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

ITONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, --- i CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The money market is in an easy, although not an active condition. The requirements of the commer cial cla sses at the present time appear very restricted, but there is a general feeling of hope that another Thaweek or two, when spring is mo re a d vance d, tra d e ut a l revive. The supply of capital b o th i n Lom ard-street and in the Stock Exchange is very noudant, and the rates are consequently very easy 414 i a per cent. Fr om the manufacturing districts the accounts generally during the past week have been of a satis ctor.y characte r . At M anc h es t er mo d erate trans acti°os have been effected in both cloths and yarns, ill some instances rather hi g h er ra t es . Th e Woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield has pih —own symptoms of improvement, consequent i ll , ll an increased inquiry for spring fabrics. In Zre h.osiery and lace departments of Leicester and —4°ttolghani there has been more animation, while Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton a more cheerful tone has prevailed. l‘lr. Th omas M. Usborne, of the Corn Exchange, hasp joined the direction o f th e M e t ropo lit an an d r°vioeial Bank. Sad Th ere were n o bullion operations at the Bank o n ay. to~ c e Nyanza, whi c h l e ft thi s morn i ng f or B om b ay, k out £96,800. th lt h as been notified that the subscription list of i e l l ol e , l :n e don Cotton Manufacturing Company will -e " Wednesday next. half-yearly meeting to-day of the share : der s of the Continental Bank Corporation, the share d stated that the accounts exhibited a consider i°sB by the failure of constituents during the Se ' commercial crisis. The amount i nvo l ve d repre taakel X 19,500, but it was re d uce d t o £13 , 409, b y 6 6 11 'g the amount of net profits, & c., for the past 410nths, Two O'CLOCK. t Paris, thi s d a y, accor di ng t o M r . R eu t er ' s 8'g 1.411- 1. the F renc h 3 per C ent. R en t er were 67f . t o : 11 , 1 e English St oc k M ar k e t has been very dull all ' 4 3r, but it is partly to be accounted for by the a r „! li grossing preparations for the settl emen t o f t h e d a u nt, Which usually precludes any other business g attended to. The Funds look very depressed, QQo Consols, both for money and account, are Au 8 9 *. The Ne w Th rees an d R e d uce d 4 1 , 111 ties are 88- 1 , 89 ; the 21 per Cents., 1894, 741 14;,,x.ellequer Bills, 4s. to ss. prem. ; and I n di a 5 k, ents., 103/ 104. a cti ll , t he Forei gn M ar k e t th ere h as b een very l i ttle Per Y, and prices have been steady. Turkish 6 C e nts., 1862, are 70/ 711 ; do. Consolides, 21 3; Mexican, 26+ ; do. New, 25+ ; Greek, 151 ; Spanish Passive, 32+ 4 - 3 •, do. Certificates, the ; di s. 64 ; do. New, 21/ ; and ac ed .e°ll federate Loan is 49 50, ex all, for the new 13 ta th n eSB in the Railway Sha re M ar k e t h as b een a eZ 11Si dull, although prices, in several instances, are firmer. London, Chatham, and Dover have Vb.:Ta" d e ach n 58., and North Western an d Midl an d ha vi , "S• ; while G rea t W es t ern an d S out h E astern e ach declined +• 44 4 Foreig n an d Colonial lines remain without illa t e rial alteration in values. 4 4e : 1 1k and Miscellaneous Shares are dull. Alli 11~3are dealt i n a t 36+ /'; I mper i a l O ttoman, at De c o; Union o f Australia, at 341 ; Joint Stock i °llll t, at 8} 8 ; West London Docks are quoted 1 44, r k rei n• ; City of Milan, 4 4i prem. ; Metropo t uistricts Railway, 3+ 4 prem. ; Varna Railway, a \i -r , ov B RITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. , Per c e I tNMENT FUNDS. bbo. ut. Consols er rlkeeeunt, Mar 9 B9l q ea , -e4 t. lieduced BBl lievi, 2 ,Per Cent B9 81 I), 1 Per Cent. Jan. 1894 7l f 4 144 1 , 1 * t " ; Per Cent. Jan. 1873 — f eB ' 3 ° Yrs, expire sth Jan 1880 ' ' ''kt eliz Cll:e ue l 3 . ° S t e 3r in a r :T e e x le i g i i r m e Telegraph A A p u ri4 g., "l l B 9 B o s B - -5 4 £l,OOO, 4 per Cent t a 1)0 . £ 5OO — 11 1 t of D £lOO and .£2OO _— , I N , E n £lOO Stock, 51 per Cent ItidiVAS Go R, VERNMENT SECURITIES :. 1r) 4 - ' °e k, 101 per Cent., AprillB‘4 D ° c eeunt D o c' : - Per Cent. July, 1870 Do. A ccount 1) o ,Per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do.. D' et tificates _ D o "-'llla,ced Paper 4 per C en t — r l / 4) : 51 Cent., Cent., Jan. 1872 1) 0 "1 Per C en t. , M ay 1879 1)0, 4 1 Per Cent., Aug. 1866 1) 0. ends, £l,OOO wi der £l,OOO Pm I , 4l lgt ri /'OItEIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. m'azell tonds, 5 per Cent D0. 1 ,„ a4 5 per Cent — , • 'l, per Cent., 1852-58-60 +N ie .vo. _ tto o 1863 °I7DO 4- Yres 6 per Cent — h l al, Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) bo - u Per Cent _ No . 4 * P e r Cent _ 0,, nabian 6 per 0 ,a, Per Ce nt -exit. — D -uo 5 per 0 0 . Seri D sic eli t A ., 1864 — a t iBll 3 ier ' --- OZ P aid , pm ,o. 5 ~,. c , t., 1820 D uo. 51;',_ , 1864 _ 4 ,,niabi a rf , c e tit., 1 773-77, £25 paid 00 42 '5`4,-,t:?'l,lleipalities 98 dis par I:lo' .tl e o ce t ral oil lr e D— ,O eP• 1864 95 kyo .e, s l.l P, XSO paid pm , 11 44„''',.ennt quo., - I);' , elv Consolidated, 1 per Cent._ 4,4 provisional Land Warrant,, — "o " Per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons 211 i 4t14 1 1 )1, °° 1. 