The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-14 00:00:00

MONEY-MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. In the Discount Market to-day there has been a tendency toward additional firmness, and the rates have only in a few instances ranged below the Bank minimum of 6 per cent., even for the best descrip tions of three months' bills. Yesterday afternoon the rate for advances on Government securities in the Stock Exchange were 4 to 41 per cent. Gold amounting to £lOO,OOO was taken yester day from the bullion department of the Bank of England, and the movement added to the firmness of the discount market. It has been certified that applications for shares in the Mineral Ri g ht s ' A ssoc i a ti on will not be re ceived after to-day (Saturday) for London, and Monday next for the country. Owing to the position of the London and Parisian markets and the course of trade, the exchanges yesterday afternoon for bills .on the principal cities of the Continent was decidedly lower. There is still a considerable difference between the rates of discount in the principal cities of Europe. In the open markets the particulars of the lowest quotations are as follows :—London, 5 j ; Paris, 3 i ; Vienna, 6 ; Berlin, 51 ; Frankfort, 4 ; Amsterdam, 51 ; Turin, si ; Brussels, 4 ; Ham burg, 5 ; and St. Petersburg, 61. The specie movement during the week has been to a fair extent as regards the imports, which have amounted to about £301,811, chiefly from Aus tralia and the West Indies and Pacific. The ex- Ports have only been to the extent of _about £190,275, chiefly to Bombay and the Brazils. Two °Timm According to Reuter's telegram, this morning, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 55c. Better. A large amount of business has been transacted to-day at the Stock Exchange, . chiefly in conse quence of purchases in realization of profits. Consols are / higher at 86 4 for money, and 864 for the account. The New Threes are 844 and Reduced Annuities, 84 4 ; Exchequer Bills for March, Bs. to 3s. die., and for June, ss. dis. ; India 5 Per Cents., 1034 4 ; and ditto Enfaced 5 per Cents., 102 4. Foreign stocks are at an improvement. Turkish s per C ents. have closed at 331 4; Mexican, 194, 20; ditto New, 174 181 ; Greek, 13 1 ; Spanish Pas " 25 1, e ; the Certificates, 151, 4 ; Italian, 54 55. It is announced that the subscription list for the sale of £2,207,300 Ordinary Stock of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company will close on Monday next for London, and on Tuesday next for the country. In the Railway Share Market •the operations have been to a very moderate extent. Prices, how ever, are a shade firmer. Great Eastern, North Western, and South Eastern nave each improved 5 5., and Great Northern A Stock, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Metropolitan each 10s., while Great Western have declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in most in stances at steady prices. Alliance, however, have declined to 254 26 ; Imperial Ottoman are marked 1014 London and Westminster, 951 ; Credit k'oncier and Mobilier of England...to 64 4 ; Gene ral Credit, 4 * dis. ; and Overend, Gurney, and Co., 141 4. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 86 i 5k 6i 8 Der Cent. Co nso l s Do. Account, M a y 9 864 3 per Cent. R e d uce d 8 41 i- i New 3 per Cent }a Now 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sthJan , 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth A pril,lBBs — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — March. Juno. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 8 :) Do. £5OO 3 Do £lOO and £2OO Bank D o A ccou of England Stock, 5 per Cent INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indite Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 — _ De. Account DO. 5 per Cent. J u l y, 1870 D o• C ert i 1 . 4 per ificat Cenes t., Oct. 1888 Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent Do. 5 p er C ent., Jan. 1872 Do. 5 } per Cent., May 1879 _ Do. Deb., ds, 4 per Ce., nt Aug. 1866 Bon £l,OOO Do. und er £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cont., £l5 pd — pm Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Do. 4i per Do Cent., 1852-58-6 0 Do. 1863 Do 1863 Account 7l D. Scrip, £45 paid Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do £ICO Bonds D 0 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Chilian 6 . per Cent .. - Do Scrip, £25 paid . - Col Do. 4i per Cent. ... . ................... omlnan 6 per Cent ........ ,,,. .............. Cuba, 6 per Cent. .. Danish 3 per Cent., 182.5 ..................... Danubian Principalities ..................... Do. Account ....... ... . .... . Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent... Do., Pr ov i s i onal Land Warrant ......... Bgyptian 7 per Cent ............................ Do,, Second Issue ........................... Do £lOO Bonds ............................... D o. 1864 Do £lOO Bonds B9 81 Do. Government Railway Debentures — Do. £ 3 5 paid die Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons —no Account Do. Coupons (1 1 .1 1 ateluala 5 per Cent. - 1 1 1441 5 per Cent 1865 Do. Account IC?' Maremmana Railway can 3 per Cent — Do. Ac count D e 1864 - — 1/ 13° 6 per Cent. Anglo-French paid — outevide 6 Cent. .£3O — Mow an per 7 .- 7 . sh Inaperia,l 5 per Cent NeGranada Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred Do.— 11)0 ,„Land Warrants (Hectares) _ t uloer Cent, 1864 _ p '''o ti varanteed, 4 per Cent e Plviart 5 per Cent., 1865 _ ' - ' 0 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) _ 1::/ e l 4 per Cent., 1862 D e _ 1 , 0 . ccount illtguese 3 per Cent., 1853 1 , 0 3 Per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, I, 4'o. Account _ .4 ussian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St D _ 1 ,0 41 per Cent. 1850 4 ' 3 4 / per Cent., 1860 54 t° 3 pex Cent. 1859 89f T ,c ) ... 5 Per Cent. 1862 b,;` - ',u. 5 per Cent. 1864 .rclanin 5 per Cent —D e , Account 13 , 4 ; 1118 11 3 per Cent Do Account . T ., 121 0 New D e f erred 351 DO Account Do Passive — 13 Do Ac count 251 f all ish Cert. of Coup not funded Do Acco count of . un Wethslll per c — Do 4 ent • rn : i per Cent. 1864 ... olush 6 per Cent. 1854 B7 E 0 Account BB O 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account e n £lOO Bonds 60} 60 Do Do Acc per Cent. 1862 ount 61 5 Do 6 pe r C ent., 1863 Do b 0 5 per Cent., 1865, paid up S cr ip — DO ~o Aunt .4 per Cent. G uarantee d 321 / 3} Ve nezuel a 3 per Cent. Ditto account D o 6 iaer Cent., 18 62 Do Account .... Do. 11 pe r C ent . Do. 186 i. .......................2 3 .......... . . Dividends on .... abov e . Pa.yable in London. batch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil „,„ Do 1 per Cont. Certificates .•.. ••• 4 ' rend' Routes 3 per Cent. ... Italian 5 per Cont., 1861, Ex. 25f. ..... D o Account T Con sols for mo n ey -sv o O'CLOCK. De. A ccount "11-LARD° ATTHE CRYSTAL PALACE.—Thiti Wonder trful performer on the spiral column has been the great at action at the People's Palace since Easter Monday, and the enth usiasm which g ree t s hi s a pp earance eac h day is 7ttiking Proof that his daring ascension has lost none of 117 original f reshness. Ho continuos his speciality during a°,lla(!,aY, Tuesday, and W e d nes d ay o f th e com i ng wee k , la tightLuen visits Manchester to fulfill an engagement of 10 s, returning, we believe, to Sydenham on the Ist of SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. Share! Railways. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Paid.' Closin g I Business Prise. done. Bristol and Exeter ... Caledonian ... . Cambrian. .... . Cork and 8and0n..... Cornwall ' Dublin & Belfast Juno. Dun„Perth, & A b.Juno. N.l.London, scrip Certi. Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. et. No. 2 Great N or th of Scotland Great Northern Do. A stock Do. B stock Do. New. is. at 25 pm Gt S, and W. of Ireland, Gt. Westeln -Original: Do. S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Mid.—Oxfordl Do. Newport Do. Dei eford.. Lane's shire & York shir London and Blackwal Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dove Do. Mctrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western .flan., Shei., & Lincoln Metropolitan.... Do. New Do. Extension...... Metropolitan District. Do. do. do. Do. and St. John'sW'd Ilidland Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. Derb3 11 id Kent . . - North British Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun. Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 '..Corth London Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central 'Scot. N. E Aber. stock Do. Scot, Mid. st.ick Shropshire Union South Devon South Eistern .4faincs, Wok., tt Wok Tall' Vale Do. C Vale of Meath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall BRITISII lAtlantic & St. Lawrence Bom.,Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5_ per cent... Do. F dimes Buffalo lc Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff , Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3- l•• • ••••• Calcutta & 8. E., Um.. .Jape Town & Dock, gu• Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p! East. Bengal, gu. 5 do. East Indlsu , g-u.:5 p.c.l Do. J Extension Grand Trunk oi Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist fref. Bonds Do. do. deferred ... • Do. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. 3d Pref. stook Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Fret. stook .. Do. do. deferred .... Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. 1:o. Gua. 5 per cent.. Do. New gtia. 5 p. c Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent Do. 4f per cent Do Great Wis. of Canada D. New .. . ...... Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 5i do. pay. 1877-8 1 Indian Branch, limited! Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do Do. 4; do Do. Filth Extension sfelb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's nay.. N. 6pc let pf.be. Sdnde Do. Delhi Do. do t Do. Paniaub 1 Do.lndus St.Floz, `"" COLONIAL GO VERNIVIE N British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1872 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.Sz July 1877-84 Do. 6 g. 0. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. o. Mar. az Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. St July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk Cape G.Hope, 6 p. 0.1873 Do. Apl. Oct 1890-1900 Do. do; 1880-9 c Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 Do. 5 per cent, 15 April andls Oct., 1000 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.( Do. 1878, do Ilauritius, 6 p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 Do. 1882, Ltayls, Nov. it Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug Natal giov. 6 per cent N.B.Gov. 0 p.c.Ja.&July N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,186t , Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 187; Do. 5 Pax 1888 to 1894 Sew Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... ~.. Nova Sootia Gov. 6 p. o. sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aue.Gov. 6 p,o 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vio,Gov. 6 p.o.Ja & July Do. do, A pril & Oct 90 92 127 128 55 65 13 15 3 5 67 70 70 72 20 15d 115 117 391 4J4 6 7 121 123 130 1376, 1,74 57 e 9 39 i 1 34 109 1 02 1201 12(1 94 9G 29 31 43 g 5 1201 )202 92 43 62 GI 1331 1334 2 t 3 I, 1 1 ) if' 92 t's 122} 123 92 0 a a 4 P 67} 034 27 ICB} 1091 71 72 109 110 35} 36i 10 1t 122 124 1f 2 1) 1i 2p 73 75 108 112 150 152 66 68 49 51 73 74 8 1) 140 143 2i 3i , 100 103 51 53 IESSIONS. 55 57 102 103 51 €1 91 101 76 80 96 98 65 70 100 102 101 102 102 103 9 31 83 90 63 CG, 55 60 59 61 50 55 45 49 42 45 30 33 20 .53 109 110 14 2 1., 14 2pl 99 100 91 93 16 17 32 314 1 91 V 6 86 e 8 1 4d 99 100 90 02 86 88 62 61 8 8 99 100 93 89 a it 97 9) T SECU. 92 94 90 I 4 90 94 7s 80 77 SO 102 104 105 107 105 107 102 104 90 ?2 Ic2 104 106 1 8 102 104 104 106 IC4 106 112 104 lOu 102 93 95 90' 95 871 88, 91 95 79 81 48 100 98 LOO 105 107 102 k 10341 190 100 100 1( 0 100 100 BRITISH MINES. ream. ConsoL Gold, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Cara don East Cam Brea East Grenville East Gunnislake .. East Loveil E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. Great L axey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (Heist Grenville Herod's Foot •••• Elingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley NewM.w syndewnylron Ore, lieu North Roskear N.Wh'l 138ssett (I llogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper United Providence Tiny Lelant S. Caradon (St. (.3leer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan Stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Clogan, lim West Bassett (Illogan W. Caradon (Liskeard West Chiverton West Seton Wheal Bassett (Mogan Wheal Buller atedruth Wheal hiary Ann (Men. Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis. ritEFERENCE SHAKES. shire and Yorkshire, 6 per cent. stock.:— Lto, 4i per cent., Blackburn pur., 96 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Birkenhead, 885 London and Blackwall, 871 6 7 14 16 510 680 I 21 23 8 9 31 41 3i 4 8 9 3 31 '5 7 20 21 1 6 1 1i 25 26 3} 31 33 40 4, 6 4 6 4 4i 2i 14d 35 40 11 15 l i 1 2.1.0 296 2.14.0 31 2.14.0 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8.0 4.4. ti 2.13. t 7.1.6 10.6.7 11 3.2.0 18.18.9 35.15.6 9 all 32 34 390 410 It 2 15 20 9 11 14 16 4 6 1 2 ii 9i 75 N 165 175 82i 87 25 27i 3 5 210 220 14 16 Lanca Di FOREIGN RAILWAYS. • Dutch Rhenish, 21 Great Luxembourg, 13i Ottoman (Smyrna to Aiello), gi South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 11. 15 FOREIGN MINES. Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 31 Cobre Copper, 13} St. John del Rey, lim., 53 21 Washoe Gold, Rm., 3} DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 72i BANKS, Alliance, Btu.. 26 51 Bank of British Columbia, 211 Bank of Egypt, 31 • Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 201 201 East London, lim., 41 European Bank, Um., 81 Imperial Bank, lim., 281 Imperial Ottoman, 101 1 Ditto. new, 10 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim.. 2! London Bank of Mexico and S. America, Um., 131 London and County, 78! London Joint Stock, 46! London and Westminster, 851 Midland Bank, Rm., 20 Oriental Balm Corporation, 47i Union of London, 52 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, l6i Australian Mort. Lar.d and Finance. 111 n, CreditFoncier and Mobilier of Engianu, 61 1,11 Ditto, new, Ebbw Vale, 17 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, lim., 33 Electric Telegraph, 135 National Discount Company, 131 Overend, Gurney, and Co.. lim., i4i Peninsula and Oriental Steam, Ditto, new, 502 BLONDIN.—We have heard that Blondin the veri table " Hero of Niagara," whose dauntless feats at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, are so well remembered, is going to astonish the Parisians this summer, that he will eclipse all the rival Blondins who have so unscrupulously assumed his name there can be no doubt, and for our own part we bespeak for him even a greater success, if pos sible, than he achieved in England. Lord Kenyon is slowly recovering from th dangerous illness. It is hoped he may shortly be able to leave town for the seaside. His medical advisers have prohibited his attending to his Parliamentary duties during the present session. THE FRENCH ARMY.