The Sun. — London, England, 1865-02-15 00:00:00

ItOITE-71- MARKET AN r) CODIMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. a Th e requirements of the public for discount b ee° ,lnra6aation continue upon a large scale. The h r°4 ers hav e aga i n transacted a good business, and ay . ° charg e d i n most cases five pe b r cent. for the assista nce the cal:tiler& y afford. Exceptional transactions in acceptances have been reported at 4-k per exi t., but th e quotations remain very firm, and the karket active. 0 , 41 the Bank o f E ng l an d yester d ay t h e b u lli on Aerations were unimportant. 03 : 1'11e re was no material alteration in the foreign e,ilanges yesterday afternoon. d e C ommercial Union Assurance Company have acelded on a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per i s il # lllllll With a bonus of 2s. 6d. per share ; £ 25,000 • up be placed t o reserve an d £ 117,700 i s to b e car f°rward. I Coti ce 1:1,1111ted) has been t° ,l( l ° given that the share list of the (1 14 and P rov i nc i a l M ortgage B an k o f E ng l and ° wing closes on Monday next for London, and T he folio Wednesday for the country. share list of the London and Provinci a l f ol ,gage Bank o f E ng l an d c l oses on M on d ay next on, and on the following Wednesday f or th e ry. tee re port of the Patent N u t an d B o lt C om p any per ° lend s a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. with a bonus of 5 per cent., leaving )249 t o be placed to reserve. A Pp l t Paris, Two O'CLOCK this morning, according to Reuter's the 3 per Cent. Rentes were ;7 f. 20c. c r Z e have silown _in air depression to-day, the only exception being g ee,,,4;tradinai7 ri, , t2. d Tiptions of American v' ti es, in cons equence o f th e nego ti a ti ons f or beece bet ween North and South. The Funds have Coal ve ry weak, an d h ave d ec li ne d p er cen t. 891 11-c " for money are 89, and for the account are The Ne w Th rees an d R e d uce d Annuities 5 e ,.71 ; Exche quer Bills, 4s. to Bs. prem. ; India Cents., 1041 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 98 1 ; ce.galitsced '6 per Cents., 102 ; and ditto 58 per ~ 104. b eei Tt e Principal feature in the Foreign Market has phi a improvement in the Confederate Loan p er - ' has been 58k 591, and is now 57158 k, or 3 ki s `h ee nt higher than at the close yesterday. Tur k, eolisolides have declined to 511 ; Mexican p a. : l ; do. N ew , 26* ; Greek are 221 1 ; S pan i s h .V .'4ive , 321 ; do. Certificat es , 141 1 ; Italian Loan, lildis.; an d M on t ev id ean, 41 prem. b e n the R a il way Share Market the dealings have re port e d on th e most limited scale, and the few bargains :Ported show a further decline in prices. South astern have receded ss: ; Midland, ss. ; North estern, 10s. •a ; Great Western, 15s. ; and Great i3e The Foreign o_rthern A Stock, £l. and Colonial undertakings are in vteral instances a shade flatter. 4„,„ 4111( and Miscellaneous Shares are inactive. at Joint Stock are dealt in at 471, Continental 144 18 ?''f , Alliance at 331 k, London and West- G e ,: er at 95, and U n i on o f L ondon at 53. t av r4l Credit have receded to 61 _a; Hudson 15 i 1; and Oriental Fi nanc i a l h ave (1 0 --IT ed to 41. Metropolitan District Railway 1 46 4113 „ 4 , 11 Y shares are quoted 21 3 prem. ; G eneral lle,1"'"oo and Water Supply of France, 8 8 prem. ; pr ey ter ed Land, 1 prem ; China Steamship, 111 1 4 ) e 411 d City of Mil an I m p rovem e n t, 31 31 p rem . t(ltlnse Sh are list for Reuter's Telegram Company is o n Saturday next. 13 11'118g a q 0 FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. r o c eilt — . 2IEN T FUNDS. De Ils, pe ..,keo uonsols 89:1 t ,, : 3 e ,,, ei l_ t ° . ' l rte n tra i 3 l if e : d r. 9 88i 'h" 217,,, r Cellt BB i. . - ,, e. 1 , - , r c e ,.. , q b ,, . p er L. Jan. 1894 — ij o. ti ee, 30 Cent. Jan. 1873 — D e for 30 Yrs, expire sth Jan 1880 — 4„, (li ed S e a s, expire sth April, 1885 — Tiller Bps,graph), Aug., 1908 — 0. £l,ooo, 4 per Cent 4 ttt Do • £5OO 8 pm ~ 0 0. 17' ft, , £lOO and £2OO itlZto ° g l and Stock, 51 per Cent — 13 0 " St e e l ( ,, ) NEuxuENT SECURITIES. b o. ACe o 10 } per Cent., April 1874 — D 1), 6 e7,-! t °• A ce __ eat. July, 1870 e t, 4 'lint b° • ,0.. C yr Cent., Oct. 1888 • D o. zirrtailicates C o • 5 p er e e,d Paper 4 per Cent — b .5 C ent., Jan 1872 o parr ' • 1 , ,, .4 Cent., May 1879 lO9 t°:ll, 34c i Cent., Aug. 1866 — °4 4 ,, 8 7 Xl, 000 — pm ceder £l, 000 4„, FOREIGN -----..... -Er -. , IGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. titv. 11 t o 1)24,1 . .0 4 5 Ms, 5 per Cent 0 .., Per Cent g„e e lf+D e r Cent., 1852-58-60 ' O e • 13 °"4 N A 1863 — ebljo Aceeillit Y T es 6 per Cent — , / s. eala . 6 ' Cent. (D e f erre d 3 per Cent.) tei °. 41 D e r Cent — eli) 3 4 ° l 4a Per Cent Bl Do 6 Per 6 Per Cent. — b ° 5 P e " Cent. D 0 . r Cent 4 11.4 Clip ,_ , 1864 — be. 0 Peer Paid 1 ,13 0. " 5 Per c e - eut., 1825 1864 — n ub . Per eelinti,” D° £25 -rrin o :' , ;73-77, £25 paid _ mialla P aid D°'' -iPalities dis par 0 sec Per Cent 9B tloo I : 3 ' Issu e — D ° I), Bonds il e • 44, 1 . 1 ,, , ~., .1864 — 1), 40 r 4. . 05 paid b., F.,. Iv Consolidated, 1 per Cent — 1 . °. ti e Nisional Land e e ,• ,0 0 , .Warrant — hx 5 zonue .... .... . .. ..... lir) 4,,,,Per Cents., 1824-s,'' ex ---- 4 1 4. o' c ol rlnt . . 2i h eb a ,.,, Pons 14'uo 0 , la tar • 1411 5 439 5 1850 Per Cent. and i t) °S c Per Cent (M aremm ana Railway) N a 4 ,P) £lO paid .4.o")e_Per Cent. — b° lk 'Ault ib 6 Per ~, 1864 — st jt e l ` i ) t Pr e4 ,", e,nt. Anglo-French — 4o o Zici e ;„' orip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis N. - ` 4l 11 3 - ). - '.Per Cent., £25 paid D%N I Perla/ 5 per Cent t o 2 ad a 4, e bq erre cent 0 L — "'1 lean 4, wa rrants (Hectares) be a Per2,Per Cent. I, 04 0 0. 4 p e 7 ri e li e t. (Uribarren) — bl, he Ace° `-'lint at., 1862 b ° Ac s : 3 Pe r C en t .,_ ea t , Illat .. 1853 11 1i t i 0 (3 , 44 . 4 e 5 0 4 ` 1it e a .. .t.,. ..... ; i; . '9, .'6O, .. .. .'3, I D li pP r c en.Viiii .. i *************** 92 . D ° r c ent, . ' lB5O ' " — D ° a pe r 0 1860 D 0 6 o. _ IL'uo Der 1859 '''lli C ent ., 1862 %tollo,ll..kett 5 a00.4134etr Cent 91 t B6 0 o, _ D ° , Ac lint ent — Do A lN ' e eFt e i e *•_. *** .: cl' a , ° lint .. Deferred — lio Aosaive eoiltit 1111 1 ; 1 0 40 ert. 0: '0 e tah e ourit ' Coup not fur:Lc' . — s l4 . ....... t o , 11 p er ce _.. .. Do AecoPer Cent. 91+ „,0 e ~, . • 1854 t i ?.k'r o en i: . i. : ...., 72-1 2 If A pe 4 nt ... ° ° s b?,, C e ,,i . if 0 : ; ,.. z.: b o u tte o lint ' p z 13 6 p Lat.:cis. 0 e QII . ° eut. ,e, l ,,,ar ttlate _, 1863 Do, i e l a: 3 p e u r " - ;„, e 4 per Cent — b 6 „, e° 44t `' 'lt o. 4 ,vr C ......... D° • 6 e _ olatiew . :,...,. 5 p . k' e r co t ja±:: ...... ..... 4, 1 bivi d 1 ., 1864 42+ I leo,S zi , erid e on the above payable in London. '1•,., la, ", Per Cent., , 1)':}1 'g e l Pe r ce l Ex. 10 Florins 4J 4+ ,,,. 4, e ,..atea, 3 _., Ex. 25f. .0.2 1 ' 0 11/ i t ver Cent It 0 . Per ...... kik I pe oezt • .....2 4 5 I. cent. , - " -1 - 12 Gni' 63 0. A4er tent., Cert i fi -4 te B 9B+ c°a lB6l, Ex. 25f. 0 n ..... ................. .0 641 b,. ,3 , k o A eco z ety . ........................... THREE .I O'CLOCK. i Li ve .„:„......... 89 1 .........L:=.::....... 8 1. 1 ) 0 01 Cotton Market—This Dap, c ott on .reac e Ile ------- ----4.