The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-17 00:00:00

MINING MARKET.

THURSDAY, Two o'Clock.
A fair Mi amount of business has been done in the
ning Exchange. The shares chiefly in request
Gare Great Retallack, Drakewells, West Chiverton,
n, East Basset, East Russell, Great Vor, East
iirn Brea
are , Tincroft, and North Crofty. Annexed
the latest quotations :
Cara Camborne, 20 25 ; Cara Brea,
—; Central
ChCara —., —; Cooks' Kitchen, 11 12; East Carn Brea,
i; Drakevrells, 178 6(1 20s Od ; Great Laxey, 17 18 ;
rtou Moor, 51 ; Chon:ales Gold, 2f ; Clifford
•Altalgamate, 9 10 ; East Basset, 23 25 ; East Caradon,
4 51; East Lovell, 10 1; East Wheal Grenville, 21 1;
Great Retallack, 38s 40s; Great Wheal Yor, 17 18 ;
karke Valley, 41 ; North Crotty, 4
21 ; Prince of Wales, 32s 1 ; North Treskerby,
Od 34s Od; Prosper United,
ai I; Providence Mines, 30 31 ; South Condurrow, 15s
17s 6d ; South Grenville, Os Od Os Od ; Tineroft, 14 15 ;
West Caradon, 121 131; West Chiverton, 571 60 ; West
Prances, 0 0; West Soton, ; Wheal Buller, 221 25;
Wheal Chiverton, 9 ; Wheal Cr3bor, --s —a ; Wheal
Grenville, 24s Od 265; Wheal Rose, —; Wheal Seton,
;
13211371; Wheal Trelawney, 10f 14; Wheel Uny, 2}
Great South Tolgus, 18s Od 20s Od; South Frances,
—; St, Ives Consols, 8 9; South Caradon, ——; Stray
South Darren, 0 0 ; Wheal Basset, 0 0. , 0 0
Park,
--e ; North Roskear, —; North Downs ,

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
CloirElixmENT FUNDS.
Der Cent. Consols
Do. Account, Feb. 7.....
3 per Cent. Reduced
90 1 891 90
Yew per Cent
90 891 90} 89} 90
'ow 2 per Cent. Jan. 1894
Do. per Cent. Jan. 1873
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
no. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 —
, D 0 (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
Do.
'lO-10quer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent 10 13 pm................. .£3OO Do ..f..ingland ...... .£lOO .£2OO
Rank o Stock, 6} per Cent lzsibtAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
tulhaOn, Stock, 101 per Cent, April 1874 —
5 per Cent. July, 1880
PDo. 4 per Cent
Oct.. 1888
o, Cejtillculed”,

- Pm

Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. Sf per Cent., May 1879 1064
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds,'l per Cent., £l,OOO — pm
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent —
A.ustrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859
3razilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 44 per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. Account .. —
Do. 1863
Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 —

Do Account 721 -
Do. £lOO Bonds —
Do. Account
Baenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do .elOO Bonds —
D .) 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
,uiliau 6 per Cent lOOl 99
Do. 3 per Cent.
00. 6 per Cent A —
Do. „ B —
C Aornbian, 6 per Cent.
Juba, 6 per Cont.
Danish 3 por Cent., 1825 —
Do. 5 per Cont., 1861 —
Oanubian Principalities
Do. Account
.quador Now Consolidated, 1 per Cent_
Do., Provisional Land Warrant ._Do Deforied
Et.vptian 7 per Cent —

DO. Account
Do., Second Issue —
1)o £lOO Bonds
Do. Account .. _
Do. 1864 —
Do. Account:
Do £lOO Bonds B3l 4
00. Account
_..

Do. Government Railway Debentures. SOI 1
uo. Account
Gr 'elt 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
.)o. Coupons
Do. Account
G tatemala 5 per Cent.
It ,iian 5 per Cent 1865
De. Account
Do. Maremmana Railway
Do. Account
M ,xicaL 3 per Cent
Ditto for Account
10. 1864 —
Do. Account
Du 6 per Cent. Anglo-French
idontovideau 6 par Cent. •
Vluorish Imperial 5 per Cent
\Tow Granada
Do 3 per Cen —
Do. Deferred, —
Do Laad 'Warrants (Hectares)
Ptruviau 5 per Cent, 1865
Do Account 66} 1
Do 4f per Cent., 1865
Do Account
Do 4} per Cent. (Uribarren)
Portsguese 3 per Cent., 1853
DD account
Do 3 per Cont., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3,
Do. Account
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 4f per Cent. 1850
Da 4f per Cent., 1860
Do 3 pet Cent. 1859
Do 5 per Cent. 1862
Do 5 per Cont. 1864 B9
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866, all paid B7l
Do. do. £lO paid l- i Pin
Sardinian 5 per Cent
1)o. Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred —
Do. Account

