The Sun. — London, England, 1865-04-19 00:00:00

3 10NEY MARKET AN:, COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The requirements of the commercial community t°-day h ave been rather more extensive than of la te, and increased firmness has consequently been experienced in the discount market. To-morrow I . l ' ll l be a heavy Indian day, and brokers are hold- Ing over their supplies of money in anticipation of b °b taining bett er t erms . The current rate for the est short -dated paper is 3.1 per cent. This in creased demand being of a temporary nature, the Market is expected by the end of the week to relapse I nto an easy condition. There were no bullion operations at the Bank yes terday. ~r h e Nyanza, from Alexand r ia, has brought ' 46 ,000, and the America, from New York, 59,898. In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon t here was a general downward movement. The list of applications for shares in the Russian CVYksounsky) Iron Works Company will be closed °ll Saturday next, the 22d inst., for London, and 210nday, the 24th inst., for country applications. The Imperial Royal Privileged Lemberg Czerno /vltz Railway C ompany ' s h a lf-y ear 's interest, at the r ate of 6 per cent. per annum upon the amount r. i d upon their shares will be payable at 7, St. i , il dred's-court, Poultry, on and after Ist May 4eXt. Two O'CLOCK. -Al Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram,T the 3 per Ce n t. Rentes were 67 52. Inan imate. T he English Stock Market opened this morning 'wit h a very fi a t appearance, and soon afterwar d s ' with few sales sen t C onso l s d own a b ou t per ' e ta., the quotations now being 90i 91 for money, and 91 for the account. There is no apparent ca use for this increased heaviness, without it is that e continued important improvement in Federal American stocks is attracting the attention of spe the enlators, w h o get rid of one security to purchase other. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities ;:e 89* ; Annuities, 1885, 14 ; Exchequer Bills, 961; India 5 per Cents., 107 1; ditto 4 per Cents., 87 and ditto 5 - per Cents, 1011 102. h T he principal movement in the Foreign Market as been a fall of about 3 per cent. in the Confede te Loan, viz., to 18 20 upon large sales, induced bY the advice' received this morning. The other principal securities are also flatter, and there is not much animation. Turkish 6 per CentS., 1862, are 74 1 4 ; ditto Consolides, 53i ; Mexican, 26i _d i tto New, 251 26 ; Greek, 201 211 ; Spanish Passive, 311 ; ditto Certificates, 16i ; and 64i- 1.4 In the Railway Share Market the operations h ave been on a very moderate scale, and in some few instances a slight decline has taken place in Prices Midl an d an d L ancas hi re an d Y or k s hi re have each receded 55., Great Western 10s., and North Western £1 ; while Metropolitan have im proved £1 10s., Caledonian 155., and Great Northern A Stock 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained inactive, without any material change as regards Prices. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have in one or two instances been a shade flatter. European have declined to 121 London and Brazilian to 49, Brazilian and Portuguese to 104 11, Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England to 10, and Joint-Stock Discount to 7i ; Russian (Vyksounskz) Iron shares are quoted 2k 4 prem., Millwall Freehold Land 11 dis., South African Land 1 1i prem., Anglo- Egyptian Navigation 3/ prem., and Rio de Janeiro Gas, 1 14 prem. BRITISH FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 Oer„Cent. Cons o l s : Do. Account, May 9 9ll + 1 ° Per Cent. R e d uced • 89+ 1 9 New 3 pe r C ent Aew 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April,lBBs l4 , (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — -c4cehequer Bill; £l,OOO, 4 per Cent 7 Pm Do. £2 Do £5OO — . £lOOO Ba nk of England Stoco and k, 5 Cent 242 40 Do A ccount p er 1-xpLiai InGOVERNMENT SECURITIES. E lan Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 216 o Account ___ 0 . 5 per Cent July, 1870 Do. Account . 3r, _ Do. 4 - D ,Per Cent., Oct. 1888 D o . r 6 cates _ Do: 4efaced Paper 4 per Cent Ts Per Ce J 1011 2 vo. 51 per Cent an. 1872 _ IS un33 4 0 p dn 1 .8, 0 10 . 0 73 0 day 1879 nt , ., Aug. 1866 _ £l,OOO . FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. _ ft'llstrla9 Bonds Cent aarazili an 5 D o. A per Cent er 'II per Cent 185 9 58 60 Do B uenosB2l,- ' 1863 01.1!,-, Ayres 6 per Cent _ ,9 1 Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) , Dl 6 per Cent lolf _ c 1 ) 0. 4.1 per Cent c°,_°l9biao 6 per Cent. 79 1.1 .„°N per Cent. - .g9 5 Jer Cent., 1864 D '?,zerip, £55 paid ' 4l sn 3 per Cent 1825 . 7 O. 4 per Cent., 1863 — I)," ° ' Per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid --, -1. i.. Ai aollibian Principalities L Do £B6 paid — Cqrsuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — E -uO.? P rovisional Land Warrant P t iall 7 per Cent — 96k L o', Second Issue De £lOO Bonds 971 94 1 I } 3 1 4 } Creek Do Do Scri . 1864 p, £5B p a id Do 5 per t Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Acco un 20 f 1+ 1 Do. C oupons Guatemala 5 per Cent. Do. 1839 and 1850 Italian 5 per Cent (M aremmana Railway) - - Do 1865 Do Scrip, £421 paid 4 die' bexican 3 per Cent. Do. Cent............ 26; 761 Dc ig4:i .. ___. .... ~ Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c .. , Montevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid ....... . Do 2 per Cent Moorish Imp er i a l 5 per Cent . New Granada Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 4-1 per Cent. ........ Do 3 per C en t . (Uribarren Do 41 per Cent., 1862 ) Do. Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account .__ Do 3 per Cent 1856, ' 7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, .1 Do Account4Bl 1 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St., Do 41 per Cent 1850 D o . 7 ,D 0 3 1860 per Cent., 1859 D o IR , 5 per C en t. , 1862 Sardi nian 5 • 1864 Do per • Cent — „ Account ° Panish 3 per Cent Do Account 4Bl 1:. ) , 0 New D e f erre d -U0 Accou nt 4ll D, O Passiv e BrA -uci Account 3ll 1 nish Cert. of Coup not funded m Do Acco unt l6l 1 D 'w,edish 4 p er C ent. — ,„ o per Cent. 1864 DD° o Account 9Ol 6 D o Acc peountr Cent. 1858 72 1 1 1 10 Do £lOO Bonds .- ''' Do 6 per C ent. 1862 uo Account 741 f 31 Do. £lOO Bonds 75 41 1)0 ' 6 per C en t . 1863 % DGuaranteed, 4 per Cent , 0 ezuel a 3 1) 0. Account per Cent. 1) °. 6 per Cent, 1862 — Do. Ac count , 11) ° 6 per Cent., 1864 4O " 0 . 11 p er C ent — A Dividends on the above payable in London. Il e ? trian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins t gian, 4i. per cent., % tel l 2 1 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gail p7 l3 * 4 per Cent. Certifi—ices — D o,4. , ,t 4 a e a c i ll .A. :e ci ii i:n teE c i, ten 3 t pe I r B C 6l 7l E t. x. 25f. 67 62k Do. Account . Consols Motley 94 1 . THREE O'CLOCK. bo. A ccount • Share! Railways. Bir., Wol., & Str. Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bando a Cornwall Do ta A.gets no div. • • A ll6p.c.p.an.has Do. B been paid to B Dublin & Belfast June Dun,.Perth, & a b.Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. NV( stern Grea+ Eastern, Ord. stk Do. E. Angl. st No ? Great North of Scotland Great NortherJ D A s:ock Do. B o Do. New, is. at 25 pm Gt S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste n OrtAnal , S. VAT. Y,afl gua. Do. South Wales .... Do W. - Ox!ord Po. Newpo t Co. He . eford Lana .shire & Yorkslitre L ndon and Blackwali Lon., BriA.,& S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shot., & 'Lincoln Iliaryport and Carlisle 00. # shares . Iletropplitan. Do. isTew Mid'and Do, liirmin . & Derby Mid Gt. W.. Ireland Po. A bliares 'lid Kent ..... No th British Do. Ed., Pth ,"& Dun. Nth. Eastern - Berwick Do. G.N •E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. : , tock. & Darling.l De., 1855-EB. Do. do. 1860-61 north London Do. New Do. do. 18;4 S'orth Staffordshire & S. W Junction Scottish G ntral N E Aber. stock o.Scot : Mtd.st!ck -h•ewe & Welchpool Shropshire Union soutn Devon -outh E stern -Itsines, Wok., & Wok 'Taff Vale Do C Vale o' Neath Waterford & Kilkenny %Vest Cornw ill W.B.arilepool H ar. & R. Do. A irredeemable.. Do. A redeemable BRITIS a I' iSIONS. Atlantic St. L awrence Born., Baroda, Cen.ln 5 per cent 51 t 3 1021 1031 pr 4 41 Do. t‘ shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buff.,Brant, R Goderich 6 p.c. bds. Au:.r. 1, 87 , D‘ , . do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June I, 1',74 Calcutta & E., lbn a e Town & Dock, gu Demera a, 7 p.c. per. p East. Ben_ al, gu ' 5 co East 'Alan, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk ot Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonda 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist vref. Bonds Do do. deferred Do. 2d Pr, f. Bonds Do. do. deferred 0 70 9 101 75 85 1 1 1 101 102 104 lot 105 iP 17 18 F 4. S 7 60 65 50 55 52 54 45 50 43 48 41 44 23 25 22 24 10t 105 Do. °d Pref. stock. Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock.. Do. do. deferred .... Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c.' o. Gua 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India (hm gua. 5 per cent I IP i "IP 1011 102, D 4 . 1 per cent Do .... r . ;*reat Ms. of Canada Da. New .. ...... Do. 6p. c. Bds. pay 1873 to. 5 1 do. pay. 1877-8 ,Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 46 do Do. Fifth Extension lfelb. Cor. 6 p. c. Binds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay New Brunswick & Can Class A and B NT. C'da, pc Ist pf.bds Bcinde Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Puniaub Do.lndus St Flo 8} 9 }li lip 85 so 75 78 d 101 102 i 93 93 89 91 64 66 3 5 100 1100 2 100 100 82 81 101 i 1026 101 i 1026 pr 1011 I(r2 94 97 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. -- British Columbia, 6 per Cent„ Dec. 31,1872 100 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.&July 1877- 4 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & 110 89 9 2 -- D sp. c. liar. AL Sept 10 I 89 92 1.)o. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 78 80 77y 91 Do. 5p r. Inscribed sk 100 77 80 Cape G.llope. 6 p.c. 1873 100 103 106 Do. April & Oct. 1880-1 100 IC4 'IES Do. do: 1.90-I 100 1.5 1 ,, 7 Do. Jan. & July, MI lOO 116 1(.8 Ceylon, Nov. 1869, 6p. c 11.0 10+ 106 1015 Do. 1878, do lOO 119 112 Mauritius, 6p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. I'7B Do. 1882, May '5, Nov. 101 107 109 Natal qov. o per cent lOO 103 115 N.B.Gov 6 p.c.Ja.4o uly 100 91 94 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c., 1866 00 98 10 ) Do. 5 p.c. 18.1 to 1870 100 93 95 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1894 100 91 93 921 New Zealand, 6p. cent 110 IC4 103 Do. 6 per cent.... 100 87 90 Nova Sc tia Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 l9O 91 96 Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 103 105 S. Aus.Gov. 6 p.c 18p8-1 , 100 -- - - Do. 1878 & upwards 1 0 106 108 Vic,Grov. 6 p.c.Ja &July 100 - - Do. do, e pril & Oct lOO 1( 7 108 1071 BRITISH MINES. _ 2 Cam Consol. cold, liar 1 Chiverton Clifford A malgamated. —30 IA. Devon G. Cons. ffavzst. 1 570 58 Drakewalls 2.1.0 5 East Bassett (Illogan) 3O 21 2 1 -- East Cara lon 2.14.6 15 16 ast Cam Brea 3.4.0 64 7 East G...enville Ea, , t Love.l 2 . 13.6 10 11 10 1 E. W',l Russell Cfavlstk 9.10.6 3} 41 Gam & StAubyn(Gwen. 601 4 4 Gr.at L ,xey, limited.. all 161 171 17 Great South Tolgus.... 1.1.0 11 2 4 G. Wheal Vor (Heist ~ 40 305 314 Grenvil e 7.8.3 4 4 ; Herod's Foot 8.13 ?5 38 Hingston Downs 4.18.0 31 4 Margaret , Uny Lelant 96 5 7 3larke Valley 4.3.0 5 51 I %Ivtryndy Iron Ore, tic 2l 11 01 Nang,i les New Se ton North Downs 3 - - North Roskear Bassett(Llozan "1.10.6 I North Whe.,l Crotty - Prosper United... 7.1.6 3 14 Pr vidence UnyL ,lant 10.6.7 31 53 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l4 520 530 S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.189 20 25 Stray Park 30.17.6 15 17 Tin Croft 9 145 15 West Fassett (Illogaa W. Caradon (L skeard 9 6 8 West Chi rerton ll 571 52 West Seton 474 180 190 Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 55 100 103 Wheal Butler (Redruth 10 30 33 Whea Ludo .tt 3.12.8 Wheal Mary Ann (Men 8 11 13 %V heal Seto!' Wheal elawney (Lis 7 19 20 Wheal Uni ...... 4 3 .14 PIthai'ERENCE SHARES. Groat Western, 5 per cent., rd. pl., 102 Great Western, Birmingham gua. stock, 73 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 6 per cent. stock. Ditto, 4i per cent., Blackburn pur., i 0 London and Brighton, 5 percent. gua. stock, No. I.:— Ditto, 6 per cent., 12:1 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 4+, per cent. pr., Ditto, 5 per cent. pt., 97 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London, Tilbury, and Southend, 100 rolim G N RAIL WAYP. Antwerp and ROtterdan,:lol Bahia and San Francisco kiwi.) gust. 7 per cent., 14; 15 Great Luxembourg-, 13 1 ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean, 33& Paris and Orleans, 331 West Flanders, 8 it FOREIGN MINER, Cobre Copper, 271 BANKS. &ra and Misterman's, lim., 1191 19 Ditto, new, 59$ 60 Alliance (Lim., 33} Ditto, issued at 20 pm., 231 Amtio Austrian, 7.) Brazilian and Portuguese, Um., 114 11 1( a Chartered Bank o; India, Australia. anal China. ^8 7/ 8 Chartered , qer. of India, London, and China, 54 1 Consolidated Bank, lim., 10 Continental. lim., Ditto,7new, 131 European Bank, lim., Imperial Ottoman, 171 16i London B tuk of Mexico and S. America, 1im.,101 London and Brazilian 54 Lo London Joint Stock, 401 50 Loudon and South African, 221 London and %1 estminster, 951 Mercantile and Exchange, lim., Midland Bank, Ern., 16 National Provincial of England, Ditto, 2d issue, 46j Oriental Baru Corporation. 54i Provincial Banking Corporation, lim , Ditto (RIO), 7r Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi. lirn.,lo 9 South Australia, :141 54 Union of Australia, MI Union of London,ss/ DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 64 1 MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Mort. Lar.d and Finance, lim., 3 Berlin Water Works, lira.. 101 C,ty of London Iteal Property, 1im.,[31 I City Offices, lira., Coi.tinental Union Gas, lira., 10) 11 Credit Fonder and:Mobilier of England, 101 I 10 Ditto, new, ei Crystal l'alse,e. 37/ Discount Corporation,4lsl Ebbw Vale, 7j Egyptian Com. and Trading, lima, 31 LI English and Scottish Marine, lira., (4 Financial Corporation, Hudson's Bay, 151 Humber Iron Works, 5 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lira., 61 1 100 at 100 I Ico 'too SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 95 97 1321 133 9e4 • laZi 3 Ei 64 65 68 15 17 8 91 10 1:7 47 18 7 8 133 V 4 1181 149 131 .33 103 10 1: 0 10 100 87 E'9 :4_, 75 63 67 53 L4' 46 49 .01. 103 120 120 i, 83 88 107 109 41 13 121 1231 06 07 , .1 61 63 132 i 1231 2 21,) 136} 1;1(51 106 1(8 5t t 5 5 16 111 112 69 7U 103 1(4 37 38 11 12p 9 10 p 115 lb 78 79 11 11 14) 144 98 50 61 62 55 5 80i t 7 g 10 155 151 3 4 p 107 109 46 48 74 77 48 71 1 1 31 149 131} 63 5j 7) 8f Ilf 554 86] Paul Closing I Business Price. done. 75f 120& 87 lOS 74 81 414 12tt 1 21 31 71 1 1124 32i 31 * 136 i I OSSE, rilE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENusv, APRIL 19, 186 a, MISCE LL A.NEOUS —Continued. International Financial Society, lira., International Land Credit. lira., Joint Stock Discount. lira.. 74 London and Caledonian Marine, lira., 51 :1 London General Omnibus Company, 31 M dras Irrigation and Canal, 5} Milwall Iron Works. 