The Sun. — London, England, 1865-04-05 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AN') COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Money has been in comparatively small demand to-day, and the rates have continued to show a tendency towards greater easiness; 3; and 3 1 1 are still, however, the charges required for granting ac commodation upon best short dated paper. The supplies of capital have slightly increased, and there is good reason to believe that an abundance of money will prevail in a few days. The bullion operations at the Bank yesterday comprised an influx of £30,000, and a withdrawal of £4,000 in gold. The City of Washington, from New York, has brought £4,500, and the Hansa £23,700, the greater portion of which is for France. In the Foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon there was no change. The prospectus has appeared of the City of Mos cow Gas Company requiring a capital of £875,000 in shares of £25 each. The profitable nature of similar undertakings on the Continent have induced the promoters of the present project to bring it be fore the notice of the public. The city contains a Population of half a million, with the Emperor's palace, and numerous public and private buildings, none of which are properly lighted. A concession for 30 years, giving the exclusive privilege of sup- Plying the town with gas, has been obtained, and a contract made with Smith, Knight, and Co., who, while constructing the works, will pay 7 per cent. interest on the capital paid up. The shares are 1 n prem. The brokers are Messrs. Hill, Faw cett, and Hill. The Directors of the Great Western Railway of Canada have decided to recommend a dividend at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum for the half-year ending January last, and to carry forward a balance of £4,570 13s. 7d. The share list of the London and South African Steam Ship Compa n y i s t o b e closed on Thursday next. The share list of the Anglo-Egyptian Navigation Company will close on Thursda London, y, 6th i ns t ant, for and Friday, 7th, for the country. At Paris, thi s d a Two O'CLOCK. y, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the F renc h 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 85c. Firm. The tone of the English Stock Market has not been quite so buoyant as yesterday, although quota tions have not shown any tendency to recede. Rumours of failures are checking the rise in prices, but it is still thought that, with lower money, the Funds must continue to find investors. Consols for money are 94 , and for the account 90i j. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 894 ; Exchequer 5 rem Bills, 3s. p. ; India 106 i per Cents., In the Foreign Market there has been little ani mation, andprices have tended downwards. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 744 75 ; do. Consolides, 541 55 ; Mexican, 271 ditto New, 26/ ; Greek, 211 ; Spanish Passive, 32i do. CertifiCates, 1 71 ; Russian, 894 90l ; Italian, 64i ; do. New, 4 4 dis. ; and Confederate Loan, 32 34. Business in the Railway Share Market has been moderately active, and prices have in most instances been well maintained. North Western have im proved £1 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, and Midland, each 10s. ; and Great Eastern, Great Western, North Eastern (Berwick), and South Eastern, each ss. For the Foreign and Colonial lines are mode rately active, at fully previous rates. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally support former quotations. London and Brazilian have improved to 44, and National Discount Company are at 151 16. City of Moscow Gas Company shares are quoted 1 2 prem. ; Millwall Freehold Land, n 31 prem. ; South of England Waggon Company, 4 11 prem. ; and Financial Insurance Company, 1 lf prem. BRITISH FUNDS —'-ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols 90f Do. Account, April 6 1 5 per Cent. Reduced BBl 1 New 3 p er C ent i New 2f per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Do. Annuiforties, 80 yr yrs, expire sth J an., 1880 Do 30 s, expi re sth A pril, 1885 — Exc (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent Do. £5OO ... Do Bank of England . £lOO and iibO . . "'•••Do Account— d. Stock, 51 per Cent,,,,,, .... . INDIAN GovEB.NDLENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 10f per Cent., April 1 874 2l6f Do Account . . .... - Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 DDo. Account .... ..... . , Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 o. Certificates ............. . .......... Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 5f per Cent., May 1879 DDo. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do. Bonds, £l,OOO o. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Brazilian 5 per Cent .. . . ...... .. Do. 4/ per Cent., 1852-58-66 Do. 1863 C Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent .. ... . ....... - Do I per Cent (Deferred 3 per Cent.) ha 6 per - Cent .. Colo Do. 4 per Cent ...... ▪ D a Combian an per Cent: ▪ b, 6 per Cent • , . o 5 per Cent., 1864 Do . S crip ) £55 paid . Danish 3 per Cent., 18i5. ........... Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 ...... Do. 5 per Cent , 1773-77, £25 paid Danubian Princip.alities Do £6s_paid . . ..... - - . -. . Equador .New •Consolida't .... 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant — E gYPtian 7 per Cent DoDo., Second Issue £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 • 94/ t / Do Scrip, £sb paid .. .... . - Greek 5 per Cents., 1.82415, ex Coupons GuateDo Account .... - • mala 5 per Cent.. Do. 1839 and 1850 .......... Italian 5 per Cent (lia.;e”mraa....la Railway) Do 1865 IfDo Scrip, .£4:li ........ exican 3 per Cent. ..................... Do. 4_ owl. cc t Ih. 1861 .. . . Do b per Cent. Anglo-Vrt;;;a; Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c . 1 Montevidean 6 per Cent, £3O pai'd .. : NeMooish Imperial 5 per Cent Dow Granada Do 2 per Cent Deferred .................. . Do Land. Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 48 per Cent._ .. Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren)......... .... DDo 4 per Cent., 1862 ...................... o. Account ........ . .... ... . Portag-uese 3 per Cent., 1.853 Do Account ...................... . ...... . .... RD 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, o Account ....... Do 4-} per Cent. , 1850 ......... ▪ .-.- I Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent, 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 .................... 84 90f Do 1864 Sardinian 5 per Cent SpaniDo. Account Dosh 3 per Cent.......................... DoAccount .... DoNew Deferred DoAccount DoPassive Account .. ... . ........... ... . Snanish Cert. of Coup not f unded - - SwediDo Account . . ... - sh 4 per Cent.. Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Do Account.. .. .... • 94 I DDo 6 per Cent. 185.8 Doo Account £lOO Bonds 1 . .. DDo 6 per Cent. 186 o Account Do. £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1863 - VDo Guaranteed, 4 per Cent enezuela 3 per Cent. Do. Account Do. 6 per Cent, 186 9 Do. Account Do 6 pe r C ent., 1864 Do. I per Cent l) ividends on the a b ove paya bl e i n London. French Rentes, 3 per Cent. Do. A ccount ....... .. .. . ... .... .. Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, E x. 25f. Do. Account ................................. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money. 1)0. Account .............. . Do. May Settlement ........... 9nl 6 I from :nage" leers wards ed to had " The dship , Mr. a and k the Lek to even Main `ault- tr. Sharel Railways. 13.14 st of st 50 20 Bir., Wol.. & Str. Val Blyth and Tyne Brlatol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon. Cornwall Do. A A gets no div. t • 6p.c.p.an.has "` • been paid to B Dublin & Belfast June Dun,.Perth, & A b.Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. at. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern DJ. A stock Do. B Do. New, Is. at 25 pm Gt S, and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste. n . S. Vai. Rall'gua.l Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.— Ox:ord Do. Newpo, t Do. lie eford Lanc I shire & Yorkshire L-•ndon and Blackwali Lon., Brit., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shel., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do. x shares .. Metropolitan. Do. New MM and Do, iiirmin & Derby Mid Gt. IV.. Ireland Do. b shares %lid Kent North 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- 4 8 Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. New Do. do. 1864 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish G.ntral IScot. N. E . Aber. stock t.o. Scot,'Mid. st 3ck 4h•ews Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon south E stern - Staines, Wok., dz Wok ITaff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornw4ll W.Harilepool Han& R Do. A irredeemable.. Du. A redeemable .. BRITISH P 10 100 100 100 Atlantic & St. Lawrence Bom.,Baroda, go. 5 percent.. Do. le shares Buffalo & Lake Huron, _ Do Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. bda. Aux. 1, 872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1574 Calcutta & 8. E., lirn.. 'a e Town & Dock, gu. Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p' East. Ben,al, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Tr unk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bond 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. Do do. deferred .... Do. 2d Prtf. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred .... Da 2cl Pref. stock.... .Do do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c l'o. Gua 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India (lim gua. 5 per cent D . 41 per cent Do Great VP, s. of Canada.. D New .. Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay 1873 Do. 5, do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. do Do. Filth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel & Hudson's Hay New Brunswick & Can Class A and B ST. H I.C'da, pc Ist pf.bds Scindc .... Do. Delhi Do. do 'Do. Puniaub I Do. Indus St Flo bl 100 100 100 100 10 100 10 1( 0 1 0 100 OSSK 66 68 16 17 87 89 107 1 , 9 47 48 7 8 1314 132 1 146 148 130 .32 87 89 75 75, 64 66 52 63 46 49 iOt AO3 1191 1191 87 t 8 107 109 42 44 121 i 12 951 96i 80 62 1271 1281 2 2im 135 135 105 1(7 51 15 15 ; 110 110; 69 70 103 37 38 1t 12p 9 10p 115 113 1 lip 78 79 11 lit 133 142 48 50 60 61 57 5) 85} 86 84 9 155 153 3 4 p 106 108 100 {lOO 2 100 100 46 48 74 77 ;MONS. +52 102 103 pr p 4 45 tit th 70 iO3l 58 81 I 0 70 g 8 100 75 8 5 1i 2 103 101 103 102 103 1021 3 171 18 87 91 65 67 55 57 57 60 52 54 46 49 43 45 23 27 21 26 104 1031 Fr p pr o p 100i•101t 81 9 12; I2d 85 tO 77 EO di 100 101 93 95 88 90 1031 f 104 4 62 64 3 5 82 81 100 a 101 i 100 101 1 d *d a 8 101 94 97 1011 I 1011 1011 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 per cent„ Dec.3l, 1872 100 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.Si July 1877-04 - 100 93 05 95 41 54 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug 100 r 9 91 D sp. c. Mar. & Sept 10) 89 91 sp. c. Jan.. & July 100 82 84 834 Do. 5 p Inscribed sk 100 18 82 Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 100 103 106 Do. April & Oct. 1880-1 100 105 107 Do. do' IAIO-1 100 106 108 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 105 107 Ceylon, Nov. 1866, 6 p.c 100 102 101 Do. 1878, do. 100 115 107 Mauritius, 6p. c, 1873, Jan: and July Do. 'l , lß Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. :t 101 108 109 Natal , -;ov. 6 per cent lOO 105 107 N.8.G0v.6 p.c.Ja.&.l uly 100 92 05 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,1866 00 98 100 If 5 Do. 5 p.c. 18 Ito 1876 100 92 91 94 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1892 100 91 93 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 103 105 Do.— !Nova ScG 6 0 p , e t rcen o t v. .. w p .. o . : 100 87 90 Nv sterling, 1875 lBO 91. 93 Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 102 104 1044 S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-9 100 - - Do. 1878 & upwards 1 0 105 107 Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July 100 Do. do, 13 pril & Oct lOO 106 197 1061 7 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cam Consul. uold, lim 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated — 29 31 Devon G. Cons. (Taoist 1 580 59 Drakewalls 2.1.0 1 ; East Bassett (Illogan) 3O 20 25 bast Cara; on 2.14.6 14 15 List earn Brea 3.4.0 6 6 last Grenville 2.7.0 4 14 East Loved 2.13.6 104 114 E. WI Russell (Tavistk 9.10.6 3 41 Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen. 60/ 4 6 4 Great L xey, limited.. all 19 20 Great South Tolgus.... 1.1.0 2 2 G. Wheal Vor (Heist n 4o 304 314 Grenville 7.8.3 , 4 4 , Herod's Foot ... 8.13 Z , .5 36 Elingston Downs 4.18.0 34 4 Margaret , Uny Lelant 94 5 7 Marke Valley 4.3.0 5 54 4 Mwyndy Iron Ore, lim 24 11 0/ Nangiles N ew Se ton North Downs 3 - - North Roskear N.Wh'll.lassett (Mogan 3.10.6 4 t North Whe.l Crofty - - Prosper United....... 7.1.6 3 34 Pr vidence UnyLvant 10.6.7 33 35 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l4 530 550 S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 2) 25 Stray Park 30.17.6 15 17 Tin Croft 9 144 IN West 1 - tat3sett (Mogan l4 74 86 W. Caradon (L skeard 9 7 8 West Chi verton ll 60 624 West Seton 474 190 100 Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 54 100 103 Wheal Buller (Redruth 10 30 35 Whea Ludostt 3.12.8 Wheal Mary Ann (Men 8 11 13 Wheal Setou Wheal Trelawney (Lis 7 19 20 Wheal 4 FitEieEILENCE SUARIt 1 Great Northern, 44 per cent., red. at 10 percent. pm., 100 1 Great Western Orig. 4} per cent pf., 9 Lancaster and Carlisle 4i per cent. pf., 100 London and Brighton, 5 per cent. gua. stock, No. 1,1081 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., H Ditto, 4i per cent. red., 84 PREFERENCE SIIARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &c , 6 per cent. 2d pf., 75 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Londnn and Chatham, 47} per Cent., Ditto, Com. Fund stock 5 per cent., 100 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco k lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 151 Dutch Rhenish. 22k is reat Luxembourg, 12k Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 10k FOREIGN MINES, United Mexican, Um., 4 BANKS. Alliance (Urn.). 3.3 1 Anzio Austrian.:7/ Anglo Egyptian, lira., 131 Australasia, Ditto, new, 691 Bank of British Columbia, 181 British and Californian, lira., 54 Consolidated Bank, Lim., 1013 Continental, lim., 18 Ditto, new, 10 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 201 European Bank, lira., in, Imperial Ottoman, 171 London and Brazilian (lim.), 44 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, Ditto, new, 124 London and County, 741 London Joint Stock, 48 7.i London and Venezula, lim., 51 London and 11 estminster, P5l aiereantile and Exchange, Oriental Banx Corporation, to Ditto, new, 52i Provincial Banking Corporation, um., 31 South Eistern, lim., 131 1 Standard of British South Africa, lim., Ditto, issuedlat 6 pm., 81 MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Mort. Lard and Finanee,.lllll, 3 4 Berlin Water Works, lim., 10 Bombay Gas, lim., 6 Canada Company, 58 7 Ceylon Company, 9i City of Milan Improvements, lim., 11 Ditto (all), 28; City Offices, lim., 5/ Credit Foricier and:Mobiller of England, 104 1 , new, 8 Crystal Ditto Palace, 35 Crystal Palace 6 per cent. perpetL deb., 113 E ast Indian F inancial , lira, 4/ Ebbw Vale, 8 74 E E gyptian Cora . and Trading, lim., 41 nglish and Scotti s h M ar i ne, li m., 5 Credit and Finance of London, Elm., 6l}l 1 Hdsons Bay, 16, Hudson s Works, 74 8 j i L m ooin pc nat r os i tx .il oc : i l cn e ap r n c i a cs n icao t i i u l An e ts ll .g r olim ed ela i . t ii A oBni s , so i . i , m ll ,72 . 