The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-17 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND qOMMERCIAL gLLIOR ROE, CITY, Two o'CLoca. The Money market is quiet, in spite of a large amount of Australian paper falling due to-morrow. With superabundant supplies, the rate remains at 11 to 1-} per cent. The Corn Market is dull, at Monday's prices. The Stock Markets continue to be very favour ably influenced by the condition of the money mar ket, and the pacific state of both home and foreign affairs. Consols are firmer, at 925 to 93 for money and account. New and Reduced Three per Cents., 98/ to 981 ; India Five per Cents., 1111 to 1114 ; Bank Stock, 240 to 242 ; Exchequer Bills, 22s to 275. prem. Italian (1861) Bonds have advanced a fresh per cent., the present quotaticn being 14 to 14 prem. Mexican Bonds are firm at 154 to 15;1- Greek, 12 to 121 ; New Spanish, 35 to 351; Turkish (1865), 301 to 301 ; Italian (1861), 425 to 434 ; Por tuguese Scrip, 11 to 14 prem.; Egyptian, 911 to 92 1; Brazilian, 751 to 771. The New Honduras Loan is steady at 1 to 1 prem. ex coupon. American Securities are good. United States 5-20 Bonds are 1 better, at 711 to 72 ; Erie Railway steady, at 474 to 481. Illinois 1 higher, at 844 to 851. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures 23 24 ; and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 211 224. English Railways are firmer. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1231 to 124 ; Midland, 1044 to 105 ; South Eastern, 67 to 674 ; London and North- Western, 1144 to 115 ; Great Northern, 106 to 107 ; ditto A, 1071 to 1081 ; Brighton, 461 to 461 ; Sheffield, 44 to 441 ; Great Eastern, 291 to 291 ; Great Western, 451 to 46 ; Metropolitan, 1151 to 164 ; C a l e d on i an, 741 to 751 ; Lon d on an d S out h I Vestern, 76 to 78 ; and Chatham, 18 to 184. Bank Shares are quiet. Union of London, 33 to 31 ; Alliance, 13 to 12 dis. ; Imperial, 17 to 18 ; and London Joint Stock, 33 to 34. Credit and Finance Shares are steady at quota tions. General Credit, 24 to 2 die. ; London Financial, 24 to 22 dis. ; International, 2 to 14 dis• ; and Credit Foncier, 3 to 35. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. 'Luc DM& return continues to snow the operation of the elements—one the effect of the payment of the dividends, and the other the effect of an inconsiderable commercial demand for money. With the present Week the influence, on the return, of the dividend payments may be considered to cease, so that hence forth the public deposits will begin to rise. The in fluence of the other element, the small commercial demand for money, is not likely to cease just Yet. On the contrary, the public continue in Possession, and in the immediate command of large supplies by which rates will be kept low. The effect of the combination will be a yet stronger re serve, and in all probability a yet higher stock of bullion. A further temporary loan of £200,000 has been made to the Government, and we may anticipate a further reduction in the private securities, so that the reserve will be comparatively unaffected by any favourable diminution in the private deposits. The following are the principal changes since the preceding retur n :—. Increase in circulation - £125, 470 Decrease in Public Deposits Decrease in other Deposits .. Increase in Government Securities Decrease in other Securities . .... 904, 081 Increase in Bullion •—• 26,143 Increase in Rest Decrease in Reserve .. Bullion in both Departments ......22,086,213 Reserv e of Notes and Coin 12,761,443 Circulation, including Bank Post Bills 25, 005, 461 The following is the return of paid clearing for the beek endi ng Wednesday, the 15th inst., as certified 1 Mr. J. C. Pocock, deputy inspector : Jan. 9, Thursday Jan. 10, Friday Jan. 11, Saturday 9,998,000 Jan. 13, Monday 11,105,000 Jan. 14, Tuesday 10,009,000 Jan. 15, Wednesday . ... 18,985,000 Total £67,729,000 i The av erage d a ily c l ear i ngs o f th e year , so f ar, ;., 111 1 )1 Y some amount of improvement in trade, inde tendently of the settlements on the Stock Exchange. r the present week the aggregate is satisfactory, 4 : l( rb i le t ry s e e es eins likely to he maintained. ,Jarnnik e e r r d e a n y. o bullion operations reported at the Ile Athenian has brought from the West Coast of ''',Vca £1,146 in specie. he Atrato will take out to the West Indies £2,500 u gold. and £2OO in silver. to The di v i dend of the Midland Waggon Company ! th e Past year i s t o b e a t t h e rate o f 15 per cent . ...Jr a nnum. Henry Bennett, ironmaster, of Wombridge, I„.ol)shire has suspended payment. i ele h : tr e eers h d alfyearly wi meeting of the Australian Chartered di t t has been convened for the 27th inst., when the report be presented and a dividend c e l h e report of the General Credit and Discount il,a:.B.lraa:l:yohraesheen issued. It shows a net balance of th e '"u• £75,000 are appropriated to a dividend at per cent. per annum, of which one after P l acing £5,000 to reserve, and £l,OOO to carried of building account, a balance of £7,126 is e‘newrted forward. A favourable account is given of the d iscount business. No bad debts have been lilac '' , and efforts are continually being made to reduce the old locks-up of capital. At a special meeting yesterday of the London and ustralian Agency Company (Limited), the liquids statedi_s that the reconstruction of the undertaking ns. been most satisfactorily completed. The lia ,,,ourty of the. shareholders has now been reduced :!,..£lO per share instead of as originally £2O. The nllcaiirs of the Company have been fully wound up, ked t he now con cern , un d er the style of the London es of £lO Agency C orporat i on (Li m i te d ), h as b een s tablish e d with a capital of .£500,000 in 50,000 £lO each. The directors of the London and Provincial Marine tnsurance Company will recommend the payment of I , nt erest for th e p as t h a lf- year of 5 per cent., making "0 per cent. for the year. The report of the Alliance Bank was ado at the meeting t hi s morn i ng. It was stated that the Principal proprietors had been consulted upon the a dvisability of closing the Liverpool branch, and that opinion was in favour of not doing so. A shareholder, however, moved that the Birkenhead and Liverpool branches should both be closed, but it was withdrawn at the wish of the chairman. A dividend of 58 per share, being at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, has been declared by the directors of the New Zealand Trust and Loan Company, Payable on the 24th inst. It was stated a few days ago, by some of the conti nental journals, as one reason why France would not require a loan, that M. Magne had not since his assumption of office as Finance Minister issued the Treasury Bonds which remained to be emitted. Since this statement, Bonds to the amount of 50,000,000 f., Or £ 4 ,000,000 sterling, are said to have been dia. F2unted w i t h t h e Bank of France at 2 per cent. ktellee, it is concluded, a loan will be introduced. BRIT= FINDS—TWO WILCOX. , CIOYEnntENT FUNDS. ' Per tent. Consols 8 1)0. Account, Feb. 6 92i 3 ,Per Cent. Reduced 93- I , 4e N , 3 C ent 93 ,K, per Cent "V 2/ per Cent. Jan. 1894 — 4 ' 1)0 . 