The Sun. — London, England, 1859-03-03 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. A progressive improvement is still apparent in the traffic returns ; but, although in most instances the increase, as compared with the corresponding Period of last year, is satisfactory, it is clear that the check given to commercial affairs by the prevailing political incertitude has prevented that extension of revenue which might otherwise have been exhibited. The effect of the unsettled Position of French and Austrian relations has been more important than might have been imagined, the advises from all parts of the country, and especially from the manu facturing districts, stating that confidence has been disturbed by the bare possibility of hostilities. In other respects the prospects of trade are s atisfactory, more particularly as the accounts eln distant markets, such as Australia, India, and China, show that affairs are slowly recovering from that extraordinary state Of depression which succeeded the crisis of 1857. Under the most encouraging circumstances it is Rcnerally believed that some time must elapse before confidence is fully restored ; and it is therefore much to be regretted that any circumstance con nected with politics should intervene to retard the reviving tendency of mercantile enterprise. The Liverpool Cotton Market, yesterday, closed 41.1111 Y, and 12,000 bales were sold at very full prices. In the Railway Share Market only a l i mited amountamount of business was transacted, and all the leading lines exhibited a decline in value. A Moderate amount of business is reported in the I nneY Market, preparations being in progress for the bills due to-morrow, the 4th of the month. The te rms charged continue very moderate, first-class , r b ilis bein g nego ti a t e d a fraction above 2 per cent. “Mg-dated paper is also freely discounted, which S hows confidence in the continuance of the existing easiness. , In the Market for English Securities re newe d neaviness has been apparent, owing to the circula tion of some less favourable rumours with regatd to the progress of affairs abroad. It is evident that the markets are kept in a very unsettled state by , the uncertainty attending the negotiations at Vienna, and the operators seem ready to take adi-antage of any intelligence that can bear an unfavourable construction, to effect specu lative sales. These transactions have the effect of depressing values, and at the same time they promote an uneasy feeling, which creates a Rloom over all departments of the " House." Consols have been 951 1, are now 951 a for money and account. Bank Stock is steady, at 2291. The New Threes and the Reduced are firm, at 951, 96, a nd 9 61. The 30years' Annuities have receded to 18 - Exchequer Bills are 355. to 38s. prem., and the Bonds are marked 100. India Stock has i , n iPreved to 220 and 2221 ; and the Loan De- Dentures remain at 98f i 99. In the Foreign. Stock Market business has been rather quiet; and prices, in some instances, show a decline. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 901 to 901; ditto, New Loan, '761 to 771 ; Brazilian 44 per Cents. have receded to 931 ; Peruvian 41 per Cents. to 911 and 921 ex div..; and Dutch 21 per 'dents. to 64. Sardinian Bonds are steady at 791 ; a nd Venezuelan at 431, but the Deferred are rather ' r ifler at 17 and 171. The New Austrian Loan is , t tO di s. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up t° this day, are in round figures as undet 1859. 1858. ° rent Western £26,184 23,932 Il e r th-Western i vit th-Western - u t ighton Ilidl a . IL , nd - ,; 1101 -Eastern a _,,reat Northern neashire and Yorkshire is,--instol and Exeter i. rt h - Eastern. - 32,260 30,749 Vneaster and Carlisle tittinhester, , Sheffield, and Lincoln .. ° .°l'd Worcester, and Wolverhampton 4,251 3,561 Fast S ' tafford st Hartlepool Dublin and Wicklow , 41 a cl inburgh and Glasgow 5,226 5,025 Grand and South-Western . 6,312 6,205 ‘trand Trunk of Canada Great Western of Canada 5,837 6,492 The above traffic returns continue to show a steady and gradual improvement on most of the Principal lines. The advance on the Great Wes tern has been On the North-Western . 4,071 PI South-Western 1,671 77 Brighton ' 7, Midland If . South-Eastern I, Great Northern 745 'if North-Eastern /7 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow 2Ol f, Glasgow and South-Western lO7 79 Grand Trunk of Canada 256 The Great Western of Canada has declined about 4655. There has been rather more buoyancy in the i lailway Share Market, owing to the steady im provement in the traffic returns of most of the 11r incipal lines; and the advance may be quoted at 40 out t. to s per cent. Eastern Counties, Great Northern, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North-West "ll, Manchester,Sheffield, and Lincoln, and North astern (Berwick)-, have advanced ss. ; and Great West6 3l ,.... an d Midland, lOs. ;.. North Eastern (York) South-Western, and South-Eastern, how have receded about ss. • ' The Foreign and Colonial lines are flat, but there 18 little alteration to note in values. Dutch-Rhenish g ave declined 55., and Lombardo-Venetian are at previous rates; East Indian and Great Western of Canada realised former values, but Grand Trunk of e nalada have declined ss. to 10s.; Great Indi an Peninsula are a. shade firmer. 'aint-Stoek Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are 4 almost nominal rates. Peninsular and Oriental S team have receded 10s. • B BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. , link Stock ' Per Cent. Reduced Annuities • 961 4 1 6 51 6 51 New Cent. Consols Annuities 9 skii3iii long 3 per Cent. Annuities 961 6 -1 51, si 51 Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860.... IL'itto 30 Years, expire sth Apr., 1885.. 18 5-16 B ;: i t ril t i o a D S e t b oc en k tureq "99 81 I Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO 'Mt() under £l,OOO ' l9 20 16 C o - asels for Account 95k i I March. June. P,xchequer Bills £l,OOO, 2d. & lid 38 5 I Ditto Small, lid. exchequer Bonds, 1859, 31 per Cent .... 100 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent _ Ditto 1858, 41 per C en t veruvian 41 per Cent 9l Ditto Account Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per C en t ... Ditto 41 per Cent. .......... .. 100 Sardinian, 5 per Cent. 79i 801 Palruish 3 per Cent. Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. - Ditto h 6 Accountent 291 t I ntkiser C Ditto Ac p count Ditto New Loan Ditto Account V enezuelan Gmranteed, 4 per Cent. 5 per Cent. Ditto Account b itto Deferred 2 per Cent. l7l 17 Dividends on the above payable in London. tell Exchange, 12 Guil. 2i per Cent 64 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Consols for Account The Lord Chancellor and Lady ChelmA Trd ent ertained at dinner yesterday, at their residence in Eli W -4(lnare, Viscount Melville, Lord and Lady Colchester, 4 ' °ll and Lady Colville, Sir Charles and Lady Phipps, Colonel tho Hon. Alexander and Mrs. Gordon, Mr. and Ntrs Addorley, Mr. :and Mrs. Higgins, Captain Ed wardcs, &c. The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury enter tt'illed his Excellency tho Belgian Minister, his Excellency t he Sardi n i an Mi n i s t er , the Marquis of Salisbury, the al 'cllioneso (Maria) of Ailesbury, the Earl of Dalkeith, the Countess Stanhope, the Countess of Tankerville, Lord and Lady Elcho, Lady Augustus Loftus, Lord and Lady Arthur Hay, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Barrington, and Mr. 1 217 , 44e , w 0i1, at dinner last evening, at their residence in 'fetter s from Taniers state that the Count de and insal,had p asse d some days at that place with- the Belgian it llladhad hunted wild boars in company with him Totyis Engn„lish consul. The prince was afterwards to where he was to embark for England. t mt / Yhat roll did our Crimean for break- Me roll of the drum.—Kelly' a *R ailway 044. ~ ---- "It untry ecte d , Ferdi ooked which —the round plains This an in- ate of mber, t new istory paper sages ,raoirs trnish rative Mere- n, and diced. al ad ached " The inued . sum nother ces of iby, is en has easant minful ure of )ature. more .ua" is ength. t Mit he ex es the ibjects of the consi- !marks defee le, and serves 'octant w and " it is re the 1, that ernate .e, and ite for Aire of ;. Its tics of lusion sarily er re. lough a the ndue- Aeces, rry to i aro well ourse ; the ,and rusal. a re- tture, th© eable ward s of Some using ndto 3s in Japer enza, I, th© t" is dis- ul is SHARE MARIET.-(THIS DAY.) ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. Clcg o i e n . g rio Business p raid. I ne. Share I 1 ! 