The Sun. — London, England, 1859-02-28 00:00:00

, een ad lister of rejected amen d rill was n tativ es ill sanc- between blishing ium and a most I], 1859, a more lebrated brought )ccasion if the lnd if ttended r with between is which lisprove year re- rich was 3, in my strength ebox is, xtended erry has stables A that debut. like a lephant, diculous d force A Tease urprised he won , ctations Ley may t men ts. op the D. Bel !ked for wincipal Mr. La he gave , cted the John e subse . of Mr. 5 Plate, which I •eighing those ited in e most am not which lave ob ' faked." had not to enter ecedent )t being ,fter an scales, far as consi- ifeboat 1, on the is over lso dim d after e usual Le 37 of , in my aim on race, to hen and L to the at pur- is short ss dis- which len ho le play of the 's com et as I res are con- ►ntinuo regret less be nblage to be of also ith, at :erned. dozen dlands le lot. ;ter to !incess irorthy lest of Lodi- o last I the sadly ques ore of Limals their Tine, (wing MONEY MA. CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocK, The accounts from the manufacturing districts Mention that during the past week there has been little alteration to notice in the general position of trade, the unsatisfactory state of continental politics having in a great measure interfered with commercial affairs. At Leeds the market for cloths of all descriptions was less buoyant, buyers having limited their transactions to immediate require ments. Most of the mills in the neighbourhood, however, were well employed. The demand for goods at Manchester for India and China has not been quite so active, and the production has been lessened; prices, however, are exceedingly firm, with a tendency towards an improvement. At Bradford, worsted yarns for the home trade continued in good demand, and for piece goods a fair inquiry had been experienced. Less business has been done in worsted hosiery at Leicester, but the cotton glove and hosiery branch has been exceedingly active, and prices gene rally have exhibited an upward tendency. The iron trade of South Staffordshire is gradually improving : stocks generally are large, and the demand keeps pace with the production. At Birmingham railway carriage building for the East Indies is active, and in most branches of busi ness connected with the town a slight improvement is perceptible. At Sheffield and Wolverhampton very little change can be reported. The demand for the American markets has been less active, and the probability of native iron being used in the East Indies to a groat extent for the projected railways has thrown a :gloom over the market. For home consumption there has been about an average inquiry. The Liverpool Cotton Market, on Saturday, closed with rather more animation, and prices, generally, exhibited an upward tendency. The sales amounted to 8,000 bales. In the Railway Share Market a moderate business was transacted, and quotations were steady. The money market still remains without the slightest symptoms of a reactionary tendency. Seve ral years have elapsed since so great an abundance 'was experienced, and at present there is every prospect of continued easiness, the supply being ex cessire, and the demand limited. Although the Board of Trade returns show that the improvement in trade has made some progress, the extra accom modation required for commercial enterprise has been furnished without trenching upon the reserves °I bankers and brokers to any appreciable extent. The terms range as low as 2 per cent., and at that quotation first-class paper is readily negotiable. It has been announced by the Danish Govern- Ment that on the Ist of September next they will redeem the whole of the outstanding balance, £697,200, of their 5 per cent. loan of £BOO,OOO contracted in London in 1849. n At the m ee ti ng o f th e E as t K en t R a il wa y ; I ntipany t o -d a y, a repor t was presen t e d, s t a ti ng that the entire line would be opened by Ist Oct., 16 °. The traffic in the part opened up to Dec., 11!0 !, amounted to £9,320 1 ls. 5d., leaving, after ' 4l- e expenditure, a balance in favour of the com pany of £1,458 19s. 7d. It was proposed to Lo ndon, the name of the company to that of the ' 4°ll don, Chatham, and Dover Railway. The re port was adapted. At the half-yearly meeting of the N or th an d south Western Junction Railway Company to-day, dividend at the rat e o f 31 per cent. per annum for the half year was decl are d. It appeare d th a t the re had been an improvement in the traffic of the company since the last meeting. At the half-yearly meeting of the Mid-Kent Rail way Compa n y t o -d a y, a di v id en d o f 2 s . 6d. p er 'are was declared for the half-year. T here has not been much animation in the : st ock Exchange markets to - day, for although inc reased c on fid ence appears t o preva il, th e ope rators are an x i ou s, b e f ore em b ar ki ng i n f res h enterprises to ascertain the course of values in in the Paris Bourse. The Funds are still, a great measure, under the influence of e telegrams from that establishment, and E t he partial reactionary movement in Consols, viz., g from 96 to 9& 1, is attributable to the want of g; buoyancy in the Rentes, which, after rising t per cent., again relapsed on Saturday afternoon into s their former heavy and depreciated position. The s' l atest price of Consols is 952, the tendency of the market being downwards. The New Three per S Cents. and Reduced are 961 y ; India Debentures, 98 1 9 9 ; and Exchequer Bills, 345. to 38s. prem. S , 'aek Stock is 228 ; and India ditto, 221. 5 Business in the Foreign Market is quiet, and p r ices exhibit a downward tendency. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 90 to 901 ; ditto, New Loan, 80 to 01 ; ditto, 2d issue, 51 to 51 dis. ; and the 4 per c uts• have improved to 103, Brazilian 5 per Cents. I ° 2 l, ditto 41 per Cents. to 931 941, Peruvian 4 4 1 Per C en t s. t o 941, an d S pan i s h 3 per C ents. to to ;• Russian 41 per Cents. were steady at 991 100 . The New Austrian Loan is 11 to 1 discount. In the R a il wa y Sh are M ar k e t p r i ces i n mos t ins tances have shown a downward tendency corn- Par ed with Saturday ; the average decline is about tO I per cent. Most of the principal lines, how ever, are now quoted " ex dividend." Great North ern, Great W es t ern , N or th-W es t ern , Midl an d, an d s o uth-Easte r n have declined 10s., and C a l e d on i an 8 . The F ore i gn un d er taki ngs are a l so d epresse d, 1. Tnbardo-Vcnetian having receded to 81 8 for the Indian to 8 and 81 for the new shares. The East lines are steady, and Grand Trunk of Can ada and Great Western of Canada show little variation. Jo int-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares arc a hbade firmer.. London and Westminster have im- Pved ss. h 10 ; London Joint Stock, ss. ; and Electric p elegra, s. 1114.r_ li aht -4: ,,15H FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. a ;:- otock 3 ~,,r`r Cent. Reduced Annuities 9 6. i I Kyr Cent. Consols Annuities - a 4 I, l°. 3 Per Cent. Annuities 96 t li i 4k Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 1 3-16 , Ditto 30 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1859 15.16 a d ia Stock .wito Debentures 1 9Bl 9 Eitto Bonds, £l,OOO Ctto Under £l,OOO ' ullsols for Account 95! .x,., March. June. , -hequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & 11d.. 34 f ~.4 - qtto zo o 34 1 Vitt° Small, LW 37 4 .Ditt o Advertised I „ItICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O ' CLOCK. .bittizilian 5 per Cent Ditto 1858, 41 per Cent. ....... -. P eruvian 41 per Cent R Ditto Account 44 sian, 1822, £ St., 5 por Cent S Ditto 41 per Cent. 'Vanish 3 per Cent — D itto Account T urkish tip)iiittttttciooAA 6 iw p ce : 0 ii i nn Cent 44l 911 911 801 .. 80f 3 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. IA Dividends on the above payable in London. 4ottch Exchange 12 Guil. 24 per Cent 651 b at° CertificaLs, 4 per Cent. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 95 Cowls for Account k i t? FOR EXTENSION OF THE SUFFRAGE k i t ? VoTE Ey BALLOT.