The Sun. — London, England, 1870-05-04 00:00:00

MORE BRIBERY OF OFFICIALS. Some few weeks ago we reported the detection of the Admiralty master-butcher at Gosport in the offence of receiving presents of money from the contractor of fresh meat. We regret to have to record another case of that corruption which we fear is wide spread in the service, and which the present administration at the Admiralty has set itself to cure. Within the last few days the master butcher at Plymouth has been convicted of systematically taking presents from the contractor in consideration of " value received," or rather in consideration of his negligence of official duty. It is satisfactory to know that, as in the Gos- port case, the offender at Plymouth has confessed, though not until after conviction. We are glad to learn that both have been dismissed the ser• vice. The Admiralty, at the same time, have entirely altered the system under which bribery seemed almost to be encouraged. The detection of these plague spots in the Government service is another proof of the advantage of the business affairs of the Admiralty —we should like to add the War-office—being in the hands of a business man like the hon. member for Montrose, to whose great energy and knowledge of men and of business the present Government and the country are so much indebted. —Echo. OBSTACLES TO TEMPERANCE. • - - Some concise remarks u p on th e various difficulties . which lie in the way of a general spread of temperance through the British nation were made at the meeting of the National Temperance League by the President, Mr. Bowly. They must, he said, strive to banish that igno rance and delusion which still clouded and, prejudiced the minds of many thousands of well-educated people, whe believed that intoxicating drinks were often necessary either to promote their health, to aid their strength, or to contribute to their innocent enjoyments. But it had been proved by long experience as well as by science that intoxicating liquors were in no case necessary. Much ignorance prevailed as to what were intoxicating drinks, and what was their proper use. When he should havi the happiness of hearing ladies after coming from their parties say, " Those vulgar people had wine on their table," then he should expect to see a change in the habits of the people with respect to drinking. By whom was the present custom maintained ? By person!, of the higher classes, who acted under the delusion that the use of wine was fashionable and a mark of refinement. He believed, however, the League had in some measure weakened that impression. No doubt it at first required some degree of moral courage to suffer one's friends to be seated around the table drinking water rather than wine. A great obstacle also presented itself to the progress of total abstinence in the practice of medical men. Dr. Higgin bottom, who was now in his eighty-second year, and who had adopted the system, had written to him a letter in which he expressed his regret that a larger number of the members of his profession did not also adopt it in theb practice, and become its advocates on the platform. But there was another difficulty in the way of any rapid advancement in the adoption of total abstinence—namely the want of a more cordial co-operation on the part of thu Ministers of religion. In America almost every minister of every denomination was a total abstainer. Another delusion was that they could have national drinking with out national drunkenness. He believed that to be a Brea ; mistake. All experience shewed it to be an error. Le. it, therefore, be impressed upon their minds that if the, must have this national habit of drinking, they must also have the concomitant vices and misery of drunkenness. On Monday a man, whose Christian and surname are Louis Napoleon, was brought up at the Liverpool Police-court charged with being drunk and disorderly, for which he was ordered to pay the customary fine of ss. and costs. SNOW IN YORKSHIRE.—May came in very roughly. Three thunderstorms, with snow and hail, trae versed the North and East Ridings on Sunday. At night the temperature fell below freezing point, and there was snow on Monday on the high moors. Mn. PEABODY'S WILL.—The will of the late George Peabody was admitted to probate on the 13th of April in Essex county, Massachussetts. It appears that he left only about 150,000 dols., the whole of which is bequeathed to his relatiVes. DRY SERAIONS.—To be dry, this seems the most unpardonable of all sins in the preacher. Who spmpa thises not with both pastor and people when hearing that story of the dripping clergyman coming out of the rain into the old woman's cottage ? " I'm wet through, Nanny, you see." " Ah, never mind, sir (cruel retort), yell be dry enough when ye get into the pulpit."—People's Magazine. MEXICAN AFFAIRS.—News from Mexico published by the New York papers, shows that the position of affairs is not much improved. The authorities at Mazatlan seized an American steamer, the Forward, on the plea that she was employed by General Vega. The captain protested and claimed 1,000 dols. a day for her detention. It was not known what course the American authorities would take in the matter. Colonel Lucas Pinto, an adherent of Lozada, surrendered himself to the authorities, and was ordered to appear before Governor Rubi. On the way there he was shot. The Legislature demanded an explanation, but the Governor pleaded ignorance. NEWFOUNDLAND AND THE MOTHER COUNTRY.— The Newfoundland House of Assembly has addressed Earl Granville on the withdrawal of troops from the colony. The memorialists state that capitalists come to Newfoundland to make fortunes but go to England to spend them, thus contributing to the revenue of the mother country, while they leave Newfounnland poor. The colony, says the address, is unable to provide for its own defence, as the bulk of its property is owned in Great Britain. The colonists support their claims by pleading the devoted loyalty of the people and the position which Newfoundland occupies with regard to the Atlantic Cable. Meanwhile the other British American provinces are somewhat unsettled in their mutual relations. Prince Edward's Island has, through its legislato:s, rejected the resolution in favour of confederation with Canada by 19 to 5, and the Nova Scotia House of Assembly has unani mously passed a resolution condemning the "national policy " of the Canadian Government. A SINGULAR WEDDING.—Much excitement was caused in a district of the ancient city of York, known as Walmgate, where the Irish most thickly congregate, by the marriage, on Thursday, of a couple who, like the city, have earned the title of ancient. The happy swam was William Green, a chip hawker, of the age of 83, who had lost a wife within the last six months ; and the bride was a widow of the name of Kendall, whose husband died but a few months ago, and who was just one summer short of "three score and ten." The church of St. Dennis, at which the hymenial knot was tied, was crowded during the cere mony, and on the happy couple leaving they were saluted with a perfect shower of emblems of good luck in the shape of old shoes. The weight of one of these, however, smashed the cab window, and he who hurled it had to "pay the piper," and had it not been for the police the bride and bridegroom had promise of rough usage. The church bells rang in honour of the marriage of the lovely couple, who are spending the honeymoon in the parish which has witnessed them made one. NOTHING NEW.