The Sun. — London, England, 1860-04-06 00:00:00

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IX. the 29th our Mg t the Pre" d to the Apostoli c lad at the Curse- ~sor:' , rCE Of Toscani to Sat" L paper°' Lnd sena' mu rie s ll3 nt evell ° .a t happin e ' peal as ►„ he EurQ' bettyee ll mminellt, e its neu . ; r Povilo: . ; of API" moa n , Goal the 26 ' insurrt i ad DO" s Mere Leg o* the sl:4l bedjis ;enter vet ° gene ...., ed to cu - ' the eV to 3 tO WW,c, in:oo° lS estorati°ll IN 01116°._.% tPrt Of Do i ‘ lo tho leg Sarain i" 1) 0 rolc s ' • e 0 uthor itl hic h and c °t ' d 01141 ;sr t o gig lo4 , if no, cred dut)' uthoritl: his P r „ ° o ig by l't po licy ° b° g Efoe Bt , ~a 0 o br , Dje , re ly a te . tbe 0 0, ees 0,60114 „.0” MONEY 3.IAI?KE T T AND CITY NEWS. To-day being Good Friday the Bank, Stock Exchange, and other places of business resort are Closed. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. (YESTERDAY.) 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 5 Per Cent. Annuities lo9i India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per cent. Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto of per Cent lO4 31 4 Ditto Debentures, 1858 961 / Ditto, 1859 Consols for Account (April) India Stock for Account — Ditto Account, 5 per cent. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, Ifd e b itto f. 500 Ditto Small, 10. FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. (YESTERDAY.) B 'azilian S per Cent. Ditto 41 per Cent. 1852 Ditto 41 per cent., 1858 Ditto Scrip, 1860 Ditto New Consolidated Ditto Provisional Land Warrant 3 Grenada Now Active, 31 per Cent. Ditto Deferred plexioan. 3 per Cent. Ditto Account P ortuguese, 1853, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 41 per Cent B Panish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. — Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent. 791 Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Venezuelan 3 per Cent Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Patch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent — Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent. THREE O'CLOCK (YnsmuniT). Consols, Money 941 Ditto Account COURSE OF EXCHANOE.—YESTERDAY. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 16/ 11 16 Antwerp Brussels — 25 30 25 371- liamburgh Faris Short. 25 10 25 17/ Ditto Marseilles — 25 37k 25 42/ Frankfort on Maine —117 f Vienna Tri es t e —.4 Fetersburgh — 34 99 421 1 25 49 471 34# Madrid Cadiz — 1 Leghorn 471 Milan — 2 3 5 4 _Genoa — 25 42f 25 47i .....r 4 8 . 10108 -40 a 40 Palermo atan:no 122 122 Messina — 122 122 Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro New York • • .. CRIMINAL COURT.-April 5. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Channell.) John Mahony was indicted for stealing two brass Plates, the property of Edward Stewart Hart. Mr. Lilley prosecuted, and Mr. Steele defended. The prosecutor is a glover and hosier in the City, and had detected the prisoner stealing the brass engraved plates from the front of the shop, and on searching a basket which the prisoner had with him two other plates taken from other shops in the City were found. Mr. Steele, in an able address to the jury, endea- Voured to show that the prisoner was not the man Who committed the offence, but that the policeman Who apprehended him had captured the wrong Person. The learned judge (who highly complimented Mr. Steele on the ingenuity of his defence) having summed up the evidence, The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. William Stapler and George Chesterfield, who last night were found guilty of misdemeanor, came Up for sentence. The learned Baron, addressing the defendants, laid the jury had most properly found them guilty of sending the diseased meat up to market with intent to sell it. There was nothing to show that they had, either of them, been engaged in such a transaction before, and they both bore good cha racters. Neither did it seem that they had been actuated by any sordid motive—the one being an agent to his brother, and the other only the butcher, `"? got a few shillings for dressing the carcass ; 4 Was a very serious case, and the sentence "Poo the d e f en d an t s was , th a t th e y be imprisoned for th ree months. Mr. Sleigh informed the Court that during the Past year Mr. Fisher, the Inspector of Markets, had seized no less than 25 tons of diseased meat in London, and during last week 2401b5. The learned Baron said that the prosecution was very important an 4 proper one. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S-TISTIAIIAY. NEWMARKET lIANDICAP. 7to 1 agst Confectioner (taken) 10 to 1 agst Athos (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agst Simple Simon (taken) 100 to 8 agst Remunerator (taken) 100 to 8 agst Wallace (taken) 100 to 8 agst Gamester (taken) 15 to 1 agst Newcastle (taken) 15 to 1 agst Clydesdale (taken) 15 to 1 agst Mazzini (taken) 20 to 1 agst White Wave (taken) CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Apollyon (taken) 20 to 1 agst Gaspard fib to 1 agst The Promised Land (taken) 25 to 1 agst Satellite (taken) 30 to 1 agst Birmingham (taken) TWO THOUSAND. 100 to 30 agst Buccaneer (offered) 100 to 30 agst The Wizard (offered) Bto 1 agst Lupellus (taken) 12 to 1 agst Brother to Rainbow (taken) 100 to 6 agst Umpire (taken) 20 to 1 agst Plum Pudding (taken) 20 to 1 agst Vanquisher (taken) 20 to 1 agst St. James (taken) 25 to 1 agst Richmond (taken) DERBY. Bto 1 agst Umpire (take 9) 17 to 2 agst Buccaneer (offered) 12 to 1 agst Nutbourne (taken) 13 to 1 agst Wizard (taken) 33 to 1 agst Horror (taken) 33 to 1 agst Thunderbolt (offered) 35 to 1 agst Cramond (offered) 66 to 1 agst St. James 66 to 1 agst Oxford AQUATICS. LONDON ROWING CLUB. The entries for the first two races of this great club—the holders of the Grand Challenge Cup for eight-oared boats lit Henley, have closed—are as follows : The Eight. oared Race, Wednesday next. No. 1 Station. Burgess. Sheriff. C. Schlotel. Freeman. A. Finlaison. Cosser. Wright. Holt. =swain. Itation. Potter, co No. 2 Si A. Schlotel. G. Finlaison. Foster. Belfour. Casarmajor, No. 3 Si Sherman. Lister. Holder. Maltby. coxswain. 'ation. Woodbridge. Morley. Catty. Chapman. H. Playford. No. 4 S Noble. Allen. Robins. Harding. 1, coxswain. Wiwi. Mortimer. D. Owen. J. Owen. Mossendew. J. Ireland, coxswain. Course, Putney to Chiswick. " g ate. Race for Mr. Belfour's Prizes, April 25. 41" sro. A. Schlotel and G. Finlaison, London Rowing Club. I, G. Sherriff and W. Burgess, do. do. " Wallace and Lloyd do. do. , 1 Woodbridge and Morley, do. do. ,) W. Head and Coventry, do. do.' I) Jervis and Wilson, Kingston do. " Raphael and Lack, do. do. )) Stahlschmidt and Chapman, London do. ,) Nash and Tyler, West London do. 1 9 Busknold and Bryant, do. do. h.., a race, which is open to the world, will be rowed in -- ` l4 ) above Putney Bridge. Head. Coventry. Cnstance. Henty. lOVIPE-BEATING.—" No, no, my dear fellow," said st n i tilumber Two; "'pinion of the world—'pinion of the NZ. Man goes a little wrong—everybody does that. P e ccadillo—pure peccadillo. That's all right. Whack itga 4 l4l--- -'pinion of the world—'pinion of the world dead ri li c: You. That's all wrong—that's all wrong. Barber fo r h meta second issue—'specially as he marria his wife il.s n loner."—Yrom "Divorce a Vincula" in Once a THE Si N, LONDON, FRIDAY ! l EVEMNO, APRIL 6, 1866. 86 88 97 98 0 1 5 501 7 n 82 87 73 78 70 75 par p 1i 1d ;li 1 d fid id 101! 1021 , par ip par ip 094 100 i 101 i 1024 20 4. 234 351 361 93 94 71 73 85 87 73 75 72 74 99 99,E id I d 1.1 12f 121 74 7 97 99 97 99 97 99 SO 93 88 90 974 984 91 93 ;d Id 5 7 5 7 9s) 101 Id d, d 9! 