The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-16 00:00:00

- 3 XONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE o'CLocK. The discount market this morning is easier than it was at the concluding hours of business yester day, when a reaction occurred, end 8 per cent. was the lowest quotation for the best short-dated paper. NOW, however, greater disposition is being evinced by brokers and ethers to secure business, and the minimum charge has fallen to 74 and 7j per cent. T he inquiry for accommodation is not very strong, and as the supplies of the open market are exces sive, and competition is excited, there are but corn- Parativeiy few applications made at the Bank of England. A large portion of the Mexican dollars by the last Packet have been sold at ss. ld. per oz., being 20. below the price realised for the previous supply. A first dividend of 10s. in the pound is now in course of payment by the official manager of the I ferefordshire Banking Company, under the wind ing -up order in Chancery. The dividend proposed at the meeting of share holders to-day of the Crystal Palace Company amounted to 2 per cent. (2s. per share). There was a slight downward movement in the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon. The bullion operations at the Bank yesterday comprised an inflax of £27,000 in bar gold, and the withdrawal of 10,000 sovereigns for shipment to Alexandria. The Seine, from the West Indies, has brought £320,000. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning (according to Mr. Renter's telegram) the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 66.40, 66,5 0 ex Coupon. Heavy. During the earlier hours of business the tendency of prices in the market for the English Funds was decidedly unfavourable, and a further decline of 1-16th was added to the depreciation experienced Yesterday afternoon. Since then, however, pur chasers have come forward, and although their Operations have not been extensive, they have im parted a firmer tone, and a recovery has ensued, the latest prices being 907 4 for money, and 911 for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are now as low as 901 ; but India 5 per Cents. remain steady at 1067, and the Enfaced ditto at 104; India Bonds are 14s 6s. die.; and Exchequer Bills, lls. to Os. die. There has been a paucity of business in the Foreign Market, and prices are depressed. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 701 4 ; ditto Cinsolides, 451 46*; Mexican, 331 ; Ureek, 252_ ; Spanish Pas sive, 321 4 ; ditto Certificates, 124 13 ; Russian, 881 ; Peruvian, 851 86 ; and the Confederate Loan, 36 38. The agents of Messrs. Biring Brothers in Venezuela advise that.they have received 53,620 dols, for the dividends. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been limited, and prices have not varied to any im portant extent. Great Eastern, Midland, and North-Eastern (Berwick) have improved 55.; while Great Western have declined ss. ; Metropolitan and South Eastern, 15s. Business in the Foreign and Colonial markets Continue very dull, without any material change as regards prices. In Bank and Miscellaneous shares there has been ♦ery little animation. London and West- Minster have improved to 79i ; Chartered of India, Australia, and China to 33;; London Joint Stock to 37;; Hudson Bay Company's shares have re ceded to 11f 3 ; Mercantile Credit to 8 ; and Egyptian Trading Company to 3f. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 234 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9oa 1 i New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 3i per Cent. Annuities New 21 per Cent. Annuities.. 6 per Cent. Annuities, Jan. 1873 - 11 .niatuties, 30 yrs, expire 9th Jan., 1880.. Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. 141 Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. India Stock, 1874 Ditto 6 pei Cent. 1870 Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 ... Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent...... . . Ditto 5 per Cent - 104 Ditto 51 per Cent Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 991 9 rank Stock for Account Ditto Bonds 41,000 l4 dis Ditto under £l,OOO 6 die Consols for account, Jan, 7.. 9l 903 India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 1c 3 per Cent, 11 6 Ditto 4500 .. Ditto Small -. FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto, 1839 and 186 - 9 Ditto 4. per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 Ditto Scrip, 1863, £3O paid Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) ' 4 ilian 6 per Cent. nitto 41 per Cent, Cuba, 6 per Cent. .. .vitto 3 per Cent. Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — C olombian 6 Scrip £l5 pd Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 , Ditto, Provisona Land Warrant — - Dutch, 21 per Cent., Ex. 12. Guilders , Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct. Oct., 1863 'claador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — I: gyptian 7 pet Cent — Ditto Second Issue Qr De's 1, 1 e 0 per CAccountent., 1824-5, ex-Coupuns — itto Ditto Coupons Ditto Account .. uuatemala 5 per Cent. - Ditto Account • • I .. t ''llan 5 per Cent.(Mareinmana Railway) •,,, 4 4 exican 3 per Cent D itto Account looriGranada sh Imperial 5 per Cent New Ditto 2 per Cent — Ditto Deferred — ~, Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — r aruvian per Cent. .. Ditto Account — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Portugue se 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account.. Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, '7,'9, '6O, 62 4Bl Ditto Account — Ditto, 1863 at Ditto ia S o cr p t 481 £l6 paid, . £ St __ pm _ Ditto 41 per Cent 1850.'. Ditto Ditto 3 per Cent., 118867.....111:1:1111 '— Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 -8i I Sardinian 5 per Cent •. Ditto Account ......... Spanieh 3 per Cent .............. Ditto Account ........................... . . Ditto New Deferred ......... 3 1 ..... . . Ditto Account Ditto Passive ...... -- Ditto Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded -- Ditto Account . l3 123 Swedish, 4 per Cent. — Turkish 6 per Cent. 1851 — Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1855 .7. Ditto Account. _7O Ditto, £lOO Bonds ___. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account _Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863 .............. ............ —ICI'i Venezuel a 3 per Cent. Ditto Account — - Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 .. Ditto Account ..., Dividends on the above payable in London. 'll utah2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil -- Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates French Rentes, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f — . r I ) itto Account.... 'tali", 5 per Cent., 1851, Ex. 25 francs.. Ditto Account.... .. Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 Bs. 3d. paid.... pm TWO O'CLOCK. Console Money 903 I Ditto Account Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. _ Market still dull and generally unchanged since Yester day. Supposed sales w ill not reach more than 2 ,000 or 3,000 bales. • TI L E DUKE OF ATIIOLE, who is, as already stated, 1, 1 , 4 ,_very sad condition, though not worse than some weeks c 4 89 suaering f r o m cancer in the face ; his disease has f " or ri s ,"Gle months p as t been regarded as hopeless . A 411 E EARL OF ELGIN'S DISEASE, it is said , was uroPsy at the heart. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of 44 , 14 3' Beatrio e Vi o l e t G ra h am , daughter of the Duke and the-`i'lchess of M on t rose w i t h M r . 4-. Fulke Grevillo, of .Greville, lst Lif e Guards ' and eldest son of C o lonel and La dy was , solemnised yesterday at St. George's Ilrebi Hanover-square. 1 paid. Closin ; usines Share 1 Railways. Price. g B ! done. s 13.14.. 1 Bir.„ Wol., and Str. Val all 8 81 25 !Blythe and Tyne. 10 Bost.,Slcat.,andMid.Co all 8 81 at Bristol and Exeter et ;Caledonian ; . 100 1171 1181 50 !Corti and Bandon all 20 Cornwall 10 Do A I rr A gets no div ) all ___ 10 IDo. 14 till 6 P c •P an ' has ' i all -- been paid tio 8.1 50 Dublin & Belfast June. all 38 10 25 I Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June.' all 16 17 at :Edinburgh & Glasgow.! 100 94 90 st Glasg. and S. Western.; 100 107 log at 'GreatEastern, Ord. stkl 100 48y 491 49 8; st 1 Ditto A stock ; 100 45 47 at j Ditto East Anglian st 100 71 84 et GreatNorthof Scotland 100 et :Great Northern lOO 124 126 st 1 Do A stock lOO 129 130. st , Do ti do at Gt. S. an , l W. of Ireland 100 96 98 st Great Western i 100 63} 63 1 6 3 1 st 1 Do Str Val gua.. stock 100 et !Lancashire & Yorkshire IGO 108} 1091, at London and Blackwall 100 71 73 et ;Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 100 107 :09 1 107 / et ;Lon. and 100 434 44i 44 at Lou.! , & Nor Chat., 'h Western 100 ; 1061 1071 11 lo7} 7 st 'Lon. & So*.th Western 100 101 102 et 'Man., Shet., & Lincoln. 