Do Passive —
Do Account 2lf
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Do Account
Swedish 4 per Cent. —
Do. 41 per Cent. 18G4
Do. Scrip, £6O paid
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Do. Account

Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do. Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do. Account • • —
Do 6 per Cont. 1862
Do Account 531 41
Do £lOO Bonds
Do Account —
Do 6 per Cent., 1863 —
Do 5 per Cent., 1865
Do. Account
Do. 6 per Cent., 1865 —
Do. 5 per Cent. Account —
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed lOl
Venezuela 3 per Cent. —
Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 3ll 1
Do. Account .. —
Ditto 11 per Cent. —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
Belgian. 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dut.ci 2%; per Cent. Ex. 12 Gull,- 56
Do. 4 per Cont. Certificates ..... —
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
!vont). 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account 531

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Alonoy
Do. Account

POLICE INTELLIGEACE.— This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

OBTAINING ADMISSION TO A WORKHOUSE By FASLE RE-
PRESENTATIONS.— John Gooch, described as A coach-trim-
mer, was charged before Mr. Knox with being drunk and
obtaining admission to St. James's Workhouse by repre-
senting himself to be destitute, he having is. 6d. in his
possession.

Charles Dentham, superintendent of the casual ward of
St. James's Workhouse, said that about half-past one that
morning the prisoner came to the Workhouse and asked
for admission, saying that he was destitute, and had no
money to pay for a lodging for the night. He admitted
the prisoner, and on searching him found Is. 6d. and some
cigars and tobacco upon him. He then gave the prisoner,
who had previously been round to tho front of the work-
house making use of very bad language, into custody.
Mr. John Roche, licensed victualler, of No. 21, Poland-
street, said that while passing the workhouse he heard the
prisoner making use of very bad language, and thinking
perhaps the prisoner had been refused admission to the
workhouse he interfered and asked him if he was destitute,
and he said he was, and that he had no money. He then
took the prisoner to the casual ward and he was admitted.

Parson, 121 C, said that on searching the prisoner, who
was drunk, is. 6d., some cigars, and some tobacco were
found upon him.
The prisoner said that he had been drinking, and did not
recollect anything about it.
Mr. Knox committed him for 14 days, with hard labour.
" A TRUE SYMPATHISER" (Manchester) has sent 30s. for
the parents of the boys (Long and Field) charged at this
Court with begging on Saturday last, and reported in this
journal—the case, it may be remembered, being one of a
most distressing nature. Ten shillings has also been re-
ceived from " Dorf " for the same object.

WESTMINSTER.
COURAGE Rzweitinip.—R. Page, a quiet-looking young
man, was charged with throwing himself into the Thames.
J. M'Carthy, coal porter, said he saw the defendant,
early this morning, jump
from some steps opposite the
Penitentiary into the water, which there is very deep.
Witness saw he was being carried by the tide to the middle
of the river, and immediately jumped in and went to his
aid ; and when ho saw witness approaching, he cried—
" Save me ! save me !"
Mr. Arnold—Did he fall into the river by accident?
Witness—Certainly nct. I saw him jump off the stops.
Mr. Arnold—Did he take a leap ?
Witsess—No ; he made a regular plunge.
Sergeant -I don't think he is quite right in his mind.
Mr. Arnold—l should think not, to jump into the water
such a morning as this. Have you any account to give
why you did this (to the accused)?
_ _

Defendant—None. I have nothing to Say.
Mr. Arnold—What aro you ?
Defendant-1 work with my father, who is a gardener.
I am at home with him.

Sergeant—The officer in the case has gone to make some
inquiries of his friends. Would you be good enough to
adjourn the matter ?
_ _

Mr. Arnold—Yes, certainly. I should like to see his
friends, and hear some account from thorn.
The magistrate, addressing the witness, said--111earthy,
you deserve something for your conduct in this matter. I
shall give you 10s. from the poor-box.

