The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-27 00:00:00

MARKETS.

The follovring markets are supplied at a cost of 4d. for each
report. They aro forwarded direct, and the most careful
arrangements are made to ensure their prompt dispatch.
Aberdeen, Cattle--Saturday. London, Corn Averages—Once
Birmingham, Corn--Thursday'a week.
Bristol, Cattle—Thursday. .. Potatoes—Dally.
Corn—Tuesday and ~ Produce—Daily.
Thursday. „ Provision—Daily.
Clyde, Crushed Sugar—Daily. Leeds, Cattle—Wednesday.
Cork, Dutter—Dally. „ Corn—Tuesday.
~ Corn--Saturday, Leith, Corn—Saturday.
Doncaster, Cattle—Saturday. Liverpool, Cattle—Monday.
. Corn—Saturday. ~ Corn—Opening rues-
Dublin, Cattle—Thursday. day and Friday.
~ Corn—Tuesday and ~ Corn—Closing Tues.
Friday. day and Friday.
Bdinburgk, Cattle —Wednes-
.„ Cotton—Opening Daily.
day. —Closing Daily.
PI
corn —Wednea- „it
Produce—Daily.
...
day. Lincoln, Corn—Friday.
Gloucester, Corn--Saturday. Maidstone, Corn—Thursday.
Glast,ow, Cattle—Thursday. Manchester, Cotton—Monday,
corn—Wednesday. Wednesday, and Thursday,
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Pig Iron—Opening at 4d. ; Tuesday, Friday, Is.
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Daily. Manchester, Corn—Thursday.
Closing Daily Newark, Corn—Wednesday.
Bull, Cattle—Tuesday. Newcastle, Cattle—Tuesday.
Corn—Tuesday. • •P Corn—Tuesday and
Rfrkealdy, Corn—Saturday. Saturday.
London, Cattle—Monday and Norwich, Corn—Saturday.
Thursday. Reading, Corn—Saturday.
II
corn—Opening Mon- Salford, Cattle—Tuesday.
day, Wednesday, Southall, Cattle—Wednesday.
and Friday. Wakefield, Cattle—Wednesday.
Corn—Closing lion- „ Corn—Friday.
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day, Wednesday,
and Friday.
BANK RETURNS, 395. per quarter. WIND AND WEATHER,
594. per quarter. SHIP IPNG LIsT, arrivals
rter at Gravesend, Fal-
mouth, and Queenstown, each 398. r
NEW YoRE PRICES, daily, 395. per quarter.
SPORTING.—DetaiIs of terms for sporting news will be supplied
in January next.
A discount of 10 per cent. is allowed on arrangements for not
less than twelve months.

JAMES STEWART lIODGSON, Esq., Governor.
CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq., Sub-Governor
FRANCIS ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Esq., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Egerton Hubbard, Esq.
John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Nevile Lubbock, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. George Forbes 'Mal cohnson, Esq
Edward James Daniell, Esq.. Lord Josceline William Percy.
William Davidson, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Lancelot William Dent, Esq. Sir John Rose.
Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Chas. Hermann Goschen, Esq. William Wallace, Esq.
Riveradale Wm.'Grenfell, Esq. Octavius Wigram, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Montagu C. Wilkinson, Esq.
Wilmot Holland, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL Sous', Esq., F.R.S.

NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of
FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Christmas will expire on the
9th of January.
FIRE ASSURANCES may be effected on advantageous terms.
FIRE DUTY.—This tax having been abolished, the PREMIUM
is NOW the only charge for FIRE INSURANCES.
FARMING STOCK.—No extra charge is made for the use of
Steath. Thrashing-Machines.
LIFE ASSURANCES are granted with, or without, participa-
tion in Profits ; in the latter case at reduced rates of Premium.
The divisions of Profit take place EVERY FIVE YEARS.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one Life.
The Corporation bear the cost of Policy Stamps and Medical
Fees_ •
A Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee of a large
invested Capital Stock, and exemption, under Royal Charter
from, the liabilities of partnership.
The advantages of modern practice, with the Security of an
°nice whose resources have been tested by the experience of a
CENTURY AND A-HALF.
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary.

