The Sun. — London, England, 1866-06-18 00:00:00

ItIOINIEY - MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. In the general money market there is little ac tivity, because bankers and brokers will only negotiate the very best commercial paper, which is readily taken at 8i per cent. and upwards, according to the length of time it has to arrive at maturity. At the discount office of the Bank the applications have been rather numerous, and in the Stock Ex change loans have been charged 6 and 7 per cent. The sum of £66,000 was taken into the Bank of England on Saturday afternoon, and £13,000 withdrawn. An interim dividend on the paid-up capital of the l) unr.aven United Colleries Company (Limited), at de clared, rate of 10 per cent. per annum, has been and will be payable at the West of England and South Wales District Bank on and after the 16th July next. The directors of the Central Argentine Railway Co mpany have made a call of £2 per share payable o n the 16th July. The following circular has been issued to the sh areholders of the Agra and Masterman's Bank :-- "Re the Agra and Masterman's Bank (Limited> "London, June 16, 1 866 . :,` Bir,—The directors of this bank having summoned an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders, to be held 0 the 22d i ns t., f or th e p ur p o se of passing a resolu tot ' That it is advisable to wind up the company volun , we, the undersigned creditors, for the protection of our interests, intend to make application to the Court of Chan c,erY, wh en the official liquidator is appointed, to ad d the 'anis of some efficient person, in whom we can place im plicit confidence, to represent the creditors in all proceed ings, and watch over their interests. Mr. William Shipman's long connexion with the bank, 4 4 , 8 their L on d on manager, and his intimate knowledg e of their extensi ve an d i n t r icate transactions of the bank in a ll :eir r amifications, coupled with his well-known ability the Probity, point to him as the person best qualified for is important duty. d e " . lll ° give weight to this application to the Court, it is Ear able that it should be supported by as many of the focht•ars as p oss ibl e , and for that pm pose we enclose a . 01 for your signature, which you will be good enough ret urn without delay in the enclosed envelope. : The assigning of the assent will not s ub j ect y ou to 5 3' liability foe charges.—Yours faithfully, • " DRAM, KLEINWORT, and CORES. " GILES LODER. " BRIGHTWIN, GILLETT, and Co. "LISTON YOUNG, and Co. " W. T. HARRIS. " HENRY Goss." Two o'CLocK. , The French Rentes, this morning, according to ected by 41euter's telegram, were 62f. 55c. Better. 4 -r ile English Stock Market has been unfavourably the war news from the Continent, and lowerB_, quotations have generally been current. Con suls are i.. lower, being 861 for money, and 86j 1 A r the account. The New Threes and Reduced 241,11...ttnities are 854 6 ; Bank of England Stock, 1 15 ; India 5 per Cents., 1031 ; and do. Enfaced 11 Per, 100 . .1:11e tendency of prices in the Foreign Stock ;I: s arket is very adverse. Turkish 5 per Cents. are Z e e ekl 10 11 ; ~,`) 1 , i; Mexican, 141 15 ; do. New Loan, 12 1 ; e at es, 141 i. ; Spanish Passive, 19-4- f ; the Certiltalian, 361 371 ; and Brazilian 4 ' I R , 5 4 dis. United States 5-20 Bonds are 64i ' ; .,.Q4rie Shares, 40 i ; and Illinois, 74/ 75 4. ye lp the Railway Share Market there has been a rve declined 11 ; ,73r limited business transacted. Great Eastern North Western, 15s. ; lire and Yorkshire, and Metropolitan, each 55 1 . 1. and Lan so he Foreign and Colonial lines are du o p Ut h Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have de led to 10g. • very"k and Miscellaneous Shares have remained 0 quiet. Alliance have declined to 181. ti dental Bank Corporation are steady at 37 t ; 7 °lll °a and County at 64/ ; Imperial Ottoman a Z. Atla n ti c T e l egra ph ar b d ea lt in at 31 4. per shar e ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England at o " ti 3 dis. ; London Financial at 161 16 dis. ; and National Discount Company at 6 61 prem.j BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 8 Cin vnitsibinNT FUNDS. Do Cent. Consols 4 8 0 . Acc ount, July 10. ,Per Cent. Reduced 85 4 '6 =Aav v , 3 86 4 6 li._ , per Cent 'II I. ei Per Cent. Jan. 1894 .._— ...J o A • . per Cent. Jan. 1873 ........... !,.=. ..... 4.,,nuities, 30' y s, expire sth Jan., 1880 4 ' o . for 30 yrs r , expire sth AprilBBs — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 19081 E—arch. June. 5 Pal Ille hecluer Rill s, Do.— 15 , D o £1,000:3 per Cent 5 dis £5OOl ...,5,, t 0.. £lOO and £2OO .... : ~,s if of England Stock, 5 per Cent .... : 44 hlntiA.c.count — 'iv: AN GOVERNMENT SEC'URITIES. i l l au Stock, 104 per Cent., AprillB7 4 .. ..9,,h2,.t ]) ° , 2 : 5 , Per Cent. July, 1870 .............. fol D o -* Per Cent., Oct. 1888 , • Certificates — o.t . , nfaced Paper 4 per Cent — D o ' ° Per Cent., Jan. 1872 D o • r Cent., May 1879 oo• B ob., 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 pm b • ends, £l,OOO D 0 'Wider .£l,OOO A..._ IPOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.m Austrian Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd — p 13r azir 11 Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 — 0 0.4n 1 5 per Cent — Per Cent. 1852-58-60 1852-58-60 Do e .• 1863 — Do. D 0 Account 1865 — 70 694 . N ei , 'er l l3, £55 paid - 44 dis Dl-,_ en Ayres 6 per Cent o flOO Bonds Chii? 4 Per Cent. (D e f erre d 3 p er Cent.) p o en 6 per C ent — o' '-' * 9 Per Cent — L I " Per o b : oi S b e i rr aa p, 6 X5O Cent pa id il i per Cent. — ...is b, ?') 6 3 Per Cent. io , „,azia_p...,er.Cent., .1 . 825 _ _ il ) 4/ rilncipalities 0- Account 411:Inkier Nevi Consolidated, 1 er Cent — oe., P rovisional Land Warrant -- ° lck t . 4 l ?eferr — Do P "az 7 per Cent 77 ) 0 „ ~ Second Issue '`'° ,Second Bonds B2 , D 186 4 74 5 4 be De XlOO Bonds 7B "°. Governme n t Railway Debentures 7 74 01.130..£50 paid — dis eek Account " ents 1824-5, ex Coupons 1 - 04 11 • bo. C oupons bo. A ccount _ l Ua temala 5 per Cent. lian 5 per Cent 1865 49 504 D 0 Ma Account remm ana Railway ."°, —k, exican 3 per Cent — Do. Account • Do 1864 — L, 1 )0 6 per Cent. Anglo-French paid I,l6Atevidean 6 per Cont., £3O pi -- ` 6 ,,nrish Imperial 5 per Cent li.--,0 Land Warrants (Hectares) ew Granada D o t , 2 per Cent e 'llvian 5 per Cent., 1865 Do'1) Account 1 ) 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — q o ° 4 1 per Cent., 1862 Account P Account ir l gnese 3 per Cont., 1853 , , b o ° 3 per Cent , 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 6 2 ,' 3 , 42 /4 h us : Account . Do 5 per Cent., 1822, XSt — D a - - ,3 - per Cent. 1850 - D 0 ;i - Per Cent., 1860 b o ' - ' t Per Cent. 1859 4 0 '', Per Cent. 1862 7 Bi 94 har c ji„'', Per Cent. 1864 854 6 4 _ Wmtan 5 Cent 1 3 °' Account Palli sh , .13,_ 0 per Cent 0,.,) :41ccount 0 ° 4xew Deferred 0 A ce 0,„ p Otint 0 assive t\ t ,;` l ) . A eesunt - 1 19 4 4 4 43101 Cert. of Coup not funded — 18ii•odAeenunt D 1411 4 Per Cent. 't °' 1 Per C e n t . urki o , , 1864 D o A''' 6 Per Cont. 1851 D 0 A rcount D o. er Cen Do - L P t. 1B;lB e enunt bo A Per Cent. 1862 — Dob l'.,(lcratit . 3 1 14 2 6 0 Bonds .... D o 5 Per Cent, 1863 Do Aper Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip — D o ,nunt - 26 v ie'z i Pier Cent. Guaranteed 97; itt o e a 3 Per Cent. — o e ac count l2/ D 0 j A lse r Cent 1862 0. •Le connt .' 1,1).°*. 1864 • — 30 4411 44 ", Widends on the above payable in London. D o A ' Per Cent., 186 25f. •.. - -...ccou .: 374 764 00 %18 f OOCK. Do' Accntuat .. • (4 ' In oneY THREE 864 ' i CL xd 8 6 1 i xd S aARE MARKETS.—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share/ Railways, Paid 1 Closing I Business Price. done. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian. Cork and Bandon Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc &London, bcrip Certi Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, ()rd. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern DJ. A stock Do. B stock Do. New, is. at 25 pm GtS. and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original Do. S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford. Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Han., Shet., & Lincoln Metropolitan.. Do. New Do. Extension Metropolitan District Do. do. do. 89 91 126 127 65 65 13 15 4 6 67 70 70 72 112 111 37 38 6 7 121 122 131 133 L 2 53 34 34 _ - 121 122 Do. and St. John'slV'd 311d1and Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. & Derby vild Kent . . North British Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun N th. Eastern—Berwick Do. U.N•E purchase Do. Leeds ..... Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Po. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North Londou Do. do. 1864 ... Do. (10.1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock Scot, Mid. et ink Shropshire Union South Devon iouth Eastern Staines, Wok., d; Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall BRITISII Atlantic & St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, Ccn.ln. gu. 5 per cent........ Do. 1' shares . . t ..... Buffalo d 5 Lake Huron Do. Preference ...... Buff.,Brant, 8c Goderich 6 p.c. • 672-3- 1 .• • ••• • • Calcutta do S. E., Urn.. ai e Town & Dock, gu. Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p' East. Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu.s p.c. Do. .J Extension .• , fraud Trunkof Caned I Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds I charge 0 p.c.. • ... Do. tat Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred •• • • De. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred ... • Do. t.3d pref. stook. Do. do. deferred .... Do. 4th Pref. stook .. Do. do. deterred .... t. I ndia Pen. gua. sp.e. o. Gus. 5 per cent.. Do. New gtia. 5 p. c. il.South of India gun. 5 per cent D 41 per cent Do ;rent W s. of Canada. New .. Do. 6 p. c. Bels. pay. 1873 00. 5, do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 42 do Do. 4; do Do. Fifth Extension Helb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. do Hudson's Bay N. 1.0 'da, 6pc let pf. bs Scinde ...... A . Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Panjaub Do.lndus " COLONIAL GO VElt, -13iiiii1761umbia, 6 per Con t., Deo. 31, 1872.... Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 .............. Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug.. DJ. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 1)0. 5 p. c. Jan. & Jul) Do. 5 p. e. Inscribed sk Cape U. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 00.Ap1.& Oct , 18 1 90- 88 1 900 Do. do: 0-90 Do. Jan.StJuly, 1890-9; Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p t Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. IR7B 1)0. 1882, May:s, Nov. Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug*" Natal , iov. 6 per cent N. B.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.,SO uly N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 1866 Do. 6 p.c. 18;1 to 1878 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1891 N e w Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... • , Soya Sc Ala Gov. 6 p. O sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 8. Aus.Gov. 6 p,o 1888-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vio • Gov. 6 p.O. Ja &July Do. do, April & Oct BRITI Cam. Consol. Gold, Chiverton L,lifford A malgam at ed Devon G. Cons. (Tavlst Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Carn Brea East Grenville East Gunnislake .. East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavlstk Gam. & StAuby li n(G we . n. Gr e at Lixey, mited. Great South Tolgus Grea t Wheal Busy..., G. Wheal Vor (Belston Grenville Elerod's F00t...... flingston Downs Margaret ably Lelant Starke Valley Siwyndy Iron Ore, Una Nes Se ton ........ .• . • North Roskear I3assett (Mogan North Wheal Crofty • • Prosper United. • ...• • • Providence UnyLelant S. Caradon (St. (leer) Sou th Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan Stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Clegan,llw West Bassett (Illogan W. Caradon (Ltskeard West Chirerton West Seton. Wheal Bassett flllog - an Wheal Buller a s tedruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis FOSS 100 100 100 all 100 100 100 100 100 1-100 ~~ v~ 190 100 100 1( 0 100 100 111 ML 2.1.0 29i 2.14.8 2.14:0 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8. 0 all 0.14.6 14.9.6 8.18.0 8.10.0 5.10.6 13.17.6 4.10.6 - 41 38 4.4.0 2.13.0 7.1.6 10.6.7 ESSIONS 3.2.9 18.18.9 35.15.6 52 54 101 102 id ip 4i. 41 8 9 76 80 53 65 100 102 100 102 IC2 106 18 20 8.5 87 58 62 55 GO 54 55 43 52 40 15 31 41 .4 26 2.1 25 107 109 I I%E 11 PO 101 91 93 141 15 5} 5 9L e 3 83 85 - I} 01 101 102 91 •03 66 8d 81 63 8 , 98 100 97 99 1 97 99 T 8140 U. 37 7 94 96 92 1 , 5 92 95 78 80 78 80 99 101 102 101 102 101 102 104 80 8) 100 102 105 1 7 102 104 103 105 101 103 104 106 99 100 91 94 92 91 90 95 86 88 94 96 74 76 1224 11 132 [NES. 6 7 7 9 450 4!5 1 i 1 1 i 6 7 8 2i 1 2 1 i 2 8 9 3 31 21 22 18 20 1} 2 37 89 4} 5 4 6 4} 2 lid 35 4 2 4 $ 1 27 21 350 .375 a : 15 20 9 11 3 5 1 2 6 7 67i 721 125 135 80 85 121 174 3 5 t7O 185 11 13 5:22 51 31 1211 i 94j i 4 251 117} 17 16! 912 2 61 601 128 72 B,i 6 1231 1 6i PSI 71 031 3 31 24} f 1981 ruits. 103 f ; elt1CFE10EN(111: SHAUE6. per cent., 1101 11 No ° r rt th h e e rn , 5 5 per cent., rd. at 5 per cent. pra., 105 Great t t rn Hid Consolidated, 6 per cent, stock, DPW, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 1291 South Eastern (Reading Arms., £1.0.6), 22 _ PREFERENCE SIRAES AND STOCKS. Caledonian 4i per cent. gua. stk., 914 London and S.-Western 44 per cent., 93 • S ou th Eastern 44 per cent. 1859, Ditto, 5 per cent., 1861, 99 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Buckinghamshire, 92 London and Blackwall, 87 Midland, Bradford Pref. Stock, co FOREIGN IiAILwAYE. A ntwerp and Rotterdam, 81 Great Luxembourg, 11f i * Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 71 San Paulo. lim., gua. 6 per cent., 14 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 10i FOREIGN MINES. St. John del Rey, Um., 48 9 BANK& Alliance, Um.. 181 A nglo Austrian,.4/ 4 Australasia, 63 Bank of Victoria. Australia, 41 Brazilian and Portuguese. lim„ra C and harles Laffitta Co , 4i chartered Bank of India. Australia. and China. 114 Chartered iller.lof India, London, and China, 30_29 Consolidated Bank, lira., 3} Hindustan, China, and Japan,lllm.,:s Imperial Ottoman, 7 1 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 2i 3 London and River Plate. Ditto, issued at 11 pni ' 12 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 2 . 11 London and County, 64 si $ London and 11 estminster, P 3 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 11i Oriental Bank Corporation. 3701 Provincial Banking Corporation, lim., 3 t Union of Australia, 451 Union of Irelands Union of London, 47 65 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 3i f Bombay Gas. lira., -- Ditto, 3d hicue, Ditto, new, 11 Ceylon Company, Dit o, A shares, 1.; Company of African Merchants, lim., Credit N oneter and 51obilier of Engian n. 2 1i East Indian Land Credit and Finance, lim., 21 Egyptian Com. and Trading - . lim., 21. English and Foreign Credit, 1 1 Fore-street IVarehouse, him., 111 Gen. Credit and Finance of London. lim., 3j Home and r 7 )lonial A saurance, lim, if Hudson's Bay, London Financial Association, lim . B.y 1 1 London General Omnibus Company, lim, Nitional 'Discount Company, ilt !2 Voyal Mail Steam, 4,91 Thames and 3lerse v Marine, Insurance. lim, 41 Trust and Agency of Australasia, Universal Marine, Insurance. Um, 21 THE DISTINCTION OF K.C.B. is to be conferred upon Sir A. Mallet and the Hon. Chas. Murray, her Majes ty's Ministers at Frankfort and Dresden : and upon the lion. Manners Sutton, tho now Governor of Victoria. 