The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-03 00:00:00

310\111Y MARKET A ND OMMERCIAL CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Consols are steady, at 913 to 923 for money; New and Reduced Three per Cents., 911 to 913 ; India Five per Cents., 1103 to 1111 ; Bank Stock, 239 to 241 ; Exchequer Bills, 255. to 28s. prem. The monthly settlement on the Stock Exchange commenced this morning. The foreign stocks Italian bonds continue to de cline. The price this morning is 411 to 411, being lower ; Mexican are 153 to 151 ; Spanish, 34 to 341 ; Turkish, 293 to 303 ; Portuguese Scrip, 4 to 3 prem. ; Old Stock, 374 to 374 ; and Viceroy of Egypt Railway Loan, 713 to 72i. Of railways, London and South Western have de clined 1, at 75 to 77 ; Metropolitan, 1, at 1143 to 1144; Great Northern (A), I, at 1083 1093 ; Shef field, at 44 to 443 ; Midland, at 1031 to 1033 ; and Lancashire and Yorkshire, at 1225 to 123, 3 each ; South Eastern are firm, at 664 to 664 ; London and North Western, 1133 to 114 ; Great Eastern, 293 to 303 ; Great Western, 44 to 415 ; Brighton, 475 to 483 ; Caledonian, 693 to 70 ; and Chatham, 173 to 185. American Securities are firm. United States Five -twenty Bonds are better, at 72i to 721 ; Erie Shares and Illinois are each higher, the for mer being quoted at 48 to 49, and the latter at 89 to 90. Indian and Canadian Securities are steady. Great Indian Peninsula Railway is quoted at 106 to 107 ; East India Railway, 108 to 109 ; Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, 15 to 45i ; Atlantic and Great Western Railway of Canada, 16k to 16i. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures have risen at 21 to 22, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds at 18 19. The New Honduras Loan is 1 prem. ex Coupon. From 'a telegram to hand from Jerez, the sherry shipments for the past year amounted to 43,180 butts. 'The principal shippers being—Gonzales, 5,826 ; Misa, 4,630 ; Garvey, 4,047 ; Domecq, 3,658 ; Cosens, 2,793 ; Mackenzie, 2,611; Pemar tin, 1,829. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The return of the Bank of England, which is made up to the evening of the Ist inst., - shows the impor tance of the temporary changes arising from the ad justments previously to the commencement of the year. While a large sum has been disbursed on ac count of public salaries, there is an increase iu the Govenment Securities, probably representing Defi ciency Bills, in order to maintain the public balances. The Bank has enlarged its private securities by up wards of £2,600,000 ; but on the other hand, it has received a still larger amount in private deposits. These changes represent balancings ; and they are fully as important as those at the beginning of 1867, though they will probably be far less lasting. Con siderable as these variations are, the Reserve is little less than thirteen millions, and practically the Bank is in a very strong position. The Bullion once more exceeds twenty-two millions sterling. The following are the changes since the preceding return : Increase in circulation Dwrease in Publio Deposits Increase in other Deposits Increase in Government Securities • Increase in other Securities Increase in Bullion 120,681 Increase in Rest Decrease in Reserve Bullion in both Departments ......22,061,728 Reserve of Notes and Coin 12,819,673 Circulation, including Bank Post Bills 24,832,122 The return of paid clearing for the week ending January Ist, as certified by Mr. J. C. Pocock, deputy inspector, is as follows Dec. 26, Thursday £6,061,000 Dec. 27, Friday Dec. 28, Saturday 9,838,000 • Dec. 30, Monday 16,907,000 • Dec. 31, Tuesday l4, Jan. 1, 1868, W e d nesday 083,000 9,557,00 G l ,153, The ret urn tor Dece mber Tota 26, the d £6s ay after Christ mas Day, was the lowest of any day in the year. In other respects the aggregate corresponds to the move ments incidental to the adjustments of the period. The discount demand, in spite of to-morrow being the 4th of the month, is still very light as comr ared With what it was to the 31st ult. The minimum rate current in Lombard -street is 1 per cent. There were no bullion operations at the Bank yesterday. The City of Boston has arrived from New York with .£112,000 in specie. The Oriental Bank invites tenders to the 14th inst. for .£758,000 New South Wales Government De bentures, bearing 5 per cent. interest, and redeemable in 28i years. Ten per cent: is payable on application, and the balance on the 30th inst. This issue is made under the Colonial Act for the purposes of public Works. • The annual general meeting of the National Bank Das been called for the 28th inst., for the transaction of the ordinary business of the company. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Ocean Marine Insurance Company yesterday, it was resolved to recommend to the shareholders at the annual meeting on the 30th inst. the following pay ments :—A bonus of 20s per share, interest of 6s per share ; and that a further sum of £lO,OOO be added to the reserve fund, thereby increasing it to £60,000. The usual payment of 5s per share will be made in July in each year. The numbers are published of 126 bonds of the Chilian Six per Cent. Loan, amounting to £40,000, which have been drawn for redemption at par on the 16th inst. The Leeds Town Council have unanimously resolved to oppose, the abandonme n t o f th e L ee d s an d W ether b y Railw a y by the North-Eastern. The Council would not object to the postponement of the works for a short time. Mr. Alfred Brown, who has been connected with the Imperial Bank since its formation, has been appointed manager. The followThg is a review of the market for Petro tellth. from Messrs. Rose and Wilson's annual re port :.—Refined : We commenced the year with a large stock, which our home trade was not sufficiently large, without the assistance of an export demand, to consume, so that it increased to such an extent that our stock during the autumn months exceeded that of any other period in the history of the article ; the same may be said of all.the ports on the Continent trading in petroleum. Prices throughout the year have almost entirely been in buyers' favour, and never at so low a point as during the past twelve months: is per gallon was in one instance accepted. This had the effect of inducing the Americans to send large orders to this country and to the Continent to buy up several thousand barrels, at prices ranging from is Oid to is 2d per gallon ; a great portion of this is still firmly held. • In consequence of large " bear" sales in America, prices rose there during August to October, which, enabled us to obtain is 7d per gallon and even is 8d for later deliveries, which rates were not maintained. Our market is now so en tirely ruled by the daily telegrams from the United _N.tates, that unless we rece i ve t h ence a succession of higher rates, we cannot expect any permanent improve ment in prices here. On the whole, the business done during the past year has been good and 'steady, devoid (with one exception) of reckless speculation. We close with a quiet market at l s 4d per gallon spot, and ls Llid per gallo n f or J anuary to M arch, S tan d ard White . is Crude P e t ro l eum a ll b ut neg l ected, and pr i ce quite nominal. Petroleum Spirit, up to about the .month o f August the value was about 8d per gallon ; but since then, in consequence of a very large demand for the Continent for burning purposes, and there being no stocks, prices rapidly advanced tots 2d per gallon ; thi s has induced shipments from the United States, so that the price is easier. Refined Coal and Paraffin Oils.