The Sun. — London, England, 1865-02-27 00:00:00

XONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, - CITY, TwlLvK O'CLOCK. The money market is in an easy, although not an active condition. The requirements of the commer cialclasses at the p resen t ti me appear very restricted, b ut there is a general feeling of hope that another w eek or t wo, when spring is more advanced, trade 111 , aY revive. Th e supply of capital both in Lom bard -street and in the Stock Exchange is very abnn dant, and the rates are consequently very easy at , 4 8 per cent. Fr om the manufacturing districts the accounts gene rally during the past week have been of a satis fleterY character. At Manchester moderate trans aatetiens have been effected in both cloths and yarns, in some instances rather higher rates. The we ellou t ra d e of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield has shown symptoms of improvement, consequent Pon an increased inquiry for spring fabrics. In hosiery and lace dep ar t men t s o f L e i ces t er an d at ottingham there has been more animation, while Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton a more cheerful tone has prevailed. 6 kr. Thomas Usborne, of the Corn E xc h ange , joined th e di rect i on of the Metropolitan and , 4i neial Bank. - there were no bullion operations at the Bank on ,at urday. +. The o Nyanza, which left this morning for B om b a y, Lo o t. ut £96,800. At 'that has been notifi e d th a t th e su b scr i p ti on li s t o f aloe Londo n Cotton Manufacturing Company will °B e ou W e d nes d ay next. h o i7i t the half- year l y meet i ng to- d ay o f t h e share reers of the C on ti nen t a l B an k C orporat i on, t h e 41) 1)°11. Stated that the accounts exhibited a consider latel°BB by the failure of co ns tit uen t s d ur i ng th e sent e cnnmercial crisis. The amou n t i nvo l ve d repre tai. £19,500, but it was reduced to £13,409, by ti 111 g the amount of net profits, &c., for the past 4101)14 Two o'CLocK. t e i k t Paris this day, according to Mr. Reuter's 8,- e g T atn. the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f. Firm. The English Stock Market has been very dull ai c'aY", but it is partly to be accounted for by the ac grossing preparations fo r th e se ttl ement o f t h e L ti e4 2 „.. 411 t, 'which usually precludes any oth er b us i ness 44:0 attended to. The Funds look very depressed, A '‘4 't Consols, 89 both for money and acco un t, are t ( No a -14 u •1t .les • The New Threes and R e d uce d • t are 88i 89 ; the 21 per Cents., 1894, 741 p er ) -l ehequer Bills, 4s. to ss. prem. ; and India 5 C ellts. 103 104. , 4 - 1 - het . the For e i gn M ar k e t t h ere h as b een very little p o , ivi tY, and prices have been steady. Turkish 6 4 ; i cents., 1 862, are 70 4 711 ; do. Consolidds, 1. 1 8; Mexican, 261 ; do. New, 251 j-; G ree k, 1 4 1 ; Span's' h Passive, 321 4 ; do. Certificates, the ; Italian, 631 64 ; do. New, 214 dis. ; and Confederate Loan is 49 50, ex all, for the new ' e ° l . l llt. Siess in th e R a il way Sh are M ar k et has b een tier adull although prices, in several inst ances , are e firmer. Lo n d on , Ch a th am , an d D over h ave e a ' h l ' c ' v ed 55., a n d N or th W es t ern an d Mi dland ; while Great Western and South Eastern ; each declined I. 4 11 ,, e Forei gn and Colonial lines remain without allii m aterial alt era ti on i n va l ues. 3 ep ail k and Miscellaneous Shares are dull. Alli 17al'e dealt in at 361 V; Imperial Ottoman, at ; Union of Australia, at 34} ; Joint Stock 4 -°111:1t, at 81 ; West London Docks are quoted 14 41 ; P r etn• ; City of Mil an , 4 41 prem. ; Metropo -1 '' i etricts Railway, 31 4 prem. ; Varna Railway, , B RITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. a '4O Per e NIII X I WENT FUNDS. 11,. ent. Consols :,,4 Account, Mar- 9 B9l 1 9 liie eent. Reduced lor3 mel v 2 Per Cent BBi -1 89 81 1 , I) 0. t Per Cent. Jan. 1894 7ll 1 '‘lnn i i t . Per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Do, p, les, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 D r, -1 ' 3 0 yrs, expire sth Aug 1885 — tk ei ° l vied Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Dower Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent 54 pm il . £5OO — 1 114° £lOO and £2OO . °f England Stock, feekA 5 ,1 per Cent — '44 Stogy OVERNMENT SECURITIES. 1 bp k, loi per Cent., April 1874 2la bo .tccount D o : Per Cent. July, 1870 N. lteeount N . `,'„,Per Cent., Oct. 1888 l)0.-„' e rtificates — N . .difaced Paper 4 per Cent — 8 0. Per Cent, Jan. 1872 1), ). u l Per Cent., May 1879 lo9} 1)0. 4l Per Cent., A ug . 1866 — D o ends, £l,OOO ' — under £l,OOO — pm -11 A PORE IGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. • trazilp Bonds, 5 per Cent _ . 1 :1 0. 1 . 1 1 5 per Cent ___ h ~ Per Cent ., 1852-58-60 — 1) 4 1 , 4 ..- , 0. 1863 o°l Ayres 6 Per Cent epeeChiliatiPtir ent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Do. 41 Cent 0 0 1 e a Per Cent _ elt) ; 6 ' " Per Cent • — D O O 5 Per Cent • bo. s l e je ,..! C ent, 1864 ____ kni s h 3 `q; .C 55 p a id pm Do. t Per Cent., 1825 —, b 0. '' s Per Cent., 1864 _ u annb i Per Cent., 1773-77 £25 paid — .t.2 B * A ll P rinci lit' ' pa les t ° . - Paid — dis par ` f a,,, 11 7 per Cent 9B tic:, 'econd Issu "tlOO Bonds D 1 )0 ,o e . • 1861 kilo A I IP, £55 paid 1 14,1 0 e eennt r , 0 .„r New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — 4r , s etj t . ' "e,rovisional Land Warrant 00. e" Per Cents., 1824-5, cx Coupons 211 1 44 4 °l 'Pons /. 1) .0. 14 1 8 44 , 5 Per Cent. — , 11, 1 ,, '9 and 1850 — Dol. 4 per Cent (suremm a n a Rail wa y) 681 11 e h ki,,,, i p,P, £lO paid 11 2 dis uo, A " Per Cent. b e eennt b o 6 c 1864 übe 11 ) er Cent. Anglo-French irat e rell Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis 4: e rieh T e 44 s . per Cent., 430 paid —pm ‘1" Arc"lnl)enal 5 per Cent ,i 1 o „,eount DD,"an 41 o a per _per Ce n t. t i li „ e _ u ,i, ) e nt. (Uribarren) — °l',,,u• Ac ' e : k , nt., 1862 iN ese t 844 D° A ce , 3 Per Cent., 1853 pe omat 11, ° Ae e r C ent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 471 ,Eii 44 -0 1int to 41 perk Cent., 1822, £ St., e ent., 1850 D, spyti 3 pe r 1860 ° 5 p er Cent:, 1859 D o Ae_ Per Cent — Do eZl,nt IP Ac e 'eferred 0 P ° nut t , „ k, 1, ° A e " l 'e ..... a pis h en4t , 1) 0 Ce,, , N 4 e —of Coup not funded l5l 1 ' Ilt (1 4 1 1 30 4t 11 1414 Per Cent. ~ . Per Cent 921 Akeecr iiii ,, .. • 1854 b o p e _ i Ae r we nt, 1850 I°)°:•tiZ,t D°lie A rc e , :lece utz , °L. 1862 b h tw o .T.,t cG p e -1)0 11(1.8 74 V e ° Q . u. r Ce nt• 1863 t e —ra n • D 0. 44 1E1, 3 te e 4, 4 per Cent — b ... Ac eo ,_ Per Cent to A eto, 4 nt, 186 .. 1., 6- Per u c t nt,, Divi a ° W., 1864 421 , 1)' 41 2 1 per e ll ds on the above payable in London. ' t kli ci a : 4 per Ce nt, Ex. 12 Gail 631 b o . 54 e Pe e 0 rtier?etent i., c l e B rt 6 i l fi 7E x e E. 25f . ....... t'0 .% ` 1 . 01 1) o 4 honey TWO O'CLOCK. c onia 89 I Li,„ ___ v e , ,Cott°o Market—This Day, Ma rket stead y• Sales 10,000 17,000 bales. ~ 1 E4 4 ~ IleNti... 44JESTY'S THEATRE.— Mr. W. Harrison's 45 t , h..,„ , 50, lt i -°l7l Carrie to a clew on Saturday evening. His 'll ' 3 f 4111101Inced for March 14 ; that of Miss Louisa °I ill °l ' karch tti, Q str ot 4. We need scarcely remind our . readers 4 MI th e s g claims Which both these popular artistes have 3'llll3a thY aild support of the public. gar. cb. 2 5. a, acc °lll ; I.ena, an. Ae atten- - d it. d prince morning, luff. f oioce° E D, 26' h and _woe- V rid iboroag the gat e Ts of t' the 11°' to Van " he l' oilour prince s princ e .7 e be lady le se rs ' ic ' Tery . mastered ley • a ClaY 3' ll 20r03 iieeper of ttorn e): i ~.Gette r a l his royal attended drive OA lor. Aec i attellt` . na lea )ITir 11 ,1,0 nt , t onc e (3 3 5 , 0 Par the 'cod a oend e ,., jaraeor, tter ire :4 1 3 13 tO t V atj" g l io n c ji)g " d 1 1 Pr °°f ° bi S Skye r tit' tee V 0 L1)011138' INV ter O _ It it rriV" 3cla ~' 3 ,r1 , e 16 ' . .1 nroWll' a oe on Alict datio ,„, SUyer vie :sch etl- qt Lesbliim iclel' ee o , r eef for Wee jeing Cr, 30 , u se • sona ti° : Lpltt too 133 ne ir ,to aPr., fl t r eturP rejy J I),ceOt e n ' l ii) ill 11001 SHARE This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share/ Railways. I Paid./ Closing I Business Price. done. Bir Wol btr. Val •, •, Blyth and Tyne ' Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do. A tA • gets no div. Do till6p.c.p.an.has • B been paid to B Dublin & Belfast Juno. Dun,.Perth, & A b.Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northers D A s :ock Do. B o 95 97 131 132 1311 ti 6 Do. New. Is. at 25 pm Gt S, and W. of Ireland Gt. `Neste n -Original I) . S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do W. Mid.— Ox:ord Do. Newpo t Uo. He eford Lane ;shire & Yorkshire Lmdon and Blackwali Lon., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shei., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do. shares Metropolitan. ......... Do. New Hid'and Do, Birmin & Derby Mid. Gt. W.. Ireland Do. .4 shares %lid Kent .. Noah British Do. Ed., Pth , - AL Dun Nth. Eastern - Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle Do. Stock& Darling. De. dam, 1855-f 8 Do. do. 1860-61 North Londou Do. New Do. do. 1864 North Staffordshire N. 4lz S. W Junction Scottish C,ntral Scot. N. E ,Aber. stock I .o. Scot, 'Atfif. pi ici:. 'A'h.ews & Welchpool.. Shropshire Union .... 3onth Devon • • • • =ouch E stern Staines, Wok., .5c Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neat h ,Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W.Hartlepool HarAtt Do. A irredeemable Do. A redeemable ERITISH P, Atlantic & St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, n Cen.ln. gu..5 percent... Do. r shares Buffalo & Lake Huron, Do Preferenee r---- Buff.,Brant,& Goderich p.c. bds. 1, 872. Do. do. July 1, 18731 Do. do. June 1, 1574 Calcutta & t 4. E., Hai a e Town & Dock, gu. Demera , a, 7 p.c. per. p: East. Ben2al, gu , 5 do East ludian, gu. 5 p.c. Do J Extension Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bond, 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2,1 I'r, t. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th I'ref. stock. Do. do. deferred .... Gt.lndia I'en. gua. sp.c. Gus 5 per cent.. Do. New gua. 5 p. c.. Gt. South of India (lim., gua. 5 per cent D . 41 per cent.... Do Great W.& of Canada.. D • New . Do. Op. c. Bd4. pay 1873 Po. 5, do. pay. 1877-8.• Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 4i do Do. Fifth Extension nelb. Cor. 6 p. c. finds. Mel & Hudson's Bay New Brunswick & Can Class A and B I.lil.C'da, pc Ist pf.bds Fcinde Do. Delhi es es Do. do l6. Do. Punlaub " ~, I Do.lndus St Flo 32 34 .6 17 85 87 107 1 9 40 47 7 8 1 31 13! 117 148 13) .33 83 90 721 73 49 51 47 S i .02 tOt 116.1 117, 86, 67 10 104 36 27 o.} 121 98 OD 6) 61 117 1 8 l l 1331 11 9 107 1(9 51 53 z 5 26 111 1111 67 68 1021 101 38i 39 1 i 12ip Hi lop 121 124 11i 12 1 lip 8 1 81 111 111 138 142 44 48 19 61 5s 5i 83 156; 9 1 ,60 165 31 4tp 109 111 75 78 ISIONS. 55 67 100 101 id :1 4i 5 C) 71 73 p 7 99 75 85 0 102 99 100 100 101 17i 18 ei 9) 66 68 56 68 60 62 63 85 60 63 45 48 25 27 2k 26 10) 101 4,1 ip tti P, 93 100 8 9 12; 12d 85 tO 77 E 0 t #d 99i 100 9: 94 83 9,1 62 64 3 5 82 81 98 100 9i 10 d id 8 1 0 91 97 100 { 100 2 100 100 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECUR British Columbia, 6 per cent„ Dec. 31,1872 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & D sp. c. Mar. & Sept 1 )0. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p r. Inscribed sk Cape G. Hope, 6 p.e. 1873 140. April & Oct. 1880-1 Do. do: 1 t 90-1 Do. Jan. & July, 1691 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. c Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 178 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. t 6 Natal qov. 6 per cent N.B.Gov p.c.Ja.&July N. S. W. Gov. 5 p '0.0866 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 So ,tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 8. A us. Gov. 6 p.c 18.8-! Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.o. Ja &July Do. do, A pril & Oct BRIT ICam Consol. Gold, lim Chivert on Clifford A malgamated, Devon G. Cons. (Tavist, Drake wal Is East Bassett (Illogan) -- East Caradon • as c Cam Brea -- East Grenville East Loved E. W'i Russell (Tavistk Gam & StAubyn(Gwen. Gr.:at L ,xey, limited Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor (Heist A, Grenvil.e Herod's Foot .... irvtllngston Downs Margaret Tiny Lelant 3tarke Valley Ai wyndy Iron Ore, Hai Nangi les .. New Se ton ... . North D0wn5.......... North Itoskear . N.Wh'l Bassett , I slogan North Wheal Crotty .. Prosper 1inited........ Pr vidence UnyLAant S. Caradon (St. Cleer).. S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tin Croft West Passett allogau W. Caradon (L skeard West Chirerton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Itedruth Whea Ludoott Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton . Wheal Tfelawney (Lis. %Vilest' UniJn...... • • • • 12 14 1 i 3 g 3 . so ' 33 35 530 550 2) 25 15 17 145 15; 7 g 7 4 8i 60 190 500 110 105 4 1 11 } 13 390 200 10 20 i 1 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties Ex., No. 1, 107 Great Western, 4 per cent. irred . 87 Great Western, 5 per cent. rd. pref., 103 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Metropolitan 5 per cent., 104} LINES LEASED AT FIXED.IiENTALS. Suckingliamshire,:93 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco kli.n.) gus. 7.per oent., 10 Dutch Rhenish, 21 Eastern of France, 201 Imperial Mexican, lim., Northern of France, 40 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin),'lol South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 211 FOREIGN MINES, United Mexican lim), 41 BANKS. Alliance (Urn,), 36} 7 City,4ll7 16 Colonial, him., 42 Consolidated Bank, lim., 10; Imperial Bank (11m.), 32 Imperial Ottoman, )7/ lonian, new, 51 L'indon and County, 74 3; London and South African, 211 2 Mercantile and Exchange. Urn., 71 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 192 £0 Midland Bank, Um., 181 National Provincial of England. 1' 8 Ditto. 3d issue, 46 New South Wales, 43; 1 Oriental Bank Corporation. 58 Provincial of Ireand, 861 South Eastern, lim. ' 10 Union of A ustralia, 53; Union of London, 54 MISCELLANEOUS. Angle-Mexican Mint, 17 . ; Bo.i , bay Gas, lim., Ditto, new, 3f City Offices, Urn., 51 Commercial Union, Insurance, S/ Credit Fonder and Mobiliar of tngland, 81 Ebbw Vale, 81 Gen. Credit and Finance of London. lim., 6 1 International Financial Society, lim., London and Caledonian Marine, lim., 54 London Fin ancial'Association, Urn., 2lf London General Omnibus Company, 3; Lon 'on and Provincial Marine, 31 Ottoman Financial A sscelation, Urn., 7 Societe Finaliciere d'Egypte, 1im...8i Telegrath Construe. and Maintenance, lim., 7; THE NEWSPAPER DIRECTORY of the present year shows that there are 1,271 newspapers published in the United Kingdom. Of these, 944 are published in Eng land, 41 in Wales, 140 in Scotland, 132 in Ireland, and 14 in the British Isles. Of daily newpapers, 48 are published in England, 11 in Wales, 12 in Scotland, 12 in Ireland, and lin the British Isles. The number of magazines, includ ing quarterlies, is 554, of which 208 are of a religious character. 20i 10 100 100 100 201 24 100 100 100 100 IGO 100 10 100 10 10 10 100 'OSSE 91 20 92 93 95 79 81 78 80 103 106 105 107 106 108 101 106 102 104 108 110 102 104 104 106 1(8 109 103 107 90 93 98 100 92 91 90 ' 91 101 106 87 90 92 95 LO 104 05 107 1071 1033 INES. -....