The Sun. — London, England, 1866-04-09 00:00:00

XONEYXARKET AND COMMERCIAL tNTELLIGENCES., TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market is well supplied with float ing capital, but the quotations show a firmer ten dency. In exceptional cases 51 per cent. is taken, but generally 58 per cent. is the rate for first-class bills. A little apprehension is apparent in dis count circles, owing to the failures -in the Spanish Greek trades, the particulars of which are given below. The suspension has been announced of Messrs. Pinto, Perez, and Co., merchants in the Spanish trade . ; also that of Mr. M. E. Mavrogordata, an insurance broker. The liabilities in either case are not known, th oug h i n t h e case of Messrs. Tinto, Perez, and Co., it is supposed they will be con siderable. The sum of £15,000 was.sent into the Bank of England on Saturday afternoon. An interim dividend for the half-year ending the 31st December has been declared by the Conti nental Union Gas Company at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, payable on the 16th inst. The letters of allotment for the second issue of shares in Reuter's Telegram Company have been posted. The advices from the manufacturing districtsfor the past week state that operations in most depart ments of business have been on a limited scale, con sequent upon the observance of tha Easter Holi days. Cloths and yarns at Manchester have again been at reduced rates, owing to the large importa tion of cotton into Liverpool. The woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield, has con tinued dull, while at Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton, there has been little change of importance. Two O'CLOCK. According to Reuter's telegram, this morning, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 67!. 64c. The English Stock Market has been somewhat depressed to-day, owing to absence of business, prodhced by the uncertainty of affairs on the Con tinent. A deline of 1 per cent. was recorded in Consols during the morning, but subsequently a partial reaction occurred, and the latest quotations are 861 f for money, and 861 for the account. The New Threes are 8411, and Reduced Annuities, 8411; New 21 Bank of England Stock, 245 ; India 5 per Cents., 1021 1. The market for Foreign Stocks has been very heavy. Turkish 5 per Cents., 36 1; do. New, 181 ; Mexican, 201 1 ; Greek, 131 14 ; Spanish Passive, 26/ 27 ; the Certificates, 161 i ; Italian 56 1 ; Confederate Loan, 6 7 ; Chilian Loan, / 11 prem. ; Baazilian Loan, 21 2 dis. ; Egyptian Railway Loan, 11 11 dis. ; and the New Egyptian Loan, 14 prem. ; United States Government 5-20 Bonds are 711 72 ; Erie shares, 541 1 ; and Illinois, 801 _ _ Business in the Railway Share. Market has been dull, and prices generally are depressed. Lanca shire and Yorkshire, North Western, and South Eastern have each receded 10s., and Great Western, Metropolitan, and Midland each ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines show little varia tion of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are dull 'at barely previous rates. Chartered of India, Aus tralia, and China have declined to 22 ; Oriental Bank Corporation to 471 ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England are quoted 71 71 ; Imperial Mercantile Credit, 21 4 ; National Discount Co., 131 and 0 verend, Gurney, and Co., 161 j. The Pasha of Egypt New Loan is quoted 1 1i .prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Do. Account, May 9 B6l 14 I 8 per Cent. Reduced B4i I New 3 per Cent B4l * I New 2/ per Cent. Jan. 1894 6B Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 y rs, exp i re s t h April,"lBBs — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £1,000,3 per Cent. March. June. Do. 4500 Do £lOO and £2OO Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent Do Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Indian Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 — De. Account 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 1)0. 51 per Cent., May 1879 Do. Deb., 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 Do. Bonds, £l,OOO — Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent., £l5 pd pm Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 44 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Do. 1863 Do. 1865 — Do Account 721 1 / Do. Scrip, .£45 paid Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Do .£ICO Bonds Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Chilian 6 per Cent Do Scrip, £25 paid Do. 44 per C en t — Colombian 6 per Cent. Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per C en t. , 1825 — Danubian Principalities Do. A ccoun t Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent... Do., Provisional Land Warrant Egyptian 7 per Cent Do., Se con d I ssue — Do £lOO Bonds Do. 1864 874 81 74 Do £lOO Bonds Do. Government Railway Debentures 9O 891 Do. .L 25 paid Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do Account 134 Do. Coupons Guatemala 5 per Cent. Italian 5 per Cent 1865 Do. Acc oun t Do. Maremmana Railway — Mexican 3 per Cent Do. Ac coun t Do 1864 lBl De 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — Alontevidean 6 per Cent., £3O paid Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada — Do 2 per Cent 324 Do Deferred . i ., Do Land W arran t s (H ec t ares ) " 0 - 6 per Cent, 1864 — Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent - Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 44 per Cent., 1862 Do. Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, Do. Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 44 per Cent. 1850 Do 44 per Cent., 1860 .Do 3 per C en t . 1859 -- Do 5 per Cent. 1862 Do 5 pe r C en t . 1864 92 14 Sardinian 5 per Cent Do. Account Spanish 3 per Cent Do Account Do New Deferred Do Account Do P ass i ve — Do Account 264 7 64 Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Do Account 164 Swedish per Cent. Do, 41. 4 per Cent. 1864 Turkish-6 per Cent. 1854 Do Account 9l Po 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account 65 4 Do £lOO Bonds 72 Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account Do £lOO B on d s 671 64 D0 G per C ent.,1863 6Bl 9 84 71 Do 5 per Cent., 1865, paid up Scrip — Do Account .. .......... . Do. 4 per Cent. Guarante. ... *************** Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do 6 per Cent., 1862 ................................. --__ Do Account ..................................... Do. 1861 .. ......................... 33 4 Do. 14 per C en t ............................. Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins ... .Belgian 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 2i per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil F each 1 per Cent. Certificates — Routes 3 per Cent. Do Acco er . . Italian 5 p Cent lB6l, Ex. 25f. unt 56 THREE O'CLOCK . Con sols for money 80. Account B6l The d ay for sending in plans for the Courts o. Justice competition will be the 13th of October next. SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share' Railways. f w d. ! Closing I Business Price. done. Brlstol an, d Exeter . Caledonian Cambrian . Cork and Bandon Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & Ab.Junc E. London, scrip Certi 90 9.! 