The Sun. — London, England, 1865-07-06 00:00:00

MARKETS—This Day. METROPOLITAN C A.T TLE There was a full average supply of beasts on offer in our market to-day. Prime Scots, &c., moved off freely at prices fully equal to Monday. Otherwise, the beef trade was in active at late rates. The show of sheep was tolerably good. Downs and half breds were very firm. Inferior sheep were inactive at late rates. Lambs were in good request at from 6s. to 7s. 4d. per Sibs. The supply was moderate. We were well supplied with calves, which changed hands slowly on former terms. The pork trade was heavy. In milch cows very little was doing. Per 81b to sink the offal. s ds d" Crse. & inf. beasts... 3 6 3 10 second quality do ..4 0 4 4 Prime large oxen —4 6 4 8 Prime Scots, &c.... 4 10 5 2 Crse. and int. sheep. 4 4 4 6 becond quality d 0... I s 5 4 d s d Pme crs-wool sheep 5 6 5 8 Prime b'thdown 00.5 10 6 0 Large coarse calvcs.4 2 4 8 Prime small d0......4 10 5 2 Large hogs .3 6 4 0 Small porkers 4 2 4 8 Lambs....os Cd to 7. 4d. Suckling calves, Ns to 225; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 2 s each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. i Foreign supply. Beasts 8 0 Cows. Sheep and lambs Ca ves 970 Pigs — Beaato 1,280 Cc ws .. 160 Sheep and lambs ...... 12,700 Calves 1,120 Pigs 4lO MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADExHALL.—The supplies of meat are moderate, and the trade is inactive, as follows : Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 8d ; mutton, 4s 4d to 5s 8d ; lamb, 5s 6d to 6s 6d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 10d ; an d p o rk, 4s Od to 5s Od per 81b by the carcase. SOUTHALL, July 5.—A1l kinds of stock were a slow in quiry, and the quotations had a drooping tendency. Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 10d; mutton, 4s 4d to Gs Od ; lamb, 6s Od to 7s 2d ; veal, 48 Od to 5s Od ; and pork, 4s Od to 4s 8d per 81b to sink the offal. ROMFORD, July s.—Prime beasts and sheep were firm in price ; otherwiss, the trade was heavy. Beef, 3 s 4 d to 5s Od ; mutton, 4s 4d to 6s Od ; lamb, Os 4d to7s 011; veal, 4s Od to 58 Od; pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per 81b. Suckling calves, 17s to 20s; quarter old store pigs, 20s to 255; and milch cows, .£l7 to £2O Os each. HAY MARKETS. S MITHPIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 15s Od to £6 8s Od clover, £5 Os to £7 Os Od; and straw, £1 8s to £1 108 per load. A short supply. CU MBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £5 Os to £6 I,os ; cloier, £5 58 to £7 Os Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 158 per load. Supply limited. WirrEcHApm—lfeadow hay, £5 Os to £6 108 ; clover, £5 10s to £7 Os Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 12s per load. Trade steady. New meadow hay has realised £1 lOs to £5 lOs; and new clover, £5 to £5 15s per load. CONEY MARKET, AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Activity still prevails in discount circles, and for the time the rate is firm at the Bank minimum of 3 per cent. Exceptional transactions are, how ever, spoken of at 28 per cent., but they are only in bankers' short-dated acceptances. After the usual repayment of advances have been made to the authorities, and the dividends have been distributed, money will no doubt tend to a lower value. There was an influx of £16,000 in bar gold at the Bank yesterday. The English and Foreign Credit gompany's report states that there is a realised balance to the credit of profit and loss of £11,562, which the directors recommend should be treated as follows, Viz., £4,876 in payment of a dividend of 7s. Id. per share, free of income tax, being at the rate of 1 0 per cent. per annum ; £5,000 to a reserved fund, which it is proposed to invest and not to employ in the business of the company ; and the balance, £ 1 ,686, to be carried forward. A sum of £2,258 is passed to the new interest account, being rebate on transactions now current. The report of the Trinidad Petroleum Company States that the money to be paid for the estates has been reduced from £50,000 to £16,000. After mature consideration, inquiry, and experiments on the spot, the directors have come to the conclusion that it will be more advantageous to distil the asphaltum in this country, and have therefore leased land at Silvertown, on which they are erecting works. The board express a hope that at the next meeting they will be enabled to declare a dividend. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Delhi Bank Corporation it was unanimously resolved that the bank should be anaignatad « The Delhi and London Bank (Limited)." The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day are in round figures as under : Great W es t ern 1865. 1864 No rthwestern 119,148 115,657 £72,836 £72,766 BS outh-Western •• • •• • •• • . 30,044 28,268 ri g ht on ••• • *. ••• •• 21,435 Midland ::* ••• ••• ••: 23,302 46,914 So uth Eastern ••• •" ••• 48,325 26,234 25,190 Great Northern ••• *" ••• 35,823 32,869 Lancashire and i" k s bi; * 44,554 41,470 North Bristol and Exet *** 6 , 937 6, 780 Eastern " 69,009 65,866 Great Manchester, Sheie•l .. 33,735 33,668 Linc - o • lnshire 19,712 18,319 Easter n . di an The returns, when compared with the correspond ing period of last year, are generally of a favourable character. On the Great Western there is an in crease of £7O ; on the North Western, of £3,491; on the So uth-Western, of £1,776 ; on the Brighton, of £1,869 ; on the Midland, of £1,411; on the South-Eastern, of £1,044 ; on the Great Northern, of £2,954 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire, of £3,084 ; on the Bristol and Exeter, of £157 ; on the North Eastern, Sheffield, and Lincoln, of £3,143 ; on the Manchester, of £1,393 ; and on the Great Eastern, of £67. The biddings for 25,00,000 rupees (£250,000) in bills on India took place yesterday at the Bank of England. The proportions allotted were-to Cal cutta 17,41,000 rs., to Madras 35,000 rs., and to Bombay 6,60,000 rs. The minimum price was, as before, is. 10Id. on Calcutta and Madras, and Is. 10id. on Bombay. Tenders on Calcutta and Mad ras at and above is. 14d., and on Bombay at and above 25., will receive in full. The directors of the Dagenham (Thames) Dock Coinpany state that interest up to June 30 last, at the rate of 6 per cent., as in the terms of the prospectus, will be paid, on and after the 13th July. An ad interim dividend of £6 per cent. has been declared by the Upper Assam Tea Company (Limited). TWQ o'CLocic. At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 30c. Firmer. The market for the English Funds has been dull, but have nevertheless been firmly main tained. Consols remain at 90f I for money, and 90f for the account. The New Threes and Re duced are 89i ; Annuities, 1885, 14k i ; and India 5 per Cents., loq. Very little fluctuation has occurred in the Foreign Stock Market. Turkish Consolides have improved to 49/ 50 ; Mexican, Old, to 238 24/ ; Greek, 211, being flat ; Spanish Passive, 294 30 ; Certificates, 14 8 ; Italian, 638 64/ ; and the Confederate Loan is steady a t 7 9 ; Russian 4/- per Cents., 1850, are 8 8} ; do. 5 per Cents., 1862, 918 ; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, 71/ 4 ; do. 5 per Cents., 1865, 461 ; Portugue se 3 per Cents., 1853, 47f ; ditto 1856-63,47/. American securities are without any important al teration. U n it e d States 5-20 Bonds are 714 72 ; Erie Share; 531 ! ;, and Illinois, 851 /. Business in the Railway Share Market has been moder at ely active, b u t pr i ces have shown a further deptesBi °n Sheffield • Lan cas t er and Yorkshire, Manchester, w i ck) ha , and Lincoln, and N or th E as t ern (Ber ve Great W each declined £l, North Western and e . —4l i) Great No r th ern I, an d G rea t Eastern l The Foreign and Colo lines show little change of importanc e . ni Bank and Miscellaneo inactiv e , us Shares remain very and prices are without material variation. Chartered Mercantile of h ave impro ve d to 44 India, London, and China / ; New South Wales to 40i ; and National Discount Company to 16/. Subjoined are the current quotations of some of the principal new undertakings : Tele New Issue of 50,000 Preference gra ar h e Shares of £5 each of the Atla n ti c Tea, pp Co mpany, par pm. ; Northern Assam / ; Chubw a Tea, I pm- ; Rus sian Iron 8 10 pm. ; London Bridge Land, 1 ; Albert Bridge, pm. ; Grange Town Wind sor 4 Iron, 1 2 pm. ; Downs Dock, / 1 pin. ; London, London -, and Greenwi c h Hotels,l4 2l Pm. ; 'Quays and W arehouses, par ; British India and Trust Agency, 18 2 pm. ; Bel- grave Mansions, par pm. ; Peruvian Railways, 21 31 pm. ; Lion Brewery, 11 2 pm.; Blakeley Ord nance, 31 pm. ; Hop and Malt Exchange, 11 pm. ; Barned's Banking, 11 pm. ; Dalbeattie and Kirkconnell Granite, 1 2 pm. ; East London Railway Scrip, 11 pm. ; London and Mediterranean Bank, 3 1 pm. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, Aug 8 9Ol a per Cent. Reduced B9l 1 New 3 per Cent' B9l 1 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 l4l 1 Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 & 31 per Cent Do. £5OO — Do. £lOO and ,£2OO Bank of England Stock, 51 per Cent 248 Do Account INDLA.N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 214 x d Do- Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 — Do. Account Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., May 1879 Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — Do. under £l,OOO FOREICN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Brazilian 5 per Cent ' — Do. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 — Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do. Account — Da I per Cent. (Deferred 8 per Cent.) Chilian 6 per Cent — .... ... Do. 41 per Cent Colombian 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. — Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 — Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, .£25 paid Danubian Principalities . Do .f.. 86 paid , — Equadcir New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Do., Provisional Land Warrant — Egyptian 7 per Cent Do., Second Issue Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 941 Do £lOO Bonds' 941 Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do Account 2l Do. Coupons — Do. Account Guatemala 5 per Cent. — Do. 1839 and 1850 Italian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) Do 1865 Do Scrip, £67i paid die Do 5 per Cent., 1864 Do. Scrip, £55 paid Mexican 3 per Cent. Do. Account Do 1864 Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c Montevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid — Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Do 2 per Cent Do Deferred — Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 41 per Cent. — Do Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds die Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 4i. per Cent., 1862 Do. Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do Account 47i Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St., Do 41 per Cent., 1850 Do 1860 — Do 3 per Cent., 1859 — Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do 1864 — Sardinian 5 per Cent Do. Account Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred — Do Account Do Passive Do Account — Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Do Account l4f Swedish 4 per Cent Do. 4 per Cent. 1864 Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account — Do. 1i per Cent Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account .12 I I Do £lOO Bonds 7ll 21 Do 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Scrip, £2O paid Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent Venezuela 3 per Cent. — Do. 0 per Gcni, 184 g - - Do 6 per Cent., 1864 — Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21- per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificat,es — French Renter, 41 per Cent. Do. Account - Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. Do. Account TWO O'CLOCK. Consols Do. Acco nt SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day LONDON, July 6.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. SOUTHAMPTON, July s.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Hansa, steamer, for New York. OFF SCILLY, July 4.—Wind S.S.E. - Arrived—Rom neys, from Liverpool for Rio de Janeiro, with the master sick. _ _ . CLYDE, July s.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Christian, from Caldera ; Clio, from Matanzas ; Thalestria, from Porto Rico. PLYMOUTH, June s,—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Diadem from St. Jago de Cuba. _ _ _ QUEENSTOWN, July s.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Anne, from Monte Video. CIRDIFF, July s.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Rober Hastie, from Miramichi ; Gemmel, from Bilboa. Sailed Victory, for New York. FALMOUTH, July 6.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived—Kate Holmes, from Bahia ; Scotomari, from Rio Janeiro; Union, from Bahia for the Clyde. OFF QUEENSTOWN, July s.—wind S.W.—Arrived— Lord Palmerston, from Mauritius for the Clyde. BRISTOL, July s.—Wind S.W.—Arrivcd—Caracus, from New York. LIMERICK, July 6.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Warostree, from Liverpool for Quebec, leaky. liummvs, July s.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Cochrane, from Caldera. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, July s.—Couronto, from Demerara ; Blanche, from Porto Rico ; Regina, from Varna ; Ellen Rose, from Bathurst ; Spirit of the Ocean, from Pugwash; Bertha and Newcastle, from Horsens ; Stanley, from Shanghai; Clo tilda, from Rio Plata ; Golden Fleece, from Algoa Bay ; John Parker, from Quebec ; Exhibition, from Jersey; City of Nankin, from Calcutta ; Kergoord, from Jamaica; John Bun, from Quebec. Arrived, July 6.—Shetiel, from Guernsey; Costa Rica (packet, from Puntas Arenas. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed, July s. —Northumberland, from west ; Kroo Bog, schooner, from Lagos; Wild Duck (in tow) from New Zealand; Regina, from Antigua; Thames (screw steamer), from Quebec—all for London. Passed, July 6.—Murillo, screw steamer, from Seville, for London. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market quiet. Sales, 4,000 or 5,000 bales. Th 3 Balloon Accident in Ireland. GLASGOW, July 5. The Belfast balloon was wrecked on the shores of the Bay of Luggan (Islay), on Tuesday morning. No passengers were in the car ; but four coats and two hats and the Northern Whig of July 1. The balloon was first seen passing over the hills north of Port Ellen, after which it struck the sea and went ashore. GREAT FIRE NEAR PLYMOUTH.--PLYMOUTH, July s.—The Safety Powder Company's Works, South Down, Hamoaze, Plymouth, took fire this morning. The entire factory, the materials in use, and a large quan tity of manufactured powder, were destroyed; but the magazine, the engine-house, and some manufactured pow der were saved. No persons were working on the pre mises when the fire broke out, nor were there any acci dents to life or limb. From the nature of the patent powder its explosion was harmless to the neighbourhood. 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A SOLDIER CHARGED WITH ROBBERY IN A CAB.