The Sun. — London, England, 1867-05-18 00:00:00

E,-. ,3, 7"" .11/ U . 4:; 1 , 1 2 m A v., E T AND COMMERCIAL INTELL iGENCE, TWELVE o'CLocK. In the general discount market there has been rather more inquiry, but the supplies continue abundant, and the :rates current for the negocia tion of first class short-dated paper remain 2 4 3 - 3 per cent., with exceptional instances, of 21 per cent. There were no gold operations at the Bank of England yesterday. In consequence of the rise in the Continental Exchanges, the bar silver, by the last packet, was sold at 601 d., being a decline of id., and the Mexi can Dollars at 591 d., being a decline of Id. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures are steady at 28 30 ex-Coupon, and the Consoli dated Mortgage Bonds have advanced to 21/ 22. Notice has been given that the fourth drawing on account of the issue of 1864 of £500,000 Five per Cent. Deb entures of the Land Mortgage Bank of India (Credit Foncier Indian, Limited), redeemable at par within thirty years by half yearly drawings ; a nd the first drawing on account of the issue of 1 866 of £ 5 00,000 Five per Cent. Debentures, also redeemable within thirty years by half yearly draw ings, will take place on the 24th inst. Mr. Benjamin Scott, the City Chamberlain, has been authorised, by the Bridge House Committee, to issue bonds to the extent of £265,000, for the B d 'pose of co mp l e ti ng t h e purc h ase o f S out h war k I, ri ge, and the comp l e ti on o f t h e N ew B r id ge a t Julackfriars. The bonds will be issued in sums of £1)000, £5OO, and £lOO respectively, for a period °f twelve years, and will bear interest, payable England sof c ou p ons h a lf-y ear ly a t the B an k of at the rate of £4 15s. per cent. per an tlalu ; the principal and interest being secured upon Br idge House estates, and, in the event of those u "W proving insufficient, out of the general re venues of the Corporation. b Th e specie movements d ur i ng t h e l ast wee k h ave een to a moderate extent, owing to arrivals from New York and the West Indies and Pacific. The ulPerts, which have amounted to about £358,310, I p ucl ude £ 2 0,000 from New York by the Scotia, •i 1,164 by the Bremen, £12,327 by the Cuba, and f r 7 21913 by the City of Washington. The Saltora from Sydney has brought £15,568 ; Machyar Laird f r°lll / Vest Coast of Africa, £6BO. The Tasmania fr_°alWest Indies and Pacific, £178,000 ; the Ceylon eri°4l Al exandria, £1,707 ; an d a b ou t £57,951, prin pally in sil ver, has been received from the CoCon tinent,eent• The exports have comprised £5,000 to the tnit i st Indies by th e Rh one, and there have b een re ear'ances to the C on ti nen t th roug h pr i va t e sources nnat e d at £271,253, the total amounting to 4276,253. Two o'CLoci. Pr There has been a further advance of nearly 1 Coe cent, i n the market for the English Funds, f _ tis as being 921 for money, and 94 f 7rthhe account, ex dividend. go . a e New Thre es an d R e d uce d A nnu i t i es are 2 ,14 ; Exch equer Bills, 265. prem. ; Bank Stock, f ; Indi a 5 per Cents., 1121 I ; and ditto En 'iced 5 per Cents 103. Th e " Foreign Stock Market has been very buoyant. i‘cazhan have advanced 1 to 511 n Mexican It to 8 17 ; Spanish Passive, Ito 228 ; Certificates, Q r tol4 i ; Turkish 5 p er C e nts. 1, to 311 ; while creek are firm a t 141 1, an d R uss i a n Scrip at 1 IL to Par. A More buoyant tone has prevailed in the Rail )7,4Y, S hare Market, a n d a further important advance • -8 been established in values. Great Western have l 'i t r lll3r " c ed I ; Great Northern and Lancashire and Orkshi r _ , each 8 ; South Eastern, 1 ; North 'lrestern, 11 ; South Western and Brighton, each ; Great Eastern, 14 ; and Midland, 21. MINING MARKET. SATURDAY AFTERNOON. The market to-day has been very quiet, and 1 4 jees in most cases cases rule a little lower than Ye4terday. Annexed are the latest prices : ert e hiv 3,1 r, on oor 551 Marke Valley `6llontales Gold XL11.°,1",1 Amalgamate 4f 54 North Retallick Estt°ll Gt. Consols... Providence Mines onradon ....... 51 6 South: Caradon 340 345 Eft Lovell .......... Tincroft l4l 151 I'St 1/1188911 ............. 21 2f West Caradon 9l 101 r,teretWhealGrenville 21 2i West Seton 414 t Laxey .. . ...... 171 18k Wheal Chiverton -- - Br at at lick . 441 Wheal Basset 65 70 Wheal Vo; .... 17/ 181 Wheal Seton ll2} 117} 8 ri -RITISII FUNDS---- , `43IIMNMENT FUNDS. CLOSING PRICES. 92 1 1 I Vr,at Vein. Consols 9 1 .1 xd a .‘"0. Aocount, dune 6 801 1 leer Cent. Reduced 90* New 8 per Cent -- " e n /i-2 k per Cent. Jan. 1894 A ,--°. por e t• Jan. 1873 -.....,n0iti e° •. _ ti:k J an. 1880 ,-, for BO yrs, expire d h " c f • 3O yr Telegraph), April 1908 — t"° ated Sea An,,. Ct —pm 1885 lellequer Bills, .£l,OOO, 0 cud 4 per pm T r i )° .£5OO 26 pm lit -°' £lOO & £2OO atticsof England Stock, 61 per Cent I n 1""lAal GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Mau Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 _- 1)e • A. t pl ccoun 1121 1 1 n o• 5 per Cent. July, 1880 IVL4„Per Cent., Oct. 1888 _ ''"o. uertificates _ Do. Eufaced Paper 4 per Cent Do 103 t • 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 _ e • 5 1 per Cent , May 1879 D. Deb., 5 per Cent. Aug. 1873 under°•l3onds, 5 per Cent , £l,OOO I —pm • 4'o. .E1,000 ... * ........ A roßtioN P UNDS—CLOSIN4I r - -S * --rßeutiri ,•. A . • -so:s Aepublie, 6 per Cent _RICE hltetna4 Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 ...... arazir Do l A ztu 5 pereent e • 4 per Cent., 1852-58-60 • D o. ke• Do . per Cent., 1865 — 75 T \ - -,--ccount .. . / 3 -0. 4100 Bottd•s•.“ eiletios Ayres 6 per Cont — C, 4 7.? 2 Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) _— tutu 6 Per Cent ~._ _ D o ........... ,t) • 41 per Cent 0. per Cent A: D o , Do ~ B t o : II 1867 .... _ dis , 0 Scrip £4O paid _ c o°101b„ja0,"6 per Cent.' _ ta..p.n per Cent. _ fi t e a 3 per Cent., 1825 _ t ) , 5 , Per Cent., 1864 Cent --uurali 1,4,6 a n t i 3 ,, 7 per __-- 1867 _ DO. TN ( P ) 8 , .. Z it ,„ 111,,°• Do. Scrip, .05 pa t r . a _ , --- „'„°r New Consolidated, 1 per Con 4 -' "ell 7 r Cent .00, s ee _ Pe .b_ und issue 811 } 3 1 D o . 4100 Bonds 83 .1 . . 4 31 &to. be' 1864 _ Do. 4100 Bonds ~ P:o Coverrunent Railway Debentures ‘*rt,?. 45eePeorarnetents., 1 824:5, ex Coupons - i - - 33 ° ' °-Pons Q.aat Do, einala 5 ;.(,).€., .................. _ l alian 5 per 6)%t Irv . ' — DO, A ccount d ... Do. /ifitreunau'a' ..... ........... 52i at ' zi ca 3 per Cent . 1 waY Ditto for Account , Do. ..................... D o 8 ra 1864 — . „._ , per kierit. Anglo-French — Il'eltevklea 6 P er Cent. .. • b.zr.oorish Iraperi . al 5 per Cent 'er! G ranad a "° 3 per c _ b o •,, , en .............................. D ."elerred ......... _ ... p e .0 tAnd •trarrants (Hectares) - av i3ll 5 per Cent 1865 teo Account , 4 Per Ce;i . t . . 1.86. i ~ c. „ 4 per Cent. (Uribarren) 11b" 4 Per Cent., 1862 0 0 Pert .. : ...... ~.. ............... . .. r ,i rtkiguese 3 per Ct. 18 5 . 6,'6,'7, '9,'60,'2, it 4 , t ei ae 5 per Cent., 1822 £ Si ° 41 . Per Cont. 1850 ..... D o 4 1 871 Do 0 - per Cent., 1860 D .b 0 p3r Cent., 1859 o 5 per Cent., 1862 ,:i 2 1-1-e• per Cent, 1864 ............ 4-'.-T,'• A•nglo-Duteb, 1866 lilo,l-?°• do. .£6O paid 111„`, t lian 5 per Cent ,„' Bll 3 per Cent ... -,.. 