27 128 55 65 13 15 1 6 67 70 70 72 90 1271 8 Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. att. 2) 15 118 123 40 41 6 7 Do. E. An ;1. st. No. 2 1 Great North of Scotland. Great Northern DJ. A stock Do. B stock 121 123 118 140 Do. New, is. at 25 pu. Gt S. and W. of Ireland Gt. Western -Original Do. S. Val. Rail gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford PO 92 69 60 53 50 40 12 34 33 10) , 02 1%0 /22 Lane %shire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover 91 06 34 36 43 15 121 122 92 13 63 61 133 1,1.'5 2/- 1 94 96 Doi MetrOp. Ex. A I Lon. & North Western Lou. kSouth Western Man., Shet., do Lincoln Metropolitan Do. New Do. Extension.... Metropolitan District. Do do. do. Do. and St. John'sW'di Midland Do. £9 Share 123 int 11 lac 93 *o Do, Birmin.. & Derby Bid Kent • North British Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do. U.N•E purchase Do. Leeds Do. York Dc. Carlisle ...... 67 19 • 6 27 109 110 71 72 109 110 Pb. Stook. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 , _ 35 37 1 to 11 p 122 124 1f 2p li 2p 73 75 108 112 150 152 67 70 112 114 Do. do. 1865 North Staffordshire ' N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Ctntral Scot. N. E , Aber. stock Do. Scot, Mid. st ick Shropshire Union South Devon iouth Ristern Statues, Wok., & Wok Taff' Vale 50 5' 71 75 8 9 190 143 3 41 100 102 Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha West Cornwall St 53 BRITISH Atlantic & S t.Lawrence Bom.,Baroda. Cen.ln. Dm 5 per ce n t o. F 'shares . .. Buffalo & Lake Huron Do. Preference Buff.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.o. Calcutta & S. E., Rm 'ape Town & Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p East. Bengal, gm ' 5 do east Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension Grand Trunk 01 Canad a Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pref. Bonds 1 Do. do. deterred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stock .. Do. do. deterred .... Gt. India Pen. gue. sp.c, I 'o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. o Gt. South of India gua. 5 per cent D.‘. 4f per cent.... Do Great Wen. of Canada.. Do. New .-. Do. 6 p. c. Bds. pay 1873 Do. 50 do. pay. 1877-8.. 1 Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do _ _ Do. 4; do Do. Fifth Extension nelb. Cor. 6 p. c. Buds. Mel. & Hudson's Bay N. Rl.C'da, 6pc let pf.bs &Ind° . 1 Do. Delhi Do. do . 1 7' 3 6. Do. Puniaub.... Do.lndus 82 d 1221 11 13 . 126 i 120 Olt 54 5 4 12 't 924 3 611 3 :3.3i 4 31, 0; 91 I I iESSIONS. Ss 60 102 103 P iv 61 7 10 11 76 80 96 98 65 : 0 100 102 101 102 It 3 104 30 32 88 90 65 67 55 60 59 61 50 55 45 49 42 45 30 33 20 33 109 110 1i 2 p 2 99 100 91 93 16 17 3/ St eo 86 68 1 hd 99 100 9 93 66 88 654 8 , 82 99 100 98 99 93 99 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECU British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872 Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-S4 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 130. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk Cape (*.Hope, 6 p.c. 1873 Do.AplAtOct 1890-1900 Do. do: 1880-9. Do. Jan.eauly, 1890-91 Do.ls , per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 Ceylon, Nov. 1868, 6 p.( Do. 1878, do Mauritius, 6 p. c, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1,e78 Do. 188?, May 15, Nov. if Do. 1805, Feb. At Aug Natal qov. o per cent N.B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&J uly N. S.W. Gov. 5 /311,1866 Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1870 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189 z New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent.... Nova &Ala Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c. 5. Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vio,Gov. 6 p.c.Ja &July Do. do, A pril & Oct 190 100 100 1( 0 100 100 92 91 £0 t 4 90 94 7i 80 78 10 102 10 , 1 105 107 105 107 102 IC4 90 22 1 , -2 104 100 1 8 102 104 101 106 IC4 106 1(2 504 lOU lOZ 03 95 90 95 .876 st 3; 9t 95 79 81 V 8 100 98 100 105 107 103 101 _lo3} 4 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cam. Consol. Gold, lira 1 - - Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated 3O 14 16 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist 1 5(0 581 Drakewalls 2.1.0 1 1 East Bassett (Illogan) 291 2 t 23 East Caradon 2.14.6 8 9 9 East Cam Brea 3l 31 4} 31- - East Grenville 2.14.0 31 4 East Gunnislake . 8.3.6 } 1 East Lovell 3.9.0 7 9 E. W'l Russell (Tavistk 10.8.1 3 31 Gam.& StAubyn(G - ACII . 66 5 7 4 Great L•ixey, limited all 20 21 Great South Tolgus 0.14.6 1 14 Great Wheal Busy 14.9.6 1 11 G. Wheal Vor (Heist ,n 40 26 27 Grenville 8.18.0 3} Sf Herod's Foot . 8.10.0 38 40 Elingston Downs 5.10.6 41 5 Margaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 4 6 Marke Valley 4.10.6 4 41 4 11wyndy Iron Ore, Btu 21 21 I,d New Sewn - North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett(lllogan 4.4.0 i 1 North Wheal Crotty Prosper ITnited 7.1.6 Pr ,videnee Uuy Lwlant 10.6.7 32 34 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) ll 390 410 South Condurrow 3.2.0 1 2 S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 15 20 -- Stray Park 35 15.6 9 11 Tin Croft 9 14 16 5 Vigra and Clogan, lira,. all 4 6 West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Ltskeard 9 8 10 West Chiverton ll 75 80 165 175 West Seton 471 Wheal Bassett (Mogan 54 25 821 871 Wheal Buller (lted ru th 16 271 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 3 5 Wheal Seton -- Wheal Trelawney a,lB. 7 14 16 PILE FERENCLE Great vorthern, 5 per cent., 111 Great Western, 5 per cent., rd. pf., 160 1 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton. &c., 5 per cent., 1865, 101 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London and Blackwall, 87i ;FOREIGN RAILWAYB. Bahia and San Francisco, gua. 7 per cent., 151 Great Luxembourg, 15 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 8 Sambre and Meuse, 8i FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper, 11m., 111 Don Pedro, Nor h Del Rey, e St. John dcl Itey, lim., 53 4 BANKS. Anglo Austrian, C 4 Australasia. 70 } Charles Laffitte and Co , 8} Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China. 22 Chartered bier. of India, London, and China, 45 Consolidated Bank, hro., 91 Imperial Ottoman, lit a Ditto, new, it} London Bank of Alexis° and S. America, lirn., 14 London and County, 77 I London Joint Stock, 47; London and 11 estminster, 96 Oriental Bank Corporation. 49 7} Standard of British South Africa, Ditto, new, St Union ot.London, 521 MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Mort. Land and Finance, lim„ 51. Colonial, Urn., 33 Company of African Merchants, lim., 33 Continental Union Gas, llm., 9 Credit Fonder and Mobilier of England, 7 3 Discount Corporation, 83 Ebbw Vale, 173 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 43 3 Hudson's Bay, 161 Imperial Mercantile Credit Asso., lim., 2 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, issued 81 Land Securities, lim., 3k London Financial Association, lim ,:163 London General Omnibus Company, lim, 23 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, lira., 13 Millman Freehold Land and Dock, 7 Natal Land and Colonizati.n Co., lim., 23 National Discount t,ompany, 133 Ditto, new, O 3 Ocean Marine Insurance), 213 Ottoman Financial Association, Um., 6 Overend, Gurney, and Co., 1im.,;i63 Mrs. W. E. Gladstone has issued invitations for an assembly on Wednesday, the 18th inst., at the family residence on Carlton-house-terrace. SERIOUS EXPLOSION IN ABERDEEN.