— Frederick Cook, a private in the 3d battalion of Grenadier Guards, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a silver watch, a gold chain, and a purse containing half a sovereign, two half-crowns, and a pocket-book, from the person of Charles Gray, servant, York Hotel, Albemarle street. Thomas Rogers, cab-driver, residing at 5, North-end terrace, Hammersmith, said—Last night, about half-past 12, I stopped at a public-house in Knightsbridge to water my horse, when two soldiers (the prisoner being one) and a civilian (the prosecutor) came out of the house, and I agreed to take them to Bond-street. A sergeant of police standing by said, "Mind, the gentleman has a watch and chain," and I then noticed that the prosecutor had a watch and chain. The prisoner and the prosecutor got into the cab, but the other soldier rode on the box. On getting to the bottom of the hill in Piccadilly the prisoner got out of tho cab, and I immediately looked to see whether tho pro secutor had his watch and chain, and seeing that he had not got them, I asked the prisoner where the prosecutor's watch was, and he said he had'not got it. I then called a constable and told him about it, and he said if I took druken persons into my cab I must take the consequences. Mr. Knox—Had the parties being drinking 1 Cabman—They had. I then drove them to Bond-street. Mr. Knox—Did'the soldiers make any endeavour to got away. Cabman—No, sir. I afterwards spoke to another con stable in Bond-street, and drove to Vine-street station. The inspector there told the prosecutor that he had better pay my fare, and on the prosecutor putting his hand into his pocket he missed his purse, and it was found on the prisoner, as also was the watch. Prisoner— The gentleman gave me the watch to take care of. Did I not say that I would give the watch to a constable, or any of the gentleman's friends ? Cabman—You did not. I said you had no right to take it from him. Charles Gray (the prosecutor) said—l was at a music hall at Knightsbridge last night: The Fisoner dragged me about and put me into a cab, and then stole my watch. Mr. Knox—Had you been drinking? Prosecutor—Yes, rather freely. There was a gold chain attached to the watch. My purse was also taken from me out of my trousers pocket. The value of the watch and chain was £4, and there were 15s. in the purse. Police-constable Redford, 40 C—At a quarter past one this morning I was called by the cabman in Bond-street, and he told me that he had brought the prosecutor and the soldier from Knightsbridge, and that he observed that when the prosecutor got into the cab he had a watch and chain, but that when the prisoner got out of the cab the prosecutor had not got it. I asked the prisoner if he had the watch. He said he had not, but afterwards said he would tell the truth, and told me he had it, but the gentle man gave it to him, and that he intended to give it to him when he got out. I then took the prisoner to the station and searched him, and found the watch on him. The prosecutor was very drunk. Sergeant Dodsworth, acting inspector—When at the station I asked the prosecutor if he would charge the pri soner with stealing his watch, and he said he only wanted his watch back. I told the prosecutor he had better pay the cabman, and on his putting his hand into his pocket he missed his purse, which, he said, contained 158., and I then searched the prisoner and found the purse, containing 14s. 2d. The prisoner then said it was his own, and he could prove it. Other property of the prosecutor was found on the prisoner. Mr. Knox--What became of the other soldier ? The Sergeant—As he rode outside all the way he was allowed to be taken away by the patrol. Mr. Knox—l shall remand the prisoner for a week, in order that I may consider what course I shall take. The prosecutor is very much indebted to the cabman, who has saved him from a grievous loss, and he ought to behave in a liberal manner towards him. THE TRIAL OF DR. PRITCHARD. THIRD DAY. EDINBURGH, Wednesday, July 5. The Judges took their seats soon after 10 o'clock, and the prisoner, accompanied by his brother, who is from Ply __ mouth, was placed in the dOck. The following witnesses were examined this forenoon : Alex. M'Call, superintendent of the central district of the Glasgow police, said he apprehended the prisoner on the 20th March. Two letters; produced, were found upon him. Witnessvisited the prisoner's house on the 21st, and found several diaries in the consulting-room, and received the bottle produced from Mary M‘Leoil. The bottle was about half full of a brownish-coloured liquid. On the 22d witness again visited the house, and took posses sion of several paper packages in the consulting-room. A quart bottle of ginger wine was in a locked press in the prisoner's pocket. Witness also found a phial in the open press in the consulting-room with the letters " timon" on the torn label. Three other phials, two corked and one with a glass stopper, were in the same press. Another phial was on the mantel-piece of the ante-drawing room. Witness received a quantity of bed linen and body clothing from Mary Patterson. On Saturday the 25th of March, witness found two pass-books in the locked press in the consulting-room.—[All these articles, and those sub sequently mentioned, were produced.] Witness handed some of the articles to the sheriff's officer, and the phials to Dr. Penny. In a desk in the consulting room witness found three prescriptions, some letters in a bookcase, and other prescriptions on a table, all in the same room. Cross examined—Witness did not remove 35 bottles from he locked press, which included brandy, whisky, and chloroform. The medicines were in the unlocked press. Those bottles were examined by two scientific gentlemen in the house. The keys of the consulting-room and of the locked press were afterwards given to the prisoner's bro ther Charles, and witness did not know what had become of the 35 bottles. John Murray, sheriff's officer, Glasgow, said he received the clothes and linen from the previous witness, and handed them to Dr. Maclagan. A parcel of tapioca which witness received from Mary Patterson he sealed and handed to Dr. Penny. Witness obtained a quantity of ta pioca from the grocer's from whom that found in the pri soner's house had been bought, and gave it to Dr. Penny. John Campbell, manager of the branch of the Glasgow Apothecaries Company in Sauchiehall-street, said he ,had known the prisoner for four years. He had made pur chases at witness's establishment only within the last nine months, and had a running account. Witness pro duced from the books a copy of the prisoner's account, which contained the following items :—September 19th, 1864, ten grains of strychnine ;_November 4, half ounce bottle of tincture of conium malculatum,—that is, hem- lock ; November 18, an ounce of laudanum, and an ounce of tartarised antimony, or tartar emetic ; November 24, an ounce of tincture of aconite ; December 8, an ounce of tincture of aconite ; December 9, an ounce of tincture of eonium ; February 4, 1865, an ounce of tincture of conium ; February 7, an ounce of tartarisod antimony and an ounce of tincture of aconite ; February 9, an ounce of tincture of aconite ; February 11, two ounces of tincture of digitalis ; February 18, an ounce of tincture of • conium. All those articles were poisons. The pri soner invariably got or ordered the medicines him self. Two grains of tartar emetic was an ordinary dose. In an ounce there were 4351 grains. Witness never before served an ounce of tartar emetic to a medical man in Glasgow. It was an unusually large quantity, and struck witness as being a strange circumstance. Two ounces would be as much as witness would serve to the whole of the medical profession in Glasgow in 12 months, and he had a large dispensing business. On one occasion it was Fleming's tincture of aconite that was served to the prisoner, which was six times as strong as the ordinary tincture. Chloroform was the chief article served to the prisoner, and amounted to 1320 z. between July 13 and Dec. 9, 1864. That was a very unusual quantity, and more than all the rest of witness's customers put together. In the course of his 22 years' experience as a dispensing apothecary he never knew so much poison furnished to any medical man. The labels on the bottles produced were partly destroyed, but witness