The Sun. — London, England, 1856-03-05 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLooK The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed very firmly, and, compared with Friday, prices of American were a shade dearer. All other sorts were without change. The sales were 7,000 to 8,000 bales (500 for export and 1,000 on specula tion), comprising 200 Penmen and Maranham, 61d. to 7d. ; 300 Bahia, GI to bid. ; 300 Egyptian, 6d. to Bd. ; 700 Surat, 40. to 4/d. ; and 200 Sea Islands, 9d. to 2s. Bd. per lb. The Railway Share Market further advanced, but the transac tions were not extensive. The advices from Australia by the James Baines represent the state of trade in Melbourne as having improved during the month of November. The demand for the diggings was very active, and it Was expected that the inquiry for all articles suit ab!e for the goldfields would be maintained for some time. The crops promised an abundant yield, and the market for breadstuffs on this account, and Owing to the irregular arrivals from Chili, was very unsettled. Quartz crushing continued to produce encouraging results, and the amount of gold brought down by escort was increasing. During the week ending November 5, the receipts Lad amounted to 43,712 ounces. Among the vessels to leave for London were the Admiral, the Statesman, Blackwall, and Susan. The Emma would shortly sail for Liverpool. The Mails by the James Baines, to the great incon venience of the merchants and others, have taken 9 9 days in their transmission. Later advices, therefore, may be expected every day. Commercial affairs in Sydney were rather un favourable, confidence, after the recent depression and embarrassment, not having been restored. Notwithstanding the announcement on the Paris grain market yesterday that there had been a fall in prices here on Monday, there was no decline there. Wheat was firm at 41f. 73c. per 100 kilos. In flour the average quotation of the four qualities was 89f. per 157 kilos. The factors declared sales of 285 sacks, at an average of 88f. 68c. In rye there was not much doing, and prices were firm. Oats and barley likewise ruled steady at previous quotations. The International Association for establishing a Uniformity of weights, measures, and moneys throughout the civilised world are going to reBuree their labours at Paris. The Minister of Agricul ture and Commerce has reserved a hall for their Meetings in the Institution of Arts and Manufac tures. It has been a question for some time past with the Prussian Government, as to the formation of a konopoly of tobacco throughout the dominions. For this purpose a committee of the Lower House Was appointed to examine the question. Their teport being unfavourable, the Government have abandoned their project. Accounts from the Vienna Bourse state that there was considerable agitation on Monday, in consequence of some unfavourable report from Paris, concerning the conferences, which caused the Austrian Funds and other National Securities to decline. They recovered subsequently, and at the close were firm, the 5 per Cents. at 83k, Na- tional Loan 1101, New Credit Bank 372. Ex.. Change on London had fallen to 10-3, and on Paris to 119 i. There is a heavy market for public securities, and the transactions are of a limited character. AN the settling day is rapidly approaching, many Parties are anxious to realise their profit after the recent improvement, and the sales thus made have temporarily affected the market. The quo tations have receded about per cent., Consols ftorn. 91 / having declined to 91i both for I llcoey and account. The scrip is II premium. In the New 3 per Cents. a large business has been done at 921 to 93, and the Reduced Annuities are 91 1 to 924. Exchequer Bills are ls. discount, the kads 981, and India Bonds 6s. discount. Bank Stock is 215. Foreign Securities are very dull. Turkish 6 Pet Cents. are firm, being 961 to 961. Sardi nian Bonds have been 90.1 4, Spanish 3 per Cents. 43 1, and Brazilian Small Bonds 1021. Buenos AYrea are 57, and Dutch 4 per Cents. 951. Grenada Bends are buoyant, the Active being 22 to 22k, and the Deferred 71. Dutch 4 per Cents. are 951. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign 4 teeks:—Grenada Deterred Bonds, 6171; Mexican, 2 °.„ IY ; Peruvian, 79 81 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 56 58 ; rortuguese 4 per Cents., 47 49 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 101 3 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 92 94 ; Spanish LPer Cents., 421 n; ditto Deferred, 23i 24 ; ditto c ertificates, 4l ti ; Ditto Passive, 6k For Railway Shares there is a quiet market, but the quotations still tend upwards. Caledonian, j 'AlleaShiro and Yorkshire, and Great Western, a re at fuller rates. Foreign and Colonial lines 40 0 not undergone any change of importance. Mining and Banking Shares are firm. The Committee of the Stock Exchange has a PPointed Thursday next for the first settling day in t he East India Coal Company (limited). 4 RITIBEt FUNDS THIS DAY &T CLOCK ; (Pram the Official List. done. 1114 4 k Stock a Per vent. Red-sced tPer Cent. Consols Annuities ... 911 t _ , 3 per Cent. Annuities ... 924 3 2t 3 'hiC Annuities, expire sth .Tan. 1860...... 3 916 Ditto 30 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1859 3 5-16 India Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1685... 1 6 1 15-16 Bonds, .01000 .... . . 6 d Ditto, ander .21000, tor Account Ditto Scrip ' 7 .-chequer Scrip Exchequer Bills, 24d. £lOOO . w N5OO • s niall - • Ditto Advertised 3 d Ditto Bonds, 1858, 36 per Cent 9Bi PitICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO , IC Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. — Ditto Small Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 57 (treuada New Active, 11 per Cent. ~ Ditto Deferred 7i o‘rdinian Bons, 5 per Cent. tnanisla Bolds, 3 per Cent 43f wurkikli Bonds, 6 per cent bat() Account 96i 1 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent., 12 Gail ... bikto 4 per Cent. Certificates TWO O'CLOCK. 9 1i i Consols ... Ditt• Acoouot 911 TIM NEW BISHOP FOR JAMAICA.—The Rev. Reginald Courtenay, who has been appointed Bishop of „.Xingston, Jamaica, was from 1842 to 1852 rector of Thornton-Watlass, near Bedele, Yorkshire. He resigned that benefice and went to Jamaica, became sub.visitor and divinity lecturer at Bishop's College, and subse gnently Archdeacon of Middlesex, on the retirement of Archdeacon Smith. The Bishop of Jamaica (Dr. Spencer) does not retire upon a pension, but may, at any time he Pleases, resume the active discharge of the episcopal duties, in which case the Bishop of Kingston will have ahnply archidiaconal authority. The new bishop is to h ave 2,000/. fe-year. It is in contemplation to erect the '`allhatnas Into a separate see. THE WRECK OF THE JOSEPHINE WILLIS —DOVER.— The divers employed on the sunken wreck of tee ship J osephine Willis, off Folkestone, have been successful in their operations during the last few days. All the spars, able &c., have been cleared away, and they have been to penetrate into the chief cabin and remove a quan tity of luggage, bearing the names of Miss Logan and fir. Ray. They also secured a mahogany chest from re cabin, which it was found contained the ship's plate, besides many other articles of value. They expect in a "hod time to be enabled to get all the property belong lag to the passengers from the cabin. Next week at tempts will be made, should the weather prove favour able, to get at the cargo. VRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is "OW, 6 per mills premium (according to the last tariff), Which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 104 d. per "ace for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.32 td, the exchange at Paris on L on d on a t s h or t b e i ng 5 -376, it follows that gold is about 0.22 per cent. dearer In London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburg t he price of gold is 4264 per mark, which, at the English mint price of 31. 