The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-18 00:00:00

LITERATURE,

The Fine Arts Quarterly Review. No. I. Royal

Bvo., pp. 224. Chapman and Hall.

A more adMitahle first appearance we certainly
cannot recad to mind, than that which here
fixes
public attention at once upon this most welcome
additioe to the number of our Quarterlies. It is
superbly " got up" to begin with—being exqui-
sitely printed, from a new fount of type, upon the
loveliest thick, glossy, tinted paper—illustrated
bete and there with a select few of the very choicest
embellishments. As the prospectus had already
informed the public, before tf e apparitive of the
first number of this new periodical, it is ushered
into the world of letters and art under the very
highest patronage. Her most gracious Majesty the
Queen, several of their Royal Highnesses, his
eminence Cardinal Wiseman, and other distin-
guished promoters of the interests of the finelnheog in
sartese,
both in this country and abroad, have
been announced by the originators of the enterprise,
as having inscribed their names, not only readily
but eagerly, upon the list of the subscribers. The
Fine Arts Quarterly Review, therefore, starts
under the happiest auspices. It is secure
from the very commencement of its career,
in the front rank, among the chief of the first
class organs of periodical literature.--it is secure,
from the very outset, of finding itself recognised,
and even, it may be said, gladly welcomed at all
the great ;public institutions,;,in the Royal Library
at Windsor Castle, in the Queen's Private Library,
in the libraries of almost all the Royal palaces of
Europe, as well as in many of the mansions of
the private collectors upon the continent, and in
most of those scattered throughout the United
Kingdom. Mr. Wood ward, the Librarian in Ordi-
nary to her Majesty, and officially also the Keeper
of the Prints and Drawings at Windsor Castle, has
undertaken the office of editorship to The Fine Arts
Quarterly. A guarantee of itself of the efficiency
with which it is proposed that the enterprise shall
be carried out in every department. Having pre-
mised thus much in regard to the design of this
new and most important periodical, we turn now
to the initial number of it here published, in order
to see how far that first number shows that original
design to have been, as yet, (so far as in one
number it could be) realised. Lavater has some-
where said that, if, upon first meeting any man,
you are unfavourably impressed by his bearing and
physiognomy, no matter how Charmed or fascinated
you may be by him upon a further acquaintance—
never forget that first impression! According to
Lavater's view, that first impression having about
it, in some most subtle and mystical way, an infal-
lible significance. Now, to a very considerable ex-
tent, we cannot but think that exactly the converse
to this might be maintained quite as confidently.
It certainly does appear to us to hold good, in refe-
rence to most of the new ventures in periodical lite-
rature. There was a case in point very recently,
in the instance of a weekly publication precisely
carrying out the notion expressed by Lavater's
axiom. A capital paper, in many respects, excel-
lently well written—by name " The Mirror"—and
yet, at our very first glance at the very first num-
ber, we knew for an absolute certainty that the
project must, of a dead necessity, fail. It had about
it that je ne sais quoi of an inexpressible something,
that told, as plainly as words even could tell, that
success in that instance was utterly hopeless. It
was so, we remember, also, a very few months back,
in regard to another literary weekly, still more
clever than the one already mentioned. A literary
weekly easled The Budget, sparkling with wit and
fun, with humour the most original and audacious
—and yet—so manifestly incapable in its very ap-
pearance of succeeding, that it might almost be said
at its birth to have hung out its escutcheon as its
banner. With this difference only, that on its
escutcheon was nowhere legible—resurgam! Quite
manifestly the very reverse of all this, is the in-
stantaneous first impression produced by numberone
of The Fine Arts Quarterly. A certainty of a success
already achieved, of a triumph already assured, is
the result of that first impression. Upon more
carefully examining the contents of the initial num •
ber we may have, as indeed we here certainly have
had, that immediately favourable first impression
corrected and modified to a considerable extent in
regard to several of the lesser particulars, or minor
details. A modification we ' ourselves could
here and there suggest that if adopted, even
partially, would, to our thinking, lead to
very marked improvements in respect to the
general design, or at any rate in respect to various
parts of the general arrangement. First of all,
however, we would here briefly particularize
among the thirteen principal contributions to this
first number of The Fine Arts Quarterly those
which appear to us more particularly deserving of
notice. As a comprehensive survey of the position
assumed at this epoch in this country by the most
glowing of all the flue arts, the introductory paper
entitled " English Painting in 1862" is undoubtedly
clever, is—more than that—in many respects not
unworthy of the able hand that penned it. The
hand, namely, of that accomplished and versatile
and indefatigable man of letters, familiarly known,
even to the public, as Tom Taylor, now yet more
familiarly identified upon the public placards about
our streets with a Ticket of Leave Man, meaning
(the placard should, it seems to us, always be so far
explained) pot a veritable garotter, but an eminently
successful play, perhaps among all his dramatic pro-
ductions Tom Taylor's masterpiece. Not, however,
as a dramatist, as a writer of comedy, farce, or
melodrama, does Captaiu Tom Taylor, of the Rifle
Volunteers, lead off the good men and true, making
up the select,but still numerous,corps of contributors
to The Fine Arts Quarterly, His introductory
paper upon " English Painting in 1862" is penned
by him, rather, it should be said, in his capacity as
an art critic—a capacity so well known already,
and so conspicuously recognisable, that it has
long ago installed him in power among the artists
of his age, as the reviewer or art-critic upon our
chief morning contemporary. Comprehensive and
clever, though the survey here taken by Tom Taylor
in this opening paper in regard to his favourite art, it
still, for all that, is marred, we cannot but venture to
hint, by being at once slightly confused and some-
what superf cial. The most remarkable contribu-
tion, as it appears to us, in the whole of this initial
number of The Fine Arts Quarterly, is the one imme-
diately following—the second article,that is, descrip-
tive and explanatory of " H.R.H. the Prince
CONSORT'S Raphael Collection." Among all the tri-
butes,and some of them eminently beautiful tributes,
paid to the memory of our beloved and lamented
Prince, this little paper or treatise is unquestion-
ably about the most beautiful. As a recognition of
his consummate taste, of his rare and admirable
enlightenment—more particularly as affording evi-
dence of his (in truth) princely munificence in carry-
ing out a singularly original and refined project for
the development of the general knowledge of art
—this paper upon his Royal Highness's Raphael
Collection is entitled to very careful attention,
and is certain, when examined, to command
the reader's highest admiration. Towards the end
of the paper it is well and most gracefully re-
marked by the writers (Dr. linker and Mr.
Ruland, formerly H.R.H.'s librarians) that whereas
the splendid mausoleum at Frogmore will comme-
morate the undying love of the bereaved Sovereign,
while Wolsey's Tombhouse will serve to perpetuate
the warmest affection of their children, "The
Raphael Collection" deserves to be regarded as
peculiarly and especially the Prince Consort's Own
Memorial ! And how noble, and beautiful, and
costly a memorial it will be, who may not readily
enough conjecture when he learns that the en-
gravings and photographs and drawings consti-
tuting this literally unique Collection will extend,
when put together, to fully as many as fifty magni-
ficent volumes, destined to be received into a cabi-
net expressly constructed for them by Mr. Craoe—aCabinet that when completed and filled willas
suredly constitute one of the art
gloCastle, one of the most. precious art
trieeesasoutrWes Windsor
Castle,
United Kingdom. In a
for the contribution
to it, the very title chosen
paper especially referring
enn testa and
being " Points of Contactre betweendelivei
d Scienceu
Art," the masterly lee,,u
theme very recently at the Royal Institution by
his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, receives, what
so conspicuously deserves, the highest 00mmendv,„

