The Sun. — London, England, 1859-06-09 00:00:00

11101 VEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. 8-114-ll CITY, Two O'CLOCK. REDUCTION IN THE, BANK RATE OF DISCOUNT. The Directors of the Bank of England have re duced the minimum rate of discount from 31 to 3 per cent. Owing to the extreme easiness of the money market, however, the movement has not attracted much attention. In consequence of the easy state of the money market, and. the influx of gold into the Bank of England, a reduction in the minimum rate of dis count is considered probable. The recent altera tion has not enabled the authorities to compete successfully with their powerful rivals in the general market, where the terms charged have ranged as low as 21, per cent. A further decline has no 'doubt taken place in their " other secu rities," notwithstanding the advances made on stock and long-dated bills. The general inquiry, even at the low rates now current, is exceedingly quiet, as commercial enterprise is contracted,. and the amount absorbed in joint-stock operations is un usually limited. In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday busi ness was very dull, and prices of all descriptions Were 1-16 d, per lb. lower. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales. The Railway Share Market was also very depressed, with a downward tendency in prices. A further sum of about £5,000 was sent into the Bank of England yesterday. The Avcin, which leaves to-day for the Brazil% will take out £12,848, nearly the whole of which is in silver. At the special meeting of the Newport, Aber gavenny, and Hereford Railway Company, to-day, a bill now before Parliament in respect to the agreement with the Sirhowy Company was read, and after some discussion was agreed to unani- Piously. The meeting adjourned to the 23d inst. In the market for Public Securities, to-day, there has been very little fluctuation. Business has con tinued quiet, and the few operations recorded have caused no material variation. Consols are 931 for money, and 93a 1 , for account, or about 1 per cent. higher than they opened. The reduction of the Bank Minimum has increased the firmness of the market. The New Threes are steady at 921 4 ; the Reduced at 921 ; and Exchequer Bills at 225. to 255. prem. India Loan -Debentures are flat at 941; ditto Scrip at 932 ; and the New 21 per Cents. at 771 781; and Bank Stock is firm at 2211. The transactions in the Foreign Stock Market have been rather restricted, and prices remained Steady. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 69 to 70; ditto New, 58 to 59. Mexican remains at 174 18 ; Dutch 4 per Cents. at 96 ; Brazilian 5 per Cents. at 100.; and ditto 41 per Cents., 1852, at 90 ; Russian 4 i per Cents. are flat at 941 ; and Spanish 3 per Cents. at 411 ; but the Deferred are firm at 29 1 ; and Grenada Active at 16t. The last week's railway receipts, aseertained up to this day, are, in round figures, as under 1859. Great Western North-Western South Western lii:ighton 19,535 Midlind South-Eastern Great Northern 23,553 Lancashire and Yorkshire Bristol and Exeter 6,818 North Eastern East Lancashire 6,785 North British North Stafford Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 4,615 Shrewsbury and Chester West Hartlepool Edinburgh and Glasgow 6,488 Glasgow and South-Western Grand Trunk of Canada Great Western of Canada 6,879 The above returns show a decided improvement in almost every instance, particularly on the North Western, Midland, Great Northern, and Brighton. 1 11 the latter case the receipts during the race-week of Epsom caused a large increase. On the North Western the augmentation was £4,246 ; on the South Western, £1,410 ; on the Midland, £4,833 ; on the Great Northern, £3,079 ; on the Brighton, £5,018 ; on the North Eastern, £1,338 ; on the North Stafford, £1,286 ; and on the Edinburgh and Glasgow, £521. The Grand Trunk of Canada shows a decrease of £750 and the Great Western of Canada of £Bl3. . The dealings in the Railway Share Market have been of a very limited i pharacter, and prices show a downward tendency. Brightons and South Wes. terns have declined 55.; . and Caledonians, Great Westerns, and North Bristol, 10s. Midland im- Proved about ss. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have ex hibited very little activity, and prices have shown less firmness. Lombardo-Venetian Old Shares are 6 4 to 61- and the New, 61 to 6 3 Great Indian Peninsulaare steady at 9 8 k, and East Indian at 1003 Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are exceedingly dull, prices showing little variation from yesterday's quotations. Bank of Australasia have advanced about 55., and Australian Agri cultural, 10s. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ,Bttnk Stock : Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92 I ~,''' per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities N ew 2 i per C e nt. Annuities tudia - Stock Ditto Debentures 4 )itto Loan Scrip Consols for Account (July 8) March. June. 2 P i ehequeroo 22 Bills, £l,OOO, 11c 1 5 ,x I Mt t,5 I PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent. ... ............... 100 Ditto 41 per Cent. 1852 .............. 90 ad G renada New Active, Si per Cent....... 161 Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 41 per. Cent. Spanish 3 per Cent. — Ditto Account. Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. — , Ditto Account a nrkish 6 per Colt 7O Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. batch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent — Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 9 3 14 Consols for Account, July 8 RED SEA TELEGRAPH.—A telegram was received yesterday by Mr. C. L. Peel, secretary of the company, announcing the successful laying of th e R e d S ea ca bl e as Atr as Aden, on the 28th May. AMERICAN MAILS.—The Anglo-Saxon sailed from the Mersey yesterday (Wednesday) for Quebec with the mails for Canada, 5 0 cabin and 78 steer age passengers. The Kangaroo also left the same port for New York, calling at Queenstown. She takes out a mail and 240 passengers. The British and North American Royal Mail steamer Persia,„will be despatched on Saturday next for New York 'With the American mails. THE FELLS ON FIRE.—The other day, a rumour r eached Appleby that a fire had broken out on Burton Fell, °ae of the Crossfell range of mountains, and it was soon as certained that such was really the cas e. From what can i 46411 1 ed, it appears that the fire was discovered by a farmer who w as looking after his stock, but having no idea that it would _extend far, he took no steps to exting uish it, al tough it is alleged that a canful of water at that time ~,"'"° 111, d have been sufficient to put it ou t . Since then, owing sttue extreme dryness of the moss and heather, aided by a r ou _ g easterly wind, the fire made considerable progress, "' l ying reached Hilton Fell, and spread over an extent of ttound roughly estimated at 1,000 acres. The fire has got strong hold of the peat moss, amongst which it smoulders -4,1 1 it reaches the dry heath, when it bursts into flame and then rapidly spreads. How it is to be extinguished, it t i remarked, is a serious puzzles An a ttem p t is bein g made, a digging a deep trench, to cut off the communication, but "uether this plan will be successful remain s to be seen. It will entirely destroy the prospects of t he s p ortsmen for the t sarl,' as the game are nearly all sitting a t this time of the v " ' e ar. John Wybergh, Esq., is the owner of Burton Fell, 1!„11d Hilton Fell is the property of the Earl of Lousdale.— u aniberland Pacquet. AERIAL RAILWAYS.