The Sun. — London, England, 1866-03-08 00:00:00

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Notwith standing this decision it is generally considered likely that the reserves of the establishment have been largely strengthened, and that further facilities must soon be offered the commercial classes. The rate in the open market for the best short-dated paper is 6i per cent. At the second ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the East India Land, Credit, and Finance Company, held to-day, a dividend of Bs. per share, free of income tax, was declared. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this date, are in round figures as under:— Great Western ... North Western ... South Western Brighton ... ... Midland .. South Eastern ... Great Northern ... 1866. 1865. ....£64,668 £63,139 102,729 97,362 ... 22,141 19,990 16.346 15,089 ~. 48,433 46,256 • 19,147 17,910 ▪ 33,438 83,421 4ancashire and Yorkshire ... 41,070 33,927 Bristol and Exeter ... 5,823 5,648 North Eastern ... 66,479 58,647 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 19,629 17,320 London, Chatham, and Dover ... 8,030 6,826 These returns, when compared with the corres ponding period of last year, show in most instances a very satisfactory result. On the Great Western there is an increase of £1,529, on the North Western of £5,227, on the South Western of £2,151, on the Brighton of £1,257, on the Midland of £2,177, on the South Eastern of £1,237, on the Great North ern of £l7, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £5,343, on the Bri§tol and Exeter of £175, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and London of £2,307, and on the London, Chatham, and Dover of £1,204. Two O'CLOCK. The anxiety felt respecting the Joint-Stock Dis count Company continues to absorb very general attention. A circular has been issued by the direc tors intimating their intention of convening an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders, and recommending the voluntary winding-up of the company. The shares have been dealt in to day at 10 discount, and as £lO has been Paid up, there is consequently not a margin of profit left to proprietors who are desirous of being rid of the security. The English Funds show Weakness, and also all other stocks in sympathy . with the depreciation in share property. Consols 86 1 for money, and 87/ 4 for the account. The New Threes are 85 and Reduced Annuities, 844 85 1 ; Exchequer Bills, 6s. to 3s. dis. ; Bank of Eng land Stock, 251; and India 5 per Cents., 1024 There is little animation in the Foreign Stock Market, and quotations tend downwards. Turkish 5 per Cents. are 374 38 ; Mexican, 224 4 ; do. New, 20 1 ; Greek, 151 16 ; Spanish Passive, 27/ 1 ; the Certificates, 16/ 4 ; Italian, 614 ; Confede rate Loan, 61 71 ; Brazilian Scrip, 14 2 prem. ; Egyptian Railway Scrip, 4 4 prem. ; and the New Chilian Loan, 21 / prem. United States Govern ment 5-20 Bonds are 704 4 ; Erie Shares, 53f 54 ; and Illinois, 77f 78. In the railway share market there has been /cry little animation, and in some instances prices are a shade flatter. Great Western, Midland, and S outh -Eastern have each declined 55., and Great Northern A Stock £l, while Brighton and North- Western have each improved 10s. The Foreign and . Colonial lines are also flat. . Grand Trunk of Canada have declined to 364. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are very quiet. Alliance have declined to 28 / ; London and County to 771 ; Barned's Bank are dealt in at ; Atlantic Telegraph at 24 4 ; Joint Stock Dis count have declined to 10 04 dis. ; National Dis count Co. to 131 4 ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. to 18 4 1 ; London Financial are quoted 3 24 dis. ; . An glo-American Telegraph Co., 4 prem. ; and Ilnperial Land Co. at Marseilles, 34 34 prem. BRITISX FIINDS—ONA O'GLOCI GOVER N MENT rUNDS. 4 der Cent. Consols - 1 ,DO. Accou n t, Ap r il 5 Per Cent. R e d uce d B5l 11 tw 3 per C en t B5 4 N 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 . 130 . per Cent. Jan. 1873 — oalnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprilBBs — , (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — 44z ehequer Bills, £l,OOO, 3 per Cent. 6 3 dis D £ 5OO — -DO £lOO and £2OO `Jatilt of England Stock, 5 per Cent 411.4kx GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Ind• --.l all Stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 — - 1 -, ° • 5 Per Cent. Oct 1870 ,•''o. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do.l-'O. Certificates Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 5 i Per Cent., May 1879 DO ' Deb., 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN IfiIIIDS—ONIE O'CLOCK. ittgelltine Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd pin Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent — DO. 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 „ Do. 1865 11 0 V Account 731 21 xd p 0 . Scrip, £35 paid pm -11 Do. Account , r , 13 0 £1(0 Bonds —. n i ,' - ', ° 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) D udia.n 6 per Cent 984 0 VO. 44 per Cent — ecleuabian 6 per Cent. — 1 ) 1 , 6 per Ce n t. p aalBll per Cent., 1825 — 4,llubian Principalities °„1-) Account -I,llador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — t 'ie., Provisional Land Warrant — Ptian 7 per Cent 67)0 ~ , Second Issue — °'-' £lOO. Bonds Do 13 0 £lOO 1864 924 bn o Bonds B o - , royern men t Railway Debentures — c iree • •Clo paid LI 5 Per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons .D ° ' 4 -000unt ,-,(:). C oupons tp:uo. Account itTit.tornala 5 per Cent. — b i n all .6 per Cent, 1865 4 `f• Alaremmana Railway e 3 Ce t — po' , c per n 4 count Do 1864 204 ...., 0 6 11 0 Per Cent. Anglo-French — koxitevidean 6 per Cont., £3O paid 1 iec)rish Imperial 5 per Cent DOiv G rail d D° 2 a a per Cent — Deferred D o. °Land Warrants (Hectares) D o uXer Cent, 1864 — Per . ,„‘ - martinteed, 4 per Cent 13 ' Aa r' per Cent., 1865 too. Account 11, ! Per Cent. (Uribarren) — oa l " i per Cent., 1862 ell, n 11, 6 -1 1„ ese 3 per Cent., 1853 D ° , ' Per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 'G2, '3, 11 115, 4 -coount 1) 8 0 ' - , 4 , 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — D 0 ;I, Per Cent. 1850 D o ;3 - per Cent., 1860 L° 7 Per Cent. 1859 , Lo z Per Cent. 1862 ?„,itroi,,u ; Per Cent. 1864 93 'ilk i ,. - .,,tau 5 per Cent D -' 3 Per Cent e Account B ° o 1;10W Deferred — Li ' e e o unt Bo Passiv e — ei,:,..4-, eeount 274 1.) 0 1B P Cert. of Coup not funded — ivedil e eount 164 i 1) '''' 4 Per Cent.— T °' 4 i per Cent. ini ci , r 1864 Dos Per Cent. 1854 — eount — 13 0 A Per Cent. 1858 D 0 - ",. c eont 664 DI) ' l °o Bonds o 6 1) 0 APer Cent. 1862 °1 1) ccount 671 7 'O O 00 6 B 0 5 Per Cent., 1863 ..... Do AP" Cent. 1865, paid up Scrip — )3 'count ' 3B V °' 4 Per etie zu , Cent. Guaranteed — Le l3 itto ela 3 Per Cent. f ; aecouut . 8 0 . A ver Per Cent., . 0 - A me 1862 p B e. PL. Q i : e. t r ul e t ,i l u B t 64 - el • v uleucts on the above payable in London. D lit g a, 41 - -eh ••i 2 Per cent., Ex. 25f. p l uo 1 LP ,, ,,, (`Put., Ex. 12 Gull _ i 'elici t E r ‘ - 'ent. Certificates — Dotkii,n , `enter 3 per Cent. A ' ‘ Poor Cent., 1861. Ex. 25f. ~, "'''e lint • 6ll 1 Co , eoe AlB f o r Money TWO O'CLOCK A, . 