The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-04 00:00:00

~;a~ ured, Lumi - Son rslK.l3 ',~che~ aaleOf per -4 6 Sa U N / KE T AND COMMERCIAL INTELL.r,OR.t,=;.:i. CITY, TITO O'CLOCK. Very little change has taken place in the Stock Market's. The Consol settlement is making progress, without causing any variation from the final prices of yesterday. Railway Stocks are moderately firm, with perfectly unimportant alterations except in the case of Caledonian and London and North Western Stocks. The former have advanced per cent., upon the anticipated issue of the report. Foreign Stocks are quiet, at yesterday's prices, there being no news to affect them. The Discount Market is quiet, with rates nomi nally at 1.1 to 2 per cent., but business is not re fused at 11 per cent. The supplies of money are large, and they will be increased by the payment of the dividends, which commences on Wednesday next. Consols are steady, at 92k to 92i for delivery, and 921 for account. New and Reduced Three per Cents., 92 to 92i ; India Five per Cents., not to 1111 ; Bank Stock, 239 to 241 ; Exchequer Bills, 22 to 27. In the Foreign Market the Scrip of the Por tuguese Loan is quoted at* to 1 preen ; Mexican is lower, at 15/ to 151 ; Greek, 12 to 13 ; Italian, 411 to 411 ex div. Railway stocks are in several cases rather above the opening prices, and they are generally steady, though business is perfectly inactive. 'I he prin cipal feature is an advance of 11 per cent. in Caledonian Stock, which is now quoted at 711 to 721. A slight improvement has also taken place in London and North Western, the price of which is 1131 to 1141. Great Eastern, 301 to 31. Other' stocks are without change. American Securities are quiet. United States Five-twenty Bonds are lower, at 721 to 721; Erie Railway, 48 to 49 ; Illinois, 88 to 89. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures have risen 1, to 211 to 22, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds at 18 19. 'The New Honduras Loan is 4 1 1 prom. ex Coupon. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The steamship Syria takes out to-day £10,645 in silver for Shanghai, £372 in gold for Point do Ga lle, and £309 in gold for Alexandria. The steamships Russia and Virginia have, together, brought £256,000 gold froM New York. The Cala bar has £13,000 in gold from the West Coast of Africa. The sum of £7,000 in sovereigns, received from Lisbon, were sent into the Bank yesterday. The general meeting of the Ocean Marine Insurance Company is called for the 30th inst. The total amount of the dividends paid by British mines in the year 1867 was £268,258 9s. The subscription list for the issue of £1,000,000 of mortgage bonds of the Panama Railroad closes to day. Annexed is an ex t ract from the monthly Bullion Circular of Messrs. W. C. Sillar and Co. of Coruhill : Business remains generally without any improvement, though transactions in bullion have been to a fair extent, but without any material alteration in prices; Our. imports consist of £2,301,198 , an d our exports of £1,009,186, showing a balance in favour of this coun try of a million and a-quarter, the bulk of which has been sold for the C ont i nent, b ut having only arrived within the last day or two, it has not yet had time to appear among our exp or t s . Th e d e t a il s o f t h e month'sim ports and exports are as follows :—lmports---.£942,000 • from West I n di es , £640,000 f rom Australia, £506,230 from America, £75,808 from Alexandria, £69,110 from Brazil, £6, 200 from West Coast of Africa, £61,850 from the Continent. Total, £2,301,198, Exports--.£27,800 to Alexandria, £65,818 to Brazil, £30,900 to China, £30,000 to Cape of Good Hope, 11,000 t o B om b ay, £7OO to West Indies, and £851,978 to the Continent. Total, £1,008,196. The shares of the Anglo-Argentine Company are quoted to prem. BRIT IS }l' FUND S.—CLOSING PRICES. Go MOMENT FUNDS. i per Out. Consols Do. Account, 8 per Omt. Reduced 9ll New 3 per Cent 9ll } 2 New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. 5 per Cen, oval. 187' /mangles, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 188 t — Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885,- 12/ 4 Da (Red Sea Telegraph), Au,., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, Xl.OOO, 2& 2} per Ct.... 2 2 . 6pm Do £5OO 22 6 pm Do. £lOO &£2OO 22 6 pm Bank of England Stock, 4} per Cent Do. Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ladiau Stock, 104 per Ceut., AprillB74 — Do. Ae"ount 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. 5} per Cent., May 1879 — Do. 5 per Cent. Rup. Deb., 1872 — Do. do. 1877 — Do. do. 1882 — Do Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000 Do. under £1,000 FOREIGN FIINDS—CLOSING PRICEs. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 13 mtilian 5 per Cent _ Do. 4 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 _ Do Account 7 54 i 44 54 Do. £lOO Bonds Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Ceut.) 43 24 Cuba, 6 per Cont. Cullian 6 per Cent Do. 41 per Cent tto. 6 per Cent., B • Do., 1867 Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 Do., Scrip £32 paid '0 a mbiau, 6 per Cent. Danubian Principalities, pe r 7 Cent —B7 Do 8 per Cent., 1867 .. Ea s uador New Consolida . ted,l .... Cent -- 01gyptian, 7 per Cent ............ Co. Second Issue * .... .................. Do. X5OO Bonds Do. £lO6 Bonds .............. Do. 1864 .... - Do. 45A Bonds Do. 4 , 100 Bonds • . • ... 88 Ouvernment Railway Debentures .... 921 thek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex C0up5...,... Do. Account - Do. Coupons • Do. Account - — Claateniala 5 per Cent .. — latziniaduuras per eGov o r e ‘a rt., il. Loan., 7p. Ct., £l5 PI pin 1865 Do. Account ) o. Maremmana Raiwa _ Mexican 3 per Cent Y Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Do 6 per Ct. Anglo-French Montevidean C per " t Moo • . ' en • • rish imperial 5 per Cent Sew Granada ll} Do 3 1oer Con • Do. D e f erre d Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent.. 1865 Do Account Do 41 per Cent. (Urib arren ) Do 41 per Cent.. 1862 Do Acc,--- . - Account Po7titguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6,'7, '9,'60,'2,'3 Russia n 5 per Cent.. 1822, £ St Do 4i per Cent. 1850 Do q per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent, 1859 Do 5 per Cent., P 62 Do. Auglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bonds BB Do. do. £B4 15s. do. Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds B7l f Do. do. £B4 158. do — Sardinian ' 5 pbr Cent — Spanish 3 per Cen ... — Do Acc , Junt .. Do New Deferred ....... ...... Do Account Do Passive........_ Do Acekant Do Com. Cert. of Coup. nut funded Do Account Turki s h 6 per C ent. ... Do Account Do 6 par Cent. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do £lO Bonds ... Do. 