The Sun. — London, England, 1865-11-06 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market presents a slightly firmer appearance, although no important change is ap parent in the quotations upon which bills are negotiable. First-class paper has been taken at 6i per cent., but 7 per cent. is the general rate for the best commercial securities. It is supposed that the Brazil steamer on Wed nesday will take out £200,000 or £300,000 in sovereigns. The prospectus has appeared of the North Lon don, I lighgate, and Alexand r a P ar k Railway, which require s a capital of £260,000, in shares of y, £lO each. I ts object is to connect Edgeware, Finchle Highgate, Muswell-hill, and Upper Hol h)waY, with the North London Railway, and to establish a direct communication between the north of London and Alexandra Park, which will be a continuation of the main trunk line. The railway wil l Commence near the Caledonian-road Station, no the North London Railway ; will accommodate th e districts of Camden-town, Kentish-town, Tuf- Park, Upper Holloway, and Highgate, and verroinate by a junction with the authorised Edg- Ware and Highgate Railway (now nearly completed) a little to the north of Highgate Archway ; from When ce mining powers are secured to the company over the Edgware and Highgate Railway to 41ez andra-park and Muswell-hill. Interest at the rate of 5 per cent. is to be allowed on calls, and 6 Per cent. on shares fully paid up. Two o'CLoctc. At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 68 f. 07c. H eavy. No important change has taken place in the Eng lish Stock market to-day, and the amount of busi ness has been transfer, limited. Consols are 881 for 8 9* for the Bth, and 891 I for December. O ,., Th e New Thr ees and the Reduce d Annu i t i es are °II Exchequer Bills, March, 6s. dis. ; India 5 per Cents., 1044 105 ; ditto 4 per Cents. 96i ; and ditto Enfaced sfr per Cents. , 1071 Foreign Stocks have not varied to any important extent. Turkish Consolides are 44 4 ; Mexican, 25 1 # ; the New Loan, 244 ; Greek, 19 ; Spa nish Passive, 28* 4 ; the Certificates, 14 1 ; Italian, 64 I ; the Confederate Loan, 6 8 ; and the Bra zilian Scrip, 24 prem. A merican securities indicate steadiness. United s shares, Government 5-20 Bonds are 64 1 ; Erie *hares, 54 4; and Illinois, 82 1. Business in the Railway share market has been dull, and prices have not varied to any im portant extent. North Western and Midland have each improved 4 ; while Great Northern de 4ed• 1 , and Great Eastern 1. The Foreign and Colonial lines are inactive, ex eelit Grand Trunk of Canada which have advanced ce Ili"eank and Miscellaneous Shares continue dull. tof London are dealt in at 53} ; O r i en t a l a n k Corpontion, at 49 50 ; English Joint Stock, 13- 1 ; General Credit and Finance, a t ; eie r v erend, G urney, an d C o., at 14 ; Credit Fon and Mobilier of England old shares are quoted 11 prem. ; North London, Hi g h ga t e , an d e landra Park Railway, f 1 prem. ; Leeds Woollen -c , xtr a I"S• -e u and Spinning Co., 1i 2 prem. ; Transatlan tealaship Co., par, prem. ; and Pennsylvania nbricating Oil Lands, 11 BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 8 ge'vEmluxn. FUNDS. 9 8 De Cent. Consols 881 8 • .130. Account, Nor. 8 4.1,1!)Eir Cent. Reduced B7l f 7 i 871 1 7 4 7 ii .w e W 3 per Omit r I W 2 1 Per Cent. Jan. 1894 — A ...'°' per Cent. Jan. 1873 — -.o,nuities, 30 yrs . , expire sth Jan., 1880 —4 -',O. for 30 ys, expire sth pril,lBBs lie (Bed Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908. 1: ch Juno hl°h equer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 k3l per Cent. 6 dis Do. £5OO — 13 1:1° £lOO and £2OO DOa4k of England Stock, ii. per Cent 217 9 .A.ccatult Ihill,i,DlAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 — Do .A.ccount . 5 per Cent. July, 1870 •,, r) °. 4 per Cent, Oct. 1888 Do. -.0. Certificates _ Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent Dos per Cent, Jan. 1872 5i- per Cent., May 1879 lo7} O. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 D. Bonds, £l,OOO Pm D o. under £l,OOO A FO REIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. tili stri an Bonds, 5 p er C en t , 185 9 ' r ailian 5 per Cent Do. q per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do 1863 „ Do. 1865 4) 0. Scrip, £l5 paid B uenos , Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) ‘ , lailian 6 per Cent _ o. 4-} p er Cent Colombian 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Celt , 1825 lja D n o is . h 4 3 pe P r C C en e t„ . l_B_63 - __ , £25 paid Do. 5 per Cent., ip3 77 Danubian Principalities Do Account Equador New Cowen _ date d, 1 per Cent lll Do., Provisional Land Warra n t Zgypan 7 per Cent 95 41 Do., Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 92 11 2 Do £lOO Bonds u creek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, e x C o Coupons 191 1 19 Do. A ccou n t Do. Coupons D 0 Account 7 'ilateniala 5 per Cent. Do £B6 paid — i DO. 183 9 and 1850 4talian 5 per C en t (Maremana Rail wa y) 69 D o 1865 Account D 0 Scrip, £671 pa id k e l) ? 5 Per C en t. , 1864 xlcn 3 per Cent Li%• Account , Do 1864 — ---1-:°I tev 6 per C ent. A nglo-French )4:-0 Fre nch Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c _.• Ne idean 6 per Cen., X3O paid N °rieh Imperi a l 5 per t Cent Dej Granadalsl i e 2 per Cent — Defe 71 1 0 0 L rred P e ,, . aad Warrants (Hectares) wit ' an. 41 Cent — Do. Account per 0 0 • o c , e r iP, $.45 paid, paid in Bonds DO „Per Cent (Uribarren) — portll'i-143r Cent., 1862 Do r ese 8 Per Cent 1853 It °' Ac eennt Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 46 1 lis 2.-s ia , ll 5 Per Cent 1822 £St — 4i .„ ly:' .1- i Per Cont. 1850 Do J Per Cent., 1860 3 5 Per Cent. 1859 bo , per Cent 1862 B9l 1 tar,O, Per Cont. 1864 9ll Donlan 5 per Cent ,4-'o.Account iltlish 3 per Cent ip lie'vr Deferred 2 tecount B . 4sei've S na ° : 4c eount 28} 1 ~aish Cert. of Coup not funded — ~, .-,0 Account . 141 ..,Wern, bc7,o 4 per Cent 'Pu r ki i Per Cent. 1864 li?•T, ela 6 per Cent 1854 — DoAccount ....... . .• . te° Per Cent 185 . 8 o Account .£lOO $ cis D 1 °n t". 6 tePreCr enetn:tl862 0: A eeount 751 5 ,0 £lOO Bonds .p ." - , 6 Per Cent., 1863 76 51 /),;' ° A Per Cent. 1865 — b" Account 431 1 1 000!.£1C0 Bands d 44 Irel) i e e . z r i c e uri l arali a_ P' pe44s,:zi'cPe4ainr Cent D o Per Cent., 1862 bo 6 Account 361 1864 3B il en ti cls on the above payable in London. Cent , Ex. 10 Florins _ t l it i r e t ll) ::::: ci p e p:rr cent, Ex. 25f. b e a u. 2 1 Per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull 6l Fres,',..4per Cent. Certificates 941 601 i r. u per 1 per Cent. — o' 4 5 per Cent. 1861, Ex. 25f. — 0 Account! ' 64•1 4 °D o nil neY THREE O'CLOCK C" i g t ° t l 6 fo . r 881 1)0 _aLcount 881 • tlec. Settlement B9fr Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. --- lark et OPeIIS quiet. Sales, about 5,000 bales. ; ,1, T. e d and ouis of ae rode u., oe and i ng for inesses le nlohe Conti- uncial p r ince to the ed the 6. m esses riucos e, e, with; tended 3haPe l * cache' Wales visit at )1y stop :115 51 A"" of o 'l cocut4u in the galena onY Row" liigir (ors• "The vcd in "ebb, at iLadY y fror'' ye re. ;16311°1. SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. I p a i d. i Closing Business Price. • done. riatol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian.. • • • Cork and Bandon 92 94 127 129 94 96 12 14 5 6 67 7 1 71 73 Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & A b.J unc E.London, ,:crap Certi Do. Glasgow ctz S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern D. A stock Do. B stock IG9 111 46 47 7 8 1281 129 148 li9 Do. New. is. at 25 pm Gt S, and W. of Ireland Gt. Westeln -Original D . S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. MM.