86i e_ v l .lllt 874 4 ..................... .$l. SHARE MARKETS,This Day. Share/ Railways. .tiriatol ana Exeter Caledonian Cambrian Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall 93 95 30 132 65 70 13 15 4 6 67 70 70 72 r& üblin & Belfast June. Dun„Perth, & Ab.Junc. London, scrip Certi.i Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Ang,rl. st. No. ? Great North of Scotland Great Northern I Do. A stock Do. B stock 118 12') 38i 39 6) 7i 12} 126 14) If, Do. New, is. at 25 p GtS, and W. of Irclan tt. Westeln -Origina , S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. 19. 83 90 591 GO 60 61 39 ti 3i 38 G 2 1 04 1191 120 87 81 90 9' 38 40 44 48 121 123 92 4 43 63 69 132 23 ni 1 111 97 C 9 Do. Newport . Do. Hereford Lancashire &Yorkshirl Landon and Blackwal Lon., Brigh., & S Coas .Lon., Chat., and Doves Do. Mctrop. Ex. A.. Lon. & North Westeri Lon. & South Wester' Man., Shet., d; Lincoh metropolitan ..... Do. New Do. Extension.... Metropolitan District.' Do do. do. Do. and St. John'sW'd Midland Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. Derby Mid Kent 123 1231 2 21 93 d 5 North British 61 63 Do. Ed., Pth , & Dun Nth. Eastern—Berwiel Do. G.N•E purehas, Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Carlisle ..... Pb. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 ...... Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock DO. Scot, Mid. stack Shropshire Union South Devon South E stern Staines, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C : . Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whitcha West Cornwall ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 1214 i 82 I 132} k 123} i 100 l i P 71 1071 74 it Closing I Business I Pai dil Prize. dune. BRITISH Atlantic & St.l.awrcnce Born., Buroda, Ccn.ln. Du. 5 percent... o. I' 'Shares Buffalo AL Lake Huron Do. Preference BufT Brant& Goderich 6 p. , c. 872-3-1......• • Calcutta & S. E., lim tape Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p' Nast. Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk of Canad a Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Prtf. Bonds. • Do. do. deterred Do. 3d Pref. stook Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock Do. do. deterred .... Gt. India. Pen. gua. 5 p.c. Po. Gua. 5 per cent.. Do. New gtia. 5 p. c Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent D.). 4.1 per cent Do ' Great Wes. of Canada.. Do. New .. Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay 1873 Do. 51 do. pay. 1877-8.• Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.c Do. 4i do Do. 43 do Do. Fifth Extension Melb. Cor. 6 p. c. Bnds. Mel. ic Hudson's Bay N. ttl.C'da, 6pc lstpf.bs Scinde ... ... Do. Delhi d Do. do ci Do. Punjaub Do.lndus COLONIAL GO VEIL: British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31,1572 Can. Gov. 6 July 1877-84 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug.. Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 1 )0. 5 p. C. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk Cape (1.11 - ope, 6 p.c. 1873 Du.Apl.&Oct , 1890-1900 Do. do: 1880-9 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-9 t Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 0ct.,14,00 - Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 P. , Do. 1878, do 51auritius, 1 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. P7B Do. 1882, play 15, Nov. i Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug Natal qov. 6 per cent N. B. G ov. 6 p.c.Ja.&J ul) N. S.W. Gov. 5 Tye., 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 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 18684 Do. 1878 & upwards !Vic,Gov. 6 p.c. la &July Do. do, A pril & Oct BRITI Cain. Consol. U old, Um Chiverton Clifford A malgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drakewalls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Cam Brea avast Grenville East Gunnislake East Loved E. WI Russell (Tavistk G am. & StAubyn(G wen. Gre a t 1. txey, limited.. Great South Tolgus.... Great Wheal Busy. •... Wheal Vor (1101st ‘o G renville Herod's Foot •••• Hingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley Niwyndy Iron Ore, New Se ton North Itoskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crofty Prosper United Providence Uny Lklant S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Tin - Croft Vigra and Clog - an, lim West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Ltakeard West Chi rerton West Seton. Wheal Bassett 41log - an Wheal Buller (Redruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton 111Thea1 Trelawney (Lie, 190 100 100 1 , 0 100 100 H M IT SECU 94 96 93 Sol 95 97 :0 82 73 90 101 103 104 106 104 103 101 103 90 92 101 103 106 1.8 102 104 103 105 103 105 104 106 99 101 93 95 93 95 87i Etz; 100 102 82 84 r 8 100 98 100 104 106 106 1074 NES. 8 9 15 17 560 88) I 1 18 20 7 8 31 41 3i 4 3 3a 5 7 20 21 14 2 3i 4 3C 31 31 31 3i 40 5 7 4 4* 2i 10 35 43 13 15 2.1.0 294 2.11.0 3/ 2.14.0 8.3.4, 3.9.0 10.8.0 4.4.0 2.13.1 7.1.6 10.6.7 11 3.2.0 18„„18.9 35.15.6 9 all 32 34 no 410 2 21 18 22 11 19 20 4 6 4 8 10 75 80 165 175 80 95 25 274' 3 5 2'5 215 161 17i ,ITIES. 95} 5 1071 7 rftEFERENCE Great Eastern, E. Counties Ex., No. 1, 100 Cit. Western. Wt. Midland, Oxford let guaranteed stock, 1211 London and N.Western, Bedford and Cambridge 87 North Eastern, York, 11. and Selby purchase, 101 PREFErtENCE SHARES AND sTOuis.S. Midland A and B £5 pf, 1 3 ruiiEIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, lti Dutch Rhenish, 22 Great Luxembourg, 16i San Paulo, lim., gua. 6 per cent., 16 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetlan,it 6,j 11 FOREIGN MINER. - - - - Australian, 111 Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 8i Cobre Copper, 18 St. John del Rey, lim., 54 Yudanan.utana of S. Australia, Km., I/ DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 74i' BANKS: Bank of British Columbia, 21i Barned's Bank, lira., 94 I Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., Consolidated Bank, lim., English and American, 6} Eng ish Joint Stock, lira., 61 European Bank, lira., 12i Imperial Ottoman, 13} Ditto, new, 12t Lard Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 41 London and River Plate, Ditto, issued at li} pm., • 3 1 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 23 London and W estminster, Midland Bank, Urn., 20 National Provincial of England, Ditto, .d and 3d issue, 451] Provincial of Ireland, 83 Union of Australia, 5 it 21 Union 01 London, 54 31 MISCELLANEOUS. Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. gua., Canada Company, 87 Credit Foncler and 6loloilier ci England, 81 1 Ditto. new, 71 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, lira., 41 Fore-street Warehorise, lira., 101 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim.. 4/ Imperial Mercantile Credit A sso.,ltra., 51 International Financial society, lim., 51 Dalian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 90, 10 Millwall Freehold Land and Dock, 61 National Discount t ompany, 131 1 National Provincial Marine, lim , 1 orth British and Mercantile Insurance, 19 Overend, Gurney, and Co., lim., 18/ Peninsula and Oriental Steam, Ditto, new, 501 The sum of £35,000 was sent into the Bank of England yesterday afternoon. In consequence of some legal difficulties having arisen which prevent the possibility of carrying out the concession obtained by the Naples Public Works Company, the directors have announced their inten tion of returning the deposits in full to the share holders. Messrs. Clench, Smith, and Co., the finan cial agents, will also pay 5 per cent. interest for the time the amounts have been paid. 7 23 109 110 70 72 106 ICB 35 37 104 1161 122 125 1) 21,i 14 2p l 75 77 11 12 148 149 69 71 112 114 51 53 75 76 8 9 141 114 3 I 102 104 51 53 lESSIONS, 5. 