The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-01 00:00:00

THE MUNI w EnNESVAY EVElM,77ANtrAitifrit MS.

LAW INTELLIGENCE. • ; Z:1 .111. Alai—was the latch of the door left fastened?
Mr. Dunham (the landlord)—lt was.
(THII3 DAT.) . ' ••Iftimer—l don't know anything about it.
—..--. warded till Monday.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. THAMES.
wawa so3OLLAT AND 1011313 T.
(Before Mr. Registrar Bootie.) o•l'lniit, egad 20 years, and Matilda Weight, also
IN PS H. R. BlAvilt. called So is 25, describing themselvesae hawkers, were
The bankrupt, deseribed as late of Liverpool, out of .ht Wore Mr, Beason, charged with feloniously and
business, was formerly a member of the firms of Cumming ' y kooIDNI and entering tits dwelling house of
Beaver, and Co. of Singapore, and of J. IL Cumming ma Mr. James Nathan Wmon, oil and ooleurman of No. 4,
Co., of ,Leadenhill4treet. He ascribes his failure to isms 1 white sacs-lane, siwtowyy, and dialing a large quantity
on shipments inwards and outwards. The liabilltfiss ant of property amen=
stated at 91,2191., of which 83,9091, are in respect of the 1 Cn the afternoon of Thursday last, Mr. Salmon locked
late firm of J. B. Cumming and Co., who otoproirkroanil 'up his home and premises, and left the key with a neigh-
in September, 1866. 1 hour. He returned at hell-past 2 the following morning,
This was the first sitting, but no assignee was ollesen- and discovered that his house had been forcibly entered,
The next sitting was appointed for the 21st of Feinting. : and • large quantity of property stolen, including twelve
IN SS JOHN SMITH. ' white Ames, two white flannel shirts, eight linen shirts,
The bankrupt, who was late • member of the firm of • twelve cotton shks,„,, two psi,s of calico &swots, wt *to
Smith, Knight, and Co. (Limited), contractors' o
of Token- lof soaks, four boodkorobith, two coats, four vests,
horse-yard, is described as formerly of 1, Great
GeOrfe* ' three rs of trousers, one jacket, three blankets,
street, Westminster, and of the North London Brick • four • sheets, four pillow-eases, • counterpane,
Works, Crouch-end, Homey-rise, contractor and brick- ' three window blinds, two tablecloths, and a silver guard-
maker. The adjudication wasmadeon thepetitionof Messrs. i chain, in fact everythin portable had been taken from the
Alexander Young and Thomas Cave, two of the liquidetors I prosecutor's dwelling-house. The bedroom window which
of Smith, Knight, and Co. (Limited), who claim from , the prosecutor bad fastened inside with two wedges, had
the bankrupt the large amount of 163,041. for calls on been forced open, and there were marks of footsteps out-
shares and interest. There is no other statement of liabill- side. All the linen in the house was taken away,
ties ; but of course the whole of the liabilities of Smith . • silver chain removed from the mantel shelf, and
Knight, and Co., are proveable against this estate, anti everything. The thief or thieves, after effecting
they are said to amount to about two millions. lan entrance, opened the back door from the
This was the first sitting. Mr. Sydney Howard, mar- , inside and their egress was then easy. The prisoners were
chant, of King's Arms-yard, Colemanatreet, and Mr. lat once suspected when the polka received informatics of
Alexander Young, accountant, of Tokenhouse-yard (both ' the burglary. Ellis has been convicted several times, and
liquidators of Smith, Knight, and Ca) were chosen trade is a deverateand daring burglar. Wright has also been
-lames. Messrs. Ashurst and Co. are the solicitors under in custody, and she has long cohabited with Ellis. James
Briden, police-sergeant, No. 4 K, and Thomas Venablea,
constable No. 141 K, took the prisoners into custody last
night at No. 16, Ragentotreet, Mile-end. No portion of the
stolen property was found upon them. Briden and Vella-
bles entered into circumstances of nu Wen against the
prisoners, and John Rickard Lilley, a Lboorer, of No. 17,
Friendly-place, White Horse-lane, was called, who gave
very important evidence. He saw the prisoners near the
Fomenter's house on Thursday, and saw them bringing
bundles of property into the dwelling of Elis's father, •
short distance from the oil and colour shop. The female
prisoner entered the house of her paramour's father twice
and each time with • bundle. She came from the direction
of Mr. Salmon's premises.
The officers asked for a remand.
Mr. Benson—Certainly, I shall rem and the prisoners
until Monday next for inquiries and additional evidence.

