The Express. — London, England, 1867-05-08 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. ice-Chancellor Sir It. Malimn.) ;el I. THE In KS ect.nectt. ,a:tal in this case was the purchaser of 'hi acres of I originally formed part of the waste of • . f Plain Furness, in Lancashire, of which .• , t oas the landlord. Fay the general and ,t,rt. .Leta it was provided that a portion to be cold to pay the c•peuscs of the in ' : ttil in question was part of the lend sold in sub.. quently iron ore Was dis t the nil, and a mining lease was granted . I .11:1Lel•ncli to Mr. Kennedy, who proceeded .. sinking shafts. :mil teething other v.r. • I ti th, reupon tiled a bull, by which . mined first, whether the plaintiff wan -r. of the land to the centre of theearth, , •. : tt , • the court decid,•,lag:tinst him on that „ .. • Mt. Kennedy was entitled -.0 to work the tos e ....lista, me of the nod, which would be • . .t Ito the propene, a small town having i':.• tiev4ithotirltinsi. :mil the Lund having .t.i. v valuable for building ilfifTolles . • stoics were argue.' separately, and upon the • ,: •it had decided a; : tainst the plaintiff. The . , y fully ru t.t, :111d now came on fur .I• • y I .ener:l. Mr. shapter, and Mr. !)rice - • ••I i'f ; Sir l'liner, Mr. Patiley, mid Mr. ; • • I. [la. of Luecleuch ; and 3lr. Chose and • • ' \ I Ketined ~, • nor held thot by the enclosure the lord . • • d it, , ,a All right whott ser to the surface. It ' . •• I ,••I doaan in repeated eases that the grant of :.; lond only ;;ace authority to work . h •,( th•• minerals as would leave a 1.0.011- art for the surface, and that the owner ,• u - • ,s-:• might maintain an action against A of the tubs Las for oily injury be _• ~ : I,y the subsidence of the soil. In this us Lint relied uison a C 11.411111 in the district • •• author, the owner to let skull the surface • .he ra•ruhre , l it necessary, but the h.,,1 t 11 to establish such a cus s 5, a if the custom haul been established „ w:a hound by the decision in the , •- il:iron v. Lord Isranville," in which it was t ,-iedoos for the owner of misier.ds so to work • is t:. • nut face to the injury of boildings was ..•n, tint. tht . l . l . fOre, hi' :5 pa•rpettial injunction 1 - • 'Me defendant front causing a subsistence of the ~• 11,- was aware that the result would • spat tae owner of the minerals at a:. •-f the owner of the surface ; but - • I..•!isiscs s of the hind the essussmon interest of the so, • I 1,1 to arrangements bete,: them. The bill would 1., i.• , , .• d coats as to the tit -t point; but a decree ,e with costs in favour of the plaintiff upon LI, • ,•,!,,1 c:!I'ET OF QUEEN'S BENCH. !Low (Beft;re the k,rd Chief Justice and .I,stices . Slicc aspl • :11c 1.,t crown papot .143. chis.tenn. I giI.CAT - Ml.- . 071CN ItAIIAVAY COMPANY. al:. Hayes (with whom wire Mr. Barrow and a1i..1. t I .l;tiltit,) appeared for the prosecution. It was an itoitet.hent against the Great Western Railway Company, num.:, of the river Kennett navigation between New ton v :o.•; elin for the non-repair of the bridge, and th e 'tin.: was whether they, or the county,or the parish set, talk int- the repait Withont calling upon Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., with whom was Mr. Dowd...well, Q.C., for the defendant, tie court gave judgment for the defendants. IeSTIN an rppeal against the decision of the . justices oft ender the 2:l7th sec. of the M e rchant Snipping Act of I • - d. On the 4th April, 1.501, Austin being in C.odir .i:ti et: into an agreement to ship himself as a sub stitute fin a seaman who had deserttsl a British ship, the Etichnir, C 0..:. He was afterwards met by Olsen and asked to ship himself in another ship, but he refused, giv ing :t the s tine time the reason for his refusal,viz., that he tel , liipped ett board the Eng: attl'a Rose. Olsen repeated hi. .ippliettion, and Austin again refused. Olsen was suas.ittieley summoned under the 25itli section of the act for atteilipting to persuade" Austin to desert his ship and join another, and convicted in the penalty of 101. Austin went to sea, a nd on hi s re t urn h e laid the information com plained of. The penalty it appears goes to the prosecutor. Two points arose first, whether Austin was a Sefanan not having signed articles at th e tittle Olsen applied to hint, aol .ecotelly, that he had not laid the information within siN eo,ittlis required by the act, and that point involved another question, at what period the time co ~,,,, enced to run. The respondent was unable to lay the information before the ship sailed the following morning. Or. Wieldy appeared for the appellant, and contended that the conviction was bad. No one mpeartal for the respondent, The court said the case must be sent back to the magis trates for them to state the hour when the solicitation took place, and the hour the ship left the following morn in;. and if it was practicable for the information to have le t laid before the man proceeded to sea. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sitting" in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chief Baron and Atrium Martin, Bramwell, nod Channel.) SLADE T. SLADE. Mr. Coleridge resumed and concluded this morning bin argument in favour of the defendant. The Solicitor-General then proceeded to reply. It is not likely that his address will be concluded by the rising of the court. COURT OF PROBATE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) SMITH AND SMITH 7'. TEOHITT AND I , TFINILS, Sir I:.liner, Q.C., Serjeant!tontine, Dr. Spinks, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey for the plaintiffs ; th e Q ueen ' s J Advocate, M r . Edward ameA. Q.C., and Dr. Tristram for Mu. Tebbitt, the principal defendant; the Solicitor. General. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr. Sere for the others. This ce.c was once more resumed. Ilr. Henry Cook, the husband of Mrs. Tebbitt's eldest daughter, gave evidence respecting the religious con ver,ations of the deceased similar to that which has been already reported, nsque ad nauseam. The object for which be was specially called, however, was to corroborate a statement ut his wife, that she had kept a diary of her aunt's saying& and doings. The witness said he had bought the book, had given it to her, and had begged her to keep the record in question. 