96 Id pal 44 1021 11 i 101 354 61 54 6 5? ,934 854 721 3 994 9 124 I 104 144 4 AUSTRALIA. (From the Correspondent of the Times.) MELBOURNE, FEB. 17, The Northam, with the December mail, bearing London dates to the 19th, reached Nepean Bay on the sth inst., and Melbourne on the 7th. By the use of even the broken tele graphic communication to Aden, our local papers now favour us with eight or nine days' later news. This time our intelligence reached the 28th of December. When Puck proposed to " put a girdle round the earth in 40 minutes," he would have been deemed equally absurd, and not quite so poetical and fairy-like, had he limited his pledge to half the earth, and extended the time to 40 days. Yet that is now habitually accomplished, and we know with absolute eertainty that to do the thing in 40 minutes is reduced to a matter, not of impossibility, but only one of very great difficulty and of somewhat discouraging expense. To my mind, the only reasonable definition of the term " diffi culty" is a thing to be overcame." We have, at all events, by the enterprise of the press, *got the thing reduced to 40 days. Fill up the hiatus in the Mediterranean line, and we have a further reduction to 33 days. Let that work well for a while, and I am still sanguine that a communi cation will :ultimately be completed to Australia in the way I have before pointed out. On the day the Northam touched at the South Australian mail station (Sunday, the oth) the Great Britain steamed into Hobson's Bay. She sailed from Liverpool one day before the Northam left Southampton, and arrived here nearly two days before her, thus beating the mail by nearly one day. Her passage was made in 55 days and 16 hours. I believe the Simla made her first voyage out to join the Red Sea lino in 55 days and 15 hours, but there is a dispute between the respective owners and agents of these vessels about an hour or two. In the meantime the unhappy fate of the Royal Charter and her living freight has raised the objection by many that the intense greed of the owners of rival lines to accomplish " the shortest passage on record" must greatly increase the risk of life. Of this there can be no doubt. It is really awful to put the proposition broadly —that the wholesale sacrifice of life in the Royal Charter was part of the price the world pays for enormous speed. Can any one doubt that railway travelling at 40 miles an hour involves a greater risk of accidents eceteris paribus, than a speed of 20 miles an hour ? Yet speed the world will have, with all its risks. It is, however, satisfactory to know that there are going hand in hand with this same speed other improvements—other compensations, which have lint doubtedly rendered travelling by both land and water safer, on the whole, than it was in former unimproved times, in spite of the occasional occurrence of an appalling disaster such as we have lately had to mourn. On Sunday, the 22d January, we were visited by one of the hottest of all the hot winds we have experienced for the last five or six years. It is difficult, bywords, to give any con ception of these scorching blasts. I can only compare them to the high-dried and heated air which has passed over the surface of melted metal in a foundry. Various thermome ters in diffennt situations marked in the shade 102 deg., 106 deg., 108 deg., 111 deg., and at Castlemaine 116 deg. These differences are to be accounted for by the interven tion of some slight circumstance calculated to moderate the heat of the blast before it reaches the instrument. For in stance, I have found that the wind passing under a veran dah will be reduced in temperature by the time it makes its exit, and if there be creepers around the verandah—a very oommon thing here—the disturbing effect will be greater. If the creepers be wetted, so as to keep up evaporation, the temperature will be lowered many degrees. In 1855 I had an opportunity of measuring very carefully, and, I believe, accurately, the temperature of the hot blast in the shade, and in a spot which the rays of the forenoon sun had not reached. The thermometer was insulated, was not in the way of radiated heat, was protected by an angle of the house from the N.E. and N.N.E. sun, and exposed to the direct action of the hot wind from the north (oscillating a little to the eastward and westward). The degree then attained was 117. I have no doubt that Sunday, the 22d, was as hot in favourable—perhaps, you would rather say unfavour able—situations. It may be thought that this degree of heat is unbearable, but it is not so. The wind blows hard, the air is perfectly dry, while, with a calm or light air from the S. or S.E., I have often found a lower tempera ture quite intolerable. I am very sure that 80 d eg. or 90 deg. with a southerly and moist wind produces much more lassitude than a hot wind of the highest temperature. I have, however, seen the small birds fall and die, and the smaller domestic animals do the same. On the late occasion the gardens were desolated, ordinary vegetables destroyed, shrubs stripped of their leaves, and the unripe fruit literally cocked upon the trees. After two or three days of hot wind, we invariably have a sudden change of wind to S.E., with a great reduction of temperature. On the late occasion the cool breeze set in at 5.30 p.m., and two days afterwards we were shivering with cold, the thermometer standing at 57 deg. Influenza has since prevailed to a con siderable extent, with an analogous disorder among animals. There has also been great mortality among infants, and I am assured that if birth take place during a hot wind, the child scarcely ever rallies, the lungs seeming not to acquire power to decarbonise the blood. It is also during these hot winds that the danger of fires—especially bush fires—is very great. The grass is so dry that the slightest spark is at once fanned into a flame, which is carried over the ground with great rapidity, increasing fearfully in volume in its progress. On the Sunday to which I have alluded, an extensive bush fire occurred near Lake Burrambeet, about 14 miles north of Ballarat, which did considerable damage, marching over the country at the rate of about 15 miles in half an hour, and de stroying stacks, cottages, and growing crops. One frightful devastation of this kind, which occurred during a hot gale in an unusually dry season (1851), has become historical as " Black Thursday." The late bush fire was, fortunately. of limited extent—that of 1851 was general over a great part of the colony. The groat extension of roads and cleared land within the last eight years has very much diminished the risk of these visitations, and the great density of popu lation affords better means of subduing them. Although trade continues to be very depressed, the past month has not seen marked by any great commercial dis aster. There have been several insolvencies, it is true, but thoy are generally for moderate, and in many cases very trifling amounts; and the state of commercial confidence is decidedly better than it was when the January snail left. The state of the exchange has checked the 'transmission of specie to Europe, and the banks have been much more liberal in their accommodation. The quarterly statement of the banks shows some improvement in the increased amount of deposits in the fourth quarter of 1859 as com pared with the third quarter, the difference being £217,000, while the debts due to the banks—chiefly for discounts— have increased about £lB,OOO. Still there are features in the commercial condition of the colony which afford grounds for considerable anxiety, and which ought to operate as a warning to shippers on speculation in England. These are chiefly the decreased production of gold, and the continued pouring in of goods upon an already overcharged market. As to the supply of gold, we have long been anticipating that the increased and still increasing application of machi nery, and the carrying on of mining on a large scale with combined labour, would result in a considerable increase of supply ; but that expectation has not yet been realised, and the weekly returns still exhibit continued decrease. • Much of the labour which was devoted to gold min ing when " digging" was a popular pursuit now goes to the production of consumable articles. Agri culture has greatly extended of late years. A large num ber of trifling articles which used to be imported are now manufactured here. A great deal of cheap clothing is now made in Melbourne. There are at least two manufac turers of lead pipes by improved hydraulic machinery. Sawmills are numerous ; gristmills have also kept pace with agriculture. Marble chimneypieces :and ornamental