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London, England, 1864-02-09

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

?OUSE OF LORDS.— Last Evening,
irli-.3 LORD CHANCELLOR took hi 3 seat on the woolsack

at five o'clock.

The house eat for a quarter cf en hour, but no business
Yeas transacted, and their lordships then adjourned•

HOUSE OF COMMONS--Last Evening,
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.

PETITIONS.
Petitions were presented by Sir J. SHELLEV, signed by
1,000 persons, in favour of the reduction of the duty on fire

insurances, and several other petitions to the same effect

were also Presented frim different parts of the country.

SOUCHOW.
Col. SYKES gave notice that on the 16th he would call
the attention of the house to the proceedings at Shanghai,

when all the consuls resident expressed their abhorrence
of the conduct of the Futai at Soochow, and to ask the
rirst Lord of the Treasury as to what course would be pur-
suod in order to prevent a recurrence of the events which
were so much to be deplored.

PARISH VESTRIES (IRELAND).
Sir R. PEEL gave notice that he would move for leave
to introduce a bill to amend the law relating to parishes and

vestries in Ireland,

WAREHOUSING SPIRITS.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave
notica that he would postpone bringing forward this subject
ruin Thursday until Monday, the 15th.
LAW OF SETTLEMENT.
Mr, WARNER gave notice that on Friday next he
would call the attention of the house to the Law of Settle-

went as it affected the poor.
NEW WRIT.
On the motion of Mr. BRAND, a new writ was ordered
to issue for the election of a member for Brighton, in the
room of Mr. Coningham, who has accepted the Chiltern
Hundreds.

--
COLLECTION OF INCOME TAX.
31r. WAR SER asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer,

whether ho was aware that it had been found necessary in

some cases to resort to a voluntary rate in order to provide
for the collection of tho income tax by parochial officers;
and whether ho would consider the propriety of adopting a

regular system ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that
he was aware there was a necessity for amendment in the

collection of the income tax, and the subject was under the

consideration of Government.
CHINA.
Mr. W. E. FOSTER asked the Under Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs whether it was true that the town of
S)ochow in China had been taken from the Taepings by

help of her Majesty's officers employed by the Imperialists

_ .
with the sanction of her Majesty's Government ; whether
also the Imperialists were aided by supplies from her Ma-

jesty's arsenals, and whether the town thus taken was de-
livered over to pillage and massacre by the Imperialist
troops notwithstanding the prctest, and contrary to the
pledge of the British officer in command ; and if so, whether
any and what steps had been taken by her Majesty's Go-
vftnment to withdraw their assistance to the Pekin Go-

ernment.
Mr. LAYARD said that the Government was not at
present in possession of the necessary information on the
subject, but he was informed from Shanghai that Colonel
Brown was about to investigate the subject.
London, England, 1864-02-09

29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE.
THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM.
Open daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7
o'clock by a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Eng-
land, Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edin-
burgh, ac., &c. Where may be seen the Astecs ; Bushman
and Wife ; Julia Pastrana and Infant; Eng and Shang, the
Siamese Twins; and upwards of 3,000 Models, Natural Pre-
parations, &c. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years
old. Admission, One shilling itor Gentlemen only).
London, England, 1864-02-09

(Limited)
£

FOr•••• 000000000 • •• •• • •

Bankers to the Company.

THE MEXICAN BANK (Limited).
Incorporated uuder the Companies Act, 1862.
Capital £2,000,000, in 20,( 00 shares of £lOO each.
first Lane 5,000 shares.
Deposit £1 per share on application, and £1 per share on
allotment. Calls will not exceed £5 per share, at intervals
of three months.
London, England, 1864-02-09

THAMES.

AGGRAVATED AND DISGRACEFUL ASSAULT ON A
LADY,—Abney Hopton, a well-dressed young man, who
called himself a clerk in the West India Dock, was brought
before Mr. Paget, charged with committing a violent
assault on Mrs. Ann Hill.
The complainant, whose face was much injured, and who
had lost a considerable quantity of blood, said she was
living at No. 21, East-street, Mile-end-road. Last night,
at S o'clock, she was in company with two females, near the
Horn of Plenty public house, in the Globe road, Mile-end,
waiting for a lady friend residing in Carlton-square, when
the prisoner, who was inebriated, came rushing along the
pavement and struck her on the shoulder with an umbrella.
She told him he had better go home, and not interfere with
respectable people. He immediately turned round and
struck her a violent blow on the face. She was stunned
for a few seconds, and when she recovered, saw the pri-
soner running away pursued by her friends and a number
of boys. The prisoner was stopped and given into custody.
She bled copiously from the nose, and had been in con-
siderable pain ever since.
Mr. Paget looked at the complainant's face and saw it
was injured.
Sarah Smith and Clara Shinting corroborated the evi-
dence of Mrs. Hill in every particular.
The prisoner, in a very abject manner, said he was very
sorry for what he had done. He had been in the Old
Globe public-house and lost a sovereign there.
Mr, Paget—That is no justification for committing an
assault upon a woman. This is a very serious offence in-
deed. Here is a respectable woman very savagely assaulted.
You are a clerk in the West India dock.
Mr. Master, a dock constable, said the prisoner was an
extra labourer in the duck.