—The petitions which the Northern ti e „ ° 2 l4 ,, Union have lately been collecting in the two coun tlb; ",,.` Durham and Northumberland will be presented to 'louse of Commons to-night (Monday, Feb. 28), by metileral Thompson. The total number of signatures l iur athed to them is 34,456. V I UNIFICENT REWARD OF HONESTY.—On Friday Z'or,_4Beph Stubbs, a carriage cleaner at the Lancashire and Railway Station, Bradford, found in a second -11,0.8 carriage a pocket-book containing Bank of England 1 411 es and cheques to the value of £3BB is., belonging to a I v • Cl(Narge Atkins, of Halifax, who had taken a nap, and 1:11 over -carried to the Pickle-bridge station. Th e h ones t '‘ l way 401 se muc rvant was d rewa ya rded ! by the liberal owner with h oblige to— Wakefield Lxpress. th ,1, HUMAN HAIR.—A German savant has taken h e janis to count the number of hairs existing in three 140 ,A 8 of hair, of different colours. He found in a blonde 1V Q •1- , distinct hairs, in a brown 109,440, in a black aa',°9, and in a red 88,740. The inferior number of red tlicu'ack hairs may be compensated by their superior 0.01 4 ° 88 , and it is probable that each of the different ' 3 urs is about equal in weight. It is to the fineness and toriplicity of the blonde tresses that they owe their silken EXTENSION OF THE OVERHOUSE TELEGRAPH e l e , Bl „ ll .—Workmeu have for some days been employed in At a 'rng a series of lofty poles between the premises of her st e ii e stY's printers and the Parliament Houses, Westmin ve‘. , cl and on Sat ur d a y l as t th e w i res were suc cessfully con v°e the Thames at Westminster to the summit of of the towers of the Royal palace. The work is Con Itncted by the inventor of the system, Mr. O wen Rowland, V° I lir. M. Allen, of the Overhouse Telegraph Works, rB hip-street, Finsbury. ~~ 'ARE M. ORDINARY SHA Eailways. Amber:4%, Icottim.T. Bost. and Eastern Junction Belfast and Ballymena Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. Birk., Lane., and Chesh Junction Blackburn Blytb and Tyne IBristol and Exeter :Caledonian jChester and llolyhead i Cork and Bandon , Cork, Blkrock,&Passage !Cornwall Do. A A ivies. no div Do untilGp.c.per an. • B basbeen pd.toß. Dublin andßelfast June. Dun.,Perth,& Abr.Junc East An2lian Ealtern Counties Eastern Union A Stock Do. do. B Stock Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds) East Kent East Lancashire East Suffolk Do Edinburg and Glasgow Edin.,Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction ;Furness Glasgow & South Westn Great North of Scotland Great Northern Do. do. A Stock Do. do. B Stock Gt. South.& Wstn.(lreld) Great Western Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.Stk Irish South Eastern Lancaster and Carlisle Do. Thirds Do. New Thirds (Lancashire & Yorkshire ;Do. do. F £l6 t Do. do. £9 shares 'Do. West Riding Union Do. Southport London and Blackwall Do.Newiss.at £slosp.sh ;Lon.,Brighton &S.Coast ;London & North Westn j Do. Eighths London& South-Westn L'derry & Coleraine j L'derry & Enniskillen Man., Shef., & Lincoln ;Metropolitan ;Midland Do. Binning. & Derby ' Mid. Gt. West. (Ireland) Do. Shares INentastle and Carlisle f New., Aber., & Herefd ;Newry & Armagh (def.) (Newry, Warpt., Warpt., & Roe North. Counties Union ;North British , Nor.Dev.RaiL&Dk. Stk Do.A Stk.— Arec.no div until 6p.c.hasbeenpdß Do. B Stock North-Eastn.—Berwick Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase, Do. Leeds Do. York I North London &S.Westn., Hampstd and City Junction North Staffordshire North-Western No. & Sou. W. Junction ,Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver Peebles Portsmouth ; Rhymney Scottish Central Scoth.N.E.. Aber. Stock Do. Scottish Mid. Stock Shropshire Union iSi t tingbourne & Sheer South Devon South-Eastern South Wales ISouthYorks.&Riv.Dun I Do. do Staines, Wok., & Wok Stockton & Darlington Do. do. 1854 Do. do. 1855 Stockton & Hartlepool Taff Vale Do. Preference, No. 1 ; ThamesHavenDk&Rail Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny ;Waterford & Limerick 'West Cornwall %'-end Lon. & Cry. Pal Do. A.—Arecv.nodiv.till 7 p.c. has been pd. to /1 Do. B West London Do. Ist Class.... Do. 2d Class ~ PREFERENI Share Railway 4. and 1 25 (Blythe per c. pref. (issued at r...50)1 a, Stk rßris. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock la 120 !Do. do. do. Shares 1 Stock:Caledon .ClO, 44 per cent, 10 12.10 'Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2.1 7.' Stock Chester & Ilolyhd, 54 pc 10 Stock 1)o. do. 5 p. ct. 0.1 Cork & Bandon, 54 p. c a] al Dun. Perth,&Aber.Jun a] Stock' E.Angn. Class A 7& spc 10 Stock Do. do. Class B 6 pc lO Stock! Do. do. Class C 7 pc 10 Stock' E. Coun. Ex. 5 pct. No.l 1( Stock Do. do N 0.2 1( Stuck;Do. New 0 per et. Stock 11 Stock Eastern Union, 4 per cf. 3tock i East Lanc. 6 per ct l, 5 E.& W. York. .Icu. fifths a, itock Kdin.&Glas. spc shares 10 ;tock Int in.Perth,Ar Dun. 4 pc, 10 tockl Furness, 5 per cent 10 toe]: Mas. &R West.e• a. spc, 10 took Great Northern, sp. at. 10 Lock Do. spc Redm.,lop.c.pm 10 Lock Do. 44 p. c. do. do. 00 Do.sp.c. It edm.,s pc. pm CI 10 Gt. Mi. of Scotld, let pf , Gt. Sn.& W(lreland)4l 1 , ocic p. ct. pref. Stock 50 G reat West. (Berke and 1 Hants) Ext. fi p.ct ock Do. Redeemable, 44 pet lO ,ock Do. Redeemable, 4p. ct lO 'ock Do. Irredeemable, do lO - ock Do. sp. ot. Redeem. Pref lO 8 Do. Birm. Pref. Shares, all 10 Gt. West. Ches. 8 p.c.pf 1 shares I al 10 Do. do. sp. ct. pref lal Lock Do firming. guar. stock 10 264 Do. Chesterguar.sharesl al 134 Do. do. do ' a 20 Do. do. do. :ock!Lan. k York 6 p.c. stock 1 1 rock Lon. &Brig.spc. gu. No.l 1 , rock Do. pref., sp. c. ...No. 2 11 lock Do. New gun., 6p. ct ll rooklDo. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 1( 4:,cl(' Lon. & N.W.Cov. &Nun eaton, 5 p. ct. Lock Lon.& S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, late 3d shares lO 124 Londondy & Cole, # shs al 12. Londotady.& Ennis 4 sh al tock Man.,Sh., & Lin., 6p. et lO 6 Do. £6 took Do. 34 per cent. 124 Maryport & Car., 4 p.c al ( Do. 4 per cent... 21 1 Do. ;ock Mid. Con. 6 p. c. Stock 'ock Do.Con.Bris.&Bir.6p.ct lO ock Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock lO 6 Do. with option till 1860 Lock Do. I,eic. & Ilit.pref, et. 10 10 ( Newport,Aber,&c.pref.s a 1 p. c. redeem, at sp. c. pm j 10 Do. Perpet, 6p. c. with] option till 1866 I al 10 Norfolk Deb. 4 p.c.shares! al tock Do. sp. c. Ext. Stock,lB46! 10 tock Do. 5. p. c. Pref. do. 18471 10 Lock Do. Way.Val.Ex.Sk 1847 10 tock North British, spercent 10 tockjDo. New, gua. 5 per cent 10 tockiNtli.Dev.ltail.&D.ik.Co. 10 tocklN- East. irred. 4 p.c. Deb. 10 tocklDo. Berwick, 4p. c. Pref. 10 17 IDo. do. do. 21 :0 Do. Leeds, 6p. c. No. 1. 12 Do. do. Quarters, 1846 . 25 Po. York, &S. Purch. 20 North Staffordshire . . al Rock Ox. Wr. & Wol. 6pc. ls tg 10 Stock Do. do. do., 2d gua lO Stock Do. 44 p. c. Db. stk.in peril 10 81 Scottish Central, new pt a] Stock Scottish N.-Eastern deb 10 Stock Do. 3i per c. pref. stock 10 Stock Do.Aberdeen.gua.6pc. 10 Stock Do. 7p. c. pref. stock. 10 10s. South Devon, Ann. 10s. al 10 Do. Fixed percent. a] 1.0.6. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0 ) Stock Do .44 per cent lO Stock Do. Fixed 44 p.c. Ist is lO Stock Do. New do., 2d issue lO m et sop , t o b . 4 males . ei t i a. 4 n.c 'lB 20 S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gua al 25) Stockton and Dar. 5 p.e 25 j Do. ri per cent Stock Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent. 90 02 8 9 72 76 22 3 6 64 'E SHARES, Closing Paid. Price. Xll 49 51 )0 94 96 1103 105 125 127 116 118 al 6 64 DO 99 102 DO 110 116 00 108 112 00 115 117 00 114 116 00 132 134 00 81 83 00 74 76 )0 113 115 X) 120 122 )0 111 113 )0 107 108 10 64 66 [ll 11 11i [OO - - 93 95 85 87 86 88 99 101 lo -ioi Ali I 161 17 di 10 101 73 75 - 11 19 20 11 94 10 11 14 141 )0 140 142 00 - 1120 122 ',63 168 )0 r 122 124 4 4 i iP )0 08 70 )0 Xl4O 142 )0 103 104 3 iP 10 96 98 al 91 10 Lll 11! 12 Lll 9 10 1112 114 PO 98 99 3.4. 