'rues-exam ineit—Hail received a letter vesting wit ness to come from Paris to give evidence. Presum ed it M.ii from his wife, but could not say for cer tain. It was directed in her hand-writing. The fact was that his brother-in-law, Mr. Alfred Tebbitt, bad come over to him, bad told him that his evidence was rola ired. but lied begged hint not to hold any further coin. munication with him on the subject. Mr. Tebbitt also told hie, that witness's wife had written to him, but begged bite nut toopen the letter. They therefore wentto the mime, asked bin to apply to the poet-office for it, and place his oßicial veal ujsm it to certify that it had not been opened. Ti,. maire accordingly did so. Serjeant Ballantine—But did he also place his official sect upon the lips of Mr. Alfred Tebbitt! Witness--1 submit that that is not a proper question, bemuse it relates to an impohqihility. The Queen's Advocate—lt is only meant to be a kind of s Ilallantine—l did not mean it to be a kind of .Pke. but to conve y th e i mpress i on that his evidence had /1131, , upon Ille. Witness-1 hail no further conversation with Mr. Teb hitt than I have stated. The diary was kept while I wax lining in London. When we went to live at Worthing it was discontinued, because we did not think it right while we were living near :Aim. Thwaytes. Serjeant liallantine —Then differences of locality make a deference in moods? Witness No ; but when I wax at Worthing, I was more directly receiving benefits from Mrs. Thwaytes. The letter with the seal unbroken having been put in, The Queen's Advoc a t e p rocee d e d to sum up the case of the defendants, and was speaking when we went to press. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RI: I , AVI 4 .—REVI'4AL or A WITNESS TO AV:IIFR. Mr. Ree.l appeared in support of a judgment debtor sum :now, which had been taken out, under the 70th section of the Act of at the instance of the official liquidator of the Accidental Marine Insurance Company (Limited), who had obtained judgment a.;ainst Mr. Davis, a shipping a;ent, for _t W., debt awl costs. At a former sitting the defendant had obtained an adjournment, on the ground that he had instituted proceedings in Chancery against the o:!itiJl liquidator to Ptay proceedings under the judg ment ; but it was now stated that the suit in Chancery had iaan dismissed. Mr. Dark the defendant. being sworn, objected to be examined in the present stage of the case. Hi, Honour overruled the objection. Bee,' was proceeding to examine him, when he flatly 114 , ...,1 to answer any questions. MA Honour thereupon made an order for his committal to pri,n. The T defendant said he should appeal against the order, and hi., Honour consented to stay the execution of the warrant for ten day'. (Before Mr. Commissoner Goulburn.) IN HE W‘LLACK..—sENTY:NCE or 1311.nleoNMENT. lon'olipt way a boot and shoe manufacturer of l)ebts, 1,6001. ; no assets. This applies for order of di-charge was opposed on the usual that of contracting debts without probable means 14 1..3 ni.ont. Ilia Honour, in giving judgment, said this was one of a ch.. , of cows now too froluent--where there had been a f”re...r bankruptcy. before his last failure the bankrupt bad zi‘, l a bill of salv on all he possessed to Davis and Nqn, who, very improperly, had allowed him to give m- Thices to them, and thus to obtain credit from Mr. •sv and other creditors. Having obtained "L'r ' k e goods, he disposed of them in his way, and then Negev*. Davis and Bon stepped THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVIWNG, MAY 8, 1867. in, Ind swept away all he had. On the benlerrpt's behalf it was alleged that he expected Davis and Son would still further assist him; but this was improbable in the ex treme. The only extenuating circumstance was the ex treme imprudence of the creditor, who had neglected to make due inquiry. Doubtless this was a case where the bankrupt ought to go to prison; but there were great diffi culties attending such a course, owing to a late decision of the Lords Justices to hear the evidence of the party inculpated, without hearing any answer to it. However the court would put on record a full statement of the facts of the case, and would sentence the bankrupt to six months' imprisonment in Whitecross-street prison. Ihi the application of Mr. Griffiths, for the hankrupt, his Honour consented to stay the execution of the warrant for a week. IN RE T. T. SOI 031oN. The bankrupt was a merchant of Lower Thames•street, and elsewhere. The accounts, prepared by Messrs. Dubois Newstead, show debts of 9,KM., against assets and property held na security returned at about GASP. tJn the application of Mr. lAwrance, for the assignees, an adjournment wan ordered, the accounts having been only just tiled. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) Stephot Samar( Wales, a respectable-looking man, stir. rendered to take his trial upon a charge of having feloniously and unlawfully art fire to his dwelling-house with intent to injure and also with intent to defraud the Western Insurance Company. Serjeant liallantine was specially engaged with Mr. F. 11. Lewis to conduct the prosecution. Mr. ItiLfun and 3lr. Montagu Williams were for the defence. The evidence in support of the charge was, as is usual in such cues, entirely or a circumstantial character, and some of the testimony that was adduced was of a very extra ordinary character. The prisoner carried on business as a dealer in unredeemed pledges, at No. 27, Prince of IVales's-creacent, Haverstock-hill ; and in November, last year, he effected an assurance with the Western Fire-orrice, for 9:10f. and at that the stock and furniture .li.l not appear to be at all over insured. The fire took place about half-past l 2 o'clock at night, on the 21st of January. When the fire brigade were sent to the premises ' they forced open the back-door and at this time th e y observed that the tire was burning under the counter, and appeared to be of on unimportant character, but just as they were about to enter the shop, a violent explosion took place, and the premises were in an instant tilled with smoke and vapour, and the brigade-man who was in the back room was nearly suffocated, and at the same moment there was a strong smell of tar. The tire seemed to have been got under without much trouble, and the first thing that was observed was that the stock had very much diminished, anti that the furniture was of very scanty character, the whole of the property in the house being apparently not worth more than DI/. The assistance of Dr. Odling and some other eminent chemists was obtained to investigate the matter, and the result they appeared to have arrived at was that the explosion was occasioned by oil tar, a most inflammable substance, and they expressed an opinion that when the explosion took place, in consequence of theextenial coldness of the atmosphere—the fire having oc curred upon one of the coldest nights of the late inclement winter—the vapour was forced back and had entrusted the walls and the floors allover the house with an ingredient re sembling black paint. When the fire brigade men first went into the house they observed this extraordinary appearance of the walla, and at first the belief was entertained that they hail been painted, but subse quent examination and investigation of the nature of the materials led to the result above stated being arrived at. The prisoner seemed to have accounted for the smell of tar by stating that a quantity of oil-cloth had been consumed. The prisoner and his wife appeared to have been