- 6 6 29 31 680 593 100 100 10a 100 100 :sn M. 2.1.0 30 2.14.6 3.4.0 2.7.0 2.13.6 9.10.6 601 all 1.1.0 7.8.3 8.13 4.18.0 Vi 4.3.0 241 3 321 3.10.6 2.8.0 7.1.6 10.6.7 11 18.18 9 30.17. 3.12. E 8 58i THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 186 a. lay. The public sales having been fixed to be commenced on Thursday next, colonial wool, in the private contract mar ket, commands very little attention. During the progress of these sales, it is estimated that about 80,000 bales will be brought forward. The arrivals already comprise 60,884 bales—viz., 9,953 baleS, from Sydney, 25,206 from Port Philip, 6,101 from Adelaide, 472 from Van Diemen's Land, 314 from New Zealand, 53 from Swan River, and 18,785 from the Cape. of Good Hope. Current prices of English wool per lb. s Fleeces -.South D own hoggets 111 Half-bred do 2 2 Kent fleeces ..... —... •••• •• • 2 0 ;• ouch Down ewes and wethersl 10 Leicester do 2 1 Sorts Clothing 1 6 Combing 1 8 d 2 0 2 4 2 04 1 11 2 2 1 114 2 1 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Although the supply of meat—both town and country killed—on sale at these markets to-day is by no means extensive, the demand for nearly all descriptions rules inac tive, at our quotations. Per Sib by the carcase. sdsd .3 2 3 6 InferLr mutton 3 .•3 8 4 2 Middlin4 mutton 4 ~4 4 4 6 Prime do 4 .4 6 4 8 Veal .3 6 4 4 Small pork. 4 d s d 8 4 2 4 4 6 8 4 10 4 5 2 6 4 10 active inquiry, at full prices. alteration has taken place in moderato demand for East former terms. Cakes changed e rates were fully supported. Carraway 333 33s Coriander :2s 24s llempseed, per qr 4oa 43s Linseed,Eng.sowing 7Js 7Vii Crushing Baltic —s —s Odessa Linseed Cake, p ton English .CIO Os .3 -S -3 -PI £ll CS FoFetgn £9 108 £ll Os Rape eakes,p ton £5 Os £5 106 Rapeseed, new,pr qr 71s 78s TALLOW. { 1864. :1,055 42.83(1 45.588 tB.'2B 4%370 I COs6l :o 451 ;9110 44s0d to '4069 1 'so 408 6d to —b Od —8 0d -s Od —s Od 40s 9.1 95S 1,46 S 1,255 ',051 1,975 65,31;9 98,417 65,051 59,222 73,317 1, , 9) 720 9S 8 950 10,350 84.540 72,26) 80.203 73,702 60s 3d 488 6d 46s 6d 1 43s Od 438 9d 1851. 185 .., 18E3. 1865. MA MARK-LANE. r There was a great want of activity in the demand for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday. The prices realised, however, wero without material change from the previous week. The barley trade ruled quiet; but as regards oats, beans, and peas, the markets presented a firm appearance. For flour there was a moderate inquiry at late rates. Abroad, the prominent feature is an improved demand for wheat and flour at New York, wholly, however, for American consumption. The wheat trade on the continent continues quiet, but spring corn rules firm. Small supplies of English produce were received up to our market last week. No imports of wheat, rye, beans, peas, tares, mange, and barrel flour took place, and the arrivals of other articles were small ; viz., 26,581 quarters of barley, 1,010 oats, 1,764 linseed, 7,168 oil and cotton seed, 50 sundry seeds, and 115 sacks of flour. A very moderate supply of English wheat was received fresh up to our market, to-day. Generally speaking, the trade was in a sluggish state; but the condition of the produce on offer being somewhat inferior, good and fine dry qualities were disposed of at the full prices of Monday last. Damp wheats sold heavily, yet no alteration took place in their value. There was a moderate supply of most descriptions of foreign wheat on the stands. Notwithstanding the recent small importations, millers operated to a very moderate extent, both in American and continental produce, As re gards prices, however, the trade was decidedly firm, and in the transactions concluded, the full rates of Thursday last were obtained. Floating cargoes of grain were in but moderate request, at about previous rates. The supply of English barley on sale was very mode rate, but there was a full average supply of foreign samples on the stands. Malting qualities were in slow request, on former terms. For grinding samples there was a moderato demand at the late advance in prices. Malt changed hands to a moderate extent at previous quotations. The market was but moderately supplied with oats; tho trade, however, was much less active than on Monday last ; nevertheless, that day's improvement in the quotations was steadily maintained. There was an increased supply of beans on offer. Small descriptions were firm in price, but for larger sorts the trade was less active, and the quotations were somewhat easier. For peas, owing to the small supply on offer, the trade was firm, at full currencies. Very little barrel flour was exhibited for sale, and the trade was firm, at from 21s to 26s per barrel. English and- 1 foreign sack flour was in fair average request, at previous rates. CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 384 to Ils Ditto, 1861 Ditto, white, 1863 3ls 95s Ditto, 1864 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1864 Ditto, 1863 Talavera, 1864 .. 46s 52s Rye-- Barley—Grinding 228 25s Malting . 28s 358 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk s4s 81s Brown Kingstown and Ware s4s 61s Chevalier Feeding. 648 Os . Oats —Yorkshire and Linoolnsh., 198 23s Potato Youghal and Cork, black lBs 23s Cork, white Scotch, Feeding l7B 22s Beans—Tiek* 3ls 33s Pigeons, Peas—Grey . 133 36s Maple White 368 38s Boilers . 34s 378 Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 2Bs 30s Stockton and Norfolk 2ss 27d American, per barrel. 2lB 258 METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a full average supply of foreign stock here to-day in but middling condition. Sales progressed slowly at late rates. The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing districts were seasonably good, both as to number and qua lity. From Ireland and Scotland the receipts were rather limited; but the Scots and crosses came to hand in first rate condition. On the whole, the beef trade was in a sluggish state, and in somo instances prices were a shade lower than on this day se'nnight. However, the best Scots realised 5s 2d to 5s 4d per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 2,300 Scots, &c. ; from other parts of England, 750 various breeds; from Scotland, 231 Scots and crosses ; and from Ireland, 110 oxen and heifers. The show of sheep, though rather on the increase, was again very limited, and the quality of most bleeds was only middling. The mutton trade was slow, neverthless, prices ruled higher: Downs, in the wool, realised Gs 6d ; out of the wool, 5s 2d to 5s 4d ; and clipped Lincolns, 4s 10d to 5s per 81bs. Lambs met a dull inquiry at from 6s 8d to 7s per Blbs, being 4d lower. The few calves on offer moved off steadily at full quota tions, viz., from 4s 6d to 5s 8d per Blbs. The demand for pigs was heavy, and prices had a drooping tendency. Per 81b to sink the offal. s de d s ds d Crse. 411 z inf. beasts... 3 8 4 2 rule crs-wool sheep 5 10 6 2 second quality do .. 4 4 8 Prime s'thdown 00.6 4 6 6 Prime large oxen ..4 10 5 0 Large coarse calvcs.4 6 5 2 Prime Scuts, (tc....5 2 5 4 Pr.me small do .....5 4 5 8 Crse. and inf. soeep.4 6 5 2 Large hogs ...3 6 4 0 Second quality do ..5 4 5 8 Small porkers 4 2 4 8 Lambs....os Od to 0. Od. Suckling calves, 2is to 225; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s ,o 255 each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 3,910 Beasts 1 230 Cc ws Cows Sheep Calves 2 3 Ca yes lB3 rigs 330 Pigs l,O The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 3,501 head. In the corresponding week in 1864, :we received 3,580 ; in 1863, 3,438 ; in 1862, 639; in 1861, 2,636 ; and in 1860, 2,514 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Amsterdam — ••• Antwerp 2 • Boulogne 222 ... Bremen ••• Calais — ••• Corunna Dordt. Dunkirk Hamburg Harlingen 437 ... Ostend 65 ... Rotterdam 132 ... Oporto ••• .