4 dis p 10 d p ill 23 234 )0 120 122 )0 111 113 )0 99 101 Lll 10 11 II 1 244 25 0 'lO3 105 0 103 105 ill 164 13 ill 29 30 al 334 34§ 48 51 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Bedford and Bletchleyi all Buckinghamshire .. 100 elydesdale Junction 1 100 Colchester, Stour Val all E.Lincolnshire,g.6p.c 100 E Union,HarwichShs all Do. Woodbridge .. 100 Gls.Barr.&Neils,Drci. 100 Do. New lOO Gloster& Dean Forest all Hartlpool.Dek.Stßail all Hull and Selby Do. Shares all Do. Shares all London&Greenwich Do. ~ Ti P . y b reference Lonl&Soutend lOO _ _ Do. Barking Shares all Do. Lowestoft, harking 4p. et. 100 Norfolk.. Do. 6 per cent lOO Do, Mane".& Iluxtn. & Matk. all LN w& 3l Midsb Mid.Bra dfordPrf. Stk. 100 Midland . "[leder, g.6p.e. all Stk.& Dar Newmarkt.,BuryEx 5. 5.6. E.Counts. guaranteed 5 p. o. Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. all Do. 1)o. do. 6 per cent. ... all Do. Do. Fixed 5 per cent. all Do. L& N W Preston and Wyre. I all & L.Yk. Do. Shares A. all Do. Rovetn,Hitch.,& Shep 100 Gt. North. Slitnoth.&Gol.g.sp.e. 18 11 6 Lan.& Yk Shrewsbry& Hereford all T Brassoy South Staffordshire .. all M'Clcan . Wear Valley, g. 6p. c. all Stk.& Dar Do. do. NWVimiltablaednd Somerset n". all Do. l a °o ll G}L.tißWrgestn Ln & N.* ILn & N. W , Caledon in E.U.SLE C GtNerth. E.Counts. 98 100 103 105 17 18 143 145 4 Caledonia Do. Gt. West Yk.N.Atßr Yk.N.llld. Do Do. S.Fast Do. Peto &Co 1111 113 65 e' 115 120 90w2 2} 1; DOCKS. 98 ICO i i P 58 BO 1142 144 9 1 11 11! Ip 4 id Closing Business Prioe. Done. Railways. PaidLeasinr , Closing Business Co.'s. Price. Done. Share Docks. t 3 Stock Commercial Stock Do 4 pereent . Pref. Min Stock East and West India Stock London Stock St. Katharine Stock outbampton , 100 Stock Do New i 18 Victoria — 100 i 102 - 104 z 0 100 100 100 100 100 Share 1 V.. 1 13.14 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock; Stock Stock 161 16131 Stock !KET.-(THIS .DAY.) ND STOCKS. Paid. Closing Business Price. Done. 95 97 10 104 105 1054 88 89 137 138 L 044 1054 561 57} 56 57 85 90 12 13 p 12 13 p 96 06i id id 6 6 [O9 110 951 96} 1 f d 92 t2f 37i 36 ,02 102, 78 78' 12 62 61 3+ Idl 58+ 59 921 13 1 1 47 48 77 18 [Ol 103 5 4, d 131- 1 8 31- 7 29 31 7 5d 114 116 27 271 84 85 45 47 21d3 374 38 73 /3i all 14i 16 [OO 6 7 1613 4, 100 100 I 100 ,t 3 Is, 17i all all 100 all all all 2 7 161 100 100 100 100 all all all all all all all all Business Done. 122 k I 1. pm ISi THIS !KETS. Share Railways. Closing I Business Paid* Price. Done. CORN EXCHANQE. There was no animation in the demand for wheat in .the leading country markets hold on Saturday. Fine dry samples were mostly disposed of at full prices ; but other kinds moved off slowly, at late rates. The barley trade was tolerably active, at full previous quotations. Oats, beans, and peas, as well as flour, commanded late currencies. In the Continental markets wheat has continued dull in sale, on former terms. Other produce has been in fair re quest. The grain trade in the United States has become much less active. 'Antwerp .16 Rotterdam Ardennes 41 5-1 Belgian East. Junction lieziers to Graissessaa jCarmeaux Mine ;Dutch Rhenish 'Eastern of France . Euphrates Valley Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. shs Italian Junction Lake Constance & Bale Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian Lucca & Pistoja, 5 p.c.pf Lyons and Geneva Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur and Liege Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref. Northern of France Do. New Shares Norwegian Trunk Pref Ottoman, gua. 6 per cent Paris,Lyons, and Medit. Paris and Orleans Recife& S. Fran. (Peru.) gua. 7 p. et. (Lim.) j Riga and Dunaburg.... Rome and Frascati .... Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref. Sambre and Meuse Do. per cent. Pref Southern of France West Flanders Do. 51 p. c. Preference W. & N.W. of France Western of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do 8 per cent. Pref Zealand 11 5 4i21 - PI 61 6 The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week, were moderate. The total imports from abroad were rather limited, viz., 644 quarters of wheat, 2,912 barley, 12;287 oats, 2,130 rye, 5 beans, 50 peas, 475 tares, 6,329 linseed, 10 mustard, 100 sundry seeds, 3,793 sacks and 105 barrels of flour. The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to-day, coastwise and by land carriage, were on a very moderate scale, but we observed a slight improvement in the general condition of the samples. The attendance of both town and country millers was far from numerous, and the demond for all kinds of wheat of home produce was in a sluggish state, at last Monday's currency. We were tolerably well, but not to say heavily, supplied with foreign wheat. Fine dry samples sold at full quota tions, but so little was doing in other kinds that prices were almost nominal. Floating cargoes of grain, off Falmouth, were very dull. The show of barley was rather limited. For most de scriptions the demand was steady, at full prices. Malt changed hands freely, at full quotations. There was a fair show of oat samples, and the demand ruled inactive. In prices, however, no change took place. We had rather more inquiry for beans, at full quotations. Peas ruled steady, but not dearer. The flour trade was in a sluggish state, at last Monday's quotations. } 11:11 19 8 1 2 8 01 37 371 81 4 2 41 34 33f 52 63 f dl a 4 20 2W ti tlf 23 24 CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat —Essex and Kent, red, new 36s to 45s Ditto, 01d............ ..... Ditto, white, new 3BB 50s Ditto, old —8 —s Noriblk and Lincoln, red, old — s — s Ditto, new 36s 448 Rye—Old —s —a • New . .. .. 30s 328 , Barley—Grinding...., - 248 36s 37s 26s Malting . Chevalier 358 42s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk s2s 66 Brown 5OB 5258 Kingetort and Wa r ° Vt. 668 Chevalier Oats — Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding l9B 246 Potato 26s 308 Youghal and Cork, black 2os 23s Cork, white Scotch, Feeding 2os 29s Beans —Tick Pigeons 3Bs 49s Peas—Grey Maple White 398 40s Boilers Flour—Town-made Suffolk 3os 328 Stockton and Norfolk .. 27s 2Ss BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Share/ Railways. nm * Closing 1 Businsa I P `m Price. Done. Atlantic & St Lawrence Leased at 6 per cent.. Ilom..paroda&Cent.lnd all 9 all 78 80 gu. 5 percent --- Do Do. Addit. Capital A Do. Do. Buffalo and Lake Huron, Do. New Buffalo,Brant.&Godrich 6 p. et. bds. 1 Aug., 1872 Do. do. 1 July, 1873 Do. do. 1 June, 1874 Clcutta.&S.Eastrn.Lim. Cape,Eastn. Prov.(Lim.) Cape Town & Dock Scrip Central Oude (Limited): Ceylon Guaranteed 6p.c Demerara Eastern Rengal.gu.sp.c East Indian, gu. 5 p. c Do. C Shares Do. E Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore Do.4i p.c. Bds. pay.'s9 l Geelong& Mel.gua.s p. e. Geelong Corporation 6 per cent. Bonds Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 p.c. Deben.,pay.'7B Do. 6 per cent. Pret Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.e Do. New, gua.s per cent Do. do Gt.S.of Ind.Lim.—Scrip guaranteed 5 per cent. G . LW. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. Bonds pay. '76,with ept. till '6O Do. do. '73 till '6O Do. do. ''/3 without opt Do. 54 p. c. do. '77 do Madras, guar., 4a p. c Do. do. 5 per cent Do. 41 p. c. Extension Do. Turd Ex. gua.s.p.c Do. Fourth do. IMelb. Corp. 6 p.c. Bonds Newßrunswick&Canda. Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc Class ACapitl.Share Do. do. Land do Do. do. B. Capital do Do. do. Land do Northof India Tramroadt Limited, Scrip Oude (Limited) Sciude Do. Do. New Do. Punjaub Do. Indus. St. Flo. bZ:Z . ISt. Andrews & QuebecA iTrinidad(Limited) Scrip I (1 (1' d 7 8 85 90 82 88 SO 84 id i p I ip to 3i 1014 par 4pi METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week were 1,829 head In the corresponding week in 1858 we received 617; in 1857, 884; in 1856, 429; in 1855, 358; in 1854, 2,331; in 1853, 2,834; and in 1852, head. 19 20 IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs Rotterdam Hamburgh 76 .. 