The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-06 00:00:00

XONEYItiET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is not the slightest change to report in the condition of th© money market, either as regards the demand or the rater. The directors of the Bauk of Hindustan, China, and Japan have made a call of 1:5 per share payable on or before the 6th Feb. next. . Monday next has been appointed for a special settlement in the shares of the London and Northern Bank, and in the Upper Assam Tea Company, deal ings in the former to be officially recorded, but the latter are not to be marked. A petition for wit:ding up the New Brunswick and Canada Railway and Land Company will be heard before the Master of the Rolls on the 17th inst. The Foreign and Colonial Produce markets re opened to-day after the Christmas holidays. A call of £1 per share became due to-day on the Edinburgh and Glasgow New £lO shares. To• morrow, the 6th inst., a call of £l, amounting in the aggregate, to £90,000, is payable an the shares of the Bahia and San Francisco Railway. Two o'CLocK. Towards the close of business yesterday afternoon an improvement of k per cent. took place in the market for the English Funds, and another advance of k per cent. has resulted from the transactions entered into this morning. There is consequently a very buoyant tone, and an increase of business, Which, however, is partly occasioned by prepara tions for the settlement of the account. Consols are now 929 93 for money and the Bth instant, and 0 3 I for the 10th of February. An advance has also taken place in the New Threes and the Re duced, viz., to 92/ 93; Exchequer Bills remain at Bs. to 12s. prem.; Bank Stock, 2331 235 ; and India 5 per Cent. Loan, 1081 1. There has not been much activity in the Foreign Market, but prices have shown rather more firm ness. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, have improved to 841 85 ; do., 1858, to 70/ 711 ; do., 1862, to 67/ 6 8i ; and the Consolides to 39} ; Egyptian have advanced to 95 ; do., second issue, are 94/ ; Greek Bends, 16; a ; Mexican, 321; Moorish, 97 . 1 ; Por tuguese New Loan, 471; Russian do., 95/ 96; do., Scrip, has risen to 21 prem.; Spanish Passive are buoyant at 23 1 , 241; do., Certificates, 91 2 ; Italian, 701 ; and Venezuelan, 241. The operations in the Railway Share Market continue very inactive but a firmer tone prevailed. Caledonian, Great Western, London and Blackwall, and South Eastern improved ss. ; and Great Northern A Stock, London and Brighton, and North-Eastern (Ber wick), 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings re mained in fair request at steady rates. South- Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian improved to 23/ 24. East Indian brought 1071 ; Great Indian Peninsula, 1051 106 ; and Great Western of Canada 12/. Joint -Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares re roamed without any material change in values. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent lOB/ / f Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct,, 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 100 Consols for Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001 / Account 92i 3 Exchequer Bills, Cent 41000, 2f per 12 Ditto SmallB FOR EIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Egpptian 7 per Cent Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824,5, ex-Coup Am l6l i Mexican 3 per Cent . ......... — Ditto Account ... . ........... 32 Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent .......... 97f Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 .......... 471 Ditto 1862 Russi an 5 per C ent., 1 8 22, £ St 47 Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 Ditto 1860 Ditto Scri Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 4 p, X 25 S ardinian 5 per Cen p t. aid ..... Ditto Account B3i Spanish 3 per Cent 54 Ditto Passive ....... , Spanish Ce r t. of Coup not f un d e d Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto Account .. 85 41 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account.. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account 681 n Venezuela, 3 per C en t Ditto Account 24 Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 florins Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil _ Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates I talian, 5 par C ent., 1861, Ex. 25f. ... . . 103 Ditto Account 7Ol f TWO O'CLOCK. Oonsols, Money Ditto Account, Jan 8 Feb. Account., ,~, MARKETS —This Day. HAY MARKETS. SurruriELD.--Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 5s Od; clover, do., £3 10s to £5 100; and straw, £ll2s to £1 16s per load. Trade firm. CUMBERLAND._Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 5s ; clover, £3 108 to £5 108 Od ; and straw. £1 12s to £1 168 per load. Both hay and straw sold steadily at full prices. WHITECEIAPEL.—Meaaow hay, £2 Os to £4 58; clover do., £3 10s to £5 108 ; and straw, .13,1 128 to £1 168 per load. A steady deman ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM.—In America an oil has been for many years collected by the Seneca Indians for medical purposes, chiefly as a stimulating embrocation ; but the first di scovery of a large supply was made in 1859, When a vein was opened in boring in search of a salt spring. The supply was at first apparently inexhaustible : one well alone is stated to have yielded 7,000 gallons per day, and another to have discharged 100 gallons a minute. A large part of that which was first produced ran to waste, from the i mpossibility of procuring vessels to contain it ; so that, eventually, the whole district became odorous with oil, the very ground being sticky with it, and every object was a ontaminated. It was said that the oil was everywhere; that it was tasted in the beer, and flavoured even in the Whisky ; that it might be smelt in the bread, and eaten in the bacon; that the very sheets were oily; that the water given you to wash in had a film on the surface, and that the towel left an oily deposit on your face.-011 Trade .Revues. INDIAN WARFARE.--A correspondent of the St. Paul (Minnesota) Press, writing from Camp Sibley, Lower Agency, Minnesota, under date of November 7th, gives some interesting particulars regarding the trial of the Indians charged with having taken a prominent part in the recent outrages. He says :—" The business has been des- Patched with celerity, as many as 40 cases having been tried per day in some instances. The prisoners were brought in chained together by the feet, in pairs, in some cases eight at a time, and the charges, which were preferred by General Sibley, were read to them through the interpreter, Antoine Frenier, and then, after being exhorted to tell the truth and not equivocate, each was asked to the extent of his participation in the outrages, and, if necessary, witnesses were called against him. I should think that in at least two thirds of the cases the prisoners admitted that they fired, but in most instances insist that it was only two or three shots, and that no one was killed. In regard to the third, who did not admit that they fired, their reasons for not doing so were equally remarkable, and assumed a different s h ape every day. One day all the elderly men, who were i n th e vigour of manly strength, said their hair was too gray to go into battle ; and the young men, aged from 18 t o 25, insisted that they were too young, and their hearts too weak to face fire. The next day wou ld d eve l o pe the fact that go were writhingreatwasthenumin: her and t err ibl e the condit i on o f th ose who agony with the belly-ache on the top of a bighill.Asmall party avowed th a t th ey h a d cre pt under a wonderfully capacious stone (which nobody but themselves ever saw) rin at the b att l es of the fort, and did not emerge therefrom during the fight sand a sufficiency of two small armies stoutly and called . on the G reat Spirit (Wakan-tonka) and the heavens e arth (pattin g th e l a t ter emphatically with the han d) t o wit ness that they were of a temperament so phlegmatic, a dispo sition so unsocial, and an appetite so voracious and greedy t hat duri ng the roar of each of the battles at the Fort, New li ke, Birch Coolie, and Woodlake, they were alone, within billet shot, roasting and eating corn and beef all day I A fiery-looking warrior wished the commission to believe that he felt so bad at the Fort to see the Indians fire on the whites that he immediately laid down there and went to sleep, and did net awake until the battle was over. Several of the worst c haracters, who had been in all the battles, after they had confessed the whole thing, wound up by saying that they were members of the Church I But the greatest institution of the commission, and the observed of al l observers, was the negro Godfrey. He was the first ti ed. His reput a ti on was damning. It was said that he lolled battle and than any I n di an, and was the most brutal in atrocit y o a ngthe brutal, an d t h e bravest and foremost in acquired the name of 0-to-cle (' He that kills k uir) 911 account of the great number of his victirus.'! BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Share Railways Paal Price. Business don/ 100 !Atlantic &St Lawrencr all 67 89 Bom.,Barodadz.Cent In 6 100 1015 1055 1011 51 xn t I Gu. 5 per cent........ 20 Do. Ncw , . . 2 205 Buffalo and Laxelluron all 55 53. 10 Do. Preference .... all 74 8} 100 Buffalo,Brant,&Godria 100 77 80 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 10 0 Do. do. July 1, 1873 , 100 78 75 100 Do. do. June 1. 1874 100 73 76 at Clcutta.&S.Eastn.(Li,) 100 103 105 108} xn at Cape Town & Dock Scril 100 108 109 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 100 105 1( 6 1051 xn stock East Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 1065 1075 107} I xn 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 5 1 lip xn 20 Do. do. H do. .. 2 f fp an stock Gram. Trunk of Cana& 100 22 23 221 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. all 74 76 75 100 Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct.. all 69 66 655 100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr.' all 34 36 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. all 48 52 100 Do. do. 1867.. all 34 36 35 100 Do. do. 1872.. all 34 36 35 stock GtlndiaPenin.gua.sp.c. 100 105 108 105/ 651 xn 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 1 lip 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 4 f 1.5 p xn stock Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed& per cent. 100 1035 1045 205 Gt. W. olCanada Shares all 12} 13 121 205 Do. New 18 8 75d 100 'Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 98 100 100 Do. 55 P.C. do. '77-8.... all 91 93 10 (Indian Branch Limited I 2 id jp 24 stock Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 103 101 1035 xn stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 97 99 stock Dc. d 0........ 100 93 25 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 an stock Melb.Corp. 6p. c. Bnds. 100 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 52 53 100 Do. 7p. c. 51ortg - . Bds. all 20 Newßrunswick & Cands Class A Capital Share all 3 5 20 Do. do. B Capital do. .. all 3 5 N.Rl.C'da 6pc tat pppppf bds 100 83 85 stock Scinde (100 104 106 at Do. Delhi .. lOO 103 104 xn ( , Do. do e, 2 #j p 24 xn 20 Do. Punjaub 15 5 p 15f st Do. Do. g,e; , 100 1035 1044 xn stock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 100 99 101 xn COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIEN. j Can.Oov. 4.c.Ja. &July 1877-54 100 1055 1065 1055 6 xd I Do. 6p. c. Feb..ts Aug. 100 106 108 I Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 106 108 I Do. sp. e. Jan.&July. 100 97} 971 97} xd I Do. 5 Inscribed stock' 100 11 5 97 ' Cape G.Hope, 6 p c. 1873 100 10i 110 Do.Ap & Oct 1880 100 111 113 Do. 1890; 100 112 114 Do. Jan. & July, Ml..' 100 111 113 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p c 100 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 1044 1054 xd Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct.; 100 N. S.W. G 09. 5 p c.,1866 100 994 1005 Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876 100 994 1005 991 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 99 995 99} xd New Zealand 6p. cent. 100 108 110 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling., 1875 lOO 1105 106 Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 108 110 S.Aus GBp.c.lB7B.&up ' 100 109 111 - Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 - Do. io 6 o.c. An.&o3t.. l O .O 19} lO9l 1091 110 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 fp Cliflord Amalgamated — 21 23 Devon G. Con.. (Tavist ) 1 500 510 East Bassett (Mogan) 3O 53 65 1 . East Clogau Gold Ltd ss. p ip East Caradon 1 2.14.0 44 45 451 East Carn Brea... 3.0.0 11 115 E. WI Russel (Tavistk.) 7.19.0 3} 3/ Gam.&StAubyn(Gwen.) 574 15 17 Great South Tolgus l7s 7 74 G. Wheal Vor (Halston) 40 6 65 Grenville 6.15.9 45 Elerod's-Foot 8.12 48 50 Hingston Downs 4.1.0 2; 24 Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant 05 40 42 Marke Valley.. 4 tifyndy Iron Ore (Lim ) 2 1 . , 4ds pr New Set in .. 191 145 166 North Downs 25 2} 2/ Bassetallo_lan; . 25 3 _qorth Wheal Crofty Par Consols (St. Blazey li 5 6 20 l'rovidence(UnyLelnt) 10.6.7 .1 43 South Caradon(St.Cleer, 14 385 395 8. Cam Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 2} 21 Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.1'-.9 90 95 I Stray Park 5 {Tamar Silv.& Lead Min 44 I 10 Tin Crort 9 13 It —,; West Basset (Illogan) ll 13 14 I , w lV es C t a s t e a t d o o n n 'eke a . r . d . ) 4 5 75 2 2 85 6 2 2 9 8 5 Wheal Basset (Mogan, 51 774 825 Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 47 4 62 5 I w W h h e e a akK u i d tty ot ( t U.Lelant) 2 2 . . 1 0 0 .. 6 8 0 1 8 10 1 Wheal Mary Ann (Men.) 8 15 18 !Wheal Seton 585 240 250 2471 50 47 1 Wheal Trelawney (Lis ) 7 165 175 Wheal Union 3.13. 51 6} PREFERENCE SHARES. Gt. Western (Perks & Hants Ext.), 4.} per cent., rd., 98 London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 961 Midland Consolidated, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 1413 LINES LEASED AL' FIXED RENTALS. Lancaster and Carlisle, 208 Nottingham and Grantham, 96& FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 8 Bahia and San Francisco (Urn.) gua. 7 per cent., 211 Great Luxembourg, 146 N. Rail of Buenos Ayres, gua. 7 per cent. (lim.), 21 3 Recife and San Francisco (lim.), gust. 7 per cent., 181 Royal Danish, 16 Sambre and Meuse, 101 San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 10 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 231 4 FO REIGN M INES. Dun Mount. Copper Min. Co. (lim.), Port Philip, 12 : St. John del Rey (lim.), 556 Yudanamutana of S. Australia (Um.), 36 I JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Agra and United Service (Pm.), 93 Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (1irn.),201 Australasia, 704 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 0; Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 21 201 Eng., Scot., and Australian Chartered, 214 London, B. Ayres, and R. Plate (lim.), 6 , London Chartered Bank of Australia, 271 London and County, 381 Ottoman Bank, 33 21 i—Ditto, new. 71 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF MERITORIOUS CONDUCT —At the monthly meeting of the Council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce yesterday Captain Brown, of the British ship Trebolyan, was presented through the chairman with a gold medal for himself and three silver ones for the officers of his ship, by the Queen of Spain, for i h n a g vi t n h g etu res o c n u b ed oa 3 r s dee m a E, officers and crew, of the Spanish greatest kindness , ultimately u tt o m ,w at h e e ly n that vessel was on fire, keep_ ship Reyna del 0 and s a t v re e a ry tin h g eav th y e own at great risk: as l t s h h e i r p e was smeawruitnnh running landing them at St. Helena. humane act was perlormed by Captain The gallant Br at the time. Algeria, haatak of the 30th ult., The Echo of Setif, i n back in i n d n agyma houri lde r , it changed into large flakes , which, i n half a &Lys :—" A great change weather here. Snow commenced falling two place in the t the form of sleet, and the weather then becom i ng com pletely covered the ground. In the ev ening the ceased falling, and a sharp frost to ok p lace in the night, the v ice being in some places two-thirds of an inch thick. Sn ow again commenced falling in the morning and still con tinues. This change of weather will have a favourable influence on the crops." Although the precise day is not yet fixed upon for the marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, we are enabled to state that this important event will most likely take place at the latter end of the month of March.