The Sun. — London, England, 1865-04-11 00:00:00

DIONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, - CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. In the general discount market there is no new feature, the demand for accommodation being very small, and the rates easy, at 31 / per cent. on the best short dated bills. The supplies are daily in creasing, from the release of the dividends. A further sum of £5,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. The Ripon, which left to.day, took out only. £2,130 in specie for Bombay. An important undertaking has been introduced under the title of the Russian (Vyksounsky) Iron works Company, with a proposed capital of £ 5 00,000, in 25,000 shares of £2O each, the present issue to consist of 15,000 shares. It is proposed to extend some large ironworks in successful operation at Vuicksa, in Russia. The estate of 405,000 Eng lish acres, and containing 35,000 inhabitants, is situated on the navigable river Oka (which flows into the Volga at Nijni Novgorod), and is within 6 6 miles of the railroad which connects Nijni Novgorod with Moscow. It appears that 270,000 acres of the estate are covered with timber, sup plying fuel which, coupled with the abundance of labour, has enabled the proprietors to produce iron . at a much less cost than in England, whilst the selling price in Russia is considerably higher. The profits of the present time are stated to amount to about 537,000 silver roubles (about £70,000) per annum, subject, however, to a deduction of 72,000 roubles, being interest at 5 per cent., and sinking fund on debt of 1,200,000 roubles due to the Rus sian Government, thus leaving a net annual profit of 465,000 roubles (£60,000). A sinking fund is proposed for the purpose of returning to the share holders at the expiration of the 37 years, when the in terest of the company will cease, the whole amount of the capital called up. Business has taken place in the shares at 1f 2 prem. Two o'CLocic. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Renter were 67f. 75 c. Firm. Little doing. A further rise of rather more than / per cent. has taken place this morning in the English Funds, maiming, with the advance of yesterday, / per cent. upward movement has been produced by the continued purchases by the public, the prospect of increased ease in the money market, and the expec tation that the Government broker will again this quarter be a buyer of stock on behalf of the com missioners for the sinking fund of the national debt. Consols are 91-i8 for money, and 911 for account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 891 1; India 5 per Cents., 1064 107 ; do. 5/ per Cents., Enfaced Paper, 109, and Exchequer Bills, 3s. to 6s. prem. General buoyancy and animation prevail in the Foreign Stock Market. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 74f 1 ; do. Consolides, ; Mexi can, 271 a ; do. Ne 261 ; Greek, 211 k ; Spanish Passive, 321 k ; do. Certificates, 171 ; Italian, 6 41 65 ; do. New, 31 1 dis. ; and Confederate Loan,. 30 32. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been moderately active, and prices have in most instances shown a further improvement. Great Northern (A Stock), Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midland, South-Eastern, and North-Eastern (Ber wick), have each advanced £1 ; Bristol and Exeter and Great Western, each 10s. ; and North-Western, 58. The Foreign and Colonial lines have been dull, without any material alteration in values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain in fair demand, and generally support previous rates. Saloon Steamer Packet Company shares are quoted I- 1 prem.; South African Land, 1 1} prem. ; and Rio de Janeiro Gas, 1 1 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. a GOVERNISIENT FUNDS. 6 Per Cent. Consols: - 91i 1 i Do. Account, M a y 9 9l 6 per Cent. Reduced B 9l 1 f New 3 per Cent B9l f New 2f per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (R e d S ea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent 3 Do. Do. £5OO 3 £loand .£2O Do Account , IN DIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. andiall Stock, 10 per Cent. , AprillB74 215 DoAccount ' — . 5 per Cent. J u l y, 1870 Do. Account Do. 4 Do. C e rtificate s er Cent Oct. 1888 — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent 1)0 • 5 per Cent, Jan. 1872 109 - • -i per Cent, Aug 1879 -),°• 4 Per Cent., Aug. 1866 99f •L.,,i,e• Bond £l,OOO •uo• u nder ' £l,ooo FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent _ B il• r az-tan 5 per Cent _ .Do. 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60 Buen os 1 Do. 1863 - i Ayres 6 per Cent — Do I per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chilian 6 per Cent lOll Do. 4i per Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent. — Cuba, 6 per Ce' - vent. Do .5 per Cent., 1864 — Do. Scrip, £55 paid D anish 3 per Cent 1825 .7 Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — Dc. 1864 Danubian Principalities Do £B6 paid Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — ~ Do., Provisional Land Warrant zgyptian 7 per Cent Do., S econ d I ssue 961 Do .£lOO Bonds Do. 1864 95 41 5; 44 Do Scrip, £sb paid Greek 5 iper Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons 211 k Do Account Guatemala 5 per C en t..... Do. 1839 and 1850 — Italian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) 68k Do 1865 Do Scrip, £421 paid 3l I dis Mexican 3 per Cent. 271 1 Do. Account 1)0 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c Montevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid A.,„ • Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent ...... 95 New Granada ... Do 2per Cent ....... .................. . p............... . Do Deferred ..................... . Do Land Warra n t s (H ectares) Peruvian 4 , 1 per Cent. Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 4} per Cent., 1862 Do. Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 481. 1 Do Account 4Bl Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St., Do 41 per Cent., 1850 Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 11Do 5 per Cent., 1862 1 Do 1864 Sardini an 5 per C en t — Do. Acco un t Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account — Do New D e f erre d — Do Account — Do Passive — Do Account — Srbanish Ce r t. o f C oup not f un d e d 17 12 Do Account l7l Swedish 4 per Cent. — Do. 41 per Cent. 1864 Turki s h 6 per Cent. 1854 Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account — Do£ lo o Bonds — 6 per Cent. 1862 — Do Account Do. £lOO Bonds 744 1 5 Do 6 Per Cent. 1863 — Ven Doezu Guelaaranteeer d, 4 per Cent 991 1. 3 Cent. — Do. Account — Do. Ac co Do. 6 per Cent, 1862 4Ol Account Do 6 per C en t ., 1864 371 Do. 11 per Cent • Dividends on th e a b o ve payable in London. Austrian 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Dutchßelgian, ' 4l per cent Ex. 21 per Cent., ' Ex. 12 Guil 63 Do. 4 per Cent. Certifi.,...tes French Rentes, 3 per Cent. — DO. Account D o. Account Do. Coupons ConsolsTHßEE O'CLOCK. , Money Do. Account Share! Railways. I p a i d. ' Closing I Business Brice. done. SHARE MARKETS —This day. -.,,..- ORDINARY SIIA.RES AND STOCKS. Wol., & qtr. Val Blyth and Tyne Bra stol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall' A gets no div. Do. A till6p.c.p.an.has Do. I:)een paid to B Dublin & Belfast Juno. Dun,.Perth, & A b.Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. at. No. ?. Great North of Scotland Great Northern ~ A stock Do. B 'o Do. New. is. at 25 pm Gt S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newßort, Do. Hereford Laney shire & Yorkshire London and Blackwali Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shei., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle , Do. shares .. Metropolitan .... . Do. New Mid and Do, Birmin & Derby Mid Gt. W., Ireland Do. i shares slid Kent No , th British Do. Ed., Pth ,"& Dun Nth. Eastern - Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds ..... Do. York Do. Carlisle . . .. • Do. Stock & Darling De. do. 1855-'8 Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. New Do. do. 18'4 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E Aber. stock uo. Scot, Mid. stick ews & Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon .outh E stern itaines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall IF. Hartlepool Har.&R. Do. A irredeemable.. Do. A redeemable .. BRITISH P Atlantic& St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent........ Do. I'' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do ('reference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6p c. Ws. Aux. 1,87• e, . Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1,15;9; Calcutta & 8. E., 'a e Town & Dock, go. Demera-a, 7 p.c. per. p East. Bengal, gu , 5 do East I , diau, go. 5 p.c. Do .J Eitensioli Grand Trunkot Canad a Do. Equip. Mort, Bond• 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist .'ref. Bonds Do do. deferred ... Do. 2d Pr, t. Bonds Do. do. det,rred Do. f d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c 0. Gua 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India (hm gua. 5 per cent D . 41 per cent.... Do Great Wr s. of Canada.. D New . . Do. 6 p. c. 11(1.4. pay 1873 tio. 5, do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 4; do • Do. Fifth Extension Nielb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. slel. & Hudson's Bay.. New Brunswick & Can.' Class A and B pc Ist pf.bds Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do ct Do. Pun!aub au, Do.lndus St Flo COLONIAL GO VERNMEN British Columbia, 6 per cent„ Dec.3l, 1572 Cau.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-.4 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Auk D.. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p r. Inticribed ek Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do. April & Oct. 1880-1 Do. do: 1690-1 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 Ceylon, Nov. 18t18, B . p. c 1)0. 1878, do. 1 Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1874 Jan. and July Do. 1.78 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. 15 Natal f;ov. 6 per cent N. B. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja..t,luly N. S.W. Gov. 5 p •c., 1866 Do. 5 p.c. 18 1 to 1876 Do. 5 P.c. 1888 to 1892 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 6 per cent Nova Sc tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c Aus.Gov. 6 p,e 18,8-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. J . a & July Do. do, A pril & Oct BRIT I Cam Conaol. Gold, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Taoist ' 1 Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) Last Cara lon as c Carn Brea East Grenville East Loved E. W'i Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen. Great L -ixey, limited Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor (Helst,❑ Grenvilie Herod's Foot llingston Downs Margaret •Uny Lelant Marke Valley wyndy Iron Ore, Nangi les • . New Seton North Downs North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (I Hogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper Pr vidence UnyL4lant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan stray Park . Tin Croft West tiassett(lliog•an W. Caradon (.1, - skeard West Chiverton West Seton. Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redrutb Whea Ludos.tt Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis Wheal Uhl 05 97 130, 131! 5i 6,i 66 68 16 17 84 91 107 1 , 9 47 48 7 8 1314 1324 1474 1481 131 .33 87 89 751 76 65 67 52 53 46 49 101 103 119} 120 80 68 107 109 42 13 124 123 96 97 591 60 129 13) 21 21P1 1364 137: 1 106 118;1 51 15 z 4 15~ 110,1 111 i 69 70 103 1034 37 38 11 12p ' , 9 10 115 lls 1 lip 78 79 11 21 133 142 48 50 60 61 52 55 85 861 9 10 155 158 3 4p 107 109 1 46 48 74 77 s'; 4% 86i 7 131 157 k iSIONS 50 63 102 k 1031 pr bpi r# 46 1 tit C4l 65 70 9 9 101 75 85 1( 1 10i 102 104 10 , - 105 : IP 10 18 87 0) •60 65 50 5i 50 55 45 SO 43 48 41 44 23 25 22 21 104 165 I 13 101 i 102; 8; 81 1]; 11lil 85 \,O 75 78 id , 1014 1021 03 05 89 91 64 66 3 5 82 81 1014 1021, LOl 1024 :c1 pr 101} 1024 94 97 IT SECUR: 90 9t 90 94 90 04 83 82 80 82 103 106 106 108 106 ICB 105 107 102 101 1(5 107 10t 104 105 107 108 109 104 106 93 96 98 100 93 95 91 93 103 105 87 90 91 C 6 103 105 105 107 106} 1071 :INES. 9112} 1 IG7 61 7} 5 W I 3) 11, 570 58, 18 4 1 22 15 16 64 7 31 3/ 10 11 3f , 4 6 1 19 11 2; SO4 314, 4 4f Z l 5 36 34 4 5 7 5 54 11 Of 16 18 35 45 11 13 lc I 11 3 84 31 '3• 520 530 20 25 15 17 144 156 74 8b 6 8 574 626 180 190 100 103 30 35 11 13 20) 210 19 20 89i 471 71 132 149 81 I 74 6 6/ 67 100 119 k 2) 88i 103 71 43 2 122 31 3 97 61i 2 129 1 I I 61 1;37 6I 1111 & i 70 69i ion a rttEFERIONCIC SHARES. Great Eastern, E. U., 4 per cent. gua., 80} (mot. Western, Wt. Midland, Craton' 2d guaranteed stock, 118 Midland, Leicester and Hitchin 4 per ct., 91 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 44 per cent.... pi., Ditto, 5 per cent. pf., 97 North British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., 78 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Hull and Selby, 109 i London and Greenwich, 61i FOREJGR RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish, 22j Ditto (all), 27 Great Luxembourg, 13 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 9; 10 FOREIGN MINES. Scottish AnstraPan, lira., 1 St. John del Rey (Jim.), 2d Tudananautana of S. Australia, BANKS. Agra and 31asterman's, lim., 120 Ditto, new, 60 59} Aljiance (I'm.). 34 3/ Ditto, issued et 40 pm 23j Anglo Austrian, 7} Anglo Egyptian, lim., 12} Bank of Egypt, 30i le Bank of Queensland, lira, 22 Bank of New Zealand, 161 British and Californian, ltm., 51 Consolidated Bank, lim., ioa I East London, 11w., bf European Bank, lim., i 3 Hindustan, china, and Japan (11m.), Ditto, new, issued at 2 pm., 221 Ditto, new, 7 Imperial Bank (Urn.), 30} Imperial Ottoman, 174 Land Mortgage Bank of India, Um., 4; London B .nk of Mexico and S. America, i1m.,110/ London and Brazilian aim.). 47 1 50 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 491 Ditto, new, 14 - London and County, 74 London and ►1 estminster, 911 01 Merchant Bank, urn , 27i Mercantile and Exchange. lira., 7 1 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lint. 16.1 17 New Zealand Bank t orporation. lira., 11 Oriental Bans Corporation, 04; 3; Ditto, new, 511 Provincial Banking Corporation, lim,, 2 Provincial of Ireland, 87i South Australia, H 4151 South Eastern, lim., lif 12 Union of Australia, t 5 5 'Union of London, 541 4 DOCKS. London and St. Katbarine, 63i MISCELLANEOUS. Angle-Mexican Mint, 171 merlin Water Works, lira., 10 1 City of Milan Improvements, lim., 111 ; I Co.mercial Union, I :•suranze. Credit. Fonder of Englaud, 91 11 Crystal Paine, 361 East Indian Financi .1, Ern., 5 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, Um., 31 1 Electric Telegraph, 115 Fairb am Engineering„ 17 Fore-street Warehouse, lim.,'lol Gen. Credit and Finance 011,oudoit, Lim., 611 I OSSE; 100 ►OO 2 100 100 321 3.10.6 2.8.0 7.1.6 10.6.7 11 18.18.8. 30.17.6 51i 24 102 j 31 193} 101 i 4 ITIES. 