The Sun. — London, England, 1856-01-18 00:00:00

i given 14' tkley, and ott-street • St. Mall , ery great n I wail I • That I , and wall is house was wel deceased be solici• ears ag ° is ability a estate npfs ore rustrated much to f the pm e induced some of ppoisted in owing ner, al• igh was I. That net's on ,nmetion rds 4 That 3eased 0 him bo ot pro , rate die ter iat o that be I hare lid not indnes', tnces he S incar' Chat the en into a n or •VatiOng lay asl olici tor le Igo ving as rate for misoner am in . ito ths injured in coo asband, l warm• RKS• ild this le elec. B chair. 5 aitua• when as fol- • ••• ° • .... 0 0 0 0 0 0 fr. J. he pa t to A office t, at 0 it was it the they ,o thp rough i that toner, e not n had that ad re- nen: 3aalp MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE CITY, Two o'CLoCK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed very firmly, at advanced prices, in consequence of the favourable news respecting the war. In the Railway Share Market there was a considerable business done, and in many instances prices rose upwards of 3 per cent. Although the aggregate transactions in the Colo nial Produce Markets have continued of a limited character during the week, there has been rather more disposition to make purchases. The inquiry for sugar has slightly increased, and former rates have been maintained. Coffee has ruled exceed ingly quiet, and no alteration in prices has oc curred. Tea at public sales has sold slowly, and ARUM kinds declined 2d. to 3d. per lb. In Spices the dealings have been quite of a retail character, and Pimento is rather cheaper. Rice has been Very dull, and has receded 9d. to la. per cwt. Tallow has b een s teady, but quiet. Yesterday, however, an entire change was apparent in the markets for all the principal staples, and fuller prices were in most , cases current. Holders of some articles declined to sell at previous quotations. The business transacted, therefore, was exceedingly limited, and the quotations were chiefly nominal. If the negotiations for peace proceed satisfactorily a very marked alteration is expected in the condi tion of these markets. Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report the market for American Securities as still inactive. The pre sent quotations (for the Most part nominal) are as follows : GOTARNMENT SECURITIES. Redeemable. Per Cent. traitei States 6 per Cent. 1867-1868...104 Unit a 6 State' 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...104 lIITATS California 7 p er Cent. Bonds SEIIIRITIES. IB7O... 78 80 Maryland 5 per Cont. (Sterling Bonds)... ... 86 88 Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Storl. Bonds). ... 96 93 Mississippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk. Bonds lB4l-1871... 43 45 Mississippi 6 per Cent. Union Bk Bonds ... 16 18 Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Stock Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds 1877... 79 80 Tirvais 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 188 8... 81 i 62i V irginia 6 per Cent. Bonds. 1886... 86 8$ CITY liiRIURITIES. 311 011 ton 5 per Cent. Bonds (Divers) ... 90 92 Montreal 6 p er Cent. Bonds 1856-1 865 ... 88 85 OW Orleans 6 per Cent. Stock 1833... 77 79 Illinois RAILROAD BONDS. Central 7' per Cent. lst Mortgage, not Convertible 1875... 74 76 Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland Fonds 1860... 75 77 Michigan Central Bp. Cent. 1860... 92 94 tow York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 92 91 - "syr York Central 6 per Cent., not New York a n d E r i e 7 p e r Cent. Ist Mort. 1833... 79 61 ,g a g• 'evr York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort „Ann 1883... 81 83 L . York and Erie 7p. Cent. Convertible 1862... 72 74 N. York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking Fund 1875... 80 81 ?a „naree 7 per Cent., lst Mortgage.(Ster tiug Bonds), not convertible 1859... 92 93* PennsDitto ditto 1864... 93 95 ylvania Central 6 p. Cent., lst Mort 1880... 85 87 *lx dividend. The latest commercial advices from New York do not record any material alteration in monetary °Perations, and the market for speculative stocks lad been very inactive. There has been a decrease In the revenue receipts in imports daring the last Year of 3,709,581 dols., the totals being 38,096,888 dols. for 1854, and 34,387,307 dols. for the year Which has just expired. The demand for money continued, and though large amounts had been disbursed in payment of dividends, it does not ap hear to have diminished the stringency of the dis count market. Local writers take rather a gloomy View of the condition of the market, and consider that some months must elapse before it will be re stored to even a moderately easy position. The Market for breadstuff's was rather heavy ; but some large shipments of flour to Liverpool and London, as well as some of the Continental ports, had been reported. Great inconvenience is experienced by London merchants, and others, from the dilatory manner in which the Australian mails are forwarded from Liverpool on the arrival of the packets. In the tresent instance, only a portion of the mails by the Been Nevii has come to hand, and the remainder will probably not arrive until to-morrow. No blam e is attached to the Government for the un necessary delay, for it is understood that the con- Tractors perform this duty. This carelessness, to Bel the least of it, is reprehensible, and should be represented to the authorities. Amongst the items of intelligence from Victoria, it is satisfactory to see that the old staple product of the colony continues to increase annually. The quantity of wool shipped during the past year exhibits an increase of about 30 per cent. over that of f the previous year. This is an unusual in crease , nut it must be remembered that in 1854 the pre valence of disease amongst the flocks, and the want cf labour which caused the stockholders to boil down their sheep, had the effect of lessening the export of wool. In that year ending October 10th the quantity shipped was 11,104,130 lb., and in ( ne year ending September 15, the shipments amounted to 1521,381 lbs. weight, valued at !373,4781., showing ' ad increase of 4,127,251 lbs. in less than a year. This improved state of the wool inarket is attributed chiefly to the abundant supply of labour throughout the year, in consequence of the number of labourers who, finding no occupation in the towns, proceeded into the interior where they found employment upon the stations. The English Stock Market is well supported, c onsidering the material advance which has taken place, but there is less excitement, and ~,the dealing s a r e of a more limited character. 41 e quotations are occasionally affected by active selling, but no important decline has et occurred, although it is considered proba ble that a slight reactionary movement will aeon commence. Consols for money have been from 89i to 89k. For the 7th February the prices, after being 89i and 90, receded to 891 I, but they bare since rallied to 90/. The New 3 per Cents. are 901 and 90i. The Reduced have been active at 89-1 to 90i. Exchequer Bills have risen to 6s. And 2a . discoing. At the meeting of Portuguese Bondholders hold t 1 -day the following resolution was agreed to : " That the agreement dated Dec. 13, 1855, be tween Mr. Thornton, chairman of Portuguese Bondholders' Committee, and his Excellency Senor Fortes, the Finance Minister of Portugal, and now read at this meeting, be approved ; and of the same being ratified by the Cortes and carried into effect, the Committee of the Stock Exchange be requested to give quotation to Portuguese Secu rities. 7, There has been very little activity in the Foreign Market. Turkish Bends are improved to 86i and 87 for account, and the New Scrip, after being 21, bag advanced to 1 discount. Spanish Three per Gent s , have risen to 391, but the Deferred have ruled at 221 to 22i, and the Passive at 4 to 4i. Russian Small Bonds aro 90, Mexican 20 to 20k, and Brazilian Five per Cents. 