The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-21 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is a moderate inquiry for discount accom modation, and the best short-dated - bills cau be negotiated at 31 per cent. On the Bengal division of the East Indian Rail way the traffic receipts for the week ending the 19th of October last amounted to £8,109, against £6, 0 12 in the corresponding period of 1861. The earnings on the North-West Provinces division were £2,765 against £3,747 in the previous year. The report of the Port Phillip and Colonial Gold Mining Company, issued in anticipation of the meet ing, recommends a dividend of 2s. 63. per share, forming, with the distribution of ls. i❑ July last, the fifth dividend, at the rate of 3s. 6d. per share, being at the rate of 17 per cent. per annum on the original capital. The continental exchanges yesterday afternoon exhibited no material alteration. The thirteenth half-yearly meeting of the Na tional Discount Company was held to-day—Mr. F. W. Russell, M.P., in the chair. Tee following is the report submitted for the approval of the shareholders :—The accounts for the half year end leg 31st December last, show a gross profit of £49,581 13s 4d, and that after providing for the current expenditure, directors' and auditors' remu neration, and reserving £14,556 64 10d for rebate of interest on bilis yet due, there remains for appro priation the sum of 129,599 14e 61. With results so satisfactory, the directors recommend that the dividend shall be increased to the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, which wilt absorb £15,41316e., and that the balance of £14,185 18e 6d be carried to the credit of the reserve fund, which, with interest, will then amount to £57,744 18s 4d. The chairman stated that he was sure the accounts would be favourably received. The affairs of the undertaking were in every way satisfactory. They had not achieved any very extraordinary results during the past six months, but the progress of their establishment had been steady and gradual. During the last two years the directors had not made any bad debts, but the proprietors must not expect the company to possess for ever an absolute immunity from the consequences of trade. No one could foresee the operation of future events, and it was not likely that the directors could always hope to have an entire freedom from bad debts. There was not one account on the books from which any loss was ap prehended. In attaining their present position great difficulties had to be surmounted. There were 2,931 shares unallotted, and, in conformity with the expressed wish of the shareholders, it was intended to dispose of them, with the object of car rying the premium upon them to the reserve fund. A resolution was passed . for registering the company under the recent Act of Parliament for the regula tion of joint-stock companies. Two O'CLOCK. The Three per Cent. Rentes opened to-day, at Paris, at 701., being k per cent. better than yester day. The Liverpool cotton market to-day was steady. Sales about 4,000 bales. The shareholders in the London and Westminster Bank held their annual meeting to-day, at which Mr. Alderman Salomons, M.P., presided. The fol lowing statement was submitted to the meeting : " The directors have to report that, after making provi sion for all bad and doubtful debts, paying the income tax, setting apart £2,000 toward.. the buildings of the bank, and presenting a gratuity of 10 per cent. on their salaries to all the officers of the establishment, the net profits of the bank for the last half-year amount to £llO,BBB 6s. 3d. This sum, added to £19,921 13s. ld., the unappropriated balance of the preceding half-year, will amount to £130,809 19s. 4d. Out of this amount interest on the rest or sur plus fund at the rate of 5 per cent per annum (£6,406 58.) has been added to such fund, which now amounts to £262,655 ss. The directors now declare a dividend to the shareholders at the ra•e of 6 per cent. per annum, and by way of further dividend out of the profits, a bonus of 9 per cent. on the paid-up capital. After these payments are made there will remain a balance of £4,403 Hs, 44. to be carried to profit and loss account for the current year." The chairman, who moved the adoption of the re port and accounts, congr,tulited the shareholders upon the continued and prosperous career of the bank, and said that not withstanding the depression of trade during the preceding year, and the estab lish,ne::t of rival institutions, they have been ena bled to divide 22 per cent., and to have secured a rest or surplus fund amounting to 1262,656. The motion was, after a brief discussion, unanimously carried. No change has taken place to-day in the market for English Funds, th, small amount of business negotiated having failed to produce the slightest fluctuation. Conso!s therefore remain at 92* a for transfer, and at 92a for the sth proximo. The New Threes and the Reduced are firm at 92i ; Exchequer Bills, 6s. to 75. prem. Bank Stock is flat at 235; India 5 per Cent. Loan, 1081 ; and the 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 1081 4. Continued firmness is perceptible in the Foreign Market, but business is quiet. Egyptian are 944 95; ditto, 2d i' , sue, 941, 95; Greek Coupons have improved to 69 7 ; Peruvian New Loan, 874 88 ; Portuguese ditto, 46ii ; Russian ditto, 96 ; Spanish Deferred, 461; ditto Passive, 24.9; and the Certifi cates, 91 10 ; Tutkish 6 per Cents., 1854, 852 ; ditto, 1862, 66* 67 ; and the Consolides, 401 Q ; Italian 5 per Cents. have risen to 691 s ; but the Venezuelan New Loan is flat, at GO -I. A firmer tone prevailed in the Railway Share Market. The dealings, however, were not very extensive. Great Eastern, Lancashire and York- shire, Metropolitan, and South Eastern 3 improved 65.; and North Westerns, 10s.; North Eastern (Berwick), however, have declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were in moderate request, without any material change in values. South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian realised 231 ; San Paulo, 23 Bahia and San Francisco, 211- ; Recife and San Francisco 19 ; East Indian declined to 107 ; 1 ,-, ; and Great Indian Peninsula to 1051 6. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares were in some instances at rather higher rates. Bank of London and Buenos Ayres improved to 14; English, Scottish, and Australian Charteri-d to 2l1; Crystal Palace Stock declined to 31 and 32; and National Discount Company remained firm at 8 . ,1. The shares of the British and American Ex change Bank are 6 prem. BRITISH FUNDS— ;LOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 9'2 3 / 4 I i i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .. New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 2i per Cent. Annuities... India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent Ditte Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. D tto 5 per Cent D• , bonds t1.90U .......... — Ditto uuder £1,000... .. Console for Account, Feb. 5 92 i Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 6 7 Ditto £5OO ............ 6 Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent • • . 00000 -- Ditto 42 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Chilian. 6 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent .............. ... Egpptian 7 per Cent ................. Ditto, Second Issue ....... Greek 5 per Cent. 1824-5, ex-Coupons, — Ditto Coupons . . Mexican 3 per Cent ........... . 1 Ditto Account 2 4 Peruvian 41 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto 1862 Ditto Account B7i 8 n 8 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account 47 / !Ditto . 1862 Russian 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 .. Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 Spanish 3 per Cent - Ditto New Deferred Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 , 85 i Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account. 7l/ Ditto 6 per Cent. 18'32 Ditto Accoum.. 661 7 61 _ Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditt o Account 231 Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Dividends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f 691 Ditto Acoo* 69 a THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money DiLt9AMllllteitttstitttlititititt, 92 1 V SHARE MARKETS—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. i raid.t Closing BUBilleSB I 1 -- - , Share; Railways. Price. ! done. ( ( 13.14 Bir., Wo 1., and Str. Val! all 8 84 25 I Blythe and Tyne. ! all 10 ! liost.,Bleat.,and Rid.k_!o ! all et 61 st Bristol and Exeter , 100 86 st Caledonian 1 101 114 1144 1144 4 50 Cork and Bandon all 20 (Cornwa i i I all 64 21 10 1 A gets no 01\ IDo A ii , ,' r all v 10 I Do. B t npe.pall.llaS t a n _ ..... been paid to B. ) 50 !Dublin A; Belfast, June. all 41 43 25 I [inn., Perth,& Ab..Tunc. all 13 14 st Edinburgh & Glasgow. 