12.10 Ambcrg., Notting. Bost. -- ' and Eastern Junction 10 6 64 5 1 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 50 Belfast and Ballymena.. all - - 13.14 Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. ill tf 4 Stock Birk., Birk., Lane., and Chesh. Junction 25 Blackblirn 25 Blyth and Tyne all 31 33 The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wo olsack Stock Bristol and Exeter Stock Caledonian ' , 100 &I/ 84 Earl GREY presented a petition from the. English resi- Stock Chester and Holyhead. 100 48 49 50 Cork and Bandon all • - dents at Hong Kong, complaining of the prevalence of 20 Cork, Blkrock,&Passage all - - piracy in the Chinese :seas, and the inefficient measures 20 Cornwall A !eves. no div all taken _ 4l 5 1 taken for its extinction by the authorities. It was further until6p.c.per an. 10 Do. A believed by the petitioners that the officials at that place 10 Do. B participated in the profits of the unlawful trade. hasbeen pd.toß. al l - - The Earl of CARNARVON said he thought the corn -50 Dublin andßelfast June. all - - 25 Dun.,Perth,& Abr.Junc all 9 9 4 plaints 'of the petitioners were much exaggerated, and h e Stock East Anglian lOO 15 16 594 9 thought the noble lord was labouring under some misap - Stock Eastern Counties lOO 581 594 prehension. He had seen in the Colonial-office Stock Eastern Union A Stock 100 44 46 a very voluminous correspondence on the subject, Stock Do. do. B Stock' --100 29 31 and consequently it was very di ffi cult to arrive at any satis -25 Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds) 84 - factory opinion on the matter. 25 East Kent all 14 16 14 1 Stock East Lancashire lOO 92 94 After a few words from Earl GREY, the subject dropped. 20 East Suffolk all - - THE FOREIGN ARMAMENTS. 10 Do - - Lord BROUGHAM said it had been stated that Stock Edinburg and Glasgow 100 701 71 he expressed his satisfaction at the answer he had Stock Edin.,Perth, & Dundee. 100 261 271 received from the noble earl (the Earl of Malmesbury) 10 Forth & Clyde Junction all - - to the question he put the other night, relative to waxlike Stock Furness - - Stock Glasgow &South Re 160 95 97 preparations in a neighbouring country. What he 10 Great North of Scotland all 10 10/ said was that the answer he had received Stock Great Northern lOO 101 102 1014 tallied exactly with the information he had received. He Stock Do. do. A Stock lOO 86 88 expressed no opinion on the subject whatever. Stock Do. do. II Stock lOO 131 133 132} EDUCATION IN INDIA. Stock Gt. Sonth.& Wstn.(lreld) 100 103 104 103+ Stock Great Western Stock Do.Str.Vl.llllll Gna.Stk ' 100 M 5O 1 site (Argyle) whether it would not be better to postpone 12 Irish South Eastern all the motion he had on the paper with 50 Lancaster and Carlisle all 85 90 respect to education in India. He thought 161 Do. Thirds 1613 4 Do. New Thirds lO 12 13 p Stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 93 03 4 93 1 1I 1 of her Majesty's Government. 16 Do. do. F £l6 6 lid The Duke of ARGYLL said he did not think a discus -9 Do. do. £9 shares 7 I fd 6 4 Mon on this subject would increase any danger in India. 3 Do. West Riding Union 1 - - The Earl of DERBY said the attention of the Govern -11.6.3 London and Blackwell. all -6 4 -6 4 6 4 4 20 Do. Southport merit had been directed to the report received in this country from India on the subject of education. The Se -11.6.3 Do.Newiss.at £slosp.sh. 44 - - Stock Lon.,Brighton &S.Cout 100 100 110 110 9i cretary of State for India had called for a fuller report from Stock London & North Westn 100 9 3 03 4 23 1 4 4 the Indian authorities, and until that was received ho 12i Do. Eighths Stock London& South-Westn lOO 92 02 4 92 4 The motion was then postponed sine die, and their lord -25 L'derry & Coleraine all - - ships immediately afterwards adjourned. 25 L'derry & Enniskillen all - - - ..„ Stock Man., Shef., & Lincoln lOO 3 7 3 74 ail I 10 Metropolitan 3 - -- d HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS EVENING). Stock Midland - ... lOO 981 981 981 Stock Do. Birming. & Derby. 100 7 3 7 5 The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. 50 Mid. Gt. West.(lrelancl) all - - 25 Do. i Shares all - PETITIONS. 100 Ne•at -- astle and Carlisle all - - Petitions were presented praying, for an inquiry, by cora -25 New., Aber., & Herefd all 114 12 mittee of the house, into the working of the public-house 10 Newry & Armagh (def ), 9 - - licensing act; for placing letter-carriers and others em -20 Newry, Warpt., & Ros I all - - played in provincial post-offices on the same footin g as Stock Norfolk lOO i 6O 6t - -) those engaged in the metropolitan post-office ; for 50 North. Counties Union 34 31 I d Stock North British lOO 57i 584 58 4 Stock Nor.Dev.Rail.&Dk. Stk lOO - - conducting the inquiry into the operation of Forbes Mackenzie's Act in Scotland by Royal commis- Stock Do.A Stk.- Arec.no div. sion, instead of by committee ; for the removal until 6p.c.hasbeenpdß 100 1 of restrictions tending to impede British navigation; Stock Do. B Stock i Stock North-Eastn.-Berwick 100 1 904 II , ' , l ' 25 Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase 1613 41 2 11 d Company ; for placing conveyancers in the Court of Pro- Stock Do. Leeds lOO ! 461 161 48i } bate and the Court for the Tra nsfer of Estates on the same Stock Do. _York lOO I 75i /so 75 footing as the attorneys in other courts ; against the Luna- Stock North London lOO 99 101 tic Asylums Act; against the admission of lunatics into 10 N. &S.Westn., Hampatd gaols; against the legalising of marriage with a deceased and City Junction £3 ls. - - wife's sister, on the ground that such would be opposed 20 North Staffordshire 174 4i 41 d 20 North-Western ..... 10 No. & Sou. W. Junction all 7 8 and from ladies) ; and against the immigration of coolies Stock Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver. 100 31 32 31 4 intolthe West India Islands. 10 Peebles all -- - BRITISH MUSEUM. 20 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney lO - - Stock Scottish Central lOO 114 116 the organisation of the British Museum. Stock a. S cottie Aber. Stock 100 27 271 AMBASSADORS, CONSULS, &c. Stock la. Scottish Mid. Stock 100 8 4 85 On the motion of Mr. WISE, returns were ordered of s'. ll Stock Shropshire Union.., lOO 45 47 • the ambassadors, envoys, ministers, chargé d'affaires, sec -10 Sittingbourne & Sheer all 34 2 4 d retaries of embassy and legation, paid and unpaid attaches, Stock South Devon lOO 37 38 who have been appointed since the Ist day of January, Stock South-Eastern lOO 70 704 70 1 Stock South Wales - •- 1856; stating their salaries, the date of their appoint- 20 SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun all 121 134 ment, their previous services in any department, and 20 Do. do - - whether the paid and unpaid attaches have passed any 20 Staines, Wok., & Wok all 8 11 examination on their first nomination or leomotion, accord -25 Stockton & Darlington. all 36 37 ing to the regulations approved by the Earl of Clarendon ' 25 Do. do. 1854 224 - - 25 Do. do. 1855 [ 7 - - in 18,56 ;-for return of all the consuls general, consuls, - Stockton & Hartlepool 163 - - vice consuls , consular agents, consular assistants, inter- Stock Taff Vale lOO - - pFeters, secretaries, and students who have been appointed Stock Do. Preference, No. 1 - - since the Ist day of Jan., 1856; stating their salaries, the 25 ThamesHavenDlaßail 22 - - date of their appointment, their previous services in the con-. Stock Vale of Neath lOO -- - Stock Waterford & Kilkenny ! 100 - - solar or any other department, and whether they have passed 50 Waterford & Limerick' all - - any examination previously to entering the service, according 20 West Cornwall 10 W-end Lon. & Cry. Pal all - - for return of all the Queen's foreign service messengers, 5 Do.A.-Arecv.nodiv.till extra foreign service messengers, and home service messen -7 p.c. has been pd. to B all 21 3 gers, appointed since the Ist day of January, 1850 , as well 6 Do. B all 6 61 as of ' those now attached to the establishment of the Foreign -20 West London all - t 2010 Do. 1s Do. 2d Class all Class all -- - - vious employment in any department of her Maje st y' s ser vice. PREFERENCE SHARES. ___ REGISTER OF TITLES TO LAND. Mr. CAIRD asked the Lord Advocate whether he in- Share Railways. Paid. C r lo ri s ce in . g Business Done. tended to bring forward a measure for improving the regis ters of titles to land ; and whether he intended to diminish 25 Blythe and Tyne 1( pert c. pref. (issued at £50)1 all 49 51 the cost of registration and search in Scotland. Stk Brim. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock! 100 94 96 ThelLOliD ADVOCATE said, with reference to the 20 Do. do. do. Shares i 9 - - first question, a bill was prepared, but be could not say Lock Caledon £lO, 44 per cent ' 100 103 105 when it would be• introduced ; and with regard to the 12.10 Do. Quer. Shares, No. 2. 7. 