THAMES.
STEALING A GOLD RlNG.—Sarah Piper, a young woman
of questionable repute, was brought before Mr. Partridge
charged with stealing a gold ring, value 65., from the finger
of Henry Thomas, who described himself as a barman out
of place, and dwelling at 8, Spread Eagle-street, Limo-
house.
The prosecutor was intoxicated, and met the prisoner
this morning at 1 o'clock outside the Blue A.nnhOt
house in Catherine-street, Liniehnkid. After passing
some time in her company he missed a gold ring from one
of his fingers. Ho Charged her with robbing him, which
she denied. lie gave her into custody, and the ring
found upon lAgn at the station-house by a female sear was
cher.
The 'oarman's knife was also found upon her. The prose-
cutor had not before missed it.
The prisoner, in defence, said the ring was given to her
by the prosecutor.
Mr. Partridge—And the knife; have you anything to
say about that?

The prisoner—Fie gave me that also.
Mr. Partridge—Sentenced the prisoner to one month's
imprisonment and hard labour for unlawful possession of
the ring, which was given back to the owner.

A WRESTLE WITH A WILD BOAR.—Five wild
boars were killed during a hunting party organised a few
days back at Jatnetz, Meuse. At ono moment aU. Renard
found himself alone in the presence of one of those ani-
mals. With the first barrel of his gun he wounded it in
the feet ; the second missed fire. He then seized the animal
in his arms and struggled with it for ten minutes, when
assistance arrived and it was dospatchod. It was found to
woigh 3001 b. In the encounter M. Renard received three
wounds iu his leg frvui the beast's tusks.

PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOUlin,
North British 5 per cent., No, 1, SO

FOREIGN RAIL WAYS.
Antwerp and Rotterdam, 91
Dutch Rhenish, !XI
Recite and San Francisco, Urn., gua. 7 per cent., 10
BAN lib

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Alliance,
Bank eeuimanlOt i 13
India, Australia, and China, 12
Colonial 84
Consolidated Bank, lira., 5
London and River Plate, • -
Ditto, issued at 14 pm., 12
London and County, 63 7
London Joint Stock, 44 31
London and ‘I estminster. 07/
Oriental BanK Corporation. 42/
Union of London, 434 /
MISCELLANEOUS.
Anglo-American Telegraph, 15/
Atlantic felegrapn,
Dit.o, 8 per cent., 7:4
Berlin Water Works, lira., 121
Ditto, new. 51
Credit Fonder of Mauritius, lira.. 7
Ebbw Vale, 124
Gen. Credit and Discount, him.. 51
International Financial society, lim., 21 I
Lon on and Provincial Marine, 1/
Id dray Irrigation and Canal (guaranteed 5 per mat. by In,
dian Government), 191
Millwall Freehold Land and Dock, 84
Nr.tional Discount company. 14 I
Peninsula and Orenial steam, 70
Ditto, new, 70
Royal Mail Steam, 108
Submarine Telegraph, 60
Telegraph Construalon and Maintenance, lira.,
Ditto (415), 12t

Our friend John Smith (I cannot call him
"Esquire" until I know that he has a right to it), never-
theless claims, or expects to be so addressed when written
to, and is also under the firm impression that he is a gen-
tleman. Everybody in these democratic days is a gentle-
man ; and if an angry individual ventures to assert that
you aro not one, the answer is generally given in the
shape of a blow or a still more ignominious kick ; 40 years
ago it would have been an invitation to a brace of pistols.
So, if you receive a letter addressed Mr. John Smith, you
set down the writer either as an ignorant person who
knows no bettor, or as one who designedly intends to
snub you, and you open the letter with a muttered
"Confound the fellow !" and a determinatiod not to an-
.swer it. Certainly, if the proper definition of tho word
"gentleman" means ono who is perfect in manners,
education, feelings, and thoughts, and kind and conside-
rate toward others, whether high or low, it is only a plea-
sing stretch of fancy to assume that you aro addressing
one, although it is seldom that such a paragon is found in
these days.—Once a Week.

THE BISHOP OF EXETER.—It is currently re-
ported in the diocese that the Bishop of Exeter is about to
resign his bishopric on account of his great age, and that
the Hon. Archdeacon Harris, a brother of the Earl of
Atitlinesbury, is likely to lam the appointment,

Shall Mr. Gladstone be - Prime Minister ?

