The Sun. — London, England, 1866-03-07 00:00:00

NONEY iIARKET AND COMMERCIAL IN T ELLIGENOL. TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Discount Market continues to show a little animation, and the rates remain firm at 64 and 61 per cent. There appears to be little or no prospect of a change being made in the official minimum tu-morrow, and the brokers are therefore more willing to take long-dated bills at lower quotations than short descriptions. The sum of £15,000 in gold was sent into the Bank yesterday. In the City the question which is being eagerly discussed among all classes is what will the directors Of the Joint-Stock Di scoun t C ompany d eterm i ne ? . they continue with their business or resolve to wind up their estate, and, in Stock Exchange parlance, cut their loss ? From the large number of shares thrown upon the market and saleable at ss. and 10s. each, although £lO has been paid upon them, it would appear that the opinion of holders is for the latter course of proceeding. Two O'CLOCK. Although very little business has been negotiated in the English Stock Market, there is nevertheless a firmness in prices. The Funds have slightly reco vered, and are 861 1 for money, and 871 1 for the account in April. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 85 1 ; Exchequer Bills, 6s. to 3s. dis. ; b ank of England Stock, 249 251 ; India Stock, 20 8 210/ ; ditto 5 per Cents., 102 f ; and ditto Debentures, 100 f. Sales have principally predominated in the Fo reign Stock Market. Turkish 5 per Cents. are 38 1 ; Mexican, 221 1 ; do. New, 20/ 4. ; Greek, 16 i; Spanish Passive, 271 ; the Certificates, 161 ; Italian, 61/ 62 ; the Confederate Loan, 61 71 ; 13 razilian Scrip, 11 2 prem. ; Egyptian R a il wa y er il; f .1 prem. ; and the New Chilian Loan, 21 prem. United States Government 5-20 Bonds are 70 1 ; Erie Shares, 531 541; and Illinois, 77i 781. Business in the railway share market has re mained dull, but prices in some instances haveshown m ore firmness. South-Eastern, Midland, South- Western, Great Western, and Great Eastern, have each advanced 55., and Metropolitan 105. In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there le little variation of importance. East Indian have improved 55., and Great Indian Peninsula 10s. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue very quiet at, in some instances rather lower quotations. r-4 urepean are d ea l t i n at 121 ; Union of Aus tralia at 521 531 ; Union of London at 531 54 ; Joi nt Stock Di scoun t a t 1 11; National Discou n t C o m pany at 131 1; an d O veren d , G urney, and at 181 f. „The shar es o f th e I mper i al Land Company of Ilarseilles are quoted 34. 3i prem. ; and the Anglo- American Telegraph Company, 1 1 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 8 Clorsnxiszsr FUNDS. be n t Qent. Consols 8 '"o• Account, March 6 B6l 7 I,,„ i. .Pent. Reduced Bs} 5 f Neva 2 per Cent B5 f I i ''' T 2 1 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — 4 4 7,'" ° ' 0 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — hnnities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 . L 'h ° . fo 30 yrs, expire sth April, 13 5-16 k v -- ", ° cß i ed Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — -eLlectuer Bills, .£l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 6 3 Do. .f. 500 — Bad ° £lOO and £2OO of England Stock, 5 per Cent 1 i 0,249 51 In,Ll--4,04 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. c - ' 4I StO k, loi t per Cent., AprillB74 2OB 10} b e . A _ 1 0 -..., CCOUIIt b o ') Per Cent. July, 1870 b . .,- 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 bou• Certificates t ic flfaced Pap er 4 p er C en t to, 4 per Cent., J an . 1872 o c : oi- Per Cent., May 1879 — : beb, 4 per C bo'l3°'ads, £l,OOO ent., Aug. 1866 under .£l,OOO A .POREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. krZentino Republic, 6 per Cont. .£l5 pd pm 131.,tLi.an Bonds, 6 per Cent, 1809 — 5.: 41 , 4 11 5 per Cent — "' 1 . Per Cent. , 1852-58-60 Do, 1h -7 1863 D° I:1 1865 accou n t xd tilue4 Senp, £35 paid b 8 Ayres 6 per Cent Doi°' A.ce t oun 1(0 Bonds Claw Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 13 0 1 at , 6 Per Oeut — C01,,, ,, ' i 't per Cent 74 f eub n ' ul art 6 per Cent. — L a 4, 6 Per Cent. We, ~ Da h „-, . Per Cent., 1825 4 ,Mulan Principalities - -3,1. New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — tgv;:irrovisional Land Warrant — - 11„' 4 to 7 per Cent , leeeond Issue — •••' .£lOO Bonds 92} /D o Dcs. to tlOO bonds 1864 93} 1 93 I 1) 0 . ;rernraent Railway Debentures. — f re e k ' 9 , 15 paid Pm .0 0 ' Per Cents., 1824-5, ex C oupons r n h at o o: ,,,A c c i i c el o °N un linli t tg .4 0. ,_ 16 6f 4 %1' "" La ta 5 per Cent. lan ~1)0 1 ,. Per Cent, 1865 qo xi ,' "Laremmana Railway 6l} b a -a A ° 3 per Cent __ -irecount topn'''o igji .. , f " per Cent. ,0 0 ,. ; ` e ll, dean 6 per Cent., £3O paid r4 e . ' B . O . Tin i t a 5 per Cent / i . , per j3o%,tranada 321 1) 4 Per Cent Do i:- . ) . D D T . e ierred " 0 • 0 0 -4 ° , 1 Wan-ants (Hectares) b o APer Cent, 1864 — Pero,_-llaranteed, 4 per Cent b o • 1° 5 Per Cent., 1865 .bo. a aceount t;bo ~Per Cent. (Uribarren) — .13 n 9 " Per Cent., 1862 Ortt,- acc ount Do P ee ° 3 per Cent., 1853 D 0 Per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 41 1 ' Ac count ~4 410 .4 s 45 I f 4 Je 4 Per Cent., 1822, .£ St — 1) 0 , t t Per Cent 1850 1)0 Per Cent., 1860 izi b o ` 6 ' Per Cent. 1862 9O i 861 4 'clirt• Per Cent 1864 — op -lan 5 ati ii i, , Per Cent D Ac u Per Cent Do k c onnt IP -ew Deferred o A ec ount D ° Il aesiv e 4 ati o i 4e count BI A , t - '0 .&,_ert• of Coup not funded —} o. 16} f , t , be. 4. 1 4 Per Cent. — '430,15,Per Cent. 1864 be 4 c ," Per Cent. 1854 — 9`l}2 Do 6 ,out 1 ) Pcr Cent 1858 )3 ° o too l P 3o t do 661 ID 6 Per 11 0 A Cent. 1862 ' ec ount 67 b e R l°6 toads 671 1 1 21 - Per Cent. - . 1 3 5 pe_, 1863 — ;\ )° o 4 1.,....5 °ent., 1865, paid up Scrip 8 - 84. 8 v - ' fttnt ,t2iletr,,Cent. Guaranteed 9Bl Do to 4 . ° Per COLA. — ° Le ° l lllt 1)0. Dom et t•, 1862 11 / 1 t 1) (1.1E . 1864 371 81 4 i Pe . r ~t P ti N -videndsthe above payable in London. e i, 5. 0., 5 on 4) 4t,, ° “ 4 ,,n, 4 4. P 3 r Cent., Ex. 10 Florins 11 13 -o i l ! Pe,,r cent., Ex. 2sf. r e ° i h. °' "nut., Ex. 12 Guil _ It ! k ik , e t °ent. Certificates — ° Att nt e 45 p c c,r 3 per Cent. — 4 r ‘-ierit 1861 Ex. 25f. eo, e coillit , = 61{ f I i N ia _ b 0 THREE O'CLOCK. . for * 4koutliatoo037 861 ......... be T li rp ........ l'tl 41-II4TRES OF PARIS.—A circular has . just IS"elat4ctssi by the Count de Baci occhi, . superm- A t °I theatres to the directors of Paris. It announcer • eat'Pet' ' is named inspector, tc't' reh°2l assist le 15 Bourdon commissary-inspec- MM. Forges . and of r• tt e ~_, Btotta, and conformityli. with the regulations oftlpe 34Z 4 t . s ou t that i n g ene 4( / day " g 4 t, 1850, the authorities should be notified 4 ral a" hour at which will tske place the last three t he cft‘ I.(ihars ftis of every new work, iu order that one of 11StoNzt7.eials nientionedabove may be present. The (!1)::1'0 ivatructed to take measures that re hearsals ti ll :, e tl4: el:1111).1ot° as possible. The inspectors are to caked"Nis ttrreission only after a satisfactory performance, ttibetyloat.° ellan gel which they order shall have been Iq k Na t e l a kT ST. GERIIAIN.—A duel with swords '4%°1,.,, - P . few mornings back at St. Germain, be.. I ,-° 7 B,4l a . t i — d ar , ei .t'tY, a delegate i from one of the Frenc h the'i?!.se.loll f o re c o i unt Red e, deputy and member of a ia 471444), of !!! .by Count deChasseloup-Laubat, at 1:4 )1 , 4! tre ad, b at M ari ne. M. Reille was slightly wounded 14 4 i t: n!iti,i. Ts able to attend t . hesittings of the Cham tim ' l ath: ill b he meeting is said to have arisen from an Y . co/4 Y. the delegate that the viscount was not pre- Ne iii.Aut. ate ;hall 11 0 , r ivJ Nor 3eAtit 1 663. 