93 05 25 26 110 )18 91 92 00 61 127 128 2 21 p i 1p 83 87 123 /24 71 16p 93 05 55 57 4 26 108 109 70 72 107 108 35 36 10 It p 120 122 1 2p 1 2p 73 75 108 112 148 150 65 67 46 49 69 71 8 9 142 145_ 1 3 100 103 52 54 96 99 96 100 104 106 _ - 103 105 TIIE LONnoIV, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1866. MARKETS.---This Day. AIARK:LANE. The trade for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday was firm, and prices advanced is. to 2s. per per quarter. Barley, oats, beans, and peas are steady, and in some instances the quotations were the turn higher. The flour trade was firm, on rather higher terms. On the Continent the wheat trade is firm, and in some instances prices have had an upward tendency. At New York the shipments of wheat and flour to Great Britain continue very limited. _ _ East India linseed and rapeseed met a slow sale, and in somo instances prices were rather easier. For all other seeds the demand ruled inactive, on former terms. The cake trade was by no means active ; nevertheless prices ruled firm. A small supply of English wheat was received up to our market last week. The condition of the produce was but middling. Owing to the warlike news from tne continent, the trade for all descriptions was very firm, and an advance of 3s per quarter took place in the quotations. Town milliers purchased cautiously, and operated to a limited extent. There was a considerable number of Yorkshire buyers in attendance, and the greater proportion of the supply was taken b them, at the above improvement. The supply of foreign wheat on sale was moderate. Holders and importers were very firm, and the quotations advanced 2s. to 4s per quarter from Monday last. Floating cargoes of wheat were firm at an improvement in value of 2s. per quarter from this day se'nnight. Sprrng corn afloat was firm, and rather dearer. The supply of English barley on sale was small ; of foreign but moderate. The trade was steady, and last Monday's currency was well supported. The malt trade was firm, on rather higher terms. There was a fair supply of oats on the stands. The trade was firm for all qualities, and prices were ls. per qr. higher than on Monday last. Beans were in short supply and the trade was firm at fully late rates. . . Peas were steady at full quotations ; the market was scantily supplied. The flour trade was firm, and prices advanced 2s. per 280 lbs. The town made was raised to 50s. per 280 lbs. CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new, per qr. 39s to 46s Do., old 4Bs 85s Do., white, old 548 60s Do., new Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s —s Do., new Talavera s2s 62s Rye— Barley—Grinding Malting 36s 43s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingstown and Ware Chevalier 66s 67s Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 21s 28s Potato Youghal and Cork, black 2lB 27s Cork, white 23s 28s Scotch, Feeding 22s 27s Beans—Tick 39s 42s Pigeons ... 46s 508 Peas—Grey, Maple White Boilers Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 348 36s Stockton and Norfolk American, per barrel French, per sack 34s 38s lish wool trad e is quiet __ at barely late sales. Last week's imports amounted to 13,000 bales, chiefly from Australia. Current prices of English wool per lb. sd s d Fleeces—South Down hogets 1 6 1 7 Half-bred do 1 8 1 9 Kent fleeces South Down ewes and wethers 1 4 1 5 Leicester do Sorts—Clothin g Combing TALLOW. Tho' tallow trade is firm to-day on higher terms. P.Y.C. is quoted at 43s Gd per cwt. on the spot. Town tallow, 42s net cash. Borough fat, 2s 2d per Blbs. Stock this day Particulars. 1863 . 1864. 1865. 1866. Price of Y.c . ......... 542 s 9d to 40s 6d 408 9d 43s 6d to Delivery last wee p .,, —s Od 40s 9d —s 0(1 Os Od ... 753 906 1,132 1,452 ............ 37,430 43,938 31,602 28,440 Ditto from J uno 1 ...... '2,235 2,401 3,144 4,305 Arrival last week ...... 661 1,444 600 Ditto fr( in June 1.,.... 1,921 1,321 2,263 4,420 Price of Town ......... 43s 9d 41e 6d 41s6d 44s 3d Naval and Military Intelligence. The armoured iron frigate Bellerophon, Captain E. Tatham, and the turret ship Royal Sovereign, Capt. F. A. Herbert, both returned into Ports mouth harbour on Saturday from Spithead, after their fight of the previous day off the Dean Shoal, south-east of Spithead. An after-consideratio n of the results of the firing at the Royal Sovereign's turret on Friday raises many very important and debateable questions foremost among which is, what form of projectile will cause the greatest damage to curved iron-clothed surfaces at short range, such range, rather, as would possibly exist between two ironclads engaged afloat, or between a turret -ship afloat and a turret-crowned battery ashore. The three shots fired at the Royal Sovereign on Friday were all conoidal headed, and were all deflected. This deflection of the shot from its true, and therefore most destructive, line of force was apparently due to the conoidal form of the heads of the shot, and also to the curved surface and deflective angles'of the turret and deck where the three shot struck. Thus, the first shot struck near the edge of the armour-plating of the turret at the gun-port, break ing away a. jagged piece of the outer plating, but being afterwards deflected frcm its further straight course by the second, or backing, plate of 4i inches, which bent backwards and threw the shot off and against the opposite side of the gunport, where it spent its remaining strength and fell shattered inside the turret, after smashing the wooden skeleton gun. Now, would this shot have been so easily deflected from its straight course had it been flat-headed, or even spherical, the weight, of course, being equal under all circum stances ? If the course of the second and third shots are examined, there may be found additional reasons against the use of conoidal-headed pro jectiles against iron-cased curved surfaces at short range. The second shot struck at the junction of two armour-plates, when the one on the left from the gun prized outwards from the teak backing, and fell forward with its top eight inches out of the line of the circle of the upper and outer rim of the turret. This falling forward of the plate was owing to its bolt tails with their nut fastenings having flewn off from the inner surface of the great inner iron ring to which they were bolted by the impact of the shot. This falling forward of the plate left an opening upwards, and to this opening the conoi- dal-headed shot, as offering the least resistance to its progress, naturally turned. It became jammed there between the back top edge of the plate and its backing. Now, here again, could a flat-headed shot hpe been so turned aside and rendered harm less? Measurement of initial velocities of projectiles is very useful under the majority of conditions, but here were conditions under which th e initial force of a shot's flight was altogether ab , sorbed, and its further power of harm destroyed. In the third and last shot the power of deflective surfaces and obtuse angles in throwing off the heaviest description of conoidal-headed steel shot at Close range appears to have been still more forcibly demonstrated. This shot struck on the upper wooden deck of the ship, and with such tremendous force as to fracture two beams, one of iron and the other of wood, immediately underneath. It, however, failed to penetrate lower than half the thickness of the 8-in. teak deck planking, running the "score" up to the face of the turret, Bft. in length, when it glanced upwards against the turret face, and, gouging out an oval-shaped groove of metal 17in. long by 9in. wide, and 3iin. in depth, flew off to seaward, and fell in the water close to the