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865 D 3 Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 D i 4 por Cent., Guaranteed * Venezuela, 3 per Cent. Do Account Do 6 per Cont., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 — Dividends on the above payable in Londe French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — Ittlitth 5 per Cont. 1851, Ex. 251. Do. Account — 251 1 TEMEE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money! 92i j ; Do. Acco unt ~,, urttimuf,o. 92; SHARE LlST.—This Day. -O. oRDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. • Closing Business - hare, ttail•.vays. L raid) Prio< dine. - itSrlstoi Exeter 'tic 82 61 et I;aledentan. 7O, 7; 70 12 11 et t;ambrian .. 2 - .:ork and 8and0n...... .- 0 3 - 0 20 ~ )orn 'sal I all 2 4 et Dublin & Behan June. 10 2 741} 751 et Dun.,Perth,& Ab. June. 70 72 160 &London, acrip Cv:l,,. all - • Do. 100 - - 0 et Glasgow &S. Western 100 95 87 et Great Eastern,Urd.stk, iOu 30} 511 31 et Do. E. Angi. at. No. 2 100. 7 8 et Great North of Scot•larrl 100 15 6 at Great Norther. , lOO 107 09 107 at Do. A stock .. 100 031 109; 1091 81 at Do. B stuck lid 123 14,5 at Do. New, ie. at 25 pm 10) st (it S, and W. of Irelanq, 10. 96 93 at Gt. Western 3(.0 44 411 41 I et Do. 5. Val. Rail. gus. 100 - - at Do. South Wales - - et Do. W. 51id.-0x14. , r0 100 23 30 27 7 et Do. Newport lOO 29 3; at Do. Hereford - - at Lancashire & Yorkshiru 100 11 8 124 123 et L:mdon and Blackwall 100 - - et on., Brigh.,& S Coast 10 43 Li 4.11 et I-on., Chat., and Dx/er Igo 18 19 at Do. Metrop. Ex. A lOO - - et Lon. & North Western 100 114 115 114 et Lon. & South Wester:, 100 ;5 77 at Man., Shet., & Lineal': 100 11; 5i et Atetropolitan.... et Do. New lO - - et Do. Extension all 102 103 et Iletrupolitan District all - 20 ( Do. do. do. 10 - - 10 i)o. and St. John's 'e 6 - - st Aidiand - Do. £9 Share 7 - - et Do, Birmin.. & Dart); 100 72 74 - slid Kent . . all - - at North British at Do. hid., Pth., & Dun, 100 - - st Nth. Eastern-Berwiet, 100 98 99 99 25 Do. G.D.I•E parahas, 16.13.4. - - at Do. Leads ..... 100 59 61 et Do. York KO 90 22 ec Do. Carlisle .. ... . 100 - - at Do. Stock. & Darling all 130 132 45 Do. do. 1860-61 IS .--'p t North London .. lOl 113 115 - Do. do. 1864 5 . . 10 - 10 Do, do. 1860 . 5 1 lip at Staffordshire 10u 5) 61 • &S. W. Junction .. all . 113 115 - Scottish Central - - soot. N. E , Aber. fitOCI, 10() - Jo. Scot, Mitt. btJok - ▪ Shropshire Union 100 56 67 at South Devon NO 42 14 at south E..atcrn 10 Staines, Wok., & Wok ail 6 4. 9-I et rail Vale lou 195 .50 10 Do. C • 5 - ale of Neath - - Waterford & 10u 10 Waterloo & Whitcha 6 - - West Cornwall l3o - - CO LOS iAL GO VEENgEti T SEC ITIES. cent., u ell op u .. m c3.lj b , a i j a .se , 7 : 2 s2 u ) . e l y r 1877-81 t Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug 1..)o. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 00. 5 p. c. Jan. dc July Do. 5 p. e. inscribed sie. Cape G. Elope, 6 p.c. 187.; Do.Apl.& Oct 1820-10 0 t Do. do 1t,84.:-2 , Do. Jan.&J uly, 151:0-1. Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900. • • • Layton, Nov. 1868, 6. p.‘ Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 187 3 , Jan. and July Do. 1878 .. • • ')0. 1882, Mayls, Nov ! Do. 180, Feb. & Aug.. Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. N. 8.G0v.6p.0.Ja.&J ul) N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c., 180 i, Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 187 u Do. 5 p.c. 18 88 to 18051, New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent Nova Sootia Gcv. 6 p. o. sterling, 1875 Ip u eensland Gov. 6 p. c Aus.Gov. 6 p,0.1808-91 Do. 1878 & upwards ) Vto,Gov. 6 p.O. Ja 4 Julyl 1)0. do. A pril & Oct 102 1041 101 R 3, 101 1131 GO 92 89 91 IC2 IE6 IC4 104 1(6 IC7 D 5 17 11J 1101, 105 117 IG6 ICB 105 107 107 104 1(4 106 1(;3 105 4 1 8 98 90 1(2 104 103 105 111) 11 110 112 86f 7} • BRITISH. POSSESSIONS. lou Atlantic 6; St.Lawrcnce all 53 15 Rom.,Baroda, Cen.ln. 100 IC4 1(5 1(24 I " 1 gu. 6 per cent... 40 Do. } shares lO p 4p _O4 Istitrato & Lake Huron all 3 i 10 Do. Preference all 5 6 100 liall.,Brant, dt Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3-4 WO 68 71 et Calcutta &B. E. Um. 100 131 - i;at.e Town. & Dock, go. 100 18 52 .00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p, all 99 1(2 st East. Bengal, gu. sdo 100 03 10 4 103 at East Indian, go. ' 5 p.o. 100 110 1106 1082 20 Do. J Exteusion st , a rand Trunkoi Canad, 100 17 18 fa 100 po , Equip. Mort, Bonds • 1 charge 6 p.c all 83 65 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 5 0 52 100 Do. do deferred all 100 De. 2d Pref. Bonds all 10 45 COO Do. do. deterred 100 Do. 3d Pref.etock, all 32 34 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock 100 Do. do. deterred et qt. India Pen. gua. 5p.0. 100 107 108 106/ 23 o. Goa. 5 per cent lB 2 t 40 00. New gua. 62. o 6 at %t. South of India gua. 5 per cent at D.,. 44 per cent lO., 02 01 94 et Do - 206 - .treat VS', R. of Canada all 156 156 206 Do. New . - 100 6p. c B‘s. pay. lei, all 95 f 7 lOC .to. 5.1 de. pay. 1877-8.. all 86 10 Indian Branch, limited 3 s , Madras, gua. 5 p.O 100 100 tO, 1024 st Do. 16 do ioo 03 95 at Do. 4i do lOO 8.9 91 20 Do. Filth Extension 5 s 1 Melb. Cor. 6p. c. Buds 100 50 lel. & Hobson's say_ all st .til.C'da,6polstpthe 100 13 85 at . 100 100 101 10'4 qt Do. Delhi 20 Do. do 4. 15 4 ip • Do. runiaub.... I 100 09 10J Dn. Inting St. Vl°, lo , ; 85 87 BRITISIa MINBS. ,`am. Consol. Gold, Um 1 - - - 'hiverton - ;lifford Amalgamated 3O 54 6 4 - evon G. Cone. (Taylst 1 4.0 430 - Jrakewalls 2.1.0 2 2 - ~; ast Bassett (Itlegatt) 294 10 12 - ..:.ist Caradon 2.14.c 1+ 6 - .11ast. earn Brea 32 2 24 - ..,•...st Grenville .• 2.14.1i 14 2 -- ••••tst 0 unniElake - East Love,. I '...!! 8 9 - 8. W'l ttusseil ("Favist;•' 11.7.0 li 2 -L 4 a.mak .BtAubyn(G weii. , ;0 4 5 1 tirest L.ixey, limited ail 17 18 - ,ireat South Tolgus.. • 0 • 14 -k - - - tireat Wlieal nay 11.9 .1 -, - - , I. Wheal Vor (lielst“u 41.• 17 11 - Jreuvilie.... , 6 12 1 - derod's boot 6.11-v• $3 37 - ilingston Downs 5.10. ' 2i 22 - Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.1 6 8 - II urke Valley 4, to.t 41 5; 1 dwyndy Iron Ore, Ilm 3i 2} 17 - hew S ton .. ...... 561 6.) 70 North toskear . 4B.i 5 7 - N.Wh Bassettallogau 4.1..., - - - Niorth Wheal Crotty .. 2.1 3 .0 2 3 - erosper United....... 8.11.4 2 24 - l'ruvidence;UnyLelan 10.6.; 29 31 - I S. Caradon (St. Cleer).. li 39.1 410 - South Condurrow 3.2.0 2 2 - '.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 374 424 - itray Park . 35.15.6 4 6 - Fin Croft V 11 14 - 7igra and ()Logan, lim all - - - Crest Itassett (Mogan - W. Caradon (Ltskeard 1 1) .2 - West Chiverton ll 66 68 -- West Seton - Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 54 85 95 - Wheal Buller (itedruth 16 16 ii - Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 18 20 - Wheal Seton . 584 85 90 - Whea: Trelawney (Lis. 5.17.0 6 8 ettiI:FEWNINCP; 611A1:111:b. Great Western, Orig. 44 per cent., 78k i'REKKRENCE SUAIIES AND STOCKS. Midland A and B £5 per cent., 104 i LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTAL S. Midland, Bradford Pref. stock, 9.2 i rOitEJON ttAiLWAYP. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 9 Rains. and an Francisco, gua. 7 per cent., 14 ,•ati Luxembourg. 81 San Paulo, urn., gua. 6 per cent., 19 FOiUIIGN MINKS. Anglo•l3raz;lian Gold, i Chontales Gold and Shyer Mining, :lim., 3 5-10 Don Pedro, Isluri,h Del Key, 2 i pin DOCh S. London and St. Katharine, 51 BANKS. Agra, lim.. A, 7 Alliance, lim., t 34 Chartered der. of India, London ;and China, 2EI Consolidated, tim., 4k I ,iperin , I%ank, Urn. 194 Imperial Ot.oman. 81 4 Loudon Chartered ()arta of Australia, 23 1 Loudon and estminner, 701 Ditto, Scrip, 40 New South Wales, 46 afiSCICLLANNOUb. Angio American Telegraph, 19 1 Agl,nexican Mint, 16f Atlantic telegraph, 524 Ditto, 8 par sent., 98f Their Rey al Highnescs Prince Arthur and Princo Christian, attended by Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey and Major Elphinstone, honoured Sir John and Lady Simeon with a visit at Swain ston, near Newport, to-day, and afterwards went out shooting there. MURDEROUS GAROTTE ROBBERY.--At the Not tingham Police-court, yesterday, Francis. liattewell was charged with garotting Mr. Henry Clarke, gentleman, in that town. The prosecutor was returning home late at night, when he was attacked by two men. The first struck him a tremendous blow under the chin, from which he fell, and they then both kicked him most savagely. Blood flowed freely, and ho was becoming insensible, when assistance came up, and the ruffians made off. The prisoner, however, was pursued and captured. A valuable watch belonging to the prosecutor was nearly smashed to pieces in the struggle. The prisoner was committed for trial at the Assizes. lhe o .ollfEe of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 1109 per cent. At this rate there s no profit on the iraportatWa Qt gold toin the United Bastes. IHE Su; N, LONL:ON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1868. FURTHER EXAMINATION OF TIM lEIVIAN COL. BURKE. BOW-STREET-THIS DAY. This morning the examination of Colonel Burke, Theobald Casey, and Henry Shaw, alias Malady, on a charge of treason-felony, was resumed before Sir T. Henry. Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr. Poland appeared on the part of the Crown. Mr. Torr and Mr. M'Donald defended Burke, and Mr. Lewis attended for Casey. The first witness called this morning was _ . Benjamin Fordhan►, police constable C 33, who said—On the '2oth of Nov. last I was on duty in Tavistock-square in uniform. In the evening In spector Thomson spoke to me, and afterwards I stw Burke and Casey in Woburn-square. I and Mr. Thomson went after them. Mr. Thomson went up to Burke, touched him on the shoulder, and told him he held a warrant for the arrest of Richard Burke. " You I know to be that person, and I shall consequently take you into cus tody. You must consider yourself my prisoner," . and come to the nearest police-station. Burke said, "You've made a mistake, I'm not the person at all ; I'm a medical student, my name is George Berry, and I've just arrived from Hamburg. Thompson said, " Whether you are Berry or Burke you must go along with us." We both took hold of him, one on each side. Casey at this time was at ithe side of Burke. Burke made a resistance uutil we got to the end of Woburn-square. Casey interfered to prevent us arresting Burke, and struck Thomson and myself several blows, and tried to get our prisoner away. Casey said, " What do you mean by taking my friend like that ?" When we got to the end of Woburn-square Burke struck Thomson with his umbrella. Thomson then drew his revolver, and told Burke if he attempted to run away he would fire on him. Burke said, " Don't do anything desperate." I had hold of Burke's cuff with •my left hand. I drew my truncheon, and then Casey interfered again, and said we should not take his friend. I told him if he did not keep away I would strike him. Casey called upon the bystanders, as we were in Russell-square, to rescue Burke. He shouted that we were arresting, his friend without any right. Thomson called a cab in Upper Montagu-street, into which Burke was placed, notwithstanding the attempts of Casey to prevent it. After we had got Burke into the cab Casey tried to prevent us shutting the door. Inspec tor Thomson, however, succeeded in sh utting the door, and as we approached Bow-street we obtained assistance, and Burke was locked up in the police station. After Burke was locked up I saw Casey inside the station. He was then detained, and eventually locked up. I was in uniform, and the inspector was in plain clothes. Cross-examined by Mr. Torr—l suppose Thom son had the warrant to arrest Burke in his pocket. I did not see it. By Mr. Lewis—l don't remember exactly the words. They might have been, "This is a mistake, it is an illegal warrant," but I think the words used were, " This is wrong ; it is illegal to arrest a gen tleman in this way." Mr. Torr (addressing the magistrate)--Burke's sister, sir, is in attendance outside, and I have to ask that she may be admitted to court. Mr. Lewis made a similar application for the sister of Casey. Sir Thomas Henry—Let them be admitted. Mr. Giffard—Before they take the trouble of coming into court, I have to apply for another re mand. I had expected an important witness from Birmingham, but as he has not arrived I cannot proceed further to-day. Sir Thomas llenry remanded the prisoners until Thursday. POLICE INTELLIGENOE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CAUTION TO CAB PROPRIETORS AND DRIVERS. Samuel Trigg, a cab-driver, charged by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with cruelty to a horse, by working it in an unfit state, appeared befure Mr. Knox on re mand, and Martin Eatwell, cab proprietor, of No. 1, Charlwood , -street, appeared on a summons for causing the horse to be ill-treated by allowing it to be worked. • Simeon Seth, officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, having deposed to finding the horse in a very low condition with its knees distresAngly cut and quite unfit for work, Mr. Chevy, the Government veterinary surgeon, said that the cuts on the horse's knees were recent injuries on other ones. He had advised the owner of the horse to have it destroyed, and he had done so. He considered the driver culpable in driving a horse in such a state. Mr. Broad, a veterinary surgeon, said that, in his opinion, the horse had had a knee which had been broken a few weeks previously, but which had not healed over, and the new granulation had given way. The horse had been put to work too early. Mr. Knox said that to an unprofessional eye the , wound on the k nee was a g h ast l y one. A s th e h or se had been destroyed he should discharge the defen dants, and he wished the officer of the society to understand that in doing so it was simply on the .testimony of the gentlemen who had been called, and