The Sun. — London, England, 1860-03-30 00:00:00

rere to be odies were the East inflic t and England ration coin- Ton the kingkani he duke , Tow se" )infested terestinx ncluding r art and npreben brilliant liberal n did col nd manY; igotry eaumont racy BeP i y mi nor the mos t modern as or su )lic. The work lepict blot er, a reck ig: and the m ore job s been Lin' readers 01 nature-- iely astral once to VA m found Lich as that ;•' he wa s Lent freely n borne t° l many go* Bucking; mo tives 0. . During nfidenceo f ifairs Wer e indeed, i‘ aan is ins' certa . inli Bucking' Jardonable Am so irces expended in his enr, tgh out 01 d sciences, 'rated man L, his over his coup' is sacrifice —we must, mercy was nor of the Le deep in• 3t impulse. .nt. Even line, it was alliate the fair light ranee that ite for hie them, had ig a woric ;what de look for brillianti L for the ect many cting the the vast I, through ye kings► ) any one Teditable less with ) ware to Ln i belongs ar Royal ;Yale : or, the mere its pro' Middle LODgMen House of nuch e% - i our re rehensl°° ead ipleslal f anciel l repre se" : length the 1111- ion as S ividual to presenta- investi onsidertv ill repro" ix heads' terest of Iv. In - Interest , sts which orgott en, 13t being balance very adjust' Harri• 3 result• en, and 3 believe. ;ment of Leory of carried ries pro . tely, and idgment , that the muinanoe id sound ;ornmend !Ca. n 1 eis7; of tbe scriptive ie writer giers to here ; to hat p" her ail' le matter ikoly to r thief `,s of all to tbe a Times , and re le many t mute, !spent to aspeC t lore 111 1- )en of e . to poll ;ives us and ex )ria, and thaptero 3CCO, 10 its trad e work to, spect 01 iving II or's illy 13V Sc,7, Zte' roust by ho Reg' Police rice Of A ":.(1 1 CI9Y6 . az ONEY NAREBT ANI) CITY NE Ws. Cl 7 'Y, 'Two o'CLocK. During the last few days a moderate business has been transacted in the markets for foreign and colonial produce, and in some instances prices have been well maintained. Sugars, however, were a shade flatter. Coffee con ti' cued in good demand, and the finer qualities imps Dyed 6d. to ls. per cwt. Tea, however, was flat, an cl at public sale prices declined ld. per lb. for most descriptions. Rice Was in active request and brought full rates ; and there has been a steady inquiry for fruit. Saltpetre Continued in moderate demand, at about former rates ; but tallow exhibite(l. a downward movement. A very limited business ha been transacted for con sumption, and the speculative dealings have been unimportant. Letters from Liverpool report that the Catton Market yesterday closed vith a quiet appearance, and about 7,000 bales wel disposed of at previous rates. In the Railway S Imre Market rather less firmness prevailed, and the business transacted was also on a limited scale. There is still an active demand for discount ac commodation, notwithstanding the advance in the rates, the requirements of the commercial pub lic being very extensive. Tenders have been invited for a further issue of the Victoria Railway 6 per cent. debentures, amount ing to £265,000. Appli cations, which must be ac companied by a deposit; of 5 per cent., must be sent in on or before the 11th proximo. The de bentures will be delivera'ble on the 30th upon the PaYment of the balance due thereon, and the same ar rangement will be adopted as on the previous S sues of these securities. Th e Paris Bourse is in a very agitated state ; the fl uctuation is extensive, and several failures are apprehended. Increased depression is apparent in the Nlish Stock Market, further sales on specu lative account having been effected. Consols h ave, therefore, receded to 949 for money It ad 941 for the account. Business continues ex ceedingly dull, and the investments made on the Part of the public are also conducted on a limited Seale. India Stock is flat at 2201 ; ditto New Loan l a steady at 104 E ; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced p aper has receded to 98, and the Debentures (1859) to 931 97. Exchequer Bills are 15s. to 19s. prem. The transactions in Foreign Securities have been fore numerous, but prices are depressed. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 781 to 79 ; ditto New, 601 to 611; b'it the 4 per Cents. are firm, at 1011 9 ; and Mexican, at 21k; Peruvian 3 per Cents. have re ceded to 72 ; Russian 41 per Cents., to 961 ; and Chilian, to 103 ; Spanish are steady, 45Z b ; and ditto Deferred, at 34. The New Eillrzilian Loan dis. The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 3 to 8 k prem. ; the Universal ditto, Q 4 prem. ; and the Buenos Ayres Railway, 2 1 prem. A moderate businesss has been transacted in the Railway Share Market, but prices still continue depressed. London and Blackwall, North-Eastern (Berwick), and South Eastern declined ss. ; and C aledonian and Great Western 10s. ; Great Nor thern improved 55., and Midland, 10s. The Foreign and Colonial Lines are a shade firmer. Lombardo-Venetian have improved 55., East Indian ss. to 10s., and Great Indian Penin sula 10s. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are a shade firmer. Bank of Australasia have im proved £1 ; London and County, 10s. ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam, ss. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 6 per Cent. Consols Annuities India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent . : lO4l Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per cent — Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 1858 — Ditto, 1859 Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO — Ditto under £l,OOO Cenmol .41 I k . L ._ , 8 for Account (April) ...mcn.. 0 ,,,.,. 1,, 19 15 14 ' ' 4 ' lB £l, OOO, lid Lino Small, lid ' . F OREIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES. kastrian Bond s , 5 per Cent — Ditto 6 p er C en t. Brazilian 5 per Cont. Ditto 45 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Scrip, 1860 . 1 d e m hil i,an 6 per Cent 'i, e "-Itau 3 per Cent. Di t tos 45 per Cent p4-'itto 3 per Cent. rtu. Lyttu, g l se. 1853, 3 per C ent. ico H u „- count I'll, 18 22 £St ' C t Ditto AcoolLit . ~ 0 per en ....... -065 Ditto, 3 Per Cent': . iii 6 ............ 641 Sardinian 5 per Oen t Bt 3i sparlish 3 per Cent 4SU Ditto _Account Ditto New Deferred 3 per Cent. D itto Pas s i ve ' 145 Turkis 6 per Cent 781 9 Ditto Account "itto New Loan Di ito Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in Lonue... French Rentes, 3 per Cent. Ex. 25f. batch Exchange, 12 Guil. 25 per Cent 66 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 94 i Ditto Account SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. S te,—You say, whatever England acquires by the Itsvord so surely shall she lose by the pen, &c. This is quite true ; but in your remarks you do not give th e true reason. Civilians, who manage our matters, as a rule, are gene t% men of no real experience, or they are of the genus— :ll3ediency men, or men who work to make things corn ")rtable, especially having an eye to their personal advan tage. The Sc? vice soldier, on the contrary, as a rule, is a man op treat nerve and experience, with great knowledge of hu blan nature and of unbending honour. The result to the cation, in a war of any duration, has therefore been victory. hen our soldiers fail their failures are to be traced to the L °11 3 7 and presumptuous meddling of civilians. The last " 4 tance is that of Bruce in China. What horrors did not 0_ ignorance and " take care of Dowb" men not do in the 'lltaea! What mischief did not Sir James Graham do in I terfering with the Admiral in the Baltic ! One hundred years ago a British Admiral was shot for a stake, to save civilians, as Voltaire said. To encourage ot hers—query, would it not be a good plan' to practise 6°ltetimes on civilians for their mistakes ? The Duke of Wellington and the Duke of Marlborough Zone did not fail from their civilian support—the one a l !other, th e o th er a woman . How ci v ili ans h un t e d p oor ne lson almost to death, andlCochrane!—Yours, OBSERVER. ' P OLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. 11, 01113ggY AT AN AUCTIONEER'S.—J. Wade, described : 4 sailor, was charged before Mr. Bingham with stealing se ta yards of cloth, &c., belonging to Mr. H. Williams t g ' ° ll gfellow and another, auctioneers, 47, High street, o orasbury. Strongfellow said, on the previous afternoon he saw a 6 Prisoner crossing the road with a parcel under his arm, 41/4 8 4specting it war his property, ho gave him into the a - tit il4 cY of policeman 41 F, to whom, on the way to the ~,t i° l l , he admitted the robbery. 4110 prisoner was committed for trial. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. tal'ol.rooN, March 30.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. ; gderate breeze, and cloudy. b i 'I4.'PLTsmouTH, March 29.—Wind, W.—Arrived—The 4 ) from London for Singapore. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Wi n d , . trrived, March 29.