The Express. — London, England, 1859-03-30 00:00:00

EXPRB3B FROM PARIS. Crawl Ora oint coaassrosmirr.) PARIS, Tt VIDAT The review of the army of Paris is definitively need for Sunday. All the regiments will be com plete, every recruit having been called in. It is said that all officers in Paris on leave of absence have received orders to join their regiments. the Petra states that government has decided upon adding a fourth battalion to each of the hundred infantry regiments of the line. The caw battalions are to be formed out of the third and sixth companies of the already existing battalions. Count Cavour had an audience of the Emperor, at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It is announced in one quarter that he leaves for Turin to-morrow morn ing, but one journal says that his stay here will be prolonged for two or three days more. The latest letters from Milan speak of extraordin ary agitation in Lombardy. The Bourse has again been very heavy. The set tlement is decidedly against the speculators foe the rise, who have greatly over-bought themselves. The Bente fell 15c. for both cash and account, closing at 68fr. 10e. and 68fr. 6c. Nlobilier fell lfr. 25c. The Lyons Railway rose 2fr. 60c.; the other lines were from 2fr. 50c. to sfr. lower. The Marquis' d'Antonini, formerly Neapolitan Ambassador in Paris , who has been here for the last few days, had a long conference with Count Wa lewski on Saturday last, in the presence of M. de Hubner. The Pr.see says in its weekly commercial review : We have again to record general stagnation In almost all th. raannfactonee and retail establishmenta. Perla howl Live scarcely Any orders to emirate. Same few, it is tau, have received orders from New York, but far inferior in =want to what they have geserally been in the habit of talitanaling at this time of the year. The Brazilian sad South American houses have sloe bad • few commissions, but to • very limited sanest. Several of the sillmosannfootimen at Lyons matinee to have their 1000211 employed on old orders imly. At &mime sad llulb•ara there her hem rather letter balms doing, but the markets is the.. places still rmtua anything but et titre. At Wawa buyers refrain Gem lathier; purchmeti is consevisieee of high pekes. Tho Cut WU market et Ham was rather dull et the common, euient of the work, bat to wards the cad became more minuted, •ith • de r i.tolly upward tend. ney. A rather brisk &ma ►ee spring op Junng the pot week for mantel sugar. The mime market has beta arm, and with • tendency to higher Aber. 1■ motile there hes bees but little doing. The con samples et oil is naturally every day dinithlebiag , n moue genes of as sease, and priors ere looking does. Corn iv rather lower. /e sr any t►ing is doing is wines. Holders et WI yew's growths we anwilbarg ti lower their denundr, and praisers we waiting to see bow the new trop is likely totals .of. The awe see very forward, sod • *kis frost Pat do damp. AUSTRIA. The Emperor of Austria has addressed the follow ing letter to the Arehduke Maximilian : Dear Broken, at. Woke Ferdinand Maxlmilien,—Tbe rapidity vfrk which ihc eoldiore Oa furlough have ben re called is the Lombardo- Venetiaa kingdom, nal Me eraser Is which day bays bedesed to return to awls eigloirsb, Iwo giro me the bed dear of the uddiset seirk with wide they an animated. I thereto* eakerdedp with Owed the &Wady sad Whew* yos live elwaldi la eusiatag n setistedory • malt. AR those who in their sespectim attributions hare participated ht the execution of semeurs have mental nig mare sitisfeetke. I amberiee yes to 4012.01i1ial that fact Vienna, March 21. FRANUS JOSIPM. PRUSSIA. Advice, from Berlin state that the Promian go vernment intends demanding from the Chamber a credit of 12 millions of thalers, fur increasing the navy and improving the defences of the °oasts of the Baltic and of the North Bea. The Prussian ministry had carried to the budget of 1339 and appropriated to different extraordinary expenses the surplus of 1,300,000 dialers resulting from former years. The first Chamber lately de cided that the government ahould cause these sums to be returned to the treasury, in order to form a mere' for the eventualities of war. The second Chamber paid no attention to the decision of the upper one, but approved by an order of the day amtirl the measures which bad been adopted by the government in the interest of the public terries. A letter from Berlin, in reference to this matter, says: The ditaatisfection which the Prince Regent feels spinet the Chamber of Nobles wee manifested on the enniversary of his birthday. His royal highness received with marked oordlality the depilation of the Chamber of Deputies which went to °migrants** him, and eapremid his thanks to the Chamber for having voted onanboonely end without diecns sacs the bill for increasing; the civil list. The prince, on the contrsry, received with great coldness the deputation of the Chamber of Nobles. His royal highness Is greatly ofkeded at the vote which that Chamber gave on the em ployment of the exam of receipts especially am ho had pre viously made known his personal opinions on the goestion to Dome of the opposition members. SARDINIA. (twos ova oww 00/ TURIN, NA ace 26. I send you some items of news that you may rely upon. Sardinia will be admitted into the Congress; Austria's consent is all that is wanting. She pro poses a supplementary copper of Italian pricers at Rome, whence they may send an invitation to the Congress of the Fire Powers. So secure does Austria feel as to their votes, that in her opinion one invited power will serve to represent them all. I forgot to say that Vienna desires Piedmont to be ex chided from this Roman congress. The acceptance by Austria to take part in the congress proposed by Russia may be said to be conditional, as she only intends to treat and thorns, the question on the bases proposed by Lord Cowley. Russia, on the other hand, seems to contemplate a more enlarged treatment of the question, and a letter received here yesterday from the Sardinian envoy at St. Petersburg, Count lialdiuni, *gain mama the Piedmontess government of Russia's partial good wishes. A letter from the Sardinian legation at Florence says that at Forli, a town in the Romagna, a bloody contest had occurred between the people and the Swiss troops. At Florence itself there is great excitement. The Tuscan Monitore of the 23rd suspends the little liberty of the press that was left, and re-establishes the censorship. There was a talk of Balde► seroni's resignation and that of the other ministers; bat it seems there is repentance and fear in the l'itti Palace. The new Minister of Public Instruc tion, Martini, demands the admission into the government of two liberal chiefs, one of them being Lucchesi, they say. lAnducci continues to be the soul of the reaction in the Austrian sense. Now that the freedom of the press is suspended, Tuscany will of course be inundated with secret publications. The directors of the Bibliotece civile dell'ltaliano do not mean to give way an inch, and it pesos is not concluded within a few days, there is every appose woe that the government will be overthrown. A letter from Piacenza in the Opiniowe of Tarim states t►at s pu ty of Tuscan su►jects, who ►ed hft their ears weeny S. edge IlerVie• as rthisteers is the Plehicostess 'may, were arreeeil ow the 22ed ►y • Mahn= place hres just u t►e" wen about to ash the treads le eater the Piedra:etas wean. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1859. INDIA, THE CALCUTTA MAIL. Calcutta papers of the 22nd ult., and Madras jour nals of the Ist inst., have come to hand. The following telegram had been forwarded by Sir Hobert Hamilton, the resident at Indore, to Lord Elphinatooe :—" Captain Gordon Cumming reports that of the rebel force, four generals, one adjutant general, one commanding officer, one renal dar, with six hundred followers, have given themselves up to the Rajah of Bikaner." Whether this refers (says the Madre,' Atherueum) to Tenth Topee's or Feroze Shah's followers we are unable to say. Of the exact whereabouts of the former indivi dual we have no certain information, bat from all that can be gathered it would appear that he is in Sheka wuttee, a state or rather a collection of small states dependant upon Jeypore. To the north-west lies Bikoneer, to the north-east Loharoo and Jhujjur, and to the eolith lie Jsypore and Joudpore. Several outlaw chiefs from Jondpore have, it is said, joined Tantia Topee, who, according to accounts dated the Ist inst., was about seventy miles from Loharoo. It would appear therefore that Untie is making for the north, and Mr. Harvey, the commissioner of Agra, is of opinion that there is nothing to prevent him continuing to do so." The military movements reported in the Calcutta papers were made known to us by the last Bombay advices. The trial of the Newab of Farruckabad was to commence on the 14th ult. The commissioners ap pointed to try him are—Mr. Batten, judge of Cawn pore ; Mr. Roes, judge of Futtyghur ; and Mr. Wynward, judge of Shabjehanpore. The chief point of interest in the Calcutta news is the state of the money market. The Hurkaru reports : In the tarty put of last week, government parer was sold at 16 par cent. discount, but sales have aineo been effected at from 11 to 12i per cent. It 1,, however, rumosmi that the banks am not only declinlag to maks adrenals on primer paper, but that they are, in some instances call ing upon parties to redeem the mar which they hold. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerei, held on Saturday het, was narseroasly attested, not rely by neer chaste, but by others interested in the question. A letter to the thircaial secretary was adopted, in which several suggestions are made em to the best mode of raising mosey in India. At the setae time the meeting censidered "that, so far as practicable, loses for the lervice of ladle should be raised in England." A copy of this latter will be sent by the premed mall to the Secretary of State for India. This meeting seems to have moved the go vernment seriously to considur the subject, se late yesterday afternoon a Orrette Baraonlaeary was published, aotifying "for general Information the financial measures which have been resolved upon, in order to provide means for carrying on the public 612 , 403 in the coming year 1669-60." After giving, a detailed account of the loans of the last few years, the Governor-General in Council an imam that five craves of repose are required for t►e coming year, and to raise this sum a loan at b per mt. iaterest is to be opened on the let of May mt. Aam Woe of Treasury bills sal commence from the seise Ms, " baring interest at the rate of 2i per mhos per rem." As government assures the public that " no tram km all be opened doting the year "—pro vided the meant be mimed—lt may restore ruandeses, and produce the reqwlred amount. The Gormaor-General, how ever, does net very sanguine on this point, as he Mtn that If the mist be not forthcoming, recourse will be bad to Eaglasd; and then, if retractions to that AM be issued by the home goverment, soother loan carrying a higher rata of brewer will be opened la India. In commercial affairs as regards exports, we bare to re port an Improvement in rase articles during the last seek. Kew silk has been in better demand, and at an advanced rice. There have bean large purchasers of crease ; and sager has been rather heady dealt In for shipment to Great Britian. Saltpetre end rios have produced well mortared prior. Of imports we cannot speak so favourably, dealers bang back. Male twist bee gradually declined both in demand and price, and jecceste bars also fallen,Swhilat white madapAlame are neglected. Grey shirttngs of light makes only are gettable. Grey casdapollams are in steady demand and price, bat grey cambric, an selliag toe limited eater only. Grey Molls are in limited request. The metal market has bra inactive, with a slight fall in pries. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.--(THIS DAY.) Ms Brescia took tha chair at 12 o'clock. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MONEY MARKET-THIS DAY Two o'ol.ooa. The funds to-day are dull, at a reduction of 1-16 to g per cent. compared with the closing quotations of yesterday. In the other departmenM of the Stock Exchange there is likewise an entire absence of animation, the fortnightly settlement in shares and foreign stocks forming almost the only °neaps- tion of the members. The usual telegrams from the Paris Bourse We not yet come to hand. Consols are dull, at 951 for money, 95; to 1 fat the 7th of April, and 96, " sellers," for the 6th of May. The Indian Four per Cent. Debentures have been dealt in at 98}; and Exchequer Bills, at 325. to 354. prem. •• • ' • Apart from the settlement, very little busi ness has been done in the foreign stock market. The new Turkish Loan, after being marked 79f, is now quoted 78f to 791. The Six per Cents. of 1864 are steady, at 921 ; to 93f. Russian Four.and-a-Half per Cents. are still offered, in anticipation of the coming loan. Mexican Bonds continue in demand. Salem are recorded as follows : Dutch T wo-and-a-lialf per Cents., 65, 68* (exchange 129.); Mexican Three per Cents., 211; Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 991 ; Sardinian Five per Cents., 82; Turkish Six per Cents., 1854, 921, 93/ ; ditto for account. 