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

,1 was court, of St. )ticed rent's dwin, Mr. wker, rev. rayer , and ,ne of sum- titian. Ns:— ifford both Lough the that —not was iscuS- Mr. 3fr. ,f St. man atur- and The Lord The ,ontil -MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Money Market remains in a very animated state, through the liquidation of the commercial engagements due to-day, the 4th of the month ; and although a temporary return of quietude may take place when the April dividends are paid, the negotiation of the Victoria railway debentures, loan instalments, and railway calls, in addi tion to the requirements of trade, are ex pected to prolong the prevailing activity. Although opinions seem divided with regard to the probable course the Bank directors will take at their meeting to-morrow, most persons are agreed that there is very little prospect of a downward movement for some time to come, and the bankers and bill brokers are consequently very cautious in their transactions. As they have re cently declined to negotiate bills, except at an advance on the minimum of 41 per cent., the chief Pressure has been at the Bank of England, where an extensive business is still recorded. The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon ex hibited a slight advance in the rates on Paris and Amsterdam ; Hamburg, however, was rather lower. In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday the transactions continued on a very limited scale, and prices were heavy. The sales were 5,000 bales, The Railway Share Market closed steady, but quo tations were firmer. A moderate amount of business has been tran sacted to-day in the market for Public Securities, but the quotations have remained rather buoyant -- --Consols having risen to 94! t i for money and the 4th inst., and 942- I for the May settlement. A better feeling seems to prevail, and although specula lion is dull purchases slightly preponderate, and Prices therefore tend upwards. India Stock has Unproved to 220; ditto New is firm at 1041 y , and ditto 5 per cent., Enfaced Paper, remains at 971 98; Exchequer Bills are 10s. to 14s. prem. The transactions in the Foreign Stock Markets have been rather active, and prices in most in stances have improved. Turkish 6 p'er Cents. are 78/ to 79i; ditto New, 61i to 62i; Brazilian 41 per Cents. have advanced to 901 ; ditto New Scrip to Par ; Mexican to 22 ; Russian 41 per Cents. to 96i; ditto 3 per Cents. to 64. Spanish 3 per Cents, have declined to 451 /, in consequence of a revolution In that country. The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 3 to / pre m . ; the Universal ditto, I to / prem. A rather active business has been transacted in the Railway Share Market, and prices have shown increased firmness. Caledonian, Eastern Counties, and North-Eastern (Berwick), have improved ss. ; Great Northern, Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North British, 10s. ; Midland, 15s. ; and Great Northern A Stock, £1 10s. The Foreign lines are inactive. Lombardo 'Venetian realise 111 11 ; Buenos Ayres and San Fernando, 51 51 ; and Great Luxemburg, C. In the Colonial Market prices have not shown knell variation, with the exception of Great Western of Canada, which have declined to 12 12 ! owing to the non-declaration of a dividend at the meeting of shareholders held to-day. Grand Trunk of Canada are 341 35 ; East Indian, 102. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares are It shade firmer. Bank of Australasia have improved to 71, Union of Australia have declined to 441, and Royal Mail Steam are at 53k. , BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 7 Per Cent. Consols Annuities 4 / I dia Stock Ditto 5 per Cent. * 1041 1 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per cent — Ditto 5 per Cent. h Pitto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 1858 — I,..uitto, 1859 vs!tto Bonds, £l,OOO )sitto under £l,OOO 41Ittir Stock ~, Ditto Accoint onßols for Account (April) chequer Bills, £l,OOO, Ifd .. l4 10 Ditto £5OO Ditto SO. mall, 1 14 10 8 13 8 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. ''razilion 5 per Cent. Ditto 41 per Cent. 1858 ~Ditto Scrip, 1860 a'. exisan 3 per Cent. Ditto Accoun t ...era.un ~. vian 41 per Cent — " 1 .1.&,:) (Uribarren), 41 per Cent. .... .• • • P '' itt° 3 P er Ckllt.l ortu guese 1853, 42 11 Ditto 3 per Cent. _ Accotuit Russian, 1 822, £ St. , sper Cent Ditto 4 . / 8 Dit to p er Cent 961 a per Cent. 1859 :D"rt.t,!l'2oup n er t Cent — .. 831 S panish 3 per Cent 451 1 6 Dine Account - 6 5f Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. — D itto Account It irkieh 6 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in London. b r elleh Rentes, 41 per Cent. Ex. 25f 951. 11 ,teh Exchange, 12 Guil. 2 Center Cent — +Jitto Certificates, 4 per THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money . 941 1 Ditto Account: 941 1 THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. litht breeze - NDON, April fine. 4.—Wind this day at noon, E.N.E ; and f ro oaTsmouTH, April 3. —Wind, W.—Arrived—Tocopa, 11 4 „_ 14 Havre for Martinique ; Lorenzo, from Leith for Mel- It t ,,,Tke. The Bato, from Dordt to Cardiff, lying at Spit -4%7) was struck by lightning this morning, which shivered 1 114 foretopmast and foretopgallantmast, and tore up three Il its of the deck. il kaisty, April 3.—Sailed—James Caskie, for Quebec. tt o 1 -Irlsount, April 3.—Wind, W.—Arrived—H.M.S. N i Tal Albert, from Lisbon; H.M.S. Donegal, front ditto. e d—Sussex, for Melbourne. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SI Th FALMOUTH, Wednesday Morning. ti l e Neapolitan, brig, W. E. Routh, arr i ve d a t F a l mou th j T uesday;ltt s when off Scilly she saw a full-rigged ship on ton' tOd burning from four in the afternoon of the 2d to ; tik kel ol the morning of the 3d inst. Sh e saw h er th ree St lik e B go over the side, and a chooner near her. She looked St 411 American cotton ship, s being light. St lir• _ SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday M or ni ng . St tr - *'/Ived—Borussia, steamer, from Hamburg; Duke of St 11kirtlt...11',of Cornwall, ell , steamer, from Dublin. St ied—Wonder steamer, for Lo and Atalanta, ndonsteamer, for Jersey; S I 6 . 1 Ntr• DEAL, Wednesday Morning. "1. p.l ll d S.S.E, light. ~ liwqed, April 3—Bothnia, from London, for Honduras. 8 1' 4. 5 , 1 4 e5ed, April 4.—Clarissa, barque, from Bombay, for gi; 4k:011 ; Alabama, from Moulmien, for London ; Prince st, 11 , screw steamer, from London, for Mogadore. St, ehored—P rem i er , f rom L on d on , f or S t. John's. 2 1 4,, it li ed —Commodore Perry, in tow of Resolute, tug, for 2 •Ni t ZPool; Bong, Seaton, Firefly, Scotia, Warrior, and a f, No? 1,18 Wood, steamer, for the westward ; and the 7_ `'ern Cross, for Madras. the he accounts from New York yesterday describe N4,atinuance of an abundant supply of money, the rate 44 1 % ' 11 1? between 5 and 6 per cent. The stook-market con 4.ttitly remained firm, and the prices of the shares . of con t° the Western railways had reached a higher point "% t ° l ' six months past. The imports of goods from D o t, Were large, but the heavy draughts against cotton 4 t l ;Zon.tts were sufficient to meet all the requirements for td y r , remittances. It was, therefore, not expect e d th a t transmission of specie will take place in before May. In June and July the totals will y a The general advices on this oeca • / '': l : ll , t o'fr e n v o el f : urth r e g r light on the critical proceedings at tl u .'rliz. It seemed to be taken for granted that Mira -0 er,^oOld be defeated, especially after the interruption to i ltitl ill binations by the seizure of his two steamers, but it ''ltee borne in mind that all the accounts thus far re "me from the friends of the Juarez Government. the minute on Indian currency, of b t:te full particulars were given in the Times five at ui cIE, has at length been published, together with i fi ' l ltioij . r er of Sir Chas. Wood, the P res id en t o f th e India t t °l le o f With regard to Mr. Wilson's proposal for the sh o ll otes on Government securiti es "t o w h a t eve e - lett % 41 d fro m ti me t o ti me b e d eeme d advisable," Sir `(;,‘• IVii 4 „ mies that the impression it may convey is not V,, ll ll ( ° °' mmeaninc , . He, therefore, insists that the ih ,in Af t iociple of the Bask Charter Act of 1814 shall be 11 1 ' 1 b e and that all issues beyond a certain amount %„° tot,;i'Ptesented by a corresponding amount of bullion. ie a 110 to circulation of the Bank of Bengal might, he th, ti ,e up!' th e first instance be taken as the limit of the kl;,‘,tlie - , 4 4 _Beeuritie s . Sir Charles is likewise of opinion t11 (5 , 14 d h o - ,„ ° ''es, instead of being manufactured in India, Bog m lufactured here, an sent out in quantities as i tt , v 'k re PUired.