The following remarkable article appears to-day
as the first leader in the Daily News :

The very able speeches delivered the other day at
Brighton by the members for the borough suggest many
topics for reflection and discussion. Both point to the
coming session of Parliament as likely to witness a grave
constitutional struggle, on which, before many months
have passed, the country may be called to arbitrate. Mr.
Fawcett sounded the note of alarm with regard to another
danger. With characteristic boldness and unreserve, he
stated openly what a good many people have bee❑ secretly
whispering, that intrigue within the ranks of the Liberal
party will again be summoned to the aid of the more
open and candid hostility of the hereditary and professed
opponents of Reform. The Adullamites and the disaffected
Whigs are not content with having defeated a Reform
Bill and thrown out the Ministry which introduced it.
They aro anxious to depose the too liberal leaders of the
Liberal party. "I already observe signs," said Mr. Faw-
cett, "and hear rumours which tell me that there is
going to be a great effort made—and you will hear
of it before lou g —to prevent Mr. Gladstone
being made Prime Minister of England•" Mr.
Fawcett's warning has received confirmation more
speedy and authoritative than even he can have
anticipated. In the member of the Edinburgh Review,
which was issued yesterday, there is an article on the
"Position and Prospects of Parties," of which, without
doing any injustice to its merits, we may say that the
most remarkable portion is its concluding paragraph. The
writer quotes the words uttered by the gallant Conserva-
tive Chief in July last, in regard to his ow❑
position and the peculiar difficulties that beset
his cause:—" My Lords, if I could for a moment
hay e seen any other leader who, while keeping
the Conservative party together, was more likely
than myself to obtain the adhesion of a portion
of the Liberal ranks, I say, without hesitation, that I would
have been rejoiced, and been relieved to have handed over
to that leader, whoever he might be, a post which he might
have been more able to fill." The implied converse, that
it is the duty of a Liberal leader to obtain the adhesion of a
portion of the Conservative party, or even that he is bound
to sacrifice Liberal principles for the sake of securing the
support of politicians who are Liberal only in name, may be
passed over without comment. The Edinburghßeviewer affects
no reserve as to the application of his precedent. He treats
the post of Liberal leader as if it were vacant, and its
future occupant undesignatod. But these generalities do
not satisfy him.. He addreeses an almost personal appeal
to Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone to abdicate in favour of
somebody or other not conspicuous enough to be named.
These statesmen are told that " neither the experience of
age nor the impetuosity of, genius are infallible guides in
a new state of affairs, and iu critical times patriotism
and loyalty to a cause may require that personal
pretensions should yield to expediency and the
general good." True, neither genius nor experi-
ence is infallible—it does not require an Edinburgh Reviewer
to tell us that ; but at any rate they are better guides in
critical times than mediocrity and experience. Patriotism
and loyalty to a cause should beyond all doubt weigh
more with statesmen than obstinate regard to per-
sonal importance or dignity. But to sacrifice a
cause to the maintenance of obsolete party tradi-
tions and connections, and to the formation of a precarious
alliance between men who have no common principle or pur-
pose, is neither patriotism nor loyalty. This is the course
which, probably without any perception of its real
character, the movers in the intrigue denounced by
Mr. Fawcett and abetted in the Edinburgh Re-
view are urging upon the Liberal leaders. The
appeal to Mr. Gladstone's generosity is especially ungene-
rous. It is not a question for him of personal claims. He
cannot yield to a coterie without deserting his country. The
great bulk of the Liberal party, and all that is most dis-
tinguished in it, not only accept, but h'ave earnestly wel-
comed and invited him as their leader, and he is now
asked, less to waive his individual pretensions
than to betray their confidence and the cause which they
have committed to him.' He is requested to confess to
having failed in the leadership of the Liberal party in
the House of Commons ; to cry peccavi ; to descend
to a lower place; and to see some person, without
genius, experience, or services, and more acceptable
to the clubs therefore and to "society," set over his
head. For if Mr. Gladstone is unfit to be Premier, he is
unfit to be leader of the House of Commons, which is the
really responsible part of the Administration. Now, Mr.
Gladstone's leadership, we maintain, has been eminently
successful even where it seemed to fail. It will not be
denied that those who desired the passing of the
Reform Bill of 1866, or .in its default, a larger
measure, have no complaint to make of his conduct ; only
those who wished the measure to fail censure him. This
may seem a paradox ; but the motives of both are obvious.
They see that the apparent and momentary defeat is the
first decisive step that has been made for fifteen years to-
wards victory ; that it has effaced the merely nominal dis-
tinctions of party, and substituted for them that truer
division according to real opinion, on which Lord Derby
insisted, and which, in his overtures to Mr. Lowe through
the late Lord Lansdowne, and in his negotiations with
Lord Grosvenor and the Adullamites, he endeavoured to
bring about. The opponents of Reform iu the Liberal ranks
believe that they can resist it more effectually by abetting
a Conservative policy under a Liberal Administration than
by going over in a body to the party which, on this question,
has their sympathies, and allowing the lines of political
division to be drawn sharply and clearly. Mr. Gladstone
is not likely to fall into the trap which has been set for
him, cunningly as it has been baited with an appeal to his
personal generosity, in order that his resistance may be
the more plausibly attributed to self-seeking and ambition.
His degradation, though it would be keenly relished by
the noble faction which makes more account of blood than
of brains in a political leader, is yet desired chiefly as a
means of injuring the cause of Parliamentary Reform with
which he has associated himself. But here personal feel-
ing operates also. That jealousy of merely intel-
lectual superiority, which has sometimes on ques-
tionable grounds been imputed as their charac-
teristic vice to democracies, has always marked the
Whigs who have been Whigs and nothing more.
It is essentially the temper of the present House of Com-
mons. Mr. Disraeli has felt it no less than Mr. Glad-
stone ; Mr. Lowe had to contend against it until he became
its unscrupulous flatterer, and sought vainly to direct it
against the reputation and influence of Mr. Mill. In all this
the House of Commons is out of harmony with the mind of
the people. If the statesman who has the confidence of
the vast majority of his fellow-countrymen is distrusted
and disliked by the assembly which claims to represent
them, it is clear that Parliament is not the mirror of the
national sentiment ; and the necessity of Reform is proved
by a new argument.

