The Sun. — London, England, 1865-07-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARKEt AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market is showing symptoms of in creasing firmness. The 'brokers are loth to take less than three per cent. for the best short-dated bills, a belief having gained ground that some heavy ship ments of specie is about to take place, and that the official minimum will consequently be advanced. A little activity has been causeed by a large number (q Australian engagements arriving at maturity to day, but beyond this there as been little other business. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have appointed Thursday, July 20, a special settling day in the 50,000 preference shares of the Atlantic Tele graph Company, recently issued by the Credit Alobilier and Foncier Company. These shares are already quoted in the official lists. The committee have also ordered that the shares of the Dagenham (Thames) Dock Company are to be marked in the t wice-a-week list. At a general meeting of shareholders of the City Bank, held to-day, the report presented stated that the accounts to the 30th June show a gross profit for the six months of £65,315, enabling the direc tors to declare the usual dividend of 6 per cent., and a bonus of £2 ss. per share. It has been announced that the subscription list of the General Estates Company wjll close on Saturday next, the 22d inst. Two O'CLOCK. The English Market has been quiet, but prices h ave nevertheless continued at their former v a l ue . i Li ttle speculation is now in progress, a n d th e num er of dealings for investment d a ily recor d e d i s very nlimited. Consols remain at 891 90 for money, and at 90 / for the account. The New Threes a nd Reduced Annuities are 891 1 ; the 21 per C ents., 72 1 ; Exchequer Bills, par to 4s. prem. ; and India 5 per Cent., 1041 1. The market for Foreign Stock has been dull, and Prices have varied very little. Turkish Consolides lively, a t 491 ; Mexican, ex. all, are 241, and the New Loan is 231 ; Greek Bonds, 211; Spanish Passive, 291 291 ; Certificates, 14/ 1 ; Italian, 64 4 ; and the Confederate Loan is 7 9. The American Securities show very little change. United States 5-20 Bonds are 711 721 ; Erie Shares, 54 • In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been limited ; prices, however, have generally *own more firmness. Great Northern, Great Western, and London, Chatham, and Dover have e ach advanced 10s. ; and North Eastern (Berwick), 53 .) while Metropolitan have declined £l. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without roaterial alteration. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are dull, at about Previous prices. London and County have improved to 76i 77 ; and London Financial are quoted 22f. Subjoined are the current quotations of some of the principal new undertakings :—New Issue of 6 0,000 Preference Shares of £5 each of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, pm. ; Northern Assam Tea, par pm. ; Chubwa Tea, 1 1 pm. ; Rus -8411 Iron, 9 11 pm. ; London Bridge Land, 1 3111 . ; Albert Bridge, 1 11 pm. ; Grange Town 0 0 pm. ; Downs Dock, k 1 pm. ; London, Greenwich, and Windsor Hotels, 0 0 pm. ; London 1 , 411 a7 8 , pm. ; British India and T r ust Age n cy, pm. ; Belgrave Mansions, par pm. ; Metro -1 Sewage, 11 lj. pm. ; Peruvian Railways, 41 51 P, lll . ; Lion Brewery, 2 2i pm. ; Blakeley Ordnance, 1 1 3 i pm. ; Hop and Malt Exchange, 1i 2 pm. ; ar ned's Banking, par pm. ; Dalbeattie and Kirk- B e°llll ell Granite, 2 2f p m . ; E as t L on d on R a i lway rip, par pm. ; London and Medit erranean all k, 3 4 pm. ; Overend, Gurney, and Company ((4Liraited), 2 pm. ; Gowhatty Tea, 14 pm. 118 tin Consolidated Silver Mines, 1 1 pm. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 8. GoVERNMENT FUNDS. . 1) 1? 1. Cent. Consols 6 --Q. Account, Aug. 8 9O k er C ent. Reduced B 9l 1 1 ND per Cent' B9l 1 1 2 Per Cent. Jan. 1894 72f o A 4, • - Per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Do ttnuitis, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 D o . for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — t xl (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — -e4equer Bills, £l,OOO, 3f per Cent. Do. 4 j 3 Do £5OO a Do of England St oc k, 5 per Cent 248 Account l lAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Do n Stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874 246 aJO, Account -. bo h 5 Per Cent. July, 1870 ..o. Account D* 4 Per Cent. Oct. 1888 h • Oer tifiCateS to tufaced Paper 4 per Cent — b o • 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 IN; 5 1 Per Cent., May 1879 — • 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 — 1) 13 ' 13011 11s, £l,OOO c'• under £l,OOO A u , • FOREIGN FUNDS -ONE O'CLOCK. br a ;T i a tt li n Bonds, , 5 per Cent, 1859 — D o v per Gent — 4 i Per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buenoso. 1863 s ,. Ayres 6 per Cent — elfi,_ ' Per Cent (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Doan. 6 per Cent — Colon q Per Cent — u bian 6 per Cent. bash -Per Cent. DO. . per Cent, 1825 — • b o . * Pe e r Cent., 1863 — b a ?Pr Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — Do 1-IblEi P rinehalitios Bount .Q a 4B6 kaid 1 , dor _New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — E ""•, Provisional Land Warrant Dlltiati 7 per C ent _?) Seco n d Issue 98 '''" t 00 Bonds Do (ino .£loo.Bonds 1864 94 1 - n elt 5 Per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons D...-'0 Account o. 21i B o. Coupons (kat fo unt A ~ per Cent. bup. 1839 and 1850 dia n 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) 69} bo 1865 13 , „No Scrip, .£67f paid die '-_,.° per Cent., 1864 I . "Jo. Scrip, £55 paid w exican 3 per Cent. DO. Account 241 4 Do 1864 .. " ...... .. 1)0 6 per Cent. An ........... —Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c .. . Montevidean 6 per Cent., Z3O paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) P eruvian 4f per Cent. Do s cr i p, £45 paid, paid in Bonds — dis Do 3 p er C ent. (U r ib arren ) _ ck.4l per Cent., 1862 I , Do. 9.ccount Ch rt liguese 3 per Cent., 1853 V 0 13 Cent.,Account " 3 Per 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, t t ° Account 4 71 I 14 . 11 8 8ian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St., D ° ° 4 i per Cent., 1850 D ° 0 1860 A tc . Per Cent., 1859 b o ••• Per Cent., 1862 1864 - lat it W an. 5 per Cent eb..; Ace, ...ount '-,g ' 1) ,I; 0 Oish Acc ount per Cent '''g° New Deferred — 0 Account 39i Beal)o.Passive _ nieti c of Coup not funded _ D o ert. _ /81, Account hecli6ll 4 per Cent. _ Tte. --- I ,_ ° ' li Per Cent. 1864 11 - ''' ° 5 per Cent. 1854 .1-'0 Account 941 . :6 ° 6 Per Cent. 1808 1,0 Account 73/ "0 XlOO Bonds' l3 b°•ji- per Cent no 0 Per Cent. 1862 r,° A ccount 721 3 2 ° 4100 Bonds 73k 1 2 b n 6 441 b Per Cent. 1865 _ dis I) n ° n' ler il ) , £35 paid 100* V - ilaranteed, 4 per Cent etteznela 3 Cent. — Do , per . D o : Account o • per Cent, 1862 — 41/ Dos per Cent., 1864 Ati s t - Dividends on the above payable in London. 1 41, 1113 ; 5 Per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins _- 13 '° 4l4 , 4/ Per cent. Ex. 25f. u tch 21 Per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil bo I P rQ •,. Per Cent. Certificates — 1;404 Itentes 41 per Cent. ,tt,,T,°. Account' .. .... .. _. ... . 1 0 44 6 per Cent:, 1861 ix. 25f. Acc eUnt .............., , TWO O'CLOCK. ............................. . .. ..... 89i 90 Account .................................... 