11 1 ) 0118 lin U'''''' 5 per Cent. 14 ; 1 'we and 1850 — i\ottiB-o,Per Cent (Maremmana Railway) Vio c...,, . dis itiN4'4,tlo paid ~ 4., ..dr Cent. 26 Dc b °o c c oluit 261 b 6 p er 1864 ) ite u P re Cent. Anglo-French — ko l : t vi c ir t e e ll 8 , erip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis qe: 14 11 i t a l ll °.Per Cent., X. 30 paid —pm b 0 11% Perial 5 per Cent l't h ,e A c , Ma b(Ni Arl - Nat b° a p er i Per Cent. D° . ‘ll. , °tut. (trribarren) A o„ A o err°4 nt it A Be 3 _ b e ~ k ec . 4 Per Cent., 1853 b 3 De e r ilt 1 14 ° 4k eee Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 47} eitt l llnt h,Per Cent., 1822, .0 St., s t ° " r C ent., 1850 ti t ° 6 per C ent., 1860 Dkt il p er , 1859 hh. ~e nt., 1862' B9l D ° At Pet C ent — e c'unt ~ , , 000000000000000000000000000000000000 --- bu Act" ue ferred 4lf tp Pr,.. () 4nt oo 0000000000000000000000000000000000 q1,41e 0: b 10 o 41 311 .... lio . e ist A: 4( N * o f Coup not funded ls} 't ti , 441, lint . 151 41,,,,,,13,1.. Ce nt . - A 6 Per D° b e -..ce0,. ent. 1854 92} 6 , tint ... o Arer c e 2, .... : 1 3 0 „ce o . 0 uL• 18 5 8 b e e.l o pi,t; 1),, 6 p e , ' l d s .............. bo:kr,e,NCent. 186 2 1)0 ..161 :i Ilt ........ 711 70 1 150 6 Lem& 11* Ve o C. Ce nt. 1863 Is ez -raw- e. ia e l a 3 .ee C ent per Cent — 1) 0. Ae eo Per . D°. e Peruut A, D 0 c 'ellt 1862 ......- 6 ee lOit ' b ...p x . co , ilt eil thvi de , 4 l, 1864 421 It :J o. p per 0-,:ton the above payable in London. iat t Per 0 " . L., Ex. 12 Gull — 1), s pe ent. certiti,,,es Ac c° Cent °lll, lt ..... ...... ... 1 . ... Ex. 2 .. 5 . f ... - N o r, 'R, It THREE O'CLOCK. v. • - 4.04-- .. Aeeo447 8 9 i Lies "&b... "' --•"""---!1.tt-------"---"" tl)°°l Cotton Market—This Day. Market 4e _ ,_......________ adY• Sales 10,000 17,000 bales. BIER() k l l t iC g Aj ESTIo s , r , A Mt, i " 8 00 c 111 EA.TRE.—Mr. W. Harrison's y 46 ,4 g, al te to a close on Saturday evening. His e f t1 413 r 14-11ellAced for March 14 ; that of Miss Louisa 61,,' sB. arch , vvii t 1 38. l• • '''' e need scarcely remind our readers Ite e kins vuL: .._ 8 31np aps - '"ert both these popular artistes have "7 and 811 1)POrt th of the public. Polar Feb. 2' 10011, aCCOM: ; Helena, and i se , attend ed e out. 0 and P us ri nc worilogt r. nun' f 1 atldieliCe ° FEB. 26. „ a Arthur 4 e El P hinSr ed d v isit h y r a n g a rlbor° l l o ening a, t ibe ffiners of i n the 9: ;ed to -Who. , de une v (A ir the h ell ' r al fani il • B ess ses P rin Prim e thur, dies ,h the i rvi a s helrerl '; v. ( 1 adinjui"e wales• t a IturdaY 3 of Corolva a of r, 4 , Att; , ora '' oa „ es Bea ll "' a l iant - G ell o er l of hi-s r- La %r Y, atten drive eri Stouor, (lea ack, atten Di ej aceo.- - s 3 t he went in at rformalle f the Guar' goo. vial th e Jed tteD 1110' e s's, St. JBlll A letter fr:cila wless cceuent toid : ho : g ood P ; °°f o f hjS XinSki li l r ot - Pri uce erg 0 8'6 rstell • ter Mi 11.9 t 3ty'S -ea hav° 311'‘ it ' re arrisca ne• ar g, , ve per 13e1 0, paver [ at 13°1in $ e t son ° f t b ter da ' viral sllr lorroW• ti er tie B%clie4 ati cbe'bt°l ° 0 her .00-‘ ort le l 6 Hart ti ,ee ,ss few' " crr at b e Ans ' l34 ;; e . r ue s— • be t res unle too , er sona . „ h a vo )sel u clir se vee ... , it batit • 1 _o2 hiss 13atelf,ia t _to RV" Ls° .. o turo ger 4 ti, t bre r raer',.7 go iron var 4: rith ~,vot :ARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share! Railways. I Paid. Closing I Business / Price. done. 3 1 Bin, Wol. ' & btr. Val a it Myth and Tyne lO it Bristol and Exeter l, it Caledonian l, 50 Cork and Bandon.. :0 Cornwall 10 Do. Af 4 - 10 D. B till6p.c.p.an.has gets no div. been paid to B a i 0 Dublin & Belfast June al 15 Dun,.Perth, & A b.Junc. al it Edinburgh & Glasgow 10 it Glasgow &S. Western 10 ; t Great Eastern, Ord. stk. .0 , it Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 101 .t Great North of Scotland I Great Northers t D r. A s tock ...... 10 st Do. B o t Do. New. is. at 23 pm at Gt S. and W. of Ireland 10 fit Gt. Weste n -Ortzinal 1 st D. S. Val. Rail gua. st Do. South Wales 1 . st Do W. laild.—Oxtord 10 , at Do. Newpo t )0 at Do. lie eford.... 10 , at Lane ishire &Yorkshire 10 at London and Blackwali lc at Lon., Brig h., & S Coast 10 at Lon., Chat., and Dover 10 1 at Lon. & North Western 101 at Lon. & South Western 101 at Man., Shet., & Lincoln 101 0 Maryport and Carlisl e al 121 Do. i shares at Metropolitan. 1 0 Do. New at Mid and it Do, Birmin & Derby 1( 0 Mid Gt. W.. Ireland a 5 Do. 6 shares %1 id Kent . a it North British it Do. Ed., Pth ,"& Dun 1( It Nth. Eastern - Berwick 1( 5 Do. G.N'E purchabe•la. It Do. Leeds at Do. York st Do. Carlisle ..... .... 25 Do. Stock. & Darling. a , 23 De. do. 18554.8 ...... 2 25 Do. do. 1860-61 I , at North London 10 Do. New al 10 Do. do. 18t4 .. st Worth Staffordshire 10 N. &S. W. Junction st Scottish C, ntral st Scot. N. E . Aber. stock 10! st i'o. Scot, Mid. st ~k lO 10 4 h eu s & Welchpool al st Shropshire Union st South Devon lOl st - outh E . stern :0 Staines, Wok., & Wok al ;t Taff Vale l O, LO Do. C It Vale of Neath It Waterford & Kilkenny 10 ' it West Cornw 01 lOl t W.Hartlepool Har.&l/ lOl It Do. A irredeemable 10: t Do. A redeemable BRITISH POST 00 Atlantic St. Lawrence al at f Bom., Baroda, t Cen.ln. 101 u. 5 percent.. 