The Sun. — London, England, 1866-03-12 00:00:00

ZIONEY AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market presents an easier appearance, and there is, consequently, a better feeling in dis count cirel.:s. There is not so e,ctive a demand for acco mmodation, but at the same time the supply of capital at the command of brokers and others is also less. The rates are 61 and 6i per cent. An amount representing £72,000 in gold was t aken to the Bank on Saturday. ,With regard to the affairs of the Joint-Stock Discount Company, the Stock Exchange com mittee have unanimously passed the following re solution :—" That no circumstances have been sub- Thi tted to the committee to induce them to interfere w ith the se ttl ement o f t ransac ti ons i n th e s h ares o f th e Joint Stock Discount Company (Limited) in the ordinary way." From the manufacturing districts the accounts for the Past week have generally been of a satisfactory a c t d r n a ft e t t e er : Business at Manchester has been, more and there has been a good demand for cloths and yarns suitable to the Indian and China markets. Spring goods at Leeds, Bradford, and p l l uddersfield have been dealt iu to a fair extent, While in the hosiery and lace departments of Leices te,, r and Nottingham the operations have been to a considerable exten t . I n th e h ar d ware di s t r i c t s o f Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton busi ness generally has shown symptoms of improve ratnt. Two o'CLocK. According to Reuter's telegram the French Thr ee l , per Cent. Rentes were quoted at 6 9f. 75c. ' i nn, but quiet. T he market for English Government stocks has be en buoyant, and a further improvement of f per een t• has taken place i n Consols, which are 871 f money, and 871 -11- for the account. The New " f ees and Reduced Annuities are 85 ; Exche ' A 14 er Bills, 7s. prem. to 2s. dis. ; India Stock, 210 ; a nd do. 5 per Cents., 102} 1. Foreign Stocks have been well supported, al though no material change is shown in prices : T44 :ish 5 per Cents. are 381 ; Mexican, 111221 do. New, 204 ; Greek, 15} 16 ; Spanish Pas ' 27 / ; the Certificates, 16} ; Italian, 611 ; s o az ; i lian Scrip, 21 prem. ; Egyptian Railway / 1 prem. ; and Chili= Loan, 21 31 prem. D n ,Ated States Government 5-20 Bonds are 70f 1; 'lle Shares, 54 ; and Illinois, 78f. Business in the Railway Share Market has con tinued rather dull, and there is no improvement to repor t sb in prices. Midland, Lancashire and York 6111re, and Great Eastern have each receded about T he Foreign and Colonial lines remain without ,„ aterial alteration. Grand Trunk of- Canada, how "7er) have improved £l, to 365. B ank 1,, and Miscellanebus Shares are quiet. Al ince have rece d e d to 271, and European to 11f 1. Jo'_nt Stock are marked 7f 8; Joint Stock lBe c'unt 111 dis.; London Financial, 101 a ; Na tiDiscountscount Company, 121 13 ; and Overend, ot tir4 eY, and Co., 171 I. Imperial Land Company ALarseilles are quoted 2} 3 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK, (10VERNMENT FUNDS. a Der Cent. Consols a 80. Account, April 5 87f 1 per Cent Reduced B5/ N e W 3 Per Cent B5l / . 7. 2 i Per Cent. Jan. 1894 — 0 0 4 13 ,,,.,. 6 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — -- 1, 'ties, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 D0 ..0. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — t ,• (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — eequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. — Do DO £5OO — t £lOO and £200 ctil k of England Stock, 5 per Cent tit, t ,,,, ,-, 101. ‘ G OVERNMENT SECURITIES. (60'41 Stock, 10} per Cent., AprillB74 2lO D ° • Per Cent. July, 1870 IP per Cent., Oct. 1888 0. Certifi t p„•. 7 ca es — r)v. 1-I.faced Paper 4 per Cent — 1)„ ° • 5 , Per Cent., Jan. 1872 D ° 4 Per Cent., May 1879 e• beb., 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 D 13° Ilds, £l,OOO - , 0 . timer xiooo — pm Ar z ,„„ FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 414, - ,7 14 0 Republic, 6 per Cent. £l5 pd _pin bra i 4l : l Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1809 iy`uan 5 per Cent — p * 4 1 - Per Cent 1852-58-60 ~ 1101)0 Ajiii.ount 67* 1 . 863 1865 731 xd t ue • Scrip, £35 paid 12 ) 1 0 1 . ° 4Yr ount 6 per Cent 1.,)43.£1f0 Bonds to 1 Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) D 4 6 per Cent 0 , tea • -, Per Cent — eili,..rubtan 6 per Cent. — b ,7 1 i., 6 Per Cent. o' l 3 per Cent., 1825 t 'Jo Account 1) Viador N ew Consolidated, 1 per Cent l2 .-so t ~ 1 roonal Land Warrant — ECYptian 7 per Cent 9l} 90 Ir,)°•, Secoild Issue ' 0 £lOO Bonds D ° Do. 1864 h - c , 0 100 Bonds 'O. Government Railway Debentures — (. n °,• £l5 paid b e 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons .0 0 : Account r, oupons t, „"G• Account itqltitteniala. 5 per Cent. 1) 1 „ 41 A 5 Per Cent, 1865 D Account 77 ke,,,°. Alaremmana Railway 62 ijcall Ac per Cent 0. A ccount Dr) 20 13 0 1864 46, 4 _ 6 per Cent. Anglo-French 11 3 ,., - "rldea n 6 . per Cent., £3O paid ti, , , - "'sh Imperial 5 per Cent _ I , n .-- , kzrauada — D°° 2 per Cent 12 , ntierr ed 1 , 0. 0,1'41:4 Warrants (Hectares) F D° (er Cent, 1864 e„.' ; l aranteed, 4 per Cent 1) ..411 5 Per Cent., 1863 Do ° „ lle coruit D° A . per Cent. (Uribarren). , — P ert „-4 Per Cent., 1862 I):Pese 3 p er C en t. , 1853 Drs - u Per Cent 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, ,It's-': Ac count Do la i 'l , 5 Per Cent., 1822, £ St BB D 3 d i; Per Cent. 1850 1) 0 P Per C en t. 1860 b o '-: Per Cent. 1859 — b o , Per Cent. 1862 B9f 90 891 te.rd• " Per C en t. 1864 93 1 5 LI/1 111 i,•• 1411 5 per Cent .6 0 4311 3 per Cent , A2count Do New Deferred ____ 4',0 Account 27 Up . D . aRSIVO ....._ t "0 Account 161 ..1 1‘041101.611 Cert. of Coup not funded Account l6/ _ :I fsi l., 4 per Ceut. T — 4 l per Cent. 1864 4 1 ) 1.1 d o 48.hce6oz Cent. 1854., Do 66k 1 h° 6 per Cent. 1858 ,'L'o Account 'A) 10(1 --ds---- D o - 6 --- Jo Bon D og Per Cent 1862 D o eco nnt — D o — IMO Bond s 6B i D o Per Cent., 1863 — Do A Per Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip 3B ,bo' 4 c eount ' eae z ` Per Cent. Guaranteed — bitt o e ' a 3 er Do 6 account Cent. nt _ D o. APer Cent., 1862 — reount — bo. I, ° ' 1864 — / per Cent _ EAlm, bividends on the above payable in London. 1 lia lli 5 .11 ;la b , A , Per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins -..- - ateh .- ; , - '1 Per cent., Ex. 25f. FB o iz Nl' Cont., Ex. 12 Guil — Athlifreh eit -'- Rer Cent Certificates — tv. wales 3 per Cent. bo g 5 Per Cent 1861 Ex. 25f. -... Account ~ ' Of, ...1 1soin TWO O'CLOCK. I), '`ee ou for m oney 871, 1 'nt - - tentle-r: 4 en 'lea% gagement was made on Wednesday by the t sum ever eLiappell with Mr. Charles Dickens for the latter 141.4 - ,,''au to give thirty readings, for the larges . . ti ve '"? a lecturer in this country. Tho series is to bo At n rk in different towns, and Liverpool, Birmingham, a p n r d . 141..eheste stare included. The first reading will be . of . le 1.(44 St James's Hall.—. Correspondent h , journal • ArEt,,,,, of Arming it i said, 8 N-W OPERA, " DON CARLOS," will be, fii s si : e .;, in five acts, of which two have already been is 4 e . "* The book, which is founded on Schiller's play, operaing Written by Mary, and is nearly completed. The 4 . 