parts of mouldings for the best class of houses aro made on the spot. Iron foundries are springing up on every goldfield. All these enterprises supply on the spot articles which we used to buy with raw gold. Thus, while we have less gold, we really want less gold. That our revenue from all sources keeps up is proof that production on the whole has not de • creased.. But by the English speculative shipper this new feature, this gradual transition, so to speak, should be re garded as a special warning. Another evidence of the ac tivity of productive enterprise not necessarily increasing foreign trade is afforded by the number of patents taken out annually for improved processes of manufacture. They have amounted during the last two years to about 100 per annum. I have been informed that one trifling process for making lace or gauze cap-fronts for women saves an importation of about £40,000 a year. A company is now at full work re fining sugar. The Argus, always usefully suggestive, points out that papermills might be established with advantage, as we now export a good deal of linen rag. This suggestion of the Argus, whether sound in this particular instance or not, shows the bent of the public mind. Yet, in the face of this silent revolution in the channels of trade, the imports of I his year are about £350,000 in excess of last year up to the same time, while our exports have fallen off about £120,000. There has been another great inter-colonial cricket match between the players of Victoria and New South Wales, which ended in favour of Victoria. Cricket, within the last few "3 ars, has become quite a passion in these colonies, and is played with admirable skill, especially by the "na tive born." The public excitement on the late occasion was very great. The Legislature could scarcely be kept together, the banks closed at 1 o'clock, the lawyers forgot their briefs, the merchants abandoned their counting-house to swell the 10,000 spectators of the grand match; and, to say the truth, Ido not envy the man who could not enjoy the scene. I doubt whether better playing was ever exhibited at Lord's, and there is some chance of testing this, for an enterpris ing body of restaurateurs, who carry en that useful trade gigantically, have proposed to import an All England eleven at their own charges—taking it out, of course, in the creature comforts that the 10,003 daily spectators will consume. Hohour to Edward Wilson! The charminesinging birds, which he despatched by the Great Britain, have arrived safely, with few casualties. Out of the 42 thrushei and 51 larks shipped, no less than 37 of the former and 48 of the latter have been successfully established in the Botanical Gardens. Of 12 pairs of pheasants only 7 cocks and 4 hens remain alive. They were unexpected, as the Great Britain arrived 24 hours before Mr, Wilson's adyices of their flip- Aleut, BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Share Railways. Paid. Closing Is Price. alines' dons Atlantic & St Lawrence Leased at 6 per cent ; 3om.,llaroda& Cent.lnd gu. 5 per cent Do. Addit. Capital A', Do. Do. Ii Buffalo and Lake Huron; Do. New Do. Preference Bliffalo,Brant.&Godrich 6 p. ct. Ms. 1 Aug-., 187.2 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 Do. do. 1 June, 1874 Cleutta.&S.Eastrn. Lim. Cape,Eastu. Prov.(Lim.) Cape Town & Dock Scrip Central Oude (Limited) Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c Demerara Eastern Beng - al.gu.sp.c East Indian, gru. 5 p. c ; Do. F Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore Do. 4i p. c. Debentrs I I Do. 5 p.c. I)eb., 1861 ,G eelong& Melbourne Geelong Corporation 6 per cent. Bonds 'Grand Trunk of Canada, Do. 6 per cent. Pref Do. 6 per cent. Debentr Do. 7 per cent. 1862 ;Do. do. 1867 Do. do. 1872 'Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.hp.c Do. New, gua.s per cent Gl.South. of Ind.Lim.— guaranteed 5 per cent GLIV. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. Bonds pay. '76,with ' Nit. till '6O do. '73 till '6O Do. do. '73 without opt ; Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 do Madras, guar., 4i p. c do. 5 per cant 'Do. 4 p. c. Extension Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c Do. Fourth do. Do. do. Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds Newßrunswick&Canda. Ity.&Land(Lim.)g;.6pc Class ACapitl.Share Do. do. Land do ;Do. do. B. Capital dp IDo. do. Land do Oude (Limited) Scinde Do. New Do. Punjaub Do. Indus. St. Flo. giut,'.l St. Andrews & Quebec A i Trinidad(Limited) Scrip I all 1 100 all all all 1 leo '1 1 ( 0 ) 1. 3 0. '3s. Od all 5 100 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp & Rotterdam lArd,np 9 _ Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac Carmeaux Mine & Rail Copiabo I Ditto Extension ,Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Euphrates Valley Grand Rus. Guar .5 p.c Great Central of France Luxem., Con. (Italian Junction (Lake Constance & Bale Lierre and Turnhout (Lombardo Venetian Lyons and Geneva Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur and Liege Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref. Northern of France Do. New Shares Norwegian 'gunk Pref. Paris,Lyons, and Medit. 'Paris and Orleans ...... 'Recife& S. Fran. (Fern.) gua. 7 p. et. (Lim.) ... Irtiv,a and Dunaburg.... !Rome and Frascati ...., ißoyal Danish Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref. Sambre and Meuse !S D outhe p rn of F nt rance !West_ Flanders Do. 5i p. c. Preference . W. & N.W. of France Western of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do 8 per cent. Pref Zealand...—. all all all all all 44 41 —id par e I 1 11 2Z 11 lid 5 d 251 261 C 1 61 1 1 8 81 19 191 3% 38 — P 81 94 361 871 56 8 11 I d 13 15 5 8t 9 20 21 54 51 c 4 f 23 24 COLONIAL GOVE 25 Blythe and Tyne 1( per t I —rCan.Gov.6 p.c.J a. & July; 100 ;114 116 c. pref. (issued at £5O) all Do. 6 p.c.lb.&Aug.l 100 1109 111 Stl(lßris. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock 100 96 98 i , took Caledon ;010, 41 per cent 100 100 102 Do. 6 p.c.Mr. & Sep. 100 110 112 20 Do. do. do. Shares l4 Do. 6 per cent. 1878 109 Do. 6 per cent. 1879 100 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2j all -- N.8.G0v.6p.c. Ja. &July 10C 109 110 61 ;Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c.l all Do. 6p.c.Ap. & Oct. 100 20 'Cornwall, 5 per cent. ~ all N; S.W. Gov. sp. c. Deb. 106 994 1004 65 ;Dun. Perth,& Aber.Jun.; all 54 6 D0.5p.cen.1871 to 1876 100 991 1004 Stock!E.Angn. Class A 7 & spel 1 0 0 99 101 D o .sp. cen .lBBB and up 100 994 100 100 994 Stock I Do. do. Class B6pc , 100 110 113 ; 100 103 103 Nova ScotiaGov.6 p.c. Si. Stock ,Do. do. Class C 7 pc ... 100 110 112 Deb. redeemable, 1875; 100 109 110 Stockll4.l. Coun. Ex. 5 pet. No.l N 0. 2, 100 109 111 S.Aus.Gt.6pc.Jan&Julyi 100 110 112 Stockl Do. do 100 124 126 Vict•Gcm6p.c.Jan&Julyl 100 Stock• Do. New 6 per ct. Stock 100 81 83 Do. do. April & Oct. 1 100 1064 1071; 10,1 Stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct. Stock Edin.&Glas. spc shares 100 1/0 112 MISCELLA/i EOUS. Stock Do. 4 p.c. gua. S. &D. 100 89 91 Stock Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. I °° 75 77 10 Anglo - Mexican Mint .. all ; 14 15 Stock Furness, 5 per cent .... 1, 100 1000 Atlantic Tel. 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Do. 44 per cent..... 100 5 I Do. do. 41 per c. shares! 1 — — 5 iDoSp.c.Pref.,iss.atldis. all 1 4 / 100 N.Br.&NovaScotiaLand, 80 'lO 15 Stook IDo. 7 percent. Pref. St.l 100 154 158 1 !N.B.Australasian(Lim.)l all 1 4 StocklDo.6 p.c.d0.(1V.E.&C.P.): 100 132 136 1 Oriental Gas 1 all 1 Stock D 0.4 p.c S.(div.def.til'6s); 100 66 68 1 Do. New Shares 1 15s. 4 par i 25 Lond. Chat. and Dover all 214 221 10 Orientl. Tn. Steam, A 6 1 -- I Stock I Lon.& N.W.Cov. &Nun-I 10 Ditto B 6 1 ' ' eaten, sp. ct. 1 100 115 117 10 Ditto C 2s - ' i StocklLon.&S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, 100 1524 1571 Stock Peel River Land & 3.lin. 100 I 49 51 121 Il,or dont , & Cole, 1 shs. all 50 Pen. & Oriental Steam.; all 78 80 784 121 I f.ondondy.& Ennis 4 sh. ; all 111 121 12 4 50 Do. New I 15 14 15 34 Stool I Uan.,Sh., & Lin., 6p. ct.' 100 125 127 20 Red Sea & Ind. Telegr l5 ,par 4 p ; 171 6 I Do. :06 Stock I Do. 34 per cent. 10 Do. redeem. 