5 D per Cent. Jan. 1873 . — UitieS, SO yrs, expire sth Jan,, 188(. o. f or 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885... E P i ? (Red Sea Teleh,raph), Au,„., 1908... seuzqouer Bills, .£l,OOO, 2 &2i per Ct.... 22 pm D £5OO 22 pm B atik Do. £lOO & £2OO 22 4 , 11 k of England Stock, 41 per Cent 24 lpm 4-'0• Account l " 11.11)1AN GOVERNMENT SECU RITIES . "Pail Mock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 215 , 0. Account Do c 111,1 I D ' - Per Cent. July, 1880 ~O. 4 per Cent Oct. 1888 Do. Corti— Do , cat er , • Enfacocl Paper 4 per Cent.... B7 u o k n . Per Cent, Jan. 1872 Lo•°'May 1879 lOBl D tper Cent Ru D b 187 4 ~ P. 0 .i — Do, do. 1877 — Do 1882 — • do. Do Deb 5 per Cent Aug. 1873 ....,. D o T, *, ., nr, • -.find, 5 per Cent., £l,000 i,o. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—Two O'CLOCK. Ar -- l• 4,,,f,!titie Republic, 8 per Cent — b;,','s , .ittio Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 '''3. 4i per Do Cent., 1852- 58-60 6Bl 1863 I) r, ° ' 5 Per Cent., 1865 - to Account .... ..., i 76 1 5i 6 I 0 . 4100 Bonds Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Cuba, 6 per Cent. Cadian 6 per Cent — Do. 4i per Ceut . — Do. 6 per Cent. B , Do., - 1867 . Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 9l Do., Scrip £32 paid C i!,,►nbian, 6 per Cent. Danish, 3 p ;1- Cent., 1825 — Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent — Do 8 per Cent., 1867 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — o;gyptian, 7 per Cent — Do. second Issue — D ~ £590 Bonds Do. fIOC Bonds 9l Do. 1864 Do. 1510 Bowls __ D0..£100 Bonds ..... 911 90} Government Railway Debentures ..... 92 1i 2} 1} Greek, 5 per Cont., 1824-5, ex Coups...—. Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account G uttemala 5 per Cent .. _ Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 7p. Ct., £l5 pd pin It.iian 5 per Cert., 1865 — Do. Account . Do. Maremmana Raiway — H.,:cicar. 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account' — Do. 1864 7} Do 6 per Cout. Anglo-French — \lontevideau 6 per Cent. . — 11oorisli Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada — Do 3 per Cen — Do. Defer - 3d Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peravian 5 per Cent. 1865 — Do Account 7ll i 1 -}, Do 4} per Cont. (Uribarren) Do 44 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Portuguese 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., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds B9 Do. do. £B4 15s. do. Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds BBl Do. do. £B4 15s. do Bll 5 Sardinian, 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Con Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive Do Ace) tint Do Com. Cert. of Coup.' not funded — Do Account TuAish 6 per Cent. Do Account Du 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent, 1862 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 594 Do. 1863 Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 Do 4 per Cont. Guaranteed Venezuela, 3 per Cent. Do Account Do 6 per Cont., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian a per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgtan, , 44 per cent., Es. 25f. Dutch 2i per Cent. Ex. 12 Gail Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates French Itentes, 3 per Cent., E. 25f. Italia), 5 per Cent. 1851, Ex. zsf. Do. Account 42i 31. TWO I.VOLOCIC. Consols, Money 92i 3 Do. Account ..• 92i 3 MARKETS—(I his Day.) CORN. At Mark-lane this morning there was only a small at tendance, and the trade was quiet, with the tendency of prices in buyers' favour. English wheat wasoffered at Monday's rates, and in some cases purchases were made rather under terms. ARRIVALS. English and Scotch Irish. Foreign. Wheat 1,550 ••• ••• 29,570 Barley 340 • e• .. • SO 1,560 Oats •.. 70 •.. 8,820 Flour : Sacks 1,380 ... ••• 9,580 Barrels •.. ••• 1,360 COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE. SUGAR.—The market continues dull with a downward tendency. Some rather large parcels of Manilla have sold at 30s. for clayed ; old import refined sugars are in limited request at the late decline. COFFIE is in good demand, and for coloury kinds ex trema rates are paid; fine old plantation Ceylon, 84s. 6d. to 86s ; middling to good middling, 735. to 81s. ; fine ordinary to best middling, 695. to 725. ; good ordinary native, 60s. TEA remains without quotable change, and only a limited busiLess is passing. BIcE is firmly held at late rates, but there is not much. TALLOW. The market is steady, at 43s 6d, spot ; 43s 3d, spring. NEWGATE AND LEA.DENHALL. MEAT. The dea I meat trade is dull, but best qualities of beef and veal are scarco. Other sorts are difficult to se:l and cheaper. COTTON. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 17.—Sales probably 12,000 bales. Market firtu. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, GRATESEND, Friday Morning, Arrived. Belgium, steamer, from Ostend ; Nora, s t e amer, from Ilarlingen ; Fairy Qu e e n, stea mer , iron: Dieppe. DEAL, Friday Morning. Passed—Camella, screw steamer, from the west, for Lon don ; Millbrook, from Colombo, for London. Anchored, for orders—Boreas, from the West ladies. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. Mlles Opened. 1160 61 0 8 . Railways. ~—.."-----‘,.... "-- 1887. 1866. 1867 1856 £ Z Belfast and N. Counties . 991 901 2.+.81 2, 161 Belfast and Comity Down.... 441 it 6;7 581 Blyth and Tyne . 36 :(6 2,269 2,2 4 Brecon and Merthyr ........ 72 (8 1, 74 1,15 Bristol and Exeter l3l} 1311 7,151 6,?:92 Caledonian, Scottish Central 6231 641 33,1 81 34 ... 39 17,/ 130 2.310 2 , 0 1 Cockermouth K & I'cnrlth .. 311 311 4 1 318 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 331 423 Cambrian Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 5l 61 121 1 31 Cork and Limerick Direct Cornwall B5l 651 1,5. J 1.1 4 9 Ceeside l7 17 Do Extension Dublin & 12elf as t Junction .... 63 63 1,607 1.613 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,724 1,7 08 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO7 107 2,349 2,659 Forth and Clyde Junction Furness, &c B5 85 5,302 4,41; 6 Glasgow & South-Western .• 240 :.,49 9,61. 9,443 Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union Great Northern 487 422 43,261 42,471 Great North of Scotland 275 214 i,934 3,0 5 Gt. Northn. & Westn. (IreL) B3l 831 663 629 'it.Southn.& Westn.(lrind.) 4191 4191 9,6.5 9,160 Great Western . . 1314 1311 71,827 71,379 Irish North-Western 145 145 1,868 2,153 Isle of Wight l2 187 170 I.auoashire& Yorkshire 4OB 403 45,111 44,153 Limerick and Ennis.. Limerick and Foynes .21 264 137 157 Ll anelly 46 461 702 661 Llynvl Valley Lyndon & North-Western .. 1328 1310 122, 679 120 , 460 London 4e South-We s t ern ..: 503 503 21 ,788 22,080 Load. Brighton, &B. Coa s t 335 3141 20485 19810 n London e , tr COpollatilltaanni'E&xtesi D o ver; on 1 138 13 4 121 135 1 9 8,64321 1 1,448 7 all lio CONSERVATIVE ORGANISATION.