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

MONET' MARKET AND 13 015tIMERMAL NT V,T,TJ IGENOR. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. 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 1i 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 924 to 93 for money and account. New and Reduced Three per Cents., 9 81 to 981 ; India Five per Cents., 1111 to 1111 ; "'milk Stock, 240 to 212 ; Exchequer Bills, 22s to 278. preni. Italian (1861) Bonds have advanced a fresh 4 Per cent., the present quotaticn being 12- to li -I)rent. M ex i can B on d s are fi rm at 154 to 154 ; Greek, 12 to 121 ; New Spanish, 35 to 354 ; Turkish ( 18 65), 301 to 304 ; Italian (1361), 424 to 431; Por tuguese Scrip, 11. to la prem.; Egyptian, 911 to 921; 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 k higher, at 844 to 851. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures 23 21; and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 24 221. English Railways are firmer. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1234 to 124; Midland, 1044 to 105 ; South Eastern, 67 to 671 ; London and North- Western, 1141 to 115 ;" Great Northern, 106 to 107 ; ditto A, 1074 to 1081; Brighton, 161 to 461 ; Sheffield, 44 to 441 ; G r e a t Eastern, 291 to 291 ; Great Western, 451 to 46 ; Metropolitan, 1151 to 1161 Caledonian, 741 to 754 ; London and South Western, 76 to 78 ; and Chatham, 18 to 184. „ Bank Shares are quiet. U n ion of London, 33 to ; Alliance, 13 to 12 dis. ; Imperial, 17 to 18 ; and London Joint Stock, 33 to 31 . Credit and Finance Shares are steady at quota tions. General Credit, 21 to 2 dis. ; London F inancial, 24 to 22 dis. ; International, 2 to 11 dis• ; and Credit Foncier, 3 to 31. CITY, TWELVE o'CLoCK. AIM Ddus. 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 p ro b a bili ty a yet h i gher stock of b ullion. A furth er t emporary l oan of £200,000 has b een made to the Government, and we may anticipate tt further reduction in the private securities, so that the reserve will be comparatively unaffected by any frooll wing o urable diminution in the private deposits. The are the principal changes since the preceding return :-- Increase in circulation £125,470 Decrease in Public Deposits ... 426,202 Decrease in other Deposits Increase in Government Securities Decrease in other Securities . 904,081 I ncrease in Bullion I ncrease in Rest Decrease in Reserve Bullion in both Departments ......22,086,213 Reserv e of Notes and Coin 12,761,443 Circulatio n , including Bank P os t Bills 25, 005, 461 The following is the return of paid clearing for the Week endin g W e d nes d ay , t h e 15th i nst., as cert ifi e d Y 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 Total £67,729,000 ~,,T.!1 6 average daily clearings of the year, so far, 1- ,Pt,y some amount of improvement in trade, inde- V 7 ulently of the settlements on the Stock Exchange. an c'r the present wee k t h e aggregate i s sat i s f actory, d it seems likely to he maintained. t T here were no bullion operations reported at the a nk yesterday. A fe T he Atheni an has brought from the West Coast of c 4 £1,146 in s p ec i e . i h „,l he Atrato will take out to the West Indies £2,500 rid and £2OO in silver. f o r he dividend of the Midland Waggon Company b:,. t he past year is to be at the rate of 15 per cent. annum. 8 14 ,Mr- Henry Bennett, irontnaster, of Wombridge, T he has suspended payment. 11_2(he half-yearly meeting of the Australian Chartered net has been convened for the 27th inst., when the t inetors' report will be presented and a dividend " e „,',red. Coto report of the General Credit and Discount £$ parry o b f as s been issued. - It shows a net balance of th-88 126 ' £75,000 are appropriated to a dividend at per cent, per annum, of which one ,refhas been already paid as interim dividend, and, er placing £5,000 to reserve, and £l,OOO to ea "nction of building account, a balance of £7,126 is he w forward. A favourable account is given of the w discount business. No bad debts have been and efforts are continually being made to reduce the o ld l oc k s-up of cap i tal. At a special meeting yesterday of the London and A_Ustralian Agency Company (Limited), the liquida rs stated that the reconstruction of the undertaking 4 1 ! been most satisfactorily completed. The lia to ItY of the shareholders has now been reduced af ,X. l O per share instead of as originally £2O. The ao 'lirs of the Company have been fully wound up, (...; the new concern, under the styl e o f th e London ‘ , 11,1 Australian Agency Corporatio n (Li m i te d), has been s hares w ith a cap i tal of £500,000 in 50,000 " a rcs of £lO each. The directors of the London and Provincial