the only members of the family in the house at the time the tire occurred, and when the alarm was given they were found, it was said, at the back of the prernises,fully dressed, and the bed they usually occupied was found turned down, and ready for use, but did not seem to have been occupied. In addition to this it appeared that a coil of rope was found at the top of the house, and a ladder was also in the back yard, and preparations seemed to have beea made to enable parties to make their escape from the house in case of an emergency. It was also alleged that when the prisoner was seen first, after the alarm had been given, he was carrying a tin box, and almost the only article contained in this box was the policy of insurance. The trial was proceeding when we went to press, and it was likely to occupy the whole of the day, as it was stated that there were a number of witnesses to be examined for the defence. (Before the iteoorder.) Epitcettt OF MOTH. Joseph Later Sntittie, 31, law clerk, was arraigned on an indictment charging him with forging the real to two queen's Bench writs of subpoena, with intent to defraud one Henry Fox. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and also to two other indictments varying the form of the charge. Mr. Poland (with whom was Mr. Houston) appeared for the prosecution, which he stated had been instituted by the Treasury with a view to check certain irregular prac tices carried on by persons in the position of the prisoner. It seemed that the prisoner met with the prosecutor at a pablichouse in the Borough, and undertook to pen two writs of subpoena for witnesses in an action brought by Fox amunst • person, and for that purpose gave the prisoner (at his request) two sums o f 4 p s. and of 2a. They went together to the writ-office in the Temple, into which the prisoner entered alone, but after some time came out again, and handed two documents purporting to be genuine subpoenas to the prosecutor, who went away to serve them ' but discovered before d o i ng so that they were both false and forged. The forgery con sisted of taking the impression of the seal on a genuine writ on to other writs before the ink was dry. Mr. Straight, who appeared for the prisoner, urged in mitigation his previous good character and the fact that he had been out of a situation for the last six months, and that his wife and young family were at the time almost in • state of starvation. The Recorder observed that the prisoner had com mitted an aggravated system of fraud, and sentenced him to be imprisoned with hard labour for 18 calendar months. NINGLLAR CASE OF UNLAWFULLY WOUNDING. JAn Damian, a powerful young man, described as a sailor, was indicted for feloniously wounding Elisabeth Westbury, an elderly woman, with intent to do her griev ous bodily harm. Mr. Daly prosecuted, and the evidence disclosed that on the' 24th April last, she was passing along North-street, Com mercial-road East, when she saw the prisoner and her son engaged in a tight, and that she rushed to the release of her son, when the prisoner got herfore finger into his mouth and bit it so severely as to fracture the bone in two places. She had been under the doctor's care ever since. It further appeared that the son of the prosecutrix during the con flict had been bitten by the prisoner not only on the hand but also on the left shoulder through his coat. The prisoner, in his defence, pleaded intoxication, and that he had been set upon by two men before he made any resistance. The jury found the prisoner Guilty of the minor offence of unlawfully wounding, and The Recorder sentenced him to 12 months' imprison ment with hard labour. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Bodkin, Aaidetant Judge.) LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE ASCOT MESTING.-(THIS DAY.) • HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. T.Y.C. Satyr ... ... ... .. Confederate ... ... ... ... General Sherman ... ... ... 6 ran. PLATE OF £5O. T.Y.C. D'Extournol, Yardarm, Poleaxe, Chevalier, Manoeuvre f, Xi, Futurity, Vivian, Benefactives,lParadise, St. Valentine, Knight of the Garter, Rhymer, Cauthleen, and Sibthorpo are here. MONEY MAREET.-(THIS DAY.) On o'OLociz. In the Stock Exchange to-day attention is partly directed to preparations for the monthly settle ment in the English funds, and the amount of general business is somewhat small. The supply of stock is not large, and the rate for continuing transactions to the 6th of June account is slightly below 2 per cent. per annum. Notwithstanding the absence of activity, the markets are firm, and the variations in prices are mostly in an upward direc tion, the impression still being that the difficulties abroad will be settled by the Conference. The advance in Consols does not exceed 1-16 per cont., but some of the railways, including Great Northern A, and London, Brighton, and South Coast, are 1 better. Foreign stocks have riven 0 0 4. The demand for money to-day is not active, although a large amount of miscellaneous paper has just arrived at maturity. The general quotation is 3 per cent., but some transactions have taken place at 21. The charge in the Stock Exchange for loans from day to day, on English government securities, is 2 per cent. Consols are now quoted 911 to I for money and to-morrow's settlement, and 91k to g for the 6th of Juno. The Three per Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cents. are without change, at 891 to g. Exchequer Bills show steadiness, at 20s. to 255. prem. The India Five per Cent. stock is firm, at nog to g. The foreign stock market is moderatelyactivc, and a rise of 1 to 1 per cent. has occurred in Turkish of 1865, Spanish Passive, the Committee's Certificates, and Italian of 1861. Turkish Bonds of 1865 are quoted 28i to 29/ ; Greek, 13/ to g ; Spanish Passive, 20 to # ; ditto Certificates, 13 to I ; Italian of 1861, 48g to e ; Mexican, 151 to 16. Bank shares are inanimate. Union of London and Alliance are without variation, at 38.1 to 39i and 11 to 10 dis., respectively, but Imperial Ottoman exhibit a reduction at to t dis. Financial and miscellaneous aharea are unaltered. International Financial are quoted 21 to 2 dia. ; London Financial, 231 to 22} dia. ; General Credit, 2/ to P dis.; Credit Fonder, 61 to P, die. ; National Discount, 7 to prem.; and Hudson's Bay, 16 to I. American securities and Atlantic Cable shares are without change of importance. The 5-20 Bonds arc quoted 71 to i; Erie Railway shares, 411 top; Illinois Central, 74} to 75 ; Anglo-American, 18/ to 19, and Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent. Pre ference, 41 to 5. The twentieth half-yearly dividend, at the rate of 10s. per cent., on the debt of Ecuador, which became due ou the let of November, 1865, will be paid at the office of the Ecuatorian Commission of Agency on the 21st instant. A meeting of the Lambeth Waterworks Com pany will be held on the 28th inst., to receive the report from the directors and to declare a dividend. HALF-PAST THESE O'CLOCK. Consols are i per cent. better than at 1 o'clock, the present quotations being 911 to for money, and 91g to # for tho account. About 4,0001. in gold has been sent into the Bank, and 4,0001. withdrawn. About 5,000/. in American eagles was withdrawn from the Bank yesterda for the Continent. The City of Baltimore, front New York, has brought 62,000/. in specie. The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were steady. The only alteration worth mentioning was a further decline in the rates on Vienna and Trieste, a movement which results from the gradual returnof political confidence. The usual list is subjoined : Amsterdam, 3 months, 11.181 to 11.19; ditto, short, 11.161 to 11.171; Rotterdam, 3 months, 11.184 to 11.19 ; Antwerp, 3 months, 25.371 to 2 5.421; Brussels, 3 months, 25.371 to 25.421; Hamburg and Alton*, 3 months, 13.81 to 13.9; Berlin, Cologne, &a. 3 months, 6.241 to 6. 