The Sun. — London, England, 1865-04-13 00:00:00

MARKETS—This Day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Only a moderate supply of beasts was on offer in our market to-day, and most breeds changed hands steadily, at full prices. A few very superior Scots sold at 5s per 81bs. We were rather scantily supplied with sheep, which ruled firm, at full quotations. The best Downs and half-breds in the wool realised 6s 6d ; out of the wool, 55 2d to 5s 4d per 81bs. There was a fair number of lambs in the pens, and sales progressed freely, at from 6s 4d to 8s per 81bs. The receipts from the Isle of Wight amounted to 700 head. We had a slow inquiry for calves at late rates. In pigs Yery little was' doing. Milch cows ranged from £l6 to £22 each. Per 81b to sink the offal. s d s d s ds d Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 4 3 8 Pme era-wool sheep 510 6 2 'Second quality do ..3 10 4 2 Prime .7,'thuowa ~ 0.6 4 6 6 Prime larg , oxen ..4 4 4 6 La ge coarse calvca.4 2 4 10 Prime Seats, &e.... 4 8 4 10 Pr•me small do .....5 ( 5 4 Crse. and inf. stieep.4 4 5 0 Large hugs .3 4 4 0 t:econd quality di ..5 2 5 8 ,mall porkers. 4 1 4 8 Lambs....6s 4d to 8 Od Fo Iling calves, 19i ,o -2s; awl quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 255 each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. C e ps ßs . _ 81 Beasts 415 13 i COWL sheep . Calves 31.. . A ye- Vigs 2SJ Pigs _ NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat on sale at these markets are mode rate. For all descriptions tne trade is dull at barely late rates. E'er 81b by the caroase. tided ads(' Inferior beef 2 10 3 2 Inferi , r mutton.... 3 8 4 0 Bliddlin.. do. 3 4 3 8 Middling, mutton.. 4 2 4 4 Prime la rge do 310 4 0 Prime do ..... 9....4 6 4 8 Primp small do 4 2 4 4 Veal 3 10 4 8 Large pork 3 4 _4 _4 _ !,mall pork. 4 6 4 JO _ . Lamb, 6s 6, id to 7s Od. BOROUGH HOP. The supply of English hops on sale is very moderate. With continental produce the market is somewhat scantily supplied, but there is a large show of American hops on offer. Good and fine qualities of English and foreign pro duce move off steadily at full prices; otherwise, the trade is quiet. Mid and East Kent ..... nos to 20Cs per cwt. Weald of Kent Sus►,ex .. Yearlings llos to 1.1,8 Bavad ian American Bos io 13 s MEAT MARKETS. SOUTHALL, April 12.—The supply of stock was mode-. rate, and the trade was heavy at drooping prices. Beef, from 38 4d to 4s 10d ; mutton, 3s 10d to Gs 2d ; lamb, 6s Bdto 7s 6d ; vea l , 4 s 2d t o 5 s Od ; an d por k , 3 s 6d t o 4s per 81b to sink the offal. ROMFORD, April 12.—Each kind of stock sold slowly at 4 or quotations :—Beef, from Be 4d to 4s 10d; mutton, Od to 6s Od ; veal, 4s 4d to 5s Od; pork, 3s 6d.to 4s 8d per 81bs. Suckling calves, 18s to 20s ; quarter old store Pigs, 20s to 255; and milch cows, £l6 to £2O each. HAY MARKETS. SMI TIMELD.--Meadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 lOs Od ; clover, .£5 105 to 46 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 14s per load. dk. moderate demand. CUBFB EILLAND.-3leadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 lOs ; clover, £5 8 s to £6 10s ; and straw, £1 8s to .£1 16s per load. Trade steady. WHIrEcHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4. lOs to £5 10s ; clove; £5 10s to £6 10s ; and straw, £1 7s to £1 14s per load. S uPPIY rather limited. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. d. N orthumberl'd Main. 14 0 Braddyell's Hetton.... 17 9 Buddle'sWestHartleY 17 0 Walls End Riddell ... 16 9 Ifolywell M a i n l6 6 Kelloe Tanfield Moor l3 6 Hetton Lyons l6 6 Eden Main Carway and Duffryn Heugh Hall l9 0 Malting 22 0 Walls End Gosforth 16 3 Hetton ... 19 0 South Hetton Cassop .. Hartlepool South Kenos Ships at market, 56 ; sold, 29. MONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL [NTELLIGENGE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. No alteration has been made this morning in the official minimum of the Bank of England. A change was not very generally anticipated, although it was not regarded in the present condition of monetary affairs as improbable. The inquiry for accommoda tion on the part of the mercantile community has latterly been so very limited in consequence of the almost extreme quietude of trade, and the capital on offer has been very much increased, and it is from this circumstance it was inferred that an alter ation might have been made. The preparations for bilis that will become due to-morrow (Good Friday) and on Easter Monday have imparted a little acti vity to-day. in discount circles, but the rate remains very easy, 31 per cent. being the quotations' for the best short-dated paper. In Sydney, on the 24th January last, the directors of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney presented their thirty-third half -yearly report to the shareholder, and declared a dividend and bonus at the same rate as at the previous half-year, the former being 15 per cent. per annum, and the latter ss. a share, making a total distribution for the year of 17 per cent. This appropriation, and the addi tion of £4,000 to the reserve fund, which now amounts to £104,000, left £4,020 of undivided profit to he carried forward. A meeting was held yesterday of the creditors of Mr. George W. Bremner, trading under the firm of Messrs. Bremner and Co., merchants and ship owners, who suspended payment on the 28th ult. The statement of affairs prepared and explained by Messrs. J. Killingsworth and Son gave the liabili ties at £48,917, and the assets at £52,183, showing a surplus of about £3,000, dependent upon the rea lisation of merchandise, &c., in the East Indies and the Brazils, together with the sales of ships at home. After a very friendly discussion it was resolved that the estate should be wound up under inspection. The Bank of Victoria held its usual half-yearly meeting in Melbourne on the 7th February last. The net profit, including £7,200 ss. brought for ward from last balance-sheet, amounted to £44,404 2s. 10d. ; which was applied, £5,000 to reduction of bank premises account ; £31,250 to dividend, at the rate of 12 per cent. ; leaving a balance of £8,154 2s. 10d. to profit and loss account. We are informed that the London and Scottish Bank (Limited) will be in a position without delay to meet its engagements. Negotiations are now pending with a London bank to take over its busi ness. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under :-- 1865. 1864 Great Western -. North Western £67,043 £64 , 98 3 •• • ... 107,793 99,577 South Western ... ... 24,031 22,698 Brighton -• ••• ... 17,774 18,455 Midland ... ... 46,266 42,089 South Eastern ... 21,515 20,084 Great Northern ... 35,551 32,959 Lancashire and Yorkshire 37,266 36,050 Bristol and Exeter ... ... 6,408 6,312 North Eastern ... ... 56,902 55,51,4 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 17,438 16,007 Great Eastern ... 30,012 30,205 These returns, with one or two exceptions, are of a favourable character when compared with those of the corresponding period of the previous year. On the Great Western there is an increase of £6,060 ; on the North-Western, of £8,216 ; on the South- Western, of £1,333 ; on the Midland, of £4,177 ; on the South-Eastern, of £1,431; on the Great • Northern, of £2,592; on the Lancashire and York shire, of £1,216 ; on the Bristol and Exeter, of £ 9 6 ; on the North-Eastern, of £1,388 ; and on the,. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, of £1,431; while the Brighton shows a decrease of £681; and the Great Eastern, of £193. The d irector s of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company have resolved to recommend to the proprie tors at the meeting to be held on the 26th inst. the payment for the half-year ended 31st December, 1 864, of a dividend of £8 10s. - a share out of the ordinary profits of the company, and a bonus of £1 a share from the insurance fund, both free of income-tax. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 9 O e• Quiet. The En g li s h Stock Exchange Market has been very active and steady to-day, in consequence of hclosing o f outstanding accounts during the O , i daYs• The F un d s a t one t i me were i b etter, ut they are now less buoyant, and - Consols are 91e for money, and 911 for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 891 ; the 2f per Cents., 1894, 73 ; Exchequer Bills, 3s. to 6s. prem. ; India 5 per Cents., 1071 ; and ditto, 100. In the Foreign Market very little alteration has occurred, and business has been rather active. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 74, 75 ; do. Con solides, 548 8; Mexican, 271 1 ; do. New 261 8 ; Greek, 214 s ; Spanish Passive, 321 ; do. Certifi cates, 171 ; Italian, 651 ; do. New 3f 1 dis. ; and Confederate Loan, 29 31. The Russian (Vyksounsky) Iron Works Com pany's shares are 14 to 21 prem. The City of Moscow Gas shares are fto prem. The Millwall Freehold Land and Docks Com pany's shares are f dis. Business in the Railway Share Market has been rather dull, but prices have not varied to any im portant extent. South-Eastern and Midland have declined 55., and South Wales £1; while North- Western have advanced 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit no material change in values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are dull, and generally support former rates. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, May 9 9ll o per Cent. Reduced B9± New 3 per Cent New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 73 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent Do. £5OO 6 3 Do. £lOO and £2OO Bank of England Stock, 5f per Cent 242 Do Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 216 Do Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 ' 107; 7 I Do. Account Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do. Bonds, £l,OOO Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Brazilian .5 per Cent —84.1 Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-5 8 - 60 Do. 1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do I per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Chili= 6 per Cent Do. 4f per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Do 5 per Cent., 1864 Do. Scrip, £55 paid Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do. 4 per Cent, 1863 Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, .£25 paid —} Danubian Principalities Do £B6 paid Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant Egyptian 7 per Cent 971 7 Do., Second Issue 97; Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 95: Do Scrip, £ss paid Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Coupons Do Account Bl Guatemala 5 per Cent. Do. 1839 and 1850 Italian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) _ Do 1865 Do Scrip, .£421 paid -} dis Mexican 3 per Cent. — Do. Account D. 1864 — _ . Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French 54 Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c Montevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 4i per Cent. Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do per Cent., 1862 Do. Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Du Account Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do Account 4Bi Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St~ Do 4 per Cent., 1850 Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do 1864 Sardinian 5 per Cent Do. Account Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive Do Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded l7 D.Account Swedish 4 per Cent. 914 1 r C c en en t. t. lB l 6 B 4 s4 Turpl— cio.s4lh per Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account 73 Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1862 75 Do Account Do. £lOO Bonds 751. 41 'Do 6 per Cent. 1863 .... 11 Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent enezuela 3 per Cent. Do. Account Do. 6 per Cent, 1862 Do. Account Do 6 per Cent., 1864 394 Do. 11 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. .ustrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 251. Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull Do. 4 per Cent. Certifies French Rentes, 3 per Cent. Do. Account Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. Do. Account TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 9ll Do. Account Liverpool Cotton Market —Ms Day. Market continues quiet, at about yesterday's prices. Sales, probably 4,000 or 5,000 bales. The North Staffordshire Strike, The adjourned meeting of the London trades delegates and representatives of works and shops subscribing in support of the men on strike in North Staffordshire, was held last evening at the Sussex Hotel, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street—Mr. Davis, delegate from the Central Society of House Painters, in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said he was glad to see so good an atten dance, notwithstanding there had been some misapprehen sion as to the adjournment of the meeting on the last occa sion, as it proved that all trades unionists of London were still stedfast in their support of their North Staffordshire brethren. (Hear.) They had heard a great deal lately about arbitration. He was in favour of arbitration as a prin ciple, but it must be on a sound basis. Unconditional arbi tration meant nothing less than unconditional submission ; and he thought the North Staffordshire men were fully justified in declining any ambiguous proposal of that na ture. The proposal of Lord Lichfield, however well in tended, was not arbitration, but a mere reference. (Hear.) Mr. PHIPPS, the delegate from North Staffordshire, then laid before the meeting the present position of the men on strike. They were as firm and deterinined in maintaining the position they had taken up as in the first week of the strike. Since the last meeting he had waited upon several trade societies, and had met with much sympathy and support although the injudi c i ous reso l ut i ons adopte d at t h e meet ing of the London Trades Council on Thursday evening last had created much confusion and dissatisfaction. The men on strike had received a larger dividend last Saturday than for some weeks past, and there was every prospect of its being increased next Satu r d ay . (Ch eers.) The Briefly . Executive ll had placed .£2,000 at th e disposal of the North Staffordshire men to emigrate 200 of them to New Zealand. He then explained the terms of Lord Lichfield's proposal to the men, which was too vague for them to accept without giving up all they had been struggling for during twelve months. (Cheers.) Mr. POWELL (Hand-in-Hand Painters) then moved— " That this meeting having heard the report and expla nation of tthe delegate from North Staffordshire, hereby calls on the trades of London to continue their support to the men on strike in North Staffordshire until the masters allow them to resume work at the old rate of wages pend ing a fair and just arbitration." Mr. LEWIS (from Lambeth Carpenters) seconded the re solution, which was supported by Messrs. RICHARDS (Amalgamated Carpenters); Mn.ns (painter), WALES (joiner), lIPSIIALL, and others, and carried unanimously. It was announced that the Friends of Freedom, and the Old Lambeth Carpenters had withdrawn their delegates from the Trades Council owing to its late proceedings. The meeting then adjourned. PETROLEUM.—The imports of petroleum in the first two months of this year amounted to 1,953 tuns, as compared with 2,808 tuns in 1864, and 1,327 tuns in 1863 (corresponding periods). The falling off observable this year occurred wholly from the United States, from which only 1,490 tuns were received in the first two months of 1865, as compared with 2,260 tuns in the corresponding period of 1864, and 1,045 tune in the corresponding period of 1863; ' Share! Railways. 3 - 51 et st et 50 20 Waterford k Kilkenny West Cornw . 