6) 99i 100 i id Ip 7. 8 10 11 74 78 96 98 65 70 100 102 100 101 102 101 35 38 87 90 68 70 60 63 62 64 53 50 48 51 44 47 38 40 16 38 107 ICB a 3P 99 100 91 93 17/ lid 33 3k 92 14 84 /6 1 4°l 9 101 90 92 86 88 64 (56 8 82 98i 99} 98 99 a I' l 98 99 ItO 1 91 POSS: Ell 3 2, 37i 6, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1866.1 LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. -- es COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before Sir J. P. Wilde and a Special Jury.) DOW V. DOW AND MACANN. Dr. Deane, Q.C., Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr. Inderwicke, appeared for the petitioner ; and Mr. Murphy for the respondent. The petitioner in this case was a merchant, and he prayed for a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent, who filed no answer. The respondent pleaded denial, misconduct on the part of the petitioner, neglect and want of proper provision for her. The parties, who were both young, were married in May, 1851, and shortly after the petitioner went to Shanghai, where he was engaged in business, and left his wife behind as she was far advanced in pregnancy. About two years afterwards she joined him in Shanghai, where they remained till 1856, when they returned to England. There were five children issue of the marriage, three of whom were living. Mr. John M'Lean, father of the respondent, proved the marriage, and said that at that time the petitioner was about 24 and his daughter something younger. Shortly after the marriage the petitioner went to China, leaving his wife behind him, as she was in the family-way. She followed him in about a year afterwards, and they lived together at Shanghai. His business called witness to Shanghai, and he went to see the parties in 1853 and 1854. He was there between three and four months, and, up to that time, they appeared on excellent terms. In 1857 they returned to England. In 1860 they left for China, but the respondent became so ill at Marseilles that she was obliged to return to England. The petitioner made the respondent a most liberal allowance, but he could not state the amount. He had settled £6OO a year on her on her marriage. She had regular remittances from him. About seven months after her husband's departure she took a house at Birkenhead, and afterwards removed to Rhyl. He knew the respon dent, who was in business, and was connected with a line of steamers running between Birkenhead and Rhyl. Mr. Macann was living at a hotel at Liver pool in 1863, when an explosion took place on the Mersey which rendered his hotel uninhabitable, and he removed to the respondent's house. He remon strated with his daughter, who said that she was old enough to take care of herself. In 1864 she re moved to Rhyl, and went to live in a house there, in which Mr. Macann had an interest. Witness and his wife lived in the house, and Mr. Macann occupied apartments there. The respondent com plained that the house was too large, and he and his wife took a small house, expecting that his daughter would come and live with them, but she remained in the house with Mr. Macann. She afterwards removed to Melbourne Hall, Surbiton, and he and his wife took a small house near her. At that time Mr. Macann was in great difficulties, and the furniture of his daughter was seized in consequence. He remonstrated with his daughter, who was very wroth with him, and he had a row with Mr. Macann. That was about the fall of the year 1864, and Mr. Dow was expected home in the November of that year, and he understood from his daughter that she was going to Paris or Lyons to meet her husband. She left on the 22d November ostensibly for that purpose, but he had never seen her since. Mr. Dow returned, and was first in formed by him of his wife's flight. He iden tified the handwriting of the respondent in a letter addressed to the petitioner, which was written in a most affectionate style, although at the time she was in the family-way by the co respondent. Mr. Borraidaile said that his brother's wife was the sister of the respondent. In January, 1865,, he went at the request of Mr. Dow to Brussels, and was accompanied to the Bellvue Hotel by a Mr. Nasmyth, clerk to the consul at Brussels. He found Mrs. Dow there, and in answer to him she said she expected Mr. Macann in the evening. He did not notice in what condition Mrs. Macann was at the time. He identified a photograph as a like ness of Mr. Macann, and showed it to Mr. Arnold, the proprietor of the hotel. Mr. Nasmyth proved having served the parties with a citation, and Mr. Arnold to their living together as man and wife. Mr. Murphy, at an early stage of the case, said he was not prepared to cross-examine witness or call any evidence on behalf of his client. The jury found for the petitioner on all the issues, and the Court made a decree nisi, with costs, against the co-respondent. ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. MEETING (THIS DAY). At a meeting of the shareholders of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, held this day, the report stated that immediately after the meeting of October, the directors proceeded to issue the 12 per cent. capital, and by means of public subscription, aided by ar rangements with the contractors, the whole amount for executing the work required was provided. Up to that time the board believed, and had been so advised, that an extraordinary meeting of the company had power to confer a first prefer ence upon the 12 per cent, capital, but be fore the negotiations were finally concluded, a case was submitted to eminent counsel, who decided that such a course was not authorised by the company's Acts of Parliament. The direc tors were therefore compelled to abandon this method of raising the money for the present year's expedition, and will consequently return to all sub scribers for the 12 per cent, shares the deposits which they have paid. Subsequent negotiations with the contractors, in conjunction with whom the best legal advice has been taken, have shown that the only way in which the undertaking can be completed this year is by the creation of a new company for carrying out the work, and accordingly the Anglo-American Telegraph Company has been formed, with a capital of £600,000, and such privileges as, it is expected, will cause the shares to be readily taken up. In the constitution of the board of this new company, the Atlantic Telegraph Company has been duly represented, and has entered into a working agree ment, the particulars of which will be submitted for the information of the shareholders in this company at the extraordinary general meeting on the Bth March. The contractors, in anticipation of the subscription of the whole capital of the Anglo-American Company, of which nearly one-half has been already bona fide taken up, are proceed ing with the manufacture of the cable, and the necessary work has also been commenced on board the Great Eastern, so that the expedition may be ready to sail as early in the season as possible. The conviction of all those whose experience gives weight to their opinion upon the matter, remains unchanged as to the almost certainty of success during the ensuing summer, and this conviction is enhanced by the very perfect state in which the submerged cable, and that on board the Great Eastern are found to be at the present time. The report was unanimously agreed to, and the meeting adjourned. Liverpool Cotton Market. —Tlis Day. Market opens strong. Sales probably 12,000 bales or more. THE QUORN lIOUNDS.