The Sun. — London, England, 1867-04-18 00:00:00

NEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The directors of the Bank of England, at their weekly meeting to-day, did not deem it necessary to alter their terms of discount. The market, therefore, remains very easy, and there is very little diminu tion in the available supplies, although provision has had to be made for a considerable number of Australian engagements just matured. To morrow, being Good Friday, and Monday next, when the review takes place at Dover, will be observed as holidays at the Stock Exchange, and an active resumption of business is not expected until the middle of next week, as the attendance in the City on Saturday is likely to be reduced to the smallest practical limits. At the Bank of England yesterday there was a further influx of gold amounting to £35,000, and a withdrawal of £2,000. The bar silver by the West India packet has been sold at 60:1d., and the Mexican dollars at 591 d. Notice has been given by Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co. that the bonds of the Chilian 6 per cent. Sterling Government Loan for £2,000,000 will be ready for delivery, in exchange for fully paid-up scrip, .at their offices, on and after the 18th inst. (this day). The last week's Railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures asunder :- 1867. 1866. Great W estern • 71,310 73,102 North W estern ••• ••• ••• South Western -• ••• ••• ...113,467 115,163 M l3ri ghton *** *** ••• • 24,094 26,663 19,866 22,242 idland ••• ••• ••• Routh Easter n *** ••• • 50,266 47,402 Great Northern -• ••• • 23,035 23,666 36,115 37,317 Lancashire and Y 3; h . • 43 992 43,870 Bristol and Ex t °" 11.°••• ••• ••• 6'961 6,714 N orth Eastern e er... ' 66,228 Manchester, ShefUi.. Lincoln ".• 70,689 19599 19,134 Great Eastern e , • and ... 33,242 34,834 L North British and DO; sr British 9,231 9,022 ,901 ,645 9reat Southern anciiVest e ▪25 24 r; of Ireland... 7,930_ Midland and Great Western of Ireland ... 5,160 5,0a0 Glasgow and South -Western ... 10,078 11,163 These returns, when compared with those of the l rres p o n'lng period of l as t ye a r, owing to the late period at which Easter falls this season, show some unsatisfactory results. On the Great Western the re is a decrease of £1,792 ; on the North Western, of £1,696 ; on the South Western, of £2,509 ; on the Brighton, of £2,376 ; on the South Eastern, of £631 ; on the Great Northern, of £1,20 2 ; and on the Great Eastern, of £1,592, while the Midland shows an increase of £2,864 ; the Lan cashire and Yorkshire, of £122 ; the Bristol and Exeter, of £247 ; the North Eastern, of £4,461 ; the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, of £465 ; the London, Chatham, and Dover, of £209 ; and the North British, of £1,306. The traffic receipts on th e Atl an ti c an d G reat Western Railway for the last week in March amounted to $109,092, against $118,097 in the c orr esponding pe r i o d l ast year, exhibiting a de ease of $9,005. The total receipts for the month of March were $438,046, against $388,480 in the S ame month of 1866, showing an increase of $49,566 . A meeting of the creditors of the Commercial Bank of India and the East was held yesterday afternoon, when the terms of the proposal for the reconstruction of the establishment, under which the remaining 10s. in the pound will be Paid by four equal half-yearly instalments, was cordially approved. We hope that we may now re gard this as another bank saved from the catas trophe of last year. At the meeting held to-day of the Oriental Bank Corporation the directors stated that they had to congratulate their co-proprietors on the favourable result of the operations, the net profit (including £5,137 13s. Bd. from the last account) amounting to £193,687 Bs. 4d An interim dividend cf £90,000 was distributed in November, and it was now pro posed to divide a like amount, making the dividend equal to 12 per cent. for the year, leaving a balance of £13,687 Bs. 4d. The biddings for bills on India took place to-tiny at the Bank of England. The amounts allotted were -to Calcutta, Es. 19,60,000 (£196,000) ;to Madras, Rs. 40,000 (14,000) ; and to Bombay, Its. 10,00,000 (£100,000.) w as fixed The minim um pr i ce at ls. 11 id. on all the Presidencies. Tende rs at Is. Hd. on Calcutta and Madra s will re ceive abo u t 89 per cent., and on Bombay at I s. llid, about 78 per cent. Those above these prices will be allotted in full. Two o'CLocK. According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to day, the French Rentes were 66.65. At the commencement of business this morning, business of all descriptions was very buoyant in the Stock Exchange. The Funds were 1 per cent. higher, and in Foreign Securities there was a gene ral improvement, though railways were flat, owing to the unfavourable receipts as recorded above. Towards the :afternoon, however, there has been a reaction in most of those investments which had shown an upward tendency, and Consols have returned to the same price at which they closed yesterday— viz., 904 a for money and the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 891 ; Exchequer Bills, 255. prem. ; Bank Stock, 2511 a 2521 ; India 5 per Cents., 1091 1101 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 941 ; ditto Enfaced per Cents., 103 ; ditto 51 per Cents., 108 1 ; and ditto Bonds, 525. prem. Foreign Stocks have been slightly depressed. Italian have declined 1, to 47 4 ; Greek, 1, to 12i 1 3 ; Spanish Passive, 1, to 19i 204 ; Certificates, / to 121 13 ; Turkish 5 per Cents, 1, to 264 27/ ; Russian Scrip 4., to 211 dis. Chilian Scrip remains at 5 41 dis., but Danubian has advanced 4 7 to 61 5 i din. Mexican are 151 1. A very limited amount of business has been trans acted in the Railway Share Market, and prices have not varied to any important extent. Brighton and Midland have each improved 1, while, North- Western, North-Eastern (Berwick), and South- Eastern, have each declined 1. The Foreign and Colonial lines are flat ; South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have declined to 144 and East Indian to 1071. American Securities show a decline in United States 5-20 Bonds of a to 704 71; but Erie Shares are firm at 371 ; 1 4 ; and Illinois at 761 Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures have advanced 4 to 32 321, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds remain firm at 22 22f. Bank Shares are quiet, but generally remain at steady rates. Bank of Egypt are marked 331 London Chartered of Australia 22 ; South Austra lia 26 ; and Union of London 424. Miscellaneous and Finance Shares show little variation. Anglo-American Telegraph are dealt ill at 1 8+; Credit Foncier of England at 21 4. ; /'core -street Warehouse at 12} 1; National Dis count Company at 121. ALINING MARKET. THURSDAY EVENING. More ac ti v i ty has prevailed in the Mining Market, a nd there is an increased demand for Prince of Wales, Chiverton Moor, Great Retsllick, and West Chiverton. Annexed are the latest prices : Chiverton Moor 5l 6 Marks Valley 4t 41 C hontal es G old Clifford a Ama Igamato North Treskerby East B asset Ea s t C a m Bre East Caradast Lovell on Tincroft West Seton l3O 133 East Russell East W heal Grenville 21 2t Wheal Basset — Great L' ° Gr "Y 171 18 Wheal Chivertoa ... _ eat Retalli c k Great Wheal Var... 18 19 Wheal Seton 97/ 1021 BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 Der (Jew. Consols 89. „ Do. A ccount, M ay 9 9l * 90i i 0 per Cent. Reduend x ,,New 3 p er C ent B9 I 'IleW 21 per C en t. J an . 