6; ational Discount Company, lira., 15} National Financial, lira., 71 8 Oriental Financial, Um., 4 Telegrat h tonstruc. find Maintenance. lira., 3 Universal Marine. Insurance, lira., 6 Commencement of Easter Term,—This Day. The superior courts of law commenced their sittings for Easter Term this morning. In -the Courts of Exchequer and Common Pleas the Judges took their seats at the usual hour, but the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench dill not appear in court before 12 o'clock. The Lord Chancellor did not entertain his learned brethren this morning at breakfast. The bUsiness before the courts was devoid of public interest. The earlier part of the day was occupied with motions for new trials. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Chief-Justice Cockburn, and Justices Blackburn, Crompton, and Mellor.) NEW QUEEN'S COUNSEL. Messrs. Field, Brown, De Jay, and K. Smith, were this morning called to take their seats within the bar. They have been created Queen's Counsel. Mr. Robinson has been elevated to the coif, and ap peared in court robed accordingly. ➢SAYN V. BINNS. This was an application for a new trial. The cause was originally tried at York, the matter in dispute being the payment of a sum of money for the board and lodging of the defendant's son. The young man was placed under the care of the plaintiff, with a view of acquiring his (plaintiff's) profession, but at the expiration of a month he took a dislike to it, and the action was brought for the ex penses that had been incurred during the time the young man was with the plaintiff. At the first trial a nonsuit was entered, and the present application was for a rule for a re hearing of the matter The Court granted the application, COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Before Chief Baron Pollock, and Barons Martin, Bramwell, and Piggott.) NUTTALL V. BRACEWELL. There were two other causes in connection with this ono which stood for hearing this morning. It was an application to the Court for power to refer certain matters to the arbitrator—his decision not having been satisfactory to the defendant. The matter in dispute was the right to certain water, but it was con tended that the defendant had no right in order to obtain that which he required to divert the proper stream of water, and the arbitration so decided ; but there were other matters connected with the case that induced the de fendant to make the present application. The Court refused the application, and discharged the rule. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Pepys.) IN RE LODER. This bankrupt was described as a merchant of Lawrence Poulteny-lane, and to-day came up for choice of assignees and proof of debts. No accounts are yet filed, but the debts are stated to be about £4,000, with assets limited. IN RE GOLDING.-NOVEL APPLICATION. This bankrupt was a tradesman, of 24, Great Maryle bone-street, and to-day came up for choice of assignees and proof of debts. Mr. Robertson Griffiths applied that the choice of assig nees might be postponed. The Registrar asked if the learned counsel had any affi davit showing the ground of the application. Mr. Griffiths stated that an affidavit had been prepared, and it set forth the illness of a creditor who was unable to attend, and therefore could not prove his debt. No doubt if he were present he would be able to carry the choice. The Registrar did not think he ought to accede to the re quest in the absence of a medical certificate, but the rights of the creditors could not suffer as the management of the estate would be in the hands of Mr. Aldridge. Mr. Griffiths said, if that were so, he should be quite satisfied. THE MULLER REWARD QUESTION. It is generally believed that this matter will be finally disposed of to-day upon terms advantageous both to the creditors and to Matthews. It will be remembered that Matthews put a stop upon the £lOO in the hands of the North London Railway Company to his credit, and this stop still remains. A suggestion was made recently that the creditors should be satisfied with the £2OO already in the hands of the assignees for division, leaving Matthews the other £lOO for himself. This idea has not been un favourably received, so far as our informant can learn, and a meeting of creditors has been called for this afternoon, at which an offer will be made to settle matters in an amicable manner, .and so as to spare any great and unnecessary outlay in law expenses. Tho general opinion appears to be that this would be the wisest course to pursue, as in the e , ent of an appeal to a law court to determine who is really entitled to the whole £3OO the costs would necessarily be very heavy indeed. The sum already in the hands of the assignees would pay a clear ss. in the pound, leaving a margin for the costs already incurred ; and no doubt the proceedings will be forthwith removed out of the hands of the officials of the Court of Bankruptcy. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Tuesday Morning. The Easter holidays have brought an accession of labour to the Lord Lieutenant. Last night his Ex cellency and Lady Wodehouse attended a " Grand Reunion Musicale, and Science and Art Conversa zione"—this is the official title of the entertainment at the Antient Concert Rooms, in aid of the Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers' Society. To-morrow after noon 'Lord and Lady Wodehouse will visit the Royal Dublin Society's Cattle Show, which opens to-day. To-morrow evening they are to be present at the distribution of prizes in connection with the cattle show aforesaid. And on Thursday the Punches town races are to be patronised in person by the Viceroy and his lady. According to the Northern TVhig, the people of Belfast have at length resolved to bestir themselves " with their Albert monument. Designs have been advertised for, and it appears that the architectural idea of the committee is to erect an ornamental clock-tower, not less than 90 or 130 feet from the ground, and to dedicate it to the memory of the Prince Consort. The clock, we are told, will occupy a most conspicuous position in Queen's-s luare, and will be of great service in telling people the time, especially if it is to have an illuminated dial. It must be confessed that there is a touch of hard-headed utilitarianism in this highly practical way of doing honour to the virtues, of the illustrious dead. Talking of Belfast, the News Letter has " reason to believe that Mr. John Porter who died some short time since in Paris, has left some very handsome bequests for charitable and public objects in Belfast. Mr. Porter was an un tiring traveller, constantly moving from country to country and from town to town, and we believe he collected some very valuable curiosities, and kept a diary in which his journeys were noted. A very large bequest has been made—as much, as is ru moured, as £5,000 —for the erection of a museum, in which the collection of curiosities and the diary are to be placed. A large sum has also been left for building schools in the Cromac-street district, and smaller amounts to the General Hospital and other institutions." Another item of Belfast news is that the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland meet there to-day, to make preliminary arrangements for the opening of the Magee College in Derry. Wind and weather being greatly in their favour, the Holyhead mail boats have been making the cross-Channel passage in three hours and three quarters. Indeed, the Connaught reached Kingstown the other day no less than 25 mins. before her con tract time, and as the contract time is four hours, this would make her passage only 5 mins. more than three hours and a half. Some of the papers here are urging the desirability of keeping up this rate of speed, so as to make the regular passage in three hours and three-quarters. The Cork Herald mentions that the 500 passengers belonging to the steamer Louis iana (National Steam Navigation Company) are waiting to re-embark at Queenstown to-morrow. The Louisiana had been ashore at Kinsale on her outward voyage, and, failing to obtain dry-dock accornmodatfon at Cork, had to laud her passen gers and return to Liverpool for reuairs. Either the Louisiana or some other steamers of the same line is to take the passengers on. A curious case of accidental poisoning has oc curred at Blackpool, Cork. Some children went to fish in a pool near the railway, and found what they took to be a wild carrot growing near the water. The vegetable, however, was poisonous, being a water-parsnip. The children ate some. There were eight of them, and they were all taken ill immediately. One of them, a boy 13 years of age, was seized with giddiness, and fell into th e water in consequence ; he was drowned, although the water was only two feet deep. As to the rest, the application of prompt remedies soon put them out of danger. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. - ~- -- OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Smith.) The trial of Messrs. Birch and Terry, who stood in dicted with having printed a fictitious balance-sheet rela tive to the affairs of the Unity Joint Stock Bank, still occupies the attention of the Court. POLICE INTEL LIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A GIRL CHARGED WITH ROBBING HER FATHER.—SUSart Sells, a girl about 13 years of age, wearing a hat showily decorated with ribbons, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with robbing her father. William Sells, the girl's father, said that a fOrtnight ago last Saturday he'gave his daughter I.ls. to purchase some goods for him, he being a glass dealer. She saw no more of him till the previous day, when he discovered her at Chalk Farm Fair with a number of the girls. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the father said the girl had a good home, and that she had four times before robbed him. Police-constable Sarry, 305 D, said that on taking the girl nto custody she said sho had spent the money. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a most distressing case, and remanded the prisoner to see what could be done with her. The father, a respectable-looking man, seemed much distressed at having to prefer a charge against his daughter. DISGRACEFUL CONDI: CT TO FEMALES. — John Toll, a man, about 70 years of age, who gave the address Barrett street, Hunslet, Yorkshire, and described himself as a re tired tradesman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with disgraceful conduct to three or four respectable females in Oxford-street yesterday afternoon. The case having been proved against the prisoner, he was committed for three months with hard labour. WESTMINSTER. DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.—John Con nor, a man about 22 years of age, who had somewhat the appearance of being mad, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. Herbert Skinner, 278 B, said last night at half-past 11 I was called to 16, Gray's .Inn-place, Hendon-street, Pim lico, to take the prisoner, into custody for attempting to commit suicide. I found him naked, and being held by his father and brother, and a scarf had just been taken from his neck. He said he meant to do it ; he had tried to commit suicide three times previously, and would do it if he waited any length of time. I took him to the station, and he at tempted to kill himself twice there. Henry Salisbury, 330 B, said—l was at Pimlico station at 12 o'clock last night, when the prisoner was brought in. I conveyed him to the cells and left him for a few minutes. I went back in consequence of something I heard, and found prisoner lying on his back in the middle of the cell, with his brace tied tightly round his neck. I struggled with the prisoner, who tried to choke himself, and at last got the brace away from him, and left him to report what I had seen to the inspector in charge, and I was ordered to look after him all night. I returned to the cells soon afterwards, and found prisoner with his stockings tied round his neck. He said if he didn't do it then he would do it at a future time, and that he had tried it three times before. Prisoner said nothing to the charge, and his father said ho had been indulging in drink, and supposed that was the cause. Mr. Arnold remanded him for a week in order that he might be examined. THAMES. THE WIDOW AND HER SWAlN.—Frederick Archard, a young man, dwelling at No. 25, Christian-street, George in-the-East, appeared before Mr. Paget, to answer a sum mons taken out by Mrs. Jones, of 7, Cornwall-street, in the same parish. a. _a The account given of herself by the complainant was that she was 23 years of age, that she had been married six years, and a widow two years. She became acquainted with the defendant about 15 months ago, and their inti macy resulted in the birth of a child, born on the 11th of February last. She was asked her ago when married, to which she replied 15. The child in her arms was the first to which she had given birth. She was asked if she had any corroborative evidence, to which she replied by handing to the magistrate several letters in envelopes. They were all directed to Mrs. Jones, No. 21 (now No. 7), Cornwall-street, St. George-in- - the-East, and signed F. Archard, 25, Christian-street. Some of them commenced, "My lovely Young Widow." One was read by the magistrate as follows : "January 11, 1865.—1 n answer to your note I write you these few lines, to express myself. relating to my manly action, as you call it. You must recollect, my dear Mrs. Jones, that there is as much blame attached to you as my self, therefore, as you have shared in the sweets, you must expect to put up with a portion of the sours. I told you when I saw you last that I would help to support you and the child. I will be able to give you 3s. per week, but I should not be able to pay any more. I don't see any need for you to go to the parish whatever, but you must please yourself. Please let me know by letter whether you will accept this. Yours for ever and a day, FREDERICK An- CHARD, 25, Christian-street." Mr. Paget asked the defendant if the letter was in his handwriting, to which ho replied in the negative, and called a man who got into the witness-box and said that the letter was not written by the defendant. Mr. Paget—Who wrote the letter ? Witness—Not the defendant. Mr. Paget—Who wrote that letter ? Witness—l wrote the letter. Mr. Paget—At whose request ? Witness—The defendant asked me to write the letter. Mr. Paget commented on the disgraceful conduct of the defendant, who had made an attempt to deceive him. He adjudged the defendant to be the father of the complain ant's child, and to pay 2s. 6d. per week for its future main tenance. Luminous and Obscure Radiation. We are so accustomed to associate the idea of heat with that of light, that the radiation of the for mer alone without the latter appears to us very like an anomaly. We perfectly understand the catching of the sun's rays in a lens and igniting thereby a piece of paper held in the focus, because we see the intense light in that point ; but if we did not, we' should be astonished to see the combustible mate rial catching fire in a place not distinguishable by the eye from any other. Professor Tyndal, F.R.S., having made the radiation of heat the subject of minus inquiry, has arrived at some curious results. His appagrus consisted of an electric lamp, so mo a.