The Sun. — London, England, 1865-04-15 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TW ELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market continues very quiet, and the rates show no alteration. Discounters are willing to negotiate the best bills at 31 4 per cent., but the supply on offer is extremely limited. Since Saturday last the imports have amounted to £362,419, and the exports to £60,344. The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit tance of £582 12s. 4d. on account of the dividends on the debt of Ecuador. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67 72. Flat. The market for all descriptions of American securities has been thrown into a state of excite ment by the news received this morning by the Australasian from New York. Otherwise it is sup posed that the Stock Exchange would have pre sented an exceedingly quiescent appearance. Many of the members, however, who had intended to have remained away, hurried , to the City. As may be imagined, the advance in the value of all Federal Securities has been of an important character, while in the .Confederate Bonds there has been an equally im portant movement in the other direction. Among other topics discussed by speculators is the possibility of a demonstration on the part of the United States against Canada, and this has promoted the agitation of prices by causing afall in the value of English and Foreign stocks. United States Government 6 per Cent. 5-20, in which there has been a large sale, have risen 4, viz., to 611 / ex div. ; Illinois Central shares, l to 63 64 ; and Erie shares, 24 to 36i 378. Consols have declined I, viz., to 908 91 for money, and to 918 for account. The New Threes are 898 the'Reduced 898 +, and India 5 per Cents., 1064 1071. Foreign Securities have all been depressed. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 741 4 ; ditto Con solides, 54k ;.111exican, 27 k ; ditto New, 25i 26k ; Greek, 24 211 ; Spanish Passive, 31k j. ; ditto Cer tificates, 16f 4 ; Portuguse, 48 f ; Russian, 91k 92. ; and Italian, 64i 65k. to 22 24 The Confederate Loan has fallen 7 per cent., viz., In the Railway Sh are M ar k e t th ere h as b e en very little business transacted to-day, and the few bar gams recorded show a slight decline in prices. Great Northern A Stock have receded 55., Metro politan and North Eastern (Berwick), each 155., and North Western and Midland each £l. The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit no material - change in values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have continued very inactive ; prices, however, remain without any alteration of importance. Anglo-Egyptian Naviga tion Company Shares are quoted 2i 3 prem. ; South African Land, 1 1i prem. ; Saloon Steam Packet, 1 prem. ; Moscow Gas Company, k 1 prem. ; Russian (Vyksounsky) Iron Company, 2 2i- prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 0 Per Cent. Con so l s Do. Ac coun t, M ay 9 9ll 1 O per C en t. R e d uce d B9} 3 New 3 per Cent B9 - - 13 New 23 per Cent. Jan. 1894 73 Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 pe r C en t 7 Do. £5OO Do. £lOO and £2OO Bank of England Stock, 53 per Cent 242 Do Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 103 per Cent., April 1874 — Do AccAnt — Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. Account Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates _ Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 53 per Cent., May 1879 llO Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per C en t — Brazilian 5 per Cent lOO Do. 43 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 — B uenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do I per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Chiba** 6 per Cent Do. 43 per Cent _ Colombian 6 per Cent. _ Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3nper Cent., 1825 - • — .p,.. 4 per Cent., 1863 — , JY. 5 . per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid — .. vanublan P rincipalities J 3 £B6 paid . - Equador New do-n*.s.o* ''''''''''''''''''' * per Cent — Emt Do., ian 7 Provisional La n d W arrant r Cent *** e pe cond Iss ************************* Do, S Do 41D000. Bonds u.:). *** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 9 - 71 8 Do • Senll £O5 - 1864 - - d Greek 5 paid Pe C r Cents., 1 824-5, ex Coupons DoDo. Coupons * ' •Account QUatemala 5 per . 6ell . .................... it D„.. 18 39 and 1850 a tian 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) 88 1 Do 1865 Do S 11 -e rg; £421 p a id — dis "' k ali 3 Per Cent Do. Account Dc 1864 —Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French _Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — oontevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid ~,A1 orish Inaperial 5 Cent per — 41 e lv Granada Do 2 p er C ent Do Deferr . ed Per _ Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Do 43 per Cent. — Do 3 per Cent: (Uribarren) — Do 43 per Cent,. 1862 , 130 . Account • 853 ' °dug - Lies° 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account — Do 3 per Cent ., 1856 , '7 , '9 , '6O , '62 , '3, 483 Do Account — Il D ußsian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St., o 43 per Cent., 1850 Do 1860 — Do 3 per Cent„ 1859 Dos per. Cent., 1862 Sardinian 5 per CentlB64 Do. Account Spanish 3 per Cent 4Bl Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account — Do Passive Do Account .. .. - . . ...... .. . ... . . . Spanish Cert. of Co ....... Coup not funded Do Account • . Swedish 4 per Cent. Do. 43 per Cent. 1864 Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Do Account 913 Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account 723 Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account 75 41 Do. £lOO Bonds Do 6 pe r C en t. 1863 Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — 1 enezuela 3 p er C en t. — Do. Ac coun t Do. 6 p er C en t , 1862 — Do. Account Do 6 per Cent., 1864 Do. 13 per Cent — Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian, 43 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 23 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — Do. 4 per Cent. Certifi.,..ces French Remotes, 3 per Cent. Do. Account Do. Italian 5 per Cent., 1861, E x . 25f . Account 553 Consols, Money TWO O'CLOCK. Do. Account ............... .... Liverpool Cotton Market —This Day. Cotton Market dull. Nothing doing. THE ROYAL SOCIETY'S INDEX. --The Tr has authorised the expenditu re o f .£3 ,000 for preasuryinting the Royal Society's " Index to the Scientific Periodi cal Literature of the Nineteenth Century," which we have already noticed (Reader, iv. 805). A first instalment of £l,OOO is to be asked for this year, as we learn from the recently-issued Civil Service Estimates. CHELSEA BRIDGE.—In the year ending March 31, 1850119, as appe ars f rom a return just issued, the amount of ts collected on Chelsea Bridge was 7,752 17s. ; and the total expenses incurred were £792 Bs. 3d. Within the last six years the tolls have diminished and the outgoings have rapi 23WY increased, so t h at for the year ending March 31, .. 6 4, th e account stood thus : Tolls collected, £3,681 16s. g a• outgoings, £5,786 15s. 2d. Share' Railway s. 3 .14 Bt et et 50 20 Bir., Wol., Jr Str. Val. Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Corn wall gets no div D E 1 co‘ ttll6p.e.p.an.has been paid to B Dublin & Belfast June. Dun,.Perth, & A b.June. Edinburgh & Glasgow Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. s rk. Do. E. Angf. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northera D A stock Do. B o • • Do. ;New. ls. at 25 pm GtS, and W. of Ireland Gt. Weste n Original D . S. V4 l . Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.— Ox:ord Do. Newpo t Do. Ile eford Lanc shire & Yorkshire L ndon and Blaokwali Lon., Brhfh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shet.,.& Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do. # shares Metropolitan. Do. New Nlid and Do, Birmin (it Derby Mid Gt. W.. Ireland Do. shares %lid Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth ,-& Dun. Nth. Eastern Berwick Do. G.N•E purcha,be Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle Po t•tock. & Darling. Do. d:•. 1855- - 8 Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. New Do. do. Ige,4 North Staffordshire v. & S. W Junction ,Scottish antral Scot. N. E , Aber. stock o. Scot, Mid. E..t 2ck 4 h•ews do welchpool I Shropshire Union !iouth Devon -outh E stern 'Amines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornw 411 W.Hartlepool Har.&lt Do. A irredeemable Do. A. redeemable , BRITISH P so l i .10 100 { 100 100 Atlan - tic&St.Lawrence Bora.,Baroda,.. , Cen.ln gu. 5 per cent Do. le shares Buffalo & Lake Huron Do Preference Buir,Brant o k Goderich 6 p.c. bds. Aux. 1, 8721 Do. do. July 1,1873 Do. do. June 1, 1574 Calcutta & S. E., lira .'a e Town & Dock, gu Dernera-a, 7 p.c. per. p Nast. Ben.zal, gu sdo East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunkof Canad% Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge gp.c Do._lst Pref. - Bonds Do do. deferred Do. 2d Pr, f. Bonds Do. do. deterred Do. Id Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pret. stock Do. do. deterred Gt. India Pen. gua. 5p.c. 1 o. Gua 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India (lim gua. 5 per cent D . 41 per cent Do Great W.-s. of Canada.. New Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay 1873 1)o. 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 Hay New Brunswick & Can Class A and B — NT. Bl.C'da, pc Ist pt.bds Scindo Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Punjaub Do.lndas St Flo e 4) 66 68 16 17 8J 91 105 1' 7 47i 18i 7 6 100 100 100 100 I 0 133 124 148,1 149 131 • 33 87 89 ;5, 76 65 67 53 55 46 4u 0i 'O3 1191 120 86 68 107 109 4?. 43 121 123.; 96 97 61 63 130 131 21 2fp, 137 137}' 106 1(8 5t :5 z4i 25J 1111 1124 691 706 103 3 IC4 37 38 1' 12p 9 10p 115 113 j 1 lip 18 79 11 11 138 142 48 50 61 62 54 5 86 67} 9 10 155 155 3 4 p 107 109 46 48 74 77 OSSK :gIONS. 50 6 3 102 i 103 pr ip 4 4 bi In 65 70 99 101 75 85 111 103 102 104 10i 105 IP 16 18 87 95 60 65 50 55 50 55 45 50 43 48 41 94 23 25 22 24 104 105 P 1014 1021 8f 11f Ilfcl 85 c , O 75 78 ct 101 102 k 93 95 89 91 41Z 8 751 if 100 {lOO 2 100 100 64 66 55} 871 in 7 104 i 3 5 82 81 1014 1024 1015 1024 ;d pr 1011 1024 94 97 81 i Si COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 per cent„ Dec.3l, 1472 100 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1827-t.4 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Au 4 lOO 89 92 D sp. c. Mar. & Sept 101 89 92 Do. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 77 80 783 Do. 5 p Inscribed sk 100 77 80 Capcl.l.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 100 104 106 Do. April & Oct. 18804 100 108 108 Do. do: lt•00-1 100 10' 10 Do. Jan. & July, 11391 loo 106 108 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6p. c 100 tu2 104 Do. 1878, do. 100 105 107 Mauritius, 6p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1.78 Do. 1882, May 5, Nov. t lOl 108 109 Natal o per cent lOO 104 106 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&.luly 100 93 96 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p . c., 1866 00 98 100 Do. 5 p.c. 18 Ito 1876 100 93 95 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1892 100 91 93 913 New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 103 105 108 Do. 6 per cent.... Nova Sc .tia Gov. 6p. C sterling, 1875 l9O 91 96 Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 103 105 S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 18t43-9 100 -- - - Do. 1878 & upwards 1 0 106 108 Vic,Gov. 6 p.c.7a & July 100 - - Do. do, n pril & Oct lOO 1084 1074 1071 7 1 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cam. ConsoCCiaaTlim 1 Chiverton Clifford amalgamated —3 J Devon G. Cons. (Tavist 1 570 58 Drakewalls 2.1.0 4 1 East Bassett (Illogan) 3O 21 21 East Caradon 2.14.. 15 16 ast Cam Brea 3.4.0 61 7 East Grenville 2.7.0 34 33 Eart Love.l 2.13.6 10 11 E. WI Russell (Tavistk 9.10.6 33 41 Gam.& StAubyn(Gwen. 603 4 6 4 Great L ixey, limited all 13 19 Great South Tolgus 1.1.0 11 2 1 G. Wheal Vor (Heist )0 40 304 314 Grenvil.e 7.8.3 4 41 Herod's Foot 8.13 ',35 36 Hlngston Downs 4.18.0 35 4 Margaret , Uny Lelant 91 5 7 Marke Valley 4.3.0 5 54 4 Mwyndy Iron Ore, Hu) 24 11 Of Nangi les .. New Se ton ....... . 211 35 45 North Downs 3 - - North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan 3.10.6 4 . North Wheal Crotty - Prosper United 7.1.6 3 31 Pr vidence Uny ',nt 10.6.7 31 33 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) ll 520 530 S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan 18.18.9 20 25 Stray Park Tin Croft 9 144 15; West ..assett W. Caradun (L skeard 9 6 13 West Chiverton ll • 571 624 West Seton 474 180 190 Wheal Bassett 'lllogan 55 100 103 Wheal Buller (Redruth 10 30 35 M - hea Ludo. At 3.12.8 Wheal Mary Ann (Men 8 11 13 Wheal Seton Wheal T. elawney (Lis 7 i 9 20 Wheal Uni c 4 ttrAviilltr:Nut stiAns, GtWestern, Wt. Midland, Oxford Ist F.r,uarant, North Eastern, York, H. and Selby purchase, ?ed stock, 123 k 101 PREFELLENCE SHARES AND STOGIES. Great Eastern 4 , per cent. pr., - Ditto. 5 per cent. pt., 97 London, Brighton. per cent., 1858, 97 lOREJGN RAILWAY E. ahla and San Francisco k lim.) guff, 7 per Cent., 151 Imperial Mexican, Um., 2i I. I I Scottish Australian, lira.. IGN KIN ES, Yudanainutana of S. Australia, Um.;ll BAN &grn and XI isterman's, lim., Ditto, new, 60 kilt nee 334 3 Aug h. Austrian, 74 Anglo legyptian, lim., 121 Ch artered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 281 Chartered of India, London, and China, 55 Continental, Lim., Ditto, new, 13 Imperial Ottoman, 171 4 London Bank of uexico and S. America, lim.,:lof London and Brazilian (lim.l, 0 4 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 244 Luidon and Comity, 784 London Joint Stock, 49, g London and vt estminster, 954 National Provincial of England, Ditto. 3d issue, 401 Oriental Banx Corporation. 541 South E4stern, lim., 124 Standard of British South Africa, Um., 234 Union of Australia, 56 MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, lim., 10} City Offices, Um., 4, 7 , 5 Commercial Union, Insurance, Credit Fonder and:Mobilier of ll:ngland, Egyptian Com. and Trading, lim., 34 E glish and Australian Copper, If Hudson's Bay, 15 International Financial society, Um., fl London Financial Association, lim., 22f London General Omnibus Company, Marine Investment, Urn , 21 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Mail, Urn., Ditto (E 7), 61 Pen nsula and Oriental Steam, Hi bitto, new, 57, QuebrAcia Land, Rail, and Mining, lim., 51 5 Trust and Agency of Australasia, lim., 1i The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2 per rank pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.221 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is at about the same price in London and Paris. The course of exc h ange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 249 per cent., and the premium on gold 127 per cent. At these rates there is a small profit on the importation of god Pram the United States. By advic,:s from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.61 per £1 stcrlin_ Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefc re, about -10ths per cent. dearer in London thin in Hamburg. SH ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. I p aid. l Closing I Business Price. done. 95 97 130 131 5i 65 531 2} 110/ I 87} 10Si 7} 1231 t 1 , 7 61i 1301 30 1371 61 71 61 1112 7 70 101 a THAMES. GROSS OUTRAGE IN A PUBLICHOUSE.