The Express. — London, England, 1867-05-13 00:00:00

• THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1567. s" NiVSE. •• 0. I 0 • C ' 3/ .1111111.3 ,,, S 1, ./.I let' 1, 03.1 14.1.• spiwatol in lootio.. the Int:twat t••• • , ..1 111...11 Nit. 1. , ••I.tone .'t hi% lb • •••.•.•3,' It 11.34 .1.1•01.ItItttl of do. N..tio.a 't" , •l.,:i..l4luritott the Ittoriir-. 0- a twelinti• • -I • 4t' Wi , ttuin-trr Pit llthoirth It w•. t • the .o'. tit •• @a...t• • e , tt ni- '•• ri ,tv, t...1..••••••11 Mr. Vie l ettliVta,:ltioll, took otiolitt. 3t " (4,11•11.4 111141ra tAt 014 •, , ,oterittornt !bill, • 31 :01, ••I 1 0 011 0 , Soffit` of Cie geoleowo whu wet.. at •Lms; Wen: until& t•• with the thrato t,m. tio•to mit Mi. W. K Fow.ter, M.P.. who ▪ •'det t 1!;.1 t' .1% he MAI. n tillerelbet of the I got rn- Sis , ! leaving thu .1...-vitt::thtt• re lent p: be p.• 'Pt vs, •pi o received in the rown. which th.lt owntr appe.leed h.• had great • ra violin; a apace in whe-h to stand. There Inußt doe pt including lial•:s1.-ra .0 .11 denominations. barri.ters, men, ..snocacturers, tradesmen, and a few work ing ir r,„ :scattered amongst them were Mr. Bright, 111. P Mr. 1.0 field. M.P.. Mr. Fa welt. M.P.. Mr. a. M.l' Kinn:4d. M.l'., Mr. Ayrton, M.l'., Mr. • D; .1' Mr. Barley. 11. P., Mr. M.l'., Mr. • M.P or John Gray. M.P., Mr. T. R. Potter, 111 V., Mr Cheetham. M.P., and Mr. I owaii, M.P. There d. leAatea from nearly every county, and arver.d Cori principal towns , , the larger proportion 0 , ••• • • •;W. Irma the Jiatriet north of the Black Country, w b e r e el, 7.7 it ippnai :?eippret Union haa moat actively Lonilucteil fit'. op, ~‘tion., awn as Mr. Gladatoric entered the room with enthunwitic cheering. Mr. Ono 0:1 Wm. in, chairman of the Puke, opened ions by intemhicing the deputation, and reading ~o.lowang witlrem: Its oiler 'tin; anderitieal monictit, when it reViNho., of the e• t''' t tot•ott nr truirientltY hands of the optcolettl , , ..f all pro fill • ;3 tlirert u. ir. tellatme of the interact of the hi take a.% h..tbd only tin• view of n faction. we deem it de• to •nie I.efore you and amok on behalf the National • • . ••-•••• it, (hr., httlioiregi lorsinchr . atut we lortirre St h great majority of your tellow emontryruen. If 111• 011.thard )olie n o t , !,. cane-cinema lino. lid 1, a rtati•Simili, our deep gratitude for the ▪ . i h yon have employed among your flied; Of .1.-,t ynal•tres, ill the 'arrant. ttttt t cam of stadia se. Ind our ntilc 1111 l lied oonlideore b. 3.42a0 the ar .1 r e oor oarly in the Ilense of Common,. At at time whets Of tine nwasherA of the liberal party ; pstrllasnvutary allegiance—wit' a men. ▪ rr •4 jndament , mane from went to., count •,....tt that coonsfrom lehovance. m e t man, niitype. Ik▪ e trn, rerama—tiare deserted the people are with you, ▪ pray eon to ti .regard the ft art ional within the ▪ tool to faro your mei to hope ant faith t o the great •i 3 the • expvettnt. lath- it. but fewilde ht allpport era, i'•• Wilt* of It Wm know that It le not Deveuary to be tun kl. your r efforts in the great 0111114• the UMe unerring fir fi:c. t That ..**”" 4l the people to demand reform demanda you • 1 , in eh • Lernirde 44111 at work. 041 oar elite la the un • es' ogre., of tndie and jteitive. The• profile will 1 . 011- IV • • I, ...Ili* .3 and you will etonthitte to aid them . and Lit lt.<f I! • ve•t.fr- j taw, earl, me late it will cover you will. ▪ I. 3,1 ie i o• own, 3ail It will give you all pm value tined. 11%. liPitroral of y• .own enlightened conmeaysn.e. and the tweet erd!.l.tutu ii ul hlriny adil.of to the happiest:4m and well•being of en"lionl to roar f,lltor couNtrymen. The inuo4 fnreil•le pursuers in eke above were loudly ap e Ludetl. - - _ . Mr. Alderman fli reICIN4IO( (Halifax) presented an I address from the reformers of that place. Petitions and :uldressee were then presented, chiefly eritti.a.t beiug read, from Manchester , Halifax, North bwiceeteniltire. Preston, Milnrow Harpurhey, Blackburn, fesininigton, Stockport, Cleckbeatun, Rochdale, Earn- Worth, ood !lofts". From the elves-deo of the gentlemen hatolod the documents to Mr. Gladstone it appeared Milt their chief points were confidence in the right hoe. gc,tlontan. opposition to the government bill. disgust at reurgadisin of which certain member of the liberal Mile of the house had been guilty, and a strong determina tion to undertake an extended and vigorous agitation in edvoceicy of the principles of the Union. should Mr. /Disraeli's bill osss. flies-r , i gentlemen having spoken, Mr. (il.siormust, after the outburst of sheering that greeted hint had subsided, said:-Whatever pain, what ever astonishment, whatever disappointment I may feel (and I feel ouch) at the present state of affairs within the trils of parliament as regards the great question of par a inientary reform, Ise hardly need to immure you in this hero that .its portion of any of those feelings has referent* to my own peoition. Because I must say, that she slen der esrvices rendered, in a spirit, I trust, of that honesty saris austerity which Englishmen above all things value, and for tie want of which nothing can atone, have brought forth, end 'tare caused to flow in upon me like a deluge, expreasions of approval and acknowledgment such 111 I hare heard in this room, and such as every post has brought me, without fail. from every part of the country, and which I am hound to say have been as much beyond. City espeetatiotes as the event* which have happened in the blouse of Oonmiona have been behind and below them. (Cheers.) Under these circumstances I remain free to eater into council here and elsewhere for the promotion of tbe common miuse,for I feel that we are more than ever ilia position which depends upon confidences between lean mar. (Cheers.) If when circumstances threw M Into a prominent place with respect to the question reorni the problem presented to me had been that of satisfying all the opinions and every va riety of sentiment entertained among those who had /honestly united in pursuit of the same object, I should certainly have declined the task. I know that in this free country there are many sections in the liberal party who, while desirous of popular progress, would differ in the question' of degree and time. In the posi tion, therefore, which I came to occupy, it was my duty to Souk to the union of that party, and nut to scruple to ask from honest, earnest, eager, and enthusiastic men the sacri fice of their own conscientious convictions, with a view to forming a common stock of strength by which we might go forward to the achievement of one common object.l'pon that principle I have acted throughout. I have necemari'y fallen short in so acting of the wishes and desires that pro bably moat or even all of you in this room may individually entertain, .end may be prepared for the most part to express ens behalf of those whom you represent. But I have always proceeded upon the belief that there were among us certain priertiples common to us all—that we would not consent Moan illegitimate method even of obtaining progress ; that we walled straightforward conduct in individuals so we mould eta ogee otiose all for straightforward legislation; that We would not ask fur, or accept, boons under false pretences; that we would not cheat the people of England even for their own :itly,iutage—(loud cheers)—and ooneequently Whatever step we took for the attainment of popular en franchisement should be equal, plain, simple, and intelli gent, canimending itself to all, if nut by precise concurrent* with particular opinions, at least by fairness, im partiality. and justice in its operation. (Cheers.) One of the speaker. has staked me a question to which I will address myself. He referred to the state of things in the Mouse of Cou.mons, to which I will briefly advert. We lava bud two memorable divisions. The first of these was en the Nth of April. I am now to speak of what is termed the liberal party in the House of Commons -for, gentlemen. there is a liberal party there. (A laugh.) If yuu will allow sue I will illustrate my idea of that party by an anioalott. In a Welsh county where hunting was Cot very touch in use, and where consequently the people were nut familiar with tee objects which hunting presents • to them, it so happened that the hounds once went a little beyond their usual circle, sad a gentleman who was