—The Revue Municipale this publishes a letter from M. Mallet de B ought ,lllg one of those wild schemes which are b forward ,9 11 1 time to iime by enthusiastic projectors without the l'l'lthtest chance of support from practical men. M. Mallet i _aa taken out a patent for wha,t he calls an " Aerial Circu tZr_ Railway within Paris," being neither more nor less a a double railway laid down on a continuous viaduct, stretchinglardy along the quays from the western to the eastern ef the fortifications, and intersected by two other circu- Q t„ iaducts, one running along the inner and the other 4 :1 1 8' the outer Boulevards. The viaducts are to ,on east-iron pillars, two feet in diameter and 16 in ; the breadth of the double railway is to be 16 feet; f e to occupy the middle of the carriage road, leaving 16 a unencumbered on each side for common vehicles. There „ re ) uloreover, contrivances for the distribution of water and 4,1 R, for the exchange of letter-bags at proper stations, etc. are i nconveniences which we find in this plan, and which "otile,,entirely overlooked by the projector, are an immense eac u ltY without the probability of an adequate return, the o f ; I ralcaunce it would create in a populous oity, the smoke , ne locomotives which would be a serious nuisance to the gers of the first and second storeys of the best houses in are and, lastly, di s fi gur ing the haler Boulevards, which Lae envy of Europe. - 1S DAY.) ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share', Railways. Amberg., Notting. Bost. and Eastern Juprtion ?,elfazt and.Baliy mena Bir., Wol., and Str. Val Birk., Lane., and Chesh Junction Blackburn Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Blkrock,&Passage Cornwall Do. A jA raves. no div Do. B until 6p.c. per an ll hasbeen pd.toß Dublin andßelfast June Dun.,Perth,& Abr.June East Anglian Eastern 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 G na.Stk Irish South Eastern Lancaster and Carlisle Do. Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire Do. do. F £l6 Do. do. 29 shares Do. West Riding Union Do. Southport London and Blackwall Do.Newiss.at £slosp.sh Lon.,Brighton &S.Coast London & North Westn Do. Eighths London& South-Westn L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Enniskillen. Man., Shef., & Lincoln lietropolitan Midland Do. Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. West. (Ireland) Do. Shares Newbastle and Carlisle New., Aber., & Herefd Newry & Armagh (def.) Newry, Warpt., & Ros Norfolk North. Counties Union North British Nor.Dev.Rall.&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 North London N. &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 Sittingbourne & Sheer South Devon South-Eastern South Wales SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun Do. do Staines, Wok., & Wok Stockton & Darlington Do. do. 1855 Do. do. 1858 Stockton & llartlepool Taff Vale Do. Preference, No. 1 ThamesllavenDk&Rail Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterford & Limerick West Cornwall' W-end Lou. & Cry. Pal Do.A.—Arecv.nodiv.till, 7 p.c. has been pd. to It Do. B West London Do. Ist Class Do. 2d Class - 1'2,10 13.14 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 16f 1613.4 Stock Stock Stock Stock 124 Stock Stock 10 Stock Stock Stock , 50 Stock. Stock Stock Stock Stock 25 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock p aid. Glowing \ Business Price. all 100 34 100 100 Stock Stock 100 100 100 1613 4' 58 5i is. 17i all all 100 all 16 100 100 100 100 all all all Share' 7 8 70 72 101 n i 32 85 90 02 78 78' .Stook Stock Stock Stock Stock , Stock Stock 100 Stock Stock Stock Stock. Stock Stock' 2(1 , 13 20 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock' 12 12 Stock 6 Stock 141 Stock Stock Stock 6 Stock) 10 10 4 5 8 9 1n 14. 54 65 37 42 26 28 1091 f MI 91 sB} 9 Stock Stock Stock Stock, Stock Stock' Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 8i Stock Stock Stock Stock 10s. 10 1.0.6. 31/ 971 8} 45 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 20 25) 25 Stock all all all all all 100 Agra&UnitedServiceßk 50 68 70 40 Australasia all 83 85 814 1 25 Bank of Egypt all 20 22 100 Eank of London 5O - - 40 Brit. Col. Bk. & LoanCo all - - 60 British North American all 56 58 20 Chtd. Bank of India, &c 12 2/ 11 d 100 City 5O 62 64 100 Colonial 25 -- 20.11 Com. Bank of Canada all - - 100 Commercial of London 2O - 20 Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch all 141 151 20 Gen. Bk. of Switzerland all - - 20 Lon.Char.Bk.ofAustral. all 211 221 50 London and County - - 50 London Joint Stock - - 31} 1 100 London & Westminster. 20 - - 100 Nat. Prov. of England. 35 - - 20 Do. new lO - - 50 National Bank 25 - - 20 New South Wales 25 Orient .Bk. Corporation all - - 20 Ottoman Bank all 154 161 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 - 241 100 Unity Mutual 6O - 100 - Western Bk of London 50 - - d COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Share Securities. p aid. Closing Business Prices. Done. Can.Gov.6p.c.Ja. & July 100 1121 1131 1134 - Do. 6 p.c.Fb.&Aug. 100 111 113 - Do. 6 p.c.Mr. & Sep. 100 111 113 - N.8.G0v.6 p.c. Ja. &July 10C 108 109 - Do. 6p.c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - - N. S.W. Gov. sp. c. Deb. 106 98 100 - NovaScotiaGov.6 p.c. Deb. redeemable, 1875 100 107 109 - S.Aus.Gt.6pc.Jan&July 100 108 110 - Vict•Gov.6p.c.Jan&July 100 - - 12 14 85 87 71 73 24i 251 91 92 10 104 99 101 81 83 127 132 104 106 534 544 40, 55 82 85 10 11 p 10 11 p 81 884 1 1 1 l id d 63 65 109 110 884 89 1; 1/ d 88 89 5 7 34 35 97 98 72 75 9 11 54 56 3 3d 1 6V 5 88 861 2 li d 44 f4i, 70 71 100 104 41 4a d 13 14 6 8 29 31 107 109 23} 241 79 81 42 43 41 21 (1 41 43 64 641 59 61 63 67 8 11 36 37 83 • 65 6/ 3 31 7 7 PREFERENCE SHARES. Railways. Blythe and Tyne 1( per c. pref. (issued at £5O) Bris. & Exet.4p.ct.Stock I Do. do. do. Shares ICaledon £lO, 4i per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. 'Chester & Holyhd, n pc Do. do. 5 p. et. Cork &Bandon, 5} p. c. Dun. Perth , & Aber.Jun. E.Angn. Class A 7 & spc Do. do. - Class B 6 pc Do. do.'Class C 7 pc E. Coun. Ex. 5 pct. No.l Do. do N 0.2 Do. New 6 per et. Stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct. East Lane. 6 per ct E.& W. York. Jcn. fifths Edin.&Glas. 5 pe shares Edin. Perth,& Dun. 4 pc. Furness, 5 per cent Glas. &S West. ? a. spc Great Northern, 5 p. ct Do. 5 Redm.,lop.e.pm pc Do. 4i p. C. do. do. Do.sp.c. Redm.,s pc. pm Gt. Nh. of Scotld, Ist pf (Gt. Sn.& W (Ireland) 4 p. et. pref. Stock rent West. (Berks and Hants) Ext s . 5 p.et.. . Do. Redeemable, 4i pei. Do. Redeemable, 4 p. et. Do. Irredeemable, d 0... Do. 5 p. ot. Redeem. Pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Shares Gt. West. Ches. 8 p.o.pf. shares • - - Do. do. 5 p. ct. pref Do Binning. guar. stock Do. Chester guar.shares Do. do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock Lon.&Brig.spc. gu. No.l Do. pref., sp. c. .No. 2 Do. New gua., 6 p. et Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 L on. & N. W. Cov.& Nun eaton, 5 p, ct. Lon.&S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, I ate 3d shares Londondy & Cole, 4 shs London dy. & Ennis 4 sh , Man.,Sh., & Lin., 6p. et Do. E 6 Do. 31 per cent. Maryport & Car., 4 p.c. Do. 4 per cent all 1100 6 100 100 100 100 all Do. - Mid. Con. 6 p. c. Stock . Do.Con.Bris.&Bir.6p.ct. Do. 41 p. c. pref. stock Do. with option till 1860 Do. Leic. & Hit.pref. st. Newport,Aber,&c.pret.s p. c. redeem, at 5 p.c. p m Do. Perpet, 6p. c. with option till 1866 Norfolk Deb. 4 p.e.shares Do. 5 p. c. Ext.Stock,lB46 Do. Si p. c. _Pref. do. 1847 Do. Way.Val.Ex.Sk 1847 'North British, 5 per cent Do. New, gua. 5 per cent Nth.Dev.Rail.& Dek.Co. N-East. irred. 4 p.c. Deb. Do. Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref. Do. do. do. Do. Leeds, 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1846 Do. York, H. & S. Parch North Staffordshire ... „ Ox. Wr. & Wol. 6 pc. lstg Do. do. do., 2d gua Scottish. Db. stk.in perp Central, new pi Scottish N.-Eastern deb Do. 31 per c. pref. stock Do. Aberdeen ua.k6pe. South p p o oF 7 l p x . e c d . Devon,P 4,refp Ann. r s e t r e 0 s nt South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6.) Do .41 per cent D o . Fixed 41 p.c. Ist is South Do Wales, .Ne do 2d ia issue. 4p . Do. 41 per cent S.-YorksMre, 4 p.c. gua Stockton and Dar. 5 p.e Do. 6 per cent Waterford & Kilkenny, 6 per cent. - all all 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 8.13.4. Paid.' Closing Business Price. Done. 49 51 94 96 1101 103 e 99 10 1 } 110 114 105 110 112 114 111 113 127 129 80 82 68 70 112 114 118 120 110 112 ' 103 105 61 63 11 115 94 96 85 e 7 86 88 99 101 91 10 16 17 94 10 71 72 18 19 9 94 134 144 136 138 1158 162 7 9 119 121 i 65 l) 68 138 190 100 102 92 p l P 95 10 11 114 1107 109 96 98 11 1 p Id 224 234 117 119 118 122 100 101 10 10 24 24 1100 102 1100 102 93 21 274 V/ 31 33 47 53 Atlantic & St Lawrence Leased at 6 per cent Bom.,Baroda& Cent. Ind g 5 percent Do. Addit. Capital A Do. Do. Buffalo and Lake Huron Do. New Buffalo,Brant. &Godrich 6 p. ct. 