--John Stone, Michael Tatton, and Michael Hayes, labourers, were brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with committing a violent assault and outrage in the Brunswick Arms pub lic-house in Harper-square, Whitechapel. Mr. Henry Ralph Hazelbrook, the landlord of the Bruns wick Arms, said the prisoners came into his house on Thursday night at ten o'clock and called for a pot of beer, which he served them with. They drank half of it, and then demanded rum in exchange for the beer. He would not comply with their wishes, and they then asked for gin. He refused to let them have any, and then they sbused him and demanded cigars. He requested them to leave his house, and they throw the beer on the floor and interfered with and insulted the customers. Stone then threw the quart pewter pot at his head. It missed him and struck the beer engine. He succeeded in turning them out of his house. All three came in again and renewed the disturbance. Tatton assailed him and tore his coat. He got them out again, and Tatton and Hayes kicked at him and attempted to injure him in a vital part. The police men then called out, and the prisoners were taken into custody. John Henry Burges, a cab-proprietor, of No. 153, Regent-street, Lambeth, confirmed the statement of the last witness, and said the prisoners took up his ale and drank it. Tatton hit him on the nose and caused him to bleed copiously. Hayes made three or four kicks at him. Police-sergeant Davey, No. 3H, said he was called to Harper-square on Thursday night. He heard the pri soners say " We will go back and clear the b-y house." He procured assistance, and took all the prisoners into custody. The prisoners were most disorderly ruffians. Hayes had been 18 months' in prison for breaking a police-constable's nose with a stone sling, and had also' been four times convicted of assaults on policemen and landlords of publichouses since that time. Tatton had also been in custody several times. All the prisoners had been in the practice of going to various publichouses, drinking other persons' beer and liquors, and making disturbances. Tatton and Hayes were in custody last week for stealing a sovereign. Mr. Partridge—l am not inquiring about that. The pri soners are each sentenced to one month's imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. Absorption of Heat by Gases. -.•—.-- For several years past Professor Tyndall, of the Royal Institution, hAs been engaged in experiments for the purpose of determining the power of absorbing the heat possessed by various gaseous substances. The apparatus employed for the purpose consisted of a tube Aof tin polished inside, four feet long and 2.4 inches in diameter. The ends of this tube were closed with plates of rock-salt, a substance of diathermanous power, that is capable of transmitting a large proportion of the heat to which it is exposed. To this tube was attached a T piece, that is, a small two-branched tube, establishing a communication with an air-pump by one branch, and with the gas to . be experimented on by the other. Thus, after the tube A had been exhausted by the air pump, the gas was admitted into it by merely turning a stop-cock. A source of heat, a Leslie's cube, for instance, with hot water in it, was placed at one end of the tube A, and a thermo-electric pile at the other. The latter apparatus consists of two series of plates of different metals, bismuth and anti mony for instance, soldered together alternately ; if heat be applied to one point of junction and a different temperature to the next, and so on alter nately, an electric current will be obtained. In the present case this apparatus received the heat which passed through the tube A, and the current it produced was detected by the needle of a galvometer. In this manner Professor Tyndall was enabled to measure both the heat emitted by the cube, and that transmitted through A, the difference of the two temperatures denoting the quantity of heat absorbed by the gas. Some of the results obtained in this way are quite surprising. Thus a small proportion of ozone (elec trified oxygen) added to common oxygen will treble its power of absorbing heat. Olefiant gas, or bicar bureted hydrogen, will absorb about 81 per cent. of the heat transmitted, though it is extremely trans p,gra e r a e t n e t s t e a a n s d e t Thehere a o b r s e r transmits e rlightis 30 e wn3goitaqueousph timesw ether g r y a e p a or e r t c h o a n n t a t te t d of i n d r tyh air. e a t If atmosphere s e a r b e s taken r o e f pr air :sebnetedby 7 as ,o a oo u , n t i b t a , t th n a f t ni o e f fia a n m t mgaosnibay 7,950 l s b o e and that of sulphu rous ac id b y 8,800. And gene rally, for small quantiti es o f gas, the absortion . exactly proportional to the density. A VOLUNTEER COMMITTED TO PRISON. -A case affecting volunteers was decided by the Mayor of Grant ham and other Magistrates on Monday. Colton, a member of the volunteer rifle corps, a short time ago appeared be fore the bench and was ordered to pay his subscription of 10s. and Bs. costs, or to be committed for 28 days' hard labour. Captain Commandant Burbidge consented at the time to the money being paid in 2s. 6d. instalment; but now informed the bench that no payment had boon made. The magistrates said the sentence must be carried out and the defaulter undergo his term of imprisonment. 2 i To a I am al POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day, Lisit—the Most Wonderful of Pianists. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. To the accomplished Secretary of the Crystal Palace Company, Mr. George Grove, we are (in common with all lovers of music and musical criti cism) indebted for the publication—in the Reader— of a recent private letter by a gentleman well known in musical circles, describing an interview with M. Liszt, the eminent musician ! From this delightful letter we are tempted to transfer to our columns the following exquisitely-suggestive passages : Piazza di Spagna, Rome, Feb. 19, 1865. My interview with Liszt really was of surpassing in terest. He arrived here early, before I was out of my room, and I heard him describing himself to our idiotic Italian slavey as " lin Signor di Monte Mario" (on which eleva tion he has established himself, and lives part of the week at a convent thereon, having a right, I believe—as a mem ber of some order or fraternity—to take up his abode at any convent in Roman Catholic Europe he may choose to select, and hence the reports as to his becoming a monk). Having passed the ante-chamber, he found himself in the presence of F. P., who received him with a kettle in one hand and a "Euclid" in the other—weapons which were doubtless taken up by that ready youth as being at hand, and emblematical of some of the unrivalled characteristics of the playing of the illustrious visitor—for instance, of his power of making the piano sing, and of executing with mathematical precision unheard-of difficulties. I heard fragments of a dialogue, going on in the next room, partly . in German, p ar tl y i n F rench, part l y i n E ng li s h , someth i ng after this fashion, " Ich habe nicht die Ehre mit dem Herrn 0. zu sprechen?" " Nein, gnikliger Herr Doktor, ich heisse P." " Ach, entschuldigen Sie mich." "Aber Herr 0. will gleich kommen ; kann ich Ihnen cine Tasse The anbieten ?" " Ich danke ; Monsieur parle Frangais pout-etre ? voulez, vous avoir la borate de me donner une allumette, et, avec votre permission, je fumerai un petit cigare. Monsieur fume aussi ? Ah pas encore, c'est bien ! Monsieur aime aussi la musique ? You are a compositeur also ?" "No but lam very fond of music." " Ah, very fond? It is now long years since I speak the English, but I understand him, and I beg it of you speak your tongue and I answer in Freneh. Ah, here is a collection of Bach's fugues by a pupil of mine, Franz Kroll, who is clever ; but I agree not with him always ; ,for instance, the fingering here" (at the end of the first prelude) might have been more facile ; but this edition of Wohltemperirte Clavier is the best which has been made." . . . About this time I appeared, and after some talk he asked me to show him some of my music, and to my intense delight, went to the pianoforte and began to try a song of mine in D Flat, first striking the common chord thereof with his left hand (the cigar was in his right) in arpeggios from the bottom of