The Sun. — London, England, 1866-02-27 00:00:00

XONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The money market continues in an easy condi tion. There are few bills on offer, and the brokers are desirous to obtain securities at current rat es , While the c ommerc i al classes, expecting a reduction In the value of money, are not inclined to negotiate 1110 re paper than is sufficient for present require lnents. The Secretary of:State for India, in Council, has given notice that the holders of the India 4 per cent. pebentures, due on the 16th of August next, will be allowed to renew them for a further period of s i ev es years a t 5 per cent., on g i v i ng not i ce before tu e 2 8th of March *next. The amount of these debentures outstanding is about £4,800,000. the amount of £4,000 in gold was taken to the Bank Yesterday. d in the F ore i gn and Colonial Produce Markets u ring the last few days there has b e e n a mode amount of business transacted. Sugars have r , enl ained in fai r reques t, a t s t ea d y prices. Coffee, Itewever, has been dull ; while in rice, cocoa, and Irnit there has been no material alteration as regards ! all ies. A lar ge s p ecu l a ti ve b us i ness h as b een d one m tallo w , chiefly for forward delivery, at enhanced quotations. The Massilia, from Alexandria, has brought 43)139. Two O'CLOCK. The English Stock Market has been further de- Z ess ed to-day, and grea t i nac ti v it y h as preva il e d . 40 1 of the stagnation in this department is owing ;o h the li quidation of the fortnightly account, and to e u npleasant situation of political affairs in the aBt. Consols are now quoted 87f I for money, t 1 „,, c187 4 - for the account. The New Th r e es an d 0 rqueed Annuities are 87f I; Exchequer Bills, 6s. 28 . dis. ; I n di a St oc k , 218} ; an d di tto 5 per ‘' e nts., 102 f F°r eign Stocks have generally been dealt in at Sl l l 4l ° ll B prices. T ur ki s h 5 per C ents. are 38 k ; s 22i 23 ; do. New, 20! ; G ree k, 14 I ; ir p niall Passive, 27f f ; the Certifi ca t es , 16i 17 ; t all an, 60i 61; Brazilian Scrip, 2 f prem. ; and t g YPtian Scrip, 1 prem. United States 5-20 °lids are 70f f ; Erie Sha r e s , 54f 55 ; an d Illinois, 77 i 78 . T he tra nsact i ons i n the Ra il way Share Market bane been on a moderate scale, and chiefly connected anwith the settlement of the account. A fi rmer t one, d e v o er prevails. Great Eastern and Lancash ir e ritshire have each advanced 10s., and G rea t a °lt hern A Sto c k an d N or th W es t ern, Midl and, South E as t ern 5 5., w hil e M etropolitan have rN eed 15s. r , -Lee Foreign and Colonial lines remain very qu i e t. t° 4 4 2 € 1 . Trunk of Canada, however, have improved fa h n l4l * ead Miscellaneous Shares are very dull, and materal change in prices. Alliance are malt ; in 4 1 at 28i 4 ; European at 12k s; London C all eial, at 121 13 ; and Overend, Gurney, and l 9 I. Charles Lafitte and Co.'s sh ares are '`ed i 2- 1 1- prem. r .,._ BRITISE FUNDS—ONE O'ULOO 3 p,„exit.NnENT FUNDS. .6,0 Cent. Consols 871 1 3 ~,,,,.. Account, March 6 N ew 3 Reduced B7+ 1 ely 3 Is e , n , „,Per C ent B 7+ i 6 0 1 Per Cent. Jan. 1894 _ Ata„inties .' Per Ce n t . Jan. 1873 _ D o ,30 y rs, exp i re sth Jan., 1880 t e. for 30 yrs, exp i re s t h A pr il , 1880 — z ei , (Red Sea T e l egrap h) , A ug., 1908 ir-_ gequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 6 p. £5OO 2 4, 1 9° £lOO and .£2OO 4,1) -..' 6; England Stock, SECURITIES. 5 per Cent 144. St GovERNmENT . 1:1 14 , 1 1tOek, 10i per Cent., April 1874.,. _2OBl bo- --Lecount p c ; 5 Per Cent, Oct 1870 0 4 Per Cent., Oct. 1888 0 ° °. Certificates 14' s z . per Cent., Jan. 1872 1), - ; A til Per Cent, May 1879 • ' Per Cent., A ____ n b o lids, £1 o,ooug. 1866 _ -• nuder £l,OOO Arz0,,,1 FOREIGN FUIIDS-0151111 O'CLOCK. 44-;"ne Republic, 6 per Cent., .£l5 pd --... 13ra,cM bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 4, 11 ,4, 6 per Cent •-• '1 Per Cent. , 1852-58-60 e. 1863 ils Do, 1865 r, - " Accou n t 761 „ ... A) 8 . . - _ tuei l :„, t A i lla, .£3a paid I)," 4 -yms 6 per Cent COI2I • Account 1 Per Cent (Deferred 3 per Cent.) 1 lan ~ . _ z o. A Per per Cent Col e 'i Per Cent _ Luba, lan 6 Per Cent. — alii 6 ,per C ent _ 0: 11 . 1 d Per C ent., 1825 Do * s Per Cent, 1863 ~, 10 a4 1 , b . Per Cent., 1773-77, .£-0 paid 74 .0 lan. Principalities tq 0 Ac count I lklo r 1) - New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — VDo., Provisional Land Warrant i all 7 per C ent Do 4100 Secon Issue o 410 0 Boßonds DA s Do. 1864 " tlOO Bonds .... )o°' G overnment Railway Debentures 931 th. l• tl5 paid .......... . 4 - 0 - 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons t • Accou n t -- je. C oupons Ital• 414 10. 5 per Cent. b ia4 5 Per Cent, 1865 Dee Account tl€7:i. Itareunnana Railway 221 31 ell 3 per Cent ci• An 23 1 91 l), p ,, 1864 _ Ale k " Per Cent. Anglo-French pa id N evidean 6 Der Cent., £3O paid Nj lis h Ira '`). 5 per Cent *,,t, perut I.,_`:! anada — ii`o).4,,Per Cent __.... h1)0 Tueferred 00, 6-4aed Warrants (Hectares) b e 4'er Cent, 1864 — Pe,,,,_. Santeeud, 4 per Cent via l: , 0 0 , , Pr Cent., 1865 4, pecount be leero ent. (Uribarren) — DaP s Cent 1862 ' — 3 a " ee ° - Per Cent., 1853 , b e. Ar Cent., 1856, '7, 4U sgiQ e ,olitit '9, '6O, '62, '3, 45i Do 0 ' Per Cent., 1822, £ St 13, 4 i Per Cent. 1850 0 0 ii Per Cent., 1860 li o 6 Pet Cent. 1859 41%lijaia7r_ Cent. 1864 — p °AI ,El•en°.,per Cent 6 o, 4 ' .oands Pk N tii4 Ter Cent - oo ' Cent Do A o N.punt b i . ) A Deferred — b,I), reount 1 4 :sive 27- 1 - h lliZ,,,c 4 Mt 271 1 6 D(1 A.e'ert. of Coup not funded l6l '' , 0(14 c ount 17 161 b 4 Per Ceut. T,;),:li h,,,,,-. ~osia er uent 1864 o, s o Ace per Cent. 1854 9ll uo s'eettrit tO Acilteor ent. 1858 Do,cll,,ut oo 6 100 isoluts 731 )),,° Ae l3e to r n e ,,,etit. 1862 IN' .tlnr, E on's ., 661 i .11 (l e 6 ''e Lo 5 t,i)er 04ut 1863 1, 4 ' 0 0 4,_.' e ''_ Cent:: 1865, paid up Scrip 3B 1 Ir" .l Te e 'lnt 381 tezuela.r3oetit. Guaranteed 99 Itto' Per Cent b e 6 ttcc eunt b° . A Pe c.-. 1 : Celat., 1862 — ,b c ,`:elint _ I). 1861 4%4 Avidends on the above payable in London. Nl' ll , 5 121 4 azl 0 , P,I• Cont., Ex. 10 Florins It 'll ' i D e % Pe ,. r , r eeut.,Ex. 25f. P r: I.PeV. Ce n t" et, Ex. 12 Guil — Lanltal tte-tile_, Certificates — ° 5 per ~' 0 per Cent _ — Acco44't'cot., 1 861, Ex. 2of. C 04,1 ................................. I) 3 fo 'TWO S O'CLOCK. °. de e r l ' lo 4cy (21'/It ..................... .. P A0...........,..... .......•••••=1111 taLteht‘ZItTISING SWI NDLERS.—The police have ap -8.4,1 - , e t), Iv ) ''' (:' . h t hold of two very dangerous swindlers. t°ll l7it arie s Alle young, eh nre call themselves George Essen kaq 1.1/ papers to They appear to have advertis .o e n d s in w t e h re e th eto hto grant loans. When applicati which f t ? 4141rn they pretended tc make inquiries, after 44'atoecrleed thfit the loan would be granted. They 3), 4 (1 e 11a . 1f 114 elteraissory note for the amount to be borrowed tii,. ' 3 l uter e ,r C ill; and promised on receipt of the first 1 1 , dia ." to send the other half of the cheque This te 4 } 4t euia t i l t 4 i, f et, but when the cheque was presented it ''kVe -el.° ' a t h b nk. They seem e r ,, get 1. ,no accoun at t 0 a . '414 ' g° ° 6 deal of money in this way. Both men aiwed. High is this ,LES. Lords unless Dlders ev. J. )rt of alated t, &C. could uld be ry of regret very L able -,, and , 414 , SHARE MARKETS.—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 1 Railways. I Paid) Closing I Business Price. i done. '-Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cambrian .