17e. 100. per ounce for standard gold, ivaH an exchange of 13.5 i ; and, th e exc h ange a t Ham burg on London at short being 13.8, it follows that gold 1.10 per cent, dearer in London than in H am b urg . The course of exchange at New York on Lo n d on f or bills at 60 days' eight is 109 k per cent., and, the I, l ' of exch ange b e t ween E ng land and A mer i ca b e i ng 2 9 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is /mini ;lllY 0.33 per cent. ag a i ns t E ng land ; but, aft e r ma ki ng dnwance for charges of transport and difference of in terest, the present rate leaves no profit on the transrnis -4104 of gold either way between the two couatrieo. _ _ 5 .%) to 4! 2!. S.d.ARE MAR.A.ETB. (THIS DAL) RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Cloelng Prices yzstercley 41 8 -- 83 16 -15 13- 14 9 8 87 - 89 58 - 58, 126 • pt ... see 3 • 2 7i - 8i 124 Ili 94 Z 2 31 22 - 24 71 - 73 55 - 67 26 - 27 85 - 87 64 7 93 94 78 • 80 120 122 103 ;05 61. • e2j, F 5 60 73 -• 18 6i 7A 6 • 83 7i 7 - 100 991 1004 Rd par id -- par} 93 94 Ai -- tp, #d 70 70, 41 -- 43 •or • • 11 - .13 51 - 531 3 i 30 30 ~ 31 ... ~. ••6 76 - 77 6j 6 4i 3i lai 514 8211 86 90 - ii : iol 22 - 24 ti):1 1 VG 74 - 76 46 4$ 2 '3 66 - 67 71 73 4 - 2 4 36 18 - 19 34 4i ej 76 Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Flalfnet Ballymena Binning. Wolverh 8. >tour Pa11ey..... Rirk e fad. Lanesl.. tk Jnnet...... • 'Po. Chesh. a Birk. £5O and 225 Cams Do., ....... !-tlyth & Tyne origins £25 (lewd. at £45 Bristol and Fatetor... paledonian. ....... Cann. and Cardigat :Theater & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pose 'Cornwall Do. A Do. B Brie? Junction.... Dr.h'indißelfastJune. Dun. P. dg Jnc. East Anglian Eastern Conntias P:ast. 'pion, A St) B. Stout... ,Do., New A..... . East Kent ?aet Lancashire u rgh Glaago Minb. and Peebles igdin. Prth & Dnnd»• !qorth & Clyde Jun 'Furness. 'Do. Extension Glasgow & S. West Great N. of Scotlnd. ()mat Northern 'Do., A. stock.... B. Stock .... 'lt. Sth. &Westart. Great Western rv, Stour Val. Rs; Qua. Stk !Irish South-Eu.4m_ I.,,nesater Do., Thirds. , Do. New Thirds I....tneash.a.ndYorkr.l_ , 1.6. Wet. aiding 1713 tAvreby.&SonthiA t‘oodon bt Blackweil Lord. Bright lk Lond. and N. Wept, Oc,, Fifths 1)0.1.01.15h.,M&8.. C 80. Eighths London andS. 1 7r4ity! 'Do., £5..... Do., £4O . Lndwirry& Colerain , Lndndrr'. k ltuntsk Nianch.Sbef.4 Mar,. k Lin. ;Metropolitan Midland IT)o Birmng.&Der; t' • Nildld.G.West.(lle. `Do. Half Shares 'awcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.A.berg. Newry & Newry Warrenpoin and Rostrevor Norfolk Northn.Counties Un North British .., . Nth Devon Rail. & Deck Stock , A Stock .. B Stock Do., B Guarantee taitern—Berwic , Do. do. Extension .. jDo.do.G.N.E.?nroh Po. LeNis Do. York !North London N.SitS.Wstrn.,listn , , • stead, and City Jn North ,Staffordsbir North Western V. k S, West rn. Juno Nuneaton, Etinckle3 , and Leicester... Ox, Wore., At Wolv. Pc.rt.inionth I fk ott ish Central SoottishMidland Shropshire I.Jti .11 south Dovon ISoath Eastern.. 'iouth Wales i. Yrksh. & Eiv. Dui Do 4tp ;nos, Wok. LeiWo} Stockton k Dsrli Fir►rtlep ran .. Va..!e Do. Pref, No. 1... Hay. n.& R. I tTlverstone & Lam* ;Vale > i Neath ...... Wlstortcl. & Kilkonn Waterford&Limer i West Cornwall..., West End of Land. and Crystal . Do. A. ...... De. B 'West London... Wimbledu&Croy?rp Business done this day. 26j 41 4 ss} 1 9 1 i i 100 10G all 100 9 all 100 100 100 DO 100 100 1100 3i 100 FOREIGN. I .111. ,, tt rd. ni 74 ..• 8 74 40 40 Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con in Sh, at par till '64 14 1 p 20 10 Ardennes 2l.— 3 p 134 .4steint, &vitt, Juno 31 - 24 ?•-• 14 Res; erS to Gra; ss-tisa 4 d p 11 Rombav, Baroda, an , :lontral lnd,a,St.r 4 p It all Do. • , • t /On lelrbrri , , „ • „ • . 11 Out& Rl'enish .4 1 p 2( . .2 :1, Fastern of Franck, 38a —n9 3 )o. New tl' East Indian, g. 5 p 214 -- 221 22 15 Do. Ry'rniain , 21. 211 tlll 1 4 100 all Do.4i p.0.8nd5.,'57 a )••• do, i• , . „. 20 16 Gce ong tielbou ae guar. 5 per c ut. ••• 20 a l Do., Lon. allot., do. ... 22 Gd. Tk of Canad &Ai.. 114 - 104 25 I Do. IKr 9 1 Do. Cert. of Debon. con. into Stk. till 70 - 7:1 1.00 st ' De. Comp. 6p, c., do 80 -- 82 . 14 Gt. Cehtral of Fran 5i -- 6 p 20 all (It. Indian l'eninsul- 201 —2l 21 26 14 Great Lnxembour. Constituted Share- 54 54 51 all Do. Obligations... 3 :44 20 11 Do. re-is. forftd. Sk. 31 Gt. Western of Canaff a „ 20. 54 Do. New 34 3 41 8 4 1 tOU all Do. Eds., payable's7, with option till '55., 99 100 93 WO all Do. do., '62, p. '56 126 125 100 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O l2O 123 IPO all D do., '73, without option lO7 109 joi all Hamilton & Toront' `ts -25 A 100 all Do. 6 per cent. 20 17 Lake Cond. & Bash -20 all Lierre and Turnhout 5 %II Lucca Piet. sp. c.p _ 20 16 Lyons and Geneva 20 14 Lyons & Moditorran 10 all, Niadrae, 41 p.o 194 —19 i 20 10 Ds New ,- 0., sp. e 20 5 Eo.4ip. c. Exloll 1 4 d 31. all Maria Antonia ... 7 5 10 all Do. do. New ZO all Namur & Liege ( interest) 20 all Do. (ox interest)... 51 IA all Northern of France. .:44 39i 20 all Do.2ol,Shs lll 124 '0 all Do. 20t. 3p. o Bde (fmy.B.&Ams•Slts. tO all NorwegianTrunkPre 71 •81 r all Paris and Lyons-- 50 - 50 40 all Ditto Bonds ~... 10 all Paris and Orleans f 0 52 10 5 Rome and Frascati — ..• !o all oval Daniel, all RayalSwedisl - ,... 4 all Do. Obligations ••• 0 Sambre and Renee, 94 9 4 t. alt Do. 54, r, neut. Prof.— At 5 Scind-, guar. sp. c 14 14 . 20 ‘Il Do al flontbern of Pr.aoo, p m 4. IA St. Andrew's an. Quebec (A 3 , .1 West Flanders.. 34 _• 4 Do 51 -nor C. Pere . &N. W. of wrstnr., 34 34 3 20 21; IWest. of Switzerland 6 all Wiesbaden .. .• 20 di Zealand JOINT-STOOK BANKS. re il - ,.1.3tr,1• .1.... 95 ..7 100 50 Bank of London 63 65 4 0 tU ''Ti. Col. itz.&l42 1 • ... --- ... 60 ai• liritial. N. American .... ... • 25 ! Ohartd • Rank of ,xi, Icl par zo A. obrtd. tlnk. of India. tastraiin, &Chin). 14 - par 100 50 City .. - • 67 100 !,i; Colonial - 100 20 Commercial of Lord „, 20 ,sll Eng.Scot.l . A.ne.Cht l6 —l7 20 all Lona. Mort. Bk. of Australis 16 --- 17 2G 5 Ditto New 4 3d 50 20 tendon and County ... __ 3 7, 8a 100' 50 nd.& E. Bnkg. Corp par 2 i ; 50 16 ndon Joint Stock . .- 100 10 London and Paris li - - i d 100 20 Lond. & Westminster ... ... 44} 100 35 National Pro.of Eng ... .... 20 10 Do. New . ... -,-, --. .• 50 224 National of Ireland.. ... ••• 20 all Ifew South Wales.... 37 39 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 4O 42 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... •"" ..* 10 ' all Do. New ... --. .. K 1 R Ana B &Go Im Co ... -- .... 100 50 Royal British ... ••• 25 all South Australia 25 , all Union of Australia 7l - 73 72 )4 Do. New. «....... ., , 50 . W truigu 0. GA al . ____ lin m .., 1$ 100 20 w ...~- THE SON. LONDON. WEDNESDAY EvENANCI, MARCH 5, 1856. A. FtsTE.tr~.Yfi} :(OMpi.Tl London le N. We At. L. &N. W. Cal °don._ E. Un. . E. C Ot.Nrtnn. E. Count. Csidonian Gt. Wenn Yk. New. & Berw. Y. &NM Do g. Easter Do Pete & Co Norfolk Do L.& N. V 7 & Midi& Stekton & Darlingt. Midland 'En. Conn. E. Count. D 0... ..... . jDo L. k N. W, I It North), -ntAst, Yorksh. T. Brassey M. MCleao Stockt. Dulingt lot.w Redford and Blotchley Buckghan►sh Clydesdale .1' . Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. E. Lin. g. 6 pc E. Un. H. Sh. Glas, Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New Glstr.dc Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. Zr Railway Hall & Selby Do. Shares. Do. I Shares. Lon. & Greenw Do. Preference Lon.,Til.,&S. Lowoetoft gr. 4 per cont. Do. 6 per et. Manch. %tn. and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar. Midld.Bradfd Newmarket Bury E. G.spe N.& Est.s p. e. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p Prest. & y: Do. t QIN. A Roystn.& Hit. Shot Roth an.. Gooleg.s p.c. Shrews. &W er S. Stailordsb Wear Valley gr 6 per cent... Do. Wiltsklomrst PREFEREM herdoen Do. N 0.2, 7 p. e, Do. Debentures . Myth andTyn •pv c. pref. (issd. ,t• 50 , Brits. & Ex. 4 p. c. St Do, 4 p. c. '"ihare! , . Caledonian ke.lo r'hes.