the piano to the top, and about as quick as any other hand could be passed over the keyboard without touching it. He played every thing to perfection which he got hold of, and a prima vista, for he had certainly never previously seen what he had deigned to take up. Amongst other things, he played some Church music in a style that convinced me he had played the organ, which I found out was the case, for an organist has since told me that he (Liszt) played to him—" with independent pedals and all "—the A flat fugue, No. 17 of Book 11. of the 48—no joke ! Nothing could be more kind and charming than he was ; and what an intellectual and accomplished person he is, so full of information and enthusiasm ! I can quite understand the great powers of fascination which he is said to possess over young men ; so that, wherever he is, he is followed, and a kind of colony is formed of his disciples. This is the case even at Rome, wherein many musical students have taken up their abode, solely to be under him, and I believe he receives no kind of pecuniary remuneration from any of them, although I heard (from Mr. Odo Russell, who is good authority) that he is by no means well off. This reminds me to say, in answer to your query, that I asked one of his pupils if he had heard anything relative to the concerts to be given by Liszt at Paris. The answer was, "He may possibly direct a performance of some of his music, but I do not think it the least likely that he will play." Before I received your letter I had already entreated him to come again to Eng land, and urged that there were so many who were dying to hear him ; but he does not seem to fancy England, and said something about having forgotten how to play the pianoforte—an assertion which was rendered of none effect on Friday last, when I had the rare treat I have so longed for, of really hearing him —and the pianofore—for the first time. I believe that this was almost the only instance of his really giving a performance since he has been in Rome. The séance took place in the house of a Mrs. a (whose clever bust of Liszt was in our Exhibition of 1862) at four o'cloek in the afternoon ; the audience was limited to nine, the number of the muses. The mystic number was even tually swelled to 12, three ladies unknown to me (charm ing enough to be the three graces) arriving at the last minute. The great artist came after we were all in our places, and after tantalising us by " conversing affably" with each member of his audience, sat down to the piano forte. Here all description fails me. I will not waste your time and small space still left me to attempt it, and will only add that, after having heard all the great pianists of the day, I can say that I had never heard the pianoforte before. Imagine all conteivable difficulties so mastered as to become child's play, the most ethereal and perfect touch ever hoard, the greatest fire, poetry, tenderness, and senti ment, and most admirable management of the instrument all the wonders, and a hundred times greater, of Thalberg , the grasp of Henselt, the reading of Clara Schumann, the science of Moscheles, the refinement of Halle, and the mechanism and charm of Madame Davison—all these com bined and surpassed, and still a something else beyond all description, as I just said—which is, I suppose, Liszt. No wonder that the German musicians always said ho is the first, and unapproachably so, of pianists. He played four times—three of his own arrangements (one of which was on Etude, that keeps me awake at night), and one a Polonaise of Chopin's. Many of his audience were literally in tears, and I have not got over it yet. He made Mrs, C. sing " The last (but apparently eternal) rose of summer," in Italian, during each verse of which he improvised a new and gradually developed accompaniment. In the last verse there was a p assage of sixes, p i an i ss i mo, i n erpegg i o, when the two h an d s went toget h er as a mower ' s, an d Li szt all the while l oo ki ng about h i m, and laughing good naturedly at the alteration and improvement of the melody in its new and gorgeous dress, or at Mrs. C.'s dismay at the change of harmony at every recurrence of the first phmse—which, by-the-by, is no less than six times in each verse. THE KNlFE.—Cunious CASE.—Mary King, who de scribed herself as a servant out of place, was charged be fore Mr. Knox with assaulting with a knife Police-con stable Wm. Camps, 99 C. The constable said—A little after two o'clock yester day afternoon, I was requested by a person connected with Gloucester House, Park-lane, the residence of the Duke of Cambridge, to remove the prisoner from the doorway. The prisoner refused to go away, and made use of very abusive language and threatened to let me have the knife she had in her hand if I touched her. I tried to remove her and she then made a stab •at me, but the knife only went through my coat, and did not injure my arm. I then with assistance took her into custody, when she again said she would rip me open. Mr. Knox—Was the prisoner drunk ? Constable—No, sir. Prisoner (who had a rather vacant toek.)—l had been to church in the morning, and walked, about and lost my way. I asked a woman the way to Reient-street, and she told me. I then went and stood in the doorway, and after wards sat down on the steps and ate my bread and butter, using a knife, when a man came up and told me to leave, when I refused, as it was raining. I said I would leave when I liked. The constable then came up and took off hiki cape and doubled it up, and, thinking he was going to strike me, I used the knife. I had no place to go to, as I sleep in a refuge at night, and my clothes were all wringing wet. I Imew no reason why I should be compelled to go into the rain. Mr. Knox—Why did you strike the constable with a knife ? Prisoner—Because he took up the thing he had on his back. Mr Knox—Have you any friends ? Prisoner—No, sir. Mr. Knox—Yours is a dismal story, certainly. Prisoner—Am I to be prevented standing out of the rain when I have done nothing? The knife was my own. I bought it. Mr. Knox—Have you been in service ? Prisoner—l have, and totally cleaned a house for Mrs Connorty, of 47, Lower Belgrave-place. _ _ _ Mr. Knox—l must have some inquiries made 'about you, as it is a serious matter using a knife. I will send you to the House of Detention ; and, as I have some doubts as to your being in a sane state of mind, I will mark the com mitment so that the medical officer may have his attention directed to you. WESTMINSTER A VERY OLD OFFENDER.—Martha llumphreys, a woman upwards of 60 years of age, was charged under the follow ing circumstances. On Thursday night, a boy named James Grove was passing College-street, Chelsea, when he saw the prisoner carrying four pewter pots, partially concealed by her shawl He asked her where she had got them all from, and the accused was so much alarmed at the inquiry that she threw them down and made off as fast as her age would permit of. The boy then called the attention of the police to the subject. Police-constable Alfred Matthews, 60 B, said he was in formed by the boy Qf what had occurred. On the prisoner being pointed out to him he followed and took her into custody, when she said she picked up the pots in a passage close to her house, and nearly fell over them. The pots respectively belonged to Mr. Cornwall, of the Crown, White Lion-street, Chelsea, Mrs. Freer, of the Monster, Pimlico, and Mr. Sergeant, another licensed victualler at Pimlico. The prisoner was quite sober at the time. Mr. Selfe—Are the owners of the pots here ? Constable--There is somebody from each of three houses. Mr. Selfe—My object is to ascertain whether she is known at any of these houses. Representatives of three of the owners stood forward and identified the pots, but only in one instance was the pri soner recognised as having been at the house. Mr. Selfe—What is known of this woman ? Dennis (the gaoler)—She had three months a little while ago for stealing pots from tavern-keepers. Prisoner—Ah ! they said so. Dennis—She has also been here repeatedly upon other charges, and was committed for trial not long ago for felony. Prisoner—But I was innocent. She was remanded. EXECUTION OF POLISH PRISONERS.