The Sun. — London, England, 1858-04-06 00:00:00

1. 1 , , share feting ; the nizort, r atX. cion x 1 that lime. eking Irione t•aug. on. it this found meats relties. ay on& priced 3derVe f. Iu e and tamed )at at- "Th. Mr. eels , Mr. tions ; [cation chdate pealed repro latioo acess's admi- iriohed d, and d from :.. Mac- ooden• U., for eels in host of riment Id that and is • opolie. MS sp ) fowl(' of his s usual ions of th that so emi- its pre- Durable howled aomely a, from tinuous WAS A which t. Next locator before hearty I. The Ireesers I parts ly new taken nainder ire cap sparse ert the e well cent in n. Oa ied for he im will b• ion o which 3ra and se dur !or the at the a cora yachts ad the Ralsey ma, of est be J. W. cht o iouse, House ifford, imore, Pon- aencter 1, and e gen yachts ile are :'Ol rie, EN , Villa ; V. H. Esq., Busig ,ttage. tham after ,d the m at td in th the death )wiLeine treat, B fire, jury) MONEY M.A.R,KET AN 1) CODINIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE CITY, Two o'CLocK. Business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets has in a great measure been su.pended, owing to the intervention of the Easter holidays. A few private transactions, however, have taken place in several of the principal staples, and in most instances stea'ly rates were realised. Tea has been dull, but common congou is still quoted 13d. per lb. For sugar there were a few inquiries for home consumption, but the transactions were unimpor tant, and at about previous rates. In the Refined Market scarcely any business has been done. Coffee remained at steady rates ; the deliveries still con tinue to exceed those of the same period last year. Rice, rum, and spices continue very inactive, and have exhibited little change in value. For indigo and cochineal there is scarcely any demand ; and saltpetre has been neglected. Tallow continues dull ; P.Y.C. on the spot is 545. 6d. ; April to June 549. 3d. ; June 535. 9d. ; and last three months, 525. 6d. per cwt. Town tallow is at 535. 3d. per cwt., nett cash. Letters from Liverpool mention that the Cotton Market yesterday manifested a very animated appearance, and prices of most descriptions slightly mproved. The sales amounted to 12,000 bales, 3,000 of which were taken by the speculators, and 1,000 by the exporters. The Railway Share Market closed quietly, and quotations were with out any material alteration. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's vessel Benares, which sails to-day for Alexandria, will take out 10,9001. in silver for Bombay. The Silver Market still continues in a very quiet state, and bars are nominally ss. lid. per oz. standard. The annual meeting of the Unity Fire Insurance Company took place to-clay, when a report, on the whole favourable as to the gradual progress of the society, was read to the shareholders. The surplus profit of the year's transactions was 3,7001., which, however;the directors recommended to be carried to the Insurance Fund, or Reserve. The report was adopted. _ The total amount of specie brought by the Vinaiera and the Morning Light is 89,3161. Not withstanding that a small amount of this may be shipped to America, it is expected that the greater portion will be sent into the Bank. The Lady Ann has arrived from South Australia. She sailed from Adelaide on the 31st December last. The new Indian Debentures remain steady at 98. There is very little inquiry for money, and the best bills are negotiated at 24 per cent. The Funds opened rather flatly, but they are now rather firmer, although business still continues very dull. Attention is principally directed to the settlement of the account which will take place to morrow. One or two large " Bull" accounts have been closed whichhaveassisted in weakening the mar ket, but as soon as the liquidation is over the tendency of the market will be more accurately defined. Consols have been 96i for money and to-morrow, but they are now 964 and 961 t i for the May account. Exchequer Bills are 355. to 38s. prem. ; the New 3 per Cents. are 951 and the New Threes, 951 both ex dividend. Bank Stock is M. Business in the Foreign Stock Market is ex tremely active, and prices have, generally, fluc tuated. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 1001 1014, and the 4 per Cents. 104. Spanish 3 per Cents. are 44 ; Russian 4i per Cents., 1001 ; Sardinian 5 per Cents, 904 911 ; Brazilian 5 per Cents., 101 ; Buenos Ayres 6 per Cents., 78 ; Chilian 6 per Cants., 103 ; Danish 3 per Cents., 82 ; Grenada New Active, 19k; Mexican 3 per Cents., 19i ; Peruvian 44 per Cents., 82 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 45g ; Venezuela 41 per Cents., 31i ; Ditto Deferred, 12i ; and Peru vian dollar Bonds, 57. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign hocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 7 ; Mexi can, 19i 20 ; Peruvian 4i per Cents., 82 84; ditto 3 per Cents., 55 57 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 109111; ditto 4} per Cerra., 99 101 ; Spanish 3 j . ker Cents., 431 44 ; ditto Deferred, 2t3 The following Railway Calls are to be paid dur ing the present month : Belgian and Eastern Ju n e., Obli ga ti ons R3C o all. 0 Bristol and South Wales Union Dublin and Drogheda 5 per Cent. Pref., 1857 Eastern Union, 5j per Cent., 101. Great Luxembourg, * , Ol. Obligations Great Southern and Western Ireland, 4 per Cent., Pref., 20/. Lancaster and Preston, 114/, Trinidad 6,375 30,000 50,000 29,340 26,50 Total There has been a very limited business transacted to-day in the Railway Share Market, but prices are generally firmer. Caledonians and Midlands have improved ss. ; North-Eastern (York), 10s. ; Great Northern and Lancashire and Yorkshire, 15s. ; and North-Western and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 1/. The Foreign and Colonial lines are inactive, and exhibit little change from previous rates. Dutch Rhenish have Improved as., and Pernambuco declined ss. ; Grand Trunk of Canada„ Great Western of Canada, East Indian, and Great Indipn Peninsular were dealt in at yesterday's quotations. Joint-Stock Bank Shares are moderately active. London and Westminster had declined 53. ; and Union of Australia advanced 108. ; and South Australia declined 10s. In the Miscellaneous Market no business of any important* has been transacted, and prices are almost nominal. lAMBS FUNDS THIS DAT ATONE , rel,o(::. (From the O f ficial List:) Business done Salk Stock 221 x d $ per Cent. Reduced Annuities I per Cent. Console Annuities itew 4 per Cont. Annuities 954 3 a xd Win Bonds. I:lotiti ................. ........• Ditto, under 210(10 2O COL sole f or A ccount 96bp i i Eschegner Bills. 20. March. June. 21000 .... Exchequer Bonds, 1858. :34 per Cent.... Ditto. 11159 100 k 1 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK Brazaedu 5 per Cent. Buenos Ayres B on d s, 6 per Cent. 101 78 Onilian Bond s , 6 per Cent ........ 103 . Danish Bonds, 3 p et Cent. 182 . . 5 .......... Grenada New Active, 2i per Cont. ezioan 3 per Cent 9 Ditto Account l9f Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent — • OM() Account B2 i Portuguese Bonds, 3 per Cent., 1853 Rascal, bonds, 1 , 422, U. St., b per Cent - Ditto, 4i per Cent. lOOl 100 ak rdim a ti tionas, •, per Cent. . 90 li ansnieh Bowie, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Illurldt.h Bonds, 6 per cent Ditto Guaranteed. ; per Cent. Venezuela Bonds, 4/ per C en t Ditto Deferred 2 per Cent Di7ideods on the above payable In London. Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 4§ per Cent. Console, money TWO O'CI.0( K. 136 $ Ditto Account 9 ConaOla ac coun t ( May) The Right Ron, Sir J. Pakington, Bart., M.P., re. turns to t own to-day from Westwood Park, Droit• wiob. The right hon. baronet will remove to his official residence at the Admiralty on Saturday next. The mortal remains of the Earl of Morton will be re moved at an early hour to-morrow morning from the famiiy residence in Brook- street, for Dalmahoy, Mid lothian, for interment in the burial-place of his ancestors. The Earl of Morton and the other sons of the late earl, and Earl Fi,zailliam, son-in-law o f his lordship, will attend the funeral. HIGHLAND ROADS AND BRIDGES.—The 44. h R eport was issued y es te r d a y. The unusual inil o dnesi ,, t f he th r e oa la d t s e , winter has been favourable to the condition and but few casua lti es h ave oc curred. Some a the ro a d s in the course c f the past year h ave been ed by damaged 11°0d;been 103-g, thanbut the g e nera l cos t o f re pairs has usual, and throughout the country the roads and bridges have been maintained in good cot dition. LIVERPOOL, April s.—On Wednesday the Marco„.i Pol o , b elonging to Messrs. James Baines and 's , slack B a ll li ne of Australian vcsels, Falb for Mel bourne with a ship's mail, r msengers, and cargo. Letters received . at the Liverpool Post-office (to be directed per Marco Polo) until 10 30 a.m., and with late e until 11 30 a.m. The Voce! Asaociation will 7ive a granl performance at St. James's Hall, Regent -street or d t - 4- 113 ""w "ehing, when the programme will be entirely Mendels,hon and comprise the followin g vv, rks : "The First Walpurgis Night," " Loreley," violin con certo, capriccio brilliant, &c. The band and chorus united will number 400 performer& St. 100 St. 100 St, 100 25 163 St. 10 St 100 St. 100 10 31.1 tri 20 20 LO 100 ali 18 9 18 all 18 all 20i all .00 100 .00 ,100 .00 100 20 2s. 20 28641 174 all 20; 2s. St. 100 20 all 20 5 .00 all 20 all 20i 20i 100 100 20 20 20 20 Ski = ej cz:— (This Day). RAILWAYS. PAI3:I RAILWATe, Closing re, yesterday. Arnbg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. June.... Belfast & Ballymem I Birmng. Wolverh, 4; Stour Va11ey.,..,,,,, Birkenhd. Lancah. & Cheshire .Tunet Blackburn !Myth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) !Bristol & ' Caledonian.... ...... 'Chester do Holyhead jCork and Bandon iCork, Black. & Pass 'Cornwall De. A Do. B tfrablin&BelfastJunc Dan. P. &Aber. June East Anglian Eastern Counties EasternUnion,A. stk Do., do. 8.... Do. New A 000000 •••••• East Kent East Lancashire East Suffolk ..... Do. Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb.Prth. &DundeP Forth and ClydeJunc. Furness ... ........ . Glasgow & S.Western Great N. of Scotland Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock It. Sth.&West.(lre) Great Western. Do. S tr. V. R gna. St [fish Sonth-Eastern. Lancaster &Carlisle. Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Laneash. &Yorkshirc Do., do. F Xl6 Do. Do., £9 Do., Wet. Riding Un Do. Soathp‘rt. London 4. Blaekwall Do. New, i.s. 5/. 10s. Lond.Bright.&S.Cst London & N. Wester Do. Eighths London & S. Woitern Lndndrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Wanch. She f. &Lincln. ,Metropolitan ......... 'Midland . Do. Birming. & Derb Midland G. West. (Ir. Do. Shares Newcastle &Carlisle Newpt.A berg.dairfd Newry & Armagh cwry, Warrenpoint & Rostrovor N0rf01k..... Northu.Counties Un North British north Devon, Railol Dock 5t0ck........_... Do., A Stock Do., B Stock ..... i N. tastern— Berwick Do do. G.N.E.Purch. Do. Leeds Do. York North London ... N.& S. Wstn., Hamp- stead, and City Jn Korth Staffordshire North Western.. N. & S.Westrn. June. Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Peebles .9 jPortsmouth Rhymney Scottish Central Scr,t. N.E.Abrdn. St Do. Scot. Mid. Stock 'Shropshire Union Sitingbourne &Shoer ,South Devon.. ..... . South Eastern...... ;South Wales 'S. rorksh. River Dor Do.. Staines,Wok.,&Wok. Stockton & Darling Do. do., 1854 Do. do 1855 Stockton dt Hartlepl Taff Vale IDo. Pref., No. 1.. Thames Hay. D. &R Vale of Neath. ..... ;Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limeri ek West Coin wa11........ West End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B West London Do. First Class Do. Second Class.. Business done this day. 5i - 6 ••• .... 71 - 8. 69 - 7" 9 - 11 25i - 89 - 86.} - 36 .- .•• '". ••• .... 16 -- 58 - 44 - 29 - 14 - 16 86 - 88 ••• ... • 62 - 63 27i - 28, ••• • 87 - 89 9} - 10 102 - 103 88 - 89 126 - 128' 98 - 100 57. - 53 56 - 53 83 85 10 12 p 10 12 p 87i 88 1 i d 11 1 d - 105 - 107 93 - 94. - 1 91i - ••• ....' .ft 35 - 36 93i - 93; 65 - 67 ... .. . fi - 13 59 - 61 34 - 3 51 - 52 • •• '...." . 90i -91 A 2 - 1 46i - 47. 72 - 73: 92 - 94 4 - 4i 8 - 9 8 - 9 30 - 32 7 - 3 t: .08 - 110 26i - 2;9 78 - 80 45 - 47 - 2 35 - 36 69 - 70 82i - 83 13 - 15 7 -5: 9 - 11 35 - S 6 99 - 16 3 - 33, - 6$ BRITISH POSSESSIONS. At lan. and St. Law. Bombay, Baroda, and Con.lnd,guar. 5 p. c. Do. Do. Additional A Buffalo 61 Lake Hur. Buff., Brut. & God ch. p.c.bds., 1 Aug.,'72 Do. do., 1 July, '73 Do, do., I June '74 Caleutta'and S. East. Central Uncle (Lim.) Ceylon A sbares Demerara. Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares Do. E. do. Do. , q p.c Bnds '59 1 Geelong di ➢felbourne guar. 5 per cent.... Gd. Trunk. of Canada Do. 6 p. c. Deben Gt. In, Pen. g. 5 pert Do. New. guar. 5 p.c Gt. Wostn. of Canada Do. New Do. Do. Do. Do. Bds., payable '571 do., '76, p.'60..,i d0.,'73, d 0... do., '73, without, option 'Madras, guar. Do, do., 5 per c. , - -- Do. 4i p, c. Exton. Do. 3d Ex., g. sp,c, Do. 4th Ex., do, Oude (Limited) Scinde, guar. 5 per c Do. FOR: * - ip a 9 10 185 90 78 83 75 80 1 - li $ - 109 - 110 20 21 46 48 81; 82)i 21i —21 i iP 19 19. 2 IBct 106 - 111 106 - 111 105 - 108 I 19+ - 191 20i - 21 - it - gyp, c -- - I .p :IGN. 6 - 6 ••• •••• ... 1 - li 3a - 3i 27 - 28 .iE : ii ... - .. 4A -- BAp i6i := 27 81 . 1 - 201 - 21 37/ - 38 8 - 8A 85 - 9 32/ - 33 313 - 54 - 56 i id 16 - 18 i - i 8k- 8i 86 - 9 214 - 2t 4 - 5 9 - 96 246 - 26, •M ' • •, Antwrp & Rotterdam Ardennes... Bahia & Fra-:cisco , Belgian East. Juliet.' Beziers to Graissessat. Carmeaux& Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Euphrates Valley Gt. Central of France Great Luxembourg Italian Junction Lake Const. & Bale Lies re and Turnhout Lombardo-Venetian Lucca dt Lyons and Genova Maria Antonia IDo. New Namur k Liego Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref Northern of France Do. New NorwegianTrnk.Pref Paris and Lyons Ditto New Paris and Orleans Recife & San Fran., (Pernam.l g. 7 p. c Riga and Dunaburg Rome and Frucsti Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Sambre and Meuse_ - )o. 5i per cent. pref. Southern of France West Flanders Do. 5.3 per c. Prof W.&N.W. of France Western of Austria We,t. of Switzerland Nest &den Do. 8 p. cent. pref. 'Zealand • •• JOINT-STOCK BANKS. SO Agra & United Serv all &ustralasia all Bank of Egypt 50 Bank of London all &I. Col. Bk. & Ln. Co 1 all firitish N. American 10 C. Bk. of Ind. Au.&Cli 50 City 25 Colonial all , CommercialofCanadal 20 Commercial of Lond. all lEng.Scot.drAus.Cnt. all Lon. Ch. Bk.of A - I st. 20 (London and County 10 ;London Joint Stock. 20 Lond.andWestminst. 35 National Pro. of E ng .' 10 Do. New 25 National Bank all New South Wales all Oriental Bank Corp. all Ottoman Bank . 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New.;..., a ll South A astralia .. 12A Do. New. a ll Union of Australia.,, 10 Do. Now 10 Union of London • 50 Unity Mutual 0 wtruk el Lend 84 - 86 21 - 46 - 48 - 2i 58 - 60 1? ••• 18t- 11:, 43 - 4 5 38 - 39 17 -17 i 61 - 63 .• • 46 -- 48 26 —.. 27 22 --- 24 2 . md, St. St. St. St. 100 [OO 5 WO 1100 100 100 1100 100 XOO 100 all 16A 100 100 86 6 / 102 i zd 87i 8j 1064 1 6 94 31 41 921 35i Gi 93 1 i i I 914 1 13 12j LON DON, TIT6'SDAY LiNES LEASED AT FIXEU KEN ALA. Leasing Closing Prices Business Shr. Paid RAILWAYS. Companies. yesterday this day, St. 100 Bnckghamsh.,Ln.