who stated that the horse had been sent out too early. WESTMINSTER. JUVENILE OFFENDERS WORKING AT CASE. — Henry Harding, 15, and Frank Pearse, 14, asso ciates of thieves, were charged before 'Air. Arnold with unlawfully possessing five pairs of braces, five pairs of gloves, two ladies' vests, and a towel, and not giving a satisfactory account of the possession of the same. Police-sergeant Squire White, 11 B, deposed that Pearse's father said he should not trouble coming to the court about him, and the other had no fixed home. At 7.30 last evening he was with P. C. Taylor, 200 B, in Sloane -street. He watched the prisoners half-an-hour outside a fancy jeweller's shop : they were " working at a case." Witness went up and asked them what they were doing, and Harding said he did not know Pearce. As the latter appeared bulky witness asked him what he had. He replied Nothing,' and witness unbuttoned his coat, in doing which two ladies' vests fell out on the pavement. He was further searched inside the shop, and then at the police-station'a pair of gloves were found upon him. He said he had worn them three months, but they wore quite how. The glais they were watching at the jeweller's had been broken a week ago, and Harding was seen about the place. Constable Taylor, 200 B, said he watched them with Sergeant White, and heard Harding say, " Here come two slopes." Mr. Arnold asked what " slopes" meant? Taylor said it was a thieves' term for police. Mr. Arnold thought they were always called " bobbies." Taylor continued—He found a pair of braces and gloves on Harding, and he said. he bought the braces for 63. at a shop in King's-road, Chelsea, and the gloves belonged to his father. They were new, and had been ordered for the purpose. The braces found on both were of the same make and pattern. Harding, in an impudent tone, said that he bought the braces from a man in the street for Gd., and Pearce said he picked up the things found on him in Knightsbridge. They were remanded for a week. temporary absence a gang of daring young thieves surrounded her shop, and one of them entered and took a cushion of bacon off a butter tub, ran out of the shop and gave it to another boy, and the whole gang scampered away in opposite directions. The alarni was given by an honest boy named Thomas James Bennett, and two police-constables on duty opposite the Commercial Gas Works, pur sued the gang. Only one was clptured. Yester day the prisoners were arrested, and the bacon was discovered in the apartment of Mrs. Quarrell, in London-strut. She admitted that she purchased the bacon for 2s. 6d. Mr. Stoddart said that Mrs. Qaarrell was a re spectable woman, who had incautiously bought the bacon of one of the boys. It was dirty when brought to her, and she did not think it was of much value. She was not aware it was stolm. Mr. Paget —The bacon is quite clean now. It is worth 95., and you admit you bought it for 2s. 6d. It is a most serious offence. Mrs. Qilarrell—l scrape]. the bacon after I bought That makes it look clean. Mr. Paget said he should remand the prisoners until the 9th instant, when the boy Sullivan would appear. He hoped the whole gang of young thieves would be captured. Mr. Stoddart said the poor woman, who had a baby in her arms, and eight other children, re gretted exceedingly what she had done. He hoped bail would be taken. Mr. Paget—l will not take any bail; other people have babies and children, and I must protect them. It is such urchins as these who fill Our reformatory schools and convict prisons, live upon the blood and tears of others, and foster crime. She will go to prison. THE OYS7ER FISHINGS IN THE FIRM FIR7'H. The Law Committee have given in a report prepared by Mr. Marwick, under a remit from the Edinburgh Town Council, to consider and report as to an' Application to the Board of Trade for a grant of the oyster-beds in the Frith of Forth be longing to the Crown, and lying contiguous to those belonging to the city. In the report was the following statement :—" It is apprehended the Magistrates and Council would have no difficulty in satisfying the Board that a grant to the city of the neutral ground would enable them to regulate the fishery in such a way as materially to increase the supply of oysters, and to benefit the public. It will be for the Council to consider whether any ap plication that they may make for a grant of the neutral ground should not be preferred on the footing of the Crown receiving a rent or royalty according to the profits actually made, or the quan tity of opt frs purchased or sold by the promoters, or those by whom the fishery might be conducted." The Lord Provost said that the oyster fisheries in the Frith of Forth had been spoliated for many years, and it was their bounden duty to adopt any measure that would have the effect of protecting them. Mr. R. Wilson said that there was a new com pany applying for powers to take the whole fishings out of the hands of the Council, including the neutral grounds. lie read a letter on the subject by Mr. Jameson, fishmonger, Edinburgh, of which the following are extracts :—" Previous to the years 1837 and 1838, the price I paid for the best oysters was fourpence and sixpence per 100. At that time the Town Council let the oyster scalps to an Eng lish company, who brought down a fleet of twenty to thirty large smacks, each working four or more dredges. These vessels were kept constantly em ployed for at least one season lifting brood and oysters, and shipping off one vessel after another as fast as they could be loaded, for which I believe the town never got a penny; since which time, oysters have every year got scarcer and higher in price, until now I pay three shillings and six pe n ce for oysters not equal to those I formerly got at fourpence per hur.- dred." Mr. Jameson thi nk s the r i n g at present u pl s a e n d laswtnhueldgapurgoepoisse is--havetoosnlall, and says :--`' The a ring of two inches and a half in breadth (inside measurement), allow the fishermen to dredge as many oysters as they please that will not pass through that ring, compel them to throw overboard, on any part of the city's scalps they consider most suitable, all the oysters that will pass through that ring." Baillie Skinner said that the council sent their officer to Newhaven in 1865 to make inquiry into this subject ; and he now held in his hand a returr, showing that in one month oysters to the value of no less than £1,431 6s. Bd. were taken away from the Frith of Forth, and sent to London and other places. He thought it was high time that the Town Council were taking steps to look a little better after the oysters. The produce from a single parent oyster was immense, it having been calculated at no less than from 800,000 to 8,000,000. The report, Mr. Jameson's letter, and the speci mens of oysters were remitted to the committee. Land and Water. tided by the Cockermouth Bench to be the best means of