The Sun. — London, England, 1865-03-20 00:00:00

XONEY - MARKET; SHARE COMAIERCIAL CtiTELIAGEN(:E, -t.- CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK, The usual activity in discount circles as the end of the quarter draws near is now being witnessed The supplies of capital on offer show a slight dimi nution ; but as it is very generally expected that nl cliey will in a short time become cheaper, through the dullness of trade and other circumstances, the b rokers have not advanced their rates, and good Sh ort -dated paper can be negotiated at :41 per cent. Tenders have been issued for £400,000 New Zealand Government Treasury Bills, being the first ill ßtalment of the million authorised by the Act of t he Legislature of the Colony, entitled Debentures Act, 1864, to be raised in anticipation of the Loan Act of 1863. These bills are to be issued in sums o f £lOO and £l,OOO each, with coupons attached, 1 2!aling 8 per cent. interest from the date of issue, " 2 ., Ist of April next, and redeemable as follows : 'First series £lOO,OOO in December, 1866, second ser ies £150,000 June, 1867, and third ser i es £15 0,000 December, 1867. The accounts from the manufacturing districts d ing the past week have been of an unsatisfac tory character. At Manchester the tenour of the American and Indian advices has caused a further decline in both cloths and yarns. In the woollen tr ades of Leeds, Bradfo r d, an d Huddersfield there 'as been very little animation, operations in spring goods having been as yet very limited. At Leicester and Nottingham there has been a slight improve kent in the hosiery and lace departments ; but in t he hardware districts of I3iimingham, Sheffield, a nd Wolverhampton, hardly any business has been do ne, and a gloomy feeling prevails in most de- Partnients. It appears Messrs J Darne and Co., ba nkers, of Liverp that 001, have . ex J. peri d ened considerable , an neyance, in consequence of a report that a Mr. l 'irando n Mozley is a partner of the firm. This gentleman's liabilities are simply of a personal cha taeter, and in no way connected with the business c) f the Bank. Two o'CL °cr. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's q ` e leg'ram the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 40e . F • Speculation to-day in the market f or th e English F ads has not been particularly active, and prices b aps been slightly depressed. The distribution of ,Pital i n th e course o f a little time, when the Go -lerlleaent dividends are paid, and also from other : 4311 reeS, will no doubt revive a demand for invest :ear, especially as the prices of Government securities are still very low. Consols have receded I, t° 8981 for money, and to 891 1 for the account. , New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 871 1; C l ,,ehequer Bills, 3s. to 6s. prem. ; India 5 per ' ei lte., 1041 ; Enfaced 5 per Cents., 101 ; and the °ll — € l s, 15s. prem. Foreign stocks show no important change in paces. Turkish Consolides are 52k 53, being *less. l‘i exican are steady, the ex all being 26/ 8, and the evir Loan 251 1; Greek are bett er a t 211 I ; Spa hPassive at 3381 ; do. Certificates, 17* ; , r ,an, at 631 ; and the New Scrip at 3/ 1 dia. "he Confederate Loan is 34 35. iLßusiness in the Railway Share Market has con itulied moderately active, but prices in most i ns t a nces a 're shown less firmness. Great Western, Lan- Z B llire and Yorkshire, and North E as t ern B erw i c k '?e each declined ss. ; North Western, 10s. ; and Gre at Northern A stock, £1; while Bristol and '4eter have advanced £2. ill- The Foreign and Colo n ial li n es remain without Material alteration in values. ' °4l lk and Miscellaneous shares remain dull at ab ort previous prices. South African Land and o lll allee are quoted 1 * prem., and Rio de Janeiro ‘ r4 ) 111 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. a* GOVERNMENT FUZIDS. t e () Oeut. Consols . B Bi 1 1 5 . - i 4 • Account, April 6 B9 1 Ne er Cent. Reduced B7/ i I Neal 3 ,„Per Cent B7i i i 13 ' 0 4 1 - per Cent. Jan. 1894 — b s ' yrs, 44 • 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Iluitie 30expire sth Jan., 1880 b o • for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — kg m s (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — l oquer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent 3 6 u r,. • £5OO 3 6 4 , 0 Ithl. .£lOO and £2OO 1 4 - A of England Stock, 5 1 per Cent shut - br,,„ ri ildi ---=, urOVERNMENT SECURITEES. DoStock, 101 per Cent., April 1874._ 214 ..., 0 A bo Account .I), * 5 Per Cent. July, 1870 b: Account D ° • 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 ti,`;'•. -r- ~Oertificates bo`'lfaced Paper 4 per Cent — IL' 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 11-o. s i, per Cent. , May 1879 A - • - ^ - b r• 4 - p er Cent., Aug: 1866 1, 0 % Bonds, £l,OOO — pm • Under £l,000 kb_. titi FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. .1' • all Bonds, 5 per Cent az,i ; _ . 4 ", u 5 per Cent h l i t Per Cent., 1852-58-60 l'lle r , -I ' o . 1863 1) ( , 8 Ayres 6 per Cent — qaili t Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) ~. b o 4 6 per c en t — 'e°1:11bl l q Per Cent (I ' - -Rba . a 6 per Cent. — 1) 4 ' 0 , 6 Per Cent. D 1) ' Per Cent 1864 — D.l. B „criP, £ss . 'paid a per Cent., 1825 ti, b"• 5 per Cent., 1864 — ) 11, 4 ° ,_• 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — 1),:::zi Principalities "Y— dis par b 11 ,410r New Consolidated, 1 per Cent „ u p ., Provisional Land Warrant . 2- . t,_ tian 7 per Cent .......... b ) :, Second Issue ' £lOO Bonds b Do, 1864 95 fi• ‘te e k s el% £sb paid D° Per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons pm o o A. ccount b • Coupons 4'° -deco t s u n 81 pb, k m ala 5 per Cent. — Lkli:"° 39 and 1850 DlesterCent (Maremmana Railway) l s,• % la rip, £25 paid 40, D.4ecuunt % 3 : 3 Per Cent. — 26-'1 1 b e R c 1864 2si 1) " P e r Cent. Anglo-Fr enc h 0 p re _ ent.. I c ' s ' l ltepi d " e n Scrip, Es. 25f 20c dis k . o, i „ t, pan, 6 per Cent., £3O paid — pm ', 1 ,1. q r zunperial 5 per Cent 4.1 p , nnad a 2Bl Do t !It Cent — ADo I , erred e l ' lltri ar ld Warrants (Hectares) Do 44 41 Cent. r 43 _ er per , l I P Cent. (Uribarren) — e o, i t Per . Cent., 1862 I, ll il L .„ ce ellut liio '''' Ac e ,. B e_ . 3 per Cent., 1853 i.,'03 Per, Iqo I'er. Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, - i lei at , runt 471 .0 4.1 per Cent., 1822, £ St., 4) sp e t o r Cent., 1850— 0 1860 Do 5 3 Per Cent, 1859 11" o Per Cent 1862 ti d ° 4 44 , °444 5 nt 1864 ... 0 per Cent il O l4 ' a ': nzt OAe per C en t D 0 N- e e __?u:At h o 4, s _w o Deferred I,,uz unt %,' , - 1 0 A 4 elve 1; 1 1i - 41,7 ° 0 °111 A 331 0 g ee ert• of Coup not funded — 't 4kr cliat ° n ut l7l 1 b itt 4 6 Per Cent. — ° A se „,,Per Cent. 1854 b 6 h _nint 1:1 0 Arr Cent. 1858 t o,t w e o llt °b 6 ends , — h o A Per Cent. 1862 1)0'" 'nut 731 3 tlOO 1 ) 6 Geer 1 3 0nds 73i i 1 ,, , , g,,, r ‘-'eut. 1863 I):znei,7, ll teed, 4 per Cent 9Bl b • J . k,, - Per Cent. 1) 0 . G h plut 181 b ° ' .4 to' l. C ent 1862 — ° 6 lint ' 41/4 Pier Cent., 1864 42 11 likt, v idends on N._.' 1 4 0,a , the above payable in London. V e l 44, 4 per Cent, Ex. 10 Florins D oR. p ~ere- cent., Ex. 25f. Nit], Per 0: I L., Ex. 12 Guil 621 0 0. .11, e , at0 ,. . Certifi—ans 9Bl 4.4" s eeou z l ) 3 per Cent. — 0. Aelleer Cent., 1861, En. 25f. 4,0 ° nut 64 bo l ' , k TWO O'CLOCK. • , ° lley ' c quit 891 I ‘0,41, .......... 89f 1 I ... Vb.._ ------- .. DINNER TO CAPT. BURTON, on his N tlg Nay, A land for South America, is to come off on 4th. 00 t. it tiU Bt 100 This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share! Railways. 