The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There is a moderate inquiry for discount accom-
modation, and the best short-dated bills can be
negotiated at 31 per cent.
On the Bengal division of the East Indian Rail-
way the traffic receipts for the week ending the
19tb of October last amounted to £8,109, against
£6,012 in the corresponding period of 1861. The
earnings on the North-West Provinces division
Were £2,765 against £3,747 in the previous year.
The report of the Port Phillip and Colonial Gold
Mining Company, issued in anticipation of the meet-
ing, recommends a dividend of 2s. 6d. per share,
forming, with the distribution of ls. i❑ July last,
the fifth dividend, at the rate of 3s. 6d. per share,
being at the rate of 171 per cent. per annum on the
original capital.
The continental exchanges yesterday afternoon
exhibited no material alteration.

The thirteenth half-yearly meeting of the Na-
tional Discount Company was held to-day—Mr.
F. W. Russell, M.P., in the chair. The following
is the report submitted for the approval of the
shareholders :—The accounts for the half-year end-
ing 31st December last, show a gross profit of
£49,581 13s 4d, and that after providing for the
current expenditure, directors' and auditors' remu-
neration, and reserving £14,556 16s 10d for rebate
of interest on bills yet due, there remains for appro-
priation the sum of 129,599 14s 6d. With results
so satisfactory, the directors recommend that the
dividend shall be increased to the rate of 8 per cent.
per annum, free of income tax, which will absorb
£15,413165., and that the balance of £14,185 18s 6d
be carried to the credit of the reserve fund, which,
with interest, will then amount to £57,744 18s 4d.
The chairman stated that he was sure the accounts
Would be favourably received. The affairs of the
undertaking were in every way satisfactory. They
shad not achieved any ♦ery extraordinary results
during the past six months, but the progress of their
establishment had been steady and gradual. During
the last two years the directors had not made any
bad debts, but the proprietcrs must not expect the I t
company to possess for ever an absolute immunity
from the consequences of trade. No one could foresee
the operation of future events, and it was not likely
that the directors could always hope to have an
entire freedom from bad debts. There ,has not one
account on the books from which any lobs was ap- -
prehended. In attaining their present position -
great difficulties had to be surmounted. There
,h
were 2,931 shares unallotted, arid, in conformity
with the expressed wish of the shareholders, it was at
intended to dispose of them, with the object of car-
rying the premium upon them to the reserve fund.
A resolution was passed for registering the company t.
under the recent Act of Parliament for the regule.
lion of joint-stock companies.

Two O'CLOCK.

The shareholders in the London and Westminster
Bank held their annual meeting to-day, at which 8..4
Mr. Alderman Salomons, M.P., presided. The fol.-
lowing statement was submitted to the meeting :
" The directors have to report that, after making provi- 1,
sion for all bad and doubtful debts, paying the income tax, t'
setting apart £2,000 toward. the buildings of the bank, and 8
presenting a gratuity of 10 per cent. on their salaries to
all the officers of the establishment, the net profits of the St
bank for the last half-year amount to £llO,BBB 6s. 3d.
This sum, added to £19,921 13s. Id., the unappropriated Li
balance of the preceding half-year, will amount to £130,809
19s, 4d. Out of this amount interest on the rest or sur-
plus fund at the rate of 5 per cent per annum (£6,406 55.) st
has been added to such fund, which now amounts to it:
£262,655 ss. The directors now declare a dividend to the it;
shareholders at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, and by
way of further dividend out of the profits, a bonus of 9 per 1
cent, on the paid-up capital. After these payments are
made there will remain a balance of £4,403 14s, 4d. to be
carried to profit and loss account for the current year."
The chairman, who moved the adoption of the re-
port and accounts, congratulated the shareholders
upon the continued and prosperous career of the „,
bank, and said that notwithstanding the depression
of trade during the preceding year, and the estab-
lishrneut of rival institutions, they have been ena-
bled to divide 22 per cent., and to have secured a

rest or surplus fund amounting to £262,656. The
motion was, after a brief discussion, unanimously
carried.

