The Sun. — London, England, 1860-03-19 00:00:00

- - 4 . MiTirrt",`.7l"'s THE SUN - 9 LONDON - -.. .... a.,, n , mm....dm•ranmra.mrm.m...o•mo , % .. •••••=amm..w .... -•"."' .".--................. ' ANIMMIIIININg • AI O.N B 1 . 1 11A_ II Kli T AND ~' 'IT .I; NEJV S. SL'AI-,:_2. 3i 4 R .li7E I. -( THIS DAY.) BRITISH POSSESSIONS. ' - • • 1 Closing 1 CITY, Two O'CLOCK. 4) , ZDINi.IY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share ! Railways. Paid. I p r i m li fastness done )AY. DUrino. - - ',„ the past week business in most of the --- - - - - --- no 1 Atlantic &St Lawrence all iptain Ma nufacturing districts has been dull. At Leeds si - - ' , ' , ' Railways. r. ,, d. Clocing Business Price. ( Leased at 6 per cent.. ) f ,I3ont.,Baroda& Centlnd / 190 92 le 7th the cloth triltle has been fiat, the late cold weather -- - ____ Igs 44 h aving checked the demand for light fabrics. Thee l 2: ~.1 1 1e 1 ' ;i 'f " a ( '` . „ I i : 1 ,1 1, 1 s Lc it IB r 'f4 . 1 1 .j ni v ug i t E n . : R I 1 6 _ 4 e l 4 a a. a percent i 1 -- Do. Addit. Capital A - - - 1, and amount of business transacted at Manchester has 18 Do. Do. 811 ;d 1 d 12.14 !Ha -- - C , and .43tr.Val. all I 8 61 201 ,Buffalo and Lake Huron; all 5 511 been t r ' ,.' . ' -., "Ch T , 100 '7O 72 exceedingly limited, although prices in most s-- f - i !, l ; a i c 7- 2 a ' a r V l and ' ' ' 'ae' all 1 111 121 201 ' Do. New I all - - I 10 Do. Preference on to instan have slightly given way. The hosiery 23 I 31 ) -11- ' T Y' ne all , - - 100 I Thiflalo,Brar.t.ArGodricb / 10 0 77 8, 2 trade of • 10 13ost.Slcal.& Mid. Conn all ifl 7 ( 1 6 p. et. bds. 1 Aug., 1872 I ; rpool, Leicester, however, has continued mode- Stock I `Aristoi P Ild Exeter ~. 100 103 104 103 100 Do., do. 1 July, 18731 100 172 77 Stock 1 , - aledolii,in • 100 i).01 811 904 90 106 'Do. do. 1 June, 1874; 100 70 75 rately active, and a fair business has been done in 10 !Carmarthen & Cardigan all - - 5 !Clautta.&S.Eastrn.Limal. 30. par 5 p )37 the 'wools and yarns at Bradford. In the hardware 50 cork and Bandon 9 -..- 20 iCape,Eastn.Prov.(Lim.) l 28. - - 20 !CapeTown & Dock Scrip 3s. 1 15 1 d 'Lane, districts no material alteration has taken place as 2 2 0 0 ,c ( o ° l r li k ;s i e ' t i l . f r("4Passage a al l l l I - 6 - 61 20 !Central Oude (Limited) 3s. Od.; - - 'roops r egards the iron trade, but more activity has I pre- to i Do. A ( i ' l k ii . t 7 v "*" (Hy ' all - - 20 'Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c 175 I 1; 4 d 171 Demerara - - 10 1 r,, , , ,. B i 116p.c.per an. voile in most departments at Birmingham, 1 ' . f hasbecn pti.toll. all - - 20 Eastern Bengal.gu.sp.c. 5 I id Id, Bingo so mine an dllelfast•Tune. all - - Stock East Indian, gu. sp. c lOO 1G25 1021 1 02 4 1 3 Sheffield, Walsall, and Wolverhampton. t, and 25 Dun.,Pertli,& Abr.Junc. all 71 8 20 Do. P Shares Ext lO * 1p atoe,' -East An,rlian The demand for money in commercial circles isloo 15 l5l 20 , Do. Jubbulpore lO 5 a p 104 Steel: Eastern Counties lOO 54/ - 551 555 5 1 100 1 Do. 41 p. c. Debentrs. all 1001 101 lu for steadily increasing, and a large amount of business Stock !Eastern Union A Stock 100 37 39 Stocki Do. 5 p.c. Deb., 1864..1 100 11025 1021 • Stock , Do. do. It Stock 100 26 28 20 !Geelong& Melbourne ..1 all 1 204 215 r ! Geelong, Corporation 611 100 ! is daily transacted, at rates which show that the xa 1 D„Ta w. a , ( j te i, , uoa s ; 84 _ _ 20 I East . Suffolk .'. ' ' all - - Sto. 4 per cent. Bonds 1 - - h ankers and brokers are making the most of the Stock Grand Trunk of Canada, 100 34 35 331 434 Busi- 10 1 Do - - 100 ;Do. 6 per cent. Pref ,' all 93 94 93 4 • rivals. eAnortunity thus afforded to employ their resources Stock lEd 121 b11r1.", , and Glasgow! 100 79 80 Stock Min. Berth, .°,-. Dundee.' 100 281 295 29 100 IDo. 6 percent. Debentr. I all 721 731 72 21 it the e n the most profitable terms. A 4-1- per cent. Bra- 10 Fertli'& Clyde Junction) all - - 100 IDo. 7 per cent. 1862 .. all 86 87 65 5 Lt o ocau n rness , I 100 - - 100 !Do. do. 1867 : all 73 75 ;ft for zillan loan, amounting to £1,373,013, has just been 100 IDo. do. 1872 1 all 172 74 Sock ! (,. -.wow & Soutn IN estn. 100 100 101 a flag. announced, which is likely to find favour among 10 IGreat North of Scotland all - _ Stock GtlndiaPenin.gua.sp.c.l 100 I 991 100 eights the • • Stock Great Northern lOO 110 111 1095 20 Do. New, gua.s per cent.! 6 1 541 4d 5 1 capitalists and speculators. As the applica- Stock Do. do. A Stock ; 100 107 108 1075 64 20 4 ,Gt. South. of lnd.Lim.-- 1 1 10 1 1.1 , 100 131 133 ( , guaranteed 5 per cent ! to the tio ns must be accompanied by a deposit of 10 per ;moo; , D 2 ,. do. B Stock 201 Gt.W. of Canada Shares, all 111 12 111 I C Stock fyt..-_ , outh.& IN stn.(lreld): 100 113 115 201 Do. New 1 18 81 81 .1 100 681 695 eRa 8 1 [ Do. Bonds pay. '76,with , l 1 all 95 RO ld had en te the effect will be to augment the inquiry for Stock , Great Western Stock IDo.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.Stk lOO 60 65 100 reoney. During the next fortnight, therefore, con- 12 I Irish South Eastern all - - , ept. till '6O , 100 ;Do. do. 73 till '6O 1 all 95 100 33, and siderable activity may be expected in discount 10e iDo. do. '73 without opt, all 95 100 Stock. !Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 100 1004 994 1 Stock Londonl and Blackwall. 100 69 70 ! sugars c ircles. Stock ILon.,Brighton &S.Coast 100 112 113 100 IDo. 51 p. c. do. '77 do 1 all 90 93 25 ILond. Chat. and Dover all 12 13 Stock Madras, guar., 41 p. c 100 88 02 The loan referred to is projected by the Brazilian Stock Do. do. 5 per cent 100 98 esa 18,000 10 a i 1 94 Stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 91 93 Government for the purpose of assisting the Per- Eighths St i e 2 c: (London d 3 on & North Westny 100 98 081 975 1 Stock Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c. 100 - - ) days, Stock !London& South-Westn. 100 921 835 224 1 1 Liver- n ambuce Railway Company (which would then be 25 L'derry & Coleraine - - 20 , Do. Fourth do. 20 ' Do. 10 ; d 4 d do. relieved from the necessity of making further calls), st 2 o s ck! 42 8 4 1 2 0 5 Stock , Melb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds 100 - l t n t np i k n i e l o le in n . .. 1 all oo . INewßrunswick&Canda. and for the remotionp Vadrier,rsyh&etl: of other public works in 50 !Maryport and , Carlisle . all -•- 20 , Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc .;RAPH that State. The price of issue is 90, and the pay- 12:1 'Do. do. i Shares.... al : , 11 5 7 10 Metropolitan -I; 1 - 1 d E Class ACapitl.Share.. a raents have to be made as follows :--25 per cent. on Stock I V,i dlan d 20 Do. do. B. Capital do. all 5 7 y soul Stock ,Do Birmircr. & Derby., 100 88 90 allotment, 25 per cent. on the Ist June, 20 per 50 I )lid. , t;t . . West.(lreland) all - - .. Do. do. Laud d 0... - cent. on the 2d July, and 20 per cent. on the Ist 25 IDo. 4 Shares all - - 20 Gude (Limited) 20 Scinde 55. - l 191 20 20 fearer, 25 !Mid Kent all - - 20 Do. New g tl/ 15 id 1 tic ; 9,000 August. The interest is to commence from the Ist 10 Do. (Cray Line` all - - 20 Do. Punjaub .. gel 5 - - 100 Newcastle and Carlisle. all - - 20 Do. Indus. St. Flo. aa,,,A; all 19 191 191 wheat December last, and 3 per cent, discount will be 25 New., Aber., & Ilereftl; all 10 11 20 St. AndrewB az Quebec A; Is - - easier. allowed for payments in advance. .to , Newry' i.t, Armagh (act.) 9 - - 10 ,Trinidad(Limited) Scrip I 1 lal par . 20 !Newry; Warpt., & Kos all - - Illratherl . • : 100 56 58 56 the Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday a Stock Norfolx FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 50 I North. Counties Union 35 3 4 1 d anged. /e l 7 small amount of business was transacted, and Stock I North British lOO 61 615 10 ; Antwerp & Rotterdam all 41 41 13rie Stock Nor.Dev.liail.&Dk. Stk lOO - - 20 ;Ardennes all - -13 vvions es exhibited no change of importance, The sales 20 IBahairS.Frati.,Lim.7p.c 7 Id par 61 Onl a ..,.._ until 6p.c.liasbeenpdß 100 - - Stock Do.A Stk.-Arec.nodiv. 5 (Belgian East. Junction all 1 1 m 7 amounted to 2,000 bales. The Railway Share Stock' Do. B Stock - - 20 !Beziers to Graissessac.. all - 6 Carmeaux Mine & Rail. all 21 21 tended downwards . closed with less animation, and quotatiols Stock North-Eastn.--Berwick 100 934 931 921 d Lena 25 Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase 16134 2 IA d 100 I Copiabo - - 'ed downwards. Stock, Do. Leeds l9) 464 47 10 1 Ditto Extension .... all 11 155 Stock Do. York lOO 761 77 761 6 1 20 ; Dutch Rhenish Increased heaviness has been experienced in the ' Stock Nor i on( on lOO 05 107 English North Staffordshire ; 174 31 35 4 13; 20 'Eastern of France ...... 1 all 25 26 Stock Market to-day, owing to continued 20 r tl L 1 20 Euphrates Valley 1 2s. - - p Sal 10 No. & Sou. W. Junction all 9 91 20 Grand Rua. Guar .5 p.c.l 6 - - ay, yet ~ es on behalf or the public. It is stated that the 20 'Great Central of France all - - -Ea. Stock !Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver lOO 41 42 401 ; 1 10 Peebles all 8 9 :0 spend S t Indian authorities have called in some all 14 16 20 ;Gt. Luxem., Con. ells.; all 61 6; may be 10 I ns, and stock has been disposed of for lb jPortsmouth 10 1 khymney lO 55 61 20 ;Italian Junction ....... all - - - - niiagton the Stock , Scot Usti Central , 100 116 118 20 !Lake Constance & B a l e all 20 ' - - e purpose of effecting the necessary repay - stoclacoth.N.E., Aber. Stock! 100 3/ 311 304 11 304 Lierre and Turnhout... all 20 ;Lombardo Venetian.... 10 Ili 11p' la 1 s about 1, Stock I Do. Scottish . i el ents. Consols for money have been 94 120 Lyons and Geneva .... all 1 - - set mild 4 Stock Shropshire Union ,' 100 47 49 3.35 Marial Antonia all ' - - rwick is Pu t they are now 941- 1- ; for the account the 10 ;Sittingbourne & Sheer., all 3/ 21 d 10 Do. do. New a a all l l l l ;S i 1 - 9 8 4 1 i Bl W Stock South Devon I 100 42 44 idy pur- late st price is 94: -1-. India New Loan is flat at 1 100 881 881 871 81 ?I 1 20 Namur and Liege it 20 Do. do. 6p. c. Pref. Stock South-Eastern Stock South wales - - in sporting I °4 ; - 1 ; ditto 5 per cent. Enfaced Paper has im- 16 }Northern of France .... all 365 375 Stock SouthYorks.&Riv.Duni 100 71 7 1 3 20 Do .l New Shares - -p 1 )ys, and l al nved to 991, ditto 51 - per cent. ditto to 1051-, 20 ,Staines, Wok., & Wok.. I all 6 8 10 ;Norwegian Trunk Pref all 81 91 ] 'tend, is 25 !Stockton & Darlington. I all 381 301 20 Paris,Lyons, and Medit a l all 351 86 h at the Bonds remain at 2s. dis and Exchequer R ' I 25 Do. do. ; 9 85 9 p 20 In/Hs and Orleans ......! all 54 16 om the iiiiii - Stockton , & llartlepook 164 - - ! • B 4 have receded to 17s. to 18s. prem. 1 . 20 f 'Recife& S. Fran..(Pern.) , he race- Stock Taff Vale - - ( 1 gua. 7p. et. (Lim.) ...; 113 11 14d 111 12 Id irits, for lie The transactions in the Foreign Market have Stock Do. Preference, No. 1 - - 20 rtiga and Dunaburr...., 10 - - 0 ThatnesHavenDk&Rail 22 - - 10 Rome and Frascati ....; all - - irogress ~ e n exceedingly limited, and prices show a decline. 25 so 1 131ster 20 ' Royal Danish all 13 15 reins in T urkish 6 per Cents. are 79,1 to 80, ditto New 621 25 1 Do. - - ;o climb 63 ' and the 4 per Cents, are heavy at 1011- ; Thus- 12 10 Do. StocklVale of Neath l5 4 d 1 p 100 55 60 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref. -1 all - - rick has ! Sian 3 per Cents. have receded to 65, ditto 41 10 Victoria Station . & Pim 95 10; 101 20 ,Sambre and Meuse. ....! all 51 5; 10 I Do. 51 per cent. Pref. ... ! all 85 91 •of the Stock: Waterford & Kilkenny 100 - - 20 Southern! of France....l all 19 2S P e r Cents. to 98, and Mexican to 211 1 , 9 1 . 60 :Waterford & Limerick all - - I 81 West, Flanders 1 all 5 3 51 , 15 3r be re- 20 iWest Cornwall 10 , Do. 51 p. c. Preference . all 91 94 I 18 le is net I le Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 31 1 29 I West London - - 20 W. & N.W. of France.. all 22. 235 ' 18 all - - Is. The / /*te nt.; the Universal ditto, -1 1 prem. ; the Canada , o lO I Do. lot Class 20 !Do. 2d Class - - 20 !Western of Austria .... 6 - - 20 Western of Switzerland all - - 18 18 2. Some an is 11 -,1 prem. ; and Buenos Ayres Railway - 6 Wiesbaden - - 18 ill show 4li p rem. PRE FERENCE SHARES . , 6 Do 8 per cent. P re f a ll - - 20 Zealand.... all - - the die- The new Brazilian 41- per Cent. Loan is i- 1 prem. -- - I Railways. t Paid./ Closing 1 Business ,wi • B usiness in the Railway Share Market has been Sha " I Price. Done. tei tonshire I • I COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. will be tat her active, but prices in most instances have 25 IBlytlie and Tyne It per, --- I - Can.Gov.6 p.e Jsa& July 100 1114 116 sh . dii is stated cr wn increased heaviness. Edinburgh, Perth, I a. pref. (issued at z50)1 all - - , - Do. 6p.c.Yb..tAug. 100 409 111 an r stk. I Bris. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock! 100 96 98 I - Do. 6p.c.Mr.& Sep. 100 'llO 112 col laying a ,__•., Dundee, Great Western, North Western, South i Stk 'Do. do. do. Shares ! 14 - - - Do. 6 per cent. 1877 100 - - 0, per cent 100 100 102 1014 • - Do. 6 per cent. 1880 100 - - 1134 on takes to Western, North Eastern (Berwick), and Norfolk, s i*g a ,;.Tu n ar.' -e La i res, No. 2. all - - - N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja. &July 100 109 110 slt have declined ss. to 10s.; Caledonian and Oxford, ei Cork & Bandon, 54 p. c. all :-. 1 . - - Do. 6 p.c.Ap. & Oct.! 100 - - pe. Spiteful 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent . a af, 55 6 - N. S.W. Gov. sp. o. Deb . ' 106 991 100 Worcester and Wolverhampton, 155.; and Great •Di 64 I Dun. Pertlare Aber.Jun. 0 stock! E.A rgn. Class A 7 & spc 100 99 101 - D0.5p.cen.1871 to 1976 100 991 100 - , Do.sp.cen.lBBB and up 100 991 100 Pei ] , o rthern £l. Bristol and Exeter advanced 10s., andloo 119 113 - NovaScotaaGov.6 p.c. Sa dy occa- 100 103 108 rev Deb. redeemable, 1875 100 109 110 em. South Eastern I Stock' and Blackwall, Brighton and , sstt,o,eckk'Dnoo.. do. Class as C B 7 6 p p e c ! - S.Aus.Gt.6pc.Jan&July 100 109 111 pai hal' 100 110 112 fdicap is Ised about former rates. Stock Do. do N 0.2, S took IE. Conn. Ex. 5p ct No.l' 100 111 113 .-- Vict•Gov.6p.c.Jandauly ; 100 - - 100 125 127 Sc( ~ S tocklDo. New 6 per ct. Stock 100 82 84 - Do. do. April & Oct. I 100 1115 MI 1 1111 likely to The Foreign lines have shown no important vari atock ;Eastern Union, 4 per ctrl - 1 ato sus- a tion. Lombardo-Venetian remained steady at 111 ..tockjEdin.&Glas. spc shares 100 110 112 MISCELLAINEOTJS. 100 89 91 of efault I 110 i ; Pernambuco, at 111, 12, and San Paulo, at Stock! Do. 4 p.c. rue. S. &D. Stock Edin.Pertli,& Dun. 4 pc. 100 76 77 10 ;Anglo-Mexican Mint ..1 all 114 15 sol , I 4 13. stock ' 100 - - , Furness, 5 per cent .... 100 118 120 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited). 1 all 1 •-- - Mow ' J P Stock ,GI as. &S West, a. 5 Pe. 100 117 119 25 Australian Agricultural, 19 ,32 23 Do 1 Stakes, In the Colonial Market Grand Trunk of Canada stooklGrest Northern, sp. et. Stock Do. .5 pcßedm. 10p.c.pm, 100 'lO3 11l 10 Australian Royal Mail . all 1 - - 10 Berlin Water Works ... all 1 31 41 de of 40 r eceded to 33f 34 ; East Indian to 102: 103; and stack ' Do. 44 p. c. do. 50 British American Land 40 elus are 1 - - I ndus Steam Flotilla to 19. 100 Do.sp.c. It edm.,s pc. pm. 80 181 86 50 Brit. & I r ish Matr.Tel.A. all '37 39 I 10 Gt.! Nh. of Scotld, let2o Do. B, 7p. c. till 1862.. all 120 '22 tra Joint Stock B k Shares are in fair demand, and f Gt.Sn...it W (It;eland)4 1 100 96 98 20 IDo. C thrill not brought aboutan previous Stock! ; t p. ct. pref. Stock ... I 100 ,Canada Land 321 124 128 da declined values. Bank of Australia pt . : all - - e i o , u s inual on a m b o i u se t e t.i, and Union of Australia 1. 50 'Great West. ( Berke and, 10 IChan.ls)ands Tel.(Lim.) all 75 81 • In the 4 4 / p p . c c i t : 1 Hants) Ext. 5 p.ct....! 6 - -- 100 98 100 StoolclCop.Min.otEng.&Smltg all 22 27 pany were firm' Miscellaneous 100 87 89 25 I Do. Prefarence 71 per ct all 241 251 ba lAN. Market, Great Ship , Cora - i t o o e c i k ,, 1-) Do ° : I )i e e ' e le e e e m m a at i l e e; Stock!Crystal Palace. 1 National Discount CompMadrasanylrrigationatand92 at 41. Stock Do. sp. et. Redeem. Pref.! 100 100 102 Stock !Do. 6p. c. Perpet. Deb. 100 102 105 _______ 8 IDo. Birm., Prof. Shares! all 9 1 10 4 Stock Electric Telegraph lOO 104 107 Cr BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAIO I Gt. NV. Ches. 8 p. c .pf .s h . ; a l l 17 18 25 Do. New 8 -Y AT ONEO'CLOCK. to ; Do. do. sp. ct. pref I all 105 101 5 , English &Aust. Copper all 21 25 per Cent. Consols Annuities Pr: 1 111ia Stock .......... 9.11 ii 4 stock' Do. Binning. guar. stock! 100 74 76 15 ;Gen. Steam Navigation. 14 - - Pr t, S.W. Ditto 5 per Cent. 13 !Do. do. do , all 191 204 i all 94 101 91 1 'Great Ship (Limited)., all 1 1 , 1 20 !Indian & Aust. Telegr. 2s. - - Cr: ..... 1041 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per cent....... - - 20 , Do. do. do. ! all 141 155 5 ;'London Dis co un t Telegr. 2 1 16 Se( --- At ,(31Z ' Lan. & York' 6 p.c. stock 100 139 141 20 ,London Dis 5 it 1d 11 2elerity, Ditto 5 per Cent. Stoak.Do.Barnsl.StXs 3slodpe 100 - 4 Lond.Gen. Omnibus Co. all 11 11 Ditto 5f per Cent losa 5 Stock ! Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan) ~ 100 - 20 , Madras Irr. and Canal 1 , 2 21 31 $. -Eagle, Ntt ao 0 Bonds, £l,OOO . 2 d Stock Lon. & Brig.spe. gu. No.l 100 116 118 10 IMediter. Electric Teleg. all 1 - -22 s rt-The •. n . aola for Account (April) ;'alcutta India Stock for Acounnt D' - Stock Do. gua., 6 P. ct. Stock I no. no. sp. c . No. 4 100 116 118 25 National, Discount C0...1 5 1 4d, ,41 10 :Netherlands Land 1 all - - 1 Be, t , Ditto Account, 5 per cent 1044 Stock !Do. Do. 41 per cent lOO 1 - _ 6 Do 8 p.c.Pref.,iss.at Wis. ! all 5 1 Sh 4 -Char- ','lc.b.Nuer Bills, £l,OOO, lfd - 5 !Do. do. 41 per c. shares! 1 - _ 100 'N.Br.&NovaScotiaLandl 80 10 15 Cal i l l,tto £SOO 'go Small, lid. steamer, I' la Stock D 0.4 p.c S.