1894 — Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 — Annuities 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April \BB5 D h „ o (Red Sea Tole6raph), Au,., 1908 — g acequer Bills, £l,OOO, a and 4 per Ct 25 pin Do £5OO — Pill B ank of Engl an d S tock. 6 per Cent INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Itulladi Stock, 101 per Cent., AprillB74 — Do. Li.ccouut. Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cont., Oct. 1888 .94f Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 5i per Cent., May 1879 lOB f Do. Deb., 5 per Cont., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000 Do. under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Arpntine Republic, 6 per Cent — Auitrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 Bratilian 5 per Cent — Do. 4 per Cent., 1852-58-60 go: 1863 Do. 5 per Cont., 1865 Do Account 7l} Do. £lOO Bonds _ Bnenos Ayres 6 per Cent _ — D J '2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Ce n t.) o,ilian 6 per Ccnt — Do. 41 per Cent — 00. 6 per Cent A . Do. 71 B Do. n 1867 Do. 77 Scrip, £2O paid 51 41 51 dis G it mldim, 6 per Cent. Inba, 6 per Cent. Dinish 3 per Cent., 1825 D. 5 per Cent., 1861 — D innbian PrincipalitieF, 7 per Cent Do. Do. 8 7 , 1867 64 Do. Do. Scrip, £2O paid dis B plador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — egyptian 7 per Cent — Do. Second Issue - Do. .£lOO Bonds Do. Do. 1864 79} 9 Do. £lOO Bonds Bli 801 Do Government Railway Debentures 79f 80 Greek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account G latemala, 5 per Cent . — 1 alian 5 per Cer.t 1865 ..._ — Do, Account Do. Maremmana Railway — M , xicar. 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account Dn. 1864 — Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — Viontevidean C per Cent..., .. — kloorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada _.. Do 3 per Con — Do. Deferrod Do Laud .larra,nts (hectares) Pe -uvian 5 per Cent 1865 Do Account 674 Do 44 per Cent., 1865 Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 44 per Cent., 1862 Do Account - Portsguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 401 40 Russian 5 por Cent., 1822, .£ Si - Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 44 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 pm Cent., 1859 — Do 5 per Cent., 1862 874 4 Do. 5 per Cent., 1864 864 4 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866 844 4 Do. do. £6O paid l4 2 die •3 ardi u i a n 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Cent ... Do Account ~,,,,,,,, Do New Detested — Do. Account Do Passive — Do Accvant 204 4 Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded — Do Account Swedish 4 per Cent. — Do. 44 por Cent. 1864 Do. Scrip, £6O paid Curkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Do. Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do. Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1862 Do Account 514 Do .£lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account Do. 6 per Cent., 1865 Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed lOO4 Venezuela, 3 per Cent. Do. 6 per Cent, 1862 194 Do. 1861 - Ditto 11 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, o per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins Belgian, 44 per cent Ex. 251 Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Gail Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... French Rentos, 3 Der Cent., Ex. 2M. Italia), 3 per Cent: 1831, Ex. 2sf. Do. Account — THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 904 4 Do. Account The Purchase System in the Army. Sir Charles Trevelyan has published a second edi tion of his pamphlet on the purchase system, with the following new preface :—."As the commissioned ranks of the army are based upon purchase, the non commissioned and private ranks depend upon a sys tem of recruiting calculated to attract scamps and repel respectable men, and upon flogging, which was re-enacted in 1859, for the special purpose of keep ing together an army so recruited. Flogging has just been abolished as a punishment applicable to deser tion; and the recruiting system is so entirely opposed to the morality of this generation that it cannot long survive, now that public attention has been directed to it. There is therefore hope for the future. Old things are passing away, and the army must be con formed to the actual state of society. Lord Grey showed a just appreciation of the subject when he said, many years ago, that he hoped to live to see the day when the most serious punishment that could be inflicted on a soldier would be that he should be dismissed the service. This is the true test of the self-supporting healthy state of a voluntary army. When this point is reached our difficulties will be at au end, for the 10 per cent. who are the sole cause of weakness, waste, and discredit, will give place to a like proportion from the respectable and educated classes, and the British army i sion for every p art of the British c l will m become m un it y a . p l r v o f h e e s n - I made the statement relating to the great extension which has been given to the purchase sy s t em s i nce the Russian fund Russian w ar, through the medium o f th e m ilit ar y , I was not aware that a discussion had taken place on the subject in the House of Com mons, in which General Peel character of these transactions e w x t o h s e a d t h lucidityeg en t a t i n n d e force which ought to have brought them to an im mediate close. All that passed on the occasion will be found in the appendix to Ix this edition. If the proposals I have submitted for consideration were to be adopted, the current of promotion would flow with a certainty and steadiness, as well as with an equal application to all officers, according to their services and qualifications, which are totally want ing in the present system. The different sources of promotion would be :--Invaliding on half-pay previously to 20 years' service. 2. Invaliding on full pay after 20 years' Service. 3. Compul sory full pay retirement to the maximum age to be fixed for each rank. 4. Voluntary full pay retirement after 30 years' service. b. Volun tary retirement, without pension, previously to 30 years' service. 6. Death vacancies. 