identified the letters 4, ace on one of them as his assistant's writing. John Currie, chemist, Sauchiehall-street, Glasgow, said he had known the prisoner for some time, and had served him with medicines. Witness had made an extract from his book of the prisoner's account, which contained the following items :—February 18, 1865, two ounces of solu tion of morphia, and an ounce of Fleming's tincture of aconite ; March 8, a solution of atropino, one drachm (with one grain to drachm) ; March 9, one drachm of solution of atropino (with two grains to drachm) ; March 13, half an ounce of Fleming's tincture of aconite ; March 14, one drachm of solution of atropine (with two grains to drachm); March 16, one drachm and five grains of solution of atro pine (with five grains to drachm). Witness supplied several of the above, and he was certain that all the rest were served to the prisoner. The prisoner usually gave the orders himself, but sometimes sent a note. Dr. Maclagan, professor of medical jurisprudence in the University of Edinburgh, said ho had been a medical prac titioner for many years, and had given great attention to the toxicological department of chemistry. On the 21st March witness made a post-mortem examination' of Mrs. Pritchard's body, in conjunction with Dr. Littlejohn, and found it presented no appearance of a recent morbid action beyond a little irritation of the alimentary canal ; and nothing to account for death. They, therefore, re moved the internal organs for further examination. On the 11th April witness, in conjunction with his assistant, Dr. Gamgee, and Dr. Littlejohn, subjected to chemical examination the various organs and contents of organs removed from Mrs. Pritchard's body. It having been stated that antimony was suspected, witness made a trial experiment immediately on his return from the post-mor tem examination, with three drachms of the urine, and obtained unmistakeable evidence of the presence of anti- mony. Being obliged to go to London to attend the funeral of a relative, he requested Dr. Gamgee, his assistant, with Dr. Littlejohn, to carry on the preliminary process in his absence. Dr. Gamgee said he had been assistant to Professor Maclagan since April, 1863, and had had considerable ex perience of chemical analysis. Professor Maclagan went to London on March 22, and returned on the 24th. Ho directed witness to evaporate what had been taken from Mrs. Pritchard s body to dryness, and to digest a certain portion in filtered water acidulated with tartaric acid. Two ounces and five drachms of fluid were thus obtained, in which antimony would be found if it were present in the intestines. An ounce of that fluid was submitted to a stream of sulphuretted hydrogen gas, and a yellow precipitate was obtained, which was collected and washed, and reserved for Dr. Maclagan. The remainder of the tartaric and solution was also reserved. Dr. Littlejohn corroborated the statements of the previ ous witness. 4 Professor Maclagan was re-called, and read his reports, which described the process to which the yellow precipi tate was subjected. The result, he said, was unequivocal evidence of the presence of antimony, and he came to the conclusion that the antimony he found had been admin istered in the form of tartar emetic, one of the two forms in which antimony is soluble in water. He found antimony in the urine, the bile, the blood, and the liver. Traces of antimony were also found on several chemises and other articles which had been stained with urine: Witness also made an examination of the body of Mrs. Taylor, and subsequently an analysis of her viscera. The body was found healthy, and there were no external appearances to account for death. The chemical analysis showed no traces of vegetable poison, but revealed the presence of antimony in the alimentary canal, the blood, the liver, the muscular substance of the heart, the spleen, the rectum, the and other parts. Cross-examined—The first experiment with the urine was by Reinsch's process, which gave a violet deposit. Witness would not consider the analysis worked out con clusively by that experiment alone, as it was Vetter to carry assurance to the minds of other people by adding other cor roborative tests. Witness attempted to 9stimate the quan tity of antimony in the urine, but the amount :ielded was too small to enable him to weigh it with sufficient accracY• Re-examined—Witness gave Dr. Penny portions of the organs found in the two bodies. Witness made another examination of portions of Mrs. Pritchard's body last week, and again obtained an orange precipitate, which yielded the sulphuret of antimony. Ho also obtained a black pre cipitate, which indicated the presence of sulphuret of mer cury. By another corroborative experiment upon fresh material never manipulated before, witness got more sul phuret of antimony. The whole contents of the intestines yielded 5.712 grains of tartar emetic. Cross-examined again-11V itness also found mercury on making the last-named experiment. Professor Penny, of Glasgow, said he analysed the vis cera of both bodies and the articles found in the prisoner's house. , He found antimony and mercury in the viscera— antimony in the tapioca, and antimony and aconite in the bottle of Battley's solution found in Mrs. Taylor's pocket. Antimony was found in some of the phials taken from the prisoner's house. The powders prescribed by Dr. Pater son accounted for the mercury. Professor Maclagan, of Edinburgh, recalled, said his conclusions were that both deaths must be ascribed to an timony given in repeated small doses. All the symptoms described by the witnesses respecting the illnesses agreed with poisoning by antimony. Nothing indicated gastric fever in the one case, or apoplexy in the other. Witness suspected a strong depressing poison like aconite at the last in Mrs. Taylor's case, and saw no symptom of opium. P r ofessor Penny and Dr. Meiklejohn said that. after hearing the evidence, they ascribed death to chronic poisoning by antimony, but found the influence of a strong narcotic also in Mrs. Taylor's case. Mr. Hugh Orr, bank agent, Glasgow, and Mr. H. Bal main, assistant manager of the Clydesdale Banking Com pany, said the prisoner's bank accounts were overdrawn. Mr. W. Finlay, secretary to the Scottish Equitable Assur ance Society, said the prisoner had insured his life for £1,500, and borrowed £255 upon the policy. Mr. D. J. Macbriar said he was trustee for £2,000 for Mrs. Taylor. In July last she lent the prisoner £5OO to wards buying a house. In her will she left two-thirds of her property to Mrs. Pritchard and her family. The prisoner's statements before Sheriff Alison were read, in which ho denied ever administering antimony. This concluded the ease for the prosecution, and the Court adjourned. SHARE MARKETS—This day. Share) Railways. 114 131r.;W r 01., & Str. Val.. it Blyth and Tyne ...... t Bristol and Exeter .... 0 97 1321 13311 it Caledonian 10 Cork and Bandon..." :0 Cornwall 10 Do. A A gets no div. till6p.e.p.an.has 10 Do. B been paid to B it Dublin & Belfast June. 15 Dun,.Pcrth, & A b.Junc. 3t Edinburgh & Glasgow st Glasgow &S. We stern at Great Eastern, Ord. stk. St Do. E. Angi. at No. st Great• North of Scotland at Great Northern it D A stock st Do. B :o t Do. New, is. at 25 pa. et Gt S, and W. or Ireland t Gt. Weste n at D S. Val. Rail gua. at Do. South Wales at Do. W. 511 d.— Oxford at Do. Nevipo.t at Do. Ile , eford st Lancashire & Yorkshire at London and Blackwali st Lon., Brigh., & S Coast' at Lon., Chat., and Dover st Lon. & North Western at Lon. & South Western at Man., Shef., & Lincoln 50 Maryport and Carlisle 12i Do. shares .. at Metropolitan..... 10 Do. New bi 61 62 (6 16 17 90 91 108 I'B 49 50 7 8 130 132 145 146 128 32 100 10 'CO 10 100 100 F 6 IS 67 67i C 4 66 46 48 45 48 105 tO6 122 1221$ 92 94 107 108 lo& 123} 124 98} 991 61 61 144 143! 