1 21 ,• St. Petersburg. 3 months, 304 , to 301; Paris, short, 23.10 tw:25.221 ; ditto, 3 months, 25.323 to 25.371; Marseilles, 3 months, 25.321 to 25.374 ; Prankfort.on.the-Maine, 3 mouths, 1194 to 119 5 ; Vienna, 3 months, 13.30 to 13.40 ; Trieste, 3 months, 13.30 to 13.40 ; Madrid, 3 months, 484 to 481; Santander, 3 months, 484 to 481; Cadiz, 3 months, 494 to 49; Seville, 3 mouths, 494 to 49; Malaga, 3 months, 48A to 484; Valencia, 3 months, 481 to 484 ; Bar. oelona, 3 months , 49 to 484 ; Bil6oa, 3 months, 481 to 484 ; Sermonise, 3 months, 481 to 484 ; Lnhorn, 3 months, 27.80 to 27.90 ; Genoa, 3 months, 27.80 to 27.90 ; Naples, 3 months, 27.80 to 27.90 ; Palermo, 3 months, 27.80 to 27.90 ; Messina, 3 months, 27.80 to 27.90; Lisbon, 90 days' date, 524 to 52 ; Oporto, 90 dap.' date, 521 to 52. The report of the directors of the Brighton Railway Company, has been received with a feeling of relief, not so much that it puts any really improved complexion upon the com pany's affairs, but because it seems to indicate that no further disclosures of a nature calculated to alarm the shareholders remain to be made. By those in the best position to form an opinion as to the real state of the company's affairs, however, a hope is expressed that the proprietors will not suffer themselves to be ren dered passive by official statements of this sort, which, in reality, scarcely touch the main causes of the company's embarrassments. Enough has been disclosed to show what railway boards, in the plenitude of their power, can do, and too often actually accomplish, and it is felt that the time has arrived when railway proprietors, without wasting time and energy in vituperation of directors on account of the past, must exert themselves with a view to bring about radical and healthy reforms. The assertion has been ventured upon that the Brighton shareholders are morally bound to carry out the engagements entered into by their directors, but before this can be conceded it must be shown that the board have acted within their powers. The whole of the details of the bargains entered into in respect of the projected new lines ought to be gone into closely, and the proprietors will do well to make a point, at the meeting to-morrow, of ascertaining from Colonel Bart telot, what is his opinion of these trans actions, and whether the adoption of the engage ments referred to will tend to the advantage of the company, or tc the relief of past members of the board at the cost of the general interests. To search ing questions of this nature the new chairman may well be trusted to give explicit and honourable an swers. This is not a time when shareholders must be lulled into supineness ; and, though we should be the last to attempt to hurry them into aimless an tagonism towards their existing boards—a course which ought, indeed, to be denounced as both un practical and injurious to their best interests—it is yet essential, at a time when the credit of five hundred millions of property is at stake, that the truth, and the whole truth, should be extorted. This requirement, in the case of the Brighton Company, it rests with the new chairman to satisfy. A general meeting of the Madras Irrigation and Canal Company is called for the 28th inst., for the ordinary business, and "for authorising and giving consent to the conversion of the 50,000 shares in the present guranteed capital of 1,000,0001., and numbered from 1 to 50,000 (both inclusive), into one general capital stock, to be called the Guaran teed Stock of the Madras Irrigation and Canal Company." The last accounts from Brazil state that the re ceipts of the San Paulo Railway were daily in creasing, and that the traffic is likely soon to be much in excess of the capacity of the rolling stock at present on the line. Additional engines, &c., it is said, are consequently to be sent out with all possible despatch. Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas, dock, and waterworks shares, as given in the Stock Exchange list of last evening : Insurance—London, 44;; London and Provincial Marine, 11, 7-16 ; Marine, 9tl; North British and Mercantile, 131; Ocean Marine, 19; Rock Life, 71 ; Thames and Merw Marine (Limited), 4,j, 5 ; Universal Marine (Limited), 2.!. Gas Light and Coke—Bombay (Limited), 4i, i ; City of Moscow Cu, Ifs • Commercial, 32 ; Impe r i a l C on ti nen t a l, 94i; Me:, 26. Docks—London and St. Katharine, Debenture stock, 88. Waterworks—Fad London, 108; Grand Junction, 731, 21, 31. The annexed memorandum is from the London Stock and Share Company (Limited) : " The directors of the London Stock and Share COM. pany (Limited) present their oonsplinserge to the City Editor of the E Ypres.; and will feel obliged if he will state that Mr. Joseph Aapiaail has ceased to be connected with the London Stock and Share Company (Limited).'• At to-day's auction, bbares in the Agra Bank (Si. paid) sold at 21. 15s. ; Ag ri cultural Hotel (101. paid), at 2/. 1244. ; British Slate Company (Ml. paid), at 21s. ; Bedford Pan technicon (71. paid), at It tis. is it. 16e. ; Berka and Hunts Extension Railway (101. paid), at it. Ga. to H. 17s. ; China Steam and Labnan Coal (131.10 x. paid), at 12c ; Confederate States Loan, at 5/. 12s. Gd. ; Copiapo Exten sion Railway (101 paid), at Is, to Ga. ; Dagenham Docks (4/. paid), at 105. • European Assurance (10m. lid. paid), at 4a. Sd. ; Cuildhall Taverns (101. paid), at 41. to It. Is. ; Hercules Insurance (2/. paid), at 10s. 6 4 1 ; Imperial Land of Marseilles Debentures of SW., at 61. 15a. to 81. ; Inter national Hotel (5/. paid), at 10s. ; Laugham Hotel (101. paid), at 3/. 10s. ; London and County Land and Building (2/. paid), at 6s. to 7s. ; Chatham and Dover Preference B stock (Metropolitan Extension), at 291 per cent ; New Devon Consols (111. 