—" It is known," says the Gazette du Midi, " that in accordance with the announce ment of reductions in the French army, two regiments of cuirassiers were to be disbanded. The Empeior, on Satur day last, before the review, received the colonels of those regiments and announced to them that that step would be P f3t P"WCI AA' tllO preisont," WO 100 100 all 100 100 - itio flOO 2 100 100 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1866. THE MURDER IN CANNON-STREET. The police have not, up to this afternoon, dis covered anything in connection with this atrocious murder calculated to dispel the mystery which at present surrounds it. A rumour was rife that a man had been captured by the police, from certain matters which had come to light from the papers and letters found in the box of the deceased ; but such unfortunately is not the case at present, although the police are not without hope that they will succeed in their endeavours. The utmost caution is necessary in order that the slender thread the officers have been fortunate enough to secure may not b 9 broken before the whole of the mystery is unravelled. The Government reward of £lOO for the appre iension of the murderer has been issued. CRIMINAL COURT— This Day. OLD COURT. Two men, named Alderman and Priestley, were ndicted for obtaining money under false pretences. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoners went into the shop of the prosecutor in the Mino ries and offered 16 watch chains for sale, repre senting that they were gold. The prosecutor in spected one of the chains given as a specimen, and proceeded to apply the usual test of aquafortis to it. While he was so engaged the prisoners con trived to put some water in the bottle which con tained the aquafortis, so that its strength and poWer was much reduced. The chain which the prisoners had given the prosecutor to test was a gold one, and of course it withstood the action of the liquid, but the others were merely strongly gilt, and were those denominated as " duffers." When the diluted acid was applied to them it gave no result, which appeared to prove that the chains were gold, but the movement of the prisoner's hand attracted the notice of the police, and before the purchase was effected they were in custody, and the attempted fraud discovered. The jury found both prisoners guilty. The learned Judge sentenced Alderman to six months' and Priestley to nine months' imprison ment, with hard labour. This case terminated the business of the Court, and the sessions were adjourned until Monday, the 7th of May. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ROBBERY AT THE WESTERN BRANCH OF THE . BANK OF ENGLAND.—Emma Woodhouse, a char woman employed at the Western Branch of the Bank of England, Burlington-gardens, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing money at the bank. Police-constable Henry Dawson, 301 A, said that in consequence of information he received from Mr. Pym, the manager of the bank, he went to Hart-street, Grosvenor-square, saw the prisoner, told her that he was an officer, and that things had been stolen from the bank where she was employed. The, prisoner said she had not taken anything, and offered to have her place searched. He then asked her what money she had, and she took from her pocket a penny and a farthing, whi▪ ch she said she must have received in changing ss. given to her by Mr. Wright, the messenger to the bank. He then told her that two five-shilling packages of. copper had been taken from a drawer in the bank, and then searched the place but found only some sealing wax and a pocket-book. He then put some. ques tions to her as to whether she had made any purchases, and on her stating that she had at the shop of Mr. Gadstone, in Oxford-street, he went there, and found that two penny pi▪ eces had been taken which bore similar marks to thos e on t h e penny given up by the prisoner, the marks having been put on them by a gentleman connected with the bank. He then took the prisoner into custody. Mr. James Lost, cashier at the bank, said th a t a roll of pence were marked by him, and, with others, done up in ss. packets, placed in a drawer which was locked. He afterwards missed two packets. In answer to Mr. Knox the witness said the pri soner must have opened the drawer with a key on a bunch in a desk which was not locked. Altogether seven ss. packets had been stolen. Mr. Pym, the manager of the bank, said the seal ing wax and the pocket-book were similar to those used in the bank. Remanded. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. HEBALD.—Mr. Lowe bas entitled himself to the thanks of the house and the country by his prompt and indignant protest against the mode of waging political warfare which has come in with the new Reform Bill. Subtle philosophers and casuistic theologians have, it is true, taken a wonderful deal of pains to settle the boundaries of the border land which lies between truth and falsehood ; to distinguish the relative culpability of the suppressio ceri and the suggestio falsi, and to make verbal ac curacy do I duty for substantial unvcracity. But, though the lucubrations of these ingenious writers have cost them a great deal of labour, we doubt whether they ever gained many converts, except among those who had their own reasons for wishing to find, in mental reservation or partial quotation, a somewhat euphemistical expression for deliberate falsification. The notion that language was made to conceal and not to disclose ideas may have seemed very attractive to the statesman who ex pressed it, but it has never found favour among Englishmen, who rather pride themselves on calling a spade a spade, and saying what they mean with an outspoken frankness which implies a belief that others will deal with them in an equally candid fashion. But on Thursday night Mr. Lowe com plained, with great justice, of a departure from this principle by the three members of the Legis lature who are generally supposed to have had most to do with the concoction of the Reform Bill. Earl Russell, who suggested it ; Mr. Glad stone, who introduced it; and Mr. Bright, who inspired it, have alike endeavoured to damage the reputation of its most vigorous assailant by an artifice at once un-English and unparliamentary. Still, it would be unfair to deny to the Gover ment the credit of adoptingmeansattractive for their simplicity, and for the readiness with which a cheap and temporary triumph may thereby be assured. They had only to select a passage from the middle of their adversary's speech, and by quoting it without its context to alter its effect as completely as if they had supplied the words from their own imaginations. Our readers may remember a passage in the Psalms in which David, by an ingenious device of this kind may be made to profess the most unqualified atheism, and as everybody knows you need only drop a word from a negation to make it express the very opposite of what its author intended. That any English politician should adopt this kind of strategy is somewhat surprising ; but that three persons, each in a prominent position in his peculiar party, should have stooped to it, is as remarkable as it is humiliating. Of course the original sin of the misrepresentation of which Mr. Lowe com plained lies at the door of Mr. Bishop, and the 60 free, independent, and advanced Liberal electors of Caine, who memorialised their erring representative on the freedom with which he had spoken. " You were sent to Parliament," they say,- " to represent this borough as a Liberal, and now you are found 'running from your allegiance to the Liberal cause." You charged the working man with venality, igno rance, drunkenness, and intimidation •, with being unreflecting, impulsive, and violent. Terrible Mr. Lowe ! We, the selected si x ty an d one i n w h om are centred the public spirit and pure patriotism of the borough of Caine, feel bound to protest against your reactionary utterances, lest the wicked world should think that we countenance you in your ca lumniations of those whom the Cabinet has chosen for admission " within the portals of the constitu tion." To this remonstrance Mr. Lowe replied by