6 per cent. 5 i 4 P 100 Royal Mail Steam l6O, 52 51 121 llaryport & Car., 4 p.c. all Stock Scot.Austrin.lnv.(Lim ) 100 1120 130 i ,-,, c Do. 41 per cent... .... all 25 South Australian Land all I 344 354 'g I Do. Stock 'lid. Con. 6p. c. Stock 100 1 Do. do Registered all Stock Do.Con.Bris.&lllr.6p.cti I 100 139 141 140 20 Tr.& 1.n.C0.0i Upr.Can 5 1 Stock Do. 41 p. C. pref. stock.. 100 102 103 100 jVan Diemen's Land I 281 !11 12 6 Do. with option till 186( 3 1 1 p Stock Do. Lela. & Hit.pref. et. 100 94 96 BRITISH MINES. 10 Newport,Aber,&c. prof .5 1 all 94 10 1 p. 0. redeem, at 5 p.c. n tr. I Closing Business Price, 10 Do. Perpet, 6p. c. with Share Mines. Paid. .... rice. pone. option till 1866 12 10 Do., till 1869 Stock Nerfik 5 p.c. Ex.Stk,lB46 10u 20 British Iron Stock Do. 51 p. e. Pref. do. 1847 100 Clifford Stock D 0.5 WavVal.Ex.Sk 1847 100 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) 1 4401 450 Stock North British, 5 per cent' 100 109 111 E as t B asse tt (Illogan) 3O 11051 110 Stock Do. New, gua. 5 per cent 100 108 116 107 E as t C ara d on Stock Ntli.Dev. R ail. & DA.Co.i 100 E . W'l R uss l (T av i st k ) 7.4.0 10i 115 Stock N-East.Cons. Pref.4p.c,l 100 91 03 Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) 541 38 45 Stock Do. Berwick, 4p. c. Pref.' 100 04 96 941 Great South Tolgus.... 17s 14 15 17 Do. do. do. 313 4 15 1 d G. Wheal Alfd.(Phillack) 12.4.2 1 31 20 Do. Leeds, 6p. c. No. 1. 13 —G . Wheal Vor(Helston) 91 .. 12$ Do, do. Quarters,lB46 .. 9 G renv i lle I 55 2i. 3' 25 ' , /o. York, H.& S. Pura. 10 1d p -- Herod's-Foot Bl 30 32 20 North Staffordshire . . Al 23 24 Hingston Downs 4.3.6 4 41 Stock Ox.Wr. & Wol. ape. lsig 100 124 126 Lady Bertha Stock Do. 'Redeem., 20. gua.... 100 Margaret (tiny Lelant) 9 39 41 Stock Do. Irredeem., 21 gua. 100 117 119 North Downs 10 I Rilymney Guaranteed, all North France F ( I Mogan) 10 4 5 81 Scottish Central, new pm ail N.WIPI Basset (Mogan) 5 5 51 Stock I.4eottish North-Eastern IN North Wheal Crony.— 7.9.4 81 95 Stools 131 per c. pref. stock... . 100 75 77 10 Par Consols (St. Blazy). 11 12 1 3 Stock' Do.Aberdeen.gua.6pe.l 100 121 123 Providence (Uny Lelat) 10.6.7 47 49 48 Stockl Do. 7p. c. pref. stock. - 100 13? 136 Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 108 10s. ; South Devon, Ann. Ms.' all 105 101 SouthCaradon(St.Cleer) 15 280 290 10 : Do. Fixed 4 1 per cent. l all South C. Brea( Illogan). 2 24 21 11.0.6.' South Eastern (Reading S Wheal Fran. (Illogan) 18.18.9 140 150 Ann., 1.0 6) all 234 231 231 Stray Park 18.18.0 275 281 Stock Do .41 per cent lOO 1(0 102 5 Tamar Silver and Lead Stock DojEixed 41 p.e. Ist is lOO 1(0 102 Mining Co Stock South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 89 91 10 Tin Croft 9 41 65 Stock Do. 41 per cent lOO 99 101 Vale of Towey (Carm.) 12s 6d 4 1 Stock S.-Yorkshire, 4 ee. gum lOO 84 88 p West Basset (Illogan).. 11 19 20 25 Stock. and Dar. A 5 p.c all 28 29 W. Caradon (Liskeard). 10 88 90 25 Do. It 6 per cent 25 Do. C 6 per cent. StocklWatrfil & Kilkny, Op.c lOO 50 53 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 871 921 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Wheal Kitty(U.Lelant 1.7.2 14 15 'WWI Mary Ann (Menhe 8 119 21 204 - - - - Nirh'l Trelawney (Lick.) 44 130 32 FOREIGN MINES LITERATURE. lire's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines. Longman. This useful work has now reached its sixth num• ber, and great credit is due to 111r-Hunt for the attention he has bestowed on this new edition. The first article, on the Daguerreotype, commences thus : " A photographic process discovered by M. Daguerre, a celebrated French dioramic painter, published in July, 1839; the French Government having secured a pension for life of 6,000 francs on M. Daguerre, and of 4,000 franca on M. Isidore Niepce, the son of M. Nicephore NierGa, who had for some time been associated with M. Daguerre in carrying forward the experiments which led to M. Daguerre's discovery." Under the head of Electricity the reader will find full information relating to electric clocks, the electric light, and electric telegraphs. The last subject treated of in this number is fermentation, and when the edition is completed it will constitute a standard book of reference. COXFIRMATIOX OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED. The confirmation of his Royal Highness Prince Alfred took place yesterday in the private chapel of Windsor Castle, his Royal Highness having been examined on the previous day by the Rev. W. L. Onslow, chaplain and naval in structor of her Majesty's ship Euryalus, in the presence of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor. The Archbishop of Canterbury, accompanied by the Bi shop of Oxford, Lord High Almoner ; the Dean of Wind sor, resident chaplain to the Queen ; the Rev. Lord W. Russell, chaplain to ale Prince Consort ; the Rev. H. J. Ellison, vicar of Windsor; and the Rev. W. L. Onslow, chaplain and naval instructor of her Majesty's ship Eury alus, entered the chapel at twelve o'clock. His Grace and the Bishop of Oxford sat on either side of the communion table. The Ministers and other company invited to the cere mony were conducted to seats in the chapel. The service commenced with the following chorale, which was sung by the gentlemen and boys of St. George's Chapel : CHORALE. Oh, happy bond that seals my vows, To Him who claims our highest love Let cheerful anthems fill his house, While to that sacred shrine I move. 'Tis done : the great engagement's done; I am my Lord's, and he is mine; He drew me and I followed on, Glad to confess the voice divine. High Heaven, that heard the solemn vow, That vow renewed shall daily hear, Till in life's latest hour I bow, And bless in death a bond so dear. The Bishop of Oxford read the preface ccmmencing "To the end that confirmation." The Archbishop of Canterbury performed the remainder of the service, and at the close of the exhortation delivered by his Grace the following anthem was sung : ANTHEM. Psalm CXVI., verses 12, 14, 16 "I will receive the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. " Behold, O.Lord, how that I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid ; thou hest broken my bonds in sunder. " I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the sight of all his people; in the courts of the Lord's house, even in the midst of thee, 0 Jerusalem. Praise the Lord." Mr. W. G. Cusins, organist of her Majesty's private chapel, presided at the organ. At the conclusion of the ceremony the Queen and Prince Consort, with the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cam bridge, the Royal family, the Duke and Princess Mary of Cambridge, and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, were con ducted from the chapel to the Green Drawing-room, where her Majesty received the congratulations of the company present. MR. WILSON'S FINANCIAL SCIIEME. (From the Bombay Times.) The reader who is acquainted with the history of mone tary science during this century will hardly need to be told that the plan here outlined is a very close, not to say ser vile imitation of Ricerslo's " Plan for a National Bank," published in 1824. One great merit of Mr. Wilson's seems to be that he is a very safe man, following the broad high way which the great pioneers of modern economy have cut out for us. Gentlemen who had been calculating upon the setting free of the each balances will, of course, be griev ously disappointed to find that not a note is to be issued that is not paid for in bullion. The subsequent investment of the funds in securities will be a delicate operation, requir ing much discretion and political knowledge in the Commissioners, the rendering of whom independent of the Indian Government is, of course, imperative. It would have been most unwise to follow the recommendations of the Saturday Review and others, who were desirous of seeing the balances liberated for the sake of reducing the annual amount of dividends. Such a course was too dan gerous to be permitted. If Government want money, it should be obliged to raise it in the legitimate way—by tax ing the people, by the issue