13. H Bir., & Str. Val.: al Blyth and Tyne lOl Bristol and Exeter 1( Caledonian l, Cork and Bandon. .. Cornwall • I Do. A A gets no div C. B till6p.e.p.an.has a, been paid to B Dublin & .Belfast June. all Dun,.Perth, & b.Junc. at Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. Wtstern 11 Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st No. 2 10 , Great North of Scotland 101 Great Norther.] IC D A stock lO Do. B o Do. 1\ ew. is. at 2i poi 4 Gt S, and W. of Irc!and Gt. Weste n -Ori2inal 1 . S. VA'. Rail gua. Do. South Wales 1 Do W. Mid.— Oxt ord 10 , Do. Newpo t ioi Do. He. Cf0rd......„ Lancishire & Yorkshire 10 L3ndon and Blackwali Icl Lon., 8ri.11.,& S Coast 10 Lon., Chat., and Dover 101 Lon. & North Western 101 Lon. & South Western 10i Man., Shet., & Lincoln 101 Maryport and Carlisle al Do. f shares Metropolitan. Do. New Mid and Do, Birmin & Derby 1C Mid Gt. W., Ireland a Do. shares %lid Kent No th British 52 53 z 5 26 106 J 107, Do. Ed., Pth Dun it Nth. Eastern Berwick 10 Do. G.N•E purchase 18 . 1 Do. Leeds Do. York lt Do. Carlisle ..... it Do. Stock. & Darling. al De. dn. 1855-t8 2 Do. do. 1860-61 l, North London lO Do. New al Do. do. 1814 North Staffordshire 10 , N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Ct ntral Scot. N. E , Aber. atm • 10 o. Scot, Mid. st ick c . .h , ews & Welchpool al Shropshire Union South Devon let -outh E stern • 4 taines, Wok., & Wok al Taff Vale 1( Do .0 . Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny, i. West Cornwall lO, W.Hartlepool Harlat lOO Do. A irredeemable lo' 73 76 Do. A. redeemable ►OO — )0 - 60 67 0 9) 100 0 €9 41 )O 57 5) 0 84 Et 11 84 Y )0 155 15 3 3 4P CO 108 110 oo BRITISH P I Paid I Closing I Business Price. done. 0 I 91 93 10 12? 129 11 66 68 11 '6 17 0 81 F 6 9 107 1 9 9 45, 461 0 6 7 )0 123 130 )0 14/i 142 0 129 3 95 2i 5 88 90 74 73 66 68 49 5 45 47 ;co tO4 1141 1151 87 t 8 10 104 58 39 117 1174 95 96 58} Sir 11 12'4 1224 41 If )ip )0 132 132 )0 101 1(3 461 i 130 23! 142 73, 21 731 21 15 115 k t , 7 8 71 It 4 k 117 f 17 I 951 a 123} 4 13! 1! 21 521 1071 67 1 on i 9 tl 37 38 :1 10 11p 4 8f 9f p i) 118 120 11 114 12 5 1 lip )0 76 77 11 11f 11t )0 133 142 ;0 44 46 1:1 - 1 11 3 ;SESSIONS• Li I 53 40 )0 100 101 2 id :1') 11 41 6 11 ei 10 1 74 73 10 97 99 10 75 85 11 1' 0 102 )9 99 100 )0 100 101 5 - - Atlantic & St. Lawrence al Bom., Baroda, Cen.ln. 101 gu. 5 per cent Do. shares Buffalo & Lake Huron al Do Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6p c. bds. Aug". 1, 872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 101 Do. do. June 1, 1174 1.1 Calcutta & S. E., Urn lOl a e Town & Dock, gu lOl Demera a, 7 p.c. per. p al East. Ben al, gu sdo 10 , East L. diart, gu. 5 p.c. 101 Do. J Extension 1 Grand Trunkot Canada 101 Do. Equip. Mort, Bond: , I charge 6 p.c al. Do. Ist -ref. Bonds al. Do do. deferred Do. 2d Pr, f. Bonds al Do. do. deterred al Do. r.d Pref. WtOCk: :: : I al Do. do. deferred al. Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deterred ..• Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c 10' •o. Gua 5 per cent 1! Do. New gua. 5 p. o Gt. South of India (hm , gua. 5 per cent D .41 per cent lO Do . Great W. a. of Canada.. al D New Do. 6p. c. Bds. pay 1873 al Do. 5, do. nay. 1877-8.. al Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o 10( Do. 41 do 10( Do. 4i do 10( Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6p. c. Bnds. 10; Mel. & Hudson's Bay.. a/ New Brunswick & Can. Class A and B ‘7.111. C'da, pc let pf.bds 10 Scinde 14 Da Delhi Do. do ti' 4 Do. Puniaub nun 100 Do.lndus St Flo '') , 100 COLONIAL GOVERNS' !British Coltirqbia,6 per! cent„ Dec. 31, 1572:. Can.GOv.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-t 44 Do 6p. cr Feb. & Auq_ 101 D.•. sp. 0.. Mar. & Sept 10 00.5 p. c. Jan. & July 101 Do. 5 p Inscribed sk 101 Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 la Du. April & Oct. 1880-4 101 Do. do: 1 5 ,90-1 101 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 lOl Ceylon, Nov. 1868,6 p. c 10 Do. 1878, do lO Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. IN7B Do. 1882, May 15, Nov ' 10 Natal ':ov. n per cent., 10 N. B. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&•luly 101 N. S.W. Gov. 5 Ivo., 1866 Do. 5 p.c. 18 1 to 1876 1 Do. 5 p.o. 1888 to 180! 10 New Zealand, 6p. cent ici Do. ti per cent.... .. 10, Nova Sc tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling*, 1875 lB Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 8. Aus.Gov. 6 p.c 18'8-!' Do. 1878 & .pwards . 1 Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July 11 Do. do, L. pril it Oct ll BRITIS 'am Consul. told, Jim IChiverton lifford malgamated Devon G Cone . (Taviet. . • Drake wal ls 2.. East Bassett (Illogan) East Cara ton 2.1 asp Cam Brea 3.1 East Grenville East Love .1 E. WI Russell Javistk 9.1( Gam , & StAubyn(Gweu. 01 Gr. at L xey, limited.. al Great South Tolgus.... 1.1 G. Wheal Vor Heist Grenvil e 7.8 Herod's Foot Hingston towns 4.1 Margaret Uny Lelant Starke Valley 4.3 viwyndy Iron Ore, lila -; Nangi les .. New Se ton . 2 North Downs • North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassettallogan 1.1 North Wheal Crofty 2.8 Prosper lTnited.... • Pr videnoe UnyL•ilant 10. S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.1 *ray Park 4l 'Tin Croft __ West ljasSott wan W. Caradon (L skeard West Chlrerton. 1 West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 11 Wheal Buller (Redruth 1( Whea Ludoutt 3.1 Wheal Mary Ann (Men 'Wheal SetOu Wheal Trelawney (Lis Wheal ITni 11 ..... .. . 11 I 176 18 1 84 0) 1 66 68 1 56 58 1 60 62 1 53 55 1 50 53 1 45 48 1 25 27 1 2 t 26 1 100 101 12 id 2 id pi 93 100 11 8 .8 124 12d 11 85 tO 2 I di 10 99i 100,. 10 9 94 0 88 9J 62 64 it a 5 82 81 LOO 98 100 00 91 100 2 Id id t-8 14,0 94 97 'T SECU )0 85 88 )0 85 83 ) 85 10 71 78 10 73 76 )0 103 108 )O 105 107 )0 IGB 108 )0 101 108 )0 102 104 10 108 110 )0 104 ) ) 168 )0 105 )0 88 )0 98 100 ►0 92 9 I )0 90 91 ,0 104 106 )0 87 90 !O I 92 95 10 I 102 104 0 1 105 107 0 1 1084 mil MINES. 29 31 1 580 591 1.0 10 19 21 14.. 14 15 LO 6 6i 7.0 4 it 3.6 9 10 0.6 3; 4i 01 6 8 11 19 1.0 2 2i .0 A 34 3.3 2 f g .13 34 38 18.0 311 4 6 8 3.0 4 '2i 1 t Old [9 16 18 qi 35 45 3 .22 12 14 10.6 3.0 1i 2 1.6 3 34 .6.7 33 35 11 530 550 18.9 20 25 17.. 15 17 9 144 154 14 74 84 9 7 8 LI 60 624 :74 190 100 4 100 105 0 12.8 8 11 1$ 190 200 7 4 19 20 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western Orig. 4} per cent pf., 961 London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 91 South Eastern 4i per cent., 97 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Metropolitan 5 per cent., 104 LINES LEASED AT FIXED:RRNT,ALS. East Lincoln gua. 6 per cent., 1324 Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1284 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco 0.1. n.) gua. 7 per cent., 14f South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, FOREIGN MINES, Cape Copper, 11m,, 10; 2 Port Philip, 1 United Mexican 11m), 41 BANKS. Alliance (lim.', 34 Ditto, issued at 20 pm., 24 Anglo Austrian, 7A Anglo Egyptian, lira., 121 Bank of New Zealand, 17 British and Californian, lim., 6 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China. 