90 ritE FE 111 CM (1E bHA HMS. London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 95 London and S.W., Portsmouth perpet. acme. of 2s. 6d, 2i ¢ PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London:and South-Western, 4} per cent., 01 LINKS LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Shrewsbury and Hereford, St FORM GN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam. 91 Gr eat Luxembourg, 14 } I South A.uatrian and Lombardo Venetian, 19J FO aEIGN MINN OT Cape Copper, um.. 11 I t.. John del Rey, lira., 41 London and St. Katharine 72 0 C i K 36 S. BANKS. Chartertd Bank of Indi a , Australia. and Ch A I Hulce, Um., 3C Chartered !ger. of India, London, and Ins. 26 City, 111.4 1' China, 17 bi Commercial Bank of India and the East, 18 European Bank, lira., 12f Hindustan. china, and Japan (11m.), Ditto, issued at 2 pm., Ditto, new, 14 London Bank of aaexi:o an S. America, lim London and Comity, f d 7 ill London Joint Stock, (0 London and South African, 19 f New South Wales, 41 Oriental Banx Corporation. 54 Provincial of Ireland, soi South Australia. 36 Union of London, 514 1 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 5f Credit Fonder and Mobilier of England, 9 81 Crystal Palace. 39 Discount Corporation. 1 f Egyptian Corn. and Trading, lim., 2f / Gen. Credit and Finance of London, hut.. 51 International Financial society, lira., 6 22iLondon Financial Association. lim., National Discount company, Um., 15 15 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, Dm., 23 Royal Mail Steam, 114 EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR. —Among the pas sengers by the African mail steamer Ethiope was Captain Gibson, of the barque Irene, belonging to Messrs. Stewart and Douglas, of Liverpool, who states that while in his boat in the Old Calabar river, on the 18th of April, alongside the ship Hannah Salkeld, he was suddenly at tacked by a body -of armed Kroomen, headed by several Englishmen, servants of the various trading establishments in the river. Mr. Gibson says that ho was knocked down bleeding and insensible in his boat, and afterwards im prisoned for a w ee k on board of the Hannah Salkeld. His assailants also went on b oard his vessel and stole a quantity of his private property, as well as his ship's papers, charts, etc. By tho advice of the Consuls in the districts, Mr. Gibson has returned home to lay hid complaints before the proper officers of the Government. SHARE MARKETS—This day. Share/ Railways. 13.1+ Wol., & b tr. Val.. Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall 10 Do. A 10 Do, B A gets no div. ti 116p . c.p.an.has been paid to B 3t Dublin & Belfast Junc. i 3 Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc. it Edinburgh & Glasgow it Glasgow &S. We stern It Great Eastern, ()rd. s:k. ;t Do. E. Angl. at No. 2 It Great North of Scotland it Great Norther.' t - D A stock t Do. B t Do. sew, is. at 25 pa , it Gt S. and W. of Ireland , t. `Vesta n . 5. VA!. Rail gua, Do. South Wales Do. W. Oxford Do. Newpo t Do. Het eford Lancishire & Yorkshire Landon and Blackwali Lon , Brigh.,& S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., dc Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do. shares Metropolitan Do. New 3lictand Do, liirmin Derby Mid Gt. W., Ireland Do. i shares id Kent .... North British Do. Ed., Pth ,•& Dun Nth. Eastern Berwick Do. G.N•141 purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle •• Po. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1855-:8 Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. New Do. do. 180 North Staffordshire N. dr S. W. Junction Scottish (3, ntral Scot. N. E , Aber stock Do. Scot, Mid. stick 4 hrews & Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South E stern Staines, Wok., (lc Wok 'raff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford Az Kilkenny West COTILW W.Hartlepool Har.& it, Do. A irredeemable.. Do. A. redeemable .. all 100 ICO 1(0 all all / all al] all all 100 100 62 66 16 17 gt £3 IC9 111 4 , 44 49i 81 oi 100 100 100 100 100 130 132 114 145 128 .32 - 1 2 p 81 12 15G $7 145 1 61 63 56 68 85 854 9 10 156 159 3 /31 IC4 106 98 50 8 E 4 ORDINARY SIIA.RICS AND STOCKS. 481 9/ 131 i 1441 / 65i 71 105 122 11 108 401 124 1 4 1001 1 57 !4li i 33 3} 1341 i 80 79j 8111 S I raid. ' Closing I Business Price. done. BRITISH P OSSEi Atlantic & St.Lawrcnce Bom.,Baroda, At Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent.. Do. N' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 1 6 p.c. bds. Aux. 1, 872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1574 Calcutta & B. E., Um e Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p' East. Bengal, gu ' 5 do East Icdian, gu. 5 p.o. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. lst Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pr, f. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. Id Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Gt. India Pen. gua. 5p.0 I so. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. 0.. Gt. South of India (lim. gua. 5 per cent D 41 per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada Do. New .. • Do. 6 p. o. Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 51 do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Sfadras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 d 0............ Do. 4i do ......... Do. Fifth Extension Cor. 6 p. c. Buds. & Hudson's Bay.. New Brunswick & Can. Class A and B ... . ,T.lll.C'da, pc lst pf.bds Sdndc ...... d Do. Delhi d Do. do Do. Pun jaub =4. Do. Indus St Flo '4 96 18 131 133 Eh 6: E 7 19 66 66 C 4 66 46 48 45 18 .05 1 06 124 122 93 95 107 IC 9 40 11 1234 324 99 10 CO 61 140 742 3i 31p ! 135 1351 (04 1(6 53 54 z 4 1111 112 i 694 70 1035 104! 37 3 04 104 ii 122 121 ,SIONS. 67 59 102 103 pr 4p 41 41 Z 4 cqi 98 99 70 75 100 102 101; 103 103 104 i bp 1, 141 i f 8 90 65 66 55 60 57y 6S 50 52 45 43 43 45 27 18 T 6 27 103 104 P 99 101 12 12} 8i 8 1 4 LO 92 82 84 1 #d 102 103 95 97 90 92 66 68 3 5 82 81 104 101. LOO4 lot I id 00 10t 92 94 rT SECUR: 97 99 98 109 0i 100 84 65 82 54 101 IC3 105 107 106 1 , 8 108 110 102 104 108 110 102 104 104 106 106 108 102 104 96 98 9) 101 92 94 90 91 102 104 83 85 98 100 103} 104i1 105 107 110 111 INES. 81 25 27 595 6G5 COLONIAL GO VERNMEN British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1472.... Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja..t July 1877-84 Do. % p. c. Feb. & Au 4 D.). sp. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p inscribed sk Cape CU. Hope. 6 p.c. 1873 Do. April & Oct. 1880-1 Do. do: It9o-1 Do. Jan. & .July, 1891 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.c Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1"78 Do. 1882, May i 5, Nov. i Natal qov. a per cent N. B. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.6c.i uly N. S. W. Gov. 5 ie., 1866 Do. 5 p.c. 18'1 to 1876 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189! New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 6 per cent.... Nova &Ala Gov. 6 p. sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1888-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c.la &July Do. do, A pril & Oct BRITISH M Cam. Consol. U old, Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated, Devon G. Cons. (Tavist, Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon as t Carn Brea.. Mast Grenville.., East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam. & StAubyn(G wen. Great L mey, limited Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor (Heist ‘l, Grenville Herod's Foot •••• Ringston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley Mwyndy Iron Ore, Hai Nangt les 'N eW'Seton North Downs INorth Roskear . N.Wh'lßassett(lllogan North Wheal Crofty Prosper Pr. vidence Unyl,lant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tin Croft West Bassett (II togaa W. Caradon (L skeard West Chi rerton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'lllogan Wheal Buller (Redruth %Vhea; LudoAt Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (I.is Wheal Uni .n...... ye 4.3.0 2.1.0 2.14.6 3.4.0 2.7.0 2.13.6 9.10.6 60 all 1.1.0 7.8.3 ' 8.13 1.18.01 214 3 32! 3.10.0 2.8.0 7.1.6 10.6.7 3.12.81 18.1E41 30.17.61 rHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1,53+35• LAW INTELLIGENOE—This Day. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde). POWER V. POWER-JUDGMENT. The learned judge in delivering judgment in this case this day said that a few days ago an earnest appeal had been made to the Court on behalf of the respondent. That appeal was founded, not on a denial of the adultery in the facts alleged in the petition, but on the ground of the respondent's youth, but after what had been proved no reliance could be placed on his promises, which had been frequently tried and without success. Of the adultery nothing could be said, for it appeared that it commenced at an early period, and was carried on with women of the town, and the only excuse for the respon dent's conduct in this respect was that he was in a habi tual state of drunkenness. In the present case there was an aggregate of acts of cruelty, including blows and bruises, and in one instance the respondent attempted to cut his wife's throat, but having used the back of the knife she escaped. He blight have carried out his intentions, but the wife escaped by stratagem. There could be no security that the petitioner would be happy with a person of the intemperate character of the respondent, and he must therefore make the decree nisi. COUSINS P. COUSINS.-JUDGMENT. This was a suit by the wife for the dissolution of the marriage on the ground of her husband's adultery and cruelty. The, parties were married in April, 1861, and separated in May, 1862. His Lordship, in delivering judgment, said that the Court was called on to pronounce that the respondent had been guilty of legal cruelty on the ground that he was in the habit of isolating himself from his wife and was wanting in affection to her. The only question was whe ther these facts amounted to legal cruelty, which, it was contended, they did, taken in connection with the adultery committed by the respondent, which was committed in his own house. The learned Judge having cited the dictum of Lord Stowell to show that that learned jurist did not consider adultery, when committed with a servant under the roof of the 'parties, amounted to legal cruelty, he could not, therefore, dissolye the marriage, but would grant judicial separation if the petitioner applied to the court. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Winslow.) A CLERIC IN THE BOARD OF WORKS.-1N RRCANTRILL. This bankrupt was described as a clerk in the Woods and Forests-office, and his debts are .£l,lOO, to-day being ap pointed for the order of discharge. Mr. Reed, for the assignees, asked that an account should be filed showing the nature of the bankrupt's expenditure. Mr. Griffiths, for the bankrupt, said his client had only £l6O per annum. His duty was to look after the National Gallery and other public places at the West-end, and, in common with tho rest of the clerks in the Woods and Forests, had a district assigned to him. lie was willing now to set aside £3O per annum for his creditors. Mr. Reed pressed for the accounts, and Mr. Longtaffe, for large creditors, complained of the mode in which his clients had been treated. His Honour said that the case must be adjourned for the accounts, which Mr. Reed required on behalf of the assignees. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ARE POLICE CONSTABLES DEBARRED FROM GIVING EVI DENCE ON BEHALF OF ACCUSED PERSONS ?-Mr. Edward Dillon Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, attended before Mr. Tyrwhitt, and said his worship would remember that on the previous day a cabman, named Couch, was charged before him with being drunk, furious driving, &c., and fined 40s. In the course of the case he (Mr. Lewis), having been instructed by the prisoner that Police-constable Gor don, 36 C, had known him some years, and could speak to his character, called him to give evidence on the part of the prisoner; he (Mr. Lewis) denied the allegation that _ _ _ the prisoner was drunk, and asked that the inspector who took the charge might be called to give evidence. It appeared, however, that the inspector was in attendance at the Middlesex Sessions, when his worship inquired whether there was any one present in court who was at the station when the charge was taken. Another constable (Adams, 135 d) then came forward and stated that he was acting gaoler at the station on the occasion mentioned, and he de posed that the symptoms spoken to by witnesses for the prosecution might, in his judgment, be attributed to in- juries received by the prisoner in the fall from his cab. A complaint had been made, he (Mr. Lewis) knew not by whom, to the superintendent, in consequence of the con stables having given this evidence. He had therefore to ask, on behalf of the constables, for a copy of the notes, in order that the same might be transmitted to the Commis sioners of Police, and that they might be able to form a proper judgment on the evidence given. He thought it right to state that both constables were in court on other business, and not for the purpose of being called as witnesses in the case. Ho (Mr. Lewis) could not conceive why the fact of the men being police constables was to prevent them giving evidence when called on to do so, such a theory being contrary to all principles of justice, and one which would, he felt, never be sanctioned by a magistrate. It appeared, however, that the police authorities entertained this idea. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he had no wish to interfere between the constables and the superintendent. If ho was asked whether a man when he became a constable was to forfeit his rights as a citizen he should say it was an absurd doc trine, because a police constable might in many cases be able to give important evidence but be held back by the fear of offending his superiors. Besides, police constables would be open to the charge of giving partial evidence. Ile should decline to give the notes, and he thought there must be some mistake about the matter, as he did not think the commissioners would suffer such a thing. Mr. Lewis said such a report had been made, and the constables were summoned to appear before the superin tendent to-morrow. Mr. Tyrwhitt, in again declining to give the notes asked for, said he had not a word to say against the officers, and he had no doubt they had spDkon to the best of their belief. WESTMINSTER. WHOLESALE ILLEGAL PAWNING.—WiIIiam Little, de scribed as a watchmaker, was charged with illegally pawn ing a watch, value £5, the property of Thomas William Jenkins. In consequence of above 30 complaints having been made to Mr. Selfe on Monday against the prisoner for illegally pawning, Knowland, 141 B, the warrant officer, was ordered to go to the prisoner's house, and, if possible, take him into custody. Thomas William Jenkins, bookmaker, 20, Eaton-lane, Pimlico—Six months ago I gave the prisoner a watch to repair. I asked him for it several times, and found he had pawned it. That is my watch (produced). I never autho rised him to pawn it. William J. Squire, assistant to Mr. Courtenay, Stock bridge-terrace, pawnbroker—l produce the watch pawned on February 9. I took it for £1 from a woman. Knowland, 141 B—The wife gave me the tickets and told me she had pawned all the watches by prisoner's direction. Jenkins—Two months ago he said he had pawned it, and when ho had some money he would get it out. His wife also told mine the same. Knowland—l have twenty-one duplicates relating to watches. Prisoner had a situation at the Grosvez or Hotel, but lost it by this. Prisoner—l had a contract from Brixton prison. I got into difficulties somehow. I was exposed at the Grosvenor Hotel, and lost my situation. I did not pawn the watches, but my wife did. I have been in very trying circum stances, and am very sorry for what I have done. He was apprehended by Knowland, who stated that, among other depredations, ho had obtained a watch from the matron of the Brixton prison, and, under pretence of repairing, had pawned it. Mr. Arnold remanded the prisoner till Friday, offering ,o accept £2O bail. THAMES. BRUTAL OUTRAGE.