9Si 4 2 82 1 83 THE MIN, LONDOX, TTTESDAY EVENINO, APRIL 11, 1865. MISCELLANEOUS—Continued. Hudson's Bay, 15: Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso., lim., International Fin ancial :-:ociety, lira., ea Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour, Joint Stock Discount. lim.. * London Financial Association, Jim., 22 iPI London General Omnibus Conapany,ln 211 ,dras Irrigation and Canal, Ditto (all), 201 • Milwall Iron Works, 61 ational Discount Company, lim. 15: Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 83; 4 I dtto, new, 57 Scottish Australian Investment, Jim.. 125 Societe Finat ciere d' Egypte. lira., 71 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lira., 71 3, ' Orr: ^lt d i 4' innit t CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This day. OLD COURT. (Before tho Recorder.) TILE PION. CAPTAIN COLBORNE'S CASE.-LIBEL, The Hon. Captain Colborne was indicted for a libel on Mr. Phineas Davis, attorney, of Clifford-street, Bond-street. Mr. Giffard, .Q.C., with Mr. Poland, prosecuted ; Mr. Cole ridge, Q.C., with Mr. Sleigh, defended. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and a justification. Mr. Giffard said the libel complained of was contained in a pamphlet purporting to give a description of certain persons in London who obtained their living by victimising young men of rank and fortune. It was not true that Mr. Davis had anything to do with such transactions, but was a solicitor of 30 years' standing. Mr. W. Bush, an architect and surveyor, said that on the 4th of January last he purchased the pamphlet at 147, Fleet-street. It was the pamphlet produced. By Mr. Coleridge—He went with the prosecutor's bro ther to buy the pamphlet. Mr. Henry Johnson, of 9, West-street, Soho, said he knew the defendant, and printed for him the pamphlet pro duced. The pamphlet was put in. This was the, case for the prosecution. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., in addressing the, jury for the de fence, passed a high eulogium upon the military and per sonal career of Lord Seaton, the father of the defendant, and then proceeded to argue that no reflection could be cast on the family of the defendant by the transaction with which he was charged ; for although Captain Colborne had broken the law, he had done nothing inconsistent with the character of a gentleman. He (the learned counsel) did not intend to read the passage in the libel complained of, for such a course would only give pain to Mr. Davis, and he at once said that they were passages for which Captain Colborne could not set up a justification. The pamphlet was full of general abuse of a system of base andunjust extortion which was practised by money-lenders, and it might be that he had improperly associated the name of Mr. Davis with such transactions. No personal animosity to Mr. Davis had prompted Captain Colborne in writing the pamphlet, and he now withdrew what he had written, and regretted that he had done it. He had broken the law, but not in a bad cause. The Recorder briefly pointed out to the jury that the pamphlet was a libel, and that it clearly pointed to Mr. Davis. The jury found Captain Colborne guilty, and strongly recommended him to mercy. They added that they con sidered that the case ought not to have been brought into a criminal court. Mr. Giffard said Mr. Davis did not take the case into a civil court because it might have been thought that his wish was to obtain damages. (The statement was received with a shout of laughter.) The Recorder, in passing sentence, said he collected from the addresses of counsel that the defendant was not actuated by any malignant feeling towards Mr. Davis in writing the pamphlet, but that in attacking a system which he con sidered bad he had incautiously mixed his name up with it. The defendant had pleaded a justification, which he had failed to establish. He would therefore have to bear all the expenses of the prosecution, which in itself would be no slight penalty. Taking the whole of the circumstances into consideration, and bearing in mind the strong recom mendation of the jury, he thought the justice of the case would be met if ho ordered the defendant to pay to the Queen a fine of £2O, and be discharged. The decision of the Recorder was received with cheers in court. . POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—Th's Day. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. THE CHARGE OF DEFRAUDING EY A "COUNT" AND HIS SERVANT.—CharIes Young was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, on remand, with conspiring with a person not in custody, and styling himself a Russian Count—the Count de Vidoff—to defraud Varlon Rosenoff, a courier, of the sum of £45. The prosecutor was introduced to the pretended Rus sian count and the prisoner, who succeeded in getting £45 from him under the pretence that he was to be engaged by the count to go to Russia to obtain 12,000 roubles for the count. It turned out, however, that the prisoner and the pretended count were the constant associates of skittle sharpers. Mr. E. Dillon Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, for the prosecution, said he was now prepared with further evidence against the prisoner, and in addition was in structed to prefer a second charge against him for ob taining articles of food to the amount of £lO by means of false pretences—that his master was a nobleman, and kept a banking account at Messrs. Spielmann's. Mr. Lewis then cited the case of " The Queen V. Gardener," where a person was indicted and convicted for obtaining divers articles of food by means of false pretences. This conviction was subsequently quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal, and Lord Chief-Justice Jervis in giving judgment said, "We are of opinion that the conviction was not right, be cause we think that the obtaining of the articles supplied under the contract, made by reason of the false pretences, was too remote from the pretence in this particular case to become the subject of an indictment for obtaining those specified goods under false pretences." Here, however, he (Mr. Lewis) would show that the articles of food alone were obtained by fraud, and submitted that as the food was supplied, not from the fact of his being a lodger, but on the faith of the prisoner's subsequent representations, the pre sent case was not all fours with the case he had quoted. Mrs. Hutchinson, of Brompton-square, was then called by Mr. Lewis, and stated that the prisoner and a man, calling himself the Count de Vidoff, engaged apartments at her house, they being recommended to her. They lived not as master and servant, but on equality. The prisoner informed her that his master banked at Messrs. Spielman's, and asked her to supply his master with food. Believing the prisoner's statement, she supplied him with food to the amount of £8 or £9. She was informed the prisoner's statement was false. Mr. Tyrwhitt, on the application of Mr. Lewis, remanded the prisoner on both charges for a week. THREATENING TO MURDER.—Charles Williams, a gun barrel maker, was brought before Mr. Tyrwhitt, on a warrant by O'Shaughnessy, one of the warrant officers, charged with using violent threats towards Mr. Thomas Neville, bootmaker, Dean-street, Soho. Mr. Neville said that on Saturday night last the prisoner, who lodged in his house, made a great disturbance by beating his - wife, the wife calling out murder. The prisoner then said he would do for him (Mr. Neville) before he left his house ; and as this was not the first time the prisoner had threatened him, and he had been informed by persons that the prisoner meant to injure him, he kept in his room all Sunday, fearing to leave it owing to the prisoner's dangerous character. On Sunday afternoon the prisoner annoyed all the other lodgers, and threatened one of them The prisoner's wife has several times had black eyes, and a fork stuck through her cheek a fortnight after her con finement. He (Mr. Neville) merely mentioned the latter circumstance to show the prisoner's conduct. Enema, Russell, lodging in the same place, proved hearing the prisoner threaten "to do for Mr. Neville," and said the prisoner was a most violent man, the more especially to his wife. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner was a dangerous fellow, and had been taken just in time to prevent him doing something serious. He would have to find two sureties in £lO each to keep the peace towards the prosecutor for six months. cordance with the rules. He put in the collecting card and the certificate of the collector. Mr. Paget said he could not interfere. There was a rule in the printed articles put before him that all disputes should be settled by arbitration. The applicant must wait on the secretary, demand arbitration and deposit 10s., which would be returned if the decision was in his favour. Magrath was afraid he should lose his 10s., and his £6 too, if he acted on the magistrate s advice. Mr. Paget said he could not help that. He could not alter the constitution and rules of the society. There had been many complaints against benefit societies, and every working man, before he joined one, should examine for himself the rules and regulations which were binding upon him and could not be altered at the will or caprice of any officer or member. The applicant was bound by the articles in the book, and arbitration was his only remedy. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, April 10. The Queen drove in the grounds this morning, accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Helena. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise rode in the Home Park. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Buff, also went in the grounds. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred went to Lon don this afternoon, attended by Lieut. Haig and Dr. Bernhardt. Lord and Lady Palmerston left the Castle to-day for London. Lieut.-General Sir H. and Lady Bentinck had the honour of dining with her Majesty and the royal family yesterday. 4> The Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff have left tor St. Leonards-on-Sea. The Duke of Grafton will return home from Cannes the first week in the ensuing month. The duchess, who is far from well, will delay her return to London till late in the season. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, after visiting the Earl and Countess Spencer at Althorp, have gone to their seat in Wiltshire. The Marchioness of Kildare gave birth to a daughter a few days since, at Kilkea Castle, Kildare. The Earl of Dudley has arrived at Dudley House, Park-lane, from Witley-court, Worcestershire. The Earl and Countess of Bessborough have left town for Bessborough House, Kilkenny. The Earl of Wicklow will entertain a succession of friends at Shelton Abbey, Wicklow. The Dowager Viscountess Combermere and the Hon. Mrs. Bunter have arrived at St. Leonards-on-Sea. Lord Henry and Lady Ulrica Thynne have left town for Maiden Bradley, Wilts. Lord and Lady Huntingfield and the Hon. Misses Vanneck have left the St. George's Hotel. Exhibition of Race Cups. Mr. Hancock, the court jeweller and goldsmith, of New Bond-street, having undertaken the decora tion of the banquet tables at the inauguration of the New Tattersalls, has for the last few days favoured the public with a view of the magnificent collection of the race cups he has procured for the occasion. To describe in words the extreme beauty of the collection would be impossible, as each one of the many splendid specimens of the goldsmith's art would call for more space than we can but in conveniently devote to a cursory notice of the whole. With few.exceptions, the " cups," as they are termed, have emanated from the workshop of Mr. Hancock, who is now, par excellence, the race cup manufacturer of England; and a more gorgeous exhibition it is impossible to imagine. Towering conspicuously in the centre stands the magnificent piece of plate, given by the Emperor Nicholas, which was won by the Earl of Clarendon's Alarm at Ascot. Then we have the splendid York Cup of 1860, illustrating the Battle of the Standards, and the two beautiful tankards, ornamented, with subjects taken from Le Brunn's Battles, forming the Goodwood Cup of 1858. Baron Rothschild's Doncaster Cup of 1853 also will be certain to attract immense at tention for its extreme beauty, whilst the Goodwood Cup of 1863 will again find hosts of admirers, illus trating, as it does, a paragraph in the life of Mary Queen of Scots. There is, however, one piece of plate which, though not a racing " cup," is of extraordinary beauty, the presentation plate to the Master of the Bicester Hounds. Nothing can exceed the exquisite finish or ex treme beauty of this work of art, and had it alone proceeded from the atalier of Mr. Hancock, it would have been sufficient to stamp his fame as one of the most celebrated workers in the precious metals either at home or abroad. Nearly all the race cups, &c., that have been won at Doncaster, Goodwood, Ascot, and other places for the last ten years, amounting to over 100, form the exhibition ; and, therefore, from the cause stated above, we shall be excused from pointing out all the beauties they each present. The glittering collection will, doubtless, form one of the most, if not the most attractive features of the inaugurative banquet. At the meeting of the proprietors of the Dis count Corporation, held to-day, a dividend at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital was recommended. The report of the directors of the Standard Bank of British South Africa, to be presented on the 21st inst., recommends a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum for the half-year ended the 31st of December last, after appropriating £36,000 to re serve, and leaving to £2,009 to be carried forward. The last day for applications for Extension Shares in the Clarence Hotel Company, Dover, is Thurs day next, the 13th inst. In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days there has been a very limited amount of business transacted. Tea has been in moderate request, at steady rates, while sugars have maintained about former prices. Coffee, howeVer, has declined about ls. per cwt., while moderate transactions have been reportod in rice at steady quotations. Tallow, however, has continued dull, and prices have been depressed. THE KING OF THE BELGIANS.—The continental journals are just now occupied in speculating on the reason of the visit which the King of the Belgians is pay ing to the English Court ; and apart from political objects, which are of course considered to be one principal cause of the visit, the future matrimonial alliances of the Princesses Helena and Louise are thought to be engaging his Majesty'ts attention. The Avenir National, a Parisian journal, states that the Emperor of the French and the King of the Bel gians have for some time past kept up a constant corres pondence in reference to the affairs of Mexico, and, as well as other French journals, is of opinion that the Belgian ruler will visit Paris on his return from England, and will have an interview with the Emperor, in order to confer as to the future support to be rendered by France to the Em peror Maximilian. THE MULLER REWARD.—The question as to the rightful recipients of the reward offered for the dis covery of the murderer of Mr. Briggs is still in abeyance In accordance with the instruction by the attorneys of Sir Richard Mayne, the sum of £lOO has been handed over to Mr.. Beard by Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., the bankers. In reply, however, to an application to the North London Railway Company, the directors state that Matthews himself has laid a claim to the money, and taken steps to prevent its being paid over to the assignees Under these circumstances, the reward originally offered by the Railway Company will probably be withheld ; and t was ascertained that the bankrupt had not withdrawn his claim for the amount, so that the matter may yet have to be detezmined by future legal proceedings on the part of the assignees, with a view to substantiate the claim made onbehalf of the creditors of Matthews. REPRESENTATION OF LOUTH.