—Thq Invalide Russe says :—' The Polish political prisoners Tchi barowski, Kaminski, Ostrowski, and Kaspjak, employed in the tile factory, having been found guilty of assassinat ing their guard, the soldier Kourganoff, and of attempting to escape, were condemned to death, and shot at Kosarkoff in presence of a large number of the inhabitants. The other political prisoner; named Pawlowsk, Tischer, Wysochi (Thomas), and Gutivinski, who took part in this plot, and escaped from the disciplinary companies, have been sen tenced, the first four to 12 years' hard labour in the mines, and the fifth to 15 years of the same penalty." TERRIBLE BOAT ACCIDENT.—THIRTY PERSONS DROWNED. —The village of Sziget-Monastar, situated on an island in the Danube, has been the scene of a sad dis aster. The vineyards of some of the inhabitants aro on the opposite side of the river, and a ferryboat conveys the workmen backwards and forwards. On the 6th, 36 or 38 persons were ret urn i ng across t h e r iver i n th e even i ng , and the b oa t , b e i ng heavily laden and deep in the water, became submerged, an d a ll t h e excep tion of six or e i ght, who contrived to reach the shore by swimming, lost th e i r lives. passengers, with the DYEING. —The new colours extracted from coal, such as aniline and other phenic compounds, have effected a revolution in the art of dyeing; this revolution was, however, so far incomplete, that it entailed a heavy expense, owing to the necessity of employing alcohol as a solvent ; for the colours alluded to are not soluble in water. Moreover the alcoholic dissolution, when diluted with water as it always is, and left to stand, deposits a large proportion of the colour, only keeping the red; the neces sity of warming the liquid before the immersion of the stuffs is another cause of inconvenience, since a portion of the alcohol is driven off by evaporation, and more colour precipitated in consequence. Hence it often happens that the stuffs do not take the colour equally all over but in patches, and moreover they stain the linen when they are dyers have tried to s w u o b rn stitut T e o sp d i i r m it in o i f sh wo t e h d e , ccoomst'monirlyycalled methylene, for alcohol; but in most cases, this has had to be abandoned; the workmen refusing to use it on account of its bad effects on their constitution. When they are exposed for whole days to the emanation of this substance, they soon expe rience great weakness and other alarming symptoms. In a paper addressed to the Academy of Sciences, M. Gaultier de C]aubry describes another process of his invention by which all these defects are obviated. It shows that many substances impart to water the property of dissolving the colours which until now could only be dissolved almond-soap, gl ucose, dextr i ne, the j in alcohol. Such are the gum s an d muc il ages, especially various feculas, lichen s an d fuci, especially the Eu e glycerine, gelatin e , an d animal jellies; but soap,eollci jellies of ar isp us, those which offer the most satisfactory and practical results are the decoctions of the bark known in trade under the name of Panama (Quillaya saponaria) and the root of Egyp tian soap wort (Gysophila strutium), The Saponaria offici nalia may also be used, but is les s energetic in its action. All these substances give a certain consistency to water and make it froth; and their solutions, poured in a state of ebullition on the colouring matter in powder, will dissolve them. If, after stirring and decanting, there is an undis solved residue, the operation may be repeated. In the solu tions thus prepared no precautions are requisite for dye ing ; the stuffs take the colour quite uniformly, and are much more permanent than with the old process. PETER'S PENCE.—The official journal of Rome announces that, according to the last report of the receipts of Peter's pence, a sum of 5,376,000 f. has been paid into the Pontifical treasury. The total amount received since the month of September, 1859, up to the present time, is 43,010,400 f. Tho same journal adds, that at no time have so many foreigners been seen in Rome as at present and says that this immense concourse furnishes a proof of the constantly increasing veneration of the Catholics for Papal Rome. rnE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEMNO, APRIL 15, 18M We observe that the Protectionist vagaries which have of late formed so large a portion of our colonial politics have drawn some attention on the other side of the world. . . . Our own late Ministry, which is the first we have had that openly courted and rested on the support of the Protectionist party, has been defeated, after a general election, by the largest majority by which any of our Minis tries have ever been turned out of office. This result has not been all due to the overwhelm ing force of free trade convictions, and we should be receiving more credit than is our due if we were to be complimented on that supposition. A number of circumstances combined to make the Ministry unpopular ; but the central grievance around which the others clustered was undoubtedly its perverse and determined attempt to introduce a tariff which had a Protectionist tendency. . . . An allowance in the opposite direction must be made by our distant critics in speculating on the state of affairs in Victoria. Protection there seems to be almost as popular as free trade is here. But the appearance is largely delusive. The Ministry which proposes Protection is popular there. Local rea sons exist for keeping it in, and keeping out its possible successor ; and thus many persons wink at the Protectionist proclivities as an evil of smaller magnitude than a Cabinet crisis. The Protec tionist party there has gained by a fortunate al liance, just as here it lost by an unfortunate one. At the same time, even in any case we might have hoped for a protest in the right direction, and this, not so much because there is widely diffused any comprehensive appreciation of the principles of political economy, as because local circumstances tend to make all persons actually engaged in busi ness see that, at-present at least, a free commerce is most profitable to us. Our non-insularity has pre served us greatly from the effect of Protectionist arguments. In New Zealand, which is an island, package duties have been for some time imposed, and have lately been increased as the readiest means of increasing the revenue. In Tasmania, which is an island, ad valorem duties were imposed to make up the revenue, and were only attacked because the Ministry was declining in popularity, and the new duties made a good cry at the elections. In South Australia, the chief port of which is unsuited for an entrepot trade, ad valo rem duties have been for some time in existence. But in New South Wales the case is different. The port of Sydney drives a large trade with the inte rior, for a considerable portion of which it has to undergo a sharp competition with other ports, and has of late years been rather losing ground than gaining. It also carries on a considerable coasting trade, to which precisely the same remarks apply. It was necessary absolutely to try the experiment of Protection to see the consequences of it, although a small taste was given during the few weeks in which, pending the decision of Parliament, the Government enforced its proposed tariff. When business men of all classes came to look in the face the obvious effect on their trade of the pro jected duties, they saw at once that it would in volve diminished business, and therefore, without troubling their heads with abstract theories of poli tical economy, they came straight to the conclusion that whatever community Protection may suit, it _ _ was clearly unfitted for New South Wales in