The Sun. — London, England, 1860-05-16 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Rather more activity and firmness are exhibited in the general Money Market, which may be attri buted to the ordinary requirements of trade, and the demand which has arisen on account ofjoint stock enterprise. In addition to several heavy railway calls recently completed, two or three new companies have been brought forward, and as their prospects appear satisfactory the public have subscribed to a large extent. The discount market, therefore, pre sents a less easy appearance, although at the cur rent rates, which are now scarcely below the Bank minimum, the mercantile classes are enabled to obtain the accommodation necessary for the active promotion of trade. The exportation of specie to the Continent con tinues moderate, and should further receipts of Australian gold be speedily announced, they will probably flow into the Bank of England vaults, Where an important accumulation has already taken place. The present value of the metal in Paris is 2 -10ths per cent. cheaper than in England, and under these circumstances shipments in that direc tion are not likely to be immediately resumed. silver continues in moderate request, and the quota tions appear a shade firmer, the supplies brought by the West India steamer having been sold at an advance of id. per oz. standard compared with the prices realised for the previous consignments. In the present position of the New York ex changes a profit is derived from the transmission of specie in Europe, especially to France, and small remittances are now conveyed by almost every steamer. A small quantity of gold, viz., £5,000, was sent into the Bank of England yesterday. The Jessie Boyle has arrived this morning, from Australia, with £34,000 in specie. The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon ex hibite d a decided advance in the rates on Vienna and Trieste. In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday busi ness was rather inactive, but prices were without any rnaterial variation. The sales were 6,000 bales. The quarterly sales of indigo which commenced on th.e Bth inst. were brought to a conclusion yes terday; about 8,820 chests of various descriptions were offered. There was a very limited attend ance of buyers, both home and foreign, and the biddings were dull, except for the good and useful qualities, which reached an advance of 2d. to 3d. per lb.. on the rates current in February last ; or. dinary and inferior qualities went at a reduction of 3a. per lb. Top-day the following railway calls are due, viz. : --Lt, per share, amounting to £50,000, on the Metropolitan ; £2 10s., or £17,000, on the Monk land New Shares ; £2 10s. on the Portadown and Dun Bannon Extension ; and £5 on the 6 per Cent. Prel 'erence Although the transactions in the English Stock Mar ket are limited, the tendency of quotations con tinu. es unfavourable, principally in consequence of the advices from the continent, and the steady de cilia. e in the French Funds. Consols are now quoted 9 , 4 for transfer, and 95 for the account. There is still a large supply of money stock. The New Threes per Cents, and the Reduced are steady at 931 ; Indian New Loan is firm at 1061; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper has receded to 93; ditto Bonds are flat .at 13s. to Bs. dis., and Exchequer Bills at 3s. to Os. prem. Business in the Foreign Stock Market this morn ing has been exceedingly inactive, and prices have continined depressed. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 751 to 76 ; ditto New, 591- to 60; Buenos Ayres 6 per Cents. are flat at 851-; Brazilian 41 per Cents. remain at 901 ; but Peruvian, Uribarren, are firm at 83. The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 21- prem. ; the Thames and Mersey ditto, 12- I prem. ; and the Universal ditto, 4+ prem. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been to a fair extent, and some of the principal lines at first exhibited more firmness. Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, Midland, South-Eastern, and Great Northern A Stock advanced ss. ; Bristol and Exeter, South-Western, and North-Eastern (Ber wick), 10s. North-Western have declined 55., and Great Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire, 10s. A general heaviness, however, is now apparent. The Foreign and Colonial Markets have shown little variation of importance. South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian are flat, at 12k, ; Pernam buco realise 11Z, 1 ; Buenos Ayres and San Fer nando, 61-; East Indian, Mt; and Great Western of Canada have declined to 121. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are inactive, and realise barely previous quotations. BRITISH FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 3 pea. Cent. Red uce d A nnu i t i es 93a a 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities Anuies, yrys 30 rs, expire sthlBBo — Dit n to f or 3 0 , expire sth April, 1885 l7 7-16 India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. — Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Debentures, 1858 — Ditto 1859 96/ / Ditto Bonds £l,OOO Ditto under £l,OOO l2 13 Consols for Account (6th June) Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid Ditto Small .. 6 4 p FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Braoilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent. 1858 9Ol Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent Mexican 3 per Cent — Ditto Account Peruvian 41 per Cent. Account 92 Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent. Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St — Ditto 4} per Cent. Spanish 3 per Cent. .. — Ditto New Deferred 3 per Cent Account 36/ Turkish 6 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Account THRUE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Juno Account It was stated yesterday that a clerk in the Union Bank was supposed to have become acquainted with the fact more than a year ago that Pullinger was engaged in speculations. It now appears that this clerk saw enough to render him watchful, and that he was the person through whom the discovery of the fraud was finally effected. It is stated that after the departure from Sydney of the last Australian mail, a telegram five days later was despatched to catch the steamer at Adelaide, and to report the suspension of two large and old established houses, —Messrs. David Jones and Co., and Messrs. Thompson, Symonds, and Co. Their liabilities are believed to lie prin cipally in England, and are thought likely to amount to £250,000. It was feared that others would follow. Messrs. David Jones and Co. are wholesale drapery importers, and Thompson, Symonds, and Co. connected with them. The decree for the reduction of the French sugar duties is to come into operation to-dsy. The alteration has not caused any change in prices in France, as the dealers hold large stocks, especially the Mauritius kinds. CATTLE KILLED BY LICKING PAINT.—Last week two short-horn butts, about 16 months old, in al o o r t a Moo r Farm, 25, th e property Mr. Thomas Clarke, upon New Farm, Southminster, were seized with frothing at the vaouth, affection of the brain, and other symptoms, from which one died the nex t d a y and the other wes necessarily killed. Mr. Howe, veterinary surgeon on hearing from the sh e ph er d that the animals had licked ' some lead-coloured paint from off a part of the buildings, immediately pro nounced it to have occasioned the attack, and on post mortem examination tho mortal effects of the poison were clearly developed. —Essex Herald. THE LATE - MYSTERIOUS FIRE IN REDCROSS STILEET, CRIP PLEGATE.—Yesterday Mr. Sergeant Payne resumed, for the third time, the official inquiry respecting the circumstances attending the outbreak of the late exten sive conflagration in Redeross-street, Cripplegate. The jury, after a visit of inspection to the ruins, for the purpose more particularly of examining the salvage, proceeded to hear further evidence, and then returned the following ver dict :—" We beliovo that the fire commenced on the premises of Messrs. Johnson and Gilman, but there does not appear sufficient evidenc e t o prove how it orioinated but the evi dence we have received appears to be very suspicious. In deed, we do not b e li eve there was near the n u t of stock On the premises at that ti me which has beenc amount by the various witnesses." THE PRICE OF GOLD. —The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 25.12} per LI sterling. On co mpar i ng these rates with the English Mint par, £3 17s. 10Id. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4211 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13 31 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is therefore nearly at about the same price in London as in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 109% per cent., which, when compared with the Mint par between the two countries, s hows that the exc h ange i s aga i ns t E ng l and. But, after making allow ance f or c h arges o f transport and difference of interest, the present rate leaves no profit on the trans raissio4 of gold petwoe 4 the two countries, iden nned r and ainty Df his : the vs by s the have er:— SHARE MARKET-(TBIS DAY.) Share Railways. Amberg.,Notting., Bost. and Eastern Junction Belfast and Ballymena Bir., Wol , and Str. Val. Birk., La., and Ch June Blackburn Bly th and Tyne Bost. Shef. and Mid. Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carmarthen & Cardigan Cork and Bandon cork, lilrock., &Passage Cornwall Do A ( A .gets no div. , until 6 pc pent]. Do B r hasbeen pd. toB IDublin & Belfast June. 'Dun., Perth, &Ab. June. East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A stock Do do B do Do Nw A. late EU3ds East Suffolk Do Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. Perth, & Dundee Forth t Clyde Junction Furness Glasg. and S. Western Great Nthn. of Scotland Great Northern Do do A stock ro do B do Gt. S. & W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Irish South-eastern Lancashire & Yorkshir London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.. & S Coast Lond., Chat., and Dover Lond. &Nth. Western Do eighths Lend. & sth. Western L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Ennistu Man. Steel. & Linnobs Maryport and Carlisle Do do 1 shares Metropolitan Midland Do firming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Doi shares Mid Kent ..... Do, Cray Line . . Newcastle and C trlisle New., Aber. & Iferefd.. Newry & Armagh, def.. ,Newry, Warnpt. & Ros. N ten. Counties Union .. North British. . Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stoc' D •A stk ; A recs no d. until 6pchas beenpd.B Do B stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do do , G.N.E. purchase 1 Do Leeds .. Do York North London North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Oxf. Wor. & Wolverptn Peebles ...... . Portsmouth Rhymtry. . 13.14 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock Itock 78 79 314 32 99 101 124 stock stock 124 10 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 25 stock stock stoct stock stock stock stock stock 10 stock stock stock stock stock stock 12 10 stock - stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 14 16 Scottish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shropshire Union Sittincbourne & Sheer South Devon South Eastern .... South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok,. and Wok Stockton & Darlington Do do Stockton & Hartlepool Taff Vale Do Pref. No 1 ThamesHavenlk&Rail Ulster D 0....... .......... Vale of Neath Victoria Sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny Waterford & Limerick West Carnwall West London Do let class Do 2nd class Worcester &Hereford all all all all all ' 11 54 6 2 1 d ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 61 61 8 84 70 72 114 124 61 74 103 104 9 i 90/ 6} 7 8 9 17 18 54 55 36 38 25 27 115 k 116 k 116 117 131 133 113 114 685 69 60 65 1031 103 69 6.4 113 114 11 12 100 i 101 id p 92 93 104 11 41} 42 24 2 d 117 1174 94 96 101 111 7 6dl 54 56 34 3d 614 611 103 j 4 5411 i 4 31j i 118 117 132* CBl S 951 lf r 1 51} 511 791 80t 100 108 31 3jd 91 91 44 46 1171 i 115 117 3443.5} 88 90 48 50 4 3d 42 44 86 801 66 68 76 80 8 8 39 43 Si 9 pi 54} 1 61! a 9 4 I i i 511 I 80 4 i i 551 561 2. 3/p 57 d 59 10 11 Paid. Closing I Business Price. Done. 104 31 70 114 11/ 1011 1 1001 021 3 2* 80aii6i 12.10 PREFERENCE SHARES. Share! Railways. Blythe and Tyne 10 per c. prei (issued at £5O Brie. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock Do. do. do. Shares stock 12.10 Caloion £lO, 41 per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. Cornwall. 5 per cent... Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun.. E.Anzn.Class A 7 &sp.c. Do. do. Class B fi p.C.... Do. do. Class C 7 p.c.... E. Coun. Ex. 5 p. c. No. I Do. do. No. 2 Do. New 6 per ct. stock. Eastern Union, 4 per ct. Do. 5 pdr cPnt. guar... lEdin.&Glas. sp.c. shares Do. 4 p. c. eua. S. & D. Edin. Pertht Dun. 4 p.c. Furness, 5 per cent !Glas.A S. West.g.a. 5 p.c 'Great Northern, 5 p. ct Do.sp.c.Redm., 10 p.c.pm Do. 41 p. c. do. do. Do. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm Gt. Nh. of Scotld. Ist IA 1 G t.Sn. A W (Ireland) .1 p. ct. pref. stock ,Great West. (Berks and Hants) Ext. 5 p. ct. Do. Redeemable, 41 p.ct. Do. Redeemable, 4 p. ct. Do. Irredeemable, do Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref Do. Birm. Pref. Shares. Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf. sh. Do dcs p. ct. pref Do Birm2'..guar. stock Do. Chester gua. shares Do. do. do. Do. do. do. Lan:kYork fi p. c. stock Do.Barnsl.st£s 3s 10d pc Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) Lon.k Brig. 5 pc.gu. No 1 Do. 5 p. c No. 2 Do. gua. 6 p. c. Do. do. 5 p.c. No. 4 Do. do. 41 per cen' - . Do. do. 9/ p. c. shares Do. 7 p. ct. Pref. stock Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.AC.P ) Do.4p.c.S.(div.dettil '65) Lon. Chat, and Dover Lon. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, 5 p. ct Lon. k S.W, 7 p. ct. stock Londondy. k Cole. 1 sh. Londony. A Ennis. 1 sh. Man. Sh. &Lin. 6 per ct. Do. £6 Do. 34 per cent Do. redeem. 6 percent Mary( ort k Car., 4 p. c Do. 41 per cent. Mid. Con. 6 p. c. stock Do.Con.Bris. A Bir. 6 p.c Do. 41 p. c. pref. stock Do. with option tilllB6o Do. Leic. A Hit. pref. st. ' Newport, A ber. Ac.pref. 5 p.c.redeem.at 5 p.c.pm. Do. Perpet 6 p. c. with option till 1866 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 124 124 stock 6 stock i2i 124- stock stock stock 6 stock 10 12 10 12i stock stock stock stock stock 10 1 10 stock stock stock stock stock stock 8k stock stock stock 10s. 1.0.6 stock stock stock stock stock stock Do. till 1869 Ist is. _ , Do. do. 2d i 4. Norflk 5 p. c. Ex. st. 1846 Do. 5§ p. c. Pref. do. 1847 Do.sWay.Val.Ex.st:*3l7 North British, 5 p. c. Do. New, gua. 5 p. c Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. shs Do. do. do., Nth.Dev.TZ ail. h Dck.Co. N-East.Cons.Pref. 4 p.c. Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. Do. do. do Do. Leeds, 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, 11. & S. Purch North Staffordshire Ox.Wr.Wol. 6 p. c. Ist g Do. Redeem. 2d gua 1)o. Irredeem. 2d fr,uu Rhymney Guaranteed Scottish Central, new pf Scottish North-Eastern p. e. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c Do. 7 p. C. pref. stock South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 43. per cent. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 4,} per cent Do. Fixed a p.c. Ist is =oath Wales, gua. 4 p. c Do. 4i per cent S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. c. „clue. Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B 6 per cent Do. C 6 per cent Watrfd & Kilkny, 6 p. c Closing Business Paid. Price. Done. 96 98 [ol 103 5/ 61 00 102 10 114 10 113 10 112 08 110 24 126 81 83 110 112 90 92 754 764 18 120 [l7 119 ,11 112 [O3 105 85 87 all }lOO 97 99 99 100 88 90 00 92 102 104 91 101- 17 18 10 101 74 76 19r 20 91- 10} 14 1 . 15 138 140 [l6 118 [l6 118 [3B 143 [l6 118 [Ol 103 54 157 [32 136 68 70 2L 22 15 117 52i 1571 12 12i ,25 127 I 68 70 P P 139 141 101 103 94 1 96 lip 9i 10i In 121 all 100 100 100 all all .10 111 ~ ~ p 1401 02 94 964 974 1 1 d j d 10)1 221 231 ' 124 126 119 121 100 100 100 all all 73 75 10 10i 23 235 101 103 101 103 89 91 99 101 85 88 28 29 324 334 32 33 50 53 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. Bedford and Illetchler Buckinghamshire .... Chester & Holyhead.. Do. do. 54 per cent. Do. do. 5 per cent. Clydesdale Junction.; Colchester, Stour Val. E.l.lncolnshlre,g.6 p.c. , T.lTnion,Harwich Shs Do. Woodbridge Gls.Barn&Neils,Drct. Do. New Gloster. Dean Forest Ilartlpool.Dek.