The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOlsworv. TUESoAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31,

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL TNTELLIGENCE,

Two O'CLOCK.

The English Funds are flatter upon political ap-
prehensions and the neglect of investors ; but rail-
way socks have advanced. Many adverse opera-
tors have closed their accounts by purchases, and
the market being thus relieved has naturally re-
covered. The advance in Midland stocks amounts
to 18 per cent., and in some others to 1 per cent.,
whilst the general recovery is about 1 per cent. A
partial recovery has also taken place in the Foreign
markets. But of new business; there is little or
nothing. The Stock Exchange will be closed
tc-morrow the LA Jan.

Consols remain flat at yesterday's decline, at 91i
to 92 for money and account. New and Reduced 3
per Cents., 91k to 92 ; India Five per Cents., 111 to
1111 ; Bank stock, 239 to 211 ; Exchequer Bills, 255.
to 28s. prem.

`With the exception of a relapse of a in New
Spanish, which have declined to 331, Foreign Stocks
have improved Ito + per cent. Mexican Bonds are
now 15 to 151 ; Greek, 12 to 121 ; Passives, 25 to
251 ; Turkish (1861), 321 to 321 ; Italian (1861),
44-4. to 441 ; New Portuguese, Ito prem, and Old,
39 to 391.

The demand for money is less active than it was
yesterday, but rates are quite as firm. Nothing is
taken under 1/ per cent., and the quotation is 1/
to 2 per cent.

The New Honduras Loan is steady, at li to 1!
prem.

American Securities are heavy :—United States'
Five-twenty Bonds are dull, at 721 to 72i ; Erie
Shares lower, at 48 to 49 ; and Illinois I, at 89 to
90.

Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
have risen I, to 21 22, and the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds remain firm, at 18 19.
English Railways are much firmer. There is a
rise of 1i in Midland, at 1031 to 1041 ; of 1 in Lon-
don and South Western, at 76 to 78 ; of I in
Metropolitan, at 116 to 116 f ; of f iu Great
Northern, at 107 to 108 ;of in Brighton, at 49 to
49f ;of in Sheffield, at 45 to 45f ;in Great
Eastern, at 31 to 31i ; in Great Northern (A),
at 108} to 109 f ; and in South Eastern, at 66i to
66 ; and in London and North-Western, at 113 k
to 114 ; in Great Western, at 44 to 44f ; and in
Caledonian, at 71 to 72. Lancashire and York-
shire are steady, at 122 to 122 k.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Twelve thousand sovereigns, received from Por-
lkil, were sent into the Bank yesterday.
To-morrow (Wednesday) will be a strict holiday in
Stock Exchange. The Liverpool cotton market
Till be closed on both Wednesday and Thursday.
Messrs. Barings have received a further sum ofs3b
ti account of New Granada dividends.

The Dutch Rhenish Railway Company have made
cal! of 24 florins per share, payable by the Ist of
rebruary.
There are again reports from Paris of a French
:loan, in order to bring the floating debt of the
inpire to its normal proportions "on the eve of
vents which will demand great elasticity on the part
if the Treasury." The proposals are expected to be
nade early in the year.
The following circular has been issued :—" Old
sank, Leeds, Christmas, 1867. Sir,—Referring to
he announcement already made to you by Messrs.
Cooke and Co , that we have agreed to amalgamate
`heir bank with ours from the Ist of January next,
we take leave to express to you the gratification it
will afford us if the connection which has hitherto
subsisted between you and Messrs. Cooke and Co.
should be extended to the united firm ; and, with the
assurance that we shall have pleasure in placing our
best services at your disposal, we are, sir, your most
obedient servants, BECKETT AND Co. N.B.—The
forms of cheque on Messrs. Cooke and Co. may con-
tinue to be used as heretofore."
The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New South
Wales was held at Sydney on the 30th of October.
The report showed the divisible profits for the half-
year ending the 30th of September, to amount to
£91,564 43 3d, which was disposed of as follows :
£75,000 for a 15 per cent. dividend, £12,500 for a
2i per cent. bonus, making in all 174 fr per cent. per
annum, and leaving £4,064 4s 3d to be carried for-
ward to the new account. The dividend on the shares
on the London register will be payable on and after
the 3d of January next.
Tie half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New
Zealand was held at Auckland on the 30th October
last, when the report was presented to the share-
holders. The total profits for division to the 30th
September amounted to £58,618 Gs 4d, and a divi-
dend of 10 per cent. and a bonus of 7s per share,
equal to 17 per cent. per annum, were declared. This
amounted to £42,500, leaving £16,118 Gs 4d to be
carried to the new profit and loss account. The report
was adopted. The dividend on the shares on the
London register is payable on the 341 January next.

BRITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
8 psr Ueut. Consols
Do. Account,
8 per Cent. Reduced 92/ } 1 2/
New 3 per Cent 92/ 1/
New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 —
Do (Red Sea Teleksraph), Au,..., 19418_
E cchoDoquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 &2/ per Ct 23
ppmm
£5OO
Do. £lOO & £2OO — pm
Bank of England Stock, 4/ per Cent 239
Do. Account
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
ndiau 7tock, 10} per Cent., April 1874 —
Do. Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent B7
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 5?,- por Cent., May 1879 lOB 1
Do. 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb., 1872 —
Do. do. 1877 lO3/

Do. do. 1882..__
Do Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 .__ _
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent —
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent 99i
Do. 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Da. 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account —
Do. £lOO Bonds
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent
Da 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent )
C iba, 6 per Cent.
Cut. Han 6 per Cent lOll
Do. 4/ per Cent —
ido. 6 per Cent., B .
Do., 1867
Do., 7 per Cent., 1866
Do., Scrip' £32 paid
C 0 mbian, 6 per (Tent. ....•
Danish. 3 p3r Cent., 1825
D nubian Principalities, 7 per Cent 631
Do 8 per Cent., 1867
Ecuador New Consolidated, 1 par Cent —
N4y ptiar, 7 per Cent

!1(). Second Issue —
D '..5110 Bonds
Do. £loe Bonds —
Do. 1864
Do. £s.io Bonds —
Do. £lOO Bonds ..... 86+ i
Gov.rnment Railway Debentures .... 921
Greek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups.
Do. Account , . 12/
Do. Coupons
Do. Account
Cl- latemala 5 per Cent ..
lionduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 7p. Ct., £l5 pd 11 pm
ItAiiau 5 per Cent., 1865 —
Do, Account .•
Do. Maremmana Raiway
Alexicar. 3 per Cent —
Ditto for Account
Dn. 1864 6/
Dv 6 per Cent. Anglo-French —
Hontevidoau 6 per Cent. . —
Moorish imperial 5 per Cent
Now Granada lli
Do 3 per Cen —
Do. Deferred
Do :Laud Warrants (Hectares)
Perur.at 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account 73 -
D 0 4} per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 4-1 per Cent.. 1862
Do Account
Portal ;uese 3 per Ct., 1853,'6, '7, '9,'60,'2,' 391- I
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 4} per Cent. 1850
Do if per Cent., 1860
Dr) 3 per Cont., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds —
I)0. do. £B4 15s. do —
De., 1866, £lOO Bonds... .. B7}
Vie. do. £B4 15s do —
Sardinian, 5 pia. Cent
Spanish 3 per Cen —
Do Account 'BB
Do New Deferreu
Do Account
Do Passive 25/
114130 Account
~W, Do Corn. pert. of Coup. not funded
...Do Account
1-)0
urkish 6 per Cent., 1.85 i
Account
D 0
t) •
per Cent. ltSi.-4 —

lt;1\l;.15; LI A

Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stook,
Dirt°, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent.,
Ditto, 46 per cent. rd., 95
FOttlilMN MIN Ks.
Chontales Gold and SilTer lim.,
Pedro, Nor,h Del itcy, 21 3 p
St John del Rey, lim , 57

t3Ai H 8.

Australasia, 51
Bank ut New Zealand, 19
Chartered 'lcr. 01 lndta, London,:and China, 291
Consolidated, Ihn., 41
English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 17 1
Imperial Ot oman, 9.1-15
London and ttiver Plate,
Ditto, new, 11
I,ondott Joint Stuck. 333
Ditto, lamed al £l.O pm., 231
London and 1,4 estininster, 61:1
Ditto, Scrip, 3i
lIISCELLANEJUb.
Ang'o American Telegraph, 19 8-
Atlantic I elegraph, fs 7
Da 0, 8 wr....ent., 921 A 5
City of Moscow Gas, lim., 101
Cre lit r'oncier ut Engtauti, lim.. 31 1
Ebbw Vale, Ili
Egyptian 9 per Cent, Viceroy Loan, gua. by Egyp Govt.
Ditto, Scrip,
Nyyptian mom, aid Trading, lim.,
London District Telegraph lim.,
Prtierence, 1/
London tieuerai omnibus Company, lim, lf
Peninsula and Oriental Stearn, 55 A
Ditto, new, 1567, 5f
Rhymney Iron, Isl
Ditto, nen, 5A
Submarine Telegraph, --
Ditto, Scrip,
United Kingdom Telegraph Co., lim., 2 3--0

