The Sun. — London, England, 1861-05-15 00:00:00

JIONEY ..IIARKET AND CITY 'VIEWS'. -ot- -, CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The continued withdrawal of sovereigns from the Bank of England for transmission to America, has given rise to the impression that increased firm ness will be speedily experienced in the general discount market, and the meeting of the Bank of England directors is awaited with some anxiety, because it is thought that they may deem it advisable to adjust their minimum quotation at a higher point. This expectation has had the twofold effect of stimulating the demand for accom modation, and of inducing capitalists to ask in creased terms for the negotiation of commercial bills. In the Stock Exchange there is an ample supply of money, and the rates for loans on stock rat:ge from 4 to 41 per cent. In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday the demand was very limited, and prices of all descrip tions were id per lb. lower. The sales were 4,000 bales. The half-yearly interest on Brazilian 5 per Cent. and the 41 par Cent. Bonds, and on Sardinian 5 per Cents. will be paid on and after the Ist prox. About £lO,OOO in gold was sent into the Bank of England yesterday, but 190,000 sovereigns were withdrawn for transmission to America. The Foreign Exchanges, yesterday afternoon, were, in most instances, rather higher; the rates on Austria, however, exhibited a considerable de cline. Gold at Paris and Hamburg is now about 3.loths per cent. cheaper than in London. ..... The steamer Etna, Ns , hich left Liverpool to-day for New York, took out £298,746 in specie. There has been a very quiet market for Public Securities to-day, and the few transactions recorded have not led to any change in prices, Consols being 91: 4 for money, and 91Z- 92 for the account. The market nevertheless continues heavy, owing to the efflux of gold from the Bank and the expectation that the rate of discount will be advanced. The New Threes and the Reduced are heavy at 89: 8„ the New 2* per Cents. are 751, and Exchequer Bills are firm at 4s. dis.; India 5 per Cent. remains at 1011 Business in the Foreign Market has continued very quiet. Mexican have improved to 23 231 ; Brazilian 41 per Cents. to 881 ; Portuguese are steady at 47k. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 701- to 71; ditto 1858, 551 to 564; ditto £lOO Bonds 59. The chief transactions in the Railway Share Market have been in connection with the arrange ments in progress for the liquidation ; speculative sales, however, have preponderated, and a slight downward movement has taken place in prices. Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Western and Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln havejdeclined 55., and North Eastern (Berwick), South-Eastern and West Midland, 10s. Caledonian have improved about ss. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have also shown some slight variations. South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have improved to 16 and 161, and Bahia and San Francisco realise 10 ; East Indian have improved to 991 1001 ; and Great In dian Peninsula to 97 and 97k ; Great Western of Canada have declined to 11, and Grand Trunk of Canada are steady at 20. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have been in very limited request. Oriental Bank have receded ss. ; Peninsula and Oriental Steam advanced £1; and Royal Mail Steam declined ss. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B9l 1 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities B9l 1 i New 2i per C en t . A nnu i t i es 751 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5l India Stock .• — Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent. 94 Consols for Account, June 6 .. 92 11 Exchequer Bill s . £l , O OO, lid. FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bondi, 5 per Cent. — Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent., 1860 .. 88 i Mexican 3 per Cent 231 3 Ditto Account .. 231 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. .. 471 Turkish 6 per Cent — Ditto New Loan Ditto £lOO Bonds ' 59 Dividends on the above payable in London. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols Money 9la Ditto Account 9ll 2 ME MINISTER FROM THE UNITED STATES. His Excellency Charles Francis Adams, the newly-appointed Minister from the United States to the British Court, was one of the passengers by the Niagara, which arrived at Liverpool on Monday forenoon. He was accompanied by his wife and daughter and two sons. Immediately on landing they proceeded to the Adelphi Hotel, where shortly afterwards he was waited on by his worship the Mayor. He was also waited on by a deputation from the American Chamber of Commerce in Liver pool, by whom he was presented with the following address : " To His Excellency Charles Francis Adams, Minister of the United States of America, to the Court of St. James. " We, the President and members of the American Chamber