The Sun. — London, England, 1865-04-14 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. This being Good Friday, it was kept as a strict holiday, and no business was transacted in the Stock Exchange. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. YESTERDAY. ~ GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 0 Der Cent. Consols Do. A ccoun t , M ay 9 9l- 1 ° per Cent. Reduced 894 1 New 3 per Cent 8 94 i f. New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 73 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Do.Exceuer Bills, £l,OOO 4 per Cent £5OO 6 3 , Do. £lOO and £2OO Junk of England Stock, 51 per Cent 242 240 Do Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 216 Do Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. Account Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 . Do. Certificates — Do. Enf ace d P aper 4 per C ent 9O Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 5i per Cent., May 1879 — Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 — Do. Bonds, £l,OOO Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Brazilian 5 per Cent — D o. 4 per Cent, 1852-58-60 Buenos Do. 1863 Ayres 6 per Cent — Do I per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chili an 6 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent. — Cuba, 6 per Cent. Do 5 per Cent, 1864 — Do. Scrip, £55 pa id Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 ~ Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 — Do. 5 plct, 1773-77, £25 paid — nubi Da • au palities Do £B6_paid — Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Yovisional Land Warrant — Ptian 7 per Cent 971 7 Do, Second Issue 971 Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 95 1 41 51 Do Scrip, £55 paid Greek Cop upero Cents ns " - 1824 5 ' ex Coupons o. Do Account ... Gu atemala 5 per . Cent .. ***************** Do. 1839 and 1850 I talian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) Do 1865 Do Scrip, £421 paid 3l dis kexican 3 per Cent. Do. Account • • 27* 1 Dc 1864 261 Do 6 per Cent. glo-French 54 Do French Scrip,x. 25f 20c — Montevidean 6 per , Cent., Cent., £3O paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada — Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred Do Land W arrants ( H ectares ) Per uvian 41 per Cent. Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 4 per Cent., 1862 Do. Account •Portaguese 3 per Cent.,1.853 Do Account - , Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do Account 4Bl Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St. Do 41 per Cent., 1850 Do 1860 ... Do 3 per Cent., 1859 . Do 5 per Cent., 1862 . Do 1864 Sardinian 5 per Cent Do. Account Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account Do Passive — Do Account 32 1 Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded l7 924 2 48 411 _ Do Account Swedish 4 per Cent. Do. 4} per Cent. 1864 , Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 9l} 1 } 901- Do Account — Do 6 pe r C en t. 18s'B Do Acco un t 73 2 _Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 p er C ent. 1862 ) 74 Do Acc oun t 75 41 f Do. £lOO Bonds - 754 4 5 Do 6 per Cent. 1863 Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent 1 enezuela 3 per Cent. Do. Account Do. 6 per Cent, 1862 — Do. A ccount Do . 1 per Cent., 1864 394 9 Do. 1} per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. A.ustrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins DBelgian, 4i per cent., Ex. 25f. utch 2} per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 62-/ , Do. 4 per Cent. Certifites — French Rentes, 3 per Cent. — Do. Account Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. Do. Account .. THREE O'CLOCK. 91 911 Co nsole, done Do. Accounty ....... . 'lank of En g l and Return,--Last Evening. A n Account , PUl'allazt— the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, fo r th e Week en the Wednesday, April 12, 1865. 1138 DE DEP &EMDEN T. Notes issued . t28,757.0°5 Government Debt £11,015,1(0 Other Securities .. 3,63.1,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 14,1L7,005 Silver Bullion .... -- £ 2 8,757,0051 BANTLING D. Pt BANTLING Capi- Resttal .............. X 14,663.000 ............. 3,172,276 Public Deposits (in cluding' Exche atter, Savings' 15aoks, Commis rnissioners of Na tio Dinalend Debt, and vidAc counts) . ......... 5,826.351 Seven D a Deposits. ... 15,414,509 y and other Bin s ...... 472,063 428,757,005 , EPARTNZNT. 1 Government Seca- rities ((including Dead Weight A nnuity) - £10,981,941 Other Securities 20,194,982 Notes Gold and Silver 830,374 Coin £39,433,202 V £3).438 232 -. MILLER, Chief Cashier. A Pril 1 3, 1865. COURSE OP EXCHANGE -Last Evening. ___ -----..- Amsterdam Short. 11 17 Ditto 3 Months. 11 19} Rotterd am 11 19* Antwe rp - 25 45 Brussels 25 45 Rarnburg Paris Short 25 15 Ditto 3 Months. 25 40 Marseilles 25 42 Frankfort on the Maine —120 f Vienna 11 25 Trieste— ... _ 11 171 11 191 11 19/ 25 50 25 50 13 9 25 229 25 45 25 479 1201 11 35 11 35 11 25 30i 471 7 25 4 12 25 52 25 52 25 52 25 52 25 52 511 511 Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) per oz. Petersburgh Berlin Madrid liz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo Messina Lisbon Oporto 47i 48.1. 25 57. 25 57. 25 57 25 57. 25 57. 25 57. ...:63 17 -9 ASTLEY THE EQUESTRIAN.—AstIey was a tall strong man, loud of voice, and corpulent in later life, who gave up cabinet-making in his youth to enlist in the 15th, or Elliot's Own Light Horse. He served 7 the years, was made r oug h r id er teacher and horse b rea k er. to regiment, and wh en , a f ter see i ng serv i ce i n G erman y, he obtained his discharge, he made his living out of horses. General Elliot gave him a charger as a mark of esteem, and with this, and a horse bought in Smithfield, he began to exhibit to all corners in an open field near the Halfpenny Hatch at Lambeth, for whatever he could get when he sent the hat round. Then he engaged part of a large timber yard which stood where the theatre now stands. Here he boarded in a circus, charged 6d. for admission, placed a pent-house roof over the seats, and performed of mornings to the music of a drum and two fifes, within a rope ring open to the sky. In the evening he had Chinese shadows, a learned horse, and tricks of sleight-of-hand, in a large room at No. 22, Picca dilly. The owner of the timber yard was in difficulties, and Astley had 'saved money enough to lend him £2OO on a mortgage of the yard, with all the timber in it. With the £2OO the timber merchant went abroad, and was no more heard of. Astley thus got in due time lawful posses sion of the place. He sold the timber, and with the pro duce of it, and £6O, the value of a large diamond ring which he picked up at the foot of Westminster-bridge, and found no owner for, he built in the timber yard what he then called " the Amphitheatre Riding House." This building he enlarged as he got means, until the whole ground was roofed in. His wife was a good horsewoman, his son also Sine ell as a b oy . W hen the Royal Circus, now the Theatre, was being built, Astley, to compete with its add e d a stage and scenery to his Riding Circle, which he then called, first the "Royal Grove" —from the painting grove-fashioned, and of the house before the curtain—and afterwards c, the Amphitheatre of Arts."—Daens'i "All Year .ncess drove Prin 3nded )lonel per xeter adßor It the 3adeu twill • any tal is rious ealth tory. from ?red. adY Mr. SHARE MARKETS. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. • Share ' Railways. I paid.' Closin g Business 111 Price. done. %Yol., & Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Corn wall Do. A A gets no div. I B till6p.c.p.an.has been paid to R Dublin & Belfast June Dun,.Perth, & A b.Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgo* Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. st k. Do. E. Angl. st No. Great North of Scotland Great Norther a D >. A stock Do. B o Do. yew, ts. at 25 pn Gt S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste n Original 1) . S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.