STOPPAGE IN THE IRONTRADE.--We (Bir-
mingham Gazette) aro informed that Messrs. Metley and
Co., of the Russell's Hall Furnaces, Dudley, have ceased
operations. The liabilities will be but trifling, the typ
saving been so short a time iu existence.

POLICE I NTELLIGENOE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

MURDEROUS ATTACK ON A CONSTABLE.—Thomas
Hamilton, a chairmaker, residing at No. IA, Upper
Rathbone-place, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt
with being disorderly and violently assaulting Police-
constable Walter Grigsby, 66 E, by striking him
on the head with a hatchet.

Grigsby said—About 3 o'clock this morning I
was on duty in Upper R.athbone-place and saw the
prisoner standing at his door abusing his wife, who
was in the street. The wife said she had been in
the street all night, apd was afraid to go in doors.
She asked me if I would protect her, and I said I
would. I spoke to the prisoner, and tried
.to get
them to go in together. The prisoner went in
doors, and again came out into the street, and
began again making use of very bad language. I
told him that I should lock him up, and went up to
him to take him into custo'iy, when I received a
blow from a hatchet which came on the briM of my
helmet and cut it through, and cut my forehead
just over the left temple. lie then dropped the hatchet
and ran away through the passage into the yard. I
then broke the door open and pulled him out and
took him to the station and had my head dressed.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—llid he say anything to you?

Grigsby—He was offended with me for interfer-
fering with him, and said be would kill his wife if
he was hanged for it. Had it not been for the
hatchet taking a slanting direction I should have
been seriously injured.

Alexander Sim, of Frances-street, Tottenham-
coUrt-road, said—l was returning home this morn-
ing from a ball, when I heard a disturbance
in Upper Rathbone-place. The prisoner was
using bad language towards his wife from the first-
floor window. The prisoner then came down to
the door and went in again, and came to the door
a second time, and struck at the constable with
something, but I cannot say what-with; saying
something at the Bathe time, but I was not near
enough to hear what. The prisoner's wife was in
the street at the time. The constable told me that
the prisoner hal struck him with a hatchet, and
the constable had blood running down his face. I
afterwards saw the hatchet in the constable's hand.

Thomas Austin, residing in the same house, said,
I live in the same house as the prisoner. Some
persons in the house told me that they had heard
the prisoner say that he would have his wife's life
if he was hanged for it. The prisoner made a great
disturbance, and my wife was confined while it was
going on. My wife's nurse heard the prisoner
threaten to kill his wife. I saw nothing of the
assault, but thought it to be my duty to come for-
ward and state what I have done.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—You have done quite right.
Mr. Charles P. Sk.rimshere, assistant to Dr. Ross,
1, Hart-street, Bloomsbury, the medical officer of
the E division of Police, said—l was called this
morning to the police station to see the constable,
and found he had a wound two inches in length on
the left temple, and it was such a wound as might
have been inflicted with the hatchet produced. I
attended to the wound, which was not a very deep
one.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Do you, prisoner, wish to say
anything? You can do so or not, just as you
please, but what you say will be taken down and
may be used in evidence against you.
Prisoner—Thepoliceman hit me first, and knocked
me down twice before I struck him.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Did you do so?
Grigsby—No, sir. I knocked him down after he
struck me.

Committed for trial.

TIIAAIES.

ALL AGROUND.—Captain Innes M'Pherson, the
master of a merchant ship, was brought before Mr.
Benson charged with being drunk and incapable of
taking care of himself.

Gully, a police constable of the K division, said
that at one o'clock this morning he saw the prisoner
on To;ve't•hill very drunk, incapable, and noisy,
and surrounded by a lot of roughs, who would have
soon stripped him if he had not interfered. A
friend of the-prisoner tried to get him into a cab
and drive him borne, but the prisoner was obstinate
and would not go, and he was compelled to take
him into custody. _ _ _

Mr. Benson—Here is the captain of a ship, a
grave-looking, sedate, elderly man, drunk and in-
capable of taking care of himself—how very dis-
graceful. _ _ _

Captain M'Pherson—l was all aground last night,
and brought up all standing. I had been tasting
wine in the dock.

