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

ONEy MARKET AN r, COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. T he requirements of the commercial community to-day have been rather more extensive than of late, and increased firmness has consequently been experienced in the discount market. To-morrow Will be a heavy 'lndian day, and brokers are hold ing over their supplies of money in anticipation of obtaining better terms. The current rate for the best short -dated paper is 34 per cent. This in creased demand being of a temporary nature, the market is expected by the end of the week to relapse into an easy condition. There were no bullion operations at the Bank yes terday. The Nyanza, from Alexandria, has brought £26,000, and the America, from New York, £ 5 9,898. In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon there was a general downward movement. The list of applications for shares in the Russian oVYksounsky) I ron Works Company will be closed Saturday next, the 22d inst., for London, and Mo nday, the 24th inst., for country applications. The Imperial Royal Privileged Lemberg Czerno ateßail _ Company's half-year's interest, at the rate o f , ay 6 per cent. per annum upon the amount laid upon their shares, will be payable at 7, St. lildred's-court, Poultry, on and after let May 4ext, Two O'CLOCK. telegram, - At Paris, this day, accor di ng t o M r. R euter ' s the 3 per C en t. R en t es were 67 52 . I nanimate. The English Stock Market opened this morning w ith a very flat appearance, and soo n a fte rw ards s enle few sa l es sent Consols down about 1 per cent., the quotations now being 90i 91 for money, and 9 4 for th e account. There is no apparent cause for this increased heaviness, without it is that the continued important improvement in Federal American stocks is attracting the attention of spe culators, who get rid the other. The NT of one security to purchase are 89i ew Threes and Reduced Annuties 7s Annuities, 1885, 14 ; Exchequer Bills, . ; India 5 p er Cents., 107 4 ; ditto per Cents., 99i, and ditto 5 per Cents, 104 102. has The principal movement in the Foreign Market been a fall of about 3 per cent. in the Confede rate Loan, viz., to 18 20 upon large sales, induced by the advices received this morning. The other Principal securities .are also flatter, and there is not lunch animation. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 72 + 4 ; ditto Consolides, 53 54 * ; Mexican, 261 ; ditto New, 25+ 26 ; G ree k , 20+ 21/ ; S pan i s h Passive, 34 ; ditto Certificates, 161 ; and Italian, 64/ 71-• In the R a i lway Share Market the operations haie been on a very moderate scale, and in some few instances a slight decline has taken place in Prices. Midland and Lancashire and Yorkshire have each receded 55., Great Western 10s., and North Western ; while Metropolitan' have im proved £1 10s., Caledonian 155., and Great Northern A. Stock 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained inactive, without any material change as regards Prices. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have in one or two instances been a shade flatter. European have declined to 12i London and Brazilian to 49, Brazilian and Portuguese to 104 11, Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England to 10, and Joint-Stock Discount to 71 ; Russian (Vyksounskz) Iron shares are quoted 21 4prem., Millwall Freehold Land 1/ dis., South African Land 1 1i prem., Anglo- Egyptian Navigation 3/ prem., and Rio de Janeiro Gas, 1 1i prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. . GO VERNMENT FUNDS. ° Per.COUt. Consol s ; ° l9Ol Do. Account, May 9 9l / 1 1 1 6 ,Per Cent. Reduced B9l 1 „alevi 7 3 per Cent ' 89/ 1 N D 0 2 i per Cent. Jan. 1894 — , D - 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — ..i.• nnuities, 30 yrs, expire - sth Jan. 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April:lBBs._ 14 _ Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Do,txcheuer Bills. .£1 000 4 per Cent 7 , , , .£5OO — Do. £IOO and £2OO D 0 Accoluat Pe Lin. A‘, ri 1 4 , 4 _ ---. ,TOVERNMEICT SECURITIES. `` l°4l StOCk, 14 per Cent., AprillB74 216 Do A ccount _ .110 e. -.6l%peeti;,,,Cse,nt. July, 1870 Do. 4 - " I ' D _ Per Cent, Oct. 1888 - Certifie a „ — e Do' :: :3 e.:e_aee r a . , p e j.tia r un 4 g. 1 p e n r 2 C en t :0.c . ,v,„. , , 1E,L,, 1011 2 Do. 4 1 Pei ' Ce ut-, May 1879 2 . - P o: i to d n e d p £l,OOO . . 1866 - -pm Austria ***** &lariat, FtoOtIRdISI3, 5 per C en t I GN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 4 11 111 a. . rt 5 Per Cent °' Per Cent 1852 Buenos e 6 ' 1_863-58-.60 8 8 21 31 _ D o 1 s per uent Ohilian Pepsient. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Cent _Do c 1 4 1 Per Cent _ 0 o rabian 6 0 Cub 6 r Cent. Cent. D„ z Per nt D u uc,Per Cent., 1864 _ _ Dash 15'crip, -£55 paid ' 44 1 3 per Cent 1825 — D ° .l I)° ' 4 Per Cent., 1863 _ 1) ' Per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — allUbli 851 61 n a xl- Prin id cipalities 86 _ quador Itw Consolidated, 1 per Cent — _ z D°., Pr evisional Land Warrant VPtian 7 per Cent 96/ ' J o., Second Issue D 0 £lOO Bonds 971 941 I i Do. 1864 D e s . Do u„ - erlp, £sb paid ` e(3l per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Account 2Ol • c ~, • oupons — 1 ID 5 and 1850 e. 1839 and 1850 Dlan 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) -- , D 001865 ... ~ ...... - exiScrip, .£42/ paid Dean 3 per Cent. o. Account Dc IW6I .. ~. ..... ~ Do 6 per Cent..4nglo-French Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c .. . Montevidean 6 per Cent, £3O paid DoNMoorish Imperial 5 per Cent ..... . ew Granada ............................. . DoDeferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian q per Cent. ............. ...... Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do Do. Account 4./ per Cent., 1862 Portugue se 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St., Do 4} per Cent., 1850 Do 1860 Do 3 pfSr Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 L ., Do 1864 wirdinian 5 per Cent _ - Do- Account ''''Panish 3 per Cent _ Do Ac count 481 Do New Deferred Do Account 411 Do Passive sl3O Account ~.. 311 1 1 '1% 14 * Cert. of Coup not funded ......... -R ...„'"?,.Aecount 161 ''' "euleh 4 per Cent. T'''. 4 1 per Cent. 1864 urkish 6 per Cent. 1854 E° Account Do ° 6 Per Cent. 1858 Account 721 1 £lOO Bonds D o „ 6 per Cent. 1862 ...,,o Account 741 1 -1-)0. -£lOO Bonds 75 Do 6 per Cent 1863 0 Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — enezuela 3 per Cent. • DO. Account .0. 6 per Cent, 1862 — D.. -,O. Account - n? 6 per Cent., L 864 - .Jo. 11 per Cent — ALIIBt Dividends on the above payable in London. tell ia ll, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins b t - l r, / 1 , 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. D e t ,', 2 l Per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — Fr en c h ' - * Per Cent. Certifi..ates 97 I o , R eutes, 3 per Cent. _ _ Italian -., ecount 1- % 5 Cent., 1861, Ex. 251. ~ ,o . A ccount C oUsqls, 1,1 • TWO O'CLQON. D o. Oney 901 1 4Ceount . 1 1 ,,, mmtlip- 9l 1 SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share! Railways. I Paid. / Closing I Business Price. done. 3 .14 st of st 50 20 Bir., Wol., & Str. Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A A gets no div. • • ttll6.c.p.a n.has Do. B been p paid to B Dublin & Belfast June. Dun,.Perth, & b.J unc. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. kV, stern Great Eastern, Ord. s tk Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern D A stock Do. B o . 95 97 132 133 5 6i Do. "ew, ts. at 25 pm GtS, and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste n Orktinal . S. Vag. Rail gua. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Mid.