—Some remarkable cases, once more testifying that there is nothing new under the sun, were told to the medical society of London. Mr. Francis Mason said that in 1790 there was a girl who lived for two years without eating or drinking, and alluded to the case of another girl, who, in 1807, was known as the sleeping beauty, remaining in a state of complete somnolence frequently for nine days. He spoke also of remarkable cases of voracious appetite, a patient eating 379 pounds of food in six days, and of a woman who ate every day two, and sometimes three, quartern loaves, besides large quantities of beefsteak. He related a case of more recent date, 1838, similar to that of the Siamese twins. The division of the uniting band was contemplated, but the children died before the operation could be performed. An inspection after death shewed how improper such a proceeding would have been, for although there were two hearts, there was but one enve loping membrane or pericardium. STORY OF A £5 NOTE.—One evening in the last month a lady called at the shop of one of our Wrexham tradesmen, and in payment of a small account due to him tendered a£s note of the Bank of England. He took the note in his hand to go upstairs to the patent Milner for the necessary change. It being dusk at the time, he called to his servant girl to provide him with a light. She went in a hurry, here, there, and everywhere, looking for a piece of paper to light the candle with, but could find none. Her master, who is a man of authority, and accustomed to have his orders obeyed instanter lost his temper by her delay, and, as the sequel shews, this caused another and to him more serious loss. Knowing his customer was waiting, and wishing to be " prompt at every call," he, hurried back to his shop to procure a light, but as he went, in his hurry, he left the note on the kitchen table. The girl still continued searching, and, coming to the place where her master had been standing, found on the table the very thing she wanted—a bit of paper. In a twinkling it was twisted up and thrust into the fire. Her master came back the next moment, and seeing the lighted paper in her hand, and also ob serving that it gave a dun indifferent light, he took it out of her hand, and with a " pshaw " threw the piece of "flimsy" into the fire, never dreaming it was the £5 note. The note was instantly missed, but was nowhere to be found, and the truth was at last made evident that the girl had made a light of the note, and that the master completed its destruction by throwing the remnant into the fire. The tradesman's chagrin was great when he had to draw from his coffers almost the whole amount of the note and hand it over to the lady. For several days the ghost of the note haunted him, and to get rid of the troublesome destroyer of peace it was resolved to " take its number " and. bring it before the authorities. But diligent in quiries failed to discover the figures, and it was determined to lay before the powers that gave it birth a round unvarnished tale." For this purpose a memorial was drawn up to the governors and directors of the Bank of England, Threadneedle-street, London, and signed by some of the moat influential men in the town. When it was presented for sio - nature to the gentleman from whose house the note had been paid, he in the most handsome manner expressed his sorrow for the luckless tradesman, and signified his intention of making good half the loss in case the Bank of England would gi ve I no hope. n due time the memorial was presented to the powers who reside in Threadneulle-street, and an answer came down which dashed to the ground all hopes of help from that quarter. It stated that the rule of the company was, " Never to pay a note unless they had the means of identifying it." All hope of securing the " promise to pay " being demolished by this reply, the gentlemau referred to, at once handed over half the loss to the unlucky tradesman. —Wrexham. Advertiser. To the story of our Wrexham contemporary there is only to be added an expression of wonder that a£s note could not have been settled " with less trouble. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1870. THE VIVIAN-WATERF ORD AFFAIR. TUESDAY. This case came before the Court again to-day. Captain Vivian petitioned for a divorce from his wife, on the ground of her adultery with the co-respondent. The decree was made as long ago as last July, but there having been an intervention by Colonel Leslie, the rule absolute stood over until last week. When the case came on, Colonel Leslie withdrew, and an adjournment for a week was ordered, to give the Queen's Proctor time to decide as to the necessity of his intervention, the con dition being that if such intervention was not made the decree would be made absolute to-day. Mr. Archibald now appeared for the Attorney-General and the Solicitor- General (Sir J. D. Coleridge, Q.C.) and Mr. Prentice, Q.C., on behalf of Captain Vivian. Mr. Archibald said he had to ask on behalf of the Attorney-General that a further period of a fortnight should be given, in order that other inquiries might be made. The order was made on the 26th April, and the notice had only been served on the Queen's Proctor last Thursday. He had since made inquiries, and had re ceived information which led him to the conclusion that it was a case in which he should intervene, but he had not yet had an opportunity of completing those inquiries, or of makin g c , a thorough investigation of the case. The Queen's proctor had had the information in his possession before the Attorney-General, who had directed him to make this application. His lordship would remember that there had previously been an intervention, which was only withdrawn on the 26th April, when the order was made, and by which the rule would become absolute to-day, if Queen's . Proctor did not intervene. . . The Solicitor-General said it seemed to him that this was a matter which must be left to his lordship's discretion. Appearing as he did for Captain Vivian, it would ili become him to do anything to shirk the fullest possible inquiry. At the same time he thought there should be a limit to these things, and when his friend said that the intervention of Colonel Leslie was not likely to attract the attention of the Queen's Proctor, he should have thought the effect would have been quite the reverse. The very circumstance that a person in the position of Colonel Leslie was intervening he should have thought would have led him, knowing that he was a relation of the co-respondent, to have made inquiries which would have compelled him one way or the other—either to have intervened to have decided to ab stain from doing so. There was no suggestion that these inquiries or the information which had reached him was not precisely the same as that which had been open to him for months, or that it was not exactly the same as that which was in the possession of the person who had previously intervened, and who on the last day, and without assigning any reason, withdrew. The only suggestion which was made was that more time should be given, in order that. this same information might be considered in another point of view, and his client was to have the misery of going through this over and over again. Added to this, there would be the additional expenses, because the costs of the Queen's Proctor would be paid by the country, and whatever might be the result not one penny of Captain Vivian's costs would be paid. The whole case was a very clear one, and there really was nothing in it which could not have been mastered in a few hours. After some further discussion, his lordship intimated his opinion that, in the interests of all parties, the appli cation should be granted. Sir J. Coleridge thought that, at any rate, a week's ad journment would be long enough. Lord Penzance said he thought perhaps that would be long enough, but at the same time, if the Queen's Proc tor was not clear as to what was his duty, at the end of a week he would of course intervene, and they would be brought to the same position as they were in now. Sir J. Coleridge said he supposed he must consent to any time they asked for, if it was for six months. (A laugh.) If he did not he should be under an imputation. Lord Penzance : No, not an imputation. The adjournment for a fortnight was then agreed to. CENTRAL CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE. TUESDAY. A