321 Chartered .I.er. of Indi.i, London, and China, 501 501 Consolidated Bans, lira., 101 ' liindustan, china, and Japan (Um.), 26 1 Ditto, issued at 2 pm., Ditto, new, 81 Imperial Bank (1tm.),831 Imperial Ottoman, I% 17 lonian, V London Rink of Mexico and S. America, 1irn.,.1311 London Chartered Bank ofAustralia, 231 Loudon and County, 72 1 New South Wales, 421 ij New Zealand Bank corporation. Um., 11 Oriental Btu= Corporation, 66;1 Union of Australia, 53 Union of London, sii 2 MISCELLANEOUS. City of Milan Improvements, lim., 9e City Offices, lim.. 58 Commercial Union, Insurance, 81 Consolidated Discount. lim , 5 Credit Fonder and Mobilitr of England, 10 9/ Ditto, new, 8 Fore-stret Warehouse, lim., 8 7/ Gellivera, lim., Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 6/ Gtne. al Steam Navigation, 261 Home and i! lonial A ssurance, lim , 44 Hudson's Bay, 15i Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lim., 61 I Joint Stock Discount. lim.. 8 London Uencral Omnibus Company, g Natal Land and Consolidation t ompany, lim., 4f ational Discount Company, lim., 14j Oriental Commercial, lim., Pen nsula and Oriental Steam, 82/1 Ditto, new, 56 Quebrmda Land, Rail, and Mining, Rm., 41 5 Royal Mail Steam, 97• i Societe Financiers d'Egypte, Warrant Finance, lim.. 8k THE CESAREWITCH.—The Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia, whose health is now nearly re-established, intends to proceed from Nice to Naples in a short time. TBE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1865. Day. MARK-LANE. Dry wheats in the country markets held on Saturday were in steady request at full prices; but for damp pro duce the trade was very inactive. All descriptions of spring corn met a slow sale, yet very little change took place prices. The flour trade was steady on former terms. On the Continent the corn trade generally is steady al about previous quotations. At Now York, prices of wheal and flour trade have further declined. The arrivals of English grain up to onr market last week were small. The imports from abroad amounted to 190 quarters of wheat, 1,920 barley, 20,097 oats, 1,375 beans, 1,369 tares, 10,615 linseed, 3,224 rapeseed, 2,900 maize,. 50 sundry seeds, and 210 sacks of flour. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home grown wheat from Essex were small, but there was a decided improvement in the condition of the produce. On the other hand, Kent wheats were a moderate supply, but for the most part in poor condition. Generally speaking, the trade exhibited more firmness. Good and fine samples of Essex wheat moved off freely at an advance in prices from Mon day last of is per quarter, whilst inferior qualities changed hands at fully that day's currency. In the value of Bent wheats no material change took place, the demand being chiefly for good and fine produce, which fully supported previous rates. The supply of home-grown oats on offer was very mode rate. Foreign produce, however, was more freely exhibited for sale. The trade was rather quiet, nevertheless prices ruled tolerably firm. Beans, the supply of which on the stands was small, met a slow sale, at late rates. Peas were firm in price, although the demand for them ruled far from active. The market was scantily supplied; About an average business was transacted in English flour, at full quotations. FOreign sacks were in fair de mand, at quite previous rates. Very little barrel flour was on offer. . The market was but moderately supplied with Baltic wheats, and scantily with American produce. Good and fin qualities of the former were in request at fully late rates; otherwise, the foreign!heat trade was quiet, but at full prices. Floating cargoes, both of wheat and spring corn, were in demand, and prices had an . tilaward tendency. There was a fair supply of liarley on offer, but a large proportiOn being foreign, the quality of the produce was inferior. No change took place in the value of any descrip tions. The trade, however, was very inactive. Malt was in good request, yet prices ruled stasionary. CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 388 to 118 Ditto, 1861 Ditto, white, 1863 4ls 48s Ditto, 1864 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, 1864 Ditto, 1863 Talavera, 1864 Bye— 2Bs 28,3 Barley—Grinding 228 288 Malting Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk s4s 61s Brown . 478 60s Kingstown and Ware 648 818 Chevalier Oats —Yorkshire and Lineolnsh., Feeding l9s 23s Potato : 228 268 Youghal and Cork, black lBB 23s Cork, white Scotch, Feeding l7s 228 Beans—Tick 315 33s Pigeons, Peas—Grey. Maple White Boilers.. Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 2BB 308 Stockton and Norfolk 238 27s American, per barrel 2ls 258 METROPOLITAN CATTLE. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 2,200 Scots and crosses ; from other parts of Eng iand, 800 various breeds ; from Scotland, 360 Scots and crosses ; and from Ireland, 110 oxen and heifers. The show of sheep was again very moderate. Prime Downs and half-breds moved off freely at full quotations • otherwise, the mutton trade was in a sluggish state at last week's prices. The late figure for Downs, in the wool, was 6s. 8d; out of the wool, 5s 4d to 5s 6d per 81bs. Calves were in fair supply for the time of year. On the whole, the sale for them was steady, at from 6s to 6s 8d per 81bs. _ Calves were in moderate supply, and sluggish request ai [ate rates, viz., from 4s 6d to 5s 8d per 81bs. We have to report a fair demand for pigs at full quota tions. The top price was 4s 10d per 81bs. There was a large supply of foreign beasts on offer here to-day, chiefly from France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Switzerland, and Holstein. With the exception of the arrivals from France, which were very good, the stock came to hand in middling condition. The show of foreign sheep, calves, and pigs was only moderate. The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grrzing districts, as well as from Scotland, was seasonably good ; but the general condition of the supply was by no means first-rate. For all kinds the demand was inactive, and in some instances the quotations had a downward tendency The best Scots sold at 5a 2d per Blbs. Per 81b to sink the offal. s ds d sds d Crse. dr inf. beasts... 3 6 4 0 Pme crs-wool sheep 6 0 6 4 second quality do .. E 2 4 6 Prime s'thaown .0.6 6 6 6 Prime large oxen ..4 is 4 ;0 La ge coarse calvcs.4 6 5 2 Prime Scuts, &c.... 5 0 5 2 Pnme small d0......5 4 5 8 Crse. and int. slicep.4 6 5 2 Large hogs ...3 6 4 0 Second quality do ..5 4 5 10 Small porkers 4 2 4 10 Lambs....os cad to 0, Od. Su,*ling calves, 19s to <2s; and quarter-old store pigs, 21s to 27s each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 4,820 Beasts . 1,890 Ci - ws .. Cows. . - Sheep .... .. Calves l3B Ca ves l2O Pigs 370 Pigs l7O The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 7,189 head. In the corresponding week in 1864, we received 3,852 ; in 1863, 5,449 ; in 1862, 2,768; in 1861, 2,106 ; and in 1860, 2,351 head. IMPORTS DUO LONDON LAST WEER.. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 17 Beasts Antwerp Boulogne 239 Bremen ... 23 ... Calais ..• Coruna Dordt. Dunkirk Hamburg Harlingen 442 ... •.• Ostend 4B ... 162 Rotterdam 728 ... 428 ... Oporto... 62 Vigo B9 ... 20 ... -.". ... '-'' ... 280 •• • - ... - ...161 - .: : 97 ... '945 Total 1338 ... 2569 ... ...324 ...1674 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs, 1864 1863 1862 1861 493 ... 1499 ... ... 76 ... 38 1860 - ... . 60 - ... ''.... A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, March 21, 1864, and this day, Monday, March 20, 1865. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. March 21, March 20, 1864. 1866. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 4to 3 8 3 6to 4 0 Second quality do. Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 4 8 410 Prime Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. .4 5 2 5 4 510 Prime coarse-woolled do 5 4 5 8 6 0 6 4 Prime Southdown do 5lO 6 0 6 6 6 8 Lambs 450 4 6 6 2545 4 5 8 Large coarse calves 4 Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 2 4 6 4'2 410 Beasts 4,750 ' Sheep 22,07A Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, March 23, 1863.—Beasts, 4,290 — sheep, 19,640—calves, 116—pigs, 268. March 24, 1862—Boasts, 3,890 —sheep, 17,660—calves, 103 —pigs, 450. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets continue to be moderately supplied with most descriptions of town and country killed meat. Gene rally speaking, the trade is steady, and prices rule firm. Per 81b by the earoue. adsd Inferior beef 3 2 3 6 Middling d 0... 3 8 4 0 Prime large do 4 2 4 Prime small do 4 0 4 8 Large pork 3 6 4 6 stied Inferior mutton 3 8 4 2 Middling mutton 1 4 4 8 Priam do 4 10 5 0 Veal 4 2 5 2 6mall pork. 4 8 5 0 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Moderate supplies of potatoes aro on sale at these markets. Nearly all qualities are in steady request, and prices rule firm. As compared with last wo ek, the quota tions exhibit very little change. Per ton Yorkshire Regents Flukve 130 s to 15 s Rocks .... 70s to 85 s Scotch Regents .... Ks to uos Rocks .. 7os to 80s Dunbar Regents. lOus to 130 s Foreign Bos to 75s About 60 tons were imported into London last week. BOROUGH HOP. The supply of English hops on sale continues small, and the trade is firm for all qualities at full currencies. In foreign hops the demand is chiefly confined to good and fine samples, which fully support previous rates. Inferior foreign as well as old hops move off slowly at late prices. The import into London last week was 31 bales from Antwerp, 442 Bremen, 37 Rotterdam, 14 Hamburg, 15 Ostend, and 28 bales from Boulogne. Mid and East Kent ..... 1108 to 200 s per owe. Weald of Kent Sussex .. Yearlings llos to los Bavarian • —sto - s „ American 9os to 13 s „ WOOL. The public sales of colonial wool have gone off with increased animation since our last. The attendance of home buyers has improved, and there has been a full average number of foreign buyers present at the sales. Pieces are now p to ld per lb higher than at last series as regards allgoodund fine - Australian wools, whilst nearly all descriptions of Cape wool command fully ld, and in some instances lid per lb more as compared with the same period. With the improvement in the home demand there has also been a better inquiry for export to the continent, but there is still an absence of demand on American account. About 65,000 bales have now been disposed of. In the English wool trade, however, there is no improve ment to report, the demand in the contract market being in a sluggish state with a downward tendency in prices. The import into London last week was 12,254 bales from Melbourne, 2,033 Port Philip, 946 Sydney, 1,938 Adelaide, 350 Cape, and about 300 bales from sundry ports. Current prices of English wool per lb. sd s d Fleeces South Down hog gets ..1 10 IA. Half-bred do. 2 1 2 2 Kent fleeces outh Down ewes and wetitersl 8 10 Leto° ter do ll t 2 0 Sorts Clothing 1 6 111 ombing 1 8 2 1 SEEDS. Canary seed was dull, and late rates were barely sup ported. Other agricultural seeds were, in limited request, on former terms. There was a fair sale for East India lin seed and rapeseed at previous currencies. The demand for cakes was quiet. Foreign linseed cakes ruled the turn in favour of buyers, but cottonseed cakes were very firm in price. l urnip,White,p.bus.2Cs to 223 Swede —s —EI Mustard, Brown —a s White, Tares, Spring — s New winter, bush 9s 103 Cz•nary, per quaiter 41s 50s Rye grass •... 24s 28s Clover, Red Eng., et. 02s 'Ms White Foreign Red sls 70s White Hs 80s Trefoil '353 48s Carraway 33s 338 Coriander 2s 24x llempseed, per qr 4os 43s Linseed,Eng.sowing 7Js 7.8 Crushing Baltic —s —s Odessa Linseed Cake, p ton English £lo Os -0 —8 -s —s £ll Cs FoFeign £9 les £lloa Rape Cakes,p ton £5 Os £5 108 Rapeseed, new,pr qr 74s 78s TALLOW. The tallow trade is firm to-day, and prices have improved; P.Y.C. being quoted at 40s 9d per cwt on the spot. Town tallow commands 41s 6d net cash.. Rough fat, 2s lid per 81b. Particulars. 1851. Stock this nay.... Price of Y.C. Delivery last week Ditto from June 1 Arrivals last week Ditto from June 1 Vrioe of Town .... 188. 18C3. I 1864. 45.268 ( 55.579 43891 t0,'4280-4 , 150 s Od . Od 1.0.12 1,313 63,037 64,315 677 1,015 75,010 8t.017 458 9d I 13s 9d 72.028 42.144 59802 :0 40s 01 10 596 3d —s od 1,008 1,270 87,949 103,302 1,204 112,91 i 88,685 58s ud 43s 61 41.839 49,19 d to —sod 1,514 78,9 3 75,731 43s 9d LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day ) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Murray.) IN RE THE REV. G. N. FOY. This bankrupt was described as of Gualior-house, Bel• size-park, Hampstead, and to-day he came up for choice o. assignees and proof of debts. Mr. Treherne appeared as solicitor to the assignees, and the debts are stated to be about £B,OOO, with assets nil. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE GREGSGN. This bankrupt was described as a linendraper, of 17, 18, and 19, Beckford-row, Walworth, and to-day came up for his order of discharge. Mr. C. E. Lewis appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr. Sargood for the assignees. The accounts, by Mr. F. B. Smart, show—Debtor to creditors unsecured, £13,000; do. holding security, £2,520. Creditor, by debtors, £75 ; property in the hands of credi tors, £1,600 ; do. given up to the assignees, £3,362 ; and deficiency, £10,587. The matter has been before the Court for some time, and was again adjourned. IN RE H. RAPHAEL--JUDGMENT. This bankrupt was described as a cigar merchant, of Leman-street, Goodman's-fields, and to-day he came up for judgment. It appeared that proceedings had all been conducted out of court, but the bankrupt now applied under the 110th section for his order of discharge. His Honour ruled that- as he was not satisfied that the bankrupt had made a full disclosure of all his affairs, he should refuse the order for the present. Order refused. Bishop Colenso's Case.—The Judgment. The Judicial Committee this day delivered judgment on the appeal of Dr. J. W. Colenso, Bishop of Natal, against the sentence of Dr. Gray, Bishop of Cape Town and Me tropolitan of the Church in South Africa, deposing him from his bishopric. It will be remembered that the first stop in the matter of Dr. Colenso's petition to the Commit tee of Privy Council was taken on Monday, June 27, last year, when the nature of the petition was stated by Mr. W. M. James, Q.C. It prayed that her Majesty would be pleased , to declare the petitioner (Dr. Colenso) to be entitled to hold his see until the letters patent granted to him should be cancelled by due process of law for some sufficient cause of forfeiture, and to declare that the letters patent granted to the Bishop of Cape Town, so far as they purported to create a court of criminal justice within the colony, and to give to the Archbishop of Canterbury an appellate, juris diction, had been unduly obtained from her Majesty, and did not affect the petitioner's rights. Their lordships council ph t , hoi hadruees. "denying aGaey alydannoygßdrwitt jurisdictionhi hasht e t ht h ß dil eae i H s nhvdeo. judicial u p iDeinn o rr f te. th O vhcec a eeoor p mi .sem e eun Townbeeiethatct m a declined to ente r t a i n t h e question without fuller informa tion, and on D ecem b er 14th the question again came before o e a f d j u ts h n t ye d undersaid aidprotest, council peti tion, or that any app ea l li es from what he (the Right Rev tpe t re e a r Mr at: committee s t io e t r t ee bei either of f t e h rt he to o s ma her o d es rt c oh Majestymo n p o lain ura t b i o l ne f Privy Council." The case concluded by stating that Dr. Colenso, not having availed himself of the liberty of appeal to the Archbi s h op of Canterbury. against the sentence of deposition as p rov i ded, but having appealed to the Judicial Committee of P rivy Council, t h e appea l s h ou ld not b e allowed for the following reasons :—" Ist. Because Dr. Gray, as bishop of the see of Cape Town, and metropolitan bishop, possesses full right and title to exercise the powers and authority of metropolitan bishop upon and over the suffragan bishops of the province of Cape Town, and upon and over the Bishop of Natal, as one of such suffragan bishops. 