—The Norwich Conservatives held a meeting on Wednesday evening for the purpose of improving their organisation. Sir S. Big nold, some years since M.P. for Norwich, presided. Mr. A. G3ldsmid, candidate for the representation of Norwich in 1865, was alSo present. It was resolved to establish in Norwich a "Conservative association in connection with the Conservative and Constitutional Union of London." CATCHING SHARKS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC. --A remarkable mode of catching sharks is practised by the natives of Aitutaki. Mr. Pritchard says :—" At one end of the island is a large lagoon formed by the reef that runs round it, stretching far out from the land, and there the sharks breed, and are regularly fed. As they are very prolific—l have seen as many as 25 and sometimes 30 little ones taken out of a shark—they increase rapidly. When any feasting is going on amongst the natives, sharks being held necessary to complete the variety of food, parties are sent out to catch them is the lagoon. Provided with a strong rope and supply of bait, two or three young men start off in a canoe, and, taking up a position over the haunts of the sharks, throw over bait after bait until the greedy monsters have eaten to repletion. Waiting quietly in their canoe, the fishermen soon see the sharks stretching themselves lazily on the sand with their heads just out of the caves formed by the overhanging rocks that rise . from the bottom of the lagoon. With a noose in the end of the rope which he holds in his hand, a man quickly slips from the canoe into the sea, dives down to a shark, slips the noose over his tail, and as, with a jerk of the rope, he tells the men above the prey is fast, ha himself with a strong spring from the ground, swiftly rises to the surface. All pulling away at the rope together, the shark is soon brought to the water's edge, and as the tail is raised out of the sea he becomes helpless ; then, with a strong pull together, after a moment's spell, the shark is suddenly bounced into the canoe. Frequently, as the shark lies at the mouth of a cave, with only his head out, the tail cannot be reached. The diver then has to tap the monster gently on the head, who, lazy and drowsy after the good feed just supplied from the canoe, quietly turns his tail to the intruder— and, by Jove, on slips the noose before he knows it is there." THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENT \IG, JANUARY 17, 18E8, SHARE LlST.—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Ame r Railways. i p aid. / Cl p o ri s oe in . g Bu d a s i n n e. ess ,Brietol and Exeter ...: 100 54 86 at 'Caledonian . 100 731 741 758 i 4/ 5 st Cambrian. lOO 20 30 - Cork and Bandon...-. - - - 20 Cornwall all 2 4 at Dublin & Belfast June lOO 748 758 st Dun„Perth,& Ab.Junc 'loo 70 72 100 E.London, bcrip Corti all - - Do. 100 - d st Glasgow &S. Western 100 93 95 at Great Eastern, Ord. stk. 100 294 291 291 1 at Do. 10. Angl. at. No. 2 100 6 st Great North of Scotland 100 15 16 at Great Northern lOO 106 'O7 100, at Do. A stook .... 100 107 108 103 at Do. .B stock lOO 1228 123 at Do. New, ts. at 25 pm 100 - - at GtS, and W. of Ireland 100 96 98 at Gt. Western -Original ILO 45 458,471 1 at Do. S. Val. Rail. gua. 100 - - at Do. South Wales - - at Do. W. Mid.-Oxford 100 25 30 st Do. Newport lOO 29 31 at Do. Rercford lOO - - at Lancashire ez Yorkshirv i 100 123 121 121 4 st London and Illackwall! 100 - - at ;Lon., Brigh., S Coast; 100 474 474 41 st I•on., Chat., and Dover! 100 18 19 151 4 at Do. Metrop. Ex. A lOO - - • at Lon. & North Wester, 100 114 115. 1143 at Lon. & South Western 100 76 78 774 at Man., Shel., do Lincoln 100 41 144 at Aetropolitan..., at Do. New lO - - st Do. Extension all 102 103 1038 at Metropolitan District all • -- - 10 Do. do. do. 10 - - 10 Do. and St. John'aW'd 6 - - at Midland - Do. £9 Share 7 - - st Do, Birrnin.. & Derby 100 72 74 - I.lid Kent . all - - at North British ...... 100 33 35 st Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun. 100 - Nth. Eastern--Berwick 100 98 99 100 25 Do. G.:•1•E purohas, 15.13.4 - - at Do. Leads ..... 100 59 61 at Do. York lOO 91 94 921 at DG. Carlisle ...... 100 - - a t Do. Stook. & Darling, all 129 131 129 16 Do. do. 1800-61 lB - p it North London Do. do. 186 t 5 . . lO - - .0 Do. do. 1866 it North Staffordshire 'N, & S. W. Junction - Scottish Central - Scot. N. E , Aber. stock, 100 - Do. Scot, Mid. at ook - - t Shropshire Union s t South Devon lOO 42 (4 at South Eastern 10 Staines, Wok., & Wok all 8 4 9 ) at Taff Vale 10 Do. C - - V ale of Neath - - _ - Waterford & Kilkenny tOu 10 Waterloo & Whiteha i 6 - - West Cornwall lOO - - COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ;British Columbia, 6 per' cent., De 0.31, 1372... ! 100 - 'Oan.Gov.6 1877-84 ' 100 98 KG 991 Do. 6p. o. Feb. & Aug 1,0 100 102 1 !Do. sp. o. Mar. & Sept 100 100 102 Do. sp. c. Jan. & July; 100 86 88 E 5/ !Do. sp. c. Inscribed ski 100 85 87 ;Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c.1873 100 102 104 Do.Apl.&oo , 1890-1900 100 106 108 Do. do 1880-9 v 100 104 1(6 Do. Jan.&July, 1890.91 100 107 109 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 85 i 7 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.ii 100 Do. 1878, do lOO 11) 1104 Mauritius, 6 p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 ... lOO 106 108 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. t 5 100 105 107 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug lOO 107 109 Natal goy. 6 per cent lOO 1(4 106 N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&July 100 IC3 105 N. S.W. Gov.s p•c.,1866 100 - - Do. 5 p.c. 1811 to 18Th 100 98 90 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1895 100 974 934 so 6 New Zealan p. cent 100 - 10 Do. 5 per ced, 6 nt.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. o sterling, 1875 l9O 1(2 104 ,Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 103 lts 102 rB. Aus.Gov. 6 p. 0.1868-9 100 - - Do. 1878 & upwards lOO 110 111 Vic,Gov. 6 p.o. ja.& July 100 Do. do. April & Oot lOO 110 112 1114 11 - BRITISH "'OBSESSIONS. • 100 Atlantic & St.Lawrenoe all 63 65 et; Bom.,Baroda, Cen.ln. 100 IC4 105 gu. 6 per cent... . 20 Do. F ahares lO p IP 201 Buffalo & Lake Huron all 3 1 4 10 Do. Preference 100 100 88 71 Butf.,Brant,&Goderich 1 6 p.o. 1872-3-4 at Calcutta &S. E., lim lOO - - :00 1 j O a em Pe e T ra o r w a, n 7 it p. D c. w p k er% g p u ; 1 : 101 9198 16522 at Nast. Bengal, gu., sdo 100 103 164 at East Indian, gu. 5 p.o. 100 110 1104 1081 9 20 Do. J Extension - - at GrandTrunkof Canada 100 17 18 100 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c all 83 85 100 Do. lst Pref. Bonds all Si, 52 100 Do. do deferred - - 100 De. 2d Pref. Bonds., all 40 45 100 Du. do. deterred - - 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock all 32 34 100 Do. do. deferred - 100 Do. 4th Pref. stook 100 Do. do. deterred all - - st India I'en. gua. sp.c. 100 107 108 108 71 8 n 1) o. (.1 ua. 5 per cent lB - 2Pi 20 Do. New crua. sp. c 6 - 2 at t. South of lndla gas. 5 per cent . . at D. 41 per oent too 92 91 at Do 2 - 204 ;rcat Wes. of Canada all 151 154 164 * 204 1)o. New all - -- WO Do. 6p. o 11Gs. pay. 1873 all 95 97 100 00. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 1 all 85 67 10 Indian Branch, limited 3 I 1 ,1 at Madras, gua. 5 p.O 100 100 102 HIE I st Do. 41 do lOO 93 95 at Do. i 1 do 1 100 89 91 2') Do. Fifth Extension 5 - tlelb. Cor 6p. c. 13nds.1 100 - - 50 Niel. & Hobson's Bay.. i all - - at N.lll.C'da,6pc lstpf.taa ' 100 83 85 st Sainde . 1 100 leo 101 st Do. Delhi 20 Do. do . 