•• •• Cork and Bandon Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June. Dun„Perth, & A b.Junc. E. London, scrip Certi. Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. s tk. 93 95 131 .32 65 70 13 15 4i 51 68 70 70 72 131 115 117 38 40 61 76 Do. K Angl;,st. No. Great North'Ot Scotland Great Northern D. A 5t0ck...... .., 129 11,0 117 148 Do. B stock Do. few. te. at 25 pa G t S. and W. of Ireland Weke. n Original, D w. V 1 1 . Hall gua. PO 92 58 4`.',9 Do. South IVales-: Do. W. Mid. Oxlord Do. Newpo, t tie; eforcl rehire & Yorkshire ndon and Illackwall 53 6 39 41 34 38 tOl [3 ;22 ;24 48 10 96 OS 38 40 45 6 126 126 i 95 46 69 65 13 134 3 1 116 97 (0 Lon., lirigh.,/tz S Coast Lon., (:hat., and Dovur Do. Metrop. A Lon. do North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet., & Lincoln Metropolitan Do. New Do Extension Metropolitan District. Do do. do. Do. and John'sW'd Mid'and Do. £9 Share 127 i 271 2 21 i 96 e 8 Do, Birmin.. & Derby ‘t id Kent . North British Do. Ed. Pth , & Dun. Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. G.N•E pureham Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... CO G 2 7 28 112 114 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 Uo. Scot, Mid. stJck Shropshire Union South Devon youth E, stern Staines, Wok.,. Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & KilkenT Waterloo & Whlteha West Cornwall BRITISH P, Atlantic & St. Lawrence Bom.,Baroda,.t Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent... Do. I' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6p. o. 872-3- Calcutta & S. E., lim Cape Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p East. Bencal, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.o. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.o Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Prd. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stook Do. do. deferred Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. I'o. Gut. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c , Gt. South of India gun. 5 per cent D 41. per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada.. Do. New ..... Do. 6 p. c. lids. pay. 1873 Do. 5$ do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 41 do Do. 4i do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. Hudson's Bay N. lil.C'da,6pclstpf.bs Scinde . ... Do. Delhi Do. do t's 6 - Do. Pun jaub Do.lndus St Flo COLONIAL GO VER British Columbia, 6 per' cent., Dec.3l, 1872. Can.Gov.fi p.c.Ja.& July 1877-4 Do. (1 p. c. Feb. & Au 4 Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. e. luseribmi sk Cape G. Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Du. Apl.&Oct 1890-1900 Do. do; 1880-9, Do. Jan.&July, 1890-9' Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1000 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p. t Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 11 p. o, 1873, D a 0 n. 1.78 1 July Do. 1882, May 15, Nov.ll Do. 1805, Feb. & Aug ?falai .7ov. a per cent N. B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&July N. S.W. Gov. 5 rm., 18tit Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to ...1871. Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1892 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova &Ada Gov. 6 p. sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868 Do. 1878 & upwards Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, April & Oct BRITI Cain. Consol. Gold, Rm Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavtst Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Cara Brea Nast Grenville East Gunnislake .. East Loved E. W'l Russell (Tavistk Gam.& StAubyn(G wen. Great L ,xey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (Heist ‘t, Grenville Herod's Foot Ringston Downs Margaret Uny Lelant. Marke Valley Ilwyndy Iron Ore, lim New Se ton North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett(lllogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper Pr vldence Uny Lelant. S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tin Croft . Vigra and Cl,gan, um_ West Bassett W. Caradon (Llskeard West Chiverton West Seton Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller (nedruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men , Wheal Setou Wheal Trelawney (Lis 72 73 108 110 37 38 104 11 ip 125 128 1i 2p 14 2p 75 17 11 12 148 149 69 71 112 114 53 55 76j 774 8 9 194 148 3 Ipi 102 104 1 51 53 ISIONS. 51 6 9 93i 1001 Id kr) 71 8 10 11- 74 78 96 98 65 70 100 102 100 101 102 103 15 49 87 90 68 70 60 63 62 61 63 58 98 51 44 47 36 40 136 38 103 ;01 P 1 1, P 9 100 91 03 17& 17,1 31 3F t 1 81 e 6 1 yd 9:1 101 90 92 86 88 84 C 6 8' 62 98i 991 93 99 98 99 1021 11 'MENT SECUR f 4 96 93 95 97 7'o 62 7i SO 101 103 104 100 104 105 101 103 90 92 101 103 106 1 8 IC2 104 103 105 103 105 104 106 9J 101 93 95 93 95 87i 58 100 102 81 84 18 100 98 100 104 106 106} 107: ii 9 5 14 16 570 590 i li 19 2L 61 75 4 45 4 1 11 12i 3 33 5 7 20 21 2 3i 4 3C 31 31 3/ 3i 40 4i 5 5 7 4 44 2i 10 35 4) 13 15 32 34 390 410 2 18 22 9 11 19 20 4 6 3 4 8 10 75 FO 165 175 80 95 25 27,) - - , 3 5 2 5 215 10 174 .YREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties Ex., No. I. 101} London and N. Western, Bedford and Cambridge 90 N(rth Eastern, Cons. pref.. 4 per cent.,.-- Ditto 41 per cent., rd., 9S Stockton and Darlington, A 5 per cent., 32 VREFERENCE SNARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 4i per cent. pr., 83 Ditto, 5 pJr cent pf., to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. n rest Luxembourg, 16 West Flanders, 5i per cent. pf., 91 FOREIGN NtINEF. Anglo -Brazilian Gold, limited, par Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 41 General, 20 St. John del Rey, lim., 55 Yudanart.utana of S. Australia, lim.,; BANKS. Agra and Mtsterman's, lira., 15 Alliance, lim.. 28 ustralasia, 73 European Bank, lim., 121 Imperial Ottoman, 13 I Land Mortgatze Bank of India, lim., 41 London and River Plate, Ditto, issued at pm., 13i London Chartered Bank of Australia, 22& Mercantile and Exchange, MISCELLANZOUB. City Offices, lim., 5 Discount Corporation, 10; Gen. Credit and Finance of London. lim.. 5 41 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour , 91 Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. li7o, issued 93, 77 Joint Stock Discount. lira., London Financial Association. lim 14 13 Millwall Freehold Land and Dock, 41 N atonal Discount Company, 141 North British and Mercantile Insurance, 201 Overend, Gurney, and Co., lini., 191 Rio de Janeiro City Improve - Bents. lira.. 22/ Thames and Mersey ;Marine) Insurance, liiu., 71 PARIS EXIIIBITION.—To-morrow is the last day on which intending exhibitors at the Paris Exhibition can claim any allotment of space. CUSTOM-HOUSE CLERKS.—After more than two years' agitation, the Treasury, by the approval of Sir Thomas Fremantle and the Board of Customs, have re organised the whole of the classifications of the above de partment. The different offices are divided into three classes, viz., the Ist class £230, rising £lO per annum to £300; 2d class, £l5O, rising £lO per annum to £220 ; and the 3d class, £BO, rising £lO to £l4O. The first two years of the junior classes is by £5 rises instead of £lO. These alterations aro a great boon to the warehousing departments of the customs, but in such officesas the controller-generals', inspector-generals', examiners', and long-room, the lower half is the only portion slightly benefited by the change, whilst the upper half is damaged and in very many in stances serious prospective injury has been caused, and we believe that serious discontent is the result. The number of clerks in the indoor departments of the Customs is 571, exclusive of principals, and not 161, as erroneously stated by several of our contemporaries. 