engaged in the sport lost the ease altogether. Hemet ▪ oountrrenn, and inquired of him, " Have you seen the 40.1 ?” The countryman said, "Oh yes, I seed him ; he Vs. but a vary little 'an, and he runnel up a tree;' the Act being that this fox wee a squirrel. (Laughter.) There is, gentlemen, a liberal party; it in but •' a very little 'un." (A laugh.) Vet I hope that it will not run up • tree, but will remain on the ground, and will persist in the couteit fa which it is engaged, whether it consists of few or of many, whether thine who have differed come back, ur whether others differ out of any regard except ing the reasonable and just claim of the people of this country, and those true principles or the • °Destitution which we are all anxious to support. • The right ben. gmtleman then proceeded to describe the eircumstance• under which the two amendments had been proposed to the house. He confessed that it had at one time appeared to him impossible tie it any House of Com mons with a Wend majority could be found to produce a sufficient number of men to bring into our electoral law mew conditions restrictive of the franchise, but he had been mistaken. But any system founded upon an absurd preposterous mischievous definition of personal rating he would wholly disown, refuse, and reject. I take it (con tinued Mr. t ;Litigious) that our duty is to use every effort upon every remaining opportunity to strike at this odious principle of inequality and injustice, and if we fail—a s w e probably shall fail, for indeed the opportunities which remain to us are but few end slight—to decline to recog nise, or hr parties in any manner to any acknowledg ment of the bill as a settlement of the question, and to continue to maintain by every constitutional means in cur power the printer eizpon which we have acted. (Cheers.) Really with to this stele of personal sating, which has become fundamental principle of the twiteruveTy"cor.nsainterwarshaa b e en on s ot thet ve l a r n l as sideto attract of e Louse, I believe the diMculties which have been found in •oilerstamling it within the walls of the House of Com muting h .ve been much more perplexing these than in the .. . • rtft.ruiera in the , c ••••• • y 1.. , • I .oi . .itoroity w umeeiptanoiug how • IN••a,r.:l r w''',.• , .Hear, hear..) Th. y have got' ;u • :h.• , • ,„ tt e al total that a e "re g .im.g 1,. •..w nalet which every wotkitig man way, if he chooses to fulfil comlitious, obtain the franchise. What is lan: that I VCry working man may obtain the irsliChirs. if :le S 1 teMare on which he ho'sis h;. !. nu-c- 'rm.. his landlord. (Hear.) Can any thing be more piepostrioun ? Oh. gentlemen, it is a pain ful detail to into. l.ul as it looks upon the surface, it is w,.t a t.. .!eeprr. It is anise when you know that, whether tin igr it. or my of them- co opoutol house hoiticts t • come upon the franchi.e, this is certain, that the ni.m who e•.s t. will he these who ought not to come there. Mei the men wh, are not there ...ill be the very turn who camlit to c 'Hear. heir.) It is impos sible to 'app.* , that the artisan iu most caaee will be in a condition in which e encounter all the difficulties of distils bine bus lmdlmd,..,rn.ngememts, making payments this' was and that way. :mil getting rccmciies as he can. It is impossible. I say, that any lady of men will attempt to make such changes and alterathous. The testimony bone by one of the gentlemen of the deputation is a for tiori an argument :e„,..in•t the propceasl plan. Even now the another of compouiel householders who conic upon the teen time upon their own claims. is infinitesimatlly email. I stated the other night in the house, and I repeat it now, there are probably not more than :SIO in the whole country. But who will come upon the register? Why, wherever there is a L milord possessing one or a couple of hundred houses, who is desirous to be made absolute toaster of the sante number of votes, that man —by a process which, as our scale of election expense,' goes. is one of the cheapest in the world —will have offered to him, through this pretended enfranchisement, the me..ns of a new and subtle system of corruption, to Whielt we base hevii strangers, and tenants , will ha taken to the poll in your towns in a manner hithqrto unknown. To such a state of thing. it is impossible for roe to be a party under any conditions whatever. (Cheers.) I will tell you what were the precise reasons that led me to the 51. line. Ido not deny that I felt a difficulty with respect to the lowest rho or margin of householder., who tremble 04 it acre between pauperism and independence. In tie! present st..te of education in this country, and in the circumstances in which we are placed ' I do not say that the evil to to apprehended is one of commanding magnitude. I ha... so - doubt its influence would he neutral ised, hut it would he a real evil. In the second place, I felt that the principle on which I acted last year was reasonable. vet . that we in this country are apt to go forward. even to the beet ends. by reasonable and measured steps ; and I think thik principle is the best to adhere to, except under soy extmonlinary and peculiar conditions. But what was most important was, that our difficulty last year was not to restrain the impetuosity of those who 'reused to go to pool the 7/. franchise, but it WAS to bring up the insufficient zeal of reformers in the hou.e to that standard. To a certain ex tent we succeeded. and I behest, many gentlemen most honestly and most honourably went forward with us last year, making sacrifices to their opinions to meet us, as it was wise in us to make aacrifices to meet them. Of course, it was my duty, in the position which I occupied, to have sonic regard to the opinion of those gentlemen, to create 1604 unite that common stock of 'strength without which tiAlettainblent of our object was impracticable. These wen.. I think, reaeons which you will recognise as import ant in reference to the proposition of that line. (Hear, bear.) There was mother reason also which operated with me. I contemplated with an aversion which I cannot describe the idea of laving a House of Commons., in which my publis life has been mossed—which has always had my veneration and affection as the great institution through which the liberty and welfare of this country have been wrought out—inveigled and trapped into the adoption of even household suffrage, when I knew that not one in fifty of the member,. of that house really desired it. (My position is this, as I said, my lirOpOrai of the liue is gone. (Cheese) IL not see the circumstances under which lam likely to revive it. I Inuit reserve to mpolf perfect liberty in regard to that which in my con science I believe moat suitable, taking the hest advice and counsel I can get. I aum thankful to say there is excellent advice to be bad, because in the find place eo many distin guiebed statesmen of thin country with whom I have bad the honour of acting in office have maintained such per fect fidelity to the principles to which they were pledged by the bill of last year, and have calmly, unostentatiously, and without perhispt having the reward which lea fallen to my lot, of being held up as a conspicuous object to my countrymen, remained firm, faithful, and sincere, and have shown themselves perfectly ready to serve in the great cause when it shall be neces sary for them to do so. In the second place, I cannot refrain from recalling to your recollection the gallant and coun.geous support of great popular leaders in the House of Commons who have not scrupled if need be to risk the reputation in which they are held by masses of the people in order to give valuable counsel and advice, and to make all their great powers freely available for the public good. (Hear, hear.) We have had, and shall have, ample oppor tunities for counsel. and I ask to reserve to myself the liberty of adopting any plan which may appear best adapted to carry out the great object which we have in view, of having a sensible. libend but above all things an equal, just, and impartial franchise. (Cheers.) The immediate object, however, is the mode of dealing with these inequalities that are to be introduced into the law with the immediate object of setting land lord against tenant and tenant against landlord, and de terring the industrious and peace-loving man from the dangerous enterprise of attempting to get the franchise, and inducing the weak-minded and subservient man to be come the tool of his landlord in the exercise of his measures for political power. With all these results, and many more, will theme enactments he attended. To these eeactments, while they continue to be on the floor of the House of Commons, I shall continue to offer an unqualified and unhesitating opposition. (Cheers.) Should, as I have said, these enactments become law, I shall regard them as entitled to the authority that belongs to all law, but still as portions of the law which every good citizen of this country, in proportion as he is a good citizen and well judging man, ought to strain every nerve and use every power he peewees to oppose, for the purpose of bringing the question to 14 speedy settlement. (Loud cheers.) Mr. BRIGHT, who was generally called for and applauded, said—l hope the time will come when I shall be per mitted to attend meetings as • listener only. There is very little required to be said after the speeches which have been delivered by the deputation, and—what shall I call it!