The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-25 00:00:00

DESTRUCTivE FIRE IN FLEET-STREET•
(THIS DAY.)

To-day, being Christmas-day, is of course ob-
served as a strict holiday in the City.
It may be useful to repeat that the Stock
Exchange will be opened to-morrow, the 26th,
when the half-monthly settlement in shares and
foreign stocks will begin ; but it will be a very
slack day as regards general business.
Considering the holidays, there was a fair de-
mand yesterday at the Bank discount office, but the
general market wax very quiet. The rates remain
at 31 to 4 per cent. for choice bills.
About 92,0001. in gold was sent into the Bank
yesterday ; while 10,000 sovereigns were withdrawn
for Egypt. The total bought since last Wednes-
day is 513,0001.
An advance of 51. per ton has taken place in the
prices of English copper.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 1,6201. over the corresponding
week of last year, and the South Eastern an in-
crease of 741.
The directors of the Egyptian Commercial and
Trading Company (Limited) have issued the fol-
lowing report, in anticipation of the meeting called
for the 31st inst. at the London Tavern. Perhaps
the most satisfactory feature presented in the ac-
companying accounts is the fact that the company's
liabilities have been reduced by a sum of about
one million in six or seven months :
With the view of forming the closest possible estimate
of the company's assets, the directors, with the con-
currence of the committee, have postponed to this date
the meeting at which to submit the company's balance-
sheet. The accounts have now been suede up to the 30th
November. They are duly audited, and after making that
which, in the opinion of the directors, is a full allowance
for bad and doubtful debts, rebate of interest, and current
expenses, and after also writing off the amount represent-
ing the purchase of Briggs and Co's. business, a net defi-
ciency is shown of somewhat less than 21. per share.
Having regard to the apprehensions entertained as
to the position of this company at the period of
the great financial pressure of the year now closing, it is
satisfactory to the directors to be able to announce that
they do not anticipate any further loss than the above.
The losses are due, in a very great degree, to the
financial and commercial panic whichvailed last
summer both in this country and in Egypt.e Whilst
all resources of ordinary ciedit were suddenly cut
off, the company found itself with heavy immediate
engagements to meet, and for that vital purpose the three-
' tors were compelled not only to make and rigorously en-
force the call of 31. per share, but to convert and realise
assets at a heavy sacrifice. In the accompanying balance
sheet every asset has been carefully revised, and every
precaution taken to estimate it at its real value. In con-
currence with the committee, the directors have continu-
ously applied themselves to the contraction of the com-
pany's liabilities, which it will be observed are now re-
tinas& to about 210,000/. Since the 30th of June last, and
up to the present tea,t assets have been realised :ind
liabilities discharged very large amount. The Egyp-
tian Government Debenture Loan of 330,00 W., which bore
the endorsement of the company, has also been redeemed.
The directors confidently look forward to con-
siderable further progress in the realisation of the
company's assets being made during the present
winter. In the meantime they have the pleasure to an-
nounce that, according to the last adviees from Egypt, a
sum of 21. per share may be calculated upon as available
for return during the ensuing month on account of the
last call of 31. per share, and the baker three months
later. The directors think it well, until this first obliga-
tion to the shareholders be fulfilled, to delay bringing
forward for discussion the plan they have had under con-
sideration for the continuance or reorganization of the
com. In accordance with the articles of association,
pany
all the directors retire at this meeting, and, being eligible,
offer themselves for re-election, to remain in office until
the next meeting of shareholders to be summoned soon
after the repayment of the last instalment of the dl. call.
The following is the report of the committee ap-
pointed at the extraordinary general meeting of
this company on the 9th July:
The committee have now to follow up the program re-
port which they addressed to the shareholders un the let
September last. Since that period it has become possible
to determine much more accurately the amount of the
company's assets, and to form a better estimate of the
general position of its affairs. The directors have intimated
their belief that the actual diminution of the capital of the
company does not exceed 21. per share. The committee
concur in the correctness of this opinion, thoughn, of
course, this result must in sonic measure depend upo the
application of care, prudence, and skill in the recovery of
the assets. Considering that the financial crisis, both
here and in Egypt, involved very heavy sacrifices in order
to meet the company's immediate engagements, which
were of very large amount, it seems only fair to infer that
the real origin of the mischief which has occurred is to be
sought more in the exaggerated use of the company's credit
than in the inherent badness of tee business under-
taken. From the residence abroad of several members
of the board, it became absolutely necessary for the
proper conduct of the business that the vacant places
should be filled. The committee believed it would not be
otherwise than agreeable to the shareholders that some of
their members should join the board, and accordingly Mr.
Sanders, Mr. l'axton, and Mr. Fitzgerald agreed to become
members of the direction. The committee also were for-
tunate enough to secure for the company the services, in
the same capacity, of Mr. Grenfell and Mr. Stewart, two
The Herald regrets to hear that the issue of the members of the committee of the Imperial Ottoman Bank,
conservative Wednesday paper, the Monitor, which was both of them wed versed in Oriental business. The um-
to have commenced with the New Year, is unavoidably Amen. mittee believe the shareholders will now consider them as
postponed. An amendment was proposed, and after a very strong
discussion rejected by at. overwhelming majority :—"That practically discharged of their functions ; and whilst, on
The Roman catholic buildings erected at the ex-
theit is
cthhuerciuhdrsofin
Eenntemof
athisandmteeheticnreecg that. tatThhewfoer.uptullicariit ems of the one hand, they cannot but regret that an institution
starting with such fair promise should have become in-
