The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-14 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMM.EMIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is a very active demand for money to-day, and some pressure is felt at the Bank of England, as well as in the open market, An advance in the minimum is expected to-morrow. Gold is now about 1-10th per cent. cheaper in London than in Paris, and about 2-10ths per cent. dearer here than in Hamburg. The Etna, from New York, has brought £67,000 in specie. No material change was reported in the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon. The half year's interest is announced for pay ment on the shares of the Turin and Savona Rail- way. The twenty-ninth half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Union Bank of London took place to-day, Mr. P. N. Laurie, presiding. The follow ing report and balance was submitted to the share holders by the directors : The Directors have the pleasure to report that the net pro fits for the six months ending 31st December last, after pay ment of all charges (including the sum of £19,091 14s. sd. for interest paid and due to customers on their Current and Deposit Accounts), and making ample provision for all bad and doubtful debts, amount to £67,239 3s. ld., which, with the sum of £2,932 17s. 9d., brought forward from the 30th June last, make together £70,`222 Os. 10d. The Directors now declare a dividend of 15s. per share, clear of Income-tax, f r the six months ending 31st December last. After payment as above, amounting to £45,000, there will rnnain a balance of £25,222 Os. 10d. for apprcpriation at the end of the financial year in July next. GENERAL BALANCE. LIABILITIES. Paid-up capital of the bank £720,000 0 0 Due by the bank on current accounts, deposit receipts (including interest accrued), and ther obligations Reserved 1. und, invested in Console, as per Contra Rebate on bills not due 50,000 0 0 14,705 19 8 70,2.2 0 10 Balance at credit of profit and loss 113,731,283 6 4 ASSETS. ash in the bank £5 1,370 6 11 Cash in Bank of England 514,713 5 0 Cash lent at call 1 065,000 0 0 £2,101,083 11 11 Investments in Government Stock, Exche quer Bills, Debentures, &c. X 53,727 Os. Bd. Consols (taken at 91) Reserved Fund Bank - Itemises, consisting of freehold build ings 'inF. Princes-street, Mansion- house street, Argyll-place, and Fleet-street ; and lease and fixtures of No. 4, Pall-mall East 108,775 4 5 Loans, bills discounted, &c. 10,574492 4 5 £13,731,283 6 4 PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. Amount of dividend of 15s. per share £45,000 0 0 Balance, being undivided profit carried for ward to next hal-year 25,222 0 10 £70,222 0 10 Profit unappropriated on 30th June, 1862... Amount of net profit for the half-year end ing 31st December, 1562, after deducting all expenses, and interest paid and due (49,091 14s. 5d.), allowed to customers on their current and deposit accounts .. ..... £2,982 17 9 67,239 3 1 £70,222 0 10 The chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, reviewed the operations of the Bank, which he described to be satisfactorily progressive, as evidenced by the large increase in the assets. He alluded to the numerous additions that were being made to the number of joint-stock banks, which fact, he averred, necessitated on the part of the executive a greater degree of caution in the ad ministration of their affairs. The directors had contributed £l,OOO to the relief fund for the Lan cashire distress, which gift had been induced not so much as an act of charity as of sympathy for the poor operatives in their hour of tribulation. The :resolution for the adoption of the report, &c., was carried by acclamation, and a vote of thanks was also rendered to the directors. Two o'CLocit. There is no alteration to report in the English Stock Market to-day, Consols being 921 for transfer, and 921 e for the account, or about the same as they closed at yesterday afternoon. Speculation is dull, and affairs present a heavy appearance, owing to the unsettled state of the Money -market and the general impression that the rate of discount will be advanced to morrow. The New Threes have de clined to 922.1 8 f and the Reduc. d to 921 i; Bank Stock has improved to 237; and Red Sea Telegraph Annuities have been dealt in at 21 15.16; India Stock has receded to 226, and the 5 per Cent. ditto remains at 108 k ; the 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper is firm at 106 k; and the Debentures are marked 1001 k ; India Bonds are depressed at 265.; and Exchequer Bills are 12s. and 16s. prem. Very few transactions have been reported in the Foreign Securities, and prices show no material change. Egyptian are 95-1-; Greek, 164; ditto Coupons 6,1-; Mexican, 31i ; New Grenada 2 per Cents., 28k; ditto ex all, 121 i Portuguese New Loan, 471. Russian ditto has improved to 961; Spanish Passive, 24k 4 ; ditto Certificates, 94; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, 67k 4 ; Italian, 69k ; and Venezuelan New Scrip, 1 dis. The operations in the Railway Share Market are limited, and principally connected with the arrange ments for the settlement. Prices generally remained steady. Great Northerns, North-Westerns, and South-Westerns improved ss. ; while Great Wes terns and North-Eisterns declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines were dull and in some instances were a shade flatter. Great Luxem bourg brought 14a ; San Paulo at 237,- a ; East Indian 1071 108; and Great Indian Peninsula 1061; and Grand Trunk of Canada 211 22. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares exhibited no material alteration in values. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 237 2 per Cent. Reduced Annuities per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5 1-16 Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 2l 15-16 India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 1001 1 D • i i Bonds E. 1,000 26 Ditto under £1,000.. Consols for Account, Feb. 5 921 1 Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent l3 12 16 Ditto £500 Ditto Small l6 FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent Egpptian 7 pet Cent 951 Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup.m l6l Ditto Coupons Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 3ll New Granada 2 per Cent 2B Ditto ex over-due Coups. & Hectares 121 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 1862 471 Russian 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St -- Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto 6 per Cent. 1832 Ditto Account. Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cents.. 1862 (Scrip), £53 pd 11 die Dividends on the above payable in London. ltallan,6 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f 691 1 Ditto A.ceount TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Account SANOVER-BQTJARR ROOMS. LANCASHIRE RELIEF FUND. An amateur performance was given at the above rooms last evening, under the direction of Messrs. Alfred Abraham, Clarence Courtauld, Nettlefold, Hickson, and John did Edward Warren, as the first of a series in aid o f the Lancashire Relief Fund. The entertainment consisted of the farces of the " Blighted Being" and the " Bonny Fish Wife," and Mr. Byron's burlesque of "Aladdin." We have rarely seen a performance of the kind which exhibited more talent. The acting of the Burlesque, especially, was quite up to high water mark. Mr. Simpson, in the Widow Twanke ; Mr. C. Hickson, in Aladdin ; and Mr. Alfred Abraham, in Prince Pekoe, were clever enough to have commanded an engagement at the Strad. A NEGRO'S OPINION OF THE WAR.