— Times' City Article. 1,V 13 Y m in :" HER MAJ ESTY'S THEATRE.—Yester .% Yktt I , — , 4 °rity of the Court of Chancery, in the cause INZotkl 41-aslewood " Messrs. Chinnock and Galsworthy %es 124..P1ib1i0 competition. at the Auction Mart, the box %llt el 41,144 Majest Theatre Haymarket, facing the s kt htiditoPleagliting 7 3 'feet 6 inches by 9 feet deep, with Ntr t lepi' adMittin th reto sixersons nightly, held for it b ' e d ter ra of g abo e ut 31 years. A gentleman present 41 loti B°4B usinz the box could procee maintain t. te the °ll eer c ould d the attorney for the vendorsd e f _diCieti ° so, and could not be prevented. Several ti o t fr o e rted that they had been prevented from pro tied -'ere th eao boxes to the pit, and that a man was . - 'vre to preYout thou -.1, Win box was sold for £446 SHARE MA Rh ET.-( THIS DAY.) ORDINA.RY SHARES AND STOCKS. ' Paid. Closing Business fed I sh„ e l Railways. Price. Done. ial 1 1 1 1, , 12.10 A 111 11e11.1. , Notting. Bost. " and Eastern Junction 10 Ci El 61 50 Belfast and Ballymena all La y 13.14 Bir., Wol., and Str. Val all 8 81 the Stock Birk.,La., and Ch. June 100 70 72 • 25 Blackburn all 111 121 es, 25 Blyth and Tyne all di- 10 Bost.Slefd.& Mid. Conn all 61 7 Stock Bristol and Exeter )x- Stock Caledonian 10 Carmarthen & Cardigan all tY• 5 0 Cork and Bandon 9 ird-- 20 Cork, Blkrock,&P assage all 20 Cornwall all 64 61 'iii 10 Do. A (A roves. no di v , untilfin. a-i' c all .no- Ins 10 Do. B hasl - c - ' 'll i ieen pd.to. all E . a 50 Dublin andßelfa st June. all , 25 ,Dun.,Pertli,&AL r .J unc a l l 74 8 na stool: lEast Anglian lOO 161 174 171 1 „„ Stock !Eastern Countie s 1 100 541 551 551 1 5 `J Stock Eastern Union A Stock 100 36 38 37 'e- Stock Do, do. B Stock 100 25 27 26 25 Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds) 81 —in 20 East Suffolk of Stock Do Stock ,Edinburg and Glasgowloo 79 80 Ni re Stock Edin.,Perth, ew Dundee.l 100 281 291 29 10 !Forth & Clyde Junction all StocklFurneas c _ Stock l Glasgow& South Westn lOO 991 1001 991 , 10 Great North of Scotl an d a l l d Stock Great Northern lOO 111 112 112 Stock Do. do. A Stock lOO 113 115 1 15 411 r. Stock Do. do. B Stock lOO 128 132 , e Stock Gt. South.& Wstn.(lrekl)j 100 113 115 , Stock Great Western d Stock Do.Str.Vl.llail Gnit.Stk lOO 60 65 12 ifrish South Eastern all 5 . StocklLancashire & Yorkshire 100 'lO2 1021 1021 1321 4 , Stook London and Blackwall. 100 67 69 87 4 8 1 Stook Lon.,Brighton &S.Coast 100 109 111 1091 10 25 Lond. Chat. and Dover all 12 13 _ Stock London & North Westn, 100 981 98/ 981 4 1 121 Do. Eighths 4 Stock London& South-We s t n . 100 92 921 921 1 25 L'derry & Coleraine.., a ll t 25 L'derry & Enniskillen, all 12 13 124 1 1 Stock Man 'Met .°, Lincoln lOO 41/ 42/ 421 41 1 50 Maryport and Carlisle - , 121 Do. do. 1 Shares all 10 Metropolitan Stock Midland lOO 1165 117 1161 171 17 1 Stock Do. Birming. & Derby., 100 92 94 931 50 Mid. Gt. Weed.(lreland) all 1 25 Do. 4 Shares all 25 Mid Kent all 10 Do. (Cray Line) all 100 Newcastle and Carlisle all 25 New., Aber., & ITeretd; all 10 11 10 Newry & Armagh (.ret.) 9 20 'Newry, Warpt., & ttos all _ Stock,Norfolk lOO 54 56 50 ;North. Counties Union 3l 31 it d Stock North British 100 601 601 604 1 -- Stock , Nor.Dev.Rall.&Dk. Stk. 100 Stock IDo.A Stk.— Arec.no div. until6p.c.hasbeenpdß 100 Stock, Do. B Stoe - 100 StockiNorth-Eastn.—Berwick 100 934 931 931 1 2 25 Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase 1613 4 2 11 d d Stock,Do. Leeds lOO 464 47 461 71 10 Ste-A;Do. York lOO 771 77/ 771 1 1 1 Stock North London lOO 105 107 2 20 North Staffordshire l7l 31 31 el 14 14 2 10 No. & Son. W. Junction all 9 91 2 Stock Oxford, Wor.,& Waiver lOO 40 42 42 11 2 10 Peebles all 8 9 2 , 20 Portsmouth 10 IT/hymney lO 51 61 21 Stock Scottish Central StocklScoth. N.E., Aber. Stock 100 33 34 34 21 Stock 'Do. Scottish Mid. Stock 100 e 5 87 2( Stock Shropshire Union lOO 47 49 2( 10 ISittingbourne & Sheer ; all 31 21 d 3: . Stock South Devon I 100 42 44 43 1( StockjSouth-Eastern lOO 871 881 871 8 2C Stock , South Wales Stock!SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun ! 100 74 76 it 20 ;Staines, Wok., & Wok 1 all 6 8 20 25 Stockton & Darlington all 30 40 10 25 I Do. do. ;Stockton & llartlepool 161 20 Stock Taff Vale lOO 20 Stock Do. Preference, No. 1 25 ThamesnavenDk&Kail 22 20 50 Ulster 25 Do. 2O 21 31 p 20 12 10 ' Do, Stock Vale of Neath lOO 59 6 1 p 4 10 Victoria Station & Pim 91 10 11 20 Stock Waterford & Kilkenny' 100 10 50 'Waterford & Limerick all 20 20 'West Cornwall . 20 , IVest London 10 !Do. Ist Class 20 Do. 2d Class . all -- 20 PREFERENCE SHARES. Share! Railways. 25 Blythe and Tyne l( peri c. pref. (issued at £5O), f Stk - Brie. & Exet4p.ctStock j2O Do. do. do. Shares I Stock Caledon £lO, 43 per cent 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2.! 61 Cork & Bandon, 53 p. c. I 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent. 61 Dun. Perth,& Aber.Jun ! Stock E.Angn. Class A 7 & spc, Stock I Do. do. Class B 6 pc } 'Stock' Do. do. Class C 7 pc Stock' E. Coun. Ex. 5 p ot. No.l Stock Do. do N 0.2 Stock Do. New 6 per ct. Stock' Stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct. i,tock Edin.&Glas. 5 pe shares Stocki Do. 4 p.c. gua. S. &D. Stock Fdin.Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. Stock Furness, 5 per cent .... Stock Glam. &S West.-- a. 5 pc. Stock Great Northern, 5 p. et. Stock Do. 5 pcßedm.,lop.c.pm, Stock i Do. 43 p. c. do. do. 100 .Do.sp.c.Redm.,s pc. pm 10 Gt. Nh. of Scotld, Ist pt ! IGt.Sn.& W (Irel an d) 4 p. et. pref. Stock 1 St 6 ° O ckl (Great West. (Berks an d) Hants) Ext. 5 p.ct... St ock !Do. Redeemable, 43 p cf ' Stock I Do. Redeemabl e, 4 p. et Stock Do. Irredeemable, do Stock Do. sp. et. Redeem. Pref 8 Do. firm. Pref. Shares 10 (It. W. Ches. 8 p.c.pf.sh. 10 Do. do. sp. ct. pref Stock Do, firming. guar. stock 264 ,Do. Chester guar.shares 134 Do. do. do 120 Do. do. do. Stack !Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock Stock iDo.Barnsl.St.£s 3810dpc Stock 'Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan) Stock Lon.&Brig.spc.gu. No.l Stock I Do. , 5 p. c. No. 2 Stock , Do. gua., 6 p. ct. Stook I Do. do. 5 p. e. No. 4 Stock ,Do. Do. 41 per cent 5 I Do. do. 41 per c. shares S tockDo. 7 percent. Pref. St. Stock D 0.6 p.c. do.(W.E.&C.P.) Stock D 0.4 p.c S.(div.def.til'6s) 25 Lon d. Chat. and Dover Stock Lon.& N.W.Cov. &Nun eaton, 5 p. ct. Stock Lon. &S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, 124 Londondy & Cole, 4 she. 124 Londondy.& Ennis 3 sh. Stock NTan.,Sh., & Li n ., 6 p. c t . l 6 Do. £6 Stock no. 35 per cent. 10 Do. redeem. 6 per cent. 124 I \laryport & Car., 4 p.c. 121 Do. I Do. 44 per cent .. Stock Nfld. Con. 6 p. o. Stock Stock Do.Con.Bris.&Bir.6p.ct Stock Do. 43 p. c. pref. stock 6 Do. with option till 1500 Stock Do. Leic. & Ritpref. st. NewportAber,&c.pret.s 10 I p. c. redeem, at sp.c. r to 10 Do. Perpet, 6p. c. with option till 1860 12 10 Do., till 1869 Stock Norfik 5 p.c. Ex.Stk,lB46 Stock Do. 53 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Stock D 0.5 WavVal.Ex.Sk 1847 Stock North British, 5 per cent Stock Do. New, gua. 5 per cent Stock Nth.Dev.Rail.& ID .k.Co. 'cock N-East.Cons. Pref.4p.c. ock Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. 17 Do. do. do. 2G Do. Leeds, 6p. c. No. 1. 123 Do. do. Quarters, 1846 25 TN). York, H.& S. Purch 20 North Staffordshire ocklox. Wr. & Wol. Ape. lst g !oc1:I Do. Redeem., 2d gua ockl Do. Irredeem., 21 gua 10 I Rhymney Guaranteed. 83 ,Scottish Central, new In ock Scottish North-Eastern ock 31 per c. pref. stock • ock Do.Aberdeen.gua.6 pc ock Do. 7p. o. pref. stock 10s. south Devon, Ann. 10s 10 Do. Fixed 44 percent .0.6. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6.) • 'ock Do 4i per cent ock Do. Fixed 43 p.a. Ist is ock South Wales, gua. 4 p.c ock Do. 43 per cent ;ock S.