taffrail of a large schooner yacht crowded with ladies and gentlemen who had come out to see the turret undergo its trial. In this instance a spheroidal shot of the same weight might have damaged the turret more, possibly, by the ruder and fuller force of its blow on the turret, while, un doubtedly, a flat-headed shot, of Whitworth make, would have " bit" into deck or turret and buried itself there, if it did not effect penetration. The conoidal-headed shot had again, in fact, struck with its " shoulder, instead of its head" point, and it, therefore, only delivered glancing blows. These views are merely put forward for what they are worth, as bearing upon a subject of very great im portance. The report on the testing of the Royal Sovereign turret by Capt. A. C. Key, C. 8., now being prepared for the information of the Lords of Commissioners of the Admiralty, will, however, fully enter upon and discuss the whole subject, and the public may therefore depend upon its receiving the consideration its vast importonce deserves. There are a few remarks yet necessary to make in conclusion. The two shots fired at the turret, although they did not effect penetration nor get beyond the wooden backing, inflicted such an amount of actual damage that half-a-dozen more shots striking full on the turrermust have placed it hors de combat, leaving, however, the parts under trial—the revolving machinery—in all probability still undamaged. This would be the result which might with certainty be counted upon in a contest between the gun of 1866 and a composite iron clothed target of 1862. The bolt-tails and nuts driven off from the inner skin of the turret by the first two shots were quite sufficient to have killed or wounded every one of the crew engaged in working the gun had the ship been in action, and proves again the necessity for covering all such parts with an inner over-sheathing of wood or thin boiler plate. In our report of the experiment in The Sun of Saturday, the first shot fired at the turret was stated to have bent back and fractured " the inner or 7i-inch plate." It should have been " the inner or 4i-inch plate," the thickness of the turret armour plating being a si-inch plate over one of 4i inches. At the quarterly examination of candidates for assistant clerks in the Royal Navy, just concluded on board her Majesty's ship Victory, the following gentlemen successfully passed :—Jago, 429 marks ; Preston, 420 ; Gill, 418 ; King, 410 ; Bampton, 404 ; Donaldson, 402 ; Davey, 395 (the last two gentlemen passed from Vickrey's Hope House, Southsea, Rant) ; Drysdale, 388 ; Pearson, 381 ; Bate, 369 ; James, 367 ; Fisher, 363. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—F. F. Flynn, assist.-surgeon to the Nimble; Francis Wood, assist. -paymaster in charge, to the Griffon ; William Lovely, assist.-paymaster, to the Donegal ; John N. Compton, second master, to the Griffon ; and John W. Dixon, master's as sistant, to the Griffon. Liverpool Cotton Market—(This Day.) The market opens with a quiet demand, and prices of American j and Surat I below Friday. Sales probably 6,000 bales. Mr. RUSSELL GURNEY has been appointed a Privy Councillor. LIFEBOAT SERVICE.—REDCAR, YORKSHIRE, Sun day Night.—The Crossley lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution stationed at this place (states John Coulson, Esq., agent for Lloyd's) was instrumental this morning in saving the lives of the crew, consisting of two persons, of the yacht Dagmar, Capt. C. T. Claxton, of Middlesboro'. The yacht, after landing the owner, R. M. Jacques, Esq., at Redcar, last night, brought up under the rocks just opposite the lifeboat-house, and the wind sud denly changing to the north about half-past one this morn ing, and blowing strong, caused a heavy sea to come in, so much so that it broke on board the yacht, and the crew could not effect a landing. They, however, hoisted a signal of distress about six o'clock, when the lifeboat was immediately launched, and soon landed the crew of the yacht in safety. The boat behaved admirably on the oc casion. IRON V. WOOD.--The Moniteur de la Flotte states that the iron-coated fleet commanded by Rear-Ad miral La Ronciere to Nourry has sailed from Cherbourg for a trial, commanded by the Minister of Marine, for the pur pose of ascertaining the nautical qualities of iron keels and wooden coppered keels, and especially the resistance which they experience in their passage though the water. In order to obtain an accurate knowledge of the subject it was necessary to send two vessels to sea alike except in the nature of the materials used in their construction. The frigates Heroine and Flandre were selected for that reason. They are built on the same model, they draw the same depth of water, and their machinery is of the same power; but the Heroine is of iron, and the Flandre of wood. The trial is being made off Cherbourg, under the direction of a commission, of which Admiral Le Nourry is the pre sident, and which is composed of superior officers of the navy and naval engineers. It is presumed from the cha racter of the officers composing the commission, and the favouiablo circumstances under which the trial is made, that the important question of ,naval construction, which has so long caused a warm controversy among seamen, will now be satisfactorily settled. TR IRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.: TATTERSALLS I —This Evening. NORTHUMBERLAND PLATT'. 100 9 t t o o 1 2 5 a a g g s s t t T C ahiethPnreinissa(t;3 (take n)aken) 100 7 to 12 1 agst tt Red W Earl (taken)indham 10 to 1 a gs t H onesty.(taken) (take) 100 to 8 agst Zenobia (taken) 15 to 1 agst Missile (taken) DERBY. 20 to 1 agst The Palmer (taken) 25 to 1 agst Marksman (taken) 1000 to 35 agst Red Shoes (offered) 100 to 30 agst Julius (taken) 50 to 1 agst Grand Cross (taken) GO OD WOOD STAKES. 7to 1 agst Special (taken) , 12 to 1 agst Othello (taken) 65 2 t t t 0 0 0 12 1 a a a g a. s s tt LIVERPOOL CUP. p -V Tin e e s rta P ro as irl ia aakk ( oo ta ni ken) 10 to 1 agstgst Life Guardsman (taken) MA.N CHESTER B ETTING—This DAY. LIVE RPOOL CUP. 5 to 2 agst Terror (taken) 3to 1 agst Vespasian (taken) NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. 11 to 2 agst Primate (taken) Bt o 1 agst Caithness (taken) Bto 1 agst Windham (taken) GOODWOOD RTES. 7to 1 agst Special (taken) VICTORIA. CLUB BETTING —Tins DAY, LIVERPOOL CUP. 5 to 2 agst Terror (taken) 3to 1 agst Vespasian (taken) 6to 1 agst Pintail (taken) NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. 4to 1 agst Primate (taken) 6to 1 agst Caithness (taken) Bto 1 agst Windham (taken) 10 to 1 agst Red Earl (taken) 10 to 1 agst Honesty (taken) 11 to 1 agst Miss Haworth (taken) 12 to 1 agst Missile (taken) GOODWOOD STAKES. Bto 1 agst Special (taken) TURF AGENCY OFFICE, 100, Jer myn - street, St. James's, LONDON. 31R. SYDNEY SMITH (Member of Tatter sall's) executes COMMISSIONS (by letter only) on all the principal races throughout the season, from £1 upwards, on receipt of cash or Post-office Order (payable at Piccadilly office). COMMISSIONS as usual at starting prices on the day of a race at all the principal meetings, For further particulars and prices, see the advesement in The Sport sman newspaper every TUESDAY and SATUR DAY. Price Current published DAILY, and forwarded on receipt of stamped directed envelope. N.B.—lt is particularly requested that ALL LETTERS containing CASH be registered. The Sporting Life, Aug. 20, 1864.—" We are satisfied th a t all intending ba c k ers of horses, who may have been for merly in doubt whom to trust, will, without fear or hesita- Jerm tion, yn-stre send their HE RACE S.—For dust, heat, or rain, NICOI.L'S WATERPROOF OVERCOATS, d One uinea each.-11. J. a n d D. INlcom., 114, 116, 118 , 1 2 0, Regent street, W. ; 22, Corntilll, E.C. ; 10, Mosley-street, Man- Chezter ; and 59, Bold-street, Liverpool. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT —A.- - HOUSE OF LORDS—THIS EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a second time :—Kilmar nock Water; Great Yarmouth Haven, Port, and Riv er ; Poterborough, WisbeaCh, an d Sutton allway ; Thetford and Watton Railway; Bute Docks Railway and Bridge of Allen Water Bill. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Greenwich and Woolwich Lower Road, Hershain Bland ford Road, Macclesfield, linutsford, and Warrington Rail way. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY (ADDITIONAL POWESILL. On the motion f or the third ) rea ß ding of this bill, The Earl of ZETLAND moved the omission of clause 42, which had for its object thelimiting of the liability of the company from accidents in thb conveyance of the working classes. He contended that the clause in question was not calculated to promote the interests of the public, who had a right to be protected. After some observation from Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY and Earl NELSON, the bill was read a third time without a division. MISS ANGELA BURDETT COUTTS'S ENDOW MENT OF COLONIAL BISHOPRICS. The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition from Miss Burdett Coutts relative to certain bishoprics of the United Church of England and Ireland in her Majesty's colonial possessions. The right rev. prelate said that the petitioner had subscribed £17,500 for a bishopric in Cape Town, with the distinct understanding that the doctrines to be inculcated should be those of the Church of England, and that on the part of the prelates appointed under the bequest of the petitioner should recognise the supremacy of her Majesty the Queen. There was another bequest of the same amount in reference to another colonial bishopric, and there was £lO,OOO subscribed by the lady for a bishopric—British Columbia. He contended that in the case of Bishop Colenso there was a clear violation of the specific objects of the foundation of Miss Burdett Coutts, inasmuch as that prelate, whose case had excited so much attention, had ignored the royal supremacy. The right rev. prelate went into warm and elaborate details to show the indispensable necessity that existed for the recognition of a central Royal controlling power in carry ing out the administration of ecclesiastical affairs of the Church of England. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Tho supply of foreign stock on offer here to-day was only moderate, and in but middling condition. Beasts ad vanced in price, but other stock was inactife. 'The arrivals of beasts fresh from our own grazing counties was again very moderate, but in fair average condition. All breeds sold briskly, at higher quotations. The best Scot; crosses, &c., raalised 5s 8d to 5s 10d, and even 6s per 81bs, and nearly the whole of the supply was easily disposed of. The prospect of a war between Aus tria and Prussia, consequently of a considerable falling off in the importations of stock from Germany, had great in fluence upon the trade to-day. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 1,200 Scots, crosses, and short horns ; from other parts of England, 500 various breeds ; and front Scotland, 6 Scots. There were no arrivals from Ireland. We were fairly supplied with sheep. The weight of each brood was quite equal to last week. On the whole, the mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at prices about equal to this day so'nnight. The top figure for Downs and half-breds was Gs per 81bs. There was a steady sale for lambs, the supply of which was moderate, at full quotations, viz., from 6s 811 to 8s per 81bs. Calves declined 4d per 81bs, with a slow inquiry. The supply was moderately good. The demand for pigs was heavy, nevertheless price were supported. Per 81b to sink tho offal. da d Crae. & inf. beasts... 4 0 4 4 Second quality do ..4 6 5 u Prime large oxen ..5 2 5 6 Prime Suoto. 8 5 10 Orse. and int. eneep.3 8 4 2 Second quality do ..4 4 5 0 - - d s d Pme crs- woo! sheep 5 2 5 8 Prime b'thclowo C 0.5 0 IS 0 La-ge coarse ealven 5 0 5 6 Prime Brasil do 5 8 6 0 Large hugs ...4 0 4 1 Small porkers 3 0 5 0 Lamb....6s 8d to 8 Od. SuAllng calves, 20s to 23s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 30s 33s each. . . . Head of stock on sale. Total supply. _ _ i Foreign i supply. Beasts Beasts - - :.. 3,6131 Cows . . _ .. COWS. • • •• .... _ Sheep and lambs 21,890 Sheep and 1 mbs . 6,29) Calves 262 Ca yes 2 Pigs 320 Pigs Ol The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 13,821 head. In the corresponding week in 1865, we received 14,169; in 1864, 11,092 ; in 1863, 8,323 ;in 1862, 8,212; and in 1861, 10,075 ; and in 1860, 8,082. IMPORTS LNTO LONDON LAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs: Calves. Pigs. Aarhuus Antwerp b2 1111 . 2295 ... 929 1111 . 102 11 11. 51 80u10gne......, 7l ... 725 1100 •.. ••• 18 Bremen ..... . Gestemunde...., 1025 8 Cadiz ••• Calais.. 3 ... Gothenburg 188 Caen - ••• Ch ristiana — ••• ••• Dieppe. Hamburg.. ...... ll7B ... 5031 „. 36 123 Stettin Ostend ..• 25 ..• Vigo ••• ••• Rotterdam ... 1111. - ... -. ... 45 ... - 13 ... - ... 36 ... 42 - ••• - ..• - ..• 28 ... - ... 115 ... - '-' ••• - ••• --- ••• "-* ... - ... 74 ei. 167 Total - 2,969 ... 9,004. ... 929 502 ~. 417 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 1865 2234 ... 8397 ... 1673 ... 233 ' —.1722 1864 2086 ... 6620 ... 552 ... 1863 892 ~. 4632 ... 1532 . i . 884 ... 381 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Juno 19, 1865, and this day, Monday, June 18, 1866. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. June 19, 1865. Juno 18, 1866. __ s d s d a d s cl. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 Bto .4 0 4 oto 4 4 Second quality d 0.... .; 4 2 4 6 4 6 5 0 Prime large oxen 4 8 410 5 2 5 6 Prime Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do 5 6 510 5 2 5 8 Prime Southdown do 6 0 6 4 510 6 0 Lambs Large coarse calves 4 4 410 5 0 5 6 Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 6 410 4 6 5 0 Beasts 4,990 3,580 Sheep and lambs 28,590 24,890 Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, June 20, 1864.—Beasts, 4,990 — sheep and lambs, 28,730—calves, 311—pigs, 520. - -- - - -- _ ... , June 22, 1863—Beasts, 4,l6o—sheep and lambs, 25,490 -calves, 411—pigs, 430. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. . These markets are scantily supplied with all kinds of meat. Beef sells freely at 4d. per 81bs more money. Veal, however, is rather cheaper. Mutton and pork .are steady in value. Per 81b by the carcase. sd a d Inferior beef 3 6 4 0 Middling do. 4 2 4 6 Prime large do 4 8 4 10 Prime small do 5 0 5 2 e s d Interior InUttOn 3 d 6 4 6 Middling; mutton 4 8 5 6 Prime do 5 8 5 10 Large pork 4 8 5 6 Small pork. 4 6 5 4 Id to 7e 2d. Vita 4 0 4 61 Lamb, 55 8, BOROUGH HOP. The trade for all kinds of hops is very firm, and prices have an upward tendency. The plantation accounts are rather more satisfactory. Last week's imports into London amounted to 24 bales from Boulogne, 7 Bremen, 24 Ilam burg, 51 Antwerp, and 71 bales from Rotterdam. Mid and East Keats Bos to 190 s per cwt Weald of Kents Bos to 120 s per cwt Susses Bos to 112 s per cwt 1864's Olds 2os to 50s per cwt BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. These markets are scantily supplied with old potatoes ; but with new they are moderately supplied. The trade, on the wholo, is steady and prices rule firm. Kent and Essex regents Scotch do. :' Yorkshire do 80 s to 120 s Flukes 150 s to 180 s l, 11 „ Rocks 50s to 90s • If Spanish now lls to 16s per cwt Jersey and othor kinds llB to 15s II WOOL. The public sales of colonial wool continue to progress slowly. The decline in prices from last series still varies from ld. to 3d. per lb. Home buyers aro still operating cautiously, but French buyers are :purchasing freely in qualities suited to their consumption. For export to Ger many scarcely any business is doing. Privately the Eng- POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. °HAUGE OF CAUSING THE DEATH OF A CHILD.