SURREY GENERAL QUARTER
SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)

The Epiphany General Quarter Sessions for the Peace
commenced this morning at the Sessions-house, New-
ington.causeway, before Thos. Tilson, Esq., chairman
E. H. L Penrhyn, Esq., deputy chairman ; Lieut.-Col Be-
resford, Sir John Thwsitee, and a full bench of magistrates.
The calendar contains the names of 60 prisoners for trial-
-49 for felony and 11 for misdemeanor. The status of edu-
cation was as follows :-22 could neither read nor write, 26
read and write imperfectly, 4 can only read, and 2 can
read and write well.
CAUTION TO GRAND JCRTMEN.
The following gentlemen were fined 51. each for absent-
ing themselves from the grand jury, Mews. Alfred
Long Jeffrey, William Newton, William Carter,
Alfred John Palmer, and Henry Marten, of 13, Surrey-
square. Several other gentlemen were excused, being
over 60 years of age. The chairman recommended them
to wait upon the overseers, and have their name* expunged
from the jury list.
After ths them to the grand jury, there were two con-
victions under the Smoke kluisanos Act.

BOARD Or TRADE, WHITEHALL, Dac. 30.—The
Bight Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council
for Trade have received, from the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs a copy of • despatch from her Majesty's
S'icretary of Legation at Rome, reporting that the Papal
government has allowed that British commerce is fully
entitled to share the privileges granted to France by the
commercial treaty concluded between France and Rome,
on the 29th July last, in virtue of the declarations
exchanged between her Majesty's government and that of
the Roman States on the 17th of November, 1863, and has
consequently informed the Pontifical Cuetatus authorities
of the fact. The table showing the modifications in the
tuffff of the Papal States, as annexed to the treaty with
Frame in 1807, and to which Great Britain is thus entitled,
is published in last night's Gazelle.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Dan. 28.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Doe Manuel Zaturnit as Consul in
the bland of Malta for her Majesty the Queen of Spain ;
the Queen has also been pleased to approve of Senor Ralph
Nunez as Consul in the Island of Jamaica for the United
States of Venezuela.—Gov.v tle.
The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers presided at a
public soiree held in celebration of the third anniversary
of the Willenhall Literary Institute on Monday evering.
There was a numerous company, including Mr. Weguelin,
)LP., Sir John Norris, Lieutenant-Coloael Vernon (High
Sheriff of the county), and the Hon. and Rev. A. Anson.
The governors of Charing-cross Hospital have
just organised, on the recommendation of the council of
their institution, a new department for the treatment of
diseases of the skin, and on Monday last unanimously
elected Dr. Tilbury Fox to the post of physician in charge
of it.
Tu. LORD MAYORALTY or DCBLIN.—The civic
chair of Dublin is this day occupied by • member of our
profession, Dr. William Carroll, for many years medical
officer to the Extern department of the Coombe Lying-in
Hospital, and • respected member of the town council.
Dr. Carroll, we believe, was largely instrumental in
securing for the Coombs Hospital the royal charter and
the grant lately accorded to that institution, and thus ob-
taining for it an official recognition as an educational
establishment—Medical Press and Circular, Jan. 1, 1888.
THE AtITUAL STOCK Or COTTON IN LIVERPOOL.—
The actual stock of cotton in hand in Liverpool mu yes-
terday ascertained to be 447,490 bales, being about 13,000 '
hales below the estimated stork. In American qualitin
there ie an increase of 9,000 bales, while on the ether
hand Surat has decreased '3,000 tales. The following
summer/ alums the stock on hand t—Anorican, 103,420
b tles ; Brazilian. 66,0:8) bales; Egyptian, 35,150 bales ;
Smyrna 3,840 bales ; West Indian, 13,640 bales ; Surat,
179,-:7o'hales ; Madras, 10,490 balm ; Bengal, 34,240 bales ;
China, 1,180 bales. Actual stock, 447,4410 bales.
THE FALSE LIGHTS AT WHITEURN.—A few
weeks ago a statement appeared written by Captain John-
son, of South Shields, who said, in positive terms, that
while making for the Tyne he saw a li•fat near :touter
Point, which at first be took for Tynemou.h Castle, but
finding he was in too shoal water for that to be possible
ho drew out to sea and got into the Tyne in safety. An
incident has just transpired, and is certainly a curious one,
which it is hoped will throw some light on this mysterious
affair. It appears that Captain Kirby, now of London,
but formerly sailing out of the Tyne, hill
little f
some
weeks on a visit at Shields, and having • little curiosity
about the alleged false lights, thought be would explore
the vicinity in which they were said to be seen for
himself. Accordingly, about a fortnight ago, he paid •
visit to the spot. and after wandering along the
coast for some time he noticed a little hut on
Sauter Point, near the edge of the cliff. Thinking that
if the but was ever used by fishermen it might be possible
for the glare of any fire kindled by them to be seen at see,
lie proce4ded to examine it. He found traces of it having
been recently occupied by some one and on looking up the
chimney he noticed something concealed in it. Oa taking
