The Sun. — London, England, 1860-02-01 00:00:00

- - -__ . _ • . .._ _ L. -. ' -•-. _ . . . 1 t 43/ ONE Y 111 AR !CRT ANTI CITY NE If S. 1 SHARE MARKEY .—( VIM DAY.) .......—.. o . CITY, Two o'CLocK. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCK& t A large quantity of gold, vis., £BO,OOO, was -- closing "mime taken from the Bank of England yesterday, and Share Railways. Paid. prioe. 0 some doubt seems to be expressed whether the A A - 1.. .iv Ainbertr., A Ottnig. ISoet. f measure adopted by the directors will have the 1 and Eastern Junction 10 6 65 it 50 Belfast and Baliyinena.. all - - desired effect of checking the movement. A few 13.14 Bir Wol and Sir:Val. all 8 5 a days, however, must elapse before the full effect of •, •, Sto2k ,I li rk.,La., and Ch. June li 9l 764 1 774 12 25 'Blackburn the alteration in the terms of discount can be as- 25 Blytli and Tyne all - - 10 Bost.Slefd.St Mid. Conn all 6/ 7 Y certaitted, but an advance is already exhibited in Stock I Bristol and Exeter the Continental exchanges ; and even if the de- Stock caledonian . 100 e 25 93 931 5 ;'• 10 Carmarthen & Cardigan all - - ;a mand for gold is maintained, the withdrawals from 50 Cork and Bandon 9 - - ;- the Bank may be diminished through fresh sup- 2 0 CCoornrk,wßarock,&Passitg,e all - all 61 7 St .ir A tries. no div ( ..... plies from Australia and America. 10 Do. A all - 0 10 Do. B 'Illtb:InW1Olt ( all - - Continued activity is reported in the discount al 50 Dublin andßelfast June. all - - le - market, and full rates have to be paid for accommo- 25 Dun.,Perth,& Abr.June. all 71 8 dation. Even the best qualities of home and Steerl Pc a s Bt te A rn. "-)i i a in n ties lOO 14 15 Stock 100 56 67 565 i a ' foreign bills cannot be negotiated under 3 per cent., stock Eastern Union A Stock 100 39 41 Stock Do. do. 11 Stock 100 27 29 25 Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds) 81 - - • as it is difficult to tell whether a further advance or2o East Suffolk - - in the minimum quotation may not become neces-id 10 Do - - Buy, The various discount establishments have Stock T 4: diliburg and Glasgow 100 795 905 Stock Edin Perth, & Dundee. 100 29 295 DU raised their allowance on deposits to 3 per cent. oh for money at call, and to 31 per cent. with a few stock k 14 / I :o o T r t n i e l ' , lff , Clyde Junction all - ._ 100 - - Stock Glasgow & South Westn lOO 100 102 r ed days' notice; the joint stock banks have also 10 Great North of Scotland all - t Great Northern I 100 1065 1075 1084 - adopted the higher rate of 3 per cent., except the Stock Do. do. A Stock I 100 96 98 Is, London and Westminster, which only allows 2 per Stock Do. do. B Stock I 100 133 135 1341 led Stock Gt. South.& Watn.(lreld) 100 112 114 cent, on sums under £5OO. Stock Great Western y Stock t h e Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.Stk. 60 66 he A slight general improvement was apparent in 12 Irish South Eastern..., we all - - the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon. Stock Lancashire & Yorkshire ! 100 994 100 1005 1 Stock London and Blackwall. 100 654 881 e a The sum of £16,443 was paid yesterday into the Stock Lon.,Brif,yliton &S.Coastl 100 111 113 his India Treasury, to the credit of the Madras Irriga- soc s k London .Ch t. nd Dv r, all 12 13 98 & a llo a rth Westn' 100 97 4 , 05 i . her tion and Land Company, in advance of calls, 124 Do. Eighths di. Stock London& South-Westn lOO 93 1 lie 881 6 4 making, with other deposits of a similar nature 25 L'derry & Coleraine - - )1 all 8 10 It ' since the 27th of February last, a total of 8 25 L'derry & Enniskillen. tock,Man., Shef., er T.incoln lOO 374 38 £462,471. 50 Mary-port and Carlisle 125 130. do. 5 Shares all - - rai , The report of the Electric and International 10 M e t ro p o lit an 3 - - d wee Telegraph Company has been issued prior to the Stock Midland lOO 1084 1095 1095 1 9 Stock Do. Birming. & Derby ; 100 86 88 meeting, which recommends a dividend of 31 per 50 ?l o Kid.i ent nilnil - - In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday rather (1 1 . e ay an i g n (Varlisle all -- -- lan 1N Newcastle a less activity was apparent, but prices remained 25 New., Aber., & Herefd; all 10 11 sat, 10 Newry & Armagh (set.) 9 - - idly Without alteration. The sales were estimated at 20 IN T ewry, Warpt., & Rog all - - tter, 8,000 bales. The Railway Share Market continued Stock r l\ orfolk lOO 57 59 50 iNorth. Counties Union 34 31 1 4 in a very inactive state, and quotations were de- Stock ;North British lOO 80 5 604 61 5 DM- pressed. ' Stock INor.Dev.Rail.&Dk. Stk lOO - - lied Stoc k llo.A Stk.- Arec.no div I until 6p.c.hasbeenpdß 100 - - Calls on the subjoined railways become due th , StockPDo. B Stock - rain,day, viz., £5 per share, amounting to £lO,OOO, on Stock'North-Eastn.-Berwick 100 941 95 HI i ier9 25 Do. do. G.N.E.Purchase 613 4 I 1 0 4 the Danube and Black Sea ; £1 10s., or £1,500, on Wasloo 485484 100 78 79 fa is a the Inverness and Nairn Preference; £1 55., or Stock Do. Leeds gro c t L o r'di r l ' o k ndon lOO 107 109 i the £63,556, on the London and Brighton 41 per cent. 20 e North Staffordshire.... 178 41 4 e eked Sou. W. Junction all 9 94 L 5 shares ; £3, or £12,000, on the Margate ; £2 5 , Stock ' O°E . fo & rd,Wor.,Bc Wolver lOO 34 36 Theall 74 85 or £38,750, on the Newcastle and Carlisle £lOO s1 0 11: e o e X e m s outh , and „ shares; and £2, or £12 , 000, on the Sevenoaks Rail - 10 Rhymney . - - I Stock'Scottish Central lOO 113 115 was Way shares. S tock I Scoth. N. E., Aber. Stock 100 274 285 271 A moderate business has been transacted to-day S ~I, .I.E_ RD oi`gecK'nor.Op s ai e sh u ll ni t o d n . Stock 100 84 V I had ' ill the market for Public Securities, but speculation io ISittinebourne & Sheer all 4 3 d Stock South Devon lOO 45 thing .... is still confined within narrow limits, and very few Stock South-Eastern lOO 824 835 431 11 5 sows' n 22 i nvestments are reported. During the early hours Stock South Wales ration Stock SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun it) 70 73 of business the tendency of value was favourable, 20 Staines, Wok., & Wek all 1 8 pro- 1 and op erations 25 Stocktoni & Darlington all 375 381 $74 4 were re ported at the improved ) pro. 25 :Do. do. hould i Prices current in the previous afternoon, but sales - ;Stockton & llartlepool 164 - - Stock 'Taff Vale lOO - have since been pressed, and Consols, which at one Stock Do. Preference, No. 1 - _ 9 int • lbour. time were 941 I, are now 94k 1 for money and account. 25 IThamesHavenDk&Rall 22 - - 50 Ulster East The New Threes and the Reduced are firmer, at 25 Do. 2O 25 31 p to the 941 1 ; the 21 per Cents. have receded to 781 ; India rtorkae (h of Neath l5 1 d 5 p 100 60 63 I hard New Loan is steady, at 1031 1 ; ditto Debentures 10 Victoria Station & Pim 95 114 11 allow StocklWaterford & Kilkenny 100 - - de this ' have declined to 961 97 ; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced 50 Waterford & Limerick all - - 20 West Cornwall iron of Paper is heavy, at 971 t ; ditto 51 per Cent. ditto, 20 West London all - - ?Aeon. • at 1031 I ; and Exchequer Bills have further re- 10 Do. Ist Class all - - 20 Do. 2d Class - - :lation. ceded to 15s. pm. ; Bank Stock is firm, at 229 to l erred 230 i; PREFERENCE SHARES. • )t alter . A moderate amount of business is recorded in prey of 1 1)&1 ..1 Closing I Business ' rr. , ±_,_ Share! Railways. - 'Pvt... Lou A moderate amount of business is recorded in Foreign Securities, and prices are heavy. Turkish 6 Pet Cents. are 78 to 78k ; ditto New, 651 to 651; Mexican have improved to 211, Russian 41 per Cents. to 971 98, and Brazilian 4k per Cents. to 931. Venezuelan 3 per Cents. have receded to 26, and Spanish Deferred. to 331. The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 21. prem.; Universal ditto, 1 I prem.; the Bank of Turkey is 1 dis. par ; and the Canadian Loan, 21 prem. Share Railways. Paid. Closing Closing 1 Business ?rim Dom ndergo howl or to I*, cawed Altera urn of In the Railway Share market the dealings have been limited ; rather more firmness, however, has been apparent in prices. Great Western and Mid lands have improved ss. ; Lancashire and York shire, North-Western, and North British, 10s.; and Caledonians, 15s. ; Great Northerns have de cline& Os., and South-Easterne, ss. to 10s. a ma• s Cone irit on ,ng The Foreign lines are flat, and at quite nominal quotations. Lombardo-Venetian are 111 11 ; and San Paulos', to discount. (rough, mation ,on the • k place 'business in the Colonial Market has been dull. 0 4Ad Trunk of Canada, however, have advanced t°.436f 3.5!; East Indian to 1011; Groat Indian Ps . ninsula have declined to 98 and 98:1. cted ' hint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous - Shares are 'legit in to a very limited extent at about previous , 4 tes. New South Wales have declined 10s. to 15s. ; London and W estminster improved ss. ulfield, tion. );eniod lectiost conded i* LITIIIII FONDS TIED' DIT IT ONE O'CLOCK. -esadr Stock t lier Cent. Reduced Annuities 941 1 ' 14r Cent. Consols Annuities 1,. al *w 3 per Cent. Annuities '''', "r n per Cent. Annuities .lislia Stock Ditto li per Cent. lbitto Debentures, 1853 961 7 , Ditto , 1869 .. Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO Ditto- under £l,000 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 6 per cent. 9Tf I Ditto 44 per Cent. yeen.a4:;ls for Account "Wit Stook for Icoutant Ditto I per Cent lO3l laoheques Bills, £l,OOO, lid l5 Ditto £5OO bike Small, 1. tuass OF FOREIGN FONDI AT ONE O'CLOCK. Urasilian 5 per Cent. „. Ditto 41 per Cent. 1851 Agnador New Consolidated kexisats. 3 per Cent. 21/ 1 ;Vitt* Account hessian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 41 per cent bitto, 3 per Cent., 1859 661 I llAnish 3 per Cent — Ditto Deferred 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent. 7B Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Account !sant/elan 3 per. Cent Dividends on the above parable in London. 1°14310 11 Rentes, 41 per Cent. Ex. 25f 96f. 621 c. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money . , Ditto Account (Feb.) .. 941 he eleo• denied he we/ He was :tension )olitical don, 11 • oppoile Dent, ut.-Col. Dnt this ih Wal• In Mon- Walker dberal). r. Gridd• Makin is the 3 -123 LW. ; N.W.-- gator, for 1), of awl L daniaget of Scat• Is. :Pride of —Gamy*, oei. of Bath! 12, in 1 111 Voltigeur Drool taky, nu& mist. ismaniant nor, frogs Atalantss :orninr. nut r and tile Lorain/1 , ain luam :orning• ier froltt Lux; ng Kong• :orning• for rifor,! tncouv Campbe ll ° a Londoss. 1. death of • The' 18), 1 " — 'mug pr.r.fig land. ited Zsr a bilitl a ago, _La i tre in BAY " 5 4 ea Or jf irf , Lie un - 0 areer [rely 01171. in fie Ws° ale P i e ARMY GRANTS. A return to an order of the House of Commons shows the following statement of the sums required to make good the deficiency of certain army grants for-the year 1858-9 : SBRVICE. EXPENDITURE. VOTED, SDPPLY SERVICES, AND , - • WORKS. Watos of artificers, labourers, &c Clothing and necessaries Provisions, forage, fuel and light, barrack furniture, bedding, &c Warlike Stores for land and sea £551,680 911,745 1,160,468 £538,317 689,460 1,051,624 4srvice Fortifications Civil buildings Barracks. 660,637 267,155 121,818 614,919 634,727 285,726 128,780 679,091 24,283,422 £4,007,735 ALT, OTHER ARMY SERVICES. Effective.: Land forces—pay and allowances £3,204,736 £3,681,027 „, 13/ itto , --miscellaneous charges 804,790 615,661 Embodied militia V olunteer corps 88,448 88,000 I:43 Partment of the Secretary of State for War and the General Comm and i n g - i n - hief Aa itufacturing establishments, storekeepers, barrack-masters, ate. Educational and scientific branches 227,728 Non-effective : } wards for military service , 114 3 , of general officers pa y of reduced and retired officers 500,142 widows' pensions and compas aicmate allowances 191,007 Pensions and allowance for wounds 35,697 4n-pensions 31,288 Out -- Pensions ~,^3l ? perannuation allowances 126,930 "uetub odiod militia 192,179 182,977 349,000 263,287 25,330 59,511 531,207 208,132 51,213 31,372 1,202,863 130,410 432,990 n 9 ,533.1 £7 345 L 12,010,745 Loaßes Written irrecoverable •ff ° as — Proportion of the vote for the ex traordinary expenses of the Rus sian war £115,466 £12,533,860 £12,126,21 1344c ielley on wages, supply ser andlice* works, and deficiency on all other army services 407,649 12,533,860 £12,633,860 TAX' STRlKE.—According to the statement made the weekly meeting of delegates held on Tuesday even g last, 2,300 skilled workmen are still out of work, and ; 4 t , week, the twenty-sixth of this unhappy struggle, they 1 4 a e sived a dividend of 4s. each. Who shall tell of the priva- Vrte and dittress that have been enduredlL—The Builder. Blythe and Tyne 1C per C. pref. (issued at C5O) Bris. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock Do. do. do. Shares Caledon £lO, 44 per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Cork & Bandon, 54 p. c. Cornwall, 5 per cert. Dun. Perth,& Aber.Jun. E.Angn. Class A 7 & spc Do. do. Class B 6 pa IDo. do. Class C 7 pc . 15. Coun. Ex. 5 p at. N . 0. 11 IDo. do No ' 2 l ;Do. New 6 per at. Stock Eastern Union, 4 per at.' Edin.&Glas. 5 pc shares' Do. 4 is.e. gua. S. & D. Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. Furness, 5 per cent .... Glas. &S West. I a. 5 pc. Great Northern, 5 p. at. Do. 5 pc Redm.,lop.c.pm Do. 44 p. a. do. do. Do.sp.c. Redm.,s pc. pm Gt. Nh. of Scotld, Ist pf f Gt. Sn.& W (Ireland) 4 ! p. et. pref. Stock 'Great West. (Berke and Hants) Ext. 5 p.et Stock Do. Redeemable, 44 p et Stock Do. Redeemable, 4 p. et Stock Do. Irredeemable, do Stack n'• itedeem.rret 5 I Do. Birm. Pref. Shares 10 Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.c.pf.sh 10 ; Do. do. sp. ct. pref 8 took jDo. Birming. guar. stock 26i I Do. Chester guar.shares' 131 'Do. do. do 20 Do. do. do. Stock Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock Stock Do.Barnsl.StCs 3slodpc Stock , Do. 6 per C. (E. Lan) Stock I L on.& Brig.spc. gu. No.l StocklDo.,sp.c No. 2 l Stock Do. gua., 6 p. ct. Stook Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 Stock Do. Do. 41 per cent 5 Do. do. 41 per c. shares Stock Do. 7 percent. Pref. St. Stockpo.6 p.c.do.(W.E.&C.P. Stook Do . 4 p.c S.(diy 25 PLond. Chat. and Dover Stock Lon.& N.W.Cov.leNun eaton, 5 p. ct. Lon. &S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, ,T,ondondy & Cole, 1 shs. Londondy.& Ennis 1 sh. & Lin., 6 p. ct. Do. £6 Do. 31 per cer t. Do. redeem. 6 per cent Nfaryport & Car., 4 p.c. jD0.44 per cent... I Do. Dd. Con. 8 p. 0. Stook Do.Con.Bris.&Bir.6p.Ct. Do. 4} p. c. pref. stock Do. with option till 1860 Do. Lek. llit.pref. st. Newport,Aberokc.pret.s p. c. redeem. at 5 p.a.') m Do. Perpet, 6p. c. with option tin 1888 Do., till 180 , Norfik•s p.c. Ex.Stk,lB46 Do. M, p. c. Pref. do. 1847 D 0.5 WavVal.Ex.Sk 1847 North British, spercent Do. New, Tu, a. 5 per cent Nth.Dev.ltail.& Dak.Co. N-East.Cons. Pref.4p.c. Do. Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref. Do. do. do. Do. Leeds, 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1846 , Po. York, H.& S. Purch. North Staffordshire . . Ox. WI% & Wol.6pc. lstg Do. Redeem., 2d gua.... Do. Jrre deem., 24 gna. Ithymney Guaranteed. !Scottish Central, new p. 'Scottish North-Eastern 31 per c. pref. stock.... Do.Aberdeen.glia. 6 Pe - Do. 7 p. a. pref. stock. South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 41 percent. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1 0 6 ) Do .41 per oent Do. Fixed 41 p.c. Ist is South Wales, gua. 4 p.c Do. 41 per cent S.-Yorkshire, 4 p.c. gua Stock. and Dar. A 5 p.o Do. B 6 per cent Do. C 6 per cent Watrfd & Kilkny, 12 101 Stock , Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock S took Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 4; 5 1; 2; 330 340 440 151 1271 132; 5; 4; 10; 11 57 59 14 14; 1 3 3 4 ; 41 4 1 1 1,1 49 51 se sl • } a 7 91 12 1 49 51 - i 255 283 21. 2 175 1M 26 21 2f 3 3 51 191 20 80 824 410 420 180 190 100 105 1 14 12 13 31 32 31 33 MINES Stk 20 tock 12.10 Stai 95 97 1102 104 54 6 99 101 112 116 105 107 114 116 113 115 127 126 53 86 111 113 90 62 774 784 116 118 120 122 112 114 106 108 87 89 98 100 Q 7 99 89 90 99 92 Loa 111.12 10 184 17 18 iek 10 75 77 20 21 10 104 15 154 It:1 142 Ll 9 121 [l9 121 140 150 119 121 156 160 135 140 65 65 21i 224 117 119 10i 114 125 130 68 70 t 142 144 104 105 95 9 7 P 1• 10; Ili 12.} par i p 111 113 109 111 93 95 97} 94 1 14 ~~ 124 120 . 