350 .. Harlingen Dordt Antwerp - • • Ostend. - • • Oporto 12 "-- • • - • • 33 .. -.. 34 .. .-.-. • • Total 542 1,111 176 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 1858 123 .. 132 362 1857 154 737 .. 93 18 56 229 130 1855 240 118 .. 1854 775 .. 1,333 223 1853 475 2,126 .. 227 .. 6 For the time of year there • was a fair show of foreign short horns to-day, but its general quality was inferior. From our own grazing districts the arrivals of beasts fresh up this morning were slightly on the increase com pared with Monday last, but there was a deficiency in their general quality. The primest Sots, short horns, &c., sold without difficulty at last Monday's prices. Otherwise the beef trade ruled heavy, and in some instances prices gave way 2d. per 8 lbs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 2,200 Scots, short horns, and crosses ; from other parts of England, 600 of various kinds ; and from Scotland, 300 Scots and crosses. We were again very scantily supplied with all breeds of sheep in middling condition. The mutton trade was de cidedly active, at an advance in the quotations realised on this day se'nnight of 4d per 81bs. The primest old Downs in the wool realised 5s 8d ; out of the wool, 58 per Blbs. About 3,000 shorn sheep were in the market. Calves, the supply of which was limited, were firm ; and the quotations had an upward tendency. We had a slow sale for pigs ; nevertheless prices were supported. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 3 4 3 6 Second qualitydo. 3 8 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4. . 8 410 Crse. & inf. sheep 4' 0 4 4 Second quality do. 4 6 4 10 Suckling calves, 19s to 22s 18s to 225. s. d. s. d. Primecrs-wool do. 5 0 5 4 Pine. S'thdowndo. 5 6 5 8 Large ass. calves 4 0 4 10 _Prime small do 6 0 5 8 Large hogs 3 0 3 .8 Small porkers and quarter-old store pigs, TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 3,545 Beasts 470 Sheep 16,450 Sheep Calves Pigs 420 . 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 1, 1858, and this day, Monday, Feb. 28, 1859. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. March 1, 1858. Feb. 28, 18.59. a. d. Coarse and inferior beasts . . I d . a. d. • 3 4to 3 6 3 d. s. 4 to 3 6 Second quality ditto 3 8 310 3 8 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 2 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. .. . • •4 4 46 4 8 410 Coarse and inferior sheep . • 3 2 3 6 4 0 4 4 Second quality ditto . . • . 3 8 4 0 4 6 410 Prime coarse-woolled ditto . • 4 2 4 6 5 0 5 4 Prime Southdown ditto . . Lambs Large coarse calves . . . Prime small ditto Large hogs Neat small porkers . . . Beasts Sheep and lambs . • Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ON SAL; March 2, 1 857.---Beasts, 2,942; sheep and lambs, 15,020 ; calves, 87; pigs, 260. March 3, 1856.—Beasts, 4,133; sheep and lambs, 22,600; calves, 67; pigs, 280. I NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat on offer from Scotland and various parts of England are less extensive than of late ; and the show of London-killed is only moderate. The trade geue rally rules steady, at full prices. Per Blbs. by the Carcass. s. d. s. d. I s. d. s. d. Inferior Beef 3 oto 3 4 Infr. Mutton. 3 oto 3 6 Mid. d 0..... 3 6to 3 8 Mid. do 3 Bt o 4 2 I Pm.largedo. 310 to 4 0 Prime do. 44to 4 8 Do. small do. 4 2to 4 6 1 Veal 3 Bto 4 8 Large pork.. 3 oto 3 6 1 Small pork BOROUGH HOP. We continue to have a firm market for nearly all new hops, at very full prices. Fine yearlings are quite as dear as last week. Otherwise, the demand is heavy. Mid and East Kent pockets 7os to 120 s per cwt. Weald of Kent do s4s to 70s ~ Sussex do 548 to 66s ~ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1859. (THIS DAY.) 29 31 70 72 [oo loot i d 'fall 16 16} 4 i 4} (1, 100 106 100 105 100 105 96 96 17 18 19 20 18 lit d d - --al - --dl 20 21 P kd ip I Ig I d par, BRITISH MINES. Alfred Consols (PhilaCk) pritish Iron Condurrow (Camborne) Devon G. Cone. (Tavist.) East Bassett (Illogan). Great South Tolgus G.WhealAlfd.(Phillack) G. Wheal Vor(IIelston) Lady Bertha North Frances (Illogan) North Wheal Crofty N.Wh'l Basset (Illogan) Par Consols (St. Blaxy) ,Porkellis Unit. (Wend ) ISortridge Cons. Min. Cr., E.4ciuthearatdon (St.Cleer), (South C. Brea( Illogan).1 S Wheal Fran. (Illogan)' Tamar Silver and Lea d Mining Co Tin Croft UnitedMines(Gwennap) Vale of Towey (Carm.) West Basset (Illogan) W. Caradon (Liske2rd) Wheal Basset (Illogan) Wheal Buller (Itedruth) Wheal Edward (Cals.) Wheal Kitty (U. Lelant) Wit'! Mar Ann (Mottle), Trelawney (Lisk.) j 2.11.10 17s 11.18.8 9} 18s 6d 84 7.9.4 nil. 18.18.9 12s -6d ICloging I Bniiiress Price- :Dose. 3 :7,11 465 475 215 225 12 13 21 31 1 t 1 1 6 7 2 , 1 3 ( t i IEI 161 1 j44a i 455 2} -- if :15 225 Li 'I 3 1 1 Mines. 13—harel FOREIG: 20 Australian 1 800 AccordCopper,Litn. 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at £5 p.) 20 Do.St.Johndelßey,Lim. 5 Do. Land and Mining Co. 1 Clarendon Consols Min ing Co. of Jamaica ... 40 Cobra Copper Capiapo 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co 2 Fortuna 20 General 3 Linares 5 Lusitanian 1 Mariquita 1 New Granada 1 N.RhineCop.of S.Aus.L 20 Pontgibaud Silver, Lead Mining and Smelt 5 Port Philip 30 Santiago de Cuba 28.2.8tUnited Mexican COLONIAL COVER: [are! Securities. Can.Gov.6p.c.Ja. & July Do. 6 p.c.rb.&Aug. Do. 6 p.c.3lr. & Sep. N.13.G0v.4 p.c. Ja. &Jttly Do. 6p.c.Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. sp. c. Deb. NovaScotiaGov.6 p.c. St. Deb. redeemable, 1875 S.Aus.Gt.6 pc.Jan &July V ict•Gov.6p.c.Jan&July 113 i 114 111 i 1125 115 116 111} 1121 1011 102 k 1111 1124 110 111 107 109 1021 } JOINT-STOCK BANKS, Closing Business Share Joint-Stock Banks. Paid, Price. I Done. 100 Agra&UnitedSerViceEk 50 40 Australasia all 25 Bank of Egypt all 251 254 100 Bank of London 5O 40 Brit. Col. Bk. & LoanCo all 00 British North American all 20 Chtd. Bank of India, &c 10 1 d 100 City 5O -- 100 Colonial 25 20.11 Com. Bank of Canada all 211 100 Commercial of London 2O 20 Eng., Scat., & Aus. Ch all 161 17 20 Gen. Bk. of Switzerland all 20 Lon.Char.Bk.ofAustral. all 214 224 22 50 London and County 50 London Joint Stock 100 London zr Waatminster 2O 48 8 100 Nat. Prov. of England 3 - 20 Do. ucw lO 50 National Bank 25 -- 20 New South Wales 25 Orient. Bk. Corporation all 4 20 Ottoman Bank all 21 22 Provincial of Ireland - 10 Do. New all • 25 South Australia - 25 Do. New l7l 25 Union of Australia all 25 Do. New 2O 50 Union of London lO -- 100 Unity Mutual 55 100 Western Bk of London 50 20 19 d MISCELLAA EOM Shari ➢lisccllaneous. 10 Ang,lo-Mexican Mint 1 100 Atlantic Tel. (Limited) ' 25 Australian Agricultural 10 Australian Royal Mail . 1 10 Berlin Water Works 10 Do New, issued at Z 5 dis 50 British American Land 50 Brit. & Irish Mag.Tel.A. 20 Do. B, 7p. c. till 1862 20 Do. C 100 Canada Land _ _ Chan.lslands Tel.(Lim.) Cop.lllin.ofEng.litSmlig Do. Preference 7i per ct Crystal Palace . Do. Preference Eastern Steam Electric Telegraph Eng. & Aust. Cop. St.Co Europ. & lnd.Junct.Tel Europ. & Am. S tm. (Lim ) Gl.lron ScrewCol.(Lim Gen. Steam Navigation London Discount Lond.Gen. Omnibus Co Mediter. Electric Teleg Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim ) National Discount Co Netherlands Land Do do DoSp.c.Pref.,iss.at ldis N.BrANovaScottaLand l N.B. Australasian (Lim.) North of Europe Steant Oriental Gas Do. New Shares Peel River Land & Min Pen. & Oriental Steam Do. New Red Sea & Ind. Telegr Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam Scot,Austen.lnvAlin.) South Australian Land. Submarine Teleg. Scrip. T v p r in o l d im L o n em ß .C egi eu o.o g , f i t . e U i lp e . au d r i Cr. u all all all 15e. all all all all all all p a id . Closing p r i ce. Business done MOI2 2501 13/ 32 34 1 1 21 31 38 40 19 21 13 15 L2O 126 9 10 24 25 4 3 101 103 1 1i I le le le d l le If 6 7 li / d 1 2 1 14 I i 1 1 CUB I tar 854 NI 13 p par A P 24 62 3 64 } 120 130 36 38 1 11 9 U [ i f 20 22 95 70 145 225 15 125 24 3 11 12 47 49 30 32 1 I i Pi 4 foi ili lt 2 37 39 10 12 11 11 21. 22 8 9 1 d $P 4 5 I 1 I t 21 3 SECU: Closing Prices. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Full average time-of-year supplies of home-grown pota toes have come to hand during the past week. The imports have amounted to 64 tons from Calais, 20 do. from Boulogne, 5 from Hambro, 37 from Harlengin, 2 from IV' terdsui, and oor utlVe TO report a slow sale for all kinds as foltOwi : York Regents, 80s to 105 s ' • Essex and Kent, 70s to 95s ; Lineolns, 70s to 90s ; Scotch , 45s to 90s ; foreign, 45s to 655. WOOL MARKET. The commencement of the wool sales has been marked with some inactivity. In prices, however, when compared with the previous auctions, no change has taken place. Quotations have ruled as follow :—Cape : Chan sheep's, Is 21d to 28 ; scoured, is 21d to is 91d ; handwashed, is 41d ; greasy, 101 d to is 4d. Port-Philip : Chan sheep's, is 71d to 2s 11d ; scoured, Is lid to 2s 8d ; Super snow white, 3s 2d; lambs', is 11}d; do. scoured, 2,31 d to 2s 81d ; skin, is 6d to is 101 d. Sydney : Clean sheep's, is 10d to 2s 51d ; scoured, 'ls lld to 2s 5d ; handwashed, is 10d; pieces, is 3d to is 7}d; greasy, is Ofd to is lid German : Clean sheep's, is 21d to is 9d ; scoured, is 10d to 2s ; skin, is Old to is 31d per lb. Tho importslast week were only 131 bales from Antwerp, and 30 bags from Ham bro'. Privately, very little is doing, on former tcrms. :DS. Although the linseed mark( late rates have been fairly at] mends extreme prices, but in sell. Cloverseed continues i Cakes have changed hands t prices. :et has been somewhatinactive, Ipported. Fine rapested coni iferior qualities are difficult to in request, at full quotations. to a fair extent, at lam Week's Tuniip,White,p.bus.l2s to 14s Swede Mustard, Brown Ss lls White, new l2O 15s Tares," Spring, new.. os6d 12s Old -8 -8 Canary, per quarter 56s Otis Rye grass, new 228 26s Clover, Red Eng., et. 64s SOs White Foreign Red 62a 70s White 70s 84s . Trefoil, new.. lBs 20s Carraway .......... 41s tons Coriander .......... M 12s Hempseed, per qr :1,/s 38 8 Linseed,Eng.sowing ;Is 71s Crushing ...... --s —s Baltic ....... .. —s Odesia ...... Linseed Cake, p. ton-- English £lO 041015 s Foreign, p tonX9 5s 04 10 15s Rape Cakes,p. ton 5 0 1 6 58 Rapeseed, p. qr..... 64 682 V Since our last report very the value of tallow. The steady. P.Y.C., on the s: town tallow, 52s nett cash ; LOW. little change has taken pace in earket, however, may b e :ailed lot, is selling to-day at i 6d ; rough fat, 2s 10d. 1855. 1856. 1857. 1858. :4359 . Stock this day.... 36,610 23,726 12,891 19.277 2,720 49s Od to 59s 6d to Ms Od to 528 9d to 6d Prise of Y.C. 508 Od ---8 Od Od —8 Od Od Delivery last week 1,417 1,353 397 1,938 32 Ditto from June 1 64,214 86,495 891,01 87,087 8036 Arrivals last week 2,516 763 1,938 390 1110 Ditto from June 1 64824 63,679 85,512 93,252 9 1 180 Price of Town 544716 d 53s id 61s Od 55s'Od 51t3d Stock Sto. I s • Stock 100 20 2° 201 100 Stock 8 1 i 6} # } 100 100 100 1. 3. 0. 2s. 2s. ;28. 6d. 103} 41 4; all all }lOO 16 Bit I all all all all all all I ss. l at 10 5 GLEN Paid. 100 100 100 100 100 100 'TIES. Business Done. LA IV INTEL. HOUSE OF LORDS-APPEAL. THE SCOTTISH NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY V SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND STEWART, DART. This was an appeal from a decision of the Court of Session in Scotland, finding the company liable to the respondent in £14,500 damages in terms of their agree ment; and, moreover, liable for all loss and damage which ho would have sustained if the company had carried out their branch line though the lands of Murthly from Perth to Dunkeld, as should be ascertained by decreet-arbitral of Mr. George Buchanan, one of the directors of the com pany, under the Act of Parliament. The line of rail way was abandoned, and the company denied their lia bility for any consequential damage which might have arisen if the branch line of railway had been made. Sir Richard Bethell, Q.C., opened the case for the appel lant. Mr. James Anderson, Q.C., is on the same side. Mr. Rolt, Q.C., and Mr. R. Palmer, Q.C., represent ;he respondent. The hearing of the cause is now going on. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood JUDGMENT.-IN RE HARRIS'S TRUST. His Honour the Vice-Chancellor stated—The contest in this suit raises the question, What is the effect of the appointment which the testator has made as to the money to be received frsm the sale of the bonuses arising on the policy of assurance in the Metropolitan Assurance Com pany, to be divided, according to the proportions mentioned in his settlement, amongst his children ? He directed one thousand pounds to be paid to each of his two daughters ; and then he directed the remaining two thousand pounds, or the residue, to be divided equally amongst his five sons, nonzinatum—and the ques tion was, did these bequests pass shares to the younger children? His Honour, on referring to the dicta of Lord Hardwicke, and reviewing the decision in the cases of Butler before Lord Cottenham, and Carter before Vice- Chancellor Shadwell, came to the conclusion that the resi due, or surplus portion, was devisable amongst the younger children, and d.elarad that the children, on attaining the age of 21, shall have their portions paid to them, and the residue will be taken to a separate account. The parties will have their costs as between solicitor and client, and not as between party and party. CRIMINAL COUR T.-(THIS D AY. OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) The March session of the Central Criminal Court com menced this morning before the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, the Recorder, Aldermen Sir Chapman Marshall, Sir R. Carden, and the other civic authorities. The calendar contains the names of 78 persons for trial. The grand jury having been sworn, The Recorder said the charges contained in the calendar this session, although not numerically large, were of a rather serious nature. There was one charge of a very grave description, but it would not call for much consideration—it was the case of a man named Reber ts, charged with murder. It appeared the prisoner was a patient in a lunatic asylum, and who, whilst at work in the garden of the establishment, struck the deceased, a fellow patient, with the instrument he was using in his work. There appeared to be no doubt that the death of the deceased was caused by the prisoner, but it would be for the jury to say whether he was an accountable agent. If proved_ in evidence brought before them, they should be of the opinion that he was sane it became their duty to return a true bill, and afterwards, if the prisoner was acquitted on the ground of insanity, measures would be taken to prevent , his doing further mischief. There was only one case of murder and three others involving loss of human life. One of the latter was a serious offence, and would involve much consideration ; it was the case of a tradesman named Plews, who was charged with the man slaughter of a man named Burrows. Tho two men, it ap peared, had been en terms of the greatest intimacy, but unfortunately they quarrelled, and the deceased having called at the prisoner's shop, an altercation arose, and after Plews had received some provocation he struck Burrows a violent blow which knocked him down, and in the fall de ceased fell against the door, which caused instant death. There was little doubt about the facts, and there was also the statement of the prisoner that he would have done the same to anybody else if he had received the same provocation and insult. There were some other statements that • would lead to the belief that the prisoner had been drinking. If the facts as stated in the depositions were sufficier t, then the jury would return a true bill .for manslaughter. The other cases of manslaughter were of a serious description, but he thought they did not call for any particular remark. The next case of a peculiar description was that of a man named Imbrey, who was charged with causing the death of his wife. It appeared that the woman was