--The low price of petroleum has been most disastrous to this branch of the trade, so that it has not been developed at all during the Sear. The number of refineries at work in Scotland at the beginning of 1867 was twenty, of these nine have entirely ceased working. The estimated production of refined oil has been the very limited quantity of about 160,000 barrels, which has nearly all been sold. The only hope for our coal oil refiners is that the Legislature will prohibit AMerican refined petroleum being imported intu the United Kingdom under a much higher degree of igniting point than at present ; this is a step naturally very.much to be desired by them, but the business in the article between this country and America has become so extensive, that it will meet with the most strenuous opposition both here and in Liverpool, especially when it is well known that hardly a , single accident, if any at all, has happened from its careful use, BRITISH FUNDS —TWO O'CLOCK. gOVERNMENT FUNDS. B pir ()out. Consols Do. Ac count, * per Cent. Roducod NeviNe Nevi 3 2 per Cent 9li 1 i Do per Cent. Ja n . 1894 — . 5 per Cont. Annuiti es, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan,, 188 P. Do, for 30 yrs, expire bth April 1885 m --. , rs: Do (Red Sea Telet,,raph), An,., 1908 E cbc,quer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 &21 per Ct.... 25 pm Do £5OO — pra Do. £lOO & £2OO — pin Bank of England Stock. 44 per Cent 241 33 Do. Account INDIAN aOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ndiaa :cock, 104 per Cont., April 1871 — Do. Account - Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., !day 1879 lOB 1 Do. 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb., 1872 — Do. do. 1877 — Do. do. 188' ) Do Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,OOO • Do under £1,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent 72 AnAtrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 Brt..).ilian 5 per Cent — Da. /1 per Cent.,'lBs2-58-50 Do. 1853 - Do. 5 per Cont., 1865 lio Account 7 51 it 4 Do. £lOO Loads Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent. Do 2 per Cent. (Deform! 3 per Cent. .0 kba, 6 lair Cent. Cd.nan 6 per Cent ie. 41 per Cent 00. 6 per Cent., B • Do., 1867 Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 9Ol Do., Scrip £32 paid ... — 0 . tubian, 6 per Cent. . • D mist' . 3 p ,r Cent., 1825 D nnbiau Principalities, 7 per Cent Do 8 per Cent., 1867 El:.ador New Consolidated, 1 per Clew — tlgyptiar, 7 per Gent i to. Se, oad Issue D '. £5 '0 Bonds Do. £lO6 Bonds — Do. 1861 Do. .i 5 . 10 Bonds Do. £lOO Bonds ..... 83 Government Railway Debentures .... 921 Greek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account G tatemala 6 per Cent .. — Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 7p. Ct., £l5 pl pm It idau a per Cc!: t., 1865 — Do. Account . — Do. Maremmana ltaiway — M. +xicar. 3 per Cdnt • —, Ditto for Account • l5l Dn. 1864 — Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — liontevideau 'i; per Cent. • Moorish imperial 5 per Cent Now Granada ll/ Do 3 per Con — Do. Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account _ Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarreu) Do 44 per Cent.. 1862 Do Account Po:tuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1 , 362 ......•.. Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bonds BB Do. do. £B4 15s. do — Do ., 1866, £lOO 80nd5.... B7l 1 Do. do. £B4 15s. do — Sardinian, 5 per Cent — Spanish 3 per Ceti Do Account Do New Deferral Do Account Do Passive 251 1 Do Ace/ant Do Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do Account — Turkish 6 per Cent. — Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1862 _ Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 6l Do.. 1863 Do 5 per gent., 1865 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 Do 4 por Cent., Guaranteed ••• 'Venezuela, 3 per Cent. Do Account — Dividends on the above ptiyagle in London. French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 251. Hub 5 per Cent. 1851, Ex. 251. - 1 Do. Account TWO @ln Consols, Money' 9li 21 Do. Account SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived Sikkebu Fena, from Groningen. Sailed—Zurburan, steamer, for Cadiz; Panther, steamer, for Boulogne. DEAL, Friday Morning. Passed, Jan. 2.—Susan, for Salcombn ; Venus,. screw Steamer, for Cardiff.; Aboyne, for Colombo—all from London. Anchored.--Normandy, screw steamer, from Taganrog for London. OLD FOLK IN NORMANDY.—In the provincial dis tricts of France one cannot fail to be struck by two equally noticeable facts in the families of the peasants: children are brought np with excessive indulgence ; old people are proportionably neglected. This state of things has its exceptions. 1 have known working mothers who were able to make their children obey them, and 1 possess among my poor people some few ancient friends whose sons and daughters surround them with all-tender care. But, generally speaking, among our peasantry the two facts I have named always co-exist, the one naturally re sulting from the other; for spoilt children who are neither respectful nor obedient in their youth are not likely to become so in riper years. In our Normandy, when parents are no longer fit for work, it is customary for them to divide any small property they have among their children, and then to go and live with one of these upon a sort of pension, to which the others contribute, the amount and payment of which small pittance the ma gistrate often has both to decide and enforce. Tho poor, old folk, thus completely stripped of their possessions, lan guish forlornly in the chimney-corner. Often I meet them, dragging themselves feebly and solitarily, up and down the orchard which is attached to almost every Norman cottage, or else put in charge of a troop of indocile, rude children, who torment them unceasingly. Continually I have said to myself, " Why cannot our peasants be taught the duty .of taking care of their aged parents ? or why, at least, is there not some asylum for poor old men and women?"— liacmillan's Magazine for January. THE ORIGINAL JEST-BOOK.—It is singular t 3 fine how soon the stories became old, even in early times. Lveu the exclamation of "Joe Miller ! " to indicate a vene rable joke, is as old in sense, if not in sound, as the days of father of Alexander the Great. When Philip was the Macedonian king, there was a club of wits in Athens which inet once a week, not in the tavern, but the temple of Hercules - . They had such a favourable opinion of their own powers, that they chronicled all their own jokes, and kings sent to borrow the book—" The Book of the Sixty" it was called, from the number of the members—when they were depressed by the turn of politics, or by their own humour; and stood in need of a laugh and its refreshing influences. Very many "good things" must have been entered in this proto-lest book, though we do not know what they were. For a. time they served the purpose of "diners out," and of men who carried no wit about with them save what was contained in. their memory of the wit of others. The volume, however, became so familiar through its contents being circulated abroad, viva voce, that the hearers at last got weary of it, and whenever a dull fellow sought to derive some brilliancy by re peating one of the oft-told stories, ha was met by a general cry of " Come, that's an old Si sty.".