125 130 117 120 76 78 121 123 125 130 11 all 100 100 100 100 100 24 24} 103 105 103 108 92 54 101 103 84 87 29 3 3 34 33 33 34 50 55 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Closing Suisse/ Railways. Paid. C 0.... p r j oe . Doll. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1860. BRITISH POSSESSIONS Paid.e pr lOs ide. tng Basszeisdoue Sharel Railways. 100 1 Stk I 2( 0 1 io ioo 1 100 100 Stock 100 Stock Sto. Stoc., 100 100 100 100 100 Stock Stock 100 10 IS took Stock Stock 100 Stock Share jAtlantic & St Lawrence Leased at 6 per cent Bom.,l3aroda&Cent.lnd gu. 5 percent Do. Addit. Capital A Do. Do. ,Buffalo and LakcHuron Do. New Do. Prefereik,.. , Buffalo,Brant.,...; adrich 6 p. et. bds. 1 1872 Do. do. 1 July, 1373' 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 Bengal.gu.sp.c East Indian, gu. 5 p. o Do. F Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore Do. 46 p. c. Debentrs Do. 5 p.c. Deb., 18C1 Geelong&Melbourne Geelong Corporation 6 per cent. Binds Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Fret Do. 6 percent. D bentr Do. 7 per cent. 18 62 Do. do. 1867 Do. do. 1872. G t.lndiarenin.gua.sp.e. IDo. New, gua.s per cent.' Gt. °nth .of Ind.Lim.— guaranteed b per cent Gt.W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. Bonds pay. '76,with opt. till '6O Do. do. '73 till '6O Do. do. '73 without opt I Do. 54 p. c. do. '77 do Madras, guar., 44 p. c 1110. do. 5 per cent Do. 41 p. c. Ex,eneion Do. Third Ex. gua.s.p.c Do. Fourth do. Do. do. Alelb. 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 Oude (Limited) Scinde • Do. New .4 8 Do. Punjaub Do. Indus. St. Flo. E 0 ,4 " St. Andrews & Quebec A Trinidad(Limited) Scrip i an 1100 all all all 1 100 'lOO 100 1. 3 0. 3s. Od. 74 all 5 100 1100 100 all all all all all 100 ,AIL• 88 90 971 94' fd Idi 44 sdi 51 6 par } p 11 1 f id 101 d 1014 par p par p 1001 1001 101 1016 19 21 35 87 95 90 75 78 87 89 78 80 77 70 98 981 #d Id ! 1 1 121 121 81 $ d 98 102 98 102 98 102 92 95 88 92 971 981 92 94 Id f d 196 DI id I id id i id Itp 'AYS. 4i Vi al v 1 d i all all all all all 21 21 I li 1 i d 5 d 26 26 all all all all all 61 7 8" Si 19} ISt 35i 36i —Y 9 10 354 St 63 11 li lid 13 15 :I 19 20 3 $ 91 1 221 231 BECUR 101 10CI 11 10 10 'll3 111 112 114 12 114 109 110 991 101 99 100 99 100 ! 14 15 1151 180 '34 U 4 i 5i 138 40 120 22 1 14 15 115 120 I 8 8 231 241 11 14 tut A i 158 111 1 2 2, 1+ lid 1 14 2 ; : i 9 i 1 i 1 PE 52 54 78 SO 12 14 t22IP MI i i 6 7 52 54 125 135 35 36 i 1 1 11 12 MINES. Paid. 781 7 77 6 96 11 $ ,ITIZIL Cl Price.osing 2.11.10 16 2.7.0 7.4.0 59 labia's§ Was. 17s 12.4.2 9 51 8 4.3.6 1.6.6. 7.9.4 11 10.6.7 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(Tnis DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINISS. The following bills were read a second time :—Andover and Redbridge, and Bagenalstown any Wexford Railway ; Banbridge, Lisburn, and Belfast, sad Ulster Railway Campanies ; Belper Water ; Central Wales Railway ; Hinckley and Leicester Railway; Undon, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Croydon to Baharn ; London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Deviations and New Lines, &c.) ; Metropolitan Railway ; orwich and Spald ing Railway ; Trnro Port and Navtation ; Ulster Rail way ; Upsall, Normanby, and Orrneby Railway ; Wave ney Valley Railway. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented from the marchanta of Calcutta, in favour of improved government in India; against the abolition of church rates ; and from theshipownera of Liver pool, praying for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the burdens affecting the shipping interest. CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS. Mr. E. JAMES gave notice that, at the motion for the second reading of this bill, he would nove an amendment, to the effect that a committee be appented to inquire into tie defects of the bill introduced last evening, as well as the Petitions Inquiry Act. APPEAL IN CRIMINAL CASES BILL. Mr. M'MAIION, in moving the second reading of this bill, said the measure was entirely free from those provisions which were considered objectionable is the measure which he introduced last session ; therefore he trusted it would not encounter any opposition. His bill was intended to remedy an anomaly in the existing state of the law. In civil actions a suitor in a matter when perhaps only £lO or £2O formed the subject of the action might have a new trial, but in cases where greater stakes, evon life itself, were at issue there was no appeal from the finding of a jury. The consequence was that a man who was tried for an offence of the gravest character had no protection whatever against the caprice of a judge or the ignorance of a jury, but an appeal to the Home Secretary. Every one who had paid attention to the subject and was competent to express an opinion had decided that that was ananomaly that should not be suffered to exist any longer. Haring cited the autho rity of Lord Campbell and the late Lord Denman, he said it had been proved that one-sixth of the whole cases in civil actions there was an appeal, and the verdicts were set aside on the ground of the wrong finding of the jury or the misdirection of the judge. Chief Baron Pollock was exa mined before the committee on criminal law in 1835, and expressed his opinion that a motion for a new trial was as essential in criminal, as well as in civil cases. In France, when the judge considered that the finding of a jury was at variance with evidence, he had the power to order a new trial before a new jury, and in America the right of ap peal also existed. The commission which inquired into this subject had also considered that the right of appeal was one that should be exeroised, and he was: acquainted with a case that had recently occurred at Hereford, in which a learned judge refused to receive the verdict of a jury. In former times, the right of appeal existed in this country, and when they were rendering the criminal law more humane every day, was it just they should retain a practice that was unjust towards a criminal and opposed to the opinion of some of the most eminent jurists of every country. His bill, therefore, merely proposed to as similate the law with that of France and America, and to revive the former usage which prevailed in this country. Mr. W. EWART seconded the motion but suggested, with a view to prevent opposition, that the bill should be referred to a select committee. Sir G. C. LEWIS said that the bill would not materially alter the prerogative of the Crown, and if carried in its present form would not effect any practical benefit. Ho contended all authority was against the hon. and learned gentleman, and referred to the committee of the House of Lords in 1848 in support of his opinion. Lords Brougham, Denman, and Lyndhurst were in favour of the view taken by Baron Parke and Baron Alderson, namely, that there should be no alteration in the law in this coun try with respect to criminal appe9l. Several other distin guished judges held the same opinion, and he believed that only two witnesses, including Sir F. Kelly differed from their views. In very few countries was there any trial by jury, and referring to those States of Europe in which the right of appeal existed, he said that in Belgium that right was allowed only in three cases, where a person had been con victed twice of the same offence, where perjury was committed, or when the party who was supposed to have been mur dered was found to be alive. (Laughter.) There was nothing in the cue of Dr. Smethurst—there was nothing whatever that justified an alteration in the present law. He had paid careful attention to the facts connected with that person's trial, and his recommendation to her Majesty to exercise the royal prerogative in his be half was not founded upon facts, but solely in consequence of the medical testimony adduced at that trial. Unfortunately, medical science was in that state with reference to poisons, that led to difference of opinion with regard to the deductions that were to be made from the medical testimony at that trial. He believed the bill would produce several evils of a very serious character. In the first place, there would be delay and tneertainty of the administration of the law, and punishment to be effective must be speedy and certain, and it would be productive of considerable expense to the coun try. In proof of the last evil, he thought hon. members must at once perceive its force, because [LEFT SPEAKING.] SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TuzsDAY. Boing upon the eve of the acceptances for the Spring Handicaps, speculation upon any of those events is at pre sent at a stand••still, and Plum Pudding was the only horse backed to-day for the Derby. CLOSING PRICES. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 10 to lon the Field (offered) CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP. 24 to lon the Field (offered) CHESTER CUP. 22 to 1 agst Longrange (offered) 2.5 to 1 furof eo a. i ) 30 to 1 aget Petra (taken) 30 to 1 aget Viatka (taken) 40 to 1 agst Promised Land (offered) TWO THOUCAND. 4to 1 agst The Wizard (offered) 9to 2 aget Buccaneer (offered) 6to 1 agst Lupullus (taken) DERBY. 10 t• 1 agst Mainstone (offered) 11 to 1 agst Thormanby (take 12 to 1) 11 to 1 aget Umpire (take 12 to 1) 40 to 1 aget Plum Pudding (taken) AQUA TICS. CLASPER AND DREWITT.--The hope we entertained not long since that these two celebrated men would each give way a little, and at length come to terms, has at last been realised, and we may now confidently expect a match to be rowed over the waters of cooly Tyne on the Bth of May. At the first blush, and when the relative ages of the com batants aro considered—Clasper being double the ago of his opponent—it may seem to the casual reader but a one-sided affair, and Drewitt be set down as the winner, without a thought being bestowed on the north-countryman ; but the fame of Harry ( lasper is very great. lie has been con stantly winning for many years past, and although border ing upon fifty, is—to his ow' thinking as good as ever — still a very good man, who will never resign a contest till it has become perfectly hopeless. On the other hand, Dre witt, of Chelsea, stands high in the world's opinion, and is tie champion landsman. lie has beaten Tom Day, Stephen Salter, Thomas Pocock, and others, and has the great ad vantage of youth on his side ; but his health can never be relied upon from one week to another, and consequently, looking at the matter in all points of view, there is every probability that there will be a good race. The only diffi culty at present existing is, whether both parties will agree to the match as settled upon by their friends, neither of the combatants themselves being present, or having a voice in the matter ; but no objection is expected, and at present the match stands to come off on the Bth of May, from the High Level to the Scotswood Suspension Bridge, for £lOO aside, Drewitt to receive the usual expenses for going to the North, GAS SUPPLY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—With reference to Mr. Buckstone's com plaint in The k`un of yesterday as to the supply of gas by the Equitable Gas Company on Saturday evening, I trust you will allow me, as the secretary of the company, to state through the same public medium that the deficiency, which was entirely an exceptional occurrence, and of very short duration, was occasioned by a sadden and unexpected out break of insubordination on the part of some of the company's workmen causing a temporary suspen sion of the manufacture. Measures were immediately taken to prevent a recurrence of the accident. I am, sir, yours very obediently, SAMUEL ANDREWS, Secretary. Equitable Gas Light Company's-office, No. 21, John street, Adelphi, London, W.C., Jan. 31. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—With Mr. Buckstone's very just remarks on the shameful neglect of the Equitable Gas Com pany I beg in every respect to concur. The reason given for last Saturday night's darkness is the ill ness of one of the men at the works, but I suppose a man does not fall ill every night, though the gloom comes regularly enough ; in fact, the pretty things we try to astonish the good little boys and girls with at this time of the year are sadly shorn of their brightness now, and so they will be so long as the monopoly lasts. The very defective supply of gas is not the only fault ; its quality is very bad. I believe the illuminating of three burners now will scarcely give the light which one of tolerably made gas ought to do. When the companies were independent of each other attention was paid to the complaints of the consumer ; now they make it quite a favour to supply you at all. A dingy theatre is a melancholy sight, and very unprofitable to the manager, and one we have no right to expect in this country of coal. Trusting that other large consumers of gas will, through your valudble means, make the monopolists respect the requirements of the public, I remain, yours obediently, W. B. BEVERLEY. Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, Jan. 31. FOREIGN Antwerp it Rotterdam, lArdonnes Bah. &S. Fran.,Lim.7p.e. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graisoessac Carmeaux Mine & Rail i Copiabo 1 Ditto Extension 'Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Euphrates Valley rand Rug. Guar .5 p.c Great Central of France iGt. Luxem., Con. silo 1 Italian Junction ;Lake Constance & Bale Lierre and Turnhout l l.,ombardo Venetian Isiyons and Geneva aria Antonia I Do. do. New ... Namur and Liege .... Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref... Northern of France .. Do. New Shares Norwegian Trunk Pref. Paris,Lyons, and Medit. Paris and Orleans ...... Recife& S. Fran. (Pere.) gua. 7 p. et. (Lim.) Riga and Dunaburg Rome and Frau:AU Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. ":'ref. ISambre and Mc ;e. 'Do. 51per cent. 'ref. Southern of France West Flanders Do. 5i p. c. Preference . W. & N.W. of France Western of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do 8 per cent. Pref Zealand.... COLONIAL GOVERNMEN' tiat.Gov.6p.c.Ja.& July Do. 6 p.c.} b.&Aug. Do. 6 p.c.Mr. & Sep. Do. 6 per cent. 1878 Do. 6 per cent. 1881 N. B.G oY.G p.c. Ja. &July Do. 6p.o.Ap. & Oct.! . S.W. Gov. Sp.c. Deb. D0.5p.cen.1871 to 197.1 Do.sp.can.lBBB and up ovaScoliaGov.6 p.c. 87. Deb. redeemable, 1875 S.Aus.Gt.6pc.Jan&July Oict•Gol .6p.c.Jan&July, Do. do. April & Oct. MISCELL. hA nglo-Mexican Mint tlantio Tel. (Limited) Australian Agricultural Australian Royal Mail. Berlin Water Works British American Land Brit. & Irish Mag*.Tel.A. Do. B, 7 p. o. till 1862 Do. C 'Canada Land Chan. Islands Tel.(Lim.)l i Cop.Alin.ot Eng.&Smltg Do. Preference ii per ct Crystal Palace Do. Preference vo. b p. c. rerpet. Deo Electric Telegraph Do. New English & Aust. Copper Gen. Steam Navigation. Great Ship (Limited) Indian & Aust. Telegr London District Telegr London Discount ond.Gen. Omnibus Co Madras Irr. and Canal Mediter. Electric Teleg. fled. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) i - ational Discount C 0..: Netherlands Land o 8 p.e.Pref.,iss.at ldis .Br.kNovaSeotiaL and .B.Australasian (Lint) rientalNew Shares Gas Do. Orient). In. Steam, A Ditto B Ditto C Peel River Lai el & Min Pen. & Oriental Steam Do. New Red Sea & Ind. Telegr Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mall Steam Scot.Austrin.lny.(Lim ) South Australian Land Submarine Teleg. Scrip I Do. do Registered r.& Ln.Co.of Upr.Can. Van Them.n's Land BRITIS Mines. Alfred Consols (Phi lank) British Iron fford Devon G. Cone, .ivist ) ii:ast Bassett ogan) East Caradon E. WI Itusxl (Tavistk.) Gam. & St. Aubyn (G wen.) Great South Tolgus.... G. Wheal Alfd.(Phillack) G. Wheal Vor(lfelston) G renville Herod's-Foot Hingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (uny Lelant) North Downs North France s l l logan) N.Wh'l Basset (Illogan) North Wheal Crofty Par Consols (St. Blazy). Providence (Uny Lelat) Sortridge Cons. Min. Ce. SouthCaradon (St.Cleer i South C. Brea( Illogan,., S Wheal Fran. (Illogar Stray Park Tamar Silver end Le Mining Co Tin Croft Tale of Towey (Caren ) West Basset W. Caradon (Liskeard). West Seton ........ • • Wheal Basset (Illogan). Wheal Buller (Redruth) Wheal Edward (Cale.) Wheal Kitty(U. Lelant)) Wh'l Mary Ann (Mealte)l Wh'l Trelawney (Lisle.) FOREIG: 2:1 Australia nrdCopper,Lim, 15s -it d tar I,' B Ba li z A il cw . Im p. (is. at ;; **** 27 7 : I -- 1 Bedford and Bletchley all Ln& N.W .. .. Buckinghamshire.... 100 Ln& N.W 99 101 Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do ... 50 51 591 20 Do.St.Johndelßey,Lim. 15 21 .- Do. do. 51 p. ct..... 100 Do. 126 111 . 