—Court Journal. The three packages belonging to the Baroness Blucher and Lady Augusta Bruce, which were lost en route to Osborne, were found on Tuesday in one of the carriages at the Waterloo statioa,-004 4ToirnaL SHARE MARKETS—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOU.6.S. Railways. Paid, Bir., Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Slea+.,andblid.co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall A A ;Leis no diA Do " . flit iipc.p;tn.has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June.' Edinburgh An Glasgow.) Glasg. and S. Western.) Great Eastern, Ord. stk) Ditto A stock Ditto EastAnglian st IGreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern.. . Do A stock ) Do Bdo 8 8i 86 E 8 116 116 A 61 7 Do. £5 shares Gt. S. an I W. of Ireland Great Wes tern Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast, Lon., Chat., and Dover! Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do # shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby lld. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase I Do Leeds DO York Do Carlisle.. North London Do New North Staffordshire _ . N. and S. W. Junction, Scot ti eh Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Soot. 'Mid. stook.. Shrews. and Welohpool Shropshire Union South DeTOII 1P... South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun. Staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton As Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Pale., ..... —,... , Do B Do C Ulster . D 0... Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.dzit ' West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford) Closing I Business Price. done. 41 43 13 14 EI 88 105 107 46 47 43 45 24 25 1264 127 ! 131 132 136 138 104 106 673 (8 1091 109 . 71i 72f 118 119 S7f SBf 97f 08 101 E 102 i 40} 41 91 91 129 i29i 11 lip 97 99 53} 64} 26 27 991 Nal 56 67 88i 1 , 81 126 128 108 110 1p 4 II o 11 11i 118 120 47i 48i 104 106 47 49 334 343 884 69 684 994 100 103 7 8 39 40 101 101 p 7 * 7 1 p 148 150 4* 5 2 3 p 554 56i 2* di 3 p p 87 90 140 145 29 31 43 45 35 37 94 26 Share 13.14 TFIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1863. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.--This Day. i DESTRUCTrVE FIRE AT PLYMOUTH , OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) STEALING SILK. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY, 2 A.M. The Royal Hotel and Theatre here is being con sumed by a terrible fire. It commenced in the theatre after the Christmas pantomime was closed. The thick wall between the theatre and the hotel does not rise higher than the exterior walls, so that the fire soon communicated from the roof of one building to that of the other. That portion of the hotel next the theatre con sists of the card-room, connected with the ball-room. The card-room contained the samples of Messrs. Blumberg and Co., 55, Cannon-street West, valued at £l,OOO, which are entirely lost. From the card-room the fire went across the grand staircase to the splendid ball-room, where it is now raging furiously. John Jones, 18, was charged with stealing a silk scarf, and a quantity of property of the same description. The prisoner was in the employ of Messrs. Morley, the warehousemen in Cheapside, as porter, and while holding that situation had availed himself of the opportunities which presented themselves, and plundered the firm. Some witnesses proved that for some time the prisoner had been engaged dealing largely in silk handkerchiefs and scarfs, and that he had also given a number of handker chiefs to a girl with whom he was intimate. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The counsel for the prosecution, Mr. Kemp, said the prisoner had no doubt been carrying on the robbery for some time. The Recorder sentenced him to 12 months' imprisonment with hard labour. ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE. Mr. Pearse, the occupant of the hotel, is convey ing his moveable property across Lockyer-street to Ilarve3's Hotel. George Day and Susan Knight were indicted with feloniously assaulting George Meyer, with intent to rob. The prosecutor was a printer, carrying on business in Chancery-lane, and on the night in question was returning home, when the prisoners and another man came up to him at the:corner of Carey. street, accosted him, and shortly afte the men struck him and knocked him down. He managed to get hold of one of the men, when the woman commenced kicking him, and during the time the other man com menced rifling his pockets. The prosecutor raised a cry o police, and while he was engaged with Day, the constable came up, and the woman Knight was secured, the other man making his escape. The jury found both prisoners guilty. The entire property, which belongs to the Corpo• ration of Plymouth, forms the noblest specimen o architecture in the West of England. The military, marines, and seamen of the Roya Navy are in full attendance, aiding the civil authorities. 2 30 A.ll. The fire, though partly kept under, is extending to the eastern wing. The roof of the ball-room has fallen in. The prisoners were well known to the police. The Recorder sentenced each to four years' penal servi ,ude. The Era, of last Sunday, in speaking of the pantomime at the above theatre, which is now destroyed by fire, says :—" Robinson Crusoe ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the King of the Caribbee Islands," is the title of our Plymouth production. The scenery in the burlesque is truly beautiful, reflecting the greatest amount of credit on Messrs. Marston and Hawes Craven. To close our notice without especial words of praise to Mr. J. R. Newcombe would be unjust, for under his inde fatigable direction has the whole pantomime been so successfully produced." BIGAMY. Thomas Butler was indicted for feloniously marrying Ellen Shire, his first wife Honorah Driscoll being then and still alive. Both marriages were clearly proved. In defence the prisoner said his first wife left him a short time after marriage. Mrs. Butler said that statement was untrue. He left her, and before he did so used to treat her very unkindly be cause she interfered to protect one of their children who the prisoner used to most cruelly beat. When he was re monstrated with upon his inhumanity he always replied he had a right to do what he liked with his own. The Recorder sentenced him to:l2;months' imprisonment. LATEST PARTICULARS. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY, 10 A.M. The fire commenced shortly after midnight in the property-room of the theatre, and the interior of the building is almost entirely consumed; the flames communicated by the roof with the card and club rooms of the Royal Hotel, both of which are gutted. The ball-room staircase is burnt; the handsome assembly-room, and the tea-room below it, are also partially destroyed. The eastern end of the quadrangle is uninjured by the fire, and Mr. Pearse, the lessee of the hotel, is replacing his furniture. The Royal Hotel and Theatre were finished in NEW COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) Jehn Lowe, Matilda Lowe, and Jane Francis were in dicted for feloniously having in their possession a mould for the manufacture of counterfeit coin. Brennan, the officer attached to the Mint, said, from information that came to his knowledge, he, in company with some other constables, proceeded to the house in which the prisoners lived, in Union-street, Lambeth. On searching the place a great number of counterfeit coins were found. Some of the base coin was found in the room in which the two female prisoners were sitting, and on being asked to explain how it came there, they each said they did not know. The male prisoner also denied all knowledge of he bad money. Two moulds for the manufacture of counr 813, at a cost of £60,000. The north front is 270 terfeit coin were also found in the coal cupboard. Some I r 4 feet long. base sovereigns were also discovered by the police. The roof of the splendid lonic portico is con sumed. The buildings are insured by the Corporation with the Atlas-office. Mr. Pearse is insured in the General. Mr. Newcombe, the manager of the theatre, is uninsured. He recently expended £3,000 on the fittings and.scenery. Some valuable dresses were saved. A fire occurred in the property-room on the 26th December last, which was promptly extinguished. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. Particulars of the Loss of the Colombo. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company' s steamship Massilia we have received full particulars of the loss of the Colombo. Owing to the thick ness of the weather, no observations could be taken after leaving Galle, and on the morning of Nov. 19, at 4 o'clock, the weather continuing very thick, no thing being visible at a ship's length, and the rain coming down in torrents, speed was reduced to " full slow." Two hours afterwards, breakers ahead were reported a quarter of a mile off, and before the engines, which were immediately reversed, could have any effect on the vessel, sbe forged ahead, and the swell and a strong wind drove her bodily on the coral beach. She touched so lightly that no one on board felt the shock. There was a strong current to the northward at the time of about three miles an hour. After striking, she fell over to windward, exposing her deck to the sea, which poured down the hatchways and skylights in tor rents. As nothing could be done to save the ship, the boats on the land side were cleared, and by 8 a.m. all the passengers and crew were safely landed. A drenching rain continued all the time, which was the more felt as most of the ladies and children were very lightly clad. Awnings and spars were brought on shore, and by 2 p.m. the passengers were com fortably housed until better accommodation could be obtained at the village a short distance, where they repaired the next day, and took up their abode until the arrival of assistance. A native boat, with an officer, was sent to the nearest land, 210 miles distant, to telegraph the news of the disaster to Bombay, Galle, and Calcutta. An abundance of provisions was obtained from the wreck. Oa the 30th of November the Ottawa arrived from Bombay, and brought the passengers to Suez. Eighteen hours after striking, the ship parted in two pieces midships. The disaster appears to have been occa sioned by insufficient allowance having been made for the strength of the current, which, notwith standing a mile and a half an hour had been allowed for it, drove the vessel some 32 miler out of her sourse. The passengers speak in great praise of the presence of mind shown by Captain Farquhar under the trying circumstances, and his unwearied exertions for their comfort and convenience. A short time before the disaster Captain Farquhar had succeeded in saving a vessel from shipwreck. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CAUTION TO JEWELLERS.-Mr. Hawley, of the firm of Hawley and Co., jewellers, Regent-street, attended before Mr. Tyrwhitt to ask his advice under the following circum stances. Mr. Hawley said that a foreigner called upon him and selected a quantity of goods and ordered some of the articles to be engraved, and asked for a bill. He made out a bill and gave it to the person, and he left. The goods were sent home to the address given, but the person refused to pay for them, wanting to make a debt of it, and he (Mr. Hawley) had since ascertained that, on presenting his bill to a tradesman in Piccadilly, the person had, believing that the foreigner had made a large purchase at his house, allowed him to have a large quantity of goods. The goods he (Mr. Hawley) had prepared, having been engraved, were rendered unsaleable. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he could do nothing in the matter. It was a fortunate thing that the goods had not been left, and he (Mr. Tyrwhitt) hoped the press would take notice of the matter, as a caution to other members of the trade. ROBBERIES IN A LODGING-HOUSE.--A NICE SERVANT. —Ann Newman was charged with stealing a bank-note and 10s., at 54, New Bond-street, as follows : Mrs. Emily Aylmer said that she lodged with her hus band at 54, New Bond-street, and about three weeks ago gave the prisoner, who was servant to the landlady, a SE note to change. The prisoner went out and returned stat ing 'that aha.could not get change unless she _purchased something. She then gave the prisoner a half-•sovereign, telling her to buy Is. worth of brandy, and to keep the change of the £5 note entire. The prisoner then went again, but never returned. Last night the prisoner, however, called for her clothes, saying, when asked about the money, that she had given it to the landlady', and she was then given into custody. Mrs. Margaret Dunlop, landlady of the house, said the prisoner came to her house and said that she had just come from Devonshire, and that her boxes were at the railway station. She asked her (Mrs. Dunlop) to let her have some money to get them, but she told her that she could stop with her that night, and that the next day she would make inquiries into her character. In the afternoon of the fol lowing day the money was given to her by Mrs. Aylmer, and she went out without her bonnet and shawl, and never returned. The prisoner never gave her the money. She (Mrs. Dunlop) had also missed a ring from a box in the room in which prisoner slept during the night she passed 451 I with her. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner for a week, stating that he had no doubt that something more would be found out concerning the prisoner. THAMES. FRIGHTFUL CASE OF STABBING.—On Mr. Woolrych's arrival at the court this morning he was informed that his presence wab required in the London Hospital to receive the deposition of a wounded man named Michael Cluman, a foreign sailor, who was wounded last night in an affray which took place in the New road, Cannon-street.road, St. George-in-the-East. A man named Diego Salinas, aged 25. and belonging to the Peruvian ship Arica, lying in the West India dock, was charged with being concerned with another in feloniously wounding Cluman with intent to murder, or do him grievous bodily harm. The prisoner is a Portuguese sailor. As the magistrate was about to leave the court, he was informed that another foreign sailor, named Galati, an Italian, was in custody, charged with being concerned in the affray, and the magistrate gave directions he should be taken to the hospital with Cluman. Inspector Holloway of the H division handed to the magistrate a medical certificate, of which the following is a copy:— " London Hospital, Jan. 6, 1863. . . This is to certify that Michael Cluman was admitted into this hospital en January 6, 1863, with a very severe wound in the back. I consider the man is in imminent danger, and advise that his deposition be taken down immediately. —JAMES JACKS ON, house-surgeon." On the arrival of the magistrate and Mr. Bowler, the second clerk, at the hospital, the wounded man appeared to be sinking fast. He was sworn, and stated in effect that be was at a dancing-room last night, and a quarrel took place about a girl. Some time afterwards he was assaulted in the New-road by three men. One of them stabbed him in the back. He did not believe that either of the prisoners stabbed him. A man in a red shirt did so. ; Salinas had hold of him when he was stabbed. The other prisoners were standing by. The wounded man having signed his deposition, the pri soners were removed, in custody of Inspector Holloway, to the Thames Police-court. The investigation will commence this afternoon at 3 o'clock after the other night charges are disposed of. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. LONDON, Jan. 6.—Wind this day at noon—South; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather. Heavy shower of rain during the morning. SWANSEA, Jan. 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Mary Ann Johnson, from Caldera. Put back--Admiral Pieville, for Sierra Leone. _ _ _ - - LEITH, Jan. 4.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Magalent for Melbourne. _ _ ----- FALMOUTH, Jan. s.—Arrived—Eliphalet Greely, from Akyab ; Adelaide, from Rio Janeiro; Quentin Masters, from ii avannah. DUBLIN, Jan. 5.--Arrived—S, Blinkom, from St. John's, New Brunswick. QUEENSTOWN, Jan s.—Arrived—Hondman, from Moul mein; Salsette, from Rangoon ; Stag, from Mauritius ; Granite City, screw steamer, from the Clyde; Nathalia, from Rio Grande, OFF PILL, Jan. s.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Dauntless, from New York. BRISTOL ; Jan. 5. —Wind W.—Arrived—Glaslyn, from Malaga. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Jan. s —Alert, steamer, from Guernsey. _aArrived Jan. 6.—Berlin, steamer, from Hamburg ; Ham bur s teamer, from Bo u l ogne ; B oreas , s t eamer, f rom g. No arrivals. Put back.