of Exchequer bills, by funded loans, or by borrowing in any other way; but in no case should it be allowed the power of creating money itself, nor of borrowing of those to whom that power is intrusted. Tho wretched system upon which the Indian accounts have hitherto been kept was well illustrated in the course of Mr. Wilson's speech in introducing the budget. On the faith of the estimates sent from this country, Sir Charles Wood assured the House of Commons, on the Ist of August last, that the deficiency of income as against the expenditure of the current year would be £10,250,000. Hardly was the intimation received in Cal. cutta than a new balance-sheet was published in the shape of a despatch to the Secretary of State, reducing the deficit from £10,250,000 to £6,499,981. Nothing was now heard on all hands but congratulations upon our improved pro spects, when, after six months of happy delusion, Mr. Wilson presents us with a third and final estimate, raising the deficit to £9,290,129, and explaining how the discrepancy has arisen. Stated in short, the balance-sheet of the year stands as follows : Estimated Indian Expenditure £41,770,008 Estimated Home Charges , , £47,277,028 Estimated Receipts . . £37,706,209 Estimated Railway Receipts.— , 330,700 38,036,909 Deficit We are not responsible for the trifling discrepancy mani fest in these figures; the error lies in Mr. Wilson's state ments, or in the report thereof. But we wish to direct the attention of our readers to the way in which the vast dis crepancy between the present balance-sheet and that of September last arises. It is accounted for then as follows : Omission of railway dividends, £1,164,000 less re ceipts, £330,700 .. Error in the estimated military expenditure of Bombay 600,000 Error in the estimated commissariat expenditure of Madras Error in the estimate of home charges Error in estimating what the new taxes would realise 775,000 Anything more discreditable than this schedule it wera hardly possible to publish. And it is this system, whose failure in every department is thus manifest, that Sir Jas. Melville so warmly defended when replying to Sir Charles Trevelyan's strictures thereon before the Committee of the Commons in 1853. Let the reader note the first item. It is really incredible, if we had not Mr. Wilson's word for the fact, that no account was taken in the estimates of Septem ber of the million of railway dividends payable during the year. We find Bombay figuring next in the schedule for a trifling error of £600,000, and then Madras for £300,000, and lastly the India-house for £640,000. It is time that a system so wretchedly loose were exploded, and we shall look impatiently for the change that is promised from a system of carefully prepared estimates which no depart ment will be allowed to exceed. SOUTHAAIPTON, April 5.—A very handsome now paddlewheel steamer, named ;the Massilia, built for the Peninsular and Oriental Company by Samnda, Brothers, of Blackwell, arrived here this morning iu charge of Captain J. W. Purchase She left Gravesend yesterday at 845 a.m., passed the Nore at 11; the North Foreland, 12 45 p.m. ; the South Foreland, 2 5 ; Dungeness, 3 36 ; Beachy Head, 5 26 ; the Owers Light , 8 45 ; the Nab Light, 955 ; Calshot, 10 55 ; and anchored in the river at 11 10 p. m . for the night, coming into dock this morning. The voyage round from Gravesend was one of the fastest on re cor d, th e Massilia being only 14 hours 4 minutes under weigh, ave raging during the run 14 knots per hour. In steaming down the Thames from Gravesend she made 65 miles in five hours against the tide, and coming down Channel she ran 15 knot for three or four consecutive h ours. Sh e proved herself a fine stiff ship throughout the voyage, and promises to be one of the fastest and of the company's mag nificent fleet. Her draught of water was 16 feet 3 inches forward, and 15 feet 8 inches aft. The following are her principal dimensions :—Length between perpendiculars 300 feet ; extreme breadth, 36 f ee t ; depth-amidships, 24 feet 6 inches ; builders' tonnage, 1,919 ; rieg sterec tonnage, 1,133. her engines, which are built by Messrs. Penn and Son, are of 400 nom i na l h orse power ; t h e cylin ders are 72 inches diameter, with 7 feet stroke ; diameter of paddle-wheels, 26 feet. Accommodation is provided on board . for 105 first an d 36 secon d -c l ass passengers . The Massilia goes out for an official trial trip on Saturday, and leaves for Alexandria en Thursday next, with the Bom bay and Australian mails. The screw steamer Behar, Cap tain J. C. Almond went out for a trial to-day, and the results were very 'satisfactory. This vessel has been thoroughly repaired and refitted in every department, and her hull coated with Peacock and Buchan's patont compo sition for ships' bottoms. The Behar takes out the mails to the Peninsular ports on Saturday, on her return from which she will be sent out to the Indian station. The Hamburg American Company's screw steamer Borussia still remains in dock, some derangement of her machinery having to be set right before she leaves for New York. The Prussian storeship Elbe sailed for Japan this morning, and the frigate Arcona is to follow on Saturday. The Royal Monmouthshire Militia has been ordered to assemble at Monmouth, on Monday, April 30, for 27 days' training. SHARE ItIARKF T.- ( THIS DAY.) ORDINA 'ft Y 811 A: ES AND BTOCKS. Yl3llAVRyft Clo7ing Price. Business Done. 12.10 13.14 Stock Alawr.z., Ltiottt liosl.l I and Eastern Junction! ißelfazA - and Ballymena.; Bin, 'Col., and 8 tr. Vat. Birk_ L a., and Ch. Junc Blackburn Biyth and Tyne Bost.Slefd.& Mid. Ccun Bristol ant Ex, - .ter Caledonian Carmarthen Cardigan Cork and Bandon Cork, Blkrock,&l - aosaiis Cornwall 1 reves. noe.re thy untilep.r an "`-'• hasbeen pd.toß Dublin andßelf ast June Dun.,Perth,& Abr.Jun' 'East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union A Stock Do. do. B Stock Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds', East Suffolk Do Edinburg and Glasgow Edin.,Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasgow & South Westn (reat North of Scotland Great Northern Do. do. A Stock Do. do. B Stock Gt. South.& Wstn.(lreld! , Great Western Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.Stk Irish South Eastern Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall. Lon.,Brighton &S.Coast Lond. Chat. and Dover London & North Westni Do. Eighths London& South-Westn L'derry & Coleraine ,L'derry & Enniskillen Man., Shef., & Lincoln Maryport and Carliale Do. do. .1 Shares.... Metropolitan I Midland Birming. & Derby., IMid. Gt. West.(lreland Shares Mid Kent Do. (Cray Line) Newcastle and Carlisle New., Aber., & Ifereld; Newry & Armagh (act) Newry, Warpt., & fl.os Norfolk 'North. Cotinties Union 'North British Nor.Dev,Eail.&Dk. Stk I 1)o.A Stk.— Areo.no div until fip.c.hasbeeupdß Do. B Stock North,Eastn.—Berwick : Do. do. G,N.E.Purchase Do. Leeds Do. York I North London ," North Staffordshire ' No. & Sou. W. Junction 'Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver l'eebles Portsmouth fthymney IScottish Central I 1 I scab. N. 11., Aber. Stock: 1 !Do. Scottish Mid. Stock) Shropshire Union ! 1 Sitting bourne & Shcer 1 r. South Devon i 1 South-Eastern 1 ;South Wales ISouthYorks.&lliv.Dun 1 Staines, Wok., & Wok Stockton & Darlington Do. do. 'Stockton & llartlepool Taff Vale 1 Do. Preference, No. 1 ThamesllayenDk&Rail Ulster Do, I Do. jVale of Neagh Victoria Station & Pim 'Waterford & Kilkenny, l'iraterford & Limerick) West Cornwall 'We.t London Do. Ist Ga gs Do. 2d Chugs 8* 61 8 8. 70 72 114 12, 6 i 7 101 103 90.1 111 fit 61 74 8 17 18 54} 65" 36 38 £6 28 784 79, 29 . 30 98 100 112 113 117 119 128 132 113 115 (81. 69; 60 65 103 1034 67 69 110 112 12 13 981 991 921 921 12 13 42 43 2} 14d !I7a 118 94 96 10 11 14 24 54 56 34 3d 601 611 945 911 2 14 d 17 474 78 784 105 107 31 d 9 94 42 43 9 95 14 16 54 65 114 116 335 344 L 5 87 47 49 35 24 d 42 44 F 8 885 65 67 75 80 6 B 39 40 8 1 95p 551 564 24 3} p d *p 59 61 .0 11 51 tif 11 100 91 100 all all all all PREFERENCE SHARES. nallways. Faid. l Closing B Doneusiness Share Price. , . ENT BECUR: TIES. Closing Business Price. Done. -- 20 Australian Bedford and Bletchley' all Ln & N.W .. ~ 1 1 Bon AccordCopper,Lim lss * d par Buckinghamshire ~..1 100 Ln& N. W 95 100 96 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at .C 5 p ) 271 Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do ... 