-_____ fli ll 'lli ali ° 11; greatl WS Causes great sensation here, and 11ale. Egyptian unsettled, Prices almost nominal. al. reported at ld. decline. ith her after old. Tees works T 001125 NIAX' a fter Co' tb is or au ci , ;ell and ,g e no , e g e llor a giu is- In ionr , ste.7 at asst 3 join' )Itulteer i Lord la ,9 ' ' 4. the:`` vir form reemiTe'l 1., abe' na min g .1.11 b° 97 Can. P rivate Et.lf• the 13.0. the rith t he Dia sl ' s onr 10 t - c l,3r3c a ; eh ieV „atea 191 II 7 , 0 ;es, r t fa il 11 : a bold as 3r 14)5 tr ;. n o • St Oct' Dg e r • erPet'nn b e " ; L scre 3te a t of the airs th. fl terred e perc9°' o nclo oll ° ud 0 91 - , v o ,oo' l 'l l o iditioo,;„ r rohre''wt of a u s tho la te pre 7 Bigg ar ' Tines , 'ling g r. ra stock- Ly disoP t i )aun 1111 a s° °e° bee ll In coe cl a oil - t wo f to o are a aPP e , to resP e-t _ .V„ath a , - 0 - their rrio ce: de bt of Algp e . o r •as as s tai . o'l s ,„ the 11 1 ° " io iO rr t ' was AO 4,1 .00 ° :0 1 D ie for 1 ,,,a0 p ly ' s h er to f °r poi tirl e 4te d < re ' tl f the er ial 3 ~ tO r I 1°" 31r A- 1 ' 6 4 re : e> te ; a ibr iv .oo , o 0 see' ' , eto. 0 ote )rg" o f P e. et l T es se Ofl~ l t tl o P 0 icir eS s v al e .cIAI let t e r te in,„ oau sip ~e 0 & leo' O • 10 0. , t o t too „ , 019i: sr : co ov ej o i 001 ,30t e0 ClO ri blr* i rae fe . Su'q° Share! 11,ailways. Do. E. Aug]; st. No. ?. Great North of Scotland Great Northern D A stock .. Do. B o Do. New. is. at 25 pn. Gt S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste n -0] Lzinal S. Val. Rail gua. .Do. South Wales Do W. Mid.— Ox'ord Po. Newpo t I:o. lie eford Lanc ,shire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon , Brigh.,& S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do. i shares Metropolitan .... . . Do. New Hid an d Do, Birmin & Derby Mid Gt. W., Ireland Do. h shares +lid Kent No , th British Do. Ed., Pth ,".t Dun Nth. Eastern - Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase 1 1 Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. Sr Darling. D. do. 1855-'.B Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. New Do. do. 18C4 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish C ntral Scot. N. E, Aber. stock Vo. Ecot, Mid. stick ews & Welchpoul Shropshire Union (South Devon -nitft stern Wok., Wok Taff Vale Do. C .. Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Comm 01 ‘V.Hartlepool Har.&it Do. A irredeemable Do. A redeemable , Bir., Wol. ' & Str. Val Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do. A A gets no div Do. B tillGp.c.p.an.has been paid to B Dublin & Belfast June Dun,.Perth, & A b.Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Tzrf at ®t at 50 20 BRITISH P, Atlantic & St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, A Cen.ln. Du. 5 per cent o. N' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6p c. bds. Aux. 1, 872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1574 Calcutta & B. E., lim 'a e Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p East. 13en, al, gu ' 5 do East ludlan, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk of Canad q Do. Equip. Mort, Bonth 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist eref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pr, f. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deferred I Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c 10. Gua 5 per cent 1 Do. New gua. 5 p. c I Gt. South of India (hm ) gust. 5 per cent D . Do 41 per cent Great VP, s. of Canada D.‘. New .. Do. 6 p. o. Bds. pay 1873 5, do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 4i do Lio. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel & Hudson's Hay New Brunswick & Can Class A and B ‘. 111. C'da, pc Ist pf.bds Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do. Do. Punlaub Do.lndus St Flo COLONIAL GOVERNAIEN' 'British Colunpia,6 pcil cent„ Dec. 31,1372.... Can. Gnv.6 p. c.Ja. J uly 18;7-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug D sp. c. Mar. & Sept 1 )0. 5 p. c. Jan. & July D0.5-p Inscribed sk Cape (I.Hope. 6 p.c. 1873 Do. April & Oct. 1880-1 Do. do; 1 , 90-1 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. c 1)o. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1.78 Do. 188?, 31ay15, Nov. t, Natal qov. o per cent N.B.Gov 6 p.c.Ja.‘3o ul3 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p*c., 1866 Do. 5 p.c. 18.1 to 1876 Do. 5 p.o. 1888 to 1802 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 6 per cent.... Nova So.tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 8. Aus.Gov. 6 p.c 18 8-V Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, Zo pril & Oct BRITISH M Cam Consol. (Jold, lim Chivert on Clifford A malgamated Devon G. Cons. Cravat Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caraion as t earn Brea East Grenville East Love.l E. WI Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(Gvren. Great L rxey, limited Great South Tolffus G. Wheal Vor (Heist 4, Grenvil e Herod's Foot • • • Hingston Downs Margaret .Uny Lelant Marke Valley Ntwyndy Iron Ore, lira Nang( les .. New Se ton North Downs North Roskear N.W11 . 1 Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crofty Prosper Pr vldence Uny Lahtnt S. Caradon (St. eleer) S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park . Tin Croft West i 4tssett (Mogan W. Caradon (L skeard West Chirerton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Whea LudeAt Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Scion Wheal Trelawney (Lis Wheal ...... 2.1.0 2.144 14.0 2.7.0 2. t 16 V. 10.0 60i all 1.1.0 7.8.3 8.13 4.18.0 9.; 4.3.0 21i 3 32 3.10.6 2.8.0 7.1.6 10.6.7 la 18.18.9 30.17.6 474 54 10 3.12.8 S 584 VICSFERENCE SHARES, nreat Western, 5 per cent. rd. pref., 103 idon e nd S.W., Portsmouth perpet. anus. of Vs. 6d, 21 Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 132 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 4i per cent. pr., 9Ci London, Brighton. &c , 4 per cent., 10 3 , 951 London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext., B 6 per cent., 93 LINES LEASED AT FIXED_RENTALB. Shrewsbury and Hereford, 152 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. San Paulo gua. 7 per cent., 17 FOREIGN MINES BANKS. Mariquita, I London Joint Stook, 47f 7i Albion, 8 Alliance 331 j 2} Ditto, issued at 20 pm., of which 10 is pd.,18 18 Anglo Egyptian, Bra., 13f Australasia, 73f Ditto, new, 70 1 Bank of Egypt, 311 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 33 Consolidated Bank, lira., 10f East London, Um., 6 English. Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 191 Ilindustan, China, and Japan (llm.), Ditto, issued at 2 pm., Ditto, new, ilk Imperial Bank (iim.). 301 Imperial Ottoman, 17t Land Mortgage Bank of India, Um., 4; 5 London BAIA of Mexico and S. America, lim., 92 London and Brazilian (lim.), 43 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 48 London and Comity, 74 34 I.ondon and 11 estminstcr, 95 Standard of British South Africa, lim., Ditto, issued at 6 pm., El 9 Union of London, 53 DOCKS. East and West India, 131 MISCELLANEOU& Anglo-Mexican Mint, 17f Berlin Water Works. lira., 9; Bo3.bay Gas, lira., bi Commercial Union, Insurance. 81 ; Credit Fonder and Mobilicr of England. Ditto, new, 7t f Egyptian Com. and Trading, lira., 4; Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Um., 61 f Hudson's Bay, 15f ; Humber Iron Wo:ks, 3; Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., 11M., 3 Indian Carrying, lim., 1; International Financial society, lira., 6$ International Land Credit, lim.. 6 Joint Stock Discount, lim.. 9 London Financial Association, him., 22 London a. d Provincial Marine, 31 National Discount Company, lim., 141 OrientAl Financial, Urn., 41 4 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian B. Mai!, lint., Ditto, new, 4 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lim., 71 SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 132 131 961 5i 1311 2 P a u l Closing I Business Price. done. 32 34 16 17 86 88 107 1 9 47 48 7 8 130 13! 