931; ditto Six per Cents., 1868, 79k, 781, 791. The rate of discount for choice bills is maintained at the Bank minimnm,bnt the demand yesterday was not by any means pressing. At the Bank only a moderate amount of business was done. A large ' mass of bills will arrive at maturity next week. Letters from St. Petersburg announce that the price fixed by the Russian government for the new Three per Cent. Loan of seventy-five millions of roubles was 83 per cent. It is, therefore, possible that there may bo some inaccuracy in the telegram quoted a day or two ago, which stated 67 as the price, although that telegram was dated a week later than the letters now received. It appears, however, to be certain that the arrangement has been de finitively concluded between the government and Messrs. Thomson, Boner and Co., in combina tion with the house of Magnum, of Berlin, and other capitalists. We believe we may state that the arrangement has received the signature of the Emperor. Mr. Charles Bell, of the firm of Thomson, Bonar and Co., who has conducted the negotiation at St. Petersburg, is understood to be now on his way home. Further particulars are awaited with much interest. Considerable attention hu been excited by the despatches addressed by Lord Stanley to the Go. vernor.Oeneral of India, and published in the Ilx pross of Monday evening. About two-thirds of a million of silver has already been sent out on govern ment account, and the remaining third, completing one million, will go by the packet of the 4th prox. It is now announced that a second million will be transmitted forthwith, and a third million, " if indis pensable," and in the event of Lord Stanley's " not meanwhile receiving more favourable accounts." About 32,0001. in bar gold was yesterday with- drawn from the Bank, for exportation to the Con tinent, in payment for silver. The ensuing settlement in Consols is fixed for the 6th May ; and the last price for that period wee 98, , buyers." The half-yearly dividend, doe the 10th April, is advertised on the Turkish Six per Cent Loan of 1864. The imports of silver from the Continent, to pro vide for the Eastern demand, continue on an extra ordinarily active scale. Since Saturday, upwards of 330,000/. worth is known to have reached the Thames from Rotterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg. The market for bar silver here is fist, at Bs. 2jo. per ounce standard, government having for the moment suspended their operations. The Europa, from New York, has brought 112,000/. in specie, of which a limited amount has already been taken for the Continent. A portion of the remittance by this vessel consists of Mexican dollars. The 36,0001. by the Jura has been pur chased for transmission abroad, besides 7,0001, in Russian gold coin. The steamer Teviot is expected to reach South ampton about to-morrow, with 76,283/. in gold, and the heavy portion of the Australian mail ex the Oneida. A further sum of about 263,0001. in Aus tralian gold is now due, the Copenhagen having been at sea 94 days, and the Water Nymph and Royal Bride 86 days each. Notwithstanding the large imports of silver the Continental exchanges yesterday afternoon presented in several instances a partial recovery from the late fall. The principal . improvement was in bills on Hamburg and Belgium. The Paris exchange re mains low, the quotation for short bills being 26.6 to 25.10. The rates are shown below : Amsterdam, three months, 11.161 to 1; ditto short, 11.14 to 1; Rotterdam, dues moetN l / 2 _ 11.161 to f; Antirop, three months, 25.121 to 171 ; Hamburg, MIAS team, three months, 13.61 to • Perim, three days 26.6 to 10; ditto, throe months, 26.271 to 321; F an-the-Maine, three months, 1171 to ; Petersburg, per rouble, three months. MI to 36 ,• Vienna, eff. do., three trltll.s to 11 . 10; Tries* ditto, three months, 11.10 2t ; Madrid, throe mon th s, 491 to ; Cadia, three montlo, 491 to Leghorn, three months, 29.80 to 90; Genoa, 26 th ree mon th s, .421 10 71 ; Naples, three months, 401 to ; Palermo, three months, 121 to 1 ; Katsina, three months, 1211 to ; Llsbon, 90 days, 621 to 1; Oporto, 90 days, 63 to 1. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have the following resolution :—" That new Lom bardo-Venetian Railway shares, with a certificate for the accruing dividend, may be delivered as old shares." --- The proprietors of the London and North Western Railway, who were invited to • special general meeting, to be held on the let April, to approve a score of bills, some of which involve a considerable extension of the company's system, have just been informed by a supplemental circular that the only bill which will be submitted on that day will be that "For authorising working and traffic arrangements between the London and North Western, Great Northern, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire Railway Companies, and for other purposes," and that the other nineteen bills will stand over for consideration at a future date, " according to the progress made with' the same respectively in par liament." Another special meeting is now called for the 16th April, to confirm the heads of arrangements entered into with the Great Northern and Man chester and Sheffield Companies. A special meeting of the London and South Wes tern Railway Company is called for the 7th April, to consider a number of bills pending in parliament, one of which authorises the company to " make new works and to raise further funds," whilst another authorises an amalgamation with or a lease of the Portsmouth Railway. The third ordinary general meeting of the Bahia and San Francisco Railway Company is called for the 20th April. The half-yearly interest at the rate of 7 Lrer cent. per annum will be payable on the 14th A c i he annual meeting of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company is called for the 27th April, and that of the Oriental Bank Corporation fur the 28th April. ThaThetwawyeeofkelyantadraffia,cireustut re ni ce o i f ved, the .ho G we rea s t grium Weste i rn n. crease of 3001., but a decrease of 31. 