Mr. Benson—Drinking wine you mean. What a
pity you did not go home.in a cab and save this ex-
posure. You are fined ss. for being drunk and in-
capable.
WIGGINS THE MURDERER.—Mr. George Wiggins,
a lighterman, who is well known on the river and
in the eastern part of London as a man of good re-
putation and honesty, came before Mr. Benson, and
said that, since the execution of his son for the
murder of Agnes Oakes, his life had been a misery
to him. He was 72 years of age, feeble and labour-
ing under infirmities and great mental depression.
A woman, named Flick, had abused him, and called
him a murdering old rascal in his own house.
Mr. Benson was very sorry that any one could be
so dastardly and wicked as to torment_ a poor old
man because his son had committed crime. It made
his blood run cold to think that any one should be
so perverse, so infamous as to taunt the old man with
the crime of his son, who had suffered the extreme
penalty of the law. He inquired when and where
the woman had abused Wiggins.
Applicant—lu my own house.
Mr. Benson said he had no power to interfere.
Ile would seriously advise the old man to remove
to a locality where he was not known, and where
the reminiscences of his son's crime would not be
talked about.

The applicant said his bread laid here, and he
had lived in the East all his life. The same woman
had abused him in the street, and said he ought to
be hanged like his son.
Mr. Benson—lt is very cruel and very shocking.
Have you any witnesses that the woman cf whom
you complain insulted you in the street ?
The applicant believed there were witnesses to
the outrage in the street.
Mr. Benson—You shall have a summons.

Wiggins then said that, in the sight of God and
map, he would distinctly say his son was innocent
of the murder for which he was most unjustly
hanged.

Mr. Benson said he could not entertain that sub-
ject, and must beg of the applicant not to talk
about the matter in that court.

Wiggins then left the court, declaiming vehe-
mently that his sou was unjustly sacrificed.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Doc. 30.—Mary Ann, from Dunkirk; Capella,
steamer, from Hamburg..

Sailed, Dec. 31- Belgium, steamer, for Ostend ; Seine,
steamer, for Boulogne ; B. E. Braharn, for Antwerp; Anglo
Dane, steamer, for Copenhagen.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
No arrivalq.

111:112KETS—(2 his Day.)

HAY.

SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, 55s Od to 85s ; clover, GOs to
105 s ; and straw, 30s to 3Gs per load. Trade firm.
CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 55s to 908 Od ; clover, 60s
to 105 s Od; and straw, 308 to 36s per load. A steady do-
viand.

WIIITECHAPEL.—isioa.dow hay, 55s to 81s Oa ; Clover, 60s
to .107 s 6d ; and straw, 30s to 36s per load. A firm
inquiry.

COAL A

Price per Ton

s d
Tunst all l7 0
Hutton Lyons
Cando° l7 6
East Hartl-pool l9 0
Braucepoth Cannel lB 6
Russell's Hutton... 17 3
South Durham l7 3

ARKET.

at the Close,

s d
OriginalH.ardepool 19 9
Kelloe
Bradyell'slietton lB 3
Hettou
Eden Main
Tanfield Moor Butes 15 6
Hollywell Main... 19

THE TEA TRADE, Dtc. 30.—The deliveries in
London made for the week aro 553,4351 b., being a do-
crease of 457,011 b, as compared with the proyious_week•

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

MEXICAN (LIMITLD).