'OOO. °per ed in ovi° cud • SHARE 'his Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share' Railways. i Pai Closing I Business paid,! Price. done. Bristol anti Exeter Caledonian Cambrian •• Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & A b. June E.London, ~trip Certi Do. 93 05 130 132 65 70 13 15 4 6 67 70 70 72 85 d Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 , Great Forth of Scotland Great Northern DJ. A stock Do. B stock Do. New, is. at 25 pm GtS, and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original D S. Val. Rail gua2 Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford Lane +shire & Yorkshire L.ndon and Blackwall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Western , Lon. & South Western Man., Shef., do Lincoln Metropolitan. Do. New Do. Extension 118 12) 381 39, 61 7a 121 126 14 14 B'3 00 1:9; 60 60 61 39 f 1 3$ 38 it 2 1 04 119} /20 87 8) 96 03 38 40 44 18 121 123 92 t 3 333 61 , 182 173 3 511; 1 97 49 Metropolitan District. Do do. Do. and St. John'sW'd Midland Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. Jt Derby id Kent [23 123, 2 21 93 95 'North British Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun. Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. G.N•E purchas€ Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... 61 63 7 28 LO9 110 Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 .. Do. do. 1865 North Staffordahire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock Do. Scot, Mid. stock Shropshire Union South Devon youth Eastern Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Ki!koala: Waterloo & Whitcha West Cornwall 391 i 59} 69/ I 59i 401 & 119 i 871 122 } 6' 132 k 3 22 f 231 1001 1 74 it 3n 6 124 BRITISH lAtlantjc St. Lawrence Bom.,paroda. fi Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent.. o. 1 shares Buffalo dc Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3- t ••• • • Calcutta & S. E., Um ..ape Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi Nast. Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian ' gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred ! Do: id" Ick - r. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred .... Do. 3d Pref. stock.... Do. do. deferred .... Do. 4th Pref. stook .. Do. do. deterred .... Gt.lndia Pen. gua. 5p.0. L'o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent D 4f per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada.. Da. New .. Do. 6 p. c. Bds- pay. 1873 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8.. Endian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 44 do Do. 4; do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Buds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay.. N. RI. C'da, fipc Ist pf. bs. Scinde ...... p• Do. Delhi Do. do 1 Do. Puniaub.... Do. Indus St. Flo COLONIAL GOVER; British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1572 Can.G 0v.6 p.c.Ja. & July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk Cape (;.Hope. 6 p.c. 1873 Do. Apl. &Oct 1890-190 G Do. do; 1880-9 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.c Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1.478 Do. 188?, Mayls, Nov. it , Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug.. Natal 'joy. 6 per cent.. N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja. &J al) N. S.W. Gov. 5 pv.,186t) Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1871, Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189. e New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent Nova ScJtia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 3. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-v Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July Do. do, April & Oct J BRIT! Cam. Consol. Bold, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated. Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Carn Brea 8 9 15 17 560 681 I 18 20 7 8 3 31 4 4 31 4 _.l I , :ast Grenville East Gunnislake... East Loved E. WI Russell (Tavlstk G am. & StA übyn(G wen. Great Laxey, Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (Heist , o Grenville_ Pr 06 3 31 5 7 20 21 14 2 34 4 3C 31 Sf 33 40 5 5 7 4 44 24 lod 35 40 11 15 Elerod's Foot Elingston Downs 1 Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley liwyndy Iron Ore, lim N ew Se ton North Roskear • N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crofty Prosper linited... . Providence UnyLelant 5. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (111o„cran Stray Park ........ . Tin Croft Vigra and Clvgan, lirn West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard West Chiverton West Seton. Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal !iary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis 32 34 390 410 2 x 38 22 9 11 19 20 4 6 3 4 8 10 75 165 175 80 95 25 274 3 5 2'5 215 16i 17i PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties EL, No. 2, 100 Great Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 10 per cent. pm., 106 Great Western, 5 per cent., rd. pi., 100 Gt. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford Ist guaranteed stock. 121 i London and Brighton, 5 pernent. kua. stock. No. Y„ 1082 4 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 6 per cent., Ditto, £6, 41 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Ditto, 411 per cent. stook rd., 06 North Eastern, West Hartlepool Harbour and Rail., 79/ PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOWE.% London and S.-Western li per c,ent.,191 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Preston and Wyre, 42 Royston, Hitch., and Shep., 125 FOREIGN RAILWAY& Antwerp and Rotterdam, 11} Dutch Rhenish, 22 Great Luxembourg, 16} San Paulo. lim., gua. 6 per cent., 16 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian,ll 6] I FOREIGN MINES. Australian, 111 Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 81 I Cobre Copper. 16 St. John del Rey, lira., 54 YudauanAutana of S. Australia, lira., DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 74e, BANKS: Bank of British Columbia, 21} Barned's Bank, lira. , 94 Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., ft Consolidated Bank, lira., 91 English and American, Rm. 6/ Eng ish Joint Stock, lira., F 1 European Bank, lim., 12,1 Imperial Ottoman, 13} Ditto, new, 121 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 1} London and laver Plate. Ditto, issued at pm., :II London Chartered Bank of Australia, 23 London and 11 estminster, V 6 Midland Bank, lira., Yu National Provincial of England, Ditto, d and 3d issue, 4511 Provincial of Ireland, 83 Union of Australia, 5 t/si 2i Union of London, 51 3, MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gna., 21 a Canada Company, 88 Ceylon Company, Ditto, A shares, 2i ' Credit Foncler and 61obilier of England, 81 Ebbw Vale, 81 Egyptian Com. and Trading, lira., Gen. Credit and Finance of L•madon, lim.. 4al Hudson's Bay, 17a Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lim.. 51 a International Financial Society, lim., 5} International Land Credit, lim., 6 Joint Stock Discount, lim., 1 la London Financial Association, lim., 122 National Discount Company, 13k Overend, Gurney, and Co.. Jim., 18i I Peninsula and Oriental Steam, --„, • Ditto, new. 5) Royal Mail Stearn, 120 Submarine Telegraph, 55 Telegraph Construction and Maintenance, lint, Ditto (£12 . , 2 11k Thames and Mersey filaririe) Insurance, 71 70 72 103 108 35 37 101 1140 122 125 11 21)1 11 2p 75 77 11 12 148 149 69 71 112 114 51 53 75 76 8 9 41 144 3 t p 102 104 51 63 ESSIONS. 