—the admirable reply of Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Jones asked, what ought to be done? I have been at many meetings like this, where the question has been asked, and we often felt puzzled as to the reply. There are two things at any rate which can be done. One has not lately been tried, although if my advice had been taken six months ago it would have been done. Meetings of course everywhere. (Loud cheers.) When people give up public meetings, they must either submit to the injustice they complain of, or they must con spire or use some other mode of obtaining • remedy. I am for meetings. (Cheers and laughter.) Owing to the lone disregard of the House of Commons of the plan the mode of petitioning has very much fallen into disuse. I have heard in a hundred cues where men have said, " It is no use petitioning; we have done it for twenty years ; always with an equal-- that is to say, no result." I am of opinion that if, through the instrumentality of the National Reform Union, and of the Reform League— (theend—there could be sent out to all the agents and correspondents of both associations throughout Great Britain - and I suspect that our friends in Ireland would be willing to co-operate with us— (cheers) —for dep, nd upon it that Ireland has very little to hope for from the government which is eo treating the question of reform—(hear, hear)—in the course of a fortnight or three weeks there might be such a number of petitions on the door of the House of Commons as has never been ap proached at any former period. (Cheers.) And at this critical time, when after ull the majority, though consider able, is by no means confident or assured—because they cannot but be conscious that the proposed settlement is no settlement at all, and that there is a certain weakness in its position—petitioning might be of great service. I am not cure that if an extensive system of universal petition ing be adopted throughout the country, and honestly and honourably worked for the next month, that we should not bring about a very great change in the feeling of par liament, and bring thou members who are accessible to reason to the belief that it is much better now in this session of 1667 to do what all the working men, and rill the liberal middle classes • great majority of the middle classes —want, namely, to settle this question so far as we can now go upon the principle of household suffrage. (Cheers, and a remark from Mr. Kei.L, "Peop le wont sign petitions, Mr. Bright ; we have tried them . ') My friend says the people will not sign petitions. With all due deference to his opinion, I don't believe it. And I'll tell Dlr. Kell why. Last session, when there was what I called a conspiracy of no very honourable charader to overthrow Lord Russell's bill, what took place at Easter? The people were asked to petition, and though there was no great effort, yet in a single fortnight there were more than one thousand peti tions. Those petitions were signed by sonic 100,000 or 600,000, although some of them were petitions from meetings which were only signed by one person —the mayor er other gentleman—on behalf of the meeting. Looking at what was done last year, at the reasonableness of the thing, and at the fact that if men are not to come into the streets to fight for their liberty, they must approach parliament by petitions passed at public meet ings. If they fail, then the fault will he at the door of parliament—and not et the door of the people themselves. (Hear, hear.) If my voice can reach any town or village, where there may be • reformer earnest and anxious to do something, let him immediately attempt to obtain the signatures of his neighbours to • petition. Let those petitions be brought within the next fortnight to the House of Commons in such numbers as will convince all men of the necessity of the change which we wish to pro mote. Bear in mind that there are scores of men on the tory side who are not satisfied with their present position, but are, I am poidtive, anxioustosettlethe question wisely. Amongst those who have deserted from our ranks on a late occasion there are men, I doubt not, as honest upon this question as any of us in this room, although they have made • grievous, but I hope only temporary mistake. But there being in the House of Commons an anxiety to settle the question, let us by meetings, by petitions, by the action of the press. and by correspondence with members, induce the House of Commons to a course which shall pro duce a satiate toy settlement. 1 c,nhut conceive it pos sible that the liberal em.stititenuies who icturutal the members that deserted from us the other evening me be very imich satisfied with the ree.itiou their meinhen, have taken. (rheen..) I observe that during the Easter reoesa the constituenei,, were not very delighted with those fine theories which were put forth by those who voted against us on the 12th of Aprd, :uel 1 believe now that if all the gentlemen who voted against us were to write their letters to the newspapers explainiug their reasons they would be found to be wholly unsatisfactory to all the reformers in the boroughs by whom they were elected. Let re, then, take the methods that are open to us ; in all past time. in the struggles conducted Ay the people those methods have been eventually successful. If they are taken now with that real and unanimity which chiuncterimes this meeting. and I believe the feelings of all the people in this °malty who are at all in favour of re form (and therm, nine out of ten of the whole popula tion), before this session closes we may have the satistac. tion of seeing enacted upon the statute-book fur all time a =wine so good, so wile, so satisfying the longing of the nation, that every one of us who has taken any part in promoting it shall for the rest of ear lives feel that we hare helped to do a good work for our own time, and fur those in this country who are to come after us. (Loud °been.) The meeting separated with cheers for .lr. Gladstone. itIUOU• ---.