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 Bengal.gu.sp.c East Indian, gu. 5 p. c Do. C Shares Do. E Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore D 0.41 p.c. Bds. pay.'s9 G eelong& Mel. gua.s p. c. Geelong Corporation 6 per cent. Bonds Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6p.c. Deben.,pay.'7B Do. 6 per cent. Pref Gt. IndiaPenin gua.sp.e. Do. New, gua.s per cent. Do. do Gt.S.of Ind Lim.—Scrip guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt.W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. Bonds pay. '76,with apt. till '6O Do. do. '73 till '6O Do. do. '73 without opt Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 do Madras, guar., 4i p. c Do. do. 5 per cent Do. 41 p. C. Extension Do. Third Ex. gua.A.p.c Do. Fourth do. Melb. 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 Tramroad Limited, Scrip Oude (Limited) Scinde l 4l Do. Do. New at 8 Do. Puujaub . A ) Do. Induw. St. Flo. St. Andrews & Quebec A - Trinidad(Limited) Scrip LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. ----.--_ Railways. Paid. Leasing Closing Business Co.'s. Price. Done. B Bed uc f k e i r4 h an ain d B o l i e ir te e hl .. e . y ! l a oo 11 I.., L n ia && N.WNW 6 . 7 . iv .. . , Colchester,Cl yde slleJun Stourc ti o v n . 1 1 MISCELLANEOUS. Sharel Miscellaneous. p a id . Closing E.Lincolnshire,g.6pa.e.' 1001 l I C E n u le . d & o E ni c n 1 1 0 6 0 10 17 2 _ - Business dons E Union,HarwichShs. l a ao l o l Prioe. Do. Woodbridge lOO G E. t c .N au o n rt t h a: 13 4 5 5 138 45 137 Caledonin -: -- -- 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint .. all 13 14 Gls.Barr.&Neils,Dect. 100 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited), all 160 210 Do. New lOO Do. 25 Australian Agricultural 19 28 30 J 3O Gloster& Dean Forest all Gt. west. 10 Australian Royal Mail . all 5 i Hartlpool.Dck.&Rail. all Yk .N.&Br 10 Berlin Water Works ... all 2 Hull Ind Selby Do. 5 Shares all D 0....... -.- 50 British American Land 4 0 _ Do. i Shares all D 0..... - 50 Brit. & Irish Mag.Tel.A. all 33 35 London&Greenwich 6 7 20 Do. B, 7p. c. till 1862.. all 19 21 Do. Preference Lon.,Tilby.&Soutend lOO Peto &Co. 93 95 100 Canada Land 325 102 115 Do. Barking Shares.. all Do. . ._ 10 Chan.lslands Tel.(Lim.) all 8 9 Lowestoft, gua. 4p. ct. 100 Nozi . olir . _. Do. 6 per cent lOO Do. Manc.,Buxtn. & Matk ' all LN W&M 25 2 ' 25 Do. Preference 75 per c all 234 245 Stock Cop all 1: 15 Midsb.& Redcr, g.6p.c. all Stk.& Dar , 5 Crystal Palace .Min.ofEng.&Smit! all --- _ all 45 5 Mid.BradfordPrt. Stk. 100 Midland . 96 4 5 Do. Preference all N ew markt.,BuryEx I 5. 5. 6. E.Counts. p 4 p pia 20 Eastern Steam guar anteed 5 p. 0. N or thn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. all Do. E E n l e c a. . t r s, i c A T u e i f t e . Telegraph 100 98 102 St. Co. all par p - Do. do. 6 per cent. ... all Do . 9 Europ.&Am.Stm.(Lim.) all - 20 GLlronScrewCol.(Lim all Preston and Wyse. I & LYk all .. j Do. Fixed 5 per c ent. _ all 'DLszo.N W 1 15 Gen. Steam Navigation. 14 Do. 5 Shares A. all Do. — 20 London Discount ... .. 5 1 if s 1 : d 4 Lond.Gen. Omnibus CO. . all 15 15 15 5 10 Mediter. Electric Teleg. all sßiody.Rstont,llll.6iitcGlio.i&g.Sslpie.ap. 18 10 1 0 1 6 G L t a . n N st or y th k . 1_33 13_8 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) all 5 6 Shrowsbry& Hereford all T Brassoy 9 ?5 25 National Discount C 0... 5 15 lad . A u N y s t e ° r r y a South Sta ff ordshire .. all M'Clean . 101 105 10 Netherlands Land 6 Wearlo Do do p.c.Pref.,lss.at ldis all I 1 5 Do d 0.............. P a al l l l tt o k . .& Dar ' 5 _D . ° 8 L a i a S as c o ni ad t n i a t mi a mi n d . ) la B a as o ll l sll l . i l d2la p l ia ir 10 Valley, g. 6 8 9 1 N B Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt. West. 87 89 20 5 0 IST Pe 'll el r. R: _ North of Europe Steam all „--- 7 Wimbledon& Croydn. all L.&Brgtn DOCKS. 1 Oriental Gas 1 Do. New Share Closing Business Share Docks. i Paid price . Pone. 50 Pen. & Oriental *n. 2 50 Do. New Stea m, all 79 81 ___ 20 Red Sea . ...... . ~• - - - 10 10 12 Stock Commercial lOO _ l ' el eg r• 10 11 i5O Rhymney Iron . i -d 15 Do. New . ....... all 2 23 24 2 —, Stock Do 4 per Cent . Fret . Min. 100 100 Royal Mail ' Wt.e.a.m..: ..... all 55 64 Stock East and West India lOO ..... 1 Scot.Austrin.lnv.(Lia . 60 54 56 545 Stock London lOO 25 South Australian Land ! all 1125 125 Stock St. Katharine lOO __ 1 Submarine Teleg. Scrip, 11 33 37 Stock Southampton lOO 1 Do. do Registered .. all 1 1 Stock Victoria ..20 Tr.& Ln.Co.of:Upr. eaW a l l 1 tO DO New Ei 18 --.: 100 ,Van Dieweu ' s Lad ss i --; - - , 10 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, lA% ..rd Closing Business Share Railways. P— • Price. , Done. 78 81 16 17 2 li li d 4i 51 d qd id par 11 lidl 14 Idi 100 101 1 98 100 18 19 34 36 72 74 90 92 97 98 1 d 2 1i 14 14i 61 61 di 100 103 100 103 Pi® 103 94 97 161 17 17 18 16 14 1 11 d d - 7dl —d d 184 195 2 lid d 2 lid FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp & Rotterdam Ardennes Bah.&S.Fran.,Lim.7p.c. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac Carmeaux Mine & Rail Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Euphrates Valley Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. shs Italian Junction Lake Constance & Bah/ Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo Venetian Lucca & Pistoja, 5 p.e.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, ova. 6 per cent Paris,Lyons, and Medit. Paris and Orleans ...... Recife& S. Fran. (Perm) gua. 7 p. ct. (Lim.) 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. 5j p. C. Preference . W. & N.W. of France Western of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do 8 per cent. Pref Zealand 31 41 I 2 1 P d 2 1 61 61 } d 24 25 5 5} li lgdj 7 8 174 184 361 37 - - 8i 9i P 33 34 48 50 31 2t d : 18. 19 . 1 5 6 8 pi 10 201 BRITISH MINES. Mines. Alfred Consols (Philack) 2.11.19 6 7 20 British Iron Condurrow (Camborne) 2O 10 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist.) 1 445 455 East Bassett (Illogan). 30 175 185 Great South Tolgus l7s 13 14 G.Wheal Alfd.(Phillack) 11.18.8 14 21 G. Wheal Vor (Helston) 91 1 Lady Bertha North Frances (Illogan) 81 • 71 8. North Wheal Crofty 7.9.4 6 7 N.Wh'l Basset (Mogan) nil. 74 81 Par Consols (St. Blaxy), 11 121 131 Porkellis Unit. (Wend.) 9 - Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 6s 1 SouthCaradon (St.Cleer) 21 230 240 - South C. Brea( Mogan). 2 21 21 S Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 18.18.9185 195 5 Tamar Silver and Lead Mining Co 44 2 24 10 Tin Croft 9 41 41 UnitedMines(Gwetinatp) 40 - ale of Toney (Caren.) 12s 6d I West Basset (Illogan) l4 214 224 W. Caradon (Liskeard) 2O 110 115 Wheal Basset (Illogan) 5l 180 190 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 105 115 • Wheal Edward (Cals.). 51 11 2 Wheal Kitty (U. Lelanl 1.7.2 10 11 Mary Arin (Mtnhe - 8 45 47 WWI Trelawney (Lisk. 41 31 33 FOREIGN MINES 20 Australian 7l 1 1 1 Bon AccordCopper,Lim. 10s p 35 Brazil. Imp. (is. at £5 p.) 27 1) 20 Do. St.Johndelßey,Lim. 15 11 5 Do. L and and Ilium gCo. all 1 Clarendon Consols Min ing Co. of Jamaica ... d 40 Cobra Copper all 37 39 Copiapo l6 911 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co al 4 l 2 Fortuna 20 General all 23 25 3 Linares all 81 5 Lusitanian 1 Mariquita al l -1 New Granada all 1 N.RhineCop.of S.Aus.L 10 4 1 p 20 Pontgibaud Silver, Lead Mining and Smelt all 3 4 5 Port Philip 1 30 Santiago de Cuba 164 - 28.2.81 iUnited Mexican ---- 1 Closing Busines s Paid. Price. Done. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Sharel Joint-Stock Banks. I Paid. Closing ss Price. Busi neDone. LA TV INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS 1)47.1 HOUSE OF LORDS. (Peers Present—The Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord St. Leonards, Lord Cranworth, Lord Wensleydale, the', Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Kingsdown, and other Peers.) Appeal causes to be considered :—Judgment—Thellusson T. Robarts et al, ex parte as to:certain respondents ; Hon. A. Thellusson v. Robarts et al, ex parte as to T. R. Thellusson ; Hon. R. Hare v. Robarts et al, ex parte as to certain respondents. These were appeals from decisions of the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly, holding that on a true construc tion of the will of the late Mr. Peter Thellusson, the re spondents were entitled to take his property as the eldest male heir lineal descendanfof the late Peter Isaac Thellus son. The majority of tho consulted law judges were of the same opinion. _ _ Their lordships of the House of Lords, Lord Cranworth, Lord St. Leonards, Lord Wensleydale, Lord Brougham (and the Lord Chancellor concurring), who delivered their opinions at length this morning, were unani mously of opinion-Ist. That the eldest male heir lineal descendant of the late Peter Isaac Thellusson was the eldest male heir in primogeniture, and not the eldest of age or blood. 2d. That the person appointed to nominate by the will was the eldest male heir in primogeniture at the time the succession opened, and not the eldest of age or of blood. 3d. That the will was not void from uncertainty, and that the next of kin were excluded. Their lordships tendered the thanks of the house to the consulted judges fcr the very learned and able opinions given by them to their lordships in these cases. Their lordships unanimously affirmed the decision of the Master of the Rolls, and dismissed the appeals with costs. The Lord Chancellor declined to deliver any formal opi nion, having previously been counsel in the cause, until he heard the unanimous opinion of their lordships, in which he entirely concurrred. SHERIFFS' COURT. IREFUSAL TO COMMIT-GREY V. OLDBURY. This was a judgment summons, and the defendant had agreed upon the original order to pay 15s. per week. The first instalment was due on the 9th May last, and the present summons issued on the 10th. Mr. Perry, from Mr. Buchanan's, said that defendant had so many orders and judgments against him that he could not comply with the order of the Court in this in stance. His Honour thought it was very sharp practice to take out a summons on the 10th, and refused to commit. PUTTING ON THE SCUM Mr. Beard made an application that the ;ees paid for hearing in a certain cause should be returned. The parties had settled the matter out of Court and the case was with drawn. Mr. Osgood (the chief clerk) had repeatedly al lowed the fees to be returned, and now refused. His Honour did not think that this was a case in which he could order the return of the fees.- It was putting on the screw to get better terms out of the defendant ; and, after having had the advantage of compelling the defen dant by this means, it was not right to ask for the fees. Mr. Beard said that it was not so, and the parties had settled the affair a long time since, and directly afterwards he (Mr. Beard) applied to Mr. Osgood for the fees. His Honour saw no reasonable grounds for granting the application. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.- 7 (TRIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH STREET. A CONFIRMED TRIM—FORTUNATE ESCAPE.—Louisa Spencer, alias Walker, a well-known thief, was charged with stealing a silver watch, of the value of £5, from the person of William Martin, a ship steward, at the Spread Eagle, Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital. Mr. Lewis, jun., appeared for the prisoner. William Martin, the prosecutor, who said he was at pre sent staying at 25, Nassau. street, Middlesex Hospital, stated that on the . previous night he was at the Spread Eagle, when the prisoner and another female asked him to treat them, and he did so, and while talking to them he missed his watch from his waistcoat pocket, which was safe when he entered the house. The watch produced was the same, and worth about V. John Martin, brother of the prosecutor, an engineer, said on going to the house in question he saw the prisoner and the other female run off in different directions. He pursued the prisoner, and on taxing her with the robbery she pulled the watch from her bosom and handed it to him. Mr. Lewis said she would plead guilty, and asked Mr. Bingham to cliipose of the case. Inspector Pothers, of the E division, said the prisoner was a well-known thief, and there was an officer in court to speak to that fact.. An officer of the court said she had, he believed, been convicted at the sessions. _ Mr. Lewis again urged the magistrate to deal with the case, but Mr. Bingham refused. Prosecutor said his ship sailed on Wednesday next for Hobart-town. Mr. Bingham said, to do great good he would run a little risk, and at once committed her for six months. PROPER PUNISHMENT—CRUEL TREATMENT OF A HORSE.—James Sheppard, a carman in the employ of Wm. Etteridge, coal merchant, of the Old Kent-road, was charged at the instance of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with the following cruel treatment of a horse : Mr. William Love, chief constable of the Royal Society, said that on the 30th of May he was in Tottenham-cOurt• road, when he saw the defendant driving two horses draw ing a heavy van, having an empty cart attached to it. Per ceiving that one of the horses moved about in a very rest less manner, as if in pain, he asked the defendant if there was anything the matter with its back ? He first said there was not ; but on my telling him that I wished to see, and asking him to remove the saddle, he then said, "There is a little sore, governor." He (Mr. Love) then examined the horse and found on its back a large sore covered with a piece of old sacking, which being covered with the saddle pressed into it, caused it intense pain. Thera was alga another large , sore partly healed, it was lame in one of its feet from disease, and it was altogether quite unfit for use. On calling his attention to it he said it was not then nearly so bad as it had been. lie also said he was on his way to Camden-town, to fetch two tons of coals to take to the Old Kent-road. Mr. Bingham said he should like to make the defendant raw in the back, and make him draw two tons of coals with a piece of sacking pressing into it. Such treatment was the only way of making such people understand what cruelty was. He should fine the defendant 17s. 6d. and costs, and if he appeared there again ho would visit him still more severely for his brutality. TIIA HES. THE FORTUNE TELLER'S FORTUNE TOLD.—Elizabeth Woodfield, a cunning old woman, well-known in the dis trict of this court as a fortune-teller, and who was mixed up with the abduction of a girl named Newman, in 1851, and in a very disreputable manner, was brought before Mr. Yardley charged with stealing a piece of bacon weighing two pounds and a half from the shop of Mr. John Mills, a cheesemonger, of Charles-street, St. George's-in the-East. The prisoner is as savage and vindictive as she is cun ning; and when she was fined £5, for a brutal.assault 13 years ago, by the late Mr. Broderip, that gentleman declared her to be one of the most dangerous and crafty women that he had ever met with. She was in the prac tice of attending this court daily for many years, for the purpose of obtaining people's secrets, in the discus sion of assault cases and breaches of the peace, and then making use of the information thus obtained to extort money. Mr. Ingham, who was formerly a magistrate of this court before he went to Hammersmith, fined her 405., and gave directions that she should be excluded from the court in future, a proceeding for which the public are deeply indebted to, the worthy magistrate. Mrs. Woodfield has been lately doing business in a beer shop near the Clerken well House of Detention among the friends of prisoners confined there. Mr. Walker, a very intelligent officer, the sergeant of the van which conveys the prisoners to and from this and Worship-street, stopped her vile pi actices and drove her away from Clerkenwell. Thomas Smith, a boy in the F ervice of the prosecutor, said that he saw the prisoner take a piece of bacon off his master's shopboard yesterday evening. He followed her and took it from under her shawl. The prisoner said she did not steal the bacon. The boy picked it up in the road. Mr. Yardley—You are here again. You are a most dis honest old woman—a very bad woman. Mr. Livingston, chief usher of the court, here produced a pack of greasy cards which had been taken from the pri soner. Mr. Yardley—Yes, she is a conjuror, and the conjuration she is exercising now is stealing other people's goods. Take the depositions, Mr. Bowdler. The depositions having been completed by Mr. Bowdler, the second clerk, the prisoner said that she would prefer that the case should go before a jury. She wished to make one remark. The boy said he took the bacon from under her shawl. She wore no shawl last night. She sent for the yellow shawl she was then wearing. A policeman—The prisoner wore a black shawl last night and sent it home. Mr. Yardley—The prisoner is committed for trial. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, June 9.—Wind this day at noon—S.B. ; rather fresh, wilt very fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, June B.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Milli cent, from Hamburg for St. John's. N. 8.. OFF SCILLY, June 7.—Wind S.B:—Arrived—Medway, from Colombo. CARDIFF, June B.—Wind E.—Sailed—Hugo Grotius, for Samarang ; Saugor, for Galle ; Johann Wilhelmina, for New York. MUMBLES, June B.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Swansea, from Coquimbo. OFF TusrrAn, June B.—Arrived—Wallace, from Sa vannah. PLYMOUTH, June 8.-IVind S.—Arrived—Anglesea, from London from Melbourne. Sailed—Celt, screw steamer, for Cape of Good Hope. • SOUTHAMPTON, June B.—Wind S.E,—Sailed Parsee, for Sydney, N.S.W. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind N.E. Arrived, June B—Chimborazo, from New Orleans ; Cyn thia, from Nantes. Arrived, June 9—Ocean Monarch, and Annie Ketubell, from New Orleans. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Wind N.E.; tide first hour's ebb, fine. Arrived, June 9--Belfast Lass, and Neptune, front Dunkirk. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Wind N.E., moderate, and clear. Passed—Alecto, steamer, from Newport for Riga ; Selesia, from London for Liverpool. Anchored —Alexander Cochrane, from Beyrout for Hull, for papers reported to'Lloyd'a last night. Sailed—American Eagle, for London. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.--The Government emigrant vessel Parsee, 1,060 tons, Captain William Nor ris, sailed from Southampton on Tuesday, the 7th inst., for Sydney, New South Wales, with 418 emigrants, under charge of Surgeon Superintendent John Sebastian Wilkin son. Her Majesty's Emigr a ti on C ommissioners w ill receive tenders to-day (Thursday), f or the conveyance o f Coolies from British Guiana to Calcutt a and to Madras . The ves sels must not leave England b e f ore the 15t h o f July, and be placed at the disposal of the immi g ration agent at British Guiana, not later than the 26th o f S ep t em b e r next. The Commissioners will also recei ve tenders for t h e c onveyance of a small party of emigrants t o P or t N a tal, in a vessel capable of crossing the bar, to sail about the end of July. THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. (PRIVATE VIEW.) , A saunter round the th ree rooms of this popular gallery on Saturday aftern non, upon the occasion of the Private View of the 7 L 73 works now publicly L exhibited upon the walls c)1 the Institution, afforded us, in several instances, r aore than ordinary satis ' faction. This particular ex:hibition, among all others of annual recurrence in. the metropolis, has long possessed for ourselves a peculiar fascination. It is calculated directly ye ar by year to realise the original design with whi*.ch the British Institution itself was established—tl iat, namely, of promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom. Here, an nually, during the very lolooni of the London sea son, are grouped together some of the choicest "works of ancient masters and deceased British artists," selected for temporary exhibition toge ther from various scattered private collections. The Exhibition for 1855.%, as already observed, num bersl 73 pictures,and the se pictures have been brought together for this one occasion from no less than 71 different collections. At the head of this long list of 71 contributors appears the name of her most gracious Majesty the Queen. And, as if the key note to the harmony of the whole had been struck by the hand of the Sovereign—that particular painting supplied by the liberality of her Majesty from the Royal collection (No. 97), the noble portrait group of the "Duke and Duchess of Cumberland and Lady Elizabeth Luttrel," by Gainsborough— marks the one great distinguishing peculiarity of this really, so far, most remarkable exhibition. It is an exhibition, then, let us say it at once, which, while it possesses many notable attractions, as con taining several remarkable specimens of the ancient masters and deceased British artists —possesses, above all, this one paramount attraction, that it is, perhaps, the noblest accumulation ever yet brought together and exhibited to the public, of the works of one of the most rarely and variously gifted of all our great English painters—Thomas Oainsborough. The exhibition this year in the British Institution, while it illustrates in some degree many of the great schools of art—comprising even among these remarkable works of art. an oil painting by Michael Angelo Buonarotti, the famous Madonna dell' Im panata of Raphael Sanzio d'Urbino, specimens of Bellini and Perugino, of thcCaracci and Domenichino, an exquisite Rubens, two works from .the hands of Titian, three by Sebastiano del Piombo, three also by Vandyke (two of them superb specimens of that great master), four paintings by Salvator Rosa and five by Tintoretto—demonstrates above all the glory of the diversified gifts and brilliant genius of Thomas Gainsborough. Out of the aggregate of 173 pictures hung upon the walls of this gallery, as many as forty two are from the pencil of Gains borough. They comprise, these forty-two Gains boroughs, portraits of all sizes and of all characters, renowned and anonymous, kit-cat, full-length; and three-quarters, almost life-size and almost minia ture. They number among them, moreover, one delicious sea view, and a variety of exquisite land scapes. Yonder, well remembered (No. 172) is the " Girl Feeding Pigs"—yonder (No. 93) " The Cot tage Door," renowned through many a popular engraving. Tfor3 (in No. 83) is the full-length portraiture by this great master of Mr. and Mrs. lialiett—youthful, comely, bloomin ,, , both of them as they passed out into the sun shine from the church porch upon their marriage morning, and as • they will saunter down to after times radiant and beautiful with the Im mortal youth imparted to them by the Kosicrucian brush of Gainsborough—noble specimens of their race, a true English lady and a true English gen tleman ! Here, in (No. 114), is Gainsborough's Portrait of himself—here, in (No. 132), a. sort of a semi -comical, semi-quizzical garden portrait group of himself and Mrs. Gainsborough. And it is in teresting to compare these two limniogs of his own features by his own hand with (No. 166) Zoffany's admirable and life-like " Portrait of Gainsborough." Gainsborough ! The whole gallery is his glorifica tion. That one name is the chief and prominent attraction this season to the Exhibition in the British Institution. There, in 125), we note Gainsborough's " Study of a co. 