—Mr. H. Chapman, soda water manufacturer, of No. 29, Lanham street, Marylebone, was charged before Mr. Knox with causing the death of George Shelley, seven years of age, by driving over him with a horse and cart. From the evidence of several witnesses it appears that on Saturday evening, about 5 o'clock, the prisoner was driving a horse and van along Langham-streat, when two children (the deceased and a little girl) stepped from the pavement into tho road. The hackney carriage attendant on the stand, William Goff, called to the prisoner to stop, seeing the danger the children were in, but too late, both of them being knocked down and the wheels of the van passing over them. They were immediately picked up and conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital, where shortly after one of them, a little boy named George Shelley, ex pired, the wheels of the van having gone over his chest, and the other, a little girl, was found to be much injured, but she was subsequently taken home, and there are hopes that she will recover. In answer to Mr. Knox all tho witnesses stated that the prisoner did all in his power to pull up, that he was not going at the rato of more than five miles an hour, and that the occurrence was purely accidental, the children running right under the horses' feet. Mr. Knox said it was a terrible tragedy for the parents, but from the evidence of the witnesses it appeared that the prisoner was free from blame, and that he was not going at an undue rate. Ile should remand the prisoner till after the inquest, and would take his own recognisance to appear again. THAMES. ASSAULT ON A DOCTOR'S ASSISTANT.—Lovy 'MRCS, a Jew, who described himself as a fruit salesman, of No. 2, St. James-place, Iloundsditch, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with violently assaulting Mr. Richard John Bacon, assistant to Mr. Budgett, a surgeon and apothecary in Back Church-lane, Whitechapel. The prisoner made a purchase of a pennyworth of lint at Dr. Budgett's shop on Saturday night, and he com plained of the smallness of the quantity sold to him ; an altercation ensued between him and the assistant, and the prisoner threatened to put his finger up Mr. Bacon's nose and told him to put that in his pip e an d smoke i t. Mr. Jahn Budget t, to n eao pis continued to act in a very disorderly and a b us i ve manner r t son of the Di-. Bud interposed, and request e d the place, gett which he refused to do, and At last an attempt was made to expel him from the shop, and he struck Mr. Bacon a severe blow on the mouth caused his lips to bleed, and loosened one of his teeth. :Lewis Tisley, No. 139 11, said that Mr. Bacon's mouth was bleeding when ho came to Dr. Budgott's shop, and the prisoner was extremely noisy and violent. The prisoner, in defence, said that the complainant struck him first and he retaliated. Mr. Paget said ho did not believe the prisoner, and fined him 40s. In default 14 days improvement. A DISHONEST WATCHMAN.—James Mayhew and James 31‘.Neill were brought before Mr. Page; on remand, charged with stealing a quantity of rope, the property of the London and St. Xatherine Dock Company, from their premises. Mr. Weatherhead, clerk to Mr. Thomas Beard, solicitor, defended MVeill, Mr. Gomm defended Mayhew. The pro secution was conducted, for the Dock Company, by Mr. Morgan, of the firm of Humphrey., Son, and Morgan, solicitors. Mayhew was a watchman, and specially employed by the Dock Company to protect the stores on the pierhead of , the London Dock at Wapping. M'Neill was the con ductor of the fire-escape, opposite Wapping Church. A few nights since a police-constable of the II division, saw the prisoners near the fire escape. Mayhew was carrying a bag of rope weighing 661bs, which he put against the fire escape. The constable asked him where ho obtained it, to which he replied that he brought it from a barge in the London Dock. The constable said he should take him into custody. Tho watchman said, " You will not do that ; you know what business is." The watchman was taken at the, time, but M'Neill made his escap3. He had previously said to the constable, " Don't take any notice of that ; it's all right." The rope was iden tified as the property of the London Dock Company, and was stated to be worth lls. Mr. Paget committed the prisoners for trial. WESTMINSTER. SCREENING BRL•TAL HUSBANDS.—James Reardan, a powerful Irish:labourer, was charged with violently beating his wife. The latter, on getting into the witness box, endeavoured to screen a black eye by holding a handkerchief to her face, and on being asked to make her statement, observed, " I have nothing to say, I don't think he hit me at all." Mr. Selfe—You are tellin a deliberate falsehood. Speak the truth ; did he not strike you ? Complainant—He might have done so once. Mr. Selfe—That will not do for me. You camo before me on Saturday and applied for a warrant against your husband, and you then swore that he violently assaulted you and you have abundant marks. Your husband has had a month for assaulting you before, has he not ? Complainant—Yes, he has. Mr. Selfe—You swore, when you were here on Satur day, that your husband threatened to kill you, and struck you six times. What do you mean by now swearing that he might have done so once. Complainant—lt must have been the boy that said that, not me. Mr. Selfe—l have it in writing from your own lips, and not from a boy. Inspector Halhem, of the B division—She came to the station and complained of hor husband violently assault ing her. Mr. Selfe (to the woman)—Did ho make you bleed ? Complainant—No. Mr. Halhem—She had a black eye and was covered with blood. Mr. Selfe—She was in a pitiable condition when she came here. lam determined to know all I can upon the matter. Defendant was remanded for the attendance of a buy who was present at the time of the assault. THE REPORT OF THE JAMAICA COMMISSIONERS is likely to be laid before Parliament to-day. FIRST LESSONS IN RIDING.—Teach the boy to sit first. Fasten the pony's had into the right place with a pair of reins buckled to the flaps of the saddle, and a standing martingale if necessary. Then put the boy into the saddle carefully, fit the stirrups to his legs, tell him to keep his shoulders back, his back slack, his heels down, and cross his arms across his chest. Then, repeating the cabal istic words " Heels down, back slack"over and over again, lead the pony about at a walk for a day or two until the boy gets his balance; or what the French happily call son assiette. Then give him a single pair of reins, and explain that in riding the hands are always to be kept lower than the elbows, and generally as low as the hips. Impress on him, " If you raise your hands you are lost," and that the bridle is not a safety handle to hold on with, but a pair of lines for steering: "If you want to turn to the right, pull the right rein ; if you want to turn to the left, pull the left rein." . There are boys and men who learn to ride, and ride well, by instinct, imitation, and practice, especially if they have good models before their eyes, and are not spoiled early by flattering toadies ; but there are many mon who never ride with any sense at all, although, they ride all their lives. Some people seem to think that falling off does boys good. That is not the writer's opinion. A boy should, as a matter of course, learn not to make a fuss about a fall, or any other hurt or accident ; and he NI ho is not afraid will fall the most cleverly; but the first point of good horsemanship is not to fall until your horse falls; the next is so to guide and hold him that he shall fall as seldom as possible. Many a fine boy has been cowed and spoiled as a horseman by being put on ponies too restive or spirited for his strength and imma ture seat. But there is a mistake in the other direc tion. Teaching is wasted unless principles are fol lowed by practice, and unless what has been learned in the home park or the school is practised on rough ground and across country, up and down steep hills, across moors, and through woodland. For this purpose there is nothing better than an occasional day with the harriers ; boys and horses both learn to be quick to turn, to stop, and to start again. No horseman or horsewoman is safe who has not learned to leap real fences, ditches, banks, and hurdles ; for the quietest horse will buck sometimes, and the slowest ride end in an inevitable short cut.