(div.def.til'6s), 100 68 A s 1 !Do. New Shares I 15s. 4 d par " I CES - O'CLOCK. Ole . OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE 25 Lond.l Chat. and Dover ; all .. 2 5 221 10 prientl. In. Steam, A 1 6 - - f Ditto 3 per Cent - ! 10 Ditto B -a , it - 100 115 117 1 6 - - ( Itit to A ccount - -- 335 3 • 1 1, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent - Stock' Lon.&S. W, 7 net. stock, 100 - _ all - Stock Peel River Land & Min. 100 49 51 3 :ning. 1)tto 41 per Cent. - 121 , T.andondy.& Ennis 1 sh.l all , 11 111 50 Pen. & Oriental Steam all 78 80 •1 60 Do. New l5 14 15 a ,„ 140 , 3 per Cent., 1859 65 Stock I lian.,Sh., & Lin., 0 I). cf.! 100 125 127 20 Red Sea & Ind. Telegr. 15 5 1 p •it, and at b u:knian 5 per Cent. - 6 ID°. V I 44 1 1 1 50 Rhymney Iron '114.11. 3 Account 454 10 ,i)o. redeem. 6 per cent. , 5 5 I p Col :worth; Spanish per Cent lOO Royal Mail Steam .teamer, 1.1 1 7!„ . , 41 Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded.. 44 124 rkfaryport & Car., 4 p.c. , all - - Stock ScotAustrln I . nv.(Lim ); 100 120 130 Sec am Jer- "I-41 6 per Cent 791 124 f , Do. 45 per cent .. .... all --__ -..... 25 South Australian Land.l all 35 36 Pri Eliza, 1.) . „lite Account Stock INTIM. Con. 6p. C. stock i 100 - - 1 Submarine! Teleg. Scrip. all I ; Pri 4i irto 63 Stock ,Do.Con.Brislaßir.6p.ct , 100 139 141 1 IDo. do Registered F all 1 Col . h.New Loan 101 3 - Stock Do.! 44 p. c. pref. stock..! 100 101 103 - Sec Design, D itto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. - 4 100 _i Van Diemen 'a Land • • 285 ;11 12 1 Lerland ; batc h Exchange,l2 Gil 2' Cent - D itto u . . 1 per for St.lo I • all 94 10 -- - ---- - Itto Certificates, 4 per Cent. ........ 1021 p. c. redeem, at 5 p.c. aml i iteamer, TWO O'CLOCK. 10 Do. Perpet, 6p. c. with Share Mines. p a id . 1 Closing i Business Lai Consols, Money 12 10 D0., till 1869 71 par 1 p ! ; Star, Ditto Account - - - Alfred Consols (Philack) 2.11.101 3 sal at KA ' • .7 Atli% Do. - - Nfld. Con. 6 p. c. Stock Do.Con.Bris.,lEßir.6p.ct. Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock Do. with option till 1860 Do. Leic. & Hit.pref. at. Newport,Aber,&c.pret.s p. c. redeem, at 5 p.c. o in Do. Pe et, 6p. c. with option till 1866 12 10 Do., till 1869 Stock Nerflk 5 p.c. Ex.Stk,lB4s Stock Do. 54p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Stock D 0.5 WavVal.Ex.Sk 1847 Stock North British, 5 per cent Stock Do. New, qua. 5 percent Stock Islth.Dev. Rail. & D •k. Co. Stock 'C-East.Cons. Pref.4p.c. Stock Do. Berwick, 4 p.m Pref. 17 Do. do. do. 26 Do. Leeds , 6p. c. No. 1. 12i Do. do. Quarters, 1846 . 25 !;)0. York, IL &S. Purch. Stock Do. Redeem.. 2d glia• • • • Stock N i T x °r . t ur il r S . gua. Stook Do. Irredeem., laff w o o rd i. s 6 h pe ir . e i . st . g . 10 Rhyrnney Guaranteed. 84 Scottish Central, new pt Stock Scottish North-Eastern Stock 3i per c. pref. stock... • Stock Do.Aberdeen.glia. 6 P c • Stook Do. 7p. c. pref. stock. lOs. south Devon, Ann. 10s. 10 Do. Fixed 4} per cent. 1.0.6. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6.) Stock Do .44 per cent Stock Do.Fixed4 p.c. Ist is. Stock South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. Stock Do. 44 per cent Stock S.-Yorkshire, 4 p'c. „gull 25 Stock. and Dar. A 5 p.e. 25 Do. B 6 per cent 23 Do. C 6 per cent Stock Watrfd ac Kilkny, 6p.0, ; Star, • ; John Robert Tweed, q, from Rll 74 10v 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Alfred consols (Philack) British Iron 2.11.10 16 3 3i' 310 320 4 450 460 117 i 1221 74 8 11 42 44 144 15 1 14 I r The Sacred Harmonic Society have announce d . d I LYdn's oratorio "The Seasons" for their concert on Fri :ll' next, the 23d instant. This charming work, replete ?Ith beautiful melodies, varied, choruses, and brilliant in ,,trntaentation, appears likely to attain to as permanent a Position in the society's repertoire as its author's celebrated Creation." Miss Parepa, who made so successful a first UPearance at the society's c on c er ts in " Judas Maccabees," iZr. Sims Re eves , M r. Wilb ye C ooper, an d M r. 'Weiss, are, 4 e Principal vocalists engaged on this occasion. We have great pleasure in stating that in all pro utbility her Majesty will review the volunteer corps of the Metropolis and such localities as may render attendance e,?nvenient i n the course of the' month of June next, in tlyde-park. We may anticipate that it will be one of the Most brilliant sights witnessed in London for many years. "—Army and Navy Gazette. _ _ 111 113 110 112 Clifford Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) East Bassett (Mogan) East Caradon E. W'l Russl (Tavistk.) l Gara.drSt.Aubyn(Gwen.) Great South Tolgus— G.WhealAlfd.(Phill ac k) G. Wheal Vor (Helston) Grenville Herod's-Foot Ringston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (u ny Lelant) North Downs North Frances /I llogan) N.Wh'i Basset (Illogan) North Wheal Croft Par Consols (St. Blazy) Providence (tiny Lelia) Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. SouthCaradon (St.Cleer) South C. Brea( Mogan). S Wheal Fran. (Mogan) Stray Park ..... . Tamar Silver and Lead Mining C 0.,. Tin Croft ... . ... .... Vale of Towey (barm.) West Basset (Illogan) W. Caradon (Liskeard) West Seton . . ... Wheal Basset . (llloga n ), Wheal Buller (Redruth) Wheal Edward (Cats.), Wheal Kitty(U. Lelant Wh'i Nary Ann (Menh e WWI Trelawney (Lisk. 91 93 94 96 li id id p 23 24 124 126 2i 3* 26 27 4i 4f 1* 38 40 117 119 5 4i 5 6.1 5 54 9} 104 13 14 45 47 270 250 77 79 124 126 135 140 101. 11 -• The Weekly Register announces that a pilgrimage to Rome has been organised. A number of En g li s h Ca tholioe'liave London on the 24th inst. We understand that Mr. Gye intends to produce, not M. Gounod's "Faust," as had been rumoured, but the " Hereulaneum" of M. David. Our opinion of the wisdom David's -such a pr e f erence need not be given. The book am. uavid's opera (though its original id ea o f p resen ti ng " Th e Last Judgment" was tamed out of it, as ra th er t oo s t rong haveeven F renc h di gestion of irreverence) will, we fancy, 'lave to be clipped and changed again ere it passes our eensorship. This is in itself is a serious drawback to a new /jerk, were the music as valuable as M. David's is the re -I‘se. Not all Signor Rossini's splendour, lavished to its oiltreost on that fficomparable finale, can keep his " Moise" 11. our Italian stage, owing to the transformation of the -- " 0 .1): rendered necessary for England.—Athenaeum. . ROGRESS OF WEST HARTLEPOOL—The re ra,rltable growth of the mineral district of South Durham tt-d-lustrated by the rapid advance of this port. In 1847, ae: 13 °Pulation of West Hartlepool did not exCeed 300 per at the present moment the port contains :—A harb our 4 1 1. • 5 acres ; th ree d ee p- wa t er wet docks of 32 acres ;two Of craving docks and shipbuilding yards; fifteen . acres YarZ e ating timber ponds; eight acres of bonded timber 4 17 - 7 '4, Warehouses, possessing an aggregate fioor area of kie sl ;`'• Square feet, or upwards of g 7 acres ; nearly three . ups length of quays, wharves, and shipping berths , ard . 41 1 3 pr„ a of- 21 miles of railway laid down for the traffic ece uo lehes and accommodations to the docks, the area li e cl by these alone being about 230 acres the .. "'°N EST, HONEST lAGO !"—The Moniteur, in sur;,,tePort of the Parliamentary debate of Thursday night, .1 11 11( e r h el j'es the passage of Lord Palmerston's speech in •vr ti C e °Q expres s ed a hope that the annexa ti on o f S avo y t o Pte might after all not take place. , (i-e or " RORSE GUARDS.—Lieutenant-General Sir e). 1 ,5 e , Wetherell has resigned the office of Adjutant and the duties are carried on by M ajor-General Pro x i'r until Si r J ames S car l e tt takes up hi s post on t h e I st Asi t „ tll °. Th ere are var i ous rumours respect i ng f ur th er ` l ag be s in th e H ea d- quar t ers St a ff, w hi c h, th oug h wan t • st ai lee.iiicial confirmation , have yet probably some sub teilure• Major-General, Forster, whose five years' wil• l , i t °f office expired on the 27th of . February, ( ary 15 . said, succeed Sir Charles Yorke as military secre hisll4/al Highness. Sir Richard Airey is reported Ilext t , succeed Gen. Gascoigne sin the Dublin district quart —e lltii• although Sir Richard's period of service as Of ermaster General will not terminate before the 26th beeo,teeinber next, Lieut.-Gen. Knollys, it is anticipated, ° ,-, f neer B ll / 8 . t he new Quartermaster-General. The remaining :de e t el f the Quartermaster-GendraP s department, Col. time is. up on the 25th of August, and Col. 8 On the Ist of December next.—Army and Navy , r , e Itt e e Essex and Indemnity have arrived from tl2enrne with 32,226 ounces of gold, worth about , a ' r ° ,9„. The Australian gold ships now known to be 4 4. 0 'no Cleadon 108 d t sea with £6B 000; Copen tj_46,4ll% i B O 2 d ay s, ,_ £157,000; Wellesley, 82 days, ' £ 92,000 ; IN • er the Seas, 78 days, £ 176,000; and Suffolk, 67 W ith 4129,000. 