— Oxiord Do. Newpo t Do. Ile eford Lanc , shire &Yorkshire L ndon and Blackwali 95 97 130; 131 96 1301 1 6i 6 Lou., Bri.A., & S Coast. Lon., Chat., and Dover, Lon. & N orth Western' Lon. & South Western M,an., She., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do. # shares .. Metropolitan. Do. New Mid and Do, Sirmiti . & Derby Mid Gt. W., Ireland l)o. 4 shares id Bent No , th British Do. Ed., Pth , - Az Dun Nth. Eastern Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle .... Do. stock. & Darling. De. d 1855-'8 Do. do. 1860-61 North Londou Do. New Do. do ISi'4 North Staffordshire N. & S. W Junction Scottish G ntral Scot. N E ,Aber. stock, o. Scot, Mid. st ews & Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon -ouch E stern •It ai nes, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornw W.Haraepool Har.& lt Do. A irredeemable Do. A redeemable BRITIS H Atlantic & St. Lawrence Born., Baroda. Cen.Ln. gu. 5 percent... Do. i shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buff ,Brant, & Goderich p.c. bds. Au;. , ,. 1, 872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June i, 1574 Calcutta & h. E., a e Town AL Dock, gu. Dement , a, 7 p.c. per. p Nast. Bengal, gu., 5 do East ',dia., gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunkof Canada Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds _ 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist r'ref:Bonds.. Do. do. deferred .... Do. 2d Pr, f. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred .... Do. Pref. stock.... Do. do. deferred .... Do. 4th Pret. stock .. Do. do. deterred .... Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. o. Gua 5 per cent..l Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India (hm gua. 5 per cent D . 4.1 per cent Do Great W a. of Canada.. D New . Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay 1873 , o. 5, do. pay. 1877-8 fndian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do Do. 4i do Do. Filth Extension ,Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel & Hudson's Bay New Brunswick & Can Class A and I.C'da, pc let pf.bds Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do td Do. Punjaub 1 Do.lnduB St Flo " 66 68 16 17 8J 91 10i 1. 7 47i .18i. 7 6 133 1:34 1481 149 131 33 87 89 ;5; 26 65 67 53 55 46 49 i 0! 103 119} 120 'B6 . 68 107 109 42 13 121 123 i 96 07 61 63 130 131 2ip 137 1374 106 118 51 25 111 112? 691 701 103 ) 114 37 38 It 12p 9 10 115 113 1 14p 78 79 11 11 , 138 142 48 50 61 62 54 5 86/ 67i 9 10 155 151 3 4p 107 109 46 48 74 77 FIONS. 50 ,3 102$ 1031 pr Op 4 4& ri 0 70 gg jot 75 8 5 1(1 10i 102 104 101 105 iP 16 18 97 9') 60 65 50 55 50 55 45 50 43 48 41 44 23 25 22 24 104 IPS 11)1 I 1011 102, 8f 111- Ind 85 s ,O 75 78 Id , 1011 4 1024 93 95 89 91 64 66 3 5 82 81 1014 102:i 101,E IG2t ;41 pr 1011 102 ' 94 97 3 .14 st st st 50 20 10 10 too I too too 11 13 It 3 Si 31 S 3 520 530 20 25 15 17 14& 15 74 81 6 8 574 at 180 190 100 103 30 35 11 13 201. 210 19 20 eItEFERENCE 811AltICS. great Eastern, E. Counties EL, No. 1, - .105 Great Eastern, E. U., 4 per cent. gua., 81 Great Northern 5 per cent., 112 i Great orthern, 4a per cent., red. at 10 percent. pm., 101 I.itto, 5 per cent., redeemable at 5 per cent., 106 Great Western, West Midland, Newport perp. 6 per cent. opt. till 69, 1 . 15 31k! Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, 1)i to. Bristol and Birm., 6 p• r cent., Ditto, 44 per cent. pt. stook rd., Litt°, 44 per cent. irred., 101 FOREIG,4 RAILWAYS. ahla and San Francisco klirti.) gua. 7 per cent., 151 Dutch Rhenish, 22k South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 22 BANIth. Agra and Mtsterman's, Ihm. Ditto, new, 60 60 Charteredllri t z a li c i e n ' a ß n il a d " Li k'Oo3rftrnidu India, ,1 im Australia,. l l c Co o no n l lednattaTißi m a m , and China, 28f 9 101 Ditto, new, izi Hindustan. ,hina, and Japan (11m.), 22} Ditto, issuedfat 2 pm., 21f Imperial Bans, litn., 30, I Imperial Ottoman, 171 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim.. London and Brazilian 0 49' London and County, 78 London Joint Stock, 49 London and South African, 22} London and Venezula, lim , 6 Mercantile and Exchange. iim., 7 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 17f Ditto (£10), 7 National Provincial of England. Ditto. 3d issue, 46f Oriental Bank Corporation, 631 Union of Australia, 65 Union of London, 551 5 MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Mort. Lar.dand Finance, lirn., 3E3 derlin Water Works, lim.„ 10f City Offices, Bra., 5! - Credit Fonder and:lllobiller of England, 91 10 Ditto, new, 91 Crystal t ta ln l d P i a a l n a" Fin 6 an pe c r li c i e , n i t im . pz Ebbw Vale, 71 petl. deb., 113; Egyptian Com. and Trading, lira., 4 E•ghat' and Australian Copper, 11 Financial Corporation, it ff Gen. Credit and Finance oI London, Um., 61 1 Hudson's Bay, 151 Imperil Mercantile Credit A sso., lira., 61 international Financial society, Rm., 61 Joint Stock Discount, lira.. 8 7i 1 London and Caledonian §larine, lim., 5i London Financial Association, lira., 221 a 1 London General Omnibus Company,_3l M dras Irregation and Canal, it Ditto (all), 201 Milwall Iron Works, 61 National Discount Company, lira., 151 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Mail, Urn., 431 Pen'nsula and Oriental Steam. r 6 QuebrAda Land, Rail, and Mining, 5 itoyalMail Steam. 1001 1 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, lira., 231 Silver a Inuia-rubbe, Works and Tel. Cable, 121 ft 13 - Telegrai h construe. and Maintenance, Um., 8i Van Diemen's Land, 9 81 Warrant Finance, lint. , 81 100 10 1(0 1 0 100 OSSE, 100 {l.O l . 2 100 100 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECUIi British Columbia, 6 pert cent„ Dec.3l. 1572: Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.dt July 18;7-4 Do p. c. Feb &Au D . 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept I rO. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p Inscribed skl Cape G.Hopc, 6 p.c. 1873 pm April & Oct. 1880-4 Do. do! 1 , 9u-1' Do. Jan. & July, M Ceylon, Nov 1888, 6 p.c Do. 1878, do Mauritius,p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1,78 Do. .882, May 5, Nov. Natal • ov. o per cent.. N.B.Gov 6 p.c.Ja.&.l uly N. s. W. Gov. 5 wc.,1856 Do. 5 p.c. 18 1 to .:875 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189! New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 6 per Lent.... Nova Sc tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c Aus.Gov. 6 p.c 18 , 8-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vio,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July Do. do, a pril & Oct BRITE Cam Conga. iA old, lim Chiverton Clifford A malgamated Devon G. Cons. (Taoist Drake wal is East Bassett (Illogan) East Cara , ion as t Carn Brea East G:enville . East Love.l E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam. & StA übyn(Gwen. Great L xcy, limited Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor (Heist Grenvilie Herod's Foot Ilingston Downs Margaret , May Lelant Marke Valley wy ndy Iron Ore, lits Nangi les .. dew Sewn North Downs North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan, North Whe,tl Crofty Prosper l Tnited Pr vidence tiny IManti S. Caradon (St. Cleer) S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tin Croft West i assett (Mogan W. Caradon (L skeard West C hi rerton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Whea LudosAt Wheal NI ary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Tielawney ilia. Wheal Uni n.......... 89 92 89 92 80 02 77 80 77 60* 106 106 108 10 100 106 1(8 112 101 1(5 107 102 104 105 107 108 109 104 106 94 96 98 100 93 95 91 93 103 105 87 90 91 06 103 105 106 108 1061 104 INES. 41 5i 3') 570 5S- 190 100 100 10 100 100 11 M 118.18.91 30.17.6 THE STN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1865. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TAT T ERS ALL S'-YESTERDAY. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 100 to 30 agst John Davis (taken) 4to 1 agst Tomato (taken) 100 to 15 agst Grace Darling (taken) Bto 1 agst Accident (offered) 10 to 1 agst Suspicion (taken) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 11 to 2 agst Grinder (off—take 6to 1) 10 to 1 agst Mail Train (offered) 15 to 1 agst Paris (offered) 20 to 1 agst Lampoon (taken) 28 to 1 agst Moulsey (taken) 33 to 1 agst Perfumer (taken and offered) 50 to 1 agst Ackworth (taken) TWO THOUSAND. 9to 4 agst Lid.dington (offered) 3to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken freely) 15 to 1 agst Ariel (taken and offered) 15 to 1 agst Zambezi (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Broomielaw (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Chattanooga (offered) 25 to 1 agst Koenig (taken) 100 to 1 agst Richmond (taken) CHESTER CUP. 11 to 1 agst Lord Zetland (taken) 100 to 8 agst Ackworth (taken) 14 to 1 agst La Toucques (taken) 100 to 7 agst Lion (offered) 15 400 1 agst Victorious (taken) 33 to 1 agst Buckfoot (taken) DERBY. 11 to 2on the field (offered) Bto 1 agst The Duke (taken) 100 to 6 agst Bedminster (taken) 20 to 1 agst Zambesi (taken) 20 to 1 agst Oppressor (taken) 30 to 1 agst Ariel (taken) 33 to 1 agst Chattanooga (taken) 40 to 1 agst Wild Charley (taken) 50 to 1 agst Joker (taken) 100 to 1 agst Grappler (taken) CITY BETTING —YESTERDAY. —...ESTERDAY. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 7to 2 agst John Davis (offered) 4to 1 agst Tomato (taken) 7to 1 agst Grace Darling (take Bto 1) 10 to 1 agst Wandering Minstrel (taken) CITY AND SUBURBAN. sto 1 agst Grinder (taken) 10 to 1 agst Mail Train (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Lampoon (taken) 25 to 1 agst Moulsey (taken) 30 to 1 agst Perfumer (offered) 50 to 1 agst Argonaut (taken) CHESTER CUP. 10 to 1 agst Lord Zetland (offered) 12 to 1 agst Ackworth (taken) 15 to 1 agst La Toucques (taken and offered) 15 to 1 agst Victorious (offered) 100 to 6 agst Lion (offered) 25 to 1 agst Buckfoot (taken) 40 to 1 agst Tartar (taken) THE TWO THOUSAND. 9 to 4 agst Liddington (taken and offered) 3to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken) 14 to 1 agst Ariel (taken) 100 to 6 agst Chattanooga (taken) 20 to 1 agst Gladiateur (taken) 20 to 1 agst Koenig (taken) 25 to 1 agst Zambezi (taken) DERBY. 33 to 1 agst Ariel (taken) RACING FIXT Newmarket Craven l7 Durham Canterbury Spring Abergavenny 2O Newmarket Ist Spring 1 Chester - 9 York Spring Salisbury lB St. Columb l6 Redditch Chelmsford 7 Manchester Summer Ascot l3 Beverley l4 Liverpool Alexandra Park 2O Newmarket July Carlisle Worcester Abingdon Stamford l3 Winchester lB AUG Brighton • 1 Brighton Club Lewes 4 Huntingdon Wolverhampton Reading Egham l5 Royal Windsor SEPTE Leicester 7 Doncaster Brecon lB Richmond OCTO. Northallerton 5 Newmarket 2d Oct 9 Vincennes NOTE: Liverpool Autumn RES FOR 1865. Thirsk 2l Cardiff 25 Epsom Spring I Salisbury lB North Herts Yeomanry 19 Bath 23 Harpenden 26 Epsom 3O 'NB. Hampton 2l Newton Newcastle Odiham Bidbury Stockbridge Nottingham Southampton Chesterfield Goodwooa Down Royal Corp 18 19 20 25 I York Plymouth 1 Lichfield 2B Devon and Exeter 29 Derby Summer 3O Weymouth 3l Baden 3l Stockton — IMBER. Monmouth 2l Manchester Autumn Newmarket Ist Oct 26 Walsall BER. Newmarket Ho; M 23 Vincennes SABER. I Shrewsbury [ADVERTISEMENTS.] G. R. OLENIE, Sporting Library, 4,Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, supplies the Latest Edition of " TEE SUN " round the Royal Oak and Notting-hill by eight o'clock. Baily's Spring Turf Guide, this day, 2s. 6d. post free.— Commissions executed. STATE OF TRADE. --0 BRADFORD, April 13.—The depression which has so long continued in the worsted trade was more marked to-day perhaps than it has been previously. The prospects since last week have, if anything, be come darker. Woolstaplers find the greatest diffi culty in effecting sales of wool even at a reduction in price, and the caution of buyers was more appa rent to-day that at any previous period since the depression began. The tendency is to reduce pro duction to the utmost. The prices of wool are quite nominal, and so irregular that they cannot be quoted. There was the same absence of demand in worsted yarns. There were scarcely any inquiries, and the orders placed were for almost immediate delivery and in small quantities. Prices were still in favotir of the buyer. The same inactivity pre vailed in the piece-market. THE WEATHER.—A heavy storm of lightning and thunder, accompanied by a copious fall of rain, passed over the greater portion of the West Riding of Yorkshire, on Wednesday evening last. Yesterday the temperature was warm and genial, and all kinds of vegeta tion wore an improved appearance from the much needed rain which fell on the previous day. Though the spring is of a backward character, the season has been a good one for clearing , the land and for sowing spring grain, and there is now a fair prospect for agriculture and horticulture in general. The thunder-storm also passed over the North and East Ridings. The four previous days had been very hot for the season. The storms were accompanied by heavy rains, which were much wanted, and yesterday was warm and fine. No damage from lightning has been reported. SUICIDE OF A CONVICT IN HORSEMONGER-LANE GAOL.—Yesterday an inquest was held in Horsemonger lane Gaol on the body of W. Percival, aged 39, who was under sentence of twenty years' penal servitude for at tempting to murder his wife by stabbing her in various parts of the body. Deceased had complained of hunger shortly before his death, and was found in his cell sus pended, by means of some plaited jute, to the pipe that takes off the heat and smoke of the gas. He was quite dead, but warm. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased destroyed his life whilst in a state of temporary insanity. A NARROW ESCAPE.—Lieutenant-Colonel Baron Vander-Smissen, commander of the Belgian detach ment in Mexico, has narrowly escaped being killed by one of his officers, Captain Delannoy, son of the general of that name, in a duel arising out of the following incident. Some days after the arrival of the detachment in Mexico the com manding officer received from the Emperor Maximilian four letters of invitation to a court ball. Lieutenant-Colo nel Vander-Smissen having distributed the cards to four officers of aristocratic family, Captain Delannoy, when at table on the following day, made an observation rather offensive to the commander. " There are not here," said the captain, "either nobles or commoners ; there are only officers, and no distinction between them should be made.' At these words the lieutenant•-colonel raised his arm and made a disdainful movement towards his subordinate, who had taken the liberty to give him a lesson. On the follow ing day Captain Delannoy sent his seconds to the lieu tenant-colonel, and a hostile meeting with pistols was the result. The captain fired first, and his bullet grazed the ear of his antagonist. The latter, who was accustomed to amuse himself at Brussels by killing swallows on the wing, with pistols loaded with ball, declared that he had done wrong, and refused to fire in his turn. "I will not kill you," he said to Captain Delannoy, "for I was to blame." The Right Hon. Thomas Milner. Gibson, M.P., is expected to return to town to-morrow from Cowes, Isle of Wight. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MARYPORT AND CARLISLE. A special meeting of this company was held at Afaryport on Wednesday; Mr. G. W. Hartley in the chair. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of a resolu tion approving a bill to enable the company to con struct the Derwent branch, enlarge Bullgill station, and purchase lands and raise moneys. Mr. MOUNSEY seconded the motion, which was carried. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the directors were authorised to borrow on mortgage the sum of £20,000, under the Act of 1862. Mr.W. LAWSON, M.P. , drew attention to the desira bility of amalgamating the small lines of West Cum berland. They had in that district, including the Solway Junction and Cockermouth and Keswick, seven miles of railway, seven companies, seven boards of directors, and seven sets of officials. A great desire had recently been expressed that some amalgamation should take place. It was true they had one line paying 7 per cent., another 10 per cent., and another 18 per cent., but that was no reason why they should not amalgamate if by spending less they might make more for dividend. Mr. T. AINSWORTH expressed himself strongly in favour of an amalgamation of the West Cumberland lines, as likely to lead to a more economical and better working of the whole. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors concluded the proceedings. NORTH BRITISH AND EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW. - - Mr. Hodgson, M.P., the chairman of the North British, has intimated to the proprietors that terms for a complete amalgamation with the Glasgow line have been finally arranged on a mutually advan tageous basis, and the shareholders' sanction to the arrangements as under is to be sought at a special meeting on the 10th inst. The conditions of amal gamation are as follows :—" The North British and Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Companies are to be amalgamated and become one company from and after the Ist August, 1865. All liabilities on capital account and all property and assets due by, or be longing to, either company on said account shall be assumed by and belong to the amalgamated company from that date. All liabilities on the revenue ac count of either company due on the 31st July, 1865, shall be discharged by the indebted company out of its revenue, the free balance on said account being at the disposal of the company to which it belongs. The gross revenue from and after the said Ist of August shall, after the deduction of all charges and working expenses, be applied as fol lows :-1. In payment of the interest of the deben ture debt and stocks of both companies. 2. In pay ment of rents and preference dividends of both companies created up to the date of this agreement, ranking inter se according to the date of their creation, including also the Monklands, when their amalgamation is passed. 3. In payment of a pre ference dividend to the Edinburgh and Glasgow ordinary stock at the rate of 4/ per cent. 4. For payment to the North British ordinary stock of a dividend until that stock receives the rate of 3 per cent., the Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee and other stocks to receive their proportions as at present. 5. In paying the Edinburgh and Glasgow and North British ordinary stocks an additional dividend until the Edinburgh and Glasgow reach 5 per cent., and the North British 3- per cent. 6. In paying the North British ordinary stock another additional 3- per cent. till their dividend reaches the amount of 4 per cent. 7. In paying the Edinburgh and Glas gow and North British ordinary stocks such divi dends as the company may declare, the Edinburgh and Glasgow continuing always 1 per cent. in ad vance of the North British dividend. The Board of the amalgamated company shall consist of, not ex ceeding, 15 members, to be elected at a special meeting of shareholders, to be called within one month of the amalgamation becoming law. ST. ANDREWS. The half-yearly meeting took place at St. An drews on Monday; Mr. W. Smith in the chair. The report stated that the capital expenditure amounted to £26,211, that the revenue for the half year was £1,904, and the expenditure £907, exclu sive of mileage to the North British Railway. The directors recommended a dividend of 41 per cent. on the share capital. The CHAIRMAN stated that the traffic continued to prosper, and that the line was in excellent con dition. He moved the approval of the report, which was unanimously agreed to, and the retiring direc tors were re-elected. MELBOURNE AND HOBSON'S BAY. The traffic receipts of this company's line, six miles in length, amounted for the four weeks end ing the 16th of February last, to £3,489 for pas sengers, and to £2,985 for goods—total, £6,474, being at the rate of £270 per mile per week, against £5,939, or £247 per mile per week, showing an in-- crease of £535 for the four weeks, or £23 per mile per week. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines for the week ending the 25th of March amounted on 1,377 miles to £26,310, and for the corresponding week of last year to £24,781 on 2,335 miles, show ing an increase of £1,529. VICTORIAN. The traffic receipts of the Victorian Government lines for the year 1864 amounted on 251 miles open to £515,707, and for ,the year 1863 on 196 miles open to £464,771, showing an increase of 55 miles or 27.1 per cent. in length, and of £30,936 or 10.96 per cent. in the receipts. SINGULAR PROGNOSTICATION.—OR Wednesday last the Rev. Stephen Barclay Drury, an unmarried clergyman of 26, who has for about 12 months acted as the curate of Phillack and Gwithian, had a conversation with the brother of the rector of those parishes, Mr. Chas. Hockin, and related a dream which he described as a very singular one, and as having made a deep impression on him. His words were :—" I dreamt I was to be buried, and I followed my coffin into the church, and thence to the tomb. I took no part in the service, and when we came to the tomb I looked into it and saw it was very nice. I then asked the undertaker who was to be buried, and he an swered You.' I then said, 'I am not to be buried—l am not dead.' The undertaker then said, I must be paid for the coffin ;' upon which I awoke." On Sunday morning and afternoon Mr. Drury officiated at Gwithian, and, after the second service, remained with the children to practise s i ng i n g. Returning to his lodgings in Gwithian at half past four he waited a little, took with him Thomas h Kempis' " Christian Pattern," and set out for a walk, ac companied by a Newfoundland dog. He asked for a bit f o mighta with gi happyvt h e thee mood.rd eo dog dip, and started in his usuallycheerful nln an hour and a half the d r o d g round his ne c k. M r . D rur y was never again seen alive. absence th roug h ou t th e night occasioned no surprise, as he so me ti mes went to and slept at Copperhouse, two miles off. On Mond a y morn i ng oe as returnedhhe a Gwinear miner, in quest of seaweed at low water, near the rocky shore of tiodrevy, saw a body in a pool 70 or 80 yards from the sea. Mr. Drury's gold chain was about his neck, and his watch-case—the workings of the watch had apparently been knocked out by the sea. His book was in his coat pocket ; his hat was gone ; and his pockets were filled with sand. The body was forty yards from rocks about thirty feet high, and a pathway led from the preci pitous cliffs above to these rocks. There was a cut over the right eye, and in the head, such cuts as, in the opinion of experienced men, would be caus e d b y a fall on rocks. Mr. Drury was quite dead and stiff. Au inquest, under the county coroner, Mr. John Roscorla, was held on Tuesday, at Gwithian, when these circumstances were elicited, and a verdict was returned of "Found drowned." From the facts, however, that Mr. Drury had never shown the least sign of depression—that he started with the expressed in tention of g i v ing the dog a dip, and that he was very near sighted—the general inference is that the unfortunate gentleman slipped on the rocks, was stunned, fell into the water, and so casually and singularly fulfilled his strange dream of a few days previously.—Cornish Telegraph. The LOCK-Gl:Yr.