3k 3/p 1311 1 35 1 104 116 it acid and it Do, Birmin & Derby 0 Mid. Gt. W.. Ireland ;5 Do. shares :5 'aid Kent it North British it Do. Ed., Pth ,"& Dun it Nth. Eastern - Berwick i 5 Do. G.N•E purchase it Do. Leeds it Do. York it Do. Carlisle ..... 22 Po. Stock. & Darling. 53 54 t4i 15 112 i 114 69} 731 104 105 37 88 25 De. do. 1855-58. 25 Do. do. 1860-61 st North London 10 Do. New 10 Do. do. 1864 . st North Staffordshire 10 N. &S. W. Junction at Scottish Central at Scot. N. E , Aber. stock at Do. Scot, Mid. stick. 10 Shrews & Welchpool. s Shropshire Union South Devon it z , outh E • stern :0 Staines, Wok., t Wok it Taff Vale 10 Do. C it Vale of Kea* it Waterford & Kilkenny it West Cornwall it W.Har tlepool Har.& it Do. A irredeemable it Do. A redeemable 47 49 8) 82 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 94 101 121 123 11 lb ' 79 81 11 3 / 4 12 145 150 54 56 61 63 56 68 85i 8 s; 9 10 156 159 3 4 p 104 106 49; 9 / 6 6 i I I 121 11 93 124 31 E 9 um i SO 79i Paid° Closing I Business Price. done. 1421 li ; BRITISH POSSE: 10 Atlantic & St. Lawrence Som., Baroda. &Cen.1.12. 1 gu. 5 percent.. :0 Do. k' shares Buffalo & Lake Huron 10 Do. Preference t oo Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. bds. Aug. 1, 872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 Do. do. June 1, 1574 st Calcutta &B. E., lira st a e Town & Dock, gu 100 Demera. a, 7 p.c. per. p: A East. Bengal, gu, sdo et East lodian, gu. 5 P.C. 10 Y Do. J Extension at Grand Trunkof Canad% )0 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c )0 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds )0 Do. do. deferred )0 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds )0 Do. do. deferred 10 Do. r- d Pref. stock )0 Do. do. deferred 10 Do. 4th Prof. sto ok )0 Do. do. deterred et Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. 10 l'o. Gua. 5 per cent 10 Do. New gua. 5 p. a at Gt....iouth of India (Tina gm. 5 per cent it D 4/ per cent it Do 94 Great Wee. of Canada.. 94 Da New 2 ' **** 0 Do. 6p. C. Bds. pay. 1873 O Do. 5i do. pay. 1877-8 O Indian Branch, limited it Madras, gua. 5 p.o it Do. 41 do it Do. do O Do. Filth Extension st Melb. Cor. 6p. c. Bnds. i 0 MeL & Hudson's Bay Ki New Brunswick & Can Class A and B st g. 81.C' da, pc Ist pt.bds it Scinde ...... • It Do. Delhi ca tO Do. do it Do. Punjaub ? D e) it Do. Indus St. Flo all 104 100 {lOO 2 100 100 ISIONS. 57 59 101 102 pr 1 41 ip 4 ei 9§ 98 99 70 75 100 102 101 103 1024 1034 tP 19 194 F.B 90 65 66 55 80 57y Si 50 52 45 43 43 45 25 27 25i 264 102 103 P t P 102 103 12 121 8i 81 , 1 1 88 YO 81 64 1 ¢ dl 100 i 1014 93 95 88 90 66 68 3 5 82 81 99 100 99 ICO 102 a a 1 2 26 103 k d 0 DO 93 96 831 2 101 2i 2 1001 et IDo.lndus st rto. - , - - COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1672 100 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6p. a. Feb. & Aug lOO 97 99 Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept 101 97 99 Do. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 83 85 84 31 Do. 5p c. Inscribed sk 100 85 97 Cape G.Hope, 51).0.1873 100 101 IC3 Do. April & Oct. 1880-4 100 105 107 Do. do: 1890-1 100 105 107 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 lOO 108 110 Ce_ylon, Nov. 1865. 6 p.c 1 00 102 104 1) 0. 1878, do lOO 107 109 Mauritius, 6p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 Do. 1882, May 15, N0v..1, 100 105 107 Natal Gov. a per cent lOO 102 104 N.B.Gov.6p.o.Ja.&July 100 97 99 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c., 1866 100 100 102 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1876 100 94 96 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1891 100 92 94 91 New Zealand, 6p. cent ICO 101 103 Do. 6 per cent lOO 87 90 Nova SaJtia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 l9O 97 100 Queensland Gov. 6p. c. 100 103; 104 S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,a 1868-9 100 -- - - Do. 1878 & upwards l' 0 107 109 Vic,Gov. 6 p.o. Jo do July 100 - - Do. do, A pril & Oct„ 100 1091 1105 1105 10 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cam. Consol. Gold, lim 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated — 25 27 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist 1 595 605 Drakewalls 2.1.0 I East Bassett (Illogan) 3O 15 18 East Caradon 2.14.6 121 134 ast earn Brea 3.4.0 6 68 East Grenville 2.7.0 21 2 East Loved 2.13.6 10 11 E. WI Russell (Tavistk 9.10.6 31 G am.& StAubyn(Gweu. 608 2 4 4 Great L txey, limited all 20 21 Great South Tolgus 1.1.0 18 21 G. Wheal Vor (Heist , I) 40 301 311 Grenville 7.8.3 25 3 Herod's Foot ..... Hingston Downs 4.18.0 25 3 Margaret (Uny Lelant 98 21 3 Marke Valley 4 . 3 .0 54 51 4 Ilwyndy Iron Ore, lim 2i 21 10 Nangiles New Seton North Downs 3 North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett(lllogan 3.10.0 4 !, North Wheal Crotty -- Prosper United..... ... 7.1. 6 21 8 Pr •vldence Uny Lelant. 10.6.7 32 3 5 S. Caradon (St. Cleer).. 15 490 500 S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan 18.18.9 15 20 Stray Park 30.17.6 13 15 Tin Croft 9 161 174 West Bassett (Mogan ll 55 7, W. Caradon (L.skeard 9 8 109 West Chiverton ll 75 53 West Seton 475 180 190 Wheal Bassett /Mogan 51 8I 85 Wheal Buller (Redruth 10 15 20 Wheat Ludoott 3.12.8 Wheal Mary Ann (Men 8 11 13 Wheal Seton —. Wheal Trelawney (Lis 7 16 5 178 Wheal Union 4 ritErERENCE SHAMS. Great Northern, 5 per cent., 113 Great Western, 4 per cent. irred 84 (4t.Western. Wt. Midland, Oxford 2d guaranteed ['took, 119 i North Staffot dshire, 24 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., 91i PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Kent Coast, 6 per cent. pref. B, 106. London, Chatham, &c , 6 per cent. 2d pf., 74i London, Chatham, &0., Idetrop. B 6 per cent., 1021 Metropolitan 6 per cent., 103 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Ditto. Com. Fund stock 5 per cent., 98 Midland Bradford Pref. stock, v 3 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco klLn.) gull. 7 per mg, 141 Dutch Rhenish, 23 / Great Luxembourg, 141 Sambre and Meuse, 71 San Paulo, Um., oia, 6 per cent., 171 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 191 BANK& A,OTa and Masterman's, 00 ;alliance, Um.. 3. 1 Ditto, issued at 20 pm., of which 20 is paid., 251 Anglo Egyptian, lim., 121 Bank of utago, lim., 7 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China. Chartered Her. of India, London, and China, 13k 41 European Bank, lim.,, 121 1 Hindustan, China, and Japan (Um.), 19 Ditto, new, 8 Imperial Bank, lim.. 30 ImpeKial Ottoman, 16 151 London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lira., 81 London and County, 771 Merchant Bank, Urn., 261 National Provincial of England. Ditto, d and 3d issue, 45 New South Wales, 401 Oriental Bank Corporation, 531 3 Union of London, 55, MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., 51 Bombay Gas, Um., Ditto. Id issue, Ceylon Company, 01 Credit Fonder and Mobilicr of Em. -, ,land, 81 Crystal Palace, 391 1 9 East Indian Laud Credit and Finance, lira., 41 1 Ebbw Vale, in 13 Egyptian Com. and Trading, Um., 31 Electric Telegraph, 12 English and Australian Copper. 11 Fore-street Warehouse, lira. , 101 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, 11w., 51 Home and C donial Assurance, lira, 9 Hudson's Bay, 151 Humber Iron Works, 1 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso. , lim., 71 International Financial Society, lim., 61 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 791 Joint Stock Discount, lim.. 91 1 London Financial Association. lira.. 221 1 National Discount Company, lira., 16 North British and Mercantile Insurance, lim., 171 Ocean Marine Insurance), 21 Oriental Inland Steam, 21 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 531 4i Rio de Janeiro City improvements. lira., 231 Telegraph Construction and Maintenance, Um., 121 THAMES. INGENIOUS SMUGGLING.