penae of the Countess of Clare, at Cerisbrook, in the Islevolved in the recent troubles which have so generally pre-
of Wight, cost 12,000 L part as to the
render unnecessary any formal expression of opinion on our veiled, they feel, on the other hand, that the shareholders
At an iron-shipbuilding establishment in the adorability of our blessed Loral .' may be congratulated that the losses are likely to fall far
month of England 300 men are employed. This time Mat The original resolution was then put, and carried unani-
mously, and the declaration was made by the meeting, the short of the anticipations which were at first formed.
The direction of the Dutch Rhenish Railway
year 1,300 men were employed at the Same establislunent. whole of those present in the room rising to their feet, Company have announced, on account of the first
Gambling continues to increase in Paris, and with the exception of the A. A. 'fonnesson, who remained half of the current book year, a provisional divi-
recent heavy losses and gains have been the subject of seated dell of Ils. 81. per share on the paid shares ;
much convemation. Amonpt the fortunate winners is On the motion of the Rev Mr. SFWVIII,I a voteof thanks
to the Convocation of Cante. rliu.ry fee he returned and of 14s. 71. per share on the fully-paid shares.
Kalil Bey, who on Saturday evening gained in all a million to the questions submitted to them was unanimously A special general meeting of the Mid-Wales
of francs. Viscount D-- lost the same evening carried. Animated discussions took place as to the heat
method of proceeding, some urging that the Queen should Railway Company is called for the Bth January,
130,000 fa, which he paid immediately. Heaps of gold are "for the purpose of authorising the exercise of the
on these °cautions laid down upon the table, and have a be petitioned to have the case tried on its merits. Ulti-
mately, however, after many divisions, it was resolved to powers conferred upon the company by the Mid-
visible and sometimes remarkable effect both upon the elect a bishop, and that if the person chosen should refuse Wales Railway Act, 1866, for raising adilitienal
players and spectators. The places of resort are in the Bishops hat the choice of a bishop should be left to the capital for the general purposes of the undertaking
of Capetown and Grahamstown, with the concur-
vicinity of the Palais Royal, and are very likely to attract to the amount of 200,000/. by the creation and
a treat from the police. rence of the Archbishop of Canterbury. issue of new ordinary or preference shares or
At the close of the second day's session, the clergy,
A letter from Rome of the 20th says :—" Mr. with the exception of the Revs. W. 0. Newnham awl W. stock."
Gladstone, Mr. Cardwell, and the Duke of Argyll are H. C. Lloyd. accompanied by about 50 of the laity, re- The transfer books of the Rio do Janeiro City
paired to the cathedml, where the usual evening service
still in Rome, enjoying the fine weather, the galleries. and Improvements Company (Limited) aro to be closed
performed. In accordance with the custom of the front the Ist to the 12th of January, for the pre-
the countless objects of interest, observing the crisis cWaS
which as yet has been so uneventful, and contemplating, the 7 clergy
hurcb on such occasions immediately after the first lesson,
who bad voted forthe election of a bishop save- paration of the half-yearly interest warrants, which
as I hear, a move nurthwards not long after Christ- rally repaired to the altar, and there made the follovnng de- will be payable on the 14th.
mas. Mr. Gladstone, to whom, especially, so much in- cLaration : 'I --, having thefear of Godbefure my eyes, The numbers are published of 5,166 bonds of
terfcrence in Papal politics has been falsely attributed, Rad seeking the welfare and glory of His church, believing the South Austrian, Lombardo -Venetian, and Con-
William Butler, priest, Vicar orWantage, in the diocese tea] Italian Railway Company, which were drawn
has been very much engrossed with art and antiquities,
and has acquired some beautiful Capo di Monte puce_ of Oxford, in the kingdom of England, to be, by soundness
in the faith, holiness of life, and divine learning, emi- at Vienna on the 17th rust., and aro to be paid off
lain, destined, it is said, for the South Newington nently qualified to be appointed bishop over the church in at the rate of 500 f. per bond on the 2nd January.
Museum. He was lately confined to his bed for two or Natal, do now and hereby nominate him to that holy A petition for thew inding up of the Llantris-
three days by a bad sore throat, and—u a matter of °ffice*" sent Iron and Coal Company (Limited) is to be
course in Rome—au alarming rumour was got up, but he This was done by the Dean, the Ven. Archdeacon
Fume, and the Revs. F. S. Robinson, J. Watson, J. heard before the Master of the on on the 12th
has quite recovered. I suppose the quidnuncs and the Barker, T. Taylor, and .T. F. Neville Rolfe, the other January.
credulous will make something of his having yesterday clergy, together with the laity present, kneeling in the Creditors of the Himalaya Tea Company
paid a visit to Cardinal Antonelli, accompanied by Mrs. body of the church. (Limited) are required to send the particulars of
Gladstone and her daughters, to whom the Cardinal The Dean then rrononnced that the Rev. William their claims to Mr. John H. Norman, the liquidator
Butler bad been duly elected bishop by seven priests and
showed his beautiful collection of ge , and gave the; for the voluntary winding up, by the 7th Jan.
deacons, and required that if anyone knew any cause or
young ladies his autograph, and behaved altogether as just impediment why the said William Butler should not I Creditors of the Leeswood Iron Company
the pink of gallant churchmen." be consecrated to that holy office, he should make it (Limited) are required to send the particulars' of
known without delay to the
A FARMER OF HISTORIC AND ARTISTIC NOTE.— Metropolitan through the ' their claims to Mr. John Ledward, of cheater, the
clergy.
A highly respectable farmer, named Rolfe, has just died at T official liquidator by the 30th January, the 21st
The evening service was then proceeded with, and the
Beaconsfield, at an advanced age, about whom a passing Benediction having been pronounced by the Dead, the Y o
word is but justice to his memory. This Mr. Rolfe was son
of the farm-bailiff of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, and red
congregation reti . upon them.
had been the original of the famous picture, by Sir Jisahus, --------it ' Februar having appointed for adjudicating
Vice-Chancellor Wood has appointed Mr. W.