'Horse"—there, in (No. 129), his sketch of "Dogs." Here, in (No. 133) are his " Rustics on a Tourney"—here, in (No. 131) his " Seashore with Figures"--wind and spray commingling. His green lanes sprinkled with Wayfarers—his green meadows dotted with kine— his "Peasant Boy" (No. 157)—his "Cottage Chil dren" (No. 146)—his exquisite portraits and his no less exquisite landscapes, met us on Saturday at every turn. One by one we paused before them and drank in their varied beauty, grateful for the feast thus presented to us in 1859 in the gallery of the British Institution. Conspicuous among the more celebrated portraits from the hand of Gains borough. here for once brought together, are (No. 163) "Georgina, first Countess Spencer," a decided pre-Bloomerite—(No. 149) " Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire," the Duchess of Devonshire, the Beau tiful Duchess of Devonshire, whose mouth of fasci- lation, loveliness, and wit so tantalised the skill of the great portrait-painter, that after painting it again and again, he smeared his brush across it for the twentieth time, still baffled and unsatisfied— (No. 154) "Miss Gainsborongh"—(No. 173) ditto —(No. 135) " Mrs. Gainsborough"—(No. 152) "Miss Linley, afterwards Mrs, Sheridan, and her brother," two charming countenances, the latter arch and clipidon, the former pensive and piquant, the very face to drive the young wit to the despe ration of that duel at Bath through which he won his beautiful young wife, and caught up in his imagination the seed-germ of one of the most bril liant comedies in the language. If we pause thus musingly, however, over the masterpieces of Gainsborough, we shall leave our selves neither room nor time for reference, however casual to many of the other miscellaneous and some of them most notable attractions in this Exhibition. Neither the Michael Angelo nor the Raphael satisfies us. The former (No. 15) is the " Virgin and Child, with St. John, &c."—an unfinished oil painting, and theretiore a great curiosity, from the hand of Buonarotti a work belonging to the Right Hon. H. Labouchere. The Raphael (No. 16) is the Madonna already referred to, the effect of which is incongruously humorous. Of the two Titians in the gallery, one (No. 21) is called a " Portrait of Raphael"—though• it bears but slight - resemblance to the half angelic, half voluptuous, wholly beautiful countenance of the world's greatest painter. Of the three Piombos in the collection, one (No. 10), a very small but very precious work of art, contains side by side with the head of Guilio Romano, that wonderful, admirable, life-like, and truly noble head of Michael Angelo Buonarotti. Looking at this head, we can only marvel how it has come to:pass that it is almost always represented in engravings what it is unquestionably not here, namely, ugly and gro tesque. As represented here by the truthful brush of Piombo, the whole visage wears an aspect most noble and commanding. Of the four Salvator Rosas here the most singular and whimsical is that indecent and spiteful allegory of "La Fortuna," for the painting of which in a moment of pique it is not very surprising to know that he was expelled from the Eternal City. There is in (No. 27) a " Crucifixion," by Pietro Perugino—and in (No. 87) another " Crucifixion," by Albert Durer. Now we loiter before (No. 26) a pathetic " Ecce Homo," by Tintoretto--now before (No. 89) the lovely "Magda lene" of Etty. A noble Etty, one of the noblest in flesh tints and anatomy he has left to attest his great manipulative skill as a painter, is (No. 116) " The Combat—Mercy interceding for the Van quished." The sight of it again was welcome to us—the last time it met our gaze having been the date of that superb collective exhibition of the various works of William Etty, brought together for one season some years ago in the rooms of the Society of Arts in John-street, Adelphi. [Why are these collective exhibitions reserved always until after death ? What a charm and interest would there not be in witnessing one, for example, of the works of Maclise—one of Webster—of Stanfield— of Landseer ? The only contemporary exhibition of the kind we remember to have been attempted in this way was one of Mulready—and gladly should we hail the fact of its repetition !] To return, however, to our hurried glance round the three rooms at some of the works of art not yet particularised,though most noticeable in the collec tion. There are two, at any rate, out of the three Vandykes here on view, most worthy of the master hand—(No. 5) the " Madonna and Child, with Angels," one angel playing on the guitar, one on the violin, both with angelic features divinely prayerful, rapturous in the breathings of their in spired psalmody ! The other great Vandyke is (No. 42) a brilliant and charming family group of " Snyders, his Wife and Child." fhe neighbour ing room, by the way, presenting to view two colossal paintings from the hand of that gentle looking, thoughtful-visaged Snyders (No. 104) " A Boar Hunt," and (No. 110) " A S tag H un t," the former especially admirable for its variation. In (No. 105, and No. 108) there are presented to the spectator's amused view by the bold, slashing comical hand of Frank Hal's " Portrait of a Gen tleman," " Portrait of a Lady," such a lady ! such a gentleman !—she presenting him with a rose— he ungloving his hand to take it—both the most pert, smirking, good-humoured arrantest of vul garians I Yond er , h ang i ng hi g h up in the corner there (No. 68), is the portrait—by Sir Godfrey Kneller, of observant, prurient, gossipping, sly, naughty old Samuel Pepys, the Diarist. Grandly beaming down upon us from another wall is Hilton's majestic r e p resen t a tion, in (No. 162), of " The Angel Releasing St. Peter from Prison"—surely about the noblest angelic apparition artist's band Share' ever depicted! Opposite this a very gorgeous and Louis Quatome-like life-size family group, by Mig nard, of (No. 138) the high, mighty, and puissant. prince, his most gracidus Majesty King James the Second of England, with his Queen Mary of Moden i, the little . lordly Prince Charles, and the dainty little Princess Louisa. There, in (No. 128), is Zoffauy's well-known Garrick as Macbeth, with Pritchard as Lady Macbeth—Garrick, in powdered peruke, old court dress-Coat, silk stock ings, and buckled shoes, with a rapier at his thigh, starting conscience-stricken at the horrid thought of murderine , Duncan ! A skating s cene by O sta d e (No. 56), a storm t by Vandevelde (No. 62), a dirty old man by Rembrandt (No. 84), somo perfectly delicious fruit and flowers close by (No. 85), by Van Os; that noble portrait group by Rubens. already alluded to incidentally (No. 46) " The Duchess of Buckingham and Family," lure us still to loiter on in the gallery. But we are con strained, hoWever, reluctantly to bring our notice to a concliiSion, commending all lovers of art to the British Institution, if only for the sake of those paintings by Gainsborough. LITBRA 2' U R E. Tillage Belles ; a Tale of English Country Life, By the author of " Mary Powell." New Edition revised. Bentley. ~ The lines on the title-page of this book serve most aptly to illustrate its purport. They are as follows : " Familiar matter of to-day ; Some natural sorrow, joy, or pain, That has been, and may be again." Few readers can be otherwise than charmed with the perusal of this little volume. There is something real about its character, and one feels interested in the fortunes of the inhabitants of the White Cottage. Mrs. Wellford is a delightful portraiture of a true lady, one whom adversity, and the total reverse of fortune, could Rot entirely depress, but who accommodated herself to circumstances with cheerful resignation. Her daughters are of very different dispositions, but both are attractive. Hannah, the eldest, is a gentle and refined maiden, but Rosina is of the spirited and brilliant style. The -story eontaims- many- pleasing passages, and the description of Huntly is a very admirable one. He is represented in a verymatural manner as a gifted man, totally destitute of prin ciple, but possessed of a power of fascination that was dangerously influential. The episode of his engagement with Hannah - Wellford forms an important feature in the ne:trative, displaying that there was something irtnatily good in Huntly's mind, or he would never have been attracted by such a pure being, whiie her rejection of him, when she discovered his deficiencies, revealed most un mistakeably her filed adherence to the lofty stan dard of right. Rosina is a lively sparkling heroine, with nothing ca):m or composed about her. She is . genuine in her character, however, and displays, on many occasions, much kindness of heart. Altogether " Village Belles " is a very desirable and delightful little work. The New Monthly Magazine. An account of the "Flight to Varennes" is the first thing to meet us in this number. This mourn event, one of the most painful in the annals of thP.t troubied time, is narrated at length. It is one tilat is