pointing out the error into which his accusers had fallen. He showed that they had cut off the begin ning and end of the sentence they had quoted, and thus had converted a well-merited censure on a certain portion of the borough voters into a sweep ing and indiscriminating condemnation of the working classes. Without getting at all angry it was easy for Mr. Lowe to refute the reasoning of Mr. Bishop by a reference to the words of his speech, and to rebut the imputation of unfaithful ness to the trust the electors had reposed in him by reminding his accusers of the election address he had issued, and the hustings speech he had delivered when he last stood before them as a can didate for their suffrages. But it was more difficult for him to speak temperately of those who adopted Mr. Bishop's tactics without Mr. Bishop's excuse. The local Liberal may be forgiven for embracing his first and probably his only opportunity of beyondac quiring the boundaries of his ow n also plead that criticising borough, and notoriety he may parliamentary speeches, and calling members to account, are not very much in his way. But his imitators have no right to shelter themselves under these excuses. Mr. Bright knew what he was doing when, in his speech at Rochdale, he substi tuted the words, " the unrepresented classes," for those in which Mr. Love had described the lowest portion of the existing constituencies; and so did Earl Russell, when perfectly well aware of the purport et the published reply to the memorial, his lordship chose to garble Mr. Lowe's speech exactly as it had been previously garbled by Mr. Bishop. But Mr. Gladstone's offence was the most serious. Into a debate on a gravo organic change in the Constitution he was the first to introduce the ele ment of personality, and he immensely aggravated his offence against gpod feeling and good taste by the time and manner of its commission. Selecting the same sentence as his chief, he deliberately im puted to it a sense which the honourable member who used it had already distinctly disavowed, and thus brought upon himself a richly merited rebuke ' for the " gross, systematic, and wilful perversion of language" to which he had resorted. ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES.—The United States Congress has been asked, and the Lower House has agreed, to appropriate one hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of enabling the American people to put in an appearance at the French Exposition of 1867, but.this proposal has been "met in Congress by a very powerful opposition. The jealousy of the agricultural Western States crops out and says, with a spasm of economy, that the country cannot afford this extravagance; that she has enough to do to pay her debts, without incurring new and un necessary ones, and that the Western States have no interest in this show business, and will not con sent to an investment of the national funds in it. Economy is always a powerful argument. As there are no people on the face of the earth more careless of money and more extravagant than the Americans, so there are none more ready to Open their ears and draw down their faces at the merest suggestion of economy. But there is a homely adage about " the spiggot and the bung hole," which has frequent application among nations as well as individuals. We shall certainly not be accused of prejudice against the American people ; on the contrary, we are too often charged with the disposition to cloak their shortcomings ; but we must utter our protest against the penny-wise-and pound-foolish economy which has always been one of their most unfortunate characteristics. Th e President of the United States receives a salary scarcely adequate to the respectable maintenance of a London police magistrate ; and the Ambassadors sent from America to represent the Great Republic at foreign Courts are provided with a new suit of clothes and a miserable allowance of pocket money, scarcely adequate to purchase the necessaries of life. It is this short-sighted " economy" that in times past scattered a dozen American vessels of war over the whole watery face of the globe, and left the American flag unprotected in seven-tenths of its foreign stations ; it is this that would refuse to the industrial interests of that great and growing country the opportunity of honourable display in comparison and competition with those of European nations. It is urged by the opponents of the grant of one hundred thousand dollars for the purposes of the Paris Exposition that it is better for Americans to stay at home, repair the damages of war,' and achieve new triumphs of industrial skill, rather than to fritter away the public money in an exhibition a ala o r n m g ed at thei r na ti ona l growth. sosuadurd among that if they go to Paris a people who are jealous of Bo theirf But t their tph reoyg inventions srhe next year, they will carry with th em, not th e f ru it s of a cycle of peace and prosperity, but crops gathered from the broken and desolated fields of war. They will manifest the power and fertility of the American people tested at the most unfavourable time. They will show France and England that, powerful as the Americans have proved themselves in war, they have not forgotten the genius of the inventor or the cunning of the artisan. They will tender to Europe the gauge of friendly rivalry, and tell them, th ro ugh their fabri cs an d t h e i r mac hi nery, that they intend to dissolve the bond of dependence which has made them so long the servants of manu facturing nations, and that thenceforth they are de termined to produce all the fruits of intelligent in dustry that the physical conditions in which they live render possible and expedient. Civilisation has taught the American people that contact ' strikes out knowledge as the flint strikes out fire ; that the interchange of thought and its pro ducts is as profitable as the interchange of articles of trade. Almost every civilised country on the globe will have an official agent at Paris next year, and will add its contribution to the Exhibition of the tiponsiigtteridoann, Y announces that he has dl Human Industry. But we feel sure that the Great Republic will be represented there—not meanly and and nobly. Mr. J. C. States Agent at New York Derby,af already ead the niggardly, e thE but received more than fourteen hundred articles for exhibition, and the number is rapidly increasing. The entries are of things in which Americans feel a national pride, and which will be creditable to them as a nation. The New England States, with the shrewdness that has been the secret of their industrial success, make the largest number of entries ; but the Western States are by no means unrepresented, and we expect to see the superabundant wealth of the great Western prairies and mines and manufactories, indicated by thousands of ar ti c l es o f growt h and manufac ture, occupying an honourable place among the treasures of the world which will be congregated next year at Paris. Yes, the West—the great, mighty, teeming 'West—that feeds the American nation; and could feed the world, that welcomes to its broad and fertile bosom the surplus population of the globe, that enfolds in its vast expanse of field and forest, in its mines of coal and lead and copper and silver and gold, in its mighty rivers, its great lakes, its cities that grow up as it were in a day, that glorious inheritance that shall make - the United States within a century more populous and more prosperous than the whole of Europe—let the West display her young, lusty, vigorous and intel ligent face to the curious millions who will gather at the Paris Exposition. Remembering that Peace also has its victories, let the American people, now that they have achieved those victories,in war which have covered them with imperishable honour, seek for those Peaceful