Reynolds, of "Too Infant Hercules." Mr. Jesse, in his PROPOSED CHAMBER OF AORICCETCRE FOR STAF- H. Holyland, of Gresham-street East, to be official
" Favourite Haunts," recounting his visit to Beaconsfield FORDSHIRE.—A meeting of owners and occupiers of land, liquidator of the London and County Coal Coin-
in 1843, thus refers to the circumstance :—" blr, Rolfe's convened by the Earl at Lichfield, lord-lieutenant of the party (Limited).
mother-in-law," writes Mr. Jesse, " told me • eircum- county, was held at the Shire-hall, Stafford. on Saturtlay, We are requeeted to state that the Hop and Malt
stance that I was little prepared to Dear; it was the fact for the purpose of considering the propriety of establishing
that her good, honest, and portly son-in-law, whom I a Chamber of Agriculture for Staffordshire. The Earl of Exchange and Warehouse Company (Limited) have
saw before me, had been the very infant whom Sir Harrowby, K.G., Lord Netherton, Viscount Bandon, Mr. removed their offices from 8, Southwark-chambers,
Joshua Reynolds took as the model of his well- Pell (chairman of the Central Chamber of Commerce),
lenown picture of ' The Infant Hercules.' The infant's several landowners, Alla a nymber of tenant farmers were - - —-- ----•
father was the knit-bailiff of Mr. Burke, with whom he pretient. Lord Lichfield, in opening the business of the -a.t. REFORM UNIOv Apublic meeting Borough.
-..— to the permanent building in Southwark-street,
wu an especial favourite, that great man in his hsppier meeting, urged the necessity for some means by which the was held in the Sunday School, Dukeld, on Friasy Mr. James Low has issued his annual statement,
days frequently coming to the cottage, sometimes eating views and the special knowledge of those connected with evening, Mr. J. Thompson presiding. The chairman said ,
potatoes roasted in the embers of a wood-fire, and once agriculture could be brought to bear with authority that there could be no doubt that the time had now j East for the year 1866. The amount despatched
;vying the merits of a rook or jackdaw pie, or rather upon the government aod upon parliament in ro- arrived for the passing of a reform measure that would showing the amount of bullion shipped to the
a mixture of both." Sir Joshua Reynolds, when visiting at ference to questions sprially affecting that interest, meet the demands of the great body of the labouring
f the Perms•'tiler and Oriental Company
is stated
Burke's, happened to see the infant Rolfe sprawling on the 1 The Earl of Harrowhy, in proposing the establishment classes' that their united efforts showed their earnestness, 1 0
! from England, month by month, by the steamers
grass, and was struck with the look of strength the child lof a chember for Staffordshire, pointed out that there and merited the speedyfavour of parliament ; that it was ,as under :
possessed ;and he took him for his model of the dend- was an increasing tendency to impose taxation on tan- deplorable to see the existence of a constitution which was Gold. Silver. Gold. Silver.
god, all powerful even in his tenderest years. Rolfe did Bible or real property, to the exemption of personal pro- af raid of those upon whom it had to depend for support ; I Jan, ki5t.3,067 gelfaPo 1 Aug. ta5,906 1:314,745
,454
not belie the opinion of the painter. He grew party. Such • course was, no doubt, convenient, for and that he was glad Dnkinfield was now about to take its i Feb. 70,566 686,731 Sept. 4,863
19,830
18,045
up a very
•strong and stalwart man, and so be ap- the former class of properly was easy to discover and pert in the great movement. Mr. Mark Price, as &depute-
peered even in his old age, when he was familiarly known assess: but it wee clearly unfair, as the protection and lion from the National Reform Union, delivered slieeches April 60,216 376,0 1 INov.
\:eil
I March 16,192 1V14,2810 I Oct. 94:1571:41
41,016 Dec. 53,162 ,
to the last as "The Infant Her
Mr. Rolfe lived advantages which government afforded were equally on the principles and policy of the National Reform Union, ' May 4,548
in a snug farm close to Beaconsfield and to the states- necessary and equally enjoyed by the owners of personal as when Mr. John Cooke moved, and Mr. W. Winter Union, Juno 4,t'a 12,472 1 ---- "
240 I Total £477,275 £2,374,314
man's favourite spot, "Burke's Grove;" and he used to of real property, and it was the more unfair from the fact seconded, the following resolution, which was adopted July 13,166
receive strangers visiting his cottage very courteously, that the value of personal property was increasing much with the greatest unanimity :—" That this meeting, n&v-
and would show them sundry relicts of the Burke family. unanimouslyrid than real property. The resolution was Mg heard an explanation of the principles and liepoy4 -ti, Oriental steamers have taken this year for the East
In addition to the foregoing, the Peninsular and
Among other curiosities he would, with great pride, ex- adopted, as was one appointing a committee of the National Reform Union, nail being unpres ye
and 3 Oil 1351. in silver. Of the
hibit a dagger, which he meintained was the identical to draw up rules and to consider the terms on which i the necessity for a substantial measure of
National Return
tiutceirti as from the Mediterranean ports a total of 836,4971.
weapon that Mr. Berke threw down in the House of Com- • the proposed local Chamber might be represented in the I that asked for in the constitution of the National orm in gold, , ,
moray. Mr. Rolfe was interred in Beaconsfield church- Central Chamber of A,Oculture in London. Both Lord I Union, hereby resolves to establish a branch of th• union
lagitation now • d 453,5421.
yard the same day as the late venerable rotor of the , Lkhfield and Lord .rrowby took exception to small iin Dukinfield, and pledges itself to aidthe agi .
t. . silver 2,363,1051. went to Bombay , an
gold 427,918/. went to Alexandria, and of the
place, the Rev. John Gould, Ha, and they both now lie ' farmers' clubs being represent at the Central Chamber , being carried on with all the vigour and determine lei:
not f
ur from the graves of the two great Edmunds whose on the same terms as county chambers, and Mr. Fellcli shipped from Mszeeilles to the East by the
pee i its power." Officers and a committee wen duly
_ appein .
maize:irks they were wont to honour—Edmund Waller and wised to submit to that body any representation the cone ' and there is every respect of • strong and active bran toCalcutta. Distinct from the above are the sums
Edmund Burke.—Scotamon. I mlttee might make on that point. being formed in this popului district. steamers of the Message
Impiriales; which