7. Military and Administrative Staff Corps, Depot Battalions, Staff Officers of Pensioners, Army of Reserve, and Militia. Whatever form the militia and army of reserve may ultimately take, they must be officered to a great extent from the regular army, whereby a wide field of employment will be opened to officers and non-commissioned officers who are incapacitated for foreign service, by health or family circum stances, and the vacancies thus created in the regu lar army will be filled by promotion. There is ho purchase in the French army ; but the limit of age works well, and many of our colonels see their juniors in the French service made generals, al though they cannot themselves hope to be promoted for several years. Owing to the habit which pre vails among our wealthy families of serving in the army for short periods, to the greater liberality of our retired allowances, and the much larger pro portion of collateral appointments open to our officers, the British army will, when its r egu l a ti ons have been properly adjusted to this object, have an amount of promotion very superior to any which the French army can offer." LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. This Day. Market opens quiet. Sales probably 6,000 or 7,000 bales. A curious difficulty arose on Monday, in the Court of Common Pleas, where Lord Chief Justice Bovill and Justices Keating, Byles, and Smith were sitting in banco to hoar appeals. One Moffatt had sent a mare by the railway, which was strangled during her transit in a horse box. He brought au action against the company on the ground that the mare had been improperly secured in the box, and re covered damages. Against this verdict the Great Western Railway Company appealed. As Mr. Justice seating had tried the case, he felt bound to withdraw from the Bench, as did the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Byles and Smith, who were all three shareholders in the railway. It became necessary, therefore, to defer arguing the case until Mr. Justice Willer could sit with Mr. Justice Keating to hear it. THE SEIN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1867. !MARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Railways. Bristol and Exettr 'Caledonian Cork and Bandon...—. (torn wall Dublin & Belfast June ; Dun„Perth,& Ab.Junc ! E.London, scrip Certi DO. ,Glasgow & S. Western iGreat Eastern, Ord. s tk. Do. E. Angl. et. No. I Cireat Nort 11 ot Scotla nd] !Great Northern D.,. A stock Do. 11 stock Do. New, is. at 25 pu,' Crt 6, and W. 01 Ireland' NVectern -Originai. Do. 6. V4I. Rail gua.r Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—oxior, Do. Newpor t up. Hereford . Lancashire .0 Yorkeill 1 1.indon and Blackwal Lon., Brigh.,& S Coast: iLvn., Chat., and Dover' LDo. Metrop. Ex. A.l on. & ,North Weeterii !Lou. & South Wester' Man., Shel., & Metropolitan Do. New Do. Extension liqtropolitan District 150. du. .to. v. and St. John's W'd Alid , and Do. £9 Share Do, Birmin.. & Dart.) ticl Kent North British .: Do. Ed., rth., & Dun, th. Eastern—BerwieA Do. G.N•I: purohaet Do. Leeds Do. York Do. Car ...... Do. 6t00k.& Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 5 . . Do. do. 1866 . North Staffordshire . N. S. W. Junction Scottish Central Soot. N. E , Aber. stool 1.10. Scot, Mid. stack. Shropshire Union South Devon ,outh Eastern . itaines, Wok., k Wok fall Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha ► West Cornwall Fatil' Closing I Business 1 ; Price. done. 77 $0 jO4 110 40 46 4 6 05 68 70 72 105 .07 27 22 5 7 112 114 11l 119 S 9 11 40 4: L',o 55 *z4 27 25 30 12! 124 5.0 6 17 18 8 12 ►ls 117 71 7s 47 19 117 (2) — P 105 107 111 113 80 82 33 35 4 16 100 114 62 61 91 91 33 35 9 10 p 113 115 1 2p 70 72 113 115 148 152 44 46 66 63 8 10 163 158 3 4 ; 64 I 6 ,8 LON s. 67 60 100 102 id ip 4 41 86 50 55 101 103 101 IG3 10G 107 20 22 85 88 57 59 53 64 52 51 37 (0 23 25 1N 108 i 1 P' 4 1v 100 102 91 93 12/ 13i 12 121 F 8 P 2 81 64 - If 11 , 11 100 102 92 04 65 90 82 65 97 90 97 98 1 I 97 98 r SECUIt. 99 101 98 100 100 102 SS 90 87 & 10: 11,1 105 107 104 108 102 lui 91 '4 103 IL6 l 13 102 104 103 05 103 100 ios 107 s'B Ito 1 , 6 4,8 Sot 93 85 t. 7 101 102 of 86 95 98 91 P 3 108 108 107 100 J 1 MIN MS. 2.1.0 294 2.11.0 31 2.14.0 11.2.6 7 8 9 37J 399 1 11 22 24 5 6 3 3/ 2 3 10 31 31 4 5 13 17 2C 22 11 10 3! 31 2 of 31 la 2} 11,1 33 15 11 13 51 6 24 2/ 2. 6 28 310 830 i II 5.17.0, 3I 44 12 14 9 68 70 130 190 65 ;0 23 25 11 13 105 115 , J 10 12 ektklieSlLll;N(l/1; uttA Rica. Great Eastern, E. Counties Ex., No. 1. 77 IrOtLEIGig HAIL WA. If Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81 Dutch t.t a lien i au li. ki;r B aueisou, gua. 7 per cent., 13 AdSs - Ditto, - - Great Luxembourg, 83- South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 141 Turin and saTtna, 41 IMO:ION MINIcm, Don Pedro, Nor.h Del Rey, 9_1 6 i i pm Port Philip, 11-16 BANati. Alliance, 1im..14 Australasia, Agra, lien., A, -- Bank of Egypt. 331 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and c hina. 61 onsolidated Baia, lim., 41 English and filo de Janeiro. lim., Imperial ottoman, lien., 7k Land Mortgage Bank 01 India, 11m., 21 London and River Plate, 43 21 Ditto, issued at 11 pm., 101 Ditto, ditto, 10k London Chartered ORME of Australia, 22 London and County, 571 Ditto, new, 24 London Joint Stook, 411 21 London and 11 estminster, 94 4 Midland Bank, lim., South Australia. 26 Union or Australia, 471 Union of Loudon, 42i 1 InthCELLANICOUS. Anglo-American Telegraph, 18 Atlantic relegrapn, 5l 50 Dit o, 8 per cent.. 90 881 B. and I. Illa,;netic relegraph. Rm., 91 Credit r oncler of lim .21 1 Credit Foncier of Mauritius, lim.. Crystal Palace. 2 5 Fore-street. Warehouse, lim,, 121 k Gen. Credit and Discount, aim.. 41 Hudson's Bay, 16 1 Imperial Land Company of Marseilles , lien., I Int e rnational Financial ,ociety.iiiii.. 2 7-16 k London Financial Association. lim., f 1 0, London L i enera lOmninus Company, hat, 3 Lon l dr O as u alriud• g I a ' r t o w n Can al vn i Mar Marine, (guaranteed 5 per ce n t . b y In dian Government). i9l Nr.tional Discount company, 1 Ditto, new, 121 Peninsula and Oriental steam, 57 Ditto, new. 571 Royal Slail Steam, 1(0 Toie 4 rapli Construe. and Mainten , lien., itto, 121 Viceroy of Egypt, Mortgage, Loan, 681 70 REFORM LEAGUE DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARK.—At the meeting of the council and delegates of the various branches of the Reform League last night it was resolved that a demonstration of the Reformers of London be held in Hyde-park at six o'clock on the evening of Monday, the 6th of May. " An old experienced huntsman," says a Vienna letter, "calls the attention of sporting men and agricul turists to the fact that woodcocks are this year nearly tnree times as numerous as in previous seasons, and this is prognosticated as a suro sign of great agricultural fertility and an abundant wino harvest." LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings in Banco, before the Lord Chief Baron and Barons Martin and Bramwell.) WALKER V. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr. Huddleston, Q.C. in this case, moved for a rule for leave to enter a non suit to reduce the damages, or for a new trial, on the ground of the improper admission of evidence. The nature of the - case was to obtain a sum of money for the medical attendance and services rendered to a per son injured through the negligence of the cotnpany'e servants. The nature of the services rendered was attendance upon three persons who had bee❑ in jured on the railway, and on the case being tried at the assizes for the county of Worcester, before Mr. Baron Piggott, a verdict was given for the plaintiff for £4-I 16s. Ile (the learned counsel) contended that the case rested only on the evidence of a person named Adcock, the general manager of the railway, who had directed a surgeon named Everett to tell the plaintiff to attend upon a person named West, who had been injured at Stour bridge. Now, the principal witness was Everett, and he was the surgeon to a provident in stitution got up by the officials on the line, and the payment should have come from that institution, and not from the company. Adcock, the manager, had no right to act for the company, and if the station-master thought fit to enter into a contract, it was not binding upon the company. Baron Martin—But surely, 'Air. Huddleston, you do not mean to say that the manager of a certain railway station did not represent the company ? Mr. Huddleston then quoted a variety of cases, which he contended sufficiently testified that the station-master had no authority to direct any medical attendance to be given to any one injured. The' Chief Baron—Surely, as the manager of the affairs of the company, he would be entitled to direct medical attendance to be given. Mr. Huddleston—Well, my lord, I will say no more on that point ; but as to part of the amount, £2l, that was for attendance on a servant of the company, aad I considered that if that does not come within the scope of the cases quoted I do not know what does. The Lord Chief Baron—l think we cannot admit that. After a few subsequent observations, the rule was refused. COURT OF BANKRUPrCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN RE BECKETT. This bankrupt was an attorney of Moorgate street, and he came up to-day for his order of discharge. It appeared that full accounts had not been filed, and an adjournment was asked for on behalf of the assignees. An attorney, who appeared for one of the cre ditors, stated that some difficulty had arisen in reference to some trust money in the funds, but the bankrupt had been unable to trace the broker who had made certain sales of stock. He might say that the clerks at the Bank of England were always willing to assist the public, and if the bankrupt would write a letter setting forth the information he required it would be furnished to him. The case was again adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGEACE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ILLUSING A HonsE.—James Sutton, a cab driver, badge 10,652, appeared to answer a summons, taken out by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for cruelly illusing a horse. Mr. Archibald Price, of 7, St. James's-street, said that on Monday afternoon he and his wife had just got into a cab in Trafalgar-square when the horse, attached to a Hansom cab, and driven by the defendant, fell down. His wife suggested that the driver should go to the defendant's assistance, and he did so, and the horse was got up. Directly after the defendant struck the horse two or three blows with his flit, and then kicked it in the belly several times. His wife expostulated with the defendant on his cruelty, upon which he made use of a most insulting re mark to her. Mr. Henry Thomas, of Aspen-grove, Hackney, gave similar evidence to Mr. Price. The magistrate Mid tho defendant was a brutal fellow, and fined him lOs. and costa, or seven days. LAMBETH. UTTERING BASE COlN.—David Nunnrnan, a bootmaker, who is well-known to the police, was brought up at this court for final examination, charged with uttering counter feit coin at several publichouses on the 2(1 and 7th inst. It will be remembered that the prisoner called at the Three Horse-shoes beer-shop, Prince's-street, Lambeth, and called for a screw of tobacco, for which he tendered a florin. It was at once discovered to be a bad one, and the prisoner was told of it. He said he was not aware of it, and in consequence was given into custody. After taking a good deal of evidence, in the course of which it was shown that the prisoner had been in the constant habit of passing the counterfeit coin at several public houses in the neighbourhood, he was fully committed to take his trial at the Central Criminal Court. A DISORDERLY LODGER.—Thomas Knipple was charged on a warrant with threatening Mr. Joseph Knight and his wife, of 15, Trafalgar-square, Camberwell -road. The prisoner and his wife lived in the same house with prose cutor, and on last Monday evening he came home, and after getting into a violent passion, seized a hot leg of roasted mutton from the table, and beat his wife with it. He knocked her down, and so ill-treated her that Mrs. Knight interfered for her protection, when the prisoner made use of very violent threats, and c.natinued his uproar from a late hour in the evening up till 4 o'clock the follow ing morning. Mr. Elliot ordered him to find bale to keep the peace for six months. WESTMINSTER. DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT AT A TAVERN. —John Smith, a rough-looking fellow, was charged with the following disgraceful conduct at a tavern : Mr. Stocks, the proprietor of the Rising Sun, Pimlico, said that the man came into his house yesterday drunk and asked for some liquor. Complainant refused to serve him, when he became very violent, and on complainant's trying to put him out without hurting him, defendant threw him on the ground, kicked him repeatedly, obviously with a desire to injure him, and then made several attempts to bite him. Complainant was unable to get away from the defendant until released by his potman, whom he bit severely. Mr. Arnold—Do you know anything of him ?Ishe a customer ? Complainant—l never saw him in my life before. Francis Waite, potman, said that finding defendant had his master down and was ill-treating him ho went to his assistance, when defendant got him down and "let his teeth into his leg." Witness immediately punched his head and made him leave go. Defendant rushed about with his mouth open ready to bite. In reply to the charge accused said ho had been knocked and beat about by the potman, as his face would prove, and his chest had been so sore that he could hardly bear it. Mr. Arnold—Your conduct has been most disgraceful, and but for the punishment you have had from tho pot man I should give you more, although not of the same de scription. You are committed for a month, and must enter into recognisances to keep the peace for six months. MARYLEBONE. THE ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT BY A NEWSAGENT'S MANAGER.