100 471 184 50 lilaryport and Carlisle. f all 121 ; Do 4 shares . I all et ;Metropolitan all 1111 1121 111 k at (Midland i. 4.0 I Do New 11;,, p 8t 1 Do Birming. & Derby 100 96 08 50 ;Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all 25 1 Do. f shares 25 IMid Kent ,, all 10 . i Do Cray Line et North British at 'Edits., Perth, & Dundee 100 24 16 st 'Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 101 101/ 101 i i 25 ' Do, G.N.E. purchase f. 18.4 4.1 d at Do Leeds lOO 58 681 at 1 Do York at ! Do Carlisle.. ..... at 'North London 10 . Do. New 19.18.4 North Staffordshire 10 .N. and S. W. Junction all 11 111 et Scottish Central at Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 42 44 et 1 Do Soot. Mid. stock lOO 98 100 10 ;Shrews. and Welohpool all et 'Shropshire Union et 'South Devon lOO 814 321 at South Eastern at South Wales at 'S. York. and River Dun 100 97 i 9 971 20 :staines,Wok.,andWok all 91 101 25 ,Stockton & Darlington all 371 371 25 I Do l7 9 10 a 25 I Do New, 1860 8 71 71 p st ; Taff Vale. 10 Do B 8 5 51 I. 10 Do C 8 21 31 p 50 Ulster 25 Do 12.10 IDo 54 et Vale of Neath et ;Victoria sta. and Pim lOO 170 173 at ; Waterford & Kilkenny' 100 st 'West Cornwall 1 100 et 'VV. Hartlepool Llar.&RJ 100 et West Midland -Oxford; 100 at Do Newport 100 i— -- a t Do Hereford 1 00 SHARE MARKETS.—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOWS. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Paol. all 100 100 100 100 100 10') Closing Price. 59 dl 1(6 107 6 1 p 4 1 p 6 di 8i 9i 105 105 WI 103 108 109 106. 1+,76 i lip 20 2l 73 75 59 61 66 69 50 53 48 51 38 42 27 29 22 •Z 4 1(8 109 1* 11; 1} 1P 105 106 0! 10 11 10i , 92 95 86 88 IP 104 1086 100 101 46 100 57 59 all 100 (100 1 100 2 all 100 k 10( 8 5 82 84 106 107 105 11,6 i IP 105 106 101 103 Rat lwaye Atlantic At st Lawrenct Bom.,Baroda& Cent Inc Gu. 5 per cent... Do. New . -•• • • Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and .Lane Uuron Do. Preference .• •• • • Buiralo,Brant,&Godricli p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1872 Do. do. June 1, 18; I Cleutta.ez S. Eastn. E. I Cape Town t Dock Seri] Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. Nast Indian. gu. 5 p. 0. Do. do. G Ext Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Pret. Bonds.. Do. ao. deterred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonus.. Do. do. deferred__ Do. 3d P. ef. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... G tin diaPenin.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. Do. Januiry, 1862 Gt. South.oi India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Sharet , Do. New . . Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. . Indian Branch Limited Madras. guar., 5 p. 0. .. Do. ti p. 0. Extension Dc. d 0........ Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. a p. o. Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Mortg. Bds. Newßruuswick a Canda Class A and B. N.11.1.C'd0.3 po Ist Pt bds Soinde Do. Delhi., Do. do ' Do. Puujaub tc. !! Do. Do. ••••• • Do. Indus.St Flo.) , LONIAL GOVER is p.c.J a. .CJ use 1577-81 ...... ........ Do. 6 p. a Feb. it Aug. Do. 6 C. Mar. A; Sept. Do. F p. o. Jan.diJuly. Do. 6 Inscribed stock jCapeG.Hope, 6 p Do.Ap &Oct. 1880 Do. 189( IDo. Jan. & July, 1891.. ,Ceylon, N0v.1678, 6 p c 'Mauritius 6 per cent .. INatal Gov. 6 per cont.. N. 11.6 ov. 6 p.o. d a.aJuly Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. N. S. W. Gov._s p Dv. 5 p. c.,18/1 to 1..-71 Do. do., 1888 at upwds New Zealand 6 p cent. Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 'Queensland Gcv. 6p. c S. Aus (16p.c.i878.dz up I Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.dauly Do. lo o.n. AutOok. Share 156 sk 20 Business don. BRITISH MINES. 2 !Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 id Ik;liflord Amalgataated 33 34 Deven G. Con.. (Tavist ) 1 550 560 East Bassett (I Hogan) 30 '7 60 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd 53. 4d par East Caradon ...... 26 27 East Cara Brea... 3.4.0 51 61 E. W'lRussel (Tavistic.)l 8.9.0 41 54 41 Gam.dzSt.Aubyn(Gwen.; 581 8 10 Great South Tolgus 17s 44 41 !G. Wheal Vor (Holston 40 12 13 !Grenville 6.16. r 4 44 —Herd's-Foot 8.12 08 40 11 ingston Downs 4.'8.0 2 25 Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant. 95 14 16 Marke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lim 2/ 14 1 6 New Setun l 9l 90 100 • North Downs 'z/ 11 11 N.Wh'i Basset (111o4an 3.1.0 2t 2/ North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blaze), 20 Vrovidence(Uny Lelnt., 10.8.7 42 44 I SouthCaradon(St.Cleer, 11 415 125 S. Carn Brea (Illogan) — e.. Wheal Fran. (Illogan 15.10.9 60 65 Stray Park 30.17.6 30 32 5 ramar Silv..t Lead Min. 44 fin Crort 9 18 19 West Basset (Illogan) l4 94 105 W radon (Liskeard, 5 1$ 20 West Seto Wheal Basset (Mogan) 87 4 92 / Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 224 274 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelnut) 2.0.6 WhealLudcott - Wheal Mary Ann ;Lien ) 8 115 12 Wheal fleton 585 155 IC VirhealTreiawney (Lis ) 7 21 22 Wheal Union 3.17 25 3 PREFERENCE SHARES. .onion and S.-Western 44 per cent., in and S.-Western 4i per cent., Ito, Portsmouth perpet. acne. of .C.s. 6d., 21 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTAL& Buckinghamshire, 95 ManchiOster, Buxton, and Matlock, 4 Midland Bradford pret. stock, 951} FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 8 • Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 181 Dutch Rhenish, 17i Sambre and Meuse, Si South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 20i Turin and Savona, Ditto (all), 14i FOREIGN MINES. St. John del Rey (lira.), 58 United Mexican 6 Vallanze.sca Gold, lira., Alliance Bank of 44i A nglo Austrian 7 J L O on INL.S a T na CIC L K ive B rp A c IIi ( FL um.), Chartered Bank of India, Australis, and China, 33 1 City, 108 Hindustan, China, and Japan (lira.), 29} 9 Imperial Ottoman, 17k 1 8 17} London Joint Stock, 371 London and Westminster, 791 Union of Australia, 53 35e AIISCELLANEoIa. Crystal Palace, Discount Corporation, limited, Si- Eget]lndia Irrigation and Canal, Egyptian Commercial and Trading, lim Gen. Credit and Finance of London, bin,' ", 3 61 H u dson's Bay, 11i I Mercantile Credit Association, Hm., 8 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, Ditto (£4), 41 South Australian Land, 33 Van Diemen's Land, 10} 11 GOLD AT NELSON. — O wet spring have been s uc a ce r e w de e d t w by in b t e e a r u a ti nd ful e ly qu c a le ll a y r dry weather, and such, y deve loped hope, as will now permit our r op in e e d r . al w re e so se u n rc d e resources t away o be re this o month 1,000 oz, of gold, which, unseen on for the la s t e i g ht mon th s , m akes a total export throu g h the by the tam- C ustoms of 9,000 oz. What went g at herer, who l ev i es h a lf- a - cr own an ounce duty up all m fully and permanently that p asses through his hands, no one can know, but I feel sure it would make the 9,000 nearly double that number of ounces. Thero have teen already two claims lodged for the gold bonus, so that we really look forward to our goldfields being developed at last. To show what they yield, I would tell you that withi n a week or two a dispute was settled in our Magistrates Court wherein two diggers were ecneemed. While the two were actin g as mates one of them found and secreted a nugget, weighing 280 z. lldwts., and in addition to that these two men had obtained 83 ounces in about five weeks' w,rk, besides what the dishonest one may further have secreted. We therefore know that two men in five weeks obtained £4lO worth of gold.