The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-25 00:00:00

I tONEI - MARKET AND! COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Continued inactivity prevails in discount circles, the commercial bills on offer being comparatively few. The brokers, however, refuse to negotiate business, even on first-class paper, under per cent. of the Bank rate, except in special cases, and this reserve leads to the opinion that the position of the national establishment will not warrant a down ward movement at the weekly court to-morrow. The gold taken out of the Bank yesterday amounted to £4,000. The Money Market remains in a very inactive state, the inquiry for discounts being exceedingly limited. The lowest quotations of the brokers, how ever, are still 5i and 6 per cent. At a meeting held to-day of the Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England the report of the directors, Presented for adoption, stated that the net balance for the current half year, including the balance brought forward, amounted to £281,829, from which a dividend at the rate of 20 per cent. was recom mended and a bonus of 10 per cent. ; the amount required for these payments make together £137,808. The directors also recommend that £50,000 be placed to the dividend reserve fund, which will then stand at £150,000, and to carry forward the balance of £86,606 to the next half-year's account. The general reserve fund has been increased from £200,000 to £500,000 by the amount received from premiums on the new issue of shares. At a meeting of shareholders held to-day of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, the report of the directors stated that the disbursements in the " working account" for the year 1865 is very nearly the same as that for the previous year. The cause of the surplus in 1865 being £46,100 less than 1864 will be found . on the credit side of the account, where a deficiency occurs in Government Contract money and in the receipts for freight, met, however, to some extent, by an increase in passage money. A dividend of £4 10s. per share is recommended, and a bonus of £2 10s. per share from the insurance fund. Two o'CLocK. According to Reuter's telegram, this morning, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 45c. Heavy. The English Funds have varied very slightly to day, and at one time depression prevailed, owing to the conflicting advices respecting the political state of the Continent. Some purchases for in vestment, however, have induced a firmer tone to the market, and Consols are 86/ 87 for money, and 86/ 87 1-16ths for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 851 ; Exche quer Bills for June, 4s. dis. ; Bank of England Stock, 242 ; India 5 per Cents., 105/ 1061; ditto illfaced 5 per Cents.,.lo2l ; and ditto Bonds, 15s. to 19s. prem. Several dealings have taken place in the Foreign Stock Market. Mexican are 20A- i ; do. New, 18f ; Greek, 121 a ; Spanish Passive, 25+1 ; the Certifi cates, 15i ; Italian, 53 ; Chilian Loan, par to Prem. ; Brazilian Scrip, 3+ 2ti dis. ; Egyptian Itailway Loan, 3 2 dis. ; and the New Egyptian Loan, 2 prem.; United States 5-20 Bonds, 70+ ; Erie Shares, 52 ; and Illinois, 80k. In the Railway Share Market business has con !moiled exceedingly dull, and prices have in several instances exhibited a slight decline. Great Northern, Great Western, and Metropolitan have each receded ss, The Foreign and Colonial lines are also depressed, Grand Trunk of Canada having been dealt in at 22. In Bank and Miscellaneous Shares there has been a moderate demand, but at reduced rates in most instances. Chartered of India, Australia, and China have declined to 20i ; Hindustan, China, and Japan to 12 ; London and South African to 6 14 i ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England to i; International Financial to 41 ; London F inancial to 151 ; and Overend, Gurney, and Co. to 14i I. BRITISH FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK , GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 0 Oct Cent. Consols - • Do. Accou n t, M ay 9 B6} 7i ''Per C en t . R e d uced B6 i. i N e w 3 per Cent B5 i I i ew 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — . 1) 0. 5 per Cent. J an. 1873 — a nnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 O. for 30 yrs, exp i re sth AprilBBs — o (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908.. i,r7rch. June. Exch equer Bills, £ l,OOO, 3 par Cent. —‘ 4 dis Do, £5OO — Do £lOO and £2OO Ban k of England Stock, 5 per Cent o „ D .... Account — /, ‘ ,. 1 11A11 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. " u ,i , to Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 — - ", 0 . Acco un t ",-,°. 5 per Cent. July, 1870 ~:;0 . 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do.vo. Certificates — Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent — T , 6 per Cent., Jan. 1872 — l - N ° . 5 i per Cent., May 1879 — •.-g o . Deb., 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 .„ I 'o. Bond s, £l , OOO l5 "0. under £1,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—NE pd O'CLOCK. 4rKentine Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5. pm t ustr ian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1459 r r a ilian 5 per Cent — —°• 4 1 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 DDo. 1865 t) Account — to. Scri p, £45 pa id ,enos Ayres 6 per Cent CC. 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) taii 6 per Cent D, • - -cr l P, £25 paid °. R4l per Cent , po. 6 per Cent )olorubian 6 per Cent. Duba) eh per Cent. b 4i813 . per Cent., 1825 l'll,3lbian Principalities 'Jo. Account illit3a,dor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — g°, Provisi ona l L an d Warrant — yv liar' 7 per Cent BB , 0 - ~ ~ Second Issue — 1-) £lOO Bonds 9l Do Do. 1864 B7l ,'-'0 £ lO O Bonds 9Ol '-'O. Government Railway Debentures — 0 ID. ' X 35 paid n ee k 6 per Cents ., 1824-5, ex Coupons 4 ., 0 . Acc ount „ vo. Coupons ;',lla.teriala 5 per Cent. -.Cla n n 5 per Cent 1865 1; ..io. Account -0. llaremmana Railway , exican 3 per Cent DO. Account Do 1864 u rio 6 per Cent. Anglo-French— Z e ntevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid New Imperial 5 per Cent " 6.5 %' Granada .., 4 -'0 2 per Cent _ DO Deferred 0 1) 0 Land W arran t s (H ec t ares ) 0 . 6 per Cent, 1864 p 1)0 Guaranteed, 4 per C en t — e rnvian 5 per Cent. 1865 DoDAccount ,° 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) p o " - '° 41 per Cent., 1862 pipese 3 per Cent., 1853 T , ° per Cent, 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 451 D , O. Account mussin 5 1)," 41 per Cent., 1822, £St B7l b 4} per Cent. 1850 D°° 9 Per Cent„ 1860 D° '.. Pez Cent. 1859 D 0 per Cent. 1862 18 8. r a °, 5 . per Cent. 1864 — DO. mn 5 per Cent 1340 ish 3 i D o per Gent D O Account V New Deferred 4-'0 Acco t po un — ~Passive 2 s} Guao A.ccount 'Pal Cert. of Coup not funded — IS w o ° , l ,,ccount l5l D o 4 per Cent. o. 4 1 A und , 5 Per Cent. 1864 D O s 'l 6 per Cent. 1854 bo • 6ecount i) Per Coat 183 8 0 o , Account 4190 Bonds D os 6 per Cent. 1862 ID 4-'0 Account D ° 10 0 Bond s Do 6 per Cent., t 1863 130 5 n " paid Scrip 3 41 3 1 b o per Cent., 1865, up_ D ° Account ir e • 4 Per Cent. Guaranteed • 'lezuela 3 Cent. D O D itto a . per _ account _ 1 , 6 per Cent 1862 •••'0 Account .' De. 1864 _ IL, Dividn the above payable in London. ‘,,,teli 21 per Cent, - P,x. 12 Guil — .ire....,0 } per Cont. Certificates _ I,,lieh Bentes 3 per Cent 1t tenter I , '' J per Cent , 1861, Ex. 25f. - 1 -40 Account . . Ousel s for money TWO - O'CLOCK. 