-Yorkshire, 4 pt. zus 25 Stock. and Dar. A 5 p.e I 25 Do. B 6 per cent 25 Do. C 6 per cent ,ock Watrfd & Kilkny, 6p.c LINES LEA pn 1100 100 100 100 100 all 1011 100 100 100 3 100 1 a'l 4 - 96 98 100 102 54 6 99 101 110 113 103 108 110 112 109 111 124 126 81 83 110 112 R 9 91 75 77 118 120 117 119 [lO 112 [O2 104 84 86 96 98 98 100 87 89 90 92 100 102 9I 10* 17 18 101 101 74 76 194 204 91 10 144 151 38 190 [l5 117 [l5 117 [4O 145 [l5 117 154 158 132 136 66 68 214 224 115 117 5t4 154 11i 1! [25 127 70 I (18 i i P 139 141 102 103 -.1 1p 94 96 9f 10 1111 12 1114 SED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. !Paid. Lea Bing Closlng Business Co.'s. Price. Done.* Paid./ Closing Business Price. Done. 11 g l I 5 1 all FOREIGN RAILWAYS. ► Antwerp & Rotterdam /Ardennes Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c ) Belgian East. Junctio n Beziers to Graissessac ;Carmeaux Mine & Rail ,Co_piabo I Ditto Extension !Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Euphrates Valley ; Grand Rue. Guar .5 p.c ,Great Central of France , Gt. Luxem. ' Con. ells Italian Junction Lake Constance & Bale Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian.... Lyons and Geneva .... ,Maria Antonia I• Do do. New Namur and Liege IDo. do. 6 p. c. Pref. Northern of France ..:. Do. New Shares 'Norwegian Trunk Pref Paris,Lyons, and Medit ;Paris and Orleans I ;Recife& S. Fran. (Fern.) gua. 7 p. et. (Lim.) Riga and Dunabur g Rome and Frascati Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref. Sambre and Meuse. Ds. 51 per cent. Pref Southern of France West Flanders Do. 51 p. c. Preference W. & N.W. of France Western of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do 8 per cent. Pref all all all• all all all all all all all all all all 113 4i 4i id par 2: 21 11 lld 5 5 d 25. 264 —PI 6f 61 1} 1 p Si 36 55 19i 38 :7 PI 13 15 51 59 8 9 14 201 4 5f 94 5f 23 24 COLONIAL GOVE Can.Gov.6p.c.J a. & July l Do. 6 p.c. Fb. &Aug. Do. 6 p.c.Mr. & Sep. Do. 6 per cent. 1878 Do. 6 per cent. 1879 N.8.G0v.6p.c. Ja. &July Do. 6p.c.Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. sp. c. Deb. D0.5p.cen.1871 to 1876 Do.sp.cen.lBBB and up NovaScoMaGov.6 p.c. S:.. Deb. redeemable, 1875 S.Aus.Gt.6pc.Jan&July Vict.Gov.6p.c.Jan&July, Do. do. April & Oct. I MISCELL. O Anglo-Mexican Mint 10 Atlantic Tel. (Limited). 5 Australian Agricultural O Australian Royal Mail . 0 Berlin Water Works ,0 British American Land ,0 Brit. & Irish Mag.Tel.A. 0 Do. B, 7p. c. till 1862 0 Do. C . /0 !Canada Land 0 Chan.lslands Tel.(Lim ) ock Cop.Min.ofEng.&Smltg :5 Do. Preference 7i per ct ock Crystal Palace. 5 Do. Preference ick Do. 6 p c. Perpet. Deb ock , Electric Telegraph 5 Do. New 5 English & Aust. Copper 15 Gen. Steam Navigation. 1 Great Ship (Limited) ;0 Indian & Aust. Telegr 5 London District Telegr • (London Discount 4 , Lond.Gen. Omnibus Co — 1 ' 20 mon Madras Irr. and Canai . 0 IMediter. Electric Teleg. 0 lMed. Exton. Tel. (Lim.) 25 National Discount Co 10 jNetherlands Land 6 DoBp c Pref n iss at ldis rr. N ov a g co tiaL an d • 1 IN.B.Australasian (Lim ) 1 'Oriental Gas 1 Do. New Shares 67/ 4 10 ;Orientl. In. Stearn, A 0 I Ditto B 10 Ditto C Stock Peel River Land & MM 50 Pen. & Oriental Steam 50 Do. New 20 Red Sea & Ind. Teleg - r 50 Rhymney Iron 15 Do. New 100 Royal Mail Steam stock; Scot.Austrin.lnv,(Lim ) 25 South Australian Land 1 !Submarine Teleg. Scrip 1 I Do. do Registered 20 I TrAt Ln. Co. of Upr. C an , 100 Diemen'. Land 12 43- 125 f 6i 69 BRITIS 74 10t, 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 20 ('Alfred Consols (Philack; British Iron Clifford Devon G. Cons. (Taoist ) East Bassett (Mogan) East Caradon ...... B. Russl (Tavistk.) Gam. SiSt.AubyD(Gwen.) Great South Tolgus... G.WhealAlfd.(Phillacl:) G. Wheal Vor (Helston) Grenville Herod's-Foot Hingston Downs Lady Bertha .. . ..... . Margaret (uuy Lelant) North Downs. North France s ( Mogan) N.Wh'Ulassot (Illogan) North Wheal Crofty 10 Par Consols (St. Blazy) • • Providence (Uny Lelat) Sortridge Cons, Vin. Co. SouthCmdon (St.Cleer) South C, Brea( Illogan). S -Wheal Fran. (Mogan) Stray Park 6 Tainar Silver and Lead Mining Co 10 Tin Croft - West Vale of Basset Tower Fn 0 ( C g a a r n m ) . W. Caradon (Liskeard). West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) Wheal Buller (Redruth) Wheal Edward (Cals.) Wheal Kitty(U. Lelant Wh'llllaryAnn(Menhe I Trelawney (Lick, , - ___ o. s. Price. Done.* ... FOREIGN- - -- C' t * 1 / Boit o - rd and metchley all tiiet zu Australi:an ,N. W . * Buckinghamshi re.... 100 Lu & N.W 95 100 I 1 Bon AccordCopper,Li m. 155 .35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at £5 p.) 27* - _ Chester & Holyh ea d .. 100 Do . 51 311) d par f 43 15 Do. do. 51 p. et. .. • . 100 Do. l'2 124 ' 122 20 Do.St.Johndelßey,Lim. 1 5 5 i Do.LandandMining-Co. all 2 3 24 231 / - Do. do. sp. et......, 10 0 Do. j - Clydesdaledunction.. 100 Caledoninlif 3 105 1 Clarendon Cons. Min, Co. f Colchester, Stour V a l all E.U.&E Cl 6 17 10 Cobra Copper al - '- d - F.Lincolnshire,g.flp.c , 100 G t.North. l l4o 142 - Copiapo lB 1 DunlMoun.Cop.Ming.Co all 1. E unioo,HarwichShs all ,E.Counts. 4* 41 2 Fortuna Do. Woodbridge ..., 100 ; .. . .. , - - 20 General Gls.Barr.&Neils,Drct.' 100 Caledonia - - Do. New i 100 Do. •I - Gloster& Dean Forest' all Gt. West. 1 - allall AI IN N I IP d .. )I - 10 11 - 2 3 2 L. R N r . es Cop. of S. Austr a a i l l p7a o r i i 54 5 Lusitanlan 1 3lariquita all i i I ff il a i r li tl a p n o d ol s .D el c i l ) ( y .&llail. : Do. 1 Shares l, all I Do. .... - ... 1 N RhineCop.of S.Aus.L 10s. 1d 1 p Do. 4 Shares 1 all 'Do. ~.. , .._ _ Ad Pontgibaud Silver, Lead Mining and Smelt.... all 5 7 5 Lanc.&Carl.gua.s p.c.' 100 LE St NcW 206 209 208 / 5 Port Philip •• • 1, -, •• 1 4 I London&Grcenwich . 100 IS. East... 63 65 Do. Preference ,115 120 1 Scottish Australn. (L.)... 108 1 d par Lon.,Tilby.&So u t en d . 1 0 0 V e t o &Co 93 05 28 . 2 . 81,U nited Mexican Lowestoft, gua. 4p. ct. 100 Norfolk..; - - Do. 6 per cent 1 100 '1)0. 1- - JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Closing ------Business Manc.,liiixtn.& Matk. l all LNI W&M, 21 2; - Mid. Bradford Prefer-I 1 , Sharei Joint-Stook Banks. Paid. I Price. Done. ence Stock , 100 ;Midland 95 97 954 Newmarkt,Burylox 1 5. ~ , gnaran 100 l A g r a&UnitedServiceßk 50 74 77 teed 5 p. c. f Nortlin.& Eastn. 5 p.e all DO, ,5. h. li,Counts 1 1 p 57 58 57 40 lAustralasi a all 69 71 71 2 Do. Fixed 5 per cent. all Do. Do. do. 6 per cent.... all , Do. 25 Bank of Egypt all 214 53 '2l 22* 00 North Western , all M 1 idland . 144 141 40 Bank of Lond on 5O 51 Brut Col, 13k. & LoanCo all - - L& N 14' 1 60 J.tritish North American all - - 20 ,Chad Bank of India &c all 20 201 204 Preston and Wm. I all ~_ L ~.. - - 45 mL.I x. , 25 Ch.Mer.of In. Lon.&'Ch.l all 32 34 Do. 1 Shares A. all Do. ...... - - 100 'C 0 ? Ci... ............... 1 50 69 71 2100.011 C) l n o i i . li ß a a l n . k . . o . i. . ea . Itoystn,Hitell.,& Shep, 100 Gf.Nortli. 1 0 3 4 5 1 1 0 3 6 7 .. I 25 37 38 Shrewsbry& Hereford 100 T Brassoy Do. Do. ,' 1 •• • • ii p o:nkn. London.!Co mmer cialaonowfidnseoctswfutzn Stock inetrysiat inr:d... a 2 2; 0 0l _ l9 7 21 53 2 71 ; i Canada.. all - - 1 South Staffordshire ..1 all M'Clean . 101 11 Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt. West.; 91 93 20 Ei:i4; .Scot . , & Aus. Ch. all 16* 161 16 4 :55210: 'Londonl4l,G - 00 e : dd . Wimbledon& Croydn. l all L.&Brztn' 71 8* - - - - ---------- 20 Lon.C'har.Bk.ofAu3tral. all 22 221 DOCKS. --- j ------- I Closing -RueineBB Share Docks. ' Paid . p j oe Done. 100 Nat. Prov. of England. 36 I' • 20 Do. l new ............... 10 - - 24 50 National Bank ......... 25 - S'oek Commercial i 100 _. 103 S tcick Do 4 pereen t.Pret . Min ' 100 - 20 20 Lew en S t ollutkh. cWoarpleosra.t.fo.ns all _... -- 4 i 3 ( - ;ek East and West India 1 100 - 119 20 Ottoman BMA. ... , ... all 17 17/ 1 7 4 'Stock London lOO - 69,1 100 'Provincial of Ireland .. 25 - - "itock St. Katharine lOO - 10 IDo. New .... .......... :all = - Stock Southampton lOO - , 2$ South Australia ....... all - - itock Victoria ...................», 100 100 103 11014 25 Union of Australia..... fall -- - 441 40 iD New ...•moiresstimctl 2 50 Union of London ..... 12111, 29 30 WI i -- i " . 100 Unity Alritual se 00 I= = 1 ence Stock I 100 ;Midland 95 97 Newmarkt.,TiuryEx gnaranteed 5 ) 1 I p . e . c ,5. 5.4% M.Counts ' 1 i P gortlin.& Eastn. 5 p.e all ,Do. Do. do. 6 per cent.... all Do. Do. Fixed 5 per cent. all Do. North Western , all Micllamd .• 141 141 Preston and Wyra. I all UN .yk l4 : / Do. 4 :Mares A. all Do. ...... Roystn,Hitcli.,& Shep 100 Gt. North. 135 137 shrewsbry& Hereford 100 T Brassey 104 106 Do. Do. 1 .... ii p South Staffordshire ..1 all 14PClean . 