—Solo, C aptain ;,n Janfzen, from London for been supplied hence. Canaries, anchored sl ipped from anchor andchain in Dungeness Road®, and gaSsli DEAL, Tuesday Morning. The Emperor Alexander has appointed a com mittee of inquiry to ascertain is the extent o f t h e irregularities said to have been discovered n the administration of the protp,oe of the Callow. THE NEWCASTLE MURDER. The remains of the murdered woman, Margaret Docherty, were interred in All Saints Cemetery, Newcastle, The hearse arrived atth edead-house on ada 11 t o ' clock,rn g and the corpse was followed to the grave by the husband and two sons of the deceased. The unfortunate woman was a na tive of Ireland, and her maiden name was Kennedy, but prior to her marriage, which took place in 1832, she lived in Glasgow. On the last day of the old year her husband, who is a tailor, left home to go to his work at 9 a.m., leaving his wife in the house. At 6 o'clock she took him his tea to the workshop, and at 7 o'clock she called again, and he then gave liar 3s. He left his work at 8 p.m., and went and drank a pint or two of ale at the Adelaide Thtel, in Newgate-street, where he remained until nearly 12 o'clock. His wife called at the same house at half past 11 o'clock, and she -was then under the influence of liquor. She left the house with her husband, and on the way towards home he remonstrated with her for not having spent the 3s. to greater advantage than in getting drunk. As they walked up Gallowgate she said she would have more drink, and in order to carry out her intention she went into Ireland's public-house. Her husband took hold of her in order to pull her back again, but he was knocked down by one of three men whom he could not identify. He then went home, and he saw her no more until he saw her dead at the dead-house on Friday afternoon, Jan. 2. It will be seen, therefore, that the only time during which she is unaccounted for, is between the hours of 12 p.m. and 2 a.m. The man George Vass was again brought before the borough magistrates yesterday. A large crowd surrounded the police-office in ex pectation of catching a glimpse of the prisoner as he was being convoyed from the prison to the office and in a minute or two after the opening of the doors every part of the court itself was filled, most of those present beiug of the lowest class, by whom the disgusting details were received with avidity. The proceedings resulted in the prisoner being committed for trial on the charge of " Wilful mur der." The Accident to the Princess Alice. In reference to thi s acc id en t, the particulars of which appeared in our Saturday's impression, the Hampshire Advertiser says The postillion on the instant after the accident managed the horses admirably, and at once cut them out free of the carriage. Mr. Joseph Groves, 8.A., a medical stu dent at King's College, London, on a Christmas visit to Newport, happened to be passing with his sister, and ran to the assistance of the ladies, not knowing at all who they were. He immediately raised them from the ground, and carried the Prin cess, who for the moment was prostrate from the shock, across the road to the gate of the residence of Mrs. Parker, who happened to be absent from home, and the gate was fastened. Her royal highness had by that time recovered sufficiently to walk, leaning on the arm of Mr. Groves, and accompanied by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce to the next residence, Mr. H. Nunn's, where they received every required atten tion, and her royal highness quickly resumed her wonted cheerfulness. " God bless her !" exclaimed an Isle of Wight peasant dame, on hearing the story, " she's a good pluck'd un." The Hon. Mrs. Bruce bore the shock remarkably well. Mr. Robt. Jacobs, of Heasley, rode up very soon after the ac cident and rendei ed assistance in the way of order ing a carriage at her Majesty's coachbuilder's close by, Mr. Dashwood. In the course of an hour after the accident the Princess was well on her way to Osborne with the same postillion and horses, one of which received a very slight injury. We hear that Mr. Groves was graciously received by the Princess of Hesse the same evening at Osborne, and heartily thanked for the attention he had paid to her royal highness. It appears that the accident occurred through the attempt of the postillion to pass in that narrow road between two carts—one of which was stationary at the approach of the royal car riage, and the other moving slowly on the other side of the road, a little in advance, and suddenly the horse in the stationary cart turned in towards the hedge and threw the back of the cart some inches further in the road, and instantly the royal carriage dashed against it. The cart, in charge of a boy, who was not at fault, belonged to the farm at Staplers, in the occupation of Messrs. Mew, of the Bugle Inn, Newport, had the shafts broken by the concussion. The royal phaeton was a plain, strong, old-fashioned vehicle for two, on low wheels, and was said to have belonged to the late King George IV. ; a broken spring was all the injury it appeared to have sustained by the collision, The inhabitants were very happy to hear next day, through the rev, the vicar of the parish of New port, that her royal highness was quite well." At whatever time the marriage of the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alexandra takes place, it is finally settled that the honeymoon of the Royal Bride and Bride grocra will 1.0) passed at Q§b9lll9l—cviro JinirnerA The Worsborough Colliery Catastrophe. There is very little to report (says the Sheffield Independent of yesterday) in reference to the pro ceedings at Edmund's Main. The water is flowing steadily into the mine from the trench connected with the adjacent; stream, and measures are being taken to increase the volume of water very largely, and so expedite the tedious operation of flooding the workings. The water was conveyed in large pipes, laid at a depth of fourteen or fifteen feet ; but the quantity poured into the shaft by this means has not been found sufficient speedily to accomplish the object in view, and men have been set to work to reopen the trench, and when this has been done, as much water as can possibly be diverted into the trench will be thrown into the mine. The cupola shaft has been rendered perfectly tight, and there are several feet of water upon the clay puddling above the furnace drift. In one of the up cast shafts an aperture, closed by a sort of wooden safety valve, has been left, in order to test the air from time to time. A test which was made a day or two ago showed that a great quantity of gas has been generated in the mine. The cap of the valve was removed for our special edification, and the impri soned air and gas rushed forth with the force of a furnace blast. It is not expected that, even with the great volume of water that will be poured in during next week, the water will be "roofed" for ten or twelve days yet, and the pumping out will be a still more tedious process. Great difficulty will, no doubt, be experienced in emptying the dip boardgates, which are much below the level of the other parts of the mine, The subscription for the relief of the sufferers has now reached the handsome sum of £1,300. We regret to learn that the proper distribution of the fund has been hitherto prevented by the course taken by the' poor-law guardians. It is alleged that they have sought to throw the support of the bereaved in a great measure, if not entirely, upon the relief fund. The committee who have the super intendence of the fund maintain that the guardians have nothing whatever to do with their operations, but that they ought to relieve the sufferers as they would any other "destitute" persons, without re ference to the amounts which may be granted out of the subscriptions. At the meeting to organise the subscription, held on the 11th of December, it was resolved to set on foot a public subscription in aid of the surviving sufferers, " in addition to such parochial relief as may be granted by the authorities of the district." The course of the committee was thus clearly defined. On the other hand, it is alleged that as persons cannot claim relief from the union funds until they are entirely "destitute," as long as the bereaved are receiving relief from the committee they cannot be looked upon as destitute persons, and have accordingly no legal claim. How ever, the guardians have granted relief to some of the claimants, but only for a fortnight, or until their next meeting; and the Rev. W. Banham, the incumbent of Dale, has distributed two sums of money which were sent to be applied for the relief of the " immediate necessities " of the sufferers, the fund proper being left in bank to await the