The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1869.

AsIIARR LIS7.

ORDINAILY SHAILICB AND STOOLS.

Fiud. Closing .sliastness
Railways. rsioe. done.
et Bast)l and Exeter ...... 103 73 75
t Usleaoniaa lt:0 79 79i

at UstinOrlan
20 Cornwall all 2 3
at Dublin & Beliast - -
st Dun„l'erth, & A. 6.0 one ioo 70 72
2J East zondon all 6 7
.20 110 15 - -
2) Do 10 - -
at Glasgow d 6 S. Western lOO 104 106
et Great Eliatern .0) 30 37 371
at Do. Z. Angl. 2 lOO tit 7
at Great Northui Scotia:loi lOO la 16
at Great Northern ... 103 107 leB
at Du. A 510e*...... lOO 10&j 1081 1081 9
et Do. 13 stool lOO 126 1.8
at GtS, and W. of iI6 100
at Ut. Western -Original 1.,0 551 16 051; 6/
t Do. South Wales l,e 87 8)
at Do. W. Micl.-Uxivlo Lt..O :10 56 345
at Do. Newport lO6 32 31
at Lainmetilte 100 1261 161 1..61
at Lou., Brigh.,46 luu 451 455 161
Os Du Scrip -
al 1 on., 1a.t.., and DnVei luu 151 16 181
at Do. meth'''. 1,.X. A we lo 12
at Lon. a Acu Westerz l6O 1.1 42 1 1211
it Lon. a south Western lOO t 3 Yr 525 44
Man., Shell., J; Linoolu l3 /31 131
at Metropolitan . WO 01 (31 Bsk
at Do Exteusial ;!1 11 nl
6 Do. NeW rd all - -
st Metropolitan•Diatriet. •fii 811 521 705
10 Metrop. bt. John's ‘1 ood 6 - -
at All,l and
st L 9, dirniin. Darby
et Nrr.h liriWah
st U . & lot - -
st Nor v.a,stern-Berwica lOO 113 115 1204 Di
25 D .U. purchase i 6.13,6 - -
at 1/1., Leeds .... 100 761 771
ab L MorkloU 116 131117
st D oearliole - -
at 1) oStock..ic Darling lOO 116 118
at North Loudon
10 Do •New ltitB . 4 11 2 p
at North Staffordshire ICU 57 In 65 41
st North ain, 0.-W. Junction 100 30 101
10 Do New £lO shares 7 ... ••
at Rl.:onney
at Shropshire Union lOO 601 COl
st South Devon'
at South Eastern lOO 761 77
et Staines, Wok'hain, t Wok all; 13 11
at Tan t ale
-- DO. e • 6 -
11 attitOrd & Kilkenny ICU -
lb Waterloo & Whitehall 6 - -

RAILWAYS.—PREFERENCE SHAMS AND STOCKS.
With Dividends contingent on the Profits or each separate year

st Caledonian 41 p c gua.
8t Do Scot. Coo. min. 7 p c lOO ...
at Do 41 p irredeem all
st Do 4p c con. issued at 80 05 ...
at Great Eastern 41 per cent. 100 7; 80
at Do 5 do, 1802 lOO 81 Vo
at Do New 5 do, 1803 lOO 86 IRS
at Do do 5 do, 1801 lOO SS 80
st Great Northern, 5 p clued. 100
at Do Permanent 5 per cent. 100
at Do Boston et Sleaxd, 4/ pc 100
at Great West., W. 1141., Lp c 100
at Do Joint i.erpe. 5 p c,1865 100 85 92 941
at Do do 6p c irred., 1800 100 lto 112 1111
20 Do Vale N eath perp. 5p c all
at Kent Coast, 6 per cent, s lOO
S Lune. and York New 41 per

cent till July, 1871 2 1p
at Loud., Brig 6;c., 41 pc, 1834 100
at Do do 4 do, 1860 100
st Do do 41 do, 1861 leg
st 1)3 do 41 do, 1863 100 ... 821
at Do do 4 do, 1865 IVO
at Do No. 6 5 do, 1866 100
at Do No. 7 sdo
at Loud , Chat., &e., 2d, r p.c 100
at Du Metrop. B 6 p.e 19.
Do do C 6 ice
at London& N Western, 5p c 100 108 110
at London tt S. Western, 41 p c 100 v 9 95
10 Man. chef. & Lin., 5 pc, 1865 all V 91
at Metropolitans per cent lOO 100 106
at Midland, 11. 5 per cent pref lOO 107 10)
at Do B 5 do 100 107 109
lb Do 5p c opt. to cony. to