& Gla. 5i Do. do. Pref. No. 2. Do. do. Pref. No. 2. Cork &Baudonsip.c Dun.Prth .& E. Anglian Cis. A SI) Do. do. Cls. 13 6 p. Do. do Cis. C 7 p. c. T 821. ()O. FIX, Ore N e. Do. No. 2.... .. + Do. New 6 r . c. ast 1.1n., G. 6 p. Do. 51., 10 per cent 00. 161. Del)entr.fil.. Do. do. 4 per cent , P.ait Lencask. 6 p.e.t‘ -.4w, cork. J. sth Edin. & 81i. 5 p.c. sh. ;d Prth.&Dun.4p. , Furness & p.c treat Northn. 5 p. c ')o. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem.. to. 43 p. c Do. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red. •tt sp. c. pm... , It.N. of Scot. lot Pre it. 8. &W. (Ireland Do. 4per o. Prqf. it. W.(B.&H.Fx3pc )o. con. red. 4i p.c. )0. con. red. 4 p. c 10, irred. 4p. c. Do. 5 p. c. red. prof Do. do. de. )o. firm. Prof. '311.. )o. Chester 8 p. c. P.° )e. do. 5 p. c. do.. 70, firm. Gua. Sth Do. Ches. Gin. Sh.. )o. do. do co. do. do an. & York. F. £2' co. 6 p. c. Stock r,on.&Brigh.G.sp.c. co, Pref., 5 p. c. Sc ')o. New Guar.6 p. c Do. do. 5 per cent Jon. &N. W., Coy. Ninne.aton S n, ct '.ion.& S.W. 7 per ct ,ondy. & Color. Sh `,ondy.& ET , ni tf [4' 1.,5.,& Near,lP/ , o. £6 farypt.& Carl. 4 p c , u. 4 per cent...... .0 10' I id. Consol.o p.' lnf .o. Con.Br.Nr. 11Y.) Do. 4i p. e. Pref. all po. Pref. 4i pct. ce all ,Do. 51. Pr.{ 4 p. c. 100 Ditto L. & ft. g all New., Alm., &c., p . 1 sp. e reel. 5 p c. pm. ,Norfolk Deteutu). Pe.Prof. 4 p. c. St el: Do 5 p.c. Ext Do. 54, per et. pref Do. Way. Val. 5 p :North British IN. E. 8.0. w. 4 p.c i• Do. do. do iDo Leeds 6 p.c .7 0 0. • Do. do. Quartom (North StatTordsh ox,Wo. '7 W. 151 ip Do R. Pref. 101. Sb. Scot. Cont. ,Now South Devon Do. fixed, 44 per con Eastern (Readi knit.) of Os. 6d. Do. 4 por cent Do. Fixed 4i p c eh. Wales Goa. 4 p, e. Do. do. 4i p. c Yorksh.4p.c.Gusr. stock. & Dar. , 5 p. c. Do. do. do. & Hart!. C. • p.c. till July 1, 'Si WrAtertd. & Eilk.6 pc C yr Prim s'erday 94 96 94 - 11 - 13 4i ... 4i else '"" LiZ = 13 - 1! 2 4 234 - 244 1074 - 1124 •N 2i -2/ 91 - 92 54 -- iii 132 131 - 'astn. 31i 83 Kt?. 112 116 &2 86 :i2 Yi 96 98 -16 i 5i -. 95 - 100 75 - 80 2 -12 i 63 - 70 tl7 106 - 7 - 108 101 - 103 AT , Vi 10 6 - 6A 9t - 94 - 81 83 - 85 95 100 9/ 101 16 I 6 9/ 161 70 —72 18i —19 s gi 14 —14 k 1 8A 135 .* .• ..." ••• ... - ... f : il • .• I'l 14 9t - 96 I - 4 - t. • .• ... ... 99 - 101 5 -- tSi i 13- 14 291 t?.13. -. 97 1 Sp ii- ii, MINES.' lgya in& ing,lo Auptrln. Gold Anglo Californian iustralian tustralian CordillerW; tre Maria laden (Gd.Docky of j Blrenar. Iron & Coal British Iron r irazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm.) Do. Comes ar Cuiab- Do. St. John Del Re- : rflarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica__ ' 1 bre Copper "olonial Gold pper Min. of Rug 60. Prof. 7i p. eon, )opiapo . i'ortuma lenczal Gt.NuggetVeiniteg Great Polrzooth .... Gt Wheal Ter trnitei Liberty Linares Lusitanian Ntariquita . Now Granada 'Nouveau Morde Pontgi.Sil.&Le.Min Port Philip quarts Rock Rhymney Iron. Do. New Santiago de Cuba. Sort. Cons. Min. Co booth Australian.. Do. Scrip o. 10 per cent F. 3 am. S. & L. Min. Co Nu Croft... Unitad Mexican , vapor West Mariposa Worthing Mining of Australia Vnba, Australian Agrie%ilt. luszaln. Royal Mall Berlin Water Works lrit. American lan./ .Janada (40. ti p.a. IRA Do. 6 p.c. Feb & ♦ugi Do. 6p. c. Mark Septl i ;ry.t.a' Palace.. If ISOE LLAN ROUE. 25 -- 26 64 --- 47 - 60 I: 0 - 135 I , Bh 109 i 1106 - 111!i 1.119 - tll 5 - 1 14 19h - WI 3i 4 8 - 10 5i - 6 1 1i 2 3 i is 18 22 b i = ij ••• ••• 2i 2a li - li 1 3i -- SI P 1 = 1 15 - 16 I,oeu DO. Preference.... Crystal Pal. of Franc:: Duston Iron Ore Eastern Steam., En.4l.A.us Cop Sin Co Electric Telegraph iglectric Toleg. of Ir Gen. Iron Sc Collier Gen. Steals Navigat. General Screw Steam Irish Beetroot %Ea. Lend. Gen. Omnibus Magdalena St. Navin Niediteran. Elec. Tel. Mexican&S.A.mericn.i Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel Netherlands Land Do. Do. Do. ti p e P iss at 1 (I I New B. & N.S. Land N. E. &uatralasian Nrth.ofEuropeSteam Oriental Gas Do. " New Shares" Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. l Peninsular& Oriental Do. Now Portland Iron Co Royal Hail Steam Scot. Austral. Invest. Ditto New Soutb Anetral Land Subpar. Tel. Scrip... Do. Registered. Trust& L. Co.U.Can! Vas tkiendAn'a 1.10 Vto.6'p..c.Janikkly - ... 1 t t . 3 - 5 lf - 2 - 26 - 2 r - iP C 6 - 69 36 40 26 28 22 24 id 14 —l6 11 2i * 1 • id • 6i 71 * ---- 14 19 - 21 6 -• 8 . . 4 - 31 3i ♦M ..~ ~M - 85 this :sky. THE LOCAL DUES 0 SEIIPIIING BILL. (Prom th,e Examiner.) fn the heat of the battle raised upon this bill Mr. Lowe has been deserted by his colleagues. Whether or not this was treatinenthe was entitled to expect may in some degree appear from what we have to say of the measure proposed. It was one of two introduced on the part of the Go vernment, both of them thoroughly just and sound in principle, and both explained to the House by the Vice- President of the Board of Trade with unusual spirit and Ability. The resolute opposition at once provoked by the particular bill now abandoned was not such as should nave occasioned any surprise. So much the Ministry gad every reason to expect. On behalf not merely of shipowners, but of the whole public, against the system of taxing entire classes and communities by single towns, its provisions were framed. It was to take Away from certain corporations powers over other people than themselves and their own townsmen, leaving them simply power to rule over and rate heir own locality. In other words, it took away a profitable privilege * , and who could doubt that it would therefore be called an act of spoliation ? It took away a power; and, though this was only a power over strangers, it was mere matter of course to expect that the old cry of rescue should be raised for "local self government." That every town council concerned would set a member on his legs to speak against the measure, and that all the machinery of resistance brought up commonly to make a stand for any corrupt system, would certainly be directed against the Shipping Bill, it required no conjuror to foresee. It consisted perfectly with those old notions of coro- mercial policy which - Sir Robert Peel overthrew that Seaport towns, or towns upon great rivers, should be allowed, quite after the manner of the middle ages, to exact a tax or toll on passing traffic. Time was when our kings, for a little ready money, sold or made grants of their own dues in certain ports ; and in this way a few towns obtained some privileges that were imperial and by ne means municipal. For imperial rights that now produce to the corporation of Liverpool 125,0001. a year the original price was not more than 700/., for which payment the Molyneux family counted at that time upon a return of sane 141. a-year from the pri vileges it secured to them. But the thing thus bought was not land, neither was it capital. •It was a delegated right to impose taxes upon ♦essels and cargoes, paid partly by shipowners, and falling partly on the gene ral consumers of the goods so taxed. It was the far :fling of a public trust, falling with unjust and partial incidents on particular classes, and hurtful to the people at large. Yet this is the public tax to which the C9rporation of Liverpool, through its advocate Sir Frederic Thesiger and his ally Sir Francis Baring, lays claim, at this time of day, as its inalienable privet , - property, to build town halls with, to dine or revel upon—in fact to do what it pleases with. Why, the bare notion of a private right in such taxation is mon strous ; and marvellous is the power of face which would claim it as a part of local self-government, and raise the silly outcry of centralisation against the desire to repeal it. The Crown itself is iu receipt of no inalienable tax, and what it has not it cannot bestow. Corporations are not ends but means, as it was pro perly shimn in the debate. Can it be pretended that to oven