Marine r s urance Company will recom men d the payment of i n A terest for the past half-year of 5 per cent., making Per cent. f or th e y ea r. thehe report of the Alliance Bank was adopted at meeting this morning. It was stated that the tVPrincipal propriet ors h a d been consulted upon th e vis ability of clo s i ng th e Li ver pool br anc h, an d atshareholder O inion was in favour of not doing so. A and , however moved that the Birkenhead Liverp oo l brandies should both be closed, but it was withdrawn at the wish of the chairman. A. dividend of 5s per share, being at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, has been declared by the directors 2 the N ew , Zealand Trust and Loan Company, payable on the 24th inst. elt was stated a few days ago, by some of the conti tze ntal journals, as one reason why France would not in quire a loan, that M. Magne had not since his Tre asury of office as Finance Minister issued the this Bonds which remained to be emitted. Since cos statement, Bonds to the amount of 50,000,000 f., 04 ,000,000 sterling, are said to have been dis l?nted with the Bank of France at 2 per cent. e tice, it is conc l u d e d, a l oan w ill b e introduced, BRITISH FUNDS, CLOSING PRICES. 3 °CVERNMENT FUNDS. Per ()eat. Consols 8 1210. Account, Feb. 6 924 3 24 New Cent. R e d uce d I 1 i t ie 3 per C en t l l ° ° 1 per Cent. J an . 1894 — 4 . per Co. an. 1873 — Itl in .., cities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan. 1880. Dofor 30 yrs, expire sth April 'lBB5 — t „, cited Sea Televaph), Au„., 1908 — '-uoquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 &24 per Ct..- 22 pm be $ Do. £5OO D 22 pm £lO dr .£2OO 22 o f England Sto 0 ck, 44 per Cent 24 lpm 0. Account 14,011301.4111 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ibititoctllto4 per Cent., AprillB74 215 n„' 5 , Per Cent. July, 1880 - 4 4 t'• % per Cent., Oct. 1888 „o. Oertificateq b'o. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent it)i. 5 5 1)4 7 : r er e c en en t. i. J , Jan. y 1 8 1 7 8 279 B7 4 1084 • " Per Cent., Rup. Dob., 1872 — do. 1877 — Do Do 1882 — • do. 1 3 Deb., 5 per Cent, Aug. 1873 b ° , ° ' I 3 ends, 5 per Cent., £l,OOO under £l,000 4FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. B :: ll .tine Republic, t per Cent — l ir !lan. 130nds, 5 ent per Cent. 1859 rian 5 per Cent _ 1 . 4 i per Cent., 185248-60 .. . 1 . % 1) ... O K 0 . 18(33 - r , . Accou per Cent., 1865 — ir nt 764 54 61 i 9 ' 4109 B pido Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent _ . DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Cu'ia, 6 per Cent. Ca lieu 6 per Cent Do. 41 per Cent Do. 6 per Cent., B Do., 1867 Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 DJ., Scrip £32 paid C a ,tubian, 6 per Cent. Danisn 3 p q. Cent., 1825 Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent — Do 8 per Cent., 1867.. E luador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — egyptia.r, 7 per Cent Do. Secoad Issue . D .. £s'io Bonds Do. .£IOC Bonds 9l Do. 1861 Do. £5 l O Bonds — Do. £lOO Bonds .... 911 901 Government railway Deb,otures ..... 92 n 21 11 2 Greek, 5 per Cent., 1821-5, ex - Coups — Do. Account DJ. Coupons Th. Account Gea . emala 5 per cf-ut . — Ifonduras Gov. Bail. Loan., 7p. Ct., £l5 p I pm Itii en 5 Pei. Utr t., 1865 — Do. Account Do. Marenunana llaiway — 91 , Xieitil 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Do. 1861 74,- De g per Cent. Anglo-French — \I ontovidvau 6 per Cent. .. — 11oorish Imperial 5 per Cent Now Granada — Do 3 per Cen — Do. Deferred Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) Peraviau 5 per Cent. 1865 — Do Account 7ll i 1 i Do 44 per Cont. (Uribarren) Do 44 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Poluguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,%; _ I.lu:sian 5 per Cont., 1822, £ Si — Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bonds 894 2 Do. do. £B4 los. do. Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 88; t Do. do. £B4 15s. do 844 5 Sa-diuian, 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Con Do Account Do New Deferred — Do Account Do Passive Do Acciant Do Com. Cort. of Con k '. not funded Do Account Turkish 6 per Cent. • Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 594 Do. 