The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-15 00:00:00

icess rday ghe ; Orli - ICCSS visit i his nilcs idled r, on the :ents ! the :arer atue we cks, wen d a ken aoro amo oyal orn3 na- 3, a lied heir per -)rO on- I it ►r a 0 or rful ling AND ;ive ind Lai )tt, la ; of d a om ere Lay ;tb, out the oco ;in any Lee, :ey, im, MONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELi..r.O%,-.,A, CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The improvement in the Stock Market noticed all this week continues. There is a steady demand for investment, in consequence of the excessive ac cumulation of money in every direction. The bear speculators have been considerably inconvenienced during the progress of the settlement which closes this afternoon by the tenacity of holders and the steady purchasing of the public. It is probable that the lesson will have a beneficial effect upon the future policy of adverse dealers. The most notable feature is the further fall of St. John del Rey shares, on the report received by the share holders this morning. The Discount Market is very quiet, and the best class of commercial paper is being rea lily taken at if per cent. The failure is reported in the Stock Exchange of a speculative jobber, who is one of the members of that body who made large gains during the panic of 1866. The Corn Market is quiet, at Monday's prices. Consols are steady, at 928 to 921 for money and account. New and Reduced Three per Cents., 921 to 924 ; India Five per Cents., 111 to 1111 ; Bank Stock, 210 to 242 ; Exchequer Bills, 225. to 275. prem. Foreign Stocks are without change from last night's prices. Mexican are quoted 151 to 154 ; Greek, 12 to 121 ; New Spanish, 35 to 351 ; Italian ( 1 861), 41/ to 421 ; Turkish (1865), 304 to 308 ; Portuguese Scrip, 1 to 11 prem. ; Egyptian Railway Loan, 904 to 911; and Brazilian (1865), 75 to 76. The New Honduras Loan is steady, at 1 to 1 prem. ex coupon. In American Securities United States Five r rwenty Bonds are steady, at 711 to 714 ; Erie R ailway, 4 better, at 484 to 49 ; Illinois are quoted 841 to 854 ex coupon, being 4 higher. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures have receded 11, to 23 24, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds 1, to 211 21/. Railways are scarcely so good as at the opening. As compared with last evening, there is now a rise of 1 in Caledonian, at 74 to 741 ; of 1 in Great Northern A, at 1061 to 1071 ; and of 1 in South Eastern, at 671 to 68, and in Great Eastern at 29 to 291; Brighton shares are 1 lower, at 47/ to 481 ; and Sheffield also at 44 to 441 ; Midland arc scarcely so good, at 1031 to 1044. There is no change in the Lancashire and York shire, at 123 to 1231 ; London and North-Western, at 114 to 1141 ; Great Northern, 106 to 107 ; North British, 331 to 344 ; and Great Western, 451 to 454. Union Bank of London Shares are 304 to 311; and National Discount, 104 to 11. The receipt by the shareholders of the St. J ohn del Rey Mining Company of the report alluded to yesterday has been followed by a further considerable fall in the priee of the shares, business having taken place at 29/. The fire broke out in the Cachouda mine on the tight of the 21st of November. It was subdued 0 n the 23d , and it was believed was wholly ex tinguished by the morning of the 26th. No opinion could be formed as to the, extent of the damage u ntil the mi nes were re-opene d an d exam i ne d, w hi c h it was not thought prudent to do hurriedly. Mr. G ordon, the manager, was closely investigating the c ause of the firo, but at the date of his last letter no conclusion had been arrived at. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. • dank thousand so vere i gn s were sent into the an 't Yesterday for Lisbon. • .. nclon I. 4 ) 1 'he following is the Report of the Union Bank of for the six , adopted at the meeting toda y " The : ',lirectors have to report that the net profits of thebank months ending 31st December last, after Payment of all charges (including the sum of £52,638 ,f's 5 d for interest, paid and due to customers on their I ,l r ,rent and deposit accounts), and making ample pro -4sinrl for all bad and doubtful debts, amount to fo r w a rd ''9 5s 9d, which, with £11,479 4s 7d brought i from 30th June last, amount to £101,190 la st 4 d . The directors now declare a dividend for the 0 - , - ",n,tx months at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum -- 'Re paid-up capital, clear of income tax. After Payment of the dividend, amounting to £90,000, th ere 10s 4d to be will remain a balance of £11,190 . arr ied forward for appropriation at the end of the Payable on and after Monday the 20th instant. (Limited) r The report of the National Discount Company 1 is as foll ows: —Th e accoun t s w hi c h the direc h°direc- tors h ave now the p l easure to su b m i t t o th e share show for the half-year ending 31st December i i , ast ),a gross profit of £89,002 4s, and after deduct r-eg tne current expenditure, directors' and auditors' ,11311neration, writing off £142 6s 8d towards re- of premises, and reserving £21,104 4s t e of interest on bills not due, there remains, with th e sum P a ree e d i_ of £3,499 18s brought forward from the division ti account, £61,647 lOs 61 The admits of h at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum, x s e u„7ill absorb £59,841, and leave a balance of 1 1 ,',. ' lOs 6d, alf-year' to be carried forward to the next s account. The directors, who retire by rotation 4, , are —G. Barnard, Esq., H. H. Toulmin, th'' a nd P. C. Wilki ns, E sq., a ll of whom, being 4tigible, offer th emselves for re - election. The ret ditors, j. M. Bell and J. R. Morrison, Esqs., " ( I r e, in accordance with the Articles of Association, ' being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. The „„_. dividend, free of Income-tax, will be payable on "au after the Ist of February 'p i _ ~0 , . . next. b i l'ue I 'lowing is the report of the New Consolidated pleas unt Company :—The directors have much _ure in submitting to the shareholders the accoin i,i_ecernber, 1 867, showing a ,arl-Ving balanee-sheet for the half-year ending 31st gross profit of £12,852 ;-U r s 11d, including the balance of £651 Os 3d, brought °w !'rd front account. The nett profit, after de auction .of current expenses and rebate on bills not „,, 11 ,) Is £4,173 4s ld, which the directors pro re appropriating as follows, viz. :—.