—The negroes have a curious idea of this war. I met a very intel ligent one a few days ago. I said to him, " Well, Downing, what is your opinion about this war, and what will be the result ?" I tell you what I tinks about it. I tink it be berry much like a cure I hear of for the toothache." " What is that ?" " You must jist take cold water in yer snout, and sit on a red-hot stove till de water boil in de mouf, and dat will cure de toothache. I tink the cure is debblish site worse clan de disease." Share 100 anr 20 20i 10 100 I 100 100 stock stock stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock stock stock stock stock stock 3arons inter de, the cli ied be which )ngues othing it is a sh, to i twice itzroy I m from blish a rord to and till ale for allow s sacred is to be n ship- days in up its use the 'rom his ) will h. )f never a better issionera persons, 'nt mode dormant aware is d nature he great lip tim- At pre the shot, d in. It )enetrafe posed to of bullet infantry )roved * ;tion of a the ball. d that if •esistan ce d by the ler steel. reed by an srould not In short, be cased est thera- e armour sea, ana in a short lty, and it r one week letter WO at shortly ar-plating Now the .ved some ma how far )ou them. !ry freely a Monday as adopted he inconr )n. baronet P. [L WAY."' ry poWer o weir under' ilsory put; portion of igton, near treet, to the ruts a juno" mplete por' [etropolita o cus Eatery posed to be ,ripplegatet fields, Neal nd between fie, on bail nd betwee n Moor-lan e ' L the pari lsll n are i and -house-le- 0 e limits of .2:tsion. Act n Conduit' Lit-place. —Starting Hanller . onstructior t t ngton V I a estimated sterdaY d at Ml* ark. Ml* I ten Yes ll ; nates to D e ; also s eize , ' EtinguiSll63 d to ad ° ier fire fat ° range-roads .nn ChiOr° onth sin ° ting in the y, shot 1111/ ,unate man' irds behin d ! eceived ,t that h a y l_ The bee: Lajor An s e man 0 11 a week eg a ' ;ame roc e l An inqu est ved that thee li s cretion o his prey le% gerous, to SUP' men, o wa s to t' ajor Inisfortne"o before ti/ 0 een pia e i n her e t- e j, w d e posl • , Frau'JO THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 14, 1863 LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. BAIL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn and a Common Jury.) MERRITT V. SUMMERS. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, for the ac curacy of the amount he had paid for the maintenance and wearing apparel supplied to defendant's wife. The defen dant did not appear. Mrs. Simmons, the defendants' wife, said she was mar ried in 1855, in February, and remained with the defendant until December in the same year, when she was compelled to leave him through ill-treatment. She afterwards went back and remained with him till 1860. He continued his ill-usage till Dec. 8, when he returned home, and because she had not got in his supper-beer, he knocked her down, when she fell across the fender, which was broken. She was hurt very much, and as he said he should continue to beat her she went before Mr. Beadon to take out a summons. When she got home she found her husband had locked her out, and a constable went with her, but as she could not gain admission she went to her husband's brother's house, and ultimately she took out another summons in December. The defendant before the hearing came to where she was stopping, and agreed to give her 10s. a week, and he signed an agreement to that effect before the magis!rate. The defendant kept the original and gave him a copy of it, which was to the effect stated. She received this money for a short time, when ho reduced the sum to 55., ultimately he made it 3s. 6d. He paid that amount till within the last two months. Finding it impossible to maintain herself out of the allow ance she went to her father's house, when he made such advances as were actually necessary. Her husband was in the employ of Messrs. Burton, the ironmongers, and re ceived about £2 10s. a week. She had known him to earn £5 a week. William Merritt, the plaintiff, said he had heard the de fendant say he had earned as much as £3 a week. Mr. Smart, the manager of Messrs. Burton's, was called upon his subpoena, but did not appear. Mr. Justice Blackburn told the jury that it would be for them to say how much the defendant ought to allow his wife, as she could not be allowed to become destitute. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, at the rate of 10s. for 39 weeks, deducting the 3s. 6d. he had already paid. The Judge—Well, how much is that. Will any one do the figures. (Laughter.) Considerable amusement was excited in court by the different sums, the counsel, thejury, and other persons made the amount. The amount was, after some difficulty, ascertained to be £l2 14s. 6d. Execution was ordered within four days. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) POOLE V. PITT. This was a suit to propound the will of the deceased by his executor, the defendant. His Lordship asked whether the will was in Court 1 1 It was stated by the counsel for the petitioner that Mr. Holt, of Gloucester, declined to send the will by post, or to bring it himself, alleging the rules framed under the sta tute as his authority for refusing. The learned Judge said the mere refusing only affected the registrars in London, and had no reference to district registrars. Under the circumstances, as it was a misap prehension, he would allow the case to stand over. CONVOCATION—(This Day). This morning a peculiar step was made in reference to the meeting of convocation of the prelates and clergy of the province of Canterbury, which has not been rendered neces sary for many years. In consequence of the death of the Archbishop of Canter bury occurring as it did, the Convocation of the province ceased ; and this morning a new writ was issued by the Crown to the new Archbishop, commanding the attendance of the bishops, deans, and clergy of his province (as repre sented by their proctors) to meet him in St, Paul's Cathe dral on Tuesday, the 10th of February. It appears that this step would not have been necessary had the death of the Archbishop occurred during the meet ing of Parliament, but Parliament being prorogued at the time of his grace's decease, the present form was absolutely necessary. With regard to York no writ has been isatud, there being at present no Archbishop in the province, MARKETS—This Day. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TuEspeT. For the Two Thousand Guineas, 100 to 30 was offered on the field. 4to 1 was offered against Saccharometer, but 9to 2 would have been taken about him. For the Derby, 6 to 1 was declined about the favourite, but offers were made to take 100 to 15. The only horses we saw backed were Carnival, Early Purl, and the Glenochty colt. The prices quoted as taken at Tattersall's could have been readily obtained here against anything. 50 to 1 was cur rently offered against anything of John Scott's. Closing prices : TWO THOVSAND GUINEAS. 100 to 30 agst Hospodar (offered) 4to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered) 100 to 8 bar two (offered) THE DERBY. 6to 1 agst Lord Clifden (offered) 10 to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered) 100 to 8 agst Hospodar (offered) 1000 to 45 agst Carnival (taken) 50 to 1 agst Early Purl (taken and offered) 66 to 1 agst Giles the First (offered) 1000 to 15 agst Glenochty colt (taken) WATERLOO COURSING CUP, 100 to 7 agst Mr Spinks' Nomination (offered) 100 to 6 agst Mr Blackatock's Nomination (offered) 100 to 5 aget Mr Ingleby's Nomination (offered) 100 to 4 agst Mr Gregson's Nomination (taken) 100 to 4 agst Mr Worrall's Nomination (offered) 30 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Nomination (offered) 30 to 1 agst Mr Bake's Nomination (offered) 100 to 3 agst Mr Jardine's Nomination (taken) 100 to 3 agst Mr Campbell, sen.'s Nomination (t) 100 to 3 agst Mr Brundrett's Nomination (taken) 40 to 1 agst Mr Brocklebank's Nomination (taken) 40 to 1 aget Mr Cloudesdale's Nomination (taken) HAINES V. GREY. This was an administration suit to enable the plaintiff, a widow and a minor, to administer to the estate of her hus band, an ironmaster, at Tipton, near Birmingham. The defendant is the daughter of the testator by a former mar riage. The amount of the estates was valued at £7,000. Dr. Spinks appeared for the plaintiff; Dr. Dealt and Dr. Swaby for the defendants. Dr. Spinks said that the testator left his estate to his widow, who was a minor, with certain benefits to the chil dren of a former marriage. The contention was whether any of the circumstances of the case disentitled the widow to her rights. In the first place she was a minor, but that circumstance would not be held sufficient to dis• turb the practice. It was insinuated that immorality had taken place previous to the marriage, but that ceremony should be taken as condonation. Such an insinuation was an argument for costs against the defendant. Dr. Dean contended that the estate was of a nature to require supervision, which the widow would be supposed not to be able to give ft. That it was much involved, and might be greatly depreciated, if not looked after. The father of the widow was hardly the fittest person to have control. There were contentious proceedings in Chancery which would decide some of the claims arising out of the case. His Lordship reserved his judgment. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Before Chief Justice Erle, and Justices Keating, Williams, and Willes.) HEMMING V. THEW. Mr. Powell moved for a rule in this action, which was tried last term, when a verdict was given for the plaintiff for £tlB, with leave to move to enter it for the defendant. It was an action brought by the endorser of a bill of ex change against ths acceptor. The Court refused the application. POLICE INTELLIGENCE--This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. COMMITTAL FOR A MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A FEMALE EY A FOREIGNER. —Theodore Vincent, a Frenchman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with the following assault on a female named Annie Williams. Prosecutrix (who had received some severe injuries about the head and face) said—l have lived with the prisoner, who is a tailor, about six years. I went out about one o'clock this morning to see whether I could find him, and on my return home to 10, Hopkins-street, about two o'clock, he followed me into the room. He was tipsy, and as he had been out from 4 o'clock the previous day, I asked where he had been. He said with a lady over the water. I asked him why he had not remained there, when he blew out the candle, and struck me with his fist on the head, but there must have been something hard in his hand, as I have got a fearful cut on my head. He threw me down, and while I was on the ground I felt the blood running over my face, and I then called " Murder." Chiet Clerk—When did he use these tongs (a pair pro duced) ? Prosecutrix—He struck me several times after the candle was bldwn out, but I can't say what with. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Did those injuries on your face arise from any of his blows ? Prosecutrix—Yes, sir, all of them ; and it is not the first time he has assaulted me. Mr. Tyrwhitt—You don't know what he gave you the blows on the face with, do you? Prosecutrix—No, sir. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Did the blood come from the wound on the top of your head or those on your face ? Prosecutrix—lt was not from those on my face. I went down to the street door, and called " Police" and "Mur der," and on two constables coming I gave the prisoner in charge. Prisoner—What did it all arise from ? Prosecutrix—Your drunkenness. _ James Weeks, 165 C, said—Hearing cries of "Police" and " Murder" this mm fling, I went to No. 10, Hopkins • street, and saw the prosecutrix standing at the door, bleed ing very much from a wound on the head. She said a man upstairs had done it. On entering the room I found the tongs produced just at the door. I took the prisoner, who tried to prevent me entering the room, into custody. He said he had struck the woman with his fist and not with the tongs. The prisoner had been drinking, but the woman was sober. Prisoner—l came in late and was tipsy. She flew at me and seized my shirt front, and I gave her a blow, but did not use the tongs. Ur. Tyrwhitt—lt appears to me in cases like these where great violence has been used, and where the tongs were found lying at the room door, that it is a fit case for a jury to decide whether the tongs were used or not. Persons were net satisfied with the decisions of the magistrates in these cases, and the best thing was to send them to juries, as no one knew who were on the juries, and they could not be abused. _ _ THE QUEEN'S PRISON.—We are sorry to hear that onr prison accommodation for military offenders has not been considered sufficient, and that the authorities have deemed it necessary to add to the number of these establishments by converting the late debtors' and bank rupts prison in Southwark, better known as the Queen's ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.--The Prison, to the use of our soldier criminals. This conversion members of this scciety held one of their usual is of course intended to serve as a substitute to the pro meetings last evening, at the ir rooms, 4, St. Martin's. p la ce , posed new building at Redhill.—From the Wellingtonwhen three papers were read. The first was by Mr. Craw and on Monday an Gazette of January 15, 1863. ford on " The Commixture of the races of man as affecting THE DISTRE SS £530 7s. Ild. a second dsatu TN rday L a A b N ou o t AlH B l l ßE.—Yesterday the progress of civilisation." Mr. Crawford being in the gate,. through Mr. Ex-Sheriff T T FtT was paid into the chair the paper was read by Mr. Spottiswoode. The second Mansion -house D tow l\ a r r l d r e_the .., relief of the distress, including paper ' was on "The human skull found at Kellet, in Lan- Sheriff Lusk. the magi s tr at e contribution from the ward of Ald- cashire," presented to the society by Mr. Bailie. The . aai e t e o p has on Monday brought up on re mt h a e nd before charge of attempting Joseph Fennellthird was on " Some ancient Indian antiquities from Kona -7a nußrsbdDt murder s A O uTws wife by byPLYMOUTH.—Plymouth,etttin h dor," by M. Ballurt. These relics were exhibited, and had all the appearance of idols made of a coarse pottery The woman, who is explanation l and attributed her, an excellent ware. Each of the subjects presented many very interest throat while she was nt tale the ing features to those who have directed their attention to a fair way of recovery, gave her incoherent which ethnological inquiries, and provoked considerable discus incharacter for kindness and attention husband to sion, in which Sir C. Nicholson, Sir H. Davis, Messrs. Crawford, Wright, Christie, and other gentlemen took part. the outrage on herself to insanity—.„, LOVE, MURDER, AND SUICIDE.—At Mareuil, the was strongly borne out by the rambling other day, a most tragic occurrence took place. A man told when called on for his defence. The pris oner was young man, who is called X, was engag ed to a y oung girl, comm itted for trial. union. Marie Porgeron, but the parents would not consent to their It has been decided for the future strictly to con _ army, The young man made arrangements to enter the fine the half-yearly competitive examinations for ad- the spot. lie then ruissheP himB : 3if bu fr t o becoming desperate at the thought of separating admissions to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to Marie, he appears to have lost his reason. He the object for which they are intended ; and henceforth suddenly al appeared before her one evening and wished her none of the competitors will be regarded as qualified for to swear eternal idelity ; she hesitated, and he instantly commissions in :, - he Line on account of the examination pulled a pistol from h i s p ocket and shot her. She died on they may have undergon6 mission to the Royal Military AC 2`lOlllY. The Mae rule overcome in endeavouring to obtain with horror at out h of the house and, apparently second pistol and shot h N i v me a e t lf. he had done, he took and will also apply to the competitive examinatio: 4 f" 'dulls .. doubt° cloth has east This double crime an a g loom sion to the Royal Military Academy, Sandh t -- ma ,—,tiv.,.. . M over the quiet little town of Guards, Jan. 13. Marna, Tho prisoner, who, it is stated, has already suffered welvemonths' imprisonment for felony, was then committed for tri, MARK LANE There was a small supply of English wheat on sale here to-day. Dry samples changed hands freely, at extreme rates ; otherwise, the trade ruled quiet, on former terms. The show of samples of foreign wheat on the stands was I.trge ; generally speaking, sales progressed slowly, yet prices were supported. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair average request, at late quotations. Malting barley was in demand, at fully previous rates. Grinding and distilling sorts moved off slowly but at full currencies. Malt sold steadily, and its value was well maintained. Oats, the supply of which was moderate, ruled firm at full quotations. Beans and peas wore in slow request at late rates. In the value of flour no change took place. Most de scriptions were in fair consumptive demand. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oath. Flour. English 340 1 1,290 1 1,140 ' 70 1 1,110 sack- Irish . P'oreign.... —11,650 2,210 I 112,350 960 sacks BOROUGH HOP. A steady business is doing in all kinds of hops, and the quotations are well supported. WHITECHAPEL. Fair supplies of meat are on sale, and the trade rules steady as follows : Beef from 2s 8d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 2d; veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 6d per 81b. Le Pays, we regret to observe, announces that the news received in regard to the health of M. Horace Vernet, are again of the most alarming character. He has had a relapse. Inflammation has made fresh pro gress, and his medical attendants appear to despair of his recovery. DR. COLENSO.—The London Stereoscopic and' Photographic Company have jest added to their interesting list of cartes g# visite a portrait of Dr. Colenso the Bishop of Natal, whose recent work on the Pentateuch has occasioned so much discussion. It is a striking and effective likeness, and got up with the company's usual care and skill. THE RE-OPENING OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, PLYMOUTH.—O wing to the unbroken spirit and energy of Mr. Newcombe, the reopening of the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, as early as Monday last, has been accom plished. At seven o'clock, with a crowded gallery, a good upper circle, a brilliant dress, and a full pit, the curtain rose, disclosing Mr. Newcombe and the whole of his com pany in dress. Then an enthusiastic cheer, rising from the pit. spreading to boxes, circle, and and gallery, filled the building, and, loud and long continued, made the walls ring again. Not since the reopening of the theatre in August, 1861, have the walls re-echoed with such applause. For a time there seemed to be no boundary to the enthusiasm of the assembly. Mr' Newcombe came forward again and again in acknow ledgment, and at length the band commenced playing the National Anthem, everyone in the house rising at once. The first verse was well sung by Miss Everard, and the chorus heartily taken up by the assembly. 'fire seoOnd verse was excellently given by Miss Rosina Ranee, and once more the audience joined in the chorus. The curtain then dropped, and instantly deafening calls were made for the lessee, which resounded from gallery to pit, d-in a few seconds Mr. Newcombe appeared before t sin, where he was again received with the loudest ause. He re peatedly acknowledged his hearty reception, and, when silence had been restored, in a voice broken with emotion, he merely said he was so overcome that he could not speak, and retired from the stage. Captain Holloway then made his appearance, and made an appropriate address. The interesting and most appropriate drama of " Sunshine through the Clouds" was then put upon the boards. It will be sufficient to say that it wai well put upon the stage, and that actors and actresses, all animated by the applause of a crowded house, gave satisfaction in the performance of their respective parts. The unmistakeable safety of the theatre was demonstrated by the experience of Monday night. Every day will add to the improvements and th• completion of what was so hastily thrown up in the main entrance. The strictest precautions were taken to guard against alarms. All admirers of enterprise and industry cannot but wish that a deserving man like Mr. Newcombe may be supported. He has refused to receive a public sub scription, and has returned the cheques sent to him, rely ing with confidence on the patronage of the inhabitants of the two counties, whom year after year he has made such efforts to please.— Western Illorniny News. THE ARSENICAL POISONINGS IN LINCOLN SHIRE.—On Monday John Garner and Elizabeth, his wife, were brought up, on remand, before the magis trate at Horncastle,on a charge of having poisoned Hannah Garner, a former wife of the male prisoner. Several wit. nesses were examined, and testified to the unhappy manner in which the prisoner and his first wife lived, and his in difference at the time of her death ; but the only evidence in relation to the poisoning consisted in hints and insinua tions, related at second-hand,which the female prisoner had dropped before she was married. At the close the prisoners were again remanded. THE RUIN S OF BABYLON.—A letter from Bagdad, in the Moniteur, says The excavations carried on among the ruins of Babylon, under the direction of the French Consul at Bagdad, have resulted in some interest ing discoveries. In the Nimroud Mourid, which was visited by Mr. Layard in 1840, were found four bas-reliefs of colossal dimensions, each sculptured on a large slab of stone, and representing allegorical figures. The greater part of these bas-reliefs bear long inscriptions in cuneiform cha racters, and are remarkable for their state of preservation. A certain number of other sculptures of smaller dimensions, representing scenes of Assyrian life or warlike episodes, have also been discovered. Those artistic treasures are on their way to France." SECESSIGN FROM DISSENT.—On Sunday evening, the Rev. G. Crowther Smith, Congregational minister of Folkestone, announced from his pulpit his retirement from the Congregational body, and his return to communion wirh the Church of England. It is understood that Mr. Smith has received promise of episcopal ordination, and that meanwhile he will be engaged in subordinate clerical work in a metropolitan parish. MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—On Sunday last (as re ported in the Sussex Advertiser) the governor of the gaol at Lewes was assaulted by a Frenchman named Fran cois Dimollatd, a prisoner convicted on the 14th Oct. last, at Hailsham, of robbery, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, and who was at the time of the assault un dergoing punishment in one of the refractory cells. The Governor, Mr. Sanders, was going the round of the cells on Sunday morning, asking each prisoner if he had any thing to ,-Ety, but had no sooner done so to the prisoner than the latter sprang forward instantaneously, and gave Mr. Sanders what he first thought a slight blow on the face, but proved to be a wound in the jaw, with a kind of rude knife, which caused a great loss of blood. The weapon consisted of a piece of tin, shaped and sharpened like the blade of a knife, and fastened into a wooden handle, and tied round with a piece of twine. Pri soner, ever since his imprisonment, had been a continual pest, causing more trouble than 50 prisoners, and had fre quently threatened to take the life of some one. Three months ago he made an ineffectual attempt to escape from prison. He was examined before the magistrates at the prison yesterday, and alleged that Mr. Sanders had kept back money and clothing that had been sent him ; that the food with which he had been supplied was deficient in quantity and of bad quality; that he had been treated with great cruelty by the governor and the prison officials; and that he had been repeatedly charged falsely with improper conduct and punished for it, He was fully committed for trial. REMARKABLE CASE OF DROWNING AT ROCK DALE.