4D, Le ., - n • 311 Do xT ' - ' 1 t . ...................... _ b --,ew Detelied i;cl,°. ccount Passive ........................... . 4„ O.A-ee4tnt .... " _2l i i si;tleh Cert. of Coup not funded ~:'° Account Cent " ec lieli 4 per . b e• 4 Cent. 1864 _- dis T , p t . ; ' ) . Seer P, £6O paid - I,"eu 6 Per Cent. 1854 .. , o, .4 . Decount .. ... . Do 6 per Cent. 1858 ;;°. per Do •„" 0 £lOO Bonds DO ' - '0 6 per Cent. 1862 , Account -`-0 .£lOO Bonds ... . 6 per Cent.,1863 •Do 5 per Cent., 1865 _ Do. Account ... 3li I . Do. G per Cent., 1865 — Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed — • Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, n par Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian. 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Go „ Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... — French Relates, 3 per Cent., Ex. 26f. — WOW.' 3 per Cent. 1851, Ex. 25f. Do. Account 514 I TWO O'OLOO 924 4 94 4 xd Consols, Money with div. Do. Account, ex div...... 7'HE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE. -. __._ r,~____. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN SlR,—The uninterrupted state of telegraphic coin munication with America is evidenced by the fac that in the course of yesterday 91 messages passed yielding £2,591 7s. _ In order, however, to mitigate as far as possible the effect of vague and exaggerated rumour I feel it my duty, as chairman of this company, to ask you to place the public in possession of the follow ing facts, namely : _ . • On the sth inst. it was reported that on the 4th inst., at 6.30 p.m., "a large iceberg grounded off the harbour of Heart's Content, Fewfoundland, about a mile and a half N.N.W. of Northern Point, and 200 yards east of the 1866 cable, in about 16 fathoms water. No danger with present wind." On the Bth inst. it was repdrted that " Iceberg has disappeared," but in passing over the cable of 1866 it seems that some damage must have been done, for the signals through the cable became im perfect, and have now ceased. The cable of 1865, however, is uninjured, and there is no reason to doubt that the injury to the cable of 1866 will be repaired without delay, or any considerable ex pense. _ _ _ I need only add that the capacity of the cable of 1865 exceeds the requirements of the business, great as it is, between this country and America.—l am. sir, your obedient servant, CHARLES E. STEWART, Chairman of the Anglo-American Telegraph Co. Anglo-American Telegraph Company, Limited, 26, Old Broad-street, London, E.C., May 17. Frightful Accident and Probable Loss of lob at Blackfriars-Bridge — This Day. We regret to state that one of those fearful acci dents which occasionally take place in carrying out large undertakings in the metropolis happened this morning at the works now progressing at Black friars for the building of the new bridge. Owing to the great excitement which prevailed, and the objection of the workpeople to give the least infor mation as to the cause of the melancholy event, but few particulars of a reliable character could be ob tained, but the following may, in the main, be relied upon as free from exaggeration :—lt seems that whilst the City police were on duty on the temporary wooden bridge, regulating the horse traffic, they had their attention directed to a number of men who were engaged in the upper stage of the works to carry out the building of the new bridge. At the same time there were nine other men employed at one of the " travellers," and with the aid of four " crabs" were working with all their energies in lowering an immense iron cylinder weighing some tons, for the purpose of a pier for the bridge being built therein. Whilst the men were laughing, talking, and some were even singing, their hilarity was suddenly brought to an end. As the enormous piece of iron work was de scending towards its bed in the river, the iron ch a i n by which the c yli n d er w as attached, without an y premonitory signs, snapped asunder, and the iron work, about the size of a large room, fell with a crash upon the stage below, striking the whole of the men employed at the works. Some were forced into the River Thames, and others were fearfully crushed. One poor fellow was taken out with his back broken. He, with two others, were removed away, but the first named was found, as might be suppose i, nearly dead. The others were also seriously injured. Another man was, after some time, extricated, and he was placed in a - cab, on the Surrey side of the bridge, and taken to Guy's Hospital, but it was there reported that, al though alive, not the least hopes, owing to the serious nature of the injuries he has received, can be entertained of his recovery. The person who became immersed in the water appears to have received no serious injury. The precise cause of the accident is not at present allowed to transpire. LATEST PARTICULARS. From inquiries just made at Guy's Hospital our reporter was informed that the unfortunate man, whose name i 3 Cranfield, who was so seriously in jured and was supposed to have died from the effects of those injuries, was still alive, but was not expected to live many hours. Another man named Smith is suffering from a compound fracture of one of his legs. A man named Coulson has one of his arms broken, besides receiving internal injuries. A man named Balam has received a fracture of the skull and is not expected to recover. The whole of the sufferers were taken to Guy's Hospital, and not to St. Bartholomew's as was first supposed. It se ems a perfect miracle that more persons had not been injured, for, at the time of the accident, there were not fewer than fifteen men at work, and the cylinder that fell weighed 130 tons. COPPER IN CHOLERA. The Journal des Connaissances Medicales pub • lishes a paper by M.M. Guichard and Duties on the possibility of curing cholera by administering copper. Dr. Burq, the originator of this treatment (for it was he who, in 1849, ascertained that coppersmiths and those in habitual contact with that metal were not subject to the disease), had been allowed to try it at the Hotel Dieu, but, it is said, with little or no success. However, as Dr. Burq was of opinion that the patients who had recovered were those in whom the absorption of copper had taken place, whereas it bad not in those who had died, it became worth ascertaining whether or not the organs of the deceased had absorbed the supposed specific. MM. Guichard and Duriez were therefore requested to examine some livers preserved in alcohol, which had been extracted from the bodies of certain patients that had died of the epidemic ; and they found copper to exist in each of these organs. Hence'they conclude : Ist. That in those fatal cases in which salts of copper were administered, the failure of the latter was not owing to their not having been absorbed, since chemistry proved the contrary ; 2d. That even in the chilly period absorption had taken place. The latter is a fact of general importance, because it shows that the faculty of absorbing medicines remains to the last ; as to the first conclusion, it is far from being so telling as might appear at first sight. Against the unsuccessful cases of the Hotel Dieu, Doc tor Burq may set off the signal success with which the application of his method was at tended at the hospital of Marseilles