100. Dutch Two and-a-lialf per Cents. are 1 per cent. higher, /lamely, 64 to 65, and the Four per Cents, are 96. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 7 ; Mexican, 19i 20i ; Peruvian, 75 7 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 52 4 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 46 8 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 96 9 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 86 9 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 39i 40; ditto Deferred, 22 k ; ditto Certificates, 41 5 ; ditto Passive, 6 Railway Shares have been remarkably steady. Great Northern, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Nor th tastern, Berwick, and some others have risen to even higher quotations than yesterday. Some of the Foreign are not quite so firm, and the Colonial undertakings have likewise slightly given way. Joint-Stock Bank Shares are in some cases higher. Canada Land have risen to 137, and Mining Shares are about the same as previously. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE ()CLOCK. (From the Ogetial isn.ln , • done. 3 per Cent. IledEced Annuities B9B 90i 89 90] 3 per Cent. C onsols Annu i t i es Sgi # 3+ .1 i Now 3 per Cent. Annuities India Bonds, £lOOO . . Consols ;or Account Exchequer Bills, 2id. £lOOO ............. I'soo ........ 1 6 .. %mill . .............. . Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3. per Cent.. 971 i Ditto, 1859 ........ ?MOE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. lOO c l u a d o r Bonds ~ . — Ditto New Consolidated l4i WI , xi eau 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 5 per Cont., 1822, £ St — Ditto Small ....................... 90 Spanish Bowls, 3 per Cent ... Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account .... ...................... . Pftnish Committee Cert. of Coup. ia-_,t fun 4l i p o xnrlzieh Bonds, 6 per cent B 6i Ditto for the Account Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account 2 i li ilividenda on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 2A per Cent., 12 Guil 6l 5 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates TWO gezocir. Consols ....... DittO (Feinuary),.. i 90 (bum') SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. Cllnaint Prices I yesterday. 31 - 3i 76 - 8 16 - 15 13 - 14 9 - 8 79 - 81 531 -56 i 10 7 ii 5 - 4 - 74 11 - 8i 25 -•2 9 7 17 - 19 71 - 73 49 - 51 9* - 20 - 21 ••• ."'' SO - 85 6 - 7 91 - 92 76 - 78 120 -- 122 10:1 -- 105 54 55 70 - 75 5 - 6 5 •- 6 p 784 79 6i 6A 95 97 961 1 Ad I iJ a - 85} R6i Ta 6a 6 5 --- 243 661 -6, 38 - 40 • • • 10 43 - 45 29i ~. 30j 68 - 6 81 - 7ti 5 - • 121 -12 f 454 96! 92 -97 9 - Si 4i - 54 20 -. -22 I 101 72 74 13 - 45 104 ITS 57 58 65 67 5 3d 2d pa RAILWAYS. Ambg. Nottng. Bost snd Rasta. Janet... 3olfast & Ballymena. MmHg. Wolverh. Stour Valley Birk °Ad. Lancet:. & Cheshire Janet Jo. Chesh. & Birk , £5O and £25 Cons Do., £20.... ...... Blyth & Tyne origins' £25 (issd. at £45) Bristol and Exeter Caledonian. Caren. and Cardigan Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon Cc..rk, Black, & Pees Carnwall Do. A Do. B Cite Junction Duulin&BelfastJunc Dun. P. & Aber. Jnc Do. 11 , ,w East Auglian Eastern Counties East. Union, A Stlk De., B. Stue7 IDo., New A ..... 'East Kent East Lancashire Edinburgh& GlaegoN Edinb. and Peebles , Edin. Prth & Dund,* Forth & Clyde Jan% Furness Do. Extension........ ,Glasgow &S. Westc— Great N. of Scotlnd. Great Northern . 11 Do A. Stock 1_ too all all 100 100 IDo., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.are ) Great Western... ..... Do. Stour Val. Rail Gus. Stk., Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Laucash. andYorksh Do., Wst. Riding Un Liv.Creby.&Southpt London & Blackwar Lond. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westn. ,Do. Fifths 5i 1)0.101.5h.,M1L8...0 2i !Do. Eighths,. 100 1 London andS. Westn all 0., £5O all 0., £4O all Lndndrry&Coleraint all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 flan ch.Shef.& Linelp all Do. i Shares, No. l 525.1D0., Man : & Lin. Un . all all all RA' all too 21i all 3 all all Metropolitan ....... ..• Midland , o. Birmng. & Derby ii did. G. West. (1r50.3 Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aborg. & Hrfd Newry & Enniskillet Newry Warrenpoini 1 and Rostrevor Norfolk , Northn.Connties Un 'North British... North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., i A Deferred Do., i B Guaranteed N. astorn—Berwick Do. do. Extension Dodo. G.N.E. :euroh Do. Leeds Do. York North London ..... N. &S. Wstrn. , Hamp stead, and City Ju North Staffordshir:s North Western ' N. & S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester ,ox, Wore., & Wolv ' t'orts; - ..ionth '-',,,': oAish Central..... Scottish Midland.... ili ropsh ire Un - on south Devon South Eastern south Wales S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun Do Staines, Wok. &Wok tookton & Darli Stockton d; Hartleol raff Vale 'Do. Prof., No. 'Thames Hay. D.& R Inverstone & Lanes Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limeriek West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B West London. Wimbledn & Croydor, 33 - 35 ••• • •• ....' 86 .- 44 16 4 -- 6 Realness dote this day. FOREIGN. A atwerl4 ttottadam Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. -in at paitill '64 Ardennes Ablgian Eastu. Junb Ileziers to Grai ssesaao Bombay, Baroda, an Central India,Serb Do. Demerara outeh Rhenish E%storn of France Do. New Seat Indian, g. 5 p. Do. Plyteipsion Do. do. do., '59, do 1 (34. Th of Cana , " aA is Do. St. Lawrence Si Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben. con. into Stk . till '63' Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Ceutral of Fran, Gt. Indian PeninanlF ' guar. 5 per cent. Do. New 5 per cent Do. Extensions Groat Luxembon4 Constituted Shares Do. Obligations i Gt. Western o f Canad Shares Do. New Do. tills., payable's7, l with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p,'56 ' Do. do., 76, p. M. do., '73, without option ihmilton & Tororr Do. i por cent. [Ake C (mgt. & % Ale Liorre and Turnimnt Lyons and Genova Lyons di Meditorran kradras Do. Now Antonia Do. do. New NNmnr 4 Liege (grit}, tatorest) Do. (ox lutenist) 'northern of France. D 0.201. Shs Do. 20/. 3 p. a Bds (fmy. B. di Ams. She ) rweg ianTrunkPre ,Paris and Lyons Ditto Ronde Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen... ParisCaen d; Cherhrg. Do Rome and Frascati, , Rouon and Havre. Royal Danish ...... aoyalSwedish Do. Obligations Sambre and Meuse 'Do. 5 p. cent. Pref Soindo Do Southern of Franco St. Andrew's •nd Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5/ per c. Prof western of France Do ...... Zrvilmyi JOINT-S' likustralmir Bank of London COI. C. Britilih N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia' Chrtd. Bnk. of India Australia, & Chi n ; City Colonial Commercial of Lond , Eng.Scot.&Ans.Cht Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australis Ditto New iDendon and Connty tud.&E. Bukg. Corp (London Joint Stock ILond. & Westminster INational Pro. of Zug !Do. Now, .......... !National of Ireland 'New South Wales 'Oriental Bank of Corporation. ,provincial of Ireland, obo. New IRoyal AustrAln.Bkg. & Gold Tmp C 0.... Ropal British ..... tenth Nnstralia Union of Australia .. Do. NAN , / Union o Loudon ,„„ 71 - 8 3 - Sid P - i 1, - p xall 34i - 45 8 9 n 20} 201 •.... •••• •• 11 10 14 - 15 60 65 80 85 5k 51 par 4p 4 - 21 - 31 24 - 25 21 1 -21 p 4 98 - 100 111 - 120 115 120 104 • 106 23 - 24 110 - 115 6 is} 7 9 2 - 3 5 - 5 4k - 4 i ?4 - 344 11 - 124 Gi - • 74 44 - 444 42- 44 ... -• 184 - 194 14 - li 2 - 2 5 8 - 8 54 ••• ••• par ip ." --- pm 31 - 4 lifi : 2'9. 18i - 19711 BANKS: 88 A 56 - 58 j .... ~'a 63 - 65 16} 15 -15 i 3 1 - J ipar 2P ... - ... .•• ......." ... .04 ..... ... 440 .."'. .ft ii - - 89 37 - 38 al 58 ..... .., ••• '"" S 8 - '0 73 - 75 8 9 30 is 31 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING . JANUARY 18. 