— Oxford DO. Newpo. t Do. }ie ef0rd...... Lano shire & Yorkshire . ' L. - ,ndon and Blackwali Lon., Brih.,RL S Coast. Lon., Chat., and Dover Lou. & N orth Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Doi - t shares 'Metropolitan. Do. New Mid and Do, Hirmin & De-by Mid Gt. W.. Ireland Do. shares ‘1 id Bent No'th British Do. Ed., Pth Dun Nth. Eastern Berwick Do. G.N •E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle Do. Stock. & Darling. De. do. 1855-! , 8 Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. New Do. do. 18 , 4 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Ct ntral Scot. N. E , Aber. stock 0. Scot, Mid. rt .ck ' ,l ll , ews Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon south E stern Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall , V.Hartlepool Har.&lt. Do. A irredeemable.. Do. A redeemable .. BRITISH P Atlantic& St.L awrenct Bora., Baroda. h Cen.ln. Du. 5 percent... o. shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. bds. Aux. 1, 872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1574 Calcutta & S. E., lim a e Town & Dock, gu Demers. , a, 7 p.c. per. p East. Ben2al, gu., 5 do East L,clian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunkof Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bond 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist 'ref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pr( f. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. al Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c 'o. Gua 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. o•• Gt. South of India (lim. gua. 5 per cent D . 4f per cent Do Great W. s. of Canada.. D.). New Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay 1873 Po. 51 do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 4f do Do. 4i do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel & Hudson's Bay.. New Brunswick & Can Class A and 13 v. Rl.C'da, pc Istpf.bds Scinde ...... Do. Delhi Do. do ti cy Do. Puniaub n ,o Do.lndus St Flo c'D 100 10 ICO 1 0 100 OSSE 100 { Wu 2 100 100 COLONIAL GO VERNMEN 66 68 16 17 8) 91 101 1 7 47 181 7 8 133 134 148 k 149 131 33 87 F 9 751 251 65 67 51 L 4 46 49 iOl 103 120 /20 86 48 107 109 41 i 3 12 4 4 724 96. 921 61 63 131 132 2,4 137 137! 106 1(8 British Columbia, 6 per cent„ Dec.3l, 1572 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-t , 4 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Au 4 D sp. c. Mar. & Sept no. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p o. Inscribed sk Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Du. April & Oct. 1880-4 Do. do: 1 , 90-1 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.c Do. 1878, do Mauritius, r, p. e, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1.78 Do. 1882, May 15, Nov.. Natal qov. a per cent N. B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&.luly N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c., 1866 Do. 5 p.c. 18_1 to 187 e 100 100 10J 100 100 51 f. 5 &hi 15 111, 112; 694 7O 103 ) 114 37 3 It 12 pl 9 10 pi 115 11. s 1 lip :8 79 11 11 138 142 48 50 61 62 55 5 861 VI I 9 10 155 154 3 4 p 107 109 46 48 74 77 iSIONS , 51 63 102 i 1031 pr ip 4 4, ti gi 65 70 9g 301 75 85 1i 1 103 102 104 10t 106 19 17 18 E 4 87 60 65 50 55 52 54 45 50 43 48 41 44 23 25 22 24 104 105 1011 1.021 81 8i llfd 85 ¶.O 75 78 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189: New Zealand, 6p. cent Do. 6 per cent.... Nova Sc tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c.Ja &July Do. do, A pril & Oct 1321 3 1201 87 108 1231 1 2; 1,7 e 61 132 i 1 3 21 31 134 190 100 100 10 100 100 ;d 101 1026 93 95 89 91 64 66 3 5 82 81 101 f 1021 O'li 102 1 ;(1 pr 1011 1 6 2,, 94 97 T SECUR 7:381 llf 89 92 89 92 89 92 77 80 77 80 10. 106 106 108 10 - 10 , J 106 108 IQ2 104 1(5 107 103} 21 104 ,Oi 10t 104 105 107 108 109 104 106 93 96 98 100 93 95 91 93 103 105 87 90 91 06 103 105 106 108 106} 104 88$ 102 i ITIES. BRITISH AI 774 9i Cain Consol. Gold, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan► East Caradon as t Carn Brea East Grenville East Lovel E. W'i Russell (Tavistk Gam. & StA übyn(G wen. Gnat L ixey, limited Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor (Heist GrenviLe Herod's Foot .... Elingston Downs Margaret lUny Lelant Marke Valley wyndy Iron Ore, inn Nangi les .. New Se ton North Downs North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crofty Prosper Pr vidence troy Lvlant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) &Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tin Croft West isassett (Mogan W. Caradun (L skeard West Chiverton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth hea. Ludo.lt Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seto! Wheal Tielawney (I.ia. Wheal Uni n.......... PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 5 per cent., rd. pf., 102 Great Western, Birmingham gna. stook. 73 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto, 4i per cent., Blackburn pur., 1 0 London and Brighton, I per cent. gua. stock, No. 1, Ditto, 6 per cent., 12J PRI4WERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 4A per cent. pr., Ditto, 5 Per cent. pf., 97 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS- London, Tilbury, and Southend, 100 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam,:lol , wita and San Francisco Ohm) gua. 7 per cent., r eat Luxembourg., 13 * Ot toman (Smyrna to Aidin), i Paris, Lyo ns, and ' Mediterranean, 34 14i 15 (..3 Paris and Orleans, 33} West Flanders, 8 } FOREIGN MINES. Cobre Copper, 24 Alliance (Um.) , 3 31 BANKS. Anglo Austrian, 73 Brazilian and Portuguese, Urn., 101 11 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 24 Consolidated Bank, Bin. 101 Continental, Rm., 221 31 , Ditto,:new, 12k English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 201 European Bank, Urn., 1 t Hindustan, ihina, and Japan.(aim.),-. Ditto, issued at 2 pm., 211 1 Imperial Ottoman, 171 Land Mortgage Bank of India, aim., 41 London B.‘nk of Mexico and S. America, London and Brazilian aim.), 501 ,9 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, Ditto, new, 121 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 21k London and Comity, 78i 9 , London Joint Stock, 49 Standard of British South Africa, aim., 221 London and South-Western, aim., London and 1% estminster, 951 Merchant Bank, iirn . 271 Midland Bank, Um., 16 National Provincial of England. ,Ditto. Id issue, 46i Oriental Bank Corporation. 541 Provincial Banking Corporation, Um, Ditto (X 10), 71 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, 1im..1 0 9 MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Mort. Land and Finance, lim., 3 City of London Real Property, 1im.,13.1 City Offices, Rm., 41 Credit Fonder and:Mobilier of England, 10} 10 Ebbw Vale, 71 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, lirn., 31 Humber Iron Works, 5 Imperial mercantile Credit Asso., International Financial -ociety, Rm., el Joint Stock Discount, Rm., 74 London General Omnibus Company, M dras Irr gation and Canal, 51 Milwall Iron Works. 01 National Financial, Um, 7i Oriental Financial, Rm., 4 Telegrat h Construe. and Maintenance, .1 Universal. Mantle, Insurance, lim., bi 0 2.1.0 2.14.6 3.4.0 2.7.0 2.13.6 9.10.6 601 all 1.1.0 7.873 8.13 4.18.0 4.3.0 32/ 1.10.6 2.8.0 7.1.0 10.6.7 1&169 30.17.6 3.12. E 41 4} 31 U. 570 58 21 23 15 16 64 7 34 31 10 11 3/ 44 4 6 18 19 1f 21 304 314 4 41, 05 36 34 4 5 7 5 54 14 01 16 18 35 45 11 13 3 30' 31 33 520 530 20 25 15 17 144 15, 1 6 74 Bh, 8 574 326 1 180 190 100 103 30 35 11 13 20 ) 210 19 20 rnE SUN, LONDON, 'WEDNESDAY EVENING-, APRIL 19, 186 a CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day, OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Smith.) The trial of Messrs. Birch and Terry, who stood in• dieted with having printed a fictitious balance-sheet rela tive to the affairs of the Unity Joint Stock Bank, stir occupies the attention of the Court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day. __~~ _ MARL BOROUGH-S TREE T. A GIRL CHARGED WITH ROBBING HER FATHER.