The Sun. — London, England, 1859-04-22 00:00:00

THE POST-OFFICE (Continued from the Sun of yesterday.) MONEY ORDERS. During the last year 127 now money order offices were opened viz., 104 in England and Wales, 14 in Ireland, and 9 in Scotland ; making the whole number 2,360, exclusive of two colonial money order offices in connection with the United Kingdom. Total profit in each of the last 10 years : Profit. 1849 £322 1850 3,236 18.51 7,437 1852.... 1853 14,149 1854 16,167 1855 20,2.52 1856 22,674 1857 24,175 1858 25,936 - The increase in the number of money orders last year (about 4 per cent.) is greater than that in 1857, though less than the average of the last five years. The greatest increase was in Ireland, and the least in Scotland. The money order system, though now productive of a large profit in England and Scotland, is still carried on at a loss in Ireland ; this last result being attributable in part to the larger proportion there of money orders for small sums ; a class of orders, which, as stated in a pre vious report, does not defray its cost. The year's accounts again furnish evidence of increased means in Ireland of obtaining remunera tive labour ; the number of money orders issued in Ireland and payable in England having increased much mere than the number issued in England and payable in Ireland. The average value, moreover, of each of the first class of orders is the greatest. There has, for some time, been a provision both at Gibraltar and Malta for making remittances to this country by means of money orders; and our troops there seem to avail themselves of the ar rangement to a considerable extent ; about five orders daily being issued at each place, notwith• standing the commission is rather high, being 9d. for sums not exceeding £2, and ls. 6d. for sums between £2 and £5. The void orders last year, viz., those which lapsed to the revenue owing to non-application for pay ment, amounted to £1,902, viz., in England and Wales £1,517, in Ireland to £203, and in Scotland to £lB2. In proportion to the whole amount of orders in the three countries, the greatest number of void orders was in Ireland, and the least in England. The proceeds of the void orders are always car ried to the fund for assisting the officers of the de partment to insure their lives; indeed, this fund is formed exclusively of the proceeds of these orders and of unclaimed property found in dead letters. COLONIAL POSTS. The European and Australian Royal Mail Com pany, which for some time conveyed the mails be tween this country and Australia, but which per formed the service very ill and incurred heavy penalties for overtime on the voyages and other irregularities, has been permitted to terminate its contract. The service (which hitherto has always been in an unsatisfactory state) is now undertaken by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ; and I trust that it will be executed with vigour and punctuality, the best guarantee for which is the excellent manner in which this com pany has performed its other postal services, together with the peculiar advantages which it possesses for the service. By the completion of the railway between Alex andria and Suez, and under the provisions of a new agreement with the Pasha, the mails are now con veyed through Egypt with much greater expedition than formerly ; and the transit has been further expedited by an arrangement with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, under which the packet containing the heavy part of each mail, namely, that from Southampton, will arrive at Alexandria a day earlier than the packet from Marseilles; so as to allow of the passengers, goods, and mails brought by the first packet being carried on to Suez before the swifter mail arrives. A provision, similar in principle, has been made for the return mails. In accomplishing these objects, and in effecting various improvements in the post-offices at Alex andria, Suez, Malta, and Gibraltar, much valuable aid was afforded by Mr. Anthony Trollope, one of the surveyors, who, for these purposes, was sent on a special mission to the Mediterranean, and who is now rendering an important service of a similar kind in the West Indies. The contract with the Union Steam Shipping Company for the conveyance of a monthly mail to the Cape of Good Hope (referred to in last report) has been definitively settled, and the company is performing the service in a very creditable manner. The Government of Newfoundland has concluded a contract with the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company for the conveyance of mails, once a month, between Galway and St. John's. In consequence of the difficulties attending the land conveyance between Halifax and Quebec, all letters for Canada are now forwarded either direct by Canadia mail packets or through the United States. The means of complete registration from the place of posting to that of delivery have been extended to letters addressed to New South Wales, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Bermuda. The arrangements for sorting letters on board ship, hitherto confined to the Australian mails, having been found to work well, and greatly to expedite the delivery of the letters, have been ex tended, within the present month, to the Indian mails, and I am in communication with the Post masters-General of the United States and Canada, with a view to the adoption of the same plan in the packets between this country and North America. It having been found that the use of English postage stamps at Malta, Gibraltar, and Constanti nople led to no forgery, the privilege has been ex tended to the British West Indies, and to foreign ports touched at by the mail packets on the Wes tern Coast of Africa. It is obvious that such as arrangement is applicable only when the whole of the postage belongs to the British Post-office. The new Post-office at Gibraltar, mentioned in the last report as in the course of erection, has been completed and opened to the public. FOREIGN POSTS. I have had the pleasure of bringing to completion the postal treaty with Spain referred to in previous reports, and which had been long in hand. For this success I am indebted in part to the exertions of Mr. Edward Rca, whom I despatched to Madrid to render assistance to our a eibassador there, Lord Howden, who expressed, in strong terms, his satis faction with Mr. ilea's proceedings. Under the new treaty, the postage of letters has been much reduced, registration is provided, and a book post established. The benefits of the treaty extend to the Balearic and Canary Islands, and I hope they will soon in clude Cuba and Porto Rico. With the zealous aid, also, of Mr. Howard, Bri tish Minister at Lisbon, assisted likewise by Mr. Rea, I have concluded a new treaty with Portugal, including, as in the case of Spain, a large reduction of postage and the establishment of a book post ; and, as soon as practicable after the treaty shall have been ratified by the Cortes, the measure will come into operation. The very heavy postage of letters to Portugal and Madeira (which latter place will partake of the ad vantages of the new convention), and which have remained with little alteration since 1808, have led to repeated arid just complaints from our merchants and the relatives of the, many invalids who resort for health to Madeira ; but all past efforts to effect a remedy had been fruitless. It is therefore with peculiar satisfaction that I have brought this long protracted negotion to a successful issue. Proposals for new postal conventions, including a large reduction of postage and the establishment of a book post, have been sent to Brazil, Chili, Peru, Mexico, and all the other States in South and Central America where there appeared any hope of a successful result; and measures have been taken 'for ascertaining whether at other places in that part of the world reductions in British postage could safely be made ; the danger to guard against being the retention or imposition of a heavy local charge which would almost—possibly altogether neu tralise the effect of our reduction. At Buenos Ayres and the other parts of the Ar gentine Republic, and in Ilayti, the