almost irritating to the reader from the mis management and want of precaution which charac terised it. All readers, whether Republican or Royalist, must sympathise with the unfortunate family trying to escape for their lives ; the poor, simple-minded, patient king, the undaunted but suffering queen and mother, whose hair went grey from the terrible anxiety of that ill-managed flight. The account here given is clear and interesting, and fuller than is general in histories. After this tragic romance of real life we come to a vivid but painful fiction entitled " The Brothers." It continues the story of Pommeroy Abbey under another name, and tells us how Rupert Pommeroy murders the lord, his brother. It is well written, but the subject altogether is painful and unpleasing. Cardinal Maury is the next on the list of Sir Nathaniel's note-worthies,. and an entertaining account of his career is given. "My Friend Pickles " continues his amusing catalogue of grievances. The fifth of " Stereoscopic Glimpses," by W. C. Kent, shows us the mighty master of his toric fiction in his study at Abbotsford, with the shadowy forms to whom he has given immortality clustering round him. We subjoin the following passage : " Though slight this wand, its flickerings still Above each scroll their witcheries fill— Ai fast the mystic symbols shower— Recal to light dead shapes of power. Back o'er Burgundian plains are rolled The buried pomps of Charles the Bold 1 Flames out once more 'neath northern sun The shattered glaive of Marrnion Loud clangs again in dust and blood The stately tournay's iron flood— The warlike storm of plume and spear, That rings with many a blow and cheer ! Around the old magician throng With these, the heroines of his song— Whose charms his inmost soul entrance, The glories of his heart's romance I Sweet Ellen of the sylvan lake, Whose bark a floating heaven would make : Fair Catherine, fairest maids abovo, As maiden of the morn of love : Diana, whose quick-reined reproof Wring's music from her palfrey's hoof: And ahe, the hero-robber's joy, Queen-mistress of the bold Rob Roy : Rebecca, poised in virtue's proof O'er battlements of Front de Bceuf : . And loveliest still, though crazed in blood, Yon widowed bride of Ravenswood 1 Strange types of various clime and age— The goblin elf, the pauper sage, The smuggler grim with ruthless scowl, The shaven monk in russet cowl, The turnkey of the squalid jail, The red-cross knight in tinkling mail : No theme so quaint, no dream so fair, But finds its aptest semblance there— There circling as with magic ring Yon grey-haired bard—their Lord and King." A paper on "Arrivals from Paris" treats of some of the new works that are exciting the attention of the Parisian world. " Aunt Francisca," a plea sant tale from the Danish, is brought to a conclu sion. Cyrus Redding, the veteran contributor to the New Monthly, gives us a paper on " Lady Morgan." There/are other articles on subjects of varying interest. THE LATE CASE OF HOMICIDE AT BIRMINGHAM Very exaggerated reports of this case have ap pearedin the papers. At the inquest, which con cluded on Tuesday night, it was shown that Bugg, who fired the gun, went into the public-house with the deceased on the night of the occurrence, and called for a glass of gin and n glass of ale. They stood by the bar door and were talking together ix a friendly manner. Shortly afterwards the bar maid brought the gun down stairs, and placed it against the smoke-room door, while she went to call a man to discharge it. Immediately after wards the report of the gun was heard, and Bugg was seen to let the gun fall upon the floor, while Payne fell bleeding. Bugg, in com pany with another man, went for a surgeon, and returned in about five minutes, but Payne was then dead. On his return Bugg appeared greatly excited, and fainted several times. Police-constable 307 having given evidence as to the nature of the admissions made by Bugg, to the effect that he picked up the gun, and on making the remark " How heavy it is," the gun exploded, witnesses were called to show that there appeared the greatest friendship and cordiality between the deceased and Bugg on the night of the fatal occur ren co. The Coroner, in summing up, a v t e u r r y e ly great prematurely said hehad observed regret that observations had been made before_ any au th or is e d inquiry could take pl ace , _which tended to prejudice, he feared, many minds in regard to the circumstances of the inquiry . One of the points made and plainly suggested was, that some feeling of jealousy, founded or unfounded, had been excited in some way, and imputations were made which were calculated to invest the case with a doubtful character. They had, however, at considerable length gone into that point, and had found that there was no foundation whatever for a supposition of this kind, so far as was known to those 'proxi mate and nearest to the parties concerned. The act of going out on the evening of the fatal occur rence was not at the solicitation of Bugg, but that of the deceased himself, and all the circumstances of the case would seem to indicate that any preconceived intention on the part of Bugg would have been a matter of absolute insanity. The demeanour of the parties showed that they were perfectly friendly, and the direction of the wound, as bad been explained by the medical gentlemen who had given their evi dence would tend to show that the act was the re sult of an accident. There was another important circumstance with regard to the hour at which the gun was brought down to be discharged. On the evening of the occurrence the gun was brought down at a much later period than usual, and it was impossible for the prisoner to have known that it had not been brought down and discharged before he entered the house. After a deliberation of an hour, the jury returned a verdict of " Homicide by misadventure to George Bugg." The nature of the verdict appeared to give great satisfaction. The prisoner was brought before the borough magistrates yesterday (Wednesday) morning, hav ing been remanded from Saturday ; and after the evidence of several' witnesses had been heard, he was discharged. THE FRENCH NAVE MARSEILLES, June s.—On hl siday: the steamers intended to tow the three floating batteries now in Toulon were told off, and further progress was made in the formation of the siege fleet, destined mainly, it is stated, to force an entrance to the Po. They have row got their full complement of gun s on board, which can be ell fought en a broadside. To any one who has recently visited Woolwich the arsenal at Toulon will not inspire serious appre hensions in its present condition. All the material and arrangements for naval construction have been transferred to Mourillon, on the other side of the harbour, where there are five covered building slips, of no very great length, and the means, it is stated, for building ten other ships of the line, but which I was not fortunate enough to see. There are oil the stocks there two liners whose crews are already formed and may be seen in the streets. The first is the Massena, of 100 guns and 800-horse power, and of which 22-24ths are com pleted. The second is a sister ship, Castiglione, of which 18-24ths are completed. Besides the.liners, there are two 50-gun frigates—Gloire and Invin cible„rapidly advanci ng to completion, which are called frigates blindees, from having their sides comrect with iron plates. At Mourillon, it will be remembered, occurred in 1840 that disastrous fire which consumed the stores of shipbuilding timber, valued at upwards of £BOO,OOO. To-day the tim ber is stored in sheds about 1,500 feet long, and every precaution is taken to prevent the recurrence of a like disaster. The steam sawmills have not that development and activity which may be wit nessed at Portsmouth and other English naval yards. - In a visit to the Arsenal, the first object of curiosity was the number of guns in store. There were between 300 and 400 carronades of various calibres, a large proportion being 24-pounders and even smaller, which are not likely to be ever mounted, and had far better be sold for old metal; 24-pounder brass howitzers and long 2-pounder brass guns, which we should consider no better than popguns, were stacked along the path, they also may be eliminated from the effective of artillery re serves, for their model is most antiquated. There then remained the iron guns, principally 30 and 50 pounders, with a fair sprin kling of Paixhan shell guns, having a calibre of 22 centimetres. If there were no other than these in the arsenal, none stowed away under lock and key in th e s t ruc t ures a l ong the docks, I doubt if there were sufficient to arm all the ships laid up in ordinary in the harbour. This may be an advantage, provided no sudden emergency arises, and it be determined to arm all the ships with rifled guns, as there then would be comparatively only a few old models in s t oc l . The 50-pounder is the nearest approach the French navy has to that splendid weapon used in the English service—the 68-pounder solid shot gun. The lengths of both are about equal. The French gun throws a shot weighing 55 English pounds, and the guns I saw were stamped with their weights, which were on an average 4,766 kilos., with a range of 8 kilos. more or less. The French 50-pounder would, therefore, weigh 90 cwt.