 58 Nottingham and Grantham It. & C., 961 FOREIGN MINES. East del Rey (lim.), 11. Fortuna (lim.), 45 Mont. Aureos Braz. Gold Min. Co. (lim.), 21 Port Philip, 11 Santa Barbara Gold Mine (lim.), 1 Scottish Australian (11m.), 15 a Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lim.), 35 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. — A - 1155 - Ice Bank of London and Liverpool (lim.), 24/ ff Australasia, 781 Bank of London, 101 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, P 5 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 21 21 Eng., Sco'., and Australian Chartered, 215 Hindustan, China, and Japan (lira.), 75 London and Brazilian (1im,),131 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 27 5 London and County, 39 London and South African, 255 London and Westminster, 815 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 145 Ottoman Bank, 34 Union of London, 325 15 DOCKS. East and West India, 137 MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Palace, 6 per cent. perpetl. deb., I 11 East India Irrigation and Canal, 2 English and Australian Copper, 2 5 General Steam Navigation, 27f Italian Irrigation Canal, / National Discount Company, 85 Oriental Inland Steam (11m.), 81 Trust and Pe el River Land a nd Mi n eral, 54 Submarine Telegraph (X 10) Registered, 55 Loan Co. of Up, er Canada, 55 A MEDI2EPAL LEGEND.—When the Abbey of disguise of a travellingiig built, the Devil appeared Limburg Was being destination of the wor m u echanic, and asked what was the insufficient as told, probably from the fact entTthoinconceal the tail, that the in the of his disguise being worked at it with a completed. Then, builoing was to be a tavern, y before him intended to forward his own views, he thus that it was will, and owing to his agency it was so e o w n and not till then, he took a general vi c e o w in and to his great oisgust, saw the stately abbe He went off in dudgeon, and bent on vengeance took e uV in enorm ous rock on a neighbou rin g hei g ht with the intentiona of hurling it against the abbey. But the stone in his hands became miraculously as soft as butter, and slipped out of his fingers. Then he sat down on the ro ck and gave a huge howl of despair. The guides still show the depression on the top to testify to the fact of his having sat there, and marks on the sides which were made by bis fingers. At all events, the Devil appears on this occasion to have become, in cricket ing phrase, butter-fingered, and to have let drop the stone. Perhaps the rudiments of a grand moral lie under the nume rous legends which represent the Author of Evil as so often outwitted. The knave is, after all, but a roundabout fool. —Ono a Week. all all ) all i all 1276 132 16 66 i i k 110 1174 384 94 f 113/.34 9, 1 1 1291 9 i 1 4 I P 52/ 99} 574 EBl 411 i 334 I 864 Business done 105 k 6 Itl I'l P. - 108} 110 i 10 _____ ____ 471 9i 2.4.9 1i 10.6.7 18.1 , .9. 28.9. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE--This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Justieei Crompton, Wightman, and Mellor.) SWEENY V. SPOOI,,ER. Mr. Spooner said this was a case sent by the mazistrates of Birmingham for the decision of their lordships. Ihe defendant, i t appeared, 20 years ago separated from his wife by mutual consent, she having at that time separate means of her own. Many years afterwards the husband, having heard nothing of his wife, married again; but even• tually the first wife became chargeable to the parish, and the defendant was applied to under the sth George IV. to provide for her support. This he refused to do, and the magistrates were anxious for the opinion of their lordships, whether the husband could be treated as a person unlawfully leaving his wife a burden to a particular parish, and amenable to the penalties contained in the said act. The Court was of opinion that he was not amenable to the act cited. BAIL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) H7s lordship was occupied the whole of the moaning in hearing a case of illegal distraint, which did not possess the slightest public interest. COURT OF PROBATE. WILLCOCK V. WILLCOCK AND DUTILOIT. The examination of witnesses in the case was resumed this morning. The widow, in this case, in the first instance, propounded the will, but the brother of the deceased, a resident in Canada, offered the granting of protate on the ground that it was not made in accordance with the act, and that the testator was not in a state of mind capable of executing a will when he signed the document. The property involved amounts to about £6OO per annnm, derived from an estate situated at Canonbury, Islington. The will directed the property to be sold, and several small legacies to be given to the testator's brothers and their children, and the bulk of the proceeds to be paid over to the widow. The Court pronounced in favour of the plaintiff. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A BURGLARY PREVENTED.—Two rough .looking fellows, namod Joeeph N eal and Robert Wi1.0., .roan charged before Mr. Knox, as follows : Henry Bartlett, 142 F, said that about one o'clock that morning he was in Dudley-street, and observed the two prisoners standing in a doorway, and then leave it, and poiat towards him. The prisoners then went into a public house at the corner of Tower-street, and walked through different streets, and back to Dudley-street, when they again placed themselves in the doorway in which he had observed them before. He then went up to them and asked why they were loitering about the street, and Wilson said they wanted to go to Old Mace's, a publichouse, to have something to drink. He told the prisoners the persons in the house had all gone to bed, and that they could go to at other house if they wanted anything to drink. Feeling satisfied what their object wag, he took hold of Wilson, and in an inside coat-pocket he found a long new rope (used by burglars for letting themselves down cellar flaps) and he then called for assistance and took the two prisoners to the station, when on searching Wilson he found some keys on him, and on Neal, who had thrown a box of matches away on his road to the station, he found a " jemmy" of first rate workmanship, some keys, and a candle, the usual stock of burglars. Mr. Knox, it having been intimated that a remand was asked for, said that sufficient evidence had been given that day, and remanded the prisoners, one of whom it was stated had been convicted. PICKING A CHIEF CONSTABLE'S POCKET.