Ord. Stk.., Sopt. 1, 1668 all 201 211
18 Do Inconv. Now Shozeki all 18 19/
22 Do 5 p c con. into Old

Stk.,-Aug. 31,1372 - 81 11 2fp
at North British, E. and
No. 1, 5 per cent
at Do £lO guaranteed, 1861 100
Do E ,P., & Dun., 2d, 4pc 100
at Do E. & , N 0.2, b p.c
at Do N. 8.. 5 per cenit, 1862 100
at Do E. & (1., No. 3, 5 p.c 100
at Do E.& U., (Urdiry) 4i p c 100
at North Eastern, 4A per cent 100 in ga
at Do Stuck. & Dart., D 100 112 113
at North London, 4f, per coat
(Alax. 5 per cent)
et North Suaturdetnre 5 p 100
at South Eastern, 41 pe, Isss 100
at Do 5 do 1861 100
at Do sdo (Ch. Cross) 1863 100
et Do b do, 1364
at Victoria St.& Pimlico, 4A pc 100 ~,

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Closing Business
Share] NAME. Paid. Price done
10 Agra Limited, A all 101 11 101 1
AO Do B lO •34 4
50 Albion l5 10 S
00 Alliance, Limited
20 Anglo Austrian
20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim
20 Anglo-liungario.n
3 14 21 7 0-1 G
20 Auglo-Italian 18GG, limited 10 5 4
40 Australasian
20 Bank of British Columbia all' 12 13
20 Do issued at 2 pm.... ,••• 5 5 4
25 Bank of Egypt
20 Bank of Otago, lint.
25. Bank of South Austreia all 30 52
50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 57 32
10 Bank of New Zealand all 164 161
50 British North American
20 Chartered of Inilia,Austra-
lia, and China all 17 15
25 Chartered Mere. of Indio
London, and China all El 32 311 4
20 City le 10 11 101
100 Colonial 25 36 37
10 Consolidated, lint.
50 Delhi and London, lint ••• 25 ••• •••
50 East Loudon, lint. 5 21 If
20 English and Aini•-lean, lint 10 ...
20 English Bank of Rio de Ja-
neiro. lint is pr 1p
20 English, .tcottish, and Aus..
tralian Chartered s; all 191 164
281 Hong lion and Shanghai
Bank Corporation all 86 38
281 Do new lll 4 5
100 Imperial, lim
20 imperial Ottoman
25 louiau all Id 22
25 Do new
Lnd Mortgage of India, lim 4 31 31
100 Du sp. e. Debs.lB64, 80 all 76 76 00
;00 London Bank, of .Mexico
and South America, lint. 20 5 4
100 London and Brazilian, 11m. 4:5 35 30 r
20 Do new 74 fi 4i
100 London &River Plate, lint. 40 11 13
26 Do newlo 11 2 p
20 London Chart.of Australia all 231 2if
20 London and C0unty.,,,.,,,, 20 494 401 46
50 Do new iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd. 11 •••
Loudon Joint 5t0ck......„ 311 321 32
Loudon and South African al 8 0
100 London &S.-Wester; lint, 20 13 11
50 London &Venezuela, lint l2l - --
100 London ant? Westminster 2O 571 534 401
100 Do Scrip, iss at to pm......., 2O ... ...
100 Merchant, lim
10 Metropolitan, lint. . •
00 Midland, lint..
5 National of Australia
25 National sf Liverpool, um, is 3d yip
00 National I'rovinc. of Ened 42 ••• •••
10 Do • ... 42 , ... ...
50 National..
20 New South Wa1e5.,...,,. JO
all 41 43
20 North-Western ............... 71 ... ...
25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42
50 1 rovinc.l3ank.Corpo., hut. 10 61 54
30 Provincial of 1re1and........ 25 90 82
10 Do new., all ... ...
100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 11 13
100 Do issued at 6 put lO 4 6
25 Union of Australia all 46 43 471
100 Union of Irelattd, lint
50 Union of London

THE UNITED KINGDOM ALLIANCE.