& Rail. Hull an qSelby -- Do. 1., Shares; Do. 1- Shares Lanc.& Carl. gua.s p.c. London .. Greenwich Do. Preference Lon.,Tilby.& Soutend. Lowestoft, gu a. 4 p.ct. Do. 6 per cent.... • . • • Manc.,Buxtn. d Matk. Mid. Bradford Prefer-, owe Stock .... • ! 100 Newmarkt.,BuryEx 1 6. 5. 6 guaranteed 5 p. c. Nortlin.& Eastn. 5 p.c. all Do. do. 6 per cent all Do. Fixed 5 per unt all North Western ' all Preston and Wyre. all Do. i Stares A. all Iloystn.llitch.•& Shep 100 Shrewsbry& Hereford 100 Do. Do. ; 1 South Staffordshire .. all M'Clean Wilts and Somerset..' 100 Gt. West. Wimbledon & Croydn. all L.& Brett Midland E.Counts Do. Do. Do. Midland LA. NW fi L.Yk. Do. Gt.Nerth T.Brasey DOCKS. Share stock stock stock stock stock stock stock Do~l:e. 'Commercial lOO Do. 4 per Cent.Pret:Min lOO iEast and West Indies lOO London lOO St. Katharine lOO Southampton lOO Victoria 0 ). New "i 2 Paid.' Leasin g Closing Business Co.'s. 1 I Price. Done. all Ln &N.W 100 Ln&N.W .97 99 100 Do. ' 511 51 100 Do 125 127 100 Do. 113 115 100 Caledonin 103 105 all E.I.T.&E C 16 17 100 Gt.'North. 138 140 all E.Counts.. 41 4/ 100 100 Caledonin 100 Do. . • all Gt. NVes . t. all Yk.N.&Br all Yk.N. 31d. 1 all Do. all Do. 100 Ln.i . /4Ni 100 S. East 100 Do. 100 Peto & Co. 100 R4rfollc 100 Do. all IL NW&3I 2061 Business Done. !OLONIAL GOVER: ,Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. z July Do. 6p. cent. 1850 Do. 6p. cent. 1881 Do. 6p. cent. 1882 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug. Do. 6 p. c. Mar. & Sept. Do. 5 per cent Do. Scrip N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July Do. 6p. c. Ap. & Oct. N. S. W. Gov. 5 p. c., 1866 Do. 5 p. c., 1871 to 1876 1 Do. 5 p.c.,1888 & upwde, Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. o I sterling, 1875 S.Aus.Gt. 6 p.c.1878 & up ie. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July, Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct.' 100 100 100 100 100 MISCELLANE Anglo-Mexican Mint Atlantic Tel. (Limited) Australian Agriculturali Berlin Water (Limited), British American Land . B.&l.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim.) D0.11,7p.c.ti111852 (Lim.) Do. C. (Limited) Canada Land Chan.lslands Tel. (Lim.) l Cop. Min.ofEng.&Suiltg.l Do. Pret: 71 per cent. Crystal Palace Do. Preference D0..5 p. c. Perpet. Deben Electric Telegraph Do. New English & Aus. Copper Gen. Steam Navigation Great Ship (Limited) Do. 17. p. ct. Preference, Indian & Aust. T e l egr. l Lon. District Tel. (Lim.) l London Discount (Lim.), L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) , Madras Irr. and Canal Mediter. Electric Telep„ 1 Med. Exton. Tel. (Um ); National Die. Co. (Lim ' Nerbn.Coal&lron Netherlands Land I Do.S p.c. Pref..iss.at 1 dis 1 N. Br.&NovaSootiaLand N. B.Australasian (Lim.)' Oriental Gas (Limited). Do. New Shares (Lim.) . Orintl.ln.Steam(Litn.)A Ditto B. Ditto C • Peellt.l.nd,&Min.(l.hn ) Pen. & Oriental Steam Do. New RedSea&lnd.Tel.g. , lipm Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austin. Inv. (Lim ) South Australian Land! Submarine Tel. Scrip Do. do. lt%gistered Tr. & Ln. Co.ofHpr.Can. Vau Dicmen's Laud 100 all all all 5 28} :110 112 205 208 63 65 115 120 ,9f 97 4 31 95 97 * 1 P, 56 58 14} 15 05 138 'lO2 104 loi 11 P 9! 94 74 84, Paid., Crloriscien.g 6 1 28 .2 .61 THE ! . SUN, LONDON; WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1860. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Share Railways. Paid ' Closing Frice. Business done 106 Atlantic &St Lawrence all 87 om.,Baroda&.Cent Ind stk B 100 961 97 9 6 4 7 Gu. 5 psr cent. 18 Do, Do. B 131 d 4 d 204 Buffalo and Lake lluron all 41 51d 201 Do. New 10 Do. Preference 100 I Butfalo,Brant&Go drich 100 75 80 6 p. et. lids. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 70 75 100 Do. do. June 1, 1874 100 (18 73 5 Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (LBW 1. 30. 4 d 20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) 2s. 20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 35. 1 11 d 20 Ceylon Gnarantd. 6p. c. 71 11 d 171 Demerara.. 20 Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 5 1 1d 41 stock East Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 101} 1011 1014 } 20 Do. F Shares Ext..... 10 d it p 4 20 Do. Jubbulpore lO d p 100 Do. 41 pc. Debentrs all 981 991 99} stock Do. sp. c. Deb:, 1864 all 1001 1011 1014 20 Geelong & Melbourne all 21 22 sto. Geelong Corporation 6 100 per cent. Bonds stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 33 33 331' 3 100 Do. 6 per cent. Pref all 92 93 93 2/ 100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr all 66 68 66 6 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 100 Do. do. 1867 all 69 71 100 Do. do. 1872 all 69 71 691 stock Gt. IndiaPenin.gua.sp.c lOO 99} 94 99 20 Do. New gua. sp. c 6 1 d 3 d 20 Gt. South. of India (Lim) 10 11 lid guaranteed 5 per cent. 201 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 121 131 121 131 13 201 Do. New 100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with all 98 100 spt, till '6O 100 Do. do. '73 till '6O . . all 98 100 100 Do. do. '73 without opt. all 93 100 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 d 0... all 92 94 stock Madras, guar., 41 p. c... 100 88 90 stock Do. do. 5 per cent ... 100 981 991 stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 90 92 20 Do. Fourth do lO 1 4 d 20 Do. d 0..... all stock Melb.Corp. 6p. c. Bnds. 100 Newßrunswick & Canda 20 Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc all 5 7 Class A Capital Share • Do. do. Land do.. 20 Do. do. B Capital d 0... all 5 7 • Do. do. Land do. ...... 20 Oude (Limited) stock Scinde. 100 994 1001 20 Do. Pnnjau.b.. 5 , 10 all 11 d d 4 20 Do. Da. ..... 5 d stock Do. Indus.. St. Flo. ?,,g. 100 941 951 20 St. A ndrews at Quebec A 18 10 Trinidad (Lim.) scrip 1 1 4 d FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 19 Antwerp & Rotterdam all 4) 41 20 Ardennes 20 Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. 7 1 Id 5 Belgian East. Junction all t 1 20 Beziers to Graissessac.. all 10 Buen.Ayres & S Ferndo 2/ 34 4 p 6 Carmeaux Mine & Rail all 21 21 100 Copiabo 10 Ditto Extension 20 Dutch Rhenish 15 51 5 d 20 Eastern of France all 23 24 20 Grand Rus. Guar. 6p. c. 6 20 Do. do. all 20 Great Central of France all 20 Gt. Luxem., Con. abs all 61 71 20 Italian Junction .. 20 Lake Constance & Bale all 20 Lierre & Turnhout 20 Lyons & Geneva 33} Maria Antonia .... 10 Do. New all 20 Namur & Liege l 2221 2 100006 0 PNNRD D I, aftocoo o err: " iiiwtN 6 ssfie:e p eLl4:r . tivyno,caos. Shares of France alrerr4::atleuinsui (F▪ ern.) ene. rf. alaa a 2llll l _ l 5l 338 1 18 9 14 1 3: 1 534 9 939 1 p 20 gua. 7p. ct. Rm l3 11 lid 114 20 Riga & Dunaburg • 10 10 Rome & Frascati all 20 Royal Danish all 13 15 12 5 Royal Swedish 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... all 20 Sambre & Meuse ...... ail 553 10 Do. 51 per cent. Pref..... all 81 81 20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. e. 2 1 Id 20 S.Aust &Lomb Venetin 12 1 1 12} 12 20 Southern of France.... all 20 21 81 West Flanders 10 Do. 61 p. c. Preference all 91 91 20 W. & N.W. of France 20 Western of Austria 6 20 Western of Switzerland all 6 Wiesbaden 6 Do. 8 per cent Pref all 20 Zealand BRITISH MINES. Shari Alines, Paid.) Closing 1 Business Price. Done. al re leousols(Philack) :ritish Iron .51 . 1 2 280 230 4-10 450 Pb 105 7i 81 11; 12 36 38 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist.) East Bassett (Illogan).. East Caradon ..... IE. W'l Russel (Tavistk.) !Garn..kSt.Aubyn(Gwen ) (Great South To4,rus I G.Wheal Alfd. (Philack) G. IVheal Vor (Helston) .Grenville Herod's- root Ilingston Downs ',Lady Bertha 111maret (Uny Lelant) I North Downs 17; 12.13.9 94 5.14.6 8.12 4.7.0 1.8.6 1 it 31 31 30 31 3f 3f 43 45 41 5i 6 4 5 51 61 8 9 121 131 44 46 North Frances (Mogan) N.Wh'l Basset (1110 an) North Wheal Crotty ,Par Consols (St. Blazey) Providence (Uny Lelnt.) ISurtridge Cons. Min. Co. 'South Caradon(St.Cleer) S. earn Brea (Illogan) S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim S.W heal Fran. (Illogan) Stray Park TamirSily. Lead Bin Tin Crott 9.18.0 1* 10.6.7 12s 11 300 310 3 3, 1 1. 