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

A prospectus has been issued of the Panul2illo (Cuilian) Copper Company, with a capital of X 200,000, in shares of £4. The object is to purchase and work a well-known copper mine about 43 miles from the port of Coquimbo, with which it will soon be placed in connexion by railway. The ores are of low percentage., but in greater available quantity than at any o'her mine in the world. The price to be paid for the property, including seven 4urnaces, tramways, and plant, is 1120,000, of which £41),000 is to be in shares and £BO,OOO in cash. At the half-yeany meeting to-day of the share holders of the Loudon Dock Company, an increased dividend of li, or 11 15s, per cent. for the past six months was ordered to be paid, Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this morning (according to Mr. Reuter's telegram) the Three per Cent. Rentes Were quoted at 66f. 70c. Rather firm. The Market to-day for the English Funds has presented a rather active appearance. The improve ment of about percent. yesterday induced a num ber of operators to come forward and effect sales, Which at one time sent Consols down k, but they again show a slight recovery, and the quotations are 91 / for money and the 7th inst., and 911 for the February account. The New Threes and the ill Reduced Annuities are 901 91k; Exchequer B s 2s. 4 is• ; India 5 per Cents., 1061 ; and do. 4 per Cents., 1001. There is a decidedly firmer tone in the Foreign Market, and business is rather active. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are t-4 .1, ; do. Consolides, 471; Mexican, 37 ; Greek, 24/ 8 ; Spanish Passive, 341 I; do. Ce r tifi cates, 14 ; P eruv i an , 851 86 ; 3g ll egnese, 471 ; and the Confederate Loan, 4 0. b In the Railw a y Sh are M ar k e t th e d ea lings have been limited, and prices have, in several instances, exhibi n -l ed less. firmness. London, Chatham, and D o v er, South Western, Midland, and North Eastern ( Berwick) have declined Sc., and South Wales 10s. Me tropolitan, however, have improved 55., and South Eastern 10s, The Foreign and Colonial undertakings continue Without material alteration in value. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in limited favour. Metropolitan and Provincial have improved to 221 23k; Imperial Bank to 24; 1; and Bank of Wales to 11 ; National Shipping Cow- Pliny are quoted 1 to 1 prem,; Pacific Steam 2 to 24 prem. ; Contract Corporation, 21 3 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 3 1per Cent. C onso l s Ditto Amo unt 9lk 1 3 per C ent. Reduced 91 90k li New 3 per Cent. 9l 90/ 1k :New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891 New 31 per Cent. Annuities 6 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 annuities, 30 yrs, expire ith Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph). Aug. 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 k 3 per Cent 2 dis Ditto £5OO Ditto £lOO and £200 India Stock, 1874 Ditto 5 pet Cent. 1870 ... • . Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 looa Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent Ditto 4 per Cent Ditto ditto April, 1864 991 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Thtto Bonds £l,OOO — Ditto under £l,OOO 3 pm FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto 1859 Brazili an 5 per Cent D itto, 1839 and 1859 Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 Ditto Scrip, 1863, £45 paid Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Colombian 6 Scrip £l5 pd — Cuba, 6 per Cent. — - -Lilian 6 per Cent Ditto 4/ per Cent, Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 Dutch, 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guilders Ditto, £lOO Bonds — Zquador New Consolidated. 1 per Cent — Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant — Egrptian 7 pet Cent — Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. Ditto Account . 231 a 41 Ditto Coupons Ditto Account ll/ 101 fluatemala 5 per Cent. Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremman a Railway ) 77k . Mexican 3 per Cent ..... Ditto Account 36rl 7 Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deterred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 .. Ditto Account B5l 6 6} Piedniontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f — Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account... Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 45a Ditto Account • Ditto, 1863 Ditto Scrip, £l5 paid his.ssian 5 p er C ent., 1822, £ St 92 Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 Ditto 1860 Ditto 3 per C en t ., 1 859 ... Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 S ardinian 5 per Cent .. — ISPenish 3 per Cent ........ — D itto Account — Ditto New Deferred bitto Pafixive &,11,1itto Account . .34 rilkittt°,,hCert. of Coup not funded .. 14 it Swedis h, e t c"ilt rum ith ,,r Per Cent. Ditt o i— ". per Cent. 1854 Di tto ,t l ecount 69k t bi t tt l6 4 P, e c r „ C u e t nt. 1853. 70 1) !' t " 410 0 Bonds 73i tto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Axe° 671 Ditto 6 per ili C tt ent. 1863 ~'!ite G uaranteed, 4 per Cent. lO2 a,"ltt Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 ••enezuela 3 per Cent. ItA.6(p'emeruCnetn.;, - Ditto Account . .................. liirDividends on the above payable in London. tr iam, 5 per Cent... Ex. 10 Fl or i ns. u e gum 4 per Cent., Ex. 25f. ....... t''4l, per Cent. , E x , 12 Guil 641 Fr ni 4 per '' x ' . .... .x. reno., Cent. Certificates - Rentes, 4/ per Cent., Ex. 25f D itto Account . taliiii,,tto Scrip (1863£4285. 3d. paid — pm 1 Ditt 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 'Tunes — 0 Accourri... 67/ ........ ..,. , ~ TWO O'CLOCK L•ensols Moner 91 rs•.. o . e,,, .., i;:trttont .Feb.,w ................... ..,• 91 1 i Do _ Do New, 1866 Taff Vale.. ... ..... Do B Do C Ulster Do 98 100 10 18 38, 9 10, 7 i 7 t , 158 160 5 64 21 31 Do Vale of Neat 83 86 170 175 Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing "hare Kai lwaya Paid. Prioe. Business don( 130 ulantic &St Lawrence all 60 a sk I dom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind lot 104 k 1( 51 Gu. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. New . ...... 20 Do. E. Shares ,AP: Bu ff alo and Lax: Huron all 6 6% 10 - Do. Preference . 00 Butialo,Brant,&Godrici , j 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 187*. ,00 Do. do. July 1, 187: , 100 100 i 'o. do. Juuc 1, 18, 100 81 • - ileutt.a.,t S. Eastn. (1,;: , 100 102 1(4 St 'apeTown Dock Seri, 100 101 103 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. , 100 106 107 4tock Mist Indian. gu. sp. c. (00 1( 5% 1061 106% 20 Do. do. G Ext..— 15 I%p 20 Do. do. El do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada too 20 21 100 Do. Ist Fret. Bonds all 74 16 100 Do. do. deferred all 6 ) 52 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 68 70 68% 100 Do. do. deferred all 53 bo 100 Do. 3d P. ef. stock 100 Do. do. (I,terred all 40 42 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred all 23 C 5 stock Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c 100 hi 107 1061 20 Do. New gua. sp. o l2 11 11p 20 Do. January, 1862 stook Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 103% 1041 204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 10 101 10 20% Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 92 95 100 Do. 5% p. 0. do. '77-8.... all 86 88 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 1 I. stock Madras. guar., sp.c. .. 