£2,256 9s 94 to ~",.! payment of a dividend at the rate of 7i per cent. Per annum (free of income tax) ; adding £1,300 to akunei re serve fund, w hi c h w ill then amount to £3,000 ; lo t- carrying the bala nce , £616 14s 4d, to profit and s a new account. In accordance with the Articles of Association Messrs. W. McArthur, H. F. Sande 'llan, and J. C. Simonds retire from the direction, a nd, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. The auditors, Messrs. James Cooper (of Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle, and E vans ) an d Whitbread Towson, also retTowson,re, and offer themselves for re-appointment. Tenders for the New South Wales Government Five per Cent Loan for £758,000 were opened yester day afternoon at the Oriental Bank, when it was found that applications had been sent in for £1,125,000. The minimum price was fixed at £94 per £lOO ; and applications at and above £94 3s 6tl will receive allot inents in full. A petition has been presented to the Lord Chan cellor for the winding up by the Court of Chancery of the Great Cwnisymlog Silver-Lead Mining Company, by a creditor ; and to the Master of the Rolls, by a co ntributory, for the winding up, under the super vision of the court, of the National Standard Fire Insurance Company. A creditor has also presented a Petition for the winding up of the Stourbridge Glass Com pany (Li m it e d) , to b e heard on the 24th instant, before Sir John Stuart. Mr. Frederick B. Smart (of the firm of Fredk. B. Smart and Snell, 38, Gresham-street), public ac- Lo ntant, ha s b een appo i nted off i cial liquidator of the endon Quays and Warehouses Company (Limited). 19 A meetin g o f s h are h o ld ers of the Caledonian Rail- Il a,y, Comp any was held ou Monday at Dundee—Mr. h id iani Lowso n , o f B a i t h ayock, i n the chair. The Proceedings were private, but we (Dundee Advertiser) seconded by Mr. Soot, it was unanimously re v,' \r ed to appoint Messrs. William Lowson, O. 'lliarn Harris, and John Sharp, a committee u Confer with the Investigation Committee, and With i ll a ny committees th a t may b e appo i nted b y 6 ' reholders in other districts, with a view to the iin irevernent of the affairs of the Caledonian Railway om P a nY• Au opini on was expressed that it would be tri desirable for the shareholders to meet in each dis c,)et, and i ns t ruct committees as to the course that n uld be f o ll owed at the general meeting on the tadtb• These committees could th en meet together arrange upon a line of action which would pre t'-nt the general meeting—like too many meetings of I,kilid—falling into confusion. j ,ine ninth half-yearly meeting of the National I ),,,Thk of Auatralasia was held at the Head Office, r e udhourne, on the 15th of November, when the eeptc'rt, r ecommending a dividend at the rate of 10 per tle , it, and bonus, at the rate of 2k per cent., was tnimously adopted. The traffic receipts of the Great Luxemburg Rail- W ay Co m dee pany for th e wee k end i ng Jan. 12, show a r ease of £1,059 4s. _At the meeting to-day of the London and West- t '„,inster Bank the directors' report was adopted. I "tates that the net profits for the last half year amount to £147,645 lie. This sum, added to £31,955 is sd, the unappropriated balance of the preceding half year will amount to £179,600. From this amount £9,169 has been deducted for interest to 31st De cember on £498,720, the amount received on ac count of the issue of the new capital. A dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, and a bonus of 13 per cent. free of income tax, were declared, leaving a balance of £10,104 Bs. 111 to be carried forward. BRITISH FUNDS.--CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 por Dent. Consols Do. Account, Feb. 6 921 1 2 3 per Cent.. Reduced 921 -i. Now 3 per Cent 92i 1. Now 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. 5 per Cent... Jan. 1873 — tunuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telehraph), Au,., 1908 — E cchc,quor Bills, £l,OOO, 2 & 21 per Ct.._ 23 put Do £5OO — pat . Do. £lOO & £2OO — pm Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent — Do. Account INDIAN UOVERNMENT SEcullm.Es. Indian :cock, 101 per Cent., April 1871_ 213 17 Do.. Account Do. 5 per Cent. ,I uly, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent.. Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enlaced Pap'. 4 p.-m- Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cont., May 1879 lOBl Do. 5 per Cont., Rup. Deb., 1872 — . _ Do. do. , 1877 — Do. do. 188 4 Do Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000 Do. undor -£1,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent — A.ustriau Bonds, 5 por Cent. 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 4/ per Cent., 1852-58-60 1863 Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account 76 Do. £lOO Bonds Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent B4 DJ 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Cuba, 6 per Cent. Cullum 6 per Cent Do. 4} per Cent 00. 6 per Cent., B . Do., 1867 Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 Do., Scrip £32 p a id C 0 mbian, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 p3r Cent., 1825 D inubian Principalities, 7 per Cent 6 3/ Do 8 per Cent., 1867 6ll Bluador New C;onsolidated, 1 per Cent — dgyptiar, 7 per Cent — Do. Second Issue B7} Do. £5OO Bonds Do. £IOC Bonds 9o} Do. 1864 no. .£s')o Bonds B9t Do. £lOO Bonds ,.... 90 4 1 Government Railway Debentures ..... 91} 901 11 Greek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups —.. Do. Account . .. 124 Du. Coupons Do. Account Guatemala 5 per Cent . Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 7p. Ct., £l5 pd pm Itlnau 5 per Cent, 1865 Do, Account Do. Maremmana Raiway N.l. , xicar. 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Do. 1864 Do 6 per Cont. Auglo-French Nlontevidmu C per Cont. quorish imperial 5 per Cent Now Granada — Do 3 per Con Do. Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cont. 1865 Do Account 69} it I. Do 41 per Cent. (llribarren) Do 4f per Cent., 1862 Do Account Portaguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 38 Russian 5 per Cont., 1822, St Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 4f per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bonds — Do. do. £B4 15s. do. Do., 1866, £lOO 80nd5.... BBl Do. do. £B4 15s. do — Sa. , -dinian, 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Gen Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive Do Acc.ant Do Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do Account Tu-lcish 6 per Cent. Do Account Do Do 6 her Cont. 1858 ... Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do AZ;vount, Do ..C.loe Bonds 5B i Do. 1863 _ Do 5 per Cent., 1865 — Di Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 D y i per Cent., Guaranteed Venezuela, 3 per Cent. _ Do Account — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Dividenas on the above payable in Lonclou. Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins m Belgian, 4} per cent., Ex. 2sf. Dutch 2i per Out. Ex. 12 Gail 53 Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ...., French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 2M. T HREE O'CLOCK. 921 921 * C o ri n s o o . l A s , c i S e Toounnety IIIARKETS—( 2 his Day.) CORN. The weather since last report has continued mild, and the reports respecting the wheat plants are not unfavour able. The general aspect of the trade is quiet, and the pro vincial market reports show rather less firmness in prices without much reaction. In Mark-lane to-day there was a fair attendance for Wednesday ; but the demand was dull for all descriptions. English wheat was taken off in retail at about the rates of Monday last. Foreign wheat met only a limited inquiry, but was not pressed for sales at any appreciable decline. The flour trade ruled inactive, without variation from the rates of Monday last. Malt may bo quoted steady in value, but without activity. - Barley maintains its value, although purchased spar ingly. Beans and Peas are unchanged. Oats in limited demand at the previous currency. ARRIVALS. English and Scotch Irish. Foreign. Wheat 430 ... ... 