—On Thurs day afternoOn an explosion, attended with serious conse quences, occurred at a lucifer-match manufactory in Aber deen. The cause is supposed to have been the ignition of gas, which is believed to have accumulated in an under ground drain. The benches were torn from their places and broken, while a part of the roof of the workshop was blown off. Four girls employed at the manufactory sustained severe injuries, and had to bo removed to the infirmary. 109 1 FOSS: ,ITI ES. TilE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1860. MARKETS.—This Day. MARK-LANE. The trade for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday was firmer, and, in some instances, prices ad vanced ls. per qr. Barley ruled firm, at fully late rates. For oats, beans, and peas, the trade was steady ; but the flour trade ruled quiet. On the Continent, the wheat trade is very quiet, at about stationary prices. Spring corn is steady in value. At New York, the business doing in wheat and flour for ex port is small. The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week were but moderate. The imports consisted of 17,948 quar tors of wheat, 9,899 barley, 32,327 oats, 769 beans, 113 tares, 2,924 linseed, 10,022 rapeseed, 1,440 maize, and 2,198 sacks of flour. Fresh up to our market to-day the arrivals of home grown wheat was moderate, but tho condition of the pro duce was very middling. The few dry samples on the stands were purchased somewhat readily, at fully late rates. As regards damp qualities the trade was slow, but factors were firm in their demands, and last Monday's currency was supported. The market was moderately supplied with foreign wheat In most descriptions about an average business was trans acted, and prices ruled firm. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair demand, at ful currencies. Barley was in somewhat increased supply, chiefly as re gards foreign qualities. The trade ruled heavy, at a de cline of ls. to 2s. por quarter. Malt was in short request ; nevertheless, paices ruled firm. The supply of oats on sale was tolerably large. For most qualities there was a moderate demand, at last Mon day's currency. Beans were in fair supply, and the trade was slow, at a decline in prices of ls. per quarter. Peas moved off slowly, at late rates. The supply on offer was only moderate. The flour trade was quiet, at the prices of Monday last, CURRENCY PER IMP. MEASURE. Wheat--Essex and Kent, red, new, per qr. 39s to 46s Do., old 46s 51s Do., white, old • s..>s bs Do., new Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s —s Do., new - s Talavera, new s2s 60s Rye— Barley—Grinding Malting 36s 43s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk Brown Kingstown and War• Chevalier 66s 67. Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 21s 28s Potato _ _ _ Youghal and Cork, black 213 27s Cork, white 23s 28s Scotch, Feeding 228 27s Beans—Tick 395 42s Pigeons ... 46s 505 Peas—Grey, Maple White Boilers Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b 435 465 Suffolk - Stockton and Norfolk American, per barrel French, per sack 3 4s 385 METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The snpply of foreign beasts here to-day was limited ;of foreign sheep tolerably good. In the quality of the stock, however, there was no improvement. With English beasts the market was very scantily sup plied. From Scotland the receipts were very moderate— viz., 64 Scots and crosses from Dundee, and 199 from Aberdeen. The show from Ireland was limited. All breeds of boasts sold briskly, at an advance in the quotations com pared with Monday last of from 6d to 8d per Blbs. The best Scots and crosses sold at 5s 8d per Sibs. The — attendance of butchers from Liverpool, Birming ham, and Manchester was large. The purchases of sheep, chiefly woolled, were extensive for those markets ; hence, the mutton trade was active, at very high rates. The best Downs and half-breds in the wool sold at 7s to 7s 4d per Blbs. For clipped sheep the demand was quiet, but firm, on rather higher terms. Downs and half-breds realise 5s 4d to 5s 6d per 81bs. • The supply of lambs was only moderate. The demand was steady, at from 8s to 9s per 81bs. There were no calves in the market. Prices, therefore, were nominal. Pigs commanded more attention, and the quotations had an upward tendency. Per 81b to sink the offal. adsd acted Crse. dc inf. beasts... 4 4 4 8 Pine crs-wool sheep 6 4 6 8 Second quality do ..4 10 5 0 Prime 6'thdown a 0.7 0 7 4 Prime large oxen ..5 2 5 4 Large coarse calves.° 0 0 0 Prime Scots, &c.... 5 6 5 8 Prime small d0......0 0 0 0 Crse. and int. sheep. 4 6 5 0 Large hogs ...4 4 4 10 Second quality do ..5 2 6 0 Small porkers 5 0 5 4 Lamb t;'s Od to 9s Od. Suckling calves, —a to —s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 30s ) 3is each. Head of stock op. sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 1,230 I Beasts 913 Cows — Cows . .. - Sheep Calves — Calves ...... ... eigs 540 Wigs The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 4,957 head. In the corresponding week in 1865, we received 7,234; in 1864, 4,316 ; in 1863, 8,403 ; in 1862, 2,771 ; and in 1861, 2,615. - IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Antwerp Boulogne 237 ... 204 82 Bremen ... 198 ... ... ... Gothenburg...... 325 ... ... Cadiz lB Calais.. l3 ... 17 2 ... 31 Corunna — Dordt. Dunkirk Delfzyh. Hamburg 314 1224 Harlingen — ... Havre Ostend — Oporto Rotterdam — ••• eel. ..... -. ••• -. ••• ....... ••• - '''' ... 4 ... 4 ... --- - ... 56 Total l,lOB 3,639 4 37 ... 169 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1865 1864 1172 2171 1 ... 256 716 1863 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, April 10, 1865, and this day, Monday, April 9, 1866. Per Blbs. to sink the offal. April 10, 1865. April 9, 1866. s ddad ad sd. Coarse and inferior beasts 3 4to 3 8 4 4to 4 8 Second quality d 0....., 3lO 4 2 410 5 0 Primo large oxen 4 4 4 6 5 2 5 4 Primo Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Primo coarse-woolled do. 510 6 2 6 4 6 8 Primo Southdown do 6 4 6 6 7 0 7 4 Lambs Large coarse calves 4 2 4 1 - 0 bo 00 Prime small do. , Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 2 4 8 5 0 5 4 Beasts 4,010 1,230 Sheep 18,760 24,760 Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ON SALE, April 11, 1861.—Beasts, 4,540 — sheep, 21,190—calves, 123—pigs, 600. April 13, 1863—Beasts, 4,o2o—sheep, 21,710—calves, 154—pigs, 240. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets were fairly supplied with each kind of meat, in which a largo business is doing, at enhanced quo tations : Per 81b by the carcase. s d a d s d s d Inferior beef 3 6 4 0 Inferior mutton.... 3 10 4 6 Middling do. 4 2 4 6 Middling mutton.. 4 8 5 2 Prime large do 4 8 4 10 Prime do 5 4 5 6 Prime small d0....5 0 4 2 Veal 4 10 5 8 Large pork ........ 4 0 4 8 Small pork 4 10 5 4 Lamb, 7s Id to 8s od. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Moderate supplies of potatoes are on sale, and the trade rules quiet at the annexed quotations : Kent and Essex regents Scotch do. Yorkshire do 6os to 95s Flukes 703 to 105 s " ' „ R oc k s 41s to 60s „ ~ BOROUGH HOP. The business doing in all descriptions of hops is very moderate. In prices scarcely any change from last week has taken place. Last week's imports amounted to 99 bales from Hamburg ; GO Antwerp ; 22 Bremen ; 54 Rotterdam ; and 30 bales Dunkirk. New Mid and East Kents Bos to 140 s per cwt. New Weald of Keuts Now Sussex Yearlings —s to )7 SEEDS. The demand rot linseed has fallen off, nevertheless late rates have been fairly supported. In rape seed sales have progressed steadily at full prices, but for agricultural seeds the inquiry has been in a sluggish state. Cakes have been in moderate request on former terms. WOOL. Owing to the large import of cotton and the fall of id. to ld. per lb. in prices, the wool trade has been somewhat quieter, and buyers have shown less disposition to operate. The market, however, must be considered firm, at fully late rates. Last week's import was about 15,000 bales, chiefly from Australia. Current prices of English wool per lb. Sd p d Fleeces—South Down hogets 1 91 1 101 Half-bred do 2 0 2 1 Kent fleeces South Down ewes and wethers 1 71- 1 8 Leicester do Sorts—Clothing Combing TALLOW. The tallow trade is flat on easier terms The quotation for P.T.C. on the spot is 475. 