The Sun. — London, England, 1860-05-16 00:00:00

SHARE MARKET- (T.HIS DAY.) IdONEY MARKET AND CITY 11 7 EJVS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Rather more activity and firmness are exhibited , in the general Money Market, which may be attri buted to the ordinary requirements of trade, and Am a and Eastern I c ß ti s o t n • ,'S t e o r t n t I . n u . n , ~Bost. the deman d which has arisen on account ofjoint stock 5 ° Belfast and Ballymena 3.11 Bir., Wol and Str. Val. enterprise. I n a dditi on t o severa l h eavy ra i lway calls stock Birk., La.:and Ch June. recently completed, two or three new companies 25 25 Blackburn t t and have been brought forwa r d, an d as their prospects 10 Bost Shell Tyne and Mid. Co. stock Bristol and Exeter appear satisfactory the public have subscribed to a stock Caledonian . large extent. The discount market, therefore, pre- g 0 c i" ,, a, ,r r;r c ia g r u t ( l i ie lt ill n cardi g an sents a less easy appearance, although at the cur- 202 ° Cornwall 'ork, 111 rock., &Passage 10 rI rent rates, which are now scarcely below the Bank A A gets no div. minimum, th e mercant i le classes are enabled to 10 13oii } ras t ge r e ) ; P d er t'o n li obtain the accommodation necessary for the active 50 Dublin 1 Belfast June. 25 Dun., Perth, &Ab. June. promotion of tr a d e . stock East Anglian The exportation o f spec i e to t h e C ont i nent con- stock Eastern Count ies stock Eastern Union, A s t oc k do B E tinues moderat e , an d s h ould further receipts of sth^ s k D D° Australian gold be sp ee dil y announce d , they will ;5 East '', , ,T u Ni f i ., i ) l i late U3d do s. probably flow into the Bank of England vaults, stock E( l l ? n o iburoh ,t Glasgow where an important accumulation has already taken stock Edin. Perth, & Dundee place. The p resen t va l ue o f the metal in Paris is stockt:°orrntlets&s'C lyde Junction 2 -10ths per cent. cheaper than in England, and stock 1,) Cri az;,•. N a t r i i , Zl n .S o . f l' e e n s t t l e a r n n d under these circumstances shipments in that direr- stock Great Northern tion are not likely to be immediately resumed. stock P) o o do B s t d° Co k silver continues in moderate request, and the quota- g st to( ocl gt e S i 1 1, ;IV of Ireland tions appear a shade firmer, the supplies brought by stock Do S trVal ru guk. stock the West India steamer having been sold at an sto l c 2 k Lancashire T Yorkshire South-eastern 4,- advance of id. per oz. standard compared with the stock London and Blackwall Lou., Bright.. (la S Coast price stocks realised f or th e prev i ous cons i gnments. 25 Lond., Ch t, and Dover In the present position of the New York ex- stook Lond. ei t-T l T t t4i g . Wes tern changes a profit is derived from the transmission of stock Lond. J.: nth. Western.. specie in Europe, especially to France, and small 25 f. , :c d ie e r r r r y : 21: L a v ine .. stock Man. SLt. & . • remittances are now conveyed by almost every 50 Maryport andCarlisle.. steamer. 124 Do do I shares.... A small quantity o f go ld, v i z., £ 5,000, was sent st i ok ll=litan into the Bank o f E ng l an d yesterday. The Jessie stock Do I,ir m i ng . k Derby' - ; Boyle has arri ve d thi s morn i ng, from Australia, 25 Ilblo. G. t g . h W ar . e o g f Ireland with £34,000 in specie. 25 Mid Kent .... . ..... . 10 Do, Cray Line . The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon ex- 100 Newcastle and Ctili • sie g N, e e l yv vr ., Aber. ,t Herefd hibited a decided advance in the rates on Vienna and \ y ,t. Armagh, def.. Trieste. 2O Newry, Warnpt. & Ros. stock Norfolk... In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday busi- 5 ° N. lin. Couniies • fini • Ori:: mess was rather inactive, but prices were without stock ~ ,0 0 r r tl B v rit a ish R Il&Dk.sto c any material variation. The sales were 6,000 bales. stock D ,ti li3 A stk ; A revs no d. Do ilg r o l n i i a beenpd.B stock . . The quart er l y sa l es of i nd i go which commenced stock on the Bth inst. were brought to a conclusion yes- stock il o th tio Et f t_Mrt p li u e r r eza i es i ce I terday ; about 8,820 chests of various descriptions stock .)*)no Yorks . were offered. There was a very limited attend- stock NortliLondon .. .......... ante of buyers, both home and foreign, and the r iTToartli d S s ta . al u s n li n t n : : biddings were dull, except for the good and useful stock (p)xficiiWor. & Wolverpt n I qualities, whi c h reac h e d an advance of 2d. to 3d. 20 P e o e rtsm eg o • u • ih • • •••• • • • • • per lb. on the rates current in February last ; or- sfo l e o ,k I S l c i o lY t i tl i F i lb eY Cen - tr• a • 1 . ••• • • • I dinary and inferior qualities went at a reduction stock Scot. N. E.. Aber. stock 1 , of 3d. per lb. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock ... 11 stock Shropshire Union ...... 1( Sittingbourne & Sheer. f Today the following railway calls are due, viz.:stock South Devon ........., 1C —£l per share, amounting to £50,000, on the 8 91 ° 1 s south F ,r a, a s i t e e s r . rt . ...... , : g Metropolitan ; £2 10 s., or £ 17,000, on the Monk- stock S. York. and Riper Dun 10' land New Shares ;£2 10e. on the Portadown and r 5 Staines,tne4 otn m A c 'a* A l t i n n .. d dl t v o ok ' Dungannon E x t ens i on ; an d £ 5 on the 6 per Cent. 1 25 Do do I Stockton tiz Hartlepool 11 Preference. stock Taft' Vale Although the tran sac ti ons i n th e E ng li s h Stock stock Do eg D ig o m Pref. No 1 25 HavenLk&R a il 2' Market are limited, the tendency of quotations con- 50 Ulster • a tinues unfavourable, principally in consequence of 12 2. 1 5 0 D o :: :: •: :: • • : the advices from the continent, and the steady de- sto4: I Vq e l t e n o r FN s 'e t atli •• d .. ... • 101 cline in the French Funds. Consols are now Quoted stock Waterford a i l i iilke i n m n • y • 101 94! for transfer, and 95 for the account. There is 20 I I; - e a s tr[?: i.n d w ct a l ii itnerI c k . a al still a large supply of money stock. The New Threes 20 best l l , Tns l ion .... . •. :•. :. per Cent s . an d t h e Reduced are steady at 93g. : ; 20 10 Do 2nd class : : : • • : • : Indian Ne w L oan i s f i rm at 106 i; ditto 5 per Cent. 124 Worcester & H eref o rd flat P a p er h as receded to 98; ditto Bonds are at at 13s. t o B s . di g., and Exchequer Bills at 3s. to ---- pp '--- 7-- 6s. prem. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Larcl It4ilways Paid I Closing I Business Price. Done. 61 61 8 8i 70 72 lli 12i fit 74 103 104 94 91 100 100 100 100 100 100 6i 7 8 9 17 18 54 55 36 38 25 27 Share Railways. / paid. Closing I Business Price. Done. . 25 Blythe and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issued at £5O all ( stk Rris. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock 100 96 9I 20 Do. do. do. Shares ' stock Caledon £10,41 per cent 100 101 103 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. all 6 1 Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. all 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent. 04 Dun.Pertli&Aber.Jun. all 54 64 stock E.Angn.Class A 7 &sp.e. 100 100 102 stock Do. do. Class B 6 p.c lOO 110 114 stock Do. do. Class C 7 p.c lOO 110 115 stock E. Coun. Ex. sp. c. No.l 100 110 112 stock Do. do. No. 2 100 108 110 stock Do. New G per ct. stock 100 124 126 stock 'Eastern Union, 4 per ct. 100 81 83 stock Do. 5 peir cent. guar... 100 stock Edin.&G las. sp.c. shares 100 110 112 stock Do. 4p. c. gun. S. &D. 100 90 92 stock Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. 100 751 765 stock Furness, 5 per cent .... 100 stock Glas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. 100 148 120 stock ;Great Northern, sp. ct. 100 117 119 stock :Do.sp.c.Redm., 10 p.c.pm 100 111 112 stock Do. 41 p. c. do. do. mots t n. 2n o. Qy 10 Gt. Nh. of Scotld. Ist pf. all stock f Gt. Sn. & W (Ireland) 4 I 100 97 99 p. ct. pref. stock 50 great West. (Berks and Hants) Ext. sp. et. stock :Do. Redeemable, 41 p.ct lOO 99 100 stock 'Do. Redeemable, 4p. ct lOO 88 90 stock Do. Irredeemable, do lOO 90 92 stock Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref lOO 102 104 1021 8 Do. Birm. Pref. Shares all 94 104 10 Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.sh all 17 18 10 Do dos p. ct. pref all 10 101 stock Do. Birmg.guar. stock lOO 74 76 264 Do. Chester gua. shares all 19 20 131 Do. do. do. 20 Do. do. do. stock T,a.n.&York 6p. c. stock lOO 138 140 stock Do.Barnsl.st£s3s 10d pc 100 stock Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) stock Lon.& Brig,. 5 pe.gu. No.l 100 116 118 stock Do. sp. c No. 2 100 116 118 stock 1)o. gua. Gp. c. stork Do. do. 5 p.c No. 4 100 116 118 stock, Do. do. 44 per cen'. .... 