—Oxford 90 02 63 63, 61 63 41 43 36 39 104 105 12ti 5224 88 90 104 106 37 39 50 52 1241 325 95 97 671 98a± 137 1:?8 1 21 , 1 lep 10Z 104 Do. Newßoct. DO. Hereford Lanosshire &Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., ('hat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet. & Lincoln Metropolita:n. Do. New Do Extension... Metropolitan District. Do do. do. Do. and St. John'aW'd Midland Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. do Derby Mid Kent 125 j 126 16 21 95 97 61 6! 8 SO 110 111 'North British Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun. Nth. Eastern Berwick Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle . . ... Do. Stock. & Darling., Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E Aber. stock t)o. Scot, Mid. stack Shropshire Union South Devon south Eastern Staines, Wok., & Wok 'raff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha 1 West Cornwall BRITISH P Atlantic Az St. Lawrence Bom.,Baroda,AcCen.ln. gu. 5 per cent Do. N' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. Calcutta & 8. E., lim Cape Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p 1 East. Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk of Canad a Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.: Do. do..deferred Do. 2d Prt f. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pret. stock Do. do. deferred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c I 'o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent D 41 per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada.. Da. New .. ...... Do. 6 p. c. Bds_ pay 1873 )o. 5i do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 4f do Do. 4; do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay.. N. it C' da, 6pc let pf.bs. Scindc ...... Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Puniaub :. to2o Do.lndus SL.Floi""" COLONIAL GO VEIL IBritish Columbia, 6 per' cent., Deo. 31, 1372.... Can. Gov. 6 p c.Ja. & July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 00.5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. e. Inscribed sk Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 0o.Ap1.&Oc1 1890-1900 Do. do: 1880-9, , Do. Jan. &July, 1890-91 Do. sper cent. 15 April an cl - 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. c 1 1 Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan.. and July I Do. 1.78 - I Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. it Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug.. Natal liov. 6 per cent.. N.8.G0v.6 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c., 186 e Do. 5 p.c. 18 ; 1 to 1876 Do. 5 P.c. 1888 to 1892 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova SoJtia Gov. 6 p. C sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c J. Aus.Gov. 6 p,o 1868-i Do. 1878 & upwards Vio,Gov. 6 p.c. Jo & July Do. do, April & Oct 68 69 103 104 36 37 10 1I p 119 121 1} np . 1} Ifp 74 76 10,1 11 148 152 80 62 67 69 740 60j 84 94 149 151 3 4p, 103 105 1 50 52 79 11 14 ;S lONS. 67 69 102 103 id }T) 61 5 i 10 11 75 80 99 101 70 75 101 103 101 102 104 105 #p 25 26 88 89 67 69 55 60 57 59 50 52 46 5) 4 44 31 3!, 30 3: 1041 IC5i IP t f P 101 102 171 Y 76 3,1 3 d I i 96 88 85 67 1 ad 101 102 -93 95 83 90 64 66 82 84 10,4 1014 1001 10 1& I a 1001 1011 103 21 1021 104 j 5 4ft 241 51 5 SBk 3' 301 1 1051 5 T SECUI 95 97 93 65 93 95 81 83 81 83 103 105 103 105 103 105 1( 3 105 9' 92 1(2 IC4 109 llt 102 104 104 106 106 10' 1 107 100 1(2 95 97 9/ 101 93 95 90 91 103 105 84 83 99 101 102 103 106 108 105 106 BRITI Cam. Consol. Cold, Um Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cone. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Mogan) East Caradon 'East Carn Brea last Grenville East Gunnislake East Loveil E. WI _Russell (Tavistk StAubyn(Gvven. Great Lixey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal busy G. Wheal Vor (Heist Grenvilie ilerod's Foot •••• Elingston Downs Margaret (tiny Lelant Marke Valley Niwyndy Iron Ore, lim New Se ton North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (I llo,gan North Wheal Crotty Prosper United Pr, videnee Uny 'Adapt S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. klllogan Stray Park . Tin Croft Vigra and Clc gan, liru West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (L , skeard West Chi verton West Beton ...... . Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal M ary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis SH MINES. 9 10 20i 211 560 580 2.1.0 2.14.8 3f 2.14.0 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8.0 18 20 91 101 5} 5 1 21 1 15 16 3 2 1 20 21 14 2 4 11 251 864 24 3 39 41 41 Si 6 8 3 34 21 14d 40 50 10 12 i I lii 24 86 420 440 124 1761 1., 12 18 201 4 6 5 6 10 12 72 } 771 175 185 75 80 22 24 4 6 196 200 184 194 1 0 53 i It ritEFERENcE stiAttl9B . - Bristol and Exeter 4 per cent, stock, 89 90 Great Eastern, E. Comities Ex., No. 1, 104 Great Northern, 5 per cent., rd. at 10 per cent. pm., 107 Ditto, 41 per cent., redeemable at 10 per cent.,lloo Ditto, 5 per cent., 106 Great Western, Original (Berke and Hants Ex.) 5 per cent , Ditto, 4i per cent. pt. stook rd., 92 Mid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 1301 Ditto, 41 per cent. pt. st, rd., 931 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Ditto 4f per cent., rd., 93 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 41 per cent. pt., 86 North British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., 811 South Eastern, 5 per cent. Charing-cross, 1563, 101 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, Ditto, 5 p:r cent., 111 Hull and Selby, 118 London Tilbury, and Southend, 103 21 Northern and Eastern, 6 per cent., 60 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco gua. 7 percent., 144 Great Luxembourg, 191 1 Namur and Liege gua. 141. per annum, 9 1 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 1' 1 San Paulo, lim., gua. 6 per cent., 172 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 162 FOREIGN MINES, St. John del Rey, lim., 471 8 Washoe Gold, lim., 10 BANKS. Agra and Masterman's, lim., 57 62 Anglo Egyptian, lim., 14 Australasia, 711 Bank of British Columbia, 222 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China, 231 1 Commercial Banker.of olin Indiadia, and London,th the East,nd China ,3l Ens ish Joint Stock, lim., 131 128 131 1 English. Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 21 European Bank, Um.. 124 Imperial Bank, Um.. 29 Imperial Ottoman, lef London and Veneaula, lim., 121 Loudon and County, 781 1 London Joint Stock, 501 50 London and South African, 161 London and 11 estminster, 981 MetropolitanSouthWales, an dP 4 r 3 o i vincial Bank, lim., 171 New Oriental Bank Corporation. 50 991 Union of London, 531 1 DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 781 9 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gull., 2 1 Australian Agricultural, IEI Bombay Gas, lim, 5 1 I Ditto, M irsue, 21 Peninsula t neeit y i,iri twnoneasauaidi,ll, Commercialc:LlG r, Bl Union m " 6 , 4 1 in Insurance, ance. 1 Credit Fonder and Mobilier of England, 8 1 Egyptian Corn and Trading, Um., 3 Gen. Credit and Finance of London. Um; 6 International Financial Society, Bin., 6 - 1 a Interational Land Credit. lim., 6 1 Joint Stock Discount, lim and 81 Duc k , tr e ldn h onAle you o cnmn l irs, d , ittuaeei :airl a odtens n amacsci d neopos.a:ti,4n:29iaytiinl.4T,ll49i.im,l 1 3 :4 ; 4: 4 916 Thames a t ral Ottoman a slersey vrs3 Marine (Insurance), line., iehtstNo::,:rirandilunteel 'OSSE 46} 6 i 8 1'29 I 148 k k 9 638 3 1241 f f 137 6 66 7 106 5-/ i 126}51 28 11:4 ,ITIES. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 381 ... -- ... 2 ... 386 ... ... ... 631 Antwerp — •• Boulogne l9 .. Bremen 154 .. Dordt. Caen 2l ... Calais.. •.• ••• -- ••• —• ••• -- Dunkirk 24 ... ... ... ... 217 Oalborg Daneburg 3O ... 2676 ... ... ... 450 Harlingen 250 ... 207 ... 2 ... 19 —1926 Medemblik 62 ... 2140 ~. ... ... Christiana 3O ... ___. ... _ ... ... _ Ostend Rotterdam 4OO ... 3502 ... ... 36 ... 107 Tonning 2304 ... 1885 ... 279 ... ... Gothenburg 24 ... 29 ... 1 ... ... 186 ... - ... 334 ... 3 *--* • • • Total 3822 ...11,898 ... 390 ... 454 —3345 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 1864 ......... 4269 ... 7,621 ... 32 ... 719 ...1033 1863 ......... 1834 ... 8,613 ~. ... 255 ... 194 1862 ......... 1984 ... 9,266 ... 130 ... 465 . ... 135 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, Oct. 31, 1864, and this day, Monday, Oct. 30, 1865. Per Blbs. to sink the offal. Nov. 7, 1864. Nov. 6, 1865. sdsds d s d. Coarse and inferior beasts 8 4to 4 0 5 2to 3 8 Second quality do. Prime large oxen • Prime Scots &c. Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled d 0.., 5 2 5 6 5 8 6 0 Prime Southdown do 5 8 510 6 4 6 8 Lambs Large coarse calves 4 0 4 6 4 6 5 2 Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 4 410 5 4 5 8 B eas ts 7,110 5,050 Sheep 21,330 24,220 Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, Nov. 9, 1863.—Beasts, 6,430 — sheep, 22,490—calves, 250—pigs, 460. Nov. 10, 1862—Beasts, 6,090 —sheep, 20,960—calves, 142 —pigs, 390. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Fair supplies of meat are on sale at these markets ; for best qualities there is a steady demand at our quotations. Per 81b by the carcase. 8 d a d sd s d Inferior beef 2 8 3 2 Inferior mutton.... 3 4 4 2 Middling do. 3 4 3 10 Middling mutton.. 4 4 5 0 Prime large do 4 0 4 4 Prime do 5 2 5 6 Prime small d0....4 6 4 8 Veal 3 10 4 10 Large pork 4 4 5 2 Small pork. 5 4 6 0 Lamb, Os Od to Os ud. BOROUGH HOP. The supply of hops on sale is tolerably large. As regards good and fine samples the trade is firm, at fully late rates. For inferior qualities there is a moderate demand. The imports into London, last week, were 680 bales from Ant werp, 120 Ghent, 96 Hamburg, 130 Ostend, 127 Rotterdam, 20 Calais, 131 Dunkirk, and 39 bales from Boulogne. New Mid and East Kents Bos to 190 s per cwt. New Weald of Kents 70s to 126 s ~ New Sussex Yearlings 9ss to 135 s „ BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. These markets are but moderately supplied with pota toes. ]'or most descriptions there is a steady demand, and prices rule firm. Last wook's imports were about 75 tons from all quarters. Kent and Essex regents Scotch do. —s to —s „ Yorkshire do —s to —s „ „ Flukes 7Cs to 90s „ „ Rocks 50s to 75s „ WOOL, Very little change has taken place in the state of the wool trade since we last wrote. Both in home-grown and colonial descriptions the amount of business doing is very moderate, but the washed must be considered steady, at the prices of last week. Tho public sales of colonial wool will be commenced on Thursday, the 16th inst., the arrivals, since the close of last sales, being about 50,000 bales. Current prices of English wool per lb. s d Fleeces—South Down hogets 1 8 Half-bred do 2 0 Kent fleeces 2 0 s d 1 9 2 1 2 Oi 1 9 2 0 1 11 2 0 South Down ewes and wethers 1 81 Leicestor do Sorts—Clothing Combing SEEDS. Canary cod i* firm, but all other agricultural seeds aro SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. VICTORIA CLUB BETTING-THIS DAY. LIVEERPOOL 'HANDICAP. 4to 1 agst Bendigo (taken and offered) 9to 1 agst I%ju(taken_and offered) 10 to 1 agst Dalby (offered) 12 to 1 agst Valliant (taken) 100 to 7 agst Accident (taken) 16 to 1 agst The Eland (taken) 100 to 8 agst Windham (offered) 20 to 1 agst Moldavia (taken) 20 to 1 agst Elland (taken) 25 to 1 agst Blithfield (taken) 100 to 3 agst Farce (offered) 50 to 1 ugst Buckfoot Fatal Accident on the Metropolitan Railway. a s t u H r d o a s y r t e a l v nvi an n q ß u e inquest r w d a s , o h n e l d T h a o t n i S a t s . f G v e O e o l gh en S:Mr. aged 35, engaged on the works of the Ken sington Exte ns i on o f th e Metropolitan Railway. On the 16th of October last deceased was engaged in sinking a pit of considerable depth. To raise the clay which was being dug from the bottom a large skip or bucket was used, being raised to the surface by steam power. This was being raised, and had got 20ft. up, with about three-quarters of a ton of clay in it, when suddenly the iron hoop handle broke on both sides, and the skip was dashed to the bot tom of the pit, striking deceased on the head and chest, and inflicting a fearful wound on the temple. He was at once conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where he expired. Henry F. Perley, civil engineer, and agent for the contractors for the works, stated that the iron handle was an inch and half in thickness, and if it had been of good material ought to have borne a weight of 27 tons. He had examined it and found that it was made of crystalised iron, with a short grain, a very inferior. manufacture. It was not the practice to test bought materials. The skips were supplied by a firm in Thames -street. The medical evidence showed, that beside the in jury to the head, the deceased had'sustained a frac ture of the chest bone. Death was caused by pyzemia; or blood poisoning through the fracture of the skull. Verdict_ That the deceased met his death through an accident, but the jury were of opinion that the iron used for lifting weights should be of greater strength than that used, and ought to be properly tested. Oppressive Monopoly of Railwa,y Companies. TO TILE EDITOIt OR THE SUN; perhaps but u a t nd litt i Z u kn r ;o o 7 - : t t o o public du a at l l rightsarg e and interests is the gigantic —lt powe r possessed by railway companies, who, acting under the sanction of Parliament, think themselves authori9acl to invade every kind of landed ho S w ir ; or household property, regardless of the loss and, in many instances, ruin to the rightful owners. We have cases of suicide committed under the strong feeling and smart of this power. A man who, after labouring for years to support himself and family, but who not having a lease, and the promisee b e i ng required by some company, is most unjustly andunceremoniously ejectedwithout:consideration or apenny compensation, and who unable to obtain premises in the locality where ho had established himself, suddenly finds himself and family reduced to abject poverty, and without the prospect of recovery, surely such a case, and there are many of them, should be provided against by Parliament requiring a clause in the Railway Act for such contingencies before arming the company with their authority. Again, it frequently occurs that a widow is left with a young family to educate and support and thought to be comfortably pro vided for, her husband having carefully laid out his means for that purpose in the purchase of reversionary property, and to place his children in due time in good positions ; but this property being within the bounds for some new line of one of those great monopolising companies, is demanded and taken possession of for a small sum based upon its present value regardless of the reversion which in a few years would treble its present worth, and upon which tho whole family had placed their reliance for establishing themselves at a proper time according to the views and intent i ons of the testator. This should be a case for which the railway com ld of their own accord make am p le com p ensation, pony should and not force the owners or trustees to seek redress, at great cost, at the hands of 12 of their countrymen who too often unfortunately are led to give an unequal verdict by the low figure prepared and sworn to by the paid of f icials of the company.