4s. 74. in the rate per mile per week. At an adjourned meetisg of the London Assumes Cerporation, held yesterday, a dividend of 35e. per share, free of income tax, was declared for the half year ending Lady-day, 1859. At the 49th annual meeting of the North British Insurance Company, held this month at Edinburgh, the directors' report stated the amount of fire pre miums received during the year 18118 at 30,344 1 , and the amount of new life WILTI2OIIII effected at 377,4261., being a considerable increase over the business of any former year, and 100,4941. over that of the year 1867. he claims by death were 79,9671. The profit, amounting to 136,6291., realised since last septennial investigation, allowed the directors, after setting aside one-tenth as the proprietors' guarantee fond, to declare a bonus addi tion of 11. ss. per cent. per annum on every policy opened with the company on the participating scale prior to 31st December, 1868. The accumulated fund from undivided profits was reported, at 31st Decem ber, 1868, to amount to 88,1461.60.10 d., out of which a sum of 51. per share was carried over to the re- Prieto& capital stock account, making the paid-up capital amount to 126,000/., leaving the sum of 63,1451. 61. 10d. as the accumulated fund, out of which the directors recommended the usual dividend of 8 per cent., leaving 63,145/. 6s. 10d. to be carried to the rest for the next year. Vice-Chancellor Sir It. T. Kindersley, who is charged with the winding up of the Security Life Aunnociet t y e , o has t 30 1e l. v f i o e r d e o v n er t i he l co l. pnatiidibubtyorimes each call " nce 8e rate at th contributory, by way of premium in respect of the assurance effected with the said society," payable by the 14th April. Holders of the Brazilian Five per Cent. Loan of 1829, who may wish to exchange their bonds for New Five per Cent. Bonds redeemable in 20 years, must give notice to this effect by to-morrow, in default of which their bonds will be subject to re demption at par on Frida . Transactions are reeoe in the Stock Exchange semi-weekly list in the Indian Government Five per Cent. Promissory Notes at le. 100. to Is. log. per rupee. Yesterday was "making-up day" in the railway share market. The supply of London and North Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire stooks has in creased, but Great Western and North British were wanted for the settlement, and on the latter h cent. 't backwardation " was paid. The folio shows the rates current at the commence° , business. The "continuation" on Lancashire and Yorkshire stock advanced in the afternoon, however, to 6.16 per cent. London and North Western from to I per cont. on- - taiga ~ 1-16 to 3-16 per cant. ditto Great Western to I percent. ditto ! didlan i l —-- • - " to I ,-- cent. ditto -16 ' Lancashire and Yorluthizo ',., 1 tol per .. Caledonian -16 to 3.16 per cent. ditto Great Northern Berwick „ to i per rant. de. York and North Midland South Eastern The steamer Emen, from Sue.: for Melbourne. with the English mail for Australia of December. was spoken with by the Oneida on the 6th February, off Port Philip Heads. The Spirit of the Age has arrived from China with 866,000 the, of tea. TunDAT Evanse. Consols, which chased yesterday at 96t, " buyers,' for money and the 7th April, were alternately "buyers" and "sellers" to-day at 951, and closed " buyers" at that figure. The official business report is as follows:—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, t, ; ditto, for account (7th April), 96 t, 96 k; India Stock, 221, 220. Exchequer Bills have declined le., being quoted 32a. to 365. prem. India Bonds were fiat, at 115. to 14s. prem. The Indian Four per Cent. Deben tures were officially marked 98; and 981. A moderate amount of business was done to-day in the foreign stock market. Turkish securities im proved f per cent., the Old Six per Cents, r el:mi en / at 92t to 93f, and the New at 79 to t. As e other descriptions, little alteration occurred in Little business was done to-day in bank shales. Those of the London Chartered Bank of Australia were more offered. Canada land and Electric Tele graph shares were quoted lower. British sod Irish Magnetic Telegraph "A" shares were also heavy. Madras Irrigation were inquired for, and dearer. The inquiries for Colonial Government Bonds have become less numerous. The New Victoria Bonds are more offered. The New Four-and-a-Half Cent. Debentures of the East Indian Railway Company were in good demand to-day, and have recovered to 1/ to 11 prem. MINES.-THIS DA Y. Two o'C%ocr. In the mining market to-day, shares in East Wheal Russell are &met, at 16 to 18. There has also been some business in shares in South Bunt, l'ednandrea, Wheal Margaret, North Rankest, Wheal Grenville, and North Downs mines. In the Stock Exchange, Great Wheal Alfred shares are marked 2.1. Cobre Copper shares are rather more offered, and have been dealt in at 36. Port Philip Mining are marked 12e. 6d. - . _ . A enthral mooting et the Casten Lad Milled commy Is caned for Ye Otto of Meth The annual general meeting of the Aoglo Mennen Mint thengeny dinner the thlo of April. From Wheal Grenville March 264 the agent report., " Thelon. la the oe theft peon two fen wide. wee of =teed PI% prod good nom of mu mishit, es we to down. theft In the Wont the loge le 111 metro Mdm and imodulan s Tell 1 ton of ore to the fathom. In the renown end. owe lank the lode h from If tole Innen wit* end gt la.use la__lwrve IWO twite fathom. The lode Is subteet Mae ton vne7 lode goes down, both'. the swam and Imam of• well for UNDO. There la no altwatthe to tither of croon-Me at An 66 worthy of rtmark ; but In the wagers end. mho level, the lode la split In three breeches The north trench Is about all inchee wide: gad, if It continues, will produce I too to the fathom. Prom W h eel Lolly the agent (under did 19th tout)) TqwfW w we have today set the elogine shaft to be wank O feet WOW the 20. ent grow,' for astern, aod divide the theft to the I 0 for the ram of 201. Tho ,u•vpmeo at tin gat rod shaft have motivated to cut • plot paring 65 for the non ofincluding potting to tilate. , sod lee. for elektog. The stopes to the 51 aro sat to fo rme., at 16e. per fathom, nod are worthabout 84. eer fathom for oc ppm ore The three plena to the bock of the JO and 40 fathom leveh, are re Wee at IY. 4d. to the pound. We have about 10 tone of copper ore broke.. • Prom When Garnet (*Melo Wilhants Witt , . (March SOI The male lode to the 74 met end be 1 foot olds; none. of Un and copper. The slopes below the 74 fathom leant met mod wen from wine, era worth, for copper ore, WI. per fathom. The male lode In the deep edit east and Is tO loth: , wide. worth lon of copper