231 2 4 i 102 104 101 103 88 9 0 99 101 86 8 8 28i 83 29, 321 32 3 3 50 55 160 170 n 28 30 3k 20k 3 i l S a 88 90 21 3.0 390 1110 170 874 9 24 4 14 15 25 27 29 31 474 5/ 1 a 8 1.7.2 FOREIGN Binui 4., Australian 7f ; I 1 Bon Accord Copper, Lim. 15s 22/ 4 5 Do. Land and Miningeo• all ..._ 1 Clarendon Con's. Min, Co. / _ ...... 4 40 Cobra Copper all 44 46 2 35 0 D Brazil. o. St. JOT n p (I . ( c i 1711. at t y , 2 1. 5 i p i n . . 1 ' 2 10 74 2 - 2 : 22 } 22 16 Copiapo 7/ 1 uni all 244 25/ 2 G 20 General un.Cop,Ming.Co all 2 D Fo t. N.rttn°a all 2 Cop .of S. Austr 1 all lu4 11/ 5 Lusitanian all / 1 1 Mariquita par i 3 Linares 1 all 4 6 Mining and Smelt 5 Port Philip 1 i $ 23 PO R nt li gi in b e a e u °P dal i v S er A , LueLL 108. id p an 2 21 i i 8. 2 1.81 u Sc n o i t te ti d sh m Au cx st i r c a a l u n..(!.....) . 11 .. : 1 1 0 s di PI - ______ * JOINT-STOCK BANK S. Share! Joint-St oc k Banks. Palo- PAO& 1g Business Done. 100 AgradzUnitedServiceßk l 50 40 Australasia all 70 72 71 5 i 25 Bank of Egypt all 22 v 3 100 Pank of London 5O 52 51 40 Brit. Col. Ilk. & Lome° all -- 50 l;ritish North American all -- 20 Chtd. Bank of India, dm all 201 21 20/ 25 Ch.Mer.of In, LonACh all 31 33 100 City 100 Colonial 7 7 38 20.11 Com. Bank of Canada all 100 Commercial of London 2O 19 21 20 Eng , Scot., & Aus. Ch all 10/ 10/ 20 Gen Bk. of Switzerland) all 20 Lon.C.har.Bk.ofAustral. all 224 24 - 50 London and County ,' 20 • 50 ;London Joint Stook ‘.: ( .1 10 31, 100 London & Westminster. 20 56 100 Nat. Pray. of England. 35 20 Do. new lO 50 National Bank ....... ; 25 20 New South Wale s ..,. .. all 25 Orient .Bk. COrmatioa r all 45/ / 5 20 Ottoman hunk all 17/ 18/ 18 100 Pr it of Ireland IC/ ;Do. New 25 (South Australia all 25 Union of Australia all 44 sa Union of London l2 2EI 24)1 1 0 'lraq Mutual .1 60 =... = _.~ ~ - "Y - ~ .. THE SUN, LONDON ; MONDAY EVENING, MARCH. 19 1860. THIS DAF3 MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. - - sheep's is- 4d to is Sd, scoured is Cd to is 9d, grease lld to Is ld per lb. By private contract very little business is doing in any kind of wool at late rates. Last week's im ports were 5,473 bales from Melbourne. Most of the country markets held on Saturday were but moderately supplied with wheat, and for all kinds the de mand ruled steady, at very full prices to a slight advance. There was a good business passing in most descriptions of spring corn, including flour, at extreme rates. Throughout the Continent produce generally has been in improved request, at full quotations, and the supplies on offer have not increased. In the United States, wheat, flour, and Indian corn have continued very firm. The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week were very moderate. The imports from abroad were only 2,290 qrs wheat, 1,590 barley, 6,705 oats, 1,670 beans, 112 tares, 9,879 linseed, 1,340 rapeseed, 20 sundry seeds, and 204 sacks flour. Fresh up, to-day, about an average supply of English wheat came to hand, coastwise and by land-carriage, in somewhat improved condition. Although the attendance of millers was not to say numerous, the demand ruled steady. Good and fine samples sold at ls. per quarter above the rates current on Monday last, and at which the bulk of the supply was disposed of. We were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, sup plied with foreign wheat. On the whole, there was more firmness in the demand, and prices were well sup ported. Importers generally were firm in their demands. Floating cargoes of grain off Falmouth were tolerably firma in price. The few samples of barley on offer were in active re quest, and extensive rates were paid in every instance. Malt, however, moved off slowly, at late rates. The supply of oats was again limited, and the demand ruled steady at very full prices. Beans moved off freely, and in some instances the qurita- Cons were the turn higher than on Monday last. Peas moved off freely at extreme rates. The flour trade was steady, and country marks were the turn higher. CURRENCY FIR IMPERYIL MEASURE. Wheat —Essex aid Kent, red, new 438 to 481 Ditto, old Ditto, white, new sos 168 Ditto, old 498 148 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old. 4OB 458 Ditto, new 40s 458 Itye—Old —s —a New Barley —Grinding. , 238 21s Malting- . 36s lug Chevalier . 410 465 Malt -Suffolk and Norfolk 528 668 Brown 5OB 52s Kingston and Ware , 528 848 Chevalier Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 2,2s 26s Potato 2BB 32e Youghal and. Cork, black 238 26s Cork, white ....... 23s 328 Scotch, Feeding .................... 235 32s Beans—Tick Pigeons 4l. 48s Peas—Grey ...... 40s 428 Maple White 4O. 498 Boilers 49s Mt Flour—Town-made Suffolk 32s 34s Stockton and Norfolk . ...... 305 31s 19 .. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. Paid. I Leasing I Closing Co.'s. Price. Buttiord alit) tlletetiley all Ln &N. PI .. !• Buckinghamshire.... 100 Ln & N.W C 8 100 Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do. 514 32 Do. do. 54 P. ct..... 100 Do. Do. do. sp. et. Clydesdale.) unction.. 100 Caledonin 101 103 Colchester, Stour Val all Id].U.&E C 154 164 E.Lincolnshire,g.6p.e 100 Gt.North. l l4o 142 E Union,HarwichShs all E.Counts.' 44 44 Do. Woodbridge ...' 100 Gls,Barr.&Nells,Drct.l 100 Caledonln Do. New 1 100 Do. .. .... Gloster& Dean Forest all Gt. West. I —- Hartlpool.Dck.&ltail. all Yk.N.&llr; Hull and Selby Do. 4 Shares all Do. ....... Do. .1 Shares all Do.• . ..N _.... Lanc.&Carl.gua.s p.c lOO 'LnBr l W London&Greenwich Do. Preference Lon.,Tilby.&Soutend lOO Peto &Co. Lowestoft, gua. 4p. ct lOO Norfolk.. Do. 6 per cent lOO D 0....... Manc.,Buxtn.&Matk all LN W&M Mid. Bradford Prefer ence Stock I 100 Midland . Newmarkt.,BuryEx 1 5. 5. 6. E.Counts. a „ 6 , I .) guaranteed 5 p. c. Northn. & Eastn. 5 p.c. all Do. 57 54 Do. do. 6 per cent al l Do. — Do. Fixed 5 per cent. all D 0....... -- North Western all Midbend . 144 144 , Preston and Wyra. L& NWa. I all & Lsk. 1 Do. 4 Shares A all Do. — Roystn,Hitch.,& Shep 100 Gt. North. 135 137 shrawebry& Hereford 100 ' T Brassoy 104 106 Do. Do. 1 .... i it P South Staffordshire .. all M'Clean . let it Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt. West., 90 92 Wimbledon& Croydn.l all L.&Brgtu 74 84 205 210 61 66 115 120 93 05 - - 21 95 97 DOCKS. Docks. Pad Stock Commercial Stcek : Do 4 poroent.Prei.Min StccklEast and West India.— Stccklondon Stcek'St. Katharine Stick Southampton • Stock Victoria 40 Do New C losing Price. 100 100 100 - 119 100 - 70} ICO 100 -- .100 101 • 103 - I Business Done. TALLOW Our market is heavy, and prices aro about is per cwt lower than on Monday last. To-day, P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 58s, for the last three months 53s per cwt, Rough fat has declined to 3s Old per 8 lbs. I 1856. i 1859. wing. George )-chow -Jolene; a Mau- LOMBey. ernsey; Wil dombo; on ; the ondon ; wport. Fowey ; rwich ; :estone, 6fely in he free nefit in ;allege, e prin- Fraught ning at 7F., ues to Share all 100 100 100 100 100 1 Business Done. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The total importations of foreign stook into London, last week, amounted to 2,025 head. In the corresponding week in 1859 we received 2,524; in 18511,"537 ; is 1857, 1,218 ; in 1856, 503 ; in 1855, 1,330 ; and in 1854, 1 , 675 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST iirE EL From. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs Rotterdam Harlingen .. Mamburgh .. Ostend l4 Calais - • • 28 40 .. - 203 1,629 165 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1859 155 2,139 .. • • 50 .. 1858 225 .. 160 .. • . 152 .. 1857 494 .. 532 —• • 191 .. 1 1856 485 .. 45 —• • 73 .. 1855 B4B 137 • • 345 .. 1854 326 .. 1,222 .. • • 312 11 About an average time-of-year supply of foreign stock was on offer to-day, and the trade ruled heavy on easier terms. ITIES. 28 The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing districts were moderately good, and in somewhat improved condition. Owing to the large supplies of dead meat now on offer in Newgate and Loadenhall the beef trade was in a sluggish state, and in some instances prices gave way 2d per 81bs. The extreme value of the best Scots was 4s 10d per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we received 2,500 Scots, short horns, and crosses ; from other parts of England 350 various breeds ; from Scotland 200 Scots and crosses ; and from Ireland 180 oxen. We were seasonably well supplied with nearly all bleeds of sheep, except the best Downs. Long-woolled sheep sold heavily at 2d per Sibs less money, but the value of Downs and half-breds was supported. There was rather an improved inquiry for lambs, at from 55 8d to 6s 8d per 81bs. Although the supply of calves was limited the veal trade was heavy, at 4d to 6d per 61bs beneath last Mon day's prices. Pigs wore in moderate supply, and heavy request, at barely stationary prices. Per Sibs to sink the offal. a. d. s. d. a, d. a. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 3 4 3 61 Primecrs-wool do. 4 10 5 4 second qualitydo. 3 8 4 0 Pine. S'thdowndo. 5 6 S 8 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 Large crse. calves 4 8 5 0 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10 Primo small d 0... 