145 155 48 52 21 21 41 5 20 21 1 84 86 Vale of Towey (Conn.) l West Basset (Illogan) IV. Caradon (Liskeard) West Seaton Wheal Basset (Mogan) ,Wheal Buller (Redruth) Wheal Edward (Cals.) Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) Wheal Mary Ann (Men.) Wheal Trelawney (Lis.) all 18 91 !20:18:01 1 - , 13s 6di 1 2.4 150 100 90 95 2/ 21 15& 164 21 23 27 19 6 1.7.2 31 3 :511 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(Tms DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair shortly after 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Cilgwrgan, Bettws, and Tregynon Road Bill and the Moy River Navigation Bill were considered and ordered for third reading. The Montrose and Bervie Railway Bill was read a second time. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. BATH .RACES.—(Thts Day.) [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] SOMERSETSHIRE STAKES. Cock-a-Hoop Pan TimEtndra Seven ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF FIVE SOVS. Grillade Ringlet 2 ••••••••.• Three ran. BADMINTON STAKES. Ariadne Diamant Dartmouth .... Three ran. WESTON STAKES. Big Ben Fairwater 2 Jacqueline Eight ran. RACING FIXT Harpenden lB Epsom 22 Ascot 5 Hampton l3 Newton 13 Odiham ..19 Beverley 2O Newmarket J. 3 Carlisle Worcester 5 Liverpool Abingdon 12 RES FOR 1860. Manchester ..30 Hungerford 3l Bibury Club ....20 Stockbridge 21 Winchester 22 Chelmsford 26 Newcastle 26 ' Brighton 1 Brighton Club 3 Wolverhampton Reading Radcliffe l3 Egham 14 Nottingham 17 Stamford l9 Marlborough Goodwood 24 Oxford Plymouth . 21 York 22 Lichfield 27 Stockton 2B Derby SEPTE: Warwick 4 Doncaster 11 Chesterfield l7 Leicester l9 Monmouth 2O Manchester Autumn 21 Newmarket F.O. .. 26 OCTOBER. Bedford 3 I Newmarket 22 Newmarket 0 8 Worcester Autumn 30 NOVEMBER. Hereford Liverpool Autumn 7 1 LA TV INTELLIGENCE.-(7 1 111S DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. BAKER V. LEE EX AL. This is an appeal from a decision of the Lords Justices, excluding Unitarian Dissenters from the Established Church of England, as trustees of the Free Charity School of Ilmiagton, in the county of Somerset. Mr. R. Palmer, Q.C., was heard for the respondents.l The learned counsel contended that the charity free schools should be seminaries of learning and instruction in connection with the religious principles of the Este • blished Church of England, and not others ise. COURT OF PROBATE. (Before Sir Cresswell Cresswell, Judge Ordinary.) THE WILL OF WILLIAM LANFEAR. Dr. Swaby applied for probate of the will and codicil of the deceased: 'Will dated January, 1831; first codicil dated 13th March, 1857, and other paper writings referred to in the will. Probate granted. P in 25i 261 dm. 44 46 11 13 I 1 21 31 ka 25 d par 114 p 101 11i d p d p 5 6 I f ..* d p 14 2 I ,ANKS. 75 77 69 71 214 224 51 53 194- 20 71 73 38 40 19 21 17 17i 22i 23 woe i... 11 --'... 17i 18 1114 118 T SECU 109 111 110 112 11014 102 107} 108} 991 1000 99 1001 99, 100 RITIES. 1108 109 410 112 107 1074 ,OUS. 991 100 108 mg f i i 15 15i 31 32 4i 5 37 39 20 22 141 16/ 120 123 6 8 25 30 241 251 30 32 9!) 101 103 106 105 107 pal p 2 21 i 1 d 1 Ohl 1 I'. 3 30, 3 4 I iiidl 11 1 dl 10 15 1 1 id p 47 50 79 81 13 144 p d 20 2p 5 6 49 51xd 120 130 35 36 10 11 ANNUITY TAX ABOLITION (EDINBURGH) BILL. On the order of the day for the second reading of this bill. Mr. HADFIELD said that last year they were promised a perfect and satisfactory measure in reference to the long-vexed question of the annuity tax at Edinburgh; but the present measure was the very reverse. To show this, he referred to an important meeting of the Town Council and magistrates in Edinburgh last week, as well as other public meetings, at which resolutions were passed strongly condemning the bill. The fact was that the mea- sure excited general dissatisfaction in Edinburgh, being opposed to the prevalent feeling in Scotland. The Free Church of Scotland greatly exceeded in numbers that of the State Church of Scotland, and the sums of money its members had raised under the voluntary system astonished Christendom. With that principle so strongly developed, he could not help expressing his surprise that the Lord Advocate should have considered it advisable to in troduco a measure to perpetuate so objectionable an impost as the annuity tax. Ho adverted also to the large number of petitions presented against the measure as a proof of its great unpopularity, and contended that, after the course pursued by the legislature in respect to ministers' money in Ireland, it was most undesirable to introduce a measure like the present. The hon. member concluded by moving that the bill be r ea d a secon d ti m e this d a y s i x months. Mr. CAIRD said that he would not press an amendment which he intended to have proposed on the motion for the second reading of the bill, as the Lord Advocate had stated that he would endeavour to alter the bill in committee, so as to meet the objections that had been raised against it by its opponents. Ho doubted, however, whether even when it had been modified in committee it would give satisfaction. Sir R. FERGUSON said that the argumentsused against this bill by the hon. member for Sheffield would apply equally against the maintenance of the Church of England in this country. He called therefore on the supperters of the Church of England to support the Lord-Advocate in his endeavours by this bill to lighten the burdens on the people of Scotland In supporting the National Church. He con sidered that this bill was a fair compromise of the long-vexed question in Edinburgh, and he denied altogether that the tax proposed was a new im post. The bill proposed to include in taxation for the Established Church in Scotland persons who had hitherto been improperly exempted from its operation, such as the learned bodies in Edinburgh, who from time immemorial had net been required to pay towards such a purpose. He admitted that there were objectionable pro vi.ions in the bill. In the first place he was strongly op posed to the proposal to reduce the number of the clergy, and if such a proposit'on were made in reference to Londox it would create a storm of discontent. lie contended it was most desirable that the differences which prevailed on this subject should be settled, and he appealed to the house to act in a spirit of conciliation in order to accomplish this object. (Hear, hear.) Mr. MACKAY said there could be no doubt as to the expediency of settling this long vexed question. Last year there were no less than 112 summonses issued in Edinburgh against defaulters in respect to this tax, which were fol lowed in many cases by arrests and imprisonment. That was a state of things that was most objectionable, and he thought the proper course would be to allow the bill to he read a second time, in order that it might go into commit tee, and be amended so as to meet the views of those who were anxious to terminate the present objectionable state of things. lie appealed, therefore, to the hon. member for Sheffield not to press his amendment. Mr. BLACK having referred to the deputations sent by Government to inquire into the subject in Scotland, and to the report of the select committee of 1851, recommending arrangements to be made for the settlement of the diffe rences that prevailed in Edinburgh in reference to this matter, in order to promote the interests of religion and good government in the city. He had looked carefully into the bill, and considered that it contained the basis of a satis factory arrangement. Me strongly approved of the adoption of the recommendation of the Town Council of Edinburgh which had been agreed to by that body at a publi c mee ti ng . Ho alluded to th appointment of 13 Ministers with a salary of X6OO a-year each guaranteed to them. He hoped the house would not throw any obstacle in the way of speedy legislation on this long-vexed question, both for the interests of religion and the sake of peace. Major HAMILTON supported the second reading of the bill, and contended that the annuity tax was nothing more than a simple bond, by which their ancestors bound themselves, their heirs and successors, to pay a certain impost fora quid pro quo. Sir E. COIEISRObIiE considered that though the bill did not go so far as might have been desired, still