ore per fathom." From nada= Comma Captain Minim raMl mita , on the 16th Korth In the 14 north, Found nl.l good for driving: lode .4111 • W dace lag mooth. an the 62 north lodo looprovel don het week. and now a promising end. and will produce 1 tons of ore to *On fathom. In the /0 north, lode dill towering an will now prodnos I on of ore t o the fathom. In the elope. In to of the el, toga C dueler 6 tom of or* to the fathom. sad worth 20% per fat hom . other stow thrones the ml.. modwane I tone of ore to the toworth 121. per fathom. T& rolee, upon the whole. has ite g ,ol4 he gest neck, and our pompom. me good." PETITIONS. tendons were presented by Mr. BAZLIT, from MM. theatre, against the Itsting of Public Buildings Bill ; by Mr. COWAN, from merchants end shipowners of Glasgow coin plalning that, owing to a monopoly enjoyediT n ; society is ud Loon, Scotland was deprived of early ebi and mari time Intelligenos; by Mr. Melina, from St amford, oom plainiog of thnineeldssey of the Reform Bill; and by Mr. Z. J Sere, from Marylebous preying the house to pans ( sold providing that corn and seek like oommodities should be by imperial measure. TRILL BY JURY (SCOTLAND) BILL. Mr. DUNLOP snowed the mond reeding, end observed that in & Aland criminal came were tried by fifteen jurymen, and the deneion of the majority beetled the matter. Five ' , sere ago be procured es set whereby, in civil cases, the de cision of sine out of twelve jurymen should be acceptable by the court, alter six houri deliberation on the pert of the jury. That system had worked exceedingly well, but it wu found by experience, that locking rip • jury, instead of ad vancing the ends of the mijority, generally assisted the minority in getting their verdict sdoptol; and the object of this bill wee to reduce the period of enforced conflatement from six to three honre. Mr. MONCREIFF supported the btil. He said there had beam few oases where verdicts had not been returned tinder the existing system, sad a good many where that re sult had been arrived at after the six hears confinement. Had the time been shorter the remit would no doubt have been the same; but a faring had arisen that six hours favoured more thr ends of the minority than the majority. For his own part be thought the system of deciding by a majority woe Sonndiad in justice and common sense, and might be adviategeoesly adopted by England. The LORD ADVOCATE readily weeded to the propeed change, but trial by jury wee so much mixed op with the .toms, habits, and feelings of society that he was not sur prised that thine wee objection to extending the eystem of unanimity to Inglend. In Scotland the feelings and prac tice of the people were favourable to it; in England the feel wad preetke wee just the contrary. Mr. K. JAMES was decidedly of opiates that to extend the system of Scotland to England would be a disastrous change of the law. Mr. BUCHANAN said no doubt the prejudices of Rag land were against such a change. In Scotland there was • strong feeling just the other way. Mr. HACKLE could not admit that human nature wee different in Scotland to what It was In England. When he wee a member of the New South Wales legislature he was inetttuuental in bringing about a change in the system of unanimity is civil cases whereby a verdict of three fourths was accepted. Unanimity in such caries he had found was quite illueory. Kr. MELLOR was sorry that an opportunity had not been afforded the been of discussing this question of unanimity as applicable to England. Hie own experience had cent:irreg.:l ham in the view that it would he ezosedingly unwise to change the criminal law, but as regarded civil owes, ha thought the system of a majority might be advent•geosaly adopted. Mr. COWAN oontendel that the principle of unanimity of juries was a stigma upon the enlighteareent of the age. Juries were steered, not reasoned into verdicts as be bad totem to know, having been the foreman of • jury who had to tames the value of some waste land nearly always covered by the sea. He valued to the *weer at a farthing, another at 100,0001., and ultimately a starvation verdict of .501. was returned. . . . . . . 14. B:WORTLEY indorsed the opinion given by the boa. and brand amber for Yarmouth (Mr. Mellor). He thought, however, the law might to so changed as to pro vide for the payment and aoccommodation of juries, and not allow them to angst from the many annoyances and macaw. venteneni attending the working of the present system.. The bill was then read a second time. LAW . ASCRRTAINMENT BILL . . . Mr. flu ;mi.mood the snood rairai aa. bill, the object of which was to fe6litate the settlement in English and Scotch courts of foreign points of law. At present the mode of determioing such matters wes most onmberenne end expensive, end be proposed to establish • simple, expedition', and economic d proem% whereby an Kentish court could determines quenion 4 Scotch law or • Scotch court a quell ion of English law. Mr. MA t.INS warmly supported the bill, sad regretted that It did not go further, as enabling the court. of the United Kingdom to adopt the same ma. chime, in determining disputed points of foreign leer. To illustrate the necessity of such a change in law, he mentioned the case in which he was neatly engaged, sod in which the town of Southampton suffered to the extent of 100,0001. A Minato' htl kit that sum to the town for accomplishing certain public objects, but the nest of kin disputed the will on the ground that or the testator, who wee • most eccentric person, had lived in Calais for the last fifteen yea., be must be taken to be a French subject domi ciled in France, and thereto ,. hie will was bed, inas much as it did not castors to the provisions of the Code Napoleon. Now, the simple question which the English court had b irdde was this matter of domicile, and to determine it the town of South staptca wee put to an expense of 25,0001. Even then It was not settled, end ultimately, as there appeared to be little prospect of genie( at the French law of the cam, a com promise wee ease to whereby the corporation bed to give up 30,0004 After soar remarks from the Lord Advocate, the Solicitor- General, and Mr. Bonverie, the bill wee read • 000011 a time. [Left sitting.) FATAL ACCIDENT 712 THE MARQUIS OF WATERFORD. We regret to announce that we have this morning reoelved a telegram from W.'erford stating that the above nobleman met with a fall while hunting yeaterday afternoon, and that the accident has linos resulted In hie death. The demand noblemen, Henry De-la-Poor Beresford, was the third marquis. if. was Berl and Viscount Tyrone, Baron Bernfeld and De la Peer of Curriehewn in the peerage of Inland, and a baronet of the same part of the United /I ingdoei, and also Baron Tyrone of Hendon west, in the county of Pembroke, hi the peerage of Orsat Britain. He was born on the 28th of April, 1811, bong the eon of the second marquis by the only daughter and heir of the second Berl ef Tyromnel. He wee married en the Bth of June, 1842, to Louise, second daughter and co-hair of the late Lord Stuart de Bothasay. The deceased marquia obtained great notoriety in London deCille by the extrarepurm sod eacentricity of some of his youthful freaks; bat on his retirement to Ireland to 811111 the duties of a landlord, he se acquitted himself ea to gain the respect end goodwill of his neighbours and tenantry. His lordship retained to the last en ardent passion for the sports of the field, mon especially hunting and steeplechasing, and his loes will be greatly felt by Irish sportsmen. The eland Isansieser of to-day says :—" The only par ticulars which have reached =Era that the Marquis was thrown when returning from hunting. The bores shied, and he was pitched against a atone wall. He miscarried home, where he dints a few hone.." Tin Warraza (Title DAY).—Since noon to-day mow has his falling In London, sooomplutied with rain and shot. A writer who is publishing in the Visagapatam OArostitk en account of the proomdlege of the Central India Field Pores, rya that just slier the mutiny at )&how even Bolter was in doubt. Like a true Indian, be con sulted his astrologer, and received the following reply If all the Europeans save one ere slain, that one nil' remain to fight and reconquer." THE LATE ENGLISH PRISONER IN BPAIN.—MT. Thomas Parry, the Englishmen whet wee reread to death for having street a Spanish reeling, and was submit gently pardoned by the Queen of Spain, has addressed the following latter to the Alcalde of Alvaro& : t. I hasten to return my moot sincere thanks to you, and to the good citizens of Algeciras , for the generous sympathy you have ahown me, noteittutandieg my being a f end having, though usintentlenally,ofiended portion. The eagerness and unanimity with which, without distinction of alias or rank, they Implored the clemency of your noble and rumor Queen, and the justice done me in the experrions contained in the petition addressed to her Xakety by reason of my ualortunate end unpreucedita•ed °Bear, and the cause reigned fees it, will ever remain fixed on my memory; end I aware ym that the garret courtesy end consideration of which I have been the eject, both on the part of ties highest and of the moat humble, have oared me to pass lees vreet,hedly the seven week. of my int rienament, and have lad me to consider the short at?which bee elapsed sirs I W 4/ restond to ,Res happiest of my life. The only eXenes. wear which gives me ptin 4 the not militate occurrence which led to my sequaistancs with people who have treated me with so much kindlier, and which was quite unexpected oa wryer. I trust's your estimate goodness eto make known my ream& i rr ozz fellow-citizens and bumble prayers for their .—I am, sir, year *errant, THOMAS we NCOIIIII JONI/ PlLlZT.—Algesiras, March 15, 1859." FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCY! 28.—The Queen has been graeiorly please( to appoint Thomas Fellows, Envie, Req.. sow Britishat port.—egsres, Vies-Creel at Tangier, to be her Ma- IseZ's consul at th UMW. THROUGH BREAKING CIOCEEZT.—AR eztreordinary suicide hes be cestesittAd in the Ile de Ri, near Rochelle. A erl named liaBkt, fifteen yeses of age, in the envies of a tre4eman. had frequently to be madded by her mistress for breskieg crockery. A few days back she broke two bolder, sea was again reproached for her awk wardness. Re. with tears promised to be more ovrftd, but a few minutes after elm let a brim soap lama fall from her hands, and it was broken to circa. This brought on her trash blame, end, apperently to avoid it, she sr. rat out. Nat bring returned for mese tier she woe sought for. and her deed body err found S'n ' ag in the well, into which she led throws berself.—Gefignam. CHINA. We have received letters and journals from Hong Kong, dated Feb. lb. In the summary of the China Mail of that date we read : Lord Elgin arrived here from Ighanghae, in h;s steam. yacht the Forious, on the tad instant, but doparted next day lie Cantos. His excellency was to start from that place last night or this merlins to make an exploration, similar to that he has made of the Yang-tam, of the Great West River, which, scene timg to the Chinese, can be secluded !or a long dietetics in vessels of light draught. A number of troops will go cm this expeditkea, and pro% idioms will be taken for three weeks. Six or seven gun boats are to go up, towing Eat-bottomed junks, but it is doubtful whether any attempt will be made to advance beyond the point where gam boge become ansenleosble, and the ascent might be con tinued in junks. Two missionaries anoe ascended the Canton rives nearly to the borders at Kwang-el, but otherwise it is unknown to Europeans except in the immediate neighbourhood of the city end from Chinese accounts. It is supposed that Lord Elgin intends to return to Shawls's; and that be will accompany his brother, the Hoe. Mr. Bruce, to Peking, bat nothing certain is known of his intentions. Until the British embassy is established at Peking, it would he inex pedient either for his Lordship, or any part of the force now here, to depart. . . Some shooter expeditions than that now contemplated have costinued to be made from Canton. Tai-fan, and other of the more important of the famous sleety-six villages, have been visited, sad prociamaticae have bees distributed is them, callfeg an the natives to lay aside ell animosity against foreigners, and on the elders and rutty to see to the proper treatment of foreign visitors end travellers. Them prodigalities were will received ; and two gentleman here already paid a private visit to Pat-shag, and to Sheekteing, viers the beeves were routed, without say other prAection than that which travellers usually have. Beneath we give ea moot of an important expedition to the walled city of Tarim, which wee the heed-out:tem of the patriotic party in Hwang-tang. _ . Nothing has yet been published about the settlement of the site for the factories at Canton; but from the fact that the principal American house has bops to loM on the old site, it Is supposed that that will be, or hos been, selected