'OSSR 2.1.0 294 32 2.14.0 8.3.6 3.0.0 10.8.0 all 0.14.6 14.9.6 8.18.0 8.10.0 5.10.6 13.17.6 1.10.6 43 2 1 381 4.4.0 2.13. , 7.1.6 10.6.7 11 3.2.0 18.18.9 35.15.9 581 f 1321 2 7k 1271 I 961 7 112/ P THE SOTHERN SPIRITUALIST CASE. The indictment against the Messrs. Kent, publishers, of Paternoster-row, has, in fact, been withdrawn. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, on the part of Mr. Sothern, said he was quite satisfied that the Messrs. Kent, who were gentlemen of the highest respectability, wore the innocen means of circulating the libel. TILE ROBBERY BY A POLICEMAN. Boxall, a constable in the police force at Usk, Monmouth shire, pleaded guilty to charge of stealing from a letter a bank post bill for £lBO. The prisoner begged for mercy on the ground of his having served in the army during the Crimean war. The Common Sergeant said the offence was a very gross one. Ile sentenced the prisoner to seven years' penal ser vitude. . - ROBBERY BY A POSTMAN. A letter-carrier named Harris pleaded guilty to a cbargo of stealing a test letter. The Common Sergeant sentenced the prisoner to fivo years' penal servitude. ROBBERY BY A CLERK. A respectably dressed man named Loosemoro, late clerk in the employ of an extensive provision merchants in Gracechurch-street, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a cheque for £2,500, the property of his employers. Tho prisoner had been in the service of the prosecutors for 13 years, and they strongly recommended him to mercy. The prisoner had lost the money in Stock Exchange specula.. tion. His salary was £250 per annum. The Common Sergeant said, in consequence of the re commendation cf the prosecutors, he should only sentence the prisoner to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.) THE GREAT SEIZURE OF COUNTERFEIT COIN. Alfred Hall, licensed victulaler, 25 ; Charles Goldsmith, 24, upholsterer ; George Linton, 3J, tinman ; Henry Mills, 20, smith ; William Hayes, 45, sailor; Ann Winter, 17 ; and Robert Cummings, 61, labouier ; were indicted with having in their possession a largo quantity of counterfeit coin, well knowing the same to be counterfeit, and with intent to utter the same. The prisoners all pleaded not guilty. The prisoner Hall, it will be recollected, was the land lord of a public-house in White Lion-street, Seven Dials, and from certain information the police proceeded to the house, and on entering the top room the prisoners wore found sitting round the table, and when the police entered the woman threw a packet into the fire which the con stables prevented from being consumed, and on being opened it was found to contain six counterfeit shillings. The room was searched, and the base coin mentioned in the indictment was found in different parts of the house. Tho prisoners endeavoured to escape, but the police prevented them and succeeded in taking them all into custody. Cum ming, the elder prisoner of tho batch, is well known to tho police, and had for a long time, by his clever ness, eluded bringing himself within the law on the charge of coining. He was one of the associates of the late celebrated "Jim, the Penman," who took so large a share in the bullion robberies on the South-Eastern Bail way, and later still he was one of the prisoners convicted of robbing the Bank of England note paper from the mills of Messrs. Portal. He had been but a short time re leased from a sentence of six years' penal servitude, and altogether he was looked upon as rather a celebrated crimi nal. He seemed to bear his ago remarkably well, for on the present occasion he did not seem to be a day older than when he was before the judges on the occasion last referred to. Tho ovid.neo was publiohod at groat lonath in the columns of The Sun when the prisoners were examined at Bow-street. Tho same witnesses having been examined, Mr. Ribton asked if there was any case against Hall. The Commissioner—A man must bo held responsible for what is in his house. Mr. Ribton—Perhaps your lordship will tell me whal points you think tell against him ? - - The Commissioner—There is the repeated warnings, and the finding of a large quantity of base coin therein. Mr. Ribton—l should like to know what there is against The Commissioner—Well, then, there is the question, what amounts to possession, the repeated warnings of the police as to the nature of the people using his house, the discovery of the coin, the conversion, as it may turn out, of the facility of getting rid of the base coin by the hole in the floor of the tap-room. Mr. Crawford then summed up the case against the pri soners Hall and Winter. He contended that Hall must have known the character of the persons meeting in his house, and that ho did so was evident from that which he had told the police, viz., that had he turned them out ho might as well have shut up his house at once. A man who gets a license from the magistrates for keeping a pub lic-house is bound to carry out the law as much as is within his power, and the question for the jury remained had Hall conducted himself in a way to satisfy them that he had done everything the law required of him. As far as the female Winter was concerned she might have been the dupe of others, therefore he should not press the case with undue severity against her. With respect to the other prisoners they were undefended, he should therefore leave the case as it stood against them. Mr. Ribton then addressed the jury for the prisoner Hall. Ho said it was ridiculous to make Hall responsible for everything people may have in their pockets when they entered his house, which was ono of public entertainment. Had the articles boon revolvers, and a law forbidding men ' carrying these weapons about had been in force, was he to be held liable for the offence other people committed ? He trembled to think of the danger that might ensue from a ready acceptance of such a dangerous theory, but he felt certain no man would be found to occupy a jury-box and re turn a verdict of guilty against such a man. Hall was serving in the bar when the men came in, and it was preposterous to say that he was liable for the conduct of every man or woman that might enter his bar for purposes of refresh ment. Such a theory would bo preposterous in the case of publichouse ; but, in his estimation, it was ton times more preposterous in the instance of the landlord of a publichouso in not a very aristocratic neighbourhood. The learned Commissioner summed up tho case to the jury. The jury returned a verdict of acquittal against Hall and Gollsmith, and a verdict of guilty against the whole of the other prisoners. Sentence deferred. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, THAMES. TEAR-llPS.