9d. to 48s. per cwt. Town tallow commands 465. net cash ; rough fat, 2s. sd. per Blbs. , . Particulars. 1863. 1864. 1865. 1866. Stock this day 42,828 53,068 38,781 32,483 Price of Y.O. —s Od —s Od —s Od 48s Od Delivery last week B2O 1102 1,966 1,073 Ditto from June 1 71,376 67,368 83,996 94,793 Arrival last week • 22 115 1,065 400 Ditto fy. in June 1 75,925 82.589 77,756. 95,356 Price of Town The Charge of Forgery against a City Merchant. On Saturday, at the Mansion-house, Edward J. Lindsay was brought up before Mr. Alderman Gabriel for final ex amination, charged with feloniously forging and uttering the acceptance of a bill of exchange for the payment of £385 with intent to defraud the Agra and Masterman's Bank, Limited. As on the previous examination, Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. Muliens, solicitor to the London Bankers' Associa tion, appeared for the prosecution; and Mr. Lewis, sen., of Ely-place, attended on behalf of the prisoner. The case has been so frequently reported that it is only necessary to remind the public that the accused carried on the business of a general merchant under the firm of Lind say, Lawson, and Co., in Cannon-street, City, and was him self a subscriber at Lloyd's. He kept an account with the Agra and Masterman's Bank, and on the 20th March last applied to Mr. Shipman, the manager of this establish ment, to discount a bill, as he stated, for about £lOO, drawn upon and accepted by Messrs. Graham Gilmore and Co., merchants, of Glasgow. Knowing that firm as keeping an account with the Agra, &c., Bank, Mr. Shipman at once consented to do so, and on the next day the prisoner again attended at the bank, and presented to Mr. Crabb, one of the cashiers, the bill in question, drawn by the prisoner's firm on Graham Gilmore and Co., of Glasgow, for £385, and purporting to be accepted by them, payable at four months' date from the 16th March, 1866, at the London Joint-Stock Bank. This bill was taken by Mr. Crabb to the manager, Mr. Shipman, who was at once struck with the singularity that Gilmore and Co., having an account with the Agra, &c., Bank, should have made'the bill pay able at the London Joint-Stock Bank. This he directed Mr. Crabb to mention to the prisoner, and to return to him the bill with this explanation. Mr. Crabb did so. The prisoner put the bill in his pocket, and left the bank, re marking that he would write by that night's mail to Gil more and Co. In the meantime Mr. Shipman communi cated by telegraph with that firm, and received a telegram from Mr. Gilmore, declaring the bill of which Mr. Shipman sent down a copy was a forgery. The telegram with this announcement was at once placed in the hands of Mr. Mul lens, solicitor to the London Bankers' Association, who waited upon the prisoner at his offices, with a view to get back the bill. The prisoner, after some equivocation, de clared that it was a forgery, that he had himself done it, and that after receiving the bill back from Mr. Crabb, the cashier at the bank, he had destroyed it. Subsequently the prisoner was taken into custody on the charge by De tective-officer George Scott, and when told the charge offered no defence or explanation. The case was remanded to Saturday, in order to procure the attendance of Mr. Gil more from Glasgow to give his evidence in the matter. Mr. Sleigh now intimated to the presiding alderman that Mr. Gilmore was in attendance, and he should at once call him as a witness. Mr. Gilmore was then sworn, and in reply to interro gations by Mr. Sleigh, stated that his name was Graham Gilmore, and that he was a metthant, carrying on business in Glasgow under the firm of Graham Gilmore and Co. Ho had now no partner, and carried on the business solely on his own account. Ho had been connected with the pri soner in business transactions, in the course of which the prisoner had drawn upon him in the name of his firm, and those drafts he (witness) had accepted, and they had been duly honoured on arriving at maturity. Of these bills the witness produced five. Mr. Sleigh—Now be good enough to tell me whether or not you accepted a bill for £385 drawn 16th March, 1866, at four months' date, by Lindsay, Lawson, and Co., on your firm, and made payable at the London Joint-Stock Bank ? Witness—No, Sir. I did not. Mr. Sleigh—Did you give the prisoner, or any other person, authority to accept any such bill in the name of your firm ? Witness—No, Sir. I did not do anything of the kind. Cross-examined by Mr. Le wis—l have had many business transactions with the prisoner, whom I have known for several years on terms of friendship, I will not say intimacy. Mr. Lewis—Suppose this bill had been sent down to you by the accused would you have accepted it for him ? Witness--I should have had no hesitation to do so pro vided the accused had given me any satisfactory reason for drawing upon me. Mr. Lewis—From the great friendship between you do you believe that the prisoner may have fancied and be lieved that he might make use of your name yithout your express authority ? Mr. Sleigh objected to the question. How could the witness know what the prisoner may have fancied or believed ? Mr. Alderman Gabriel concurred in the objection, and, according to his notion of the law, he could not allow the question to be put. If answered in the affirmative, it had nothing to do with the present charge. Mr. Lewis said that a case had oocurred not long ago a. the Central Criminal Court, when one of the Judges al lowed a similar question to be put to a witness, and the answer being in the affirmative the man charged with the offence of forgery was acquitted. Mr. Alderman Gabriel remarked that in this case the question might be put before the higher tribunal, and ar gued and disposed of by the judges. At present he, as presiding authority in that court, held that the question could not be put, or the depositions burthened with the reply which might be given to it. Mr. Lewis (to the witness)—Supposing the prisoner had used your name to the bill, and had communicated that fact to you, would you have paid the bill ? Mr. Alderman Gabriel—How can that affect the present charge ? If, out of feelings of sympathy and commisera tion, the bill had been paid by the witness, it could not do away with the offence of forgery. The prisoner, when told the charges on which he would stand committed, namely, first for forgery and uttering the acceptance to the bill of exchange in question ; secondly, for feloniously attempting to obtain money by fraudulent representations; and thirdly, for the common law offence of attempted fraud, said, by the advice of his solicitor, that ho was not guilty. The depositions having been completed, the prisoner was committed for trial at the ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Court. The Suffrage Question in the United States. The New York Times, commenting