—l am, sir, yours, &C. Nov. 4, 1865. A SUFFERER. SECRETARY OF TIIE LONDON AND NoRTII WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. —Mr. R. S. Reay, the pre sent chief of the audit department of the company at Euston Station, is ; we aro given to understand, to ho the new secretary. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1865. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The trade for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday was very firm, and a further advance of ls. to 2s. per quarter took place in the value both of red and white qualities. All descriptions of spring corn were in short supply, the trade, in consequence, being firm in the ex treme at an average improvement of is. per quarter. There was a fair demand for flour at full the recent advance in prices. _ _ On the Continent the wheat trade is firm, with an up ward tendency in prices. Spring corn is also in request on higher terms. At New York the trade for wheat and flour is dull at lower prices, whilst the export demand is ex tremely limited. Corn, however, is in demand for export, at steadily advancing prices. _ _ _ Fresh up to Mark-lane t D-day the arrivals of home grown wheat were very small, and the condition of tho produce varied considerably. Owing to the limited num ber of samples on our stands, the small importation, and the advance in prices in the bountry markets on Saturday, the trade for all, qualities was firm in the extreme, and a further improvement in prices of is per qr. was demanded by factors. At this advance sales progressed steadily, and a clearance of good and fine samples was effected at a somewhat early hour. The supply of foreign wheat on the stands was mode rate. American produce—both red and white—was scantily offered, and the show of continental descriptions was far from extensive. The trade was very firm for all qualities, and an advance of is per quarter took place in prices, as compared with Monday last. A fair business was trans acted at this improvement. . Floating cargoes of wheat were in request, at an advance in prices of is per quarter. Spring corn, afloat, was very firm, and in some instances rather dearer than on Monday last. a slow sale. In linseed and rapeseed sales progress steadily, at enhanced rates. Cakes move off freely, and prices have an up ard tendency. TALLOW. The tallow trade is quiet to-day, at the late decline in prices. The quotation for P.Y.C. on the spot is 50s 6d per cwt. Town tallow is selling at 51s 9d net cash. Rough fat commands 2s Bjd per Blbs. Particulars. 1862. 1863. 1864. 1865. Stock this day 43,340 63,214 54,176 46,598 Prico of Y.C. S47s Od to 43s 9d 40s 3d 50s 6d to I—s Od 44s Od —8 Od —0 Od Delivery last week 2,208 2,174 2,773 2,793 Ditto from June 1 35,179 30,335 34,668 48,512 Arrival last week 1952 1,508 6,160 2,582 Pitto from June 1 40,207 55,702 43,823 62,627 Dries of Town STATEMENT OF TALLOW SHIPPED AT ST. PETERSBURG. 1865. 1864. 1863. Casks. Casks. Casks. _ _ Tallow despatched from Cron- atadt to dot. 11 , 0. S. In ships loading and lighters 6,745 13,355 4,533 Loaded off from St. Petersburg Oct. 13, OS. Loaded off from St. Petersburg after this date - 1,857 8,408 Total at close of navigation — 58,356 75,944 London Liverpool 2,822 Bristol Other English ports Ireland 6lO Scotland Germany 5,308 Franse 5,835 36,191 46,724 840 - - 304 1,960 1,289 52 178 474 160 3516 12,265 911 2,083 Total 72,822 43,344 63,003 THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE; 7 O'CLOCK. LAW INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. BAIL COURT. SITTINGS AT NISI PRIIIS. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburne and a Common Jury.) PARKER V. PAUTILL.-EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ASSAULT. Mr. Huddlestone, Q.C., and Mr. Layton, Q.C., were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Hawkins, Q. 0., and Mr. Cole, for the defendant. From the statement of counsel it appeared that this was an action by the plaintiff to recover compensation in da mages for an alleged assault, to which the defendant pleaded not guilty, that the defendant first assaulted him, &c. The plaintiff was a gasfitter in Great Russell-street, Coven-garden, and the defendant was landlord of the Crown and Scepti e, Woolner-street, Poplar. In the com mencement of last July the plaintiff with a friend of his, named Hill, a currier, in business in Great Queen-street, Long-acre, went in a cab to the shooting ground at Horn sey-wood. There was a match going on at the time, and they went on the ground to see it. Mr. Hill was drunk at the time, and they went to Hornsey in a cab, and he (plain tiff) considered a drive would do him good. He left him for a short time, and during his absence Hill fired at a pigeon, which he missed. One of a number of men pre sent came up to Hill, and said to him, " I shall trouble you for the £5 bet you have lost. He denied that he had made any bet, and the mancried out, "You're a welsher," "Duck him," and the crowd commenced dragging him to the pond. In the mean time the plaintiff returned, and finding the mob ill-treating his friend, ho inter posed, and said that his friend was a respectable man, and never betted. But the crowd continued to drag Hill to the pond, and he placed himself between him and the pond, upon which the defendant struck him twice, blackening his eye and slitting his nose. A police man came up, and he gave defendant into custody, and he afterwards instructed his solicitor to apply to him for compensation, of which the defendant took no notice. As regarded Hill, he was pitched head foremost into the pond, and was nearly drowned before he was rescued. Mr. Parker, the plaintiff, was examined by Mr. Layton, and deposed to the main facts in the opening statement of counsel. Ho denied most positively that he had given the defendant any provocation. When the policeman came up the defendant gave him a correct address. It was a month before he recovered from the effects of the assault committed on him by the plaintiff. Some corroborative evidence having been given, the jury, after some consultation, found a verdict for the plain tiff, and assessed the damages at £25. CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE. Wheat—Essex and Sent, red, new, per qr. Ns to 465 Do., old 464 51, Do., white, old 545 595 Do., ne w Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s —g Do., new Talavera, new 525 605 Rye— Barley—Grinding Malting 335 405 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown 55r 64: Kingstown and Ware Chevalier 66e Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 20s Potato Youghal and Cork, black l9a Cork, white 2li Scotch, Feeding 2os Beaus—Tick* 4oe Pigeons .... 