No change has taken place to-day in the market
for English Funds, th small amount of business
negotiated having failed to produce the slightest
fluctuation. Consols therefore remain at 924 a for
transfer, and at 928 1 for the sth proximo. The
New Threes and the Reduced are firm at 921 i;
Exchequer Bills, 6s. to 7s. prem. Bank Stock is
flat at 235; India 5 per Cent. Loan, 1041 ; and the
5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 1081 1.
Continued firmness is perceptible in the Foreign
Market, but business is quiet. Egypti-ri are 941
95 ; ditto, 2d i sue, 944 95 ; Greek Coupons have
improved to 69 7 ; Peruvian New Loan, 871 88 ;
Portuguese ditto, 468 ; Russian ditto, 96 ; Spanish
Deferred, 46*; ditto Passive, 248 ; and the Certifi-
cates, 91. 10 ; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, 851 ;
ditto, 1862, 66* 67 ; and the I...onsolides, 401 *;
Italian 5 per Cents. have risen to 69* ; but the
Venezuelan New Loan is fiat, at 60-1-
A firmer tone prevailed in the Railway Share
Market. The dealings, however, were not very
extensive. Great Ee.-atern, Lancashire and York-
shire, Metropolitan, and South Easterns improved
55.; and North Westerns, 10s ; North Eastern
(Berwick), however, have declined ss.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were
in moderate request, without any material change
in values. South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian
realised 24; San Paulo, 23 t; Bahia and San
Francisco, 214 ; Recife and San Francisco 19 ;
East Indian declined to 107 t, ; and Great Indian
Peninsula to 105/ 6.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
Were in some instances at rather higher rates.
Bank of London and Buenos Ayres improved to
14; English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered
to 21 /
-4; Crystal Palace Stock declined to 31 and 32;
and National Discoun, Company remained firm at
Ba. The shares of the British and American Ex-
change Bank are 6 * prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 235
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 24 peck r Cent. Annuities 76
India Sto
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditte Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent ..
Ditto 5 per Cent
D ~. Bonds ELMO
Ditto under £l,000
Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 6 7
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small 6

FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Chilian 6 per Cent.
Ditto 4/ per Cent 83/
EgPPtian 7 pet Cent 941 5
Ditto, Second Issue
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup
Ins 941
1 5
Ditto Coupons
7 6/
Peruvian 41 per Cent. .......... , _
Ditto Account ...... 97
Ditto 1862
.....
Ditto Ae.emint..
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Account....
Ditto 1862..
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 96
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred .
D!tto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. 91 10 94
'runtish 6 per Cent. 1854
Ditto 6 per Cent 18 ,2
Ditto Accoun% 661 7
...
Venezuela, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1832 .. 601: i
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f 691
Ditto Account
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account 94 1

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.—About 3 o'clock this
morning a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. Lonton
proctor, Merton-terrace, Kentish-town. The flames were
not subdued until the st,tek in trade and the 1 wer portion of
the building were destroyed. Fires also took place in the
house of Mr. Flower, tailor, 60, White Horse-tureet, Step-
ney, and Mr. West, grocer, 15, London-street, Greenwich,
both of which caused much damage. The sufferers in all
these oases were iusured.

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PREFERENCE SHARES.
Gt. Western (Perks & Hants Ext.), red. 4 per cent., 89
London and Brighton, 5 per cent. Gus. Stock, No. 1, 1171
PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
London, Brighton &a, 41i percent., 1861, 1031 41
LINES LEASED Ai FIXED RENTALS.
Buckinv.hamshire, 97
North-Western, 17

gua. 7 per cent., 211
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
°Ditto (all), 23 /
Bahia
apaond San Francisco aim.)
N. Rail of Buenos Ayres, gua. 7 per cent. (Um.), 2;
Recite and San Francisco gua. 7 per cent., 19
RAuulosiiriiman'agundLLOmpebraerednotie9netian, 23i
FOREIGN MINES.
WSSaoneustPthFlanders, 56 per cent. pref., ioi