2 ,' ,„ 6 : : _ Mil Wall Iron Works, 64 SHARE MARKETS—This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. paid. l Closing I Business Price. done. Q 6 98 130 131 5 6 IME SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 5,186 k LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) AUCTION SALES AND RESERVE PRICES-IMPORTANT DECISION -HEGINBOTHAM V. COHEN. This was an action to recover a loss on the resale of a certain lot of goods, Mr. Ashley appearing for plaintiff, who is an auctioneer, and Mr. Buchanan representing defendant. Plaintiff deposed that defendant had bid for a suite of drawing-room furniture, and it was knocked down to him. He neglected to clear it, and hence the resale. Mr. Buchanan objected that no time was specified for clearing in the catalogue. Plaintiff said such might_be the case, but the conditions of sale were printed' in large letters and posted in the room. His Honour held that this would be sufficient to bind a bidder Mr. Buchanan—Well, then, I come to my second defence. Your Honour will see that the catalogue states " without reserve." Now, plaintiff, was there any reserve price to this lot ? Plaintiff—There was. Mr. Buchanan—Then, I contend that the whole sale is vitiated. Plaintiff—But this was a pawnbroker's lot, and it is perfectly well understood in the trade that there is always a reserve price. His Honour was of opinion that it was highly improper to advertise goods in a catalogue to be sold without reserve, when all the time there was a reserve price. There could be no doubt about the law, and that the sale was void. Plaintiff would be nonsuited. POLICE INTEL LIGENCE. —This Day. Farewell Dinner to Captain Burton Yesterday evening a farewell dinner was given at St. James's-hall, to Captain Burton, the well-known African traveller, by the council and members of the Anthropological Society, the fact being at the same time celebrated that the society now comprises 500 members. The chair was taken by Lord Stanley, M.P., who was supported by Lord Houghton, Mr. Hardcastle, M.P., Mr. Stirling, M.P., Mr. Bag shawe, Mr. Vaux, Dr. Hunt, and other leading members of the society. After the usual loyal and national toasts, The CHAIRMAN said he now rose to propose the health of one of the most distinguished explorers and geographers of the present day. (Cheers.) In that gentleman's presence he should say a great deal less about what he had done than if he were absent; but no one could dispute the fact that into a life of less than 45 years Captain Burton. had crowded more of study, more of hardship, and more of successful en terprise and adventure than would have sufficed to fill up the existence of half a dozen ordinary men. (Cheers.) If instead of continuing, as they hoped it would continue for many years to come, his active career were to end to-morrow, he would still have done enough to entitle him to a conspicuous and per manent place in the annals of geographical discovery. (Cheers.) He need not remind them, except in the briefest possible way, of the long course of his adventures and their results. His first important work, " The History of the Races of Scinde," would long continue to be useful to those whose studies lay in that direction ; and those who, like himself, had travelled through that unhappy valley, through that young Egypt, which was about as like old Egypt as a British barrack was like an Egyptian pyramid, would recognise the fact that if there had been men who had described that country for utilitarian purposes more accurately and minutely, no man had described it with a more graphic pen than Captain Burton. (Cheers.) His pilgrimage to Mecca was, he believed, only part of a much larger undertaking, which local disturbances in the country prevented from being carried out to the fullest extent. (Cheers.) He did hot think he was exaggerating when he said that not more than two or three Englishmen would have been able to perform this feat. The only two parallels to it that he recollected in our generation were the exploring journeys of Sir Henry Pottinger into Beloochistan and the journey of M. Vambery through the deserts of Central Asia. The ways of Europeans and of Asiatics were totally different ; he did not mean merely in those important acts to which they all paid a certain amount of attention, but in the little trifling details of every-daylife which were car ried out instinctively without paying any attention to them. The differences in these respects between the two races were so wide that the Englishman who would attempt to travel in the disguise of an oriental ought to be almost oriental in his habits, if he could hope to carry out that personation success fully. (Hear, hear.) And if that were true of a journey of a few days, it was certainly true of one extending over weeks and months, where the secret had to be kept, not merely from the casual observer, but from one's own servants, one's own friends, and one's owntravelling companions. To carry through an enterprise of that kind must be a strain on the ingenuity of any man, and though no doubt danger stimulated our faculties, that did not take from the merit of such a feat, performed under circumstances in which in the event of detection death was almost certain. (Cheers.) He would say nothing in this brief sketch of the well known expedition to the Somalee country, which so nearly deprived the Anthropological Society of one of its ablest members. That journey really opened a wide district of country previously unknown to the attention of civilised man. It led directly to the Nile expedition, which lasted from 1856 to 1859. With respect to the controversial subject of the Nile, he could not help saying, though those who were experienced in geographical matters might treat him as a heretic—he could not help it if they did, for he spoke only by the light of common sense-- , that there was a little delusion in searching for what was called the source of a river. Could they say of any river that it had a source ? It had mouths, that was certain, but it had a great many sources ; and to his mind it appeared that they might just as well talk of a hair upon a man's head or a root of a plant. Every river was fed from many sources, and it did not seem to him that the mere accident of hitting upon that which sub sequent investigation might prove to be the largest of many affluents to a river was a matter about which there need be much controversy. The clear test of the value of this kind of mirk was, what was the quantity of land previously unknown which the dis coverer had gone through and opened up to the knowledge of civilised man. (Cheers.) Judged by that test he did not hesitate to say that the African expedition of 1856 was the most important one of our time ; the only rival to it being that separate expedition which was undertaken by Dr. Living stone through the southern part of the continent. When one man had made his way many would follow, and he did not think it was too sanguine an anticipation that within the lifetime of the pre sent generation as much might be known of Africa, at least of Africa north of the equator and within five degrees south of it, as was now known of South America. Captain Burton had recruited his health, as they all knew, by a journey to the Mormon country, travelling 30,000 miles by sea and land, and afterwards giving the most accurate description yet received of the most re markable phenomenon of our days. (Cheers.) As regarded the account of the embassy to Dahomey, it was to him a revelation of negro life and charac ter which enabled him to feel, with a certainty that he never felt before, that he could understand a barbarous African court. That was not the place or the occasion to comment on Captain Burton's theories or speculations arising out of his jour ney. All he would say about them was, that when a man with infinite labour and research, and at imminent risk to his life, had collected a series of facts, the least the public could do was to allow him a fair hearing when he put his own interpretation upon them. (Cheers.) There were many people who received a new idea as if personal violence were offered to them ; but that was a state of mind which formed the best defence for the existence of a scientific society like that. In conclusion, the noble lord eulogised the spirit of adventure and enterprise—a spirit which he ob served it was the tendency of great wealth and material prosperity to diminish, but without which the wealth and that prosperity would not be worth year's purchase ; and expressed a hope that Captain Burton would, by his future performances, efface the memory of his earlier exploits. (Loud cheers.) The toast was drunk with three tunes three. Captain BURTON, in returning thanks, said that when he entered again on the field of adventure, he should be cheered by the recollection of the recep tion which he had met with that evening. The toast of the Consular Corps was proposed by Lord HOUGHTON, and shortly after the company separated. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—Tho election of exa miners for degrees, &c., in the University of London is fixed for Wednesday, the 26th inst. The following va cancies by resignation and otherwise are announced : One in English history and literature ; one in the French language ; one in the German language ; one in political economy ; one in mathematics and natural philosophy; one in experimental philosophy ; one in chemistry ; one in botany and vegetable physiology ; two in geology and palaeontology ; two in law and the principles of legisla tion ; one in physiology and comparative anatomy ; two in midwifery ; one in materia medica and pharmaceutical chemistry. The other examiners offer themselves for re election. THE SCOTCH IRON TRADE.—A meeting of dele gates from the workmen of the Scotch ironworks whose proprietors have given notice of a reduction of wages, to begin after Saturday next, was held in Glasgow on Mon day, with the purpose of taking a formal resolution on the subject of the proposals for arbitration to bo made to the masters. It was, we understand, unanimously resolved by the meeting that an endeavour should be made to have the questions at issue between masters and men settled by ar bitration ; and, with the object of getting the concurrence of the men at the different works to the proposal, it was arranged that special meetings of the men in the various districts should be held forthwith, and resolutions approv ing of arbitration in the case submitted to them. These district meetings, we believe, will be held on Wednesday and Thursday.—Scotsman. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A CABMAN'S LICENCE SUSPENDED FOR FURIOUS DRIP ING.—William Potter, cab driver, badge 13,205, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk and furiously driv ing a horse attached to a cab in the Haymarket. Sergeant Oliver, 294 A, at half-past eight last night saw the defendant driving a horse attached to a four-wheel cab up the Haymarket, in the direction of Cockspur-street, at the rate of fourteen miles an hour, whipping the horse all tho time. The defendant pulled up at the Waterloo pub lichouse, and was about to leave his cab and go into the house, when the sergeant took him into custody, and found that he was drunk. A great number of persons had fol lowed the defendant expecting that some serious acci dent would occur. " The defendant said he was not drunk. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that galloping a horse in such a place as the Haymarket was a most dangerous practice. He should suspend the defendant's license for a month, that being the only thing that had any effect on cabman, and the next time the defendant appeared before him on a simi lar charge, his license would be rovoked altogether. The defendant seemed much surprised at the decision, but cases of furious driving have been very numerous at this court of late. WESTMINSTER. IMPUDENT IMPOSTURE.—JuIia 11 , Carthy, a woman about 40 years of age, was charged with the following impudent imposture. Sergeant Walter Purchase, 10 B, stated the particulars of the case. He said that last evening the prisoner went to the house of a lady named Baker, at 13, Lower Belgrave square, and represented herself to be the wife of a poor man named Hy am, who was in the habit of sweeping her chimneys. She said that they had just lost one child with the measles, and another with the scarlet fever, and not having the means of burying them, begged assistance. Prisoner was told that Miss Baker was engaged at that moment, but would be unoccupied in an hour or two's time, and prisoner had better call again, which she promised to do. Miss Baker shortly afterwards, being informed of the melancholy loss Mr. Hyam had sustained, sent some money round to their house towards the funeral. Mr. Hyam, who has had no children, was much surprised at the story told about him, and at once con vinced the lady, who was no less surpised, that a gross fraud had been attempted upon her. Shortly after Miss Baker had received this information the prisoner again presented herself at her house and repeated her pre vious story. Miss Baker told her that she did not think she was Mn liyam's wife, but she insisted upon it that she was, and persevered in her statement until she found herself in the hands of the police, when she said that a woman with two children, who was to be found in the Walton-road, had sent her to personate Mrs. Hyam. Ser geant Purchase sent into the Walton-road, and no woman was found, but two children were, and they turned out to belong to the prisoner, and were accordingly sent to the workhouse. Prisoner endeavoured to persuade the magistrate that she had been induced to go to Miss Baker by another woman to get some money. Mr. Arnold remanded her. It was stated she had com mitted other frauds. THAMES. DESERTION OF LASCARS.—Omer Ali and Moballuk, Asiatic seamen, were brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with deserting from the ship T. A. Gibb, now lying at the Blackwall-buoy. Captain Milne, the master of the T. A. Gibb, said she was a new ship, and that the prisoners signed the ship's articles on the 9th of February last, and proceeded to Lon don, whore they joined the ship, which brought a cargo of coals to London. The prisoners deserted a fortnight ago, and were apprehended yesterday in a place of bad repute called Bluegate-fields, Shadwell. He now wanted their services, as the ship was ready to proceed to sea on her voyage to Calcutta. Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, said he had been consulted by some of the crew, who complained of a deviation from the original agreement. The ship was to touch at Graves end only, and sail from there to Calcutta. Mr. Partridge read the agreement. The intended voyage was stated to be from the Tyne to London and Calcutta. Mr. Charles Young—Then I have been misinformed. The prisoners, through the medium of Mr. Salter, of the Strangers' Home in Limehouse, said they did not want to go in the ship to the East. They had a bad serang (boat swain) and were afraid of him. Captain Milne said the serang was a very good man. The tindal (boatswain's mate) had deserted from the vessel and taken seven of his gang with him. The prisoners had been well treated and allowed to have their mealsand sleep in the Strangers' Home for Asiatic seamen, which was much warmer than the ship. Mr. Salter said it was unfortunate that the two Lascars had been so long on shore since they signed the ship's articles. They had spent all the monoy advanced to them, sold their clothing, and were reduced to a state of utter destitution by their own misconduct. Mr. Partridge said the prisoners must retain to their ship and do their duty. If they did not he should commit them to prison. The prisoners said they would not return to tha ship. Mr. Partridge—Then I must send them to the House of Correction. Take them into the gaoler's room and talk to them, Mr. Salter. A few minutes afterwards Mr. Salter announced that the Lascars would return to the ship, and the magistrate dis charged them, and directed that an officer should see them on board. SEIIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This dap• Loxpoic, April s.