—SUSB,II Sells, a girl about 13 years of age, wearing a hat showily decorated with ribbons, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with robbing her father. William Sells, the girl's father, said that a fortnight ago last Saturday he gave his daughter lls. to purchase some goods for him, he being a glass dealer. She saw no more of him till the previous day, when ho discovered her at Chalk Farm Fair with a number of the girls. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the father said the girl had a good home, and that she had four times before robbed him. Police-constable Barry, 305 D, said that on taking the girl into custody she said she had spent the money. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a most distressing case, and remanded the prisoner to see what could be done with her. The father, a respectable-looking' man, seemed much distressed at having to prefer a charge against his daughter. DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT TO FEMALES.—John. Toll, a man, about 70 years of age, who gave the address Barrett street, Hunslet, Yorkshire, and described himself as a re tired tradesman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with disgraceful conduct to three or four respectable females in Oxford-street yesterday afternoon. The case having been proved against the prisoner, he was committed for three months with hard labour. MAYSIS V. BINNS. This was an application for a new trial. The cause was originally tried at York, the matter in dfspute being the payment of a sum of money for the board and lodging of the defendant's son. The young man was placed under the care of the plaintiff, with a view of acquiring his (plaintiff's) profession, but at the expiration of a month he took a dislike to it, and the action was brought for the ex penses that had been incurred during the time the young man was with the plaintiff. At the first trial a nonsuit was entered, and the present application was for a rule for a re hearing of the matter The Court granted the application, COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Before Chief Baron Pollock, and Barons Martin, Bramwer and Piggott.) NC TALL V. BRACEWELL. There were two other causes in connection with this one which stood for hearing this morning. It was an application to the Court for power to refer certain matters to the arbitrator—his decision not having been satisfactory to the defendant. The matter in dispute was the right to certain water, but it was con tended that the defendant had no right in order to obtain that which he required to divert the proper stream of water, and the arbitration so decided ; but there were other matters connected with the case that induced the de fendant to make the present application. The Court refused the application, and discharged the rule. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Pepys.) IN RE LODER. This bankrupt was described as a merchant of Lawrence Poulteny-lane, and to-day came up for choice of assignees and proof of debts. No accounts are yet filed, but the debts are stated to be about £4,000, with assets limited. IN RE GOLDING.-NOVEL APPLICATION. This bankrupt was a tradesman, of 24, Great Maryle bone-street, and to-day came up for choice of assignees and proof of debts. Mr. Robertson Griffiths applied that the choice of assig nees might be postponed. The Registrar asked if the learned counsel had any affi davit showing the ground of the application. Mr. Griffiths stated that an affidavit had been prepared, and it set forth the illness of a creditor who was unable to attend, and therefore could not prove his debt. No doubt if he were present he would be able to carry the choice. The Registrar did not think he ought to accede to the re quest in the absence of a medical certificate, but the rights of the creditors could not suffer as the management of the estate would be in the hands of Mr. Aldridge. Mr. Griffiths said, if that were so, he should bo quite satisfied. THE MULLER REWARD QUESTION. It is generally believed that this matter will be finally disposed of to-day upon terms advantageous both to the creditors and to Matthews. It will be remembered that Matthews put a stop upon the £lOO in the hands of the North London Railway Company to his credit, and this stop still remains. A suggestion was made recently that the creditors should be satisfied with the £2OO already in the hands of the assignees for division, leaving Matthews the other £lOO for himself. This idea has not been un favourably received, so far as our informant can learn, and a meeting of creditors has been called for this afternoon, at which an offer will be made to settle matters in an amicable manner, and so as to spare any great and unnecessary outlay in law expenses. The general opinion appears to be that this would be the wisest course to pursue, as in the 0% ent of an appeal to a law court to determine who is really entitled to the whole £3OO the costs would necessarily be very heavy indeed. The sum already in the hands of the assignees would pay a clear ss. in the pound, leaving a margin for the costs already incurred ; and no doubt the proceedings will be forthwith removed out of the hands of:the officials of the Court of Bankruptcy. IRELAND. D ÜBLIN, Tuesday Morning. The Easter holidays have brought an accession of labour to the Lord Lieutenant. Last night his Ex cellency and Lady Wodehouse attended a " Grand R6union Musicale, and Science and Art Conversa zione"—this is the official title of the entertainment at the Antient Concert Rooms, in aid of the Sick and Indigent Roomkeepers' Society. To-morrow after noon Lord and Lady Wodehouse will visit the Royal Dublin Society's Cattle Show, which opens to-day. To-morrow evening they are to be present at the distribution of prizes in connection with the cattie r ' show aforesaid. And on Thursday the Punches town races are to be patronised in person by the Viceroy and his lady. According to the Northern Whig, the people of Belfast have at length resolved to bestir themselves with their Albert monument. Designs have been advertised for, and it appears that the architectural idea of the committee is to erect an ornamental clock-tower, not less than 90 or 130 feet from the ground, and to dedicate it to the memory of the Prince Consort. The clock, we are told, will occupy a most conspicuous position in Queen's-s luare, and will be of great service in telling people the time, especially if it is to have an illuminated dial. It must be confessed that there is a touch of hard-headed utilitarianism in this highly practical way of doing honour to the virtues of the illustrious dead. Talking of Belfast, the News Letter has " reason to believe that Mr. John Porter who died some short time since in Paris, has left some very handsome bequests for charitable and public objects in Belfast. Mr. Porter was an un tiring traveller, constantly moving from country to country and from town to town, and we believe he collected some very valuable curiosities, and kept a diary in which his journeys were noted. A very large bequest has been made—as much, as is ru moured, as £s,ooo—for the erection of a museum, in which the collection of curiosities and the diary are to be placed. A large sum has also been left for building schools in the Cromac-street district, and smaller amounts to the General Hospital and other institutions." Another item of Belfast news is that the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland meet there to-day, to make preliminary arrangements for the opening of the Magee College in Derry. Wind and weather being greatly in their favour, the Holyhead mail boats have been making the cross-Channel passage in three hours and three quarters. Indeed, the