alterations have already been ad op t e d and carried into effect ; as also, with the ex ception;of thebook post, in Paraguay. On the Ist August similar improvements will be made i n the postal arrangements with Nicaragua (with which State a postal tree has just been concluded), and probably with the escinitos and some other parts of Central America. A low rate of postage has also been established between this country. and Martinique, Guadaloupe, Curaeoa, and the foreign settlements on the Western Coast of Africa ; with which latter there is now also a book post. The negotiations for a new convention with the German Postal Union proceed very slowly, and those with the United States make no progress whatever, notwithstanding our proposal made more than two agoyears to the United States Post-office for a large reduction in postage and for the establishment of a book post. Progress, however, has been made towards a new postal treaty with Holland; and like negotiations have been entered into with Tuscany. The Brazilian and Argentine mail service has been much improved by increased speed in the packets; an alteration which has greatly shortened the course of post by securing the arrival in Eng land of the homeward packet a few days before the departure of the outward packet. Ws w yet been able to Fiat moat in the important mails between London and Paris, and between London and Ostend, for which the necessary negotiations are still pending. I hope that ultimately all these mails will be ac elerated, that the hours of despatch and arrival - ill be im proved, and that the night service to Ostend will be exchanged for a day service. REVENUE AND EXPENDITUR'• The gross revenue of the Post-office in each of ;he years 1857 and 1858 was as follows : POSTAGE. 1857. 18.58. England £2,437,053 Ireland Scotland £2,928,858 £2,975,939 COMMISSION ON MONEY ORDERS. England £ 90 , 806 £94,850 Ireland Scotland 8,463 8,786 - 106,855 - 111,596 £3,035,713 £3,087,535 The gross revenue properly appertaining to the y e ar 1858, adjusted chiefly with reference to the balances due from and to the colonies and foreign countries was £3,100,939, being an increase of £82,792 on the adjusted gross revenue of 1857. This increase is equal to nearly 21 per cent., as compared with an increase of nearly 5 per cent. in the previous year, and with an average of about 41, per cent. in the last three years : EXPENDITt RE. The following table shows the expenditure of ,he Post office during the year 1858 : - _ Salaries, pensions, &c £983,830 Buildings, repairs, &c. 27,015 Conveyance of mails — By railways By coaches, carts, &c., and wages of mail guards 165,703 By mail packets and private ships (when paid for by the Post-office) Manufacture of postage stamps 23,852 Miscellaneous, including the conveyance of mails in colonies, under the postal direction of the Postmaster-General; the conveyance of the mails through Egypt ; clothing of letter-car riers and guards ; official postage, rents, taxes, law expenses, &c Total _. _ £1,770, 5 54 The increase of expenditure properly appertain ing to the year was rather more than 3 per cent., as compared with 2-1 per cent. in 1857, and with 3 per cent., the average of the last three years. The increase of £35,000 in salaries, pensions, &c., is partly for an increased force of 641 officers, partly for poundage on money orders and postage stamps (which increases with increasing business), and partly for annual increments of salaries and wages. The decrease under the bead conveyance of mails by packet boats and private ships is owing to the cessation of the payment by the Post-office for cer tain temporary Australian packets. The packet service is for the most part under the superintendence of the Admiralty, and is borne on the expenditure of that department, many of the contracts for this service having been entered into with other objects, besides those of postal commu nication. Indeed, as postal enterprises, few of them could be maintained, the expense, in the large majority of cases, far exceeding the earnings. The omission in the expenditure of the Post office of such portion of the cost of these packets as may be fairly chargeable to this department is in part counterbalanced by the omission (under the head of revenue) of the charge for transmission (inland) of stamped newspapers, amounting last year to upwards of £154,000. The net revenue, taken as the difference between the gross revenue and expenditure properly apper taming to the year was as follows : _ 1857. £1,304,671 1858. £1,330,385 Increase. £25,714 This increase is at the rate of nearly 2 per cent., as compared with 8 per cent. in 1857, and 51, per cent. in the last years. STAFF OF OFFICERS. At the end of 1858 the staff of officers was as follows : Officers in British Isles— Postmaster-General .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 Secretary, Assistant-Secretaries, and Secretaries for Ireland and Scotland 5 Surveyors .. •• .. .. .. •• .. .. •• 15 Other superior officers; viz., heads of departments, chief clerks in the metropolitan offices, &c.. 18 Postmasters Clerks, &c. .. 1,632 GlaariS, .. ee So eo O. Os 60 Od Oe 197 Letter-carriers, messengers, &c. .. 11,076 Marine mail officers .. 7 Postmasters, clerks, letter-carriers, &c., in the Colonies, the posts of which are under the direc tion of the Postmaster-General .. .. .. .. 125 Agents in foreign countries for collection of post age, &c. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. • • 61 24,372 The portion of the above staff attached to the chief office in London, which is less than it was, owing to the removal of many men to the district offices, now consists of about 1,700 officers. Includ ing this number, about 3,300 belong to the London district. The health of the large body of officers attached to the General Post-office in London has been good ; showing improvement even on the satisfactory state in the previous year. The general conduct of the officers of the depart ment during the last year has also been good, indeed that of many has been excellent ; and, under the system of promotion according to merit, which has now for some years been in operation, I have had the pleasure of advancing many zealous and efficient men. During part of the year, indeed, there was some misconduct among the London letter-carriers, but it was confined to comparatively few. The wrong doing of these few did not deter me from entering into a full examination of the complaints ; and being satisfied that while the alterations in the scales of wages made some time since on the recom mendation of the committee appointed by your lordships' predecessors had, on the whole, been beneficial, they had in some instances pressed rather hard, or at any rate had left some grievances unremoved, I advised those modifications which you were pleased to sanction. These alterations have considerably improved the condition of a large body of letter-carriers, and have, I trust, rendered every industrious and well. conducted letter-carrier fully contented. MISCELLANEOUS. In order to facilitate the supply of early postal information to the public, arrangements have been made for recasting the matter in the Daily Packet List (a publication which henceforward will bear the title of Postal Official Circular and Daily Packet List) and for publishing a weekly num ber ; the latter to include a notice of every postal alteration, such as reductions in foreign postage, and so forth, even when the notice has previously appeared in the daily edition. By purchasing the daily edition of the Postal Official Circular, and the quarterly edition of the British Postal Guide, any person may aiways be in possession of the earliest and fullest information regarding the rates of postage to all parts of the world, the times at which the various mails are despatched, and all other postal matters which con • cern the public at large: and this object may, in great measure, be attained by the purchase of the British Postal Guide, and the weekly edition of the Postal Official Circular. In the full hope of advantage, both to the public and the department, from rendering compulsory, to the extent of one rate, th e p repaymen t o