--.. ••• ......- ... 126 ... - - ... 501 - 53 336 . 480 ... - - . :36 360 Total The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1864 1863 1862 155 ... 329 ... 155 ... -- 1861 1860 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market onMonday,February29, 1864, and this day, Monday, February 27, 1865. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. Feb. 29, 1864. Coarse and inferior beasts... 3 6to 3 10 Second quality do. Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Prime Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep 310 4 4 Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do. Prime Southdown do 5lO 6 0 Lambs Large coarse calves 4 2 4 8 Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 2 4 6 Beasts 4,430 Sheep 17,840 Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, March 2, 1863.—Beasts, 3,120 — sheep, 17,740—calves, 97—pigs, 310. March 3, 186 2—Beasts, 3,27 o—sheep, 18,680—calves, 110 —pigs, 260. Feb. 27, 1865. 8 Bto 4 2 4. 4 4 8 4 10 5 0 50 5 4 4 6 •5 2 54 5 8 5 10 6 2 64 6 6 00 0 0 46 5 2 54 5 8 3.6 4 0 42 4 8 BOROUGH HOP. Holders of English 4ops—owing to the limited supply on offer—are very firm in their demands, and there being a steady consumptive inquiry for most qualities, the full prices of last week are realised without difficulty. The best foreign hops move off steadily, at full currencies; but the bulk of the imports, more especially as regards American produce, being of very middling quality, inferior samples are difficult of disposal, and are offering at comparatively low prices. Last week's imports amounted to 305 bales from Antwerp, 22 Ostend, 51 Bremen, 25 Dunkirk, and 50 from Boulogne. Mid and East Kent ...... 110 s to 200 s per ow". Weald of Kent Sussex Yearlings loos to 14es „ Bavarian Amcrioan bOs .0 13.1 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS These markets continue to be moderately supplied with potatoes. The trade both for English and Scotch descrip tions is steady, and prices rule firmer. There were no im ports into London last week. Per tot. Yorkshire Regents Flukes l3os to 145 s Kent and Essex Regents. 9os to 105 s Scotch Regents Rocks Foreign • 64 to 70s WOOL. The demand for all descriptions of English wool con- _ tinues to rule heavy. The quantity of produce disposed of since our last report is small, and, in some instances, holders have accepted less money, in order to transact business. To-day the market, both as regards Down and Lincoln wools, is dull, with a downward tendency in prices. RATITRE: Mr. linthony Trollope's New Work. Macke . nzie. By Anthony Trollope. N'of§: CI iiipilian; and 4411'.' Two Margaret. Mackenzie, in spite of the difference of their names, must certainly, in a literary sense at least, be set down as own sister to Rachel Ray. A Wordsworthian heroine, she is, in the homeliness of her simplicity : " A creature not too great or good For human nature's daily food." - As a portraiture drawn from Ole very life, itis like one of those seemingly careless heads dashed off negligently and almost by pure chance one would think, yet manifestly in a thrice happy moment, by the hand of some rare master in the art of portrai ture, say a Woolner or a Richmond—a head touched into life by a bluntly-pointed crayon on a rough neutral-tinted square of millboard, with just a suspicion of water-colour flesh-tinge on the cheek, just a gleam of white upon the eye, just one liquid hint of cherry on the nether lip. Rachel Ray was an apparently unstudied chef d'ccurre of this kind. Miss Mackenzie, for all the world, is just such another. If her history had been related in glib and sparkling verse, instead of being told, as it is, in equable and flowing prose, the verse would have been set down at once as " unpremeditated." But— for thatmatter—ease (whether of style or of manner) is Mr. Anthony Trollope's dominant and (now more, now less) invariably conspicuous characteristic. His manner as a narrator is so easy," in effect, as to be just simply colloquial. His style of writing when he has sat himself down to pen one of his stories is, to employ the very self-same word yet once more, so perfectly " easy" of its kind, that, while turning the leaves, skimming the chapters, racing through the volumes, it seems somehow to have revealed to us at last the secret of rapid and ready novel-writing. But—encouraged by any such impression that it really is so—try it! Attempt to imitate that—so to speak—conversational style or manner of novel-writing-made-easy ! And, we warrant you, the secret will turn out to be perdu there as inscrutably as ever ! It is not by any means of course—the way Mr. Anthony Trollope leads us-- I what would be called, and with reason, one among I the highest walks of literature. But it is delightful nevertheless. It is one of those pleasant winding ways, leading us, according to our wizard-cicerone's pleasure, now among green hedgerows, now along suburban streets, through hall, and park, and church aisle, and city causeway—as though he were merrily beating the bounds with peeled osier rods at shrove tide. And—once he sets off thus intent upon reaching a given destination known only to himself —we needs must follow not only to the end of the chapter, but to the end of all the chapters ! And here are thirty. Helter-skelter, in and out, and roundabout—we perforce must follow, diligently, at his heels until he brings us whensoever he likes to the foredoomed denouement. Light and careless though the touch of his forefinger—he takes us as inexorably with it by the button-hole as though he had been a very Briareus. And while we " needs must hear" when he talks to us thus in his character as Novelist—while, we say, we " needs must hear" when he talks, thus, no less surely than the Marriage Guest when caught by the glittering eye of the Ancient Mariner—unlike the Marriage Guest we never dream of beating our breast the while in anguish at our detention. We listen, perforce, but we " listen delighted." We are Mr. Anthony Trollope's most obedient. We willingly give him the " parole." We hearken to him as he tells us any new tale he may have set him to relate, not only willingly but eagerly. And that, too, with a general sense of satisfaction—as though he were a familiar companion endowed with a rare gift of story-telling, whom we had got once more comfortably settled in the arm chair confronting us on the other side of the hearth, with a ruby blooded white beaded bottle of forty-seven on the table between us among the saltcellars and the wal nuts. " Miss Mackenzie" takes rank at once among the happier of his least highly elaborated, but, for that very reason, not by any means least popular fictions. We put it' in the same category with the good old " Warden," and with homely, bright-eyed " Rachel Ray." Besides Margaret Mackenzie her self, there is more than one admirably-well deli neated character here introduced to us. The whole society of Littlebath is very cleverly hit off. The Rev. Mr. Stumfold—with his intense evangeli calism, jarred as it is with ' a nothing less than profane jocularity—adds yet another notable cleri cal Portrait to the already ample Gallery, painted by the cunning hand of Anthony Trollope—facile princeps among the delineators of Church of Eng land Clergymen ! Just as the Chronicler of Car lingford is unrivalled as the delineator of the Dis senting ripe—ex. gr., a preacher like Mr. Vincent, or a wonderful Butter-man-Deacon like the incom parable Tozer ! Not only is there the Rev. Stum fold (as the French would have it) added here very notably to Anthony Trollope's black-coated Portrait Gallery, but there is here also yet another of them, quite as remarkable in his way, in the person of the Rev. Jeremiah