this out he found it to be a piece of wreck timber, about
two feet and a half long. On one end of it was a masa of
rope yarn, tch and tar,
but similar to the pitch
inopsused o pin board sh ip, which had no appearance of
having been in the water. He thought it was best to
take possession of this, and finding nothing else about the
place to throw any light upon the subject be returned to
Shields with it in his possession. He ham given it to the
secretary of the Tyne Pilotage Commission, and made a
full statement of all the circumstances attending its find-
ing, which will be laid before the lotard at its next meet-
inc.—Northern AWN Express.
DI steaurci. RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN AMERICA.
F 1 rrT PERSONS KILLED.—The New York papers of the
19th ult. contain the following :—Buffalo, Dec. 18.—The
New York expreastrain, from Cleveland, on the Lake Shore.
road, due here at 12.45 p.m., being behind time, when
two miles this side Angola, either from • defect in • rail,
or frost, met with a serious accident about 3 o'clock this
afternoon. Two rear passenger cars were thrown off the
track, and rolled over an embankment of twenty feet. A
train with surgeons, officers of the road, and others, left
et 4 o'clock to render assistance.
The killed and
wounded are expected to arrive here at 9 o'clock,
and every preparation is being made by the citizens
of the city to make the wounded comfortable.
Later amounts describe the accident as MOM
serious than at first reported. The rear car went
over an embankment of fifty feet, was set on fire, and out
of fifty passengers only two escaped ; the rest were
burned to death, and all that is left is • mass of
blackened and charred remains, without say means of
ascortaink.g their names. The accident occurred at Big
Sisters Bs 'Age. one quarter of • mile mat of Angola. One
I train with the unhurt passengers and • few of the
wounded arrived here about half-past nine o'clock. The
balance of the wounded will be here about twelve o'clock.
Every preparation is being made to care for their wants
by the citizens of Buffalo. Inquests are now being held
at Angola on the killed. A large number of the physi-
cians of Buffalo left on • four ;o'clock special train to
, moist the wounded.
I A DINNER PARTT AT BELORADE.—I accordingly
mustered enough of the " mysterious gutturals" to say
' !something civil and complimentary about the place, the
, dinner, and the company, which the prince acknowledged
politely, saying, " I believe yea are the first Englishman
who has ever set foot here. Year countrymea, I fancy,
are too haughty to like to mix with indiscriminate com-
pany, and though the rule may be • safe one, they lose some-
thing by their reserve. The people who sit about you now
in this room comprise every. class and condition of life.
. That lawman with the cicatrix on his cheek is Prince
Carl Dureki, and the man opposite to him, is green
velvet and gold, was his valet ones. He is now the Greek
minister of police. Yonder is • Mexican general. who is
now in command of • troop of banditti in Petra' ; they are
in Russian pay, and are assent for envies in Theasely.
. He with the spectacles is the correspondent of the 4 /If/t-
-wine Zeitung, and the tall quaint fellow on his left is
FORTUNATE Dirrecnos Or 110551115. ' Hunyadi, who is under sentence of death in Austria ; and
An sotivalooking fellow, who rase the name of Williams the dark handsome man, next batand one to him, I,
&ride
th rst
-
Potteeft. was placed at the her charged with being found chi, a man ruined by high play, compromised in
aiding and abetting in the commission of •
co, affair of Orsini's." " Who is that noble-looking fellow
.34T4R4 Orr. Of 11, Woraton-plate, Pimlico, twid—ii we. near the Move—he with the white stela over the Demist
sitting at • little before 10 o'clock Met night in the kitchen jacket !" " That's the headsman of the Yalattica of Mem
down stairs when Ihe
• " shag " resembling the re- tempo. It's ri bold thing for him to sit down ill& 00114.
140.41 of ON latch of the strait dem I suspected fhst pony many of whose sons and brothers have fallen under
there was something wrest elea west elseedel- Ms sword. Rs's the vainest dog in Eurepe,.and fancies
When I 0 to the Pa
sufra fiend: the erree‘door wide the Queen of demos is in love with him.* ' And whet
ors, Prisoner standing ow the steps. He and have do they 'ell do beret What's their sillset to meet*/
sees or heard ore. for when I got into lae. PIMIP.. be Pee thus l" ell do
the Bonne is to the rossoyod folk this
• *sal to 0,6".C00P WI" was answW. ea...bra:lMM "at room 34 to the swot polio* of Eastern Ihrope, sad their
rushing out of the frost Perm! „mita_ _ imai fa .f. commits, which depend far their =lams* en the Terlefleh
clothes. I gave ea Warm, and f0130144.4=1•04114 GOB empire. They play at ocpsonara as me sumo at B.
the calm man, who ran together down a of 114111141/ ; soh knows what Isis sal %tear attar. sad &a
into Warwiek4treet, wheee I Aerie& them with*, his led to outwit him. mom im hose'
rebbiey. The other man amp/A shim knavery SSW by lawilskig • mem
Mr. Arnold—What bedew of the sitofsl of clothes? than giehoo,wimi be grew lie Inger efeahowethi mew lib
Witmer—The man threw them dews before they bops threat, and sailed as he spar —ffikathisorl's Megewies ipt
I rombeg. -
Jemmy.

