The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-14 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET. CITY, TWELVE . O'CLOCK. The Money Market is gradually assuming a firmer appearance, but it chiefly arises from a feeling of greater reserve among the banks and discount houses. The exports of specie which have already taken place, and the prospect' of the amount being continued until the loans lately negotiated for Turkey, Egypt, and Russia, are transmitted, encourage the opinion that the value of accommodation will increase, especially as it may be influenced by other causes, and the con sequence is that full rates are enforced for the negotiation of mercantile securities. In many quarters business at the current rates is refused, because it is thought that higher terms will be attainable before_ i iniany days have elapsed. While, however, ''fl is reason to believe that an upward movement will be experi enced, no immediate ground exists for the pre sumption that anything like pressure or strin gency is likely to be encountered. Continued dulness prevailed in the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday ; but prices were steadily maintained. The sales were about 3,000 bales. The gua,►rterly sales of East Indian indigo com menced yesterday. There was very little compe tition, purchasers showing great reserve, and prices were 2d. to 10d. per lb. lower compared with the rates realised in February; 1,461 chests passed, of which 868 were sold, 620 bought in, and 273 with drawn. The Seine, from the West Indies, has brought £140,800 in specie: The bullion operations at the Bank of England yesterday were of :An unimportant character. The Foreign Er•ehanges yesterday afternoon ex hibited a slight a.dvance in the rates on Paris and Hamburg. Gold is no'ff about 4-10ths per cent. dearer in London tha•a in Paris, and about 3-10ths per cent. higher here than in Hamburg. A call of £1 per share becomes due to-morrow on the London and Blackwall Railway, new shares. A payment of 10 per cent. has to be made to morrow on the New Ottoman Loan. The share list of the Laguna Mining Company •vrill close to-morrow at 12 o'clock. Business is reported in the shares at',—, prem. CITY NEWS-THIS DAY . Two O'CLOCK. A very unfavourable movement has taken place to-day in the market for English Securities, owing to extensive sales based upon the upward tendency of the rates of discount, and the expectation that money will gradually become dearer. The effect of the transactions entered into this morning has been a decline of about / per cent, Consols having receded to 931 1 for transfer, and 911 92, leas the dividend, for the account. The New Threes and the Reduced are 911 g ; India Stock is 2271 nod 229, and ditto 5 per Cent. is steady at 1081 1091; and Eichequer Bills have receded to 14s. and 159. prem. Foreign Securities are also very depressed. Turkish 6 per Cents. have receded to 801 ; ditto, 1858, to 701; ditto New Scrip, to 21 prem.; Egyptian to 11 21 prem. ; Mexican, to 311 32 ; Spanish, to M ; ditto Certificates, to 81 1, Portuguese are 451 ; Dutch remain at 641 ; Brazilian, 1001 ; and talian, 711. The Russian Loan is 1 1 prem. In the Railway Share Market the dealings are extremely limited, the preparations for the liquida tion of the account occupying the chief attention of the dealers and speculators, and prices have exhi bited rather less firmness. Great Westerns, Lan ,4eashire an d _Yorkshire, North Eastern (Berwick), •:fandSouth Easterns have declined 55.; Caledonians :and Eastern Counties improved ss. The Foreign lines remain very inactive. Great luxemburg realise 151; Dutch-Rhenish, 171 8 ; Bahia and San Francisco, 171; Grand Trunk of Canada have receded to 23; 241; Madras 5 per Cents. improved to 1011 102 ; East Indian realise 1031 104 ; and Great Indian Peninsula, 1021. Joint Stock Bauk Shares show no change of importance. London Joint Stock realise 371; Lon don and South African 101 ; Bank of London 77 'Ottoman Bank have improved to 251 ; and Oriental Bank to 511. The Alliance Bank Shares are 51 prem. ; Im perial 1 prem. ; Northern Counties 11 2 prem.; British Columbian 1 prem, ; and Brazilian 21 prem. , In the Miscellaneous Market prices were almost nominal. South Australian Land, however, were tsteady at 321. 33; Rio de Janeiro Improvement, fully paid, brought 26¢ ; and Electric Telegraph declined to 100. BIiITISH FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock . . 236 3 per Cont. Reduced Annuities 9 1 3 /4 1 i t 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9ll 3 / 4 i i .In ia Stock Ditto 5 per Cent . 1091 8/ 91 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent. ................ . Ditto 5 3 / 4 per Cent .....'.... Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 100 'Consols for Account, June 10 'Consols 'E xc h e quer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per C en t l5 14 VOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian, 5 per Cent. . Ditto 4} per Cent. , 1852-58-60 .:. 9 2 t I Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferre d 3 per Cent.) 35 3 / 4 E g yptian, 7 per Cent 1/ 21 Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) Ditto Scrip M ex ican, 3 per Cent Ditto Account Portuguese 3 per Ce nt., 1853 4si i Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, and'6o 451 1- Spanish 3 per Cent .. . Ditto N e w Deferred 19 ' Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded 8 'I urkish 6 per Cent. 1854 0 3 / 4 1 Ditto 6 per Cent .1858 7 0 3 /4 Ditto 1862 (Scrip) 2i 1 1 Ditto, Paid up Scrip 7O Dlvidends on the above payable in London.. Dutch 2 3 / 4 per Cent., Exchange 12 Gull. 1 Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, ex 25f. 7ll 1 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money ............ 92 3 / 4 l ea div. Ditto Account ITENCH IKINI NDSTE.RS VISIT TO RICIIM. . re Lona ---- 'The Opinions A ationale offers the following ex planation of M. Mercier'e late journey to Rich- " The visit had for its only object the preser .-vation of an immense provision of tobacco which 'had been purchased on account of the French Government at Richpond and New Orleans. If ~our information is exact, the Government of -Washington bad consented, in spite of the block ade, to allow the tobacco which is in store at Richmond to leave. The authorisation of the Southern Government was, however, at least in dispensable, and it was to obtain it that M. Mercier's journey to Richmond was undertaken. We are informed that he has completely failed in his mission. The Confederate Government is said to have declare d that, after seeing the com mercial advantages offered in exc h a nge for the recognition of the Confederate States rejected by Trance and England, the Southern Congress had formally prohibited the exportation of tobacco and cotton. The tobacco question is certainly worth a journey to Richmond, whatever may be said by certain journals. It has a real importance, since the Government derives from it a revenue of nearly 200,000,000 f. SHIPPING---THIS DAY. LONDON, May 14.—Wind this day at noon—North - Easterly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. FALMOUTH, May 13.—Arrived—Rialto, from Rangoon; Giovanni, from Trieste ; Isabella, from Newport, for Smyrna, leaky. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAIAPTON, Wednesday Morning. Arrived—Seine, steamer, from St. Thomas; Wonder, 'steamer, from Jersey. Sailed—Pursuit, for. Cardiff. NT SUBMARINE' AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) G RAVESEND Wednesday Morn in g . Tiger, Arr from ived, Harab Mayl i t z.. } 'rederick Wilh e lm, from Stettin Thur., Wednesday Morning. Passed—Vasco di Gama ir screw steamer, from London , for Glasgow. —. SHARE MARKET-TAIS DAY• ORDINARY SHARES AND• STOuk S. Railways. 1 Paid. Closing 1 Business Price. done. 13.14 Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. 10 Bost,Sleat,andMid.Co. g st Bristol and Exeter 1 at Caledonian 50 Cork and Bandon 20 Cornwall 1 0 D o A (A gets no Ws, 10 Do. B till6p c.p an.has been paid to B. 50 Dublin & Belfast June. I 25 Dun.,Perth,& Ab. Juno st East Anglian 1 st Eastern Counties 1 st Eastern Union, A stock I st Do Bdo do st East Suffolk st Edinburgh & Glasgow. 1 at Edin., Perth, & Dundee l st Glasg. and S. Western. l 10 GreatNrthn.of Scotland at Great Northern st Do A stock .......... 1 st Do B .. . . 