The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-15 00:00:00

Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United States and British North America, by Bri-

tish packet . ...Dec. 20
_ _

Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-

ton .

Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Dec. 22.
West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Jan. 10.
West Indies and Pacific (except Baba:Las, Cuba,
and Mexico Dec. J 4.

Cuba and Mexico

• Dec. 20.

Bahamas, via New ) ork.

Jan. 11.

Bermuda, ditto

Dee. :Lc),

The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of £1,168 11s. 11d. on account of the divi-
dends on the debt of Ecuador.

An extraordinary general meeting of the pro-
prietors of the Guardian Fire and Life Assurance
was held this afternoon, for the purpose of con-
sidering a bill to be introduced into Parliament to
enable a reduction to be made in the amount of the
paid-up subscription capital, and to alter certain
provisions of the deed of settlement.
THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.—Yester-
day was the closing day of the Cattle Show. Not
only has the exhibition itself proved of more than average
quality, but the statement about the cattle plague invested
it with a more than ordinary degree of interest and there have
been more persons to visit the show during the last three
days than in the four shilling days of any previous year,
whilst even the aristocratic or five shilling afternoon of
Monday was attended by more than double the usual num-
ber. It is believed that few short of 130,000 persons have
paid for admission, and no accident whatever has occurred.
At the half-yearly meeting to-day of the share-
holders of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India
Railway Company the report stated that the accounts
showed that the total receipts up to that period on stock,
shares, and debentures were £5,397,406 10s., of which the
sum of £253,449 10s. (less £6OO bonds repaid) was received
in the last half-year. The total amount of audited expen-
diture in England and India to the same period (in-
cluding stores, materials, &c.) was £5,077,010 3s. sd. The
expenditure brought to account during the last half-year
amounted to .£533,251. 4s. ld., and was incurred princi-
pally in works, bridges, and viaducts, permanent way
stations, and the rolling stock. In addition this
there had been a further outlay in India to the same period
amounting to £414,980 Os. 6d., which was awaiting the
audit of the Bombay Government.

A STAG AT SEA.—The captain of the smack
Gainsborough Lass reports that going out to sea on Wednes-
day, the 29th ult., they picked up a fine stag, in the White
Booth Roads, in the Humber. Though nearly exhausted
when taken on board, and consequently very quiet, he soon
came round, and, after being refreshed with carrots, cab-
bages, &c., he took it into his head to knock everybody
down who went near him, and bade fair to take charge of
the ship. They managed, however, to keep him till next
morning, when, meeting a smack bound to Hull, they trans-
shipped him, glad to get rid of such a passenger. The cap-
tain, when he arrived at Hull, handed him over to Mr. S.
Fern, who, after securing his legs, put him into his cart,
and, rightly guessing to whom he belonged, drove him to
Burton Constable, where he is now browsing in the park,
none the worse for his trip to sea. It appears that Sir
Clifford Constable's staghounds met on the 29th at Hedon,
and the stag, being pressed, took the Humber, and was
picked up as described.

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DEATHS BY -
LIGHTNING IN FRANCE.—The
Gazette des Hopitaus states that there wee 87 persons struck
dead by lightning in France during the year 1864, of
whom 61 were men and 26 women. The number of deaths
in France from a similar cause in 1863 was 103. From.
1835 to 1864 the number of deaths from lightning in the
86 ancient departments of France amounted to 2,311. By
adding 120 deaths, at the rate of four a year, for the three
now departments, we find that there were 2,431 deaths
from lightning within 30 years in France as it is at pre-
sent constituted. It has been further ascertained that the
number of persons wounded by lightning in Franco during
the same period was four times the number cf killed.
DEATH OF MR. W. A. JAMES.— The Liberal
party have lost a clever tactician by the death of Mr. W.
Albert James, of Parliament-street. He died yesterday at
his private residence in the Highgate-road. He succeeded
Mr. Humphreys, the present coroner for Middlesex, as the
Liberal registration agent ; Mr. Humphreys having sue-.
resolvedo f
On the
w Sedonuetsh-
ceeded the well-known Mr. Coppock.
THREATENED STRIKE OF SOUTH YORKSHIRE COL.
LIERS. Another sYorkshire Collieries trike
eenikbeatseveral
upon.
day the men employed at Edmond's Main, Sw
aithe Main,
Parley Main, and Wombell Main • •
pits, gave notice of their
determination to leave at the
expiration of the time re-
quired by the rules. This step has been taken under the
direction of the Council of the Miners' Association, the re-
stricted system of labour, for some time pursued, having
failed to induce the masters to give the advance of ten per
cent. demanded in wages. It is expected that the masters
will retaliate by a general lock-out. The colliers of South
Yorkshire were placed in a similar position last year, and
before the struggle ended it was estimated that they had
lost £70,000 in wages.
MILDPUNISH3iENT FOR TRAMPS.—In consequence
of the increasing practice agiongst tramps who obtain
shelter at the workhouse of the Oxford Incorporation, in
common with the other provincial towns and the metro.
polls, the board of guardians, at their meeting yesterday,
resolved upon memorialising the Poor-law Board, with the
view of vesting the magistrates, by an alteration in the act,
with additional powers to remedy the evil, it being the
unanimously expressed opinion of the board that nothing
short of capital punishment would put an end to a
practice which entails a large expense upon the loca
authorities.