what they claimed in their old and rotten state, before the Municipal Act, the new corporations now reigning in their stead can lay equal claim ? Prece dents of compensation are urged with much vehe mence, and such may undoubtedly have been just, as for example in the case of the differential dues, iu b 0 far as bhey made amends for clear acts of departure from the ordinary course of legislation. But to the present case they in no respect apply. The purpose of the Shipping Bill was to bring up to the level of existing legislation fragments of usage that should have become obsolete years ago. Now that the day of reckoning is come, to have fattened on abuses so long uncorrected is no ground for compensation, whatever of thankfulness or remorse it may suggest for pars of overlooked and unmeJested enjoyment. ' Nor had th; Government, acted in any baste in this matter. The repudiated bill was founded upon recom mendations contained in the report of a commission which inquired into the subject very carefully three years ago. Many times also, before that date, the subject bad been pressed upon the attention of the House ; and when Mr. Labouchere several years ago proposed the repeal of the navigation laws, it was objected against him that he did not bring forward concurrently a measure of the very character of this which Lord Palmerston has now aban doned. Already anticipating, moreover, the certainty of such interference from the Legislature, the Liverpool corporation has had the shrewdness to begin to borrow money on these dues, instead of borrowing on other available security ; and with great force and spirit Mr. Lowe pointed to this fact as increasing the necessity for immediate legislation. He warned the house that, if they did not act at once, they would find themselves en tangled, when the inevitable time came, by charges created expressly to embarrass the repeal. "We shall find the question entangled in every possible way, and its settlement must be postponed for an indefinite period. I say the commission has done its duty in reporting boldly and recommending what was good for the public. I say the Government has done its duty in bringing in this measure ;"—and we say that Lord Palmerston has not done his duty in flinging such a measure aside after a single night's experience of active opposition. The plea is that there are emnplex interests to take into consideration. But if these hat not already been considered why propose to legislate at all ? The com mittee is a mere pretence, a limbo to which the House is not sorry to dismiss au inconveniently just and righteous bill. It anything useful or honest were intended by such a step, we should be quite disposed to ask, with Mr. Disraeli, what necessity there can be for the House of Commons to undertake the duties of the Cabinet ? PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. COMMITTEE ON THE OPENING UP OF ST. JAMES'S-PARK. —Yesterday this committee, consisting of Sir B. Hall (chairman), Mr. Disraeli, Lord J. Manners, Lord Grosvenor, Lord Hallam, Sir J. Paxton, Mr. Stephen son, Sir J. Shelley, Captain Boldero, Mr. W. Patten, and Mr. Milne., met for the first time in Committee room No. 19, to consider the best means of communica tion between those parts of the metropolis that lie north of St. James's-park and those to the south and south west of it. Mr. Pennethorne, architect to the Commis sioners of Works and Public Buildings, laid before the committee the plans he had prepared for the proposed communication between Pall-mall and Webtininster. Me first proposed a road running down Pall-mall to the paved road in the Mall, at a cost of 50,3901., which would include an iron bridge over the water in St. James's-park, 10 or 11 feet above the water way, at a cost of 20,0001. Another plan he proposed was to run a road from Cleveland-row through Lord Ellesmere's stables, in front of Bridgewater-house, through Lord Sydney's and Sir J. Patteson'e, into the Green-park, and southward to Buckingham Palace, at a cost of 163,2001. The greater part of the expense would be in the purchase of property, and this road would involve the entire se verance of the Green-park. A third plan he proposed would commence at Waterloo-place, between the Athe rmum and United Service Clubs, thence t) the Duke of York's Column, the Mall, and Storey's-gate, and for this route there were two estimates. The first, supposing the Duke of York's Column to be left standing, would be 4,8001. ; and the second, supposing it to be removed, would be 12,8001. It would be for the committee to de termine on the preferable road. A competent builder had undertaken to remove the Duke of York's Column, and to replace it on any given site within a quarter of a mile for 5,0001. The total expense of the road from the Mall to Storey's-gate, supposing the column removed, would be 25,8001.; and if not removed, 17,8001. The' chair man invited evidence in connection with any other pub lic proposition for the purpose, but as no person respond ed the committee adjourned to Friday next. CIVIL SERVICE SUPERANNUATION COMMlTTEE.—Yes terday in this committee, the Chancellor of the Exche quer in the chair, Sir C. Trevelyan, of the Treasury, was examined all day upon the present system of judicial, diplomatic, and ordinary civil service superannuatior. He recommended either one universal system of super• annuation, or one universal system of free pensioning, by the state, preferring the latter system ; and in favour of an abolition of the present system of abatement from salaries of civil servants for superannuation allowance. He would recommend an assimilation of the present scales of salary throughout the civil service, and central superintendence over all the departments. The various committees that had lately so industri ously dealt with them had done nothing in the way of practical remedy or reform, but had only reported, and there it ended. If there were more civil servants than were required fur the work of the Crown, they were better, in his opinion, placed on the " re diedant" list than continued idly in the service. The civil service system as at present conducted was on the principle of unprofitable servants, combined with low ay and want of encouragement and organisation. There was a want of management in the administration of the funds and is the regular keepßig of accounts, and he instanced a case of this where 223,0001. was on one occasion taken from the civil service superannuation and carried to the finance account of the Customs re venue. The committee then adjourned to Friday. The committee on the following bills declared their preambles passed :—East of Fife Railway, Colonial Bank, London Docks, Dundee Harbour, and Knot' tingl ey Gas. The committee on gas bills (the first on private bills this session) commenced their inquiries into the Chel tenham Gas Bills, the Lancaster Gas Bill, and the Wey mouth Gas Bills, and the Cambridge University Town Bill was also proceeded with. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Mesas 4. In the Congregation to be held on Thursday, March G, the form of statute on the subject of the devices in civil law, which was promulgated on Saturday, having been amended in Council by the alteration of the clause objected to by the Registrar (Mr. Rowden), will be pro- mulgated afresh. In a Congregation to be held on Saturday, March 8, at 2 o'clock, a form of statute will be promulgated on the subject of proceedings in Convocation. LONDON AND COUNTY BAna•—Mr. Robert Keating, M.P., and Mr. James Rhodes, have resigned their seats in the direction of the London and County Bank, and Mr. J. W. Burraester has been appointed a trustee is the place of Mr. Rhodes. of the 140,0001. brought by the Persia yesterday about 60,0001. was on French account, and the remainder has been purchased for transmission to Paris. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. —(This Day.