100 106 107 104% stock Do. 41 p. o. Extension 100 100 101 stock Dc. 4s d 0........ 100 26 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stook Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds. 100 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 59 100 Do. 7 p.c. Mortg. Bds. all 10 Newßruuswick Cands Class A and B. all 3 6 N.ltl.C'da6 po lat t bds 100 82 84 stock Soinde .......... \ (100 104 105 1011 stock Do. Delhi lOO 116 107 au Do. do ... r ot „9 2 ip 2% at 130. Punjaub S all 1051 1161 Do. Do. ....... te.,. 100 Vook Do. Indus. St. , kloo 101 103 , COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. l an.tior. is scJ 1113 1877-S1 - 100 105 107 102% Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 103 105 Do. 6p. o. Mar. & Sept. 100 103 1(5 104% Do. 6p. c. Jan.&July. lOC 93 85 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 94 Cape G.llopc, d p 0,187;) 100 106 108 Do.Ap & Oct. 188 C 100 109 111 Do. 18111 100 109 ill Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 112 114 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 108 101% Natal Gov. 6 per cant.. 1)0 1(8 110 N..8.G0v. 6 pm. J a.&J ul) 100 104 106 1(2 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. W. G ov. 5 p 18, 100 100 102 Du. sp. c.,18i.s to 1,1 100 101 102 991 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 1014 102% 100% 4 100 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling*, 1875. lOO 102 105 104 k 3% Queensland Gcv. 6p. C. 100 08 110 S. Ails G6p.c.1678.& up.. 100 108 110 - Vlo.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 1(4 106 'Do. to so.o. An.&Oot.. 100 1091 110% 110% I BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 I fd t.;iitiord Amalgamated.. 34 35 Devon G. Con..,"f avist. ) 1 560 67 0 --East Bassett(lllogan).. 30 t 8 60 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 52. Id par East Caradon .•... 3.14.0 27 28 East Carla 8rea........ 3.4.0 6 6 3 / 4 E. WlRussel(Tavistk.) 8.9.0 5 5 3 / 4 IGam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.; 58 ; t 8 10 —(beat South Tolgus.... 17s 4 4 3 / 4 , G. Wheal Vor (Ilelston 40 12 13 14 Grenville 0.16.1. 4 4 3 / 4 Foot 8.12 37 39 ilingeton Downs 4. 8.0 2 3 / 4 3 Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant s 14 16 Nlarke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim.) V I 4 1(1 New Seton l9l 90 100 —• North Downs 2l 11 11 Baseetallo4au 3.1.0 26 3 North Wheal Crotty tar Consols(it. Blazey; 20 Vrovidenoe(Uny Lelut.: 10.6.7 42 44 SouthCaradon(St.Cleer 415 425 3. Care Brea (Illogan) — Wheal Fran. (Mogan 1".18.9 60 65 Stray Park 5 l'arnar Silv..t Lead Kin. ti k Pin Crort 9 18 19 West Basset (Illogan) l 3 /4 9 3 / 4 10 3 / 4 W C radon (Liskeard) 5 18 20 West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) si. 85 90 c;'heal Bulleratedruth) N 22 3 / 4 27 3 / 4 Wheal Kitty (11.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLud, ott • Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) 8 14 12 Wheal Seton . 58 3 / 4 150 160 Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 21 22 Wheal Union 3.17 21 21 PREFERENCE SHARES. Gt. Western, South Wales, gua. 4 per cent., 89 Ditto, 4, per cent., 1859, 100 London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 99b Midland 4i per cent. pf. stk. rd., 103 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 4 3 / 4 per cent., pf., 98 3 / 4 London, Brighton, &c., 1 3 / 4 per cent., 1858, 104 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, Ditto, 5 por cent., 115 London and Chatham, 4i per Cent., 92 Wilts and Somerset, LOi FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Great Luxembourg, 121 Turin and Savona, Ditto (all), 14! FOREIGN MENTES, Cape Copper, lira., 71 iza Cobre Copper, 33 21 3} Mont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 2! Yudanaxuutana of S. Austrattia (lira.), 2/ JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Agrra and United Service (lim.), 124 Affiance Bank of Lon .can and Liverpool (Urn.), 471 Ditto, new, 33 Bank of Wales, Rm., 11 Consolidated Bank, lfm., 101 English, Sew ch, and Australian Chartered, 231 English and Swedish, Rm., 5 European Bank, Um., 3i Hindustan, L,hina, and Japan (Urn.), 31i Imperial Bank (lim.)," 24i Imperial Ottoman, .7i London and Brazilian aim.), 531 London and County, 61 60 London Joint Stock, 39 • London and South American, Jim., 71 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lira.), 24 3 National Provincial of England, Ditto, ditto, 38 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (lim. ) , 7 Standard of British South Africa (lims),2s} 5 Union of London, 41 t . „. DOCKS. Mr. Lilley addressed the jury for the prisoner, and con tended that the witnesses were in such a state of inebreity when the captain was robbed that their testimony was not to be relied on. He said it was just as likely the man had lost the money as that he had been robbed of it. The jury found the prisoner guilty. A po►ice constable said the prisoner had twice before been summarily convicted for etealing whatever he could lay his hands upon in dockyards during the hours the workpeople were at meals. On one occasion he cut a supply pipe from a ship, which would occasion the greatest inconvenience when it was discovered, the ship having proceeded to sea before the loss was discovered. He had also been taken into custody with a quantity of Muntz's metal concealed about his person. The Recorder asked the constable if he had ever known the prisoner do any honest work. The constable said the prisoner had worked now and then in different dockyards as a lumper. The Recorder sentenced him to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Great firmness still continues to be the charac teristic of the discount market, though the appli cations for accommodation have been now mate rially diminished. The enquiry latterly became active through the provision that traders had had to make for liquidating their bills, which were due at the end of the year, as well as on the 4th, and these arrangements having been concluded the rates are now lit-pt up because there is an idea ♦ery generally entertained that in addition to the require ments of the Bank of France, sovereigns will be de spatched to the Brazils. The rate prices for the best three months' bills remain at 611, and 61 per cent. About £3,000 in bar gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. The Pera, which left yesterday with the India and China mails, conveyed £80,078 in specie. The Canada has arrived from America with £27,128. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have ap pointed Friday next a special settling day in the shares of the National Bank of Liverpool (new), to be marked in the official lists, and the Lundy Granite Company and the Star and Garter Hotel Company, to be marked in the twice a week list only. Arr angements are in progress for the establish ment of a new line of steamships between Liverpool and Montreal, whare a company has been formed for the purpose, with a capital of £500,000 sterling. Tnere is to be a weekly communication with Liver pool, and a fortnightly or monthly service with London. The success of the Glasgow and Montreal lines, and the requirements of trade, are stated to justify the introduction of the project. SHARE MARKETS,--This day, Mr.. Wol., and Str. Val , litythe and Tyne. lloat.,SleaL,andMid. JO Bristol and Exeter Caledonian t 1 Ltd liaMiCni Cornw.iii Do A A gets no diN Do B , till tip c.p an.hiod ' been paid to Dublin & Belfast June. 