—Hen - . - y Branstead, Henry Ward, and Thomas King, seamen, belonging to the ship Arno, lying in the London Dock, were brought before Mr. Part ridge on a charge of smuggling brandy. The Arno has lately discharged a cargo of brandy from Charente. The prisoners were leaving the London Dock yesterday, and were stopped by two constables, named Matthews and James, who asked them if they had any thing about them liable to duty. They replied in the negative. They were searched, and a fiat tin bottle was found concealed upon each prisoner. There were two quarts of brandy in Branstead's bottle, 3 pints of brandy in Ward's bottle, and 5 half pistts of brandy in King's bottle. The prisoners admitted to the officers they were to share equally in the profits of the adventure if successful. Mr. Partridge said the bottles were manufactured for smuggling purposes. He should fine each prisoner in treble the value and duty on the brandy. Brumstead would have to pay 275., Ward, 20s. 3d., and King 175., or be im prisoned one month. BAILING ROBBERY IN A BEER-ROITSE.—GeOrge Williams, aged 30, and James Carroll, 21, labourers, were brought before Mr. Partridge charged with stealing a watch valued at £7, from the person of James Ross, a seaman, now stay ing at the Sailors' Home in Well-street. The prosecutor was in a beer shop called the Little Tower on Tower-hill. The prisoners were there drinking with him. He missed his watch while in their company. It was taken from his left-hand waistcoat pocket, and was detached loom the guard which remained in his pocket. He lost the guard after the prisoners we\ke given into custody. Mr. Partridge asked the prosecutoc if he were drunk again last night. He laughed, and said in reply, "Oh yes of course I was." Mr. Patridge—Thero is really nothing. William Hilton, a baker out of employ, saw Williams steal the watch. The other witness was seated on a wall apparently asleep, and half drunk, Other witnesses were called, including 's police-constable Strndwick, No. 485 A., who saw Williams hand the watch to Carroll, who proceededto the fireplace and put the watch there. The landlord of the "Little Tower" behaved well Ho would not allow the prisoners to leave the house til the police were sent for. Mr. Partridge committed the prisoners for trial. Capt. E. Derrien, of the French ship Nankin, of Havre, has been presented by the English Govern ment with a gold chronometer, bearing a suitable inscription, for having saved, under very difficult circumstances, the crew of 17 men of the English ship Poictier, of Liverpool, 704 tons, laden with coal from Cardiff to Callao, and which was sinking at the time, her hold filling more and more with water. The French Government has also decreed to Capt. Derrien a gold medal of the second class. " Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Smart," says the Malta Times, " with the Victoria, 102 (flagship), Gibraltar, 81, Royal Oak, 35, Resistance, 16, En terprise, 4, Orlando, 46, and one or two smaller vessels, will put to sea immediately for a summer cruise, in the course of which some of the French and Spanish ports will bo visited." Prince Napoleon has arrived at Havre. H.I.H. travels under the name of the Count de Meudon. The consul of the Bey of Tunis has received in formation from the Prime Minister that vessels ar riving at Malta will be admitted into Tunis, pro vided they be furnished with a certificate from the consul that they have performed a regular quaran tine ; but that vessels arriving direct from Alex andria or Massar will not be allowed to enter into Sfax, Susa, and Biserta, or into any other port on the coast, but they must proceed to Gamur, where boats, tents, and sanitary guards have been placed at their disposal. The Belgian journals record a rather serious rail way accident which occurred two days since near Ostend. An express train from Bruges ran into an ordinary one from Ostend, breaking the locomotive and several carriages of the latter. About 40 pas sengers but no life was lost. were more or less injured, The debts of Prince Esterhazy, a part of whose fortune has been placed under the control of admi- ' nistrators, aro estimated at 61 ,250,000 fr. Tho pro perty sequestered is that situated in Hungary only ; the annual revenue of that portion is valued at 4,500,000 fr. CHARLES WATERTON.—It is almost needless to add that the man who thus " loved all things, both great and small," was an ardent lover of his fellowman. As a landlord, as a squire, as a neighbour, as a friend, as a host, in spite of his tall, gaunt g ur e h,e a n was d simplycharming,so brusque and eccen t r i c , th a t more figure, manners than once, ho tells us, he was mistaken for a " damned Yankee." But his hospitality and his openheartodness, especially towards those who shared his tastes for natural history, knew no bounds ; nor had he, we fancy, an enemy on earth, except the spirit of the Protestant religion, against which he was perhaps the more indignant, because he conceived it to be the cause of his ancestors' sufferings. But to his Protestant fellow-countrymen, and even to Eng lish clergymen, he was always frank, open, honest, and generous, and he could always distinguish between the man whom he loved and the opinions which he detested.— ' Once a IVeek. MARRIAGE AT FULHAM.—This morning the Rev. R. G. Baker, M.A., Vicar of Fulham, and Preben dary of St. Paul's Cathedral, was married in the presence of. Lord Palmerston, and a host of friends, at All Saints' Church, to Miss Sulivan, daughter of the Right Hon. Laurence Sulivan, P.C. Miss Sulivan, who is a niece of Lord Palmerston, is 40 years of ago, while the bridegroom has attained to the mature age of 77. The ceremony was performed by the Bishop of London, PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. THIS DAY. The prorogation of Parliament by commission is invariably a dull affair, and the ceremony this morning, if it be possible, partook more than usually of the sombre element. At the time the Royal Commissioners entered the house and took their seats in front of the throne there were only two or three peers present, and the strangers were represented by about the same number of ladies. HOUSE OF LORDS—Tms DAY. The House of Lords met this day at twelve o'clock, and the Speaker and members of the Lower House was sum moned to the bar of their lordships house. ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal assent was given by Commission to the fol lowing bills—Consolidated Fund (Appropriation), Admialty Powers and Dockyard Ports Regulation, Prison Penalties, Law Amendment, Saltash and Callington Railway, Laun ceston, Bodmin and Wadebridge Junction, North Kent Rail way, Afon Valley Railway; Alexandra (Newport) Dock, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (E x _ tension, &o.), Surrey and Sussex Junction Railway, Fish guard Bay Railway and Harbour, Waterford Passage Railway and Ferry, and Dublin Metropolitan Junction Railway. The Commissioners were Earl Granville, Earl St.. Ger . mins, Lord Wensleydale, Viscount Sidney, and Viscount Eversley. THE ROYAL SPEECH. Earl GRANVILLE then read the Royal Speech, which was as follows : MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, We are commanded by her Majesty to release you from further attendance in Parliament, and, at the same time, to convey to you her Majesty's acknowledgments for the zeal and assiduity with which you have applied yourselves to the discharge of your duties in the session now brought to a close. We are further commanded to inform you that, as the present Parliament has now so nearly lasted the period assigned by law for the duration of Par liaments that you could not enter upon another yearly session with advantage to the public interest, it is her Majesty's intention immediately to dissolve the present Parliament, and to issue writs for the calling of a new one. But her Majesty cannot take leave of you