—Argosy for January. _ THE EMPEROR'S PRIZE. —The Independance Beige, speaking, of an audience which th e Papal Nuncio had with the Emperor Napoleon a few o,ays back, says:— " It is belieied that at this interview lifgr. Chigi handed to his Majesty the hat and sword which the Pope had blessed at the last Consistory, and which, according to custom, are presented to the Sovereign who has rendered during the year the greatest services to tl.te Holy See and the Catholic Church. SONG BIRDS FOR NEW ZEALAND. —The Otago Times states that Mrs. Bunbury, a lady who arrived from Great Britain in the William Davie, has lauded with quite a collection of song-birds—only a portion of those which she had when the ship sailed, but enough, raid of kinds, to constitute a most valuable present to the Acclimatisation Society, to which body Mrs.Bunbury has presented them. There are in the collection skylarks, thruslLes, blackbirds, starlings, goldfihches, and linnets, and al'i. of them were landed in such excellent condition as to prove that throughout the voyage they had been tended constantly and with skill. Captain Logan also successfully brought out some song-birds, although he lost propm tionately many more than Mrs. Bunbury. Indeed, of some 70 shippel by the captain, only 10 or 12 have s urvived. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, REGENT'iS PARIC.—A remarkable plant, perhaps more curious that', beautiful, is now in flower in these gardens, and is suppo led to be the first of its kind that has yet flowered in Eagle nd. It is a species of agave nearly allied to the so-called An terican aloe, said to flower "once in 100 years," but diff.?rs from its brother, and most if not all other members o.f the agave family, by carrying its flowers on a pendulous or drooping flower spike some 10ft. long, curving to one sid,), with the point nearly reaching to tbe ground; the flowers ire closely packed round the stem, and number some thousands. The plant was raised from seed received at the garde'us from Mexico about 25 years ago, so that in England, although perhaps not in its native country, it appears to be o.f very slow growth. The name at present attached to the plant s Agave dasyliroidu, but it may probably tura out to be a . • now species or variety. SIJAR3 LIS T.--This Day. -~ _. twINAE.Y SHARES AND STOCK' CBllway,, raid.; Closing Vrioe. Brie Col and Exeter . Caledonian ...... Cambrian . Cork and Bandon Corn wall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Per & Ab.J nue 'E.London, nerip Certi, vo. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. s►,k. Do. E. Aug). at. No. Great N orth of licotlai,t Great Northern D l. A stock • .. Do. °eh: Do. ;New, La. at 25 pa , tit S. and W. 01 Ireland }Vef tern De. 5. V 4). Rail gua. Do. south Wales .... W..Slid.-07Ktoro Do. Newport 00. Liereford Lanc.,ehire YorkainrC L.Jndon and Blackwall 'Lou., Brigit.,k, 6 Coax. i•oo., Chat., aad Dave, Do. Metrup. ex. A Luu. str, North ‘Vesteri Lon. South Wester; Alan., Shut., Limoh. ktetropolitan..".. ..... Do. New Exten.siou actropo lit au District 00. do. 40. So. and fit. John's W'u Alidiaud Do. Zi Shire Do, ii!riniu.. d I,:trb) ,11. d Heat . Do. Pth., & Dun. Nth. Eastern -Berwicr. . Do. ti. N - 11: purchase Do. Le.. - tds ..... Do. York... D. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. Darling. Do. do. IS6O-51 e North London Do. do. 1564 5 . Do. do. ISt'Ai .worth Stailordshirz ti. & S. W. Junction 'Scottish Central iScot. N. E ..A.Dcr. stock t/o. tieot, Lit Jolt Sliropshire Union iionth Devon youth Eastern 'itaftz., Wok., .SE Wok 'l'3ll' Vale Vale 01 Neath Waterford &Kilkenny Waterloo & Whitem i West Cornwall. GOVER Britith Columbia, 6 per cent., De 0.31, 1572. ICan-Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& J my _ 1877-81 - o. 6 p. o. Feb. & Aug.. -,. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c.1873 Do.Apl.&Oct , 1890-1900 Do. do 1880-9.) Do. Jan.&July, 1890-0 I Do. 5 per cent. 15 April ..„...... and Oct., 1900 - Otylon, Nov- 1868, 6 p. 1878, do Ilauritiuts, 6 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 .. 1)o. 1882, Mayls, Nov 5 Do. 1845, Feb. & Aug.. Natal liov. 6 per cent.. N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&J uly N. S.W. Gov.s p•c.,186t, Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1876 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1895 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... ... Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 t4ueensiand Gov. 6 p. c 13. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vio,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July Do. do. A pril & Oct THE SUN, LO? D Businepav d&ne. :eter 100 82 84 ••—•••• 100 711 711 621 9 4 81 70 • • all 2 4 Ist June. 100 744 75/ kb.Juac. ~. 00 70 72 ip Certi. all - - 100 - d Western 100 95 07 Ord.sik.' 100 301 011: 3) / st. No. t 100 7 Scotlain! 100 15 6 1 lOO 107 09 .051 6 7 100 t 054 109,' 1081 100 123 1:5 at 25 pc 10•• Ireland 10u 96 93 Origin:lt 1,0 14 111 44 tall gua lOO - - ales - -07Klorc 100 25 3) 100 29 3. 100 orkshirC 100 .. 3 i 24 123 21 lackwall 100 - - S Coazt. 10, 43 41 48 71 81 Li Dove , 100 18 i 9 18 ex. A ‘Vedleri• 100 114 115 I'3l 14 131 Wester; 100 15 77 (761 Li llool i. 1 , )0 111 154 , 44 •••• .....qil ..5 117 1141 151 10 - - )u • •• all 102 103 . 03 District all •-- do. 10 -- - in's Wu 6 - - 100 1041 10411034 21 31 7 - .2 Littib) 100 72 74 all - - 100 33 35 , Dun lOO -- Berwicr lOO 98 99 iurchast. 16.13.4 - - .•••••••• 10u 51 61 19 tOO 90 92 92 100 - all 1:,0 132 '6l IS -•-- p . lOO 113 115 114 5 - 5 1 lip shire lotion tl - - cr. stock 100 -"- 100 -- ion 100 42 14 100 064 0? 581 St Wok all 84 94' 100 • 145 ., •b0 . 5 - re) :ilkenny 100 hltelia I 6 - - 100 - - 1-OVERNAIbNr SECUItITI6.S. tia. 6 per 1872, 100 - - a. July 100 100 104 At Aug l‘,o 101 103; . & Sept 100 101 113 dv July 100 90 92 ribcd sk 100 89 91 p.c.1873 100 102 104 .890-1900 100 116 108 1880-9 u 100 10 4 116 ,1890-9 t 100 117 10 15 April :900 lOO 95 i 7 68, 6 p.c 100 - - 78, do lOO 11) 1106 0, 1873, 100 105 107 100 106 108 1, Nov.to 100 105 107 t Aug lOO 107 101 r cent lOO 104 106 ads.) uly 100 113 115 p•c.,186t; 100 - Ito 1876 100 98 99 3 to 1895 100 074 9 1 9 1 1 7 61 sp. cent 100 :.. , v. 6 p.c 190 102 104 v. 6p. c lOO 103 115 0.1868-9 100 - - • wards lto 110 111 a•SiJuly 100 - 001 lOO 110 112 1101 YOSSESSIONS. LOU Atlantic & St.Lawrenoe all 53 55 ,t I. Bom.,Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent 100 IC4 105 1(2 6 20 Do. F shares lO p SP 206 Buffalo & Lake Huron all ui 10 Do. Preference all 5 6 100 Ruff Bnt &Goderich 1 ra , 5 p.c. i 672-3-1 lOO 68 71 .t Calcutta &S. E., Ifm lOO et Ai, e Town & Dock, gu IOU 18 52 00 Demerara, 7 p.o. per. pi all 99 1(2 3t Last. Bengal, gu., sdo lOU 03 1t.,4 st East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 100 110 1106 109 .10 Do. J Extension at '..irandTrunkof Canada 100 17 18 100 Do. Equip. Mort. Bond. 1 charge ('p.° all 53 85 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 50 52 100 Do. do deferred .., ail 100 Dc , . 2d Pref. 13ond all 40 45 100 Du. do. deterred - 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock all 32 34 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do: 4th Prel. stook all 195 20* 100 Do. do. deterred at tit. India Pen. gua. 6p.c lOO 107 108 IC6I 7 a o. Gus. 5 per cent IS 2 20 Do. New gua. sp. c 6 2 e at kit.Bouth of India pia. 5 per cent at D 41 per cent lov 92 94 at Do a —=" 204 treat Wes. of Canada all 156 154 tEI 206 Do. New .. ...... alt - - 100 Do. op. o 13&s. pay. 1873 all 95 17 100 Do. 5* do. pay. 1677-6 all 8 5 17 10 Indian Branch, limited 3 1 4' l at Aladras, gua. 5 p.o 100 100 iOr 1024 I at Do. 41 do st Do. 46 do , 100 (9 91 29 Do. Filth Extension 5 at Melb. Cor. 6p. c. Buds. 100 -- 50 /lel. & Ilobson's Bay all et N.ll.l.C'da,spolBtpf.ba 100 83 85 at . Bcinde 100 100 101 at Do. Delhi 20 Do. do ti A. 15 t 0 at Do. Punjaub.... n.e. 100 99 100 at Do.lnd 11£4 Bt.riof 100 85 87 BRITISII MINES. Cant. ConsoL Gold, lina. 1 - k.;hiverton ~ ;lifford Amalgamated 3O 5} 'Devon G. Cons. (Tavtst 1 4.0 14 •Jrakevvalls 2.1.0 East Bassett (Illogan) 294 10 12 East Caradon 2.11.t. 5 East earn BrPa 34 2 21 East Grenville 2.14.0 1 j 2 East Gannislake .. 8.3.0 1 A East Loved 3..0.0 8 9 E. W'l Russell (Taylstk 11.7.0 •11 2 tam.St StAubyn(G wen. 66 4 5 4 Great Lucey, limited all 17 18 Great South Tolgus 0.11.t• - - Great Wheal UtLay 14.9.1i G. Wheal Vor (Heist , L 40 17 19 17} ilerod's loot .... 