100 101 103 5 Do. do. 41 p. c. shares.. 25 stock Do. 7p. ct. Pref. stock. 100 154 157 stock Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P.) 100 132 136 stork Do.4p.e.S.(div.dettil '65) 100 68 70 25 Lon. Chat. and Dover.. .11 21 22 stock Lon. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, sp. et.... 100 115 117 stock Lon. & S.W, 7p. ct. stock 100 1521 1571 124 Londondy. & Cole. 1 sh. all 124 Londony. & Ennis.. sh. all 12 121 stock Alan. Sh. &Lin. 6 per et. 100 125 127 6 Do. .£6 Ate& Do. 35 per cent; ...... . .... . 100 68 70 10 Do. redeem. 6 percent., 5 1 # p 121 nary. ort & Car., 4p. c. all 124 Do. 41 per cent. all stock Hid. Con. 6p. c. stock.. 100 stock Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c. 100 139 141 stock Do. 41 p. c. pref. sto c k .. 100 101 103 140/ 6 Do. with option till 1860 3 11 p stock Do. Leic. & Hit. pref. st. 100 94 96 NewportA ber.&e.pref. 5 10 all 91 104 p.c.redeem.at 5 p.c.pm. 10 Do. Perpet. 6p. c. with option till 1866 ....... all 111 125 12 10 Do. till 1869, let is. 9 p 121 Do. do. 2d is. 21 p stock Nordic sp. c. Ex. st. 1846 100 1011 stock Do. 54 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 100 stock Do. s Way.Val.Ex.steltB47 100 stock North British, sp.c. .. 100 110 111 stock Do. New, gun. sp. c.... 100 101 Do. Bor. Un. g . pf. he 1 4 fp 10( Do. do. do. all stock Ntli.Dev.Rail. & Dck.Co. 100 stock N-East.Cons.Pref. 4 p.c. 100 92 94 stock Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. 100 961 971 , 17 Do. do. do 4 13.4. 1 # d 20 Do. Leeds, 6p. c. No. 1 13 121 Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. 9 25 Do. York, li. &S . Punch. 10 Id P 20 North Staffo r d s hi re.... all 221 2311 stock Ox.Wr.Wol. 6p. C. I s t g. 1 0 0 124 126 231 stock Do. Redeem. 2d gua.... 100 stock Do. Irredeem. 2d gun..* 100 119 121 10 Rhymney Guaranteed. all 81 Scottish Central, new pf all stock Scottish North-Eastern 31 p. e. pref. stock.... 100 73 75 stock Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c. 100 121 stock Do. 7p. c. pref. stock 100 O. South Devon, Ann. 10s. all 10 104 10 Do. Fixed 44 per cent. all 1.0.6 South Eastern (Reading n. An A, 1.0.6) stock Do. 41 per cent lOO 101 103 stock Do h• } . 1 1 p.c. let is lOO 101 10:1 stock 'outli Wales, gua. 4 P.C lOO 89 91 stock stock S.-Do. 41 per cen t lOO 99 101 Yorkshire, 4p. c. gua lOO 85 88 25 Stock. & Dar. Asp. c all 28 29 23 Do. 116 per cent all 321 331 25 Do. C 6 per cent all 32 33 stock Watrfd & Kilkny, Gp. c lOO 50 53 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. ! r aid Leasing Closing Business . 1 Co.'s. Price. Done. Business in the Foreign Stock Market this morn ing has been exceedingly inactive, and prices have I continued dep resse d . Turkish 6 per Cents. are 81, 75,1 to 76 ; ditto New, 591 to 60; Buenos Ayres 6 per Cents. are fiat at 85} ; Brazilian 41 per Cents. remain at 90i ; b u t P eruvian, Uribarren, are firm , ttt 83. The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 21 9 :1 prem. ; the Themes and Mersey ditto, 1: : prem. ; and the Universal ditto,l * prem. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have P. been to a fair extent, and some of the principal lines at first exhibited more firmness. Edinburgh, si Perth, and Dundee, Midland, South-Eastern, and : 1 Great Northern A Stock advanced ss. ; Bristol and Exeter, S ou th-W estern, and North-Eaßt.prn (Rn r - s Vick), 10s. Nortli:Western have declined 55., and Great W es t ern and Lancashire and Yorkshire, 10e. $ A general heaviness, however, is now apparent. The Foreign and Colonial Markets have shown ' little variation of i mportance. South Austrian and s Lombardo -Venetian are flat, at 12k, ; Pernam buco realise 111, 1 ; Buenos Ayres and San Fer nando, 6f ; East Indian, 1011 ; and Great Western sof Canada have declined to 12k. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are s , inactive, and realise barely previous quotations. BIIITIBII FUNDS ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per C en t . Reduced Annuities 226 71 931 1 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities Nevi 3 per Cent. A nnu i ties 931 1 1 A nnuities, 30 yrs, exp i re sth Jan., ,880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l7 7-16 India Stock... . ..... . Ditto Enfaced Pap er , 4 per Cent . Ditto 5 per C en t. .. Ditto Bonds £l.OOO . Ditto under £l,OOO l2 Consols for A ccount ( 6th June) Exchequer Bill s , £l,OOO , 11d 3 6 pm Ditto Small 78h ?eh 31h 32 99 10; 154 116 116 117 [3l 133 [l3 114 681 691 60 65 100 100 100 all 100 1031 104: 70 71 113 114 11 12 Loot 101 *d p 92 93 lot 11 42 42, 2 2 d [l7 1174 94 96 [oi 111 7 6dj 54 58 34 3 d 814 6JI 6134 05t A7k li I d 51* 511 79; 80} 100 108 4 .y l d 44 46 14 16 115 117 341 88 90 351 48 50 4 3 d 42 44 861 47 66 68 78 80 8 39 40 8} gip ill 551 mi 11 2. d 3ip p 0 57 59 Ly 10 11 64 6 all - all ' - Ilf 2 1 d 103 j 4 64f .1 11E1 117 1321 681 [O4 31 1011 1 921 3 641 1 ill I 96 1 i i 51i 80 1 i 11131 i I - - - - FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Brasilian 5 per Cent Ditto 4} per Cont. 1858 9O! Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent . B 5l P eruvian 4} per C en t. A ccount Ditto (Uribarren), 4 . 1 per Cent. Turki s h 6 per Cent 75 Ditto Account .. Ditto New Lo an 91 Ditto Account Consols, Mon e y TWO O'CLOCK.94t Ditto June As coun t It Was stated yesterday that a clerk in the Union sank was supposed to have becoran acquainted with the fact more than a year ago that Pullinger was engaged in speculations. It now appears that this clerk saw enough to render him watchful, and that he was the person through Whom the discovery of the fraud was finally effected. It is stated that after the departure from Sydney of the last Australian mail, a telegram five days later was despatched to catch the steamer at Adelaide, and to report the suspension of two large and old established houses, S —Messrs. David Jonas and Co., an d M essrs. Thompson, ymonds, and Co. Their liabilities aro bolievod to 115 prin cipally in England, and are thought likely to amount to £250,000. It was feared that others would follow. Messrs. David Jones and Co. are wholesale drapery importers, and Thompson, Symonds, and Co. connected with them. The decree for the reduction of the French sugar Cafes is to come into operation to-d ay. The alteration has not caused any change in prices in France, as the dealers hold large stocks, especially the Mauritius kinds. The bar silver brought by the West India packet has been sold at 610., being an advance of id. on the price realised for that by the previous mail. No Mexican dollars of any amount came forward by this opportunity, but within the last two or three days sales have been effected at 621-d. and 62/d. CATTLE KILLED BY LICKING PAINT.—Last Week two short-horn butts, about 16 months old, in a lot -",,f 25, the property of Mr. Thomas Clarke, upon New Moor arra Southrainster, were seized with frothing at the lll i ellth, a ff ec ti on of the brain, and other symptoms, from which one died the next day and the other was necessarily ied. the she Air. Howe, veterinary surgeon, on hearing from herd that th e an i mals had licked' some lead-coloured paint from off a part of the buildings, immediately pro nounced it to have occasioned the attack, and on post mortem examination the mortal effects of the poison were clearly developed. —Essex Herald. 4 'nTHE LATE M YSTERIOUS FIRE IN REDCROSS CRIPPLEGATE.—Yesterday Mr. Ser o aant Payne r esumed, for the third time, the official inquiry r es p ec ti ng ti.ao circumstances attending the outbreak of the lat e exten !lvo conflagration Jury, a ft er a v i sit of in Redcross-street, Cripple ate. The ins More particularly o f ion to the ruin s , for the purpose hear f ur th er evidenc:_«exam pectining. the salvage, proceeded to , diet : We believe that th and thenreturned the following ver of hissers. Johnson and Git !fire co imenced on the premises eufficient evidence to prove ) 1 , ' • r asn b n ut there do ot appear esn theoriginated,but eynt deuce vra have received appears de ed, we do not believe there w h a7_ .n, suspicien o; . stock l beaervgye amount Ott the premises at that time w ' Lic a has been stated by the 11-rious witnesses." p a rex PRICE OF GOLD.