5 2 ö 6 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 0 Large h ogs .. , ... 3 6 3 10 Second quality do. 4 2 4 8 Small porkers.... 4 2 4 10 Lambs, 5s 8d to 64 Bd. Suckling calves, 19s to 22.; and quarter •eld store pigs 22s to 295. TOTAL orrrLy. PORI/Wilt BUPPLT. Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, March 21, 1859, and this day, Monday, March 19, 1860:—. Per Sibs, sinking the offal. March 21, 1859. March 19, 1860. I d. s. d. a. d. a. d. Coarse and inferior beasts . . Second quality ditto 4 0 4 6 3 8 4 0 Prime large oxen 4 8 4 10 I i4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. . . . . . 0 5 24 8 410 Coarse and inferior sheep . . ' 4 2 4 el 8 4 0 Second quality ditto . ~ . . 4 8 6 0 4 2 4 8 Prime coarse-woolled ditto . . 5 2 5 84 10 6 4 Prime Southdown ditto . . . 0 5 1 0 0 0 6 0 00 0 6 0 6 0 8 Lamb Large s coarse calves . . • 4 0 410 4 8 6 0 Prime small ditto 5 0 5 8b 2 6 6 Large hogs 3 Neat small porkers . . . . 8 42 4 2 410 Beasts Sheep and lambs . . Calves 87 96 Pigs 370 , 370 - . SUPPLIES OW SALE, March 22, 1858.---Beasts, 3,912; sheep and lambs, 18,500 ; calves, 56 ; pigs, 310. March 23, 1857.—Beasts, 3,275 ; sheep and lambs, 16,020; calves, 88 ; pigs, 270. NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL. Since our last report large supplies of meat have come to hand from Scotland and various parts of England. Gene rally speaking the trade continues in a sluggish state, at the annexed quotations : s. Per Blbs. d by the ca rcase . . - Inferior Beef 2 6to 2 10 Mid. d 0..... 3 oto 3 4 Pm.largedo. 3 6to 4 0 Do. small do. 4 2to 4 4 Large pork.. 3 6to 4 2 s. d. s. d Infr. Mutton. 3 2to 3 6 Mid. do 3 Bto 4 2 Primo do. 4 4to 4 6 Veal Sm all pork BOROUGH HOP. `We have to report a slight improvement in the demand for good and fine hops, at mostly full quotations. Alother kinds are very dull, at lato currencies : Mid and East Kent pockets 84s to 1470 per owt. Weald of Kant do. 6ss to 84s Sussex do. 64s to 80s 9,, BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. We continue to receive full average supplies of potatoes by railway ; but the arrivals by water-carriage are still very moderate. Good sound parcels moved off freely— other kinds slowly, at our quotations. York Regents. l2OB to 150 s per ton. Do Flukes Kent and Essex Scotch ... . Do Cups Dunbars lOO3 to 105 s 99 SEED. The linseed market continues very firm, at the extreme rates of last week. Rapeseed has realised a further improve ment, and rather a large business has been transacted in it. Tares are ix moderato request, at full prices; but all other seeds are a slow inquiry. Cakes are less active, and the late advance in the quotations is with difficulty maintained. rurnip,White,p.bus.l2s to 14s Swede Mustard, Brown Os 14s White, new l2s Its Tares,Winter, new..:itOd 8s Old -8 —s Canary, per quarter sOs 54s Rye grass, new 22s 2iis Clover, Red Eng., et. 43s 608 White Foreign Red 44s 52s White 80s 94s Trefoil, new. lBo 24s Carraway, • 3os to 388 Coriander lOB 13s liempseed, per qr 34s 38s Linseed,Eng.sowing 68,E ;Os Crushing Baltic -8 Odessa Llnsoed Cake, p, ton English ...... £9 5s a 15s Foreign, p ton £9 Os £lO Os Rape Cakes,p. ton 4 15s 5 5s Rapeseed, p. qr. 548 59. WOOL MARKET. The colonial wool sales —which close to-morrow—have been well attended, and the biddings have ruled steady, at very full prices :—Australian—Clean sheep's, is 8d to 3s Od, scoured is 5d to 2s Stl, super 2a 10d to 3s Od, haadwashed is 6d to 2s Od, lambs' is 9d to 2s Bd, skin, &c., is bd to 2s 4d. Port-Philip Clean sheep's 2s Od to 2s 10d, scouritd is Sd to 2s 7d, Locks, &c., is :id to is Ild, skin is 2d to is sd. Sydney-- Clean sheep's Is Sd to 2s 6d, other kinds is ld to is 10d. Adelaide—Clean sheep's is 8d to 2s 4d, lambs' Is Ed to 2s 2d. New Zealand—Clainsheep's is 4d to 2s 4d, lambs' is 6d to 2s Od, pieces, &c., 10d_to is 4d. Cops—.Clooll 2.7.0 7.4.0 5.4 f 17s 12.4.2 9 6 1 84 4.3.6 1.6.6. 7.9.4 li 10.6.7 18.18.4 i 18.18.0 , 12s fld 1857. 1858. 1860. Stock this day.... ,i 25,066 17,418 15,203 ! 1,0:35 34.707 1 47s 6d to 70s Od to 55s Od t0,52s 9d t0,58s Od to Price a Y.C. ~1 —s Od —s Od —s Od—s 9,1 )—4 Oct Delivery last week i 748 1,214 1,258 1,287 1,002 Ditto from June 1 I 8P,278 91,430 91,539 86,060 68,920 Arrivals last week , 3,18? 3,739 293 51 1111 834 Ditto from June 1' 67,822 91,869 95,029 91.528 91,546 Price of Town ... . I 47s 9d 54s 3d 56s 6d 59s 3d) 58s Od PARLI.4IIIENTA.RY COMMITTEE6'. THIS DAY. CIVIL SERVICE. This committee assembled this morning —Lord Stanley in the chair. Mr. J. G. Maitland, secretary to the Civil Service Com missioners, was examined on various points with respect to age and ability of the candidates nominated for Government situations. The rejections on account of age amounted to comparatively few. The rejections on account of want of ability and defective education amounted in the year 1855 to the end of 1856 to 880, in 1857 to 490, in 1858 to 292, and in 1859 to 310—making in all, 19,072 rejections. The reason the number had fallen of in the latter years was attributable not to the improved education of the candidates,, but to the diminished number of persons examined, as the vacant situations had been such that a very easy standard of examination had been fixed upon. SERPENTINE. This committee re-assembled this morning, Mr. Cowper, First Commissioner of Works, in the chair. Upon the admission of the public, Which took place at a late hour, Mr. Page took his seat, and was examined by the public with respect to the mud in the Serpentine. He was of opiniou that if the mud was removed from the bottom by dredging, and fresh water turned in, the Serpentine would be very greatly improved,*and filtering would then not be required. There would be less inconvenience in getting rid of the mud by dredging than by the "burning" process, but he was not prepared to recommend the dredging pro cess on account of economy. Ho did not think there was sufficient water in the Serpentine at the present time to ad mit of its being cleaned out. By Sir J. Shelley—A quarter or half a million gallons of water per diem would keep the Serpentine in a clean state, provided the bottom was thoroughly cleansed. He was aware that Mr. Easton had made a proposition to carry out his plan for the purification of the Serpentine at his own expense in the event of its not being considered to have fully accomplished all that was required. Mr. Easton was a person of great experience, and was not one at all calculated to mislead the public. His plan was a good one, and he thought it ought to be considered by the committee. He did not think the houses in Westminster would be at all injured by:carrying out the plan of Mr. Baston. There was more danger to be apprehended from the making a sewer than from Mr. Easton's well. By Lord Fermoy—He did not place much reliance on the experiment made near the Receiving-house of burning the mud. He did not think it was burned at all, but merely baked. BERWICK ELECTION. This committee met this morning, and proceeded with the scrutiny. Nothing of the slightest interest occurred up to the time of our going to press. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.) JUDGMENT-BERTOLLACCI V. WILSON. This was an application for an injunction to restrain the sale of mortgage property. His Honour the Master of the Rolls granted the injunc tion and declared it perpetual. Hia Honour, with consent of counsel (Mr. Lloyd, Q.C.), turned the suit into a foreclosure suit, and granted the usual redemption decree with costs, and dismissed the bill as against the defendant, Mrs. Wilson, with costs, and remitted to the taxing master to tax the costs, and to look into the proceedings to see in what proportion the property was let, and what was the proper interest of the defendant in it. The defendant un dertaking to pay the plaintiff in equity his costs in the action at law, the one sot of costs might be set off against the other. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner GoulbUrn.) IN RE SYMONS. This was a meeting for thole() of assignees under the estate of this bankrupt, an iron -founder, Cambridge-street, St. Pancras. From the preliminary statement by Messrs. Paul and Turner, it appeared that the debts due to unsecured credi tors are about £2,880; to ditto holding security, £2,220; property in the hands of creditors, consisting of plant, machinery, &c., estimated to realise £5,000 ; book debts, £5OO. Assignees were chosen. Messrs. Linkoy and Everingham are the solicitors to the estate. IN RE WRITE. This bankrupt was described as of Biggleswold, iron monger, and this was a meeting for the last examination. The debts are about £1,430 ; and the assets are set down as—good debts, £1,153 11s. 11d. ; property, £237 ; profit, £316 ; expenses, £268 ; capital, Jan., 1859, £156 ; losses, chiefly on realisation of property, £l2B. Mr. Weatherall appeared for the assignees ; Mr. Brough for the bankrupt, who passed his examination. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —(Thin Day.) MARLBOROUGH -STREET. STEALING WINE AT BEN CAUNT'B.