--- HER HAJERTY'S THEATRE. Bellies La Sunmanditifit was to have been ,7,iven at this house on Saturday, for the reappearance of Signor Mongini. and the first appearance in this country of Mdlle. Mario ; but, owing to the lady's illness. Verdi's I Lombardi was substituted, Signor Mongini appearing as Oronte, the part filled by Mr. Holder on the first performance of the opera a fortnight since. Of the work itself we spoke so fully on that occasion that little need now be said beyond recording the confirmed impression of its poverty de rived from a second heating. With all the merits of the present performance of I Lombardi, such music can never live otherwise than as already indicated, in association with the ball-mom and the streets, these extremes often meeting in matters musical. Dranta. AMATEUR PERFORMANCE AT THE ADELPHI. A grand morning performance, organised and chiefly supported by the Pow* staff of writers soul artists, for the benefit of the widow and eight children of the late C. H. Bennett, took place at the Adelphi Theatre on Saturday morning, and was as successful as it deserved to be. The pecuniary results of this performance must have been most gratifying to the actors and managers ; but, however large the sum realised, a much larger amount will be required to place this largo family, suddenly de prived of their protector, beyond the reach of temporary want. , The performance of Saturday morning, judged merely as a fashionable entertainment, apart from its praise. worthy object, was in every respect admirable. It opened with a burlesque operatic rendering of the most amusing of all farces, Box and C'x, written by Mr. F. C. Burnand, and supplied with the most charming and delicate comic music by Mr. Arthur Sullivan. It would be difficult to overpraise the humour of this production, or the talent shown by the three actors. Mr. Quintin, who played Con, is a genuine comedian ; Mr. G. Du Maurier, the well known artist, who played Box, is an excellent tenor singer, with a great deal of comic power; and Mr. Arthur Blunt, who played Bouncer, in this ease turned into • sergeant of yeomanry, with an irrepressible rataplan, is a moat Minified funny actor. Mr. Tom Taylor's little drama, A Sheep in Wolfs Clothing, was next given, with the following cast of character' : Colonel Percy Kirke, of Kirke's Lambs Mr. Mark lemon Colonel Lord Churchill, of tho Life Guards Mr. John Tenniel. Master Jas p er i'arew Kesler Challzl oy Mr. P. C Burman]. Corporal 1 • 1111 4.lf. / o f w o w, f.o .b. I Mr. Homer Mayhew. Hackett, • ' 1 Mr. Fleury Sliver. John Zoyland. s Locksmith Anne Carew, wl , e of Jasper Carew Miss Kate Terry. Dame Carew, mother of Jasper Came Mrs. Stoker. Slhyl, daughter of Jasper Carew Keziah Maplettlft, servant 141 Anne (Mrs. Waite. Miss Kate Terry's embodiment of Anne Carew has lately been made familiar to playgoers at the Olympic, and Mr. Mark Lemon, Mr. Burnand, and Mr. Tom Taylor distinguished themselves In their respective parts--particu larly Mr. Lemon, who is an actor of some expe rience. The performances concluded with Offenbach's little musical absurdity, called Les Deus Arengles first made familiar to the English public, we believe, by M. Levassor, at the St. James's Theatre), in which Mr. Du Manrier and Mr. H. Power represented the two French beggars with great effect. Both are excellent actors and singers. Mr. Du Maurier was even more successful in his French than in his English acting. The intervals between the parts were filled up with some very agreeable part- singing by a band of amateur singers known as "The Moray Minstrels," who sang a little too much for so full a programme, and an address delivered by Mr. Shirley Brooks. So exoellent an entertkinment may surely be repeated during the present season with every chance of success, and there will be no difficulty in a week or two's time in; finding a theatre for an evening representation. The house was crowded with a most distinguished audience. Lib ilitta WM& .S.:.:TROPOLITAN COUNTY COURTS. (Halo(.rja pram - IWeek.) dt. Marthis-km.—Teesday. May 14; ll dry. IA - • • • --- - - - ImaamsaraY. Pentland-read.—Wednesday', May 16: Timm day. le : Friday. 11. Itesdirros. Whlleead'Agrore. —Monday, May 13 : Tues day. 14 : Wednesday, 1 6 : Ynday. 17. Wststwessien, South-atreet.—Tuesky, May 14. 41.1:146ENWELL. DUncaa4errace. —Monday, May 13; TuessdaY. 1•: Wednesday, 15 AMMIIIIGrW, 011elred-reed—Tuessder, May 14. Thursday. Bow : IN.wraid. —Friday. May 17. WIIITEMIAI.III., Great Pm:scot-street. —Wednesdat May 13; Thursday. 16 Yriday, 17. Swaneemet.—Wedneelay. Nay 15. Thursday, If. : Prlday, 17. L.Ullinti, Camberwell Neweeed. —Tuesday, Nay 14. CM or Looms N. GulldhaU-builsthip.—Tuesslssy, May ; Thursday, 16 Saturday, 1. EQUITY COURTS.—MAY 11. (Before the Blaster of the Rolla.) IN RE THE IMPERI cAA.(..111.AN1!6 In this matte: a petition was presented by a shareholder in the company, praying for an under to wind it up. It appeared that the petitioner took his shares in the company in December, 1564, soon after which the directors made a very flourishing report as to the state and prospects of the company, showing that they had obtained several concessions in Austria and elsewhere, and that tkey were conductingtheir business inn profitable manner. In 1867, however, the directors published a second report of a very different character, showing a dimi nution in the amount of shares and in the capital of the concern. Calls had been subsequently made, and the petitioner being in arrear with respect to them the com pany had brought an action against him for them, which was to he tried on Tuesday next. The petitioner now rested his case on the alleged fact of the company being in reality in such circumstances as to be unable to carry on its business, and liable therefore to he wound up under the express provisions of the Companies Act of 1662. Mr. Roxburgh. Q.C., and Mr. Roberts appeared for the petitioner; Mr. Jesael, (W., and Mr. Locock Webb for the company ; and Mr. Fry, for some of the shareho lders, opposed the petition. Lord Romilly held that the petitioner had not esta blished a case for a winding-np order, and made a decla ration accordingly. . _ (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir R. Malin.) RE THE 241:HURBAN HOTEL COMIPANT (1.11(TED). This was • petition for the compulsory winding up of the company. The company was registered on the 13th of January, ISO, the office being at the hotel in the Vale of Health, Hampstead. It commenced carrying on business in June, and in April, 1805, Mr. Pulling, an upholsterer in Holborn, became the proprietor of 200 shares ' ancisub sequently a director. The company consisted of 5;000 shares, of which 2,499 only were subscribed for , 1,191 being treated as paid op and allotted to Donald Nichol, who built the hotel upon his privato property and took the shares in part payment of the purchase money. A billiard table was paid for in shares, and 1,3414 remained unburned. The shares were 10f. each, of which 5/. lOs. had been paid. The petitioner alleged that undue influence was exercised by parties holding a large majority of the shams, and that the concern was carried on at • loss, the hotel being virtually closed and no bturineas being carried on except at the tap, which was in a separate builiing. He further stated that the build. Mg was in • dilapidated condition. that the furniture was pied up in the rooms, and that there was a mortgage for 5,0001. of which he was at first ignorant. On the other hand, the directors said that it was a summerhouse of en tertainment, and therefore was closed during the winter months, rind that it had returned, and was still calculated to return, a remunerative profit. Mr. lt oxburgh and Mr. Leeson appeared for the peti tioner ; Mr. Waller, for the holders of 300 shares, sup ported the petition ; Mr. Glasse and Mr. Buchanan op posed. Mr. Nichol (the chairman of the cempany), Mr. Pulling (the petitioner), and other witnesses were truss-examined in court upon their affidavits. The l'ice.(3lancellor directed the petition to stand over till the 31st of May, in order that a meeting might be held to reconsider the question of the winding up. In the mean time no proceedings ware to be taken to enforce a call, and leave was given to the petitioner to inspect the books. ST. GEORGE'S HALL The encouragement mid to have been given to music•hall " condones" by a very high personage, has doubtless bad the effect of bringing together scone of these " champions" at the above ball for comic Saturday morn ing concerts. If there is a demand for this concentrated tomfoolery, there is no reason why it should not be supplied. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY CLUB OF PARIS. TEI WAR QUIDITION. The monthly meeting of the Political Economy Club of Paris, held on Monday at the Grand Hotel, was distinguished by the attendance of leading political econo mists from the chief states of Europe, now to Paris us com missioner, as jurors of the Universal Exkibition. M. Moroi:Asp, of the Institut, presided ; supported by Mr. Edwin Chadwick, correspondent of the Institut, and member of the Political Economy Club of London ; by Dr. Faucher, member of the Political Economy Club of Berlin ; Dr. Newmann, member of the Political Economy Club of Vienna ; by Max Wirth, the chief of the statistical department of Switzerland; as well as by statists and economists of other states. After dinner the questions of the economical interests of populations as omnprotnised by war, had the lead of all other subjects, and most power ful speeches on the general economical principles applicable to the subject were made by the President, by M. Wolowski, of the Institut ; by M. Jules Ition, of the Institut, and by M. Faucher, which will doubtless be printed in the transactions of the society. Propositions for teazhing military exercises in all schools with the view of diminishing the drain upon the working population for military training in camps, form pert of a set of propositions submitted to the Chamber of Deputies by M. Jules Simon and others. The formation of a Cobden Club for the continent is under consideration amongst frac traders and economists. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The last lierfor msnce this season takes Osman Friday next, when Costa's Eli will be given, with the following principal vocalists:— Madame Rudersdorlf, Madame Sainton Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Moutem Smith, Signor Foil, and Mr. Ssntley. WESTMINSTER LIBERAL REGISTRATION SoCIETY. —The adjourned public meeting for nominating and fiaally electing the representatives for the parish of St. George, Hanoveroquare, for the central committee of the above society, was held at Dr. Brewer's residence, 21, George street, Hanover-square, on Saturday evening. Dr. Brower having been called to the chair, read the minutes of the former meeting of the 4th instant, which took place at Hanover-square Booms, and stated that the principal ob ject before them was to carry out the provision agreed upon as the special feature of the constitution of the society, according to which the power was vested in each of the ten parishes comprised within the city of Westminster to send a representative for every 150 electors to the central committee, with the further power of acting in their several districts in the way they deem most conducive to the ob jects of the society ; thus precluding the possibility of dictation, or the functions and influence of the society falling into the hands of any clique or limited number of persons. . _ • RI ALTR RISTORRD BY Du BARRY'S FOOD TO TIM STOMACA, nerves, longs, and liner of old and young, cueing dyspepsia (indigestion), constipation, Mambas, acidity, head ache, neuralgia, hysteria, palpitation, aleepleasseas, debility wasting, cough, asthma, fevers, consumption, low ;pinta, 60,000 annual cures which had resisted all medicines, including that of his Holiness the Tope.—Ties, at Is. ltd. ; 1111 ,!s. lid. ; ltlb., 2k. ; 241 h., 40s.—Da Barry and Co., 77, Ararat-street, London: also at Fortnum and Mason's: and at 61, Gracoehurcb-street ; 4, Cheapable ; sue and 160, Infonlatreet ; and all grocen and ebenata.--(Advertinentant. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. -MAY 11. Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Blackburn.) IN RE THE BAHIA AND SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY COMPANIES. This case raised a very important point with reference to the registration of a torrid transfer of shares in the Bahia end San Francisco Railways. It appeared that Miss Tritton, a Prussian lady, a governess in the Earl of Antrim's family, went abroad in March, 1866, and bdore going abroad she entrusted her securities, representing her whole fortune, to Mr. Oldham, of 4, Austiufriers, giving him authority to receive the dividends and pay them over to her. No sooner had she gone to the continent than Oldham sold all her securities, including the shares in gees tion, and applied the proceeds to his own benefit; and in order to transfer them Oldham forged Miss Tritton's name. When the transfers were presented to the company, they, according to their practice, sent a letter addressed to Miss Tritton, 9, Princess-gate, but thry received no reply, and as she gave Oldham's address before leaving, no doubt that letter fell into his hands. The circumstances of the trans fer, did not come to her knowledge for some months after, when she was at Dresden, when she was informed that Oldham had gone to America. On her return to this country she made her claim, but the company declined to re-register her. Upon that she issued a writ, but in con sequence of the granting of this rule the action had not come on for trial. Miss Tritton, on her affidavit, swore positively that the registered transfers were forgeries, and that she never authorised Oldham to deal with the transfers other than to receive the dividends and hand them over to her. Rules had been obtained calling upon Miss Tritton to show cause why the registers in these two railways as regarded certain shares should not be settled by the court, under the 35th clause of the Companies Act, 1862. Hon. D. Campbell appeared on behalf of Miss Tritton, Mr. Watkin Williams and Mr. Cohen on behalf of the companies, Mr. J. Browne, Q.C., and Mr. Harrison on be half of the sub-purchasers. Mr. J. Browne said that Oldham, who forged Miss Trit ton's signature", sold the share. to a person named Stockiaghatu Colder, and the company, on the production of the transfers, transferred them to him as transferee of the shares, and he, through a broker on the Stock Ex change, soldthem to the other parties to the ride, who were bone fide holden. Mr. Justice Blackburn said Miss Tritton wished to get her shares back. It was immaterial to her who suffered. Mr. D. Campbell submitted that their lordship should order Miss Tritton's name to be re-entered on the register, and pay over to her the dividends with interest from the time of the forgery,together with the necessary costs. If nit, that the rule should be discharged with costs, and Mies Tritton be allowed to go on with the action she com menced last autumn. The Lord Chief Justice—What authority did she give to her agent to deal with the shares ' Mr. D. Campbell—Merely to receive the dividends and pay them over to her. Mr. J. Browne said that he appeared on behalf of the Rev. H. Burton and Mr. Woodburn, the sub-purchasers of the Bahia shares, and the contention was th►t as they did not pinhole on the forged transfers they ought not to be called on to refund the money. He contended that the company had no right to put the sub-purchasers forward to litigate this question, sad by a kind of interpleader rule. The company ought to pay. Mr. Justice Blackburn said all the court hail to do was to order Miss Tritton's name to be restored to the register, and they must recover from the company the money they bad paid for the shares. It was a matter of discretion how that question should be raised, either by an Lune or by a case, so as to bring in the intermediate parties. The Lord Chief Justice said the rule would be made ab solute to order the company to restore Miss Tiitton's name in respect of these shares, of which she was the holder, and that a case be stated as between Mr. Browne s clients and the company to raise the important question of the company's liability to refund to them. The company to ray the cost■ of this rule and ouch costs as hail been incurred by Miss Tritton in her actions, which, by the judgment of the court, would now be stopped. BUSINEIki OF THZ COUUT. The court will ut on Tneeday and Wednesday next, after term, in Lance), and take cases from the crown paper only. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-MAY 11. Sittings at Nisi Prius in Middlesex. —(llkfceu Mr. Justice Willes and • Common Jury.) emus r. CROMBIF. This was an action to recover damages in consequence of the plaintiff having been given into custody upon a charge of stealing a purse at the Polytechnic Institution. The defendant pleaded, in justification. that tlmplaintiff had stood close to her, that he pressed against her, and he was in company with a woman to whom he might have passed the property. That under these circumstances the defendant suspected the plaintiff, and therefore gave him into custody. Notwithstanding this plea, however, no one appeared to-day for the defendant. Mr. fierjeant Parry and Mr. Joyce were for the plaintiff. It was stated that the plaintiff, who was about 30 years of age, had been for several years in the employment of Messrs. Mason and Taylor, solicitors, of PurnivaPs-inn ; and having left them he returned home to his father, who was in business in Leigh-street, Burton-crescent. Whilstat home he bad rheumatic fever, and was • great sufferer. After his recovery he went, on Saturday the 23rd of December last, with his mother to the Polytechnic to see the dis solving views which were shown at tire in the afternoon. The