10s. paid), at M. per share ; Novara and Like Orta Railway (10/. paid), at 21. Gd. . • ditto, bonds, at 2/. per cent. ; R. L axe y Mi n i ng Company (4/. paid), at 73. ; Vale of Heath Railway (61. paid), at 245. It is notified that Mr. Edmund Pullein (late of the firm of Messrs. Harding, Pullein, Whinney, and (ribbons) and Mr. John Everitt, of Allhallows Chambers, Lombard-street, have entered intopart nership, for the purpose of carrying on business as accountants ; but not in connexion with Mr. Eve ritt's existing businessof money broker and bankers agent, which will be carried on separately, as be fore, under the firm of Everitt, Lucas, and bo. The new firm will be Pullein, Everitt, and Co.: the offices being at Allhallows Chambers. The Admiralty will receive tenders on the 20th inst. for the supply of 100,0001 be. of tobacco. TUESDAY EVISING. Consols, which closed yesterday at 91 to 1, both for money and next Thursday's settlement, opened this morning at the same quotation, and after touching 914 " buyers," closed at 911. For the Gth of June the last price was 911. The Three per Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cents. were quoted at 3 o'clock 891 to if. The official business report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 911, 1, 4 ; ditto, for account, 91, 1 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 891, 4 ; New Three per Cents., 891, 1,1, 1; ditto 'Two-and-a- Half per Cents.,724; Bank Stock, 253 ; India Stock, 2181 ; ditto Five per Cent., 1101,1 ; ditto Four per Cent., 944, 5, 41 ; ditto Five per Cent. "enfaced" rupee paper, 1021, ; ditto Five-and-a- Half per Cent., 1071 ; ditto Five per Cent. Deben tures, 1031 ; ditto Bonds, 48s. 525. prem. The India Five per Cent. Stock was firm, with a better demand. AN EXTRAORDINARTCHARCi: OF ROBBERY AGAINST AN MINIUM; CONDUCTOR. Richard Dario, lA, au omnibus conductor, waa indicted for stealing the sum of td., the money' of William Kanner. The prosecutor sail he lived at No. 44, Cranborne-street, Leicester-square, awl en the evening of the Ztril of April be was • passenger by the prisoner's omnibus from the Welsh lfarp to go to the Metropolitan Music-hall, in the Edg ware-road, and he arrived in London at about twenty minutes to 7, the priaoner at that time being the con. ductor of the omnibus. Before he alighted he gave the prisoner half a sovereign in payment of his fare, and this was done about CM yards before they reached the Metro politan Music-hall, where the omnibus stopped. When be gave the prisoner the half-sovereign he said he would give him the change presently. Before, however, the omnibus arrived at the Music-hall the prisoner left it, and a horse keeper took his place. He saw the prisoner again in about 25 minutes afterwards, and asked him for change out of the half sovereign he had received from him. The prisoner replied, "Yon gave me a sixpence, and I have not received a half sovereign to-day." He took some money from his pocket and said that was all he had, and there was no half sovereign amongst it. He (witness) th en ca ll e d • p o li ce constable and gave the conductor into custody, and at the station-house he saw a half sovereign taken from the pri soner. Witness had no silver about him, for if he had he should not have given the half sovereign. Richard Keane, police-constable 131 X, Itlid—On the evening in question he was on duty in the Edgware-road, and the prisoner was given into his custody on • charge of stealing Ds rd. belonging to the prosecutor, being the dif ference of half a sovereign given to him in payment of his fare. The prisoner said he had not got half a sovereign about bins. He searched him and found half • sovereign in his pocket with sonic silver. The prisoner's defence was, that as it was Hendon fair day he hail taken too much too drink, and was • little ex cited, and he was not aware that the prosecutor had riven him half a sovereign. Ile did not know that he had a half sovereign about him until the money was taken from him at the station. rind when it was discovered he was very sorry that he had misled the gentleman. It was not done intentionally, or from any dishonest motive to rob the gen tleman of his change. The jury took this view, and returned a verdict of Noe Guilty. OLD OTTENT , LII-4. John &ate. 33, coetermonger, and John Bennett, IS, were found Guilty of stealing 174 yards of calico, the pro perty of Samuel Lewis and another. The Assietant.Judge sentenced Smith to be kept in penal servitude for seven years and Bennett to bo imprisoned and kept to hard labour for 12 months. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. ALLEOED CARE OF PRAWN:MOM BILLS OF LADING. This morning Henry Berliner, described as of Worship street, agent, was brought up on remand before the Lord Mayor, charged with being concerned with a man not in custody in obtaining from Mr. William Parker, of 81, Lower . Thames-street, auctioneer, the sum of 4f, on a false bill of lading, which represented that 80 bundles of straw bran. value '2O/., had been shipped on board the ship Vulcinus, then lying in the river Weser, and bound to the vat of Loudon, with intent to defraud. It . may be remembered that the prisoner, who was pre viously known to the prosecutor, called upon him with another person, who was represented by the prisoner as being the owner of the goods named in the bill of lading he produced. On the faith of the representations made, the prosecutor advanced, on the lath March, the sum asked for by the prisoner and his friend. The ship had never arrived, mid no such vessel was registered at Lloyd's, and in consequence, after some didiculty, inchnling one escape over a wall at the rear of his house, the prisoner was taken into custody. Mr. (ann, of Worship-street, again attended on behalf of the accused. Mr. Thomas Beard, who again appeared for the prose cution, informed the Lord Mayor that in consequence of the great difficulty in perfecting the evidence, including proof that no such ves..el nu the Vuloanus was registered m any foreign country, coupled with the expect a ti on th a t the principal delinquent would be made amenable to jus tice, the prosecutor declined to proceed further against the prisoner. The Lord Mayor, in discharging the prisoner, said he must consider himself a very lucky man in getting off so easily. BOW STREET. A SHOCKING SCENE IN DHUHY-COURT. Michael Regan, a labourer, Honor(' Regan,hin wife, and Mara Skarn, their daughter, were charged with violently assaulting Thomas Sheen, the husband of the younger woman. _ James Welch, no F, deposed that he was on duty in the Strand this morning at a quarter past 5 o'clock, when a young man came to him and said murder was being com mitted in Dunham-yard, Drury-court. Witness imme diately proceeded them, and saw the prisoners quarrel ing in the passage of a house. The complainant, goorsa Sheen, was lying in the yard weltering in his blood. The prisoner Sheen (wife of complainant)was stand ing over him with a fiat iron in her hand in the act of striking him with it. Witness rushed at her and prevented her. The two liegans were there at the time—the woman with a broken iron pot in her hand. He