council meeting of this body was held to-day, at the Salisbury Hotel, Salisbury-square, Colonel Tomline, M.P., in the chair. There was a large attendance. The principal business of the meeting was to consider " The proposals of the Government with reference to Local Taxation," and upon this subject the business committee had drawn up resolutions In the first place protesting against the present unjust exemption of personal property, secondly that no read justment would be acceptable not provided by a thorough inquiry whether the objects now locally provided for or in contemplation are of local or of national obligation. The third resolution protested against any such measures being accepted as a settlement of the grievance to which both land and house property are now subjected. These resolutions were discussed at considerable length, all the speakers agreeing that the burdens of local taxa tion pressed very unjustly on real property. Sir GEORGE JENKINSON, Bart., M.P., moved, and Mr. WEBB seconded, as an amendment —" That although in view of such taxation as must always remain strictly local taxation, it is undoubtedly advisable to widen the limits of the rateable area by including woods, mines, and Go vernment property, as proposed by the Government ; and even supposing it be found expedient also to charge some portion of the rates on the owner, nevertheless this Council still enter their protest against any such measures, taken alone, being accepted as a settlement of the grievance to which both land and house property are now subjected, and which grievance will remain a standing injustice until all property is made to contribute its fair share towards local taxation." The amendment was negatived, and the original resolu tion was carried unanimously. It was also agreed that the resolutions should be forwarded to the Government. The next subject was the further consideration of the provisions of the Elementary Education Bill, but it was deemed advisable again to postpone the discussion. It was agreed that a petition, signed by the Chairman, should be presented to the House of Commons against the abolition of hawkers' licenses, proposed by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer in the Budget. Another petition to the House of Commons was like wise agreed to, in favour of retaining game certificates, and against the imposition of a tax on guns, which farmers and market gardeners found it necessary to use on their premises for the protection of their crops. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the busi ness, and the Council adjourned till the 31st instant. THE MURDER OF A. RUSSIAN NOBLEMAN. After several lays days examination of the witnesses the trial of the murderers of M. de Zohn was been brought to a conclusion at St. Petersburg. The Attorney- General Bajenoff, who conducted the prosecution summed up the chief facts elicited, and said it was undeniable there had been an attempt to poison the unfortunate councillor, though it was evident he could not have swallowed the poison. There was then an attempt at strangulation, when the murderers saw the poison was too slow, and finally they resolved to kill their victim by beating him on the head with irons. The object of the crime was theft, as M. de Zohn, who was a visitor in Maxime Ivanof's house, had a large sum of money with him, and was intoxicated. Ivanhof himself was the principal criminal, though the other prisoners were accessories. The cause of the prisoners was powerfully defended by their counsel. The advocate for. Maxime Ivanof was one of the most talented of Russian barristers, and the comae' for Alexandra Ard6lef, the miserable woman who played the piano and sang to drown the victim's cries, rested his defence on . her ignorant and degraded condition. Four of the prisoners, including Alexandra Ardeletwere minors,the youngest being only 16. The defence was concluded at ten in the evening. The president then summed up, and at midnight the jury men retired, returning at three in the morning. They. found that Maxime Ivanof was the author of the murder without premeditation, and the others were accomplices. The court, after having deliberated nearly twohours, pro nounced their judgment. Maxime and Alexander Ivanof, John Fendrof, and Alexandra Ard6ief, were sentenced to forfeit all their civil rights, moreover, Maxime Ivanof was sentenced to twelve years' hard labour in fortresses; Alexander Ivanof and John Fedorof to four years' hard labour in the mines ; Alexandra Ard6ief to be de ported to the most distant region of Siberia ; Anthony. Gratchef to three years' imprisonment; and Daria Tour bine to ei b , Tht months. When the judgment was pro nounced Maxime Ivanof was very pale and nervous ; the other prisoners heard their sentences with calmness, and said they acknowledged the justice of the verdict. Thus ended a trial almost without precedent in the criminal annals of Russia, and which has excited throughout its course the liveliest interest. Lord Garvagh, a Conservative, will, it is said, be offered the Lord-Lieutenancy of Derry county, vacant by the death of the late Mr. Acheson Lyle, Q.C. LADY MORDAUNT.—The Lancet, referring to Dr. Tyler Smith's report as to the health of Lady Mordaunt, says :—" In an evening contemporary, Dr. Writer con firms our statement that Lady Mordaunt has been for the last three weeks under his immediate care' and ' constant inspection ;' while Dr. Tyler Smith must excuse us for saying that the opinion we have expressed as to her ladyship's mental condition was derived from sources whose authority we decline to supersede by his own. THE CATHOLICS OF HUNGARY.—The Not-tit-East Correspondence says that the Archbishop Primate of Hun gary will summon from Rome to Pesth the Catholic Con gress, which will be a sort of constituent assembly, to organise the autonomy of the Catholic Church of Hun gary. Mgr. Simon will be present at the opening, but he will return to Rome as soon as the works of the Congress shall have been distributed among the special com mittees. AN INGENIOUS 'APPARATUS.—During his lecture at the Royal Associatior Professor Tyndall made use of a curiou s apparatus to Jew the lengthening of a bar of iron when magnetised. The apparatus consisted of a bar of soft iron, standing vertically upon a block of stone, and surrounded by a helix of insulated copper wire. The top of the bar pressed against the short end of a lever arm, and the opposite end of the arm transmitted its motion to a small axle, on which was mounted a mirror. Thus when the bar elon gated, the motion was multiplied many times before it turned the mirror. A ray of light from the electric lamp was thrown upon the mirror, which reflected the beam across the theatre of the institution, and threw a round spot of light upon one of the walls ; hence the slightest motion of the mirror would make the spot of light move a foot or two up or down the wall, and consequently shew the iomotlok tif the maguetled bar,_ - MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the Springfieldßepublican, April 15.) As we apprehended would be the case, Congress has shelved the Funding Bill to await the disposition of the tariff. Ordinarily we should prefer that measures of finance, belonging to the more abstruse and less partisan region of politics, should be considered before Congress had passed through a log-roiling and embittering tariff squabble. This year, however, the whole tariff discussion is a matter of dress parade rather than of real combat, the Free-Traders not daring to push for radical changes, and the Protectionists being prudently content to hold fast to what they have. The lapse of time since the Funding Bill came before the House has on the whole therefore not pre judiced its success. The first threatening opposition, that of the banks, has not only dissipated itself, but has elicited what otherwise would hardly have been credited with existence, the actual friendliness of the