tion. It ie here spoirt,..." of emphatically as a subject
treated of by his Eminence in at lecture with un-
usual power and felicity of illustration. Already
there are begun in The New Quarterly four se; es
of papers—papers, that is to aay, announced at the
end of each "to be continued." Of the merit of
none of these, however, will we venture to 3xpres3
any tiecided opinion, until the series shall have been
somewhat further advanced. One gives promise of
providing us with a most entertaining " Early
History of the Royal Academy." Another begins
an elaborated estimate of "The Loan Museum at
Kensington." A third undertakes to analyse
the Catalogue of the Works of Visscher.
The fourth, delightfully anecdotal throughout,
opens up a lively disquisition upon The
Preservation of Paintings and Drawings."
Besides the thirteen principal contributions,
the pick of which thirteen we have here particu-
larised, there are several minor papers appended to
The Fine Arts Quarterly—some of tbem, as instance
the very last, to our mind quite unworthy of being
appended to so noble a publication. Several of the
minor notices, indeed, are almost ludicrously super-
ficial and frivolous. Instance, at p. 219, that of
L oyd's Theory of Proportion in Arcaitecturai
Design. If nothing more or better could be said
of it—better say nothing! Those, however, are but
specks upon the new luminary. What we do now,
and what we here most unhesitatingly do and with
especial pleasure, is to notify the fact of its rising,
of its radiant rising, above the horizon of art-
literature.