8.10.1• 15 37 llingston Downs ...... 5.10.6 21 21 .Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17. 8 15 Alarke Valley *.10.0; 41 1 4 liwyndyjron Ore, lim Sj 21 11 • e - .y S taE North Weimar N.Wh Bassettallogan 6.1.0 - - North vVheal Crotty Prosper United 8.11.0 2 24 Prvyidence,UnyLelaut. 10.6.7 29 St S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l} 393 410 South Condurrow Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 376 421 stray Park . 35.15.6 4 8 Tin Croft 9 13 14 Vigra and Clogan, lim — West Bassett (Mogan .1 1 Caradun (Luskeard 13 10 12 West Chi ver ton ll 66 es West Seton • ..... 1 7} 195 '405 Wheal Bassett 'lllogan 51 85 95 Wheal Buller (Bedruth 16 16 jo Sissy Ann (ten 8 18 20 Wheal Seton Wheal 'rrelawney (Lis 5.17.0 6 8 I.REFI,,RENcE S AARE rocK S. London and S.-Western 10 per cent:, E 8 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL E. London and Blackwell, 87 r Lit-L.8.16N ItAILWAXt, • reat Luxembourg, 84 Sall Paulo, lim., g ua. 6 per cent., 184 k',Pkinat3A A, bart Pedro, North 1)el Rey, 2 ; Pin reearena United Gold, 11m., 2 916 HAN tt.e. Agra. lira.. A, 7. Anglo Egyptian, lim., I.uperiat Bank, lim., 18f Imperial Ot oman, 8i 11-16 Loudon and Brahilian, Um.. 15 London Chartered uauk of Australia, WI London and County, 511 Loudon and estminster, 691 • Ditto, Scrip. 39} Union of Loudon, 361 MISCILLLANEOUS. Anglo American Telegraph,:l9l Aoki- Mexican Mint, 16 Atlantio telegraph, 50 1 • Dit 0, 6 per -lent., 931 5 Canada Company, 64 34 Corporation of London Bonds, 'Bl. 44 - Per cent , 101 i Creuit r winter ut . 3 I Egyptian 9 per Cent, Viceroy Loan, gua. by EgYP govt. goi anuson's Bay. Ist London Financial Association. lim., 7 National Discount company, 11 North British and Mercantile Insurance, 151 Uriental Gas, lira., 6} Ditto, new, If Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 55 Ditto, new, 1867, 5 1 Royal Mail Steam, 521 Telegraph Construct. and Maintenance, 11m., Ila iiitCo, new, 26} National Provincial of England. Ditto, and 3d lean°, 3:it DARING ROBBERY BY BRIGANDS.—A most daring robbery was committed a few days back at Ferrara, in Italy. The Countess Giovanna Massel was returning home at about ten in the evening in a carriage, which had entered the courtyard of the house, when five robbers, masked and armed with pistols and poiguards, rushed for ward, and while two of the number kept the coachman quiet by menacing him with a pistol and kept guard at the entrance, the three others handed the lady from the car riage and followed her to her room, whore they made her give up all the ready money she bad on her, which amounted to about 130 f., and then, taking her watch and chain from her, with a silver candlestick, they made off, after having first filled the pockets of the servants, by moans of which they obtained about 35f. more. No traces of these mon have been discovered. .Lb wafer of exchange at .New York on London for bills at du days' sight IS about 1109 per cent. At this rate there a no profit on the Import4tOu vi gold from the "'pito Slates,... . N, FRIDAY EVENING JANUARY 3, 18(8 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day, BOW-STREET. SYSTEMATIC PLUNDERING OF SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.—SamueI Heath, a ccrffeeliouse -keeper, carrying on business at 17, Western-place, close to the Great Northern Railway Station, was charged before Mr. Vaughan with having feloniously stolen property, consisting of carpet bags, a musical in strument, and wearing apparel, the property of soldiers who had been lodgers in his house, and also of the colonel and officers of the 4th Dragoon Guards. It appeared that a soldier named Keeley, belong ing to the 4th Dragoon Guards, went to the house of the prisoner on the 29th of November last. At that time he was on furlough, and was introduced to the house by some person whom he had met in the neighbourhood. Oa the 30th, the next day, which was Saturday, he was robbed of some money while sleeping on the sofa. Ou that day Cor poral G'over, of the Ist Dr•igoon Guards, having arrived at the Waterloo Railway Station, and being on. his way to Wakefield, on furlough, was induced to go to the same house, and from his statement it seemed that af „er having been there some time, during which he had three cups of tea and three chops, the prisoner charged for that 12s. 6d., which he considered too much, and refused to pay it. He wanted to go out, but the prisoner would not let him. He, however, did go out, and slept at the coffeehouse afterwards. The prisoner then took his bag. He ha 1 three medals on. He found two of them off his breast when he awoke. The whole three were on the table. The prisoner had them; they were worth about 255. His cloak, which he also lost, was Worth about £3 15s, the carpet-bag 63. or 75., and the things in the carpet-bag about £l. Keeley told him that the hindlord had taken some money from his pockets, and he also had to leave his clarionet. The prisoner paid his fare to 'Wake field, which was 14s. 7id. In his carpet-bag, which he identified, was an account-book, which he iden tified, and which contained his will. Abraham Ballard, police constable 154 Y, stated that he had gone to the house of the prisoner, who was well known to the police, for the purpose of seeking for a watch which had been stolen, and which there was every reason to believe had been left with the prisoner, and for the receiving of which he was committed on tha previous day. On ch i he found a cupboard in the b the property already seaacrkng room the containing place, men tioned. The prisoner was then taken into custody, and the prosecutors having been communicated with, the present charge was brought. Mr. Besleycontended that the principal charges had not been sustained. Mr. Vaughan intimated his intention of commit ting the prisoner for trial. Mr. Besley then. requested that substantial bail might be taken, whoa it appeared that twice in 1865 the prisoner and his wife had been taken into custody for robbing soldiers and sailors, and on being liberated on bail had managed to square the matter with the prosecutors. Bail was consequently refused, and the prisoner committed. Amongst the property discovered by Ballard not yet owned are a gold pencil-case, from Z. M. H. to his friend, L.M., 4 carpet begs, 22 silver forks, and two spoons. THE MAGAZINES. Fraser's lifagaziue.—" Fraser" looks dry, but is brue reverse of that. The articles are lorg, the subjects somewhat grave, but the writing is lively. Some. times there is a little too much liveliness, and •"M.," discoursing on "The Politics of Young England," is occa sionally flippant. Nevertheless, this is a very clever essay, full of smart things, from a writer who is, in all things but_ one, the antipodes of him who wrote " Shooting Niagara." He believes, as Carlyle does, that democracy is inevitable, and that the Tries of the Disraelian school who think that the lowest class is essentially conservative and williprove a bodyguard to defend "our glorious institu tion. in Church and State " are living in a fool's paradise. He recommends algsuch to add to their Sunday Litany the prayer, " From a reading peasantry, Good Lord, deliver us ;" for so soon as the agricultural labouior attains t' the education of the skilled mechanic will he begin to have notions of his own about the law of entail and the right of landowners to hold an unlimited amount of land. But "M." does not dread the future—he welcomes it. Mr. Edwin Chadwick, an old social zo,forrner; writes to urge the consolidation of the police force. He argues that our police are lamentably ineMcient because they are under such a multitude of different authorities. By placing them under