—Thomas Macarthy, a shoeblack, was charged with picking the pocket of Major Greig, chief constable of the Liverpool police, staying at the Westminster Palace Hotel, of a pocket handkerchief. Evidence force havingtv been given, Mr. K nox comm i tte d the prisoner with hard lab our, f or t h e unlaw fulEv‘omonths, possession of the property, the major not being able to attend. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, Friday. The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday morning. Princess Louis of Hesse, and Princess Helena, drove out. Prince Louis rode on horseback. The Prince Consort Memorial Committee held a meeting yesterday at the Palace of Westminster. Present—The Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Alderman Cubitt, M.P., and Sir Charles L. Eastlake. Mr. Bagellay, treasurer of St. Thomas's Hospital; Mr. Johnson, chairman of the magistrates of Surrey; and Mr. Tite, M.P., had a t interview with the Right Hon. Wm Cowper, Chief Commissioner of her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings yesterday, on the subject of a site sug gested for St. Thomas's Hospital in connection with the Thames embankment at Lambeth. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of the West India Islands, British Columbia, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and to the Governor of Bermuda. The Marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The marriage contract between his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and her Royal Highness Princess Alex andra of Denmark was signed on Thursday afternoon, at Copenhagen. Her Majesty's Minister at that Court trans mitted the news by telegraph to Earl Russell, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and the information was for warded to Osborne by telegraph, The Queen of Naples. The subjoined reply of the young Queen of Naples to an address of the ladies of her Court, presented shortly before her return from Augsburg to Munich, conclusively disposes of the cruel and wanton calumnies which have been circu lated within the last two months. The following is tran slated from the Munich correspondence of the Gazette of Augsburg of the 11th inst : " The Queen of Naples was received, on her arrival at Munich, by her mother, the Duchess of Bavaria, and all her suite. Her Majesty has received from the ladies of her Court, now in Paris, the following address : " ' Madam,—The ladies of your Majesty's Court, driven upon a strange coast by the tempest of the revolution, are impelled, once more, alike by their duty and their wishes, to offer your Males y, on another recurrence of New Year's day, their ardent aspirations for the re-establishment of your Majesty's precious health, in order that your Majesty may be enabled to proceed whether your heart calls you to join the King, our sovereign lord and master. " Under the fair Italian skies your Majesty will find tranquillity and happiness. We cherish this precious hope, and that that proud, luminous crown which adorned your Majesty in midst of the dangers of Gaeta, and the sorrows of exile, will acquire a new glory when you once more stand beside your Royal husband, the worthy son of St. Louis, Francis 11. Heaven will enable us to renew in the face of the world and at the feet of your Majesty the assurances of our devotion and veneration, when your Majesty shall be seated on the throne of your fair city of Naples, now de serted and regretting her beloved Sovereign. Deign, Madam, to accept our homage.' (Here follow the signatures.) " To this address the Queen sent the following gracious reply :1— " ' Augsburg, Jan. 4, 1863, Convent of Ursula. " ' Ladies,—Once more the evidence of your fidelity and your devotion comes to solace my exile. I gratefully accept the,wishes:you express for the re-establishment of my health. Placing all my trust in the Divine Goodness I await the moment which may restore me to my husband and enable me to partake his misfortunes and his hopes. " Receive, ladies, the assurance of nay thanks and my friendship, " MARIE.' " It is asserted that Queen Christinia is to be per mitted to retui n to Spain after an exile of about eight years. His Highness Prince Dolgorouky has arrived at Long's Hotel. His Excellency Baron de Gros, the newly-ap pcinted Ambassador from France, in the room of Count de Flahault, is expected to arrive at Albert•bate House, the week after next, from Paris, t) enter upon his diplomutic duties. The Marquis of Bristol is entertaining a family circle at Ickworth Park, Bury St. Edmunds. The Earl of Derby, accompanied by the countess, will leave Knowsley Park, Lanca , hire, on the 2d of the ensuing month, for town for the season. The Countess Gleichen (Princess Victor of Hohenlohe) gave birth to a son, at his serene highness's residence, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday night. Both the mother and infant are progressing well. Lady Lilford was safely delivered of a son, at Lilford Hall, Northamptonshire, on the 12th inst. Her ladyship and infant are progressing favourably. It is expected that his Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon will deliver a speech in the Senate on Ital'an affairs. The Prince has quite given up the idea of visiting Egypt. Notices of Motions in the House of Commons. The following is a list of the notices of motions as they stand in the order book of the House of Commons for the ensuing session, on the sth proximo : Mr. BLAKE—To call the attention of the Government to the defects in the Charitable Donations and Bequests Act (Ireland), and to inquire whether the Chief Secretary con templates any legislation on the subject. Mr. BLAKE—To inquire of the Chief Secretary for Ire land whether ho intends