10 - - • second. the Government was not in possession of full infor- Stock Chester & llolyhd, 54 pc 100 125 127 ,-, ~... motion: on the matter alluded to. • Share Railways. 25 Blythe and Tyne 1( per c. pref. (issued at £50)I Stk Bris. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock 20 Do. do. do. Shares took Caledon £lO, 41 per cent 12.10 Do. Quac. Shares, No. 2: Stock Chester & llolyhd, 51 pc Stock ,Do. do. 5 p. ct. , 64 k Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. ;Dun. Perth,& Aber.Jnn. Stoc lE.Angn. Class A 7 & spc Stock Do. do. Class B 6 pc StocklDo. do. Class C 7 pc .. . • StocklE. Conn. Ex. 5 pct. No.l Stock' Do. do N 0.2 Stock Do. New 6 per ct. Stock Stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct. Stock East Lanc. 6 per ct 5 E.& W. York. Jcn. fifths kook Edin.&Glas. spc shares Stock Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. Stock ;Furness, 5 per cent Stock'Glas.&S West. ,, a. pc Stock Great Northern,' 5 p. ct Stock Do. 5 Redm.,lop.c.pm pc Stock 1)o. 44 p. c. do. do. 100 D0..5p.c. Redm.,s pc. pm 10 Gt. Nh. of Scotld, Ist pf stock Gt. Sn.& W (Ireland) 41 p. et. pref. Stock 50 Great West. (Berks and; Hants) Ext. 5 p.ct. . . Do. Redeemable, 44 p Ct. Do. Redeemable, - 4p. ct. Do. Irredeemable, do Do. sp. ot. Redeem. Pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Shares Gt. West. Ches. 8 p.c.pf. shares Do. do. 544,, ct. pref Do Birmibg. guar. stock Do. Chester guar.shares Do. do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock Lon.&Brig - .spc.gu. No.l Do. pref., 5 p. c. ...No, 2 Do. New gua., 6 p. et. Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 Lon.&N.W.Cov.&Nun eaton, 5 p. et. Lon.&S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, late 3d shares Londondy & Cole, 4 shs Londondy.& Ennis 4 eh Man.,Sh., & Lin., 6 p. ct Do. £6 Do. 34 per cent. Maryport & Car., 4 p.c Do. 4 per cent .. Do. Mid. Con. 6p. c. Stock ! Do.Con.Bris.&Bir.6p.ct.; Do. 41 p. c. pref. stock I Do. with option till 1860 Do. Leic. & Hit.pref. et. NewportAber,&a pref.s p. c. redeem, at 5 p. c. pm Do. Perpet, 6p. c. with option till 1866 Norfolk Deb. 4 p.c. shares Do. 5 p. c. Ext.Stock,lB46 l Do. 51 p. c. Frei. do. 1847 Do. Way.r.A.Ex.Sk 1847 North British, 5 per cent Do. New, gua. 5 per cent Nth.Dev.Rail.& Dhk. Co. N-East. irred. 4 p.c. Deb. Do. Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref. Do. do. do. Do. Le7ds, 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1846 80. York, H. & S. Porch. North Staffordshire . x.Wr. & Wol. 6 pc. lstg Do. do. do., 2d gua .. Do. 41 p.c. Db.stk.in perp Scottish Central, new pi Scottish N.-Eastern deb Do. 31 per c. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen.gua.6 pc. Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock. South Ilrep, Ann. 10s. Do. Fißed 41 per cent. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0 6 ) ;, Do .44 per cent Do. Fixed 41 p.c. Ist is Do. New do., 2d issue South Wales, gua. 4 p.c Do. 41 per cent S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gua Stockton and Dar. 5 p.e Do. 6 per cent Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent. 113 CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. Mr. MACKIE asked the Lord Advocate whether, under the Act 10 and 11 Vic., c. 47, relating to the service of heirs or under any other statute, or by an y p ractice of the Scottish courts, the sheriff of the county, where any altera tion or amendment in the course of proceedings is necessary, has power to attach a condition to money payments to charitable institutions before pronouncing decreie of service ? The LORD ADVOCATE declined giving an answer to the question. TIIE MINISTERIAL REFORM BILL. Mr. DODSON asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he would lay upon the table of the house the data upon which was founded the Government estimate, that the extension of the right of suffrage to £lO occupiers would in crease tho number of county voters in England and Wales by no less than 200,000. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the documents were already on the table. Stock St ock St ock Stock Stock 26 111 20 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock, Stook' Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 1.0.6. S took stock Stock Stock Stock all 1100 6 100 100 100 100 all 94 4 i 86i 100 251 25 Stock all all 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 97 0 THE STADE DUES. Mr. RICARDO asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at what date the notice for the termination of the treaty of the 22d July, 1844, in reference to the Stade Dues between the United Kingdom and Hanover, according to the eighth artice of that treaty, was given tel the Hanoverian Government: Whether that notice was withdrawn or suspended; if so, whether it had been renewed, and at what date the said treaty will actually terminate under the notice announced to the house as having been given by the Under Secretary of State ? Mr. S. FITZGERALD said that the treaty had not been renewed, because it was considered that it had not yet expired. THE NEW FOREIGN OFFICES. In reply to Mr. CONINGIIAM, Lord J. MANNERS said that as soon as the working drawings and estimates of cost of the Foreign-offices were ready the designs would be exhibited. FOREIGN TROOPS IN ITALY. Mr. HORSMAN gave notice of his intention to ask the Government a question on this subject. THE INDIA LOAN BILL. In reply to Mr. BRIGHT , -Lord STANLEY said he proposed to bring forward the second reading of the bill on Monday next. OATHS, ADMINISTERED TO JEWS ON ADIOS- SION TO PARLIAMENT. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved—" That whereas this house had, upon two previous:occasions, resolved, that any per son professing the Jewish religion may henceforth, in taking the oath prescribed in an act to entitle him to sit and vote in this house, omit the words, ' and I make this decla ration upon the true faith of a Christian,' "—that leave be given to bring in a bill to provide that the fore going resolution may be made a standing order. He con tended that, as matters at present stood, it was mostunsatis factory, as the standing order might be rescinded—not that he thought such would be likely, if the people wore consulted. When the resolution was placed on the standing orders, no future Parliament would attempt to disturb it, and it would remain on their records as a memento of the religious toleration of the present day, as well as the intolerance of a former period. Mr. COX seconded the motion. Mr. NEWDEGATE moved as an amendment to Mr. T. Duncombe's motion—"Thatno resolution, under the provi sions of the act 21 and 22 Vic. c. 49, shall be moved in this house, unless at least one day's notice of such resolution shall have been previously given in the votes. That this be a standing order of the house." He bowed to the decision of Parliament with reference to the resolution, but he felt bound to resist the present motion ; at the same time, he considered that they proceeded with that motion with too much haste. He would take the case of the hon. member for London (Baron Rothschild) who, at the time of his election, held the office of Consul-General of Austria. They were aware that this house was very jealous and carefully guarded against the admission of an undue number of holders of office under their own Government ; and was it wise, therefore, to sanction the principle of admitting into Parlia ment persons who held offices under a foreign Government. It was true that Baron Rothschild promptly and honourably resigned his office when he was admitted within the walls of the House of Commons ; but ought they to trust to the honour of an individual in a matter of so much importance as the admission of a representative to the Legislature P Mr. MALINS seconded the amendment, and begged to point out a difficulty that existed in the course proposed by the lion. member for Finsbury. Having come to the conclusion they had done, he thought all further discussion on the subject to which the motion referred should cease, as being fruitless, and calculated to place members of the Jewish persuasion who were returned to Parliament in a disagreeable position pending such dis cussions, and he trusted the hon. member would not press his motion. Mr. BYNG supported the motion. Mr. CONINGHAM asked Government which course it would be necessary to pursue in dealing with the question, if it was proposed to proceed with the motion. He would vote for the motion, and he condemned the administration of all oaths, as. being calculated to: extend hypocricy and perju Th CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER said that he was informed it would be necessary to proceed in the matter by legislation, if the house were desirous to convert the resolution into a standing order. FM. his own part he very much regretted that any such proposition as that ,of the, hon. member