53 60 99i 1001 fd fp 71 8 10 11 74 78 96 98 66 70 100 102 100 101 102 101 35 38 87 90 68 70 60 63 62 61 53 56 48 51 44 4 7 38 40 36 38 107 ICB * I I P c 9 100 91 93 17/ in 31-i 52 II 84 e 6 1 do 99 10t 90 82 86 88 64 66 8 , 82 981 991 98 09 I Li 98 99 361 6 1091 1 10 71 ; rT SECUE 94 96 93 96 95 97 t 0 52 73 SO 101 103 104 105 104 105 101 103 90 92 101 103 106 1,8 102 104 103 105 103 105 IC4 106 93 101 93 95 93 95 87& E 8 100 102 84 84 cs 100 98 100 IC4 106 ..... - Mg 1076 NE S. 633.4 ross: 'MEN 3H BE 2.1.0 29j 2.14.fs 3} 2.14.0 8.3.0 3.9.0 10.8.3 all 0.14.6 14.9.6 8.18.0 8.10.0 5.10.6 13.17.6 4.10.6 2f 41} 4.4.15 2.13.( 7.1.6 10.6.7 11 3.2.0 18.18.9 LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. The Late Dr. Whewell. AB COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before Sir J. P. Wylde and a Special Jury.) After the unfavourable report we published yes terday, the news of Dr. Whewell's death can create little surprise, though the event must still excite a shock among Cambridge men all over the world, who had associated him with their recollections of the University. The Master of Trinity was the head of the residents at Cambridge no less by the vigour of his intellect and the range of his acquire ments than by his position as the head of the greatest College, and the place he held in academic society was due more to himself than to his office. His towering figure was one of those soonest known by the undergraduate, who had heard of his renown long before he came into residence, and when he quitted the University at the end of his career the Master of Trinity was- the man above all others whom he remembered as the representative of Cam bridge learning and Cambridge dignity. Half a century has passed since Dr. Whewell himself took his degree. He was born at Lan caster in 1795, and his career may' be taken as evidence of what could at all times be accom plished, even in the most unreformed condition of our educational institutions. His parentage was humble, and it is said that his father intended to de vote him to his own handicraft, but he was sent to the Free Grammar School of Lancaster, and pro ceeded in due course to Trinity College. His posi tion in the Mathematical Tripos as Second Wrangler, followed by the acquisition of the Second Smith's Prize, proved the possession of the intellectual powers which he cultivated up to the day when he suffered the accident which has since proved fatal. That a Second Wrangler should be in due time Fellow and Tutor of his Collegeis a matter of course, but Mr. Whewell possessed an intellectual vitality which was not satisfied with the mere work of a College Tutor. In 1828 he was elected Professor of Mineralogy, succeeding to the chair which had been founded for Dr. Clarke, and when the British Association was formed he was requested to draw up a report on the condition of that science. It was in connection with the British Association (of which he was President in 1841) that he drew up the Report on the Tides, and on the Mathematical Theories of Heat, itiagnetism, and Electricity, which rank among the first of his mathematical produc tions. Before this he had been chosen to write the Bridgwater Treatise on Astronomy, and it is, perhaps, this circumstance which first suggested to him the History of the Inductive Sciences, published in 1837, followed in 1840 by the Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, which are undoubtedly the works by which he will be best known in after years. In 1832 he resigned the professorship of Mineralogy, but in 1838 accepted the Professorship of Moral Philosophy, which he held till 1855. In 1841, during the Minis try of Sir Robert Peel, he was nominated to the Mastership of Trinity on the resignation of Dr. Wordsworth, and in his position he took an active part in introducing into Cambridge the new studies which have since been recognised by the institution of the Natural and Moral Science Triposes. As Pro fessor of Moral Philosophy he founded prizes for the encouragement of that study, which he himself always pursued with avidity. He edited Sir James Mackintosh's Introduction to the Study of Ethical Philosophy, published a couple of volumes of his own on Morality, and among his latest productions were some translations of the Ethical Dialogues of Plato. If we add to the list, in which we have taken no notice of mere University text-books, Lectures on Political Economy, delivered at the desire of the late Prince KITCHENS V. KITCHENS. The Queen's Advocate and Dr. Wambey were counsel for the petitioner, and Mr. Sergeant Parry and Dr. Tristram for the respondent. In this case the husband, Amelius Hitchens, prayed for a dissolution of marriage by reason of the adultery of his wife, who denied and recrimi nated the charge, and further pleaded desertion and cruelty. From the opening statement of counsel, it ap peared that the party with whom the respondent was alleged to have committed adultery was unknown, and the Court considered that it was a case in which the name of a co-respondent might be dis- pensed with under the power vested in the Court. The petitioner was the son of Captain llitchens, who had formerly been in the East Indian army, and the petitioner was his only child. The marriage was solemnised at Woolwich on the 26th of April, 1861, the petitioner being then in his 17th year, and the respondent, who was the daughter of a washerwoman who worked for the military at Woolwich, was 26. At the time of the marriage the respondent was living with her mother, who was a widow, and the other occupants of the house were a spinter sister and a child 10 years of ago, of whom nothing was known. On the marriage coming to the knowledge of the parents, they refused to receive the petitioner or his wife, or to make them any pro vision, but eventually the father consented to allow them £2 ss. a week, on the condition of their ceasing to live with the wife's family. The parties led cat-and-dog life, and it was agreed that they should separate on the 30th May, 1862, Capt. Hitchins agreeing to allow the respondent 10s, a week, and to provide for a child with which she pretended to be pregnant. The petitioner and his father had been since living iu America, and he had not cohabited with his wife since their separation. The respondent had removed with her mother and sister to Boulogne-sur-Mer ostensibly with the view of establishing a school there, and on the 26th July, 1863, a child was born, of which it was alleged that the respondent was the mother. Up to this time the respondent's allowance had been regularly re mitted to her, but circumstances were discovered which led to a suspicion of her adultery. Mrs. Hitchens, the mother of the petitioner, said that she was at present living in Bond-street, Brook street, and proved the age of her son, and his re sidence in America for the last two years. Mr. Arthur Walker, of the firm of Walker and Mortimer, :proved having remitted the money to the respondent. Some other evidence having been adduced, the case was dismissed with costs. SHERIFF'S COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) RAILWAY LAW.—A NOVEL POINT.--•PALbIER V. THE LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAIL- WAY COMPANY. 