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do Account - I Do 6 per Cent., 1865 . Do 4 por Cent., G uaran teed Venezuela, 3 per Cent. — Do Account — Do 6 per Cont., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 — Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian 0 per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian, , 4l per cent., Ex. 25f. _ — DuiCh 2 Fer Cont. Ex. 12 Guil Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ... French Rentes, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 251. Italian 5 per Cont. 1851, Ex. 251. Do. Account 421 31 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 921 Do. Account 921 MARKETS—(Ihis Day.) CORN. At Mark-lane this morning there was only a small at tendance, and the trade was quint, with the tendency of prices in buyers' favour. English wheat was offered 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 II" ... 1,56 U vats ••• 70 ... 8,820 Flour : Sacks 1,380 ... ... 9,580 Barrels Ile• Sell 1,360 COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE. SUGAR.— The market continues dull with a downward tendency. Some rather largo 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 colonry 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, 50s. TEA remains without quotable change, and only a limited business is passing. RICE is firmly hold at late rates, but there is not much. T ALLOW. The market is steady, at 43s 6d, spot ; 43s 3d, spring. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. MEAT. The dead meat trade is dull, but best qualities of beef and veal are scarce. Other sorts are difficult to son and cheaper. COTTON. LivEnrooL, Jan. 17.—Sales probably 12,000 bales. Market firm. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived. Belgium, steamer, from Ostend ; Nora, steamer, from Harlingen ; Fairy Queen, .steamer, from Dieppe. DEAL, Friday Morning. Passed—Camella, screw steamer, from the west, for Lon don ; Millbrook, from Colombo, for London. Anchored, for orders—Boroas, from the West Indies. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. ~----"-1 , - - - , , ,-----" - -- 1867. 1863. 1867 18E6 .£ Z Belfast and N. Counties 941 677 581 1,81 2,161 Belfast and County Down 94:1 Blyth and Tyne 36 '.'6 2,26) 2,2 4 Brecon and blerthyr 72 i 8 1, 73 1 , 15) Bristol and Exeter l 3ll 1511 7,151 6,'92 Caledonian, Scottish Central 6234 64i 33,181 34,09 Cambrian 373 1:,11 2.310 2,0 1 Cockermouth K & Penrith .. 314 3:4 4 1 818 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 394 423 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64 61 121 1 31 Cork and Limerick Diret,t Cornwall 654 651 1,5.0 1.119 Deeside .. 17 17 Do Extension Dublin & 14ellastJ unction.... 63 63 1,607 1.613 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,723 1,71)8 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO7 107 2,349 2,659 Forth and Clyde Junction Furness, Ste B5 85 6,302 4,4. 6 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrflt.,&E.Union Great Northern 487 422 13,261 44472 Great North of Scotland 275 271 1,934 3,0 5 GL Northn. & Westn.(lrel.) B3 831 663 629 f it.Southn. & Westn.arind.) 41 91 419 i 9,0 5 9.160 Great Western 1314 1311 71,827 71,379 Irish North-Western 145 145 1,868 2,153 Isle of Wight ....... ....... 12 12 187 170 Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 45,111 44,163 Limerick and Ennis. 170 192 Limerick and I'oynes 261 2 137 157 Glanelly 461 161 702 66 4 Llynvl Valley L rndon & North- Western London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast Loudon. Chatham, & Dover; 1126 165 i 8,613 1..448 all Metropolitan Extension 1, 131 121 J 3,921 1.76 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. Gpldsmid, 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 largo 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 .in the lagoon. Provided with a strong rope and supply of bait, two or three young mon 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 ho 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 ropo, ho tells the men above the prey is fast, he himself with a strong spring from the ground, swiftly rises to the surface. All pulling away at the ropo 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 EVENING, JANUARY 17, 1868. SHARE LlST.—This Day. ORDINARY SEIARES AND STOCKS. . fdi i Closing Business Railways. p"' Price. , done. Bristol anti Exeter 100 81 86 at Caledonian lOO 711 75 75, 14; 5 ; st Cambrian - !Cork and Bandon.- - - 20 !Cornwall at !Dublin & Belfast June lOO 741 751 at Illun„Perth,& Ah.Junc "Lioo 70 72 100 10. London, Scrip Cv:t,: all - - Do. 100 - - d at Glasgow AS. Western 100 93 95 at Great 1 4 .:astern,Ord.stk. 100 291 201 291 1 1 at Do. E. Angl. at. No. 2 100 6 st Great North of Scotland 100 is 6 at Great Northern lOO 1061 1071, :061 1 at Do. A stock .. 100 107 10i 105 1 it Do. B Block lOO 1221 la at Do. New, is. at 25 pin 100 - - it tS. and W. of Ireland 100 26 93 at Gt. Western -Original ItO 45 451 464 it Do. S. Vtl. Rail. gua. 100 - - 't Do. South Wales it Do. W. Mid.