curing the prisoner of his poaching pro- pensities. At the Petty Sessions Court held at this place last week, five convictions were obtained against various parties for using the click-hook. Of these too were fined 5 each and costs ; in de fault, two months' imprisonment : one £3 and costs. At the Session's held on Monday last, the following cases were disposed of :—John Borwick, J. Hodg son, and Joseph Irving, were charged with having unlawfully taken trout frona the river Ellerbeck, which communicates with the Derwent. The bench acquitted Borwick, but convicted the other defen dants, and fined Irving 20s. and costs, and Hodg son 103. and costs. John Starkie and -Y. Starkie were charged with having', on the 21st instant•, un lawfully attempted to take salmon front the river Cocker. Mr. Ramsey prosecuted. on behalf iof the Derwent Angling Association. The magistrate said the bench had decided to convict the defen dants, who, being the brothers of a river watcher, ought to have known better. The sentence was that John Starkie pay a penalty of 25 and costs, in default to be imprisoned for two months ; and J. Starkie. a penalty of £3 and costs, in default to be imprisoned for six weeks. MAXWELTON.—POACHING IN THE NlTlL—Three men, old poaching offenders, pleading guilty to ,a charge of fishing for salmon during the annual close time, with a hang net, in the River Nith. The court sentenced each defendant to pay a fine of £5 and £1 costs, or three months' imprisonment.— Land and Water. SCENE IN A PARIS THEATRE. The Paris Tenips gives the following detailed ac count of the disturbance at the Porte St. Martin Theatre, referred to in our impression of yester day :--" On Monday evening, at the first per formance of the Porte St. Martin revue, Mdlle. Silly was upon the stage, and had just parodied, in an apropos song, the tones and gestures of .Mdlle. Schneider, of the Varikes. It should be known that parodies of _this kind arc customary in revues; that they almost always amuse the Parisians, who vehemently applaul the:: whtm . they are well done; Thus, on every side there was applause and a cry Lucre.' A hiss was beard, fol lowed by rounds of chet:ring. The hies continued Up to this point nothing could be REPORTED DISCOVERY OF THE SEAT OF FENIAIV CONSPIRACY IN PARIS. The following extraordinary statement is given by the Paris correspondent of the Brussels Nord : " I have already informed you of - the complaints made by the English Cabinet to the French Minister for Foreign Affairs respecting the Fenian con spiracy. The presentiments of the English Go vernment are justified by the events. It has been proved that the Fenian organisation has its ac complices in France, and that its name is legion. Searches have been made by order of the Prefect of the in a certain quarter of the Faubourg du. Temple, which hlve led - to the seizure of correspon donee of the most interesting de,seripi ion between the English Fenians. Amongst it were discovered plans of fiesh outrages to be carried out in England—one of which is the destruction of the fleet—and the names of the most important correspondents of the Fenian ; movement in London. The discovery has been kept. iluite secret, but the precious documents have been. forwarded by till police of Paris as a New Year's rift to the Government of Great Britain." SPECIAL CONSTABLES. ST. PAUL, COVENT-GARDEN DIVISION. Yesterday the same magistrates, Henry White and J. G. Stilwell, sat, who have coutinuorsly formed a bench during the-past fortnight, and ad ministered the oath to 355 persons, making a total up to the present time of 1,628. Two hundred ani twenty-one of the staff of Drury-lane Theatre, beaded by their band, T. B. Chatterton, Esq., and Mr. Stride, marched in pro cession to the Vestry offices, and were sworn in. Messrs. Kelly and Co., publishers of the " London Directory," with 59 of their employees, were also sworn in. Henry White and J. D. Stilwell, Esqs., each delivered an impressive address to the whole body, and expressed their great pleasure in seeing the great number of Irishmen who had come forward while the Bench bad been sitting. During last evening and this morning a rumour was generally current that an attempt would be made to blow up the vestry offices in which the magistrates had been sitting, and after com munication with the police at Bow-street, the sitting magistrate deemed it advisAle; after consulting with Lieut -Colonel May n:; and Major Charter, to call a meeting of the superin 7 tenderit, deputy superintendents, and assistant su perintendents of this division, who determined that a constant guard of special constables should be kept on duty about the premises during the night. THAMES. THE CUSHIOZI OF BACON.—JUVENILE CRIME. —Robert Clark, a boy aged 12 years, and Jane Quarrell, the widow of a lighterrnan, aged 44 years, of No. 5, London-street, Ratcliff, were charged, the former with stealing, and the other with feloniously receiving, known to ba stolen a cushion of bacon, weighing 121b5., and valued 95., the property of Mrs. Rhoda Hill, a shopkeeper of No. 10, Bull-lane, Stepney. A boy, named Patrick Sullivan, is in custody, charged with being con cerned in the robbery, and has been remanded. Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, defended Mrs. Quarrel. On Welnesday night last Mrs. Hill left her shop to warm her fingers by the parlour fire, and in her FISHERY PROSECUTIONS. CONVICTION ON SALMON LEISTERERS.—At Llan last, an import an t case o f salmon poaching was syllen (Montgom er y s hi re ) Petty Session, on Friday brought before the Bench at the instance of the Board of Conservators of the River Severn Fishery District. The following report of the case we copy from the Times of Tuesday last :—The process of salmon leistering with the aid of torch and spear has been immortalised by Sir Walter Scott in his Waverley novels, and this was a modern instance of the process as co n d uc t e d i n North Wales. The de fendant was a farmer, named William Evans, a tenant of the Dea n o f St. Asaph, living at'a farm with the unpronounceable name of Llanrhaidr, on the banks of the river Tanat, which is an important salmon breeding tributary of the River Severn, where a large quantity of salmon are annually bred, or would be bred but for the nefarious practices of the local residents. Hitherto the farmers have had it pretty much their own way, and annually at this season the spawning fish have been killed on the spawning beds, to the great destruction of the river's produce. The Severn Board, however, determined to put a stop to these proceedings, and a strict watch has been kept on the river. On the night of the 13th ult. three watchers discovered Evans and two of his farm servants, named William Jones and Thomas Probert, burning the water at Llanrhaidr, and hence their appearance before the justices. They could not deny the fact, and pleaded guilty. The magistrates were unanimous in their determina to carry out the law, and fined the fanner Evans in the full penalty of £5 and costs, and the other defendants in 10s. penalty and costs. HEAVY PENALTIES UNDER THE TWEED FISHERIES ACT.