confined on a Saturday night, and for some time after the prisoner had given himself up entirely to drinking, was constantly abusing his unfor tunate. wife, and threatening her with personal vio lence, so that sho was prevented from getting her natural rest. During the absence of tho prisoner her friends con trived to remove her away where her husband could not find her, but in a few days the fever caused by the hus band's violence so increased that the poor woman died. If these facts were proved, they would then think it right to put the prisoner on his trial. The police in this case ap peared to have laboured under some misapprehension as to what was their duty; they seemed to think that they had no right to interfere, and this remark would also apply to another case in the calendar. Of the remaining charges the only one that required any remark was that of Robert Newman, who was charged with wounding his wife. The man, it appeared, was given to drink, which brought on delirium tremens, and it was during one of those attack's that he struck her with a chopper. The son called a police con stable, and desired him to take his father into custody, but, although he saw the poor woman laying on the ground in an insensible state, he laboured under the impresion that unless the wife would give the man into custody he could not interfere. He mentioned this circumstance because he not help observing that there was a great decrease of sense and discretion in the police force of late compared with that which pervaded the force a few years ago, and in the hope that the attention of the authorities elsewhere would be directed to the subject. If, in the discharge of their duties the jury required asssistance, the Court would most readily grant it. . - The jury then retired, and in a short time, they having returned several true bills, the trial of prisoners was pro ceeded with. FORGERY. Robert Ball Palmer, 41, watchmaker, was indicted for forging and uttering a bill for Dl5, and a warrant for the delivery of certain goods. The prisoner pleaded guilty. On behalf of the prisoner it was urged that the offence to which he had pleaded guilty was committed under pecu liarly painful circumstances. For some time he had carried on business in Bath, but from domestic affliction his re sources became exhausted, and he was utterly unable to maintain his family. After struggling for some time in a manful way against adversity, he camo to London, and then, after finding all things fail, he com mitted the offence with which he stood charged. The learned counsel said he had a memorial from Bath in favour of the prisoner's character, signed by several of the most in fluential persons resident there, and he trusted that under all the circumstances of the case his lordship would deal mercifully with the prisoner. The Recorder said there certainly was some difference in this case from those usually tried in that court, and he should therefore sentn--. Ig2=‘, in faultier w only 18 months' imprisonment. SHOPLIFTING. Speridoni Luseg, an Italian, was indicted for stealing two pieces of silk, of the value of 1:8, the property of Mr Charles Candy, a warehouseman in Watling-street, City, and also with stealing 13 yards of silk, of the value of £2 10s., the property of Mr. Thomas Perry. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner entered the warehouse and asked to look at some silk robes. The silks were shown, when it was observed that he had secreted a parcel under his coat, which afterwards turned out to be two lengths of silk. Mr. Ribton addressed the jury for tho prisoner, in a very long speech, in which he contended that the witnesses wore mistaken. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Two former convictions having been proved, the Re corder sentenced him to two years' imprisonment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(TIIIS DA F.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. INDECENT BEHAVIOUR OP SUNDAY SCHOOL CHILDREN. —Cornelius Crowder, a machino ruler, of Market-row, Newport Market, was charged with indecent conduct to five little girls, on the previous (Sunday) afternoon, in Soho-square. From the evidence of a little girl it appeared that she was on her way home from the Sunday school, on the previous afternoon, in Soho-square, when the prisoner behaved in a, very indecent manner, and on their going away he followed them down Rose-street, and into a court, where he re peated his disgusting conduct, once being guilty of it be hind a hearse standing in the street. The evidence of another child confirmed her companion in every particular, and left no doubt of the prisoner's dirty conduct. The girls, although very young, acted in a very proper manner, looking for a constable, and as soon as one came in view, immediately acquainted him with what had happened, and the prisoner stole off. Mr. Beadon asked the prisoner what ho had to say to the ehargo ? The prisoner, in a roundabout way, denied the charge. Mr. Beadon said he had no doubt whatever of the pri soner's having been guilty of what the girls had stated, and after animadverting in severe terms on his conduct, sentenced him to three months' hard labour. CRUELTY TO A PONY.—Georgo Hughes a beerhouse keeper, of the Latimer-road, Notting hill, was charged at the instance of Mr. Love, chief constable of the Royal Ultimately the defendant consented to its being and left the court with Rutherford for that purpose. THAMES. The magistrate decided in favour of the cab-driver, who received, in addition to the disputed 6d., the sum of 4s. 6d. for loss of time. THE NF, TV REFORM BILL. (From the Times.) The most uncandid partisan must admit that the task which Government has undertaken this day fro discharge is one of no ordinary difficulty and danger. For a Tory Ministry to propose a Reform Bill must always be an operation of a very delicate character, and in the present instance the failure of preceding Governments in the same career may naturally be supposed to aggravate the embarrass ment of the situation. On the other hand, the framers of the coming Reform Bill enjoy an advan tage which was not given to their predecessors. Mr. Bright's autumnal campaign has thoroughly ventilated the subject for them, and taught them very clearly what it is which the people do not want. In this respect it would be difficult •to exaggerate the services which the member for Birmingham has rendered to the cause of peace, order, and good government throughout these islands. By making propositions which everybody disapproved he has been, sorely against his will, a guide to the discovery of what it is which the intelligent and i m p ar ti a l pu bli c would approve. He has established beyond dispute that in this practical country there exists no taste for discus sions and no confidence in conclusions founded on doctrines of abstract right, and that the problem which Government has to solve is not how to satisfy certain theoretical maxims of equality, but how to provide in Parliament an instrument fitted for the discharge of those duties of which the constitution makes it the depository. Coming to their task with such advantages arid such disadvantages, Government have doubtless carefully considered the causes which led to the almost immediate abandonment of the bills pro posed by the Governments of Lord John Russell and Lord Aberdeen. The most obvious cause was - the practical difficulty of securing adequate support for passing those bills into law. The extension of boroughs in the first case, and their disfranchise ment in the second, necessarily gave a considerable number of members on either side of the house a very strong interest in the failure of the measure. This interest proved more powerful than ordinary party ties, and held out to the reforming Govern ment the prospect of having to contend against the compact mass of the Opposition, strength ened and encouraged by very numerous deserters from their own ranks. A little calculation served to show that, in the presence of a large number of