100 86 67 st !Glass. and S. Western. 100 105 107 st iGreatEastern, Ord. stkl 100 45 46 454 51 I Ditto A. stock at ! Ditto East. Anglian st 100 234 241 st IG reatNorthot Scotland . 100 st ;Great Northern ...... st Do A stock , t Do Bdo 5 Do. £5 shares 1 all et !Gt. S. an ! IV. of Ireland! 100 104 106 st :Great Western ! 100 67 (71 67 i 4 fi st I Do Str Val :gun. stock( 100 st ;Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 1094 110 1 109; 10 st 'London and illackwal , I 100 71 73 72} lf st ;Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast' 100 117 118 at (Lon., Chat., and Dover 100 38 39 384 st ;Len. & North Western 100 974 88 07, 84 st Lou.i & South Western 100 1025 1(.35 103 } st Ulan., Shet., & Lincoln. 100 414 424 50 ;Maryport and Carlisle all 12 4 , Do 4 shares 10 Metropolitan all vg- pi 1 0 } 94 8 1 (Midland 5.4.0 Do New at I Do Birming. & Derby 1.00 97 99 10 Mid Gt. \V. of Ireland all ? 5 Do. 4 shares 25 ;Mid Kent 10 I Do Cray Line et (North Br iti s h s 1 lEdin., Perth, & Dundee 100 254 2111 st INtlt. Eastern—Berwie , 100 991 991 994 25 Do, G.N.E. purchas, 16.13.4 —(. d st ' Do Leeds ioo t , 7 8,8 41 ! Do York st I Do Carlisle lOO 128 130 st North London 11' I New -' 19.16.4 Nort Do h Staffordshire I's N. and S. W. Junction all II 11 4 St IScottish Central st 'Scot N. E., Aher. stock 100 48 49 st ' Do Set. Mid. stock lOO 104 106 10 Shrews. and Welehpool all at 'Shropshire Union at 'South Devon lOO 33 34 st South Eastern st , South Wales st S. York. and River Dun 100 101 104 20 staines,Wok.,andWok all 7 5 25 Stockton & Darlington all 384 394 25 Do l5 10 10i p 25 Do New, 1860 6 7 74 p st Taff Vale. 1 0 Do B 8 4} 5} t , 10 Do C 3 2/ 3z p 50 Ulster 25 I Do 12.10 Do st IVale of Neath st IVictoria sta. and Pim lOO 140 145 st (Waterford & Kilkenny 100 Ft (West Cornwall lOO 29 31 at 'W. Hartlepool Har.&R i 100 St West Midland Oxford( 100 42 44 st i Do Newportt 100 35 37 st I Do Hereford 100 94 26 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. I 1 Closin,2 I Sharel Railways Paid.' Price. nsiness done _ 100 !Atlaniic &St Lawrenc, all 65 67 65 f I Bom.,Barodalz.Cent Int 6416 100 105 106 1051 Gu. 5 per cent. 20 Do. New 205 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 5 5 } 110 Do. Preference ...... all 71 84 100 f IButfalo,BrantAGodriel 100 80 03 ( re p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1,872 10 0 Do. do. July 1, 1877 100 73 76 100 Do. do. June 1, 1 5 ':4 100 73 76 st Clout tc...& S.Eastn. ( Lit ) 100 104 106 105} st Cape Town & Dock Seri! 100 108 it-9r stock Eastn. Bengal gm. sp. t 100 106.1 1071 stock East Ind:an, au. sp. c. 100 106 1174 107 4 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 5 1 lip 20 Do. do. H do. .. 5 6 1p 51 1 stock Grand trunk of Canada lou 211 224 100 Do. 3 per cent. Pref.. all 75 77 100 Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct.. all 65 67 65 100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. all 34 36 3* 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. all 48 52 481 9 4 100 Do. do. 1867 .. all 34 311 34 100 1)o. do. 1872 .. all 34 36 stock Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c. 100 1051 1061 106 5 6} 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 4 4 p 20 Do. January, 1852 .. 4 4 Il' stock ,Gt. Soutit.ot India(Lim unarantead 5 per cent. 100 104 101 1055 i 201 'Gt. W. of Canada Share, all 121 12* 204 Do. New .. .. . .... . 15 8 71,1 100 Do. 6 p.c. 73 with't opt.all 99 101 100 I 100 Do. 55 p. c. do. '77-8 . all 92 94 10 Indian Branch Limited 4'. 5 4p stock Aladras'guar., sp.c. .. 100 103 tut 103* 4 stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 97 99 stock De. 4 d 0........ 100 93 5 94 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock ttt•lb.coro.. , p. a. Bad 10 0 50 ; Hell). & Hobson's Bay. all 52 53 100 Do. 7p. c. Alortg. Bds. al, to ‘Tcwllr uns wick a Can, i Class A Capital Shan! all 3 5 10 Do. do. B Capital do. . al, 3 !) N.III.C'da.6 pc Ist ptbds 100 83 15 stoc, Acinde .... • • (') ! •• • • ) at I Do. Delhi ~ It 51 (061 I 4 t : 100 1( 21 114 1004 Do. do ' is - 2 -- p 20 Do. Punjaub ..... tt e. 15 i P st Do. Do. . .... ',,,?.. P , ~ 0 ¶ O 4 105 1011 4.1411 110. I rplus., - ; t . :1410.) - 11 ; .: 99 101 ~ '' 'LON ! AO, Pittil 1 , ',1i ',', M 3 , ',N 'l' 4 .; PO', C. till -'''•. 1., ,, 1r. ,, p.e..)4 ~ ; ,Joi) 1 I 1877-8* Do. op. e. Feb. tz, Ana.' 100 11:6 108 , Do. 6p. c.lti!,r.lz. Sept. 100 106 P 8 , Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 855 961 96 4 1 Do. 5 Inscribed stook, 100 1:4 S 6 cape G.Hope, 6 p 0,1871 100 10 , 110 103 Do.Ap a, Oct. 1880 . 100 111 113 Do. 1890 i 100 112 114 , Do. Jan. & July, 1891.., 100 111 113 ;Ceylon, N0v.1831, 6p c' 100 - -- 1 N..i.Gov. o p.c..) a., , z•July I 100 104 105 Lo. 6p. o.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. \V. Gov. 5 p c., 1806 100 10) 101 Do. 3p. e.,1871 to 1876 100 995 1001 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 99 093 994 4 i New Zealand 6p. cent. 1(0 109 111 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. ster:in:;, 1875 ' 100 105 106 , Queensland Gov. 6p. C 100 d 9 11: ' : -, .Ans Colp.c.lB7C,.&up ' 100 109 11l i Vle.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July : 100 107 109 1084 !Do. to o p.c. AnAtOet... . 1100 1( 91 llo} 109110* BRITISH MINES. 2 ;Cambrian Consol. Golds 1 par } o .:,litt ord Amalgamated ; -- 24 t 6 241 I Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ' 1 510 520 Fast Bassett (Illotran) I 10 53 65 55 1 ;East Clog au Gold Ltd.; ss. p 433 ' East Caradon ...... 1.14. e, 48 49 48 ' East Cam 8rea......... 3.0.0 11} la (14. W'l Russel (Tavistk.)' 7.19.0 4k 5 54 15 1 ,Jam..ltSt.Aubyn(Gwen.) 57 38 20 Great South Tolgus 17s 1 6 64 ILL Wheal Vor(Helston 40 6 61 I Grenville .. Herod's-Foot 8.12 49 51 t 1 ingston Downs 4.17.0 3 35 Lady Bertha Slargaret ((Jny Lelant, 05- 3) 41 Slarke Valley.. 4 tlyndy Iron Ore (Lim ) 2). 4da pr New Setun .. 191 150 16) North Downs 24 25 4.55 1'! Basset (11104 . an 2.17.0 21 1 ).Tortli Wheal Crafty - Car Consols (St. Blaney l4 b 6 20 ! l'rovidence(Uny Lelnt., 10.6.7 11 43 South Caradon(St.Cleer li 390 40) IS. Carn Brea (11logan) 5.15.6 24 21 ''..W heal Fran. (Illot;ran 18.1!-.9 90 go /Stray Park 5 i Tamar Silv.:t Lead Mitt. 44 4. i. 10 !tin Croit . 9 13i 134 i West Basset (111o3fan) ll 13 14 W Carzdon (Liskeard; 5 31 33 West Seton . .... . l7l 285 295 Wheal Basset illlogan‘ 5 5 7 74 82 4 :areal "tuner ( Redrutt t 5 50 1,5 Wheal kitty (li.Lelant) 2.0.6 74 84 WhealLud ott Wheal 31 aryAnn (Men ) 8 IS 16 Wheal Seton _ 585 240 250 250 ' v heal Tre ! a,vney (Lis.) 7 161 171 Wheal Union 3.13 51 6} PREFERENCE SHARES. Gt. Western ("erks & Ilants Ext.), red. 4 per cent., 89 London and Brighton, 5 per cent. Gila. Stock, No. I, 117 PREFE mENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton ac., 4i percent., 1801, 1031 41 Metropolitan, 51 LINES LEASED AP FIXED RENTALS. Ruckinahamshire, 97 North-Western, ,7 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 1i Bahia and S.O Franc sco (Um.) gua. 7 per cent., 211 Copiapo (I , :xtension), 4 t Great Luxembourg, 14i N. Rail of Buenos tyres, gua. 7 per cent. (11m.), 21, Recife an., San Francisco (lira.), gua. 7 per cent., 19 San Pau o lira.), gua. per cent., 14 --Ditto (all), 23 1 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 234 West Flanders, per cent. pref., 101 FOREIGN MINES. Cobre Copper, 20i 1 Dun Mount. Copper Min. Co. (1im.),"1 East del Rey (lim.), it Great N. Copper of South Australia (lira.), Mont. Aureos Braz. Gold Min. Co. (lira.), 2 4 I Port Philip, 11 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Agra and United Service (lim.), 95 Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (lira.), 25 A inn ralasia, 78 Bank of Egypt, 251 British North American, 51 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and Chins, 21 Chartered tier. of India, London, and China, 444 51 City, 924 Eng., Setif., and Australian Chartered.:2ll I L an nd, i ° on n 'a l3 a Hindustan, China, and Japan (11m.), 8 7t London Joint n London and Brazilian i1im.)."314 Colonial oc (Um.), 3.1 Ayres, and R. Plate.