—DUBLIN, Monday Night.—The nomination of candidates for Louth took place to-day at Dundalk. Colonel Fortescue proposed, and Mr. William Ruxton seconded, Mr. M'Clintock ; Mr Kennedy was nominated by Mr. Foster, and seconded by Mr. Finlay. Colonel Foster and Mr. Andrew M'Kenna were also proposed, but they retired. A show of hands was taken, and declared to bo in favour of Mr. Kennedy. The polling was fixed for Thursday. A great crowd assembled, but although party feeling ran high, there was no disturbance. INLAND PATTERN AND SAMPLE POST.—With reference to the revised rules of the inland pattern and sample post, which were published on the 27th ultimo, it has now been, decided to modify the rule No. 6, and to permit the transmission of samples of seeds, &c., intended for delivery within the United Kingdom in bags entirely closed, provided that such bags were transparent, so that the officers of the department may be able to satisfy themselves as to the nature of the contents. It is to be distinctly understood that this modification relates only to the inland pattern and sample post. THAMES. ALLEGED KIDNAPPING OP A POLISH JEW.—The Super intendent of an institution called the Wanderers' Home, in Bethnal -green, came before Mr. Paget to complain of the report of an application which appeared in several news papers that a Jew boy had been kidnapped into an asylum for convertin g p eop l e o f t h e J ew i s h p ersua sio n to Christi anity, and had been detained there against the wishes of his only brother, his natural guardian. Mr. Paget said he well recollected the statement made by a young man that his brother had been induced to re main in an asylum without his (the applicant's) sanction. He had nothing to do with newspaper reports. The appli cant had better address himself to the editor of the journals in which the report appeared. The Superintendent said he had no fault to find with the report. He only wished to state that the lad was in a very destitute Home, utecon h condition, •d , voluntarily entered the Wanderers' haenvvas sheltered, fed, cleanSed from filth, with which he was cover e d, an d prov id e d w ith a good home. The brother, whose name was Si gmon d, des took the lad away rtud kept him for three days. The lad preferred the treatment in the Wanderers' Home to his brother's treatment, and implored admission a second time. The lad was again received, and was very well satisfied. The lad was present. Mr. Paget—Then let him stand forward. I should like to speak to him. A tall youth, with an unmistakeable Jewish face, entered the witness-box laughing, and said that he had not been kidnapped, and had been well used in the Wanderers' Home. Mr. Paget—And you can leave when you please? The Lad—Yes, sir, but I don't want to leave these kind people. The Superintendent—No coercion has been used. The lad came to the placo voluntarily, and can leave when he pleases, but he don't want to go to America with his bro ther. There is no kidnapping whatever. Mr. Paget was quite satisfied of that. The appearance satisfactory. There and noconott i a o s n i o o n f t t o h e s a y lad an w o t a h s e rh word. g o h r l dy. The parties thou retired. BENEFIT SOCIETIES.—An Irishman, named Magrath, •omplained of the conduct of the officers of the St. Patrick's Benefit Society, which is under the patronage of many of the Roman Catholic bishops and priests, and has agents in many of the principal cities and towns in England. The applicant's mother was member of the society for many years, and he was entitled to £l3 at her death. The col lector Buckley had certified in writing that his mother " died in benefit," and he was of course entitled to £l3 ; but on applying to the treasurer for the money ho refused to pay him more than £7, and all his applications for the remaining £6 had been unsuccessful. He now applied for a summons to compel the secretary to pay him £6 in ac- The Metropolitan Elections. A special meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science was held in Adam street, Adelphi, last evening, to hear Mr. Thomas Hare read a paper " On such an organisation of the metropolitan elections as would call into exercise the greatest amount of the knowledge and judg ment of the constituencies, and as far as possible discourage all corrupt and pernicious influences." The chair was taken by Lord Stanley, M.P. The company was limited, and comprised nearlyas many ladies as gentlemen. Mr. Hare, in the paper read by him on this occasion, stated that even when the metropolitan seats in Parliament are contested, little more than half the constituencies can be induced to vote. His object was to establish a mode of voting which would make the exercise of the franchise a far more interesting duty, as well as a more valuable right, than it was now felt to be. London, West minster, Southwark, Marylebone, Finsbury, Lam beth, the Tower Hamlets, and Greenwich returned 18 members. With these he would include the members for Middlesex and East Surrey, and so make the number of " metropolitan" members 22. To enable the ten metropolitan constituencies to select representatives his first step would be to invite all who believed themselves, or whose friends be lieved, that they possessed qualities which would render their services useful in Parliament to become candidates. This would be done by such a law as the following :-Ist. A candidate for the metropo litan constituencies, or any of them, on paying a sum of £5O to the Chamberlain of London (to be applied in the payment of the expenses of the elec tion) should be liable to no further charge ; and a list of the candidates being made, such payment should be published day by day. This limit of the necessary charge would not affect any expenses which the candidates might severally think proper to incur in making known their principles or claims by meetings, addresses, or otherwise. Mr. Hare thought it probable that for the. 22 seats there might be 50 or 100 candidates—including some of the most eminent men of the time in science, in political life, in public labours and literature, in naval and mili tary service, in manufacture and commerce, the ener getic promoters of home and foreign trade, and colo nial enterprise. Every vote should be given on paper specifying the name or names of the candidate or can didates for whom it was given, such names being numbered successively 1,2, 3, &c., and the vote should be valid for one candidate only, according to such order. The names of the more eminent or popular candidates might be placed at the head of many thousand voting papers, and a waste of votes would follow if this consequence were not averted, thus—Every candidate for whom the' number of votes given should be equal to 1.22 d part of the total number of votes polled should be elected, and the papers exceeding that number on which his name occurred should be available for the next can didates named on them respectively, and when no more candidates were found to have such 22d part, the remainder of the 22 seats should be filled by the candidates having the highest number of votes less than such 22d part. The votes not distributed under Rule 3 should be appropriated to the members re spectively whose names stood highest on the respec tive voting papers, and the entire number of votes taken for every member respectively should be then I set apart as his special constituency, and the four I members having the greatest number