—Lord Lichfield has written to correct a statement made by Mr. George Potter in his journal (the Beehive), to the effect that " his (Lord Lich field's) proposal was not arbitration," but-a reference to his lordship's nominees, which could not be considered a selec tion of arbitrators in the ordinary sense. This has been set forth as a reason for the South Staffordshire men to reject his proposals; but the truth is that in the agree ment which was submitted to the men it is expressly pro vided that the matters in dispute shall be settled by the award of "such persons as Lord Lichfield shall name, with the consent of both parties thereto." The Russian Pestilence—lts Interpretation and Teachings. • (From the Lancet.) For the last fortnight the public mind has been per plexed and agitated by a subject of all-absorbing interest. The bloody battles in America, the fortifications of Canada, European politics, and the forthcoming budget have for the time been almost consigned to oblivion by the grim monster of the "Russian pestilence." Right rev. prelates, Lords and Commons, have demanded information from Government, which had little to give; and the excitement in the British Houses of Parliament has fairly represented that existing amongst all classes of the community throughout the length and breadth of the land. Contradictory telegrams have only served to increase the confusion and alarm. According to some accounts the " Russian pestilence " was Asiatic cholera; according to others, Oriental plague, "with car buncles and pestilential buboes ;" according to others, epidemical inflammation of the spleen, or pustula maligna ; and, according to others, " black death." But the general impression was that a new disease —" the Siberian plague," more malignant and fatal than any fatal malady hitherto known—had appeared in the world ; and that, taking its origin in the Ural mountains, it was slowly but surely working its way westward, so that in due course of time it might certainly be expected to arrive on our own shores. Two medical officers have been despatched by Government to see what could be done to stop it on its march ; and in structions been issued by the Lords of the Privy Council to the commissioners of customs to be on the alert to ward off the expected in vas i on. A letter from Dr. Murchison, published in the Times of April 7, has tended greatly to dissipate the public alarm. If, says that gentleman, the details furnished by foreign physicians are to be relied on, it is not a new pest which has invaded the world, nor has the disease any relation whatever to Asiatic cholera ; but the epidemic is composed of two diseases already well known in this country, viz., relapsing fever and typhus. Relapsing or recurrent fever—the " fievre k rechute " of French writers—under different designations, has been well known in Britain and Ireland for nearly two centuries. It constituted a great part of the Irish epidemic of 1847; and, about the same time, it was very prevalent in Upper Silesia, and in other parts of Germany. One peculiarity of relaps ing fever is that it prevails in great epidemics, and then entirely disappears for years. In 1851 more cases of relapsing fever were admitted into the London Fever Hos pital than of any other fever; but for upwards of ten years not one case has been observed. The intervals between some of the epidemics have been sufficiently long for a new generation of medical men to spring up having no experi ence of the disease, and who, on the occurrence of a fresh outbreak, have imagined that they were encountering anew malady. So it was in Scotland in 1843, and so it is now in the case of the Russian epidemic. As many of our readers may never have seen a case of relapsing fever,we transcribe the following condensed description of it from Dr. Murchi son's work on the " Continued Fevers of Great Britain :" "A contagious disease, which is chiefly met with in the form of an epidemic during seasons of scarcity and famine. Its symptoms are—a very abrupt invasion, marked by rigors or chillness ; quick, full, and often bounding pulse ; white moist tongue, sometimes becoming dry and brown ; tender ness at the epigastrium ; vomiting, and often jaundice; enlarged liver and spleen; constipation ; skin very hot and dry ; no characteristic eruption ; high-coloured urine ; severe headache, and pains in the back and limbs ; restless ness, and occasionally acute delirium ; an abrupt cessation of all these symptoms, with free perspiration, about the fifth or seventh day. After a complete apyretic interval (during which the patient may get up and walk about), an abrttpt relapse on the 14th dayfrom the first commencement, running a similar course to the first attack, and terminating on or about the third day of the relapse ; sometimes a second or even a fifth relapse ; mortality small, but occa sionally . death from sudden syncope, or from suppression of urine and coma; after death no specific lesion, but usually enlargement of the liver and spleen." On comparing this description with that of the Russian epidemic by Dr. Tillner, physician to the Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, no doubt can remain as to the identity of the diseases to which they refer. Relapsing fever, however, fails to account for the great mortality occasioned by the Russian epidemic. As a rule only one person dies from relapsing fever of every 40 at tacked, whereas the Russian epidemic is said to have num bered its victims by hundreds daily, and 40 physicians were reported to have died from it, although in the latest accounts this number has dwindled down to "four or five." There is every reason to believe that this mortality has for the most part been due to typhus. Almost every epidemic of relapsing fever has been accompanied by an epidemic of typhus. Now, typhus is at all times a most formidable and a most fatal disease. Its rate of mortality in this country is usually nearly 20 per cent., and, in unfavourable circum stances, this rate may be greatly surpassed. Of the French troops in the Crimea, one half of those attacked with typhus died ; amongst the Russians even this rate of mor- tality was exceeded. During the siege of Dantzic in 1813, it is stated that typhus carried off two-thirds of the garri son and one-fourth of the population—numbers which in dicate a frightful rate of mortality, as it is not probable that every individual was attacked. Of 25,000 French troops who escaped the disasters of the campaign of 1813, and who were afterwards besieged in Torgau, 13,448, or more than one-half, perished from typhus within the space of four mouths. Of the 60,000 troops composing the garrison of Mayence in 1813-14, there died of typhus 25,000. In the year 1847, it was calculated that no fewer than 500 medical men in Ireland, or about one-fifth of the total number, suf fered from typhus, and that 127 of those attacked died. It is needless to describe here the character of a disease so well known in this country as typhus. Suffice it to say, that it is clear from the information already in our posses sion that this is one of the diseases composing the Russian epidemic, and the facts now mentioned show that an epide mic of typhus is amply sufficient to account for the present mortality amongst the Russian poor. In a mixed epidemic of typhus and relapsing fever, the aggregate mortality will of course vary with the proportion of typhus. If, then, as seems more than probable, the Russian epi demic is composed of typhus and relapsing fever, it is the precise counterpart of that which devastated Ireland and Britain in 1847, after the failure of the potato crop, and which about the same time, and under like circumstances, committed equal havoc in Upper Silesia. But what are we to make of the " carbuncles and pestilential buboes," which are usually thought to be pathognomonic of Oriental plague? It is perhaps less generally known than it ought to be that carbuncles and buboes are a not very uncommon, though a very formidable, complication of typhus fever such as we meet with in this country. We