-Oxforo 100 i 25 344 it Do. Newport it Do. II ervford lOO it. Lane &shire .o Yorkshir, 10u 123 121 / 12' 1 4 • !London and Blackwalf luu - - I at :Lou., Brigli.,& S Coast 100 474 171 4'2 1 it I on., Chat., and Dover' 100 18 19 11 1 it Do. lietrop. A ' 100 - it Lvn. A van IVesteri, Nu 114 115 114 2 ; at Lou. .t South IVesteri 100 ;0 /8 7 7 4 3 4 it Stan., Shea., A Lincoln 100 44 14 1 : 444 Metropolitan. . at Do. New lO - - I it Du. Extension...- all 102 103 103 1 3 at Metropolitan District all - 1C 1 Do. do. do. 10 - - 10 Do. and St. John's W'u 6 - - it Midland I - Do. L 9 Share 7 it j & Derbll 100 72 74 - I did Bout . ' all - - at North British llOO 33 3 5 st Do. Ed., POI., & Dun ' 100 - - st 'Nth. Eastern--Berwick 100 98 99 100 25 Do. (.I.N•E purcha.si 16.13.1 - - at Do. Lelds st Do. York lOO 91 91 922 at Do. Carlisle .... 100 - - at Do. Stock. & Darling. all 129 131 , 129 Si Do. du. 1860-61 lB - p at North London .. lOO 114 116 st Do. do. 1851 5 . . 10 - - Do. do. 1865 10 North Stallordshire at &S. W. Junction all 113 115 at Scottish Central - - Soot. N. B , Aber. stool , ' 100 - Do. Scot, Mid. stock lOO - Shropsnire Union st South Devon lOO 42 14 at South Eastern 40 Staines, Wok., A Wok all 84 94 at Tall Vale lOO 145 150 10 Do. C - ale of Neath - - - Waterford & }Wimp') 10u - - 10 Waterloo & Whlteha 1 6 - - West Cornwall , 100 - - COLOSIAL GOVERNMENT SECUIi , Britiih Columbia,6 per oent., Leo. 31, 1872. Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.,Sz July 1877-81 - Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug.. , Do. sp. 0. Mar. Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed ak Cape G. hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl. &Oct 1840-1600 Do. do 1880-9 u Do. Jan.&July, 1860-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and - 15 Oct., 1900 - Ca) lon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. t Do. 1878, do. Mauritius, 6 p. o, 187 i, Jan. and July Do. 1878 Do. 1882, Mayl6, Nov. t 5 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug Natal 'Joy. 6 per cent N.B.Gov.6p.o.Ja.&July N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,1866 Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1876 Do. 5 P.c. 1888 to 1395 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. o sterling, 1375 ,Queeusland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c. 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vio,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July Do. do, April & 190 100 100 100 100 100 98 100' 100 102 100 102 86 88 85 87 IC2 104 106 108 104 ICO 107 109 05 t 7 ITIES. 991 2; 85; 0 96! 6 51 101 6 9 2 71 102 } E'FBB:IADRERS:INT AL 81 132 ? i r i e d a telVonessotrirnd a,itil:pe6FrpeEeeßrn e t E . e , A N ng r 6t e T d . rd. , Ditto, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., Ditt i, o, i 4 .i i ii i; s er L ce m n A L SE rd p ., London and Black wall, 87 London, Chatham , AO., „fl per cent., 621 klnt NJ CrN ttAILIVAYI", Great Luxembourg, 84 1 San Paulo, lien., gua. 6 per cent., 18k South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 131 FOREIGN MINNS. Chontales Gold and Sliver Mining, :11m., 3; Von Del Rey, 3 put rontino and Bolivia Gold, lirn., 1; St John dcl Rey. lim , 321 2 Yudanunutana of South Australia, lira 1 1-la DOCK S. East and West India, 124 BANNS• Alliance, Rm., 13 Australasia, MI British North American, 4FI Consolidated, lim., 4f Crystal Palace, 22 Imperial Ottoman, 81 London Chartered bane of Australia, 23 f London and County, 521 Loudon Joint Stock, 33f London and 11 estminster, 711 Ditto, Scrip, 41 Merchant Bank, lint.. 141 Union of Australia, 491 Union of London, 331 3 miscicLuttisoue; Anglo American Telegraph, 2 9 k Atlantic Telegraph, 441 t Ditio, S pnr ;wet., 95 Corporation of London Bonds, 1817, 4i'per cent , 10i; Cretin render of lim,, 3k Ebbw Vale, l k East India Irrigation and Canal, 161 ELyptian 9 per Cent, Viceroy Loan, guit.'by Egypt. Govt. 90 Gen. Credit and Discount, mu., 5 7-16 Hudson's Bay, 14; International zEociety, ltrn., 3 Nattonal Discount t oinpany, 10i Ocean Marine Insurautc), Oriental Gas, lira., tft Thames and Ilerwey Marine, Insurance, Ilia., 4; Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per cent. (Mortgage) Loan, 70 0, 2 11ETROPOLITAN GOSSZR Politicians are beginning to shew signs of life again fIOW 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 programme. 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 he 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 ho 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 subjects 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 sentCd 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 member, 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 M.