Between six and seven o'clock this morning a
fire broke out in Peterborough-court, Fleet-street, near
Shoe-lane, placing in imminent danger the offices
of the Daily Telegraph and the Standard. The
premises in which the fire originated were
occupied by E. l'ilottram and Son, engravers, &c., and Mr.
H. Whitehead, book-edge gilder, and are situated
at the extreme end of the court. The building,
which was composed chiefly of wood, extended
some distance westward into what is known as the
Wine Company's yard, the front facing the printing-office
of the Daily Telegraph, whilit the Standard office was in
close proximity in an easterly direction. The fire is
said to have been first observed at the top of
the building, and no sooner bad the alarm been given than
the flames shot forth with fury. The hose of the two
establishments named were brought into play before the
arrival of the brigade ; but when the land steam
engines came up the fire had obtained a serious
ascendancy. The building was in a sheet of flame,
the blazing wood and shower of sparks ren-
dering the scene one of considerable danger. The
engines were at once put in motion, but it was near
eight o'clock before they achieved a mastery over
the fire. The premises were destroyed, and the elegant
show-rooms belonging to Messrs. Winfield and Co.,
brava and iron bedstead manufactures, situate in
the Wine Company's yard, sustained much damage. A
portion of the Standard office was severely scorched, but
no mischief was done to its contemporary. The cause of
the outbreak could not be ascertained. The supply of
water was abundant.