The fifth ordinary general meeting of this com-
pany was held yesterday at the offices, New Broad-
street ; Mr. R. W. Crawford, M.P., i❑ the chair.
Mr. W. Roscoe, the secretary, having read the
notice convening the meeting, the report, an ab-
stract of which appeared in The Sun, was taken as
read.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, said that the proceedings taken by the board
in respect of the concession were related in the re-
port, and the result could not be considered unsatis-
factory. He had just received a copy of the con-
cession granted to the company by the Government
of Mexico. It was id. Spanish, and he had not had
time to go through it carefully, but on glancing over
it he thought it more favourable to the company•
than the original concession. During the greater
part of the time, from March to June inclusive, the
cities of Mexico and Vera Cruz were iu a state of siege,
and the line itself was in the hands of national forces.
The company had not been subjected to any unfair
obstruction from those forces. The special powers
forwarded to Mr. E. Barron, the company's resident
director in Mexico, authorising him to make arrange-
ments with the Government, did not arrive in Mexico
until after the decease of that lamented gentleman.
But the principal points had been fully discussed by
Mr. Barron with the members of the Mexican Go-
vernment prior to his illness ; and it only remained
for Mr. Kirkpatrick, the agent of the company, to
give formal effect to the conclusions arrived at on
the part of the company and the Government. Mr.
Crawley, the contractor, had also rendered great
assistance. It was gratifying for the proprietors to
know that the concession recently granted was in
every respect superior to that granted by Maximi-
lian. The Government considered all the arrange-
ments under the Empire tt.s of no effect, and started
from the concession granted in 1861, havingamended
it in several particulars to the advantage of the
railway company, an9l, they amended it in very few
instances against their advantage. (Hear, hear.)
They would see that the traffic on the line be-
tween Mexico and Apixaco from January to June
had produced them, or they had been allowed,
£7,068 for the use of 'the line. The traffic for the
mouth of July, when peace was restored, amounted
to £7,734, for August to £9,933, and for.the month
of September to £7,625. At the other end of the
line, from Vera Cruz to Paso del Macho, from March
to the end of June they had no control over this
portion of the line, as it was occupied by the
military forces. Neither had they over the line
from Apixaco to Mexico, and he thought they were
fortunate to get £7,000 for working the latter up
to July last. The receipts he had just mentioned
were entirely for local traffic and averaged from
£2O to £26 per mile per week. The population of
Apixaco was 100,000, and of Mexico about
500,000. The population was considered wealthy,
and the people were in the habit of expending
money. Large supplies of food were brought by
the railway to Mexico and Apixaco, so that they
had a good local traffic. The section of the line at
Vera Cruz depended on foreign traffic, and there-
fore he did not suppose it produced much while
occupied by the military, although in the month of
January it bad a traffic of £6O per mile per week,
in February of £55 per mile per week, and in the
first week in March £59 per mile for the week.
They were not in a position to recommend any
particular policy •at present. The traffic did not
indicate what the receipts would have been under
more favourable circumstances. He thought
their policy should be to. extend the line from
Vera Cruz into the interior, and also from
Apixaco towards Del Macho— The present difficulty
was as to obtaining the means to carry out the un-
dertaking, and from their improved position under
the new concession, he thought they could give very
adequate security for what they required, but he
did not wish to discuss that iiiat er at present. The
directors would as soon as jossible consider the
whole question, and, when matured, would take the
opinion of the shareholders atj-a special meeting to
be convened for the purpose,l and which would be
held .at. no distant period.. They had pressed share-
holders for calls in arrear, and found that some could
pay and others could not, but they had received
between £6,000 and £7,000 on that account during
the year. He thought the great advantages of the
new concession and the fair prospects before them
would induce those in arrear to pay up, and enable
them to raise the requisite capital.
In reply to Mr. Moxon, it was stated that the calls
in arrear amounted to £68,073, exclusive of 4,000
shares that had been cancelled. The Government
of Mexico were to pay them womo, being the
interest of $6,000,000 of bonds granted to the com-
pany. The Imperial Government had paid them up
to June on that account VOO,OOO. The present
Government had extended the concession for 25
years further. The original concession was for 25
years, and the Government renewed it. The com-
pany were in receipt of 15 per cent. of certain duties
which they were allowed in a very direct way,
which would be found to work well. There would
be no objection to print the concession and circulate
it among the shareholders. Part of the calls in are
rear were due in Mexico.

A SHAREHOLDER thought the time had come when
those in arrear should be presed to pay up the calls
due.

The report was unanimously adopted, and the
proceedings terminated.