for Finsbury had been in- ' troduced. He remembered what took place last year —he would not say the compact that had been entered into--but the representations that had been made which induced certain members who were opposed to the resolution not to offer any further resistance tolhe passing of the resolution. If they adopted the course proposed by the hon. member for Finsbury, they would revive the discussions that had taken place on previous occasions, and lead, perhaps, to some differences with the Upper House. He could not vote for the amendment, on the same ground as that on which he opposed the motion. After some further discussion, in which Sir G. GREY and other hon. members took part, Mr. WALPOLE suggested that the motion should be referred to a select committee , which was ultimately Agreed t o , and the motion and amendment were withdrawn, and a , motion to that effect agreed to. [LEFT SITTING.) It is expected that questions will be asked by M. Henri d'Arnim of the Prussian Government, at an early sitting of the Prussian chamber, relative to the attitude which the Government maintains in the present political crisis• 125 127 116 118 6 8} OS 101 110 116 108 112 [ll5 117 114 116 132 134 80 82 74 76 113 115 118 120 109 111 104 106 63 65 11 114 94 96 85 E 7 86 88 99 101 91 101 16 17 91 101 72 71 181 191 1 14 14; 140 142 1118 120 1160 165 i 122 121 IP 68 70 ,139 141 101 103 11 P 94 98 91 91 114 114 9 94 1 - - 112 114 99 1001 d p 23 231 121 123 111 113 99 101 10 104 241 25 102 104 102 104 16 17 281 29i 32., 1 331 48 51 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. Paid. Leasing I Closing Business • Co.'s. Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchleyl all Buckinghamshire 100 I Ln & N.W iLn & N.ll l :Caledonin E.U.&E C IGt.North. lE.Counts. ifidesdale Junction 100 Colchester, Stour Val.' all E.Lincolnshire,z. 6 p.e. l 100 E Linion,HarwichShs.! all Do. Woodbridge 100 Gls.Barr.&Neils,Drct.' 100 Caledonin 1)o, New 100 Do . Gloster& Dean Forest' all Gt. West. Hartlpool.Dck.&ltail.l all Yk.N.&Br Hull and Selby I all Yk.N.Md. Do. Shares all Do. Do. Shares all Do. London&Greenwich 1 100 S. East... Do. Preference Lon..Tilby.&Soutend lOO Peto &Co. Do. Barking Shares. * all Do. Lowestoft, gua. 4p. et. 100 Norfolk • Do. 6 per cent lOO Do. . ..... Manc.,lluxtn. & Matk all LN W&M. Mid sb. & Rader, Er.Op.c. all Stk.& Dar Mid.BradfordPrf. Stk. 100 31idland . Newmarkt.,BuryEx " ° Counts. Northn.& .as n. p.c. all D o. guaranteed Do. do. 6 per cent. ... all Do } ed , t 5 1 ) 5 .c• 5 6 E Do. Fixed 5 per oent. all Do. Preston and Wyre. I all T a - ;1 1;1 : y iN•r k. Do. Shares A. all Do. Rovstu,Hitch.,& Shep 100 Gt.Noi•th Shi:Roth.&Gol.ge,.sp.c. 18 11 (I Lan.& Yid Shrawsbry& Hereford, all T Brassoy South Staffordshire .. all M`Clean .1 Wear Valley; g. 6p. c. all Stk.& Dar Do. do. I all IDo. ' Wilts and Somerset 100 ,Gt. West. Wimbledon& Croydn , all i L.&Brgtn I DOCKS. Docks. Stock Commercial lOO Stock Do4perCent.Pref.3.lin lOO Stock East and West India lOO Stock; London lOO StockiSt. Katharine lOO Stock'Southampton lOO Stock Victoria Iv Do New lB - I Paid Closing I business Price. Done. Share 97 99 1,03 105 17 18 143 145 41 41 1109 111 O. 61 1 115 120 91 92 96 9S e -57 59 139 141 1 Di 11 11 90 92 8 9 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1859. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. (Peers present—The .Lord ehatteolior, Lord Brougham Lord Cranworth, Lord Wensleydale, Lord Kingsdown, and other peers.) APPEAL.-THE SCOTTISH NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY COM- PANT V. SIR W. D. STEWART, BART. The further hearing of this important appeal was re sumed this morning. This is an appeal from a decision of the second division of the Court of Session in favour of the respondent. The respondent sued the company for specific performance of an agreement to take about eighty acres of his land for the formation of their brimch line of railway from Perth - to Dunkeld, by the respondent's lands at Murthly and Birnam Wood, to Dun keld. This branch line was abandoned, and the respondent claimed and obtained a decree for £14,500, consequential damage. The company appealed. Counsel for the appel lants and respondent were fully heard on Monday and Tuesday last, and the further hearing was then adjourned to this day. At the conclusion of the arguments of counsel in this case their lordships consulted together, and the Lord Chancellor adjourned the further consideration of the cause sine rile. Judgment reserved. ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.) HOUGHTON T. BANKARTS.-JUDGMENT. His Honour the Master of the Rolls said—ln this ease the first question is, whether in the circumstances which have occurred in the events of time, and in particular what has occurred since the month of July, 1858, when the plaintiff gave notice to the defendant that the operations in their works, and in particular the additional erection of their works, was a nuisance, entitled him to an injunction ? His Honour considered that the erection of three additional furnaces in the Britten Ferry Copper works, after notice that the operations in the original works were a nuisance, entitled the plaintiff to an injunction, and his Honour granted an injunction accordingly. His Honour directed three issues to be tried at law, before a special jury, in such a manner as the Court shall direct, to ascertain the injury and damage done to the plaintiff's three farms by the defendants' copper-works. His Honour did not think that there was any acquiescence by the plaintiff in the nuisance, either original or increased, and did not think there was any objection in point of time, and he hoped the issues would be tried as soon as possible. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE COW ELL AND BROCE. These bankrupts were described as of the Castle Brewery, St. George's-road, brewers, and to-day was appointed for their last examination. The balance• sheet is in course of preparation by Messrs. Butler and Cannings, and by their preliminary statement it appears the debts due to unsecured creditors amounts to £13,577 ; and to creditors fully secured, £4,589. Creditors by good debts, £1,597.; doubtful esti mated to realise £27; bad, £235 Bs. Property, £3,033; surplus property in hands of secured creditors, £4,589. An adjournment was taken by consent. IN RE OLENNIE. This bankrnpt was described as of Harley-street, Caven dish-square, boarding-house keeper, and this was a meeting for proof of debts and choice of assignee. Mr. Murrough, New-inn, attended for the petitioning creditor, and a trade assignee was chosen. Messrs. Hart Brothers were ap pointed accountants to the estate. WHITECTIA.PEL COUNTY COURT. (Before Mr. Sergeant Manning.) A CIVIL WAR IN WRITECHAPEL—FRUCHE V. SPIER. Mr. Buchanan appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Beard for the defendant. Mr. Buchanan stated that the action was brought to re cover £44 95., for money lent and board and lodging supplied from January, 1857, to April, 1858. Defendant had been in great distress, and, being a fellow-countryman of plain tiff, had been assisted by him, and defendant refused to re pay him for the same. Plaintiff was called, and swore to the above facts. In his cross-examination by Mr. Beard he admitted that at the time he was assisting defendant he was in no employ ment, but was receiving assistance from his club. Mr. Beard, for defendant, said he should satisfactorily prove that the present was a malicious summons, and that defendant was not indebted to the plaintiff one farthing. The parties were German Jews, and the matter arose out of a quarrel between the women. To prove this he called defendant, who said that so far frombeing assisted by plain tiff he had done a great deal for that person, who was in much distress at the time mentioned. Last January plaintiff's wife was aummoned to a police court for some 'assault committed upon Mrs. Spier, and hence the present summons. His Honour thought the matter was not clear as regarded plaintiff's claim, and it was strange the matter had stood over till this time. Re should give defendant a verdict with costs . At this result, the court, which was densely crowded with partisans of each suitor, was speedily emptied, and the din of war burst upon the ears of the quiet inhabitants of Osborn-street. In the melee, the plaintiff's wife was so seriously injured, that she was brought back into the court in a state of insensibility. The fight raged uninterruptedly for a short time, but at the cry of police the crowd dis persed, and the plaintiff's wife, having recovered, left the court. CRIMINAL COURT.