by Lord Elgin, with an estension probably to the westward. . . . ~ltear•Adminl Sir Michael Seymour lea;es this in the Cal cutta very bean, nod will be succeeded by Sir Brun Martin. During the period of Admiral Seytoour's omareand in dime waters he has enjoyed • rare exemption from the just or unjust censure which has been so liberally bestowed upon General Stnnbanua, Sir John Burring, to • Ws dope, on Lord Elsie, and generally on those connoted with the ed. minim:sties and execution of f snipe aSalre is China. Against Admiral Seymour no word bad been uttered, aid be Immo W eely is command of universal respect, but with the illsetien of bie own aerrios. la the maw midst Canton trade has hardly yet recovered from taw 1.11 eseseepaen. on the China N.. I( ell ; especially thews bee loom little demand fur import". The expedition' Into the neighbourhood of Canton bare had the effect of rearing the Chinn* of the pacific inteetioas of the Allies, and of showing the power of foreigners to advaace into the haterlor. The eprintromt of Owen as Ar•ting-Attneury- Gomm% has thou confirmed by the home 'overawed, but we ham wit yet hoard whether tbe of Mr. j i be. Nee approved of. After • more essaily es= &Mils Is the Legislative Coumil, the Hoods. Preys era moos was reirrted by • Mainrit of dr to *rem as ~ow Five Brothers wee in the Cavell' mew as the Mb ultimo, the Ade&ralty Chart sad the Mimi Not set bovisg gives asfleleat information of the dense of the peemagm The expert of Ma eml alit fee the moms shows the total be gds, 35,121,100165 tee, against IVAIIIIIr a Iset meow, ver • deereme of 2,986,800tb5. Of lelik ie t w eeret amounts to 62,717 bales. spirt 48,42/1, or am of 4.165. To Marseilles the expert d silk St to 5,9911 bales. The toed upset of M to the Vestedaas ersosede to 41,633,3000 m MANSION-HOUSE. Stephen Keefe, an itinerant musician, totally blind. was charnel with throwing his wife down stairs, and thereby causing the premature Urtlt of two children (dead.) John Sweeney said his wife and the mixtures wife were deters, and that the latter had been sleeping at his house for the last two nights with her two children, in coneequenre of the vedettes of her husband. Yesterday morning she left his pines about halt-past eight, stating that she Intended to I go and ask the prisoner for some money to get broad for her children, and returned bent nearly double in the afternoon, apparently in great wagering. Soon after she was confined with the deed children, and as he understood that the prisoner had thrown her down stairs, he gays him into custody. Stephen Boyne said he was a music .. ,1110 and played with the prisoner, who was at his house yesterday morning, when his wife etZll9 in ante said she must have some money, but she prisoner instead of giving her any, told her to give him back some money which he accused het of having taken from him. Thereupon, they got quarrelling, and the wife tick up first a knife, and then the tongs, with which she rushed upon her husband, bat witness enc• needed in wrenching both from her green ; and after some further disturbance she went away. The prisoner never struck her, and about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, witness' and the prisons r being out together, met her in Petticoat-lam A medical certificate wee handed in, stating that the woman was in imminent danger, partly from hemorrhage and partly from fear; but a policeman stated that she had admitted to him that her husband did not throw her down sure, and tbp prisoner was therefore discharged. WORSHIP-STREET. POLLOW rue D11.1:31. Daniel Gavin, Rawl Hai" sad Eugene Dixon, rough country lade, were charged before Ilgr.D'Eptcourt with being deserter+ from the Royal Artalery. Sergeant John hugga —I enlisted thees men and two other,. for the Royal Artillery, on the let of March, in the Eagle beer shop, Bhoredltch. They kit that night and came neat morning to pate the doctor, but it was too late, and 1 desired them to attend en the following day, but I never saw them afterward' until last evening, when to ctn. 1c41.•T0 "amend 6 took the mimeos, from dreoription, Yet night in Wlthechapal. They at fret denied having Mika the shilling, but afterwards said they were darters. Mr. Ir llynoourt —What de you ay to this ? Gavin—l mar drunk._ Hayes—And so wor I and be (Diana). Dinan—You see this herseogareed one of the chap whet war here if bowers willing to wave Makety Queen, the chap says Aye," and thee some shir he a shilling sad after wards shies each we all round, w i'ont sting. There be two chaps as keeps a still outside the shop what ma prove It. Sergatat—This statement is false; all of you were quits mbar, and I can prove it. We. VEynoeart—Are you willing to join now? Pridemore—Nos, we don't want to follow demo. When we saw eager seat day we wanted him to take shilling back, but said Nov, that meet do for me." Mr. IYE I am inclined to believe that you did enlist, but yif caa prove the fact of being In liquor et the time it may serve your, purpose, therefore I will give you an opportunity. Remanded MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CRUELTY TO E STyPCRILE. lane .d.swortlty was charged with a violent Gestalt on • little girl, hw stepdaughter, as follows : Charlotte Ann Axwortky, an intelligent little girl, tea years of age, meld she raMa at 33, Broad-street, Golden- square, and that the prisoner wee her stepmother. On Se today night eke was lying in bad, having previously been down to open the door for the ptisoner, who had bees drink ing, when the prisoner seised.' nada boot, which was lyMg on the door, and gave her • violent blow on the eye with it, eats* very great pain. (The child's eye, altbor m t r i s t a s blow wee given on Saturday hat, was still black, and clearly the faros with which the blow must have been gives, the mark of the boot being plainly vieble.) In answer to Mr. Beadon the poor little child said she had °Roo bean struck when her mother bad hem drinking, with anything eke could lay hold of.. Shaughnewy and Shillingford, two of the warrant allows of the wart, both stated that they had tantionad the prisoner so to her 'oviduct to the child. Prisoner said she was awry sad it should not take place Mr. Basica said she hid said the same thing when cau tioned, bat had now taken up • boot and struck a little child when in one of leer drunken fits. It was • most cruel this', and if she did it spin be should mead her for six months. As It was he should commit her for a month. LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ILECTILIO NORTHAMPTON MEETING.