great mass of the banks to the measure. It is now believed that the clause requiring the banks to exchange their 6 per cent. bonds for 4i per cents. will be retained in the bill. This question being disposed of, discussion reverts to the clause autho rizing the fending of the greenbacks in 4 per cent. bonds, to which the opposition is more real, though hardly more reasonable than to the bank clause. The West has the notion that money is a great public utility which the Go vernment should furnish, and which, wherever it is dis tributed under the. sanctifying authority of an Act of Con gress, like a railroad or a great public improvement causes values to rise. The Illinois farmer mourns every greenback withdrawn from circulation, much as he would the perma nent loss of a rail from a track that takes his wheat to market, and looks upon the contractionist as the depre ciator of his produce and real estate. The function of banking, which the Government was obliged to assume during the war, has come to be regarded at the West, not as a profitable industry taken out of the hands of the people, but as a public charity which the Government is bound to foster. We believe that the duty of the Govern ment is not to provide money, but to secure the public against being swindled by the class who do provide it. This is what the Funding Bill proposes. With one enact ment it provides for laying aside the Government money (a species of currency only justified L by an emergency) for the establishmout of banks to supply the place of the currency withdrawn, and for the' erfect security of those banks by compelling them to make a public deposit suffi cient to cover their circulation. The contraction that will ensue will be but momentary, as the new banks will almost cotemporanoously fill the void, if the needs of trade re quire it to be filled at all. The West has a chronic com plaint that it cannot make banking pay ; it ought to bo thankful to the Funding Bill for abolishing the green backs and giving capitalists a chance. One very old and thin objection to the Funding Bill, which deserves men tion from the frequency with which it is adduced rather than from its force, is that by it the annual interest burden of the country is increased. Undoubtedly; the $300,000,000 of greenbacks, now bearing no interest, when funded will bear 4 per cent. Any man who should hire money to pay up a lot of small, non-interest-bearing book-accounts, would have the same experience; nevertheless, he would find the re turn in his own sense of honour, and in his creditors' higher opinion. Honesty is not a cheap virtue. The redemption of the greenbacks is a debt which the Government, as a bank, owes to the public at large. The course of the markets during the past week has indicated considerable speculation. The climax of the cotton export having been passed, the supply of bills of exchange began to fall off during the latter part of last week, and the rates of ex change advanced. Although the prospect of a demand for gold was very remote, this circumstance was used by a clique of bulls to advance the premium. French renter were also weaker under rumours of Imperial ill health, and this infinitesimal circumstance was much magnified on Wall-street. The Treasury holds $109,277,875 in gold, of which some $36,000,000 is owned by private parties holding "gold certificates." The Customs duties for April will increase this amount to $80,000,000, besides furnishing the $1,000,000 for the remaining sale during the month. During the first week in May the interest due will call for $10,000,000 more than the Customs receipts, but during the remainder of the month the outgo will fall $6,000,000 short of the income, so that, at the end of May, the stock of gold on hand in the Federal Treasury will not be reduced enough to give any aid to an upward movement. In fact, there is nothing in the present needs of commerce to raise gold. We must depend on legisla tion and the natural course of events to lower it. The object of the speculators for a rise is probably to give themselves a chance to unload either gold or bonds, before the passage of the Funding Bill. Their movement does not excite much interest outside of Wall-street, and is believed by traders to be ephemeral. The premiums rose on Saturday to 1134, and on Monday to 1141, but then fell off to 114 the supply of foreign bills being so in creased by foreign purchases of bonds as to break the market completely. Money is a little more active, but the supply is still abundant at .6 to 7. Government Bonds have varied with gold. There was a revival in the foreign export when gold was at its highest, arid this was one of the causes of its decline. The Long Sixes of 1881 have been up to 115. The amount of bonds purchased by the Government has now reached $105,273,150. Southern State Bonds have developed little interest. Tennessee Sixes, new, are quoted up to 53 to 531. There is out standing on these a short interest of from 8 to 10 millions. The State taxes are p.syable in depreciated State Bank paper, worth about 70 per cent., and the prospect of the State's being able to pay interest, in addition to her run ning expenses, is poor. The State is rich, but her finances are poor indeed. Arkansas 7 per Cents., lately issued in behalf of railroads, have made their appearance in the market, and are quoted at 75. The total debt of Virginia is $45,872,778, on which the interest amounts to. $2,762,000. The State has security for all but one or two millions in bonds and mortgages upon public improve ments, but General Walker thinks that only $2,612,000 of these 40 millions of securities are perfectly safe. A further amount of 10 millions will be available in a few years, but the remainder, over 30 millions, he regards as a total loss. That is what comes of a State's going into the railroad and canal business. Nevertheless the State will pay her inte rest by a tax of four mills on a valuation of $713,115,589. Stocks continue dull. Lake Shore is bracing itself for investigation, the Pennsylvania Legislature hav ing directed an inquiry into the observance of the con tract between that State and the Cleveland and Erie, now consolidated into the Lake Shore. The contest in the North-west Company, between the St. Paul party and the other, still continues. Probably Alexander Mitchell, the president of both corporations, will be allowed at the Juno election to devote his attention entirely to the St. Paul, and give the presidency of the North-west to another man. The St. Paul will issue 15,000 shares of common stock, and exchange it for 21,000 shares, a controlling in terest in the stock of the old Racine and Mississippi Rail road, now known as the Western Union. The road ex tends from Racine, 182 miles to near Rock Island on the Mississippi, and represents 40,000 shares of stock and $3,000,000 in mortgage bonds. The St. Paul will also issue 3,500 new shares for another piece of road of 11 miles. About 30 of the stockholders of Erie common have en tered a prosecution in the United States Circuit Court at New York against Gould, Fisk, and Lane for maladmi nistration. Union Pacific stocks and bonds are more buoyant. The company steadfastly denies that it has been put in the hands of a receiver in Wyoming, and disclaims all the alleged liabilities. The New York Central claims to have earned $12,000,000 during the last six months, and on the 15th will pay out of it a dividend of 4 per cent., amonnting to $3,600,000, besides the Government tax on it of 5 per cent. A mortgage of $2,000,000 on the Hudson river has been cleared off also. In general business the fine spring weather during the past week and the opening of inland navigation have more than compensated for the gold flurry. Trade was quite fair, and iu the retail way Boston reports a busy time. The total receipts of cotton at the Southern ports, last week, were 42,490 bales, a decrease of nearly 11,000 from the receipts throe weeks ago confirming