'Dun.,Perth,:t Ab. Junc. i i Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. ,Great Eastern, Ord. stk 8 81 - - 81 81 83 €5 1201 1211 7 74 37 39 16i 17 97 99 107 10 50 51 47 49 s 8 Ditto A stock _ Ditto EastAnglian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern... Do A stock 127 )28 13,4 )32i 134 t 36 97 90 65 65) st I Do 14 do st Gt. S. an iW. of lrelan st Great Western st i Do Str Val gua. stock st Lazcashlie & Yorkshire st !London and 131ackw a 1 I st Lou., Bright.,& S. Coast st lLon., Chat., and Dove' st !Lon. & Nor' h Western st 'Lon. & Scr.th Western st ;Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 50 *!Maryport and Carlisle. 12i Dot shares... st ;Metropolitan st !Midland 4.4.01 Do New . • - 111 114 72 74 108 110 43s 444 107 i 1071 1011 1021 501 51 110 111 1291 7221 98 1,0 Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee INth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase• Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle orth London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews, and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern ,South Wales IS. York. and River Dun Stainea,Wok.,andWok. Stockton & Darlington 53 64 25 46 104 105 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOUPS. Railways. rail ( Closing Business i Prim , done. 59 60 91 92 119 121 1 2 p 78i 79} 11 114 122 126 98 100 63 64 83 Si 952 96 ihare 3.14. k 9.16.4 St. Katharine, 71i MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, is 1 Ceylon Company, 10A E. guild' and Australian Copper, 21 Gen. Cr( dit and h inane° of Loudon, lim., 6/ 7 Hudson's Bay. 171 # 4 International nnancial Society, Um., 101 91 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 ptr cent. Bonds, redem. 1670, issued 90, 831 Joint stoa Discount, 7 1 7 Ditto, new, t/ / 7 London leinannal Association, lim., 241 4 1 Mercantile Credit Association, lim., 71 Ocean Marine (Insurance), 191 I Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 79 The execution of the policeman Luke Charlea has been fixed for Saturday next, He now lies at Kirk dale. He was in the Bury force, and murdered his wife by throwing her into the canal at Pendleton. No movement has been made to obtain a reprieve for him. THE SUN, 140 :‘ , ',DON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1864. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day, OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) Adelaide Hyde, Emma White, and Henry M'Cormack were indicted for highway robbery, committed on the per son of Harriet Pease. The prosecutrix met the prisoners accidentally near Cranbourne-passage, when an angry dis3ussion arose, and ultimately the prisoners asked the prosecutrix whether they were thieves. She said they knew best themselves whether they were so, which led to a quarrel, during which she was robbed of her purse containing 3s. A constable came up, when the three prisoners were taken into custody, but not before she was violently assaulted, and also were the police constables. The jury acquitted the prisoners of the robbery. They were then indicted for the assault. The former evidence was repeated, when the jury found them guilty. The police-constables gave all the prisoners a bad cha racter. M'Cormack said the witnesses were mistaken as far as he was concerned, for he was at work at Hampstead-road when the assault took place. The Recorder directed some inquiries to be made at the place mentioned by the prisoner before he passed ,entence. William Smith, a potman at the Roupell Arms, Lower Charlton, was indicted for stealing a quantity of brandy, rum, gin, two legs of pork, a leg of mutton, and half a cheese, the property of his master. The evidence was entirely circumstantial, and the prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery. Ho further stated that he was in bed when the property was removed, and instead of stealing the property of his master, he should have done all in his power to protect it. The jury acquitted the prisoner, and he was at once dis- charged. A man named Reeves was indicted, with certain other persons not in custody, with robbing Henry Stevenson, the captain of a trading vessel named the John Murray, of Whitby, of £47. The prosecutor, it appeared, met the prisoner and some other people in Bermondsey, and after a little conversation they adjourned to a public house where the captain insisted on treating the whole of the people in front of the bar. They then went to different other public houses in Tooley street, and ultimately a row took place, when the purse of the pro secutor was stolen. The prisoner was present, and some of the witnesses said that he was the person suspected of the robbery, an from certain matters that took place after• wards, he was taken into custody and charged with the offence. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ROBBERY AT A. LICENSED VICTUALLERS. -- Ann Macarthy, in the service of Mr. Robert Lemon, of the Crown Tavern, Cranbourne-passage, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with robbing her employer of some spirits. From the evidence of Mr. George Lemon, son of the pro secutor, it appeared that this morning about 7 o'clock, while lying on the sofa in the bar parlour, where he had placed himself for the purpose of watching the bar, in consequence of money being missed from the till every morning, he heard the window of the room open, and on looking up saw the prisoner. She instantly retreated on perceiving him, but on going to her bedroom shortly after with a constable two bottles of spirits taken from the bar were found in the prisoner's dress pockets, and on being taxed with taking them she admitted doing so. _ In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the prosecutor (Mr. Robert Lemon) said the prisoner had only been in his service about five weeks, and that he had been seriously robbed while she had been in his service. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was one of the worst class of rob beries, as the prisoner lived in the house, and trust was therefore placed in her. Committed for two months with hard labour. THAMES. Arr IRISH ROW.—Catherine Briant, an elderly woman, was brought up on remand, before Mr. Woolrych, charged with violently assaulting and wounding Mary Leary. The parties live in an Irish colony in Glasshouse-build ings, Rosemary-lane. On the night of the 25th ult., after keeping up Boxing-day, Mrs. Briant invited Mrs. Leary into her room, whch she had no sooner entered than she called out " Take that you theiving w--," and struck her a violent blow on the head with a poker. Mrs. Leary fell senseless at her neighbour's feet, and was revived only by finding her finger in Mrs. Briaut's mouth. The prisoner was biting her finger and lacerated it. William Brown, 82 H, said that when he was called into the house where the parties lived Mrs. Leary was covered with blood, which was streaming down her face from a wound on her forehead. Mr. J ohn Comley, surgeon, 71, High•street, White chapel, stated that at halt-past 12 o'clock on Saturday, the 26th, or rather morning of the 27th, he was called to the poor woman Mrs. Leary. There was a wound on her fore head an inch and a half in length, and penetrating almost to the bone. The woman had suffered a good deal since, and there was a very great effusion of blood. Mr. Woolrych again remanded the prisoner until Tues day next. ATTEMPTED MURDER —Samuel Ford, who was re manded on the 28th ult. for attempting to murder a girl named Margaret Mahoney, at a house in Burton-entry, White Horse-street, Ratcliff, was again brought up. Mr. George King said, when the girl was brought to the London Hospital, where he was officiating as house sur geon, she was bleeding from a cut in the neck behind the ear. It was between three and four inches long. The patient was not in a fit state to be removed. Mr. Woolrych again remanded the prisoner until Wed nesday the 13th inst. MARKETS--This Day. HAY MARKZTS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 108 Od ; and straw, £1 5s to £1 10s per load. Trade steady. CUMBERLAND.