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. EAST KENT RAILWAY BILL. On the order for the second reading of this bill, Mr. MACGREGOR moved its second reading that day six months, in consequence of the standing orders not having been properly co:in:lied with. Mr. WILSON supported the second reading. The amendment was ultimately withdrawn, and the bill read a second time and ordered to be committed. The Coline Valley and Halstead Railway Bill was also read a second time and ordered to be committed. Petitions were presented in favour and against tht abolition of Church rates. VALUATION (IRE LAN D.) Sir R. FURGUSON moved for returns showing the counties in Ireland in which the tenement valuation has been competed, under the Acts of 9 and 10 Vic. c. 110. 15 and 16 Vic. c. 63, and 17 Vic. c. 8, the same of each county, the acreable contents, the annual value, the cost of the valuation by the acre, the cost by the 1001. of the valuation, the whole cost to each county, and the date when it first came into force in each county ; of MIL whole cost of the townland and of the tenement valua. tiva in each county, and the total cost of these valua tions in all the counties valued under them respectively ; of the number of revisions in each county or poor-law union, and the cost ofeach such revision, in each of the years ending the 31st day of Dec.,1853, 1854, and 1355 ; and statement of the progress and prospect of comple tion of the tenement valuation of Ireland. SPIRITS (I RE LAN D.) Sir R. FERGUSON moved for returns of the number of gallons of proof spirits on which duty was paid for home consumption in Ireland, in each of the years 1853, 1854, and 1855: of the number of detections, of per sons prosecuted, of persons convicted, and of persont. c tnfined, for offences in Ireland against the laws for the suppression of illicit distillation, in each of the years 1853, 1854, and 1855 ; and distinguishing, in columns, the number of such detections, prosecutions, or convic tions made by the constabulary from thoie made by the revenue police : and of the number of persons confined in each gaol in Ireland fur offence* against the laws for the suppression of illicit distillation in each of the years 1853, 1854, and 1855.—Agreed to. CLEURCH-RATES ABOLITION BILL. Sir W. CLAY proposed tile second reading of this bill, which was, except iu one particular, the same as that he introduced 1E44 session, and which was read a second time. This was a question bearing more on civil and religious liberty than on the amount of pecuniary relief involved. After referring to hie former arguments in support of the bill of last session, he said he thought the arguments in favour end against it had been exhausted, and that it was beyend the reach of human intellect to diecever anything new to be said upon it. The recent decision in the House of Lords in the Braintree case had altered the aspect of this question by deciding that a good rate could only be made by the consent of a ma jority of the rate-payers. The law was, therefore, vir tually abolished, and iu many towns since that decision a church-rate had been refused. In many places the rate was submitted to, but sooner or later the levying of a rate in those places would be contested, and those ill ' feelings end heart-burnings that had existed in other places would be the inevitable consequence. From a return cf 238 rural parishes, he found that in 109 the rate was opposed, and in 129 it carried. Out of that num ber, in 99 cases the payment of the rate was refused. In 66 instances where a rate was levied, only 23 places submitted to it, and 14 places where it was en forced. Therefore, out of 99 places where rates had been agreed to, there were only 47 places where the rate had been really paid. the hoe, member then alluded to what had been attempted for a change of the law, and said that be was right in assuming that there was a large portion of the people who considered the levying of church rates an injustice, and a con viction in the minds of all that the law could nct remain in its present state. He considered the change proposed by the hill of the Marquis of Blandford, and also those by convocation, neither of which he thought would have the desired effect, and said that nothing would satisfy the public but the abo lition of church rates. Having referred to the heads of the bill, he said that the cry raised of the Church of Eog'and being the national Church he looked upon as idle words, because that Church was not empowered, in a national sense, in any way to levy a tax on those who differed from her. It was not a national Church iu the sense of the word that there was no other Church in the country. If the Government admitted of ne other form of religion it would justify the Church in deriving her revenue by force from all those who were not her mem bers, bet not otherwise. The Church of England was a great and venerable institution of the country— dear to the. people for many reasons, and she bad been re spected through ninny ages. The hou. member next proceeded to remark on the statements of the opponents of the bill, that if the church-rate were abolished, there would be no means of keeping up the fabrics, which be combated, and read a statement show ing the large sums that had been spent in building churches from the voluntary contributions of her members. The Church of England was one of the richest ecclesiastical corporations in existence, and pro bably her members were the richest class of any. If the members of that church mild not maintain the fabrics th it had been handed down to them by their forefathers, by contribu , ins a small sum to maintain them, but must firm, a paltry contribution from those wtna never entered within the walls of that Church, then, Churchman as he was, he felt that the Christi of England was unworthy to exist, if she had but so slight a hold on the feelings and affections of the people. (Hear.) Tne hon. gentle man referred to the opinion Lord John Russell en church rates, which he enunciated 'n a speech he t session, and in which he expressed his fears that an injury would be done to the Church by the abolition of church rates, and cautioried the house against any great changes. He (Mr. Clay) thought these words of caution were unnecessary, because they had been used en all occasions whi n any great change was about to he made, such as during the discussion of the repeal of the Test and Corporation Act, Catholic emancipation, free trade, &c , yet 'the conatituVon never rested on a firmer basis than now, nor was the country ever in, re prosperous. (Hear, hear.) The motion having been seconded, Lord J. MANNERS moved the second reading that day six months. Ile considered the bill before the house did not merit the approbation and support of the hou=e for the remedy of the grievance complained of, and he based his opposition to it upon the fullest and broadest acknowledgment of the grievance that bad been stated to exist by the hon. mover of the second reading of the bill. There was nothing in the bill or the preamble making reference to the grievance complained of, whilst its enacting powers would impose a real grievance on all churchmen. (Hear.) The bill pro. posed to make provision in lieu of church rates, and he took provision to mean something that should exist ; but it was impossible to call voluntary contributions a thing on which to depend. The grievance complained of in the continuance et this law was no greater, if so great, than that which existed in reference to the support of the other institutions of the country. The noble lord then examined the clauses of the bill, and in the course of his remarks said, that of the 700,0001. levied for church rates, 600,0001. were paid by Churchmen. He looked upon this bill as one more applicable to populous towns than to rural parishes. [LEFT SPEAKING.] CRIMINAL COURT.