course taken by the guardians. A settlement of the ques tion is imperatively demanded, in order that unne cessary suffering may not be inflicted upon the widows and orphans who have been so suddenly rendered destitute. We have great pleasure in stating that her Ma jesty the Queen has sent a magnificent contribution to the fund. The Rev. Mr. Banham wrote a few days ago to the Home Secretary, stating the case on behalf of the sufferers, and asking him to be good enough to lay the purport of the letter before her Majesty. Sir G. Grey forwarded the letter to Sir C. Phipps, who communicated with Mr. Banham, asking to be supplied with some further information and the list of subscriptions. The required infor mation was duly laid before her Majesty, and the result was communicated in the following gratify ing letter : Osborne, Dec. 27, 1862. Sir,—l have had the honour to submit your letters to her Majesty the Queen, and I have received the commands of her Majesty to forward you the enclosed cheque for £lOO, as the subscription of her Majesty towards the fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of the sufferers by the late colliery accident at Edmund's Main,—l have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient humble servant, C. B. PHIPPS. The Rev. IV. Banham, Worsbro' Dale. The rev. gentleman has also received the follow- ag:— Dear Sir,—We have much pleasure in handing you a cheque for £2l 2s. id., which amount has been contributed by the clerks and workmen employed by the Sheffield Coal Company towards the Edmund's Main Colliery Explosion Relief Fund.—Yours, &c., _ _ BROWN and JEFFCOCI. The Augsburg Gazette states that, in spite of reports to the contrary, Baron Sina will continue to repre sent King Otho as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Courts of Berlin, Vienna, and Munich, A phenomenon observed within the last few days at Varages (Vac) would seem to indicate that the recent sudden changes in the weather in the South of France have been accompanied by some disturbance below the surface of the earth. A fine spring, which from time iramemori 11 had supplied the above-named village with water, last week suddenly poured forth a stream of water entirely black and extremely nauseous. This continued for three days, when the water began to clear, and is now as limpid and as sweet as ever, BBFORE JUDGE LYNCH.—The Memphis Bulleti n e were de- notes the operations of a band of thieves o n n the State Line-road, near that city. A company of I';ne, towards spatched, under command of Lieut. av' White's Station in quest of them. Throe of the gang were captured on the 4th December near the Seven The citizens ofd in the vicinity nds. inhitayeollected, and the file of th e men was place They adjudged th a t t wo ou eir of the prisoners, who h ad been recognised,into effect,sh Bldefo be Before shot.their ' The order was immediately carried execution Lieut. Lavigne asked them what they had done with their booty, to which they replied that it was in the hands of their partners at Memphis. He offered them life and freedom if they would expose their accomplices, bu they refused. The other prisonor was taken to the military prim& at MenaPilis, ! in 116} 1271 1 I 1311 I 67f ; 109} 72} 4 1182 i 9511 129 100 d 57 881 it 89 i THE LAST OF LYON'S INN. ' There remains nothing no‘v but a waste of old bricks, a half acre of desolation, to mark what once was "Lyon's Inn I" It was "as old at least as Henry V.," says Pennant. "It is small and old, and hath a back door into Wych th musty , street," q uo th St owe, spea ki ng disparagingly of it, as some thing in 1598. "It was a n I nn o f Ch ancery i n King Henry V.'s time, as we read in the steward's accompt books, s a y s D ngdale, in his Ortgines, reverently, as an an tiquary speaks of everything ancient, " and how long before it is uncertain." "It d a t es from 1420, " says Maitland. In an old picture map of London, supposed to be by Ralph Aggas, and taken in the early days of Queen Elizabeth, when the first timber structure of Whitehall Banquetting House was not yet raised, ere Lamb's Conduit adorned Holbourne, and enabled the citizens— " Their steeds to water at those springs At Holbourne's gate that lies ;" v ere the munificent Gresham, with . a prophetic foresight of his An tnwaetrivreescfiatm y' e s d e rou m rs e e rc i i n a th g e Rnoloeys, had reare d a rial Exchange of London —a map, in which are long gardens to all the houses on the north side of the Strand, with fields behind, between them and Holbourne, stretching up unbroken to Highgate-hill; with foot-paths, and love-lanes, and hedges, and high tree s , and cattle pasturing; and in which Drury-lane and the Strand are two yet rural streets, alike starting from r 1 , emple Bar, divided at their junction by St. Clement Dane's Church and an intermediate row of houses on either side beyond it —we find Lyon's Inn, a small square surrounded by ancient buildings, with the present three old houses in Holywell -street pertaining to it—the first existing, as they will be the first to be eradicated, in that unsavoury locality. Lyon's Inn, with Clement's Inn and New Inn, were ap purtenances to the Inner Temple, much after the manner that halls at the universities originally belonged to colleges, and have dropped from them into independence. When our Kings presided in courts of law, the judges, of course, tra velled about with them, becoming resident for occasional periods in inns or large houses of temporary resort ; but when Henry lIL domiciled the law permanently in West minster Hall, the lawyers, invited to attend there, finally fluttered down, and settled in the present Inns of Court and Chancery. Why the latter name was given is not known, and, curiously enough, has never been made the subject of inquiry. All that is known is that Clifford's Inn, Thavie's Inn, Barnard's Inn, and Staple's Inn, within the walls, with Clement's Inn, New Inn, and Lyou's Inn, outside the City, were Inns of Chancery to the Inner Temple. Why this outer locality was chosen seems evident, for opposite " Chester's Inn," where the bishop dwelt when in attendance on the court (it was on the south side of the Strand, and just beyond Essex House, as you approach the City from the fields of St. Martin's, or the vil lage of Charing?, was the " Cross"or stone, on which, up to 1204 (the reign of King John) the judges sat, without the City," to administer justice; " and some times they used the bishop's house for the purpose." This was in 1204, and lawyers were then encouraged by special Royal invites to resort to London from all parts; but in 1244, these flocks of lawyers, with their law schools, and their noisy students, became so rank a nuisance, that a pro clamation of Henry 111., about that period, enjoins the sheriffs and mayor to put them down. Of Clifford's Inn we find a conveyance in 1348 ; of Lyon's Inn a record of 1420 ; Clement's Inn is mentioned in Edward's IV.'s time; and " in New Inn," on Pennant's authority, " the students of the Strand Inn nestled after they were routed out from thence by the Duke of Somerset," the proud Protector, who pulled down inn, and college, and hall, and church, to make room for his palace, and was hardly hindered from destroy ing Westminster Abbey itself, at the dissolution of its monastery, to supply stones for the building of his Somer set House, In Queen Elizabeth's time Lyon's Inn numbered 80 students in term, and thirty out of term, to whom " Read ings" and " Mooting& " went on with great regularity. What went on after those exercises we can infer tolerably well from Shakspere's report. Hark to " the chimes at mid night I " See what a party of "swinge-bucklers" are com ing round the corner towards St. Clement's ! Why, as we live, there's Little John Doit of Staffordshire, and Black George Barnes of Staffordshire, and Francis Pickbone, and Will Squele of Cotswold ; ay, and young Squire Shallow, too, of Gloucestershire—a lean, long, lathy stripling, such a one as you would carve, after supper, out of a cheese paring; and with them the merriest and most mischievous of the party, strapping Jack Falstaff, John o' Gaunt's page I Rare lads, these. How bravely they ruffle along, with their watchword, "Hem, boys I" on their way, perchance, from shooting at the butts with Prince Arthur's archers, or from the Old Mill at Vauxhall, to young Shallow's chambers in Clement's Inn. Shakspere places his Justice Shallow in itenrylV.'s time, but he had seen such a scene, so he