—The dispute which has arisen among the members of the Quorn hunt, after many attempts at an adjustment of differences, has at last come to a termination, and the master, Mr. Clowes has resolved upon giving up hunting ; and this celebrated pack of fox hounds, which has been kept up for hunting in the county of Leicestershire, is now consigned to Messrs. Tattersall for sale. The pack consisted of 114 fox-hounds. A com mittee of gentlemen has been formed with a view to sustain the hunt, but at present nothing definite is decided upon. THE TELEGRAPH IN IRELAND.—Yesterday, the statute to amend the Telegraph Act, 1863, was issued. The Lord-Lieutenant in Ireland may take posses sion of the telegraph, and use the same for her Majesty. Tho powers in tho act of 18G3 aro vested in the Lord-Lieu tenant, and various sections in the recited act can be used in Ireland, such as the priority of sending messages by the crown and requiring a telegraph to be placed for tho ex clusive use of her Majesty. Compensation is to be given to the company by the crown. Warrants for ono week to bo issued to take possession of the telegraphs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. FROM THE REFORMATORY TO PRISON.—Peter Brush, a boy about 15 years of age, was charged before Mr. Knox with robbing his mother, Mrs. Brush, of No. 4, Tyler-court, Berwick-street, St. James's. The prosecutrix, a respectable-looking woman, said the prisoner was her son, and had been, in con sequence of his dishonesty, at the Feltham Reforma tory, and since he had come home he had been in the constant practice of robbing her, taking every thing he could put his hands on, and so afraid was she of being robbed by him that she had to lie awake of a night to see that he did not rob her. On Monday, as she was going out, and being afraid to leave the prisoner in the place, she told him to go out, and locked the room door, leaving her little girl inside. Instead of the prisoner going out he went down stairs till after she had left the house, and he went and ordered his sister to open the door. The child said she could not, as she had not got the key, and the prisoner then told her to open the window and let down a blanket, and he would tie something at the end of it for her, so that he could pull it up. The child did so, and the prisoner then told h er t o l e t th e bl an k e t drop, and he would throw it up to her. Instead of doing so he made off with it, and was not seen after till that morning, when she found him lying in a dirty coal cellar at the bottom of the house. Anne Brush, a little girl about 8 years of age, corroborated her mother. Henry Witt, 67 C, said the prisoner had once been sent from that Court for a month for being found down the area of Craven Chapel. Mr. Knox said the boy had been at Feltham, and that had done him no good, as he was daily plundering his mother. He should remand him to see what could be done with him. Naval and Military Intelligence. Major-General George Marmaduke Reeves, C. 8., formerly in command of the 99th Regiment, died on Friday last. The deceased was educated at the Royal Military College, entered the army as ensign July 1, 1824, and had been constantly on full-pay until his promotion to the rank of major-general. Among other active service he served throughout the campaign of 1860 in the north of China, com manded the 4th Brigade at the action of Sinho, the taking of Tangku, and storming the nearest North Taku fort, and was wounded severely in three places and slightly in two, but did not quit the field until all the remaining North Forts had surrendered. He commanded the advance from Tientsin, and the 4th Brigade in the actions of the 18th and 23d of August, and surrender of Pekin. The gallant of fiCer, in recognition of his military services, was made a Companion of the Bath in 1861. He had received a medal and clasp for his services in China, and a reward for "distinguished services." The Racoon, 22, screw corvette, Capt. Count Gleichen, with her tender, the Whiting, improved class of wooden gunboat, 60-horse power, Lieut.- Commanding James M. Morris, is under orders to sail immediately from Spithead for Queenstown, Ireland. The Whiting, which has been commis sioned independently of the Racoon as that ship's tender, went out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday on a trial of her new machinery and boilers, under the supervision of the officials of the Portsmouth dockyard factory department and the steam reserve. The Mersey, screw wooden frigate, 3,773 tons, 1,000-horse power, preparing for commission at Portsmouth, yesterday made a first trial of her machinery under steam since her refit in the steam basin at Portsmouth with satisfactory results. The Mersey shares with her sister ship, the Orlando, the honour of being the largest and swiftest of the wooden unarmoured frigates in her Majesty's navy. The Danae, 4, screw sloop, 1,081 tons, 300-horse power, the further construction of which at Ports mouth yard was temporarily suspended some little time since, has been again taken in hand and will now be completed with her new form of fore-body —an entire alteration of her lines from the " dead fiat" forwards, and the substitution of an upright for an infalling stem from above the water-line. By this alteration it would appear that the Admiralty have at length discarded the fanciful theory of the modern school of French naval architecture—the submerged bluff plough-coulter shaped bow, and have allowed their chief constructor, Mr. E. J. Reed, to give the Danae a fore-body more in accord ance with his own ideas. The Supply, 2, iron screw storeship, Staff-Com mander Bawden, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from the Mediterranean, calling at Gib raltar on the 24th of February. A number of naval and marine supernumeraries from ships on the Mediterranean station were brought to England in the Supply, and were transferred to her Majesty's ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, yesterday forenoon, the Supply afterwards sailing from Spit head for Woolwich to •discharge her cargo of old and returned stores. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander James A. R. Dunlop, to the President, vice Mould, promoted to be a re tired captain ; Lieut. Edwin D. Acklom, Lieut. C. Talbot, and Lieut. Chas. J. Vidal, to the Pallas ; Lieut. Edwd. R. Foster, to the Ramon ; Cornelius Fox, master additional, to the Asia, for service in the Mersey ; John J. P. Hitchfield, master, to the Pallas ; James Robertson, master, additional, to the Indus, for service in the Jason ; C. W. M.'Conachy, second master, to the Sharpshooter ; Robt. Creigh ton, surgeon to the Pallas ; Dr. Adam Robertson, assist-surgeon to the Cambridge ; Edward W. Lest, acting-assist.