1 4,1 15 P at Do. Puni au b.... 100 99 100 1(01 at , Do. Indus St.Flot 5 " , 100 85 87 BRITISH. MINES. Cam. Conaol. Gold, lira. 1 - - Chiverton - Clifford Amalgamated 3O 54 64 - Devon G. Cons. (Tavist 1 440 430 - rakevralls 2.1.0 4 - sat Bassett (illogan) 294 10 12 - Jsat Caradon 2.14.6 6 6 Carn Brea 34 2 21 - - East Grenville .... 2.14.0 1 2 - East Gunnislake 8.3.0 4 4 - East Lov el l 3.9.0 8 9 - Russell (Tavistk 11.7.6 14 2 - Gam& StAubyn(G wen. 66 4 5 4 Great Laxey, limited all 17 18 - Great South Tolgus 0.14.6 - - Great Wheal Bosy 14.9.0 - - G. Wheal Vor (11elat,q) 40 17 19 - Grenville 9. 0 .6 11 14 - e aha r r r c;.Bat ` ro s ent i i o t)u o o t lnv 2 6 4 2 ii f - Macke Valley 14.10.6 4 f 51 4 liwyndy Iron Ore, ur n 34 21 11 - ,ae•tv S ton - North loskear 1 38 1 5 7 - N.Wh Bassettailogan 4.1.0 - - North vVheal Crotty 2 .13.0 2 3 - Prosper United , 8.11.0 2 24 t'ruvidence Uny Lelau 10.6.; 29 S t - S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l4 190 410 South Coudurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.0 37 4 42 1 - stray Park 13 5.15.6 4 8 rin Croft Y n 8 Lela u t 1 85 3 : . 1 10 : °Go 35 37 1) 13 14 Vigra and Clogan, lim all - - West Bassett (Illogau l4 1i W. Caradon (Ltakeard' 1 2 10 12 WestChiverton ll 66 68 -- West Seton 474 195 205 Wheal Bassett ( Mogan 51 85 95 Wheal Buller (itedruthl 16 16 le - Wheal Mary Ann (Alen 8 18 20 Wheal Seton Wh ea l Trelawney (Lis I 5.17.0 6 8 fILEFERENcE sa4REs. Great Western, 5 per cent., rd., 81 laid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stook, Ditto, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., Ditto, 4i per cent. rd., 95 YOREJ GN RAILWAyr. Great Luxembourg, 8i San Paulo, litn., gua. 6 per cent., lBi South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 13a FOREIGN MINKB, Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, :Um, Von Pedro, Nor. ii Del Rey, 3 pm Frontino and isolivia Gold. Um., St John del Rey , lim , 32l 2 Yudanamutana of South Australia, lien 1 1-la DOCKS. East and West India, 124 BANES. Alliance, Um., t 3 Australasia, 611 British North American, 481 Consolidated, lira., 41 Imperial Ottoman, 81 London Chartered isanK of Australia, 23 London and County, 521 London Joint Stock, 331 London and %% estminster, 71/ Ditto, Scrip, 391 Merchant Bank, liin., 141 Union of Australia, 491 Union of London, 331 3 MISCELLANICOBB. Anglo American Telegraph, 2O Atlantic Telegraph, 454 5 Corporation of London Bonds , 18 2, 41 per Cent , 1011 Credit teoncier of England, Dm, 31 Ebbw Vale, 114 East India Irrigation and Canal, 131 Egyptian 9 per Cent, Viceroy Loan, gua.'by Egypt. Qoyt. 90 Gen. Credit and Discount, iim., 5 7-16 Hudson's Bay, Internatibnal Financial Society, lim., 3 National Discount i.,oinpany, 101 Ocean marine Insurance), 24 Oriental Gas, lira., Thames and Mereey Marine, Insurance, lim., 94 Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per cent. (Mortgage) Loan, 79 COURSE ` 4 oki EXOIJANGE.—Last Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 18 1 1 19 Ditto 3 Mouths. 12 01 12 Or Rotterdam A n t werp —2 Z 25 371 Brussels Hamburg — 13 9- 4 1 13 ofi Paris ... Short 25 121 25 221 Ditto 3 Months. 25 30 25 35 . Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 124 1201 Vienna — 12 171 l2 32j Trieste — 12 3U 12 35 Petersbui - gn - 313 32 Berlin Madrid . — 481 481 • Cadiz —48 i Loghorn Milan . 41ETROPOLITAN GOSSZR. Politicians are beginning to sliew signs of life again now that their Christmas dinners are digested. There are rumours at the clubs, mostly untrustworthy, as to the events of the coming session, and the parts which the chief actors will take. There are some things which it requires no exclusive information to know, and it is easier than is usual to forecast the Parliamentary programtne. Every body can see that Ireland and Education must be prominent topics, if not of legislation, at least of discussion. The first is forced upon us against our will; the second has been taken up voluntarily in a most remarkable manner. The demand for general education has not been raised by the working classes ; it has originated with politicians, and with some of them it is probably a mere cry needed as a substitute for Reform. Whether this be so or not, one thing is very noticeable—the rapidity with which the prominent Liberals are coming to the conviction that edu cation should be made compulsory. Mr. Forster a few days ago spoke of Mr. Bruce as being not quite suffi ciently advanced in this matter, but since then the late Vice-President of the Council has declared his readiness to go as far as the member for Bradford, and at the Man chester Educational Conference, which opened yesterday, there was not a prominent Liberal who did not pronounce with him for compulsory education. Another noticeable fact is the frequency with which Prussia is held up as an example. Four years ago we should as little have thought of imitating that country as of imitating Spain ; but now the great German Power is taking among English Libe rals the same prominent place that the United States used to occupy. The Prussian system of education and the Prussian military system are constantly referred to, and, most significant of all, the Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge has during the present week boldly announced his approval of the Prussian land system, and that great revolution which was brought about by Stein. With compulsory education, free trade in land, and the regeneration of Ireland still to accomplish, it is clear that the Liberals need not weep for lack of worlds to conquer. As to Mr. Gladstone's move ments, they are as yet uncertain. He will probably avoid the mistake which he made last session of lagging behind his party. For this reason he will most likely give up the idea which finds favour with him, of endowing the Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland with a portion of the revenues of the Established Church. The Radical party are so resolutely opposed to State religious endowments, that this scheme may safely be, considered impracticable. This and other important subjecta will be considered at the approaching Cabinet Council meetings. The first of these takes place on Tuesday. Whatever be the course of Parliamentary events, it is not at all improbable that the Houses of Parliament will before long be materially modified. Your correspondent was the first to mention the reports which had been pre sented by the select committee appointed to inquire into the accommodation of members, and it will be remembered that several schemes were proposed by which the present House of Commons would be available for a larger number of M.P.'s than it is at present. But no plan provided sufficient room even for the present number, and as Mr. Disraeli intends to increase that lumber, the proposed arrangements will be all the more unsatisfactory. It must be remembered that, thanks chiefly to the spread of the provincial daily press, which carefully notices how often the local members are present at divisions, the attendance of 3L P.'s is much larger than it used to be thirty years ago, and that while the present House was large enough then, it is so no longer. It has therefore been boldly suggested that a new House shall be added to the present buildings. The existing chamber would find plenty of uses. Committee-men, Parliamentary counsel, and re