Maguire, a fortune-hunting curate, with a handsome profile, but a diabolical squint. One of Miss Mackenzie's Foml.Suiters, is this same cock-eyed Rev. Mr. Maguire. Harry Handcock, a stout, selfish old bachelor (once the heroine's early love) is another of them. The third being a certain good-looking vulgarian'who deals in oil cloth, Mr. Samuel Rubb, junior, of the firm of Rubb and Mackenzie. The fourth, the only endur able one of the lot, being John Ball, of the Cedars, Twickenham—the intermediate John Ball—heir to a baronetcy —eventually a baronet himself ! John— the bald-headed father of Jack—the middle-aged son of Sir John ! Coming into a fortune of about a thousand a year when she herself is fully five-and thirty years of age and still a spinster—Margaret Mackenzie finds the possession of her hand (and fortune !) contended for more or less strenuously by those four swains—the Squinting Curate, Mr. Maguire ; the stout, selfish old bachelor, Harry Handcock ; the vulgar trader in oil-cloth, ,Mr. Samuel Rubb, Junior ; and John Ball, the bald-headed heir to the baronetcy, who is also, it should be observed, a middle-aged widower with nine children. The home-interest, the heart-inte rest, sometimes--the quiet fun and covert sarcasm— running through the two volumes into which the history of Miss Mackenzie is halved by our Novelist—make the thirty chapters into which the tale is sub-divided, very pleasantly readable through out. Beyond the central characters already particu larised, there are others no less cleverly depicted in their way. Snarling old Sir John Ball, for example, and his crossgrained hoity-toity lady-wife ! Com mon-place Tom Mackenzie and his intolerable wife Mrs. Tom of Gower Street. Several of the Littlebathian ladies—such as Miss Todd, the rattling, good-natured woman of the world ; or, on the other hand, in their odd way, the pick of the Stumfoldians, the toadying coachmaker's widow, Mrs. Perch, or her very opposite, meaning quiet, ladylike Miss Baker. As for Mrs. Stumfold, there is rather a touch of Mrs. Proudie, we cannot but think, in her character. Up in London, again, there is Mrs. Buggins of Arundel-street, not forgetting Mr. Buggins —there is Miss Colza, the very pink of curio sity and loquacity combined besides Mr. Slow, the attorney, and, with him, his equally deli berate partner, Mr. Bideawhile : all of whom, though very lightly touched upon, are at the same time very well sketched in. The Balls and the Mackenzies, are the Capulets and Montagues in re gard to the contentions of the plot. The greatest fun of all in the tale, by-the-way, is that arising our of Mr. Maguire's scurrilllous apologue of The Lion and the Lamb. Bald headed John Ball, afterwards Sir John Ball, being the Lion, and Miss Mackenzie herself, of course, the Lamb, otherwise Griselda. In the midst of the Fashionable Bazaar (described towards the end of the second volume) we come upon seve ral old friends, such as Mrs. Conway Sparkes, the Duchess of St. Bungay, and Lady Glencora Palliser. And, it is in the midst of this Bazaar that we pause for a moment to laugh at the ridiculous plight of the chief working promoter of Man that Benevolent Entertainment — o ne Mr. an fred Smith, of whom we read that—" seating himself on the stool of the money-taker by the ne trance, he wiped off the perspiration from his brow 1031 ik 1201 2' 99 554 61 851 100 1 i 1 / 171 103 991 ITIES. 107; Si Infer:or beef Middling Prime large do Prime smill,ds) Large pork Clover seeds has met an Canary seed is dull, yet no the quotations. There is a India linseed and rapeseed, on hands to a fair extent, and lat rurnip, white,p.bus.ms to 22s Swede —s —s Mustard, Brown —a --s White, P•• — 8 —E. Tares, Spring— a New winter, bush 9s 10s Canary, per , quarter 41s 50s Rye grass • . 24s 28s Clover, Red Eng., et. 62s 12 , 40 White Foreign Red sls 70s White 568 80s Trefoil ..... 3ss 488 The tallow trade is quiet to-day at the late decline in prices. P.Y.C. is quoted at 6d. per cwt., on the spot. Town tallow is selling at 41s. 3d. nett psh. Rough fat has declined to 2s. lid. per 81b. Particulars. Stock this asp—, Price of Y.C. .. 1 Delivery lastweek' Ditto from June i Arrivals last week Ditto from June I Price of Town .... POLICE INTELLIGENCE,---This Day. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. MISCHIEVOUS AMUSEMENT.--Mr. Andrew Brobhy, of 3, Holsey-terrace, Chelsea, student, and Mr. George Hurst, of 43, Cambridge-street, Pimlico, artist, wore charged be fore g drunk and behaving in a disorderly Mr manner, Yhitt and th also being with knocking at seve r al d oors in Down-street, Piccadilly. rwwib n W. Gordon, 33 C, proved seeing the defendants, accom panied by two other gentlemen and a prostitute, coming from the direction of the Ilaymarket, turn into Down street, and the defendants then went up to the doors of Nos. 4,6, 7, and 8, and knock loudly at them. The gentle man residing at No. 4 promised to attend, but had not done so. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the constable said the de fendants were not sober. One of the defendants said that ho had been out spend ing the evening with his friends, and at the time the con stable came up he was trying to get them home, they not being in a fit state to go without assistance. The other defendant said that he did not knock at the door. All he knew was a gentleman came out of a house, a constable was looming in tho distance, and, on his com ing up, took them into custody. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a most mischievous thing to knock at person's doors in the middle of the night, and he should fine the defendants 10s. each, or seven days, but they might have been fined 40s. WESTMINSTER. SUBSTANTIAL JUSTICE.—John Williams, a stout-looking man, was charged with violently assaulting Hannah Webb. The complainant said she lived at 15, Smith's-rents, in the defendant's house. On Saturday she had her brother and brother-in-law to see her, and while they were talking the defendant came up and told her to leave the house. She had got nearly all her furniture away, but did not take the remainder because she could not pay her rent until Monday. Defendant broke open the door, and, saying she should leave his house, kicked her several times. In reply to an inquiry from Mr. Self°, the complainant admitted that sho was not a married woman, but was eobabitating with a man. • Defendant, in a very quiet, but earnest manner, said ho had the most right to complain. The woman, who repre sented herself to b 3 a single woman, came to live at his house. Soon after she introduced a man as her hus band, next there was a sister-in-law produced about the scene, then a brother-in-law, and at last he found there were six persons living in the crowded room. He was sure he should get into trouble for having so many people there, and disease would break out, so he gave her notice to quit, and finding a lot of beer brought in for a debauch last Saturday he offered to forgive her rent if she would go, but she would not. He never kicked her, but certainly defended himself from attack. Mr. Selfe—Are you ready to forgive the rent now ? Defendant—That I will, if she'll go. Complainant—l have got a place. Mr. Selfe—Policeman, see her things out of the pri soner's house. He is discharged. A SATURDAY NIGHT THAMES. ROW.—SAVAGE ASSAULT.