during the last choleraic invasion ; and if it should excite won der that the results were so different in the two places, we would remark that most probably few cases but those past all hope of recovery were' entrusted to Dr. Burq at the Hotel Dieu, such being generally the fate of experimentalists in medicine who have not yet succeeded in ob taining a great name ; while, on the other hand, at Marseilles, the method was tried with the full in tention of testing its powers to the utmost, and the result was such as to beat the old methods utterly out of the field. RAMSGATE HARBOUR. —A Parliamentary paper has just been issued respecting Ramsgate Harbour. From the statement of receipts and payments made by the Board of Trade for the .year ending 31st December last, issued yesterday, it appears that the receipts amounted to X 13,335 12s. 3d., including balance in hand on Ist January, 186 G, £1,838 ss. ld.; income from harbour dues, £7,730 2s. 8d ; income from rent of houses, £1,475 3e. Bd. ; dividend on stock, £2,143 13s. 43. ; proceeds of sale• of old stcres, £l4B 7s. Gd. On the other hand, the cost of maintenance was £10,051 16s. 2d.; superannuation allowances, £699 155.; leaving a balance in hand on 31st December, 1866, £2,58415. ld. From the receipts and payments on account of the benefit fund it appears that the receipts were £719 4s. 2d. ; the amount fixed for penaions, £489 4s. 31. ; and the balauce from last account advanced from Ramsgate Harbour fund, £229 19a 6d. SITA.RE IdARKETS.--- This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. I p aid. l Closing 1 Business Price. dens. Bristol and Exeter .... Caledonian Cambrian.. Cork and 8and0n...... Cornwall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & Ab. June &London, bcrip Certi Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. s tk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotland Great Northern D. A stock 78 SO 108 :08 40 15 4 6 05 88 70 72 103 WI 23 29 .1 0 ICB ilO 160 111 THE S UN, LONDON, SATURDA EvENING„ MAY 18, 1867. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. ► DO W-S TREE T. THE EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY OF THE FULHAM MAIL BAG.—The two men Channell (alias Shannon) and Neville were placed at the bar, on remand, charged with stealing the Fulhain mail bag, containing over 200 letters and newspapers, the property of her Majesty's Postmaster- General. Mr. King, from Coldbath Prison, proved a former con viction against each of the prisoners. Mr. Flowers said that being the case, if either of the pri soners had anything to say that would be the proper time for them to do so. Channel! (or Shannon) said ho wished for a remand, in order that ho might have a witness in attendance who could speak to the conduct of the detectives, who, in order to get their names up, were in the habit of employ ing people to induce others to commit felony, in order that they might take them into custody. In the present case, which required a good deal of looking into, the third party charged with being in the robbery, and who had been spoken of as the man who had got away--this wit ness, he believed, would prove that the detec tives lud given him half-a-crown Co make them both drunk, in order that they might commit the robbery, and when they had done so the third . man who was, acting for the detective was allowed to escape. He, therefore, wished for a remand, in order that this person might be called upon to attend and give evidence. Flowers thought th e w i tness cou ld b e i n attendance at Mr. the trial. Channoll said he wished he might to comp3llod to at tend and give his evidence before he was convicted, in order that he should stato what ho knew of the matter. The magistrate, therefore, remanded both prisoners for a week. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A WRETCHED ST ORY. —Margaret Warren, a meanly clad woman, was charged with assaulting her daughter, Margaret Warren, about 12 years of age. The complainant, a meek child, said—l reside with my father and mother at No. 28, Tower-street, and last night my mother struck me on the hetid with a saucepan handle and afterwards threw me down stairs. Mr. Knox—This is the letter the father writes to me:— "Your Worship,—l am very sorry to hear from you of the bad conduct of my wife towards me and the children. She has stripped my room of almost everything she can lay her hands on. She has taken the bed - things away, and I have nothing to cover me and the children with. I am laid up with rheumatism in my legs, and cannot walk across the room. She is very cruel to me now I can't help myself. Drink is her only study. She has commenced taking the things off the children's backs to keep them from school. She will not let them go to school for some reason or the other. lam nearly broken-hearted about her. She has been going on like this for 10 years, and she has only just come out of prison." Prisoner—Did I strike you ? Complainant—Yes, you did. Mrs. Margaret Russell, a widow, and landlady of No. 28, Tower-street, said—l was fetched thrao tina3s to the house from my other house owing to the prisoner's violence. The first time the prisoner was going out to sell a sauce pan, and I took it away amid gave it to her daughter. Shortly after I saw her attempting to strike her daughter with a saucepan handle, and I took it away from her. She had dragged her husband out of bed by the hair of his head, and ho was lying on the stairs. I bad not left the house more than a quarter of an hour when I was fetched again, and sho had then just thrown her daughter down stairs. The prisoner had once been sent to prison for three months at the instance of the Marquis Townshend for ill treating her children. Mr. Knox—ls the girl a good girl ? Mrs. Russell She is. Joseph Vinson—Last night I was callad to tho house, and found the girl had just boon thrown down stairs. I took the prisoner into custody, when she mado use of most filthy language. She has been imprisoned for three months for a similar offence. Mr. Knox —Was she drunk or sober ? Constable—Drunk and very violent. The prisoner, in the course of a rambling address to the magistrate, in which she talked of her "poor dear children" and her "poor sick husband," promised that if the magistrate would forgive her she would at once take the pledge. Mr. Knox—l think you may consider it very fortunate you aro not standing here on a charge of murder. You first strike your daughter with an iron saucepan handle, and then throw her down stairs, and you pulled your sick husband out of bed. I commit you for six months under the Aggravated Assaults Act, and at the end of that time you will find bail in £2O for throe months. Do. B stock.... Do. Nevi, is. at 25 pm Gt S, and W. of Ireland Western —Original Do. S. Val. Rail. gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Illid.—Oxior .Do. Newport Do. Hereford Lancashire Sc Yorkshirt Landon and "Rockwall Lon., Brigh., & S Coast Lon., Chat., and Dovet Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. dz North Western Lon. & South Western Shel., & Lincoln ! detropolltau et 130 1 Do. New Do. Extension lietropolitan Diatriot, L)o. do. do. ao. and St. John's Witi ttidland Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. tt Derby 111 d Kent North British _ _ Do. Ed., Pth., do Dun. N th. Eastern—.Berwlek Do. G.N•E purohabi Do. Leads ..... Do. York PG. Carlisle ..... Do. Stook. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 180! 5 . . Do. do. 1866 North Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Soot. N. E , Abcr. stock po. Scot, Mid. stock Shropshire Union South Devon south Eastern . 6taiaes, Wok., .tz Wok fair Vale Do. C Vale or Neagh Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha I West Cornwall BRITISH rossx Atiantlo & St. Lawrence j Botn.,Baroda,.aCen.ln. gu. 5 per cent Do. F shares Bunk) & Lake Huron Do. Preference Butf.,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3- Calcutta ei S. E., lira 'a t. e Town & Dock, ti u Deraerara, 7 p.c. per. p East. Bengal, gu., 5 du East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. J Extension -.rand Trunk of Canada Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.o Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred De. 2d PAL Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d I'rcf. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. stook Do. do. deterred Gt. I udia Pen. gua. sp.c o. Gua. 5 per cent Do. New gua. 5 p. a t. South of India gua. 5 per cent Do. 41 per cent Do Great Wee, of Canada.. Do. New • • Do. 6 p. c Bus. pay. 1873 00. 51 do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o .... Do. 41 do Do. 49 do . . Do. Fifth Extension Helix Cor. 6 p. c. Linde. Mel. & Hudson's Bay.. ' N.Rl.C'cla,6polstpf.bs. Scinde ..... . Do. Delhi co Do. do . / a. Do. Pun' aub.... Do.lndus St.Flot 100 tOO 100 all 100 tOO COLONIAL GO VICIINDIEN British Columbia, 6 per cent., Deo. 31, 1872..... Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 - Do. 6 p. o. Feb. & Aug.. Do. 5 p. c. Mar. & Sept 00. 5 p. c. Jan. & July Do. 5 p. c. Inscribed sk Cape U. Hope, 6 p.c.1873 Do.Apl.4tOct .1890-1900 Do. do 1880-9 u Do. Jan.&July, 1890.91 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April au cc 15 Oat., 1900.:. IC I ion, Nov. 068, 6 p. L Do. 1878, chi Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 uo. 1882, Mayls, Nov. Do. 1895, Feb. ctz Aug Natal goy. 6 per cent P N.B.Gor.6p.c.Ja.&July N. S.W. Gov. 5 pxs., 1866 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1876 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1893 New Zealand, 6 p. cent - Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Soutia Gov. 6 p. e sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c 6. Aus.Gov. 6 p,o 1868-9 Do. 1878 & upwards Vlo,Gov. 6 p.o. tia & July Do. do, April & Oct BEITIS Cam. Consol. Cold, lim Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon East Cant BrPa East Grenville East Gunnislake East Lovell E. WI Russell (TaYlstk Gam.dc StAubyn(G wen. Great Laxey, limited Great South Tolgus Great Wheal Busy G. Wheal Vor (lielstm Grenville Herod's Foot •••• Elingston Downs Margaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley flwyndy Iron Ore, 11w N e-.v Se con North Roskear N.Wh'l Bassett (Mogan North Wheal Crotty .• Prosper United Providence Uny Lelan t I S. Caradon (St. Cleer) South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. ( lilogan Stray Park Tin Cr0ft........... Vigra and Clogan, li m. West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard West Chiverton ...... West Beton .... ... ...... Wheal Bassett 'Mogan Wheal Buller atedruth Wheal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Seton .......... [Wheal Trelawney (Lis. MINES. 2.1.0 294 2.14.0 31 2.14.0 8.3.6 3.:).0 11.2.6 all 0.14.6 14.9.6 1 3.2.0 18.18.9 36.16.6 5 4 5a7.01 5 7 4 6 370 390 1 11 18 20 5 6 3 3 3 / 4 2 3 i a 9 10 31 31 4 5 18 17 17 19 11 11 31 31 2f SI 7 0 31 11 21 11d 35 45 11 13 41 5 2* 21 26 28 310 330 f 11 h 41 12 0 i 1 6 9 11 68 70 130.140 65 70 23 25 11 13 105 115 10 12 PREFEREN Bristol and Exeter 4 per cent stock, 81 Great Western, 5 per cent., rd., 75 North Eastern, York, 11. and Selby purchase, 10 PREFERENCE SNARES AND STOCKS. London and N.-Western 5 per cent., 107:4 FOREIGN RAIL WA e. Central Argentine, fl Dutch Rhenish. 18 tireat Luxembourg, 101 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 151 FOREIGN MINER. Anglo •Brazilian Gold, limited. 1 Chontales Gold and Silver Mining, 3 a Don Pedro. North Del Itcy, 21 f pm Pestarenna Gold, 3 Port Philip, DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 59 BANKS. Alliance, lira., 141 Australasia, 62 Bank of Egypt. 33,1 Consolidated, lim., 4 7-16 , Ditto, new, 41 Imperial Bank, Um.. 21 Imperial Ottoman, lim., 81 9 London Chartered Bans of Australia, 231 London and County, Ditto, new, 2.1 London Joint Stosk, 421 Loudon and \I estrninster394 Metropolitan Bank, lim , 7f National Provincial of Emriand, Ditto, and 3d issue, 40 Union of Loudon, 39 MISCELLANEOUS; Anglo-American Telegraph, 18 1 17/ k AtlAntio Telegraph, 48 9 Dit , o, 8 per cent., 80 21 Commercial Union, lusuranJe. 4 Cre lit Fbncier of Eugianti,llin . 21 1 Ebbw Vale, 121 E:oglish and Australian Copper, Hudson's Bay, .16i International Financial Society, lira., 2 7-16 Land Securities, I.ra , 3 L Alden bienerai Omni bus Company, Lim, 3 Lon on and Provincial Marine, 11 Nr.tional Discount company, 121 New Quebrada, 1 Peninsula and Oriental steam, 591 81 Royal Mill Steam, 93 Submarine Telegraph, Ditto, Scrip, Trust and Agency of Australasia, lira., 11 Viceroy of Eg ypt, Mot tzage Loan, 721 A despatch from Copenhagen states that the Minister of War has just purchased 50,000 Re mington guns in America. The Danish Govern ment has denied the news of the neutralisation of the Baltic in case of war, and that of a mission of the hereditary Grand Duke of Russia to Copen- hagen. The late John Thomas Robinson, Esq., whose personalty was sworn under £70,000, has bequeathed £15,000 to University Hospital. THAMES. THE SMOKE NUISANCE ACT.—Mr. John Guyat, the secretary of the GAS Products Utilising Company, Bow Common-lane, appeared before Mr. Partridge, for the second time, to answer two informations exhibited by Inspector Kennedy, of the K division, by order of Mr. Walpole, late Home Secretary. To the first, which charged the defendant with being convicted and fined £5 under the Smoke Insurance Act, in 1865, the defendant pleaded guilty. The second information charged the secretary of the company with having a furnace so constructed as not burn or consume its own smoke. Mr.Sandison, the engineer employed by the Government to carry out the provisions of the act, said there was one furnace on the company's premises very much of repair, and 13 other furnaces without any apparatus being applied to them for the consumption of smoke. There would be no difficulty whatever in constructing and applying a smoke-consuming apparatus to each furnace. John Resetigran, police - constabl e No. 683 A, said he had a l ong ti me p as t, an d h e h a d f requently seen dense volumes watched the defendant's chimney shaft almost daily for of black smoke issuing from it, and darkening and blacken ing the neighbourhood. The smoke had continued ascend ing in large quantities, sometimes for five minutes, and at other times for 15, 30, 60, and 78 minutes. The in habitants generally complained of the nuisance. The Secretary, in defence, said that the company he represented had been prevented by various causes from applying smoke-consumers to the furnaces. The com pany were anxious to comply with the law, and now all the materials were ready, and the necessary work would be proceeded with at once. Mr. Partridge said the Gas Products Utilising Company had been tolerated with great indulgence, and that for more than two years the nuisance had been in existence. The law could not be played with—nothing had been done. It was no use to have the materials for the proper apparatuses in the factory if they were not made avail able. The defendant had been already fined £5, and ho should now inflict a penalty of £lO and costs. The money was paid. Joseph Burke, cork manufacturer, of Wapping, was charged with a similar offence. Fined £5, which he paid. MARKE T S.