&N.W. 93 103 St. 100 Clydesdale Je. I edon 100 102 25 all Col.Stour Vy. E.U.&E.O 13 15 St. 100 E.Lm. g. 6 p. Gt.Northn 139 141 5 all E. Un. H.Sh. E. Count. 4 St. 100 Glas. Barr. & Caldonian. Neils. Direct. St. 100 Do. New Do . . ••• 25 I all Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Gt•Westn — 50 all Hull & Selby. Y. & N.ll 103 110 25 all Do. 3 Shares. Do 12i 1 all Do. 4 Shares. Do 121, all Lon.&Greenw S.Eastern 123 133 20 I all Do. Preference Do 2l 25 St. 100 Lou. Til., &S. Peto &Co 94 96 95 41 10 1 10 Do. Bark. Sh. Do • -- ••• si' all Manch.Bxton. Ln.&N.W and Matlock & Midld 2 -2/ St. 100 Mdld.Bradfd. Midland 94 96 84' 54 Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. E. Count 4 - - ip 50 all N.&Est.s p.c. Do 57 59 50 all De. 6 per et.. Do ..• 60 all Do. Fixed sp.c Do ••• 25 I all Prest. & Wyre L. &N. W — 126 all Do. Shrs. ADo St. 100 Roystn.&Hit. Gt•Northn 135 138 10 I all Shrews.& Her T. Brassey 8 8} 12 all IS.Staffordsh.. M. Mclean 10 103 104 50 i all IWearVal.g6pc Stk.&Dar. 25 all ;Do Do 32 3 . 3 St. IWO Wilts &SomrstiGt. Wes tn , 83 90 I St. 12, 12. 123 St. 1211 20i LITIRATURE. The Art Journal for April. The current number of this popular work pre sents 114 with various pecimens of arli4ie worth, among which, engralings of "The Young Fal coner," painted by F. Taylor, " The Spring Head," by Zucchereli, and the Alto Relievo of Miss Helen Faucit, by J. H. Foley, are most prominently attractive. The latter production is most exquisitely rendered, lending a degree of classic grace and refined detail to the subject, which identifies it wits the purely beautiful and ideal. An enthusiastic eulogium on the lady's talent is appended, bit great as her dramatic power unquestionably is, we cannot admit that "Ristori must sit at her feet." Such extrema and unqualified praise )nly defeats the intention of the worshipper. Some sweet little pictures, by F. W. Hulme, are given ; and we have rarely looked on more enchanting bits of rural portrai ture. "A Lane Scene in Surrey," and "A Bye Way among the Hills in North Wales," are deli ciously represented—the light and distance being admirably toned. The general artistic informa tion and literature fully sustain the character of the journal. The Yew Monthly Magazine. The third volume of the Abbe Hue's work on " Christianity iu China," is the subject of the first article in this month's number of the New Monthly. The criticism gives an interesting summary of the missionary's proceedings, and copious extracts. It is followed by the continuation of the story which appeared in the last number by the auth a. of " Ashley," narrating the fortunes and misfortunes of Mrs. Yorke and her jealous husband. As the reader of the last instalment wia have surmised, Mr. Yorke is the murderer of Edward Janson. The double murder is arranged with considerable in genuity, though not much probability. Ttlis writer evidently prefers the terrific to the natural or agree able. He seeks to excite the interest of lovers of the horrible by the glom and extravagance of his incidents, rather than to provide cultivated tastes with some narrative that might interest without repelling. A paper on the Duke of Wellington's Despatches treats of his career in India. A ' Monody on the late Viscount Strang ford," renders a tribute to the unfulfilled premise of his career, expressing enthusiastic admi ration in powerful language. Mr. and Mrs. Bushby contribute two papers, the first being the descrip tion of a visit to Iceland, and the second a transla tion from the French of Da Balzac, full of the tragedy of a continental romance. Sir Nathaniel continues his " Occasional Notes," and devotes them in this number to Villemain's Chateaubriand. Two papers of various merits describe " Life in California," and "A French Exile's Experience of the Backwoods." "Retired from Business" is the title of an amusing paper, founded on the German. There are several other articles on subjects of gene ral interest, none of them, however, possessing any great claim to originality or superior talent. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —(This Day). MANSION-HOUSE. George Rogers wag charged before the Lord Mayor with picking the pockets of two gentlemen, in Aldgate street, last night, about 10 o'clock, and stealing there from a pocket handkerchief, while they were standing and looking at the fire. Remanded till to-morrow. Jame. 13,41, 7 and Charles Murray were charged with assaulting the police and obstructing them in the dis charge of their duty. Police-constable 462 proved that he took the prisoners into custody this morning, about 6 o'clock, in Aldgate street ; they were drunk and disorderly, and assaulted and kicked him. He took them to the station-house, where they again assaulted him and broke his watch. James Holley was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour ; and Murray, the son of a baronet, was remanded till to-morrow, in order to see whether a certificate of lunacy can be obtained against him. John Flearie4 was charged with embezzlement, and forging cash cheques or money -orders for trifling sums, one fur 7d. He was in the employment of Mr. George Miltere, 27, Cumberland -street. He was remanded till Saturday next. _ _ Jane S►mpson, an old offender, was chaiged with attempting to drown herself by jumping over London bridge this morning about ten o'clock. She WAI or dered to find security of 101. for three months, or in de- Link three months' imprisonment . Henry Gardner waM charged with stealing a coat from the shop of Mr. Benjamin Pierce, 36 and 37, Aldg-tte street, City. He was sentenced to one month's im prisonment. PREFERENCE SHARES. Blyth and Tyne 10 p. c.pref. (issd.at 501.; Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. 4 per c. Shares.. Caledn. £lO 4. p. c, Ches. & Ho. 5. p. c. Do. do. 5 per cent... Cork &Bandons ip.e. Dnn.Perth.&Aber.J. E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c. Do. do. Cls. C 7 p. c. Eas. Co. Ex,bp .c No.l Do. No. 2 ....... Do. New 6 pr. c. St. East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51., 10 per cent. Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent... East Lancash.6 p. cts. E.&W. York. J. sths Edin.& Gl. sp. c. Sh. Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.c. !Furness, Gla.a. p.c. Great Northn. 5 p.c. Do. 5 p. C. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem ' Do. 4i per cent I Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. pram. Gt.N. of Scot. Ist Pre Gt. S da W. (Ireland) Do. 4 pert. Pref. St. 'Gt. W. (B. &H.Ex.spc iDo. con. red. 4i p.c. Do. con, red. 4 p. c. iDo. irred. 4 per )ent. Do. 5 p. c. red. pref. Do. firm. Pref. Sh Do. Chester Sp. c. P. S Do. do, 5 p. c. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Chesh, Gua. Sh Do. do. do Do. do. do Lan. & York. 6 pc. St. Lon. &B. G. 5 pc. No. 1 D0.,P., b p.c.St.No.2 Do. Now Guar. 6p.c. Do. do. 5 p. c., N 0.4 Lon. & N. W., Cov. & Nuneaton 5 r. Lon. & S.W. 7 porct. late 3d Shares .. Londy. d& Color. i Sh. Londy. &Ennis. i Sh. NI., S., &L. 6 p. Cent. Do. do. do. £6 ... .. Do. do. 34 per cont. Iviarypt. ti Carl. 4 P.C. Do. 4i per cent Do. do. Consol. 6p. c. St. Do. Con. Br. Bir. 6 p.c. Do. 4i p. c. Pref. St. Do. L. &IL Pref. St. New., Aber., &c., pr. 5 p. c. red. 513. c. pm. Do. Perpet. 6 pr. et. tiorfk. D eb. 4 p. c. Sh. Do. 5 p. c. Ext. 1846 Do. 53 p.c. pf , 1847 D0.Wv.V.5p..,1847 North British Do. 71. Preference N. E. Rem. 4 p. c.Prf Do. do. do Do. Leeds 6 pa. No. 1 ;Do. do. Qrs., 1848 •Do York EL &S. Par North Staffordshire Ox., Wor. dz Wolv. 6 p.c. Ist guar. Do. p.c., c. 2d guar._ Do. do. Debeotr. St. IScot. Ceut.New Pref. Sc.N. E. Aber.g.6p.c. Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. Do. c10.3i p.c. pf. St ;South Devon Do. fixed 46 pr cent. S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of Os. 6d. Do. 4i per cent Do. Fixed 4a p.c. Sh Do. New 4j pr. cent S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c. Do. do. 4. p. a S.Yorksh.4 p.c.Guar Stock. &Dar., 5 p. c IDo, do. do. I Waterfd& Kilk. 6 pc R - iI 66 -- Eli ••• .-- ••• 6 - 6# 108 - 112 105 - 110 112 - 117 110 - 115 127 - 132 72 - 74 118 - 120 LIO - 112 A:l2 - 101 62 64 I.oa 11 - ( 1 4 - 93 -8) - 89 - 101 - 10 - 19 - 20 - 10 - 15 - 140 - 165 20 - 122 65 - 68 - 149 - 101 e” ogps 108 lli - 107 94 - 96 11 - 41 par —22 i .17 119 .0G 108 99 —lOl 118 -- 120 125 -.127 73 -- 75 10 -- 241 —24 i lou 102 100 102 1 1.6 27 - 28 MAR LEO ROUG IT-STREET. STEALING AN UNFORTUNATE'S ‘V ATCLI. —Emily Mat thews, a remarkably well-dressed young married female, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Bingham, charged with stealing a watch from the person of Emma CAUL, of Judd-street, New-road. The prosecutrix said she was looking in a shop window in Regent-street on the previous afterneon about four o'clock, the prisoner and a cAnpanion, whom she took for a sister, being near her. A minute or two afterwards she felt a touch at the gold chain which was round her neck, and observed the end of it fall, and the prisoner's hand go from it, and immediately missed her watch of the value of gl. She accused the prisoner of taking it, and a con -table comin g up s h e gave h er i n t o custo d y. The pri'onei's companion immediately she accused the prisoner, mede o ff , b et she was now down stairs at the door of the court, althoegh dressed differently to what she way on the previous day. Mr. Bingham (addressing the prosecutrix).—Then, go down stairs, and if you think the female is the same— but tided you ere certain—let an officer take her into custody, A. minute or two after the female was brought into court and placed at the bar along with the other prisoner. She gave the name of Catherine Delap. Proseeutrix said the prisoner just placed at the bar was the elle in company with the other prisoner at the time. She was quite certain she saw the prisoner Matthews' hand pass from her chain. The two pri soners were quite close to her. Mr. Bingham asked the prosecutrix whether there were any other persons there at the time I The prosecutrix said there were several other females. Goddard, 302 G, said he took the prisoner Matthews into custody. When the prosecutrix said the prisoner had taken her watch, the prisoner said, "Then give me into custody.' The prosecutrix, in answer to Mr. Bingham, raid she had a companion with her, but had not brought her. The prisoner, Matthews, said that on the previous day the prosecutrix had said her and her sister were at the " Rooks or Dip." Mr. Bingham asked whether anybody could explain the meaning of the term, but received no answer. The prosecutrix denied she had made use of such an expression. Mr. Bing . barn having put several questions to the pri soner a-lap, and elicited that she was only 16 years of age, discharged her, and remanded the prisoner. THAM ES. JUVENILE CRIME.—AN ARTFUL YOUNG ROGUE.— J . awes Per r y, aged 14, and J sseph C arter, 13, were br , u„ght befor e Mr. Yardley, charged with etealing a cask, the property of the East and West India Duck Company. It appeared from the evidence cf Mr. Wilson, the head constable of the Dick, that several water ca-Its had lately been ro ll e d out of t h e d oc k b y b oys w h o pro duced written p asses purporting to b e s i gned b y masters of ships. Yesterday afternoon, a boy named Marney rolled a water cask to the principal entrance of the dock, and produced a written pass to the following effect : "April 5, 1858. Allow to pass out the water cask from the ship Tuakan, M. A. Mahey, mate." Tee officer to whom the pass was presented, suspecting something wring, asked the b,y from whom be received the pass, and be pointed to the prisoners, who were standing in the street a sh or t di stance f rAn the pr i nc i pa l gate. On seeing Mr. Wilson approach they both ran awa y. They were pursued and overtaken. Murray proved that Perry gave hi m the pass, and that when he did so Carter said, " You had better not go into the dock—you will get locked up.' , Mr. George Cargill, mat s o f t h e ship Cumbia, sa id that the cask detained yesterday belonged to Captain Bind, the master of the Tessel. It was on the quay alongside the ship ye s terday morning, and had been rolled away. Evidence was given that four panes, as they were called, by which as many water casks Lad been rolled out f the dock, were written by Perry, Mr. Wilson, and Roche the gaoler of the court, said that Perry had been twice LOU victeel of felony, and upon the last occasion be was sentenced to three months' ini• prisonment aid hard labour, for obtaining a quantity of nails alit brass fittings by eteans of a forged order. Mr. Yardly di s ceargad Cart e r, an d sa id h e was deter miced to stop the guilty career of the prisoner Perry who bid fair to become a most accomplished villain. Ho sentenced Perry to three months' imprisonment and hard labour, and to be afterwards detained in a Reformatory School for five years. The Magistrate also ordered that 2s, fid. p er wee k towar d s th e Perry's father should pay maintenance of his son. THE BALLOT.—The frien3s of the ballot intend giving at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Wednesday, the 14th just., a soiree to Virtu. Nicholson, Esq., late First Minis ter of Victoria, in Austialm, where he introduced voting by ballot, and thus became the founder of that system in tue British dominions. Thelo n . F. H. F . B er k e l ey, M . P., has promised to preside ; and Lord G o d er i c b, Si r A rt h ur Hallam Elton, Bart., Sir De Llcy E , Ang, General Thompson, and other well•known friends of the ballot are expected to be present. The Mach id journals of the Ist are again occu pied with the alleged fusion of the two branches of the royal family ; and whilst some express great alarm, others denounce the Government for not having prevented :t. The Government and the Carlist journalists affect to treat the matter with indifference. THE SUN, EVENING, APRIL 6, .S5B. NEWMARKET RACES—(This Day.) [BY ELECTRIC TELEG i! API!. SUBSCRIPHON PLATE OF 50! o,ld Trick Ross BoDheur Theodora SWEEPSTAKES 01? 50 SOVS. Tox - pholit- Mentrnore Four ran. NEWDIARKEr HANDICAP. 7to 1 aget Failadeen (t) No other change. NEWMARKET HANDICAP.—Mary, Messenger, Queen Be-s, Viliking, Amsterdam, Hobgoblin, Peeping Tow, and Dividend filly have paid forfeit. Arrived—Toxopbilite and Miss Whip filly. LATEST BETTING. THE NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 6to 1 agst Pavilion (taken) 7 to 1 aget Monarque (taken) Bto 1 aget Wonvermans (taken) Bto 1 agst Fadladeen 9 to 1 agst Br. to Bird-on-the-Wing (taken) 10 to 1 ag-t Worcester (taken) 10 to 1 aget East Langton (taken) 14 to 1 aget Queen of the East (taken) 20 to 1 agst B 4 Esperanzi (taken) GREAT NORTHERN. 9to 1 aget Bashi Bazoak (taken) TWO THOUSAND. 4to 1 aget Clydesdale (offered) sto 1 aget The Peer (offered) 10 to 1 aget B ed-on-Wing (taken) 12 to 1 aget Happy Land (taken) 15 to 1 agst Mentmore (offered) THE DERBY. 12 to 1 on The Field (e&red) 14 to 1 aget Clydesdale (offers to take) 14 to 1 aget Toxophilite (offers to take) 16 to 1 aget Se•ibury (taken) 16 to 1 agst Cock-a-doodle-doo (taken) 50 to 1 agat Meutmore (taken) 100 to 1 aget Massanello (taken) MANCHESTER BETTING.—MONDAY EVENING. THE NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 11 to 2 eget Mortarque (taken) 13 to 2 agst any other. CRIMINAL COURT.