—Mea4ow hay, £3 Os to £4los Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 5s to £1 108 per load. A moderate demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 108 Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 108 Od ; and straw, LI 58 to LI 10s per load, A fair inquiry. COLONIAL. During the last few days there has been very little busi ness transacted in Foreign and Colonial produce; no public sales have been held, owing to the market being closed for the Christmas holidays. Business, however' will be resumed to day. In the tallow market there has been a more hopeful feeling, and prices for both present and:forward delivery have shown an improved tendency. LUCIFER MATCHES vice FLINT AND STEEL. — Looking back at the old tinder-box of our boy hood is like looking back at the old wheel-lock muskets we see in the Tower. On one or two occasions when starting by the mail, the miseries of making a fire—that middle passage, to a desolate breakfast in chambers—was indelibly imprinted in our memory. The difficulty of hit ting the flint against the steel with due accuracy and force, and the chances of abrading the knuckles in this act, in the darkness of a winter's morning, are things the youngsters of this generation are charmingly ignorant of; and then when the priceless spark was obtained, the un happy Prometheus either had the mortification of seeing " people and parson going out of church," or of blowing the light tinder into his eyes in his endeavours to make it kindle. What a piece of barbarism was the sulphur match I There are old women now in the street who tbrast these abominations, done up fanwise, in your face, evidently with the idea of proving how old they are. But these preliminary agonies were small compared with the attempt to light the rough faggot-wood of a past age, often damp, and always too bulky to seize and retain the fire applied to it. When we recollect all these dismal prepara tions which Betty bad to encounter in years past, and then compare them for a moment with the manner in which things aro made easy to our Abigails, we see that civilisa tion is not confined to a class, and that science is at work to lighten the drudgery of the servant as energetically as it is to increase the comforts and enjoyments of the prince. Who invented the first lucifer -match ? We do not mean that abortive nitric acil bottle and phosporus match, that as often burned everything about it as it produced a light, but the clean little lucifer. How is it that we know nothing of the 'man who save millions all over the world endless trouble, whilst we are so eager to cumber our market-places with statues of obese alderman and purse-proud bankers ? Spectator. _ _ THE "GRAND PRIX CUVIER," founded in honour of the illustrious naturalist, and which is given triennially by the French . Institute, has been recently awarded to Sir Roderick Murchison, Director-General of the Geological Survey, author of " The Silurian System of Rocks," &c., &c. This is the first occasion on which that honour has been conferred on a geologist, it having previously been granted for advance made in the other branches of science in whice, as well us in gtology, Cuvier was pre eminent. On Saturday evening last, Police•offlcer Linfoot, who was on duty in the Rodley district, Bramley, called at one or two public-houses, where he asked for s hisky, &c., tendering no payment in return for it. He then proceeded to some of the shops in the village, and at Mr. B. Gott's went behind the counter, helping himself to figs, nuts, &c., in a most officious manner. The night being very cold, the liquors appear to have had a powerful and exciting effect upon him, for he afterwards threatened to take into custody nearly every person whom he met. Between 10 and 11 o'clock he met Joseph 3arnes, a wool scourer, of Rodley, who was quietly proceed ing home, and pounced upon him, and in a most cruel manner felled him to theground with his staff, cutting his head in several places,and breaking his jaw-bone. Some persons residing in the neigh bourhood hearing a noise, went out to see what was the matter. Barnes was crying out, "Lord have mercy upon me, he is killing me," the officer at the same time kicking him in the ribs with his heavy shoes, and replying, "If I haven't killed him, I will do so before I have done with him." The man was bleeding most profusely, and the neighbours assisted him into Mr. Tbackray's, shopkeeper, the officer beating his staff against several doors, making ir.- dentations an inch in diameter. He then went into Mr. Thackray's and insisted on taking Barnes a prisoner to the police station at Bramley, a dis tance of more than a mile. The neighbours remon strated with the officer, but to no purpose, the brutal policeman asserting that, "If he (Barnes) died on the road he would take him." They arrived at the police station about one o'clock, and the ser geant was called up. Barnes was found to be in a very exhausted condition, and some stimulants were provided by his friends who had followed. Mr. Laycock, surgeon, was sent for, and on examination he found seven cuts on the head penetrating to the bone, the lower jaw broken, and many severe bruises ,on other parts of the body. Under his direction the injured man was removed sbortly afterwards to the Infirmary, and Liufoot was taken into custody esterday, and conveyed to the Town Hall, at Leeds. Our correspondent adds, considerable dissatisfaction exists at Bramley, in consequence of the overbearing conduct of some of the police officers stationed there. During the past week, a ratepayer, holding an official position in the town went to the police station to complain of the conduct of one of the men, when the sergeant, without any just cause, forcibly took him by the neck and shoulders and pitched him out of the office into the street. Another account states that Barnes was perfectly sober when Lin foot—who, it appears, had been teased just pre viously by some men, one of whom had escaped from his custody—came up to him and at once felled.him by a blow on the head with his staff, and then re peated the blows in a most determined manner whilst the man was on the ground. There are numerous cuts on the head, all reaching to the bone, and in one place the skull is fracturea ; the lower jaw is also broken. The man is in a very dangerous condition, but was able yesterday (Sunday) to give his evidence before the Mayor, who, with Mr. Barr, attended him at the Infirmary.