—Benjamin Turner, aged 21, and William Jeffries, IG, appatently able-bodied and healthy fellows, were charged with tearing uy their clothes in the Poplar Union-house. Mr. Meyrick, superintendent of the cas,aal ward, said the prisoners worn admitted to the casual ward last night, and had a bath each, supper, and a bed, and this morning a piece of bread. They torn lip all their clothes, which had been fumigated. The only things which 'they did not de stroy were their neckerchiefs, which they knew would not be supplied to them again by the union. Turner said ho got his living by singing. He bad been out of au engagement for some time. Ile would work if ho could get it. Jeffries said ho could not obtain employment. He was willing to work and to labour hard if he could obtain any sort of work. Mr.Paget thought that the prisoners could have obtained work if it had been diligently sought for. They were all able-bodied, free from illness, and young, and ought not to be a burthen on the ratepayers. Ile sentenced the prisoners to be imprisoned for one month and kept to hard labour. THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—lnspector Allison, of the K division, applied for a summons against William Peck, a drover wearing tho badge No. 473, for driving two cows along the II igh-street, Bow, on the 22d of the present mouth, without a licence from the Commissioners of Police. Inspector Allison explained that the Order in Council prohibited the removal of cattle for more than 500 yards without a license, and that Peck had driven two cows along - the High-street at four o'clock in the afternoon contrary to the order in Council, dated February 6, 1866. The penalty to which Peck was liable was £2O. He had received directions to summon every offender. Another drover, who had offended in a similar manner, was sum moned by Inspector Honey to appear on Thursday next. A summons was granted and ordered to be served on Peck forthwith. ,ITIES. - 7‘ i ti r AM f e THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, Finift u ti.ii, Central Criminal Court.—This Day. OLD COURT. (Boforo Mr. F. Chambers, Q.C., M.P., Deputy Recorder.) ROBBING CHURCHES. Four boys, named Kemp, Barton (2), and Masfield, were indicted for having on the 22d of November last broken into Peckham Rye Congregational Chapel, and stealing therefrom a candlestick, some gutta percha, and other articles. The boys were aged respectively 15, 12, 10, and 9, and three of them wero so small that their heads could scarcely be seen above the dock. They all pleaded guilty. Other indictments charged them with having broken into ' St. John's district parochial Church, Camberwell, and also into another church, at Camberwell, the name of which was not mentioned. To these they pleaded not guilty. Mr. Cooper, the barrister, said that many other churches and chapels in and about Camberwell had been broken into, and there was every reason to suppose by these boys. The police gave Kemp a very bad character, and several convictions at police courts were proved against him. The Deputy Recorder said it was clear that Kemp was going headlong to destruction, breaking the peace of his father and mother when at home, and violating the laws when abroad. It was clear, too, that the three younger boys had acted under his direction. Although they had pleaded not guilty to the other indictments, there could be no doubt that they would have been convicted on them if they had been tried. The Recorder therefore sentenced Kemp to be imprisoned, with hard labour, in the Rouse of Correction for six months, and after that to be sent to a reformatory for throe years. With regard to the three young boys, ho should sentence them to be imprisoned one month, and then sent to a reformatory for five years. The throe young boys cried bitterly on hearing their sentence. him. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, NOTTINGHAM RACES. TRIAL STAKES. Troublesome (Custance) 1 Old Warden (Challoner) 2 Longboat (Chettle) 3 Four to one on Troublesome ; six to ono against Old Warden. Won by a length ; bad third. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TAT TERSALLS'—iast Evening. There was an average muster of subscribers present this day, and settling on the Lincolnshire events proceeded smoothly. Betting on the Liverpool Steeplechase was heavy, Alcibiade, Creole, L'Africaine, and King of Hearts all being supported for large sums. Cortolvin, however, remained the favourite, 9 to 1 being the highest offer against him, but Lord Poulett's " second string"—lnnellan —was friendless at 1,000 to 15. Mistake varied in price from 100 to 6 to 100 to 8, the latter being his final quota tion. The heavy bets about Mistake, laid some time since, were declared off, as the following notice, posted in the room, will show : "Wo are of opinion that Mr. 11. Morris laid 22,500 to 700 Mistake and 100 even Mistake did not start bona fide for Baron Von Grooten. To meet the justice of the case, as the bets were made with Baron Von Groot on ' s secon d commissioner, who had received instructions from the Baron to back Mistake, we hereby declare these bets to be void. 4, H. J. Rocs. H. HILL. H. HARGREAVES. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECAHASE. 9to 1 agst Cortolvin (taken) 10 to 1 agst Alcibiade (taken) 11 to 1 agst Laura (taken) 12 to 1 agst L'Africaine (taken) 100 to 8 agst Creole (taken) 100 to 7 agst Mistake (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Merrimac (taken) 25 to 1 agst Garotter (taken and offered) 30 to 1 agst Thomastown (taken) 30 to 1 agst Heurlys (taken) 30 to 1 agst King of Hearts (taken) 33 to 1 agst Real Jam (taken) 66 to 1 agst Reporter (taken) 100 to 1 agst Innen= (offered) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 1000 to 400 agst Lord Lyon (offered) 3 to 1 agst Student (taken and offered) .12 to 1 agst Janitor (taken) 100 to 8 agst Augusto (taken) CHESTER CUP. 25 to 1 agst Baragah (taken) 25 to 1 agst Gong (taken and offered) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 18 to 1 agst Out-and-Outer 25 to 1 agst Brahma (taken) MANCHESTER BETTING.—YESTERAY. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 10 to 1 agst Cortolvin (taken) 100 to 8 agst L'Africain (taken) 100 to 8 agst Laura (taken) 100 to 8 agst Creole (taken) 100 to 7 agst Aleibiacle (taken) 100 to 7 agst Mistake 30 to 1 agst Thomastown 100 to 3 agst Cutler 100 to 1 agst Innellan LEWES SPRING MEETING.—We bog to call the attention of owners and trainers to the advertisement of this meeting. It will be seen that in order to avoid clashing with the Warwick and Croxton Park meetings the fixture has boon put from March 15 and 16 to the 22d and 23d of the same month, being the two days following Northampton. A CLEVER FEAT or JOCKEYSHIP. —Whelan, when riding Lady Whitesido for the Handicap on the second day of Newbridgo races, broke ono stirrup at the third fence after starting. He immediately took his foot out of the other, rode the remainder of the three miles over 24 fences, and won his race, though coming to grief, and being obliged to re-mount,:ana having to contend with the accomplished riders, MOnaghan, Hanlon, and Archer. Agnes, the property of Mr. John Osborne, in foal to Colsterdale, died a few (lays since of dropsy, at the ago of 22 years. She was got by Clarion out of Annette by Priam. Her first foal was Lady Agnes (by Birdcatcher), sent to Italy in 1853, and her last Alexander (by Musjid), engaged in the Dolby of 1867. NAi'AN STEEPLECHASES.—TIiese races, fixed for April 23, will be contested on the lands of Soyerstown, where the lino will be all grass with fair fences. The Meath Hunt Club will add £2OO to the hunt race. NEWCASTLE-0N- T YNE SPRING MEETING. —IVo understand that this meeting will not come off at so early a period as was announced, as the committee deem it necessary that the new course, although completed, should have time to become firm and consolidated: BEVERLEY SPRING MEETING.—These races take place at Beverley Westwood, on Monday, April 2. Mr. F. W. Boulton has been appointed_Seoretary, Mr. Richard Oxley treasurer, with an extensive committee. Several well known sportsmen have already signified their intention of entering horses. Col. Edwards and C. Sykes, Esq., the members for Beverley, have subscribed to the fund for de fraying expenses. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866. MARCH. Croxton Park l6 Northampton 2O Windsor Spring Newcastle Spring 2B Derby Spring 1 Liverpool Spring Warwick Spring Doncaster Lewes Spring AP. Newmarket Craven 2 Durham Blackheath & Woolwich 2 Catterick Bridge Abergaveuny . C L h ic e h lm fie s i f d ord Spring SpSripurg. lO a.L. Thirsk lO Epsom Spring Newmarket Ist Spring l6 Liverpool Hunt Cup 2O Chester Curragh 24 11 Ascot Spring 1 Salisbury Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring Epsom Summer l5 Uxbridge 2l Manchester Ascot Summer jIJ- Windsor Summer ..... r Newton 6 Hampton 7 Odiham flibury l3 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 Liverpool Beverley 2O Ipswich Hungerford Newcastle on-Tyne Curragh 26 Worcester ,Y. Stamford l9 Radcliffe 23 Winchester 24 Southampton 25 Huntingdon Goodwood 3l JU Carlislo Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon Reading Nottingham Down Royal C0rp.,......, 18 AUG Brighton 7 Brighton Club Lewes lO Egham l4 Wolverhampton l4 Stockton l5 Oxford l6 Hastings 2l SEPTE Warwick September . . Curragh Leicester 6 Doncaster Brecon l7 Canterbury lB OCTO UST. York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter ..... unbridgo 2B Derby Summer 29 Weymouth 3O Northampton 2 Newmarket 2d October._ 8 Curragh AQUATIC REGISTER. REGATTAS AND MATCHES TO COME,, MARCH. I—Cambridge University Boat Club—Mghts... 24—Oxford and Cambridge Eight-oared 11109 % 'ko to Putney. 29—Prince of Wales Yacht Club—Opening trap,, :AMER. Richmond Hendon Monmouth liancLester Autumn 2l Newmarket Ist October 25 Walsall BER. Newmarket Houghton 22 "Worcester IRISH RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866. APRIL. raleo MAY. Curragh Baldoyle Spring B, 9 JUNE. Curragh ................................................ 26, 27, 28, 29 JULY. Carlow SEPTEMBER. Cutragh OCTOBER. Curragli ...................................................... 16, 17 18 CONTINENTAL RAC 18' MAT La March°. 4, 25 AP. Vincennes Pau 2, 4 Paris (Spring) 2,8, 15, 22, 26, 29 Bruxelles 3, 6 Chantilly (Derby) 6, 10, 13 La Marche 2l JU: Vincennes 3 Montaüban Toulouse St. Omer Roueu Met? Amieus AUG 4,5, 6 Rochefort 5 Bourges. . Valenciennes Moulins Cherbourg l9 APRIL. 2--Taylor and Winship—to row on the Tyne,. ..£5O a side. 2—London Amateur Yacht Club—Opening trip, North Woolwich, 8.30. 2. Tyne Amateur Rowing Club—Opening da) 2—Bright and Tulip—to row two miles on.. the Tyne, £2O a side. 3—Sadler and Williamson— to row from Putney to Mort lake, £5O a side. 14 —West London Rowing Club—Eights, Chili ;wick to Putney. 14—Boyd and Scurfield—to row on the Tyne, .£st) a side. MAY. 4—West London Rowing Club—Pairs, Putney - to Ham mersmith. s—General opening day of the London Clubs, Putney. 17—Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club—Opening cruise. 19—West London Rowing Club —Junior Sculls, Putney to Hammersmith. 24—Royal Mersey Yacht Club—Opening cruise. 24—Prince Alfred Yacht Club—Opening cruise. JUNE. 2—Prince Alfred Yacht Club—Sailing match. 14—Prince Alfred Yacht Club—Sailing match. 14—Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club—Regatta at Cautley. 20—Royal Western Yacht Club, Ireland—Regatta at Queenstown. 22—Royal Mersey Yacht Club—Regatta. 80—Prince Alfred Yacht Club—Sailing match. JULY. 2—Prince Alfred Yacht Club—Sailing match. 4—Royal St. George's Yacht Club—Regatta. 12 —Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club—Regatta at Wrexham, 16—Royal Scottish National Regatta—Glasgow. 17—Royal Cork Yacht Club—Regatta at Queenstown. AUGUST. 9—Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club—Regatta at Oulton. OXFORD UNIVERSITY BOAT CLUB. The University eight took a trip to Wallingford on Saturday, the same crew rowing as usual. Yesterday (Monday) they rowed twice to Iffley, Mr. Pocklington steering. Their rowing is strong and good, and the time fair. The names are given below : R. T. Raikes, Merton 6. W. W. Wood, University E. Crowder, Brastmoso 7. IL P. Stenhouse, Christ W. L. Freeman, Morton Church` F. Willan, Exeter M. Brown, Trinity ( s t ro k e ) E. F. Henley, Oriel THE TORPID RACES. These races were resumed on Saturday, when four more bumps were made. The boats started in the order be- low : Brasenose Balliol t Wadham Exeter 2d Exeter Pembroke f Trinity / Magdalen University Queen's Worcester f New Col- Corpus Lincoln St. John's logo Christ Church University failed to catch Exeter, though at one time they pressed them close. Trinity again lost their place to Wor cester. They had been bumped by the latter boat on the first day, but on Friday at the start Worcester were un lucky enough to drift across the stream, and before they could recover from the mishap Trinity wore into them. Magdalen were bumped by New College, and having lost the three places they had to lose, took off. On Monday, though there was no bump, some of the racing was very exciting, and the bank being at last dry more interest ;was exhibited. Christ! Church were very close upon University, but could not quite succeed in making their fourth bump. St. John's gained upon Tri nity, but, making " a shot" in the Gut, fell away again, and could not recover what they had lost. New College were close upon Second Exeter, and at the Cherwell over lapped them by some feet, but could not touch, and were again loft behind. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BOAT CLUB. On Saturday it was currently reported that Mr. Mars den, of St. John's, had, definitely announced he would not be able to row in the Putney eight. This rumour, unfor tunately, proved too true, and naturally created a general feeling of disappointment throughout the University, as great hopes had been entertained that he would have taken his place in the boat yesterday. The greatest credit is due to the officers of the club for the trouble they have taken to select a good crew, and if the boat should be ultimately unsuccessful it will not be the fault of the president and secretary, who have certainly been most indefatigable in the interests of the Light Blue. On Saturday the follow ing crew went over the course, " easying" once during the row : 1. Mr. Underhill, Caius 5. Mr. Bourke, First Trinity 2. Mr. Cadman, Peterhouse 6. Mr. Steavenson, Trinity 3. M. Still, Coins 119.11 4. Mr. Fortescue, Magdalen I 7. Mr. Watney, Lady Marg. Mr. Kinglake, Third Trin. (str.) COURSING. FIXTURES FOR 1866. 31AROII. Ludham, Norfolk, 1, 2. Hampton Lucy (open), Warwickshire, 6. Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, 6. Cardington (open), Bedfordshire, 6 and following days. County Louth Club (Champion), Ireland, 7, 8. Beckhampton, Wilts, 8, 9. Tredegar Park Club, Monmouthshire, 14, 15. Fourth South Lancashire (Southport) Lancashire, 15 an following days. North Union Club, Ireland, 20 and following days. Leinster (open coursing), Ireland, 23, 24. Scottish National (open), 27 and following days. APRIL. Limerick (Knockrue) (open), Ireland, 5, 6. Creagh Club, Ireland, 11, 12. Leinster Club (Bourbawn), Ireland, 20, 21. SEPTEMBER. Brampton, Cumberland, 27, 28. OCTOBER. Ancaster and Willoughby, Lincolnshire, 1, 2. Audlem (open), Cheshire, 2, 3. Wiltshire Champion (Amesbury), 15 and following days. Brougham and Whinfell, Cumberland, 23, 24. Tattershall (open), Lincolnshire, 31 and following days. Tredegar Park Club, Monmouthshire, 31 and Nov. 1. NOVEMBER. Sundorne, Salop, 6, 7. West Teviotdale, Roxburghshire, 13, 14. Everleigh Club, Wilts, 13, 14. West Herefordshire, 15, 16, 17. Metropolitan Champion, 20, 21. Altcar Club, Lancashire, 21, 22, 23. Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, 27 and following days. North Somercotes, Lincolnshire, 27, 28. DECEMBER. Bridekirk, Cumberland, 4, 5. Market Drayton, Salop, 6, 7. Wellesbourne (open), Warwickshire, 11, 12. Cockormouth, Cumberland, 18, 19. JANUARY, 1867. South Lincolnshire (Holboach), Lincolnshire, 2 and following days. PUGILISM. FIGHTS TO COME. MARCH. 5-21‘Cabo and Haley, £lO a side, at 7st 91b, Birmingham. 6—Crow and Bowler, £lO a side, London district. 6—Hill and Braidley, £lO a side, Bst 61b, Birmingham district. 6—Haley and Welsh, £5 a sido, catch weight, London district. 6—Young Baldock and J. Regan, £5O aside, Regan at lOst 101 b, Baldack catch weight, London district. 12—fenny and Potts, £25 a side, Sheffield. 19—Hazelgrove and liaberly, £l5 a side, Leeds district. 20—Haley and Crutchley, £5O a side, at 9st 71b, Midland circuit. 20—Donnell and Cotter, catch weight, £5 a side, Birming- ham district. 20—Warner and Robinson, £lO a side, at catch weight, Staffordshire. 27—Stoddart and Thomas, catch weight, £23 a side, Liverpool district. 27—Hawkes and Holden, £5O a sido, Bst, over 20 and with in 50 miles of Walsall. 27—Rodley and M'Grail, £25 a aide, at catch weight, Yorkshire district. APRIL. 2—Neale and Weston, £lO a side, at Bst 10Ib, London district. 3—Brookes and Gillam, £25 a side, London. 3—Harley and Hawley, catch weight, £lO a side, Bir migham district. 10—Young Bent and Young Collins, £25 a side, London. 17—Jem Dillon and Bob Travers, £lOO a side, London. 24—Hackett and Holleran, £25 a side, London. MAY. -Rees and Williams, £25 a side, Bst 101 b, Welsh district. Jem Mace and Joe Goss, £2OO a side, and the Cham pionship. Golint= and Hicken, £5O a side, at Bst 101 b, Lon don district. THE CIIAMPIONSHIP.-JEM MACE AND JOE Goss. —These men have again staked £5 a side, making £55 a side down. They must post another fiver each to-morrow, Friday, after which each must stake £lO weekly till further notice. PUGILISTS IN TROUBLE,-At tho Leeds Townhall, on Friday last, James Lavin, of Dewsbury (who was brought up on remand), Walker Wainwright, of Kirkstall, and Iram Yeadon, of Yeadon, wore placed in the dock charged with committing a breach of the peace at Horsforth, on Monday, Feb. 19. After hearing the evidence of the two policemen who put in an appearance on the occasion, the bench committed the prisoners for trial at the next Leeds Sessions, but accepted bail for their appearance. NG FIXTURES FOR :CII. Vincennes ll, 18 ,IL. Bordeaux l9, 22, 26, 28 Bruzellos s (Summer)Vrarissielnbourg ,Toulouso 24, 28 , . 8, 9 , . 8, 9 Abbeville Lo Pin 22 Chalon-sur-Saone ... 22, 23 Saintes 2B, 29 Caen UST. Lo Mans l9 Laon l9, 20 Tarbes l9, 22 Blois 26, 28 Baden-Badou... SEPT. Baden-Baden 3, 5, 7 Chantilly OCTOBER. Paris 7 I Vincennes „.,,.„.%„„,„, 28 Chantilly.,, l4, 18 I EMBER. I Paris (Autumn) ....,. 23 7 30 'Jrfrlu. • MATCHES FOR MARCH. 2, 3—Oxford University Athletic Sports. 3—Cooper and Collinson—to run 440 yards, £lO a side, St. Thomas's Grounds, Stanningley. 3 —Hodgson and Booth—to run 651 yards, £5O a side, Royal Oak Grounds, Manchester. 3—Stewart and Todd—to run 50 yards, £2O a side, Fen ham-park Grounds, Newcastle. 3, s —Lowe and Taylor's 150 Yards Handicap, £25 in prizes, Borough Grounds, Wigan. 3,5, 6 —Cambridge University Athletic Sports. 3, 10 —Wearden's All-England 200 Yards Handicap, various prizes, City Grounds, Bradford. The Late Spoz ting Trial at Gui-dhall (From the Morning Ilerald.) Legitimate sport is ono of the boasts of the country ; it increases year by year, and is supported by the highest in the land. We are essentially a sporting people, strongly attached to the turf, and tolerant of some of its vices for the sake of its wholesome' advantages. But on the edge of what we may call decent society—on the confines of the reputable sporting world—there are the hangers-on, the keen, unprincipled rogues who profess to do business like millionaires upon a capital of nothing, and perhaps an un known quantity of debt and embarrassment. These men are mostly the scum of society. They have somehow at tached themselves to the turf by plausible pretences, and with a book and pencil on the racecourse or "behind the brewery," or in the park, the lane, or the "ruins," or by the simpler form of a circular and an advertisement, they entrap unwary speculators foolish enough to give them the "commission," or to bet with them individually. As far as the dangerous privileges of Lynch law allow, the evil is cured in the betting ring by a summary process, only in terrupted by the police. The "welsher " is stripped o ducked or pitched over the rails and hurried down the course. But when the rascal hides behind the shelter of a post-office, a false name, and a delusive circular, and does not appear bodily in the presence of his vi c ti ms, th ey h ave no remedy, the law declining to interfer e in what it looks upon as illegitimate speculation. The only way, then, to deal with this evil is for the press to expose it when flag rant cases arise, and where the rogue in ambush can snap his fingers at the fool ho has cheated of his money. But this is dangerous at times, for the predatory classes of the sporting world are remarkably tender of their lame when there is a chance of obtaining damages for slander. They come to court as though they were above suspicion, and with all the effrontery in the world ask to have their characters cleared, and their outraged feelings solaced by a verdict for the plaintiff. Happily they are much more likely to ask for damages than to obtain them. Juries be gin to understand the system, and to see that if the press is not at liberty to expose cases of downright roguery its functions as a social reformer are sadly circumscribed. They see that the unprincipled tipster who "executes com missions" is scarcely to be reached by law; that he can defy the simpleton who has confided money to him ; and that he only comes well out into the light when another little bit of business is thought possible in a civil court. The idea of compensating a man for aspersions upon his "char acter" when he has no character to lose, unless it be a bad one which he cannot get rid of, is so ridiculous that only a very Irish jury could contemplate it for a moment. If A has robbed B, and C comments on the transaction in severe terms, it is more than likely that a jury will hold C harm less, and that the public will consider the comment in the light of a just and wholesome piece of castigation. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.) BISHOP V. ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSURANCE COMPANY. This was an action to recover compensation from the defendants for injuries which he sustained, and tho de fendants paid £36 into Court as full amount of the plain tiffs legal claim. Mr. H. James and another learned gentleman appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr. Brown, Q.C., for the defendant. Mr. James stated the case at some length. The plaintiff, Mr. Charles Bishop, had formerly beon conno cted with Cremorno .Gardens, and was at present th e l esee o f t h e gardens at North Woolwich, and the proprietor of a large publichouse in Holborn. He had effected a policy with the defendants who covenanted to pay £l,OOO in case of death or told disablement by accident, and £6 a week during the period of temporary disablement. Early last June he was driving in a cab in Holborn, which came suddenly into collision with an omnibus, and the result of the accident was that the plaintiff was very seriously injured, two of his ribs being fractured. Ho was conveyed to his house, in Holborn, where be was confined to his bed for six days, and then removed, by the advice of his medical attendant, to North 'Woolwich. After some further evidence Tho jury found in favour of the defendant on the ground that the money paid into court fairly represented his claim against the company, the term of his total disablemcn from business not exceeding six weeks. Liverpool Cotton Market. —TLis Day. The market opens very strong, at a 4 over Friday's rates. Sales probably 12,000 bales or more. MARKETS.