2dly. Because the petitioner received his said bishopric of Natal, and was appointed and consecrated thereto, upon the faith of his subjection and submission to the said powers and authority of the said Dr. Gray, as such metropolitan bishop ; and by reason of his solemn oath on that behalf, freely and voluntarily submitted himself as suf fragan to the exercise of the power of the metropolitan bishop, and became and was subject to those powers and that authority. idly. Because the charges so preferred and made in due form of law were such as Dr. Giay, as Bishop of Cape Town and metropolitan bishop, was not only fully entitled, but also solemnly bound to receive and examine and to adjudicate and determine, and the hearing and examination thereof were conducted in all re spects solemnly and properly, with all due regard to the rights and interests of the:petitioners, conformably to legal precedent and authority, and according to the rules and also to the forms of law, so far as those rules and forms were applicable and could be applied to such proceedings, and the adjudication and determination were solemly and properly made, and th e sa id judgment and sen t ence duly pronounced and pro mu l ga ted according t o t h e duty, right, power, and authority of Dr. Gray, as Bishop of Cape Town and metropolitan. 4thly. Because, look ing at the 'letters patent,. as constituting a contract between Bishop Colenso and the Bishop of Cape Town, any appeal, from the exercise of, authority by the latter under the said lettere patent would be to the Arch bishop of Canterbury, while, on the other hand, any de parture from, or excess of the authority conferred by the letters patent would be a proper subject of redress before the civil courts of the colony, at the instance of the peti tioner. And if the petitioner should desire to impugn the letters patent, as having been improvidently granted by the Crown, the proper course for him to pursue would be by proceedings to repeal the said letters patent." The matter was on the 14th December elaborately argued before the I Lord Kin gs d own , Si r On the part of Bi s hop J.L Colenso,o R r do ilMr.y a nl vd Chancellor,uis S. L s o a r m. dLe James se (withr ah i. n w g t o ko r n t i Mr. Pitzjames Stephen and Mr. Westlake) prayed their. lordships to admit the appeal. Sir R. J. Phillimore and Si IL Cairns, on the part of Dr. Gray, prayed their lordships to ad v i se h er Ma j esty to pronounce for protest, "and against the said pretended complaint and appeal." We shall give the decision in our next edition. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, March 20.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly; blowing a strong breeze and fine woather, but very cold. PORSTMOUTH, March 18.—Wind S. to S.E.—Arrived— Stanley T. J. Alma, from Rio Janeiro for Copenhagen ; Maryport, from Trinidad for Hamburg. OFF PORTSMOUTH, March 18.—Wind S.E.—Arrived— Asteripa, from Wellington, N.Z. OFF THE EDDYSTONE, March 18 . — Arrived—Lama, from Bremen for New York. BRISTOL, March 19.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Romaneo from Sulina. SHIELDS, Maroh 19.—Wind S.— Arrived—Conrad, from Almeira. CLYDE, March 18.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Conrad, from Mauritius. Pm, March 19.—Wind S.E. — Arrived—Armigo, from Tarragona. OFF SHOREHAM, March 19.—Arrived—A foreign schooner from Rio Janeiro. Liverpool Cotton Market--his Day. Market opens quiet. Sales 4,000 or 5,000 bales. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day, MANSION-HOUSE. I EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COLLECMG-CLERK.—A respectably dressed young man was placed at the bar charged with embezzling various sums of money, the property of his employers, Messrs. Letts and Co, of the Royal Exchange. Mr. Skinner said he was cashier in the service of Messrs. Letts. The prisoner was also in the employ in the same department, but he occasionally acted as collecting-clerk. Some suspicion having arisen the prisoner's accounts were examined, when it was found that various sums of money received by him on account of the Messrs. Letts had never been paid in as in the ordinary course of business they ought to have been. The defalcations having been dis covered, the prisoner was given into custody. Patrick Murray, in the Canadian Land and Emigration office, said he had paid the prisoner £2 is., duo to Messrs. Letts from the company for advertising. He gave the usual receipt for the money. —.... • _ Williain Lewis, clerk in the Universal Life Assurance Company, proved the payment of .£1 is. to prisoner, for the Messrs. Letts.. • Neither of these sums had been paid in by the prisoner. James Lee, assistant to Mr. Barker, pawnbroker, High street, Aldgate, produced an opera glass, pledged by the prisoner in the name of Boyer. Mr. George Wilkinson, manager to the Messrs. Letts, said the opera-glass was the property of Mr. Charles Letts. John Jackson, clerk to Messrs. G. andF. Ridgway, Army agents, Leicester-square, proved the payment of £1 18s. to the prisoner for Messrs. Letts. This sum was also unaccounted for. John Bull, a constable id the City police force, said he took the prisoner into custody. He told him the charge against him, and ho (the prisoner) then asked whether mat ters could not be arranged. He found in his possession the duplicate of an opera-glass. In reply to the usual question, the prisoner said he had nothing to say in answer to the charge. The Lord Mayor committed the prisoner for trial on the charge of embezzlement, and also for feloniously stealing the opera glass. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. 1815. The accused said she did. Prisoner—lt was not me that did it, and I've a witness ;0 prove it. Prisoner's mother made some incoherent remarks, which after a caution from the Bench she repeated. Mr. Arnold—Lot that woman bo brought forward. This was done, when Mr. Arnold said—l cannot per mit the proceedings of the Court to be interrupted in this way. You must find one surety in £2 to keep the peace for three months. She was removed in custody. Police-constable 68 B said he found prosecutrix bleeding copiously from the face, and took the prisoner into custody. • Mr. Arnold—l shall feel it my duty to send the case before a jury, but I will hear the prisoner's witness if she pleases. A man was called, who said the prisoner's sister inflicted he injury with a key. Prisoner was remanded. THAMES. THE QUARRELSOME SlSTERs.—Elizabeth Carty, a noisy and dissipated-looking woman, was charged with stabbing her sister, Catherine Phillips, with a knife on the head. The complainant, who was as pale as a spectre, and was . in a weakly condition from loss of blood, stated that she went on Saturday morning to assist her sister in Choppin's Court, Old Gravel-lane, St. George-in-the-East. In the course of the day family arguments took place, and her sister took a knife off the table and plunged it into her head. Her. sister was " be-daddled" with drink. Ellen Donahoo, a widow, of No. 136, High-street, Shore ditch, said she was theleother of the women before the court. Catherine Phillips was blind drunk and slapped her sister's face. The prisoner did not strike her sister with the knife, and the wound was not inflicted in the house at all. James Burke, a policeman, said he was called into the house in Choppin's-court, and found the complainant bleed ing profusely. At the same time a knife was handed to him. It was covered with blood. Mrs. Phillips said her sister had stabbed her. The other denied having . done so, and said they had a struggle together, and her sister fell on the fender. Mr. Joseph Silverthorne Belcher, a surgeon, said the complainant had received a wound on the head three inches above the ear. The wound was three quarters of an inch wide and three quarters of an inch in depth, in an oblique direction. He was of opinion the wound could have been inflicted with the knife produced or with one like it. The prisoner was remanded for a week. ANOTHER PAIR OF QUARRELSOME SISTERS.—EIIen Mulcahy and Catherine Ash, two big women, sisters, were charged with being drunk and fighting in Three Colt-street, Limehouse, on Saturday night. The prisoners are vendors of old shoes and garments, and were stationed under the railway arch to the south of Limehouse Church, and were so very successful that they began drinking heavy, and fought. They pulled each other about and exchanged a great number of blows. They fell into the shop of Mr. Brown; a draper, who separated them. He believed they would have killed each other if he had not interfered. The prisoners and the two women, Carty and Phillips, in the last case, are Irish cockneys, the most troublesome part of the London population. Mr. Brown complained of the nuisance and obstruction caused by the noisy assemblage of vendors in Three Colt street on Saturdays. He had made complaints in vain of the evil. Inspector Beale, of the K division, said that Three Colt street, near Limehouse Church, had been a market and fair every Saturday for many years. He had walked up and down the street every Saturday at all hours. He had never heard a single complaint of the numerous vendors of fruit, vegetables, pamphlets, and shoes, clothes, toys, and other things on Saturdays. The footpaths were under the super vision Of the parish constable and the inspecto r of the Limehouse District Board of Works. Mr. Paget said the prisoners had been locked up two nights, and he should discharge them, but if they were brought before him again under similar circumstance; he should punish them severely. "And then he drew a dial frem his poke, And looking on it with lack lustre eye, Says very wisely, ' It is ten o'clock : ' Thus we may see,' quoth he, how the world wags." SHARSPEARE. 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It is abundantly manifest that any medicine which does not reach the circulation, can never exterminate the disease ; but any preparation capable of exercising a sani tary influence over the blood, must with it be carried to every living fibre of the frame. The lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, and skin, all receive benefit from its more whole some condition. Holloway's purifying pills operate directly, powerfully, and beneficially, upon the whole mass of blood, whether vinous or arterial. They strengthen the stomach, excite tho liver and kidneys, expel disease, and prolong existence. CURIOUS CASE.--CHARGE OF ROBRERY AT THE EARL OF Comes.—Mary Costello, a respectable 7 looking married woman, residing at Ware's-pa,ssage, Euston-road, and lately in the service of the Earl of Cork as a•wetnurse, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing, at No. 1, Grafton street, St. George's, a dressing-gown and several other articles, the property of St. Lawrence, Earl of Cork. It appears that on Saturday night Police-constable Wm. Camps, 99 C, was called to No. 1. Grafton-street, and the accused given into custody by Lady Cork, and taken to the Vine-street station. On the accused being placed at the bar this morning, the constable said there was no prosecutor in attendance, and a letter was handed to the magistrate from the Earl of Cork stating that he had no wish to prosecute. The accused said the property she was charged with stealing was her own, and was made a present to her. On Saturday evening she was given into custody, and locked up till Sunday afternoon, and refused bail till Lord Cork was sent to. She was charged.falsely, and had never been in a police court before. Mr. Knox asked the accused whether she wished the case gone into. Mr. Knox said as there was no prosecutor in attendance the accused would be discharged, and if she had been wrongfully given into custody she could consult a solicitor. WES TMINS TER. CUTTING AND WOUNDING.—Mary Ann Carey, a respect able-looking woman, was placed at the bar charged with feloniously assaulting and wounding Matilda Dawes, the daughter of a coffee-house keeper in White Lion-street, Chelsea. Prosecutrix said—On Saturday night the prisoner and two young men came into my father's house and had some coffee. Shortly after this another woman came in and quarrelled with one of the men, using very bad language at the time. My father went to her and told her she must go out, but she refused, and my father laid hold of her and was endeavouring to put her out, when the prisoner got up and stabbed me in the face. Mr. Arnold—Had you at all interfered respecting the other woman ? Prosecutrix—Not at all. I did not know at first that there was any connection between the other woman and the prisoner, but when she was being put out the prisoner said she was her sister, and she would not see her ill-used. She then got up, and I merely said, "Don't make a noise," when the prisoner raised her arm and stabbed me. I saw the knife in her hand. Mr. George Dawes, coffeehouse keeper—l was present when a woman was making a great noise in our house, and I was about to put her out when the prisoner struck my daughter with a knife in the face, and she was taken to the hospital. 62) 3 101 f 2 251 6 1(2 1/ 2,1 of ; ITIES. 109} I BAILWN 'ME NOE. METROPOLITAN. The system of signalling the trains on this com pany's line has now been in successful operation for more than two years. Mr. J. Fowler, the engineer in -chief, Mr. J. M. Johnson, the resident engineer, and Mr. M. Fenton., the general manager, have testified as to the simplicity and efficiency of Mr. C. E. Spagnoletti's telegraphic disc system for show ing and working the signals on the above line. This is a most important matter for the public, as it• proves that at least one fruitful source of accidents from collisions on railways can be effectually pre vented by the adoption of this system of railway telegraphy, which has been in operation on the Metropolitan Railway since its opening on the 10th of January, 1863, and by which every train on the line has been telegraphed from station to station without failure or any error, so far as the general manager is aware of. This telegraph block system enables any number of trains to be run in succession on a railway with safety, and at the shortest pos sible intervals, the latter being dependent on the distance between the stations and the time occupied by the train in running from station to station, because a train is not allowed to start from a station to follow another train in advance of it on the same line of rails until the latter has actually left the next station, and so on from station to station, keeping a clear space betweenthem until the whole journey has been accomplished. Signal-boxes are placed in or close to each station, in which the telegraphic instruments are fixed for signalling the trains on the up and down lines, there being a separate instrument for each line. The telegraphic instrument consists of a plain green dial, having an oblong opening in it, behind which are suspended two sliding discs of the same size as the oblong opening. One of the discs is white, with the following black letters upon it—" Line clear," and the other is a red disc, with the words " Train on line" in white letters. These discs are worked by direct action from the battery, and are so ar ranged that-when the instrument is not in use only one half of each disc is seen through the oblong aperture in the dial. The colours, white and red, correspond with the signals and lights exhibited on the line, the white representing all right and the red danger. The instrument is worked by two keys, one for each disc, and labelled the same as the discs, so that on pressing down the white key the whit e di sc with " Line clear" on it fills the aperture in the green dial, and remains so until altered ; and on pressing down the red key, the red disc with " Train on line" takes the place of the white disc on the green dial, so that the operator can make no mistake. Either of the keys can be fastened so as to keep either signal in its proper position as long as neces sary. Those instruments are so constructed that which ever signal is given at the station, the same signal will be shown at the station to which it is sent ; and when a signal is given and the key fastened, it cannot be reversed from the station to which it is sent. Another advantage of the instrument is that it registers the gradual exhaustion of the battery, so that the battery can be attended to before it be comes too weak to perform its work. A single striking bell is worked in connexion with this instrument, separately, or attached to the in strument, if the former, it has a key of its own ; if the latter, on either of the keys of the instrument being pressed down, the signal is shown with a simultaneous stroke of the bell, so that, by having a code of the number of the beats of the bell, a cor roboration is given to the signals shown by the discs. This instrument can be worked on two sys tems—on that which is called the "permanent block," showing whether the line is clear or blocked, or on that which is called the " block system," asking if the line is clear, and blocking only during the time a train is on the section of line so worked. Any de fect in the instrument at either end, or to the line wire, is immediately registered at both ends by the discs, showing half red and half white in the aper ture on the green dial. In accordance with the system of signalling be tween station and station, the operators, by means of coloured levers arranged in the signal-box, also work the outside ordinary signals on the line of rail way corresponding with the signals shown by the instruments, at the same time altering the position of the switches on the line to suit the safe working of the traffic, so that no mistake can take place while the signals are attended to. Trains have been worked at intervals of four minutes, some at intervals of 71 minutes, and others at irregular periods, without any mistake occurring. This system has been adopted on several portions of the Great Western Railway and on other railways, es . _ . pecially where tunnels exist, it being considered the most certain and efficient system for that pur- pose. Mr. Spagnoletti has also successfully adapted his disc telegraph system to supply the place of bells at the Great Western Hotel, Paddington, and other large establishments. TENBURY AND BEWDLEY. The report of the directors states they look:for ward with much pleasure to the completion of the loop from Bewdley to Kidderminster. Upon the opening of this short line it is understood that the London and North-Western Company will at once commence the use of the Tenbury and of the Tenbury and Bewdley lines for the traffic alluded to. A dividend at the rate of £2 10s. per cent. per annum for the half-year ending the 13th February last is now due, and will be paid to the share holders. NORTH BRITISH. The report of the directors states that the opera tion of the one-purse system during the past half year has convinced them that a complete amalga mation of the North British with the Edinburgh and Glasgow and the Monkland Railway Companies, under one management, was essential to the full de velopment of the advantages to be derived by each of the companies, now only partially united by a working agreement. The division of gross traffic receipts between the ,North British and the Edin burgh and Glasgow Companies had resulted in an addition to the dividend on ordinary stock as com pared with that of the corresponding period of 1864, of per cent. to North British shareholders, and 1 per cent. to Edinburgh . ;and Glasgow shareholders. In addition to the dividends recommended to be declared at the rate of 2+ per cent. per annum on North British ordinary stock, and of 31 per cent. per annum on the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee ordinary stock, the ordinary shareholders of North British stock and also the holders of Border Union ordinary stock will be entitled to a pro rata bonus of 3s. 9d. per cent. in respect of penalties recovered from the contractors on the Hawick and Hermitage sections of the Border Union line. The most im portant measure the directors had in view was the Forth-bridge to Charleston, in Fifeshire. Thepro portion of capital which the North British would have to provide was £395,000 towards the con struction of the bridge. The next project in point of magnitude was the establishment of a system of suburban railways in Edinburgh. The aggregate capital involved in the projects of the companyof pro viding now _ before Parliament was £565,700, exclusive one the o h T o a t y- e b r. ridge, should the local half of h o promoters teacp su it b a s l for cribe the SCOTTISH CENTRAL. The half-yearly meeting was held at Perth on Saturday ; Mr. Macduff in the chair. The report, of which an abstract has appeared in The Sun, was held as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the increase in the revenue was still maintained, and they had been enabled to con tinue the 7 per cent. dividend on the ordinary stock. He considered that the terms for amalgama tion with the Caledonian Railway were satisfactory. The Scottish Central, were to receive 7 per cent. per annum in perpetuity, with the right to parti cipate in any dividend paid to the Caledonian shareholders above that amount. The Caledonian and Central were continuous lines, the latter being recognised as the natural extension of the former in the Board of Trade report on their bill in 180. The proposed amalgamation had received the ap proval of the public, shown by the support given to the measure by traders and public companies. Thq amalgamation was justified not only by local situa tion, but by changes of circumstances. The North British and Edinburgh and Glasgow were going in for a bridge across the Forth and other zneasures in direct opposition to the interests of the Scottish Central, and thi s ama l gamat i on, therefore, share t only a desirable b u t a necessary one. Th holders would be called upon at an early opport u ._ pity to confirm agreements with the Callander and Oban and Crieff and Comrie Railway, to lease these undertakings in perpetuity, and for amalgamation with the Dunblane, Doune, and Callander. Sir A. C. MAITLAND seconded the motion, and the report was adopted. Mr. H. Rose and Mr. J. Wilson were re-ele tied directors, and Mr. Watson auditor ; and a Xote of thanks to the chairman concluded the procc..-eding,s. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending Feb. 25 amounted for local pas sengers to £5,025 ; for foreign passengers to £603 i for mails, &c., to £642 ; for local freight and live stock to £13,836 ; and for foreign freight and live stock to £4,012; total, 24,145, against £22,026 for the corresponding week of last year, showing an increase of £2,119. SPORTING NOTES: The only noticeable feature in racing circles last 'week was the furore to get on Breadalbane for the Two Thousand Guineas, who was quickly brought from the outside divi sion to the position of second favourite, which caused Liddington to recede half a point ; but Mr. Merry's crack keeps his place firmly for both the Two Thousand and Derby, although Breadalbane is nearly as good a favourite for the latter event as the undefeated Liddington. It is very doubtful if either of them will r un f or the Two Thou sand ; but if Mr. Merry brings out Liddington to oppose ethaseil. shallMyaltTonhoscraecink,telnding to expect to sheaedhii better they see them arrive on the course, as they will get as good odds on the day of the race as they can get now. Chattanooga has been very infirm in the market both for the Two Thousand and Derby. All sorts of rumours have been afloat about him, that he is a confirr. ed roarer, and. se forth. The same sort of rumours were spread about Ma caroni after he won' -the Two Thousand, which drove him to 10 and 12 to 1. for the Derby ; but the originators of the rumour found out to their cost, after the race, the groundlessness of the rumour. I am informed that no horse could be doing better, and that those who are taking liberties with him may be placed in the same unenviable position as they were with St. Albans and Lord Clifden, who both won, but were each horribly knocked about in their respective years for the St. Leger. The Warwick Meeting commences to-morrow, and will occupy three days. For several races good entries have been secured. The Trial Stakes should be won by Catalogue, who is now in good form. The Guardsman ought to secure the Willoughby Handicap, and Qui Vive, the Two-yr-old Stakes. The Great Warwickshire Handi cap looks a good thing for either Stanton or Buckfoot. The Great Warwickshire Steeplechase has the winner of the Liverpool Steeplechase amongst the entries, and if brought out he will have nothing to fear except Sir William who run Hall Court a very close race, at Kidder minster. With reference to the late steeplechase at Derby, M. Valliant, the owner of L'Africain, writes :—" Having just returned from England, where I have been running my horses at Lincoln, Nottingham, Derby, and Liver pool, I am sorry to find that false reports have been cir culated regarding the result of the race at Derby. Coming to a country of which I knew neither the language nor the customs, with a trainer who deserted me at the very time of the races, and who had also made entries for me right and left without even consulting me, I much regret to see that I have been very unfairly treated and judged by the English press. Before the start for the Derby Steeplechase I notified through my representative, Mr. Barber, that I was starting Demon to win, and L'Africain to make the running. The best proof that I can put forward is that I had put my money upon De mon, and I defy anybody to say that I laid a penny against L'Africain." The other races to be decided are of very little import ance, and those intending to back horses had better see the numbers go up before they part with their money, as Warwick is not celebrated for being one of the most re spectable meetings. The Grinder has come with a rush into the betting for the Northamptonshire Stakes. No horse can be fitter, and if the half that is said of him be true, he ought to win. Next to him I fancy Hartley. A FRESH MAN. CITY BETTING—MONDAY. WARWICK HANDICAP. sto 1 agst Arkansas (taken) 6to 1 agst Catalogue Bto 1 agst blanrico Bto 1 agst Lord Waldegrave NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Bto 1 agst Grinder (taken) 10 to 1 agst Skeffington 100 to 7 agst Beaver (taken freely) 16 to 1 agst Hartley (taken) 80 to 1 agst Lion TWO THOUSAND. sto 2 agst Liddington (offered) 11 to 2 agst Breadalbane (offered, take 6to 1) 100 to 8 agst Chattanooga (offered) 100 to 7 agst Bedminster (offered) 100 to 6 agst Ariel (offered) 100 to 6 agst Zambezi (offered) 20 to 1 agst Broomielaw DERBY. 6to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken freely) 6 to 1 agst Liddington 25 to 1 agst Zambezi (offered, take 28 to 1) 83 to 1 agst Rifle (offered) RACING FIXT RES FOR 1865. Warwick Spring Vincennes Chelmsford Spring . ...... . 28 Lewes Spring 3O APRIL. Vincennes Northampton 4 Abergavenny 2O Croxton Park 7 Thirak 2l Newmarket Craven l7 Cardiff 25 Durham MAY. Newmarket Ist Spring 1 Chester 9 York Spring Salisbury lB Bath 23 Harpenden Epsom Vincennes Chelmsford 7 Manchester Summer 7 Ascot l3 Beverley l4 Liverpool .. 19 Alexandra Park 2O Hanapb )11 Newton 21 Newcastle Odihaan 27 Bidbury Stockbridge JU Newmarket July Carlisle Worcester Abingdon Stamford l3 18 Winchester Nottingham Southampton l9 Chesterfield Goodwood Down Royal Corp AUG Brighton 1 Brighton Club Lewes 4 ifuntingdon Wolverhampton 10 Reading 15 Egham Royal Windsor SEPTII Leicester 7 Doncaster Brecon lB Richmond York Plymouth Lichfield 2B Devon anti Derby Summer 30 Weymouth 3l Baden 3l Stockton Monmouth 2l Manchester Autumn Newmarket Ist Oct 26 Walsall OCTOBER. Northallerton 5 Newmarket Ho. M Newmarket 2d Oct 9 Vincennes Vincennes The Journal des Villes et Campagnes has received a third warning for an article in which the writer " has transformed and mutilated the speech of M. Bouland, under the pretence of discussing it, and quotes fragments of the official report of the sitting so as not to permit a just appreciation of the sense and bearing of the discussion ; and because the said article constitutes a report other than that which is alone authorised by the Art. 42 of the Con stitution, and by the Senatus-Consultum of the 2d Feb., 1861." ful,op A letter from Al exandria of the Bth March says : -- the'pAeance lattack üblayti B un ed a o b ai uv n e s o w si a u s t. la s te u l l y die m rs a an de d upon the peaceful Population above Osiut. Soldiers and artil lery were promptly sen t up th e r i ver f rom C a i ro , and the affair was ended with the capture of the ringleaders. Some of the European travellers on the Nile, returning from the upper country, were interrupted in their voyage, but were able to resume it with perfect safety after a brief delay. The consuls-general of different nations in Egypt, 17 in number, having resolved that the doyen of their corps should be appointed by election, proceeded unanimously to make choice of M. Testa, the consul-general of Sweden and Norway.; and at the reception by the Paella, at Cairo, on occasion of the Grand Beiram, 27th February, M. Testa offered to his Highness the customary felicitations in the name of his colleagues. Mr. Hermann, the Prestidigi tateur,' has been in Egypt ; he has given public represen tations in Alexandria and Cairo, which have been well attended. He also gave private exhibitions at the Palace of the Paella, who presented him with a purse containing £4OO sterling. :MBER. 1021 171 i 79r I'B} MA