MR. HEADLAM, M.P., ON REFORM.

Mr. T. E. Headlam, M.P., addressed the elec-
tors and non-electors at Newcastle, on Friday night. In
alluding to the subject of reform, the right hon. gentle-
man have been always desirous to promote some
measure by which the basis of the constitution of the
country should be widened, and by which the political pri-
vileges of the people could be extended. At the mine time,
I must tell you that there is much in the language which
has been used recently with which I cannot exactly con-
cur. It is my wish to hand down the constitution im-
proved and not impaired by anything ; but I must tell
you fairly and distinctly that I believe in no time, in no
age, amongst no people, has there existed a constitution
better adapted than our own to the government and wants
of an enlightened people. There is more of true freedom
in this country—freedom in the highest sense of the word,
freedom of action and thought—than in any other ;
and there is no government in the world which is
carried on more in accordance with the wishes and the
welfare of the whole community. At the same time I
am not reluctant, but desirous to widen the basis of our
constitution, to make it still better, and to give a larger
number of my fellow citizens a voice in the representation
of the country. I was a humble member of the late
government, and I can conscientiously say that they
were actuated in the course which they took by a sincere
desire to carry a good measure of reform. lam not at all
prepared to assent to the belief that any different course
would have led to other results. lam certain that the
course taken by Earl Russell was one of perfect sincerity,
and his lordship believed that it was the best course that
could be followed. Considering, too, that the existence
of the government was staked on the Reform Bill, it
was plain that the cabinet did their best to secure
the best possible law for the country. Whether they
were right or wrong I will leave posterity to judge ; but
I can say that they did all that lay in their
power as public men to prove to the world the truth
of their assertions. With respect to the future, a measure
of reform is said to be now in the hands of three
who lately opposed it, and they have the responsibility
and the privilege of initiating a measure on the subject.
I have far too deep a respect for the working classes and
those whom reform is intended to benefit to throw any
obstacle in the way of such a measure. Public men
must be the guardians of their own honour, and if they
feel that they have in any manner incapacitated them-
selves from dealing with the subject they have in hand,
this I can promise, that no taunt will ever be uttered
against them by me. I wish, however, to state, in order
that there may be no misunderstanding on the sub-
ject, what are my ideas on the question. In 18.19
I opposed the measure which was then submitted
to parliament, although I have since heard it said
that the course which I and others then took was
factious, and that the bill was a good one. Though I am
not prepared to offer any factious opposition to the pre-
sent government, yet looking back to that time I have
nothing to regret, and if the matter were to come before
us again I do nut Dee that I could take any other course
than the one I then took. I opposed that hill because I
considered it to be clearly • step in the wrong direction.
It contained no diminution of the borough franchise, and
I unbounded opportunities were given for the creation of
I faggot votes. -Therefore, should any such similar ineasure
be again introduced I shall oppose it to my utmost.
There have been many arguments raised with respect to
this question of reform, and we have been told over and
over again that if the working classes were admitted to
the franchise they would swamp the classes superior to
them in social position and wealth. In that, however, I
do not concur ; and lam not prepared to refuse a vote to
any man on the ground that his class is numerous. I
am not prepared to consent to any measure by which all
bona fide citizens in this town are not to lie enfranchised ;
that is to say, all persons who have a subatantial inte-
rest in connection with this place. lam nut prepared to
give votes to rich people at a distance ; neither am I pre-
pared to give votes to people who have no connection with
1 the place ; nor am I prepared to increase the number
merely for the purpose of making the proportion of votes
come up to any particular figure. A great fallacy his
prevailed that non-voters belong all to one clas.i—to the
poorer class. This, however, is not the case, for I can
show you that in the moneyed classes there are a large
number of persons who have no votes—such, for instance,
as barristers, and others of the like class, who go up to
London, men with a liberal education and great abilities,
some of whom are destined to become our future legisla-
tors. At any rate they are men well fitted to have a vote,
but none of them have, simply because they are young un-
married men, and it is not in accordance with their habits
I of life to have any particular connection with any place re-
turning members to parliament ; and I cannot say that
1 I ever recollect bearing from them any complaint that
they have not a vote. There are also a great number of
labourers in the country who go from place to place
seeking work, and who have no permanent home, and
simply come and take a temporary lodging, and do not
become citizens. There is nothing against their fitness
for the franchise, but simply they are not members of
any particular community. I could name to you also
other classes—young men between 20 and 30, unmarried.
and who have not, generally speaking, any Ifixed or settled
homes, because their life is before them, and they have
not yet settled down at any place to become citizens.
But I really do not know on what ground votes can be
given to rich or poor who have no connection with etown.
I listened attentively to the
to debates in the last sessikarton,
but whether it was owing my of ,
or the obtuseness of my understanding, I will not say,
but at the termination of the discussion my opinion on
reform hail not been altered. The rule I have laid down
I is, that I would give a vote to every man who has a true
I and substantial interest in the welfare of the town in
which he lives. I agree with the late Lord Durham, and
with the principles of the Municipal Pill of 1836, which
made rating and residence a qualification for every man.
To that extent I am prepared to go, and I should not have
the slightest objection to confer a vote on every man who
pays rates. (Loud applause.) lam not prepared to say
that there are not other qualifications beyond those I have
named,
but those gentlemen assembled in Manchester
wisely resolved when they said it wag not expedient for
liberal members to say how far they would I
go, or
s what wase
the minimum they would accept hus, have tad t
broad principle I am prepared to adopt, but it is not
for any individual to say what is the right measure to go
upon. It is the duty of every member of the liberal party
to waive his own individual opinion, and to act for the
general good of the community. I have been a member of
the liberal party for nearly thirty years, and in that
period I have always been found ready when the occasion
occurred to give my support to, and to act in accordance
with, the principles of the party to which I belong. I
think I may promise you that although the particular
measure may not be precisely the same as the one which
1 should have chosen—l may go further, perhaps not so
far—there will be no measure forwar of reform broughtd
by the liberal party which I shall not heartily support.
(Cheers.) So far as my own individual interest is con-
cerned, it will be rather to soften differences, and to obtain
od legislation for the country at large.