without commanding us to express to you her Majesty's deep sense of the zeal and public spirit which, dur ing the six years of your existence as a Parliament, you have constantly displayed in the discharge of important functions, and tendering to you her Ma jesty's warm acknowledgments for the many good measures which you have submitted for her accept ance, and which greatly conduced to the diminution of the public burthens, and to the encouragement of industry, to the increase of the wealth, and to the promotion of the welfare and happiness of her Majesty's people. We are commanded to inform . you that her Majesty's relations with foreign Powers are friendly and satisfactory, and she trusts there are no ques tions pending which are likely to lead to any dis turbance of the peace of Europe. Her Majesty rejoices that the Civil War in North America has ended, and she trusts that the evils caused by that long conflict may be repaired, and that prosperity may be restored in the States which have suffered from the contest. Her Majesty regrets that the Conferences and communications between her Majesty's North Ame rican Provinces on the subject of those Provinces in a Confederation have not yet led to a satisfactory result. Such a union would afford additional. strength to those Provinces, and give facilities for many internal improvements. Her Majesty has received gratifying assurances of the devoted loyalty of her North American subjects. Her Majesty rejoices at the continual tranquillity and increasing prosperity of her Indian dominions ; and she trusts that the large supply which those territories will afford of the raw material of manu facturing industry, together with the termination of the civil war in the United States of North America, will prevent the recurrence of the distress which long prevailed among the manufacturing population of some of the northern counties. GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, Her Majesty commands us to convey to you her warm acknowledgments- for the liberal supplies which you have granted to her Majesty for the service of the present year, and towards the permanent de fence of her Majesty's dockyards and arsenals. The Commercial Treaty which her Majesty has recently concludedwith Prussia and the other States composing the German Commercial Union has, by her Majesty's commands, been laid before you. Her Majesty trusts that this Treaty will contribute to the development of commercial relations between this country and Germany, and will promote the interests of the several countries which are parties to it. Her Majesty commands us to assure you that her attention will continue to be directed to all such measures as may be calculated to extend and to place on a sound footing the trade between her Majesty's. dominions and foreign countries. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, Her Majesty has given her cordial assent to many measures of public usefulness, the result of your labours in the session now brought to a close. The act for rendering the expenses incurred for the support of the poor chargeable upon the whole of a union instead of being confined to separate parishes, will diminish the hardship inflicted upon the labouring poor by reason of removal from parish to parish. The Partnership Amendment Act will tend to encourage the profitable employment of capital. The Courts of Justice Building and Concentra tion Acts, will, it is hoped, lessen the expense and shorten the duration of legal proceedings. The Clerical Subscription Act, founded on the recommendation of a royal commission, will remove objections which have been felt to the number and variety of the forms of subscription and declaration hitherto requireed of the clergy. The management and discipline of prisons will be improved by the Act for the Consolidation and Amendment of the Laws on that subject. The County Court Equitable Jurisdiction Act will give a useful extension to the local administra tion of justice. The Act for Consolidating the Comptrollership of the Exchequer with the Board of Audit will tend to increase the efficiency of the arrangements for auditing the public accounts. The Act for Establishing the Record of Titles in keland will render more easy and secure the trans fer of land. The Act for Amending the Laws which govern the Constabulaq Force in Ireland will tend to pre vent the recurrence pf such disorders as happened last year at Belfast. The Colonial Naval Defence Act has removed restrictions which have hitherto prevented the colo nies from taking effectual measures for their own defence against attacks by sea. Her Majesty has also gladly given her assent to many other useful measures of less general im portance. The electors of the United Kingdom will soon be called upon again to choose their representatives in Parliament ; and her Majesty fervently prays that the blessing of Almighty God may attend their proceedings, and may guide them towards the attainment of the object of her Majesty's constant solicitude—the welfare and happiness of her people. Earl GRANVILLE then, in the usual formal manner, declared the Parliament prorogued until the 12th inst., and the proceedings terminated. HOUSE OF COMMONS--THrs DAT. The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock, and imme diately afterwards the Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the table, and summoned ithe Commons to the House of Peers to hear the Royal ass ent g iven by c ommission to several public and private bills, and also her Majesty's most gracious Speech on the prorogation of Parliament. On the return of the Speaker to the house, the Queen's Speech was read, and, several members having shaken hands with the Speaker, the Session of 1865 came to a close. THE WEATHER.—At one o'clock this afternoon the thermometer in the shade stood at 81—nine degrees above slimmer heat. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) NEWMARKET RACES-THIS DAY. Entry for £5O Plate.—Spice, Saxon, Beauty, Royal Tartan, Lady Sophie, Rappel do Minnuit, Life Belt, Troublesome, and Usher, are here. Handicap Sweepstakes.—Armadillo, Bst 121 b ; Bayard, Bst 121 b ; Principal, Bst 41b; Gulnara„ Bst 31b ; Wild Thyme, Bst; Usher, Bst ; Lady of Coverham 7st 12113 . ; Lady Va lentine, 7st 101 b ; Beatrix colt, 7st 41b ; Spice, Gst 91b ; and Sister Mary, 6st 41b, are here. Chesterfield Stakes_—Countess, Amy, JaCk in the Green, New Victoria, Chapel Royal, Proserpine,. Brother to Bird on Wing colt, Plutus, Student, Conservative, Fitz Roland colt, Dalesman, Claverhouse, and Valeria, are here. Maiden Plate.—Diadem, General Lee, Wentworth, Nisida, Stoic, Madlle. Cleopatre, Mephistopheles, Clario nette, Promised Land colt, Hedon, Lalla Rookh, Stockwell colt, Fury, Cesarewitch, Sharper, Ambition, Valeria, Danish Rog; Master Strutt, Duchess of Newcastle, Odeza, and Pinchbeck, are here. WORCESTER RACES—Tins DAy. Croome Handicap.—Queen of Trumps, Cadeau, Viceroy, Lufra, Contraband, and Rustic Beauty, are here. Worcestershire Stakes.—Bradamante, Success, Dean Swift, and Doyedale, are here. Great Worcestershire Stakes.—Bosworth, May Queen, Henbane, Wildair, Exeter, Staghound, Life Guardsman, and Foreign Stamp, are here. LADVERTISEMENTI " TAT TERSALLS' TlSSUE."—Commission Agency —James Hopkins executes Commissions on all Races throughout the year. Place-betting and double <mute. Cheques to be crossed National Bank, and Post-office orders payable at the Fleet-street office. Address, 13, Rolls buildings, Fetter-lane, London, E.C. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS.--L ST EVENING. ROYAL COMMISSION. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the fol lowing bills :—Marriages (Lambourne), Prisons (Scot land) Act Amendment, Procurators' (Scotland), Partnership Amendment, General Post-office (Additional Site), Carriers' Act Amendment, Sugar Duties and Drawbacks, County Courts Equitable Jurisdiction, Record of Titles (Ireland), Harbours Transfer of Land Debentures (Ireland), Small Benefices (Ireland) Act (1860) Amendment, Smoke Nuisances (Scotland) Act Amendment, Greenwich Hospital, Turnpike Trusts Arrangement, Ayr Burghs Election, Comptroller of the Exchequer and Public Audit, Inland Revenue, Indemnity, Compound Spirits Ware housing, Admiralty, &c., Act Repeal, Salmon Fishery Act (1861) Amendment, Clerical Subscription, Falmouth Borough, Crown Suits, &c., Poor Law Board Continu ance, Colonial Docks Loan, Turnpike Act Continuance, Local Government Supplemental (No. 5), Locomotives on Roads, Local Government Supplemental (No. 4), Navy and Marines (Property of Deceased), Naval Discipline Act Amendment, Foreign Jurisdiction Act Amendment, Rochdale Vicarage, Peace Preservation (Ireland) Act (1856) Amendment, Expiring Laws Continuance, Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No. 2), Harwich Harbour, Colonial Governors' Pensions, Skipton and Wharfdale Railway, Tunbridge Wells Water, Ogmore Valley and Ely Valley Extension Railway Companies (Carlisle Citadel Station Branch), 'Redden and Bentley Road, Metropolitan Market, Mansfield and Worksop Road, Midland Great-Western Railway of Ireland, Swansea and Aberystwith Junction Railway, Wigtoushire shire Roads, North British and Edinburgh and Glasgow (Bridge of Forth) Railway, Blackpool and Layton with Warbeck Improvement, Chesterfield, Newbold, and Dun stan Road, Great Northern Railway (Junction at Newark, &c.), Edinburgh and Glasgow and Monkland Railway Companies, Kidivelley and Llanelly Canal and Tramroad, West Cornwall Railway, Busby Railway, Aberdeenshire Roads, Belfast Central Railway, Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway, Dingwall and Skye Railway, Isle of Wight Railway, St. Clement Danes Improvement, Stour bridge Railway, Rochester Oyster Fishery, Lymington River Improvement, &c., Burnley Market, Fergus River Navigation, &c, West Cork Railway, Dublin Trunk Con necting . Railway, Halesowen and Bromsgrove Branch Railways, Barry Railway, Newton Water, Hoylake Rail way, Sidmouth Railway and Harbour, Spilsby and Firsby Railway, Swansea Vale and Neath, &c. Railway, Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway, Mid Wales Railway ( Western Ex tensions) West London: Wharves and Warehouses, Bishops- Castle Railway, kc., Ulster Canal Transfer, Burton-upon- Trent Connecting Railways, Burton-upon-Trent Railways, East and West Yorkshire Union Railway, Glasgow and South-Western Railway (Additional Powers), Glasgow and South-Western Railway (Ayrshire, &c., Lines), Glas gow City Union Railway, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin colnshire Railway (Purchase, &c.), Mellis and Eyre Rail way, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Improvement, North Eastern 1 Railway (Leeds Extension). Several other railway and private bills, amounting to over 200, also received the Royal Assent. The Commissioners were Earl St. Germans, Lord Wens leydale, and Viscount Sydney. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. THE RESIGNATION OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR. It being pretty generally known that Lord Westbury would this evening make a statement relative to the cir cumstances that led to his resignation of the office of Lord Chancellor there was a very full attendance of peers. The members of the House of Commons were present in very considerable numbers, and the space before the throne was very fully attended. In the upper galleries there were a number of ladies and some of the leading members of the corps diplomatic. The LORD CHANCELLOR, at a quarter past five, rose from his seat, and said that he felt it to be his duty, out of the respect which he owed to their lordships, to call their attendance there to-day, that he might personallyannounce to them that he tendered to her Majesty the resignation of his office, and that her Majesty had been gin ciously pleased to accept that resignation. Tho step he took yesterday he should have taken some weeks ago if he had followed the dictates of his own conscience. (Hear, hear.) But he felt that he could not take such a step without receiving the sanction of the members of the Government, of which he was ono. As far as he was personally concerned, possessing, as he did, the personal acquaintance of the noble lord at the head of the Government, he felt his honour was perfectly safe if ho followed his advice. He therefore fol lowed that advice rather than his own inclination. He felt that the holder of the great seal should not stand in the position of an accused person, and that ho Ought to retire from it, and meet any accusation in the cha racter of a private person. But his noble friend at the head of the Government combatted that opinion, and he thought with great justice, it would not do to admit it as a prin ciple of political conduct, or the consequence would be that whoever wanted to drive a Lord Chancellor from office would succeed. When these charges were first made he entreated to be allowed to resign. When the committee of the House of Commons was moved for he renewed his solicitations, but again he submitted to to the wishes of his colleagues. When however, the . late motion was announced in the House of Commons, he again renewed his request, that the motion might be rendered unnecessary by his resignation. But his noble friend thought it was his duty still to persist, and accordingly the resignation, anxious as he wished to make it, was postponedin the manner he described till yesterday. It was not his business to question the decision at which the other house had arrived with respect to him ; but he could assure their lordships that he had not been inten tionally guilty of any dereliction of his duty. He ad verted to the different law reforms which he had, with the assistance of Parliament, been instrumental in pro meting, and much regretted that he had not been able to bring to maturity what he had so much at heart, a full digest of the laws of the country ; but he trusted that that great work would not be aban doned, but that both private members and noble and learned lords would unite in its promotion. He looked forward with confidence to the continuance of the progress ghat had been made in the improvement of the ad ministration of justice, and he referred particularly to ;the alterations that had been introduced into Chancery, the benefits of which world bo soon expe rienced. The noble and learned lord, in feeling terms alluded to his long connection with Parliament, and to the kindness and consideration he had invariably re ceived from their lordships. He then resumed his seat on the woolsack amid much cheering. The house shortly after adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS -LAST EVENING. The SPZAKERRcIy tookAtheL cchoamirmatlfsosulrooN. o'clock. Colonel CLlFronn, the yeoman Usher of the Black Rod, summoned the Speaker to the bar of the Upper House to hear the Royal Assent given by Oommission to several private bills. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC COLLEGES. Mr. HENNESSY asked the Secretary for the Home Department a question with reference to a 'statement alleged to have been made by Mr. Fortescue in his address to the electors of Louth, to the effect that the conduct of the Government, with reference to the Catholic Colleges in Ireland, had the approval of the Roman Catholic bishop. Ile had received a letter from the Catholic Bishop of Tuam denying the accuracy of that statement. Sir G. GREY said that there had been no communica tion between the Government and the Roman Cattolic clergy on the subject, but heunderstood they were favour able to the course adopted by the Government. The houso then adjourned. General Omer Pasha has arrived in Paris, and been received by M. Drouyn de Lhuys, Minister of Foreign Affairs. 1