f i n l an d letters, I issued, with the consent of your lordships, an order to that effect ; but, as you are aware much repugnance was manifested t owar d s th e arrange ment ; and, regarding it as one i n w hi c h t h e pu bli c were chiefly concerned, I did no t h es i tate , on observing this manifestation, without any counter movement, to recommend that the order should be withdrawn ; a course in which you were pleased to concur. When the plan came into operation, some cases of difficulty certainly arose which had not been foreseen, and which scarcely anything but positive experience could have brought to light. I h ave little doubt, however, that by patient effort m eans would have been found for surmounting these diffi culties, and that after a time the meas ire would have been viewed with general favour. Most of the objections lay on the surface, but not so most of the benefits ; many of the latter requiring for their knowledge and app r eciation a full acquaintance with the intricate machinery of the Post-office. So far, however, as I c o u ld judge, the public pre ferred an immediate termination of the experiment to the possible advantages that might arise from its continuance ; and, acting o n thi s belief, I advised accordingly. Much advantage had been obtained of late in registering letters by the use of the manifold writer. By this improvement, which was suggested by Mr. West, chief clerk of the mail office, the time and labour required have been reduced by one quarter, persons bringing letters for registration have been more quickly released, and greater security has been obtained against error. It is with much pleasure that I have witnessed the establishment, among the clerks of the chief office in London, of an institution called the Post office Library aid Literary Association. The large number of clerks who have enrolled their names shows how general among them are a taste for reading and a desire for mental cultivation and pleasures of a superior kind. Besides much sup port within the department the institution has re ceived many liberal d ona ti ons , both of money and books, from without—among others, a munificent gift of £5O from his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. When this association shall have been some time eptabliAlted and b. able to aloud lawful exporiewei I hope to see a similar institution, adapted to the different circumstances, arise among the letter carriers. Complaint is sometimes made that valuable books in their conveyance by post are injured. On this point I would remark that the main duty of the department being the prompt and rapid transmis sion of letters, the bags are made up in great haste, and. are unavoidably subjected to rough usage in their transfer to and from the several carriages by which they are in succession conveyed—a transfer effected in some instances even while the train is in progress. 'Phis rough usage is harmless as regards letters, and rarely injures any book packets ; but it does sometimes happen that a book with an ornamental binding, or a volume which is thin in proportion to its other dimensions, is damaged by the friction or pressure of the other contents of the bag, unless protected by being carefully packed be tween stiff boards. Books of this class, except when thus protected, should be transmitted by other means than the post office. Chiefly with the view of putting the public upon their guard against different kinds of fraud, and of showing an occasional liability to error when mak ing even precise statements, from the tendency of the mind to record an intention as if it were an ac complished fact, a selection has again been given from a number of complaints, which, so far as this department is concerned,were on examination found to be groundless. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SAMBRE AND MEUSE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at the office, Moorgate-street— Mr. W. P. Richards in the chair. Mr. M. Chubb, secretary, read the notice conven ing the meeting. The report, an abstract of which appeared in The Sun, was taken as real!. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report and statement of accounts, drew attention to the report of the general manager in respect to the comparative value of the traffic for some years past, its gradual increase, and other details. He thought it was satisfactory that a reduction had been made in the cost of fuel by means of a composi.ion which they used instead of coal. One advantage in using that kind of fuel was that no alteration was required in the engines, as was the case in using coal instead of coke. The branch to Chimay, which was opened in September last, was producing the company a traffic of about £4O a-week. The traffic would not remain stationary, and the more it advanced the better it would be for them in every respeet, as the traffic was worked at very little extra expense. A further length of the branch would be opened in July next. He thought they would consider the general manager's report satisfactory. With regard to their proposed dividend of 3s per share it was so far satisfactory that it marked an improvement. They would see by the report that they had been in litigation with the Bel,gian Government with respect to a claim for a kind of income-tax, and he might say the claim was totally at variance with the understanding with the Belgian Government on receiving the concession. The report and statement of accounts were then adopted. In reply to questions, it was stated that the pro posed dividend would have been 4s. per share, in stead of 35., were it not for the claim by the Govern ment for income tax and four or five years arrears. A dividend of 3s. per share for the half-year, pay able on the 6th of May, was approved. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors concluded the proceedings. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1859 BAHIA AND SAN FRANCISCO. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at the London Tavern—Mr. J. Samuel in the chair. The Secretary read the report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the shareholders on the satis factory progress of the works. The anticipations which the directors had expressed last year had been fully borne out by the result of the arrange ments their agents had made for the efficient com pletion of the railway. They had overcome all the difficulties that had interposed with respect to ob taining the possession of land required for a portion of the railway. and to enable the contractors to proceed with the works. With respect to the ques tion of labour, they had now about 1,200 men on the line, 700 of whom were from the Italian States and Sardinia. Their position was that they had to make 78 miles of railway for £1,800,000, which was about £23,000 per mile. This would be fully sufficient to complete the railway and stations and provide the necessary rolling stock. The line was a single one, but land and works would be pro vided for a double line. Mr. WEGUELIN, M.P., seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. After some observations from Mr. Hartridge, Mr. Borrodaile, Mr. C. Nicholson, and Mr. Michell, the report was adopted. Mr. Franklin, the retiring auditor, was re-elected, and the meeting separated. BUFFALO AND LAKE HURON. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at the London Tavern—Mr. Andrews in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, adverted to the various matters contained in it, and explained the difficulties with which the company had had to contend, both in respect to capital and revenue. A long discussion ensued, in the course of which it was stated that serious impediments had been placed in the way of their traffic. The through traffic which ought to have passed over their line had been diverted from them by other railways. The CHAIRMAN stated that the traffic returns of the corresponding period of last year had been over-stated to the extent of £4O or £5O per week in consequence of the recent award f'r the postal service being less than the estimated amount. In future the excess would be deducted from the returns of the corresponding period, so as to make a fair comparison. The report was then adopted, and the directors were authorized to forfeit and sell shares upon which two calls were due. The meeting was then made special, to consider the propriety of raising fresh capital. The CHAIRMAN explained that the intended loan of £50,000 in January last had not been fully taken up, there being £ll,OOO of it on hand, only £39,000 of it had been taken up. Those debentures would have to be paid off in January next. He concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that £153.750 be raised by the issue of 30,000 ordinary shares of £2O lOs each, at £5 2s. 6d. per share. There would then be share for share. The holder of each £2O 10s. share would have the option of taking up another share for £5 2s. 6d., making the price of the two shares £25 12s. 6d. The cost of the line with this additional capital would be under £lO,OOO per mile. A formal resolution was passed authorizing the issue of the 30,000 shares at £5 2s. 6d. each to the shareholders in the first instance, and, if not taken up by them, to the public afterwards ; and also authorizing the directors to borrow £50,000, or to renew the bonds to that amount when they fall due. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The London directors of this company, in com pliance with the resolution of the special meeting held in Canada on the 23d ult., authorizing the issue of second preference debentures to the amount of £1,111,500, have, with the view of promptly completing the unfinished portions of the works at the earliest practicable period, determined on offer ing those second preference debentures to the pre sent share and bondholders on the following terms : —That they shall be for a period of 20 years from the Ist inst., and shall bear interest at the rate of issued to per cent. per annum ; that they shall be to the registered proprietors of consolidated stock and to the holders of the First Preference and Ordi nary 6 per cent. Debentures of the company in the proportion of £lOO for each £4OO of capital held ; that each debenture of £lOO shall he issued at £9O ; that 20 per cent. shall be payable on the 6th of May, and 10 p er cen t. on th e fi rs t of each succeed ing month, making the whole 90 per cent. to be paid by the Ist Dec. next. Persons desirous of paying the whole 90 per cent. shall be entitled to receive in terest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on £lOO from the date of payment. The directors inti mate that by the last report from the engineer in Canada the works at the Vi c t or i a -b r id ge are pro gressing in a manner to leave no doubt of its being in a state to be opened for traffic by the Ist Nov. next, by which date the extension of the Grand Trunk Railway from St. Mary's to Sarnia, and the line from Port Huron, opposite Sarnia, to Detroit, will also be completed. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVER HAMPTON. The receipts of this company, including the Stour bridge Extension and Stratford-upon Avon canals, for the fortnight ending the 10th of April, have been £8,813, while those for the corresponding fortnight of 1858 amounted to £7,762, and the ex penditure to £3,833, being at the rate of 43.49 per cent., while that for the corresponding fortnight of 1858 amounted to £3,720, or at the rate of 47.92 per cent. The aggregate receipts for the first seven Waled/ wid two days of tlks halt year 'unmated to £61,143, as against £55,704 for the correspond ing seven fortnights and three days of the previous year ; and the aggregate expenses for the first seven fortnights and two days of the half year amounted to £26,938, being at the rate of 44.05 per cent., as against £27,281 for the corresponding seven fort nights and three days of the previous year, or at the rate of 48.97 per cent. of the receipts. LAW AMENDMENT SOCIETY. A meeting of this society was held on Monday last, Mr. William Hawes presiding. Mr. EDGAR stated that he had received from Mr. Torrens, the Registrar-General for South Australia, a paper containing returns of applications, total value of land, fees, and number of transactions, &c., connected with the working of the Real Property Act in that colony. .The Lands Titles Registration office in South Australia had only been established for five months at the date of the returns, but the result had on the whole been satisfactory. An ex planatory statement would also be found of the mode of registration, together with suggestions for amending certain defects developed in the working of the act. The paper would lie on the table for the convenience of members who might wish to consult it. Mr. HASTINGS moved that the Criminal Law Consolidation Bills brought in by the Attorney- General be referred to the Criminal Law Com mittee, with instructions to report on the same. These bills had been prepared by the Statute Law Commission, and were the only fruits of the labours of that body, after being in existence for five years, which had been brought before the public. After the exertions made by this society in the cause of consolidation, he thought it desirable that it should pronounce an opinion on what had now been accomplished by the commission. Mr. F. BRISTOWE seconded the motion, which was carried. The adjourned discussion on the report of the Bankruptcy Committee was then resumed. Mr. LAWRANCE moved that the ninth resolu tion—" That it is desirable that, in the administra tion of estates in bankruptcy, greater uniformity should prevail in the judgments of the commis sioners, and that the present mode of appeal is unsatisfactory"—be adopted. As the next resolu tion in the report was intimately connected with the present, he would also move that the tenth resolution—" That there should be a chief judge in bankruptcy, who, sitting with two commissioners in London or the country, should form a court for the decision of all questions of disputed adjudica• tion, and, when requited by the assignees, the opposing creditor or the bankrupt, of disputed certificates or orders of discharge ; and that such court should be the court of appeal, from whose decisions there should be no further appeal, except in case of a difference of opinion among the members, or by leave of the court "—be adopted. It could not be denied that there was a want of uniformity in the decisions of the commis sioners on certificates, and various other questions. This arose in a great degree from their sitting in separate courts, and each exercising an independent jurisdiction. The consequence had been that much dissatisfaction had been caused throughout the mercantile community; nor had the present mode of appeal tended to correct the evil complained of. It was liable to many objections. When a case went from the Court of Bankruptcy before the Lords Justices, it became a re-hearing rather than an appeal; new facts were introduced, and great injustice was often done. He thought that a chief judge in bankruptcy—who should take rank with the judges of the superior courts—sitting with two commissioners, would be more likely to form a satisfactory court of appeal ; and in the event of an appeal to a higher tribunal, a case would be stated containing the same facts which had already been adjudicated on. By bringing, however, all disputed adjudications of bankruptcy , and disputed certifi cates before the proposed tribunal, further appeals would seldom arise. It would afford also a satis factory. remedy for the want of uniformity now complained of. Mr. PULLING seconded the motion. He thought the plan proposed would be likely to produce greater uniformity, and would be much more satis factory to the mercantile community than the pre sent arrangement. _ _ _ Mr. H. P. BRISTOWE thought that the present mode of appeal was better than that proposed. It appeared to him that it would lead to a duplication of appeals—first to the new tribunal, and then to the present. He did not agree with the notion that commercial matters were not adjudicated on in a satisfactory manner in the present court of appeal. Mr. S. MORLEY stated that, as far as his experi- ence went, there was a feeling throughout the Com mercial public that the present mode of appeal was