—Miss Sarah Ann Hoyland, milliner, met with her death on Sunday evening under very painful cir cumstances. It seems that she and her sweetheart, a young man named Levi Crossley, a clerk in one of the newspaper offices, were walking arm in arm along the banks of the Roach, at a point near Hamer-lane, she being next the river. The evening being densely foggy, they experienced some difficulty in finding the turnstile through which it is necessary to pass, when C ross l ey, t hi n ki ng t h ey were t oo much to the right, diverged a little to the other side, on which the young woman slipped into the river, drawing him in after her. After struggling for some time they both succeeded in getting out, but seriously fatigued. Crossley sat down on a sto ne c l ose to t h e e d ge, t a ki ng h er on his knee. This stone (such is his statement) toppled ove r, precipitating them both into the river again, and this time the young woman was taken down by the stream. Crossley ma naged again t o get out, and, unable to render any assistance himself, made the best of his way for help. It was a long time, however, before the body could be found, and when at last discovered, it was fifty yards from where the accident occurred, and life, of course, was Wo believe an i nques t w ill b e h e ld to quite extinct. day. The path, we may add, where the accident took I place, is notoriously dangerous, even in daylight,—Lee lifircury, MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. (From the London Gazette of last Evening.) BY THE QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION. 'VICTORIA, 11.—Whereaa our Parliament stands pro rogued to Tuesday, the 13th day of January instant ; we, with the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare, that the said Parliament shall be further pro rogued, on the said 13th day of January instant, to Thursday, the sth day of February next ; and we have given order to our Chancellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain to prepare a Commission for proroguing the same accordingly : and we do hereby further, with the advice aforesaid, declare our royal will and pleasure, that the said Parliament shall, on the said Thursday, the sth day of February next, assemble and be holden for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs ; and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their attendance accordingly, at Westminster, on the said Thursday, the sth day of February next. Given at our Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, this 9th day of January, in the year of our Lord, 1863, and in the 26th year of our reign. God save the Queen. LONDON GAZE T TE—Yesterday. FOREIGN OFFP E, JAN. 13. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the following gentlemen, now Attaches at the places under mentioned, to be Third Secretaries in her Majesty's Diplo matic Service : Christian William Lawrence, Esq., Madrid. James George Ferguson Russell, Esq., Berlin. Frederick Antrobus, Esq., Paris. WHITEHALL, JAN. 12. - The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Peter Neil Mackichan to the church at Lochgilphead, in the parish of Glassary, in the presbytery of Inverary, and shire of Argyll, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. John Stewart to the charge and office of Third Minister of the united parish of Inverness and Bona. CRO WN-OFFICE, SAN. 12. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. County of Kent (Eastern Division) Sir Edward Cholmbley Dering, Bart., in the room of William Deeded, Esq., deceased. THE INDIAN ARMY. The Gazette contains a number of promotions in the Indian Army. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. William Hambidge, licensed victualler, Great Warley. BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of any importance which appear in the Gazette : Richard N. Collier, clerk, Chatham Thomas Peet, publican, Thomas-street, Oxford-street Wm. M. Edwards, wine merchant, Mark-lane Wm. H. Robinson, draper, Southampton Thomas Y. Kimpton, surveyor, Hertford John Marklew, licensed victualler, Stafford George Mortimore, baker, Chelsea John Winchester, plumber, Chelsea Samuel Griffiths, iron manufacturer, Wolverhampton Thomas Atkinson, publican, Gateshead Daniel Wharam, publican, Kingston-upon-Hull Thomas Joshua Lockwood, coal merchant, Sheffield Elizabeth Alway, licensed victualler, Bristol SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. James Reggie, grocer, Glasgow Alex. Kinghorn, draper, Dunbar Andrew Craig, cattle dealer, Dunfermline David Edward, farmer, Huntlyhill, Forfarshiro William APGregor, farmer, luveriscandye, Forfarshire HEALTH Or LONDON. (From the Regi3trar General's Report) The deaths in London in the week that ended on Saturday were 1,535, and were nearly the same in number as those of the previous week. The average number of deaths in the second week of ten years, 1853-62, is, with a correction for increasing popu lation, 1,492 ; and the deaths in last week were, therefore, more by 43 than they would have been if the average rate of mortality had prevailed. The births in last week exceeded the deaths in the same period by 419. There were 24 deaths from smallpox in the week. The complaint appears to prevail chiefly in the east districts. Measles was fatal in 61 cases, 6of which were in the Belgrayia sub-district, 6 in Pancras,and 6 in Islington. Eighty-two deaths were referr©d to scarlatina, and 13 to diphtheria. Scarlatina is com mon in Marylebone, where 11 deaths from it were returned in the week. It caused 5 deaths in the sub district of Hackney. Nearly a half of the deaths from typhus—viz., 28 out of 62—occurred in the East districts. The most fatal of all the diseases in the list was bronchitis, the deaths from which rose to 194; phthisis was fatal in the next degree, and rose to 174. An interpreter, aged 50, who had been brought from 13k, Queen's-road, Chelsea, to St. George's Hospital, is stated to have died on the last day of 1862 from "starvation." The son of a widow, aged 3 months, died from want at 27, Cambridge-street, Camden-town. A boy, aged 1 year, died of" sero tula, caused by impure vaccination." A family at 1, Glocester-row, Hoxton Old Town, ,as suffered very severely from typhoid fever. Of eight nonagenarians, whose deaths are re corded, the oldest was a widow, aged 96 years. Last week the births of 1,024 boys and 930 girls, in all 1,954 children, were registered in London. In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61 the average number (corrected) was 1,946. METROPOLITAN WATERS IN DECEMBER, 1862. According to the analyses of Dr. R. D. Thomson, F.R.S., the waters of London are more impure than in the preceding month, as usually happens in win ter, their sources being exposed to impurities which have no means of access to the pastoral waters of Glasgow and Manchester. The impurity of the the New River still continues greater than in the earlier part of the season. The organic impurity cf the Kent water was thoroughly oxydised, and therefore not comparatively unwholesome. Total impurity Organic im per gallon. purity. g - ,rs. or deg. grs. or deg. o'o 0.0 Distilled Water Loch Katrine water, new supply to Glasgow ➢lanchester water supply Queen-street Well, Edgware-rd lOO.lO THAMES COMPANIES. Southwark Chelsea Grand Junction West Middlesex Lambeth OTHER COMPANIES •680 12'96 20*88 20'16 22 . 00 20.98 18'70 1.60 2'40 2'02 1'36 1.65 Kent New River East London 24'00 '1.154 24.56 The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the gallon 215 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution, of which •605 degrees or grains are of Vegetable or animal At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 . 