members of all parties acting together with perfect unanimity for one common object, and in the absence of any strong pressure to counteract those influences, it was vain to attempt to fight the battle of 1832 without the weapons which had then gained the victory, and that nothing was left but a prudent and immediate retreat. The public will therefore not be sur prised if in the construction of their bill Ministers have exactly inverted the process employed by Mr. Bright, and if, instead of disfranchising boroughs according to an arbitrary numerical standards, and embarrassing themselves with a vast number of vacated seats, for which in the absence of equal electoral districts it would have been extremely difficult to find constituents, they have begun by ascertaining what number of seats are wanted to supply acknowledged deficiences, and no more, by the process of disfranchisement. Any one conversant with these subjects will easily supply the names of the new constituencies which would thus be formed. In this part of the measure there would be but little novelty, and, indeed, novelty in such a case was scarcely possible. To supply this not very considerable number of seats they would not require either to have recourse to the extension of boroughs, as proposed by Lord J Russell, nor yet to the plan of total disfranchise- ment so largely adopted in the first Reform Bil No borough, we believe, will be entirely disfran chised. The schedule to the act will, in fact, cor respond to schedule B of the original Reform Bill. From 'a certain number of the smaller boroughs, returning two members a single member will be withdrawn, and the seats thus obtained will be given to the new constituencies which it is intended to create. There are many, doubtless, who will hear with disappointment the announcement that it is proposed to confine the work of enfranchise ment within such narrow limits, but it is only. fair they should remember that it is a very different thing to draw out abstract schemes of Reform in the closet, and to frame a measure which has a chance of being carried through the House of Commons in the face of a powerful and interested Opposition, with but a lukewarm and occas i onal support from the public out of doors. The public will nct be surprised if the Ministe rial measure adopts as a basis of the County Franchise a £lO occupation, which has already more than once received the approbation of the House of Commons, when embodied in the measure of Mr. Locke King. This is not the place for entering into a discussion of the merits of this proposal, which, doubtless, will be rather a start ling one to a certain number of our county mem bers. Its adoption by a Tory Government must be accepted as evidence of the growing liberality of the times in which we live, and must in all fairneks be considered as a proof of the wish of Ministers to deal with the question, if not on very wide, at any rate on honest and intelligible principles, and to exhibit a suitable deference for the verdict which the House of Commons has pronounced on this subject. It will also, we believe, be proposed to facilitate the voting of constituencies so largely increased as those of the counties will be by a sys- tern of voting papers, which may relieve the elector from the necessity of travelling a long distance in order to record his vote at the nearest polling place. As regards the Borough Franchise, it has been considered that it would be ridiculous, after so considerably lowering the County Franchise in order to produce uniformity, to destroy that uni formity as soon as created by a further reduction of the amount. The Ministerial Bill will therefore, if wd are not misinformed, propose that henceforth the franchise for boroughs and counties shall be Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with cruelly using a p oney , uniform, resting on an occupat i on of £lO, and thus The evidence o f R utherford, one of the Royal Society's seeking to establish a li m i t b elow which no constables, went to show that he saw defendant, with the future reformer shall have any pretext, at least of poney attached to a heavily-laden cart, and he was flogging. symmetry or uniformity, for. descending. But, it and jobbing it in th e mouth with the reins. The poney, while preserving intact, as the basis of the borough in addition to having a wound of long standing, was com- franchise, the amount fixed by the first Reform pletely worn out, the bones protruding through its skin. Bill, the Ministerial Bill seeks, by measures some-, He told defendant the condition it was in, and he said he in the Reform Bill what similar to those adopted was no judge of horses. It was old, and totally unfit for of 1854, to extend the franchise to persons who, USA from the possession of property in the shape of deposits in savings banks, of stock in the Funds, or of railway shares, may give satisfactory proof of their fitness to assist in imposing burdens upon the property of others. These are matters of detail ; but we shall wait with some curiosity to hear the means by which votes depending on such qualifica tions may be relieved from the obvious inconve niences by which they are attended—the want of notoriety in the possession, the facility of fraud, and the great difficulty of preventing the menu facture of faggot votes. It, will be seen from the above outline, which we believe to be in the main correct, that the measure of the Government is one of very great simplicity, that the principles on which it is founded are clear and obvious, and that there is no attempt whatever, as has been sometimes not unreasonably apprehended, to neutralise or counteract the effect of those principles by any subtle or refined scheme of compromise. Those who are opposed to a considerable reduction of the franchise in the counties, and those who are anxious for the admission of large classes of the poorer in habitants of the boroughs, those who wish for a sweeping disfranchisement of small constituencies and for the transfer of elective power to the more populous communities, will easily find objects for their disapprobation. One merit the measure un doubtedly possesses, and that is that it does not seek, under the pretence of a theoretical improve ment, to transfer power from one part of the com munity to the other, and that, as far as we are able to judge, it holds the balance with a strict impar tiality between county and town, disdaining in this respect to follow the example set by Mr. Bright in his Reforin Bill. This must be admitted to be no trilling recommendation. Public opinion must decide whether the contemplated change will be sufficiently sweeping. If we were to venture a conjecture, it would certainly be that the measure has more danger to anticipate from the supporters than from the antagonists of the Government, and that it is highly improbable that anything but the fear of obtaining worse terms hereafter will in duce the county members to consent to so con siderable an increase of their constituencies. If the members for counties can reconcile them selves to the change, we feel little doubt that the great mass of borough members will bear with con siderable philosophy the sentence which condemns them to represent henceforth pretty nearly the same bodies as heretofore. That the measure will be regarded with apprehension by a certain section of the Tory party may be inferred from the fact that the adoption of the scheme by the Cabinet has already deprived the Government of the co-opera tion of the Home Secretary and of the President of the Board of Trade, both of whom have resigned their offices. The proposed bill, indeed, is probably as strong as any Government would be able to carry in the present temper of the House of Commons and the public mind, and with these few remarks we commend it to the best consideration of the nation, whose most important interests it so nearly and vitally concerns. The defendant said he had not paid for the poney yet. He had bought a business and taken the poney with it. The magistrate said the proper means must be taken, either by having it put out to grass for the remainder of its days, or having it killed to terminate its misery. If it was destroyed he would not have to pay for it ; for if an action was brought against him he could say he had no service out of it. CARRY VICTORIOTIS.