—This day. —..- COVENT GARDEN. There is an increased supply of fruit and vegetables at this market, yet the demand is steady at our quotations. FRUIT—Pine apples, Os to Os; grapes, 5s Od to 108 Od per lb; apples, 4s Od to 8s Od per bushel; oranges, 4s Od to 9s; lemons, 7s to 9s per 100; strawberries, 6d to is Od per ounce. VEGETABLES—Cabbages le 3d to 2s ; caulifl owers , 3s V 6s per dozen heads; beet, VEGETABLES—Cabbages , U is Od to 22 ; celery, 2s Od to 2a Gd per dozen heads ; horseradish, 4s to 6s per bundle ; turnips, 6d to Od ; carrots, 6d to 8d per bunch ; cucum bers, Oa tO Os each ; small salad, Od to Od ; mushrooms, Os Od to Os Od per pottle; onions, 4s to 5s Od per bushel; endive 2s to 3s ; lettuces, 2s to 3s per score ; parsley, 6d to Bd, mint 4d to le per bunch ; potatoes, 75s to 180 s per ton. POULTRY. Goslings, 6s 6d to 8s Od; duckling; 5s to 6s; tame rab bits, is 6d to 2s Od ; wild do, 1s to ; ls 2:len; poilgdeoon.,s,ss7ddto; 10d each ; Surrey fowls (couple), lls to 128 ; do. chickens, 9s to lls • barn-door fowls, 6s to 8s Od • Guinea fowls, 7s to Bs. liglish eggs, is 6d per 100 - El fresh butter, Os Od to Os Od. NEWPORT. Por 81b. by the carcase. Beofi as Gd to 48 10d I Lamb ...... 6s 4d t o 7 s 4 d Mutton 3s 8d to 5s Od Pork ....3a 2d to 4s 4d Veal WHITECHAPEL. Per 81b. by the carcase. Beef 3s 4d to 4s 10d I Veal ...... 4s Cd to 5 s 8d Mutton 35 6d to 45 10 d I Pork ...... 3s 2d to 4s 2d Lamb HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 56 to 641hs, 2 4 d to 3d ; 64 to 72Ibs 3d to 3;d ; 72 to 801bs, 30 to 30 ; 80 to 881b s., aid to 4d; 88 to 961b5., 4d to 4id. Iforsehides, 9s to lO s Od ; calf skins (light), 28 to 4s; full, 7s Od; polled sheep, --8 Od to — s; half-brods, Os Od to Os Od ; downs, 7s Od to 8s 6d ; lamb, 3s 2d to 4s 2d ; shearlings, is 4d to Os Od. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from Sid to 10d. ; of household ditto, 7d. to 9d. per 4lbs loaf. HAY. SMITHFIELD —Mead o w bay, £ 3 Os to £4 5 s ; clover, £4 Os to Li 10s Od; and straw, £2 to £2 Gs per load. A moderate demand. C UMBERLAND —Mea do w bay, £3 Os to £4 is Gd ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £2 to £2 Gs per load. A fair supply. WHITECTIAPEL —MeadOW hay, £3 to £4 5s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £2 to £2 68 per load. A slow trade. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET —This Da The market opens with a steady tone. Sales probably 12,000 bales. The Gladiator, paddle sloop, Capt. Aplin, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday morning for Portland, with the Adman hospital hulk in tow. It was un derstood that the Actaeon, on arrival at Portland, would receive on board part of the boys on board the training ship Boscawen, sickness having again broken out among them. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, Guildhall, before Mr. Justice Mellor and a Columon Jury. • WELTZLEIN V. ZACCARIAH. Mr. H. James appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Kearns, Q.C., and another learned gentleman for the defendant. Mr. IL James, in opening the case, said that this was an action by his client for false imprison., went, and he claimed damages. The plaintiff was a young man, a native of Germany, but who had been in business for some years it, this country as a jeweller. The defendant was in partnership with his brother in the Edgware-road, and was also a dealer in jewellery. The plaintiff had different busi ness translctions with him,and had lent him money, and it appeared that they were on intimate and friendly terms - for about two years. In the course of his business, the plaintiff occasionally met a per son named L'ington, who stated to him that he was a commercial traveller, and that lie was employed by a person who dealt. in jewellery. Last October the defendant informed the plaintiff that Langton had applied to him for some jewellery, and be asked his advice as to whether he should let him have it. The plaintiff stated that his knowledge of Langton was limited, and advised him to make some inquiries respecting him before he parted with his goods. This the defendant did not do, and gave Langton articles to the amount of between £l5 and £2O, re ceiving a cheque purporting to be drawn .by the party by whom he stated he was employed, but it proved to be a forgery. The defendant wanted the plaintiff to pay him Langton's debt, and on his re fusing to do so gave him into custody on the 18th October on a charge of conspiring with Langton to defraud him. 'He was taken before the magistrate at Marlborough Police-court, and, after being re manded three times and detained in custody, he was discharged, there being no evidence against him. The magistrate would have taken bail, but, being a foreigner he could not procure it wit out applying to his wife's friends, a course which he did not like to adopt. The plaintiff was examined at length, and swore positively that he never recommended the defen- dant to let Langton have the goods, which the defendant alleged was the case. The evidence was not concluded' when we went to press. Naval and Military Intelligence. The screw steamship Una arrived at Spithead yes _ _ .terclay afternoon from Malta, having sailed thence on the 2d inst., with 40 invalided and eight time expired soldiers on board, from regiments serving in the garrison, accompanied by 12 women and 18 children, the whole under the command of Lieut. Bouchier, Ist battalion 60th Regiment, and in medical charge of Dr. Ross, 2d battalion Bth Regi ment. Six seamen and marines also came home from Malta in the ship. Immediately after the Una's arrival the troops and seamen were disem barked from her, and forwarded to the Royal Mili tary Hospital at Netley, the regimental depots, and her _Majesty's ship Victory, the Una afterwards re suming her voyage for London. The armoured iron-frigate Warrior, which was to have been commissioned at Portsmouth yesterday, has commenced coaling, and, with the assistance of the Steam Reserve stokers and seamen, it is hoped she may be completed by Tuesday morning, so that a preliminary trial of her machinery may be made off Spithead on the following day. The ship's decks are covered with her guns, carriages, and slides, which are being hurried on board by the aid of the muting sheers and their steam crabs. The Re serve men and labourers are coaling her, and a crowd of skilled workmen swarm her decks, giving those "finishing touches," to her fittings which ought to have been given a month ago. Everything is in confusion on board. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :--Dr. Whitaker, assist.-surg., to the Implacable ;. Richard 11. Tregenna, acting second-class assist.