NA V A-L AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE' •

VALETTA, Dee. 24.—The departure of the French
steamer Gyptis'enables me to announce the arrival
yesterday at 2 pin. of her Majesty's ironclad frigate
Lord Clyde, -23 guns, Capt. Roderick Dew, C. 8.,
from Lisbon 16 days, and Gibraltar six. She
brought as passenger Capt. Graham Ogle, R.N.
The Lord Warden arrived at Gibraltar from Lisbon
on the 16th inst., on her way to Malta. Her Ma-
jesty's Indian troopship Serapis, Captain J. C.
Soady, arrived this morning with troops from Ports-
mouth, which place she left on the 14th inst., on
her way to Alexandria. She is not to leave till Fri-,
day, to let the men pass Christmas in port. Her
Majesty's screw gunboat Trinculo, 1, Lieut.-Com.
V. de Sanders, arrived to-day from Patrasi for the
purpose of refi+ting. 'The English screw steamer
Hawk, Capt. Halpin, returned to-day from Sicily,
where she has been engaged repairing the electric
telegraph cable connecting that island with the
Italian peninsula. The weather ,up to yesterday
has been very severe in the Malta Channel and this
part of the Mediterranean. The French brig Trois,
Jean Baptiste, which left Oran fur Girgente iu bal-
last, foundered at 3 p.m. on the Bth inst., about 110
miles distant from Zante. Her master, Captain
Jacomin, and the crew, seven in number, arrived
here on the 22d inst. iu the Italian bark Italia.

Her Majesty's Indian troopship Serapis arrived
at Alexandria ou the 28th inst. with the Bth Bri-
gade Royal Artillery, and other troops destined to
proceed from Suez to Bombay in the Euphrates.
It was yesterday announ2ed at Chatham that Mr.
E. J. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy, who
recently met with the severe railway accident in
France, has so far recovered as to be able to resume
his duties at the Admiralty, the official documents
received at the dockyard yesterday from his depart-
ment being signed by him.
At 11a-if-past 4 yesterday afternoon the Lords-of.
the Admiralty telegraphed to the Port-Admiral at
Plymouth orders for the embarkation to-day, at 9
a.m.., of a detachment of Royal Marines on board'
the troopship Himalaya, 2, Capt. Shute B. Piers,
which has been several dayS lying in the Sound
ready for sea. The detachment consists of Capts.
Spratt, Leslie, Farmar, and West ; Lieuts. Stevens,
L. P. Smith, A. B. Liardet, Luxmoore, E. A. M.
Liardet, and Seager ; 12 sergeants, 12 corporals,
and ;392 privates.

The Danae, 6, screw corvette, 300 horse power,
Captain Sir Malcolm M‘Gregor, left Spithead yes-
terday morning at daybreak for the Channel. On
her return to Spithead she is ordered to make two
more trials of her speed over the measured mile in
Stoke's Bay, each trial being made under fixed con-
ditions of trim.

Her Majesty's paddle yacht Osborne, Commander
John D'Arcy, dismantling and clearing out at Ports-
mouth preparatory to undergoing a course of
thorough repairs, will be paid out of commission on
Thursday next. Mr. Henry D. Sarratt, her int.ster,
is appointed master of the Megwra, screw troopship,
commissioned at Woolwich by Staff-Commander
Jab ez Loane.

The appointment of assistant-master shipwright
at Portsmouth dockyard, vacant by the retirement,
on superannuation, of Mr. W. H. Brain, has been
conferred by the Admiralty on Mr. Morgan, one of
the foremen of Chatham dockyard, who is employed
on special duty at the Admiralty, during which the
duties of assistant-master shipwright at Portsmouth
will be discharged by Mr. Owen, foreman at Chat-
ham dockyard.

By direction of the Duke of Cambridge, the
following officers of Royal Engineers have been
struck off the strength of the Royal Engineer esta-
blishment, Chatham, for special service—viz.,
Lieut. S. L. Jacob, Lieut. C. F. C. Beresford, and
Lieut. Napoleon Arnott. Capt. A. Parnell has been
appointed to the command of the 40th depot com-
pany of Royal Engineers, at head-quarters,
Brompton barracks, Chatham.

By airection of Major-General F. Murray, the
.military guard on duty within Chatham dockyard
bas been augmented, and the troops retained within
the establishment the whole of the night, instead of
leaving the dockyard at sunset, as has hitherto been
,the practice. At the Chatham convict prison, St.
Mary's, the military convict guard remains oik duty
the whole night, and additional sentries have been
posted around the prison walls. Colonel E. Y. W.
Henderson, the Inspector-General of Prisons, has
been engaged on a special visit of inspection at the
Chatham convict establishment for several days,
for the purpose of ascertaining that every precau-
tionary measure is adopted for the safe custody of
the large number of convicts confined within the
Chatham Prison. Within the last few days a
strong military guard has been posted within Fort
Amherst, at Chatham, and the guardhouse re-
moved within the fort, for the protection of the
stores of Snider cartridges and other small arm
ammunition stared in the magazines at the fort, a
line of sentries communicating from the heights on
which the magazine is built with the garrison both
by day and night.