in the city of London should he returned for London; the two hav ing the greatest number in the city of Westminster for Westminster, the two having the greatest num ber in the borough of Southwark for Southwark, and the like as to the other constituencies respectively, and those (if any) who should fail to be returned under this rule should be returned in that election as an additional member or additional members for the constituencies in which they had polled the greatest number of votes. The reading of the paper was received with applause. When Mr. Hare had concluded, Mr. Dunne suggested that the paper should be referred to the committee for the purpose of having the details of the plan considered, as he thought there was some difficulty in understanding how it was to be worked out. Mr. Torrens observed that a somewhat similar system to that proposed by Mr. Hare had been tried in Australia, where it was given up as a failure. He doubted, too, whether the object aimed at in the paper was desirable. From an experience in countries in which universal suffrage prevailed, he held that the greatest curse which could fall on this country would be to have such members of the House of Commons returned by mere num bers, without reference to education, intellectual ac quirements, and the possession of property. A gentleman present remarked that some experience in the working of voting for Parliamentary candidates by papers would be desirable before it was gene rally adopted. Lord Stanley was of opinion that by allowing the use of voting papers in the Uni versities the Legislature had not intended to,try an experiment or pave the way for their use by other constituencies. The constituencies of the Univer sities were very different from those of boroughs or counties. It had always struck him very forcibly that among ordinary constituencies voting papers would facilitate the practice of intimidation and bribery. Mr. Chadwick advocated the use of voting papers. Mr. Hare said he proposed that a voting paper should be taken to the poll by the elector himself, guarded with all the precautions which now surrounded him. As his plan would enable every elector to act independently of those around him, it would lessen the chances of bribery. Sir E. Wilmot believed that we did not require a change of system, but determined action on the part of the Legisla ture to put down bribery and intimidation. Mr. Stuart Mill thought that several of the objections to Mr. Hare's plan arose from the gentleman who made those objections not having studied it. The great beauty and merit of Mr. Hare's system was that it would not leave the election to mere political opi nion—to the three shades of opinion, Whig, Tory, and Radical. The voters would have the choice of the whole country—of all the eminent men in the country. The clubs would no longer be able to send a mere booby with £3,000 or £4,000 in his pocket If they did not send down a man of merit, the elec tors would choose a man of merit for themselves. At present the Liberals must vote for the Liberal candidate, and the Tories for the Tory candidate, though each of the two candidates might be nothing more than a booby. It was enough to put one out of temper to hear intelligent gentlemen say they could not understand Mr. Hare's plan. It was not anything like so difficult as the multiplication table. Mr. F. Hill said the plan was not a new one. It had been put in operation in a literary society 30 years ago by his late father, and had worked well. Lord Stanley did not think it would be wise of any one to pronounce a final opinion on Mr. Hare's plan at present. It was new to the public mind, and required to be considered. With respect to the ex penses of elections, he believed as long as there were wealthy men who desired a seat in Parliament, all the means likely to promote success would be used —all the means which the law allowed, and, he was afraid, all the means which the law did not allow. Simple and clear as the plan was to Mr. Mill, he confessed that he did not think it was either simple or clear to those who viewed it for the first time. He was afraid it would enormously increase the power of the great London political clubs, which now, to a certain extent, worked the elections throughout England. Mr. Hare having replied, the thanks of the meeting were given to him for his paper, which was ordered to be printed and circu lated among the members. A vote of thanks to Lord Stanley closed the proceedings. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. RACING FIXT' AP. Newmarket Craven l7 Durham Canterbury Spring Abergavenny 2O IRES FOR 1865. Thirsk 2l Cardiff 25 Epsom Spring Salisbury lB Noah Herta Yeomanry 19 Bath 23 Harpenden 26 Epsom 3O 'vane. Newmarket Ist Spring 1 Chester 9 York Spring Salisbury lB St. Columb l6 Redditch Chelmsford 7 Manchester Summer 7 Ascot l3 Beverley l4 Liverpool Alexandra Park 2O Newmarket July Carlisle Worcester Abingdon Stamford l3 Winchester lB Hampton 2l Newton Newcastle Odiham Bidbury Stockbridge 29 Nottingham lB Southampton l9 Chesterfield 2O Goodwood Down Royal C0rp........, AUG ST. Brighton 1 York Brighton Club Lewes 4 Lichfield 2B Huntingdon Wolverhampton Reading Egham l5 Baden 3l Royal Windsor l7 Stockton — • SEPTEMBER. Leicester 7 Doncaster Brecon lB Richmond Monmouth 2l Manchester Autumn Newmarket Ist Oct 26 Walsall NOTE) Livorpool Autumn MR. Shrewsbury [ADVERTISEMENTS.] " TAT TERSALLS' TlSSUE."—Commission Agency. —James Hopkins executes Commissions on all Races throughout the year. Place-betting and double events. Cheques to be crossed National Bank, and Post-office orders payable at the Fleet-street office. Address, 13, Rolls buildings, Fetter-lane, London, E.C. G. R. GI.ENIE, 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 diy, 2s. 6d. post free.-- Commissions executed. Terrible Fire and Explosion in the Borough, This Day. NEARLY ONE HUNDRED PERSONS INJURED. Shortly after ten o'clock this forenoon the premises of Messrs. Tilleatd and Sons, oilmen, Great Suffolk-street' Borough, took fire, and a series of explosions of gunpowder and saltpetre ensued, which resulted in the serious injury of nearly 100 persons, and the destruction of a large amount of property. The premises in which the disaster occurred was one of two warehouses in the tenure of Messrs. Tillcard and Sons, wholesale oilmen and drysalters, carrying on business in Suffolk-street, Borough, within one door of the Winchester Music Hall. From the information obtained from personal observa tion during the raging of the fearful conflagration, it ap pears that Mr. Tilleard, jun., was in the cellar pumping up some Benzone oil. Mr. Tilleard, his wife, the servant. and three other persons being in different upper rooms. All of a sudden a cry of "Fire" was raised, when Mr. Tilleard and his wife made an attempt to descend by the staircase, but were mot by fumes of burning sulphur and oils which prevented them from descending, and as a deride. ressort Mr. Tilleard pulled his wife into one of the front rooms, and having closed the door, he opened the window, and a ladder being in readiness, Police constable McConnell, No. 35 M, and a young man named Cotterell, living in the Southwark-bridge-road, were car , lying her down, when a fearful explosion, which shook every house in the vicinity to their foundations, and blew Mrs. Tilleard, the police-constable, and his assistant off the ladder—the first named falling violently upon her head. Such a scene which immediately ensued could scarcely be described with accuracy, but it may bo stated that four or five other explosions of greater violence than the first took place, when the roof of the entire building was lifted high into the air. Heavy beams of timber were sent across