The Sun. — London, England, 1866-03-28 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market presents a firmer and more active appearance. Some of the banks have with drawn large sums of money from the brokers, and the quotations for accommodation have therefore slightly enhanced. First-class bills are charged 6, and only in exceptional cases has 58 per cent. been taken. The Share List of the Central American Asso ciation (Limited) closes on Saturday next, the 31st inst., for London applications, and Monday, the 2d April for the country. The Atlantic and Great Western Railway Com pany have issued their annual report to the Euro pean road-holders in anticipation of the forthcom ing meeting. A thorough investigation of the ac counts of the company to the end of the year has been made by Messrs. Coleman, Turquand, Youngs, and Co. In the March quarter, upon 322 miles, the gross receipts were equal to £1,633 per mile per annum, or 73.79 per cent. In the same quarter, upon the same mileage, they were equal to £1,858 per mile per annum, or 72.48 per cent. of the receipts, In the September quarter, however, the expenses fell to the rate of £1,258 per mile per annum, or 56.66 per cent. of the receipts, and in the December quarter they were equal to £1,463 per mile per annum, or 57.42 per cent. of the receipts. The effect of this alteration in the proportion of expenditure to re ceipt is forcibly illustrated in the column showing the excess of receipts over expenditure, from which it appears that in the December quarter this excess was equal to a yearly profit of £3,188, or £531,364 at an exchange of $6 to the pound sterling, The account shows that the balance applicable for divi dend is £168,148. Two O'CLOCK. According to Reuter's telegram the French Three per Cent. Rentes were quoted at 68f. 45c. Flat. English Government stocks have been further depressed to-day, and the market has been ♦ery dull. Consols are now quoted 861 1 for money, and 861 a for the account. The fortnightly set tlement engages chief attention, and prices of the different descriptions of speculative shares: are in a few instances a little firmer. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are quoted 84i a ; An nuities 1855, 13i; Exchequer Bills for March, 10s. dis. ; for June, 6s. to 3s. dis. ; India 5 per Cents., 102- ; and ditto Enfaced 52 per Cents., 1072 to 108. In the Foreign Stock Market the business trans acted to day has been chiefly in connection with the arrangements for the settlement. Greek are 13i 14; Mexican, 21i ; Spanish Passive, 268 ; Certificates, 16 ; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, 661 ; ditto 5 per Cents., 371 ; Brazilian Scrip, 1 4 dis. ex div. ; Chilian 6 per Cents., 934 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 1862, 89; 90 ; ditto, 1864, 94 ; Venezuelan 6 per Cents., 1864, 378. Business in the Railway Share Market has re mained very inactive, and in several instances prices have shown less firmness. Great Eastern have re ceded and Great Northern and Great Western each ; while North-Western and North-Eastern (Berwick) have each improved In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings there is not much variation. Grand Trunk of Canada, however, improved to 301 ; and Great Indian Peninsula to 1084 1084. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue inac tive. Alliance are dealt in at 261; London Joint Stock at 47 f ; London Chartered of Australia at 222 ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England at 64 ; General Credit, 41 ; London Financial, 91 ; National Discount Company, 122 13; and Overend, Gurney, and Co., 161. The Bonds of the Loan of his Highness, Ismael Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, are quoted 1 prem. ; and Reuter's Telegraph Co.'s Shares (second issue), 1 4 1 ,. 14 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, April 5 3 per Cent. Reduced B4l New 3 per Cent B4l 1 i New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l3l Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — March. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cont. — 6 3 dis Do. £5OO — Do £lOO and £2OO Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent Do Account — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 — Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 5i per Cent., May 1879 lO7l 8 Do. Deb., 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do. Bonds, £l,OOO Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd pin Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1BGS Do Account Do. Scrip, £45 paid - dis d Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do. Account Do £ICO Bonds Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Chilian 6 per Cent 33; Do Scrip, £25 paid Do. 4i per Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent. — Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Danubian Principalities Do Account — ttador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant — •gyptian 7 per Cent — .Do., Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 Do £lOO Bonds Do. Government Railway Debentures 9ll Do. £25 paid Creek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons ti - uatemala 5 per Cent. Italian 5 per Cent 1865 Do. Maremmana Railway — Mexican 3 per Cent Do. Account Do 1864 — Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — Montevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Do. 6 per Cent, 1864 Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — Peruvian 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 41 per Cent., 1862 Do. Account Portaguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cent, 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, -- Do. Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent. 1859 — Do 5 per Cont. 1862 Do 5 per Cent. 1861 94 !Sardinian 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred — Do Account Do Passive Do Account 261 S panish Cert. of Coup not funded ,„, Do Account l6 i zNiredish 4 per Ceut. — D o. 4 1 per Cent. 18 64 T urkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Do Account — Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account 661 Do £lOO Bonds - Do 6 p er Cent. 1862 — ,D 0 Account — 1) 0 £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1863 — ,-„ 5 per Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip 1 -uo Account tr Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed v e nezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto account — Do 6 per Cent., 1864 371 Dividends on the above payable in London. 411strisn, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins telgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 251. Iltch 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — -1 -' 0 I. per Cent. Certificates , risueh R en t e s 3 per Cent. ttalian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 23f. Do Account TWO O'CLOCK. Co nsols for money o A.CCOlalt ~,,,, illllllltlllll ~,,,,,,,, 86 t r 1 Al V k e 0 44 ch 27. ron with attended al lligh al High- T, drove Princess eppel, the mauces at Princess iday nat Df Cam t. James . / there it is he Easter has im- 7iends has has taken lye been "quay, are o Albury rid Lady )ve, near nd Mrs. n Manor, tly take Duncan, grandson rcor lien- cer lion- Jerson, of n. Lady it the ad >ungest of rock, and 21, 1805, whom she in March, and mar- 311eYel rne, Lrs, C. 1:" that Mr. has AC" thy. 311. " )r Lord of Elomo De a s ucceed Ity. death 1 6 ,r 40 years paring th e ions. 0° )ck, when the house ten hours• so of last rbe Re v. ' ibyteriao Itor of the ir y Cour t ' Scottish r was, on erdeen to tcliifl the ision Aith ,re bodily rk, and ion. 5° he fau lt of , 2 m ade ° I re o, s°° ' ary for At !O a - Y enri OXPOI 3Se'd. Loral, wh° r ' s injury a a chill ravated A CILIMAge4I' of th e put of the 3cted, Woo d a 61 " °e : i;upropex ley, Iv" ered Job 11 :celeshall, reelter daf tenCe tbAv dealer, °i n — d - iiil7 3l e; ilprit W shoolf almost iv :ution of i on tool' last, WO ake P lB , cte d tlig" Jeigh 13 ' `g s cootie,/ t n opin ion as, front o utsvar be sttea" becou il l sin ce 111 s terdsO f op ioy c' d ; :t 110 6 " .