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 chihlrously 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 i s b a d 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 starvation 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 c l ergyman, i n 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 liven 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 arc the really deserving poor, and it is these who ought to be helped. Why can wo not do in London as was done 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 chorus 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 ice-crust. Truly, sell -government is a wonderful thing, and London is a wonderful city, whose people are breaking their legs at the West -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 cl 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 1:4 nothing but Pritish Ilunkeyisin which makes people read gos,,ip that coming from anybody els , would have found no altni:siun even into a fifth rat, magazine. Perhaps there is a little professional jealoui. at the bottom of this criticism. Publishers. and author, 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 Wiatble- Cl.9g &ki t s ygit/ for the 4teruational Trophy. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF ARCHES. (Before the Right Hon. Sir Robert Phillhnore, Dean of Arches.) MARTIN V. MACIIONOCIIIE.-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-STRE F.T. NUMEROUS HOUSE 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, Newinau-street, Oxford-street. Mr. Holloway said that shortly after five o'clock the previous afternoon, while taking tea in his first door back room, he thought he heard a noise in the front-room, and on going out to ascertain the cause he found the dresses and other articles about die 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 he (\lr. folio - 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. Iu answer to Mr. 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. 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 son to believe by a gang of which the prisoner is a member. WESTMINSTER. SERIOUS CHARGE OF WILFUL, DAMAGE.—JuIia Alorrissey, 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 pia 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 pattens 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, ,fated 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 sonic time past. He 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 searched, 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 be 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 lie 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 mau 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 crops 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.—X26,714,000 ; 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 X 36,000,000. The month of Kiack (Coptic), 10th of Dec. to 10th of Jan., is just passing, and no signs of a dividendfrom the 'Azizieh Company, which by the statutes should be paid in this month. "January 2.—1 learned this afternoon, through a channel which to my mind precludes oy, doubt, means al whichi 0 - such further ciretunstances ' :o:f l e t are being resorted to under unhappy co►npelling the add another vil'igers no t t ( e ) r a i i t i y nist f e o r to his demands, that 1 r for the sake of exposing such I co h n a d s u f e a t i . led A w s it a h l t a h s e t res ource, arid when every mesas men, the wives and other females of the family have 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, , an d a re held down by cawagsefi and flogged with a 11) 110,11 101 113 160 108 105 107 107 109 1(4 106 1(3 105 08 991 fai 863 98 99 102 104 103 10 _ - 110 ili 110 112 1114 11 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 100 Atlantic &St. Lawrence all 63 65 gu. 6 per cent.. et ) florn.,Baroda, &Cen.ln lOO 104 105 131 20 Do. le shares lO p 03 Buffalo & Lake Huron all 3 3 4 10 Do. Preference 100 I 100 68 71 BufL,Brant, &Goderich IS P.C. 1872-3-1 st Calcutta &S. E., lim lOO at Itlast. Bengal, gu., sdo 100 103 IC 4 103 00 Bt D a e i m e e ri r ' a o r w a n , 7P D . cn k e . g p u ; 1 :1 0 1 9 18 9 1 5 (2 2 at East Indian, gu. 5 p.o. 100 110 1104 1031 9 10 Do. J Extension st ;irand Trunkof Canada 100 17 18 100 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.o all 8 3 85 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all SO 52 100 Do. do deferred 100 De. 2d Pref. Bonds all 40 45 100 Do. do. deferred all • 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock..., all 32 34 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do. 4th Pref. stook 191 204 100 Do. do. deterred t . , (.1 t..11.id Gus. l 5 aren p . geruac.esnitn IS _ 2 o e (00 107 lOti 108 7j 873 a i 0 20 1)o. New gun. sp. c 6 2 e at t 4 t. South of India gua. 5 per cent at Do. 41 per cent lov 92 94 st Do 203 great Wes. of Canada all 153 154 163 204 Do. New all • - ' 130 Do. 6p. o E6s. pay. 1873! all 95 47 100 Do. 51 do. pay. 1877-8 all 85 67 10 Indian Branch, limited' 3 3 id • et Madras, gua. 5 p.o 100 100 102 1111 st Do. 4; do lOO 93 05 at Do. 44 do lOO 89 91 23 Do. Fifth Extension 5 st 31elb. Cor. 6p. c. Ends. 100 50 Mel. & Hobson's Eay..l all at N. 11.1.0 ' da, 6pc Is t pt. bs ' 100 83 85 at Scinde .......... 