porters will all be glad to have at least a part of it. The expense will be heavy, but probably not half that of a single ironclad ; and the cost is scarcely likely to stand in the way, considering that in this matter they who bear the bag have such a deep personal interest in opening it. One of the events of the week has been the Russell- Elliot-Hudson-Bulwer correspondence. The ex-Premier and his relative come badly out of the matter. It is quite true that Sir James Hudson has chivalrously come to the rescue of the ex-Foreign Secretary, but he has not cleared up the point which impressed the public so unfavourably at the time—Sir James's retirement from the Legation at Turin just at the time when his long and intimate acquaintance with Italian affairs made it particu larly important that he should retain his post. No doubt he asked leave to resign on his full pension, but he would not have done so if he had not seen that his place was wanted. Lord Russell, in explaining that he intended to have sent Sir James to Constantinople has only made the matter worse. Sir Henry Bulwer has been less sparing of his lordship's feelings than Sir James Hudson. Sir Henry's letter has seriously damaged the one while Foreign Secretary. The inevitable inference is, that Lord Russell, influenced by that nepotism which is such a prominent failing of the Bedford family, was prepared to sacrifice two first-class Ministers, each of them peculiarly fitted for the post he held, in order to advance his brother in-law. It is to be hoped that these revelations will lead to a thorough investigation of the system under which our diplomatists are appointed. A very serious matter close at home also requires investi gation. The condition of the East-end of London is some ; thing terrible. It is not so much that "exceptional distress" prevails there, though that is bad enough ; but that the distress has become chronic,- that the whole district has become pauperised. A clergyman long resident in that district told me yesterday that he had no doubt hundreds of persons were dying of s t a r va ti on every week, and this within an hour of the mansions of Belgravia and Tyburnia. But what is to be done? The West-end sends a constant stream of funds to the East-end, and has done so for the last two or three years, and what is the result ? The idle and the profligate crowd into the district to such an extent that the landlords are actually raising their rents, though their tenants are starving. The Rev. Harry Jones, a well-known London clergyman, in a sermon on pau perism which I heard a few Sundays ago, remarked that nothing was so disheartening in parochial work as to see how rarely the funds intended for the relief of the deserving poor reached them. He said that whenever such a fund had to be distributed, the thriftless and impor tunate would come clamouring for it, just as flies swarm to honey. Meanwhile, those who ought to be helped keep their poverty secret ; they " die and make no sign." Nor is this all. The money which the West-end sends to the East is now counted upon by East-end guardians, and they refuse to raise sufficient rates, in the hope that the misery which they will thereby cause will be relieved by charity. Thus, charity, however abundant, not only does not keep pace with pauperism, but actually increases it. We want some other agency. We want some method by which work will be supplied to those who are willing to work, and which would be a test to try the indolent. Only yesterday a man who had obtained employment after fifteen weeks passed without it, remarked to me that he should not stay in his present place long, as he got " only 245. a week." This man lives in a district where the clergy are active and the district visitors benevolent, and where both, I fear, are, with the best intentions in the world, demoralising the people by excessive almsgiving. Still there are the really deserving poor, and it is these who ought to be helped. Why can we not do in London as was clone in Lancashire four years ago—construct public works with Government grants advanced on the security of the rates ? There is surely as abundant room for improvements—for drainage, housebuilding, paving, and park-making —as there was in the Lancashire towns. Surely, too, in no other city of the world would such a sight have been seen as was witnessed at the end of last week. A succession of snowfalls, with slight thaws, followed by frosts, had covered the roads and streets with a thick sheet of the smoothest ice. In the parks I saw on Friday gentlemen and ladies skating, not on the Serpentine only, but beneath the trees along the paths, which were quite as smooth as the river. They might have skated with equal ease all through the West-end squares, where walking was a work of serious peril. Yet at the same time the streets were paraded by parties of stalwart navvies, shout ing in a most horrible atoms of groans, " We're all frozen out !" Probably these men were impostors ; if so, it ought to have been proved by setting them to clear the streets of their leo-crust. Truly, self-government is a wonderful thing, and London is a wonderful city, whose people are breaking their legs .at the \Vest -end because the streets have not been cleaned, while at the East-end men are dying upon tenpence a week. Truly, too, Lord Devon has ct osen a strange time of the year to go to Nice. One would as soon expect a barrister to leave town during term-time as the President of the Poor -law Board to be absent from Gwyder House during the winter months. The public have by this time had their fill of the Queen's Highland Journal--" Butter - Scotch," as the Tomahawk calls it. They now know the ancestry and lineage of John Brown, and divers other weighty matters, and in a few days Mr. Mudie will be selling his surplus copies for what he can get. Though the newspapers have eulogised the book as in public duty bound, it is spoken of very sarcastically in literary circles even by some of the eulogists. They contend that it is nothing but British flunkeyism which makes people read gossip that corning from anyb o d y e l se would have found no admission even into a fifth-rate magazine. Perhaps there is a little professional jealousy at the bottom of this criticism. Publishers and authors complain that when a queen turns author, no other author has a chance of being read ; that for a time the book trade is completely paralysed. Fortunately, the stagnation is not of long continuance. The "Early Years of the Prince Consort," for instance, was selling second-hand within six weeks of its publication. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has accepted the captaincy of the Irish Eight who are to shoot at Wimple -4°14 114 YcHf9.; the Piteruatioluil Tronlay. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF ARCHES. (Before the Right Hon. Sir Robert Phillimore, Dean of Arches.) MARTIN V. MACHONOCHIE.-RITUALISM IN HOLBORN Mr. Stephen, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey appeared for the promoter; and Mr. Prideaux, Q.C., and Dr. Tristram for the defendant. The argument in this suit was again resumed this morning, and is expected to last some time. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. NUMEROUS lIOUSE ROBBERIES.