The prisoner—l do clerk's duty.
Mr. Paget—l don't care whether you are a clerk or not.
Your conduct is not to be tolerated for an instant. This
is a most disgraceful case indeed. You have struck a
woman in thopublic street, and the public must be protected
against such outrages as these. I sentence you to three
months' imprisonment and hard labour.
London, England, 1864-02-09

SCINDE.

It appears by advices from Kurrachee of the 9th January
that this company's staff of engineers was then about to
commence the survey of the line for the extension of the
railway from near Kotree along the Indus Valley to a junc-
tion with the Punjab Railway at Mooltan, and that the
authorities had directed that every information and assist-
ance along the route should be given to the company's engi-
neers in order facilitate their operations. With regard
to the company's steam flotilla, it was stated that the number
of voyages performed between Kotree, the present terminus
of the Scinde Railway on the Indus, Sukkur, and Mooltan,
was 42 during the year 1863, against 28 in the year 1862.
The gross earnings of the flotilla for the half-year ending
Dec. 31 last amounted to 370,000 rupees, against 300,936
for the last eight months of 1862, showing a considerable
increase.
London, England, 1864-02-09

WESTMINSTER.

DARINCir SatEET RORBERY.—A young man, who gave
his name George Henry Simpson, was placed at the bar
charged with the following daring street robbery :
Mrs. Margaret Broomhead, widow, 111, Stanley-street,
Pimlico, said that last night she was going along Suther-
land-street, Pimlico, accompanied by a friend, when the
prisoner and two other persons of ruffianly appearance came
up and passed them. Immediately after this she bade her
friend " good night," and he had hardly turned his back
when the men advanced towards her, and the prisoner
seizing her muff, which contained her purse with halt a
sovereign and some silver in it and a pair of gloves,darted off
with it at lull speed. The othec men also took to their
heels, but in different directions. Prosecutrix called " Stop
thief" and pursued prisoner, who was afterwards brought
back and immediately recognised as the person who had
robbed her. Prisoner denied that he had taken it, and said
that he had a good character in his pocket.
Mr. H. Green, of 111, Westmoreland-street, Pimlico,
hairdresser, said that he met Mrs. Broomhead, and was
bidding her good night, when those men passed. He then
left the prosecutrix to go home, and in a minute after heard
her cry out, "I am robbed," and he then saw those men
running away. He pursued and caught the prisoner.
Prisoner said that he had been to a music hall, and hav-
ing stayed rather late, was running home when he heard a
cry of "Stop thief," and directly afterwards found himself
taken into custody upon a charge he knew nothing about.
George Everret, 76 B, said he was in:Sussex-street when
he heard a cry of " Stop thief " in Sutherland-street, and
directly after he saw the prisoner running towards him very
fast. Witness also ran, and then prisoner stopped and
walked coolly up to the constable, who then seized and held
him.

The witnesses said they were positive the prisoner was
the man.
He was remanded.

MARKETS—This Day,

HAY MARKZTS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 2s to £1 10s par load.
Trade slow.

CUMBERLAND..--Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4los Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 10$ Od ; and straw, 2s to £1 108 per load,
A slow sale.

WHITECHIPEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4los Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £123 te £1 lOs per Wad.
Trade inactive,

LONL.
TEA,—Biiiiititss has been very inactive, and the few deal-
ings entered into in the priva'4,e market have been at about
previous rates.

Sr,ct.au.—There has been a fair demand for good and fine
dc;scriptions of West India, which have sold reauily at the
reduced rates lately current. In the refined market there
is little change to report as regards values.
0011tn.—The demand for colonial qualities has been
steady, and superior descriptions have realized high prices.
Stocks on hand at the present time are slightly in excess of
those of the same period of last year.
Itrcu.—A fair amount of business has been done in East
India, at fully late rates.
TALLOW.—Business has been dull. Quotations for
P.Y.C. oi; the spot, 40s 3d to 408 ; April to June, 41s;
and last three months, 44s per cwt.
London, England, 1864-02-09

M-

HER MAJESTY•

OSBORNE, Feb. 8' a
Lot
Viscount Sydney (Lord Chamberlain) end
Proby (Comptroller of the Household) arrived st
Osborne to-day, and had audiences of her Mejesti
0f
to present the Addresses from the two 11°116%8 t
Parliament in answer to her :Majesty's BPeee-
the opening of Parliament.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, gel'
panied by the Hon. Sir Charles PhiPPs'ißilikdi ;
tended by Lieutenant-General Knollys attu
raorni°.
Teesdale, left Frogmow House yester.iel
and came to town. at s
The Prince of Wales presided yesteillei
6
meeting of the Council of his Royal Vigl:sl:
held at the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, Pa"
izl.gham Gate.
There were present Sir William Dunbar, Pei':
of the Privy Seal; Sir William John Alessne;
Attorney-General; Colonel the Hon. ;_;ir C"fte,
Beaumont Phipps, Receiver General ; end e•
nant-General Knollys, Comptroller of the P."-
hold of his Royal Highness,
In the evening the Prince honoured Eir.,,` -„toIP
ville by dining with him at his residence in
Jo' r"-
street.
His Royal Highness afterwards returned. t° /I'4.
London, England, 1864-02-09

ARGYLL ROOM S, Windmill-street,
Piccadilly,
IS OPEN EVERY EVENING.
Purim.); the evening an unparalleled repertoire of Dance
Music, Selections and Overtures, is performed by the cele-
brated Argyll Band, forty in number.
Doors Open at half-past 8, commence at 9.
Admission ls.