introducing a measure for the re form of the grand jury laws. Mr. BLAKE—To call attention to the Irish Lunatic Asy lums. Mr. COCHRANE—(Diplomatic Service)—That it is gene rally adn.itted that the expense of living in most of the European capitals has greatly augmented of late years, while the diplomatic salaries have been reduced rather than increased, and as it is not in the interest of the public ser vice that any class of officers should be notoriously un derpaid, this house is prepared to carry out the recommen dations of the Diplomatic Commission of 1861 with respect to the augmentation of salaries. Mr. CORRY—(Navy, Basin and Dock Accommodation)-- Select committee to inquire into the adequacy of the basin and dock accommodation in her Majesty's naval establish ments at home and abroad, and whether, if additional ac commodation should appear to be required, it could be ob tained with the greatest advantage in connexion with exist ing dockyards or in other localities. Mr. CUBITT —(Registry of Deeds, Middlesex)—To call attention to the present state of the registry of deeds for the county of Middlesex, and to move for a committee of inquiry. Mr. W. EWART—(Capit.l Punishment)—Bill for repeal of capital punishment. Mr. FITZGERALD—To call attention to the petition pre sented from the British residents at Constantinople, pray ing for the right of trial by jury in civil cases in the consu lar courts. Col. FRENCH—(Churches, Ireland).. Return of the names of all churches where the painting and cleansing of walls and ceilings has beet, done in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862 exclusively by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and of the applications refused, and the reasons given. Sir WM. WALLWEY-• (Game Laws)—Select committee to inquire into all cases relating to game. Sir Jorm HAY—(Prize Law Amendment)--Bill to amend and consolidate the law of prises. Mr. HUBBARD—(Income Tax)—To move, as affirming the principle on which any renewed income tax should be framed, that the incidence of an income tax, as touching the products of property, should fall upon net income, and that the net profits, gains, or salaries of persons and parnerships (not being public companies) engaged in any farm, trade, manufacture, profession, or salaried employment should be, previous to assessment, subject to such an abatement as may equitably adjust the burthen thrown upon intelligence and skill as compared with property. Capt. JERVIS—To call the attention of the house to the alleged grievances contained in the memorials and petitions presented to this house by the mili ,ary and naval officers of the late East India Company. Mr. L AlRD—(Chain Cables, &c., Merchant Service)—Bill for securing the proper testing of chain cables, anchors, and ship tackle used in the merchant service. Lord LOVAlNE—(Lighthouses)—ro call the attention of the house to the benefits to be derived by the commerce of this country from the adoption of improvements in the method now employed in lighting the coasts of the United kingdom and India. M ry M r Ag :f icu th lt e ur E a x l c l i n se du p st r r o y h ) i — bit T io o n m s o a v n e d a re: t re solution Mr. M Landlord and Ten agricultural ant, Ireland)—ln case e Government do not, at the o pe ning of the next session sricts i which nAdllem"ln no condemnatory industry. f Parliament, introduce, or announce their intention of in ducing, in Ireland, a measure oo move a the the eexe earliestistingl peaworifod of landlord d tenant the ession for leave to introduce a bill for the more equitable settlement of the relations between landlord and tenant in the' country, and for the abolition of the power of distress Col, NOR:TR—Return of all guns, arms, stores, and other property captured at Sebastopol, their value, and the manner in which the amount has been appropriated, Col. NORTH—(Military Reserve Fund) —To call the at tention of the house to the Military Reserve Fund, and to move that no commission she uld be sold for the purpose t o h f e t l h aw at r f e un a d iLn s_ g o long as any Sandhurst c adet who has Passed th e necessary exam i na ti on has not been appointed to a commi ss i on . common Mr. PA ulLt ( too G onr aelmtah g am e,we e of other animal Law aa nnidm A at Amendment) —Bill provideen notd n: beinge n tf)o—r theSt ih subjectt o amend of apprehen sion and punishme nt persons in unlawful possession of any bird, t beast, mm larceny at Sir JosEPH PAXTON—(G a me to inquire into the working of the ws view of enabling the Governm eia L t a) committee —Select game laws, with the to bring in a bill at a later period of the session that may be acceptable to the country. WESTMINSTER. RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS OF CHILDREN, John Knight, a chandler shopkeeper, in Old Pye-street, West minster, was charged with feloniously receiving a goose which had been stolen on Friday afternoon. Mr. Arthur Martin, poulterer, 5, Lower Eaton-street, Pimlico, said that at three o'clock yesterday afternoon he missed a goo a from the board outside his shop. The goose now produced resembled the one he had lost. Mr. Paynter inquired what evidence there was of the stealing the goose. The police replied that there were two boys in custody who were taken on Friday afternoon, and remanded until Friday, for the felony. In the course of their examination it was proved that they had taken the goose to the pri soner's shop in Old Pye-street, upon which a warrant was granted to searc!i his house, which resulted in the pri soper's being taken into custody. John Hat fleet, 36 B, said he went with the warrant last night to the prisoner's house, and having stated the object of his visit, prisoner said he might search—he had got no goose there. His wife then moved hastily from the shop into the parlour, but witness followed ber. She then went into a coal cellar and closed the door, but witness followed her and found the goose, which was hanging up in a very obscure place. On the way to the station the prisoner said ho had bought the goose that day for 4s. He subsequently stated that he had bought