the expe. rience of previous years that cotton comes forward most rapidly about the last week in March. The total receipts from September 1 to April 1 were 2,401,496 against 1,846,973, last year; total exports, 1,538,317 'against 1,019,880; shipments to the North, 617,684 against 687,774; stock on hand, 423,580 against 375,589. The falling off in the supply gives more buoyancy to the market, which hoids up wonderfully. At the average pa ice from the be ginning of the present season, the cotton crop of 3,000,000 bales wonld bring us, in gold, $250,000,000, the most valu able crop ever marketed, exceeding by some millions of dollars the value of the great crop of 4,670,000 bales in 1859-60. Breadstuffs are irregular, and hog products are again advancing. (From the Wall-street Journal.) FRIDAY EVENING, April 15. Although the Stock and Gold Exchanges have been closed to-day, the banks, private bankers and brokers have been open, this not being a legal holiday. Money on call is easy at six per cent., with some exceptions at five per cent., although the Bank rate is seven per cent. In dis counts there is a free feeling for prime paper, which is readily negotiated at 6} to 8 per cent. "No. 2" continues to be looked on with much distrust, and is passed with difficulty. Gold is quiet and the transactions have been limited, closing at 113 i. The following are the quotations for specie : Amer. silver... 94 to 9 - 5 Eng. sous 486 to 488 Mex. „ 104 t 2O francs 385 „ 887 Eng. silver 475 , 480 I Thalers Five francs 94 „ 95 I Government Bonds are generally firm, large orders being on hand for home investment. Sixes, 1861, registered . to Sixes, 1881, coupon ' Sixes, 1868, coupon U.S. 6s. Pacific Railroad Five-twenties, 1862, registered Five-twenties, 1862, coupon Five-twenties, 1864, coupon Five-twenties, 1865, coupon Five-twenties, 1855, coupon, new Five-twenties, 1867, coupon U.S. 5-20 Coupons, 1868 llOl to 1104 Ten-forties, coupon lo6± to 1061 Ten-forties, registered Oregon War Loan, Sixes 1881 — to The following were the closing quotations this day for the various Railroad and Miscellaneous Stocks:— Pacific Mail b74 Atlantic Mail — Quicksilver W. U. Telegraph Miraposa 6 . Mariposa Preferred Ohio and Mississippi 29 Boston Water Power l6 Cumberland N Y and N Haven 143 M & St. Paul M & St. Paul Preferred 74 N. Y. Cent. & Hud. Rr 92 Erie Reading Mich. Central ll9 Illinois Central Cleveland & Pittsbrg lOll Chi & North-West 741 North-West Preferred 86 Canton. • 7O Rock Island Cleveland and Toledo Fort Wayne 931 The following for the Mon N. Y. Central 6s, 1883... 93 N. Y. Central 6s, 1887... 90 N. Y. Central 6s, R Est.. 10 N. Y. Central 6s, Sub'n.. 90 N. Y. Central 7s, 1876...103 N. Y. Cen. 75, con., 76 ... Erie Ist Mort, Ex 100 Erie 7s, 2d Mort, 1879 94 Erie 7s, 3d Mort, 1883 871 Erie 7s, 4th Mort, 1880 84 Erie 7s,sth Mort, 1888 81 Long Dock Bonds Buff. N.Y. &E.lstM,'77 9O Hud. R. 7s, Ist M, '69_10:1 Hud. R. 7s, 3d M, '75 103 Harlem Ist M, '6B '72 1031 Mich. C. Ist M, 69'72 120 Mich. new Ist M Bs, 'B2 — Mich. So., 7p. c. 2d M 97 N. Ind. Goshen Line '6B Mich.S.&N.l.S.F'd7p.c.lol-1 111. Cen. 7 p. e, '7O 110 Alton & T. m Alton &T.H. 2d pfd 83 Alton & T. H. 2d M. Inc. 811 St.J.LandWrntsloB Han. Si St. J. Con — Chi. B. & Q., Ist M 1121 Chi. & N. West, S. F 951 Chi. & N. W. Con Cony B9 Chi. & N. W. Int B 91 Chi. & N. W. Ist M 941 Quincy & Tol , Ist M, '75 83 111. & So. lowa Ist M 7O Gt. West. Ist M, 'BB B6 Gt. Western 2d M '93 Bl Tol. & Web. Ist M Ex 93 And the following for Sta' Tennessee 6s, ex coup 59i Do. new bonds 531 Virginia 6s, ex coupons 69 Virginia 6s, new bonds 69 Georgia 6s Georgia 78, new bonds 93 North Carolina 6s Do. new bonds 22f South Carolina, 6s B7 S. Carolina, new bonds 81 Do. Aprl and Oct — Missouri 6s 921 Do. 11. and St Jo les 921 Louisiana new bonds 73 Do. 6s, Levee bonds 761 Connecticut 6s 100 Rhode Island 68 lOO Alabama 55... Alabama 8s Illinois Canal bonds 1870 lOO -gages : Tol. & Wall. Equip 7B Mil. & Pr. du Ch. Ist M — Gal. & Chic. Ext 9B Gal. & Chic. 2d M 94 Chi. & R. I. Ist M 11)01 Chi. R. I. & Pacific 7's 9B Cleve. & Tol. S. Fund 100 N. J. Central Ist M 102 N. J. Central 2d M 102 i Pitts. Ft,W., & Cb. Ist M 104 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch.2d M 97 Pitts. Ft. W., & Ch. 3d M 92 Cleve. & Pitts., 4th M 76 Chic. & Alton. S. F. Inc 100 Chic. &Alton, S.F. lstM 1021 Mil. & St. Paul Ist M B9 Mil. & St. Paul 2d M B2l Marietta & (in. Ist M 94 Morris & Essex Ist M ] 021 Morris & Essex 2d M Joliet & Chic. Ist Chi. & Gt. East'n lstM..„ N. Y. & N. H. 6s 971 Dubuque &S. City,lst M 96 Peninsula Ist M 9O Ohio & Miss. Ist M 961 Ohio & Miss. Con B6l Tol. P. W. lst M. E. D 79 Atlantic & G. W. 2d M — Del., Lack., & W., 2d M 961 Lake Shore Div. Bonds 91 Cleve, P. it sh. N.B — Do. 0.8 — Union Pacific Gold B B4 Central P.RR. Gold B 9li Pacific 1111. guar. by Mo 97 to Bonds:— Illinois coupon 6s, 1877.100 Do. 1879 100 Illinois War Loan lOl Ohio 6 per cent. 1875 102 Do. 1881 102 Do. 1886 104 Michigan 6 p cent. 1873 97 Do. 1878 95 Do. 1883 95 Michigan 7 p cent. 1878 98 Michigan 7 p cent War Loan • lO2 N.Yk reg'd Bounty loanlo9f N.Yk coup. B'nty loan 109 N.Yk 7s, Canal In. 1870.101 N.Yk 6s, Canal In. 1873.10;.' Do. 1874.105 Do. 1875.105 Do. 1877.105 Do. 1878.105 N.Yk ss, Canal In. 1875.101 FOREIGN EXCHANGE. Sixty Days. Three Days. London Bankers London, Prime Commercial lOB4 —lOB4 Paris, Bankers 5.234-5.18k 5.18 j— 5.174 Bremen, Bankers Hamburgh, Bankers 3si-351 Frankfort,;o.ll 44-401 Berlin and Cologne Antwerp 5.234-5.184 Amsterdam, Bankers B wiss Express Stocks are heavy, and we quote : Adams 6l to 611 American Merchants' Union 38 to 38 1 Merchants' Union, old Stock - 6 to 6 United States Wells, Fargo, and Co l9 to 19i The largest regular dividend ever paid in America by any one great corporation or State is now in course of payment by the New York Central and Hudson River Railway Company. They pay to the stockholders 4 per cent. on $90,000,000 stock and scrip out of six months' net earnings—say $3,600,000 cash—and to the United States Internal Revenue $lBO,OOO for five per cent. tax upon this dividend. Within the same six months Mr. Vanderbilt has paid off, without renewal, $2.000,000 of the Mortgage Bonds upon the Hudson River division of this great property, which fell due on the Ist of February. The gross earnings of the road for the six months were not much short of twelve millions of dollars, or an ave rage of two millions of dollars per mouth. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo -Americara Times,) The House of Representatives continues to re duce the duties on iron. Iron slabs, blooms, and loops from a duty of one cent to lf per lb. to $lB per ton, by a vote of 79 to 59 ; iron ends, clippings, and punchings from one cent per lb. to $ll per ton, by a vote of 76 to 51 ; both reductions being made after a full debate. Iron rolled and hammered from 1-11 cents per lb. to $2O $22 40 cents per ton ; wire rods under 5-16 inch diameter from 11 cents per lb to 1 cent, and above 1-16 inch from l cents per lb. to lf cents. The great fight has been over the iron, and the progress of free trade is marked by this reduction, for there never has been at Washington a greater and more persistent crowd of lobbyists than dur ing the present discussion of the tariff. Some Pennsyl vanian Railroad Presidents petitioned Congress to change the duty on imported steel rails from 45 per cent to 2 cents per lb. in gold, the rate proposed in the new tariff bill. Vanderbilt was asked for his signature as the largest of all railroad shareholders, but he declined in a long letter, which has received wide publicity. He can imagine the benefit to the home steel makers, but cannot see the advantage to the railways. He desires to encourage competition, and prevent extortion by American as well as by foreign manufacturers. The value of steel rails to the roads might compel companies to take an inferior article at any price. The companies of which he is President have used