EtUROPEA N A SS-U RA.NCE SOCIETY?
Empowered by Special Acts oi Parliament.
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
• Situations of Trust.
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i Chief Office-17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
Annual Income,' £300,000.
Capital, subscribed by more than 1,600 Shareholders, nearly
£BOO,OOO.
DIRECTORS.
CFIAIR3IAN —General Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., F.R.S.
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The Rev. A. Alston, D.D. R. M. Carter, Esq., M.P.
E. limnilton Anson, Rag, Edmund Keeley, Esq.
A. R. Bristow, Esq.—. Reginald Read, Esq., M.D.
This Society are now,ISSU , COMPLETE LIFE POLICIES.
The peculiar features.of these Policies are as follow :-
1. The Payments Cease after Ten or Twenty Years.
2. The Policy is not forfeited by the non-payment of renewal
premium during the ten or twenty years.
3. The Assurer is entitled for each yearly payment he has
made to a paid-up Policy for one-tenth or one-twentieth of the
sum Assured

HENRY- E. PARMINTER, Manager.

The Russian military bucliet for 1871 has a field
hospital expenditure double that of 1870.
Foci AT BILISTOL.—The Antona, steamer, bound
from Bristol for Liverpool, in going out of the river on
Saturday night, in consequence of the fog got ashore on
the Dumball, where she still remains. .

The Melbourne Aly/US states that an important in-
vention has been submitted to the Victorian Government
and is under consideration by a board. Captain W. H.
Fitzgerald has taken steps to patent a new gun and gun
carriage and an engine of the mitrailleuse sort called
" The Annihilator," which will enable a few men to main-
tain a discharge equal to a whole army.
MitssAGEs FROM THE SEA.—TWO bottles, strung
together and securely sealed, have been washed on to the
beach at Hayle; Cornwall, one of them containing three
letters directed to Hamburg and two sixpences to defray
the cost of postage. The other bottle contains a pint of
rum to recompense the finder for his trouble in posting the
letters, which are from the Danish brig Anne Georgiana,
bound to La Guayra.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR LEAMINGTON.—Au
accident happened to the Great Western third-class train
froM Paddington to Liverpool on Saturday afternoon,
near Leamington. The connecting rod of the engine
broke, and ran into the lower part of the boiler. The
engine was thrown off the rails, but the passengers felt
no shock, and did not know that any accident had oc-
curred until the train gradually stopped. The line was
blo6ked for hours, and the traffic was greatly delayed in
consequence.
DEATH FROM COLD IN A HANSOM CAB.-00
Saturday Mr. Richards held an inquest at the Earl of
Aberdeen Tavern, Old Ford-road, London, touching the
death of Mr. Samuel Gerrish, aged thirty-seven years.
The deceasetwa,s a master butcher, carrying on business
at 42, Roman-road, Old Ford, and at three o'clock on
Thursday morning he set out in a hansom cab for the
purpose of purchasing meat for Christmas customers.
While on the way the unfortunate man fell back and died
in the cab, the excessive cold having acted fatally on a
diseased heart. The driver of the vehicle conveyed the
corpse back to the dead man's house, where a very painful
scene ensued when the widow saw it. The jury, idler
hearing the medical evidence, returned a verdict of death
froM the excessive cold. _ _ _

MANCHESTER FAILURES. The Manchester
Examiner states that a meeting of the creditors of Mr.
Marcus Bebro, general merchant, 63, King-street, and
Stationers'-court, Manchester, was held on Friday, at
the' offices of Messrs. Edwin Storer and Co.,
solicitors, Fountain-street, Manchester. The lia
bilities were stated to be under £4,000. It was unani-
mously resolved to accept the offer of 20s. in the pound,
with interest at 5 per cent., payable in twelve months.
The creditors of Messrs. Thomas and William Bestwick,
trading as William Bestwick, smallware manufacturers,
Manchester and Salford, held a meeting the same day, at
the Clarence Hotel. A statement of affairs, prepared by
Mr. J. K. Lawton, accountant, Chancery-place, shewed
total liabilities £17,917 15s. 6d., and assets £12,711 15s.
11d. It was resolved to accept the offer of 10s. in the
pound, payable in two instalments of ss. at three and six
months.