theatre was quite full, and after the performance the plaintiff sod his mother went into another room, and whilst he was pointing out to her some objects of interest, the defendant, a young lady, came up and charged him with having cut her dress and abstracted her purse. The plaintiff indignantly denied the imputation, and stated who wars who the Lid, with him sacs. The defendant, hoWss tr. persisted in her ehaige, rod the phi n tlit v s s taken into custody by it policeman, who took ' him I • .r• a Mt. ratdley, the pollee immistrate Mari(. • hone puttee court. Th•• plaintiff was remanded, but the magistrate said Im would ac..ept ball for his appear,:nce on the following Monday ; and 1,- also directed the police inspeet..r himself to take hail if he found that the plaintiff was a respectable person. In the mean time the p:Mutiff was taken to the Hoe,. of Detention, where he remained until Sunday ev, aing. wlism he was r .le-sed on bail. The next day he went before the rusei.tra:e. when all the parties attended. and the charge was dismissed. Thereupon the plaintiff de manded that the defendant should make an apology and pay the expenses to which he had been put in d.dendiog himself. so notice was taken of this demand, Lot upon a writ (.ring issued, the defendant's solicitor went to the plaintiff's solicitor, and expressed his client's regret for the mistake which she hail made in charging the plaintiff with felony. Afterwards, however, the defendant's father in-law called on her solicitors, and withdrew lierexpression of regret. The plaintiff proved the circumstances stated by his counsel, and he appeared to be much affected while detail ing the circumstances of Li• imprisonment. The jury found for the plaintiff—damages, 10W. MARKETS. II R DWA BIRXIN011•11, MAT II - Tice trade of this town IN rather better : the orders im account of the home trade have rather blew:lied, and the reports received through the factori travellers .e more favourable. In the foreign depart ment, the aluggiali actb•n which has so long prevailed still continues. The advice. from the East Indica are moat encou raging, but rei regard. Australia and the Cape business is in a very bad state In every way. With respect tothe AMOTICAU trade there I+ no improvement whatever, and the accounts re ceived from that quarter induce the Inference that none la likely to take Maim nt grunt. On account of Mexico very little Is being done, and the continental trade generally Is slack, in no Instance Is it np to the average, and as to the restoration of foretell credit is Mill far from complete, • continuation of the existing langotir for some time longer is moat probable. The iron trade id this diatrict is more active, but prices have not yet Improrsd. • ourroN.—LIVICRPOOL, liar IL—Our market ban been strenst at ycaterday's hill prices. kstknated sake to-da 16,000 bales, Mantling 1.000 speculation and export. 8.000 to 1314.. $.lO Perusal, dtc.., l 0 d. to It'd.: 10 Marenham, 300 Staceio and !labia, Ilfd. to Irid.. 110 Ifapttan, lid. to lad.: Somme, lid. ; t. 020 Mont, GR. to 100. : Bengal, Mode, &c.. GNI. to 81d. ; 400 Pero. Ild. to 12d. Fair Dhollerah, 71d.: fair Cnanswuttee, fair Brooch, Ifid. : fair Bengal, d. : fair na 4ptiau, 14 : fair Pernam, 121 d. middling Bowed; I Id.; middling Orleans. Iltd. Carl'ON (7flODf4.—Nlaffestßern, MAT 11.—Witb 813,000 bales of cotton in stock, nto,ooll bales on the way to this country, and large shipments still in prospect both from America and India, the market is still subject to sudden and unexpected thictddions. During the whole week up to yesterday pri ce s went steadily down. in Wednesday cotton declined id. per lb.. and the tone of Thunders market was our showing weak- nen. I spier these eircurnstaness a sudden reaction to the ex. tent of Id* re erilay entirely took the Manchester market by surprise. re we no mills thin had been stopped or that were wor short time. so that the consumption had fallen off to 15.000 b des per week resuming opyrations. There was nothing in the commercial news to materiallY brighten prospects, and the only &learnable causes of the reaction were the settlement of the Lusenitsinquestion and the prospect of the Reform Bill, after cettlug clear of so many rocks and shoals, being pro bably safely past Its greatest perils. The first effect here was to induce manufacturers to put up their quotations • little, but the advance was steadily checked by buyers, who refrained from operating, and towards the close of the day the market was decidedly weaker. In this state we find the cloth market to-day. Prices have not wholly Inst the advance, but there is exceedingly little business possible. l'p to yesterday there bud been some business le shirting:li for India, and China shirtings were in inquiry, with offers at I.L decline per piece. Jai:courts, malls, long cloths, and T cloths are, and have been all the week meeting with only a limited demand, and are difficult of sale ; !but a moderate hardness is reported in printing cloths. Sellers of yarns yesterday got on better at the Id. per lb. advance imposed by the rise in cotton, and for export • good deal of business was done, though some of the transactions are I believed to have been speculative. Home trade yarns were fd. to id. dearer, with some fair sales, the manufacturers under contract being obliged to buy in order to keep their mills going and complete centracits. In most eases, however, they buy sparingly. and many manufacturers and spinners are so strongly impressed with the policy of the hand to mouth supply of cotton that they purpose going to Liverpool twice a week to make parchases instead of buying, as of late, • week's to • month • consumption at once. WOOLLEN —Lttbs. 31" e 11.—There has only bees asmail attendance of buyers at the cloth halls this morning . few repro sentailves of out-town houses have been present. slid owing to the dulness of trade along with unfavourable state of the weather during market hours, the amount of business transacted has been very restricted. The parcels which have changed hand" have. is most asses, been for actual requirements, and as It is now betwixt the seasons these wants have not been nume rous. consequently. the parcels which have left the cloth A .lls have not been huge either In number or value. In the coloured hall the demand Isms been chiefly for plain cloths, along with a few pieces of dark coatings, which have evidently been trans ferred only as SW** for the autumn trade. The inquiries fur spring goods now are mostly nominal, a pew Isolated pieces of tweeds changing howls as necessity requires. hlalrJdsts continue without much Improvement in the white market, and purchases have again been made with the greatest caution . and the transfer of heav) q,.sd Is as yet only small. Prices remain without any noticeable alteration. WOOL AND WORSTED.—BRADFORD, MAT 11.—The Im proved feeling appsrent on Thursday has continued to the else of the week. There has heen a fair inquiry for most assays of wool to supply the necessities of spinners, with a marked im provement in business. Staplers are obliged, however, to yield to last week's rates if they desire t • effect sales. Any effort to realise higher rates tends to cheek operations. Though little word's bought in the country, prices are more firm there thou here. There has been a slight improvement in worsted yarns. &sport merchants have shioim a iiMpositiou to 410 business both for the German and Russian markets. The chief business dime Is in single and twofold Ws. There has been no Improvement on recent rates. In pieces, the hotne merchants have pllia*d some orders long withheld in heavy fancy goods for autumn. but these operations are made very cautiously on account of the advance of the season. There Is little doing for the ON, Client, and still less for America. The lousiness done in plain goods has berU chiefly from stocks. Prime continue very low. CORN. --CART:sue, 3f AV 11.—A +m of supply of all kinds of grain at our market this morning. 111 e beg samples of wheat realised last week's prices. but Inferior sorts sold slowly, and at rather minced prices. Oats and barley were In fair demand, at last week's rates. Prices Wheat, white, ma. to _7s.: red, 225. to 265. , barley, 135. Ga. to 1:a.: potato oats, Iht to Per Carlisle bushel ; dour, 21 641. to t tel. oatmeal, ts. Q. to to. Ed.: baricynical and ryemeeJ, Is. 6d. per stone. COLCHL , TER, IA AT 11.