--(This Day.) (Before Lord Chief Justice Jervis.) William Griffiths, 34, was indicted for feloniously as saulting and wounding Alfred Mills with intent to murder him. In other counts his intent was said to be to dO bodily injury to the prosecutor dangerous to Me, The Lord Chief Justice having summed up, the jury found the prisoner guilty of wounding the prosecutor with intent to do him grievous bodily harm, and he was senteneed to be transported fur life. THIRD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) Alfred Steinbourne, 20, engineer, was indicted for burglary, in the dwelling house of Sir Henry Mugger idge, and stealing a watch, gold chain, and two coats, valued at 201. It appeared that the house of the prosecut )r at Streatham was broken into upon the night of the 24th of Jan., and the goods in question stolen, and prisoner was traced pawning the property a part of the next day. The jury folind hi n guilty, and he was sentenced to 12 months' and hard labour. REPEAL OF OBSOLETE OATHS.—A bill endorsed with the names of Mr. Fitzroy, Mr. T. Milner Gibson, Mr. Raikes, and Mr. T. S. Duncorobe, enacts that hencefor ward the oath of abjuration and the assurance set forth in the act 6th George 11., cap. 53, or in any previous act, and the affirmation in lieu thereof prescrileed for Quakers and Moraviane, shall not require to be taken or subscribed on any occasion or for any purpose whai so ever. This act will embrace the whole of her Majesty's dominions. The preamble, as the ground for passing the present bill, recites the undeniable fact that " there has not been for many year any descendant of the per son wbo pretended to be Prince of Wales during the life of the late King James 11., and since his decease pretended to be and took upon himself the style and title of King of England by the name of James III." THAMES TUNNEL COMPANY. — The annual meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yesterday at Radley's Hotel, New Bridge-street ; B. Hawes, Esq., in the chair. From the report for the year ending Dee. 31, it appeared that the receipts for the year, from va rious sources, amounted to 6,0691. Os. 9(1., and the ex penditure to 3,6301. 14s. id. ; there had been paid to the Government, 1,8641. 12a. 2d., and there remained in hand 5731. 14s. 6d. The chairman said there was no money for shareholders at present, and that hopes were entertained that some useful scheme would be projected to render the property a means of making them some return. There bad been proposals for the tunnel being made the medium by which the railways, north and south of the metropolis, might be tied together. The report was then adopted. A shareholder mentioned that a scheme for using the Regent's Canal and the Tunnel had been favourably reported by the committee of the House of Commons. The proceedings then ter , valuated in the usual manner. 93 xd 62 li J Ski 7} I 93 i 100 St.' St. St. 70 f 76f x d 15 15 I 66 #a 72 100 all 1130 100 ,100 10 , 10c 40( 100 1.01 100 100 100 100 too tan 10U 100 100 all ell all 08i 70 STATR oF TRADE. MANCHESTER, March 4.—The market has been ranter firmer, and in yarns a fair business ha-t been done, but the demand has' not been active for cloth. Buyers for Germany, and also for India, have been taking yarns with moderate freedom, and prices may be quoted d. per lb. above the rates of last Tuesday. Manufacturers have also been active buyers, and spinners have in some cases demanded id. per lb. alvance for cops, but the average prices do not reach more than ; (1. per lb. higher, either on home trade or export yarns. Yarns suited to the Yorkshire as well as the continental trade go off well. There has been a good deal of inquiry for clot, and prices are very firm, Messrs. J. S!agg and Co. say : " There has been more animation in the market yea terday and to-day than we have had for the last two or three weeks. The accounts from Calcutta and the China markets, received yesterday, are better than were ex pected, and a coneiderable business has been done for those quarters at an advance on ebirtings of full 10. per piece on last week's rates. For the home trade also there has been an active demand for printers and shirtings, and some kinds of domestics, at gradually hardening prices. Long-cloths and T-clot hs, on the other hand, a-e compa ratively neglected, owing to the unfavourable advices from Constantinople and Egypt, but prices are firmly maintained." The prospects of peace have a tendency to induce caution among the buyers for the Levant trade, but there is little doubt felt that this branch of our foreign trade, though it may fall eff comparatively after hoqii ties have ceased, will take a more important position than it did before the wnr. Messrs. De Fay arid Co. have published an interest ing table (one of an annual series), giving art "estimate of the difference in pounds sterling of the stems accruing to the trade in cotton-manufactures during the years from 1846 to 1555, to pay for the expenses of fuel, ma chinery, dru g s for dyei ng , p r i n ti ng, b leaching, i nterest of capital, and every kind of wages, profits, &c., after deducting the actual cost of the raw material." Last year's table will furnish an example :—They estimate the cotton consumed in Great Britain in the year 1E55 at 836,000,0001 b., and allowing 11 ounces per lb. as the waste in spinning, this would produce 744,563.0001 b. of yarn. Of this they calculate that 1 4 2,715,5001 b. has been exported in the shape of yarn and thread, and 358,578,000ib. bas been exported in the form of cloth or manufactured goods, leaving 243,269,5031 b, as th e amount of home consumption. We then come to values. The, declared value of thread and yarns expiated in the year is 7,735,9001., and that of manufactured goods 27,025,900/. ; while the home consumption, estimated in the ' , aura proportion as the declared value of the ' exported goods, plus 1, is 24,446,000/. ; t ,tai, 59,257,8001. ; from which deducting the total cost of cotton (836,000,0101 b., as above stated, at the average price of 53 1. per lb., er 19,739,000/. sterling), the balance left to meet cost of production, profits, &c., is 39,518,8001. It will be seen from this table that the home consumption of cotton fabrics last year was equal to 243,269,5001 h. weight of yarn, or less than one, tlerd of the whole 744,500,0001 b,, which is a much s nailer proportion than has been retained in previous e ears. In the prosperous year 1852, the home consump tion was 272,000,0001 b., out of a total of 668,000,00 g., and in that year, with a consumption ofonly 751.000,0001 b. weight of cotton, at Cad. per lb. (or 16,819,3001. ster ling), the total value of our manufactures was 661,500,0001., of which 31,594,0001. worth were re tained at home, and the balance towards cost of pro duction, profits, &c., was 44,730,7001., or an excess of 5,211,9001. over the balance of last year. LEEDS, March 4.—ln the woollen.cloth trade we have to report a steady market. In the coloured cloth-hail this morning a fair amount of business was done, chiefly in mixtures and spring fabrics. In the white cloth-ball only a limited business was done, but the general tone of the trade is firm and satisfactory. The report of the Huddersfield market is as folio ws :—" We have had fully au average attendance of buyers. Purchases were, how ever, mere numerous than extensive. There was a brisk inquiry for ne spring fancy patterns, arid ready sales were effected in black mixture doeskins and other descriptions of plaid trouseriugs, at medium prices. The wool trade is firmer." HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. ( Frain the Report of the Registrar-General.) The total number of deaths registered in London last week was 1,029. Of these 529 were deaths of males, and 500 of females. The return is satisfactory, as tested by experience ; for it is less by 221 than the average number of deaths (corrected for increase of population) in the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55. Phthisis, as is usually the case, produced a greattr number of deaths than any other disease, and was fatal in 136 cases. Bronchitis was fatal in the next degree, and carried off 95 persons ; pneumonia