258 in. On Mond..y and Tuesday the mean reading was below 29in. The readings fell from 29.38 in. on Sunday to 28•S91in. on Tuesday, and rose to 29.65 in. on Friday, The mean temperature of the air in the week was 40.1 deg., which is 4.2 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as deter mined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily tempe rature was above the average on every day of the week, but the excess was moat considerable on the first three days. The highest day temperature was 48 6 deg. on Monday. The lowest night tem perature was 29.9 deg. on Friday. The range of temperature in the week was therefore 18.7 deg. The mean daily range was 9.5 deg. The difference between the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 2-7 deg. The mean degree of hu midity of the air was 90, complete saturation being represented by 100, which point was nearly ap proached on three days. The wind blew from the south-west till Tuesday afternoon, when it changed to south-east, and blew generally from this point during the rest of the week. The amount of rain was 0 77in., nearly all of which fell on the first three days. The mean of the highest temperature of the Thames was 43.6 deg.; that of the lowest 41 deg. CITY SEWERS COMMISSION. The Commissioners of Sewers of the City of Lon don assembled yesterday at Guildhall, for the first time this year, for the despatch of public business. The chairman of the Commission, H. de Jersey, Esq. (who has been appointed deputy of the Ward of Aldersgate), presided, and there was a large number of commissioners present. Course of the Exchange—Yesterday. Amsterdam Ditto .. 3 Months. 11 16k 11 17 Rotterdam — 11 16f 11 17 Antwerp .. 25 37k 25 421 Brussels — 25 37k 25 42k Hamburgh — 13 61 13 61 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine —118 f Vienna Trieste Petersburgh Berlin — Madrid Cadiz 60 Leghorn — 25 521 25 Milan — 25 52f 25 57i Genoa — 25 52$ 25 57} Naples Palermo — 25 521 25 65 Messina — 25 52/ 25 65 Lisbon — 624 52i Oporto — 521 53 Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz.. £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doubloons SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. LONDON, Jan. 14.—Wind this day at noon—North- Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. OFF HURST CASTLE, Jan. 14.—Arrived—Seine, steamer, from the West Indies. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 14.—Arrived—Etna, screw steamer, from New York. SUNDERLAND, Jan. 13.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—George and Ann, for Havannah. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Nico las, from Santa de Pilau. Sailed—Her Majesty's ship Pylades, for North America. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 13.—Wind S,W.—Arrived—Flens burg, from London for Rio Joneiro, leaky; Three Sisters, from London for St John's, Newfoundland. Sailed — Rival, for Santander. LOUGH FOYLE, Jan. 15.—Arrived--Bohemia, screw steamer, from Portland, U.S. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Arrived—Dispatch, from Cowes; Seine, steamer, from St. Thomas. Sailed—Atalanta, steamer, for Jersey ; Guiding Star, or Fareham; Paquebot No. 1, for St. Malo. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived—Bonheur, from Stockholm ; William and Martha, from Laroche ; Sea Witch, from Hakodade ; Pursuit, from Newport; Adelaide, from Seville. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Anchored—Storm Bird, of Guernsey, from Azores, for London. Passed—Celerne, for Cette ; Maid of Athens, for Car diff; Fanchor, for Constantinople; Chute, for Shanghai from London. Sailed—All the outward bound, for the West. THE COMING MAN.—The New York Tribune states that a telegram was recently despatched to the Fede ral army directing to whom the command of a brigade was to be intrusted, and that the operator at the telegraph station, declared the person selected to be Amjyrdkowasejcw Deabapeo7. MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY.—The Ballymena Observer of Saturday last contains a notice of an "extraordinary and painful" case—the particu lars of which include the alleged violation and poisoning of a young lady at Ballymena. The young lady, Miss Amelia S. E. Cary, was 18 years of age, of great personal attrac tions and most respectable family connections, and died on the 2d inst. at Gracehill, near Ballymena, after an illness of fourteen days. The body was interred, but, in conse quence of rumours of ill-treatment, was exhumed, and a post mortem exami na ti on made on Wednesday last. On Thursday an inquest was held at Ballymena, and a : n womanthe named Mary Ann WAtamney, a domestic servant r employment of Dr. Courtenay, medical germ Dispensary, was brought before the e of the police. Dr. Arthur Ross an d Pt at Ballymena, agreed that at the post the o fficer mortem examination they discovered all tho Court o f the Gal olaucrktt in custody surgeons at to be healthy , hi except the stomach, woorhg was discoloured, ° and evid en tl y mortificat i on , the result of previous infiamma itniona.staTth of ee y b e li e ved these appearances were occasioned by some irritant mineral or vegetable poison. There were no external marks of violence on deceased's body except cup ping, but, though deceased was not pregnant, there was evidence that improper liberties had been taken with her with or without her consent. At the close the inquiry was a djourned, that the analysis of the stomach might be made, and the prisoner was removed in custody, • SHARE MARKETS--This Share Railways. 13.14 Bir., Wol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. , Bost.,Sleat.,andMi d.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall F} 6i 86 88 1151 315 j of 71 A ;getsets no div Do „, till C,pe.p Do. B been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. IGlasg. and S. Western. GreatFastern Ord. stk , , 41 43 13 14 R6l 874 105 107 454 464 42 44 24 25 Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Do. £5 shares Gt. S. an i W. of Ireland Great Western 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. 128 129 133 131 136 138 104 108 67} (71 1101 110 i 72 73 118 119 88 89 971 08 1021 1034 411 42 D6l 5hare5........ 3Tetropoll t an 'Midland Oi 01 129} 1291 11 11p 97 99 6.4.0 Do New Do BIZ'MiDg. do Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 6 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York 53 531 251 264 100 100 i 57 68 891 891 128 130 108 110 4 1p 16 16} 11 114 118 120 474 484 104 106 Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton & Darlington 19.16.4 Do V••.. Do New, 1860 Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do 12.10 Do Vale of Neath !Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 47 49 334 344 S 9 894 684 894 100 103 7 39 40 101 101 p 7 2 P 148 150 44 51 , 1 56 5: 3 p 4 o* 24 Sip d* p 87 90 140 145 29 31 42 44 35 37 94 26 ORDINARY SHA.RE.; AND STOelvS. fold. Closing I Busines, Price. I done. 133} 97$ i 9 1 2 16 * 84 81 1101 724 ItBi 171 181 BRITISH POSESSIONS. Railways Pa:d. all Closing Price. 67 69 105 106 Atlantic & St Lawrenet Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Gu. 5 per cent.. Do. New . Buffalo and Laxe Huron Do. Preference ...... Buffalo,Brant4Godricl , '6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1. 1674 Cleutta..v S. Eastn. (L, Cape Town & Dock Seri; Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. East Indian, gu. 5 p. e. Do. do. G Ext..... 51 se# 77 80 73 76 73 76 101 106 1(81 iC9i 1(6 1( 8 107 1( 8 1 lAp 21i 22i 75 77 65 67 34 36 48 52 34 36 34 36 ICSI 106) 1 p 1 lip Do. do. H do. . Grand Trunk of Canadf Do. 6 per cent. Fret.. Do. 2d Pref. 6 per et.. Do. 6per et. Debentr. Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. Do. do. 1867.. Do. do. 1872.. Gt. IndiaPenin. gua.sp.e Do. New gua. 5 Do. January, 1862 Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. iGt, W. of Canada Share: Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8 I Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. c. Do. 4i p. c. Extensioi, Dc.4• 104 106 121 12i 8 760 98 100 91 03 1031 tuti 98 10 94 :6 Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Com. A p. 0. lind , Ilelb. & llobson's 13Py. Po. 7 p.c. mortg. FAL Newßrunswick t Canth Class A Capital Share , Do. do. B Capital d 0... 