435 48s Peas—Grey, new' 375 40s Maple White Boilers Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b 43s Suffolk 32s Stockton and Norfolk American, per barrel 26s METROPOLITAN CA.U.`TLE. 42a 465 345 325 Ms There was a large supply of foreign stock on sale here to-day, chiefly in middling condition. The trade was slow at prices barely equal to last week. A few prime beasts from France realised ss. per 81bs. The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing districts were on the increase ; but their condition was by no means first-rate. The supply from Ireland and Scot land was moderately good. The quality of the stock from Aberdeen was remarkably prime. Good and prime beasts commanded a steady sale at full prices, but inferior animals changed hands slowly at barely late rates. The best Scots and crosses sold at from ss. 2d. to ss. 4d. per 81bs. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton shire, we received 1,800 short horns, &c. ; from other parts of England, 750 various breeds from Scotland, 121 Scots and crosses, and from Ireland 250 oxen, cows, and heifers. The supply of English sheep on sale was but moderate. The few prime Downs in the pens produced 6s 6d to 6s Bd, and the top price of half-breds was 6s 6d per 81bs., at which the trade was inactive. Middling and inferior sheep moved off slowly, and prices were 2d per 81bs. beneath the late highest point. Calves were in short supply and sluggish request, at about stationary prices, viz., from 4s 6d to 5s 6d per Blbs. The supply of pigs was on the increase, and sales pro gressed slowly on rather lower terms. The day appointed for holding the great Christmas mar ket is Monday, the 11th of December. Per 81b to sink the offal. d s d Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 2 3 8 Second quality do ..3 10 4 6 Prime large oxen ..4 8 5 0 Prime Scuts, &c.... 5 2 5 4 Crse. and inf. sheep. 4 2 4 8 Second quality do ..4 10 5 6 s ds d Pme crs-wool sheep 5 8 6 0 Prime b'thdown a 0.6 6 6 8 Large coarse calves.l 6 5 2 Prime small d0......5 4 5 0 Large hogs ...4 0 5 Small porkers 5 4 5 8 Lambs....os Od to 03 Od. Suckling calves, 20s to 235; and quarter-old store pigs, 308 to 35s each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 5,050 Beasts 2 350 Cows. Sheep and lambs 27,220 Sheep and lambs 14,990 Calves 348 Ca ves go Pigs 32) Pigs The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 19,909 head. In the corresponding week in 1864, we received 13,674 ; in 1863, 10,898 ; in 1862, 11,980 ; in 1861, 12,755 ; in 1860, 6,824 ; and in 1859, 6,294 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. Beasts. TAT rERSALLS'—This Evening LIVEEPOOL CUP. 9to 2 agst Bendigo (offered, sto 1 taken freely) 6to 1 ngst Nu (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Dalby (offered) 12 to 1 agst Valiant (offered) 20 to 1 agst Helen (taken) 20 to 1 agst Moldavia (offered) DERBY. 7to 1 agst Lord Lyons (taken) 10 to 1 agst Rustic (taken) 33 to 1 agst Blue Riband (taken) 66 to 1 agst Raven (taken) 66 to 1 agst Westwick (taken) 66 to 1 agst Magician (taken) 66 to 1 agst Midsummer colt (taken) ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL. Siva, Augsey, Sugar Candy, £ S. D., Pegasus, General Election, Wild Deer, Grey Momus, Sprightliness, Ajax. Farce, Early Morn, Cutaway, Clown, Helen, Jams, Con tract, Gemma, Thalassius, Thornborough, Rustic Beauty, Naboklish, Sylph, Saucy Boy, Blue Bell, Godmersham, Wild Poppy, Troublesome, Court Milliner, Persuasion, Steamboat, Queen of Trumps, West End, Fly Fisher, King of Spades, Knave of Trumps, Zisca, Lucy Long, Countess, Lemondrop, Prisoner, Cutler, Hague, Goldylocks, King of France, True Heart, and Hall Court. THE SHENANDOAH. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 6. The Shenandoah, Captain Waddell, has sur rendered to her Majesty's steamer Donegal in the Mersey. She has a crew of 130 men. When the pilot boarded her off the port, he was asked whether the war was over or not. The last communication the Shenandoah had was with the ship Barracouta, bound for San Francisco, on the 3d of August. It is reported that she has destroyed 37 vessels in all. The Calcutta, China, and Australian Mails The Pera, with the heavy portion of the above mails, may be expected at Southampton about the 16th, and not on the 10th, as stated in the telegram published this morning. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. DEATH OF MR. COMMISSIONER FONBLANQIIE This morniing was officially announced the death of Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque, the senior commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy. This gentleman, who had sat for many years, was obliged some three years ago to discon tinue his sittings personally, Mr. Registrar Winslow being appointed deputy commissioner. In consequence, how ever, of the death of the late respected Commissioner, Mr. Winslowhas no power to act, and his court was necessarily adjourned. Messrs. Commissioners Holroyd and Fonblanque alluded to the loss of their old friend and brother judge in feeling language, after which theusual business was taken. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE SIR J. R. MACKENZIE, BART. This bankrupt has been before the Court on many occa sions, and to-day he again applied for his order of dis charge. The debts are very heavy, nearly £lOO,OOO, but the creditors, the largest of whom are the executors under the will of the late Earl of Fitzwilliam, are to a certain extent secured. It was stated that another adjournment was imperative, as the accounts required the fullest inves tigation, and the case accordingly stood adjourned till a future day. SHERIFFS' COURT, (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY OF A SILVER SNUFF-BOX-COL- LINGWOOD V. RORWOOD. This was an action to recover £lO, the alleged value of a silver presentation snuff-box, detained by the defendant. Mr. Talfourd Salter (instructed by Mr. Buchanan) ap peared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Russell (instructed by Mr. Burt) representing defendant. Mr. Salter said that this was rather a singular action, and it required a few words of explanation. Now the plain tiff's father had been during his lifetime one of the church wardens of St. George's, Bloomsbury, and while acting in that capacity, in the year 1822, was presented with a silver snuff-box. Plaintiff was the eldest son, and it would be shown that the box remained in possession of the old gentleman until the year 1845. Upon his death it was found that the box was missing, although it had been left specially to the plaintiff. Defendant had married plain tiff's sister, to whom the box had been lent, and upon her death plaintiff demanded tho box from defendant, who claimed the box as the executor under the will of the de ceased lady. His Honour—Can you make this an heir-loom ? Mr. Salter considered that it did become so. Mr. Russell said ho denied the facts as stated by Mr. Salter, and urged that this box could not be considered as an heir-loom. Mr. Salter replied that when the Duke of Marlborough's sword, which was presented to him by the nation, was the subject of an action it was held to be an heirloom, and surely the snuffbox given by a vestry would also be con sidered a heirloom. The learned counsel said he would deal with the various pleas in their proper order. He would show also that the plaintiff had taken out letters of administration to his late father's estate. It