1 st Gt. S. an iW. of Ireland st Great Western at Do Str Val gua. stock st Lancashire & Yorkshire st London and Blackwall at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast st Lon., Chat, and Dover at Lon. & North Western at Lon. & Smith Western . 25 L'derry & Enniskillen. st Shef., & Lincoln. 50 maryport and Carlisle 12,1 Do f shares 10 Metropolitan at Midland 6.4.0 Do New st Do Birming. & Derby 60 Mid. Gt. W. of' Ireland 25 Do. A shares 25 Mid Kent 10 Do Cray Line 100 Newcastle and Carlisle st Norfolk at North British at N or. Dev.ll ail&Dk.stockl at Do A stk ; A recs no d! till 6 pc. has been pdß at Do B stock at Nth. Eastern—Berwick 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase st Do Lecds at Do York st North London 10 Do new 19.15.4 North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction st Scottish Central at Scot N. E., Aber. stock at Do Scot. Mid. stock 10 Shrews. and Welchpool st Shropshire Union st South Devon 25 S. Durham & Lane.Un. at South Eastern at South Wales at S. York. and River Dun 20 Stain es, Wok.,an dWok. 25 Stockton & Darlington 25 n 8 6 7 91 93 1081 92 1013 I 6 ei 1 2 5 6 41 43 10 11 21 22 56i 571 57 59 37 0 89 9 1 30/ 30/ 102 101 140 145 113 i 1141 112 1 13 132 134 105 106 73 73i 55 57 107 1071 60 62 122 123 43 45 93} 4 99i 1001 10 12 41i 42 Si 9 Do '5 Do New, 1860 st Taff Vale.. st Do Pref. No. 1 i 0 Ulster 25 Do .10 Do st Vale of Neath st Victoria sta. and Pim ;t Waterford & Kilkenny :0 West Cornwall !O West London LO Do Ist class [0 Do 2d class st W. Hartlepool Har.&R. st West Midland Oxtordi at Do Newport st Do Hereford, 100 100 100 100 46 48 42 44 87 89 461 .4h LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. , . Done Paid. Leasing Closing Business Railways. Co. s Price. . . _—_--- Bedford and Bletchley all Ln.&N.W Birkenhead Buckingh ms'aire. Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do .. 54 56 55 } Do. 51 per cent 100 Do. 126 128 Do. • 5 , 100 Do. ll3 115 Clydesdale Junction 100 Cledon 102 104 Colchester, Stour Val. 100 E.11.&E.0 E. Lincolnsh. g 8 pr e. 100 Gt. N orth. 138 138 E.Union,HarwichShs all E.Counts. 41 41 Do. Woodbridge.. . 100 •• •• •• Gls.Barr.&Neils.Dra. 100 Cledon . • • • • Gloster &Dean Forest all Gt. Wesil 1.. .. . Hull and Selby all Yk.N. Mid 10 112 all Do. Do. halves Do. quarters Lancaster & Carlisle 100 Ln.&N.W 199 202 Lon. and Chat. Ext. B 6 per cent Do. Bromley. 6 per c. all Do. ..... • • • ~ Do. New Sh 1861, 4 p.c. all Do ..... ... 20 22 Do.W 0 . Ext. , A 41 Loudon & Greenwic p h 100 S. Eastern 62 64 Do. Preferen , -3 Lon.,Tilb.& S.. -thend 100 PetO &Co B6 69 Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk Do 6 per cent ..... . 100 Do. IVlnc.,Bxtn.,&Matlock all LNW& M 3 41 Mid. Bradford Prefer ence stock ... ... 100 Midland 95 97 Newmarkt, BuryEx 1 5 . 5 6 E Counts. p 4 P Pin glut,. 5 per cent... ' • 66 58 Northn.&Eastti. sp. c. all Do. Do. 6 per cent .... all Do. Do. Fixed sp. c.... all Do. N. Eastn—Hartlepool 100 N. E. Ber. .. .. North Western Not. Gran. RI. & Cl. 100 Gt. North. 92 94 L&N.W ) Preston and Wyre. 1 all 36 Lyk. 3 44 46 45 Do. 1 shares A. all Do. ••• • . • .. .. _2211 Roystn.Hitch.&Shep.i, 100 Gt. North. 135 137 i Shrewsby & Hereford 100 T Brassey 124 1:- 1 8 p Do. Do. S ou th Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset lOO , Gt. ,93 OS • Wimbledn k Croydon , all .4tEren 81 - 91 PREFERENCE SHARES. Closing Business Railways. I Paid.l P r i ce . Done. 25 Blythe and Tyne 10 p.c pref. issued at £5 a• st Bris. & Exet. 4p.C. st 104 20 Do. shares at Caledon. qr. shrs, 2 101 f 4 Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. 'al 20 Cornwall. 5 per coat. al 61 Dun. Perth, & Abel ,Jun. al 10 Do. Ist Class Fret . • al st E. Align. Class Asp. e. 10 4 st E. Coun. Ex. 5 p.c. No.l 104 st Do No. 2 10( st Do. new 6 p. C. st 10( at Eastern Union, 4p. c— 10( st Do. sp. 0. guar lOl Bt Edin.&Glas.s p.c. shares 10( st Do. Ip. c. guar. S. &! r lOl st S.West. gu. 5 p.c. 104 at Great Northern, sp. c lOl st D 0.5 p.c.Redm.lop.c.pm. 10( st Do. 41 p. c. do 10( st Do.sp.c.Reduc.atsp.e.pm 101 10 (it. Nh. of Scot. tat pref. al at G 5. Sn. &W. (Ireland) 4 per cent lOl 50 Great West. (Berke and Hants Ext) 5 per cent I st Do. redeem. 41 p. et.... 101 st Do. redeem. 4 p. ct lOl at Do. irredeem. 4p. 101 st Do. sp. c. redeem. pref. 101 st Do. Birm, guar. stock.. al st Do. Birm. pref. stock .. 10( st Do. Chester guar. shares 101 Do. Chester 8 p.c. pf. she 101 Do. Chester 5.c. pf. she al 00 Lan. & Carl. 41 p p.coprel 8( st Lan. & York. 6 p.c. stock 101 st Do.Barnal.st£s 2s 10dpe 10( st Do. 6p. c. (East Lan.).. 10< at Do. 44 p. c. (Blackb. put% 101 at Lonasßrig.sp:o.gu. No.l 10( st Do. 5 per Mut, do. No 2 10( st Do. 6 per cen do., 101 et • Do. 5 per cent. do. No. 4 1 0 ( st Do. 7 per cent. preirstk 10( st Do. 6 p.c. do(W.E.&C.P.) 101 at Do.4p est(div.def.lll'6s 101 at Lon.Chat&Dnv.sp.c.pt. 101 at Lon. &N. W., Cov. & Nuneaton, 5 per cent. 104 st Lon. & S.West. 7p. cent. at., late 3d shares 101 121 Condony. & Ennis. 1 sha al at Man. Sh. & Lin. S per ct. 101 6 Do. £6 st Do. 31 per cent. ... • 101 10 Do. redeem. 6 per cent 121 Mar ort & Carl. 4 pr. c a' yp 124 Do. 41 per s .cent at Midland Con. 6p. c. stk. 10( at Do.Con.Bris.& Bir. 6 p.c 101 st Do. 44 p.c. pref. st. rdem 10( at Do. 41 p.c. irredeemable 10( 11 Do. 44 per cent. . al at Do.L eic. andHit4per ct 101 at Nerflc. sp. c. Ex. st. 1846 10( st Do. 51 p. C. Pref. st. 1847 101 st D 0.5 Way.ValEx.st.lB47 10( st Nort British. 5 per cent. 10( at Do. New gya. 5 per cent 1 0 ( 10 Do. Bor. TJn. prf. she. all at Nth.Dvn•Rail.&Dck.Co. 10( st N-East. Cons. pref. p.c. 101 st Do. 41pr. et' redeemable 104 st Do. G. N. E. 4p. et, pref 10( 17 Do. Berwick 4 p. c. pref. -. 1: 20 Do. Leeds 6 p. c. No. 1 1; 121 Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. Purch. 1 20 North Staffordshire 1 .... al at Scottish North-Eastern 31 p. c. pref. stock.... 101 at Do.Aberdeen,gult.6p.c 101 at Do. 7p. c. pref. stock 101 Os. South Devon, Ann, 10s. al 1 9 0 ;6 ao D put o oh .. F 4E4 t a x ps e te d err 4 ene o (nß p t e e r ad ce in n g 1 t al o a . Ann., 1.0.6) t Do, Fixed 41 per cent 1 1 0 Cn 8 at • South Wales, gua. 4p. e. 10 at Do. 41 per cent st Do. 5 per do. ,859 lO B a t t S. D YOrkshire ce , 4 n S t p . . c. gua. 11 1 : 0 , c. gua. 2 2 0 5 Stock. D p & o o D: Dar. A B P 6 i p. a a l l 26 25 Do. c 6 P o * c• • • al st atrld & KilknyAi st W. Mid.-Oxf Ist guzit;tic 10 st Do. 2d do. 10 at Do. Newport 5 p.c. pf. reif to' at Do. Perpet.6 p. pf. 1866 10 at De. ti 11866 10 Share Share 94 96 20 21 6 61 kilos 105 10 109 111 O 103 110 O 127 129 O 84 86 0- - 110 112 90 92 10 1.16 118 )0 112 114 * 101 106 10 107 109 97 99 O 100 102 O 91 93 O 92 04 O 102 104 11 76 78 O - - o 76 78 0 170 180 ll 103 105 L 37 139 102 10t 115 117 115 117 138 142 115 117 152 156 129 133 7? 79 93 95 101 14 141 10 124 126 44 iPm 68 70 IPm 11 • .11 ) . •• •• .ii 140 LO3 105 II 94 96 0 1 • • 110 112 108 110 1 ltpm 10 100 •102 i 10 96 98 13.4 1 I 6 O par B. 2'4 23i 15& 140 11 110 11 ll k 23i 244 0 101 103 0 , 101 103 85 87 P 28 29 33 34 33 34 42 45 125 127 120 125 103 105 123 125 119 122 1140 k 1031 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. . Gan. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. &July - 1877-82 .......... .. •. 1 - Do •6 p. oent.lBB3-4 o. 6 p. c. Feb. & AUL% - Do. 6p. eillar. & Sept. - Do. 5 - Do. • Inscribed stock Cape G.Hope. 6 t 0,1573 - Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 Do. 1800 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p c N..h.Gov. 6 p.o.J a.&July Do. Bp. O.Ap: & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. sp. c., 1866 Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds New Zealand sp. cent. Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. C. sterling, 1875 S. Au5,G6p.e.1878.& up ' Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 1 .-__ Do. do. 6 p.o. Ap.Aoo‘,. 110 112 111 i 4 107 109 107 109 1011 101 k 1014 t 100 101 101 109 111 110 112 1111 111 113 :112 ►ll 113 108 109 - - 100 101 101 90 100 98 ;281 ,1 8 97i i 9 1 09 111 109 110 1(1 110 168 110 106 10 bi 1051 1071 1 93 I 100 271 128; 1: lip 98 10) 71 it 62} 62f 991 0 1 di 551 Mt 841 85} 99 101 p 4$ d 101 114 123 125 47 48 105 107 46 48 35 A 7 8S 84 67 68 98 100 6 7 371 381 84 9}P 6 6 1 P 144 148 5 2 i 531 1 4 did) 92 94 130 135 61 4 LO i 84 9 THE SUN. LOkMON, WEDNESD v Pvt-7,NiNiz MAY 14. 1:4)2.