1 ,. will be performed in December at the Paris Opera. pet rt4 4ll re ;Mel 11Inie. Saxe will appear ii 4 it, but the chief 143 uot been assip.24. SHARE MARKETS,—This Bay. -- ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share! Railways. I at st 50 20 at, st 100 Caledonian and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian Cork and 8and0n..... [Cornwall , üblln & Belfast June. Dun„Perth,& A b.Junc. tiLLondon, Grip Certi,l Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. T. Great North of Scotland, Great Northern DJ. A stock Do. B stock Do. New. is. at 25 poi,, GtS, and W. of Irelanq Gt. Western -Origins D . S. Val. Rail gua: Do. South Wales Do. W. 3.11d.-0x1Ord: Do. Newport Do. Hereford Lano3shire&Yorkblnro London and Blackwall Lou., Briqh.ot S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dove ti Metrop. Ex. A ,on. do ,North Western Lon. & South Western Man., She!., Lincoln Nietropolitan Do. New Do. Extension.... Metropolitan District. Do df). do. Do. and St. John'sW'd Midiand Do. £9 Share Do, liirmin & Derby mid Kent .. North British Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun, :sith. Eastern—Berwia,z, • Do. G.N•E purehz.(.! Do. Leeds ..... Do. York Do. Carlisle Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London .. Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1863 . North Staffordshire r`T. & S. W. Junction Scottish C, ntral Scot. N. E , Aber. stock 1,0. Scot, Mid. stick 1 Shropshire Union South Devon 1 , - . 7outh E..stern . it:tines, Wok., & Wok 'raft Vale Do. C I Vale of Neath ,Waterford & Kilkenn' Waterloo & Whiteha' Went Cornw4ll p aid • I Closing I Business trice. done. 93 95 1 30 !32 65 70 13 15 4 6 67 70 70 72 118 12) 38A 39, 6s ?A 121 12G 14 A 89 00 59} 59 80 6 39 41 3; 38 !02 01 I!9i /2u 87 8) 96 9 , 38 40 41 t 8 12t )22 92 43 C 3 61 132 *3 21 9;:, 1 )4p 97 98 100 5 100 all 100 100 100 16.13.4 t 23 124 2 2} 1 , 1 92 04 3( J } 11 3 96 36§ 121} a 133 , 91 12? (0 6t P 7} 7 23 109 110 70 12 103 ICB 35 47 10A 116 p 122 125 11 2p 16 2p 75 77 11 12 148 149 63 70 112 114 5t 53 75 77 8 9 140 143 3 I p 102 104 51 53 BRITISH. POSSESSIONS. 100 Atlantic& g . l.Lawrence all 53 61 et S Bom.,Baroda, Cen.ln. 100 102 103 102/ gu. 5 percent... 20 Do. I` 'shares 8 Id It' 10/ Buffalo & Lake Huron all 61 7 lu Do. Preference all 10 11 too f Buff.,Brant,& Goderich I 6 p.c. .872-3- 100 76 80 at Calcutta &S. E., lim lOO 96 98 at 'are Town & Dock, gu lOO 65 70 ;00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p: all 100 102 at Nast. Bengal, gu., sdo 100 101 102 et East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 100 Its 106 1041 14 20 Do. .1 Extension at Grand Trunk of Canada 100 35 36 39 6 100 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c all 83 90 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 66 68 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do. 2d Pr, f. Bonds all 59 61 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock all 45 49 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do. 4th Fret. s toc all 84 36 100 Do. do. deterred at Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c lOO 1094 1104 1091 9 20 Gua. 5 per cent l6 1 $ 2 p 20 Do. New g ua . sp. c 6 15 2 p at Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent st at Do 4 , per cent lO2 91 93 20/ Great W 4 ,8. of Canada all 1 6 1 161 205 Do. New . Do. 6p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 all 84 26 100 Do. 55 do. pay. 1877-8 all 86 (8 10 Indian Branch, limited 2 1 id at Madras, gua. 5 p.c 100 100 102 1601 1 100, et Do. 41 do lOO 02 34 93 at Do. 45 do lOO 88 00 20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 at llelb. Cor. 6p. 0. Bnds. 100 50 Mel. & Hudson's Bay all 62 (4 034 at N.lll.C'da,6pc lstpf.los lOO 8 , 82 at Scinde 100 98/ 994 at Do. Delhi 20 Do. do. Gi 2 1 st Do. Punjaub a , n 100 93 99 at Do.lndus St. Flo "" 100 COLONIAL GO VERNME NT SECURITI ES. British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1572.... 100 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.&July 1877-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug lOO 93 90 Do. 5 p.c. Mar. & Sept 100 95 97 1 )0. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 0 82 Do. 5p e. Inscribed sk 100 73 30 Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 100 101 103 Do.Apl.3tOct 1890-1900 100 104 106 Do. do; 1380-9. 100 104 1011 Do. Jan.tirJuly, 1890-91 100 101 103 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and ;5 Oct., 1900 lOO 90 92 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.( 100 101 103 Do. 1878, do 5OO 106 1 8 Ilauritius, op. o, 1873, - Jan. and July Do. 1878 100 103 105 90. 1882, Mayls, Nov..! 10•) 103 105 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug l2O tc4 106 Natal 'lov. a per cent lOO 99 101 N. 8.G0v.6 p.c.Ja.3z3 al) 100 93 95 N. S.W. G'ov. 5 p .c.,1861 , 100 - - Do. 5 p.c. 18,1 to 1875 100 93 95 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189. 100 87/ 68 874 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 100 102 Do. 5 per cent.... - Nova Sc••tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 l9O f 8 103 Queensland Gov. 6p. c. 100 98 100 994 3. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-0 100 -- - - Do. 1878 & upwards l+ 0 104 106 Vic,Uov. 6 p.O. Ja & July 100 - - Do. do, a pril & Oct lOO 1064 107 y 1075 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cam. Consol. G Old, Um. I Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated 3O 15 17 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist 1 560 58) Drakewalls 2.1.0 1 East Bassett (Illogan) 294 18 20 East Caradon 2.14.6 7 8 East Cara Brea 34 34 41 m ast Grenville 2.14.0 34 4 East Gunnislake 8.3.6 4 East Love.l 3.9.0 24 104 E. W'l Russell (Taviitk 10.8.5 3 3t Gam.ez StAubyn(G w en. 66 5 7 4 Great L ixey, limited all 20 21 Great South Tolgus 0.14.6 14 2 Great Wheal Busy 14.9.6 34 G. Wheal Vor (Heist ‘1 1 40 28 29 274 Grenville 8.18.0 3} 34 Herod's Foot 8.10.0 33 40 Hingston Downs 5.10.6 44 5 Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 5 7 Marke Valley 4.10.6 4 44 4 liwyndy Iron Ore, lim 24 24 101 New Sewn - North Roskear Nl.Wh'll3assett (Mogan 4.4.0 North Wheal Crofty 2.13.1 4 Prosper United 7.1.6 - -Pr vidence UnyLelant 10.6.7 32 34 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) l} 390 410 South Condurrow 3.2.0 2 } s.Wheal Fran. (11logan 18.18.9 :8 22 - • itray Park 35,15.6 9 11 Tin Croft 9 19 20 5 Vigra and Clogan, lim all 4 6 West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard 9 8 10 West Chi rerton ll 75 80 West Seton ..... 474 165 175 Wheal Bassett 'Mogan 54 824 874 Wheal Buller (Redruth 16 25 274 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 3 5 Wheal Seton -- Wheal Trelawney (Lis 7 15 17 rictE FEREN OE SBA LIES. Great Western Orig. 4k per cent 'pf., 90i North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Stockton and Darlington A, 5 per cent., 26 North Eastern, West Ha:tlepool Harbour and Rail., 79k PREFEItENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Caledonian 41 per cent gua. stk., 93 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London and Chatham, 4i per Cent., 87 Midland, Bradford Pref. titock, 90k FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco, gua. 7 per oent., 151 Central Argentine, 5; 1 .11 - eat Luxembourg, 16 FOREIGN MINED. Chontales Gol land Silver Mining, 3; St. John del Rey, lim., 54 31 BANKS Agra and Masterman's, lim., 53k 1 Alliance, lien. 27f Australasia. 721 - Bank of Egypt, 31f Bank of Queensland, lim, 19 f Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China. 