Stammertng and Stuttering : Their Nature and
Treatment. By James Hunt, Ph.D., F.S.A., 8:c.
One vol., pp. 256. Fifth Edition. Longman

and Co.

The extraordinary success of Dr. Hunt's treat-
ment of this unhappily too prevalent affliction is
shown plainly enough by the rapidity with which
edition after edition is published of the work in
which he explains the philosophy of that treatment.
To his pupils the book is gracefully and very appro-
priately dedicated. They are the living illustrations
of the efficacy of the system it expounds—they are,
we may rest assured, the grateful recipients of the
blessings of which that system has already been
productive. They know the truth of every word it
contains from the title-page to the finish. The Fifth
Edition, like its predecessors, wilt be found by those
who consult it, with any previous knowledge of
those predecessors, to be but lightly and cautiously
touched up and improved here and there. The text
of the treatise is still. as formerly, subdivided into
seven chapters. The first defining Stammering and
Stuttering. The second tracing out a great variety of
external influences on articulation. The third con-
taining within it a wonderfully comprehensive
historical review of the chief theories and modes of
treatment, of which we have any record, for impedi-
ments of speech. Names as renowned as those of
Herodotus and Aristotle, Demosthenes and
Plutarch, and in later times of Francis Bacon and
Charles Bell, appearing in this ample survey. The
fourth chapter comprises within it the statistics of
psellism. Another enumerates the surgical opera-
tions for the removal of stammering. A sixth, iii
answer to the inquiry with which it is headed, " Is
Stammering or Stuttering a Disease ?" proclaims
stuttering to be no disease whatever, while it ac-
tually declares pselliam to be the cause, instead of
the effect, of disease ! The seventh and final chap-
ter of the work explains fully, lucidly, and agree-
ably the system propounded by the author's father,
the late Mr. Hunt, and, in connexion with that, in
practical development of that, the lenghthened-
practice of the author himself. Appendix A con-
tains, in addition to an interesting biography of the
late Thomas Hunt, the opinions entertained in re-
gard to him and his system by such men as Sir
John Forbes, as Robert Liston, the great surgeon?
as John Forster, the editor (during so many years)
of the Examiner, and of Robert Chambers, the
eminent author and publisher. Appendix B, with
which the volume closes, and which is certainly not
its ;leo.at important section, comprises, wham
three or four pages, some admirable hints to stam-
merers. For inasmuch as it deals practically with
a serious social affliction, this little treatise deserves
what we hereby award to it, our earnest commen-
dation as the work of an energetic philanthropist.

The gouchstone : a Series of Letters. By Thomas
Doubleday. Bvo, pp. 189. Hard%vicke.
The writerof these three•and-thirty well thought
out and carefully written letters, comes before us in
no way as a stranger. As the author of the
"Financial History of England," as the Political
Biographer of Sir Robert Peel, he has been lung
known, and known favourably. The letters here
collected together and republished as a callection,
originally appeared, one by one, at uncertain in-
tervals in the columns of the Newcastle Daily
Chronicle. They there appeared, anonymously,
under the signature of Britannicus. They
deserved collecting and they are here collected.
The range of topics in them is curiously ample--
administrative reform, social improvement, cur-
rency revision, being among the prominent themes
here discussed. The writer deserves an audience,
and is always tolerably sure of obtaining ono.