86i 7 Dv, 4"°1111t moitilit t ii iimmiliiipiiiiiiiso 8 7 k SHARE MARKETS.—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. frristol anti Exeter Caledonian Cambrian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall. Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & A b.Jun E.London, .trip Certi.e _ Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk Do. E. Angl. st. No Great North of Scotism Great Northern DJ. A stock Do. B stock Do. New, is. at 25 pm' GtS, and W. of Irelano Gt. Western -Original' Do. S. Val. Rail gua. l Do. South \Vales .... Do. W. Mid.— Oxiordi Do. Newport Do. Hereford Lane!, shire & Yorkshire] LDndon and Blackwalt Lon., & S Coasts Lon., Chat., and Dover' Do. Metrop. Jtx. A Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shef., & Lincol❑ Nietropolitan..... Do. New Do. Extension...... Metropolitan District. Do. do. do. Do. and St. John'sW'd Mid'and Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. Lt Derby Mid Kent North British Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. (I.N•E purch mat Do. Leeds Do. York D. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. & Darling Do. So. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock t)o. Scot, Mid. stack Shropshire Union 'South Devon 'South E,stern ! Staines, Wok., do Wok Taff' Vale Do. C Vale of Meath Waterford Sr Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall Railways. I Paid.' Closing I Business Price. done. BRITISH Atlantic & St. Lawrence Born., Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent... Do. 1' 'shares fsuffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant,& Goderich 6 p.c. 872-3- Calcutta & S. E., lien e Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi East. Ben:al, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. De. .1 Extension Grand Trunkof Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. lst Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Frit Bonus Do. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock . Do. do. deterred . Gt. India Pen. gua. sp.c. 'o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent Do. 41 per cent Do Great Wes. of Canada.. Do. New .. - Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay. 1873 Do. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c D. 41 do Do. 4; do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay N. Rl. C 'da, 6pc Ist pf.bs Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Puniaub....l Do.lndus St Flo; COLONIAL GOVEIt: British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1872.; Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6 g. C. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 g. c. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk Capo G.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.Apl. & Oct 1890-1900 Do. do: 1880-9 , Do. Jan. &July, 1890-9 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April' and I 5 Oct., 1900 - Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.( Do. 1978, do Mauritius, I p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1 , 78 )o. 1882, Mayls, Nov. 1, Do. 1895, Feb. atal • iov. 6 per cent.. N. B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.,t.luly N. 8.19. Gov. 5 p•c., 186 t Do. 5 p.c. 18.1 to 187, Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189! New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... ... Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c. sterling . , 1875 clueensland Gov. 6 p. c 8. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-9 Do 18 - 8 Jr upwards " ViC,tiov. 6 p.c. Ja & July Do. do, b pril & Oct BRITE Cam. Consul. Gold, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Carn Brea East Grenville East Gunnialake East Love,l E. W'i Russell (Tavistk G am. & StA übyn(G wen. Great L ixey, Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy._ G. Wheal Vor (Heist , u Grenville Herod's Foot Hingaton Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley M.wyndy Iron Ore, lira Ne - v Se ton ........ North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Illogan North Wheal Crotty Prosper United.. ... • . Pr,,vidence Uny Lelant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park . Tin Croft 71gra and Clogan, lira West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard West Chiverton West Seton Wheal Bassett (Mogan Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Seton Wheal Trelawney (Lis 89 9t 127 29 55 65 13 15 4 6 67 70 70 72 23 15d1 114 116 40 41 6 7 122 124 1 8 :39 50 57 59 39 41 31 3.1 101 1 02 121 1211 V 6 Vg 27 29 121 1211 921 43 61 63 183 k 134 2 3111. lf,i 92 £5 123 123! 1i 2 93 95 +57 t 8 27 10) 110 71 72 109 110 36 3 10 11 122 121 1 21 1 21) 74 76 108 112 149 151 66 68 49 M 1 751. 761 8 9 140 143 3 6 , 100 103 82 84 .ESSIONS. 64 56 1023 1033 9 } 10 51 76 80 96 98 65 TO 100 102 101 102 1021 1031 23 25 85 87 63 66 55 60 57 59 50 55 42 45 40 41 26 28 25 23 104 1 tOi 1. 2 1 . 2 99 101 91 93 151 15 54 4, 91 PG 83 ,•5 11 01 1 10 101 91 93 86 88 (3 e 5 8 82 99 100 98 99 6 I 97 99 SECUE: 3 95 90 t 4 90 94 7s 80 77 50 102 104 105 107 105 107 102 104 90 ?2 1(2 104 1( 1 8 102 104 104 106 104 (06 1(2 104 100 102 93 95 90 95 87i AlB4 92 95 79 81 98 100 98 100 105 107 103 104 6 7 14 16 s*o 580 1 1 18 20 8 9 l i 41 t I 8 3 31 5 7 21 22 t IL 1 14 25 25 2i 3 38 40 4i 5 4 6 4 4i 2i Itd 34 40 13 15 32 34 375 400 If 2 15 20 4 6 13 15 3 5 1 2 9 724 74 130 140 80 85 20 22 3 5 203 TO 13 15 MINES. YIiEFERENCE SHARES. Great Western Orig. 41 per cent pf., 9CI Gt. Western, Wt. Indland, Oxford 2d guaranteed stook,ll3l LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London and Blackwall, 81 Victoria Station and Pimlico, 1711 FOREIGN RAIL WAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 101 I Dutch Rhenish, 20 Urreat Luxembourg, 141 Ottoman (Smyrna to Atclin), 81 1 FOREIGN MINES. Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 2i St. John del Key, lim., 53 BANKS., Agra and Masterman's, Um., 43} 4 Alliance, lim., 24 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 201 Colonial, 44 Consolidated Bank, Dm., 91 East London, lim.. 41 European Bank, lim., 7/ Elindustan, China, and Japan, ilra., 12 •it o, issued at 2 pm., Ditto, new, 1/ Imperial Bank, 11m., 28/ Imperial Ottoman, 111 Ditto. new, 1 il - Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim.. 4 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 22/ London and County, 77/ London Joint Stock, 474 London and South African, 14 4 London and estminster, etropolitan and Provincial bank, lim., 144 Provincial of Ireland, 85 Union of Ireland, 17 4 Union of London, 53 MISCELLANEOUS. Ceylon Company, Dit:o, A shares, 21 Commercial Union, Insurance, 5; Credit N'oncler and blobilier of England, 61 1 i Ditto, new. 6/ Crystal Palace, 3, Fast Indian Land Credit and Finance, lim., 41 Egyptian Com. and Trading, lam., 34 Fore-street Warehouse, Jim., 12/ Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim.. 4 1 Hudson's Bay, 161 Imperial Land Company ox Marseilles, lim., 1; International Financial society, lim., 411 London Financial Association, Um.. 15, 1 Millwall Freehold Land and Dock, 61 ilwall Iron Works, 14 National Discount Company. 111 Overend, Gurney, and Co., Um., HI 1 Royal Mail Steam, 114 Telegraph Construothn and Maintenance, lim., Ditto:(£l2 ilf 1 i Names and Mersey Marine, Insurance, lim., 71 _ The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 4 per mine pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.15 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of Z 3 I is. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about 2- iGths per cent. dearer iu Paris than in London. By advic.:s from Hamburg the price of gold is 427 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, at about 2-lothe per Cent. dearer in Hamburg than in London. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 186 g. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day). SECONDARIES' COURT. (Before Mr. Secondary Potter and a Special Jury.) THE STAPLEHURST RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-lIEAYY CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION.-BARNES V. THE SOUTH EASTERN RAIL- WAY COMPANY. This was a writ of inquiry sent down from the Court of Queen's Bench, to assess damages, laid at £4,000, sus tained by the plaintiff in the Staplehurst railway accident, defendants having suffered judgment to go by default. Mr. Holt (instructed by;Mr. Pierce, of Giltspur-street) appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Iluddleston, Q.C., repre senting the company. Mr. Holt, having opened the case, called the Miss Barnes, who said that her father was a horse-hair manufacturer, of Farringdon-street, and she was 28 years old. Last year she went to Paris, and upon her return she rode in one of the company's carriages as far as Staple hurst, when an accident occurred to the train. The carriage in which the plaintiff was riding was dashed to pieces. Mr. Ifuddlestone said that the accident was admitted, and it was not necessary to go into all these particulars. The learned Secondary said it might be necessary. Miss Barnes said, in continuation, that when sho was thrown down a lady named White was thrown upon her. Miss White struggled for some time, and finally died while lying on plaintiff. Mr. Huddlestone urged that it was extremely unneces sary to go into all these particulars. No doubt the death of Miss White was a painful circumstance, but it was nothing on this inquiry. Miss Barnes became so much excited upon describing the death of Miss White that some alarm was caused to her friends. She was seated while giving her evidence, which was being continued when this report left. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, -0- MARLBOROUGH-STREET. BASE INGRATITUDE.—DanieI Dzwson, a young man, was charged, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with embezzling several sums of money received on account of his employer, Mr. Thomas Ravenshaw, cheesemonger, No. 2, Berwick street, St. James's. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner was formerly in Mr. Ravenshaw's employ, and discharged for embezzling some money. The prisoner then got into very distressed circumstances, and Mr. Ravenshaw pitying his condition, again took him into his employment, and treated him with great kindness. On the 17th March last the pri soner received some money for goods delivered at Mrs. Justy's, No. 14, Poland-street, and absconded, and nothing more was seen of him till yesterday. Sergeant Cole of the C Division succeeded in taking him into custody at a cheesemonger's shop iu King-street, Long Acre. The case having been proved against the prisoner, Ser geant Cole asked for a remand, Mr. Ravenshaw not being in attendance, and there being several other cases against the prisoner. THAMES. JEALOUSY AND REVENGE.-A very pretty young woman named Ann Knife, the wife of a waterman, was brought before Mr. Paget charged with violently assulting Mary Jane Madison. The complainant, a modest young woman, married, and with one child, said her husband was a stableman, and she lived with him at Loth's-buildings, Upper East Smithfield. Tho prisoner's husband was her cousin. They were on speaking terms, and had occasionally met each other, but no impropriety had ever taken place between them. The prisoner, however, had thought proper to be jealous of her, and made her husband miserable and others very uncom fortable by her violent temper. A few weeks ago, after she had gone to bed, tho prisoner made a forcible entry into her room, made use of the foulest of language, and accused her of incontinence with all the men in the neighbourhood. She then made an attempt to strike her, and her husband got before her and turned her out of the room. Last night she was passing along Queen-street, Tower-hill, when she received a violent blow on the back, which nearly forced her on her face and took her breath way. The prisoner followed up this blow by scratching her face, tearing her hair, and pulling her bonnet off. She was very much injured by the violence inflicted on her. Mrs. Perry, housekeeper at the vestry-house, Tower hill, saw the outrage, which astonished her. The com plainant was crying, and said, " Pray, help mo ; don't let me bo murdered." The people cried out, "Hit her again; you have a key ;" but Mrs. Madison did not use it. Police-sergeant Blackwell, 4 H, said that he was fetched by a person to 2, Queen-street, where he saw the prose cutrix in a state of great distress, and surrounded by 100 persons. Her face was inflamed and her bonnet torn to pieces. The prisoner ran away, and he pursued her into a house and took her into custody. The prisoner, in defence, said the complainant wanted to forsake her own husband and live with her (the pri soner's) husband, and was constantly meeting him, and committing adultery. She then entered into many par ticulars in support of her statement that improper fami liarities existed between her husband and complainant. Mr. Madison said there was not a word of truth in any of the prisoner's statements, except that she met her cousin on Friday night last in the street, while upon an errand, and exchanged a few words with him. Sergeant Blackwell said the complainant was a well conducted and respectable young woman. Mr. Paget said he was perfectly satisfied the jealousy of the complainant by the defendant was unfounded. It was a fancied jealousy, and the prisoner was making herself miserable, her own husband miserable, and injuring the happiness of complainant and her husband by indulging in a rabid passien. Mrs. Madison had behaved very well, and must be protected. He should remand the prisoner for a week, and her husband must attend the next exami nation. He would then determine what punishment he would inflict. The prisoner —Will you take a fine ? Mr. Paget—No, certainly not. ELECTION COMMITTEES —This Day. Extensive Fire at Lady Palmerston's. ROIsISEY, Tuesday Afternoon. A fire of a most destructive character broke out this morning at Broadlands, the well-known resi dence of the late Premier. It appears that, for the purpose of sawing the immense quantity of wood constantly being felled on the Broadlands estate, a steam saw-mill has been erected on the farm in the park, and at this a fire of wood and sawdust is con stantly kept burning. About half-past 9 o'clock this morning, Mr. Waterman, the foreman at the farm, was informed by the labourers that the farm buildings were on fire. An alarm was instantly raised, and the fire-engine belonging to the Broad lands estate, as well as one from Romsey, were soon hurried to the scene. The materials ignited, however, were of such an inflammable nature that the firs had already made considerable progress, and all the efforts of the united firemen were required to keep the flames from extending. Several ricks of hay, a considerable quantity of timber of various descrip tions, and the whole of the out-buildings