'N.RI.C'da6 pe Ist f bds Ocinde Do. Delhi do • • Do. Punjaub Do. Do Do. Indus. St. Flo.) all alt 100 (100 100 2 15 'CO t . tor, OLON lAL GOVERN M ENT Seca) 52 53 3 5 3 5 83 tis I(s} 108/ 103/ 10 , h IP 4 104 105 P 1100 102 ~,e.Goy. p.c.,la ,SLJ uly 1877-81 J Do. 6 p. c. Feb. Ac Aug.' 100 Do. 6p. c. Mar. Sept. 100 Do. xp. e, Jari.dtJuly. 100 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 Cape G. H ope, 6p c,1873 100 Do.Ap et Oct 1880 1 100 Do. 18901 100 Do. Jan. July, 1891.. 100 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p e 100 N.13.G0v. p.c. aAJuly 100 Do. 6 p. c.Ap. & Oct ] 100 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c.,18661 100 Do. Lp. c.,1871 to 1876 100 Do. d0.,1888 acupwda 100 I New Zealand 6 p. centl 100 Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c steriing, 1875 ' 100 Queensland Gov. 6p. C 100 S. Aus G6p.c.1876. , t up 100 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 I Do. lo 6p.0. kn..tOot.. lOO MUT] SH :TINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold , 1 'par lo ,- Clifford Amalgamated -- 16 18 ; Devon G. Con, (Taoist ) 1 500 510 i East Bassett (Illozan 3O 53 65 54 1 I East Clogau F old Ltd ss. p 4p I East Caradon 1.14 ., 45 46 'East Carn Brea.... „ 3.0.0 111 12 E. W'l Russel (Tavistk ; 7.10,0 31 44 t Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen ) 57 21 24 191 Great South Tolgus l7s 64 7 - 1,1. Wheal Vor (Heleton' 40 6 si 'Grenville I Herod's-Foot 8.12 44 50 liingston Downs 4 17.0 21 2/ Lady Bertha I 2.0,6 1 11 I )largaret (t7ny Lelant 1 40 42 t i Nlarke Valley .. 4 fllyncly Iron Oro (Lim.)' ds pr New Seton .. 191 145 155 North Downs 2l 21 2 N'.Wh '1 Bassetallo4an 1.17.6 21 8 'North Wheal Crotty l'ar Consols (St. Blazey' 11 5 6 2_2 ss t :o r cu o v t ahrn i d c e aß n r e ra e ed a ( o U cs y ot l gc e ai l ne n )e t .r . . )1 1 5 0 .1 11 5 ; 3299 : 2 4 1 3 3 00 - i, , .Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 18.1,9 00 95 iStray Park , 28.9. 37 39 5 Tamar Silv.& Lead Min 44 10 Pin Croft 9 124 134 West Basset (Illogan) l4 13 14 - W Caradon (Liskeard) 5 I 3 3 iWest Seto' 'Wheal Basset (IllogaW 51 774 1325 - Wheal Buller(ltedruth) 5 1 47 621 Wheal Kitty( G.Lelant) 2.0.6 73 81 WhealLnd , ott ' Whcal MaryAnu (3len ) 8 16 16 Wheal Seton ........ .. 584 240 250 tv heal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 164 171 Wheal Uni0n........ 3. 13 5l 64 PREFERENCE SHARES. North Eastern Consolidated Pref. 4 per cent„ 98 LINES LEASED At'FIXED RSNTALS. London and Chatham 44 per Cent., 93. FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lim,) gua. 7 per cent., 21 i Great Luxembourg, 141 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 23; FOREIGN MINES. Fortuna (Urn.), 4} United Mexican (lim.), Si JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Australasia, 74 3 Imperial Bank (lira.), 104 Loncon and Colonial (11m.), 4} 3; London and County, 39 London Joint Stock, 38 Ottoman Bank, :i3 i—Ditto, new, 7; MISCELLANEOUS. Electric Telegraph, 99 Great Ship (Bin.), 174 per cent. pref., ; London Gent ral Omnibus Company (lim.), aladras Irrigation and Canal, 3i National Discount Company, 8 Royal Mail Steam, 55 Trust and Luau Co. of Upper Canada, 5i 1 105 106 106 108 106 108 96 97 95 97 104 110 111 113 1112 114 111 113 104} 1051 99a 1006 99} 100a' 99 99.. 109 111 1 105 106 10 112 109 111 , [O7 109 1 LIO 1101 s toot st I 20 st stOck - Business don. 106 xn xn 1071 8 7i xn xn xn 21! 2 1061 t xn 105 xn 121 10f 21 i 104 si xn EU•ri 101 xd 901 i xd 110 UNFOUNDED CHARGES AGAINST THE CONTRACTORS A considerable portion of the time of the court was occupied in hearing a number of summonses which had been taken out at the instanco of a Mr. John - Williams, of 22, King-street, New North-road, against three of the contractors to the commission, namely Mr. E. Reddin, Mr. Tomkins, and Mr. Baker, for breaches of contract. The whole of the complaints referred to cases of sweeping mud down the gullies by men in the employ of the contractor. The person named Williams above referred to was supported in some of the cases by a man named Nlayhe iv, both very positively speaking to the acts of the men as complained of. It was contended by the contractors that the cases had been trumped up for improper purposes, and witnesses were called on their behalf to disprove the assertions. In the course of the examination Williams admitted having pre ferred complaints of this kind against contractors in various parts of the metropolis, and further said that by reason of his so doing he had been called a common informer. He said he preferred the com plaints on behalf of the public, but admitted that he received remuneration for so doing from a pri vate source. In the course of the hearing of the case it was elicited that he had represented him self to a City policeman as an officer con nected with the sewers, and to the same official he observed that if the contractor did not pay him for any trouble that he might be put to, he himself given in oppo s iti on t o would do so. The evidence the complaints was most conclusive, and the Com mission dismissed all the cases that were heard ; several members of the Court expressing their dis gust at the manner in which the summonses had been brought forward, and their complete disbelief in the statements made by the persons who sup• ported them. The CHAIRMAN said the commissioners were of opinion that the whole of the cases which had been brought forward had been disproved, and speaking to Williams he said he would advise him to be cau tious before he again brought forward such charges against the contractors. The two men then left the court, and were fol lowed by a crowd who hooted them all the way a® they departed from Guildhall. In G u ildhall -yard the hooting was taken up by other persons w ho be came aware of the proceedings that had takenad t o place seek in the Court of Sewers, and they finally b protection from the mob in the justice-room of the Guildhall police-court. FINANCE. Mr. DAW, the principal clerk, laid befor ethe Court a report from the General Purposes Com mittee, to whom it was referred to examine the ac counts of the treasurer for the year ending at Mi chaelmas last. The committee stated that, hav'ng so examined the accounts, and compared them with the vouchers, they found them correct. They also found that the consolidated account was at that date overdrawn to the amount of £24,830 4s. 10d., that the treasurer had in hand on the sewers account a balance of £9,695 3s. Bd., and that the main drain age account was overdrawn £854 14s. 11d. The report was received. SANATORY CONDITION OF THE CITY. Dr. LETHEBY, the medical officer of health, laid before the Court the following report on the sana tory state of the city of London : _ _ " To the Honourable the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London. Gentlemen,—The Inspectors' returns which are before you relate to 381 houses that have been inspected since the last meeting of the Commission, and I submit a list of 87 i places for sanatory improvements in various particulars. I also submit a list of places requiring further proceedings on account of orders already issued, but not yet complied with. I have likewise to report that the market and slaugh ter-houses of the City have been dul3 inspected, and the officers have seized 13,6941b5. of meat es unfit for human food, 11,4351b3. were diseased, 1,6071b5. were putrid, and the lest was fiora animals that had died fromnatural causes. It consisted of 53 sheep, 32 pigs, 8 calves, 81 qrs. of beef, and 201 joints, &e. All of it vas destroyed in the usual manner. " The mortality returns for the month are nearly the average for the season ; 237 deaths have been registered during the last four weeks, the average number for the cor responding period of the last seven years, being 234. 