20 o. k' shares 50 Buffalo & Lake Huron al 10 Do Preference al DO J Buff Brant, & Goderich 0 p.c. Ws. Aux. 1 1 , 872 DO Do. do. July , 1873 104 DO Do. do. June 1, 1574 at Calcutta &8. E., lim lOl at 'a e Town & Dock, gu lOl )0 Demera• a, 7 p.c. per. p' al 3t East. Bengal, gu, sdo 10; It East Irdiao, gu. 5 p.c. 101 !,0 Do. J Extension It Grand Trunk of Canad a 104 40 Do. Equip. Mort. Bond: 1 charge 6 p.c al 10 Do. Ist I'ref. Bonds al 10 Do. do. deferred al 0 Do. 2d Pr. f. Bonds al 10 Do. do. deferred )O I Do. Pd Pref. 5t0ck....1 al :0 Do. do. deferred .. al 10 Do. 4th Pref. stock al )0 Do. do. deterred .... al 5t Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. to; 0 'o. Gua 5 per cent.. l' 1: 1 Do. New gua. 5 p. c.. t Gt. South of India (lim., gua. 5 per cent Bt D 41 per cent lO Do !Oi Great W , W. of Canada.. al !Oi D. New )0 Do. 6p. c. Bds- pay 1873 al, 10 Do. 5s do. pay. 1877-8.. al 0 Indian Branch, limited 100 it Madras, gua. 5 . p.0 It Do. 41 do st Do. 43 do 20 Do. Fifth Extension st Melb. Cor. 6p. c. Linda. 101 i 0 Mel. & Hudson's Bay.. al !.0 New Brunswick Sr Can Class A and B st C'da, pc Ist pf. Ws 10 It Scinde 1 i 0 t Do. Delhi . 1 d I ' l Do. do '4 t ;t Do. Punjaub Ek, 100 Do.lndus St Flo "' 100 COLONIAL GOVERN British Columbia, 6 per cent„ Dec. 31,1872 10 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 lO Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug„ D.). sp. c. Mar. & Sept 10 Do. 6 p. o. Jan. & July 10 Do. 5 p r. Inscribed sk 10 Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 10 , Do. April & Oct. 1880-8 10 Do. • do: 1-90-1 101 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 lOl Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.c 101 Do. 1878, do lOl Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1 , ... , 78 Do. 1882, May 15, Nov. t 6 10( Natal 1 .; ov. a per cent lOl N. B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&July 10( N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c., 1866 : Do. 5 p.c. 18:1 to 1876 101 Do. 5 p.o. 1888 to 1892 101 New Zealand, 6p. cent 104 Do. 6 per cent.... Nova Soitia Gov. 6 p. c - -- sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c. Aus.Gov, 6 p,c 1&8-9 101 Do. 1878 & upwards.. 1 1 Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. ja &July 101 Do. do, A pril & Oct.. 101 BRIT IS' 1 MINES. 2 — c r a - m COnsol.' U old, lim Chiverton Clifford A malgamated Devon G. Cons. (Taoist Drake wal ls 2. East Bassett (Illogan) East Cara'ion 2.1 as t Carn Brea 3.: -- Mast Grenville East Love.l 2.1 E. W'i Russell (Tavistk 9.11 Gam & StAubyn(Gwen. 6 4 Great L ixey, limited al Great South Tolgus l.l G. Wheal Vor (Heist ,n 44 Grenvil,e 7.8 Herod's Foot Hingston Downs 4.1 Margaret , Uny Lelant •-- Marke Valley 4.3 4 II wyndy Iron Ore, lim Nang' les .. New Se ton North Downs N orth Roskear 3l N. Wh'l Bassett (Mogan 3.1 North Wheel Crof ty 2.8 Prosper United 7.1 Pr vidence Uny L?lant 10. S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.1 tray Park 30.1 Tin Croft West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (14.skeard I West Chi verton ll West Seton 4: Wheal Bassett 'lllogan 6 Wheal Buller (Redruth 1( Whea' Ludo At 3.1 Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis Wheal UnLn...... • • 6 , 31 33 575 585 32 i 35 L 4.6 14i 15 LO 6 6 , 7.0 4 41 13.6 9} 104 '0.6 4 4 11 6 8 17 18 2& 2 24i 35, 3 2) .13 24 36 1 8. 0 34 4 0 i 6 8 3.0 5 8i 24 11 ON I 19 17 19 uk 35 45 3 12f 141 10 ! 10.6 I 1 2 : 5.0 2 1.6 3 3: .6.7 31 33 1* 530 550 18.9 20 25 17.6 14* 151 9 14 15 9 } 7} Be, l 1.1 61 68 17* 200 .210 5 3 100 105 to 9 11 12.8 8 11 13 84 195 205 7 19 20 4 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, E. Counties. Ext. No. 1. 107 Great Western, 5 per cent. rd. pref., 103 i FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco tli.n.) gua. ?,per cent.; 16 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), .101 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian,..C.ll FOREIGN MINI & United Mexican lirn;, 4 BANKS. Alliance (lira.), 36i 7 City, 1171 Consolidated Bank, lira., 101- East London, lira.. Imperial Bank (lim.). 32 London and County, 74 London and South African, 2l 2 Mercantile and Exchange. lim., 71 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank. lint, 191 20 National Provincial of England, ItB Ditto. 3d issue, 46 New South Wales, 431 1 Oriental Ban K Corporation, 58 Provincial of Ireland, 861 South Eastern, lira., 10 Union of London, 52} MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 17 Bo obay Gas, aim., Ditto, new, 3J Commercial Union, Insurance, St Ebbw Vale, Si Gen. Credit and Finance of London, 11m., 6 International Financial society, Bin., 61 London and Caledonian Marine, aim., 51 London Financial - Associabon. lim., 214 London General Omnibus Company, 34 Ocean Marine Insurance), 2 .'4 Ottoman Financial Association, Um, 7 Telegral li Construe. and Maintenance, Um., 74 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 aro 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. The Gazette du Midi mentions that a murder at tended with mysterious circumstances has just been discovered at Marseilles, the person being M. Corneille, one of the richest capitalists of that city. The body was found on the fifth floor of the house, No. 7, Rue Pisan9on, be longing to M. Corneille, but which had been for a long time uninhabited. With what object he had gone there is unexplained. Public rumour suggests that he may have gone to show the house to some person who had expressed a wish to hire it, and was then murdered. Robbery was no doubt the motive for the crime, as ono of his pockets were found turned inside out. 14. Corneille had been missing a week. rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 18& MAR: Pay. 