describes, with his own eyes, in coming home with Ben Jenson from the Devil Ta vern, when, " by reason of the frequent disturbance and unthriftiness of the gentlemen in the Inns of Chancery in the streets at night, the inhabitants (as old Strype tells us piteously), were obliged to keep watch; and in 1482 "the Recorder himself, with six men of the honest inhabitants (a scene worthy of Rowlandson, and from which, or some thing of the kind, Shakspere must have been indebted for his Dogberry and Verges), stood by St. Clement's Church to see the lanthorns hung out, and watch for some of these outrageous dealers." And whom do you think they caught? Why, " at 7 o'clock at night they saw young Mr. Robert Cecil (he that was afterwards Queen Elizabeth's secretary), the Lord Treasurer's son, pass by the church." But Mr. Robert Cecil, a wise youth, albeit noisy withal, must have smoked their purpose ; for "he gave them as he passed a civil salute," which so pleased the six men of the honest inhabitants of St. Clement's Danes, that they exclaimed, "See the good youth, he pulleth off his cap 'to poor men. The Lord bless him I" And so the Recorder wrote next day to his father, the Lord Treasurer, congratulating him on the possession of such a treasure in so worthy a son. Who Lyon was is unknown, if ever there was such a per son ; although the arms of the Inn, " upon a °heckle or an az. a lion salient, and tongued and armed gules," would seem to point to some distinct family, whose place had been sold, just as was Clifford's Inn, of whose conveyance to the Middle Temple by the Clifford family there is existing record. Of Lyon nothing is left now but the outward sign of the lion on the hall ; which, albeit, afforded some amusement on the day of the rubbish sale, from the eager ness with which certain Jews in the vicinity bid for the useless relic—too old for a modern sign, and too new to be valuable from antiquity, a its date hardly reached 1700. What could these Jews want with it? What was Lyon's Inn to them ? That lion was not the lion of Judah. At last it came out that a waggish bidder had hinted to some six or seven chosen Hebrews, each separately, that the lion on that hall was made of lead, and had been painted over, in days long gone by, to look like stone. The possessors of this valuable "tip" duly attended the sale—each unconscious of the others' equal knowledge—and as the effigy was perched up too high to be reached or handled, the specula tion became a dashing one, and the biddings were vivid. The successful Jewish gentleman who waited throughout that foggy afternoon to receive his lumbering stone trea sure, went home a wiser, but if we were to judge by his language on the occasion, assuredly not a better man. Down with that lion came the hall, in later years the scene of sucking forensic celebrities; for two or three legal debat ing clubs held it on hire for their oratorical exercises, thus unwittingly replacing the ancient " mootings" and read ings, over which Sir E. Coke had presided for two years (it was here he won his spurs and his clients as a great lawyer), and for refusing to attend which, when chosen by the an cients of Lion's inn out of the six outer barristers sent up to them by the Inner Temple benchers, as reader, no loss a man than the great John Selden suffered martyrdom, in 1624, by the loss of his "commons" and a fine of £2O. Down from the walls to the obscurity of the porter's lodge de scended the venerable portrait of Sir Edward with the long pointed beard and ruff, so well known from the engravings ; and opened to the air were the musty records of the muni went chest of the Inn. It contained nothing but many rotten volumes of " steward's aecompt-books," kept in various old " law hands;" list of defaulters in rent, items " for a new spit" and a painter's bill; credits of rental £4OO, for the whole Inn, and a Flemish account of the manner in which this sum was expended ; bonds of fellows admitted (to what privileges no one could tell) ; calculations of £5OO to re build the hall (which was done on 27 securities) and £1,400 to repair the Inn (which never was done, as the money could never be raised) ; records of a tricky suit at law with the Inner Temple about the rents of the three old houses in Holywell-street ; a tax-gatherer's receipt, with advertise. ments at the back of it (there were men of genius in those days I) ; and last, not least, the will—signed, sealed, and delivered—of old Sir Josiah Child, goldsmith and banker. With Selden's refusal to read to its students, died, appa rently, the glories of Lyon's Inn; for we hear nothing wor e of its lawyers, and find nothing in its muniments bu t dias shlnnpuedwtoas esap, ceipts for small beer for the "Ancients " and till! , 0 . 7 bailey, for the porter, until we land upon a certainwiil £2,500 to Esq.," of Lyon's Inn, who leaves in 131 frepe , e m ur. erect that monument to the Earl of Mr E h 4• • s") ray), which the great patriot lawyer Esq.'s") Posthumous but which, thanks to "A- *".,_ o i Westminster Abbey. d_rornofsivtrh.elivia7 Veare, by Thurtell, that e rora Hook's wickedl ' n Lyon' aggra vatedTheymunificence, finaltointensity ignominy n o w a , by "° 1 William y improvised ballad on the murd e r xis brains they batter'd in ; „ The y cu t hi s th roat from in Hertfordsh ire A n ve d rs h e e s, li l v io ed on in e ear to ear, at Gills His name was Mr. William Weare, to s I nn 1" l e " his address as L lik y e o d n' After those Lyon's Inn," so that, gradually deserted by its tenants it soon wore the appearance of the ancient mansion in the story. The " Ancients," one after another, died out; it was worth no one's while to look after rents that never accrued, or, accruing, never were paid. The steward, it may be imagined, went out fishing one dismal wet afternoon, and was heard of no more. The porter was starved out. The beadles called in vain from the vicine parishes for annual charity to the poor. The dreary old square and its dirty tumble-down staircases fell into charge of one miserable charwoman, who took in washing in the hall, and hung up wet clothes in the cloisters. There was no corporate body to rebuild the houses as they decayed into irreparable rot tenness. The " feoffees in trust" dwindled down to a feoffee in possession. There was no one to elect, no one to be elected—no one to represent, and no one to be represented. The very man who called, so very perseveringly, for the water-rate during three years, and always went away so angrily, oould find no one to threaten with his so terrible ultimatum. The inn remained a desert and a profitless blank in the very midst of the great arterial thoroughfare of London; until, suddenly, the bright idea arose of re storing it to its original destination of an hotel for travel lers, acquiring a favourable frontage in the Strand by ally ing it with the well-known " Sam's Hotel." Lyon's Inn has, therefore, disappeared ; but a Strand Hotel, with half an acre of bedchambers behind it, and a Great Hall, to rival that of Exeter, and with a similar appropriation, will speedily re-appear on its site, as one of the new architectu ral ornaments of the centre of the metropolis.—Observer. NAPOLEON 111. AND EUGENIE. The present sovereign of France forms an exception to the rule which peoples Europe with kings of German lineage. A successful attempt to enter the great family of Teutonic princes was made by the first Napoleon; and the same was repeated, with still more effect, by the younger branch of the Bourbons, who filled the French throne for 18 years ; but the third Napleon as yet has failed to form the much desired bonds of Royal alliance, although he has spared no means to effect this object. It is generally understood that in the spring of 1852 offers of marriage were made by the Emperor to three German princesses, but wore politely de clined in every i nstance. The first of these offers was to thenrinces Ma r y o f Baden, daughter of the then reigning gr duk!, w h o, being himself the offspring of a morga naticmarriage, could, as i t was thought, make no serious His highness, in fact, did give hi s object io nto the match. consent; but his death occurring on April 24, 1852, his son and successor threw obstacles in the way, and as the prin cess herself showed no great desire to occupy the French throne, the negotiations werefinally br o k en off. The hand made F r e de r ica of of a princess of Hohenzollern having been lik ewise refused o to ffer the of PrinceiPresident