---This Day. COLONIAL. TEA.— Only a moderate amount of business has been transacted, a small quantity will be offered at public sale to-day, when late prices aro expected to be realised. SUGAR.—A steady demand has prevailed for West India and superior qualities fully maintain former prices. In the refined market there is a moderate inquiry at steady rates COFFEE.. -There has been a very limited inquiry although prices, in most instances, are well maintained, particularly for good colony sorts of Plan'ation Ceylon. BlCE. — Basiness has been very dull without any mate rial change in value. TALLow.—The demand on speculative account has been active, and enhanced prices are current, especially for for ward delivery. P.Y.C. on the spot and March is quoted 48s 6d; April to June, 49s 3d ; and last three months, 51s 6d per cwt. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORTHAMPTON-FEB. 24. New white wheat, 43s to 475 ; new red, 39s to 46s ; old white, 48s to 50s; old red, 45s to 47s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 37s to 40s per. qr. ; grinding, 26s to 37s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 34s ; new, 20s to 28s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 50s ; new, 36s to 40s per 38 stone. Peas, 34s to 39s per 36 stone. COLCHES 'ER-FEB. 24. Wheat was in moderate supply, and a fair business was done for anything in good condition. Barleys against the buyer. Beans and peas at last week's prices. Wheat, white 405 51s Beans, 1dazagan......338 38s red 368 48s M►ddle and small.. 358 40s Barley.... 28$ 40s Peas, white 38s 42s Oats 20s 258 grey —.368 iOs :D-FEB. 23. Ay of wheat at markot, and ly last week's prices. Spring ered. Peas, Partridge 37s 42s White .3es 39s B icing 388 341 ..... ...31a dit o, Bcans, Tick, 01d......3 is 37s new....—s a Harrow licks.3sa a -s Mangan- 328 37s CIIELMSFO. There was a moderate sup] good dry samples realised ful corn of all descriptions unalt Wheat, old white 45s 52s new 43s tOs old red 30i 43s new. 35s 393 Barley . 24s 31s Chevalier 27a t 93 erind.ng 23s Gs Malt 58s COs Chevalier 6(s C 2 a Oats GRANTHAM—FEB. 24. Old White whoat,lls4s to 535; old red, 48s to 525; new white, 50s to 56s ; new red, 43s to 48s per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, 36s to 40s per qr. ; grinding, 28s to Hs per 30 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 30s ; new, 20s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 46s to 50s ; new, 40s to 44s per 38 stone. Peas, 35s to 39s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN—FED. 23. There were very few sales at our market to-day, and previous rates may be quoted for all grain, except barley, which is is per qr dearer. White wheat 40s Od to 48s Od 621 b 11 bushel. Red wheat 40s Od to;4ss Od Potato oats 40/b ill bushel. Common oats 28s s s (B,od d d t 0 0 0 29s s s Od Bere 5316 13 bushel. Barley 29s Od to 30s Od) Oatmeal 17s 6d to 18s Od V boll of 140Ib. Flour, fine 378 Od to 38s Od ? sack of 280. b. KIRKCALDY —FEB. 24. Good supplios of w heat, barley, and oats. Sales ready, at previous rates. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First...... 42s 6d ' 3s Od 24s Od ccond.... 418 ad 1 35s Od 25s Gd Third..... 468 ad 37s Od 208 Od • COAL MAltla T. Price per ton at the close of the market. _ __ _ . F. d. s. d Hetton Lyons l5 0 6 Buddle'sWestHartl e y 15 6 S W ilhe a at l t i n's E ll. n .a d "r.:l l ll.( a :). s : : ''' 11::: 1 11 7 78 9 Braddyell's Hutton l7 0 N.Staffordshire 17 0 Holywell Main l6 0 Wylam l6 0 Eden Main South Hetton Walls End Harton ... 15 6 Ttulstall Gowpen Hartley Ships at market, 775 ; sold, 50, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—The performances at this theatre were last night honoured with the presence of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, and his Royal Highness Prince Alfred. PRINCE ALFRED.—It has been stated that Prince Alfred was about to hoist his flag on board the Royal Alfred, 35, ironclad, at Portsmouth. The probability, however, is that his Royal Highness will not take command of a ship for at least twelve months to come, and when ho does so his first commission will most likely be in a frigate of the Galatea class. • Nit,. ,`~' NEWSP ri. I+.o Though the record of the rinderpest has yet to be writt en, i t is easy to foretell in what wstm m ei rhl s a pl n cath n tTis e toph rhnee egreatkh a thosealo of pft theeg who h , national : y the shall for v w iE e m r e e p i n t r s t e s o s a f i lina E a l fa3 r citußa ex adse hesit hesitating, calamity it a a uncertain been mode re i d n with by her M a j es t y ' s advisers has been the subject of repeated rem ar k and of by no means compli.. mentary comment. Th ey have done as little as they could help, as badly as t h e country would bear it, ti nmeansG and as late as the public would submit to wait for it. Like Robert of Normai.by, they have ever been wanting when the occasion arose --or to use a less dignified comparison, they have ever been read y to shut the stable-door after the steed was stol en. For many months we have known that the seeds of the cattle plague may be sown by contact with in fected substances, by housing in infected sheds, by carrying in infected cars, by pollution conveyed, through the medium of manure or litter, blow or hides, of infected animals, the persons, clothes, or implements of their attendants and slaughterers. The difficulties of disinfection have been debated, and the means of surmounting those difficulties have been discussed, but the absolute necessity of some measures in that behalf has never been dis puted. Yet now, when the malady has reached a, maximum unparalleled as yet, but soon to be sue.. passed by the next weekly return—when our losses of stock are little short of 150,000, and new cases continue to grow in number and augment in fata lity —we hear for the first time of any official sug gestions or recommendations' by which disinfection may be secured.. And even now these recommen dations do not come from the Government. They proceed not from the Lords of the Council, but from the royal commissioners. They result no, from that " wisdom and understanding" w.,th which we are accustomed to pray that her sla jesty's advisers may be endowed, but from the spontaneous action of certain gentlemen whose advice every one may follow or not as he feels inclined. The royal commissioners points out a duty, but they impose no penalty for its vio lation. They indicate a public peril, but they inflict no punishment on those who recklessly incur it from lazy love of their own private ease or culpable in difference to the losses of others. In short, we may say that while the country is sensible of the perils with which infected sheds, and cars, and skins, and clothes are fraught ; while the farmers fear them, and the royal commissioners so dread them that of their own mere motion they come forward with sug gestions for