as few as possible and mobilising them, the police throwzhout the kingdom would be available for any part thereof, and in case of riot we should not be compelled to call out the military. Con solidation would, so fax as our experience h •is gene, render the police force less costly at the same time that it became more efficient. Miss Cobbe writes on "Household Service." "Those plagues of servants" is rather a trite subject, but Miss Cobbe makes the most of it, and is epigrammatic as usual. She advises mistresses of househol , ' 3to adopt the system of increasing the wages in proportion to the length of service ; this would be both fair to the employed and save the employer much of the discomfort which arises from the frequent giving of warning because the servant wishes to " better" herself. Mr. Bonamy Price has a long paper, the first of two, on Free Banking, with special reference to the controversy which has arisen between MM. Chevalier and Wolowski thereupon. We need hardly say that Mr. Price sides with M. Chevalier and free trade. Mr. Proctor, whose beautiful book on Saturn and its System " scientific. readers will remember, writes on "Coloured Suns." Sir Edmund Head ,sends a Norse • ballad. " The Marstons "is continued. . Paul's.—The editor's story of "Phineas Finn" is better than ever this month, and Mr. Millais has surpassed hiMself in one, at least, of his two charming illustrations; in the one, we mean, which lie has coiitributed to Mr. Anthony Trollope's serial tale, and in which the Acade.nician's pencil has pourtrayed Phineas, the hand some young Irish member (" as handsome as a god," Lady Laura Standish tells herself), standing on the mountain top at Loughlinter beside the woman he loves best in all the world, offering friendship instead of love immediately after Lady Laura has announced to him her betrothal to Mr. Kennedy. It is an exquisite picture of an incident that, in the story itself, has been quite as exquisitely described. The rut of the number —consisting of a further instal- Ment of "All for Greed," and eight other contri butions—is of more than average excellence. Among the miscellaneous papers there is one which we cannot help attributing to Mr. Thomas Adolphus Trollope, It is a paper on Italy, entitled " The New IVlemb9r of the European Family," and in it occurs this remarkable inti mation in reference to the Roman question : " We will abstain from touching it any further than to mention the very pregnant fact that it is within our knowledge that it was the opinion of Cavour that Florence ought eventually to become the Italian capital." Florence, observe, not Rome ! And that according to the opinion of Cavour ! The Month.—With the exception of a brief first instal ment of a new serial story, entitled "Eudoxia : a Picture of the Fifth Century," there is nothing very attractive in The Month for January. For the author of " Eudoxia," however, " Callisto " has not been written in vain ; and if continued with an ability in any way comparable to that in which it has been commenced, " Eudoxia " promises to be a rare attraction. Good Words.—Already an immense success, this first of all the sixpenny monthlies makes a grander start than ever with January—comprising among its contributors such illustrious names as those of Mr. Gladstone and the Poet Laureate. Tennyson's contribution is a new poem, entitled " The Victim," while that from the hand of the right hon. the leader of the Opposition is the first portion of a remarkable criticism on a remarkable book, to wit, " Ecce Homo." Dinah Mulock leads the number off with the opening of a new serial love story, called " The Woman's Kingdom." The Rev. Charles Kingsley is con spicuous among the other contributors to Good Words, which is edited (all the way from India) by Dr. Norman Macleod, and profusely, and occasionally very beautifully, illustrated. The Sunday Magazine.—Edited by Dr. Guthrie, the Sunday Magazine is remarkable for papers from hands as able as those of the Dean of Catiterbdry, Dr. Guthrie himself, and George Macdonald, poet and novelist. It also, like Good Words, is noticeable for the excellence of its embellishments. The Art Journal. —Two exquisite engravings form the chief attractions of the January number of the Art Jour nal - one from Maclise's " Orlando and the Wrestler," the other from Ward's " The King's Daughter." Besides these, we have the tenth instalment of Mr. S. C. Hall's magnificent French Exhibition Illustrated Catalogue, giving us the choicest gems last year on view at Paris in the great world-gathering in the Champ de Mars. The Intellectual Observer and The. Floral World come to hand simultaneously —the latter beginning a new series with the new year, and still edited by Shirley Hibbred. The British Postal Guile.—No. 47 for the Ist January is as accurate as, and more copious than ever in its authen tic supply of information. Under the editorship of Mrs. Henry Wool, the current number of the Argosy is a capital sixpennyworth. "Anne Hereford," commenced in the December number, is con tinued, and the two chapters now given possess some very readable matter. The author of " Christmas Eve in Rome " tells a story of absorbing interest to herself, and that is, how she lost her way amid the shadowy ailes of St. Peter's Cathedral, was found by an English gentleman, who escorted her home, and soon afterwards became the lady's happy husband. Another Christmas tale involves the shaving of two proud ponies' tails as a practical joke, or rather as a piece of revenge by a wayward son on a passionate father—pater having previously inflicted on young hopeful a smart personal chastisement. The recital is an amusing one, and especially in the portion where the youthful delinquent leads the parish constable a dance which that stout official was not often in the habit of en joying. "The Miller's Revenge" is a story from Jersey of rather a sensational character, including as it does a murder and a suicide. There is a good description of a hurricane in the West Indies, the details of which, after the narratives of the recent disasters in those hotbeds of volcanic disturbances, are read with a more than ordinary interest. The Presse, in a lengthy review of the state of Thirope at the close of 1867, examines the probability of a was with either of the Great Powers. Austria, it is argued,: has a paramount interest in maintaining peace. Only by so doing can her institutions be renovated and her prosperity and - influence in the world restored. Like France she has - nothing-4o expect from war, and the two Powers mry be considered at this moment as the two resting points .of general peace. Having thus dealt with Austria, M. Cucheval-Clarigny turns his attention to England, and remarks that she still oscillates.between the jealousy of France and her abso lute inability to dispense with her alliance as . the means of defending the most important British interests. She will declare for peace, because perturbation ,in Europe would be so prejudicial to her commerce, and Would so seriously endanger "the fragile edifice of her prosperity." Whatever sympathies she may profess for the Italian revolutionists and the success of M. Bismarck, England will make no more sacrifice for either the one or the other than she made to save Denmark. France has nothing to fear from England, and the more Russia discloses her designs the more will England be disposed to approach nearer to France. That a coolness has arisen between Russia and France M. Cucheval-Clarigny does not deny, but it does not follow that peace is seriously endangered. Russia knows that she cannot go to Constantinople without the consent of France or of England, and as she has nothing to offer to either the one or the other which would be a sufficient compensation .for the