Suffolk-street, and in their course demolished the skylights and a portion of the roof of the Winchester Music Hall, and falling upon one of the great ornamental lamps in the Southwark-bridge-road, demolished it, and prostrated Mr. Ressitor, a gentleman connected with the Southwark Water Company, who was giving instructions to Favor, one of the turncocks. Both these persons were thrown upon the ground, and a shower of slates followed, which forced in some of the windows of the opposite public house in Suffolk-street, and the embers were driven into Ann's-court and York-place, which so frightened the in mates that they rushed out into the open road in a state bordering upon frenzy. These persons had barely gained the street when a fifth explosion took place, which so frightened the horses in passing vehicles, and those taken out of the engines which now began to arrive, that they started off in all directions, plunging in a fearful manner amongst men, women, and children. By this time Mr. Superintendent Branford and Inspectors Manson and Wise had arrived, with a powerful body of the M division of police, and Acting-Inspector Pearce came up with a strong detachment of the detective force, and they at once barricaded the whole of the approaches to the scene of conflagration, so as to keep a space clear for the engines to get near. _ In the course of a few minutes the brigade engines with the land steamers, by Shand, Mason, and Co., the latter under the command of Mr. Hedgman, one of the members of the firm ; the land steamers from Hodges's distillery, at Lambeth, and one belonging to the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, under the personal direction of Mr. Saunders, the superintendent of the Blackfriars-road Station, came up, and plenty of the Lambeth and South wark Company's water having been procured, all hands went to work in their usual intrepid manner, but in spite of the great streams of water thrown upon the flames, they continued to spread, and every part of the great warehouse presented one broad sheet of flame, and another explosion supervening several persons were struck about various parts of the body and terribly cut and injured. Mr. Isaac Brittain, the proprietor of the Ship, Stones-end, Borough, was knocked down, and was removed to the house of Mr. Barnes, the Old Justice Tavern, in the Southwark Bridge road, where he was attended to by a surgeon. Dr. Donahoo, of the Westminster-road, and several other medical gentlemen, were sent for to attend to the various persons injured ; amongst the numbor was Mr. Gilleard himself, who was much burnt about the hands. A gentle man named Wilson, residing in the London-road, in pro ceeding along the street was knocked down by a horse that was frightened by the explosion, and upon removing him to the hospital it was found that his leg was broken. The firemen of the Brigade, under Head-Engineer Med calfe, and the Surrey Volunteers, by one o'clock had the satisfaction of finding that they had succeeded in getting the fire extinguished, but the warehouse of Mr. Gilleard, in which the disaster commenced, may be termed totally destroyed, for the front and back walls are so shaken by the force of the explosions, that the upper portions are some feet out of the perpendicular, and consequently must be pulled down. Respecting the origin of the fire nothing at present can be learned. In the cellar were two flour casks filled with saltpetre ; and whether in pumping up the Benzoine oil it became ignited and fired the saltpetre it is impossible to tell. The exact number of persons in jured must take some time to learn. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market unchanged. Sales probably 4,000 or 5,000 bales. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, April 11.—Wind this day at noon—South- Easterly; moderate breeze and fine weather. DARTMOUTH, April 10.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—British Empire, for Quebec. NEWPORT, April 10.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—lbex , from Prance, for Seville. Sailed—Christabel, from Vera Cruz. OFF DARTMOUTH, April 9.—Wind The Great Victoria, screw steamer, from Melbourne, for London. _ _ - - QUEENSTOWN, April 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Novo Bromingen, from Matamoras. SUNDERLAND, April N.W.—Sailed—Kate Kellock, and Maypole, for Bombay ; Jessie and Maria) for Quebec. LAMLASH, April 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.—Wasbing ton, from tho Clyde for Quebec ; Prince of Wales, from the Clyde for Bombay. SOUTHAMPTON, April 10.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Parana, for Brazils. POOLE, April 10.—Wind W.—Sailed—Henry Duncan, !<)r Quebec. TRADE OF CARDIFF.—During the Month of April the exports of coal from this port reached 139,725 tons, against 124,707 tons in February, and 125,529 tons in the corresponding month of last year. Coastwise the ship ments were 79,928 tons, as compared with 67,436 tons in the previous month, and 66,640 tons in March, 1864. The satisfactory increase in both the export and coasting trades is not attributable to any increased inquiry from particular markets, but there was a general increased demand. 10,146 tons of iron were exported during the month, against 8,318 tons in February, and 7,027 tons in January. New York only took 1,000 tons, while the shipments to Sweden ex ceeded 2,000 tons. A considerable quantity was also sent to South American Fes. The exports of patent fue reached 4,122 tons. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. COURSE OF EXCHANGE -This Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 16f Ditto 3 Months. 11 19 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 45 Brussels Hamburg Paris Short 25 15 Ditto 3 Months. 25 40 Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 120} Vienna — 11 30 Trieste — 11 30 Petersburgh Berlin Madrid — 47 471 Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa — 25 52f 25 57 Naples — 25 52 25 57 Palermo Messina Lisbon — 514 blf Oporto —51 f Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) per 0z.... £3 17 9 11 171 11 19* 11 19* 25 50 25 50 13 9i 25 25 25 45 25 47* 121 11 35 n 35 31 LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening. r [We had not received any portion of the Gazette up to the hour of going to press.] THE LATE MR. COBDEN.—Among those present at the funeral of Mr. Cobden was M. Auguste Visschers, who postponed his departure from London in order to pay a last tribute of respect to one admired and esteemed by so many Belgians. THE CONVICT HAMILTON.—It was reported to the magistrates this (Monday) morning at the New Bailey Quarter Sessions, that the sentence on William Hamilton, condemned to death at the last assizes for murdering Mr. Taylor Tilley, has been commuted to penal servitude for life.—Manchester Examiner. It is stated that no less than $100,000,000 have been subscribed in Germany to the American Six per Cent. Loan. AN UNFORTUNATE CONSTITUENCY.—The London derry Journal draws attention to the continued absence of Mr. Conolly, one of the members for Donegal from his parliamentary duties, and sympathises with the electors on the fact of their being represented by the hon. member and Viscount Hamilton. Lord Hamilton, the eldest son of the Marquis of Abercorn, was returned for Donegal in 1860, when something over 21; and the news paper sarcastically remarks, that, notwithstanding all the trumpeting of the noble lord's precocious ability, his greatest feat since he became a member of Par liament was his going out to India on a shooting ex cursion with somebody else. Viscount Hamilton stayed in the jungle a year or so, "attending to the interests of his Donegal constituents." Shortly after his lordship returned to Europe, Mr. Conolly, the other member, "thought there was no way in which ho could serve the Donegal people so much as by going out to America as a blockade runner. He will soon be away a twelvemonth, as.nearly as we can recollect. Nobody appears to be quito sure of Mr. Conolly's whereabouts; and, in the meantime, the free and independent county of Donegal mourns its absent member." "To us," says the article, in conclusion, "it seems a pity that the county of Donegal cannot afford to grant both members permanent leave of absence." ELOPEMENTS TO AMERICA.