21 Chartered filer. of India, London, and China, 46f Eng ish Joint Stock, lira., 7f 8 European Bank, lirn., 11f 12 imperial Ottoman, 12k London and County. 76 7 London and South African. 16 London and South-Western, Um., NI Midland Bank, Inn., 20 National dank, 76 oriental Bank Corporation, 531 South Australia, 34f Union of Australia, 511 I Union of London, 541 31 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., Ceylcn Company, Ditto, A shares, 2k Credit Foncler and Mobiller England, S Ditto. new, - Ebbw Valc, !8 Crystal l'alace, 36 East India Irrigation and Canal. 10 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, Inn., 41 Electric Telegraph. 135 Gen. Credit and Finance of Lyndon, lim.. 4k I f f Hudson's Bay, 161 k ImperLtl Mercantile Credit Asso., lim.. International Financial z-ociety, lim., 5f 5 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cav our„ 9f Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. k7O, issued 101 1 Joint Stock Discount, lim., 101 11 10} London Financial Association. lima, 12 k 12 ll National Discount ompany, 131 12/ 131 13 National Provincial Marine, Um , 1 Universal Marine. Insurance. Jim., 3f NEW GOLD MINES.--A number of California miners have emigrated to Choco and Barbacoas, about 500 miles, south of Panama, to work the gold mines there.— California paper. OIL COMPANIES.—It is stated that there are now in California about 70 organised associations for the pur pose of exploring oil lands. They have an aggregate nominal capital of about 50,000,000, and the lands owned by them are situated mostly in Colusi, llumbolt, Santa Barbara, San Luis, Obivo, and Los Anpls counties, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EV E_NING, .MARCH 12, ISOG. MARKETS.—This Day. has taken place. The quotations are as follows : Good Australian clothing, is hid to 2s 8d ; do., combing, 2s to 2s 8d; greasy, is 2d to is id ; gcod Cape, is Bad tots sd; medium do., is 6d to is 8d; greasy, 10d to lid per lb. For English wool there has been an improved demand, and rather higher prices have been obtained. Last week's im port was ab out 6,000 bales. possible that, in common with others, he may have revolved in his own mind the chances of a Ministe rial crisis, and a Ministerial reconstruction. To attempt to littila up a third party outside the pale of the present Ministerialists and the present Oppo sition would be to engage in the Scriptural task of making bricks without straw. , Materials are want ing for such an undertaking.; THE " SPECTATOR" ON TIIE CONSEQUENCES OF REJECTING THE REFORM BILL.—It iS useless to speculate further on the contents of the Reform Bill, nr even to urge the principles upon which it should he constructed. Within sixty hours of the appear ance of this isstie all the world will know what the Ministry propose, and before It appears the bill must have been finally revised. Whether it has been touched and retouched, as the country believes; or struck out at a blow as Ministerialists would like to assert ; whether it is based on statistics, or on a policy only reinforced by the figures; whether it will dismay the Whigs, or disgust the Radicals, or be received with a burst of unexpected applause, are all now questions beyond discussion. The bill itself will be introduced on Monday, and we shall be in presence of a new force—a force sure to be great, but as yet of totally unknown quantity—Mr Gladstone's speech in defence of a measure which, as he introduces it, he mustbe understood to approve. It is no use to talk any more of the effect of a rating as opposed to a rental qualification, of the drawbacks to lodger franchise, of the danger of swamping the counties by the ten-pound voters dwelling in unre presented towns, or even of the necessiiy of disfran chising corrupt litte boroughs. The bill is coming, and the only subject connected with it worth dis cussing this week is the duty of Liberals in reference to their vote. Are Liberal members bound to accept a bad bill rather than let in a Government which they believe to be worse than the existing one ? We are not speaking of the constituencies. If a bud bill goes down to them, their duty is simple— to elect Liberal members, pledging them to vote against the particular measure. 11re speak now of members who on some day next week will be com pelled to declare themselves, to decide by simple yea or nay whether the Government proposal shall be accepted, and who are even now wearying themselves with speculations as to the degree of independence their constituents will concede. Shouldthe bill prove a bad one —one, for instance, like that the public expects, namely, a bill which Will simply shift the whole work on to shoulders of the next Parliament, which will degrade the constituencies without admit ting the workmen—their doubt will be whether they can resist it without surrendering the country to a Tory Administration. We believe that they can, that it is at this moment possible to defeat a Liberal Cabinet without seriously endangering a Liberal Administration. Let us suppose the bill defeated, either as a whole, which is improbable, though Mr. Lowe will make a strong battle, or by some great amendment in committee, which is ex ceedingly likely, what is then the probable course of affairs? The Government stand s p led g ed if it cannot carry its measure to resign, and there can be little doubt that the promise will be performed. We question, supposing the defeat to be accomplished by Liberals, whether a dissolution would in the best interests of the party be expedient. The House of Commons now sitting was elected under a Liberal Administration, contains a great Liberal majority, and has done nothing whatever to entitle it to a capital sentence from those who called it into exist ence. If members waver the country is pretty sure to coincide with its own representatives ; the con stituencies, however Liberal, cannot desire a dimi nution of their own power with any enthusiasln ; and the counties, with a new franchise threatening the great landowners, will be more doubtful than ever. Many wavering constituencies might fall back on the Conservatives, and the great Li;seralma jority, with which so much might be ac,comphdied I if it were only used, might be seriously diminished. The Government will, we think, resign if beaten in the Commons, as yet a pure assumption, and then it remains to form a new Administration. The natural resoit would be to the Tories ; but could the Tories, hampered as they are by Lord Derby's reluctance to take office, and Mr. Disraeli's reluc tance to refuse it, organise a working Government? They cannot dissolve till the house has rejected some proposition. They have not only no majority, but no minority large enough to carry on daily business. They would be compelled either to rely entirely upon Whig forbearance, which can never last long while so many are hungering for place, or to ally themselves with Mr. Bright, and so as sume the one position which saps the fidelity of their own party. They could not expect help from the dis contented, for rating is in England ruinous to all politicians who cannot plead the national welfare in excuse, and though Mr. Lowe and his friends might join an ad interim Cabinet, a frank adhesion to a Government carried on by Lord Derby would cost them their political lives. Lord Derby will scarcely be willing to try for the second time so painful an experiment