afifth of the steel rails laid down in the United States and a third of those imported. Gen. Butler got the House to adopt his amendment for reducing the duty on elastic webbing and other shoe-making ma terials, over which there was a bard contest between the shoemakers of his district, and the india-rubber makers of Washburn's. The first vote reduced the duty, the second restored it, and the third again reduced it. Senator Chandler moved that the President be authorized to appoint commissioners to open negotiations for the annexation of the Winnipeg District. He also made a speech in favour of a settlement of the Alabama claims in this manner. Mr. Ramsay called attention to the fact that the Dominion Government was expected to send to Winnipeg an expedition through the St. Marie Canal in Michigan, and hoped that the permission would be re fused. Senators Sumner and Howard expressed their be lief that the British authorities would not ask for such a privilege. The resolution was subsequently referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Chandler now draws it "milder" than before his late visit to Europe, when his demand was for nothing less than the British North American Possessions, and his threat was t•o roll up Canada from Detroit to the sea with a few Michigan Volunteers. The American papers say that Gen. Lindsay is in consul tation with Sir John Young on the subject of the expedi tion ; that he will command with Col. Wolsley as second ; that the Canadian Rifles and some companies of the Rifle Brigade will form the regulars, and the Imperial Govern ment bear the whole expense ; and that the Canadian troops will be enlisted for two years, neither Nova Scotia nor New Brunswick furnishing any portion. The expe dition 'is to leave on the 10th May, the troops marching round the Sault St. Marie Canal, and it is calculated that they will be ready to move in three days after reaching Fort William. Teams will convey heavy freight to Lake Shebandowen, 40 miles, and 100 boats will there come into play, giving eight days from Fort William to Fort Garry. A steamer has been engaged to convey labourers to work on the roads in advance of the troops. A banquet was given last Monday evening at Delmonico's, to celebrate Lord Byron's birthday. A large number of distinguished persons were present, including several clergymen. The Hon. Cassius M. Clay and Wm. Preston were among the speakers, several of whom made strongly deprecatory allusions to Mrs. S towe's attack upon the poet's character. The only other items by telegraph are—The disabled steamer Venezuela arrived at New York last Saturday. Mr. Preston, the Haytian Minister, was officially received by President Grant on April 22. The precautions taken in Canada against a Fenian raid nipped the operation in the bud, though the American papers laugh at the scare, declaring that no active preparations could bo made in the United States without the knowledge of the press and the Government, when the latter Al ould immediately attend to them. The Canadians are assured there is no occasion for them to keep their militia under arms, as General Grant will main tain international obligations, and enforce the laws in their case as in any other. At St. Armand the people utterly disbelieved that any raid was contemplated, and the Fenian officials at Buffalo laughed at the scare. It was, however, said that O'Neill had proceeded to St. Albans. A telegram informs us that the fright was over, r.nd the regiments were being disbanded. Chief Justice Howe was sent to Washington from Wyoming Territory to obtain permission from the Government for the Big Horn Mining Association to send out its expedition, and orders to permit its departure had been forwarded to Gen. Augur. The expedition is to start from Cheyenne the first week in May, and free tickets are issued to the men coming west from Chicago, where the party is to rendezvous at the Union Pacific House, each to be armed with a Winchester carbine ; and a 12-pound howit zer, with suitable ammunition, is to accompany the expe dition. The sale of mining properties in London is no ticed in the American papers. The Terrible Silver Lode at Georgetown, - Colorado, is said to have been sold to Eng lish capitalists for $550,000. All the first-class ores were to be shipped to England for reduction, and for the treatment of second and third-class ores they propose erecting dressing and smelting works on a mammoth scale in the vicinity of Georgetown. The Aurora South and the Eberhardt were also said to have been sold to English companies as well as some White Pine mines. Many also have been disposed of in Chicago, and in San Francisco they are investing heavily in the Base Metal Belt. We understand, however, that very few of the companies lately brought out in London have been successful, as confidence in such properties is by no means strong. The Wall-street Journal warns its readers to look out for fraudulent mining schemes, more especially two Nevada tunnel concerns, one in the White Pine Dis trict, the other in the old Reese River District, and a heavy operation in some unknown corner either of Montana or of Td,+ho. It observes :—" This is the third time that the Reese River affair has had its stock selling in this market —each time with a new name, but always in the same hands. It is time that thesd swindlers were paid their just dues. Apropos of J. H. llowe, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of ,Wyoming, the Chicago Legal News contains a letter from him, speaking in the highest terms of women as jurors. He says that never during his twenty-five years' experience in the courts had he met with a more faithful, intelligent, and resolutely honest jury. The dignity, decorum, and propriety of the ladies were such as to have hada marked effect inside the court, and, according to Judge Howe's account, that jury had also a marked effect outside, for the keepers of dancing saloons, gambling houses, and the demi-monde fled out of the city from whiCh he writes (Cheyenne) to escape indictment at the hands of the women grand jurors. The ladies were un= wearied in their attention and diligence to arrive at righ verdicts ; and the counsel for the prisoners, who thought they could bamboozle them, began to challenge the women, and use their best endeavours to get rid of them. He denies that they were shut up with the male jurors for three nights, as the sexes were separated, the women being under the charge of a matron and the men under that of the sheriff. Joseph King, who is a sailor of the U. S. ship Portsmouth, under Commander Semmes, has been returned to duty from confinement by order of Secretary Robeson, under these circumstances: —At Rio Janeiro King was grossly abusive to the officers, for which he was confined, by order of court-martial, for thirty days in double-irons, on bread and water, three months' pay stopped, with extra police duties for that period. On the morning after the sentence Capt. A. A. Semmes had King's feet ironed to a bolt, and he was placed in the ship's launch, exposed to the sun till evening, without food or water. Ho was then shut up in a box where he could not sit down, and under this treatment he fell sick, and passed into the hands of the surgeon. After finishing his term in double-irons he was restored to duty, but on the 7th of last Dtcember he attempted to desert, and was abusive when arrested, for which he was placed in double-irons, and his hands, being fastened behind him, were drawn up and attached to an eye-bolt, where he was kept for sixty hours, being gagged for twelve ; and this was continued for ten days, with too intervals of 24 hours each. On the 13th of January, after undergoing this punishment, he was tried for the offence by a general court-martial, when he was sentenced to five years' hard labour and the forfeiture of all his pay, amounting to $9OO. Secretary Robeson deals severely with NI hat he calls the cruel and illegal punish ment, and, setting aside the finding of the court on the ground that the man had been already punished, intimates that Commander Semmes will be called to account for this action. POLITICAL—The official majority for Dr. E. D. Peck, the Republican candidate for Congress in the Ohio Tenth District, is 2,797—a gain of 3,699 since 1868. San Jose, California, held a municipal election on Mon day, 411111, and chose a Democratic Mayor. Coloured men voted. BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Rumours are revived of a contemplated visit by Ex-President Johnson to Europe. Senators Sherman and Sprague arrived in Richmond, Virginia, April 11, on their way to Norfolk. They stopped at the Spottiswood Hotel, where they were called on by Governor Walker, Lieutenant Governor Marye, General Canby, and prominent members of the Legishture.