- g Of er * f had it ll4 101 0 1 prioto r ° I p o 7' i „ t o t ll6 ceed ed 13 doing wrAPP e fore— ane ing de eeo or ctiosl3 in gore' ire to bis tuber tile •ose fr°iji f ce llar . ° 3 suP e " ll. ) d chips, ' ire " lth 1 : s tock • -r ;red to 13° . e d to g 64 beari l3s jury re ; wittelle" SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. Share ! Closing Business Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June. Dun„Perth,& Ab.Junc. E.London, tcrip Certi., Do. - - Glasgow .Sz S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern Do. A stock Do. B stock Do. New, Is. at 25 pm Gt S and W. of Ireland IVestern D'. S. Vai. Bail gua. Do. South Wales . Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., llrigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Metropolitan.... Do. New Do. Exten sion...... Metropolitan District. Do do. do. Do. and LA. John'alV'd Ilid!and Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. & Derby it id Kent North British .. Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun. Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. G.lsi•E purohs.sc Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. & Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 18(34 .. ..... Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock t'o. Scot, Mid. stook Shropshire Union South Devon -iouth E .stern itaines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha iWest Cornwall BitITISH Atlantic & St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, Cen.ln. . • gu. 5 per amt. • • • • • Do. F shares ...... Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant,&Goderich 6 plc. 87-3- $•• • ••• •• Calcutta & S. E., Urn.. Jape Town & Dock, gu. Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p! Nast. Bengal, gu., 5 dot East Indian, gu. .5 p.c.l Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stook . Do. do. deterred .... Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. I'o. G ua. 5 per cent.. Do. New gua. 6 p. o Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent D 41. per cent Do Great Wt•B. of Canada.. D. New .. Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 1 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 1 Endian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do Do. 43 do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. ,k Hudson's Bay N. R I.C' da, 6pc let pf.bs ISeinde Do. Delhi Do. do t Do. Pun aub Do.lndus COLONIAL GO VER] British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1872. Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk Cape G.lrope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl.&Oct 1890-1900 Do. do: 1880-9 .• Do. Jan.&July, 1680-9 Do. sper cent. 15 April and Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. c Do. 1678, 1O IJauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1 , 78 Do. 1882, Mayls, Nov. ,! Do. 1895, Feb. Natal ‘;ov. 6 per cent N. B. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.,t,luly N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c., 186 i Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 187.' Do. 5 P.c. 1888 to 189 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova So ,tia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,O 1868_9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, a pril & Oct BRITII Cam. Consol. ti old, lira Chiverton Clifford A malgamated. Devon G. Cons. (Taoist Drake walls 8 9 15 17 500 58) I I 18 20 8 9 31 41 3 i 4 East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Cam Brea P.ast Grenville East Gunnislake East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. Great L ixey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (llelst u' Grenville Herod's Foot •••• liingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Iklarke Valley 7" 9 3 31 5 7 20 21 1 4 1 14 20 24 si 33 40 4.i 5 4 4 4 24 1), 4 44 35 4J 13 15 1 Nl.wyndy Iran Ore, 11w 1 New Se ton North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper United Pr"videnee Uny L l / 4 1ant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tin Croft Vigra and Clogan, Hut West Bassett (Illogan W. Caradon (lAskeard West Chi rer ton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan, Wheal Buller (Redruthl Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney 32 31 390 410 2 :I 18 22 - 9 1/ 19 20 4 6 g 10 75 80 165 175 82i 87i 25 27} 3 5 205 215 15 17 rii.I 4 :IPKItIGN(II 4 .: 811A1t.Ms. North Eastern, York, 11. and Selby purchase, 101 South Eastern (Reading Anne., £1.0.6), 22i eRE IoIin,ENCE SD ARES AND STOCKS. Metropolitan 5 per cent., 3.(41 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Esst Lincoln gua. 6 per cent., 126 London Tilbury, and Southend, 96 Shrewsbury and Hereford, 125 a FOItEIGN RAIL WAYS. Great Luxembourg, 151 H Recife and San Francisco, lim., gua. 7 per cent., 14 FoktElliki MIN kat. Cape Copper, lim., 11} DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 734 BANKS. Alliance, lim.. 27 61 , Anglo Egyptian, lira., 12& European Bank, lim., 1 0 i I Imperial Ottoman, 12j i London Chartered Bank of Australia, 221 London Joint Stock, 47 it National Provincial of England, Ditto, d and .id issue, 46 Oriental Bank Corporation, 52} South Australia, 351 Standard of British South Africa, 13a MISCELLAIsIigUUts. Ceylon Company, 9i Coiumercial Union, Insurance, 61 Credit Fonder and Slobilier of England, 61 Ditto, new, el 6 Crystal Palace, 6 per cent. perpetl. deb., 110 Gen. Credit and Finance oi London. iim.. 41 Imperial Mercantile Credit Aebo., 11111„ 21 3 International Contract, 41 Joint Stock Discount, Jim., 12 London Financial Association, Rm., 91 1 National Discount Company, 121 Ditto, new, 51 National Steam Navigation, lim., 281 Overend, Gurney, and Co., lim., 16 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 701 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements. lim.. 22 A SPRING OF NAPHTHA.—The Police Gazette of Kertch, in the Crimea, announces that an engineer named Peters, who has been boring for naphtha on land conceded to Colonel Novossiltzew in that neighbourhood, has dis covered an abundant spring. The workmen, after piercing through a hard rock at a depth of 120 feet, were surprised by a sudden gush of the fluid, followed by a crackling noise. Soon after a quantity of hot salt water was thrown up, mixed with clay. This continued for about half an hour, and was succeeded by a flow of pure naphtha, yielding no less than 4,000 gallons in 24 hours. THE COTTON CROP.—The Southern Bank Note Reporter, published at Mobile, predicts a very large cotton crop. It estimates the product of the coming season at not less than two million bales, and thinks it will probably exceed that amount. TWEED SALMON FISHERIES.—The Tweed is much swollen with snow water; but, notwithstanding, the pro duce of salmon during the week, though still scarce, shows an improvement upon last week, while trouts aro very backward.