perils involved in the destruction of the Tuiki3h Empire, she has never conceived any serious hopes of bringing such an issue about. What she wants is to make the Christians take Constantinople from Turkey, in order to transfer it to herself ; and the question is, does she anticipate difficulties serious enough to prevent any Power from coming to the aid of the Sultan ? Prussia, the reviewer thinks, has no grievance against France, and if she only wants to preserve what she has con quered she has nothing to apprehend, and there is no danger to peace in that quarter. The military prepara tions made by her are, however, admitted to be among the most disquieting symptoms of the present situation. Any attempt made by Prussia, to destroy the independence of Gerthany would seriously affect the security of France and Austria, which a common danger would bring close together. Russia would not aid the ambitious projects of Prussia, and England is quite as much interested as France in saving Austria from destruction. In concluding his review, M. Cucheval-Clarigny insists that the only way in which the peace of Europe can be secured is by France pursuing a policy which chews Pruisra that she can, and Italy that - she will, resolutely pasa_csi respect to treaties. SPORTENG INTELLIGENCIi7, DONINGTON HUNT MEETING. THURSDAY. On Thursday evening it was announced at Donington that nothing short of a heavy fall of snow would interfere with the sport of the following, day, and in such fine con dition was the running ground that the prospects of a brilliant meeting looked cheerful. Snow fell in several parts of Derbyshire on Wednesday afternoon, but there was no visitation at Donington. With the shades of evening, however, a severe frost set in, and the ground this morning was found to be so hard in several places as to be positively dangerous to run upon. When the company assembled a conference of the authorities was held, and it was decided to run off the Hurdle Race and the Pony Race, postponing the steeplechases until to morrow (Friday). The Marquis of Hastings was present with a numerous party from Donington Castle. A match was got up prior to a t e Hurdle Race bitwoon a couple of the ponies, and resulted in the hollow victory of the non favourite. The Hurdle Race produced only a couple of runners, and was as one-sided an affair as the match. Snow fell whilst the race was being decided, and though it was only slight, there was every appearance of a con tinuation. The frost was also severe, aud, unless there is a change in the weather racing to-morrow will be almost impossible. Details of the three races will be found below : .Match, 2cr sovs. Ouo mile, over three hurdles. Mr H. Story's Silly, aged, list (Owner) 1 Capt. Johnston's The Bounder, list (car. list 21h) (Owner) 2 Betting-6 to 4on the Bounder, who hold the lead for a quarter of a mile, when the non-favourite took up the running, and came in alone. The Douington Park Hurdle Raco Handicap of 5 sous each, 2 ft (to the fund), with 25 sous added. Two miles, over hurdles. 19 subs. Capt. Helmsley's Welford, aged, 9st (car. 9st 41b.) (W.Johnston) 1 Mr. Saxon's Spurgeon, 4 yrs, 9st (H. Sharpe) 0 Betting opened at 10 to '8 on Spurgeon, and closed at 7 to 4 on Welfurd. Spurgeon led for a short distance, when Wolfordtook up the running, ills other following until about half the jour ney had been accomplished, when ho pulled up, having been thrown a long way in the roar by bungling at the jumps. Welford accordingly came in alone. A Plate (pony race), by subscription of 1 soy each, with 15 added, and 5 to the second, for ponies of all ages up to 14 hands 3 inches high ; lOst 71b each; weight for inches below that height; one mile on the flat. Mr. Goodwin's Little Robs, by Ledbery —datn by Weatherbit, aged, lOst (T. Goodwin) 1 Mr. R. Herbert's Mystery, aged, lOst 71b ... (W. Reeves) 2 Mr. Nadin's Little Gipsy, aged, lOst 71b (Audinw)od, jn.) 3 Mr. J. Houghton's Moll in the Wad, 5 yrs,lOst 71b (J. Pear) 0 Mr. Dickinson nd Crab, aged, 10st (carried 10st Mb) (Mr. Brockton) 0 Mr. J. H. Johnst one ' s Rosa, aged, 9st (W. P age ) 0 Mr. H. Story's Sill y , aged, lOst 71b (11. Custance) 0 Mr. Barker's Dairymaid, 6 yrs, 9st (carried 9st 41b . Page Miss Fox's Little Dick e y, age d , B s t 71b (car.(J Bst 111 b)) 0 (Compton) 0 Mr. Lathbury's Ina, Bst (J. Churchill) 0 Betting-11 to Bon Little Rosa, sto 1 agst Mystery, 6 to 1 agst Crab, 10 to 1 each agst Silly and Dairymaid. Silly made the running, followed by Dairymaid, Mystery, and the favourite, for about three-quarters of a mile, when she relinquished the lead to Little Rosa and Mystery, the former of whom won easily by a couple of lengths ; Little Gipsy was a bad third ; Silly fourth, and the others finished at wide intervals. READING STEEPLECHASE MEETING. TUESDAY, JAN. 7. Selling Steeplechase of 8 sovs each, with 25 added ; 4-yrs old, list, five, 12st, six and upwards, 12st 51b ; the v, in ner to be sold by auction after the race for 50 sovs, and any surplus to be divided between the owner of tho second horse and the fund; if entered to be sold for 30 soya allowed 71b ; about two miles. An Open Hunters' Stakes of 3 SOPS each, with 20 added, for horses which have been regularly hunted with some established pack of hounds during the season of 1867- 68, and which have not been in any training stable for three months prior to the time of running for this stake ; 13st each ; any previous winner of 50 soya to carry 71bs extra; the winner to be sold for 100 Boys. Weights for the Whitley Stakes (free handicap) of 5 soya each, with 30 added; winners after Dec. 31, at 10 a.m. 71b extra. About three miles. Age st lb Coverdale a 10 1( Waterperry ... a 10 7 Nabocklish a 10 7 Forest Lass ... a 10 4 Chesterfield 6 10 4 Legerdemain ... 6 10 0 Puebla ... 610 0 The Switcher ... alO 0 Joker ... 6 10 0 Age st lb Sir Bobby ... a 12 10 Tally-ho a 12 3 Lawrence ... a 12 0 Garus ... a 11 12 Harold ... 611 5 Bristles ... a 11 4 SI atchcock ... a 11 4 Arlescott n 11 4 Shiite ... a 11. 0 Portfire a 10 12 A Handicap Plate of 50 soya, for all ages ; the winner to be sold fpr 70 sovs, ,aud auy.surplus to bo divided between the owner of the second horse and the fund ; entrance 2 Boys, to go to the fund ; about two miles and a half. Agii . st lb The Robber (late Quicksilver) ... a 12 7 Serious Case ... a 12 5 Age st lb Love in a Mist ... a 11 7 Fitz-Adine ... a 11 b Lord Waldegrave 6 11 0 Pakiugton ... 5 10 10 Sportsman Farnborough ... a 12 2 ... a I 1 12 WEDNESDAY, Jan 8. A Handicap Steeplechase of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 25 added ; gentlemen riders. About two miles and a half. A Handicap Selling Steeplechase of 3 sous each, with 25 added; the winner to be sold for 40 sovs; about two miles and a half. A. Selling Steeplechase of 3 sous each, with 20 added ; four year olds list 41b, five 12st 51b, six and aged 12st 101 b ; the winner to be sold by auction for 50 sues, and any surplus to be divided between the owner of the second horse and the fund; if entered to be sold for 30 soya allowed 71b ; horses which have run at this meeting without b3ing placed first or second allowed 51b; about two miles. Weights for the Berkshire Opon Steeplechase of 10 sous each, with 70 added; winners after December 31, at ten a.m. extra. About three miles and a half. Age st lb Sprit° ... a 12 7 Tally-h') a 12 3 Lawrence ... ... a 12 0 Garus ... a 11 12 Arlescott ... a 11 4 Meerschaum ... a 11 0 Captain Crosstree a 11 0 Siuite a 11 0 Imogene (in 71b ex) a 10 12 Marengo ... r 10 10 Bishopton 6 10 9 Weights for the Innkeepers' winners after Dec. 31, at 1) miles and a half. Age st lb The Guide... 6 12 7 Spatchcock ... a 11 12 SMite a 11 10 Portfire a 11 7 Coverdale a 11. Fitz-Adine a 11 0 Lord Waldegrave... 