Manager, M. GRENET.
London, England, 1864-02-09

AUSTRIA.

ACCEPTANCE OF THE DANISH PROPOSAL
RELATIVE TO SHIPPING.

VIENNA, FEB. 2.

Austria has accepted the proposition of Denmark
that a delay of eight weeks should be allowed to
Danish and Austrian ships with their cargoes, ma-
terial of war excepted, to leave the harbours of
both countries without molestation, and that during
a similar period the mails should be regularly con-
veyed to and from either country.

THE WAR IN SCHLESWIG.

ESCAPE OF THE DANISH ARMY TO

ALSEN ISLAND.
RENDSBURG, FEB, 9.
Holsteiners who have deserted from the Danish
army state:—
' The Danes have evacuated Flensburg.
" The Prussians and Austrians arenorth of Flens-
burg.
" The greater portion of the Danish troops have
escaped to Alsen Island.
" In consequence of the hasty movements of the
troops yesterday many dead were left on the diffe-
rent battle-fields.

"In the northern part of Flensburg the inhabi-
tants favourable to the Dataes erected barricades
And fired on the Austrians, who lost in and before
the town 1,100 men in killed and wounded."
London, England, 1864-02-09

WESTMINSTER.

DATUNG STREET ROBBERY.—A young man, who gave
his name George Henry Simpson, was placed at the bar
charged with the following daring street robbery :
Mrs. Margaret Broomhead, widow, 111,. Stanley-street,
Pimlico, said that last night she was going along Suther-
land-street, Pimlico, accompanied by a friend, when the
prisoner and two other persons of ruffianly appearance came
up and passed them. Immediately after this she bade her
friend " good night," and he had hardly turned his back
when the men advanced towards her, and the prisoner
seizing her muff, which contained her puree with half a
sovereign and some silver in it and a pair of gloves,darted off
with it at full speed. The other men also took to their
heels, but in different directions. Prosecutrix called " Stop
thief" and pursued prisoner, who was afterwards brought
back and immediately recognised as the person who had
robbed her. Prisoner denied that he had takes it, and said
that he had a good character in his pocket.
Mr. H. Green, of 111, Westmoreland-street, Pimlico,
hairdresser, said that he met Mrs. Broomhead, and was
bidding her good night, when those men passed. He then
left the prosecutrix to go home, and in a minute after heard
her cry out, "I am robbed," and he then saw those men
running away. He pursued and might the prisoner.
Prisoner said that he had been to a music hall, and hav-
ing stayed rather late, was running home when he heard a
cry of " Stop thief," and directly afterwards found himself
taken into custody upon a charge he knew nothing about.
George Everret, 76 B, said he was in:Sussex-street when
he heard a cry of "Stop thief" in Sutherland-street, and
directly after he saw the prisoner running towards him very
fast. Witness also ran, and then prisoner stopped and
walked coolly up to the constable, who then seized and held
him.
The witnesses said they were positive the prisoner was
the man.
Ho was remanded.

MARKETS—This Day.

HAY MARK2TS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 10s Od; and straw, £1 2s to £1 108 per load.
Trade slow.
CumßEßLAND.—Mearlow hay, £3 Os to £4los Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 2s to £1 10s per load.
A slow sale.
WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4los Od; clover,
£4 Os to £5 108 Od ; and straw, £1 2s to £1 lOs per load.
Trade inactive,

COLONIAL.
TEA,—Business has been very inactive, and the few deal-
ings entered into in the priva',.e market have been at about
previous rates.
SuGAx.—There has been a fair demand for good and fine
descriptions of West India, which have sold readily at the
reduced rates lately current. In the refined market there
is little change to report as regards values.
COFFEE.—The demand for colonial qualities has been
steady, and superior descriptions have realized high prices.
Stocks on hand at the present time are slightly in excess of
those of the same period of last year.
RICE.—A fair amount of business has been done in East
India, at fully late rates.
TAl.Low.—Business has been dull. Quotations for
P.Y.C. on the spot, 40s 3d to 40s Gd ; April to June, 41s;
and last three months, 44s per cwt.
London, England, 1864-02-09

MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL
GALLERY ; established 2S years at the Bazaar,
Baker-street —Great Treat for the Juveniles during the
Holidays.—The series of Models of the Kings of England,
from the Conqueror to that of her present Majesty, attired in
the magnificent costumes of their respective periods, is now
near, y complete; and in the Chamber of Physiognomy are
several new additions. Admission, is. ; extra rooms, 6d.
Open from 11 till dusk, and from 7 till 10.
London, England, 1864-02-09