—James Greig, manager to Mr. George Richard Glennie, 4, Connaught-terrace, Paddington, newsagent, was charged on remand with embezzling two half-crowns for and on account of his master. The evidence previously adduced showed that it was part of the prisoner's duty, besides managing the business, to go round and collect the accounts, and account to the housekeeper every evening. As Mr. Glennie, who carried on a very extensive business, had to be away a good deal in the country, it devolved upon the prisoner to give all necessary orders for the regular supply of the daily and weekly newspapers. On last Friday he failed to do this, and returned home in a state of intoxication, and caused a vast amount of inconvenience by not having ordered the papers. Not being Able to account for the money he had received during the day he was given into custody. To-day, on the prisoner being placed in the dock he asked for the adjournment of the case, as he wished to employ a solicitor. Mr. Mansfield (to Mr. Glonnio)—Would yon like a re mand to be granted ? Mr. Glennie—l should, sir, as I have a number of wit nesses who are very delicate about coming forward, and I should like to summons them. I have a connection of something like forty miles round, and get rid of during the week some thousands of The Sun, Standards, Express, Pall Mall Gazette, and other papers, besides the morning papers and weeklies. I cannot always be at my place, and if my manager does not attend to his instructions, no end of mis chief and inconvenience arises. Within the past week or so another of my men has absconded, and I have ascer tained he has been going round with my bill heads collect ing accounts. I shall have to ask for a warrant for his apprehensiou, and I think a remand upon this ground would be requisite to see if we can ascertain that the pri sonar has been working in conjunction with him. I have been defrauded of between £2OO and £3OO during the past few months, and I think it my duty to prosecute. Remanded for a week. THAUES. MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—Henry Jackson, a mechanic, about 25 years of age, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with violently assaulting Thomas Dodge, a jour neyman.butcher. The complainant's head was bandaged. His shoulder was injured, and ho had received other serious injuries. Last night the prisoner was ill-using an old woman, his wife, and a third woman, in the fore court or garden of a how° in Jamaica-street, Commercial-road East., and the complainant, who was about fo deliver a barrow of sha ings to a person in the same street, interposed and saved the woman from further ill-usage. The prisoner imme diately attacked the complakant with great fury, knocked him down, and kicked him while he was down. He also got the man on his barrow of shavings and pummelled him. His shoulder was injured, his head cut open, and there were contusions on his ribs. Mr. Thomas Stacoy, master butcher, of Jamaica-street, confirmed the evidence of Dodge, who, he said, was a peaceable man who got his living by selling shavings. The prisoner was grasping an old woman by the throat and attempting to choke her. The woman was ill in bed and coLld not attend the court. The prisoner said he was struck first, which was denied Mr. Partridge said the prisoner had • committed a dis graceful and savage assault, and if the females he had ill used were present a sentence of six months' imprisonment would most probably have been inflicted. lle sentenced the prisoner to two mouths' imprisonment and hard labour. MAIM TS. —This day. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of beasts on sale here to-day was limited. On the whole, the demand for most breeds was steady, at. Monday's currency. The best Scots and crosses sold at ss. to ss. 2d. per 81bs. We were scantily supplied with sheep. Prime Downs and crosses sold at full prices ; otherwise the mutton trade was inactive, at late rates. Lambs were in fair request, at from 7s. 4d. to Bs. per 81bs. Calves were quite as dear as on Monday, with a fair inquiry. The sale for pigs was heavy, but no change took place in the quo tations. Per 81b to sink the offal. s ci s d s dad ree & inf. beasts... 3 4 3 6 Pme crs-wool sheep 5 4 5 8 Second quality do ..3 8 4 4 Prime s'tlidown do 5 1 6 0 ['rime large oxen ..4 6 4 10 Large coarse calves 4 6 5 Prime Scots, &c.... 5 05 2 Prime small do 52 5 8 erse. and int. sheep. 3 8 4 u Large hogs .3 2 3 6 Second quality du ..4 2 5 0 Small porkers 3 8 4 2 Lamb.... 78 4d to 8i Od. Suckling calves, 22s to 26s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 22. to 27s each. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts 615 I Beasts Cows. — !Cows. .•• Sheep and lambs 6,20) Sheep and 1 ,mbs 6 2OO Calves 1 0 Ca TC:I .. rigs lO5 Pigs lO5 Per Blbs. to sink the offal. MEAT. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—There is a fair average business doing in most kinds of meat, at full prices:— Beef, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 10d ; veal, 4s 2d to 5s 6d; pork, 35 Od to 48 4d per 811)8 by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. Very little business doing in our market to-day ; never theless, prices aro supported. The show of samples is tolerably good. Mid and East Rents Farnham and country Weald of Kent Sussex Yearlings loos to 145 s „ - Olds .3os to 903 „ HAY. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 15s ; clover, £4 Os to £5 12s Gd ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 8s per load. Trade inactive. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 158 ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 8s per load. Trade steady. WILITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 to £4 12s 6d; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 8s por load. A moderate supply. ANTHROPOLQGIOAL SOCIE rY. At the meeting of this society on Tuesday even ing two remarkable papers were read by Mr. G. Napier on the classification of the races of mankind and on the resemblance between man and the lower animals. In the first paper Mr. Napier attempted to establish a system of arrangement of races accord ing to their mental and moral peculiarities, in dis tinction to the ordinary arrangement, according to physical differences. This classification was, how ever, founded on arbitrary and empirical notions more than on established facts, and was rather an account of the commonly conceived characteristics of different nations than a philosophical deduction from distinctions of race. He distinguished the Jews for their morality, the Greeks for their intellect, the Celts for their morality, and the Teutons for their combination in a high degree of moral with intellectual qualities. The Rev. Dunbar Heath, and others who took part in the dis cussion, joined issue with Mr. Napier on those points, for Mr. Heath denied the superior morality of the Jews, and the claim of the Greeks as a people to superior intellect was also disputed. The qualities assigned to other nations were not suf ficiently defined to constitute marked distinctions of races. In the second paper, in which Mr. Napier at tempted to establish a resemblance between man and animals, he contended that the inhabitants of different countries have qualities iu common with their botanical, zoological, and geographical sur roundings. He regarded man as a microcosm, and that everything in the world more or less resembled him ; but it did not appear clear from Mr. Napier's expression of his views whether he considered man to be the influencing cause or whether he was the object acted on. The habits of life, he observed, influence the character and the countenance, and similar influences operate on the lower animals. There is, he asserted, an assimilation always going on between man and the animals associated with him, in illustration of which he mentioned the resemblance he had seen between butchers and oxen, and shep herds and sheep ; and he exhibited some drawings of the faces of men in which resemblances