it for Bd. per lb. Mr. E. Lewis, solicitor, said that prisoner had been out all day, and knew nothing about the goose. Mr. Paynter remanded the prisoner till Friday. On bail being solicited for the prisoner, Mr. Paynter in quired his character. _ Michael John Shean, a detective, said that the prisoner and his wife had been long known to the police as notorious receivers of stolen goods from children. The place was being daily visited by juvenile thieves, who disposed of their booty there. A constant watch was kept upon the police, and prisoner managed his business so adroitly that the officers could not detect him. Prisoner was remanded, and bail refused. QUEENSLAND. The following month); abstract of intelligence, published for the convenience of European jour nals, appears in the Queensland Guardian, dated Brisbane, Oct. 18: The Governor returned from Cape York on the 24th, having satisfactorily completed the object of his mission. Port Albany, or Albany Island, one-third of a mile from the shore near Cape York, has been fixed on by his Ex cellency Sir G. F. Bowen as the site of the proposed sta tion. The township is to be namel Somerset, after the First Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. J. C. White, an enterprising colonist, has published a prospectus of a company to take up country near Port Albany, with the view of exporting horses to India. The commander of H.M.S.S. Pioneer, in which the Go vernor sailed north, has stated his opinion that the Great Barrier Reet is rather an udvantage than otherwise to the coast of Queensland, and that the dangers of Torres Straits are less than those to be met with in the ports of London and New York. Between October 31 and November 3 no fewer than four large immigrant vessels arrived from the United Kingdom —the Rajasthan, from Birkenhead, June 23, with 269 im migrants ; the Sultana, from Plymouth, August 2, with 4q); the Ocean Chief, from Greenock, July 14, with 330 , and the Prince Consort, from Queenstown, August 2, with 450. Some little temporary inconvenience bas naturally arisen from the sudden influx of se large a number of persons, and one or two cases of individual hardship have occurred, but most of the immigrants are now comfortably settled down in various parts of the country, and the demand for labour s far from being met. Telegraphic intelligence from England to October 2 reached Brisbane on the 11th inst. The mails arrived on the 17th. Fresh discoveries of gold and copper have taken place in the north, not far from Port Denison. Wool still continues to arrive in large quantities from the . nterior for shipment. The various cotton fields are looking remarkably well and the yield next picking must be considerable. The colony is again suffering from drought, and rain i earnestly looked for. The Queensland Steam Navigation Company are increas ing their capital, with the view of running vessels on the southern coast. Chinese sheep are about to be introduced into the colony, under the auspices of the Queensland Acclimatisa tion Society, Mr. A. J. Hockings, a citizen, undertaking the expense. The early closing movement is making good progress in Brisbane. Parliament is prorogued to April 21, to meet " for de spatch of business." The Tramway Company has at last disappeared in the Insolvent Court, and the work will be carried on by the Government. The Prince of Wales' majority Was duly celebrated on the 10th inst. A new channel bas been discovered through the bar of the Brisbane River, which will materially diminish the work to be performed by the dredge. VAn explosion of gas took place the evening be fore last at a milliner's shop in the Rue du Contrat- Social. A customer who was in the shop at the time was seriously burnt about the head and face, and the stock was instantly in a blaze. The damage, however, was confined to the shop, and is estimated at about 4,0001. THE WEATHER IN PARIS. --The mildness of the weather continues to be extraordinary for the sea son of the year. The thermometer yesterday, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, marked 61 1 — avvve zero Centigrade (44 Fahr.) THE SPRING HANDICAPS, WEIGHTS FOR. T Yrs st lb Asteroid 5 9 4 Ivanhoff .. 5 9 0 The Lawyer 5 8 12 Oldminster .. 5 S 8 Umpire 6 8 6 Caller Ou 5 8 6 Croagh Patrick 5 8 6 Buckstone 4 8 6 Brown Duchess .. 5 8 5 Knutsford 5 8 2 Dictator .. .. 5 8 0 Cowley 5 8 0 Ben Webster 6 3 0 Milverton 5 8 0 Zetland 4 8 0 Bellman 5 8 0 Joey Jones 5 8 0 Carisbrook.. .. 4 8 0 Brilliant .. 5 7 12 Dulcibella 6 7 12 Lizzie .. 5 7 12 Avalanche.. .. 6 7 12 Bally Edmond .. 5 712 Investment .. 4 7 12 Balham .. 5 7 10 Doefoot 5 7 10 The Monk.. .. 6 7 1,1 K;ng of Kent .. 5 710 Flexmore 4 7 9 Hartington .. 4 7 9 Johnny Armstrong 4 7 8 Beachy Head .. 4 7 8 Camerino 5 7 8 Gardener .. .. 5 7 6 Brighton .. 4 7 6 Costa .. .. 4 7 6 Charles Fox 4 7 6 The Knave .. 4 7 6 Portland .. .. 6 7 6 Northern Light .. 5 7 5 Chere Amie 6 7 5 Socrates .. .. 4 7 5 Henham Lass .. 5 7 6 Pisirro (late Duke Rollo .. 4 7 5 Benjamin .. 4 7 5 Alve iiston .. 4 7 5 Queen of Trumps.. 4 7 5 Myrtle .. 5 7 5 Bathilde .. 5 7 4 Shepherdess .. 5 7 4 Tolurno .. 4 7 4 Dusk .. .. 4 7 4 Tommy Jones .. 4 7 4 Straddle .. 4 7 4 Berkeley .. 4 7 4 Damascus .. 5 7 4 Fitz-Avon.. .. 6 7 4 Breechloader .. 4 7 4 Earl of Surrey .. 4 7 2 Uorse .. 4 7 2 Gaiety .. 4 7 2 Haddington .. 4 7 2 Welcome .. .. 4 7 2 My Ma! y .. 4 7 2 Viscount Brignall.. 5 7 0 Queen of Spain .. 4 7 0 L.cydes .. 4 7 0 Adventurer .. 4 7 0 Darlington .. 4 7 0 Lord Clyde .. 4 7 0 Silkstone .. 4 7 0 Lapidist .. 4 7 0 Lady Evelyn colt.. 4 7 0 Warminster .. 4 6 13 Magnum Bonum.. 4 6 13 Agag .. 4 6 13 Ataman .. 4 6 13 Jacqueline colt .. 3 6 13 Egyptian .. .. 4 6 12 Somersault .. 5 6 12 Patrick .. 4 6 12 Barbadoes .. 4 6 12 Merry Maid .. 4 6 10 Catch 'em Alive .. 4 6 10 Bosh .. .. 4 6 10 Captain Horton Rhys, CI Sargent were subscribers, but WEIGHTS FOR THE C STA. Age st lb Ivanhoff .. 5 9 4 Lawyer .. .. 5 9 0 Stampedo .. 6 9 0 Rapparee .. 5 8 11 Fairwater .. 5 8 10 Zetland .. 4 8 9 Compiegne .. 5 8 7 Oldminster .. 5 8 5 Dulcibella .. 6 8 3 Carisbrook .. 4 8 3 Croagh Patrick .. 