(llm.), 11 In 3NLLLI London ntn n t irdd d ooo o onpnn n a. a ndd M iddlesex,Provincial l t 34 2l ,oanta r a i t can, 25 l Bank r n ( i g i nlBll, 3 1 ) 2 11 Ditto, new, 21 New South Wales, 53 4 3 Ottoman Bank, ?44 South Australia, 341 Union of England and France Jim.), it I Union of London, 3243 MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Palace, 32 12 Company, London Gent rat Omnibus Company (lirn.), 1,1 1 National Discount Bl 11 North British Australasian, 1 Oriental Inland Steam (lira.), 81 4 Peninsular and 0 iental Steam, new, 45 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements (2', n 3 • DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.—About 3 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. London grocer, Merton-terrace, Kentish-town. The flames were not subdued until the stock in trade and the lower portion of the building were destroyed. Fires also took place in the house of Mr. Flower, tailor, 60, White Horse-street, Step ney, and Mr. West, grocer, 15, London-street, Greenwich, both of which caused much damage. The sufferers ix all these case* were insured, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE--This Day. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) JOHNSON T. JOHNSON AND HOTHUSOLL. This was a part heard cause, and was adjourned in November last for further evidence. The petitioner was a chemist residing at Preston and Liverpool, and sued for a divorce on the ground of adultery. The Court was satisfied with the evidence produced as far as the allegations at Preston were concerned, and this morning witnesses were examined to show the conduct of the wife at Liverpool and the treatment she received from her husband, which was invariably that of kindness. The learned Judge granted a rule nisi, but without costs. BRAGG V. BRAGG AND WILLIAMS. This was a petition for dissolution of marriage, presented by Thomas Bragg, with his wife Mary Ann. The peti tioner was a master on board the American ship Isaac Webb, ar d became acquainted with the respondent, who fulfilled the office of stewardess in the same ship. The marriage was celebrated in Brooklyn on the 11th February, 1853. Elizabeth Bragg, mother of the petitioner, said she re collected her son returning from America, and introducing the respondent to her as his wife. She produced a.memoran dura, signed by a clergyman in Brooklyn, to the effect that Thomas Bragg and Mary Ann Webb had been joined as man and wife. He saon left his wife in her care, while he went a voyage, and after he had been absent some time she (the wife) began to manifest some dislike to witness, and expressed her intention of leaving the house: She told her she had received her from her son's hands, and she should like to return her into his hands: Mrs. Bragg ultimately left her house, and she never saw her for many years alter. Mrs. Jones, of St. Paul's-square, Liverpool, said a female came to her house in the year 1855 and took apartments for herself and husband who she said was a mate on board the Columbine, which had just arrived from Ame lea. They remained some time, and then left. The name given by the parties was Williams. They returned again to her home in 1858, when they told witness that they had on that occasion just returned from California. After that he saw Mrs. Williams at Mr. Maguire's office. She then discovered that the person she knew as Mrs. Williams was the wife of Captain Bragg. Mr. Maguire said he was employed by Captain Bragg to make certain inquiries respecting his wife. He also arranged that Mrs. Jones should see Mrs. Bragg at his office. Capt. Bragg was present. When Mrs. Jones saw her she at once identified htr as the person who had resided in her house in 1855 and 1858. The case was adjourned for future evidence respecting the American marriage, his lordship stating that he was satisfied that the other allegations in the petition had been proved. WEBB V. WEBB. In this adjourned cause his Lordship granted a rule nisi. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE KRANCHEY. This bankrupt was described as of Regent-street, wine merchant, and the Lord Nelson Music-hall, New-road. An adjeurnment was ordered for accounts. The preliminary statement, by Messrs. Hart Brothers and Hayles, shows — Debtor to creditors, unsecured, £12,486 4s 9d ; assets, nil. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE C. 11. ST. TORN O'NEIL.) This banktupt was described as of Battersea, and Wel• lington-street, Gravesend, and this was an adjourned meeting for last examination. Mr. Abrams opposed, on the ground that the bank rupt had not complied with an order of the Court to render an account of his transactions with Messrs. Springer and Vignesle, wine merchants, at Bordeaux, who alleged that they had consigned wines and brandies to him of the value of £2OO, and had only recovered £27, and on their coming to London they found that he had left his place of business in Gray's-inn, and thereupon presented a petition in bank ruptcy. The bankrupt denied that the wines had been consigned to him, but he should endeavour to sell them. His Honour said that the account required must be fur nished, and ordered a further adjournment, the question of costs to stand over. _ IN RE LUMLEY. A meeting is appointed for a later hour in the case of this bankrupt, described as formerly of Her Majesty's Theatre, and of Hereford House, Brompton. The debts are stated by Messrs. Hart Brothers and Hayles at £25.049 to creditors unsecured. Bad debts, £600; property given up to assignees, £100; deflciancy, £21,849. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. A very small supply of English wheat was on sale here to-day. The trade, however, both for red and white pro duce, was by no means active, yet prices were supported. With foreign wheat the market was well supplied. A moderate business was transacted in most descriptions, and the currencies ruled firm. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair demand, at late rates. Malting barley was very firm at extreme currencies. Grinding and distilling qualities, however, met with a slow sale, on former terms. The malt trade was steady, at previous quotations. Oats, the supply of which was less extensive, moved off steadily, at Monday's decline in the quotations. Beans and peas were in slow request, at Monday's cur rency. _ _ In flour about an average business was transacted, at late rates. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English.— 410 270 i 710 i I 950 sack Irish.. — 1 100 • - Foreign.-- 2,070 3,710 i 1 , 380 200 brls BOROUGH HOP. Both English and foreign hops are in steady request, and prices are well supported. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat is moderate, and the trade rules firm, as follows : Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d ; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 4d per 81b. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE --This Day. LONDON, Jan. 2l.—Wind this day at noon—West ; strong liteez.3, and fine weather. It blew a gale during the night. COWES, Jan. 20.—Wind N.W., strong gale.—Arrived— Antelope, from Rio Janeiro. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 20.—Wind N.W., squally.—Arrived —Her Majesty's ship London, from Gibraltar. No arrivals. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, Jan. 20. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of Hesse, drove out yesterday afternoon. His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by Captain von Westerweller, left Buckingham Palace yesterday morning on a visit to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at Sandringham Hall, Norfolk. PRINCE ALFRED'S PHEASANT SHOOTING.—A letter from Naples, of the 14th, says—" The phea• sant shooting in honour of Prince Alfred was very bril liant. The party, including, besides the Prince, Major Cowell, Captain Craven, General Pomare, Marquis Tolem mei, Prince Fondi, Prince Gesualdo, Duke Marigliano, and other distinguished personages, set out for Caserta yesterday at 8 a.m., and opened the sport in the four great lawns of the park. Prince Alfred killed 25 pheasants, five woodcocks, and as many hares. At noon, the sportsmen sat down to breakfast in the pagoda, Prince Gesualdo pro posed the health of the Queen of England, when the band struck up God Save the Queen.' Prince Alfred returned the compliment by proposing the health of the King of Italy." CABINET COUNCIL —Summonses were issued yesterday, by direction of the Premier, fora Cabinet Coun cil on Tuesday ne.-t at his lordship's official residence, in Downing. street. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and a select circle went out shooting in Richmond-park yester day. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary have returned to Cambridge Cottage, Kew, from a week's visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beautort at Badminton. _ . _ - Duchess of Somerset and family arrived at the First Lord's cfficial residence at the Admiralty yester day, from Bulstrode Park, Bucks, for the season. The E of Derby has issued invitations for a Parliamentary dinner on the 4th of next month to a large circle of peers, his political supporters in the Upper House. Earl Granville, Lord President, will give a dinner on Friday, the 30th inst., at his residence in Bruton-street, to the Ministers and Officers of State, to settle the roll of sheriffs for the present year. _ _ The EArl of Radnor is receiving a family circle at his seat in Berkshire. Viscount Folkestone has arrived on a visit to his noble father from Longford Castle, near Salisbury. Viscount and Viscountesi Walden arrived in town on Saturday from visiting Mr. and Lady Charlotte Sturt at Critchill House, Dorset. Viscountess Dingarvan has returned to Chesham street from a tour of visits in Ireland. Lord William Powlett has returned to town from visiting the Duke of Cleveland at Raby Castle, Durham, Lord West has returned to Buckhurst Park from Brighton. _ _ Ludy Poltimere has arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, from Brighton. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governor of Heligoland. Despatches were sent to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of Frances, Countess Waldegrave, daughter of Mr. J. Braham, the eminent vocalist, with Mr. Chichester For tescue, M,P., Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, took place yesterday at Trinity Church, Brompton, in the presence of a numerous assemblage of friends. The wed ding party met at the church shortly before 12 o'clock. The Countess was attended by Miss Money, the Misses Neville, daughters of 'Viscount and Viscountess Neville, and Miss Constance Braham. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Leveson Harcourt, Chancellor of York, the Countess being given away by Colonel Harcourt, M.P. There were present the Earl of Abingdon and Lady Elizabeth Bertie, Lord and Lady Norreys, Viscount and Viscountess Neville and Misses Neville, Sir 'Warwick and Lady hioreshead, Sir Erskine and Lady Perry and Misses Perry, Sir John V. B. and Lady Johnstone and Miss Johnstone, Mr. and Lady Georgina Bertie and M.isses Bertie, Lady Ida Waldegrave, Mr. Wardlaw and Lady Horatio Wardlaw, Mr. and Mrs. Hervey, &c. After the solemnity the party repaired to the residence of Lady Horat o Wardliw, at Prince's-gate, where an elegant dejeuner was provided for 60 persons. At an early hour in the afternoon the Countess Waldegrave and Mr. Fortescue left town for Grove-park, near Retforel, Notts, the seat of Mr. Granville Harcourt Vernon. The Countess Waldegrave has been married four times; first, to the Hon. John James Waldegrave, of Navestock, Essex; secondly, George Edward, seventh Earl Waldegrave; thirdly, Mr. George Granville Harcourt, M.P., son of Dr. Harcourt, Archbishop of York ; and fourthly, yesterday, the Hun. Chichester Fortescue, M.P. for the county of Louth. The Countess is just turned her 42d year, Mr. Grove, the young medical student who so opportunely assisted her Royal Highness the Prin cess of Hesse, when she was thrown from her carriage in the Isle of Wight a few weeks since, has been presented with a valuable gold pin and a set of shirt studs. LAUNCH OF THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA.—In ac cordance with the invitation of the directors of the Thames Iron Works and Ship-building Company, a num ber of ladies and gentlemen yesterday assembled at the yard at Blackwall to witness the launch of a paddle steam yacht intended for the use of the Trinity Board of the Dublin corporation. The yacht, built from the designs of the sur veyor to the Dublin Trinity Board, is 945 tons burden, and in her lines is very graceful, her designer contemplating the union of great strength, with more than average speed, At ten minutes to two p.m. Miss Margetson, daughter of 0.,e of the directors, who is a partner in the well-known firm of Welch, Margetson, and Co., of Cheapside, broke against the port bow a bottle of wine, and christened the yacht the Princess Alexandra, wishing her good speed and all suceess. The vessel, which is built of iron, glided down the ways, and for the first time a steamer bearing the name of the future bride of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales floated in British waters. The launch was a com plete success, and in the water the Princess Alexandra — to which Messrs. Penn and Co. are to supply the engines —looked even more graceful than on the stocks. After the launch the visitors, e ccompanied by the directors, pro ceeded round the extensive works, and viewed .the pud dling of iron, the forging of armour-plates, the construc tion of the ram -cutwater of the new iron clad Minotaur, which will be launched in June or July; tha manufac ture of the rivets, the planing of the slabs of B2ssemer's steel intended for the Turkish and Spanish frigates in course of construction, and the numberless other processes carried on by the Thames Shipbuilding Company. EMBEZZLEMENT OF £3,163 BY A BANKER'S. CLERK AT HULL.—Considerable excitement was manifested in Hull on Monday, in consequence of the apprehension of a banker's clerk, named John Henry North, on a charge of embezzling the Hull Banking Company of the sum of £3,163 15s. 2d. The prisoner was brought up at the Hull Police•court on Monday, and from the evidence adduced it appeared that the prisoner had been in the employ of the Hull Banking Company for the past 20 years, and latterly occupied the position of assistant cashier. On the 12th inst. the prisoner was taken ill, and consequently was unable to attend to business. During his absence on Saturday last, Mr. Lambert, the cashier of the bank, had occasion to look over his cash account, and, to his great surprise, found a very large deficiency. He immediately sent a messenger to Mr. North's residence, with instructions to request his at tendance at the bank. Ho returned with the messenger, and on his arrival Mr. Lambert showed him the deficit and demanded an explanation. Prisoner immediately ob erved that he had the money safely deposited in a compartment of the cash drawer in which the cut notes requiring to be repaired wera kept. Ho was asked to produce them, when he drew forth a bundle of bank notes. He was requested to count them ; but he showed some reluctance to do so, and Mr. L. perused them,and found only £750. The prisoner then said he would make a clean breast of it, and admitted that he had taken the money in sums of £2O, £3O, and £5O at a time, extending over a period of 14 years, and devoted it to I the support of his family, the education of his children, and defraying his losses in railway speculations. He was then requested to step into a private room, and, in the meantime, Mr. Lambert, along with Mr. Wood, another clerk, pro ceeded to examine the accounts, and prepare a statement of his defalcations, which amounted to £3,163 15s. 2d. The statement was shown to the prisoner, who said it was correct within a few shillings of what he expected. He then said that he would exculpate the other clerks from all suspicion, and wrote a letter to the manager expressing his regret and sorrow that, on that day, his cash accounts, , as assistant cashier to the Hull Banking Company, were deficient to the amount of £3,163 15s. 2d., which sum he had at various times surreptitiously abstracted and devoted to his own purpose. About five in the afternoon Mr. Cobb, the manager, arrived at the bank, and the prisoner's defal oations were immediately made known to him. In the course of an interview betwt en the manager and the pri • Boner, the latter again admitted his guilt, and said as soon as the messenger went to his house he :knew that he had been found cut, and ho was glad that it was so, as it had taken a great weight off his mind. After hearing several witnesses, the case was remanded till next day. • A CUMBERLAND MAGISTRATE ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED.—On Sunday last the body of Mr. Ed. ward Atkinson Burrow, of Carlton Hall, Cumberland, a ma t. o gistrate of the county, was found drowned in the river ir whitenhataetnu, with horserday, appears, and conveyance,headbeenatanßdooletlfet,tnheearer 7 o o ' n clo h c i k sw in ay th o evening. Shortly afterwards he w as seen passing througha li b g ' h u te t 4, The E t nhke Meals railway where gates, he w with ou his h ave lamps cross the wate r . t river is at this part affected by the rise of the tide, and it i s gen tleman had been mistakensuPPosed that the unfortunate as to the time the sea would be drowned at high water, and had been e ed in attempting to make his way across. His horse returwndu to the neighbourhood o f Bootle, and was found in the farmyard at 3 o'clock next mor ning. Information having been given po li c e, search was made, vnd the body wa s n to the countya found that morn . about 11 o'clock, about 100 yards b e l ow B ak Wale THAMES. DARING ROBBERY BY AN OLD THIEF ON TOWER-HILL. —William Saville, aliis Savage, a well-known and desperate thief, about 20 years of age, was brought up on remand before Mr. Woolrych, charged with stealing a silver watch from the person of Edward Pearce, a respect able youth, residing in King-street, Tower-hill. On the afternoon of the 13th inst. the prosecutor was standing among a cluster of people assembled on Tower hill around a " hankey pankey" man disposing of some nostrum, when the prisoner seized his watch, twisted the ring from it, and was about running away when the lad seized him and called for help, which was at once rendered by a man named Bilbrook, who had been watching the operations of the prisoner, and his attempts to rob people for half an hour. The prisoner was secured, and he dropped the watch at the prosecutor's feet. It was re covered. Police- constable, 132 H, 'said the prisoner had been twice summarily convicted of felony, and on each occasion was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. On another occasion the prisoner was summarily convicted at the Worship street Police-court, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment and hard labour. A police man of the M division had informed witness he had a con viction against the prisoner. The father of the prosecutor said he wished the magis trate to dispose of the case summarily, and he did not wish his son to be wasting his time any longer. The lad's employers wanted his services. Mr. Woolrych—That is a secondary consideration where the interests of justice and the public security is concerned. It is no waste of time to prosecute a criminal in a court of justice, and it is the duty of every good and loyal subject to come forward and give evidence in cases of this description. The prosecutor's father—This is the second day my son has been here. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. Woolrych—Once more you will be summarily con victed, but if brought here again you will be committed for trial, and sentenced to a long term of penal servitude. I now sentence you to six months imprisonment and hard labour. THE TOTNES ELECTION. The election of a member to serve in Parliament for the borough of Totnes resulted yesterday in the return of Mr. Seymour, the Liberal candidate : Twelve o'clock. Seymour 142 Dent 111njority ... , -9 One o'clock. Seymour Dent 139 Majority Two o'clock. Seymour Dent Majority —l6 At tho close of the poll, tho numbers stood : Seymour Dent 157 Majority for Mr. Seymour ----8 The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 4 per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.171 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, It appears that gold is at about the same price in London and Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4224 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.4! per .£1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at CO days' sight is about 140 per cent., and the premium on golf is per cent. At these rates there is a profit on the importation of gold from the United States. FRANCE AND MEXICO.—La Patrie publishes the following in prominent type :—" Advices received via San Antonio informs us of the defeat of General Ortega by 5,000 men of our "avant-garde" against 25,000 Mexican troops, General Forey, at Puebla, was waiting for rein forcements. 6,000 French have landed at Tampico." ANIMATED SANDWICHES.—If we object to an apparatus of hoops carried by her who doubles our joys and divides our sorrows, how shall we regard an inflexible wooden garment with obtrusive edges and angles on the person of an ill-favoured and elderly instance of the opposite sex? Perhaps a smart appeal to the shins may be an appropriate reminder of the existence of the " Sydenham trouser ;" but we cannot think it is the right way of recom mending Mr. turns Reeves and " Israel in Egypt," having a tendency to make the sufferer wish that Mr. Sims Reeves and Israel were in Egypt, or further. But even if this mode of advertising were perfectly deceit, even if did not tend to impede locomotion, and to inflict personal injury, its cruelty would furnish sufficient grounds for abolishing it. Are we, who have done away with climbing boys and draw ing dogs, to tolerate the degrading exhibition of these stag gering men in our streets ? London hardly affords a more touching sight than one of these unfortunate creatures beating up the Strand in a stiff gale. At one moment be is scudding before the wind, spreading confusion among the passengers about him ; at another he is taken aback, and becomes an obstruction, sworn at by the profane vulgar, thrust at by umbrellas, poked at by the poles of vehicles. The only consolation that he has in life is, that they cannot hurt him. If he attempts to bear up and run for a friendly archway as for a harbour of lefuge he only makes matters worse, for if he misses stays in wear ing, the wind works its wicked will with him, and the boards flap and belabour his wretched carcase like the wings of some ravenous bird of prey. Amid all this palpable misery the fiction is kept up that he is a cheerful individual, and that—at least, so say the placards—he has " seen Peep o' Day and wants to see it again." Sometimes a dozen or so go in single file, commanded by a tough and seasoned old walking advertisement, who manoeuvres his men among the crowd at a rapid shuffle. In this case the rear is gene rally brought up by an asthmatic or shortlegged Peep o' Day, for whom the pace is too severe, and who, while he advertises his employer, puffs himself, and runs against you just as you are congratulating yourself on having escaped without any casualty.—Saturday Review. THE LAST OF HUNGIERFORD SUSPENSION BRIDGE. —Yesterday a number of workmen were engaged in removing the brickwork surrounding the anchorage of the chains on the Surrey aide of the river, preparatory to the taking down of the massive links which were used to sup port the wooden footway, These will be convoyed to Clif ton, where they will be employed in the construction of the suspension bridge. The only portions of Hungerford-bridge still remaining are the two lofty towers in the centre of the river and the chains, which latter are now in t b h e e en co c leared removal. The whole of the bridge proper hbaosen l e ft loosely away, many of the suspending irons havin g e tow ers will soon be hanging from the chains, lower portions or the centre of the roadway, the pulled d o o w f n t,baes new they railwayst a n t d o Nv h d b i r i l i i • e d e directly su pport a portion of the new piers being still retainsends meioany,Bridge has been used for 1345 (on which day it erection. Hun public traffic periodsince the of 17 years. The length was 1,342 was opened), a 14 feet, while the length of thecentral span the width bemtwgo piers was 676 feet. No less than 700 span between the gerf°trhde lstpoe'n usedits • . w ere in construction, at a cost of tons of iron £17,000, t h e masonry of the structure costing £60,000, and approaches £13,000. Its total cost amounted to £102,245. The engineer was Sir I. K. Brunel, from who se designs the i b r idge, which attracted much a d m i rat i on for many years ! was comtruoted. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CITY BETTING—THIS DAY. No transactions of any importance came under our notice to-day. Quotations remain unaltered. BETTING AT MANCHESTER TUESDAY. With the exception of 450 to 100 agst Saceharometer being taken for the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes (the backer wishing to go on), this may be considered a blank day. For the Derby offers Were made to take 12 to 1 agst Saccharometer, 22 to 1 agst Automaton, and 45 to 1 agst Early Purl without result. The betting on the Chester and Waterloo Cups is unchanged. Closing prices : TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 7 to 2 agst Ilospodar (offered) 9 to 2 agst Saccharsmeter (taken and wanted) 12 to 1 agst bar two (offered) THE DERBY. 