Hospital for Consumption and Diseases o

the Chest, Brompton.

Sermons in aid of the funds of this charity were preached
on Sunday morning as follows :—At St. Paul's, Herne-hill,
by the Bishop of Mauritius; at St. John's, Claph.am-rise,
by the Rev. T. J. Rowseil, rector of St. Margaree.s, Loth-
bury ; and at Christ Church, North Brixton, by t,lee Rev.
J. 111‘Connell Hussey, the incumbent.
From the very able discourses of the several preachers it
appeared that since the opening of tho new buildeog, in
1846, upwards of 78,000 persons had experienced the bene-
fits of the institution, viz., 10,341 as in-patients and 68,077
as out-patients. The patients were well and kindly cared
for, every comfort and mitigation being brought to bear on
their bodily sufferings, while their spiritual interests were
faithfully looked after by the chaplain, patients not belong-
ing to the Church of England being visited by ministers of
their own persuasion. The institution was characterised
as one of the grandest and noblest of our modern hospitals,
and intending contributors were assured that their gifts
would be well and judiciously dispensed in the relief of a
peculiarly interesting form of suffering. The mission of
this charity was to assuage one of the most prevalent and
fatal, and, at the same time, one of the most mysterious
diseases known in this country. The temperate
climate of these islands was favourable to the growth
of a hardy and manly race; bus, the fitful seasons
and changeable temperature of England too often induced
ailments which became developed into consumption. hue,
22 years ago, this institution arose from the mere necessi-
ties of our common suffering human nature, the consumptive
patient being usually turned away from general hospitals,
from the lingering and fatal character of his disease. Bl-
perience, however, has shown how much could be done to
check this malady, or to alleviate the sufferings of its vic-
tims; and incurable as it was generally deemed, yet the
time might arrive when, by the light of advancing science,
consumption would become rare and curable, even as those
fearful scourges of by-gone days, the plague, leprosy, wad
small-pox have disappeared, or have been greatly modified.
In the winter 210 in-patients, and in summer nearly 200,
were constantly under treatment in the hospital ; 1,116
cases passed through its wards during 1862; and 6,019 nevi
cases were registered as out-patients. The numbers were
steadily increasing. Many had gone from that locality, and
more and mere would apply for treatment at the hospita
now that by the opening up of they new railway they could
have easy and rapid communication with the Brompton
Hospital, a great boon to the poor consumptive invalid.
The expenses were nearly £9,000 per annum ; but the
annual subscriptions were not more than half that sun),
therefore, constant and generous. support was needed to
maintain efficiently this useful institution; which benefited
persons not from one particular district, but from the entire
country at large. The bishop and the other clergymen who
had kindly undertaken to plead for the charity, did so with
great earnestness and eloquence, the congregations respond-
lag liberally to the appeals. Inclusive of collections after
sermons also preached at St. John's, in ,he evening, by the
Rev. E. Hudson, and at Christ Church, afternoon and even-
ing, by the Revs. C. E. Casher and J. M. Hussey, the
amounts realised were—at St. Paul's, Herne-hill, £43 45.;
at St. John's, Clapham, £34 14s. 6d. ; and at Christ Church,
Brixton, £44 14s. 4d.

COCK FIGHTING BY A MARQUIS ON A SUNDAY'
—ln a quiet village in the northern part of Leices"
torshire, a few Sundays ago, eonsiderable sensation Msscaused by a rumour that the demesne of a certain noblo
marquis was fur some hours the arena for the barbarous
sport of cock fighting. It appears that information of tl3°
occurrence having reached the secretary of the Royal So'
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, that gentle'
Man despatched two of the detective officers of the society tto
the locality. The result of these investigations has le`
the laying of an information against the noble marquis to
question and several other gentlemen of position is „11:
county. The cases are fixed for hearing at Loughborough'
on tho 24tla lust.