—Edward Donovan, a powerful fellow, about 23 years of age, was brought before Mr. Knox, charged with violently assaulting Margaret Rear don, whose face was mutilated, and her left eye cut and swollen. The complainant, a young Irish woman, said slim had been acquainted with her countryman, Donovan, for some time. He was the father of her child, which sho had left outside the court. She met him last night between the hours of eight and seven. Mr. Knox—Between the hours of seven and eight, you mean ? Witness—Yes, sir. I met him then in Royal Mini street, and asked him to support his child. He imme diately up with his fist and struck me on the aye and knocked me down, and when I was down he kicked me as hard as he could, and 1 was quite senseless. Mr. Knox asked if the child had been affiliated, and the woman replied in the negative. Samuel Damarck, police-constable, No. 140 11, saw the woman last night bleeding copiously from the eye and mouth, and the bystanders said she had been very much ill-used. The prisoner was inebriated, the woman was sober. The prisoner, in his defence, said he had seen the com plainant as a casual acquaintance, whom one looked at and soon forgot, and she importuned him for money and said he was the father of her child, which he knew was not the case. She threatened to stab him and to obtain nine pennyworth of vitriol and throw over him and blind him. She had persecuted him in every possible way, hunted him through the streets, called at his place of business and " shown him up." , Mr. Knox believed the prisoner might have received provocation, but it was not to be wondered at if he was father of the young child. The pr9vocation did not jus tify such a brutal assault as that which the prisoner had committed, and a portion of which the prisoner admitted. He sentenced the prisoner to two months' imprisonment and hard labour, The Burning of the Ship William Nelson The Greenock correspondent of the North British Mail writes :—The fine barque Meteor, belonging to the well known firm of J. and W. Stewart, of Greenock, and commanded by Captain Hart, which arrived here on Friday last from Porto Rico, reports having picked up 30 passengers of the ill-fated ship William Nelson, the destruction of which by fire we narrated a few days ago. Captain Hart reports that at 3 o'clock a.m. on June 28, weather calm, when in latitude 41 58 N., longitude 51 48 W., he heard a noise to windward, as of people scream ing. Bore down towards it, and found and picked up nine females and twenty nine males, forming part of the passengers of the ship William Nelson. They were floating upon spars, pieces of wood, hen coops, &c., up to the waist in water, and were almost in a state of nakedness. Eight of the females were seated astride the lost ship's mainmast. The ninth was found floating on a spar about two miles apart from the rest. At first this female was thought to be dead, but efforts to restore her were success ful. These passengers were all Germans, and their language could only be understood by some of the seamen of the Meteor, who were foreigners. After picking up these sufferers, who had been knocking about in this condition for two days and two nights without food or water, the Meteor kept backing and filling about till 10 a.m., looking out for more of the lost passengers, but could find none, though several dead bodies were seen floating about. The rescued passengers, who were all suffering more or less from burns, reported that the William Nelson had 482 adults and 70 children on board as passengers, bound from Antwerp to New York. They believed that the greater number of the passengers were destroyed by the fire, and that a great many went down with the ship. They said that, on the fire taking place the captain and his officers and crew manned the boats and put off from the burn ing ship, leaving the passengers to perish. That a number of the passengers jumped over the ship's side into the sea, and endeavoured to get into the boats, seizing upon the gunwale with this intention, but that the officers and crew struck their heads and hands with the oars and billets of wood, and left them to perish. They stated that on the 27th, while floating about on the fragments of wreck, they sighted an American ship which evidently saw them, but passed without giving them any aid. Captain Hart and his officers and crew gave the most humane attention to these poor rescued people, dressed thoir burns and wounds, had the females accommodated in the cabin, clothed them as best they could, and in doing so turning some male attire to the best possible account. After getting under weigh, the Meteor sighted a large ship backing and filling, as if hovering about the scene of the disaster, but could not learn whether she had picked up any of the William Nelson's people or not. Captain Hart, finding that he had not sufficient provisions on board to supply his crew and the 30 people on the passage across to Britain, and that he was 320 miles south of St. John's, Newfoundland, made for that port, where he landed the passengers in safety ; and on the night of the 30th pro ceeded on his voyage. One of the passengers picked up had lost 2,700 francs, and another 1,500 francs. Another, an elderly man, who seemed to be an artist, and spoke of painting a view of the burning of the William Nelson, had a good large sum of money with him, attached to a belt round his waist, and had managed to save it intact. The rescued passengers expressed a strong belief that the burning of the ship was intentional, and said that two vessels of which the same mate had been chief officer had been burned at sea. They said that some of the officers and the carpenter went below, drove all the passengers on deck, and after plundering the chests of the passengers, set fire to the ship. Of course this statement is not likely to pass uncontradioted. Captain Hart, his officers, and crew, deserve great credit for their humane efforts in saving so many lives, and we hope to see their efforts recognised in a way that may encourage others to follow their example when placed in like circumstances. MR. BUCKSTONE'S BENEFIT.—To-morrow (Wed nesday) closes the season at " the little theatre in the Haymarket," and Mr. J. B. Buckstone, the lessee, announces it also as his annual benefit. It will also be the occasion of other "last words," namely, the last and 49th night of Brother Sam,' and of Mr. Sothern's performances ; also of " The Miller's daughter," and of " Our Mary Anne." And last, not least, Mr. Buckstone himself will bid fare well to the public and his patrons, in one of those addresses which are always looked for as an event of the close of the season. AN ODD SCENE AND AN ODD LAW.—A curious scene took place two evenings back on the Boule vard Beaumarchais. Monsieur B—, an advocate, walking • out accompanied by his dog, an Italian greyhound of great beauty, suddenly missed the animal, and retracing his steps overtook a man of decent appearance with the dog in his arms. The thief had already removed the collar with the owner's name and address, and was endeavouring to stifle its cries. Being a man of groat muscular power, M. B— soon mastered the delinquent, and then offered him the choice either of being consigned to the police or of kneeling down in the street and kissing the dog. The thief, after some little hesitation, chose the latter alternative, and per formed the ceremony in the midst of the laughter and jeers of the bystanders. Satisfaction being thus given given, M. B— was willing to allow the defendant to depart in peace, but some serpents de ville coming up insisted on taking him before the commissary of police of the quar ter. M. B— accompanied the party to the office, and when there explained to the' commissary that ho had acted in virtue of an old law of the nurgun dian Parliament never yet abrogated, containing (Title x. cap. 8, art. 9) a disposition thus worded : "If any man has stolen a greyhound (voltrahum), or a skusiave (seguteum), a 'particular sort of hound used by the Gauls for hunting the boar, or a lurcher (petrunculum), we ordain that the guilty party be obliged either to kiss the animal before the whole people or to pay five sols of gold to the master of the dog and two sole as fine." The advocate concluded by interceding for the culprit, on the ground that he had satisfied tho conditions of the law, but the commissary, recognising the man as an old offender, sent him to the Prefecture.