as governing through a minority, more especially if he is to be burdened with the care of a new Reform Bill. And he would be so burdened. Every statesman is aware that be fore the Tory party can revive, that question must ' be got rid of, that, while it lasts, a Tory Govern ment, however powerful in ability or popular favour, may at any moment be overset. The new rails must be fitted in before the locomotive can move at speed, and Lord Derby has had one lesson on the labour of fitting them without hands specially trained to the work. A real Tory Government is out of the question, but is a Coalition impossible ? We t hink it is, for the same reasons, and many others. Such a Coalition must be based on a refusal to touch the existing representation—a refusal wh ich the Libe rals cannot be expected to tolerate , indeed will not tolerate. The rank and file will resist, and the Constitutionalists, or whatever they may call them selves, would in a few weeks be in the position of the Peelites, officers without a following, and with out the special advantage of the Peelites, their pos session of a financial secret which, as• the country justly believed, would work wonders. Unless they took up Ireland with a will, they could have no in ternal policy.large enough to overpower party pre possessions, and a Coalition Cabinet relying on Tories, but looking for help to a reserve guard of Whigs, is exactly the Government which cannot effectually take up Ireland. It could not touch the Church without destruction, or affect the tenure except by aid of the party which the Coalition would be formed to resist. It could not carry on the Government for any time, and the experiment, if ever made, would but enable Mr. Gladstone to reorganise his party into a harmonious whole, to frame a Reform Bill which should satisfy the coun try, and march into power at the head of a party as strong and as fully prepared to act as that which seized the reins in 1832. Thetas not a prospect at which any sound Liberal should quail, and it is also one which Tories with eyes will not be very willing to promote. Failing Lord Derby and the Coalition, there remains a reconstruction, 'and this, as we believe, possibly after many intrigues, certainly after many heartburnings, would be the speedy re sult of the rejection of a bad Reform Bill. Is re construction a change to be actually dreaded by Liberals? It is clear that it must be reconstruction under Mr. Gladstone, for without him a Liberal Ministry is impossible, and he cannot with dignity , consent to serve any statesman who has not pre viously been the head of a strong Government. To do so would be to resign his own ultimate leader ship, a resignation which Mr. Gladstone, self-dis trustful as he sometimes appears to be, and unaware o f his singular hold over the country as he certainly is, would be the last man to offer. Left to himself, at once Premier and leader of the Commons, able to urge a policy of his own, instead of merely modifying the policy of another, Mr. Gladstone could construct a strong and comparatively a young Government, bring in a Reform Bill which the country would accept as a settlement, and then commence his true career—the great war against pauperism, which it is the first duty of this genera tion to win. Of all living statesmen, Mr. Gladstone has shown the greatest readiness to commence that campaign, the keenest perception of the course by which it may most speedily be won, namely, the use of the strength and organisation of the state to clear away all obstacles to free and combined in dustry. Of all living statesmen, too, he is probably the one best prepared to face the great Irish diffi culty, to make a successful effort to reconcile a third of the monarchy to the institutions by which that monarchy is supported. Now that he has shown his ability to lead the Commons his Premiership is inevitable, and if Liberals hasten it on by rejecting a bad plan of reform, what is there to dread ? Simply nothing except loss to the public of a states man who, great as his services have been—and no man ever deserved better of his country than Earl Russell—is now out of rapport with its opinion, who seldom perceives what it really desires, and, when he does perceive, shrinks as he said in the Irish de bate from the risk of causing heartburnings. The defeat of the Government on reform may cause a temporary interregnum, but the continuance . power‘of any Government not avowedly Liberal is in the present condition of English opinion an im possibility. Better another year's delay, to be fol lowed by a strong Government and a sound reform, than a measure which will neither improve the machine nor clear the scaffolding out of the way. THE DUKE OF HAMILTON'SMAJORITY.—The Duke of Hamilton attains his majority this day, and preparations have been made for entertaining the tenants and workmen on the estates at dinner. Upwards of 300 invitations have been issued to the ladies and gentlemen of the district of Hamilton for a grand ball, to be held in the Town-hall in the evening. The comforts of the poor of the town are likewiat tv Do liberally attemlecltv• MARK LANE. The trade for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday ruled quiet, but without tending to any material change in prices as compared with the previous -Week. The demand was chiefly for good and fine qualities of produce. Barley was very firm, and prices had an upward tendency. Oats, beans, and peas ruled firm at full quota tions. The flour trade was steady. On the continent vory little change has taken place in the value of cereal produce, and although business is by no means active prices are decidedly firm. At New York the demand for produce for shipment to Great Braitsin continues very limited. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home grown wheat were moderato. The condition of the pro duce, although decidedly better than for some weeks past was but middling. The trade as regards all qualities of home-grown wheat was in a most inactive state, and sales even in the finest wheats progressed slowly. These, how ever, fairly supported last Monday's currency ; and there is no change, therefore, to notice in their value. Secondary and inferior home-grown qualities sold at somewhat easier prices. About an average supply of foreign wheat was on the stands: It consisted, however, for the most part of conti nental produce, the market being scantily supplied with American qualities: The demand for all descriptions ruled inactive, and the amount of business transacted was very moderate, at late rates. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair average request, and prices ruled firm. The supply of barley on sale was very moderate. How ever, the trade was much greater than on Monday last ; nevertheless the prices then current were supported. The trade for all qualities of malt ruled firm, at fully late rates. There was a tolerably large supply of oats on the stands. Most qualities wore in fair demand at last Monday's cur rency. . Beaus, the supply of which on sale was very moderate, sold at late sales. Peas wero in: but moderate request at previous quota tions. The market was very moderately supplied. There was only a moderate demand for flour on former terms. CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new, per qr. 30s to 46s Do., old 46s 518 Do., white, old s's 5s Do., new Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old ..... , --s —s Do., ne' --13 - S Talavera, new s2s 60s Rye— Barley—Grinding Malting B2s 40s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingstown and Ware Chevalier 66s 07s Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 21s 28s Potato Youghal and Cork, black 2ls 278 Cork, white 23a 28s Scotch, Feeding 22s 27s Beans—Tick 46s 503 Pigeons .... Peas—Grey, new Maple White 37s 42s , Boilers Flour—Town-made, per 280fb Suffolk Sts 34s Stockton and Norfolk American, per barrel METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of Scotch beasts on sale here to-day was confined to 201 head, mostly in very prime condition_ T hero were a few beasts on offer from Norfolk, brought forward from Thursday's market; but no fresh arrivals were reported from any of our grazing districts. The show of foreign stock was large, and, with the exception of the imports from France, in middling condition. Owing to the small number of butchers in attendance the beef trade was very quiet, at a decline in the quotßtions com pared with Monday last of 2d per 81bs. The choicest Scots realised 5s 6d to, in some instances, 5s 8d; prime French, 5s ; and prime Dutch, 4s 10d per Blbs. There was an increased supply of English sheep in the pens, and the quality of all breeds was good. Foreign sheep came freely to hand. The mutton trade was inactive, at 2d per 81bs loss money compared with last week. Prime Downs and half-breds sold at 6s 6d to 6s 10d per Sibs. Lambs were in fair supply and moderate request, at from is 6d to 8s per 81bs. The few calves in the market were wholly foreigners The veal trade was firm at fully late rates, viz., from 5s 8d to 6s 8d per 81bs. Wo had a moderate number of pigs on sale. The demand for them was heavy, at from 4s to 5s per 81b. Per 81b to sink the offal. d s d Crse. & inf. beasts... 4 2 4 0 Second quality do ..4 b 5 0 Prime large oxea —5 2 5 4 Prime Scots, &c.... 5 6 5 8 Crse. and inf. stieep.l 2 4 10 Second quality do ..5 0 5 8 s ds d Pmecrs-wool sheep 5 10 6 4 Prime o'thdown a 0.6 6 6 10 La ge coarse calvcs.s 8 6 2 Prime small d0......6 4 6 8 Large hogs .4 t 4 6 small por kers. 4 8 5 0 Od to 6, Od. Suckling calve., —3 to —3 c and quarter=old store pigs, 30. t) 33s each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 2,100 Beasts 16'0 Cows — Cows. Sheep Calves ll5 Ca vet l3 figs ~.. `49J trigs The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 14,441 head. In the corresponding week in, . 1865, we received 5,905 ; in 1864, 4,133 ; in 1863 , 2,806; in 1862, 1,454; and in 1861, 2,494. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WINK. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs Antwerp lBO ~. 310 ... --- ... 13 ... 50 Boulogne 3BO ... 1164 ..,. ... ... 28 Bremen...... Gothenburg — ... ... ... ... Cadiz - ... - •e• - •• • - ••• - Calais.. — ... ... - ... - . 11 Coruuna ... ... -- ... ... Dordt. Dunkirk - ... -- Delfzyh. - ... ... ... ... --- Hamburg 415 ... 1769 ... ... ... 61 Harlingen 514 ... 6 ... ... ... Oporto Ostend — ... 502 ... ... ... Rotterdam 1647 .., 3842 ... ... 317 ... 133 Tonning - ... -,-- ... Total 3,198 ...10,461 330 ... 272 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1865 1864 ll9l 2358 ... 8 ... 279 305 1863 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, March 13, 1865, and this day, Monday, March 12, 1866. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. March 13, March 12, 1865. 1866. s d s d e d g d. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 6to 4 0 4 2to 4 6 Second quality do. - 5 0 Prime large oxen 4 8 410 5 2 5 ! Prime Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Primo coarse-woolled do 5lO 6 2 510 6 4 Prime Southdown do 6 4 6 6 6 6 610 Lambs Large coarse calves 4 6 5 2 5 8 6 2 Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 2 410 4 8 5 0 Beasts 4,240 2,210 Sheep 15,010 20,690 Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, March 14, 1865.—Beasts, 4,250 — sheep, 18,170—calves, 82—pigs, 208. March 16, 1863—Beasts, 3,sBo—sheep, 18,140—calves, 61—pigs, 370. NEWGATE AND LEADENTIALL. Large supplies of country-killed beef and mutton were on sale here to-day, and sales progressed slowly, on rather lower terms. Veal was very dear, owing to its scarcity, whilst the pork trade was somewhat heavy. Per 81b by the carcase. d s d Inferior beef 3 0 a 4 Middling do. 3 ii 3 10 Prime large do 4 0 4 4 Prime small do 4 0 4 8 Large pork . 4 0 4 6 Lamb. Cs 0 ad a d Interior mutton 3 6 4 4 Middling mutton 4 6 4 10 Prime do 5 0 5 4 Veal 5 0 6 0 Small pork. 4 8 5 0 Id to Os Od. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The supplies of potatoes on sale are less extensive. Tho trade, however, is by no means active. Nevertheless prices rule firm. Annexed are the qoutati ons : Kent and Essex regents Scotch do. Yorkshire do 6os to 95s „ Flukes 7Cs to 1103 „ Rocks 45s to 60s „ BOROUGH HOP. Only a moderate business is passing in most kinds of hops. As compared with Thursday last, prices exhibit no variation of importance. Last week's imports amounted to 48 bales from Boulogne, 137 Antwerp, 61 Hamburg, and 37 bales from Rotterdam. New Mid and East /Cents Bos to 140 s per cw►t. New Weald of Keats 77 New Sussex 17 Yearlings —s to --a It SEEDS. Linseed moved off freely at .very full prices, and the value of iapeseed was well supported. Agricultural seeds met a slow sale. Cakes were in steady request ou former terms. WOOL. The attendance of home and foreign buyers at the public sales of coloured wool is good, and the demand for all de scriptions of wool, both for home consumption and exports, is very active. The opening advance in prices is not only tnaiutained, but in SQMO instances a further improvement Current prices of English wool per lb. sd a d Fleeces—South Down hogets 1 8} 1 9} Ralf-bred do 1 11 2 0 Kent fleeces South Down ewes and wethers 1 7 1 8 Leicester do Sorts—Clothing • 1 6 1 10 Combing TALLOW, The tallow trade is firm to-day, and prices have ad vanced since Monday last. The quotation for P.Y.C. is 49s Gd per cwt. on the spot. Town tallow command 48s 3d net cash. Rough fat, 2s Gd per 81b. Particulars. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866. Stock this day 45,623 55,877 43,057 35,865 Price of Y.C. —s 04 —s 04 —s 04 —s 01 Delivery last week 1,032 1,628 1,628 1,464 Ditto from June 1 66,995 63,002 63,002 89,717 Arrival last week Ditto fr( June 1 74,329 80.032 81,032 93,099 Price of Town SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. , -0- THE " SUNDAY TIMES" ON THE OPPOSITION.