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 w ill 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 d -1 It .2 2 .2 0 q3l 10 ..2 1 .1 6 .1 8 Fleeces -South Down hoggets . Half-bred do Kent fleeces outh Down ewes and wetheri Leiee-ter do Sorts -Clothing Combing s d 2 0 2 4 2 01 1 11 2 2 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 Slb by the carOase. dsd adsd Inferior beef ....., 3 2 3 6 Inferior mutton 3 8 4 2 Middling do. 3 8 4 2 Middling mutton 4 4 4 6 Prime large d 0... ~4 4 e Prime 5ma114d0....4 4 8 Veal 4 6 Prim do 484 10 4 5 2 Large pork ........ 3 6 4 4 Small pork. 4 6 4 10 SEEDS. Clover seeds has met an active inquiry, at full prices. -Canary seed is dull, yet no alteration has taken place in the quotations. There is a moderate demand for East India linseed and rapeseed, on former terms. Cakes changed hands to a fair extent, and late rates were fully supported. rurnip,White,p.bus.as to 22s Carraway 33s 33a Swede —s —s Coriander '2s 24s Mustard, Brown .. --s s flempsced, per qr 4os 43i White, Tares, Spring - 8 — s Crushing New winter, bush 9s lOs Baltic --a —s Canary, per quarter 418 50s Odessa —s —8 Rye grass .... 2 4s 28s Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s Clover, Red Eng., et. 02s 12os English £loos £ll Os White Foreign Red.... 54s 7os Rape Cakes,p ton £5 Os £5 lOs White. 56s 80a , Rapeseed, new,pr qr 71s 78s Trefoil ..... ....... 35s 48e 1 Mr. Anthony Trollope's New Work. Miss Mackenzie. By Anthony Trollope. Two vols. Chapman and Hall. 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 the very life, it is 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'oeuvre 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 Trollopeleads us— what would be called, and with reason, one among 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 t o 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. Boating race—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. old (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 Four Salters, 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 out, 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 that Benevolent Entertainment—one Mr. Man 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. MARK-LANE. ' There was a great want of activity in the demand for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday. The prices realised, however, were 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, 1,040 oats, 1,764 linseed, 7,168 oil and cotton seed, 50 sundry seeds, and 115 sacks of flour. A vary 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 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 moderate 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; th e 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 'oreign sack flour was in fair average request, at previous rates. CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 38s to 41s Ditto, 1861 Ditto, white, 1863 lts 453 Ditto, 1864 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1864 Ditto, 1863 Talavera, 1864 Rye-- • 26s 283 Barley—Grinding 22s 253 Maltin Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk s4s 61s Brown Kingstown and Ware s4s Els Chevalier * Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsli ~ reeding l9s 23s Potato Youghal and Cork, black lBB 233 Cork, white Scotch, Feeding l7s 22s Beans—Tick 314 333 Pigeons, Peas—Grey. Maple White .. 368 333 Boilers 345 37s Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 2BB 30a Stockton and Norlblk 2ss 276 American, per barrel 2la 25a 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 some 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 breeds was only middling. The mutton trade was slow, neverthless, prices ruled higher. Downs, in the wool, realised 6s 6d ; out of the wool, 5s 2d to 5s 4d ; and _clipped Lineolns, 4s 10d to 5s per Blbs. Lambs met a dull inquiry at from 6s 8d to 7s per 81bs, 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 ds d e ds d Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 8 4 2 Pme crs-wool sheep 5 10 6 2 second quality do ..4 4 4 8 Prime s'thdown d 0.6 4 6 6 Prime large oxen ..4 10 5 0 La-ge coarse calves. 4 6 5 2 Prime Scots, ac.... 5 2 5 4 Prime small d0......5 4 5 8 Crse. and inf. sheep. 4 6 5 2 Large hogs ...3 6 4 0 Second quality do ..5 4 5 8 Small porkers ...4 24 8 Lambs....os Od to 04 Od. Su ,*ling calves, 2Js to 225; and quarter-old store pigs, 208 to 25s each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 3,910 Beasts 1,230 Cows. .. Cows • • — Sheep .. . Calves 203 Ca yes lB3 Pigs 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 Boulogne 222 ... Bremen — ••• - ••• - ••• -- ••• 71 ... - ... 126 ... - ... 501 • • • Calais Corunna, ... 13 Dordt. Dunkirk Hamburg - ... Harlingen 437 ... Ostend 65 ... Rotterdam 132 ... Oporto .... .60 ..."'. "II .....'. ••• ....... 450 ... -- ... ---- ... 53 336 ... - ... 36 480 ... - ... - . 360 Total The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1864 1863 1862 155 329 ... 155 ... 1861 615 1829 160 32 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 clay. Monday, February 27, 1865. Per Blbs. 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 Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do. 5 4 '5 8 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— c alves,97—pigs, 310. March 3 , l B62—Beasts, 3,27 o—sheep, 18,680—calves, 110 —pigs, 260. Feb. 27, 1865. 3 Bto 4 2 44 4 8 4 10 5 0 50 5 4 46 5 2 54 5 8 5 10 6 2 64 6 6 00 0 0 46 5 2 54 5 8 36 4 0 42 4 8 BOROUGHC HOP. Holders of English hops—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 ..... • llns to 200 s per OW% Weald of Kent 11 Sussex . Yearlings loos to live Bavarian American BOB :o 1394 .. 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. Yorkshire Regents Flukes 130 s to 145 s Kent and Essex Regents 9os to 105 s Scotch Regents .... 