Connaught reached Kingstown the other day no less than 25 mins. before her con tract time, and as the contract time is four hours, this would make her passage only 5 mins. more than three hours and a half. Some of the papers here are urging the desirability of keeping up this rate of speed, so as to make the regular passage in three hours and three-quarters. The Cork Herald mentions that the 500 passengers belonging to the steamer Louis iana (National Steam Navigation Company) are waiting to re-embark at Queenstown to-morrow. The Louisiana had been ashore at Kinsale on her outward voyage, and, failing to obtain dry-dock accommodation at Cork, had to laud her passen gers and return to Liverpool for reuairs. Either the Louisiana or some other steamers of the same line is to take the passengers on. A curious case of accidental poisoning has oc curred at Blackpool, Cork. Some children went to fish in a pool near the railway, and found what they took to be a wild carrot growing near the water. The vegetable, however, was poisonous, being a water-parsnip. The children ate some. There were eight of them, and they were all taken ill immediately. One of them, a boy 13 years of age, was seized with giddiness, and fell into the water in consequence ; he was drowned, although the water was only two feet deep. As to the rest, the application of prompt remedies soon put them out of danger. Notwithstanding all the contrary denials, the Cologne Gazette again affirms that Count Karolyi had twice demanded— and the last time in a more emphatic form—explanations from the Prussian Cabinet on the subject of the port of Kiel, without, however, presenting a direct protest. WESTMINSTER. DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.—John Con nor, a man about 22 years of age, who had somewhat the appearance of being mad, was chargod with attempting to commit suicide. Herbert Skinner, 278 B, said last night at half-past 11 I was called to 16, Gray's Inn-place, Hendon-street, Pim lico, to take the prisoner into custody for attempting to commit suicide. I found him naked, and being held by his father and brother, and a scarf had just been taken from his neck. He said he meant to do it ; he had tried to commit suicide three times previously, and would do it if he waited any length of time. I took him to the station, and ho at tempted to kill himself twice there. Henry Salisbury, 330 B, said—l was at Pimlico station at 12 o'clock last night, when'the prisoner was brought in. I conveyed him to the cells and left him for a few minutes. I went back in consequence of something I heard, and found prisoner lying on his back in the middle of the cell, with his brace tied tightly round his neck. I struggled with the prisoner, who tried to choke himself, and at last got the brace away from him, and left him to report what I had seen to the inspector in charge, and I was ordered to look after him all night. I returned to the cells soon afterwards, and found prisoner with his stockings tied round his neck. He said if he didn't do it then he would do it at a future time, and that he had tried it three times before. Prisoner said nothing to the charge, and his father said he had been indulging in drink, and supposed that was the cause. Mr. Arnold remanded him for a week in order that he might be examined. THAMES. THE WIDOW AND HER SWAIN.--Frederick Archard, a young man, dwelling at No. 25, Christian-street, George in-the-East, appeared before Mr. Paget, to answer a sum mons taken out by Mrs. Jones, of 7, Cornwall-street, in the same parish. ' The account given of herself by the complainant was that she was 23 years of age, that she had been married six years, and a widow two years. She became acquainted with the defendant about 15 months ago, and their inti macy resulted in the birth of a child, born on the 11th of February last. She was asked her age when married, to which she replied 15. The child in her arms was the first to which she had given birth. She was asked if she had any corroborative evidence, to which she replied by handing to the magistrate several letters in envelopes. They were all directed to Mrs. Jones, No. 21 (now No. 7), Cornwall-street, St. George-in-. the-East, and signed F. Archard, 25, Christian-street. Some of them commenced, "My lovely Young Widow." One was read by the magistrate as follows : " January 11, 1865.—1 n answer to your note I write you these few lines, to express myself relating to my manly action, as you call it. You must recollect, my dear Mrs. Jones, that there is as much blame attached to you as my self, therefore, as you have shared in the sweets, you must expect to put up with a portion of the sours. I told you when I saw you last that I would help to support you and the child. I will be able to give you 3s. per week, but I should not be able to pay any more. I don't see any need for you to go to the parish whatever, but you must please yourself. Please let me know by letter whether you will accept this. Yours for ever and a day, FREDErtiox An- CHARD, 25, Christian-street." Mr. Paget asked the defendant if the letter was in his handwriting, to which he replied in the negative, and called a man who got into the witness-box and said that the letter was not'written by the defendant. Mr. Paget—Who wrote the letter ? Witness—Not the defendant. Mr. Paget—Who wrote that letter ? Witness—l wrote the letter. Mr. Paget—At whose request ? Witness—The defendant asked me to write the letter. _ _ _ Mr. Paget commented on the disgraceful conduct of the defendant, who had made an attempt to deceive him. He adjudged the defendant to be the father of the complain ant's child, and to pay 23. 6d. per week for its future main tenance. Luminous and Obscure Radiation. We are so accustomed to associate the idea of heat with that of light, that the radiation of the for mer alone without the latter appears to us very like an anomaly. We perfectly understand the catching of the sun's rays in a lens and igniting thereby a piece of paper held in the focus, because we see the intense light in that point ; but if we did not, we should be astonished to see the combustible mate rial catching fire in a place not distinguishable by the eye from any other. Professor Tyndal, F.R.S., having made the radiation of heat the subject of minute inquiry, has arrived at some curious results. His apparatus consisted of an electric lamp, so mo dified as to admit of its receiving, instead of the charcoal burners, an illuminating gas or a hydrogen flame at pleasure, while a thermo-electric pile with its galvanometer was used to find the point of maxi mum heat after the light had been decomposed into a spectrum (consisting of the colours of the rainbow) by passing through a rock-salt prism. Beginning with a luminous gas flame, he found the maximum heat was not contained within the spectrum, but a little beyond the red or last colour, the first being violet. The hydrogen flame gave no visible spectrum at all ; the thermo-electric pile denoted a temperature 2i times smaller than the preceding one, and still at a point not reached by the visible spectrum. Such being his modus operandi, we will state some of his results. A solution of iodine in bi-sulphuret of carbon, though perfectly opaque to light, will transmit heat completely, without absorbing a particle of it. By means of this substance our author has been enabled to separate the luminous calorific rays from the ob scure ones, as the following experiment will show. Having filled a hollow lens with the above solution, and held it to the sun, no luminous focus was visible to the eye ; nevertheless the sun's obscure rays were collected in the focus, though the luminous ones were not ; and a piece of black paper placed there was instantly pierced and set on fire ; and by shift ing the paper, aperture after aperture was formed in quick succession. He thus shows that only one 24th of heat radiated by an incandescent platinum wire is luminous, the rest being obscure ; that in the same way only 1-25th of the heat radiated by the most brilliant portion of a flame of coal gas is lumi nous, and only 1-10th of that emitted by the elec tric light excited by a Grove's battery of 40 cells is luminous.