140if-siY MARKET

AND
COMMERCTA T 4 INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The tendency of the rates of discount is slightly
in the direction of greater easiness, first-class bills
being now negooiatcd as low as 31 per cent.,
although that can scarcely be quoted, as the average
charge 3i per cent, being generally required by the
joint-stock banks and private establishments.
There was a further influx of £BO,OOO iu gold at
the Bank of England yesterday.
The Hibernian has arrived from America with
XBO,OOO.
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this day are in round figures as under :

1863. 1562.
Great Western
N orth-Westem
South-Western
13rightcn.
Midland 39,199 41,653
South-Eastern
Great Northern
Great Eastern
1 ancashire and Yorkshire 32,910 41,713
North Eastern 41,056 40,44
Bristol and Exeter
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 14,521 15,552
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Great Luxembourg .. 4,784 4,668
These returns owing to the comparison being made
With Whitsun week last year, generally show a
eonsiderab e falling off. On the Great Western
there is a decrease of £3,297; on the North
Western of £4,080; on the Brighten, of £3,948;
on the Midland, of 2,454 ; on the South. Eastern
of £5,161; on the Great Eastern,of £3,580; on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire, of £8,800; and on the
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln, of £lO3l. The
South Western, however, exhibits an increase of
£1,877 ; the Great Northern, of £1,913 ; the
North Eastern, of £782, and the Edinburgh and
Glasgow of £B4B.

TWO O'CLOCK.

A t Paris this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were
68f 52c, 68t 55c. Heavy.

The yearly meeting of the Natal Land and Colo-
nization Company was held to-day, Sir James D.
x. Elphinstone, Bart., in the chair. The report
Was unanimously adopted. It was stated that the
result of the first year of the company's operations
enables the directors to propose the payment of a
dividend at the rate or ss. per share, tree of income-
tax, after writing off 10 per cent. of the preliminary
expenses, leaving a surplus of £362 lls. ld. to be
carried forward to the profit and loss account for
the present year. The chairman stated that the
company's:operations were satisfactory, that the pro-
posal for equalising the two descriptions of shares
would, it was hoped, meet the great difficulty
hitherto experienced by the proprietors of the
paid up shares who did not now receive
more interest than the L 5 shareholders.
It would also be the means of increasing the
basis of the company's credit by placing a larger
fund at the disposal of the directors. A resolution
to the following effect was thereupon agreed to,
viz• :—That the holders of the 14,000 paid-up shares
have the option of receiving in exchange for each
Such share two shares of £lO each, with .t 5 paid,
charging for the advantage of the conversion 108.
for each new share. The operation, when carried
oat, would give an actual profit to the company of
£14,000, which the directors propose to divide as
a bonus amongst the shareholders. The company
Would derive the great additional advantage of
increasing their uncalled capital from its present
sum of £42,500 to £182,500.
There is a heavy market to-day for the English
Ponds, a few sales having resulted in a decline of
i per cent. Consols, therefore, are only 91/ 92 for
transfer, and 928 4 for the 9th proximo. Busintss
continues dull, and the limited number of transac-
tions is sufficient to influence the tendency of
Values.

small amount of business has been transacted
in the New Threes and Reduced Annuities, at
911 s ; Bank Stock is 232 2331; the March Exche-
quer Bills, 2s. dis. to Is. prem. ; and Indian 5 per
Cents., 1084-
There is less animation and buoyancy in the
foreign Market. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, have
receded to 711 4 ; ditto Consotides, to 501 51 ;
Greek, to 381 to 1; ditto Coupons, to 184 4 ;
Spanish Passive are 341 35 ; ditto Certificates,
121 1; Mexican, 371 38 ; Portuguese 491 ; the
Confederate Loan is 11. to 01 dis. ; and the New
Venezuelan Loan, par tol prem.
In the Railway Share Market the operations
have continued very inactive, and prices have in
several instances exhibited less firmness. Great
Western, and North Western have declined ss. ;
and London and Brighton, 10s.; Lancashire and
-Yorkshire, however, have improved 15s. ; North
astern (Ber gvick), 10s. ; and South Eastern, ss.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have re-
Illaized inactive at about previous rates.
Joint Stock . Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
continue dull. Imperial Ottoman Bank realised
; Peninsular and Oriental Steam have declined
to 761; International Financial Shares are quoted
u6l- prem. ; London Financial do., 2 21 ; General
"redit, 21 4 prem.; and Egyptian Trading Com-
-13(loYs 21 1 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 232.3}
aPer Cent. Reduced Annuities
Per Cent. Consols Annuities
New q
A Per Cent. Annuities
'-'nuities,, 30 yrs, expire iithJan., 1880 —
Ditto I- or 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l4/
Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
India ,s,, ock
0 Ditto 5 per Cent lOB/ I
°IIBO s for Account, July 9 921 f
. .L., March June.
'440 iequer Bills, £l,OOO 2/ per Cent... 2 dis I