numbered 62, of whom two-thirds were infants not more than two years old. /looping cough prevailed to some extent, and 60 children died of it. This complaint is returned in five cases in the report for St. John, Paddington ; and with reference to a chill who died (the second in the same family within a f rtnight from hoopiag.cough) at 14, Wharf South,!the medical attendant mentions "the cold and damp atmosphere" in which it had lived, the cot tage being low, and contiguous to the Grand Junction Canal. Of 52 deaths from typhus Occluding continued fever) occurred in the riorti division, which contains the London Fever Ho , pital, 14 in th e east, 9 in the west, 8 in the south, and 4 in the central division. Typhus is frequent in Bethnal-green ; the registrar of the Church suL-district lecorded three deaths from it in two days : and one (that of a man 32 years old) occurred at 7, Nelson -street, Hackney-rond, where the fatal disease ia attribott.d ly the inedicil atteiv'ant, to "fetid smells arising from the house drains." Niee deaths from typhus, and one from scarlatina, took place in the Fever Hospital. The total deaths from scarlatina were 24, from measles 17. and from smallpox 14. One from rheumatic fever, 10 from rheumatism, 17 fr m cat - cer, one from inteno,rasee, 2 from delirium tremens. On February the 7th, at 45, Park-f trot t, Marylebor,e, a man is returned as having died from want of food. The greatest age recorded is that of a widow, 96 years, who died in Christ. etinrch, Marylebone. Last week the b;rths of 1,002 boys and 974 girls, in all 1.976 children, were registered in Londoc. In the tr , n corresponding works of the years 1846-55 the aver. age number was 1.575. At the Royal Oloservatery, Greenwich, the rea lings of the barometer were high ; the highest was 3053 in. on the let, of March. The mean of the week was 30'365 in., and the daily mean was above 30 in. throughout the week. The mean temperature was 43 S deg., whet) is 4 deg. above the average of the same week in 28 years (as determined by Mr. Giaisher.) The highest tempera ture occurred on Wednesday, and was 57 deg. ; the lowest on Monday, and was 33 . 3 deg., and the difference between that and the mean air temperature of the water of the Thames was 41 . 7 deg. The wind, which before had been mostly in the south-west, changed for the last three days to north•east. Except a thick misty rain on the morning of Thursday no rain fell in the week. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 1. Zymotie Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 47 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration lB5 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations 2 Premature Birth and Debility 2, Atrophy Old Age Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 33 Causes not specified DEATHS mom ALL CAUSES Population Deaths in corre- Deaths Enumerated. sponding week in the 1651. of 1S 5. Week. West Districts • 376,427 North Districts 490,396 Central Districts 393,256 East Districts 485,522 South Districts Totals lilales Females 1,b60 1,029 529 500 [ADVRATIBIIIIEIT.I SIGHT Ala IiENAH MG. Ser.eractics, POWEEFEL TELESCOPES, OPERA, RACE AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES. —Messrs. S, and B. Solemons, opticians, 39, Alkarnarle street, Piccadilly. Observe opposite the York Rotel. lay her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Per. spective Glasses, to know the distances of objects viewed through them—of great importance to the army, navy, and others. These telescopes possess such extraordinary powers that some three and a-half inches, with an extra eye piece, a ill show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars; with the same telescope can be seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They are of larger aid all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly ; while their vary ing from 4 to 6 inches enable us to discover more than the above, and the Georgian, with his G satellites, &c.—The Royal Exhibition, 1851.—Valuable, newly-invented, very powerful waistcoat-pocket glass,the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known 1i miles distant; they answer every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles. , They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, race-coarse, camp, and perspective glasses, with wonderful power. Newly-constructed Spectacle Lenses of the great est transparent power. The valuable advantage derived from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired is preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occu pation- can see with these lenses of a much less magnify ing power—and they de not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance. Deafness—New Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an ex traordinary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for deafness, entirely different from all others, to anrpass any thing of the kind that has been, er probably ever tan be, produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not per ceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39, Albemarle* treat, Obserre 7 oppeeite the York Hotel. - ST. PANCRAS WW:IIII011.5E. OFFICIAL * INVESTIGATION BY THE COM ISSIONERS IN LUNACY. Yesterday, a general meeting of the directors and guardians of the poor of the parish of St. Pancras was held in the vestry-hail, King's-road, Camden-town, for the purpose of receiving the report of J. Gaskell, Esq., who has been investigating the insane wards of the work. house, under the special instructions of the Commis sioners in Lunacy. 11. Fairer, Esq., F.S,A., senior churchwarden, took the chair. Tee report states that one portion of the insane wards, designated " Little Bethleni," are very objectionable, and that no improvements have been made in the other wards occupied by the idiotic and insare, being us4d both as day rooms and dormitories ; that they are low, dark, and gloomy apartments. "The central padded. room used by the men remains very imperfectly venti• fated and unfit for use." In the previous report of the commissioner, the warns are described as " inconve niently crowded," time then contained 13 men and 26 women ; " to-day," says the report, "I found in them 21 man and 45 women, G of the latter being placed in the Little Bethlem." Eight patientsareunprovided with beds. Two men slept on beds placed on the forms, and 2 OR the floor of the padded-room, one of which is unfit for use. Four women who are unprovided with bedsteads sleep on beds cast upon the floor. With a view at once of di minishing the overcrowding, and of promoting more suit able accommodation and treatment, the report recom mends the removal of S inmates named to an asy:um. T'ne report expresses regret that previous suggestions of the commissioners have been utterly disregarded. After again setting forth at length these recommendations, the report continues, "Comparing the foregoing recommen dations with the state of the workhouse as presented to me this day, I find— " 1. No book is kept in conformity with the first re commendation, and from the want of such a record I could not ascertain the number of the patients admitted into the lunatic ward', or the rate of mortality in them. "2. No lists of the patients are made in the female wards. "3. The instruments of restraint are not removed. I found strait waistcoats in both wards, and no account of restraint or seclusion is kept. "4. No diminution of the number of inmates in the idiotic wards has taken place. On the contrary, they have been nearly doubled. "5. Suitable chairs have not been provided. Many of the women I found seated on the beds, arid eleven cf theta were confined to bed. "This enumeration of instances, in which no regard whatever has been paid to the means formerly pointed out to ameliorate the condition of the insane and idiotic inmates of the St. Pancras workhouse, may convey some idea of their present condition ; but it is difficult to con ceive er describe the many