—At a Justice of Peace Court held at Jed burgh on Monday last, Robert Graham, William Davidson, and Charles Hogg, all belonging to Hawick, were charged with a contravention of the Bth section of the Tweed Fisheries Act, or of the 10th section of the act, in so far as they did fish for or take from the water Allan, by means of elicks or hooks, thirty-four fish. They all pleaded guilty of having nineteen fish in their possession, but not of having thirty-four. Mr. Lee, the Pro curator-Fiscal, said he could not accept of that plea, ar.d he would therefore put it down as of not guilty. The Fiscal then said that he would hold them guilty only of a contravention of the Bth sec• tion of the act, and not of the 10th secton, for, ac cording to the statute, the bench could fine them no more than 108. for killing a fish,while they could be fined £2 for having one in possession. The bench then sentenced each of them to pay a fine of £5 for the illegal fishing, and £l7 each for killing the thirty-four fish, being at the rate of I.os. for each fish, besides 17s. eanh of expenses ; and in default of payment they were to be imprisoned for two months. CRIEFF.—Robert Malory was charged with fish ing for salmon in the river Earn during the annual close time; fined £3 10s. and costs. COCKERMOUTII.—We are glad to find that the magistrates iu this neighbourhood are dealing with poaching iu a manner which is calculated to do much good. In every case where a conviction is obtained a heavy penalty is inflicted, and where the prisoner is not able or willing to pay the fine im posed, a two months' imprisonment has been de- SHELL-FISH FOR MANURE. Every person who understands anything about long line sea fishing, must know how vastly im portant mussels are for bait for the capture of food fishes. Our readers will learn from our sea-fishery columns of to-day, that these invaluable shell-fish are wastefully—we had almost written wickedly— destroyed, for manuring the land. Too much can not be said about this important subject, more es pecially if the advice and the - telling will only induce British fishermen, who are prone to trust too much to luck and to chance for their bait, and iu conse quence are very often unable to visit their fishing grounds for the want of it—to follow the example of the French fishermen, and instead of wasting and destroying these mollusks, so indispensable to suc cessful fishing, to protect and cultivate them, and in this manner insure an unfailing supply, by adopt ing the simpler plan of growing it. A dread of being " musselled," makes the British public shy of devouring these wholesome biv.llves, hence few are required fur food as compared with the con sumption of whelks and the common de scription of oysters. But it is no exaggera tion to say that countless millions are annually required and employed by our fishermen for bait. From some of the natural mussel beds, 300 tons of mussels are often gathered per week, and iu one small village in Scotland the fishermen require, during the season, forbaiting their deep sea-lines for ccd and haddock fishing, over five millions of mus sels. No one will for a moment deny the commer cial importance of mussels in these days of dear provisions ; not that these shellfish constitute in themselves so important an article of food that their dearth or dearness would prove any very material inconvenience to anybody ; but their value lies in the fact that no . other kind of bait is found to be so useful and effective as the mussel for the capture of deep sea fishes fitted for human food. It is well known that the supply of mussels hitherto derived from our own sea coast is rapidly diminishing ; _ _ year after year, spots, regarded as prolific musse banks yielding inexhaustible supplies, are now mere barren wastes by the constant and growing demand for mussels. The old mussels are picked off and carried away, and no persons appelr to deem it necessary to rear and provide growing stock to replace them. What should we predict of a farmer who went on and on killing his stock of breeding animals, without ever bestowing a thought about rearing others to fill the vacancies? Nevertheless, this is precisely what our fishermen are doing in regard to mussels, and, as a matter of course, they are rapidly exhausting their bait-farms. The fol lowing statements will give our readers some idea of the consumption of mussels, althou g h at best it is but a remote approximation to the actual num bers used for bait and consumed as food each year in the United Kingdom :---A. bushel measure will contain, at a rough estimate, 2,000 mussels, and, in Loudon only, 50,400 bushels are consumed annu ally as food for the " " One million quarts, sold in the streets by costermongers at one penny per quart, would give a return of £4,000 per annum." The consumption in Edinburgh and Leith, Dr. Knapp tells us, is ten bushels per week ; in all, 400 bushels per year. But even this is a mere nothing when we consider the supply required for deep-sea fishing. We will select Newhaven as one example. There are four large deep-sea fishing boats, which generally go out three times a week thirty weeks in the year ; each boat carries a crew of eight men, and eight fishing lines, each line 800 yards in length ; to bait each one of these long lines 1,200 mussels are required. Add to the four deep sea fishing boats sixteen lesser craft that go fishing every day, wind and weather permitting (Sundays excepted), for the annual supply of which 3,456,000 mussels aro needed for baiting the lines, and the number of these shell fish consumed each year in Newhaven will be seen to be something enormous. Quite as many, if not more, are used at Mussel burgh, Buckhaven, Elie, Anstruther, and elsewhere in Scotland. Fishermen, we confidently hope, will by and by learn to act like reasonable persons, and, profiting by the good example set them by the in dustrious mussel farmers of Aiguillon, grow their own bait. If warnings are of no avail, and it seems there are no laws by which the pilferers of the mus sel beds can be brought to book, the fishermen will have themselves to blame for the utter extinction of the mussel. Only a fortnight has passed away since we had to record a terrible destruction of young whiting by the Thames fishermen. Thou sands of bushels were caught in a few-weeks in the Thames, and sold to the farmers at the rate of six pence per bushel, to be employed as manure. Each fish probably would have been Worth twopence if it bad been allowed to reach maturity. Sprats, which the consumer has to pay a penny a pound for, have been within the last fortnight sold to manure the land at a few pence per bushel ; and in the face of this waste we know that people are actually perish ing for the sheer want of food at our very door steps ; and then as if all this `were not waste enough, we discover now that mussels, upon which we have in a great measure to depend for our supply of cod and haddock, are actually carted of the " natural scalps" at the rate of hundreds of tons per week, simply to enrich land that could be better fertilised with some other material. Surely it is high time that proper laws were made, and competent inspec tors appointed, to put a stop to this abominable waste of shell and food fish. The time will surely come, if this destruction and waste are allowed to go on unchecked, when sea and shell fish will be only things we sh►►ll remember and regret.