have been destroyed; but it is hoped the farm house and the labourers' cottages will be saved as well as two or three ricks of hay which were at one time threatened. The damage already done is roughly estimated at from £2,000 to £3,000, and at present (four p.m.) the fire is still raging, though the engines have been vigorously at work all day. The farm is in the occupation of Lady Palmerston, and is within the Broadlands Park, but two or three hundred yards from the hall. The origin of the fire has not yet been definitely ascertained, though it is confidently stated to have arisen from the flue of the engine, where, as we have stated, a fire is constantly kept burning. The flue, it is said, ought to have been covered with iron net work, but this protection had been overlooked. HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return) In the week that ended on Saturday, April 21, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,606 ; the deaths registered 3,403. The annual rate of mor tality was 29 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,161 boys and 1,083 girls, in all 2,244 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1856-65, the average number, corrected for increase of population, was 2,093. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,517. It was the sixteenth week of the year; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,377. The deaths in the present return exceed by 140 the estimated number. Whooping-cough proved fatal to 84 children, the disease being most prevalent in the south districts of the metropolis. 24 deaths were caused by small pox, 50 by measles, 27 by scarlatina, and 48 by typhus. The following •11 deaths were registered in the week as having been caused by carriage accidents : —The son of a compositor, aged 12 years, run over by a cart—died April 13 in Guy's Hospital. The daughter of a shoemaker, aged 9 years, run over by an omnibus—died April 13 in Guy's Hospital. A carman, aged 33 years, pymmia after scalp wound caused by falling from a waggon— died April 9 in St. George's Hospital. A waterman, aged 62 years, run over by a Hansom cab—died March 24 in St. Thomas's Hospital. A dustman, aged 23 years, run over by a cart—died March 24 in St. Thomas's Hospital. The son of a labourer, aged 14 years, run over bya waggon—died Ma rc h 30 in St. Thomas's Hospital. An omnibus con ductor, aged 30 years, fell from an omnibus whilst intoxicated— died April 14 in Paddington Work house. The son of a widow, aged 6 years, run over —died March 3at Roan-street, Greenwich. A ser vant, aged 71 years, run over—died April 13 in Marylebone Workhouse. An Independent minis tsr, aged 53 years, run over; manslaughter—died March 12 in the Royal Free Hospital. The daugh ter of a rag-sorter, aged six years, run over—died on 15th April in the Royal Free Hospital. The annual rate of mortality last week was 26 per 1,000 in London, 25 in Edinburgh, and 32 inDub lin : 27 in Bristol, 28 in Birmingham, 36 in Liver pool, 36 in Manchester, 35 in Salford, 30 in Shef field, 33 in Leeds, 24 in Hull, 29 in Newcastle upon-Tyne, and 36 in Glasgow. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.844 in. The barometrical reading decreased from 30.13 on Sunday to 29.62 on Thursday. The mean tempe rature of the air in the week was 50.8 deg., which is 4.7 deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years. Rain fell to the amount of 0.36 in. MARKETS.---This Day. - o---- _- MARK-LANE. The supply of English wheat on sale here to-day was moderate, and on the whole in fair condition. The best samples moved off steadily, at full prices; but inferior qualities met a slow sale, at late rates. The market was moderately supplied with foreign wheat. There was a fair demand for most descriptions, and prices ruled firm. Floating cargoes of grain moved off steadily, at full prices. Barley, the supply of which was tolerably large, met a slow sale, and prices had a drooping tendency. Malt was in slow request, at late rates. The supply of oats on sale was tolerably large. The trade was steady, at the prices current on Monday. Beans ruled inactive, and prices had a drooping ten- dency. Peas met a slow sale, at late quotations. There was a fair demand for flour, at last week's prices. SHIP ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English and Scotch 1640 520 1090 70 410 Irish Foreign 5,750 4,380 31,570 1340 sks. 2000 bls. COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN. For the week Q e r n s : A lingA v p e i r. April For the corresponding week 14, 1866. l ast year. Qrs. Aver. Wheat 73,215 —44 s 9d Wheat 62,003-39s 7d Barley ..... ....14,817-37s 2dlßarley 22,977-30 s Od Oats WINDSOR. The member of this committee met this morning at the usual hour. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, who stated yesterday at the close of the day that he had concluded his evidence on the part of the sitting members, now proposed to call Mr. Darvel, junior, to disprove the statements made by some of the witnesses as to Mr. Eyckin, who took such an active part in promoting the return of Mr. Labouchere and Sir J. Hoare. The committee considered that such evidence was un necessary. Mr. Sergeant Ballautine, in reply to a question by the chairman, said that there were four hotels, 32 public houses, and 35 beer-houses in Windsor. The learned sergeant then proceeded to comment on the evidence, and contended that the case for the petition had utterly failed, notwithstanding the assertion of the learned counsel on the opposite side in his opening statement that he would establish 140 cases of bribery. Mr. Cooke, Q.C., replied on the whole case. The committee had not given their decision when we went to press. WAKEFIELD. The select committee appointed to try the merits of the petition against the return of Mr. W. IL Leathern re-as sembled this morning at 11 o'clock (Mr. Gregory, chair man). Some additional evidence was adduced to prove that Mr. Hall and other agents of the sitting member had bribed several of the voters, and that the process of sugar ing was carried on to an extent that quite maintained the notoriety which the borough had acquired in 1859, when corrupt practices were established to an extent that led to the suspension of the writ for the return of a member. BRIDGEWATER. This committee reassembled this morning, and some additional evidence was adduced on behalf of the peti tioners, corroborating the witnesses previously examined. The King's County and Northallerton committees also met to-day and proceeded with the evidence. THE BUTCIIER TRADE PROTECTION SOCIETY.