The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-30 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, Dec. 30.

A commission of six members of the Monarchical
Committee has been appointed to act with the
Government to re establish and support liberty and
moral integrity at the elections.
The Republican leaders have resolved to main-
tain the programme of their party.

BOMBAY MAIL.

MESSINA, Dec. 30.

The Peninsular and Oriental Mail Company's
steamship Nyanza passed through the Straits of
Messina at 9.50 this morning en route for Mar-
seilles.

OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAILS OF
12-18 DECEMBER.
SUEZ, Dec. 29.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Sllsette left at five p.m., and the Mooltan at
eight p.m. yesterday for Bombay and Calcutta
respectively.

INDIA.

BOMBAY, Dec. 12.
(Via Brindisi.)

Extensive preparations are being made to give
the New Viceroy a brilliant reception on his arrival
here, and it is expected that the Governor of
Madras and the Commissioners of Scinde will visit
Bombay to meet the Earl of Mayo.
It is authoritatively stated that no battle had oc-
curred in Affghanistan before the evening of the
26th of last of month, but the Ameer of Maimana
had made a diversion in favour of Shere Ali byad-
vancing towards Balhand and seizing Siri Pool.
The Bombay Gazette, however, publishes news iu
confirmation of its previous announcement that a
battle had been fought.

CALCUTTA, Dee. 11.

The Friend of India contains an article in which
it anticip rtes a small deficit in the next budget,
and considers a loan inevitable.

The same paper says the Viceroy proposes, at the
instance of the Maharajah of Cashmere, to with-
draw Dr. Cayley from Ladackh. The Friend of
India regards this step as one threatening ruin to
the trade with Cashmere, which promised well
upon the appointment of a British agent in that
country.
With reference to a n intended extension of tele-
graphic communication as far as Singapore, a re-
commendation has been put forward by Colonel
Robinson in favour of a plan for laying a submarine
cable from the Bengal coast to the Rangoon.

QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 30.
The Guion steamship Colorado arrived here at
10.40 a.m. to-day, and having embarked passen-
gers she proceeded for New York at 11.

FRANCE.
BoußsE,:Dec. 29.--Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
4i per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent

Bank Shares 3lOO
Its.F.an Loan
End of month., —
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes 33 50
Dome Debt —
Deferred —
s. Cash
Orleans ... 916 i
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern__ 5731
Western
Eastern • • 5621
Sardinian
Austrian -37
Loin lard 42
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman

End of month... 69 77i
Credit Mobilier ... '286 25
End of month... 286 25
Credit Foneier ...154`2 25
Ead of month...

RAILWAY

PRIZE FIGHTING IN SCOTLAND.

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Those debasing and brutalising exhibitions known
as " Prize Fights" seem still to have admirers and
supporters among us, notwithstanding their almost
universal reprobation. Two such fights were ar-
ranged to come off at Loganswell, in Mearns
parish, on the 15th inst., and as the police in Ren-
frewshire had no previous notice of them means
could not be adopted for their prevention. From a
very early hour in the morning of that day, and long
before daylight a stream of cabs and carts, and
men and lads on foot, poured out from the city
along the New Kilmarnock-road towards the
appointed spot, and by daylight several hundreds
had assembled in a meadow near the roadside
on the:farm of Southhill-head. A ring was nraked
off, staked, and roped, and all preliminaries being
arranged, the pugilists, Francis Boyle and Ed-
ward Hilly, stepped within the ring, with their
backers and an umpire. The fight between these
men continued for upwards of an hour, and after
eight or ten rounds, without having punished
each other very severely, they retired, and their
places were taken by two other combatants,
John Hilly and John M'Guire. These men fought
for several hours, and both bore abundant marks
of severe punishment. They fought from 70 to 80
rounds, and succeeded in so defacing every feature
of their countenances as to secure a much larger
share of applause than was give❑ to the less plucky
occupants of the ring who preceded them. The inva-
sion of the peaceable district of Mearns by such a host
of the scum of the city occasioned no little excite-
ment and alarm, and put the inhabitants on the
defensive against the abstraction of their property.
Nor was this needlesz, for after the fights shops and
farm-houses were entered, and bread and milk had
to be supplied without any reference to payment, to
prevent worse demands or even violence. Although
the authorities of Polloksbaws bad no intimation to
enable them to put a stop to these disgraceful exhi-
bitions, yet information reached the Prosecutor
Fiscal and police there in time to make arrange-
ments for securing the parties prominently engaged
in the fights when on their way back to the city.
By taking different roads, however, some of these
escaped, but several of them were captured, and
warrants were issued against the others. On Satur-
day last, at a court held at Pollokshaws by Robert
M‘Haffie, Robert Gilmour, and Archibald Allan,
Esqs., justices for Renfrewshire, Francis Boyle and
John Hilly were convicted for a breach of the peace
by fighting with each other in terms of a challenge,
causing a large crowd of persons to assemble, and
alarming and disturbing the neighbourhood, and
were fined in £5 each, or sixty days' imprison-
ment ; and James Warnock and John M'Connell,
accused of aiding and abetting Boyle and Hilly,
were each fined in £5, or 40 days' imprisonment.
M'Connell, wbo used violent and threatening lan-
guage to the justices, was again placed at the bar
and sentenced to 20 days' further imprisonment for
contempt of court. The justices expressed their
determination to put down such disgraceful exhibi-
tions in Renfrewshire, so far as the law will enable
them ; and in this every well-disposed person wish
them every success.—Glasgow Herald.

TRIPLE BlitTil.—On Saturday last the wife of
Seth \Vilby, clothier, of Ossett, was safely delivered of
three male childreu. One of them died on Saturday night,
one on Sunday morning, and the third on Sunday night.
They were seven months' children.

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