The annual meeting of the Lomton Auxlliary Society
was held on Tuesday night in the lower-hall, Exeter Hall.
Dr. Brewer, M.P., occupied the chair. The hall was quite
filled. The secretary submitted the report for the past year,
which stated that during the year 170 meetings had been
held, and 29,020 signatures obtained from residents in Lon-
don in favour of the Permisslve Bill. In many districts it
was found that the occupants of whole streets readily at-
tached their names in its favour. The pecuniary state of
the funds showed that £O3O 4s. qd. had been collected,
and £728 9s. had been expended, leaving a deficit of £-19
3s. sid. The chairman, in opening the proceedings, said
that the Alliance did net belong to any party. It had
Leon said in the lobby of the House of Commons, when it
Wilfrid Lawson's Bill was introduced, that the Alliance
wished to dictate to the working classes; Lut it turned out
on positive proof that it was the working men themselVes
who asked to control the sale cf liquors in certain dis-
tricts ; and when there was a wrong, a nation's Legislature
was bound to interfere, and remove it if possible. He
held liberty abused was liberty lost. The Rev. John Mor-
gan moved That, in the opinion of this meeting, peculiar
encouragement is afforded by the remarkable effect of the
Alliance agitation upon public sentiment, and by the
growing recognition on the fart cf the leading statesmen
and the public press of the right of the people to deal
effectively with the liquor traffic." Dr. Jab ez Burns seconded
the motion, which was agreed to. sir Robert Brisco moved
the next resolution, which was in effect that those members
of Parliament who supported the movement in the House
of Commons receive the cordial thanks of the meeting,
which was also agreed to. Mr. Chambers, M.P., supported
the resolution at some length, maintaining that the day
was not far distant when the desired object of the Alliance
would be granted by the Legislature. Other resolutions
were proposed, and the proceedings were brought to a
doz.: by a vote of thanks to the chairman.

THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.

The number of visitors at the Agricultural Hall by
twelve o'clock on Tuesday was sufficiently large to render
locomotion in the main avenue of the building a matter
demanding discriminating care, and, as the afternoon wore
on, anything approaching to an easy peregrination
was an absolute impossibility. The attractions
presented by the'cattle far exceeded those offered by either
the sheep or the pigs, and any beast above whose head
appeared the announcement by ribbon or writing that it
had obtained a prize became at once and continuously the
centre of an admiring and rib-poking crowd. That the
pigs were not capable of awakening more than a
transient interest in the majority of visitors to
the show may he accounted for by the circumstance
that they belong to a genus not noted. for fragrance. A
quarter of an hour in the piggery at the Agricultural
Hall, though made as pleasant as it can be, is a period of
life never to be forgotten. The sale of stcck has been
tolerably extensive already, though the notices
attached to various stalls and pc ns, to the
effect that the occur ants of the same are in the market,
denote that many exhibitors are more anxious to take to
their homes the value of their several entries than the
entries themselves. The Earl of Aylesford's beast, the
winner of the £3O prize in its class of shorthorns, of the
silver cup value £4O, for the best steer or ox in
any of the classes, and of the plate, value £lOO
for the best beast in the show, is at pre-
sent unsold. The live weight of this animal is
19cwt. 2qrs. 231 b. The shcrt-horn of Sir Walter Trevelyan,
of Wallington, Newcastle-on-Tyne, which
.took the silver
cup, value £4O, for the best heifer or cow in any of the
classes, is also still on sale. Its live weight is 19cwt. Oqrs.
ltlb. A few of the Devons have already found customers,
amongst them the one bred and exhibited by her Majesty
the Queen, which obtained the 3rd prize in Class 1. The
galleries and side avenues of the Hall are this year occu-
pied with an unusually large and efficient supply of
agricultural machinery, implements, and produce.

II'CENDI.4RY FIRES AND THE WAY THE
MAGISTRA PES ACT IX THEM.