--A crowded meeting of the master butchers of the metropolis, convened by the Trade Protection Society, was held las t night in the hall of the Butchers' Company, Eastcheap City, the master of the company (Mr. Richard Hill) pre siding, to consider the recent orders of the Privy Council relative to the movement of cattle. The proceedings lasted upwards of two hours, and all the speakers con curred in condemning the proposal to prohibit the slaughter of cattle in London except at abattoirs as being calculated not only to injure the trade but to be seriously detrimental to the interest of the public. Complaint was made against Mr. Hunt, M.P., for having put forth misrepresentations on the subject, and the chairman, speaking from 40 years' experience, pronounced it to be his opinion that it required a live and a dead market to supply London with meat, while Mr. Morris, who proposed one of the resolutions, estimated that the abolition of private slaughter-houses would have the affect of increasing the cost of meat to the consumer by at the very least one halfpenny a pound. Nor was this all : the poor would be very great sufferers, because what was called the offal would not reach them if the cattle were permanently slaughtered at a central spot or in the coun try, and by the existing prohibitions tripe-dressers had been almost completely deprived of their supplies. Great stress was laid upon the bad state in which dead meat was brought to market, particularly in the summer months, and it was urged that the Paris system was wholly inapplicable to London. A string of resolutions, based upon those views, was proposed and seconded by Messrs. Varly, Fry, Cobb, Woodley, Hillsley, Morris, Gibbetts, Fagay, and Pickworth, and unanimously adopted by the meeting. It was stated that there aro upwards of 1,700 master butchers in the metropolis ; and after the com mittee of their Protection Society had been empowered to take such steps from time to time as they might deem ne cessary for defending the privileges of the trade, the pro ceedings were brought to a close with a vote of thanks to the chairman and the wardens of the company for the use of the hell. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is moderato, and the had() is slow, at the annexed quotations : Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 4d ; mutton, Ss 10d to 5s 6d ; lamb, 6s 4d tb is 4d ; veal, 6s 01 to Gs Od; and pork, 3s 10d to 5s Od per 81bs by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. The amount of business passing in hops is very mode rate. Prices, however, rule firm. THAMES MARINE OFFICERS' TRAINING SHIP.— His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has consented to distribute the prizes to the successful cadets on board the Worcester training ship, lying off Erith, on the 28th inst., after which his Royal Highness will proceed to Wanstead to lay the foundation stone of a new hall for the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum. FIDDLE-MAKING. — Few who see that simple looking toy, out of which such admirable music is drawn, have an idea of its delicate complexity of struc ture. A well-made violin contains more than 50 different pieces of woods, the woods being three : maple, red deal, and ebony. The wood must be thoroughly seasoned, espe cially the red deal ; and the only artist of modern times who is said to counterfeit the works of the great Italian makers, M. Vuillaume, of Paris, has done so mainly by a most careful selection of materials. Many a roof and panel from Swiss chalets have found their way into his work shop. Be the grain ever so good, the material must have undergone the slow action of time. Some have thought to supersede this by the use of acids and by artificial heat. But these expedients, I am assured, have only a short-lived success. The violins thus forced deteriorate steadily : whereas the good instruments become more mellow and precious in sound year by year. It seems agreed that the amount of sonority in the violin partly depends on the flatness or otherwise of its form. How it should bo that no change of any importance has been made since the days of Di Salo and Amati, presents, I repeat, one of the most singular anomalies in that history of anomalies, the lovely art of Music. But the violin is nothing without its bow ; and the perfected bow is an invention dating nearly two centuries later than the perfection of the instru ment which it ;"bids to discourse." Here is a second anomaly. A third is, that the instrument was brought to perfection before any music was produced worth perform ing on it (as wo understand matters). Corelli and Scarlatti were not writing when Amati, and Stradivarius, and Guarnerius were producing their masterpieces, which sufficed to the Paganinis of modern times for the execu tion of their stupendous feats of volubility and brilliancy. In truth, till the beginning of the last century, the music written for the violin was mere child's play—the works of one wonderful man excepted—John Sebastian Bach.— Dickens's "Ale the Year Round," IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HO USE OF COMMONS—THIs DAY. The Deputy Speaker (Mr. DopsoN) took the chair al 12 o'clock. HANAUL T FOREST. Mr. MILL asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Inclosuro Commissioners had finally signed and sealed their award for the inclosure of the newly created common set out for the ratepayers of the parish of Chigwell ? If he was aware that the timber on the fifty acres of recreation ground, granted by Parlia ment in 1862 for the use of the Metropolitan public, was being cut down, thereby destroying the forestal appear ance of the spot, which the intention of the Legislature was to keep unenclosed and preserved in its natural wild ness. And, if the destruction of the timber had been sanctioned by.the Inclosuro Commissioners? Sir G. GREY said the award had not been yet finally scaled and settled, and that of the timber (other than th which belonged to the manor) was being cut down, it was without their knowledge and FELLOWS OF COLLEGES DECLARATION BILL. On the motion for the house going into committee on this bill, Mr..BOUVERIE said, in proceedin; with this bill, it was not his intention to occupy the house for any length of time, as he had fully dee ared the object of the bill, which was to allow those who were not mem bers of the Church of England to become fellows of Cambridge and Oxford. He plainly said his object was to allow Nonconformists to become fellows of colleges ; and the great difficulty that he had to contend with was the position of matters at Cambridge, because there wore some colleges there which, by their statutes, required that all candidates should be called upon to de clare they were members of the Church of England. There were, however, six colleges in Cambridge which did not demand such a rigid declaration, and in that position of matters ho had determined to ask Parliament whether they were willing to repeal the prohibitory statutes, and to declare that conformity to the Liturgy of the Church of England was no longer necessary. He had great hope that, in the event of the house agreeing to his bill, the measure would receive the sanction of the other branch of the Legislature. Mr. 'WALPOLE moved as an amendment that the house go into committee this day six months. [LEFT SITTING.] CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.--Yesterday. CLOSE OF POLL—Four o'CLocK. Gorst 776 Torrens 752 Majority -24 Great excitement in the town. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day, LONDON, April 25.—Wind this day at noon—North. Easterly; blowing a rather strong breeze, and fine weather. LIVERPOOL, April 24.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Jason, from New York; Sofia, screw steamer, from Barcelona. Sailed—Queen:of England, for Shanghai; M'Gregor, for Africa. April 25.—Arrived—City of Paris, steamer, from New York. BRISTOL, April 24.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—The Deme , rara. SOUTHAMPTON, April 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived--Syria, steamer, from Alexandria. CLYDE, April 23.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—Priseilla, from Callao. CARDIFF, April 24.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Urgent, from Buenos Ayres; Anna, from Havannah ; Mary Ann, for Barcelona. SUNDERLAND, April 23.