The Sun. — London, England, 1865-03-14 00:00:00

3 1 ONEY MARKET AN r, COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The condition of the money market is approaching te greater easiness, and a more encouraging tone pre vails to-day. The capital at the command of brokers .is abundantly sufficient for present com mercial requirements, and business is more freely negotiated. The rates have ranged from 4i and 4 1 per cent ; the former quotation having only been a ccepted in exceptional instances D ining the last few days there has not been much animation in the foreign and colonial produce markets. The public sales of tea have closed with- Oat any material alteration on the rates realised for kost descriptions. Sugars, coffee, and rice, have bas in fair demand, at ste a dy p r i ces ; w hil e th ere 4 aa been a better tone in the tallow market, and Potations, for both present and forward delivery, a 4 ve shown an upward movement. Two o'CLocK. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's tel egram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f. ‘O• Flat. The English Stock Market has shown symptoms I ) _f improvement to-day, and a rise of per cent. taken place in the Funds. The members' at tention has been chiefly devoted to the settlement ( 4 the account in foreign bonds and railway shares, 4 ,,,d sati s f ac t ory progress h as a l rea d y b een ma d e . naols, for money, a r e 88k f , and for the account 8 " 4• The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 86 k ; India 5 per Cents., 103/, 104 ; Enlaced Per Cents, 100 ; and the Debentures, 99. Im ,the Foreign Market, although there is not b ' l leh animation, quotations exhibit firmness. rr, -L ittlish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 72 ; do. Con -25 des, 528 54; Mexican, 251 26 ; do. New, ,1 ; Greek, 204 ; Spanish Passive, 321 33 ; do. Ce rtificates, 16k 4 ; Italian, 631 64 ; do. New, 3 2} • ; and the Confederate Loan, 36 38. Business in the Railway Share Market has been more animated, but prices have in several instances have an upward tendency. North-Western 'live improved £1 ; Metropolitan, and Midland, Leh los. ; Great Eastern, and Lancashire and v i' °ll Kahire, each 10s. ; and South-Eastern, ss. 4-10 adon and Brighton, however, have declined 15s. The Foreign and Colonial lines are in rather mo re favour. Great Luxembourg have imp rove d f* tut Indian and Great Indian Peninsula each and Madras 5 per Cents., 1. Lank and Miscellaneous shares remain without material change. Union are firm at 52 ; London ak i l Vestininster at 92 93 ; City Bank at 110 ; and Alliance at 321. Discount Corporation are dealt 1 4 at 13i ; London Financial at 20f ; National Dis- Ztat Compa n y tl4-1- ; and Royal Mail Steam 96 • rh- African Land and Finance shares are quoted. 4 Pre/IL ; Rio de Janeiro Gas, 1 prem. ; Atlantic Great Western Certificate of Debentures have ''' e a to 9 10 prem. BRITISH FUNDS--ONE O'CLOCK. a CzOYERNMENT FUNDS. Ile ) ? Cent. Consols 4 °. Account, April 6 BBl 1 ktler C en t . R educed B6l 1 1 0 3 per Cent B6 1 D 2 4 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — A w" ° Per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Duities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 °. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprilBBs — 14 L y (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — - 'equer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent — pm b o . £5OO — L,Bo. £lOO and £2OO _ 1E of England Stock, 51 per Cent 246 7/ 1t,12 54 11 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 1 -7.0 Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 217 vo - b_ Account 1:;!,* 5 per Cent. July, 1870 b o '-'• Account ~ 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 .C. Certificates — by. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent Vin. 5 peer ent., Jan. 1872 5 1 Cent., May 1879 _ )3 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 99 bu• Bonds, .£l,OOO — pm °. Under £l,OOO di ts , t . FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. bi, ri au Bonds, 5 per Cent — -...zu• 11., l ail a per Cent 99 - . 4 1 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Sue Do. 1863 . — )3 11° ! Ayres 6 per Cent 92 Chi l e il per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.), Ott 6 per Ce n t — elo t ! D ' per Cent h iti — O per Cent. vs' r. . - j ? per Cent. Danish t i ° Per Cent., 1864 — ,rip £55 paid — pm 1, 3 0 per ' Cent., 1825 — D D r ,' 5 per Cent., 1864 — to ,„'s per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — , snub, Principalities 1, 0.£65 paid — dis -tclor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — k..,, i Provisional Land Warrant — Z Pti all 7 per Cent — t ° -, Sec on d I ssue 93f 0 £lOO Bonds b Do. 1864 951 V DO 0 Account pm 1r k 5 per Cents., 1;)2 1-5, ex Coupons ,b o Account b" „ . Coupons 4 4j ? belnala Account — i 5 er . ItqlLlB39 an p d 1850 Cent 1) -- -. 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) 0 D () 1865 Il ex . Scrip, £25 paid D l " t ° 3 per Cent. — °. Account 1) ,PC 1864 25/ D ° ' ,Per Cent. Anglo-French — 4104°, rench Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis ~,koo ir tidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid ''''etv - 7, 11 . Imperial 5 per Cent D o : r allada — b 4 Per Cent — o b . r D eferred l'er: - ' 4 l 40 (.1 Warrants (Hectares) ~ Do v4ll 4 1 per Cent. D o LPer Cent. (Uribarren) — !'I '9 . Per Cent., 1862 on e. 1 r t Account Do nese 3 per Cent., 1853 o Account ._ ..1),, Acc o unt Cent, 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 4, 14 i 1) , 4 41 4 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St., 1 1 5 0 ` l ' Per Cent., 1850 bo Q 1860 D o "„ Per Cent., 1859 D o '-' Per Cent., 1862 4 1. 1864 C0u"133, 5 per Cent 0 . 76 koi,, Account D ° '' ) „,. 4 3 per Cent D ' l , evr Deferred — D (1 0 '"beeount — 1 0 P as sive ki Ae ° N i, b, ,eount k u ' ‘-'ert of Coup not funded l6l I te ° 4eoo * t I t disi, A i m hi -.•-. per Cent; — Do 1 1 6 Per Cent. 1854 931 3 1) 0 6 e ccquat — D ° Per Cent. 1858 1) o 4e count — 1) t. floo Bonds — \ t o i Per C en t 1862 1 ,0,7,° 0 1int — 'Jo 6 — ' 6o Bonds 721 v l3 O ~,Per Cent. 1863 ell e2 -I ,aranteed, 4 per Cent. — Do, " e ia 3 per Cent. — o, A ecouit 116 Per c). A. Cent, 1862 42 1) 0 6" 01 1nt k 1 !r Cent. 1864 - — Bc4, tri, P ridends on the above payable in London. kta, 0 7 , 5 , per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins -r-'ll 'll "1 per cent. , Ex. 25f. o,b 2 i " G il 4+ l . 4 Per Cent., Ex. 12 u ,il oll ~Per Cent. Certifi.....tes — 1t 4 4) 1 . 0 . e e ce lltes, 3 per Cent. 67f 1 4.11 5 o unt (2.. Per Cent, 1861, Ex. 25f. t, Qua t l o ki% m on TWO O'CLOCK. . Ae couL e t Y 881 f ti v ...—__ , 11 1 el lool Cotton Market—This Day. 1 11 4 : market opens wi ---.-- th a fai;demand, at slightly 1 ' 41 % vill g Prices. Sales probably 8,000 or 10,000 Th I,AY ° f, ili ng frigate Flora, 36, was towed on Satur :oc (It 1 a her moorings in Hamoaze to the Devonport ` k iiY , 4l4 , where sh e i s t o b e fitt e d as a coal depot lh ` li ee at th e I s l e of Ascension. qtili'ecordance with instructions received from the ~006'..,asity, the ironclad frigate Bellerophon, 14, ti 7 rB e power, building at Chatham Dockyard klie tc , -e d esigns of Mr. E. J. Reed, the chief con mit orQ pr of the navy, is to be ready for launching, or, Atir r°Perly flo a tin g i t M iat %el e --Y afterwards the building of the new 1 ad : t oph c " frigate Hercules, one of the improved Bel- L'ek 4A,frigates, will be commenced in the same :11ter receiving on board her boilers, iron the hea v y port i ons o f h er machinery, the . 14 ,1):',,'° 11 will be docked in No. 4 dock, where she ' utli Pleted for sea. SHARE MARKETS—This day. Share! Railways. Wol., & Str. Val " myth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do. A A gets no div till6p.c.p.an.has Do. B been paid to B Dublin & Belfast June. Dun,.Perth, & A b.Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. s tk. Do. E. Angl. st No. Great North of Scotland Great Northern D ). A stock ( A 92 130 131 5 6 Do. B o 1:6: New. is. at 25 pn , Gt S, and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste n -Original I) . S. VJ.I. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do W. Mid.— Ox!ord Do. Newpo t Lo. He eford Lane shire &Yorkshire Landon and Blackwali Lon., Bri4h., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle __Do. shares Metr6olitan. Do. New Mid'and Do, Birmin & Derby Mid. Gt. W., Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth , - St Dun. Nth. Eastern Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds ..... Do. York Do. Carlisle Po. Stock. & Darling De. do. 1855-58 Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. New Do. do. 181 1 4 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish C,ntral Scot. N. E Aber. stool t o. Scot, Mid. st ick • 1 11- ews & Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon -outh E stern . itaines, Wok., & Wok Taff , Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny. West Cornw ill V. Hartlepool Har.&R Do. A irredeemable.. Do. A redeemable .. BRITISH P 100 100 100 100 1 0 100 1 0 r 10 100 ICO 10) 100 100 10) 100 OSSK 66 68 t 6 17 87 f 9 107 1 , 9 46 47 6 7 12(11 127, MI 137 129 3 88 97 724 ;3 66 68 49 5 46 49 ,02 101 113 114 83 66 10: 104 38 39 1144 115 95 96 581 5 .)! 120 120. I+ 31p 13u 130 100 IC2 51 53 25 26 107 106 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 47j i i 73 i 50 49 113 f if i 86 1021 12 11 1301 lf 1051 41 97 la 84 3 Closing I Business Paid.' Price. done. 115 1 141 151 941 51 tBl Atlantic& St. Lawrence Bom.,Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent Do. 1' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buft,Brant, & Goderich 6 p c. bds. Aug. 1, '872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1,1874 Calcutta & S. E., Um 'a e Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p Nast. Ben.,al, gu ' 5 do East Indian , gu. 5 p.c. Do. .J Extension Grand Trunk of Canad Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Prd. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Da. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c I . o. Gua 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India (lim.), gua. 5 per cent D 4f per cent Do Great W s. of Canada..! D.N. New Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay 1873 Po. 51 do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 4i do Do. Fifth Extension Helb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay New Brunswick & Can Class A and B ttl.C'da, pc lst pf.bds Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do . 6. Do. Pun!aub.... Do.lndus St Flo " 63 85 9) 100 381 391 14 12p O lop 118 120 11}12 1 11p 76 77 111 11, 133 142 44 46 9 • 61 57 59 8,21 531 81 9 155 153 3 4p 108 110 73 76 ,SIONS. 52 65 100 101 id tp 4i 6 ri 74 78 g 7 93 75 85 11 0 102 99 100 100 101 171 18 83 9) 66 68 56 58 60 62 53 55 50 53 45 18 2.5 27 21 26 10) 101 Id p Id * p 93 100 12; 12d 85 CO 77 LO d 994 100. 9: 94 88 90 62 64 3 5 82 81 98 100 9i leo d kd 1 , 8 1(0 94 97 T S ECU 85 88 83 83 85 88 75 78 15 73 103 106 105 107 105 108 101 106 102 104 108 110 102 104 104 108 108 109 105 107 90 93 98 100 92 91 90 91 104 108 87 90 92 95 102 104 105 107 1071 Mil NES. 6 6 29 81 580 59) 19 21 i 14 15 6 6t 4 14, 9 10 f 3 41 6 8 19 1.0 2 2i 33 34 1 21 3 114 36 31 4 6 8 41 6 If Odd 16 18 35 45 12 14 1i 2 3 3i 33 35 530 550 20 25 15 17 144 15, 7 81 7 4 8 60 321 190 100' 100 105 11 13 190 200 19 20 COLONIAL GOVERNMEN British Columbia, 6 per cent„ Dec. 31, 1872.... Can.Gov.6p.e.Ja.& July 1877-S4 - Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug D sp. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p r. Inscribed sk Cape G.Hope, 6 p. 0.1873 Do. April & Oct. 1880-1 Do. do: Do. Jan. & July, 1891 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. IF7B Do. 1882, Blayls, Nov. 16 Natal Gov. a per cent N.B.Goy. 6 p.c.Ja. &I uly N. S.W. Gov. 5 pv.,18C6 Do. 5 p.c. 181. to 1876 Do. 5 pm. 1888 to 1892 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 6 per cent Nova So Ala Gov. 6 p. c sterling', 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 18. 8-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. dO, a pril & Oct BRITE Cam Consol. Gold, Tim ChivertOn. Clifford A malgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Cara lon as t Carn Brea East Grenville East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavlstk Gam. Az StA übyn(G wen. Great L Axey, limited Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor ; Heist i Grenvil e Herod's Foot • • • Elingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley Rt wyndy Iron Ore, liw 'Nang' les .. N eV7 Se ton ••••• North Downs North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett(lllogan North Whepl Crotty Prosper United... Pr vidence UnyL9lant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tin Croft _ West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (L'skeard West Chirerton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'lllogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheat Ludoutt Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal T elawn y (Lis Wheal Tint Ai riugrERENCE 811AltE8. Great Eastern, E. Counties Ex., No. 1, 1041 Great Western, 4 per cent. irred 86 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent.;B9 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 4} per Oent. pi., Ditto, new b per cent pf., 94i FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Great Luxembourg, 12f ft Sambre and Meuse, 71 FOREIGN MINES, Fortuna (11m.),12k BANK& Alliance aim.), 324 Ditto, issued at 20 pm, 231 Australasia, 741 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 30; City, 110 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 19 Imperial Bank (11m.). 301 Imperial Ottoman, 164 London Bank of Mexico and S. America, London Chartered Bank of Australia, 23 f London and County, 711 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange, London Joint Stock, 46 London and South-Western, Um., 10 London and Westminster, 921 Union of Australia, 63 Union of London, 52 MISCELLANEOUS. City of Milan Improvements, lim., 10 Company of African Merchants, lim., 3 Discount Corporation, 13i Egyptian Com. and Trading, lim., 41 Electric Teleg,rraph, 114 Financial Corporation, Gen. Credit and Finance of London. lira.. 6 Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso. Um., 61 International Financial ~, o ciety. lira., ei London Financial'Association. lim., 20 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, fin., Zir Milwall Iron Works, oi national Discount Company, lira., 14i North British and Mercantile lusturtnce, lim., ln 18 Otago and Southland Investment, lj Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Mail, lim., Litto, new, 32 The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on Monday, the 20th inst. Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam frigate Gladia tor, 6, Capt. F. Shortt, has been dispatched from Plymouth to Brest, to take in tow and bring to this port the disabled troopship Menlerly, from Bom bay, with the head-quarters and right wing of the 28th Regiment. The left wing is coming home in the Tiverton. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2 per milk pm., an the short exchange on London is 25.15 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 3-10 the per cent. dearer in Pula than in Loudon. :sir M 11 18.18.9 30.17.6 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVEIN'ING, MARCH 14, 1865, Sudden Death of the Rev. Mr. Davis, Chaplain of Newgate• This morning when one of the omnibuses leaving the London-bridge Railway Terminus, arrived opposite the Mansion-house, one of the passengers, who was dis covered to be the Rev. Mr. Davis, Ordinary of Newgate, was found quite dead. The rev. gentleman was in a sitting position with his head thrown back, and the excitement sueh a circumstance created was very great. Medical assistance was immediately procured, but all was useless, and the rev. gentleman, it is supposed, must have died im mediately he entered the vehicle, which he did on leaving the train which conveyed him from his residence, at Lewisham, this morning to the metropolis. The body was removed to Newgato, where it now awaits a coroner's inquest. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE SIR ROLAND R. ROBERTS, BART. This was an application for release, Mr. V. Lewis appear ing for the bankrupt. The case was put in the usual list, but his Honour decided to take it in private. IN RE SIR J. N. DOUGLAS, BART. This was also an application for releaso, which, though not marked private in the list, was taken in a private room. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A CHILD SYSTEMATICALLY TAKEN TO THEATRES, &C., FOR THE PURPOSE OF PICKING POCKETS.—Caroline Latter, a well-dressed little girl, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with loitering in the entrance of St. James's Hall for the purpose of picking pockets. Sergeant Edwin Coathupe, of the detective force, said-- About half-past four yesterday afternoon I observed the prisoner pushing her way into St. James's Hall as the audience were leaving at the Piccadilly entrance. I saw her place herself by the side of a lady, and then put her left hand into the lady's right hand dress pocket. As the lady had not lost anything on my speaking to her, she de clined to attend, although she said she had her purse and a handkerchief in her pocket at the time. The prisoner gave her address 96, Gray's-inn-lane, and said she was living with a female there. This I found to be true. I also ascer tained that the prisoner had no parents. My reason for bringing her here is, that she has been sent away from nearly every theatre and place of amusement in London, generally being found in the best dressed parts of the places, to which she was sometimes taken and left either by an elderly man or woman. Mr. Tyrwhitt—How old is the girl ? Sergeant doathupe—She gave her age as 11. The prisoner—l am 14. Mr. Tyrwhitt—l am afraid you are in very bad hands. You have been seen hanging about the crowds at theatres, and from your appearance are one likely to succeed in robbing persons without being suspected. I shall remand you to see what can be done with you. THAMES. DARING ROBBERY.—Peter Sullivan and John English, two Irish labourers, were brought before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing an ingot of tin, weighing 581b5., and valued at £3, from the ship Clotilde, in the London Dock. The prisoners had been at work for a stevedore on board the Clotilde, and there were ingots of tin in the vessel, which the prisoners interfered with. They were directed by another man, named Ryan, not to meddle with the tin. At a late hour the prisoners and five other men all came to the gate of the " Shadwell basin" together, and, in defiance of the night watchman stationed there, all attempted to rush out together, without the customary rubbing down, to which all dock labourers are subjected on leaving the place. Sullivan, who had something concealed in a coat under his arm, alone got out of the dock. The other men wero detained. Sullivan was pursued by a Custom house officer, a Thames police constable, and others, but he made his escape. Ho dropped from under his arm in his retreat something bulky. It turned out to be an ingot of tin which was exactly similar to other ingots of the same metal on board the Clotilde. The ingot was wrapped up in a coat which two witnesses proved to belong to English. He was wearing it while at work in the ship.. Mr. Paget committed the prisoner's for trial. CHARGE AND COUNTER CHARGE.—SamueI King, an Irish labourer, who had received a serious wound on the head, and Catherine King, his wife, were charged with assaulting Enos Parrott, a police-constable, No. 56 H. The policeman stated that he saw the prisoners in a door-way in Leman-street, Whitechapel, last night. Sus pecting their intentions wore dishonest he questioned them, on which the male prisoner struck him on the cheek. He took him into custody. A struggle took place and both fell, the prisoner under, and he received a wound on his head. The woman then " pitched into him," pulled his hair and whiskers and scratched him. He procured assistance, and the prisoners were secured. The prisoner Samuel King, in his defence, said the police man shoved him about without pretence or provocation, and that when he asked him what he meant by such tyran nical condUct he drew his staff and beat him With it. The wound on his head was inficted by the policeman with his staff. The complainant repeated that the wound was inflicted by the prisoner falling on the stones. A mate of a ship in the London Docks saw the whole occurrence, and signed the charge sheet, but he was unable to attend. Mr. Paget said the case was of too much importance to the public to be hastily decided. He remanded the pri soners, and granted a summons for the attendance of the male. WESTMINSTER. FREQUENT ROBBERIES IN THE COMMITTEE -ROOMS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—In consequence of repeated robberies in the committee-rooms of the House of Com mons, plain clothes constables are placed there for The protection of the public. During the last fortnight the offender now charged has been seen about the rooms, and on such occasions property has been missed. A man of shabby genteel appearance, wearing a mous tache, and giving the name of Edward James, was charged with stealing a silk umbrella. Mr. Arnold—You have refused your address; do you still decline to give it ? Prisoner (who is a person of very good address)—l have no fixed address. Mr. Arnold—What is your unfixed address ? I suppose you are living somewhere. Prisoner—l sleep occasionally at the Sussex Chambers, in Fetter-lane. I last slept at the City Chambers. Wm. Frances, plain clothes officer, 26 A—Between three and four o'clock yesterday afternoon I visited the committee-rooms of the House of Commons, and going into No. 11, saw the prisoner, and, suspecting something wrong, watched him. I had not seen him come in. I saw him take the silk umbrella now produced from near a cor ner. I had just before noticed the umbrella—it was with some coats, and was the only one there. Prisoner walked out into Palace-yard. I followed him, and said, " You hare stolen an umbrella." He replied, "You have made some mistake," but I assured him I had not, and took him into custody. Mr. Arnold—Prisoner, do you wish to ask the witness any questions ? Prisoner—Thero is no occasion—it is in substance correct. Mr. T. Cox, of Bath, Somerset, said the umbrella was his. Ho was attending the committee to give evidence. Prisoner—l did this through distress. Mr. Arnold directed the case to be copied up for sum mary decision, but said he should at present remand the accused for inquiries. MARKETS--Thia Day. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 5s Od ; clove; £5 5s to 16 6s Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 14s per load. Trade slow. CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 5s Od ; clover, £5 55 to £6 6s ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 14s per load. A slow demand. WzrrEcHATEL.--Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 5s Od ; clover, £5 5a to £6 6s Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £ll4s per load. A slow trade. COLONIAL. TEA.—The public sales of China were brought to a con clusion yesterday; about 7,760 chests were offered, of which 5,580 were sold without reserve; good common congou brought 10}d. per lb. SITGAR.