16,310 Barley 160 ... ... Oats ... 70 ... 3,660 Flour : Sacks 1,070 ... ... 800 Barrels ... ... NEWGATE AND LEADENITALL. MEAT.—The dead meat markets are rather firm, consider ing the weather, supplies being moderate:—Beef, best ox, 4s 4d to 4s 8d ; middling, 3s 10d to 4s. Mutton, best wether, 4s to 4s 2d ; middling , 3s ld ; inferior, 3s to 3s 4d. Veal, 4s to 4s 6d. Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per stone of 8 lbs., by the carcase. POULTRY. —The poultry markets are only moderately supplied, and the rates paid support lists of quotations. Turkeys, is to 12s ; geese, 5s to Gs ; ducks, 3s 6d. Fowls, common, 2s Gd to 3s 6d ; Surrey chickens, 3s to 3s 6d ; fowls, 4s to 5s ; capons, Gs to 8s ; pigeons, 8d to 10d ; rab bits, tame, is 6d ; wild, is to 1s 2d each. Game continues scarce and dear; hares, 4s; pheasants, 4s ; partridges, 2s 6d each. WILD FOWL meets a steady sale as coming to hand. Pintail, is 6d; widgeon, is to is 2d; teal, Od to is each. EGas are still scarce and dear. English, 13s to 15s ; French, 10s to lls per 120. COLONIAL. SUOAR. —The market continues dull, and prices tending in favour of buyers. Refined sugars are cheaper. Common English lump, 41s; grocery, 41s 6d to 455; pieces, 33s to 39s 6d ; crushed, 31s 6d ; Dutch, No. I, forward delivery, 29s 6d. At auction, 412 hogsheads, 5 tierces, 121 bar rels, and 199 boxes Cuba were all bought in at 31 to 35s per cwt. COFFEE. -The demand is steady, and supplies being light, rates continue firm. TEA.--There is not much passing in China teas, and rates are unaltered. RUM. — Demand has been active, and rates firm. Jamaica, 3s 2d to 3s 3d; Demerara, 2s 3d; Berbice, 18 lld ; Ladard Island, is 9id per gallon proof. SPICES. —The market is dull, and prices rather easier. For public sale, 1,645 bags of black pepper were all bought in, Singapore at 31 to 3i; Penary at 34 per lb. TALLOW.— The market is barely so firm on the spot, otherwise there is no appreciable change. Y.C. quoted 43s 6d spot, 44s Gil spring, 44s sellers March, 44s 6d sel lers last three months. A STEAMER ON THE SCROBY SAND.—On Mon day morning a screw steamer was observed on the inner hook of the Scroby Sand. Assistance was promptly tendered by the Great Yarmouth steamtugs Sailor and Pilot, and also by a crew from the Star company of beach men, and as the vessel was striking heavily the services of the salvors were accepted. The steamer proved to be tho Derwont, from Sunderland for London, with coal The salvors m a d e every exertion, and just as the tide reached its height they succeeded in towing off the steamer without hor having sustained any material damage. The Der went proceeded on her voyage, the ser vices of the salvors having been settled by agreement for £4lO. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 18b8. Paid;l Closing Business Priee. done. 54 66 731 74} 20 3O , 2 4 74i 751 1 70 72 95 07 281 29k 6 8 15 16 165 'O7 iO7 103 12.4 1'43 06 OS 45 454, 25 34 2V 3t 123 al 4.4 11 luo 100 lOU 'Cu ail 114 / ;6 ;8 41 14 h. 5 110 t(;2 IG3 1(3 1(.31, 72 74 33 35 98 99 59 61 9l 93 731 41 4 29 : 2 10i 4 107 2 i 8 4 12% 48; i lei 5 ;141 774 116 1.51 1416 A 1011 15 1} i LAW INTELLIGENCE—This ray. COURT OF ARCHES. (Before the Right Hon. Sir Robert Phillimore, Dean of Arches.) MARTIN V. MACHONOCHIE.-RITUALISM IN HOLBORN. The further argument was considered in this case, and notwithstanding that this was the twelfth day there was a very large attendance of clergy and laymen present. Mr. Stephen, Q.C., Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey appeared for the promoter ; and Mr. James, Q.C., Mr. Prideaux, Q.C., and Dr. Tristram for the defendant. Mr. Prideaux said that, in compliance with his lordship's suggestion, he should curtail his argu ment as much as possible. Ile had one great advantage over his friend, for all that he advanced he knew to be true, and he was not affected by any authority that he might quote, although his friend approached with fear and trembling. He main tained that the prayers of the service ought to be read and sung according to the Church of Eng land, and all the incidental ceremonies and orna ments which were in use during the first prayer book of Edward VI. could be used now. lie quote.l Mascoll's "history of the Early Church," and in it was plainly stated that the prayers read and sung in the church were in ac cordance with the first prayer-book. Ile quoted a case which was acted upon, and that was the case Eliza Shipton v. Dr. Eigland, Chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich. In this case the Chan cellor had ordered that no woman coming to be churched should appear without a white veil. Eliza Shipton refused, and was excommunicated. She resisted on the ground that there was no canon im posing the wearing the white veil, and that custom was not sufficient. The bishop consulted with the judges, and they decided against the application. This, he contended, clearly proved that matters other than those mentioned in the letter were permitted to be used and became lawful by custom. lie also contended that, though not mentioned, all the in cidental ceremonials of the great eucharistic sacri fice, as used in the Church of Rome, could be used in our service. The case is still proceeding. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. BOW-STREET. ANOTHER SUPPOSED FENIAN.— James Liver more, a big but half-starved-looking Irishman, was placed before Mr. Vaughan, charged with firing a pistol in Martlett-court, Bow-street, close to the Police Station ; ho was also charged with being drunk. The case occasioned considerable in terest in consequence of its being supposed that some danger was threatened to the Police Station, and that the prisoner was one of a party of Fenians who had prepared a plot for the destruction of the building. The prisoner, on being charged in the first in stance at the station, gave his name as above, but on being placed at the bar, and, according to the usual practice, asked his name this morning by the gaoler, said, " I'm not going to tell you." The gaoler repeated his question two or three time, but the prisoner doggedly refused to answer. Prisoner—l'mMr. Vaugh notgoinga u—Yo to give your name ? say anything more. Inspector Parker—When the prisoner gave his name last night he refused to state his address. Mr. Vaughan then directed the case to proceed against the prisoner as James Livermore. ur ref use to Mrs. Itoffey, a saleswoman in Covent-garden Market, said she resided in Martlett-court, and last night about 10 o'clock, when she heard the re port of a pistol, she was very much frightened ; her children saw the flash of fire occasioned by the dis charge of the weapon. Mr. Vaughan—Can you can state positively that it was a pistol that was fired ? Witness—No ; I only heard the report. Prisoner—Then it might have be en a double barrelled gun for aught you know ? Witness—l don't know whether it was a pistol or a