---(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. THE SHAM LOAN SOCIETY. John Morris Reid, alias John Campbell, Samuel Thomp son, Ann Thompson, were indicted with having unlawfully amongst themselves and with diveni other persons con spired, combined, confederated, and agreed by certain un lawful devices, feloniously and fraudulently to cheat and defraud certain persons of their moneys, and with having in pursuance of and according to the said conspiracy and ag-reernent amongst themselves obtained by such devices of and from divers of her Majesty's subjects their moneys, against the peace, &c. It will be recollected from the numerous examinations the prisoners underwent at the Clerkenwell Police-court that the prisoners advertised in all.the country papers under the title of the " Mercantile Loan Fund Association ; Office, 2, Weymouth-terrace, New North-road, London, N.," and they professed to make immediate cash advances. The advertisement ran as follows :—" This association, pos sessing the advantage of a large paid .up capital, offers im mediate cash advances, in sums from £2O to £5OO, with the least possible delay, for long or short periods, at 5 per cent. per annum, repayable by such monthly or quarterly instalments as may suit the borrower's con venience. The sum applied for granted in full." The advertisement was signed " John Campbell, resident manager." When persons answered the advertise ment it was the plan of the prisoners to write back and say that if a post-office order was sent for the amount of the travelling expenses, their agent should at once call, and having inquired into the reference, would at once pay the money. The prisoners were all indicted for felony. On being arraigned the male prisoners pleaded guilty to ' the charge of conspiring. Mr. Bodkin, who conducted the prosecution, being satis fied with this, Reed and Thompson were sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, and the woman was discharged. This concluded the business of the session. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET, REFUSAL OF A PARENT TO ALLOW lIIS CHILD TO GO TO A REFORMATORY.—Sarah Jane Percy, a girly 12 years of age, who has been in custody charged with stealing a half-sovereign, the money of Mrs. Mary Ann Brown, a teacher of music, in Newman-street, Oxford-street, and which robbery was effected with great adroitness while the prosecutrix was making some purchases in the shop of Messrs. Winter, linendrapers, of the Tottenham-court road, was again brought up. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Marlborough-street, appeared for the prisoner, and said it was a lamentable case, and thought there might have been some mistake in it, and that the purse might have been dropped by the prosecutrix herself, and the girl seeing the half-sovereign might have been allured by the sight of it. Mr. Bingham said he had been very anxious about the case and had made very careful inquiries, and without going into the particulars of the case he would state he had come to the conclusion that the best thing he could do for the girl was to send her to an industrial school for a long period, but that he objected to do without her father's consent. He might choose either between that or her being sent to prison for six weeks. The father refused to allow her to be sent to the school, preferring she should be sent to prison for six weeks. THE GOVERNMENT REFORM BILL. Yesterday a meeting, convened at the instance of the Parliamentary Reform Association, was held at Caldwell's RooMs, Dean-street, Soho, for the pur pose of adopting such measures as might be deemed requisite on the subject of Parliamentary reform. Mr. T. PROUT, having been called to the chair, said at length they had the Ministerial Reform Bill before them, and he acknowledged that he was more than surprised that Mr. Disraeli and the Derby Ministry had been so unwise as to produce so small a measure of reform. It was so mise rably small that it was rather a backward move ment, and such as no reformer could for a moment accept. If the account were true that at the meeting at ,Lord Derby's it was decided if the bill were not accepted he would dis solve Parliament, he (Mr. Prout) thought they were very near their end, for the dissolution of Parlia ment would be the dissolution of the Ministry. (Hear.) As electors of Westminster the meeting must stand forward for reform of very considerable magnitude, and show that they knew what reform was. He, therefore, thought it was necessary to call a general public meeting as soon as possible, to have an expression of public opinion on the question of reform. (Hear, hear ) Mr. H. G. ROBINSON said such an atrocious attempt at legislation he had never noticed since he had been an elector, and so small a bill in so large a space he had never seen. The whole of the persons that were to be enfranchised by that bill had votes already. The provisions of this bill were all on the side of the Government party. They said nothing about the poor man who did not possess a lodging of Bs. a week. He was entirely excluded from all benefit from the measure unless he occupied a part of a house to the amount of £2O a-year. He thought the bill ought to be strenuously opposed, and that Westminster should lead the way. He therefore moved—" That what is termed the Ministerial Re form Bill is so highly defective that it is not entitled to our support, and we have no doubt that the people in every part of the country will repu diate such pretensions to correct the acknowledged defects in the representation of the people in the Commons' House of Parliament. Major LYON seconded the motion, and said the Government bill was not an enfranchising but a disfranchising measure. It did not much alter the votes of - Westminster, but where it did it was to take away those of some of the constituency. There was no principle in this bill that would be accept able, and the only course left to them was for West • muster to take the lead and call an aggregate meeting of the electors —(hear, hear)—and he hoped they would be found to be the first to speak and to speak the loudest on this occasion. (Hear, hear.) • Mr. CLARKE said that this bill was so great an abortion that no person could take anything out of it. If it had been a half-and-half measure they might have been split up, but no person with any pretensions to reform could take any portion of it . . (Hear, hear.) The Government had taken one member from some boroughs that had two, but they were only half-and•half pocket boroughs, and if one-half in their representation were taken away, then they would be wholly pocket boroughs. He was of opinion that, whatever reform they accepted in 'Westminster, they must accept nothing that did not contain the ballot. (Hear, hear.) Mr. GEORGE thought the country would be very wrong if it accepted any, portion of this bill for the sake of the good that was in it. If they accepted that bill they would shut the door to reform, but if they rejected it they opened the door to that reform which they would have whether they got it from a Tory or Whig Government. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was then carried unanimously. Mr. BEALE moved, " That rather than be deluded by such pretensions to reform it would be far better to remain in our present position ; but fortunately for the country the scheme promulgated by Mr. Bright offers for . our acceptance a plan of reform which we believe• is in accordance with the national requirements, and exhibits a straightforward ho nesty of purpose." He thought the machinery was cumbrous, and never could be carried out, as it was a perfect sham. He was surprised the Govern ment was mad enough to put forward such a bill as this in the hope that it would pass. The great dan ger to the Liberal cause was from the d ingerous position in which Lord Palmerston was placed. If he should give his support to the Government he would in that manner cheat the people of their bill. Dr. BAINBRIDGE seconded the motion, and said there was no doubt that that bill would occasion a change of Ministry, for no such bill could pass; and if it did not, they must resign. The motion was then carried nem. con. Mr. BIDGOOD then moved a resolution, that a committee should be appointed for the purpose of calling a general meeting of the electors and non electors of Westminster, which was seconded by Mr. PouNcEY, and carried unanimously. The committee was then nominated for carrying out the objects of the meeting, and a vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. MEETING AT NORWICH. At a meeting of the Reform Committee of Nor wich, held on Tuesday evening—Mr. Colman in the chair—the following resolutions were passed unanimously : " That the Ministerial Reform Bill is an insult to the intelligence of the nation, and utterly un worthy of the support of any who 'profess to be reformers, as the absence of any provision for lowering the occupation franchise in boroughs is a deliberate confirmation of the wrong and injustice pressing on the great body of the working-men of this country, who have too long been treated as outcasts by that constitution which they are ever ready to uphold and defend. "'That this committee, fixing its attention on this vital defect, thinks it unnecessary to allude to other objectionable features of the Government scheme, and calls upon all reformers in Parliament unhesitatingly to reject it, and to insist upon a thorough and satisfactory measure of reform being at once brought in, and the dismissal of a Ministry which has proved itself unworthy of the confidence of the country and incapable of carrying out its wishes." PROPOSED MEETING IN THE CITY. A requisition to the Lord Mayor is being signed, to convene a meeting in the Guildhall, for the pur pose of taking into consideration the Ministerial Reform Bill. it is understood that the Lord Mayor is ready to accede to the wishes of the re quisitionists, and it is probable that Friday, the 11th inst., will be the day fixed for the meeting. THIS DAYS MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 40s sd; barley, 33s Ild ; oats, 22s 8d ; rye, 31s Od ; beans, 42s 2d; and peas, 41s 7d. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 419 ld ; barley, 33s 8d ; oats, 22s 3d ; rye, 32a Od ; beans, 41s ld ; peas, 41s 9d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 97,929; barley, 76,074; oats, 13,723; rye, 89; beans, 6,154; peas, 1,415 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. We were tolerably well supplied with beasts to-day, and nearly all breeds met a slow sale, at Monday's quotations. The general quality of the stock was by no means prime. Prime Down sheep were scarce, and in fair request, at full prices ; otherwise the mutton trade ruled somewhat heavy, at barely late rates. Although the supply of calves was limited the veal trade was in a sluggish state, at 11. per 81bs. less money. Pigs and mileh cows moved off slowly, on former terms. Per Blbs. to sink the offal. . s. d. s, d. Crse. & inf. beasts 3 4.3 6 Second qualitydo. 3 8 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10 Crse. & inf. sheep 4 0 4 4 Second quality do. 4 6 4 10 Suckling calves, 18s to 22s 18s to 225. (4. d. s. d. Primecrs-wool do. 5 0 5 4 Pme. S'thdowndo. 5 6 5 8 Large crse. calves 3 10 4 8 Prime small do 4 10 5 6 Large hog s 3 0 3 6 Small porkers 38 4 2 and quarter-old store pigs, FOREIGN SUFFLY. Beasts 212 Sheep Calves Pigs TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts 1,020 Sheep Calves Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The demand for each kind of meat ruled steady, at full prices :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s Sd to 4s 8d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; pork, 2s 8d to 4s 2d per Sibs. by the carcase. Sousit.i.m., March 2.—The demand for stock generally is 'steady, and in some instances prices have an upward tendency :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 10d; mutton, 3s 10d to 58 6d; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s Od to 5s 4d ; and pork, 3s Od to 4s Od per 81bs. to sink the offal. Roltroun, March 2.—Sheep sold steadily, at an advance in the quotations of from 2d to 4d per 81b. Other stock was less activ,l: = Beef, frmn 3s 4d to 4s 10 d; m utton, 4s 4d to 5s Sd ; veal, 4s 6d to 5s 4d ; pork, 3 s Od to 4s Od p er 81bs • mulch cows, £l4 Os to £lB each ; su cklin g calves Os ; quarter old store pigs, Os to Os each. HAY MARKETS. SMITTIPIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 15s to £4 105 ; clover, do., £3 lOs to £5 ss; and straw, £1 4s to £1 10s per load. A steady demand• CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £2 18s to £4 12s • clover do., £3 15s to £5 5s ; and straw, £l.ss to £1 lOs per load. Trade firm. WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 15s to £4los ; clover do., £3 15s to £5 5s ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 106 per load. A moderate supply, and a fair demand. The jury, in the case of Ann Collyer, tried yester day at the Old Court on a charge of arson, returned a ver dict of not guilty. Win. Hinkes, indicted for ill-treating his wife during her confinement, was sentenced to impri sonment, with hard labottr, for 12 months. THAMES. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—James Stevens, a heavy fat youth, of dirty and dissipated appearance, described as a costermonger, was brought before Mr. Elliott charged with highway robbery. David Fraser, a seaman, stated that he was living on Market-hill, Shadwell. Yesterday evening he was walking along Rateliff-highway with his hands in his pockets, when the prisoner and two other lads came up to him, and stared at him. The prisoner then suddenly made a snatch at his watch, which was in his waistcoat pocket, and broke the ring of it, to which a chain was attached. The prisoner ran away with the watch, and he gave chase to him immedi ately, and soon came up with him and seized him ; upon which he handed the watch to one of his confederates, and said, " Here you are—run." He could only manage the prisoner, who made a determined resistance, and endeavoured to throw him several times. He continued his hold of the prisoner, and secured him. He did not recover his watch. Mr. Pyer, the chief clerk, asked the prosecutor the value of his watch ? Fraser—l gave £8 for it a little while ago. Isaac Weaver, a boy, said he saw the prisoner snatch the watch, and then " chuck " it to another boy. Nathan Nicholls, 35 H, said ire found the prisoner struggling with the prosecutor, and took him into custody. The prisoner solemnly declared his innocence, and said he had just come out with a penny in his pocket, and was about to spend it when he was taken into custody. Mr. Elliott said he should commit the prisoner for trial., on which the youth, who said he was 17 yews of age, ex claimed, " I suppose I must plead guilty. ' Mr. Elliott—Do so as you like. Do you prefer going before a jury, or pleading now ? The prisoner—l will plead guilty, but lam innocent of taking that watch, sir. Mr. Elliott—l can't take that plea. The mother of the prisoner here said—Plead guilty, Jcm ; don't be sent out of the country. The prisoner—Then I am guilty. Mr. Elliott—You are a very desperate and daring thief, and had the barefaced impudence to plead not guilty just now in the face of such conclusive evidence. I convict you Of larceny, and sentence you to six mouths' imprisonment with hard labow. MANNING THE NA VE MR. LINDSAY'S REPORT. The report of Mr. Lindsay, M.P., who dis sented from the report of the commissioners, is of great length, and enters into the sub ject very minutely. After referring to the increase of the naval armaments of France, and to the extent to which the application of steam to navigation has diminished the security of our insular position, as reasons why the question of manning the navy should be considered on a broader basis than heretofore, Mr. Lindsay states as his opinion that under no circumstances should our peace establishment and reserve be less than 120,000 efficient men and boys. The existing reserve, when raised to its full complement, will amount to about 30,000, therefore an additional reserve of 35,000 men is required. As efficient gunnery has now become of greater importance than able seamanship, 15,000 or 18,000 of these ought to consist of marines. The extra number of marines thus placed in our ships of war could also be employed in various ways to greater advantage. They could supersede, to a considerable extent, the " after guard" and the " waisters ;" and, in fact, if properly drilled, they could perform generally all the work on deck in which professional seamanship was not absolutely required. The raw material being the same, ma• Hiles are capable of being easily instructed in all their duties. A simple difference in the training of a raw lad converts him in time either into a sailor or a marine ; the 300 trained men sent on board a line-of-battle ship just commissioned, and set to work at once in stowing the hold, in embarkity , guns, stores, and getting spars and sails ready to send aloft, would get the work put in a shorter time in a much more advanced state than it hitherto has been in cases of emergency. But with a view to render the marines in the highest degree effi cient and valuable, they might with advantage be placed in all duties connected with the ship, more under the immediate orders of the naval officers, and they should be more depended upon than they now are for the working of the heavy guns. The whole of our seaport towns should be gar risoned by marines, in which service about 12,000 would be employed. At each of our seaport towns, where the marines were in garrison, one of these obsolete warships laid up in ordinary might be moored, on board of which they might be