—Berwick Adwrtinr. 90 92 131 )32 63 67 13 15 5 7 67 70 70 72 118 120 39 4t 6 7 121 122 138 190 90 92 59 60 53 80 40 12 34 31 0) 02 120 121 86 91 06 37 39 43 S 5 120 122 92 Q 3 63 61 132 134 21 2io 1 111 , 1 95 17 123 1231 1i 92 di P 8 60 • 8 30 109 110 71 72 109 110 35 37 10 11 p 120 121 11 2p 14 2pl 74 76 10 12 150 152 67 70 112 114 51 53 73 75 8 9 140 113 3 Ipl 100 102 , 51 53 lESSIOYS, Ai 60 102 103 P t 7 it) 6 10 11 76 80 96 98 63 70 100 102 101 102 102 104 34 85 83 90 65 67 55 60 59 61 50 55 45 49 42 45 30 33 70 43 108 109 1i 21, 1 2p 99 100 91 93 16 17 al 314 94 Q 6 86 e 8 1 4d 100 10: 9 03 87 89 62 64 8 82 99 100 98 99 4 97 99 1011 1 101 s'l 12 i I 7 9q 7 E3l 714 IC9I 64t 74 } iIIENT SECUR 90 94 90 £4 90 94 74 80 78 1 , 0 102 IC4 105 107 105 107 IC2 1(4 90 22 1( 2 104 100 I 0 102 104 101 105 104 106 1( 2 104 10J 102 93 95 90 95 81 884 91 95 79 81 08 100 98 100 105 107 106 10: 01291 'TIES. .II MINES. 2.1.0 294 2.14.6 31 2.14.0 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8.0 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1866. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Th s Day. SHOREDITCH COUNTY COURT. (Before Mr. Dasent.) SELDON V. THE METROPOLITAN PARCELS DELIVERY COMPANY. , This was an action to recover £l5 damage alleged to have been sustained by the' plaintiff, who is a milliner, through non-delivery of a parcel entrusted to the defen dants to carry to Market Harborough. Mr. Smith appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Stammers was counsel for the defendants. It was proved that the parcel had been handed to the keeper of one of the company's receiving houses, and she deposed that she bad banded it to one of the company's carts. The secretary to the company, who was called as a witness for the plaintiff, slid be was unable to produce the papers relating to the parcel in question, as they had been lost, but be had written to the plaintiff to the effect that he held the Midland Railway Company's receipt for the parcel. Some discussion ensued, and the question then resolved itself into an issue which rendered it impe rative upon the plaintiff to prove every step of the case, defendant's counsel urging that the letter of the person to whom the parcel was addressed at Market llarboro' was not evidence, and that in the absence of proof to the con trary there was no evidence but that such person was actually in possession of the parcel at the present time. Mr. Smith said that if every point was to be proved, the case must be adjourned, and ho would call such evidence as would prove, though at some cost, the facts upon which the plaintiff relied. _ _ His Honour then adjourned the case, but refused to allow any costs under the circumstances. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MORANT BAY AND STONEY GUT. (From t 1 Special Correspondent of the Times.) KINGSTON, JAMAICA, Feb. 24. After three weeks spent in examining witnesses at Spanish Town, the Royal Commissioners took holiday, and on the evening of the 15th went on board her Majesty's ship Constance for a day's visit to St. Thomas-in-the-East. They took with them a black woman named Sarah Robinson, whose story is worth telling. She lived near Morant Bay, and having heard that evidence was being taken to show the excesses committed in suppressing the re bellion resolved to contribute her share, or some thing more than her share, towards a chapter of horrors. So she borrowed a horse, rode 31 miles to Kingston, took the train thence to Spanish Town, and presented herself before the Commission. Her husband and son, she said, had been hung ; and it was at first proposed that she should be hung, but the Provost-Marshal would not allow this, because she was too ill. However, the black soldiers came into her house, took hold of her by her arms and legs—appropriate cries and gestures showqd how— and robbed her of her wedding-ring. With immense volubility and illustrative gesticulation, she described how, during martial law, these black soldiers took infant " pickaninnies" by the legs and dashed out their brains against trees. At first she declared that she had seen so many children disposed of in this way that she could not reckon them. When pressed rather closely the number dwindled down to two. Then she described something more horribl e s till. " I saw soldiers," she said, " go to a woma n w h o was being delivered by a grandy' (midwife), an d they shot the woman, shot the little baby, shot the grandy." This she saw with her own eyes. She could'nt tell the name of the woman, though they were neighbours, but she persisted in her story, with abundant assertions of its truth. The Royal Com missioners looked incredulous, and whispered toge ther. Then Sir Henry Storks said, "Do you think you could point out the house where the woman was shot ?" Oh yes! She could point out the very house. " Then you shall go with us to-morrow and do so," his Excellency replied. Sarah Robin son seemed in no ways taken aback, and somebody having been appointed to ride the borrowed horse, Sarah went that evening with the Royal Commis sioners and the aides-de-camp to Kingston, and in this good company, half envied, half pitied by the negroes who flocked round her at the rail way station, was duly escorted on board the Constance. She was a grotesquely ugly little negress of some five-and-forty, with a jaunty little hat set on one side of her head, and underneath the hat the usual gay bandanna ; making some pretensions to coquetishness, and gazing around her with large wondering eyes, which now and then, when she was questioned, had a look of great cunning.. Her eyes opened wider than ever when, following the Gover nor upon deck, she found herself in front of the Marines drawn up there as a guard of honour to receive his Excellency. She did not seem quite sure that her mission was not to exterminate Sarah Robinson as she stood, and the droll way in which she sidled from her prominent position was too much for the gravity even of the Marines. lam afraid that some dim consciousness of wrong-doing prompted Sarah Robinson's alarm, as will be seen presently. The Constance started from her anchorage off Kingston soon after daylight on Friday morning, and dropped gently down to Port Royal. Here, within half a bow-shot of the shore, you float over the site of the submerged citydestroyed in the great earthquake of 1692. Tradition still preserves the site of the ancient wharves and fortifications. Indeed men still living tell you of times when the submerged houses were plainly to be discerned near the anchorage for vessels of war. At the end of the last century the ruins might be seen from the boat which sailed over them ; and down to 1835 the sites of buildings were traceable in from four to six fathoms water. There has been one slight shock of earthquake here since my arrival, but it was so slight that few perceived it, and one was inclined to boast to the natives that we, now and then, had a more successful trembling of earth at home. But the record of the Port Royal catastrophe makes one thoroughly contented to enjoy nature in repose. The shock must indeed have been a powerful one. The ground, we are told, swelled and heaved like a rolling sea ; people were swallowed up in the rents ; some were caught by the middle in these fissures and thus squeezed to death ; others after being engulfed were cast up again with quantities of water. Yonder there, in the