upon the Reform Bill in England, says the current on this side, among persons who think, is at present in the opposite direction. All our City commissioners, which are conferring such untold blessings on this community and others, are in direct opposition to the government of universal suffrage in local com munities. The whole Union is feeling the evils and curses of ignorant and vicious suffrage, especially in the form of opposition to the principles of the Government which the low Copperhead party of cur great cities has shown. Almost all reflecting men are beginning to see that the whole matter of suf frage is a pure question of expediency. It can be given or withheld, or limited, according as the best interests of the State demand. The claim to it is not like the claim to liberty or legal justice, a natural right. We withhold it from many a de serving young man between 17 and 20, and from still more deserving women, and from certain foreigners, because we judge that on a broad scale society will be better off for the limitation. We give it unreservedly to all free white male citizens over 21, because our theory has been that the edu cating influence of suffrage and its equalising effect, and its attraction to the peasantry of Europe, will more than counterbalance the evils of our ignorant and debased voting population. The great weak ness in the position of our friends, demanding uni versal suffrage for the freedmen, was in the gene ral opinion of the North that we had gone too far even in white suffrage; and that what we had felt in our own system, we oug ht no t t o t e h x e te e n v d ils of, to Southern society. They claimed as a right what was merely a question of public benefit. The strength of their position—which we fully con cur in—was in the claim that suffrage should never be limited by race. The New York Herald remarks that there is no telling when the Representatives and Senators elected to Congress from the late rebel States will be admitted. There is but a shadowy prospect during the present session, even for the unques tionably loyal members from Tennessee, a State which was reconstructed under the appointments and supervision of President Lincoln. As for the other States of the late rebel Confederacy their chances of restoration this side of the next Presi dential contest are extremely doubtful from present appearances . Meantime the Reconstruction Com mittee of Mr. Thaddeus Stevens and Senator Fes senden have it all their own way. They produce their witnesses to prove the dangerous disloyalty prevailing in all the excluded States, and the testi mony thus collected is published and sown broadcast over all the country ; and all this time the South ern Senators and Representatives elect . (most inter ested) are denied a hearing on the floor of either house. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. 111 ARLBOROUGH-STREET. A GIRL CHARGED WITH ROBBING HER, FATIIER.—Sarah Ann Burt, a good-looking girl, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, &c., the 'property of her father, James Burt, an engine driver, living at No. 6, George-street, Grosvenor-square• The prosecutor, a respectable-looking man, said that on Tuesday last the prisoner, who was his daughter, absconde!:l from his house, 6, George-street, Grosvenor square, taking with her his watch and a quantity of wearing apparel. On Saturday night she came to the house, admitted having taken the property away and pledged it, and said she was willing to give herself up. The prosecutor produced about a dozen duplicates which the prisoner gave up. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the prosecutor said his daughter had never robbed him before. The prisoner said she had nothing to say. A constable proved taking the prisoner into custody, and seeing her give u p the du p licate o f her father's watch to her father. She s aid she ha d taken the things, and was quite willing to go to the police station. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner for a week, stating that the pawnbrokers would have to give the property up. THE WAY MILS. BALCOMBE DOES HER MARKETING. Mary Balcombe was charged before Mr. Tyriihitt with stealing a rabbit from the shop of Mr. Taylor, poulterer, &c., Little Pulteney-street. William James Baldwin, a young man in Mr. Taylor's employ, proved seeing the prisoner on Saturday night draw up the rabbit and slowly walk away from the slop in the most unconcerned manner. He followed her and gave her into custody. Police-constable Stevens, 190 C, said that on taking the prisoner into custody he found in her possession a piece of salt beef and a hand of pork. Mr. Tyrwhitt—She had not got a duck also, had she ? (Laughter.) The Constable—No, sir. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner that inquiries might be made respecting her. WESTMINSTER. BEGGING CHILDREN.—Anne Waters, a girl of 12 years of age, well known at this court, was charged with begging. The Marquis Townshend said, at 5.30 p.m. on Sunday he was in Eccleston-square, and the prisoner accosted him, asking him to buy some fusees. He said ho wanted none, and then she asked him for a copper. Ile had previously seen her beg of a lady, and looked for a policeman. During the time hi waited for one she begged of several people ; in fact she accosted every passer by. Prisoner denied his lordship's assertions, and said she didn't beg—she only tried to sell her fusees. The mother was fetched into the court, and said the child was uncontrollable, and she wished the magistrate to get her into a school, for she went out when she pleased, and sometimes was out half the night. It having been stated that the girl had been charged several times with begging, and that on the last occasion her mother had been told that if she sent her out again to beg she would be held amicable to the law, The mother said she only sent her out with the fusses to sell. Mr. Selfe ordered the mother into custody. The girl gave evidence against her, and said that her mother gave her the money to buy the fusees. She made 7d. by them, and spent that in breakfast and tea at the sta tion. If she hadn't been in custody hor mother would hayo had the money, as she always gave her the money she got when she went out. _ Mr. Selfe said tho prisoner wanted the public to pay for what it was her duty to do, namely, bring up the girl her-- self ; and she sent her to beg to get the girl off her hands and get her in an institution. She had had warning, and her offence would not be overlooked ; warnings could not be given in vain. The child would be sent to the work house till Saturday, and the mother would be sent to pri son for five days. THAMES. DRIVEN TO CRIME.