removing or mitigating them, the Go vernment alone is content to fold its hands, to hold its tongue, to leave its powers unexercised, its func tions undischarged, while the pestilence progresses at a rate which makes the period when cattle shall have totally disappeered from our pastures a mere question of calculation. We have no wish to blame the Administration without just cause or beyond due measure. As we have often said, this is not a party question, and we can refer to the tone of our early articles upon it in proof that we have always re frained from dealing with it in a party spirit. But the complaints we now make we should urge against any Administration, whatever were its politics and whoever was at its head. The subject matter is the people's food, and the point in debate is whether one prime article of that food is to rise or sink from the position of an everyday necessary to that of an occa sional luxury. Surely this is a matter not unworthy the attention of statesmen of the highest rank, of administrators of the first order. To have met Parliament with a carefully prepared measure, in which the extent of the evil was recognised, its gravity admitted, the indisputable necessity of stamping it out made the basis of legislation, would have gone far towards restoring the coun try's waning confidence in Earl Russell as Premier. For the sake of such a measure we would have forgiven a great deal of folly and paltering with Fenianism, and would have condoned an almost unlimited amount of hesitancy in dealing with Reform. But the Prime Minister has no such plea upon which to rest. The course of the disease for several months, the daily increasing mortality, the well-grounded predictions of its continued progress, the advance in the price of meat, the dreaded scar city, the possible famine, had all been insufficient to satisfy the Government of the gravity of the situa tion. Only when Parliament had met, when public dissatisfaction had found vent, when opponents urged unanswerable arguments against administra tive supineness, while supporters sat silent or swelled the chorus of complaint, only then, when adverse divisions were threatened and "no confidence" votes were talked of, did the Government at last announce that they would bring in a measure in which the policy they had all along opposed should be em bodied, and in which they would ask the Legislature to condemn the very course which the responsible advisers of the Crown had persistently pursued. It may be said that though the Government acted late it did not act last ; that we have now a prospect of getting something like what we want, and that, therefore, we need not waste our thoughts upon what might and ought to have been done four or five months ago. If we could regard the present action of the Cabinet as satisfactory we might be not indisposed to accept these excuses. "It is never too late to mend," and as the farmer at the anti podes welcomed the penitent thief who came in the nick of time to save his life, so we might gratefully receive an effective measure of relief, even though it were one which the Ministry had concocted hastily and to which it had committed itself tardily. But the cases are not parallel. If there be any usein a Govern ment at all, it is that it shall initiate imperial legis lation. Its information is, presumably, more com plete and accurate than that which is at the disposal of any private person. Constitutional traditions impose upon it the duty of introducing the measures which in its judgment are necessary for the public welfare. The willingness of the House of Commons to pass such measures is the test of its confidence in the Executive ; and the ease with which a bill intro duced by a member on the Treasury bench can be carried through is at least ten times as great as that with which one containing the self-same provisions would pass if brought in by a private member. Yet we have at this moment an example which looks like the direct contrary of all this. A Government bill and a private proposal are running neck and neck, and, what is more, the wearer of the Opposition colours is rather the favourite in the betting. Mr. Hunt has matched himself with Sir G. Grey, and has had the advantage in the competition. The member for North Northamptonshire has constrained the Home Secretary to enter the lists against him. Heavily weighted with the disadvantages which always attach to a private and an Opposition mem ber he has forced an unwilling Government into unwonted activity, and has compelled a Chancellor of the Exchequer positively pledged to a policy of confiscation practically to admit the justice of the cattle-owner's claim to compensation. Soon, we suppose, on some fresh fillip being administered,' we shall have the disinfecting recommendations of the royal commissioners embodied in an act. After another interval of great and growing mortality the import of cattle will be interdicted, the suspension of all market trade in live stock positively enjoined. Long out of due time all that we have advocated will be done, but the evils of Government delays and inertness will never be undone. For years the cattle upon our hills will be fewer ; the prices of meat upon our tables will be higher than they need be or would have been had Earl Russell and his colleagues begin ning, courage to grapple with it in. i t t h s e g l r e o s l s v o n s of experience when pressed upon them possessed ability to deal with the evil in its thor judgment enough thus late to learn alike by friends Her ald. adherents and political adversaries. — herald. and foes, by supporters and opponents,_ by party i INEIVSPAPEIZ , 4.i.03 - \- i ‘•‘,. 4 ,01- a, • ft, i Ri Zo,r- --- '- 4 uactie klai,:, - ,r% "' "., rp. , :z .......,___...--._.___. ,r d ord of the 14na.,--,,.., ,_ • SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, Feb. 27.—Wind this day at noon—South• Westerly ; moderato breeze, and fine Weather, but rather cloudy. BIUSTOL, Feb . 27.—Wind S.W.—A rr i ved—Willie, from New York. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 27.—Wind W. —Arrival—Wigton- shire, from Rio Grande. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 26.—Wind E.—Sailed—E. D. Hodge, for Cadiz. SWANSEA, Feb. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.—Madeline, from Caldera, LEITH, Feb. 26.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Cyclone, from Callao. HOLYHEAD, Feb. 26.—Wind W.—Sailed—Gertrude, for Rio Janeiro. MARYPORT, Feb. 25.—Wind. SW.—Arrived—Franklin, from Belfast, with loss of jibboom, eutwater, and fore mast, and other damage. LBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Feb. 26.—Hilda, from Belize; Maria from Cronstadt ; Tritton, Alberdina, and Rescue from Gothen burg ; Secret from Memel ; Louis de Gear, from Rongelf ; Sarah Ellen, from New York ; Douglass and Black Dia mond, fro.n Guernsey; Matchless, from IleisitAbufg. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. No arrivals. A schoonor was observed at daylight this morning to ho on shore on the east part of the Goodwin Sands. Assis tance is with her and nothing known further at present. ----- MARRIAGE IN HIGII LIFE.--Yesterday morning the marriage of the Marquis of Queensberry and Miss Sybil Montgomery, second daughter of Mr. A. Montgomery and grand -daughter of Lord Leconfield, was solemnised at St. George's, Hanover-square, in the presence of a nume rous assen,blBge of the friends of both families, j o . 10004 gr. ?ro- the LOTO re nd irs Shari 100 100 100 all 100 100 190 100 100 1( 0 100 100 II Al NE S. 1041