1} Nei Y7~TELL~QEH CE

LATEST SPO
Off

MANCHNITZR larrlNG.-(THIS DAY.)

HURDLE RACE. Two miles.
Tomah. Harannah, Rose, Crewe, Turmoil, Ada, and
Molly are here.
CITY STEEPLECHASR. Three utiles end•
hell.
Birdie, Rosa, Carlow, Whelan, Imogene, Banbury,
Kate Terry, Kimet, and Queen of Hearts are bete.
PAID Fonweffr.le Boy, Haltom, New Light, Mother
of Pearl, and Rim Dobson.
HUNTERS' STEEPLECHARHo E. Threemiles end squirterßun..
Hawk Kate Terry, Tally , Taft, Sl,
bury, Reveler, Bronze, and Johnny an here.
TRIAL STAKES. One mile.
Hopleaf, Cadley, Harsonah, Serf, Paequet, Falsehood.
Frederica, Ada, Rob Roy, Queen of Scots, Rulebook and
Paradise.

TES MIDLAND RAILWAY.

WILTING 01. lIKAIEHOLDIRS AT LEEDS.
Yesterday a meeting of the shareholders of the
Midland Railway Company was held at the Queen's Hotel,
Leeds, " to consider what stops shall be taken to protect
the interests of the company at the meeting to be held
at Derby, on the 15th January." Mr. Baum, M.P.,
occupied the chair. The attendant* was 'large and in-
.

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)
On collsons.