A letter approving generally of the above was read by
the Bishop of GRAHAM TOWN.
The DEAN proposed that the following should be signed
by those present :—" We believe with firm and unhebitat-
ing faith that our crucified Lord, Very God of Very God,
is adorable and worthy of all adoration ever has been,
and ever is to be adored, 'iota in heaven and in earth."—

n 6,074,938 £112,522,808 I
•Includes ilapmeuts per Memel

RAILWAYS AND MINES.

The Stock Exchange and Mining Exchange arc
shut to-day.

352 persons were brought up at the Dublin
police-offices yesterday morning for drunkenness and dis-
orderly conduct.
DR. MAJOR TENTIMoNIAL Ft:NO.—The follow-
ing amongst other names have been recently added to the
committee for promoting this fund :—Thu Archbishop of
Dublin, the Bishops of London, Lichfield, Lincoln. My,
and Nova Scotia, Lords Harrowby and Calthorpe. It has
been deemed advisable to keep open the mbecriptiou
list
for a short time longer. in order to give a further oppor-
tunity of subscribing to Dr. Major's numerous pupils and.
friends, many of whom are widely scattered over different
countries.
THE. FIRS AND LO,A OF Twit LIVES AT IIKoHLEY.
—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Richards, deputy coroner, held.
an inquiry at the Old Five Bells Tavern, Brumley, into the
cause of the fire at No. 21, Francis-terrace, Brumley, on
Friday last, by which Ellen Martha Dement, aged tt years.
and Florence Sarah Jane Grant, aged yr, were burnt
to death. The bodie. of the deceased presented a horrible
spectacle, being reduced to cinders. The two deceased
were respectively the daughter and the granddaughter of
' a carpenter named Oanient, living at 21, Francis-terrace.
}Seemly. The family. who were very well on. were re-
duced todestitution by the fire, 150/. worth of toolsbeing de-
strayed. Tho,nasoement, a youth, said that at half .past
4 o'clock last Friday u.orning he was awoke front hie sleep
by a sense of suffocation. He found his lip. parched, and
his throat eore ; upon getting up lie felt the floor .mite hut.
lie ram down stairs and found the kitchen full of eame
smoke. He assieteel his father to escape, aud then nied to
go upstairs for his sister. But the staircase wits then on
fire, the cod cellar blazing out. His mother was got
out of a window much burnt. His father was also
injured. He did not know how the fire originated. Gee.
Miles, one of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, deposed to
finding the holies of the deceased coinpletely burnt
its
the back room on the second floor. Witness could nut any
how the tire originated. It had begun in the kitcken. The
landlord of the house Lad that owing to the defective
arrangements of the fire brigade, great delays
took place in getting the engines when required--tho
keys being kept at one place, the horses at another, and the
engines at a third ; thres-querters of an hour's delay that
k
place on the present occasion. George Miles ded
her received notice of the fire till a . carter- mat rive
o'clock, and no delay took place after that. The keys
were kept in Bath-street. and the station was in Newby-
place. The present arrangements were temporary. The
jury returned a verdict that the deceased were burnt to
death through the house in which they lived incidentally
catching fire, and requested the coroner to write to tho
Board of Works to draw ettention to the defective arrange-
ments of the fire brigade at Bromley.
MURDER I.:I Sr lI:II,E.—A dreadful incident wag
revealed at Postwick, Norfolk, on Sunday. Mr. Rubinson,
an upholsterer, of Pottergste-streetNorwich, wentdown to
the Great Eastern Railway station, with his wife, at a very
early hour on S.iturday, for the purpose of taking leave of
one of their children. On quitting the railway •tation,
Mr. Robinson seems to have hurriedly left his e 'le, mid
he was not seen any more by any of his relativesi and
friends durieg Saturday. About 11 oclock on Sunday,
the deal body of a Man was found in a I.eld at
The Poscorpse
ck,
a village about four miles from orwich.
was Vying in a little hollow, so th.it it waegnot readily
seen, an.l when it was 11111COYerefl it was .j its cold
and stiff. There were some dreadful wounds at the
back of the head which appeared to Lave been inflicted
by a large flint atone which was found clues
by covered with blood. Various parts of tie, holy were
also smeared with blood, but the clothes of the deceased
do not appear to have been torn, MA an. IAI. was found in
his pocket , It was at first supposed that a barbarous
murder had been committed, and great excitement pre-
vailed in con .e.iiience iii the neighbourhood ; the intelli-
gence of the occurrence seems indeed to have been re-
ceived at the parish church, the result bring 04 at the
conclusion of the morning service nearly the whole of tho
congregation proceeded to the spot where the h
body 11.01
been tlesevered. In the course of the day, Mr. Athi.
deputy chief constable of the Norfolk county p . olice, went
down to the will, ee and made minute in.itnries into the
ciecutestauces. While he was proceeding with the iovs-
tigation it transpired that a communication had been
made to the Norwich police with reference to the
missing man, and a person cute forward and idantifed
the corpse as that of Mr. Robinson. A few articles
found upon the deceased were also shown to Mrs. Robinson,
who was much affected by them, at once identifying them
as having belonged to her husband. Ain
man who
examined the wounds expressed an opinion that they
might have been self-inflicted, so that the geueral
;conesion now adopted is that the poor Ili= perished by
hand. It is ~toted that Le had for some time piist been in
a dmwtidiug state of nand, although there appeals to
have been no cause for hie depression of slants. Mrs.
Rubinson believes that when her husband left her on
Saturday morniu he had not s watch with him and
that he Lad ouly g a few shillings in hi
his pockets.
A BRAVE FELLow.—On Saturday last' a coal-
trimmer. maned John Foulkes, employed on board the
Cumin' steamer Scotia, in the Canada Dock, LiverpooLfell
into the dock and oink. William Pritchard. a fireman,
jumped into the water, dived, and brought Foulkes up.
A rope was thrown to Pritchard, who fastened it round
Foulkes' body ; but as the men above were drawing
water
it up
the rope slipped, and Foulkes fell back
him to the
face ; but, ufortunately, when he was lifd to the edge
of the dock.n he was dead. The brave fetlelow who had
made such noble efforts to gave his comrade was greatly
exhauted, and lied to be oirried home. An inquest was
bald yesterday, and a verdict of " Accidental death"
returned.
TERRIBLE SITUATION.—A boy named Thomas
Wyatt, agedls, employed on board the brig Ayrshire Lash
was sent ashore by his father (who
Trends t
he whoa
he vessel,
in a small boat, to procure a pilot acot ale,
about a quarter of a mile from the vessel he fell overboard.
, His cries attracted his father's attention ; and an elder
Ibrother of the boy, who was also in the vessel. at once
plunged into the water and SRAM to the spot where his
brether was struggling. The boat had drifted away, sad
the gallant fellow had, therefore, no mows of assisting his
drowning brother. He, however, struggled manfully to
bring him to the vessel's side : but the father saw frets
the deck that, unless the attempt were relinquished. both
sons must inevitably perish, and he therefore, Galled to his
eldest son to let the younger go. which he reluctantly' did,
and the boy sank to rise no more, end his
brother reached the vessel in a very exhausted
state, having had a very narrow escape. T body
was recovered at low water and interred at Tralee.
KAN.:Aftoo 11.%M.4.—" Tho kangaroo hunters,
Messrs. Niffnecker, Silby, and Co., have returned to Gee-
long, the hem-curing season being closed. Mince the 28tk
June," says the Gerb.ay Adrreiser, "they have smoked
and pickled about 1,200 hams and have every reason to
be satisfied with their trip, which they intend eepcding,
D.V., when the cold weather sets in again."
A fresh case of refusal to take an oath has just
occurred in Brussels. In the present instance • corn
sitar declared in the Court of Correctional Police that his
conscience did not permit him to repeat the usual for-
mula. Ile was, in oonsecinenoe, condemned to pay 100 fr.
fine, or • fortnight's imprisonment.
f3ol rn KENNINGTON MVSEUX.—Visitors during
the week ending December n—On Monday, Tues-
day, and flatnelay, free, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.,
6,058 ; on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (R&M,-
don 6‘1.1 front 10 a.m. till 4 11. m., 1,164 ; total, 7,2r.2.
Average 'of correeponding week in former years, 7,468.
Total from the opening of the Museum, 6,457,124.
PATENT OPTIC! MY/SEVIN, SOUTH KENNINGTON.
Number of visitors for the week ending Dee. 22, 1,127 ;
total number since the opening of the Museum free daily
(12th May, 18581, 1,098,666.
CRYSTAL PALACE. Oxa Sulu. NO DAY.—
MONDAY, Dnc. 24.—Admissions on payment. 6,188 ;
ditto by season tickets, 2,386. Total visitors, 4,574. •

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THE GREAT VESTMENT QUESTION.