drilled and instructed. As a primary object during prescribed intervals, they should be exercised in the working of the guns. At other intervals they might be taught the rudiments of a seaman's duty. To these might be added, with considerable advantage, boat exercise under oars and sail, and above all the fighting of the guns on board the boats. In a word, they should be taught alternately the art of war afloat, and the necessary drill as now in practice on shore. By these means a body of men would be raised alike valuable at sea and on shore, who, in the event of any emergency, could be at once embarked. Their place, in such an eventuality, would be filled by the troops of the line, previously stationed in our inland garrisons • this force in its turn being sup plied by the militia. By a proper combination of military arrangements, all these changes might be effected at any moment, and the country might thus at once, and to a much greater extent than it is now prepared to do, assume an attitude of defence. Of the remaining 20,000 men required for the proposed reserve 2,000 might be added to the Coast guard service. For raising the remaining 18,000 men Mr. Lindsay relies on an improved Seamen's Fund, to which both seamen in the Royal Navy and the Mercantile Marine should be called upon to subscribe, and which should have the guarantee of the Government for its stability and due appro priation. On this subject Mr. Lindsay says : " It is really a grave error to suppose that we can' establish an universal though not a compul sory seamen's fund" which arc the words used in pro pounding the scheme. It cannot be done with any other body of men. Voluntary contributions in even the higher orders of society have signally failed. Large sums, it is true, have been thus raised ; but in no class of the community have even one-third of those who ought to have subscribed to any particular objvct done so. The requisite money has been raised as a general rule, by the liberality of the few, and not by the contributions of the many. In the best regulated benefit associations amongst our artisans, I question if the proportion of those who subscribe in any particular trade is one-half, or even one-third. It is indeed a mistake to suppose that it will be' universal' amongst a body of men with the peculiar habits and fickle notions of our seamen, subjected as they are to numerous temp tations, and too often the creatures of extraordinary impulses. While I think this fund would prove of great advantage to the seamen themselves, the salutary effects, so far as the nation was concerned, would operate in three different ways. It would prevent the seamen from being objects of charity or claimants .upon the poor rates during their old age. It would be a permanent tic to bind them to their native country, founded upon a common bond of self-interest ; while it would form the ground work of a system whereby the reserve of 18,000, still wanting, might be raised. I may be excused for entering into this part of the subject at some length, as I am strongly of opinion that any sys tem which may be devised for manning the navy must be laid upon broader grounds than any yet attempted. We have seen that the plan sketched out by the committee of 1852, and carried into execution by , the naval authorities, however much it may have improved the condition of the seamen in the navy, signally failed, so far as aiding us to man our ships in an emergency, though it cost the country close upon £150,000 per annum. It did not induce the seamen in the merchant service to enter the royal navy. They felt that they had no interest in common with that branch of the service. We must give them an interest. The re-establish ment of a seaman's fund, to which the men of both services should be called upon to subscribe, would form this common union. The opening of Greenwich Hospital to both services would cement this bond of friendship. If the present building should not be found sufficient lyspacious to accommodate the retired seamen of both services who preferred it to out-door pensions, and especially those from the merchant service who had enrolled in the reserve, its enlarge ment might be determined upon, with a view to accomplish the twofold object in view. The intro duction of school ships-at our principal seaports, as recommended by Mr. Cardwell (a project to which I shall hereafter advert), and the encouragement of navigation schools, from which both boys for the navy and merchant service could be drawn, would prove a further bond of union between the two ser vices, and thus in boyhood and in old age the men in each would meet on terms of equality, and be come known to each other. Seamen of all classes would thereby obtain a correct knowledge of the nature of the naval service, and they would thus have much better means than they now have of knowing and understanding the advantages to be derived from entering the Royal Navy." For the collection of the fund the machinery is already organised in the shipping offices, so that very little expense would be incurred under that head. The complaints made against the former Merchant Seamen's Fund would have no existence, as the Government tables being in every man's hand, he would see precisely his position, and the conditions and mode of payment upon which his claim rested, and being thereby attached to his native country by the tic of self-Mterest, lie would no longer be tempted to enter the service of the United States, and the number of our seamen being thus increased, we should have a larger field for the operation of the proposed reserve. By the plan proposed, a more complete system of registration would be secured, without any of the jealous inquisitorial superintendence of which so many complaints have been made. The new Seamen's Fund having been formed under the authority of an act of tho Legislature, steps might then be taken t o raise the b _e raise 18,000 daddi tional seamen required. These should from the coasting, the Baltic, and the short voyage trades, from seamen employed in our yacht and river steamers, and from watermen and lightermen. With that object in view, Mr. Lindsay would pro pose a retaining payment of ss. per month, and. to the pension of is. per day which the men would re ceive from their own fund at the age of 60, he would add 6d. per day from the public purse to those merchant seamen who volunteered for the reserve. By this arrangement a man receiving ls. 6d. a day would be comfortable in his old age, and ev en if his own fund only produced 6d. per day, he would, with the additional 6d. from the public purse, have sufficient for his maintenance. Some distinguishing badge might also, with great advantage, be bestowed upon every merchant seaman, when he was enrolled upon the reserve. The throwing open of Greenwich Hospital to the seamen of both services should be held out as an other inducement to encourage the formation of the reserve. The gratuity of ss. per month paid to 18,000 men would cost the country .EM,000; and if it be the case that in the ordinary course of events " not more than 1 in 26 would be claimants at the age of 60 "—being rather less than 700 annuitants —the extra pension of 6d. per day would not exceed £6,400, being a total of £60,400 per annum. In order to render the reserve from the merchant service perfectly efficient as men-of-war's men, ready to go into action, it would be necessary to drill them for a month every year, which will cost, including their pay during that month and their provisions, £ 4 to £5 per head, or , i n round num bers from £72,000 to £90,000. In order to obtain the men in the first instance, it might be expedient to establish recruiting parties attached to the coastguard ships, and under the direction of the captains of the coastguard, or the shipping-masters of the district, as circumstances required. A small gratuity might be paid to these men, which could be increased when the demand was urgent, or when seamen were required for per manent service in the navy. Presuming the peace establishment to be main tained as at present, at about 55,000, inclusive of marines, the reserve of 65,000 would, if formed, bring up our force to 120,000 effective and well drilled men, available at all times to meet any emergency. But if it should be deemed advisable to increase that force to 140,000 men, in that case a second reserve of 20,000 men could be raised from amongst the seamen engaged in the over-sea or long-voyage trade, which additional force could be raised by a gratuity of 2s, 6d. per month, which would cost £30,000, besides an extra pension of 6d. per day after 60 years of age. The condition of engagement would be that these men should per sonally appear and receive their gratuity at the shipping -offices every 12 or 18 months, and be sub ject generally