This being New Year's-day, the Stock Exchange
is dosed, and we have no transactions to report in
stocks and shares.
In the discount market the supply of money has
largely increased, and good bills are freely taken at
per cent., or below the rate current yesterday.
The Calcutta, China, and Australian mails have
reached Suez.
With reference to the South Australian Banking
Company, it is notified that the half-year's divi-
dend to the 31st December, at the rate of S per
cent. per annum (clear of income tax), will be pay-
able on the 15th inst.
Tenders are invited by the Peruvian Legation
for the construction and working of a railway from
Lima to the towns of Magdalena and Bellavista.
The Midland Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 6,364/. over last year, and the
Lancashire and Yorkshire an increase of 2,0471.
The dividends will be payable to the public at
the Bank of England on Thursday week, the
9th January.
About 16,0001. in bar gold, forming a portion of
recent arrivals from Australia and America, was
sent into the Bank yesterday, in addition to 5,000
sovereigns from America.
The New York, from New York, has brought
490001. in soec.ie for England.
The bar silver and Mexican dollars by the
steamer Tasmanian, from the West Indies, were
sold yesterday, chiefly for the Continent, at se. Odd.
and 4s. 101 d. per ounce, respectively, showing no
change, compared with recent quotations.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were
steady. There was a further slight advance in the
rates for bills on Vienna, and a decided move-
ment against Italy, the financial position of the
government of that country being regarded with a
good deal of distrust, now that a large military ex-
penditure, threatening a chronic deficit in the
finances, seems to have been decided upon. This
afternoon's list is subjoined :
Amsterdam, 3 months, 12.01 to 12.1 ; ditto, short,
11.181 to 11.191 ; Rotterdam, 3 months, 12.01 to 12.1
Antwerp, 3 months, 25.35 to 25.40 ; Brawls, .1 months,
25.35 to 25.40 ; Hamburg and Altme,3 months, 13.91 to
13.10 ; Berlin, Cologne. go., 3 months. 6.264 to 6.27 f ;
Bt. Petersburg, 3 months, 32 to 311 ; Paris, eet, 25.121
to 25.22 f ; ditto, 3 months, 25.30 to 25.35 ; Marseilles,
3 months, 25.30 to 25,35 ; Pranktort-on-the-Maine,
3 months, 1201 to 1201 ; Vienna, S months, 12.45 to
12.50 ; Trieeta, 3 months, 12.45 to 12.50 ; Madrid, 3
months, 481 to 48i ; Santander, 3 months, 481 to 481; Cadiz,
3 months, 49 to ; Seville, 3 months, 49 to 48f ; Malaga,
3 months, 481 to 481; Valeuzia, 3 months, 481 to 48f ; Bar-
salons. 3 months, 483 to 414 ; 3 months, 481 to
481 ; Saragossa, 3 months, 481 to 481 ; Leghorn. 3
months, 24.t0 to 29.30 ; Genoa, 3 months, 29.0 to
29.30; Nsplea, 3 months, 29.0 to 29.30 ; Palermo, 3
months, 81.0 to 29.30 ; Messina, 3 months, 29.0 to
:M.30 • Lisbon, 90 days' date, 511 to 51f ; Oporto. 90 days'
date, 511 to 511.
The South Eastern Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of 1,3791. over last year ; the
London, Brighton, and South Coast an increase of
2,8871. ; and the Glasgow and South Western an
increase of 13/. ; and the Metropolitan an increase
of 3051.
The traffic return of the Great Western Railway
of Canada for the week ending the 27th inst. shows
an increase of 3,2161., compared with the corre-
sponding period of 1866.
The traffic receipts of the Erie Railway Company
for the month of November were 1,421,881 dole.,
being 5,880 dole. more than in November, 1866.
At the meeting of the Canada Company, held
yesterday, the directors were authorised to divide,
out of the assets in hand, 21. per share, free of in-
come tax, for the half-year ending January 10.
A meeting was held yesterday of the Russian
(Vyksounsky) Ironworks Company (Limited), when
the directors' report was adopted, after sonic Ws-