THE E.

well.suthenticated instances of clinical suffering was pub-
lished by the late secretary of the Poor Clergy Relief
Society, in a pamphlet entitled " Startling Facts." Those
who are not oontent with " other witness" than their own,
' can have ocular demonstration of the reality of the
cases by calling at the office, 36, Southampton-stree,
Strand, where the secretary, Mr. R. Turtle Piggott, II
always ready to answer any question, to offer proofs of the
care taken to administer justly the funds placed at the dis-
posal of the committee, and to satisfy all doubts es to the
authenticity of the cases relieved ; arid as every candidate
for aid must be recommended by the bishop, archdeacon,
and rural dean, or, at least, by three beneaced clergit, nen,
there can be no fear but that the wants are sorely felt
before an application is made.
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'RESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1866

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---------------tended to lie down on the metals and allow
custody. tmin to run
over him. Witness then took him into
The prisoner mid he merely crossed line for • near
the
out.
Mr. Dayman—What have you to say for making the
statement to the oonstable ?
Prisoner—I don't believe
ou I said so.
Mr. Dayman—l believe y did. The constable has no
reason for taking ell this trouble to bring you here.
Sergeant Newman—He
to
• great deal of trouble at the
station. We were obliged to keep a man in charge of him
all night.
Prisoner—l did not go on the line to make away with

BRITISII AND FOREIGN COBB TRADE.