find on inquiry that up wards of 150 cases of typhus thus complicated have been observed at the London Fever Hospital during the last three years. There can be little doubt, in fact, that inflam matory swellings beneath the skin constitute the connect ing link between the plague of former days and ordinary typhus, and that typhus is really the plague of modern times. For the present we shall be content with observing that Clot Bey, physician to the Pasha of Egypt, on visiting the London Fever Hospital some years since, was much struck with certain cases of typhus complicated with bu boes, and declared that in Egypt they would be regarded as examples of the plague. It would be far from surprising if such buboes were unusually common among typhus pa tients in an overcrowded Russian hospital. The important point, however, for the public to know, is, that the poison which gives rise to typhus with buboes in this country is precisely the same as that which causes typhus without buboes. What determines the development of buboes is the condition of the recipient of the poison and the circum stances in which he is placed. Consequently the public have no need to fear that the poison of typhus imported from St. Petersburg would lead to the development of Buboes oftener than the typhus poison which is indigenous and at present so very widely distributed in our own country. But, after all, the frequency of carbuncles and buboes in the Russian epidemic has probably been greatly exagge rated. This is apparent from the last accounts transmitted by her Majesty's Ambassador at St. Petersburg, which, by the way, tend to confirm in a remarkable manner the view now taken of this epidemic, and to show that it is already on the decrease. We extract the following from an official despatch published on April 10 : "Another physician has confirmed my previous reports on the fever here. Dilated pupils are a symptom of re current fever, but typhus is the more general disease. I believe there have been no cases with carbuncles or buboes. The disease is decreasing, and there are vacant beds in the hospitals." We must not omit to state that mention has been made of an epidemic inflammation of the membranes of the brain and spinal cord in connection with the Russian epidemic. This malady has been spoken of as prevailing in St. Peters burg, but more especially in the district of Dantzic, on the Polish frontier of Prussia, and in Brunswick, Hesse, and Hanover. This disease would appear to be the so-called epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, and which has been described by different writers as occurring in Ireland, France, India, Norway, Denmark, Algiers, and America. In the United States of America a very formidable and fatal outbreak of the disease exists at the present time. Mr. Radcliffe has directed attention to the resemblance between the epidemic now prevailing on the Vistula and the Ameri can epidemic. The latter is as rapid in its course and as deadly as the former, while the evidence of contagion in either is exceedingly slight. But it is certain that many of the descriptions of epidemics of cerebro-spinal meningitis refer to typhus with strongly developed cerebro-spinal symptoms. If, therefore, this Prussian meningitis be, as some reports state, " decidedly infectious," this is probably its real nature. It is necessary to bear in mind that many years have not elapsed since not only the symptoms but the post-mortem appearance of ordinary British typhus were ascribed to " cerebro-spinal meningitis." Like all epidemics of relapsing fever, that of Russia has supervened during a season of universal privation and suf fering amongst the poor. In most of the accounts of Irish epidemics of relapsing fever, and in that of the Silesian epidemic, it is stated that the inhabitants wore not only starving, but that they subsisted on unwhol3some articles of diet, such as the roots of trees, grass, fungi, &c. Hence relapsing fever is in this country often designated "famine fever," and in Germany "hunger-pest." The Russian poor, we axe told, have been reduced to the necessity of 13 4 144 9 119 f 88 7} 108 i 8 421 1231 t 3 1 1 961 71 .611 12011 30 136& 7; 1 1066 51i 4 112 i 79 8! i 87 61 107 8 1031 1031 101 i 24 } 1011 4 f ITIES. eating bread containing a large quantity of horned rye. But the result of famine has usually been that the poor have flocked from the country districts to swell the pauper population of large towns, which become more crowded the longer the famine lasts. As this crowding increases fever which results from crowding (typhus) is gradually superadded to that which is more immediately the result of destitution (relapsing fever). The same thing has occurred in Russia. " The chief cause of this disease," says Dr. Till ner, "is supposed to be the arrival in St. Petersburg of an immense number of workmen from the neighbouring pro vinces, and even from the more distant towns. It is said that there are just now in the capital 43,000 workmen more than the usual number. The consequence is that they can not get work, and are obliged to live in unhealthy locali ties." In this country both typhus and relapsing fever are diseases of the poor, and rarely attack the rich or well-to - do, excepting medical men and clergymen, whose avoca tions bring them into close contact with infected persons. The accounts of the Russian epidemic state that the dis eases composing it are also "exclusively confined to the poorer classes." From these considerations we aro led to conclude that the public need be under little apprehension as to the importation of the Russian epidemic into Eng land. The more formidable of the two diseases cow.- posing it is here already. During the last three years typhus fever has been prevailing among the poor of London to an extent rarely if ever beforo known. It is surprising that while our Government so readily institutes inquiries into the epidemics of our provincial towns, and even into those of Russia and Germany, comparatively little has hitherto been done by our municipal authorities and medical officers of health towards investigating or ar resting the epidemic which is at our doors. The lesson to be learned from the Russian pestilence is, not to create a panic by encouraging the popular fear as to the invasion of these shores by a new disease, but to endeavour to expel an unwelcome guest, which for years has been spreading far and wide misery and death, but which, with proper precautions, ought no longer to exist among us. SPIRIT or THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The elaborate decision of four Canadian Judges in the ‘‘ Lake Erie case" has been followed by one of an opposite tenour in that of the " St. Alban's raiders." The extradition of these persons on the charge of robbery has been refused by Judge Smith, but they have been remanded, on the appli cation of the prosecution, to another charge of as sault with intent to murder. That issue, however, can hardly be determined by the same Judge on principles different from those laid down in the judgment already delivered, and unless the prisoners should be convicted of an offence against the muni cipal law of Canada there is reason to fear that they may escape justice altogether. We feel no scruple in openly deprecating such a result. Whatever the legal obstacles to their punishment, their avowed acts were absolutely lawless, and a flagrant violation of our neutrality. Having sought an asylum in Canada, they crossed the frontier to Vermont in small parties, pillaged the bank of St. Alban's, fired the public buildings, used deadly weapons against all who resisted them, and fled back into Canada with their plunder. The unjustifiable order issued by General Dix, and afterwards withdrawn, may have diverted the public mind for a time from these facts, but it cannot their nature. The demand for extradition was made in due course, and proceedings were promptly taken upon it, but the defendants pleaded for time to obtain evidence from Richmond. 