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze and cloudy weather, with rain. FALMOUTH, April 4.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Hirundo, from Newcastle and Plymouth, for Salonica, to stop a Leak. PORTSMOUTH, April 4.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Lama, from Lisbon for Gothenburg. CARDIFF, April 3.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Hesta, for Shanghai; Guiding Star, for Quebec; Hunter, for New York. YARMOUTH, April 4.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—The Tom Cringle, from Hartlepool for London. CLYDE, April 3.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Minorca, from Sulina. (BY MAGYETIO TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Arrived, April 2.—Nor, steamer, from Oporto ; William and Clara, from Dordt ; Fortuna, steamer, from Cartha gena. _ _ DEAL, IVednesday Morning. No arrivals. It is announced that the Empress of France is about to appear before the world as an authoress, and that, as a companion book to the "History of CteFar," there will shortly be published a "Life of Mario Antoinette." ILLNESS OF Da. LUSHINGTON.—The learned judge had appointed to sit yesterday and hear motions, but on the opening of the court it was announced that his lordship was unable through indisposition to take his seat. It appears that his lordship has been suffering for some time, and that a few days since he had a fall, added to which a troublesome cough has confined him to his room. A GOOD SHOT.—A few days ago Mr. Garnett Ronson, of Little Corby, shot an extraordinary match, for a wager, at that place. The wager was that he was to fire at and hit nine out of ten oranges thrown up in the air. The conditions were that the gun and oranges were to be laid upon the ground, and the shooter had at each shot to pick an orange, throw it up, stoop for his gun, and fire at the orange in its descent. Mr. -Ronson not only succeeded in winning the wager, but hit 11 oranges in suc cession.—Manchester Guardian. KNARESBOROUGH.—A member of the legal pro fession and of a family long resident in the town is under stood to be privately canvassing the electors with a view to offer himself as a candidate in the Liberal interest at the forthcoming election. The preponderating strength, how ever, of the Conservative party, renders this attempt upon theindependence of the borough and the seat of the present members, Mr. Woodd and Mr. Collins, hopeless. LITERATURE Lisabee's Love Story. By the Author of " John and I." 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. There is a great deal of freshness and originality in the scenes and characters to which Lisabee's Love Story introduces us. The scene lies princi pally at Sycamore Farm, in Nettlestead, in the pleasant corn country of Suffolk, amid the family group of simple, kindly, tender-hearted William Plumtree, the father of Lisabee. Occasionally we wander to Vienna, and have an agreeable glimpse of Austrian gaities and Austrian home life, and ex plore some of the picturesque scenery on the banks of the Danube. The author is apparently quite familiar with the places and the people which she describes and writes of them currente calamo. The second " book" opens with the following attrac tive picture— SUNSHINE IN VIENNA. How beautiful is early summer-time in Vienna ! The city " swims in verdure, beautiful ;" every street is a pic ture, every chestnut-alley blooms with children's faces and ladies' silks, every park and garden resounds with the mazy waltz and inspiriting march. No one seems busy except on pleasure ; no one needs other stimulants to pleasure than the intoxicating softness of the southern air and the full voluptuousness of the southern sky. At sun rise, luxurious sleepers aro awakened by processions of peasants, who chant litanies to the Virgin and all good saints, imploring blessings on the crops. There is never a cloud in the heavens and never a hush in the bright, sparkling stream of human life. Tho Lichtenstein Gar dens are crowded till one hardly distinguishes the rich blossoms of exotics from the skirts of the ladies. On the broad smooth glacis the children of the poor and the con templative priests have it all to themselves ; but the lovely park of Schonbrunn, with its clipped avenues and white and green pavilion, is thronged with family parties of the middle classes. Every one dines at three o'clock, and goes into the gardens or the country till the theatres open. You see gay streams of omnibuses and carriages issue from each of the city gates towards the Prater or the wooded hills of the Wiener Wald or Schonbrunn. You cannot possibly stay at home when all the world is amusing itself, and feel an indescribable longing for lilac boughs and linden-trees, iced coffee and Strauss's band. No one seems of use in the world but the omnibus driver and fiacre pro prietor. You hardly care for the quiet, cool intellectuality of Prince Eugene's Picture Gallery, or the Imperial Library, or the delightful art-treasures of the Archduke Karl. You go into no churches but at mass-time, and then to dream rather than pray. You feel hardly a need of prayers where life and the world seem so delicious, are, willing to drink both like a draught of sparkling wine, and content to wait for deeper passions and feelings. Then at night to wander amid the sweet-scented boscage of the Prater ; to see the pine-torches light up fairy dells, and dark-eyed, bright cheeked ladies ; to catch glimpses of the gleaming city be yond, and think of all the witching influences that await there ; to lounge upon the Graben, that sparkles and smiles with a thousand welcomes ; to choose between " Faust," at the Imperial Theatre, or " Der Frieschutz" at the Grand Opera; to find friendly faces and kindly greetings wherever you go ; to feel that you are but one wave of a joyous current of human life ; to indulge in the temperate yet sufficing enjoyment of the hour—all this is part of Vienna, and of the mood that Vienna calls forth. Perforce you must be Austrian whilst in Vienna. Whether you will or no, you become Epicurean for the nonce. Dr. Zillner, the court physician, his son Albin, and his daughter Adelheid, and the youthful Carl, who " could never grow grey or grave or graceless," are a pleasant group of acquaintances, and poor old Versette, the violinist of Vienna, the unhappy father of ill-fated Bertha and the devoted grand father of the imperious Minchen, is a melancholy pic ture vividly portrayed. These, with old Babele, whose imagination is so powerful that she never can speak the truth, and the cowardly, vindictive, melo-dramatic Kurt, are the prin cipal characters which surround the hero in his " home in Vienna." More attractive is the fair group of William Plumtree's daughters in the pleasant gardens of Nettlestead, and so thinks Arthur Leebridge on his first introduction to them. Greta is fair and Cissy is charming, and Mabel is dovelike ; but, fairest and gentlest and most charm ing of all, is Lisabee, as she is described in the fol lowing somewhat extravagant terms : LISABEE, If she stood in the homeliest of haunts, the farmhouse kitchen, for instance, a brightness would fill the place, and, like the brightness of noonday sunlight, left a glow after its disappearance. Having once seen her, if only for an hour, for ten minutes—ay, for one minute—you could never be again as if you had not seen her ; seeing her once was to hunger and thirst for seeing her twice; and to see no one else like her life-long. The