—Leeds Mercury. Brutal Assault by a Policeman at Bramley, SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS. The island called l'Etang de Diane, near the eastern coast of Corsica, is exclusively composed of oyster shells mixed up with the remains of certain other molluscs which are not edible: There is a tradition in the country, according to which the island at the time of the Romans carried on a brisk trade with the continent in pickled oysters, and all the shells were thrown into the sea at that spot. Whether this be true or not, certain it is that in Denmark and other parts of the shores of the Baltic there are similar accumulations of sea shells, all considered to be the work of human hands ; nay, Professors Worsae and Steenstrup are clearly of . opinion, that they date from the first inhabitants of Europe, whom they take to have been contemporary with the great xnammalia, such as the .Elephas prinzigenius, which many geologists stili persist i❑ considering as much anterior to the hun.an race. Vegetable ivory, in contacl with concentrated sulphuric acid, takes a splendid red colour, almost qual to magenta. At first it is pink, but gradually becomes deeper until it attains a purple when the acid has been allowed to act for twelve hours.—ln a recent lecture delivered by Dr. Pigeaux at the Jardin d'Acclimatation, we find some useful remarks on the subject of noxious creatures. Those birds which are particularly noted for the ravages they commit in corn fields are, on the other hand, ex tremely useful in exterminating insects. Hence Dr. Pigeaux recommends that their nests and eggs be respected, but that a corrective be applied to their excessive fecundity by destroying a part of them in autumn and winter. As to insects, even those which are considered noxious are useful in a certain point of view, inasmuch as they chiefly attack such plants as are originally diseased or weakened by some peculiar cause, whereby they promote the return of their constituent elements to the common fertilising stock, upon which the fruitfulness of crops and the consequent support of animal life depends. If by any accident the whole of the insect word were swept away at one blow, the consequence would be the most horrible famine ever witnessed.— Gaignani. A Vessel carrried over Niagara Falls. An obliging correspondent at Chippawa sends us an account of a melancholy occurrence which took place on the Niagara River on Monday last, which resulted in the death of one man by being carried over the fall, and caused imminent peril to five others, as well as the loss of a small vessel. Aboat eleven o'clock in the morning, the steamer A. D. Griffin, of Buffalo, reacbed that port, having in tow two scows, the Abby and the A. Murray, of Port Robinson. The captain of the steamer, not knowing the depth of water kept too far into the river with not sufficient steam to keep headway on the scows, One of the latter, the A. Murray, striking against the spites at the entrance of the harbour, swung around with the current almost into the jaws of the mighty cataract. The captain and four men who were on board, seeing the helpless position into which the vessel had got, and the great peril with which they were threatened—being within less than five minutes distance of the great fall—leaped from the vessel and boldly struck for shore. Four of them, the captain included, succeeded by great exertions in maintaining themselves above the surface; but, sad to relate, the fifth sank amid the leaping and boiling waters, and was carried over the cataract. In the meantime a boat, manned by two brave men, shot out from the mouth of Wel land River to the assistance of the helpless beings in the scow. The oarsmen, Messrs. F. Lauzan, jun., and George Morse, pulled boldly and swiftly out, rescued the men from their perilous position, and succeeded in reaching the shore just above the first rapid. One minute more and they would have been carried over the Falls to the great gulf below. Too mach praise cannot be given to the men by whose presence of mind, and courage four human beings were thus rescued from certain destruction. The scrow glided along the stream till it reached the rock almost on the brink of the cataract, where its course was stopped, and where it will probably re main till broken up by the ice in the spring.— loronto Leader. ARTIFICIAL STONE. —A Frenchman has patented an invention for pulverising the refuse of slate, and mixing it with some substance to produce an artificial material ap- plicable to the purpose of some of the best kinds of slates. AMERICAN MAIL STEAMERS DUE AT LIVERPOOL THIS WEEK. —The following are the names of the American mail steamers due at Liverpool this week, viz. : —The City of Washington, with dates from New York to the 26th December, may be expected at Queenstown in the course of to-morrow; the Nova Scotian, from Portland, Maine, on the 26th ult., may also be looked for at London derry to-morrow. On Saturday next the Cunard steamer Australasian, with dates from New York to December 30, Queenstown. Should the present however, the steamers may be de layedwe a i s l lt easterly rnlmuchwindcontinue, u b b e t yo re nd a h the regul a r time. THE WEATHER AT LIVERPOOL.—Such has been the severity of the weather at Liverpool and in the district during therpast few days that portions of the Mersey not exposed to the rapid wash of the tide have been covered with thick ice; while the various sheets of water inland have been frozen to an extent not equalled for many years past. The Exchange flags were deserted yesterday by a large number of constant frequenters, who betook themselves for enjoyment to the various skating-fields in the neighbourhrod. In fact, to use Exchange parlance, ice is " lcoking up" ever ywhere. We hear that the Count de Paris , who is now at Seville, i s e ngaged to be married to the eldest daughter of the Duke of Montpensier, the Infanta Isabel. May next is stated as the period fixed for the wedding ; but, in the meantime, the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier have gone to Madrid to seek the consent of the Queen. ACCIDENT TO 4R. NEWDEGATE, M.P.—A few evenings ago Mr. Newdegate, M.P., had a narrow escape from being seriously injured. On the day in ques tion, it would seem, the hon. gentleman, after visiting a friend residing near Leamington, left that town early in the afternoon in his gig, his servant driving. At Coventry the horse was changed, and Mr. Newdegate started on his way in the direction of Arbury alone. While passing along the road he was met by a small low coal cart drawn by a pony. From some cause, at present unexplained, the pony turned right across the way, immediately in front of the horse Mr. Newdegate was driving. The animal, a spirited one, took fright at the sudden obstruction, and made an attempt to leap over the cart, in which effort the gig was turned over, and Mr. Newdegate thrown out. Fortunately the hon. gentleman so fell that he sustained no serious injury.— Birmingham Daily Jost. INTERESTING TO PLACE•HUNTERS.—WhiIe Pre sident Lincoln was confined to his house with the varioloid, some friends called to sympathise with him, especially on the character of his disease. "Yes," lie said, "it is a bad disease, but it has its advantages. For the ficst time since I have been in office I have something now to give to every body that calls." Cui Borio?