—Galignani. UNINTENTIONAL INFANTICIDE.—Mr. John Simon, medical officer of the Privy Council, in his evidence before the Select Committee on the Chemists and Druggists' Bills, mentioned some startling facts as to the unintentional destruction of infant life, by opium. "There aro some country districts of England," he said, "whore child killing by opium is monstrous. Every ono knows that in some of the manufacturing districts, where mothers are employed and children are neglected, the mortality of infants is twice or thrice what one would call the nominal rate of dying, and that a considerable share of this undue mortality is caused by dosing with prepara tions of opium. But it is not equally well known that in certain country districts the same amount of mortality - of infants is to be observed; and when the particulars of this are inquired into, it appears that the conditions are very similar to those which operate in the manufac turing districts, and that even a greater proportion of the mortality is oaused by the domestic administration of opium." " I should not like you," Mr. Simon continued, " to suppose that I think much of it is intentional. Ido not think that, but there is a carelessness as to the result that is hideous. On this subject the committee would find the facts given in my last annual report, and especially with reference to the marsh districts of England. The women work in gangs, and travel about the country, leading often a very reckless and rollicking life, leaving their children a great deal to chance as they travel about. The children fare very badly, as the children do in manufacturing towns. To be kept quiet they aro drugged with opium. The pea santry have a tradition that opium is useful in their ague, and hare got so familiar with it that many of the adults Having this local knowledge of opium, children very largely, the • h e i n ldr cu e m n b d ra y n in ee g The children ya'rehea monstrously. The mothers (namely, the agricultural gang-women) appear often to b very reckless whether the children live or die. to them." talrieeyopuiuP,am-iet/eors.. ATTEMPTED MURDER AT WARWICK .—Yesterday, at the Warwick Borough Police C ourt, G eorge London was charged with attempting to m ur d er Willi am Coates, by shooting at him with a g un. Between twolve and one o'clock on Sunday morning, the prisoner, who does not bear a very good character, went to a house in Mount street, where be knew Coates was , and said that he would shoot him if he came out. Coates went out, and the pri dsoennetiarl instantlyly Coates discharged tu rned sideways, loadedaand the gre a t er p or ti on of the charge entered the door and walls, but severa l o f the gun at him. Provi dentially shots lodged in the man's shoulder, inflicting a serious wound. The prisoner then decamped , b ut was appre hended shortly afterwards in bed. A quantity of percus sion caps, powder, and shot were found upon him; and an open knife was laid on the bed by his side. He did not make any (Welke, and was remanded for the attendance of the injured man. Jealousy of a woman with whom he has for years cohabited, and who has recently shown a preference for Coates, is assumed to be the cause of the ill feeling. RAILWAY DISASTER.—THREE MEN KILLED.—. On Saturday afternoon a fatal accident happened on the new railway from Sudbury to Bury St. Edmunds, Clare, Haverhill, See. Some of the workmen from Clare who had been employed at the station were returning to their homes when, on reaching a part of the line about two miles from Sudbury, the engine and trucks ran off the line, and three of the men were killed on the spot, and a fourth so much injured that his life is despaired of. The accident is said to have arisen from an incompetent person laying the points. The line has not yet been opened for traffic. A Poisoner's Confessioo. The following is the main portion of t, he confes sion of Lindbach, the Swedish clergyman, * 'who was recently condemned to death for murdering several of his parishioners by putting arsenic into the ;,ozn munion wine : I comprehend " the pastor's" duty as a father's. I ordered notice to be given me every Sunday by appointed persons of where any poor sick person was to bo found. After such inquiries I went round with food and medicine, and became witness of much misery and hopelessness. When one stands beside an incurably sick and dreadfully - pained fellow-creature, one wishes, of all his heart, that hb might be released from his heartrending misery. By those hungry, cold, incurables in Silbodahl I have often stood, moved by the deepest pity, and thought, " Were I in such a miserable plight I would bless him who hastened the end of my pain, and God would forgive that merciful one." With every renewed visit to these poor people I was strengthened in this idea. I prepared separate wine, as help in trouble, when this, my misdirected charity, should urge me to it. I thought, also, what none can deny, that very few hunian beings pass to the other world in the course of nature, i.e., when the powers of soul and body are worn out by age. Some external cause occurs, which God, though ho does not advance it, yet does not prevent, in virtue of the freedom he granted, the understanding he gave. How many in the prime of life, in their full vigour, are their own murderers, involuntarily, yet through misuse of their under standing. How many have fallen out of the hands of the most skilful physician into the grave. The patient's state ment is not always properly, comprehended (yet the state ment determines the prescription, and the prescription de termines life or death) without God's either helping or hindering, and neither doctor nor patient are thought to have any share in the death. How many an illness which in the beginning might easily have been cured has, through delay in seeking help, precipitated its victim into the grave. From these incontrovertible facts, and the many such examples which I have partly heard described, partly witnessed myself, I have come to the conclusion and belief that science as well as ignorance often bears the most decisive part, and that pious faith is often wrong in saying "the hour had come." I therefore believed that the merciful God would not condemn me if I shortened the sufferings of a miserable fellow-creature. This action is certainly to outward appearance against all law, but in reality it rests upon grounds of compassion. My God, before whom I shall finally answer, knows this, and with deep contrition I feel myself worthy of the sore punishment of the civil law for the sinful compassion I exercised towards the dead persons in the case. Respecting Lysen, men will likely reject my assertion of mercy and call it selfishness in its grossest form, but those who knew his dreadful sufferings and our written agreements will admit my motives of pity. My guilt is great, my enemies acted right in their earnest investigations. To their consciences, however, I put the question, " Was it zeal in service, or zeal in persecution which directed your course ?" Hate, the world's demon, is a murderer, and wants even the poor comfort of having meant well :by its crime. Who is most responsible—he who against the law frees one from misery, or he who, under protection of the law, precipitates one into misery ? God alone will judge ! How I have sinned is confessed before God and man; and now, my persecu= tors, I pray you, be merciful as our Heavenly Father is ! Let your false imputations now cease, and spare my blameless relatives the heartrending scream of that hate. You have enough—my crime confessed, my house de stroyed, my grave opened. Farewell farewell, Carlstadt ! That day I was ordained your pastor, I was ordained to death. 