-1. B 1 ITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Share Railways. Paid. Price. Business don: 100 kiTriiltio &St Lawrence all 0 4 68 ~,.. ( Bom.,Barodaas.Cent Ind I'4 ' 1 Gu. 5 per cent. 204 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 51 6 d 204 Do. New ' - - 10 Do. Preference ( Buffalo,Brant&Godricl 100 8.3 86 100 t 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 81 84 100 Do. do. June 1, 1574 100 80 83 5 Clcutta.&S.Eastn.(l.i!. ) all 5 ' 1 all Cape Town & Dock Serif , 20 204 21 2 0 4 it 174 Demerara - all - - stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. t 100 102 103 _, stock East Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 1033 1041 1•')* 01 4 20 Do. do. G Ext - all 4 4 stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 24 25 221 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. all 68 71 70 100 Do. 2d fret 6 per et.. all 167 60 100 Do. 6 per et. Debentr. all 37 40 100 Do. 7 percent. 1862 .. all 143 46 100 Do. do. 1867 ... all 36 38 100 Do. do. 1872.. all 36 38 stock GtlndiaPenin.gua,.sp.c. 100 102 1024 1024 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 4 1 p 124 stock Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1014 104 102 204 Gt. W. ot Canada Sharep all 124 121 204 Do. New .. lB 84 74 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 102 101 100 Do. 54 p. o. do. '77 d 0... all 93 95 100 Do. 1878. all 93 95 stock Madras. guar., sp.c. .. 100 101 102 101# 2 stock Do. 41 p. e. Extension 100 94 96 stock Do. 44 d 0.. . . ..... 100 92 94 stock Melb.Corp. 6p. a Bnds. 100 - - 20 Newßrunswick& Can& Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6Pc all 5 7 Class A. Capital Shan! Do. do. Land do.. " • • • • 20 Do. do. B Capital do. .• I all 4 6 Do. do. Land do. .... • • stocs Scinde .... •• .... 4.1 100 103 104 20 Do. Punjaub .... V . „9 15 1 1 p 20 Do. Do. -••- .. Is ci all 204 20; stock Do. Indus. St. Flo. g t ,c,",. 100 ‘9 100 100 10 Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. 1 1 4,' FOREIGN RAILWAYS — 20 Algerian 10 Antwerp & Itottrdam all 71 71 71 1 20 Ardennes.... .......• - -p 20 Bah.&S.Fran..Lim. 7 p.c l6l 1 14 111 5 Belgian East. Junction all 1 14 Carmeaux Mine & Rail 30 11 12 100 Copiapo ~ ....., all - - 10 Ditto Extension 20 . Dutch Rhenish ... - - 16 11 14p 171 4 20 Eastern of France 20 Grand Rue Guar. 6p. c al - - 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. she all 15 R.l 154 20 Italian Junction .. • • - - 20 Lyons & Geneva. ... • - - • 20 Namur & Liege .... • all 81 81 20 Do. 6p. a. fret .... • 16 Northern of France all 414 121 116 Do. New Shares - - 10 Norwegian Trunk Frei. all 810 ' 20 Ot'mn( Smyrna to Aidn) 15 8 7 20 , Varis,Lyons, & Medite:. all 43 (4 20 Paris & Orleans.. -- - all 51 63 • 20 1 Recife &S. Fran. (Pere. 1 gua. 7p. ct. 1im...... 19 4 3 20 Riga & Dunaburg...... all - - 20 Royal Danish all 13 15 5 Royal Swedish - - 4 Do. 7 ner cent. Pref. - . all - - 20 Sambre & Meuse ...... all 114 124 10 Do. 54 per cent. Pref..... all 96 10 20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7 p.c. 8 4 # p 20 S.Aust. &Lomb Venetin 18 114 4 p 20 8. East Portugal 7 p at. 7 -- 20 Southern of Prance- - all 321 334 84 West Pandora .. , ..... all 71 8 10 Do. 54 p a Preference.. all 104 1011 2$ W. & N.W. of France .. all 2 1 22 I PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate Year. st *Caledon. £lO Gua. Stk 160 102 104 20 Cornwall4l p.c. ga.perp all - - st *E. Anglian, Clsß, 6 p.c. 100 120 123 st * Do. CIsC, 7 p.c. 100 131 134 st Edin,Prth,&D'dee,4p.c. 100 80 52 - st Lond'n, Brig'tn, &c., 44 per cent 1858 100 103 105 st Do. do. 4 per et 1860 100 92 95 st Do. do. 41 per et 1861 100 103 10 - 5 Do. do. 4k per ct 1861 34 -- 10 Lon. & Chat'm, Metrop. Ext. B, 6 p.c.........1 71 R d Id - st Lon. &S.Wcstern 4,1p.c. 100 102 101 10 North. British £lO Gua. ail - - Shares, 1861 st *ScottishCentral4l p.c lOO - - irred pref 1 . 10 S.-Eastern 41 p.c. 1859...1 all" 91 10 10 Do. 5 p.c. Juno 1861 (rd.) 5 1. ipm 10 Do. 5 p.c. Aug. 1861 (rd.) 3. 4 4pm * Failure of full dividends in any given half-year not to 1 made good out of the profits of any subsequent half year. /ear not to be t half year. BRITISH. MINES. - Alfred Consols (Philack) 8.9.3 .. • • 2( , iiritish Iron Clifford nil 28 30 Devon G. Cone. (Taoist ) 1 430 449 East Bassett (Illogan) 3O 14 46 45 --East Caradon 1.14.0 46 47 465 East Cam Brea... 3.0.0 16i 16/ 151 161 E. W'l Russel (Tavistk.) 7.10.0 21 35 Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) 561 1 3 5 14 . Great South Tous l7s 55 55 55 5 G.Wheal (phil ack) G. Wheal Vor (lielston) 40 65 7 Grenville ... ... . Ilerod's-Foot ....... 8.12 37 39 Hingston Downs 4.14 2 25 Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant) 1 91 4 2 44 Marke Valley.. 2 4 Myndy Iron Ore (Lim ) 5 2 1 North Downs 25 45 4f North Frances (Mogan) 12.3 N.Wh'l Basset (Illo4an) 2.3 0 21 35 North Wheal Crotty . 2,2.9 25 25 Par Consols (St. Blazey.) 15 -5 6 20 l'rovidence(Uny Lel nt.) 10.6.1 40 42 Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 1 4 ft South Caradon(St.Cleer) 14 21 335 745 S. Carn Brea (Illogan).. 5.11.6 35 S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 18. V... 97 1025 Stray Park 5 Tamar Silv.& Lead Min 45 14 11 10 Fin Craft 9 101 115 West Basset (Illogan). -15 125 13 5 W Caradon (Liskeard; 5 34 16 West Seton 474 255 265 Wheal Basset. (111og, an; 55 92 ; 974 Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 574 625 W11(...d Edward (Cals.) 71 11 11 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 1.7.2 12 13 Wheal Mary Ann (Men.) 8 11 13 Wheal Trelawney (Lis.) 7 16 17 FOREIGN MINES. 20 Australian 1 BonAccord Copper , Lim all 5 a 5 itrazil Land & Min.Co all .6 1 Clarendon Cons.MitiCo ; 40 Cobre Copper 20 (lopiano l6 6 8 2 Capula Silver Vs. 5 d spm 1 DunMoun.Cep. M ing Co as . 1, lip 3 East Del Rey (Limited) 1 2 Fortuna... all 25 35 20 4 eneral all 23 24 235 2 it N. Cop.'of S. Austr. 15 4 5 d 5 15 Liapunda (Limited) 1 l l> 3 ll 7 75 Linares a 6 Lusitanian 2 d pmi all 1 11ariqui vs 1 N. Ithineeopot S.Aus.L 5 *ds 20 Pontgibaud Silver,Lead Mining and Smelt all 2 5 Port Philip ... ....... Santaßarbara badmine 4, pm 1 -cottish Austrin. (L.).. 1 0 8. 1 5 I tP 20 St . John del Rey • 15 58 60 28.2.81 United M . Mexican . 7 il 7 5 1 Worthing (Limite d).. • all 1 DOCKS. stock Commeroial ..., .. . 100 stock Do. 4 per Cent.Pret:Min. 100 stock East and West India .. 100 126 128 stock Londo' .... 100 55 58 stock St. Katharine........... 100 57 59 175 stook ;Southampton lOO sit Ar IVI Arm' a. . 9 . 8 100 1 stock Commercial ......... ...I stock Do. 4 per Cent.Pret.Min• stock East and West India .. stock London , ..... stock ,St. Katharine.......... stook ;Southampton stick Victoria . ~ 20 Do New.____.... 98 100 id par 39i I 25* 17k 5O lt)* MI NI 252 iAW---THIS PAY. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) YOUNG V. YOUNG. This was a petition presented by the wife against the husband for dissolution of marriage on the ground of cruelty and adultery. The respondent denied the allega tions in the petition. Dr. Spinks appeared for the petitioner, and Mr. Prit chard for the respondent. Mrs. Martha Mary Thompson said—The petitioner was her daughter. She was present at the marriage, which took place in Launceston, Tasmania, in 1845. The service was performed by a Protestant clergyman. The respon dant's conduct towards her daughter was of the greatest cruelty. In Geelong he blackened her daughter's' eye, and he was compelled to paint her eye before she could go on the stage. We all arrived in England about five years ago in the ship Kent. I saw him frequently strike her on the voyage. He was in the habit of threatening to " do" for his wife, and she was compelled to hide his razors. His conduct altogether was one continued seiies of ill usage. After they had arrived in England Mr. Charles Young obtained an engagement at tke St. James's Theatre, and there her daughter told her her husband had formed an intimacy with a Miss Sower& On one occasion she followed them to a lodging in Raymond buildings, and on her daughter going up to the door Mr. Young struck her. Mrs. Young said she first became acquainted with Mr. Charles Young in 1844, at Hobart Town. She was then fourteen years of age. In the next yeS she married, and after that they both went to Melbourne to perform under the management of Mr. Coppin. After that they went to Hobart Town, and for about 12 months Mr. Young treated her very kindly. She could not recollect the first time he struck her. In 1848, while we were keeping the Duchess of Kent Hotel in Hobart Town, he had been out late, and on coining into the parlour a gentleman was sitting there taking refreshment. Mr. ,Young said—" I've caught you at last," and then ho struck her with violence about the head. He threatened to destroy himself, but she persuaded him to come home, and ho did so. In 1849, when in Melbourne, he came in with a sword- stick in his hand, and said he had killed a Mr. Bellville, and said that he intended to kill her during the night. On the oc casion of her confinement Mr. Young struck her ten days after, in consequence of her mother expostulating with for being late. He sent for the doctor, and when he asked how she was so bad, he told him it was his fault, as he had been out drinking. She afterwards took her child out of bed, and in consequence of his ill-treatment she left the house with the intention of going to the Red Lion, where she had been living previously. He followed her and knocked her down in the road with the child in her arms. He was always very jealous. He always made her take an oath on the Bible that all her statements to him were true, as to how she had passed her time when slib left the theatre. Rule nisi granted, with costs. SECONDARIES' COURT. (Before Mr. Potter and a Jury.) DETAINING A LACE MACHINE.