to various animals were apparent. He might, he said, extend these illustrations by many living examples, but he did not like to be personal. The resemblance in the dispositions of men to various animals was pointed at considerable length, especially as shown in the different characters of monkeys, dogs, and horses. The different dispositions of the various species of dogs likened to similar characters in diffe rent men, but it was not attempted to be shown that the distinctive character of any of the breeds of dogs had ever been altered by association with man so as to render a ferocious bull-dog as quiet as a spaniel. When noticing the different disposi tions of horses a distinct quality was assigned to every separate colour. After dilating at some length on the peculiarities associated with diffe rent colours, Mr. Napier proceeded to notice the improvements in the breeds of various animals effected by judicious selection, and he observed that the same laws which influence the breeding of sheep and horses exercise their influence on man, who has thus the means of the improvement of h is species in his own power. The conclusion to which Mr. Napier araived was, that if man can improve the race of domestic animals he was bound to apply the same principles to himself, and that by follow ing the rule of judicious selection the race of man may become elevated in the scale of being. Mr. I3endyshe, who was in the chair, Dr. Donovan, Major Owen, Mr. Charlesworth, the Rev. Dunbar Heath, and other gentlemen took part in the dis cussion, which diverged into the comparative merits of physiognomy and phrenology as indications of character. An important work on the subject of resemblance of man to animals, lately published in America, was referred to as confirmatory of some of the opinions expressed in the paper. The meeting then adjourned. THE PRINCESS OF WALES.—We are happy to report that the little change which has taken place in -her Royal highness during the past week ha.-; been of a satis factory character, and that a small bat appreciable im provement has shown itself in the condition of the affected joint. For the rest, her Royal Highness's general health and spirits continue excellent, whilst, for the list three or fuur nights, the amount of natural and refreshing sleep which has been obtained leaves nothing to be desired.— The Lancet. THE EASTER MONDAY REFORM DEMONSTRATION AT BIRMINGHAM. —Mr. Scholefield and Mr. Bright have consented to visit Birmingham on the occasion of the Reform demonstration on Easter Monday, and to take part in the proceedings of the evening meeting at the Town Hall. The arrangements for the demonstration are nearly completed. The procession will include representatives of all the tracloo of tvirniin6haui: Share ioo , BRITISH. rOSSE, Atlantic he St. Lawrence Rom., Baroda, Cen.ln. gu. 5 per cent... Do. F eltares Buffalo ,t Luke Huron Do. Preference BuiL,Brant, & Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3-1 Calcutta A; B. E., lint c Town Sr. Dock, gu Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi East. Bengal, gu., 5 do East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. Do. .1 Extension ;rand Trunkot Oulu, Do. Equip. Mort. Bomb. 1 Cha'rge 6 p.c Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do deferred De. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Du. do. deterred .... Do. 3d Pref. stock.... Do. do. deferred .... Do. 4th Pre". stock .. Do. do. deterred t. India Pen. gun. sp.c. 0 • Gull.. 5 per cent.. Do. New pia. 5 2. C tit. South of India gua. 5 per oent - DJ. ii per cent.... Do Cireat Wes. of Canada.. Do. New .. Do. 6 p. o 11Co. pay. 1873 Do. 51 do. pay. 1877-8.. Indian Branch, limited Madras, gua. 5 p.o Do. 41 do DO. 4; do Do. Filth Extension Meth. Cor. 6 p. c. Buds. ;Niel. & Hudson's Bay.. V.Rl.C'da,6polstpt.bs, Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do .. j Or' 4 . Do. Puniaub.... o,a. Do.lndus St.Flot '''" . COLONIAL GO VEIIN KEN British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec.3l, 1572.... Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.,k July 1877-ol Do. 6 p. o. Feb. & Aug Do. 5 p. c. Mar. tz Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan. d& Jul)'' Do. 5 p. 0. inscribed uk Cape G. Elope, 6 p.c.1873 Do.Apl.& Oct .IS9O-IVO I Do. do 180-0, Do. Jan.d&July, isvo..c) Do. 5 per cent. 13 Aprtl I and 15 Oct., 11100..„ Ceylon, Nov. 1864, 6 p Do. 1878, do 31.uritiue, B p. a, 18M, Jan. and July Do. 1 , 78 .. , o. idd .11ay i 5, Nov. • ,Do. 18J5, Feu. & Aug Natal ' iov. a per cent N.11.G0v.6p.c.Ja.&.1u1) N. S.W. Gov. 5 p•c.,ist;. Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1874, Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 18V3 New Zealand, 6 p. cent Do. 5 per cent—. Nova do,tia Gov. 6 p. o sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c d.Aus.Gov. 6 p,c 1863-to Do. 1878 & upwards Vlo,Gov. 6 p.c. J a &July Do. do, A pril & Oct 1311.11'16 Cam. Consol. Gold, Chi ver ton Clifford Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Tavist Drake walls East Bassett (Mogan)" Nast Caradon East Cam Brea .t;ast Grenville Nast Gunnislake .. Nast Loved E. W'l Russell (Taviatle Gam.& St A übyn(G w en. ircat L (key, limited Ureat South Tolgus.• -• G Tea t Wheal Huey— G. Wheal Vor (heist .1( renvil is tlerod's Foot •••• ingston Downs Margaret ( Uny Lelan: Marke Valley ilwyndy Iron Ore, lim e'm Seton North Roskear I. Wh'l Bassettallogan! North Wheal Crof ty •. Prosper United ! Pruvidenee UnyLelant Caradon (St. Ulcer) ! South Condurrow S.Wheal Fran. (illogan Stray Park . tin Croft...., ...... Vigra and CLgan, West Bassett (Mogan W. Caradon (Liskeard! West C hi ver ton ....... • West Seton.... .... Wheal Bassett 'Mogan! Wheal Buller (Bedruth Wheal Mary Ann (llen.l Wheal Setou Wheal Trelawuey (Lis 10u 100 100 100 100 all 190 100 100 1 , 0 100 100 411 1 tigi 60 1115} 111 15 1101 I I 105 11l I 3011 ITLE6. TR 11,1) EDIFION . SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. Ere un WILL BE PUBLISHED AS USUAL TO-MORROW (FRIDAY). TAT TERSALL'S—This Evening. TWO THOUSAND. n to 4 a', , ,•st Plaudit (offered, take 3 to 1) 100 to 30 agst Julius (taken) 8 to 1 agst Marksma❑ (taken) Bto 1 agst Vauban (offered) CHESTER CUP. 12 to 1 nest Lecturer (taken) 20 to 1 agst Madame Clenpatre (taken) TILE DERBY. 11 to 1 agst Plaudit (taken freely) 11 to 1 agat llinnit (taken) 50 to 1 agst Fitz Ivan (taken) VICTORIA CLUB BETTING.--(This Day.) The business done to-day was again remarkable for the firmness of the two favourites for the guineas, though an offer to bet an even thousand that the field beat them met with no response. Hermit was again the " mystery," and equally clever people wagered heavily on and against his starting, but there was plenty of money to back him outright for the Newmarket event. Marksman was firm at his price, but Vauban was in little demand. The other quotations will be found below : TWO THOUSAND. 3to 1 agst Plaudit (taken and offered) 100 to 30 agat Julius (taken and offered) 8 to 1 agst Hermit (taken and offered) 81 to 1 agst Marksman (taken) 9to 1 agst Vauban (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst Trocadero (offered) 30 to 1 ngst Van Amburgh (offered) 30 to 1 eget Knight of the Garter (taken) 100 even on Hermit 1,2, 3, with a run (taken) DERBY. 