—The market has remained dull, although West Indian descriptions have in most instances maintained former prices. In the refined market a fair business has been done, at steady rates. COFFEE.—Thero has been a fair inquiry for colonial de scriptions, and late prices have generally been well sus tained. Stocks on hand, compared with those of the same period of last year, show a slight increase. RICE.—A moderate business has been done, but without any material change in values. Tug Low.—The market has been rather more animated, and sales to some extent for present delivery have been effected; the present quotations are 403. 3d. on the spot; June delivery, 40s. 9d. to 41s. ; and last three months, 41s. 9d. to 425. per cwt. THE MURDER AT HACKNEY.—Yesterday after noon, Mr. Humphreys, coroner, concluded his investigation into the circumstances attending the murder of Henry Joseph Smith, aged 10 years, who died from a wound in his throat, inflicted by his aunt. The evidence taken brought to light only one fresh fact, which was that two days befor the poor boy met his death he told a play fellow that his aunt had tried to cut his throat, but he got away from her. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Elizabeth Carmichael, the aunt, and the coroner issued his warraut for her conveyance to Newgate, to await her trial, as soon as she should be sufficiently re covered to admit of her removal from the German Hospi tal, where she now lies, suffering from a self-inflicted wound in the throat. The Turkish Bath—lts Advantages and Dangers. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin, —Having delayed a reasonable time, I do not see that the points urged against the indiscriminate use of the Turkish Bath have been disproved—silence, in fact, must give a kind of consent to the fact that they aro not de void of danger. The indiscriminate zeal of persons in love with the Turkish bath, puts one in mind of that sovereign bath—the climax of Shakspere's sonnets— where Cupid, once upon a time, falls asleep, and places on one side his brand, of which a maid of Diana's taking advantage, dipped the red hot iron in a fountain— " Which borrowed from this holy fire of love, A dateless lively heat, still to endure— And grow a sovran Bath, which right men prove Against strange maladies a sovereign cure." Like the preternatural philosophy, however, of rope tying legerdemain, one must not be misled by all the fine things said in favour of such baths ; we must separate poetry from prose. I think I knew what Dr. Goolden would say in favour of the bath before I wrote to The Sun. I am ready to agree with Sir J. Fife that the " classic bath may dry harness or clean horses, or kiln-dry damaged corn." I only say it is dangerous in some patients. The poet, we ara told, found that even this bath was deceitful, made so perfect by the art of Diana— Sick withal the help of the bath-desired And hither hied—a sad distempered guest But found no cure ; the bath for my help lies. And so we must often trust rather to nature than factitious virtues in things of artificial life. We are told that a vast number of persons who have taken the bath without offer ing to it any complaint, and, therefore, discrimination of cases is unnecessary, and the bath must be more and snore perfect, according as it becomes all but universal; but this is the argument, that because a vast number of persons take patent or quack pills, without offering complaint, or be because an infinite number take chloroform or mercury, or smoke tobacco or drink to excess, and offer no complaint, therefore drink to excess, and quack medicines and chloro form are all free from danger. The literature of the thermal or Roman baths, of their mosaics, paintings, and decorations, especially of those of Titus and Constantine, is very seductive. But we must not be misled by the, exquisite " Art" of these grand old times in a matter of modern science, or common practice of medicine or surgery. The Romans were indebted to the Greeks for their knowledge of the "hot air bath," but any ono familiar with the works of Hippocrates must perceive that it was only in default of better remedies: herbs, cataplasms, warm fomen tations, thermal baths, and finally hot-air baths, were ex perimented with. Far be it from us to say that simple remedies are not often the best, but when our young people are now-a-days dosed to their eyes with strong mineral medicines, quack remedies of all kinds, their constitutions destroyed by tubercle or scrofula, excess of tobacco and excess of stimulants, any or every form of charlatanism most advertised, it is plain the conditions are not alike, and the advice of Hippocrates no longer holds true ; as well say one-legged dancers are normal phenomena, and to supersede all other dancers of the old Roger de Coverley type. It is probable the ancients never used these high tem peratures that are now in fashion. It was after their gym nastic feats, not before, that the bath was used, merely as a deterant. lam very much a disbeliever in the ordinary canon of the Turkish bath chamber, that "the system re lieves itself through the skin of every kind of impurity, and digestion is promoted thereby." I am satisfied the Turkish bath may hurt such an affliction as dropsy after scarlatina, but just as certainly aggravate or kill in other cases. Our young men at Eton and such school; misled by the philosopy of what are called sporting journals, practice 30 hours a week at cricket. This, with a pull of five or six miles in a boat at a training pace, with Turkish baths to set them all right, almost invariably sets them all wrong. It is all very well, and they make no complaint while tak ing the bath, but diseased heart and diseased kidneys, rheumatism, &c., with mercury and scrofula, make sad havoc of their constitution. As Roman history is just now a fashion, we shall hear of these therm and the granite of Egypt, the green marbles of Numidia, the curious mosaics, the ruins of the medical bath of Titus Cartralla, or the Auto Mines, or the often greater details of the baths of Pompeii. We have endless pictures of these, and in subsequent dark ages pictures of how legs, too, were cut off with redhot knives, and the array of strong men present to hold the unhappy patient while his limbs were sawed and burnt. But it would be about as logical to follow one as the other. We have now no burning or tortures, and a far better sur gery. Simpson, the discoverer of chloroform, has called a modern spirit from the vasty deep of physiological lore the greatest discovery of this century, and so we set little store on the old archaeologic ruins of therm found at Chester, at Worcester, at Whitcomb, and half a dozen other places in Great Britain, but this no more reconciles to strigils and therma3 than (in these days of homoeopathic high dilutions and the wisdom they have taught us) the thumbscrews in the Tower are to the archaeology of their ago. " In a word, we must not mistake fine writing as to those ancient bathe by Sir Bulwer Lytton or Mr. Urquhart for the rigid fact that they require much discrimination in their use. Sir C. Blagden has a good deal to answer for, in having taught the modern world that they may go into an oven where muffins are baked. He (Sir Charles) entered heated rooms at 200 deg. F., and a sad Frenchman, not to be beaten, wont into a chamber in which eggs would fry, water boil, and mutton chops be grilled; a thermometer on the wall stood at 212 deg. F. We know what mischief a tempera ture of half this amount causes in India—coup de soleil, and cases of similar mischief, and deaths actually in the Turkish bath are not wanting even in Great Britain and Ireland. [Where ? Name !] It would be a great mistake, therefore, to think, as some in judicious writers would have it, that they may be used indiscriminately ; that for all strange maladies they are a sovereign cure (as true and wonderful as the legerdemain of the Davenport Brothers !) ; and that as they are taken in vast numbers, without complaint or questions asked, that this is equivalent to saying they are free • from danger. No doubt archaeology and modern fashion aro against any one who would set the public right on the subject ; and our yoUng men at Eton and elsewhere will go on to the end of the chapter, making an article of faith of boating matches and " grinders" in consequence of such idleness ; but still the calm physician will not shut his eyes to facts that determine all this faulty training and fashion, as in the highest degree reprehensible, and strigils and thumb screws must be classed together.