—William Beardall, lately a waiter at Ben Celine:, the Coach and Horses, St. Martin's-lane, was charged with robbing his employer of wine under tho following circumstances : Eliza Fitzgerald, servant to Mr. Caunt: and bar assistant, said that at about 7 o'clock on Saturday morning, she was washing glasses at the bar, when the pipe leading from the tank was stopped up. Prisoner, who at the time came in, said he would go down and clean it. He went down and came up in 10 minutes, and left the house, he having left Mr. Caunt's service three or four days. James Pratt, potman, proved going down to the coal cellar and finding the wine cellar door open, and the lock on the floor. He told Mr. Caunt of what he had seen. Mr. Caunt said he wont to the cellar and missed five bot tles of wine, which had been taken that morning. On searching the cellar he found 20 champagne and other bot tles with their necks off lying about the cellar. Had com plained of the prisoner's conduct several times, and had dis charged him. Ferdinand Folkard, a hairdrosser, said the prisoner came into His shop to be shaved, and asked if he would like a glass of wine, and took a bottle out of his pocket. Mr. Beadon said it was a case in which he should re mand him. THAMES. STRANGE CONDUCT OF A TAX COLLECTOTL—MT. Wil liams, a respectable tradesman, waited upon Mr. Yardley, to complain of the improper behaviour of a tax collector in the district. The applicant said he was called upon on Wednesday evening last, after six o'clock, by the collector of the district, who demanded 3s. 10d. for income-tax and the house-tax. The collector was told it had been paid, on which he demanded the receipt. It could not be found, on which the collector, who brought a broker with him, said he should distrain for the amount. Rather than be inconvenienced by the removal of his goods the amount was paid under protest. A receipt for one of the taxes, to the amount of 10s. lOd., had since been found, and it was taken to the collector, who offered him the money, but detained the receipt. The income tax was never paid without the house-tax, or the house-tax without the income-tax, and his (Mr. Wil liams') wife was certain she paid both together in October last. The collector was asked to refund the whole of the £1 3s. 10d. paid a second time, but he refused to do so. Mr. Yardley—Does the collector still detain the receipt ? Mr. Williams—Yes, "sir. Mr. Yardley recommended the applicant to write imme- diately to the Commissioners of Assessed Taxes at Somer set-house, and if they did not express strong disapprobation of the collector's conduct he (Mr. Yardley) should be very much astonished. It was an atrocious piece of carelessness on the part of the collector to call for taxes already paid, a second time. He would give no opinion whatever of the subsequent conduct of the collector in this transaction. He directed Smith, an officer of the court, No. 415 K, to wait upon the collector, and call upon him to do Mr. Williams that justice which he deserved. A telegram has been received, dated Calcutta, Feb 12, announcing the close of the Five-and-a-half per Cent. Loan on that day. The advices by letter are to the Bth of February, and at that date the price both of the Five-and-a-half and Five per Cent. paper had advanced to a point which, at the existing rate of exchange, would leave a loss on the shipment of either to England. A banking correspondent, who has lived for 24 years in the midst of a busy manufacturing population of 120,000, states that he has never known an expression of approval more unanimous than that which in his district has greeted the new Bankruptcy Bill of the Attorney- General. THE Two STRANDED OUTWARD-BOUND SHIPS IN TILE CIIA.NNEL.-FOLKESTONE, Saturday. -All efforts have failed to get o ff the two outward-bound ips Wagoola, for China, and Wcodcote, for Adelaide, which went ashore between this port and Dungeness during the snow storm on Saturday night. A large quantity of their cargo has been got out, apparently uninjured, and sent on by ra il t o Lon don. Captain Russell has been sent down by the under writers to superintend the operations, and it is believed that the larger portion of the property will be saved. It is also thought that the ship may be Ranted next spring tide, but by some this is considered some what doubtful. - MR. WIL)ON IN INDIA. A letter, dated Calcutta, February 8, says : " Mr. Wilson has returned, and has promised to make his financial statement on the 18th inst. l.t is expected with extreme anxiety, the ' Bazaar,' or native Exchange, having made up its mind that Mr. Wilson is to restore the golden age. Treasury secrets are well kept, but I fear my native friends are about to burn their fingers, and Mr. Wilson's statement, though satisfactory to politicians, not be so pleasant to the money-market. A con siderable deficit is at all events a certainty. Mr. Wilson's plans have, of course, not oozed out, but I may state with some confidence that a plan has been adopted for removing the main cause of our embarrassments—the preposterous military expen diture. The extravagance in this department con tinues almost undiminished, and the following list of the Bengal army alone, which is official, though not signed, will show you its extent, and character : —Royal Engineers, 38 men ; two troops Horse Ar tiller. 389; 14 companies Foot Artillery, 2,592 ; four J)ragoon reg•iments, 2,433 ; 46 Line regiment s , 43,058 ; total, 48,510. Th e l oca l E uropeans, though terribly reduced by the sti ike, still muster—Sapp ers and Miners, 861 ; three brigades Horse Artillery, 1,297; nine battalions Foot Artillery, 2.115 ; five regiments Bengal European Cavalry, 1,014 ; six regiments European Infantry, 1,949 ; total, 7,266. The native troops comprise 15 regiments of Native Infantry, 10,656; 14 regiments of Irregular Cavalry, 5,914 ; 4 regiments of Sikh Cavalry, 2,254 • 19 Pun jab Fxtra Corps, 16,313 ; the Governor-General's Body Guard, 130; 9 battalions of Local Infantry, 8,101 ; Khelat-i Ghilzie. Ferozepore, and Loodiana Regiments, 2,778 ; Civil Corps—Allvghur Regi ment, 1,033 ; Meywar Bheel Corps, 1,030 ; Malwa, 539 ; Joudpore Legion, 711; Assam Local Artillery, 105; Assam Local Militia, 183; Darjeeling Sebun dees, 315 ; Kooky Levy, 214 ; N agpore I rregu l ar Cavalry, 554 ; Nagpore H Field Battery, 109; three regiments of Nagpore Irregular Infantry, 2,754 ; Pegu Light Infantry, 791; Bhopal Levy, 873; five regiments of Punjab Cavalry, 2,956 ; six regiments of Infantry, 4,196; Garrison Com pany Artillery, 81; three Punjab Light Field Batteries, 425; four regiments Sikh Infantry, .2,980 ; Hazara Mountain Train, 68 ; Peshawur ditto, 99 ; Guides Corps, 555 ; Mhairwara Battalion, 755; Meena Battalion, 554 ; Extraor dinary-14 regiments Irregular Cavalry, 7,745; Lahore Light Horse, 154 ; Camel Corps, 734 15 Levies, 10,327 ; Ist and 2d Gwalior In fantry, 1,163 ; Kamroop Regiment, 912 ; East India Regiment, 310; Lucknow Regiment, 820; Loyal Poorbeabs, 277 ; total, 90,564. Bengal Military Police, 8,000; Oude ditto, 12,000 ; North- West Provinces ditto, 27,000; Punjab, 10,000; total, 57,000. Grand total, 147,564. "Add the armies of Madras and Bombay, and the new military police of the former presidency, and we have a native force of nearly 300,000 men, and a native army, police excluded, of 210,000. The whole of this is to be swept away within the next 12 months. All recruiting is already stopped, and all the levies ordered to be gradualiy dis banded. India is to be garrisoned by a force of 80,000 Europeans, aided for fatigue duties by half that number of natives, selected from all classes, Goorkhas. hill-men, Madrassees, Jews, Mahrattas, and Hindostanees. The native force will garrison the frontier and a few remote stations unfavourable to European life, and supply sentries and fatigue parties in cantonments. Each Presidency will, besides, have an armed police, organised precisely like the Irish constabulary, but very strictly limited in numbers, and armed, if with firearms at all, only with the lightest of carbines. I need scarcely say if this plan is correct, and I believe it to be so in all essentials, the financial difficulty is at an end, and the empire is as safe against revolt as Great Britain. My only doubt is whether the power of Government will be sufficient to sweep away the mass of interests which will resolutely oppose themselves to a reform so wise and so ex tensive. It will probably irritate every old Indian at home, and though they do not now represent Indian opinion, they do speak the sentiments of a powerful section of the army. It must not be for gotten in considering the scheme that we have in India no trouble with disbanded soldiery. They sub side at once into the population. Lord Hardinge disbanded 50,000 men in a day. The great Sikh army, defeated by Lord Dalhousie, went back to the plough till Sir John Lawrence summoned them to arms to reconquer Hindostan. "About the financial plan nothing is known, but the following extract