DEATH IN THE STREET,

Yesterday afternoon Mr. John Humphreys, the Middle-
sex coroner, held an inquest at the Grasshopper Tavern,
Charles-terrace, Mile-end New-town, on the body of
Samuel Davis, aged 38.
His brother, Thomas Davis, of 115, Baclob.urch-lane,
Whitechapel, said that he came to him late on the night of
Saturday week, when he was in bed, and asked for a night's
lodging. He gave him temporary relief, saying " You
have brought yourself to this because of the wild life you
have led. He then said he told him to come to breakfast
in the morning. He denied that he had kicked him out of
the house. He had only his slippers on. The next that
was seen of the deceased was when he was found lying in
Gower's-walk " not sensible," the constable said, " but he
could speak." He seemed to be intoxicated. He was taken
to the Whitechapel Union, where he died at 6 o'clock the
following morning.
Dr. A. M. Champneys said he had made a post-mortem
examination of the body of the deceased. There were two
wounds on the left hand. The ribs were broken, and there
was a severe injury on the side of the head, whi6h had caused
congestion of the membranes of the brain. That was tho
immediate cause of death. The scalp was bruised. Those
injuries might either have been caused by a blow or fall.
The hand bore marks of a horse's shoe. He might have been
walked over or knocked down by a horse.
The Coroner said there was no evidence that the brother
of the deceased had inflicted the injuries from which the
deceased expired. The jury therefore returned an open
verdict.

Loss OF THE ROYAL VICTORIA,--A letter from
Shetland, dated Feb. 1, says :—" The second boat
with the remainder of the crew of this ill-fated ship arrived
on the west side of Dunressness, Shetland, on Monday last,
two days after the first boat in charge of the mate had
arrived at Melby, in Sandness. The second boat was in
charge of the master, and had 14 men when she left the
ship. Of these all have perished except two men. The
master died the day before the boat reached the land. When
the boat arrived there were 6 dead bodies in her, the others
having been thrown overboard as long as the strength of the
living men permitted. The dead were interred with the
greatest respect in the churchyard of the parish, distant 7
miles from the spot where the boat arrived, the men of the
district, to the number of 150, turning out with the utmost
readiness to assist in rendering the last offices of humanity.
The two men (one a Frenchman, the other an Englishman)
who have survived are, as might be expected, in a very
prostrate state. It is thought they will both recove
pr, but
it is doubtful whether it may not be necessary to amputate
the Frenchman's foot from the effects of the frost-bite.
rinThe
men who arrived in the first boat are slowly recovat seaeg.
Only two died in her, as she was two days shorter
than the other boat."—Scotsman.
Laura, 'Countess of Antrim, and Lady Helen
WM:lnnen, have arrived at their residence in Lwndes-
square, from a tour of visits.
London, England, 1864-02-09

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT OF PROBATE,
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde.)
SCOTT V. SCOTT. JUDGMENT.

In this case, for a restitution of conjugal rights, a rule
For a new trial was granted, the case having been previously

argued.

WINSCOME V. WINSCOME AND PLOWDEN-JUDGMENT.
Sir J. P. \STilde delivered judgment in this case, which
was heard before him last week. The learned Judge went
through the salient points in the evidence, and expressed a
hope that the parties would be induced to resume their for-
mer terms. Ile would dismiss the respondent from the
suit, and the co-respondent must pay his own costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

BREAKING A MAN'S LEG.—Joseph Newby, a tin plate
worker, in the employ of Mr. Wilson, bath manufacturer,
of `Var.iour• street, Soho, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt
with violently assaulting and breaking the leg of an elderly
man in tha same employ, named John Halliday.
John Dennis, a young man, said that on the previous
afternoon the prisoner and Halliday were having some
words in front of the bar at the `hip public house,
Wardour-street. The prisoner struck Halliday, then a fight
ensued. He (witness) parted them, and directly after the
prisoner seised Halliday and threw him, and then threw
himself on the top of Halliday. On assistance going to
Halliday it was found that his head was badly cut by com-
ing in contact with a cask, and that one of bis legs was
broken. Subsequently he (witness) gave the prisoner in
charge, and Halliday was conveyed to the Middlesex
Hospital, where he still remained.
The prisoner asked the witness whether Halliday did not
strike him first.
Dennis said the prisoner struck the first blow.
A certificate from the Middlesex Hospital, signed by Mr.
Pyle, the house surgeon, was handed to Mr. Tyrwhitt de-
scribing the injuries Halliday had received, and stating
that he would be unable to attend for some time.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should remand the prisoner for a
week, and he had no doubt he would have to do so from
week to week.
The prisoner asked that bail might be taken.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should certainly not take bail, and
the prisoner was remanded.
A PICKPOCKET AT THE GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.--
Alfred Edwards, a young man, was charged by Edwin Colt-
rupe, of the detective police, with attempting to pick pockets
at the Gallery of Illustration.
The prisoner alms-examined the officer in a style which
showed that he was far from unacquainted with the prac-
tices of a police court.
He was remanded.
London, England, 1864-02-09

GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN.