5 Do. Land and M 22 iningCo. all _ .. .. Do. do. sp. ct. Clydesdale Junction ' 100 Caledonin 1103 105 40 Co b ra Copper all 47 40 47 Colchester, Stour Val . all E.U.&E C 16 17 _ Copiapo l6 si E.Lincolnshire,g.6p.o. 100 Gt.North.ll4o 142 1 Dunlloun.Cop•Ming.oo all 1 E Union,HarwicliSlis. all E.Counts. 41 41 2 Fortuna • • all 3 n Do. Woodbridge ...1 100 ' 20 Ger eral all 24 25 Gls.Barr.&Neils,Dret. i 100 Caledynin 2 Cop. of S. Austr 1 i d i Do. New • 100 Do. 3 Li nares Gloster& Dean Forest, all Gt. West. 10s. i 4 : flartlpool.DckAßaiki all IYk.N.&Br 5 Lusitanian all i Hull and Selby I all IYk.N.Md. 111 113 1 Mariquita Do. 1 Shares all Do. - Do. + Shares I all , Do.all 6 Mining and Smelt.... _ 7 . Lanc.&Cari.gua.s p.c.' 100 iLn& NIW 205 210 10019,0011 D3LiNoidian7. 9 2 8 5 4 - 0 3 0 5 Port Philip . . .... ....... _l s i_ London&Greenwich . 100 S. East... 54 55 3 1 p N 0 . R D t h o m b e a C u o d p. i 1 Scottish Australn. (L.)... 10_ i d 1p Do. Preference Lon.,Tilby.&Soutend. 100 Peto &Co 28.2 Ar United 141rxie,an ...... all 11 2 Lowestoft, gua. 4p. ot.l 100 Norfolk JOINT-STC BANKS. D m o a . n 6 c. p ,B er ux ce t n n t . si matk.ii , .IClosingi;;; Mid. Bradford Prefer- Share Joint-Stock Banks. P5....1 Price. Dew& ence Stock i Newmarkt.,BuryEx 1 I guaranteed 5 p. c. i 11 5 • 6- 1 ; .Counts. 1 i P 100 ,Agra&UnitedServiceßki 50 73 75 N or thn.& Eastn. 5 p. 0.1 all Do Do. do. 6 per cent. ... i all Do . , Do. Fixed 5 per cent.l all I ' ) o. 100 Rank of London 5O 51 52 North Western all Welland . 14/ 15 40 IBrit. Col. Bk. & Loan Co. all P r eston and Wyre. all , 00 British North American all -- Do. }Shares A.I all Do. 1 46 L N . y W k l ___ 20 Chtd. Bank of India, &c all 20 201 Roystn,Hitch.,& Sliep 100 Gt. No r th. 138 1 4 0 25 Chiller.ot In. Lon.&01 1 all 30 31 i l 60 shr4wsbry& Herefordl 100 IT Brassey ion DA 100 City 25 64 08 100 39 40 Colonial ' Do. Do. 1 1 i •• • • iip 14 20.11 Cotn. Bank of Canada a ll South Staffordshire ..1 all 'M'Clean . 101 10/ Wilts and Somerset.. l 100 'G t. West 1,0 ft ft 100 ,Commercial of Landon. 20 19 20 Wimbledon& Croydn. all 1 L.&Brell 7 4 6 4 2O !Eng ,Scot., & Ins. Ch. all 161 165 20 Gen Bk. of Switzerland all 20 Lon.Char.Bk.ofAustral. all 221 221 224 i DOCKS. 50 London and County - 50 London Joint Stook _ cl os i n g snake.. 100 London & Westminster. 20 5.51 1 Share Docks. Paid p r i es . Pens. 100 Nat. Prot'. of England. 35 20 Do. new lO 50 National Bank 25 S took ,Commercial lOO .... 20 New South Wales S , ock jDo 4 pc:Cent .Pref . Min. 100 .... 2 6 Orient .Bk. Corporation all 40 41 Stock' East and West India... 100 ••••• 2 0 Ottoman Bank all 18 le ~ Si - ock I I Lon don lOO ....• 100 Prorincial of Ireland .. 25 77 79 New . iDo Stock St. Katharine lOO •-• 10 Stock'Southampton lOO -.. 26 'South Australi - Stook Victoria ................. 100 IC2 104 15 1 25 'Union of Austrvila all 461 10 'Do New . .....5pu...3 2 V 50 (Union of L on d on U 274 281 t IINI 1, 100 Unity Mutual op 00 ,m n 108 Ise 118 Irt Inoi iii i I 18.18.9 18.18.0 12s 6d 71113 DA rs MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. A very limited supply of English wheat was on sale here to-day. Although the attendance of millers was far from numerous, the demand ruled steady, and Monday's prices were well supported. In foreign . ;Vheat---the show of which was good--only a limited business was transacted ; nevertheless, importers generally were very firm. Floating cargoes commanded very little attention. The barley trade was steady at extreine quotations. We have again to report a slow sale for malt, at late cur rensies. There was a slight improvement in the oat trade. In prices, however, no change took place. Beans and peas maintained their previous value. Flour sold to a moderate extent on former terms. ♦IRITALR THIS N'IILEIC Wheat. Barley 'Malt. Oats Flour. 5n~1i5h...... 1,320 3,640 20,10 ' 2,350 2,03 0 Irish ........ —f 500 Fordo' ...... 110 5,860 I I 1,330 ( aka, I 670 tilt, BOROUGH NOP. Our market morally is steady, and prices aro well sup• ported. WIIITECIIAPEL. The supplies of meat are moderate, and the trade gene rally rules steady, at full quotations : Beef, from 2s Ed to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; lamb, Oa Od to Os Od ; veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; and pork, 31 6d to 54 Od per 81b., by the carcase. DEATH OF R. B. TODD, ESQ., M.D., F.R.S.— This eminent physician and physiologist died suddenly on Monday evening, the 30th ult., at his residence, in Brook street, Grosvenor-square. The deceased gentleman was born and educated in Ireland, and was admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin in 1824. On settling in London he became a licenciate, and in 1837 a Fellow, of the Royal College of Physicians. On the open ing of King's College Hospital he was appointed physician to that institution which office ho resigned only a short time back. In 1836, in conjunction with Dr. Grant, he became editor of the " Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physio logy," an extensive work which has not been long com pleted. Latterly Dr. Todd was the sole editor, and he has himself contributed several articles, more especially those on the Heart, Brain, and Nervous System. He has besides published many works, which has given him a wide repu tation as a practical physician. The deceased was a mem ber of the Council of the Royal College of Physicians, and had enjoyed for many years a very extensive practice. THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL—In the year 1809 it would appear that the total receipts of the Duchy of Cornwall amounted to £63 , 7 04, and the total payments to £53,712, leaving a cash balance of £9,992. £40,785 was made over for the use of his Royal Highness the Prince of Walss, The cost of Leanagentout was £6,639. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. Last night, between the hours of nine and ten o'clock, the inhabitants of Skinner-street, Snow hill, and the adjacent thoroughfares were greatly alarmed in consequence of the outbreak of a most serious fire, which in a comparatively brief period laid in ruin property valued at a considerable sum, probably several thousand pounds sterling. The premises in which the disaster took place were in the joint tenure of Mr. J. T. Loader, and known as the Bible warehouse, and Messrs. Frazier and Co., pattern card manufacturers, situate at the rear of No. 57 in the first-named thoroughfare. The premises were of great altitude, and stretched in one direction as far as Smith's-court, and on the other side was Ironmonger-court, both places being tenanted by poor but industrious families. A fire breaking out in such a confined neighbourhood, as might be expected, would cause great alarm under ordinary circumstances,but on the present occasion the fire proved far more rapid in its progress than an ordinary fire generally assumes, for before the nearest engine (Farringdon-street brigade) had time to be called, the flames shot forth in immense sheets, and rose so high into the air as to light up the steeple of St. Sepulchre's Church, and perhaps for years the stonework of Newgate has not been seen so perfectly for miles distant. The discovery, it appears, was made by Police constable 273, of the City police force, by smelling for some time wood burning, but although he searched diligently, he was unable to find out the seat of the fire until a body of sparks shot through the different windows. Ile at once despatched messengers to call the engines, and remained him self to keep the doors, and by that expedient much valuable property was saved, as the populace was prevented from entering and plundering the [ adjoining premises. r. Superintendent Braidwood and Mr. Fogg, the foreman of the B district, and Engineer Per ryer, arrived on the spot in less than five minutes after the alarm was given, and some six or seven other engines followed in rapid succession. A good supply of water from the mains of the New River Company having been procured, the various engines were set to work, and copious streams of water were thrown upon and into the burning building, but in spite of which the fearful element continued to spread, and all of a sudden the roof fell in, and a portion of the brick and tile work fell into Smith's court, to the evident