—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) A PART YOUNG DRAPER. John Carter, 27 years of age, and described In the calendar as a draper's as , istant, was indicted for steal ing moneys, the property of his employers, Messrs. Venables, drapers, Whitechapel. Mr. Robinson prosecuted, and Mr. Sleigh defended the prisoner. The prisoner had been in the prosecutor's employ ment about five months, during which time they had cause to suspect him, and he was watched. On serving a customer it was his duty to make out a bill on the duplicate system adopted by the drapery trade, and take them both to the cashier, who returns them to him, one stamped to be given to the customer, and the other retained by the prisoner as a check on the amount of receipts entered against him. On the 6th February, the prisoner took a duplicate bill to the cashier, made out in the name of Mrs. Cummings for is. 9.1. and altered the one he handed to Mrs. Cummings to Bs. 9d., the amount of the articles she had purchased. Several such instances had occurreel, and the prosecutors gave him into custody on these charges. The case being clearly proved against the prisoner, Mr. Sleigh said he could not resist the charge, and he had advised him to retract his plea of not guilty and plead guilty. The prisoner accordingly pleaded guilty. There were t►ao other indictments against the prisoner, one for stealing and the other for embezzling, to which the prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. Sleigh addressed a few words to the Rec.-rder in mitigation of punishment, urging, what the learned counsel termed the prisoner's youth, which bad caused him to fall into temptation and lead a rather reckless life. Mr. Robinson, on the part of the prosecutors, re marked they bad no desire to appear vindictive. The prisoner came to them from the country, with a charac ter, a comparative stranger, but that during the time he had been in their employ .he must have commenced a systematic course of plunder, for in addition to the money cases they bad discovered against him, his boxes when searched were found to contain numerous articles, the property of his employers. There was no doubt the prisoner had been living a reckless life, for he had been frequen ly seen driving tandem about the parks. The Learned Recorder said the prisoner had syste matically plundered his employers. He,sentenced him to four years' penal servitude. The Court was occupis,l the remainder of the day in disposing of cases presenting no features of general interest. SECOND COURT. (Before the Common Scrjeant.) The Court was occupied the whole of the day in dis posing of cases of uttering base coin. They were of the usual character, and devoid of pints of pubic interest, except in the case of William Sage, an old offender, who was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. THE HAYMARKET MURDER. It is expected that the trial of Giovanni Lull, for the wilful murder of Heloise Tau bin, in the Haymarket, will take place tomorrow morning. CILARGE OF' AFFILIATION UPON A MAR RIE 1 . ) MAN. SELFE V. OSBORNE. At the Kensington Petty Sessions, yesterday aftEr noon, before a full bench of justices, an affiliation sum mons was beard. Mr. T. Beard appeared for the defendant, an omnibus driver, living at Kensington. Plaintiff, a good-looking young woman, about 26 years of age, said she had known defendant for some time. . 4 11 e is a married man, and in March last year plaintiff was on a visit to his wife. During ber absence on the 6th or Bth of that month defendant had connection with plaintiff, the result of which is the child now pre sent. When plaintiff was confined she wrote to the defendant, who called to see her, and said, "Well, we must have this talked about— how can we settle it ?" Tcis was said in the presence of a witness. Crow_-examined—She knew a young man named Turner, and bad on one occasion been out with him all night, but no connection ever took place between them, and defendant was the only man she had ever known. A witness, the woman who attended plaintiff during her confinement, was called, who corroborated plaintiff in her statement of what transpired when defendant visited her. Plaintiff was confined on the 6th or 7th of Dacember. Mr. Beard, for the defendant, pointed out the extreme probability of plaintiff's statement with respect to Turner, and called defendant, who solemnly swore that he had never had any connection with the plaintiff. She wrote to him when she was confined, but the letter fall ing into the hands of his wife was the only reason cf his calling upon the plaintiff. He denied the conversation sworn to by plaintiff and her witness. The court was cleared for about half-an-hour before ret•uwing its sitting. The presiding Justice said there was certainly some bard swearing somewhere, and in the face of the evideLce they must adjudge defendant to be the father cf the child. MARK ET NEWS.—(This Day.) HAY 51 A.RK ETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 21 10a to 4/ 4s clover 31 10s to 51 Os ; and straw, 1/ 64 to 11 1O per load, A slow trade, at late rates. Supplies moderate. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 2/ 104 to 4 ; clover, 31 10, to 5/ Os ; and straw, 11 6, to 1/ 10s per load A fair average supply, and a heavy demand. WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 21 lOs to 41 4s clover, 3/. 104 to 5 , Os ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 11 10s p-r load. Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at our quotations. COLONIAL. •••• The markets for foreign and colonial produce aro still closed for the Easter holidays. TEA.-The market remains ♦ery dull privately. Com. mon congou is quoted Lid. per lb. SUGAR.---Very few inquiries have been made for either home use or for export, and there have been no transac tions to report. The refined market has been entirely closed. COFFEE.— A few dealings by private contract have been reported in Plantation Ceylon et steady rates. RICE.—No transactions of any importance have been re ported, but a large quantity is advertised for public sale during the week. Rum. Owing to the intervention of the Easter holidays the attendance of buyers has been very limited, and no business has been done. INDIGO.—SmaII quantities are taken for howe use of good Bengal qualities, at about the rates current at the last Febiusry sales. TALLOW.—The market is dull, with little disposition evinced to purchase. P.Y.C., spot, is quoted 545. 6d. ; April to June, 535. Gd. ; June, 533. 9d ; sad last three months, 528. Gd. per cwt. We have reason to believe that Mr. Disraeli will bring in his Budget on Friday, U.() 16th inst. PIG KILLING BY MICIIINERY.—Three beautiful and well-fed pigs a day or two ago strayed upon the East LancaAire Railway, and when the three o'clock train came up two of the pigs were kill on the stop. TUE Loss OF THE Ava.—A suggestion has been made to the Postmaster General to employ "cork buoys" in the transport of letter-boxes rnd bags, as well as in the carriage of specie and valuable merchan dise, since the melancholy loss of the Ava. A cubic foot of cork, it is well-known, will support 451 b. srer u i while a box of the same material ( chea p and enough), measuring two feet square and thhereeecfeePentetdoelep: is capable cf supporting 7501 b. In ' t ce-, there will shipwreck, and the vessel going to pie the valuables, then be some dance of recovering wails, do. .1f Alt CUNT .1?A - 4 : 1‘ 7 1) AD M. IR Y 'P 7IS WANE OP Q Ei.V OE. OBNTS. ~` ) - re• ' -1 or he kw Of derearid aria impel!' ought t. ;mire The next foreign. maita fir-.;,. wil ii: .. ,.. 