4is was an action to recover compensation in damages for loss upon certain goods carried by the company. Plaintiff said that the goods had been consigned to him by a firm in the country, and when they were delivered he found them damaged by the rain. His Honour—Have you any evidence as to the condition of the goods when sent to you? Plantiff—No, but I know they were damaged by rain when I received them. An attorney's clerk, who appeared for the com pany, contended that plaintiff was not the proper person to sue. Consort before the Prince of Wales and other stu. dents ; an edition of the works of Richard Jones on Political Economy, Arch itectural Notes on Churches in France and Germany, and Some Specimens of English Hexameters, published in a book containing similar efforts by Sir John Herschel, the late Arch deacon Hare, and Mr. Lockhart, we may give some idea of his extraordinary versatility and industry. Men of such wide and varied attainments as Dr. Whewell possessed are always open to the suspi cion of being but superficially acquainted with some of the branches of knowledge on which they write, and the Master of Trinity was sometimes disparaged as Leibnitz was in his day. The saying that " Science was his forte and Omniscience his foible" is well known, though it had, in truth, less real ground than even epigrams usually have. Dr. Whe well was doubtless not uniformly great, but he reached a high degree of excellence in everything he attempted. It is probable that defects in his man ners encouraged those who were ready to disparage what they were unable to measure. Dr. Whewell was at times disposed to overbear opponents, and for some years his influence in the University was marred by resentment against this defect. At the same time he often exhibited au urbanity which, coupled with hiq universal knowledge, made him a delightful companion. Much must be allowed to a man who is compelled to tolerate persons much his inferiors in ability ; but Dr. Whewell must be allowed to have exhibited an occasional disdain of those who might fairly be deemed on some subjects his equals. This was in part, however, probably attributable to the high estimation in which he held the College of which he was the head, and which was wholly free from any alloy of per sonal vanity. He was prouder of Trinity College than of any of his works, and would have sacrificed everything to magnify it. And it must be added that he endowed it with almost Royal munificence. Some seven or eight years since he built, at his own expense, a hostel for the reception of some of the overflowing students of Trinity, who had been com pelled to live in lodging s for want of rooms in Col lege, and at the time of his death he had commenced still larger works by way of addition to the former building, which he had unwillingly deferred in con sequence of difficulties in obtaining the necessary site, but the completion of which, we have reason to believe, he took care to provide should be inde pendent of the accident of his death. Dr. Whewell was twice married and twice a widower. His first wife was Miss Marshall, a sister of Lady Alonteagle, and he caused a mortuary chapel in the Cemetery at Cambridge to be built after his own designs as a memorial of his affection. She died in 1854, and he married secondly, in 1858, the widow of Sir Gilbert Affieck, a sister of the late Mr. Leslie Ellis, himself a Fellow of Trinity, whose virtues and his rare abilities are treasured by his friends, and not least when alive by Dr. Whewell. His second wife died on the Ist of April last. The Mastership is in the gift of the Crown, and is worth about £3,000 a year. His Honour ruled that this was so, and that the consignor had his remedy against the company. Plaintiff was non-suited. THE CALIGRAPHIC MYSTERY-JONES v. SAMUELS. This was action to recover an amount for cutting a block as a kind of advertisement of defendant's business. Plaintiff said he had received an order for a block of a card containing a caligraphic mystery, which defendant intended to use as a means of advertising. Defendant said he did give an order for the block to be drawn but not to be cut, and plaintiff cut it without any order. Plaintiff said that at first advertising by means of caligraphic mysterious cards was a novelty, but now it was common, and so defendant refused to receive the work. His Honour said it was a ease for a jury and adjourned it. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CURIOUS CHARGE OF STEALING A CHEQUE. - Eleanor Hudson, a good looking young woman, was charged, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with stealing a cheque for £3 10s., the property of Mr. Charles Napper Thomas, a student at St. Mary's Hospital, and residing at No. 16, Porteous-road, Paddington. The Prosecutor said—Last night I was walking in the " market" (the Haymarket), when the priso ner came up and asked me to treat her. I said I had no money, but that if I could get a cheque cashed I would do so. I handed her tho cheque to look at, and she then said she could get it cashed, and refused to give it to me back, and on my saying I would give her into custody, she tore the cheque in two and threw it away, and I have only been able to recover one half of it. I then gave her into custody. Mr. Tyrwhitt--What time was it ? Prosecutor—Half-past one. Mr. Tyrwhitt--That's the time they change bankers' cheques in the Haymarket, I suppose ? Prosecutor —Yes. The Accused—l met the prosecutor at the top of the Haymarket, and he gave me what he calls a cheque. I said " Oh, this is nothing but a bit of paper," and threw it down, and then he gave me in charge. I was only in his company two minutes. The constable came up and picked up the piece of paper. - Bennett, 43 C—The prisoner was given into my custody in Coventry -street for stealing a cheque. She said the prosecutor gave her the cheque in the Haymarket, and then said she had not got it. I af terwards found on the ground a portion of it. The prosecutor and prisoner were both in liquor. Mr. Tyrwhitt—l do not wonder at your being given into custody, but I shall discharge you. THAMES. THE SMOKE NUISANCE ACT.--Mr. John Wright, ropemaker, of.Millwall, Poplar, appeared before Mr. Partridge, upon au adjourned summons taken out by Inspector Beare, of the K division, and which charged the defendant with having a furnace in use on his premises, so constituted as not to burn or consume its own smoke. When the case was first heard it was proved by Inspector Beare, by a police constable, and by Mr. William Sandison, engineer, in the service of the Government, that dense volumes of black smoke issued from the defendant's chimney shaft, and that it was a nuisance to the locality, and complained of by the inhabitants. Mr. Wright promised to abate the evil if time was given. He was allowed a month to make the inecessary alterations. It was now announced that the furnaces had been fitted with an apparatus from the firm of Wright and Co., patent smoke-consuming apparatus manufac turers, of Shepherd's-lane, Homerton, and that the performance of the apparatus in consuming the smoke was complete. Under these circum stances, it was suggested that a nominal penalty would satisfy the Crown. Mr. Partridge—Then, the defendant has made his own smoke-consuming apparatus. The defendant—No, sir ; the Wrights of Homer ton are my namesakes. I have no interest in this patent, except in the apparatus for my furnaces. Mr. Sandison, who had, by agreement, been paid by the defendant for his last inspection, said the result of the alterations and the new apparatus was highly satisfactory. He begged leave to state that before the new apparatus was fixed, the smoke nui sance had existed a long time. There were two chimney shafts continually smoking. Mr. Partridge—l am glad the nuisance is abated, but the nominal fine must be 40s. and costs. These cases impose great trouble and inconvenience on the authorities and the remedy is generally very late. MARKE TS.