11 to 2on the field (offered) 11 to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered) 12 to 1 agst llospodar (offered) 20 to 1 agst Carnival (offered) 22 to 1 agst Automaton (offered) 30 to 1 agst National (guard (offered) 45 to 1 agst Early Purl (offered) (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. No arrivals. Sailed—Yorkshire, for London in tow of two tugs; th e rest of the homeward bound getting under way. NEW DECORATION.--" A cross of a new Order," says the Prase, " may be seen in the Galerie Montpensier of the Palais Royal. It is that of Radama 11., King of Madagascar. lie has just given an order in Paris for 12,000 f. worth of this cross, which has seven points, is sur mounted by a royal crown, and suspended by a red ribbon with transversal stripes of a darker shade." _ _ THE FRENCH CORPORAL —A corporal in ,the French service is not a kind of hybrid soldier. He is not a private, neither is he considered a non-commissioned officer. He messes and lodges with the privates—gets the same rations, the same quality of cloth for his clothing, is obliged to live on terms of intimacy with them, play with them, and yet must command and punish when neces sary. Forced to live thus with these men, it requires tact for a corporal to remain friendly with bis comrades, and at the same time to retain his authority. It would be utterly impossible for him to do so were it not for the law of the French military service, which renders a superior liable to punishment if he neglect to punish a man who has miscon• ducted himself. Officers have long ago recognised the rank of corporal as the most difficult to fill in the military hierarchy. They have all admitted that the corporals are the cats aws of regiments. It might be imagined that un der such circumstances the corporal is a miserable man. On the contrary, he is the jolliest soldier in the regiment. In the first stages of his responsibility he may get a little de spairing at seeing that, do what he will, he cannot please ; but it soon wears off. He soon learns why he is always punished, and soon gets to know that he is a kind of vent peg for any officer or superior's anger. Hence, when a "blown-up" officer turns round and confines his corporal four days to barracks, the corporal will frequently give him a wink, and the officer will answer with a laugh. Officers having recognised the difficulties of a corporal's position, make allowances for his frequent punishments. Often his score will bo rubbed out. Officers show, also, great indul gence in other ways to these poor " softiies miseres;" besides which, they, in a certain measure, :fear them. A captain having a bad set of corporals will continually be reprimanded for untidy mon. Another captain, more conciliatory, will have tidy men, and always receive compli ments. The corporal can incite the men of his squad to work, and by his energy, zeal, and example, can make them rapid in all their duties. The corporal's opinion on any subject is accepted by all the men under his immediate con trol; he makes black popular to-day, and condemns it irre trievably to-morrow. He it is who makes an officer popu lar or unpopular, confers nicknames, and is generally at the bottom of all fun. When I had IL:en rigged out with a fatigue-dass, Corporal de Bona's told me that I looked like a pantin, a puppet ; that I was as still as the Colonne S en dome ; in fact, that I was a regular " godarn,' oh yes I" and offered to wager that he would cut round our room and touch the 40 men there before I could touch a dozen. This he proceeded to do in a most e x t raor di nary manner ; he s pun round the room like a peg-top, and first with one hand and then the other, and with each foot alternately, slapped and kicked every man, standing at the foot of his bed on purposP • then turned a somersault, and finished off w ith a few of the most admired steps of the cancan, and a gr9, - , t e sque imitation of the Colonel in a rage.—. Dickens's 04 Yoe ,R 91014." POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SAVAGE ASSAULTS.—AIice Goddard alias Taylor, a well-known virago, living at 8, St. Ann's-court, Soho, was charged with violently assaulting Agnes Hamilton, and inflicting serious wounds about her face with a drinking glass. The complainant, whose face was sadly disfigured, said that while in the Portland Arms, Great Portland-street, that morning about one o'clock, the defendant came in and asked her to have some brandy and water, at the same time handing her the glass. She pretended to drink but did not, and handed her back the glass, at the same time thanking her. The defendant then began quarrelling with her about a young man, and struck her two violent blows in the face with the glass, breaking it and inflicting the wounds on her face and covering her with blood. A constable arriv , ing, she (complainant) was taken to the Middlesex Hos pital where the wounds were dressed, and the defendant was taken into custody. Frost, 168 E, said he was called to the Portland Arms and saw the complainant bleeding from wounds on her face. He took hor to the Middlesex Hospital where her face was dressed, and another constable took the defendant to the same hospital, she having cut her hand badly with the glass. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the defendant was a little savage, and committed her fur two months with hard labour. John Tobin, of 6, White Hart-court, Tcttenham-court road, was next charged with assaulting, with a hammer, John Mahony, his next door neighbour. Complainant said that, hearing a noise in the court, he went down to see the cause, when a man, whom he had given evidence against in a case of assault, struck him a blow with his fist, and the prisoner then struck him a vio lent blow on the top of his head with a large hammer. He became insensible from the effects of the blow, and was taken to the Middlesex Hospital, where his head was dressed by the surgeon. Mr. Tyrwhitt—You had not got a nice little stick in your hand at the time, had you ? Complainant—Oh no. Mr. Tyrwhitt— Had there not been a regular shindy going on in the court ? Complainant—There was a little disturbance. A constable said he saw the prisoner strike the com plainant on the head with the hammer, but he did not see the complainant strike any one. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was impossible to say what might be the effect of the wound the complainant had received, and he should therefore remand the prisoner for a week. PEDESTRIANISM. RACE BETWEEN GARLAND AND WEBSTER.—The dis tance these metropolitans had to run was 200 yards, and pursuant to the arrangement made they met on Mr. John Garratt's ground, Wandsworth. The event produced some excitement, and there was a strong muster present. The odds were 6 to 4 in favour of Garland, and Mr. Garratt was chosen referee. The pedestrians had to start by report of pistol, and the referee having made selection of a compe tent person to act as starter, the pedestrians came to the mark. Garland, who won the toss for sides, had his oppo nent on the left hand, and when they stood at the scratch ready to bound off on the given signal, it was seen both men had taken the utmost care to get themselves in tip-top condition. On dashing away, Garland, who proved much the quickest on his legs, got the best of the start, and soon placed a rather formidable gap between himself and oppo nent. This advantage, notwithstanding the strenuous efforts made on the part of Webster to close on him, he maintained to the finish, and went by the goal a clever winner. PUGILISM. GEORGE HENLEY AND JOHN LYNCH.