6 10 9 Age st lb Sylph a 10 9 Waterperry a 10 7 Farnborough ... alO 7 Topthorne... a 10 7 The Cripple ... a 10 5 Nabocklish a 10 5 Forest Lass ... a 10 4 Chesterfield ... 6 10 4 Joker . 6 10 0 Snowstorm ... 5 10 0 'late (handicap) of 40 soya ; a.m., 71b extra. About two Age st lb Clarina ... a 10 7 Puebla 6 10 5 Le Willows ... 5 10 5 Joker „. 6 10 4 Ledgerdemain 6 10 0 Ned of the Hills ~. a 10 0 FORFEIT LlsT.—The forfeits of the following horses have been paid :—Clarina, Rod in Pickle, Scavenger, Special, Elvire, Prince of Wales by General Williams, Bumboat, Foreign Stamp, Deerhound, Sisyphus, Seamew (to qualify), Alice Mary, Greyfoot, Madame Bosco, Dutch Admiral, Wild Bee (to qualifk), Fan (to qualify), Tormen tor (to qualify), Maurice, Morning Star, Arigill (to qualify), Gleaner, Highland Chief, Lucette, Dunsany (to qualify), Pest, Vittoria, Sportsman, and Trapeze (to qualify). STEEPLECHASE FORFEIT LIST.—Tho folieits of the fol lowing horses have been paid :—Ballycasey, Tally-ho, and Lady Newark. Bosco should not have been published, as the forfeit was paid to the Clerk of the Course without notice having been sent to the office. Mr. Pedley's nominations for the Derby, Oaks, and St. Leger, 1869, and any others made by him since the pub lication of the Forfeit List, Dec. 22d, 1866, are invalid, Mr. Pedley having omitted to pay the forfeit for Ever green in the Derby, 1866, published in that list. The horse had been sold with engagements, and the purchaser had failed to pay. ST. ALBANS.- The Cripple has been disqualified for the Hunt Steeplechase Plate on the ground of insufficient description, and the race has been awarded to Patience, who came in second. Warwick, 5 yrs; Bracken, 4 yrs; and Special Commis sioner, 2 yrs, are now geldings. The following names have been given :—Mr. John Ing-. ham's br f by Nutbourne, out of Lady Bird, by Te Sea, 2 yrs, Cicada; b f byMiriam. Jordan, out of Wryneck, h 2 y rs , The following assumed names have been registered : Mr Peters, Mr. Hood, Mr. Tatton, Mr. Humble, Mr. W. Hale, Mr. B. Hoe), and Mr. M.J. Partington. COLOURS OF RIDERS.—Mr. Peters, blue jacket, and orange cap; Mr. Hood, amber body, rose sleeves and cap; m r . B. foal, white body, blue sleeves and cap ; Mr. Tatton, green and gold stripe ; Mr. Humble, crimson, white stars, white cap. HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENOAGENIENI . S.—Dec. 27, Lawrence, out of Local Cup, St. Albans; 28, at 3 p.m., (to Mr. T. Marshall) Helice, out of Reading engagements ; 30, at 9 a.m., Spatchcock, out of Donington Hunt Open Steeplechase; 30, at 9 a.m., c by Tim Whifilm, out of Lightfinger, out of all engagements; 31, at 9 a.m., Clara de Clare and Lady Glencora, out of Manchester engage ments ; 31, at 545 p.m., King Arthur, out of Donington Hunt Open Steeplechase. Jan. 1, at 9 a.m., Confidence, by West Australian, out of all engagements. BOMBAY HEAVY MAIL. MALTA, Jan. 1. The Pera left at 10 a.m. to-day. She may , be expected at Southampton about the 10th inst. THAMES. A BAD LODGER.—ROBBING A TILL. Henry Crosscover, a young man, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with stealing various sums of money from a till in the Brunswick Arms publichouse in Wellclose-square, Whitechapel. Mr. H. Adolphe Hasleworth, the landlord of the Brunswick Arms, said the prisoner had been a lodger in his house fpr some months, and in the course of that time and not before he had fre quently missed cash from his till. His suspicions of the prisoner were slowly aroused. In conse quence of a communication from his barmaid he deposited 68. 80. in silver and copper monies in his till on Tuesday night last. Mr. Paget hearing that another witness would give evidence against the prisoner requested the witness to leave the box. William Skipper, of No. 40, S.nithstreet, Step ney, paper hanger, said he marked Bid, 3 sixpences, and 2 threepenny pieces, which he deposited in Mr. Hasleworth's till last night. He remained in the back parlour concealed all night. At half-past five this morning the prisoner came down stairs. He saw him look at the clock, say something in German to himself, go to the kitchen, come back again, and get over the counter into the bar. The prisoner then put his hand into the till, took some money out, and put it in his pocket. The prisoner hada knife in his hand, which he did not like the look of, but he was not to be frightened of a German thief, and he laid hold of him and gave him into custody. He searched the prisoner, on whom he found 2s. 6-d. in pence and halfpence. 'William Coroly, 175 H, said that the prisoner was given into his custody, and while the last witness was searching him he said, " Here it is, Mr. Hasle worth, and handed to him the marked money." The evidence of the prisoner having been inter preted to him by Mr. Wintjen, the interpreter of the court, he said he wished the case to be settled at once. Mr. Paget—Does he plead guilty or not guilty ? Mr. Wintjen.—H e says he is guilty. Mr. Haslewnrth recommended the prisoner to mercy, and said he was a person of respectable connections. Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. 11 1ARKETS—(2 his Day.) MARK LANE. Our market to-day was very scantily supplied with English wheat coastwise and by land carriage. Selected samples—the show of which was unusually small—were held for more money. Low and damp qualities wore in active, but not cheaper. The show of foreign wheat was seasonably good. On the whole, a fair average business was doing, in most kinds, at Monday's currency. Floating cargoes of grain were a slow inquiry, but not cheaper. Fine barley was the turn dearer, owing to its scarcity. Grinding and distilling sorts supported former terms. No change took - place iii the value of malt. The supply was tolerably good. Oats were a slow inquiry;'itt the late decline in value. The show of foreign was large. Beans and peas were quite as dear as last week. Both English and foreign pour was very firm in price. AIRRITALS THIS NvERK. Wheat. Barlay. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 720 830 2,940 50 1,330 Irish Foreign 15,520 1,150 41,560 100 sks. Maize, 2,780 qrs 2,810 brls BOROUGH HOP. Nothing of interest has transpired in this market since our last repert. The demand has been confined to the immediate wants of consumers, and prices are almost nominal. Mid and East Keats .£6 15s to £lO lOs por cwt. Weald of Kent Sussex 6 Os to 6 15s Farnham 8 Os to 10 Os Bavarian 4 lOs to 7 Os Belgians 3 15s to 4 15s Yearlings NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL Large supplies of meat are on sale at thesis markets. The trade is heavy, and prices have a drooping tendency. rer Sibs by the carcase. 8,1 8 d . s d s d inferior beet 3 0 3 6 Inferior mutton.... 3 0 3 6 Middling do. 3 8 3 10 Middling mutton.. 3 8 4 2 Prime large do 4 0 4 2 Prime do ~ 4 4 4 0 Prime small do 4 4 4 0 Large pork 3 0 4 4 Veal 3 8 4 0 Sixt4ll pork THE BRIGHTON STAGE COACHES.