51 311 20 Do.St.Johndelßey,Lim. 15 224 231 234 Do. do. 51-r. et..... 1 100 Do. Do. do. sp. ct. ClydeadaleJunction.' 100 ; Caledonia 0 3 1(5 40 C o b re C o pp er a ll 43 15 Colchester, Stour Val all IE.U.&E C. 16 17 IGt.North. Copiapo l6 E.Lincolnshire,g.6p.c 100 Gt.Nortli. 139 111 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.C,o all # PI Union,HarwicliShs all E.Counts. 41 41 2 F or t una Do. Woodbridge . 100 Gle.Barr.&Neils,Dret . . 100 ICaledonin 2 Gt. N. Cop. of S. Austr 1 par 1 p Do. New lOO Do. — 3 Linares all 101 114 Gloster& Dean Forest all ;Gt. West. 5 Lusltanian Ffartlpool.Dek.&Rail. all Yk.N.& Ilr -- 1 Mariquita all 1 # Hull and Selby Do. 4 Shares all Do. I -.“— - 23 PontgibaudSilver, Lead Do. 4 Shares ......: all Do. 5 Port, Philip 1 i .1 London&Greenwich . 100 S. East... 163 i 5 1 Scottish Australn. (L.)... 10s * d par Do. Preference Lon.,Tilhy.&Soutend. 100 Peto &Co. 95 17 i 96 Lowestoft, gua. 4p. ct. 100 Norfolk.. JOINT-tTOCK BAN Clo li s S in . g 1 Blaine.. Do. 6 per cent lOO Do 1: 0 1 l ,G }3; Brassy 11°354 110376 manc.,Buxtn. & Matk all LN W&M 21 2; Mid. Bradford Prefer ence Stook lOO Midland . 95 97 064 51 Share Joint-Stock Banks. (Paid. Pr toe. Done. Newmarkt.,BuryEx 1 ... 6. E.counts 1 1 - guaranteed 5 P.c. 5 P 100 Agra&UnitedServiceßk 50 74 77 Northn.Bz Eastn. 5 p.c all Do. 57 58 40 Australasia all 71 73 721 2 Do. do. 6 per cent.... all Do. 25 Bank of Egypt all 211 221 Or m e r d es s to p r e o r cent. all ;Do all Midland . 141 141 100 Pank of London 6O 51 53 521 40 Brit. Col. Bk. & LoanCo all N Do o . rt F h L.Yk. i 45 41 50 'British North American all . f 2O I Chtd. Bank of India, &a all 20 204 204 7 . 1. all Do. . ; ..... 25 Ch.Mer.of In. Lon.&Ch . all 32 34 M'ole . a . n . 104 41.1P50 69 71 71 Preston and Wy 100 'City 100 Colonial DRooDiosl.tn",llaiftecsli.,&:oll. ep l e r f e o r . d . l a o l o ll 20.11 Com. Bank of Canada all SouthShrew.ssbtrayff&orlldsohr 100 Commercial of Landon . 20 19 21 Wilts and Somerset... 100 Gt. West. 91 93 20 Eng , Scot., & Aus. Ch. all 164 1 7 Wimbledon& Croydn. mtn 74 g 4 20 Gen. Bk. of Switzerland all -- 2 0 Lon.Char.Bk.ofAustraL all 221 221 225 ' all L.&13, DOCKS. 125 5 0 0 000 London INDLL ooeowon.London 00nn &j a n owt d oe County sinit oon Stock t ec .. 2 2 100 0 .. . ... .._— . . . 7 53 3 7 4 14 1 4 4 Paid Closing Business' Share Docks. I Price; Done. 100 ,Nat. Prov. of England. 35 20 10 ----__ 50 'National Bank S ew outh Wales 100 all . Stock Commercial Stock 'Do 4 perCent.Pref .11in lOO 25 Orient .Bk. Corporation all I 44 1 I Stock East and West India.., 100 20 Ottoman Bank all l7 18 174 StockiLondon lOO 100 Provincial of Ireland .. 25 Stock St. Katharine l6O -- 10 Do. New Stock Southampton lOO 25 ; South Apvtralla_. ad StockiDo NeW aPtillil e illia ti 2 Vietorta 110 I 50 ( Union of London l2 29 30 29i 1 i 100 llaity Mutual v 61 = r Bedford and Bletchley all Ln & N.W .. . Buckinghamshire.... 100 , Ln & N.W 95 100 Chester & Holyhead.. , 100 Do ... 51 3111 Do. do. 54-p. et..... 100 Do. r 2 124 Do. do. sp. et. ClydesdaleJunetion.. 100 ,Caledonia t( 3 1(5 Colchester, Stour Val all IE.U.&E C 16 17 E.Lincolnshire,g.6p.c 100 Gt. North. 139 111 E Union,HarwichShs all 'E.Counts. 4* 4. Do. Woodbridge ... 100 Gle.Barr.&Neils,Dret. 100 ICaledonin Do. New lOO Do. Gloster& Dean Forest all ,Gt. West Hartlpool.Dek.&Rall. all Yk.N.& Ile Hull and Selby Do. 4 Shares Do. f Shares......: all Do. Lanc.&Carl.gua.s p.c. 100 Ln & NJ:7 London&Greenwich . 100 B. East Do. Preference Lon.,Tilby.&Soutend lOO Peto &Co. Lowestoft, gua. 4p. et lOO Norfolk.. Do. 6 per cent lOO D 0....... macc.,Buxtn.&lllatk all LN W&M Blid.Bradford Prefer- __ , pa, ‘.14,;...A,.4;,■... 1n Railways. I Paid. Leas ~ t Co. s. rald. all all all all 100 100 all 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 all 100 3 100 100 901 1 90/ 1126 12 6 13 1156 17 16 18 131 113 6969 60 103 2i 31 I 68 f 111 99 I 81; 9 t 92! i I 12! i I I 421 i 91i1171 1 18 1 55} 61 i I 9 41 3 1 4 1 1 a 47 4 771 81 8 431 88 71 si all all all 100 100 100 100 2.HE NAVY. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad , miralty, held a levee yesterday at the Admiralty, at which the following officers were present :—Admi ral L Ayscough, Rear-Admiral Studded, Rear• Admiral Scott; Capts. D. Robertson, C. C. Forsyth, G. Giffard, W. Woodley, W. H. Haswell, R. J. Ot• way, G. A. Seymour, T. F. Birch, W. H. Kitchen, and C. G. E. Patey ; Commanders E. H. Howard, W. M. J. G. Pasco, J. Sanders, F. H. Smith, M. R. Pechell, William C. Chapman, and 'l'. H. M. Martin ; Lieuts. W. Symon, J. B. Scott, and W. Serymgour ; and Deputy Inspector-General ofHos pitals M'Cormick. Rear-Admiral Sir B. W. Walker, Bart., K.C.8., Controller-General of the Navy, yesterday visited Woolwich dockyard, and, accompanied by the Commodore Superintendent and the heads of de partments, inspected the new screw steam schooner Ranger, completed for service and about to be commissioned for the west coast of Africa. The Vulture, 6, paddle, Capt. G. Parker, was paid off yesterday, at Portsmouth. The Pigmy steamer sailed at 4 p.m., with that port ion of the Vulture's crew belonging to Devonport, for that port. The Victoria, 121, screw, has been placed in No. 7 dock at Portsmouth. The paddle-yacht Osborne has been undocked from No. 8 dock. The Octavia, 50, sailing frigate, has been placed in No. 9 deck at Portsmouth, for lengthening and conversion to a screw. The crews of that portion of the Channel Fleet anchored at Spithead had leave granted them ashore in parts of watches, yesterday evening until 7 a.m. to-morrow. The whole of the vessels have suffered more or less, both in their hulls and machinery, from the effects of the late gales during their pas sage to and from Lisbon. Of the five ships at Spit head, the Edgar has proved the most efficient of the whole, as well as much the easiest craft in a seaway. Next to her ranks the Mersey, the Mars taking next place, with the Algiers and Queen last. The two last named vessels rolled very heavily; the Queen to such an extent as to unship the shot from their racks on the main deck, and send them flying about, injuring 15 of her crew before they were stowed down in her after-hold. She has a heavy sick-list besides. Her funnel casing is torn, waste steam-pipe carried away, and her machinery re quires a thorough overhaul—the effects of her roll ing and working. She made a good deal of water, as may be supposed, during the worst part of the last gale. The Algiers also, made water during the gale, and her stern is supposed to be defective. The Mersey's steam-pipe is defective, from its great length exposed to the working of the ship ; but, most important of all, her condensers are cracked. They will all require considerable repairs before they can again proceed to sea. All the officers of the squadron agree in awarding the superiority on every point at sea—speed under eanvass, and easy motion in heavy seas especially-- to ships of the Edgar and Donegal class, over those of the Algiers and Queen's. The Bacchante, 51, screw, is expected to hoist the pendant about the 12th inst. She is to have two of Armstrong's guns included in her armament, Commander Jo iling, of her Majesty's ship Queen, has had the honour to become her future commander. The screw st..frigate Diadem, 32, Capt. H. Cock burn, left Plymouth Sound on Wednesday under canvass for the westward with sealed orders. She was detained a short time to receive her new com mander. Her Majesty's new steam gun vessel Landrail wa■ yesterday hauled into the fitting basin at Woolwich, preparatory to being docked and got ready for sea. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert arrived at Portland a little before noon on Wednesday, from Portsmouth, having accomplished the distance in three hours. After a few hours' detention she pro ceeded on her cruise to the westward. The screw steamship Conqueror, 101, Captain Sotheby, C. 8., was placed in Keyham Basin on Wednesday, and subsequently taken into No. 3 dock, to have her leaks stopped. The paddle-wheel steam vessel Bann, Master James S. Wells, employed on the coast of Cornwall, arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday, and went into B arn pool. The Powerful, 84, line-of-battle sailing ship, has been docked at Chatham, where she will be length ened and converted into a screw steamer. The Arethusa, 50, sailing frigate, has been brought up to Chatham dockyard, preparatory to being taken into dock to undergo the necessary alterations to adapt her for a 51-gun screw frigate. The Torch, 5, screw gun-vessel, having been com pleted at Chatham dockyard, has been undocked, and is preparing for her trial trip to test her machi nery, after which she will join the steam reserve. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander A. H. Hoskins, to the Wrangler, commissioned ; Peter Wood, chief engineer, to the Asia, for charge of machinery of the Sutlej ; Edward J. Burnley, chief engineer, to the Cornwallis; Thomas L. Walker, chief engineer, to the Asia, for charge of the machinery of the Fre derick William ; and Charles Wright, chief en gineer, to the Fisgard, for charge of the machinery of the Devastation. THE ARMY. According to present arrangements, the A troop of the Royal Engineer Train, under the command of Capt. R. W. Duff, R.E., with the whole of their field equipment and stores, will vacate their win• ter quarters at Brompton-barracks, Chatham, on the 16th inst., and proceed to the camp at Aldershott, where they will stationed during the summer. The quarters at Brompton-barracks now occupied by the Royal Engineer Train will be taken possession of by the detachment of Royal Engineers, which now numbers 500 men. A court-martial has been held at Chatham Gar rison on a driver of the Royal Engineer Train, named George Hamilton,a man of exceedingly bad character, for desertion. The prisoner deserted un der very aggravated circumstances, and disposed of the whole of his kit for a trifling amount. On a pre vious occasion he was tried for desertion, and was then sentenced to a long term of imprisonment, and to be marked with the letter " D." The proceedings and finding of the Court were yesterday read out to the officers and men on parade, the prisoner being sen tenced to be again marked with the letter D, to be imprisoned for 168 days, and to be placed under stoppages until the value of his kit is made good. He will undergo his term of imprisonment in Fort Clarence, Rochester. Mr. Barrans's patent improved steam traction en gine, manufactured byMessrs. Gardiner and Macin tosh, at New Cross, was tested experimentally over the public roads about Woolwich on Wednesday. THE ROYAL NAVY.—A return was published yesterday relating to the expenses incurred in building and fitting her Majesty's ships during the financial year 1858-59. A total expenditure in that year of £2,163,675 is accounted for in the following way :—Ships and vessels building, £475,560 ; ships commenced as sailing ships, and converted to screws while building, £89,800 ; ships launched as sailing ships and subsequently converted into screws, £114,490 ; fitting out and refitting for, also repairs and maintenance of steam ships and vessels in, commission, £523,317 ; fitting, refitting, repairs, and maintenance of ships and vessels in the steam ordinary, £342,254 , repair ing, fitting, and refitting for, and maintaining sailing ships l in 3 57, maintenance £4,399 ; fitti ng and of all yard m and vessels in, commission , £5,478 ; repairing and main taatintamgsianiglinhlk sailing ships ipn£°l2rd, craft, boats, &c., £13077 ; incidental expenses of buoys, capstans, £248,001 ; machi nery f or steam vessels, £250,996 stores sent home from foreign stations, £37,997; stores purchased at home, £56,469. BONAPARTIST INTRIGUES IN GERMANY.—For several years past the Goveinment of Louis Napoleon have kept a number of literary agents, or censors, a t Leipzic, Frankfort, and Muni c h, whose duty it was to note down everything injurious to apoleonic interests which occur red in the press or in any new book or pamphlet edited in Germany. This system, we understand, has now been per fected. Instead of a mere literary espionnage, a dowunght propaganda has been established, the first experiment being made at Leipzic, by means of a secret bureau of the press, from which German pamphlets are published in the inte rest of the Bonapartist cause. One of th e p rints that has come out in this way is a pamphlet, "On the Annexation of Savoy." Both in argument and style it is, however, de clared to be only a fifth-rate production.—Morning Ad. i vertiser. "FLOWERING SUNDAY" IN WALES.----011 Palm Sunday the friends of the departed strew the graves of the deceased with the choicest flowers and evergreens of the sea son, throughout the whole of the Principality. It is a beautiful awl touching ceremonial, and one which attracts great attention from all parts in Newport. On Sunday the sacred festival was duly observed at the various burial dlaces though the weather was not as favourable as could be desired for such an occasion. BANK RETURNS. An Account, pursuant te the Act 7th and Bth Victoria cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in circu lation during the week ending Saturday, the 24th dayj of March, 1860. PRIVATE BANKS. Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmett, Pomfret, & Co. 11,t.07 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury -Cobb and Co 24,924 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Biggleswade-Wells, Hogge, and Co. Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Co 6,630 Basingstoke and Oldham Bank, Basingstoke- Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank, Bedford-Barnard and C o 29,835 Bewdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols Baker, and C o 10,9188 Bicester and O x f or d s hi re B an k and Oxford Bank, . Bicest r---Tubb and Co. Binning!,arn Bank, Birmingham- Attw oo d s , , ' Spooner, and Ce. Boston Bank, Boston-Claypons and C 0... 64,951 Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co. Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. L. Sealey 10.906 Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Pritchards, Boycott, and Co, Buckinghael Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, Par rott, and Co Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stow- mai .-et Bank, Bury St. Edmunds-Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury -J. C. and A. Gillett 33,021 32227 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury -Cobb and Son 23,831 Bradfordß rm i ngh aoml Old Bank, k B B i r r d i Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton f n e g rd il , an Y i Buzzard-Bassett, Son, and Co. - 0 - r L ks lo hir y e_ s aHndarriCos 26'792 and Co 11 Brecon Old Bank, B recon -Wilkins and Co 4 6,878 ,878 Co. Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall West, and ......... . .... 20,718 Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington-Hard ing, Smith, and Co 11,295 Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds-- Worlledge and Co. • . 2,634 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Co. 13„347 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cambridge -Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co 29,110 Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-David Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-La Coats and Son 2,748 Colchester Bank, Colchester-Rouid, Green, &Co 15,195 Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester- Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co .. 42,615 Coventry Bank, C oven t ry -Littl e and Woodcock 4,660 City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co. Craven Bank, Settle-Alcocks, Birkbeck, and Co 74,830 Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Monmouth Old Bank:, Monmouth Bank, B recon B an k , and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow- Bromage, Snead, and Co. 7,146 Derby Bank, Derby-W. and S. Evans and Co. Derby Bank, Derby-S amue l S m i t h an d Co .. , 588 Derby Old Bank a n d S cars d a l e an d High Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and C 0..... 