Cobre Copper, zoi 1
Great N. Copper of South Australia"(lim.),
faMont. Aureosl3raz. Gold Min. Co. Pm), 21,
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Um.), 25
Australasia, 78
British North Marian, 51
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and Chins, 21
Eng., Sox., and Australian Chartered,:2lf
Hindustan, China, and Japan (lim.), 8 7/
London and Brazilian r1im.),:31/
London, B. Ayres. and R. Plate_(lim.), 14
London and Westminster, 811
etrop. and Prov. Bank (lirn.), 131
National Provincial of England, 1211
Ditto, new, 21
Ottoman Bank, 741
South Australia, 34f ;
Union of England and France (Urn.),
Union of London, 32f
MISCELLANEOUS.
Anglo-Mexican Mint, 18
Orient
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Discount Company, 81
British Australasian, 1
Crystal Pal.ce, 32 1
11Zzaotri/v
;ovements (2\ 31 3
Rio de Janeirom (lum)'

CAUTION TO RASH RAILWAY TRAVELLERS.—•
Robert F. Alston and John of
the Peace Court, before
Yesterday, at the Justice
tan,
h labourer,hav having,
residing d
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B
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High Row,
Esp., Thomas
Day, travelled on a
Garnkirk, was
third-class carriage from Steppe to Gar
Kohealrigacehd
stations, on
the Caledonian R4ilway, a distance of five mileshn
on by the handle of the door, in contravention of thaetifintlgi
section of the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, and of
the Bth of the company's bye-laws. Mr. John Guy, in-
spector of the railway police, conducted the prosecution.
The defender was the worse of liquor at the time, and on
his way from Glasgow to Garnkirk alighted at Steppe
station, under the idea that he was at Garnkirk. By the
time he discovered his mistake the train commenced to
move off; but determined not to remain behind, he ran
after it and got on to the step of one of the cart iages, where
he remained until near Garnkirk, when he jumped off before
the train had stoppt d, alighting on his head, and thereby
received some severe injuries. He pleaded guilty, and was
fined £1 and £1 15s. expenses, or 40 days' imprisonment.
The fine was paid,—North` Antisle Xag.

OSBORNE, San. 20.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of
Hesse, drove out yesterday afternoon.
His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse,
attended by Captain von Westerweller, left
Buckingham Palace yesterday morning on a visit
to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at
Sandringham Hall, Norfolk.

PRINCE ALFRED'S PHEASANT SHOOTING.—A
letter from Naples, of the 14th, says—" The phea-
sant shooting in honour of Prince Alfred was very bril-
liant. The party, including, besides the Prince, Major
Cowell, Captain Craven, General Pomare, Marquis Tolem-
mei, Prince Fondi, Prince Gesualdo, Duke Marigliano,
and other distinguished personages, set out for Caserta
yesterday at 8 a.m., and opened the sport in the four great
lawns of the park. Prince Alfred killed 25 pheasants, five
woodcocks, and as many hares. At noon, the sportsmen
sat down to breakfast in the pagoda, Prince Gesualdo pro-
posed the health of the Queen of England, when the band
struck up ' God Save the Queen.' Prince Alfred returned
the compliment by proposing the health of the King of
Italy."

CABINET COUNClL,—Summonses were issued
yesterday, by direction of the Premier, fora Cabinet Coun-
cil on Tuesday neat at his lordship's official residence, in
Downing-street.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and
a select circle went out shooting in Richmond-park yester-
day.
Their Royal Highnessee the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary have returned to Cambridge
Cottage, Kew, from a week's visit to the Duke and Duchess
of Beaufort at Badminton.

The Duchess of Somerset and family arrived, at
the First Lord's official residence at the Admiralty yester-
day, from Bulstrode Park, Bucks, for the season.
The Earl of Derby has issued invitations for a
Parliamentary dinner on the 4th of next month to a large
circle of peers, his political supporters in the Upper House.
Earl Granville, Lord President, will give a dinner
on Friday, the 30th inst., at his residence in Bruton-street,
to the Ministers and Officers of State, to settle the roll of
sheriffs for the present year. _ _

The Earl of Radnor is receiving a family circle
at his seat in Berkshire. Viscount Folkestone has arrived
on a visit to hia noble father from Longford Castle, near
Salisbury.
Viscount and Viscountess Walden arrived in
town on Saturday from visiting Mr. and Lady Charlotte
Sturt at Critchill House, Dorset.