was quite true that there was a will, but it was pretty sure that defendant would never venture to prove it before the Probate Court. Mr. Russell said he had the will in Court. Mr. Salter—Why was it not proved before ? Mr. Russell—Because it was not worth it. His Honour said that if defendant filed his bill in Chan cery under the will, the first thing the Court would do would be to stay this action. Mr. Russell said that he had letters to prove that the present claim had been abandoned. Mr. Salter said that all this should be explained. His Honour said ho should adjourn the case to enable the defendant to prove the will. Mr. Salter thought this ought not to be done. Mr. Russell said he had another defence, which was, that the original holder of the box was bankrupt, and the snuff box thus became the property of the assignee. Mr. Salter said it had been retained by the old gentleman at the request of his assignee, who was present, and would prove it. Mr. Russell urged also that the present suit was barred by the Statute of Limitations, as the box came into defen dant's possession ten or twelve years ago. His Honour said ho should adjourn the case to enable defendant to prove the will. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. DISCHARGING FIREWORKS IN THE STREETS.—Thomas Garrett, a rough-looking lad, was ehargod before Mr. Tyr whitt with discharging fireworks in the streets, and also with assaulting Police-constable Kennedy, 130 F. The constable said that on Saturday night he saw the prisoner discharging fireworks in Dudley-street, and on taking him into custody he kicked him several times on the legs. Mr. Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner 10s., or seven days. Arthur Balker, a lad, was charged with discharging fire works in Leicester-square. Police-constable West, 75 0, proved seeing the prisoner discharge fireworks last night in amongst persons passing the Alhambra Palace, Leicester-square. Two little boys, named Thomas Williams and John Frost, were also charged with letting off fireworks, but as they had been locked up some time, Mr. Tyrwhitt, after cautioning them, ordered them to be discharged. OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT.—Mary Conner and Honorah Bryant, two coarse-looking young women, calling them selves dust sifters, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk and assaulting Mr. Henry Ross, a painter, of No. 6, Midbourn-street, St. Pancras. The prosecutor said that on Saturday evening he was walking with his wife in Grafton-street, when the pri soners and another woman came up to him and called him a "Slop," thinking he was a constable in plain clothes. They then set to striking him and knocked him down in the road. They then bit his face and his thumb, and had so hurt his shoulder that ho could scarcely move his arm, and he believed his shoulder was put out. Mrs. Ross, wife of the prosecutor, said that when tho prisoner and the other woman, who managed to escape, first came up to her and her husband, ono of them spat in her husband's face, and called him a " slop." They then threw him into the road, covering him with mud, and set to biting him. There were four Irishvromen all attacking her husband at once. They then flew at her like wild cats and struck her and tore her hair and smashed her bonnet. She (witness) at last managed to escape from them. Burgess, 83 E, proved finding the prosecutor covered with mud, and his face bleeding, and his wife having tho ap pearance of having been evidently pulled about. A butcher had tried to save the prosecutor from the prisoners' vio lence. The prisoners were both drunk. Mr. Tyrwhitt—l must say I look on the prisoners like wild savages let loose in a civilised town. What business have you (prisoners) to attack respectable persons in the street ? You will be committed for a month each with hard labour. THE PAST SUMMER.—The English Registrar- General has to report that the mean temperature of the six months from April to September, 1865 - namely, 59.37 deg., has exceeded any to be found in the records of the last 94 years. Yet the degree of heat was never equal to that of several quite recent summers. The highest of all the returns made to the Registrar-General this year was 92 deg., reported by the late Dr. Barker of Bedford ; and in 1858 the same gentleman had to report a heat of 97 deg. at that place. But in all the 94 years the mean temperature of the six months never before reached oven 58 deg., except in five years, and in only one of those exceeded 59 dog.— ' namely, in 1846, when it was 59.13. Law Reporting. The Council of Law Reporting, which owes its existence to a scheme for the amendment of the pre sent system of law reporting, which was approved and adopted by the bar at a general meeting con vened for the purpose by the Attorney-General, and held under his presidency on the 28th of November, 1864, have issued an address to the Lord Chancel lor and the other judges of both law and equity courts. The other three inns of court and the In corporated Law Society appointed members of the council, as proposed by the scheme ; and these mem bers, so appointed, with the concurrence of the At torney-General, the Solicitor-General, and the Queen's Advocate, as ex-officio members, have un dertaken the duty of endeavouring to give effect to the public improvement contemplated by the scheme. It is proposed that the reports shall be placed under the management and control of the council ; that they shall beprepared by reporters, under the super vision of editors, all being barristers of reputation and experience ; that they be published in monthly parts, with regularity and promptitude ; and so that as far as pi acticable, there be no arrears ; and that the remuneration of the editors and reporters be by salaries, with provision for future increase to an amount, as it is hoped, commensurate with the value of their professional services, and so as to leave them no longer exposed to the risks, uncertainties, and exactions which have been found to be inherent in every system which makes law reporting a com mercial adventure, involving a trade profit. The council have been enabled to make financial arrange ments for the establishment of the proposed reports which place the interests of all those members of the bar whose services will be engaged as editors and reporters beyond the reach of any commercial risk. The council have always considered themselves bound to give effect to the provisions of the Bar scheme according to their true intent and meaning, with the view of accomplishing (if practicable) the prime object of the scheme, viz., the establishment of one complete set of reports under professional control. By the 21st clause of the scheme it is contem plated that, for the establishment of the reports, a subscription of £lO,OOO is essential. The council have invited subscriptions for that purpose, and ob tained them to an amount which would have consi derably exceeded £lO,OOO if the Government gua rantee contemplated by that clause had been ob tained. It was, however, found impossible to obtain that guarantee ; and that being so the council might, had they been so minded, under the terms of the 22d clause, have cancelled the list and abandoned all further proceedings ; but with the full concurrence, or rather at the urgent request of many members of the bar, they have not done so. They have resorted to the authority given to them by the 27th and 28th clauses