—The Nelson, Corre spondent of the New Zealang !xaminer. Lonit Di TIM SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day). COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE SPA RHAM-JUDGMENT -A FRACDULENT ATTORNEY. This bankrupt was an attorney in Basinghall-street, and applied about a fortnight since for his discharge, and after a long examination judgment was deferred. The leading grounds of opposition were for fraudulently contracting debts. The debts amount to £1,190, and the assets about £2B. The charge of fraud was made out by a Mr. Lockington, formerly a client of the bankrupt. Bankrupt brought an action for Mr. Lockingten, and recovered the amount, re ceiving three bills, which he got discounted, and applied the proceeds to his own nee. The charge of contracting debts without reasonable prospect of being able to pay was made out by his own admission, as he bad been hopelessly insolvent for 8 or 10 years,'although he had been doing an extensive business —discounting bills for his clients—and he alto con tracted loans ; but, on the wbole, the business was unprofit able. He had been living at the rate of £l,OOO a year, which was more than his gross profits and a private income which his wife was entitled to. His Honour briefly referred to the facts, and severely censured the bankrupt for his extravagance. All the grounds of opposition had been made out, and said he should mark his sense of such gross misconduct, especially on the part of an attorney, and suspended the order of discharge for nine months, without protection for six, except one, months, to give the bankrupt an opportunity of appealing if he thought proper to do so. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) THE WATERLOO-ROAD MURDER. Samuel Wright, bricklayer, was this morning placed in the dock to plead to an indictment, charging him with the wilful murder of a female named Maria Green. _ _ The prisoner, on making his appearance, seemed quite overpowerec by the horrible nature of the crime with which he was charged. Immediately he took his position in front of the dock, he took hold of the upper part of it with both hands, and during the time he was before the learned judge kept swinging himself backwards and forwards. The Clerk of the Arraigns said—Samuel Wright, you stand indicted for killing and slaying, with malice afore - thought, Maria Green. How say you, are you guilty or not guilty ? Prisoner (in a very faint voice) —Guilty. The Recorder asked him if he knew the nature of hiS plea of guilty ? Prisoner—Yea; I'm guilty. The prisoner was then removed. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) . . Immediately Mr. Justice Blackburn took his seat on the bench, The prisoner was again placed in the dock, when The Clerk of the Arraigns said the prisoner Samuel Wright was indicted for the wilful murder of Maria Green, to which indictment he pleaded guilty. Mr. Justice Blackburn asked the prisoner if he clearly understood the effect of pleading to an indictment for wilful murder. He wished him to consider well his plea, and although ke by no means wished to persuade him to plead not guilty, yet he wished him to weigh well his determina tion. Prisoner (faintly)—l'm guilty. Mr. Sleigh said he had been instructed to prosecute in the case, and having read the depositions, he saw no ground for asking for a postponement of the trial. The Learned Judge said he also had read the depositions, and saw no grounds for not proceeding with the trial. The chief usher made the usual proclamation for silence whilst the sentence of death was being passed. While this was being done Mr. Justice Blackburn put on the black cap, which, being seen by the prisoner, he dropped his head upon his hands in the most despairing manner, and during the remainder of the awful proceeding, he, with difficulty, seemed to keep a standing position, owing to excessive trembling. _ . . The Learned Judge, in passing the dreadful sentence of the law, implored the prisoner to make the best use of the short space of time left to him on earth, as he could hold out no hope of mercy being extended to him. The learned judge then, during the most profound silence, s entenced the prisoner to be hung by the neck until death, adding, "May Almighty God have mercy upon your soul." The Ordinary of Newgate, Mr. Davis, who was on the bench, then pronounced the word " Amen," and The condemned murderer was removed from the dock by the warders of the prison. The sentence will be carried into effect at Horsemonger lane gaol on Monday, the 4th of January. - - THE CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AT WILTON'S ➢IUSIC- HALL. Peter Molloy, vocalist, was indicted for the manslaughter of John Bunn, a North Sea pilot, on the 23d of November at Wilton's Music-hall, Weliclose-square. It will be recollected that the deceased, on the night of the 23d of November, went to Wilton's Music-hall, and while there, he became, owing to his intoxicated state, very unruly and annoying. The prisoner was singing a senti mental song, when the deceased called out "shut up" twice, which greatly excited the prisoner, when he jumped off the stage, and struck the deceased two blows with his fiats, from the effects of which, it was stated, he died. A witness, of the name of Solomon, said he was in the Hall on the night in question. He saw the deceased there. He was annoying everybody. He heard him call out "shut up," when Molloy jumped off the stage and struck him twice. Deceased staggered and fell from the effects of the blows. and eventually died. The surgeon, who had made a post mortem examination, in answer to Mr. Sleigh, who defended the prisoner, said it was quite possible that some fail or blow, given two or three hours before, might have caused the bursting of a blood vessel, and the blows received from the prisoner might, therefore, not be the primary cause of death. Mr. Sleigh, having addressed the jury for the prisoner, called Frederick Smith, waiter at the Three Tuns public-house, Jewry-street, who said deceased was in and out his master's house during the whole of the afternoon of the 23d of No vember, drinking. He was very quarrelsome to every per son in the house. A foreigner was there, whom he called a rogue and a thief. Deceased wanted to fight the foreigner, and got up for the purpose of doing so, when he tell down. When deceased was raised from the ground, it was found that blood was oozing from one of his ears. The landlord of the house and the foreigner alluded to having given confirmatory evidence, The jury, af , er five minutes' deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty, but strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy on the ground of the gross provocation he had received. The learned Judge said he could not pass over it without some slight punishment, and for that reason he would defer sentence for the present. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) Robert Ward, 48, tinplate worker, was - indicted for un lawfully, by fraud, enticing away and detaining Emily Wright, a child of the age of 12 years, with intent to de. prive the parents of the said Emily Wright. The prisoner was also detained on a similar charge with respect to a girl named Agnes Barton. The evidence described a great amount of immorality, and at its conclusion, Mr. Lewis, who defended the prisoner, contended that in order to bring the prisoner within the provisions of the Act of Parliament, they must be fully of opinion that there was a forcible detention. Mr. Justice Keating said the jury would have to say whether the fact that had been stated in evidence, viz.. that the locking of the girl in the room by the prisoner, although she afterwards made her escape therefrom, was a detention within the meaning of the act. The jury found a verdict of not guilty. The prisoner was then indicted for the misdemeanour, viz., the abduction of a girl under the age of 16. The jury found the prisoner guilty. There was another indictment of indecent assault against him on Agnes Boston, which the judge directed to be tried. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. The greater portion of the time of the magistrate (Mr. Tyrwhitt) this morning was taken up in hearing charges of begging. In one case a man named Thomas Roberts was charged with begging of persons leaving Farm-street Chapel. On being taken into custody by Moore, 187 C, two bags were found in the prisoner's possession, one con taining 9s. 4d. in silv e r, an d th e o th er 6s. 11. in copper. Mr. Tyrwhitt committ e d th e pr i soner f or 14 days. Three Italian boys named Josef B oa ini, Antonio Antonio, and ()amino Jean Baptiste, were charged with begging in the Haymarket, and as they were well known to the police, Mr. Tyrwhitt committed them for 14 days each, and in doing so the worthy magistrate said ha looked upon the boys with considerable pity. They were brought to this country by mercenary persons, who would even destroy them if they could get ss. out of them. They were turned adrift, or allowed to lie on stairs at night if they did not bring home a certain amount of money, and in sending them for 14 days to prison he thought it would be better than anything else he could do. THE SUGAR DUTIES. We have been favoured with the following letters on this subject : "TO RICHARD COBDEN, ESQ., M P. "Dear Sir,---As an old free trader, who fought under you in the ranks of the Anti-Corn Law League, I am sure you will excuse me for expressing surprise on reading the le port of your speech to your constituents at Rochdale. I find you saying, 'There is no longer any question of free trade and protection to discuss,' whilst the article of sugar, se cond only to corn as an article of food and consumption, is in much the same position as corn was at the time of the free trade agitation, viz., a sliding scale of duties, pur posely contrived to protect the home reiner at the expense of the grower and the consumer. "Surely, you must have forgotten that it was to Lord George lientinck that we are indebted for the present clumsy method of collecting the revenue on sugar, and that he was only the mouthpiece of the house refiners when hu proposed the classified scale of duties on brown Muscovado, brown clayed, white clayed, and rained, raising the duty at every stage of improvement in quality. " Now, sir, I have been connected with the sugar trade I for 35 years, and lemember well how it was iu the old slavery days, when the West India interest had the exclu sive monopoly in this market. True, some foreign sugars were imported, but by excessive preferential duty they were excluded entirely from home consumption. But they were refined in bond, and lump sugar was exported from here to the West Indies that the negroes might use it, and send home every pound they produced of brown monopoly sugar for the poor tax-ridden English labourer at double the cost of the lump sugar exported out of England. I remember the first introduction of sugars from Mauritius and the Rastlndies, and it was only after many years' struggle that those growers succeeded in getting justice by having their augers placed on the same nee of duties. And even then every precaution was taken that it was British grown, and yet this monopoly did not flourish. The West Indian planters were periodically ruined, and were frequently at the doors of Parliament com plaining of distress, and asking for fresh bounties, for re mission of taxation, or for Parliamentary loans. After the abolition of slavery, a gradual reduction of duty took place in foreign sugars, and the "West Indian interests were for the last time completely ruined, but somehow happened to survive, for the days of competition produced the natural result of stimulating energy. Attention now began to be paid to economical production, and machinery, such as crushing mills and vacuum pats, were being extensively introduced into our colonies, when the unfortunate law of classified duty was adopted. Mark the consequences. One Newcastle firm had established works at Cossipore, in the East Indies, and had gone to very great expense in fitting them uD with the best machinery, vacuum-pans, &0., for crystallising sugars. Th's they did to great per fection, and succeeded in sending the most perfectly pre pared sugars ever imported into this country. Fur every improvement they made, the Government took more than the benefit from them in increased duty, and it not un frequently happened at their sales that the inferior sugars brought them more money than the finest qualities when the duty was deducted off the prices. What was the consequence ? The firm was ruined by protection. At that time large imports were made to Newcastle by three other firms, and that for some years has been entirely abandoned. Take another instance. A West India proprietor told the writer that in consequence of our absurd law they had laid aside three vacuum-pans on their plantations, and now, by adopting a German patent, they were producing rum, which brought 5s to 6s a gallon, such as generally brought only 2s to 3s, and thus, because of its being a fixed duty, they knew exactly what they were doing. As regards sugar, they now send it in the crudest possible state, to secure its being charged the lowest rate of duty. And this is not the exceptional rule, for nearly all foreign sugars, as well as much of our West India, and part of our Mauri tius and East India sugars, aro imported to this country in such a state as to be quite unfit for consumption until they have passed through the hands of the refiners. Mr. Fairie, a large refiner, in a letter published in the Grocer of November 21, says that it appears from Travers and Son's circular, that their sales are four times as large for refiners' produce as for all kinds of colonial sugar—and this, I think, will about represent the truth with the trade geuerally—that four-fifths of the sugar trade has passed into the hands of home refiners. 'And yet this gentleman admits that buyers and sellers of sugar must generally be content with an examination by the eye, the touch, and the taste, and what is sufficient for them must be sufficient for the officers of Customs. He remarks further that the mere strength of sugar is not the guide as to the class to which any sample may belong, for two kinds may contain equal quantities of pure sugar, and yet differ in price 10 per cent. " Thus, even by the showing of the refiners, the classifi cation of sugar is attended with great practical difficulties and the Customs rule is the rule of thumb. This leads to different rates of duties being charged in different ports for the same sugar, and to constant disputes between the merchant and the Customs Board; whilst the producer is baffled in all calculations as to what rate of duties his sugars will have to pay. This difficulty could all be got rid of by a low fixed rate of duty, and it should be much lower than at present, when this primary article of consumption pays from I}d to 2d per lb duty. Yet this great question is never treated in Parliament on the true basis, that of a question for consumers, who ought to be allowed to purchase on equal terms from the best markets in the world ; far it is a startling fact that, with our inc: easing population, whose consuming power in all other articles is so very largely in creased, the consumption of sugar is almost stationary; and though the Chancellor of the Exchequer ventured a calcu lation that the reduction of the tea duty would lead to a large increase in the consumption of sugar, up to a recent date his expectations had not been realised. I commend the subject to your serious attention, for within the last few weeks an advance of 108 to 12s per cwt. has taken place in sugar. Owing principally to a failure of the beetroot crop in France, large purchases have been made on French account, and, only the other day, 2,000 bags of Cossipore were bought in Liverpool at 508. per cwt. because the high rate of duty, 16s. per cwt., was equivalent to a bounty of X 2 35. 4d. per ton on their export. This ad vance is equal to 25 or 30 per cent. on the value of sugar— a serious extra charge to the public—for the working classes must pay an extra ld. per lb. on every pound of sugar with which they sweeten their tea or coffee. Anything that tends thus to limit the consumption, to deteriorate the quality, or to raise the cost of sugar to the public—es, I think, the present law in relation to sugar is doing—must be deserving the consideration of all political economists, but doubly so of the Apostle of Free Trade. " I am, dear sir, with profound respect, yours truly, "E. S. HILLS. "Newcastle, Nov. 30, 1833." "TO E. S. RILLS, ESQ. " Midhurst, Dec. 3, 1863. " Dear Sir, --I have already been favoured with the views of Mr. Travers on the sugar question, and can only repeat that the subject shall have my attention when brought before Parliament. I thought I had as keen a scent as most people in such matters, but I was bound to admit that I did not see that protection' was necessarily involved in the principle of the scale to which he objected. The only real solution of the sugar question is to abolish the duty altogether. But with the present scale of Govern ment expenditure that is, of course, out of the questicn.—l remain, truly yours, "R. COBDEN. " E. S. Hills, Esq." MARKETS --This Day. MARK-LANE. There was a moderate show of samples of English wheat on the stands to-day, for the most part of poor quality. The trade, however, was very dull, and even selected parcels were difficult of sale, at Monday's fall in the currency of is per quarter. With foreign wheat the market was but moderately sup plied. All descriptions sold heavily, at the late decline in prices of is per quarter. With foreign wheat the market was but moderately sup plied. All descriptions sold heavily, at the late decline in prices of is per quarter. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, on rather easier terms. The supply of barley was large. Fine malting parcels supported previous rates; otherwise, the trade was dull, at fully the recent fall in the currency. _ Malt sold heavily, at Monday's decline in prices. The supply of oats on sale was by no means extensive, yet the demand ruled inactive, at barely late rates. Beans and peas were a dull inquiry, a nd prioes had a downward tendency. In flour a very moderate business was transacted, on former terms. ARRIVALS THIS . Whe Barley. Malt. Oats. Flow, English..." 2,070 830 500 gn 5,860 2 l 300 1,510 Irieh Fong I 500 - ,50 j 0320, 400 sks. brls. ~...-......••• WHITECHAP EL. The supply of meat on sale is somewhat extensive, and the demand rules inactive, as follows : Betf, from 2s 8d to 4s 4d; mutto4n,B 4d per 81b8 by the 3s Od to 4 s Gd ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 6d; and pork, 38 6,1 to carcase. BOROUGII HOP. Our market is firm, and the value of fine produce has a n upward tendency. RUSSIA AND DENMAR.—We find in the Gazette of Augsburg a detailed analysis of the instructions given b y t h e Russian Government to State Councillor Ewers, charged to compliment King Christian on the occa , ohm of his accession to the throne. The representative of the. Emperor Alexander has for his special mission to induce Ki n g Christian to modify the constitution of the 18th o f November, by which, rightly or wrongly, he is accused of wishing to incorporate Schleswig in the Danish monarchy. Moreover, be was instructed to declare to the Danish Cabi net, that if it did not yield on this point the Powers woul d throw upon him the responsibility of the consequencc3 which might result trom ti:►e refusal of that mission. LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evenings FOREIGN OFFICE, DEc. 16. Copies of a letter from Earl Rusßell to the Lords Com missioners of the Admiralty, and of a despatch fr om t h e Duke of Newcastle to the Governor of the Bahamas : Foreign-office, Jan. 31, 1862. My Lords,—Her Majesty being fully determined to ob serve the duties of neutrality during the existing hostilities between the United States and the States calling themselves "the Confederate States of America," and being, more over, resolved to prevent, as far as possible, the use of her Majesty's harbours, ports, and coasts, and the waters within her Majesty's territorial jurisdiction, in aid of the warlike purposes of either belligerent, has commanded me to com municate to your Lordships, for your guidance, the follow ing rules, which are to be treated and enforced as her Ma jesty's orders and directions. Her Majesty is pleased further to command that these rules shall be put in force in the United Kingdom and in the Channel Islands on and atter Thursday, the 6th day of February next, and in her Majesty's territories and possessions beyond the seas, six days after the day when the Governor or other chief authority of each of such territories or possessions respectively, shall have notified and published the saute, :felting in such notification that the said i ales are tit be obeyed by all persons within the same territories and possessions. I. During the continuance of the present hostilities be tween the Government of the United States of North Ame rica and the States calling themselves the "Confederates States of America," or until her Majesty shall otherwise order, no ship of war or privateer belonging to either of the belligerents shall be permitted to enter, or remain in the port of Nassau, or in any other port, roadstead, or waters of the Bahama Islands, except by special leave of the Lieu tenant Governor of the Bahama Islands, or in case of stress such of weather. If any such vessel s hould enter any port, ro a d stea d, or wa t ers , b y s p ec i a l leave, or under stress of weather, the authorities of the place shall require her to p ut to sea' as soon as possible, without permitting her to take in for her immedLaty supplies, beyond what may be necessary If, at the time° u when this order is first notified in the Bahama Islando• there a shall be any such vessel already within any port, roadstead, Lieutenant - Governor shall or waters of those Islands, the give notice to such vessel eo de part, and shall require herto put to sea, within such time as he shall, under the circumstances, consider proper and rea sonable. If there shall then belonging to both the said belligerents sear ships of war or privateers erents within the territorial in n jurisdiction of her Majesty,eaovrthe same port, road stead, or waters, the Lieutenant. ernor shall fix the order of time in wh ic h such vt asels shall i d t epart. No such ve s s el of either belligerent shall be permitted to put to sea until after the expira t i on of at least 2t. hours othourierfrom the time when the last prec edin g vessel of the have belligerent (whether the same s hall be a shi p of wart or Privateer r or a merc hant ship), which sha l l h ave left the same port, road stead, ad e stead, or waters, or waters ad j acent ther eto , shall passed beyond the territorial jurisdiction of her Maje e t Y 11. Daring the conti nuance of the present hosti lities be tween the Government of the United States of North America and the States calling themselves " the Confede rate States of America," all ships of war and privateers of either belligerent are prohibited from making use of any port or roadstead in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in the Channel Islands, or in any of her Ma jesty's colonies or foreign possessions or dependencies, or of any waters subject to territorial jurisdiction of the Bri tish Crown, as a station or place of resort for any warlike purpose or for the purpose of obtaining any facilities of war like equipment; and no ship of war or privateer of either belligerent shall hereafter be permitted to sail out of or leave any port, roadstead, or waters, subject to British jurisdic tion, from which any vessel of the other belligerent (whether the same shall be a ship of war, a privateer, or a merchant ship), shall have preciously departed, until atter the expira tion of at least 24 hours trout the departure of such last mentioned ,vessel beyond the territorial jurisdiction of her Majesty. HI. If any ship of war or privateer of either belligerent shall, after the time when this order shall be first notified and put in force in the United Kingdom and in the Channel Islands, and in",the several colonies and foreign possessions and dependencies of her Majesty, respectively, enter into port, roadstead, or waters, belonging to her Majesty, either in the United Kingdom, or in the Channel Islands. or in any of her Majesty's colonies or foreign possessions or de pendencies, such vessel shall be required to depart and to put to sea, within 24 hours after her entrance into such port, roadstead, or waters, except in case of stress of wea ther, or of her requiring provisions or things necessary for the subsistence of her crew, or repairs ; in either of which cases, the authorities of the port, or of the nearest port (as the case may be), shall require er to put to sea as soon as possible after the expiration of such period of 24 hours, without permitting her to take in supplies, beyond what may be necessary for her immediate use: and no such vessel, which may have been allowed to remain within British waters for the purpose of repair, shall continue in any port, roadstead, or waters, for a longer period than 24 hours after her necessary repairs shall have been completed : Provided, nevertheless, that in all cases, in which there shall be any vessels (whether ships of war, privateers, or merchant ships), of both the said belligerent parties in the same port, roadstead, or waters within the territorial jurisdiction of her Majesty, there shall be an interval of not less than 24 hours between the departure therefrom of any such vessel (whether a ship of war, a privateer, or a merchant ship), of the one belli gerent, and the subsequent departure therefrom of any ship of war or privateer of the other belligerent; and the times, hereby limited, for the departure of such ships of war and privateers respectively, shall always, in case of necessity, be extended, so far as may be requisite for giving effect to this proviso, but not further or otherwise. IV. No ship of war or privateer of either belligerent shall hereafter be permitted, while in any port, roadstead, or waters subject to the territorial jurisdiction of her Ma jesty, take in any supplies, except provisions and such other things as may be requisite for the subsistence of her crew; and except so much coal only as may be sufficient to carry such vessel to the nearest port of her own country, or to some nearer destination ; and no coal shall be again supplied to any such ship of war or privateer, in the same or or any other port, roadstead, or waters subject to the territorial jurisd ction of her Majesty, without special permission, until after the expiration of three months from the time when such coal may have been last supplied to her within British waters as aforesaid.