1 1 W. liar; lepool Ilan& It Do. A irredeemable Do. A. redeemable Bir.. Wol., & Str. Val Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Corn wdll A A gets no div Do B till6p.c.p.an.has been paid to B Dublin & Belfast June Dun,.Perth, & b.Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. W. stern Great Eastern, Ord. s k Do. E. Angl. st No. Great North of Scotland Great Northera D A stock Do. B o Do. New, is. at 25 pip Gt S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste n OrMnal . w. VA , . Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do W Mid.- Ox ord 10. Newpo t I o. !le 'ford Lane shire &Yorkshire L ndon and Blackvi•ali Lon , S Coast Lon., , hat., and Dover Lon. & orth Western Lon. & South West T Man., Shet., do Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle 4:3 shares .. Do 'ilew Mid and Do. Hi , min . k De, by Mid Gt. %V.. Ireland Po. A shareti id Kent No tit British Do Ed., Pth ,"& Dun. Nth. Eastern Berwick, purchanel Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Po. htock. tic Darling*. De. do. 1855-:8 Do. do. 1860-61 North Londou Do. New. Do. do. 1,3,-4 \orth Staffordshire ' N. &S. W Junction ' Scottish (3' utral Scot. N E ,Aber. stock • o. Scot, Mitt. st ock , h• en's & Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon • • outh E stern ••taines, Wuk., & Wok Taff Vale Do C Vale Neath uRITISH I' Atlantic& St. Lawrence Born., liaroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent... Do. le shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buft,B, ant, & Goderich 6p c. bds. Aug'. 1, 872 D.. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June Is:4 Calcutta & -. E., lint a e Town & Dock, gu Demera a, 7 p.c. per. p East. Ben al, gu , 5 1 .t3 East I dia gu. 5 p.e. Do .1 Extension (hand Trunk of CanAd Do. Equip Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. at tef. Honda Do do. deferred . Do. 24 Pr. f. sionds Do. do. det, rred Ito.: d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred D 4th Pref. stock Do. do deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c 0. this 5 Do. New gtia a p.c 1;1. Sow h ot India (lint gust. 5 per cent D . 41 per cent Do .... , reat W p. of Canada.. D . New. ...... Do 6p. lid-. pay 1873 o. 5 coo ay. 1877 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c D.,. 41 do Do. do o. Fifth I , :xtehado , Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. finds Mel & Hudson's isay New Brun.wick Sz Can Class A and B si. Bl.C'da, pc Ist pt bds Scinde Do. Delhi Do do. Do. Pun . aub =+o Do.lndus St lelo COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 per cent„ Dec. 31,1872 100 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877--4 Do C, p. c. Feb & Aug 100 90 94 D sp. c. Mar. & Sept 10 i 90 04 sp. c. Jan. & July 100 80 82 77 Do. 5 p Inscribed sk 100 80 82 Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 100 10 116 1)0. Aprll & Oct. 1880-4 100 100 108 Do. do: 1,90-1 100 116 1143 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 10u 105 107 Ceylon, Nov 1868, 6p. c 100 Ic2 104 1031 Do. 1878, do. 100 105 107 Mauritius, 6p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. I'7B Do. .881, May .5, Nov. I , 101 108 109 • Natal • ;ov. o per cent lOO 104 106 N.B.Gov 6 p.c.Ja.&luly 100 9.1 06 N. 8. W. Gov. 5 p •0.,1866 00 08 100 Do. 5 p.c. 18 Ito .876 100 93 95 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1892 100 9t 93 02} New Zealand, 6p. cent 110 • 103 105 Do. 6 per cent.... 100 87 90 Nova So tia Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 lOO 93 06 96 Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 103 105 1041 S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 18e8-9 100 -- - Do. 1878 & upwards 1 0 105 107 Vie,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July 100 Do. do, e+ pril & Oct lOO 106 k 1074 107 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cam Consul: told, liin 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated. 3') EL* Devon G. Cons. (Tay.st. 1 570 58 • Drake wal Is 2.1.0 1 East Bassett (Illogan 3O 18 4 22 Mast Cara on 2.14.6 15 16 as Earn Brea 3 4.0 69 7 Kast Grenville EaSt Love 1 2. 3.6 10 11 E. W'. Russell Javistk 3.1 41 Gam & StAubyt.(G wen. 601 4 6 4 Cr at L xey, limited all 1' 19 Great South Tolgus 1.1.0 11 24 G. Wheal Vor Heist 40 8/4 314 Greuvil e 7.8.3 4 49 • Herod's Foot .... 8.13 'es 36 Elingstun . owns 4 .1 8 .1 31 4 31arg"aret Uny Lelant 149 5 7 Slurke Valley 4.3.0 5 51 4 w> ndy Iron Ore, liu 24 1; Of Nang. les .. l9 16 18 eV/ Se cun ....... 214 35 45 North Downs . North Roskear r.Wh 1 Bassett I . log al l 10.0 I North Wile 1 Crotty Prosper 7.1.6 3 31 Pr vidence Uny L .lant 10.6.7 31 '3 S. Caradun 'St. Cleer) ll 520 530 S. Wheal Fran. ,1 Rogan 18.18 9 20 25 -.tray Pa. k 30 l7 . 15 17 Tin Croft . 9 144 15 West assett (11 wan 1 76 86 W. Cara....n L skeard 9 6 West Chi rerton ll 574 12i West Seton Wheal Baal.ett Illogan 54 100 103 Wheal Ilu, ler (Reuruto 10 30 35 . nea Ludu tt 3 12.8 Wheal Nary Ann (Men. 8 11 13 Wheal Seto Who,il T clawney (I.is. 7 ,9 20 Wheal Uni c 4 t'REFEItENI•E SHARES. :ireat. Eastern, E. Counties Ex., No. 1 ;105 Great Eastern, E. U., 4 per cent. gua., 8 , Greet Northern 5 per cent., 114 Great &inherit, 4i per cent., rt-d. at 10 percent. pm., 101 . itto, 5 per cant., redeemable at 5 per cent., it 6 Great western, West .►iidlaud, Newport perp. 6 per cent. opt. tilt 69, 1,5 Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Iti to. Bristol awl Birm., 6 p r cent., Ditto, 4l per cent. pt. stock rd., LAW, 4i per cent. irred., 101 FOREMN RAILWAYS. l'abla and San Francisco k litno gua. 7 per oent., 151 Dutch Rhenish, 221, South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, £2 FOREIGN MINES, Vancouver Coal, 31 BANKS. Agra and DI isterman's, lim., Ditto, new, 60 60 Alliance Lim.). 3 gtti Brazili in and Portuguese, lira., 11/ Charterad Bank of India, Australia, and China, 2811 9 Consolidated Bans, 11m., 101 Continental, lim., 21 Ditto, new, 12/ Hindustan, china. and Japan aim.), 221 Ditto, issued]at 2 pm., 21i Imperial Bank, lim., 30, / Imperial Ottoman, 171 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 41 London and Brazilian aim.), 0 49/ London and County, 78 London Joint Stock, 49 London and South African, 22/ London and Veuezula, lim , 6 mercantile and Exchange, tim., 7 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, iim., 17; Ditto (.£io), 7 National Provincial of England. Ditto. 3d issue, 461 Oriental Bang Corporation, 531 Union of A uatralia, t 5 Union of London,ssl 5 • SIISCELLANEOU B . Australian Mort. Land and Finance. lim., 31:3 Egyptian Corn, and Trading, lim., 4 glish and Australian Copper. 11 Gen. Credit and Finance of L.ondon. lira.. 61 1 1 Imperi .1 mercantile Credit sso., tim., 61 International Financial • ociety, tim., of Joint Stock Discount. I:m., 8 71 London and Caledonian s; arine, lim., 51 L %noon Financial Association, tim., 22 t 1 London John', om. , ibus Company,- 3 1 dras Irr gation and Lanai, ,2 Ditto (all), 201 Milwalt Iron Works. 61 -ational Db.couiit Company, lim., 151 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Mail, lim Quebr4da Land, Rail, and 'Ruling. Rm., 5 Royal Mail Steam. 190 Silver s Inclia-rubbc Works and Tel. Cable, 121 Van Diemen's Laud, 9 By advic • s from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per marl acid the short exchange on London is 13.6} per £1 Standard gold at the English Mint price i therefore, about -10th. per cent. dearer in Lomb= than In Ilanaburg. 92i 2 SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY 611A.RES AND STOCKS. Paid. ' Closing I Business Price. done. 95 97 130 1311 5i 66 68 6 17 8.1 91 107 1. 