, Ditto ' £5OO - - 2 die
4 Mt° Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Z•razilian 5 per Cent -
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60
'Lilian 6 per Cent
Greek
7 per Cent....
ureek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons —
Ditto Account 385 41; k i
.. Ditto Coupons l9k
Atalian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 80k
keaican 3 per Cent
.....Ditto Account
"view Granada
..„ Ditto 2 per Cent . 325
rortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 ...-
Ditto Account .. 491
Russian 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 . .. 934
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive .. —
Ditto Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent. 185 4 —
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1868
Ditto Account
701
Ditto £lOO Bond a. ...
Ditto 6 per Cent. '1862
Ditto Account . ... .. . 1....
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1863, ... l9B 4d paid a . 7711 5
Venezuela, 3 pear Cent Pm
Ditto Accoum..
"" Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 ............
Ditto Account
58/ 9
Ditto 11 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 franca_
Ditto Account 721
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account 925 i

Liverpool Cotton laarket—This Day,

(REUTER! S TELEGRAM.)
Alarket quiet. S•yles of the day, about 5,000
bales, Imports, 2:328; previously,l4,s33.

THE ST. GEORGE'S CHALLENGE VASE.—It will be
gratifying to the volunteers throughout the country
to know that an additional prize has been decided upon by
Col• Lindsay, to be awarded to the winner of this beautiful
prize in the contest at Wimbledon. A purse of five dragon
sovereigns will be found inside the vase upon presentation
at the Crystal Palace, in addition to the gold and enamelled
jewelof St. George, &c. The entries for the selection of
representatives from the various battalions in England,
Scotland, and Wales are rapidly progressing; but as the
list will close on the 26th of Jane, the adjutants and shoot-
ing committees of such battalions have no time to lose,
bearing in tniud that there is no limit to the number of
entries of competitors for selection, at 2s. each, provided
they are in all respects qualified according to the rules. A. Photograph of the vase will be presented to every represen-
tative in the contest at Wimbledon, which, together with
the distinguishing badge, he will receive on application for
131° Paati-tieket.

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Great Northern, 5 per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm., 111 i
Great Western, 4 per cent. irred , 92a
Lancashire and Yorkshire rd. 6 per cent. stock, 138}
Mid. Consolidated, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 110
West Midland gua. Shares 51 per cent. 1863, 2i

PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
Metropolitan 5 per cent., Si

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bahia and San Francisco (lhm) gua. 7 per cent., 201 20
Recite and San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 16}
San Paulo ;Um.), gua. 7 per cent., 91
Ditto (all), 2:
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian,l22i

FOREIGN MINES.
Cobre Copper, 291 89 7
Port Philip, 14 y
St. John del Rey (Um.), 57
Vallanzasca Gold, lien., 1i
Yudanamutana of S. Australia (Um), 32-1

JOIN T-STOCK RANS.
Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool K
(lim.), Hi 6
Bank of Queensland (lim), 9
British and American Exchange (Urn.), n'
Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 121111 -
English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 23i
Imperial Bank (11w.), 22
Imperial Ottoman, 191
London and 441
London Joint Stock,
, 37i
New South Wales, 52
Provincial of Ireland,
Ditto, new, 86

PIISCELLANEOUS,
Berlin Water Wor:,{B, si I
Electric Telegrdph, iOst
:i leinancial Society, lira., 81 9 Si
ash Australasian, i i
North
notretrhn aßt
ri oi
÷n p
Peninsi:;la and 0 iental Steam, 76
DAtto, new, la