—l have, th., (Signed) RUSSELL . NOTE.—A similar letter ha's been addressed to the Secre taries of State for the Home, Colonial, War, and India De partments, and to the Lords Commissioners of her ➢Ta jesty's Treasury. Downing-street, Oct. 6, 1863. Sir—Doubts having been expressed as to whether, under the regulations of the 31st January, 1862, which were em bodied in a proclamation issued by you on the 11th March following, it is required that the Cemarander of a bellige rent ship of war or privateer should obtain the permission of the local authorities before entering the port, roadsteads, or waters of the Bahamas out-islands, when the Governor is net there present, I am to acquaint you that Earl Russell has taken her Majesty's pleasure thereupon, and you are to understand that at the out-islands, as at Nassau, the special leave of the Governor himself is required (unless in stress of weather), by any belligerent vessel desiring to enter, with this exception only, that in cases of grave emer gency and real necessity and distress, such as a sailing ves sel being dismasted, or accident happening to the machinery of a steam-vessel, the vessel may enter the ports, roadsteads, or waters on obtaining leave from a rtsident officer, to whom the Governor shall have delegated his authority in that behalf. With a view to give effect to her Majesty's intentions, you will be pleased to convey to the t,fficers in the out islands to whom it may best be confided, the authority in question, taking care to communicate to them copies of the regulations of the 31st January, 1862, and calling their especial attention to the limits of the authority delegated, and to that clause of the regulations of 31st January, 1862, in which it is directed, that vessels entering under stress of weather, or by special leave, shall be required to put to sea as soon as possible.—l have, &c., (Signed) NEWCASTLE. Governor Bayley, C. 8., &c. • LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, DEC. 15. Notice is hereby given, that the State Apartments of Windsor Castle will be opened to the public, under the usual regulations, on and after Monday, the 21st inst. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 11. The following promotions, dated the 3d inst., consequent on the death of Admiral of the Red John Ayscough, on the 2d inst., have this taken place : Admiral of the White Sir Edward Harvey, /C.C.8., to _ be Admiral of the Red. Admiral of the Blue Sir James Stirling, Knight, to be Admiral of the White. Vice-Admiral the Right Hon. Charles Philip, o n the Earl of Hardwicke, on the Reserved List, to b e Admiral same list. Vice-Admiral of the Red S ir Henry Dude Chads, K.C.B. to be Admiral of the B lue. Vice-Admiral of the White Sir Robert Lambert Baynes, K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red. Vice Admiral of the Blue the Right Lord George : I ke s be Paulet, C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral o f the T h omas We . _ Rear-Admirals —William Hargood, Sir Triggs Thompson, Bart , on the Reserved List, to be Vice. Admirals on the same li st. Rear-Admiral of th e Red Robert Smart, li.•}L, t Vice-Admiral of the Blue. . Rear-Admiral of the White Sir Lewis ToyhiaAsujeorlaseosi: K.C.8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue William Henr Morshead, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Whit e , to be Rear-Ad- Captains—Bartholomew James Sulivan h' D Sulivan, C.B. Hen Na Hon. Walter Banc ier evereux, and Si r ' Ge ry Nathaniel Broke Middleton, Bart., C,B., orge mirals on the Reserved List. Captain George Giffard, C.B„ to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. Retired Vice-Admiral George Curry LeMpriere to have the rank and title of Retired Admiral,in pursuance of the Order in Council of 7th May, 185, BANKRUPTS The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im portance in the Gazette : Edward Haskayne, auctioneer , Liverpool William Wildish, wheelwright, Maidstone James Midgley, publ ic John Dodds, a n , Smallbridge, near Rochdale merchant, Cecil -street, Strand George Boddy, build Wm. Paynter, corn build er, Gray's-inn-lane Timothy O'Re mission agent, Kingslaud ga haulier, Swansea ri, grocer, Abergavenny Wm. Edw ar d s , John Stone, butcher, Bridgwater Alex. Francis St'lb kilowatt, Watchmaker, Bath Philip l orn, butcher, Bishop Wilton Ju "Pil Coo per,Attricic,cobirnewfuecrt°=herrdamPtc'n John J. Barker, picture dealer, Bath Peter J aco b R omer , commission agent, Saxton Scholey, licensed victualler, Eynahate. 'William Jones, beershop keeper, Horley George Howard, shoemaker, Tenipsfordt Nathaniel Cox, iron ship builder, Cheser Martin Slack, beerhouse keeper, Che s ter fi eld n- Desury Matthew Sykes, green, Richard Lindley, cattljr;et.lale'r, Belton, Lincolnshire Francis J. lliggia • bottom, attorney, Birkdale, Lanca shire Joseph Mutton, plumber, Cam bridge A II: grocer, Bradford Jame Whit keernby, ha i r dresser, York NicholasLacSCOTCll BANKRUPTS. John Ronald, general merchant, St Andrews farmer,,Gairkloch Colin Mawr°, s m ith, grocer, Garin e John n --• t rzner Sanquhar , Dumfries-shire Jam es ....- I lit., a , , Edward Goodier, farmer, H osehill, Renfrewshire Georgo Lindsay, farmer, Arbroath DIE ENTIRE COMMAND OF THE GERMAN ARMY to invado Denmark (Austrian troops as well as Prussian) will be given. to Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia. SECOND E-DITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF'-PAST 4 o'Ci.ocK. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, DEC. 16. It is stated on good authority that a Minis to rial crisis certainly exists. Herr von Selmer' ing having declared that he cannot remain in o f ace with his present colleagues. Among the causes; for dissatisfaction which he has communicated to the Emperor is that he was not supported by Co ant Rechlyrg on the religious question now fci -m -ing the object of negotiations with Rce. me. It is hoped that Herr von Schmerlinq i vile surmount this crisis as his leaving the Cabi ict would be considered a national calamity. Pr ivy Councillor Herr von Lasser has, however, decle d that the Comstitutional system in Austria would be in no way effected by the crisis. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SCRA.TCHINGS.—The following horses have been struck out of their engagements at the Manchester Steeple-chase Meeting, which will be held on January 1, to Mr. John Swindells, jun.:—Hurdle Race : Topsy, 5 yrs. Trial Stakes : Sledmere, 4 yrs. Steeple Chase : Red Robin aged ; Pot-pourri, 5 yrs ; Rooke the Gardener, 6 yrs; and Creole, 5 yrs. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Dec. 16.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly ; light breeze, and fine weather, but a little cloudy. PonTsisouTH, Dec. 15.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—C on • stance, from London for Barbadoes. Sailed—Lady Am on for Otago her Majesty's ship West, for the East Indies— Johannes, for Maranham. , . LxvExu.ooL, Dec. b.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Hou n d, from New York. Sailed—Ambrose, for Bombay—Hindu°, for Sierra Leone. KINQRO&D, Dec. 14.—Wind W.—Arrived—Catherin e , from. New York. HULL, Dec. 15.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Coronet, from Quebec. HUMBER, Dec. 15.-11 7 in N. W .--Arrived—Pomon a , from Quebec. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 15 .—Arrived—Elizi JeLkins, from Mazatlan, (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning, Arrived, Dec. 16—Holland, from Ostend. Sailed, Dec. 16—Sixtieth, and Belgium, steamer, for Ostend. _ _ _ _ _ DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed—Brutus, from Shields for Kurrachee. WESTMINSTER A POOR COUNTRY3IAN IN LONDON.