—The ( Notation of gold at tis about at par, and the short exch s 0. on London is 25,12} per £1 sterling. On comparin n' rates with foldtheEnglish Mint par, £3 17s. 101 d. ergp(„, these for standard ,it appears that gold is about 2-10th, n Itl,,i_ Paris than in London. By advises per cent. dearer fpm Hamburg sue Price of gold is 4211 per mark, knd the short *change on London is 13 31 per £1 sterli eld at the English Mint price is therefore nearly ng. Standard at. about the same price in London as in bill° course of exchange at New York on L on d on for Hamburg. ._ 8 at 60 days' sight is about 100} per cent., which, when shoals - with the Mint par between the two countries, 4 1 1 -t y,; l B that the exchange is against England. But, after the trans -41.41 g allowance for charges of transport and difference 41i:interest, the present rate leaves no profit on s isia of gold between the SWO countries. Bedford and all Ln & N.W Bnckingliamshire ....' 100 Ln & N.W 97 99 Chester & Holyhead. 100 Do.l Do. do. 51 per cent . . 100 ID° . Do. do. 5 p er cent. 100 ;Do ll3 115 Cl y d esdale Junction..' 190 !Caledonia 103 103 Colchester, Stour Val.! all E.U.&E C 16 17 E.Lincolnshire,g..6p.c. 100 Gt. North. 138 140 E.Union,Harwich She all ,11 Counts. 41 41 Do. Woodbridge . 100 • Gla.llarr.&Neils,Drc •• t.' 100 Caledonia' -- Do. -- Do. New • .... 100 D 0... ...I Gloster& Dean Foresti all Gt. West.' Hartlpool.Dck.& Rail., all Yk.N.&llr Hull and Selby .... ,Yk.N. Md. 110 112 Da 1 Shares all !Do. Do. 1 Shares all !Do. • Lanc.& Carl. zua.s p.c.! 100 Ln.&.34.W 207 209 London & Greenwich' 100 S. East. 63 65 Do. Preference ......! 100 'Do. Lon.,Tilby.& Sol p ten c d t: 1 1 00 00 N Pet ri o .o & ik Co e . _ 1! ... 4 97 Lowestoft, gua. Do. 6 per cent lOO Do. all L NW&H 31 Slid. Bradford I 100 Midland 95 97 Newmarkt.,BuryEx 155. 6 E.Counts p t le ence Stock ..... guaranteed 5 p. C. , Nortlin.& Eastn. 5 p.c. all Do. Do. do. 6 per cent ....' all Do. - Do. Fixed 5 per cent.. all Do. North Western I all 'Midland 141 15 Preston and Wyre. {1 all & L.Yk. Do. 1 Stares A. all Do. - Shep, 100 Gt. North. 135 138 Slirewsbry& Hereford, 100 T.Bra.sey 102 104 Do. Do. 1 } P Smith Staffordshire ..I all M`Clean.. 101 11 Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt. West.i 92 94 Wimbledon Croydn. all L.& Brgtn 71 DOCKS. S hare Doeks. Closing Business Paid. price. Done. stock !Commercial lOO stock Do. per Cent.PrerMin lOO stock !East and West Indies lOO stock , London lOO stock St. Katharine lOO stock , ,Southampton lOO stock I 100 Victoria 30 Do, New 103, I I IN 17.-A4 Shure) stock Railways. Atlantic & St Lawrence Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind Gu. 5 par cent Do, Do. B Buffalo and Lake Huron Do. New . .. Do. Preference Buffalo, Bran t,&G odrich 1 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 187: Do. do. June 1, 1879 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim i Cape,Eastn. Prov. (Lim.' Cape Town & Dock Scrip Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c Demerara Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. e East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. Do. F Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore Do. 44 p c. Debentrs Do. 5 p. o. Deb., 1864 Geelong & Melbourne Geelong Corporation f per cent. Bonds ...... Grand Trunk of Canach Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. Do. 0 per ct. Debentr. Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. Do. do. 1867.. Do. do. 1872.. Gt.lndiaPenin.gua sp.c. Do. New trua. 5 p. c... Gt. South.of India (Lim; guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Sharesl Do. New .. . ... Do. Bonds pay. '76, with spt, till '6O .... ...... Do, do. '73 till '60...... Do. do. '73 without opt. Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 d 0... Madras, guar., 4/ p. c... Do. do. per cent .... Do. 41. p. c. Exten s i on Do. Fourth do.. .. .... Do. d 0.... .... Melb.Corp. 6 p. c. Bnds. Newßrunswick & Canda By. &Land(Lim.)g.6pe Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land do . Do. do. B Capital do. .. Do. do. Land do. ... ioude (Limited) ...... Scinde .......... Do. Pnnjaub .... 2$ r 4 Do. Da. . . Do. Indus. St. Flo. e t : t .", S t. Andrews & Quebec A Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip 100 100 E. 3 0. SSIONS. Closing Frice. 9/ 97f 4 d 1 d sci 75 80 70 75 68 73 par i p lf e 14- id i e 1011 1021 par l o r par 94 1 101 102" 21 22 33 34 92i 931 67 69 83 85 64 71 69 71 991 1001 Id id 11 lie 131 131 71 6,1 98 100 98 100 98 100 92 94 87 89 981 991 91 93 d all all all all 5 7 5 7 100 1004 id Id d I 91 95 i id 75 77 69 71 211 224 51 53 19i 20 111 i 174 18 1071 :ous. 15 151 314 324 4 5 37 39 20 22 14} 16i 120 123 6 8 25 30 24} 25i 30 35 99 101 103 106 105 107 P 1 p 211 24 - - 1 I 1 11 o d 1 , Ir 3 3pl 10 1 15 1 1 I d p 50 81 144 p 22 5 6 4 0 :0144 124 130 35 38 47 79 13i it d 20 I 161 1 IBusiness done IMPERI TAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(Tries DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Cilgwrgan, Bettws, and Tregynon Road Bill and the I‘loy River Navigation Bill were considered and ordered for third reading. The Montrose and Bervie Railway Bill was read a second time. ANNUITY TAX ABOLITION (EDINBURGH) ILL. On the ord er o f th e day for the second reading of this bill. Mr. HADFIELD said that last year they were promised a perfect and satisfactory measure in reference to the long-vexed question of the annuity tax at Edinburgh; but the present measure was the very reverse. To show this, he referred to an important meeting of the Town Council and magistrates in 3dinburgh last week, as well as other public meetings, at vhich resolutions were passed strongly condemning the hil . The fact was that the mea sure excited general dissati3faction in Edinburgh, being opposed to the prevalent feeling in Scotland. The Free Church of Scotland greatly exceeded in numbers that of the State Church of Scotland, and the sums of money its members had raised under the voluntary system astonished Christendom. With that principle so strongly developed, he could not help expressing his surprise that the Lord Advocate should have considered it advisable to in. troduce a measure to perpetuate so objectionable an impost as the annuity tax. He adverted also to the large number of petitions presented against the measure as a proof of ifs great unpopularity, and contended that, after the course pursued by the legislature in respect to ministers' money in Ireland, it was most undesirable to introduce a measure like the present. The hon. member concluded by moving that the bill be read a second time this day six months. Mr. CAIRD said that he would not press an amendment which ho intended to have proposed on the motion for the second reading of the bill, as the Lord Advocate had stated that he would endeavour to alter the bill in committee, so as to meet the objections that had been raised against it by its opponents. He doubted, however, whether even when it had been modified in committee it would give satisfaction. Sir R. FERGUSON said that the arguments used against this bill by the hon. member for Sheffield would apply equally against the maintenance of the Church of England in this country. He called therefore on the supporters of the Church of England to support the Lord-Advocate in his endeavours by this bill to lighten the burdens on the people of Scotland fn supporting the National Church. He con sidered that this bill was a fair compromise of the _..... long -vexed question in Edinburgh, and he denied altogether that the tax proposed Waa a now irr, post. The bill p ro p ose d to include in taxation for the Established Church in Scotland persons who had hitherto been improperly exempted from its operation, such as the learned bodies in Edinburgh, who from time immemorial had net been required to pay towards such a purpose. He admitted that there were objectionable pro vielons in the bill. In the first place he was strongly op posed to the proposal to reduce the number of the clergy, and if such a proposit'on were made in reference to London it would create a storm of discontent. He contended it was most desirable that the differences which prevailed on this subject should be settled, and he appealed to the house to ac.. in a spirit of conciliation in order to accomplish this object. (Hear, hear.) Mr. MACKAY said there could be no doubt as to the expediency of settling this long vexed question. Last year there were no less than 112 summonses issued in Edinburgh against defaulters in respect to this tax, which were fob lowed in many cases by arrests and imprisonment. That was a state of things that was most objectionable, and he thought the proper course would be to allow the bill to he read a second time, in order that it might go into commit tee, and be amended so as to meet the views of those who were anxious to terminate the present objectionable state of things. He appealed, therefore, to the hon. Member