—George English, a tall well-dressed man, who has been employed by the firm of Fletcher Brothers, ship-builders, at Poplar, , r s f from r. the Ito was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with assaulting Fanny Hall, of No. 45, Oxford -street, Stepney, and John Bridges, a Patent Improved Wire Rope Manufacturer, of Irr.Gerra the an p Rope Makers' Fields, Limehouse. defended s olicitor, .o Hodgson,th the complainant's evidence that on Saturday night, a few minutes before 12 office of appeared o'clock, they went into the White Horse public-house to have some refreshment. The prisoner, his brother William English, and two other men, were there. As the com plainants were leaving the house part of a pot of beer was thrown by th e prisoner over the woman. Bridges said that it was a most unmanly trick to throw beer over a woman. The complainants went away quietly, and were followed by the prisoner and his companions. The prisoner used bad language and struck Bridges, who was knocked down, and while he was down was kicked by all four of the assailants. He got up and resented the attack on him by striking the prisoner. The row became general and the police interfered. The com plainants walked on, by the advice of a police-constable, and the prisoner came behind Bridges and struck him. He was very much ill-used and covered with blood, which issued from his nose and mouth. The female interfered, and was struck by the prisoner and knocked down. She was beaten dreadfully, according to her account, and her nose bled copiously. In cross-examination by Mr. Gomm, it turned out that Hill was a prostitute, and that during the affray a large and formidable brass " knuckle-duster" (an American weapon of offence and defence) dropped from Bridges. He swore that he did not wear it or attempt to use it. He was in the habit of collecting large sums of money daily, and thought he had a right to carry any weapon to defend himself. A police-constable, named Charles Fuller, 506 K, saw Bridges on the ground and the prisoner standing over him. Bridges got up and began - fighting the prisoner. The woman interfered, and the prisoner struck her. Mr. Paget had no doubt of the merits of the case. There was a disgraceful row and fight, the woman interfered, and she was struck. Her statement was greatly exaggerated. He condemned in strong terms the conduct of Bridges, who carried a deadly and dangerous instrument about him. The prisoner had committed an unjustifiable though not a severe assault on the woman, for which he fined him 20s. The money was paid. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCELThis day. LONDON, Feb. 27.—Wind this day at noon—North- Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 26.:—Wind N. - W.—Arrived—Atlas, screw steamer, from Shields for Calcutta. Sailed—Belize Packet, for Belize. Huai, Feb. 25.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—August, from Monte Video. _ CARDIFF, Feb. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Warlock, from Gibraltar. _ _ _ OFF PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 26 . —Wind S.W.—Arrived— Camlmakyle, from London for Sydney; Mullah, from Lon don for Mauritius. TROON, Feb. 25.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Onward, from Belfast. FALMOUTIT, Feb. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—M. M. Peter, from Sagua la Grande ; Georgeio and Adulpb, from Sulina. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 26.—wind B.W.—Sailed—Favers Minae, for Falermo. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Arrived, Feb. 26—Alfred Vittery, from St. Michoel's ; Excelsior, from Guernsey. Arrived, Feb. 27—Cosmopolitan and Zepher, from Rot ;erdam ; Earl of Aberdeen, from Antwerp. DEAL, Monday Morning. Passed—Duke of Wellington, from London for Trini dad ; Peri, from London for Nassau; Rambler, from Lon don for Demerara. He had already put on his third pair of yellow kid gloves for the occasion, and they were soiled and torn and disreputable ; his polished boots were brown with dust.; the magenta ribbon round his neck had become a moist rope ; his hat had been thrown down and 'rumpled ; a ,drop of oil had made a spot upon his trousers ; his whiskers were draggled and Out of order, and his mouth was full of dirt." For a happy illustration of Mr. Trollope's humour, when at his drollest, commend us to the whole of the chapter (in the earlier of these two volumes) descriptive of " Mrs. Tom Mackenzie's Dinner Party"—Mrs; Toin's din ner ala Russe, save the mark ! Here, for example, as the merest scrap of if,: is the Com - neat made by our author upon the- preliminary waiting in the drawing-room " Almost every man," he says, "can talk for fifteen minutes, standing in a cold drawing-room, before dinner ; but where is the man who can do it for an hour ? It is not his appetite that impedes him, for he could well have borne to dine at eight instead of seven ; nor is it that matter lacks him, for at other times his eloquence does not cease to flow so soon. But at that special point of the day he is supposed to talk for fifteen minutes, and if any prolonged call is then made upon him, his talking apparatus falls. out of order and will not work. You can sit still on a Sunday morning, in the cold, on a very narrow bench, with 'no comfort appertaining, and listen for half an' hour to a rapid outflow of words, which, for any purpose of instruction or edification, are absolutely useless to you. The reading to you of the Qua genus,' or 'As in prxsenti,' could not be more uninteresting. Try to un dergo the same thing in your own house on a Wednesday afternoon, and see where you will be." But all the rest of it—particularly what relates to the'dinner itself—the anticipatory snubbing of Mrs. Cook by Mr. Grandairs from the Pastrycook's— the incident of the single bottle .of Champagne and so forth—the whole chapter, in fact, though all the while in the quietest way in the world, is deliciously and irresistibly humorous. Altogether; this story of " Miss Mackenzie," as a story of home-life among the middle classes—is yet another of Mr. Anthony Trollope's ever-welcome additions to that light literature of the circulating libraries, which has floated his name by means of a very Fleet of Fiction (of his own building, and launching) hither and thither upon so widely ex tended a sea of popularity ! THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—Tins EVENING. The Lonn CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack a. the usual hour. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a second time :—Henley Gas • Brean Down Harbour Railway ; Edinburgh Mer chants Company; Hyde-park-gate Estate ; Bude Canal and Launceston Junction Railway ; Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway ; Lakes Inagh, Derry, Clare, &c., Fishe ries, United General Gas. ROACH RIVER FISHERY BILL. _ ...VA. V .a..1.a.V • a • On the motion for the second reading of this bill, The Marquis of CLANRICADE asked whether it was the intention of the Government to introduce a fishery bill regulating the usages and creations of oysters fisheries during this session ; and whether the private bills now before Par liament have been examined and approved by the Board of Trade and other Government authority. In asking the question the noble loid presented a petition from the Roach fishermen against bill. Earl GRANVILLE said that it was not the intention of the Government to legislate specially upon the subject. After some further remarks, the bill was read a second time ; and the following bills wero also read a second time :—Rochester Oyster Fishery, Whitstable Fishery Ex tension, and Ham Oyster Fishery. UTILISATION OF SEWAGE. The Earl of ESSEX said that as some of his observations of Friday night had been somewhat misunderstood, he would repeat that his decided conviction was that for sewage to be applied for agricultural purposes to advantage it should be applied in large quantities. His experience had shown that an endeavour to apply small quantities to largo acres was unprofitable, while, on the contrary, large quan tities applied to small areas would be very productive. PATENTS, The question as to the second reading of Shepard's