The report of the directors of this company states that
£224,226 had been received for traffic during the half-year
ending the 31st of December last against £217,712 for the
corresponding half of 1862, showing an increase of £6,544.
Out of the net surplus revenue for the half-year of £93,639
the directors recommended that a dividend at the rate of
4i per cent. per annum be paid to the proprietors on the
consolidated stock of the company, leaving £8,319 to the
credit of the next account. The Irish South-Eastern Rail-
way, from Carlow to Kilkenny, became amalgamated with
this company on the Ist July last. The branch from Ros-
crea to Nenagh was opened for traffic on Oct. 5, but, owing
to the unfinished state of the stations and approaches, has
not contributed much to revenue; unexpected difficulties
have prevented the completion of the line to Birdhill, but
it is now in a very forward state. The company had been
reluctantly obliged to cease working the Bagnalstown and
Wexford Railway, between Bagnalstewn end Ballywilliam,
as in its present incomplete state the receipts were insuffi-
cient to pay the expenses. Tha directors have entered into
amicable arrangements with the Grand Canal Company ;
and also for through booking of goods and passengers with
every portion of the London and North-Western Railway,
the Cork and Waterford steam companies being parties
thereto ; all of which, they trust, will insure that harmony
and unity of action so essential to the development of rail-
way traffic. The capital account shows that £5,652,416 had
been expended, including £142,824 for the purchase of the
Irish South-Eastern Railway. The revenue account for
the half year ending Dec. 31 shows that £226,094 had been
received, and £100,928 expended, leaving a balance of
£125,166, to which is added £1,559 from the preceding ac-
count, making an available sum of £i26,725, out of which
£33,086 has been deducted for interest on loans and prefer-
, ence shares, leaving as above £93,639,

GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA.
The loss on exchange by the conversion of American
money received for the carriage of through traffic from the
commencement of the current half-year to the 23d January,
1864, amounted to £38,020, and at that date there was a
further sum of American funds still remaining to bo con-
verted of 73,013.
London, England, 1864-02-09

MID KENT.

The half• yearly meeting of this company was held yes-
terday, at the office, Duke-street, Westminster, Mr, AV. A.
Wilkinson in the chair.

The report stated that the agreement with the South-
Eastern Railway Company having come into operation on
the Ist of July last, the company are now in receipt of the
interest payable by that company on the Mid Kent Com-
pany's share capital, in lieu of the traffic earnings. The
rent charges and the half-year's interest on so much of the
debenture debt as was created for the purposes of the main
line being also payable by the Southern-Eastern Company,
in accordance with the agreement, the directors are in a po-
sition to recommend a dividend of 31 percent. for the half-
year. The South-Eastern Company have introduced the
necessary bill into Parliament this session for the formal
completion of the agreement which now regulates the rela-
tions of the two companies. The works on the Addiscombe
Extension have been unexpectedly delayed by the wet
autumn and other causes, but tho line is new practically
completed, and will be opened in the course of the month.
The capital account shows that £153,481 had been expended.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report,
said they had made a very satisfactory agreement with the
South• Eastern Company. No one could grumble, as they
had obtained a fair interest on their outlay. He believed it
was an equally good agreement for the South-Eastern am-
pany, The cost of the line was moderate, and from the ex-
isting traffic on the railway he thought it was quite as de.
sirable for the South-Eastern to have the line as it was for
the Mid Kent Company to sell it.

Mr. L. SIMPSON seconded the motion, and it was carried
unanimously. A dividend at the rate of 31 per cent. for the
past half-year was declared. Captain Edwards, the retiring
director, and Mr. Room, the retiring auditor, were re-
elected.

The CHAIRMAN said they were obliged to keep up the
direction of the company until the bill passed.
The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the
chairman and directors.
London, England, 1864-02-09

THAMES.

AGGRAVATED AND DISGRACEFUL ASSAULT ON A
LADY.—Abney Hopton, a well-dressed young man, who
called himself a clerk in the West India Dock, was brought
before Mr. Paget, charged with committing a violent
assault on Mrs. Ann Hill.
The complainant, whose face was much injured, and who
had lost a considerable quantity of blood, said she was
living at No. 21, East-street, Mile-end-road. Last night,
at 8 o'clock, she was in company with two females, near the
Horn of Plenty public••house, in the Globe road, Mile-end,
waiting for a lady friend residing in Carlton-square, when
the prisoner, who was inebriated, came rushing along the
pavement and struck her on the shoulder with an umbrella.
She told him he had better go home, and not interfere with
respectable people. He immediately turned round and
struck her a violent blow on the face. She was stunned
for a few seconds, and when, she recovered, saw the pri-
soner running away pursued by her friends and a number
of boys. The prisoner was stopped and given into custody.
She bled copiously from the nose, and had been in con-
siderable pain ever since.
Mr. Paget looked at the complainant's face and saw it
was injured.
Sarah Smith and Clara Shinting corroborated the evi-
dence of Mrs. Hill in every particular.
The prisoner, in a very abject manner, said he was very
sorry for what he had done. He had been in the Old
Globe public-house and lost a sovereign there.
Mr. Paget—That is no justification for committing an
assault upon a woman. This is a very serious offence in-
deed. Here is a respectable woman very savagely assaulted.
You are a clerk in the West India dock.
Mr. Master, a dock constable, said the prisoner was an
extra labourer in the dock.