11 0 4 1 1 p Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt. West.; 91 93 Wimbledon& Croydn.l all I,.&l3rztn' 74 84 Share Stock Commercial ; 100 St - rck Do 4 ppreent.Pret.Min ' 100 Stock East and west India ] 100 Stock. London lOO Stock St. Katharine lOO ' Stock Southampton lOO Stock Victoria .., lOO 100 103 40 jDo New ...•.....s ti 2 - MENT SECUR 1114 118 109 111 110 112 TIES. 1109 no 99} 100 i 994 looi 99i 100 109 110 110 112 1106& 107 i II 12i 4p 100 111 108 110 91 0 94 96 } / d id p 23 24 [24 126 17 119 75 77 121 123 [32 136 10 10 231 23/ 100 102 100 102 88 90 99 101 86 88 28 29 324 834 32 33 50 53 Mines. 14 15 32 33 ti 41 37 39 20 22 14i 161 123 126 71 84 25 30 244 254 25 30 100 1024 102 105 105 107 i lip 2 4 I :I. 1 id 1 1 d 1 11 1* 2* 3 4 I d 10 1 5 llt par 49 51 78 80 14 16 par 211 221 6 E 7 52 54 120 130 341 351 11. 12 MINES, Paid Closing Paid. Price. 3 2 290 300 440 450 3'o V 4 IV 84 01 Il l i 39 41 14 15 1 n - 34 30 32 4 44 1/ 2 39 41 4 -1 5 1 5' 54 8} 94 12 13 49 51 280 290 2 140 21 1501 271 284 qi 1 20 21 El 90 350 370 135 145 874 924 2 21 14 15 19 21 30 32 1.7.2 191 201 20 lii 20 Stock 100 Stock 20 Sto. Stock 100 100 100 100 100 Stock it lei IRE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING APRIL 4, 1860. ITISH POSSESSIONS ilways. ,Atlantic & St Lawrence Leased at 6 per cent ;tom.,Baroda&Cent.lnd Du. 5 percent o. Addit. Capital A Do. Do. 1 13;.t.ifalo and Lake Huron Do. New Do. Pi eferenee Bailalo,Erailt.&Gudrich 6 p. et. I,lz. 1 A ug., 18:2 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 Do. do. 1 June, 1874 •Cleutta.&S.Eastrn. Cape.Eastn.Prov.(Lim.) Cape Town & Dock Seri/ Central Oude (Limited) Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c Demerara Eastern Bengal.gu.sp.e East Indian, gu. 5 p. c Do. F Shares Ext Do. Jnbbulpore Do. 44 p. c. Debentrs Do. 5 p.c. Deb., 1861 Geelong& Melbourne Geelong Corporation 6 per cent. Bonds Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref Do. 6 percent. Debentr Do. 7 per cent. 18 62 Do. do. 1867 IDo. do. 1872 Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.e i IDo. New, gua.s p er cen t Gt. South. of Ind.Lim.— guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt.W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. Bonds pay. '76,with opt. till '6O Do. do. '73 till '6O Do. do. 'V3 without opt Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 do Madras, guar., 44 p. c. Do. do. 5 per cent. Do. 41 p. c. Extension., Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c. Do. Fourth do. Do. do. Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds Newßrunswick&Canda. Ry.&Land(Lirn.)g.6pc Class ACapitl.Share.. Do. do. Land d 0... Do. do. B. Capital do. Do. do. Land d 0... Oude (Limited) Scinde Do. New cd Do. Punjaub 9 , Do. Indus. St. Flo. a,?,4 1 St. Andrews & Quebec A Trinidad(Limited) Scrip CENT'RAL CR. rßT—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Williams.) THE CASE OP THE REV. MR. HATCH The grand jury having yesterday found a true bill against Eugenia Plummer, who was the principal witness against the Rev. Mr. Hatch, who was convicted of an indecent as sault upon her, the particulars of which have so repeatedly been before the public, Mr. Cooper this morning applied to the Court to fix the amount of bail, as he was desirous, on the part of the child and her parents, who were most anxious to meet the charge, that instead of a summons or a bench warrant issuing, her father, who was in attendance, and now prepared to put in any amount which the Court should think fit, might be allowed to do so immediately. Mr. Justice Williams said the application was no doubt a reasonable one, but it was premature, and he could make no order until some gentleman appeared on the part of the prosecution. THE CASE OF THE JOHN SUGARS. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said he was instructed to make application to the Court to postpone the trial of a man named Cox, who was, with four other seamen, charged with conspiracy and perjury, till next session. The charge arose out of the loss of a vessel called the John Sugars. The preliminary investigation took place before Mr. Traill, at Greenwich, and the result was the suspension of the cap tain's certificate by the Board of Trade for a year, and the chief mate's for a month. The parties charged were the sailors who gave evidence at the investigation, and as the true bill on the seventh indictment had only been found last night, he hoped the Court would postpone the trial until next session, in order that he might have an opportunity of ascertaining the precise nature of the charges preferred against the defendants, The application was granted. THE CASE OP OUTXIND. In the case of Gutkind, who was charged with felony in not having surrendered to his bankruptcy, was called upon to surrender and take his trial. Tha defendant did not appear, and it was stated that he hail absconded and left his bail in the lurch. Mr. Sleigh made application that the riicog,nisances of the bail be not entertained until next sessions. The Court granted an order accordingly, and directed a warrant to issue again> t the defendant in the meantime. William Hands said he resided about a mile and a quarter from the defendant Steplee. He became aware that he had a cow in a very diseased state which he was about to have killed and dressed for London market as human food. After the cow was killed he saw it. It was in a dreadful state of disease. The stench was awful. It was quite unfit for human food. He sent information to the authorities which led to the present prosecution. A farm servant, named Johnson, was here called, and on examination by Mr. Sergeant Parry, said the cow ap peared to him to be healthy eight or ten days befor) she died. He did not see anything wrong about her. Sergeant Parry—Was the cow milked the day before she died ? Witness—Yes. Mr. Sleigh—ls the milkmaid here ? (Laughter.) Sergeant Parry—Oh y es ; I shall be happy to introduce my learned friend to her. (Laughter.) He will find her a very nice sort of person. She will prove that the last time she was milked— (roars of laughter)— of course I mean the cow—(laughter)—she was in a very healthy condition. (Laughter.) Another witness, a slaughterman, said he told the de fendant Staplee that the cow was unfit for human food, and that he also warned the defendant that if he sent the car cass to London he would hear further about it. Staplee, however, after the caution, said it would go. The witnesses were cross-examined by Sergeant Parry to show that when the animal left Northampton it was quite fit for human food. The trial was proceeding when we went to press. THIRD COURT. The Common Sergeant was occupied the whole of the morning disposing of the Mint prosecutions, of which there are in the calendar no less than 40---viz., 3in the City, 26 in Middlesex, 1 in Essex, and 10 in Surrey. The proceedings were entirely devoid of interest. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —(This Day.) _.._ MARLBORO UGH- STREET. PICKPOCKETS IN COVENTRIC-S TREET.—Henry Thomp son, address refused, and John Hunter, M living in Golden lane, St. Luke's, w ere c h arged before r. Beadon, by Ser jeant Jay, 9 C, with attempting to pickpockets in Coventry street. The sergeant said that about half-past 10 the previous night he saw the two prisoners and another man following a lady and gentleman in Coventry -street, at the time all walking abreast. He then noticed the prisoner Hunter leave the others and go behind the lady and gentleman, the others acting as a cover to him. He then saw Hunter lift the gentleman's coat tail, and then leave the gentleman, but the prisoners afterwards followed the gentleman to the corner of Princes-street, where Hunter again tried his pockets, and the gentleman spoke to them, when they all made off into Leicester-square, where they joined one an other again and walked on to Ben Caunt's, where there was a large crowd assembled, when he succeeded in taking the two prisoners into custody, but the third escaped. He had seen Hunter frequently with thieves. Thompson re fused his address. Mr. Beadon (to Thompson) — Where do you live ? Thompson (fumbling in his pocket as if for his card) said, "he f orgot where it were. It was a wilier near the Elephant and Castle." (Laughter.) Hunter said he lived in the City (Golden- lane). Mr. Beadon said he should remand them for a week to see what was known of them. THAMES. ROBBERY AT A LINENDRAPER'S SIIOP.