5 8 3 Hartington 4 8 1 Knutsford .. 5 8 1 Bally Edmond 5 8 0 Dusk . .. 4 8 0 King of Kent .. 5 8 0 Monk .. 6 7 12 Brighton .. 4 7 12 Earl of Surrey .. 4 712 Sappho .. .. 4 710 Balham .. 5 7 10 Joey Jones .. 5 7 10 Rouge Dragon 5 7 10 Costa 4 7 10 Flexmore 4 7 10 Gardener 5 7 9 111 , n-at-Arms G 7 8 Welcome .. .. 4 7 7 Rubicon .. 5 7 7 Blthilde .. 5 7 7 Somebody's Lug- gage .. a 7 7 Haddington .. 4 7 7 Myrtle .. .. 5 7 6 Grimaton .. 4 7 5 Charles Fox • • 4 7 5 Cateh'em Alive .. 4 7 5 *Gorse .. .. 4 7 4 Ethel .. 4 7 3 Benjamin .. 4 7 3 Harlequin .. 4 7 2 Lioness .. 4 7 2 Victrix .. 4 7 0 Lord Stanley .. 47 0 Bonnycastle .. 4 7 0 Retento .. 4 7 0 Darlington .. 4 7 0 Barbadoes .. 4 7 0 Gemse 4 6 12 Bedouin .. 4 6 12 Incitatus .. 4 6 12 Tresham 4 6 12 * This horse having been ledge of the owner, will be strt unless specially ordered to rer E CHESTER CUP. Yrs st lb Kill or Cure .. 4 6 10 Victor .. .. 4 6 10 j Manrico .. 4 6 10 Roman Bee .. 3 6 10 Dalesman .. 4 6 8 Jealousy a 6 8 Cairncastle • • 3 6 7 Bernice .. .. 5 6 7 Freeholder 4 6 Killigrew a 6 4 The Brewer a 6 4 Blue Peter .. 3 6 3 I The Plover 3 6 3 Le Marechal .. 3 6 2 His Excellency 3 6 2 Marmion 3 6 2 Valentine 3 6 2 Liston 3 6 2 Canace 3 6 2 Trojanus .. 3 6 2 Port Royal 3 6 2 Royal Stag .. 3 6 0 Brother to Scent .. 3 6 0 T. P. Cooke .. a 6 0 Cygnet .. .. 4 6 0 Erin •go-Bragh 3 6 0 Mainstay .. 3 6 0 Prophet .. 6 6 0 Forester .. 4 6 0 Physician .. a 6 0 Real Jatn .. 4 6 0 M. Philippe a 6 0 Accident .. 3 5 13 Bohemia 3 5 13 Glenochty colt .. 3 512 Double X 3 5 12 Donnybrook .. 3 5 12 Donne Canne 4 5 12 Emily di Lona .. 4 512 Weatherspy .. 3 5 12 Barchettiva .. 3 5 12 Bro to Springbok.. 3 5 12 Dunkeld 3 5 12 Alice 3 5 10 Count Cavour 3 5 10 Lady Fauconberg.. 3 5 10 Black Deer .. 3 5 10 Monitor .. 3 5 10 Vision 3 5 10 Dr. Syntax 8 5 10 Columbine 3 5 10 Scamander 3 5 10 Glance colt .. 3 5 10 Sandford 3 5 8 Dualla 3 5 8 Ernest 3 5 8 Event colt 3 5 8 Lady Superior .. 3 6 8 Conical .. 3 5 8 Alcestis .. 3 5 8 Lufra 3 5 8 Anfield .. 3 5 8 Luscinia 3 5 7 Fantail .. 3 5 7 Sister to Sage .. 3 5 7 Middlewatch 3 5 7 Amelia .. 3 5 7 Jack of Hearts .. 3 5 7 East Lancashire .. 3 5 7 Contralto 3 5 7 Venison 3 5 7 Chad 3 6 7 Serf .. 3 6 7 Cansonette .. 3 5 7 Gelert 3 6 7 Father O'Leary .. 3 5 7 Muller .. 3 5 7 Jack o' Newbury 3 5 7 Watford 3 5 7 King of Italy 3 5 7 Voluptus 3 5 7 Manfred .. 3 5 7 Cobbler .. 3 5 7 Laertes .. 3 5 7 Lady of the Isles.. 3 5 7 'aptain Hawkesley, and Mr. t did not 'Lame. RE kT NORTHAMPTON iES. Age st lb M. Philippe a 6 11 Lady Evelyn colt.. 4 6 11 Physician a 6 11 Berkeley .. 4 6 11 African .. .. 4 610 Tithonius .. 4 6 10 Attatnan 4 6 10 Valentine .. .. 3 6 8 Go,den Dust .. 3 6 8 Freeholder .. 4 6 8 Philo, .. 5 6 8 Dr. Syntax .. 3 6 7 Double X .. 3 6 7 Fee 5 6 6 Btother to Scent .. 3 6 5 Dunsinane (late Moorcock) .. 3 6 4 Wild Duck .. 4 6 3 Glenochty colt .. 3 6 2 Equinox .. .. 3 6 2 Scamander.. .. 3 6 0 His Excellency .. 3 6 0 Hampton Court 36 0 Conical .. 3 6 0 Jades .. 3 6 0 Muffler .. 3 5 12 Detective .. .. 3 5 12 Ernest .. 3 5 10 Luscinia (tote En nerdale) .. 3 5 10 Lady Superior 3 5 10 Jack o'Newbury .. 3 5 10 Canzonette 3 5 10 Gelert .. 3 5 10 Fantail .. 3 510 Cobbler .. 3 5 9 Voluptas 3 5 9 Jack of Hearts .. 3 5 9 Falcon 3 5 8 Raglan .. .. 3 5 8 Watford .. .. 3 5 8 King of Italy .. 3 5 7 Picco, by Neville.. 3 5 7 Chaff .. .. 3 5 7 Bullet .. 3 5 7 Sylvanie .. 3 5 7 Sister to Sage .. 3 5 7 Netherby 3 5 7 Springbok .. 3 5 7 Zeloo 3 5 7 Little Nelly .. 3 6 7 entered without the know- Lek out by the time prescribed, Lain in. ST. LIZ HANDICAP. Age st lb Camperdown .. 46 12 Henham Lass .. 6 612 Lady Evelyn colt.. 4 6 12 Watchman .. 4 6 12 Teterrima .. 4 6 12 Lady Emma .. 3 6 11 Merry Maid .. 4 6 10 Hungerford .. 5 6 10 Weatberbow .. 3 6 10 Hubert 4 6 10 Tresham .. 4 6 10 Gunner .. .. 3 6 9 Stampede .. .. 3 6 9 lithonius .. 4 6 8 Walpole .. 4 6 6 Miss Hawthorn .. 4 6 6 Drumstick .. 4 6 6 Middlewatch .. 3 6 4 Kennett .. 3 6 4 Tiptoe .. .. 4 6 4 Br. to Morocco .. 3 6 4 Revolver .. 3 6 3 Muffler .. 3 6 3 Ernest .. .. 3 6 1 Lady Superior .. 3 513 Gelert 3 5 12 Jenny Wren .. 3 5 11 Jack o' Newbury .. 3 5 11 Father O'Leary 3 5 11 Antidote .. .. 3 5 10 Sylvanie .. 3 5 9 Hypermnestra .. 3 5 9 Safeguard .. 3 5 9 WEIGHTS FOR THE Age at lb Atherstone b 9 7 Lawyer .. .. 5 9 1 Fairwater .. 5 8 12 Croagh Patrick .. 5 8 9 Crater .. 6 8 9 Cowley 5 8 2 Gemma .. 4 8 2 Prince Plausible .. 5 8 0 Brighton .. .. 4 8 0 Lord Burleigh .. 4 8 0 Monk 6 7 12 Balham 5 7 12 Arcadia 4 7 11 Man-at-Arms .. 6 7 Turn of Luck 4 7 9 Fig .. .. 4 7 8 Rouge Dragon .. 5 7 8 W etsail .. 4 7 8 Necromancer .. 5 7 8 Charles Fox .. 4 7 4 Agag .. 4 7 4 Blackcock .. 4 7 4 Benjamin .. .. 4 7 2 Amy .. .. 5 7 2 uverton .. 5 7 2 Canwell .. 4 7 2 Lapidist .. 4 7 2 Buckenham .. 4 7 2 Eastern Princess .. 5 7 2 Golden L ust .. 3 7 1 Interduca .. 4 7 0 Flash in the Pan a 7 0 Incitatus .. 4 6 13 BETTING AT MANCHESTER-FRIDAY. For the Derby, 6 to 1 would be readily taken about Lord Clifden, 20 to 1 is the highest offer against Carnival, all the 25's that could be obtained were taken about Tom Fool, and 40 to 1, to a little money, was taken about both Michael Scott and Early Purl. Very little doing. For the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, 4 to 1 is offered on the field, Hospodar having rather the call of Saccharometer. There were offers to take 9 to 2 about either of them. Closing prices : TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 4to lon the field (offered) 12 to 1 bar two (offered) 16 to 1 agat Michael Scott (taken) THE DERBY. 