1856 LINES I , R,kSED T FIXED ItENTALtr. ADMINISTRATIVE 4ND ACADEMIC Patd. RAIL WA TI, Lamlm. Campat m cmaina yta ter lay REFORM. On Monday evening, James Heywood, esq., M.P. for North Lancashire, delivered an address on Adminis- trative and Academic Reform, to the members and friends of the Athenaeum, in the library hall of the insti tution. Alderman Sir E. Armitage, president of the Athenzum, took the chair, and most of the directors were upon the platform ; but the attendance otherwise was small. The CHAIRMAN briefly introduced Mr. Heywood, re marking that that gentleman laid the foundation-stone of the institution, and for many years took an active in terest in its prosperity, as a managing director. Only his more important duties in the House of Commons pre vented his appearance more frequently amongst the members. (Applause.) Mr. HEY WOOD said he felt that he owed a debt of gra. titude to the institution, in connection with which he first had an opportunity of learning public business, which had since been very useful to him. We were now at a very important period of our history ; for the Go vernment of the country was gradually giving up the old system of favouritism and patronage, and adopting that of competition and merit as the test of fitness for ' public appointments. He had thought, therefore, that a few remarks upon our transition state would not be un interesting. Last session he put upon the paper a notice of motion for the adoption of asystem of open competition for entrance into the Royal Engineers and Artillery at Woolwich, and he was very much pleased silently to drop that motion, when he found that the govern ment were going to adopt the principle. .This step, be believed, was very much due to the exertions of Mr. Mousey, clerk to the Board of Ordnance, who took the responsibility of recommending the competitive system. The first examination was to take place next Monday, at Burlington House ; and the examination paper was upon the whole satisfactory. The importance of this weuld be seen when it was recollected that our engineers at first thought that Sebastopol could be taken in three days ; although the earthworks that they then slighted cost the labour of the better part of 12 months, and were only at last taken by a desperate act of valour. Great military achievements were not generally the result of accident •r bravery ; but of skill, gained by careful training and matured by experience. In the line the system had hitherto been one purely of favouritism and patronage ; and Lieut.-Colonel Adams told the com mittee on promotions that the officers in the line had generally not sufficient education to enable them to in terest themselves in things which could tend to promote their efficiency. Mr. Layard had told him some time ago, that while out in the East he dined one day with the late Lord Raglan and his staff, and the next with General Canrobert and the French staff. At the former, the conversation amongst young men was upon Lon don parties, horses, and things of that sort ; at the latter Mr. Layard said that all present were accom plished engineers, thoroughly acquainted with the pro gress of the siege, and conversing upon the prospects before the allied armies. Mr. Sidney Herbert, while at I the head of the Department of War, recommended that, for the line, there should be local means of education for regimental officers ; but it had not been adopted. He (Mr. Heywood) thought that Mr. Herbert was in the right. Our army was supported by the taxes, to fight for our benefit ; and we had a right to insist that the officers should be thoroughly skilled men. (Applause.) It was a very bad investment, to pay a number of igno rant people merely that they might amuse themselves ; especially as we knew that whenever called into active service they would have to contend with officers who were skilled as a result of training, and more efficient fram the interested attention they paid to the practical details of their profession. (Applause.) The appoint. ments to the Indian civil service had been a complete matter of patronage, of which the ministers of the day had no doubt had their share ; and the places were good ones, beginning with 6001. and increasing to 3,0001. a year. But next July a competitive system was to be introduced. Hindoos should be allowed to be examined for appointment ; for we should never thoroughly gain the affections of the people until we showed that they might themselves rise by, the opening to them of the civil service. A case had occurred of two young /lin doos who were admitted to bo qualified ; but new offices were created for them, rather than, allow them to take any position that had been before kept solely for Eng lishmen. This should not be ; it was of no importance to this country whether there were five or six English- I men more or less in the Indian se rvic e , but it was im portant how this country stood in the affections of the millions of natives under our government. (Applause.) In the new department of nurses, we had at the bead Miss Nightingale—an excellent example of "the right lady in the right place"—(applause)—but in that department candidates were subjected to some examination, and to a test as to whether they possessed the nerve which would enable them to endure the hospital scenes through which they must pass at Scutari and Balaklava. As to our consuls, he was not aware that the competitive system had ever been introduced. He thought that the exclu sive selection of men for that department, from the aris tocracy, was a mistake, especially when he saw hew things could be managed in foreign countries, as to pecu lation, bribery, and corruption. There might be very many cases in which it would be better to select as con suls men otherwise qualified, but also acquainted with trade ; and who might know how to deal with those who showed an inclination to cheat. Sir R. Peel took a step in the right direction, as regarded the principal ministers of state, when he 4ielected for appointments such men as Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Lord Lincoln (now the Duke of Newcastle), and Mr. Cardwell. Those gentlemen had distinguished themselves at Oxford. Al though that university was purely a Church institution, still within those limits there was competition ; and Sir Robt. Peel, when he selected for distinction in his minis try those who had distinguished themselves at college, acknowledged the value of the competitive system. Coining to the question of academic reform, Mr. Hey wood said that a change was needed, for although the universities produced some good men, they also turned out many very dull ones. Both clergy and laity suffered from this ; but as a large number of the students be came clergymen, it was especially injurious to the coun try that the system of education was not adapted to the times. He thought that the late act as to Oxford would have introduced a better system ; but he was afraid that it had not done so. In fact, while the c )lieges had so much influence in the university, he did not think that any important change could very well be effected, unless the Government interferod more directly than they had hitherto done. He be lieved that the commission, with Lord Ellesmere as chairman, had exerted themselves very much. Next session he expected a bill would be brought in as to Cambridge, under the charge of the Lord Chancellor, which he hoped would destroy the oligarchic government of the heads of colleges, and substituting one approach ing somewhat to a municipal constitution. After read ing tho memorial to Prince Albert, as chancellor of Cam bridge, which was agreed to by the public meeting on university reform held at Birmingham, on the 30th of October, and some correspondence showing that his Royal Highness had forwarded the doemment to the - Vice- Chancellor, " for the consideration of the resident uni versity authorities," Mr. Heywood said that the object of the movement was to open the universities to all sects. Ile remarked that the agitation in favour of a reduction of academical expenses had brought much support to the movement ; and he described what was done in support of it by the Parliamentary committee