world held only one Lisabee, could not possibly hold another, simply because all that made her so lovable and dear, something not to be expressed in any words, belonged to her essentially, as an essence, in fact. There are - particular summer skies ono never sees twice—loveliest aspects of lovely scenes are never repeated—and so may exist an inexpressible sweet ness in a woman's nature that makes that nature what it is, that is not the sweetness of any other nature, and never was or will be described. And all of us have our Lisabee. This helps to explain our meaning intelligibly to the reader ; deep feelings are ever easier to suggest than to make known; and no por trait so adequately portrays a beautiful woman as the heart's ideal. Lisabee and her sisters are the daughters of William Plumtree, a simple, kind-hearted farmer, much over awed by his imperious sister Mercy and the rest of the Plumtree family. This William Plumtree, we are told, " did a bold thing in his youth to Fe main a coward ever after." He chose for his wife Elgitha Pierrepoint, the penniless daughter of a family that had " come in with the Conqueror," and this marriage was, of course, antagonistic to all the farmer-like affinities of the Plumtree family. PIERREPOINT AND PLUMPTREE. Now, the gulf between Sybarite and Spartan, between Spurgeon and the Archbishop of Canterbury, between Times and Telegraph, is as a water-furrow to the Avernus dividing Pierrepoint from Plumtree. Pierrepoint repre sented to the Plumtree eye so many money -spending, free and easy, six feet two in height, roystering, white-handed, well-mannered men, and so many—a great many—tall, proud, book-learned, and dignified women. You might as well have tried to find a careful, well-to-do Pierrepoint as an extravagant Plumtree ; a Pierrepoint who had not fin poverished himself by all sorts of imprudent generosities, or a Plumtree who had ever given anything more expen sive than advice. Again, the Pierrepoints wore free livers, had warm blood, and liked to make it warmer ; while the Plumtrees rejoiced in nothing so much as in small econo mies of diet, and hadn't a superabundant pound of flesh among them. The Pierrepoints fattened and grew happy to see money going out—the Plumtrees grew leaner but ecstatic to see money come in. Both families were good church -people, but the Pierrepoints always came late, stumbled over hassocks, fidgeted if the sermon exceeded half an hour, and tossed a sovereign into the missionary plate ; whilst the Plumtrees opened their books as the clergyman emerged from the vestry, provided themselves with fourpenny-pieces in case of a collection, and made up for want of liberality by excess of good meaning. Then the Pierrepoints were sure to change their occupations as often as once a year, while the Plumtrees had been farmers every man and woman of them, from time immemorial. You couldn't name a business or profession that one of the late handsome Pierrepoint brothers had not tried, made money in, borrowed in, lost in, and given up ; and though the sisters carried themselves like queens, and spoke French, painted, wrote verses, and played the " Battle of Prague," not one could do up a pat of butter, or make tt dumpling, for the life of them. On his wife's death the well-meaning farmer, in spite of his sister's prudential warnings, resolves "to bring up his little ladies as their Ma was brought up," and Lisabee and her sisters have an education beyond the dairy and the farmyard. As to the main event which gives its title to the book, we shall not betray the secrets of Lisabee's love-story to the uninitiated. Suffice it to say, that Lisabee is one of those who love after the fashion of Shakspere's incidents of the narrative, We might be inclined Juliet, otoni yfint find a a ft t a oncefault nt and waituhsiso f o o nm r eto ever. them might diminish the which we can readily interest life,esed as iv t n o f the and a g g sto in ry glimpse of English country narrative of a true and tender affection. aa faithful hlßeftwaosray nt THE SCOTCH IRON TRADE. - -Glasgow, April 4. A ld in meeting, representing the Glasgow malleabl e ironworkers,Glasgow last ni g ht, it was reso l ve d t o t a larg o held adopt the arbitration scheme as the best mode of settling the present dispute. Tho District Council was requested to take immediate measures to carry it out, and, further, to recommend the ironworkers of the country to pass a similar resolution. RE-PAVING OF COVENTRY-STREET, PICCADILLY. —The Board of Works of the parish of St. Jame's, Westminster, intends to take up the granite pavement in Coventry-street and Piccadilly, and to have the whole line of thoroughfare macadamised. The inhabitants of the neighbourhood several months ago memoralised the Board to that effect, alleging that in Regent -street the roadway there was much approved of in consequence of so little noise being caused by the traffic. A contract has been taken for the execution of the work, which is to be completed by Easter; and the contractor has taken it for seven years, and to be allowed £1,400 per annum, for scavenging and watering, and the old stones to be used for conversion. 7 5 2 i ; 4424 121 11 2 1 61 1284 61 136) / 5;615; 1101 2 i SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. NURTHAMPTON RACES--Tms DAT. Wo have received no telegrams up to the time of going to press. RES FOR 1865. Canterbury Spring . 3 18 Abergavenny 2O Thirsk 2l Cardiff 25 Epsom Spring MAY. Bath 23 Harpenden 2G Epsom Hampton 2l Newton 2l Newcastle 27 Odiham Bidbury Stockbridge Nottingham Southampton l9 Chesterfield Goodwood Down Royal Corp — AUG: IZST. RACING FIXT AP Vincennes Northampton . 4 Croxton Park Newmarket Craven l7 Durham Newmarket Ist Spring 1 Chester 9 York Spring Salisbury lB Vincennes Chelmsford 7 Manchester Summer 7 Ascot l3 Beverley l4 Liverpool Alexandra Park 2O Newmarket July Carlisle Worcester Abingdon Stamford l3 Winchester lB 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 22 Newmarket Ist Oct 26 Walsall OCTOBER. Northallerton 5 1 Newmarket Ho. M 23 Newmarket 2d Oct 9 Vincennes Vincennes NOTE: EBER. Liverpool Autumn I Shrewsbury [ADVERTISEMENTS.] " TAT TERSALLS' TISSUE" was the only Sporting Paper that gave Scamander, the Winner of the Great Northamptonshire Stakos. The most reliable Racing Paper. Every Monday, ono penny. Now ready, price 2s. 6d., by post 2s. Bd., "BAELY's TURF GUIDE." Spring edition, 1865. London :A. H. Bally, Cornhill. G. R. OLENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, supplies the Latest Edition of " THE SUN " round the Royal Oak and Notting-hill by eight o'clocl-. Baily's Spring Turf Guide, this day, 2s. 6d. post free.— Commissions executed. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tins DAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter-past 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were road a third time and passed : —Bath Gas, Folkestone Gas, Gosport Gas, Groat Eastern Railway (Capital, &c.), Great Northern Railway (Homey and Hertford Branch), London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (St. Leonard's). The following bills were considered and ordered for third reading :—Carnarvon New Water, Chesterfield Water and Gas, Forcett Railway, Gainsborough Water, Horsforth Water, Luddenden Valley Railway, Luton Water, Metro polis Sewage and Essex Reclamation, Metropolitan Railway, St. Alban's Water, Tees Valley Railway, Weald of Kent Railway, and Winchcomb Roads. CHURCH MATTERS. Mr. BENYON presented petitions from the clergy of several parises in Berkshire in favour of an amendment of the Court of Appeal, and an amendment of the system in which education grants are made. The O'DONOGHUE presented some petitions from Ire land in favour of Mr. Dillwyn's motion relating to the Irish Church. INDIAN OFFICERS. Colonel SYKES gave notice that on Tuesday May 2, Mr. Grant Duff will move an address to her Majesty rela tive to the