—Martin M'Cor rnack, a young man in the garb of a rustic labourer, was charged with begging. John Froset, a policeman of the B division, said that he found the defendant last night begging at Princes-gate, Knightsbridge. He saw him accost several people. When witness spoke to him the defendant said that if he did not take him in charge for begging he would have to take him for something else. He added that be had been waiting about some time for a policeman. Mr. Arnold—Do you know him ? Witness—No, he is a stranger to me. Mr. Arnold—What have you to say, defendant? Defendant—l had no where to go to, even to lie down, and had not the price of a lodging, so that I was glad to be taken to the station-house. Mr. Arnold—You should apply to the workhouse. Defendant—lf you go there they wont do anything for you. Mr. Arnold—Have you tried Defendant—Yes, T triad this week at St. James, West minster, but it was no use. Mr. Arnold—Who did you see ? Defendant—A gentleman at the gate, who would not give me anything. Mr. Arnold—You. have gone to the wrong person. You have applied to the p irties, I suppose, at the workhouse, who had no power io do anything for you. You should have applied to the relieving officer, who is bound bylaw to attend your compl a i n t . I su ppos e you went to the work house and to and applied to be let in for a night's lodging Defendant—Yes, that is what I asked for, but I did not get. Mr. Arnold —Workhouses are not refuges where persons may go for a night's lodgings, or be taken in at all times. There are appointed hours for persons to apply for relief, and those ate the times at which you must go, and where they ee f are ee nndd b aa o i anuttniTo gt Birmingham.k. bound o t to i r y e el lastie w v e o you. wreek Where do you come from ? Defendant—Nearf Mr. Arnold —When did you come to London? Defendant-. Only Mr. Arnold—What was your object in coming here? D Mr. Arnold —You can't do that either by begging or getting into the workhouse. Defendant—l don't know what else to do. What am I to do ? Mr. Arnold—There was no obligation upon you to come to London, and it was very foolish for you to do so. Every body has a right to do the best they can, and 3 ou certainly had as much right to come to London as I should have to go to Birmingham, but leaving home for a strange place with the mere chance of getting work was very foolish. Where have you tried to get employment ? _ . . _ Defendant—l went to the docks and to Enfield and back. I don't know what to do. I want somewhere to go to. Mr. Arnold—l shall remand you until Tuesday to see if you are known. If your story is true, coming up on this chance way to London was very unwise. THAMES. HEARTLESS HIISBANDS.—A respectable young woman, named Sophia Eliza Best, applied to Mr. Woolrych for a protection order. She stated that her husband, Henry Sweetland Best, deserted her on the 17th September last. At that time she was very ill, her life was despaired of, and her child was lying by her side in a dying state. The child has since died. Her husband had previously intimated that he intended to leave her, and would never return. She had never seen him or heard from him since. She was anxious to protect the little property she possessed in the event of her husband's return. Mr. Woolrych granted the order, and advised the appli cant to register if at the Bow County -court within 10 days. ANOTHER HEARTLESS HUSBAND.-A. poor, half-starved woman, named Marsh, who has seen better days, and whose application was highly recommended, respectfully asked for a little aid from the poor•boa fund. Her husband formerly carried on business as a broker in Little Britain, near St. Bartholomew Hospital. Ho absoonded with his servant girl a few years since and proceeded to Australia. He had previously converted everything he possessed into cash, and left her and her three children in a destitute condition. She struggled to carry on the business as long as she possibly could, and tailed. All her furniture and effects had been disposed of to procure food. All she cauld earn, with the assistance of her daughter, in making up shirts was 7d. per day. That employment was very precarious, and she was now without the means of procuring a meal. Her husband, who was doing well at Port Phillip, with the infamous woman, sent her a letter, but not a farthing of money, and she despaired of ever Peeing him again. Mr. Woolrych kindly sympathised with the starving woman, and directed Mr. Livingstone, the chief usher, to assist her with a donation from the poor-box fund. Terrible Accident on the North-Eastern Railway. Yesterday an accident -happened to a passenger train on the North-Eastern itlilway, which in its results has probably been without a parallel in the history of railway misfortune. The circumstances are very brief. At 7.15 a.tu, the Government train to Hull and Leeds left York and proceeded without interruption to the first station, Copmanthorpe, some three or four miles from the city. The morning was very dark, but otherwise favourable for travel ling. The train, consisting of an engine, two guards' vans, and some eight carriages, left Cop manthorpe station, and proceeded on their jour ney at an easy rate, but when opposite the fifth milepost from York, Reynolds, the guard in the first van, was alarmed by feeling a sudden shock, which shook him violently. He was about to look out of the van window, when another shock threw him back with considerable force into the van. As soon as he recovered he looked out and saw that some six or eight carriages were loose from the first portion of the train, and were turned topsy turvy down an embankment some 10 or 15 feet high. At the same instant the screams of the passengers and the crash of broken carriages led to the impression that a frightful accident had occurred, and the most prompt measures were resorted to stop approaching trains, and to alleviate the suffering and alarm of the passengers. The engine was detached from the train, and at the next station transferred itself to the other line, returning to York at the greatest speed to spread the alarm. In an in credible short space of time, J. C a b re y, E sq ., t h e company's engineer, and A. Christisen, Esq., the general passenger superintendent, were quickly on the spot, accompanied by Mr. J. Rutter, Mr. Nichol son, and Mr. Baines, the chief officials, and a body of workmen. On arriving at the scene of the accident it was found that the whole of the passen gers, some 50 in number, had scrambled out of the carriages, and were crowded about the debris of the smashed carriages. Several medical gentle men had been called upon, and they accompanied the special train to the spot, where they at once busied themselves in ascertaining the extent of the injuries of the passengers; and now we have to relate the most remarkable portion of this otherwise serious accident. Though some 50 men and women had been turned over and over down an embankment, in railway carriages proceeding at the rate of some 20 miles an hour, not one was killed, nor was there any one seriously injured. Indeed bruises were somewhat scarce, and the doctors had but little claims upon their attentions. One man had his foot crushed in one of the carriage doors, but his injury was not serious, and he proceeded to York by the next train. Another man was very much shaken, and he stayed during the day at a neigh. bouring farm house. The third of the wounded was a gentleman whom it is feared has been injured internally, though he is sufficiently well to proceed on his journey home. Several of th e o th er passen gers were alarmed, and had sustained slight con of that serious nature which cussions, but nothing was expected from the character of the accident. The exertions of the railway officials were of the most strenuous nature, and the debris was so soon Cleared away that little or no interruption took place to the traffic on the line. We may also add that the strength of the company's carriages was a Powerful means of preserving the lives of 03e pas sengers. T SECURITII4'.S. le4 105 102 104 102 104 02 03 91 93 104 108 109 111 109 111 112 114 110 112 1 , :6 108 iv 109 ►O4 106 100 102 101 102 101} 1021 110 112 1 105 107 1;1 113 111 113 107 109 140 110 lon i GLOUCESTER CATHEDRA". St. Peter's Abbey at Gloucester, now the Cath Church (according to a very interesting account of it L a n — 1 as follows by one of the Saturday Reviewers) , was a , ''ry early foundation, its beg innin g datin g as far bac k as the e year 681. But, like most of these early foundations, .ths establisment went through many vicissitudes, and was d e _ stroyed and refounded more than once with very diftet:ent objects. Originally a house of nuns, it lost its Buenos sion of Abbesses in 767. King Ecgbei ht is said to have r etoun ded it as a college of secular priests, which lasted till 1022, when the first Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, chaz.ged it into a Benedictine monastery. The