—The supply of wheat was good, the bushiest; transarted was to a fair extent at barely last week's prices. A small wall of barley, and quotations unaltered. The supply of beaus was short ; au advance was realised of Is. to to, per qr. 01:11,Drollr•, MAT 11.—A moderate supply of wheat : of other grain very short. Wheat was In fair dinaud, but late prices were with difficulty realised. Spring corn without disuse In value. Wheat. Ns. to 795. Barley. 345. to 4M. Osta, tfs. to 30s. leans, 4N. to 475. 114firrogn, MAT 11.—A moderate supply of wheat, and trade dull at last week's rides. Grinding barley made fernier prima. Malting samples dull sale and lower. Oats. beaus, and pews all the turn dearer, and but few offering. Wheat, red, per load, SM. to SOL ; fine, Sita ; white, Ms to 424 ; fine, abs Barley, malting, per qr., 40s. to Ws. ; grinding, 24a. to Ms. ; oats, roarer, per qr., lla. to NW; feed, 32.. Beans, per load, Ms. to 31a. Peas, 21s. to 30a. Mc - ESTER, MAT ll.—There was a seasonable show of wheat at oar corn market. Sales were made slowly as barely late prices. Old white sold at 70a. to 7ya : old red, OM. to GM.: sew white. GM. to 70a.: new red, 371 to 645. per Se stone. e had a very small show of barley, prices for which were scarcely equal to time of last week. For oats there was a healthy inquiry, and the show being limited buyers had to pay a slight advance on the previous week's rates: old, Ms. to 371. new. Ms to Ws. per 34 atone. There were not many beans un over. and sales were effected at • rise of It per quarter on late currencies new, 4ts. to Pia. per 38 stone. Flour maintained previous rata NaltetaTLE-Croll•Titili. MAY 11.—At our Market this morn. lug we had a moderate Mow of wheat from the growers, as well as from the coast and Abroad, for which u slow *Ale was experienced at about last Saturday's rates. lingines. from the stands proved unite M a retail character, but In the sales effected rectal prices were sustained both for English and foreign floss was very sparingly dealt in, the weather being against holding large stocks. t Winding barley met litte attention. Malt, unless floe, neglected. Beaus and peas were firmly held, and the same remarks will apply to oats. The arrivals this week are:—Wheat, coastwise, 3,929 ; foreign, 1,955 Rye, foreign. lit Barley, cossiwile. 90: foreign, 191. Oats, coastwise, 1,719 Peas, Imolai, Beane, coastwise, 20: foreign, 190 yes. Flour, coast% in. 1,207 mocks. Indian corn flour, 140 sacks. • NORWICH. MAY ll.—The supply of wheat was tolerably good as ibis niarket So-day. and farmen being unwilliost to make any concession in prices, trade has been slow at about the rake of this day se !might. In barley, oats. beans, and peas, there was not h doing. The weather during the weak has been hot and forcing ; lad evening a heavy thunder stsrivi with seasonable rain &bonen passed over the district. and will prove of incalculable benefit to all the growing crops. White wheat (weighing figlba to a slbs. , 70s. to 746. ; red ditto weigh. leg dull. to Walk. , etc to the, per qr. ►'lour, 45, to sns per sack. Averages: Wheat, 2,00 qrs., Csa. ad. ; barley. 35 gra, 34a. 3d. NOTTINOSIAII, MAT 11.—Tbere was a fair supply of wheat, for which the demand was Inactive at late rates for tine sorts; inferior rather lower. White samples realised ths. to 745. : red, 645. to 7cla per 36 stone. There was a very small supply of barley, and little demand was experienced at little or no alteration In prices malting, 40e. to 48s. per quarter ; grinding. 301. to 365. per 30 stone. (if oats the show was also meagre. and a good in quiry took place. For the bust samples late prices were rather exceeded eecondary kinds were held firmly The late rates: old, 325. to 3.5 s ; new, 25e. to 32e. per 24 stone. The supply of beans was scanty, and samples were readily disposed of at au advance of ls. per yr.: old. 345. to Sas. ; new, 445. to 48s. per 313 stone. Peas quite as deer as last week. Super flour, .S2s. to 645.: fine, 475. to 30e. per 20 stone. OxrvitD, MAY corn exchange today was well sup• plied with wheat, and dealers and millers were anxious W pur• chase If fanners would but submit to a small reduction In price; this they refu ed to do, and consequently business was very much contracted; the very prime samples realised 765. per quarter: other qualities ranged from etia ; barley ruled fres MM. 40., and very little tieing ; oats and beans we:e scarce and dear, the former making troin 235. to 345., the latter 4.35. to fed. ; hog peas were worth from 445. t r Us.; Pour ;seconds`,, 501. and 33a per sack. PETIRJOUROUGII. MAY 11.—We had here to-day a good supply of wheat, and prices were Is. to ts. per qr. lower than last week. All kinds of spring corn reeler to buy. ZZADINO, Slay 11.—There was rather a better attendance than usual today at our market. The quantity of wheat on offer was about an average one, end a moderate amount of 111151- new was dose. Prices re.maln very much the Lame. /Weir Verge Mar 11.-1 n consequence of the late tine weather lame supplies of wheat were brought to this nuu het by fanners and factors, while there was a fair allemlanee of the town and conntry trade. (driest however, to the tinfAvonrahle chandler of the reports received from the leading markets budged at our corn exchange was sluggish, while millers and buyers rtinseil to operate to ally extent, merely satisfying themselves with purehadng to meet existing demands. Extra tine lots of both white and red kinds of wheat were Ann, but secoadary and ufgeur patsy's ouhl lie purchased r.ir about 1. , r. i . tr t. rum. The yremast yieutestinau tor white t and estracholee 'amides, Tin to 7.n. iir : "wig" st.d interior lot, of whit.. r. 1:: • r rest wheat, Ws. 1.1 rat..: wy mot, o, and Inferior, bas. to tlrs. per yr In id fwr..lgyi I. bald for fall rates, but secondary kinds can he purshasrd lea a trifle less money. There is little Milton in the roar market, ant nriees are abort the same an before :or nest kill. , told "gin a Into an. Anna It _per mei. clingier. A hatter demand w as ci. prelims. for barley, slid super for 1.. n„ h rowing/HI about .4 per gr. i t iA rr r a t a . ; grinding itualltiw are unaltered kg malting aorta, 414. to f''.: and :It, to g s yer secondaig melting. 40a. to 444 ; and irriuding. At, Pa Ir. Malt without alteration, aryl :lie nomad Maitre. Th, large supplies of oats eueztautJy offering vatind that aescritinin nt grain to rule hairy, and prices are the tuna eh„ net, aji h at the beet old kinds being about nil. tier yr. le., MOW GINA .14 beans are gnu, and late rates are well sin coned tnai. th e y.. as before, tot the demand e. WIABLeiI. MAT 11.—We We well 'applied • ith wheat to-dty . end little of sprhig corn. I, not so nod: a Nal, day week. hieing corn of all kinds quite HA dear the grower: Wheat, white, (kr. 7t... elillo wad ditto red, 645. to atia., 611 ha per laming ; oat. Ind to lid p i , atone ; beans, 47a. to tug per as stone. Woitemerga, MAY 11.—it this days market there was aby supply of wheat, and to make progtv—i in sales a derlii.,4 per qr. had to be submitted to. Barley tending dominate, Oats gd. per qr. higher. Beans and peas unaltered. Yoe): MAr 11. —The supply of wheat at today's market •• limited, and buslnesa firm at about pre* 1. air eurremi e ; White qualities may it ws itten Me. to 70e • red. lee. to Gin stone In barley there wee next to nothing doing and pi, may he ionsidered nominal: malting, See. to 405. µvv.. o k,d ing, 345. to 98a. per 30 stone. Oats were very sparingly pp, tented, and there was a fair share of business .lone at the et treme rates of the week mending new, tns. to Ms. per yi stone. Me supply of beans was short. The demand ruled One and the turn in prices was In fermi. of the seller . ore . its t. Ms. per 38 stone. Malt, 6Se. to 705.: rye, Ate. per yr. ph,,, z. 475. per sack of tigilbs. W•TnitPoll., MAT 11.