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Nor ham, for Shanghai; Porten, for Now York; Freedom, for Malta. IRY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.' GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, April 25—Bethseda, from Landserona ; Lord Rollo, from Dantzic. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passod, April 24—Armstrong, from London for Boston. Passed, April 25—Cambrian, from London for Jamaica. Liverpool Cotton Market. —This Day. _ - The Market opens with a fair inquiry, and prices favour purchasers. Sales probably 15,000 bales. A meeting was held to-day of the Commercial Bank Corporation of India and the East. The re port stated that the losses on sterling dishonoured bills falling due during the past year have been duly estimated at £123,000, and the directors have written off that sum accordingly. Dur ing the share mania in Bombay last year, the agent, Mr. De Quadros, having involved the bank by imprudent advances to speculators, the chief manager went out in June last to inspect the con dition of that agency. He has only just returned, and estimates losses thus incurred at £89,000. The directors hare written off that sum. In October last intelligence reached the directors that Mr. Newby, who had been appointed by the late Com mercial Bank of India as their agent in San Fran cisco, for the purchase of bullion for remittance to China, had advanced moneys on the security of cer tain shares. On investigation it appeared that a sum of £196,782 10s. 6d. had been lent by him on mining shares, none of which could at present be realised except at a ruinous depreciation. The directors have written off a sum of £118,233, which, in the present uncertain value of these securities, is as much as they think they are warranted in writing off as actually lost. The agents at Bombay and San Francisco have of course been dismissed. In November last the directors received intelli gence of the death of Mr. Wiggins, the bank's manager in the East, and agent at Shanghai. Their new manager reports, upon taking charge of that agency, certain irregular transactions on the part of Mr. Wiggins, partly by purchases of laud, partly by other speculations undertaken, as it is alleged on behalf of the bank, which have resulted in losses amounting to about £53,000. The directors do not of course recognise the liability of the bank to bear those losses ; and they have given directions to recover the amount from Mr. Wiggins' estate, and from the parties who assisted him in these transactions, which they hope to be able to do. The losses from bad debts at that agency have been great, and the directors have written off £38,267, being the amount as estimated. The remainder of the sum written off consists of £5,000 for a bad debt at Hong Kong, and £1,500 for bad debts at Calcutta. The Illoniteur publishes an Imperial decree pro mulgating the Convention relative to the navigation of the Danube, signed at Galatz on the 3d Novem ber, 1865. The Commercio of Oporto announces that the Archiepiscopal Palace at Braga was last week en tirely destroyed by fire. Of its contents scarcely anything was saved, except a few important papers amd the library, which contained above 5,000 volumes. The Abbe Liszt has left Paris for Amsterdam, where he goes to superintend the eighth perform ance of the mass lately given at the Church of Saint-Eustache. The municipal council of Paris has voted a sum of 100,000 fr. as a subscription to the Central Life boat Society, being equal to the cost of a single boat and its appurtenances. The Paris journals some days since announced the sudden death of an old miser in the Avenue du Bel-Air, in whose lodgings securities amounting to many thousands of francs were found. As the name of the deceased was only indicated by the letter the commissary of police of the quar ter and the juge de pair of the 12th arrondisement have been inundated with letters from all parts of France, written by persons whose names have the same initial, all anxious to have a share in the pro perty. To put an end to these applications, the Broil now states that the man's name was Leclere, and his property has been given up to his brother and sister, the only rightful heirs. The examination of the case of the man named Phillipe accused of murdering a woman in the Rue Ville-l'Eveque, and of an attempt of the same nature upon a lady artist in the Rue d'Erfurth, has been brought to a close, and he has been committed for trial, but the case is not expected to come on before the end of May. The journals spoke of 18 or 20 murders which he had committed, but that number appears gieatly exaggerated, as the evidence brought against him tends to the belief of only four and two unsuccess ful attempts. A Lyndhurst correspondent writes to say that the cuckoo was hoard and the blackthorn was seen in blossom at Loperwood, near Lyndhurst, on the 7th inst. White, in his natural history of Svlborne, says that the 7th April is the earliest period the cuckoo's note is heard in Hampshire. 122 133 i 7} 121 20} 1 921 3} :33, 123 } 109} i P 751 t 101 1031 3 1 221 2 104 i 10 ITIES. Miscellaneous American News. THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN THE UNITED STATES. —The New York Citizen says that it is reported that the cattle plague which has ravaged Europa during the past two years has already made its appearance in the United States, though as yet in a somewhat subdued form, the warm weather of spring and summer being required to give the disease its full malignity. The cattle here, it is reported, have not yet begun to die from it in its acute form, and with its usual disgusting symptoms when under full headway ; but the butter they yield is peculiarly offensive and sickening to whomsoever may partake of it in any quantity, emitting a slight but positively loathsome odour, when held to the nose, and likely to cause giddiness, intense depression of spirits, and general lassitude. A Massachusetts Yankee has invented a cotton picking machine which, it is claimed, will do the work of twenty men, gathering cotton as clean as the most expert hand could do it, at distances rang ing f rom s i x i nches to six feet, and taking it only from the bolls which are ripe and well open, leaving the undeveloped pods uninjured, and not harming the plant. A New York letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer, of the 24th, says something of an idea of the extent to which some of the New York dry goods houses have suffered recently can be formed from the fact that a house which started on January Ist, with a capital of $300,000, has just failed; and although the business has been managed by shrewd and ex perienced men, it is found that the original capital has all disappeared, and the. debts of the firm will reach an equal amount. In a recent address in Philadelphia, Rev. H. W. Beecher expressed himself in this w ay :-- " m He en was to free to say we never sent so many good Congress as constituted the present Congress. (Loud and protracted applause.) But there never was a time when so many good and wise men made so poor a bungle. You should not h ave applauded until I had finished. Heretofore the majority of these men had been contestants, and it was fair to suppose they would be novices at making a government after so long a trial at breaking down that made by slavery. The kind and patient Mr. Lincoln was cudgelled and whacked by Congress, and he bore it with a patient spirit, reminding him of some horses who merely act when cudgelled as though it was to brush off flies. When they com menced whacking Mr. Johnson, they found a pair of heels through the dashboard, and they left the waggon and took to the trees and bushes, crying, beast, brute ;' but since then they had cudgelled more carefully." DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE.-The Tribune publishes two further despatches from Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams. In the first the Secretary of State refers to the anticipation on the part of European Governments of retaliatory measures. He then reviewed the grievances of the United States against Great Britain as well calculated to produce an ex pectation of retaliatory measures, but deprecates any intention on the part of the United States to go to war on account of the grievances. More im portant is another despatch of March 1, communi cating to Mr. Adams a copy of a despatch in cypher from a rebel commissary in Canada to Jefferson Davis. It gives an account of the endeavours of the rebel agents in London and Paris to find out on what terms assistance or recognition could be obtained. It seems that these agents were in structed to intimate that an armistice might be concluded between the two belligerent parties in North America, for the purpose of undertaking conjointly a foreign war—for instance, for the ex pulsion of the French from Mexico. The hint was treated in England in the usual unsatisfactory, non-committal manner ; but in France it at once met with the declaration that no such alliance could be permitted; that the Emperor would punish any attempt to enforce the Monroe doctrine, and that if it could be made sure that the Federal Go vernment was pursuing such a course, France would promptly recognise Southern independence. The Syria has arrived at Southampton from Alexandria with £1,988. She left Gibraltar on the 20th inst. BARNED'S BANKING C OMPANY, LIMITED.— The negotiations with reference to the affairs of Barned's Banking Company had not come to any de finite conclusion by the time our parcel was despatched yesterday ; but it was rumoured that an effort would be made to re-organise the bank. In the meantime, as some efforts had been made to place the liquidation of the concern in London hands, a number of resident share holders and depositors have made arrangements to secure the placing of the affairs of the bank for liquidation in the hands of Messrs. Barwood, Banner, and Son, Liver pool, accountants, who are now preparing the balance sheet. A local paper gives the following approximate estimate of the present condition of the affairs of the bank : —Liabilities : On bills in circulation, £1,800,000; on drafts on London and deposits, £1,100,000 ; on acceptances, £500,000; total, £3,400,000. Assets: Cash in hand, £60,000; bills, £2,800,000; loans, £1,000,000; profit and loss, £40,000 ; total, £3,000,000. THE SUSPECTED POISONING AT PONTELAND.— The coroner for the southern division of Northumberland opened an inquest on Monday upon the bodies of the three brothers who aro supposed to have been poisoned. The body of the eldest brother has been exhumed % and the in testines, &c., have been taken for analysis. The only evidence taken was for the purpose of identifying the body which had been taken from the grave, and after that the inquest was adjourned for a week. It is said that the po lice have taken possession of a large number of medicine bottles which were found in the farmhouse occupied by the deceased. THE MORTALITY OF TROOPS IN CHINA.—The committee appointed to inquire into the above subject re sumed their sittings yesterday in the House of Commons ; Col. North in the chair. After the admission of the public the room was ordered to be cleared by the committee. On their readmission the only evidence taken was that of Dr. Snell, who, in answer to the Marquis of Hartington, said he did not consider garrisons which were fitted for Shanghai necessarily fitted for Hong Kong. The room was, by order of the committee, again cleared, and on the public being admitted the committee had adjourned. THAMES ANGLING PRESERVATION SOCIETY.— Yesterday, upon the invitation of Mr. W. H. Whitehead, the committee of this society assembled at the Red Lion, Hampton, to commemorate the fishing arrange ments which had been inaugurated last year. In respond ing to the " Thames Angling Preservation Society," Mr. Ponder said that during the last twelve months they had turned into the Thames from their breeding ponds about 40,000 fish, and during the five years of the operations of the society about the same number had been sent into the stream. The company afterwards proceeded to the fishing ponds at Sunbury, where the breeding -ponds, the boxes, and the other arrangements were brought under notice, and the large specimens of the young fry, which had only been turned in about six weeks, excited great interest. The ponds have been cleared twice during the last 12 Months, and the young fry emptied therefrom, the fish then being considered big enough to take care of them selves. During the five years of the operations of the so ciety it is computed that upwards of 200,000 fish have been put into the river, and it must be satisfactory for the pub lic to know that really decent-sized salmon trout have been seen, and in more than one instance taken. The ac tion of the Thames Conservancy Board has, of course, much benefited the operations of the society, and the ap pointment of paid river keepers, as settled last year, has proved a decided advantage. Still the netting is carried into practice, and the keepers have been obliged to wire the breeding ponds, in order to save the fish from the de predators. The company having viewed the fishing ground, p rocee d e d t o th e res id ence o f M r . G. E. Knig n ;' at the Elm s , H am pt on , w h ere h e i s forming breed ed breeding pond s - for perch and other fish, which will be ultimately turned into the river. A PREACHER ON FIRE.—The Ne w : corre spondent of the Boston Journal sends the fo llowin g —"ln one of the Presbyterianwas f: h u rdles, the ot her Sun daylating with all due de oorum and solemnly. 0 e morning, a minister York onc o he began,to cut up queer n an o ti s c m s, a a ll n a d st s o h n o is r h tl in y e d n i tsAaoplfl a p eLatirseadudfirtoonris.puTblhice pvuielpwil to o ei t n h g e onh tallivsaidsegs,oainngd e the door but shut, the . upp gavo assurances that there was Ero toll w a Smoke ris e excited congregation learnt, after people a clo l s e e e o e n u e l , d bo n x o e t s in e g ule fwrohmerteh ' eanPduiPt : ht * ter was on fire. It seems that he awhile, that the minis carried in his pockets a lot of loose lucifer matches, and they ignited and set him on fire. Assistance came, and the minister (fire) was put out. The service was continued, but the solemnity of the audience was not as marked as on some other occasions." A communication from Saint -Omer (Pas-de- Calais) says :—" Rumours have been in circulation that a camp of reserve was to be formed at Lielfacit. Such is not the case; on the contrary, the military administra tion is about to remove the huts constructed a few years back, and which are now in a very dilapidated condition. The olq camp will be alum preserved," SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. Marco Spada Cutaway "Wild Bee Five ran. BETTING ON THE COURSE. C HESTER, CUP. . 