— The Conservative party has now such an opportu nity of securing the confidence and sympathy of general British public opinion as it has not enjoyed since the last retirement of Sir Robert Peel from the responsibilities of Ministerial office ; and yet it may be alleged with equal certainty that never could a mistaken policy be more injurious to its influence and its prospects than must inevitably be the case at the present moment. The Russell Administra tion is confessedly weak—weak, not from destitu tion of talent or of authority in its individual mem bers, but simply from the natural incongruity of the element of which it is composed; and nobody ex pects that it can very long hold together. What the succession will be must depend almost entirely upon the political attitude assumed and the course of conduct pursued by the Conservative party in the interval between this and its dissolution. For it is a gross blunder to imagine that, on the possible downfall of Earl Russell, her Majesty has no alter native but to 'send for Lord Derby. Other combi nations are quite within the range of possibility ; and the ascertained fact that the Liberals have a considerable majority in the present House of Com mons would, no doubt, suggest the wisdom of their being tried, unless the aspect of affairs on the other side should be such as to overawe those who might be ambitious of making the experiment. Mr. Dis raeli once committed to a naggling—an ungenerous and narrow-visioned-- : a merely blind traditional policy—and that chance is lost to him for ever. If Mr. Disraeli will trust his own ideas and instincts, however, and consult the requirements of public opinion at large, as well as the views and prejudices of his followers, he will be in no danger of commit ting so irreparable a mistake. The time for making a favourable impression upon the nnpledged ele ments of the new Parliament has arrived. Among the gentlemen who sit in the House of Commons for the first time there are many who by the death of Lord Palmerston were releasedfrom all technical obligations to their constituents, and who could support an enlightened, moderate, progressive Con , servative government—a government, in short, which, in the free spirit of commonsense, should frame its policy on the dominating interests and obligations of the day rather than upon the canons of a dull and immobile traditionalism—without ex posing themselves to any charge of apostasy, incon sistency, or dishonourable compromise. How shall they be secured ? Certainly, not by any demon strations of dogged resistance to change and im provement. There are a number of questions on which, the country has virtually made up its mind, and the solution of which in a liberal sense is neces sary to the harmony of the constitution or the con sistency of the statute-book. Among the latter questions, we are clearly justified in placing church rates' abolition, the abolition of university tests, and the unsectarian uniformity of parliamentary oaths ; to the former category as obviously belongs the great subject of parliamentary reform. Now, we will not here travel over ground occupied with his usual individuality of conviction and earnestness of feeling by our correspondent " Episcopos," but we may, in one sentence, indicate the pleasure with which we should have found Mr. Disraeli showing some willingness to accept the olive branch held out to him from the other side of the house. There was in the few words he addreSsed to the house before the division a tone of acerbity and uncomprising austerity which, had victory followed, would have robbed it of its moral authority, and which, as it happened, imparted only humiliation to defeat. Mr. Disraeli must know that church rates are delibe rately and decidedly objected to by the nation. In the last parliament they were condemned by majo rities which gradually got less as the parliament got older ; but no sooner was the question referred again for arbitration to the hustings and the polling booth than abolition is demanded by the country with an earnestness and almost unanimity to which it would surely be good policy on the part of any parliamentary leader respectfully to defer. Let us hope that in committee this error will be corrected ; and that Mr. Disraeli will prove himself generous enough to eccept and sagacious enough to mould a settlement on the basis of mutual concession in which the loyalty of churchmanship and the con science of nonconformity will find equal acknow ledgment and equal satisfaction. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON MR. LOWE AND The weakness imputed by a s T c H e E pt L ic I a B l ER w A o L thePARTY.'-. . present Ministry has become a common topic of conversation. The Times, having buried them prematurely, is naturally aggrieved that they should venture to be such an unconscion able time in dying ; but the next few weeks will probably either kill or cure the " sick man." Since his acceptance of office Lord Russell has been ex posed to several difficulties and disadvantages which most men except Lord serious. The Premier Russell would have thought himself has arrived at that honourable time of life at which exertion and fatigue becomes a torture, and find himself called upon to frame a measure of Parliamentary reform for a generation which scarcely acknowledges the Edin burgh Review. He succeeds, moreover, to the poli tical cellar of a statesman who has left behind him more empty bottles than wine to put in them. And lastly, Lord Russell has to manage, through a bril liant but headstrong deputy, a Cabinet that is com posed of discordant el ements, a h ouse t h a t i s not enthusiastic in his support, and a party that is weakened by the secession of two or three conspi cuousn merciless. debaters. h s Of speechthe p o disaffected reform l outsiders, ast year Lowe is the most brillia n t, an d p oss ibl y th e mos t ren dered his temporary b a Bence from any reform Ministry a matter of decorum, if not of necessity. Though he has forfeited for a time the goodwill and confidence of a large section of the Liberals, he has won a foremost place amongst thinkers and speakers of the house and the Government that excludes him from office loses an able administrator, who would be useful to the public in any place in which he would have an opportunity of worrying the re ligious world. Once outside the gates of the Mini sterial fortress he becomes, on the other hand, a formidable critic, whose criticisms will be acute and damaging. His attitude of amicable hostility, which is so embarrassing to the Cabinet, is not altogether without its dangers for Mr. Lowe himself, to whom Providence has denied time power of mak ing polical friends as fast as he can make politi cal enem i es . He runs some risk of falling be tween two stools, and of alienating the Liberal party without conciliating anybody in their place. In the presence of this contingency Mr. Lowe has shown some spirit. He plays a bold game, and has staked heavily on the failure of the Russell-Gladstone Cabinet. That he will waive no reasonable occasion of contributing to the success of his own prophecy is proved by the disposition he has shown to rely on the applause of Conservative benches ; and he has even attempted to disarm the country gentlemen by putting forward the interest ing plea that he is not to be taken to be as inde corously clever as Mr. John Stuart Mill. All this looks as if Mr. Lowe not only was resolved to break finally with Lord Russell, but scented the possi bility of. fresh Parliamentary combination. There are some considerations that might pardonably en courage such a hope. The present Cabinet coheres chiefly from the force of circumstances, and hardly , can be considered a harmonious whole. Its mem bers have neither common traditions nor common interests, nor perhaps any common object. Such an assemblage can only be permanently held toge ther by the personal fascination of some popular chief, and in their case this element of stability is wanting. When they break up, they will disperse to all the different quarters of the compass ; and, until they disperse, every single Cabinet measure must of necessity be a species of compromise. Lord Russell has succeeded in collecting in Downing street a group composed of some able and some amiable