-0n Thursday, the London press offered its annual sacrifice to custom. Each paper omitted its articles to make room for a dreary history of the year, too lengthy for human perusal, too brief to be of the slightest use for future reference. The anathemas uttered at breakfast tables must have been an awful addition to the daily sins of London, and all gobemouches, conversationists, old gentlemen, and club loungers displayed it perceptible increase of stupidity and weariness. A dictionary, or in dex, or concordance, or collection of Mr. Byron's puns, is lively reading by the Fido of these things, and a London Directory would afford a zreat deal more amusement. Who are they written for? Even the penny papers insert them, though they at least cannot aspire to the honour of the •' file." It they did, they would print themselves on paper lasting more than an hour and a half, SIX BOYS DROWNED, On Sunday three boys were drowned in the Bold Venture Lodge, Over Darwen, and two others nar rowly escaped a similar fate. It seems that a num ber of boys and young men were sliding and skating on the ice, and while several of them crowded on one part the iee broke: In the rush which followed five boys fell into the water. Several of the by standers immediately rendered all the aid they could, but only two of the boys were rescued. The other three very suddenly disappeared under the ice, and the most vigilant efforts failing to rescue their bodies, the police were communicated with, and a large portion of the ice broken. The lodge:was then dragged, and after a search of nearly two hours the bodies were recovered. The names of the boys are George Fish, 13; James Bennett, 11; and Eli Mather, 14. A similar accident occurred at Macclesfield on the same day. A number of toys ventured on the ice on a pool in Park-lane, Macclesfield, which was not an inch in thickness. One of them, named Eli Atkins, a youth 14 years of age, slid on till some 30 yards from the side, followed by two younger boys, John Edwin Hilton, aged 13, and William Burgess, aged 12. Suddenly the ice at the spot which Atkins had reached broke, and the little fellow was plunged into the water. His two playfellows went to his assistance, standing on either side of the hole from which Atkins was struggling to extricate himself. But the ice was not strong enough to sustain their weight, and they too fell into the water, and disap peared immediately. Atkins still continued struggling, but was unable to get more than his elbows above the ice. A rope was thrown to him, which he seized with his mouth ; but he sank back exhausted, leaving some of his teeth embedded in the rope which ha had seized in the last struggle for life. Murders on the High Seas. The five men who were brought home from Montevideo in the Brazil mail steamer Parana, and anded at Southampton on Saturday, charged with the murder of the captain and some of the cre w of the ship Flowery Land, and scuttling the vessel were taken before the Southampton magistrates yesterday for examination. There are in all ten of the crew implicated in the crimes, five of whom, with two witnesses, were sent away from Monte video in the steamer Ulugnay for Livirpool, and the other five, also accompanied by two witnesses, . _ came home in the Parana. The British consul was afraid to send them all in one batch, they being such a desperate set of characters, and offered to send a file of soldiers to keep guard over them, but the above arrangement was ultimately adopted. The men brought by the Parana were heavily manacled. Their names are Marco Varto, a native of the lonian Islands ; Marciliano De Lacroix, a Greek; Miguel Lopez, a Malay ; George Carlos, and John Williams, three of them being men of colour. The magistrates on the bench yesterday were Messrs. J. R. Stebbing, F. Perkins, J. H. Cooksey, and 8.. Coles. The facts of the case will be found detailed in the evidence of James Early, whose examination was taken. This witness stated that he was a sailor on board the Flowery Land, which sailed from the West India Docks on the 28th of July last, and the five prisoners, four of whom could speak a little English, also formed part of the crew. The captain's name was George or John Smith, and the vessel was bound to Singa- pore. All went on well for five or six weeks, but on the 10th September one of the crew, a Brazilian, not among these who arrived by the Parana, struck the mate. Witneess was on the look-out house, and spoke to the mate, when they struck him again, and told Early to go into the deckhouse. He did so, and called the carpenter, who was aleep in his berth► and he went out. The mate was then lying on deck. Some of the men struck the carpenter, who went back to the deckhouse and stayed with witness all night. During the night he heard a noise on deck, but was afraid t 9 leave the deckhouse. Between 5 and 6 o'clock in the morning witness went on deck, and thence into the captain's cabin where he found the second mate and some o the men. They were around the dead body o the captain, which was covered with canvas, and the prisoner Lopez put a rope round it and pulled it up, and then they threw it overboard. There was a good deal of blood about the decks and the men washed it away. Witness also missed from the vessel the chief mate and the captain's brother. The sailors then got the money and the clothes that were in the cabin. One of them took com mand of the ship, and the second mate navigated it. They sailed the ship for 22 days, until they arrived at the entrance to the River Plate, where they determined on scuttling her. Witness got into a boat with the steward, cook, and second mate. The sailors ordered them to re turn, and they all did so, excepting the steward at whom they threw bottles of wine, which struck him several times. He remained in the boat till he was very much cut about, and then he got out into the water and was drowned. The sailors threatened what they would have done with him if they had had him on deck, and said it was too easy a death for him to the. After the steward was dead the men ordered Early to go down and clear the bottles out of the boat. The ship sank in about two and a half hours from that time, and witness thought that the cook and lamp-trimmer went down in her, for he never saw them again. Some of the men stopped on board till within a quarter of au hour of her sinking. They placed in the boats some clothes, bread, ham, and bottles of wine, and proceeded to the shore, landing on the open beach, and went into the country. The second mate managed to escape from them and made his way to Montevideo, from which place a man-of-war was immediately de spatched in search of them, and after a few days they were all taken prisoners. At the termination of the witness Early's evidence the magistrate re manded the five prisoners for a week, to afford time for communication with the Board of Trade. The Bordeaux journals announce the death in that city of Madame Marbeau de Terrelonge, aged 100 years and some months. 