Viscountess Dangarvan has returned to Chesham-
street from a tour of visits in Ireland.
Lord William Powlett has returned to town from
visiting the Duke of Cleveland at Raby Castle, Durham.
Lord West has returned to Buckhurst Park from
Brighton.

Ludy Poltimere has arrived at the Queen's Hotel,
Upper Norwood, from Brighton.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office
yesterd .ty from the Governor of Heligoland. Despatches
were sent to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of
Frances, Countess Waldegrave, daughter of Mr. J.
Braham, the eminent vocalist, with Mr. Chichester For-
tescue, MY., Under Secretary of State for the Colonies,
took place yesterday at Trinity Church, Brompton, in the
presence of a numerous assemblage of friends. The wed-
ding party met at the church shortly before 12 o'clock. The
Countess was attended by Miss Money, the Misses Neville,
daughters of Viscount and Viscountess Neville, and Miss
Constance Braham. The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. Leveson Harcourt, Chancellor of York, the Countess
being given away by Colonel Harcourt, M.P. There were
present the Earl of Abingdon and Lady Elizabeth Bertie,
Lord and Lady Norreys, Viscount and Viscountess Neville
and Misses Neville, Sir Warwick and Lady Moreshead, Sir
Erskine and Lady Perry and Misses Perry, Sir John V. B.
and Lady Johnstone and Miss Johnstone, Mr. and Lady
Georgina Bertie and Misses Bertie, Lady Ida Waldegrave,
Mr. Wardlaw and Lady Horatio Wardlaw, Mr. and Mrs.
Hervey, &c. After the solemnity the party repaired to the
residence of Lady Horatio Wardlaw, at Prince's-gate,
where an elegant dejeuner was provided for 60 persons. At
an early hour in the afternoon the Countess Waldegrave
and Mr. Fortescue left town for Grove-park, near Retford,
Notts, the seat of Mr. Granville Harcourt Vernon. The
Countess Waldegrave has been married four times ; first,
to the Hon. John James Waldegrave, of Navestock, Essex;
secondly, George Edward, seventh Earl Waldegrave ;
thirdly, Mr. George Granville Harcourt, M.P., son of Dr.
Harcourt, Archbishop of York ; and fourthly, yesterday,
the Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P. for the county of
Louth. The Countess is just turned her 42d year,

Mr. Grove, the young medical student who so
opportunely assisted her Royal Highness the Prin.

cess of Hesse, when she was thrown from her carriage in
the Isle of Wight a few weeks since, has been presented
with a valuable gold pin and a set of shirt studs.
LAUNCH OF THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA.---.ln ac-
cordance with the invitation of the directors of the
Thames Iron Works and Ship-building Company, a num-
ber of ladies and gentlemen yesterday assembled at the yard
at Blackwall to witness the launch of a paddle steam yacht
intended for the use of the Trinity Board of the Dublin
corporation. The yaoht, built from the designs of the sur-
veyor to the Dublin Trinity Board, is 945 tons burden, and
in her lines is very graceful, her designer contemplating
the union of great strength, with more than average speed.
At ten minutes to two p.m. Miss Margetson, daughter of
one of the directors, who is a partner in the well-known
firm of Welch, Margetson, and Co., of Cheapside, broke
against the port bow a bottle of wine, and christened the
yacht the Princess Alexandra, wishing her good speed and
all success. The vessel, which is built of iron, glided down
the ways, and for the first time a steamer bearing the name
of the future bride of his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales floated in British waters. The launch was a com-