Victories which are not won by the sword, but by the invincible might of industry, and intelligence, and a high civilisation. Pisciculture in Oxfordshire. (Front Land and Water.) Some years ago the arrival of a number of very tiny trout,which, in piscicultural language, had just absorbed the umbilical vesicle, or, according to the untutored fish-hatoher, had just consumed their jelly-bags, and had been hatched in London under the parental care of Frank Buckland, gave the science of pisciculture a footing on the banks of a muddy river in this county. Cockney fish though they were, they bore their journey well, and com fortably harboured in a large pickle-bottle, were refreshed with change of water at the different stations on the Great Western. Not that the prospect before them was encouraging, for they were bound to an inhospitable country, and the river and lakes they were intended to colonise seemed anything but fit waters for their reception. Through the meadows rolled the sluggish river over a muddy bottom, telling not of trout, but of coarse vulgar fish, though here and there, on the shallows an odd trout would now and then reward the very patient fisherman. Pike, perch, eels, and great clumsy chub, tenanted the deep holes. The lakes were beautifully clear, and were fed by numerous springs, while a strong stream ran from one to another, and so on to the river. The mud, however, was deep, and pike and perch held undisputed sway. By fencing off parts off the stream between the lakes, as nurseries for the young trout, hopes were entertained of being able to rear them up to such a size and age as would ensure them, when turned out in the lake and river, against the attacks of perch and small pike. The little Lon doners were forthwith placed in one of those asyhims, and were fed with pounded liver and biscuit. All appeared to go well with them till the rats, which swarm in the neighbourhood, at tracted either by the waste particles of food or by the fish, tunnelled under the banks, made holes round the posts which held the fence of perforated zinc, and away went the little trout into the main stream or into the lakes, and probably not one escaped the open mouths that were ready to swal low them up. The following season an attempt was made to hatch about 1,000 trout ova in two long wooden boxes placed in the same stream. A small bank of stones and gravel, up-stream of each box, stood by way of apology for a filter; perforated zinc at either end of the box kept enemies out, while the lid acted as a protection above, and sheltered the ova from the glare of the light. In spite of the immense accumulation of dirt and sediment, the hatching out was successful, but though as gentle a current as possible was made to flow through the boxes, the poor little fish, clogged and helpless with their hugh vesicles, got fixed in the holes of the zinc, and there ended their brief existence. Between • 100 and 200 lived to absorb the umbilical bag, and instantly, on emerging into activity, were cast loose into the stream, there to take their chance, and run the gauntlet of perch and pike, kingfisher and dab chick, as the rats had willed that their London cousins should do before them. Meanwhile an indoor apparatus was being pre pared, and bricks and mortar were fast raising up a small house to contain it. The close of 1863 found the establishment complete in every respect. Built against the embankment, at the foot of one of the lakes, where there was a steep fall, the roof of the house was below the level of the surface of the lake. A shallow well, sunk a few feet from the waterside, received the water which found its way through the intervening gravel bed, thus acting as a filter, and from thence a leaden pips supplied the building. Entering close under the roof, the mouth of the pipe was directly over a filter barrel, about as high as a nine gallon cask, but more capacious. A horse hair sieve at the top, and layers of charcoal, sand, fine and coarse gravel, were quite enough, one would have imagined, to guard against the inroads of all hostile matter, animal as wel as vegetable, or sediment of any kind. Ready filled for use a spare filter barrel was at hand, in case of anything going wrong through foulness or choking. Fifteen slate troughs, on Mr. Ponder's principle, ranged the length of the house, and, thanks to that gentleman's kindness and cour tesy, they were made precisely to hispattern. Care fully cleaned and scalded was the gravel, bright and clear it glistened in the troughs, and pure and limped ran the filtered water over it, and the star of fish culture was in the ascendent. By the end of January, 1864, eleven thousand ova had been collected, nearly half of which were of the great lake trout, and the rest of common trout and char. Remarkably healthy and sound they were, and for a time everything went well, but soon a curious scum made its appearance in the troughs, and rust-coloured matter adhered to the zinc guards at the outlets. Day by day the nuisance grew worse, but still the water flowed tran sparent as crystal, and the ova did not suffer. The presence of iron, and in no small quantity, in the water, was no longer to be doubted, but whence and how could it get there ? The lake above was free from it, and no iron-water spring was known to be in the immediate vicinity. Various, but futile at tempts were made to cleanse the troughs. The scum was continually skimmed off, a stronger stream was turned on, and the paint-brush vainly essayed to relieve the ova of their noxious integument. Though the iron had apparently no effect upon the ova, it told very differently when the hatching commenced. The little fish just bursting into life were quite overcome by it ; numbers at the first glance of the outer world gave up the struggle, and the troughs were soon full of defunct victims of an iron despo tism. At this crisis, half a dozen small earthenware troughs were hastily rigged out, a supply of water was obtained from the reservoir tanks on the roof of the mansion house, and all that could be saved, hatched, hatching, and about to hatch, were removed from the piscicultural house to a temporary structure on the lawn. Out of eleven thousand ova origanally deposited in the troughs, only five thousand were rescued from the poisoned gravel beds ; and many of these were weak and sickly, and about three thousand five hun dred lived to absorb the umbilicle visicle and shift for themselves. In the hurry and confusion of moving them from what appeared to be certain death, great lake trout, common trout, and char had all got mixed up together, and many a lake trout was to be seen swimming about with the tail of a wretched char protruding from his mouth. A nursery in the stream, carefully fenced against all enemies, and supposed to be rat proof, again received the rising hopes of the piscicultural family; but one old enemy was not to be baffled, and a fat, complacent, self satisfied old rat, who had just dined off the young trout, was ever to be seen sitting on the top of some slate, tile, or stone, placed as a hide, or shelter, for the fish, looking exactly like some old gentleman at Greenwich under very similar circumstances. With the exception of a very few hundreds turned into the river, and one or two small streams in the neigh bourhood, the results of the fish hatching of 1861 had, like their predecessors, the rats to thank for an early introduction to a host of enemies in the open water. Steps were taken to ascertain the source from whence the iron made its way into the hatch ing house, and iron-stone, in considerable quantities, was found in the embankment through which the water Mtved into the well, and the magnary of the well itself was fall of it. This was easily remedied by carrying the leaden pipe out into the deep water of the lake, and since that operation not a vestige