it was, to a certain extent, a concession on the part of the Esta blished Church of Scotland, and would therefore have his support. Mr. BLACKBURN and Mr. Mum supported the second reading. The - LORD-ADVOCATE said it was gratifying to him that no single Scotch member had opposed the second read ing of the bill, and he hoped the hon. member for Sheffield would not press his amendment. The principle on which he proposed to proceed in his bill was to accumulate a fund by an impost for 15 years, which, at the expiration of that period, was to terminate. However, as the Town Council objected to that course and preferred that there should be a reduced permanent importl o he had no objection to the adoption of that course, an d;would propose amendments in committee for the purpose of carrying it out. He would also introduce other amendments to meet the views of some hon. members. Mr. HADFIELD said that lie would yield to the wishes of the Scotch members, and withdraw his amendment. The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday next. CHARITY TRUSTEES BILL. On the motion of Mr. MELLOn, the order for the second reading of the bill was discharged. Several other bills were proposed. CONSOLIDATION FUND (X 9,500,000) BILL. This bill was read a second time. COURT OF CHANCERY BILL. On the - motion of Sir G. C. LEWIS, this bill was re ferred to a select committee. The house then adjourned at 20 minutes past two o'clock. POLICE INTELLIGE.N CE--(THIS DAY) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ATTEMPT TO EXTORT MONEY FROM A GENTLEMAN BY A CORPORAL OF THE GRENADIERS.—John. David son, a corporal of the Ist battalion of Grenadiers, was charged before Mr. Beadon with attempting to extort money from Mr. George Brown, a gentleman lately from Shirley, Southampton, but now staying at Lane's Hotel, St. Alban's place, Haymarket. The complainant stated that midway between Evans's Hotel and Leicester-square he called in at a public-house and had some porter, and as he was leaving the prisoner asked him to treat him with a glass of beer, saying, " You are not going to leave us in this manner, are you ?" Ho returned to the house and treated him and his companions with some beer, and on leaving the prisoner followed him and asked for some gin and a half-erown. He told him to leave him and not annoy him, upon which the prisoner said he should follow him and give him in charge, and as soon as they met a constable the prisoner made a disgusting charge against him, He (prosecutor) felt greatly enraged, and could n t exactly say what the prisoner ohargeil with. Cornell, 109 C, said the complainant, on his coming up, said the soldier wanted to get money from him by makiig a false accusation. The prisoner then said he wanted to make a oharge against the gentleman, but his statements being so much at variance ho refused to take it, and as the prisoner still annoyed the gentleman he took him into custody. Reeves, 44 C, said he had seen th• prisoner annoying another gentleman previously, aid the gentleman seemed anxious to get rid of him. The prisoner said he had no questions to ask. Mr. Beadon said he should remand him for a week, and then commit him for trial. THAMES. LORD HENNIKER'S COA.CIDIEN IlerßOUßLE.—Richarci Chester and Jeremiah Pratt, coachmen in the service of Lord Henniker, were brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with being drunk and incapable of taking proper care of three horses, a carriage, and a brougham, belonging to his lordship. Thomas Brandon, a police constable, No. 211, K, stated that last night he saw the prisoner Chester driving a horse and brougham in the Mile-end-road in a very reckless manner, and to the great danger and annoyance of the peo ple in the road, who expresso I their indignation at his con duct. The prisoner was very drunk, and was rolling about, and nearly fell off the brougham. At last the prisoner got the horse in a fix, and was turning round and round, when the horse got locked in the brougham, and'came to a dead stand. He saw the brougham was in danger of being overturned, and took the prisoner into cus tody. Police-sergeant Vaughan, No. 17 IC, stated that the prisoner Pratt was driving a carriage and two horses and following the brougham. Pratt was also drunk and unable tornanage the horses properly, and he took him into cus tody. Mr. Yardley—What time did this occur ? Sergeant Vaughan—About seven o'clock last evening, sir. Both prisoners were coming up the Mile-end-road on the way to London. Mr. Yardley—llad the prisoners been to a funeral or a wedding? Coachmen get drunk at both or at a christen ing, it don't matter to them. Inspector llayes—The horses and carriages belong to a nobleman, Lord Hanniker. Mr. Yardley—Not to a jub master? Inspector Hayes—No, sir, the prisoners have been coming up from his lordship's seat in Siltfolk fur two days and two nights. _ _ 111 r. Yardloy—And got drunk on the road. Does his lordship know of flag ? ... Chester—Yes, sir, my lord knows of it. lam very sorry for it. We were very much fatigued and our rest broken coming up from Suffolk. Mr. Yardley—You arc two foolish men, to be getting drunk while in the charge of your master's carriages and horses. I suppose they went to the green yard last night ? Inspector Hayes—No, sir. The carriages contained a good deal of valuable property. I tient to his lordship's town residence last night, and Lord 11, mniker's butler came down to Stepney, and took charge of the carriages and horses. Mr. Yardley—Weil, I can't iaverloek this, The prisoners are fined ss. each for being drwlk, THE WILL OF HENRY DRUMMOND, ESQ. Dr. Phillimore applied for probate of the will of the deceased, dated 3d January, 1848; and codicils dated 24th November, 1854; 21st November, 1856; and the 4th of August, 1857. Probate refused. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LASTNIGHT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAY 12. This day had audience' of her Majesty, Senor Carlos Gutierrez, Minister Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Honduras, to deliver his credentials ; and the Count de Lu dolf, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, to deliver his credentials ; to which audiences they were respectively introduced by the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Lieutenant-General the Hon. Sir Ed ward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Cere monies. FOREIGN OFFICE, MAT 12. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Juan Miguel Winder as Consul, at Southampton, for the Re public of Peru. DOWNING-STREET, MAY 14. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Samuel Cock burn, -Esq., to be President and Senior Member of the Council of the Island of Nevis, during the temporary ab sence of President Sir Carlo Arthur Henry Rumbold, Baronet. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAY 15. Royal Regiment of Artillery Second Captain Frederick Close to be Captain, vice William M. King, deceased ; Lieutenant Robert Loftus Tottenham to be Second Cap tain, vice close. The promotion of the undermentioned officers to be antedated to 9th April, 1860 :—Captain and BrevetMajorW. J. Bolton and Second Capt. M. Tweedie. Brevet-Major James Sinclair to be Captain, vice Frank lin, placed on the Supernumerary List ; Lieutenant Richard O'Hara to be Second Captain, vice Sinclair. Coast Brigade of Artillery—Second Captain John Sweeny to be Captain, vice Elliott, whose commission has been cancelled; Lieutenant James MacGillivrav to be Second Captain, vice Sweeny; Quartermaster-Sergeant John McLernon to be Lieutenant, vice MacGillivray. BREVET.—Quartermaster William Elliott, having retired upon half-pay Royal Artillery, to have the honorary rank of Captain, under the Royal Warrant of 17th Dec., 1855. ADMIRALTY, MAY 14. Retired Rear-Admiral John George Aplin to have the rank and title of Retired Vice-Admiral from the 2d inst., in pursuance of the Order in Council of May 7, 1858. BANKRUPTS. Samuel Freeman and John Clifford, web manufacturers, Leicester, to surrender May 31 and June 21, at eleven, at the Shire-hall, Nottingham. David Widdowson, lace manufacturer, Nottingham, May 31 and June 21, at eleven, at the Shire-hall, Nottingham. John Williams, surgeon, Pontypool, Monmouthshire, May 25 and June 26, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. _ _ _ %OW 1a..