-4* to admit of its receiving, instead of the charcoal burners, an illuminating gas or a hydrogen flame at pleasure, while a thereto-electric pile with its galvanometer was used to find the point of maxi mum heat after the light had been decomposed into a spectrum (consisting of the colours of the rainbow) by passing through a rock-salt prism. Beginning with a luminous gas flame, he found the maximum heat was not contained within the spectrum, but a little beyond the red or last colour, the first being violet. The hydrogen flame gave no visible spectrum at all ; the thereto-electric pile denoted a temperature 2} times smaller than the preceding one, and still at a point not reached by the visible spectrum. Such being his modus operandi, we will state some of his results. A solution of. iodine.: in bi-sulphuret of carbon, though perfectly opaque to light, will transmit heat completely, without absorbing a particle of it. By means of this substance our author has been enabled to separate the luminous calorific rays from the ob scure ones, as the following experiment will show. Having filled a hollow lens with the above solution, and held it to the sun, no luminous f ocus was v i s ibl e to the eye ; nevertheless the sun's obscure rays were collected in the focus, though the luminous ones were not ; and a piece of black paper placed there was instantly pierced and set on fire; and by shift ing the paper, aperture after aperture was formed in quick succession. He thus shows that only one 24th of heat radiated by an incandescent platinum wire is luminous, the rest being obscure ; that in the same way only 1-25th of the heat radiated by the most brilliant portion of a flame of coal gas is lumi nous, and only 1-10th of that emitted by the elec tric light excited by a Grove's battery of 40 cells is luminous.— Galignani. To SHOPKEEPERS, &C.—Wanted an Agent in every town and village, for the sale of A. G.'s Patent Safety Envelopes (at ls. per gross). Cheap stationery, ladies and gent's patent collars and cuffs (at Is. 6d., 2s. Gd., and 4s. 6d. per gross). Sample parcels sent on receipt of order and refer ences. ARTHUR GRANGER, Toy Importer, 308, High Holborn, W.C.—[ADvT.] PASS GE OF TROOPS THROUGH LlVERPOOL—Yes terday the C battery of the B brigade of the Royal Horse Artillery, under the command of Major D. F. Green, embarked at the Clarence Dock, Liverpool, en route from Woolwich to Dublin. The battery consisted of six officers, 145 men, 140 officers, and six guns. They were embarked on board the steamers Trafalgar and St. Columbia. On Tuesday next, the 25th inst., the Ist battalion of the 3d Foot, consisting of 37 officers and 820 men, and accom panied by over 200 women and children, will also embark at Liverpool for Dublin. THE SEAL Fl SHE RY.--GLASG OW, April 17. Telegrams received here from St. John's, dated April 4, state that the screw steamer Bloodhound had returned from the ice quite full ; and the Osprey, with 6,000 seals, and having her bows injured. The screw steamer Wolf is reported with 7,000 seals. The Prophecies for the Newmarket Handicap The sporting prophets are again "floored" to a man in their predictions for the Newmarket Handicap, with the exception of " The Freshman" in The Sun, who was the only prophet that gave Accident. He concluded his remarks on Monday last as follows : " The running of John Davis at Northampton has en tirely spoilt the betting. In fact, bar accidents, he cannot lose ; but now-a-days it does not depend on a horse's merits, but on the amount of metallic that can be got on, or got out, as the case goes, that makes a horse _win. He has been rather fishy for the last day or two. If ho goes to the post with winning orders, he must pull through ; but there is a whis pering that the _Metropolitan will be his journey, and in that case I shall look to ACCIDENT • or GRACE DARLING to furnish the winner." The following are the conclusions which the various writers arrived at : (From Bell's Life) Wandering Minstrel, 4 yrs, 7st 41b, is no batter in than Sheridan; Oakapple, 5 yrs, 7st 31b, has been too long on the shelf for us to judge hiM ; Raglan, 5 yrs, 7st 31b, is likely to give place to John Davis ; Sprite, 4 yrs, 6st 81b, we know no good of ; and the remainder engaged are three year-olds having all the worst of the weights with John Davis. However, Grace Darling, sst 71b, is one not to be despised from what we saw of her at Chelmsford; and the race may prove her to be second best to John Davis, if she does not beat him. (From the Sporting Gazette.) There is a pretty fair acceptance for the Newmarket Handicap, as 30 of the 67 horses weighted have remained in. Of these Fantail, Alabama, Battaglia, John Davis, Spring Gun, and Swordsman ran at Northampton, where John Davis proved himself to be the best of the party, and as he has now a greater pull in the weights all the above are as good as "settled." Nevertheless, when Scamander beat him so easily, I account him to be so moderate I shall expect to see him overthrown by Grace Darling, though he has to give her only 141 b for the year, nor will it sur prise me to see Tomato and Beatrix finish before him. (From the Sporting Life) John Davis was selected by me for this race on February 18, and those who got early on have such hedging that it is already as good as a win. My opinion is that it is a match between the four year olds, John Davis and Tomato, and• those who back the two coupled need not despair of being on the winner. (From the Era.) JOHN DAVIS. (From the Morning Advertiser.) FIRST PROPHECY. With Temato of the top weights, John Davis of the middle division, and Grace Darling of the "feathers," I am bound to believe the race is left, although, at the moment of penning these notes, it is no certainty that the Danebury horse will run. However, running all risk, as already intimated, nothing looks better than Tomato for a "place," and John Davis or Grace Darling to win, and if only allowed one representative, must be for the three-year-old. SECOND PROPHECY. Since penning my notes John Davis has arrived. I am, therefore, compelled to stand him and Tomato to beat the field, believing that Wandering Minstrel is the best, lace investment. (From the Morning Star.) Tomato must be classed amongst the dangerous division, and whatever beats her may be almost regarded as the winner. Of the others I take Wandering Minstrel, John Davis, and Grace Darling ; and as it will be asking too much for Dollar, I must throw him overboard in the final selection, which must be in favour of Tomato and Grace Darling. (From the Daily Telegraph.): Without knowing what is likely to compose the field, I should select Tomato, Raglan, Grace Darling, and Wan dering Ministrel, as decidedly the best in, but must defer all positive selection until the morning of the race. (From the Morning Post) For the Newmarket Handicap nothing was talked of after Northampton but John Davis ; and, although it was said on Saturday afternoon he would not run, I should take it to'be only a canard, for he can scarcely be beaten. (From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday) The following is a sample of the advice of two of the advertising fraternity who live on the credulity of the public : " John Davis wins Newmarket Handicap ; Sandal a place.—Godding, Longton. "Newmarket Handicap—John Davis to win; Tomato and Grace Darling for places.