90s to 100 s Rocks .... 70s to 858 Foreign • COO 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. 0 95 97 LC) 131 132 . t 6 32 34 16 17 85 87 107 119 46 47 7 8 )0 l3l 13! )0 117 148 0 13) 33 )0 I 88 90 0 734 74 0 - 10 50 5: 10 47 s') 10 02 101 )0 116 j 117 O 86 47 1) 10 104 O 36 37 O 1 0 120, O 98 99 O 6) in 11 - - 11 118 119 41 If HP )0 13i 138 f )0 107 1(9 5t 53 z 5 13.4 - )3 67 68 ,0 102^ 10 ll 38.4 396 ;1 1a 124) 9a 10p ►► 122 125 11 114 5 1 Up 0 8) 61 11 11 11i 10 138 142 ,0 44 46 ,9 61 )0 51 53 0 86 861 11 9 1 )0 160 165 3 31 4'p A) 110 113 )0 i 0 1 33 40 5 I 75 78 10 - -_ IESSIONS. 11 I 5 5 67 10 100 101 2 par ip LI 4 1 6 LI r 9j )0 I 74 73 ,o - -: 7 07 93 75 85 ll 1( 0 102 la 100 101 )0 100 101 5 7-7 ) .0 I 18 19 a 99 91 11 67 614 1 56 68 a 61 63 a 54 36 a 60 63 a 45 48 a 26 28 11 25 27 o 103 k 101 , 2 id P 2 par a p 93 100 2 II 8 9 [8 12; 12d 11 85 to 11 77 E 0 2 1 Id • 100 101 9: 94 88 9u 2I [1 I 62 64 11 3 5 ); 82 81 .00 99 100 00 9) 100 0:1 }d v9i 100 94 97 INT SECUR 9) 9a ITIES. 0 90 I 93 - 79 D 78 3 103 D 10(3 107 10 106 10 102 )0 106 105 10 lOB )0 105 10 90 )0 lO3 10 86 4) I 92 9; 10 102 104 0 I 105 107 io l 1071 1031 1314 1031 3 to 1201 1 2 99 555 6j sit 100; I 17; 100 991 107 8} TALLOW. The tallow trade is quiet to :7 day at the, late decline in prices. P.Y.C. is quoted at 41s. 6d. per cwt., on the spot. Town tallow is selling at 41s. 3d. nett cash. Rough fat has declined to 2s. lid. per 81b. Particulars. 1864. , 71,055 42.830 4 5.588 58.28 16086 a to 45591 So 41s0d to S los9l %o -b Od --s ud -s Od —s Od 951 1,465 1,255 9,041 55,389 98,417 65,051 59,222 9/ 720 918 I 1(9.350 84,510 72,36 i 80.203 60s 3d 488 6d 46s ed 436 Od 1881. 186. 18G3. Stock this aay.... Price of Y.C. 1 Delivery last week' Ditto from June 1 Arrivals last week Ditto from June 1 Price of Town .... 45.370 40g 64 to 40s 94 1,975 73,317 950 73,762 438 9d 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, were charged be fore Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk and behaving in a disorderly manner, and also with knocking at several doors in Down-street, Piccadilly. W. Gordon, 33 0, proved seeing the defendants, accom panied by two other gentlemen and a prostitute, coining from the direction of the Haymarket, turn into Down street, and the defendants then wont 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 Pendants wore not sober. One of the defendants said that he had been out spend ing the evening with his friends, and at the time the con stable came up ho 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 the 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 108. each, or seven days, but they might have been fined 40s. WESTMINSTER. SUBSTANTIAL JUSTICE.—JO/1/1 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. Selfe, the complainant admitted that sho was not a married woman, but was cohabitating with a man. Defendant, in a very quiet, but earnest manner, said he had the most right to complain. The woman, who repre sented herself to be 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 s h e 'll go. Complainant—l have got a place : Mr. Belle—Policeman, see her things out of the pri soner's house. He is discharged. A SATURDAY NIGHT THAMES. . —Geor English, a tall well-dressed man,. —SATAGE who has ASSAU been LT employed Row e by the firm of Fletcher Brothers, ship-builders, at Poplar, 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 Rope Makers' Fields, Limehouse. Mr. German, from the office of Mr. Hodgson, solicitor, defended the prisoner. It appeared from the complainant's evidence that on Saturday night, a few minutes before 12 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 th e house part of a pot of beer was thrown by the 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. Ho got up and resented the attack on him by striking the prisoner. The row becam• 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 covere d w ith blo o d, w hi c h issued from his nose and mouth. Th e f e male interfered, and was struck by the pri soner an d knocked down. She was beaten dreadfully, according to her account, and her nose bled copiously. In cross-examination by ldr. Gomm, it turned out that Hill was a prostitute, and that during the affray a largo and formidable brass " knuckle-duster" (an American weapon of offence and defence) dropped from Bridges. He swore that ho 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 tho ground and the prisoner standing over him. Bridges got up and began fighting the prisoner. The woman interfered, and tho 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. SNIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This 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. HULL, Feb. 25.—Wind S. E. — Arrived—August, from Monte Video. _ CARDIFF, Feb. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Warlock, rom Gibraltar. OFF PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived— Camlmakyle, from London for Sydney; Mutlah, from Lon don for Mauritius. TROON, Feb. 25.—Wind N.W. — Arrived—Onward, from Belfast. FALMOUTH, Feb. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—M. M. Peter, from Sagua la Grande ; Georgeio and Adulpb, from Sulina. mi P n o ao l 7 ; o 3l r O P ULH erm , F o. Cb. S.W.