100 100 101 at Do. Delhi 20 Do, do - 0. 14, 15 3 p at Do. Punia u b.... 100 99 100 1(01 3 at Do.lndus St.Flot 100 185 87 BRITISH MINES. Cam. Consol. Gold, Um. 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated SO 53 63 Devon G. Cons. (Tavlst 1 440 430 Drake walls 2.1.0 I East Ba sse tt (Ill ogan) 294 10 12 East Caradon 2.14.n 8 6 r East Cara Brea 3l 2 24 East Grenville 2.14.0 14 2 East Gunnislake 8.3.6 3 East Lovell 3.9.0 8 9 E. W't Russell (Tavistk 11.7.6 14 2 Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen, 66 4 5 4 Great Laxey, limited all 17 18 Great South Tolgus 0.14.0 Great Wheal Basy 11,9.6 - G. Wheal Vor (Ralston 40 17 39 173 Grenville 9.0.6 13 13 Elerod's Foot 35 37 Ilingston Downs 5.10.6 23 23 Margaret (Uny Le1ant,13.17.6 6 8 Marke Valley 11.10.6 41 53 11wyndy Iron Ore, Um 8. 23 13 e S ton ...... 563 60 70 North loskear N.Wh Bassett(lllogar, 4.-1.0 North Wheal Crotty 2.13.0 2 3 _ Prosper United......., 8.11.0 2 23 Providence ,Uny Lel ant 10.6.7 29 3 t - ,S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l3 390 410 ..- South Condurrow S. Wheat Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 374 424 Stray Park Tln Croft 9 13 14 vigra and Clogan, lim all 0 2 W. Vest a ß r a a s d s o e n tt ((ILlliosgkeaanid it. 14 1 I 1 i West Chi verton ll 66 68 West Seton 474 115 2(5 Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 53 85 95 Wheal Buller (Redruth 16 16 10 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 18 20 'Wheal Solon Wheal Trelawney (Lis. 5.17.0 6 8 The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 25f. 17ic. per .C 1 sterling. On clinparing these rates with the English Mint price 01 iis. 10icL per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about the same price in London and Paris. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 1091 per cent. At this rate there s no profit on the importatiN (if gold from the United States. 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 loose 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 aro 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 15,000,000 : " In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, one God in Trinity, chosen by God, King of King ,, , Theodor( s 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. I am 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 1 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 auwer to this letter by Con sul Cameron, and that he may conduct my Embassy to England. See how the Islam oppress the Christian !"—Beeton's Journal, Jan. 18, 1868. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, RACING FIXTI FEBR RES FOR 1868. rARY. Lincoln Spring Harrow 2O I Nottingham Spring 25 Derby Spring WTI. MA: Liverpool Spring M 8 Chelmsford Spring M 10 Shrewsbury Spring 10 \Vest Drayton l2 Warwick Spring Margate Epsom Spring Touting 21 Croxton Park Northampton AP. Northampton (continued) 1 Bromley • • 6 Aldershot Durham Hendon l3 Newcastle Spring Newmarket Craven 'RIL. Knighton Abergavenny Catterick Lewes Spring Think Curragh April Newmarket Ist Spring AY. Newmark©t Ist Spring (continued) Chester 5 Winchester , l2 York Spring Doncaster Spring Salisbury Bath Croydon Ist Summer Harpenden Epsom Summer West Drayton 1 Croydon 2d Summer Ascot Summer 9 Windsor Summer Newton Hampton Bibury Club - 23 Curragh Juno Stockbridge Alexandra Park 3O Alexandra Park (con.) 1 Chelmsford Worcester Summer ... 2 LY. Liverpool I Stamford Hunti ng don 2l I Nottingham July I Southampton I Goodwood Carlisle Newmarket July 7 Reading Odikam, l6 AUGUST. Brighton Brighton Club 6 Lewes Summer 7 Wolverhampton ll Stockton Plymouth Windsor Egham lB Hastings York August Oxford Scarborough 24 Derby Summer Canterbury Weymouth Lichfield Tunbridge Margate 3l IMBER. SEPT] Warwick September 1 Abingdon 3 Leicester Doncaster September 8 Richmond Kelso l5 Hampton Autumn l5 Hendon l7 Monmouth .. Newmarket let October 22 West Drayton 29 Royal Caledonian Hunt and Ayr 3O OUTi Royal Caledonian Hunt and Ayr (continued)... 1 Bedford 1 Bromley Newmarket 2d October 5 NOW Shrewsbury Autumn Leamington and War. STEEPLE FEBR Carmarthen Birmingham • 11, 12 Lincoln Harrow 2O Boston MAI Liverpool Spring 3 Shrewsbury Spring.. 10 •••• Grand Military . 