• John Box and Henry John Lewis, corn merchants, Gloucester, May 31 and June 26, at eleven ; at the Bristol District Court. George Thomas Suter, dealer, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, May 30 and June 20, at one, at the Exeter District Court. _ Stephen Moss and William Ashworth, dyers, Woodmill, Halifax, May 25 and aims 22, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis trict Court. Epaphras Clayton, grocer, Openshaw, near Manchester, May 25 and June 20, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Alfred Haslam, coach proprietor, Manchester, June 6 and 22, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Henry Muggeridge, builder, St. George's-place, Brix ton-road, May 25 and June 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Thomas Thorp, linen-draper, Surrey-house, Clapham road, May 28 and June 25, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. dharles`Joites, boot and shoe maker, Deansgate, Man cheater, June 5 and 27, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis. trict Court. George Price Simeox, carpet manufacturer, Hendham Vale, Manchester, May 25, and June 15, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS, Peter Hay, dyer, Paisley. Edward Alexander Falconer, g rocer , Edinburgh. John Fleming, command er , Royal Navy, Muasdale, Campbeltown. George Henry Charles Francis Malcolm, commonly called Viscount Forth, Duke-street, Edinburgh. ilrilliam Abbott, agent and dealer, Tobermory, Argyle• shun. Robert Macdonald, grocer, Hawick. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY. Amsterdam Ditto Rotti zdam — 11 161 11 16 Ants ierp Brussels — 25 30 25 35 Ham burgh Paris Ditto Mars eilles — 25 35 26 40 Fran kfort on Maine Vienna 117 13 65 1171 13 7 13 68 341 49 49 30 40 25 40 25 40 40t 13 75 341 49 50 30 45 25 45 25 45 40k Tries to Peter burgh — Madr id Cadiz g — Leghorn — Milan — Geno a — Napt 90 - Paler mo — Mess inn — .. • • m Lisbi 52$ 62a ° v ox to Rio Janeiro New York — • • •. For( ign Gold in Bars (Standard), ...per oz. £3 17 Mex can Dollars Silva a. in Bars (Standard) „ 0 5 11 Sout h American Doublons The bar silver brought by the West India packet has b nu sold at 61ad., being an advance of id. on the price realis ed for that by the previous mail. No Mexican dollars of any • amount came forward by this opportunity, but within the la it two or three days sales have been effected at 621 d. and 6 21d. C lOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—Her Majesty's Emit ;ration. Commissioners have given notice of their in ten.V.in to receive tenders on Thursday next, the 11th inst., for a, ship to proceed to Sydney, New South Wales, to be reacl y for the reception of her passengers on such day as the► Commissioners may appoint between the 2d and 9th of Jun e. The ship must take her full quantity of water, and be 4rnished with Dible'•s ventilating apparatus. FOREIGN MI Australian Bon Accord Copper, Lim. Brazil. Imp. (is. at £ p.) Do.St.Johndel Rey,Lim Do. Land and Mining Co. Clarendon Cons.MinCo. Cobre Copper Copiapo DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co Fortuna. General Gt. N. Cop. of S. Austr Kapimda (Limited)..• Linares Lusitaniau Mariquita N. R hin eCopof S.Au a. L I Poutgibaud Silver,Lead' Mining and Smelt Port Philip ...... Scottish Austrin. (L.) :,United Mexican Worthing (Limited) Do. all 1 10s, aTI all 19s. a B. JOINT-STO Agra&UnitedService Bk Australasia Bank of Egypt Bank of London Bank of Turkey British North American Chtd.Bank of India, dm. Ch. Mer. of In. Lon., Ch City Colonial . Corn. Bank of Canada Commercial of London Eng., Scot., trz Aus. Ch Gen. Bk. of Switzerland Lon. Char.Bkof Austral London and County London Joint Stock London & Westm:nster Nat. Prov. of England IDo. new National Bank New South Wales Do. new Orient. B. Corporation . Ottomai Bank Provincial of Ireland 110. new South Australia Union of Australia lUnion of London Unity Mutual.. 2.11.101 16 2.14.5 7.4.0 35i 5 i , UST. THE .REPEAL OF THE PAPER DUTIES. (From the Times.) It is a thousand pities that genius and fancy have no influence over the common rules of arith metic. What a comfort it would be if we could transport ourselves for good and all into that poetic world where there is always a rich old uncle in the fifth act or the third volume, where the high spirited, noble-minded, money-despising hero has not to scrape and hoard and do mean things, but can exercise without a restraint all the promptings of his generous heart! How many a noble idea perishes for lack of that sordid, base, contemptible lucre ! In the poetic world our men of genius can happily create wealth more easily than they can create ideas ; but in the real world we almost always see them balancing some antithesis, with a bulky intellect at one end and an empty purse at the other. Those hard logical laws of arithmetic will hold their own. Goldsmith could make every body comfortable at the Wakefield Vicarage, but he could not clear off that matter-of-fact milk score. Messinger could give a fortune to Wellborn, but he could not pay his own reckoning at the Mermaid. Poor Otway could change the fortunes of Venice at his will, but he could not contrive to keep 'Aim self from starving. Want of means does not check our genius, limit our aspirations, curb our imagina tion, or even bridle our desires, for nothing is so exuberant as the imagination of a beggar, but, un happily, it altogether prevents our reducing those magnificent dreams into realities. Thus it has been with poets and orators of all ages, and thus it just now is, as we observe from a report which we publish this morning, with Mr. John Bright. It is a little matter of £1,400,000 which just now makes the difficulty against which Mr. Bright is surging in eloquence, and which he is seeking to crush, and powder, and annihilate by explosions of wrath. Mr. Bright has an idea, not, perhaps, very original or very special, for it has long since been public property, and we all entertain it with a greater or lesser degree of impatience and enthu siasm. With Mr. Bright the enthusiasm is very strong indeed. With him the repeal of the Paper Duties is connected with the success of his nearest desires. No one knows what he has not done for this, or what he does not expect from this, or how much he has not restrained himself for this, or how much his mind has not been softened towards the present Ministry for this. At last he is entering upon full fruition ; when, lo! Lord Derby comes upon him, just as Goldsmith's landlady might have come in at the half-finished !est chapter among the happy Primroses, and presents that terrible score. Lord Derby insists it cannot be done. He declares that if Mr. Bright could pay for poetic justice with poetic money it would be all very well ; but that when it is to be paid for by hard prosaic cash it is necessary to see whether the nation can afford it. Here is the position. Mr. Bright has very nearly run his fox to a standstill ' • the creature's brush already hangs dank upon the ground ' • one more fence, one more field, and the vermin is chopped up. Just at this vexatious moment appears Lord Derby at the hedge, and, pitchfork in hand, and in the character of the true British farmer, warns Mr. Bright to move off, and not to ride over his young tfixes. Mr. Bright, as everybody who knows him will anticipate, instead of drawing rein, goes right at him, with what result is yet to be seen. There was, last night, an indignation meeting at St. Martin's-hall, and when Lord Derby reads the names of the inflaentiaLmen there assembled surely he will repent in sack loth and ashes. Sergeant Parry was in the chair. Mr. Bright and Mr. Lea tham, and seven other M.P.'s, with two paper makers, were recognisable upon the platform. The body of the hall was full of her Majesty's lieges, who were all gathered together from those who pass about twilight through the thoroughfares of Covent-garden. Such was the assembly. The ob ject was, as the placards outside made loown, to terrify the Lords from any interference with the Paper Duties Bill. There were not many bankers, not many merchants, not many professional men, not, perhaps, very many tradesmen, possibly not a great many . ratepayers. But, then, there were ths platform eleven—the