— Galignani. To SHOPKEEPERS, &c.—Wanted an Agent in every town and village, for the sale of A. G.'s Patent Safety Envelopes (at Is. per gross). Cheap stationery, ladies and gent's patent collars and cuffs (at is. 6d., 2s. 6d., and 4s. 6d. per gross). Sample parcels sent on receipt of order and refer ences. ARTHUR GRANGER, Toy Importer, 308, High Holborn, W.C.—[ADVT.] PASSAGE OF TROOPS THROUGH LlVERPOOL—Yes terday the C battery of the 13 brigade of the Royal Horse Artillery, under the command of Major D. F. Green, embarked at the Clarence Dock, Liverpool, en route from Woolwich to Dublin. The battery consisted of six officers, 145 men, 140 officers, and six guns. They were embarked on board the steamers Trafalgar and St. Columbia. On Tuesday next, the 25th inst., the Ist battalion of the 3d Foot, consisting of 37 officers and 820 men, and accom panied by over 200 women and children, will also embark at Liverpool for Dublin. THE SEAL FISHERY.—GLASGOW, April 17. Telegrams received here from St. John's, dated April 4, state that the screw steamer Bloodhound had returned from the ice quite full; and the Osprey, with 6,000 seals, and having her bows injured. The screw steamer Wolf is reported with 7,000 seals. The Prophecies for the Newmarket Handicap The sporting prophets are again "floored" to a man in their predictions for the Newmarket Handicap, with the exception of " The Freshman" in The Sun, who was the only prophet that gave Accident. He concluded his remarks on Monday last as follows : " The running of John Davis at Northampton has en tirely spoilt the betting. In fact, bar accidents, he cannot lose ; but now-a-days it does not depend on a horse's merits, but on the amount of metallic that can be got on, or got out, as the case goes, that makes a horse win. He has been rather fishy for the last day or two. If he goes to the post with winning orders, he must pull through ; but there is a whis pering that the Metropolitan will be his journey, and in that case I shall look to ACCIDENT or GRACE DARLING to furnish the winner." The following are the conclusions which the various writers arrived at : (From Bell's Life.) _ _ Wandering Minstrel, 4 yrs, 7st 41b, is no better in than Sheridan ; Oakapple, 5 yrs, 7st 31b, has been too long on the shelf for us to judge him ; Raglan, 5 yrs, 7st 31b, is likely to give place to John Davis ; Sprite, 4 yrs, 6st 81b, we know no good of ; and the remainder engaged are three year-olds having all the worst of the weights with John Davis. However, Grace Darling, sst 71b, is one not to be despised from what we saw of her at Chelmsford; and the race may prove her to be second best to John Davis, if she does not beat him. (From the Sporting Gazette.) There is a pretty fair acceptance for the Newmarket Handicap, as 30 of the 67 horses weighted have remained in. Of these Fantail, Alabama, Battaglia, John Davis, Spring Gun, and Swordsman ran at Northampton, where John Davis proved himself to be the best of the party, and as he has now a greater pull in the weights all the above are as good as " settled." Nevertheless, when Scamander beat him so easily, I account him to be so moderate I shall expect to see him overthrown by Grace Darling, though he has to give her only 141 b for the year, nor will it sur prise me to see Tomato and Beatrix finish before him. (From the Sporting Life.) John Davis was selected by me for this race on February 18, and those who got early on have such hedging that it is already as good as a win. My opinion is that it is a match between the four year olds, John Davis and Tomato, and those who back the two coupled need not despair of being on the winner. (From the Era.) JOHN DAVIS. (From the Morning Advertiser) FIRST PROPHECY. With Tomato of the top weights, John Davis of the middle division, and Grace Darling of the "feathers," I am bound to believe the race is left, although, at the moment of penning these notes, it is no certainty that the Danebury horse will run. However, running all risk, as already intimated, nothing looks better than Tomato for a "place," and John Davis or Grace Darling to win, and if only allowed one representative, must be fox the three-year-old. SECOND PROPHECY. Since penning my notes John Davis has arrived. I ani, therefore, compelled to stand him and Tomato to beat the field, believing that Wandering Minstrel is the best place investment. (From the Morning War.) Tomato must be classed amongst the dangerous division, and whatever beats her may be almost regarded as the winner. Of the others I take Wandering Minstrel, John Davis, and Grace Darling; and as it will be asking too much for Dollar, I must throw him overboard in the final selection, which must be in favour of Tomato and Grace Darling. (From the Daily Telegraph.): Without knowing what is likely to compose the field, I should select Tomato, Raglan, Grace Darling, and Wan dering Ministrel, as decidedly the best in, but must defer all positive selection until the morning of the race. (From the Morning Post.) For the Newmarket Handicap nothing was talked of after Northampton but John Davis ; and, although it was said on Saturday afternoon he would not run, I should take it to be only a canard, for he can scarcely be beaten. (From thd Manchester Guardian of yesterday.) _ . The following is a sample of the advice of two of the advertising fraternity who live on the credulity of the public : "John Davis wins Newmarket Handicap ; Sandal a place.—Godding, Longton. "Newmarket Handicap—John Davis to win; Tomato and Grace Darling for places.—G. Peters, 2, Princes-street, Dock-street, Hull." AQUATICS. SCULLERS' MATCH FOR £25 A SIDE. On Monday tho sculling race between Hemmings of Richmond and Teasdale Wilson of Newcastle was rowed on the Tyne, and ended in the victory of the Northern champion. The race was an exciting one and was hotly contested. Wilson is a large, heavy man of great strength, whose power and endurance are more remarkable than his skill, which, what there is of it, is shady. Hemmings is the very contrast of his opponent in stature and talent. It was thought that what he lacked in power he would make up with his undoubted skill, and those who saw him at his final practice before the race had their prognostications on this score only strengthened. The race came off at seven a.m. Wilson won the toss and chose the north sta tion. After a capital start, the men rowed strictly level, stroke and stroke for some distance, when Hemmings' superior skill carried him past his opponent. He led till past the Grindstone Quay, Wilson labouring gamely in the rear with unflagging pertinacity. At this point, however, a change in position took ;place, and Wilson, by sheer strength, got his skiff in front. He appeared to only warm to the exertion which had told somewhat upon the Southerner. Hemmings, however, spurted with great pluck to regain his lead, and at the Shot Tower for a time came on with a whim which gladdened the hearts of his backers, but ho was not able to keep the struggle hot enough to exhaust the Hercules of the Tyne, and at the goal Wilson was four lengths to the good. The time was 6 minutes 55 seconds. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, April 19.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. KINGROAD, April 18.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Neptune, 'rom Havannah. OFF PLYMOUTH, April 17.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived— Blenheim, from Calcutta. COWES, April 19.