-1 am, &C. CHARLES KIDD, M.D. Sackville-street, W., March 13. [Dr. Kidd appears fo us, from the nature of the close of the very first sentence in the foregoing letter, to be in ignorance of the fact that his state ments (in a former communication) as to the danger arising from the use of The Turkish Bath, have not remained, until now, disproved' Those statements of his, in point of fact, having been then, on the con trary, distinctly and catagorically disproved by irre fragable statistics, only a day or two afterwards by the manager of The Harnmara in St. James's. What ever " silencer there has been since then, has been Dr. Kidd's, as the unthinking assailant of a system of baths about which, apparently, he knows just absolutely little or nothing. -2 Suva,] SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, March 13—Juanita, from Table Bay; Alligator, from Whydau ; Flora, from Drain. Sailed, March 13--Seine, steamer, for Boulogne. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed—Seine et Tamise, screw steamer, from Paris, for London ; Rose and Marie, from London, for Bayonne. A 3-inch or 12-pounder gun, designed by Major Palliser, was last week subjected to a le ng the ne d endurance test at the proof butt in Woolwich Arse nal. The proof charge consisted of 1 lb. of powder (the service charge of the 12 -pounder field gun) and increasing cylinders. The cylinders fired in the last 20 rounds weighed each about 961 b., and projected some distance beyond the muzzle of the gun. The gun weighs i ew t, and was made by Messrs. Riches and Watts, millwrights, of Norwich. It consists of a casing of cast-iron round a wrought-iron coiled tube. The difficulties attending this mode of construction would now seem to have been entirely overcome by a course of careful experiments which have been carried out from time to time for eight or ten years. Thus the causes of unsoundness in castings of this kind have been ascertained and obviated. Should this mode of construction succeed equally well in large cannon it will not only prove very economical, but, in the event of a sudden demand for guns, it will admit of their being turned out with great rapidity. Major Palliser's 7-inch 100-pounder gun, which was lately tested up to 800 rounds, is in course of repair inthe Royal gun factories at Woolwich, and will, it is expected, be brought forward to be tested. The following appointments and promotions were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander Henry M. Miller, to the Racoon ; W. F. Maxwell, second master, additional, to the Duncan ; Silas H. Liddell, second master, additional, to the Royal Adelaide ; G. H. Newbury, engineer, confirmed, to the Fisgard ; W. Head, of the Hawke, promoted to engineer ; and J. Dingwall, of the Fisgard, pro moted to first-class assist-engineer. The Great Jewel Robbery in the City MANSION—(THIS DAY.) The prisoners David Roberts, Henry Geoffrey, Thomas Casley, Thomas Brewerton, James Hurley, Wm. Brown, alias Scotty, Martha Geoffrey, Anne Casley, and Louisa Brewerton, were again placed at the bar before the Lord Mayor. Mrs. Hurley was not;present to-day, having, since the last examination, given birth to a child. Mrs. Mears said she resided at 7, Great Cambridge-street, Hackney-road. The prisoner Scotty, who gave the name of Price, occupied apartments in her house in December last. He said he got his living by attending sales. He used generally to stop at home during the day, but he went out at nights. The prisoner Geoffrey used to call and give his name as Parker, and Wilkinson also called upon him. Geoffrey eventually came to reside in her house, but he left a week before last Christmas. She had often heard a noise like filing in Price's room, but sho had never' had the curiosity to look through the keyhole to see what was doing. Shortly before last Christmas he gave her £lOO to mind for him, but she returned it to him the next day. She had seen the woman who lived with Price as his wife in the possession of a small gold hunting watch. The watch produced by Inspector Bren nan is very like it. The necklet produced and the lockets she had seen in the possession of the woman she knew as Mrs. Price. She had shown them to her in her (witness's) own apartments. Price recommended Geoffrey to her as a lodge; saying he was the same trade as himself. She used afterwards to hear a great deal of filing going on in his room. She, however, on one occasion looked through a window which commanded a view into the room, and saw him filing at something screwed on to the table. Mr. Lewis—When they quited your apartments did you see if they had taken any precaution to prevent any person looking through the keyhole ? Witness—Yes ; they had put some paper over the lock of the door. The Lord Mayor asked whether any of the prisoners wished to put questions to the witness. Scotty—l should like to ask her if she recollected the night I gave her the money to mind. Witness—Yes ; and I told you I would not , take charge of it till you had counted it. Charles Coombe said ho knew Scotty by the name of Price: He had known him about five years, anctrduring that time he always dressed very respectably. He knew the woman who used to live with Price as his wife. She brought the bag (produced) to me to mind, and in a few days Scotty called, and he asked him if he had come for his bag. He said he had not, but told me to continue to take care of it. Witness afterwards gave the bag to In spector Brennan. Scotty—Are you positive the bag produced is the one left in your charge ? Witness—Yes. George Albert Palmer said he kept the Pitt's Head publichouse in Old-street, St. Luke's. He knew Scotty by the name of Price for some time while ho resided at Hollo way. He then dressed as a labouring man. For five years he lost sight of him altogether, and the next time he saw him he called at his house in Old-street. He asked him to take charge of £5O in gold and a savings' bank-book. He asked him why he had not put it into the bank with the rest of his money, he said he intended to do so the next morning. On these conditions he took charge of the money. He never came for the money. He supposed he must have been apprehended in the interim. He saw the case in the newspapers, and he went to the prison to see whether his suspicions were correct. It turned out as he suspected. He had returned £ll, according to the prisoner's direction, and when he visited the prisoner in Newgate he (witness) gave £1 to a man outside the prison, by Price's direction, as he said they did not give him sufficient to eat. Mr. Lewis—What was the man's name ? Witness—l can't remember. Mr. Lewis—Wasn't it Morris ? Witness—Yes. Mr. Lewis—That's not a very difficult name to remem ber. The police, you see, they could remember it, as they heard the prisoner tell you what to do, although you did not know they were standing by your side. Witness—l know now that was the case. Mr. Lewis—You did not take the book and money to the police? Witness—No, but I gave it to them before they asked for it. Mr. Lewis—But the police came to your house. Witness—Yes, but I did not wait for them to ask for the property. I gave it to them and told them all the circum stances as