5 to .1 agst The Rako (offered) 9 to 1 agat Plaudit (offered—take 10 to 1) 1100 to 100 ngst Hermit (taken) CHESTER CUP. 12 to 1 agst Lecturer (taken) HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE- MENTS. April 15, at 9 a.m., Delilah, out of all engagements. April 15, at 9 a.m., Quicksilver, out of Tally-Ho Stakes at Hendon. April 15, at 9 n.m., Tacituo, out of Donea.ster, Bath York, and Newmarket engagements. April 15, at 9 a.m, Selim, out of Chester and Newmarkel engagemqnts. April 16, at 9 a.m., Lexovienne, out of the One Thou• sand Guineas Stakes. _ _ _ April 16, at 9 a.m., Arabia, out of Radnorshire Stakes at Knighton. April 17, at 9 a.m., Monolith, out of the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes. April 18, at 9 a.m., Monmouthshiro Lass, out of the One Thousand Guineas Stakes. April 18, at 0.30 p.m., Black Prince, out of tho Doncaster Spring Handicap. NOMENCLATURE. THE FOLLOWING NAMES HAVE BEEN GIVEN. Mr. Hedley's Foals of 1867. B. or br. c. by Nottingham, or Hospi tality, out of Blue Bottle, by The Cure.. Brocklesby. B. or br. f. by Nottingham, out of Chloe, by Mickey Free ... Factory Girl. Mr. Carey's Foals. F by the Marquis, out of Adelaide (Duke of York's dam) ... • ... Duchess of Kent. Cby the Marquis, out of Exhibitiou Apollo. Sir G. °holmley's Br yearling c by Hubert, ont of Sister to Lawyer Ca b) Barrister. Mr. Bass's Foals. B. f. by Knight of Kars, out of Nancy (late Figdale) ... Soldier's Daughter. B. f. by Oxford —Prince of Orange Alma Mater. COLOURS OF Paouns.—Lorci 11. Paget (altered to) French grey body, scarlet sleeves and cap. Captain G. Day, green and white stripes. FORFEIT LIST.— Oldininster's forfeits have been paid to qualify. The following assumed name has boon registered:—air. Russell. NOTICE.—CIIANGE OF ADDRESS. —JOHN STIXIC 7 late Of Beaufort Buildings, Strand, returns his best thanks for the patronage he has received during the past year, and bogs to inform his friends that he has removed to 25, Wel lington-street, Strand, London, where commissions will be executed to any amount. Price Lists as usual. T. and G. LEE, of the Wheatsheaf, Worship-street, shoreditch; at Three King-court, Lombard-street; and at One Swan-yard, Bishopsgate-street. W. HOPKINS und Jonx AMBROSE (member of Tattersall's Victoria, and other Clubs) Execute Commissions on all races throughout the year. Address-33, OXENBEN. STREET, HAYMARKET. Commissions. JOHN PERCIVAL, Oxford Cigar Stores, 3, Panton-street, Ilaymuket. Mr. GEORGE WEBB has lists posted on all forthcoming events daily from ten till two at the City Arches; also in George-yard, and through his agent, Mr. Frank Butler, near Ileux's Brewery. THE lIAVELOCK Turf Agency's Representative can be seen daily in Talbot-court, Gracechurch-streot, from Eleven till Three. N.B.—lf you want a good foreign cigar call at the Havelock Cigar Stores, 10, Walworth road, three doors from the Elephant and Castle. THE SOILED DOVE CASE• _ MEETING OF THE VICTORIA CLUB THIS DAY. A meeting of the members of the Victoria Cl:ib was held this day to take into consideration the recent decision of the CoMmittee of Tattersall's with regard to the noto rious Soiled Dove case. Mr. GUEDELLA, who was voted to the chair, remarked that as he had not a single bet dependent on the recent decision of the Committee of Tattersall's, he could give an impartial opinion on the matter. He did not agree with the last decision of the committee, and in the inte rests of the bookmakers and other members of the Club he proposed that the following resolution be passed : " That the Jockey Club be memorialised to re-open the Soiled Dove case, and that, pending the decision of that august body, the case be regarded as purely a question of racing law, and entirely beyond the jurisd►ction of the Committee of Tattersall's." This resolution was seconded by Mr. STEPHENSON. Mr. FRED. FISHER moved, as an amend►nent, that the case be allowed to stand as recently decided by the com mittee at Tattersall's, on the ground that its judgment was fair and impartial. He was of opinion that it would not be policy on the part of the members of the Club to ques tion the decision of a tribunal whose judgment should be final. Mr. Fisher's amendment, however, was evidently op posed to the spirit of the meeting, which consisted of up wards of 100 members, and the original resolution was unanimously carried, viz., that the case be referred to the Jockey Club for arbitration. • BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, April 18. The return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day shows the following changes com pared with that of last week : INCREASE Commercial bills . 16,250,000 f. Notes 11,000,000 f. Current accounts . Advances 666,000f. Cash in hand DECREASE. Treasury balance COURSE OF EXCIUNGE.—This Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 171 11 171 Ditto 3 Months. 11 19 .11 191- Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 4U 25 4.5 13russels Hamburg 25 221 Paris Ditto 25 40 Marseilles Prankfor: on the Maine . 3 3181 - -olonrtths.2ql2°3s9 ___ 1 8 3 : T o / 13 4a Violin. l3 51 Trieste 3Ol. Petersburgn 6 26 6 251 Berlin - Madrid _ 471 • 48 49 Cadiz 28 80 28 Leghorn 28 80 28 Milan 28 80 28 Genoa 28 Naples — 28 83 28 Palermo Messina Lisbon . • 000000000 ..... bZ Oporto s2i Bank of England Returns, —This Eveninz. An Account, pursuant to 1 cap. 32, for the week ending the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, Wednesday, April 17, 18'47, P ART ME NT. ISSUE DE Notes issued_ .....£33,342,455 Governmt. Debt..£11,015,100 Other Securities.. 3,981,900 Gold Coin and Bullion ......... 18,342,455 Silver Bullion £33,342,455 BANKING D: £ 33 ,342,4„: , 5 _ Proprietors' Capi tal £11,553,000 [last Public Deposits (hie' wiiie4 Ex cliequor, Sav ings Batiks, CominissitinerS of National Debt, awl Div Aee,,unts) 5,39 8 ;236 ()Cwt . Dtp,sits.,„ 18,800,517 Sev,,ii Thy and other bills 453,317 !:PARTNLENT. Governint. Soul rities(ineluding Dea!l Weight Annuity) .... £12,876,168 Other Socurities 1852:3,872 Note.; Gold and Sliver Coin .. 