of the British Association, and by the " Civil and Religious Liberty Committee," consisting of members of Parliament. Something was needed in the way of local education ; and if there could not be an agreement as to what should be taught in schools supported by local rates, the next best thing would be a thorough investigation of old en dowments and charities connected with the city and neighbourhood. With respect to the grammar school : doubtless at, the time of its founda; ion by Bishop Old- ham, in 1515, the vesting the appointment, of its head master in the president of Corpus Christi College was a good arrangement, but at the present day the school had as good a body of trustees as any in the king dom, and who were perfectly competent to make a suit able appointment ; he should recommend that the presi dent of Corpus Christi should be constituted one of the Trustees, and the appointment then be vested in that body. Such an arrangement would not ignore the will of the founder of the charity, but would yet adapt the institution more to the requirements of the pre sent day. He (Mr. Heywood) was very much in clined to bring a bill into Parliament in relation to such schools. (Hear, hear.) There was a great deal that wanted reforming about them. Many of them still continued to teach the' Catechism, and to force the pupils to go to church on the Sunday, even when it was quite at variance with their religious . professions or the desires of their parents or friends. There was a trust which many of them perhaps knew but little about, be longing to this locality—the Hulme Trust. It was ori ginally for the purpose of enabling poor bachelors of art to study divinity at Oxford, but it could not now be ad vantageously employed in that way, and the money had accumulated to the extent of from 40,0001. to 50,000/., till the trustees had obtained from Parliament permis sion to lay out the money in church livings. The Oxford commission had recommended that no more money should be laid out in the purchase of livings, and be should say the trustees had better stop, and as the origi nal intention of the founder had died out, they had bet ter apply the money for the good of the neighbourhood in which the property was situate. The only question would be, perhaps, whom should they assist. He would recommend that a local committee should be appointed, with the mayor at its head, for the purpose of adminis tering such trusts. He should be very glad if some of the residents in the town would take this matter of the old trusts in hand. They did not have the first-rate education in Manchester which they ought to have ; and now, au there were many really valuable places thrown open for competition, the cleverest young men ought to be able to obtain them. The inhabitants of Manchester ought to have the same chances as those in other places, and as he fully believed the competition would be fair, as well as open, he was sure they would take as good a stand as any others, He should be very glad if the public would take this matter up for consideration, awl he would with pleasure attend another meeting, if one could be called, although he understood there would be a difficulty in fixing one to take place immediately. Mr. EDWIN CHADWICK said he had been requested by the directors to move a vote of thanks to Mr. Heywood, for the highly instructive and interesting address they had beard, which he (Mr. Chadwick) h a d great pleasure in doing. They had also requested him to state his own views upon it, which he would do as briefly, as shortly as the time permitted. Undoubtedly Mr. Heywood had acted wisely in connecting administrative reform with academical reform ; because the first step in administra tive reform is the substitution of well-regulated, fair and open competitive examinations, for mere pass examina tions would be the only trustworthy test of the success of academic reform, and the best security for its pro gress, He (Mr, Chadwick) bad been asked to attend a . Bedford and Blet ebley Backe arnsh. Clydesdale Jo, Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. R. Lin. v.. 6 pc. E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. Sr Neils. Direct Do. New...... Glstr.dt Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.kGreenw Do. Preference Lon. , Til., & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. %tn. and Matlock Middlesl3ro' & Redcar. Midld.Bradfd Newmarket Bury Exton , N.& FAst.s p. c Do. 6 per et, ' Do. Fixeds p s Prest. AL Vt y: e. Do. Qrs. A Roystn.& Hit. Shef.Roth.and Gooleg.s p. c. Shrews. &Her. S. Staffordsh. Wear Valloygr 6 per cent Do Wiltstelom rat PREFE Aberdeen ......... Do. N 0.2, 7 p. c. Myth andTyn- Wei 0. pref. (Ind. atsol Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St . Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyheal Guar. 5A per cent., 134:). do. Pref. No. 2 Cork o. do: Pref. No. 2.. C &INandonsip o. Dun.Prth . & Aber. J. E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B 6 p. c. Do. do Cls. C 7p. c. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do. No. 2 Do. New 6 p. C. St. East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51., 10 per cent. Do. 101. Debontr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent... East Lancash. 6 p.cts E. &W. York. J. sths Ed. Pith. &Dun. 4 p.c Furness Gifts. &5.W.G.5 p.c. Great Northn. 5 p. a Do. 5 p. a. 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Registered I " 1; 5 'rust& L.Co.U.Can 100; 28 Diemen's_liand 16 17 . 1.1.11055 this day. AUSTRALIA. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 17. By the arrival of the White Star Royal mail packet-ship Ben Nevis, Captain Herron, we have advicea from Melbourne to the 16th of October. She left Port Philip Heads on the 19th of October, and brought 45,000 ounces of gold on freight ; also a large cargo, consisting of 500 to 600 bales of wool, 300 bales of rags, 2,400 hides, 4,609 horns, copper ore, &c. She was off Cape Clear on the Ist inst. The packet-ship Shalimar arrived at Melbourne on the 15th of October ; and the Champion of the Seas was to leave for Liverpool on the 25th of October. The Ben Nevis having brought a very scanty supply of newspapers our summary of intelligence is necessarily brief. Her advices are 15 days later than those by the Donald M'Kay, which arrived on the 28th ult. From the diggings we learn that the Eureka dis trict was yielding improvingly. Some " tubfuls" yielded 15 lb. to 30 lb. of clean gold. At Mount Blackwood some heavy finds are reported. The mania was for quartz reefs, which were being opened in all directions. A. Geelong correspondent of a Melbourne paper writes : "The locality of the late gold discovery is no longer a secret—at least, the discoverers have been found at their work, and have shown the claim !ism which they brought the first quantity to town. They had taken the precaution immediately on coming upon the treasure to fill the hole with water until they could secure their claim, and commenced working another close by. Two gentlemen who arrived from Steiglitz yesterday went down to see them ; and although they did not see the vein, on account of the water, they saw enough in the other claim the same party is working to satisfy them of the prodigious richness of the place. Other quartz veins in the same neighbourhood, although net exhibiting any indication of copper, are proving exceedingly rich in gold. A large number of claims are marked out already along the supposed course of the reef ; and some hundreds of people have gone off to secure their miners' rights.' Several parties talk of starting from this immediately, some, to establish stores, and others to work the reef. The precise spot where the gold and copper are found in such abundance is about 20 miles from Geelong, as the crow flies,' or about 24 miles by the road. It is situated between two small creeks, which, after they unite, are known as Suther land's creek, and is distant about seven miles south-east front Meredith. The road to it is excellent, and runs between the Moorabool and Sutherland's-creek. Parties going from this will keep upon this beaten road until they come to that well-known hut known as the One armed Shepherd's ;' from this but it is only two miles and a-half to the locality, in a north-eastern direction." A. meeting of the principal dealers in the wool trade had been held at Melbourne, at which the following resolution was unanimously adopted : " That purchasers of wool at this market shall agree to accept only the following tare and draught—viz., not less than 101 b. per bale tare and ilh, per cwt. draught." Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of New South Wales, died on the sth of October, aged 64. His funeral was a public one, the deceased having been much respected. From Adelaide we learn thai., the quantity of gold deposited for assay up to the 9th of Oct. was 113,350 oz. 14 dwt. and 18 grains. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. MELBOURNE, OCT. 16. The gold market has opened with more activity this week, 31. 15s. 3d. being the ruling buying price at the brokers'. Duty was paid on 11,337 ounces at the Cus toms during the day, of which 8,809 ounces were for the Champion of the Seas, for Liverpool ; 2,205 ounces for the Ben Nevis, for Liverpool ; and 323 ounces for Hong Kong, in the bands of Chinese passengers in the J. W, A. Lorenzan. Tea, 71. 10s. per chest ; coffee, le. 3d. per lb.; sugar, 565. per cwt.; potatoes, 40s. per cwt.; rice, 4id. per lb.; butter, is. 6d. per lb.; flour, 581. per ton. The demand for supplies at the various diggings ntill continues, and great activity is at present 'evinced in despatching stores and merchandise of all kinds. GEELONG, OCT. 16. . . A marked improvement has taken place in the labour market since our last circular, the demand considerably exceeding the supply for all descriptions of hands, except mechanics, for whom the call is still comparatively small. The Geelong Advertiser says— " We think that the week has shown some signs of improvement in regard to trade ; apparently more has been going on than usual, and though in part this activity may be traceable to the Brilliant and other vessels now discharging, we believe also that more business has been done. The imports for the week are of the estimated value of 23,1241., and they com prise fair quantities of a number of articles now in de mand, besides a large stock of haberdashery, a con siderable weight of tea, and ample supplies of beer and brandy. On the other hand, the exports have been limited to sundry small consignments to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, &a., which are estimated at 9421. The week's receipts at the Custom-house have been 4,7021. 6s. The total Customs' receipts during the past month have exceeded 17,000/. ; the excess over the revenue collected in the corresponding month in the pre vious year has chiefly been occasioned by the higher rates levied on spirits, &c., under She'new tariff, and the taxation of sugar and molasses, which were at that time admitted to be free." MARKET NEWS.—;This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. The quantity of English wheat on sale, in to-day's mar ket, was very limited. Owing, however, to the rumours of peace with Russia the trade was in a m os t d epresse d state, and the quotations were nominal. To have effected sales, a considerable decliLe in prices must have been sub mittpd to. Foreign wheat commanded no attention : indeed, we heard of no transactions in any kind. The demand for barley was heavy, at barely Monday's prices. _ _ In malt very little was passing. Oats—the show of which was tolerably good—moved off slowly, at aboat previous rates. Reins, peas, and flour ware exesssively heavy. ARRIVALS THIS WHIM Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. 1,290 1,840 2,780 5,211 1,830 500 9'700 . brls 3ngUsh .. Irish .... Foreign} 1 METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The supply of beasts in to-dare market was but mode rate. Owing to the change in the weather, and the dull state of the dead markets, the beef trade was heavy, and prices were from 2d to fully^ 4d per Sibs lower than on Monday. Sheep, the show of which was tolerably good, were excessively heavy, and the quotations were almost nominal. We had a depressed sale for calves, at a further decline in value of 4d per Blbs. Pigs were heavy, and lower to purchase. Mulch cows sold at from 141. to 19/. each, including their small calf. Per 81bs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d.l s. d. s. d. inferior Beasts.... 3 oto 3 2 Iz'rime Southdown 4 6 410 Socind quality.... 3 4 3 8 large crse. calves 4 2 410 Primo largo oxen 310 4 2 Primo small d 0... 5 0 5 4 Prime Scots, &c. 4 4 4 6 . /Large hogs ...... 10 4 2 Inferior Sheep ...3 0 3 4 Small porkers ... 4 4 5 0 Second quality ...3 6 310 Suckling calves.. 22 0 29 0 Primo erse.-wiled.4 0 4 41Quarter old pigs.2l 0 27 0 TeliAL OMPPLT. FOBEltirl surrtl. Boasts . . Beasts RhAop ..... .....• .• • • •• .. 3,800 Calves .• ••..••.••• •• • • • • 221) Figs •• •• •••• 400 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies were large, and the trade ruled heavy, at drooping prices. Per 81bs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. r. d. s. d. Beef, Interior ...... 2 8 3 0 Mutton Inferior 2 10 3 4 Do., middling ..... 3 2 3 4 Do., middling 3 6 310 De. prime large.. 3 6 3 8 Do., prime 4 0 4 4 Do , de. small ....3 10 4 2 1 Veal 3 8 4 8 Pork, large 3 8 4 2 Pork, small 4 4 5 2 BOROUGH HOP. We are well supplied with all kinds of hope, in which a steady business is doing, at full quotations. This week's imports are 76 bales from Antwerp. Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ 15s to 61 lOs per cwt ; to 51 Os ; Sussex, 315 s to 41 15s. Weald of Kent, 31 lOs COLONIAL. TEA.—The public sales concluded on Wednesday with out any material alteration in values, with the exception of Assam, which sold at 2d to 3d per lb decline. Common congon realised 90 per lb. SUGAR—Prices have again been rather lower, although greater confidence has been exhibited by purchasers, both exporters and grocers. West ladia—St. Kitt's brown brought 375, Bourbon 40s to 41s, low to mid soft brown 39s to 40s per cwt. Mauritius,brown 33s to 345. Foreign also experienced a reduction in price ; ordinary to fine brown Bahia brought 36s 6d to 40s, brown to fine yellow Pernata 37s to 425, low to fine white 42. 64 to 46e 6d. Bengal also sold at fully is decline, mid t• fine yellow date kind 41s to 4 4 s per cw t . In the refined market more business has been doing , but at lower prices ; fair Settlers The public , tales h ave go ne off w ith ra th er more animation, and , nt a sm a ll p ro portion on ly rea li se d former rates. Plantation Ceylon, mid 6 Os 6 d to 61s 6d ; 52s e , o c r r F crashed 49s to 50s, fine and goo d 46. t o 47 s p er cw t. fine fine ordinary to said colory, 58s to 61s 6d • triage, 47s to 565, triage 52 s 6 d to 56 5. Native Ceylon line ordinary 54s ' ordinary and good ordinary 49s 6 d to 50s per cwt. East India Sumatra 38s 6d, and Mocha mid brownish, partially garbled. COCOA..—There has been but few transactions of any importance to note in this article, prices being almost nomi nal. Good grey brought 49s per cwt. RICE.—An active demand has arisen, and a considerable business has been done at rather lowers , atos. Bengal new crop 15s 3d to 15s 64 for good middling, Madras 15. 6d fair pinky. RUM.—The market has been quiet. Pale Demerara 2s 8d to 2. 104 per proof gallon, ordinary leeward. 21 6d per proof gallon. Sricßa.—Pepper hag been in good demand. ''Good clean Borneo 5,1 d to sd, heavy Sad ; Penang, rath er d us t y , 4id to 5d per lb ; Singapore white realised 7d to 71d per lb. Pimento brought 4id to 4id per lb. Cloves realised previ ous rates, fair Zanzibar sid to sid per lb. Mace has re mained firm mid to good 2. to 2. ld per lb. Nutme g s, the bett er kinds sold at higher rates, fine bold 5., good 2. 104 to 3. 4d, mid 2. 4d to 2. Id. COCHINEAL has been quiet at former rates. SALTPETRE.—Thore has been rather more inquiry ; Bengal 51b p er c ent sold at 36s p er cwt. TALLOW remains very depressed. P.Y.C. on the spot as 6d per cwt. GREEN FRurr.