1 , e -, ,„ I ue a never-failing succession of good speakers in board the mail packets will be the India and uSite lhis ceuntra. Tee love of listening to oratory is ones, and it will probably not be long bef re. t'io4. deeply impla ed in h: Englisem in. Whenever mails ail be sorted a l , : 0 . d ' ' •;n ex use can b f ian for it, the di Hoer table is ar• packets run .ing en ' ' ' . ell ill. mar. packet lin e Tturn •d into . tribune fur 'he exchange of compli . t. ca.e.L al .11 CO.t' l'aCt are very elaborate documents, drawn up with the mentary aedresses ; debating clubs are the delight greatest care, to secure the carryires of for e i gn ma il s ' of every class from the undergraduates of Oxford as speedily and as safely as possible. These docu- and Cambridge to the petty tradesman who hasjust meats contain eire,agements on the part of the Go- put up his shutters ; no institution, whether patri vernment to pay heavy subsidies for carrying. mails : etic, or education il, or aericultur al, or charitable, according to the contracts, and to inflict heavy can be inaugurated without an attempt at a set and penalties ou mail packet companies for faille," i n I formal speech. Why, then, do not great speakers their obligations. The ports at which the p ac k e t s l abound ? Previous education may be wanting, but shall call, the order in which the packet ports are i in other departments the demand for a faculty, and to be visited, the time for arrival and stoppage at, i the prizes which its exercise insures, make up for and departure from, each port ; the speed per hour I nil deficiencies o f i ns t ruct i on . B oys are not edu at which the packets must be driven, together with , ca nd ted in ci v il eng i neer i ng or t h e mechanical arts, the extra time allowed in case of accidents or unit- a I suit yet men of the highest ability in these pur voidable delays through bad weather, are distinctly 1 Nor isaptlear at tho call of our new civilisation. re anythin g in our education which laid down in the mail contracts. n every emu i should rear ie mail scheme where there is intercolonial or branch vet it cannoiju i c j licious and temperate statssmen, mad. service performed, the departures of the main I ° I - ilified for th e doubted that men eminently steamers on the homeward voyage cannot be fixed 1 ?- ' English soeil task of government do spring rotu to a day. There must be several days' grace allowed, iu number s which any other country may _envy. _But-, whatever the cause, it for the branch steamers to arrive at the junction would sesm that lu isthe present day at least the ports, but in every contract there is a positive rule facul:y of eloquence wanting. that the main ste oners must start for home, weather Never was there perniitt ng, as soon as the inter colonial mails ar e or, so much and so peer speaking. W e d o not refer now to the decay of pulp oratory, th oug h there board. it , the seaborne The subsidies paid for carrying , assursdly is a vast difference between th e sermons " " mails are not sufficient for the maintenance ' of steam which loused the hums of a seventeenth century packet companies, and the litter are consequently audience and the compositions which are no wa d ays to detive revenue from passengers and obliged demurely read to fidgety congregations. It i s of freight, but they lose many of the former and much oratory proper, of political eloquence, the obj ect of the latter because their ships are una bl e t o wa i t of which is to persu a d e m e n i n matters of St a t e go vernment, that we would s p ea k, an d ask why it. is for anything but mails. Th e ma il p ac k e t compa that with knowledg e b e y on d the reach of any pre secure as many pas sengers an d as muc h f re i g h t as uies, i n or d er t o encourage th e i r comman d ers t o vious age, with p a t r i o ti sm an d pur it y o f mot i ve which should elevate the s tyl e , w ith gen i us w hi c h possible, all ow t h e capta i ns to v i ctua l th e s hi ps, give them a perce n tage on the fares or else success in other pursuit s s h ows no t to h ave d ecaye d and freigt ; and in or d er t o wor k t h e packets . the country should s till pro d nce so few pu bli c men who are gif,ed with the power of dignified and at as economically as possible, the engineers are paid a tractive speaking. The Houses of Lords and Com a sum for every ton of coals they save during a voyage. Now the natural result of this desire for mons are, beyond all do u bt, th e most educated and as much passenger and cs rgo traffic, and a s littl e con -refined assemblies in the world. They contain a sumption of fuel as possible, is, that all ocean wail comparatively large number of men who have won packet companies aim at running their steamers j ust fame by literary or scientific achievements, and who fast enough to avoid the mail contract penalties, one would think, would appreciate, and almost add no faster. exact, oratorical excellence. And yet the leaders of In order therefore that the public interests should the British Parliament are in effective oratory, be looked after, the Govern merit hashitherto placed many of them, below th e l eve l of an Old Bailey on board every ocean mail packet a naval lieutenant barrister or a popular Dissenting minister. Know as Admiraltymail agent. He carries with him a copy ledge of men and things and books, official experi of the mail contract, and sees that it is strictly ae- ' ence, long habits of rapid thinking and extern hared to. He is the judge as to the safety of the I pore speaking, have not taught them how to packets leaving a port when the proper time has frame a sentence neatly, or to utter it elapsed, and he dictates what shall be done in all I w. 12 grace. The wonder is that with cases of emergency. He Sees also that the proper ' besi • rieg . lect of the proprietors of style they should speed is kept up, that the packets run a proper able do . command and retain the attention of their audiences, and course, that their machinery is in good order, and we CALI only account for it by supposing that the Houses have that they are properly officered and manned, and he s ~ become accustomed to the peculiar involutions and repetitions of Par takes care that the packers arrive at their destine- Matinentery rhetoric, and that each member un tion, not only at the contract time, but before if consciously performs for himself the operation possible. He has charge of all mails on board, re which the reporter performs for the world in gene postmasters them from, and delivers them to, foreign ral—reduces the contorted and redundant phraseo postmasters ; and in case of shipwreck, it is his spe-logy of the speaker into clear and straightforward. cial duty to save them if possible. Moreover, he has to see all British consuls, ambassadors, and admi- English. rats at the various foreign packet ports, to deliver We would not, indeed, be supposed to imply up to, and receive from, them the most important that any of the great political chief s stand actually in need of the house's i n dul g enc e , but still we must Government despatches, and to report to the Ad t miralty the movements of all foreign ships of war think that even am o n g th e hi g h es t th ere i s a ten ond Vise high seas. He has a beat and an officer and dency to certain deficiencies whi c h i n men less able beat's crew to attend on him when on mail service and full of matter be comes p os iti ve p over ty of ex pression. Take, for i ns t ance , our l a t e P rem ier. duty, and one of the staff of Admiralty agents is L promoted every year to the rank of commander as Lord Palmerston i s p ro b a bl y t h e most i ns t ruc t e d a a good service reward. For obvious reasons, the and experienced stat esman i n E urope. H e h as h a d mail packet companies have always been desirous nearly 50 years of official life and o f p ersona l inter that the services of the Admiralty aeentsahould be course with the most c e l e b ra t e d personages. H e dispensed with. They have offered to let their own has the wisdom o f age wi th th e v i gour o f