from the Friend of India re presents pretty accurately the talk of the districts through which Mr. Wilson passed :—' We are un willing to join in the game of guessing, but one or two statements reach us from so many quarters that we are compelled to believe they at least foreshadow the truth. The belief throughout the North-West is that Wilson's tour has resulted in decisions of this kind: that the budget of revenue expenditure should be presented to the Legislative Council be. fore the close of the financial i j ear; that the octroi on cities, or Punjab plan, is, as a general scheme, far too dangerous to trade ; that resources should be. sought first in a broad scheme of military reduction —so broad, perhaps, as to leave only a European army and a native police ; that th© deficiency of the revenue should be made up by a trade-tax, levied as a house-tax on traders with less than 10Or. a month, and as a graduated license-tax on all above that rank ; that the great difficulty of Indian ad- ministration connected with pure finance—viz., the slow circulation of blood to the heart, should be cor- rected by the issue of a State paper currency, through or not through the State banks.'" MILITARY PRISONS. The report on the discipline and management of the military prisons for 1858 has been presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of her Ma jesty, and contains the following statistical infor mation :—The military prisons in operation in 1858 were as follows : —England—Chatham, Gosport, Weedon, Devonport, and Aldershott ; Scotland— Greenlaw (near Edinburgh) ; Ireland Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and Athlone. Abroad—Gibraltar, Quebec, Halifax (Nova Scotia), Bermuda, Vide (lonian Islands). St. Elmo (Malta), Mauritius, Bar badoes, and Montreal ; making a total of 19 military prisons, of which ten are in the United Kingdom, and nine at different foreign stations, the whole being capable of accommodating about 1,500 pri soners. The report exhibits a considerable varia tion in the prison statistics of 1858 as compared with those of 1857; the number of men punished for minor offences in 1858 has, in comparison : been smaller than in any previous year, except 1807, in dicating an improvement in discipline, and, it may be hoped, a pro g ressive tendency as regards the m oral condition of the soldier. The average length of sentences was 99 days in 1849, and 87 in 1854, but it was reduced in 1855 to 77 days, in 1856 to 53 days, in 1857 to 49 days, and in 1858 to 47 days. The statistical tables of the report also announce that although the tendency to desertion has in creased, drunkenness and other crimes in the army have decreased since 1857. • The expenditure for military prisons in the year 1858 was no burden to the country, as the amount of unissued pay and beer money exceeded the prison expenditure by £1,452; the total expenditure being £18,125, and the un issued pay and beer money, which is stopped when £ the men are in prison, 19,577. Th e num b er of corporal punishments inflicted last year was 918, among 219,739 effective men ; being 0 . 4 9 per Cent.; and the number of deserters branded 2,371, or 1 . 09 per cent., which unfortunately exhibits an increase for the same offence, when the numbers were —flogged, 545, or 0.34 per cent. ; branded, 1,090, or 0.76 per cent. From the medical returns of the military prisons at home, it appears that the health of the pri soners has improved since 1854. The pro portion of numbers treated for sickness to the total numbers in confinement in 1854 was nearly 21 per cent., whereas in 1855 it decreased to about 15 per cent. ; in 1857, 16 per cent. ; and in 1858, 15 per cent. This result is at least a sufficient proof that the reduced scale . of diet adopted in August, 1850, and in general operation throughout the years 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, and 1858, combined with the system of requiring the second and third class prisoners to sleep accoutred as if on guard, although it has increased the loss of weight among the prisoners as shown in the tables, has not as a general rule had any injurious effect on their health. Notwithstanding the apparent effect of the punishment in causing a considerable average loss of weight, it is remarkable and satisfactory that the number treated for sickness during the year 1858 was proportionately less than in any year since 1848, with the exception of the year 1855. The following statistics are then given upon punish ments in the army, and with them the report . con cludes.d In 1843 the number of soldiers irepriasiotnial, at any one time under sentence by court . m • in civil prisons, exclusive of those who might be in cr officers, WAS confinement by order of commanding the same time in the ratio of 20 in 1,000, n punishments amounted to the number of corporal p u 25 . 2 per 1,000. In the annually about 5.2, maki ng lBs4 the number of three years from 5 im prisonments was IrBeduced to 11 per 1,000, and in the four years from 1850 to 1854 the average num ber of corporal punishments had been reduced to 9 .5 per 1,000, being a little more than o ne -h a l f i n ' b ot h cases, and making a total of 13 5 as comp are d with 25.2. During the year 1858 the average num ber undergoing imprisonment at any o ne ti me i n the military prisons and barrack cells amounted to 11.9 in 1,000, and the total corporal punishments in the year amounted to 4.2, making a total of 16.1 per 1,000 for 1858 as compared with 25,2 in 18.13. WRONGS WHICH CRY FOR REDRESS. Mr. Crook's bill for the Protection of Women and Children employed in Bleach-Works, &c., will be proposed-towards the end of March. If, be tween this and then, popular opinion is not bzoughr to bear on this most atrocious question, it shall be no fault of ours. We purpo.e that this article shall appear in our columns frequently, until the bill has again been brought before the house; and we implore our brethren of the press to help the country, and especially the Legislative Body, to a right way of thinking on these horribly cruel mat ters. Our extracts are taken almost at random from Mr. Hopley's pamphlet Samuel Price examined—" I was in the employment of Messrs. Ainswarth, near Bolton. They employ about four Ihundred people. It was mostly from eleven till two o'clock in the morning before we left off. In the last year I w with them, from April, 1853, to April, 1854, we were busy, as well as I can remember, through the spring and through the summer, for six or eight months of the year; that is, we went to work from six to half- past six, sometimes at four, and left off from ten to twelve, one or two in the morning, and sometimes after that. * * * All the people in the works averaged these number of hours—some even more." [Observe that this dreadful toil was not an occasional or exceptional fact. Girls and boys were thus working,a. " through the spring and through the summer, fir six Inn eight months ofthe year."] 110 "At tim es , if a sudden order h as come, we h ave not been in bed mote than 16 or 18 hours in the week (averaging more than 211 hours of unrest out of the 24 during seven successive days and nights for girls and boys, some of them no more than 12 years old)."—Report of the Com missioner appointed to inquire how far it may bo advisable to extend the Provisions of the Acts for the better Regu lation of Mills and Factories to Bleaching Works, r p. 10, 11, Nos. 81-84. William Johnson, finisher—" I am twenty-four years of are. I was eleven when I first went to work. I worked first for Mr. Fleteher, Leylands, ten years. At my com mencement" (that is, when he was a child of eleven) " I began at twelve o'clock on Sunday night, and worked till eight on Monday night (20 hours) ; then we started at six o'clock on Tuesday morning, and worked till 12 at night (18 hours) ; and we did that for two or three months without stopping. *• * I have been at a worse place than that for long hours since; at Mr. Whowell's, Two Brooks. * * There were a deal of young girls, one or two under ten years of age.—lbid., p. 9, No. 68. [To have a fall perception of the severity of this toil, it should be borne in mind that a very large number of the workers in these establishments are standing and " work ing hard" (as rapidly as possible) during almost the whole of these lengthened periods. It is shown in evidence that sometimes for days in succession the girls and boys have no opportunity whatever of sitting down (save for their hastily-snatched meals during the whole of the time spent at the works.—Reports, passim.] John Hamer, finisher—" I have been 15 years in the bleaching trade. I was employed at Messrs. Hollins', Tootle Bridge, Bolton. * * * One morning we wont to work at five o'clock and worked till six the morning after" (25 hours.) " All the sets were working the same hours" (the young with the adults). * * * " I have been se tired, though I am a strong and healthy man, that I have often to sit at my bed-side when I get up of a morning, and my fingers are so stiff and sore that I cannot dress my self. If I feel thus tired, what must the young girls and boys eel ?"