-DAMAGES, £730. BURTON Y. SMITH. This was a writ of inquiry sent dawn from the Court of Common Pleas to assess the damages, laid at £l,OOO, under circumstances detailed by Mr. Field, counsel for the plain- tiff. The plaintiff and the defendant are residents of Notting ham, and carry on business there. The plaintiff let the defendant a certain lace machine of the value of £550 in the year 1858, and it was to be paid for by instalments, but in the event of the defendant failing in any of the instalments the plaintiff was entitled to have his machine. The defen dant had not kept up his payments, and as plaintiff could not get his money the present action was brought. In addition to the value of the machine, the defen dant was to pay so much in the shape of rent, and in consequence of the defendant's keeping the machine there was a count for 4iktenue. The defendant had not pleaded to the action; but while he (Mr. Field) asked for a verdict for the full ame g imt as a protection to the plaintiff, w hatever payments had been made by he defendant should be duly credited to him. The loss of the machine was somewhat serious to the plaintiff, who was entitled to the full amount. Plaintiff's attorney was called, and bore out the facts con tained in the above statement. The learned Secondary, in summing up, observed that the defendant was not present to object to the damages. The rent amounted to £lB2 10s., and the value of the lace machine was £550. I The jury assessed the damages at £732 10s. CRIMINAL COURT--THIS DAY OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Willes.) John Haines surrendered to an indictment charging him with the manslaughter of Thomas Mitchell. The Judge said he did not think there was evidence to bear out the charge. The Jury therefore at once returned a verdict of not guilty, and the defendant was discharged. ATTEMPTING TO MURDER, George Waite, labourer, aged 40, was indicted for feloniously attempting to murder his wife. There was also a second indictment, charging him with assaulting her to do grievous bodily harm. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. From the evidence of the wife it appeared that the pri soner had been drinking to excess for two or three weeks, and been unable to go to work, as he tt as suffering from delirium frowns, and labouring under the delusion that people were in his room. He continued in this state during the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. On the evening of Thursday the 30th of April the wife went to bed about 10 o'clock, but got up at half-past 12 to give the prisoner his medicine. Ile then urged her to come into bed, and immediately she did so he thrust a file used in sharpening a saw into her stomach. She got the file from him, when he got out of bed and seized an axe, which was lying among some firewood, and struck her some blows on the side of the head, inflicting several very severe wounds. She got away and ran down stairs, when the prisoner threw the axe after her. The wife was afterwards taken to St. Mary's Hospital, and the prisoner was con veyed to the station-house. The police-constable said, when he asked the prisoner why he had injured his wife, he said it was a good job she got out of the way, or it would have been worse for her. Dr. Brown, of Kensal-green, said when he examined the woman he found two incised wounds on the head—one over the right ear three i n ches in extent , and annexeoe over the left about an inch. Such an instrument as produce the injury. On the abdomen he found a number of bruises, and also some wounds, as if from a pointed weapon—a file, for instance. At the station I saw the pri - sonar, and found him labouring sander delirium tremens, and he said he was jealous of his wife with a Jim Cock well. A person suffering so severely from deli, ium tremens as the prisoner would, to a great extent, render him incap able of knowing right from wrong. The learned Judge, in summing up the evidence, said he must impress upon the jury that drunkenness must not be considered as any excuse for crime. The jury found the prisoner guilty of unlawful wounding. Mr. Ribton said the prosecutrix wished to . recommend the prisoner to mercy. The learned Judge said that was invariably the case; the person injured always being most anxious that the offender should escape punishment. He then sentenced the prisoner to 18 months' hard labour in the House of Correction. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) • UTTERING A PURGED LEASE. William Claringbold, a respectable man, aged GO, pleaded guilty, to an indictment charging him with uttering a forged lease, and obtaining by fraudulent representations tho sum of £6OO. Mr. Commissioner Ker r said he had looked nvo r the depositions in this case, and he found that the prisoner had obtained a large sum of money upon the faith that the deed was a valid document. The person advancing the money was to receive 20 per cent., but thit did not afford the slightest ground for altering the sentence he was about to pass. It was of the highest im portance that crimes of the description to which the prisoner had pleaded guilty should be severely punished, and he therefore felt it his duty to sentence him to four years' penal servitude. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. MPECJAL PAHLIAAIENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—THIS DAY. The SPEAKER took the chair shortly acier twelve o'clock PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the Berwick-upon-Tweed Harbour Bill was considered and agreed to. The Bolton and Blackburn Road Bill, and the Shrews bury and Hereford Railway Bill were considered and ordered to be read a third time. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented by Mr. Sotheron Estcourt, from Norwich, against the Church Rate Bill ; by Mr. Hadfield, from Sheffield, against certain clauses in the Savings Banks Bill ; by Mr. Hope, from the Synod of Lothian and Tweedale against the Scotch Education Bill; and by several members, in favour of the Church Rates Abolition Bill, CHURCH RATES ABOLITION BILL. Sir J. I'RELAWNY moved the second reading of this bill. In one respect he might feel discouraged in respect of this measure from the repeated defeats he had sustained, but, as on last occasion, the defeat was in a great measure the act and deed of the supporters of the bill, in consequence of ;heir having been led away with the idea of a compromise on the subject, that discouragement was greatly lessened. There was scarcely an hon. member in that house who did not consider that some measure was necessary on the subject, and he believed that the opposition he would meet with on the present occasion would in effect be that the mode he pro posed to regulate the matter was not the proper one. The object of hon. members on the Opposition side of the house seemed to be to get rid of his bill by holding out hopes •of the settlement of the question by compromise ; but when this mode of settlement had been attempted, it had been already seen what insurmountable difficulties rose up in their path. He considered that Dissenters were right in objecting to the form of compromise which had been pro • posed, as he must say that toleration was not so prevalent in the present day as some people would have them believe. The other night he heard an hon. gentleman get up and ask the Foreign Minister what action ha intended to take as regarded the imprisoned Protestants in Spain. Of course he could say nothing on the subject at the time, but he must say he felt indignant, and if ho were Spanish Minis ter he should writea very authoritative letter to the Foreign Minister on the subject, and tell him to see that toleration was exercised in his own country before he found fault with the mode of the exercise of it in others. (Cheers and laughter.) It was said that without church rates there would be no security for the restoration of churches ; but he considered that church rates were the dry rot of the Church, and were church rates abolished tomorrow he had no doubt but that a perfectly efficient system for the restoration of churches would be devised by the heritors of the p rish. By the system of church rates the church wardens were the parties responsible for the restoration and repairs of the church, and they needed not to go far to see the disgraceful manner in which they performed their duties in that respect, converting some of the finest speci mens of their old architecture into unseemly and uncomfort able structures. The fact was, he considered church rates as altogether unsuited to the present age and time. What would be said by philosophers 200 years hence in respect of this system of church rates? What would be said by the Wealeys, Darwins, Macaulays, or greater still, by the Buckles, respecting this system ? Why, would they. not characterise it as a political mon strosity; some strange specimen of a fox with wings, which might have been presumed to exist in a former age. He would not detain the - house, as the subject had been discussed so often, and all the arguments for and against the abolition of the impost were well known. He must, however, say that let the supporters of these fates declaim as they might, hon. members'on the Opposition side of the house could not upset the Government, and they could not hold the Government unless they consented to the abolition of church rates. He therefore moved that the bill be read a second time. Mr. C. BUXTON seconded the motion, and stated that he did so in order that some compromise might be arrived at on the subject. He considered that the tendency of the public mind was at present directed towards a compromise, and though it might beSsome time before that was come to, still he had no doubt that a scheme would ultimately be devised which would satisfy all parties. As a means to that compromise, he considered that the penalty at present imposed for the refusal of church rates should be abolished. That would do away with all practical grievance in the case, and would reduce all objections to church rates to a, theoretical character. Mr. S. ESTCOURT said he had understood that the hon. member who had just sat down rose for the purpose of seconding the resolution, but his speech would lead one to believe that such was not the case. (Hear, hear.) That, however, was but one instance—and he had no doubt they would hear many others in the course of the debate—of the impossibility of the measure proposed by the hon. baronet. The hon. baronet knew his opinions on the question 'very well, as they were expressed by h'm when the bill was before the house last session. These opinions were exactly the same this year, but ho could not help say ing that while 23 bills had been introduced on this subject since it war first broached in the house, neither the house nor the Government had proceeded with these in the same creditable manner they had done in respect of other matters which had come before them. No doubt several of these schemes were mere crotchets, but still none of them did get that consideration which the house were in the habit of giv ing to other subjects. In most of the schemes which had been prepared by the other side of the house a distinc tion was drawn between Churchmen and Dissenters, and rights were given to one party which was with held from the other. All the schemes were mere expedients, which seemed to get rid of the main diffi culty, but none of them stood upon a well-defined constitutional principle. He considered, therefore, that to deal properly with this question they must deal with it on a constitutional principle. He would, therefore, move as an amendment—" That it is unjust and inexpe dient to abolish the ancient customary right, exercised from time immemorial by the ratepayers of every parish in England, to raise by rate amongst themselves the sums re quired for the repair of their church, until some other pro vision shall have been made by Parliament for the dis charge of those obligations, to which, by custom or statute, the churchwardens, on the part of the parish, are l ia b l e. Lord R. MONTGUE seconded the amendment. Sir C. LEWIS said he had not intended to take part in the debate, but after the remarks of the right hon. gentle man who had moved this amendment he would say a few words, and he must say that, after the history of the case given by the right hon. gentleman, when he stated that 23 bills had been introduced, and that useless discussions in numerable had taken place on these, he considered that one might almost despair of introducing any measure at the present day which would satisfactorily dispose of the case. It was admitted on all hands that the existing law admitted of amendment, and how were they to arrive at such amend ment ? On that point he must say that he despaired of any such amendment being come to while the present law was in existence, and he should therefore, as he had done on former occasions, support the second reading of the bill now before the house. In respect of the proposal which he had himself made on the subject, he had made it as a modifica tion of a measure introduced into the House of Lords by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the report of a commit. tee, of which the Earl of Derby was a member. The object of that measure, and the recommendation of that committee, was to free any one from the payment of church rates who alleged themselves to be Dissenters, and as that was considered a system of ticketing Dissenters as it was called, his proposal was in effect that none but those who were in the habit of attending the parish church should be called upon to pay. He considered the amendments of the right hon. gentleman to be wrong in point of fact, and in point of law. As to the right of church rates being a right exercised from time immemorial that was not so, for several parishes had refused to exercise it, and the courts of law had said they could not be compelled to do so. Besides that, the House of Lords had decided in the Braintree case, that a valid sale could not be made unless the majo rity of the vestry consented t ) it. (Hear, hear.) The churchwardens therefore could not make a rate without the consent of a majority of the vestry, and the law giving them no power to make such rate they could not be said in terms of the amendment to have the right to do so. He considered the amendment, therefore, perfectly nugatory, and shou'd vote for the second reading of the bill. (Cheers.) Mr. MACDONOU said it there was any subject more than another on which her Majesty's Government ought to have introduced a measure, this was one, for it was so intimately connected with the welfare of the Church of which the gracious Sovereign was.the head. He consi dered the measure before the house as one of the most illogical compositions ever presented to it. It was illogical because it argued from particulars to generals, for was it not arguing in that way to say that because some four h urn dred parishes were opp osed to church-rates that, .13ererfioeghi they ought to be abolishe d in all the 12,000 T hon. gentleman the Secretary for War had aches tha . ec t hurch rates were not of immemorial usage, but at hon. gentleman was much at fault with his history, for trom the time of Canute church-rates had been pet e in c p h ra t c o tl l ce, t h e had recourse to for the support of h The right to do so was a custom, and s anctioned by u the com. mon law of England, and itwouldanbed notipfroolploerw to abolish it without providing a substitute , of the right hon. gentleman the Secretary at the War and pull