—Argo, from Port Madoc ; Litetia, tt;;,, l3 angor ; "Wonder, steamer, from Havre; Courier, 11 011 ';'er, from J er sey; Lady Eglinton, steamer, from Lon - 1-.V Georges, from Cherbourg Supply, from Seaham ; toile from Carentan • Limerick Lass, from Newport ; k i t ' c l i et from ' Swansea ; Stephen and Elizabeth, and Hannah ws, fro m S un d er l an d. ,bieb.ll.Ann, for Weymouth; Lo Coq, for Cherbourg; 'util;ri tt ` e a, steamer, for Jersey; Lady Eglinton, steamer, for (I nt SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) W l ,' ~., GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. ; tide, four hours' ebb ; weather, fine. eill.vd. March 30 —Advance, from Marseilles; Duke of 110 a . I R,gtott, from M acao ; C ar l B on R o bb ec k, from Whfaonin; valj utt - L a al ian Zagary, from St. Michael's, Vittoria, r ' 4l ' l l 9 ' ' le - r d. ' March 30.—Sir Robert reel, steamer, for Dun- 01 lia, for Lagos; Moulton. for Cuba. Avi„ a moderate. 'liik:4---Ainatheo from London, for Liverpool ; her of ,Y 8 SUN from Gibraltar, for the river; Fawn, ‘ 4 '1 north, for the west ; Conflict, from 0 meet LaunecAou; Prucilla, brig, from the north, for IiARK.E2'.-( T.HIS DAY.) ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. ----- - Share' Kailwayn. Paid' Closing Bnigineas Price. Done. 12.10 ;iiii. - 4 - ., --- SOitiii - g - . -- 1 - i6Taf. a'id Eastern Junction 10 el 6il-. 1 61 50 0/(11.A and Ballymena.. all - - 13.14' 31r., Rol., and Str. Val. all 8 81 Stock P.irk.,La.,andCh. June lOO 70 72 25 Blackburn 2 ;. - ) luytli and Tyne all - - 10 Bost.Slcfd.& Mid. Coun all 65 7 Stock !Iristoi and Exeter Stock (Thle.lonian 10 Carmarthen & Cardigan) all - - 50 Cork and Bandon 9 -- - 20 Cork, Blkrock,&Passage all - - 20 Cornwall all 61 6 1 10 Do, A A roves. no div *, i all - - 10until6p.c.per an., Do. B all - - hasbeen pd.toß. 50 Dublin andßelfast June. all - - 25 iDuti.,Perth,& Abr.Junc all 75 R Stook 'East Anglian l9O 165 171 17 5 Stock Eastern Counties lOO 545 b. 55 Stock Eastern Union A Stock 100 26 38 Stook Do. do. B Stock 100 25 27 28 Do.Nw.A.(ltc.E.U3ds) 84 - - 20 East Suffolk all - - 10 Do - - Stock Edinburg and Glasgow 100 704 804 S te ckEdin.,Perth, & Dundee. 100 29 30 110 Porth & Clyde Junction all - - StocklEurness - - Stock Glasgow& South Westn lOO 994 1001 10 Great North of Scotland all - - Stock Great Northern lOO 1111 1121 1115 12 Stock 1)o. do. A. Stock Stock Do. do. B Stock lOO 128 132 Stock Gt. South.& Wstzt.(lreld) 100 113 115 1131 Stock Great Western Stock Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.Stk lOO 00 65 61 12 Irish South Eastern all - - Stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 1014 1011 10 15 1i i Stock London and Blackwall.' 100 07 09 6 84 1 Stock 'Lou.,BrightonkS.Coast: 100 109. 111 109 4 10 25 Lond. Chat. and Dover all 12 13 125 Stuck London & North Westn , 100 98 981 98 1 8 121 Do. Eighths Stock London& South-Westn lOO 911 921 9 2 1 lit 2 25 L'derry & Coleraine - - 25 L'derry & Enniskillen all 111 121 12 1 Stock Man., Shef., Is Lincoln lOO 41 12 421 11 60 3laryport and Carlisle - -- 121 Do. do. 5 Shares.— all - - 10 Metropolitan Stock Midland lOO 1151 1151 1155 51 16 155 Stock Do. 13irrning. & Derby.; 100 92 98 50 Mid. Gt. West.(lreland) all 1 - - 25 Do. 5 Shares all I - - 25 Mid Kent all - - 10 Do. (Cray Line) all - - 100 Newcastle and Carlisle all - -- 25 New., Aber., & Ilerefd; all 10 11 10 Newry & Armagh (act.) 9 - - 20 Newry, Warpt., & llos all Stook Norfolk lOO 54 66 50 North. Counties Union 3l 31 1 d ;took North British IGO CO 605 6 0 4 160 ;took Nor. Dev. liail.&Dk. Stk lOO - - Rock Do.A Stk.-Arec. no div until6p.o.hasbeenpdß 100 - - Stock Do. B Stock - - ''„„ Stock North-Eastn.-Berwick 100 93 934 32 1 Z 3 1 25 Do. do. G. N.E.Purchase 1613 1 2 11 d 4 stock Do. Leeds 10) 461 47 ;tonic Do. York lOO 77 771 7 74 7 ;took North London lOO 105 107 20 North Staffordshire..., 171 31 31 el 10 No. & Sou. W. Junction all 9 9 1 ;took Oxford, Wor.,& Wolter lOO 40 42 415 10 Peebles all 8 9 20 Portsmouth 110 lthymney lO 5 5 6 5 Itock Scottish Central lOO 114 116 , tock!Scoth. N. E., Aber. Stock 100 33 5 31 4 331 44 'tock'Po. Scottish Mid. Stock 100 t 5 87 took' Shropshire Union lOO 47 49 10 ISittinhourne & Sheer all 31 24 d ( lock !South Devon lOO 42 14 tock,'South-Easteru lOO 8 71 87 1 ' 687 / 1 1 tock , South wales took ISouthYorks.&ltiv.Dun lOO 74 77 20 Staines, Wok., & Wok all 6 g 25 ;Stockton & Darlington all 39 40 391 25 IDo. do, - 4tookton & liartlepool 164 - - toek Taff Vale lOO - - tockiDo. Preference, No. 1 - - VI ;ThamesilavenDk&Rail 22 - - 50 ;Ulster 25 I Do. 210 ' Do. Lock, Vale of N ea th lOO 58 62 10 , Victoria Station & Pim 94 10 11 i tock, Waterford & Kilkenny 100 -- " 60 Waterford & Limerick all - - 20 IWest Cornwall 20 West London all - - 10 Do. Ist Class all - - 20 IDo. 2d Class I all -- - 1 Stock Stock Stock Stock' Stock Stock' 12 Stool: Stock Stock Stock 121 10 Stock Stack .itock Stock Stock Stock stock Stock 25 Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 12 10 Stock 10 Stock PREFERENCE SHARES. Share Railways. D . ; , 4. Closing Business Paid .l Price. Done. 25 Blythe and Tyne 1C per o.ref. ssued at 250) Stk. Brie. p & Ex (i et4p.ct. Stock 20 Do. do. do. Shares stock Caledon £lO, 41 per cent 12.10 Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. 61 Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent. 6 Dun. Perth,& Aber. Jun Stock E.Angn. Class A 7 & spc F took I D°. do. Class B 6 pc :StocklDo. do. Class C 7 pc Stock E. Coun. Ex. 5 pct. No.l, Stock Do. do N 0.2 Stock Do. New 6 per ct. Stock: Stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct.l tock Edin.&Glas. 6 po shares Stock Do. 4 p.c. gua. S. &D. Stook lCdln.Ferth,& Dun. 4 pc. Stock Furness, 5 per cent .... Stock Glam. ATS West..! a. spc. Stock Great Northern, 5 p. ct. Stock inc. 5 pc Redm.,lop.c.pm, Stock Do. 44 p. c. do. do. 100 I Do.sp.c. Redm.,6 pc. pm I 10 IGt. Nh. of Scotld, Ist pf I Stock' Gt. Sn.& W (Ireland) 4' ( p. et. pref. 50 Great West. (Berke and, Hants) Ext. 5 p.ct. . • • Do. Redeemable, 41 pct.' Do. Redeemable, 4 p. ct. Do. Irredeemable, do Do. 5 p. et. Redcem.Pref. Do. Firm. Pref. Shares Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.e.pf.sh. Do. do. 5 p. ct. prof Birming. guar. stock; Do. Chester guar.shares; Do. do. do Do. do. do. Lan. & York 6 p.c. stock Do. Barnsl.St£s 3slodpe; Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan) Lon.&Brig.spc.gu. No.l Do. , 5 p. o. No. 2; Do. gua., 6 p. ct. Do. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 1 Do. Do. 41 per cent no. do. 4 per c. sharesl Do. 7 Percent. Pref. St.; D 0.6 D 0.4 p.c S.(div.def.til'6s) Lond. Chat. and Dover I Lon.& N.W.Cov. &Nun eaton, 5 p. et. Lon.&S. W, 7 p.ct. stock, Londondy & Cole, 1 shs. IT , ondondy.& Ennis 1 sh. & Lin., 6 p. et. Do. £6 Do. 31 per cent. Do. redeem. 6 per cent. 11 arort & Car., 4 p.c. yp Do. 41 per cent .. Vid. Con. 6 p. c. Stock . Do.Con.Bris. &Thr.6p.ct. Do. 4/ p. c. prof. stock Do. with option' till 1800 Do. Lei°. & Hit.pref. st. Nem prer.sl p. c. redeem, at 5 p.c. n in Do. Perpet, 6 p. c. with option till 1868 Do., till 1869 Norflk Sp.c. F,x.Stk,lB4f Do. 51p, c. Pref. do. 1847 D 0.5 Way Val. E x. Sk 1847, North British, 5 per centl ,Do. New, gua. 5 per cent; Nth.Dev.Rail.& N-East.Cens. Pref.4p.c.l Do. Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref.; Do. do. do. Do. Leeds, 6 p. c. No. 1. Do. do. Quarters, 1846 No. York, H.& S. Porch. North Staffordshire Ox. Wr. & Viol . 6 pc. lst g Do. Redeem., 2d gua..,. Do. Irredeem., 2d gua. Rhymney Guaranteed. Scottish Central, new pt Scottish North-Eastern 91 perc. pref. stock Do. Aberdeen.gua.6 pc. Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock. south Devon, Ann. 10e, Do. Fixed 41 percent. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1 0 6 ) Do .41 per cent 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.e. Do. B 6 per cent Do. C 6 per cent Watrfd & Kilkny, 6p c. 96 98 100 102 5i 6 99 101 110 113 103 108 111 113 110 112 125 127 81 83 110 112 89 91 75 77 118 120 117 119 110 112 102 104 84 86 96 98 98 100 87 89 90 92 100 102 9/ 1.01 17 18 161 101 74 76 191 205 91 10 141 15f 139 141 115 117 115 117 140 145 115 117 1r.4 158 132 136 66 68 211 22i 115 117 15ti 1571 111 121 125 127 i i 68 70 1139 141 102 103 ..t P 9; 96 91 10 1.11 121 i iP 100 111 108 110 91 93 94 96 I id p 23 24 124 126 1117 119 75 77 121 123 132 136 I lo} lot i 231 231 1(0 102 1(0 102 88 90 99 101 86 88 28 29 32i 83i 32 33 50 53 Stock Stock Stock Stool; Stack) 20 Stf.ck Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock, Stock Stock 12 12i took Stock 121 14 Stock Stock Stock Stock 12 1O Stock Stock) Stock Stock) Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock 10s. ':1.0.6. Stock Stock Stock Stock Stock Stook LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. liediorn anti liietctiley, alt Buckinghamshire ' 100 Chester & Holyhead 100 Do. do. 54 p. ct 100 Do. do. 5 p. ct. Clydesdale Junction ' 100 Colchester, Stour Val all E.Lincolnshire,g.6p.c 100 E Union,HarwichShs I all Do. Woodbridge 100 Gls.Barr.&Neils,Drct. l 100 Do. New lOO Gloster& Dean Forest all Flartlpool.Dck.&R ail , all Hull and Selby Do. 41 Shares all Do. I Shires Lanc.&Carl.gua.s p.c lOO London&GrenwiCh Do. Preference Lon.,Tilby.