9 47 48 7 8 1311 1324 1474 1484' 131 .33 87 89 75; 76 65 67 52 53 46 4 , 4 0 03 119) 120 86 4,8 107 100 43 I 3 It 4 :23 96 07 594 60 12i 13 ) 21 W I 1384 137 ,06 1(8 j 51 15 zli 15 1101 111; 69 70 103 IL3 37 38 1 t 12 p 9 10 p 115 lls 1 Vpl 78 79 11 11t 138 112 48 50 60 61 52 55 86 661 9 10 155 154 3 4 p 107 109 46 48 74 77 sIONi, 50 fi3 1026 103 k pr 4p 4 46 e 6 96 65 70 99 101 75 85 1' 1 101 102 104 10 105 16 18 S 7 60 65 50 55 50 55 45 50 43 48 41 44 23 .5 22 21 104 1(5 I H 101 i 102 8 1 fi 85 u 75 1m di 101 1026 1 8 9 9 3 99r; 64 66 3 5 82 81 toli 102 i 101 i 1(2 pr 1011 1 ,, 2 94 97 OSSE! 11Pf 10St Vi 12 I J 3 f 96t 7j 61f 1:91 i 30 231 1041 4 CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This day. (Before Mr. Baron Channell and Mr. Justice Smith.) PELIZZIONI'S CASE.-" THE SAFFRON-HILL MURDER." The trial of Pelizzioni was continued after we went to press yesterday, and, as stated in our later edition, was adjourned until this morning. John Liddell, a French polisher, who was in the house at the time of the fracas, said he saw the prisoner strike Harrington, who then fell. The witness was subjected to a rigorous cross-examina tion, and although he gave his evidence in a somewhat singular manner, which induced the judge several times to threaten him with a committal, he persisted in the accuracy of his original statement. Another witness, named Stanley, who was in the house at the time, said that Harrington made a grip at the pri soner, who then stabbed him. The witness said he struck Pelizzioni on the head, otherwise he should have been stabbed himself. A person named Bannister, who was also in the house, gave evidence confirmatory of that of Stanley. He said that he was standing between Harrington and • Rebbeck when he was cut on the knuckle with a knife. The prisoner was near. Witness had lost the use of his finger. • Some other evidence having been given the trial was adjourned. This morning evidence for the prosecution was continued Police Sergeant Baldock said that, on the 26th of De cember, the prisoner was charged at the Clerkenwell stat tion with stabbing a man. He told him he must detain him, because, if the man died, he would be charged with wilful murder. The prisoner's right hand was covered with blood, and witness made a remark to him on the sub ject. He said, "I have only protected myself." On search ing him, witness found in his pocket a bone-handled knife, which had not been used that day. On the following day, having heard of the death of Michael Harrington, witness informed the prisonerthat he was charged withwilful mur der. Ho said, "I never used a knife." (The witness was not cross-examined.) Eliza Harriet .Shaw, the wife of the landlord of the Golden Anchor, in which the fracas occurred, said that between six and seven o'clock on the evening of the 26th of Deceniber shawas serving in the bar, and was very busy. She saw Gregorio there, but she did not see him come in. Gregorio slapped her husband's face, after which he went into the tap-room._ Her husband went to call the police, witness remaining in the bar. About ton minutes before that she saw Harrington in the tap-room. After her hus band's face was slapped Gregorio took hold of Harrington, who was drawn away by some one into the bagatelle room. Some one gave her two billycock hats, which she threw over the bar to Gregorio and his brother John. Cross-examined by Sergeant , Ballantine—Gregorio and brother took the hats away. Gregorio had said, "Give me my hat," or something of that sort. Police-sergeant Potter said, on the 26th of December he conveyed the prisoner to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where Harrington was lying in bed. He took the prisoner and about a dozen other persons to Harrington's bedside. Wit ness told Harrington that he had heard from the doctor that he had but a short time to live. He made a sign and went off into a doze. Witness cautioned him, and he then said, "If lam to die, God have mercy on me." Witness then asked him to look round the bed and see if there was anybody there he knew,and to point out where he was hurt. He said, "In my belly." On looking round the bed, he pointed to Pelizzioni, and said, "That's the man that did it, him with the black moustache, God have mercy on him," or " God forgive him." He refused to sign a paper that had been written out, and repeated several times " God have mercy upon him." Wit ness asked the prisoner whether he understood what was said, and he replied, " I do not understand English well." He told the prisoner that Harrington had said he was the man who had done it, but he said nothing. The paper alluded to was shown to the magistrate at the police court, but the magistrate would not receive it as evidence as the officers and doctor who had heard Harrington's statement were present. The paper was left in the police court, and could not now be found. Afterwards witness went to the bedside of Rebbeck at the Royal Free Hospital, the prisoner being with him. Ile had been informed that Rebbeck was dying, and Dr. Hill confirmed the statement. A sergeant of the police had taken down a statement from Rebbeck, which was read over in the presence of the prisoner. (From the paper which was read by the clerk of the court it appeared that Rebbeck stated Pelizzioni stabbed him.) Baldock was recalled and Sergeant Ballantine elicited from him that he wrote the paper at Rebbeck's bedside, while the prisoner Pelizzioni was present, thus contradict ing Potter, who had stated that the sergeant had writen it before Pelilzzion's arrival. He said, in answer, to the foreman of the jury, that he was occupied about a quarter of an hour in taking the statement. Potter, who had been out of court, was recalled—Di rectly he heard from Dr. Hill that Rebbeck was in danger, he sent for Pelizzioni. He had not seen the written state ment. In answer to Sergeant Ballantine, he stated that Pelizzioni did not say a word, or utter any ejaculation when he was told what Rebbeck had said, but the learned counsel read from the examination at the Police-court, where Potter swore that when Pelizzioni heard of Rebbeck's statement, he exclaimed "Oh 1" He explained the contradiction by saying that he had forgotten the circumstance. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—Did you speak of either of the knives at the inquest ? Witness—l don't think I did. Sergeant Ballantine—Don't you know you did ? Witness—l don't think I did. Sergeant Ballantine—Had you, when Pelizzioni was first tried, heard that the buckhorn-handle knife belonged to Mogni ? Witness—Yes, I heard it belonged to John Mogul. Ile-examined—l had nothing to do with the production or the non-production of the two knives at the trial. When I came into the witness-box I saw them both lying on the table. Mr. Giffard—Did you ever conceal anything about the finding of the two knives? Witness—No, never. Mr. Giffard—Did you hear that two hats had been lost ? Witness—Yes. Sergeant Ballantine—Did you mention that fact at the trial ? Witness—No. Sergeant Ba.llantine—Didn't you make any inquiry about them of Mrs. Shaw, the landlady ? Witness—No. Mr. Giffard—Did you think there was anything import ant about the loss of the two hats at the first trial. Witness —No. Police -constable Fawell was next called. Sergeant Ballantine—On the 27th of December, you swore before the magistrate that you saw Alfred Rebbeck following the prisoner into the bagatelle-room. Is that true ? Witness—That is not correct. Sergeant Ballantine—Then how came you to swear it ? Witness —The depositions were read over to me before I signed it, but it was not read as you have done it. Sergeant Ballantine—You signed it, you know. That's your signature, is it not ? Witness —Yes. Sergeant Ballantine--Who told you it was the prisoner ? Witness--Rebbeck told me he had been stabbed, and I supposed that led me to say so. I know when I got into the bagatelle room the prisoner was the only Italian there. I saw the prisoner taken off the body of Harrington. I knew there was another man standing in the passage as I went in. I don't know what became of him.' Mr. Justice Smith—Did you see Rebbeck go into the •bagatelle room ? Witness—NO, I did not. Mr. Hill, the surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, said