for Sheffield not to press his amendment. Mr. BLACK having referred to the deputations sent by Government to inquiry into the subject in Scotland, and to the report of the select committee of 1851, recommending arrangements to be made for the settlement of the diffe rences that prevailed in Edinburgh in reference to this matter, in order to promote the interests of religion and good government in the city. He had looked carefully into the bill, and considered that it contained the basis of a satis factory arrangement. Ile strongly'approved of the adoption of the recommendation of the Town Council of Edinburgh which had been agreed to by that body at a public meeting. He alluded to the appointment of 13 Ministers with a salary of X6OO a-year each guaranteed to them. He honed the house would not throw any obstacle in the way of speedy legislation on this long -vexed question, both for the interests of religion and the sake of peace. Major HAMILTON supported the second reading of the bill, and contended that the annuity tax was nothing more than a simple bond, by which their ancestors bound themselves, their heirs and successors, to pay a certain impost for a quid pro quo. Sir E. COLEBROOKE considered that though the bill did not go so far as might have been desired, still it was, to a certain extent, a concession on the part of the Esta blished 13hurch of Scotland, and would therefore have his support. Mr. BLACKBURN and Mr. Munn supported the second reading. The LORD-ADVOCATE said it was gratifying to him that no singl e S co t c h mem b er h a d opposed the second read ing of the bill, and he hoped the hon. member for Sheffield would not press his amendment. The principle on which he proposed to proceed in his bill was to accumulate a fund by an impost for 15 years, which, at the expiration of that period, was to terminate. However, as the Town Council objected to that course and preferred that there should be a reduced permanent imports. ho had no objection to the adoption of that course, an kwould propose amendments in committee for the purpose of carrying it out. He would aaloutlialtaltS to tonal: o.; hon. members. Mr. HADFIELD said that he would yield to the wishes of the Scotch members, and withdraw his amendment. The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be ( ()emitted on Monday next. CHARITY TRUSTEES BILL. On the motion of Mr. MELLOR, the order for the second reading of the bill was discharged. Several other bills were proposed. CONSOLIDATION FUND (t 9,500,000) BILL. This bill was read a second time. COURT OF CHANCERY BILL. On the motion of Sir G. C. LEWIS, this bill was re ferred to a select committee. The house then adjourned at 20 minutes past two o'clock POLICE INTELLIGENCE-( THIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH- STREET. ATTEMPT TO EXTORT MONEY PROM A GENTLEMAN fly A CORPORAI.OP THE GRENADIERS.—John David eon, a corporal of the Ist battalion of Grenadiers, was charged before Mr. Beadon with attempting to extort money from Mr. George. Brown, a gentleman lately from Shirley, Southampton, but now staying at Lane's Hotel, St. Alban's place, Haymarket. The complainant stated that midway between Evans's Hotel and Leicester-square he called in at a public-house and had some porter, awl as he was leaving the prisoner asked him to treat him with a glass of beer, saying, " You are not going to leave us in this manner, are you ?" He returned to the house and treated him and his companions with some beer, and on leaving the prisoner followed him and asked for some gin and a half-crown. He told him to leave him and not annoy him, upon which the prisoner said he should follow him and give him in charge, and as soon as they met a constable the prisoner made a disgusting charge against him. Re (prosecutor) felt greatly enraged, and could n t exactly say what the prisoner oharged kis with. Cornell, 109 C, said the complainant, on his coming up, said the soldier wanted to get money from him by making a false accusation. The prisoner then said he wanted to make a oharge against the gentleman, but his statements being so much at variance he refused to take it, and as the gentleman he took him into prisoner custody still annoyed th e . 33 62 3 411 2 Reeves, 44 C, said ho had seen the prisoner annoying another gentleman previously, aid the gentleman seemed anxious to get rid of him. The prisoner said he had no questions to ask. Mr. Beadon said he should remand him for a week, and then commit him for trial. It 291 44 1141 1011 looi f 3 111 301 5 Naples Palermo Messina Lisbon Oporto . Rio Janeiro 10 11 ilf( THE SUN, LONDONM W EDNESDAY EVENING )f ) , MAY 16, 1860, BRITISH POSSE LA IV INTELLIGENCE.-( ADMIRALTY, MAY 14. Retired Rear-Admiral John George Aplin to have the rank and title of Retired Vice-Admiral from the 2d inst., in pursuance of the Order in Council of May 7, 1858. BANKRUPTS. Samuel Freeman and John Clifford, web manufacturers, Leicester, to surrender May 31 anl June 21, at eleven, at the Shire-hall, Nottingham. David Widdowson, lace manufacturer, N o tti ng h am, May 31 and June 21, at eleven, at the Shire-hall, Nottingham. John Williams, surgeon, Pontypool, Monmouthshire, May 25 and June 26, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. John Box and Henry John Lewis, corn merchants, Gloucester, May 31 and June 26, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. George Thomas Suter, dealer, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, May 30 and June 20, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Stephen Moss and William Ashworth, dyers, Woodmill, Halifax, May 25 and June 22, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis trict Court. Epaphras Clayton, grocer, Openshaw, near Manchester, May 25 and June 20, at twelve, at th e M anc h ester District Court. Alfred Haslam, coach proprietor, Manchester, June 6 and 22, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Henry Muggeridge, Wider, St. George's-place, Brix ton load, May 25 and June 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Thomas Thorp, linen-draper, Surrey-house, Clapham road, May 28 and June 25, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Charles Jones, boot and shoe maker, Peansgate, Man -cheater, June 6 and 27, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis trict Court. George Price Simcox, carpet manufacturer, Hendham Vale, Manchester, May 25, and June 15, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Peter Hay, dyer, Paisley. Edward Alexander Falconer, grocer, Edinburgh. John Fleming, com man d er, Royal Navy, Muasdale, Campbeltown. George Henry Charles Francis Malcolm, commonly. called Viscount Forth, Duke-street, Edinburgh. William Abbott, agent and dealer, Tobermory, Argyle • shire. Robert Macdonald, grocer, Hawiok. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 16/ 11 16 Antwerp Brussels — 25 30 25 35 Hamburgh Paris Short. 25 121 2.5 17} Ditto Marseilles — 25 35 25 40 Frankfort on Maine — 117/ 117/ Vienna Trieste Petersburgh — ' 34f 34f Madrid Cadiz — 49/ 50 Leghorn — 30 40 30 45 Milan — 25 40 25 45 Genoa — 26 40 25 45 • 621 62 New York ~ —• .. .. Foreign Gold in Bars (Staidard).... per oz. S 3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Sta3adard) ,, 0 5 11 South American Doublons GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners have given notice of their in tentionto receive tenders on Thursday next, th e 11th inst., for a ship to proceed to Sydney, New South Wales, to be ready for the reception of her passengers on such day as the Commissioners may appoint between the 2d and 9th of June. The ship must take her full quantity of water, and be furnished with Dible's ventilating apparatus. THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. BAKER V. LEE EX AL. This is an appeal from a decision of the Lords justices, excluding Unitarian Dissenters from the Established Church of England, as trustees of the Free Charity School of Ilmiegton, in the county of Somerset. Mr. R. Palmer, Q.C., was heard for the respondents.l The learned counsel contended that the charity free schools should be seminaries of learning and instruction in connection with the religions principles of the Esta • blished Church of England, and not °therm ise. COURT OF PROBATE. (Before Sir Cresswell Cresswell, Judge Ordinary.) THE WILL OF WILLIAM LANFEAR. Dr. Swab) , applied for probate of the will and codicil of the deceased. Will , dated January, 1839; first codicil dated 13th March, 1857, and other paper writings referred to in the will. Probate granted. THE WILL OF HENRY DRUMMOND, ESQ. Dr. Phillimoro applied for probate of the will of the deceased, dated 3d January, 1848 ; and codicils dated 24th November, 1854; 21st November, 1856; and the 4th of August, 1857. Probate refused. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—May 15. OLD COURT. (Continued front The Sun of yesterday.) THE UNION BANK FRAUDS. Pullinger, who pleaded guilty to the two indictments against him for embezzlement, was to-day sentenced to 14 years' penal servitude on the first indictment and six years 'on the second--making 20 years in all. THE CA SE OP THE REV. MR. HATCH AND EUGENIA PLUMMER. Much curiosity was exhibited in court this morning with respect to the sentence the learned judge would impose npon the child Eugenia Plummer, in consequence of the verdict of guilty that was returned against her late last night. In consequence of the recommendation of the jury, with which the verdict was accompanied, it was suggested that the girl should be removed from the charge of her parents for some considerable time, and placed under the care of some person to be agreed upon. _ Application has also been made to the Secretary of State for the release of Mr. Hatch from Newgate. At three o'clock Eugenia Plummer, who was found guilty yesterday of perjury, was placed in the dock to receive sentence. Mr. Baron Channel!, addressing her, said that after a long and patient trial she had been found guilty of the crime of perjury; but in delivering their verdict the jury had recommended her to the merciful considera tion of the Court. There was reason to sup. pose, judging from the finding of the jury, that from neglect and indifference to her education, she had acquired habits of untruthfulness, which might lead to grea traischief if not corrected. The Court felt that it might treat her as having given way to untruthful statements for the purpose of getting out of Mr. Hatch's family, to which she seemed to have formed a dislike. Under these circumstances the Court desired to pass upon her as lenient a sentence as pos sible, but at the same time one that would operate for her benefit. The sentence would be that she be imprisoned in the House of Correction at Holloway for three weeks, and that at the end of that time she should be placed in a refoimatory school, as should hereafter be ordered by the Court. A pro posal had been made by her friends, which had received the anxious consideration of the Court, but he could not at that moment treat it as part of his judicial sentence. The proposal, however, would be at once submitted to the Secre tary of State, and if he believed that under proper securities it would tend to promote her welfare, the sen tence now passed would undoubtedly be remitted. While she remained in prison her - comfort would be attended to, and she would have the benefit of instruction from a lady who had devoted considerable time and attention to the care of female children. She would then be placed in a re formatory school, and he hoped that her education 'would be attended to. The prisoner was then removed from the dock. She cried slightly towards the conclusion of the sentence, but her father who was with her appeared quite unmoved. In a fow moments after she had been taken down stairs she was brought back by direction of the learned Judge, who informed her that he found he could not send her to a rofor- matory for less than two years. His sentence upon her, therefore, must be three weeks in Holloway Prison, and two years in the reformatory school. That matter would, how ever, be dealt with by the Secretary of State. The prisoner cried a little and was removed. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAY 12. This day had audience of her Majesty, Senor Carlos Gutierrez, Minister Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Honduras to deliver ma tweuenttatg ; and the co un t at Lau ..-.uv6y Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, to deliver his credentials; to which audiences they were respectively introduced by the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Lieutenant -General the Hon. Sir Ed ward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Cere monies. FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 12. The Qusen has been pleased to approve of Don Juan Miguel Winder as Consul, at Southampton, for the Re public of Peru. DOWNING-STREET, MAY 14. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Samuel Cock burn, Esq., to be President and Senior Member of the Council of the Island of Nevis, during the temporary ab sence of President Sir Carlo Arthur Henry Rumbold, Baronet. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAY 15. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Frederick Close to be Captain, vice William M. King, deceased ; Lieutenant Robert Loftus Tottenham to be Second Cap tain, vice close. The promotion of the undermentioned officers to be antedated to 9th April, 1860 :—Captain and Brevet Major W. J. Bolton and Second Capt. M. Tweedie. Brevet-Major James Sinclair to be Captain, vice Frank lin, placed on the Supernumerary List ; Lieutenant Richard O'Hara to bo Second Captain, vice Sinclair. Coast Brigade of Artillery—Second Captain John Sweeny to be Captain, vice Elliott, whose commission has been cancelled; Lieutenant James MacGillivrav to be Second Captain, vice Sweeny; Quartermaster-Serg ean t John McLernon to be Lieutenant, vice MacGillivray. BREVET.—Quartermaster William Elliott, having retired upon half-pay Royal Artillery, to have the honorary rank of Captain, under the Royal Warrant of 17th Dec., 1855. -~ FOREIGN 19 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 20 /Ardennes .........,.... a ll 20 Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. 7 5 'Bel.isn East. Junction al 20 Beziers to Graissessac.. a 10 Buen.Ayres &S. Ferndo 6 Carmeaux Mine & Rail 100 Copiabo ........&...... 10 Ditto Extension . 20 Dutch Rhenish ........ 20 Eastern of France .... 20 Grand Rus. Guar. 6p. c. 20 Do. do. 20 Great Central of France 20 Gt. Luzern., Con. she... a 20 Italian Junction ...... a 20 Lake Constance & Bale. a 20 Lierre & Turnhout a 20 Lyons & Geneva a 331 Maria Antonia .. a .. 10 Do. New .... • • ... a 20 Namur & Liege a 20 Do. 6p. c. Pref. ...... a 16 Northern of France— a, 222 2 10000 0 i Recife pNpD Paris r o rr . lr ~, e e &e : yo ' aosSharesOrleans.... Trunk f: a l f l I s e, , ar t ais 3 l.. l i e i d ).er it n er ) a tt • gua. 7 p. et. lim.. 2 0 Riga & Dunaburg 1( 10 Rome & Frascati 20 Royal Dani s h . . .... a 5 Royal Swedish . . a 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... a 20 Sambre & Meuse ...... a 10 Do. 5} per cent. Pref..... a 20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. c. : 20 S.Aust&Lomb Venetin I 20 Southern of France.... a tif West Flanders . ... a 10 Do. 61 p. c. Preference.. • 9 W. & N.W. of France .. 10 Western of Austria.... 0 Western of Switzerland 6 Wiesbaden' ...... ...... 6 Do. 8 per cent. Pref... 9 Zealand .. _- Sham( Mines. lire I Consols (Philack) 20 ritish Iron lifford Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon E. WI Russel (Tavistk ) Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen ) Great South Tolgus G.Wheal Alfd. (Philack), G. Wheal Vor (lIelston) Grenville Herod's- Foot ,Hingston Downs Bertha IMargaret (Uny Lelant)' INorth Downs INorth Frances (Mogan) IN.Wli'l Basset (1110 an) INorth Wheal Crotty I Par Console (St. Blazey) ZO ,Providence(Uny Lelnt.)l I Surtridge Cons. Min. Co. ; South Caradon(St.Cleer) _ - . C. c.).... n..e.i. a tivg...). • 1 Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim. S.Wheal Fran (Illogan) Stray Park 5 Tamar Silv.k, Lead Min .0 Tin Croft ; Vale of Towey (Carm.) IWest Basset (Illogan) !W. Caradon (Llskeard) ilVest Seaton !Wheal Basset (Mogan) IWheal Buller (Redruth) !Wheal Edward (Cals.) Wheal Kitty (U.l.elant) 'Wheal Mary Ann (Men.) 'Wheal Trelawney (Lis.)l FOREIGN MI. N Australian 1 BonAccord Copper,Linz. l 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. atU !O Do.St.Johndel Rey,Lim 5 Do. Land and Mining Co. 1 Clarendon Cons.MinCo 10 Cobre Copper Copiapo 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co 2 Fortuna.. O General • Gt. N. Cop. of S. Austr Kapunda (Limited) ILlriares 5 Lusitanian 1 Mariquita 1 N.RhineCopofS.Aus.L 9 Pontgibaud Silver,Lead Mining and Smelt 5 Port Philip 1 Scottish Austrin. (L.) Stilt United Mexican 1 Worthing (Limited) 1 Do JOINT-STO , AgrattllnitedSeryice Bk. tO Australasia Bank of Egypt Bank of London Bank of Turkey British North American Chtd.Bank of India, ac.' Ch.3ler. of In. Lon.az Ch ' City Colonial ........ ...... 