6to 1 agst Lord Clifden (taken and wanted) 10 to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered) 100 to 8 agst Hospodar (offered) 20 to 1 agst Carnival (offered) 25 to 1 agst Tom Fool (taken freely) 30 to 1 agst Blue Mantle (offered) 40 to 1 agst Michael Scott (taken) 40 to 1 agst Early PUrl (taken) 50 to 1 agst Avenger (taken) WATERLOO CUP. 100 to 6 agst Mr. Spinks' nomination (offered) 100 to 6 agst Mr. Blackatock's nomination (offered) 20 to 1 agst Mr, Ingleby's nomination (offered) 22 to 1 agst r. Worrall's Mnomination (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mr. Brundritt's nomination (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mr. Gregson's nomination (offered) 30 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's nomination (offered) 30 to 1 agst Mr. Bake's nomination (offered) 33 to 1 agst Mr. Cloudesdale's nomination (taken) 33 to 1 agst Mr. Hammond's nomination (taken) 33 to 1 agst Mr. J. Jardine's nomination (taken) Miss Margaret Eburne has been engaged by Mr. Shepherd expressly to sustain the part of Jeanie Deans, in the forthcoming drama at the Surrey Theatre. Mr. Shepherd intends to produce his new drama in great perfectness and magnificence, and upon a scale almost, if not quite, unprecedented in his theatre. Mr. Henry Loraine is about to make his debut in the metropolis at the Theatre Royal , Drury •lan e . The high reput ation and p ositi on he has achieved in the prov i nce s will necessarily create a deep interest in the event amo ng all admirers of the rom antic and poetic drama,—Bra. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CITY BETTING—iIIs DAY. CHESTER CUP. 2000 to 60 agst Stradolla (taken freely) 33 to 1 agst Hartington 33 to 1 agst Dulcibella 33 to I eget Haddington 50 to 1 agst Black 'Deer 50 to 1 agst Enfield THE DERBY. stolon the field (offered) MANCHESTER BETTING --Tuts DAY. CHESTER CUP. 40 to lon the field (offered) 40 to 1 agst Double X 40 to 1 agst Plover More inquired after, lut no betting. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. Private letters, dated " For tress Monroe,Virginia, Jan. 1," received by our Chatham correspondent, announce several items of intelligence connected with the movements of a portion of the North American squadron. The screw-frigate Melpomene, 51, 600-horse power, Capt. Cf F. E. Stewart, arrived at Fortress Monroe on Christmas Day, and, having given provisions to the vessels at that place, sailed again on the 29th ult. Tne Melpomene was to proceed to Bermuda, at which she would call on her return to England to be paid off after being in commission upwards of three years and a half. The Peterel, 11, 150-horse power, Commander G. W. Watson, left Fortress Monroe for Charleston on the 26th of December, after which she was to proceed on a short cruise. Her Majesty's screw corvette Cadmus, 21, 400-horse power, Capt. J, F. Ross, was at Fortress Monroe at the departure of the mai!. A numerous party of shipwrights and other raechanics are employed on the iron paddlewheel steamer Recruit, 6, 166 borse power, in No. 4 dock at Chatham, where that vessel is undergoing some extensive repairs preparatory to being commissioned. At present she has her decks ripped up and her paddleboxes removed, in order to be supplied with new ones. She is also being furnished with new bulwarks. Her engines, boilers, and machinery have undergone a thorough overhaul at the hands of the dockyard officials, and a report of their con dition forwarded to the Admiralty. In the internal fittings of the Recruit provision is to be made on board for the following quantity of ahot and shell :- 240 filled 32-pounder shells ; 15 filled and 20 empty of the common, and 10 filled and 30 empty of the segment 20-pounder shells; and five boxes of the 12 pounder diaphragm shells. Her solid shot will in clude 480 32-pounders and 60 20 pounders. In the powder magazines she wilt take 73 cases of pentagon whole, and five cases of metallined half. Letters received at Portsmouth from the West. Coast of Africa state that her Majesty's screw gun vessel Espoir, Commander Douglas, had sent into Loando, for trial before the Court of the Mixed Com mission, a Portuguese boat captured at sea. The boat at the time of capture contained only five slaves, but it contained £l,lOO sterling in cash for the purchase of others. This would be the first time of the Court being called upon to exercise its func tions during a period of seven years. Considerable excitement prevailed among the traders and slave dealers on shore in consequence of the capture, but no doubt existed but the boat, slaves, and treasure would be condemned and become prizes to the Es poir. A large Dutch barque and a brig under Eng lish colours had been detained by the Espoir and sent in to Sierra Leone. The second master of the Espoir, who joined the last Niger expedition in search of Dr. Baikie by order of Commodore Ed monstone, had returned to his ship at the conclusion of the expedition. The Investigator, screw steamer, employed in the expedition, being a vessel of very light draught, was enabled to pass over the nume rous shoals existing in the river's course up to a dis tance of 200 miles from its mouth. Nothing could, however, be heard of Dr. Baikie. He was said to have started for a place called Sokatu, of the situa tion or extent of which but little is known by Eu ropeans. In other letters received from the same quarter slavers were said to be plentiful, and all the officers and men in the squadron were on the qui vice for captures and prize money. The Leveret, screw gunboat, tender to the Daunt less, screw guardship, in Southampton Water, will make her official trial of machinery at the measured mile, in Stokes Bay, on Monday, on the completion of her refit. The Tyrian, screw gunboat—of a new and improved class for foreign service—will make her official trial on Tuesday, and the En chantress, new paddle yacht, will make her trial of speed on Wednesday, weather permitting in each instance. The Egmont storeship remains at Spithead for final orders. Capt. Crauford has applied to the Admira'ty for Phipson's ventilating apparatus to be fitted on board prior to the ship sailing for her desti nation. As it could be fitted in about live says, and has proved its merits in the most c-atisfactory manner during a lengthened tris] on board the St. Vincent training ship at Portsmouth, there is every reason for Capt. Ceauford's request being acceeded to, especially as the Egmont will be placed at satis factory harbour moorings in a part of the world where a supply of pure air is one of the necessaries of life. The cost of fitting the apparatus on board the St. Vincent did not exceed £2OO. Her Majesty's ship Caradoc, 2, iron paddle vessel, was yesterday commissioned at Woolwich by Lieut. Wilkieson. In Portsmouth dockyard the main force of the shipwright department continues to be employed upon the Curacao and Esk, wooden frigate and cor vette. The iron cased frigate Royal Alfred and turret shipßoyal Sovereign are comparatively aban doned. The money allowed for the yard by the last voted estimates having been already expended, and ships of war being required to proceed at oece to foreign stations to relieve others whose term of ser vice has expired, and no small iron cased ships being yet available, the Curaeoa and Esk have to be at once prepared, while the experimental ships Royal Sovereign and Royal Alfred are necessarily delayed in their completion. No. 1 dock is vacant. In No. 2 is the iron corvette Sharpshooter, undergoing ex tensive repairs to her hull and ordered to be fitted with Commander Warren's patented bow rudder for experimental trial. This trial will possibly take place, if the ship's repairs are continued at the present rate of p. ogress, by the time Commander Warren receives his promotion by seniority as an Admiral. In No. 3, as we have said, is the Royal sovereign. N 0.4 dock is having its fhor and entrance deepened by contract. No. 5 contains the Esk, 21 gun screw corvette of 1,169 tons and 250 horse power, one of the wooden vessels in the yard for the repair of which all other important work is abandoned. In No. 6 dock an old paddle tug is being repaired, at an expense that would have pur -1 chased two tugs each far more efficient than the old rotten tub now being repaired at such an i s e o n c o c r u m p e u d expense. No. 7 dock is empty. N o • by the Curacoa, 31 gun screw frigate, 8 of 1,571 tons and 350 horse power, one of the two wooden shi ps that are just now a bsorbing the entire resources of the master shipwright's department of the yard. No. 9, the breaking-up dock, is vacant. No. 10, the Warrior clock, is also vacant, and available fur the public service. On the north-east side of the steam b as i n , No. 11 d oc k , a second Warri r dock, is f as t progressing in its construction by the contrac tors, Messrs. G. Smith and Co., of Pimlico. As in the case of the experimental ships Royal Sovereign and it:lyal A iced, the work would proceed at a much more satisfactory rate if the Lords of the Treasury would allow the Lords of the Admiralty to draw upon them for the required cash. On the build ing skips stand—first, the Helicon, a paddle despatch vessel, of 835 tons and 250 horse power, a sister vessel to the Psyche and Enchan tress ; second, the Harlequin, 6, screw sloop. of 950 tons and 200 horse power, waiting for Mr. Reed's transformation ; third, the Dryad, 51 gun screw frigate, of 3,027 tons and 800 horse power, in frame only, and waiting Mr. Reed or some other magician to convert her to an " iron-case ;" fourth, the to be iron-cased frigate Royal Alfred, of 34 guns, 4,046 tons, 800 horse power. A few hands are puttering about the Royal Alfred,but the remainder of the ships on the slip ways are deserted. In the steam basin the Enchantress, 2, paddlewheel de spatch vessel, of 835 tons and 250 horse power en gines, by John Penn and Son, got up steam yester day for the first time since fitment, and every part was fc•uud to work in a most satisfactory manner. Her official trial is expected to take place about the 22d inst. The other vessels in the basin consist of the Prince of Wales's yacbt,Osborne, under repairs; the Highflyer, 21 guns, 1,161 tons and 250 horse power ; the Wasp, 13 guns, 974 tons and 100 horse power; the Bulldog, 6 guns, paddle, of 1,124 tons and 500 horse power ; and the Tyrian, Charger, and Cracker gunboats, all also having repairs carriedout in hull or machinery. Alongside the south quay of the steam basin stand a long line of railway ti ucks,each truck containing a 51-inch armour plate for the Royal Sovereign, from the manufactory of Messrs. John Brown and Co., of Sheffield. At the north-east wall of the steam-basin is the battered target frigate Alfred, waiting to be broken up; the newly adopted target ship Powerful, waiting for new ex perimental. armour plates for testing by th e guns of the Stork gunboat; the Pigmy, paddle ten der, and Leveret, gunboat, the latter tender to the Dauntless, in Southampton Water, refitting; and the Lyra, 9 guns, screw sloop, of 488 tons and 60 horse power, lately paid off on arrival from foreign service at the Cape of Good Hope, and now brought down the harbour for survey and repair. In close vicinity to the steam basin stand a large number of boilers and a quantity of new and valuable naa. chinery, belonging to different ships building and in commission. A private building fi rm would carefully store and shelter the latter, b u t Portsmouth yard contains no provision for such a purpose, and the rule there is to store it in the open air, perhaps for the purpose of testing it by the weather before fitting it in the vessel. Alongside the south jetty of the yard the Frede rick, William, screw line-of-battle ship, 82 guns, of 3,240 tons and 500 horse power, is being brought forward for commission in May next, re port says, to relieve the fiigship on the North Ame rican and West India station. At tb, sheer jetty lies the Himalaya, screw troopship, Capt. Edward Lacy, 3,453 tons and 700 horse power, after having had extensive repairs effected by the steam factory department to her screw shafting, stern - tubing, propeller, and other parts of her ma c hi nery. This very useful and economical ship is now a ga i n wads - log orders for further service. A tremendous stock of timber is collected in the yard, the greater por tion of which is American white oak and teak. His Netherlands Majesty's frigate Daqtr..r sailed from Portsmouth yesterday for Batavia., calling in at Rio de Janeiro, on the completion of her repairs• Admiralty directions have been received at Chathatn for provision to be made on board the line-of-battle screw steamer_ Conqueror, 86, 500 horse power, fitting for the first division of the Steam Reserve, for the following