—Land and Water. A RACING STABLE PARTNERSHIP.—The Civil Tribunal of the Seine has just been called on to decide a dispute between the partners of the racing stable repre sented by the assumed named of Major Fridolin. The association consists of M. Charles Laffitte, Baron Niviere, and Khalil Bey. The last-named has already formed a demand before the Tribunal of Commerce for a dissolution of the partnership, and the application is now awaiting a decision ; the other partners in the mean time wished to proceed with the annual weeding out of the stable, and had advertised a sale to take place on the 11. th of December. That course was opposed by Kh a lil Bay, who maintained that the sale of such horses as Gon tran (a French Derby winner) was an act of aliena tion of a part of the capital of the association, and would diminish his share in the division of property when a general sale would take place on the dissolution of the partnership. He consequently obtained on the 10th of Decembei judge's order, provisionally suspending any disposal of horses until the hearing of the present case. The counsel of MM:. Laffitte and Niviere, with the object of showing that the bale advertised was necessary for the good management of the general property in the interest of all the partners : read letters from M. Delamarro and M. Lupin, owners of large racing studs, to show that it NV, s usual at the end of each year to rid the stables of worth less animals. The Tribunal, however, considered that the sale would be an act of alienation, and maintained the prohibition. its protest. situpler. The hisser, doubtless, did not lit e Mdlle. Silly, or he liked Mdlle. -Schneider. It was his right. It was a matter between himself and the public, which certainly would have soon made him hold his tongue. For I feel hound to state that up to this time this gentleman had irrieated everybody. Instead of being in his favour, the public would gladly have stopped his mouth. Crowds do not like contradiction. Mdlle. Silly, advancing to the footlights, had already repeated the first few Nerds of her song, when a loud uproar was heard at the very place whence the hissing had proceeded, in the upper boxes. The artiste stopped ; same per sons rose in the stalls. • Shortly afterwards we were all standing, and looking, with our backs to the stage. A police agent was parleying with the hisser, who could be distinctly seen, as he was in the front row. Nothing of what they-said could be heard, but it was easy to guess by their gestuie,s that the one was requesting the other to leave, and that the other energetically refused to do so. We followed this scene with curiosity. ' Turn him out !' 'No, no ;' and the usual jokes under such circum-• stances. People laughed, peOple shouted, but with out any very well defined object in shouting. The police agent withdrew, and already tranquillity was about to be restored, - then ~place of the agent a cocked hat appeared,' folloWed'by another cocked hat, and the two gendarmes adVanced to the recal citrant hisser, and put their hands upon his shoulders. The public down below, which attentively watched the scene, at first let things take theit course without saying much. But my gentleman resists; he clings to his stall; the two agents of authority seize him by the cravat, and twisting it round his neck endeavour to take him away, not withstanding his desperate efforts and his hoarse exclamations. By degrees the public grows warm and excited; shouts arise from every part of the house—' , No, no !" Let him alone ! let him alone !' A gendarme merely obeys orders. These carry off our friend bodily, and we see his legs kicking by way of a final and mute protest. Immediately there arose a furious uproar, the like of which I never heard, not even the Gaetana. Shouts of Bring .bim back !" Let him return !' are heard amid a frightful uproar. The curtain falls, and the mana ger arrives. He is not even allowed to make his three customary bows. No !" No explanations r Let him return." He has a right to do so.' The unhappy man walks from one side of the stage to the other, and endeavours to say an unintelligible word or two, and with a terrified aspect wipes away the perspiration which pours down in heavy drops from his face. After five or six minutes, which must have apperred an age to him, we see him ap- proach the stage box of Prince Demidoff, and he appears to ask him what the public wants. After a colloquy, of which we do not hear a single word, he goes out backwrrds, and returns a few momen is aftewards, leading by the hand Laurent the actor. The management no doubt hoped that the sight o f suh a favourite actor would calm the storm. But the pleasant, simple, and smiling face of Laurents avails nothing against this outburst. The tempest reeommeoces with more fury than ever. They are are no longer shouts—the are roars of anger ; every arm is outstretched menacingly towards the two men who seem in consultation, and who work their hands, in despair, like the sails of a wind mill. Another five minutes pass. What was being done meanwhile behind? A deliberation, no doubt was held ; perhaps some one was sent to consult M. Pietri—to know if the law was to prevail. Any how the scene lasted 12 or 14 minutes, and if it had been prolonged the public would lave played havoc, so great was its exasperation. At last we hear shouts of There he is I" There he is !' and my gentleman re-appears, in fact very pale, but with a composed and modest countenance. On 'every side there then arose • tremendous shouts ; in the dress circle the ladies waved their handkerchiefs ; in the stalls his entrance was hailed with three times three. The i:ncideut was over. The public had prevailed. We may de rive some useful lessons from this singular story. The first is that crowds have lately become singu larly susceptible. Three or four years ago things would not have passed in this way. The public would not have shown its teeth so easily, and would not have enforced its will with so much . energy. This little circumstance is a serious symptom. I see in the second place, that though it may be danger ous to resist the agents of authority in the cemeteries, we must defend ourselves in the theatres. Hail this gentleman allowed