—Two young women, named Ellen Markham and Mary Briant, were brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with stealing 44 yards of cotton print, the property of Messrs. Haddock and Til by, linendrapers of Grosvenor House, Grosvenor-place, Commercial-road East, where several robberies have been committed owing to the mischievous practice so often con demned by the magistrates of this court of exposing goods for sale on chairs upon the pavement outside the shop. It appeared that a boy named Linford was watching the goods exposed for sale yesterday evening, and saw the woman Markham looking at some cotton print, and ex amining it. About an hour afterwards he saw the prisoners running past the shop and down Grosvenor-street, and at the same time missed two pieces of cotton print from a chair. He followed tho prisoners, and saw them enter the Green Dragon tavern, near Stepney Church. He waited some time, and when they came out they proceeded towards Mile •cud-road, and entered a beer shop. The boy waited until he saw a police-constable and gave them into custody. The property was not found upon them. On returning to the Green Dragon the five pieces of cotton print belonging to the pro secutors were found under a form in the tap-room, where the prisoners had been. Miss Ellen Moore, the barmaid at the Green Dragon, said the two prisoners entered the house and called for a half quartern of rum. One had something concealed under her apron, and the other something secreted under her shawl. They went into the tap-room, and after they had quitted the place two pieces of cotton print were discovered under one of the seats. The property was produced and identified by the boy Linford. Inspector Griffin said the woman Briant had been in cus tody for shoplifting and also for uttering base coin. Roche, the gaoler of the court, said that Markham had been summarily convicted before, and he believed more than once. The prisoners pleaded guilty. Mr. Yardley said Markham appeared to be the leader in this affair, and was an old offender, and he should make a difference in the punishment of the prisoners. Ho sen tenced Markham to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six calendar months, and Briant, who was not known before, to four months' imprisonment and hard labour. He was glad to hear that no expenses were allowed at the Sessions where shopkeepers exposed goods for .sale outside their shops, and he would allow none in this ca, se. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred will be con firmed on Thursday next in the private chapel of Windsor Castle, NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Channell.) uNWHOLESOME FOOD. William Staplee and George Chesterfield, the former a farmer, and the latter a butcher, residing at Northampton, su9irendered to an indictment, charging them with having sent a carcass to Newgate-market in a state unfit for hu man food, well knowing it to so. Mr. Sleigh appeared on the part of the Commissioners of Sewers to prosecute; and Mr. Sergeant Parry and Mr. F. Atkinson defended. Mr. Sleigh said the present prosecution was instituted by the Commissioners of Sewers against the defendants, Staplee and Chesterfield. The former was a farmer, resid ug atj Northampton ; and the latter was a butcher, carrying on business at the same place. Re should be able, he thought, to show in evidence that a short time before Christmas last the defendant (Staplee) had a cow in a very bad state of health, and he sent for Chester field for the purpose of having the animal killed and dressed as human food for the London market. The animal, on being killed, was found to be so very much diseased that it ought to have been destroyed; but, instead of which, it was packed and sent, by order of Staplee, to London, directed to a tradesman carrying on business in Newgate-market. The London tradesman, on unpacking the carcass, found the meat in dreadfully putrid state, and quite unfit for human food. He should be able to prove by the evidence of two persons that the stench was overpowering, and quite unfit for human food. He should also prove that the defendant Stapler, paid for the carriage of the animal to London, and also that the ticket was in his handwriting. Paid. Closingmanuals done Price. all 1 100 86 88 96 9'7, 97 it ticat 73 78 70 75 par iP 141 1 d Z} 1d d id 101 i 11)2 par par ip 991 1001 101 102 zoi 21i 34 36 93 94 71 73 85 87 73 75 72 74 09 99i id d 11 ld 13 131 7i 7 d 97 99 97 99 97 99 90 93 88 90 974 984 90 92 - a „ri (T 5. 7 99 101 id 2- di 1 Of 91 96 A par SUN OFFICE, ASix o'clock. BOMBAY AND AUSTRALIAN. MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : The Indus, with the heavy portion of the above mails, left Malta at 3 p.m. on the Ist inst. for Southampton, where she may be expected about the 11th. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAILS. The Columbian (mail of the 18th Feb.), reached Bombay on the 12th March. The Jeddo (mail of the 3d March), arrived at Aden on the 20th. NAPLES. A letter from Naples, of the 28th ult., in the Debats, says:— `All the reports about intervention have ceased, but it must not therefore be concluded that they were pure fabrications. We know for certain that there was a strong party in the Court favourable to the enterprise, and that the King was not disin clined to listen to them. When this party saw Piedmont, by the boldness of her initiative and persev6rance in her efforts, daily extending her in fluence, and at last absorb Tuscany and Emilia in her extended kingdom, they felt the folly of their counsels, and saw that their game was lost. Like bad players, they then wanted to throw everything into confusion in the hope of seizing on something in the fray. They said to the King : ' Let us in vade the Marches at once.' Fortunately for the present Neapolitan dynasty, Austria has wiser counsellors than the King of Naples. She saw that if he entered the lists, his ruin wag certain. Aus tria accordingly ordered that the intervention should not take place, and she has been obeyed." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER —TUESDAY. The business at the Rooms to-day was exceedingly dull, and the attendance of subscribers was far below the ave rage of whet are usually present on Tuesdays, and beyond giving the following quotations, which are in a great mea sure made up from offers, nothing transpired requiring our notice. NEWMARKET HANDICA P. 10 to 1 agst Remunerator (offered) 10 to 1 agst Athos (take 100 to 9) 100 to 8 agst Wallace (taken) 100 to 8 agst Confectioner (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Jason (taken) 100 to 6 agst Man-at• Arms (taken) TWO THOUSAND. sto 2 agst Buccaneer (take 3to 1) 3to 1 agst The Wizard (take 7to 2) Sto 1 agst Lupulus (offered) 100 to S apt Brother to Rainbow (take 100 to 7) 30 to 1 agst King of Diamonds (taken) DERBY. Bto 1 ag,st Buccaneer (offered) CHESTER CtiP. 100 to 6on the Field (offered) CITT AND SUBURBAN. Bto 1 agst Yoicks (take 100 to 12) 100 to S agst Chore Arnie (offered) 100 to 7 agst Homeward Bound (offered) 100 to 6 agst Odo (take 20 to 1) 40 to 1 agst Topsail (taken) CHURCH BATES ABOLITION BILL. THE PETITION MOVEMENT. Yesterday, we were placed in possession of the Report of the House of Commons' Petition Committee to the 28th of March inclusive. It appears by this report, that, up to that date, there had been presented to the house— Petitions. Signatures. .... 4,972 .... 546,579 ... 5,203 181,856 litions has been made. The from which those in favour For abolition ... Against abolition A caieful analysis of these following will show the sour( of abolition have conic, : From ratepayers and inhabitants " Protestant Dissent ing" congregations 814 Independent ditto 668 Baptist ditto Wesleyans as follows : Wesleyan Confereneo Methodists, 130 ; Methodist New Connexion, 91; Me thodist Free, 169 ; leyan Reformers, 33; Wesleyan Associa tion, 2 : Total Wesleyan bodies Society of Friends .. United and other Pre sbyterians Unitarians .. Countess of Hunting don .. Roman Catholic .... Bible Christians .... Various denomina tions, including Jews, New Jerusa lem Church, &c. , . Primitive Metho dists, 235; Indepen dent Methodists, 1; Calvanistic Metho dists, 80 ; United Methodists, 2; Wes- Total These figures show that s( ment has taken a wider ran, character than has that for rates. arcely any petitioning move ;42) or been less sectional in its he total abolition of church- Of the petitions presented the following appear from public bodies : Town Council of Sheffield. )1 Leicester. /) Haverford west. 9 9 Newcastle-on-Tyne. Congregational Union of England and Wales. Baptist Union. General Baptist Committee. Wesleyan Reform Union. Protestant Dissenting Deputies. Religious Liberation Society. Ministers of the Three Denominations in London. Ministers and Delegates of the Independent Churches o Carmarthen. Western Association of Baptist Churches. South Hampshire Baptist Association. Denbighshire, &c., Baptist Association. Cardigan, &c., Baptist Association. Carlisle meeting of the Society of Friends. 