1321 1 44 4 1071 4 / ..,._ _ 104 2 51 1101 11 101 1291 I 1041 33 3 / 4 } 96 3 / 4 a AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) (Per the Canada.) QUEENSTOWN, JAN. 4. The Royal Mail steamship Canada arrived here a 1.20 p.m. to-day. She brings 63 passengers and 135,644 dole. The Canada landed 87 sacks of mails and seven passen gers, and proceeded at 1.40 p.m. for Liverpool, all well. During her passage home the Canada expe rienced Revere easterly weather. NEW YORK, Dcc. 21, Afternoon. The Richta. - Ind papers of the 19th report from Charleston that the Ironsides and three monitors became entangled whilst endeavouring to pass the obstructions in the harbour. The Ironsides would probably have to be abandoned, and two monitors were badly injured. Three pirates captured on board the Chesapeake were taken from the authorities by the mob whilst being . landed at Halifax, and set free. The schooner Genety, from Matamoras for New York with cotton, has been captured at sea by six men who shipped as passengers. The situation is generally unchanged. NEW YORK, DEC. 22, Evening. (Per the Canada.) All is quiet in Virginia. Averill's Federal cavalry have destroyed six miles of the railroad between Staunton and Gordonsville. The report of an engagement with Longetreet at Bear Station is confirmed. The Federala withdrew to Blair's Cross roads with a loss of 200 killed and wounded. SOO Guerillas are reported to be preparing to move through Pound Gap for a raid through the eastern portion of Kentucky. Another force is concentrating for a raid on the Louisville and Nashville railroad. Forrest, Ricuardson, and other guerillas are actively campaigning in the interior of SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. CANDIA. A correspondent writing from Canea (Candia) expresses himself as follows :—" The Governor has returned from his tour of inspection throughout the island. Tranquillity appears to be well maintained everywhere. The Spekiotes, hitherto the rest unruly, have now become the most orderly of the population, and the Pasha has been able to with draw all the troops sent against them. Our com merce is suffering much from want of adequate steam communication." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALLS'.-LAST EVENING. The hard frost having put a check upon hunting. for the nonce, induced several members who combine a love of the chase with their racing propensities to pay a visit to Tatter sall's this afternoon. But besides, several wended their way westward in expectation of seeing the complete list of the Chester Cup entries, in which, however, they were disap pointed. For the reasons already mentioned, there was a better attendance than we have seen for several weeks, but speculation did not take a wide range, nor were there any very heavy investments made. For the Two Thousand sto 1 was offered on the field, and 13 to 2 taken about Paris, half a point more being offered against Cambuscan. Scottish Chief was decidedly "fishy," as, after 1,000 to 90 had been laid, there were frequent offers to go on at the price, with no takers. The only feature of the day's movements was the advance of Paris, 100 to 8 having been booked in his favour to £250. Cambuscan did not seem try suffer by hay ing been recently the object of so much solicitude in certain. quarters, 100 to 7 being taken about Captain White's horse, although, before the close, the same price was obtainable to any amount. 1,000 to 60 each was accepted about the t "dark`' cracks, Blair Athol and Forager, &fur 20 to 1 had been laid against the latter. A few outsiders were intro duced, but the transactions in their favour, as well as the other animals backed, require no comment beyond the fol lowing list of quotations. Closing prices :-- Tennessee. The Confederates have been repulsed in an attack upon Fort Gibson, Arkansas. Kirby Smith's forces are concentrating to attack Little Rock and Fort Smith. The Confederates have been repulsed in an attack upon the outposts of Natchez, Mississippi. Reports, said to be exaggerated, are current at New Orleans of a mutiny among the coloured troops in Fort Jackson. The Federals have aban doned the Teche country, leaving a small:garrison at Brashear. General Butler has ordered an enrolment of white and black citizens in his department between the ages of 18 and 45, to be completed by Jan. 1. General Rosencranz is to supersede General Schofield in Missouri. General Burnside is in New Ycrk receiving much public attention. The Federal Commandant of Wilmington denies the statement that blockade running into Wilming ton is frequent. The destruction of the steamer Daylight is denied. The House of Representatives has voted an ap propriation of 20,000,000 dole. for bounties and ad vance pay to volunteers. The action of the people of Halifax in rescuing the pirates of the Chesapeake has caused considera ble ill-feeling here. The New York Herald has commenced a syste matic attack upon President Lincoln, saying that his fatuity and imbecility, where his personal par tialities are concerned, pass all belief, and that he is an amiable sort of man, but his works are too costly. It is reported from Mexico that Fidaurri, Gover nor of Nueva Leon, has declared in favour of the French. The Bavaria has arrived ont. (By Telegraph to Halifax). NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (Afternoon). The repart that the Ironsides and two Monitors were caught in the obstructions in Charleston Har bour has proved untrue. The Federal transport Star of the South, from Hilton Head on the 21st inst., reports that the Monitor Lehigh got aground while on picket duty near Fort Johnson, and was got off with the assist ance of two ironclads, but not before she was so badly damaged that she had to be towed to Hilton Head for repairs. One account states that she was damaged by the Confederate batteries, another that she sprung a leak. The shelling of Charleston continues. Southern accounts of Longstreet's engagement at Bear Station state the Fedsrals, after a stubborn resistance, retreated towards Knoxville. The Con federates lost 800 men, but captured a large number of waggons and prisoners. The Richmond papers of the 20th announce that a battle with Longstreet was expected near Jones boro, Tennessee. General Joe Johnstone is moving from Meridian to reinforce Hardee. Southern despatches assert that Johnson will command HardEe's army. Averill has cut the Virginia and Tennessee Rail road at Salem, damaging Longstreet's communica tion with Richmond. A large Confederate force endeavoured to cut off Averill's retreat bat failed. General Corcoran has been killed by a fall from his horse. The substitute system has been abrogated in the Confederate Congress. The Federal Congress has voted against submit ting the constitutionality of the Conscription Act to the Supreme Court. The passport sy stem for passengers leaving by American vessels has been revived. Federal war vessels have been stationed off the Narrows to overhaul vessels leaving New York. The steamer Vanderbilt has captured the barque Saxon, off Cape Town, and the Angela Pequina on the West Coast of Africa. The contest between Heenan and King has created great excitement throughout the country, and the result caused much disappointment. The Edinburgh and Asia have arrived out. NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (Evening) The steamer Saint Louis sailed yesterday from San Francisco, for Panama, with 1,250,000 in specie for England. The National Conservative Union Convention assembled at Philadelphia, are reported to have re affirmed the nomination of M'Clellan for the presi dency, and nominated Judge Campbell for the vice presidency. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Gold 521 prem. Exchange on London, 166; on Paris, 335. Stocks steady. New York Centrals , 1321 ; Illi nois, 116 ; Erie, 106 ; Six per Cent. U. S. Bonds, 105. Crude petroleum, 31 to 32 ; do. refined, 45 to 46. The Russian Government has issued an order pro hibiting the exportation of cattle after the 15th inst. from Southern Russia. It is believed that this step has been taken in consequence of the great drain of cattle now taking place, caused by the large purchases on account of the Vice roy of Egypt. THE VALUE OF LAND IN ENGLAND.