alarm of the inmates. The fire men, however, kept to their work, but it was nearly two hours before the flames could be got under and not until the upper floors were burnt out, and he whole of the lower floors seriously damaged by fire and water. The origin of the misfortune is enveloped in mystery, and owing to the absence of the owners, it was impossible to tell whether they were insureA or not. The firemen had barely got the command over this fire, when a messenger came to Mr. Braidwood akd informed him that the tremendous pile of ware houses belonging to Mr. Alderman llumphery, known as Hibernia-wharf, satiate at the foot of London-bridge, on the Surrey aide, were on fire. Some five or six engines were at once despatched to the spot, when the firemen found dense masses of smoke pouring from thelfirst-floor windows at the eastern end of the wharf, next to the Bridge House Hotel. That part of the wharf was occupied by Messrs. Hicks Brothers, general merchants, and the upper floors by numerous other merchants and wharfingers. The discovery was made by Shine, the watchman, by perceiving an unusual flickering light in the floor, and a body of smoke issuing from the windows. He at once communicated with Police- Sergeant No. 11 M, who came and kept the doors while the watchman went off to call the engines. Mr. Superintendent Branford and Inspector Reid of the M division were quickly upon the spot, and kept the road clear for the operations of the fire neon. The powerful steam float was also drafted alongside the wharf, and, after breaking the win dows, copious streams of water were thrown into the building, but it was impossible to tell to what extent the fire had progressed, for even at 12 o'clock at night dense masses of smoke were still pouring forth, but Mr. Henderson the chief officer of the 1) district, with a powerful body of firemen and numer ous engines, were kept in attendance, lest the fire should make anything like a formidable appear ance. Inspectors Mitchell and Everett, of the City police, who were on duty in Skinner-street, sent off to Mr. Superintendent Bramford, wishing to kr.ow whether any of the constables of their divisions on duty in Skinner-street would be required to take charge of London-bridge. No positive orders could be given, as it was im possible to tell what might be the extent of the misfortune at the time. The fire, it is supposed, was caused by the overheating of a quantity of hempseed. 'Phis fire happened in precisely the same place as the one which destroyed the whole of Mr. Alder man Humphery's wharf some years since. SHOCKING MURDER IN LIVERPOOL, LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. Yesterday afternoon the body of a man lyre descried in one of the timber-yards near the Canada Dock, under circumstances which leave no doubt that a most brutal'. and cold-blooded murder had been committed. It appears that about one o'clock Thomas Wil liams, one of the workmen of Messrs. Houghton and Smith, timber merchants, who rent premises in the space adjoining the Canada Dock, discovered in a cart-way the body of a man lying in a pool of muddy water ; and on examination, he found that death had been caused by a frightful wound on the throat, which nearly severed the head from the body. An alarm was at once given, and the body removed to the dead-house. Search was made near the spot, but no knife or other weapon could be found—thus at once showing that the unfortunate man had not committed suicide, the nature of the wound being such that he could not have moved from the spot had it been self-inflicted, and the in strument of death must have been found near. The police are making active inquiries, but the body has not yet been identified. An inquest will take place to-morrow. The body appears to be that of a man about 30 years of age. It was dressed in drab and white trousers, "mixed" velvet vest, blue cloth coat, white and singlet, and grey stockings ; and he was about 5 ft. 6 in. in height. On Saturday night police-constable Jelly heard a noise as of some persons quarreling in the timber yard, and he called the Custom-house officers' atten tion to the circumstance. They went over the place togQther, but could find no one ; and they reported the incident to the policeman who came on duty at midnight. Nothing of a suspicious nature was noticed, however, on Sunday, and the murder re mained undiscovered until Monday afternoon, when the workman came upon the body in the yard. Access can be had to the yard from the quays and from the street, but in either case it is necessary to get over a high hoarding. It is supposed that the noise the officer heard was caused bf the deceased and other persons quarreling; that he got over the hoarding in order to escape, and was followed and murdered there. From the nature of the wound death must have been instantaneous. Papers were found in the murdered man's dress, which purport to be those of a seaman just returned from a long voyage. Stock Stock 12 124 Stock 6 Stock 124 124{ Stock. Stock Stock 6 Stock 10 10 all 1.100 100 100 100 we all 100 100 all all 100 4i 100 10i; 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 13.11.4. 971 6 1.7.2 8 4; THE UNITED STATES' SOUTHERN SL.4VERI. There will soon be little room for the ordinary complaint from America that their affairs excite no interest among their kindred in Europe. The poli tical crisis in the United States has occasioned more remark in print, and occupied more space in the conversation of the day, than has perhaps ever been known before within tke experience of this genera tion. It is not the case, as some writers on this side the water suppose, that the American Congress re sembles our Parliament in such a way as to make its non-existence a disaster at all resembling the abeyance of an English Parliament. In the Free States the respective legislatures provide for the wants of society so far that the failure of a Con• greys for one year or more would scarcely be felt as an inconvenience by the greater num ber of the people. In the Slave States it is other wise. The only hope of the Southern leaders is in Congress. Not only do they hold the power at Washington, and fill all the posts of Go vernment (for instan ce , th e 45,000 post-off i ce ap pointments) with their own partisans, who look to Congress for their pay; but they are helpless in their own homes without the prestige of their rule at Washington. This difference between the two sections of the Republic suggests the expectation that the election of a Speaker for the House of Representatives will not be long delayed. If the South must have a Congress, and if the South rules at Washington, it seems as if there would certainly be a session very soon. This desire and will are a stronger reason than any pressure of public busi ness, with the one exception of the destitute condition of the Post•office, 'which has received no pay since the session before the last. This institution is one of five departments managed by Congress. The others are Foreign rela tions, the Coinage, the Customs, and the Public Lands. These are all ; and thus there can be no just comparison between the legislative business transacted or omitted at Washington and in London. It may be from the habit of supposing that the Southern leaders will have their own way that some solution is expected by many persons who ought to know : for there is no appearance of any yielding on the part of the Republican Members, whose candidate has headed the list throughout. The spectacle of those members will never be for gotten, we are told, by any who have watched them in their places since Christmas. They keep the House up to its weary work of perpetual divi sions. Instead of being careless now as to whether Congress is organised or not, they permit no levity, and no relaxation. The motion for a holiday on New Year's-eve and the Monday was carried by only one vote ; and it would have been lost but for the complaint of the clerk that he was too ill to attend to business. Day by day these determined men are in their seats, armed, grave, silent, and with countenances which show the white heat within, kindled and husbanded for a future response to the flames and flashes and explosions of the de monstrative Southerners. Two of the Republican voters have fallen