took that also away from her, with the assistance of twoother constables. He lifted up the man, who was lying on the Moor ; he was bleeding from five distinct wounds on the head. Witness got some cold water and threw it over his head. Witness took the three prisoners into custxly, while the man wan conveyed to the hospital. Witness produced the certificate of the house surgeon at King's College Hospital to the effect that the man was too much injured to attend at the court at present. In answer to Mr. Vaughan the witness sail that the three prisoners and the injured man were all sober. Edwin Shaen, a bricklayer, living in thesame house, but not related to the female prisoner, said that the young man came and knocked at the door of his father-in-laves room at about ten minutes past 5 o'clock. He said, " Get up you —," and seized his wife by the hair. The father in-law got up and interfered, and a le ensued. Witness went out and called a policeman, Selling him that if he did not come murder would be done. Mr. Vaughan remanded the priaoners: The case had attracted a large concourse of auditors, in habitants of Drury-court and its purlieu s, seeming to take great interest in their neighbours' domestic affairs. Amongst them conversations took place outside, before and after the case, and some were heard to declare that the man was not expected to live. WORSHIP-STREET. SENT ON DEATH. Charles Laurence Brown, a master hatter in Susannah row, Curtain-road, was char Fed before Mr. Newton with attempting his life by cutting his throat on the ith of April last. Wyman, 341 K, while on duty at that date in King-street, Mile-end, was called to the house of the prisoner's sister-in-law, in which he had inflicted a frightful gash immediately beneath the knob of the gullet, and completely across it. A razor he had since admitted to have purchased for the purpose was lying on the floor, which was nearly covered with blood. The weapon had apparently slipped frogs his hand, and his e ff orts to regain it were furiorik, failing in which, he got his fingers in the wound, and tore it open, thereby increasing the flow, nearly satu rating the constable's uniform. After being conveyed to the hospital, he, when able to make himself understood, implored the constable to lay open his skull with his staff. For eight days the surpon had not given any hope of his life. and during that time he had continued delirious. The occasion of all this was drink. Prisoner now said that be feJt very penitent, and if al lowed to be discharged would return to his business and offend no more. Drink had so preyed on his mind that he believed the " polioe were after him." Mr. Newton remarked—Certainly not, this enonuity of crime demands an interview with and advice of the chap- lain. You will be brought up again in a week. WANDSWORTH. THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE MAGISTRATES AND THE POLICE COMMISSIONERS. The long-pending dispute between the magistrates of this court and the Commissioners of Police as to the ad mission of cattle into the metropolis with a justice's license only, has at length been settled in the Court of Queen's Bench by a decision in favour of the commissionen. The judges hold that although a license has been obtained from a justice, another license from the oommisaioners is necessary before cattle can be removed into the metropolis. A number of summonses stand adjourned until the 23rd inst. awaiting the decision of the judges, and as the case is now settled they will be heard on that day, but a nominal penalty only will be imposed. Mr. Dayman has already adjudicated upon other cases, and has expressed his intention of imposing a fine of 6d. without costs until it is shown that some object is gained by having a second license. There is also another peculiarity in the case, and that is when cattle are removed into the metropolis there is no power to remove them out again. A case to point occurred only yesterday at the Hammersmith Police-court. A cow in calf had been brought to Kensington Railway Station by rail from Bushey, with a justice's license to be removed to another place outside the metropolis. There being no power to allow the cow to be removed from the metropolis the consequence was that neither the magistrate nor the police could assist. The parties, however, were told that in future they must avoidthe metropolis in removing cattle from one part of the country to another. Mr. Alexadder Budge was summoned for removing a cow into the metropolis with a license from a magistrate. The defendant did not appear, but was represented by his servant. Hr. Ingham add it had now been decided that a magi*. taste's license was not sufficient. He fined Mr. Budge last week, and he was afaid that unless a penalty was inflicted he would not recollect the law. He fined him lie. and 2s. costs, sad said the next time the penalty would be U. Tkonnu Wooife and Henry Oilmon were also summoned for removing a oow in the metropolis without any licence. The defendant Woolf. said he was " jobbing " a lady at Clapham-common, and was showing her some horses, when she asked him to buy the cow. He did so, and Gib son drove it home. It was the first oow he ever bought, and he had no idea a license was necessary. Mr. Wham—Have you never beard of the cattle plague! Defendant—Oh, yes ; but I thought that lately no peas was wanted. Mr. Ingham—l remember an old saying, "A cobbler should not go beyond his last." Now, you Irmo taken up with this trade. You must pay 2s. 61. and meta ; and your man Is. and coats. REDUCTIONS AT THE INDIA OFFICE.—It is not long since several changes and reductions in the above establishment were announced. To these is now added the abolition of the marine and public departments of the India-office, the business being transferred to other de partment.. Mr. Mason, marine secretary, is pensioned, after many years' service ; Mr. Bourdilloa, secretary of the public, educational, and ecclesiastical department, is also pensioned, together with several subordinate officials in the secretariat. THE DEFENCE OF INDIA —Royal commissions nro not always successful, but never was there a more impor tant duty confided to one than would be the consideration of the best strategic disposition of our troops in India, so important to the welfare both of India and of England. There are so many clashing interests, that only such a commission could rightly undertake the task : and when I see such officials as those mentioned underneath, who might compose it . and smooth away by co-operation the difficulties which surround each xinqle government, I can not but think that something might be done, and that such a commission might strike out a course of proceed ing, which, with the fi n a l o pi n i on o f th e Governor-Gene ral, would be satisfactory to both countries :—Take the Commander-in-Chief of India, the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, the Chief Commissioner of British Burma, the Governor of Madras, the Commander-in-Chief of Madras, the Governor of Bombay, tho Commander-in-Chief of Bombay, the Commissioner of Bcinde, the Resident of Hyderabad, the Chief Commissioner of Mysore, the Chief Commissioner of Central India, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjaub, the Chief Commissioner of Oude ; add to the above a general officer or colonel of artillery, a general officer or colonel of engineers, and a general officer of in fantry, all from England: anti they, with four secretaries, —an artillery officer from Bengal ; a surgeon, ditto ; an engineer officer from Bombay ; an infantry officer from Madras, all of the rank of field officers,—would, under the presidentship of the Commander-in-Chief in India, form the working portion of the commission for drawing up a report, after visiting each government, to be submitted to the Governor-General.