of iron has presented itself. The stock of ova for 1865 numbered 4,500, from which 2,470 great lake trout, common trout, and char were turned out after the absorption of the vesicle, and strong healthy fish they were, though the unnaturally hot weather at the end of April oc casioned heavy losses. Among them were 800 char, the produce of 900 ova. Again they were set free in the river stream and lakes to take their chance. The present year must bear a black mark in the annals of pisciculture, for owing to the prevalence of floods during the spawning months, the troughs are all but empty. Only 2,000 ova prop up the hopes of the disconsolate fish-hatcher ; but they promise well, and when they arrive at the days of discretion they will find a nursery prepared for them bricked in, and wired over so as to defy our old foe the rat, as well as any other intruder. An opportunity hitherto much missed, will then be offered, of watching the growth of the fish, and also of keeping them in safety till only very large pike will attack them. Disheartening though this story of pisciculture under difficulties may appear to be, still great was t h e p l easure l a st summer, in eating just one nice dish of trout, caught iirthe stream connecting th e l a k es , w here trout were never known before, b u t w h et h er t h ey were F ran k Buck land'st cockney ele' h v e e s , o ' p ' e o n r the air, it producewas not o f the hatched i n b oxes in possible to determine. THAMES. Mr. Woolrych, of the Southwark Police-court, who officiated yesterday for Mr. Partridge, again presided this day in this court. CHARGE OF FRAUD.—Thomas Moysey, late clerk to Messrs. Thomas and Edwin Rumbold, wheel wrights' of Back-road, St. George-in-the-East ; King David-lane, Shadwell ; and Caledonian-road, Islington, was charged with obtaining money by false and fraudulent pretences. Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, stated the case for the prosecution. The prisoner had been in the service of Messrs. Rumbold and Co., at a salary of 21s. per week, and since he had been discharged was in the practice of calling on the customers of the firm, representing that he was still in Messrs. Rumbold's employ, and asking them for payment of their accounts. Many, believing his representations, had paid him, and he appropriated the money to his own use. The prisoner had been recently arrested by Police-sergeant Smith, of the K division, and he then admitted that he had received money of the customers and expended it, and intended to make it up to Messrs. Rumbold. Woolrych—ilad he any authority to receive the money ? Mr. Stoddart—None whatever, sir. I shall go into one case only to-day, and ask for a remand. Mr. J. B. Day, rope-maker, of Stepney, said he paid the prisoner £3 2s. due to Messrs. Rumbold on the 2d of February last. The prisoner said he was their clerk. Mr. Edwin Rumbold, jun., said the prisoner left the service of himself and partner in November, and had no right to receive the money which had been paid to the firm. .. . Stoddart—There are many other cases which I cannot fully prove to-day. Mr. Woolrych—l have had enough to justify me in remanding the prisoner for a week. REFRACTORY CASUALS.—DanieI Phipps, aged 40 years, John Hill, 30, and William Jones, 22, were brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with refusing to perform the task of work assigned to them in the Ratcliff Workhouse of the Stepney Union. William Wilding, superintendent of labour, said the prisoners came to the casual ward last night, and were " bathed," partook of supper, were pro vided with a bed, and had a breakfast this morning. They were required to pick 2lbs. of oakum each, and an iron hook was given to each to assist them in their labours. They refused to do the work, and Jones added abuse and threats to his neglect. Mr. Woolyrch—What was the supper ? Witness—Six ounces of bread. Mr. Woolyroh—And the breakfast ? Witness,Six ounces of bread and a pint of gruel. Mr. Woolrych sentenced Phipps and Hill to 10 days' imprisonment and hard labour, and Jones to 21 days' imprisonment and hard labour, WESTMINSTER. A DESPERATE ATTACK.—William Scammerton, a sturdy-looking fellow, 15 years of age ' ,was charged w ith attempted pocketpicking, and also with the most desperate conduct. Mr. Hall, Camberwell, civil engineer, said that at 7 o'clock last night he was in Euston-street, Pim lico, when he felt a tug at his coat pocket, and, turning round, found the prisoner alone near him. Prosecutor had a heavy pocketbook and valuables in his pocket, and, turning round to the prisoner, said, " You young rascal, you are trying to pick my pocket." Upon which fhe prisoner used the most revolting language, and then slunk away. Prosecutor remained some minutes until the arrival of a policeman, and then, finding the prisoner, gave bun into custody, when he made a desperate resist ance, and, calling to some companions to rescue him, said—" He has got me for ' dipping. , 1) The policeman was then violently attacked, and the re sult was that two other persons were also taken into custody. Mr. Selfe—What is meant by " dipping ?" The Policeman—lt's the last new word—it means picking pockets. Daniel McCarthy and Thomas Walker, two other young men, were then placed at the bar, charged with attacking the police. Peter Smith, a detective officer, said that Hearn merton was given into custody was attempting to pick pockets. He had no sooner secured the pri soner than he was furiously attacked by McCarthy and Walker and several others, and severely beaten. It was urged that Hearnmerton was a very re spectable boy employed at gas works, and his fore man was called, who proved that he had borne a a very good character for honesty and industry, and was going to school when apprehended, not being near the prosecutor. Mr. Sclfe thought there was a mistake in the identity of Hearnmerton, who was discharged with out imputation. McCarthy was fined 10s. or seven days, and there being a doubt about Walker he was discharged. 1211 I 1361 7 53 71 8 12?444 95} 5 29k El 91 12 1 I i 92f 624 1 2 33 21 3} 91 91 i 93i 4 122 1 Io9i P 101 i 102 k I 2 201 ,IT CES. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. THE GREAT METROPadOdLediTtoAaNswDeAe The Waterloo Plate of 50 sous, - winners extra. p Y s . takes of Bst 1 Olb .. , ~ (Edwards) 1 5 soya each, for horses of all Three quarters of a mile. ...... (Iluxtable) 3 Haphazard. Mr. W. Morris's Warrior, 5 y rs Mr. Lane's Foncier, 4 yrs, 6st yrs, . Capt. Batchelor's Haphazard, 3 yrs, ~.! ............. (Grace) 2 Hopbine filly and Victoria also raZ t Betting-7 to 4on Warrior, and 4to 1 agst The New Two-Year-01d Stakes, of 10 sovs each, w i t h 50 added, for colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 71b ; winners extra. T.Y.C., three-quarters of a mile. 27 subs. Mr. T. Parr's Opoponax, Bst 71b (Challoner) 1 Mr. Merry's Catherine Hayes filly, Bst 81b —(11. Covey) 2 Count Lagrange's Ariel, Bst 81b ............ (H. Grimshaw) 3 The followiag also ran :—Sir Walter, Admiral Fitzroy, and Verulam. Betting-6 to 4 agst Ariel, sto 2 agst Verulam, 3to 1 agst the Catherine Hayes filly, 5 to 1 agst Opoponax, and 10 to 1 agst any other. The Durdans Stakes of 5 soya each, with 50 added, for 3-yr-olds and upwards ; weight for age, with selling allowances. One mile. Mr. S. Hughes's Melinda, 3 yrs, Est (car. Est 11b) (Murray) 1 Mr. England's Moss Rose, 3 yrs, Est 31b (.