lif e ' s officers receive and deliver the foreign meils prime : he has the courag e t o t hi n k an d ac t , an d h e thus save Government the pay of the naval lieu- and possesses the knowledge by which to di rect hi s ac tenants. They have likewise agreed to submit to a Cons. And yet, thou g h of ten e ff ec ti ve, somet i mes reduction in the subsidy, provided the agents were powerful, Lord Palm ers t on owes hi s success more to his matter and the sprit with w hi c h h e ut t ers done away with, and now the Government requires accommodation on board some of the packets for it than to any orato r i ca l s k i ll. H e h as, pro - Post-office clerks. The companies demand for provid- baldy, never d one hi mse l j us ti ce, or fitl y ing that accommodation that the Admi ra lty agen t s embodied his th o u g ht s an d hi s i mpu l ses shall be taken out of all th e p ac k e t s . B u t P ost - o ffi ce in language. A fl uen t d e li very , an ap t clerks, being civilians, would be t o t a lly una bl e t o see selection of words, and a sc i en tifi c s t ructure o f sentences, have never b een at t a i ne d by a s t atesman that the mail contracts were carried out. In ship wrecks they would have difficulty to save th em - who has spent 5 0 years of his life in addressing au diences of every kind. Hi s s p eec h es ma k e an selves, and would be unable to look after ma il s . i m - Besides which, the sorting of the mails on preb o ardssion on hearers wh o are accus t ome d t o t h em ; the packets can at the most, only accelerat e th e but who can doubt th a t th e i r power would be g delivery of letters twenty-four hour s , wh ereat Ad- greatly increased by thos e a d vent i t i ous a i ds which miralty agents cause the packets to arrive home it is the fashion to depreciate i Something similar days before they otherwise would. may be said of Lord John Russell, who, though Many of the Admiralty agents are first-rate na- more of an orator than Lord Palmerston, falls very vigators, and have rendered important service to far short of excellence. A cultivated mind, literary commanders in moments of danger and difficulty, tastes, and a long acquaintance w i t h t h e most edu and their rank adds dignity to the mail service rated society, have never compensated Lord John abroad. Only a few months since, while the Ad- tor the want of real oratori c al a tt a i nmen t s. B ut th e miralty agent was going down the Spanish m a in most striking example of thi s d e f ec t i s i n th e case with the mails he heard that Walker and the of Sir G. C. Lewis, all whose inexhaustible learn- American filibusters had landed at Greytowu, and ing, and ability, and application are often neutral knowing that they would lay an embargo on the ised, in the opinion of hi s h earers , b y th e te di ous - Costa Rican mail bag, which is sent acrass the ness of his delivery. I n f ac t, ou t o f b o th h ouses it would be diffi c ult t o se l ec t a d ozen men w h o rea ll y Isthmus from their lauding-plac e , he cut open the Greytown bag, took out the letter bag for Costa do justic e t o a great su bj ect. L or d s D er b y, Ellen- Rica, which was enclosed in it, and sent the Costa borough, a n d L yn dh urst, w i th the Duke of Argyll Rican mail across the Isthmus from Colon b and and the Bish o p ti f Oxford, in the one house ; M essrs . , 00ty. Gladstone, Dis rae li, Sir J. Graham, M r . B r i g ht, thus deprived the filibusters cf their M When the mail steamer Caudia broke down in the Mr. S. Herbert, a n d M r. Roebuck, in the other, Medit iranean about fif eon months since, the are indeed speakers wh o i ncrease the attraction of -t Admiralty agent was enabled by his rank and in- their subject by the mann er i n w hi ch they treat it, fluence to obtain the loan of a steamer from the but these are nearly all, and even these sometimes sink to the lower level of styl e w hi c h i sprevalent in Bey of Tunis to carry on the India mails. Some time since a mail packet struck on a rock, and the our poi-tic speaking. T commander was about to back her; before ho did he fact probably is th a t we h ave fallen into a so the Admiralty agent insisted upon getting out bad style, through to o grea t a contempt for elabo- ration and artifice. In his mails. As soon as he got them out the ship the last century every era was backed, and sunk in deep water, and every- for attitudinised, just as a Frenchman does at the thing on board of her was lost. The mails in the present day. Manner was of more importance Great Liverpool, Erin, Madrid, Tiber, and other than matter, and a weak and superficial civilisation wrecked packets have been saved by the zeal, was cer atinly the consequence ; but it had its judgment, and nautical skill of the Admiralty merit , . We may tire of the monotonous elevation agents. The foreign snails are now become of im- of Johnson and Gibbon, yet we may well wonder menese value and importance, and for the exigencies how they could write volume after volume of of commerce, they cannot be carried too quickly to pointed sentences, while authors of the present their destination. With Admiralty agents to see day, if they begin a book with any pretensions to the mail contracts fairly and fully carried out, and style, generally subside into slipshod after the first with Post office clerks, travelling the first and last few chapters. Burke and Pitt and Fox and Sheri stages on the mail steam lines to enable the public den were brought up in a rigid school of manner in England to post their foreign letters just previ- ism, in the study of the " Spectator" and the ous to tire departure of the outward packet, and "Essay on Man," and they were surrounded by to receive their correspondence immediately after the atmosphere of the "Rambl er ." an d "J un ius." the arrival in England of the homeward packet, Doubtless ninny geniuses were cramped by these nothing further can be desired, and it is to be circumstances, but those which broke through felt the benefit of the training. They were taught to hoped that the Government will not adopt a penny-wise -and-pound-foolish policy, and iu order respect art, to speak according to rules, to be to avoid some additional expense, stop short of all careful in the censtruction of their sentences, to balance their periods, and to profit by the ar t o f the completeness that is attainable in their foreign and colonial mail service.—Daily News. elocution. New it seems to us that in our hor ror of artificiality and our affected love of earnestness and naturalness we have forgotten that people must learn to speak as well as to do anything else. Those persons who must speak in order to live—such as barristers, lecturers, Dissent ing preachers, and the like—have managed to keep up the practice of at least fluent oratory ; but amateurs, as our politicians chiefly are, seem to have forgotten the art of addressing an audience. They even appear to takea pride in their bad speak ing, as dirt nguishing them from those who have been forced to cultivate their powers. It is really piteous to hear or read so many long common-place effusions, to find men of the greatest powers using over and over again the same hackneyed expres sions, adopting, in short, the Widest and most worn-out diction of their predecessors. If the as pirants to Parliamentary fame, instead of inter preting the applause of agricultural or charitable dinners into a tribute to their excellence, would labour iu their oratorical education as the great e d that men of the past laboured, we have h ttl but not only the eloquence of Parliament, ~ oubt b 7 t he _ torte of example, th© power of the pulpit and the ova tion. bar, would receive a healthy ren SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY. At