—Sailed—Favers (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 terdam ; 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. The "Histoire de Jules Cesar," will be published simul taneously in Hungarian at Pesth with the Frenchpriginal. The "Histoire de Jules Cesar" will also appear in a Spanish dress, the translation having been confided to M. de Ochoa, Director of Public lustruction at Madrid. An engraving of Kaulbach's celebrated picturo of " The Death of Julius Cresar" will be issued in the octavo size to bind up with tho first volume of the " Histoire de Jules Cesar." The Emperor has alrealy settled how the profits which may accrue from the sale of his "llistoire de Jules C6sar" are to be divided. It is mid his will directs that they are to be shared between M. Maury, Commander Hoffels, M. Pietri, Captain Reffye, and the heirs of M. Mocquard. Several of the Paris journals state that the Emperor has sent to M. Thiers and M. do Lamartine copies of his book, with a dedication in his own handwriting. Railway Traffic Returns for the Week Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. 1863. 1864. 1863. £ t Belfast and N. Counties 136 Belfast and County Down 49 Brl, Blyth and Tyne 2B -4 Ey 1,800 1.739 702 637 1,842 1,4:0 4,963 5,220 18,419 16,98 1.550 1,313 332 0 110 lic , ristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 Caledonian 2Bll £62} Cambrian Cork and Bandon 2O 20 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage. • • 6 61 Cork and Youghal .. 32 321 Cornwall 651 651 Deeside . 17 17 Dublin & Belfast Junction.... 63 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid 913 911 Vigness, &a 5O 5 0 Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrtk.,&E.lJnion Great Northern 387 353 Great North of Scotland 93 99 ot. Northn. & Wes tn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 9LSouthn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3873 3731 Great Western 1225 138 . / Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 1173 1173 Inverness (& Perth Junction 1191 1191 Irish North-Western 145 115 Kent Coast 27 27 Lancashire& Yorkshire 403 402 Limerick and Ennis.. 24 241 Limerick and Foynes 2 26 Llanelly 4 46 Llynvi Valley 0 t London & North-Welitern London and Blackwall 53 London & South-Western 470 4543 Loncl. Brighton, &S. Coast 267 2613 London, Chatham, & Dover 72 721 Do. Metropolitan Extension 1 i 103 Lon., Tilbury, & Southend .. 42 42} Han.,Sheflield. & Lincolnsh blanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 93 91 Slaryport and Carlisle Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6633 611 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 262 2593 Monkland 7ll 711 Monmouthsh. RaiL & Canal 44 44 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095 North London 9 North Staffordshire 254 Rhymney 193 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B Somerset and Dorset 66 South Devon South-Eastern 3OB Taff Vale 57 Ulster Vale of Clwyd. . lO Vale of Neath 431 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cornwall 271 W. ibutlepool llarbr.& ItaiL W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO Whitehaven Junction l3 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Austrian B2B Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern Junction 26 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185} Central Italy lB3 Detroit and Milwaukie Dutch Rhenish lOBl Eastern of France ... 1176 Eastern Bengal •• . 110 East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 Great Central of Belgium 295 Great Indian Peninsula 553 Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southern of India ... • 79 Great Western of Canada 345 Madras Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant O3 Northern of Canada .. Northern of Prance. ..... Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn 1967 Paris and Orleans 1616 a Pernmbuco 774 405 442 1,3'8 1.303 26.1 19 s 1,230 1. r 26 1,429 1,473 244 184 2,245 2,255 2,808 3,280 8,211 8,444 28,150 26,694 81.160 30,?91 2,327 2.217 4 3 449 7,3.6 7,051 57,8 N 51.842 3,007 826 3,321 968 1,489 1,573 440 260 35.235 34,6.0 375 1,9 100 103 511 578 369 4:38 95.299 92,650 1,612 1,617 17,591 16,953 14,182 13,857 4,213 3.878 1,315 1300 1,006 984 17,711 18,923 1,175 1,212 1,417 1,305 2,416 2,010 41,035 41,141 4,318 3.922 1,405 1,623 2,620 2,566 5834 1093 19,179 18.96! 52,210 61,9.4 2,956 2.971 7,083 8.461 913 983 5,080 4,941 5,400 1,736 734 641 3.080 2,975 15,553 15.4,0 6,469 6,738 2,446 t 361 14! 141 2,5 A 2,384 320 358 1,005 930 750 80,/ 3,8.2 4.1.71 659 676 897 1,053 811 1,034 251 19 1 1 113 138 751 306 1051 10 431 31 828 20,942 30,021 76f 647 - 2Gi 319 265 185 f 3,577 3, 3 53 . 167 :1,763 14,266 185 1( 8J 1428 110 937 1335 272 653 134 79 3,511 4,651 5,114 4 741 61,012 53,148 1.776 1,440 38 OM 26,615 20,654 21,24 6,612 - 15,313 11,169 4,162 3.793 503 4J2 3f 5 10,618 13,399 448 7,710 4.964 650 17,939 21,054 91 1,659 1,372 697 52,795 47,032 44 602 633 481 620 311 1784 124,953 124,769 1614 6 !,056 60,740 771 1,941 1,500 105 1,231 1,9 3 Scinde lO5 Do. Punjab, &o 32 South Austrian, to 1461 Southern of France 823 Viotoria Welland W. £N- Westn of France.... 