St. Martin's-hall eleven against all England. They were not exactly the class of minds which have bent all England to their following in other days, but they were very earnest. When the chairman promised the meeting to use " his mildest and most temperate language," he could find nothing in his mind more dovelike than that " the House of Lords was an obvious anomaly among the institutions of a free country." Mr. Bright, con fessing once more that he did not know where to find or how to get hold of the British Constitution, proceeded to lecture his audience upon it; and to deny the right of the House of Lords to negative this bill, and to assert its moral responsibility for all the losses that may be sustained by some of Mr. Bright's friends who had speculated upon their allowing it to pass. We quite agree with Mr. Bright,—not that there is anything " impudent and insolent" in the conduct of the House of Lords if they should refuse to repeal a tax, but that this is not a thing to be lightly done. We are afraid, however, if the Lords can make out to the satisfac tion of the public that without this tax we shall not be able to pay our way, the honest sober-going folk who make Parliaments will be inclined to say the Lords are right, and that the tax ought not to ba repealed, and shake their heads at Mr. Bright's magnificent periods about " a million is as nothing compared with the inestimable blessings," &c, All this is very well, but millions are millions, and Jove will not annihilate space and time even to make Mr. Bright happy. When we read these proceedings we are almost tempted to ask whether it can be that Mr. Bright does really wish the repeal of these Paper Duties. Is it possible that his intellect can be so small, with a power of expression so great, as not to perceive that he is pursuing the only course which could prevent the accomplishment of what he desires ? With moderate and temperate proceedings there can be no doubt that these Paper Duties must go. No class, as we believe, now wishes permanently to re tain them. They must come off; the sooner the better, for the state of transition is, as the Emperor of the French reminds his people, always a stage of suffering. %Ve hope the House of Peers will not interfere with the repeal of the Paper Duties, but that they have the constitutional right to reject or pass any bill presented to them we cannot doubt. Mr. Bright, it seems, proposes to frighten the Lords by denying their right, and he carries out his pro ject by calling together a roomfull of London mob, and setting up a gentleman to tell them that the House of Peers is an anomaly in a free country, and that " if it venture to usurp any of the privi leges of the House of Commons or of the people, the days of hereditary legislation are numbered.' Mr. Bright, in his own address, uses a somewhat more mitigated form of language, but it is scarcely less insulting. Now, we tremble when we see such allies as these acting for us. If we thought that either we ourselves or Mr. Bright were so entirely free from all interest in this matter as to make it decent to put pressure upon the House of Lords— which, as we have often said, we do not think—we should still believe it a most impolitic course to adopt. There is no strong public opinion behind us to sus tain such a pressure. Look at the House of Com mons, with its majority of 10, and even that narrow victory a party vote to keep the Ministers in their places. There is no fuel in the country for a paper duties' agitation to the extent of frightening the peers. Moreover, English gentlemen do not like to have these experiments tried upon them. Our chief reliance is that Lord Derby and his friends may have too much contempt for this miserable rushlight conflagration to resent it. But we entreat Mr. Bright to let us have this boon, now we are so near to it. He has made Parliamentary Reform next to impossible ; another of these St. Martin's-hall fire-damps, and he will have done the same good office for the paper duties' repeal. (From the Horning Herald.) Last night the ears of the metropolitan democracy were tickled by an address from Mr. Bright on the " usurpation proposed by Lord Derby to the House of Lords, in the retention of the tax on paper inde pendent (sic) of the House of Commons and the Crown." Mr. Sergeant Parry was in the chair, and the assembly was of course all that could be desired for the proper discussion of the constitu tional privileg,es of the Peers. The threatened op position of the Lords to the repeal of the paper duty was denounced as derogatory to the dignity of the Crown, subversive of the privileges of the House of Commons and of the rights of the people, and calcu lated to impair the authority of the House of Lords. Judged by its own printed propositions nothing could be more promising than the objects of the m eeting. Respect for the Crown, for the Commons, and for the Lords, was apparently the mainspring of its action. So far from being hostile to an heredi tary peerage, it assembled in order to preserve its authority; so far from cherishing any feeling of op position to the Crown, it was resolute in assertine , its prerogative. Its obvious intention, according to the programme, was to reconcile the rights of the three estates and to avert collision,—above all, to protect the Lords from the evil consequences that might result if they presumed to become an active portion of the Legislature. However, if the intent was pacific, Mr. Bright disappointed it. St. Mar tin's Hall is not very far from St. Stephen's, but it is quite far enough to admit of a complete change" of character in the member for Birmingham —and last night this gentleman let loose the pent-up torrent of his indignation, and fairly surpassed his ordinary efforts of abuse and slander upon that one stumbling-block in his path—the hereditary House of Peers. Mr. Bright is boiling Over with indignation be cause the House of Lords are determined to chec Mr. Gladstone in his career of reckless improvi dence. All his arguments in favour of the abolition of the tax on paper were thrown away, because the House of Lords generally, we doubt not, shares the opinion which Lord Derby has expressed, " that the impost is objectionable in principle and in•prac tice." But there is every probability that two-third of the peers would say the same of the war duties on tea and sugar in a time of peace, and scarcely a peer could be found who would not speak out still more strongly against the income tax. Mr. Bright, with an unfairness which has become his charac teristic, purposely omits to notice the real motives en which the opposition of Lord Derby and Lord Monteagle is founded ; and with an effrontery for which journalism can scarcely find a fitting epithet, persists in imputing it to a sordid desire on the part of the aristocracy to prevent the political education of the people. Now, we should like Mr. Bright to answer this question : which. does more for the instruction of the masses—the order to which he belongs, or the aristocracy which he abuses ? As to the term political instruction, in. the sense in which it is interpreted by Mr. Bright and his organ, we confess the masses are quite as well without it. But if, as we believe, the dissemi nation of sound and useful information be the best groundwork of the instruction .ich shall fit a man to take his part in that sphere of political life to which he is called, then we hesitate not to say that for one earnest mover of Mr. Bright's class we will find fifty in the class against which he endeavours to excite popular passion. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Mr. Bright's boasted efforts for the elevation of the masses con trasts but sadly.with his absence on the Dyers and Bleachers Bill, with his resistance to the Ten Hours Bill, and with the present movement of his own operatives. Let him cast out the mote from his own eye before he so readily and wilfully misinter prets the motives of his neighbours. Mr. Bright was stimulated last night by three or four considerations. If the paper duty goes Mr. Glad stone goes with it, and with Mr. Gladstone vanish those enancial schemes enunciated at Liverpool, and faintly shadowed forth in the Badget of 1860. 