fi unitieL
The CHAIRMAN elated that he still bald the views which
he ventured to express a few days ago in the letter he
addressed to the Tines. He believed in the entire honesty
and integrity of the Midland management, and he be-
lieved in the solidity of the property of the Midlaad Com-
pany. Bat he also thought that great errors had been
committed in going out of their legitimate field—(hear,
hear)--and in undertaking far too many lines at once.
(Hear, hear.) The policy he would urge upon the share-
holders would be to look fairly at the liabilities of the
company.l to abandon every line and every work not yet
far advanced which it was possible to abandon, and to
postpone every work which it was possible
to postpone without serious detriment to the
interests of the company. (Hear, hear.) He believed
that lime and works to the amount of 5,255,000/. could be
, including lined not yet commenced, viz.:—The
rest! irnandd Carlisle line, 2,200,008/.• the Mansfield lines,
650,000/.; the Ashby and Nuneaton lines, 228,0001.; lines
under the acts of 1865 and 1866, in progress, 2v0,0u0r.; the
Midland proportion of the Liverpool and Cheshire lines,
835,0001. of works in progress and ordered on old lines,
100,0001.; addition to rolling stock, 200,0001.; and London
station, hotel, and onion, 200,0001. All, or nearly all, of
these lines and mocks were capableof postponement if only
the shareholders were determined that it atonic: be done.
The directors could not of themselves do it, bat must
have the authority of the shareholders, not only empower-
ing, bat, if needful, directing them to adopt such a MUM.
He advocated a policy of calmness and moderation towards
the directors, and the appointment of a committee of
consultation with the directors.
Mr. °ARNIM, of Otlev, moved the adoptioa of the fol-
lowing resolution :—" rilmt, considering the injurious
effect produced on the value of Midland shares by the
intended application to parliament for powers to raise
new capital to the amount of 5,000,0001, it is
essential, in the opinion of this meeting, to revive the
engagements of the company for lines, weal, and all con-
templated outlay, with the view to the relinquishment
or postponement for a considerable time of all that can be
relinquished or postponed without serious detriment to
the interests of the company." In moving this resolution
Mr. Garnett expressed a strong opinion in favour of the
abandonment or postponement of the Settle and Carlisle
line, and his earnest hopes that the shareholders would
act altogether independently of the Manchester Aim-

ciation.
Mr. JOICITr seconded the resolution, which was carried
unanimously.
Mr. 10101)ES then moved—" That this meeting recom-
mends the appointment at the meeting of the Midland
Company on the 15th January of a committee of consulta-
tion, consisting of large shareholders, to confer enth the
directors on the position of the railway, and especially at
to the extent to which projected lines and works can be
relinquished or postponed, and to report to the half.yearly
meeting in February."
Mr. Alderman Maack seconded the resolution, which
also met with a hearty concurrence on the part of the
meeting.
On tile motion of Mr. Al& GEORGE, seconded byMr. 818.
CHALL, a committee, consisting of Mr. Baines, M.P., Mr.
Garnett, and Mr. Jowitt, was appointed to present the
resolutions to the directors st the meeting ou the I.stt
instant.

mission.
The directors of the Dutch-Rhenish Railway
Company have made a call of 24 tis. per share,
on the new issue of 25,000 shares, and a similar
call of 24 its. on the remainder of the original
issue of 100,000 shares on which 15/. only has been
paid. These calla will be payable on ur before the
Ist February.
The warrants for the half-year's interest on the
stock of the Great Southern of India Railway Com-
pany were yesterday forwarded to the proprietors,
and are payable at the Union Bank of London
on and after to-day. The interest on the mort-
gage bonds of the company is also payable to-
morrow on presentation of the coupons.
Dividend warrants for the usual interim divi-
dend payable on the Ist of January have been
issued by the St. James's Hotel Company.
Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas,
dock, and canal shares, as given in the Stock
Exchange list of last evening :
lasnramm—Commorcial Union, 4 Thames and Money
Marisa (Limited), 41 ; Universal Maria° (Limbed),
43, i, d•
Gaslight and Coke—City of Madams Gas, 101, 4;
Europese (Now), 7 ; imperial Coatineatal, 9tit ; London,
621.
Gosk•—Foss and West India, 123.
Carols—Raganas (or London), 214, 203 ex die.
Messrs. Fenn and Crosthwaite of Royal Ex-
change-buildings, have issued their usual tabular
statement, shover rig the highest and lowest prices
of Consols, railway stocks, banks, foreign bonds,
and miscellaneous securities, in each month of the
year now ended. It is • period that has been
marked by great and exceptional variations in
many classes of public securities. The extreme
variation in Consols has been between and 844.
Mr. John Green, of 5, Nicholas-lane, has an-
nounced that he has just taken into partnership
Mr. James Tomlinson, and that the business of
the firm, as discount nd money dealers, will be
conducted tinder the style of Green, Tomlinson,
and Co.
Mews. David Satow and Co. have announced
that their senior, Mr. H. D. C. Satow, retires from
busint sit this day, and that the firm will be con-
tinued as heretofore by the remaining partners.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, DEC. 31.—The Queen has
been plasma to appoint Mr. Peter Wyatt Squire to be
chemist and druggit upon the eatabli.liment in
ordinaryto
her Majeskr, jointly with his father, Mr. Peter Squire.—