16, 17 War wick l7 Chertsey 2O I API Grant National Hunt (Bedford) 2 Roy. Artillery (Woolwich) 3 Bromley Aldershot IBER. Chelmsford Autumn l3 Cheltenham l3 Ealing Newmarket Houghton hi Worcester ;ÜBE Et, 9 vickshire Hunt l7 .CHASES. EARY. Windsor Grand Military and Open Derby Spring 27 Baschurch . 2B ICH. 1 Margate 23 West Somerset 24 Cheltenham 1 Southdown Hunt 1 Cambridge • EtIL. Knighton Abergavenny Hamblodon Kildare Hunt Croydon Spring Hendon - 3 O 3O OCTOBER. Bromley 1 I Ealiug lb DECEMBER. St. Albans 1 i Ealing 26 Ki ngs b u ry NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty : Lieutenant L. Walter J. Kerr, to the Defence ; Com mander Charles E, Foote, to the Defence ; Lieutenant Walter B. Bridge, to the Royalist ; Midshipman Herbert F. Murray, to the Defence; Georga 4. 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 tho Trafalgar. ACTION BY AN ACTRESS FOP. THE Loss OF HER WARDROBE. —At the Stoke-on-Trent County Court on Wednesday the North Staffordshire Railway Company wore sued by Miss Eliza Clayton, au actress, for £lO da mages, sustained by the loss of her wardrobe when in charge of the company. On the 21st October last Miss Cl a yton, who had been playing an engagement a t th e Twister' Theatre, left Burslem for Liverpool, where she was under an engagement for 14 nights. She had with her three packages, containing the wardrobe required for the characters, and which were 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. She was obliged to throw up her engagement in conse quence of taking a severe cold on the day of her arrival iu Liverpool, where she was running all day between tie railway station and the theatre in search of her luggage. The value of the purchased costumes was £8 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 the 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. SPORTING INTRLGIGENOE—This Day. TIIE LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP Of 100 sous added to a Sweepstakes of 15 sous each, 10 ft and 5 if declared, for three years old and upwards. Silenus, Speculum, Corinne, Scipio, Beanstalk Czar, Snowdrop, Purveyor, The Pope, Blueskin, Moleskin, La Ferte Fresno', Rhine Wine, Lady Diana, Python, Easby, Pyrrhic, Ainslie, Our Mary Ann, Special, Feu Follet, Historian, Narino, Wild Moor, All in the Dark, Leases, Belzoni, Grey Stocking, Skirmish, King Victor, Paul Jones, Vigorous, Valorous, Minnie Warren, Abergeldie, Bessie Dixon, Ligurian, Bumboat, Redivivus, Redcap King Charming, Mount Palatine, Othello, Artesian, Cava lier, Clarice, Grand Duke, Ulphus, Rabbit Trap, Mistletoe, Demon, Proserpine, Di Vernon, *lunerdale, *Beauty, Red Ribaud, Cauthleen, Patti, Midwife, Mars, Knot, Bag pin Fe° lor,Volunteer, Indigestion, Hebe, Miss Osborne, Bandmaster, Milton, Weather Isle, ilamtnerton, Polecat! honesty, Sweet Willie, Tribune, Lady Zetland, Capreri, The Squire, and *Gatti°. Those horses marked ( 5 ) having been entered Nvithout the knowledge of their owners, will be struck - out at the time prescribed, unless specially ordered to remain in. NOMENCLATURE. The following names have been given : Mr. E. Green's Ch f by Old Calabar, out of Rosebud, Aston, 2 yrs •.. Yellow Rose Mr. T. Goldby's yearlings. Br cby L&boat, out of Marie Agnes... Sheet Anchor Br c by Lifeboat, out of Madame Walton ... Izaak Walton B c by Promised Land, out of Alice Wentworth Ireland Bf by Trumpeter—Lady Middleton... Brazen Jade Oh cby Lifeboat—Marie Agues, 2 yrs Bushbury Mr. John Scott's B c foal by Claret, out of Columbine, by Flying Dutchman ... Carbonnell Lord St. Vincent's B yearling filly by Lord Clifden, out of Prairie Flower, by Hospodar Rosalie Two year olds at Alvediston. Bc by Voltigeur, out of '1 ho Thane ... Woodstock Bc by Voltigeur—Bab at the Bowster Castle Hill Bc by Crater, out of Pelios's dam ... Vacuum Br fby Voltigeur, out of Dividend ... The Bank B c by Lacydes, out of Present Acknowledgment Br c by Promised Land—Amazonian Anlaco Br e by Buccaneer, out of Libusa Boubow KINGSBURY (Past).—An objection having been made to Watorperry, the winner of the Hunters' Stakes, on the ground that she had won a race contrary to the conditions, the following is the decision of the Stewards regarding it: —"We are of opinion that according to the conditions of the race Waterperry cannot be disqualified, as she never won a race value 20 sous. for which she was liable for race-horse duty. (Signed) rouLzTr. T. M. TOWNLEY. LEAMINGTON HI:INT.—The owner of Jacob having ascertained that that horse is thorough-bred (being by Sabrena, or Underhand, out of Energy), withdraws all claim to the Tallyho-Stakes, for which Jacob came in first (see Vol. Itacos Past, p. 160), and therefore the race goes to Somerled, who came iu second. FORFEIT LIST.