to the same regulations as the men in the first reserve. As one-third of the entire 20,000 would always be in England, we could rely upon these in the event of a sudden emergency. The remaining two-thirds would be either at our disposal on their return, or would he available to serve in whatever part of the world they might be when called out, if our ships of war on such sta tions should require their services. These men, in some cases, might not be required to be trained or drilled, in which alternative a corresponding de crease of expense would be effected. With regard to the training of boys, Mr. Lindsay recommends their being entered in training ships, at the age of 15 for the mercantile service and 16 for the navy. For those who entered for the mer chant service he thinks that £4O for an apprentice ship of five years would not be too much for shipowners to pay. As the boys when apprentices would have little or nothing to provide beyond their clothes and washing £5 per annum would amply suffice for their wants, and therefore it might be stipulated that the £3 per annum, or in the total £l5, should be paid to the state in reduction of the £25 which had been disbursed for them during the year of training. The boys who entered for the navy would be placed on the footing pro posed by Mr. Cardwell ; and those who entered for the merchant service would be required to enrol themselves when the terms of their apprenticeship expired in either the first or second reserve of seamen. _ . The expense in forming these additional reserves Mr. Lindsay estimates as follows :—" Reserve gratuity of ss. per month to 18,000 men, £54,000 ; pension of 6d. per day at 60, in addition to the ls. per day from their own fund, £7,940; second re serve gratuity of 2s. 6d. per month to 20,000 men, £30,000; pension of 6d. per day at 60, in addition to the ls. per day from their own fund £8,800; cost of training one-third of the reserve, one month at £5 each, £30,000 ; cost of training 2,400 at £25 each (less £l5 each paid back by, say, one-half who enter the merchant service). £42,000 ; gratuities to masters and officers in the merchant service referred to hereafter, and for badges of distinction and in cidental expenses, £2B,ooo.—total, £200,740." With regard to the supply of officers, Mr. Lind say after refraring to the lists, says; : "1 could expatiate at considera'ile length on the necessity of a thorough revision of these lists. The cost of the naval half-pay is enormous, and is a heavy burden to the country. I am aware that many attempts have been made to reduce this ex pense, but I am of opinion that much may yet be accomplished. With that object in view, 1 have ventured; to prepare, hastily at last, though the question has long occupied my attention, a plan, tables in support of which will be found in the appendix, and though I dare say my . view may in many respects be looked upon as imperfect, as it is propounded by one whose practical knowledge of the navy is limited, it may nevertheless be found to be worthy o f the consideration of the executive. But independent altogether of that growing evil, the pension list, the existing system is made perpetually a ground of complaint both by the officers and by the public. Political influence and favouritism, it is stated, raise the officer who has friends to rank and dis tinction, while they conspire to consign to the lowest grade during perhaps his whole life the friendless officer, whatever may be- hii - meritk,or good services. If this be a fact, as :flare isstestison to believe, attention ought certainty to belbalttil._to it, so that a tigorous inquirymaybd-institnifitkz4til every effort ought to be made to alter .thq 6)1, tem. Some regulation might be devised so as to afford every officer of merit the chance or certainty of em ployment in his turn. A competitive examination of a discriminating character might be established at every stage as a test of real efficiency and conspi cuous good conduct; and the officers who obtained distinction at these ordeals should. receive encou ragement and promotion. In no ease ought the Admiralty to admit into the service any but those who had a chance of being thereafter employed, and that employment should be regulated upon a principle of rotation and merit to the exclusion of all sinister influences." Mr. Lindsay then recommends that all masters now on the active list should be raised to the rank of lieutenants. He is very desirous that the im passable line of demarcation between the royal navy and the commercial marine should be broken down, and there are in the latter many well edu cated young men of good families who arc required to undergo examinations as stringent as any that could be instituted by the Admiralty. From the gentlemen in the mercantile marine he would form a reserve of officers to be distributed amongst our ships of war when the reserve of seamen from the merchant service, the coastguard, and the naval coast volunteers shall be called into active opera tion. " The formation of a reserve of officers as well as men from the;merchant service to meet the emergency we have to provide against, would conduce materi ally to facilitate the raising of the necessary re serve of seamen. Officers in the merchant service would naturally induce those seamen who were serving under them to enter their names, at the same time, with a view to serving together in the royal navy. They would, in fact, become voluntary recruiting officers for the navy, with the power of exerting their influence over a most valuable class of men. " With these, and other auxiliary provisions the organisation of the system might be made so com plete, and the union between the two services might become so harmonious, that a greater body of men would seek to enter the service than the restricted limits would admit. The names and addresses of the excess of applicants could be registered, so that they would each stand upon the list for enrolment by rotation as vacancies might occur ; and on the contingency of an imminent emergency a large body of men would be at all times available, greatly in excess of any reserve at present deemed necessary to maintain, and thus a resort to impressment would be altogether avoided, even during periods of im minent THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, March 3.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.; light, and fine. SuNDERT.ANI, March 2.—Wind G ren f e lls, for Coquimbo ; Legatus, for New York. LEITH, March I.—Sailed—Alt Mecklenberg, for Mel bourne. CAnDirr, March 2.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Confidence, for Bahia. SWANSEA, March 2 . — Sailed—Guayacon, for Coquimbo; Mangostern, for Cuba; Whisper, for Havana. PORTSMOUTH, March 2.—Wind S. to S.W.—Sailed— Cuba Packet, for Havannah. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Wind W. Arrived—Hannah Maria, from Newcastle ; Courier, steamer, from Jersey; Alliance, steamer, from Havre; Isabella, from Carentan ; Nophan and Le Coq., from Cher bourg; Griffin, from Sunderland. Sailed.—Thomas Powell, steamer, for Cardiff; La Poule, for Cherbourg; Havre, steamer, for Havre; La Plata, steamer, for St. Thomas ; Wonder, stea mer, for Jersey. ; Ellora, steamer, for Marseilles. LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind W. Arrived. March 2—Richard Morse, from New Orleans; Eos, from Alexandria. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Wind S.W.; tide two hours' flood; weather fine. Arrived, March 2—Lionne, Fure . t, and Turbot, from Gravelines ; Little Gem, from Seville ; Metropolis, fr om Guernsey. DEAL, Thursday Morning, "•• Wind W.N.W.-• moderate. ...Arrived—Trinidad, for Trinidad ; Vindolana, for Malta —both from London. Passed, March 2.—Josephine, from Ochao, for Lthidon (report cd from the westward). Passed, 1‘.11,1-2h 3.—Dover Castle, from London, for Port Phillip AMERICAN MAlLS.—Notice was issued' from St. Martin's -1e-Grand yesterday that ship mails for Now York and Halifax will be made up in the General Post-office to be sent by the steamer Alps, appointed to sail from Liver pool on the 12th inst. ; and. for Portland, United States, to be sent by the steamer Nova Scotia, appointed to sail front the same port on the 9th Ult. THE GALWAY ROUTE.—The Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company's steamship Pacific, com mander Captain W. C. Thomson, will sail from Galway on the sth of March for St. John's, Newfoundland, and New York, with her Majesty's mails. The mails will close in London on Friday at the usual hour. SUICIDE BY A FEMALE.—Yesterday one of the housemaids at St. George's Hospital, named Susannah Harvey, cut her throat with a carving knife o desperate y as nearly to sever her head from her body. ween and view ,and the are, re in last, chefs agis gen- on onse ygon ed at y the 2 ?