--This Day. MARX LANE. A fair average supply of English wheat was on sale here to-day in moderately good condition. The trade, on the whole, ruled steady, and Monday's currency was well supported. The market was fairly supplied with foreign wheat. For most qualities there was a fair demand, and prices ruled firm. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair demand, at full prices. The supply of barley on sale was very moderate. The trade for all descriptions was ♦ery firm, and the quotations had an upward tendency. Malt was in fair demand, at extreme rates. Oats were in good supply, and the demand ruled steady, at full prices. . Both beans and peas met a slow sale, at Monday's cur rency. . . The flour trade was quiet, oa former terms. aur ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. IVheat.Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 910 1120 1390 240 620 Irish - 260 Foreign 1450 770 11,590 40 sks. bls. COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN. For the week ending March For the corresponding week 3, 1866, last year. Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver. Wheat 69,205-45 s 7d Wheat .......87,168-38 s 6d Barley 48,306-34 s lid Barley 55,640-28 s lld Oats 10,530-23s sd, Oats WHITECRAPEL. Tho supply of meat on sale is somewhat extensive. Most descriptions are in fair demand, at the annexed rates : Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s ad; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 4d; veal, 4s Od to 5s 4d; and pork, 3s 8d to 5s 2d per 81bs by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. The market for all kinds of hops rules quiet. In prices, as compared with _Monday, very little change has taken place. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AIARCII 7, 1866. .ent. Soon after midnight on Monday a special train left Euston station upon a strangely exceptional errand. More than a hundred skilled workmen and labourers, marshalled by gangers, contractors, and agents, took their seats in it, in ordered fashion, but with a mysterious and determined air, as if some more than usually weighty business were on hand. One carriage was devoted to stout tools and imple ments, and the train, thus freighted, reached Tring at 1.30 yesterday morning. A procession was formed at the station—each man shouldering a crowbar or other implement—and a compact phalanx, 120 strong, marched out, two and two, into the moon light. A walk of three miles brought them to the side of Berkhampstoad Common,nearest to Ashridge park, the seat of Earl Brownlow ; and the objects of the expedition were then first made known to the rank and file. The greater portion of this common, occupying a space some two miles in length and from three-quarters of a mile to a mile and a half broad, was enclosed a fortnight ago by Earl Brownlow ; and we learn that Mr. Augustus Smith, of the Scilly Islands, as the owner of an estate near, and therefore as a commoner acting in concert with his neighbours, had determined to test his lordship's right to this course in a very practical way. The whole of the iron railings, consisting of stout " uprights," five feet high, and with broad metal bands at close intervals between each, were to be thrown down before daylight, Mr. Smith and the commoners taking all responsibility, chartering the train, and engaging the men. These last were told off in detachments a dozen strong; the substantial joints of the railings were first loosened by hammers and chisels, and the crowbars did the rest. Before 6 o'clock yesterday morning the whole of the enclo sure was levelled to the ground ; each stout upright having the metal bands, its tributaries, first neatly folded round it, and then being laid upon the turf it had recently served to close in. It was 7 o'clock before the alarm was given, and . by the time Mr. Paxton, the late Sir Joseph Paxton's brother, and Earl Brownlow's steward, appeared upon the scene Berkhamptead Common was enclosed no longer. It was too late to do more than protest against the alleged trespass, and this was energetically done. Meanwhile the news spread, and the inhabitants of the adjacent village and dis trict flocked upon the scene. In carriages, gigs, dog-carts, and on foot, gentry, shopkeepers, hus- bandmen, women, and children, at once tested the reality of what they saw by strolling over and squatting on the common, and cutting and taking away morsels of gorse, to prove as they said, " the place was their own again." The cost of the three miles of iron railing removed is said to have been more than a thousand pounds ; and that of its re- moval must have been considerable. Whatever may be the result of this daring return to what is called " old constitutional form," and however it may be viewed by the legal authorities before whom it will be speedily brought, it must be regarded as one of the most decided and vigorous protests against alleged usurpation which have occurred in our own prosaic, peaceful, and order-loving times. —Daily News. Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day, Market opens very strong. Sales probably 12,000 or 15,000 bales. BREECH-LOADING RIFLES.—In most of the Par liamentary reports published yesterday the name of an in ventor of a breech-loading rifle which was favourably spoken of by the Marquis of ilartington, was spelt Schneider instead of Snider. The former name would lead the public to imagine that the inventor is a Gorman, whereas he is of American birth. HEALTH OP THE METROPOLIS. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.) In the week that ended on Saturday, March 3, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,409 ; the deaths registered 3,620. The annual rate of mor tality was 31 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,026 boys and 1,061 girls, in all 2,087 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of 10 years, 1856-65, the average number, corrected for increase of population, was 2,172. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,545. It was the ninth week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with correction for increase of population, 1,481 The actual number returned for the week is in ex cess of the calculated number by 64. The recent coldness of the weather accounts for the increase of the mortality. The deaths had been less than 1,400 in the first and second weeks of February, but they rose to 1,630 in the third week, and now there is a decrease of nearly 100 deaths on the last number. In the last three weeks the deaths from bronchitis were successively 131, 210, and 230 ; those from pneumonia in the same time 59, 95, and 60; from phthisis 170, 214, and 201. The mean temperature in each of the last four weeks was 45.8 deg., 38.9 deg., 36.2 deg., and (last week) 34.4 deg. In the first six weeks of the year the mean weekly temperature was only in one instance below 43 deg. The air became decidedly colder in the se cond week of February. Small-pox was fatal in 16 cases ; measles in 43 ; scarlatina in 35 ; typhus in M ; diarrhoea in 24. At 20, Sidney-grove, Islington, on 20th February, the widow of a blacksmith, aged 69 years, died of " embolism of pulmonary artery, accelerated by destitution." (Inquest.) The following 7 deaths by carriage accidents were registered in the week :—The son of a carman, aged 17 years, killed by the upsetting of a van ; died on the 26th February in the East India-road, Poplar. A carman, aged 42 years, run over ; died on the 24th February in the West London Hospital. A pauper, aged 75 years, run over ; died on 26th February in the Broadway, Hammersmith. A cab driver, aged 21 years, thrown from a cab in the City-road by collision with another cab ; lived 20 hours; died 19th February in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. A fishmonger, aged 47 years, fell from a. cart in the Strand ; lived 32 hours ; died on 23d February in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. A car man, aged 34 years, injured from the blow of a waggon wheel ; died on the 25th February in the London Hospital. The daughter of a cabinet maker, aged 5 years, knocked down by a cart ; died on 27th February in the London Hospital. The annual rate mortality last week was 26 per 1,000 in London, 27 in Edinburgh, and 32 in Dub lin ; 29 in Bristol, 33 in Birmingham, 45 in Liver pool, 37 in Manchester, 37 in Salford, 35 in Sheffield, 39 in Leeds,26 in Hull, 36 in Newcastle upon-Tyne, and 33 in Glasgow. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.331 in. The barometric pressure was 29.71 in. on Sunday, and it fell to 29.01 in. on Wednesday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 34.4 deg., which is 3.6 deg. below the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was below the average on every day after Sunday ; and on Wednesday the amount of defect was 8.6 deg., on Thurs day as much as 11.9 deg. On the last five nights the thermometer fell below the freezing point of water; on Thursday the temperature was as low as 22.5 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 5.5 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 80, complete saturation being represented by 100. The wind blew on Sunday and Monday from the south-west ; afterwards generally from the north-east. The rainfall was 0.74 in., most of it on Sunday and Tuesday. Snow fell on three days. FROGMORE HOUSE.--The improvements and al terations at Frogmore House, consequent upon the conver sion of that royal abode into a future residence for Prince Christian and her Royal Highness Princess Helena, are to be commenced forthwith. The Queen and Princess have just paid a visit to Frogmen in order to suggest the ne cessary alterations. CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS.—The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. Thomas C. Prickard, M.A., late curate of Wilby, near Wickham Market, Suffolk, to the rectory of New Radnor, South Wales, rendered vacant by the resignation of the Rev. George Richard Turner, who has accepted the Crown living of Kelshall, near Royston, Hertfordshire. SEIZURE OF A FENIAN COUNCIL—DUBLIN, Tuesday Night.—Another Fenian council was broken up to-night in a public-house on Cork Hill. The brother of the proprietor and 27 others were arrested. There was no resistance. Numerous clergy in South Devon have agreed to accept the certificate of the registrar instead of banns in church, and to celebrate the marriage ceremony on the pro duction of such certificate. They have further agreed that no fees either for banns or certificate be charged in the parish where the raarrioge is not celebrated. :.2i 78 51 101 1052 42 (Si ITIES. 'TIMID EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. LIVERPOOL RACES—Tars DAT. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. WELTER CUP. Malvern Clown PacquPt Moorgarne 1 SEFTON HANDICAP. Caustic Three per Cont Bishoptou 3 T welvo ran. HURDLE RACE. Cutaway.. Benazet.... 5kiff........ GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. Salamander Cortolvin ............. Creole.. Thirty ran. V Won by ten lengths; five lengths between second and third. TWO-YEAR -OLD PLATE. Sagitta Lady Betty filly .................................. Highland Lass ................................... ............ 3 HANDICAP PLATE. ................. .. 1 Venturesome Indian Star Panacea Won ca v—. ........................ 1 , ......................... 3 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS-THIS DAY The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. ARMS OF VOLUNTEERS. Major DICKSON, on, behalf of Colonel Lindsay, gave notice of his intention to call the attention of the house to the present unprotected state of the places devoted to the care of the large amount of arms in the possession of rifle volunteers. CHURCU RATES BILL. Mr. HARDCASTLE rose to move the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to abolish the collection of church rates. In introducing the measure the hon. member reviewed the different bills that had been unsuc cessfully submitted to Parliament to deal with the griev ance, and said ho had come to the conclusion that the only way of dealing effectively with the matter was to totally abolish church rates. It had been said that the total abolition of church rates would weaken the connexion between the Church and State, but this he could not admit. As an illustration of his view he asked hon. members whether church cess in Ireland had weakened the Irish Church ? Tho commuta tion of tithes, he contended, had not weakened the clergy. He was of opinion that the reform of certain arrangements did not as a necessity weaken those arrangements ; on the contray, he believed that reform had tended to strengthen them, and therefore ho could not think that the connection of the Church with the State would in the slightest degree be endangered by the total abolition of church rates. The Dissenters had no desire to interfere with any voluntary fund that might be contributed for the repair of the Church. As long as church rates existed it was a source of bitterness amongst Churchmen and Dissen ters, and an evil of a social nature greater than that there could not be. (Hear, hear.) He was in posses sion of information with respect to the collection of church rates that showed they were calculated to do the greatest damage to the Church. In one case a poor labourer had had his home nearly all swept away and sold by auc tion because he refused to pay Is. 3/d. for church rates. Believing the present system fraught with the greatest evil, he moved the second reading of the bill. j. Mr. GILPIN seconded the motion. He congratulated the house upon the manner in which the seconding read ing had been moved, and also upon the respect and high position of the right hon. gentleman who was that day to lead the opposition (Mr. Walpole). Ho thought the time had arrived when the Church ought to assent to the pro posal. (Hear,, hear.) He (Mr. Gilpin) was no enemy to the Church of England except to her supremacy. Those with whom he was associated did not desire toleration— they did not want it. (Hear.) What they required was equality, and that, he contended, was their right. Free men should ask for nothing more—freemen should be con tent with nothing less. He therefore hoped the house would agree to the second reading of the bill. Mr. WALPOLE moved as an amendment that the bill be read a second time that day six months. If the law was oppressive and unjust, steps could be taken to remedy it without actually repealing the law itself. The last Par liament had come to a resolution that it would not be ex pedient to abolish church rates without providing an equi valent., and that decision, ho considered, ought to be respected. He thought the true object of the agitation on the motion was not an amicable settlement of the motion in dispute, but tho great aim and object of the Liberation Society, the great promoters of the agitation, was the severance of the con nection that at present existed between the Church and State. The bill, he considered, was calculated to defeat its intended object, that it would impair the Church and be productive of the greatest evil rather than the slightest good. He therefore hoped the house would not give its sssent to the second reading. Mr. DU CANE seconded the amendment, and, in doing so, remarked that his side of the house had hold out the olive branch to the abolitionists until their arms had fairly ached, and all to no purpose. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he did not rise on that occasion to speak on the part of the Go vernment, because it was thought injudicious to bring for ward a measure on this subject without there was some clear view of arriving at a successful conclusion. He there fore spoke as an individual member of the house, and in doing so he must be permitted to say that he had never known a matter so much debated as that now under dis cussion upon which so little legislation bad take place. He deprecated the discussion of the matter as to the theory of Church and State, and he also objected to the intro duction of the question of the franchise being introduced into the present complicated question. (Hear, hear.) Ac cording to the speech of the hon. member who had just sat down, his argument came in brief to the following, vie., that the Church was quite safe within the walls of that house as long as they kept tho nation out. (Loud laughter.) Ho thought it hardly creditable to the country—hardly creditable to the Legislature or to the good sense of the house that such a state of things should have so long existed. He thought that if some plan could be decided on . for retaining the machinery of church rates, but rejecting the compulsory power of enforcing them, then a solution of the question might be looked for. (Hoar, hear.) He could not vote for the bill of his hon. friend, because its object was the simple abolition of church rates without any other provision ; but he suggested to the hon. gentleman opposite to say, now the door was open, how far they wero prepared to go, and then per haps there would be some hope of arriving at a satis factory termination of this much-vexed and long talked of subject. Mr. B. HOPE suggested to the hon. member, who had moved the second reading, the advisability of postpon _ ing his motion in order to ascertain whether some mea- sure acceptable to both parties could not be brought for ward. Mr. BRIGHT said the discussion had shown one thing most conclusively, the church rates could not be main tained upon good and solid argument. The right hon. member for Cambridge University had admitted them to be a tax on Dissenters, and that being so it had been ex- pressed in other quarters that a compromise might b 3 made, but he felt certain all compromise was now impossible. Without compromising the prin ciple he thought there might be a way of doing it. For years ago ho himself had done pretty much the same as the Chancellor of the Exchequer had done that day, as at that time he made a proposition to the house to get rid of the magistrate, the summons, and the bailiff—in fact s getting rid of the compulsory power of collecting church rates. (Hear, hear.) If they agreed to that aththneoo the present time, he was certain that in five years v churchesat presentould . be (Hear,in ag hear.)oo d a s state, if notn years hence the churches would be in a good state, if not bettebetter u l t e d h than T h er were a ho so they had had tom e d a n n s f be fi s v p e a spared d s the d taryosu forblthe e oft discussing,ithatthere t time, it , five and as twenty years, this miserable subject of the abolition of church rates. The to alclonnw it herse tn p roposed goto was to t e e a e d , the and bd I a second might bo so altered that the compulsory powers might be altogether and entirely removed. (Hear, hear.) If this course was adopted, he was certain that an end would be put to those unhappy bickerings and heartburn hags which have so long existed. (Hear, hear.) 'The Church would not be injured, and the glrtstly spectre of the Liberation Society would at once be laid. (Laughter.) Mr. G. HARDY said he could not consent to the course proposed by the hon. member for Birmingham. With re spect to the suggestions of the Chancellorof the Exchequer, he would like to know if the:hon. gentlemattwould embody them in a bill, and submit the measure for the approval,of Parliament. He thought it idle for the right hon. gentle man, holding the distinguished position which he did in the Government and the country, to come fcrward and say he made the suggestion merely as an individual member, and not as the organ of her Majesty's Government. Mr. MORLEY said he was quite prepared to accept the suggestion thrown out by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. HARDCAS rLE said he should be inclined to give every consideration to the course that had been proposed, but he did not think that he was the proper person to draw out the resolution. Mr. DISRAELI said the house would do well to know the exact queition upon which they were called upon to HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. The SPEAK.EIt took tho chair at four o'clock. LONDON (CITY) CORPORATION GAS BILL. On the motion fox/the second reading of this bill, Mr. CRAWFORD said that after the second read ing ho should move that the bill be then com mitted to a select committee of twelve members, of whom five shall be nominated by the committee of se ' lection, and that it bo an instruction to the coznmitteo inquire into the operation and results of the Metrop ohs Gis Act, 1860, in order to ascertain whether they, h ave divided more than 10 per cent., as settled by that Act. The honourable gentleman then stated the ob jectionable manner in which the City of London had been supplied with gas, and that all complaints were useless. The corporation had determined to take the matter into their hands, and the present application to Parliament was the result. Many of the' great companies made considerable profits, and had divided more than the maximum allowed by the act ; therefore the public had boon precluded from all reduction of the price of the article. He could not see why the gas companies should object to the committee, provided they had not divided more than 10 per cent. profit as allowed by the act. if they had divided more than that sum they had, in point of fact, charged the public more than they had a right to do, because the act expressly laid it down distinctly that after that percentage had been paid all surplea should go in reduction of the price to be charged for ..he article to the consumer. The Corporation of London feel ing that the grievance had become unbearable—that the article supplied was of the commonest description, Whilst the price charged was much higher than the companies had a right to charge —had thought it eight to come for ward and ask Parliament for powers to deal with such am. oppressive monopoly. Viscount CRANBOURNE thought the house had agreed to certain proposals with respect to the existing companies, and therefore it would be a breach of faith for Parliament to sanction this bill. He was by no moans satisfied about the quantity of the article supplied to the consumer. Yet he could not consent to the bill, which would only disturb without improving, the matter co m pl a i ne d of. , Mr. ADAIR strenuously opposed the bill being read a second time. Alderman LAWRENCE supported the second roadin He said the great gas companies seemed to be afraid of going before a committee, or else they would not object so strenuously to the bill going before a committee. The gas companies supplied a pure article to the House of Commons, whilst that supplied to the general consumer was of a greatly inferior quality. The groat gas com panies might depend that demands would continue to be made to Parliament until the present monopoly was broken up. Sir G. GREY thought there would be no breach of faith in reading the bill a second