off, in dread of what is coming. More may do the same, even though three votes would have repeatedly settled the business in favour of the Republican candidate. Otherwise the Northern men will not yield. They will not give way for the sake of the ordinary public business ; for they and their constituents are well aware that the whole sum of ordinary public business is a trifle, in comparison with the question they are now con testing—whether the State shall be preserved by the restoration of the liberty of the citizens, or whether persistence in slave institutions shall carry down the whole republic, with its various races and classes into a common ruin. If the Republican members should be beaten about the Speakership, the question is—what next ? Noisy triumph on the winning side is a matter of course in such a case; and is of no great consequence beyond the encouragement to lawlessness at the moment. The next certainty is that the struggle will be brought into such a shape that it must soon be decided. From the moment of an election of a Speaker, there will be practically but two parties ; and there will be but one question for them to de bate. The end will then be at hand. All the world knows where the strength lies. The North can settle the business at the coming election ; and the South can make no more resistance than the North allows. Yet we hear the anxious inquiry more and more frequently, whether the British Government will recognise with perfect impartiality two confederations, if the Slave States should really be permitted to try to form one of their own. Meantime, there are symptoms of more or less foresight being exercised in view of an expeeted catastrophe. The urgency with which several members of the House of Lords spoke about a supply of cotton, on Friday last, may mean, and we hope it does, that they are aware of the pre cariousness of the American crop under the poli- , tical circumstances of the time. Too many are, however. ignorant of the break up of Southern in dustry and production wnicn nas aireaay begun. The commercial business of the slave States is conducted through the Northern merchants. At pre sent every person from the North is regarded and treated as an abolitionist, and commercial agents are no exception, even when they are well known on the road. Not only are pedlars all shipped off from the nearest ports; and governesses on their way to schools where they teach arrested and warned to go home ; and bricklayers and stonemasons dis missed by night from New Orleans, and by day from Charleston ; and book-agents imprisoned, and their property confiscated, because they sell a "Life of Christ" published in New England; but the partners and agents of commercial houses are turned back without an order, and with threats, in case of their appearing again beyond the frontier. They describe a perfect stagnation of business ; and they see no end of it. More significant than even this is the simultaneous action of several States about the free negroes. That action is perfectly absurd, but it is not the less cruel to the men, nor the less fatal to the industry of the South. As the presence of free blacks must always render black slavery dangerous and difficult, frantic efforts are made to get rid of free blacks who refuse to absent themselves. In Maryland, some foolish men have actually proposed, as we have seen, to make slaves of 90,000 free negroes, though Maryland has for many years been unfortunate with its negroes, being unable to keep them, on the one hand, and to make any profit, on the other, of those who remained. In order to obtain some sanction of such a proposal, the projectors give a character of free negroes which is certainly not commonly true; and which, if true in Mar yland, condemns the state of society there. The adjoining State, Pennsylvania, though no pattern of brotherly love, may rebuke Maryland's report of negro . - ness, shiftlessness, and dispute. In Philadelphia there are blocks of houses and groups of shipping belonging to negroes, which show that they are much like other men in a state of freedom. In Missouri, the Legislature has decreed the expul sion of all negroes, under penalty of their being sold into slavery. In Mississippi the same process has been gone through ; but the judges here and there have remonstrated on the outrageous character of the act, and have shown that, if such provisions could be executed, the imme diate consequence would be insurrection on every estate where a free negro was deposited as a slave. As for leaving the respective States where these en actments are made, the blacks do it at the moment ; just as twelve families of respectable white citizens have left their homes in Kentucky, by command of their neighbours, simply because they are of northern birth or derivation ; but the free blacks as a body refuse to leave the country. They meet in conventions, to confirm their claim of citizenship ; they provide means of education and general ele vation for their class ; and they emphatically and especially refuse to go to Africa while a negro slave is left in America. This resolution largely affects the prospects of African cotton. No one perhaps doubts of the possibility and the benefit of obtaining almost any qaantity of cotton from Africa; but it must not be expected from the African Civilisation Society, or the American Colonisation Society, in as far as their action depends on the migration of the free negroes of the United States. They will not emigrants to grow cotton ; and they are not allowed to grow cotton at home. Our plans must be formed without regard to them. Meantime the slaves were escaping to Canada at the rate of 2,000 a year before the present agitation. Those who remain behind know very well what the agitation is about. If the South could possibly form a separate confederation for an hour, there could be no effectual detention of tke slaves, who would escape in tenfold numbers, if indeed they did not rise the moment their masters had relinquished th e hly protection of the North. Apparently, the on ly chance for Southern production and Southern se.7- rity and peace is in the Northern States put tl g forth their power to compel the South to keep qui et .t and mind its business. In that case, time might b orderly and safe gained for abolishing slavery way. Under any other . suppositionthreat of the slave holders, there seems no hope. If disunion i s it is a per ilousa omnweerfeor them to utter, as they are wholly in the po wer of those who would antagonists. "If it then be to a tn politician who should take place," says „ a un derstands the course of e v ents on the spot,. " for all that I can see, the white an t d black , races in the South would go down in uin ogethe . r. It is only necessary, in order to estimate the pro babilities of American cotton, to look at the sum of labour in the cotton States. Free l a b our answers we ll w herever tried; and if the slaves were freed i n an orderly way, the production of cotton might greatly inorease. But if not, see what the number. are. The slaveholders are 350,000; the slaves aro about 4,000,000; and the non-slaveholding whites, who are bound hand and foot by the presence of slavery, but daily growing more restless, are six millions. It is time we were getting cott on f rom other places; and by this time next yea r we may b e wondering that we did not do it before the great American crisis occurred. There has been clear warning of it for above a quarter of a century.