147 143 13) 33 90 0! ;9 791 58 60 48 50 02 117 1176 85 68 10.1 105 36 28 1 0 121 98} 936 6 is al; 1171 1 . 8 2t 21p 137 137. 106 IGB 54 55 E 6 27 1121 1121 7a 71 103 101 38 3O 124; 9 10p 122 125 11i 12 1 lip 8) 81 11 11,3 138 142 95 47 CO 4? 57 0 87 67; 9 1) 160 165 -- 3 i V p 110 113 Si 40 75 78 ~SIONS. 56 67 100 j 101 i par ip 44 5 ri 9, 75 6) g 7 95 75 85 1. 0 102 100 101 100 a 101 - - IS} 19i 59 91 67 60 57 69 6 , 63 54 56 50 53 46 48 26 28 25 27 101 1(2 * p par j P SO 100 8i 9 12 11icl 85 tO 7d f 0 d 100 101 9: 91 88 9J 01 83 3 5 82 8i 99 100 9) 1(0 4 d "9i 1) , 0; 94 97 'T SECUR 0) 8! 90 92 91 06 79 81 79 81 103 106 106 108 107 119 106 108 102 101 ICB 110 101 106 105 107 108 110 105 107 91 97 98 100 92 91 9t 03 103 105 86 88 94 07 10! 104 _ - 105 107 1071 1011 801 791 131 11 61 71 01 BO 70} 43} 17.161 S7a 8 61 8 .03 1201 i 20 9)181 [in 17 117 y 1 8 16,xd 6 1371 7 1121 -1( 70 091 1031 f 100 { lOU 2 100 100 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1865. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. a law tending to give greater powers to the muni cipal councils and councils-general. The communes and the departments will thus be called upon to decide their own affairs, which, de cided upon the spot, will be more promptly settled. This reform will complete the arrangements made to simplify or support minute regulations which unnecessarily complicated the wheels of the Admi nistration. The commercial liberty inaugurated by the treaty with England is extended to our relations with Germany, Switzerland, and the united kingdom of Norway and Sweden. The same principles should naturally apply to commercial navigation, and a law is being prepared for establishing upon the sea that competition which alone stimulates progress. The rapid completion of our railways, canals, and roads is the necessary complement of the improvement which have been commenced. We shall this year accomplish a portion of our task by stimulating private enterprise or by appropriating to this ob ject the resources of the State without compromis ing the good economy of our finances, and without having recourse to credit. The facility of com munication in the interior as with the exterior pro motes commerce, stimulates industry, and prevents the too great rarity or abundance of products, the effects of which are alternately hurtful either to the consumer or the producer. The more our mercan tile marine is extended, the greater will be the faci lity of transport, the less cause will there be to complain of those abrupt changes in the price of articles of the first necessity. Thus, we shall be able to meet the partial inconvenience suffered by . agriculture. Some attribute the momentary suffer ing to the suppression of the sliding scale ; they forget that in 1851; when it was in existence, the depreciation in the price of cereals was far more considerable, and that this very year the export of wheat far exceeds the import. It is, on the contrary, due to a liberal legislation, to the impulse given to all the elements of national wealth, that our foreign commerce, which amounted in 1851 to two milliards 614 million francs, has now risen to the prodigious sum of upwards of seven milliards. New Bills will be laid before you in another direc tion, with the object of increasing the guarantees of individual liberty. The first authorizes the pro visional release, with or without bail, even in crimi nal cases ; the second suppresses personal arrest in civil and commercial matters —an innovation, how ever, nothing but the re-enactment of a very ancient principle. From the earliest ages of Rome it had been determined that the property, and not the person, of the debtor, was responsible for the debt. Let us therefore continue to follow the course marked out. Let us live abroad in peace with the different Powers, and let us not cause the voice of France to be heard save for law and justice. At home let us protect religious ideas, without ceding aught of the civil power ; let us spread education throughout all classes of society ; let us simplify, without destroying, our admirable administrative system ; let us give the commune and the depart ment a more independent existence ; let us arouse individual initiative, and the spirit of association. Lastly, let us elevate the soul and strengthen the body of the nation. But while making ourselves the ardent promoters of useful reforms, let us firmly maintain the basis of the constitution ; let us op pose the exaggerated tendencies of those who pro voke changes, with the sole object of sapping that which we have founded. Utopia is to welfare that which illusion is to truth; and progress is not the realisation of a more or less ingenious theory, but the application of the results of experience, conse crated by time, and aecepted by public opinion. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE BAILNETT-APPOINTMENTS OF TRADE ASSIGNEES. This bankrupt was described as a ship and insurance broker, of Gracechurch-street, and to-day he came up for his order of discharge. Mr. Reed, for the bankrupt, said he believed there was no opposition to the bankrupt. Mr. Doria said that he appeared for the assignees, and he was instructed to say that they were perfectly satisfied with the accounts as filed. In order that the court might be under no misapprehension as to the character of the trade assignees in this case, he (Mr. Doria) might state that he had been chosen by creditors representing £2,000 in value. His Honour—You have anticipated that which I was about to ask Mr. Doria, because in most cases one knows that the trade assignee is a sham. Mr. Doria—He is no sham in this case. Mr. Reed—l can explain the cause of the losses suffered by the bankrupt. He speculated in the corn trade, and the g eat influx of corn from the Baltic to this country has caused the present bankruptcy. _ _ His Honour—Very well; there is no opposition, and the assignee is satisfied. The bankrupt will pass, and take his order. Order accordingly. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,--This Day. MARL BOROUGH-S TREE T. TEE " GENTLEMAN PICKPOCKET" AT TOM THUMB'S.— John Brown, alias Abraham Brown, a well-dressed young man, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with being a sus pected person, and at St. James's Hall, supposed for the purposed of committing a felony, and also with having in his possession a purse, supposed to be stolen. Sergeant Edwin Coathupe, of the Detective force, said that:yesterday evening,while in the entrance of St. James's Hall he saw the prisoner coming out of the concert room. Knowing him, he stopped him, and he said he had merely come to the place to see Tom Thumb. He asked the pri soner what he had about him, and he replied " only my own purse." He then told the prisoner he must search him, and did so, and found upon him a dark green morocco purse. On asking him how much the purse contained, he said about 165., but on opening it in the prisoner's presence he found it to contain 20s. in silver and 2d. in copper. He then told the prisoner he should take him into custody, and did so. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the sergeant said the priso ner had only been recently discharged from Wandsworth prison, and had several times been convicted. He wished for a remand, as two purses were missed last night, Sergeant Cole, of the C division, said the prisoner had been convicted of picking pockets at this court, and com mitted for three months with hard labour. The prisoner formerly used to keep a pony and frequent Rotten-row, always dressing well, and wearing several rings. He took him in custody at Slough for picking pockets on the occa sion of the Prince of Wales opening the British Orphan Asylum, and he then had in his pocket a guinea ticket, which he had taken for the banquet. The prisoner had once told him that he used to regularly visit the Inter national Exhibition, and well sweated it, having cleared £2,000 by it. He knew the prisoner to always have plenty of money. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner. ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.—William Joseph, a clerk, who gave the address 205, Fleet-street, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting Elizabeth Davis, an unfortunate, in the Haymarket. The managing-clerk to Mr. Boodle, solicitor, Chancery lane, appeared for the prisoner. . _ _ The young woman said that on the previous night she was going up the Haymarket when she saw the prisoner and other gentlemen in his company. The prisoner made use of language she did not like to repeat, told her to get out of the way, and then struck her with a stick across the face, she not having spoken a word to him. She fell, and her nose bled very much. Some gentlemen came up and told her to give the prisoner in charge, and she did so. The solicitor's clerk, after cross-examining the prose cutrix, said he was instructed that the prosecutrix knocked off the prisoner's hat, and that he put up his stick to de fend himself, and thus injured her face. He had two gentlemen in court who was with the prisoner, but as they did not like their names to get mixed up in the affair in the papers they would rather not appear. A constable said that he saw the prosecutrix bleeding, and she gave the prisoner in charge. The prisoner's hat was off at the time, but he did not say the prosecutrix had knocked it off. Mr. Tyrwhitt said all he could do for the prisoner was to let him speak to the prosecutrix. Subsequently it was stated that the prosecutrix had received some compensation, and the prisoner was dis charged. OPENING OF THE FRENCH CHAMBERS. THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) PARIS, FEB. 15 The French Chambers were opened at 1 o'clock to-day by the Emperor, who delivered the following speech : Messieurs les Senateurs, Messieurs les Deputes, At the time of your last assembling I hoped to see smoothed away by a general Congress all the difficulties which then menaced the repose of Europe. The event, to my regret, has proved otherwise, for the sword often severs questions instead of resolving them, and the only basis of a durable peace is the satisfaction given by the accord of the sovereigns in the general interest of the peoples. In the presence of the conflicts which surged up on the shores of the Baltic my Government, divided between its sympathies for Den mark its good wishes for Germany, has ob served throughout the strictest neutrality. Summoned in a Conference to contribute its advice, it is bound to maintain the principle of nationalities and the right of populations to be consulted as to their fate. Our language conformable to the reserved attitude which we purpose still to maintain, has throughout been moderate and ami cable between the two parties. In the South of Europe the action of France was able to evidence itself more resolutely. I have there been desirous to render possible the solution of a difficult problem. The Convention of the 15th of September, disembarassed from impassioned inter pretation, consecrates two great principles:—the consolidation of the new Italian kingdom, and the independence of the Holy see. The provisional and precarious situation which excited so many alarms is about to disappear. It is not only the members of the Italian nation ality seeking to amass themselves by feeble bonds into a little state, situate at the foot of the Alps ; it is rather a great country, which, lifting its head out of local prejudices, and despising ill-considered exacerbation, boldly transports into the heart of the Peninsula its capital, placing it there in the midst of the Appenines as in an impregnable fortification. By this act of patriotism Italydefinitively establishes itself while reconciling itself at the same time with Catholi cism. It engages itself to respect the independ ence of the Holy See, and to protect the frontiers of the Roman States, thereby - enabling us, also, at the same time to withdraw our troops. The Pontifical territory thus effectually guaranteed, finds itself placed under the safeguard of a treaty which solemnly binds the two Governments. The Con vention is not, therefore, a weapon of war, but a work of peace and of conciliation. In Mexico the throne consolidates itself, the country becomes tranquilised, its immense re sources begin to envelope themselves ; all this being the happy effect of the valour of our soldiers, of the good sense of the Mexican population, and of the intelligence and of the energy of the Sovereign. In Japan our navy, united to those of Eng land, of Holland, and of the United States, has given a new proof of what it can do. In Africa a sudden insurrection has come to dis turb the security of our possessions, and to show how certain tribes are still ignorant of our strength and of our benign intentions. It is at this very moment, when, by a spirit of generous justice, France secures the rights of the soil to the Arab popula tion, while by liberal measures we are striving to ren der comprehensible to this misguided people that so far from our wishing to oppress, we are desirous of summoning them to partake of the benefits of civili sation. It is at this moment, I say, that infuriated by religious fanaticism, the Arabs bordering on the Desert have raised the standard of re volt. In spite of the difficulties of the country and the rigour of the season, our army, conducted with ability and rare discretion has gained the mastery over the insurrection, and after the com bat no sanguinary repression, no useless severity has saddened our victory. The zeal of the chief, experimentally placed at the head of Algeria, the unity of the command re-established, the consta tion of the generous designs of France, all concur, as I hope to prevent the return of similar disorders. Thus, all our expeditions drawing near to their completion, our land armaments have evacuated China, the navy suffices to maintain our establishments in Cochin China. Our army in Africa is about to be diminished ; that of Mexico returns already into France ; the troops on the road will reassemble amongst us very speedily ; and closing the temple of war, we shall be able with pride to inscribe on a new arch of triumph these words—" To the glory of the French armies for the victories achieved by them in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, and in America." Let us deliver ourselves up, without disquietude, :o the labours of Peace. The interval of the Sessions is employed, as usual, in seeking out the means to inaugurate the moral and material well-being of the people while every useful and true idea is sure of being welcomed by me and adopted by you. Let us examine, therefore, together the