11 Coin. Bank of Canada 9 Commercial of London 9 Eng., Scot., Aus. Ch 9 Gen. Bk. of Switzerland 9 Lon. Char.Bkof Austral 0 London and County London Joint Stock 10 London h, Westminster Nat. Prov. of England . 9 Do. new ..... ......10 National Bank 9 New South Wales 9 IDo. new Orient. B. Corporation 9 'Ottoman Bank 10 Provincial of Ireland .. .0 ,Do. new.... 5 (South Australia ;Union of Australia :Union or London .... 10 'Unity Mutual.. ..... . COLONIAL GOVERNME Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. & July Do. 6p. cent. 1880 Do. 6p. cent. 1881, Do. 6p. cent. 1882' Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug, I Do. 6 p. c. 11ar. & Sept.! Do. 5 per cent Do. Scrip N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July; Do. 6p. c. Ap. & Oct. N. S. W. Gov. 5 p. c., 1866 Do. 5 p. c., 1871 to 1876 Do. 5 p.c.,1888 & upwde Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. 0 : sterling, 1875 S.Aus.Gt. 6 p.c.1878 &up ' ;Vic. Gov. 6p.c. Ja.&July Do. do. 6p.c. Ap.&Oct.' 100 100 100 100 100 MISCELLANE , 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint 100 Atlantic Tel. (Limited) 15 Australian Agricultural [0 Berlin Water (Limited) i 0 British American Land B.&l.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim.): 10 Do. 8,7p.c.ti111852 (Lim.) 10 Do. C. (Limited) t2i Canada Land [0 Chan.lslands Tel. (Lim ); )ck Cop.Min.ofEng.&Sinitg, ' Do. Pref. 71 per cent. ck ;Crystal Palace '3 l c IDo. Preference Do. 5 p. c. Perpet. Deben ek Electric Telegraph 1 5 Do. New 5 English & Aus. Copper .5 Gen. Steam Navigation 1 Great Ship (Limited) 1 Do. 174 p. et. Preference :0 Indian & Aust. Telegr. 5 Lon. District Tel. (Lim.) 10 London Discount (Li m. ) I 4 L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) :0 Madras Irr. and Canal 10 Mediter. Electric Teleg 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) 15 National Dis. Co. (Lim.) Nerbu.Coal& Iron (Lim ) 10 Netherlands Land 5 Do.B p.c.Pref..iss.atl dis )0 N. Br.&NovaScotia L and 1 11 . 13 . Australasian (Lim.) 1 Oriental Gas (Limited). 1 Do. Now Shares (Lim.). [0 ,Orintl.ln.Ste am (Li m.)A [0 I Ditto B. ..... '0 Ditto C k ;Peelli.Lnd.SEMin.(Lim.) ) 'Pen. & Oriental Steam . ) Do. New 0 RedSea&-Ind.Tel.g.4ip.c ilnymney Iron Austin. Inv. (Lim.) Scot. Wt . ea — rn ........... )c I. Submarine 'rel. Scrip. )ck 1 1 5 05 R S o oD u y t oa l ' i l Nl u aw s i t i. ral* Land I Do. do. Registered Tr. & Ln. Co.oftipr.Can. VAll Land,, stoc' stoc] stoci fop all all all 281 ,ATLWAYS alt 4 T I P all ell 12 11d 15 54 5d Xll 234 214 6 31 I 61 71 31 - - ill 81 84 tll 19} 191 tll 39 39: - - _B_ 9 1) 1 11 34} 35 Lll 52 54 13 li lid LO ,!! I 13 15 .11 5I 6 ill 8/ 2 id ill 20 21 5; d al 91 9t ill 22 23 ll} Paid.' Closing Business Price. Done. 2.11.101 16 12.13.9 9i 5.14.6 8.12 4.7.0 1.8.6 9.18.9 li 10.6.7 12s all 18.18.9 ,28.18.0, 13s 6d 2.4 1 2 } 285 295 440 450 105 115 7i lit l 11 8 f 36 38 - - 1 i t3l 31 30 31 all 1 10s, aul all 19s. KB 31 - 4 3f 1.3 45 41 5i 6 4 5 8 9 } 124 134 44 46 11 300 i 310 145 155 48 52 21 4 44 5 20 21 1 84 80 150 160 90 95 2i 21 15i 161 21 23 27 19 i t P i P 251 264 dm. 44 46 11 13 1 21 31 2 25 } } d par l l p 101 1 11 1 d p d p 5 6 1 d f 1 2 P I IANKS. 71 73 38 40 19 21• 1 7 17i 22i 23 1114 116 T SECU 11 1 1 0 °9 10 14 111011221 1071 1081 991 1000 99 100} 09 . 1001 1108 100 ,110 112 THAMES. LORD HENNIKER'S COACHMEN IN TROUBLE.—hichard Chester and Jeremiah Pratt, coachmen in the service of Lord Henniker, were brought bawl ) Mr. Yardley, charged with being drunk and incapable of taking proper care of three horses, a carriage, and a brougham, belonging to his lordship. Thomas Brandon, a police constable, No. 211, K, stated that last night he saw the prisoner Chester driving a horse and brougham in the Mile-end -read in a very reckless manner, and to the great danger and annoyance of the peo ple in the road, who expresse I their indignation at his con duct. The prisoner was very drunk, and was rolling about, and nearly fell off the brougham. At last the prisoner got the horse in a fix, and was turning round and round, when the horse got locked in the brougham, and came to a dead stand. lie saw the brougham was in danger of being overturned, and took the prisoner into cus tody. Police-sergeant Vaughan, No. 1 7 K, st a t e d that the prisoner Pratt was driving a carriage and two horses and following the brougham. Pratt was also drunk and unable to'ruanage the horses properly, and he took him into cus tody. Mr. Yardley—What time did this cccur ? Sergeant Vaughan—About seven o'clock last evening, sir. Both prisoners were coming up the Mile-end-road on the way to London. Mr. Yardley—Had the prisoners been to a funeral or a wedding ? Coachmen get drunk at 'Loth or at a christen. ing, it don't matter to them. Inspector Hayes—The horses and tarriages belong to a nobleman, Lord Hanniker. Mr. Yardley—Not to a job master? Inspector Hayes—No, sir, the prisoners have been coming up from his lordship's seat in Suffolk for two days and two night.. Mr. Yardley—And got drunk on the road. Does his lordship know of this? Chester—Yes, sir, my lord knows of it. lam very sorry for it. We were very much fatigued and our rest broken coming up from Suffolk. Mr. Yardley—You are two foolish men, to be getting drunk while in the charge of your master's carriages and horses. I suppose they went to the green yard last night ? Inspector Hayes—No, sir. The carriages contained a good deal of valuable property. I sent to his lordship's town residence last night, and Lord Henniker's butler came down to Stepney, and took charge of the carriages and horses. Mr. Yardley—Well, I can't overlook this. The prisoners are fined 6s. each for being drunk. atoll/ I 20 10 I' 2.14.5 7.4.0 RIMS, TILE RZI ) .E.-IL OF :FHB PAPER I) UTIES. (From the Times.) It is a thousand pities that genius and fancy have no influence over the common rules of aria; metic. What a comfort it would be if w. could transport ourselves for good and all into that poetic world where there is always a rich old uncle in the fifth act or the third volume, where the high spirited, noble-minded, money-despising hero has not to scrape and hoard and do mean things, but can exercise without a restraint all the promptings of his generous heart! How many a noble idea perishes for lack of that sordid, base, contemptible lucre ! In the poetic world our men of genius can happily create wealth more easily than they can create ideas • but in the r ea l wor ld we almost always see them balancing some antithesis, with a bulky intellect at one end and an empty purse at the other. Those hard logical laws of arithmetic will hold their own. Goldsmith could make every body comfortable at the Wakefield Vicarage, but it. could not clear off that matter-of-fact milk score. Alassinger could give a fortune to Wellborn, but he ..ould not pay his own reckoning at the Mermaid. Poor Otway could change the fortunes of Venice At his will, but he could not contrive to keep him self from starving. Want of means does not check our genius, limit our aspirations, curb our imagina• tion, or even bridle our desires, for nothing is so exuberant as the imagination of a beggar, but, un happily, it altogether prevents our reducing those magnificent dreams into realities. Thus it has been with poets and orators of all ages, and thus it just now is, as we observe from a report which we publish this morning, with Mr. John Bright. It is a little matter of £1,400,000 which just now makes the difficulty against which Mr. Bright is surging in eloquence, and which he is seeking to crush, and powder, and annihilate by ex pl os i ons of wrath. Mr. B r i g ht has an idea, not, perhaps, v ery original or very sp ec i a l, f or it has long since been public property, and we all entertain it with a greater or lesser degree of impatience and enthu siasm. With Mr. Bright the enthusiasm is very strong indeed. With him the repeal of the Paper Duties is connected with the success of his nearest desires. No one knows what he has not done for this, or what he does not expect from this, or how much he has not restrained himself for this, or how much . his mind has not been softened towards the present Ministry for this. At last he is entering upon full fruition; when, lo! Lord Derby comes upon him, just as Goldsmith's landlady might have come in at the half-finished last chapter among the happy Primroses, and presents that terrible score. Lord Derby insists it cannot be done. He declares that if Mr. Bright could pay for poetic justice with poetic money it would be all very well ; but that when it is to be paid for by hard prosaic cash it is necessary to see whether the nation can afford it. Here is the