evils which now exist, and which, if allowed to continue, must inevitably lead to most disastrous results." In a department of the female ward which is crowded to excess, and occupied both night and day by dirty patients, the nurse in charge is in the habit of washing and drying portions of the bed and other linen ; the ven• tilation in this room has been closed, to prevent " bad smells entering from the neighbouring churchyard." The nurse adds that the stench was unbearable, and that she burnt vinegar, with which she was freely supplied for the purpose. One of the patients frequently vomited in conse quence of the sickening smells. After alluding to the irregularity with which the meals are served, and con demning the practice of sending raw meat into the wards to be cooked, the report alludes to the noxious smells is the men's ward, which is described as arising from a lodgment of foul water under the flooring. One of the padded rooms was dilapidated, and the bedding satu rated with urine. The beds are dirty and defective. The waterclosets are described as being badly supplied with water, and the supply of water is generally defec tive. The women's wards are described as being in a disorderly state, owing to their being overcrowded, and from the want of all proper conveniences. Several bottles of medicine were carelessly left within reach of the patients, many of whom were melancholic and some suicid ; none of them were provided with suitable books of amusement, arid means of exercise is defective. The report hero urges on those who ere responsible for the care and treatment of these unhappy patients, to provide a due degree of protection to those who, by reason of their infirmities, are incapable of making correct statements and preferring just complaints as to their several wants and necessities. Referring to the promised vigorous measures of improvement about to be adopted, reference is requested to the previous sug ge,hons of the commissioners. , The report, after detailing other evils existing in the inner wards of St. Pancras workhouse, concludes by drawing attention to the following, which they recom mend :- 1. That no recent case of insanity be detained in the workhouse. 2. That chronic cases, on whom restraint or seclusion are imposed, be removed to an asylum. 3. That the number of Inmates in the idiotic wards be forthwith diminished. 4. That more means of ezercise and occupation be provided, and that a larger number of patiente be al lowed to attend Divine service. 5. That a lath be supplied to tt , e women patients. 6. That better means of washing be pros i led for the men, aud a larger supply of towels and sheets for both wen gn I women. 7. That suitable beds, to prevent bed•eare4, he pur chased. 8. That better means of cleansing s ,, iled podding be adopted, and a lar4er I umber of hed-ticks be supplied. 9. That the wire work be removed from the windows in the men's war]. 10. That the women be supplied w ith suitable books. Ile report WM received, and a committee of five members were appointed to investiate the statements made in the renort ; and all instruments of restraint were ordered to be at once removed, and not used with out the order of tlot medical officer. Die Clerk was directed to inform the Commissioners of the couree adopted. TILE POOH-LAW BOARD AND THE STATE OF TUB W01:1110U9I:. Mr. riIBBAILD t't.n read a letter front ti.e Poor law Board, expressing their confident as,uranc3 that the directors wilt allow no time unnecessarily to efap4e bef.re they take measures to remedy the serious evils whirls are shown ley Dr. Bence Jones's rep.rt to exist at the St. Pancras workli,use. Mr. liibbsrd stated that he bad inftx:ned the Poor-law B , ard that the vestry end alre:tdy passtd a resolution for the removal of the ,chools front the w , ,rkhousp. Tile Board then atijouraed. SERIOUS AFFAIR AT MADAGASCAR. Files of the Cerneen, a French journal of the island of Mauritius, to the 25th December have reached us. We read in them that on the 3d December, the day fixed for the signing of the petition to the Government, praying for the re establishment of the French language in official and judicial documents, a crowd of colonists in vaded the Hall of Commerce with enthusiasm to sign their names. We also find au account of the following deplorable affair at Madagascar : " Eight Frenchmen, one of them, M. d'Arvov, f or . merly French consul in the Mauritius, who had been re siding almost a year in the Bay of Vavatonbe, working a coal mine belonging to a company, and a great number of Sacalares in their service, were attacked in the night of the 19th October by from 1,500 to 2,000 novas, the reAmiar troops of the Queen of Madagascar, and, with the exception of one Etinchman, were barbarously murdered and mutilated. The establishment which they occupied was sacked, and 100 workmen, who had escaped the massacre, were to;.,rether with the Frenchman made prisoner , , and carried off to Emyrne. Five ideces of cannon, a quantity of muskets, and some gunpowder were captured by the assailants. The material damage done amounted to between 70,000 and 80,000 piastres (350,000 f. to 400,000 f.) The Queen of Madagascar, Ranavalo, on receiving the news of the massacre and cap ture, assembled the people of her capital, and had read to thorn the despatch of the general who commanded the I I expedition, after which she caused seven guns to be fired in honour of wont she called the victory gained by her invincible troops over the French." The Bay of Vavatoube and all the north-west part of Madagascar is, according to the Colleen, French territory—it belongs to France not only in virtue of her ancient claims on Madagascar, but in virtue of a recent concession of the ex-King of Nossi Be, who held it do facto. Moreover, a fort which formed part of the establishment destroyed was built with the sanction of -the French Government and under a promise of its protection, and two of the live guns captured were supplied by the French frigate Erigone. The Canteen, accordingly declares that, apart from the barbarous outrage on Frenchmen, the French flag had been grossly insulted, and it intimates that no doubt, the Imperial Government will take due vengeance. The same journal states that M. La coste, Belgian Consul in the isle of Mauritius, has opened a subscription for purchasing Napoleon Vale, in the island of St. Helena, where is situated the tomb of Napoleon, and that he has given him self 1,000 piastres. Napoleon Vale is the property of a Mr. Pritchard, and is advertised for sale in the St. Helena newspapers. THE AUSTRALIAN AND AMERICAN MA ILS. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday.—The Royal mail-shiP Champion of the Seas, Captain John M•Kirdy, sails from the Mersey with the mails for Australia on Friday next, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. She will have about 400 passengers and 2,000 tons of cargo on freight. Letters require to be posted here before eight o'clock, with late fees to nine o'clock, and at the floating re ceiving-house to ten a.m. on the morning of sailing. Sb e belongs to the "Black Ball " line, Messrs. James Baines ar.d Cc. The Canard Royal mail steam-ship Persia, Captain C. H. E. Judkins, will sail on her second trip to New York, at ten a.m., on Saturday next, the Bth inst. Letters must be posted here before eight a.m., and at the landing stage before ten a.m. on that day. Amongst the passengers from Australia to England by the James Baines is the celebrated Miss Emma Waller, an actress whom the press of California and the Australian colonies pronounce to be one of the most ac• comnlished acts asses the stage has had for many years. During a severe gale which the James Baines encoun• tered this lady fell, and dislocated her right shoulder. She ie, we believe, to appear here at au early date. .a..~_. ele of a ut it hole, verY and last trials ited, 1 the oved 1 the all 43 5 St. 15 I 0 isi 1 1 1 10 5 100 1 20 50 50 2 100 25 iQ IS 100, 1071 1004 41 1 109 1071