87 of the deaths were among children of less than five years old, and 51 were among persons of 60 and upwards. The chief causes of death were as follows :—Phthisis 30, mesenteric disease 15, pneumonia 8, bronchitis 36, whooping cough 7, croup 2, continued fever 13, scarlet fever 9, dysentery 1, small pox 1, and measles 9, making together 45 deaths from tubercular diseases, 44 from inflammatory aff-ctions ( f the lungs, and 42 from diseases of the gymotic class. 238 births have been registered in the month, namely, 122 males and 116 females.— I remain, gentlemen, your obedient servant, (Signed) " 11Y. LETHEBY. " Guildhall, Jan. 13, 1863." THE GAS SUPPLY. Mr. W3l. HAYWOOD, the engineer to the. Coin mission, said that at the last meeting it was left with him to arrange with the Great Central Gas Consumers Company to light the public lamps in their district for the next five months. He had corresponded with that company, and they declined to supply the gas upon the terms of the present contract, and he had consequently arranged with them for such a supply at the rate of £3 Ms. per lamp per annum. The CHAIRMAN said ho had consulted Mr. Hay wood upon the subject, and he found they bad nn alternative but to sanction the proposed arrange ment, and he now asked the Court to do so. The Court sanctioned the arrangement. It was decided to fill up the office of gas examiner for the city of London at the next meeting. The Inspectors' reports were read, and the Court adjourned. The Death from Violence in Belgravia. Last evening Mr. Bedford, the Westminster coroner, resumed an inquest, adjourned from Friday last, at the Boardroom of St. George's Workhouse, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, touching the death of James Crawley, aged 70, a pensioner, late a pri vate in her Majesty's 20th Regiment of Foot, re siding in Plumtree-court, Shoe-lane, Holborn. The evidence elicited on the first occasion went to show that the deceased was found lying in a dying state on the door-step of 51, Mulford-street, early on the morning of the 6th inst., with four ribs broken and otherwise injured, and cut in the face and other parts of the body, which led to the opi nion that death had been caused by violence, con sequently an adjournment was deemed, necessary for the production of further evidence. Michael Crawley was now the first witness ex amined, and deposed that the last time he saw the deceased, who was his brother, was on the Sunday previous to his death. Deceased was liable to be free in spending money in drink whenever he re ceived his pension. He knew nothing concerning his death. W. H. Cocks, staff-sergeant at the tast London Pension Office, said deceased was in receipt of a pension of la. 6-Id. per day, and received £2 6s. Bd. on the sth inst. at 2 o'clock p.m., when he was per fectly sober, but very feeble and sickly. He was badly dressed, and presented a very beggarly ap pearance. Several other witnesses proved that deceased was seen standing in front of 51, Pulford-street, holding by the area railings, moaning as if in pain, covered with mud, and a large bruise on his right eye, from 9 till 11 on the night of the sth, and was found lying on the door step as above stated the following morning. He was removed on a stretcher to St. George's Workhouse, where he shortly afterwards expired from the mortal effects of apoplexy. Another witness blamed the policeman on the beat for not having discovered the dying man earlier than he did. Dr. Bloxam repeated his account, already pub lished, of the great violence which the deceased had sustained. He said the death was from apoplexy, very likely to be produced by violence. The number of bruises on the back of his head, and on every limb in the body of deceased, led to the opinion that death must have been the result of wilful violence. The broken ribs appeared to have been trodden on by hob-nailed boots. It was to him exceedingly im probable that the injuries could have been produced by only one act of violence or by accidental means. Mr.W. Drawbridge, a licensed victualler, deposed that deceased had been a tenant of his, and that he had been mixed up with bad company. The nurse at the workhouse said that 18s. 11d. in money was found upon his person. The Coroner having summed up, The jury returned a verdict of death by violence, but how the violence was occasioned they were un able to determine. SECONDARY PUNISHMENTS. The ticket-of-leave system has found an apologist in the person of Mr. T. W. Saundets, Recorder of Bath. In charging the grand jury at the Quarter Sessions for the city on Friday Mr. Saunders de clared his belief that the public mind had gone wrong to a great extent on this subject. He relied on the judicial statistics for 1861 as showing that the feeling which oppressed the public that we arg drifting into a sea of crime from the substitution of penal servitude for transportation was a mistake. In 1858 there were in round numbers 40,000 known thieves and depredators at larg e , w hile in 18(31 the number was only 29,000, showing a decrease of 21 per cent. in favour of the latter year. These known depredators did not comprise all the criminal classes of the country. There were besides suspected per sons, prostitutes, vagrants, and tramps, with respect to whom the figures stood thus :—ln 1858 there were 134,000 of these people atlarge, while in 1861 there were only 123,000. These statistics showed that whereas in 1858 one person in 136 belonged to the criminal class, in 1861 there was only one in 163. These returns also showed that, though the number of criminals had become fewer,the numberof crimes had not increased. In 1861 there was an increase of crime, as compared with 1860, of less than 1 per cent. ; but there was also an increase of crimes de tected of over 9 per cent. ; so that nearly 10 percent. more persons charged with crime were detected than in the previous year. Then, how stood the fact as to the number of persons committed for trial ? In 1867 there were 20,000 committals for indictable offences ; in 1858, 17,000 ; in 1860, 16,000 ; and in 1861, 18,000 ; so that it would a ppear that in 1861. y stated, there was an increase of extent, as Precedingveralthreead year. Crime, however, did not in reali ty increase, but detections did, to the of 10 per cent. over the previous year. It was not inferrederirae t h te a n t d t e h d e with sum vbieoclaelinscee ' otfh i at n e ht ei wa et wasvecseruyinrtrchetrionencagebsieeonllgse.. There Hors was este a a iin f g ash a i n o a n i n crime as total of " in ' sheepstealing were al most extinct, and now we heard of garotting. He believed, however, that the ingenuity of man would devise means for checking that offence. Referring to the substitution of -penal servitude for transportation, the learned Recorder pointed out the proportion of the sentence which every prisoner must serve, whatever might be his conduct, and he adverted to the fact that, while the total number sentenced to penal servitude who were discharged yearly was about 3,000, the number of prisoners discharged after serving out their various terms of imprisonment was 18,000 per annum. While there was much that might be done in the way of improving the system of penal servitude, and much that might be hoped for from the appoint ment of a commission on the subject, he believed that education was the great remedy for crime. The re turns of the Registrar of births, marriages, and deaths, showed that in 1860, 105,000 signed th e mar - i riage registrar with a cross,-26 rp every 100 men , and 36 in every 100 women. ith regard to cri minae, 34 per cent. could neither read nor write, 60 and write i mper f ect l y , an d read and write well. There oconulyld4o pern ly cent.read could or read was not 1 per cent. who had received superior edu cation. Attention ought, therefore, to be directed to improving the education of the people, for when it was founa that only 4 per cent. of the persons con vie ted could read and write well, the inference might be fairly drawn, that if all could read and write well very little crime would be conimitted. iy 30 ce, iar vo his ted tier in a 3.E., uar- xn xn xn xn xn k -.