position. Mr. Bright has very nearly run his fox to a standstill ' • the creature's br us h already hang s d an k upon the ground ; one more fence, one more field, and the vermin is copped up. Just at thi s vexa ti ous moment appears Lord Derby at the hedge, and, pitchfork in hand, and in the character of the true British farmer, warns Mr. Bright to move off, and not to ride over his young taxes. Mr. Bright, as everybody who knows him will anticipate, instead of drawing rein, goes right at him, with what result is yet to be seen. There was, last night, an indignation meeting at St. Martin's-hall, and when Lord Derby reads the names of the influential men there assembled surely he will repent in sackcloth and fishes. Sergeant Parry was in the chair. Air. Bright and Mr. Lea tham, and seven other M P.'s, with two paper makers, were recognisable upon the platform. The body of the hall was full of her Majesty's lieges, who were all gathered together from those who pass about twilight through the thoroughfares of Covent-garden. Such was the assembly. The ob ject was, as the placards outside made know,n, to terrify the Lords from any interference with the Paper Duties Bill. There were not many bankers, not many merchants, nbt many professional men, not, perhaps, very many tradesmen, possibly not a great many ratepayers. But, then, there were the platform eleven—the St. Martin's-hall eleven against all England. They were not exactly the class of minds which have bent all England to their following in other days, but they were very earnest. When the chairman promised the meeting to use " his mildest and most temperate language," he could find nothing in his mind more dovelike than that "the House of Lords was an obvious anomaly among the institutions of a free country." Mr. Bright, con fessing once more that he did not know where to find or how to get hold of the British Constitution, proceeded to lecture his audience upon it, and to deny. the rie-ht of the House of T.nrcic to negative this bill, and to assert its moral responsibility for all the losses that may be sustained by some of Mr. Bright's friends who had speculated upon their allowing it to pass. We quit agree with Mr. Bright, --not that there is anything "impudent and insolent" in the conduct of the House of Lords if they should refuse to repeal a tax, but that this is not a thing to be lightly done. We are afraid, however, if the Lords can make out to the satisfac tion of the public that without this tax we shall not be able to pay our way, the honest sober-going folk who make Parliaments will be inclined to say the Lords are right, and that the tax ought not to be. repealed, and shake their heads at Mr. Bright's magnificent periods about " a million is as nothing compared with the inestimable blessings," &c, All this is very well, but milli ons are millions, and Jove will not annihilate space and time even to make Mr. Bright happy. When we read these proceedings we are almost tempted to ask whether it can be that Mr. Bright does really wish the repeal of these Paper Duties. Is it possible that his intellect can be so small, with a power of expression so great, as not to perceive that he is pursuing the only course which could prevent the accomplishment of what he desires ? With moderate and temperate proceedings there can be no doubt that these Paper Duties must go. No class, as we believe, now wishes permanently to re tain them. They must come off; the sooner the better, for the state of transition is, as the Emp eror of the French remi n d s hi s people, always a stage of suffering. We hope the House of Peers will not interfere with the repeal of the Paper Duties, but that they have the constitutional right to reject or pass any bill presented to them we cannot doubt. Mr. Bright, it seems, proposes to frighten the Lords by denying their right, and he carries out his pro ject by calling together a roomfull of London mob, and setting up a gentleman to tell them that the House of Peers is an anomaly in a free country, and that " if it venture to usurp any of the privi leges of the House of Commons or of the people, the days of hereditary legislation are numbered. Mr. Bright, in his own address, uses a somewhat more mitigated form of language, but it is scarcely less insulting. Now, we tremble when we see -such allies as these acting for us. If we thought that either we ourselves or Mr. Bright were so entirely free from all interest in this matter as to make it decent to put pressure upon the House of Lords— which, as we have often said, we do not think— we should still believe it a most impolitic course to adopt. There is no strong public opinion behind us to sus tain such a pressure. Look at the House of Com mons, with its majority of 10, and even that narrow victory a party vote to keep the Ministers in their places. There is no fuel in the country for a paper duties' agitation to the extent of frightening the peers. Moreover, English gentlemen do not like to have these experiments tried upon them. Our chief reliance is that Lord Derby and his friends may have too much contempt for this miserable rushlight conflagration to resent it. But we entreat Mr. Bright to let us have this boon, now we are so near to it. He has made Parliamentary Reform next to impossible; another of these St. Martin's-hall fire-damps, and he will have done the same good office for the paper duties' repeal. (From the Horning Herald.) Last night the9ars of the metropolitan democracy were tickled by an address from Mr. Bright on the "usurpation proposed by Lord Derby to the House of Lords, in the retention of the tax on paper inde pendent (sic) of the House of Commons and the Crown." Mr. Sergeant Parry was in the chair, and the assembly was of course all that could be desired for the proper discussion of the constitu tional privileges of the Peers. The threatened op position of the Lords to the repeal of the paper duty was denounced as derogatory to the dignity of the Crown, subversive of the privileges of the House of Commons and of the rights of the people, and calcu lated to impair the authority of the House of Lords. Judged by its own printed propositions nothing could be more promising than the objects of the meeting. Respect for the Crown, for the Commons, and for the Lords, was apparently the mainspring of its action. So far from being hostile to an heredi tary peerage, it assembled in order to preserve its authority; so far from cherishing any feeling of op position to the Crown, it was resolute in asserting its prerogative. Its obvious intention, according to the programme, was to reconcile the rights of the three estates and to avert collision,—above all, to protect the Lords from the evil consequences that might result if they presumed to become an active portion of the Legislature. However, if the intent was pacific, Mr. Bright disappointed it. St. Mar tin's Hall is not very far from St. Stephen's, but it is.quite far enough to adßit of a complete change of character in the member for Birmingham —and last night this gentleman let loose the pent-up torrent of his indignation, and fairly surpassed his ordinary efforts of abuse and slander upon that one Rtumbling-block in his path—the hereditary House of Peers. Mr. Bright is boiling over with indignation be- cause the House of Lords are determined to chec Mr. Gladstone in his career of reckless improvi dence: All his argrunents in favour of the abolition of the tax on paper were thrown away, because the House of Lords generally, we doubt - not, shares the opinion which Lord Derby has expressed, " that the impost is objectionable in principle and in-prac tice." But there is every probability that two-titil of the peers would say the same of the war duties on tea and sugar in a time of peace, and scarcely a peer could be found who would not speak out still more strongly against the income tax. -Mr. Bright, with an unfairness which has become his charac teristic, purposely omits to notice the motives on which the opposition of Lord Derby and Lord Monteagle is founded ; and with en effrontery for which journalism can scarcely find a fitting epithet, persists in imputing it to a sordid desire on the part of the aristocracy to prevent the political education of the people. Now, we should like Mr. Bright to answer this question : which does more for the instruction of the masses—the order to which he belongs, or the aristocracy etieh. he abuses ? As to the term political instruct ion, in the sense in which it is interpreted by Mr. Bright and his organ, we confess the masses are quite as well without it. But if r as we believe, the S issemi nation of sound and useful information be the best groundwork of the instruction which shall fit a man to take his part in that sphere of political life to which he is called, then we hesitate not to say that for one earnest mover of Mr. fright's class we Wi 1 find fifty in the class against which he endeavours to excite popular passion. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Mr. Bright's boasted efforts for the elevation of the masses con trasts but sadly with his absence on the Dyers and Bleachers Bill, with his resistance to the Ten Hours Bill, and with the present movement of his own operatives. Let him cast out the mote from his own eye before he so readily and wilfully misinter prets the motives of his - neighbours.' -.' Mr. Bright was stimulated last night by three or four considerations. If the paper duty goes Mr: Glad stone goes with it, and with Mr. Gladstone vanish those financial schemes enunciated at Liverpool, and faintly' shadowed forth in the Budget of 1860. But there is a possibility that the Cabinet itself will not survive the blow. Rumour asserts that-more than one member of the Cabinet is looking forward to a verdict from the. - Upper House which they are powerless to give, and • that, with the rejection of the Paper Duty Bill, the Coalition Cabinet itself will receive its quietus. We do not so lightly esti mate Whig tenacity. But the reflection has evi dently forced itself on Mr. Bright's mind, or he would not have involved himself in so gross a mis statement as to represent Lord Derby's guiding principle a desire for' pace, or have so far trifled with the convictions of his audience as to declare that the accession of thiS nobleman to power would probably involve the country in a war in less than twelve months. Twelve months ! Why, if Mr. Bright does not know it, the nation knows, that it is not safe under the present Ministry, and in front of the surging tide of complications now advancing on us, for twelve weeks. But the question. is not for the decision of Mr. Bright or the meeting at 5 . ‘. Martin's Hall. The Lords have to discuss a bill -ent up to them in. due course by the Commons, and they will decide without regard to the eventualities • which Mr. Bright suggests. Nobody can honestly . accuse Lord Monteagle or Lord Overstone of a 'de sire to overthrow the Whig Ministry; and indeed the defeat of the bill by the Lords cannot be con strued as a censure which should render ofilee:un tenable its proposers. It may suit Mr. Bright - an 4 Mt:filAdstone to 'look forward to the Exchequer in a lawless - state of bankruptcy. But it is plainly the duty of the Lords to protect the country 1.1.11 in-A the ruin th a t i s t h reatened ; and from the per t 'forrn• - ante of that duty the wrath of Mr. Bright will not frighten them. We are told that the House of Lords has no right to meddle with the question, and that in presuming to interfere it encroaches upon the prerogative of the Crown as well as the privileges of the Commons. Now, in the first place, it requires a powerful stretch of imagination to perceive that the prerogative of the Crown is at all affected. The assent of the Crown has yet to be given ; and for the Lords to refuse their assent to the remission of an impost can be, in sober reality, no greater encroachment on the Crown's sights than to reject a Reform Bill announced from the throne. But the pretended vioiation of the privileges of the Commons is equally illusory. This is not a supply bill. It is not a propoiition of the Lords to raise additional taxation. The taxis already imposed, and the Lords only exercise their constitutional right in rejecting the bill proposing its remission in face of the serious deficiency which is looming in the future. On ene mies, however, we must plainly contradict Mr. Bright. He states that the House of Peers has not exercised such a right as it now claims for 200 years. Now he has evidently referrc d to Lord Derby's speech in 1853 on the Succession Duty, and we will recall his attention to the same speech. It is true Lord Derby's precedent was not a question of re jecting, but of amending, a Money bill ; but this fact supplies us at once with an a fortiori argument, for the bill to which the noble lord referred was a money bill, and it was actually amended, nut simply rejected, by the Upper House : " He remembered one instance of which he had been reminded in the course of that day by a noble lord who entertained a very strong objection to the . , principle of thi s bill, b u t wh o was absent on account - of a domestic calamity. That noble lord, when' he filled the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, had introduced a bill, as a measure in his budget, for the purpose of varying and altering the stamp du ties. - An amendment was made in their lordships' house, materially affecting the character of that bill with regard to the budget. The bill so amended was sent down to the Commons ; the other house, it was true, did not assent to it, or accept their lord ships' alterations; but, though technically they did not do so, they moved that the bill, as amended, should be laid aside; they then suspended the standing' orders, and reintroduced a bill totidem verbis , the same as the amended bill which had been sent down to them; and, having passed it through all its stages, sent it up as a new bill to their lordships, and being passed in the shape so sent, became in due course the law of the land." In the course of the same debate the Earl . of Aberdeen alluded to another precedent in the year 1826, when the Lords introduced amendments in Mr. Canning's corn bill, which the Commons ac cepted. Precedent., therefore, is against Mr. Bright, and reason is still more so. It is absurd enough to suppose that the House of Lords is to sit idle and make no protest against the extravagance of the Chancellor:of the Exchequer, merely because Mr. Bright chooses to term the measure a money bill ; but it is still more unreasonable to grant the House of Lords the power of discu ss i on , an d t o acknow ledge its legislative functions, and at the same time deny its right to reject a bill which has only been carried by a haphazard majority of nine in the Lower House. THIS DAYS' SHIPPING. LONDON, May 16.—Wind this day at noon-South- West; strong breeze, and cloudy, with rain at times. PLYMOUTH, May 16.-4Vind W.S.W.—Arrived— Sequent°, from Havannah. Sailed—Her Majesty's steamer Himala3 a, for Portsmouth. NEWPORT, May 15.—Wind S W.—Arrived.—Harvest Queen, from Havre for Rio Janeiro. Sailed—Almondo, for Singapore. BRISTOL, May 'l5. —Wind N.W.—Arriyed—Morning Star, from Callao; Trinidad, and Casilda, from Trinidad de Cuba. WATERFORD, May 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Augus tin Brewer, from Now Orleans. QUEENSTOWN, May 14 .—Arrived—Duchess of Lan caster, from Iquique ; Triumph, from Mauritius ; Ama teur, from Monte Video; Morton Castle, from Rio Radio ; Star of the East, from Pana. Sailed—Philip Laing, for Colombo. OFF THE LIZARD, May 15.—Arrived—Delvie, sohooner, from New York for Bremen. (BY ELEOTBIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTILAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Wind W. Foyle, steamer, from Dublin; Na ncy, from May 15—Bore, from Odessa; Charlotte, f rom N G u o A a e t r r n h r i . s v e e y d Sailed, May 15—James Kennedy, for Cardiff; rCa Argyl ; l, steamer, for J n ; Foyle, steamer, f or London Courier, steamer, for sey ;Le Coq, for Cherbourg. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Morning. Wind W. S. W. Arrived, May 15--Anna D rotbea, and Star of the South, from Bombay ; Nepaul, from Callao ; Morning Star, from Buenos Ayres ; Caroline, from Pernambuco ; Harry Clem, from Paraiba ; Ocean Guide, from Galveston ; Hartley, from Apalachicola ; Segredo, from St. Michael's ; Iburno 11., from Alex- ndria ; Leo Thomas, from Aveiro ; Lemanie, from Ostend; Idea, from Seville; Lucy, from Mauritius. from Arrived, May M.—Dragoon, Jno. P ar k er , an d M e d a lli on, New Orleans ; Hero, from Charleston ; Trebi zon d e , from Alexandria Camilla, from Rio Hache ; A n t ar ti c , from New York ; Osprey, steamer, from Rotterdam." GRAVESEND, Wednesdaorning. Wind W.; tid e fi ve and a halfhouta! flood ; weather tine. Arrived, May 15—Gibson Craig, from Bombay. Arrived, May IC—Mary and Kate, from Antigua. Sailed, May 15—Andreas, from Uleaborg. Sailed, May 16—Adelaide, for Ali can t e; T. O. V ., f or Malta; Lavinia, for Bangkok; Zeus, for Archangel. DEAL, Wednesday Morn? ng. Wind W.S.W., light. 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