measures proper to increase the prosperity of the Empire. Religion and Public Education are the objects of my constant pre-occupation. All the worships enjoy an equal liberty—the Catholic clergy exer cising within its own ministry a legitimate influence. By the Law of Instruction it co-operates with the education of youth—by the Electoral Law it is empowered to enter into the public councils—by the Constitution it occupies its place in the Senate. But the more we surround it with evidences of con sideration and of deference, the more we rely upon its respecting the fundamental laws of the State. It is part of my duty to maintain intact the rights of the civil power, which since St. Louis, no Sovereign of France has ever abandoned. The development of public instruction merits your soli citude. In this country of universal suffrage, every citizen ought to know how to read and write. A projet du loi will be presented to you, designed to further more and more Primary Instruction. I endeavour every year to diminish the obstacles which have so long opposed themselves in France to the free expansion of individual initiative. By the law upon coalitions, voted last year, those who work as well as those who employ have learned to settle their differences without reckoning upon the inter vention of the Government, powerless to regulate the variable connection between supply and demand. At present fresh projects will have the object of leaving greater liberty to commercial associations, and freeing the administration from a responsibi lity always illusory. I have it at heart to destroy all the obstacles which opposed the creation of societies destined to ameliorate the condition of the working classes. In promising the establishment of these societies without abandoning the guarantees for public security, we shall facilitate a useful experi ment. The Council, of State has studied with care IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS.--This DAY. The SPEAKER did not take the chair until 25 minutes ,o 1 o'clock, a house not having been formed before. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The standing orders were declared to have been com plied with in the case of several private bills, and more than 200 private bills were read a second time, which occupied about three-quarters of an hour. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented by Mr. BAZLEY from bankers, merchants, and other inhabitants of Manchester, in favour of a repeal of the duty on fire insurance. Colonel SYKES presented a petition from Indian officers praying for the redress of certain grievances of which they complain. LICENSING PUBLICHOUSES. Mr. LAWSON gave notice that on the 2d reading of the Liverpool Licensing Bill, he would move that the sub ject should not be dealt with by a private bill. ENTRY INTO PUBLICHOUSES Mr. COX introduced his bill to amend the regulations relating to the right of entering publichouses, which was read a first time. MORTGAGE DEBENTURES BILL. Lord NAAS, on moving the second reading of this bill, said that last year a private bill was introduced into the House of Commons having the same object contemplated in the present bill, and it received the sanction .of hon. members. When it went to the. Upper House their lord ships considered that the subject to which it related was of a nature that sh ou ld no t b e d ea lt w ith b y a private bill, and accordingly a public bill was originated in the Upper House. That bill was referred to a select committee, consisting of the Earl of Derby, Earl Granville, Earl Devon, L or d T ruro, and other noble lords, by whom it received a strict scrutiny. However, by the advice of the Attorney-General, the bill was withdrawn last session. The object of the presekrit bill was similar to the measure alluded to, and proposed the introduction of no new sys tem, but the augmentation and adaptation of the old system to meet the existing state of circumstances, as far as it could possibly be effected. The noble lord entered into several details to shew the necessity that existed for this bill, and referred to the prac tice that prevailed in Russia, to which, to some extent, it was proposed to assimilate the law by this measure. He cited the:authority of Mr. Urquhart and Mr. Stuart Mills in support of his view, and in reference to the system in Russia. With regard to the detail, he had communicated with the Attorney-General, who suggested that this bill, as well as some others, should be referred to a select committee, to which he had no objection. Sir G. GREY said the Attorney-General considered the question of such importance that it should have the careful consideration of a select committee, and as that course would be consented to Government and the house would not be compromised by agreeing to the second reading. Mr. HENLEY said that he did n ot see wh y l ending money on land should not have such . an agency as pre vailed in the money market—namely, jobbers—of whom he did not wish to speak invidiously. lie doubted, however, if the registration would effect the object proposed by giv ing security to debenture holders, while he objected to the introduction of surveyors, which the necessity of the bill required. He asked the right hon. gentleman (Sir G. Grey), on the Government, not to allow of any refer enceto public offices which was no t rea l. H e hoped that the bill would b e licked into shape in com mittee. bepinartg made of th e Mr. SCULLY hop3d that the bill would be allowed to go into a select committee, but at the same time he objected to it both in principle and detail, for ho considered it was drawn up in a very artificial manner. He objected to the powers proposed to be given to a public company under this bill to issue mortgage debent a u v re a s s , tm w o h n i o c p h oly w . would company proposed by this bill could be facilities to the landed havebcontendedestethffee ct effect edthba o yt f g t h i giving i affordingng objects u c h increasedpr o interest in making trans fers. It was manifest that the complex system proposed by this bill was u nnecessar y a n d unjust, and he denied that the continental system went to the same extent. He did not think that the subject could be properly dealt with by a select committee, as it required more accuracy and enquiry than such a tribunal could afford, and in his opinion it should be referred to a com mission, an opinion which was founded on an experience of fifteen years, during which he paid much attention to this important matter. Mr. AYRTON said that landowners laboured under a great difficulty in effecting these transfers in regard to loans, which operated injuriously on them, as well as on persons who were desirous of lending money on landed property. He approved of the agene.y proposed by this bill, which he thought would go far to remedy the present grievances of the landed interest. The bill was then read a second time and referred to a select committee. LAND DEBENTURES (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a second time and referred to a select committee. LAND DEBENTURES BILL. This bill was also read a second time and roferred to a select committee. JUSTICES OF PEACE PROCEDURES BILL. This bill was brought up and read a first time. INSOLVENT DEBTORS BILL. This bill was read a first time. The house then adjourned at ten minutes past three o'clock. THAMES AUDACIOUS ROBBERY.