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—America, screw steamer, from New York, and proceeded for Bremen. SWANSEA, April 17.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Robert, for Sierra Leone. SOUTHAMPTON, April 19.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived.— Nyanza, steamer, from Alexandria ; left Gibraltar on the 13th inst. NEWPORT, April 17.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Scutari, from the Clyde for Vera Cruz. Sailed—Philomene, for Sierra Leone. SHIELDS, April 18.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Casehook, 'or Ceylon. FALMOUTH, April 18.—Wind N.—Arrived—Salondire, from Porto Rico. CARDIFF, April 18.—Wind W.N.W.—Sailed—Helene Pauline, for Rio de Janeiro; Figlia Maggiore, for New York. PORTSMOUTH, April 17.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Her Ma jesty's ship Edgar, for Lisbon. PLYMOUTH, April 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—The Hero of the Nile, from London to Agloa Bay, having in tow the Annie Comrie, from Cochin to London, having had her cargo on fire. The second ordinary general meeting of the share holders of the Land Mortgage Bank of India has been held to-day. The report presented for adop tion states that the accounts, which are made up to the 31st December, 1864, comprise actual operations over eight months only, which shows a net profit of £12,288 7s. Bd., to which is added the interest earned in India to 31st March, £10,651, showing a sum of £22,939 7s. Bd. available for dividend, &c. The directors therefore recommend that a dividend of 4s. per share (free of income tax) being 5 per cent. on the paid-up capital, be now declared, payable on and after the 22d inst. Tho capital in India on 31st March amounted to £611,933 19s. 3d., of which £404,407 was invested ont mortgages of real property, and £197,970 on Government securities, at an average rate of 9 per cent. The total applications for mortgage loans amounted, by last advices, to £1,318,500, of which £404,407 has been granted, and of the remainder under consideration a large amount will probably be accepted. Great caution has been used in making these advances, and the appraised value of the properties mortgaged to the company ip double the amount actually advanced upon them. Every title undergoes the rigid scrutiny of the bank's solicitors and standing counsel at the Presidency cities. Each property is carefully valued by in - Spector, Spector, sub-agent, or other competent4le loan v on and the chief agents only grant the satisfactory termination of the investigation.i The Registration Act, now in force ou ghout t India, - also affords an additional security to the mortgages. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. 'BETTING AT NEWMARKET—Dus DAY, TWO THOUSAND. 100 to 30 agst Liddington (offered) 14 to 1 agst Chattanooga (taken) THE DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Kangaroo (taken freely) Liddington was scratched for the Derby at 12 o'clock this day. BET TING AT MANCHESTER —TUESDAY. CHESTER CUP. 100 to 7 agst Mcestissirna filly (wanted) 500 to 10 agst Wandering Minstrel (taken) THE TWO THOUSAND. 3to 1 agst Liddington offered (take 100 to 30). Bto 1 agst Broomielaw (taken) 17 to 2 agst Breadalbane (offered) 100 to 8 agst Ariel (taken) 100 to 7 agst Koenig (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Zambezi (taken) DERBY. 7to 1 agst The Duke (offered) 9 to 1 agst Breadalbane (offered) 11 to 4 agst Liddington (taken) 16 to 1 agst Bedminster (taken) 100 to 6 agst Broomielaw (offered, take 20 to 1) 20 to 1 agst Zambesi (offered) 25 to 1 agst Wild Charley (taken freely) 300 to 10 agst The Buck (taken) 66 to 1 agst Joker (offered) RES FOR 1865. Curragh Howth and Baldoyle 27 Y. Salisbury lB Noi th Herts Yeomanry 19 Cork 22 Bath 23 Harpenden 26 Epsom . . ti . 3O :TIrE. Hampton 2l Newton Newcastle Curragh Odihain Bibury Stockbridge rix. New Forest Hunt l4 Winchester lB Nottingham Southampton l9 Chesterfield Cambridge 2O Goodwood Down Royal Corp 25 TST. Oxford l7 York Yarmouth Plymouth Lichfield 2B Devon and Exeter 29 Derby Summer 3O Ipswich Weymouth 3l 751 i Commencement of Easter Term s —This Day. The superior courts of law commenced their sittings for Easter Term this morning. In the Courts of Exchequer and Common Pleas the Judges took their seats at the usual hour, but the Judges of the Court of Queen's Bench did not appear in court before 12 o'clock. The Lord Chancellor did not entertain his learned brethren this morning at breakfast. The business before the courts was devoid of public interest. The earlier part of the day was occupied with motions for new trials. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Chief-Justice Cockburn, and Justices Blackburn, Crompton, and Mellor.) NEW QUEEN'S COUNSEL. Messrs. Field, Brown, De Jay, and K. Smith, were this morning called to take their seats within the bar. They have been created Queen's Counsel. Mr. Robinson has been elevated to the coif, and ap peared in court robed accordingly.. :SIBER. RACING FIXT AP: Cardiff 25 Epsom Spring Newmarket Ist Spring... 1 Llanboidy 2 ghester 9 Howth and Baldoyle l5 York Spring St. Colamb. l6 Redditch Chelmsford 7 Manchester Summer 7 Maid,tone Ascot l3 Beverley l4 Liverpool JU. Newmarket July Carlisle Jersey 5 Worcester Pontefract Abingdon , ll Hungerford l3 Stamford l3 AUG Brighton 1 Brighton Club Knutsford 3 Lewes 4 Huntingdon Wolverhampton Reading Radcliffe l4 Egham l5 Stockton l5 SEPTE Warwick Curragh 5 Dover 7 Hereford Leicester 7 Doncaster Brecon Richmond Monmouth 2l Manchester Autumn Newmarket Ist Oct 26 Walsall [ADVERTISEMENT. G. R. GLENIF., Sporting Library, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, supplies the Latest Edition of " THE SUN " round the Royal Oak and Notting-hill by eight o'clock. Baily's Spring Turf Guide, this day, 2s. 6d. post free.— Commissions executed. Newspapers sent to any part of the world. Liverpool Cotton Market —This Day. Market opens with a good demand. Sales pro bably 8,000 bales or more. VOLUNTEER REVIEW IN HAGLEY-PARE.—The volunteers of the counties of Warwick, Stafford, and Worcester, combined for the purpose, had their annual review on Easter Monday, in Hagley Park. The weather was as favourable as could be desired, with the exception of a thunderstorm in the after part of the day, which pre vented a portion of the programme being carried out. Battalions of volunteers from each of the counties named were mustered at the review, and Lord Lyttelton was present on the ground, in his uniform as Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire, and the Volunteers went through their manoeuvres under the practiced eye of General Sir Edward Fitzgerald Campbell, Assistant-Inspector of Volunteers, the successor of the late Colonel Dick. There were between 5000, and 6,000 spectators assembled in the Park. The Warwickshire battalion formed the centre, the Staffordshire battalion the right, and the Worcestershire the left. The brigade advanced in open column of com panies on the left, covered by a wing of the First Worces tershire battalion. The force then changed front to its right on its right battalion, the skirmishers accommodating to the change. At the same time the movements became more developed by the left wing of the Worcestershire bat talion being detached to protect the left flank, and extend ing itself along the crest of Milton's Hill. After this, the brigade advanced in a new direction, passed through the skirmishers, halted, and opened a rapid and continuous file firing. The rifles were directed at the fencing on one side of the park, over which the imagination portrayed a strong body of foemen attempting to make their way. Other evolutions were afterwards effectively carried out, in which a violent storm came on, which drove the spectators pell mall wherever a shelter offered, and the volunteers would perhaps have been glad