WRECK OF A VESSEL ONSTONE.--A
TELE
;.....rmy
small coasting sloop, the Daring, of Brixha
lost on Tuesday afternoon on the Eddystone r rn2
Was
ege3,:eint bal-
was from Salcombe, which she left in the mac)
last, bound round to Wales for a cargo of calm,
one and two o'clock, when off the Eddystone Lighthowese:
she ran on the north-east rock. Her captain and owner
(Lloyd) was steering at the time, but appeared to be
ignorant of the exact locality of this rock. The light-
keepers perceived the danger the sloop was running on,
and waved to her to keep off. The captain noticed the
signal, and shifted his helm, but too late, as almost imme-
diately afterwards the sloop struck. She then wore off into
deep water. The crew proceeded to sound her pump
well, bu. on looking into the hold they perceived she was
filling with great rapidity, having stove in a large hole
forward. They then took to their boat, and she went down
in about ten 'ninnies after the accident. The crew con-
sisted of the captain, one man, and two boys, and they were
picked up by the Plymouth trawling sloop Secret, whose
crew witnessed the accident, and brought the shipwrecked
hands into port on Tuesday night, The clew lost nearly
everything they had on bvard.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
WAY AND WIFE V. THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION

COMPANY.

This was an action for an injury sustained by the wife by
the falling of a mast upon her, in consequence, as was alleged,
of the want of due care on board one of the company's
steamers in which she and her husband had been passengers
to Herne Bay.
Mr. Huldleston, Q.C., Mr. Mellish, Q.C., and Mr. Lumley
Smith were for the plaintiff; Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and
Mr. C. Pollock were for the company.
In August last the lady and her husband were passengers
on board of one of the company's steamers, the Prince of
Wales, to Herne Bay, and while they were going down the
river one of the masts suddenly snapped short about a foot
from the deck and fell heavily upon the lady, doing her
severe injury. She was detained at Herne Bay until Octo-
ber, and the expenses came, it was said, to nearly £l5O. The
plaintiffs' case was that the mast was made of two pieces,
one of which was let into the other, and that partly from
this defect and partly throuvh the want of proper supports
the fracture took place at the point of junction as the men
were hoisting or shifting the sails.

The caso for the defence was that the mast was made in
the ordinary and, indeed, approved way, and that the acci•
dent arose simply through a " sudden squall," and it was so
stated in the report made by the company to the Bosrd of
Trade at the time.

After a long trial in which there was a great deal of evi-
deuce on both sides, _

,
The Jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff; damages,
£l,OOO,

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Kerr.)
CAUTION TO SERVANTS ILL-USING ANIMALS-EALVEY V.

GRIFFIN.

This was an action to recover wages, alleged to he with-
held by the defendant, who is a iivery stable keeper.
His Honour—Why does defendant refuse to pay the
money ? _ _ .

Plaintiff—He says that I beat a horse belonging to him,
and I did not.

Defendant—My attention was called to the plaintiff, who
had been cruelly beating a horse belonging to me. I found
that the animal was seriously injured, and I prosecuted the
plaintiff at Guildhall. He was fined 40e., which he paid.
Plaintiff—l paid the fine, but I was quite innocent, I
assure you, _ _ _

His Honour—l have no doubt that the magistrate was
satisfied before you were fined. The fine was for the public
offence, but as you have misconducted yourself you must
forfeit your wages.
Verdict for defendant.
THE COVET IS SASE.-HULL V. BATTY.

This was a claim to recover £4 4s.—defendant being the
well-known Italian warehouseman of Finsbury-pavement.
Mr. Pook, of Basinghall-street, stated that his client, the
defendant, was obliged to attend the Society of Arts to-day
upon a most important inquiry into the rights of prize-medal
holders. He had a good defence to the action, and appl,ed
fur the case to be adjourned.
His Honour said defendant must pay ss. costs.
Plaintiff—lt is a great bother.