grave-yard at Green Bay, one Louis Galdy lies buried. There are different roads to fame or noto riety, and Galdy's claims upon the notice of pos terity are that he was buried alive by the earth quake, cast up again in his horrid tomb, and lived for 47 years afterwards. The other inhabitants of Port Royal and the town itself were less fortunate. The large store-houses on the harbour side were totally submerged ; the mast-heads of the vessels were to be seen among the house walls, in a moment a thousand acres of land were swallowed up by the sea, and Port Royal was not. The Palisades, which are passed as the steamer rounds the point and leaves the harbour, were formed by the Spaniards, who united various little islands by a line of inter vening stockades. Against these the currents and the wind heaped sand, and formed the continuous spit now called the Palisades. The shore rises pre cipitously on their outward edge, so that within a few yards there is 10 fathoms water, inside the ground shelves off into shoals, and the mangrove tree, now on the point of blossoming, flourishes luxuriantly. As you approach Morant Bay, the 'ine of coast fringed in parts by cocoa-nut trees, with the well-wooded mountain ranges in the back ground, is picturesque indeed. Sometimes a stiff " norther" comes down from the hills, and makes this coasting trip anything but a pleasant one. But the Commissioner was favoured, and could enjoy the prospect hardly disturbed by a ripple. Almost the first intimation which the inhabitants had of the visit was the salute which announced the Governor's arrival in the Bay. On landing the Commissioners found themselves in a straggling village which in England would be called a hamlet. There was the usual ruined house—a once consider able house, speaking pitifully of better days. The one tavern was turned into a court-house, and could house and feed you no longer. One tolerably long street, with a bill rising rather abruptly on its landward side, constitutes the town of Morant Bay. It contains perhaps 40 or 50 houses and shops of the village class ; on the hill slope are villas of a better class. In the centre of the Bay removed from the street about a stone's throw, and approached by the meanest of mean squares, stands the Court house, the sight of which now raises so many pain ful associations. It must have been once a building of some pretensions. A flight of stone steps led up to the centre door, over which rose a wooden clock tower, with a conspicuous clock. There was a vestry hall, with convenient rooms flanking it, a cell or two, where the marks of old " bilboes " were still visible ; a sort of armoury, with old firelocks and belts used by the militia in 1831-2 ; and a room be hind where the table was spread on the 11th of October with a dinner which was never to be eaten. The building looks defensible enough. If the Volunteers had hell the steps which lead up to each side of the central entrance, they might have held their own ; biis they seem to have suffered themselves to be mobbed into the covered space under the steps, whence they retreated into the' building by a door upon the ground floor. I need not go over the details of the tragedy which fol lowed. But looking at the ruins it is difficult to understand that the Court-house could have caught fire from the school-zoom. Neither this little build ing nor Mr. Price's house on the other side was con nected with the Court-house. They are separated by a distance of some feet, and though the flames may have communicated from one roof to the other, the presumption would rather be that " the fire stick" was put to tic Court-house itself. When it once caught fire the flames spread with great rapidity, for the joists and Mooring were of pitched pine ; and the wretched inmates who were yet alive then ran across into Mr. Price's house, or jumped into the pinguin bush, at the rear, hoping to avoid the yelling murderers by whom they were beset. Directly behind the Court-house there is a steep de scent to a road skirting the eminence on which the building stands, and below this, again, there is a lower road, called the wharf road, which is almost upon the beach. The site of the Court-house was itself an old battery, and two long 42-pounders are still mounted there, useless, of course, either to rebel or patriot. The declivity below is thick bush, and it was into this that Mr. Georges plunged andlaycon coaled, till at dusk, sorely wounded as he was, he was able to crawl to a neighbouring house, deserted by its inmates, and there snatch such repose as a man could take who believed that the murderers must by and by be on his track. Few were so fortunate as Mr. Georges. There a little mound marks where Mr. Albergo and others of the victims lie. At the foot of yonder cotton-tree more are interred. A long trench in the rear of the charred ruins marks less honoured tombs. Gordon's remains are some where here below. The exact whereabouts is care fully concealed, The hanging wasdone on the thres hold of the Court-house, and there still are the long bamboos which formed the scaffold. To Gordon and some other of the alleged ringleaders a post of dis honour was assigned. They were hung from the arch of the Court-house, and were called the arch rebels—a ghastly pun, not good to •hear, even at this interval. To that gun, embedded deep in earth, Marshall was tied and flogged, and writhing with the blows—God knows whether with or without a threatening look or gesture—was hung forthwith on the ever-ready gallows close by. One walks amid the ruins, and the tombs, and the lime-strewed trench with a sickening sense, and it is with a feeling of relief that a small cavalcade of ponies appears and the word is given for Stony Gut. On one of these ponies Sarah Robinson takes her seat, as great a personage as anybody, and seems t• enjoy her prominence immensely - . I must finish with Sarah straightway-. She rode to Stony Gut with the Governor, the Commissioners, and the aides-de-camp. The house she was to point out was not at Stony Gut, but two miles further on, and she led the way to a cluster of small settlements called Middleton. His Excellency, with Mr. Gurney, Mr. Maule, and the whole following, went patiently in her wake. At length she pointed out a house—a small cottage, made of mud and wattle, with hard earthen floor, divided into two rooms or compart ments. But there were these difficulties in her story—first, that the triple murders, if they took place in this house, could not possibly have been seen from the road, as she alleged ; and secondly, that the owner and occupier of the house, with the neighbours, denied all knowledge of the massacre. This, however, did not alter Sarah Thompson's view of things, and she stoutly persisted that she was telling the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Then a high Commission Court was held under a tall, but not particularly wide-spreading cocoa-nut tree. Depositions were taken unfavourable to Sarah's story ; and in the absence of secretary or shorthand writer, Mr. Maule took the notes. The principal witness kept up wonderfully ; but when the Commissioners returned to Morant Bay, and proceeded to the police-station, at which plumed hats and swords had been left, she seemed to think that her time had come to make a clean breast of it. Mr. Maule suddenly found her at his feet, kissing a pair of somewhat dusty boots, and refusing to be lifted up. She said, apparently with much inward and