plete success, and in the water the Princess Alexandra
to which Messrs. Penn and Co. are to supply the engines
—looked even more graceful than on the stocks. After
the launch the visitors, accompanied by the dip ectors, pro-
ceeded round the extensive works, and viewed the pud-
dling of iron, the forging of armour-plates, the construc-
tion of the ram -cutvrater of the new iron clad Minotaur,
which will be launched in June or July ; the manufac-
ture of the rivets, the planing of the slabs of Bessemer's
steel intended for the Turkish and Spanish frigates in
course of construction, and the numberless other processes
carried on by the Thames Shipbuilding Compaay.
EMBEZZLEMENT OF 13,163 BY A BANKER'S CLERK
AT HllLL.—Coneiderable excitement was manifested
in Hull on Monday, in consequence of the apprehension of
a banker's clerk, named John Henry North, on a charge
of embezzling the Hull Banking Company of the sum of
£3,163 15s. 2d. The prisoner was brought up at the Hull
Police .court on Monday, and from the evidence adduced it
appeared that the prisoner had been in the employ of the
Hull Banking Company for the past 20 years, and latterly
occupied the position of assistant cashier. On the 12th inst.
the prisoner was taken ill, and consequently was unable to
attend to business. During his absence on Saturday last,
Mr. Lambert, the cashier of the bank, had occasion to look
over his cash account, and, to his great surprise, found a
very large deficiency. He immediately sent a messenger to
Mr. North's residence, with instructions to request his at-
tendance at the bank. Ho returned with the messenger,
and on his arrival Mr. Lambert showed him the deficit and
demanded an explanation. Prisoner immediately observed
that he had the money safely deposited in a compartment
of the cash drawer in which the cut notes requiring to be
repaired were kept. He was asked to produce them, when
he drew forth a bundle of banknotes. He was requested to
count them ; but he showed some reluctance to do so, and
Mr.L. perused them,and found only L 750. The prisoner then
said he would make a clean breast of it, and admitted that
he had taken the money in sums of £2O, £3O, and £5O at a
tdmiemrfre.a,yLeixantmgenbhdeirsint:goasolsovenesr a period of 14 years, and devoted it to
the support of his fagmiinwlryiat,hiltwhmeayre.dsp.vvueccaoutoildoan,tiooanfnsho.tihs
elicrhecilldwerraeksn,,tpharenond.
requested to step into a private room, and, in
a ta
the meantime,
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defalcations,
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,wj
statement was shown to the prisoner, who said it was
correct within a few shillings of what he expected. He
then said that he would exculpate the other clerks from
all suspicion, and wrote a letter to the manager expressing
his regret and sorrow that, on that day, his cash accounts,
as assistant cashier to the Hull Banking Company, were
deficient to the amount of £3,163 15s. 2d., vihich sum he
had at various times surreptitiously abstracted and devoted
to his own purpose. About five in the afternoon Mr. Cobb,
the r
the manager, arrived at the bank, and the prisoner's defal-
o u cationsre f
weren immediatelybotwter.eandteheknmown
a:agteor him.and
In
p the
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ner, the latter again admitted his guilt, and said as soon
sas the messenger went to his house he knew that he had
been fetind out, and he was glad that it was so, as it had
coursea
interview
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witnesses, the case was remanded till next day.
A CUMBERLAND MAGISTRATE
ACCIDENTALLY
taken a great weight off his mind. After hearing several
Cumberland, a
magistrate of the county, was i
found drowned n the river
been at Bootle, near
DROWN ED.—On Sunday last the body of Mr. Ed-
ward Atkinson Burrow, of Carlton Hall,
frt. On Saturday, it appears, he had
Whitehaven, with a horse and conveyance,
he was
ab nit 7 o'clock in the evening. Shortly
his lamps
lighted, passing through the railway gates, with
lighted, and left there
cross the water. The river is at this part affected by the
rise of the tide, and it is supposed that the unfortunate gen-
tleman his way to Esk Meals, where would have to
had been mistaken as to the time the sea would be
at high water, and had been drowned in attempting to make
his way across. His horse returned to the neighbourhood
of Bootle, and was found in the farmyard at 3 o'clock neat
morning. Information having been given to the county
police, search was made, and the body was found that morn-
bag, about 11 o'olook, about 100 yards below Esk deals,