—A few days since Mr. J. Irving, a coal merchant, in High-street, Wapping, was summoned before Mr. Yardley by a cab-driver, named John Brown for sixpence. The question in dispute was, whether the distance from the cab-stand on the Surrey side of London bridge, opposite the Lady Chapel of St. Saviour's Church, to Mr. Irving's dwelling, near the Middlesex entrance of the Thames Tunnel, was more than two miles or not. Tho defendant said that Mrs. Irving had frequently hired a cab for the same distance, and had only been charged is. Tho cabdriver insisted that the distance was more than two miles, and that he was entitled to is. 6d. Mr. Yardley perused the book of fares published by the Commissioners of Police, and could not find any mention of the Thames Tunnel in the book, which was a great orris• sion. The nearest place to Mr. Irving's residence mez - tioned in the book was Shadwell. Church—Many important places in the eastern district were entirely omitted from the book, and it was defective in that respect. A Solicitor in court believed that the authorities in the west thought the people in the east had no business to ride in cabs. It was agreed that the ground should be measured, and each party deposited ss. for that purpose. This morning it was stated by Kent, the messenger of the court, that he had carefully measured the ground, and that the cabman was right. The distance was two miles and 240 yards. P. IL HOWARD, ESQ., OF CORBY, ON REFORM, 4-c. At the soiree of the Great Corby Readincr-room, last week, Mr. H owar d, w h o pres id e d , said he was sure that as it was a question akin to education, he might be permitted to say that in any revisal or reconstruction of the representative system the claims of education ought not to be forgotten, and should have the benefit of direct representation. There was the University of Edinburgh, where some of the most eminent men had received the whole or part of their education—Lord Brougham, Sir Walter Scott, Jeffrey, Lord John Russell, and many others had been there ; and he might name his brother, now ambassador to the Portu guese court, as having studied there. He might say that he trusted the London University also— founded principally by Lord Brougham, and fos tered by his (the chairman's) late and able friend, who had lately paid the debt of nature—that he trusted the London University, where men of all creeds can matriculate, would be admitted to the representation. He trusted that if this country should be invoNed in war, or should a war arise on the continent, at least we would maintain a strict and dignified neutrality. That was the only safe policy for England. But it required a resolute and forbearing course of policy, because it was easy under the pretext of giving advice to be driven into the conflict. He was glad to hear that our alliance with our neighbours continued unshaken. It was certainly very desirable that there should be a clear and good understanding between the two countries, because that alliance should be placed upon a broader, and a commercial basis. That was the only basis upon which we could securely rely on peace. Near neighbours are sure to be either good friends or the contrary. He would only add one word more, and that was, that now that India was about to be governed on more paternal principles, he trusted that some means would be devised to bring the cotton of India into more extensive use in England, and means would be devised for the bettor cleaning of the raw material, which he believed was the great drawback to its consumption. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Feb. 28.—Wind this day at noon S.W. ; light, with very fine weather.—The Greek Slave, off and from West Hartlepool, while anchored in Barking Reach on Feb. 25, was run into and sunk in 24 feet water by the James, barge. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 27.—Wind N.W., blowing hard.— Arrived—Harriette, Bremen, for La Guayra ; Trinidad, from Hartlepool, for Cuba; Cuba Packet, Amsterdam, for Havana. C27.—Wind W., N.N.W., st rong.— Ari ve d —r London, for New Zealand; F ortunata, Feb. from Feb. 27.—Wind N.-W.—Ariived— Annie Pe p sa A g i u t : 3 t l ; ol7 3 , l r a n t , ilda, Puerto Cabello. : Moulmein. Off—Aiuifera, London, f or C ape of Good Hope. inIDLINGTON, Feb. 28.—The Don, of and from Seaha for London, foundered off this place this morning, having sprung a leak ; crew saved. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAIII) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Wind calm. Arrived, Feb. U.—General Havelock, from Cardiff; Port Madoc, Harriet, Lively, Clementina, Florida, and Anne, from Newport ; Union, from Sunderland ; L'Etoile, from Carentan ; La Poule, from Cherbourg ; Lady Eglinton, from Dublin. (By SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) AVESEND, onday ornin g. Wind N W; tid e last h GR ours' flood ; M weather M light and hazy Arrived, Feb. 27.—Alphonso Jeane, from Nantes; Spright, from Guernsey ; Lord of the Isles, from Shanghai. Arrived Feb. 28.—Flora, from Oporto. DEAL, Monday Morning. Wind N.W., moderate. Passed. —Aria, from Calcutta ; Joseph Fletcher, from China ; Queen of the South, schooner, from St. Mitchael's and Kingston, schooner from Westward—all for London ; City of Brussels, from Rouen, fur Shields; Johanna and Olussa, from Shields, for Caldera. Sailod.—Maria Hay, Susan, Sultana, and Tyburn—for London. The Pera will take out the first overland Austra lian mail under the now contract, on the 12th proximo. TREATMENT OF LUNATICS.—Two Government bills have been brought in upon the care and treatment of lunatics —a subject on which the public mind has recently received a most painful impression in consequence of recent disclosures of the practices pursued in private asylums. The first bill prohibits the granting of licences (by justices) to houses for the reception of lunatics without a previous inspection, inquiry, and report on the part of T t h h e es i e Lt (Lunacy) gentle a v . Commissioners. The commissioners will annually ap i it after their "medical examiners" of licensed houses within their inn i - mediate jurisdiction, and the justices at Mid i , —' aelmas Sessions will also appoint similar examiners. which mut. t men will visit all lunatic patients immediately days male ileientrsesaulstectoondthtiemcoe gi rec v e e p d ti u o e n n in o t t o ice lic o e f n t s i e l d e l i i ti o c u t s ) es an (t d he wi k t e h e irrsissesvoefn commissioners months, of f at t They N a vi f n ul N l is re it po t t h •t e within and again report on their state, & e by clause 15, to dis qualify cert • - .• Care is taken, from signing certificates for th am interested perions Detective certificates for the re e reception of patients. be come void if not amended with in ption of patients will will then be discharged l4 days, and the patient be permitted to be from durance. Patients may and licensed houses. absent on trial from hospitals patients or more In every house licensed for 50 must • there medical practitioner reside a legally qualified as superintendent or medical attend ant, and every licensed house licensed for more than 30 p ttients and less that 50 m ust (unless one be resident), be visited daily, and if licensed for less than 30 thrice by a regular medical practitioner. Every licensed a-week, house must be visited at least once si a-year by a single come is oner in addit'cn to the visits already required by law The keepers of these private madhouses, as well as persons having arge of single patients, must furnish information as to payment for patients. The second bill amends the law on lunatic maintenance of pauper lunatics. rdeftrAs• . 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