-engineer, to the Dryad. The Great City Robberies. Yesterday, at the Guildhall, Frederick Howe, a carpet cutter, employed at Messrs. Easten and Co.'s, 2, Fell-street, Wood-street, City, was charged with robbing his employers of a large quantity of cork carpeting. Mr. Easten informed the worthy alderman that he believed he should be able to prove that the prisoner was in collusion with the prisoners who were now under remand for committing very extensive rob beries upon his and other large City firms. Wm. Potts, 135, said from information he received he went that morning, about 11 o'clock, with Mr. Easten, to the Dispatch Coffeehouse, Little Knight rider-street, Doctors'-commons, and on the first floor he found a room covered with a cork carpet ing. He asked the landlord who put that down, and he handed him a receipt signed by theprisoner, dated March 2, for £5 Bs. 4d. Mr. Easten identified the carpet as his, and they then went to the warehouse in Fell-street, where be saw the prisoner. He showed him the receipt, and asked him if he knew anything about it, and he said he did. Witness asked him if it was accounted for, and he said it was accounted for in the book on the desk. He asked the prisoner what name it was entered to, and he said to Rogers. The prisoner looked through the book, but could not find the name of Rogers. Mr. Easten examined the book, but could not find the name. MrEasten then gave him into custody. The prisoner gave his ad dress at No. 1, Queen-square, Eldon street, and in a room occupied by a man named Pigeon he found a piece of 12 yards of cork carpet of a different pat tern. He also found a small piece of the same sort of goods of another pattern. At the station house the prisoner said that portion which covered the room in Little Knightrider-street was a portion of 36 yards he received from Mr. Driver, and that he would find a piece more in his room. It was not in his room,but in Pigeon' s room at the top of the house. • Prisoner said that all he had to say was that he had bought the stuff and paid for it. Mr. John Fasten, 2, Fell-street, 'Wood-street, carpet manufacturer, said the prisoner had been in his employment since the close of last year as a floor cloth cutter. He worked on the premises. He went with Potts to the coffeehouse in Little Kuightrider street, and identified the carpet referred to by the last witness, and also a border round the fire-place like the piece produced. They were his property, and had not been sold to the prisoner. Potts after wards showed the prisoner . the receipt, and he said the goods were entered, but the name he could not recollect. At'first he said in the name of Rogers, and then Driver. He was looking at the book all the time he was giving those answers. 'Witness brought the cash sales from the counting-house, but could not find the name of Rogers. He found an entry in the name of Howe, and he said, "That will be it." Wit ness referred to the day-book, and found it was a Brussels carpet to a Mr. Howe, in the Curtain-road. He then found an entry in the cash sales to the name of Driver for 38 yards of Cork carpet. He went to Mr. Driver's and found that his place was covered with 64 yards of that carpet, and an invoice given by Howe similar to that given in the other case. The prisoner said that was the entry, and that it had been entered by Buckley, one of their warehousemen now i❑ custody. His firm did nothing exeept with the trade. There is no entry of borders to the house in Knightrider-street. The price of the carpet was 3s. 3d. per yard, and Mr. Driver gave a fair price for them. He said the prisoner and 'Win. Buckley went together and solicited his custom. Altogether 104 yards had been taken, and 38 paid for. Arthur Pigeon, tailor, said he lived in the same house with the prisoner, who lived in a room on the ground floor. On March 2 the prisoner brought the roll of cloth to his room. He had made clothes for the prisoner and received 303. on account. He had promised him some pieces to go round the fireplace, and witness expected a few small pieces ; but on 2d March he brought the carpet and asked him to let it go off his bill. lie had not named the price it was to be. It had not been put down in his room. Potts here applied for a remand, and the prisoner was accordingly remanded to come up with the other persons uow in custody. THIRD -EINTION. SUN OFFICE, 7,l,o'CLocK TA CTLERSAUS---THIS EVENING. 6 to 4 agst Vauban (taken) 13 to 2 agst Van Atuburgli (offered—take 7 to 1) 7to 1 agst Marksman (taken and offered) 15 to 1 agst Julius (taken and offered) 16 to 1 agst The Rake (offered) 25 to 1 agst Grand Cross (offered) 1000 to 35 agst Dragon (offered) 1000 to 30 agst Palmer (taken and offered) 1000 to 30 agst D'Estournel (taken and offered) 1000 to 25 agst Hermit (taken) 50 to 1 Plaudit (taken and offered) 50 to 1 Gipsy King (taken and offered) 1000 to 15 Roquefort (taken and offered) 1000 to 15 agst Fitz Ivan (taken and offered) 1000 to 10 agst Taraban (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Master Butterfly (offered) 2000 to 15 agst Trocadero (taken) 1000 to 7 agst Ben Nevis (offered) 1000 to 5 agst Owen Gleudwyr (taken) 1000 to 5 agst Man of Ross (offered) PLACE BETTING. 2 to 1 on Vauban (taken) 6to 4 agst Van Amburgh (taken) 3to 1 agst Julius (taken) 6to 1 agst Grand Cross (taken) 7to 1 agst Dragon (offered) VICTORIA CLUB BETTING.--Tms DAY. A large muster, and things active, a deal of time being taken up in comparing over the Derby. Tho leading features were the advance of Marksman, who, at 10 to 1 was supported to win some thousands, and finally 8 to 1 was freely accepted. 6 to 4 was at one time the highest figure offered against Vauban, about whom 7 .to 4 was easily obtainable at close. Van Amburgh found friends at his price, but a point less was earlier in the day accepted; he, however, was in good demand; while the Rake re turned to 9 to 1, taken to money, it being generally believed that he will be amongst the starters. Beyond those before mentioned little else was done. The follow ing, however, were the current prices. The Oaks came under notice as below : THE DERBY. 7 to 4 agst Vauba❑ (taken and offered) 6to 1 agst Van Atnburgh (taken and offered) Bto 1 agst Marksman (taken freely) 9 to 1 agst The Rake (taken and offered) 1000 to 65 agst Julius (offered) 1000 to 43 agst Grand Cross taken and offered) 1000 to 45 agst The Palmer (offered) 30 to 1 agst Dragon (taken and offered) 1000 to 30 agst D'Estournel (taken) 40 to 1 agst Hermit (offered) 50 to 1 agst Gipsy King (offered) 50 to 1 agst Fitz-Ivan (taken and offered) 50 to 1 agst Plaudit (taken freely) 66 to 1 agst Roquefort (taken and offered) 1000 to 10 agst Tynedale (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Rescue (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Trocadero (offered) THE OAKS. 5 to 2 on Achievement (taken) 12 to 1 agst Hippia (taken) 15 to 1 agst Arapeile (taken) 25 to 1 agst Romping Girl (taken freely) DERBY AND OAKS. PREDICTIONS FOR THE EPSOM SUMMER MEETING. HEATHCOTE PLATE (Half a Mile). Life"—Timaru, Grimston, or Knight of the Garter. '• Sunday Times"—Xi, Cranbury, or Timarn. " Era"—Cranbury, or Sir Joseph Haw lewy's selected. " Field"—Xi, or Knight of the Garter. " Sporting Life"—Cranbury. "Sporting GazAte"—Timaru, or