of x sauce qui peu from the drench ing torrent. Discipline of course conquered in inclination, and, having reformed quarter distance columns, they marched down to the ground near the church, and the officers being called to the front, were briefly addressed by the Lord-Lieutenant. General Campbell, it is understood, expressed himself well satisfied with the bearing and dis cipline of the volunteers and the promptitude with which the manoeuvres were executed. NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. Lady Martin, widow of the late Sir Henry Martin, has for warded £lOO to the funds of this institution, in memory of her brother, the late Admiral Sir Henry Byam Martin, K.C.B. Another instance of the extreme danger of jump ing from a carriage in movement has just occurred in the department of the Aisne. M. Ravinet, Juge-de- Paix at Chatillon-de-Mechaille, formerly member of the Council-General, was proceeding to Bellegarde in a hired vehicle with two other persons, when the horse took fright and dashed off at a great pace. The driver endeavoured to pull the animal up, but the reins broke. The man, finding himself defenceless, then determined to jump out, and suc ceeded. M. Ravinet attempting to do the same, fell on his head, and was so much injured that he expired shortly after. The other two persons were afterwards thrown out on the carriage upsetting, but received merely a few con tusions. BOBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.—A ferocious attempt at mtrder was made on Saturday afternoon, in broad daylight, on a man nearly 80 years of age, named William Hulme, toll collector, at a lonely crossing on the Middlewich road, about a mile from Congleton. A tramp, who is described as dressed in a white slop, with black cap and cord trousers, patched on one leg, walked up to the collector's box and entered into conversation with the old man, who allowed him to sit down. After talking some time the fellow took up a small axe with which Hulme had been employing himself in chopping billets of wood, and, pretending to play with it, he watched his opportunity, and suddenly struck tho old man a tremendous blow on the back of the head, which brought him to the floor. He then hacked away at the head, inflicting no fewer than 11 scalp wounds, and striking deep into the large muscles at the back of the neck. The ruffian then seems to have searched the box and made off with three sovereigns, some silver and copper, and an old-fashioned German silver double-cased watch, with bull's-eye glass and braid guard attached. A young lady, named Washing ton, living at Padsberry-house, about a quarter of a mile from the spot, happening to be passing, heard the old man's groans, and at once gave the alarm. Mr. Harrison, surgeon, was quickly on the spot, and renderdd every possible as sistance. The old man was removed to his house, and had his wounds dressed. After a time he beca me q uite sensible, and was able to make a coherent declaration as to the circumstances of the outrage. It is feared, however, oeee that he will not recover. The police have not yet succeeded in apprehending the ruffian who attac ked him.—Manchester Guardian. THE FENIAN BROTHERHOOD. — As to the pervad- Britain a self-evident abroad and at home, we a re told t at intense Great and ing sentiments and present p h osit t i t o i n s of the lrish undy ing h prop o a s t i r t i e o d n o t f h t a h t e t h m e o y n a a r r e e h y actuated and o i b g y a r a c la h which have so long ground their country to the dust, hanging her patriots, starving her people, and sweep ing myriads of Irishmen, women and children, off their paternal fields to find a refuge in foreign lands. That the present position of Irishmen in America is more favourable now, or than it ever will be in future, to ca rrying out their wishes. That it now holds a more power ful position among the peoples of the earth in point of num bers, political privileges, social influence, and military strength than was everheld before by any exiled portion, not alone of the Irish people, but of any subjugated nation what soever ; but that it is now at its greatest strength, and in the hard battle of the exile's life the race is dying out. To obtain their ends they inculcate a strict observance of the pledge as regards the promotion of a brotherly feeling towards each other by the practice of mutual forbearance. And the crowning resolution of the Congress runs thus— " That we declare the said Irish people to constitute one of the distinct nationalities of the earth, and as such justly entitled to all the rights of self-government."—Ono a Week. LONDON GAZE rTE—Last Evening. FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 18. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Charles Cammell as Consul at Sheffield for the Republic of Liberia. WAR-OPEIUE, PALL-MALL, APRIL 18. 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Jose: Blake, from half-pay, late Turkish Contingent, t ck b e Lieutenant, vice James John Neil Buchanan, pror. do t ed to an Unattached Company, without purchase ; go ornet Arthur Cecil Stuart Barkly to be Lieutenant s by pur chase' vice Blake, who retires ; Hardin Burr.d e y, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Barkly. Royal Artillery—The promotion of Secot: t Captai n W m . Hull Caine to be antedated to 6th February, 1865 ; Lieutenant Alexander Wynch to 'JO Second Captain, vice Henry Popham Tenison /:tacCarthy, deceased ; Second. Captain and Brevet-Ifajor Henry Clement Swinnerton Dyer, from the 'Supernumerary List, to be g econd 'Captain, vice Edward Neste, rem ove d t o th e upernumerary List; Rifting Master Thomas Ritchie, front the Military Tra.ht, to be Riding Master, to com plete the Establishment ; Sergeant-Major Charles Jones to be Riding Master, to complete the establish ment. Royal Engincers--Gentleman Cadet Philip Savile Grey Reid, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieute nant, with temporary rank, vice A. J. W. Cumming, de ceased. Milviitcaery Tr ain —Lieutenant Robert Bruce to be Captain, h Edward Ring Berry, who retires upon half-pay, 6th having' been appointed a Staff Officer of Pensioners. b ß y Lrioe pi t r ee c n h Fa a ne se t , vice Edward Pakenham Robert Ensign, of Foot—Charles Wollaston, Gent., to be Hamilton, transferred to 84th Foot. 12 .w. th n ill F si jogaoniaL vice Brevet r rHisent to be ba N ej oeLrs Lieutenant, u t o t tl ee t h o a b n et deceased.Captain, th; Et Ensign purchase, pur chase, vice Nesbitt ; Gentleman Cadet Alexander Gordon, from the Royal Military College, indeoruEvans to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Ferris. 14th Foot—Captain John Baldwin H. Rainier, from the late sth West India Regiment, to be Captain, vice James Dickson Mackenzie, who retires upon temporary half pay; Ensign Tredenham Fitz Herbert Carlyon to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kenrick Hill, who re tires ; Charles O'Hara Trench, Gent., t o be Ensign, by purchase, vice Canyon. 21st Foot—Lieutenant George Gilmour to be Captain, by purchase, vice Robert Bruce Gaskell, who reti res ; En sign Frederick William Burr to be Lieutenant, by pur chase vice Gilmour; Wm. Richard Tredennick, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Burr. 25th Foot—Lieutenant William Godfrey Thomas' to be Adjutant, vice John Talbot Coke, who resigns the ap pointment. 33d Foot—Major Thomas Hugh Cockburn, from half-pay, late 43d Foot, to be Major, vice Henry Charles Fitz- Gerald, who retires upon half-pay—Captain Thomas Basil Fanshawe to be Major, by purchase, vice Cock burn, who retires ; Lieutenant William Bally to be Captain, by purchase, vice Fanshawe ; Ensign Charles Alfred Carthew to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bally ; Watkyn Llewellin Lloyd Downes, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Carthew. 