to how I became possessed of it. Thomas Smith, assistant to Mr. Upsall, pawnbroker, Whitechapel-road, produced a ring pledged by Mrs. Hurley. Police-constable Ranger produced the duplicate given to last witness by Smith. Superintendent Durkin said before the prisoners were removed from Bow-street Hurley said he wished to make a communication to Mr. Lewis. He was taken to a private room, and was told that whatever he said must be purely voluntary. No promise of any sort was held out to him. He then made a statement in Mr. Lewis's presence, which he signed. , The statement was then put in. Some other witnesses wero then examined to prove the identity of the several witnesses. Mr. Beard hoped the females would be admitted to bail. One of them, Mrs. Brewerton, was in a dying state from consumption. He was instructed that she could give large and responsible bail. Mr. Lewis—Why, Mrs. Brewerton, four or five months ago, kept an oyster stall in the streets, and that is the per son who, it is said, can get large and responsible bail. Mrs. Brewerton—l kept an oyster-stall, did I. I should just like to be serving you out there just now. The Lord Mayor—l shall not admit any to bail. The prisoners were then remanded for a week. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORTHAMPTON.-3/Anen 11. New white wheat, 38s to 42s ; new red, 36s to 38s ; old white, 43s to 44s ; old red, 38s to 39s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 31s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 31s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 26s ; new, 18s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 36s to 40s ; new, 35s to 38s per 38 stone. Peas, 33s to 38s per 36 stone. COLCHESTE. M--MARCH 11. Wheat, white 40s 46s I Bea, Mazagan......33s 3:s red 3' s 4281 _ Mtddle and 5ma11...35s 40s Batley.. 'Bll 3501 Peas, white 35s 38s Oats ...20s 25s grey ...36a 38s GRANTHAM—MARcH 11. Old white wheat, 42s to 455; old red, 38s to 40s; new white, 42s to 44s ; new red, 37s to 38s per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, 29s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 24s to 26s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 27s ; new, 22s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 39s to 41s; new, 36s to 38s per 38 stone. Peas, 34s to 36s per 36 stone. CHELMSFORD-MARCH 10. The supply of wheat was limited; good dry samples firm, inferior sorts unsaleable. Spring corn much the same, oats being tolerably brisk for seed. Whedt, old white....4os 45s Peas, Partridge 368 38s new .408 45s White ....3 s 318 old red 398 403 B.iling ... 38s 42s new 37s 40s Dun.. ....... ...31s 358 Barley 25s 328 dit o, new... --a .—s Chevalier 26s 338 Beans, Tick, 01d......3 is —s Grind,ng 208 •488 new....-8 8 Malt 6ls (78 Harrow ticks.3ss —s Chevalier 64s (8s new....-3 -8 Oats •• • 2os 268 Maz Tan 338 3,:s ABERDEEN—MAncH 10. The weather is now fresh, but the land is very wet. At this day's market we had a thin attendance, and a quiet trade in everything at prices same as last week. White wheat 33s Od to 37s Od} Red wheat 31 s Od t o 33 s Od 621 b "s 1 bushel. ; Potato oats 16s Od to 16s 6d} 401 lil bushel.' Common oats 15 s Od t o 15 s 9d Bere 19s 6d to 20s Od Barley 19 s Od t o 20 s Odf 531 b V bushel. Oatmeal 13s Od to 14s Od iii boll of 140th. Flour, fine 318 Od to 328 Od ?sack of 280th. KIRKCALDY—MARcH 11. Moderate supplies of all kinds of grain, which sold freely at 6d per qr. above the prices of last week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...— 31s Cd 2ls 6d l7s Od second 32s Od 22s 8d 18s Od Third 3ls Od 21s 6d 19s Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. s. d. Davison's W. Hartley 15 0 I Heugh Hall lB 0 Hastings Hartley l4 6 South Kelloe Cowpen Hartley Carway and; - .Duffryn Hartlepool Malting 22 0 Tunstall South Hetton Walls End Haswell l9 9 Walls End Byron ... 17 0 West Lambton l7 9 Pittington l6 6 Walls End Harton ... 16 9 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 6 Ships at marke, ;t, 80; sold, 51. Foreign Mail Packet List. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton. Mar. 21. Ditto, via Marseilles Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pao.et April 6. Ditto, by British packet Mar. 2:. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Ilelena Mar. 21. (Attila, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou hampton Mar 21. Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 15. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 2 1. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Mar. 14. Ditto, via Marseilles .. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil e 3... Mar. 8. Newfoundland Mar. 15. Portugal...... ..... 15. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. • • •• • • United States and British North America, by• Br itish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ten Ditto, via C ,rk Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry..3far. 10. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffa ...... Mar. 1 3. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, Mar. 16. and Mexico April 0. Bahamas, via New 'York. 1001 11 901 1001 1 161 ITIES. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. DONCASTER HANDICAP. 100 to 30 agst Wandering Minsterel (offered) 6to 1 agst Earl of Surrey (offered) 10 to 1 agst any other NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Bto 1 agst Skeffington (offered) 100 to 8 agst Hartley (taken) 100 to 8 agst Verger (taken) 100 to 8 agst Huntsman's Daughter (taken) 20 to 1 agst Lion (offered) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 100 to 8 agst licestissima f (taken freely) 15 to 1 agst Peon (taken) CILESTER CUP. 9to 1 agat Lord Zetland (offered) 100 to 6 egst Lion (taken) .14 t 5 1 agst Gratitude (taken) 20 to 1 agat Grinder (taken) TWO THOUSAND. 5 to 2 agst Liddington (offered—take 3 to 1) 10 to 1 agst Chattanooga (taken) 12 to 1 agst Broomielaw (offered) 16 to 1 agst Koenig (taken) 20 to 1 agst Ariel (taken) DERBY. 11 to 2 agst Liddington (taken) 7to 1 agst Breadalbane (15 to 2 wanted) 10 to 1 agst Duke (offered—take 11 to 1) 20 to 1 agst Bedminster (taken) 25 to 1 agst Rifle (offered) 28 to 1 agst Chattanooga (offered) 30 to 1 agat Zambesi (taken freely) 30 to• 1 agst Oppressor (offered) 33 to 1 agst Broomielaw (offered) 40 to 1 agst Ariel (taken) 40 to 1 agst lianig (offered) 40 to 1 agst Gladiateur (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Audax (taken) 1000 to 8 agst Pepper's Ghost (taken) STEEPLECHASES AT LA MARCHE. Although the weather here yesterday was bleak and cold, the attendance was still more numerous than on the previous Sunday. The handicap, which, was reduced to a match between Magenta and Valentino, excited the prin cipal interest. The latter receiving 111 b fi.om M. Lavig nee's horse, was made favourite, 6 to 4 being laid on him, but before the race was half over, Magenta, although running second, gained such numerous par tisans that more effcrs to take him at evens were made than could be accommodated. A most exciting finish took place, and although Magenta looked evi dently the most tired, he was so admirably ridden by Lamplugh, who literally lifted him over the ground during the last 200 yards, that he managed to secure the race by a neck. The Prix de Marnes followed, and was won by Baron Pinot's Astrolabe, this being her second steeplechase only, she having run second to Vixen at her debut on the first day's running at this meeting. La Chatt was favourite, but looked out of condition, and only gained the second place. The business - terminated by the Prix de L'Avenir, which was contested by 11 competitors, all of which had run on the fiat only before the present season. St. Contest, who won a similar race on the Sunday before, was again the winner. Cassidy, who rotle Habeas Corpus, fell heavily and lay on the ground for some time