—A fair demand exists for all kinds. The stock of oranges is diminishing, two cargoes of St. Michael, one from Terceira, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale, sustained the prices obtained last week. Black Spanish nuts may be quoted 1. per barrel lower, and Bra ail la:per barrel higher. No alteration in Barcelona. meeting of the delegates of educational institutions in connection with the Society of Arts, held at Southamp ton. It had been attended by persons of every party, and there the question of administrative reform was considered, and by party corporations even it was unani mously agreed that every place given as mere patron age, of whatsoever political party, was a prize scholar ship taken from some one educational institution, stolen to the detriment of education, and to the injury of the state, by corrupt influence, and to the waste of the pub lic means by inefficient and dear service. He was glad, therefore, to find it moved for consideration in Manches ter as an educational as well as a political question. At the meeting of delegates, to which he re ferred, it was recognised by persons of opposite po litical parties, that it would be far better that the post man's uniform, or mechanics' service in a Government dockyard, should designate the fact that the person pes sassing it bad gained it by a competitive examination, by qualifications gained, possibly, in a mechanics' insti tute, or as a prize scholar in a diocesan or other school, than as a mere hanger-on of an electioneering committee. Now he could state to them that defective and errone ous as be and others considered the subject matters of most of the competitive examinations already instituted to be—new as were the examiners to the duties—seri ously niggard and imperfect as were the means which were yet allowed to the commissioners, the competitions had yet been attended with decided success, and great promise for the future. The first effect of them had been to display the gross ignorance and almost incredibly low condition of the great proportion of the candidates for admission to the public service—of those who, from the known influence of their supporters, generally mem bers of th e H ouse o f C ommons, i t was well known would, in the ordinary course of things, have been permanently charged upon the departments. The examinations had more than justified all that had been said by Sir Charles Trevelyan, Sir Stafford Northcote, by himself, and other nary pu b h.c officialcharacterservice a bd ofym the i eh s e t u r sa partiesutiavl e course oucommonlys e reformers of a patronage, s to g o t the fand do o h r t dah had e demonstrated the ignorance at the least of those official opponents to the reform of the civil service who had bit terly reproached them w ith h av i ng libelled it He be lieved that Sir E. Ryan an d t h e other commissioners had a a c s t f ed ar as honestly, thei a their means directed ir e permitted,ct ed the examinations were iti lly entitled efficiently, to the public support. On the mere pass examinations, for the departmental service, which h a d b een reluctant l y ' permitted, more than two-thirds of the candidates coming from the usual sources had been rejected. Between one and two hundred rejected candidates complained through their patrons, the members, that they bad been rejected on unfair, or recondite, or irrelevant point;, but the re jections had been on the commonest and most relevant elementary points of a common education, and for gross and scandalous deficiencies. The Government would be unable to try the appeals on the commissioners' deci sions arising, as was foreseen from the expedient of mere pass or private examinations, and the only means of oh viating continued influential complaints would be to abandon them, and have r e course to open and public competitive examinations. (Applause.) Whether in peace or in war, in the civil or for the whole military service, the abolition of patronage, the sub stitution of service and merit, tested by competi tive examinations, would be the best securities for eco nomy and efficiency. A popular general, Sir De Lacy Evans, was reported to have said that it took three campaigns to make an English army efficient. Three years' expenditure in lives and money then, according to that military authority, and to the historical evidence of actual experience, might be taken as the cost of patronage, of political corruption, of reckless ignorance, of the want of that training and education by which foreign forces, made up of inferior military stamina, are yet made ready in a shorter time or at once. (Ap plause.) And yet be did not appear to manifest any consciousness that any responsibility attaches to him as a political reformer and public representative in allow ing all these sources of waste and insecurity to go on from year to year, so that at the end of forty years of enormous expenditure, every military institution was, according to the declaration of Sir J. Burgoyne, before the Sebastopol Committee, in an imperfect state ; all this had been allowed to go on without the attention of the country being called to the magnitude of the waste and the danger, and without any one specific measure being proposed by him, until after disaster, for its preven tion. (Hear, hear.) The real fact is, that to object was one thing—to investigate, to systematise, and elabo rate practical measures of amendment was another, re quiring labour or qualifications out of the course of com mon political agitation. To those who might not see the bearing of the great question of administrative re form, or of the first step, competitive examinations, upon military efficiency as well as upon the efficiency of the civil service, he would refer to the fact that the artillery is the only arm of our service which was proved, accord. ing to common professional acknowledgment, to be superior to any other in the field. Now, the ar tillery (which is without purchase) owes such superiority as it at present possessed to the speciality of persons, tested by such merely pass examinations as have hitherto been conceded ; and for the artillery as well as the en gineers corn petitive examination has been conceded, as Mr. Heywood had stated, as the proved and acknowledged means of its further advancement. Why, then, should not purchase be abolished and competitive examinations be introduced, as a tried and proved practical means of improvement, for the cavalry and the line ? Why ? be cause the army commissions are a source of political pa tronage, distributed to reform members or others of the House of Commons, as a means of influence, expected by the local constituencies and supporters. Mr. Heywood himself would have proved an exception to other reform members if he had not been ap plied to from constituents for commissions and ob tained them, in common with others, and, as a matter of course, in ignorance on his part as to whether those for whom the commission had been obtained possessed the first qualification of command over others, which has not been displayed in common scenes of barrack life, namely, command over themselves. It must be far more satisfactory to him to see the qualifications in question tested by a competent examination. It must he more satisfactory to him to see a commission obtained by a pupil of the Owen's College, of Manchester, of which be is a trustee ; to see the tuition is the practi cal sciences taught in that institution, and, possibly, in the mathematical or other classes of this institution, tested by competition with the pupils trained at Oxford and Cambridge, to be satisfied that lives and the in terests of the country hail been placed under a high order of intelligence, calculated for leadership in peace as well as in war. (Applause.) The bulk of the constituents ought not to be satisfied without this measure, and those of them who take an especial interest in the educational in stitutions ought especially to come forward to correct