and of commerce both agree to extend the period of relaxa-
tion and holiday-making by anticipation, the contraction
of our weekly review becomes a necessity. however, the
weather has lately been very much spinet merrymaking :
In these latter'
neither the clods nor the flags have been companionable.
The farmer who has got his wheat sown may bs happy ;
but, if short of the money, the flail can do little for him
without frost. lie must now study h ects while
he has found
something out in the year lustre
xpiring, viz.,
that the world, as well as his own fields, may not always
yield its strength. There is thus a chanos for him still, as
the best and highest tillage doubles that chance. The
wheat trade, in proportion as we have become better ac-
quainted with results of our best harvest, has recovered
something of its ancient prestige and perhaps was lately
advancing beyond reasonable bounds at so early a period,
so that the late check in such case has been rather
serviceable than otherwise. But, with money now at
3j per cent. instead of 10 per cent. as recently, when
frost shall permanently have set fast the Baltic ports,
I and reached to the South of Russia, we may yet see a
I further movement upwards, and already the markets
I show an improvement of le. per qr. New York has,
indeed, been making shipments, while British markets
have been declining, the old habit of go-a-head not being
easily abandoned, and there certainly is no granary-rent to
pay to crossing the Atlantic. Petersburg, Stettin, SDI
Danzig are now all fast, and seem likely to remain so ; bu
holders abroad do not lose courage, the best cargoes free
Danzig being held at 68s. to 70s. per qr., cost and freigl
included. France has more than recovered the recen
decline. Danzig wheat, not firstrate, being worth 695. pet
GGt•„ and Spanish white 70a. 6d. ; the same wheat at
Bordeaux being quoted 755. Cal. Belgium shows more
firmness, as well as Hamburg. and the frost in
Germany has not lessened prices, though this has reduced
business. Spain has felt the influence of Fren
orders, and neither Great Britain nor any part
Europe indicates a return to a low range. The arrivals
the coast since the 14th of December were 46 cargoes,
which 32 cargoes were wheat, 4 maize, 4 barley, 3 rye, ant
oats. Business was transected as follows :-Wheat, '..
cargoes in all, viz., Ghirka at 53a. to 615., Cubanka at Ms.
Berdianski at 60s. to 605. • Moldavian at 555., and 6.(w
qrs. Ghirka at 595. 6d.; Maize, 1 cargo at 365.; list
3 cargoes at 295. to 315.; Rye, 3 cargoes at 31s. Gd.
335. 9c1.; Beans, 1 cargo aide at 40s. per qr. The i
noted last week were 71,022 qrs. English wheat at 60s.
against 91,844 qrs. in 1865. The London
heavingves'
645. 10d. on 2,794 qrs. The imports into om
the week ending Dec. 15 were 668,679 carts. wl
181,907 cats. flour.
Monday in Mark•lane opened on moderate suppl
English wheat, but the foreign arrivals were abundant
bout two-thirds Russian. The show of samples from 1
and Kent was very limited, and condition, as migl
expected, after such a long prevalence of damp,
poor generally. All fair and dry samples of •
went off pretty freely, at Is. per qr. advance ; but the
not in order, was very difficult to quit at the pret
rates. The foreign trade was on a small scale, and
sionally prime dry Russian qualities made rather
money, brit it was not generally the case. Fine fl(
cargoes were a free sale, at improved rates, but not
ricer qualities. On Wednesday there were 210 qn
coast, and 23,410 qrs. foreign. With a very small
of samples on the Essex and Kentish stands, priors
very firm, all prime samples going off freely at tot
sinus rates. The foreign trade, though not brie%
very steady, all tine samples being held at full
There was aortae supply of flour on Monday,
in country , Russian sacks, and American
rels. The entire trade was very firm, but sale
not free. Norfolk' were held at fully as much 1
so were French, Spanish, and Russian sacks anc
rican barrels ; but the qualities of the two gal
scriptions were not such as to attract buyers.
qualities were unaltered in value ; the top price
ing 375. per qr. On Wednesday there were .16 neat
coast, 6,620 sacks foreign. Norfolks were th
dear, as well as all good country marks. In '
though not much was doing, olders required fully
sinus rates. Town millers tiltl not alter quotations.
was a large arrival of maize on Monday, which becsinn
dull sale in consequence, though holders did not of
newly-arrived cargoes at less money. Ott Wednesday
was no change of value. The supply of malting ba
Monday was on a limited scale, but foreign
were liberal. Though former rates were demi
malting sorts, both English and Scotch, there we
same ready sale as ofwhile inferior and le
my
foreign was fully la. per qr. lower, with but
inquiry. On Wednesday there were 790 qrs. p
1,840 qrs. foreign. The quantity of fine
still being small, there was no alteration i
and no change of value could be noted in me
low foreign sorts, though the demand was slaci
little was doing in malt on Monday, but prices '
much as previously. The week closed without
feature in the trade. There was a very heavy
foreign meta on Monday, with fair supplies
growth, though but few from Scotland, and not
Irish ports. The abundance, and approach of :
gave a dull tone to the market generally ; In
Russian sorts, as well as Swedish, were no chi
inferior new were rather in buyers' favour-sal
to Cal. per qr. On Wednewlity there were :a
foreign exclusively. This aniple arrival, after
plenty, made buyers very cautious; still, the
that foreign supplies would soon be lin&
frost, made holders reluctant to abate the
There was a fair arrival of English beam
day. and a moderate supply of foreign, chic
All English sorts were Is. per qr. lower
were held at the previous rates, 1.1
scarcely any in store. Wednesday's market'
change. lingliali peas were in better supply
and there Wt4s a parcel of white from Komi
trado for both feeding and boiling sorts wt
about Is. per qr. lower than last week ; but
further decline on Wednesday. Scarcely any
reported, and this seed was therefore very firm.
fair demand, and so they continued on the
The seed trade generally was confident and
as respects cloverseed, trefoil, canary, uiustai
country wheat markets have not been slow i
to the improved advices from London, tin
dull reports having been very rare. Several
proved tendency, but more generally an
of fully Is. per qr., which, as at
a few other places, was exceeded.
among those where a rise of Is. w:
Liverpool on Tuesday was only firm. But
was noted in the value of spring corn, but
was decidedly cheaper. At Glasgow and
wheat trade was quiet, but spring corn
rather in favour of buyers. Dublin advice'
foreign wheat and rather dearer for he
maize was Is. per barrel lower.
The Paris flour trade during the past wt
rising. The six marks for the current moot
761. 50c. per 137 kilos. (equal to 622. 20.
-flor'arisnhecasemalbesorriseci
for January and February, 77f. (495. 4t1.) ;
roye
four months, 751. sx:• (508. 2.1.) ; for Mat
71800 f. kr4lcilos..(,7kbe.in4dg .)quoTtedYPe
lbs. • for January and February, 49f.
for the four months from January, 49f.
and four months from May, 50f. (51
Flour for consumption has followed
For extra marks 78f. per 157 kilos. (50s. i
quoted; for No. 1,77 f. (495. 2d.); for ,
for ordinary, 74f. (47a. 2d. per 2801bs. 7
has been steadily improving. The rat
wheat of home growth has been 43f. 50c.
kilos. (665. Gd• to 70s. 4d. per qr.), an:. for
(635. to 675. 4d. per qr.) Blanquille,
remained at 24f. per 113 kilos. (38s. 6d. \
barley also war, quoted 24f. per 100 kid
Fine black De neauce and De Brie oat
111141..
i(.3oll.s4.erpreirr. ) Re edqucoltnercdfinwesast
Trefoil as previously. The wheat trade
markets was higher, most markets sb
vanes of from 25 centimes to 1 franc
(7cl. to 2s. 4d. per qr.) Marseilles
Bordeaux fully 1 franc (or 2s. 4d. per ,
wheat trade at Liege, contrary to expect
an upward movement, holders generally I
per qr. more money, but this checked
and barley, however, were rather ii
Wheat, 655. ; rye. 375. 6d. ; barley, 38s.
per Mlbs. Brussels also quoted higher -
native and Polish, 665. • white, 675. ;
per qr.
itm7oe, Yers. prices,At ii.,,,,,,:tvr)3i.nu thaierelswas.
pi
Rotterdam a demand for Belgium has ape
Zealand wheat, which had caused an ad
old Was worth 121. 20c. ; new, 595. Gil'
tered, the best being worth 40s. 9d. I
Cal. to Is. 61., and oats Gd. per qr. Re
burg was very firm, and occasionally sol
-60 s. 6d. It was also held at is . ad,
ports. Rye wax dull ; Mecklenburg was
frost hal reached to 8 degrees Return'
plenty of snow had fallen. Business had 1
consisting principally of the liquidation of
end of the year. Fluctuations had omen
closing firmer. Much rye had gone to r
to
ies
unryod.rtbyentlaws;to..ti;f:wft:tv
r!r"b2issp,lteh.ledi spring.
teoo;4l3o:et,.:its.s4oll;doriieosr.i.ted3d.towf:flhoro.osiesispetrairf,tic f9dhitinnocessi.oraerotie.,
continued to accumulate, and therel
s.
)fon
River navigation had already beconi
temperature at Dantzic mei 4 to 5 degrees
were impeded by the weather and want
I being employed at present for•
fine wheat, instead of declining,
somewhat in value. The only srtict
of grain continued to arrive in Kingeton
were not so liberal as of late. Superior
50 c. per bet (355.); No. 1, 7 d. 2D c. (275. 9,
good. Superior extra flour to 8 doll. pp-
superdas, 7d.10 e. (29e. U.) Spring.
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