insensible, while Lamp lugh pulled up Miss Clifton and alighted to assist him. Cassidy shortly after recovered, and was able to walk back to the paddock. Benedict, who fell while running in the Prix d'Ouverture on the opening day, has since died of the injuries then received. Subjoined are details of the pro ceedings:— The Prix du Chateau, a handicap of 3,000 fr., for all horses. Entry, 300 fr. ; half forfeit, or 50fr. only if declared. The second to receive double his entry. Distance 6,000 metres (about three miles and three quarters). Nine subs. Mr. Lavingoe's Magenta, 6 yrs, 1441 b (Lamplugh) 1 Baron Finot's Valentino, 5 yrs, 1131 b (Harper) 2 Betting at first 6 to 4 on Valentino, and afterwards oven. Valentino led with Magenta lying close up, until reaching the turn at the ice-wells on the run home. Magenta then went alongside, and the pair raced home abreast, M. La vignee's getting a slight advance within the last half-dozen lengths, and winning by a neck. The Prix de Marnes of 1,500 f., for all horses which have not won a steeplechase of 3,000 f. Entry, 100 f.; h. f. The second to save his entry. Weight, 1441 b., with penalties and allowances. Distance about 3,000 metres. Thirteen subs. Baron Finot's Astrolabe, 5 yrs, 1401 b (M. de St. Germain) 1 Count do la Bigne's La Chatte, aged, 1481bs (M. de Terves) 2 M. de Savignies' Magny, 5 yrs, 1441b5. (L am pl ug h) 3 The following also ran :—Grabuge and Newcastle. Betting-5 to 2 agst La Ciliate, 3to 1 agst Astrolabe, 4 to 1 agst Magny. Astrolabe and La Chatte ran in company to the stands, when the latter fell back and allowed Magny to take the seeond place. The three crossed the river and ran round the short course in this order. At the Irish bank, going round the last time, they were all in a line, but lif , )gny soon after tired and lost ground, while Astrolabe again went to the front and won easily by half a dozen lengths. Grabuge fell at the stone wall in starting and was re mounted, but was then too far in the rear to have any chance, while Newcastle refused the first jump, and, al though eventually got over, shortly afterwards pulled up. The Prix de l'Avenir of 1,500 fr., for horses which have never gained a steeplechase of 1,500 fr., except at La Marche in 1865. Entry 25fr. Weight for age, with penalties and allowances. Distance, about 3,500 metres. 22 subs. Count de Louvencourt's St. Contest, 4 yrs, 1281bs. (young ) 1 M. Marion's Trufaldin, 4 yrs, 1221b5. (French) 2 The following also ran :—Julien, Pronostic, Gilles, Habeas Corpus, Mousquetaire, Miss Clifton, Ernos, Gra buge, and La-Belle-Ferronniere. Betting-3 to 1 each agst Gilles and St.-Contest. The race throughout lay between St.-Contest and Trufaldin, those two running in front from first to last, the former winning by a couple of lengths. Julien and Grabuge came in together ten lengths behind, those four only finishing the course. Gilles fell at starting, and Habeas-Corpus while passing through the orchard. RACING FIXT JRES FOR 1865. Warwick Spring Vincennes Chelmsford Spring ...... Grand National Hunt 29 Barham 3O Lewes Spring 3O Vincennes Northampton 4 Croxlon Park 7 Newmarket Craven l7 Durham Canterbury Spring Abergavenny 2O Thirsk 2l Cardiff 25 Epsom Spring Newmarket let Spring 1 Chester 9 York Spring Salisbury lB Bath 23 Harpenden 26 Epsom 3O GCTO: Northallerton 5 Newmarket 2d Oct Vincennes Vincennes Chelmsford 7 Blanchester Summer 7 Ascot l3 Beverley l4 Liverpool Alexandra Park 2O Newmarket July Carlisle Worcester Abingdon Stamford l3 Winchester lB Newmarket Ho. M Vincennes Hampton 2l Newton Newcastle Odiham. Bidbury Stockbridge Nottingham Southampton l9 Chesterfield Goodwood Down Royal Corp AUG Brighton - 1 Brighton Club Lewes 4 Huntingdon Wolverhampton Reading Egham l5 Royal Windsor l7 [UST. York Plymouth Lichfield .. Devon and Exeter 29 Derby Summer 30 Weymouth 3l Baden 3l Stockton., ' SEPTEMBER. Leicester 7 Monmouth 2l Doncaster Brecon lB Newmarket Ist Oct 26 Richmond .„ l9 Walsall HOVEN Liverpool Autumn MR. Shrewsbury AQUATICS. CAFFIN AND KING, FOR £25 A-SIDE. The above match took place this afternoon, and resulted [II one of the finest races we have ever seen. King was the favourite at starting, as much as 2 and 3 to 1 being laid on him. The race from the commencement was never in doubt, as Caffin won all the way, coming in an easy winner by upwards of six lengths. The winner was trained by Robert Bain, of Lambeth, himself one of the finest rowers on the river. THE NEW BILL TO ABOLISH ARREST ON FINAL PROCESS.—This evening the Lord Chancellor's bill to abolish arrest on final process, and for the amend ment of the law of bankruptcy in certain particulars, is appointed to be read a second time in the House of Lords. It recites that it is expedient "altogether to abolish arrest upon final process in England except in cases where the debtor is in the possession of property or in the receipt of an income which cannot be taken in execution." There are eight sections in the bill, and it is proposed that the law shall take effect on the 20th June next. No order of discharge is to be granted, " nor shall the same, if granted," release any estate, property, income, or salary which the bankrupt may acquire until ss. in the pound is paid, unless three-fourths of the creditors consent. By advica from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per marl and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per .£1 BU/lin,. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 2-10ths per cent. dearer in London than In Hamburg. The Stoppage of Attwood, Spooner, and Co.'s Bank. BIR3fINGHAM, Monday Evening. There is little if any abatement to the consterna tion-caused in this town by the disaster; every hour seems to reveal some fresh instance in which the consequences will produce the utmost conceivable amount of mischief, and to many of absolute ruin. In this town the smaller manufacturers will feel the pinch very severely, and there are probably hundreds of instances in which the better class of artisans had deposited their all at Attwood's, waiting the opportunity to lay a portion of it out in building, or until sufficient had been scraped together to coth mence business on their own account. These are among the cases in which the calamity will be most severely felt. All the other banks have issued a joint notice that " each has made arrangements to open credit ac counts, and to assist as far as practicable the various customers of Attwood's." This prevented much inconvenience on Saturday. As usual in such cases people continue to speculate upon the probable dividend, and rate it at a very high figure. It is greatly to be feared there will be much ultimate disappointment on that account ; but while abstaining from giving any estimate at present, it is well to call attention to the results in all previous occurrences of this kind—how little the ultimate realisation justified the early and sanguine anticipation. The Daily Post of to-clay contains the following : "The assets consist, first, of £250,000 of advances made to customers, against which the bank, in many cases, holds security. In addition to these balances owing to the bank there is something like £70,000 of bad or doubtful debts, against which there arc securities and probable dividends that will realise, say one-third of the amount. A large estate near Halesowen, belonging to the firm, is valued at £167,000 ; indeed that sum has been offered for it. Thera are also two estates, one near Worcester, and a small one in Herefordshire, worth £22,000; and properties in New= street and Broad-street estimated to realise £17,000. The bills of exchange and cash amount to about to about £200,000, and there are a few shares in public companies. These assets represent a total of say £600,000, or about 12s. in the pound. Making, therefore, an allowance for contingencies, there is some probability that