1,045,039 312,310,5.11 42,340,544 IRELAND. DUBLIN, April 17. The Master of the Rolls has at length given judg ment in the case of the Supplemental Charter of the Queen's University, granted last year by the adviers of the late Government. The petitioners were three graduates of the University, who contended that the Supplemental Charter was null and void because it ryAs inconsistent with the preyious char-, ters, and that the Senate had no right to act upon, it. In doing so they would arrogate to themselves the exercise of the Queen's prerogative just as any other authorised body of persons would do if they took upon them to confer academic degrees and honours. If, on the contrary, the petitioners were wrong in their view, they were in this suit seeking to interrupt the due exercise of the Queen's prero rogative by those to whom she had deputed it, and to deprive all the Queen's subjects who might claim degrees under the powers conferred by this Supple mental Charter of the advantages to which they were entitled. These rights either to be asserted by the petitioners or to be defended against them were those of the Queen and the public. The At torney- General was (save in the case of some rare exceptions not applicable here) alone recognised by the law as the proper litigant to representsuch rights. He was of opinion that the petition in the cause was unsustainable, on the ground that the Attorney- General was not a party to it. If that were the only defect in the suit, it might be remedied by bringing the Attorney-General as a defendant ; but he had come to the conclusion that the suit could not be maintained at all by the present petitioners, even if the Attorney-General were a defendant. In order to maintain a suit as a plaintiff a litigant must show some injury to himself as an individual, to be redressed or prevented. If no private right of his, such as the law recognises, is violated, and no loss has been or is about to be suffered by him as an individual, he cannot become plaintiff in asuit merely because others do not perform their duty to the public. It appeared to the Master of the Rolls that the petitioners had only the same grounds for main taining the suit which any of the public might assert. There had been no grievance to them as individuals, and they had no locus standi in the Court. His im pression on a subsidiary point was that the charter of 1864 did not invest the power of accepting the Supplementary. Charter in the Senate exclusively. But that impression was extra judicial, and could not bind any one. He did not entertain it confi dently, nor did it enable him to secure the petitioners from paying the costs of the defendants, who had successfully resisted the hint. His Honour, there fore, dismissed the petition with costs—one set of costs, " without prejudice to any further infor mation." _ _ The papers this morning contain a list of the witnesses to be produced at the forthcoming trials for high treason. But irrespective of this lung list there are 109 witnesses belonging to the civil and military forces to be examined by the Crown. Many of the witnesses are approvers, now re4iding under the protection of the police. The chief of these is the person called " Godfrey Massey," but this is au assumed name. The real name of the hero who fainted on the Limerick Junction platform is Patrick Condon, formerly a colonel in the Southern army, afterwards a canvasser for a com mercial house in New Orleans. There is a nume rous company living together pleasantly at " the depot for Crown witnesses," Fairview, North Strand. Others are lodged in the Lower Castle-yard, and at the Chancery-lane police-station. A party of 18 prisoners, charged with high trea son, were lodged in Nenagh Gaol yesterday. They are described as extremely respectable -looking and able young men, their parents, in some instances, being farmersin comfortable circumstances. Thurles Bridewell is still fully occupied by prisoners of this description, who are awaiting an investigation into their several cases prior to their ultimate discharge or committal. It is said that several districts from which the prisoners have been brought—Thurles, Holycross, Borrisoleigh, Etc.--are in a very back ward state of cultivation, and in consequence of the unsettled state of those places, and the numerous arrests which have been made, no preparations for putting in the crops have been made. Since the arrest of Mr. Locke, at Callan, county Kilkenny, some young men in that neighbourhood have emigrated to the United States, fearing, it is supposed, a similar fate. The Royal Dublin Society's Cattle Show, to be held next week, promises to be very successful. The number of entries for the forthcoming display is greater than on any preceding similar occasion. The number of cattle entered is 278, which con sist of 214 bulls, 43 cows, 38 heifers, and 27 fat cattle. There have also been entered 30 lots of sheep and 45 lots of swine. The contrast between these figures and those which represented the en tries of the first show 37 years ago is remarkable. At that time the number of bulls entered for exhibitors was 13. Mr. John Francis Waller, LL.D., barrister, but better known as a literary man than a lawyer, who used to write under the name of " Slingsby," has been appointed by the Master of the Rolls to the office of Reader and Clerk of the Rolls Court. The announcement of Dr. iValler's appointment has been received with general approval. No one is better qualiqed to fill the office ; and none better entitled to obtain it from his high literary attain ments, and his personal character. LONDON'S BEAUTY SPOTS.—Leigh Hunt tells us that there arc architectural objects about the west end which, although raised by private munificence and taste, become so endeared to us that their demolition or removal would be viewed as an act of sacrilege or a public misfortune. The reader may recal many of those, for which, if threatened by the hand of innovation, he would suffer uo little anxiety. SOMa such feelings passed over•us: when we perceived that the superb shop-front, at the junction of Regout-street with the Quadrant, was elosd. Ile could not help recalling Mr. Timb's account of it in his " Curiosities of London," in which he dwells, with the gusto of a connoisseur, upon its fluted lonic columns, Italianised arches, enriched pedimental heads, spandrels, escutcheon; and its other esthetical accessories. under Hering.the And all this, thought we, is downed. As others may have i c y o i t s , t f l a o y a r regretfully arrived at the seals conclusion, it is gratifying to state that this exquisite casket has been but tempo trhyaann for I y tnie c i o ar n tal v r e o r fi t i i I n iii g i Messrs. S wan and E Igar could hardly have devoted this srau.pilyrinclt,:sn.dido,nt(,),o toinfdietrsgoo rai;ionay I :t e e s i g re a s e t r e , r. ; % .t i i r o . u p. in n it i h n a :lye min:dtaeurene t n u n e i y q u h e a r sti e lo d n on t o o , articles of Aux de shawls of India, and the far East —indi sipro:lcuccuts- vidual ep whitens of which continuou,ly submitted a in w t ° o ri a bi d ° e r po u :i e to hve pied the nimble fingers , f ofoprwaorudrs of f i aaep year—togetherection of the looms of France and Britain, the marvellous results of the genius of J a c quard. As the interior of this chef d',Euvee, adorned with choice s rtime marbles, is indeed far more ele , qu i t st.l'n ns of the rarest its apprOAcheS from than even its facade, and the older ' ortion ' readily discovered, visitors, i of the house are not although their business may not call them to that p:trt of the establishment, should re quest pmuission to inspect it, as it is most d e serving of their att en ti on , an d has already called forth the admiration of many pers onages o f the highest distinction. LONDON, April 18.____1\- - tud this day at noon—South Westerly ; trolent • : e Ire z. Mitt title weather, but rather cloudy. QUEENSTOWN, April 17.—Wind N.W—Arrivod—Tees dale, screw steamer, from Now York. BRISTOL, April 17.—Wiucl S.W.—Arrivecl—Clortrude, from Now York. 20 st st 100 ..... at 100 I LOU 9t; 20 20i 10 (00 1 100 all 100 100 100 16.13.4 100 100 100 all 1100 100 100 all 100 100 100 {lOO 10 100 100 91 } 1011 92 1 871 7