'Allendale meeting of the Society of Friends. New College, London. Cheskunt College. Hackney Theological Seminary. Rotherham College. Spring-hill College. Homerton College. Rawdon College. Regent's-park College. Bristol College. Airedale College. Taunton College. Western College. Brecknock College. Lancashire College. Bala College. Pontypool College. We are also able to give a large towns—a list which she of religious liberty have 1::e challenge of the archdeacons, inhabitants are : City of London 2,845 Lambeth .. . Finsbury .. 4,496 Kingsland, Totten ham, &c 1,104 Signatures. Signatures Manchester . 17,790 Durham 867 Salford .. ... York Coventry ... 1,750 Scarborough 6OB Birkenhead . Henley Rochester Yeadon ' Sunderland ... ...... 1,720 Maidstone 1,674 Sheffield .. 4,580 Leeds 2,308 Carlisle Colchester 1,580 St. Helen's ....... • • 3,003 Oxford Nottingham Since the last report of the Petition Committee, there have been presented 313 petitions for, and 140 against abolition. These have to be added to the above, when the figures will be as follows : Petitions. Signatures. For abolition 6,274 with say 580,140 Against abolition 5,317 „ 186,085 Thus, in little more than five weeks, the opponents of church rates have obtained nearly an equal number of petitions, with more than three times the number of signa tures, than all the archdeacons and rural deans ha ve b een able to secure, with all the advantages of their eccle siastical prestige and organisation, in more than as many zionthe. list of the petitions from the vs how thoroughly the friends !en aroused to action by the Amongst the petitions from Marylebone Southwark 293 Total Metropolis ....14,289 PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 3.—During the past week the Channel has been swept by a succession of fierce gales from S.W. to W.N.W., and, in the heavier squalls, from N.W., accompanied by hail, rain, and snow. A large num ber of vessels had anchored inside the Isle of Wight for shelter, and among many others off this port are the Guid ing Star, for Calcutta; the Damascus, for Sydney, N.S.W.; the Antonio, for Iquique; the Bordeaux, for Bordeaux; the Beta, for Cardiff; the Sultan, for Bombay; the Ulidia, for Singapore ; the Ein Dracht, for Bilboa ; the James Montgomery, for Alexandria, &c. Many persons were startled from their sleep this morning about half-past 3by a tremendous clap of thunder, or rather a rapid succession of reports lik e a simultaneous discharge of a battery of the heaviest ordnance. One vivid blue lightning flash accom panied it, and was instantly succeeded by a heavy fall of hail and s l ee t, which, however, was not of very long dura tion. The day previous, up to sunset, had been excessively wild, and blowing so furiously at times on the water that no communication could be held between the Lloyd's cutter afloat and the various merchant craft as they ran in for shelter. After sunset the weather had cleared up, and the night gave promise of finer weather. Since the thunder storm this morning the weather here has been much finer, with a fresh breeze westerly. The Dutch ship Beta, lying at anchor at Spithead, was struck by the electric fluid at the commencement of the storm this morning, and carried away her fore-tonallantmast, injured fore-topmast and yard, and passing downward, tore up three plank s i n th e vessel's deck, in which were driven three iron bolts, and appeared to have afterwards passed along the chain cables and out through the hawse-pipes. The crew were all below in their hammocks, and luckily no one was injured. • 100 t Stk f 201 20i 10 100 1 100 106 .11E0' all all 19 ' all all 2.11.10 16 2.7.0 7.4.0 51$ 16 12.4.2 9i 1 4.3.8 1.6.6. 7.9:4 li 10.0.7 18.18.91 18.18.0 leo -lir] 1100 100 100 [. 3 0. 3s. Od. }lOO 100 35} 41 854 73 4 721 99 14 92 90 4 di 50 784 9 34 Bpiness Done. TUB LA MURE. In Colonel William Mure, of Caldwell, the ac complished historian of the "Literature of Ancient Greece," the nation has lost one of its deepest and ablest scholars. lie was the head of an old and respectable landed family, who have been settled for some ages in Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, of which latter county the gentleman now deceased held the honorary office of vi ce -li eu t enant, as his father h a d done before him. The son of the late Colonel Wm. Mure, of Caldwell, by Anne, eldest daughter of the late Sir James Hunter Blair, Bart., of Dunskey, and grandson of another Wm. Mure, who represented Renfrewshire in Parliament from 1742 to 1761, was born at Caldwell in 1799 or early in 1800, and h av i ng received his early education at Westminster School, h e passed thence to the Uni versity of Edinburgh, and finished the curriculum of his studies in Germany, w h ere he imbibed that taste for criticism for which he eventually became so famous. About 20 years ago he first came before the public as an author, having; published " A Journal of a Tour made in Greece, &c., in 1838," which was followed, after an interval, by a more strictly learned and very elaborate disquisition " On the Calendar of Ancient Egypt." In 1841 he was I an unsuccessful candidate for Renfrewshire against the late Mr. Patrick Maxwell Stewart, but ob tained the seat on the death of that gentleman shortly before the close of that Parliament. HQ was again returned in 1847 and in 1852, on both oc casions without opposition, but retired from public life in 1855, when he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. He was a moderate Conservative in politics, sup ported the free t ra d e measures o f t h e late Sir R. Peel. He held the office of Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow during the year 1847-8, an honour which could not have been more worthily and more appropriately bestowed. Colonel Mure took the greatest interest in Scottish agriculture, and, indeed, joined heartily in promoting every movement which had for its object the improvement of the condition of his fellow-countrymen. Among other matters we may mention that he took great pride in the efficiency of the Renfrewshire militia, of which he was for many years colonel-comman dant, thus proving, like Xenophon, that the charac ter of a scholar is not incompatible with that of a soldier. It is, however, as the author of the " Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece" that Colonel Mure's name will be longest remembered, if not by the public at large, still by scholars of every rank and of all shades of opinion. The first instalment of that admirable work, as grand and comprehensive in its outline as it is elaborate in its details, was given to the public just ten years ago, and only five volumes of the entire work have as yet appeared. The name, there fore, of Colonel Mure must, unhappily, be added to those of Niebuhr, Arnold, and Macaulay, as one who has not been permitted to see the fruit of his labours, and to add " Finis" to his last proof sheet, " Atque opere in medio defixa reliquit aratra." Some idea of the depth and learning which characterise the work may be formed when we add that the three first volumes are exclusively devoted to the mythical period of ancient Greece, including sketches of the epic, cyclic, and lyric poets. The fourth volume (of which a reprint is now at press) treats of the early Greek historians, ending with Herodotus. The fifth and last volume comprises the remaining historical writers of the Attic period, including not only Thucydides and Xenophon, but about twenty other authors of whose works fragments only, more or less extensive, have come down to us. In what state of forwardness the remainder of Colonel Mure's treatise may be we are not aware ; but we fear that the " History of the Literature of Ancient Greece" must and will long stand, like Arnold's " Ro me ," as a mutilated me morial of its amiable and accomplished author. Colonel