—lbid., p. 8; Nos. 61. 64. [The frightful state of prostration—often ending in death. —to which the young girls and boys are reduced in some of hese establishments will be touched on presently ] Ann Simpson. (14 years old), Elizabeth Hilton (15) Sarah Higson (16)—" We came to work last Friday morn ing at half-past six" (at Mr. Ridgway Bridson's Bleach works, Bolton). "We worked all Friday night till half past five on Saturday morning" (twenty-these hours). "We did not sleep any time in the night, except on Saturday morning at half-past five we laid down to sleep on the hooking-box, and slept till a little after seven" (less than two hours' sleep--and with the clothes still on—after twenty-three hours' work) ; " then we went to breakfast for half-an-hour, and then came and worked till ten minu pest p. 25, 'No. 236. William Crompton—" I am 17. I have been four years and a half" (that is, since he was twelve years and a half old) " in the dressing-shop. We goon till different hours, sometimes early, sometimes late. I worked once three days and three nights" (he is only one, remember, among mul titudes—children as well as adults—who toil in the saute way); " and not long since I began work on Friday morn ing at four and worked till five on Saturday night" (37 hours). " I mostly slept at meal times, and only stopped one hour for meals; tho rest I ate whil e 1 was wor ki ng. " — p. 26, No. 246. Surely all this is very terrible. But read on : Elizabeth Henderson (Mr. Clark's Ble rchfield, Burnbrae, Millengood).—" We sometimes begin at one o'clock upon Monday mornings and work sometimes till nine o'clock on Monday night" (20 hours), "and sometimes even all Mon - day night, and get home at six o'clock on Tuesday morning" (29 hours from the time of commencing work).—" Home for four hours and out here again at ten o'clock, and work up to 11 and sometimes 12 o'clock that night. The next day we should come out at six and work the regular hours; that may go on fcr a few days or a week, and then we should commence, as before, at night-work, going home at seven in the evening for one hour, and working through the night. We stop from 12 till one in the night for re freshment. It was rather before the new year when we commenced to be so busy, and it has been going on this way up to this time (M arc h 24)."—A quarter of a year of such toil as this ! —lbid., p. 66, No. 7t13. If there be any one thing which more than another adds to the enormity of this national iniquity, it is the fact that there is not—nor ever has been—even so much as a ' wortLy of the name, to prevent a stop being rut to all these terrible shames by just legislation. Mary Ann Smith.—" Last Saturday I was 12 years old. * S * 1 cane here nearly three years ago. Six times in that time I have worked from six in the morning till hall-patt two the next" (twenty hours and a half). "Once I worked from six one morning till six the next morning" (24 hours). " I have to rub my instep every night before I can get my clogs off. The skin cracks, and I cannot abide it sometimes. One of my fingers is gathering from being cut by the selvage, and the other is running."—lbid., p. 47. No. 457. Contemplate the condition of this poor child. It has been at work since it was nine years old. And it has to ge on hour after hour, day after day, the skin of its instep still cracking and festering, the selvage still sawin; against its gathering, running sores. Woe to the nation that shall hear such things and will not raise its voice : Amelia Woed (15 next July).—" I have been at this work about three years. We ottenest begin at or ain the morning, and oftenest leave off at 11 or 12. ► * *- Sometimes we do not leave off till 3 or 4 ii the morning. My fingers are often very Lad ; the cloth wears thew through."—lbid., No. 158. Think of it, reader. It is the every-day cemplaiat of suffering umilltitudes : "The friction of the piece, in kotkiag, cuts their fingers and makes them very sure, their Ailed being soft. 'Whose finger is bleeding,' is net an uncorkmon expression as the blood stains the pieces; they then have to have their Au gers tied up."—]bid., p. 43, No. 414. As the blood stains tile pieces Sore feet, likewise,—the natural consequences of stand ing so many hours, and frequently upon very hot floors, — are very g eneral , especially among the little g i r l s : "My feet are almost always sore" (No. 126.)—" flays had 'the aching legs' many a time" (No. 'lt "Ankle bone was growing- out" (INo. 273).—" Tho akin comes off, and they are very sore" (No. 274).---" I have oft.' sore feet ; they bleed sometimes, and my ankle bone has bosu growing out" (No. 277).—"The skin is off very often, and the soles of my feet are blood-raw" (No. 279).—" My feet are often blood-raw' — uiio itfats like"are these e, often ea nls b re l blood-raw, r in e t a ' r n , t and the y p ai n (No. 281.) puts `` 6 ‘ t ' :11 s 1 20 y 8m. f 5e e ). e s_. tnblistertahte and lAk p e a r e the very n sore. ew kn M e n o m th e eT , I have a l ways sore feet in simmer time" (No. 033.)—'" My feet are often sore winter and summer" (No. 636).—" Feet often FO sore that the skin comes off with my stockings" (No. .5 ( 14).—" If you could have seen my feet last night" (No. 491).—" Worked when the skin was off my feet very badly " (No. 492).—" I have often hail the skin off my feet" (No. 231.—" Iler feat very often get raw" (No. 448).—" My feet were always sore in summer : they were blood-raw at bottom, and my ankles are swelled with a deal of pain" (No. 463). " I have scores of times seen both men and children asleep at their work. and very dangerous work too" (No. lo).—" Very often they go to sleep over their work' (No. 51).—" I have almost, every day to take a board and beat it on the table to waken them, as they were slumbering at their work." (Observe the expression, reader—' at their work'). " At that time they would be hooking sloth ; and while they should be doing it, I see them nodding and trying to catch the hook" (No. 83).—" As to the older ones, I have often and often seen them down asleep, net being able t• hold up for their work. If the manager bad gone out, they would drop down in a minute in the packing-boxes and go to sleep" (No. 6S).—" We have often gone to sleep on the tables, or with our heads on the wet cloth, or anywhere where we could sit still" (No. 378).—" The little ones very often fall asleep standing to their work"— [Mothers of little ones, you will not, You cannot read, and then not stir in this. You have a mission here. Say not that you can do but little in the matter. Let but the ma ternal feeling of the country rouse itself, and not another session shall pass away without the rescue of these little ones— Now, reader, it is no use mincing words. Look upon al this calmly, weigh the matter well, and have the manly or womanly honesty to call it by its right name; and what is k ? Wholeaale murder—murder tier gold. The man who poisons another to escape the payment of a debt, is hung. The man who stops another in the Queen's high-way and demands "your money or your life," is hung. But these, who build up princely fortunes with the bloody hands ands bloody feet of helpless little ones—who wade through killing tyranny to wealth —who lire u.pon women's and children's life's blood,—who aro guilty of tho death not of one only, but of scores of their fellow creatures —these roll about in carriages ; and after founding a c h urch ' er two, and a school or two, are lo oked upon as just, liberal, and benevolent men u ; and sit on ma g i ster i al benche • d ta ke their place in and ta ke ; a n d assume an interest is t he welfare of the poor; and argue upon the rights of labour. Woe to the legislature that contains within its body the rust that must corrupt I Woe to the nation that hears such t hings and will not r y a e is a e p i a t t s h v e o t i i c c e l l egialators. And think of oafnadl lwanthis, child, ve cruel men of mammon. Her ply her task no more. For twenty littlet h i T a l lividiink hands can your houses." . . . b , ,th houses," been en , "The spoil is iu this 'no a u w p ful in tvi t i i i n in?r, iiiind by associations, by petitions to operatives, 4, by meetings years have these poor twenty r o rouse attention has t ti h. to cryal l " f:r u lia g t Women of the United PleY" Lotter to the Men and Mr. Crook', Bill will kingdom." be brought forward fora second reading tow ar d s t h e l atter end of March The Belgian Chamber of Representatives at its sitting of the day before yesterday continued the discussion on the bill for reforming the Penal Code. An amendment by M. Nothomb declaring that no limit should be put to the right of prosecution by any relatives of deceased persons against those who might publish defamatory articles against their memories was rejected by 46 to 24. Tho wording of the c ommittee . limiting the laid right to the father, grandfather, son, brother, and nephew was afterwards adopted. The further discussion was then adjourned. ~~~ •