—G. Peters, 2, Princes-street, Dock-street, Hull." ' AQUATICS. SCULLERS' MATCH FOR £25 A SIDE. On Monday the sculling race between Hemmings of Richmond and Teasdale Wilson of Newcastle was rowed on the Tyne, and ended in the victory of the Northern champion. The race was an exciting ono and was hotly contested. Wilson is a large, heavy man of great strength, whose power and endurance are more remarkable than his skill, which, what there is of it, is shady. Hemmings is the very contrast of his opponent in stature and talent. It was thought that what he lacked in power he would make up with his undoubted skill, and those who saw him at his final practice before the race had their prognostications on this score only strengthened. The race came off at seven a.m. Wilson won the toss and chose the north sta tion. After a capital start, the men rowed strictly level, stroke and stroke for some distance, when Hemmings' superior skill carried him past his opponent. He led till past the Grindstone Quay, Wilson labouring gamely in the rear with unflagging pertinacity. At this point, however, a change in position took :'place, and Wilson, by sheer strength, got his skiff in front. He appeared to only warm to the exertion which had told somewhat upon the Southerner. Hemmings, however, spurted with great pluck to regain his lead, and at the Shot Tower for a time came on with a whim which gladdened the hearts of his backers, but he was not able to keep the struggle hot enough to exhaust the Hercules of the Tyne, and at the goal Wilson was four lengths to the good. The time was 6 minutes 55 seconds. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. -~--- LONDON, April 19.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. KINGROAD, April 18.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Neptune, from Havannah. OFF PLYMOUTH, April 17.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived— Blenheim, from Calcutta. COWES, April 10.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—America, screw steamer, from New York, and proceeded for Bremen. SWANSEA, April 17.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Robert, for Sierra Leone. SOUTHAMPTON, April 19.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived.— Nyanza, steamer, from Alexandria ; left Gibraltar on the 13th inst. NEWPORT, April 17.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Scutari, from the Clyde for Vera Cruz. Sailed—Philomene, for Sierra Leone. SHIELDS, April 18.—Wind N.E.—Sailecl—Casehook, for Ceylon. FALMOUTH, April 18.—Wind N.—Arrived—Salondire, rona Porto Rico. CARDIFF, April 18.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed—Helene Pauline, for. Rio de Janeiro; Figlia Maggiore, for New York. PORTSMOUTH, April 17.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Hor Ma jesty's ship Edgar, for Lisbon. PLYMOUTH, April 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—The Hero of tho Nile, from London to Agloa Bay, having in tow the Annie Comrie, from Cochin to London, having had her cargo on fire. The second ordinary general meeting of the share holders of the Land Mortgage Bank of India has been held to-day. The report presented for adop tion states that the accounts, which are made up to the 31st December, 1864, comprise actual operations over eight months only, which shows a net profit of £12,288 7s. Bd., to which is added the interest earned in India to 31st March, £10,651, showing a sum of £22,939 7s. Bd. available for dividend, &c. The directors therefore recommend - that a dividend of 4s. per share (free of income tax) being 5 per cent. on the paid-up capital, be now declared, payable on and after the 22d inst. The capital in India on 31st March amounted to £611,933 19s. 3d., of which £404,407 was invested ont mortgages of real property, and £197,970 on Government securities, at an average rate of 9 per cent. The total applications for mortgage loans amounted, by last advices, to £1,318,500, of which £404,407 has been granted, and of the remainder under consideration a large amount will probably be accepted. Great caution has been used in making these advances, and the appraised value of the properties mortgaged to the company is double the amount actually advanced upon them. Every title undergoes the rigid scrutiny of the bank's solicitors and standing counsel at the Presidency cities. Each property is carefully valued by in spector, sub-agent, or other competent valuer , and the chief agents only grant the lo an on investigation. The satisfactory termination of the The Registration Act, now in force throughout India, also affords an additional security to the mortgages. 1031 21 104 i .01 SI i 6} 102 4 Prospects of Future Gotton Supply. (From the Economist) Early in the year we presented our readers with an estimate of the probable amount of cotton that might be expected to arrive, and to be available for home consump tion, during the course of 1865 ; and at present we see no reason to mistrust our calculations. As far as the immedi diate supply is concerned, we may feel tolerably at ease ; arrivals have been heavy, large shipments are known to be on their way or in preparation, and the, stock is larger than it has been for some years. It was on Da. Ist January, 1861 1862 1863 71 1864 575,000 Ist April, 1835 This, as the actual rate of export ; - :::(I consumption, will last for nearly 20 Weeks; so that there is no feud for any anxiety at present. But it is not to be denied that considerable anxiety does hang over our future supply, and that our prospects are already creating much uneasiness in .all who look far ahead. It is by no means improbable, unless great •caution is exercised, that we may fall very short of cotton in 1866 and 1867, and that the fluctuations in price may be as great and mischievous as any we have hitherto ex perienced. The fall that has already taken place has been such as, if not materially to check production, at least greatly to alarm producers and discourage the vast efforts recently made to grow cotton wherever it can be grown ; while the expectation of a still further drop tends to pre vent consumption . keeping pace with supply. The state of the case is simply this—the continued suc 7 cesses of the Federal armies, and the supposed, and pro bably actual, exhaustion of the South, have impressed even on the most cautious a conviction that the civil war in America must be drawing near to its close. Some per sons believe that very soon after peace is proclaimed— all persons believe that, sooner or later after that event —cultivation will resume its old channels, and that large quantities of cotton will again reach us from the States, of a quality • and at a price with which, as formerly, no other country, or at least few other countries, can compete. Of course, if this anticipation be correct, those countries which have only been enabled to send cotton hither during the anomalous prices that have prevailed of late, will cease to send it ; and those which have been induced to send us extraordinary quantities will fall back to their old moderate amounts. To descend to particulars. Fair Surat, which last spring was selling at 22d. is now pur chasable at 11d. per lb.: ordinary East India, which in former days used to sell for 3d. and 4d. por lb., and which last year reached 16d. may now bo had for 6d. ; while (such is the idea of future probabilities at• Bombay) we are informed by telegraph that fair . Surat has been sold there, to be laid down at Liverpool, at Bd. The reduction in other qualities has been nearly, if not quite, propor tionate. Now, if these prices are to obtain, or if it is expected that they will obtain, the following results will follow: First, China and Japan, which last year sent us 52,000,0001 b., will cease to send us any at all. Secondly, Bengal, and to a certain extent Madras, which last year sent us between them 350,000 bales. will ship to China (as they used to do) instead of to England, and will at once stop any unusual growth into which our high prices may have tempted them. Thirdly, The Turkish supply, which has only recently become at all important or reliable, will again become precarious. Fourthly, Egypt and Brazil will have a tendency to fall back to their old moderate sup ply—say 200,000 bales, as in 1860, instead of 460,000 as in 1864—just in proportion as prices tend back to their old level. Fifthly, The western and north-western provinces of India (which, like Egypt, have