down the building without providi g for means of building it up. (Cheers.) Mr. J. R. MILLS supported the measure. At the pre • sent time, were all the churches in connection with the Established Church full, there would be still five millions of people without any church accommodation. No doubt, the Church of England said, you can build churches for yourselves ; but then there remained the grievance that though they did so, they would be compelled to pay for the ma intenance of the parish churches ' into which they could en t e r. The amendment placed on the table would not ad vance the settlement of the question one whit. The only wa y to settle it would be to submit a sulstantial and rea sonable proposition for a compromise, but as that had not been done, he should support the second reading of the measure. (Hear, hear.) Col. BARTTELOT said that in the large towns, such as Birmingham, Manehester, and Leeds, church rates had been nominally abolished, for they were not sought to be enforced ; while in the smaller towns the animosities against them were year by year diminishing ; and in the rural dis tricts, where the people were all married in the parish church and buried in the churchyard, they did not object to pay them, and in these circumstances he thought the time had arrived when a compromise on the subject might be come to. Mr. BRIGHT said he believed hon. gentlemen opposite were acting in this matter not as religious Churchmen, but as political Churchmen. They had by some means con verted this into a party question. The right hon. gentle man the member for Wiltshire had repudiated and disowned JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 100 i A gra &U n itedService Bk 40 'Australasia 25 Bank of Egypt. 100 Bask of London .... 50 British North American 20 Chtd.Bank of India, &c. 25 Ch. Mer. of In. 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IV dom T 1 Co.li ' e . O. In. 88 90 64 66 22 23i 54 36 20 20i 34 S 5 95 97 39 90 18i •(9 253 26 1 25} 20 39 40 363 Al 1 pri 804 4pm' 79 id ip 39 41 50i 51 15+ 26i 87 E 9 36 37 44 46 32i 33i MISCELLANEOUS. 18 1 9 2 3 ?5 `7 4t 61 25 ?S1 18 20 9 11 110 114 12 15 15 37 105 u 9 105 109 la Oa par }pm 99 101 100 21 26i I ....., 3 i d l 1! 3 4i id i d lip 13 16 it 5 3 / 4 ei 6 56 68 68 70 692 10 12 ist 19i 17 19 4 3 / 4 64 26 26 3 / 4 26 3 / 4 49 51 135 140 32 84 321 4 1 6 1 pr d 1 lt o 9 9i (Before Baron Channell.) Frederick Driver, a clerk employed in the Jermyn-street district, pleaded guilty to a verdict charging him with steal ing a letter containing two half sovereigns, the property of her Majesty's Postmaster- General . Mr. Sleigh, on the part of the prisoner, urged that .his client's was an exceptional case, as he was not actually in the service of the Post• office. The learned judge said that he would take that circum • stance into consideration, and defer passing sentence for the present. A MAN AND A B o y D RO WNED IN GLASGOW 11 A nn0un.—On Sunday, about half-past 1 o'clock , a few a fine boy about 12 yea r s ) f ag e, b o ys were amusing themelveswith a sand punt, which was mo ored in the Clyde near Jenny's Burn, when one of them, named J ohn Phillips , re siding at 103, Gallowgate, fell:over the side. Mr . Ged 4es, w ith one of his assistants, was on the spot as s oon as pos sible ; but they did not retover the body t ill it had been a n b o o o u n t , tthhreeehoqduyarotef a rs m of an anh i jes ou o r he in erv th ed e w in at t e h r e . w est end of Mavisbank Qtay, and was subsequently iden tiffed as that of Robert Tdd, a moulde r, about forty years of age, and who resi ded u King -street, Calton. He was l as t seen in the MoulderE House of Call in Stockwell -street, river Sam near water.—Same a f ttehre on Saturday forenoon, •,hich he left to go to Renfrew to seek employment. Hov he got into the water is unknown Tde has left a widow andtwo children to lament their loss .—.1f..13, Mail, 2 25} i i 3, 2 II 36 4i all 1 all all too all all al all 1 5 1 1 zsi, every measure which had been introduced upon this sub ject by himself or any one else, because, he said, they were not founded o constitutional principles. But how could the amendment proposed by the right hon. gentleman place the question on censtitutionaL principles. For the last 28 years they had been discussing this question on the ground that, in the opinion of the great body of the people what might have been just as wise to establish a tew hundred years ago was not just or wise at the present time when the times and circumstances had altogether changed. (Cheers.) He could have wished that the right hon. gentleman had been more explicit in some of h's declarations. He said that in the Established Church there was a general interest. The whole community was interested in her, but while he admitted that the general community was interested in the Established Church so far as Christianity was preached in her, 3et he was no more interested in that respect in the parish church than he was in the Wesleyan Chapel or any other Dissenting place of worship. (Cheers.) It was not wanted to diminish the number of the Established Churches or their useful ness, which all had th e i y h w o t a h n e t r e d p a was t t s h a d t o t h h e e so m Voluntary ueh principle fo r th the re w s Church should have fair play in this matter of church rates. Ho wanted those who opposed the abo lition of church rates to be explicit. on the subject, and to come boldly forward and say that the landed aristocracy and the upper classes of the country who had such fl in ' uence in the Parliament and the country were t o n peor to maintain their own chu ch. (Cheers.) If they are not, why persist in maintaining a system which was unsui ed for the present times and circumstances. He had no hesitation in saying that were they to leave matters exactly as they were at pre sent except the power to enforce the rate, they could by voluntary means realise a larger amount of money in the shape of rater, than they did at present, while all that heart burning and bad feeling which existed ois the subject would be done away with. As to the Government taking up the question, he considered that they were bound to do so, but it would seem that the more hon, members failed in succeeding in settling great questions the more the Government seem indisposed to touch them. A friend of his once said, during Lord Aberdeen's Government, that he had no doubt that Government would go on well enough so long as it kept clear of politics — (laugh ter ) —and he must say that the present Government were getting somewhat into the_ same state. (Laughter.) If they g ave up politics, land cared nothing for carrying such measures as this, then, he said, they occupied their positions on the Ministerial bench as—what should he say—superior clerks. (Loud cheers.) He asked them, then, in a session in which no thing had been done, except spending money away from the hard earnings of the people, to make it famous for one day by supporting the present measure, and thereby carrying out one of the greatest principles in the Christian faith, of "doing tinto others as they wished others to do to them." (Loud c heers.) Sir P. BURRELL opposed the measure, considering that church rates were levied under the common law of the couutry, and that they must provide a substitute before they abolished them. Sir J. F AKINGTON contended that the Church of England was essentially the oor man's church in a much wider sense than was the dissenting chapel, for he could always get accommodation in her free which he must pay for in the latter. He joined heartily in the wish that this question should be settled, and he believed there was not churchman or dissenter who did not believe that the time had now arrived when it ought to be settled in• some way or other. He was sure, however, that the question would never be settled by the legislation of private members, and he therefore considered that the Government ought to take it up. The right hon. gentleman proceeded to refer to the manner in which the Church of England was treated by some of the extreme section of Dissenters, some of them charac terising her as an engine of Satan, and contrasted with these insulting insinuations the conduct of other Dissenters, representing the conduct of the one as being tyrannical and intolerant, while the other was Christian and friendly. It was impossible too much to regret that the question