—Dickem's "All the Year Round." THE CANNON-STREET MURDER —When William Smith, lately tried on a charge of having murdered Mrs. Milsom, returned to Eaton, after his acquittal, on Friday night, he was received with cheers by numbers of the people amongst whom he had lived, He was waited for at Windsor Station, and his friends, forming in proces sion, marched arm-in-arm to his home, about which hun dreds of people gathered. On his approach thew received him with loud shouts of welcome. [LEFT SPEAKING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS--Tuis EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Ayr Harbour, Bradford Corporation, Cambrian Railways (New Works), Cork Harbour, Devon Valley and North British Railway Companies (Arrangements), Glasgow Police, Great Northern and Western (of Ireland) Railway, Lancashire Union Railways, Laugharne Railway, Magdalen Hospital, North B r iti s h R a il way (Camps, &c., Branches), Waveney Valley Drainage, White haven and Furness Junction, and Whitehaven, Cleator, an d Egremont Railway, Wycombe Railway, and Gaslight and Coke Company. NEW MEMBER. Mr. HILDYAP.D took the oaths and his seat for Notting hamshire. DAUNT'S ROCK. Mr. MAGUIRE asked the President of the Board of Trade if any steps hadm D be e en ee t t te ß n, ee o k r w th e e re w a r bo eek ut ef to th b e e taken, to remove from steamship City of New York. Mr. GIBSON said it had not been thought.the circum stance to which the hon. gentleman alluded was of such a pressing nature as to call for a la rge ex p en dit ure o f pu b l i c money. Assistance had been offered the owners of the City of New York to get the vessel off. THE ELECTORAL RETURNS. Mr. BEKEWICH asked the President of the Poor Law Board whether he had sent any instructions to the Boards of Guardians for the purpose of recommending a scale of payment to the clerks for the additional trouble and expense they had incurred in preparing the electoral re turns laid upon the table of the house ? Viscount ENFIELD, said a communication had taken place on the subject, but the expenses of collecting the returns would be paid by the Government, and not by the guardians out of the local rates. LAW OF HYPOTHEC. Mr. CARNEGIE asked the Lord Advocate when the bill on the Law of Hypotheo would be introduced? The LORD ADVOCATE said such a bill had been pro pounded, but he did not think it would be Introduced dur ing the present session. TENURE OF LAND (IRELAND). In reply to M r . B LAKE, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was impossible to fix a day for the resumption of the adjourned debate on this bill until further progress had been made with the reform bill. It was intended to proceed with supply to-morrow at 12. IRON GUNS. Mr. WHITE asked the Secretary of State for War whether he w ou ld h ave any objection to produce a copy the correspondence between the War Department and Zi • r Parsons from May, 1860, to the present time, relative to the plan o f that gentleman for strengthening cast Iron guns?. The Marquis of HARTINGTON said he had great ob jections to producing the correspondence which took place between the War-office and inventors, because it usually resulted in the furnishin at the public expense a detailed account of the invention. With respect to the second por tion of the question he had no objection to produce the re turns, so that the hon. gentleman perhaps would signify whether he would accept that as sufficient for his purpose. THE FENIAN RAID IN CANADA. Mr. DAWSON asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, since the house rose on Friday, he had received any further despatches from Canada conveying information as to the suppression of the Fenian raid upon British territory, or the means taken to effect that object ? Dir. CARD WELL stated that he had received a despatch f ro m the Governor-General df Canada, dated Juhwnehemo,berscthinttgo ing that a force of F e r n Te i aahntets Volunteers e a k b oedubtyB Volunteers , O strong,O Nv ei.eon the had m a d e a Peacock, and entails, after in j or o au e i it n d : uottninhhebeFeforo:Ce:Enrsideautneinsdewdeeinthethcoeimrmwanady of T G h e e n. v the retirement of the volunteers, did not wait the arrival of Gen. Peacock, but recrossed the frou- NNvoteroeta arrested s t t eii that btiyerthedualilitnhgorititehseof ntihgehtnitwedheSatatese! occasion, but on every other, the readiest and m ya o beenu proffered by the United effi cient assistance had ahnear.o)incer eller States. (Hear, in n e c n o e na ra m l au ß d at o T f y, certain importanto Grant had placed now in Toronto Gaol about G 5 prisoners.t positions, U Ta u hn i t ed e l d tohsesr S eo t nw a t te e hr e s , e part of the British authorities was small. ST. PANCRAS CHURCHYARD. Mr I VEVOY asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he was aware that the Midland Railway Company, having obtained an act in 1363 for Passing a bridge over the additional burial-ground of St. Pancras, had in excess of its powers taken a portion of the more ancient churchyard of St. Pancras for such bridge, and was causing desecration thereby, the destruc tion of the tombs, and the removal of the dead. Sir G. GREY said no further inquiry had been made on this subject since it was last under the attention of the house until he saw the question of the hou. gentleman on the paper. He had before sent Mr. Holland to inspect and report the exact circumstances of the case. THE FEN. Mr. WATKINS reverting to IANS the Fenian raid, said he wished t o know whether it was true that, after the raid, the President of the United States had issued rt proclama tion, and that Generals Sweeney and Roberts had been ar rested. Mr. CARDWELL said ho had stated the whole sub stance of the despatch he had received. He was, however, in possession of the circumstance that the President of the United States had issued a proclamation—(hear, hear)— and as various other questions had been put to him (Mr. Cardwell) be here wished to say that the utmost loyalty had been displayed by all her Majesty N or th A mer i can subjects, and that their exertions were in the highest de gree satisfactory. (Hear, hear.) THE REFORM BILL. The house then went into committee. On clause 5 being read, t e The nd ed t o make proceedingnar;rule gentleman CHANCELLOR aatuteni o e f ut, th w EX. hen C — HEQUEß said he in- Mr. DISRAELI objected to the right hon. g able that a statement should be made which might contain of in th th e e h w o a u y se l:e an in d te h n e d d e i d d , it nu w t a th s in als i tin it s w t ae the d o e r ei d .r i: an answer by,anticipation to the proposals of the hon. gen tlemen who had given notice of their intention to move amendments to the clause. After a short and somewhat angry discussion, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be would persevere in the desire he had to address the house. Lord DUNKELLIN then rose to move his amendment to the clause, which was to substitute a rating for a rental franchise in boroughs. He considered that the rating franchise was much to be preferred, and such being his opinion, it became his duty to make the proposal to the house, although it might in some quarters be considered that it was made simply to obstruct the passing of the bill. Such was not his intention, because he was not respon sible for the figure that had been selected as the amount of the borough franchise ; and with that figure he did not interfere. (Hear, hear, from the Opposition.) Ile therefore moved the amendment of which he had given notice, namely, that the words " clear yearly value" be left out, and that instead there be inserted in the clause the words "clear rateable Value." Mr. 0. CAVE seconded the amendment. [LEFT SPEAKING.' SHIPPING I NTELLIGENCE.