gun. Henry Tees, a little boy, said at ten o'clock last night he was near the house next to the one with a garden in Martlett-court, and that he heard the report of a pistol. The man that let it off had a round hat on. Mr. Vaughan—Look at the prisoner. Is that the man ? Witness—Ycs, sir, that is the man. I was about one door from him when he let the pistol off. The prisoner was standing near the garden gate, with his arms over the railings, when I saw him. I did not see the pistol. _ _ Mr. Vaughau—Did you see the smoke ? Witness—Yes. It went into our house. Mr. Vaughan—Did the smoke come from where the man was standing ? Witness—Yes it did. The moment the pistol was let off I went to the door. Prisoner—Was it dark last night, and what o'clock did this take place? _ . Witness—lt was past 10 o'clock, and the night was dark. Prisoner—You did not have your watch with you. If it was dark, how could you see me ? Witness—l was not far from you, and I saw all that took place very well. Prisoner—Oh, you have got cat's eyes, and can see well in the dark. Will you swear that I fired the pistol ? Witness—No. I did'nt see the pistol. I will swear that you were standing near the pailings. Prisoner—Might there not have been another person behind the pailings? Witness—No, there was nobody there but your self. A young man afterwards, in the court, asked you what you were up to. Henry Whitworth said he was an artist's colour man, and resided at No. 10, Martlett-court, and was with the l a d l ast night. lie saw the pr i soner standing near th e garden gate, and th i n ki ng that he was doing so me thi ng that was improper asked him what he wa s d o i ng. The pistol then went o ff , and so did the p r i soner, but he (witness ) followed him into Russell- s t reet, where he (pr i soner ) went into the Crown and Cushion publichouse, into which he was followed by a gentleman, who, upon the prisoner coming out o f t h e publichouse, gave hi m into custody. The prisoner then proceeded to put a string of frivolous questions to the witness, and in reply ing to some of them, he said he did not see the face of the man at the garden gate. lle fol lowed him to the public-house w i t h out seeing his circumstance that h egave him int o custody from the he wore a very peculiar sort of hat. Police-constables 51 F and 88 A. said that at tention was called to the prisoner by a person not now present as well as the last witness. Gough, 88 A, asked him if he had a pistol, and he said, " No." On searching him, however, a pistol was found, also two glass bottles and a bag, containing together about 4 oz. of gunpowder, a box of per cussion caps, and a bullet. The pistol, which was produced, b ore a ll t h e been discharged, remaining on the r p e p c e e r n t e l y a p g co a t h p e p e f a r r a a g n m c e e s n t o s f o h f a vi the nipple. Inspector Parker read a statement made by the prisoner last night, from which it appeared that he had been employed in a large establishment in Dub lin and Newcastle during the last few months. Mr. Vaughan again asked the man who he was? He refused to answer any questions or to state where he lived or where he came from. He stated he had some friends in London, but he refused also to state where they were. Mr. 'Vaughan said it was clearly a case for in quiry, and therefore he should remand the prisoner for a week. WESTMINSTER. PICKING UP A FLAT YANKEE. —Henry Prior, a man having the appearance of a stable helper in holiday costume, was placed at the bar charged with the following disgraceful fraud : Mr. Lincoln Percy Kilburn said---I am a mer chant. I live at 30, Kensington-gardens -square. I have to charge the prisoner with complicity with two others Ln etealiDg my pocket book, containing SHARE LlST.—This Day. ORDETARY 811.1.. R E 6 AND STOCKS. Shsrel Railways, 20 et st 100 i tsriatoi auu Exeter..... Caledonian • Cambrian.. Cork and 8and0n...... Corn wall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & A b.June E.London, bcrip Csrti Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. s tk. Do. E. Angl. at. No. 2 Great North ci Scotland Great Northern Do. A stock Do. B stuck Do. New, Is. at 25 pm GtS, sad W. al 1re14414 Gt. Weitern -Original Da. S. V Ll. Rail. gun: Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Alid.—Oxiaro Do. Newport Do. flereford ,Lann.,Bltire.t,Yorttvhirc-, ILJution and 131:wkwalii ILon., Coast', Jon., Chat., and Dovt-t,' Do. Mctrop. Ex. A ' Lun. .North Westefi Len. 41 South Westert 'Man., ShEt., he Lineon, .Metropolitan Do. New Do. Exteu.00n....., tietropolttau Diu.riet i)o. and St. John'e 'u Midland Do. L 9 Share Do, Darb) titicl lieut North Britiah Do. Md. ' I'th., St Dun th. Eastern —l3er wie! Do. (1.N•11; purohas, Do. I,e3d s ..... . Do. York Dr,. Carlisle Do. &wk.& Darling Do. do. ISSO-G1 North Londou ...o Do. do. Difi* 5 ... Do. do. Ido6 . North Staffordshire at S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stoci: Ito. Scot, Mid. stock Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern Staines, Wok., az Wok rail' Vale Do. C V ale ot heath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha I West Cornwall COLONIA.L GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. :British Columbia, 6 per. cent. Dec. 31, 1872 100 Can.Gov.6p.e.Ja.&July 100 08 100 1877-84 Do. 6p. o. Feb. At Aug 1 100 100 102 !Du. sp. o. Mar. & Sept! 100 100 102 ; Do. sp. 0. Jan. & July 100 86 88 illo. sp. c. Inscribed sk 100 85 87 , Cap e G.llope, 6 p.c.1873, 100 102 104 Do.Apl.&oot, 1890-1900, 100 106 108 Do. do 1880-9 u 100 104 106 Do. Jan.&July, 1690-91 100 107 109 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO t 5 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.c 100 - - Do. 1878, do lOO 119 1104 Mauritius, 6p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 .. Do. 1882, Mayls, N0v.16 100 105 107 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug.. 100 107 109 Natal , bov. 6 per cent.. 100 104 106 N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&July) 100 103 105 N. S. W. Gov.s p•c.,1860' 100 - - Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1876! 100 98 99 Do. 5 p.o. 1688 to 18951 100 974 984 051 f 5 - New Zealand, 6p. cent' 100 - - Do. 5 per cent.... ... 100 98 99 Nova Sc,,tia Gov. 6 p.c sterling, 1875 l9O 102 104 .tieensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 103 105 1011 S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c. 1868-9 100 -- - Do. 1878 tit upwards lOO 110 ill Vio,Gov. 6 p.c. Ss, &July 100 - - Do. do, April & Oct lOO 110 112 1101 11 BRITISH rossEssloNs. 41, m ita! t is iO ar ci o S a t a . , L a aj e r n lO n e . l a o l o l 1( 5 4 3 10 60 5 ' 11 gu. 5 per cent... tO Do. F shares lO p ip ,e 4 Buffalo & Lake Huron all 34 4 10 Do. Preference 100 o p.c. 187-- -1......•• Bu . ti.,Brant . , , tGodcrich iuo 68 71 at Calcutta &S. E., lim lOO 00 Demerara, 7 p.o. per. pL all 99 at East. Bengal, gu., sdo 100 10 3 1 0 4 103 at Jaue Town & Dock, gu. 1 00 - 18 52 40 Do. J Extension st East Indian, gu. 5 p.c lOO 1 10 11 0 4 109 81 st ,irandTrunkof Canada 100 17 18 'OO Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.o all 83 85 100 Do. Sat Pref. Bonds all 50 52 100 De. 2d Pref. Bonds all 40 45 100 Do. do deferred 100 Do. 3d Pref. stook. 