ad of thee to French Republic, a last Princess Oldenburg, aged 32, the sister of the Queen. of Greece. Princess Frederica, it is said, was excessively anxi ous to wear the Imperial diadbm, then already withi n the grasp of Napoleon 111. But her relatives, particu larly the Grand Duke Peter, strongly objected, and consequently :this proposal likewise came to nothing. The per princess of Oldenburg soon after, in despair of getting the right husband, or any husband at all, committed a morganatic alliance, giving her hand to one Baron de Washington. Not choosing b submit to further indigni ties, Napoleon 111., now emperor, determined to seek for a wife at home, and having met one evening at the house of a literary acquaintance, M. Prosper Merimee, Mdlle. Eugenie Maria de Guzman, Countess of Teba, his Majesty offered at once his hand and heart, was accepted, of course, and married a few weeks after, on the 29th January, 1853. The event somewhat took th e pu b lic by surprise, the official announcement of it having been made only seven days pre vious to the ceremony, on the 22d of January. The Empress of the French is the second daughter of the Count of Montijo and of Maria Manuela Kirkpatrick do Closeburn. On the paternal side her Majesty descends from the old Italian house of Porto-Carrero, which emigrated in the fourteenth century from Genoa to Estremadura ; and on the maternal side she belongs to a Scottish family pro fessing the Roman Catholic faith, some members of which went abroad with the last of the Stuarts. The great-great grandmother of the empress was born in the old mansion of Couston, near Bathgate, part of which is still standing. She was named Isabel Sandilands, being the elder daughter of the Hon. William Sandilands, of Couston, third son of John, fourth Lord Torphichen. This lady was married to Sir Thos. Kirkpatrick, of Closeburn, whose name still survives in connection with that of the empress-mother. Eugenie re ceived her education partly in France and partly in this country, and subsequently went travelling with her mother over the greater part of the Continent, under the name of Countess of Teba, the second title of the family. In the course of these travels the Countess of Montijo, the mother, made the acquaintance of M. Prosper M6rimee, member of the French Academy and author of numerous works of art, whom she followed to Paris. It was, as already mentioned, in the house of Merrimee that the emperor made the ac quaintaince of his future consort, and struck by her beauty offered his hand after a very short courtship. M. Merimee was made soon after a senator, and the Countess de Montijo settled and continues to reside at Paris.—Supplement to the Spectator. FALMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Challenge, from Sulina, at Falmouth, reports that on Dec. 20, lat. 40 51 N, long. 15 12 W, saw an American armed cruiser, ship rigged, apparently in full chase of a very large ship, bound SSW. TIIE PROPOSED BANQUET TO LORD PALMERSTON AT EDINBURGH.—The following letter from Lord Palmerston to Sir William Gibson-Craig, chairman of the late meeting of the conveners of the Liberal• Committee, was received on Saturday. It will be seen that Lord Pal merston is much gratified by the invitation, although he is unable to come north until the Easter recess : "ds, Jan. 1, 1 863. "My dear Sir Gib son ,—l have Broadlan memo(' with much gratification the intimation which you sent me of a wish on the part of the Liberal Committee of Edinburgh to give me a mark of their goodwill when I visit Scotland in conse quence of my having been elected Lord Rector of the 'Uni versity of Glasgow. I need not say that I should feel proud and gratified by such a manifestation of kindly feel ing a city where I spent agreeably and profitably three edu cational winters. I should have been glad if I had been able to visit Scotland before the meeting of Parliament, but my various engagements, private and public, prevent me doing so. I trust, however, to be able to go north when Parliament adjourns for the Easter recess.—My dear Sir Gibson. yours sincerely. " PALMERSTON. " Sir W. Gibson -Craig, Bart." Lord Palmerston has also, we believe, written to the Lord Provost in the kindest terms, accepting an invitation to be the Lord Provost's guest on his visit to Edinburgh.— Scotsman . It is said that the trustees appointed to carry out the intentions of Mr. Peabody in his munificent gift to the poor of London have visited various localities and selected sites for improved dwellings. Plans have been drawn and contracts are in progress. GHASTLY QUARTERS.--I ate my dinner on Mon day within six paces of a rebel in four pieces. Both legs were blown off. His pelvis was the third piece, and his head and chest was the fourth piece. Those four pieces occupied a space of 12 feet square. I saw five dead rebels in a row, with their heads knocked off by a round shot. Myself and other amateur anatomists, when the re giment was resting temporarily on arms, would leave to examine the internal structure of man.. We could examine brains, heart, stomach, layers of muscles, structure of bones, &c., for there was every form of mutilation. At home I used to wince at the sight of a wound or of a corpse, but in one day I learned to be among the scenes I am de scribing without emotion, as p er f ect l y coo l as I am now. My friend, Adjutant —, and myself, on the second night, looking in th e d ar k f or a place to lie down, s a id, Let's lie down here. H er e's some fellers sleeping." We slept in quiet until dawn revealed that we had pa sse d a n i ght gssprawling, Btifrened, ghastly c orpses. I saw one of our " with his mouth f u l l of cartridges until amo d n ead t aoldie is the cheeks were bulged out. Several protruded from his mouth. This was done by rebels.-2inzerican paper. THE FORTHCOMI NG H ILARY T ERM.—Yesterday the lists of th e common law courts for the ensuing term, commencing on Monday, were exhibited. There is a good deal of business before the Courts, numbering 235 rules and other matters, besides a long list of cases in the Divorce Court. In the Queen's Bench there are in the new trial paper 3 cases for judgment, and 66 for argument ; in the special paper there are 2 for judgment, and 37 for argu ment; of enlarged rules, 1 is for judgment, and 7 for argu ment. In the Common Pleas there are 55 matters, of which 6 are enlarged rules, 9 for new trials, 16 rolls in the remanet paper, and 4 matters for the decision of the Court, including the cause of " Kennedy v. Brown and wife," and there are 20 demurrers entered. In the Exchequer there al; 3i admitte d as attorneys. There in the peremptory paper ; in the special paper, . 1 1 1 p r aper,3 judg ment, and 16 for argument; and in the o n ew yon roll , and they 15th instant for judgment, and 31 for argument. a ket z t i lte. As many as upwards n o o t i t h Le receive7o, 000 the to judges the re - the judges will appoint their spring are e 7 p ab er o s u o t ns lo 7 o e oo se a e t k to in ni g e t y o s b w__,....d e contribute in certificate du ty _ will u chance or venue. As the Lore on the first day °A n ext term, the several courts w i ll open at the us ESCAPE FROM CHOKI NG .—O n s a turd‘Y last, at th e P ee b les Freemasons' dinner, Exri:o l ig i ZAßY john Somerville, shoemaker, was observed to be choked by a piece of meat lodging in his throat. It is supposed to have been caused by his speaking while eating. He waa carried out apparently dead, and medical aid was imme diately procured, when Dr. Riddell promptly performed the operation of tracheotomy, or opening the windpipe—keep ing up artificial respiration—by which the man's life was saved. The piece of meat was afterwards extracted, and we understand the man, though confined to bed, is doing well. —Border Advertiser. A touching proof of the depth of woman's love was witnessed at Canterbury, Connecticut, recently, at the funeral of Sergeant Charles Lewis, who was killed at Antietam. A young lady, Miss Hyde, to whom he was engaged, upon bearing of his death, was taken fatally sick and died in a few days, and was buried at the same time an her lover.—Missout i paper. In pursuance of the orders of the Emperors!' stone pillar, two metres high, in the form of a Roma n milestone, and soothing reme dies now being sculptured at Laon, to be erected in the centre of Cmsar's camp at Mauchamp. The design and lnscrip.. tion have been supplied by M. Viollet- . 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