of Commerce at Liverpool, consisting of English men and Americans engaged in commerce with the United States, desire to tender our hearty congratulations to ycur Excellency on your arrival on our shores. We rejoice especially to welcome one bearing the honoured name of Adams--a family which has already given two Presidents to their country, and which gives promise in your own person of attaining the eminence already acquired by your predecessors. While we sincerely deplore the unhappy differences which have sprung up in the United States, we cannot but express a hope that even yet they may be ex tinuished without giving rise to those embittered flings which are unavoidably engen d ere d by c i v il war . W e shall at all times joyfully co-operate with your Excellency in any measures that may be calculated to promote sentiments of good will between England and America, and to perpetuate those feelings of amity which have so long and so happily prevailed between the two countries. Signed by order and on belialf of the American Chamber of Commerce, " S. B. Go lON, President, pro tem." His Excellency replied as follows : "Mr. President, and gentlemen of the American Cham ber of Commerce—l heartily accept your cordial greeting on my arrival in this great city. It is now more than 40 years since I left these shores. I was then a boy, and now I am past the age of middle life ; but the interval of time has produced far greater changes in the relations between the country I now represent and the kingdom of Great Britain than any I can trace relatively in myself. As I watched the process of discharging the letter-begs from the steamer in which I had just made my passage, and reflected how often the same process is now repeated by means of such admirable nautical despatch, I felt in its full force the ever-increasing magnitude of the commercial relations be tween the two countries, and the importance of aiding by every practical method in developing them to their fullest extent. The progress of your city, gentlemen, manifests the great expansion of the same idea. Long may it con tinue, by cultivating the arts of peace, to present the strong est inducements to the preservation of the two nations. I come here desirous only to develope the fraternal feelings to which you have been pleased to allude in your address to me. Such I believe to be the wish of the Government of the United States, which has sent me, as well as a very large portion of the people, irrespective of any personal differences that may now unhappily prevail among them. Permit me here to concur with you in the hope and the trust that time and trial will bring round a better state of feeling there, so that we may all once more unite and co-operate in the blessed work of promoting the prosperity of the civilised world. Not doubting that this would be joyfully hailed by you in your respective useful vocations on this side, I can only pledge to you all my in dividual efforts to contribute to the same result." His Excellency left Liverpool by the 3 40 train en route for London. THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) • . .. .. .. . May 19. Do. nuenlosanAdyCreasr Monte Verds (via Marseilles) May 13. Brazil Video,. Cub• • . • • a and Mexico • May A Canada, &o. (v • , • • . .. • • • • la L derry) .. • • • '' May 15. Cape of G oa d Ho Arc 1 China, Penang, and Sin • • • • .. .. June Do gapore (via' S'ampton) May 19. Gibraltar (via Southampton) (via Marseilles) May 13. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, • • • . .. May 19. s ce ( via Do.• Southampton) May 19. I n dia (Bombay), (via Southara (tvollia Marseilles) May 13. Do. (via Marseilles)3 ) .. .. May 26. •• .. May 20, Lisbon .. • . .. .. M a l ta, Egypt and Men (via Southain.p.t .. May 11. o. (via Marseille ) on) .. May 11. M arseilles Vigo, and Oporto .. • • .. .. June 4. United States, C a lifornia, &c, .. :: • • May 11, Western Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe ... „., l i) %i v a e y r d -l o West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena , Cuba, occ. May I:3' MARRIAGE OF THE DAUGHTER OF THE BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS —Yesterday the marriage of the Hon. Miss Emily Dulcibella Eden, daughter of the Right Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, Was celebrated at Wells Cathedral, when sbe was married to Mr. Edmund Henry Dickenson, second son of the late Mr. William Dickenson, of liingsweston House, near k.otaerton. Philhar !stion of Towded. [l, M.P., hairman took the red with solution, 11 be gra cility deem Queen of -ge num the mea hose who mon with country L to the uld not throne. was an Lny per t should he Pro -1 of the apposed Tinging ,he pub at they he was of only , add, of persecu ot wish Catho against inent of )f that 1. He speak liberty. ed the feeling ,nd ex cif that motion tion of I with id the 'clock. MARKET.