should be embarrassed by the ravings of this class of Diesenters. The object of these parties was undermine the Church. They cared nothing for the conscientious scruples which some people entertained to the payment of this rate, but they wished, by means of the abolition, to attack and undermine the Church, and their conduct had secured its reward, for they had seen in the divisions of that house the altered state of public feeling respecting it. (Hear.) He hoped, however, that the conciliatory conduct of the C h u r c h of England, and some of the more moderate of the Dissenters, would be the means of bringing about a satisfactory settle ment of the question. (Hear, hear,) Mr. DILL WYN supported the measure, stating while he should be glad to see the Government come forward and take up the question, he must say that there was little encouragement given them to do so by the present state of the question. If there was to be any compromise it ought to come from the Opposition side of the house, as they bad been the great opponents of every attempt to legislate on the matter. Mr. DISR A ELI sad gentlemen on his side of the house had been remanded of the length of time this me ter had been under discussion in the house and the 23 measures which had been introduced respecting it. If that showed anything, he considered the meaning of it to be that the question was not ripe for discussion, and that there were no abuses attaching to it which required remedy. But the fact was that the pretext for legislation was not the cause of the movement, for when the trail came out it was found that the destruction of the Church of England was the avowed object, and that being the case, he thought no one would wonde r at the lngth of time which the question had been under dis cussion. He had always maintained that no satisfactory settlement of this question could be come to except by agreement, and he was of that opinion still. On that point he agreed with the hon. member for Birming ham, because the original object was now avowed, and the Government having sanctioned it could have no difficulty in taking it up. He must also say with the hen, mem bar for Birmingham that the Government seemed back ward in taking up these public measures, and the quee, tion of chnrch rates was of all other one they ought to take up, for he found the other day that a member of her Ma jesty's Government presided at a meeting of the Libe. ration Society, of which was probably an induction of the future policy of the Government. (Cheers.) He was not per haps a Cabinet Minister, but he was at all events acquainted with Cabinet secrets. (Cheers and laughter.) He ob jected to the limited area in whieh the right hen. gentle man the Secretary of State for. War had placed this question. • The light hop, gentleman had refe•red to a measure introduced into the House of Parliament by the Archbishop of Canterbury, but this was a political and not a religious question, and being so it was not a question for atehhisb:ope but for statesmen to consider. There was involved in the question the principle of an Established Church, the lights of local governments, and the hereditary privileges of the great mass of the people, and he must say he never went to a division with greater confidence of success. (Loud cheers.) Sir J. TRELAWNY having briefly replied, The house divided, when there appeared—, For Sir J. Trelawny's bill . s , .. 286 Against it Majority against the second reading —l The announcement was received with muc cheering on the Conservative side of the house. The amendment was then put as a substantive motion, and upon the house again dividing there appeared— For Mr. S. Eatcourt's amendment...... 288 Against it Majority for the amendment —l7 The bill is consequently lost, and the announcement of the result was hailed with loud cheers from the Opposi• tion benches. The others were postponed, and the house adjourned al six o'clock. P,IBLIAXENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MAY 13. INCOME-TAX. Mot;on made, and Question put, "That, in the opinion of this House, the incidence of an Income-Tax should not fall upon capital or property, and that when applied to the annual products of invested property it should fall only upon the net income arising therefrom ; and that the net profits, gains, or salaries of persons and partnerships (not being public companies) engaged in any trade, farm, I manufacture, profession, or salaried employment, should he subject, previous to assessment, to such an abatement us may equitably adjust the burden thrown upon intelli gence and skill as compa ed 'with property" (Mr. Hub bard). The House divided—Ayes, 62; Noes, 99. ATMS— 62. Barnes, Thomas Greenall, G. Bass, M. T. Handley, John Bernard, Col. hay. Sir J. Slack, Adam 11 ibbert, J. Slake, J. A. Hodg-kinson, G. Bonham-Carter, J. Jackson, W. Brady, John Kekewich, S. Bright, J. Kelly, sir F. ...., Clay, James Lanigan , G . ... ; Burrell, Sir P., Bt. LlCacinog.l7kse,irAE.. ll' • Cobbett, J. M. Leatham, -r-,. Collier, R. P. Lewis. Harvey Cox, W. Douc.las, Sir C. Monson, W. J. Doulton, I. Dalglish, Robert Morris, D. Duke, Sir James Marsh,33 lah ° M n '. P. O'Ferrall,' M. Fermoy, Lord Guildford admore P G F a o i r .d, ste ß r,. W. E. Onslow, , R. TELLmns, Getty, S. G. Parker, Major W. Hubbard, J. G. Go ld s mid, Sir F. Pevensey, Viscount Crawford, R. W. NOES-99, Angerstein, W. G G l a ad vin st , o ll e aj , Major . B. Rt. Hn. Sir G. Alorritt, W. Atherton, Sir W. Gibson, T. M. Bagwell, J. Norris, J. T. Baring, Sir F. Gower, P. 1. 4 , Northcote, Sir S. H. O ra C cr on t, o L i o D r o ci n e. T E h . e Barrow, W. H. Grey, Bar ttelot, Col. Hadfield, Geo. Palmerston, e Vint. Baxter, W. E. - ic ln,ullrY, R., jun. Peel, Sir R. Beale, Samuel " -ai KeY, Thomson Peel, F. Beecroft, G. S. Hartopp, E. B. Phillips, G. L. Bentinck, G. W. P. Hassaia, M. D. Pinney, Wm. Blackburn, P. E, P, P . • lie- Heatheote, Sir W. Potter, E. J. P. Powys, L. P. Bt Herbert, ""gY ' Quinn,Peter Bridges, Sir 8 ., . H. A. Bruce, Btt e , Ii SiT A T. J. Bt. H B e u y t g t a w te i Sir F. Ricardo, 0. Howes, Edward Ridley, Sir M. W. , James ' Kingsw, Seymour, Sir M. Caird Knightley, R. te, Lt.-Col. Smith, Abel Steel, John Cardwell,llt.Hn. E. Leg h, W. Steuart, A. Chapman, J. Leslie, W. Sullivan, M. Churchill, Lord A. Lewis, Sir G.C. , Bt. Tr etusis, Hon. C. H. Close, M.C. Lindsay General Trelawny , S ir J. S. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Lowe, it. Hon.R. Trollope, Sir John Conolly, Thomas Macaulay, K. Vandeleur, Col. Craufurd, E. H. J M`Cormick, W. Vane, Lord H. G. Crossley, Frank Mackie, J. Villiers, lit. Hon. C. Disraeli, Benjamin Mainwaring, T. 'Walcott, Adm. J. E. Duff, M. E. Malins, R., Waldron, L. Dunbar, Sir Wm. Martin, J. Walpole, S. H. Evans, T. W. Finlay, A. S. Weguelin, T. Massey, W. N. Watk ins, J. L. V. Miller, T. Freeland, H. W. Mills, T. TELLERS. French, Fitzstephen Mills, J. R. Brand, H. B. Garnett, W. J. Mitchell, T. A. Knatchbull-Hugess Pigott, Fra ncis W P o llard Urquhart Powell, .1. sssss lt eatec o ii : y nonlo h ny f oecfl l : l e. d i n n o n L. , J. Taylor. P. A. Thornhill, W. P. Tollemaehe, Hon.F. Warner, Edward Westhead, J. White, Jas. Williams, W. wood, W. Yorke, Hon.E. " PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW."—There has long been a most provokisg talk of General Goyon leaving Rome. Why doesn't he leave at once ? In auc tioneer's phraseology, let us hope we shall soon hear that it is "Goyon—Goyon—Gone I" In fact, we should rejoice to hear of a general departure on the side of the French.-- Punch. DANGEROUS !—Of course the International build• ing is insured to the full value of all that it contains. One wo uld fear the must be a great likeliho od of fire, as there hears that a live COLE is often foun d about the place, and who is expected some day tomt the Thames on &a-Punch, ' -M. Kuhne, the highly respected liberal deputy in Prussia who has been elected at Eiberfeld, writes to his electors to thank them, an d says that although stormy weather may be expected i n the coming Parliament —too stormy almost for a man of his age (77 Years)—he will stani by his colours so long as his strength lasts. SPORTING-THIS DAY. CHESTER RACES, THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAM CHESTER (lIP. Tim Whiffler Vest colt Brighton Sappho Twenty-three ran. HELTE R-SKELTER STAKES. •1 .. '1 My Mary Mousetrap Staple Oak Four ran. MEMBERS' PLATE. Egyptian Three ran. lIANDICA.P OF 70 SOVS. Miss julix Mousetrap .. Brilliant ight ran. SCRAMBLE HANDICAP. Madge 'Wildfire Chance 1 .