—John Taylor, a youth, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing coals from a barge on the river Lea. James Hill, engine-driver in the employ of Mr. Edward Lloyd, papermaker, Bromley, said a barge laden with coals came up to the paper-mill last night. About 8 o'clock he saw the prisoner on the barge with a sack of coals on his shoulder. He asked the prisoner what he was doing, to which he replied, " I am taking some coals to make a fire with." There were three-quarters of a hundredweight of coals in the sack. Henry Parker, night-watchman at Lloyd's, was called by the last witness, and saw the prisoner on the barge with the sack of coals. The prisoner, who gave a fictitious name last night, ad mitted his guilt, and Mr. Paget sentenced him to be im prisoned one month and kept to hard labour. TEA STEALING IN THE LONDON DOCK.—Thomas Kelly, a labourer, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing a pound of tea. Francis Audis, a gatekeeper, said he stopped the pri soner this morning as he was leaving the London Dock, and found on him a pound of tea concealed in his pockets. The prisoner said he took the tea out of a chest on the west quay, where there was a shed containing a large number of chests of tea. James Swingland, a London Dock constable, said the prisoner was a casual labourer, and had been employed in the dock for a few days only. Many chests of tea in the shed were broken. The prisoner said he could get no work this morning, and took the tea, with which he filled his pockets. Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to one month's im prisonment and hard labour. A BRUTAL FELLOW.—John Carr, who gave the name of Jeremiah Donovan last night, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with assaulting Margaret Fagan. The complainant, whose head was bandaged, said she had lived with the prisoner several years. They were not married. Three children had been the fruits of their in tercourse. One had died, another was 2i years old, and the youngest she carried in her arms was three weeks old. The prisoner had been out of work, and she was confined in the workhouse. The prisoner had carried on a secret intercourse with a "lady" in,Palmer's-folly, Rateliff-high way. She went there last night, and found him with his " valentine." Sho upbraided him with his infidelity, and he struck her and knocked her down. Her eye was cut and bled profusely. She did not wish to hurt him. She only wanted a maintenance for her children. Mr. Paget—l cannot now order him to maintain your children. You either press the charge or not. Witness—l wish to forgive him. Ho behaved very well until he beCame acquainted with the " nice_ lady" in Palmer's Folly. Mr. Paget discharged the prisoner, and issued two affi liation summonses against him at the suit of the com plainant, for him to show cause why orders should not be made upon him to pay ss. per week for the support of his illegitimate children. MARKETS---TMs Day. MARK-LANE. The arrivals of home-grown wheat fresh up to our market to-day were small, but the condition of the pro duce was tolerably good. For good and fine samples there was a steady demand at fully late rates ; and inferior qualities, although in slow request, were decidedly firm in price. Only a moderate supply of foreign wheat was exhibited for sale. In good and fine descriptions about an average business was transacted at full currencies. Inferior pro duce moved off slowly on former rates. . _ Floating cargoes of grain wore in moderate request, and both as regards wheat and spring corn, prices ruled firm. The market was moderately supplied with barley. For good and fine malting produce the trade was firm, at full currencies; but inferior barley held a slow sale, at late rates. Malt sold slowly, at late prices. There was a moderate supply of oats on the stand, and the trade was firm for all qualities, with an upward ten dency as regards the value of good and fine samples. Beans were firm, at an advance in prices of ls. per quar ter from the late lowest point. Poas were firm in price. For flour there was a fair demand, at full currencies. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat.Barley.Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 1,010 1,300 1,250 730 950 Irish — Foreign COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN for the Week ending Feb.ll, 1865 :—Wheat, qrs., 66,918 ; average' 38s 4d—barley, 62,164 ; 29s 2d—oats, 8,375 ; 19s Bd. Corresponding week in 1864 :—Wheat, 74,753 ; 40s 4d— barley, 63,056 ; 32s Od—oats, 14,341; 18s. 9d. WHITECIIAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is but moderate, and trade is firm at the annexed quotations : Beef, from3s Od to 4s 10d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4 s 10 d ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; and pork, 6d to 4s 10d per 81b by the carcase. BOROUGII HOP. The trade for good and fine hops continues firm, at ful currencies; otherwise the trade is quiet, at about previous rates. Leicester Doncaster Brecon Richmond Monmouth 2l Manchester Autumn Newmarket Ist Oct 26 Walsall OCTOBBR. Northallerton 5 Newmarket iro 31 I Newmarket 2d Oct 9 Vincennes Vincennes Noes Liverp00l Autumn STEEPLECHASE F. MARC rBER. 'IXTURES FOR 1863. ','H. Liverpool Shrewsbury Scarborough l6, 17 Torquay 2B West Sctmerset 5 I Abergavenny 20, 21 COURSING. THE GREAT WATERLOO MEETING. The draw for the Waterloo Cup, value £1,600 in specie, by a subscription of 25 says. each ; the winner £5OO, the second £2OO. Mr. Blundell's Beware agst Hon. G. B. Bruce ns Fiery Cross. Mr. J. Johnstone ns Johnnie Cope agst Mr. Deighton's Deodora. Lord Bective's Reveller the Second agst Mr. William's Blackstrap. Colonel Bathurst's Rapid Rhone agst Lord Eglinton's Rainbow. Mr. Randall ns Sultana agst Mr. Gregson's Carouser. Mr. Massy ns Don Felix agst Mr. Reed's Wide-a-Wake. Mr. T. T. C. Lister ns Chloe agst Mr. Dunlop ns Marshal Forward. Mr. Knowles's King Tom agst Mr. Croft ns Roaring Lion. Mr. Bateman's Blue Bell agst Mr. Bland's Beatrice Princess. Mr. Cunningham ns Barnard Castle agst Mr. Hyslop ns Duppel. Mr. Steel's Scotch Grey agst Mr. Mallaby's Merevale. Mr. Campbell's Coodareena agst Mr. Spinks's Sea Chief. Mr. Clarke ns Henchman agst Dr. Richardson's King _ _ Death. Mr. Jones's Jem Mace agst Mr. Long ns Samuel. Mr. Barden's Oliver Goldsmith agst Colonel Goodlake ns Meg. Lord Grey de Wilton's Glendower agst Mr. Blanshard's Budwith. Mr. Stocker ns Merry Heart agst Mr. Thompson's Tulloch- gorum. Mr. Brundritt's Burgomaster agst Mr. Green's Gaiety. Mr. Armistead ns Bassow agst Mr. Gibson's Clasper. Mr. Graham ns Sehweppe agst Mr. Jardine ns Bonus. Lord Binning's Donald agst Lord Lurgan's Master Burleigh. Mr. Brocklehurst's Baron Lyndhurst agst Mr. Callender ns Snowflake. Mr. Cloudsdale ns Cheer Boys agst Mr. Garnett ns Win some Lassie. Mr. Chesshyre ns Dreamer agst Mr. Matther ns Accident. Mr. Russell's Ruth agst Mr. Lloyd ns Crabcatcher. Major Boothby ns Good Idea agst Captain Molyneux ns Simple Susan. Mr. Bartholomew's Mock Modesty agst Mr. Hodson's Heira Mr. Haywood's Rebe agst Mr. Bake ns Grecian Girl. Lord Stairs ns Antonelli agst Mr. Savage ns Billy. Mr. Strachan's St. George agst Mr. Borron ns Sea Ranger. Lord Uffington's Calabaroona agst Mr. Hornby ns Bonnie Venture. Mr. Blackstock's Beckford against Lord Softon's Shandigaff. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday, 11.30 p.m.—A sharp frost has caused the members to decide that there be no coursing to-morrow (this day). . THE LONDON COAL TRADE.