&Soutend LCMCstoft, gua. 4 p. et Do. 6 per cent Manc.,Thixtn.& Matk !, Mid. Bradford Prefer ence Stook Newmarkt.,BuryEx guaranteed 5 p. c. Northn.ez Eastn. 5 p.c. Do. do. 6 per cent Do. Fixed 5 per cent. North Western Preston and Wyre. Do. res A. Roystn,Hiteh.,& Shep Slirowsbry& Hereford Do. Do. South Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset.. Wimbledon& Croydn. Leasing I Closing' Bulimia Railways. Railways. I Paid. , P r i ce. Done. 100 100 100 100 all Share Docks. AtortriEtnrfaud Wobt India Stock!l I OTO . On Stock:St. Katharine Stock Southampton Stark Victoria . RO ID) NeW t:asesepasseie! all 1100 10' 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 3.13.4, Ln &IV.W Ln & N.W Do. Do. Do. Calcdonin E.U.&E C I Gt. North. E.Counts. I 'Calcdonin Do. Gt. West. T1.N.&1311 Yk.N.Md.Do. Do. & NIIV ! S. East... !Do. Peto &Co: ! Norfolk .. LN W&M 100 Midland 5. 5. 6.E.Counts all I Do. all 'Do. all I Do. all !Midland . L&N 11 & all I Do. 100 IGl.North 100 IT BrassGy 1 I .... I M`dean Gt. West L.kßrgtn DOCKS. 95 100 51 31i! 124 126 113 115 11 1 3 1(5 16 17 140 142 4} 44 1110 112 206 209 63 65 ;115 120 93 95 95 97 iP 57 68 14 14k , 135 137 404 106 10i i ll 90 92 71 Si p aid Closing ! ja na t nen , rrioe. Done. 100 100 100 100 100 1(0 1(3 PRIVATE BUSINESS. On the motion of Lord COLVILLE the Great Western Railway and Liskeard Water Bills were read a second time. The Athenry and Tuna Railway, West of Fife Mineral Railway, and Morayshire Railway Bills were read a third time and passed. CONSOLIDATED FUND (L 850,000) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. THE CHINESE EXPEDITION. • Earl GREY moved for an estimate, as nearly as the same can be made out, of the cost of the expedition to China up to the year 1860-1, the same estimate to include the pay and supplies for her Majesty's naval and land farces (whether regular or Indian army), and if they should con tinue in China to the above date, together with all charges for transport freight, military stores, and coals. The noble earl took the opportunity of referring to the military opera tions last year, and said the large expense had been in curred without the concurrence of Parliament. In the estimates this year the sum of £2,500,000 had been put down as the cost of the impending expedition to China, but he thought it was altogether impossible to say what sum would be sufficient to meet the expenses up to the close of the financial year. Even if the operations were brought to a conclusion in the shortest possible time, the house ought to have, at least, an approximation to the cost. It was all the more necessary, because tho Government had entered on a great expedition, in a distant country, without consulting Parlia ment on the point. It was said the other house had been asked for £850,000 for expense already incurred, but no formal application had been made by tho Government for the sanction of Parliament to the course they had taken, and it was as unjust to the nation as it was to Parliament thatit should be saddled with an expensive war without being at all consulted. The course that had been pursued might be a convenient one for the Government, but it was one he could not approve of. We were told that this expedition had been undertaken to enforce the observance of treaties and to obtain from the Emperor of China an apology for what ' had taken place at the mouth of the Peiho, but if an apo logy was all that was required, he could not help thinking it could have been obtained without any such „expedition, and if the apology was received he put it to the house whe ther it would not have been pail for very dearly by the outlay of between five and six millions of money. Ho felt convinced that every blow that was struck at China would sooner or later be felt by ourselves ; and even if our successes were quite complete, and the Government of China was over thrown, he for one thought such a result fraught with the greatest calamity. (LEFT SFEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THIS EVENING The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were considered and ordered fat third reading :—Consett District 'Water, Lincoln Heath and Market Decping Roads, Stourbridge Railway, Wellington (Salop) Water, and Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway. THE RECENT DEATH ON THE NORTH KENT RAILWAY. Mr. DEEDES moved an address for copy of a letter (with its inclosures), from the Admiralty to the Home office, dated the 6th day of February, 1860, relative to the death of a boatman on the North Kent Railway.—Ordered. ADMISSION OF ENGLISH GOODS INTO FRANCE. Mr. EGERTON asked the Chancellor of the Exche quer whether any supplemental treaty had been arranged between this country and France on the subject of the dit ties on goods admitted from this country into France ; and, if so, whether he had any objection to lay it on the table. Lord J. RUSSELL—No such supplemental treaty had been made. SAN JUAN. Mr. LAYFIELD asked what progress had been made with reference to the settlement of the San Juan question, and whether Government would object to producing any correspondence that had passed between the British and American Governments on the subject. Lord J. RUSSELL said that communications were going on between the respectivo Governments with reference to the subject. ANNEXATION OF ITALIAN STATES TO SAR- DINIA. PUBLIC BUSINESS. Mr. HENNESSY moved that the house at its rising do adjourn until Monday, and asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Government had advised her Majesty to recognise the annexation of Bologna, Tus *any, Modena, and Parma to the kingdom of Sardiup. ; and, if so, whether he is prepared to state the reasons which have induced the Government to tender such advice to her Majesty. He availed himself of the opportunity to draw the attention of the house to the gross neglect of Irish business which characterised the proceedings of Government during the present session. He called on the right hon. gentleman the Secretary for Ireland to state what course he intended to pursue with regard to Irish mea sures during the present session. He bore personal testimony to the courtesy of the right hon. gentleman, but that courtesy ;could not compensate for his ignorance of Ireland and the Irish, and ho considered that he was as in competent to compete with the plain honest policy that existed in that country, as the noble lord the Foreign Se cretary was with the policy of Vienna and Paris. Sir G. C. LEWIS said that he did not rise to answer the question of the hon. gentleman, but he reminded the house of the time occupied two or three years ago . in the consideration of Irish affairs to the exclusion of Scotch and English business. That these affairs did not occupy so much of the attention of hon. members was a mat ter of congratulation, because it indicated an improved state of the condition of Ireland. (Hear, hear.) He must object to the motion of the hon. member for the ad journment of the house until Monday, as it would be neces sary for hon. members to meet to-morrow in order to receive a commission. It was not the intention of his noble friend the Foreign Secretary to propose the resumption of the adjourned debate on the Reform Bill this evening, but to postpone it until after Easter. (Hear, hear.) THE RECEIVER MASTER OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY IN IRELAND. Mr. WHITESIDE drew the attention of the house to the recent appointment of Mr. Lyle, at present Receiver Master of the Court of Chancery in Ireland to the dignity of Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Londonderry, and to the circumstances under which such appointment was made. He considered the appointment, on the eve of a general election, of a gentleman like Mr. Lyle, who, from his antecedents and profession, was not properly qualified for the office, was an insult to the nobility and gentry of Londonderry. He had no objection to that gen tleman receiving a retiring pension for his services, but what he objected to was the appointment of a poli tical partisan at such a crisis. Mr. CARDWELL defended the appointment. There were only two noblemen proprietors in the county of Lon donderry, one of whom was not resident in the county, and the other had not yet come into possession of his property. With regard to the commissioners of the county he thought the selection of the gentleman in question for the office of Lord-Lieutenant most justifiable, for he believed that he was possessed of large personal property in that county, that he resided there, teok a great interest in the local busi ness, and was generally respected. With regard tq the statement of the hon. member (Mr. Hennessy) he did not think that hon. member was as well informed on the subject as he thought. Experience showed that, at the end of the session, the house was encumbered with Irish business, and Irish bills had to be postponed because they could not be properly discussed or considered. He could assure the hon. member that he would have been most happy, and it would have