'But there is a possibility that the Cabinet itself will not survive the blow: Rumour asserts that more than one member of the Cabinet is looking forward to a verdict from the Upper House which they are powerless to give, and that, with the rejection of the Paper Duty Bill, the Coalition Cabinet itself will receive its quietus. We do not so lightly esti mate Whig tenacity. But the reflection has evi dently forced itself on Mr. Bright's mind, or he would not have involved himself in so gross a mis statement as to represent Lord Derby's guiding principle a desire for pace, or have so far trifled with the convictions of his audience as to declare that the accession of this nobleman to power would probably involve the country in a war in less than twelve months. Twelve months Why, if Mr. Bright does not know it, the nation knows, that it is not safe under the present Ministry, and in front of the surging tide of complications now advancing on us, for twelve weeks, But the question is not for the decision of l‘lr. Bright or the meeting at St. Martin's Hall. The Lords have to discuss a bill sent up to them in due course by the Commons, and they will decide without regard to the eventualities which Mr. Bright suggests. Nobody can honestly accuse Lord Monteagle or Lord Overstone of a de sire to overthrow the Whig Ministry; and indeed the defeat of the bill by the Lords cannot be con strued as a censure which should render office un tenable by its proposers. It may suit Mr. Bright and Mr. Gladstone to leek forward to the Exchequer in a hopeless state of bankruptcy. But it is plainly the duty of the Lords to protect the country against the ruin that is threatened ; and from the perform. ante of that duty the wrath of Mr. Bright will not frigl.ten them. We are told that the House of Lords his no right to meddle with the question, and that in presuming to interfere it encroaches upon the prerogative of the Crown as well as the privileges•of the Commons. Now, in the first place, it requires a powerful stretch of imagination to perceive that the prerogative of the Crown is at all affected. The assent of the Crown has yet to be given ; and for the Lords to refuse their assent to tho remission of an impost can be, in sober reality, no greater encroachment on the Crown's nights than to reject a Reform Bill announced from the throne. But the pretended' violation of the privileges of the Commons is equally illusory. This is not a supply bill. it is not a proposition of the Lords to raise additional taxation. The tax is already imposed, and the Lords only exercise their constitutional right in rejecting the bill proposing its remission i❑ face of the serious deficiency which is looming in the future. On one noint, however, we must plainly contradict Mr. - Bright. He states that the House of Peers has not exercised such a right as it now claims for 200 years. Now he has evidently referred to Lord Derby's sp.gech in 1853 on the Succession Duty, and we will recall his attention to the same speech. It is true Lord Derby's precedent was not a question of re jecting, but of amending, a money bill; but this fact supplies us at once with an a fortiori argument, for the bill to which the noble lord referred was a money bill, and it was actually amended, not simply rejected, by the Upper House "lie I.membered one instance of which he had been reminded in the course of that day by a noble lord who entertained a very strong objection to the principle of this bill, but who was absent on account of a domestic calamity. That noble lord, when he filled the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, had introduced a bill, as a measure in his budget, for the purpose of varying and altering the stamp du ties. An amendment was made in their lordships' house, materially affecting the character of that bill with regard to the budget. The bill so amended was sent down to the Commons ; the other house, it was true, did not assent to it, or accept their lord ships' alterations ; but, though technically they did not do so, they moved that the bill, as amended, should be laid aside ; they then suspended the standings orders, and reintroduced a bill totidem verbis , the same as the amended bill which had been sent down to them ; aud, having passed it through all its stages, sent it up as a new bill to their lordships, and beitig passed in the shape so sent, became in due course the law of the land." In the course of the same debate the Earl of Aberdeen alluded to another precedent in the year 1826, when the Lords introduced amendments in. Mr. Canning's corn bill, which the Commons ac cepted. Precedent, therefore, is against Mr. Bright, and reason is still more so. It is absurd enough to suppose that the House of Lords is to sit idle and make no protest against the extravagance of the Chancellor:of the Exchequer, merely because Mr. Bright chooses to term the measure a money bill but it is still more unreasonable to grant the House of Lords the power of discussion, and to acknow ledge its legislative functions, and at the same time deny its right to reject a bill which has only been carried by a haphazard majority of nine in the Lower House. THIS DAYS' SHIPPING. LONDON, May 16.—Wind this day at noon—Sonth- West ; strong breeze, and cloudy, with rain at times. ~. . , PLYMOUTH, May li.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived— Sequent°, from Havannah. Sailed—Her Majesty's steamer Himala3 a, for Portsmouth. NEWPORT, May 15.—Wind S W.—Arrived.—Harvest Queen, from Havre for Rio Janeiro. Sailed—Almonde, for Singapore. BLISTOL, May 15.—Wind N.W.—Arrived--Morning Star, from Callao; Trinidad, and Casilda, from Trinidad de Cuba. WATERFORD, May 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Augus tin Brewer, from New Orleans. ' QUEENSTOWN, May 14.—Arrived—Ducliess of Lan caster, from Iquique ; Triumph, from Mauritius ; Ama teur, from Monte Video; Morton Castle, from Rio Hache ; Star of the East, from Pana. Sailed—Philip Laing, for Colombo. OFR THE LIZARD, May 15.—Arrived—Delvie, sokeoner, from New York for Bremen. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGE4r II .) SounrAmrrolv, Wednesday Morning. ; e Charlotte, o Landont e from ; Wind W. r s Arrived, May 15—Bore, Guernsey; Foyle, steamer, from Dublin; Nancy, from Neath. Sailed, May 15—James Kennedy, for Cardiff ; Argyll, steamer, for Carentan ; Courier, steamer, for Jersey ;Le Ceq, for Cherbourg, ' (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH. TELIZGRAPII.S LivEnrooL, Wednesday Moriling. Wind W.S.W. Arrived, May 15—Anna D. rothea, and Star of the South, from Bombay ; Nepaul, from Callao ; Morning Star, from Buenos Ayres ; Caroline, from Pernambuco ;. - Harry Clem, from Paraiba ; Ocean Guide, from Galveston ; Hartley, from Apalachicola ; Segredo, from St. Michael's ; Iburno 11., from Alexandria ; Leo Thomas, from Aveiro ; Lemanie, from Ostend ; Idea, from Seville ; Lucy, from Mauritius. Arrived, May - W.—Dragoon, Jno. Parker, and Medallion, from Na \V Orleans; Hero, from Charleston; Trebizonde, from Alexandria Camilla, from Rio liache ; Antartic, from New York; Osprey, steamer, from Rotterdam." GRAVESEND, WedECSdity Morning. • Willi W. ; tide five and a ball how fl: , cd ; weather fine. Arrived, May 15—Gibson Craig, from Bombay. Arrived, May 16—Mary and Kate, from Antigua. Sailed, May IS—Andreas, from Ulealaorg. • Sailed, May 16—Adelaide, for Alicante; T. G. V., for Malta; Lavinia, for Bsngkok ; Zeus, for Archangel. . DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Wind W.S.W., light. Passed—Honduras, from Demerara ; Sir James Ross from Matanzas; Spectator, from Demerara—all for Lon don. Passed, in tow—Jessie Boyle, from Melbourne, for London; Eliza, from London, for Janeiro; Sea Breeze, from London, for Mauritius ; Vestal, from London, for Marseilles ; Fanillia Tronw, from London, for Nickerce ; Witch of the Seas, from London, for the Cape Hope ; Maria, from Shields, for Adra ; Viceroy, from Lo ndon, for Belize. The barque Emma Eugenia, of London, dot on shore last night at Folkastone, has been got off, and i s p r o c eed in g i n tow for London. o f Gocd (one [lent, ) the 2,105 e, h in r) in 7E. y of ce of rhite lay's tive. were dull the- es. oats 100 100 20'11 100 1000 321 le stock 25 stock stock stock stock stock 100 stock 29 8 161 1 98 62 3 411 2 17f Si 29f 41f 4 1141 1011 31 E 0 341 f