100 Do. do. deterred 100 Do. do. deterred 100 Do. 4th Fret. stock all 194 20t 100 Do. do. deferred at •,; . 1. India i'en. v ua. sp.c lOO 107 10S 1(74 )3 'o. Gill. 5 per cent lB 2 1' 20 Do. New gua. 52. o 6 2 r et (. South of India gua. 5 per coat at Du. 41 per cent lov 92 94 at Do - 20.1 'rent W.• 13. of Cau•lda all 151 151 161 1 204 D. New .. - - 100 00. 6p. 187:, all 95 07 106 00. 53 do. pay. 1677-S.. all 85 67 10 Indian Branch, limited 3 / 4.1 st Madras, gua. 5 p.o .„, 100 100 102 at Do. 41 do lOO 03 95 st Do. 14 do lOO 89 91 21 Do. Filth Extension 5 ht lielb. Cor 6p. c. Buds.. 100 50 ;Mel. & llobson's Bay. .1 all et N.Rl.C'da,spc lstpf.ba . 1 100 83 85 at Seinde . st Do. Delhi 1 0 100 1004 10 , A c.; • - 20 Do. do e a- 4 e 15 1 1 p st Do. Puniaub.... aLol 100 99 100 at Do.lndus St.Flot 40 100 85 87 BRITISI.I 111INE3. 1. 3: Cam. Cousol. Gold, lim. 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated 3O 51 64 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist 1 440 430 I) rakewalls 2.1.0 1 1 East Bas se tt (Illogan) 291 10 12 - blast Caradon 2.11.0 9. 6 a 'as t Cara Brea 3l 2 21 - East Grenville East Gunnislake 8.3.0 — East Love l l 3.0.0 1 8 9 E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 11.7.6 14 2 Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. 66 4 5 4 Great Laxcy, limited all 17 18 Great South Tolgus 0.14.6 Great Wheal Basy... 14.9.6 G. Wheal Vor (Gelatin 40 17 19 Grenville 9.0.6 14 14 Elerod's Foot .... 8.10.0 35 37 llingston Downs 5.10.6 24 21 Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 6 8 - Harke Valley 4.10.6 41 51 4 Awyndy Iron Ore, Bea 31 21 11 New S ton .• • • 56 4 60 70 North toskear - N.Wh Bassettallogan 4.1.0 North Wheal Crofty Prosper 8.14.0 2 24 - PrAndenoe(UnyLelant 10.6.7 29 31 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l4 390 410 South Condurrow 3.2.0 i.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 371 124 itray Park . 35.15.6 4 ti Cr0ft.............fin 9 13 14 Vigra and Clogan, lim.. all _ West lassett (Mogan .. 14 4 11 W. Caradon (Liskeard 12 10 12 West Chirerton ll 60 08 West Selon Wheal Bassett ( Mogan 51 85 95 Wheal Buller (ftedruth 16 16 10 Wheal Mary Ann (Men 1 8 18 20 Wheal Seton , 58 4 85 90 Wheal Trelawney (1.18 15.17.0 6 8 ettEFERENCE s.amtEs . Great Western, 4 per cent irred. os Great Western, 5 per cent., rd., so FOREIGN RAILVirAYE. Dutch Rhenish, Si San Paulo, gua. 6 per cent., 181: FOUR:1(1N MINICH. St John del Rey, lim , 36) 5 BANKS: Agra. lim., A, 71 Ditto, B, 9 Alliance, Imperial Ot•oman, 81 London and Brazilian, lim., 17 London Joint Stock, 34i • Loudon and ‘% estinineter, Ditto, Scrip, 308 DIISCELLAN Z OM An i g a l n oA c mTeeireigcaranpl, Telegraph, 47 2 0 i a m ti Ditto, ne:rtr, iOl Bombay Gas, lim., 4 1-16 City Offices, Um., 51 Codamercial Union, Insurance. 41 Credit Yoncier of Erviland. Jim.. 3 13-16 East India Irrigation and Canal, 16i 6 Ebbw Vale, f i Fore-street Warehouse, lim., Gen. Credit and Discount, rm., 5 International Financial society , lim., Peninsula and Oriental Stearn, Ditto, new, 1867, 51 Rio de J aneiro City Improvements. 1 4 Thames and Mersey Marine, Insurance, lim., Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per cent. (Mortgage) Loan, 73 The Price of Gold. The quotation of geld at Paris la about at par, and the short exchange on Loudon is 25f. 17 i c. per £1 sterling. m On eparing these rates with the Eng lish Mint price of lead. per ounce for standard g old, it appearsthat gold is about the same price in London and Paris. CONVICTION FOR FIRE-RAISING.—At the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Monday, a labourer, named David Watson, was placed at the bar on a charge of wilful fire-raising on the farm of Lochend, on the 21st of October last. With a lighted lucifer he sot fire to a stack of wheat, and the fire extended to 11 othorstacks of grain, and, but for help arriving, the farmsteading would also have been destroyed. The day after the crime Watson surrendered himself to the police-superintendent of Leith, but could give no reason for the act except that ho was suffering from depressed spirits. The medical officers by whom be was examined declined to certify that ho was insane. The prisoner pleaded guilty. The Lord Justice General, in passing sentence, remarked that this was undoubtedly as serious a case of fire-raising as bad come before the Court for some time. That the prisoner bad committed the act without motive could not bo accepted as an alleviation of the offence. The sentence of the Court was that the pri soner undergo penal servitude for eight years. 129 131 11l 116 1 lip 51 61 113 115 56 67 42 44 67i 68 84 94 145 150 £4B. On the 7th of December I was walking in the Strand, when I was accosted by a man, who asked me the way to St. Paul's. He entered into conversation with me, and I told hini that I was going to Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. He said he was, like me, a stranger in London, and if I would allow him he would like to accompany me. We went together as I assented, and he proposed having some thing to drink. I told him I did not want any thing, but would go with him. A man who was in the room we entered, and who pre tended to be unacquainted with the first man, began talking about the sufferings of the poor, and while this was going on the prisoner came in and appeared to have been drinking, or pretended to have been, and he said that he had had a large sum lately bequeathed to him which he wished to dispense in charity. He then spoke about having offered to place a sum of moneyiatthe disposal of a man for that purpose, if he would produce an equivalent amount to show that he did not covet it ; upon which the first man said he should like to have some more ;ii)ney to give away on the same terms, and p..isoner replied that he might. The prisoner asked prosecutor if he would also like some to dispense, aul prisoner then said they must go with him to some place where the matter could be arrange]. They went to the Gun Tavern, and there prisoner said stamps were re quired to give him receipts for the money he ad vanced. He was about going out for them, when one of the others said, " Suppose he should not come back." Prisoner then volunteered, in order to insure his return, to leave his pocketbook, which he placed in a hat on the table, and went out. When he returned ho had only been able to got one receipt, and it was proposed that I and the first man should go out for the necessary stamps, and as the pri soner had had confidence enough in us to take his pocketbook as a guarantee of return we should do the same. The first man and I went out after leaving our books. He seemed to be going the wrong way, and I began to feel unwell. He told me to wait a few minutes while he got the stamps, and I did. When f returned to the public-house they were all gone, and my pocket book too. Mr. Arnold—Where were you born ? Prosecutor—ln the United States. Prisoner was remanded till Tuesday. THAMES. ROBBERY BY LOOSE WOMEN.—A STUPID SCOTCH MAN.