27,833 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke and Co. Diss Bank, Diss-Fincham and Co lO 102 Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, D oncas t er - , Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton-on- Tees 85.34 Darlington-Backhouse and Co 53,405 Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Co 9,409 Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dor chester-- R. and H. Williams 44,854 East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster, and Co. ... 92,328 Eitst Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower and C 0.... 49,553 Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank, Chelms• ford-Sparrow, Round, and Co 40,702 Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 28,703 Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Farring don-Barnes, Medley, an d C o 5,153 Farnham Bank, Farnham -John and Jas. Knight 8,290 Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co 5,026 Godahning Bank, Godalining-Mellersh and Keen 4,935 Guildford Baok, Guildford-Messrs. Haydon 14,689 Grantham Burk, Grantham-Hardy and Co . 2 3257 Hereford City a n d C oun t y B an k , H ereford-Mat- , thews and Co 14,035 Hull Bank and Kingston -upon-Hull Bank, Hull-- South, Brothers, and Co Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Veasey and Co. Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co. 6,185 Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin-Sharpies and Co. 33,788 Hereford, Ross, and Archenfeld Bank, and Rosa and Archenfield Bank, Ross-Morgan and Co 19,374 Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co 18,660 Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Had leigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich-Ale=anders & Co 58,692 Kentish Bank, Maidstone-R an d a ll, Mercer, and Co Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington-Davies and Co. 25,864 Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough-Harrison and Co 20,063 Kendal Bank, Kendal-Wakefield, Crewdson, &Co 44,054 Longton Staffordshire Bank, Long - ton-C. Harvey and Son 4,940 Leeds Bank, Leeds-Beckett and Co .Leeds Union Bank, Leeds-W. Williams, Brown, and Co. 37,282 Leicester Bank, Leicester-T. and T. T. Paget 29,919 Lewis Old Bank, Lewis-Whitefeld and Co 27,915 Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith, Ellison and Oo Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llandilo Bank, Llandovery-D. Jones and Co 18,666 Loughborough Bank, Loughborough-Middleton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington-S. and G. F. St. Barbe . 6,122 Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Legis-- Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis- Jarvis and Co 10,570 Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-Brocklehurst and Cu. . 15,938 Manningtree Bank, Manningtree-Nunn and C 0... 4,828 Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly-Williams and Son 5,630 Miners' Bank, Truro-Willy ams an d C o . Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny-Bailey and Co. 27,896 Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth ' Bromage, Snead, and Co. Newark Bank, Newark-Godfrey and Riddell Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford-Handley, Peacock, and Co, Newbury Bank, Newbury-Bunny, Slocock, and Co. 17,385 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket-Eaton, Hammond, and Co.. 1 5,60 8, Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich-Harveys and Hudsons 47,431 Norwich and Norfolk and Fakenham Banks, Nor wich-Gurneys and Birkbecks 88,418 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Notting ham-Hart, Fellows, and Co. Craddock and Co. Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton- Naval Bank, Plymouth-Harris &Co ... 22,613 New Sarum Bank, Sarum-Everett and Co. 10,037 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham-Samuel Smith and Co Old ... 26,806 Dswestry Bank and Oswestryßank, Oswestry 5 11,68 -Croxon and Co' Dxford Old Bank, Oxford-Parsons and Co ... 32,173 Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge- W ells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge-T. H. and S. Beeching ' . 8,568 Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney-J. W. Clinch and Sons Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank as d , Beverley Bank, Hull-Pease and C 0........... 45,045 Penzance Bank, Penzance-B a tt en and Co. 6,711 Peterborough Bank and O un dl e Bank, Peter- borough-D. Yorke an d C o. 10,150 Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest-J. and W. Walters 10,480 Reading Bank, Reading-Simonds and 60. Reading Bank, R eading -Stephens, Blandy, & Co. 29,025 Richmond Bank, Richmond-Roper and Co. 6,133 Rochdale Bank, R oc hd a l e -Clement, Royds, & do. 3,036 Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Rochester- Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Rovston-Fordham and Sons Rugby B an k , R ug l ay-A Butlin an d S on 10,479 Rye Bank, Ry e -R. C. P om f re t an d Co Ross Old Bank, H ere f o rd s hire, Ross-Allaway and MacDougal Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden-Gibsons and Co Salop Bank, Shrewsbury-Burton, Lloyd, &Co 12,392 Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough-Woodall and Co. Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsburi -Rocke, Eyton, and Co. 39,548 Si tt i ng bourse and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne- Valiance and Co. 2,604 Southampton Town and County Bank, Southamp ton-Maddison and Pearce Southwell Bank, Southwell-Wylti; and Co. 9,825 Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southampton -Atherley, Fall, and Co. Stafford Old Bank, Stafforls-Stevenson and Co. Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford-Eaton, Cayley, and C o 23,926 Shrewsbury ant Welsh Pool Bank, Shrewsbury- Beck, Downward, and Co. 24,946 Taunton Bank, 1 aunton-H. and R. Badcock 26,602 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill, Sons, and Co .74, " V Thornbury Bank, Thornbury-Harwood and Co IUI Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton-Duns - 11,711 ford and Co. Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northamptonshire, Thrapston-York and Eland .. 11,274 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring-Butcher and Son h t Towchester Old Bank, Towe cheater-Percival and Co. 7,559 Bank and Ringwood Town and County of Poole and Poole Bank, P 00 l aW. Ledgard and Sons 10,36 7 Uni0n Bank, Cornwall, Helston-Vivian and Co 1 3 ,7 61 .d Hull Smith, &Co. 1:4,33S Old Bank, Uxb ge- Uxbridge n Bank, Wallingford-Hedges, Wens, Wallingford 6,587 and co. ...... d Warwickshire B ank, Warwick Warwick an Greaves and Co 21,8E6 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington--Fox, Brothers, and Co .......................... . 2,748 West Riding Bank, Wakefield and Pontefract Bank-Leatham, Tew, and Co 45,852 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby - Simpson, Chapman, and Co. 12,413 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Winehes ter-Bulpett and C o. Weymouth. Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Wey mouth-Elliot, Pearce, and Co. Wirksworth an d Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank -r• Arkwright and Co Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech-Gar- 39,880 neys and C o Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe-P. and W Hancock 6,817 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolver hampton-Goodricke and Holyoake Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Co R Worcester-Berwiek, Lechmere, and lrerhamPton - . and 61,631 'Wolverhampton Bank, W° Yarmouth and F Suffo lk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth- Gurneys, Birkback, and Co. ..... stioelettlie•tessolooesimm 39,010 lA SI7. ShA re Stock Stock Stoolr Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock, Stock Stock, Stock Stock: Stock s Stock Stock Stook Stook ;took 124 ',took 12i 10 Stock Stock Stctek Stock Stock Stook Stock Stock 25 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock ! Stock Stock Stock, 10 Stock Stock Stock; Stock Stock Stock 12 10 took 10 Stock' 421 } 171 56-1 371 26 100 Stk 1 204 20i 10 100 I 17i 20 stock Stock "~~: