The Sun. — London, England, 1866-03-01 00:00:00

11111 111a1EIM - ,t-• - , MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL IN TELLIGK.7OE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Bank of England directors have not deemed it expedient to make any further reduction in their minimum rate of discount. A downward move ment was generally anticipated a few days ago, but subsequently the complexion of affairs became altered through certain financial engagements be- Coming due, and the introduction of new foreign Government and joint-stock enterprises. In the °ped market there is a moderate inquiry for accom modation, and the rates for first-class paper are still about per cent. below the official rate, viz., 7 Per cent. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this date, are in round figures as under:— 1866. 1865. Great Western £64,676 £61,629 North Western ••• . ....103,862 96,928 South Western . . • • 19,802 17,751 _ 33 rlghte n .• • •• • 16.563 14,309 South xidland ~,. ... • • ... •• ... .• 47,419 44,070 Eastern ••• •• • 19,321 16,830 Great No r th ern ▪ ... 35,296 84,072 Lancashire and Yorkshire 40,461 26,292 and Exeter 5,659 5,169 11. ....arth Eastern • ... 64,264 56,759 alanehester, Sheffield, and Lincoln ... 19,696 17,260 Great E as t ern 81,202 29,048 London, Chatham, • and Dover ... 7,595 6,030 Two O'CLOCK. According to Reuter's telegram the French free per Cent. Rentes were quoted at 69f. 40c. Firm. The reduced price of Consols has attracted a few purchasers, whose operations have improved the Market value to the extent of 1 per cent. There however, not a very confident feeling among the in vesting and speculative c l asses , b ecause it i s th oug ht that many changes may arise during the present session, which temporarily dist ur bi n g, may re, : n i t in profit to the country. Consols are 1 4 for money, and 87/ / for the account. T he New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 87 ; Exchequer "Bills, 2s. dis. ; India 5 per Ce nts., 1024. 1 ; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper, 101 a ; ditto 51 per Cents., 108 ; and ditto 4 per Cent. Bonds, 10s. 15s. prem. - The new Chilian Scripl has been dealt in at 31 prm. b: Stocks generally exhibit steadiness, but very little business has been transacted. Turkish 6 Per Cents. are 37+ 38 ; Mexican, 221 23 ; do. t e w, 201 ; Greek, 14 + ; Spanish Passive, 27/ 1 ; e Certifie4es, 16/ 1 ; Italian, 601 61 ; the Con federate Loan, 4 5 ; Brazilian Scrip, 2 1 prem. ; and Egyptian Rail w ay Scrip, 1 / p rem . U n it e d 'o'tatee Government 5-20 Bonds are 70+ 714. ; Erie ' h ares, 54 I ex div ; and Illinois, 781 I. In the Railway Share Market there has been very little business entered into. Great Eastern, South -W estern and South Eastern have each declined ss. w hile Great Western have improved ss. ,The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit littl e V enetian of i m p or t ance South Au s t r i an an d L om b ar d o are dealt in at 16, and Grand Trunk of Ca nada at 371 381. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain very I nactive. Europe an h ave d ec li ne d t o _lll ; L on d on rd County t o 771 ; J o i n t S toc k Di scount to 3i 4 ational Discount Company are steady at 144. 1; and Overend, Gurney and Co. at 19/ The shares of the Imperial Land Company of al leilles are quoted 2+ 3 prem. BRITISH PUNDS-ONN O'CLOCK. 8 ~ O cVERNatENT FUNDS. '''''r Cent. Con so l s 8 Do. Account March 6 B7. per Cent. Reduced B7f ii - 6 evv ., 3 ,. Per Cent B7f 7 - " n ‘i per Cent. Jan. 1894 - A D- 5 Per Cent Jan. 1873 - Unnities, 30 . yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 - D 0• for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1 1i ,, h ° (P 4 ed Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 - - " 64 :1 1 1er Bills, £1,000,3 per Cent. - Do. £5OO - 134 Day £lOO and £2OO 11 England Stock, 5 per Cent lad b , ` 4 -: GOYEItNbiENT SEctrarrrEs. - D o -4 °teck, 14 per Cent., AprillB74 - Account t D ° : 5 per Cent. July, 1870 ' 4 per Cent o. DCertificates Oct. 1888 JD _ D o, E nlaced Paper 4 per Cent D o ' per Cent., Jan. 1872 0 • 'I Per Cent., May 1879 lOB t e• Deb., 4 per C ent., A ug. 1866 D ° ' B ends, £l,OOO l5 A°. Under £l,000 Ar eA „„ POREIGN FUNDS-ONN O'O.LOOK. 40 6 - , - . L - " 110 Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd - _ Dr - ',•414, Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 t zli tala 5 per Cent _ °' 4 1 Per Cent, 1852-58-60 - Do. 1863 - D° Do • 1865 - A • 751 1 Do.....ccount Bu e „ S er l P, £35 paid TN -4111 Ayres 6 p er Cent . - T. Account Chip Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) - rt. an 6 p er C ent 6 ut/ 4 ,? lll bian 6 pe r C en t. i l a* 6 Per Gent . - t isi l 3 Per Cent., 1825 i N u. 1, Per Cent., 1863 D 0 . 0 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid „,_anilbian Principalities 'dttlador Now Consolidated, 1 per Cent - no, Provisional Land Warrant - no., Second Issue De £lOO Bonds ....... . Do. 1864 Do £lOO Bonds - . Government Railway Debentures Q 1)0 . £l5 paid r eek 5 Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons - r , per "ge• Account . "0. Cou r„ ns Do. A cco P° - .. uiat it4a.teoaala 5 per Cent. - I) - kilall 5 per Cent, 1865 _..... 0 Account D 1i0e.... M aremmana Railway - e an 3 per Cent - Do• Account Do - 1864 ...., 0 6 tion t Per Cent. Anglo-French _ D e videan 6 per Cent, 00 paid - We 1.14 Intrial 5 per Cent w G rona 1 ) 1) 2 Per Cent 3ll b` o ) rDeferred Do. L and Warrants (Hectares) Do c tr ar c a ent, 1864 Pet ir 1 ,„.• , uteed, 4 per Cent per Cent, 1865 13(0). Account - D o A3,Per Cent. (Uribarren) Port t ,„7 Per Cent., 1862 I) r es t' 3 per Cent., 1853 - 14 ;Per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, - k i ss ,: '''-econnt 1:1 0 - 4 11 5 Per Cent., 1822, £ St D 3 it Per Cent. 1850 D o a Per Cent., 1860 - D o 5 Per Cent. 1859 - D o ~:- Per Cent 1862 9O 894 'N•cli, ; Yer Cent. 1864 - 1;) - ' 411 .5 per Cent - 13? Account 7l. D u 41 C 0 Bands - b 0. i i '1 3 3.44 1 ,/ Per Cent - Do 1 h }3 Per Cent - 0 0 x r -c e o llnt D o '' e 'r Deferred - r, A ccount vo p._. - u0 . . - •.sive , 6,4447secount 1) 4 Oert of Coup not funded pi 0 4,..._ • l6l silvedi 4l , - unt l6l 1 D ' per Cent. - T e rkuti. eu Per Cent. 1864 Dosceu Per Cent. 1854 - n t I), A Per Cent. 1.858 - I), s'ecOlillt 661 D o 410 0 D c i s - Do 410 6 A Per on Cent. 1862 Do '' ec -.. enut 0 08 0 d s Li: s 6,Per c con rit.,lB63 kto At'r cut., 1865, paid up Scrip - Do ce elint Ve • 4 Per oezoo, Cent. Guaranteed - tlt• la. 3 t o a ,.,._ Per Cont. - V' 6 Aue r c..A ce _ Cent, 1862 - u etttit - D o. „p• 1864 3B} IPer Cent 7l 4 %4,4 tvic letlas on the above payable in London. P I ' , mu_ k 13 51 %tan ' 4 ' l Per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins - h .- 7 - ; s Per cent. Ex. 25f. - ~ 1 ,, , D 0 per Vent., Ex. 12 Guil - ItPleli k r C ent. Certi fi cates - liz, rates 3 p er C ent. 13„; 4. 0 , P Cent., 1861, E x . 25f. - - coer nnt A f°r Inoney 0tr_ (.3u. , ,4 TWO O'CLOCK. 87* eeount . 871 ................................... 6 Tu t IN Il i . •KJEA L , , ~ e he w , , %- , OACH.—The superstitious among ma % 6 utiVe been supping on horrors for the last eight str, -4 is said and that a black coach at tho ti t 'et baid e i • " , '4Qe filo midnig h t is heard rolling along the station-road ; u kr!i t. b g the toll -road to Cho bridge of Findhorn and * e zi° II re 40 ,Credulous woman whom it passed says there I ..."`iPily.. ,u°l'ses-only their heads ! The wheels drag ''''''Yti a rt ''' ll rieg the time it is hoard all the dogs in the set • it'llOWling !-Forres Gazette, SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. I Paid.! Closing Share/ Railways. I Price. Business done. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian Cork and Bandon— •••• Cornwall . . Dublin & Belfast June. Dun„Perth, & A b.June. E.London, scrip Certi. Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scot land Great Northern DJ. A stock • • Do. B etock Do. New, Is. at 2S pm GtS, and W. of Ireland Gt. Westein -Origins' D.,. S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. slid.—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford Lanc +shire & Yorkshir • LJndon and Lilackwa ll Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. 14:x. A Lon. & North Wester' Lon. & South Western Man., Shot., & Lincoln Metropolitan. Do. New Do Extension...... Metropolitan District. Do do. do. Do. and John'aW'd Mid'an d Do. 49 Share Do, Birmin Derb; Mid Kent North British Do. Ed., Ptli , Az Dun. Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. (LN•E purohast Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle Do. Stock. & Dunn:: Do. 10. 1860-61. North London Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1865 . North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E Aber. stock I*o. Scot, Mid. st.. , ck 1 Shropshire Union south Devon -ouch E stern iraines, Wok., A; Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale ot Neagh Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha I West Cornwall BRITISH POSSR Atlantic dr St.l.awrence Dom., Baroda, N Cen. In. gu..5 per cent........ Do. F shares . . ...... Buffalo Az Lake Huron Do Preference ...... ' Buff.,Brant,&Goderich 6 p.c. 872.3- • • •••• • Calcutta & S. E., Urn.. 'are Town & Dock, gu. Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p East. Ben_ al, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. .5 p.c. Do .1 Eitastori Grand Trunk ot Canad Do. Equip. Mort. Bonde 1 charge 6 p.c ...... Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred ... • Do. 2d Prat. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred .... Do. 1d Prof. stoek.• • • Do. do. deferred ....1 Do. 4th Pref. stock .. Do. do. deterred .... Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. t'o. Gua. 5 per cent.. Do. New gin. 5 p. c Gt. South of India ....• • gun. 5 per cent D 4.1 per cent Do Great Wc a. of Canada DJ. New _. . Do. 6 p. 0. Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 ': Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o .... Do. ft do Do. 43 do Do. Filth Extension 3lelb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds.l Mel. Hudson's Bay N. Ea C 'da, 6pc Ist pf. be ' Scinde ...... Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Puniaub.....l Do.lndus St Mot 190 100 100 all 100 100 COLONIAL GO VElt British Columbia. 6 per' cent.. Dec. 31, 1372.... Can.Gov.6 p.e.Ja.it July 1877-84 - Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug. Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sepi Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk Cape G.llope, 6 p.c. 18731 De.Apl.&Oct 1890-1900' Do. do; 18.30-9.1 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-9 t Do. syer cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1000 Ce_ylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.( Do. 1878, do Itaurltius, 6 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1-78 ... Do. 1882, May 15, Nov. it Do. 1895, Feb. , Natal qov. 6 per oent N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&July N. S.W. G ov. 5 p•c., 186 t, Do. 5 p.c. 183 to 1871 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1891 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 percent..... Nova Sc tia Gov. 6 p. O sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 6. Aus.Gov. 6 p,o 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja it July Do. do, A pril k Oct BRIT! I Cam. Coml. G old, li na Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated. Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drakewalls East Bassett (Ilogan) East Caradon East Cam Brea Nast Grenville East G unn 'slake East Loved E. WI Russell (Tavlstic Gam. d& StAubyn(G wen. Great L ,xey limited Great South Folgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (Heist , t Grenville Herod's Foot •••• Hingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley Iwyndy Iron Ore, lira New Seton North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crotty ['rover United Pr,vidence Uny Lvlant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park . Tin Croft Vigra and Mogan, lim West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Llskeard West C hi verton ....... . IWest Seton ..... . Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth 'Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis 93 95 131 132 65 70 13 15 4 6 67 70 70 72 116 118 381 39 6) 7i 121 126 Ili 14 00 92 581 SS; 60 6 39 41 35 38 101 1 63 1191 12.) 87 8) 96 98 38 40 45 6 1 12.8 /221 92 13 64 65 133 134 8 Pip 1 11$ , 97 19 123 123 2 21 I 98 98 61 83 7 28 112 114 72 73 108 110 37 38 106 116 p 125 128 13 2p 14 2p 75 77 11 12 148 149 69 71 112 114 53 55 761 774 8 . 9 - VA 118 3 1p 10.1 IC4 51 53 1091 i P ISIONS. 51 6) 991 100# id 7# 8 10 11 74 78 96 N 66 70 leo 102 100 101 102 103 45 49 81 90 68 70 60 03 62 64 53 56 48 61 94 47 38 40 76 38 103 104 # P 99 100 91 93 17/ 171 3.1 II II N 1 4d 93 101 90 92 86 88 64 66 8 . 82 9811 991' 98 99 96 99 10'1 921 KENT SECIJI: 94 96 93 tie 95 97 t 0 82 73 SO IUI 103 104 100 104 105 101 103 90 92 101 103 106 1.8 102 104 103 1.05 103 105 IC4 106 93 101 93 95 93 95 87i 58 100 102 88 84 P 8 103 98 100 104 ICO 100 1074 8 9 15 17 650 68) I 1 19 21 8 1) 3 41 3i t 21 104 3 31 5 7 20 21 1e 2 34 4 3C 31 31 33 40 4j 5 6 7 4 44 24 16d 35 4) 13 15 I ! 32 34 390 410 2 II ?8 22 9 11 19 20 4 6 3 4 8 10 75 FO 163 175 80 95 25 274 3 b_ 2 5 215 10 171, LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, 54 Ditto, 5 p r cent., 310 London and Chatham, 4} per Cent., Ditto, Corn. Fund stock 5 per cent., 96 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 51 Northern and Eastern, 5 per cent.. 52 N'OREIGN RAILWAYS. South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 51. FI►RIiIUN /KIN Kb. Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 41 a Frontino and Bolivia tiold, lira., la Washoe Gold, lira., Ditto (£4), 41 BANKS. Agra and Masterman's, lim., 14 Alliance, lim.. 29 Anglo Egyptian, lim., 13 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 24 City, 2 I Consolidated Bank, lim., Oi English and American, Bra., 6 European Bank, lim. 12 Lana Mortgage Ban k India, lim. 41 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 23 21 London and Comity, 78 Midland Bank, Rm., 19k National Provincial of England, Ditto. d and 3d issue, 45 Oriental Bank Corporation. 531 Oriental Commercial Bank, lim. late 0. C.ZS/ Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, lira ., 51 Dit 0, issued at 2 pm.,121 Union of London, 53; MISCELLANEOUta. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per Cant. gna., 21 8 . Bombay Gas, Um., 51 Ceylon Company, 101 City of London Real Property, lira., 4 City Offices, lim. Credit Fonder and ffobilier of England, Credit Fencier or Mauritius, lim., 7; 8 East Indian Land Credit and Finance, lim., 6 Ebbw Vale, 81 Electric Telegraph. 136 Fore-street Warehouse, lim., 102 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Um., 5 Hudson's Bay, 178 1 Imperi Mercantile Credit A 550..11m., 6 International Land Credit. Ihn., 6 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, rcdem. 1170, issued 90, 80 Joint Stock Discount. lira., 41 4 London and Caledonian Marine, lim., 31 Merchant Shipping. Urn., 12k Millwall Freehold Land and Dock, 41 National Discount c ompany. 142 1 National Provincial Mariue, lim , 11 orth British and Mercantile Insurance, 20; Ottoman Financial Association, lira.. 81 Overend, Gurney, and Co., lim.. 191 I'anama, New Zealand. and Australian Mai', lim., Ditto (all), 3 Peninsula and Oriental Steam. 7 ; Quebrada Land, Rail, and Mining, Um., 41 Royal Mail Steam, 121 10 moth Australian Land, 291 United Kingdom Telegraph Co., lim., 31 PROFESSOR OF GREEK AND LATIN.—The Pro. . fossership of Greek and Latin in the Baker Universit y Kansas, is acceptably filled by Miss Martha Baldwin, graduate of the Berea (Ohio) University. She has occ - pied the chair for a year, and at the last commence? i4ell was selected by the Faculty to deliver the annual ad :Breast which duty she performed very handsomely. S' e is but 21 yowls of age.--Amerion paper. 2.1.0 29i 31 2.14.0 8.3.0 3.9.0 10.8.5 58i 9j 120 8848 102} 3 38, 71 log, i 7 7} ITIES. 2O i THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, ISGO. THE BRAZIL MAIL. LISBON, MARCH 1. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Rhone has arrived here from Brazil, and will leave for Southampton at 8 a.m. to-day with 52 passen gers, 2,039 bales of cotton, 130 packages of sun dries, and £50,000 in specie. The Douro, with the out-mail of the 9th February, was at St. Vincent on the 20th February. AMERICA. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON. NEW YORK, Feb. 17 (Noon). There is a great dearth of news, particularly from the South. No political events of importance are reported from that section. The people seemed to be anxiously awaiting the action of Congress. - Southern journals show that the proceedings of the Committee of Reconstruction are watched with great interest. The proceedings of Congress have not been specially important for a few days past. In the House of Representa tives a petition was presented from some three hundred communicants of an African Methodist Church at Atlanta, Georgia, asking an appropriation to rebuild their church, which was entirely demolished by Federal troops during Sherman's campaign through Georgia. In the Senate a petition for the immediate recognition of Tennessee as a State was presented, and referred to the Reconstruction Committee. Mr. Sumner (of Mass.) presented a petition from tho women of New England asking that there shall be no dis tinction on account of sex in the bestowal of the elective franchise. A bill was passed to punish kidnapping or enticing away, with the view of selling them, negro or mulatto persons. Any one convicted with the offence to be fined from $5OO to $5,000, and imprisoned from ono to five years, at the option of the Court. The bill also provides for the punish ment of the master of any vessel ti ansporting a kidnapped person, and for the forfeiture of the vessel. A bill was introduced, and laid over, to grant privilege to the International Ocean Telegraph Company to establish a line from this country to the West Indies, to be completed within five years. The right of way to last for 25 years, and the line to be under Government control in case of foreign war. A message was received from the President transmitting correspondence between Secretary Seward and the Marquis do Monthelon, French Minister at Washington, in rela tion to the adoption of measures to prevent the spread of the cholera. It appears thereby that under suggestions of M. Drouyn de L'Huys a conference of medical men of all nations is to take place at Constantinople under the auspices of the Sublime Porto for the purpose of adopting some universal system of precautionary measures with regard to the cholera. Two medical officers of the United States army are to represent this country in the conference. Exeoution of a Welshman in America. Dr. John W. Hughes, who is described as a native of Wales, was recently hung at Cleveland, Ohio, for having murdered Tamsen Carsons, a woman with whom he had been living for some mouths previous. The doctor's grandfather, says a New York letter, was a native of the parish of Ballaugh, in the Isle of Man, and his great grandfather accompanied Bishop Wilson to that place early in the eighteenth century. At 21 the doctor came into possession of property valued at £15,000 to £16,000, and soon after he enlisted in tho British service, doing duty in Ireland and in the Crimea. In a fit of despera tion, caused through the breaking off a marriage en - gagement, he married a woman who had formerly been connected with the family, but the association did not break up his " fast" habits, and eventually he went to America, after having squandered most of his property. After remaining some months in Cleveland, Ohio, he re turned to his home in the Isle of Man to bring out his wife and child, and did so after selling his property. After his return he practised medicine with varying success in diffe rent places in Ohio, then •oluntered in the Union army, and soon became an assistant-surgeon in the hospital at Vicksburg. Suddenly returning to his home, he detected his wife in a situation that nearly crazed him. Then ho eloped with the woman Tamsen Parsons. The couple were married. Dr. Hughes was arrested and tried on a charge of bigamy. After conviction ho was sentenced and pardoned. Subsequently his wife and child went to the Isle of Man to visit their relatives, against his own wishes and that of their friends, and during their absence the connection with Tamsen Parsons was renewed; and, because she threatened to leave him, ho murdered her in open day in the streets of Bedford, Ohio. On the scaffold he made an extraordinary statement. He said, " This death penalty is ridiculous, and if you will consider over it you will find it is wrong: Ono life is as good as another. What advantage is it to take my life ? None. It is not an example to deter others from tho crime. Did I remember pointing that pistol ? No ; I don't romombor it to this hour. Yet it is the 'err, and wo must abide by it—the law of man, but not of God. lam convinced of it. For six months now I have had every sect of religion to visit me, and they come in to tell me which is the way to Heaven. Do I believe them ? No What is man's way to Heaven ? Tho same as his way on earth. Do unto others as wo wish to be done to. I have thought it all over, fully and conscientiously, and have come to the conclusion that my life in another world will be the same as in this, with the difference that there all will be pure. I have considered this over for six months, and in tended to give my own life up to my exit out of this world. I intended to take my own life, but did not succeed. I took enough to take me out of the world, but it is the Great Spirit's will that I should not; and I have not done it. I don't be lieve to-day—God foigive me if I say anything wrong—that Jesus Christ was the Son of God. My anatomical knowledge and everything says that the Immaculate Conception was not right. It is against nature and philosophy; it is against human nature. I believe that no purer spirit, no better man, over lived on earth than Jesus Christ, and that in the spirit world ho is next to the Great Creator himself —as far as wo know. At the same time, I will tell my experience tells what I know in my own soul. I know from my own experience that there is communication with those who have departed from this life. I am to-day about to suffer the extreme penalty of the law, but at the same time am sure I shall be with you after the execution as I am now." H'; USE OF LORDS---This Day. (Before the Lord Chancellor and Lords Chelmsford and Kingsdown.) DE WINDT (BY HIS NEXT OF KIN) V. DE WINDT. The case came before their lordships on an ap peal from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor Wood, and had reference to the construction of the will of the father of the appellant. The facts of the case have been so frequently published as to render even an outline of them unnecessary. Their lordships dismissed the appeal. MARKETS,---This Day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There were only 7 English and 83 Scotch boasts on sale here to-day, the remainder of the supply being wholly composed of foreigners. The beef trade, however, was very quiet at Monday's currency. The best Scots and crosses sold at 5s 6d per lbs. Sheep—the show of which was very moderate—moved off slowly at late rates. The best Downs and half-breds in the wool realised 6s 6d to Gs 10d per 81bs. Calves were a slow inquiry on former terms—viz., from 5s 8d to Cs 8d per 81bs. Pigs were tole rably firm in price. It is expected that about 220 head of Scotch beasts will arrive by sea for Monday's market. Per 81b to sink the offal. ci s d B ds d Crse. & inf. beasts... 4 0 4 4 Pme crs-wool sheep 5 10 6 4 Second quality do .3 6 4 10 Prime s'thdown d 0.6 6 6 10 Prime large oxen ..5 u 5 2 Large coarse calvcs.s 8 6 2 Prime Scuts, &c.... 5 4 5 6 Prime small do..•••• 6 4 6 8 Crse. and inf. sheep.} 24 10 Large hogs ...4 4 Second quality do •.5 0 5 8 Small porkers, ...... 4 8 5 0 Lamb....os Od to 03 Od. Suckling calves, 20s to 228 ; and quarter-old store pigs, 30s to 33s each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 540 Beasts 430 Cows 4O Cows. Sheep 2,600 Sheep 2 1 0 Calves l4O Ca yes .. ...•..... . 149 Pigs 390 rigs • u „-.... 230 MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENITALL.—Good supplies of meat are en sale, and the trade is steady, as folfews :—Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 6d ; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 4d ; veal, 5s Od to 6s Od; and pork, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per 811 - b by the carcase. HAY. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 15s; clover, .£5 5s to 16 15s Od ; and straw, £ll6s to £2 2s per load. A fair demand. --- CIIISBERLAND.—Iifeadow hay, £4 4s to £5 17s Gd; clove; £5 5s to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 58 per load. Supply moderate. WHITECIIAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 15s; clover, £5 5s to .£6 17s Gd; and straw, £1 las to £2 2s per load. Trade inactive. A DOCTOR'S BILL.—At the Secondaries' Court yesterday, in an action for a doctor's bill, the visits were charged only is. each, and in one instance four visits were charged ss. The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed, and observed that the visits appeared to be mode rately charged. An application was made for a certificate for costs, and the ground urged was that had the plaintiff sued in. the county court, the defendant could have had a jury at Brentford, where ho " had considerable influence." Mr. Secondary Potter refused a certificate :for such a reason. The parties could go before a jury at Chambers. TIM ►SHOOTING CASE AT PADDINGTON.—At the liarylebono Police-court yesterday Joseph Ward, a boat -1 man on the Regent's-canal, was brought up for re-exami nation on the charge of shooting a lad named Lefton on Itho Lock-bridge, Harrow-road. It may be remembered that the prisoner was having a quarrel with his wife in the boat, and the noise attracted the attention of some per sons who were going over the bridge. This seemed to en rage the prisoner the more, and he wont into his cabin, I from which he fetched a gun and fired, the shot taking 6 effect upon the face of the lad. His face was completely • riddled with shot ; ono eye was lying on his cheek and had t to be removed. His sight is complete l y go n e , a nd he is in a very precarious state. A message was brought that t the poor lad was not able to attend. Mr. Yardley re manded the prisoner. LAW INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. COURT OF PROBATE. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde and a Special Jury.) BELLEW V. BELLEW. The hearing of this case, which has occupied so many days, was resumed this morning. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., summed up on behalf of Mr. Henry Bellew, who propounded the will of his sister the late Countess of Bellew, which was made in his favour, and was disputed by their mutual sister, Miss Frances Bellew, who alleged that theinstru ment was a forgery. The learned counsel said that not only would his client be deprived of a large pro perty, but the reputation destroyed and the very liberty imperilled of two respectable persons, namely, Mrs. Cap and Joseph Verlando, by an adverse verdict. It must be admitted that if this will were a forgery these two persons had been guilty of a dangerous and foul conspiracy, which, notwithstanding the alteration of the law which abolished capital punishment for forgery, still rendered them liable to penal servitude for life. He said he would be able to satisfy the jury that there was no ground whatever for imputing any such infathous misconduct to the parties in question. It appeared from the facts developed in the course of the evidence that the aunt of the,Countess of Bellew, the testatrix, had left Mr. Henry Bellew and Miss Frances Bellew £4,000 each, and constituted the Countess of Bellew her residuary legatee. That will Miss Frances Bellew disputed in the Prero gative Court at Exeter, but without success, and very unsisterly feelings between the parties were engendered. The breach was never entirely closed, and shortly prior to her death the countess was heard to complain bitterly of the conduct of her sister in involving her in expensive litigation. He con tended that it was not likely that Mrs. Cap, if she had been a party to forging the instrument in dis pute, would have limited her own legacy to £5OO, or that Verlando would have been instrumental in the fraud, without deriving any benefit whatever, by so nefarious and dangerous an act. The learned counsel then went through the different points of the ♦oluminous evidence. The case was proceeding when we went to press. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ST'EALMG WET LlNEN.—George Davis, a rough looking fellow, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing some wet linen, the property of Mr. Smith, tailor, of Silver street, Gower-square. The prosecutor said that on the previous afternoon he was at work (his servant girl having just gone out) when he heard a noise upstairs ; and on going into a back room he saw the prisoner, and on asking him what he wanted them he said he was "looking for Mrs. Sullivan." He told the prisoner that he had no Mrs. Sullivan there, and hearing something rattle in his pockets, took from them two keys, which he told the prisoner were most convenient articles for him to carry about with him. He then found that the noise he had previously heard had been caused by the fall of part of a candlestick which the prisoner had dropped. The prisoner begged hard to be allowed to go, and as he appeared to have taken nothing, ho let him go, but directly after his servant coming in, and seeing a strango bag, and which turned out to be full of wet linen, near where the prisoner had been crouched down, he gave infcrmation to the police, and he was overtaken and taken into custody. The articles in the bag were his property. Police-constable Foster, 98 C, said that from the descrip tion of the prisoner he received he went after him and took him into custody, in a public-house in Pulteney-street, when ho said that ho had only gone to the house for the purpose of seeking employ. Inspector Bowles said he believed there would be other charges against the prisoner, and Mr. Knox remanded him. IVES TMIN S TER. EXTENSIVE BunGnanv.--Joltu Hurley, a ticket-of-leave man, was placed at the bar, charged with breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Mr. Hamilton, 12, Wilton place, Knightsbridge, and stealing jewellery and other articles. Mr. Hamilton said that on Monday evening his house was entered by burglars and robbed. When he returned home, at a little after 10, his house was in great disorder, and the police there. The property missed and described had been purloined from the upper apartments of the house. Mr. Arnold—How had they obtained an entrance ? Prosecutor—They had broken into an empty house close to me, and had from thence got access by coming over the roofs and opening an attic window. Amelia Spencer, lady's-maid to Miss Savoy, who. occu pies apartments in Mr. Hamilton's house, said that between 9 and 10 on Monday night she was going up stairs when she saw two men leaving her mistress's bedroom. The men rushed up the attic stairs and escaped by the way they had entered. Witness believed the prisoner to be one of the men. Mr. Arnold—Were you close to them? Witness —I was. One of thorn blew my candle out on the stairs, and they swore they would break my neck if I did not go away. After that I gave the alarm, and the police were sent for. George Wallett, groom to Major MPherson, said ho was passing prosecutor's on Monday night, and saw prisoner and another jump from the grxdon wall next door into the street. Other evidence was given in support of tho charge. Prisoner was remanded. A MARINE BURGLAR.—John THAMES Smith, a bargeman, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with breaking into and entering the cabin of the ship Calcutta, in the East India Dock, and stealing a tablecloth, some brandy, and biscuits therefrom. John Tomlinson, a night watchman, stated that at half past 4 o'clock this morning he was walking along the quay and heard a knocking on board the Calcutta. Ho imme diately boarded the vessel and saw the prisoner lying on his back on the deck floor just outside the cabin door. He spoke to him and asked him what business ho had there, to which he made no reply. He then aroused the shipkeeper. George Sharp, shipkeeper of the Calcutta, said he dis covered that a case of brandy had been broken open and a bottle taken out. The tablecover was also missing. The bread locker had been plundered. William West, a. dock constable, stated that the cabin door of the Calcutta was found open, and an entrance ob tained. The end cf a wooden pileher, or staff, with two large iron hooks at the end, was found in the cabin. it had been used in breaking open the door, and did not belong to the ship. The prisoner was asked what he did on board, to which he replied, "Ask my employer." He asked who his employer was, and he declined to make any answer. The prisoner afterwards said he belonged to an empty barge called the William, alongside the Calcutta. Ho went on board the barge and found a table-cover on the beam which crossed the barge and a bottle half filled with brandy ill There was a long staff on board, secured by a lock of it, with the iron hooks, and fastenings. Th e head the corner of the barge.. found on board the Calc utta, had been cut off with a knife, and it must hav e t aken some time to have done so. The staff was, of course, spoiled. The prisoner was in toxicated, and smelt strongly of brandy. The ship-keeper of the Calcutta was recalled, and said the table-cover, valued at 1 55., was the property of Capt. Jopp, the master of the Calcutta. The bottle of brandy had been taken out of a case. The prisoner, in defence, said ho was a lighterman, that he was 35 years of ago, and dwelling at N 0.20, Checksand eeWhitechapel, that ho was stupidly d r unk last night, and did t not know what ho was ab ou t. Mr. Partridge committed the prisoner for trial. sir HEALTH OF THE MASTER OF TRINITY. — CAMBRIDGE, Wednesday Evening. —The Master passed a very restless night. At the present hour (6 o'clock) his me di c al attendants are in hopes that he has recovered from the immediate effects of the accident, but they are still as to the ultimate conse quences. of LAte o much anxiet y ACCIDENT TO A BARRIS TER .—Mr. Charles uee2 FATAL in e Tst a . state Newton, barrister, of No. 5, Brick-Court, Temple, was found lying dead, yesterday morning, at the bottom of the flight of stairs leading to his chambers. Dr. Reed, a friend of the deceased gentleman, called upon him on Tuesday evening, when he complained of being unwell and very feverish. Dr. Reed left him about 10 o'clock, and it appears that he was not seen alive after that hour. "The next morning, yesterday, he was found by Mr. Lock, lying, as stated, at the bottom of the staircase, and it is supposed that in walking down in the dark he missed his footing, and fell with great force on his head. His death must have been instantaneous. Mr. Newton bad for several years past attended the Northern Circuit. The deceased was unmarried, and his friends, who reside in Yorkshire, have been communicated with. Ho was called to the bar in 1816, , and was about 46 years of ago. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICES ABOLITION BILL Dir. HADFIELD moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to abolish the oath required to be taken by persons taking office. Every person who assumed municipal office, like those called to some of the higher offices of the State, were required to subscribe an oath on the true faith of a Christian that he would not exercise any power of which he might become possessed of by virtue of the office he was about to take to injure the Protestant Church of England as by law established. There were many persons amongst the Non-Conformist body who felt that such a declaration was highly objec tionable, and one great reason why the declaration should be abolished was that it was not taken by those of the very highest offices in the state, but that an annual bill of indemnification was brought in to relieve them of the consequences of not subscribing tho declara tion. This was the sixth time he had brought the matter forward, and he did hope he should succeed in getting his bill made law. v. Mr. NEWDEGATE opposed the motion. He looked upon the bill as an attempt to abolish the declaration in serted in the Test and Corporation Act in place of the sacramental test. He greatly preferred the declaration to the test which was removed, because that was objec tionably used as was then required. He knew that the declaration now sought to be removed was of itself not of very great importance, but ho looked upon it like the bolt in a ship. Remove one of these bolts, and where was the safety of the crew ? He objected to the bill, because it might be one of those small causes which would lead to great and important political changes, and therefore moved as an amendment that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. BAXTER was surprised that a gentleman should get up in his place in Parliament and defend an obsolete Act of Parliament; which was not of the slightest use to the Church of England. The keeping up such miserable, absurd, and irritating tests as that now proposed to be got rid of, only tended to keep up sectarian animosities, which it was of the last importance should be avoided. He should vote for the second reading of the bill. Mr. HUNT said, having been engaged in a. committee up stairs, ho had not had the advantage of hearing the arguments of his hon. friend on that occasion, but he sup-- posed they were the same as he had favoured the house with on several occasions against his bill, notwithstanding that he hoped his hon. friend would not divide the house on his amendment. Sir G. GREY said ho had on former occasions expressed his approval of the bill, and therefore he did not think there was any necessity for him to repeat his views. The oppo sition benches showed that there was no desire to reject the bill, and therefore he hoped the hon. gentleman would not press his motion to a division. Mr. NEWDEGATE said he felt it his duty to press his amendment to a division. The house then divided, when there appeared — For the second reading 176 Against it Majority --121 The bill was then read a second time and ordered to be committed on Friday. FELLOWS OF COLLEGES DECLARATION BILL. Mr. BOUVERIE moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to relieve graduates who were oligible_for fellowships from the necessity of making a de claration that they would adhere in all particulars to the Liturgy of the Church of England. The list was found in an out-of-the-way corner in the Act of Uniformity, and he therefore proposed the present bill for the purpose of get ting rid of it. Mr. NEATE suggested that the hon. gentleman should confer with the hon. membar for Exeter, who had a bill of a similar nature, in order that a good general bill might be proposed applicable to both Oxford and Cambridge. Mr. SELWYN intimated that his hon. friend (Mr. Wal pole) would, on the motion for going into committee, move that the bill be committed that day six months. Ho should not, under those circumstances, disturb the armnge ment that had been come to relative to the discussion of this bill by objecting to its passing a second reading. The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on the 18th of April. JAMAICA GOVERNMENT BILL. On tho motion for the third reading of this bill, Mr. CAVE made a few observations relative to the state of labour in Jamaica. Mr. MILLS hoped that something would be done to reform the present state of ecclesiastical endowments. Mr. CARDWELL thought it would be premature to state the alteration which it was proposed to effect in the state of matters in the island. They were now laying the foundation of a new state of things, and he hoped at pre sent that they would confine themselves to that step, in order that they might build upon an edifice of future pro sperity. ,The bill was then read a third time and passed. PRINCESS HELENA'S ANNUITY BILL. This bill was read a second time. PRINCE ALFRED'S ANNUITY BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. HADFIELD hoped that the annuity would be made inalienable, and fixed for his royal highness's enjoy ment. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the money voted by the bill was a grant to tho Crown, and not to Prince Alfred. The bill left it to her Majesty to decide upon the form in which it was to be conferred. He, however, was of opinion that the annuity could not stand as assignable property. The bill was then read a second time. The house then adjourned. National Rifle Association. Yesterday the annual general meeting of the members of the National Rifle Association was held at Willis's Rooms, under the Presidency of the Duke of Cambridge. His Royal Highness, in opening the proceedings, said that this year there would be a Belgian prize, out of compliment to the Belgians who had so well received our English Volunteers. He announced that Cap tain Martin had given another prize in addi tion to the £4OO which he had previously contri buted. The report which has already been issued was adopted. A long discussion took place on matters of detail, and a successful meeting at Wimbledon in July next was anticipated. Lord Bury and other gentlemen simply condemned the con duct of the Birmingham Small Arms Company, who had inflicted a penalty of £6OO upon the Association for a mere clerical error. A resolution on the sub ject was moved, but it was withdrawn. A very stormy discussion arose on the election of members of council. Ultimately the members of the old council were re-elected, with the addition of Colonel Lloyd Lindsay. THE TESTS ABOLITION (OXFORD) BILL.—ThC following is the bill brought in the House of Commons, by Mr. Coleridge and Mr. Grant Duff, to provide for the abolition of religious tests in connection with academical degrees and offices in the University of Oxford : " Whereas it is expedient that provision should be made for enabling her Majesty's subjects to take degrees other than degrees in divinity in the University of Oxford, and to hold public professorships, readerships, and other academical offices which are or may be tenable by lay men therein, without requiring from them religious tests :—Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Ma jesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—From and after the passing of this act, no person shall be required, upon taking, or to enable him to take, any degree (other than a degree of divinity) within the said University of Oxford, or as a condition of exer cising or enjoying any of the privileges and rights which may heretofore have been or may hereafter be exercised and enjoyed by graduates thereof, to subscribe any article or formulary of faith, or to make any declaration or take any oath respecting his religious belief or profession or to conform to any religious observance, anything in the 44th section in the act passed in the session of Parliament hold in the 17th and 18th years of her present Majesty, chapter 81, or any other act of Parliament or statute of the said University, to the contrary notwithstanding--provided always that in case any such degree shall be tendered as a qualification for any office now tenable only by a member of tho United Church of England and Ireland for which such degree as heretofore constituted one of the necessary qualifications, being other than an office within the said University or any of the colleges or halls thereof, the per son or persons appointing or electing to such office shall re quire the person so tendering such degree as aforesaid to subscribe such formularies or to make such declaration as he would have been required to subscribe or make on tak ing the degree of master of arts in the said University if this act had not passed. From and after the passing of this act, no person shall be required, as a qualification for, as a condition of, holding any public professorship, readership, or other academical office which is or may be tenable by a layman within the said University, to subscribe any ar ticle or formulary of faith, or to make any declaration or take any oath respecting his religious belief or profession, or to conform to any religious observance, anything in the Bth, 9th, and 10th sec. of the act passed in the session of Parliament held in the 13th and 14th years of King Charles 11. chap. 4, or in any other act of Parliament or statute of the said University, to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided always that nothing in this act contained shall be taken to apply to any headship or fellowship, or any office of or in any college, house, or hall within the said University, not being a fellowship or other endowment in such college, house, or hall attached to some public pro fessorship, readership, or other academical office in the said Vniveriity, and held by virtue thereof." Total Loss of the Ship Palmerston. Yesterday the following communication from her Majesty's Consulate at Bordeaux was received by Admiral Halstead, secretary of Lloyd's, reporting the total loss of the ship Palmerston :—" Bordeaux, Feb. 20.—Capt. Wm. Dougall, late master of the British ship Palmerston, lost on her voyage from Calcutta for London, has made the annexed sworn declaration before us this day. He states that he sailed from Calcutta on the 31st October last, with a full cargo, bound for London. The voyage WAS prosecuted with variable weather up to the 21st of January, when bad weather set in, causing a heavy sea, in which the ship laboured very heavily. The weather continued bad, when about midnight a terrific gale set in, causing the vessel to roll and strain fearfully. On the morning of the 22d, the pumps having been constantly attended to, it was discovered the vessel had sprung a leak, as no suck could be obtained from the pumps. The gale still continued with a heavy cross sea, pumps continually going. On the evening of the 23d the crew began to complain of fatigue in consequence of the con stant labour at the pumps. Towards evening the gale moderated, but heavy sea continued, ship la bouring, and pumps going unremittingly. This state of things continued, the leak appearing to gain on the pumps. On the 25th the gale returned, ship labouring, people constantly at the pumps. On the 26th, at daylight, a vessel was sighted ; all sails were set to endeavour to reach her, and about noon the captain was enabled to hail the ship Trois Sceurs, of Cherbourg, and to request the captain to remain by the Palmerston as she had sprung a leak, which was steadily increasing. The French captain consented. On the same day, at 3.30 p.m., the crew came aft to the captain, and represented that they were so fatigued by the uninterrupted work at the pumps that they could hold out no longer ; but the captain told them he was willing to remain by the ship and take her into the nearest port if thervvould stand by him. To this they replied that they were too much fatigued to be able to do any more duty, and that as the weather was again threatening, and as probably by the next mornicg the French vessel would have disappeared, it was madness to throw away this chance of salvation. The captain then desired all those that would not remain on board to go over to the starboard side, which all hands did, leaving the captain alone. The pumps were then sounded, and 3ft. Sin. of water was found. A signal of distress was hoisted, and the French ship imme diately bore up and hove to ; the boats were got out, and the weather turning very wild the chief portion of the crew were transferred to the French vessel. About six p.m. the French captain sent word to Captain Dougall to leave his ship imme diately, as it was growing dark and the weather getting too bad for boats to live in such a sea. In consequence, at 6 30 p.m., Captain Dougall and the rest of his crew left the Palmerston, not, how ever, without again sounding the pumps and finding upwards of sft. water in the hold. On reaching the Trois Sceurs he requested the captain to remain by the Palmerston all night, in order if possible to save whatever stores they could, but early next morning it was discovered that the Palmerston was on fire from the mainmast forward. lie further states that the conduct of the ship's company from the com mencement of the gale up to the rescue by the French ship was most exemplary, and they one and all exerted themselves to the utmost at the pumps as well as in the general service of the ship." The ship and cargo were fully insured at Lloyd's and at the City offices. bier cargo consisted of 320 bales of jute, 1,120 bales of jute cuttings, 111 bales of hemp, 1,134 cwt. of turmices, 160 tons of linseed, 600 tons of rapeseed, and other India produce. State of Trade. LEICESTER, Feb. 28.—The hosiery trade con tinues tolerably active. Regular goods are in re quest, and orders are coming well to hand. There is a fair amount of business doing in cotton goods. In the country districts there is more doing. Worsted yarns meet a slow inquiry, and prices are for the most part without change, spinners being indifferently employed. Cotton yarns not materially altered in prices. The wool-market remains rather quiet. NOTTINGHAM, 28th.--There is more activity in the, lace trade, and a fair amount of business has been doing in several departments during the past few days. The spring demand is early this year, on account of the extreme mildness of the season. Silk mechlins continued in repuest. Black lace sells tolerably well. There is very little improvement in the narrow edging trade. Orders are in the market for France and Germany, and the home demand is becoming more active. The hosiery trade is buoyant. TOYS AND GAMES FOR THE SEASON. 10,000 Penny and other Toys to select from. The ss. 6d. parcels contain 73 articles. N.B.—Choice articles collected and sent, post free, to the country upon prepayment, and valu able information to persons commencing the above busi ness. ARTHUR GRANGER, 308, High Holborn, W.C.; and German Fair, 95 and 96, High-street, Borough. A GALLANT CAPTAIN OF ARTILLERY.—Fighting continues on the West Coast of Borneo, says the Singapore Times of January 21. An act of courage and groat pre sence of mind was displayed on board the Government steamer Boni, during ono of the numerous expeditions against the enemy. When attacking a fortified camp, a smart firing was kept up on board the Boni to protect the disembarkation of a landing division. A mortar being fired, the burning grenade struck against the iron chain of the awning and rebounded on dock. Immediate command was given to all present on deck to lie down, but Captain Kilian, of the artillery, without a moment's hesitation, seized the burning grenade with both hands, and throw it overboard, where it burst, having scarcely reached the surface of the water, giving the vessel a severe shock. THE JAPANESE.—AII the essentials of the Ja panese labourer's life were and are easily attained. The earth yielded to him bountifully of her increase ; the ma terial for his garments grew by his door and was spun and wove by his own household, the trees furnished both fuel and light, and in all his hamlets the pauper and beggar was not, except pauper and beggar by profession and not by necessity. Yet with all the plainness and simplicity of his rustic life, is not our Japanese peasant a bit of a Sybarite in his way ? His daily appetite is satiated with such food as might belong to the dwellers in tho new Utopia. Ho eats remorselessly the tender bulbs of the golden lily which spreads its sumptuous blossoms over his fields ; he dines daintily on the lotus root ; he boils his kettle with the wood of the camellia, which we coax with so much tender care to bloom under our northern skies.—New York Tribune. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—LLANDUDNO, Feb. 27. This morning a vessel was observed in distress in Llandudno Bay while the wind was blowing hard from the NE, and a heavy sea was running (says John Williams, Esq.). Before our lifeboat could be got out the vessel had sunk, as well as the boat belonging to her, and the men had to take to the rigging. The " Sisters Memorial" lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was, however, promptly launched, but the sea was so rough that at first there was great difficulty and danger in nearing the vessel, the life boat being submerged several times. At last, by anchor ing to windward, the lifeboat succeeded by means of the her grappling irons, in effecting a communication with s ave the vessel, and was then providentially enabled to lives of the captain and cr ow of two o ve m ss e eT was found to be an d a fterwards safely brought them to land. The the schoonor Morning Star, of Carnarvon, bound from Port Dinorwic to Liverpool with were much exhausted whena cargo of slates. Her crew cued by the lifeboat, as they had been working hard at the pumps all night owing to a leakage. The cost of this lifeboat was presented to the institution by two sisters in memory of a deceased sister. PRINCE CHRISTIAN. — If M. Bismarck succeeds i n finally settling the question of the Duchies to his own satis faction, ono result will be that the future husband of the p r incess Helena, like Garibaldi, will be a man without a country. This will be of less consequence to Prince Chris tian, probably, if he is to find a new " nursing mother" in England. It is already understood that this alliance is made very much in accordance with her Majesty's desire to keep with her an affectionate daughter —that is to say, that the Prince and Princess will have their fixed residence in England, and near the Queen. But we believe that this intention is to bo carried further than the mere arrange ment for a permanent residence in this country. It is pro posed to make of the prince a naturalised Englishman forthwith, and to give him an English peerage, with the title of Duke of Kendal. This project—so much of it as relates to the peerage—has been mot with strong opposi tion, as might have been expected, but it is more than probable that it will bo carried through.