—Sarah Lucy, Hannah Pedrick, and Eliza Smith, were brought before Mr. Paget charged with stealing a silver watch, value £5, from the person of Archibald Campbell, a clerk, of No. 1, Victoria-terrace, Grove-road, Mile-end-road. The prosecutor, a Scotchman, without any of the caution or tact of his countrymen, was passing the new Globe public-house, near the canal bridge, Mile-end, last night, and went with the prisoners and another woman, ever intent on preying upon any one who thought proper to join their company. He selected one of the lassies, Lucy, but refused the solicitations of the others to talk with them, The Scotchman walked a few yards with Lucy on his arm, the other prisoners following them. 11e turned down a narrow street, and was talking to Lucy a few minutes. She suddenly left him and joined the others. He directly missed his watch. It was in his coat pocket when he met with the women. He went after the three women and gave them in charge. James Toulmin, a police-constable, No. 425 K, said—This morning about half-past 12 the prisoners passed him in the Mile-end-road, and directly after wards he met the prosecutor, who said that one of them had taken his watch. He went up to the pri soners and said, " One of you has taken this gentle man's watch." They all declared they had never seen him before. He observed Smith and Pedrick handing something to each other, and shuffling their hands about their dresses. At last the prosecutor's watch was dropped on the ground between them. He picked it up, and Mr. Campbell said it was his watch. He was almost positively certain that Smith dropped the watch—she was quite close to Pedrick at the timr. In answer to Mr. Paget, the witness said that Pedrick and Smith had been convicted before, and were regular thieves. :Mr. Paget committed all the prisoriers for trial. NAVAL AND 111ILITA1?Y INTELLIGENCE. Th^ Bristol screw frigate, flagship of Commo dore G. T. P. floruby, arrived at Spithead late on Sunday evening from the west Coast of Africa. Yesterday morning she exchanged salutes with the Victory, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, Admiral Sir T. S. Pasley. She brought a few naval invalids, who were removed to the flag ship. The Bristol proceeds this morning to Sheer ness, to be paid out of commission. The paddlewheel steamer Gladiator, Capt. D'O D'A. Aplin, went into Portsmouth harbour yester day to coal and make good defects. The Danae, screw corvette, Captain Sir Malcolm M‘Gregor, went into Portsmouth harbour yester day to have her machinery examined after her late cruise, and before she has another trial of speed. The troopship Orontes, Capt. Phelps, went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday. The naval in valids were removed to the flagship Victory. Those of the military and also time-expired men will disembark this morning. The Orontes requires new boilers and repairs to her machinery, which will occupy some four or five months, and the Lords of the Admiralty have consequently decided on paying her out of commission. Rear-Admiral Sir George G. Wellesley, C. 8., Admiral Superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard, has recently received au address from the workmen and others belonging to the dockyard at Ports mouth, expressing their detestation of the late Fenian outrage at Clerkenwell, and the loyal feelings which animate them in asking permission to raise a penny subscription to assist the suf ferers from the late atrocious outrage. The fol lowing is a copy of the address presented to the Admiralty Superintendent :—" The workmen belonging to this establishment are of opinion the time has now arrived for themselves and others in this and all other establishments to show unmis takeably their feeling with regard to Fenianism. It has therefore been suggested that a penny subscrip tion be raised to assist in relieving the sufferers from the late outrage at Clerkenwell, the amount being as mentioned, so as to give an opportunity to all of showing their abhorrence of that dastardly crime, and as an additional proof on their part that they have an earnest desire to assist the Govern ment in suppressing such acts of villainy. We, therefore, beg of you to be pleased to grant us permission to collect the same in the yard, and to place a few notices to the above effect at the mus ter stations, &c.—We have, &c." We understand Rear-Admiral Wellesley laid the address before the Lords Commissioners of the Ad miralty, and that the First Lord, Sir Alexander Milne, and the other members of the Board have not only granted their permission, but have also re quested the Admiral Superintendent to convey to the workmen of the yard the expression of the gra tification their lordships have derived from the proof of loyalty and good feeling manifested by them in reference to the late Fenian outrage. We learn by the Bermuda Royal Gazette that the armour-plated ship Royal Alfred, 18, Capt. Hon. Walter C. Talbot, flag of Vice-Admiral Sir George R. Mundy, K.C.13., Commander-in-Chief on the station, which arrived at the island from Halifax on the Bth ult., again left on the 14th for the West Indies. It was understood at Bermuda that the Admiral would return in about seven weeks. The paddlewheel steam sloop Sphinx, Capt. Richard V. Hamilton, left in company with the Admiral. The screw steam sloop Fawn, 17, Commander Charles Heysham, left Bermuda on the 11th for St. Thomas. The iron troopship Urgent, 4, Captain Henderson, from Plymouth, November 17, via Madeira, where she remained three days, arrived at Bermuda on the 11th of December. She brought 32 naval officers, 40 seamen, 150 boys, and 80 Royal , Marines Light Infantry, to join different ships ou the North Alined= and West India stations and the Pacific. Among her passengers were Deputy-Inspector-General of Hos pitals and Fleets Henry J. Domville, C. 8., M.D. ; Captain Burgoyne, V.C. ; the Rev. 11. Lowry (ap pointed to the Constance), Lieutenant Marsdon, and Mr. 11. Langworthy, assistant-paymaster, ap pointed to the Terror. The Urgent left at Madeira on the 2d the screw steam sloop Rosario, 11, Com mander George Palmer, en route for Australia, and an American frigate bound to Colon, with supernu meraries for the American squadron in the Pacific. The Urgent was expected to leave Bermuda for Jamaica and Colon on the 17th of December, and to return in about seven weeks, when she would proceed direct for England. Captain Barnard, late of the Constance, goes in the Urgent to Jamaica for passage thence to England. The super numeraries for the squadron in the Pacific will cross the isthmus to Panama. Mr. A. Smith, assis tant-plynuster from the Royal Alfred, is appointed acting-paymaster of the. Urgent, vice Wagstaff, invalided. The troops whose arrival was announced in Ihe Son of yesterday in the troopship Crocodile, Capt. ‘Vatson, disembarked at the Portsmouth Dockyard yesterliy, and were focw4rded to their respective destinations, as alrea ly announced. The CrocoJi:e commenced coaling yesterday afternoon, and is or dered to have any defects made good, so as to leave Portsmouth on the 21st for Queenstown, there to embark the 92d .11ighlauders for Alexandria. She will, however, be - docked to-morrow, to have her •bottom cleaned and examined, as it is in a very bad state, principally