The prisoner—l do clerk's duty.
Mr. Paget—l don't care whether you are a clerk or not.
Your conduct is not to be tolerated for an instant. This
is a most disgraceful case indeed. You have struck a
woman in the public street, and the public must be protected
against such outrages as these. I sentence you to three
months' imprieonment and hard labour.
London, England, 1864-02-09

ON CHLORATE OP POTASSA AND ITS USE IN OXYDISING

THE BLOOD.
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through a mixture of quick-lime and water, and subsequently
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SCINDE.

It appears by advices from Kurrachee of the 9th January
that this company's staff of engineers was then about to
commence the survey of the line for the extension of the
railway from near Kotree along the Indus Valley to a junc-
tion with the Punjab Railway at Mooltan, and that the
authorities had directed that every information and assist-
ance along the route should be given to the company's engi-
neers in order facilitate their operations. With regard
to the company's steam flotilla, it was stated that the number
of voyages performed between Kotree, the present terminus
of the Scinde Railway on the Indus, Sukkur, and Mooltan,
was 42 during the year 1863, against 28 in the year 1862.
The gross earnings of the flotilla for the half-year ending
Dec. 31 last amounted to 370,000 rupees, against 300,936
for the last eight months of 1862, showing a considerable
increase,
London, England, 1864-02-09

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Feb. 9.—Wind this day at noon—West;
moderate breeze, and cloudy weather.
PLYMOUTH, Feb. B.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Smyrna,
screw steamer, for Alexandria.

CARDIFF, Feb. B.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed—Louise,
for Havannah.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.

No arrivals,

DEAL, Tuesday Morning,

No arrivals.

THE GLASGOW DRAUGHT MATCH.—The thaught
match between Wyllie (the " Herd Laddie") and
Martin, of London, has ended in the match being gained by
Wyllie, after 18 days' play. In all, 62 games have been
played, of which Wyllie has gained ten and Martin five,
leaving 47 which have becen drawn. The match was
played for the championship of England and Scotland, the
sum of £lOO, and £5 for each game. Thus Wyllie, who
stood five games a-head of his opponent at the conclusion
of the match, claims £25 in addition to the honour of cham-
pionship and the Major prize of £loo.—Scotsman
CHARLES DE BERIOT, the great violinist (Madame
Malibran's second husband), has, we regret to learn, be-
come stone-blind, and may be seen every day being con-
ducted by a servant about the streets of Toulon, where he
is now residing•

FIRES IN THEATRES.—At the request of the com-
munal council of Vienna, the direction of the Imperial
Opera of that city is having a metallic curtain manufac-
tured, for the purpose of separating the audience part of the
theatre from the stage in case a fire thould break out.
NOTRE-DAAIE DE FRANCE, ou Histoire du Culte
de la Sainte-Vierge en France depuis l'Origine du Christi-
anism e jusqu' a pea ours is announced for early publica-
tion.
London, England, 1864-02-09

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Feb. 9.—Wind this day at noon—West;
moderate breeze, and cloudy weather.
PLYMOUTH, Feb. B.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Smyrna,
screw steamer, for Alexandria.

CARDIFF, Feb. B.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed—Louise,

or Havannah.

(13. E MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.

No arrivals,

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

No arrivals.

THE GLASGOW DRAUGHT MATcn.--The draught
match between Wyllie (the " Herd Laddie") and
Martin, of London, has ended in the match being gained by
Wyllie, after 18 days' play. In all, 62 games have been
played, of which Wyllie has gained ten and Martin five,
leaving 47 which have beeen drawn. The match was
played for the championship of England and Scotland, the
sum of £lOO, and £5 for each game. Thus Wyllie, who
stood five games a-head of his opponent at the conclusion
of the metal, claims £25 in addition to the honour of cham-
pionship and the Major prize of £loo.—Scotsman

CHARLES DE BERIOT, the great violinist (Madame
Malibran's second husband), has, we regret to learn, be-
come stone-blind, and may be seen every day being con-
ducted by a servant about the streets of Toulon, where he
is now residing.