himself to be gently carried off by the gendarmes, he would have passed the night in the lock-up. It was his energetic and desperate resist ance which so thoroughly aroused the sympathy of the public that the police ended by surrendering their prey. Finally, the prefect of police will no doubt remark that it was his agents who caused all the trouble. When he gives to subaltern servants the authority he attributes to himself, he ought only to have in his service people of intelligence. It is not an easy thing to manage a crowd ; it requires much tact and dexterity. These gentlemen dis played on this occasion much cluminess. As soon as they saw the disposition of the public they ought to have yielded with a. good grace and withdrawn discreetly. Whenthe all-powerful and irresponsible agents display in the exercise of their functions a certain rough violence they draw upon themselves the rap on the knuckles they have just received. Have only, Talleyrands for police agents, or you incessantly expose yourselves to affronts such as those you were vi'tims to yesterday." THE 48174 MIDDLESEX RIFLE VOLUN- TEEII,S. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As the prep generally, when alluding to the corps which I have the honour to command, designate it as a" temperance corps," I shall esteem it a great favour if you will allow me to inform the public through the medium of your paper, that al though when first formed it was strictly of that character, such a principle was found to be too ex clusive, and the regiment has not been a " temper ance corps" for several years past ; but has been and now stands, with respect to abstaining or not abstaining, upon the same f oo ting as all other volun teer corps.—l am, Sir, your obedient ser vant, G E ORGE CRUIiCSIIANIC, LieUt.-0010130, 48th Middlesex (liavelocii) Rifle Volunteers. 263, Hampstead-road,. Jan. 3. THE FENIAN PRIEST.—The mysterious " Father O'Connor" (whose presiding at a Fenian meeting in Lon don was mentioned in the evidence given by Vaughan before the Bo w-street magistrate) is a young priest of the diocese of Cashel. He was sent over to London by his diocesan for the purpose of collecting some funds to aid in the building the tower of the cathedral iu that town, and on his arrival applied for the usual leave to say mass in the diocese of Westminster, which was granted, as a matter of course. From all we hear, he gave great offence to such of the London clergy as he called upon by his de nunciation of the English Government, and seems to have mixed himself up with people and with proceedings which were the reverse of creditable to him as:a priest. He left London some time ago, having been recalled by his arch bishop, Dr. Leahy. Weekly Register. 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Lieutenants—Henry Hugh Monk Magrath, and Edward Hughes Brodrick Hartwell, to be Commanders in her Majesty's Fleet. Lieutenant William Charles Geary to be retired commander, under the provisions of the Orders in Council of Ist August, 1860, 9th July, 1864, and 24th March, 1866. Sub-Lieutenant John Hale Orlobar to be Lieutenant in her Majesty's Fleet. COURSE , OF EXCIUNGE.-Last Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 18 Ditto 3 Months.l2 01 Rotterdam Antwerp —2 Z-. 35 Brussels Hamburg — 13 91 Paris Ditto 3 Months. 25 30 M.arseilles _ _ — 25 30 ...... 11 19 12 1' 12 1 , 25 40 25 40 13 10 25 221 25 35 25 35 F7ankf;ii on the Maine Vienna 120} 12 421 _ _ . 1201 12 5u 12 50 Trieste 12_ .. 42i Petersburgn Berlin Aadrid Cadiz Leghorn • Milan 313 6 26} 481 48} 29 4 29 45 29 4,: 29 45 29 45 29 45 511 511 ;enoa Naples Palermo • Messina Lisbon Oporto .. 6 27 481 48-1. 29 7U 29 7U 29 70 - 29 70 29 70 29 70 RACING FIXTURp, FOR 18C8. Lincoln Spring Harrow 2O MA. Liverpool Spring M 3 Chelmsford Spring M lO Shrewsbury Spring West Dray ton l2 Warwick Spring EOII. AP. Northampton (continued) 1 Bromley Aldershot Durham Hendou l3 Newcastle Spring Newmarket Craven 13 Newmarket Ist Spring (continued) Chester 5 Wiachester • 12 York Spring Doncaster Spring West Drayton 1 Croydon 2d Summer Ascot Summer 9 Windsor Summer Newton --- Alexandra Park (eon.) 1 I Otelmsford Worcester Summer ... 2 Carlisle .................. 7 Newmarket July 7 Reading Odiham, l6 AUG Brighton Brighton Club 6 Lewes Summer ‘Volverhampton ll Stockton Plymouth Windsor Egham lB Hastings SEPT Warwick September 1 Abingdon 3 8 Leicester Doncaster September 8 Richmond Kolso l5 Hampton Autumn l5 OCT( Ro3 al Caledonian Hunt and Ayr (continued)... 1 Bedford 1 1 8r0m1ey........... ........ Newmarket 2d October 5 NOVI Shrewsbury Autumn Leamington and War. STEEPL: J AN lIA] an3fchestor liopgrove (York) 1 Donington front Carmarthen Birmingham Lincoln Harrow 2O Boston Liverpool Spring 3 6nrewsbury Spring lO Grand Military Warwick l7 Chertsey 2O FEBRUARY. Nottingham Spring 25 D e rby spring Margate Epsom Spring fleeting Croston Park Northampton . Knighton Abergavenny Catterick IL e wes Spring Thirsk I Curragh April • Newmarket Ist Spring :AY. Salisbury Lath Croydon Ist Summer Harpenden Epsom Summer Hampton Bibury Club Curragh June IStockbridge Alexandra Park LY. Liverpool Stamford Huntingdon Nottingham July Southampton Goodwood York August Oxford Scarborough Derby Summer Canterbury Weymouth Lichfield lunbridge Margate ;MBER. Hendon Monmouth .. Newmarket Ist October West Drayton Royal Caledonian Hunt and Ayr Cholmsford Autumn Cheltenham Ealing Newmarket Houghton Virorcestor 111113 E R, 9 ickshire Hunt l7 CHASES. tY, 1868. Reading ,Monmouth Runt 14 'l9 21 .22 26 16 16 21 21 23 28 17 17 22 29 UST. IBER. ARY. FEBR' Windsor Grand Military and Open . Derby Spring Baseb.urch 2B MA: LOH. Margate 23 West Somerset 24 Cheltenham ..... 26 Southdown Hunt Cambridge lIL. .• I Grant National Hunt I Knighton 2 (Bedford) Abergavenny R)y.Artillery (Woolwich) 3 Hambledon Bromley .. 6 Kildare Hunt Aldershot Hendon - OCTOBER. Bromley 1 I Ealing li DECEMBER. St. Albans ..................... 1 i Ealing Ki ng sbury ... 8 1 62.11)P1FG INTELLIGENC.I4I—This ay. GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived, Jan. 3. —Wrilllichnine, from Emden ; Zephyr, steamer, from Oporto; Cossack, steamer, from Pillau. Jau. 4. —Mosell e, steamer, from Antwer p; Ger matrriia,vsetdeiamer, from Hamburg; Triton, steamer, from Ostend. Sailed.—Holland, steame r, f or O st end ; Seine, steamer for Boulogne. DL AL, ..aturday Morning. Passed.—Minerva, sere ff steamer, from Gibraltar, for Loudon. nds of by this ►la- Ise had nt's ya.l sere tri- nce mit yet .OF Or fer itg ,hat the ?er 7 kpe- lc-- )ilar ,ter, om ?nth )me. tion lo in DUO Mr. all- em ►tre. ple has a of ;on ical. 'the is an oer a . ,oval ;tent Mr. Her ,elli ote, don eur. s of the icial t to ant ? , we d an such rlas- wag gth such im .sta- sub- Mr. r, SO our )01115 rhea isas- Lens, any, inesa ;titre sort con -rate n its lesou e in- ell re of ge of E the 1 the ivy th3 )pera Ming o as )g of ) the i 190 100 100 Ito 100 100 951 61 ILO, ;