—Pall Mall Gazette The quotation 01 gold at Paris is about / per male pm., and the short exchange on Loudon is 25.25 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £0 17s. 100. per ounce for ttandard gold, it appears that gol , l if nearly 3-10th, per cent. dearer in London than in Pala. SPORTIN G INTELLIGENCE ---This Day. N' JTTINGHAM.-THURSDAY. Races are get to commence at two o'clock. No definite order is fix It is doi Ibtful about them coming off, as th e jockeys sq. they will riot ride. It is ktezing hard. RACING FIXT. FRES FOR 1866. MA Derby Spring 1 Liverpool Spring Warwick Spring Doncaster Lewes Spring Croxton Park l6 Northampton 2O Windsor Spring Newcastle Spring 2B No trivarket Craven 2 Durham 2 Blackheath & Woolwich 2 Catterick Bridge Abergavenny 5 Lichfield Spring Chelmsford Spring EIL. Thirsk lO Epsom Spring • 12 Newmarket Ist Spring IG Liverpool Hunt Cup 2O Chester Curragh 2l MAY. Ascot Spring 1 Salisbury Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring Epsom Summer l5 Uxbridge 2l Manchester Ascot Summer Windsor Summer 5 Newton Hampton 7 Odiham Bibury l3 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 Liverpool Beverley 2O Ipswich Ilungerford Newcastle on-Tyne 26 Curragh 26 Worcester 'L Y. Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract • 9 Abingdon Reading N ottingham Down Royal Corp lB Stamford l9 Radcliffe 23 Winchester 24 Southampton 25 Huntingdon Goodwood 3l Brighton AUG 7 Brighton Club Lewes lO Eghtun l4 Wolverh:ouptou l4 Stockton l5 Oxford l6, Ilastiug-s 2l' SEPTE: Warwick September 4 Curragh Leicester 6 Doncaster Brecon l7 Canterbury lB :MBER. I Richmond Hendon Monmouth 1 Manchester Autumn 21 Newmarket Ist October 25 Walsall BER. OCTO. Northampton 2 Newmarket 2(1 October 8 Curragh Newmarket Houghton 22 Worcester NOVE Lincoln Liverpool BER. Shrewsbury . 11 Leamington Hunt •. 19 IRISH RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866. APRIL. Traleo MAY. Curragh Baldoyle Spring B, 9 UST. York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter 2B Tunbridge 2,8 Derby Summer 29 Weymouth , 30 1 JUNE. Curragh 26, 27, 28, 29 JULY. Carlow SEPTEMBER. Curmgh 4, 5, G OCTOBER. Curragh IC, 17 18 CONTINENTAL RAC 18 MA] La Marche 4, 25 :NG FIXTURES FOR ICH. Vincennes ,.. 1 Vincennes 11, la AIL. Pau \ 2, 4 Paris (Spring) 2,8, 15, 22, 26, 29 Bordeaux l9, 22, 26, 28 Bruxelles Vissembourg 2l Paris (Summer) 26, 27 MAY. Bruxelles 3, 6 Chantilly (Derby) 6, 10, 13 La Marche 2l JU Vincennes 3 Montaüban Toulouse St. Omer f E. Toulouse . 24, 28 Rouen Metz B, 9 Auiieus AUG 4 , 5, 6 Rochefort 5 Bourge5... Valenciennes Moulins Cherbourg. Abbeville Le Pin 22 Chalon-sur-Saone ... 22, 23 Salutes 2B, 29 Cacn UST. I Le Mans Laon l9, 20 Tarbes l 9, 29 Blois 26; 28 SEPT Baden-Baden 3l. Baden-Baden 3, 5, 7 Chantilly OCT Paris 14, 18 7 I Chantilly' :MBER. Paris (Autumn) 23, 30 IDER. Vincennes Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. 1868. Belfast and N. Counties Belfast and County Down .... 44k Blyth and Tyne 36 Brecon and Merthyr .. 01 Bristol and Exeter l2l Caledonian, Scottish Central 4151 Cambrian l3O Cockermouth K .k Penrlth 314 Cockermouth and Workin Cork and Bandon 2O Cork, Blaekrock, &Passage 6i Cork and Youghal Cornwall 6si Deeside l7 Do Extension Dublin & Belfast J unction.... 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 Forth and Clyde Junction Furness, &o 5O Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrlk.,&E.l.lnion Great Northern lO4 Great North of Scotland 6B Do Branches 42 Gt. Northu. & Westn.(lrei.) B3 9t.Southu. & Westn.(irind.) 3B7k Great IVeitern 1292 Hull & Hornsca Highland fribli North-Western 145 Lancitshire& Y ork hi re Limerick and Ennis..... 241 Limerick and loynes 26} Llanel ly 46 Llynvt Valley London & North-Western London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &B. Coast 2931 London, Chatham, & Dover; 134 all Metropolitan Extension 12 Do. Kent Coast Lon., Tilbury , & Southend .. 42} Man.,Sheifield. & Linoolnsh . 246 Blanch. S.J un.& Altrincham gi Ilaryport and Carlisle 2B Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6774 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind ail Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal lt North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-k'astern and Stock. & Da r L 12071 North London ll North Staffordshire 258 Pembroke and Tenby ll4 Rhymney 14)1 Scottish North-Eastern l:;S Somerset and Dorset O6 South Devon South-Eastern 315 Tall Vale 6l Ulster Vale of Clwyd. . Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 Irhaven,Cleator,& Egrnant lO FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.. &ustrian B2B Bahia and San Francisco ..• Belgian Eastern J unction _.'4 0 1 Bombay, Baroda, & l en. India go Detroit and 31ilwaukie ....... 9,, EiDausttc‘hrnitohteni.i.rsah..c.c iiioEl Eastern Bengal ..• •• ..• ••• Great Central of Bel„n a lt • 590 Great Indian reninsul Grand lllast 'l' lndian ruli k Of ................ ..... :. ... 1 1 2 1 1 9 7 131 Great Luxembourg . C l a u n d a i d a all 3611 70 ~,,, rraeedaartta Madras Western - n : ) , f 1 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant— 778 Northern of Canada ... ..... ~ 94 Northern of France 724 Norwegian Trunk _ Ottoman Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn 2006 Paris and Orleans ........... Recife and San Francisco. &c 776 So-nde.... .................. Do. Punjab, &c South Austrian, &c 1798 Southern of Prance 863 Victoria Welland. 25 West 4% of France Foreign Mail Packet List 1865 1,622 687 1,723 911 4,962 23,823 1,830 30 322 108 323 1,3'8 269 76 1.230 1.429 244 2,285 243 2,81 S 8.902 29 782 31.703 1.410 4106 413 7.:116 50.31, 88 2,329 1,188 33,245 3;5 100 alt 395 95,229 17.591 14,182 6.931 1,315 733 3,08 U 15,553 5,496 2,146 517 10,618 7,714 12,950 1,659 53,179 6)4 124,953 62,054 1,941 41.906 1d,995 12,361 36 40,531 MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton.• • Mar. 22. Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet Mar. 6. Ditto, by French packet .......... . Mar. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.— Mar. China' Penang, and Singapore, via Sou.hampton, Mar. 5. Ditto, via Warseilles .................... . Mar. 5. Falkland Islands ......................... Gibraltar, via Southampton .......... . ........ Mar. 5. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton-- Atar. 5 Ditto, via Marseilles ........ . ........... Mar. 16 India (Bombay), via Southa m p ton. Mar. 16. Ditto, via Marseille s Mar. 10. 11/turning, via South am p ton Mar. r Ditto, via Mandl c 3. • Mar. 10 . Newfoundland .......................... , Mar. 14 ['or t ugal ............................ ...... Mar 6. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. , Un;tcd States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via South amp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian pmoket, via Londonderry., Mar. 2 CH. MI N Oa tag e iist" LU ~s l ir. ~cJ• Y ill , hick Jew o b ° 01, d° l will 5 111111 -18 Y, Ad' 1. 1C a C. 2 rtll the the ca a),, been o' oer' oe a o f 4 " li3 - ; ►o.n l f ‘l/1 ) Nv be o b ilu be iog 500- 100 et i 20 201 10 WO 190 100 100 F 0 100 100 II BE rff ES, 02i I 70 1061 701 1 95j f 871 8 821 1071 7