The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-04 00:00:00

;MANCHESTER, DEC. 3.

STOCK EXONANGE.—The market to-day has boon at a
slight advance upon prices, closing with a firm feeling.
East Lancashire, 17A—Eastern Counties, 83—Midlanes,
64i —Sheffield, 23:1—Leeds, 77L—GreatWestern of Canada,
23I—Dovers, 17 7-16.

THE WINE TRADE.—It is shown that from the 6th of
January to the 31st of October, the quantity of wine
imported was 6,615,892 gallons, and in ten months of
last year it was 9,104,930.
MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.—The portrait model
of Victor Emmanuel has just been completed, and is now
exhibited in the great room of this establishment. The
likeness of his Majesty is exceedingly good, and his
dress is that of a Sardinian General—blue frock coat,
grey trousers, both ornamented with silver lace—and the
taste and execution displayed is highly creditable to the
artistes. During the cattle show at the Baker-street
Bazaar this exhibition will be entered at the usual door,
which will be, we understand; permitted by the manager
of this truly English exhibition.`et
COURT or SESSION.-0 wing to a severe domestic be-
reavement sustained by the Dean of Faculty and Lord
Wood, both of these learned and distinguished gentle-
men were absent from the court on Friday. In conse-
quence of Lord Wood's absence in the Second Division
(Lord Murray being at present indisposed), there was no
quorum of judges, and after the Lord Justice-Clerk and
Lord Cowan had, with the assistance of Lord Handy-
side from the Outer House, passed several bills, the
Division adjourned. In the First Division, and in the
Court generally, numerous cases were postponed in con-
sequence of the absence of the Dean. Among others
the Torbanehill case in the First Division, in which
Messrs. Russell's contract to lease the coal mines is
sought to be reduced on the alleged ground of fraud, was
postponed for a fortnight.—Edinburgh, Courant.
Those men of the depots of the Provisional Battalion,
Chatham,, who have gone through their course of preli-
minary instruction in the Enfield rifle practice of dis-
tance and aiming commenced yesterday, for the first
time, ball practice in the marshes, St. Mary s-creek,
under their instructor, Captain William Nott, 83d Re-
giment.
Col. Jervois, Commandant, Provisional Battalion, and
Colonels Parker and Elliott, Royal Marines, will assem-
ble this day at the District Military Prison, Fort Cla-
rence, for the purpose of making a monthly inspection.
INCENDIARISM IN BERKSHIRE.—The high price of corn
and the consequent dearness of food, with the low rate
of wages which prevails, are creating dissatisfaction
among the labouring classes, and this is now being de-
veloped in acts of incendiaristn. It is now about a fort-
night since that much agricultural property was de-
stroyed by an incendiary in the Vale of Berks, but this
week a similar act has been perpetrated in the eastern
Part of the county. On Wednesday night last, between
8 and 9 o'clock. a fire broke out in the rickyard on Hin-
ton House Farin, Hurst, about a mile from the station
on the Great Western Railway. Immediately upon
the discovery beiug made an alarm was raised, and
in a short time hundreds of persons assembled at
the scene of devastation. There were eight ricks in
the yard, but the two standing in the centre, and the
three on the south side, notwithstanding the liberal
supply of water and the strenuous exertions of the
two fire brigades from Reading, were entirely destroye d.