supply of Arm strong and spherical solid shot and shell—viz., 560 filled and 2,000 empty 8-inch shells, 340 filled 32- pounder shells, 30 filled and 20 empty of the Com mon and 20 filled and 30 empty of the segment 110-pounder Armstrong shells, 150 filled and 100 empty of the common and 100 filled and 150 empty of the segment 40 pounder Armstrong shells, 50 filled and 50 empty of the common and the same number of the segment 20-pounder Armstrong shells, and 125 of the segment 12-pounder Arm strongs. Her Armstrong solid shot will consist of 60 110-pounders, 300 40-pounders, 100 20-pounders, and 50 12-pounders, together with 2,380 of the ordinary 32-pounder solid shot. Provision is to be made in the powder magazines for 690 cases penta gon white and 72 cases of metal lined half. The screw frigate Amphion, 36, 1,474 tons, 300- horse power, which was paid off about a fortnight since into the Chatham Steam Reserve, is to un dergo a careful survey at the hands of the dockyard officials, and a report of her condition forwarded to the Admiralty. The Admiralty have directed her boilers to be taken out, in order that they may be thoroughly surveyed, and a full report made of the state of the hull of the ship, boilers, and machinery. THE ARM Y. Earl de Grey and Ripon, Under-Secretary of State for War, accompanied by Major• Gen. A.Tu I lob, Director General of Ordnance, yesterday paid an official visit to the several departments of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. The Government having decided on enlarging and extending the present ordnance stores and gun-wharf at Chatham, to meet the increasing re qwirements of those establishments, an important application from the War -office was yesterday submitted to the Chatham L oca l B oard of Health, through the Royal Engineer Dep ar t men t. ',quest ing the sanction o f th e B oar d to t he eiovernment acquiring the public road lead-=g from High -street through Globe-lane to .ae drawbridges passing over the trenches ~.id skirting the building known as the mate , . 'souse. The purpose is that the Ord nance .ores may be extended as far as one side of .:Ae public thoroughfare known as the Military-road, including the adjoining plantation, the Government thus adding to the enclosure an additional six acres. In return for the road and land thus ceded to the Government the War Department proposes to hand over the Military-road, now belonging to the Crown, to the public of Chatham ; in addition to which it would construct a new roadway leading from Med way-street into the Military-road, besides giving the public some other advantages. The application on the part of the authorities g,,ve rise to consider able discussion at the board, the majority cf the members considered it desirable that every facility should be given the Government for increasing their establishments, provided they would grant the town a site on which to erect a townhall and other public buildings, tow greatly needed. Ulti mately it was decided to refer the application to a committee, and that a special meeting of the Board be convened to take the proposal of the Government into consideration. i A number of non-commissioned offi cers were 1 yesterday despatched from the head-quarters of the Royal Engineers, Chatham, to various districts, for the purpose of raising men for that branch of the service, which is much below its proper strength. The young men required for the Royal Engineers 1 are_skilled mechanics, p r i n t ers , surveyors , engra -1 vers, and photographers. SINGULAR CASE OF BREACH OF CONTRACT. -- T he Nantes Tribunal of Commerce has just g i ven judg ment in an action brought by a Madame Fouille against Count de Kona, to recover 500 f. for breach of contract, under the following curious circumstances : Notwithstand ing his aristocratic rank, to which it appears that he is by birth entitled, the defendant has for some time past been travelling the country in a caravan, exhibiting his countess, popularly known as "La Bell Normandi e, " i n the cha racter of a giantess. While recently exhibiting at Nantes, the countess suddenly resolved to retire from public life ; but the count, unwilling to relinquish so lucrative a busi ness, determined to find another phenomenon of the same kind, and, after some titne, discovered what he wanted in the person of a widow named Fouille, a dealer in second hand clothes, at Saumur. A bargain was concluded and duly signed, by which the widow, a woman of huge size, engaged to act in the threefold cc, acity of servant, dame de compagnie, and giantess, for a salary of 150 fr. per month, and one-fourth part of the sums collected from the spec tators after each exhibition in the caravan, She was also bound never to go out of the caravan except very early in the morning or after dark at night. The agreement likewise contained a clausa by which each of the contract.. ing parties would incur a forfeit of 500 fr. in case of not fulfilling its conditions. The wid ,w was duly installed in the caravan, but owing to some difficulties raised by the countess, she was discharged before appearing in her public character, and she in consequence sued the count for the amount of the stipulated forfeit. The de fendant elk ged as his reasons for discharging the plaintiff that she was an indifferent cook ; but the tribunal—consi dering that cooking was not the principal object of her en gagement, as was evide'.t from the high salary promised, and that she had not failed as a giantess—decided that she was entitled to the forfeit, and condemned the plaintiff to pay 500 f., with the costs of suit. FIRE ON BOARD THE GREAT BRITAIN.—About eight o'clock on Thursday evening the watchmen connected with the Great Britain, lying in the Bramley Moor Dock, discovered a dense volume of smoke issuing from the hatchway of the cook's berth. Assistance being promptly at hand, in about an hour after the alarm was given the fire was effectually subdued. The damage done was trivial. How the fire originated is unknown. I same of re )ther. 'nand lassi g that z. 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