—For the first month of the present year the various railways having access to London entered, at the Coal Exchange, 254,295 tons 1 cwt., which tonnage is largely in excess of that for the corresponding month of 1864. Of this large quantity 104,468 tons 4 cwt. is entered as brought from various coalfields by the London and North Western, 98,233 tons per the Great Northern, 21,290 tons per the Great Western, 13,745 tons 12 cwt. per the Midland—viz., 11,607 tons 7 cwt. St. Pancras depot, and 2 , 138 tons 5 cwt. to King's cross station, 13,648 tons 19 cwt. per the Great Eastern, 1,594 tons per the South Western, 1,279 tons 5 cwt. per the Chatham and Dover, and 36 tons per the London, Tilbury, and Southend. FOSSIL FLoun.—This is the name given by geo _ logists to a curiou s kind of pure white powder, w hich is much used b y g oldsmiths and others to clean sil ver with. In a small pamphlet, Professor Campani of S i ena an nounces that the trach y tic mountain called Monte Amiata, on the c onfines of Tuscany, contains large deposits 7 . have s . ucceded in of this substance, which, viewed through a micros found to consist of millions of minute shells of infus . 2 3 : As ls il t e h p e ari la n t lane di Luna M. Kuhlmann, and afterhim M. Sauerwein, ha alkalin using such deposits for the purpose of silicates ; Professor Campani thought that of Mount Amiata might be turned to the same account. His experiment succeeded, and he 7.10 W announces that if a solu tionorbsooidanmarlnn caustic potash to a boiling-point marking 20 deg. of Beaume's a reom o f e terb be heated gt-hpointit will dissolve a large quantity of "fossil flo ur, " and potash or soda, and o f a somewhat alkaline nature. SO 8 3 t i ITIES. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. DATCHET.-WEDNESDAY. The steeplechases are postponed till Monday and Tues day next, 20th and 21st Feb., on account of the severity of the frost. The Trial Steeplechase and Minters' Stakes close on Saturday evening. BETTING AT ItANC HES TER—TuEsDAY. The continuance of the frost has almost put a stop to speculation on the Waterloo Cup, the transactions that oc casionally take place being principally hedging bets. For the Liverpool Steeplechase, Lightheart, Emblematic, and Tony Lumpkin were all in demand. The other events were scarcely noticed. Closing prices WATERLOO COURSING CUP. 100 to 7 agst Lord Uffington's Calabaroona (taken) 23 to 1 agst Mr. Randell ns Sultana (taken freely) 33 to 1 agst Mr. Spinks' Sea Chief (taken) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Gavin Steele's Scotch Grey (taken) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 100 to 7 agst Lightheart (taken freely) 100 to 7 agst Emblematic (taken) 20 to 1 agst Tony Lumpkin (taken freely) 20 to 1 agst Jerry (taken) 25 to 1 agst Emblem (taken) NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STARES. 100 to 7 agst Lion (taken) THE CHESTER CUP. 100 to 9 on the field (offered) • DONCASTER SP: TUESDAY, Weights for Doncaster Sprint Age st lb East Lancashire 5 8 12 Oldminster a 8 8 Buckenham 6 8 5 Gibraltar ... ... a 8 3 Welcome ... ... 6 7 11 Turcos ... 5 7 11 Dunkeld 5 7 10 Revolver ... ... 5 7 10 L'Africain ... 6 7 9 Change ... 5 7 6 Heurlys ... 6 7 6 Sandal ... 4 7 5 Armagnac ... ... 5 7 4 Wanderingliinstrel 4 7 4 Gaily 5 7 3 Finesse ... ... 4 7 3 Demon ... ... 5 7 3 Deerstalker ... 4 7 2 Nuneaton ... ... 4 7 2 Fanfreluche ... 5 7 0 Royal Stag ... 4 7 0 Dean Swift ... 4 7 0 Privateer ... ... 4 7 0 Olivia ... ... 4 6 13 Nucleus ... 4 6 13 Oberon ... 4 612 Huntsman's Daugh ter ... 5 6 11 ,ING MEETING. lARCH 14. Handicap. lm. 6fur. 132yds, Age at lb Earl of Surrey ... 6 610 M. Philippe ... a 6 10 Hartley ... 4 6 9 Idle Girl ... ... 4 6 9 North End... 4 6 8 Physician a 6 8 Alpheus ... 4 6 7 Bombay 4 6 6 S ancho .• • 3 6 6 Friday „. 3 6 6 Macbeth ~. 4 6 6 Troubadour ... 3 6 2 East Lynn 3 6 2 Tim Miglas ... 3 6 0 Grappler 3 5 13 Benanoar ... 3 5 13 Minette 3 5 12 3 5 12 Elsinore ... 3 510 Moldavia 3 5 10 Lord Waldegrave... 3 6 10 Black-eyed Susan f 3 5 10 Nu ... 3 5 9 Club Queen ... 3 5 9 Gannochr.... 3 5 8 Defy 3 5 7 Weights published Februl to be declared at twelve o'clo, ry 14, at nine a.m.—Forfeits k at noon on February 21. TRES FOR 1865. rARY. Nottingham Spring tCH. Warwick Spring Vincennes Chelmsford Spring Grand National Hunt Barham 3O Lewes Spring 3O Canterbury Spring Abergavenny 2O Thirsk • 21 Cardiff 25 Epsom Spring EAT. Bath 23 Harpenden 26 Epsom 3O Hampton 2l Newton Newcastle Odiham Bidbury Stockbridge Nottingham Southampton l9 Chesterfield Goodwood Down Royal Corp -- UST. RACING- FIXT FEI3R I Lincoln Spring 2l MA Derby Spring 2 West Drayton Liverpool Spring 7 Shrewsbury Spring lO Doncaster Spring kl Vincennes AP Vincennes - 2 Northampton 4 Croxton Park 7 Newmarket Craven l7 Durham Newmarket let Spring 1 Chester 9 York Spring Salisbury lB J 1 Vincennes Chelmsford 7 Manchester Summer Ascot l3 Beverley l4 Liverpool Alexandra Park 2O J 1 Newmarket July Carlisle Worcester Abingdon Stamford l3 "Winchester lB AUG Brighton 1 Brighton Club Lewes 4 Huntingdon Wolverhampton Reading Egham l5 Royal Windsor York Plymouth Lichfield 2B Devon and Exeter 29 Derby Summor 30 Weymouth 3l Baden 3l Stockton SEPTEMBER. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE Thus day. LONDON, Feb. 15 .—Wid this day a t noon—North- East. y; terly; moderate b reeze and cloudy weather, with. fr from PORTSMOU Adelaide.TH, Feb. 14.—Wi nd N.E.—Arr ived—Aird, SwANsEA, Feb. 14.—Wind S.E . — Sailed—Cobuso, fo.r Cuba ; Neptune, for Havannah. Lass, for T MusoßD, Feb . . 14.—Wind S.E.— Sailed—Pe m b ro k es k ire F eb. DARTmouTH, Feb. 14.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—St. Paul, from Lisbon for Shields. Sailed—Runnymede, for delaide. FALmounr, Feb. 14.—Wind N.W. for Trinidad. — Sailed—G Wal i or, GLOUCESTER, Feb. 14.—Wind from New York. LONDON GAZET rE—I ast Evening', WHITEHALL, FEB, 11. The Queen has Bien pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land unto Alexander Taylor, Esq., Doctor of Medicine. FEB. 13. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John Duncan to the Old Church and parish of St. Michael's, at Dumfries, in the presbytery and county of Dumfries, vacant by the death of the 'Rev. Robert Wallace, D.D. FOREIGN OFFICE, FEB. 4. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Martin Crofton Morrison, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Tangchow, to be her Majesty's Consul at Kiu-Kiang. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Robert Swinhoe, Esq., now British Vice-Consul at Taiwan, to be her Majesty's Consul at Taiwan. FEB. 14. • The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Friedrich Wilkens as Consul at Georgetown, Demerara, for his Ma jesty the King of Prussia The Queen has also . been pleased to aofM r. David Thurston as Co nsu l at Toronto, Canad p a, prove for the United States of America. DOWNIN G - STREET, FEB. 11. The Quern has been pleased to ratify and confirm the appoint of the ment of James Henry 11 I'Dowell, Esq., to be a mem ber Legislative Council of the Island of Jamaica. CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 14. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN TEE PRESENT PARLIAMENT, Borough of Salford—John Cheetham, Esq., of Eastwood, near Stalybridge, in the county of Chester, in the room of the Right Hon. William Nathaniel Massey, who has ac cepted the office of Fourth Ordinary Member of the Council of the Governor-General and Viceroy of India. BREVET. Brevet-Colonel the Hon. H. H. Manvers Percy, Lieut.