its present stage of development, and so they polled heavily against it. It is fortunate, too, that the Protectionist scheme in Victoria was not launched till ours was disposed of. Had our neighbours taken the lead and established their proposed tariff, the competitive objection to its adoption by us would have been so largely diminished that, pressed as we we were for revenue, we should have been in far greater danger of being drawn into it than we were. It may be said that Protection is as suicidal in Victoria as it would be in New South Wales. So it doubtless is, and the mercantile class does not fail to note the fact. But there is a feeling abroad in that colony that it can afford to weight itself in the race, and yet win. It is the most populous, the most wealthy, and perhaps the most enterprising of the Australian colonies ; and there is a sort of proud feeling extant that it can go to a certain length in protecting ma 'nufa-ctures and yet take the lead in intercolonial commerce. However, it is a dangerous experiment to try, especially with its territory enclosed by colonies in which free trade is now in the ascen dant. New South Wales may be considered as guaranteed against any serious leaning towards protection for some time to come. On the other side of Victoria, the colony of South Australia is tending more and more in its policy towards free trade. It has had the good sense to nurse its land revenue and to avoid extravagant expenditure, and is about to enjoy its good fortune in this respect by a reduction of taxes.—Sydney Morning Herald. MARKETS —This Day. COVENT GARDEN. Our market is seasonably well supplied with fruit and egetables, and the trade rules steady, as follows : FRUIT. 5. d. 11. d. Pine apples 8 0 to 10 0 Foreign do., each 0 0 to 0 0 Grapes,per lb 0 0 to 0 0 Foreign do 1 6 to 2 6 Melons Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0 tipples, per hf-sv. 2 6 to 4 0 Pears, per do 0 0 to 0 0 Oranges, per 100..4 0 to 10 0 Lemons, per 100 5 0 to 8 0 Gooseberries hf sve9 0 to 0 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 0 s. d. s d Mu'berries,prpt 0 oto 0 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 •Foreign ditto, puno oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb .. 0 9 to t 0 Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 Cobnuts, perlb 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Figs, per doz. 0 oto 0 0 Peaches, per d 0... 0 oto 0 0 Currants, per 12.sv 0 oto 0 t) Plums, per d 0... 0 oto 0 Damsons, pr d 0... 0 oto 0 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 4 6to 5 6 Shallots, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Cabbages, pr doz 0 030 0 0 Horseradish, pdo 1 OGO 2 11-3 cl ditto 3 oto 4 0 P ars l ey, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Savoy do., pr dz 1 6to 2 0 Celery, per ditto 1 oto 2 0 Cauliflowers, pdz 1 3to 2 6 Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 0 Brocoli 1 2 to 1 6 Parsnips, per do. ' 0 oto 0 0 Potatoes, per ton 60 0 to .50 0 Small salad. p. pn, 0 oto 0 0 New ditto, pr pnt 1 oto 0 0 Mushrooms, p pt. 1 oto 1 3 Turnips, dz bunch 2 oto 3 0 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 8 Carrots,pr do 4 6to 5 6 Cos lett, score .. 0 oto 0 0 Cucumbers 0 uto 0 0 Mint and savory..o oto 0 0 Garlic, per lb dorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz !Inds 0 oto 0 0 Green peas, ti.-sy. 0 oto 0 0 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 French beans,h.s. 0 oto 0 01 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Onions, doz. h.s. 1 6t o 1 91 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 New Do., dz bun 0 oto 0 o' l Rhubarb, per bun 0 3to 1 0 Spinach .. 0 Bto 1 0 Asparagus, pr do. 0 oto 0 6 Brussels sprouts 0 oto 0 0, Seakale, per bun. 1 oto 1 6 POULTRY. Turkeys, 5s Od to 8s Od ; geese, Os Od to Os Od each ; goslings, 7s Od to 9s Od ; ducks, Os Od to Os Od ; ducklings, 3s 6d to 7s Od ; rabbits, 1s Od to is 10d each ; wild do., 10d to 1s 2d ; pigeons, Os 8d to Os 10d each ; Surrey fowls, lOs Od. to 15s Od ; chickens,7s Od to 108 Od ; barn door fowls, 4s Od to 7s 6d ; capons, Os Od ; hares, Os Od to Os Od ; ptarmigan, Os Od to Os Od each ; pheasants, Os Od to Os Od ; partridges, Os Od to Os Od; woodcocks, Os Od to Os Od ; s n ip es , is Od to is 3d ; teal, is Od t o O s 0 wild ducks, 2s Od to Os Od; widgeons,' is Od to is 3d; plovers, is Od to Os Od each ; guinea fowls, 5s Od to 6s 6d ; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od each ; Ostend fresh butter, is 1d to is 3d ; E ng li s h, is 2d to is 4d per lb ; English eggs, 7s 6d to 8s Od ; French do., 5s 6d to 6s 6d per 100 ; leverets, Os Od to Os Od ; grouse, Os Od to Os Od. BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, is 6d to 2s Od ; trout, Os Od to Os Od ; eels, Os 8d to Os 10d ; prawns, Os Od ; pike, skate, sturgeon, and hali but, 6d per lb ; turbots, 2s 6d to 14s Od ; cod, 2s Od to 10s Od ; brills, 2s Od to lOs Od ; doreys, 2s Od to 8s Od ; lets, is Od to 2s Od ; lobsters, is Od to 5s Od ; crabs, Os 6d to 2s 6d ; plaice and gurnets, Os Od to Os Od each ; sol es , Os 6d to 2s 6d per pair; common oysters, 12s Od to 60s Od; natives, 84s Od to 90s Od per bushel ; whitings, 5s Od to 10s Od ; haddocks, 4s Od to 20s Od ; smelts Os Od to Os Od ; flounders, Os Od per dozen ' • mackerel, —s Od to Os Od per 120 ; fresh herrings, 8s Od to Os Od per 120 ; bloaters, Os Od to Os Od per 100; carp and tench, Os Od to Os Od per brace. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; lamb, 5s 8d to 6s 8d ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 4d to 48 8d per 81bs, by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; lamb, 5s 8d to 6s 8d; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 8d per Blbs, by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 6d to 7d, of household do., 5d to 6d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 21d. to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 314 ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 3id ; 801 b to 881 b, 3id to 4d ; 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 41-d; 961 b to 1041 b, Od to Od ; 1041 b to 1121 b, Od to Od. Horse hides, 9s Od to lOs Od ; calf-skins, light, 2s Od to 4s Od ; full, 6s 6d to Os Od ; polled sheep, —s Od to —s Od ; half-breds, lOs Od to lOs 6d ; Downs, 7s Od to 8s 6d; shearlings, is 7d to Os Od. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 lOs Od ; clover, £5 108 to £6 103 Od ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 14s per load. A fair trade. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, .£4 lOs to £5 10s ; clover, £5 8s to £6 lOs ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. A firm demand. WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 lOs to £5 lOs ; clover, £5 10s to £6 lOs; and straw, £1 7s to £1 14s per load. Trade steady. ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS.—There are as many as 111 applicants for admission as attorneys next term, not withstanding the stringent examination imposed upon all candidates. CROYDON SPRING Weights for the Surrey Op, miles an, Age st lb Hall Court 6 12 7 Pigeon Black Rock Joe Maley a 11 9 Creole Ironsides Sly Fox a 11 2 Lord George a 11 2 Portland Old Squire a 11 0 Meanwood a 11 0 Ace of Hearts Mistake 5 11 0 Rook the Gardener a 10 12 Marble Hill R. M. D. Lightheart Bryn Gwyn Morocco 6 10 10 Spatchcock Weights published April 14 declared on or before Tuesda3 RACING FIXT Newmarket Craven l7 Durham Blackheath l7 Knighton Canterbury Spring Catterick Bridge l9 Abergavenny 2O Newmarket Ist Spring... 1 Llanboidy 2 Chester 9 Howth and Baldoyle l5 York Spring St. Coluinb l6 Redditch Chelmsford 7 Manchester Summer 7 Maidstone Ascot l3 Beverley l4 Liverpool Newmarket July Carlisle Jersey 5 Worcester Pontefract Abingdon Hungerford l3 Stamford l3 AUG Brighton 1 Brighton Club Knutsford 3 Lewes 4 Huntingdon Wolverhampton Reading Radcliffe l4 Egham Stockton .., SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CITY BETTING—This Dar. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 7to 2 agst Tomato (taken) 4to 1 agst John Davis (offered) sto 1 agst Wandering Minstrel (offered) Bto 1 agst Accident (taken) 100 to 8 agst Dollar (taken) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 5 'to 1 agst Grinder (offered) 10 to 1 agst Mail Train (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Mcestissima filly (taken) TWO THOUSAND. 3to 1 agst Liddington (taken) 3to 1 agst Breadalbane (offered) 100 to 7 agst Ariel (taken) 100 to 6 agst Zambezi (taken) 20 to 1 agst Chattanooga (taken) 20 to 1 agst Bedminster (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Gladiateur (taken and offered) 50 to 1 agst Tennyson (taken) 50 to 1 agst Maid Marian (taken) CHESTER CUP. 11 to lon the field (offered) 100 to 8 agst Mcestissima filly (taken freely) 100 to 7 agst La Toucques (taken) 100 to 7 agst Victorious (taken) 15 to 1 agst Lion (taken) 33 to 1 agst Highfiyer's dam colt (taken) 83 to 1 agst Buckfoot (taken) DERBY. 11 to 2 agst Breadalbane (offered) 15 to 2 agst Liddington (offered) 100 to 6 agst Archimedes (taken) 20 to 1 agst Zambesi (taken) 33 to 1 agst Wild Charley (taken) 33 to 1 agst Ariel (taken) STEEPLECHASES. am Handicap. About three id a half. Age st lb Signal Rhcebus. Bolero Ross Early Bird 5 10 7 Hallaton Yaller Gal a 10 5 The Rogue (late The Orphan) Doubloon Aggressor 5 10 4 Game Cock Contralto Lady Douglas Grey Momus a 10 0 Bull's Eye a 10 0 Little Dick Willie the Beau 5 10 0 Best Man Fairy King at ten a.m. Forfeits to be r next. RES FOR 1865. Livrrpool Hunt Cup 2l Thirsk 2l Cardiff 25 Epsom Spring Curragh Howth and Baldoyle 27 Salisbury lB North Herts Yeomanry 19 Cork 22 1 Bath 23 Harpenden 26 Epsom ' 30 ria. Hampton 2l Newton oc N d in e r w hr aa c a gm s h t 1 e 21 27 27 Bibury Stockbridge New Forest Hunt l4 Winchester lB Nottingham Southampton l9 Chesterfield Cambridge 2O Goodwood Down Royal Corp 25 XST. Oxford l7 York Yarmouth Plymouth Lichfield 2B Devon and Exeter 29 Derby Summer 3O Ipswich Weymouth 3l SEPTEMBER. - Warwick Curragh 5 Richmond Dover 7 Monmouth 2l Hereford Leicester 7 Newmarket Ist Oct 26 Doncaster OCTOBER. - Bedford 3 1 Curmgh l7 Royal Caledonian Hunt 4 Newmarket Ho. 31 Northallerton 5 Worcester Newmarket 2d Oct 9 NOTE: !IBEIL Liverpool Autumn Vincennes Shrewsbury Vincennes [ADVERTISEMENT.] G. R. GLENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, supplies the Latest Edition of " THE SUN" round the Royal Oak and Notting-hill by eight o'clock. Baily's Spring Turf Guide, this day, 2s. 6d. post free.— Commissions executed. Blowing Up of the British Ship Lochee and Loss of Life. The subjoined official communication has been received at Lloyd's, announcing the fearful loss of this ship by explosion and fire : " Board of Trade, Whitehall, April 11. " am directed by the Board of Trade to transmit to you for the information of the com mittee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, the ac companying copy of the report of the master of the ship Lochee, of Dundee, of the loss of that vessel about twenty miles off Point de Galle on the sth of January last.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, " T. H. FARRER. " The Secretary to Lloyd's." [Copy of Enclosed.] I, John Paul Newton, master, beg to report the total loss of the ship Lochee, 1,500 tons burden, belonging to Dundee, under my command, belong ing to Messrs. Cox Brothers, of that port, which occurred on Thursday, the sth January last, about twenty miles off Point de Galle. " The Lochee left Dundee on the 17th of last September with a crew of 40 men all told, five pas sengers, and a partial cargo of coal. Nothing worthy of remark occurred during the passage until Wednesday morning at six o'clock, when, on open ing the hatchway, smoke was seen to issue from the hold, from which it was evident the coals were on fire. On observing this I immediately lowered a therometer down the ventilator of the main hold. The temperature was 80 deg. on deck and 112 deg. in the hold. At ten a.m., it stood at 123 deg., and at half-past twelve p.m. at 126 deg. In the mean time the smoke was gradually increasing, and in consequence I ordered all necessaries to be brought from the hold on deck, and the hatches to be battened down, with the view to smother the fire. I, of course, as soon as it was discovered that the coals were on fire, bore up for the nearest port ; bent the cables, got anchors out, and the boats in order for lowering. At 3.45 the following morning the ship exploded, blowing up the decks fore and aft. James Jansen, an able sea man, and John Yearn, an apprentice, w e er dr e o b w l n o e w d. n into the- ai r , an d fell into sea and were The crew and passengers wereall more or in jured, and some seriously so. The ehipimmledfessatey s o e burst into flame, and withthe nt gr o greatest t water, difficul sotyine the quarter quarter boats were lowered into the crew and passengers being compelled to jump overboard to save their lives, y andof saving a single all half-nak e d , there not being a possibility article. 14 I saw a brigantine three or four miles off heading for us, and a mail steamer making for Galle. The brigantine proved to be the Sea King, of Ham burg, Captain Kier, who, being becalmed, sent his boats to the rescue in a very short time, and took us on board his vessel, where everything was immedi ately done to relieve the sufferings of the injured, and where we were all treated with the greatest kindness. Captain Kier, who was bound to Singa pore, immediately bore up for Point de Galle, where he landed us all safely about four p.m. I cannot speak too highly in praise of Captain Kier, his officers, and crew for the energetic manner in which they proceeded to our assistance, and the unexcep tionable kindness they showed us all, and I sincerely trust that their praiseworthy conduct will be duly recognised by the proper authorities. (Signed) 4 " JOHN P. NEWTON, Master." CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT —This Day OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Channell and Mr. Justice Montague, Smith.) TEE TRIAL OF PELIZZIONL The evidence for the defence in this case WAS proceeded with. Locco Angelinetta, examined by Sergeant Ballantine said the man Gregorio had been in his service since January, 1864. On the 26th of December, when this event occurred, he wore a dark moustache. He was a left-handed, man. On the 26th of December a sum of £3 17s. was d. ne to him for w ages. He had not g i ven witness any notion of his intention to leave. He did not return to his work after the 26th. He lodged in witness's house, but did not sleep there on the night of the 26th. Ile did not see Gregorio again until his return from Birmingham. Gregorio went by the nickname of " Mat," which meant madman. (Nothing material was elicited in cross-examination.) Giovanni Manzoni, of Francis-court, Berkeley-street, Clerkenwell, said Gregorio came to his house on the even ing of the 26th of December, about a quarter to 10 o'clock and in consequence of something he said witness allowed him to sleep on the shavings. He told him what had oc curred at the Golden Anchor. Domenico Cetti said he remembered Gregorio coming to the Bordessa public-house, about half-past 6 o'clock, on the evening of the 26th of December, and handed him a knife,-similar to that produced. (A knife was handed to the witness.) Witness afterwards threw it into the yard of the Bordessa public-house. Gregorio did not slop there longer than five minutes. When Gregorio gave him the knife he asked witness to be kind enough to keep the knife for him, as he had been in a question (dispute) at the Anchor. Thomas Cowland, a young man in the employment of the landlord of the Bcrdessa publichouse, said he found the knife produced in the urinal on the morning of Dec. 27. , Joseph Coprani, a stereotype printer, said the knife pro duced became his two years ago, and he exchanged it with Gregorio for another about ten months since. Frederick Griffin, an artist