39th Foot—Lieutenant Francis Henry Chambers to be Captain, by purchase, vice James A gnew , w h o re ti res— Ensign Thomas Boydell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Chambers—Albert Maunsell Le Marchant Thomas Le Marchant, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Boydell. 41st Foot—Captain William Allan to be Major, by pur chase, vice Robert Neville, who retires ; Lieutenant Ralph Sadler to be Captain, by purchase, vice All an ; Ensign Rich ar d son to be Lieutenant, ' by purchase, vice Sadler; John Wild Thaekery, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Richardson. 43d Foot—Lieutenant Henry Charles Talbot to be Captain, by purchase, vice Samuel Tomyns Sargent, who retires ; Ensign Frederic Simon Armfelt to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Talbot ; Henry Neville Sherbrook, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase vice Armfelt. 47th Foot—Ensign Lewi s D e Tessier Prevost to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice W. COlville R. Mylins, who retires ; James Walter Sandilands, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Prevost. 66th Foot—Lieutenant James Howe Mardon, to be Cap tain, without purchase, vice Charles J. Thornton Dues bury, deceased ; Ensign Charles Langley Whitty to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mardon ; Gentl eman Cadet Molyneux Henry Dickinson Nepean, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Whitty. 70th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Leake to be Captain, with out purchase, vice Oates Joseph Travers, deceased ; En sign Charles William Howard to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Leake ; Gentleman Cadet John King, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Howard; Lieutenant Arthur Strong() Gilbert to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Leake, pro moted. 84th Foot—Lieut. Francis Edward Edwards Wilson to be Captain, by purchase, vice William Charles Driberg, who retires ; Lieut. Henry Arkwright to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Arthur John Allis Ewen, who retires ; Lieut. James Murray Thomas Simpson to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Thomas Conway Lloyd, who retires; Ensign Arthur Herman Luck to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wilson ; Ensign Edward Ralph Bromhead to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Arkwright ; Ensign Regi nald William Peckitt to be Lieutenant, by purchase,vice Sim from p 6 s t o En sign b eEnsign,Edward Pakenham vice Luck; Robert w m. H. peHamilton,irott Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bromhead ; Si r Edmund Arthur Waller, Bart., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Peckitt. 107th Foot—Ensign Edward Augustus Down to be Lieu tenant, vice Robert Brown, who resigns. Rifle Brigade—Ensign Willoughby Merrick Wm. C. Bur rell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Thomas Roworth Parr who retires ; Lowry Egerton, Viscount Cole, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Burrell. lst West India Regiment—Lieutenant William Fitz- William Smithwick to be Captain, by purchase, vice Thomas George Mawe, who retires ; Herbert Henry Gilbert, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Charles Henry Wilson Lock, who has retired. DEPOT BATTALlON.—Quartermaster John Connor, from half-pay late Depot Battalion, to be Quartermaster, vice William Browne, who retires upon half-pay. MEDICAL DEPARTAIENT.—AIexander Johnston, M.D., to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Francis Leveson Gower Guun, promoted. BREVET. - - - Quartermaster William Browne, retired upon half-pay, late of Depot Battalion to have the honorary rank of Captain. The undermentioned promotions to take place conse quent on the decease of General Sir John Wright Guise, Bart., G.C.8., Colonel 85th Foot, on Ist April, 1865 : Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Routledge O'Donnell, Colonel 18th Hussars, to be General. Major-General the Hon. Arthur Alexander Dalzell, Colonel 48th Foot, to be Lieut.-General. Brevet-Colonel Henry Richmond Jones, C. 8., from Lient.-Colonel half-pay, late 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Major-General. Major William Henry Dominic Fitzgerald, Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Captain Henry Thomas Richmond, Unattached, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be Major. MEMORANDUM.—The commission of the late Capt. and Brevet Major Thomas Smith, half-pay Unattached, late Staff Officer of Pensioners, who died on Jan. 7 last, has been sold under the conditions of the Horse Guards' Circu lar Memorandum of Feb. 15, 1861. ADMIRALTY, APRIL 17. The following promotions have been made : = Mr. Wil- Ham Edward Piesgrave, Mr. Richard Hartley Trubshaw, and Mr. Reginald Charles Oldknow, to be Engineersin her Majesty's Fleet. Mr. George Simpson to be Acting Engi neer in her Majesty's Fleet. BANKRUPTS, The following aro the only bankrupts of commercial im portance in the Gazette : John Allen, beerseller, Chelsea John Jones, draper, Merthyr Tydvil Edwin J. White, furniture broker, Bristol. James Woodger, farrier, Selbridge-mews, Westbourne park._ B. Brown Bingley, stationer, Hull Robert Williams, farmer, Carnarvon Joseph Dalzell, grocer, Milnthorp, Westmoreland William Ruck, farmer, Gorsty-close, Herefordshire BANKRUPTCIES - ANNULLED. Charles bolt, tailor, St. Albans Henry berries Creed, St. James's-square SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Robert Smith, baker, Dumfries Donald Macleod, wine merchant, Inverness James Purves, fruiterer, Glasgow COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 17 11 171 Ditto 3 Months. 11 19 1 11 19 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 4 2 / 25 47 Brussels H am b urg Paris Short 25 15 25 22/ Ditto 3 Months. 25 40 25 45 Marseilles 25 40 25 45 Frankfort on the Maino —1 20 U Vienna Trieste ..... . P e t er sburgli Berlin — ... Madrid ___ 471 Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples — 25 52/ 25 57/ Palermo Messina Lisbon 511 Gold • Op F o o rt r o ei . g . ;; .. .... . . 1;1 — B . ; Bars " (StanTard) per s 2. ... a 17 9 BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES IN SCOTLAND. —The seventh annual report of the Registrar-Gene ral, Mr. W. P. Dundas, to Sir George Grey, has just been issued. The report is for the year 1861, in which year, notwithstanding various adverse influences, the births were not above their usual proportion ; the deaths were below the average ; while the marriages attained the ave rage of former years. The state of elementary education, the report says, continues satisfactory, seeing that 89.39 per cent. of the men, and 78.67 per cent. of the women who married in Scotland in 1861 were able to sign their names. Year after year it appears that as many women are able to sign their names in the marriage register in Scot land as men in England. Under the head of marriages it is stated, as the result of statistical investigation, that the married women of Scotland aro more prolific than those of England, suing that, during the year 1861, every 314 wives at the child-bearing ages gave birth to 100 chil dren in Scotland; whereas it required 355 wives at the same ages for every 100 births in England. As like results appear year after year, it may be assumed as proved that the Scottish married female is more prolific than the Eng lish married female. The Registrar-General also directs attention to an inquiry made for the first time into the com parative mortality of the married and the unmarried women at each quinquennial period of life. The results arrived at, he says, are startling, and particularly merit the attention of those engaged in life assurauce, day [less iil , ing. out k a ;yer [on. epl, the Bess jor the sty he ,h- ; [r. rt- : 1 - I [I, I kt, e