been more convenient to him (Mr. Card well) if some bills on Irish affairs could have been introduced at an early period of the session, but that was simply impossible in the state of gene ral public business. With respect to the question of mixed education in Ireland, he had already informed the house, that he would make a statement when the matter came to be considered in the estimates. With reference to the question of the poor laws in Ireland it had already been introduced to the attention of the house, and as related to the registration of births, deaths, and marriages in that country a bill had been prepared, which he was prevented from bringing forward at present, but which he would submit to their consideration at the earliest opportunity tint presented itself. He assured the hon. member that there was every desire on the part of himself and her Majesty's Government generally to afford every facility for the consideration and settlement satisfactorily of Irish business in the house, and that when delays oc curred they arose entirely from the state of public business. Some further discussion ensued relative to the appoint ment of Mr. Lyle. THE ELECTORAL CORRUPTION AT WAKE- FIELD. Mr. E. ELLICE inquired what were the intentions of Government with reference to the report of the commis• sioners appointed by her Majesty to inquire into corrupt practices at elections in the borough of Wakefield ? This: report had been lying on the table of the house for the last two months, and yet no steps had been adopted with reference to the statements it contained. (LEFT SITTING.) LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EVENING.) ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCH 28. The Queen has been pleased to appoint General Sir Fre derick Stovin, K.C.8., to be Extra Groom in Waiting to her Majoty. The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Francis Campbell of Islay, Esq., to be one of the Grooms of her Majesty's Privy Chamber in ordinary, in the room of Lieu • tenant• Colonel Sir Thomas Noel Harris, deceased. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Colonel Henry James, of the Royal En gineers, Director of the Ordnance Survey, and of the Topo graphical and Statistical Department of the War-office. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Edward Shepherd Creasy, Esq., Chief Justice of Ceylon. WHITEHALL, MARCH 30. The Queen has been pleaied to grant itnto the Very:Rev. Thomas Gamier, 8.C.L., the deanery of her Majesty's ca thedral church of Lincoln, void by the death of John Gif lard Ward, M.A. FO RE IGN- OFF] . CE, MARCH 29. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Henry Rostand as Consul in the Mauritius for the Sublime Otto man Porte. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Don Mariano do la Roca as Consul at Gibraltar for her Majesty the Queen of Spain. DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 29. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major-General Pringle Taylor, K.H., to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Jamaica and its dependencies. CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 28. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PA RT,TAMPNT. ( - .1..1„F cn,•• 77. c, 0' Colatur Don. iii Liao k00 . .11 or l'iiotaits Esq. whose election has been declared void. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCH 30. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of the following promotion in the Army, viz. : Bazyka,—General the Right liou. John, Lord Seaton, so} s9f moa 2071 Mb SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1860. THIR L) EDITION. SUN OFFICE, &ven o'clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(THIS EVENING.) Lord REDESDALE (in the absence of the Lord Chancellor) took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. Petitions against the abolition of church rates were pre sented by Viscount Dungannon, Lord Colville of Culross, and Lord Southampton ; and for their abolition by Lord Teynham. G.C.8., G.C.M.G., Colonel of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, to be Field-Marshal. . Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Leonard Wilson Atkinson, from the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice 'Webster, who exchanges. Ist Dragoons—Edmund Bacon Hutton, Gent., to be Cor net, by purchase, vice Hall, oromoted. 6th Dragoons—Surgeon Gavin 'Ainslie Turnbull, from the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Baxter, who exchanges. 10th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant-Colonel John Lewes, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel John 'Wilkie, who exchanges, receiving the differences between Infantry and Cavalry; Major Valentine Baker to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Lewes, who retires ; Captain Richard Playne Smith to be Major, by purchase, vice Baker; Lieut. Edward Picton Baumgarten to be Captain, vice Smith ; Cornet William Morgan Maunder to be Lieutenant, vice Baum garten; Herbert Davies Evans, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Wood, promoted. 12th Light Dragoons.—Surgeon Francis Hastings Baxter, M.D.,fr.)m the 6th Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Turn bull, who exchanges. 13th Light Dragoons.—Lieutenant Richard William Ren shaw, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Dearden, who retires; Cornet Thomas George Johnson to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Lethbridge, who retires ; Cornet Henry Stnithsm Lie Wilson to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Renshaw; Ensign William Harle, from the 81st Foot, to be Cornet, vice Willes, appointed to the 3d Light Dragoons. 16th Light Dragoons—Lieut. Guy 'Webster, from the Ist Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Atkinson, who exchanges; Lieut. Henry Clement Wilkinson, from the 17th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Corballis, who ex changes. Royal Artillery—Brevet-Major Arthur Vandeleur to be Captain, vice Bent, placed on the Supernumerary List; Lieut. Thomas Lloyd Still to be Second Captain, vice Vandeleur; Lieut. Joseph Hanwell to be Second Cap tain, vice Haig, placed on the Supernumerary List. Military Train—Charles Stuart Campbell, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Davies, appointed Quar termaster of the 76th Foot. Ist Regiment of Foot—Luke Norman, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stansfield, promoted. 6th Foot—Roberti Grmatne, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Howley, promoted. 17th Foot—Lieut. 'William R. Corballis, from the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, receiving the differ ence between Cavalry and Infantry, vice Wilkinson, who exchanges. 18th Foot—Major and Brevet-Colonel George J. Carey, from the Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be Major, vice D'Arcey, who exchanges. 21st Foot—John Jacob Warner, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Coke, appointed to the 25th Foot. 22d Foot—Ralph Drake Backhouse. Gent o to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Powys, promoted. 24th Foot—Ensign Francis M. Pearson to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Crutchley, promoted. 25th Foot—Ensign Richard Webster, from the 3d West India Regiment, to be Ensign ; Westropp Thomas Mor gan, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase; William Grogan Knox, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase; George Dixon, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase. 28th Foot—Stephen Joseph McKenna, Gent., to be En sign, without purchase, vice Brett, promoted. 31st Foot—Thomas Starrier, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Maynard, promoted. 48th Foot—Ensign Edward Cecil Brown to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Horne, promoted in the 25th Foot ; Lieutenant John Rawlins to be Adjutant, vice Home, promoted in the 25th Foot.. 57th Foot—Philip Edward Powys, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Waller, promoted. 59th Foot—The second Christian name of Major and Bre vet .Lieutenant-Colonel Burraester is " Edward." 60th Foot—Lieutenant Anthony Carlisle to be Captain, without purchase, vice Baynes, deceased. 61st Foot—Ensign James Graham Hamilton to be Lieute nant, without purchase, vice Young, promoted in the 25th'Foot. 70th Foot—Lieutenant William Henry Ralston to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice James, who retires; Ensign John Frederick Augustus Grierson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ralston. 73d Foot—John Parnell Clarke, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice McGill, appointed to the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment. 77th Foot—John Potts, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hoskins, promoted. 79th Foot—Ensign John Busfeild, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice M'Causland, promoted. 80th Foot—The commission of Captain James John Dud geon to be antedated to the 26th March. 