—III referring to the emigration from Cork—during the past week it amounted to fully a thousand persons—a local journal mentions a new phase of the passenger trade. Elopements to Ame rica have become, it would seem, a leading feature of the national "exodus." We are informed that this week's emigration "includes a fair proportion of runaways, the motive in most of these cases being of a tender nature. Indeed, the increased facility for elopements which this ready means of flight affords promises to become alarm ing. Three cases of the kind are known to have occurred within a fortnight, and how many may have remained undiscovered we can only surmise. The last of those re ferred to was a runaway match between a well-to-do farmer's son and the fair daughter of another still bettor off, both being from Maryborough. The young woman had provided herself with the respectable sum of £BO of her father's money, and brought a maid-servant with her. The pair were traced to Queenstown by their respective fathers, and were surprised in their preparations for embarkation. Romeo had a sound thrashing from his indignant parent; he was deprived of his passage ticket, and was torn from the arms of his Juliet, the latter being permitted to proceed with her female companion. Another somewhat similar case, in which the parties were from Tullamore, King's County, had a similar termination." THE DUKE OF MORNY'S RACING STUD.—The rac ing stud of the late Duke of Morny was sold at Chantilly on Saturday. There were in all 37 lots-13 two-yr-olds, 13 three-yr-olds, and six four-yr-olds. The 32 principal lots brought 316,320 f., or an average of £395 each. The two-yr-olds, a fine lot, sold badly ; they looked too backward ; but Lo Sioulet, a magnificent colt by West Australian, out of Silestrie, was good enough to be bought for Baron Daru at £740. Of the three-yr-olds the late Duke's favourite, Lelio, by West Australian, out of a Launcelot mare, very heavily engaged, and as handsome as a picture, brought the highest price of the day, a Prussian sportsman (Baron Lansdoff) being the purchaser at £2,000. Plutus, by West Australian, out of Partlet, was bought by M. Chas. Lafitte. Of the four-yr-olds, Bayard, by Newminster—Babette, was bought for a little over £l,OOO. The Wexford People announces a discovery of treasure trove. Some children, playing on the sands at Saline, coast of Wexford, found an earthenware vessel which contained about 600 silver coins. The vessel was embedded in a small declivity about a stone's throw from the ancient ruins of Kilgorman Church. The coins are said to be Roman. A local numismatist, however, has inferred from the circumstanceof " Vlll."being discernible on seve ral of them, that the entire collection is English, and be longs to the period of Henry VIII. SOUTH SHROPSHIRE.—The writ for the election of a member for South Shropshire, in the room of Viscount Newport, who is elevated to the Upper House, through the death of his father, the Earl of Bradford, has been received, and the election will take place next week. At present there are no indications of a contest, the only candidate being Colonel the Hon. Percy E. Herbert, C.B. formerly M.P. for Ludlow. The hon. candidate in his ad dress to the electors refers them to his votes when member for Ludlow as the best indication of the general line of politics which he should pursue if elected. He adds : " Should you favour me with your confidence I shall en deavour to secure for the agricultural interest a fairer share than has of late been allotted to it in the remission and re duction of taxation. I shall support such measures as are necessary for the maintenance of our naval and military establishments in a state of efficiency as one of the best securities for peace. At the same time I shall be opposed to extravagant and unnecessary expenditure." WORRIED BY DOGS.—A few mornings since a shocking affair, which terminated almost fatally, occurred to a man named Etherington,who keeps the post office at St. Catherine's, a village situated a short distance from Guildford. It appears that shortly after 7 o'clock ou the morning in question Etherington started to deliver letters at the various houses in the village, and on entering a yard adjoining the residence of Mrs. Popo he was attacked by a large mastiff, aided by a retriever, which knocked him down and lacerated his hands, arms, and other portions of his body in a frightful manner. In addition to other in juries the poor fellow received a compound fracture of the right leg, which was attended with very serious symptoms. Several of the female servants went to the assistance of the unfortunate postman, and with great difficulty succeeded in beating the dogs off; but had they been left to themselves a few moments longer the animals would most certainly have killed their victim. The services of Messrs. Butler and Schollick, surgeons, were obtained, but in spite of every attention the poor fellow is not yet out of danger. The ex planation given is that it was usual to allow these large dogs to wander about the premises during the night, and that the boy whose duty 'it was to fasten them up had not arrived when the postman called. The dogs were notorious in the neighbourhood, and were never allowed out of the grounds without a keeper. THE PRITCHARD CASE. --From all we can learn amid the close secrecy preserved it would appear that the quantitative analysis in the case of Mrs. Pritchard id nearly, if not quite, completed, with the result, we hear, of showing that exceptionally large quantities of tarter emetic or tartarized antimony were lodged in the tissues, espe cially of the stomach. The extent to which the body ap pears saturated with the drug would seem to indicate that its administration had extended over a long period. In ex planation of the erroneous rumour regarding the deceased lady, to the effect that she was in the habit of using wine, we may mention that it may not impossibly be shown that during her fatal illness, the delirium of an apparant fever was induced by administration of sparkling wines and ana3sthetics. At first there would appear to have been, among scientific men, a suspicion that monkshood bad been an agent in the death of Mrs. Pritchard ; but it is understood that this suspicion has not been supported by the analysis. On Friday Professor Penny, of theAndersonian University, Glasgow, visited Edinburgh, having been called in by the authorities to aid in the investigation, with the view, if required, to corroborative evidence. With regard to the inquiry into the causes of the death of Mrs. Taylor, the authorities in Glasgow have received a communication from Edinburgh, to the effect, we believe, that the appear ances presented in the body of the deceased lady were not of the nature that might have been expected had death re sulted from paralysis or apoplexy, as certified by Dr. Pritchard when he registered the death. This report, of course, has no application to the chemical analysis of the organs of the late Mrs. Taylor, which is now only in process.—Scotsman. ced !ior n ad TS of Lse 10 100 I 100 100 100 100 100 100 110 100 100 10•) 100 100 M 2.1.0 3.12.1 8 586 7 47 1501 455 4 1O4& 4 61 5; 1021 2