unsatisfactory. He thought that the proposed change would be acceptable to the mercantile com munity. Mr. P. JOHNSON thought that, in the great ma jority of instances, the present system led not to re-hearings, but to appeals. He mentioned cases illustrative of this view. Mr. LINKLATER stated that he could not com plain of any miscarriage of justice in the Court of Appeal, but the expense was such as to amount to a denial of justice in many cases. The plan now under consideration would obviate this evil. The proposed tribunal would be able to dispose of most matters in a manner satisfactory to the parties. Mr. LAWRANCE, in reply, wished it to be under stood that he had not intended to speak disrespect fully of the court of the Lords Justices, but his ob servations applied to the mode of appeal—the letting in of new evidence. With reference to the status, salary, &c., of the proposed chief judge, the com mittee had carefully avoided entering into particu lars on this, as on the other points referred to in the report. Mr. HASTINGS was of opinion that, from the obscurity of the terms of the tenth resolution, it would be impossible for the society to come to a satisfactory determination with respect to it. The nature of the proposed tribunal and its jurisdiction were only hinted at, and it was impossible, with out explanation, to make anything of the resolu tion. The motion, that the ninth resolution be adopted, was then put and carried. Mr. SMALE objected to the tenth resolution for the same reason as Mr. Hastings. He would move, by way of amendment, that the consideration of the tenth resolution be deferred till next meeting. The question raised by it was of the highest im portance, and he was not prepared to decide at once on such a subject. The nice questions arising in bankruptcy rendered it necessary that the Court of Appeal should be properly constituted, and that the chief judge mentioned should occupy a high position in the profession. Unless this were so the scheme would not work satisfactorily. Mr. WINGFIELD seconded the amendment. Mr. LAWRANCE objected to the adjournment of the consideration of this resolution. The report had been in the hands of members for some weeks, and the resolution was perfectly intelligible and precise. The CHAIRMAN considered that the adjournment would be of no use, as matters would be in the same condition at the next meeting. The amendment was then put and carried. Mr. LINKLATER moved that the eleventh resolu tion—" That proof of debts should be made either by a creditor at a public sitting, or by affidavit made elsewhere, and transmitted to the assignee to be exhibited at a public sitting "—be adopted. He considered it of the utmost importance for the pur pose of preventing fraud, that proofs should be made at a public sitting. At the same time he was not in favour of publishing the losses of creditors to all the world. Mr. LAWItANE seconded the motion. There was no part of bankruptcy procedure which required more to be watched than the proof of debts. He thought the expenses to which creditors were put in making proofs had been greatly exaggerated. He did not approve of the plan proposed by Mr. Hastings, which had been introduced into the Lord Chancellor's Bill. Mr. S. MORLEY said that it would be a great boon to the trading community if a change were in troduced in the system of proofs. The present for malities were quite unnecessary in the great majo rity of cases. To say whether a debt was really owing by the bankrupt ought to be an easy matter for the assignee; if a doubt arose, then strict proof might be required. For himself, he would most willingly be spared the necessity of going to the court to prove debts—a proceeding which led to a great waste of time. It was this, along with other objectionable things, which induced mercantile men to make arrangements out of court, instead of tak ing advantage of the means which the law afforded. Mr. C. WORDSWORTH, Q.C., did not see the ne cessity of proving debts at a public sitting. He thought a private meeting of creditors was the pro per place. False and fraudulent proofs were cer tainly the exceptions, and it did not appear to him necessary that debts, as to which there could be no doubt, should be proved at a public sitting. There was the bankrupt to check the proofs by his own knowledge ; there was the official assignee, who was in possession of the books ; and, if a proof were dis puted, let it then be brought before the commis sioner. Even if this did not save expense, it would save trouble and time. Mr. JACKSON thought the question was simply whether the proof of a debt was to be made without an oath. He thought there would be no security if au oath were dispensed with. Mr. HASTINGS referred to a statement of Mr. Lawrence. that he (Mr. Hastings) had proposed the plan of admitting debts without the present formal proof. The plan had been proposed by mercantile men, and he thought that on such a matter their ' opinion should go for something. Mr. H. F. BRISTOWE was in favour of the mode of proving debts as proposed in Lord John Russell's bill. A simple declaration would be all that was necessary. Making a false declaration would be punishable as a misdemeanour. All statements of account would be examined by the assignees, and the court would expunge proofs of any debts which, after investigation, did not appear to be due. Mr. PULLING thought that in many cases there was no necessity for the public proof of debts, and he did not, therefore, see why it should be enjoined in all cases. The expense to creditors was conside rable, and the waste of time was great. Mr. GILMOUR was not aware that, under any system of bankruptcy, a claim was allowed with out an oath or solemn declaration. He thought that to dispense with this would be unsafe in the extreme. Mr. ELLIOTT was in favour of the resolution. The books of bankrupts were not in general to be relied on. The objections that had been urged to the present system did not seem to him valid. Any loss of time which arose was one of those sacrifices to the public good which men are called on to make. Mr. LINKLATER was surprised that Mr. Morley should take the trouble of going to the court to prove debts, as he might do so more conveniently, and at small expense, by an affidavit. He thought the solemnity of an oath was necessary to guard against fraudulent proofs. The CHAIRMAN said that both bills proposed the abolition of publicity, and the abolition of an oath in the proof of debts. As to publicity, he consi dered it essential ; as to the oath, a declaration before a proper authority might be sufficient. More time would be wasted under the proposed system than at present, as attendance would be ne cessary to complete proofs that were objected to. With regard to bringing all insolvents into court, he could not think it was desirable ; but, for the purpose of liquidation, he wished for every facility for bringing estates into the Court of Bankruptcy. The motion was then put and carried. The further consideration of the report was ad journed to Monday May 9, at eight o'clock. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-April 21. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. Stuart.) CARDINALL V. MOLYNEUX. The bill in this case was filed by the plaintiff, the churchwarden of the parish, for an injunction to restrain the defendant, the Rev. W. H. Moly neux, the perpetual curate of Sudbury, in the county of Suffolk, from taking away the pews and making other alterations of an extensive character in the church at that place, and also to restrain him from selling a number of the pews and fittings, which had been already removed and were adver tised for sale. An application was made to the court, and an interim order was made, a telegraphic notice of which was served on the defendant, Mr. Rolfe, an auctioneer, during the progress of a sale, in which the pews and fittings of the church were included. Mr. Grimwood was the builder engaged in executing the alterations in the church, and was present at the sale. The defendant Rolfe having, as the plaintiff alleged, proceeded with the sale of the pews, &c., of the church, notwithstanding the order of the court, the plaintiff now moved that the defendants Rolfe and George Grimwood might stand committed to the Queen's Prison for contempt of the court in so disobeying the interim order. Numerous affidavits were filed by the plaintiff supporting the above facts, which were denied by the defendants' affidavits. Mr. Bacon, Q.C., Mr. W. D. Lewis, and Mr. J. N. Higgins, appeared for the, plaintiff; and Mr. Malins, Q.C., and Mr. Surrage for the defendants. The case was part heard yesterday,' and was proceeding to-day, when the counsel for the defen• dants asked that it might stand over, in order to enable the defendants to file further affidavits. The Vice-Chancellor ordered the case to stand over till next week for that purpose, but said it was very desirable that the matter should be disposed of as early i as possible, to put an end to the excite ment and irritation that prevailed in the parish. CLEMENTS V. MADDICK. Mr. Malins, Mr. J. H. Palmer, and Mr. French appeared for the plaintiffs in this case, who were the proprietors of Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle, in support of a motion to restrain the defendant, George Maddick, from publishing a newspaper called the Penny Bell's Life and Sport ing Chronicle, on the ground that the defendant would thereby deceive the public by inducing them to believe that they were buying the plaintiffs' paper, or a cheap copy of the same. The bill was filed on the 9th inst., and on the 11th inst. the defendant Maddick assigned his interest in the Penny Bell's Life and Sporting News to W. H. Stephens and R. V. Robinson, the newspaper, how ever being still published by Maddick. Upon the motion coming on, the Vice-Chancellor said he thought Stephens and Robinson must be made parties, and ordered the matter to stand over in order that the bill might be amended in that respect. The bill having been subsequently amended, the Vice-Chancellor, upon the plaintiffs' application, granted leave to serve notice of motion for an in junction upon the defendants from Wednesday next, the 27th of April. His Honour thought he might require the assistance of a common law judge. Mr. Bacon, Q.C., and Mr. Karslake appeared for the defendants. _ _ The court, on its rising, adjourned till Wednes day next, the 27th inst. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P. Wood.) GTE V. GRAZIANI AND SMITH. An application was tL is morning made for an injunction to restrain Signor Graziani from sing ing for Mr. E. T. Smith, at Drury-lane Theatre, the application being made on behalf of the lessee of the Royal Italian Opera, Covent-Garden. On the part of the defendants, however, time was required to go int) further evidence, and, by ar rangement, after a few minutes' conversation, the following order was made : The plaintiff undertaking to abide by any order which the court might make as to damages, and the defendant, Signor Graziani, undertaking to do nothing contrary to the 2d and 3d paragraphs of the notice of motion ; the motion to stand over to the 9th May upon terms as to the filing of the defendant's affidavits. The second and third paragraphs of the notice of motion to which the above order referred were as folllows : That the defendant Francisco Graziani may be re strained by the order and injunction of this honour able court from violating or committing any breach of his agreement with the plaintiff; that the de fendant, F. Graziani may, in like manner, be restrained from signing at any theatre or concert in the kingdom of Great Britain, out of the Royal Italian Opera, during the year 1859, without the written permission of the plaintiff, save and except at private and gratis con certs, and, in particular, that he may be restraine d from singing at the Theatre Royal Drury-lane during the year 1859 without such written consent as aforesaid. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. -April 21. MANSION-HOUSE. Charles Marchant was charged with stealing 331bs of indigo, value £8 55., the property of his employer, Mr. C. T. Major, of Billiter-street, general agent. Monger, police-constable 564, said that about nine o'clock on Wednesday evening he saw the prisoner leave the Lamb and Flag publichouse, Jewry-street, Crutched-friars, with a bag on his shoulder, and asked him what he had there. The prisoner, who knew him well, told him he must be joking, but when he told him he was in earnest, and that he must either say what he had in the bag or go to the station, he put the bag down on the ground and said he was quite willing to accompany witness. Thereupon witness took up the bag with one hand and grasped the prisoner's arm with the other, and so they went on towards the station, but b efore they had got far the prisoner said he did not like to be exposed in the street, and that if witness would let go his arm he would carry the bag, and walk q uietl y by his side. Witness told him he was willi n g to oblige him so far, and transferred the bag to the prisoner, who threw it over his shoulder, and went quietly on for about 50 yards, when, suddenly stopping, he said he did not see why he should go to the station, and throwing the bag at witness's legs, he ran off as fast as he could. Witness followed, crying " Stop thief," and the prisoner being soon brought to a stand, was conveyed to the station, where the bag was opened, and found to contain seventeen parcels of indigo, for the posession of which the prisoner ac counted by saying that he had been packing samples at Messrs. Jones and Candler's, Cooper's-row, and that about four o'clock he was told that one of the men had stolen some samples from the cart, that he followed and stopped that man, took from him the stolen samples, not locking him up, on account f his large family , a nd that he had t hen left the bag at the Lamb and Flag to be taken care of. William Baker, manager for his father at the Lamb and Flag , deposed that he had known the prisoner as a customer for some years, always c onsidering him a very respectable young man, and that the prisoner left the bag of indigo in his charge on Wednesday morning, be+ ween 11 and 12. Mr. Clark, manager to Mr. C. T. Major, said the prisoner was in their service , and on Wednesday received instructions to fetch 490 samples of indigo from Mincing-lane, and pack them in five chests at Messrs. Jones and Candler's, Cooper's-row, and send them to Southampton for exportation to the conti nent. In the evening the prisoner told - witness he had packed the chests, but that one of them was not quite full, and witness, on looking at that chest on Thursday morning, found about as much space left as the samples produced would fill, those samples being, no doubt, a portion of those which prisoner had fetched from Mincing-lane. Mr. Candler deposed that he was present during a part of the process of packing the samples, and heard nothing said about any part of them having been stolen. Mr. Beard, for the prisoner, asked that the case might be summarily dealt with, the prosecutor being willing to assent to such a course on account of prisoner's good character. Mr. Clark said he was very anxious that the pri soner should be leniently dealt with, as he had borne an excellent character for several years dur ing which he had been in prosecutor's service. Alderman Rose, however, said the case was of too serious a nature to be slightly deposed of, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial. GUlLDHALL.