certainly with considerable outward struggling, that she had made a mistake—that was her mild euphemism for the lie ; but if Massa would not shoot her, she would never—never make a mistake again. The Commissioners ought to have been indignant, but I believe the difficulty was to keep grave. Sarah was assured that she would not be flogged, but then she instantly came to the conclusion that she was to be flogged, and that redoubled her lamentation until a comfortable assurance came that the " buckra" gentlemen did not even mean to -inflict this punishment. It is difficult to paint too glowingly the lovely prospect which you have in continual sight during the ascent from Morant Bay to Stony Gut. The real Gut is not traversed by those who approach " Bogle's Chapel" from the Morant Bay side. It was from the Blue Mountain Valley that Col. Hobbs's force climbed up the mountain through the rain, which made of every watercourse a mountain tor rent. The road to the chapel from the bay winds over the mountain side and commands a view now far sea ward, now of a broad valley, rich with cane-pieces and groves of cocoa-nut trees, varied by bananas and plantains, and forest trees of luxuriant tropical growth. The settlement of which Bogle's chapel forms the centre commands a magnificent view of the fruitful valley of the Blue Mountain, with a glimpse of the sea beyond. The four walls, of mud and wattle, are still standing, and the building may have held about 60 or 70 people. A little to the right, looking down the valley, was Bogle's cottage and the:boiling-house for his sugar-canes. Lower down was Bowii's residence, or the remains of it ; ne had besides a boiling-house and a crushing house, both now in ruins. Around each cottage was a small piece of ground, perhaps averaging half or threw-quarters of an acre, where canes or ground provisions were nowluxuriantly growing. The half burnt cottages had to be sought out—they were hidden by the thick rich foliage of bananas or plan tain trees. The owners of all these cottages were small settlers, who farmed their own land here abouts, probably rented two or three acres besides, and took a turn of work upon the neighbouring sugar estates when it suited them. An English pea sant would have thought himself thrice-blessed with one-half of these wordly possessions. HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS• (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.) In the week that ended on Saturday, March 24, the births registered in London and twelve other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,557 ; the deaths registered, 3,808. The annual rate of mortality was 32 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,150 boys and 1,069 girls, in all 2,219 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1856-65, the average number, corrected for increase of population, was 2,132. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,649. It was the 12th week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,498. The mortality exhibits a decrease on that of the two previous weeks ; but it is still exceedingly high, for the deaths aro in excess of the num ber computed for the third week of March by 151. Twenty-two deaths were registered as having occurred in the Pancras workhouse between the 12th and 18th inst., inclusive. Mr. Lance, the Registrar writes:—" The in mates of the workhouse are now nearly 2,000 in number; an immense quantity of houses had been pulled down in the parish to make way for the Midland Railway works, and whole families have been obliged, in consequence, to go into the workhouse, not having been able to find other accommodation. Eight deaths were registered in the Small-pox Hospital between the 18th and 23d instant inclusive. Mr. Watts, the Registrar, states that six of the deceased persons had not been vaccinated, and on the two others the operation had apparently been performed with doubtful effect. The disease is not confined to any quarter, the present cases having been brought from Dalston, Lambeth, St. Luke, Middlesex, Camberwell, Bethnal-green, and Marylebone. The hospital is full, and patients have been refused ad mission. _ _ A young woman, whose age was only 141 years, died after childbirth. A woman, aged 42 years, died from epilepsy after eating a mussel at supper. The following eight deaths by carriage accidents were registered in the week : . . The son of a carpenter, aged nine years, thrown under the wheel of a waggon. Died on 12th March at St. George's Hospital. Acarman, aged 68 years, jammed between two carte near Newington-green. Died on 21st March at St. Bar tholomew's Hospital. A flsh-dealer, aged 25 years, fell from a cart. Died on 19th March in the London Hospital. A milliner, aged 65 years, run over. Died on 21st March in the London Hospital. A girl, aged 11 years, run over. Died on 21st March in the London Hospital. A pensioner, aged 80 years, run over by an omnibus. Died on the Eth March in the Workhouse, Whitechapel. Died on A coal- dealer, aged G 5 years, fell from a van 15th March in St. Thomas's hospital. A dealer in plaster of Paris, aged 55 years, thrown from a cart by a van. Manslaughter against the driver. Died on 13th March at 5, River-street, Islington. The annual rate of mortality last week was 28 per 1,000 in London, 30 in Edinburgh, and 32 in Dublin ; 31 in Bristol, 28 in Birmingham, 57 in Liverpool, 41 in Man chester, S 6 in Salford, 33 in Sheffield, 39 in Leeds. 24 in Bull, 31 in Nowcastle-upon-Tyne, and 30 in Glasgow. The ship Asteropc, from Wellington, New Zea land, has arrived, bringing £70,000 in gold, which has been sent to the Bank of England. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. WORKED TO DEATH.—William West, of No. 12, Bath street, City-road, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt at the instance of Mr. William Love, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with cruelty to a horse by working it while in a totally unfit state. Chaye, officer of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, proved seeing the defendant driving a horse attached to a van, in Oxford-street, and removing the saddle ho found several shocking sores, and the horse was in such a wretched condition that it was only fit for the knacker. Tho defendant said he had been ill himself, and did not know the horse was so bad. Mr. Tyrwhitt said if the defendant would consent to have the horse put out of its misery, he would only impose a line of ss. The defendant agreed to have the horse killed, and left with the officer for that purpose. _ CRUELTY TO A CAB HORSE.—Adam Smith, an ill-con ditioned looking fellow, a cab-driver, appeared on the com plaint of Mr. William Love, of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, to answer the charge of having cruelly ill-treated a horse._ The case was proved by Mr. Wm. Henry Case, cab pro prietor, of John's Mews, Bedford-row, who while in an omnibus in Oxford-street saw the defendant, who was a driver in his (witness's) employ, constantly whip the horse he was driving, for three-quarters of a mile altogether, and on the mare being brought home by the defendant at night it was covered with wheales. The defendant at first de nied whipping the horse, but afterwards said he had done so because it was obstinate. John Stafford, horse-keeper to Mr Case, and George Young, an officer of the Society, proved that the defendant admitted flogging the mare. The defendant admitted using the whip once or twice. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he was aware there was a class of the defendant's fraternity who amused themselves by con stantly whipping the horses the whole time they had them out. He thought the horse the better animal of the two, and should fine the defendant 20s. ELECTION COMMITTEES —This Day. The committee reassembled to-day at II o'clock. __ _ _ Mr. Mundell, Q.C., said that on the part of the peti tioner, that all the evidence he proposed to call for some time would be confined to acts and declarations imputed to Sir Robert Clifton during the election, and when he in tended to alter the character of the evidence lid would in-- form the committee. Robert Hancock stated that ho remembered on the even ing of the nomination day being outside Sir Robert Clifton's committee-room in the South Parade. Sir R. Clifton addressed the mob from the window, and towards the end of his speech he heard him tell them to form them selves into bands of ten or twelve, and to appoint a cap tain or leader to each band. He then pointed different ways, and told him to go into every part of the town. The Chairman—You are sure he said all parts of the town ? The witnoss—Yos, Sir Robert told the mob not to go to bed that night, and to follow the instructions that would Do given teem trotu time to time. lie sate teat tt tney eta so they wuuld win the day. He thought that was towards the finish of his speech, and it was about ten o'clock at night. Tha Chairman—How near were you to Sir Robert ? Witness—l cannot say the exact distance, but I was very close to him. The Chairman—Have you refreshed your memory since the time you mention. Witness—The matter impressed itself on my memory, and he mentioned what he had heard not only that even ing at home, but the next day to several persona with whom ho conversed on the subject. I knew only one of Sir Robert's "lambs," whose name is Thompson, and whose father or himself kept a fruiterer's shop at Nottingham. He had seen him at Sir Robert Clifton's room, but ho could not say that he saw him there on the evening of which he was speaking. _ _ _ Mr. William Lawson said he was connected with the woollen trade at Nottingham. On the day of nomination he was near to Sir R. Clifton's committee-room in Byron street. It was about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and he heard Sir Robert Clifton make a speech to a number of persons outside, in the course of which he said he under stood that Morley and Paget would attempt to pack the polling booths the next day. He proceeded to say that if they attempted to do so they were to " butcher" them first and " pepper" them afterwards. Sir Robert was cheered while he was speaking. He expressed himself to the effect that it was a scandalous shame, and he was assaulted be fore ho could get into his house by some of the mob. He saw Sir Robert in the town next morning about 10 o'clock followed by a mob of some 20 persons. William Hamersall, a timber merchant, gave some cor roborative evidence, and in the course of cross-examination said that he had been charged with throwing stones during the riot on the election day, but it was unfounded. He had said that the mayor was half drunk on the day of polling, but he believed he was mistaken, and that ho was under the influence of excitement. The mayor was satis fied with an apology he had made, and they were at pre sent good friends. Mr. Richard Beckett, an alderman of Nottingham and a magistrate of the town and county, said that he was with Mr. Thackeray (a witness previously examined) on the polling day. He went with him to Byron-street ward, where ho found Sir Robert Clifton, who was very excited. He complained to witness that his votes could not get up to poll. Witness told Sir Robert that he was then in his magisterial capacity, so that he would give every accom modation to all who wished to register their votes. Sir Robert replied to him with an oath, and said, " I will hold up my hand, and 1,000 of my police will appear, and the town shall be pulled down if my voters are not allowed to poll." Ho remonstrated with him, and told him ho would be hold accountable for any breach of the peace if ho car ried out his threat. Several other witnesses were' examined,who gave similar evidence relating to Sir Robert Clifton personally rather than to his agents during the election proceedings. The inquiry will be resumed to-morrow. APPEARANCE or THE RINDERPEST IN SHEEP IN CAMBRIDGESIIIRE.—This county has been amongst those that have sustained the severest losses from rinderpest amongst horned cattle. Last week's returns showed that Cheshire, Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire only exceeded it in the baneful effects of the visit of the plague, all these exceeding Cambridgeshire in area to an immense extent. Consternation is the -only word that can express the effect produced within the last few days by the promulgation of the news that the rinderpest has undoubtedly attacked the sheep in the flock of Mr. Free, of Moor Barns Farm, Ma dingley. Tho plague appeared among Mr. Free's horned cattle about a month since. The whole (24) were attacked, and either died of the disease or were slaughtered within a fortnight. Since then some analogous appearances to those resulting on an attack of rinderpest presented them selves amongst Mr. Free's sheep, and he was induced to again call in the aid of Mr. Sparrow, of Cambridge, the appointed inspector of cattle for the district, who pro nounced the disease from which the sheep were suffering to bo undoubtedly rinderpest, and this seems to be borne out, as up to Saturday, the 24th inst., twenty-three had died, and a great many of the flock had boon seized with the disorder. Moor Barns Farm, Madingley, is distnat about two miles from Cambridge. DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.—Died, at Thurso, on Wednesday last, Margaret Wares, a native of Stroma, at the extraordinary ago of nearly 105 years. She was born in Stroma, parish of Canisbay, on the 21st of June, 1761, and was consequently 104 years and nine months old. When a girl she went to serve a farmer in the parish of Bower, and singular to state, has ever since continued with him and his descendants, having lived to see five genera tions of them. She retained all her faculties to the last, and was able to walk about without any assistance. Two years ago, in a case of parochial settlement between the parishes of Olrig and Bower, she was examined as a wit and gave her evidence with great clearness and intelligence. When about 100 years old Peggy travelled from Bower to Thurso in a few hours. Her character was that of a quiet and unostentatious Christian woman, and latterly she passed a great deal of her time in prayer.—Northern 4:nsign. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. ( Via Crookhavcn.) NEW YORK, March 17. It is reported that 40,000 coloured troops, at pre sent stationed in the South, will be mustered out during the next two weeks. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money abundant. Gold, 1308. Exchange on London, 1401 ; ditto Paris, 4 lf. Stocks firm and active. New York Centrals, 024 ; Illinois, 118 ; Erie, 83k ; 5-20 Bonds, 1034. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 40c. Flour and wheat declin ing. Corn steady. Provisions dull. Coffee quiet. Sugar dull. Molasses limited demand. Petroleum, crude, 251 c., heavy ; refined, 40c. The receipts of cotton at New York since the Ist ➢larch amount to 28,000 bales. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. SUEZ, MARCH 27. The Malta, from Bombay, arrived here at 2 a.m. to-day. The Sutton, from Mauritius, arrived at 7 p.m, on the 24th inst. BOMBAY HEAVY MAIL. GIBRALTAR, MARCH 25. The Poona leaves at 8 p.m. on the 25th. She may be expected at Southampton on the 30th. OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN ➢TAILS. The Massilia, from Southampton on the 20th inst., reached Gibraltar on the 26th, at 7 a.m., and leaves at 11 a.m. for Alexandria. All well. Agricultural ProFpects. Last week opened with a fine day, although at times threatening ; but it held up until nine p.m., when some steady rain set in. Monday morning was damp and again threatening. Rain fell about midday, but with not much afterwards. The ground was too moist for any progress to be made with spring tillage, and this check was most unfavourable for the farmers, who are anxious to get on with their sow ing, now that the season is far advanced. Tuesday was a cold, cloudy day, with slight rain at times ; wind N.E. ; thermometer at midday 38 deg. ; baro meter, 29.20 inches. From the West Riding of Yorkshire it was stated—" Sowing proceeds slowly. Growing wheat looks as well as one might expect, after the very changeable weather and occasional sharp frcsts, without snow on ground so full of moisture. Turnips, from the irregular crop, are moved about the country. Potatoes, plentiful and cheap." From the East Riding of Yorkshire it was stated—" Weather is now mild and spring-like, and farmers are busily engaged in preparing the land for spring sowing." From Suffolk our advices remarked —" Spring corn sowing goes on favourably, and the lands, many of them, are in a more favourable state for the reception of the seed than could at one time have been expected." From Lancashire it was re marked—" Since Friday the weather has become more mild, though with easterly winds the tcmpera tare has been far from genial ; the change has, however, permitted progress to be made with agricultural work, and the sowing of spring corn may now be expected to proceed steadily." From Northumberland our advices stated—" The wea ther continued fine and frosty up to Thursday; since then it has been damp and cold, the wind varying from S.W. to S.E., since yesterday N.E. On Wednesday morning the ground was slightly covered with snow, being one more touch of winter. Wind N.E. ; thermometer 38 deg. ; barometer still as low as 29.30 in. Field work was much checked and goes on slowly. From the west coast of Scot land it was on that day stated :—" The weather has continued cold, with easterly winds." Thursday was a cold day, with, after a white frost, slight snow showers, though these were very partial. Our advices from Suffolk stated—" The weather has been more winterly, and since last week not much" progress made in spring sowing." From Warwick shire it was remarked—" Weather very unsettled during the week—cold and wet, with showers of hail and rain." From Berkshire it was stated— " Spring sowing proceeds slowly, owing to unsettled weather." From the East Riding of Yorkshire, on Friday, it was written—" The weather is milder, and farmers are busy now preparing the land for spring sowing. The growing wheat looks well, and present appearances promise well for the future." This was a cold day, and in the afternoon a gale of wind blew from S.S.E. to the S. Thermometer 38 deg., barometer 29.65 in. at midday; in the evening it fell rapidly. Saturday morning was finer, after a violent gale of wind, with torrents of rain, wind S.S.W. Theremometer 42 deg., and the barometer down as low as 28.90. at 2 p.m. Whether these two gales will be considered to be those of the equi nox is doubtful, being two or three days later than the 21st, but our meteorologists will soon establish the point, and tell us their opinions about the state of the weather during the summer months. On the whole during the week no great progress was made with spring tillage, and the week closed with only a poor promise for the next. The changes are remarkably sudden, but we hope they may soon be more favourable. —,'hark-lane Express. LONDON GAZETTE--Last Evening. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, MARCH 27. Orders forth© Court's going into mourning on Thursday next, the 20th inst., for her late Majesty Queen Marie Amelia (widow of his late Majesty King Louis Philippe), viz.:—The ladies to wear black dresses, white gloves, black or white shoes, feathers, and fans, pearls, diamonds, or plain gold or silver ornaments. The gentlemen to wear black Court dress, with black swords and buckles. The Court to change the mourning on Thursday, the sth of April next, viz. : The ladies to wear black drosses, with coloured ribbons, flowers, feathers, and ornaments, or grey or white dresses, with black ribbons, flowers, feathers, and ornaments. The gentlemen to continuo the same mourn ing. And on Sunday, the Bth of April next, the Court to go out of mourning. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, ST. JAMES'S PALACE, lkiwurn 24. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty's birthday will be celebrated on Saturday, the 26th of May next. SYDNEY, Lord Chamberlain. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MARCH 24. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the hononr of knighthood upon Francis Grant, Esq., President of the+ Royal Academy of Arts. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCH 27. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Benja min Morgan Cowie, 8.D., one of her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, to be an Honorary Chaplain in Ordinary to her Majesty. DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 24. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Rear-Admiral Charles George Edward Patey to be Administrator of the Government of the Settlement of Lagos, on the Western Coast of Africa. The Queen has been p li le A as ß e c d H t 2 o 6. appoint Bruce Lockhart Burnside, Esq., to be a member of the Executive Council, and Augustus Adderley, Esq., to be a member of the Le gislative Council, of the Bahama Islands. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Edward Everard hushworth, Esq., D.C.L., to be Government Se cretary and Secretary to the Court of Policy and Com bined Court forthe Colony of British Guiana. CROWN-OFFICE, MABCH 24. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PAR LIAMENT.—County of Louth—The Right Hon. Chichester Samuel Fortescue, Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant 'on of Ireland. County of Worcester, Western Divisi Win. Edward Dowdeswell, Esq., in the room of the to Hon. Frederick Lygon (now Ear l 13eauchamp), called the House of Peers. ADMIR ALTY, TkLutcn 23. *Commander Frederick Cannon has been this day pro moted to the rak of Retired Ctain und of the Orders inn C o uncil of 1860 and , 1864. er the provisions COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening. Amster dam Short. 11 18 Ditto 3 Mouths. 12 11 ' Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 52i Brussels Hamburg Paris ... Short 25 22i Ditto 3 Months. 25 47i Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 121 Vienna, — 10 80 Trieste — 10 80 Petersburgh Berlin Madrid _-- 6 291 9 _ 4 Gi Cadiz Leghorn Milan 25 62 Genoa 25 62 i 25 62_ i Naples 11 19 12 2 12 2 1 25 57 25 57 13 1 0 : 25 80 25 5 5 25 55 121} 11 8 11 8 5 291 6 :291 461 47* 25 67i 25 67 25 67i 25 67i SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. VICTORIA CLUB BarrlNG—Tiers DAY. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 6to 1 agst Whalebone (taken) 7to 1 agst Black Prince J. Day's (taken) Bto 1 agst Pearl Diver (taken) 10 to 1 agst Eakring (taken) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 9 to 1 agst Out and Outer (taken) 100 to 9 agst Mephistopheles (taken) 13 to 1 agst Delight (taken) 13 to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken) 22 to 1 agst Czar (taken) 25 to 1 agst Brahma (taken) 25 to 1 agst Buck (taken) GO to 1 agst Vandervelde (taken) CHESTER CUP. 100 to 8 agst Dalby (taken) 13 to 1 agst Harry Brailsford (taken) 20 to 1 agst Saladin (offered) 20 to 1 agst Gong (taken) 25 to 1 agst Surney (taken) 28 to 1 agst Treasure Trove TWO THOUSAND. 6 to 5 agst Lord Lyon (taken) 11 to 1 agst Janitor (taken) DERBY. 11 to 2 agst Lord Lyon (taken) 15 to 2 agst Rustic (taken) 22 to 1 agst Blue Riband (taken) 33 to 1 agst Student (taken) 40 to 1 agst Strathcons.n (taken) MANCHESTER BETTING-YESTERDAY. CITY AND SUBURBAN, 9 to 1 agst Mephistopheles (taken) 10 to 1 agst Out and Outer (taken) 20 to 1 agst Czar (taken) CHESTER CUP. 100 to 7 agst Dalby (taken) 100 to 7 agst Baragah (taken) 100 to 6 agst Harry Brailsford (taken) 18 to 1 agst Redcap (taken) 20 to 1 agst Saladin (taken) 20 to 1 agst Survey. (taken) 20 to 1 agst Sandal (taken) 25 to 1 agst Treasure Trove (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mephistopheles (taken) TWO THOUSAND. sto 4 agst Lord Lyon (taken) 10 to 1 agst Janitor (taken) 11 to 1 agst Auguste (taken) THE GREA 2 RACQUET MATCH. -~----- CAMBRIDGE v. OXFORD. The annual great double University Racquet Match took place yesterday, at Prince's Club, Hans-place, Chelsea. The event drew togztlier a large attendance of visitors. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was present, and the gallery, which commanded a fine view of the exciting game, was crowded to excess by the chief members of the club. The champions selected to contend for the honour of victory were Messrs. Maitland and Phipps of Christ Church for Oxford, and Mr. Warner of Trinity and Mr. Knight Bruce of Trinity Hall for Cambridge. The game was to be the best of seven rubbers, and at about half-past two the former gentlemen entered the court amidst the cheers of the visitors. The Oxford men wore their white Guernsey trimmed with dark blue, whilst those of Cambridge of course doned the light blue, which, as the result will show, turned out the winning colour. The first game was rapidly and well played, and was won by Cambridge-15 to 7. The se cond also fell to Cambridge-15 to 6. At this point the cheers of the light blue party was enthu siastic, as it seemed to portend that Cambridge was going to sweep off the laurels in quick and speedy fashion. The third game, however, fell to Oxford-15 to 10 ; and this circumstance gave energy and spirit to the dark blue champions as they went in " with a will," for the next game was called 14 all set to 3, which Oxford went in and won. The fifth game was then commenced amidst a great deal of doubt and anxiety ; both Universities stood equal. This feeling was intensified by the fact that when the game was called the result was 13 all set to 5, which Oxford went in and got. The dark blue party were jubilant, but the sixth game added fresh interest to the match, as it ended in favour of Cambridge-15 to 3. Thus it stood three to Oxford and three to Cambridge ; and when the champions went in for the last and win ning rubber the greatest excitement and interest prevailed. Every point was watched with the utmost interest ; as the score rose so did the excite ment, and when 10-11 was called, Warner went in in the most determined and vigorous manner, and won the game " right off the reel," and thus Cam bridge was placed in a majority—the score standing Cambridge, 4 ; Oxford, 3. The game was well contested throughout, but it could not be said that any fine play was exhibited during the contest. The style was not that of the Dyke year, and although now and then a fine hit was made, there was too much " wood" heard to be either stylish or satisfactory. The Cambridge victors, notwithstanding this, were hailed with loud cheers, and the light blue party seemed quite satisfied with the result of the arduous contest of the day. Foreign Mail Packet List Co- MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton April Ditto, via Marseilles April 13. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet April 6 Ditto, by French packet Cape of Goad Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April 3 China, Penang. and Singapore. via Southampton April b. Ditto, via Marsuilles Alril 13 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton , April 5. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Mar. 31. Ditto, via Marseilles . ... April 7. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 31. Ditto, via Marseilles April 7. Mauritius, via Southampton April 13 Ditto, via Marseilles April 7. Newfoundland .. . April 11. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United . btates and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Mar. 30. West Indies and Puma (except Bahamas and Mar. 31. Honduras)..,..,, • - - - Cuba and Me 100 • • --- ...... Mar. 31. Bahamas, via New York. April 5. Bermuda, ditto April 11 West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tenerin .... April 12 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. —This Day. - - IRY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. 1 GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Neptune, from Manzanilla ; A lbert Fre_ Arrived, March 27-11ero, from Alexandria : Glencoe, from Shanghai ; dorick, from St. Lucia ; Aloof, from Nassau. Arrived, March 27—Leo, screw steamer, from A Lord J. Russell, screw steamer, fro - --ntWer ; Selene. scrow steamer, and Giraffe, screw steamer, P Dull fro from Boulogne ; Catharine, frOm Groningen. 111 unkirk ; DELL, Wednesday Morning. F u sed— Cospatrick (in tow), from Bombay, - T os todalen; from London, for for London; Quebec ; Willism and Jane, f ro m Sunderland, for New York ; Sister, from the weet, for the north. Liverpool Cotton Market.—Tbis Day. Rather more demand this morning. bably 6,000 bales or more. [es pro• The sum of £51,000 wa s taken to the Bank of England y es t er day afternoo n. The City of New Yo rk has arrived this morning, from New York, with £16,619. Mr. W. H. Holyland, of the firm of Price, Holy_ land, and Waterhouse, has been appointed by the Master of the Rolls official liquidator of the Bur ham Tidal ha rbour Company (Limited). We are requested to state that the National Por trait Gallery, 29, Great George-street, Westminster, will be open to the public on Easter Monday, Tuesday, and Wed nesday. NATIONAL GALLERY.—By a return issued yester day it appears that the total amount expended in the pur aB was t 2 n ear l c hase of pictures for the National Gallery bet ween June, oflB GO, an February, averaged ged in 47 h ,09 e 7 same7s. d. time The cost y l the establishment £6,000 per annum. =TILE ACCIDENT TO MR. MACKENZIE GRIEVES* The accident to this gentleman, one of the st ewar d s o f the Jockey Club, Paris, turns out not to be so seroius as was at first reported, "befall from his horse resulting in only a few bruises. 100 at 1 20 204 10 100 i 'OSS: 100 100 100 all 100 100 100 [lOO 2 100 100 190 100 100 1( 0 100 100 4031 3 30} i 1 81 } 161 } 134