statesmen, but, when he has collected them, it seems as if he did not know very well what to do with them. When men ask themselves why the Liberal party has now been in power for some months without hoisting any flag or furnishing any definite programme to the world, the answer is self evident. The Cabinet is a house divided against. itself, and we are taught from the Bible what be comes of houses of this kind. Mr. Lowe, who draws his wisdom probably from profaner sources, has come to a similar conclusion, and it is not Naval and Military Intelligence. The partially ironclad frigate Bellerophon, 14, 1,000-horse power, Capt. Tatham, arrived at Spit head on Saturday, from the Nore, accompanied by the paddlewheel steamer Medusa, Staff-Commander Potter. She is ordered to commence her trials over the measured mile in Stokes Bay at the end of the present week. The endurance trial of the experimental Fraser gun, of cheap construction, manufactured in the Royal gun-factories at Woolwich, terminated on Friday last, at the Royal Arsenal butt. The gun having been ordered to be tested, according to the official term, "to destruction," burst at the four hundredth round, after resisting the force of upwards of 36 tons of metal and eight tons of gunpowder expended in the charges fired during the trial. Such enclaiance, it is stated, is without parallel in guns of equal weight. On making the usual search and examination, it was discovered after the 380th round that the steel tube had split. The outer portion of the gun afterwards gradually gave way in a longitudinal direction and burst, as above stated. _ _ _ An order has been received at Chatham garrison . directing the reinforcements for the 2d Battalion of the2oth Regiment placed under orders to proceed to China to augment the service companies, to be held in readiness to embark on the 20th inst., at Gravesend, in the chartered troop-ship Gresham. The d6achment will consist of two officers and 51 non-commissioned officers and men, with Capt. A. N. Adams, and Ensign J. H. Ford. The 52d (Oxfordshire Light Infantry), from Portsmouth, under the command of Lieut.-Col. A. L. Peel, has arrived at Aldershot, and taken posses sion of the quarters in A, B, and E lines, south camp, lately vacated by the 92d Gordon Highland ers. The marching in strength was 25 officers, 25 sergeants, 25 drummers, 615 rank and file, 52 women, and 51 children. We have to record the death, at his seat in Hert fordshire, of General Sir Adolphus John Dalrymple, in his 83d year. Haying obtained his commission at the age of 15, he served successively on the staffs of his father—who commanded the forces Which were collected in Germany—and of Sir Jas. Craig, whom he accompanied on the expedition of 1805 to Naples. During the time Sir Hew Dalrymple was Governor of Gibraltar and commander-in-chief of the army of Portugal he acted as military secretary, and in after years he edited an interesting memoir on the affairs of those times, compiled by his father. Soon after peace he entered Parliament, and sat for Weymouth till 1819, then for Appleby, and from 1826 until the passing of the Reform Bill for the Haddington boroughs, After that period he was returned for Brighton. William IV., upon his ac cession, named him his aide-de-camp, and he held the same position under her present Majesty. He was promoted to be full general in 1861. With Sir Adolphus Dalrymple the baronetcy expires. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty : Lieut. 0. Churchill, to the Iscarus ; Lieut. P. J. Murray, to the Wizard ; Dr. W. J. Rankin, acting assist-surg, to the Sphinx ; F. B. Williams, assist-paymaster in charge, to the Cockatrice ; W. Sides, engineer, to the Doris ; and P. Blanch, first-class assist-engineer, to the Lion. The Cattle Plague. • - ABERDEENSHIRE. At the weekly meeting of the Aberdeenshire Rin derpest Association, held on Friday, it was reported that the cattle plague had visited Aberdeenshire again, an outbreak having occurred at Millhill, in the parish of Old-deer, among a fine herd of 80 head belonging to Mr. Bruce. Those of the animals about the illness of which there could be no doubt have been slaughtered, as also a number of others which had been in contact with them. CAMBRIDGESIIIRE AND THE ISLE OF ELY. During the past fortnight ten beasts have been buried on Mr. Parson's Candle-end farm, Elsworth, having fallen a prey to the disease ; there are at pre sent no other cases in the village. The disease con tinues at Swaffham Prior. At Sutton the owners of cattle are availing themselves of the new compensa tion act, and are killing the animals as soon as at tacked. CHESHIRE. A county meeting was held at Chester on Satur day, the High Sheriff (Mr. Barbour) presiding, to devise means to compensate to some extent the suf ferers from the cattle plague who will not be en titled to receive any grant under the new act. It was stated that, at the low compensation of £lO per head, the Cheshire farmers had lost £383,140. A subscription was opened. The Marquis of West minster subscribed £5,000, the High Sheriff £5OO, Earl Grosvenor £3OO, &c. ; in all about £B,OOO. CUMBERLAND. There were about 600 cattle destroyed in Cum berland during the week ending Saturday, after con demnation by the inspector. The totals now stand thus : —Original number of herds in which the dis ease has appeared, 9,346 ; died, 1,637 ; destroyed, 1,947 ; slaughtered for market, 1,039 ; recovered, 703 ; remaining healthy, 4,014. ESSEX. One of two deaths are noted in the Tendring Hundred, but the county generally appears to be nearly free from the disease, although constant vigi lance is necessary to guard against fresh outbreaks. MALTON. The reports up to Saturday from the districts of the two Ridings north and south of Mahon show that the disease still continues to appear in new places, and also to re-appear in old ones, but, as remedial measures aro at once adopted, it is hoped that before long the plague will be fairly stamped out. SUFFOLK. The disease does not appear to be at all increasing in this county. The Samford, Hartismere, and some other hundreds are now free from the malady. Colonel Bruce, who signed the Bhootan treaty, died on his voyage home from Calcutta. The gallant officer's decease was, we understand, attributable to the exposure which he underwent during that disastilms cam paign.—Sunday Gazette. GREAT FIRE AT PLYMOUTH. PLYMOUTH, March 11.—The new Patent Candle Company's works were burnt down to day. They are insured for twelve thousand pounds in the London, Liverpool, and Globe office. COLONEL STODARE AT MARLBOROUGH-HOUSE. — On Saturday evening, on the occasion of the anniversary of the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales, Col. Stodare had the honour to perform at Marlborough-house. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, Princess Mary of Cambridge, Prince and Princess Hobanlohe, and a brilliant assembly of the nobility were present, and witnessed the performance. The programme included the Sphinx and the celebrated Indian Basket Trick. EGYPTIAN-HALL—Mr. Arthur Sketchley, after resting from his pleasant toils for severa l mouths,willto: appear this evening (Monday) in his new entertainment "Mrs. Brown Abroad and at Home." THE ELECTION PETITIONS. „the the time wears courage of away for perfecting the rec o g nisances, P etitioners seems to ooze ou t at their !Lig f ors' ends." The titions against the return on Friday. On Sa turday' the P of York, and p e titi o n against the retur n for S an dwich was withdrawn d N isa oer s t t h rou ß s id fa in te g . M AR RIAGE LAWS COMMISSION. The Ro yal a t r h n e s t s i a t p m l e o , for Dumbarton Portsmouth, sharedß Commissioners on the Laws of Marriage met on Saturday at 32, Abingdon-street. Present—Lord Chelmsford, Lord Naas, M.P., Lord Lyveden, Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood, Dr. Trave rs Twiss, Q . C ., Mr. A. M. Dunlop, M.P., and Mr. John F raser Macqueen, secretary. Mr. Alderman Salomons, M.P., and the Rev. Dr. Stuart, of Leghorn, gave evidence. GROWTH OF THE CATHOLICS.--The Catholic World says that within the last fifty years no church has been so prosperous in the United States as the Catholic church, and adds :—" Ab ou t t wo th ousan d c h urc hes and chapels have been built ; an increase of ono thousand eight hundred clergymen —mostly from abroad—one hundred and sixty schools established for the Catholic training of 18,000 boys and 33,000 girls. Moreover there existed in 1857 sixty-six asylums, with 4,963 orphans of both sexes; twenty-six hospitals with three thousand beds ; four insane asylums, besides many other charitable institutions, all established and supported by the private charity of Catholiw." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—This DAY. IVARWICH HANDICAP. 6to 1 agst Nu (taken) 6to 1 agst Sidewind (taken) 6to 1 agst Jezabel (taken) DONCASTEB CUP. 4to 1 agst Lochiel (taken) 4 to 1 agst Valiant (taken) NORT HAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 4to 1 agst Mail Tiain (taken) 12 to 1 bar 1 (offered) CHESTER CUP. 15 to 1 agst Gong (taken) 20 to 1 agst Baragah (taken and offered) 30 to 1 agst Buckfoot (taken freely) 33 to 1 agst Surney (taken) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 7 to 1 agst Out and Outer (taken) 14 to 1 agst Pepper's Ghost (taken) 15 to 1 agst Brahma (taken) TWO TILOVSAND GUINEAS. 5 to 2 on the field (offered) 3to 1 agst Student (taken) 3to 1 agst Lord Lyon (offered) MANCHESTER BETTING--SATURDAT. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 11 to 2 agst Mail Train (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 11 to 4 agst Student (taken) 3to 1 agst Lord Lyon (taken) 11 to 1 bar two CHESTER CUP. 100 to 7 agst Gong (taken) 40 to 1 agst Saladin (taken) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 10 to 1 agst Out-and-Outer (taken freely) THE DERBY. 30 to 1 agst Stabber (taken) RACING FIXTURES FOR 186 G. IkIARCII. Warwick Spring Doncaster Lewes Spring I Croxton Park l6 Newmarket Craven 2 Durham Blackheath & Woolwich 2 Catterick Bridge Abergavenny 5 Lichfield Spring Chelmsford Spring T h irsk 7.0 Epsom Spring Newmarket Ist Spring is Liverpool Hunt 20 Chester Curragh 2l Ascot Spring 1 Salisbury Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring Epsom Summer l5 Uxbridge Manchester Ascot Summer Windsor Summer 5 Newton Hampton 7 Odiham 13ibary l3 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 Liverpool . 19 Beverley . 20 Ipswich Hungerford Newcastle on-Tyne 26 Curragli Vi Worcester vLY. Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon Reading Nottingham Down Royal Corp lB Stamford l9 Radcliffe 23 Winchester 2-I Southampton 2b Huntingdon Goodwood 3l Brighton 7 Brighton Club Lewes lO Egham 14 Wolverhampton l4 Stockton 'l5 Oxford l6 York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter 2s Tunbridge 2B Derbx Summer 29 Weymouth 3O Ilastings 2l I - SEPTEMBER. Waryrick September 4 Curragh Leicester 6 Doncaster Brecon l7 Canterbury lB OCTI Northampton 2 Newmarket 2cl October.— 8 Curragh Richmond lB Hendon 2O Monmouth. Manchester Autumn 2l Newmarket Ist October 25 Walsall BER. Newmarket Houghton 22 Worcester NOVE: Lincoln Liverpool IRISH RACING FI APRIL. BER. Shrewsbury Leamington Hunt l9 .TURES FOR 1866. Traleo MAY. Curragh Baldoylo Spring B, 9 JUNE. Curragh 26, 27, 28, 29 JULY. Carlow SEPTEMBER. Curragh OCTOBER. Curragh l6, 17 18 CONTINENTAL RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866. 31AR011. La Marche 4, 25 l Vincennes -11, 18 APRIL. Vincennes Pau 2, 4 Bruxelles Paris (Spring) 2,8, 15, 22, 26,29 • MAY. Bruxelles 3, 6 Chantilly (Derby) 6, 10, 13 La Marche 2l Vissembourg 2l Paris (Summer) 26, 27 JU. Vincennes • 3 Montaüban Toulouse 2l, 28 JU Toulouse St. Omer Rouen Metz 3 , 19 Amiens AUG Deauville..... 4, 5, G 1 Rochefort 5 Bourge5... Valenciennes M ou li ns Cherbourg LY. rib bovine I Lo Pin 22 1 Ch a l on -sur-Saone ... 2 22, 2 23 Salutes B, 9 Caen 29, 30, 31 LIST. Le Mans SEPTE: Baden-Baden 3, 5, 7 Chantilly OCTO Laon l9, 20 Tarbes l9, 22 Blois 26, 28 Baden-Baden 3l :11BER. Paris (Autumn) .„,. 23, 30 Paris 7 Chantilly l4, 18 I IBER. Vincennes WRIGHT'S RACING RECORD.—The spring edition of this useful guide to the turf has just been issued, and not only contains the flat racing and steeple-chasing of the past season, but the past meetings of the present one, and al the nominations (so far as they are closed) for pending events. To backers and layers, as well as to owners and trainers, it is invaluable' [ADVERTISEMENT.] G. MARTIN will send information from the Course before or after the race a good thing for Northamptonshire Stakes. For terms, send stamp directed envelope to 8, Bouverie street, Paddington. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. This Day. LONDON, March 12.—Wind this day at noon—North. Easterly ; moderate breeze, and find weather, but rather cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, March 11.—Wind N.B.— veciv ° To t ; screw steamer, from London, an d then proceeded Dublin. B .w.—Arrived.—Avoca., d E.—Arrived—Blazer fro ttl m sr a o u D r , itiu M s. arch LIVERroOL, nd N W —Sailed—Warren, 12.—W in Now York. or Trinidad. Ste L a r m i e T r if , , fr u on a t re l k sMlaa y: . :_ h w i OFF POTsMOUTH, March 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived— aniel Webster, from London for mparnLuYe3ll °LvlnHg'esMalllh fitn•ocim NShNie:Elds—fAliSvheaanTrihnia:, with damage. OFF LITEFOOL, March 12.--Wind N.W.—Arrived Tho Liberator. QUEEFSTOWN, March 12.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Aus tralian, screw steamer, from Liverpool, and then pro ceedreridvfeo: New York. LEY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. G RAVESEND , Monday Morn in g . A March 11—Richard Cobden, from Christiania Julia, from Memel. Arrived, March 12--Dolphin, steamer, from Antwerp Maas, steamer, from Rotterdam. Mornin DEAL, Monday g. Passed, March 11—Her Maj est y 's ship Dee, from tho west for Woolwich; Dublin, scre w steamer, from London for Bordeaux. Passed, March 12—Caldbec k, from Singapore; Seine and Tamise, from Paris ; Mont° , schooner, from Oporto —ell for London. A nc hored—Lorton, from Or Yokohama. V i scount C a stlerosse has returned to 11, Bel g r viscountessa ve ndfrfoammilliyisarse not eat Killarney, Ireland. Tho expected in town until after the Easter recess . sßel grave-square,ar ea' THE UONS.—At length it is said that two of the lions intended for the base of the Nelson monument in Trafalgar-square have been finished, as far as the model is concerned, by Sir Edwin Landseer ; and arrangements will now commence for founding in bronze. At this rate o f progress it is not impossible that our children may li •ve to see this Whitt() of national gratitude completed,—Mait Mato . Guardian, UST. 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