The military guard at Hampton Court, as was
expected, has been increased at the Royal Palace.
A full company of the 56th Foot has arrived from
Portland, and has taken up its quarters there. ale
detachment of the Hussars, supplied from the head-
quarters at Hounslow, was not sufficiently strong,
in numbers to provide the number of sentries re-
quired, so the infantry have come to help. The
cavalry keep to their old posts, the 56th doing
extra duty. The " specials," whose employment we
noticed last week, are still kept on ; the men are
all armed with a stout cudgel at night, and are
changed every two hours. The day watching is
principally left to the civilians, but at night. san-
tries are placed all round the Royal Palace, and in
all the approaches. After dark no one is allowed
to pass without giving the sign, and if not known,
is not allowed to proceed without a guard with him.
Even in Frog-walk, facing the green, passengers
are challenged, and have to come forward to the
light so that they may be seen. That part of the
Palace which faces the river is most carefully
guarded, and heavy iron gratings have been placed
over the mouths of the sewer. The watchmen and
sentries are so arranged that there is a complete
cordon round the whole place, and no one is left
unsupported.

Precautions are still taken by the military autho-
rities at Woolwich to provide against the threatened
attack of the Fenians on the Government estab-
lishments. The garrison orders issued last night
directed the reinforcement in the Royal Arsenal of
the guard stationed during the day, in command of
Lieut. Le Breton, Royal Marine Light Infantry, to
post sentries along the gun-wharfs and the outlying
positions adjoining the open marsh, in conjunction
with the police, who do duty in couples. Precau-
tions, as on former nights in the latter portion of
the week, are also to be observed in the barracks,
where detachments of the mounted batteries of
Royal Artillery are equipped for immediate service.
A demand was made at the dockyard police station
during .the night of Sunday for hasty assistance to
the police at Erith, as rumours of an intended
attack on the powder magazine there had been
conveyed to the officials of that establishment. The
constables of Woolwich dockyard relieved from
their day's duty were aroused from their beds, and
were despatched to meet the emergency ; but no-
thing occurred to demand their aid. On Saturday
Col. Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, General Arbuckle,
Captain Robertson, county magistrates, and Com-
modore Edmonstone, in his capacity of Superin-
tendent of the Dockyard, assembled in the official
department of the yard, and administered oaths
to upwards of 3,000 of the artificers and la-
bourers of the establishment, who were sworn
in as special constables for . the preservation
of the peace. The men, whose names had previously
been registered for that purpose, mustered on the
parade in groups of 50 each, in charge of officers
appointed, and took the necessary oaths. The num-
Ws sworn in were as follows-1,600 from the
shipwrights' department, and about the same num-
ber from the smitberies and factory. The proceed-
ings commenced shortly after ten, and terminated
at half-past two, when the men were released from
further work for the day, with Admiralty sanction,
and on leaving the dockyard they gave three rounds
of lusty cheers.
A detachment of the Scots Fusilier Guards ar-

rived at Portsmouth yesterday by the first morning
train from London, and proceeded to Cowes, to join
the detachment now on duty at Osborne. The total
strength of the detachment at Osborne is now up-
wards of 180 of all ranks.

It was announced at the headquarters of the
Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, on Satur-
day, that all leave to officers and passes and fur-
loughs to the non-commissioned officers and men are
stopped, the whole of the officers and men beingre-
quired to be on duty in case of their services being
suddenly wanted.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty : —Lieuts. G. W. Hand, Archibald-
L. Douglas, and Lynedock . L. Moncrieff, to the
Excellent, for study ; Lieut. A. P. Black, to the
Siam= ; Sub-Lieuts. Hugh G. Gough and C. S.
Donner, to the Achilles; D. L. Dickson and C.
Sherard, midshipmen, to the Achilles ; Edwin 11.
Richard, midshipman, to the Dee ; David Duncan,
surg., additional,"to the Achilles ; David B. Thomas,
assist.-surg., to the naval hospital at Bermuda ;
Navigating-Lieut.W. J. Cunningham to the Indus,
additional, for the Liverpool ; Wm. Crawford, sur-
geon, to the Revenge ; William Miller, engineer, to
the Indus, for the Flirt ; John G. Cox, engineer,
to the Indus, for the Fly ; and Thomas Ponton,
-first-class assistant-engineer, to the Dauntless, for
tenders.