ABANDONMENT OF THE LAND 0' CAKES.—iDtei

gence reached Liverpool on Saturday, by cable from New
York, of the abandonment of the well-known ship Land
o' Cakes, bound from Ardrossan for Boston with pig iron.
She left Ardrossan on the 10th of November last, but put
into Kingstown, leaky, on the 12th, was repaired there, and
proceeded to sea in good order. She must, however, have
met with subsequent disaster, as the telegram states she
was abandoned in a sinking condition. The Lank o' Cakes
was a vessel of 561 tons register, built in Grangemouth,
by Adamson, in 1847, and though registered as the pro-
perty of Messrs. Carrill and Co., of Liverpool, we have
reason to believe that she was sold_ shortly before leaving
on her late disastrous voyage, to Messrs. Stewart and Co.,
of Glasgow. As we write we are told that she was again
sold to Guy, of Newry. She had undergone considerable
repairs in 1867 and this year, and was " continued" in
Lloyd's book.
NEWSPAPERS FOR PLACES ABROAD.—The regu-
lations relating to the registration of publications for
transmission abroad at the newspaper rates have been re-
vised ; and, commencing with the Ist January' next, only
those publications which have been accepted for regis-
tration at the General Post Office under the revised con-
ditions will have the privilege of being forwarded at
those rates. Publications not on the revised register at
the General Post Office, such as magazines., private trade
lists, and catalogues, cannot after the 31st instant be sent
abroad at rates lower than those applicable to book
packets ; it will, therefore, be incumbent on those who
desire to transmit any periodical publications to foreign
parts as newspapers to satisfy themselves in the first in-
stance that such publications have been duly registered.
In any -case of doubt, application can be made at the
General Post Office. Newspapers sent abroad must, from
and after the 31st instant, be posted within eight days
from the date of publication, including the day of such
publication.
IRISH LEGAL APPOINTMENTS VACANT.—The
vacancy in the chairmanship of the County Monaghan
has not yet been filled up, but an appointment will be
made in a day or two. It is probable that some changes
will be made in the present arrangements, the effect of
which will be to leave a third-class county vacant. The
programme which seems most desirable is to transfer
Mr. Barron from Kerry to Monaghan, and to pro
mote the chairman of a second-class county, Mr.
Hemphill, Q.C., and Mr. Blake, Q.C., are the most
eligible—and to advance the chairman of a third-class
county to the vacancy so created. Mr. O'Hagan, Q.C.,
or Mr. Neligan, Q.C., would probably be chosen. Both
are able, but the former has the strong claim of seniority
as well as extensive experience as a practitioner. Mr.
Barron is one of the oldest chairmen in the country, and
it would be only a fair and considerate act to allow him to
exchange the duties of his present county, which are very
onerous, for those of Monaghan, which are comparatively
light.
CABINET CHANGES —The Observer believes that
no decision will be arrived at as to any change in the coin-
position of the Cabinet which may be necessary in conse-
quence of Mr. Bright's resignation, till after the Christ-
mas holidays are over. Though the resignation of Mr.
Bright is deeply regretted, it cannot, the Observer re-
marks, have been unexpected. A Cabinet Minister has an
onerous, direct, and personal responsibility. No doubt
the right lion. gentleman agrees with the policy of his
colleagues, and, indeed, lie has said so in his letter of
resignation ; but it is the duty of a member of the Cabinet
to assist at the Ministerial Councils, and to discuss and
minutely consider all important acts of administration.
The Observer is, therefore, not surprised at the retirement
of Mr. Bright from official life. If it is asked why the step
was not taken before, there is an easy answer to the ques-
tion. So long as there was a hope of the President of the
Board of Trade being able to' shortly return to the dis-
charge of his duties, a resignation which tenas to weaken
the Ministry was properly withheld at the earnest and
unanimous request of the Cabinet. There has, the
Observer understands, been a continuous and steady im-
provement in the health of Mr. Bright, but his medical
advisers are now of opinion that the labour and anxiety of
office would hinder a complete recovery, and probably
cause a dangerous relapse,