1011 - 3i 34i 1360 38,152 770 25,637 196 13,511 25 - 931 40,531 266 38,081 21,507 9,838 40;12 The Military Tribunal of Constantina last week tried two Arabs named Bel Gacem and Tahar-ben el-Houas, on a charge of having, on Feb. 8, 1863, murdered a Frenchman named Nielli, a common carte; by shooting him as he passed along the road. As no robbery was com mitted, there was every reason to regard this crime as an act of vengeance, and an investigation which was instituted left no doubt of the fact. In February, 1862, a Frenchman had been assassinated by an Arab named Mohamed, the son of Said Chyli, who was executed for the crime ; but before his death he sent a letter to his father, in which he suggested that his death ought to be avenged on the French. This letter was read to many members of the tribe, among whom were the prisoners, and there can be little doubt that their sole object of com mitting the crime was to take vengeance for their kins man's death on any Frenchman they could find, as the murdered man was a total stranger to them. The f act o f the murder having been clearly proved against thepri- soners, they were found guilty, an d con demned to death. The execution is to take place at Constantina. A fisherman named • Charpentreau, the mouth La Franche (Vencee) last week saved, at the with three of the river Lay, the lives of four persons, v skiff, from a others, were endeavouring to land, in smalla themfrom residing at the Isle shoret metres s large passage boat which had brought state of the tide. When about 100 of but could not approach the m into e the river, where the skiff capsized and threw them all . They all ma- 1 at the time. the current was very strongf°rowmingtheobeacthhe years of age, came boat with a lad 15 fishing in a small four of the parsons on Board, nanaged to hold on to the skiff till Charpentreau, who was to their relief. He took the other three he found th ey being all his boat would b ear, and g ot them safel y to la nd, but when he returned for had sunk from exhaustion. A murder has just taken place at Annonay. Two cousins named Roche and Rouchen had met at a funeral, and during the repast which followed Roche, when under the influence of liquor, made some offensive obser vations to the other. Nothing further occurred at the moment, but while on their way home, in company with a third person, Itouchen drew a knife and stabbed Roche t o the heart. The murderer shortly after was arrested and confessed his crime.---Galignani. The share list of the West London Docks and Warehouses Company will close on Wednesday, March 1, for London ; and Thursday, March 2, for the country. 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. Tom's din ner ala Busse, save the mark ! Here, for example, as the merest scrap of it, is the comment 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 Qum genus,' or As in prresenti,' could not be more u n i n t eres ti n g. 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, an( launching) hither and thither upon so widely ex tended a sea of popularity ! Napoleon lll.'s History of Caesar. 1864. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day. CITY BETTING. --THIS DAY. (taken and offered) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 10 to 1 agst Tony Lumpkin 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) Lsncoln events. Very little betting, members bei ng engaged settling on SPORTING NOTES. The Lincoln Meeting, although partially a succe ss, afforded no clue to the respective merits of any of the horses who took part in the various races. Guardsman won the Trial Stakes very easily, Fordham scoring his first win this season. He would have been a thorn in the side of the favourites for the Lincolnshire Handicap, if he had not met with an accident through coming in contact with t. cab when returning from the course on Friday. Goldylocks won the City Handicap by a neck, Jane Shore being second, but, like all the races which have been run at Lincoln, it is impossible to say what would have won had there been a proper start. The same remark equally applies t o t h e Brocklesby Stakes, where the favourite was left at th e post. Ozone, the winner, was purchased when Rdiasgnradizp,ful lif e v a e n n r t i c o o l: the who m w e e a t s i n a yearling for £25, but. there were three or four be:llnd hor who will beat her whenever they meet again. The most gbacwkased then .Lincolnshire f in t e he llis i h ace ire was all over but shouting, being left at the post. An objection was rais e d against the start, but the s t ewards 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 t we l ve horses engaged, but if Catalogue enters an appearance I wuld further for the winner. Those most trustwoorthylook no Nottingham Handicap are Rev o l ver, T ippler, Donn in the ybrook Dr. Syntax, and Heurlys. The wi nner, I anticipate, wil , l be either TIPPLER or REVOLVER. Th e Innkeepers' Plate should be won by Le Marechal, who ran second to Gaily for the Lincoln Handicap. Chapel Royal is my selection for the Little York Stakes, and Lady Bohun or Tragedy the Stand Plate. A FRESH MAN. .EETING.—Henn 21. - ickshire Handicap of 25 soya [clod. Two miles. Oakapple • Age st lb •• 5 t 11 Fisherman's Daugh ter ... 4 6 11 Catalogue ... ... 3 611 Physician ... a 6 10 Hartley ...4 6 9 Pellos ...4 6 7 Buckfoot ... 4 6 5 Troubadour ...3 6 2 Mary Ramsay ... 4 6 0 The Brigand ... 3 512 Lord Waldegrave 3 511 Amy ... ... 3 511 Arkansas ... 3 5 9 Nu... 3 5 7 Trapeze 3 5 7 Lal Steeplechase (handicap); added. About four miles. Mistake Age at lb 5 10 10 Little Lady (h.b.)... 6 10 10 Creole ... alO 8 Waterman... a IC) 8 Princess Dagmar alO 8 Balder ... 610 8 Stanton ... alO 7 Ibex .... . .alO 7 Old Squire... a 10 7 Bridegroom ... alO 7 Church Militant ... 6 10 ? Alcibiade ... 5 10 7 T. P. Cooke ... a 1 0 6 Charles the Second a 10 6 Lady Douglas (late Bull's Run) •.. 510 6 The Dwarf ... alp 5 Agog ... ... 610 5 Romeo ... alO 4 Overton ... ... alO 4 Innellan 6 10 4 Salamandar ... 6 10 4 Careless Boy a 10 2 Look Sharp ... alO 2 Miss Barbara ... alO 2 Watford ... ... 510 0 Fly by Night (h.b.) a pd. 'RES FOR 1865. H. Warwick Spring Vincennes Chelmsford Spring .. .. .. .; 28 Grand National Hunt 29 Barham 3O Lewes Spring 3O Canterbury Spring ...... 