—Frederick Fisher, described as a clerk in a solicitor's office, was placed at the bar before Alderman Phillips, charged with stealing a grey squirrel fur coat with gold buttons, value £lO, the property of Lieut. Tracey. It appeared that the coat in question had belonged to the Chinese Commissisner Yeh, and formed part of the spoil which fell to Lieut. Tracey, who assisted in capturing the Commissioner at Canton. Mr. Preston, in whose employ the prisoner was, received the coat from Lieut. Tracey, and deposited it in his private office, from which place prisoner abstracted it and pledged it with a Mr. Farmer, in Amwell-street, Pentonville. for Bs. When ac cused of stealing the coat he at first denied it, but ultimately admitted having pawned it and gave up the duplicate, upon which his employer gave him into custody. The prisoner alleged that the prosecutor pro mised to forgive him if he gave up the coat, and. asked Mr. Preston if Lieutenant Tracey had sanc tioned these proceedings against him. Alderman Phillips said it was immaterial, as the charge against the prisoner was for stealing a coat out of the possession of Air. Preston, who was re sponsible to Lieutenant Tracey for it. Leonard, a City detective, said he accompanied the prisoner and Mr. Preston to the pawnbroker's, and found the coat really was pledged there, and upon its production the prosecutor gave the pri• soner into custody. The prisoner eventually pleaded guilty in order that he might be dealt with summarily, and he was remanded till Saturday for that purpose. BOW-STREET.—William Hayes, a young man of very bad character, a loiterer about the Seven Dials, and an associate of thieves, was charged with assaulting Mr. Richard Fuchs, a broker, in King-street, Long-acre. The complainant stated that about a year ago he gaTe one of the prisoner's companions in custody for stealing ti watch. The man was convicted, and since that time the prisoner, and all the gang of them, constantly annoyed and molested him. On Wednes day night, about six, he saw the prisoner with a party of his friends in the Seven Dials, and they began to laugh at him and cry " tick, tick" after him. He went on without taking any notice, but as soon as he had gone by they began to throw stones at him. One of the stones struck him in the back, and on looking round he saw the prisoner in such a position that he had no doubt he had thrown it. He then saw the prisoner throw another stone, which also struck him. One of the prisoner's companions then walked up to him and struck him in the face, giving him a black eye. Finding that the whole party was closing round him, evidently for the pur pose of ill-using him, he drew from his pocket a large knotted rope, which had oroken off from a machine he had been using that day, and menaced them with it. Upon this the whole of the cowardly crew desisted from the attack and went their way. As soon as he could find a policeman, he went in search of them, and finding the prisoner in a public-house gave him in charge. The prisoner was the worse for liquor. Mr. Hall said there was evidently a combination to annoy the complainant, and if a stop was not put to it those people would ultimately do him some injury. The prisoner must pay 305., or be impri• soned for 15 days. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. -- General West broke Watkins was charged on summons, before Mr. Bingham, with the following assault on Mr. Napoleon Price, wholesale perfumer, 158, New Bond-street. Mr. J. P. Murphy,the barrister, attended for the defence of the general. Complainant said he received on the 15th April a letter from the general, who occupies the first floor in his house, complaining of a piece of paper affixed to the railings in front of the house of " An errand boy wanted—apply at the counting-house," to which, directly burning the letter, he sent a reply to the effect that he was surprised the general should take notice of a matter in no way con cerning him. This was at three o'clock, and at six the general, forcing his way through the counting-house and downstairs with a cane in his hand, commenced " bullying" him, and asking what he meant by his impertinent letter ? He replied he saw no impertinence whatever in it, it was only such as one gentleman would send to another. The general upon this remarked that he (complainant) should hear from his solicitor, and he would ruin him in law expenses. The complainant told him he had not put up the notice himself, and only knew of it when he received the letter respect ing it, and that he wondered he should be so mean as to speak about it, upon which the general struck at him with his cane over the head, but the com plainant raising his hand to ward off the blow, received it on the thumb, and then succeeded in taking the cane from him and throwing it on the floor. The general next laying hold of him by the hair began to pummel his head against the staircase, and he in return struck him in self-defence, and in order to get rid of him, when the general proceeded to his own apartments, repeating that he would ruin him in law expenses, complainant calling after him that he was a scoundrel. Cross-examined—The general now resided at his house, occupying the rooms on the first floor about five years, on a seven years' agreement, at £l6O per annum. Now offered to let him off the remainder of the term to get rid of him. The counting house had been built since he came, and was nearly on a level with his apartments. Was not aware that the ap plicants for the errand boy's situation were directed to proeeedto the first floor. In defence, Mr. Murphy said hi s c li en t, w h o w as a general in he Indian army, had suffered severely from the attack of the complainant, whose story, he was instructed to say, was a tissue of falsehoods ; that defendant did not strike the first blow, but received it, and had been much insulted and an noyed. Mr. Bingham said he could do no more as a justice of peace than to call upon both to fight no more battles except in a court of law, through the medium of attornies. It was clear, on complainant's own evidence, that a fight had taken place between them —the complainant a young and vigorous man, and the general an elderly one—and that such conduct might not be repeated, he should require each to enter into his own recognisance in £lOO to keep the peace. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S--YESTERDAY. The betting on the Chester Cup was not very brisk. Leamington advanced from 20 to 1 to 100 to 8, whilst Bevis receded to 25 to 1. 100 to 1 was offered agst the sometime favourite Drogheda. 7to 1 was offered on the field for the Derby. Merryman was in some demand, whilst 20 to 1 was offered against Volcano. Closing prices : NEWMARKET HANDICAP. Bto 1 agst Pavilion (taken) 10 to 1 agst Old Robert (taken) CHESTER CUP. 100 to 8 agst Leamington (taken) 25 to 1 agst Bevis (taken) 50 to 1 agst Queenstown (taken) 50 to 1 agst Petra (taken) 200 to 3 agst Rara Avis (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Drogheda (offered) 9to 1 agst Air. F. Higgins's " lot" (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 4to 1 agst Promised Land (taken) 6to 1 agst Nimrod (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Crafton (taken) 20 to 1 agst Cynricus (taken) DERBY. 7to 1 agst Promised Land (offered) Bto 1 agst Musjid (offered) 100 to 6 agst Merryman (taken) offered) 20 to 1 agst Volcano (taken and 25 t t oo agsta g s hu t se Ticket i o ff o f (taken)Leave (taken) 40 1000 to 15 agst Grafton (taken) [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills have been used freely by millions of human beings, of both sexes and all ages, in every part of the world, and while the public Press has teemed with authenticated cases of extra. ordinary cures in a vast variety of diseases (such as indiges tion, scorbutic eruptions, and liver complaints), there is not on public record a single case in which their use has been attended with a bad effect. None when using Hol loway's Ointment and Pills need suffer the hope of cure to be c owiterbalanced by fear of injury. They are peculiarly mild in their operations, and yet they never fail to effect a complete and permanent cure. Whilst using them no speco4 reetriotious are requisite, ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS.- INITIATION OF MR. E. JAMES, M.P. On Wednesday evening, at nine o'clock, a court of the above order (the Lord Clive), which is con nected with the London United District, the num ber of members of which reaches nearly 20,000, was held at Host Cheese's, the General Townsend, No. 231, Oxford-street, and at which Sir B. Hall, Bart., M.P., and E. James, Esq., Q.C., and M.P., were present, the visit of the latter gentleman being for the purpose of being initiated in the court, he having been invited there for that purpose. Sir B. Hall, Bart., has been a member of the court about 21 years. There was a very numerous attendance of mem bers, not only of the court, but of several other courts in the district. Chief Ranger Silcock was appointed t o p res id e , when, after th e u s ua l preliminaries were gone through, Sir B. Hall, Bart., accompanied by E. James, Esq., entered the room, and they were re ceived with enthusiastic cheers. Last Wednesday fortnight, at the usual fort nightly meeting of the court, it was proposed by brother Rogers, seconded by brother Wyatt, that Mr. James should be made a member of the court. Upon the motion being agreed to, it was resolved that a committee of four members should be ap pointed to draw up a memorial for presentation to Mr. James, requesting him to become a member of the court. The memorial was drawn tap and pre sented to Mr. James. He replied, and consented. to comply with the request of the memorial. The usual formalities were proceeded with in re-. ference to the initiation of the proposed candidate. The hon. gentleman was introduced by brother Rogers. He was duly initiated ; when, upon the conclusion of the ceremony, he took his seat near the chairman, by the side of Sir B. Hall, Bart., and Dr. Mayne, surgeon of the court, and he was re. ceived with loud cheers. As it is customary on these occasions to drink the health of the initiated member, that of Mr. James was drank with much applause. Mr. JAMES responded, and said that it was with great pleasure he had been made a member of the court, which he was aware was astablished for the benevolent purpose of supporting the widow and the fatherless, and tho3o who had been members of the court who were in circumstances that required its assistance. (Near.) It was an institution the members of which were desirous of assisting each other, and as such he, now being a member, would do all in his power to give his contribution to it. (Cheers.) The health of Sir B. Hall, Bart., was also given, and he replied in nearly similar terms. The health of each gentleman was proposed with the usual honours, and each gave a contribution to the funds of the court. Upon the court being left by them they were most heartily cheered. The Court then separated. COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM —APRIL 21. The supply of wheat limited and higher prices demanded, but sales made only is per qr ever late rates. Barley was in improved demand. Oats rather dearer. Beans and peas is per qr. higher. MANCHESTER—APRIL 21. Wheat is per qr. dearer, though only in limited request. Flour was quiet, but a corresponding advance in prices was quoted. Other articles unchanged, with a moderate sale. BOSTON—APRIL 20. The wheat trade was very firm to-day, and the busi ness done was at from is to is 6d per qr. over late rates. Barley nominal. Beans, oats, and peas were firm, at about previous prices. Wheat, white 44s to 48s 1 Beans Mazagan..--.-S to —s red 38s to 43 s I Middle & small 39s to 49s Barley 26s to 38s I White peas 37s to 46s Oats l 7s to 25s I Grey.. 40$ to 42s Averages for the week : Wheat 4,071 qrs., at 41s 8d 8ar1ey......... 20 I, 34s Od Oats 3ll )1 •••.••..23s 7d Rye _. Od ~ ........ ....15 Beans Peas .... 16 /9 ........39s Od LOUTH• •AriuL 20. There was a fair average quantity of wheat on offer, and a rather brisk trade resulted in an advance of is per qr. Barley in moderate supply. Oats sold more freely. Wheat ,4os to 455 Oats.... ........ 248 to 28s White do .—s to 48s Beans ........ ...—s to —s Barley .34s to 38s Ditto, old ........41s to 45s EDINBURGH GRAIN—Apia/A 20. Large supplies of grain to-day, and sales were heavy, at rather better prices for wheat. Wheat on the top 2s Od up average is 3d up. Barley on the top is 6d down average is 3d up. Oats on the top Os 3d up, average Os 4d up. Beans on the top is Od up. ..... average Os id down. Averages per Imperial quarter. 'Wheat. Barley 1 12 8 7-12ths Oats -12ths 8ean5........ -12ths Total Supply and Sales. 'Wheat .1265 qrs ...... Sold 1178 qrs 8ar1ey........1010 qr 5........ Sold 824 qrs Oats .1684 qr 5........ Sold 1218 qrs Beans 222 qr 5........ Sold 205 qrs GLASGOW-Arum 23. There was a fair supply of wheat and barley, and a good healthy trade at market to-day. Wheat fully 6d per 2401ba above late rates. Flour advanced is per sack. Oats firm, at 3d up. Oatmeal is per load up. Beans and peas freely delivered for full prices. Indian corn 3d dearer, and lasi inquiry. CORK—APRIL 20. The following were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, 22s 6d to —s; white, 25s 6d to —s Od; barley 12a Od to 15s Od; oats, lls 6d to 13s 6d. DUBLIN —APRIL 19. At this corn market to-day there was a small supply of farmers' grain. Wheat advanced 6d per barrel; oats 3d; foreign wheat advanced 6d to is per barrel, with a fair business doing. Barley dull. A few buyers for maize at 6d to is over late rates. Wheat, white.. 23 oto 26 0 Do. / new ..... 11 6to 13 0 Do., red ...... 21 6to 23 6 Bere .. 10 oto 12 0 Do., new .... 23 0t026 0 Rapeseed .... 26 oto 29 0 Barley ...... 11 oto 17 0 Oatmeal l3 oto 14 6 Oats . . .... 11 otol3 0 Bakers' flour Do., black.... 10 6toll 0 Indian corn DERBY SMITHFIELD-APRIL 19. The supply of beasts to-day was large ; the demand was good, and sales effected at high prices. Calves plentiful, and in request. Sheep in average supply. pigs nume rous, but a flat demand. Beef 7d to 72d Veal 6d to 7d Mutton .. Bd to 9d Pork Lamb .. .. Od to —d Rough fat, 63 Od per stone. Hides, 4d to 5d ; calf skins, Sid to 6d. I LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL —APRIL 21. The market was quiet throughout the day, and prices closed flat, without much change. Midlands, 101 101/- -Birkenheads, 61 I—Leeds Northern, 45 6—Blackburns 2 111 I—North British, 56 56 1 —Great W es t ern o f C ana d a , 151 I—Grand Trunk of Canada, 81 I—GreatW es t ern , 58— Eastern Counties, 11 I—Ch es t er and Holyheads, 481 9i Sheffields, 381 1--Caledonians, 79_1 —Lancashr e and York shire, 921 I—London and North-Westerns, 931 I—Dutch Rhenish, 51 6 dis.—Dovers, 20 20 1—Berwicks, 90 F East Lancashire, 91 - - MANCHESTER—APRIL 21. There was a dull business doing most of the day, and prices closed rather flat. Eastern Counties, 11I—Trunks, 8 9-16—Sheffields, 38A—Midlands 101 A—Dovers, 20 7.16, Londons, 93 A — Caledonians, 80—East Lancashire Fifths, 5 9 - 1 5—Leeds, 921. BIRMINGHAM—APRIL 21. There was a dull business done to-day in this market. Prices were generally lower. LEEDS—APRIL 21. Great Northerns, 101—North Westerns, 141—Midland, 101 1 — North Staffords, dis. 4 BIRTHS. COLTHITRST.—On the 19th inst., at 4, Lower Grosvenor place, the wife of Sir G. Colthurst, Bart., of a daughter. Coox.—On the 20th inst., at Mitcham, Mr. W. H. Cook, of a daughter. DRAKE.—On the 19th inst., at Oakendean, Horsham, the wife of Commander T. G. Drake, R.N., of a son. SAYER.—On the 21st inst., at St. James's-palace, the wife of Captain Frederic Sayer, of a son. MARRIAGES LINES—WEBB.--On the 19th inst., at St. Marylebone Church, Mr. W. D. Lines, M.R.C.V.S., of 1 Elm-tree road, St. John's wood, to Emma, only surviving daugh ter of Mr. C. M. Webb, of 119, Edgeware-road, W. VALLANcE—SKIPPER.—On the 19th inst. at All Saints' Church, West Ham, Thomas J. Valiance, M.D., of Strat ford-grove, Essex, t o Lucy, daughter of Robert Skipper, Esq., of Carnavon Hall, Forest-gate. DEATHS. ABERCROMBY.—On the 20th inst., at Alnwick, Arthur Abercromby, Esq., Glassaugh, Banffshire, aged 63. BALDININ.—On the 13th inst., in Paris, Charles Barry Baldwin, Esq., formerly M.P. for Totnes, aged 69. BETHELL.—On the 19th inst., at the Palace, Bangor, the Right Rev. Christopher Beth e l, Lord Bishop of B a ngor, aged 86. GORING.— On the 19th inst., at the Hotel Windsor, Paris Sir Harry Dent Goring, Bart., of Highden, Sussex, age" 57. LEWIS.—On the 21st inst., at Peckham-rye-common, Lewis Lewis, Esq., aged 77. MARCH.—On the 21st inst., at Ambassadors' Court, St . James's Palace, Thomas March, Esq., aged 78. AIASTERMAN.—On the 18th inst. at Grove-place, Hack ney, Mr. J. Masterman, aged 65. TWEEDY.—On the 17th inst., at Alverton, Truro, William Manse' Tweedy, Esq., banker, aged 62. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG: of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the SaToy, in the county 40 Atiddleera.,..Friclay, April 22 ) 1869. a