the bias or the indifference of those who, as party or political leaders, participate in the patronage and the corruption which are the source of weakness and oppressive changes. Whilst speaking of the responsibility attaching to poli tical reformers for failures, to propose specific measures for the prevention of the failures experienced, and claim ing to administrative reform, and above all to official administrative reformers, the first elementary step, it was due to advert to others, civilians, to whom a similar responsibility may be proved to attach. Thus— before the war there were two committees of Parliamentary investigation—the committee on the Ordnance estimates, and the committee on the civil salaries, before which, in those unsound branches of the public service, the seed plots of future waste and disaster were displayed. Now if any one would look over the reports and the exami nabions before those two committees, and consider what has been displayed since the war! by the more conspi cuous trial of the branches of service then submitted for investigation ; if they would from what has since'tran spired consider what ought then to have been found and provided against ; if they will see what ought to have tiepin elicited and proposed by reforming members, some thing of the failure of qualities, great in ordinary political agitation, they would give him credit when he said that if ho were to deal with them in the ordinary course of such agitation, he might establish in these two com mittees a case of imbecility or of political corruption against one at least of their oven representatives ; but ho did not so put it. He put it as showing how much the subject of administrative reform was out of the ordinary track of political discussion, and how much active sup port was particularly needed from those who usually took little part in them, but were interested in the re form and progress of educational institutions. One cause of disaster during the war appeared from the evidence to have been the want of knowledge of the resources and position of the enemy. As displayed on the committee of inquiry, our first proceedings in relation to the Crimea were immense gropings in the dark, and at vast hazards. Now, for much of this state of ignorance the consular as well as the diplomatic service was surely responsible, if net for preceding information available for the war, for the want of means of getting it ; and from our con suls, especially from our wider commercial relations, more should be expected than from those of any other country. Of the difference between the information de rivable from our service, particularly in the East, and that derivable from the French service there, he had himself means of judging, in consequence of the part he had with his colleagues to take in the sanitary congre ss for the abolition of the impediments to commerce by qua rantines. He could not more strongly describe the deficiencies of our service than by repeating statements made to him by eminent and competent members of that r political f infirmity patron age. same service, all samereferabler:ioce_theparty o source as that in the military se The people of Manchester must have se en th e commercial affairs as well as the political affairs of Eng land, the business of an important foreign port, entrusted to the hands of Beau Brummel. Members of the con sular service, Englishmen who travel, wou ld i n di cate to you later minor diplomatic or consular appointments, if not so conspicuous, .really no batter in character. What are the or dinary political doctrines as t o suc h an appoint ment as that which he had indi ca t e d ? Th e ev il i s th a t th e pa t ro nage is Tory, it should be Wbig, sa id one; th a t it i s aristocratical, said another, and it should be democratical. The remedy of one of their members on the Civil Sa laries Committee, and Mr. Hume's remedy would have been to have reduced Beau Brnmmell's salary. Nut that measure would scarcely have given to the Beau Bruenrnells the qualities most required, those which in sure efficiency. On examining the qualities required in a consul, for the promotion of the commercial intercourse and affairs of a country—not to speak of its political affairs—and trying the market value of such qualities even in Manchester, it would, he (Mr. Chadwick) appre hended, be found that higher rather than lower pay ments were needed. With our neighbours the French, in whatsoever foreign country a Frenchman is, the French Consul must be his notary, his advocate, his adviser in affairs of difficulty, and stand in the stead of the legal and administrative institutions of France. The French have profited by the experience of the deficiencies of their consular service, and have found that the qualities required can be insured by a training tested by examinations, and no one can now be made a consul of France who has not obtained some de- 56i I lli I 92 1 77 6 1:1 55 4} 79A St 9 61 1 9644 24i f 61i I 91 9 lli 591 I 66& 8 41 t 25j i i t 8 I alli 1100 to St. 20 50 all 100 10 6 all 10' 100 100 i St. St. St. St. St. 20 12t 25 20 all all all all to 5 Bt. 25 all all all all 1071 10 Pm Pm ni 28i a 4 x d x d gree, not obtainable as a matter of course or without examination, which entitles him to practise as an advo eate. He (Mr. Chadwick) had in his possession a draft of regulations proposed to insure a training yet more special, to be tested for this branch of the civil service, as with us now for the artillery, by competitive examinations. So far as the regulations already in force in France have been carried they have been attended by i❑creased efficiency everywhere, and often by marked superiority. Of this he could give them an example : The Boy of Tunis, seeing and experiencing how well the business of France was done at Tunis by the French Con sul, M. Lesseps, offered to him a double salary if ho would undertake in France the business of Tunis. The French Government did not refuse, and the former French Consul now acts as the Charge d'Affaires of Tunis at the French Court. (Applause.) He might, if time permitted, show at length what a support the com petitive examinations for public appointments in France are to the educational institutions of that country—how far they influence beneficially the commercial affairs of that country—how much private and professional ser vice is now assisted by being recruited from the talent developed by the competitive examinations for the pub lic service ; and how much was to be expected from them in this country, it the reform commenced were effec tually supported by the constituencies, and properly con ducted. It was Essoonded by the Rev. H. H. JONES, and carried unanimously. A similar' acknowledgment was also accorded to Sir Elkanah Armitage for presiding. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAN. 17. The dinner party yesterday included their Royal High. nesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Royal, the Count of Flanders, and Princess Mary of Cambridge, his Highness the Maharajah Dhu leep Singh, the Marquis of Abercora and Lady Louisa Hamilton, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Spaeth, Lord Ashburton Sir J. Login, Sir G. C ou p er , Majo r Purves, Lieut.-COI. Chapman, R.E., and Capt. Burnell'. The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, and Lord and Lady Colville arrived in the afternoon, and were also at the dinner. The band of the Grenadier Guards played a ■election of favourite airs. Her Majesty afterwards bad an evening party ; the following had the honour of being invited Caro line and Miss Barrin g t on , Lady E. S e y mour , Col. the Hon. N. and Lady Mary Hood, Miss Hill, Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, two Misses Phipps, Miss sayer and Capt. Sayer, 23d Regt., Lady, Miss, and Mr. Couper, Col. Clifford (commanding officer) and Lieut. - Viscount Hood (lat Battalion Grenadier Guards), and Mr. Gibbs. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance; His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this morning, accompanied by the Count of Flanders, the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, the Marquis of Aber corn, and Lord Colville. Lieut.-Colonel Chapman left the Castle in the forenoon. A dramatic performance at the Castle took place this evening. George Colman the elder's comedy (compressed into three acts) of " The Jealous Wife" was selected, and the parts were filled according to the following pro. gramme : Major Oakley Mr. Bartley. Oakley Charles Lord Trinket Mr. Walter Lacy. Russott Sir Harry Beagle Tom (his servant) Mr. Cormack. John , f (Oakley 's servants { Mr. Raymond. Mr. H. Saker. Paris Lady Freelove's Servant Mr. Barsby. Lady Freelove Mrs. Oakley Harriet Toilet Lady Freelove's Maid Director Mr. Charles Kean. Assistant-Director Mr. George Ellis. The Theatre arranged and the Scenery painted by Mr. Thomas Grieve. About 8 o'clock her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert entered St. George's Hall, ac companied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, Princo Alfred and ether members of the Royal family ; her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, his Royal Highness the Count of Flanders, his Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Sing, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Abercor❑ and Lady Louisa Hamilton, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Spaeth, Lord and Lady Colville, Lord Ashburton, Sir John Login, Major Home Parve., and Captain Burnelle, and the Ladies and Gen tlemen in attendance. The performance immediately commenced. Her Majesty's private band attended in the theatre. The following had the honour of receiving invitations to witness the perbr•nance :—His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Ladies Murray, Lady Anna Maria and Misr G. Cust, Mrs. Henry Cust, th• Hon. Henry and Mr.. Ashley, the Rev. Charles 0. Goodford, the Rev. Frederick Anson, Lieutenant-Ge t-Prat Sir Thomas and Lady Willehire, Lieutenant-Ge neral and the Hon, Mrs. Scott, Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Cballoner, Mr. and the two Misses Riley, Captain Riley (88th Regiment), Mr. and iTrs. Harford, Mr. and Mrs. Cox, Mr. Henry Cox, Lieutenant-Colonel M-artyu (commanding officer), Captain Hamilton and Lieutenant Marshall (2,1 Life Guards), Colonel Clifford (commanding officer), Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. 11. Fo rester and Lieutenant Thynne (Ist battalion Grenadier Guards), Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington) Lady Emily Seymour, Colonel the Hon. N. and Lady Mary Hood, Miss Hill, Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. and Miss Phipps, Miss Sayer. Captain Sayer and Captain Bathurst (23d Regiment), Sir George, Lady, Miss, and Mr. Couper, Mr. Glover, and Mr. Gibbs. CHERTSEY RACES.—(This Day.) (EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ) ,£4O PLATE. Plausible . Treachery 1 '2 Four ran. Yesterday morning the workmen of Messrs. Crook, contractors, commenced at the eastern end of Leaden hall-street, laying down a specimen of cast-iron carriage way pavement. A similar pavement has been, it is stated, laid down in America, with success. The speci men is being placed under the direction of Mr. Hay wood, the engineer to the City Commissioners of Sewers, who advised the spot alluded to for the experiment, as being one calculated to put it to a severe test. The patentee is General Knapp, of the United States. CONSOLS.—The rise yesterday in Consols, notwith standing the large expenditure in the present, as com pared with former wars, was not nearly so great as in previous instances of the announcement of peace. On those occasions, however, there was a vast difference in the point to which prices had first descended. At the peace with France in 1801 there was an improvement from 59', 1 to GG, and shortly afterwards to 70. After the treaty of Amiens, in 1802, the movement was from 701 to 79. On the restoration of the Bourbons, i■ 1814, it was from 611 to 701 ; and after the Battle of Waterloo it was from 53 7 , to 59?„ TEE NEW SUPERANNUATION FUND.—W e believe that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has decided on altering the provisions of this bill, as it at present affects the official; of the civil service, to the following, which, although not as liberal as their petition craved for, yet is an improvement :—Contributions to the fund alter 20 years to cease. The rate of pensions on leaving to be 4.l2the after 10 years' service, and 1.60 th additional for each succeeding year. Retirement will be permitted at 60 years of acre, but to be compul sor y a t 65. I n cases where an officer or clerk dies while in the service, his family will be entitled to an amount oat of the fund equal to his year's salary. ENGtialH AND AUSTRALIAN COPPER MINING COM PANY.—There was a special meeting yesterday of the proprietors of the English and Australian Copper Min ing Company, to take into consideration the financial position of the company. A proposition has been laid before the directors by Sir Wm. Foster, to purchase the works in Wales and CornwaN at a valuation, which the board thought fit to leave entirely for the consideration of the shareholders at the meeting. A long discussion ensued, from which it appeared that the pressing liable lities were to the extent of 56,0001., which the directors thought might be best met by the sale of the Spitty Works. At the request of several shareholders, Sir Wm. Foster made a definite offer of 50,000/. for these works, which was accepted by the meeting. THE SURREY GARDENS COMPANY.—Among the pro jects which have been started for the amusement and rational entertainment of the people, those which join the arts of music and painting with the more brilliant and startling displays of pyrotechny will always stand foremost. To cultivate the taste of the public for good music no one has laboured more assiduously than Jullien. His name guarantees something worth hearing ; and he now proposes, by taking the musical direction of the Surrey Gardens, to extend the area as well as the acreage of his operations. Under his able direction harmony will be brought to the doors of the million. Moderate prices of admission, and every atte n ti on t o th e com f or t s of the auditory need only be given, and the Surrey Gar dens Company will be a public benefit. It stands high in quarters able to judge in such matters. THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 17—The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Parana, Captain Baynton, sailed this afternoon with the fortnightly West India and Pacific mails, 59 passengers, Lieutenant and Mrs. Fitz maurice, Ensign Hatrick, Rev. T. Ashe, Rev. and Mrs. Davey, Dr. Muller, &c. ; 8,0001. value in specie, 1 2,000/. value in jewellery, and a full cargo of general merchan dise. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Sultan, Captain R. W.'Evans, sailed this afternoon with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gib raltar, 32 passengers, specie, for Oporto, value 1,00./. ; Lisbon, 19,350/. ; Cadiz, S,4lsl.—tota), 28,765/., and the usual cargo. The Engine, Captain Joy, will leave for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria on Sunday morn ing next with the India and Mediterranean nails. The Alma, Captain Burney, with the homeward portion of the India and Mediterranean mails, is expected about the same day. The screw steam-ship Manilla, advertised to sail on the 23d inst. for Malta, Constantinople, and Balaklava, has been withdrawn for the present. CRYSTAL PALAM—SPILLING DAY, Jan .17.—Ad. missions on payment, 640 ; ditto by season tickets, 170 ; total, 810. CRYSTAL FALLON—Return for six days, ending Satur day, Jan. 12. Admissions, including season ticket holders, 5,140 ; amount received for admiesione, 1881. 16s. [ld be dates An d be could tea tong been from nom• rites. ould Ides to a [ he :oup 25 812 e 10 St. 5 5 20 10 40 20 5 18 2O WO 20A iOO 20 20 20 100 100 100 20 100 50 100 100 20 20 50 10 20 10 all' all 50 ►ll 411 11* Z 64 21 4 15 17j 4 20} 46i I 11 91 68 7I Z it