-surgeon, to the Pallas; Alex. Thompson, paymaster, to the Pallas; Matthew Inman, assist.-paymaster, to the Pallas ; George Murray, clerk, to the Pallas ; and Richard S. S. Ross-Lewin, assist-clerk, to the Pallas. The Cattle Plague. __•-_--- LANCASHIRE (SOUTH). The plague spreads rapidly around Bolton and Leigh, and fresh outbreaks are rePorted every day. In Westhoughton, a township lying between Bolton and Wigan, Superintendent Scott visited a farm on Thursday where the disease had not made its ap pearance more than a week. He found that one cow was being dragged dead into a field, two were nearly in the last stage, a bull was lying dead in the corner of the shippon, a fat calf, for which the owner had been offered a day or two previously, was dead on the barn floor, and the remainder of the stock of 17 were beyond recovery. It is nQt to be wondered, therefore, that the disease is spreading in this town ship as well as in many of theadjacent hamlets. In the neighbourhood of Leigh the attacks increased considerably in the last week, rising from 29 to 37, ' and the deaths also increased from 14 to 22. The experiment tried by Mr. Diggle, of West Leigh, of isolating his cattle by sending them down his coal pits, has hitherto proved perfectly successful. In all 26 animals are now provided for in his mines, where they appear quite healthy. The mines are well ventilated, and a temperature of 57 deg. is maintained in the four sheds which have been pre pared. The disease makes no rapid strides around Wigan, but the report for the past week shows that there was no foundation for the hope that it was dying out. In the Wigan Union its chief seat is Hindley, where several farmers have lost the whole of their valuable stocks, in spite of every precaution and the trial of the popular remedy. During the week also it has made its appearance at Golborne, and there has been an outbreak at Latham, near Ormskirk, one of the principal agri cultural centres in the county. The Manchester and Liverpool Agricultural Society, at a special meeting on Monday, did not come to a conclusion as to whether a show should be held this year, but postponed a decision for a couple of months. The district depends in a great measure, now that the Cattle Plague Act has passed, upon Liverpool for meat, and fortunately for the country butchers, the public abattoirs there remove what would otherwise have been a great difficulty, as there is accommoda tion there for slaughtering 9,000 head a week. So far the act does not appear to have caused much in convenience, though the butchers grumble at certain alleged extortionate charges of the railway companies. WESTMINSTER. IMPUDENT ROBBERIES.—James Johnson, a low looking fellow, was charged with stealing an um brella from the person. There was no prosecutor, as he had left town, but a remand was asked for. Henry Gills, 287 B, said at a quarter past one he was on duty in Queen's-row, and heard a cry of " Stop thief !" He saw the prisoner running, with an umbrella in his hand, and stopped him. Prisoner said, " It's only my father running after me, and this is his umbrella." The prosecutor, who was not sober, then came up and gave the prisoner in charge, saying he had snatched it out of his hand. Prisoner then said he put threo gentlemen in a cab, and one of them dropped the umbrella, and he picked it up. At the station he repeated this, but the prosecutor's wife identified the umbrella as her husband's. Prisoner adhered to his statement about the gen tlemen, and he was remanded till Wednesday. Joseph Blake was charged with stealing a sheet. Inspector Morgan, 277 B, met the prisoner at 1 o'clock in the morning with the sheet under his arm, and asked him where he got it. He said he found it in the Ivies in Victcria-street, Westmin ster.. The sheet was. stolen from the leads of Mrs 6, Wilton-place, some time in o ' ner was charged with unlaw ful oe b s e ds t ea h sys ß i p o r rls 's on. Prisoner denied that he had come by it otherwise than he had stated to the constable. . Mr. Arnold remanded him on the charge of felony. Attempted Sale of Damaged Tea.—Remark- able Prosecution• At the Guildhall police-court, yesterday, a sum mons was taken out by the Commissioners of Sewers for the city of London against Messrs. Henry Brown and Thomas Alexander Roberts, auctioneers, carrying on business at No. 22, Throg morton-street, for offering for sale 350,0001b5. of tea, whieh was the salvage recovered from the fire at Beal's-wharf, Tooley-street, and which was unfit for human food. Alderman Stone sat to hear the case. Mr. Baylis, the solicitor to the Commissioners of Sewers, conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Poland (barrister) appeared for the defendants. Mr. Baylis said the tea was offered for sale by the defendants at the Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing-lane, on the 25th of January last, on be half of the fire insurance offices. The trade were in dignant at the quality of the tea, but with that he had nothing to do ; his complaint was that the tea was unwholesoine, and unfit for the food of man, and if he did not prove that, his complaint must drop to the greinict — fle believed that he should prove that it was net only in a bad state, but that in some cases it was stinking, and consequently unfit for the use of man. A long discussion ensued as to whether tea wax " food," within the meaning of the act. Evidence was then given of drawing the samples from Beal's-wharf, and Dr. Letheby said :—I am food analyst for the city of London. On the 23d of January five samples of this tea were brought to me sealed up, and I made a careful examination of them. In the first place, the samples consisted for the most part of very much damaged tea and charcoal--burnt wood. Secondly, I found they were all more or less in a state of putrefaction, the glutinous matter in them Emelling very strongly. Thirdly, I found, upon infusing them in water, that they turned out an infusion that had none of the characteristics of good tea. The description ap plies to all of them. The infusion smelt of putre fying matter. They had little or no taste of tea, and the solution was a pale colour, instead of being a dark colour, as tea usually is, and the strongest matter in the tea was in some instances entirely de composed, so that it gave no discolouration, and in the other cases almost entirely decomposed, so that it gave very little discolouration. I next found that Per 100 grains from 3.4 solid ma tt er t o they 6 .2, h yielded e proportion of good tea being not under 20. I have no hesitation in saying that they are unfit for human consumption. Cross-examined by Mr. Poland—Tea is never coloured with copper, nor coloured at all when it is good. Ordinary green tea is coloured with a kind of clay, with Prussian blue and with turmeric, but they are not deleterious or injurious to health. The good green tea has a great deal of theine which is not found in common green tea. Mr. R. M. Holborn said he was a tea dealer, and his firm had been in business for 90 years. The firm was Holborn and Son. He attended Messrs. Brown and Roberts' sale on Jan. 25, and protested against the sale taking place. lie had had samples drawn from the bulk by his servant. He had examined the teas, and in his opinion thoy were unsound. lie did not call them tea—he called them corrupt matter and dirt. lie said in the public sale room that it stunk, and so it did. He did not think it— he knew it. (Laughter.) lie would neither buy nor sell it, nor deal in it at all. Mr. Poland contended that the defendants could not be convicted by the act the summons was taken u under,as it was an act o bt a i ned by the Com m n Sewers for the Cit y, and had no juris doiicts tii°oners of beyond. There was no expos i ng for sale in the w City, l and the fact of a con t ract b e i ng made there when the goods Were out of the district could not be construed into an offering for sale within the meaning of the act. Mroffer to sell took place in the City, penalties the defendants were liable. said the the Baylis and for After some further discussion, 'The summons was dismissed, the inquiry having lasted nearly four hours. EXETER HALL.