the estate, if taken out of the Bankruptcy Court, may pay 10s. in the pound." The same paper adds that 14 or 20 years ago one of the partners, Mr. George Attwood, drew out be tween £300,000 and £400,000, but that just prior to his death the Halesowen estate, in which part of that money was invested, was conveyed to the bank. On that point explanations will doubtless be offered at the meeting on Thursday ; also as to moneys rumoured to have been withdrawn by Mr. Matthias Attwood. About a score of the public institutions of the town kept their accounts at Attwood's, among them the Birmingham Union Club. The whole of the coin in the bank at the time it stopped has been lodged with the Birmingham Bank ing Company. MONDAY NIGHT. A meeting has been held this evening of represen tatives of the various clubs whose deposits were in this bank. The amounts were only a little short of £lO,OOO. An adjournment took place, but the feel ing manifested showed that 10s. in the pound would gladly be accepted. The meeting of the Joint Stock Bank (limited), for the confirmation of the agree ment with the different firms, will be held on Tues day (to -day). Of course, so far, that will be null and void, but it is quite certain that more than one of the banking companies here is prepared to pay the creditors of the late firm off at once on far better terms than will be obtained under bankruptcy. This, we learn, is the result of the board meetings held yesterday. Mysterious Affair at a Gentleman's House Mr. Wm. Carter, the coroner for East Surrey, held a painful inquiry at the Red Cow, High-street, Peckham, on the body of a newly-born child found under the following circumstances. Mrs. Elizabeth Ruddeforth, of 6, Gunnersbury Villas Peckham, said that she had a young woman, who had been in her service for two years and a quarter, of the name of Eliza Bullock. On Monday (yesterday) week, Mr. Lenton, a surgeon, came to see witness professionally as she was ill, when she asked him to see the servant as she had complained of being unwell. After he loft she found something which she showed to the doctor on his visit the next morning. Upon seeing which he said he had no doubt the young woman had been delivered of a child. Upon his taxing her she admitted that she had prematurely been delivered, and that if took placea month before the expected time and upon further interrogation, said the child was under the bed in her closet. Upon looking there the doctor found the child in a chamber utensil. She had no clothing pre pared for the child, and she told witness that she had in tended to have left her service to avoid any disgrace being brought upon the house, but owing to the fact of her being ill she had stopped longer than she intended. She also said that, being taken suddenly ill in the night, she made a noise for her to come up stairs, but as she did not she jumped out of bed, and the child fell upon the floor. Wit ness nor her husband heard the least noise during the night. She had never noticed any difference in her bodily appearance. She was in the habit of wearing crinoline She saw no marks of violence upon the body, and having put some clothes on the child she sent to Mr. Brown, the undertaker, who took it away, with a certificate the doctor had written. Mr. Charles- Sheffield Linton, surgeon, having given similar evidence, said, that by the coroner's order, he had made a post mortem examination of the body, and found no dangerous matter in the throat or trachea. There were no external marks of violence upon the body. lie tested the lungs and found that they floated in water and crepitated, showing that respiration might have taken place. In his opinion the child had not respired more than once or twice. The statement she had made might have been true, and by losing all consciousness, have let the child fall in the man ner she had stated. He had a similar case that morning, where a lady, who had her nurse present, was suddenly seized with labour, and the child was born 10 minutes before he could get to her. The respiration he had spoken of might have taken place during the act of parturition, and he was unable to say whether the child had actually been born alive or not. Ho had given a certificate in which he stated that he thought the child had been stillborn. The Coroner said such a certificate was an improper one, and, if the child had been buried, it would have had to be exhumed, as the cause of death could only be settled by a public inquiry-. Medical men, by giving such certificates, placed themselves in very unenviable positions. Ebenezer Dunn said that he was sent for by the lady of the house to take the child away, and when he saw the nature of the certificate he took the child back again. Mr. Woodman, the summoning officer, said that from certain information he received, he went and took posses sion of the child. The learned Coroner having summed up, the jury re turned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. Fatal Accident on the North Kent railway. - Yesterday afternoon Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent, held an inquiry at the Crown Tavern, Erith, into the circurnstanus attending the death of Richard Miles, a gateman in the employ of the South Eastern Railway Com pany, who was killed on the previous Thursday night by a passing train, at a level crossing near the Erith station of the North Sent line. Mr. Freeland, solicitor to the South Eastern Railway Company, attended to watch the proceedings on the part of the directors of that company. Joseph Sayer, a corn-dealer, residing at Plumstead, said —On the previous Thursday night, at a quarter to eight o'clock, he was at the railway crossing, under the care of deceased, with a horse and cart. The gate was shut, and witness' called out " Gate," when deceased came out of his residence, and opened the gate nearest to witness on the up side of rails, and he then crossed over and opened the other gate. Ile said to witness, " Make haste, for the train is coming," and witness then passed over the line at a trot. Immediately after he heard the train came up, and the gate smashed. He got out of his cart, and when on the line he found the mutilated body of the deceased lying about 40 yards from the gate on the up side. Thomas Butcher, signalman at the Erith station, proved that ho signalled to the deceased that the up train had left the Erith station at 7.45. Mr. R. C. Taylor, station-master at Erith, said the whole of the crossings over the line at Erith were under his con trol. The deceased was a sober, well-conducted man, and witness could not account for his conduct on this occasion, as he:had acted in contravention to the rules three times —viz., he had opened the gates when he ought not to have done so, he had opened the wrong gate first, and he had also shut the wrong gate first. If he had shut the up-gate first he would have left the red er danger signal on the down gate exposed, and thus the accident would have been prevented. Other witnesses were examined, whose evidence went to prove that the accident resulted from want of caution on the part of the deceased. A Juryman observed it cost the company about £l5O per year for attention to one of those crossings ; and a good bridge might be constructed for less than £l,OOO. Mr. Freeland said the cost was a secondary consideration. Engineering difficulties prevented the construction of these bridges in all cases. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death, with a recommendation to the company to substitute bridges, in lieu of those level crossings, where it was practicable to do so. IBER. t he th e ul oi [Oll lu 100 leo leo 100 {lOO 2 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 190 100 100 l' 0 100 100 2.1.0 2.14. 3.4.0 2.7.0 2.13.6 0.10.6 601 all 1.1.0 7.8.3 8.13 4.18.0 4.3.6 21i 3 321 3.10.6 2.8.0 7.1.6 10.6.7 3. t 2., 90 89 108 k