greatly increased the average breadth of land under cotton, and have suffered inconvenience from the diminishes production of food which was consequent upon the change) will gradually fall back upon their old habits, and be more likely to send us three quarters of a million of bales than a million and a quarter —on which some persons calculated for 1865. Certain it is that Bd. for Surat will not secure us nearly the same supply as 22d. would have done. Thus it would appear as if the actual and expected. drop in the price of cotton consequent on the imminent—or be lieved to be imminent—supply from America after the re turn of peace, is likely to reduce our supplies from mis cellaneous quarters next year to something like half their present amounts. But suppose this imminent and anti cipated supply from the States does not come—is not there now and cannot speedily be grown—what will be our position then ? Is there not a possibility of a cotton famine as severe as that of 1862, and of prices as disorganisingly and ruinously high ? Now, what are the reasonable and unexaggerated probabilities of the Ameri can supply ? and are not speculators and manufacturers frightening themselves with a vain shadow ? Are they not; at all events, premature by nearly a year and a half in their anticipations, and are they not discounting their dangers at a most needless and fatal cost ? In a word, is there any real reason why cotton, even in the prospect of immediate peace, should have fallen so low, and must we not, ere long, have to look for a very serious reaction ? Let us look at facts. According to the most trust worthy information we have been able to collect, no wise man will base his calculations on a larger estimate of the available stock of cotton now in the States than one mil lion of bales. Of late little has been grown, while much has been destroyed, much has been spoiled, and a good deal has been used. Even after peace is restored, and making every allowance for American energy, and prompti tude, it will take a considerable time to re-collect the scattered population, to re-organise labour, to repair and re-create the means of transport. We will assume— what, however, many persons would refuse to admit—that nearly all the residual negro population in the cotton States will again be set to that special cultivation, either under compulsion or inducement of some kind. We will admit all the suppositions most favourable to a large and prompt supply. Still, in any case, no fresh cotton worth mentioning can reach this country in less than eight months after the next seed-time subsequent to the restora tion of peace and order. The seed-time of this year is past. Granting that the war is over in July, that planta tions are restored to their owners, that the healing and re-organising processes are at once entered upon with the marvellous enterprise and vigour which characterises our transatlantic brethren—still it will be February, 1866, be fore the new crop can be sown, and October or November before it can reach England in any quantities. And when it is ready to come, wo may safely calculate upon three things—all of which ought to moderate our expecta tions. First, that the crop of the first year, and perhaps oven of the second, will not be like the former ones, three or three and a half millions of bales, but not more than two millions at the outside—considering how many of the plantations have been ruined, and how largo a proportion of the negro population has been dispersed or died. Se condly, that of this moderate crop the Americans them selves will want probably one-third at least. And thirdly, that the cotton will cost more to grow than it did before the great convulsion, and before it reaches us will be bur dened by an export duty of 3d. or 4d. in the lb ; so that in stead of being laid down in Liverpool at 61b. a lb, and yielding a good profit at that price, it will probably cost from 10d. to is. If this be so, then there is no reason why Surat at Bd. and 9d. should not hold its ground; and the pre sent panic is at once excessive and premature. It will be a great evil if new and distant countries are discouraged from growing and forwarding cotton earlier or more deci dedly than is necessary. Sooner or later, no doubt, as we have always said, th e United States will beat all other cot ton-growing countries out of the market, with the excep tion of moderate supplies of special qualities from Bombay, Egypt, and Brazil ; but it will be later and not sooner, and we need not augment the catastrophe by anticipating it. DETERMINED SUICIDES.—An inquest . was held yesterday by Mr. J. Humphreys, coroner, at the London Hospital, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Francks, aged 88. It was shown that the deceased had resided at No. 23, Artillery-street, Spitalfields. For some time past she had been very feeble and almost imbecile. - On Friday night she retired to rest at her usual hour, and on the fol lowing morning at 3 o'clock she was discovered lying on the pavement in front of her window. She was bleeding from a frightful wound in the head. When she was raised up and carried to the hospital she was found to be dead. It was believed that she had leaped from the window. The jury returned an open verdict of "found dead." A second inquest was held by Mr. Humphreys, at the Golden Lion tavern, respecting the death of Elizabeth Craig, aged 47. The deceased was a single woman, but had been in a very low and desponding state for some months past, apparently without reason. She was discovered on Friday morning lying in the back yard with a compound fracture of the skull, which caused death in stantandusly. The deceased had placed a table in front of the window, upon which she stepped, and then preci pitated herself from the second-floor window. Verdict— " -e.. en Insanity." —T B BIRTHS, DEATHS, seventh n E i A a Ti I n S u , a AND l report ral, Mr. W. P. Dundas, to S ir Geor g e Grey, has just been M A RRIAGES of the Reg IN ist SCOTLAND.rar issued. The report is for the year 1861, in which year, notwithstanding various adverse influences, the births were not above their usual proportion ; the deaths were below the average; while the marriages attained the ave rage of former years. The state of elementary education, the report says, continues satisfactory, seeing that 89.39 per cent. of the men, and 78.67 per cent. of the women who married in Scotland in 1861 were able to sign their names. Year after year it appears that as many women are able to sign their names in the marriage register in Scot land as men in England. Under the head of marriages it is stated, as the result of statistical investigation, that the married women of Scotland are more prolific than those of England, seeing that, during the year 1861, every 314 wives at the child-bearing ages gave birth to 100 chil dren in Scotland; whereas it required 355 wives at the same ages for every 100 births in England. As like results appear year after year, it may be assumed as proved that the Scottish married female is more prolific than the Eng lish married female. The Registrar-General also directs attention to an inquiry made for the first time into the com parativemortality of the married and the unmarried women at each quinquennial period of life. The results arrived at, he says, are startling, and particularly merit the attention of those engaged in life assurance. THIRD ElM] 01 SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day. NEWMARKET RACES.-THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SWEEPSTAKES. Peeress.. Venus .. ..... 1 Warrior Catalogue SUBSCIIPT,ION PLATE. J EEPSTAN.Lb OP 10 SOUS. 1 HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. 2 Eight rdn. COLUMN STARES. 