£5O) (Kenyon) 2 .., . _ . Betting opened at 6 to 4 on Moss Rose, but closed at evens. The Great Metropolitan Stakes (Handicap) of 25 sovs each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 100 added ; the owner of tho second to receive £5O out of the stakes ; winners extra. Two miles and a quarter 77 subs, 82 of whom paid 2 sovs each. Mr. IL Kirby's Treasure Trove, 3 yrs, 6st (inc. 51b ex.), _ (Cameron) 1 Lord St. Vincent's Lucifer, 3 yrs, Gst llb (Stephens) 2 Lord Wilton's Sandal, 5 yrs, Bst 21b (Challonery 3 The following also ran:—Quarantine, Lady Florence, Eakring, and Hurrah. Betting-11 to 10 agst Eakring, 3 to 1 agst Lucifer, 7 to 2 agst Treasure Trove, 100 to 15 agst Sandal, and 20 to 1 agst any other. The seven competitors took their preliminary canters, and with little delay assembled at the post, and the flag was lowered to the first attempt. The favourite, almost pulling Kenyon out of the saddle, at once took a slight lead of Lucifer, Quarantine, and Hurrah, close up with whom were the others, with the exception of Sandal, who was two or three lengths in the roar. Upon entering the old course, the favourite took a clear lead, and Lucifer being pulled back Hurrah took second place, Lord St. Vincent's colt being next, Lady Florence, who - had Trea sure Trove and Quarantine at her girths, being next. These positions were maintained as they proceeded up the hill, the favourite still carrying on the running at a merry pace to the bend before reaching the mile post, whore, overpowering Kenyon, she ran out of the course, taking ' with her Hurrah, and the chances of the pair being thus earl) extinguished, their defeat was announced by an ex ulting shout from the ring. In the next few hundred yards Quarantine went to the front, but on reaching the throe-quarter mile-post, Lucifer deprived her of the lead, and, rounding the bend, she dropped away, leaving Lady Florence and Treasure Trove in close attendance on the leader, with Sandal in their wake. Mr. Brayley's mare, before reaching Tattenham-corner, held a slight lead, but rapidly compounding on entering the straight she dropped away, and Lucifer in the centre of the course looked most formidable, the race appearing to be a match between him and Treasure Trove, who running well on the lower ground took the lead two distances from home ; Sandal, however, who had run wide at the turn, gradually closed, and Challoner bringing him with a rush at the commencement of the en closure for a moment looked formidable, but Treasure Trove easily hold his advantage, and won by four lengths . Lucifer only defeated Sandal by a head for second place• Tho other two, when pursuit was hopeless, wore pulled up, and did not pass the post. The Balaclava Stakes of 5 sovs oach, with 50 added, for 2-yr-olds and upwards; weight for age, with selling and other allowances. Half a mile. Mr. Barnard's Marshal Ney i 3 yrs, 7st 121 b (MO) (Hibbard) 1 Sir F. Johnstone's Elburg, 2 yrs, s st 71b (XSO) (Kenyon) 2 Mr. Brayley's Chicken I:Lazard, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (X5O) (Murray) 3 The following also ran :—Lady Blanche filly, Knight of the Whistle, Preferment, Shrapnel!, Rose Nera, Owlet, Zisca filly, Tomtit, Harridan colt, Heather Bloom, Yaller Gal, Colleen, and Vexatious. Betting-2 to 1 agst Elburg, sto 1 agst Chicken Hazard, 6 to 1 agst Shrapnell, 8 to 1 agst Marshal Ney, and 100 to 8 agst any other. The Walton Stakes of 10 sove each, 5 ft, with 50 added, for 2-yr-olds and upwards ; weight for age ; with penalties and allowances. The winner was bought by Mr. Coward for 265 guineas. Mr. F. Proyor's Verula,m, 2 yrs, Gst 131 b (Kenyon) 1 Count La Grange's Roland, 2 yrs, Est 101 b (Cameron) 2 Mr. G. Jones's Palasin, 2 yrs, Est 71b (carried Est 81b) (R. I'Anson) 3 The following also ran :—Professor Anderson, Sans Si, and Venom. Betting—Even on Professor Anderson, 5 to 2 agst Verulam, 5 to 1 agst Roland, and 100 to 15 agst any other. BETTING ON THE COLRSE CHESTER CUP. 6to 1 agst Delight (taken) 6to 1 agst Redcap (taken and offered) 100 to 9 agst Treasure Trove (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Sandal (offered) WRIGHT'S GUIDE TO THE TURF.—Tho April edition of this valuable guide has just made its appearance. It con tains a complete return of all the races decided up to the end of March, as well as programmes of, all the important races yet to come off. It is neatly and correctly got up, and we would strongly recommend it to all lovers of the turf. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT CHELTENHAM RACES. FALL OF THE GRIND STAND.—We regret to an nounce that the proceedings at the races yesterday after noon were interrupted by a frightful accident The Grand Stand suddenly broke down in the centre, and the whole of the persons upon it, fully 300 in number, were buried in the debris. Great exertions wore made ,to assist the suf ferers, and when they were extricated nine gentlemen were found to be seriously injured, and a very small pro portion escaped scatheless. Many limbs were broken, and contusions of every kind and severity were received. The event of course occasioned the greatest excitement, and no further interest was taken in the races. At the Ordinary General Meeting of the Western Insurance Company, Limited, held on Thursday, the 12th April, 1866 (John Tomlinson Hibbert, Esq., M. l '. in the chair), it was reported that on the 31st December,hn 1865, the aggregate annual income was £23,000, moi a -o m t a a m 200 per cent. over that of last year. The new .be pr eal l ). , income for 1865 was £16,859 13s. 'the subscribed ,cl . 0 was £389,000. The paid capital was £39 5 ,2 0 i The li osses on the pro perty and assets were £47,823 10s. 7d. i year were only £6,503 11s. 9d. A hdeiv3lst December last per annum was declared . Since t a cau, which was made the capital had been augmented bY and by the issue with a view to more extended operations, and £BO,OOO paid, 6 per cent. of new shares to £lOO,OOO subscribeddivider of d considerable impetus. It and the business had received of a ssociation, had decided ievcetors, under the powers of the articles of marine insarance. upon entering into memorandum wasannounced and that t thh t ee h e d ,STRAND MUSIC special session yesterday to hear ap en.sthethi e refusal of licenses by the magistrates of sessional divisions. Morris Robe r t u s potty sess Syers ilt : nh p ea p eag o lvs ' a isa i tit e rgri d .:ati a gaiust the refusal of the justices of the Holborn renew a license under the 9th Geo. IV., cap. GI, to o isable liquors to the house and premises called 345, Strand. The refusal of to se " In some other cases the judg t.dhiireiv:lllloiellnlSlsterawnads b co lu n s fi i r c m l e fa d l . l, judg ment of the district magistrates was reversed. THE CAVALRY BARRACKS AT WINDSOR.—Her Majesty, during the recent inspection of the cavalry bar racks at Windsor, considered that ono room was not suffi cient fortho use of the married soldiers in the new quarters now building. Two rooms will, if possible, be allotted to each married trooper with a family when the quarters are aui§hed. SPQR' NG 11 ITELLIGENCE—This Da ICTORIA. CLUB IiETTLNG—Tius DAY, TWO THOUSAND. to 4 on Lord Lyons (offered) 6to 1 agst Janitor (taken and offered) 100 to 9 agst Freedom (taken) 25 to 1 agst Auguste (taken) 10 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's colt. DERBY. 