No true Liberal can object to seeing the experiment of
the party tried, though no true Liberal can possibly join in
it. If the nation wants a Premier who will achieve nothing
-and offend nobody, by all means let it choose its King
Log, surround him with appropriate counsellors, and
submit to his rule. But the place of Mr. Gladstone, while
such an administration is in office, will not be on the
Treasury bench, but below the gangway, among the inde-
pendent members who accept his Parliamentary leadership,
and not among those who have spared no pains to em-
barrass and degrade him. A man who is too great for the
first place is, it fortiori, too great for the second. But the
experiment will fail. The business of statesmanship is to
govern the nation, and not to humour political cliques and
coteries; and the mon who are best fitted for the higher
task will seldom succeed in the lower. Mr. Gladstone's
power and influence will bo enormously strengthened by
the intrigue against him, which will be injurious only to
the intriguers themselves.

MARKETS.--,-This day.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

Our market to-day was but moderately supplied with
beasts. Prime breeds wore in fair request at full prices,
but inferior beasts moved off heavily at Monday's decline
in the quotation. Tho top figure was ss. 4d. per 81bs.
Sheep—the show of which was rather limited—were inac-
tive at late rates. The best Downs and half-breds sold at
6s. per 81bs. The few calves on offer were disposed of at
extreme currencies, viz., from 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. per Blbs.
The sale for pigs was heavy, but no actual decline took
place in prices. The supply was limited.
Per 81b to sink the offal.

sdsd 8 d s d
Crse di inf. beasts... 3 6 3 8 Pmecrs-wool sheep 4 10 5 5
Second quality do ..3 0 4 6 Prime s'thdown do .5 8 6 0
Prime lsacrogtes.ote....
en ..4 8 5 0 Large coarse oalycs.4 6 5 0
Prime
5 2 5 4 Prime small d0......5 2 5 6
Crse. and inf. sheep. 3 0
6 3 4
Large hogs .3 6 4 0
Second quality do ..4 b Small porkers 4 2 4 6
Lamb. ..0e Od to Oa Od.
Suckling calves, 203 to 225 ; and quarter-old store pigs, 23s
to 275 each.

Bead of stock on sale.
Total supply. Foreign supply.
Beasts ...
C0w5.........
Sheep and. 1 mbs
Ca yes .
,Plas l4

Beasts 9l:

2:2

Cows ..
Sheep and lambs .. 3,040
Calves CO
Pigs 220 i

MEAT.

NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL.—The supplies of meat are
moderate, and the trade may be considered steady, as fol-
lows :—Beef, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ' • mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; veal,
4s Od to 4s 10d; and pork, Os 4d to 4s 6d per 81bs by the
carcase.