18 Abergavenny ............... 20 Thirsk Cardiff ........................ 21 ...................... . 25 Epsom Spring ........... 25 Bath 23 Harpenden 26 Epsom 3O Hampton 2l Newton Newcastle Odiham 27 Bidbury Stockbridge 29 Nottingham . 18 Southampton l9 Chesterfield Goodwood Down Royal C0rp.,...., IUST. :MBEIt. WARWICK SPRING Weights for the Great Warw each, with 100 adl Age st lb East Lancashire 5 9 0 Oldminster a 8 10 Dr. Syntax 5 8 7 Gibraltar a 8 5 Manrico 6 8 4 Aurelian a 8 2 Guardsman ... 4 7 12 Wimbledon 6 7 12 Joco 5 7 11 Beaver ... ... 47 10 Revolver 5 7 9 Claxton ... 4 7 8 Verger . ... 4 7 5 Balder ... ... 67 4 Dean Swift ... 4 7 2 Joe Maley... ... a 7 0 Stanton a 6 12 Weights for the Grand Anni 20 sous each, with 100 sov, Age st lb The Mandigoe ... al2 7 Emblem ... ... al2 6 Penarth ... ... al2 6 Emblematic ... a 12 2 Arbury ... ... al2 0 Joe Maley ... ... a 12 0 L'Africain ... ... 6 12 0 Leonidas ... ... a 11 10 Lightheart... ... a 11 6 Hall Court, by Sir Peter Laurie ... 611 6 Alvediston ... 6 11 5 Shropshire (h.b.) ... all 5 Tony Lumpkin ... a 11 4 Sinking Fund ... all 3 Jealousy ... ... a 11 0 Meanwood (h.b.)... 6 11 0 Ivanhoff ... ... a 11 0 Demon ... ... 511 0 Silver Star ... a 11 0 Globule ... ... alO 12 Cheerful Boy ... 510 12 The Czar ... ... a 10 12 Sir William ... a 10 12 Cameo ... ... 610 12 Portland .. ... a 10 10 Rook the Gardener. a 10 10 RACING FIXT --- Derby Spring 2 West Drayton Liverpool Spring Shrewsbury Spring Doncaster Spring Vincennes Vincennes Northampton 4 Croxton Park 7 Newmarket Craven l7 Durham Newmarket Ist Spring 1 Chester 9 York Spring Salisbury lB Vincennes Chelmsford 7 Manchester Summer 7 Ascot l3 Beverley l4 Liverpool Alexandra Park 2O Newmarket July Carlisle Worcester Abingdon Stamford l3 Winchester lB AUG' Brighton 1 Brighton Club Lewes 4 Huntingdon Wolverhampton Reading Egham l5 Royal Windsor SEPTE York Plymouth Lichfield 2B Devon and Exeter 29 Derby Summer 30 Weymouth 3l Baden 3l Stockton Leicester 7 Doncaster Brecon lB Richmond Monmouth 2l Manchester Autumn Newmarket Ist Oct 26 Walsall OCTOBER. Northallerton 5 Newmarket Ho. M ...... 23 Newmarket 2d Oct 9 Vincennes Vincennes Noy: Liverpool Autumn ...... 4 [BER. I Shrewsbury STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES FOR 1865. MARCH. Liverpool .................. 8 Chertsey 16, 17 Shrewsbury .............. 10 Grand Mil. (Rug.hy) 24, 28 Scarb orough 16, 17 Torquay COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATuRnAy. There was a fair supply of wheat at this market to-day, and the same inactivity which marked the trade of late still exists, so that but little business was done at former quotations. The supply of barley is now falling off, al though it was than equal to the demand ; there is, however, no alteration to note in prices. In other articles little doing. —White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 44s to 455; red ditto (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 36s to 38s ; best malting barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 338 ; runs ditto (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto (weigh ing 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 268 ; oats, 24s to 26s ; b eans, 378 to 395; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr; flour, 25s to 25s 6d. Average--wheat, 2,150 qrs, 37s 9d ; barley, 4,919 qrs. 29s 4d ; oats, qrs, Os Od. YORK-SATURDAY. there was a much better attendance of the h a s recently been the case, but the transactions than e t r o 24 3B sdinto pe ne_: were trae lmited. There was a fair show of wheat, and pri ces much the same as before. Barley wa s in moderate were supply, and fully as dear. The deliveries of oats have bee n. short, an d they fetched 30s per 22 stone, At our market N e w white wheat, 40s to 4 n ss ew ; , n 2 e o w s red, 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 288 to 30s per r • grin s g r 26s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, d' 22 36 s cis p B ea ns, 38s to 40s per 38 stone. Malt, 58 qr. Flour, 28s per sack of 2801 b. s ; rye, 28s per NOTTINGII AM—SA.TtiRDAY. There was a fair show of wheat, the condition of which was affected by the weather. The demand was slow at the prices of last week. The demand for oats was healthy, and sales were effected steadily at extreme currencies. Old white wheat, 42s to 468 ; old red, 38s to 428 ; new white, 40s to 45s ; new red, 37s to 40s per 36 stone. ley, ne w malting, 28s to 34s per 4r ; old grinding, 26 13 60 _s_ ar s to . : 27s ; n ew, 2 5s to 27s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 258 to flaw, 20:5t0t0423s ;ne 5s ;o w, ld foreign, 24s to 26s per stone. Beans, 37s to 39s pr 38 stone. LEICESTER -SATURDAY. There was a seasonable supply of wheat, the quality of which was irregular. Business was not brisk, but late rates were made. The supply of oats was tolerable, and sales at nominally unaltered rates. Moderate show of oats, the de mand was firm at rather over late rates. Old white wheat, 43s to 46s ; old red, 38s to 41s ; new white, 40s to 445; new red, 37s to 41s per 36 stone. Bar ley, malting, 32s to 35 . s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 28s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 24s to 26s ; new, 21s to 23s per 24 atone. Beans, old, 39s to 41s ; new, 36s to 38s per 38 stone. DUBLIN.—FRIDAY. Currencies :—White wheat, 22s Gd to 24s 6d ; red do., 20s 6d to 22s Od; grinding barley, 12s Od to 138 Od; malt ing do., 13s to 14s 6d; white oats, lls to 12s; black do, fries, 1: Of f 911 f