—There is nothing in the " Arabian Nights" more surprising than the value of land in the great centres of commerce. The little tablecloth area at the south-east corner of St. Paul's, which gives the foreigner the best eoup d'oil of our architectural masterpiece, is worth £60,000. The value of land around the Bank and the Royal Exchange is still greater. When New Oxford-street was made, the land cost £57,000 an acre. In the improvement of Charlotte-street the land was purchased at £67,000 an acre. When the now thoroughfare was driven through Coventry-street and Long-acre, the laud cost £119,000 an acre. Mr. Cowper, the First Commissioner of Works, has carried an act for the construction of a new street from Blackfriars-bridge to the Mansion-house. Having brought in a bill which gave the street a width of 70 feet, ho proposed to increase it to 80 feet. Tho street is a very short one, but it was found that the addition of 10 feet would add £lOO,OOO to the expense, so the right bon. gentleman gave up the proposed extension. In some of the great provin cial towns prices are still higher. In Manchester, land had been sold by the square yard, and as much as £200,000 an acre has been given for sites in the best part of the town. At Liverpool, land has been sold at £3O per square yard, or nearly at the rate of £150,000 per acre. In some situations more than this has been given; in other parts of the town the price is £lOO,OOO per acre. In Bir mingham, the land held by the London and North-Western Railway was sold at about £60,000 an acre. TWO THOUSAND. sto 1 agst Fille de l'Air (offered) 100 to 15 agst Paris (taken) 7to 1 agst Cambuscan (offered) THE DERBY. 11 to 1 agst Scottish Chief (offered) 100 to 8 agst Paris (taken) 100 to 7 agst Cambuscan (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Blair Athol (taken) 100 to 6 agst Forager (20 to 1 laid once) 25 to 1 agst Coup d'Etat (taken) 27 to 1 agst Historian (taken) 33 to 1 agat Birch Broom (taken) 33 to 1 agst Appenine (taken) 40 to 1 agst Claremont (taken) .000 to 15 agst Fitnidine (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Horse Marine (taken) LOOO to 10 apt The Count (taken) RACING FIXTU FEB' RES FOR 1864. 'UARY. Harrow Chelmsford Spring Lincoln Hungerford cir. Nottingham Spring 1 Derby Spring 3 Liverpool Shrewsbury Doncaster Spring Warwick Spring l6 Durham Northampton 29 Catterick 3O Croxton-park Edinburgh Spring .. 2 Abergavenny o Thirsk 5 Epsom Spring Newmarket Craven Newmarket First Spring 25 Chester .. York Spring Salisbury . 12 Bath Manchester rarpendea Epsom 24 JUNE Ascotl 7 Stockbridge I Hampton l5 Chelmsford.. 2B Newton Odiham Bibury .. 22 Ipswich .. 3O Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Cotton market open quiet. Prices quite steady. Sales about 5,000 bales. Awaiting trade report from Manchester. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Jan. s.—Wind this day at noon—North- East ; moderate breeze, and :fine weather, with sharp frost. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 4.—Wind N.E.—Sailed-LFanny, for Matamoras. CLYDE, Jan. 4.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Camilla, from New York. COWES, Jan. 4.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Caesar Godef fray, from Hamburg for Valparaiso. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 4.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Ocean Chief, for Adelaide. FALMOUTH, Jan. 4.—Wind E.—Sailed—Prince Rupert, from Jamaica. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...... Jan. 18. via Marseilles ..Jan. 12. brazil and Cape herds, by British packet. Jan. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Jan. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Jan. 13. via Marseilles ...Jan. 24. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Jan. 9. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 13. via Marseilles Jan. 10. India (Bombay), via Southampton Jan. 11. via Blarseitles Jqn. 5 Portuga 1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 10. via Marseilles Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, ty Brit. packet.... Jan. 6, by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet.. Jan 8. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. lan. 10. Bahamas, via New York Mexico . ... Jan. 29. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, California. and British Columbia. } Jan. 29. TBE CONVICT SAMUEL WRIGHT.—The memorial on behalf of Samuel Wright, emanating from a meet ing of working men held at the Lambeth Baths on Christ mas Eve, was yesterday presented at the Home Mee. It contains 2,540 signatures. Other memorials have been forwarded to the Home Secretary, numerously signed by housekeepers and others. Several declarations prepared by Mr. Scott, solicitor, of Staples• inn, containing important statements with reference to the prisoner and the deceased woman, were also handed to Sir Ge or g e Grey yesterday morning. ARMY MEDICAL SUPPLIES.—The .Lancet com ments on the serious complaints, by the officers of the Indian Medical Service, of the defective supply of medicines, and states that the disasters of the Crimea, though not meeting with an exact parallel in India, are, in, the aggregate, vastly exceeded. The important 'medicines which of late years have been introduced into the practical treatment of various familiar diseases—such as podophyllin in liver affections, saracenia in smallpox—are completely unattainable; and others, in constant use in England— such as pepsine and lithia—are• only so in India through the private purchases of the surgeons. Our contemporary also points to deficiency in the supply of instruments, and well asks, wby, in a country where opthalmia is so preva lent, the opthalmoscope is not available, and why the microscope, laryngoscope, and the hypodermic syringe are still withheld ? DOUBTFUL IRRESPONSIBILITY.—In all times there , has been the fiction of some necessity for involun tary crime. In antiquity there were the Fates, superior to the gods in ruling the destinies of men. In the middle ages the stars had to answer for all human iniquities. Well says Moliere's Arganto in reply to the plea of desliny— "Ah Ah I Voici une raison la plus belle du monde. On n'a plus qu' a commetre tousles climes imaginables, tromper, voler, assassiner, et dire, pour excuse qu'on y a etc pousse par sa destinee." The French more latterly discovered the force of circumstances to be the prime cause of offence. And our mad doctors, changing the external for the inter nal, call it uncontrollable impulse, the impunity allowed to which is too certain to appear in multiplied crimes of un controlled impulses. PRINCE TORLONIA has lately borne the cost of the restoration of the " Gesu" Church, the marbles which were employed on the occasion having been of the rarest:and most exquisite kind,exhibiting, moreover, in their superb mouldings and cornices proofs of the most elaborate workmanship. The Prince is further pledged to have. T ented at a later period, and in the richest style, of the vault,-)d ceiling, and the decoration ox the churches_oc. this city, as the interesting e.ithedral in co , urb t e in wh;ch " ho tion at 13Julognc-sur-INILr will ere long the gilding in of that imposing edifice. h ev a e s r e y n way gage dwotortheryecotf tthhee p g i “ a n c d i p proportionsal altar' a t a . I s d a t do finebtt v have archi tectureit eY t i h . e oD se G a E t . 07 I. 7 r e d stcr,dN, or ar m ; The flames destroyed by fire early ou Sun .ty morn ton was totally regpreEtStoTilleijaCruntOhNat O I F V ‘ i l i e i b i n T r T y Southamp t on , near Towcc L U h d oafndthienfnai infant daughter narrowly escaped with their lives. ma de suchsti•aopnidwaprreogerae,,ses Tdaatnndontleicort tohbeievlai,lrudabanlcaciciin:i%S