---A wretched, thinly clad, and pale faced woman, who appeared to have been half-starved, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with wilful damage. The prosecutrix, Frederika Schmidt, is a native of Ger many, and keeps a general shop in Leman-street, White chapel. On Saturday evening the prisoner made a suddea onslaught on the front of the shop, and broke in a large pane of glass. She then took the eggs and butter off the window board, and threw them into the street. A great many eggs rolled on to the pavement. She was soon taken into custody and locked up by a constable named Barrett, No. 145 K, who said she was in a fearfully desti tute condition. The prisoner in her defence said that she was abandoned by her husband, and had obtained a living by selling old clothes. That resource failed her, she had been turned out of her humble lodging because she could not pay any rent, and had sought admission in vain to a workhouse at B.omerton. She knocked at the door of the workhouse and asked for shelter. She was told to call at six o'clock She did so, and knocked at the door several times, bat no* answer was returned. She slept that night at a court, next night she slept in an empty house, and since then had been wandering the streets until despair and starvation had caused her to act as aho had done. In answer to questions by Mr. Paget, the prisoner said she believed she was born in Cork, and that she came to London when a very little Mr. Paget said the prisoner ought not to have de stroyed people's property. She could obtain relief if she applied to a relieving officer in a proper manner. He fined her is., and also ordered her to pay 155., the amount of damage done. He was afraid the prosecutrix would never get paid for the property that had been destroyed. In default of payment the poor woman would be impri soned for 14 days. DARING ROBBERY IN A STATION-1101ThE.—John Carey, a tall young man, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing a silver watch, valued £3 ss, from the person of John Linimin, a German sugar baker, in the police station of the H division, in Lime-street, Whitechapel. On Saturday night at 11 o'clock the prosecutor and another German, named Martin Site, were entering the station-house for the purpose of inquiring after a friend, who had been taken there upon a charge. Others were going in at the same time, others were coming out, and a little confusion prevailed. The two Germans had gone half way up a narrow and paved passage loading to a large paved yard, when Linimin was hustled and his watch was detached from the guard in an instant. Ho exclaimed "My watch is gone." "I know who has it," said the man' Site, and pointing to two men who were running away. The prisoner was one of them, and stopped at the station house door. At that moment police sergeant Dunaway the well-known detective, No. 11 H, and Benjamin Stub bings, No. 111 H, were entering the station-house. " 1 give that man in charge" exclaimed Site, who speaks Eng lish well. ,The two officers seized the prisoner,and Site said, "He has stolen my friend's watch." The officers were leading the prisoner towards the station-house when he dropped the watch on the stones, and the glass was broken. Site said he saw the prisoner following him and his friend down Back Church-lane and Leman-street to the station-house, and knew ho was after the watch. Mr. Pagot committed the prisoner for trial. ELECTION COMMITTEE—This Day. NOTTINGHAM. The committee reassembled this morning at the usual hour. William Green was examined by Mr. Rodwell. He said that he had formerly carried on business as a corn and hay dealer in Caroline-street, Not tingham, but he was at present living near Slea ford. He knew Mr. Richard, the agent of Mr. Paget, . and after the election he received £5O from him to leave Nottingham, so that he might not be examined on the committee. This money was paid him by Mr. Richards at his office, and there was another man present at the time. With the exception of that sum and his expenses he had received no money on account of the election. The money was paid him in sovereigns, and after he received it he went to Lincoln. He had previously seen Mr. W. Parsons, and had promised him to give evidence before the committee. He had employed and paid " lambs" during the election, by the orders of Mr. J. Sylvester, whom he had frequently seen at the central and other committee-room of Morley and Paget, and who had taken a very active part in the proceedings. Sylvester had given him £2OO or £3OO, which he applied in the way directed. He saw Mr. Sylvester treat and pay some of the lambs, and both on the nomination and polling days he gave witness money for the purchase of mop-tails or handles, which were distributed to the lambs. Cross-examined by Mr. Mundell—He had never been before a magistrate on a charge of assault, but he had been accused before the county magistrate with having stolen some straw, but the charge was unfounded, and was dis missed. He would have prosecuted the party who had made the charge against him if ho had the means. He gave himself up volantaiily, but at the same time he was accompanied by a policeman. Some other evidence to the same effect was adduced. The committee IN ill reassemble to-morrow at eleven o'clock. DINNER TO MR. GEORGE PEABODY.—The fol lowing letter will lie for signature at the London Tavern, on the 9tb, 10th, and 11th inst. :—" London, April 7, 1866. George Peabody, Esq.—The undersigned bankers and merchants of the City of London desire to have an oppor tunity, before your departure for America, of manifesting their sense of the great benefit you have conferred upon the poor of London, and their respect fo: your personal character. They therefore beg the favour of you to name a day when it would suit your convenience to meet them at dinner for that purpose." The dinner of the Artists' General Benevolent Fend will take place on the 12th of May next. Mr. A. H. Layard, will occupy the chair, THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocE. TAT TERSALLS'—This Evening. CITY AND SUBURBAN. 2to 1 agst Delight (taken) 6to 1 agst Vanderveldo (taken) 8 to . 1 agst Mephistophles (taken) 11 to 1 agst Out-and-Outer (taken) 14 to 1 agst Copenhagen (taken) 16 to 1 agst Ostregor (taken) 23 to 1 agst Morris Dancer (taken) 40 to 1 agst Shmpnell (taken) 66 to 1 agst Nukuheva (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Skirmish (taken) METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 2to 1 agst Eakring (taken) 9to 2 agst Treasure Trovo (taken) Bto 1 agst Lucifer (taken) CHESTER CUP. 100 to 9 agst Delight (taken) 100 to 7 agst Dalby (taken) 20 to 1 agst Harry Drailsfortl (taken) 33 to 1 agst Rococo (off.) 33 to 1 agst Mr. Pitt (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Sandal (off.) 1000 to 15 agst Moulsey (taken) 2,000 GUINEAS. 6to son Lord Lyon (taken) 9to 1 agst Janitor (taken) 10 to 1 agst Student (taken) 12 to 1 agst Young Melbourne (taken) 25 to 1 Knight of Crescent (taken) 66 to 1 ugst Mephistopheles (taken) DRY. 20 to 1 agst Student 20 to 1 agst Redan 25 to 1 agst Stabber 1000 20 agst Augu s t e 1000 to to 20 agst Strathconnan MANCHESTER BETTING • -.—rr lI'S DAY. CITY AND SUBURBAN. 9 to 4 agst Delight (taken) 10 to 1 agst Out-and-Outer (taken) 100 to 7 agst Copenhagen (taken) 7to 1 agst Mephistopheles (taken) •22 to 1 agst Effervescence (taken) 25 to 1 agst Morris Dancer (taken) METROPOLITAN. 3to 1 agst Eakring (taken) sto 1 agst Treasure Trove (taken freely) In Saturday's City Betting Saltpinctes should have been quoted 1000 to 7. VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—TiIIs DAY. CITY AND SUBURBAN. 2to 1 agst Delight (taken) 100 to 12 agst Mephistopheles (taken) 9to 1 agst Vandervelde (taken) 12 to 1 agst Out-and-Outer (taken) 15 to 1 agst Copenhagen (taken) 16 to 1 agst Ostregor (taken) 25 to 1 agst Morris Dancer (taken) _ 30 to 1 agst Effervescence (taken) 33 to 1 agst Shrapnel! (taken) METROPOLITAN STAKES. sto 2 agst Eakring (taken) sto 1 agst Treasure Trove (taken) Bto 1 agst Lucifer (taken) CHESTER CUP. 10 to 1 agst Delight (taken) 15 to 1 agst Treasure Trove (taken) 40 to 1 agst Sandal (taken) 100 to 7 agst . Salpinctes (offered) 40 to 1 agst Saladin (offered) TWO THOUSAND. Evens Lord Lyon 100 to 8 agst Young Melbourne c3lt 10 to 1 agst Janitor (taken) 25 to 1 Knight of the Crescent (taken) THE DERBY. sto 1 agst Rustic (taken) 22 to 1 agst Stabber (taken) 50 to 1 agst Strathconan (taken) 50 to 1 agst Delight (taken) 66 to 1 agst Young Melbourne colt ARRIVALS AT CREWKERNE. Bull's Eye, Eheu, Beegwing, Nimrod, Coleman, Forester, Wilverley, Sutton, Mr. Gifford, Benazet, Ace of Hearts, Cortolvin, Salamander, Milford, Alcibiades, and Bristles. ARRIVALS AT CHELMSFORD. Battle Axe, Bounceaway, Adamanthea, Advance, Sor rentia, Warwick, Little Prince, Tuscalona, Rose Leaf, Kingmaker, Killarney, Sweet Anne, Miller's Maid, Chi of the Old Block, Ethelred, Confederate, and Beeves. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS-THIS EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. 110 thanked the house for the indulgence accorded him, and ha said he should still have to ask a continuance of their kindness in conducting the business of the house for a short time longer. - NW . Mr. HERBERT' to ok E t M he oaths EMBERS and his seat for Kerry Mr. Mancoiad also took the oaths and his seat for Boston, LONDON GAS BILL. Mr. CRA WFORD moved that this bill be referred to the select committee in the London (City) Corporation Gas Bill. The house divided, when there appeared— For the motion Against it . • 36 Majority 6O —37 The bill was accordingly referred to the committee named. THE MALT TAX. A number of petitions were presented in favour of a repeal of the malt tax. THE FRANCHISE BILL. A number of petitions were presented in favour of the Government bill for an extension of the franchise. GOVERNMENT PROPERTY. Mr. Alderman SALMONS moved for a return of the appropriation of the whole, or any part, of the sums voted in aid of local assessments for the relief of the poor on cer tain descriptions of Government property, specifying the amount paid in each district up to the 31st day of March, 1866.—The return was ordered. THE PROBATE COURT. Mr. LOCKE asked the Secretary to the Treasury the reason of the delay in giving effect to the suggestions made by the Judge of the Court of Probate to the Lords of her Majesty's Treasury, for the future regulation of the salaries and emoluments of the clerks and officers in the Principal Registry ? Mr. CHILDERS said letters had been received by the Treasury at the commencement of the year to the effect stated by the hon. and learned gentleman. The officers of the Court of Probate were appointed at fixed salaries for fixed duties; but the mode of remunerating those officers was now under the consideration of the Treasury, and he hoped in a short time some final decision would be ar rived at. ARMY SURGEONS. Mr. O'BEIRNE asked the Secretary of State for War whether the system hitherto followed in promoting assistant surgeons to battalion surgeons iu the Foot Guards had not been regimental ; whether there was any intention to change that system ; and, if any change was to be made, under what warrant ? The Marquis of HARTINGTON said the system in the Guards with respect to the promotion of the assistant surgeons was a regimental system, but a warrant had been issued in 1860 which gave several advantages, and also enacted that promotion should be for the future by seniority. A question afterwards arcse whether it applied to the house hold cavalry. After some consideration, her Majesty, by the advice of tho authorities at the War-office, had directed that the promotion of assistant-surgeons to the rank of surgeon in the household cavalry should be by seniority. THE CATTLE PLAGUE. In reply to Mr. REED, Sir G. GREY said an order in Council had that day been issued extending thetimeforthe compulsory slaughter and compensation, which expired on the 16th of April, until the 10th of May. OYSTER FISHERIES. Mr. HUNT called the attention of the house to the re commendations of the commission which had sat on the oyster fisheries, and asked whether the Government in tended to bring in a general measure on the subject. Mr. GIBSON said the subject was under the considera tion of the Government ; but. without pledging himself to all the points recommended by the commissioners, he might say the Government were favourable to the main object. The difficulty to be surmounted related to the enclosure of foreshores. SUPPLY. The house then went into committee of supply, Mr. DODSON in the chair. The first vote which was agreed to was £40,098 for the maintenance and repair of the royal palaces . compl e te the On the motion that £85,437 be voted t o sum of £105,437 for public buildings, ge entlema n the First Mr. Commi BENT ssioner for worksINCK asked thewh right was to hon. b done at the • a t National Gallery. to be site intended . • Mr. COWPER said the s a s that now occupied the addition to the National Gallery, v efirst as is• pints of • the vernment had to look and the parochial schoo two tlhe yields: c i clu en P l ie so Ci n .b 's y , by the workhouse of St. Martin on the making the addition existing building, which wa s p t o l:e nt p s rc o s f en v t ie s w tr — uCture, and th position, was to be pulled nextupon t w he as ma l t v t h e e r vernment had not yet come to any The 6 ' o down. it would be desirable to do so or not, y to co k u now what sort of a building quite unworthy could come to such a conclusion it would be as they erect in its place. The ere • deMsion wore going to erection of public not al buildings had hitherto . . ways been a success, gs for a new building, because before they and, in the first instance, it had been proposed to n the expense of making appoint s ixarc x2 hi o te o ct e s ae t h o mthatkheedmmfwior appro priatingtheir plans. It had since been found desirable to enlarge the number of architects to 10, but he did not think ba it nwoul4l The bheouwseisewotuola fu h r a t v h e er an in o c p r p e o a r s t e uni t t h y at of nfuumlly whether fhreoronif theitst 0 considering the whole of the plans before the final decision was come to. Mr. B. HOPE thought it would be well to make the number of competing architects a round dozen, because there were certainly more than 10 architects quite compe tent to produce something worth looking at. Mr. BENTINOK h oped that w hatevur the Governmen did they would do it thoroughly and well. Mr LOCKE said as far as he understood it was pro posed to give the old building a new face, and then en large it by making the proposed additions. Mr. COWPER said that that was not so. The Govern ment had come to no decision on the matter. As far as whether it wohld be right to pull down the existing building altogether. Speaking individually, he thought it would be right—(hear, hear)—but the Government, col lectively, had come to no determination in the matter ; before they did that he thought it was but right that the house should see what was to be put up in the place of the building which was to be pulled down. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BENTLIWK made some further remarks relative to the style of the building. Mr. COWPER thought the money expended in making additions to the old building would all be wasted. With respect to the style of the building, he proposed that the competing architects should enter on their tasks unfettered. corne He did not think it w i se to purchase houses before the site required. r of They p o win l n i g . 