0 God! have mercy upon me ! Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Good inquiry for cotton, at steadier rates, Sales, probably 10,000 bales. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, July 17—Forsyth, from Cronstadt ; Parrock Hall, from St. Kitt's. Arrived, July 18—Furet, Napoleon, and Walkyerep, from Gravelines ; Agamemnon, from Aalborg ; Marian, from Malmo; Karsina, from Groningen; Dorothea, froin Stolpemunde ; Clenalvon, from Port Natal. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed—Betty, from Singapore for London; Royal Vic toria, from Quebec for Hull ; Woodhouse, of Sunderland, and Eliza Young, of Shields, both from west for north ; screw steamer Brenda, from Odessa for London ; Hums, from Richmond for Hull ; Attila and Cross Fall, from Quebec, and barque Greay, from Grenada, all for London; B. B. Green, from London for Cardiff ; Aratic, from west for north ; barque Pallas and Frenderne, both from west for London. The coupons of the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transpor tation Companies due August next will be paid on presentation at the Consolidated Bank. Mr. W. A. Ogg, of Messrs. Prince, Ogg, and Co., has joined the London board of directors of the Southern. Insurance Company of Melbourne. During the last few days there has been very little animation exhibited in the markets for foreign and colonial produce. Sugars have only been in limited request, without any material change as re gards prices. Operations in tea have been postponed until to-day, when a considerable quantity of China produce will be offered. Coffee and rice have re mained dull, at about previous rates, while few dealings have been reported in either saltpetre or tallow. The fine bar silver brought by the West India steamer has been sold at 60d. per oz., being an advance of id. on the price obtained for that by the previous packet. Transactions have, however, been effected in the interval at 60d. and The Union Bank of Australiahave invited tenders on the Ist August next for £500,000 Six per Cent. Debentures of the colony of Queensland, being part of a loan of £1,019,000 authorised by the local Le gislature for immigration and other works. A pay ment of 10 per cent. will be required on allotment, and the remainder on the 12th of October. The debt of the colony previously to the authorisation of this loan was £831,236. The following gold ships are announced to be on their way home from Melbourne :—The Wellesley, which sailed on the 11th of April, with 4,239 oz. ; the Suffolk, on the 28th of April, with 31,700 oz. ; and the Swiftsure, on the 20th of May, with 71,328 oz.—making a total of £429,068. Viscount and Viscountess Sydney will have a dinner party on Friday next at their residOnce in Cleve- land-square. The Queen of the Netherla,nds has been gra ciously pleased to accept an invitation to dine with the noble viscount and viscountess on the occasion, It is said that Lord Torphichen is about to marry Miss Maitland, a daughter of Lord Dundreunan (a late Lord of Session). The youngest daughter of Mrs. llarriet Beecher Stowe was lately married at St. John's Episcopal Church, in Hartford, Conn., to an Episcopal clergyman from Boston. The ceremony was performed by Bishop Clarke, of Rhode Island. The Government of the canton of Valais (Swit zerland) has placed under sequestration, at the instance of the company itself, the railway from Bouverot to Sion, and from Sion to the Italian frontier, reserving the rights of the shareholders and creditors, towards whom the company is unable to fulfil its engagements. The proprietor of the Egyptian, published at Alexandria, has been compelled to stop the issue of his paper for a fortnight in consequence of his Maltese compo sitors and workmen being panic-stricken and leaving the place on account of the cholera. " We have reason to believe," says the Patrie, - " that there has been some intention both at Paris and Madrid of an interview between the Emperor Napoleon and Queen Isabella. That meeting, which would coincide with the sojourn of his Majesty at Biarritz, will probably take place in the second half of the month of August. The Emperor would go to St. Sebastian to pay the Queen a first visit, which her Catholic Majesty would return soon after at Biarritz." AN AUSTRALIAN BALL.—A ball was given recently at Melbourne to commemorate the opening of the railway from that place to Echuca, and, as wo aro informed by the Australian journals, the arrangements were on the most elaborate scale, and everything was done to insure the comfort of the visitors. As a proof of this we read that a number of first-class carriages, which were drawn up along side the platform, "formed convenient dressing-rooms for the ladies." IMTERESTING DISCOVERY AT POMPEll.—Abund ant details have been received from Naples respect ing the freshly uncovered temple of Juno among the recent excavations at Pompeii. Three hundred skeletons were found crowded within that sanctuary, a propitiatory sacri fice being evidently held in the hour they were over whelmed. The statue of the goddess, with attendant pea cock, the tripod in front of the altar, the golden censer, the jewels on the person of the priestess, the rich vessels hold ing a deposit of animal blood, are the main particulars dwelt on, no chapter in that awful story being more in structive or interesting. The eyes of Juno were of the most vivid enamel, her arms, and her whole person richly decorated with gold trinkets, her gaudy bird resplendent with a cluster of glittering gems. Aromatio ingredients lay calcinated within the censer, while gorgeous lamps and bronze ornaments strewed the tesselated pavement. 891 90 ITIES. 13 15 I 1/ 11 21 32 35 490 500 15 2) 13 15 161 17i 61 7. . 8 10, 75 8 ) 180 190 8 85 15 20 THE GENERAL ELECTION. POLLING THIS DAY. (BY TELEGRAPH.) Peek SURREY (EAST)-1. ••• • .•• • ••• ..• 2674 Brodrick • •• • ... 2615 Locke King... •. • ... 2550 Buxton ... •• • ... 2519 • Bridges KENT (EAST)-1. • Knatchbull - Dering DOIII3ARTONSHIRE-9. Smollett Stirling __. ... NORFOLK (EAST). Howes Coke Beauchamp Reed RENFREWSHIRE-10 Spiers Stewart 319 299 267 232 182 319 318 318 305 346 204' WIGTOWNSIIIRE-10. Stewart Agnew WILTS (SOUTH). Corrected Statement of the final close. Thynne ... 1563 Grove ... 1420 Bathurst ... 1261 ANGLESEA. Bulkeley returned. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Manners, Royston, and Young returned. CAITHNESS-SHIRE. Traill returned. DOWN (COUNTY). Hill-Trevor and Forde returned. GLOUCESTERSHIRE (EAST). Holford and Beach returned. HAMPSHIRE (SOUTH). Jervoise and Fane returned. NORTHUMBERLAND (SOUTH). Beaumont and Liddell returned. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (NORTH). Denison and Clinton returned. OXFORD 'UNIVERSITY—it Telegram states—" No poll issued since lase night. Polling places almost deserted.", Buteshire ... Durham (North) Kent (West) ... Renfrewshire ... DAYS OF POLLING. July. July. 18 Yorkshire (North Riding) 20 • 20 Warwickshire (North) 20 ▪ 20 Wight, Isle of 20 18 CLOSE OF FOLLS—Yesterday. Craufurd Oswald AYR BURGHS. ANGLESEA, Bulkeley returned. CAVAN, COUNTY. Annesley and Saunderson returned. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. Whiteside Lefroy Ball F. Cole Collum A. Cola Gavin Russell Spaight Verner Barbour ENNISKILLEN. LIMERICK, CITY. LISBURN. OXFORD UNIVERSITY. Heathcote Hardy Gladstone WILTS (SOUTH). Thynne Grove Bathurst 1154 1004 509 1002 G 8 134 69 ... 3092 ... 1831 ... 1601 STAFFORDSHIRE (NORTH). Buller Adderley Ingestre SUSSEX (EAST). 1563 1420 1322 ..: 4633 ... 4418 ... 4050 Dodson ... ... ... ... 2778 Cavendish ... ... ... ... 2612 Talbot ... ... ... ... 2271 Return from Ryde stated not to have been ceived, but that it cannot reverse the above. YOUGHALL. Butt retired. M'Kenna reVurned. MARKETS—This Day. HAY MARKETS SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow hay, £4 10s 0(1 to £6 lOs Od ; now ditto, £5 Os to £5 108 ; old clover, £5 Os to £7 10s ; new ditto, £5 Os to £6 Os ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 13s por load.• Trade quiet. CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow hay, £4los Od to £6158 Od ; new ditto, £5 5s to £5 15s ; old clover, £5 5s to £7 158 ; new ditto, £5 5s to £6 6s ; and straw, £1 lOs to £1 16s per load. A fair demand. WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow hay, £4los Od to.£6 10s Od ; new ditto, £5 Os to £5 10s ; old clover, £5 Os to £7 lOs ; new ditto, £5 Os to £6 Os ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 13s per load. A slow demand. COLONIAL. TEA.—Business has remained very quiet, the trade having deferred their operations until the public sales, which commence to-day. About 11,000 packages are announced for competition. SUGAR —The market has continued quiet, although prices generally are firmly supported. In refined goods there is a moderate amount of business doing at steady rates. COFFEE.—The demand for colonial has been to an ave rage extent, and prices are well sustained. Only a small quantity is announced for public sale during the next few days. RICE.—A moderate demand has prevailed for cleaned descriptions, and quotations aro well supported. TALLOW.—Business has remained very quiet, the prin cipal transactions having been for present delivery. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 41s 6d, and last throe months' delivery 42s 6d per cwt. THE EMIGRANT SHIP WILLIAM NELSON.—The Journal du Havre announces that the following good news has been received in a despatch from St. John's, Newfound land, under date of the 3d inst. :—" Thirty passengers of the William Nelson, which was burnt at sea on the 26th ult., while on her passage from Antwerp to New York, have been landed here by the Meteor, bound from Porto Rico to Queenstown." VINDICATION OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.—Mr. Jeffer son Davis has suddenly become famous again. For nearly a month his name, outside of the assassination trials, has scarcely been mentioned. The talk about ,him at present has been raised by the publication of a letter signed by John B. Van Dien, who claims to have been a clerk in the Confederate War Department. He says that in the latter part of February, 1865, he was present at a conversation between President Davis, Secretaries Benjamin and Breckinridge, and two strangers, one of whom was named Booth. In this conversation Booth said a plan was formed by parties in the North and Canada to capture or assassinate Mr. Lincoln ; that he had a full list of names, and all they wanted was an official recognition on the part of the Confederate authorities, and then the project would they certainly Confederacyr e b n e o e wt x aa was fctuweterisd. gain,hedHe said no pecuniary aid from th e wished, as absutthwaterwe was actuatedl already secured solely by ; that a de sire to render the Confederacy a service, by removing the tyrant who was the cause of so much suffering, and the only obstacle in the way of a speedy peace. Mr. Davis and Gen. Breckinridge, says the writer of this letter, both ex pressed their hearty condemnation of the plot, and ad vised Booth to think no more of it ; that they were con fident their cause was just, and God in His own good time would give them the victory without their resorting to anything but the most honourable warfare. Booth was not convinced, but retired, saying, "He must die." Van Dien says he is willing to be "qualified" as to the truth of this statement, and that his business in the Confederate War Department being to endorse and file away all documents received there, he knows that no documents were received from parties in the North with reference to the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. Many propositions were received from the South, however, offering to capture or assassinate Mr. Lin-- cola for certain sums of money, but they never received the least attention, and were always passed over without official notice. The frankness with which Mr. Van Dien makes these statements is considered good evidence of their truth, and there are few persons in the country who now believe that Jefferson Davis had anything to do with the assassination. There aro no further developments about his trial, and there is a growing belief that the Government does not intend to deal harshly with him. There are ru mours, however, that, in addition to the indictment for treason, counts will be presented charging him with com plicity in the assassination. If there ever is a trial, it will no doubt be had in the district of Columbia. An Algerian journal relates a singular accident which happened to the Wilderneth diligence, be tween Pout d'Aumale and Constantine. On leaving the former place there was only an inside passenger, Mlle. Julio C., and when the carriage arrived at Constantine she had disappeared. Some persons who were immediately sent back to look for the lady, found her lying by the roadside with one leg broken and several severe contu sions ; she was sensible, but unable to give the slightest explanation as to the cause of her being in that condition. It, is supposed that she must have got out of the diligence in a state of somnambulism. 567 501 117 107 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. NOTTINGHAM RACES-THIS DAY. TRIAL STAKES. Success ............................................................... 1 Sisyphus ............................................................. 2 Five ran. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, TATTERSALLS'-LAST EVENING. GOODWOOD STAKES. 4to 1 agst Claremont (taken) 11 to 1 agst Redmire (taken) 100 to - 7 agst Blackdown (taken) 100 to 7 agst Sister to the Drake (taken and offered) 15 to 1 agst Lady Hylda (taken) 15 to 1 apt Harry Brailsford (taken) 20 to 1 agst Friday (taken) .20 to 1 agst Moose (taken) 25 to 1 agst Sprite (taken) 25 to 1 agst Hopper (taken) 33 to 1 agst Guide (taken) GOODWOOD CUP. 9to 2 agst Union Jack (taken) 9 to 2 agst Eltham (taken.) 9 to 2 agst Gladiateur (offered—take 5 to 1) 10 to 1 agst Cambuscan (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agst General Peel (taken) 20 to 1 agst Hollyfox (taken) • Pala do l'Air was struck out of the Goodwood Cup at 9 a.m., July 15. DERBY. 