FIRES IN THEATRES.—At the request of the com-
munal council of Vienna, the direction of the Imperial
Opera of that city is hating a metallic curtain manufac-
tured. for the purpose of separating the audience part of the
theatre from the stage in case a fire thould break out.
" NOTRE-DAME DE FRANCE, ou Histoire du Culte
de la Sainte-Viergo en France dcpuis I'Origine du Christi•
fours" is announced for early publica-
tion. anisme jusqu'a nos
London, England, 1864-02-09

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Siamese Twins ; and upwards of 3,000 Models, Natural Pre-
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old. Admission, One shilling (for Gentlemen only).
London, England, 1864-02-09

prisoners is now setimated at more than 200. Two
Dannebegs (company flags) have also been captured.
(The regimental flags and standards were not taken
into action by the Danes.) At the close of the fight
on the 3d inst., the Gondrecourt Brigade captured
the Konigsberg, and afterwards Wedelspang—from
which place, however, the troops pushed forward
were withdrawn, as tiaey were too much exposed—
and on the left they secured the railway station
and Klosterkrug, while the foremost body of troops
lay in Kohgraben. The Gondrecourt Brigade was
relieved by the Nostez Brigade, and sent to
obtain refreshments. Further on the left, a
company of the combined Prussian division
of infantry of the guard took part in the combat.
On Feb. 4 no attack was undertaken on this side,
but the division of the guard occupied Little Heyde
with their advanced posts. This took place early
on the day after the first fight. On the same day
the Danes armed a newly-thrown up battery, be-
tween battery No. 11 and the railway, which had
not been armed previously, and with hearty cheers
opened a heavy fire from this place and from battery
No. 10 against the Konigsberg. The Austrian 12-
pounder battery had replied with about six guns,
when they ceased firing by orders of Gen. Nostez.
Later, with the brightening weather, the fire of the
Danes against the Konigsberg was many times re-
newed as soon as a head showed itself. A piece of
a grenade out of an 84 pound bombshell killed and
wounded some men of the Austrian battalion lying
at the foot of the Konigsberg. In the afternoon all
was still throughout the entire line. Preparations
for the operations of the next day were made by
the whole of the combined army corps. In the
night of the sth inst., frost came and a.heavy snow
atom, which was favourable to the arming of the
Konigsberg with the Prussian rifled 12-pounders.
The Austrian Thomas brigade by means of their
battery silenced from Kirchb2rg, near Fahrdorf, a
hostile battery at Lollfusa."
London, England, 1864-02-09

More Preposterous Calculations.

The Rev. Professor Haughton of the Geological
Society of Dublin is stated to have arrived at the
period of 1,280,000,000 years as the time which
elapsed while the earth cooled from 122 deg. F. to
77 deg. F., these temperatures being taken as de-
fining the periods of the first appearance of life on
the earth and of the London clay respectively. This
calculation is stated to be based upon a previous one
by Professor Helmholtz, that the time which a globe
of basalt of the size of the earth would take to cool
from 2,000 degrees C. to 200 degrees C. would be
350,000,000 years. Very different is the calculation
made by Professor W. Thomson in his most inge-
nious paper " On the Secular Cooling of the Earth"
(Trans. Royal Society Edin., vol. xxiii. part 1). The
question he undertakes to solve is this:—ln what
period would a body consisting of materials such
as the earth consists of pass from a condition of first
solidification to one in which the law of increase of
temperature in descending from its surface down-
wards is in accordance with that observed in the
earth. Taking the temperature of melting rock to
be from 10,000 deg. F. to 7,000 deg. F. (which is
higher than the temperature assigned to melting
basalt), and assuming the rate of increase of tem-
perature near the surface to be 1-50th deg. F. per
foot, allowing for great variation in the result on
account of our ignorance " as to the effects of high
temperature in altering the conductiveness and
specific heats of rocks, and as to their latent heat
of fusion," the Professor comes to the conclusion
that "we may say, with much p'obability, that
the consolidation cannot have taken place less
than 20,000,000 years ago, or we should have more
underground heat than we actually have ; nor more
than 400,000,000 years ago, or we should not have
SO much as the least-observed underground increase
of temperature. That is to say, that Leibnitz's epoch
of emergence' of the ‘consistentior status' was pro-
bably between those dates ;" and, using the tempe-
rature of 7000 deg. F. as that of melting rock, he
inclines to 98,000,000 of years as a probable esti-
mate. Compare these modest numbers, to express
the ages since the earth was an incandescent,
though solid, sphere, with Professor Haughton's
1,280,000,000 years as giving the period between
the first existence of life and the London clay !
London, England, 1864-02-09

GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA.

The loss on exchange by the conversion of American
money received for the earriagz of through traffic from the
commencement of the current half-year to the 23d January,
1864, amounted to £38,020, and at that date there was a
further sum of American funds still remaining to be con-
verted of 73,013.
London, England, 1864-02-09