of the scheme. And having, to their great regret, received no offer of assistance from any of the London law publishers, they have entered into arrangements with a firm of printers of large capital, skill, and experience (Messrs. W. Clowes and Sons, of Duke-street, Stamford-street), under which the publication, sale, and distribution of the Reports are undertaken at the entire risk of the printers for an agreed commission of moderate amount. The receipt of the subscriptions is retained by the council in order that the moneys may be applied by them, and not the printers, to the payment to the editors and re porters of the first moiety of the salaries which by the scheme is proposed to be guaranteed. The sum already subscribed far exceeds the amount of this first moiety ; but in order that there may be no risk or uncertainty whatever in the payment to the edi tors and reportere, a guarantee fund has been formed by the voluntary subscription of members of the profession. The fund now reaches £2,000 per annum, and is exclusively devoted to the editors and reporters. It was first signed by the Attorney- General, Sir Roundell Palmer, after by the Lord Justice Turner, Vice Chancellor Kindersley, and Vice Chancellor Wood; and after having been also signed by many leading members of the bar, has been since signed by the Lord Chancellor for a larger amount than any other individual guarantee. The printers have engaged to make up the full subscription to £lO,OOO, and to look exclusively to the surplus sub scriptions for payment of their charges for printing and paper. These charges have been settled at fixed rates of moderate amount. These arrangements the council confidently represent as amply sufficient to place the establishment of the proposed reports upon a firm financial basis, and one perfectly satisfactory to the editors and reporters appointed. Having thus completed their financial arrangements, the council, on the Ist August last, resolved that the proposed reports should commence on the first day of Michael mas Term next; and in pursuance of that reso lution have selected the following gentlemen as editors and reporters, subject to the approval of the judges, as proposed by the bar scheme :—Editor, common la i r, Mr. J. R. Bulwer, Q.C. ; equity, Mr. G. W. Manning. House of Lords, English and Irish appeals ; Scotch appeals, Mr. J. F. Macqueen, Q.C. Privy Council : This appointment is under consideration. Courts of the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices : Mr. Cadman Jones, Mr. Martin Ware, Mr. Horton Smite. Court of Queen's Bench, including appeals therefrom to Exchequer Chamber : Mr. Wm. Mills, Mr. H. Holroyd. Court of the Master of the Rolls : Mr. Chas. Marett, Mr. J. H. Fordham, Mr. James Stirling. Court of the Vice- Chancellor Kindersley : Mr. T. W. Gunning, Mr. J. J. Smale. Court of the Vice-Chancellor 'Stuart : Mr. J. W. De Longueville Giffard, Mr. T. F. Morse. Court of the Vice-Chancellor Wood : Mr. J. B. Davidson, Mr. F. G. A.Williams, Mr. W. D. Griffith. Court of Common Pleas, including appeals to Ex chequer Chamber, Mr. John Scott, Mr. H. W. Bompas. Court of Exchequer, including appeals to Exchequer Chamber : Mr. J. Anstie, Mr. A. Charles. Crown cases reserved : Mr. L. W. Cave, Hon. E. Chandos Leigh. Admiralty and Ecclesiastical : Mr. W. Ernest Browning. Probate, Matrimonial, and Divorce : Dr. Tristram, Mr. R. Searle. In the selection of these gentlemen, the council have been guided wholly and exclusively by the directions of the scheme and the merits and fitness of the gen tlemen chosen. The existing authorised reporters for the several courts bay e therefore been invariably preferred wherever they have consented to accept the appointment ; and the council have every confi dence in the ability and competence of all selected, faithfully and satisfactorily to discharge their duties. The council have to regret that, after every possible effort within the authority with which they are in vested to secure the services of the present autho rised reporters for the courts of Queen's Bench and Exchequer and the Rolls Court, they have been unable to prevail upon those gentlemen to accept the appointment. The judges will no doubt recog nise the important result which will at once be realised from the acceptance of the appointments by so many of the authorised reporters, namely, the discontinuance, from the first day of Michaelmas Term next, of ten sets of reports which have been hitherto published separately, each independently of the other, at irregular and sometimes long pro tracted intervals, and at an immoderate cost. The object of the bar scheme being the careful prepara tion of one complete set of reports by the most able and experienced reporters, under independent pro fessional control, to be published with expedition, regularity, and uniformity, and at the moderate cost of five guineas a year for the entire work, the coun cil venture, on behalf of the profession, to present it to the judges as a matter of public interest and im portance, and calculated to uphold the real interests of the bar, by subjecting the exercise of one of its most important privileges to those restrictions w hich the public good, the true consideration for the privi lege, requires ; to facilitate the administration of justice by simplifying and purifying t he sources of the law, and thus ultimately to lead to important amendments in the law itself. For the furtherance of this object, and upon public grounds alone, the council by this address respectfully and earnestly request the sanction and support of . the judges for the following purposes :- 1. That the judges will approve of the appointment of the several gentlemen named as reporters to the several courts for which they have been se lected. 2. That the judges will be pleased to per mit the editors and reporters to have access to, and the use of their written judgments, and all such papers as the judges can control ; and will also, so far as convenient and agreeable to the judges them selves, revise their unwritten judgments before pub- lication. And 3dly. That the judges will recognise the editors and reporters as members of the bar exercising a professional privilege for a public ob ject, under responsibility, through the council, to the judges, the bar, and the profession at large. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Saturday Evening. Notwithstanding the very positive statement of one of our contemporaries, Baron Deasy emphati cally denies that the Privy Council has anything to do either with the Irish People paper or with the arrests which have taken place in connection with the Fenian movement. This declaration is so con trary to everything that has been stated, written, and believed on the subject here as well as in Eng land, that I deemed it sufficiently important to com municate to you by special telegram last evening. In the Court of Exchequer yesterday Mr. Dowse, on the part of the plaintiff Luby, in the action for wrongful seizure instituted against the magistrate Mr. Stronge, moved for liberty to exhibit certain interrogatories to the defendant, Mr. Stronge. In support of the application an affidavit by Mr. Luby was read, setting forth the circumstances under which the property in the office of the Irish People newspaper had been seized, and complaining that the retention of his books and documents by the police had prevented him from preparing his defence to the charge of treasonable