-(THIS DAY. MO HANDICAP PLATE. Five furlongs. Chlldray, Joan of Aro, Genoa, Haw* Yens Yarn, sod Kato are bona. EARL SPENCER'S PLATE. Five furlongs. Theodora, Blackthora, Hartmann, Ancient Briton, Tiara, Bosario% Polly 'cameos, Sop* Jack, Accurate, Pandora, Maid of Kat, Grand Ditcher% King-at-Armi, Gin, Sir Herodias, Actmoa, MarasElsie, Zits'* Schism, Artist, Bilious, Anaurin, Layton, Prolona Stone, Commo dore, Palm Leaf, Roomy, Dose, Gallas, TighiSt, Paol Joaes,Neseatesd, Vigo, sad Crippiegata are here. • - ALTRORPE PARK STAKES. About half a who. P.attlebone, Cheesecake, Gast* Earl of Essex, Terma gant c, Hordee, Lupellos, Lady Grosvenor, f, Madame Eglantine, Agra, Precast', Bitter to Pandora, Queen of May, Dunbar of Kingston, and Vivandier f, are here. CUP STAKES, Two miles. Broadloom's, Newcastle, Mello, Views, Orlcear, Mialeter, awl Yellow Rose, are here. ST. LIZ HANDICAP. One rails and a quarter. Fadladrisa, An sat Brit's, Tama Dar, Clydesdale Rio, Scribbler, Spitsfal Dick, Rudy Rae, Cock-a-Hoop, Bilious, Grimaldi, Broadbrka, Orleans, Pam and Artless, us hue. - - DELAPRE HANDICAP. About half a mile. Delusion, Delmar*, ftrinat, Joan of Ace, Face, Hom Vigo, and Macbeth, me has. LATEST BETTING. EARL SPENCER'S PLATE. 100 to 12 apt Actosoa 9 to 1 &tells 9 to 1 Tiara 10 to 1 Haltom 12 to 1 Ring-at-Arms 15 to 1 Tightfit 20 to 1 Nawateid Aaaryso.—Madame W.W.I and Quern of Soots. Very 1101h - 17g - e. THE VACANT CITY JTJDOEEHIP.—For Some day peat a Mealy estivate hoe bees corded on among the HMlS berg of the City oorporation by several gentleman who set anxious to all the vacant office of judge of the Sheriff's Court, and enjoy Its Wary of 1,2001. The gentlemen referred to are Mr. Sleigh, the well-known Old Bailey barrister ' • Mr. Polling, Mr. Serinant Thmae, and Mr. Kennedy, to whom must now be added Mr. Conic, the stipendiary magistrate, who has just addrsesed • circular to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, in which be puts famed, modestly, his grenade of dines for the office, end oedema testimonials from many of the judges and lead ing ornamenta of the bar. MEMORIAL CHURCH TO THE LATE MR. MISHETON Berms—Wm Ambeton Smith has given directions for a ohwrch to be Greeted at Tedeserth, in memory of her late lamented husband. It is tubs built of stone from the Tim bury quarries, and to be conipleted in November.— Wiltshire Mirror. NORTH BRITISH AND CALEDONIAN RAILWAYS.- We learn that it is not the Intention of the directors of the Celedonian Railway Company to contest, before a oommit , oe of the Hones of Lord., the deeleion of the Commons commit tee regarding railway coronianicttion between Ilawick and Carliele.—&oteireera Tun DELHI Pane JEWELI3.—The following ad vertl,emeet appears in the Celcntta papers:" Hamilton and Company have the honour to aunonner that they have bean favoured with the commeade of the prise agents, Wejor Sir Edward F. Campbell, Bart., and Major Charlie R. Walford, to submit to public and un reserved sale by auction, the remaining portion of the Delhi prise jewels. These magnificent jewels Sc. now on view at Messrs. Hamilmn sad Company's show-Tome. They comprise revere' very beautiful Jorge pearl necklaces in single and double rows of Sae colour sad quality, connected with emerald beads end drape, and with pore diamond pendants, or door dock's,.; many dimmed necklet ea, or bawls, of the beat Hindostanee style, set in mismalled gold, with pearls, rubies, and emerald fringes sad Waste . ; magnificent diamond armlets, or helm" purl breesists, diamond ant pearl godheads or aszklete ; beautiful gold and enamelled chnorkellya, set with Isere white diamonds of first quality; pearl math sorry, or severs row necklaces with diamond tummy, singe. as, and jetsam; pearl toroth with briltiant diorama, emerald, and ruby ornament, &e., &c ., &n The vela will take plate on Itonday, the 14th of February neat; and the atteation of sada, prim*. rajahs, the paltry of laths, end the inateheata, Is respectfully invited to this rare display of ' very curtly ressesents, which offer as opportunity for very advantageous pentane." Two woman ands man, the latter a cheeeemonger k Wawa at South Shields, hare been remanded by the 1400.00311 washweitee ea a charge of being concerned. either plasyele areoutplicas in the recent robbery of 600 J. ohms the enen&inws anti& dealer, Smith. COMMERCIAL AND MARMITE. MARIL-LANE.—(THIS The attendant* of the trade was rather smaller then usual an Wedneedave• the tone Arm but guim—prione et most ardcles unaltered! The supply of home-grown pain vas smell, and the arrivals of foreign grain Into London sine* last Monday were fair of wheat, barley, sod of oats. WRZAT.—English held st about last Monday's prime. Foreign unaltered in value; fine sorts routine° ectros. Fitton steady gels, at last Monday's rates. dear u last BAILEY.—Fine malting sena quite as Monday ; inferior slow We. OATS, quiet trade, at last Monday's currency. Smarts held at last Monday's priom FBAs dull, at last Monday `s Wee. FLOATING CAMOOT3,--Stnce last Monday 6 grain-liana vessels were reported arrived at pets of call, TIT. wheat, 2 maim The number now remaining on eale off the coma has been reduced tt about 10, vie. —8 wheat and 2 miss. a wb l i vAis 464.2ll :::::ll 3 :7o: Per i ne LO rted4t ..... 4:L lC9.lll : o7 ::: :l:7l.ls T i rg l e C u ß ear t : l"4 : l3;iuram"l. l ll : llolll" :: He *se w& DM. /cedes. •••••• ETO ISO Bubb Iladi Mgr. tai ; Oar. tiaetsi. 610 MINCING-LANK—(THLS DAY.) floo.te.—The market remains steady, but then he • gnat want of activity about it, and it requites firmness on the part of the Importers to sustain prices. Conan.—This srtkle Is firm, and bas an upward Ws amey The cargo, 3,000 bags of Rio, sold freely at 63. to In advance ; casks, 704. to 745. ; bap, 63e. to 7 3a. Good oratory dean native Coyly has been sold at Isis. Tan.—We are without triturates@ of impottanoe to report. The samples of the loge public rake m coma:wars to-morrow, hsd occupied the attenllou of tbe trade. Ittcm—Tbs market to doll and difficalt of sale. COTTON.—NO Wei reported. SALTIMISII ben declined fully Gd. Brim Tamils'& steady. TALLOW MARKET.—(IIO3 DAT.) The thaskst is arm. Town tallo w vs quoted 62a. 61. 'eat oath; Petereburg Y.C. on the spot, 634 to 63e. 31. ; all this math, 63s ; April col, 3 Apell to Jar, 62*. 9d. to 63e.; October to Domineer, 63e: eviv "6112•11: BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—(THIS DAZist IlLsiers. Palliation sad Sosith report that the Mathis arm at late prices. llot psi nut of II id