Mr. Pook—The money is quite safe. The defendant is
of Finsbury-pavement.
His Honour—l must not know anybody here. You had
better pay the money into court.
Mr. Pook—He will do so.
His Honour—There, Mr. Hull, the Court is quite safe,
you know. (Laughter.)
Adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

"YOUNG MEN FROM THE COUNTRY" IN THE HAY-
MARKET.---Charles Robinson, coachman, living at 20,
Eccleston-square, and Henry Farrington, coachman, living
at 18, Eccleston-square, were charged before Mr. Knox
with being drunk, and behaving in a disorderly manner in
the Haymarket.
Austin, 188 C, said—At " closing " time this morning
I saw some persons turned out of a tavern in the Haymar-
ket, and as soon as they got outside they began fighting.
Mr. Knox What is closing time ?
Austin—Four o'clock. The defendants then beaked the
females, and urged them to fight, and on his interfering
they began laughing and jeering, and said that if they gave
me 2d. I would let them see a good fight with the —.
Soon afterwards I saw one of the defendants fighting with
a young man, and as they were both drunk I took them
into custody.
One of the defendants said—We are young men from the
country, and were on our way with another coachman to
see Covent-garden, and went up the Haymarket, and stood
to see what was going on the same as others did, when the
constable told us to move on. A girl at the time took our
friend's watch. Neither of us were drunk.

Sergeant Harrison—They were both drunk.
Mr. Knox—l believe you are both from the country.
Instead of seeing Covent-garden you got drunk, and saw
the inside of a police-station. You must pay ss. each.
A HARD CASE.—A female, named Brown, applied this
morning to Mr. Knox for his advice under the following
circumstances:—

The applicant said that some time ago her and her hus-
band sold their life interests in a little property for the sum
of £lOO, the money being paid over to Mr. H. W. Young,
a solicitor, who acted for them. Some of the money was
paid over to them by Mr. Young, but Mr. Young was sub-
subsequently chargtd with forgery, and convicted, his pro-
perty being seized by the sheriff. At this time Mr. Young
had about £45 of her and her husband's money in his
hands. Messrs. Parsons and Lee, of 15, Coleman-street,
City, then wrote to the sheriff (Mr. Gammon) requesting
that applicant's claim might be investigated, in answer
to which the sheriff stated that money had been paid over
to the Crown-office. She then went to the Crown•office,
and was there informed that the accounts had been made
up, and that the officers could not interfere. As she was in
great distress—her husband having had to un ;ergo two
operations—she had attended in the hope that she might
find some means of getting her money.
Mr. Knox said the applicant had better petition the Se-
cretary of State; it was the only course she could pursue.

The Awards at the International Exhibition,

MEETING THIS DAY.

A meeting of prize medalists was held this day, at the
Royal Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi, for the pur-
pose of considering the best means to be adopted for their
protection, in consequence of a recent decision in the Vice-
Chancellor's Court, by which it appeared that there did not
exist at present any legal power to restrain non-exhibitors
and others, who had not received awards at the late Exhi-
bition, from making use of the medals as trade marks, or
otherwise.

The chair was occupied by Mr. Alderman Copeland, M.P.

The CHAIRMAN said he had been called upon to preside
at that meeting by a number of gentlemen, who were en-
titled to medals by merit, and by the council of the Exhi-
bition, who complained of the use of those medals by per-
sons who had not had them awarded them, in furtherance of
their trade. He could not help calling such a proceeding
a fraud. He was not fond of using strong language, but
in a case like the present, he thought it was right to speak
very plainly, and he was of opinion that any per-
son who acted in the way described, viz., by
falsely representing that he had received a prize medal,
placed himself in anything but a favourable light as an
honest tradesman. He should be very glad to hear obser-
vations from any gentlemen present, and also to assist them
in approaching Earl Granville, in order to induce his lord-
ship to take some steps by which all persons who committed
such a fraud would be punished.

Mr. WADE moved the following resolution, viz.:—
" That, in the opinion of this meeting, the use of the Ex-
hibition prize medals of 1862, or any previous exhibition,
by any person or persons other than those to whom such
medals have been awarded by her M.jesty's Commissioners
under the direction of the jurors, is a direct fraud, tending
to deceive and mislead the public, to injure the authorised
medal holders, and to subvert the objects of the Exhibition."

Mr. S. C. HALL thought that the resolution ought to be
so worded as to embrace "honourable mention," because he
thought it quite as bad to make use of the latter term as in
asserting they had received medals when such was not the