grievances of Indian officers, and praying for redress. EDUCATION GRANTS. Mr. ADDERLEY gave notice that on Tuesday, May 2, he would move a resolution relative to the unsatisfactory nature of the education grants. THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN IRELAND. The O'DONOGHUE gave notice that on Tuesday, April 25, he would move an address to her Majesty praying that a charter may be granted to the Roman Catholic University in Ireland. CRIMINAL CASES (EVIDENCE) BILL. Sir G. GREY asked Mr. Scully to postpone the second reading of this bill, otherwise he should be obliged to oppose it. Mr. SCULLY consented to postpone the bill until Friday, when he would fix some day after Easter for the econd reading. INCLOSUTE BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) SALARIES, BILL. The house went tnto committee on this bill, and a reso lution was passed preparatory to the introducing a bill to enable the payment of certain salaries and pensions from the Consolidated Fund. The resolution was adopted, and the house resumed. LOCOMOTIVES ON ROADS BILL. This bill was read a second time. SUPPLY. The house went into committee of supply, and several votes for the expenses of the Admiralty, the Coast Guard Volunteers, and tho Naval Establishments at home and abroad, were agreed to. METROPOLITAN HOUSELESS POOR BILL. The house went into committee on this bill. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at ,he usual hour. OCCUPANCY OF OUDE. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE postponed tho mo tions on this subject of which he had given notice, and he remarked that the matters to which these motions related was exciting considerable notice. THE PLAGUE IN RUSSIA. k The Bishop of OXFORD drew the attention of the house to the progress of the epidemic in Russia, and asked the Government if they could furnish any information on the subject. Earl GRANVILLE said that the Foreign Secretary had given instructions that ample information on the subject should be collected. THE NEW COURTS OF LAW. The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a petition from the Inner Temple in favour of the proposed site for the new courts of law, and gave notice that he would intro duce the bill on tke 27th inst. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Bodmin Railway Bill, the Fergus River Navigation Bill, the Dublin and Antrim Junction Bill, the Dublin Port Tramways Bill, the Dublin, Rathmore, &c., Bill, and some other private bills, were read a third time and passed. BANK OF IRELAND BILL. On the motion of Earl ST. GERMANS, this bill was read a second time. EAST INDIA HIGH COURT BILL. This bill went through committee. DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT OF LANDS (IRELAND) PROVISIONAL ORDERS CONFIRMA TION BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. MARINE MUTINY BILL. This bill was road a third timo and passed. MUTINY BILL. This bill was also read a third time and passed. PUBLIC SCHOOLS BILL. The Marquis of SALISBURY presented a petition from Harrow School, praying to be heard by counsel against this bill, and contended at some length that there was a neces sity for further investigation into this measure, which had excited much dissatisfaction in certain circles. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH presented a similar petition from Rugby School. He said that the effect of this bill would be to deprive certain persons of the pri vileges they enjoyed, and of rights which had been preserved for 300 years by those who praceded them at Rugby, and which were secured to them originally by Act of Parliament. If those persons were deprived of their property, no description of property was safe, a nd he would endeavour to preserve their privileges. The Earl of Powis also presented a petition from fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. After'a few observations from Lord LYTTELTON and other noble lOrds, the house adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS --LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took tho chair at tho usual hour, but at four o'clock there being b u t 30 members present, the house adjourned until to-morrow. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.—A LADY AND GENTLE MAN DB OW NED.—A melancholy case of dr own i ng on Friday evening last, in th e fi ver Trent, below occurredColwiek Weir. About dark one of Mr. Muste rs ' game wa tchers had his attention called to a boat, w hi c h was floating keel upwards, and a short distance off he observed a man and woman struggling in the water, the man calling out, " Give us help." The keeper immediately threw of his coat, but instantly both the persons sank in the water, and were beyond the reach of rescue. It was afterwards ascer tained that the unfortunate persons were Mr. Simpson, a surgeon dentist, and his niece, who had hired a pleasure boat and gone out for a short sail. GOOD CUSTOMERS.Lintheyear 1864 merchandise of the value of £93,726,766 was imported into the United Kingdom from its colonies and possessions, and merchan dise of the value of £181,137,158 from foreign countries, making together £274,863,921--a value unequalled in any kingdom or empire in any year since the creation of the world, AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON. QUEENSTOWN, April 4. The Inman steamer City of Washington, from New York on the 25th ult., arrived here at 2 55 p.m. She brings the mails, $22,500 in specie, and 256 passengers. She landed 49 passengers, and pro ceeded at 3.15 p.m. Her telegraphic advices have been anticipated. LONDON GAZETTE--Last Evening, WINDSOR CASTLE, MAws 31. This day had audience of her Majesty General Tomas C. de lilosquera, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni potentiary from the United States of Columbia, to deliver his credentials, to which audience he was introduced by Earl Russell, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. FOREIGN OFFICE, 3/Alum 31. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Thomas Beynon as Consul at Newport, Monmouthshire, for his Majesty the King of Hanover. CROWN OFFICE, MARCH 30. The Queen has been pleased, by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, to constitute and appoint John Peter De Gex, of Lincoln's-inn, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. ; Joshua Williams, of Lincoln's-inn, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. ; Edward Francis Smith, of the Middle Tample, London, Esq. ; and George Jessel, of Lincoln's-inn, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., to be of her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law. Arnu, 3. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. County of Devon—North ern Di v i s i on.—Thomas Dyke count Acland tho younger, of the p ar i s h o f Bradclist, in the y of Devon, Esq., in th e room of James Wentworth Buller, Esq., deceased. WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, App, 4. 59th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Henry Eyre to be Colonel, vice Major-General John Clark, deceased. 3d Dragoon Guards—Cornet W. Watt, from 17th Lancers, to be Cornet, vice Donnithorne, who exchanges. 6th Dragoon Guards—The transfer of Lieut. E. Corbett has been cancelled. 2d Dragoons—Staff Surgeon Major John. Mulling to be Surgeon, vice Surgeon-Major Augustus Purefoy Lock wood, placed upon half-pay. 6th Dragoons—Quartermaster Thomas Mitchell, from tho Military Train, to be Quartermaster, vice Charles Wooden, transferred to the sth Lancers. 7th Hussars—Quartermaster William Hodgkinson, from a Depot Battalion, to bo Quartermaster, vice Walter Borth wick, deceased. 17th Lancers—Cornet Arthur Bampton Donnithorne, from 3rd Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet, vice Watt, who ex changes. Royal Artillery—Assistant-Surgeon Francis Alfred Turton, from 23rd Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Richard White, deceased. Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain George William Knox, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice the Honourable Charles Rowley Hay, who retires; Lieutenant and Captain the Honourable Walter R. Trefusis, to be Captain and Lieut.-Colonel, by purchase, vice Archibald Campbell Campbell, who re tires ' • Ensign and Lieutenant Ch ar l es Ed mun d Phipps to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Knox ; Ensign and Lieutenant Thomas Philip Graham to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice the Honour able Walter R. Trefusis ; Henry John Elwes, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Phipps • John Yarde Buller, Gent., t o b e E ns i gn and Lieutenant , by purchase, vice Graham ; Lieutenant and Captain Charles Arthur Wynne Finch, to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant and Captain the Honourable Walter R. Trefusis, promoted. sth Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Charles John Miles to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major William Henry Petty Meara, who retires ; Ensign Woolaton. Bingham to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Miles; Josiah William Pearse-Hobbs, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bingham. 11th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon William Robert Kerans, Supernumerary in 99th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon. , 12th Foot—Quartermaster Michel Lyne, from 107th Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Tripp, who exchanges. 13th Foot—Lieutenant Fenton Josiah Hort, from the Cey lon Rifle Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Fenwick, who exchanges. 16th Foot—Surgeon William George Swan, M.D., having completed 20 years' full-pay Service, to be Surg.-Major, under the Royal Warrant, of Ist October, 1858. 18th Foot—Ensign John Bradley to be Lieutenant, with out purchase, vice Henry Adams, deceased ; Gentleman Cadet 011yett Alderson Woodhouse, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Bradley. 23d Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Robert Wm. Lawless to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Francis Alfred Turton, appointed to the Royal Artillery. 49th Foot—Captain Edward Mackay, from half-pay, late 49th Foot, to be Captain, vice Marcus Wylly de la Poer Bereslord, who retires upon half-pay, having been ap pointed Staff-officer of Pensioners. Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, William Dring, from the 62nd Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Henry Seymour Michell, who exchanges. 51st Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon George Samuel Burn side to be Assistant-Surgeon George Thomas Bourke, appointed to the Staff. oitiiToot—Ensign John Thornton Down to be Lieuten ant, by purchase, vice Henry Francis Emly, who re tires ; Gentleman Cadet Edward Piercy Bean, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Down. 62d Foot—Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Major, Henry Seymour Michell, from the 49th Foot, tt, be Pay master, vice William Dr:ng, who exchanges. 92d Foo:—Lieutenant Robert Bruce McEwen to be Adju tant, vice Lieutenant Alexander Forbes Mackay, pro moted. 94th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Frederick Talbot Good ridge, from the Royal Military College, to b 3 Ensign, without purchase, v_ce George Robinson, deceased. 97th Foot—Gentleman Cadet John Marshman, from the Royal Military College, to 133 Ensign., without purchase, vice Edward John Algernon Smith, deceased. 100th Foot—Ensign Francis John Tidy to be Lieutenant, by purchase, 'rice John Gibbs Ridout, who retires ; Francis Arkwright, Gent.. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tidy. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.—Commissary General Ro bert Grey Donaldson Selby to be Assistant-Commii sary-General ; Acting Deputy-Assistant Commissary- General Crofton James Uniacke to be Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General. MEDICAL DEPAR TMENT. — Assistant-Surgeon George Thos. Bourke, from 51st Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon vice Robert Wm. Lawless, appointed to the 23d Foot. BREVET. Lieutenant-Colonel Valentine Baker, 10th Hussars, having completed the qualifying service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, under the Royal Warrant of 14th October, 1858, to be Colonel. Captain Henry Cole, 12th Foot, to be Major. Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, F ranc i s Fitzpatrick, 60th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major. BANKRUPTS, The following - are the only bankrupts of commercial im portance in the Gazette : John 0. Tucker, watchmaker, Kilburn Walter W. Ringer, publican, Orchard-street Joseph Howes, shoemaker, Southampton Eber Telling, stonemason, Paddington Edward Schoeller, merchant, Water-lane Joseph Kelly, engineer, Liverpool Thomas G. Newby, baker, Clapham Charles M. Strange, builder's clerk, Tunbridge Wells Edward Tiddy, commission agent, Carshalton, Surrey BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Edward Nyberg, merchant, Bucklersbury SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Daniel M'Nicol, contractor, Glasgow. John Fraser, write; Dundee. William Taylor, mason, Kincardineshire. Alexander Bicket, provision merchant, Glasgow. COURSE OF EXCHANGE— Last Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 164 11 174 Ditto 3 Months. 11 19± 11 194 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 45 25 52* Brussels Hamburg Paris Short 25 20 25 271 Ditto 3 Months. 25 424 25 47* Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 1204 1 Vienna — 11 321 11 374 Trieste — 11 35 11 40 Petersburgh Berlin Madrid — 474 Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa — 25 55 25 60 25 55 _ Naples 25 60 Palermo Messina Lisbon Oporto ............ : Foreign Gold in Barr (Standard) per 0z.... a 17 9 Liverpool Cotton Market—This . Day. Market rather quiet. Sales probably 4,000 bales. THE RECORDER OP MANCHESTER AND BbLTON.— On Mr. Armstrong, Q.C., Recorder of Manchester and Bol ton, taking his seat yesterday, at the opening of the Man chester Quarter Sessions, the Mayor of Manchester addressed him, expressing regret that this was the last occasion of his presiding, and assuring him of the respect he would cerry with him of his fellow-citizens into retire ment. Mr. J. P. Cobbett spoke to the same effect on behalf of the bar. Mr. Armstrong, in reply, assured them that, after holding the office of Recorder for 26 years, the thought that he carried with him their good opinion would bo source of pleasing satisfaction to him in the evening of his days. THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON AND THE POLICE FORCE.—The Police Committee of the Corporation of the City of London, after careful consi deration of the claims of the several grades of officers con nected with the City Police Force, have agreed to recom mend for the sanction of the Court of Common Council a new scale of wages, embracing the whole of the classes of constables, sergeants, and inspectors. Wo are in possession of the several progressive amounts, and the actual detail in relation to each class ; but until the report is ratified we can merely state that the constables are hereafter to be divided into three classes; no o ne a pp ointed to the lowest to receive less than 21s. per w eek ; the hi g h est of the three classos ; t a o n h d aN t - h e e 2 m 7s ax . Gidm.un, ; the i sergeants, a corresponding ad vanceor inspectors' class, to reach 10s. beyond their present amount of weekly wages. It is understood that upon a special day, at an early date, the report will be brought up for the final decision of the Court. 7 r I tfter- COM- ouise it to Phil d by lonel oyal ieral well, Luce, ding b 11 the nau- *int is of nied : . e , in flint ived day and ries. iby, ci at stle, per ons has the )- ch er k ,