pa tent., Wright's Patent, and Spencer's Patent Bills gave rise to some discussion. It appeared that the promoters of the bills had omitted to stamp certain patents granted to them within the time limited. and the new applied for permission to stamp them after date. Lord 4 REDESDALE said he would not move the second reading of the bills unless it were the wish of the house that he do so. Lord CHELMSFORD and Earl GRANVILLE each expressed an opinion that the bills should not be read a second time, and as no noble lord moved the second reading the bills were threwn out. TRANSPORTATION TO AUSTRALIA. Lord TAUNTON presented petitions from the city of Melbourne and other places in the colony of Victoria, pray ing for the immediate and permanent abolition of transpor tation of convicts to Australia. The petition was signed by 5,000 of the people of Melbourne,' by the Speaker of the House of Assembly, and by the judges on the bench. Having spoken upon the subject asked if he were correctly informed that in three years transportation to Victoria would cease. Earl GRANVILLE said her Majesty's Government had not the slightest hesitation in putting an end to the system of transportation to Australia altogether. In three years from the present time all the arrangements that were necessary would be made. The providing of additional prison room in this country had to be seen to, and the cash had to be provided. LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS—THIs EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. MURPHY took the oaths and his seat on his election for the city of Cork, rendered vacant by the resignation of Dr. Lyons. PRIVATE BUSINESS The following bills were read a second time :—Aboyne and Braemar Railway; Blane Valley Railway; Burnham Tidal Harbour ; Caledonian Railway (branch to Dumfries and Lockerby Railway); Cheshire Lines . ; Crieff and Cowrie Railway; Croesor and Portmadoc Railway ; Dorking Water ; Dumfries, Lochmaben, and Lockerby Junction, and Caledonian Railway Companies ; East London Railway ; Evesham and Redditch Railway ; For cett Railway; Galway Water; General Terminus and Glas gow Harbour and Caledonian Railway Companies ; Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway ,• Hadden and Bentley Road ; Flelston Roads ; Huddersfield and Halifax Railway ; Kent Gas • Limerick Embankment and Reclamation; Mans field and h"orksop Road ; Metropolitan Sewage and Essex Reclamation ; Monmouth, Forest of Dean, and Standish Junction Railway; Monmouthshire Railway and Canal ; Mowddwy Railway ; Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway (Deviation, &c.); Plymouth and Dartmoor Railway; Port Talbot Company; Redhill Gas and WateriLeven oaks, Maidstone, and Tunbridge Railway; tSeuti Eastern Tees Valley Railway ; Tottenham and Hampsteadn Railway ; Stapenhill and Burton-upon-Trent Junction Railway (Deviation, &c.) ; Hampstead and Crickhowell Junction Railway (New Lines T )r te an n d ha lrale Railway (Western Extension). GREAT YARMOUTH BOROUGH, HAVEN, AND PORT BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. WARREN moved as an amendment that it be read a second time that day six months. He said that in the reign of Charles the First a commission had been appointed to regulate the conservancy of the river and general mercan tile interests of the borough of Great Yarmouth. Various modifications had been introduced to meet the local cir cumstances from time to time, and the bill now before the house was not introduced in confor mity with the requirements of the district or the wishes of the inhabitants. The fact was this, that this bill originated with the Corporation of Yarmouth, who wanted to acquire an undue preponderance in the commission by the proposed increase in the number of the commissioners to 18. The city of Norwich, which he had the honour to represent, was much interested in the bill, and had petitioned against it. Other petitions also had been presented com plaining of the provisions of the measure, and under the circumstances he trusted the house would not consent to its adoption. Sir H. STRACEY defended the bill, and contended that the Corporation of Great Yarmouth was the body most deeply-interested in this bill. Several petitions had been presented from shipowners in favour of the bill, and he con tended that the opinions of those persons who were best it, acquainted with the subject, and the more interested in should have Weight with hon. members. He said that he had not been properly treated by the hon. member who moved the amendment. or Mr. WARNER denied that there was a the charge brought against him by t he or ho attributed to his (Sir H. Stracey's) defective memory, active imagination. (Laughter.) After a few words from Mr. IrOWES, baronet,gro round h i f cohr hon. would allo win g fully discussed. Mr. M. GIBSON said that the hotusee committee, when its merits wo uld be The house divided, and th e n umbers were— , h go into di s charging its duty best by allo v F - For the second readi n g .......... 129 Again5t....................... Majority .....read a second time. ....... . ......... ........ The bill was accordingly THE GRIEVANCES OF INDIAN OFFICERS. Col. SYKES and ot her members presented petitions on also pre this subject, DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCE. Mr. HADFIELD presented a petition from the Corpora_ tion of Sheffield in favour of the total aboliti on d u ty on fire insuran ces. S om e other petitions to the same effect Wereof thae sented. -112 THE ARMY. Colonel GILPIN asked whether the number of the army on the first day of the present month was not below the proper establishment by the number of 4,000 men ? The Marquis of HAItTINGTON said that the military establishment had been reduced to the extent described, and that reduction was in conformity with the estimates for the year. THE LATE CONVICT TOWNLEY. Mr. HARDCASTLE asked the Home Secretary under what prison regulation George Victor Townley, sent from Bedlam to Pentonville as an ordinary prisoner under sen tence of penal ~ , ervitude for life, was there allowed access to books of entert,3ining h as" Silvio Porno" an s d i ;‘ G G . il o .B ß la E s . c" sa trures;isautcio theg a l werebooks itnhatthethliebpralySoonfersthshzalblid btgeermitted regulations p o e f ru th se e but a departure had been ,made by the „present Governor. establishment, allowed the late . 0 - fri , e lß ßdg EL ag A: a istD ins . t prisoner to read books suppliedilmVilhad any titles" the - REGISTRYr gu at io n o s ' F o f the T T s prison ; Mr. SCULLY asked whether, in the abs e e , law officer, it was intended that a bill to r t e r e i n 'ster f anyl;4'i. in Ireland should be introduced during sion, either by the Attorney-General in this gruertsr the Lord Chancellor.in the Rouse of L or d s? e ' ot. Sir a GREY said - it was the intention of .thelier d Chancellorieintreduce suclin bill-at an early -- p e fi ck i . STEAMERS ON" THE RIVER NIGER.. ' • •Mr. wiirrE asked whether it was the intention of her - Majt;:sty's Grovernment to propose the rant of a subsidy,t e -the Company of African Merchants (Limited); to enable them to put trading steamers on the River Niger. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he was unable - to - offer much information on the subject. Papers had been laid on the table in reference to the matter last session, but the subject was not at pr esent under the'conSid er tition of the Ti-ezi,sury, and it was not intended byGovernment to introduce.any bill on the subject. . - SEA FISHERIES (IRELAND). Mr. /IPMAIION asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he expected the report of the special commis sion on sea fisheries to be presented in time to enable him to carry, in this session, a bill founded on their recommen dations ? Mr. M. GIBSON said that the report would be ready for presentation to the house early in. May. - IRISH HISTORICAL RECORD. Mr. M`MATION • asked' tlict Chief Secretary for Ireland when the Brehon Laws would be published,' and whether he was about to take any steps for transmitting to the Dublin Record Office copies of those parts of the English rolls relating to Ireland ?. ' • PEEL, to, principle l i v n h o t m h the t ofa ht b eh s sa e et n i c wn e taesr e bs e i i i i i ;i • gg ß R. gentleman t t r h u e M st r eda n P r pe Peel, erte saidwe d e rue that e o n n , - was to compile those records which referred to epochs in histl rela ory nd. most interesti ng and most important to the people of THE CONDITION OF IRELAND. The On theourad motion n . for going into committ ee o f supp l y, jed de bate was resumed by Mr. ROE BUCK on the following amendment of Mr. Hennessy : " That this house observes with regret the decline of the population of Ireland, and will readily support her Ma jesty's Government in any well-devised measure to stimu late the profitable employment of the people of Ireland." The hon. and learned member contended that the mendi cant tone which had been adopted by the inhabitants of Ireland when they came to Parliament was most censurable He denied that Ireland had any substantive ground of complaint as regarded the government of its affairs by this country, and he defended the conduct of the Chief Secre tary for Ireland, who, he said, brought a good head and a kind heart to the discharge of his duties in Ire land. He denounced in strong terms the sentiments of the Fenian party in 'lreland, whose object was 'to dissolve the connection with this country, and which he was pre • if necessary , by force of arms. (Hear, hear.) pared to resist, . He attacked the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland, as being deficient in those qualifications which were calculated to elevate the condition of their flocks. Lord DUNKELLIN differed from the hon. and learned member, and asserted that many of the evils which afflicted Ireland were attributable to negiect and misgovernment on the part of this country. (LEFT SPEAKING.) THE WEST INDIA MAIL. - SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 27. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Shannon, with the above mails, has arrived here. Much excitement prevailed at Callao respecting the settlement of the Spanish-Peruvian difficulty. Admiral Pareja appeared before Callao with his fleet, and sent in his ultimatim to be answered in 48 hours. It was ultimately accepted, with some slight modifications, being much the same as insisted on by Senor Pacheco, the Spanish Minister at Madrid, and with the addition that Peru is to pay three millions of dollars for the expenses of the expedition, and with the modification that there shall be simultaneously saluting of flags. Peru at once obtains possession of the Chinchas Islands, and admits a Spanish Envoy with the same character as the celebrated Mazorcedo. She admits the interest of Spanish debts sa far as regards its Spanish origin and permanency, and of its actually being in the hands of Spaniards. The Fire at iloundsditch. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN SlR,—Your impression of this day, no doubt, contains a report of the calamitous fire that occurred at our premises last night ; you will oblige by allowing us to take this medium of stating, for the satisfaction of our numerous connection, that although, as a matter of course, we must be put to temporary inconvenience, yet having, fortunately, the advantage of our other manufactory, we are enabled to execute orders as usual.—Yours obediently, 147, Iroundsditch, Feb. 27, 1865. J. DEFRIES, Jun. T ATTERSALL'S.---Th - s Evening, LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 11 to 1 agst Tony Lutupkin (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Emblematic (taken) 100 to 7 agst Jerry (taken) 100 to 7 agst Lightheart (taken) 100 to 6 agst Shropshire (off., take 20) 100 to 6 agst Joe Maley (off., take 20) 20 to 1 agst Arbury (taken) 25 to 1 agst Real Jam (taken) 25 to 1 agst Emblem (taken) 25 to 1 agst Dwarf (taken) 25 to 1 agst Czar (taken and offered) 40 to 1 agst Alcibiade !taken) NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 15 to 1 agst John Davis (taken) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 25 to 1 agst Peon (taken) CHESTER CUP. ' 9to 1 agst Lord Zetland (offerd take 10 to 1) 100 to 8 agst Ackworth (taken) 100 to 6 agst Gratitude (taken freely) 25 to 1 agst La Toucques (taken) 30 to 1 agst Lion (taken) 50 to 1 agst Chango (taken) TWO THOUSAND. 4to lon the field (offered) Bto 1 agst Chattanooga (offered) DERBY. 11 to 2 agst Liddington (taken) 9to 1 agst Breadalhane (taken) 100 to 6 agst Archimedes (taken) • 22 to 1 agst Oppressor (taken and wanted) 30 to 1 agst Zambezi (taken) 100 to 1 agst Don Basilic, (taken) 100 to 1 agst Pepper's Ghost (offered) ARRIVALS AT NOTTINGHAM 13ayleaf, Shakspere, Le Marechal, Twilight, Goldyloeks, Overton, Tragedy, Chapel Royal, Donnybrook, Wild Duck, Kinghorn, Heur lys, Adrian, Tim Meagles, Tippler, Cata logue, Sweet Annie, Dianna, Maid of Lorn, La Mechante, Royal Stag, His Royal Highness, Helper, Hurhuld, Allerton, Clairvoyants, and Hecate. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. CITY BETTING.—Tars DAY. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 10 to 1 agst Tony Lumpkin (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Emblematic (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Arbury (offered) 100 to 7 agst Jerry (taken freely) 20 to 1 agst Joe Maley (taken) 25 to 1 agst Dwarf (taken freely) 40 to 1 agst Penarth (taken) ' 60 to 6 agst Balder (taken) NORTHAMPTON . 15 to 1 agst John Davis (taken) CHESTER CUP. 9to 1 agst Lord Zetland (taken) Very little betting, members being engaged settling on Lsncoln events. SPORTIN G NOTES. Thein Meeting, although partially a success, afforded no co clue the respective merit s o f any of the h ors es who took part in the various race s . G uardsman won the Trial Stakes very easily, Fordha m scoring his first win this season. He would have be en a t h orn in the side of the f a vourites for the Lincolnshire Ha n di cap, if he had not 'net Lln to with an accident through coming in contact with a cab won when the retu rniCity ng Handi from cap the course on F riday. Goldylocks second, but, like all th e races a neck, Ja ne Sh ore b e i ng by which have been run at Lincoln, it is imp oss ib le to say what would have won had there been a p roper start. The same remark equally applies to the Brocklesby Stakes, where the favourite was left at the post. Ozone, the winner, was purchased when a yearling for £25, but there were three or four behind her who will beat her whenever they meet again. The most disgraceful event of the meeting was the Lincolnshire Handicap, Maurice, who was backed as if the race Was all over but shouting, being left at the post. Au objection was raised against the start, but the Stewards overruled it. There are three meetings this week—viz., Nottingham, Derby, and West Drayton. There are thirteen races to be decided, the-most important of which is the Nottingham Handicap. The Trial Stakes has twelve horses engaged, but if Catalogue enters an appearance I would look no further for the winner. Those most trustworthy in the Nottingham Handicap are Revblver, Tippler, Donnybrook, Dr.'Syntax, and Heurlys. The winner, I anticipate, will be either TIPPLER or REVOLVER. The InnkeePers' Plate should be won by Le Marechal, who ran se cond to G a il y for the Lincoln Handicap. Chapel nor!" is my selection for the Little York Stakes, and Lady Bohun or Tragedy the Stand Plate A FRESH MAN 1.01 911 i _~