—Joseph Crew, a lad, described as a costermonger, was charged be fore Mr. Knox with stealing a clock, three dresses, and other articles of the value of £lO, the property of Mr. James Holloway, house-painter, of No. 46, Newman-street, Oxford-street. Mr. Holloway said that shortly after five o'clock the previous afternoon, while taking tea in his first floor back room, he thought he heard a noise in the front-room, and on going oat to ascertain the cause he found the dresses and other articles about the landing. Hearing footsteps on the stairs he went down stairs and saw the prisoner go out at the door and close it after him. On opening the street door, seeing the prisoner running, he pursued him, calling " Stop thief," and on the pri soner being stopped, and ho (Nlr. Hollo way) coming up, he said, " What do you want with me ?" He told the prisoner that he would tell him when he got back to his house, and took him back, and then found that several things had been taken from the front room, and dropped on the landing, including a cloak, three dresses, some blankets, and a counterpane. In answer to AIL Knox, the prosecutor said that from the time he opened the street door till the pri soner was stopped, he never lost sight of him. Wm. Sleeman, 108 E, said that on the prisoner being given into his custody he said that he knew nothing about the robbery. The prisoner said he had no questions to ask. Sergeant Wheeler, E division, asked for a re mand, there having been numerous complaints of similar offences in the district, and there being rea smoenmtboer.believe by a gang of which the prisoner is a WESTMINSTER. SERIOUS CHARGE OF WILFUL DAMAGE.—JuIia Morrissey, an old charwoman, and Ellen Mor rissey, her daughter, were charged on an adjourned warrant, with doing wilful damage to some squares of glass at the house of Mrs. Chapman, 10, Suther land-street, Pimlico. Mr. Bury Hutchinson prosecuted. Mrs. Chapman said that the elder prisoner had been charged with stealing a diamond pin and pocket ,handkerchief, a few weeks ago, from my house, and after two remands had been discharged, as there was no prosecutor. Last Saturday morning, about ten o'clock, she was alarmed by a violent ringing at the door bell, and fearing that it was the prisoner, who had abused her in the police court, ordered her servant not to open the door. At this the prisoners became more violent, and Mrs. Chapman opened the door slightly, whereupon the younger prisoner put her foot in the door, took an umbrella away from her mother, and with this and her fist, as well as a loaf of bread, she smashed the windows on either side of the door. They both used filthy and abusive language, and created a great mob. Three or four witnesses corroborated Mrs. Chap man, and they were all cross-examined by both the prisoners to show that the patters and aprons of the elder prisoner were thrown up the area with abusive epithets, but they failed to elicit anything in their favour. The prisoners wished to call witnesses ; the younger prisoner said she could plead guilty to the charge, but it was one under extreme provocation. They were remanded till Tuesday, their own bail being accepted. TAX-GATHERING IN EGYPT. The following, from a correspondent in Egypt, dated Alexandria, Jan. 1, is published in Pall Mall Gazette : " I have just had an interview with a very intel ligent man who has been engaged on the Suez Canal works for some time past. Ile tells me that the undertaking is evidently pressed for means, and that the dredging is found to yield unsatisfactory results. Large stones are turning up under the mud ; these break the drags, which have then to be sent away for repairs. I think he said that out of 38 drags between Port Said and Isma'ileh only eight are actually at work. The water has been let into the channel too early—the excavation would have been carried on better without it ; and on the lakes, in parts, as the soil is dredged out, the pres sure from the eastern side raises the bottom again. My informant stated that in his opinion it would take twenty years to finish the canal. . . . There is a limit to all things, and the Canal Company, having got £8,000,000 sterling out of Egypt, has had enough, and should not be allowed still further to cripple the resources of the Government, the diminution in which is already working the most serious evils in this coun try. What is taking place in the villages to get money in advance out of the fellahs is atrocious. No man's denial of want of means is heeded ; his boxes, if he has any, are searche 1, and even the floor of his dwelling is dug up. Flogging is then tried, and it is only after his failing to produce money under that infliction that he is given up as hopeless. The villagers are also being made to give bonds for recouping the Viceroy those he gave to the bankers and others on the collapse of the cotton affairs, in repayment to them of the sums they alleged to be due to them from the villagers for money lent. The original debtor, if he has not sufficient substance, is disregarded, and his liability transferred to his village, among the inhabitants of which the amount is arbitrarily distributed, the men being flogged if they refuse to seal a bond for their assigned shares, and kept under the koorbaj until they consent. With all this Ismail Pasha is not a man of courage, and is said to be con stantly manifesting signs of apprehensiveness of what might be the result of the discontent he is conscious he is creating. He has fixed himself at a new palace at Gizeh, so as to have the river between him and the population of Cairo, and no one with a gun is allowed to cross the river in that direction. A fortnight ago, also, the Viceroy, on his road to the Abbadeh, just as he quitted the town, heard the n ear report of a gun. Cawasses were instantly sent to search for and bring the person who had fired it, nor would his highness believe that he had only been shooting a dove until the dead bird was also brought. " M. Mirzan, a broker of this town, on the 23d of Dec. last issued a printed statement of the debts of the Government, which, he adds, having pre viously submitted to the Minister of Finance for correction without having been honoured with a re ply, he now submits to the public. The total of the debts, loans and floating, he makes to be 667,850,000fr.—£26,714,000 ; but I have it on credible authority that the department of the Vice roy's Government immediately concerned with his finances estimated his total liabilities at £36,000,000. The month of liiack (Coptic), 10th of Dec. to 10th of Jan., is just passing, and no signs of a dividend from the 'Azizieh Company, which by the statutes should be paid in this month. "Januaryuet whichto my a 2.