40 to 1 agst Freedom (taken) CIIESTER CL - P. sto 1 itgst Redcap (taken) 6to 1 agst Delight (taken) 10 to 1 agst Dalby (taken) 12 to 1 agst Treasure Trove (taken) 25 to 1 agst Sandal (taken) 25 to 1 agst Gong (taken) 50 to 1 agst /foulsley (taken) Very little betting took place sill just the close o the rooms. Tho heavy settling occupied the whole of the morning, ELECTION COMMITTEES —This Day. CAMBRIDGE. The members of this committee, consistir ig Mr. Lowe (Chairman), Mr. J. D. Coleridge, SirJ. Fergusson, Mr. G. Goldney, and Lord Henley, as sembled for the first time this morning. There were three petitions, two of which had been withdrawn, and the present inquiry had reference solely to the petition of Colonel Torrens against the return of Mr. William Dougal Christie, who had been elected for the borough, on the ground that its election was null and void, inasmuch as he was dis qualified by holding the situation of standing coun sel to the Secretary of State for India. Mr. Vernon Harcourt,' Q.C., Mr. Fitzjames Stephens, and Mr. Chandos Leigh ware counsel fob the petitioner, who was an unsuccessful candidrA c at the last election ; and Mr. Hope Scott, Q.C. M r . Mellish, and Mr. Cooke for the sitting memb,er. Mr. Vernon Harcourt opened the case. He said that the present inquiry differed materially from those questions which election committees had to determine, and there would be no reference to " wolves" or " lambs." The sole question to try was one of constitutional law, and was to be decided, according to the 6th of Queen Anne, the spirit and certaiameaningC of ro w w h n ich n w pp er o e in to tm e e x n c t l s ud f e ro persons holding seats in Parliament, and if, as he m expected, x peoted, occupying he, would be able to establish that the office held by M r . Forsyth, inasmuch as he was indirectly the adviser for of the lndi Crown, wasth o n e _ o ; t through hose the Secretary of State t w h h a i t chle disqualifiedi referred. him At t accordinghelt election for Cam bridge a to e statute to bridge there were four candidates, including his client, Mr. Powell, Mr. Forsyth, and Mi. Christie, and Mr. Powell and Mr. Forsyth were the success ful candidates. A notice was duly affixed on the walls of the borough stating that Mr. Forsyth wa , ineligible, and after that notice it was quite useless to record any votes on his behalf. By the 21st and 22d Vict. cap. 106, a statute was passed entitled an " Act for the Better Regulation of India," which transferred the Government of India to the Crown in 1858. Mr. Forsyth received a salary of £5OO a year, and he contended that, as he advised the Crown de facto, it was evident that he was one of. those officials who were excluded from Parliament according to the statute of Aune. The learned counsel then proceeded to define the distinction between those holding office from the Crown and those holding office under the Crown, which latter alone were exeluded from Parliament, and to which he argued Mr. Forsyth belonged. He then cited the decision of Hallam and other eminent authori ties on constitutional law in support of his argu- ments, The committee will reassemble on Monday. REIGATE. The committee, which assembled yesterday for the first time, resumed its sitting this morning. The petitioner, Mr. Monson, was the unsuccessful candidate for the borough at the last election, and alleged bribery, undue influence, and treating against Mr. Leveson Gower, the sitting member. The first allegation was the only one with which it was proposed to connect Mr. Gower personally, and in support of it several witnesses were called. The committee will meet on Monday. NOTTINGHAM. Mr. Murdoch, Q.C., counsel for the petitioner, who commenced yesterday his reply on the whole case, resumed this morning, and had not concluded when we went to press. Liverpool Cotton Market. —This Day. The market is again depressed, and prices are about i below yesterday's rates. Sales probably 5,000 or 6,000 bales. BURKE TS. --This Day. COVENT GARDEN. Considering the time of year, the market was well sup_ plied with most kinds of produce. The trade is steady at our quotations : FRUIT—Pine apples, 8s to 10s; hot house grapes, —s to —s ; foreign do, is Od to 5s Od ; filberts, is 6d to 2s Od per lb ; apples, 2s Gd to 4s Od per half sieve ; oranges, 4s Od to 8s ; lemons, 3s Gd to 7s per 100. VEGETABLES—Red cabbages, Os Od to Os Od; white do., 8d to is 3d; greens, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; turnips, is 6d to 2s Od ; carrots, 4s Od to 5s Od per doz bunches ; brocoli, 10d to 1s ; rhubarb, 3d to Os 6d per bundle ; cucumbers, Gd to 3s 6d per bundle ; onions, is 6d to 2s Od per half sieve ; seakale, 9d to 1s Gd; new potatoes, is to is 3d per punnet ; turnip gieens, 6d to Bd. POULTRY. Turkeys, 5s Od to lOs Od; geese, Gs Od to 9s Od; ducks, 3s Od to 4s Od ; ducklings, 4s 6d to 6s ;tame rabbits, is to is 9d ; wild do, is Od to is 3d ; pigeons, 8d to is each ; Surrey fowls, 8s to 14s ; do. chickens, 8s to lOs 6d ; barn door fowls, 6s Od to 9s per couple. English eggs, 7s to 9s ; French do., Cs Od to 7s 6d per 100. Ostend fresh butter, 1s Od to is 2d ; English, is ld to 1s 4d per lb. BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, Os Od per lb; soles, 3s Od to 6s per pair; cod, 5s Od to 15s ; brill, 3s to 10s ; mullets, 2s 6d to 5s doreys, 2s 6d to lOs each ; turbot, 5 s Od to 21 s each ; whitings, 3s to 12s ; haddocks, 4s to 20s per dozen ; fresh herrings, gs to 12s per 120. NEWPORT. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 10d; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 2d; lamb, 7s to 8s ; veal, 4s 10d to bs 8d ; and pork, 4s Od to 58 ld per 81bs by the carcase. WHIT ECHAPEL. Beef, from 3s 4d to 5s Od ; mutton, 3s Bd. to 50 4d ; lamb, 7s to 8s ; veal, 4s 10,1 to bs 8d; and pork, 4s Od to 5s 4d per 81bs by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 7id. to Bd. ; of household ditto, 6d. to 7d. per 41bs. loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides 56 to GI lbs, 21d to 3d. ; 64 to 72 lbs, 3d to 3td. ; 72 to 801bs, 3d to 3id ; 80 to 881bs., 3id to 4d; 88 to 961b5., 4d to 4-id ; 96 to 1041b5., Od. to Od. Horse hides, 9s to 10s 6d; calf skins (light), 2s to 4s; full, 6s 6d d polled ow ns sheep,o 6d t O o s l o 2 d to B od Os 0 ;lambs, d ; a o l s f , 6d ls ; 10d. -tbore4ds,B 9d 12;s0Ohdeartcriiin4gss per d r . HAY. SMITIITIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 12s; s clo l v ott er, , £5 5s to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 180 to £2 53 per load, Demand inactive. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 15s Od; clover, £5 5s to £6 12s Od; and straw, .£2 Os to £2 5s per load. A fair inquiry. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow bay, £4 4s to £5 12s; clove £5 58 to £6 15s Od; and straw, £1 18s to £2 Trade slow. LONDON GELZETrE—Last Evening. FOREIGN OFFICE, A PRIL 11. sr le (lu"n h proveof D f o o n r h Mariano erli a_ Jes IIiCAX ty tho Queen S. .. iclodeAs en a sa be i as e 1:I ed Consul Plpleased at Southampton ap ' Th e Queen has als p o ain been pleased to approve of Mr. F. G. Prange as Vice-Consul at Liverpool for his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. ADMIRALTY, APRIL 7. Royal Mari ne Light Infantry—First Lieutenant and Quartermaster John Delves Broughton to be Captain, vice Se ymour, deceased ; second Lieutenant Harry Mont gomerie Clements t o be First Lieutenant., vies Broughton. First Lieutenant Win. Godfrey hale th b Az i n fa t tr l y l. Royal Marine Licht The undermentioned vine Broughton, promoted. ir s Lieuteant and Quartermaster, Aj a na ptain lo s . been placed on the Retired List of theirrank front the 31st and Commanders have March, 1866, under the • • Majesty's provisions of he r Orders in Council of Ist August, 1860, 9th Doug las,lB64, and 24th March, 1866 :—Captains -lienryJobn Thos. Edward Laws Moore, Richard Robert Quin, Edmund Gar diner Fishbourne, C.B , T. Chaloner, the Right Hon. Lord W. Compton, Henry R. Foote, W. A. Failowes, H. 0 - orYton. Commanders—Jokn Gustavus Ilarrison, George Kenyon, Philip de Sausmarcz, John Abelard Shears, John Hay Crang, Edmund Mortiiner .Leycester, Henry Laird Cox, William Henry Broad. The undermentioned L i eu tenants have been placed on the Retired List of their ra nk from the 31st M arc h, 1866, under the provisions of her Majesty's Orders in Council of Ist August, 1860, 9th July, 1864, and 24th March, 1866 Lieutenants St. Leger Aldworth, Charles Edward Powys, James Hector )(Kenzie Robertson, Charles James Fox Campbell, Arthur Kennedy, Richard Hoops, Thomas Sib bald, Charles Bissett Bayly, Daniel Butler Dawes, Herbert Thomas Ryves, Robert Ellis, James Ryon Kinsman, and William 7'v con Standlaidge. 100 et 20 201 10 100 100 5 100 all 100 100 100 1633.4 'OSS: 1272 73 i 1021 f 16 15 On 3 .;;~