-5 cwt. less than the English gun with which I have compared it—and throw a shot weighing 13 lb. less, if the figures are to be relied upon ; but I confess the gun does not look as if it weighed 90 cwt. Among these guns was a rifled 30-pounder, which seems to have been bored as an experiment with three shallow straight grooves ; for under a shed, where stood Russian guns taken at Bomarsund were five rifled 30-pounders, on which men were fitting the hammers and locks. They were bored with three grooves, about two inches wide, and an eighth of an inch deep, whichinade about a quarter turn from the breech to the muzzle, with an uniform twist, as far as could be judged. These would ap pear to be the model adopted. They are stated to be rifled at Vincennes, where 30 can be turned out a day, which one may be permitted to doubt when only five are visible, in spite of the urgent reqUest made daily fOr the despatch of more by railway. If the shot lying at the railway station are intended for these guns, the feathers (aillettes) are much deeper than the grooves. The projectile is cylindro conical, that is to say, it is composed of a cylinder apparently one and a half calibre in length, which, beyond this length, terminates in a cone about one calibre from the base to the summit. This, I pre sume, would make the new projectile weigh about double the ordinary spherical shot for the same cali bre, which would agree with what is stated, viz., that a French rifled 30-pounder gun throws a 601 b. shot—in English measures it would weigh 661 b. The range I was informed by an artillery officer was 8,000 metres, bon tir, and 10,000 metres a tout volee, which is equivalent to a range of 8,749 yards (five miles all but 51 yards), at which aim can be taken, and accuracy attained; and 10,936 yards (six miles 376 yards) extreme elevation. If the figures given are correct—the French rifled 30-pounder will be lighter than our 68-pounder, will throw a shot within 21b. as heavy, and will have a much greater range, It has, however, to be determined by actual practice whether in naval warfare such extreme distances could be maintained, and if they could not, whether the crashing and smashing effects of spherical 68-pound shots would not be more destruc- tive to timbers and even masonry than the clean perforation made by a cylindro-conical shot. Every one is familiar with the experiment of a pistol-shot making a clean hole through a pane of glass which would be shivered to fragments by a pebble thrown from the hand of a child. The feathers are placed about midway on the exterior surface of the cylin. drical part of the projectile. By the end of July, or early in August, the dif ferent navy yards will have completed 120 flat bottomed gunboats, small model, having fitted each with a 5-horse power steam-engine and with one of the rifled four pounders. They are intended to act on the Adda, the Mincio, and the Adige. By the same period will be completed 40 steam transports, capable of conveying 1,000 men each, besides the crew and baggage. Considering how easily France can now transport her troops, that she has 20 paddle steam frigates which she employs for that purpose, one is curious to learn where it is contem plated to land 40,000 men at once ? Three field batteries embarked yesterday from Marseilles. 2'HE BATTLE OF MAGENTA. The Emperor's despatch from Magenta, dated at 4.15 last evening, represents the loss of the Austrians as greater by 5,000 men than was announced in the first despatch. It would now appear that the Aus trians lost in killed and wounded (hors de c onz b a t) 20,000 men, and 7,000 prisoners "at least." Though so well acquainted with the loss of the enemy, the French, as usual, know their own not so certainly —" about 3,000 men." In the first despatch it was stated to be " about 2,000." What it will be found when the detailed official accounts come in I cannot say. The Emperor states that the debouclies, or issues, " on passing by the bridges thrown across at Turbigo," were narrow,an d that the Austrians offered the greatest resistance. Under such circumstances, 20,000 Austrians killed and wounded to 3,000 French seems a disproportion. The spoils, too, figure poorly by the side of such enormous loss : only three guns and two standaids captured by the French! At Marengo, of which M. Thiers says, " General Bonaparte staked his whole fortune on that day," the Austrian loss was 8,000 killed and wounded, and 4,000 prisoners ; the French, 6,000, and 1,000 prisoners. According to other accounts, 7,000 killed and wounded on each side. But eight standards and 20 pieces of cannon were taken by the French ; while the other results were the com plete reconquest of Piedmont and of the Milanese, the cession of 12 fortresses with 1,500 pieces of can non, and the advance of the French to the Mincio. _ At the great battl e o f A us t er lit z , the battle of the Emperors, Austrians lost 15,000 killed, wounded, and drowned, 20,000 prisoners, 180 guns ; the Frenchaiaticocnosdiimg. when three were on the field, the d to M. 'Phi er s i, a o b no o f ut aes 7 t , O h o e o. '' posed by Napoleon were—the complete the kingdom family alliances with of immediate lee T r \ ds irl , e e w n t c er rooeo p s consequence. generengaged a the German houses, Austrian oof Baden andS u a v a u t o r t a e g m g oh r u a or n tt d i ; soeooßavaria, money, t the induchies addi tion Ito;ritery ; and the rupture of to the loss l er: captured in the field 40 Aus trianse of the Imperial Guard of io mtheortehoivsrtedarn,cdtoianieid.id.ie were Wounded, and missing. l o We do not yet know the exact numbers actually aotffiTe Russia, total e a r d o los s a will o tl l n f gt 2 h t 2 e h , 3 e N 1 8 13 o r l e k s a llied n l en gaged at Magenta, but the carnage was dreadful, and the fact of the Austrians having saved their artillery and their standards, with such a loss, shows how desperately they fought. MacMahon being the only general officer spoken of in the Imperial despatch, leads Ale to infer that to that gallant Irishman the chief merit of the victory , is to be ascribed. The Imperial Guard, too, having alone supported the shock of the enemy for two hours, must have done wonders. There is little doubt that MacMahon will now receive the baton of Field; Marshal, which was said to be retarded on account of his having opposed the passing of the famous Public Surety Bill after the attentat of the 14th January. I hear that the telegraphic despatcheli from Italy for the Paris papers were stopped for some time to-day, no doubt to prevent incorrect. r e Austrians os reportsßeports o d f the ci r e nblaatttel,e however,a n d f s f e r lf o re m tr eh circulating;. r c s u e l s a t t i h n a t we may form some notion of that those mentioned. From the loss th at .° victories gained at and it is certain, moreover, of the French such a price cost very dear.- L etter from Paris. 20i 20i 100 100 190 Stock 100 20 Sto. Stock 100 100 20 20,1 20i 100 100 100 100 Stock 1) lasll all 13i all all 16! 1100 100 100 1. 3. 0. 28. 6d 74 all 5 100 all all all }lOO 100 all 100 all 1001