practices, on which he understood he was to be tried. He said he believed that in ordering the seizure Mr. Stronge acted not in his magisterial capacity, but ministerially, in obedience to written directions and a warrant signed by the Lord Lieutenant and the members of a Privy Council which met that evening at the Castle. Counsel having read out the names of the Privy Councillors, including Mr. Justice Fitzgerald and I.r. Baron Deasy, the following colloquial interrup tion took place Baron Deasy—Who makes the satement? " Mr. Dowse--The plaintiff. " Baron Deasy—There was no meeting of the Privy Council, and none of those persons were there. They knew no more about it than he did until they read it in the newspapers. "Mr. Dowse—l am only stating what is in the affidavit. " Baron Deasy —The Privy Council had no more to do with those arrests than you had." This statement does not accord with the allega tions so strongly put forward by some of the Lon don papers, that the warrants were absolutely signed by Mr. Justice Fitzgerald in his capacity as a member of the Privy Counqil, while I perceive that one writer, under the signature of " Justitia," ob jects to that learned judge sitting at the special commission on the ground that he was one of the prosecutors, having 'signed the warrants. The pub lication of such statements is most injudicious, and in this country it is productive of grave and even serious mischief by weakening the confidence of the lower classes in the administration of justice, and in their respect for the constituted institutions of the country. The suggested conference of Irish members, pre vious to the assembling of Parliament, is beginning to assume shape and form. I understand that no less than twelve members have already sent into the committee of the National Association letters ex pressive of their approval of the proposal, and of their willingness to take part in its deliberations. The Government have consented to advance money to pay the cost of employing an engineer on the part of the landowners interested in the Shannon drain age, to act jointly with an engineer named by the Board of Works, with a view to form a design and estimate of the works necessary for the better drain age of the Shannon and Suck, and also to estimate the extent and value of the improvement of lands adjacent likely to be obtained. Mr. Lynam, C.E., will act on the part of the landowners. The counties interested in this important concession of the Trea sury are greatly indebted to the Marquis of Clanri carde, whose judicious and persevering exertions have been mainly instrumental in obtaining it. The business people of Queenstown are commenc ing to object to the annoying searching process which American passengers are subjected to on their " touching the sacred soil of Erin." The fact is, the American steamers have commenced to give Queenstown the "go by," and run up Channel without dropping into the Cove. This, of course, operates unsatisfactorily on shopkeepers, &c., and hence the indignation. Apart, however, from this consideration, it appears the " searching" is posi tively and unnecessarily annoying —I might say indecent and ludicrous. The Cork Herald, re marking on the proceedings, says :—" It is difficult to say whether a male spectator feels' more in dignant or amused at beholding a policeman ' feel ing' a female passenger's back hair, done up in the present extraordinary fashion, for the purpose of ascertaining whether it conceals ' arms, ammunition, or documents.' The process is naturally repugnant to the feelings of respectable females, but instances also occur where the ' victim' is a woman of spirit, and makes the searching officer thoroughly ashamed of his work. It will, at the same time, readily sug gest itself how insufficient the searching of females by policemen must, iu every case, prove as a means of detecting anything occupying a small compass, which may be intentionally concealed. The Edin burgh, of the Inman line, passed the harbour on Sunday evening, on her passage from New York, and proceeded to Liverpool. She had twenty pas sengers for Queenstown, and these were brought over from Liverpool on Friday, per the outward bound City of Washington. On landing they under went the same search as if they had just arrived from America; but, of course, nothing objection able was found. The National Company's steamer was due at Queenstown on Wednesday night, and the constabulary were off in the tender to meet the passengers coming ashore. The vessel, however, did not come within hail, but proceeded to Liver pool." Under the head of " Attempting to Shoot an Officer," the Cork, Herald informs us that a pri vate of the Ist Royals, named B.:11, is at present in custody at the Military Barracks, on the charge of having loaded his rifle, with intent to shoot Capt. Maguire, one of the officers commanding his regi ment. Col. Muller presided a few days since at a court-martial in the matter, the result of which has not been declared. During the trial the prisoner's rifle and a bullet extracted therefrom were produced. The only defence made is that Bell was under the influence of drink at the time ho committed the offence. The Nation of to-day announces that on the 12th inst. two Catholic bishops will be consecrated in the Cathedral, Marlborough-street. They are the Rev. Dr. Murray, at present chaplain to Dr. Cullen ; and the Rev. Matthew Quin, brother of the Bishop of Brisbane, and recently principal of one of the schools of the Catholic University. The two new bishops are intended for the foreign mission—it is believed Australia. The Mail of this evening, in reviewing trade and monetary matters for the week, observes that " the last accounts from Ulster show that some slight check has been given to the excited demand and in creased prices caused by the orders for linen and other goods for the United States; but trade is still healthy and active, and generally prices are well supported. In our own share market there is a good deal of activity, with a firm and upward tendency in most kinds of shares ; but Government securities faorre the et week improving. ag a again exhibit Th e Irish a p r ettrailwaypretty general traffic nera returnsimprove.. r ov e . ment —in some cases a decided increase in the re turns." THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—An order in Council was published in a supplement to the London Gazelle on Satur- day afternoon, rendering it unlawful for any person to remove any cattle to any port or place within the north western district of Scotland, from any other port or place in Great Britain. ROYAL ALBERT INFIRMARY, BISHOP'S WALTHAM. On Saturday morning, about nine o'clock, Prince Frede rick William and Princess Victoria of Prussia left Wind sor Castle on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham-hall, Norfolk. Their Royal Highnesses drove from the Palace in one of the Queen's carriages to the Windsor station of the Great Western Railway, and proceeded by the 9 5 a.m. express train, which is due at Paddington at 940 a.m. The Prince and Princess aro ex pected to remain the guests of the Prince and Princess of Wales for a few days. Ac" route outer a pa rt arch' n an d- Ca pt. le-de- v i s ioo igcl ° Elie!: shP 'oute vier' , long Jour' riva te esell- 0. 13. ' Colll' idaf J. 00 1 : 1 ' ,0314 gt' 10' rea r ie U ,tta Share, 20i 10 100 1 luo 100 100 all 100 100 100 100 2 100 100 MEN 190 100 100 1( 0 100 100 1031 381 7 5 1~~ 103 ICOi IT*