The recent incendiary fires in the neighbourhood of
Kanturk have given some exciting work to the local magis-
trates. On Saturday several young men were charged
with assaulting and obstructing the policemen on duty at
one of the conflagrations, and there was a display of feel-
ing on one side and the other on the part of the bench not
over creditable to the administration of justice. The pro-
ceedings opened with an unpleasant squabble for the privilege
of presiding. Mr. O'Brien moved that the senior magistrate
present take the chair, but the senior magistrate declined.
Mr. O'Brien was then asked to take the chair himself, and
on his refusing, Mr. Moriarty, the stipendiary magistrate,
assumed the -post of honour uninvited. Upon this Mr.
O'Brien became very angry, and there was quite a scene,
but Mr. Moriarty remained in possession of the chair.
Beaten by the stipendiary, Mr. O'Brien avenged himself on
the sub inspector of police, to whom ho administered a
sharp reproof for interfering in a case in which an absent
sub-constable was the complainant, and then compelled
he unfortunate officer to leave the bench and take his
seat amongst the policemen in the body of the court. The
humiliation of the officer was highly enjoyed by the
auditnee. The cases for hearing were then proceeded with,
and the magistrates returned all the defendants for trial at
the assizes, accepting bail for their attendance. In one of
the cases the decision caused much surprise. The
defendant was charged with striking a policeman named
Casey on the head with a stick. Casey did not see his
assailant, but another policeman saw the blow given, and
the assailant caught by Mr. Gullaher, a magistrate. Mr.
Gullaher was of opinion that the prisoner was not the
person he caught. On the other hand, three respectable
witnesses swore that the defendant had been most
active in extinguishing the fire, and that he
could not by any possibility have been the person who
assaulted the policeman, as he was seen on the burning
rick the moment before. These witnesses stated that a
considerable number of the people assisted to extinguish
the flames, and that, though there was some abuse
to an unpopular policeman, there was no disorder.
Mr. Moriarty strove hard to get an admission that the
" mob," as he called them, shewed a disposition to
obstruct the police, who, by the way, were stated by
all the witnesses to have given no assistance whatever
in extinguishing the fires. The witnesses, however,
expressed rather the contrary opinion. Mr. Moriarty
then insisted, against the wish of two of the
magistrates, on taking fresh evidence with respect to
the demeanour of the " mob " and two gentlemen were
examined, but though their evidence was less favourable
to the people than that of the other witnesses, they did
not bear out Mr. Moriarty's impression on the subject. At
the close of the proceedings Mr. Moriarty refused to grant
a licence to a farmer to keep a gun, on the ground that it
was unsafe to giant licenses for arms in the present dis-
turbed state of the country.

It is proposed to hold a great meeting in Dublin
on the 14th inst., under the presidency of Mr. Butt, Q.C.:
to reorganise the Irish Tenant League. Circulars have
been issued to the local farmers' clubs in the South, and
they have offered to co-operate. Dean O'Brien, in his
reply to the circular, observes that the people are beginning
to become bewildered, aid that they must be got out of
their " muddle."

The assizes have commenced at Chester. Mr.
Baron Martin is the judge, and in his charge referred to the
disputed point as to whether it was necessary or not,
under the. Habitual Criminals Act, to insert in the in-
dictment against a prisoner the charge of any offences
which he might have previously committed. The learned
judge himself inclined to the opinion that it was not neces-
sary, but, pending a decision by the Court of Criminal
Appeal, ho recommended that the clerk of the peace should
bo directed to make the insertion.

A telegram from Edinburgh says :—On Monday
evening the passenger shed of the new Caledonian Railway
station at the Lothian-road fell in with a loud noise. Tho
shed had been completed with the exception of the work
to bo douo by the slaters on the roof, and during the day
about a hundren men had been employed upon it. When
the accident occurred all the workmen had left with the
exception of four, who wero in one end of the
; but fortunately they escaped uninjured. Thu build-
ing, which was constructed chiefly of wood, was fully 400 ft.
in length and between SOft. and 90ft. in breadth. The cause
of the accident has not been ascertained, but it is supposed
some of the iron girders had given way. Tho damage is
es!imated at about £1,200.

CHINA. GRASS.—The Indian Government have
latey instituted inquiries into the cultivation of the rhea
plant, better known as China grass, and have offered two
prizes of £5,000 and £2,000 for the two best inventions of
machinery for EeTarating the fibre from the plant and
pro wring it for manufacture. 'flu y have also appointed
Mr. Montgomery, owner of the China-grass plantation in
the Kangra Valley, to the charge of a Government planta-
tion. It appeals that the China-grass plant produces, when
p,,opeily manipulated, one of the strongest known
vegetable fibres, fully three times as strong as the best
Russian hemp ; while very inferior preparations of the
fibre yield a material equal to the best hemp. There is a
great demand for good qualities of the fibre in the Eng-
lish and American markets, if it can be obtained with
regularity at pr'ecs varying from £3O to £BO per ton. A
vast extent of country is available for its cultivation in
TOIL as WIN very hardy, and sulteil ti;„ 91inlate,

The very extensive Distillery now being erected
at Belfast, with all r,2cent improvements for the manufacture of
Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained
a world-wilt celebrity for their flue old Irk.h whiskY,
is to be
cane.' "The Royal Irish Distillery."