—The success which has attended the experiment of running four-horse oaehesfor the conveyance of passengers from London and Brighton during the past threo summers, has induced the proprietors to continue these coaches on the road during the winter months, and a stage coach drawn by four fast horses makes a journey every day either way, between London and Brighton, and the distance is accomplished with five relays of horses on the road, in five hours. The revival of "old times" during winter is a great boon to many rural villages through which the coaches run, and good loads of pessengers are picked up and carried between theintermediate stages; and since coaches have been put . in this road, the value of many road s id e i nns h ave b een considerably enhanced, SALMON FISHERY IN THE FAR WEST. And now all the traps are set, and the watchers anxiously look out for the appearance of the first salmon. Their sharp eyes full soon detect the silvery fish, and the welcome tidings of the salmon's arrival spread with telegraphic rapidity. The revels are at once abandoned, and we now see stalwart savages standing on every available point of rock armed with formidable three pointed barbed spears ; their eager eyes are pouring into the bubbling waters, on the look out for salmon. Once descried, the salmon's chance of escape is small indeed ; the unerring spear is deeply buried in its flesh, the barbed points hold on with the tenacity of fish-hooks, and the victim is dragged out of the water to flap and flounder itself to death, surrounded by the delighted throng. Th e capture of the first salmon is the signal for a general re jeieing ; the "medicine men" go through the mor;t weird :Ind absurd incantations to please, as they think, the "Great Spirit," and thus induce him to send au abundant supply of fish, an 1, what to these impostors is of lar greater import, to convince the assembled tribes that their medicine-making has been pre-eminently successful. The men and women dance and shriek, and give vent to dells, war-whoops, and other uncanny sounds in sheer mad ness of delight. As a general rule, the first sal mon is presented to the Hudson's Bay Company's chief trader, and twice in my life I have partaken of the " first salmon," and I can bear truthful testimony that its quality was equal to the best salmon, the United Kingdom produces. The fishery business now commences in right good earnest. The salmon_ day after day arrive in numbers not to be computed, and I am not in the slightest degree overstating tho truth by sa:yiug that, when the "run" is at its best it would be aln".ost an impossibility to throw a stone into the eddies underneath the falls without striking a salmon. I have stood - upon the rocks, by the side of the " salmon baskets," and tried in vain to count the number of sal►non that were leaping clear out of the water at one and the same time. And it is at such times as these that we wit ness the extraordinary success of the redskins' basket system of fishing. The poor salmon, in their untiring efforts to master the falls, and thus get into the mountain streams to deposit their eggs, far too frequently for their own safety jump short of the height they desire to achieve, and then are instantly washed back into the wide-mouthed baskets. Often and often I have seen six, and sometimes as many as eight. salmon caged at a time ; and, start ling as the statement may sound to persons in this coun try, I have myself known over three hundred salmon landed from one basket betwixt sun-up and sun-down. These fish vary in weight from 201 b. to 751.b.—Land and Water. _ RACING FIXTURES FOR 1868. FEBRUARY. Lincoln Spring Harrow ' MARCH. Liverpool Spring M.... 3 Margate . 23 Chelmsford Spring M. 10 Epsom Spring Meeting 24 Shrewsbury Spring ... 10 Croxton Park West Drayton l2 Northampton Warwick Spring APRIL. Northampton (continued) 1 Knighton l4 Bromley .. 6 Abergavenny ..... 16 Aldershot Durham I Hendon l3 T hire& Newcastle Spring I Newmarket Craven .... 13 Newmarket lst Spring 27 Y. Salisbury l4 Bath Croydon Ist Summer llarpenden • 22 Epsom Summer Newmarket Ist Spring (continued) Chester 5 \Viachester York Spring Doncaster Spring JUNE. Hampton Bibury Club Curragh June Stockbridge Alexandra Park., LY. West Drayton 1 Croydon 2d Summer Ascot Summer 9 Windsor Summer Newton JU. Alexandra Park (con.) 1 Chelmsford Worcester Summer ... 2 Carlisle Liverpool Stamford Huntingdon Nottingham July Newmarket July 7 Reading Oldham l6 _ Southampton Goodwood AUG Brighton Brighton Club Lewes Summer Wolverhampton l 7l I Stockton Plymouth Windsor Egbam Ilastings .UST. York August Oxford Scarborough 24 Derby Summer Canterbury Weymouth Lichfield Tunbridge Margate 3l 111 BER. fleudon l7 Mouniouth . 17 Newmarket Ist October 22 West Drayton 29 Royal Caledonian Hunt I and Ayr 3O SEPT] Warwick September 1 Abingdon 3 Leicester Doncaster September 8 Richmond• Kelso l5 Hampton Autumn l5 OCT( Pool al Caledonian Hunt and Ayr (continued)... 1 Bedford 1 Bromley Newmarket 2d October 5 NOV Shrewsbury Autumn Leamington and War STEEPL: JANUA Manchester Elopgrove (York) 1 Donington Ilunt FEBRI Carmarthen Birmingham Lincoln Harrow 2O Boston MA. Liverpool Spring 3 Shrewsbury Spring lO Grand Military War wick l7 Chertsey 2O AP: IChelmsford Autumn l3 Cheltenham l3 Ealing Newmarket Houghtuu l 9 Worcester 34.8 ER IBER. ickshire Ruut l7 'CHASES. tY, 1868. Reading Monmouth Hunt .„ ARY. Windsor Grand Military and Open . Derby Spring Baschurch 2B ICH. Margate 23 West Somerset 2l Cheltenham Southdown Hunt Cambridge Grant National Hunt I K n i g hton (Bedford) 2 Abergavenny Rly.Artillery (Woolwich) 3 Hambledou Bromley Aldershot • 8 Croydon Spring Il(indon OCTOBER. Bromley 1 I Ealing l5 DECEMBER. St. Albans 1 j Ealing 26 Ki ng sbury Bank of England Returns.—Last Evening, An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria cap. 32, for the week ending Wednesday, Ja:a. 1, 1868. ISSUE DEPAMTMENT. Notes issued ....X35,971,810 Governmt. Debt.Xll,ols,loo Other Securities 3,984,900 Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion £35,971,840 BANKING I): X 35,971,810 Proprietors' api tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (includiugEx chequer, Sav ings' Bank; Commissioners of National Debt, and Div. Accounts ..... 6,314,203 Other Deposits:. 21,654,971 Seven Days and other 8i115..... 590,067 i:PARTMENT. Governmt. Seen rities(including Dcad Weight Annuity) .... £13,296,046 Other. Securities 20,125,012 Notes 11,729,785 Gold and Silver Coin £46,213,731 £46,213,731 THE SUB-EDITOR IN HIS DEN.—There is the greasy date-box on the chim ne y- p i ece, t h e di ngy old hungraps against the wall, th e c l umsy vo l umes o f t h e "fil e ' piled in hopeless confusion in the rack, little bookcase ' stuffed with works o f re f erence — Di ct i onar i es, P eerages , Encyclopaedias —the labyrinth of speaking-tubes gathered on all sides of the sub-editor's seat, and the huge heaps of old newspapers, over which the unwary visitor stumbles. This, far more than the room of the chief leader-writer or of any other member of the staff, is the real heart and centre of the great machine whose influence is felt all over England, and the man who labours here is he who ap proaches most nearly to the popular ideal of a newspaper editor. It is into his hands that the epistles of "Pater familias," "An Indignant Traveller," "A Volunteer," "A Constant Subscriber to your valuable Journal," and the other variously named writers who look to the Press for the redress of their grievances, fall ; he it is who knows the night before what the paper of the next morning is going to con tain; who decided whether the "copy" which poor Flimsy the penny a-liner has dropped into the box with fear and trembling an hour before, shall be accepted and paid for, or flung carelessly into the waste-basket ; who writes the short stinging notes at the end of let ters of disagreeable or wearisome correspondents, wh ich are invariably signed " Ed. " as though they alone, of all the original matter whereby in the , paper, had come from the h ands of the editor; who i c n o m fi p v i e l e lt n h u e t r e e s a y d o a l b i ay summarymake eyoofutrisieelf acquainted day'sne w s, with all the more important contents of the paper ; and under whose direction the whole of that vast array of close read ing, the law reports, accounts of meetings, accidents, cere monies, and races, letters from foreign correspondents and miscellaneous items of information which m a ke u the bulk of every modern newspaper, are gathered togeth condensed, digested, and arranged in the convenient fo in which they are subsequently presented to * the public Chambers'i Journal. :11i4re 20 et at 100 :;~