—1 learned imind precludesthisafternoon, doubt,through a channel a st r i e c such beingfu rth r e e r s rcircumstances under t o h f e tlll 7 e i c e n r l o e y a ' n s s a w u t h h i c o h rity for compelling the unhappy villagers to a a d d u d e t. forulinti s h t e e r s ak t o e o h f i s e, d cr e r o n s a i o n g d s s , ueh that e 0 1 resource, and when every means lomfsthfaeilfeainy have dNivliththe men, the wives and otherfemales been brought forward and told to produce their ornaments. No excuse is received. They may allege that they have already sold them to satisfy former Government demands, but they are not believed. They are told that they must have concealed them, and are held clown by Cawasses and flogged with a heavy koorbaj until the wretch who is vicariously ordering and superintending the infliction of the torture thinks their endurance has been sufficiently tested. They are then cut looso and left to be carried away by their friends. Will such things be credited in England ? Let Lord Stanley call for a report of what has been going on in the villages ; not from the Consul-general only, but from every consul, vice-consul, and consular agent in the country, with instructions to refer especially to the treatment to which the villagers are subjected, in the collection of the Government dues, in their persons, property, and labour, and his lordship will then learn what Egypt is suffering to-day." The King of Abyss - nia to the Queen of England. The text of the letter, the postage of which Mr. Bernal Osborne declared in the House of Commons was likely to cost the nation £5,000,000 " Iu the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, one God in Trinity, chosen by Go], King of Kings, Theodoros of Ethiopia, to Her Majesty Victoria, Queen of England. I hope your Majesty is in good health. By the power of God I am well. My fathers, the Emperors, having for gotten our Creator, He handed over their Kingdom to the Gallas and Turks. But God created me, lifted me out of the dust, and restored this empire to my rule. He endowed me with power, and enabled me to stand in the place of my fathers. By His power I drove away the Gallas. But for the Turks, I have told them to leave the land of my ancestors. They refuse. lam now going to wrestle with them. Mr. Plowden, and my late Grand Chamberlain, the Englishman Bell, used to tell me that there is a Great Christian Queen, who loves all Christians. When they said to me this, We are able to make you known to her, and to establish friendship between you,' then, in those times, I was very glad. I gave them my love, thinking that I had found your Majesty's good will. All men are subject to death, and my enemies, thinking to injure me, kille I these, my friends. But, by the power of God, I have exter minated those enemies, not leaving one alive, though they were of my own family ; that I may get, by the power of God, your friendship. "I was prevented, by the Turks occupying the sea-coast, from sending you an embassy when I was in difficulty. Consul Cameron arrived with a letter and presents of friendship. By the power of God I was very glad hearing of your welfare, and being assured of your amity. I have received your presents, and thank you much. " I fear that if I send Ambassadors, with presents of amity, by Consul Cameron, they may be arrested by the Turks. " And now I wish that you may arrange for the safe passage of my Ambassadors everywhere on the road. " I wish to have an anwer to this letter by Con sul Cameron, and that he may conduct my Embassy to England. See how the Islam oppress the Christian !"—Becton's Journal, Jan. 18, 1868. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, RACING FIXTI FEBR' Lincoln Spring Harrow 2O 'RES FOR 1868. f ARY. I Nottingham Spring . 25 Derby Spring Roll. Liverpool Spring M 3 Chelmsford Spring M 10 Shrewsbury Spring lO West Drayton l2 Warwick Spring Margate Epsom Spring Meeting '2l Groxton Park Northampton AP. Northampton (continued) 1 Bromley Aldershot Durham Hendon l3 Newcastle Spring Newmarket Craven 13 Knighton l4 AbergalronnT ..... 16 Catteriok Lowos Spring Thirsk Curragla April 2l Newmarket let Spring 27 .Y. Salisbury l4 Bath Croydon let Summer Harpenden Epsom Summer Newmarket Ist Spring (continued) Chester 5 Whichester York Spring Doncaster Spring West Drayton 1 Croydon 2d Summer Ascot Summer 9 Windsor Summer Newton Hampton Bibury Club 23 Curragh June Stockbridge I Alexandra Park 3O Liverpool I Stamford Huntingdou 2l I Nottingham July I Southampton Goodwood Alexandra Park (con.) 1 Chelmsford Worcest©r Summer ... 2 Carlisle Newmarket July 7 Reading Odiham, l6 THE WRECKED MAIL STEAMER. CORK, Jan. 16. S The Chicago separated last night, and is com pletely broken up. A vast body of people lined the shore, many of them for plunder. In the course of the night some of them, who were carrying off property washed in, were fired at and one man was shot. ~ '' AUGUST. Brighton Brighton Club 6 Lewes Summer Wolverhampton ll Stockton Plymouth Windsor Egham lB Elastings SEPT] Warwick September 1 A.bingdon 3 Leicester Doncaster September 8 Richmond Kelso l5 Hampton Autumn l5 OCTi R05 , a1 Caledonian Hunt and Ayr (continuod)... 1 Bedford 1 Bromloy Nowmarket 2d October 5 NOVI Shrewsbury Autumn Leamington and War STEEPLE PEL3It Carmarthen Birmingham Lincoln l9 Harrow 2O Boston MAI Liverpool Spring 3 0 Shrewsbury Spring 1 Grand Military . 16, 17 Warwick l7 Chertsoy 2O AP] Grant National Hunt York August Oxford Scarborough 24 Derby Summer Canterbury Weymouth Lichfield Tunbridge Margate 3l MBER. Hendon l7 Monmouth .. l7 Newmarket Ist October 22 West Drayton 29 Royal Caledonian Hunt and Ayr IBER. Chelmsford Autumn 13 Cheltenham l3 Ealing Newmarket Houghton 19 Worcestor ickshira hunt...... 17 IJAR Y. Windsor Grand Military and Open Derby Spring 13aschurch 2B Margate 23 West Somerset 24 Cheltenham Southdown Hunt Cambridge tIL. Knighton (Bedford) Roy.Artillery(Woolwich) 3 Hambledon I Bromley .. 6 Kildare Hunt Aldershot I Hendon OCTOBER. Bromley 1 j Ealing l5 DECEMBER. St. Albans 1 Ealing 3B Kingsbury NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty : Lieuten.nt L. Walter J. Kerr, to the Defence ; Com mander Charles E, Foote, to the Defence ; Lieutenant Walter B. Bridgo, to the Royalist ; Midshipman Herbert F. Murray, to the Defence; George A . Browning, navi gating lieutenant, additional, to the Fisgard ; John W. Lowe, staff commander, additional, to the Dauntless ; Henry B. J. Pearch, navigating lieutenant, additional, to the Trafalgar. ACTION BY AN ACTRESS FOR THE Loss OF HER WARDROBE. —At the Stoke-on-Trent County Court on Wednesday the North Staffordshire Railway Company were sued by Mi s s Eliza Clayton, an actress, for £lO da mages, sustained by the loss of her wardrobe when iu charge of the company. On the 21st October last Miss Clayton, who had been playing an engagement at the Tunstall Theatre, left Bursletn for Liverpool, where she was under an engagement for 11 nights. She had with her three packages, containing the wardrobe required fur the characters, and which wore proved to have been dis tinctly addressed. When Miss Clayton arrived at Crewe, where she changed trains, she found her luggage was gone, and it appeared that it had been put in the Man chester part of the train, which had been divided at Hare castle, and her packages had been sent on to Manchester. Situ was obliged to throw up her engagement iu conse quence of taking a severe cold on the day of her arrival in Liverpool, where she was running all day between the railway station and the theatre in search of her luggage. The value of the purchased costumes was £5 10s., and the balance of the £lO claimed was made up of personal ex penses. She further risked an action for breach of con tract in giving up her engagement. Her lost luggage came to her on tho 22d October, when it was too late to be of use for her Liverpool engagement. At the sugges tion of the judge, it was agreed to take a verdict for the plaintiff for .