Rebbeck was brought to the institution suffering from a punctured wound in the side, half an inch in length and three inches deep. There was no other wound causing the blood to flow. There was no portion of the weapon which inflicted the injury left in the wound. The knife produced would inflict the injury. By Sergeant Ballantine—lf the persons had been face to face, I should imagine the wound to have been inflicted with the left hand. Rebbeck when he was brought in smelt as if he had been drinking spirits. Ho was not drunk. This closed the case for the prosecution. Sergeant Ballantine proceeded to address the jury for the defence. He to odwpealstt utls, priaonthe great importance of the inquiry,owing and upon the fact that the prisoner was under sentence of d ea th . Th e po li ce , he contended, had commenced with a blunder, and that sooner than admit the blunder suppressed matter, which was of the greatest importance to the pre sent inquiry. He should endeavour to lay before them what he considered the admitted facts on which the jury would have to decide. It was conceded by the prosecution — and that would be the first matter for consideration—for upon it the entire case for the prosecution was founded — that the act was committed, if it was committed by Pellizzioni, wa s committed by him when he was down in the bagatelle room. If he succeeded in breaking the groundwork and point of the prosecution that Pelizzioni was the only Italian in the room, he should destroy the whole case for the prosecution, for it was obvious that the other circumstances of the prosecution were of secondary importance. [We shall continue the cam in our late edition.] THIRD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) TILE CITY BURGLARIES. This morning Wilkinson, alias Carotty Fred, Brown, alias Scotty, Jeffrey, and Brewerton, were indicted for a burglary at Messrs. Bennoc's, warehousemen, in Wood street, Cheapside. At the close of the evidence for the prosecution the Recorder said there was no evidence against Brewerton, and he was acquitted upon that indictment. The learned counsel engaged for the prisoners addressed the jury, who found then guilty, and sentence was deferred. NEW COURT. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. John Walters was indicted for highway robbery from a boy in Oxford-street, and found guilty. The learned Judge sentenced him to 14 years' penal servitude. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE MARQUIS OF TOWNSHEND AND THE BEGGARS.— Margaret Anderson, about 14 years old, was charged before Mr. Knox by the Marquis of Townshend with begging in Charles-street, St. James's-square. The Marquis of Townshend said—Last night this little girl asked me for money. I put some questions to her, in answer to which she said that her mother sent her begging, and that she had no father. - I then gave her into custody. Malcolm Hunter, 45 0, who took the girl into custody, said her sister was in court. Her sister, in answer to questions by the magistrate, said we . get our living by going out singing in the streets, and we live in Church-street and pay 6d. a night for our lodgings. Our mother is living, but we do not know where, but our father is dead. Mr. Knox—lt is almost ridiculous to ask you such a question, but do you ever go to church or chapel ? The sister—No, sir; we used to go to a chapel; we are Catholics. We have not seen our mother for 18 months. Mr. Knox—lt is not a case for punishment, but ono in which something ought to be done to save the girl from destruction. I will remand her for a week, and see what can be done for her. The girl was then remanded. THE FOREIGN PROSTITUTE NUISANCE IN REGENT-STREET. —Marie Durient, a Frenchwoman, was charged before Mr. Knox with loitering in Regent-street for the purposes of prostitution, to the annoyance of the inhabitants. . Mr. Henry Dolby, engineer, of 56, Regent's-quadrant, said that on the previous night he watched the prisoner from eleven till twelve o'clock, during which time he saw her accost several gentlemen for the purposes of prostitu tion, the gentlemen pushing her away. Ho then called a constable's attention to the prisoner, and just as the clock struck twelve gave her in charge for annoying him, as one of the inhabitants of the street. ,Although at present dressed in modest attire, she walked up and down Regent street dressed in the extreme of fashion. After he gave her into custody, she put her hand, blazing with jewels, in his face, saying she could pay any fine. She was in the habit of walking with a woman who had annoyed him for fifteen years. Mr. Knox asked if the nuisance was abated? Mr. Dolby said it was, and that the inhabitants were much indebted to the court for the assistance they had re ceived. He came forward on public grounds, and repu diated any other motive whatever, not having the least vindictiveness in the matter. The prisoner said that ho ought to be ashamed of himself, being a Frenchman, to interfere ; ,but be wished to deny that. He was not a Frenchman, but an Englishman. Mitchell, 298 A, proved seeing the prisoner, whom he had known for three or four years as a prostitute, accost gentlemen. He heard her say she could pay any fine. The prisoner, who pretended she could not speak Eng lish, having put a few questions to the constable, Mr. Knox fined her 40s. or a month. WESTMINSTER. ROBBING EMPLOYERS.—John Landsdowne, a respectable looking man, in the garb of a gas engineer, was charged with being concerned with a man named Williams, in custody, with stealing a valuable water gauge, the pro perty of Messrs. Kelk and Lucas, contractors, from the Exhibition-grounds, Brompton. John Morgan, seargeant, 3 B, said—From information received, I went to No. 11, Elizabeth-street, Chelsea, last night, at half-past six, and asked for the prisoner. He was denied, but as I left the place I saw him look out at a window, when I went and apprehended him for being concerned with another man, in custody, for stealing this gauge and other valuable property, consisting of stop cocks, hose, pipe, ex. He said nothing to the charge. James Donovan, watchman - to Mr. Douglas, builder, Queensbury-place, South Kensington, said—On last Fri day night a man, whom he believed to be the prisoner, came to him with the gauge and told him that the fore man had ordered him to put it in one of the buildings of which he had care... The man left at past 11; on the same night the dog barked, and witness said that four men were standing on the steps of one of the houses. The police were fetched, and three of the men escaped; one of them named Williams was captured, having two hose-pipes on him, corresponding with part of the property stolen from the Exhibition. Mr. Edward Hintley, foreman to Messrs. Belk and Lucas, proved that the gauge and other property was safe locked in a box in the Exhibition grounds on the 10th of March. He identified the property. The prisoner was in their service. The watchman said he heard one of the four men men tion the name Butcher, and Moyard proved that the pri soner went by that name ; also, that in the area where the watchman saw the four men, 7 stopcocks and 2 hose-pipes were found concealed ready to be carried off. Access to the place where they had been kept had been obtained by a duplicate key, and then a box had been broken open. the Russian Squadron in the Baltic. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) ST. PETERSBURG, April Bth. The Message,. de Cronstadt gives the enumeration of the vessels of the War Marine destined this year to undertake excursions for practical navigation in the Baltic sea. There will be a squadron of ironclads, consisting of the frigate Sebastopol, 18 guns, two rams, the two-turretted gunboat Smertsch, and 11 single-turretted Monitors. By the end of the summer the above will probably be joined by the ironclad frigate Petropavlowsk, 26 guns, and the armour plated battery Kremil, of 18 guns. The squadron will also comprise several paddlewheel frigates and sailing vessels as an escort to the monitors and turretted gunboats. Irre spective of the smaller vessels, the screw frigate Grand Admiral, of 78 guns, will also cruise in the interior, having on board, it is said, their Imperial Highnesses the Grand Dukes Alexis Alexandrovitch and Nicholas Constan tinovitch. Besides the vessels already absent the following will leave this year to cruise abroad. The screw frigate Pereswett 42 guns, for the Mediterranean; the screw corvette Askold, 17guns, the steam clipper Izouroud, and the screw gunboat Sobol for the Pacific Ocean. The vessels that will return to Cronstadt are the following : from the Mediterranean, the squadron of Rear-Admiral Lesowski, consisting of the screw frigates Alexander, Nevski and Oleg, the screw cor vette Witiaze, and the steam clipper Almaze ; and from the Pacific Ocean the screw corvette Kalevala, the steam clipper Abrek, and the sailing transport Guiliak. • The Riga Gazette says—Upon the proposition of the Committee of the Courland Nobility, Count Schovalow, the Governor-General, confirmed on Feb. 19 last the abroga tion of the right of corporal punishment granted by the Courland regulations, in the case of the peasants, to the rural police, landlords and public functionaries, restricting such right of correction to schools and the lower order of domestics. The Nouvelliste de Kertsch announces, under the date of Feb. 28, that the whole extent of the Sea of Azof as far as the eye could reach from the top of the Yenikale lighthouse is free of ice, so that the lighting up of that building was resumed on the 19th of that month. On the 18th naviga tion was opened in the port of Berdiansk. '1 he Epidemic• PAurs, April 11. The Moniteur of this evening says :—" We learn from Dantzic that an epidemic, termed by the faculty cerebro spinal meningites, has for the last two months been raging in several districts of Eastern Prussia. It is chiefly pre valent among very young children, seldom attacking adults above the age of 20. "l t appears certain that this affection has no analogy with the disease prevailing at St. Petersburg, and hitherto has not been found contagious. Besides this, no cases have occurred except in the spot where the malady first broke out. According to intelligence from Stettin, Koenigsberg, and Memel, the public health in these towns and the environs, as well as in the adjoining Russian provinces, is satisfactory. Some isolated cases of typhus fever have occurred at 'Warsaw, but there is no reason to believe that the disease is likely to spread, or that it was imported from the North of Russia." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, April 13.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather. DARTMOUTH, April 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Duke of Cornwall, steamer, from Dublin, and proceeded for London. BRIDPORT, April 11.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—First Fruit, for Harbour Grace. POOLE, April 12.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Caroline, for Quebec. PLYMOUTH, April 11.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Her Ma jesty's ship Revenge, from the Mediterranean. Sailed— Immanuel, for Quebec. CARDIFF, April 12.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Montpelier, from Rio Janeiro; Albertine, from Hong. Kong; Louise from Martinique. NEWPORT, April 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Convoy, from Gloucester for Gibraltar; Ann Buckle, from Liver pool for Kurrachee. PIEL, April 12.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed—Horne, for Quebec. QUEENSTOWN, April 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Novo Bromingen, from Matamoras. __ _ . LONDONDERRY, April 12.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Nubia, for Quebec. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morn. Arrived, April 12—Hansa, steamsr, from Nassau Earl of Auckland, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Providence, steamer, from Gravelines ; Harriet Wardle, steamer, from Jamaica • Agnar, steamer, from Belize. Arrived, April 13—Tiger, steamer, from Hamburg ; Baron osy, steamer, from Antwerp ; Panther, steamer, from Boulogne. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Arrived and Passed, April I2—London, for Algiers ; Citizen, for Bordeaux • Cid, screw steame r, for San Sebas tian ; Annette, for Rio' Janeiro—all from London. Passed—Norman, from London, for Quebec. Anchored—Neptune, from London, for Newport. France to Cobden, The following despatch is an eloquent proof of a growing identity of views and sentiment between the French and ourselves. The Minister of Foreign Affairs interprets the feelings of the French nation when he pays tribute to the sterling worth of Cob den. However great an object it may be to seek to know ourselves, it is certainly a source of deep satis faction and of good augury for the peace of the world when our neighbours learn to know us and we also to understand them. The life of an " inter national man," such as ar. Drouyn de Lhuys so aptly designates Cobden, has been fitly devoted to these great results : " To his Excellency the Prince de la Tour d'Auv ergne, Ambassador of France at London. " Paris, April 8. "Prince,—A few days since, whilst the first Mi nister of her Britannic Majesty bore brilliant testi mony in the House of Commons to the memory of Richard Cobden, a speaker belonging to the Govern ment of the Emperor expressed the regrets which the death of this illustrious man gave rise to in France, and the Legislative Body identified them selves with this homage by an unanimous impulse. " A manifestation so honourable to the two nations, and to the person whose loss England deplores, will not have escaped your attention ; and you will perhaps have already had occasion to communicate thereupon with the Ministers of the Queen. I desire nevertheless, Prince, to place you in a position to express to them officially the mournful sympathy and truly national regret which the death, as lamented as premature, of Richard Cobden has excited on this side of the Channel. " That indefatigable promoter of liberty in the domain of commerce and manufactures was not only the living proof of what merit, perseverance, and labour can accomplish ; one of the most complete examples of those men who, sprung from the most humble ranks of society, raise themselves to the highest rank in public estimation by the effect of their own worth and of their personal services ; finally, one of the rarest examples of the solid qualities inherent in the English character. He is above all, in our eyes, the representative of those sentiments and those cosmopolite principles before which national frontiers and rivalries disappear ; whilst essentially of his country, he was still more of his time ; he knew what mutual relations could accomplish in our days for the prosperity of peoples. Cobden, if I may be permitted so to say, was an international man. " There are some mental views and aptitudes which are only given to those who in the outset of their career have felt the embarrassments and the difficulties of life, who have had to struggle against the necessities of a position less than humble. Richard Cobden had been brought up in this severe but strengthening school ; he thence derived, as the best preparation for a knowledge of political eco nomy, the gift of sympathy with the sufferings of the laborious classes in the midst of whom he had lived ; he the better understood the straitened circumstances which he had shared; and in feeling the need of alleviating them, he was naturally ledto seek the means to do so, firstly, in the abolition of the corn laws in England, then in the suppression or lowering of the barriers which the various commer cial laws had raised between peoples. Certainly Cobden did not create any of the principles