20 to 1 agst Auguste (taken) 25 to 1 agst Rustic (taken) 50 to 1 agst Magician (taken) 50 to 1 agst Robin Hood (taken) 50 to 1 agst Bribery colt (taken) Crops and Prospects. Never has there been a plainer illustration of the uncer tainty of farmers' prospects than the circumstances of the current agricultural year. After a Winter unusually long and singularly inclement and interruptive, there occurred during April and the early part of May a genial temper a .. ture, with a seasonable supply of rain, which produced an outburst of vegetation rarely seen in this country. Where the wheat had net lost plant, from the alter nations of frost and thaw during the winter, or from wire-worm in the spring (as occurred to some ex tent, especially on the higher soils), it made a more rapid and vigorous progress than we ever recollect. This was remarkably so on the strong and well-drained loans in fair condition ; and these wheats maintain their high position to the present time, the straw being unusually strong, and the ear largo and well corned. If there be no hailstones, such as we had last Sunday in various parts of the country, we expect to hear of some very large yields of wheat at the coming harvest. Yet, though the season must be regarded as a favourable one for wheat, there such extensive tracts of light land, and poorly cultivated land, on which either from defective plant or want of rain during the latter part of May and nearly the whole of June, the wheat is thin, that we doubt whether what is called an average crop will be gathered this year. The wheat markets, low though they are, indicate, by a somewhat firmer tone, tho prevalence of some such views in the trade. Oats were sown late, have come up but in differently, and, taking the country through, are inferior and unpromising. I'Vliat wo shouldhave done for oats with out foreign importations seems difficult to conceive. Barley is better than oats, but by no means good. Beans came up and have flowered well; and though complaints aro made in some quarters that they are not corning so well as expected, we believe that there will be fully average beau crops. But perhaps the crops which have most signally failed to realise the early promise of the spring are the grass crops. A good crop of hay is the exception, and is only to be found on very good land, or moist land, or under otherwise ex ceptional circumstances. Upon ordinary meadow land the hay crops have been bad, and in the Midland districts they have been left standing (considering the forward season) so long that there is now a great deal of hay in the fields, which has been exposed to the heavy rains of the last fort night, and cannot be of very high quality. Grazing pas tures have proved better than mowing grass land, though they had become very bare and very dry when the late rains commenced. It is impossible to go through the fine land and manage able soils of the Midland Counties without being struck with the extent to which opportunities are wasted by poor farming and the absence of landlords' most necessary improvements. You inquire the cause, and are told the old, old story—the tenants have insufficient capital, their tenures aro precarious, they are yearly tenants ; the land lords are game preservers, they won't grant leases, they can't or won't do the permanent improvement, which none but the proprietor can do with a fair hope of profit ; their estates are mortgaged or entailed, or both, and they cannot or will not expend money to improve them. We look around, seeing what is the state of fine tracts in these Mid land counties, seeing also of what much better things they are capable, and say is this always to be so? Is the capi tal required to fertilise these lands for ever to be repelled from it ? The practical replies supplied by the actual system of management on the large estates is by no means en couraging, for under existing conditions the wonder is, not that the farming is so bad, but that the land is farmed at all. Whether the landed property will ever be made as productive as it ought to be in the hands of the present owners may be a question. But commercial principle and commercial action are, perhaps slowly, forcing their way into land management. This is not through the agency of the great landowners, they seem quite ignorant and help less. They appear to be quite unconscious of the mind of wealth they might possess if intelligence and capital were applied to their estates. They stand in a sort of trance— economically speaking—while the world moves around and beyond them. They would seem to desire to repel capital rather than to attract it, where some of their tenants would gladly improve their farms could they safely do so ; while too many of their tenants seem well content to sink into that lethargy recommended by the example of their landlords. Yet a glimpse of better things comes from the great towns. The traders and manufacturers of Birming ham and other thriving towns are buying, improving, and farming land for themselves. Many of them are renting farms on leases, where they can get proprietors to grant rational leases, and they pay far higher rent, and raise far them gre as greater produce This is hopeful. ce ts thanthe regular farmers Herofarmersw whoe obtain preceded a higher standard of hind management as well as of farming, which perhaps will by-and by tell upon the old landlords. Or must there be a breaking-up and re-distribution of the large estates before our land has justice done to it? Who can tell? It is certain that the great mass of our English landlords aro neglecting and misusing the finest inheritance men ever possessed.—Economist. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton July 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 12 Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pac..et Aug. 4. Ditto, by French packet . . July 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and st Helena.... July 22. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou hampton..July 19. Ditto, via Marseilles July 27 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... July 19. Ditto, vla Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. July 20. Ditto, via Marseilles .. July 20. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil e , Aug. 4. Newfoundland July 19. Portugal .. . . .....Aug. 4. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet . . July 27 Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton . Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry July 21. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Aug. 10. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico ............. ....... Bahamas, via New York. Bermuda, ditto Aug. 2. Cuba and Mexico July ..9. THE ATLANTIC CABLE.—The Great Eastern, which left her moorings at the mouth of the Thames on Saturday, arrived off Plymouth yesterday morning, and proceeded to her destination, some 300 miles from the coast of Ireland. The Caroline steamer, having tho shore end of the cable on board, was expected to reach Valentia this morning. The splice will be made between the shore end and the cable on board the Great Eastern as soon as pos sible, and then the big ship will start on her momentous voyage across the Atlantic. PRESENTATION OF A GOLD WATCH FROM THE PRESIDENT OF TIIE UNITED STATES.—OH Saturday a very valuable gold watch was presented to a " Brixham Captain " named Mr. Richard Burman, by Mr. H. Hallett, shipping master of that port, in the name of the President of the United States. The gift is valued at £lOO. The front represents the rescue of a shipwrecked seaman, with a wrecked ship, and a lighthouse in the distance. On the back is the United States shield in enamel, and inside the front case is the following inscription :—" The President of America, to Captain Richard Burman, for the rescue of the crew of the American schooner Minnehaha, 186.5." NEW CATHOLIC CHURClL—Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, the ceremony of laying the first stone of the Carmelite Fathers Church, dedicated to St. Simon Stock, was performed by the Most Rev. Dr. Manning, Archbishop of Westminster. The new church is situate near the Old Church, Kensington, and the architect is Mr. Welby Pugin. The leading ecclesiastics of the me tropolis wore present, and amongst the general com pany were the Marchioness of Londonderry, the Duchess of Argyll, Countess, do la Hayle, Lady Mary Campbell, Madam White, and Madam Freeman. ,The ceremony of consecrating and laying of the stone was a very imposing sight, and after an eloquent sermon from the Archbishop the proceedings terminat ed. 330 306 20a 10 100 ICO 100 all 10) 100 100 2 100 flOO 100 100 10) 100 100 120 100 100 10 100 100 103 i 1021 98 1031 1101