Grimston. " Sportsman"— Xi, or Cranbury. TATTERSALL STAKES (Three-quarters of a Mile). " Bell's Life"--Sweet Anne, Chapel Royal, Land lord, or Knight of St. Michael. " Sunday Times" --Knight of St. Michael, or Joseph Dawson's best. " Era"—Mr. Heathc.,ote's selected, or Kate Kear ney. " Field"—Knight of St. Michael, Brada mante, or Vice Versa. " Sporting Life "—Brown Tommy, Vice Versa, or Seringapatam. " Sport ing Gazette"—Sweet Anne, Seringapatam, Vice Versa, or Kate Kearney. " Sportsman"—Nine Elms, or Vixen colt. WOODCOTE STAKES (Sig Furlongs). " Bell's Life"—King Alfred or Michael;de Basco. "Sunday Times"—Lady High thorn or King Alfred. " Era"—Speculum or Lady Highthorn. " Field"— King Alfred or Lord Palmerston. " Sporting Life" —Lady Highthorn or Speculum. " Sporting Gazette " Lady Highthorn. " Sportsman " Hatchment, King Alfred, or Michael de Bosco. Rous STAKES (One Mile). " Bell's Life "—Leases, Sweet Anne, Lady Rose hill, or Seringapatam. " Sunday Timos"--Tyne dale, Leases, or Archimedes. " Era "—Ahimedes or Longdown. " Field"—Longdown. " Sporting Life"—Longduwn or Bradamante. "Sporting Gazette"—Sweet Anne, Seringapatam, or Tyndale. " Sportsman"-,-Tynedale or Leases. THE DERBY STAKES (Mile•and-a-half). " Bell's Life "—Vauban to win, Marksman and Julius for places. " Sunday Times"—Vauban, 1 ; Van Amburgh, 2 ; Marksman, 3 ; and Julius, 4. " Era"—Vauban, 1; Marksman, 2 ; and Julius, 3. " Field"—Vauban, 1 ; Grand Cross, 2. " Sporting Life" --Vauban or Van Amburgh to Win ; Julius and Marksman to fight out for places. " Sporting Gazette"—Vauban. " Sportsman"—Vauban to win ; Julius and Fitz-Ivan for situations. BENTINCK PLATE (Three-quarters of a Mile.) " Sunday Times"—Staghound or Knight of St. Michael. " Field"—ditto. " Sporting Life"— Seringapatam, Pyrrhic, Her Ladyship, Diamond, or Staghound. Ersom TOWN PLATE (Half a Mile.) " Sunday Times"—Herennianus. " Field"— Poleaxe or King of Spades. " Sporting Life"— Professor Anderson, Tina, Herennianus, or Cathe rine Hayes filly. EPSOM FOUR YEAR OLD STAkES (One Mile and a Half.) " Bell's Life," " Sunday Times," " Sporting Life," and "Sporting Gazette"—Artesian. " The Era" and " Field"—Monarch of the Glen. Two YEAR OLD STAKES (half a mile). All of them go for Lady Elizabeth. SHIRLEY STAKES (one mile and a quarter). The whole of the papers select Bismarck. GRAND STAND CUP (one mile and a half). "Bell's Life"—Midwife or Dunsany. " Sunday Times"—Knight of the Crescent, Flying Scud, or Midwife. " Era" —Sealskin or Flying Scud. " Field"—Knight of the Crescent, Strathconan, or Act ea. " Sporting Life"—Actrea, Midwife, or Pyrrhic. "Sporting Gazette"—Knight of the Crescent or Mr. Ten Broeck's best. Share] 20 et at 100 89 91 41 42 `24 27 28 28 122 123 .55 67 16 17 8 12 112 H 3 75 76 45 18 116 L 7 103 105 1)6 tO7 7s/ 81 3$ 35 .4 18 10, lu2 59 61 9k 9% 32 33 7 8 p 110 /13 1 ty 68 70 112 115 55 57 44 46 82 53 86 9 180 /53 2 ! 36, SIONS. 67 N 100 102 id ip 4 4i 7h Si 50 55 101 103 101 IG3 108 10J 20 22 85 83 57 59 53 54 52 51 37 40 23 25 WS 10 I t, 100 102 91 93 121 13k 1.: 124 1 , 8 92 81 84 _ 2}hi 1 100 102 92 94 S 5 90 82 85 97 99 97 98. 1 I 97 98 T SECUIL 99 101' 08 100 100 102 85 90 87 89 10/ 104 105 107 104 108 102 101 DI ;.3 ICI 103 ILO I 8 102 104 103 105 103 106 105 107 98 IGO 90 1,8 91 93 85 h 7 101 102 81 86 96 98 91 e 3 108 108 107 109 101} 30 29. 30 104 112 k 13 421 3 2f 125 j 3 59 n B 4 18 1131 13 76 47 1181 1 19i 109 j 8/ 9, 551 11 5 il 1021 1061 9 81 1091 1 151 } U2} 11 2 1021 ITIES. THE OAKS (one mile and a half). " Bell's Life"—Achievement, 1; Hippia, 2 ; Arapeile, 3. " Suuday Times"—Achievement, 1; Hippia, 2 ; Arapeile, 3. " Era"—Achievement, 1; Hippia, 2 ; Arapeile, 3. " Field"—Achievement, 1. ; Hippia, 2. " Sporting Life"—Achievement, 1; Ilippia and Arapeile for places. " Sporting Gazette."—Achievement to win ; Bumble Kite, llippia, and Scour de Charite to fight for places. GREAT SURREY FOAL STAKES (One Mile.) " Bell's Life" and " Sunday Times."—The Skipper. " Era."—Cannon Ball or the Skipper. " Field."—Newland. EPSOM TWO YEAR OLD PLATE (Three-quarters of a Mile). " Bell's Life."—Timara. " Sunday Times." — Lady Elizabeth or Timaru. " Era."—Herenian - us or Timaru. " Field."—Speculum or Kiug Alfred. " Sporting Gazette."—Timaru. HEADLEY STAKES (Three-quarters of a Mile.) " Bell's Life."—Ninny or Offering. " Sunday Times" and " " Field."—Offering. 7. The President has appointed J. T. B. Cowan, Esq., special secretary to sign land warrants, vice Mr. Neal appointed Deputy Commissioner of Education. . . Herr Ha4man, who for some years past has been refugee iu New York, has been elected Burgomaster of Pesth. FRAN - OE. r-a.~e PARIS, May 18. A brilliant soiree was given yesterday evening by Lord Cowley, at which the Emperor and Empress, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Oscar of Sweden, and numerous distin guished personages were present. A SPORTING BARBER. -,,6-- We extract the following amusing sketch, "which trents of Mr. Daniel Essom and other matters," from the current number of &ills Magazine : Progress, like poverty, meets with strange bedfellows. The person who daily takes Heatherthorp by the nose, and keeps its locks fashionably trimmed is a curious admixture of sport and earnest. "Mr. Daniel Essom, Hairdresser and Hatter. Schools contracted for," variously known as " Mr. Essom"," " Friend Daniel," and "Little Dan," is a marvel. He is a barber of the conventional type, in so far as ho is brisk, dapper, oily, pragmatical—but London training on Yorkshire breeding has given him a mind of his own and the pluck to enunciate his opinions without fear or favour. Ho loves a bit of racing ; revels in the study of a complicated handicap; has strong views on breeding; bets; and—but I must not enumerate his other • characteristics in this sentence. By dint of attending the Fleet-street forums an entire season, when he was a very young man, he picked up radicalism, learnt to talk politi cal economy, and to rail against Church-rates. Queer things to shake hands with each other—Racing and Radi calism ; but in Daniel Essom's regards they were equal and their community produced an eccentric result. He did not sing with Captain Macheath "How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear charmer away." But he most certainly lived out the sentiment. His shop has always been the Tattersalls' of Heatherthorp (or, as he would put it, thinking of Manchester), its Post Office . Hotel, thither flocking a racing clientele on th e lo o k- ou t for good things, the parochially disaffected, the hungerers and thirsters after political emancipation, and the putters-down of Church-rates. Many an amused hour have I passed in little Dan's shop. To watch the varied play of feature as the sporting-poli tical hairdresser dismissed one interest, on the instant, to espouse another, was in itself a liberal physiognomical education. Ono of his sturdiest friends was old Barjonar and yet the two opposites (the poles could not be wide, asunder) seldom parted company without breaking a lance on the subject of racing. When Sir Harry Sursingle's bay colt Lightning. (by Meteor out of Electricity) landed the Derby—Sir Harry is Tory member for the Riding of which Heatherthorp is a not unimportant parliamentary morsel—the vicar, who, it was subsequently whispered, smelt a rat, was quietly got out