time, and he thought the best course to adopt was to allow the bill to go before a committee as proposed. Mr. ROEBUCK said, from the appearance of the house, it was quite clear it had been packed for the occasion, (Hear, hear.) And by whom had it been packed ? Why, by the gas companies. (Hear, hear.) They had taken members by the button and asked them to vote, and, such being the case, he asked the house if it was consisent with its own honour that they should allow such a proceeding ? He asked the house, therefore, to study its honour before they con sidered the propriety of extending the existence of a very intolerable monopoly. Mr. CRAUFURD opposed the second reading of . the bill. (Divide.) Mr. AYRTON rose amidst loud cries of " Divide," and said he should support the proposition, because he was cer tain without some parties possessed of large funds appeared before the committee little good would be done. The City of London wanted to combat the gas companies, they said, in the benefit of the public generally, as it was the first time they had ever passed from gastronomy to gas. (Loud laughter.) He hoped the house would give them the opportunity of spending this money usefully, and agree to the second reading of the bill. (Loud laughter.) The house then divided, when there appeared-- For the second reading Against it Majority -26 The bill was then road a second time, and ordered to be referred to the committee as proposed by the hon. member for the City of London. MID-LONDON RAILWAY BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Earl GROS VENORohjected to the proposal, and moved as an amendment that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Ile said it passed through the metropolis for about three miles, all of which ground was now covered with houses, it would cross Bond-street and Hanover square, and it was possessed of capital to the amount of £3,000,000, but he thought that there were certain lines yet to be completed before they could judge of the advisability of Parliament giving its assent to the bill now under discussion. Lord STANLEY said until the inner circle of railway, which had already received the sanction of Parliament, had been constructed it would be impossible to arrive at the conclusion that the present railway was required. The Mid-London Railway would interfere greatly with private property and trade, and create the greatest incon venience. He thought at present it would not be advisable to sanction the second reading of this bill. Mr. T. CHAMBERS supported the bill because the line of railway was much required, and because the pro moters proposed very liberal compensation to all those disturbed in their homes by its construction. The amendment of the noble earl was agreed to, and the bill was rejected without a division. On the motion of Mr. BRAND, a new writ was ordered for the election of a member for the county of Kerry, i n , the room of Colonel H. Herbert, deceased. legalise Mr. CHAMBERS marriage with deceased wife's obtained leave to bring in a bill to Leave was given to Mr. CoLviLLE to introduce a bill to prevent clerks to justices in counties conducting the pro secution of any offender committed for trial by the justices for whom he is acting as clerk. Mr. HIBBERT asked leave to bring in a bill to permit capital punishment to be carried out, under certain regu lations, within the interior of prisons. These regulations wore that the punishment of death should be inflicted only in the presence of the high sheriff, the gaol authorities, and the representatives of the public press, and that a coroner's inquest should be subsequently held on the body. Sir G. GREY did not oppose the introduction of the bill, but stated that a measure was in preparation by the Under Secretary of State embodying the principal recom mendations of the Royal Commissioners on capital punish ment. Mr. GILPIN regarded all measures of this partial cha racter as concessions to public opinion. What was really wanted was the abolition, not the concealment, of the gallows. Mr. EWART and Mr. B. CARTER supported the bill, and themotion for leave was agreed to. Leave was also given to Mr. CHAMBERS to bring in a bill to explain the act of the2oth and 2lstyears of her pre sent Majesty, chap. 85, " to Amend the_Law relating to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes in England," and tho Legitimacy Declaration Act, 1858, It read a And to Mr. 11. LEWIS, to bring in a b ill to enable ves tries and district boards within th e metro p olis to grant superannuation allowances to officers law Inv 1. ) , (mu0 i Bill r disabled by infirmity or a g o to discharge the dutie s of their offices. The Qualification i a ; l wass Abolition passed on through wasouolti third time and pa ssed. P rince Alfred's Annuity com mittee ; as was also the Marine Mutiny Bill. for Offices The house adjourned at a quarter to ei • ght o'clock. LAMBETH UNITED ROWING CUM.—The members and friends of this well-known club, numbering nearly 50, celebrated their annual dinner at the Fleece Tavern, Duke- Street, S tamford-street, yesterday ; Mr. Robert Bain in the chair ; Mr. Cross, the secretary, in the vice-chair. The usual loyal toasts having been given and responded to, the Chairman gave an interesting account of the rise and pro gress of the club. lle then passed a high eulogium on the services of Mr. Cross, the secretary, and concluded an admirable speech by proposing " Prosperity to the Club.' The remainder of the evening was spent with great hilarity, and the party separated, the members resolving to do their uttermost for the future prosperity and renown of the club. Died, at Derby, on the 21st ult., Mr. W. Denham, in the G4th year of his age. The deceased, who for many years had the management of Derby Races, was much respected by a large circle of friends, and will be universally re gretted. Ho was a good judge of horse flesh, and in his younger days a first-flight man across country. He was the owner of several first-class animals—Discount, Mr. Assheton Smith, Old Fire King, Decen3ber, and many others being purchased of him. THE FIRST LONDON OMNIBUS started from Pad dington to the Bank of England on Saturda y , Jul y 4, 1829 ; and the experiment of light in g b y coal g as was firs t tried in Cornwall in 1 792 , g as lighting being first intro duced into London streets at Golden-lane, August 16, 1807, in Pall-mall 1809, generally through London in 1814 while in 1860 there were upwards of 2,000 miles of gaspipe in and around London. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about It 7i per cent. At these rates these is no profit on the importation of god tram the IJuittl States vote. The bill was for the total and unconditional repeal of church rates. That was the issue before them, and tel that policy he was entirely opposed. The house then divided, when there appeared-- For the second reading 285 Against it 252 Majority -33 The bill was then read a second time. [The Chancellor of the Exchequer, as he entered thO house with the " ayes" in favour of the bill, was received with loud cheers.] Tho other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned. ff ho the Lred mai irn, and nu- her. .ded wen tan' tan Cher arcs Ain' le is the ;nee ups ain et," and Lgh ugh cos and Itri - Lao, )s of ssive forts and era" tho )tive taut The cow ings Little h to D eli- ....... ____-. Lll O )113g) !rive , la ce reoe Lobel )... g oo ,f the tip l° Of id 0° 1 hie the 11 b ° josti per a goo ° 00 0 r I 137 0 e be )tiu° coo ° `Sao. 6 . 1, 90 ~ lve a 0. , ves ,ecos, eon- )f the coo litor► -the' c ha ir the' 100 {lOO 2 100 100 190 100 100 1( 0 100 100 It.o 100 100 all 100 100 1021 1 34