half-past 6 a.m., March the 23, a native on board the steamer Aden reported that a large tiger was swimming towards Mazagon from the opposite shore. Immediately, with the usual promptness and love of sport inherent in Englishmen, the cow man ler ordered a boat's crew to be got ready, and fuur officers—Mr. Maundrell, chief officer ; Mr. Tottenham, third officer ; Mr. Bain, feu! th officer ; and Mr. Newell, clerk in charge—arrived with guns and proceeded to the capture. No time was to be lost, as the powerful animal was fast approacl ing the shore near the Bauder at Mazagon. About 15 minutes sufficed to bring the tiger in sight when lie was found at tempting to board a native boat lying at anchor, and with fierce roars he was springing at the side of the bungalow. The natives, who evidently were iu the greatest terror at the view of the monster who was attempting to board them, were with cries making frantic attempts to repel him with sticks, and when they perceived the Aden's boat coming up they by gesture and signsbegged them to hasten. In a few minutes a volley of four muskets from the Aden's boat made this monster roar and turn round to repel the attack from the boat. Soon, however, a fresh volley from the boat caused him to drop I,is head in the water, when with a cheer the toat was brought alongside the carcass of the huge animal, and he was taken in tow, and Boon paced on board the Aden. He proved to be a male tiger of the Royal Bengal species, and his dimen , ions will show what a formidable creature be would have proved had he reached the shore, which in a f , minutes he could have done from the spot where lie was captured. The weight of this animal ta 'a i ; 3531 b. ; the length from nose to tip ~0 13 1- t . Bft. 9in., of which his tail meas urea height circumference round the body 4f6. g, and 24 3ft. 9in. He had four tusks, each 2in j on g ; the cir to show the smaller teeth ; his whiskers W ere 9 . in a . , id cumference of his head, 2ft. S k[ in ; i eed only say that great strength of this a ril:l: r a j... i d lit. 8 . n., a r., cl the, round his fora leg he Ina": red creature and beau hind leg 21t. wa g i s is no way damaged •; as, the o fficers aimed at his tifully striped ; head, like true sport smen, t b u llets found their way, so that fits skin will re . through which remain a lasting when ,priensefnt-hedo prompt manner in which he was memoria- - tured . ,.thus saving the inhabitants its vicinity the terror it would have pursuedvaolnida cap. of inspired at having so terrible a visitor in their neighbourhood.—Bombay Telegraph. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. —(This Day.) LONDON, r.—wind this day at noon, E. by S . E .; frosrbDre°eN' Apri lze,w it h . ral P—Viind S.SE.— S a il e d— Priman, JERSEY, .Aprd for W es t Indieffl. 5._ Arrived— Medina D UB LIN, , from Porto APri Rico. gos , , April 5..--Wind S.E.—Arrived—East A N: fromC S3110(1--Emigrant, for Quebec. Lothian, April s. —Wind S. — Sailed—Thoinasine, for gootr e " soUTIIAMPTON, April 5, —Sailed - Norman (s), for Cape o f Good Hope. (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Wind E., rain. Arrived.—Cotnier, steamer, from Jersey; Havro, steamer, Havre. Sailed.—Saxonis, steamer, for New York ; Norman, steamer, Cape of Good H o p e ; Alliance, steamer, Havre ; Despatch, steamer, Jersey. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind E. ; strong breeze. Arrived.— Loo c h i istie, from Ghent. Sailed, April 4.—Glengary, for Singapore. Sailed, April s . —Therese, for Sydney ; Woodfield, for Montreal ; Islas, for Earbadoes. The Morning Light, from Melbourne, drove from her anchors at ton o'clock last night, and grounded off Sea combo Point. Two ateamtuga went to her assistance and towed her in safety into the stream. Wind at the time, E.S.E., a gale. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.). GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Wind S.E. ; tido, threo hours' ebb ; cloudy and fresh. Arrived—Harriet, and Speedwell, from Antwerp ; Saohrimmer, from Dram. Sailed— Blackburn, for Calcutta; Adelaide, for Dome. rara ; Albion, steamer, for Boulogne. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Viscount and Viscountess Villiers are among the English families of rank passing the Easter holidays in Paris. The Right lion. the Speaker and Lady Casrlotts Deniso❑ purpose giving a series of grand dini , ec parties shortly a . ter their return to town, at their Mansion in Chrlton House terrace, Wind E.S.E., &cab. NO arrivals. BRITISH MINES. . . 2/ 12 , Alfred Cons. (Philk.) 11 22 20 14 British Iron ••• . . 20 Condurow (Cambrn.) 80 10 1 Dev. Gt. Cnsls. (Tay.) 460 480 ... 30 , E.lst Basset (Illogan) i 0 100 ... 17s Great South Tolgus 145 154 ... 17Z Grt.W.Alfrd.(Philk.) 5 7BiGrt.W. Vor (Helstn.) 1 2 17s Lady Bertha ... 8 N. Frances (Illogan)S 8 2 9 5 N.W.Basset (Illogan) 12 14 6115 North Wheal Crofty 4 5 ... 1i Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) 175 181 ... 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) ••• ... 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. 1 i 11 ... 24 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) 375 390 2 S. Cam Brea (Illogn.) 45 5 5 19 S.W. Frances(lllorm.) 220 230 5 44 Tarn. S. &L. Min. Co. k 11 10 9 Tin Croft 35 4 3i 40 Un.Minee (Gwcnnap) 12sC V. of Towey (Camar.) I 14 W. Basset (Illogan) 2l 25 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd ) 110 120 54 Wh. Basset (Illogan). 210 220 5 'Wh. Buller (Rdrnth). 280 300 ... 55 Wh. alward(Calstek) 6 71' 1.178 iWh. Kitty (U. Llant) 11 12 .... 8 Wh. Ma. Ann (Menht.) 43 45 44 Wh. Trelawney (Lis.) 21 FOREIGN MINES. 20 1 1 7 o i sB 'Australian Bon Accord Cop. (li. ) 35 27 Brazilianlmp.(issued at .£5 pm) 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 12 . 5 135 131 13 it 1 4 Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica — .d 40 al! Cobre Copper 39 4 1 ... 16 Copiapo 1 all Dun Mountain Cop per Mining Co. - id 2 all Fortuna 20 all General 3 all Linares - 5 1i Lusitanian 1 all Mariquita 1 all New Granada 1 all Noveau Monde 20 all Pont.Sil.LdM.&Smlt 51 61 5 1 Port Philip — 30 16 ' Santiago de Cuba 2 21 all (United Mexican 3k 4A 3k 2 - 2i 3i - ,h MISCELLANEOUS. • 1000 900 Atlantic Tel. (Lim. - 25 19 (Australian Agricult. 26 28 10 all lAustraln. Royal Mail 11 14 10 all ' Berlin WaterWorks._ 3i 41 10 2 Do. New iss. at Si. d . . 50 40 Brit. American Land 35 40 100 324 Canada llO 150 St. 100 ,Do.Go.6pc.Jan&July 113 114 St. all Copper Min. of Eng. 25 30 25 all ' Do. Prof. 7§ p. cent. 26 28 5 all Crystal Palace —141 k 5 all Do. Preference 4 all Crystal Pal, of France --- 20 all lEastern Steam — 50 4,1 5k St. 100 jElectricTelegraph 1 all 'Electric Tel. of Irol 5 all lEn.daust.Cop.SmCo 11 10 I.os. Eur. & Ind.Jetu. Tel. 9 all Eur.&Am.Stm.(lim) . 4 20 ‘II Gen. Ir.Sc.Col.(lim.) 15 14 'Gen. Steam Navigat. 20 5 London Discount 11 1 • ci 4 all Loud, Gen. Omnibus 34 3i 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. 10 all Meditoran. Elec. Tel. 8 9 10 all .Do, Extension 'Meg. *AA 10 all Mexican& S.Americn 25 5 Nat. Discount Co. ~, 1k J 10 6 'Netherlands Laud._ 10 all 'Do. Do. . l4 24 5 all Do.B p.c.PLiss.at Id. 2 3 5 3 Do. Do. 100 80 New B. &N. S. Land 17 20 St. 100 N.S. W. Gov.s p.c.D. 96i —97 A 1 all N. B. Australasian... k 20 all Nrth.ofEuropeSteam 2 3 1 all Oriental Gas 10s. Do New Shares id it) 5 all Peelßr. Ld. dz Minrl 2 21 50 all Peninsular do Oriental 78 —BO 50 10 Do. New 64 —74 p 50 all Rhymney Iron 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 62 64 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest .lk 1$ St. 1(X) S. Au% Gov. 6 p.c.bds lO6 108 25 all South Austral. Land 1 all Submarine Tel. Scrip ji 1 all Do. Registered 20 5 Trus.Ln.Co. Up. 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