—Prseer's Magazine for May. PLATE OF 200 SON'S. One mile and a halt Roquefort, Whitley, Rocks, Tot:muslin, Eaaby, Stokely, and Maid of Lorn arc here. SPNNINGHILL STAKES. Four furlongs. Humdrum, Beautiful Star, Kaffir Land, Vagary, Blue Gown, Jenny, Peter, Torn Vernon, Nor th Marston, Liotor, and Veda are here. SOUTHWESTERN PLATE. One mile and a half. Knight of tho Garter, Sweet Home, Cauthleen, D'Eatournel, Haidee, and Wild Moor are here. HANDICAP SIVEEPSTAKES OF 10 BOYS. Old mile. Ostrtwer, lOst ; Confederate, Net ; Landlord, 74 121 b ; Jack o'Lantern 7at 111 b ; Watchbox, 74 6lb ; Violent, Tat 51b ; King of Spades, T a t 41b ; T e n e t, 74 41b ; Sweet Home, fat 101 h ; Oanymede, Cot 6th ; Thermometer, Get 41b ; Vici, 131 b ; Vision, 54 71b. All are here. PLATE OF i:10 Half a mile. „- - Moniteur, Gordian Knot, Limner, Adjutant (.1001. each), Strike-a-Light, Brenda, Kaffir Land, Futurity, Vivian, Helen-go-Bragh, Topsail c, Rama, Haymarket, Alberto, Alarmist, Sunnyside, Lady Valentine, Duffer, Ambition, Confederate (1001. each), All are here. YORK MEETING.-(THIS DAY.) MATCH. Vulcan beat Tattler. ECLINTON STAKES. Bismarck ... Bro. to Bivouac Percussion ... . . LONDESBOROIGH CUP. Skipper Honesty ... Cora .. 11 ra ... CONSOLATION SCRAMBLE. Three quartets of smile. Lytham, Sat 12Ib ; lon, Sst slb ; Crown Prince, £4t Mb ; Dawdle, 7st slb ; Cora, Get 1116 ; Doralioe, Get 6lb ; Bel morc, Set 71b. All are here. FLYING DUTCHMAN'S HANDICAP. One mile and a quarter. Strathconan, Raglan, Red Earl, Castanet, Hawkeswell. El Cid, Declaration, Curs, Tynedale, Rabbit Trap, and The Dylkol are here. TALLY-HO STAKES. Two miles. .• • All the lcoieesii:reirollijti in the neighbourhood. ARRIVED.—VuIcan, Mother Weashani, and Applecreea COMMERCIAL AND MARKET& MARK-LANE.—(THIS DAY.) The arrivals of English wheat since our last report hive been very small, yet the demand was heavy, and our lut quotations were with difficulty supported. Foreign . wheat was slow of sale at late rates. The im ports during the week have amounted to about 24,000 quarters. There was an Inactive demand for floating cargoes of grain Barley was a slow sale, but without alteration in price. There wu an improved inquiry for malt, and prices were well maintained. The supply of oats was large, but the demand was inactive ; prices, however, remain as on Monday last. Beans and peas met a slow inquiry at about late rates. In flour we have no change to report. PRICRIS CUItRISNT. Sitattalt. Per Qr. WHIM a a Esau, Bent, red, old 10 to 72 new 59 to 71 „ Do. wine, old eq., to 76 , new 60 to 71 Norfolk and I.lnn red, new Poe Qr. Ott s. I. Scotch Irish, brl 4 ( th 22 to td „ white 22 to 30 Braga Malting .. T. Distilling .. ZI to 50 37 to 42 32 to 34 MALT. Kase:, Noriollc.:;nd Suffolk O9 to 73 Kingston and Ware d 9 to 73 Brown fit to 0t are New to 37 --..... Maragous Tick 3S to 37 Harrow Pigeon 4l SO 46 _ 0.23 English, feed - 25 to 31 potato scath, teed Foil Per Qr. Wn1.12. a Dentrie and Konigs berg 62 to 74 Rostock k Medan' Grey _ EV to 40 N'tT l t: 40 to 42 Boilers 11.002.__ . 69 to 70 Ihwbuir/ 69 to 92 Russian, bard aksoft An 6B to 04 eass,to „ white to Town made, peiiBo Dn. Household 23 to 54 Country Norfolk and Suffolk, az skip 43 to 47 P Qr. OATS a. s Danish and Swedish 24 to 30 Haulms Bias& Grinding ---- 30 to at Distthug Malting :4 to 38 Thudsh EgYAi= OATS. Dutottpre . wlnir -- 7... 24 to 21 Bullin. .. 39 to 43 SS to SW gag trig' . Yorelgn .... 87 to 80 38 to 41 INDIAN Coal. White ll9 60 It Yellow nova. !Tench, per sack 46 to 53 Spanish . 40 to Mt American, LI to 16 17 to 26 MAY 7. __ _ OW Flour. qrs. sacks beta. 290t0 .. 380 I 29240.1 .. 580 LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. (THIS DAY.) (BT TELE4: RAN I.) (MON 0011 OWN OORRESPONDILVT.) The market steady. Sales probably 10,000 or 12,000 bales. MINCING-LANE.—(THIS DAY.) SUGAn.—A full average amount of business has been transacted, at steady prices. British West India at 30s. li d- to 31s. ; and crystallised Cuba, at Mi. to 355. lid. Refined. - The lowest price of brown lamps is 425. lid., at which there is a fair demand. . _ _ COFFiE.—The public aides of plantation Ceylon have gone off at the previous value, but the demand is less active; triage sold 50s. to 575. ; fine and fine fine ordinary, 71a. fin, to 765. fid. ; low middling and middling, 78s. to 79.. lid. ; peaberry, 88s. to 91s. 61. • native Ceylon, 59 9 . ; bold, 68a. to 68s. 61. ; Mocha, clea n garbled, 101 s. to 104.. TEA.—The public sales are progressing steadily at full priests. _ . . RICE.—No further sales of Bengal are reported ; No crenate sold at 12s. REAL-120 puns. of Jamaica sold at full prices • also 50 puns. of goodlocwarda,aud 50 puns. of common &mantra at Is. 6d. SALTPETRE.—No sales reported. Corron.—Tbe market continues quiet, and prices rule in buyers' favour. TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.) The market is flat. Prices are quoted as follows :—Town tallow, 435. 3d. ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 435. 9d. ; June, 435. ; October to December, 44a. 6d. ; Decem ber, 43e. BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—(THIS DAY.) Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report an improved de mand for all hope of Lod year's growth, especially for low and inferior sorts, which command a few shillings over last week's quotations. COAL MARKET.—(THIS DAY.) wa, End H etton, 18s. lid. Walls End Braddylz Hatton, 17s. lA.; Walls End Heugh Hall, 17e.; Walls End Wham cliffe, Ids. 9d. ; Walls End Tunstall, 16s. lid.; Walls End Hetton Lyons. 168. lid. ; Holywell, lib. 3d. ; West Hart ley, 17s. 3d. ; Hastings Hartley, 17e. 3d.—Slips at market, ; at sea, Bk. T. — feeding ARRIVALS FROM MAY 4 TO Wheat' Berlej.llalt - IL 0 2 ‘ rt inallatt andliosteh V 3.10 2 fi 0 Irlah foreign 24060 1400 .. Total 24440 I 1400 I 210 I Maize, 200 qrs. PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS. IXTIMPOOL, Mae 7.-Batas to-day : Great Eastern. 281 1 11- e.eat Northern It 124 I—Great Western, 411—tanatshlre and Yorkshire, 11 3 1 3 ll—Lndon, limxhton, and South Coast, 56 51—London and North Western, 1134 413 13 k 1 21 1k I Mauch...ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 461 6-11etropolitan, 117-91411.mi1, Ml—Ditto Birmingham and Derby £22 converti ble, 3 p —North British, 331 4—North Eastern, lurk, W2l - South Eastern. 43 213 24 1-11ancliever, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire £lO redeem. 6 per cent. pref., * p 874—Great Western of Canada, 141—Eric, 42 11 —I oiled Stator Five Wen ties, 1862, 711—Dutch Rhenish, 23 p. —Great Luxemburg shares, 81 15-14 I—Enteni Exchange Bank, 2 d.—Liverpool and London and Globe Fire and Llfe Insurance, p.—Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance , Lindted, 216-16 p. li•Pteltliffq MAY 7.—The market opened better, but sub sequently decd el. Great Eastern, 24—Orest Luxemburg. n I-16 S 84—Great Northern, A. 1121 4 12 113 10 91—Grand Trunk of Canada, 171—Great Western of (54nada. 14 5-10 1 7-16 --Great Western. 41 44j14 1 so}—Lancashire Insurauce, :216 p.-Lancashire and Yorkildre. 12:14 9 24—London an d North tt astern. 1121 19 121 8 }—Manchester and C ounty Bank 'Limited, p.—Manchester. Sheffield, sad Lincolnshire, 441 I 3 * 51 41 6 51—DItto, Pref., 6 8-16 I—Metropolitan, 116/ 1 1 1 1 16—MIdland.110--North British, 391—North Eastern, Bernick. 1014—South Eastern, 631 3 21 3 1 3 24 1 1 1 1 I 1 2 11 2 —Thames and Mersey Marine 'lnsurance ,Limited ,21 p. -PrestOn and Wyre, an. London and Brighton, 53 610. Exchequer Bills remain at 20a. to 255. prem. There was a somewhat better demand today for foreign stocks, and prices closed in a few cases at an improvement. Italian Bonds of 1861 rose # per cent. ; Chilian scrip and Mexican, / ; Turkish of 1865, ; and Danubian and Egyptian (2nd issue), 1. On the other hand, Russian of 1859 declined 4 ; ditto of 1866 (including the scrip), Ito ; Greek and Turkish of 1862, I ; and Spanish Passive, 4. The few transactions reported in bank shares consisted principally of sales, and the market was rather dull. Anglo-Egyptian declined 11.; London and River Plate (new) 10s. ; and Land Mortgage of India, Si. Union of London, however, were in demand, and experienced a recovery of 21., owing to the statement just put forward by the board with reference to the position of the bank's trans actions with the Brighton Railway Company. In the market for financial shares, International and Credit Foncier declined 1-16 to A, but General Credit and London Financial showed no varia tion. Prices closed as follows :—lnternational Financial, 2 11-16 to 9-16 dia.; General Credit, 2 to dis. ; London Financial, 234 to 224 dia. ; and Credit Foncier of England, 61 to die. With the exception of Telegraph Construction, which receded 2s. 6d.—viz., to 24- to 2 dia.—At lantic Cable shares showed no change. Anglo- American closed at 14 to 19, and Telegraph Con struction at 413-16 to 15-16. Hudson's Bay shares were last quoted 16 to I, and National Discount 7to prem., being 2s. 6d. better. The Colonial Company's shares were in demand, at an advance of If. Bombay Gas and Trust and Agency of Australasia also improved 2s. 6d., but other miscellaneous descriptions were unchanged. Colonial government securities met with inquiry, and some of the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, New South Wales, New Zealand and Queensland Debentures rose . to 1 per cent. American securities showed dulness, and the general course of prices was rather unfavourable. The 5-20 Bonds declined # per cent. ; those of 1885, Erie Railway shares, 1 ; Illinois Central, ; Virginia Six per Cents., 1 ; and Atlantic and Great Western Railway Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 4. The debentures of this line, however, ruse 1. Prices closed as follows :-5-20 Bonds, 71 to a ; Erie Railway shares, 414 to 4; Illinois Central, 742 to 764 ; Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures, 321 to 331 ; Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 214 to 2. MINES.-(T1118 DAY.) Vii o'CLoox. In the mining market to-day there is a demand for Wheal Seton, West Chiverton, Great Vor, Great Retallack, North Chiverton, and North Crofty shares. Sonic of the present quotations are as fol lows :—Wheal Seton, 120 to 130 ; West Chiver ton, 66 to 67 ; North Crofty, 41 to 5 ; Great Vor, 171 to 181 ; North Chiverton, 4% to a ; Great Retallack, 4.[ to ; Prince of Wales, 51s. to 535. ; East Lovell, 9to ; Clifford, 4i to 5 ; East Caradon, 54 to - 6 • Cliontales, 21 to 3 ; Fron tino, Bs. to 10s. ; and Don Pedro. 1 to 2 prem. At Pendeen Consols meeting yesterday, the ac counts showed an estimated balance against the mine of 181. A call of 4s. per share was made. RAILWAYS.-(THIS DAY.) Oes °Twee. The railway market is firm to-day, with a good amount of business, consisting chiefly of par , chases. Great Northern A, and London, Brighton, and South Coast stocks have advanced 1 per cent. ; Caledonian and South Eastern, ; Metropolitan, g; Great Western, 4 ; and Midland and London, Chatham, and Dover, Metropolitan stock is now quoted 1161 to S; Great Western, 401 to 41 ; London and North Western, 1128 to ; Midland, 1091 to I ; Lance csahire and Yorkshire, l 2 to ; Caledonian, 107 to 108 ; South Eastern, till to ; Great Eastern, 28 to ; Great Northern, 109. to 110 i; ditto A, 1101 to 1111• London, Chatham, and Dover, 164 to 1 ; N r orth British, 33 to 34 ; and Brighton, 36 to 37. 'For to-day's Share List see page 4.1 THE HOP PLANTATIONS.— ROCHESTER, MAY 7. The late warm days and nights have caused the youn4 hops to push forward rapidly, and the reports from the chief hop-growing districts of Kent all describe the blue as being healthy and strong, with a growth altogether unprecedented. There are bat few plantations remaining in which polling is uncompleted, and by the close of the pre sent week it is expected that the whole will be finished. In some few gardens the aphis has already commence! their attacks on the young bine, but a few he a vy showers will effectually clean the plant. The only fear entertained on the part of the largest planters is, that the bine should become too forward from the present unusually warm weather, and become nipped on a change of weather. A great deal of heah land has this year been brought under hop . cultivation throughout both Kent and Sussex. VALUE OP LAND NEAR L O NDON.—TIIO residence known as Branch-hill-lodge, at Hampatead. Middlescs, and 13a. 3r. 37p. of pasture and garden ground adj g. were offered by auction by Mr. Samuel Kingston, of Spalding. Lincolnshire, at the Auction Mart, near the Bank of Eng land, on Monday last, in one lot. After a spirited com petition the lot was 1110 M to a City wine merchant for his own occupation •20.0.10/. The Lite owner and occupier purchased the estate LS years ago for 10.000 f. EXTRAORDINARY lIIRTIIS.—On the 4th inst. the wife of Private Patrick Corbett. Military Train. stationed in Dublin, was delivered of four children, three girls and one boy. The mother and children are all doing well. 1