- Colonel on half pay late Grenadier Guards, to have the temporary rank of Brigadier-General while in command of a Brigade. BANKRUPTS, The following are the only bankrupts of commercial importance in the Gazette:— Alfred Sanders, painter, Woolwich John Gentry, jun., watch maker, Stratford Robert Dill, draper, Sheffield David Evans, joiner, Liverpool Wm. Beckwith, builder, Kingsland-road. G. E. Saunders, butcher, Portland-street, Soho. George Howard, splint cutter, Blackfriars-road Henry Joy, licensed victualler, Robertsbridge William Heath, general merchant, Dartmouth. Thomas Burnes, shopkeeper, Sheffield. Robert Lewis, cotton broker, Mincing-lane Henry Thorncroft, butcher, Lower Norwood Samuel Moses Moss, merchant, Leadenhall-street Samuel Nelson Southgate, baker, Colchester Cornelius Smith, tailor, Be'grave, Leicestershire Alfred Preston, shoemaker, Northampton BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. The Rev. Francis Tate, Axminster. TURF DISCLOSURES.-Mr. Hedworth Williamson, well known on the Turf, has, it seems, been guilty of some transactions which are likely to lead to serious proceedings. He is well known in racing circles as the owner of Blackdown, Accident, and other horses, and his animals were trained at R. Drewitt's, Lewes, Sussex. Accident, Blackdown, and Greenland, un derstood to be his property, were sold at Tatter sall's on Monday, the two former for 510 guineas each, and Greenland for 210 guineas. The following notice for the ' apprehension of Mr. Williamson has been issued One Hundred Pounds Reward.—Ferdinand Hedworth William son.—A warrant was, on the 6th day of January last, issued from the Southwark Police-court, for the apprehension of the above-named person, on the charge of having, by false pretences, obtained from John Henry Fitch the sum of £3,000. The above-named Williamson resided at Chailey, Sussex, and was magistrate of the county. He is 30 years of age, about sft Gin high, florid complexion, and very stout face, with projecting front teeth. Wears no whiskers or moustache. Was last seen at Woolwich. £25 will be paid on apprehension of the said Williamson, and £75 on further conviction. Information to be given to the inspector, at the police station, Stones'-end, Borough ; or to Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, of Ely-place, Holborn." Various rumours are in'circulation as to the precise accusation against Mr. Williamson, but it is stated that he had falsely mortgaged his horses for large sums of money. The Southern Railway Company has just inau gurated an iron bridge, 1,530 feet in length, over the Garonne at a few miles from Agen. It consists of 17 elliptical arches, of a span of 68 feet each. The whole structure is remarkable for its lightness and elegance of construction.—Galignani. The town of Bressuire (Eeux-Sevres) was three days since the scene of a melancholy suicide, com mitted by a son in the presence of his father and mother, who were unable to prevent the act. A lad named Bodin, only 17 years of age, son of a tradesman, after spend ing the day in drinking, went home to his father and asked for more money, that he might finish the day as he had, begun it. On hearing his father's refusal, he stabbed himself with his pocket knife, and was about to repeat the attempt when his father prevented him. The wound he had inflicted, however, caused his death. It appears that the boy had repeatedly pretended to com mit suicide in order to obtain money from his father, but had never hurt himself before, and it is supposed that on this occasion he strack with greater force than he had intended. ACCLIMATISATION'.—The Zoological Garden of the Bois de Boulogne has just received two hemippi, one of the last species admitted in natural history to the genus equus. For a long time only six species of that genus were acknowledged in natural history, viz., three Asiatic ones, the horse, ass, and hemione ; and three African ones, the zebra, couagga, and dauw. In 1855 two wild horses were sent as a present to the Ern press by the Viceroy of Egypt, who had received them from an Arab chief, Athar-Bey. As they were known to be natives of the Syrian desert, between Palmyra and Bagdad, her Majesty sent thein to the museum, where M. I. Geoffroy de St. Hilaire found that they differed sufficiently from the known species to deserve a separate place, and they accordingly now belong to the new specie abovementioned. The head of the hemippus is much smaller, and the ears much shorter, than those of the com mon horse. The tail and mane have longer hair, and it has a peculiar bray, different from those of the ass and hemione. The Courrier de l'Eure relates an extraordinary hunt in the neighbourhoon of Neubouig. Count de Tre bons was following a hare, with a pack of 14 hounds, when the dogs suddenly attacked an enormous wild boar in the wood of Fenguerolles. The animal, forced from his lair, started off, and an exciting chase through the forests of Villetres, Canappeville, and Vernon ensued, lasting two hours. The animal, at length being tired out, turned at bay in a field near Ecquetot. The Count had neither gun nor hunting sword, but fearing that the struggle would cost the lives of some of hil dogs, he resolut e ly a li g ht e d f rom hi s h arming himansd plunelfwigthedhi the s blade p pocket-knife, c k e t into -kn its ife eye.,w went straight i n to the beast,animal, buried the knife beneath the animal's shoulder, the mad with pain, rushed at its 'assailant, hutatthteheCsoaumnet time avoiding the thrusts aimed at him tdbey boar with _ , i l t t s w t as u sks f 0 . 0 n d T t h o e w b e e i a g s h t a l t B l s a t s o t n e fell an d e d x a h h a a u l s f. , and at Nantes to raise funds for the preliminary surveys expired A public subscription opened of a ship canal has already produced from that port to the se a, 25,000 f. a—leTs a ttended by buyers, and they h aerpea fl u a mec n oiat n nyn e c l ufeorn t fa r ep a etd d uur. e rce k hrs e , l a:a p oer s s-ed :r fiab e yr : urg e appears little probability The range of prices is urged operated cautiously. quiet, ma ß rk O e c t i ishDoaAsLf beenthinly l a 3 s t h ; o n f any immediate reduction of quotations. Thr manufacturers keep tolerably well employed, and a. a as the tt a hh e s e i t rr r strong ev g mn r ai eas a n te d :r , i n a a l f n o k d r e t t e h h p e e s r their stocks are not heavy, although they have s lightly increased of late. There is no change in the Yorkshire goods trade, which is quiet, but prices are firm. of the Maritime Credit The first ordinary general com m pa e n e y tin w g as of h sh el a d re t h o o_l da de y rs . The report presented stated that the profits deriv able from interest and commission from the com mencement of the business in July to the 31st of December, after deducting rebate of interest on bills not yet due, amounted to £14,339 10s. 9d. After defraying the current expenses of manage ment, &c., there remained an available balance of £10,267 3s. 6d. Out of this sum the directors recommeuded a distribution to the proprietors of a dividend of ss. per share free of income tax, for the half-year—being at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum—which with income tax, will absorb £1,729 18s. 11d., that £l,OOO, being one-fifth of the pre liminary expenses, be written off and that £4,000 be placed to a reserve fund, leaving a balance of £3,537 4s. 7d. to be carried forward to the new account. a 201 10 100 1 20 20 100 lOC 100 100 IC,O 100 10 103 1 0 ILO o too , SSE, 100 iOO 100 100 100 1;',0 100 100 10 100 100 ti 13y :NES. 47i I 1001 1001 91 i 2