97th Foot—Madoc Davis,Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Thompson, promoted. Rifle Brigade—Quarterinaster George Rogers to be Ensign, without purchase, and Adjutant, vice Lieutenant David Alexander Gordon, retired ; Sergeant Frederick Piper to be :Quartermaster vice Rogers, appointed Ensign and Adjutant. 3d West India Regiment—Comet Richard George Collins, from half-pay of the late Land Transport Corps, to be Ensign, vice Webster, appointed to the 25th Foot. Cape Mounted Riflemen—Major Oliver Barker D'Arcey, from the 18th Foot, to be Major, vice Brevet-Colonel Carey, who exchanges. Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Thomas Wm. Goodall, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Edward Moore, de ceased. (to the honorary rank o f C a pt a in, with th e dat e o f 2d M arc h , 1830, has been cancelled. MEMORANDUM.—In the Gazette of 27th inst., the letters ".M.D." were erroneously inserted after Deputy Inspector. , General Longmore's name. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCH 30. NOTICE.—From and after the Ist July next, the mini mum age of candidates to be examined for direct Com missions in the Army will be fixed at eighteen years. BANKRUPTS. James Eiger, grocer, Fletton, Huntingdonshire. Charles Noble, builder, Northampton. • Henry Coney, builder, Townsend-road, Regent's-park. Henry Joseph Smith, corn dealer, Newbury, Berkshire. Thomas Simmons, warehouseman, Cheapside, City. Peter Taylor, licensed victualler, Saffron Walden, Essex. Charles Austin Gibson, timber merchant, B r i s t o l. Abraham Wooti,on, timber; merchant, Walsall, Stafford. John Legge, beer retailer, Walsall, Staffordshire. George William Neales, upholsterer, New Oxford-street, Middlesex. William Sharp, jun., underwriter, New Broad-street. Joseph Oldroyd, blanket manufacturer, Batley, York shire. Thomas Mills, web manufacturer, Leicester. Christopher Langridge and Jo s eph Midgley, drysalters, Manchester. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Sth Victoria, cap. 32, fur the week ending on Wednesday, the 28th day of March, 1860: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued £29,063,010! Government Debt XII,' 15,100 Other Securities .. 3,439,900 ! Gold Coin & Bullion 14,588,010 Silver Bullion .... - £29,063,040, BANKING D Proprietors' Capi tal 414,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- X 4033,010 , EPARTMENT. Government Secu rities (including Dead Weig-htAn- nuity) £10,221,190 Other Securities 23,955,189 Notes Gold and Silver counts) 10,384,110 Other Deposits 15,556,124 Seven Day and other Bills 691,008 X 42,942, 725 M. 3 Coin 653,661 Dated March 29,1880. £42.912,725 ARSIIALL, Chief Cashier. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from Returns made in the week ending the 27th day of March, 1860, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain:— Per cwt. From the British possessions in America 26s 41d Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 2Bs 81d Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 32s 111 d Average price of the foregoing 2 Bs 4d COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tars D. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 164 11 I6f Antwerp Brussels — 25 25 25 32} Hamburgh Paris Ditto Nlarseilles — 25 35 25 40 Frankfort on Maine — 117+ 7f Vienna Trieste Petersburgh — 34 341 Madrid --, 494 49+ Cadiz — __49a_ . 49' Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo -- Messina Lisbon Oporto 30 '3'7f 25 37i 25 40 40f 122 122 52f 63 30 42! 25 42! 25 45 40; 122 k 122 k 524. 7! CROXTON RACES—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SCURRY STAKES. Mies Eleanor. Alfred Buttercup.... GRAN BY HANDICAP. Dead heat with Norton and Tommy Noble. Wanderer third. Eight ran. STAFF. Major-General the Hon. Sir James Yorko Scarlett, K.C.8., to be Adjutant-General to the Forces, vice Lieut.- General Sir George Augustus Wetherell, K.C.8., whose term of Staff Service has expired. Captain and Brevet-Colonel John Jarvis Bissett, of the Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be Deputy Quartermaster- General to the Forces serving at the Cape of Good Hope, vice Captain and Brevet •Colonel Edward Selby Smyth, 2d Foot, whose term of Staff Service bas expired. PURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT.—Purveyor's Clerk of the First Class John Macfarlane to be Purveyor to the Forces, vice George Pratt, placed on the retired list. BREVET. Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet. Colonel John Lawren son, half-pay Gth Foot, to have the temporary rank of Major-General, while holding the appointment of Inspec tor-General of Cavalry in the United Kingdom. Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget, C. 8., half-pay unattached, to have the temporary rank of Brigadier-General, while in command of a Brigade. Colonel Sir Robert Napier, K.C.8., of the Bengal En gineers, to have the local rank of Major-General in China. Brevet-Major Richard Parke, Royal Marines, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. Captain Mowbray Thomson, 53d Regiment Bengal Na tive Infantry, to be Major in the Army. Captain William Godfrey Rayson Masters, Royal Ma rines, to bo Major in the Army. • The undermentioned promotions to take place consequent on the promotion of Colonel Francis Wards, Royal Ar tillery, to be Major-General, in succession "to Major- Gvneral Henry Charles Russel, Royal Artillery, who died on 7th March, 1860 : Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. Charles Forrest, 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Colonel. Brevet-Major Walter Warde, half-pay Unattached, Staff-Officer of Pensioners, to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Captain Samuel H. S. Inglefield, Royal Artillery, to be Major. The undermentioned promotions to take place under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of the 27th January, 1860 : TO HAVE THE HONORARY RANK OF MAJOR. Captain George Thorne George, Paymaster, 4th Light Dragoons. Paymaster Henry Duberly, Bth Light Dragoons. Paymaster Richard J. Elrington, 10th Light Dragoons. Paymaster James G. H. Holmes, 12th Light Dragoons. Paymaster Edmund Bentley Frith, 13th Light Dragoons. Paymaster Wm. Featherstonhaugh, 14th Light Dragoons. Paymaster Blayney Townly Walshe, 15th Light Dragoons. Paymaster George Frederick Rosser, 16th Light Dragoons. Paymaster William John Bampfleld, Ist Foot. Paymaster Oliver Nicolls, 2d Foot. Paymaster John Cornes, 18th Foot. Paymaster William Brumell, 25th Foot. Paymaster John Mills Rawson, 35th Foot. Paymaster Henry Seymour Michell, 49th Foot. Paymaster Mark Matthews, 57th Foot. Paymaster Francis Levett Bennett, 59th Foot. Paymaster James Howes, 64th Foot. Paymaster John Williams Marshall, 65th Foot. Paymaster Rowland Webster; 72d Foot. Paymaster David Francis Chambers, 75th Foot. Paymaster William Frederick Nixon, 81st Foot. Paymaster John Dennis Swinburne, 83d Foot. Paymaster Charles Fade Heatly, 86th Foot. Paymaster Stephen Blake, 93d Foot. Paymaster Luke Fitzgerald Bernard, Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment. Paymaster Vincenzo Rizzo, Royal Malta Fencible Regt. Paymaster Edward George Cubitt, Cavalry Depot. Paymaster John Stephenson, Cavalry Depot. Paymaster Ed win Griffiths, Depot Battalion. Paymaster Francis Feneran, Depot Battalion. Paymaster Hugh Somerville S. Burney, Depot Battalion. Paymaster John Wheatley, Depot Battalion. Paymaster Julius Brockman Travers, Depot Battalion. Paymaster Charles Boyse Roche, Depot Battalion. Paymaster Thomas Miller Creagh, Depot Battalion. Paymaster George Thomas Benson, Depot Battalion. Paymaster George Pott Erskine, Depot Battalion. Paymaster Stephen Lawson, Depot Battalion. Paymaster Ernest Augustus Hawker, Depot Battalion. Paymaster Morris R. Campbell, Depot Battalion. Paymaster Robert Thomas Browne Boyd, Depot Batts ' lion. Paymaster Alexis Corcoran, Detachments, at Portsmouth. Captain Charles Scarlin Naylor, Paymaster Convalescent Establishment, Yarmouth. Paymaster John 11. Matthews, Invalid Depot, Chatham. Paymaster John M. Kennedy, Invalid Depot, Chatham. Captain Henry B. Adams, Paymaster, Recruiting District. Paymaster Charles H. Pierse, Recruiting District. Paymaster Charles J. Furlong, Recruiting District. • Paymaster James Robinson, Recruiting District. Paymaster Robert Collins Craigie, Recruiting District. TO HAVE THE HONORARY RANK OF CAPTAIN. Paymaster John B;ggs, 4th Dragoon Guards. Paymaster Charles Sewell, 6th Dragoon Guards. Paymaster Henry Dixon, Ist Dragoons. Paymaster William Archibald Kidd, Royal Artillery. Paymaster Francis Edwin Maunsell, 4th Foot. Paymaster Frederick Blanco Forster, sth Foot. Paymaster Graham Egerton Huddleston, Bth Foot. Paymaster Andrew Sievwright, 9th Foot. Paymaster William Macdonnell, 14th Foot. Paymaster Richard Milbank Tilghman, 15th Foot. Paymaster John Matthew Gibbs, 20th Foot. Paymaster Thomas Smith, 25th Foot. *Paymaster James Twibill, 38th Foot. Paymaster Samuel Benison, 39th Foot. Paymaster John David Blythe, 45th Foot. Paymaster Henry William Sibley, 46th Foot. Paymaster John Nowlan, 50th Foot. Paymaster Francis William Fellows, 52d Foot. Paymaster William Marriott, 54th oot. Paymaster Francis Fitzpatrick, 60th Foot. Paymaster John Andrew Pope, 67th Foot. Paymaster Robert Smyth, 69th Foot. Paymaster Michael Thompson, 70th Foot. Paymaster Joseph Cartmail, 71st Foot. Paymaster Robert Thomas Hearn, 76th Foot. Paymaster William Fortescue Scott, 77th Foot. Paymaster Joseph Webster, 78th Foot. Paymaster Robert Scott, 89th Foot. Paymaster Henry Leigh, 98th Foot. Paymaster John Edward Large, Rifle Brigade. Paymaster Michael William Lade Coast, Rifle Brigade.' Paymaster Henry Dudley, Ceylon Rifles. isi;yinaster John Gregory Gurney, Cape Monn: Paymaster Daniel Bartlett, Recruiting District. Paymaster Edward M‘Mullin, Recruiting District. Paymaster Samuel Williams, Depot Battalion. Paymaster George Budle, Depot Battalion. Paymaster Alexander Fair, Depet Battalion. * The promotion 9i Paymaster JAMS Twibill, 38th F9O/ NPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.