— Daily News. ROYAL FREE HO •PI7AL. The annual meeting of this hospital was held yesterday, in the board-room of the institution, Gray's-inn-road ; General Watkins, one of the governors, in the chair. Mr. SMITH, the secretary, having read the ad vertisement convening the meeting, The Rev. J. B. OWLN, chaplain of the institu tion, and a member of the committee of manage-. ment, read the report, of which the following is a summary :—" The aspect of the finances was favourable as compared with that of the last year, whether as donations, subscriptions, ot legacies, the donations having been £2,504 2s. ld. ; the sub scriptions, £1,665 3s. 6d. ; and the legacies, £3,683 3s. 2d. As evidence of the increasing confidence of the public, the report stated that there had been liberal donations of £5O each from the Goldsmiths' and Grocers' Companies ; fifty guineas and an an nual subscription of five guineas from the Fish mongers', and a further donation of ten guineas from the Skinners' Company, Also a large anonymous donation for ten E u ceess ve years from the Trustees of a Charity Fund,' and the seventh donation of £lOO from a charitable lady. These sums had been applied to the liquidation of outstanding claims, and paying off the mortgage debt of £5,000, leaving a balance on the mortgage debt of £3,500, £l,BOO of which had been recently paid, and the committee hoped to pay off the balance cif £1,700 this year. The usefulness of the hospital had kept pace with the extension of its means. During the year 1859 there had been 1,063 in and 40,290 out patients, making a total of 41,353 cases of destitute sickness and persons relieved." _ The report concluded with thanks to the Earl of Carlisle for his zeal and urbanity in the chair at the last annual festival in June, and thanks to the founder, Dr. Marsden, the honorary medical officers, and the chair man. The medical report stated that of the persons re lieved during the past year, 17,526 had been afflicted with malignant and contagious diseases, and 18,707 with various disorders ; of accidents 1,848 had been relieved and cent home; and there had been 2,209 patients under the dentist. In addition to the above, 959 totally destitute and diseased persona had been admitted into the wards, of whom 45 had died and 914 been discharged or relieved. The number of accidents admitted into the wards had been 104, of whom 21 had died and 83 been cured or relieved. The reports having been universally adopted, and Mr. E. Mastermau reappointed treasurer, votes of thanks were passed to the committee of manage ment, the medical officers, auditors, treasurer, blinder, chaplain, secretary, and other officers. In seconding the vote of thanks to the committee of management, Dr. O'CoNNon said,:it was a matter of considerable importance at the present time, when the question of charitable institutimis was so much canvassed, to find the affairs of Ilia institution so admirably conducted. He might:'safely . say that every voucher of income and ripetiliture was sub mitted to the auditors, and passed tby 'them after careful investigation. This was good evidence that the management of the institution:elegerved the most unqualified approval, and accordingly, as the pro sperity of the hospital was to be mainly attributed to the sedulous attention of the committee, the gen tlemen composing it were entitled to the warmest thanks of the supporters of the charity. Dr. MARSDEN, in replying to the Note of thanks to the founder, said that his great object, during the last this ty years of his life, had been to establish the principle that disease and poverty should be the only letter of recommendation to an hospital. Until the establishment of the Free Hospital, there was no institution in the country that had received gratuitously the sick and diseased. Thirty-two years ago—the first year of the existence of the free Hospital—the patients admitted had amounted to somewhat more than 800, last year they had amounted to upwards of 41,000, which, he believed, spoke a great deal in favour of the principle on which the hospital was founded. He hoped that if he lived a few years more he should see the doors of every hospital as freely open as those of the Free Hospital. (Cheers.) In the course of the meeting, on the motion of the Rev. J. B. Owsx, seconded by Mr. BOWYER, it was resolved that it was expedient to make some compensation to the medical officers for their ex penses connected with their respective duties, and that the weekly board be requested to further con sider the question, and to make such report and order thereon as they might think fit. '1 his resolution was unanimously passed. It was arranged that the annual meeting should in future be held, instead of on the last Tuesday in January, on the first Thursday in February. The proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the chairman, and also with another to the press, on the motion of 1)r. Marsden, for its advocacy of all noble and benevolent principles. With respect to the funds of the institution the total receipts, including the balances during the past year, had amounted to £8,549 35., and the total expenditure to £8,307 Os. 4d., leaving a balanee in hand of £242 2s. Bd. - HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Report of the Registrar-General.) The present return exhibits a higher mortality than that recorded in any previous return since the beginning of the year. The deaths in London in the week that ended last Saturday were 1,386. In the ten years, 1850-59, the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1,174; but as the deaths contained in the present return occurred in a population which has increased, they should be compared with the average raised in proportion to the increase, namely, with 1,291. It appears from the comparison that the mortality of last week exceeded to the extent of 93 deaths the number which the average rate of mor tality, as calculated for the fourth week of January, would have produced. By comparing the results of the last two weeks, it will be seen that from zyraotic diseases in the aggregate there was no increase ; that the mortality from "constitutional" diseases remained exactly the same, and that there was an increase from " local" and also " developmental" diseases. Under the third head (local diseases) the deaths by affes. tions of the nervous system rose from 123 to 139; those by diseases of the heart rose from 53 to 65; those by diseases of the respiratory organs from 357 to 368 ; and by diseases of the digestive organs the deaths rose from 52 to 62. While there is an increase which is not inconsi derable in the " deaths from all causes," it is satis factory to remark a decrease last week in small-pox, and also a continued decrease in scarlatina. '!he deaths from the former disease were 26; 2 of these occurred in one family in the London-road sub-dis trict. From scarlatina the deaths in the last three weeks were successively 62, 48, and 33. Last week there were 11 diphtheria. Nine infants died from: syphilitic diseases; and no less than 16 from suffo cation, apparently by accident, and all or for this. most part in bed. Two children, one at the age of 6 weeks, the other 7 weeks, and belonging to Ow same family, were suffocated in bed, the former on the 7th and the latter on the 17th inst. The regis trar of the Kent-road sub-district returns three children, belonging to different families, who were inst.,“ae and cidenta o l n ly e suffocated onthe23. d in Twob e d, ';etrswoonso d i ed from h privation. wildlohwe,oalgdeedst96p w ho died last week was a years. erwn registered London. in all 2,067 children, were Last week the births of 1,089 . boys and . 978 1, girls, In the ten correspond in g weeks of the years 1850-9, the average number w as 1,691. At the Reyal Observatory , G reenw ic., the mean height of the barometer in the week w as 29 2 58 in. The barometer increased from 28.56 in. on Tuesday to 29.99 in. on Saturday, these being respectively the lowest and highest readings in the week. The mean t e mperature of the air i n th e week was 38.4 d e g., which is 0.6 deg, above th e average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The thermometer fell from 49 deg. on Friday, the highest point attained in the week, to 27.5 deg. on the following day, the lowest point in the week, viz., 4.5 deg. below the freezing point of water. The range of temp erature in the week was 21.5 deg. Th e mean daily rang e was 11.5 deg. The difference b e t ween t h e mean dew-point tempe rature and the air temperature was 5.50 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 80 (com plete saturation being represented by 100). The air on Sunday and Saturday was unusually dry. The wind generally blew from the south-west. It blew ' strong at the beginning of the week ; the maximum pressure on Sunday and Monday was 171bs. on the square foot. Rain was measured on four days, and the total amount was 0.25 in. There were heav'y showers on the afternoon of Tuesday, and on the evening of that day, and next morning, lightning was very frequent. -~r~ _ 3 r • `,{