£5. ANTI-FENIAN - ISM AT SHREWSBURY. SHREWSBURY, Jan. 16. There being rumours of Fenian sympathisers amongst the Irish here, a deputation, headed by Father Hopkins, attended the police court this morning, and presented an address on behalf of the Roman Catholics of Shrewsbury, denouncing Fe nianism, and declaring their willingness to be sworn in as special constables. LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK. - r - Tha ordinary half-ye irly meetin,r; of the proprie tors of this bank was held yesterday, in the board room of the bank, Princes-street, Mansion Howe, under the presidency of Mr. J. Knowles. The report, which was read by Mr. Burrows, the secretary, states :—" The directors have much pleasure in placing before the shareholders the annexed statement of the liabilities and assets of the bank and of the profit and loss account for the half-year ending the, 31st ultimo, by which it will be seen that the bank has made a net profit of £63,102 4s. ld., including £2,175 18s. 4d. brought forward from the 30th June ; this sum, together with £4,397 15s. 11d. taken from the guarantee fund, the directors have appropriated in payment of the usual dividend at the rate of 12i per cmt. per annum. In pursuance of the resolution of the general meeting of the 25th July last the issue of the remaining 8,000 new shares has been made, and the directors have the satisfaction to acquaint the proprietors that the subscribed capital of the bank is now four millions, divided into 80,000 shares of £5O each, paid up to the extent of £l5 per share, thus making the paid up capital of the bank £1,200,000 entitled to participate in the profits from the Ist of January. The guarantee fund, in accordance with the resolution of the meeting held on the 12th July last, has been credited with £BO,OOO, the amount of premium upon the above 8,000 shares, and now amounts to £418,509 Os. 5d." The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, hoped that the accounts would be deemed satisfactory when the depressed state of the commercial world during the last six months was taken into account. The directors had completed the issue of 8,000 shares. The £200,000 of additional capital would participate in profits from the Ist inst. The bank had made no bad debts during the past half-year. Mr. G. T. BROOKING seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously, and A dividend at the rate of 12k per cent. per annum having been declared, free of income tax, The retiring directors were unanimously re elected, and the proceedings terminated in the cus tomary manner. THE ALLIANCE BANK (LIMITED.) The general meeting of the shareholders of this bank was held yesterday, at the City Terminus Hotel, Mr. Chaytor in the chair. The report of the directors has already appeared. The Chairman, in moving its adoption, said that up to the 20th of December the directors were pleasing themselves with the idea that the report would show a slow but certain and sure progress in the advancement of the affairs of the bank, but on that day it was announced that bad debts had been incurred in Liverpool which de stroyed all their hopes. But in justice to their colleagues at Liverpool, ho was bound to say that up to or at the present time the business of that branch had been managed with the greatest care. (Hear, hear.) It is doubly unfortunate that this loss should have been incurred at the present time, when money is so low ; at any other period the loss would have been comparatively unimportant. The profits on the Liverpool branch were £7,400 during the last half-year, and the bad debts £6,900. METROPOLITAN BANK (LLUITED). The first ordinary general meeting of the proprie tors of this bank was held yesterday at the Loudon Tavern—Alderman Sir R. W. Carden in the chair. The following report was presented and adopted : "after making provision for bad and doubtful debts, for interest paid to consumers, as well as rebate and current expenses, the profit and loss ac count exhibits a balance of £12,392 Gs. Gd. (out of which an interim dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum was paid to the 30th June last), a result which, considering the low rate of interest during the last year, will, it is hoped, be deemed satisfactory. The directors recommend that a di vidend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum (free of income tax) be declared, leaving £2,392 6s. 6d. to be carried to the credit of profit and loss new ac count." BOMBAY MAIL. MALTA, Jan. 15. The Tanjore loaves at 7 and the Nyanza at 8 o'clock this evening. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 18th and the latter at Southampton on the 24th instant. 0 UTIVARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Syria, from Southampton, on the 4th inst., arrived on the 13th at eight a.m., and left at five p.m. for Alexandria. Tho Bangalore, from Marseilles, on the 12th inst., arrived at 10 p.m. on the 14th, and left at 3 p.m. on the 15th for Alexandria. Bank of England Returns,—Last Evening, An Account, pursuant to t cap. 82, for the week ending 1 ISSUE DEP he Act 7th and Bth Victoria Wednesday, Jak. 1868. P LRTMENT. Notes issued ....X36,003,735 Govornmt. D0bt.X11,015,100 Other Securities 8,984,900 Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion £36, 003,735 siNKING D. .£36,003,735 Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 [test Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and Div. Accounts 3,224,627 Other Deposits.. 23,000,137 Seven Days and other Bills 680,691 IPARTMENT. Governmt. Secu rities(including Dead Weight Annuity) .... £14,569,046 Other Securities 17,399,823 Notes 11,678,965 Gold and Silver Coin . 1,082,478 £44,727,312 Z 44,727,312 Foreign Mail Packet List, MAILS DUE. A.ustralla and New Zealand, via Bonthampton.....Jan. 19. . Ditto via Marsei ll es .............Feb. 13. Ditto, via Panama Jan. 28. Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Feb. 3. Ditto, by French packet . Jan. 22 Cape Verde, by Brazil packet ........ ., . Feb. 3: Cape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. Helena... .J an. 27, China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southamp ton Jan. 11. Ditto, vta Marseilles ••••• • • Jan. 27 Flatland Islands He a- Jan.;,"--. iibraltar. via Southampton Jan. 19. india, via Southampton ..... . ••• • • • •.... Ditto, via Marseil es . Malta, Egypt, ,to. Jan 19. Ditto, Marseilles... Jan. 22. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Jon. le. Ditt .), Mare.ei,les Feb 19. gewfonndla ret ...... ..... . ..... . ..... . Feb. 112 Feb. 3. Portugal .... Ditto, by pr,ti ie ship to Oporto Ditto i tto to Lisbon United States, t aoada, California, So., by British packet „.. Jail. 2). Ditto, by L ait i. to itecl States packet Ditto Ditto ditto New York) Ditto dittt (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet .... West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and 'afterlife J an. 17. West Indies and l'azilio (except Mexico and Baha ;... mae) Cuba and Mexico ...J A Bahamas, via New York Fe * ermuda, "(Li Halifax . . . Fe NW bra )ty tho ind for bad ob- P er 0: 4 be crick ;,