—Thle week our receipts of holy, from all Bounties have been very limited. %o foreiim arrnau We have had • moderate inquiry for all articles of Ulf trade, In some instances holders are obliged to accept lower pen.. Wheat- Irish—None on offer, and our quotations are Wen* nominal. Foreign, with a pretty fair demand. is tally Barley 6d. lower. Black oats well bought up at • trifle I money. Indian rumu the turn in favour of buyers. sad intiaired for at the present Currency. Flour unchanged. he poets this week —Floor, 24 sacks: meal. 44). Eileets the week Wheat, 6PS hernia ; 0 415. ff,t 7 i 4 ' o K.V. 617 Ma' ; oatmeal, =I. MURDER OF A CHI,LD BY 17• 310THEIL—Ile Saturday ravaging considerable excitement was occasicaed at Deptford, in consequence of a rumour that a child haul been murdered by its mother, and which, unfortun a tely, turned out to be too true. hesiding at adfl, New Cross road, was a family in well-to-do circumstances, caulking of Mr. and Mrs. Bell, a daughter, about twenty yeas of age, and a eon, aged nine and a-half years. There hoot bee other children of the family, who have died off, and their deaths appear to have had a great effect on the mind of the mother, who has for some time past been observe, to be in a desponding state. Ot, Saturday she was noticed looking about the house, and was heard to say, " I moan find a knife sharp enough," but unfortunately no notice vu taken of this observation. Later in the day she went into the kitchen, where the little boy was alone, and tax* bold of him she cut his throat in a frightful manner, the head being nearly severed. In the house was found 3 common table inufe, with which the deed woo committed. Dr. Downing, the police divisional surgeon, and other medical (gentlemen, were quickly on the spot, but their aid was of noavail. The wretched murderess was at occe taken into custody, and will undergo an examination haws the magistrate this day. FRHIHTFU.L EXPLOSION OF A Isomuirrive.—On Saturday an inquest was held at Shildon, near Darlingtm, on view of the body of Thomas Parker, an engine driver. who was killed by an explosion of a locomotive near that place on the previous day. The accident occurring on So Darlington section of the North Eastern Railway, where the engine drivers are on strike, awl from the fact of both the driver and fireman being new hands, more this ordinary interest attached to the proceediag% it being qbertionable whether the incompetesty of the men may have had anything to do with the accident. Nothing, however, was proved ' tending to encourage such a supposition, and it was jewel that an old fireman was on the engine at the tune acting as instructor to the new bends. A similar accident .In occurred in the Fame neighbourhood two yeare ago and:,. the management of the old hands. Mr. Chieholm, salting engineer, who bad examined the fragments, gm it as his opinion that the rivets and not the plates ginni way was the cause of the accident. The jury returned verdict of " Accidental death," and notwithstanding that, as stated above, there appeared to be no evidence to justify a supposition of incompetency on the part of the engine-driver, who had been a fitter of engines for many years, appended the following :—" We beg to state W th railway company that we think the deceased was iaex perienced in the use of a locomotive engine, and we nom mend both for the safety of the persona employed on the line and the public in general that more experienced 'e vents should be en ed. ' ' SHIPWRECK AND LOMA OF EIGHTEEN LivEq. —The following is en extract from a letter received by Messrs. W. Rowe and Co., of Liverpool, from Mews. Cage. Rowe, and Co. dated Cape Hayti, April 19 :—" Captain Neilson, of the Marie from Grimsby, 32 days' peonage, reports having picked up in the Channel a man floating on a pm 'f wreck. He was the only survivor of the crew of the Norwegian barque, Carl Johann, bound from Liverpool for Bergen, with a cargo of salt. The Carl Johann, after having landed a Liverpool pilot at some port in the Chu. nel, sprang a leak, and foundered with all hands on hoard, with the exception of the man named." THE SNIDER RIFLE AT GIERALTAR.—The sale riority as a weapon of destruction of the new breech-load ing rifle, which our army is for the future to carry, mo clearly shown yesterday at the inspection of the gird Regiment on the North Front. This regiment, which armed throughout with the Snider rifle, fired off lifters round, of blank ammunition durmg the peraile, U1%1,1111, file firing, and skirmishing. The independent firing is so rapid and well sustained that the sound is like one lag continuous volley, and must he most murderous is ito effect. The volley firing was naturally not so quick .1 the independent firing, but an average of five round' per minute was obtained. Several thousand stand of doe new arms have arrived here, and the whole of the troop , in garrison will be supplied with them before the end of the week. The new system of drill is much simpler this that of the old muzzle-loaders and competent instructors have for some time past been in process of tudnine throughout the different reg iments . It is pretuble. therefore, that by the Queen 's birthday every ithinte soldier in Gibraltar will be able to handle the new !We with ease and precision.-00raltar Chrowide, Mayo. _ _ THE HEAVY BOMBAY MAILA.--rsorrHAEPYoN , 11.%V 11. —The Peninsular and Oriental Company 'o stem ship Ceylon, Capt. Evans,. with the ala y: max, p • see RPM 1,707/. in al. cie, and si general cargo, has a rria e. bert She experienced fine weather durinv, her passage. Oa the 4th inst., off the West Coast of Corsica be passed the schooner Cupid, of Nova Scotia, waterlog;ed and deserted The 'dumper appeared to have been run into. GIBIALTA MAY 4.—Her Majesty's troop ship Orontes, with the NW Light infantry, left to-day for Mauritius. Her Majesty's ships Skylark and Redpole are in the harbour. EtehAt on London, 491, to 50 ; Paris, :if. 25e. W 26c. ; Sadist 1 dis. - DESPATCH OF THE BOMBAY MAILS.--SoFTIIA II ' row, MAY 12.—The Peninsular and Oriental Compaq . ' ateamahip Entine. Captain Steward , sailed hence tw aa l with mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt, MO. Bombay, and Upper Bengal. The Eusine took outti passengers. r r 7 - idtaverusementi—HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT Alta PILL. —lireat Relict —All gouty and rheumatic deism weakness and wasting of the Minim, ilia JOild.ll. 1111 d eontrawa sinews can be treated with the certainty of success k the " gent friction of tld,, ewelient ointment upon the elicited 1. 4 after it has been patiently fomented with warm brine. 114 ways pill. should he taken be the patient w h o fairly tIW , th. treatment. because they purify the blond, invigorate the g ., 0 , 01%.`11, regulate the beer, stimulate the kidneyd. act 55 os. aperient on the bowels. and an tonics on the nerve+. kri dbmssiu and glandular complaints Hollsoln's reinnli• earnestly recommended on account of their gentle )et 4 ° l ' action when a long train of scrofulous evils surround its tuns BIRTHS, MABRIAOBS, AND DF.ATIDL BIRTHS. IIt'CRLEY.—May 9, at FaHum-road, Rrompton, S. , the e ,9 of J Buckley, Rm., of • son. BUCKLRY.—May 10, at Mt. George'awitare, the wile Buckley. Ray., of a drawbar. LLOV H.—My 9, at l'pper Tut ington•road, tin an of J. Lloyd, of aam MARSHALL—May 9, at Mitcham, Surrey, the 'if , Mar.h..ll, Yap., of a son. , J N —May 10, at Eaton-terrace, Eatonaquare, l •''' C Nascent. Faq., of a son. ,i RAMMLIEN.—May 10, at Yorrateise, Waltluuustun. the M. Ramadan, Bay., of aeon. MARRIASES. late ANTSCIiY—ADAMS.—!(ay Si, at Christ Church, Tunstail. Bay. C. J. Asthury, Harry Want. sun "(the late J A-1,42; Eaq.. of Stand Lodge. Mancheswr, to gisr.gh, late W. Adams. ,of Greenfield. 'Mesta. gtaffoggihin 01.1.1CSIIEIM —FENZI.-11.0 e. at the Betted% Corium , . In react% by the Rev. Robert Wilma fottenhani, haplmn Ligetion, Gustave Adolphe Oppentielm, Eau.. h'sl' l "" Alexandila Eopt . third sou of hiniuU Ipprnheisg, Chepstow•villus Went, London. to Eugenia. efleg , is P`; of Cavel. re sebaatiano Fruit and grauti4anghter id Emanuel Fetal, of rlorruee. STETTON—RAWLINB4.IB.—May 9. at All saint, Itd t. R Teak, by the Nev. 0. 8. Dtew, A. utrettou. of Acute, daughter of S. S. ltawllarou, Ley., of IC roul. ft haatapark. DEATHS. ATKIN9ON.—May 9, at Clarendon.n , a.l, Nottinr hal Atklnzon, 99. BRANSON.- -Slay A, at Perahridgc-rquare, W. 11. W 919. J &manna. Iraq., aired AL MICHELL—SIay 9. at lite.ley Ezditr. 9t. Janter.-rad. eP4ll' 8 6 1 1 1 .9 1. the Ear. U. lib:hell, Well 61. PRICIL—May 11, Elizabeth, the ado of T. 171,v, lha'h 3r 'P t treet, litalSco, Lied 79. EUTTLIZDGE.—SIat 9, Maryanne. the wile of Dr. Ruttlrir• oe l arte-street. Ilannrer aquae,. V ARIJJ. —Ma) a. at Clarendon Haase, Upper Nret.. l "I" O. Van.. 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