—These members of the P.R. met yesterday to decide their claim to flstic superiority, when, after anything but a pleasant aquatic trip, owing to the extremely boisterous state of the weather, the ring was formed by the assistant-commissary on well known ground. Henley, who is 24 years old, stands Mt. fitin., and has contended prior to the present occasion with French and the well-known Joe Nolan, of Birmingham, winning with the first-mentioned, but being defeated by the Brum. Lynch is 24, stands Mt. Yin., and has once be fore fought within the ropes, having contended with Bat chelor, whom he had the good fortune to defeat. Henley was brought out under the auspices of Jemmy Welsh, in days past one of the most scientific light-weight champions. Lynch (who is no relation to Charley Lynch) was backed from Jesse Hatton's, Homer-street, Marylebone, and was confined to 9st. 41b., while Henley was not restricted in weight. A referee, after some delay, being obtained, the belligerents stepped within the ropes. Lynch won the toss for corners, which was some little advantage in his favour, as the wind from the south-west was blowing a hurricane. The betting was level, but there was not much money laid out at the ring's side. The combatants at once went bustling to work, and after some exchanges, in which the men got in all parts of the ring, Henley got on with the left heavily, and Lynch, who spun round, went down near the ropes. In the second bout the first of the three leading events was won by Henley, and in the filth round he succeeded, as Lynch was coming in, in delivering a flush hit with the left, which instantly sent Lynch to gass. He was out of time, and the sponge was thrown up in token 4. - tf defeat. llenley, who had scarcely a mark, was hailed the winner, the battle having only lasted nine minutes and thirty seconds. There was to have been another contest between Welsh, of Birmingham, and young Frawley, for a purse, but owing to the appearance of tho police the "camp" was suddenly broken up, and, as the commander-in-chief had no ground convenient, operations were at once suspended. Notices of Motions in the House of Commons. Mr. POWELL—(Law of Evidence)—Bill to amend the Law of evidence so far as relates to the testimony of exports. Mr. PowELL—(Law Costs)—Bill to consolidate and amend the law of costs in action at law. Mr. :POWELL—(Ecclesinstical Lessees`—Bill for the further and better protection of the rights and interests of the lessees of ecclesiastical property. Sir FREDERIC SMlTll—(l.larbours of Refuge) —That so much of tho report of the Harbour of Refuge Commissioners as relates to Wick, Carlingford, Waterford, and Padstow be carried into effect. _ _ Sir JOHN HAY—(Harbours of Refuge)—To move that after Padstow, " Filey" be inserted. Sir FREDERIC SMLTII—(East India, Colonel Brown) — For an address for copy of correspondence. Sir FREDERIC SMITH—For a return of persons employed in the construction of iron-plated ships. Mr. SOMES—(latoxicating Liquors)—To call the atten tiun of the house to the sale of intoxicating drinks on the Sabbath, with a view to the introduction of a measure for its abolition. Mr. TORRE:CS—To move for returns relating to the woods, forests, and land revenues. Mr. WRlonTsoN—(Vacating Seats)--Bill to amend the Act of Queen Anne with regard to the vacating of seats in this house on acceptance of office. Mr. WYLD—To call the attention of the house to the present defective management of the barrack canteens throughout the United Kingdom. A MEDICAL OFFICER OF THE MANCHESTER WORKHOUSE CHARGED WITH PERJURY.—At the City Police-court, yesterday, Mr. Evan Thomas, one of the medical officers of the New Bridge-street Work house, and also one of the district medical officers under the Manchester Board of Guardians, was brought up under a warrant charging him with having, on the 6th of January, before Mr. E. Herford, the city coroner, been guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury, in the evidence given by him touching the death of Mary Ann 8011, late of Has senthwaite, Keswick, Cumberland.—Mr. Maybury, the superintendent of the Detective Department, said that he apprehended the prisoner about half an hour previ ously, under a warrant charging him with perjury. Witness read the warrant to Mr. Thomas, who made no reply.—Mr. Ellison—Are you prepared to go into the case 2—Mr. Maybury—l believe not to-day.—Mr. Robin son—l may state in this case I believe that I shall have the misfortune—for I feel it to be a misfortune —to ap pear to prosecute Mr. Thomas for the offence brought before you to-day. We are not at present prepared to go on with the case. The gentleman who instructs me has come from a long distance, and we are not prepared with our witnesses now. But, inasmuch as Mr. Thomas would be entitled to bail, and I shall not make the slightest ob jection to any bail which your Worships may think proper to require, probably a short remand, to the day after to morrow, will be most convenient. We shall then come fully prepared to go into the case. Probably Mr. Thomas will succeed in getting bail, and he need not then be sub ject to the inconvenience of being detained here.—Mr. Thomas said that he had sent for his solicitor.—Mr. Ellison: It is not proposed to carry the case to a conclu sion, or, in fact, one step further to-day. The only question is with regard to bail. We shall admit you to bail on producing two sureties of £lOO each, and yourself being bound in the sum of £200.--The case was adjourned to Thursday. DUNDEE.—MAN DROWNED IN THE HARBOUR. — Early yesterday morning the body of a man named Peter Taylor, a joiner, residing in Mid-wynd, was found by the men employed on the dredger, lying on a bank at the south side of the tidal harbour. We understand that he had wandered down to the harbour andstumbled was about 40 years of age, and lea ves a wife a n d family Scotsman. COTTON FROM 'TURKEY.., -.-The S m yrna Mail of the 31st ult., after alluding to the interest attach ing to the Smyrna and Adin Railway Com. tan Ephesus ia brought within ten op opening of of the which pang, by means days' journey of .England, says:--" But this is n o t th e on l y a dvantage which has accrued from the opening of this railway so far; it has laid open a fertile tract of land cap able of every cultivation, and adaptable more especially to that of cotton. Our columns have daily been nearly tilled with the reports of the cotton commission which has been established here, and the exertions which have been made, not only by the imperial Government, but by pri vate individuals, to increase the growth of this important staple of English requirement. Continually have we urged upon our friends of England the great efforts we are making to alleviate their wants, and how desirous we are of showing that Turkey, under the good administration it is now, is capable of becoming a country from which the introduc tion of exporting large quantities of cotton may even help , to rival America. The 12,000 bales of last year have aug mented to above 60,000 this season, and will next season increase to above 100,030 bales, which show not a small item for the capabilities of Asia Minor to supply cotton, considering the rude mode of cultivation hitherto adopted. Facts will, however, speak for themselves, and the public throughout the world will know in time the value which our journal has hitherto been in promoting the publicity of cotton cultivation here." The Conservative View of Lord Russell's Late Proceedings in Regard to Rome. The Prince de la Tour d'Auvergn.e throws some little light upon the functions of Mr. Odo Russell. This gentle.. man, who is, we believe, an attache to the Italian embassy, and who certainly has no official position in Rome, is kept there, it seems, to pester the Pope with solicitations to com mit suicide. He is in the habit of "pleading in decorous terms" the cause of Italian unity, and of urging the Pope to abandon his temporal power and subside into a simple bishop. We confess that we cannot see what useful pur pose is served by the presence of this gentleman in the holy city. The Pope cannot be in the slightest doubt as to the views of the English Government. Its members take every opportunity of expressing their abhorrence of his rule and their anxiety that he should be deprived of it. Mr Russell can tell him nothing upon that point which he does not know already. It would be absurd to suppose that Mr. Russell's exhortations, however eloquent, will have the effect of changing the determination of the Pope and his counsellors to defend what they believe to be the rights of the Church ; and it certainly appears to us sheer imper tinence on the part of the English Government to order a mere attache to thrust upon the Pope, whenever ho can get the chance, counsel which cannot fail to be offensive. Upon one of these occasions the Pope, who is a very good. humoured old man, after bearing meekly Mr. Russell's lecture, said to: him as he was leaving, " Adieu, dear Mr. Russell ; who knows if one day I shall not be forced to go to you to ask for hospitality Mr. Russell we are told, caught at these words, returned to the cabinet of the Pope, and asked him if he feared being obliged to quit Rome, and if in that case he would be disposed to go to Eng land P The Pope answered that he was ignorant of the trials Providence reserved for him, but did not at all dream of removing from Rome. No doubt an attempt will be made to give a different colour to this