—Mr. Santley will appear to morrow night (Friday) in the Sacred Harmonic Society's performance of the " Creation." A TELEGRAPH LINE SIX THOUSAND MILES LONG. —The telegraph has :lately boon extended far up Fraser River, en route for Russia, and is now in working order from New York via San Francisco, to a point 400 miles above Now Westminster, on Fraser River, making in round numbers about 6,000 miles.—Pananza Star. BRITISH CHESS ASSOCIATION.—At a general meeting of the British Chess Association, on Tuesday, !ord Lyttolton in the chair, it was resolved that the pre sident and other officers shall hold .office for two years and be re-eligible ; also that a general committee of not less than 30, and managing committee of IG, shall transact the general bushiecs of theassociation. It was also resolved that a general meeting bo held every year for business and a congress every alternate year. A new theatre is abotit to be erected at Paris, in which the works of Greek and Latin authors will alone be performed—such as those of Euripides, Sophocles, Eschy lus, Terence,:and others. Something like 3,000,000 francs have already been subscribed in shares, and the architect hafi completed his plan for the building. SUFFOLK. Mr. J. Hutton, cattle inspector for the Long Melford district and the borough .of Sudbury, re ports that the rinderpest has again made its appear ance in Glemsford, at the Lodge Farm, occupied by Mr. Morley. There has been no change of stock on that farm for a year, and the plague has not been nearer than the Court Farm, occupied by Mr. Wm. Byford, a mile and a half distant ; and in another direction on the farm of Mr. Goodchild, about two miles distant. The parish has been free from the plague about six weeks, till this outbreak. The last case in the district of 21 parishes occurred a month ago at the farm of Mr. Hanchett, Stanstead, who had all his cows swept off. Mr. Hutton, on the sth inst., found a beast at Mr. Morley's diseased, which was immediately killed and buried, and eight more beasts that had been herded with it were also slaugh tered. Five bullocks and a cow which were herded on the same premises but not in the same stock-yard, have been put into quarantine in a meadow, medi cine administered, and their coats well bathed and rubbed with a disinfecting fluid. A flock 07 sheep, now lambing, have also been isolated and removed from the precincts of the farm build ings. The inspector states that, previous to his appointment, the disease was in the parishes of Glemsford, Melford, and Stanstead, and he has reason to fear that, notwithstanding all precautions used, there is still a dangerous virus lurking in that district, which remains dormant for a time, but every now and then breaks out in different parts. At Sudbury the Town Council have appointed a commissioner under the new Act, who, with Mr. Hutton, the borough inspector, visited on Tuesday all the cow-sheds in the town, examined and branded the cows, and took an account of their value. They found all the mulch cows healthy, and the sheds generally clean and in a satisfactory condition. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—YESTERDAY. The Sri7•Axr.n took the chair at twelve o'clock. ARMS OF VOLUNTFtERS. Major DICKSON, on behalf of Colonel Lindsay, gave notice of his intention to call the attention of the house to the present unprotected stato of the places devoted to the care of the large amount of arms in the possession of rifle volunteers. CIII7RCH RATES BILL. Mr. HARDCAS TLE rose to move the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to abolish the collection of church rates. In introducing the measure the hon. member reviewed the different bills that had been unsuc cessfully submitted to Parliament to deal with the griev ance, and said he had come to the conclusion that the only way of dealing effectively with the matter was to totally abolish church rates. It had been said that the total abolition of church rates would weaken the connexion batween the Church and S tate, but this ho could not admit. As an illustration of his view he asked hon. members whether church cess in Ireland had weakened the Irish Church ? The commuta tion of tithes, ho contended, had not weakened the clergy. Ho was of opinion that the reform of certain arrangements did not as a necessity weaken those arrangements ; on the central y, he believed that reform had tended to strengthen them, and therefore ho could not think that the connection of the Church with the State would in the slightest degree be endangered by the total abolition of church rates. The Dissenters had no desire to interfere with any voluntary fund that m i g ht b e con t r ib u t e d f or th e repair of the Church. As long as church rates existed it was a source of bitterness amongst Churchmen and could information not Dissen ters, and an evil of a social na t ure greater than t h at there (Hear, hear.) H e was i n posses sion of with respe c t t o the collection of church rates that showed thOy were calculated to do the greatest damage to the Church. In one case a poor labourer had had his home nearly all swept away and sold by auc tion because he refused to pay is. 31-d. for church rates. Believing the present system fraught with the greatest evil, he moved the second reading of the bill. Mr. GILPIN seconded the motion. Ile congratulated the house upon the manner in which the seconding read ing had been moved, and also upon the respect and high position of the right hon. gentleman who was that day to lead the opposition (Mr. Walpole). He thought the time had arrived when the Church ought to assent to the pro posal. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Gilpin) was no enemy to the Church of England except to her supremacy. Those with whom.he was associated did not desire toleration — they did not want it. (Hear.) What they required was equality, and that, he contended, was their right. Free men should ask for nothing more—freemen should be con tent with nothing less. He therefore hoped the house would agree to the second reading of the bill. Mr. WALPOLE moved as an amendment that the bill bo read a second time that day six months. If the law was oppressive and unjust, steps could be taken to remedy it without actually repealing the law itself. The last Par liament had come to a resolution that it would not be ex pedient to abolish church rates without providing an equi valent, and that decision, he considered, ought to be respected. He thought the true object of the agitation on the motion was not an amicable settlement of the motion in dispute, but the great aim and object of the Liberation Society, the great promoters of the agitation, was the severance of the con necCion that at present existed between the Church and State. The bill, he considered, was calculated to defeat its intended object, that it would impair the Church and bo productive of the greatest evil rather than the slightest good. He therefore hoped the house would not give its assent to the second reading. Mr. DU CANE seconded the amendment, and, in doing so, remarked that his side of the house had held out the olive branch to the abolitionists until their arms had fairly ached, and all to no purpose. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he did not rise on that occasion to speak on the part of the Go vernment, because it was thought injudicious to bring for ward a measure on this subject without there was some clear view of arriving at a successful conclusion. He there fore spoke as an individual member of the house, and in doing so he must be permitted to say that he had never known a matter so much debated as that now under dis cussion upon which so little legislation had taken place. He deprecated the discussion of the matter as to the theory of Church and State, and he also objected to the intro duction of the question of the franchise being imported into the present complicated question. (Hear, hear.) Ac cording to the speech of the hon. member who had just sat down, his argument came in brief to the following, viz., that the Church was quite safe within the walls of that house as long as they kept the nation out. (Loud laughter.) He thought it hardly creditable to the country, hardly creditable to the Legislature or to the good sense of the house, that such a state of things should have so long existed. He thought that if some plan could be decided on for retaining the machinery of church rates, but rejecting the compulsory power of enforcing them, then a solution of the question might be looked for. (Hear, hear.) He could not vote for the bill of his hon. friend, because its object was the simple abolition of church rates without any other provision ; but he suggested to the hon. gentleman opposite to say, now the door was open, how far they wore prepared to go, and then per haps there would be some hopo of arriving at a satis factory termination of this much-vexed and long- tall:Cd-of subject. kr. B. HOPE suggested to the hon. member, who had moved the second reading, the advisability ot postpon ing his motion in order to ascertain whether some mea sure acceptable to both parties could not be brought for ward. Mr. BRIGHT, said the discussion had shown one thing most conclusively, the church rates could not be main tained upon good and solid argument. The right hon. member for Cambridge University had admitted them to be a tax on Dissenters, and that being so it had been ex pressed in other quarters that a compromise might be made, but he felt certain all compromise was now impossible. Without compromising the prin ciple he thought there might be a way of doing it. For years ago he himself had done pretty much the same as the Chancellor of the Exchequer had done that day, as at that time he made a proposition to the house to get rid of the magistrate, the summons, and the bailiff—in fact getting rid of the compulsory power of collecting church rake. (Hear, hear.) If they agreed to that at the present time, he was certain that in five years hence the churches would be in a good state, if not better than they were at present. (Hear, hear.) The house would •kv this means bo spared the trouble of discussing, as they had had to do for five or six days for the last five and twenty years, this miserable subject of the abolition of church rates. The course he proposed was to read the bill a second time, to allow it to go to committee, and that there it might be so altered that the compulsory powers might be altogether and entirely removed. (Hear, hear.) If this course was adopted, he was certain that an end would be put to those unhappy bickeriugs and heartburn ings which have so long existed. (Hear, hear.) The Church would not be injured, and the ghastly spectre of the Liberation Society would at once be laid. (Laughter.) Mr. G. HARDY said he could not consent to the course proposed by the hon. member for Birmingham. With re spect to the suggestions of the Chancollor of the Exchequer, ho would like to know if the hon. geptlemanwould embody them in a bill, and submit the measure for the approval of Parliament. Ho thought it idle for the right hon. gentle man, holding the distinguished position which he did in the Government and the country, to come forward and say ho made the suggestion merely as an individual member, and not as the organ of her Majesty's Government. Mr. MORLEY said he was quite prepared to accept the suggestion thrown out by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. HARDCAS rLE said he should be inclined to give every consideration to the course that had been proposed, but he did not think that he was the proper person to draw out the resolution. Mr. DISRAELI said the house would do well to know the exact question upon which they were called upon to Tote. The bill was for the total and unconditional repeal of church rates. That was the issue before thorn s , and to that policy he was entirely opposed. The house then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading 285 Against it Majority —33 The bill was then read a second time. [The Chancellor of the Exchequer, as he entered the house with the " ayes" in favour of the bill, WAS received with loud cheers.] were then disposed of, and The other orders of the day the house adjourned. Foreign Mail Packet List MAILS 13T71 Zealand, via Southampton Marseilles Mar. 16 Ditto, via ds by British packet razil and Cape Ver • April 6. Australia and New 2?,. B Ditto, by French packet . ............. Mar. 2 z , C a pe of Good Elope, Ascension, • and St. Helena... .Mar. .24 China hampton ..Mar. 22. Dait t e, n vi an a g k a ar nd sc S ii i i n e g s. a . p . o . r . e . ,..v . i . a . s o u.. ............. man 16 Falkland Islands... Gibraltar, via Southampton . Mar. 6. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 22. Ditto, via Marseilles —.... Mar. 16 India (Bombay), via Southampton.. Mar. 16. Ditto, via Marseilles .. Mar. 10. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 10. Newfoundland ...SI Mar. H Portugal April 6. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... United Btates and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork ... Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Mar. 9. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Feb. 28 Cuba and Mexico Bahamas, via New York. April Q. Bermuda, ditto Mar. '4 West Coast 01 Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffc Mar. 12, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. LIVERPOOL RACES—Tars DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. MOLYNEUX CUP. Reporter Stormeock Frank RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866. MARCH. Liverpool Spring Warwick Spring Doncaster Lewes Spring APRIL. Newmarket Craven 2 I Thirsk in Durham _ _ 2 Epsom Spring ... . - . 12 Blackheath A; Woolwich 2 Cattcrick Bring© Newmarket CA Spring... 16 Liverpool Hunt Cup .20 Abergavonny 5 Lichfield Spring Chelmsford Spring Chester . 21 C arragh ' 21 Ascot Spring 1 Salisbury Bath 8 Harpenden lO York Spring Epsom Suirmer l5 Uxbridge Manchester Ascot Summer Windsor Summer 5 Newton Hampton 7 Odiham Bibury l3 Stockbridge Chelmsford l9 JU Liverpool Beverley . 20 Ipswich Hungerford Newcastle on-Tyne 26 Curragh 26 Worcester 'L Y. Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon Reading Nottingham Down Royal Corp lB Stamford l9 Radcliffe Winchester 24 Southampton 25 Huntingdon Goodwood 3l. Brighton 7 Brighton Club Levres lO E,ghaln l4 Wolverhanapton l4 Stockton Oxford l5 16 Hastings 2l SEPT] Warwick September 4 Curragh Leicester 6 Doncaster Brecon l7 Canterbury lB OCT , Northampton 2 Newmarket 2d October 8 Curragh N 0 VE Lincoln Liverpool UST. York August 2l Plymouth Lichfield Devon and Exeter Tunbridge 2B Dorby Summer 29 Weymouth 3O NBER. Richmond Hendon Monmouth Manchester Autumn 2 I Newmarket Ist October 25 Walsall , 28 IBER. Newmarket Houghton Worcester eIBER. 1 Shrewsbury 1 Leamington Hunt l9 IRISH RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866. APRIL. Tralee MAY. C urragh • 1,2, 3 I Athlond Baldoyle Spring B, 9 ' - • " JUNE. Curragh 26, 27, 28, Y 29 JULY. Carlow SEPTEMBER. Curragh .. 4, 5, G CONTINENTAL RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866. MARCH. La Marche 4, 25 I Vincennes ll, is APRIL. 22 ~ 30 Vincennes Pau 2, 4 Paris (Spring) 2,8, 15, 22, 26, 29 Bordeaux l9, 22, 26, 28 Bruxellea Bruxelles B, 6 Chantilly (Derby) 6, 10, 13 La Marche 2l Vissembourg 2l Paris (Summer) ...... 26,, 27 Vincennes 3 Montaüban JULY. Toulouse St. Omer Rouen Metz B, 9 Saintes 2B, 29 Amiens AUGUST. 4, 5, 6 I Le Mans Rochefort . . 5 I Laon , 20 Bourges... Valenciennes Moulins Cherbourg l9 1 . Toulbuso SEPTEMBER. Badon-Baden 3, 5, 7 I Paris (Autumn) 23, 30 Chantilly OCTOBER.'; Paris - 7 Vincennes Chantilly l4, 18 MARKETS---This Day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Nearly the whole of the supply of beasts on offer in 'to day's market was composed of foreigners, in fair average condition. There were 42 Norfolk beasts on sale, via Yarmouth. They were disposed of at higher prioet—viz„ from 58 10d tb Gs per 81bs. Foreign beasts changed bands at from 5s 211 to 5s 4a per albs, being higher rates compared with Monday. Sheep were in short supply and sluggish request, on former terms. In calves very little was pass ing, at full prices. Pigs were a dull sale, but not cheaper. Thirty-five foreign beasts were seized at the wharf this morning. The Aberdeen boats is expected to arrive with about 200 beasts for Monday. It is stated that beasts for slaughter can be moved in any part of Norfolk. Per 81b to sink the offal. s d s d s ds d Crse. & inf. beasts... 4 4 4 8 Pine crs-wool sheep 5 10 6 4 Second quality do ..4 10 5 2 Prime S'thdown 00.8 6 610 Prime large oxen ..5 4 5 8 La.ge coarse calvcs.s 8 6 2 Prime Scots, &c.... 5 10 a 0 Prime small d0......6 4 6 8 Crse. and inf. st,eep.f 2 4 10 Large hogs ...4 t , 4 Second quauty u,, ..3 0 3 8 porkers ...... 4 8 5 U . _ Od to 0. ud, Suckling calves, —s to —6 ; and quarter-old s tore pigs, ',;vs to 333 each. Howl of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 650 Beasts .....• Cows Sheep 3,700 Sheep 2 2 0 Calves 5O ea Yes LO Pigs • •••• 220 Pigs LU MEAT MARKETS. an d pork, 3s 10c1 to 5s 2d per 81b by the car ease. terms. Beef, rdemL:AnDdEitisllßALLteaci—y on nhe higher supply of b e o i s flrinioNmitEe;4:BaAdn.rdtEothAsB Od ; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 6d ; veal, 4s 6d to 5s 8d; HAY. SnirrnnELD.—Meaclow hay, £1 4s to £5 15s; clover, £5 5s to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 .to£2 4s per load. A fair demand. • . CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £slss Od; clover. £5 8s to £6 1.5 s Od; and straw, £2 Os to .£2 5s por load, Supply moderate. WHITECRAPEL—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 15s; olovor, £5 5s to £6 17s 6d ; and s t raw , £1 16s to £2 4s per load. A moderate inquiry. We understand that the first returns of the inspectors appointed under the Cattle Diseases Prevention Act, 1866, for the county of Middlesex, for the week end ing March 3 (exclusive of that part of it within the limits of the Metropolis Local Management Act) showa total slough_ ter of nine cattle only. Of these eight were slaughtered at Colebrook and one a Spring-grove. We trust, therefore, that the plague is now confinedwithin narr owllmtts in this county. CHINESE PIRATES AGAIN.—HOI,,TGICONG, Jan. 29. —The Jeannet Joseph, French brig, Castro, hence Jan.l6 for Shanghai, put back on the following day, having been attacked by pirates, who killed two of the crew and plun dered t j h a e n v . e 2 s o s 7 e f l 0 . r T isT h a e g A a s h a n k a i , , American o s n c h t o h o o n e 2 ILE , ridge, been attac ked and plundered by pirates the previous day. Green robes, it appears, are now very much the n le t he arn c n o o n t t w ile i n th L out Th so e m c e ha d rin e rineogof wearers, alai.m, how-thatv P efas r e o h L io s ln s v o il r ol Masclika and D r . L erc k , o f Prague, g have analysed a green dress, which Was recently worn at a ball in Vienna, and discovered in the 36 metres of which it was d compose no less than two ounces of arsenic. DORMANT AND ATTAINTED PEERAGES.—SeveraI of the most ancient and historic of our peerage dig nities are under attainder ; otherwise the Earl of Stam ford would be Marquis of Dorset ; the Duke of Buc cleuch, Duke of Monmouth ; the Earl of Abergavenny, Earl of Westmoreland ; Captain Charles Stanuard Eus tace, Viscount Baltinglass ; and Mr. Marmion Ferrors, of Baddesley Clinton, might prove his right to be Earl of Derby by a creation older than that of the Stanleys. In course of time it may fairly bo anticipated that these attainders will be reversed, and that other extinct or dormant titles may be restored to the extant peerage. The earldom of Wiltes has a collateral heir male in Mr. Scrope, of Danby, the male representative of the house of &Tope ; and the barony of Scrope of Bolton appears to belong to Mr. Henry James Jones, heir general of the same illustri ous race ; Mr. Lowndes, of Chesham, and 3fr. Selby- Lowndes, of Whaddon, are co-heirs to the baronies of Montacute and Monthermer ; Sir B. W. Bridges, in all pro bability, is entitled to the barony of Fitz-Walter; Lord Dufferin is undoubtedly the senior heir of the Earls of Clanbmssill ; Col. Komoys-Tynte has established his co heirship to the barony o f Wharton ; Mr. Anstruth er - Thomson, of Charleton, county of Fife, is heir general of the St. Clairs, Earls of Orkney and Lords Sinclair; a Dillon is unquestionably in existence, the rightful Earl of Roscommon ; and a Fitz Patrick, who_ ought to be Lord Upper Ossory ; and Mr. O'Neill, of Shanes Castle, is the heir general of the Lords O'Neill, as well as the possessor of their wide-spread estate.--Sir Bernard Burke's Dormant and Exttnet Peeraue. AUG 2.0 i 10 100 I 100 XOO 100 all 100 100 100 100 2 100 100 105} 11 lul 1 li I IP I I