—Mr. George Hudson, " ex-Railway King," has been offered the management of the Sunderland Docks, at a salary of £2,000 a year.— A lady has been appointed as postal route agent ou the Chicago, Rock Jsland, and Pacific Railroad.— Governor Alcorn,' of Mississippi, has sent a message to the Legislature in reference to the public schools, recom mending separate schools for the white and the coloured children, and the establishment of a Normal school for the education of coloured teachers.—General Robert E. Lee and daughter were the guests of General Lawton at Sa vannah.—The New York Sun announces the engagement of Chief Justice Chase to Miss Constance Kinney, of Washington, D. C.— Mr. George L. Lorillard, owner of the yacht Meteor, recently lost off the coast of Egypt, has arrived in New York from Europe,.and is at the Everett House temporarily. He contemplates tuilding another yacht.—Miss Louisa M. Alcott, the distinguished autho ress, has arrived in Europe in search of health and pleasure. Miss Alcott is accompanied by her sister and Miss Bartlette of Boston.—Frederick Douglas is to be a candidate for Congress in New York State.— Tennyson's " Princess " is to be tuned into an opera by a New York lady.— Yerger writes, "unlawfully detained in prison, and denied trial from time to time, by partisan in terference.' "—John A. Kennedy, the Superintendent of the New York Metropolitan Police, is to resign and accept the Presidency of a City Railroad Company, at a salary of $7,500 a year, his present salary. Captain John Jourdain has been appointed his successor.—Peter B Sweeny,-City Chamberlain, resigned on the 9th inst., and Mayor Hall offered the place to Hugh Smith, the deputy, but he re fused it. —An American paper says, " General Butler thinks he has got on the trail of those Washington correspondents who have for some time past been manufacturing bogus Cuban news.—Captain Benjamin Brayton, who for 40 years past has been connected with Sound steamers, has -resigned the command of the steamer Bristol, owing to ill health.—An American paper says, " Elihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith, is trying to induce the English to adopt our orthography, by showing that it costs them $50,000 a year to spell labor with a u.--Jefferson Davis has written to Washington denying that when he withdrew from the Senate Mr. Cameron told him that a tegro would succeed him.—The friends of Miss Lillian S. Edgarton talk of challenging Miss Anna Dickinson to discuss with her the subject of woman suffrage at the Academy of Music in this city.—The Boston Journal states that the will of George Peabody, which was signed by him when in this country last September, and which was published shortly after his decease, has been presented for proof at the Essex County, Massachusetts, Probate Court, held in Gloucester. The amount of pro perty to be disposed of under its provisions in Massachu setts is less than $150,000, and may not exceed $lOO,OOO. It consists mostly of securities and personal effects. The will has also to be probated in several other S tates, in which portions of Mr. Peabody's estate were situated at the time of his decease.—Walter Brown, the champion oarsman, was appointed instructor of rowing at Annapolis on the 11th of April.—The remains of Hon. Anson Burlingame were expected in New York on the 16th inst. The Union League were to receive the body and convey it to Boston, where a public funeral was to take place.—Mr. George B. Thatcher has been arrested in Philadelphia charged with embezzling $l,BOO from Col. Forbes, Pension Agent, dur ing the absence of the chief clerk in Europe.—Lady Franklin arrived at San Francisco, April 13, from Pa nama.—George Hunnewell, 59 years of age, the con vict just pardoned out of the State prison after 24 years' confinement, is more surprised by the horse cars than by any other of the new things. He finds that he looks niuch younger than his old mates, and thinks the early hours, simple fare, and regular habits of prison life conducive to health.—The Worcester (Massachusetts) City Govern ment have appointed a committee to make arrangements for a suitable public reception and welcome to ex-Governor A. H. Bullock, on his return from Europe.—The English delegates to the World's Conference of the Evangelical Alliance at New York, next autumn, will probably be Rev. Dr. Jobson, Professor Blakie, Canon Fremantle, Dean Westruacott, and Rev. Messrs. Dale, Hoare, Cairns, and Alexander. MONETARY REP ORI S -YE STERDAY. A quiet feeling has pervaded the Stock Exchange markets. There has been a preponderance of sales over purchases, and the quotations have ruled easier in wail i ll ' stances. Consols have been flat and lower, at 931, 931 delivery and the present account. For June the q u o tion is 94, 943 ; Reduced and New Three per Cents, 92'k 925 ; Exchequer bills, par, ss. prem. ; India Five pe Cents have been done at 1131, 114, and India Bonds V e '' 255. prem. ; bank stock, 233, 235. The market for English railway stocks has been 1 e " pressed on the whole, and prices have given war, b ut no case ha; the fall been an important one, with the e ) :* ception of Caledonian, which has receded 1. MetropolitA London and North-Western, and Great Western. hale fallen /, but Great Northern A has risen I. Indian railway stocks have been dealt in to a moderate extent at steady currencies. Canadian shares have been firm, and Great Western have risen ? 3 -. As regards forel shares, Ottoman have been firm and better, but Sat Anstrian and Lombardo-Venetian have fallen 1. The traffic receipts of the Smyrna and Cassaba Rail Company, for the week ending April 17, sheAv a total o £1,405, against £2,050 for the corresponding period 13'4 year. In the market for foreign bonds not much business been transacted, and prices have shewn no ma ter i , change. Spanish (1869) have risen Turkish (1869),:-; ditto 5 per Cents, ; and Italian (1861), ; but EgY Ptl5 (1868) have fallen and New Granada The new Japanese loan has fallen to 3i discount sell er ? . / A . ri can securities have been steady. The rifle n og Tl, - ;iity and Ten-Forty bonds have risen ; Central shares and Detroit and Milwaukee As regards British mining shares Tam-Y r -Alt 11 been firm, andl better. Colonial and Foreign mines lia`l°6 been without movement of importance. Bank shares have been steady in value, with a m ode's business doing. elegraph shares have been quiet, and Anglo-Auter i°l : have been k easier. Telegraph ConstrUction shares 10- fallen /. Miscellaneous securities have been cautiously dealt ill ' at about previous quotations. There have been no bullion operations at the Bank t° ' day. The Shannon takes out £28,600 in specie, of W ll £22,500 is silver, for the West Indies. In the rates of exchange no materal c h an ge has t akell place. The Manchester Courier notices the failure of lqe sszl. rs William Marshall and Company, cotton manuf acture of Todmorden. Liabilities £B,OOO to £lO,OOO. t h The traffic returns of the South-Eastern Railway for %el past week amount to £27,266 10s. 7d., being an increase; £2,341 na. sd. over the corresponding period of the Pr vious year. sna The weekly returns of the London, Brighton , South-Coast Railway amount to £24,070, being an lac?' of £1,301 over the previous year. Bat A prospectus has appeared of the South-Eastern J.