occasioned by the length of time she was lying at Alexandria on her first trip, and by which her speed is very much decreased. On her first run of 3270 miles she burnt 625 tons of coals, giving a speed of 5.28 miles per ton. After lying five weeks at Alexandria, in a run of 3,027 miles she burnt 853 tons of coals, at a speed of only 3.54 miles per ton. It is understood that the docking and cleaning of the ship will not cause any deten tion or cause any departure from the original day fixed for her leaving (the 21st). Her Majesty's iron screw steam storeship Industry, Staff Commander E. C. T. Youel, on particular service, was yesterday hauled into basin at Wool wich to discharge dockyard stores from the Pacific, ou her arrival that morning, and the dockyard craft Devon, from Devonport, made fast alongside the dockyard wharf, laden with naval stores and the furniture and baggage belonging to Capt. Francis H. May, the newly-appointed Master-Attendant of the yard, who yesterday returned to Woolwich from leave of absence to commence his duties. Capt. George Biddlecombe, C. 8., the former Master- Attendant, is, we regret to state, detained at the official residence at Woolwich by a very severe at tack of indisposition, which is feared may prevent his being moved for some weeks. The four batteries of Royal Artillery, 11th brigade, detailed in The Sun of yesterday as having landed from the troopship Crocodile, arrived yesterday at Woolwich by the half-past two special train. They were met at the station by the regimental band, which accompanied them to the barracks, where they took up the quarters assigned for their use in the west wing. A battery of the 21st brigade now on their passage, also from India, is expected at Woolwich on or about the 17th inst. A general court-martial is ordered to assemble at Chatham garrison this morning by order of the Duke of Cambridge, for the trial of Captain J. H. Tennant, 45th Sherwood Foresters, on a charge of absenting himself from his regiment without leave. The Court will be presided over by Col. J. L. A. Simmons, C. 8., commanding the Royal Engineers. The following detachments of non-commissioned officers and sappers of the Royal Engineers left bead-quarters, Chatham, yesterday to augment the forces of Royal Engineers serving at various sta tions :—Lieut. R. Althorpe, and 24 non-commis sioned officers and sappers for Aldershott, to join the 3d and Gth companies ; 13 non-commissioned officers and men to Cork, to join the 20th company ; eight men to join the 25th company at Dover; eight men to the Curragh, to join the 28th company ; four men to Portsmouth, to join the 29th company ; two men for Weymouth, to join the 26th company 5 and one non-commissioned officer to Woolwich, to be attached to the Bth company. The batteries of the 11th Brigade Royal Artillery, from India, now quartered at Woolwich, have taken up a portion of the sentry and other duties, in con junction with the garrison troops, upon whom the night watch and additional guard have fallen for same weeks very heavily. On account of the num ber of reinforcements which have been supplied to foreign and out stations, the garrison at Woolwich has been considerably reduced, and the marching in of the batteries gave much satisfaction. The de tachments told off for night duty will now be relieved more frequently, the same detachment for some weeks past having been necessarily called out for 24 hours' guard three times per week. Messrs. Kirk, contractors to the War Depart ment, yesterday commenced erecting a lauding stage and pier on the Thames bank in the Royal Arsenal marsh, for the purpose of discharging build ing materials for the construction of seven bomb proof magazines, with a view of insuring an addi tional precaution against accidents in the preparation of live shells. The Victoria Hospital, built by the Messrs Kirk for the Government at Suez, and for which the materials were sent from Woolwich, was handed over on the Ist inst. for use. Her Majesty's screw gunvessel Ranger, 5, 80 horse power, Commander William A. Gambier, arrived at the More yesterday from the West Coast of Africa, last from Ascension, and saluted the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, Naval Commander-in-Chief, which was returned from the Formidable, flagship. She afterwards steamed into the Medwayfor the purpose of being dismantled and put out of commission. The Ranger was commis sioned on the 28th February, 1864, by Commander W. E. Gordon, now :of the Peterel, 3, 150 horse power, and during the whole time she has been in commission she has been attached to the squadron on the West Coast of Africa. She has lost a num ber of her original crew from sickness, and of the officers who left England in the Ranger only Lieut. D. 11. Bosanquet and Mr. F. A. Codd, Assistant- Paymaster, return with her. After being inspected by the Vice-Admiral Commanding-in-Chief, the Ranger will be dismantled and put out of commis sion. ller Majesty's ship Buster and Monkey, Masters- Commanding Draper and Sinithers, continue their alternate night guard off Woolwich Arsenal and Dockyard ; and, in addition, the iron paddlewheel vessel Lizard, 340 tons and 150-horse power, Lieut.- Commander Stanhope G. Price, is stationed to pro tect the powder magazine at Erith, and the gun vessel Espoir, 5 guns, 428 tons, is doing similar duties at Purfleet. Her Majesty's Indian troopship Jumna arrived at Bombay on the 10th inst., with the Ist battalion of the Gth Foot and other troops who embarked in the Crocodile at Portsmouth and Queenstown last month ; all well. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Capt. Henry Carr Glyn to the i nv alided ; Lieut. D. 111‘D. Smith Doris, vice Vesey, to the Beacon; Lieut. W. Otter to the Gladiator; W. J. Talbot, midshipman, to the Defence ; Navi gating Sub-Lieuts. George S. Ralph and Edward Kearns to the Megaara ; Wyllys IL Wyllys, navi gating midshipman, to the Royalist; J. C. Bailey, acting assist.-surg. to the Blanche ; William H. Charlesworth, acting zusis%-surg., to the Defence ; Dr. James IV. Fisher, acting assist.-surg., to the Royalist ; Matthew F. Ryan, acting assist.-surg., additional, to the Royal Ad e l a id e; Joseph L i ndsay and John Lll‘Carthy, acting assist.-surgs., additional, to the Victory ; and Reginald Bridger, nominated a naval cadet. Percy 0. Presgrave, assistant paymaster in charge, t o th e Plover ; J. S. Striven, assist. -paymaster, to the Warrior ;. Arthur S. C. Clarke, assist. -paymaster, to the Excellent ; Frede rick F. Morgan, surgeon, to the Defence ; Charles 11. Slaughter, surgeon, to the Royalist ; Gerald Molloy,/surgeon, to the Blanche . ; Peter Wood, chief engineer, to the Defence; Thomas E. Buckle, Aaron 11. Symes ' and John Brown, engineers, to the De fence ; John Agates and Thomas Summers, engi neers, to the Beacon ; Edward M'Leish and Thos. Carter, Ist class assist.-engineers, to the Defence ; Joe Bates, Ist class assist.