account in the history reads as if he did not, as was done in. so many other places, turn out the Canons whom he f. and there, but compelled them to take the Benedictine yowls :-- " Hic Wolstanns clericos, qui ecclesiam Sancti Petri mutes rexerant [et] custodierant, sub protectione Dei et Apost rum Petri et Pauli, et regula Beati Benedicti, in eadem ecclesia regulariter collocavit, et Edricum quendam in a*.bba tem et custodem monasterii illius consecravir, qui maims rims Mud xxxvii. annis custodivit." In estimating this change, we must always remember one light in which it was likely to appear to a reformer of those days. When a church was served by monks, any gen eral non residence was impossible, and divin e service could l n y s b e intermitted or grossly neglected. B ut the secular Canine, before th e i ns tit u ti on o f Vicars and Residen tiaries constantly neglected their churches i n the most us scandalous way, Their non-residence. in fact, is o ne of the great compl a i nts time. of ecclesiastical writers long after this The first mention of the church is in 1058, when EaTared, Bishop of Worcester, afterw ar d s Archbishop of York — the Harold prelate who crownedand William within one year rebuilt and consecrated it. of the native English f abric—for ß ofd th e size seems really to But, as usual, the small size have been the main point 0 after the Eald te r r the Conquest. and a Norman occupant p s l o a f ce th w e h h i o le ns church was still rebuilding took g t , h tossibly only the almost new. .In 1089, the first atone a new time. for a long church was said to laid by Abbot Serlo, and the building, choir, was consecrated in 1100. From way on. our notices consist mainly of fires, in the exaggerated language of the chroniclers , °f which ' have destroyed church,monastery, town, everything.a'e were fires in 1102, 1122, 1190, 1214, 1222, and 32 3 Ther most of these more or less damage was done to the ' In build ings of the Abbey; and, in 1102, it is distinctly said that church was burned—" ecclesia igne cremata est.". But, t as usual, it is not necessary to construe these words very rigidly, and it seems most natural to suppose t hat the Nor man work of the presbytery, which may still be semi under the lacework of perpendicular panelling which has been thrown over it, is part of the church of Serlo. The nave, so like the contempororary ions nave of Tewkesbury, so un like the common pport of a Norman design, probably followed the fire , of 1102. It is curious, however, that, though the church is constantly spoken of incidentally as standing and in use —as, for in stance, at the burial of Robert Duke of Normandy, before the high altar in 1134, and at the coronation of Henry 111., in 1216—still there is no direct mention of any building till 1222, when the " great eastern tower"— " magna turris Gloucestrensis ecclesive orientalis"—was built. This no doubt means the central tower—in a church of the old Norman ground plan, more truly eastern than central—over the choir. The tower then built has, of course, made way for the Perpendicular structure. In 1239 the church was consecrated, doubtless in pursuance of the general orders then given by Papal authority for the con secration of all churches which remained unconsecrated, i which one is surprised to learn was the case with several cathedrals and great abbeys. Three years atter, in 1242, the present vault of the nave w.as added—the Norman church doubtless had only a timber roof—and we are dis tinctly told, in one of the most interesting notices on re ccrd, that it was actually built by the monks with their own hands : Et anno Domini millesim o ducentesimo qua seine secun do complete est nova volts in navf ecclesiso, non auxilio fabrorum ut promo, sed aniusosa virti Ito monacho rum item in ipso loco existentium. In the same year the south-western tower wos began archi by Prior Walter St. John . This no longer exists. \ The tects of the great Perpendicular central tower see m to have thought that their work would have greater digilitf y iit stood absolutely alone—so the western towers were sacri ficed, and the present west front utterly unworthy of such a church, is the result. In 1300 we het x of et another fire, which burned the " parvtuo campanile, magna camera et claustrum." lt is not, however, clear ; hitt it whether they were absolutely destroyed, nor do we , know It exactly what is 'meant by " parvum campanile." could not be the newly-built south-west tower, which stands quite away from the cloister may well have been the north-western tower, which doubtilq less deserved to have been called " parvum campan, as compared with either of the two latta ones. to John Thoky, w ho was Abbot from 1306 1329, vas memora ble man in the history of the convent. The 8 4 outh aisle of the nava was built in his time ; this is well 1; :v murdered Bristol, Kings as one of the mo st beautiful examples of decorated WourArvit E ng land, and whic h p robably set the fashion f° similar In in rich windows at Ledbury, Leominster, and elsewhere.r I his days, also, th e deposed King Edwarredeell2e as his body for at Benceley. Th ree other monasteries, B fear wo of od,anndoggeramlmoerstbimursyr toarnedtuscledueen Isabella. The Abbot iv o f Gloucester was of another m ood, and braved all hazards was the cause of in what we may suppose he thought loyalty — late tamen abbas suo co ttahonorifice ornato cum twirls cum to to convents sohlenniter revcaste.llo de Berkeley ad 4 ejusclem ecclesiss depictis, eu duxit, et ad monasterium GI 41 a 011 CeStrige eat delatne, a bbate ibidem in parte boreali totius civitatis eat en , ./. mum, cum procestione Strange to say, junta magnum altare Creditor team the Tee susceptus, et in ecclesia 'endue. dered, became a loc al d espicablo King, when once mur dered, b rave grave, no l saint. Multitudes of pilgrims flocked or of Sirnon at z leas than to those of Waltheof at Crowland, ful that, durino. t v h esham. Their offerings were oo of Wig ph (1329-2 th e reign of the next , Abbot, J oh n - 7 ), the Sancti Andrcal,'a phrase which Mr. Hart t h transept--` ` atio have understood— Whaisl,ll,ebuilt• This has been hard l y confounded with the / , - ,"' n g of the south aisle of the nave, but the dates in the Chronicle are quite distinct and perfectly clear. This tran sept, as Professor Willis showed in 1860, is distinctly per pendicular work. It is early, indeed, and has much of earlier detail hanging about it, but it still bears the un mistakeable impress of the perpendicular style, and it may fai r ly coun t a s the first instalment of the great perpendicu lar recasting of the whole east part of the m facts inster. No in architec w this date is one of the most important - tural history. We thus have the perpendicular style, in. all its most distinctive features, a good halt century earlier than anybody had thought. The claim, therefore, of Win chester to be the first example, and of either Edington. or Wykeham t o be the inventor, of that style at once falls to the ground. This is the last entry strictly belonging to the church. The central tower, the present Lady chapel, and the re casting of the presbytery, all of which may be looked on as carrying on the work bcgun by Thoky in the south tran sept, belong to a later date than the present chronicle takes in. But in the time of Abbot Froceater, who suc ceeded in 1381, and who was living when the chronicle w c en d s , we get the c om p letion of the splendid l • ater, cer tainly the gem of work of its kind and style. Course of the Exchange—Yesterday. Short. 11 ili n n Amsterdam 3 Month!, 12 01 Ditto ...... li o tterdam — 12 01 12 01 12 01 •• 25 70 25 75 Antwerp B r ussels — 25 70 25 75 Ilaniburgh — 13 81 13 8i Paris .. Short. 25 25 25 34 Ditto Marseilles /.'ranktort on Maine ..... 1191 119 i Vienna ---- 12 25 12 35 Trieste 12 25 12 15 L'etershingit Berlin NI adrid - 48* 48 Cadiz .............. 476. 5 25 Leghoru ............ 2.5 9 90 25 971 ;NJ am). .............. 25 1 1 2 n , l 25 , ' 5 Ukzua ........ , ..... ' 25 " 25 97/ 25 90 '25 9Th Naples . ............ 25 f l ° 25 97 F.' aler,• to ............ -- 25 90 52a m .. _ 5/ . Lisbon _ .521 62g Oporto --- ~ le :ill "Doc! id la i r a s ..,. ,-,er 0z.... •• • n„ 17 5 9 / ... B: . s . ....... .. ............ ....................... il) S so il u v i e h r ila ni ß e a r r ic s au (S p ta o n u d b a i r o t ... • ........... 0 . 0 0 I ling the tter fiord [ill- jag lire, iced reet 1 3° est rer° jrS zoo io too 1 stock stock stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stook dock et ock ll'ook 100 100 100 100 100 107 i MI 100 l 1091 1