3_s s t r years o e which r l - 1 t c h h e a y sed occu s p it i e ed at w i a h s o that time remained unoccupied, and the expense of that purchase did not favour the buying of houses before thex . were required. After a few words from Mr. B. HOPE, Sir G. BOWYER said it appeared to him that the Go vernment were going to proceed in a i p.ecemeal moaner, which. they had so many reasens to lament. They. were going to build up the back part of the building -. b e f ore they had come to a determination as to when they in tended to put up the front. He thought the C.ir.gverunient ought to produce one comprehensive plan '..11 place of doing things bit by bit. With respect to the architects he did not think it right to limit the number to 10, because they were about 1,000 architects, and by lithiting the number to 10, they might first exclude the man who might produce the best design. He should have much preferred it if the competition had been made a, thoroughly open one. He should like to know to what the new building was to be devoted, whether it was to be for pcitures already there, whether there was to be an exhi bition, or whether the new p or trait ga ll er y was t o go th ere. At all events, the house ought to know exactly what was to be placed in the new building. Mr. BENTINCK would like to know the tribunal which was to decide on the designs. Mr. COWPEB said that no steps would be taken with respect to rebuilding any portion of the gallery until a complete plan had been: submitted to the Government. The tribunal would be constituted as fairly as possible, amongst whom, of course, there would be some artists, who s o doubt could be found unbiassed by professional feeling. There were many pictures at Hampton Court Palace, the South Kensington Museum, and the British Museum, which might be placed with advantage in a national gal lery. He did not think there would be anything to pre , vent the lighting of the new building with gas. With respect to the stone of which the building was to be cow,- posed, experiments were now going on on the exterie.e o f the building they were then assemble in which no doubt would show the best means of preserving StOne. where decay had set in. The vote was ultimately agreed to. [LEFT SITTING.] Mr. Lowe and Mr. Gladstone. °11 : the 12th of Marchwingletteris addressed asssledt Mr. totheTins:— Sir,--On Gladstone ntroduced into the House of Commons the Electorei Franchise Bill. He tells us " that we are not at all sufficiently aware of the importance of the issues which it involves." He says that for years to come the Liberal party will derive of colour pr , o t g e r n e d s e s n w ci i e t s F , A and fortunes from t h e regard to this important measure. I agree witch him, and, if he will allow me t o fi ll up the °wain e he has traced, I believe the colour will be rea, the fortunes calamitous, and the tendencies downward. He gave no reason for this measure on its intro.. duction. He says he was " dry and dull," and it is not for me to contradict him. " His study was to abstain from any topic which could, by any possibility, give a particle of offence. He was de termined that if angry controversy was to arise it should not be in consequence of what was done by him." In the course of the debate which followed I gave the reasons which induced me to disapprove the measure. Mr. Gladstone had the right of reply, but, in pursuance, I suppose, of his inoffensive policy, he declined to exercise it. Whatever were the fallacies, whatever the offences against truth or good taste which my speech contained, he did not see fit to expose them. I have no right to complain of his moderation. But this I think I have a right to say, The fl that from the Leader of the House of Commons an answer to my speech should have been given in the House of Commons, or not at all. it is not to be expected that on a momentous occasion like that of the coming debate on the Franchise Bill the house will listen patiently to an answer made by a private member like myself to strictures and censures delivered elsewhere. I therefore request permission to defend myself in your columns against a personal attack which there was every opportunity for making in my pre sence, but which the leader of the House of Com mons has thought it more becoming to make before a party exclusively of his own friends in my abs ante. Instead of quoting what I did say in the house, where he would have been liable to correction had he Luis quo tedit, he avoids committing himself to my words, but says I was understood in the House of Commons to have delivered this opinion, " that the labouring classes were totally unfit to be entrusted to any greater extent than at present with the electoral franchise. Those of the labouring classes who now possess the franchise were conspicuous for four re markable virtues—ignorance, drunkenness, venality, and violence." Had Mr. Gladstone quoted these words in my presence I should have contradicted ?no in the hearing of an audience which could have judged by its own recollection whether I was right or wrong. Had he quoted the report of my speech, it would itself have contradicted his assertion. But he does neither, but shelters himself behind the vague assertion that I was " understood" to say such things, and then proceeds to argue as if I had actually said them. He had before him my answer to the protest of some of my constituents, in which I pointed out that I was speaking of abuses notoriously existing in many constituencies, and not levelling an indis crimate censure at a whole class. Yet he puts this aside, and insists upon it that I was speaking of " the labouring classes who now possess the fran chise, " that is, of all those who who now possess it. Into the arguments Mr. Gladstone draws from my answer to some of my constituents I shall not enter. My answer was, at any rate, intelligible ; to me at least his arguments are not. Possibly there are some errors in the report. But I cannot help regretting that Mr. Gladstone did not adhere to his resolution against branding his fellow-coun trymen who do not support his bill with contumely or approval, or that, if that resolution was to be flung to the winds, that he did not choose for the place of sacrifice the floor of the House of Commons instead of the Philharmonic Hall at Liverpool. It may be quite right to tell me that "I have a kind of mania on this subject." It may be quite right to express an opinion approving the protest of some of my constituents, including, I presume, its tone and manner ; it may be right to imply that I " utter sentiments more violent than the Opposition are ready to give utterance to ;" it may be right to say that Mr. Gladstone " honoured me for my courage till he had read my letter." Had these or - similar things been said in the course of debate, I, or some one else on my be half, might have replied to them, and I am too well used to Parliamentary conflicts to cavil at everyliard word that may be uttered. But these attacks on second hand ' character, conduct, and abilities of a member of p ar _ ment for words spoken in Parliament ought not to be made by the leader of the house elsewhere than i i l e i ;t t s o retail in Parliament itself. It is unworthy of the posi tion o n f tat l ie r 2 . 2 by that portion of the press which advocates hia G af ia te d r st i ° t views, es pecially when supported by o f o mitting what I did say, the ignoble arts I did not. —I am, sir, . . or interp o l a ti ng wtat ) 5 our obedient servant, ROBERT LOWE. 84, Lowndes-square, April 6. Liverpool Cotton Market. —TLis Day. The market opens quiet. Prime are lower than last week. Sales will probably foot up about 6,000 bales. 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