—Ths Day. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAM Arrived GR AVESEND, Mond a y M orn i ng. , June 18.—Caroline, Joseph, Asteria, and James, from Riga; Contest, from Gefie ; Stella, from Harlingen; George Selby, from Jersey ; Alfieri, from Buenos Ayres. DEAL, Morning. Anchored— Tavi s t oc k , from Lond Mondayfor Hongkong; Alexandria, from Shi e ld s , f or Rio Janeiro. Passed—Lapwing, from Hull, for Malaga ; Sylph, of Wells, from the north, for the west. Railway and Other Companies. BRAMPTON AND LONGTOWN. A public meeting was held at Brampton, Cumberland, on Wednesday, to consider the advantages of this proposed line; Mr. Dacre in the chair. Mr. Nonnis expressed that it would afford a short and convenient route for 250,000 tons of traffic from Scotland the north-eastern counties of England, and to the midland counties. Resolutions were passed in favour of the proposed line. It was stated that the proposed capital was £120,000, of Which £24,000 had been already subscribed. TAMAR, KIT KILL, AND r2ALLING'TON. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held at the offices, Fenchurch-street, on Saturday ; Mr. 11. Wright in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of a bill to authorise the mixed, or the broad guage only, on the company's railway ; and also working and traffic arrangements between this company and the Saltash and Callington, and other railway companies. A formal resolution approving the bill was carried, and he meeting separated. -- CENTRAL CORNWALL A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held on Saturday, at the offices, Princes-street, Westminster; Mr. Rod.d in the chair. The Solicitor read the heads of a bill for authorising the company to run over divers railways and make arrange ments with railway companies. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, a formal resolution ap proving the bill was unanimously adopted. RAILWAY BILLS. In Lord Redesdale's committee of the House of Lords on Friday the following bills were passed :—The Leven and East of Fife, to raise £lB,OOO by shares and £6,000 by loan ; the Manchester and Stockport, to raise £200,000 by shares and £66,600 by loan; the Berks and Hants Extension, to raise £200,000 by shares and £66,600 by loan; the New port Pagnell ; the Wantage and Great Western Junction, to raise £25,000 by shares and £8,300 by loan ; and the Severn Junction. In Room 0, the London and North Western (New Lines) Bill was passed. In Room D, the West Riding and Grimsby (Transfer) Bill was passed. In the Standing Orders Committee, the London and North-Western (New Works) Bill had passed. In Group 8, Rouse of Commons, the case of the South Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover(London, Lewes, and Brighton Bill was closed on both sides, and, in eonso quence of the absence of ono member, the decision of the committee was adjourned to.lionday (this day) at 2 o'clock. In Group 16, the preamble of the Swansea Vale Bill was proved, and the Carmarthen and Cardigan Bill was heard and adjourned. In Group 18, the preamble of the Caledonian and Scottish North-Eastern bill was proved. In Group 19, the preamble of the Caledonian (Lanark shire, &c., Branches) Bill was proved. In Group 20 the North British and Bridge of Allan Bill was proceeded with and adjourned. NORTH BRITISH. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held at Edinburgh on Friday to consider 19 bills now before Par liament. Mr. Hodgson presided. Tho CHAER.MAN said they would know by the end of the year whether the experimental pier off the Forth-bridge would succeed. He was sanguine that the Forth-bridge would be prosecuted to a successful issue. He then asked approval of the following bills, involving a oapital of about £6oo,ooo:—The New Works Bill, St. Margaret's deviation, Camps branches, Glasgow branches, Coatbridge branches, Stirling branches; Devon Valley Bill for new branches, and bill for additional capital; Esk Valley lease; Leadburn and Dolphinton amalgamation ; Berwickshire, additional capi tal ;,Burntisland Harbour; power to subscribe ; Solway Junc tion, powor to subscribe; Longtown and Brampton, power to subscribe. He expressed his :surprise and regret that house of Commons Committee had passed the preamble of hee Caledonian and Scottish North-Eastern (Amalgama tion) Bill, notwithstanding the opposition of this com pany and of 88 public bodies in the north-east of Scotland The directors were determined to oppose the further pro gress of the Bill in the House of Lords. Mr. ARKLAY opposed all the resolutions for the approval of the bills as they were one by one out; and, although several shareholders expressed the opinion that the direc tors were going too fast, the resolutions were carried, and the meeting adjourned till the 23d inst. TENDRING HUNDRED. This company's extension line to Walton-on-the-Naze will be shortly opened as far as Kirby-cross, 21 miles from Walton. The preliminary inspection by the Board of Trade will take place in about ten days. An omnibus service is proproposed to be established from Walton to Kirby-cross. t w From the manufacturing districts the accounts ;while at Manchester a ne h o e o s i te e r n l for the past week state that business generally has slightly ja b: e n v a e g r a y in qu s ie li t g . Cloths receded and yarns trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield has re mained inactive at aboutprevioas rates for most de scriptions of goods. Inthe hosiery trade there has been a great demand forcotton fabrics ; at Lei ces t er while at Birmingham, Sheffield hampton little c h ange o f 1 and Wolver ported. importance can be re- NOT PARTICULAR Wh'll Peninsula in 1862, General Magru d er ereturning from the at the house of a w idow l and his staff stopped lady on the road and engaged dinner. In a f ew moment s, Jem Phelps, a Louisiana soldier, Madam, can I get dinner ?" " Yes, sir," was the , General 'Magruder "but as 1 am preparing dinner for —agru.uer table for any and staff, and have not room at my table. V more, you madam, wiu thankhave t 3 e , . u wa ,, it s f a o i r d a Phelps, 1 . : " • ery well, ta king a seat in a position to command a view of the dining room. Watching the movements of the servants, Phelps waiting until the feast was On the table, and while the hostess proceeded to the parlour to announce dinner to the general and his staff, Phelps entered the dining-room, and seating him self at the table waited further developments. Upon the entrance of the party of officers, there were found to be seats for all but one, and one politely returned to the parlour to wait. The general took a seat next Phelps, and after the first course was finished, turning to Phelps, he inquired. " Sir, have you any idea with whom yon are di n i ng ?" "No, sir," coolly replied Phelps, "I used to be particular, but since / turned soldier, I don't care a curse who I eat with, so the victuals are clean." AN IMPERIAL CRICKETER.—Prince Napoleon has just become a member of the Paris Cricket Club, and has announced his iutentip to subscribe annually a a of 1001. ad of "Cl the irs ?3, re -00 his re re- r of Sth Sir ,veS old te ; the 1 of