1 .) it Thais Roarer Brahma Gem of the Sea Quarantine Jack o' Lantern Saipinctes Sydmonton Seven ran. DERBY TRIAL STAKES I`ille de I'Air Moestissima filly St. Magnus Four ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 25 SOVS. Troublesome IV.O. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. TWO THOUSAND. 7 to 2 agst Kangaroo (taken) sto 1 bar one (offered) 14 to 1 agst Chattanooga (taken) THE DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Kangaroo (taken freely) Liddington was scratched for the Derby at 12 o'clock this day. CATTERICK RACES-Tim DAY. CRAVEN HANDICAP. Wetsail Harry Brailsford Gannochy FIFTEENTH TRIENNIAL Revival W.O. SIXTEENTH TRIENNIAL. First Rater SEVENTE NTH TRIENNIAL. Bob Chambers Full Bloom El Cid [ADVERTISEMENT.] G. R. GLENIE, 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. Newspapers sent to any part of the world. ITALY. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) TURL.N, Aprill9. The Italian Government has just addressed a note to Mr. Elliot, her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Turin, in which they demonstrate the impossibility • of selling the State railways to a company to be expressly formed for that purpose (ad hoc), and the material and moral impossibility of exchanging the bonds of the Hambro' bondholders into railway shares. The Italian Government, however, declare in the despatch that it does not intend to damage in any way the rights of the Hambro' bondholders, who, in the event of their being prejudiced by the sale of the State railways, will receive an indemnity from the Government, in. the same manner as in cases of expropriation for works of public utility ; that is to say, by arbitration. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market opens with a good demand. Sales pro bably 8,000 bales or more. VOLUNTEER REVIEW IN HAGLEr-PARK.----The volunteers of the counties of Warwick, Stafford, and Worcester, combined for the purpose, had their annual review on Easter Monday, in Hagley Park. The weather was as favourable as could be desired, with the exception of a thunderstorm in the after part of the day, which pro - vented a portion of the programme being carried out. Battalions of volunteers from each of the counties named were mustered at the review, and Lord Lyttelton was present on the ground, in his uniform as Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire, and the Volunteers went through their manoeuvres under the practiced eye of General Sir Edward Fitzgerald Campbell, Assistant-Inspector of Volunteers, the successor of the late Colonel Dick. There were between 5000, and 6,000 spectators assembled in the Park. The Warwickshire battalion formed the centre, the Staffordshire battalion the right, and the Worcestershire the left. The brigade advanced in open column of com panies on the left, covered by a wing of the First Worces tershire battalion. The force then changed front to its right on its right battalion, the skirmishers accommodating to the change. At the same time the movements became more developed by the left wing of the Worcestershire bat talion being detached to protect the left flank, and extend ing itself along the crest of Milton's Hill. After this, the brigade advanced in a new direction, passed through the skirmishers, halted, and opened a rapid and continuous file firing. The rifles were directed at the fencing on one side of the park, over which the imagination portrayed a. strong body of foemen attempting to make their way. Other evolutions were afterwards effectively carried out, in which a violent storm came on, which drove the spectators pell mell wherever• a shelter offered, and the volunteers would perhaps have been glad of a sauve qui peu from the drench ing torrent. Discipline of course conquered in inclination, and, having reformed quarter distance columns, they marched down to the ground near the church, and the officers being called to the front, were briefly addressed by the Lord-Lieutenant. General Campbell, it is understood, expressed himself well satisfied with the bearing and dis cipline of the volunteers and the promptitude with which the manoeuvres were executed. THE NEWSPAPER PRESS FUND.---Amongst the artists who have kindly promised their valuable aid at the banquet on the 20th of May—Mr. Charles Dickens in the chair—are Miss Louisa Pyne, Madlle. Enequist (the Swedish vocalist), Madame Weiss, Miss Emily Sol dens, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. G Perrin, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Sims Reeves, with M. Benedict as conductor. BOBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.---A ferocious attempt at murder was made on Saturday afternoon, in broad daylight, on a man nearly 80 years of age, named William Hulme, toll collector, at a lonely crossing on the Middlewieh road, about a mile from Congleton. A tramp, who is described as dressed in a white slop, with black cap and cord trousers, patched on one leg, walked up to the collector's box and entered into conversation with the old man, who allowed him to sit down. After talking some time the fellow took up a small axe with which Huhne had been employing himself in chopping billets of wood, and, pretending to play with it, he watched his opportunity, and suddenly struck the old man a tremendous blow on the back of the head, which brought him to the floor. He then hacked away at the head, inflicting no fewer than 11 scalp wounds, and striking deep into the large muscles at the back of the neck. The ruffian then seems to have searched the box and made off with three sovereigns, some silver and copper, and an old-fashioned German silver double-cased watch, with bull's-eye glass and braid guard attached. A young,lady, named Washing about a quarter of a mile f t roonn, theivin g s p a o t t P h a a d p s p b e e n r n y g 2h °use, to be passing, heard the old man's groans, and at once gave the alarm. Mr. Harrison, surgeon, was quickly on the spot, and rendered every possible as sistance. The old man was removed to his house, and had his wounds dressed. After a time he became quite sensible, and was able to make a coherent declaration as to the circumstances of the outrage. It is feared, however, that he will not recover. The police have not yet succeeded in apprehending the ruffian who attacked him.—Manchester Guardian. THE FENIAN BROTHERHOOD.—As to the pervad ing sentiments and present position of the Irish abroad and at home, we are told that it is a self-evident proposition that they are actuated by au intense and undy ing hatred of the monarchy and oligarchy of Great Britain, which have so long ground their country to the dust, hanging her patriots, starving her people, and sweep ing myriads of Irishmen, women and children, off their paternal fields to find a refuge in foreign lands. That the present position of Irishmen in America is more favourable now, or than it ever will be in future, to carrying out their wishes. That it now holds a more power ful position among the peoples of the earth in point of num bers, political privileges, social influence, and military strength than was ever held before by any exiled portion, not alone of the Irish people, but of any subjugated nation what soever ; but that it is now at its greatest strength, and in the hard battle of the exile's life the race is dying out. To obtain their ends they inculcate a strict observance of the pledge as regards the promotion of a brotherly feeling towards each other by the practice of mutual forbearance. And the crowning resolution of the Congress runs thus— " That we declare the said Irish people to constitute ono of the distinct nationalities of the earth, and as such justly entitled to all the rights of self-government."--Onee a Week. day aess hill, in g. out k a ?,yer [on. ,epl, the cess jor the sty and nUS ;lit, nce 100 nt, :he en ill ;.