GaAte.
BOARD or TRADE, WHITEHALL, Dec. 30.—The
Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council
for Trade have received, from the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, a oopy of a deviate& from her Majesty's
Chargé d'Affaires at tioatemabi, inclosing copy and trans-
lation of the tariff of duties on importation of goods into
Nicaragua, • which will come into operation on the Ist
January, Dalai. This tariff can he inspected on application
at the Board of Trade, WhitehalL—Gastre.
THE VICTORIA CROSIL—WAR-OTFICE Der. 31.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to denify her in-
tention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cress on
the undermentioned offieers, whose claims to the same
have been submitted for her Majesty's approval, for their
gallant conduct in Bhootan, as recopied against their
names, via.:—Major William ltpottiawoode Trevor and
Lieutenant James Dundee, Royal (Lek Bengal) Engineers,
for their gallant conduct at the attack on the Block-house
at Dewan.thri, in Bhootan, on the 30th of April, Isqs.
Major-General Tombs, V.C., the of
in command
at the time, reports that • party of the enemy, from
NO to 200 in number, had barricaded themselves in the
Block-hones in question, which they continued to defend
after the rest of the position had been carried, and the main
body was in retreat. The Block-honse,whkh was loop-holed,
was the key of the enemy's position. Seeing no officer of the
storming party Mar him, and being anxious that the place
should he taken immediately, as any protracted moistest'
might have mused the main body of the Bhootsss to rally,
the British force having been lighting in a broiling sea on
very steep and difficult ground for upwards of three hours,
the general to command ordered these two officers to show
the we, into the Block-house. They had to climb up a
wall which was 14 feet high, and then to enter a house,
occupied by erne 200 desperate men, bead foremost
through an opening not more than two feet wide between
the top of the wall and the root' of the Block-house. Major-
Gcseral Tombs states that on "peeking to the Sikh soldiers
around him, and telling them in Iliadoostani to swarm up
the wall, none of them responded to the cell, until them
two °films bad shown them the way, when they followed
with the greatest alacrity. Both of them ware wounded.
DEATH OF LADY WALDEORAVIL —The poorer
inhabitants of Hastings beard with deep regret, on Fel-
day, that Lady Elizabeth Waldegrave, elder daughter of
the late Earl, had died at two o'clock that morning, at the
family mansion, High-street. Her ladyship had been
ill for about two months, and had become nearly cones-
lucent. when a relapse took place, ending in death. Her
ladyship was unmarried. She spent a large part of her ,
time in active works of benevolence, abIT and con-
tinuously assisting the aged Counter* of Wmdegrave in
her many good works. Her ladyship was also the diligent
honorary secretary of the Ladles' Home at At. Leonard.. '1
She will be greatly missed, not only by the residents at
the Home, but by the indigent poor of All Saints and I
St. Clement's parishes. By this unexpected event the
families of Sir Bounden Palmer, 11. P. (late Solicitor-
General), the Hon. George Waldegrave-Leslie, M.P. for
Hastings, Viscount Chewton, and other distinguished I
personages, will be placed in mourning.—Surrey Stan-
dard.
A PuErrY Fitzycnwonnx.—l have not yet told
you how very very pretty Mademoiselle Petiole was. She
was not lovely her sister was that ;—nev her was she
handsome, or beautifuL In each of throe words there was
something above or something beyond Mademoiselle
reticle. But she was that supremely Jona femme which al
Frenchwoman alone ever is. Rather under than over the
middle height, the first idea she gave you was that of psr-
feet proportion. She had not the most beautiful throato
,
or the most beautiful arm, or hand, or shoulder, in th
world; no one particular limb reminded you of a statue;
but the whole went together romvellously well ! Each
part so fitted the other, the ensemble was so harmonious,
so pleasint to the eye, that you were charmed without
knowing why, and would have voted to be insupportable
whoever should have attempted to persuade you that you
ought not to be so. All the lines were soft and rounded
in Feline's face and figure. In her whole being there was
not an angle, or anything abrupt. She was all ince, all
charm. Her voice was insinuating, her movements ukin ndu-
lating, her looks caressing. She was precisely that d
of Frenchwoman whom, if you have theme* distant dream
of reninining,--howsver little,—your own master, you had
best never meet. She never alarms and never releases
you. Except for the powder which disguised the wavy
chestnut hair--that thick, naturally curling, blond winded
heir, which Fetid° deemed so exquisitely except for
that, everything was alike in tile too tts
celebrated lAdy of
Veraneonr sted her demendent ; the sense calm, se
skin, with just enough of detiosts colour to present its
being pale ; the came small. with its transparent,
nostrils • the MUM finely arched eyebrows, and
fascinating light hand eyes ; the some—se I wa=
the same 'RNA. The epoch Ind eeta=dhenoand.
Lanzun's mistress bad the rich vps via
package moused soweehing out of taut tad Wit
littiped • whilst oar Nadessebelle Visesisellt
sensed 14* es thin thst they was hardly mu
se Via
edges of the mouth ; bright red lbws eleaka weer
rows of enrableely pawl-like teeth—will else ale sad
Hula fade they were Maar panto& rotas 1.1216;
44. Peal's Jfegentee for Ifinuory.