•••• 1 .... QUEEN'S PLATE. Dusk Coronet .. Sawoutter Seven ran. BIENNIAL Parasseuso Hare.......... .............................. Two ran. LATEST BETTING. TZIE DERBY: 20 to 1 age. Neptunus (taken) POLICE-THIS DAY. MARLBOROUGH•STREET, THIS DAY. PAYING FOR A LA.12,1.1.-Mr. Henry Mence, of 9, Argyle-street, King's-cross, medical student; Mr. Charles Dennison, 28, Frederick-street, Gray's-inn-road, surgeon ; and Mr. James Russell, coal merchant, of 4, Hampstead street, Fitzroy-square, were charged with being drunk and creating a disturbance by knocking and singing at doors in. Princes-street. Bovey, 86 C, proved at half-past three this morning, seeing the defendants coming from the direction of the Haymarket and knocking and ringing at the doors and. lanuses in Princes-street and King-street. They then ran. away, and he pursued them into Frith-street, and took them int) custody. On going to some of the houses in Princes-street he found some of the knockers wrenched completely round. Smith, 122 C, corroborated Bovoy, and said he saw one of the defendants go up to a house and wrench the knocker round. One of the defendants said they had been to the Hay market, and all they did was for a lark. Mr. Tyrwhitt-205., or a month. Richard King was charged with uttering two counterfei shillings to Mr. Thomas Surridge, of the Black Horse, Coventry-street, two counterfeit florins and one shilling being found in the prisoner's possession. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded him. A LADY PIOXTO OriET.—RoBLiNG A CLERGYMAN'S WlFE.—BridgerWise, a stylishly-attired female, and who was wearing a gold watch and chain when taken into cus tody, was charged vita stealing a purse containing money from the pocket of Mrs. Charlotte Josephine Vickery, the wife of the Hey. Mr. Vickery, of 17, Charlotte-street, Bed ford-square. Mrs. Vickery said that on the previous afternoon she was leaving St. James's Hall, having been to Mr. Ella's concert (the Musical Union), and while allowing an elderly lady to pass, she found the prisoner's hand in her pocket. She (Mrs. Vickery) put her hand into her pocket and found her purse gone; and the prisoner, who had moved away, passed something to a man, who instantly ran away OA taking hold of the prisoner and charging her with rob bing her, she said, " Me, my dear." Mr. Austin, the ma.• nager of the hall, and a constable, then came up, tad she gave the prisoner into custody. - Sergeant Thomas Foinett, 14 C, said the prisoner gave an address in the Waterloo-road, but on inquiry there he found it was false, lie found on the prisoner 3s. 7d. and a gold watch and chain. Prisoner, who said she had Lever been in custody before, was committed for trial. THE MIDDLE LEVEL CAT.AST.ROPIIF. LYNN, THURSDAY MORNING. The destruction of the sluice and bridge conneeir-,1 with the Middle Level Quest' (which cost £30,00() for construction about sixteen years ago), which was detailed last week as having oc6urred on Mon day, the 4th instant, has been attended with tho most serious results. Tho entire drainage of a vast portion of the fens between Lynn and. Peterborough depends upon this cut, which has been regarded as quite a feat in drainage, and it empties itself into the Ouse, about three miles above Lynn. On the 4th instant the bridge and sluice were entirely destroyed (it is sup posed through being made on a sandy fdundation), and a house or two engulphed. Since that time the most strenuous exertions have been put forth to construct a dam, for the purpose of keeping out the tidal waters ; but all has failed, though between 20 and 30 barges filled with mud have been sunk (only to be washed away as if they were toys), and, about 20,000 sandbags have been thrown into the river. The spring tides have, therefore, rushed, up the cut with unbounded velocity and power, throw ing down bridges, forcing huge breaches in the banks, and inundating vast tracts of land. On Monday afternoon the tide washed a barge from the moorings, capsized her, dashed, her against St. Peter's Bridge, and broke her to shivers. During the first tide on Monday two breaches were made in the bank on the north-west side of the cut, about a mile apart. One of these was successfully stopped, but the other spread, and when we were there it was not less than 50 yards wide, and the water was rushing through a la Niagara, with a sound like " the shout of a mighty cataract." The sight here was awfully grand ; as far as the eye could. reach was one vast body of water. Houses were submerged eight or ten feet, and a n umber of stacks were seen floating about. The line to Wisbech ral ere or d w th o e u r l e d rbeestienda. few farnodm the Ly n t r n a w ins a s were as h unablew a t t e o r r f u o n r ; n t e h a e rly tel a e g posts were washed away, and a stack of mile, stra p w acres ine of some of the most floated was hour c s computed mi on l optu t t o the less e d that aa tn railwaytre 7,000 were, productive land in England under water, and it is feared that by Friday (when will be the highest tide) not less than 150 acres of land will be inun dated. The destruction of all this property is fright ful to contemplate, and ruin is staring in the face , a great many of the tenant farmers, as their courme nances depict. We believe that there is no expac tation of being able to construct the dam till the neap tides The cost of repairs which are ren dered necessary, apart from the loss of property by the floodin g , it is supposed will not be much less than £lOO,OOO. The works are being vigorously prosecuted by about 500 men, under Mr. Leather, contractor. The following engineers have inspected the damage :—Sir John Rennie, C.E., Mr. Hawk shaw, C.E.,Mr. Fowler, C.E. Magdalen Fen , and portions of Broad Fan, and Marshand Fen are under water now. At 6 o'clock on Monday evening a fire, supposed to be the work of an incendiary, broke out in the women's wing of the Cork Union Workhouse. It vas extinguished by the inmates and police in about an hour and a half, but not before a store-room was burnt and a large quantity of clothing destroyed. NAVAL AND MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of this society was held yesterday at Exeter hall; Capt. the Hon. F. Maude presided. After a prayer, the secretary read the report, which gave the an encouraging The acc ount of the society's proceedings during year. e i n come from all sources had been £3,2 53 16 s . 110, show ing an increase of £572 on that of the previous year. The expenditure had been £2,675 18s. Id., and the balance left in the treasurer's hand amounted to £B3O 19s. Dd. The report was adopted. PARIS.—The " PRETTY HORSE BREAXEI tS" r I Paris correspondent of the indePo' ne ! says w r a h e iteehd, the. withoutnot notice 0 ofl§- have occurred at the Bois de 13 i i 6ul ,:e gn a e t . t sassing any great importance, the authorities. Ladies, who move a certain sphere, lendid equipages, from which, luxuriantly reclining 81) look n. contemptuously o with fastidious airs, they seemed to honest over ly,' have Angry groups of Pe°Pl been hissed by the promenaders. s urrounded the carriages, and the ladies deemed it pruient to beat a retreat with all the speed at which the hoiscs would carry . them. Similar scenes took ladies there met with a bad reeep place at the races. lion from the people. Stones were thrown at one of them, who seemed more cool or more daring than the others, and whose attitude looked like a. provocation. These scenes often repeated, and taking place even in the minor theatres, have awakened the attention of the police. But what is to be done; for personal liberty must be respected ? The O ka authorities, I understand, have been studying the questiOnf and among the reports in circulation is one which says that lists of proscription are to bo drawn up against the most recalcitrant of these daughters of Eve, and the t those who have com e from the provinces are to be sent hack to their respective departments, wlkh an injunction tb.at theyh are _ not to return to Paris without the permission of the pre' e fect of police. Those 'who are foreigners wilt .beseeox, to the frontiers with all the respect due to en ti e o l a r wh c i_f _no . : to their position. lam aware of the senrciaarrtves in Pmie news will produce when the .Todependar,c to-morrow." 01-