DEATH IN THE STREET,

Yesterday afternoon Mr. John Humphreys, the Middle-
sex coroner, held an inquest at the Grasshopper Tavern,
Charles-terrace, Mile-end New-town, on the body of
Samuel Davis, aged 38.
His brother, Thomas Davis, of 115, Baclohurch-lane,
Whitechapel, said that he came to him late on the night of
Saturday week, when he was in bed, and asked for a night's
lodging. He gave him temporary relief, saying " You
have brought yourself to this because of the wild life you
have led. He then said he told him to come to breakfast
in the morning. He denied that he had kicked him out of
the house. He had only his slippers on. The next that
was seen of the deceased was when he was found lying in
Gower's-walk " not sensible," the constable said, " but he
could 'speak." He seemed to be intoxicated. Ho was taken
to the Whitechapel Union, where he died at 6 o'clock the
following morning.
Dr. A. M. Champneys said he had made a post-mortem
examination of the body of the deceased. There were two
wounds on the left hand. The ribs were broken, and there
was a severe injury on the side of the head, which had caused
congestion of the membranes of the brain. That was the
immediate cause of death. The scalp was bruised. Those
injuries might either have been caused by a blow or fall.
The hand bore marks of a horse's shoe. He might have been
walked over or knocked down by a horse.
The Coroner said there was no evidence that the brother
of the deceased had inflicted the injuries from which the
deceased expired. The jury therefore returned an open
vex diet.

Loss OF THE ROYAL VICTORIA.—A letter from
Shetland, dated Feb. 1, says :—" The second boat
with the remainder of the crew of this ill-fated ship arrived
on the west side of Dunrossness, Shetland, on Monday last,
two days after the first boat in charge of the mate had
arrived at Melby, in Sandness. The second boat was in
charge of the master, and had 14 men when she left the
ship. Of these all have perished except two men. The
master died the day before the boat reached the land. When
the boat arrived there were 6 dead bodies in her, the others
having been thrown overboard as long as the strength of the
living men permitted. The dead were interred with the
greatest respect in the churchyard of the parish, distant 7
miles from the spot where the boat arrived, the men of the
district, to the number of 150, turning out with the utmost
readiness to assist in rendering the last offices of humanity.
The two men (one a Frenchman, the other an Englishman)
who have survived are, as might be expected, in a very
prostrate state. It is thought they will both recover, but
it is doubtful whether it may not be necessary to amputate
the Frenchman's foot from the effects of the frost-bite. The
men who arrived in the first boat aro slowly recovering.
Only two died in her, as she was two days shorter at sea
than the other boat."—Scotsman.
Laura, 'Countess of Antrim, and Lady Helen
,I'Donnell, have arrived at their residence in Lowndes.
square, from a tour of visits.
London, England, 1864-02-09

THERMOMETER.

day at Two o'clock
Barometer-30.00.
; moderate, and cloudy.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 9, 1864.

Lord PALMERSTON, we are grieved to remark,
is already at it again. As though, in spite of his
years, he were the most incorrigible of wags, the
Premier is still bent apparently, beyond all things
else, upon tickling his hearers, in the House of
Commons, into laughter. Whatever the theme, no
matter how grave may be the subject under discus-
sion, the veteran leader of the House cannot for the
life of him rise to speak, if it be only for a very
few minutes, but what, ten thousand chances to one,
the reporter has to r( cord parenthetically (a laugh),
or (laughter), or (renewed laughter). It is, for all
the world, seemingly, as though one might
apply to Viscount PALMERSTON, towards the close
of his tenure of power as Prime Minister of Eng-
19,rd, the reproach humorously applied by that arch-
„wit, 6YDNEY SMITH, to Viscount MELBOURNE,
towards the close of his tenure
of power inrdthoef
~.,mettme supreme capacity, namely, as First
the, Treasury. The serio-comic reproach, na,ely, that
be(the
Premier) was, to all appearance, disposed to
play at chuck-farthing with the destinies of the
nation, and, for that matter, as SYDNEI smITEL
ex.
pressed it—es SYDNEY SMITE[ alone coif.ld ',express
it—to giggle away the Constitution. Adopting this
7,aincip;c: of Government, "ate might just as well, so
far as the decorum of debate is ,itt any way con-
, et.rned, have the chief puts of the Cabinet nightly
London, England, 1864-02-09

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THE SUN., LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1864.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT OF PROBATE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde.)
SCOTT V, SCOTT.-JUDGMENT.

In this case, for a restitution of conjugal rights, a rule
for a new trial was granted, the case having been previously

argued.

WINSCOME V. WINSCOME AND PLOWDEN-JUDGMENT.

Sir J. P. Wilde delivered judgment in this case, which
was heard before him last week. The learned Judge went
through the salient points in the evidence, and expressed a
hope that the parties would be induced to resume their for-
mer terms. He would dismiss the respondent from the
suit, and the co-respondent must pay his own costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.
London, England, 1864-02-09

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

WITHDRAWAL OF AUSTRIA FROM
THE LONDON PROTOCOL.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

VIENNA, FEB. 9.

At a Council of Ministers held the day before
yesterday, under the presidency of the Emperor,
highly important resolutions were adopted, the
purport of which is that the London Protocol can
no longer be considered by Austria as a basis of
negotiations between the Great Powers.
London, England, 1864-02-09

Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

Comedy, by Mr. T. Maclsgan, W. Randall, G. Hutchenson,
G. W. Jester, Miss Nelly Power (the juvenile comedienne),
and those wonderous Gymnasts, Messrs. Berri, Leach, and
Foster.
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Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balmy, Ss. ; private
boxes, 108. 6d.