TuuDAT Evionsa.
Consuls, whichwerequoted at 4 o'clock yesterday
92 to b ex div., both for money and next Tuesdays
settlement (though afterwards declining to 911 to
92), opened this morning at 91* to 92, and, after
touching 92i, closed at a 2 *. For the February
settlement the last price was 92* too The
Three per Cents. Reduced and New
Cents. were quoted at 3 o'clock 911 to 92. per
The
official business report is as follows :—Three per
Cent. Consols, for money, 92, I*, 2k, ex div.; ditto,
for account, 911, 2, ex div.: Mrs, per Cents. Re-
dosed, 911, 2 ; New Three per Cents., 92, 11, 2,
; Bank Stock, 239 ; India Stook, shut ;
ditto Five per Cent., 111*, 10f, ex div.; ditto Four
Cent., 1001 ; ditto Fiveend-allalf per Cent.
'eft„ rupee paper, 108*, ; ditto Five per
Cent. Rupee Debentures, 1882, 103* • ditto Five
per Cent. Debentures, 106 ; ditto Bonds, 355.

prem.
The India Five per Cent. Stock was again
offered, and was last marked 1103, ex div. There
was also a further reduction in India' Bonds, which
were sold at 35a. prem.
Exchequer Bills were fiat at 235. to 28s. prem.
Foreign stocks were very inactive, and prices
generally showed no movement. Spanish New
per Cents., Passive, and Turkish of 1865
rose j to f per cent., while Turkish of 1858 fell 1,
the Viceroy of Egypt's Loan and Greek Coupons
/. There was no decline yesterday in Peruvian
Bonds of 1865, the apparent reduction being owing
to the fact (not expressed in the official list) that
the price was then for the first time quoted ex the
drawing, which is to take place on the2nd January,
and the chances of which are estimated to be worth
about 1 per cent. The price closed to-day at 71
to with the dividend but ex the drawing, and it
Will be quoted in this form until the settlement at
the middle of January.
The Egyptian Nine per Cent. Scrip was last
quoted to 1 prem. ; Portuguese Scrip, to
being dull ; and the liondursa Govern-
Ileginty Loan, Ito pram., being i lower.
. , ,
&Mel; Yoion. —Own Banana] Dee.—
' Tomewir, Dee. 31. ahodwwwie ea payment, 4,757 ;
'oe by mom Vika* 2,354 ; total vista" 7,111.