— The forfeits of the following horses have been paid :—Aladdin, Louisa, and Advertisement. STEEPLECHASE FORFEIT LlST. —Coleman's forfeit has been paid. LONDON GAZETTE.-THIS EVENING-, WHITEHALL, JAN. 17. Tho Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Lewis Welsh Owen, M.A., to the Rectory of Waddingham, in the county and diocese of Lincoln, void by the death of the Rev. William Windsor Berry. FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 11. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the llon. William Stuart, to be her Majesty's Minister Pleni potentiary to the Argentine Republic. FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 14. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George Worme as Consul at Edinburgh for his Majesty the Em peror of Austria. DOWNING STREET, JAN. 15. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir Arthur Ed. Kennedy, C. 8., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the West Africa Settlements. SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 17. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Massilia passed the Needles at 2.20 p.m. to-day. THIRD EDITION• SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. SPECIAL CONSTABLES. This afternoon the Justices sat at the Old Hum munsior the purpose of further adding to the number of special constables already sworn in in the parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden. Soon after the magis trates Mr. Henry White and Mr. Stilwell, had taken their seats, Mr. Arthur Swanborough of the Strand Theatre, the members of the company, the orches tra, and other employes, numbering nearly sixty, attended to takt the oath. Amongst those present were—Mr. Edward Swanborough, , Mr. S. Emery, Mr. T. Thorne, Mr. D. James, Mr. Charles Fenton, and Mr. F. Musgrave. Mr. White addressed the gentlemen, and said it was gratifying in the extreme to see every class of her Majesty's subjects coming forward to prove their loyalty to the Throne, and their detestation of the dastardly outrage which had been perpetrated by men who threw aside all law moral and divine. in order to attempt the accomplishment of their traitorous purposes. The oath was then ad ministered to the whole of those present in the most impressive manner. The total of special constables now sworn in this parish amounts to 2,400, and exceeds in number those of any other single parish in the metropolis. Colonel Mayne, Major Charter, and Mr. Now, still remain on permanent duty at headquarters, where the utmost vigilance is kept up, and every precaution taken to meet any emergency that may arise. A complete return of the officers of this division and the men allotted them has now been furnished to Lieut.-Colonel Ewart. The organisation of this district is now so perfect, that 1,500 men can be assembled at any time at a given point within the hour. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—This Evoniug. Amsterdam Short. 11 17i 11 18f Ditto 3 Months. 12 I) 12 O &Montan' Antwerp —2 t 25 3if Brussels — 25 ' 32f 25 3if ... .. hamburg Paris 13 91 13 1U Short 25 12f 25 22} Ditto 3 Months.2s 30 - 25 35 Marseilles Yraulrfor: on the Maine 120 120 f Vienna — 12 27} 12 35 Trieste — 12 30 12 35 Petersburgn Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples . 29 25 .29 30 Palermo .... 29 25 29 30 Messina , . 29 25 29 30 Lisbon — 51} bli Oporto — -51 f 51} Bank of England Returns,—Last Evening, An Account, pursuant to t] cap. 82, for the week ending 1 he Act 7th and Bth Victoria Wednesday, Jai. 11, 1868. F. AitniENT. ISSITS DE: Notes issued ...X86,003,735 Governmt. Debt. 11,015,100 Other Securities 3,984,900 Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion X 36,003,735 £36,003,735 ?.PARTMENT. Uovernmt. Socu ritioa(including Dead Weight Annuity) .... £14,569,046 Other Securities 17,396,823 Notes 11,678,965 Gold and Silver Coin ..„ l, 082,478 £44,727,312 liiNIEING Proprietors' Capi tal,., £14,553,000 Rest 3,268,357 Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and Div. Accounts 3,224,627 Other Deposita. 23,000,437 Seven Days and other 8i115..... 680,691 £44,727,312 Foreign Mail Packet List, MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via BOuthanlpto2.....Jan. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles .......Feb. 13. _ . Ditto, via Panama ....... .......... Jan. ',S. Brasil, i3nenos Ayres, and .11onte Video Feb. 3. Ditto, by French packet . Jan V, (Jape Verde, by Brazil packet ....... Cape of Good Hope, Asoension. and St. lielena Jan. 27. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton JAn. 11. Ditto, via Marseilles -.• • . .... Jan. 27. FaUldind i11a114.5.,..., , it.m ..., . , .• )rdS Dug, hell, ;ass)