Mure, as We learn from the " County Families," married, in 1825, Laura, second daughter of William Markham, Esq., of Becca-hall, York shire, and grand-daughter of the late Dr. Markham, Archbishop of York, by whom he leaves issue. His eldest son and heir, who is a lieutenant-colonel in the Scots Fusilier Guards, was recently married to the Hon. Constance Elizabeth Wyndham, third daughter of Lord Leconfield. TlllB DArs MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. To-day's market was ♦ery scantily supplied with home grown wheat, in, for the most part, middling condition. For most kinds we had a fair demand at Monday's currency, and at which a good clearance of the stands was effected. Very little foreign wheat has come fresh to hand. Im porters generally were very firm in their demands ; but the transactions were wholly confined to small parcels on former terms. For floating cargoes, off Falmouth, the demand was some what restricted. Prices, however, were very firm. The barley trade was somewhat active, at prices fully equal to last week. The show of samples wee small. There was very little business doing in malt; neverthe less, prices were supported. The oat trade was firm at fully last week's currency. Beans sold slowly, peas steadily, at full quotations. There was a moderate business doing in flour, on former terms. No market will be held here on Friday next. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK Wheat. Barley Malt. Oats. Flour. English 1,460 i 810 i 1,580 ' 1,030 i :1,040 Irish Foreign 3OO , — ) 600 f '3O sks I I 100 bls. BOROUGH HOP. There is a moderate business doing in good and useful hops, at full prices ; but all other kinds are vory dull. WHITECHAPEL. The supplies of meat are good, and the trade generally rules inactive, as follows : Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; lamb, 5s 4d to 63 4d ; veal, 4s 2d to 5s Od ; and pork, 3s 6d to as Od per 81b., by the carcase. MANCHESTER, April 3.—Messrs. R. Irving and Co., in their circular, state that the advance in the rate of discount.on Thursday naturally contributed to increase the inactive tone which was noticeable in Manchester on this day week. To-day the market was very dull and inani mate, and although prices of either goods or yarns were not quotably lower generally, owing to the heavy contracts in the hands of producers, and the consequent scarcity of im mediately available supplies, the prevailing feeling was in favour of the buyer. THE VOLUNTEERS.—Yesterday, at 8 a.m., nearly 100 members of the 26th Middlesex (her Majesty's Cus toms) Rifle Volunteers, formed a guard of honour, under the command of Capt. Ogilvie, the senior officer present, near the Spur Gate of the Tower, on the departure of the Coldstream Guards for Windsor. This compliment was paid by her Majesty's Customs corps as a grateful recogni tion of the assistance and encouragement received from the adjutant and other officers of the Coldstream Guards. THE AFRICAN Ex PEDITION.—Mrs. Livingstone, the wife of Dr. Livingstone, our celebrated traveller, has just arrived from the Cape, per Mr. D. Dunbar's ship Vit toria. At the railway station the name of Dr. Livingstone on the luggage having caught the eye of the bystanders, she and her sable attendant were soon surrounded by a orowd eager again to see the groat geographer. Upon being informed, however, that he was still in the centre of Africa. they warm-heartedly inquired respecting his health, and shook hands with her. Mrs. Livingstone having pro irthffa t t o see pro ceeded from the Cape on a visit about 800 m il es into the interior to her caerfapteh,eur,pothn heriesujoowurnneedyminigssaiognalanrynllo , re turned to th Moselekatse, where he hoped to hear of his missionaries from the London society had already onwards to Sekeleta and the Makololo. Mrs Livingstoneproceeded has brought with her an interesting addition• in the person of another little daughter, to her family born • and has come with the hope of proceeding in Africa ; with the steamer about to be sent by Government to te Zambesi, and of at length rejoining her heroic husband. THE SOCIAL EVIL—STARVATION AND DEATH. —On Saturday Mr. WakleY held an inquest at the Elephant and Castle, Camden-town, o F rances Bennet, aged 36. The evidence in this case was a painful exhibition of the career of an unfortunate. The deceased, who was a native of Derby, of respectable parents, was found in a dying state in an un furnished room in Wilstead-street, S omers -t o wn, where she had managed t o craw l f or s h elter ; and the police being in formed of it she was conveyed to St. Pancras workhouse in a cab, but died whilst being lifted out to be taken to the infir mary. Evidence was given by the police, showing that in her earlier years she was a very handsome woman, kept by a baronet, and had a splendidly furnished house of her own in the vicinity of Euston-square. She had, however, been discarded, and became gradually reduced to the most abject state. Mr. Carter, surgeon, gave evidence that he had made apost morteni examination, and that the cause of death was disease, coupled with starvation and destitution. Deceased, before she died, stated that no food had passed her lips for three days previously. The jury returned a verdict of death from exhaustion, produced by disease and destitution.-- Oiserver. PARTIAL DESTRUCTION OF A RAILWAY STATION. —Allah , before 10 o'clock yesterday morning a portion of the iron roofing over the Victoria Station of the London and North-Western Railway, at Manchester, fell in, through a train coming in contact with and breaking one of the cast iron pillars supporting the north-west corner of the roof. This pillar was exceedingly near to the line of rails, and, in shunting.a train, one of the carriages got off the rails, and came in contact with it. About 16 or 17 yards of the roof, by about 30, fell in upon the railway, and a carriage cleaner was severely cut across the forehead by a bar of iron, but though the unfortunate man was sent to the in firmary, it was believed his life was not in danger. The other railway servante escaped uninjured. Fortunately there was no train taking up or discharging passengers under this part o f th e roo f at the time, or the consequences would probably have been more serious. The loss to the company, it is believed, will not exceed £l,OOO. Until the fallen materials had been removed work of some hour s , no trains could enter the station, and departing trains had to be despatched from outside the station, so that p l um. gore were necessarily put to some inconvenience. Two BOATS LOST. —On the 17th ult. two boats, with fourteen men on board, were blown from the coast of Lewis during a very severe gale, and no hope is entertained of the safety of their crews. This great calamity has com pletely paralysed the fishing in the neighbourhood, as t h e men are exceedingly superstitious, and weeks may elapse ere they again proceed to sea,—Greenock Advertiser. ME FRAUDS IN THE AUSTRIAN COM MISSARIAL A I . etter from Trieste, dated March 29, says : The engrossing topic of the day is the gigantic frauds discovered in the Commissariat Department, which, no doubt, were in no small degree influen tial in bringing to so sudden a termination the recent hostilities between the Austrian and Franco- Italian armies, and which drag to light, despite most powerful influence, a series of disgraceful facts, involving a multitude of names, some of them hold ing positions so high as to render even allusions hazardous, in charges of the most flagrant political and moral turpitude. The accounts in the Vienna and other Austrian newspapers are meagre in the extreme and, but for the suicide of General Eynatten on the 7th-Bth inst., which admitted of no concealment, these frauds would probably never have been alluded to. The deficit amounts to the astounding sum of no less than 17,000,000 florins, or £l, 700,000 sterling, of which 3,000,000 florins, ( or £300,000, is laid to the charge of some of the leading. capitalists of this city. One was impri. soned, two have fled, and others are undergoing forced examinations of books, papers, documents, &c. The strangest part of the tale is, however, that which is certainly the least known. It is said, and from the sources from whence I hear it I believe it is true, that at the celebrated meeting of the rival Emperors which led to the armistice, and subsequently to the preliminaries of the treaty of peace