'This request was granted, and the hearing postponed for a month, at the end of which they were dis charged by Judge Coursol on a technical point connected with the warrants for their apprehension. The sequel is well known; the Canadian Government instituted a new prosecution, and the judgment re ported in our American intelligence of yesterday confirms, on different grounds, the view taken by Judge Coursol. Some degree of attention is neces sary in order to disentangle the material rationes decidendi in this judgment from the many irrelevant passages which encumber it. Judge Smith is cle ar ly of opinion that a robbery within the State of Ver mont, or what would have constituted a robbery if committed in Canada, was brought home to Young and his associates. The defence, and the only de fence, was that this robbery was divested of crimi nality by virtue of its being committed under the authority of the Confederate Government. This, of course, raised the question so fully discussed in the case of Anderson and that of the Gerrity—whether ' a magistrate adjudicating upon a demand for extra dition is at liberty to go beyond the prima facie aspect of a crime, and to hear evidence in special justification of it. Judge Smith held that he was, and proceeded to deal with the charge on this as sumption. He argued that the production of a com mission from the Government of a State recognised by Great Britain as a belligerent covered everything done under it, and that whereas an Act cannot be at once private and public, a municipal offence and a national wrong, the raid upon the St. Alban's Bank did not fall within the scope of the Extradi tion Treaty. Now, without entering into any subtle examination of the general doctrine that a commis sion is conclusive against a charge of murder or robbery, we cannot but see that a great deal turns on the character of the commission. We have not the advantage of having all the facts and documents before us; but there are expressiOns of Judge Smith himself which suggest many doubts to our mind. He does not go so far as to say that a bona fide commis sion directly authorising the raid was produced in court, but rather seems to imply that it may be inferred from circumstances. Such a commission, had it existed, would surely have been forthcoming in the first instance, or at least after communication with Richmond h a d been allowed for this very pur pose. The judge, indeed, states that Young, after residing three or four months in Toronto, had gone to Richmond and received a commission, but was it a commission empowering him to do what he did in defiance of international law ? We are without precedent in point, for Burley, the leader of the Lake Erie raiders, actuallyproduced two certificates, the one from Mr. Mallory, the other from President Davis, both of which were set aside for the very reason which we have suggested. The latter was a retrospective sanction of his enterprise as a legiti mate operation of war, but indicated that he was positively directed to abstain from any violation of neutral rights. If Young's commission was worded in the same manner, even though it were prospec tive, it could avail him little upon any supposition, but we are really without proof that he had any written authority to show. If he had, another and more serious question arises—the question whether a neutral State can, with a due regard to its own honour, take cognisance of a commission which can not be executed without a gross insult to itself. Let us assume that President Davis expressly autho rised Lieut. Young to collect a marauding party in Canada, to make that colony the basis of his opera tions, and to retreat thither with his spoils. Are we to accept the reasoning of Judge Smith, and ac quiesce in the position that " the moment the act is acknowledged to be a national one all private responsibility ceases ?" It is easy, no doubt, to 'imagine cases in which an extreme application of the contrary rule might work great injustice. Any military officer, for instance, honestly carrying out his orders might be hung as a malefactor, unless protected by the privilege of subordination. But, then, in order to claim, this privilege, a man ought at least to be engaged in legitimate warfare, even though he should exceed his instructions. An ex pedition alike unlawful in its inception and in its execution is a very different thing, and it is for jurists to consider whether Judge Smith is correct in declaring broadly that " in no sense can a viola tion of neutrality destroy the belligerent character." Certainly one of the arguments employed by the learned Judge does not add to the weight of his conclusion. Because General Dix ordered his sol diers to shoot down the plunderers, it does not fol low that they were not robbers in the eye of the law. We have nothing to do with General Dix's impressions, and there is something ludicrous in supposing that the legal s t a t u s of the prisoners could be affected by them. It would be well if the judg ment had stopped here, for the constru k ctiono f which extradition treaties in times of war is a has perplexed the most eminent Judges bottahsoininEinongs land and America, and upon which many areallowed himself Unfortunately,to launch out however,into topicsotwo opinions. a J ny Judge upon dge p Smith n it theh introduction of which there can b offenders,political NVI len `What offence,eou the could more s but on o iex press in moreWh a improper,c ould b e tmorehan t denouncegratuitous,andethn e policy thereforeo f whatsur rendering were n lu e njudicial, th an to ei South h ad d prisoners r b a conviction oearraigned political for any e a x s t i r m A l t e t di char g e , n o .no f tn r t o ot b h b as e at r y y the rights ? te unable tsoupspeeolrtvhoa of itsWe are quitgood end could be served by importing into the case the distinction bet.ween a rebellion and a civil war, or by protesting against flying in the face of the Queen's proclamation " to suit the political purposes of the North," or by predicting that Great Britain would be required to pay for all the damage done by the Alabama and her consorts. We are not aware that the validity of a Confederate commission for any purpose that would be justified by a Federal commission has ever been disputed. No one has doubted, because no one can doubt, that a Canadian Court is bound by the Queen's recogni tion of the Confederacy as a belligerent Power, or that acts of war performed in its legitimate service are not criminal acts. To harp on these truisms with emphatic allusions to the domineering spirit of the United States strikes us as purely mischievous, and if the close of the judgment is faithfully reported by our Toronto contemporary it is open to still graver exception. The Judge actually appears to maintain that the Extradition Treaty having been construed, in a single instance, by an American court in a way which he considers to be erroneous, is no longer binding on this country as the other contracting party. Such a sentiment is really so monstrous that we cannot believe it was propounded by a Canadian judge ; but there is quite enough in the general tone of the judgment to make us regret that it was received with tumultuous applause. Acquittals are always popular, and there may be a certain generous sympathy for men whose alleged crimes were inspired by patriotic motives, and de void of a felonious intent. But the avowal of poli tical feelings is not consi s te n t w i t h t h e j ud i c i al ex position of the law, as Judge Smith himself pointed out in the early part of his judgment, and the cheers which he earned by the exhibition of these feelings on the judgment -seat will find no echo in this country. PosT.