of in dustrial and commercial liberty. They had been professed and propagated before him by eminent theorists in England and France. But his glory is to have followed up the practical application of them, abroad and at home, with an ardour and de votedness quite unparalleled. " Exempt from national prejudices as from those of education and caste, Richard Cobden brought to the pursuit of reforms which he judged useful to his country and profitable to humanity a disinterestedness and a sincerity which one can not but honour, whilst at the same time one is obliged to admit that all his views were not equally practicable. " For ourselves, we cannot forget the consider able part he took in the change of opinions which prepared, and in the negotiations which led to, the treaty of commerce at present existing between France and England. This important act, the good results of which experience has already con secrated, and the liberal provisions of which are from day to day adopted by other Powers of Europe, will have for effect not only the development of the material interests between England and France, but it will also aid powerfully in strengthening their friendly relations. This was the double object of Richard Cobden. He loved and understood France better than any other person, and regarded as one of the greatest interests of his country and humanity the maintenance of peaceful relations between the two nations, which, according to the expression recently used by a member of the English Cabinet, march at the head of the world. " You will be good enough, Prince, to acquaint the First Minister and the Principal Secretary of her BritanniC Majesty with the sentiments expressed in this despatch, and which they will receive I doubt not with a willingness equal to that which has dic tated them.—Receive, &c., (Signed) " DROUYN DE LIENS." STATE OF TRADE. -....'..---- CARDIFF, April Il.—There are a good number of orders on the books of the steam coal proprietors, and the col lieries are, as usual, in pretty regular employ. The export inquiry has improved a little as compared with what was the case a week ago. Considerable vitality is evinced in the house coal trade, and there is upon the whole a good demand from the West of England and Irish markets. Quotations for both steam and house remain without any material alteration. For certain descriptions of coke plates there is a better sale, but it cannot be said that prices have improved. Patent fuel is in request on export account, and the works are on full time. The principal ironmasters of the district are well supplied with orders. Contracts for railway iron are being executed for South America, Sweden, Italy, and also the East. DONCASTER, 11.—The state of the coal trade in South Yorkshire is exceedingly good, and, as the weather is now much warmer, we may expect an alteration so far is house hold descriptions are concerned. The inquiry for the me tropolitan markets is brisk, and in the anticipation of an increasing trade the Great Northern Railway propose to ex tend their coal depot and weighing yard at this place. The tonnage that passes through from both the northern and South Yorkshire coalfields is large. The demand for Hull and Grimsby, especially for steam coal, _is improving, and both the railway and the navigation convey steam and house coal in considerable quantities. The opening of the northern ports has stimulated the steam coal trade. The export trade at those ports is good. LEICESTER, 12th.—There is is not much change in the hosiery trade; the market continues healthy and there is about an average amount of business doing. Manufac turers are careful to produce only those goods which are ordered. In the country districts business is rather quiet. Yarns are without much change in price, and spinners only make for immediate requirements. The wool market is dull, and there is very little doing in materials. NOTTINGHAM, 12th.—There is an improvement in the demand for silk mechlins this week. All kinds of cotton goods are, however, a slow sale, and the state of the yarn market prevents buyers purchasing except for immediate wants. The fineness of the weather will influence the sale of laces suitable to the season. Stocks of goods are light, and manufacturers produce with eaution. A few buyers have been in the market, but their operations are not extensive. In hosiery there is not much ch an g e. little is doing for the home market and for shipment, and manufacturers are working almost entirely to order. Yarns are without much alteration. -------- THE LAST OF AN ACTOR. —At the Lambeth Police-court, yesterday, shortly before the conclu sion of the business of the Court, Dr. Tanner, of Kenning ton, accompanied by Mr. Porter, the relieving officer of the Newington, applied to Mr. Elliott, the parish of St. Mary's, sitting magistrate, for an order of removal to the Lun a ti c A sy l um , Bethnal -green, of Joseph Henry Rickards, the well-known co median, as a dangerous lunatic. It w as shown that for many months past he imprisonment i e e r h o en a d d m been ennet vhe he s uffer ed at stuo tim es ar. a ve d s e extremely violent, causing the greatest alarm to his wife and neighbours. The poor fellow a few days ago he played recovered from the three months' for ill-treating his wife, although h O a t d he a l n lo i a n t te a rv L i o e n w do w n it t h he h a i t m, re faourcia ü b l e t n im efi at t e . ly, h in e t m he ag e l a st r r e a e te f three attendants, he was conveyed in a carri age . from the court to the asylum, the magistrate having granted the order requested. ACCIDENT IN A CHURCHYARD.—On Monday an accident took place in the graveyard at Bowdon which might have been attended with a fatal result. A grave had been dug ready to receive the body of Mrs. Starkey, and Charles Albinson, the son of the sexton, descended into the grave, which was very deep, when suddenly the soil, which was very loose and sandy, gave way under the weight of the bystanders, and the poor man was over whelmed with the falling earth,being literally buried under the mass. Assistance having been instantly obtained, he was gradually rescued from his perilous position. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, CITY BETTING-YESTERDAY. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 3to 1 agst John Davis (taken) sto 1 agst Tomato (taken) 10 to 1 agst Wandering Minstrel (taken) 10 to 1 agst Grace Darling (taken) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 6to 1 agst Grinder (taken) 9to 1 agst Mail Train (taken) 20 to 1 agst Perfumer (taken) 20 to 1 agst Lampoon (taken) CHESTER CUP. 14 to 1 agst La Toucques (taken) 16 to 1 agst Victorious (taken) 20 to 1 agst Gratitude (taken) 33 to 1 agst Buckfoot (taken) 33 to 1 agst Mail Train (taken) THE TWO THOUSAND. 2to 1 agst Liddington (taken) 3to 1 agst Brea,dalbane (taken) 12 to 1 agst Broomielaw (taken) 16 to 1 agst Ariel (taken) 20 to 1 agst Chattanooga (taken) 40 to 1 agst Archimedes (taken) BETTING AT MANCHESTER—WEnxEsDAY. There was a very thin attendance at the Subscription Rooms this day, and the only feature in the betting was the execution of a commission in favour of Ariel for the Two Thousand Guineas and Derby. Closing prices : TWO THOUSAND. 2to 1 agst Liddington (offered) 3to 1 agst Breadalbane (offered) 20 to 1 agst Ariel (taken) THE DERBY. 20 to 1 agst Archimedes (taken and offered) 50 to 1 agst Ariel (taken freely) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 7to 1 agst Grinder (offered—take 15 to 2) 9 to 1 agst Mail Train (offered) 100 to 6 agst Lampoon (offered—take 20 to 1) 20 to 1 agst Paris (offered) 20 to 1 agst Mcestissima filly (offered) CHESTER CUP. 10 to 1 agst Lion (offered—take 100 to 9) 11 to 1 agst Lord Zetland (offered) 100 to 7 agst Mcestissima filly (taken and wanted) 100 to 3 agst Highflyer's dam colt (taken and wntd) 100 to 3 agst The Clown (offered) YORK SPRING MEET The Flying Dutchman Handi Age st lb Borealis ... 