7to 4 agst R e d cap (taken) 4tc 1 agst Delight (taken) sto 1 agst Dalby (taken) 100 to 8 agst Sandal (taken) 15 to 1 agst Baragah (taken) 16 to 1 agst Treasure Trove (taken) 20 to 1 agst Surney (taken freely) Ascot Spring ..,„ 1 Salisbury Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring JTJ Windsor Summer 5 Newton Hampton Odihani 13ibury l3 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 J. Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon Reading Nottingham Down Royal Corp lB I AUG Brighton Brighton Club Lewes Egham Wolverhampton Stockton Oxford Hastings SEPTE. Warwick September 4 Curragh Leicester Doncaster Brecon Canterbu ry 17 Northampton . . OCT( Ncuenw.amgahrk.et 2(10Ciae;::: 8 2 ........ . 16 NOVE Lincoln Liverpool - IRISH RACIN []3Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] CHESTER RACES.—THis DAY. HANDICAP OF 100 SONS. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866. MAY. 3 Epsom 5umm0n.......... 15 Uxbridge Manchester Ascot Summer Liverpool Beverley 2O Ipswich Hungerford Newcastle on-Tyne `l6 Curragh I Worcester .ULY. Stamford l9 Radcliffe 23. Winchester Southampton `44 25 Huntingdon Goodwood 26 31, York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter • ..... Tunbridge 2l Derby Summer 29. Weymouth 3 4 UST. MBER. Richmond Hendon Monmouth Manchester Autumn 2l. Newmarket Ist October t'zs Walsall ,BER. Newmarket Houghton 22 Worcester IBER. Shrewsbury Leamington Hunt l9 L - FIXTURES. IL. API Cork MAY. Curragh 1,2, 3 I Athlone .............. 8 ...... 15 Baldoyle Spring JUNE. Curragh 26, 27, 28, 29 JULY. Carlow SEPTEMBER. Curragh 4, 5, 6 OCTOBER. Curragh l6, 17 la Vissembourg 21 Paris (Summer) 26, 27 'E. Toulouse 24, 28 L Y. Abbeville Le Pin 22 Chalon-sur-Saone ... 22, 23 Saintes 2B, 29 Caen UST. Le Mans Laon l9, 20 Tarbes Blois 26, 28 Baden-Baden 3l :MBER. Paris (Autumn) 23, ao Vincennes FRENCH RAC. Bruxelles 3, 6 Chantilly (Derby) 6, 10, 13 La Marche 2l JU: Vincennes 3 Montaüban J Toulouse St. Omer Rouen Metz B, 9 Amiens AUG Deauville..... 4, .5, 6 Rochefort 5 Bourge5... Valenciennes 13 12, 14 13 1 Moulins Cherbourg l9 ____. SEPTE: Baden-Baden 3, 5, 7 Chantilly OCT Paris 7 Chantilly l4, 18 CG FIXTURES. , BER. LONDON GAZETTE.---Last Evening, - ADMIRALTY, APRIL 17. Commander Thomas Henry Lysaght has been promoted to be Retired Captain, under the provisions of Ihe Orders in Council of Ist August, 1860, 9th Ju1y,1864, and 24th March, 1866, with senority from the 13th inst. APRIL 20. John Sloan, Esq., 31. D., has this day been promoted to the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets on the Retired List. APRIL 21. The undermentioned Sub-Lieutenants and Acting Sub. Lieutenants have been promoted to rank of Lieutenant and Acting Lieutenant respectively in her Majesty's fleet :—Francis Romilly, Edward Albert Liardet, Frede rick Augustus Gardner (Acting), Arthur Stephens Phillpotts, Frederick Ralph C a r r , Fred. Echlin (Acting), Charles Alfred Woodroffe, Charles Saville Broome, St. Vincent Nepean (Acting), Algernon Heber Percy, George Harvey Rainier (Acting), Harry Laur ence Hender son Veitch (A c ti ng ), Gerard Henry Ultred Noel, Robert Henry Paul, Astley Robert Cooper, Edward Seymour Evans, Philip Henry Worgan, Edward Aherne Bolitho, Honourable Archibald Robert Hewitt, John J. Frushard Bell, John James Ava Campbell (Acting). The Rev. George Haynes W. MacDowall has been this day appointed a Chaplain in her Majesty's Fleet. APRIL 23. Herbert Frank Roe, Esq., to be Paymaster in her Ma. jesty's Fleet, with seniority of 13th larcb, 1866. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 161 11 174 Ditto 3 Months. 12 0 12 1 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 421 25 471 Brussels Hamburg Paris Short 25 121 25 20 Ditto 3 Months. 25 371 25 421 Marseilles Frankfort on tho Maine 1194 120/ Vienna — 10 971 11 5 Trieste — 11 0 11 10 Petersburgu - 283- 281 Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples 46} 47 47k 471 25 95 26 5 25 95 `2G 5 25 92 26 5 25 921 26 5 " EUPHONIC NOTES."—It is an old saying that there is nothing new under the sun ; but we cer taiuly think the newly invented "Euphonic Notes" aro as novel to the public as they aro in their construction, and from the very favourable manner in which they have been received, more especially by clergymen and singers, we have not the least doubt the inventor, Mr. Seagrave Algen, will be amply rewarded for producing an article, the object of which is to counteract the debilitating feeling com plained of by speakers and singers after long exercise of the voice, at the same time to give strength and tone to the vocal cords. W e r e f er our rea d ers t o an a dverb in another page, and heartily recommend this invention to all. The body was _ T T h H e E ve l A r i y Y p S a T i E h ll fu lo l U ex S ei p te l o S ie A o r t r a E o A d ßANCE .LT READING. Coley. the the gold tines suspense o ccasioned in the neighbourhood of Reading by the mysterious disr,p pearance on the sth instant of Mr. William Hobbs, who for many years conducted an extensive and valuable practi ce as a solicitor, were allayed yesterday afternoon by the di e _ covert' of that gentleman's body in the Kennett and Axon conveyed C anal which Mr. Hobbs wore when he quitted his h ome, together' - with his gold watch and chain, were up on him. ,witthoina cottage, ttashgoor,tadindstiittn,csrasoffoCuonlde THE OVER -DUE AMERICAN STEADIER. —Between 40 and 50 guineas insurance were paid on Saturday over-due City of Washington, an d io on the h er against Fen ian ca pture. She guineas for insuring hot, 2 30 miles from Sandy Hook, was spoken on the 2d roc kets and blue lights were and later the same night m iles from the Hook. e seen fired from a steamer 330 NEW ACT ON THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—Yesterday the new a c t on the cattle plague was issued, having received the roy a l 11th and 12th vietassent on Monday. It is to amend th e "cap. 107, to prevent the spreading of contagious o r infectious disorders among sheep. cattle, and other ani ma l s. The two acts are to be constructed as one statute. Th e new law the is recite t d t a o ct e a x r t e to be extend to Ireland. The orders made und er and the P r i vy C ounc il may ma k e any ot h er ordersdeemedfo valid, rthe purpose of preventing the spread of these diseases within Great Britain, and may direct the slaughtering of any animals affected. The Privy Council may require any local authority, by themselves or their officers, and may issue any orders to prevent the spreading of the disorders. One-half of the penalties (which are to be recovered in a summary manner) to go to the person who sues or pro ceeds for the same. There is a provision in the act that where any person having any cattle in his possession or keeping within the district of any local authority wherein the cattle plague exists, affixes at the entrance to any build ing or enclosed place in or on which such cattle are kept a notice forbidding persons to enter into or on that building or place without his permission, if any person not having a right of entry, or way into, on, or over that building or place, enters into, ou, or over the same or any part thereof in contravention of the notice, ho shall for every such offence, be liable to a penalty not exceeding .£5. This tl ,W act has immediate operation. Share 20i 10 100 1 ros WO 100 100 all 100 100 2.1.0 29i 2.14.6 3f 2.14.0 8.3.6 3.9.0 10.8.0 all 0.14.0 1f.9.6 8.18.0 8.10.0 5.10.6 18.17.6 4.10.6 4.4.6 2.13.0 7.1.6 10.6.7 3.2.0 18.18.8 35.15.6 IC3I 117 i 6 99) } 103 I