-THURSDAY. A few members dropped in in the course of the afternoon, and one or two bets were made. 500 to 30 was booked about Odo for the City and Suburban. The owner of Sa tellite took 30 to 1 each about his horse and Odo for the Chester Cup. For the Two Thousand, 250 to 100 was taken about Buccaneer, and an offer was made to take 600 to 400 that Wizard beats him. An offer was also made to take 200 to 100 about Bro. to Rainbow. The transactions on the Derby comprised 100 to 20 against Restes, 40 to 1 agat Horror, 1,000 to 24 agst King of Diamonds, and 1,000 to 10 agst Sabreur—all taken. GRAND MILITARY AND NORTHAMPTON OPEN STEEPLECHASES. TIURSDAY. Match for 100 soya a side, P.P. Mr. M. Alleyne's The Rector, aged 125 t.... (Mr. Wood) 1 Sir R. De Burghe's Spencer, list (Owner) 2 The Grand Military Gold Cup, value £lOO, added to a sweepstakes of 10 soya each ; 12st each ; the second to save his stake and receive £2O. Three miles. 37 subs. Capt. Anderson's (King's Dragoon Guards) The Hermit (late General Havelock), 12st 61b (Owner) 1 Capt. Lindsay's (4th Light Dragoons) Marmion, 12st (Capt. Cornwallis) 2 Mr. H. Blundell's (Rifle Brigade) Horniblow, 13st (Owner) 3 The following also ran :—Grey Peter, Ganymeds, Cin del ella, and the Count. Betting-7 to 4 agst Ganymede, 4to 1 agst Horniblow, 6 to 1 agst Hermit, 7 to 1 agst Grey Peter, 8 to 1 agst Rattler. Ganymede showed the way, and Hermit and Peg Top were in his wake. The Hermit came in the winner by ten lengths. A Sweepstakes of 2 soya each, with £9O added. The second received £lO out of the stakes. About three miles. Mr. Ayer's Chance, aged, 13st 71b (Mr. Johnson) 1 Mr. Dickens's Oakball, aged, 13st 71b (Mr. Dickens, jr.) 2 Mr. West's Midnight, aged, 13st 71b .. (Mr. Rolph) 3 The following also ran :—lmperial, Doubtful, Gaylad, Seventy-one, and The Duke. A Sweepstakes of 10 sous each, la ft, with 100 added ; list each. Sir R. De Burghe's (Limerick Militia) The Premier, list 71b Mr. Harvey Talbot's (18th Regiment) Luck's All, list (Mr. Barclay) 2 Mr. H. Blundell's (Rifle Brigade) Busy Bee, list 71b (Owner) 3 Captain Coates' (10th Hussars) The Dodger, list 71b (Mr. Thacker) 4 The following also rin :—Winifred, Clear-the-Way, and Ivanhoe. BETTING ON THE COURSE. TWO THOUSAND. 2to 1 agst Buccaneer DERBY. 9to 1 agst Umpire (taken to £100) 21118 DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. We were again very scantily supplied with English wheat to-day, coastwise and by land carriage. The de mand for all kinds was steady, at fully Monday's currency, at which, however, very few sellers came forward ; hence the business done was trifling. Fine foreign wheats were held at fully is per quarter above Monday's quotations, and the value of all other kinds was freely supported. Floating cargoes were in improved request, at extreme rates. We had an active sale for barley, and prices were well sur ported. There was a great scarcity of fine samples. The malt trade showed signs of improvement, at late rates. ----- The few first oats sold readily, at very full prices. Both beans and peas were quite as dear as on Monday, and flour was held for more money. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English 1,630 ( 1,140 i 2,060 ' 50 60 i 1,340 Irish 1 foreign 430 ! 290 I 240 i 70 sks. I I bls. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. - - - - About average time-of-year supplies of meat are on offer here to-day. Generally speaking, the trade is inactive, as follows : Per Sibs. by the carcase. s. d. r, d: Inferior Beef 2 6 to 2 10 I Mid. d 0..... 3 0 to 3 4 Pm.larsredo. 3 6 to 4 0 Do.smaldo. 4 0 to 4 2 Large pork.. 3 6 to 4 2 Lambs, ss} s. d. s. d. Infr. Mutton. 3 2to 3 6 Mid. do 3 Bto 4 2 i Prime do. 42to 4 4 Veal 4 oto 4 10 Small pork [4d to 6s 4d. BOROUGH HOP. Most good and fine hops are in steady,. but by no means active request, at full quotations. Low and middling quali ties are very dull, at about nominal currencies. Mid and East Kent pockets-84s to 1478 per owt. Weald of Kent do. 658 to 848 ~ Sussex do. 648 to 80s COLONIAL. TEA..—The market has been exceedingly quiet, and at public sale pri ces d ec li ne d a b out ld. per lb . on a ll descrip tions. StlGAß.—There has been only a moderate demand, and in some qualities prices are a shade lower. In the refined market prices have remained without nominal alteration. COFFEE.—A strong inquiry has been experienced for the better qualities of Plantation Ceylon, and an advance of 6d. per cwt. has been established. Other qualities brought fully late quotations. ItYcE.—The demand has continued brisk, and en fxten sis e busine,3 has been done at tuil values. SALTPETRE.—Rather less animation has been apparent, but no mate, ial change can be recorded in values. TALLOW.—The market 1112 continued very quiet, prices having shown a downward movement. P.Y.C. on the spot, is quoted 575. 6d. , April to June deli very , 55e, 6d.; Nul last three months, 62e, 6d, per cwt, 7'HE ANNE27.I.7'ION OF SAVOY. (Front the Correspondent of the linus.) ANNECY, MARCH 25, EVENING. Here I am, another Jerome Paturot, started fairly in search of the " Savoyard movement." Full of faith, like my prototype, I am by no means discour aged by the little success which attended my re searches in the southern valleys of Savoy, and am now turning my course northward, undaunted by rain and hail and wind and snow, warmed by the hope of finding at last the object of my travels. It is the day of the elections, and the members of Par liament chosen will express the wishes and desires of Savoy, and seal the future fate of their country with their vote. What a solemn moment ! what a responsibility! and what a chance of seeing all this and observing , it on the road! These are the ideas which press themselves on my mind while I look out at the windows of the railway carriage which takes me to Aix-lea-Bains. These ideas make me almost as solemn as if I were myself a Savoyard patriot, and had one of the votes which are to fix the destiny of those mountains and of that reedy lake which I see to the Left, and of those hills, with their vineyards and thatched•roof cottages, which pass quickly to my The train stops; the guard calls out " S'hain s'hain ' and I take my bag and wrapper, resigned to carry them myself, at any rate, from the railway station to the town, as I cannot imagine that any free Savoyard citizen intent on making up his mind what he would like to be in future would find time to attend to an insignificant railway traveller and condescend to carry his bag. I was rather agreeably surprised, however, when I heard that well-known clatter of voices which persecutes you in these regions in summer time, and which I thought had gone with the storks and the swallows. Par ici, monsieur; voulez-vows la diligence ; Voulez-vouz une voiture ; Voulez- vows aller a l'hotel?" and numerous other offers. I happened to be the only promising-looking individual who had ar rived by the train, and was assailed like the un fortunate traveller who gets into a bed in Italy which has not been occupied for a long time. Having authorised the most lively of the corn . petitors to attach himself to my heels, I saun tered towards the town, determined to use my eyes and ears as much as I could during the time a carriage for Annecy was getting ready. The disappointment I felt at the shockingly thoughtless manner in which so many free citizens could behave on so solemn a day gave way some what when, looking through the row of poplars to wards the town, I saw a large number of people walking about in the most solemn manner in the main street. There are careless and bad patriots everywhere, but they are only a minority in this good town of Aix. This I thought, but not long, for I was undeceived the next instant. May be they took me for their new sous-prefet, my Inver ness wrapper for my uniform, and my umbrella for the visible sign of my dignity; at any rate their solemnity was considerably disturbed by my ap pearance. I was decidedly more interesting in their eyes than French annexation or Sardinian separa tion ; they seemed to look eagerly in order to dis cover whether I had the intention