5 8 12 Tartar ... ... 4 8 10 King of Utopia, ... 5 8 10 Monk ... a 8 4 Little Stag 4 8 4 Prince Arthur ... 4 8 2 Onesander ... 5 8 2 Gratitude ... 5 7 13 Cathedral ... 4 7 11 Brick ... ... 4 7 10 Greville ... 4 7 10 Battaglia ... 4 7 8 Donnybrook 5 7 7 Castle Espie ... 4 7 6 Juliet ... a 4 7 Revival ... ... 4 7 4 Bradainante 4 7 4 Thebolda ... 4 7 4 ING—TUESDAY, MAY 16. icap. One mile and a quarter. Age zt lb Finesse ... ... 4 7 4 Bandarilla ... 4 7 3 The Lion ... 3 7 0 Verger ... 4 7 0 Industry ... 4 6 10 Grappler ... ... 3 6 9 Sidewind ... 3 6 7 Peeress ... ... 3 6 7 East Lynn ... 3 6 6 Nu ... 3 6 4 Wild Poppy 3 6 4 Lady of Coverdale 3 6 4 Miss Bowzer c01t... 3 6 2 Moldavia ... ... 3 6 1 Aline ... ... 3 6 0 Ceres ... 3 511 Revolver ... ... 5 paid The weights were publishe and the forfeits are to be dec. )d on the 11th April at 10 a.m., tared on the 18th. [ADVERTISEMENTS.] " TAT TERSALLS' TlSSUE."—Commission Agency. —James Hopkins executes Commissions on all Races throughout the year. Place-betting and double events. Cheques to be crossed National Bank, and Post-office orders payable at the Fleet-street office. Address, 13, Rolls buildings, Fetter-lane, London, E.C. G. R. OLENIA Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, supplies the Latest Edition of " THE SUN " round the Royal Oak and Notting-hill by eight o'clock. Baily's Spring Turf Guide, this day, 2s. 6d. post free.— Commissions executed. the Late Mr. R. Cobden's First Entry Into Public Life, The following, upon the above subject, extracted from a private letter from the pen of Mr. William Cathrall (for many years co-proprietor and editor with the late Mr. Archibald Prentice of the Man chester Times) will be read with special interest at the present moment: — Whilst my late partner and myself were earnestly en gaged as journalists, now about 30 years back, in the severe struggle then entered upon by the inhabitants of Manches ter for obtaining the incorporation of the town, we received a series of letters upon that and other subjects of public in terest from an anonymous correspondent under the signa ture of "Libra." These letters, which were generally fur nished alternate weeks, were marked by so much thought and ability that we were desirous to have an interview with the writer, and accordingly inserted a line in our paper to that effect, mentioning a time for the purpose. About noon the same day that this notice appeared, the publisher of our paper notified to me that a gentleman in the outer office wished to see me, when the stranger, on being invited into my private room, introduced himself as Richard Cobden. His person and name being alike un known to ine, and not recollecting for the moment that a stranger was expected in accordance with the notice inserted in our journal, I begged he would inform me of the object of his call, when he said he was "Libra," adding, " I observe from your paper that you wish to see me." We at once became great friends. Soon after poor Prentice, my partner, entered the room, and on being in formed that it was Libra" who was with me, warmly shook him by the hand, and at the same time complimented him on the skill, &c., displayed in his letters. We gathered that he was engaged in business in Mozley street ; that he had only recently come to Manchester, and had but few acquaintances there. I well remember that in this interview he was very diffi dent, and somewhat nervous in temperament ; at the same time it was obvious to us, even then, that he was in ability and promise much above the average step of young men. It happening that a public meeting, under the presidency of Mr. Prentice, in furtherance of the corporation of Man chester, was to be held that same evening at the Cotton Tree Tavern, in Ancoats (a favourite political rendezvous of the period referred to), my partner at once solicited Mr. Cobden to accompany him, and to take part in the proceedings. Although so many years have since passed, I well recollect that Mr. Cobden declined to attend the meeting; in fact, ho evidently shrank from the task of speaking on the occasion, and it was not until repeatedly pressed to do so that he consented, although the meeting was quite of a minor cha racter. "I assure , you," he said, " I never yet made a speech of any description, excepting, perhaps, an after-dinner oue at a commercial table." Having at length obtained the pro mise of his attendance, it was arranged that he should take his tea at our office on the way to the meeting, which he accordingly did. After the opening speech of the chairman, he called upon Mr. Cobden to move the first resolution, introducing him as his "young friend" who had recently contributed to the Manchester Times the able letters signed " Libra." His speech, however, on this occasion was a signal failure. He was nervous, confused, and in fact practically broke down, and the chairman had to apologise for him, but at the same time expressed full confidence as to the success and useful ness of his future career. Such was Mr. Cobden's debit before the Manchester pub lic as a speaker. So far as his own feelings were concerned, for some time he was so discouraged by his maiden effort that lam pretty confident had this lamented and remark able man, whose oratory subseque ntl y was of so persuasive a kind, been allowed to follow the bent of his inclination, hen u ervepfessi rrao ona l acquaintance with Mr. Cobde n thus again would have appeared as a public speaker. Our formedledto his introduction to the political circles of Man , chester, and in a short period he took an active part i n mos t pu bli c matters affecting the interests of the town, and was chosen ono of the first members i of the corp ora ti on w h ose c h ar ter he materially assisted n obtaining. Fl a gs were displayed on all the public buildings of Brussels the day before yesterday on the occasion h ir birthday, , telegram and the f c r i o t m y India the 30th anniversary of th e D u k e d e B ra b ant ' s was o f t illuminated he6th i n the announces even ing.tHhee will notourf return o Highness to Bombay from China. Egypt about the end of the pre sent month, and may arrive in Belgium towards the middle of May. His health is excellent. IMMIGRANTS AND LIBERATED AFRICANS.—A Parliamentary return shows that there were 18,569 immigrants and liberated Africans introduced into Jamaica from the year 1843 to the end of last year ; 99,409 into British Guiana; 40,042 into Trinadad; 2,833 into St. Lucia; 2,149 into St. Vincent ; 3,937 into Grenada ; 3,588 into Antigua ; 1,806 into St. Kitt's ; 427 into Nevis ; 517 into Tobago ; and 389 into the Bahamas ; making a total for all the West India colonies of 173,666. The emigration to the Mauritius was in the same period 313,533. The return also shows that from Jamaica 1,844 of those immigrants returned to their own countries, from British Guiana 5,879, from Trinidad 2,680, and from Mauritius 78,878. SHIPWRECKS AND REWARDS FOR SAVING LIFE. — At the weekly meeting of the Shipwrecked Society, held at its offices, Hibernia-chambers, London -bridge, it was reported that relief during the quarter had been liberally and promptly afforded in the time of their greatest need to 485 widows, 357 orphans, 42 aged parents, 1,89 0 and sof the outlay for which drew upon the society for no less a sum thelimited shipwrecked resources pes persona than £4,369 17s. 9d. Silver medals were awarded in several instances for heroic services in saving life. It was stated at the last meeting that the p ressure u p on t he f u nd s of the society ywas appeal great that the committee f e lt compelled earnestly to to the public for aid to meet the dis tress of the castaways on our coasts, their widows and their orphans. 111. 1111 "IMAimaimmumiwomi rim SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENIAG, APRIL 13, 186,, i 100 10 o 1 all 0 100 ,ut. 2 100 100 1201 13'1 4 144 9 Cf 136 79 81 87 Of r. 7 8 103} 1031 101