and modeller, said he had measured the distance from the window of the bagatelle room of the Golden Anchor to the place where a knife was found by a little boy in the yard, and it was 150 ft. There was a considerable quantity of timber in the yard. Jane Mellor said the young man (Cowland) at the Bor dessa gave her the knife produced, as she thought it was her husband's, on Dec. 26. When she showed it to her husband he said it was not his, and that it had blood upon it. She took it back to Cowland next morning. Anne Sams, of King Edward-street, Mile-end New Town, said she was at the Golden Anchor on boxing-night. She was in the dancing-room. She had known the prisoner Pelizzioni three or four years. She had been dancing there , and between five and six o' c l oc k th e pr i soner came in, and. she danced with him. She believed it was a polka. Tho dance was not finished, as she felt giddy. Pelizzioni went out. She remained in the house until the row took place. She did not see Pelizzioni again between the time she danced with him and the time of the commencement of the row. She saw Gregorio slap the landlord's face. She. did not know that there wore English in the bagatelle-room, and she did not know of any row previous to this. (The witness then described the nature of the fracas in much the same way as the other witnesses, exculpating Peliz zioni, and showing that Gregorio made the attack upon the persons who were injured.) The prisoner did not come until a few minutes after the row had commenced. Giovanni J. Mogni, the brother of Gregorio, and Mr. W. R. Coger, a constable of the Liberty of Saffron-hill, having been examined, Peter Marazzi was next called, and was subjected to a severe cross-examination, and this, with some confirmatory evidence, closed the case for the defence. The court then adjourned for a short period. We shall give the result of the trial, if practicable, in a later edition. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day. LONDON, April 15.—Wind this day at noon—North-- Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather cloudy. PrEr.,, April 14.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed—Neptune, for Bahia. QUEENSTOWN, April 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Austra lasian, screw steamer, from New York. ... • _ CARDIFF, April 13.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Montpelier, from Rio Janeiro; Albertino, from Hong Kong; Louis; from Martinique. LAMLASH, April 14.—Wind S.W.—Sailed.—Pilgrim, for Quebec. DARTMOUTH, April 14.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Rupert, for Gibraltar. LONDONDERRY, April 13.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Nubia, for Quebec. PLYMOUTH, April 14.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Caroline, from Santander for Antwerp. Sailed—Golconda, for Queensland. CLYDE, April 14.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Hermes, from Bahia; Win. Wilson, from Iquique ; Advance, from St . John's, N.B. „ POOLE, April I.3.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Caroline, for Quebec. OW MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived, April 14.—Envoy, from Caen. . Arrived, April 15.—Pomona, from Helsingborg ; John and Martha, from Guernsey; Germanias, from Hamburg; Adler, from Bremen; Acors, from Lisbon; Prince of Wales, from Antwerp. Sailed, April 15.—Bolgium, steamer, for Ostend; Velocity, steamer, for Calais; Panther. steamer, for Boulogne. DEAL, Saturday Morning. No arrivals. Sailed.—All the outward bound, for the westward. THE MACCARONI PARSON.—" The unfortunate" Dr. Dodd—is related in Mr. Percy Fitzgerald's life of him, to hare been thus described by a contemporary satirist :—He does not pore with his eyes close to the book, like a clerk that reads the first lesson, but is all exterapo ntry, with a cambric handkerchief in one hand and a dia mond ring on the other ; and then he wares this way and that way, and he curtseys and bows and he bounces, that all the people are ready to And then his wig! you must admire his dear wig ; not with the bushy brown buckles hanging and dropping like a Newfoundland spaniel, but short, rounded off at the ear to show his plump cherry cheeks, white as a curd, feather-topped, and the curls as close as a cauliflower. SOMETHING LIKE A FEE ! — Speaking of doctors, perhaps the largest fee that has ever been given by any rank lower than Royalty was lately bestowed on M. Nelaton, the famous surgeon. He has a private fortune of his own, besides that which he has acquired by practice, and he is no longer young. All these circumstances made him decline to go to Russia and give his opinion, and if necessary perform an operation there. He said that the payment he should require for the journey, &c., would be too high. " Name it," said the patient's friends. M. Nelaton put on what he thought would be a prohibitory price, 400,000 f. (£16,000), and he was immediately engaged at that sum.—Pall Mall Gazette. AN IRISH ABDUCTION CASE.—A singular charge of abduction was preferred against a young man named M'Gowan at the Sligo quarter sessions on Tuesday. His victim was a young girl whose personal charms were considerably enhanced by the fact that she had a marriage portion of £5O. M'Gowan did not go through the formality of a courtship. He carried her away with the assistance of some friends, and offered her marriage, which she declined. He then liberated her, and she married another man in two hours afterwards. She now begged that the offence might be overlooked, but his worship could not do so, and sen tenced M'Gowan to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. CONVICT LABOUR.—The last report of the visit ing justices of Hampshire states, that the receipts in cash for industrial labour during the first quarter of the present year amount to £406, against .447:in the corres ponding quarter of last year, the receipts for the last three quarters having together amounted to £717, against £B4 f o ther Htra three ETwß._A correspondingE periodslarg e of the tiger,m pre e y a i s o u u r s i ng ye a r. A ten feet two inches from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail, and four feet hi height, was shot on the 2d ult., on foot, by three indigo planters with smooth-bored guns, near Mungoul Factory. This ferocious animal had been prowling about the neighbourhood for some days, com mitting numerous ravages amongst the natives and cattle —in fact, this beast was so much dreaded by the natives of the neighbourhood that they were afraid to go any distance from the villages, and the delight shown by men, women, and children at the death of this monster was surprising to witness. —Calcutta Englishman. The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the following as the atmospheric state of Europe yes terday :—" In the west of Europe the sky was cloudy this morning, and many of our correspon dents spoke of fog or rain. The wind was light almost everywhere, the south of Spain and the Black Sea excepted. The first of those regions was agi tated by easterly winds under the influence of violent squalls passing between the Canaries and tho Azores ; the other region felt the last effects of the tempest which we have followed since 9th of April-- the day when it shoived itself between Ireland and the Azores to this day, when it disappeared to the south-east. On the 10th, its centre was over the coasts of Norway ; on the 11th, near Dorpat, (Russia) ; and on the 12th, in the Black Sea. Other gales are following it, and their action is felt by us only by the variable state of the sky or by rain. The temperature in Moscow has become much lower." —Yesterday, in Paris, the sky was at times overcast, as if a storm was impending. The heat, however, continued, the thermometer at three in the afternoon marking 22i Cent. (72 2-5 Fahr.) fred, ,dies rvice tdsor 'ion )rdi- mess righ- Park Mrs. and iAady and anor dish 110111" here and tin the arty at eral olz- a put ner 111- on nIY Igo icy ,he ay al na I