and the means of spending certain pieces of cent-sous. I was a god send in this unprofitable winter time; every one seemed to have forgotten separation and annexa tion, only to find out whether I could separate some loose piece of silver from my pocket and annex it his. It was distressing. I asked about th e i r sen timents, and they ask e me whether I wished to dine. I asked about their candidate, and they asked me whether I wished to see the Roman re mains. Had my faith not been strong I would have returned immediately to Chambery ; as it was, I philosophised on the demoralising influence of foreign gold on the simple, unsophisticated minds of these happy valleys, wrapped myself up in my cloak, and ascended the cart which was waiting to carry me to more primitive regions. We jogged along the muddy road and toiled up the heights of La Biolle, the only changes of inte rest being the alternation between rain, hail, and sunshine, and here and there a person passing on the road. We had to halt on the top, and were soon in the midst of badauds, whom the extraor dinary event of a traveller at this time of the year attracted. Most of them looked so respectable in their jeekets and wide-awakes that I plucked up courage and asked them about their candidate, and whether he had been elected. "111 - a foi ! we can not tell," said the spokesman ; " the weather has been so bad that we did not go down to know what the people in the town have done." I consoled my self again by thinking that here the people are again too primitive; and, the horses havin g got their breath again, on w e j o lt e d on th e high road towards Albens and the Capo del Mandamento. Here there was quite a crowd in the street near the post and the tobacco shop, a solitary gendarme (a Piedmontese) being the most prominent figure. I stopped at the inn and ordered some wine for the coachman, and asked for the news. " You must know that, sir, better than we do ; they say the French are at Chambery." " Well, how do you like the change ?" I asked. A grin was the answer, accompanied by the words, " It is not us poor people that they will ask whether we are pleased or not." " Fouttez cocker," was the involuntary answer of a disappointed enthusiast, and soon we galloped down the steep road and across the steep bridge into the picturesque little village of Alby, where we changed horses.. Indefatigable, like my prototype Jerome, I again returned to the charge, and engaged in conversation with the idlers which the Sunday afternoon had collected before the Auberge du Pont Neuf. I might just as well have asked the one-eyed, noseless cretin, who tried with all his might to attach the horses to the carriage; he would have under stood my questions equally as well as his more pro mising compatriots. I was fairly discouraged, and had it not been for an opportune snowstorm, which diverted my atten tion from the great subject of the Savoyard move ment, I should have considered myself fairly beaten. As it was, the movement in the skies revived my energies, and giving up questioning poor, ignorant peasants, I resolved to take my chance at Annecy, the most active of Savoyard towns, which boasts of a real cotton mill actually at work, of glass and paper manufactures, and of coal mines in the neigh bourhood. It was still daylight when I saw some very respectable tall chimneys, which I greeted like old friends whom one has not seen for some time. Nor was my expectation disappointed. There were deci4dly more traces of a movement than anywhere else, not excepting Chambery, and my object was to find some movement or other—whe ther French, Sardinian, Swiss, or any other, no matter. As every one was full of the thing there was no difficulty in getting them to talk. The first thing I heard were complaints about the Piedmon tese Government, which, intent on an Italian po licy, had forgotten altogether its most ancient here ditary possessions, only to remember them when it wanted men and money. Very little if any of this latter was spent for the country. The railway branch to Annecy, so long promised, was not even begun, and all the articles of manufacture had to be carried by expensive carriage to Aix, in order to be transported to Piedmont. The Government has thus alienated all feelings of attachment from this its stepchild. It was this which encouraged those who were working in the interest of France. But then," I said, " you must be satisfied now that you will be annexed to France, and have the promise of your railway." "We are ruined, Sir," was the answer ; " our markets for glass are in Piedmont, where they cannot equal us; we have even branch establishments in that country. We can have no pretensions of competing with France, which will be now open to us, and we shall pro bably end by shutting up our establishments. Besides this, we shall have to pay dearer than before for our colonial goods, which we have hitherto received from Geneva." Indeed, in the foresight of coming events, not only dealers but even private persons have made large purchases of these articles lately, to be able to go on at least for a time. " Then you have large dealings with Geneva ?" was my question, to which the answer came : " Geneva exports from 7,000,000 f. to 8,000,000 f. worth of goods into Savoy, chiefly English, German, and Swiss goods." "Then you must desire to be united to Switzerland ?" "No, because it would equally shut us out of our market in Piedmont." " Then, what do you wish ?" "We have given up wishing for anything, as all is now decided, an d the Government has given us up," " But did you not try at least to-day to get a candidate named who represents your views ?" "No ; our own has abandoned us, and is with the deputation in Paris. You see, all these lawyers and the native func tionaries are now on the other side, where they hope for well-paid places and decorations. One has been promised a sous-prefecture ; another the place of prefect ; again, another that of a substitute. It will rain crosses." This is evidently a frondeur. I thought he was connected with the cotton mill. Let us see the revers de la nzedaille. You can find it if you talk to any one connected with the coal mines or the exportation of wood. He will tell you, first, that he is not accustomed to hide his feel ings, and that he is in heart and soul, as well as in language, a Frenchman ; that he is not prepared to submit any longer to the Italian policy of Pied mont, and help to take the chestnuts out of the fire, which another is to ent, that the industry of the country is crippled , that it has no outlet but into Piedmont, where, in consequence of the expense, the raw produce, which is the chief wealth of Savoy, cannot be well taken across the Alps, while there is a good market close at hand into France IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) Lord REDESDNLF., as Deputy-Speaker of the House of Lords, owing to the absence of the Lord Chancellor, took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. CHURCH RATES. The Bishop of LONDON presented a number of petitions against the abolition of church rates. The Bishop of CHICHESTER presented similar peti tions. CONTIGrUOITS BENEFICES The Bishop of LONDON brought in a bill for the union of contig-.7.0us benefices. The bill was read a first time. MARRIAGE LAWS. Lord WODEHOU SE presented petitions from Ashford and other places, in favour of marriage with a deceased wife's sister. PRIVATE BUSINESS. On the motion of the Marquis of BATH, the Wem end Bronygarth Road Bill was read a s:Tend time, and the Torquay Gas Bill was read a third time and passed. DWELLINGS FOR THE WORKING CLASSES (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion for going into committee on the bill, . The Marquis of CLANRICARDE complained of the narrow spirit in which this measure had been regarded by som parties. Ile thought the best way of improving- the condition of the labouring chisses of Ireland was to improve . their dwellings. The Fhriners' Club of Westmeath had petitioned in favour of this bill, which enabled proprietors to borrow loops to improve the dwellings of their tenants. The Miuqui: of tVESTMEATII said the petition that had been referred to as coming from the Farmed' Club of Westmeath was merely the opinion of a single individual. He did not oppose the bill going into committee, but he had very great doubt whether the bill would carry out the idea of its promoters. The Duke of NEWCASTLE said he had been origi nally- in favour of the object of this measure, but after having had an interview with Sir R. Griffiths, and making an examination of certain documents in the possession of the Government, he thought the subject could best be dealt with by the Treasury. Lord REDESDALE said the object of the bill was to grant permission to landlords to raise money for a new class of improvements oa their estates. fie thought Par liament was just as able to deal with the question as the Treasury. After a few words from the Earl of IVIcKLow and Vis count DuNGANsox, The house went into committee. The whole of the clauses were agreed to, and,the bill was reported without amendments. On the motion that the report be received, Lord REDESDALE moved the insertion of a clause for the purpose of providing a means of controlling the expenditure of the loans obtained tinder the bill. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE objected to the addi tional clause. After a short conversation the house divided, when the numbers were— Content Not content Majority —2 The clauses were then agreed to, and the bill as amended passed through committee. MARRIAGES (EXTRA : PAROCHIAL PLACES) BILL On the motion of Lord WENSLEYDALE, this bill was read a second time. EXEMPTION OF YEOMANRY CAVALRY FROM HORSE DUTY. The Earl of CARNARVON asked whether it was the intention of the Govern ment to exemptthe yeomanry cavalry from the payment of this duty during the present year ? Earl DE GREY and RIPON said he was happy to tell his noble friend that the Government had decided upon ex empting the yeomanry cavalry from the payment of horse duty. (Hear.) He might also tell his noble friend that the act of Parliament which exempted them applied also to those of that force who had joined the volunteer corps. It only remained for him to add that the duty so taken off would apply also to the mounted volunteer rifle corps. INDIAN FINANCE. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH wished to ask the noble duke opposite whether he was officially in possession of a speech of Mr. Wilson, in which he gave an exposition of the financial position of India, and if the Government were in possession of that document it was desirable it should be laid on the table. That speech was no doubt one of sin gular ability, and undoubtedly explained in a true manner the former and the present state of the finances of India. The appendices, however, attached to it were not so com plete as they could wish, inasmuch as while giving the ex penditure of the country they totally omitted the receipts. They gave an account of the deficit and surplus, but not the revenue, and that in his opinion should be supplied. There ought also to be given an account of the balances in the hands of the Government in the various treesuries of India. He was inclined to think that over a considerable number of balances the Government had no control whatever ; indeed he knew one, amounting to half a million, paid in under the head of prize -money. He proposed to move for a return showing the manner in which this money had been appro priated. The amount of revenue and expenditure, as given by Mr. Wilson—and after deducting all charges —was £30,000,000. Knowing that was the case, and comparing that with the condition is which the revenue stood in 1857, when tir receipts and expenditure were equal, there was ground for sanguine hopes—especially when the iaterest of the public debt at home amounted to one-third of the whole, while in India it was one-sixth. Therefore it would seem that India was one of the lightest taxed countries in the world, and thalleast indebted. Nr. "Wilson proposed to equalise the income and expenditure, and his (Lord Ellen• borough's) impression had always been that the only true foundation for the administration of the finances of India was to be found in the thorough reconciliation between the Government and the people. He did not, however, think that any progress had been made towards that result; for, instead of adopting any novelties of finance, Mr. Wilson proposed the most antiquated notions en the subject. He proposed a gradual taxation in the shape of income tax, to which every artisan in the country was to be subject, and that was a measure which would not be satisfactory. Then, again, to render their unpopularity still greater, they put a duty on tobacco. It was stated that he intended to levy the income tax on all classes in India. But he felt confident that was an oversight, and that he had no intention of ap plying that tax to the non-commissioned officers and pri vates of the army. He admitted that a tax of this kind would be extremely advantageous, provided there was any hope of making the people believe that it was thorcughly honest—and if there existed in that country the means of making the assessment of the tax and the collection of it really just. The zassaindars in the settled provinces would believe that they ought not to be subject to it, and however much equity and common sense might be on our side, they would not think that we were acting justly towards them, and would endeavour to throw the tax on the under tenants in order to save them selves. He was afraid the tax would fail, from the impos sibility of finding the requisite machinery in India to carry it out, and that the result would be a constant conflict be tween extortion on the ono side and fraud on the other, whilst there was no trustworthy tribunal to decide between them. Bat he considered the expressions used by Mr. Wilson with regard to the army were still more dangerous than the taxes he imposed. The noble lord here read an extract from Mr. Wilson's speech, in which he spoke of the native army of India as being, if not a standing menace, at least a standing source of apprehension to all their states men—a kind of Frankenstein, of which they spoke with bated breath, but which had now committed suicide. The local and the European army, he added, were also gone. Now, at the very time Mr. Wilson used this language, the real state of the Indian army was this. It was true that 10,000 had taken their discharge, without, he believed, much previous reflection or consideration. An incautious expres sion which fell from the noble lord at the head of the Go vernment, to get rid, he believed, of an inconvenient sug gestion, was taken advantage of by those soldiers to demand their discharge ; and unfortunately the Government did not take any reasonable steps till it was too late to remove the delusion ander which they laboured., They were told at first that their claims were inadmissible, till at last, alarmed, he supposed, by the position in which they found the army, they yielded those claims. But at the time when Mr. Wilson said that the army was gone there were 12,000 European troops in India, 6,000 of whom were artillery ; and every person who was acquainted with India knew that no artillery in the world was superior to the artillery of the Indian army. (Hear, hear.) In addition to these 12,000 men, 3,500 others were about to arrive, or had ee -1 tually arrived in India ; so that of this army, which was de scribed as non-existent, there were over 15,000 in India, one-half of whom were artillery. Now, as it was upon the loyalty and bravery of these men that their rule in India depended, the high authorities in India ought to be a little better instructed with regard to them. The re remarks of Mr. Wilson applied to the whole army. There was no exception made. The armies of the Madras and Bombay presidencies, which were " faithful amongst the faithless found," and who fought by their side in all the great battles of India, were included in the general censure. The sepoy army of which Mr. Wilson spoke in such dispa ragement were little short of 200,000 men at the very time he said they were gone. His sweeping censure reflected upon those 200,000 men who fought by their side,andcontri buted to that very tranquillity which, as Mr. Wilson ad d t i h s t e r i b m u e t rn ans o o f f theimposing freshin i ad mitted, d b , ur a fi d e e r n d s e o d n T h e e Gp people. m T e h n e t of the disbanded regiments showed the real utility of the se w o hi ffic ch ers l : l 2 r 7 . s W w il e s r o e n em se p e l m oy e e d d al in to s g i e t t u h a e t r ion to s nativedespise. local cf army the which had regard to the civil g overnment of the country ; 1.15 in political and civil situations ; 6 4 in the police force, 58 in the commissariat and staff, and 38 in public works. There were altogether 372 of these officers employed in offi ces of a civil character in Bengal, and in Madras and Bom bay the number so employed was probably of an equal amount ; so that there were about 800 of these officers em ployed in the performance of civil duties. He believed that no persons could be found to whom civil duties in India could be so advantageously entrusted as the officers of the native army. They felt that their lot was cast with the people, and that it was only by good conduct and good ma nagement that they could hope to recommend themselves to the favour of the Government, whereas the officers of her Majesty considered themselves as strangers in the land, and • always looked back to this country. If they dispensed with the local army he believed it would be difficult to find officers to supply the places of these men. There was another consideration which weighed very much on his mind in reflecting upon this subject. In India there were no persons who looked with jealousy on the army. There was no resource for the Indian army except in the army itself ; and on its organisation, and discipline, and obedience, they must depend, between the Queen's army a U I 2