conversation. It will be asserted that, instead of making this general ro,- mark, whichis pretty nearly equivalent to who knows what will happen"— abo - at the only civil reply that could be given to a long exhortation to throw himself into the hands of the Philistines—the Pope actually asked whether Eagland would afford him an asylum. If he did so it will not excuse at all the proposal of Earl Russell. That Mr., Odo Russell should really believe, as we are bound to sup.. pose he did, that the Pope feared being abandoned by France, and was desirous of protection from heretic Eng land, only proves how ignorant a man with the best sources of information may really be. There never was a period in which the Pontiff could have entertained such an apprehension, and Mr. Russell and Earl Russell deceived themselves most egregiously in supposing that even if the Pope were afraid to stay in Rome he would flee to England or to an English possession. However, Mr. Russell reported the conversation, and Earl Russell caught at the chance of immortality. He had already settled the Schleswig-Holstein question to his own, entire satisfactien ; and if he could only add the settlement of the Roman question after a fashion which would give Italy her capital and completely checkmate France, he would at once take rank as the greatest statesman of Europe. So when Mr. Odo Russell went back to Rome in Nevem-. her he carried a note to Cardinal Antonelli, in which the Foreign Secretary advised the Pope to quit Rome, and offered to convey him to France, Spain—as if he could not get there without a British fleet—or Malta, where a palace should be placed at his disposal until his fate could be de termined by the Ministries of England and Italy. Cardinal Antonelli seems to have thought both Earl Russell and Mr Russell mad, and to have determined, in mercy to them, to say nothing about their grand scheme. However, Mr. Rus sell, who seems to have no other qualification than his name for his place, could not keep so big a secret, and buzzed it among his acqua i ntances. Earl Russell, with. characteristic imprudence, would not accept the retreat offered him, and instructed his kinsman to call upon the cardinal, express his regret at the non-acceptance of his propositions, and adds that he had reason to believe that his Holiness would in a very short time find himself under the necessity of accepting them. If some excuse may be offered for the original proposition on the ground that the Pope himself instigated it, no defence can be made for its repetition enforced by a menace. No doubt the English Government has a perfect right to make its opinions known to the Papal Government which can make no other complaint of them than that their manner is offensive. But, looking at the question from au English pint of view, we repeat the renewal of the proposition is without excuse. Earl Russell must have known that it could not be accepted. The Pc pe had just received the solemn assu rances of France that under no circumstances should he be abandoned. It had just been distinctly told that France could permit no solution of the quarrel with the Papacy which did not start from the basis of the maintenance of the temporal power. Is it conceivable that at this moment of his triumph, when his power seemed to rest upon a firmer basis than at any time during the last 13 years, the Pop e would leave Rome, and, accepting the asylum offered him by a Protestant power, await with calmness " t'nat spoliation of the Church" which, having before energe tically denounced, he would now unmistakeably in vite ? And assume that the Pope himself might have lent a favourable ear to the voice of the tempter, it is con ceivable that the men who surround him would allow him to betray, as they would term it, the Church of which ha should he the guardian ? Or is it conceivable that tho French would let him go, even if the College of Cardinals applauded the design and prepared to accompany him? The question is really not worth discussing. There is not a human being who will venture to assert that at the time this proposition was made there was the slightest chance of its being accepted ; there is scarcely one who will not agree with us that if it Lad been accepted and carried out England would have been involved in the greatest embar rassment. But Earl Russell has committed almost a graver indis cretion in the menace by which he enforced the offer than in the offer itself. What does he mean by "has reasons to believe that in a very short time the Pope would be under the necessity of profiting by it ?" He was at the time he wrote in receipt of a despatch from Lord Cowley, contain ing the substance of a conversation with M. Drouyn de Lhuys with referende to a communication of his own urging upon the French Government the evacuation of Rome. We will only say of that communication, that good as its intentions may have been it displayed the same extraordi nary ignorance of the p ,sition of the French Government, of the interests and difficulties which it has to consider, as the offer made by Mr. Odo Russell had shown of the Papal situation. It is enough that in reply to it M. Drouyn do Lhuys gave Lord Cowley distinctly to understand that France was not disposed to leave Rome, and that further dis cussion of the question was useless. Yet in presence of this assurance Earl Russell declares that the Popo will soon have to leave Rome. What does he mean? Does he intend to imply that the Emperor of the French is tricking: the Pope and means to abandon him very shortly - , or is he informed of any European combination, the object of which is the expulsion of the French from Rome and the presen tation of the city to King Victor Emmanuel ? That is the question which he will have to answer. For our own part we believe that his warnings had no reason and were only the expression of his mortified vanity. MS advice was coolly declined, and, as is usual with busybodies in that predicament, he cries out "You'll repent it."—atorning Herald. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. The ghosts of the Polytechnic, which manifest themselves as a startling appendix to Mr. Pepper's " Strange Lecture" on optical illusion, have proved singularly attractive, and when the hour arrives for their appearance the lecture-room becomes as crowded as the pit of a theatre on the night of Boxing-day. Mr. Pepper certainly hints in the course of his lecture that a concave mirror lies at the foundation of the spectral phenomena, but half knowledge of the cause by no means diminishes the wonder produced by the effect, so e kilfa a l i s s k t e h l e et u o s n e , made of a well known expedien t. There, in his cell, at the back of the room, sits the solitary student, till his the ü b c y u b a r a b t u i s o t n s ofA are disturbed,pollo n , intruders, ndWhat bdu s t that theymostu c he r offer f o r a is to fighti n g the curi o us accompanied first, b y by a young man. Enraged at the interruption, the s tudent en deavours to d e molish the n ore s eyesst aw ie ot e f h toe then hisp ty tou c h,ar spectator, A , an d he fi is n the ghosts are fully as substantial as the persecuted student—nay, on one occasion, he becomes even more shadowy than his visitors. The lecture and its awful supplement over, an illusion of another kind, addressed, not to the eye, but to the ear, is effected by Mr. Devon, a moat accomplished ventriloquist, who holds converse with three imaginary persons, respectively situated in the garret, the cellar, and a box immediately before him, and receives answers in which the modifying power of distance and obstruction is imitated with singu lar accuracy. The pantomime of " Harlequin and Cinderella," represented partly by dissolving views painted by Mr. Hine, partly by the shadows of liv ing actors, is a happy combination of Christmas drollery with the phenomena that more particularly belong to a scientific establishment. The manner in which mechanical effects are produced by means of magic-lantern slides is most remarkable. The curtain, though nothing but a spectrum, rolls up with every appearance of solidity. ; —11.104,e issues from the pipe of Cinderella's father, the torrent which she crosses in her flight from the ball looks like a volum e of real splashing water, the wheels of her carriage actually revolve when she revisits the prince's castle. The drollery of the pantomime is materially assisted by Mr. George Beckland, who reads a humorous description of the passing scenes, and proves himself an excellent singer of comic songs. 0