of the way " to visit a distant parishioner," and a celebrated society of change ringers bidden to Heatherthorp to startle hill and dale with bilging, if not musical, news of the colt's vic- tory. The grey steeple of St. Martin's-the-Less fairly shook again as the ringers, specially primed for the occa sion, "rang a peal of grandslro trebles consisting of 1867 changes"—for so the jolly clamour was described in the succeeding Saturday's "Bell" -and the "grandsiro trebles' were at their very loudest, when Nathan Barjona entered the shop of Mr. Daniel Essom. He was on his way to " Meeting." The hairdresser, I should say, had devoted the greater part of the afternoon to sherry and—Light .ning. " Daniel," said Nathan, "I'll trouble thee to shave me, if"—looking the operator's unusually bland and rosy visage curiously over—" thy feelings will permit thee." " D—, that is, never mind my feelings, Mr. Barjona," brusquely replied Daniel, somewhat nettled at the quiet tone of sarcasm adopted by the querist, "I cm shave, sir," —tying a cloth rather roughly round his patient's throat - " I can shave, sir; and what is more, I have a nerve of iron—of i-ron, sir"—giving the cloth an addition I twist. " Doubtless" replied the Quaker, who vas nearly chok ing, " the muscles resemble tke metal in question, but un less thou desirest to be guilty of strangulation exercise more care." " Oh ! it's all Fght," rejoined Dan. Ho commenced the saponaceous process. Presently the dialogue was resumed. " Art thou aware of the, meaning of this unseemly cla mour at tho steeple-house ?" 3 No." . 4 Has the parson baen made a bishop?" '' Not that I know of." "Is—do b-be less lavish of thy lather, Daniel—is the vicar about to journsy to another portion of the vineyard, where the grapes hang in thicker clusters ?" •' Can't say," replied Daniel, shortly, beginning to strop a razor with exemplary fury. ' "Thou art strangslyobtuse this evening, fri .nd Daniel." "Well, then," observed Daniel, speaking with great de liberation, as he proceeded to scrape his pertinacious in terrogator's chin, "you remember, I dare say, that your principal objection to the rates last year was—pray don't speak, or I shall cut you—was about the money paid to the belltingers. You properly contended that it was an illegal outlay, or, if legal, not fairly earned. Very good ; the ringers are aftaid you may repeat your objection at the next vestry meeting, and they have met to ring off arrears. They don't expect to get through till midnight! You re side near the church—" The Quaker could stand it no longer, but. hastily wiping his face rushed from the shop. "1 think I had him there," soliloquised Dan, as ho watched Nathan on his way to Meeting. " The old codger is sound enough on some points; but he never will under stand what it is to land asoto 1 chance. Lightsaing, my boy, I never fancied your owner; but you're a beauty!" Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, visioiTihampton.....May 23. Ditto, via Marseilles Ditto, via Panama •••••••• Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video June 4. Ditto, by French packet alay 22. Cape Verde, by Brazil packet June 4. Cape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. Helena May China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton May 20 Ditto,. via Marseilles. May 28. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India, via Southampton May 20. Ditto, via Disraeli es May 23. Malta, Egypt, &c. • •• May 20. Ditto, Marseilles.. May 23 Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton. May 20. Ditto, via Marsei lea May 20. Newfoundland ..May 22. Portugal June 4. Ditto, by private ship to Oporto Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, dtc., by British packet May 2'. Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet May 17. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe June 3. West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha mas) Cubi and Mexico ...May 29. Baha:nas, via New York May 30. Bermuda, via Halifax THE DEATH OF ADMIRAL RlNGGOLD.—Cadwal lader Ringgold, Rear-Admiral of the United States Navy, died after a brief illness at his residence, in New York, on ' the 29th April. He was a native of Maryland, and was born in 1802. He entered the Navy in 1819, and on the 17th of May, 1828, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, in which capacity he remained until the 16th of July, 1849, on which date he was commissioned a Commander. For a short time he was in command of the surveying and exploring expedition to the North Pacific and China seas. On the 2d of April, 1856, he was further promoted to the rank of Captain, and held this position when the rebellion began. In the early part of the war he was stationed on the blockading fleets on the Atlantic coast, and took part in the operations of the navy against Port Royal and other Southern ports. In July, 1862, he was promoted to the rank of Commodore, and served in that position on the active list until December, 1864, when ho was retired. A short time ago he was pro moted to the rank of Rear-Admiral. At the time of his death, Admiral Ringgold was superintendent of ironclads at New York. The funeral ceremony was performed at Trinity Church, the remains being carried in a hearse from the family residence in Union-square. The proces sion passed down Broadway, the marine band playing wreaths ls of a ff r o v t, s. the "Dead March in Saul." The coffin was borne into a Vodges, Jackson, an d But terfield, A the church by twelve sailors of the Vermont, and f deceased. The ra the wer Bell and a fo n l a lo s w t e ri d ng b h y am, the Gener pall-bearers, Commander Eagle, and Colonel Powell. Th e co ffin, which was one of oak, covered with bl ac k cloth,or aopdla epauletsced several o Ili aF or namented with silver fringe, was deposited in front of -7 altar. with On theca t p l , telidwere sword, plate bore the following inscription :---.." Ca dwallader Ring gold, Roar-Admiral United States Nay, 1867, aged 64 years." On the termination died Ap r il 29, of the f unera l services the remains were t rans f erred to lon Ex press Company, who sent them by the the Adams Ex- Baltimore, where they will be interred six p.m. train to Cemetery, in the vault which already in the Greenmount of Major Ringgold, the admir al ' s eady contains the body battle brother battle of Pal Alto. , who fell at the Judge Kelly will not foll through the Atl ant i c State ow Senator Wilson Orleans, and return thr s : but will go di rect l y to New Georgia, and Tennessee, s )e e u Mississippi, Alabama, tuuity. Senator Stewart,' a of ing wherever h e has oppor- Mississippi, and will speak at Nevada, h as s t arte d f or several places on the way. J. Glancy Jones has gone South , to make D emocra ti c speeches i to the Afri can element. Congressional Republi can committee has a l arge clerical he forceat work, correspond ing with the Union men of the South and sending them documents for circ • ulataon, and the Southern campaign glows more spirited daily. THE EPSOM GALLOPS. In our Monday's editions we shall give full de tails of the gallops of the several Derby, Oaks, and other candidates for the ensuing great Surrey turf carnival, specially supplied to us by one of the most popular sporting writers of the day. 190 100 100 Ito 100 100