—The eloquent tribute paid to the character and the services of Richard Cobden by the Imperial Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the despatch ad dressed to the French Ambassador in this country, nisataiols, graceful and di gn ifi e d express i on of the senti mentsiwhich,naybe enshrined regarded in as the, most union solidof the two no e b n i t of e ambition.the great l o n b jtehcet interests e a laborious e s ts o f hm humanity n is life yand a oitnu messential that the leading Powers of the world should the de d sameb y the ends same incht iescewo inspiration, an d that e ek t o t they fi s l h t o h u e l i rd be e e gil p i o a e s i t t o o n n y w c h an i b at d is en fac s t o oril la y rg f e u l lfil y e le o d n , tri in . t mis hat sio a n s; buted to promote, but which, it is right to observe, he never could have established on its present footing if his aspirations had not been discerned and shared i by the Emperor of the French. Cobden understood France, and Napoleon 111. under stood England, and the mutual understanding was arrived at on principles conducing to th e advantage, and compatible with the honour, of na tions recognising their obligations to each other, and animated by a sense of duty which, however variously manifested, is entertained and carried out under the control of one governing idea. The Government and the people of England will truly appreciate and cordially reciprocate the sympathy witnessing to an identity of opinion that is power fully calculated to strengthen those friendly rela tions upon the maintenance of which the peace of Europe and the progress of civilisation mainly de pend. In pronouncing a glowing panegyric over Mr. Cobden's grave, M. Drouyn de Lhuys has enunciated the truths that regulate the policy of the empire, and constitute the basis of an alliance we desire to perpetuate. We never remember an im pression so general as that excited by the death of this " international man." He was, indeed, pos sessed of the qualifications which obtain and deserve success, but infinitely more than that is required to call forth the European homage which has been ap propriately interpreted in the Imperial despatch, and especially seeing that he did not create the principles he applied, but simply brought them down from the regions of theory to the practical level of common sense. As regards France, this is ex plained by circumstances. We may not agree with M. Drouyn de Lhuys that the prejudices Mr. Cobden was exempt from can any longer be pro perly described as " national prejudices," but he certainly was. free from the irrational prejudices which still have, so to speak, a class subsistence in this country ; and that, no doubt, materially as sisted him in working out for the benefit of the French people the industrial and commercial pro blem he had previously solved in England. The deep concern that has everywhere found sponta neous expression admits, however, of only one con struction—and we do not advert to it to pay a com pliment to our friends on the other side of the Channel, but to underline the important fact that the service Mr. Cobden rendered to France is regarded in the light of an international service, and that the policy of the French Government is surely, though gradually, and in some parts imperceptibly, leavening the European antagonism which obstructs the advance of liberal ideas. Free trade has tended to the modifica tion of political opinions among ourselves, and in the hands of the Emperor of the French it will exercise a like influence over a much wider area. The barriers that have been broken• down have opened up a way for the progressive and pacific abatement of many existing abuses and anomalies, and, when the thin end of the wedge is admitted, it deppnds on the strength of purpose engaged whether it is driven home. Mr. Cobden has left the cause he made his own to be developed by the inflexible resolution of a Power which is fully equal to the responsibilities he was not in a position to under take. The communication which Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne has been requested to make to her Ma jesty's Government suggests also another remark. There can be no misapprehension about the friendly sentiments the Emperor of the French entertains towards this country. They have been repeatedly manifested, and are now again officially and em phatically exhibited. It must, however, be owned that these advances are not always met in a corre sponding spirit. The animus which is from time to time revealed in discussions respecting the Imperial policy is by no means conciliating, and, inasmuch as it does not represent the opinion of the great body of the nation, is, moreover, a double injustice. Nobody wants to restrict criticism, only let it be fair and honest ; and it is neither fair nor honest t eulogise Mr. Cobden for concluding a commercial treaty with France, and in the same breath, as it were, question the authority of the Government which entered into that engagement. Every Eng lishman must read the document we published yes terday with proud and heartfelt satisfaction. It is, in truth, an exceptional mark of distinction. The honour is not undeserved, but its award in this con spicuouswoffheierhs airreqemnarenktalyblseucbosnisttrasbtettwo between forma formal manner relations governments and countries. We have had a great ex ample set us—first, by the illustrious man whose loss we all deplore, and next by the Imperial Government of France, which has gone somewhat out of its way to convey to us its sense of a bereavement it claims the right to partake in. Such an act invites consi deration. Cobden, as M. Drouyn de Lhuys says, understood France ; and we will venture to add that all who, like Cobden, approach her without prejudice, may understand ; as he did, that the Second Empire expresses the deliberate convictions of the French nation. Naval and Military Intelligence. Her Majesty's screw gunvessel Plover, 5, 80- horse power, Commander the Hon. A. L. Corry, was paid off alongside Chatham dockyard yesterday under the superintendence of Capt. W. H. Stewart, C. 8., and the crew granted leave of absence for the usual period. Since the Plover has been in commission, a period of three years and eight months, she has been employed exclusively in the West Indies. Her crew have been remarkably healthy, one or two deaths having occurred on board during the whole time the ship was in commission. None of the crew have been recommended to the Admiralty for either the medal for good conduct or the gratuity - . The con tinuous service men have been granted six weeks' leave. Rear-Admiral Hastings B. Yelverton, C. 8., struck his flag on board her Majesty's screw steam ship Revenge, 73, Capt. the Hon. Fitzgerald A. C. Foley, in Plymouth Sound, on Wednesday e ven i ng, and on Thursday morning she was taken into , accompanied by Admiral Wdnesd T ay ho Hamoaze, and placed alo n g side t h e jetty in the dockyard for the purpo se of bein g dismantled. On Admiral M. C. Y e s ' v y e n r .i t 00 Symonds, s , superintendent at Devonport , visited an d inspected the ironcased screw s teamship Caledonia, 31, w hi ch it is expected Wednesday will succeed the Revenge. The whole of the naval, military, and other Go vernment establishments at Chatham will be closed to-day, and the workmen granted a holiday. Work will be resumed to-morrow morning, the exigencies of the public service not allowing the dockyard and naval establishments to be closed for two days at this time. A Captain's good service pension has lapsed by the promotion to flag rank of Capt. Geo. Douglas William O'Callaghan, consequent on the death of Rear-Admiral Thomas Henderson. The 16th Lancers, at present stationed at Nor wich, Ipswich, and Colchester, are under orders to proceed to Bangalore in the Carnatic. The regi ment will not leave England before July. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander Richard Wells, to the Narcissus ; Edward H. Arden, midshipman, to the Mutine ; T. F. 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