The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-26 00:00:00

NO T TINGHAM

This committee re-assembled to-day, but the
taking of further evidence was adjourned until to-
morrow.

Liverpool Cotton Market. _This Day.

Market quiet. Sales probably 7,000 bales.

Credit Fonder and Mobilier Company.

The subjoined is a copy of a circular addressed
to the shareholders of the Credit Foncier and
Mobilier of England :

" The Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England,
(Limited), 17 and 18, Cornhill, London,
E.C., 24th March, 1866.
" Sir,—l beg to forward you herewith the notice of the
next ordinary meeting of the company.
" Although the directors do not, as a rule, recognise the
policy of addressing their shareholders upon every varia-
tion in the quotation of the shares on the Stock Exchange,
they take this opportunity to state, in answer to some in-
quiries that have been made by shareholders, that there
exists no ground whatever for the depreciation in the
market price of the shares of this company, which has so
unaccountably taken place within the last two or three
days.
" They can only attribute the full to the circulation of
unfounded and unjustfiable rumour, and amongst others
that of the actual, or intended, resignation of the managing
director, for which there is not a shadow of foundation.
" There is, in fact, no reason, so far as the position of
the company is concerned, why the quotation of the shares
in the market should not be as high as it ever has been.
" The directors feel they are justified in making this
statement, seeing that the affairs of the company are in the
most prosperous condition, as will appear by the accounts
to be presented at the forthcoming meeting, and which will
be sent to you in due course.-1 am, Sir, your obedient
servant, " ALFRED LowE, Secretary."
The accounts from the manufacturing districts
for the past week have not been of a satisfactory
character. At Manchester the market for shipping
yarns has been flat, and cloths suitable for both home
and foreign requirements have been in less request.
At Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield the late un-
favourable weather has caused a falling off in the
demand for spring goods, while the same cause has
acted prejudicially against the lace and hosiery
branches of Leicester and Nottingham. In the hard-
ware districts of Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wol-
verhampton, however, most branches of trade have
been seasonably active, and the operatives generally
are fully employed.

MR. BUCKLAND'S 11.10NKEr.—I lately had a little
monkey who was such a great thief that if he bad
been a human being he would have been transported over
and over again for numerous acts of petty larceny.
however, turned his thieving propensities to good account.
Master Jack (after I had had him some time) showed evi-
dent symptoms of phthisis or consumption, and I prescribed
cod liver oil. It was placed openly before him on the
dining-room table, but ho refused it with symptoms of
disgust and sundry tail-shakings. I then poured a little
into a saucer, and placed it in such a position that master
Jack should find it for himself, while I pretended to be
reading and not to notice what was going on. The trap
took; Jack, thinking he was stealing the oil, sucked up the
prescribed dose, making a face, not implying nausea, but
rather high glee at his own cleverness. This " deceit,"
however, was after a time discovered by the artful creature,
and ono day I found my friend with his long tail and arms
tightly coiled round the table lamp, and stealing the colza
oil as it dropped down from the wick. He managed to get
one of his long spider-leg-like fingers through the brass
work of the lamp, and held it till a drop of oil fell on it ;
he then put it in his mouth and sucked off the oil like a
child sucking sugar candy. how ho could manage to gaze
at the intense light, which ono would have thought would
have hurt his oyes when so near the lighted wick, I know
not. I fancy, however, that the light bothered him some-
what, for he used to frown dreadfully when he was wait-
ing for the oil to drop on his finger. I placed colza oil be-
fore him ; no, ho would not touch it ; but no vertheless he
had no objection to it when ho stole it for himself from the
lamp. Ho was certainly better and fatter for his medicine,
which was so sweet because stolen, and I really think it
saved his life. The engraving by Mr. Carpondale repre-
sents Jack taking his medicine. Jack, too, had a marvel-
lous prospensity for picking things to pieces, and smashing
articles that came in his way; strange to say he never
tore a useless bit of paper, or broke a common or valueless
bit of goods. One day he sneaked out of his cage, and had
a good morning's work to himself, tearing off the leather
and pulling out the lining of an old arm-chair. He was,
after an hour or two, discovered in the act, and taken into
custody to be duly chastised for his mischief. Ho cried
" Murder" when he saw preparations made to punish him,
but at the same time he held out his hand, firmly closed
upon something in it. His pickers and stealers were un-
clasped, and in the palm of his hand was discovered a half-
sovereign, which he had most certainly found and picked
out of the chair, and which probably had been buried in
the lining of the chair (an old second-hand one) for years.
His proffered ransom got him off his punishment ; but his
investigations into the structure of watches, books, ink,
and cruet-stands, writing-desks, MS. notes, &c, have
elai2non-t
since produced equally valuable discoveries.
_ac.
pleased Jack so much as to make his escaipe,c
h he was kept
Shep-
pard fashion, from the wire carriage in
t le loose. If
skeleton-like fingers, till he found
mthewshialep
he was at work,
by the kitchen fire. He would pick and pick,b with his long,
any-
body happened to look round at
b
and pretend to be asleep.,
he would drop instantly on the
but push open as gently and
not bolt out in a moment, e
IT would then sneak out, and the
gradually as a burgli
his chin on his tail to prevent
When he managed to get the dooray
.utnfastened, he would
carry
cunning rascal woulddetecting his
toroom,
object Was to get my and onlooking
pranks. His
so quietly that I did not know he had escaped
it rattling
nestled inside the fonder. He came
on the stones, and the servants
found my friend into
cage till he called my attention by a friendly chat-
ter,an much as to say—" I've got loose so cleverly, you
really must not scold me for it."—Frank Buckland's Curiosi-
ties of Natural Ilistory.
fromthe roomhis

CUTLASS DRILL AND TRE POLICE. Sir Richard
Mayne, Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan
Police,
issued an order on Saturday directing that the ?Alperin-
tendants of each division were to take measures for having
the whole of the men instructed iu cutlass drill, in addi-
tion to the military drill which is now taught them
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FOOD SUPPLIES OF WESTERN Eu'" - '-111r. Fisher
,
has received the following note with reference to
nted to her Majesty the
a copy of the above work preseh
has had the honour of
Queen :---,, Sir Thcmas Bidd
h uQlPueen Mr. Fisher's work on
laying before her Majesty i-s`t'ern Europe," which her Ma-
the " Food Supplies
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to accept.—Buckingham
Palace, 22d March, 18 6
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