at Villafranca, when Napoleon and Francis Joseph were left quasi alone for nearly three quarters of an hour, the former, addressing thelatter, said, " Your Majesty would do well to listen to friendly and well -meant counsels. You are sur rounded by traitors. Your Majesty believes that your fortress of Mantua is provisioned for six months ; I tell you," emphatically raising his finger, "it has not food for as many days. Test my intbr mation, and act accordingly." And so it proved, and afforded another lesson also of the infinite supe riority of the French over the Austrian system of espionnage. To give some idea of the bare-faced effrontery of the fraud, and the number of accomplices necessary, one instance will suffice, though, if needful, I could adduce many others. Mantua is a walled city, and the bullocks which were driven in at one gate passed through the town out at the opposite, and then, making the half circuit of the walls, re-entered at the first gate, and every bullock made this parade five times ! The richest part of the tale in connection with Mantua is yet to come. A firm in Trieste made a contract with the Austrian Go vernment for the hides of the bullocks supplied for the use of the troops. Now, although each bullock did duty living for five, still he could only be killed once, and supply one hide. The contractors, there fore, called upon and actually received from the Government the forfeit, as stipulated by contract, of one florin upon every hide short delivered ; thus profitting to the extent of 30,000 florins for the non delivery of the skins of animals which had never been killed ! Solferino and Magenta might each have told another tale had not the hunger caused by Austrian fraud weakened, if not paralysed, Aus trian valour. Enough of this for the present. A good on dit is getting an extensive under-cur rency, and is believed by some ; I do not aver that I am of the number, nevertheless the tale tells well, and it may, therefore, be prudent not too closely to test its accuracy. It is said that the Emperor Francis Joseph, being disquieted by the triple re currence of a dream, had recourse to the counsels of his mother, the Archduchess Sofia, who at once summoned to her aid a " weird sister" in whose mystic talent she had herself confidence. Intro duced to the august presence, the crone demanded what visions of the night had startled the Imperial slumbers. The Emperor informed her he had dreamed of three mice ; the first perfectly blind, the second so immensely bloated and fat it could scarcely walk, and the third weak, poor, and almost dying from starvation. Th e b e ld ame appeared alarmed,° and at first professed her inability to afford any solution ; but, on being reassured and informed that under any circumstances she might rely not only on protection but reward, she took heart, and, much to the astonishment of her Imperial interro gators, replied, " The blind mouse is your Majesty; the fat mouse, your Ministers ; and the worn-out, starving, and exhausted mouse, your people." Be the tale well or ill-founded, it is sufficiently analogous to the present state of the empire; but the worst part of it is that the blind mouse does not at present appear to have opened his eyes, and, if he continues to persevere in his present course, bids fair to realise the warning prophecy of the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, when nine months ago h e gave deep umbrage to his Im perial brother by saying, " If your Majesty goes on thus, you will not stop till you have lost your self and your empire." Apropos of the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian—a young man of education, genius, and talent far beyond the common order, and universally esteemed and beloved, except by one or two exalted personages —there is no doubt that his voyage to Madeira and the Brazils, from whence he is no w on hi s return, was in reality an honorary exile. The advice which was once re jected is now sought, and his return is anxiously expected, as he possesses more brain than all the rest of the Hat.sburgs concentrated. He is gene rally expected here about the middle of April, but I believe the commencement of the month is more probable. His steam yacht, the Fantasia, left at midnight very recently to meet him, on the ex pected arrival of the Elisabetta frigate at an island which he bought a few months ago on the Dalma tion coast for the purpose of erecting another marine residence; and I know positively that on the same day a telegram arrived from Vienna for • the purpose of hastening his departure for the capital to attend a Council. THE NEW BANKRUI'TCY BILL. .7' At the meeting of the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law, on Monday, Mr. Edgar read the first instalment of the report of the com mittee appointed to consider the provisions of the new Bankruptcy sill. The following are the re commendations of the committee : " That the Court of Bankruptcy in London should consist of a chief judge and three assistant judges, one of whom should sit in Portugal-street, and that the assistant judges should det erm i ne a ll questions, administrative and judicial, a n d th at the chief judge, with one or more of th e assistant judges, entrust Bankruptcy t n saLranu a l okas n ntrr d dyut oph d onte i fes administrative to olu t ant c ahoi o soeb u t r err at per trge . erivds T eatu h rnbca a neur t auss i t t i eT s staswhe i nohao of should form a court of appe a l on a ll questions both o m g h oi a ups t the other three sho u ld b e released from t t aatt o h hhnt e eed t t i h hr r eC e et d L u o t i n e d s , 0 n o r d o i one r j o o r t c m o more o o f r t t h o e t m h e b p e r i o r v a i n n s c f i e a r l r e o d r county courts. That it is expedient that the Court of Bankruptcy in London should continue to be held in the City. That two messengers should be retained, but that the scale, as well as the amount of remuneration, should be lessened. That all estates in which the liabilities exceed £5OO should be ad ministered in the chief court in London and in the district courts ; and that the transfer to the county court of estates not likely to exceed £l,OOO is ob jectionable. That it is not expedient that the offi cial assignee should be divested of the estate on the election of the creditors' assignee. That solicitors should not appear and plead in the Court of Ap peal, but should be allowed to appear and plead, as at present, before any judge or commissioner exercising original jurisdiction." On the motion of Mr. E: LAWRANCE, the report, after a brief discussion was agreed to. (From the Times' City _Article.) Certain points on which it Was thought the new Bankruptcy Bill would require alteration were mentioned in the Times of Monday last. The Mercantile Law Amendment Society have since been in communication with the Attorney-General, and it appears that the modifications in question will be effected. The provisions making the seizure and sale of a debtor's goods under an execution an act of bankruptcy from the date of seizure are to be followed by a proviso that a petition for adjudi cation shall be presented within a month of the cases wherewhy sale. The clauses making the non-payment of a bill of exchange by the acceptor after a 12 day s ' notice an act of bankruptcy are to be struck out, as th in ea a debt suffi cient to sustain an adjudication i s both useless and inconvenient. Power is to be given to the judge and commissioners to issue s, o u n ad ng a eaddebtorffi d a sit to showbankrupta I t h s h u e e m s h in o creditorounl d s c n a o l t l i m b n eg uP a k a e d I due, and that he verily believes that his debtor is in insolvent cir cumstances, and disclosing hie reasons for that belief. After the summons has issued, however, the creditor is not to receive payment of his debt until the debtor has been fied the Cou r t o f his ability to meet his engage ments with his creditors. The majority competent to bind a minority in cases of trust deeds or private arrangements is to be a simple majority in number, representing three -fourths in n value, instead of three-fourths both • m number and value. The debtor in cases of trust deeds is to have 14 days instead of seven to get the required majority of his creditors to assent. Provision is also to be made for the punishment of debtors vexatiously defending actions brought against them. 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