--ts and Washhouies Company (Limited), with a caPita l £20,000 in £1 shares, to establish baths and washonse° a plot of ground near New Peckham. t he In consequence of the approach of the fourth 0 - whe month the money market has been firmer to -day- J : h e demand for accommodation has been more active, and general rate for negotiating three months' paper has 1) : 00 - three per cent., only occasional transactions taking under that quotation. American advices state that Secretary Boutwell ordered the sale of 4,000,000 dols. in gold, and the P-ty, chase of 6,000,000 dols. of bonds during the entre- month. At a meeting of the Anglo-American TelegraPli pany, the directors' report was adopted, and a divider ss. per share was declared. An d The report of the Vancouver Coal Mining and Company (Limited) to be presented on the 10th WO — , shews an available total of £6,529, and recomme nd % dividend at the i ate of 15 per cent. per annum, the 1 3 %; ment of which will absorb £ 6 , 195 , and leave a bala nce - £334. The report of the United Mexican Mining (Limited) to be presented on the 4th inst., shews tha t profit on the old workingshas amounted to $16,805, s'i n h c o has been employed in partly meeting the expenses on new workinm MARKETS-YESTERDAY. • LONDON TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.-The tallow intliree is dull, at 445. 3d. spot, 44 5 . 6d. June, and 455. 6d. las t 63.1t months. Linseed oil firmer, at 31s. 61. to 31s. 9d. spot. petre quoted without change. Hemp steady. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET, TuEsnev.-The sugar nether has ruled dull. Low brown qualiti es h ave b e en altng ds if ) unsaleable ; white, best descriptions, has tended downwa r „oo value. The tea auctions have opened very dull, and low g' de• are again cheaper. Coffee has ruled firm in value, with a rate sale. Rice for arrival has continued steady. LONDON WOOL MARKET, TUESDAY.-The wool marl' e .. t D ii lt g c continued to be characterised by much firmness. At the PL'ol sales of colonial produce the attendance has been large. , ,ce biddings have been animated for all descriptions at the adv`,llo , already noticed. English wool has been firm in value an quiry. Dri f i METROPOLITAN HAY AND STRAW MARKET, ._,,. DAY.--The market was fairly supplied to-day. The . s`ipi , was steady, and prices were without change, as follows ....,eii; meadow hay, 755. to 82s. 6d. ; inferior ditto, 60s. to 705.. ,L so s ' 50s. to 655. ; prime clover, 110 s. to 1265. ; inferior dittotto to 905.; prime second-cut clover, 100 s. to 110 s. ; inferior 80s. to 90s. ; and straw, 20s. to 28s. per load. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO Di Altg 113 3 TuAIDAY.-The supplies have been moderate. The tra'isoo.; been quiet, at our quotations :-English shams, 110 s. to regents, 120 s. to 140 s. ; Scotch regents, 100 s. to 130 s. ; rocks, 90s. to 110 s. per ton. , t HULL CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.-The imports of ws the week are small. Barley, 15,000 quarters, a good r" . 46.5. English sellers held out for advance of 2s. Wheat 435. L ° , 5.1 0 • barley, 335. to 365. ; oats, 235. to 255. ; beans, 40s. ; PO' to 435. O 5 HULL CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.-Good show f C fe. and a better demand. Prices for cows and calves, £1 8 ,`„;., - A good beasts ; £ l7 for small ca ttl e ; £ l2 15 s. f or fat ." A - goo" Many sheep on sale, at an advance of two shillings. supply of pigs, prices being the same as last week. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET TUESDAY.-Market , - „tjon' more firmly. Sales 10,000 b a l es , of which 3,000 on speerto Uplands, middling, 10Id. to lid. ; New Orleans, 113-1 6 t h 5-16th per pound. - - LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, MAT a.—Wheat act ile liri°: id to 2d. higher. Maize d u ll, an d 3d. lower. French ti,e u s r ,,. 2d; Import 21,000 quarters, all American. Milwaukee wheat, ;00" winter wheat, Bs. 10d. to Bs. lid. ; Californian, 9s. 7d.: 29. Peas firm. 0 14 MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The market is very d lll ,i oo to prices are nominal. Buyers have shewn great indisposiL place orders. tDf, LEEDS TRADE REPORT, TUESDAY.—We have had l e fo, dull market for cloth ; the prevalent cold winds account, ,5 the tardy sale of spring coating. More varieties than us iso fef fancy coating have been prepared, but the consumptio n . o ceri has been much below the average. The home trade, 11 °' 0 0; will yet do a fair stroke of business • before the fed season's goods displace the lighter kinds. A ie tio l4 sortings of tweed have been made on spoil 0 some thicker goods are also bought by capitalists and the se ethe sometimes take Bd. or 9d. a yard l ess th an mot likely will /3 0° price two months hence. Pe n di ng th e c l ose of the Lond °n ,ve st sales, a good deal of mac hi nery i s unemployed in districts 04 of Leeds. The market f or h a i r- li sts has been quiet. Ther e , of neither a home or shippi ng d eman d of importance for th e 't the finished plain goods. Wool mungo and oils are at ahu„'vjelv same priee as this d a y week, but very small quantiti es ordered. b ce ° NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, TUESDAY.—Very 11'ttls diran f is in the market, an d t ra d e h as ruled firm, at Saturday's a . o tlie Barley at last week's prices ; oats rul e d aga i ns t th e buyers o e# grain unchanged in value. Flour was in demand ; ls. per advance obtained. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY. —Large she ep of 11). beef ; and trade dull. Lower rates 'accepted. s u pply of er not so numerous as last week, and an advance of P obtained. II SALFORD CATTLE MARKET, TUESDAY.—At to -day oft there was an increase in the supply of cattle ; but only d s oon_ show of sheep. The latter met with a goo d d e mand, e?t,. ar! cleared, For beef there was a fair demand. The folloivM. to the quotations :—Beef, first quality, Bd. ; second quality, vs 7id. ; sheep, 71d. to 8/d. ; calves, 51d. to 61d. GLASGOW IRON MARKET, TuEsDAY.—Market verl closing at, buyers, 555. 6d. cash, and 555. Od. one month. „ t or PARIS, MAY 3.—Rape oil, current month, 126'35 ; S e tl P' Of" ber-December, 111•50. Flour, current month, 53 ; v T une-A 59 ; September-December, 59. BERLIN, MAT 2.—Rape oil, May-June, 15'10 ; nten3ber' October, 13'10. Spirits, May-June, 151 ; autumn, 16 10 • al" HAMBURG, MAT 2.—Wheat, June-July, 118. Rape o il, SK 31AM 1 ; ST May, 31/. ERDAM, MAT 3.—Banta tin, 781. Rape oil, t 3S, t. May, 431 ; Autumn, 43. Linseed oil, spot, 331; SPr D' Autumn, 34i. Petroleum, 251. HABANA, MAY 2.—No. 12 sugar, 81 ; Muscovado, a BIRTHS. EGERTON—On the Ist inst., at Oulton Park, the 1 1. ° 13 " Egerton, of a daughter. BS' MARTIN—On the 2d inst., at Bath, the wife of ' Martin, Esq., of a daugter. MARRIAGES. ADCOCK —MOSELEY - On the 3d inst., at St. Mark's' )-"010,°' ton-park, Poland Adcock, Esq., solicitor, to lifa l l„f To ( eldest daughter of the late Robert Moseley, Esq , lin gton-par k. Ilf df°rl EISLINGBURY—HOOARD —On the 2d inst., at " r°° cd, Arthur Kislingbury, of Woodford, to Ellen A. 11° g g Loughton. 4 [Ti'll DEATHS. BROWN—On the 2d inst., atPutney, James Brown, 0 grove, Clapham, aged 70. Worsfoicif WORSFOLD—On the Ist inst., at Dover, James Esq., aged 75. Loudon: Printed and Published by WILLIAM AND"' 1 1 1 of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, in t i 0 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the 00'1 Middlesex.—Wednesday, May 4, 1870. -.---..---... ~t --__:_---, ----._ -"'5.....-.. ~~1. 0 "I' LI Th, s Prize ti e I Ag ~C h I ? c yA.) able me ef aturd a seared kreis • be sec: it Mita kusie_ s "Or, 01: 11° lim e° 4 ed. -.......___ 1~~ ~. I) I, thi s t he 4 1 ' i ii.3 ol s4l4Pted bk . kad ac. - AL] 4 `)rc f t, .E 24 t t ( '