-engineer, to the Beacon; John Moysey and Joseph N. Tierney, acting 2d class assLito engineers, to the Defence. IRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. SPORTING INTEL GIGENOE—This Day. READING RACES—•THIS. DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SELLING STEEPLECHASE. A Selling Steeplechase of 3 sovs each, with 20 added ; four, year olds llst4lb, five 12st 51b, six and aged 12st 101 b; the winner to be sold by auction for 50 sovs, and any surplus to be divided between the owner of the second horse and the feud; if entered to be sold for 30 sovs allowed ; horses which have run at this ineetiug without being piac 3d first or second allowed 51b ; about two miles. Warwick Lass Itcd wing. Four ran. LNINICEE PEES' PLATE. Tbo Innkcep - .rs' Plato (handicap) of 40 ,ovs ; winners after Dee. 11, at 10 a.m., ilb extra. About two miles and a half. Guile Spatehc,Tl - Fivo ran. BERKSHIRE STEEPLECHASE. The Berkshire Open Steeplechase of 10 sous each, with 70 addel; winners after December 31 at ten a.m., extm. About three miles and a half. Lawrence Imogene 2 Waterperry 3 Seven ran. HANDICAP SELLING STEEPLECHASE. A Handicap Selling Steeplechase of 3 sovs each, with 25 added; the winner to be sold for 40 sovs; about two miles and a half. Belle of the Ball 1 Two ran. HA.NDICAP STEEPLECHASE. A. Handicap Steeplechase of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 2.5 added ; gentlemen riders. About two miles and a half. Forager 1 Sir William Miss Emma Six ran. THE FBNIAN3 HOMES, CA.SEY, AND MITLLADY. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Blackburn and Mr. Justice Lush.) This afternoon Mr. Stephens, in the absence of Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., moved for a decree nisi to show cause why the three alleged Fenian prisoners —Burke, commonly known as " Colonel" Burke, Casey, and Mullady—should not be brought on a writ of certiorari from Warwick Gaol, where they had been conveyed on their committal by Sir Thos. Henry-, at the Bow-street Police-court, to the Warwick Spring Assizes, and tried at the Central Criminal Court in London. The learned gentle man stated that it would be remembered that the former application had been postponed, in order that the Attorney-General might be consulted. He had had a private conversation with Sir John Karslake, who was now iu court, and he had stated that he should have no objection if the whole of the prisoners were included in the certiorari, but that he left the matter entirely in the hands of their lordships themselves. It would, after this, be use less to repeat the arguments which had been used in favour of granting the rule ; but he might men tion that by this course one of the strongest objec tions, that of the separation of the prisoners for trial, would be done away with. The Lord Chief Justice stated that if it were in the hands of the court they should grant the rule. A rule nisi was accordingly granted in favour of all the prisoners. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. The following appointments were made at the Admiralty this afternoon : Charles J. Narcoih, sub-lieut., to the Blanche ; Richard D. Bushby, midshipman, to the Lord Warden ; Arthur Graves Spratt, nominated cadet; Mr. William 11. Adlaw, navigating lieut., to the Fisgard, for service in the Juno; Win. Rencwick, navigating sub-lieut., to the Warrior ; Jas. F. Fool, navigating sub-lieut., to the Minotaur; John G. Scutt, navigating sub-lieut., to the P,Aleruphon ; Arthur G. St. G. Ponsonby, navigating sub-lieut., to the Achilles. STA 2 E OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Jan. 14. —ln shipping yarns spin ners have been asking higher rates, in consequence of cotton having advanced somewhat yesterday ; but they have not succeeded in establishing higher prices. A fair business has been done at late rates, but buyers will not listen to any advance. In home trade yarns prices may be quoted id. per lb. higher than on Friday for most numbers, but, though spinners have adhered to the advance with a good deal of firmness, it has not been given generally, and has been found to limit business very consider ably. For cloth wo have had, on the whole, rather an active week. The excitement in the Liverpool market yesterday, and the consequent advance in the price of cotton, had the effect of precipitating a good deal of business on the market at the full rates of Friday, and some large operations were effected. To-day a good deal of this excitement seems to have disappeared, but we are left with some slight improve ment in prices, to which manufacturers are disposed to adhere. The business done has cleared off some considerable stocks of, shirtings and other fabrics suited to the India market, and left a good general demand. To-day the demand has extended a good deal to different classes of printing cloths, and there has been an active inquiry for these goods all day. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of this day's market :—" Our market was quiet up to yesterday, when the movement in cotton caused a general ad vance in quotations, and led to considerable busi ness. To-day, though the excitement has disap peared, a good business has been done at a slight improvement on last week's rates." CARDIFF, 13t11.—Siuce last report the dullness which always characterises the coal trade during the Christmas holidays, but which had been partially replaced by something like former vitality, has again returned, and business at the present time is far from brisk. This arises mainly through the unfavourable weather which has prevailed, and which has prevented the arrival of so many vessels as expected. Freights are upon the whole a little firmer owing to this circumstance ; still it cannot be said that there is any material improvement in rates. Foreign demand for steam coal continues tolerably good ; the French ports, West Indies, ' and the East being the principal mark is The exports last month showed an increase of nearly 31,000 tons as compared with the corres ponding month of 1866. Coastwise there is about an average trade doing in house coal. The ship ments in December were 64,637 tons, against 62,207 tons in December, 1866. The proposed general reduction in wages has not as yet excited any opposition on the part of the men. In the iron trade the usual dulness is evinced, and orders are exceedingly scarce. Last month the exports were 7,900 tons, the principal clearances being to the markets of the United States. Engagements for tin plates arc looked forward to on American account. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning Arrived—Merry Heart, from St. Michael's; Lady Octa via, from Calcutta ; Caraujah, from Foochow ; Ethel, from Guernsey; Auguste, from Wanks River. Sailed—Vigilant, steamer, for Calais; Panther, steamer, for Boulogne; Fulton, steamer, for Dunkirk. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Anchored, Jan. 11—Amanda, for Cardiff; Ivor, for Terceira—both from London. COURSE "OF ESAltiailux).--List Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 18 Ditto 3 Months. 12 uf aotterdarn Antwerp — 2.5 32} tirussels Llionburg — 13 9t Paris Short 25 121 Ditto 3 Months. 25 30 ktaxseilles Frankfort on the Maine 120} Vienna — 12 271 Trieste — 12 3U Petersburg ft - 31{ Berlin iladrid 6 261 481 Cadiz Leghorn 11 19 12 Of 12 Of 25 3! 25 :irk 13 9 25 221 25 35 25__37i 120 12 3 12 35 6 27 484 48t 29 49