-CTBIS DAY.) ORDMARY SHAMES AND STOCKS. Share t 3.14 stock stock stock Clos ßailways. ing Doneßusiness Belfast and Ballymena 13ir., Vol , and Str. Val. Birk., La., and Ch June Blyth and Tyne .Bost. Sleaf. and Mid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carmarthen Sr Cardigan Cork and Bandon Cork, Rlrock., ,tPassage Cornwall .... f A gets no div Do A until fl pc peran Do B ihasbeen• d. toB Dublin & Belfast June Dun., Perth, &Ab. ;lune East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A stock Do do B do Do Nw A, late ETJ3ds East Suffolk Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasg. and S. Western Great Nthn. of Scotland Great Northern Do do A stock Dodoß do Gt. S. Sc W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Irish South-eastern Lancashire & Torkshin London and Blackwall Lon Bright.. & S Coast Lond., Chat., and Dover 'Lond. &Nth. Western Lond. & gth. Western L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Enniskillen ➢Zan. Shef. & Lincoln Sfaryport and Carlisle Do do shares Metropolitan Midland . Do new Do Pinning. & Derby I Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do shares Mid Kent. • • • • • • Do, Cray Line Newcastle and C trlisie Newry Az Armagh, def Newry, Warnpt. et Ros Noifolk.. ...... North British . Nor. Dev. Rail D k•st oak Dr, k 3tk ; A recs no d. until 6pchas beenpd.B Do B stock ......... Nth. Evtern—Berwick Do do , G.N.E. purchase DoLeeds ........ • . • • • Do York ,North London ..... ii Do new North c'taffordshire N. and S. W. Junction N ot. & Grantham Rail reebles • • • • Portsmouth hymney Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shropshire Union Sittinebourne & Sheer. South Devon S.-Durham & Lane. Un. South Eastern ..... South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok,. and Wok Stockton & Darlington Do do Do New (1860) Taff Vale Do Pref. No 1 ThamesHavenDkaatall Ulster •• Do Do .. • . ............ Vale of Neath . Victoria Sta. and Plm.. Waterford & Kilkenny; Waterford & Limerick West Cornwall ........ West London . Do Ist class ........ Do 2d class .. WestHartlepool Harbr and Rail West Midland—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford 46 48 39 41 82 85 PREFERENCE SHARES. Share Railways. !Paid Closing Business Price. Done. Blythe and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issued at .£5 ( ) kris. & Exet.4 p.etstock Do. do. do. Shares Caledon £10,45 per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Cork & Bandon, 55 p. c. Cornwall. 5 per cent Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun Do Ist Class Pref E.Angn.Class A 7 &sp.c Do. do. Class B 6 p.c Do. do. Class C 7 p.c... • E. Coun. Ex. 5 p. 0. No.l Do. do. No. 2 Do. New 6 per et. stock. Eastern Union,4 per ct. I Do. 5 per cent. guar... 1 4 1 di n...t G las. sp.e. shares Do. 4 p. c gua. S. & D. Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. Furness, 5 per cent .... Glas.ct S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. (I l CFO., NOrtherll, 0 p. eL. Po.sp.c.Redm.,lop.c.pm Do. 4.5 p. c. do. do. Do. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm (3t. Nh. of Scotld. 'lst pf. IGt.Sn. & W (Ireland) -1 p. ct pref. stock reat West. (Berke and slants) Ext. 5 p. ct to. Redeemable,4s p.et Do. Redeemable, 4 p. ct, Do Irredeemable, do Do. 5 pet Redeem. Pref Do. Birm. Pref. Shares or t. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.sh Do. do. sp. et. pref .. Do Birmg.guar. stock.. Do. Chester gua. shares Do. do. do. Do. do. do. Lan. & Carl. 4i p c. pref I Lan.&York 6 p. c. stock Do.Barnsl.st.£s3s 10d pc Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) Lon. & Brig. 5 pc.gu. No.l Do. 5 p. c. No. 2 i Do. gua. 6 p. c. I Do. do. 5 p.c. No. 4 Do. do. 4 per cen';. Do. do. 45 p. c. shares Do. 7 p. ct. Pref. stock Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P ) Do.4p.c.S.(div.def.til '651 I , Do. 4 per cent. Pref Lon. Chat. and Dover Do. W. A rceiv. no div Ex.A til 6 p cis pd on 'o. II B. & Brom ex. Do. Metropolitan Ex B ton. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, 5 p. ct Lon. & S.W, 7 p. et. stock Do. 45 per cent Do. (Prtsm. perpl anns of 2s. 6d.. Londondy. & Cole. 4 sh Londony. & Ennis. 4 sh 'ran. Sh. &Lin. 6 per et Do. £6 1100 102 20 21 5i 6 99 101 108 113 105 108 108 110 106 108 122 124 80 82 109 111 90 92 75 77 113 115 110 112 101 103 106 108 97 99 98 100 89 91 90 92 101 103 9i 10 17 18 lei 10i 74 76 20 21 10 104 15 154 113 115 113 115 137 140 ,113 115 101 103 150 155 128 131 71 74 85 87 131 141 125 127 Do. 3i per cent Do. redeem. 6 per cent I".faryr , ort & Car., 4 p. c Do. 4i per cent 'Nfld. Con. 6 p c. stock IDo.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock Do. 4} per cent Do. Leie. & Hit. pref. st Norlik sp. c. Ex. st. 1846 Do. 5i p. c. Pref. do 1847 Do.sl , ray.Val.Ex.stlB47 North British, 5 p. o Do. New, gua. 5 p. e Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. she Do. do. do N th. Dev. R ail. & Dck.Co. N-East. Con s.Pref. 4 p. c. Do. 4i p c. redeemable I Do. G.N.E. 4 per e. pref. Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. E Do. Leeds, 6 p. e. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, H. & S. Puroh. North Staffordshire 11hymney Guaranteed. Scottish Central, new pi Scottish North-Eastern 3i p. e. pref. stock.... Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c. Do. 7 p. o. pref. otodk South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. 1.1...e041 ca cent. South Eastern (Readin Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 4 per cent Do. Fixed 4p.c. Ist is south Wales, gua. 4 p. c Do. 4i per cent. Do. 5 per cent' S.-Yorkshire, 4 pl o gua Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B 6 ner cent Do. C 6 percent Watrfd & Kilkny, 6 p. e -Oxf Ist Gua stk Do. 2d do Do. Newport 5 p.e.pf.red. Do.Perpet. ti p. e. pt 1866 Do. till 1869, Ist Is. 68 70 PI iP [34 136 [Ol 103 91 93 109 111 108 110 11 91 93 99 101 ICOi 1011 P il> i d ip 22i 23 131 133 10 101 22t 23 99 100 99 100 98 100 85 87 24 271 32 33 31 321 45 48 124 126 120 125 100 102 120 122 ,115 120 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. pa,,, Leasing Closing l Business Railways. Paid Leasing Co.'s Price. Done. Bediord and Bletehley all Ln Bullringlyimshire .... 100 Do gi 9 ; 3 Chester ez Holyhead... 100 Do 52} 630 Do. 5i percent 100 Do l2l 123 Do. 5 100 Do 1 10 211 /1 Clydesdale Juno ... ... 100 Caledon 100 102 Colchester, Stour Val. all E.U.&E.O 15i le4 E. Lincolnsh. g 6 pr ICe Gt. North. 130 132 E.Union,HarwichSlis. all E.Counts. 4} 4j Do. Woodbridge.... 100 Gls.Barr.AL Neils.Drct. 100 Do. new lOO Gloater AL Dean Forest all llrtlp'l Dock & Rail.. all Hull and Selby. all Do. h Lives. Do. quarters all Lanc.SLCa rl. gua. 5 p.c lOO London & Greenwich ' 100 1)o. Preference Lon.,Tilbury,& S -end 100 Lowestoft gua. 4p c lOO Do. per cent lOO Mnc., Bxtn ,&M atlock all Mid. Bradford Prefer ence Sock Newmarkt,BuryEx. 1 gua. 5 percent..... j Northn.&Eastn. 5 p. c. Do. 6p. c. Do. Fixed 5 p. North Western Preston and Wyre. Shep e t at Shares O H r d i t s eh h r , e dz z D t y .A. Shrewsbry& Hereford 1)o. do., Wilts and Somerset .. W I =Dleclon eicroyclu. 1311 Caledort... Do. Gt. West. Bri Yk.N. 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"S THE 'SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENITkTG. MAY 15, 1861. IA TV IN TR IL It; :E'N'eff-- 4 r2fris 'Day - YORK.-.RACEg—(77ds Day.) gXCHEQUER CHAMBER. (Sittings in Error, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, and Justices Williams, Crompton, Willes, Hill, Byles, and Keating.) _ BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH: THE TYRO STAKES. SWINFEN V. BACON. The contention raised was whether the tenant was un lawfully and wilfully holding over possession of his tenancy, after notice given, against his landlady, contrary to the statute. Mr. Kennedy resumed his argument for the plaintiff, Mrs. Swinfen, and maintained that there was, in this in stance, a wilful and malicious holding over possession after due notice given to quit, and of the plaintiff's title to the lands in question, and read several Acts of Parliament, and cited several decisions in support of his argument to that effect. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn observed, that if Mrs. Swinfen had been a party to the compromise, and if the compromise had been held good, her notice to the tenant to quit would not have been held good, because she had parted with her interest in the lands, but, as it did not take effect her title reverted to her, and the question raised is whether the notice to quit is good, and whether there was a wilful holding over of the property as against her, the de fendant believing that under the compromise she had no title, and that the title to the lands was in another person. Mr. Kennedy submitted that there was a demise of the property to her, and by the compromise she had not lost her right, therefore her notice to the tenant to quit was good, and that he had incurred the penalties of the statute by holding over after due notice given to quit. The arguments are not yet concluded, RACING FIXTURES FOR 1861. York Malton ..16 Salisbury l6 Bath ... 2l Chelmsford Beverley .. 5 Hungerford .. 6 Ascot Hampton l9 Newton 19 COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) THE LATE ARISTOCRATIC SCANDAL.-DRUMMOND (COM MONLY CALLED VISCOUNTESS FORTH) V. DRUMMOND Newmarket Carlisle Worcester 4 Liverpool July 9 Abingdon 9 Pontefract ll (COMMONLY CALLED VISCOUNT FORTII).-JUDGMENT. In this case, the facts of which have been already fully reported, the point at issue being whether the petitioner was entitled to a judicial separation, she having been proved to have committed adultery with a person named Dering, with whom she went to America, subsequent to the filing of the petition. The case, it will probably be remembered, came on for argument on Wednesday last upon an appli cation by the petitioner to bo allowed to give additional evidence, in order to aisprove sue aliegea antrge or collusion with the respondent, her husband. The Queen's Proctor, through the instrumentality of the Attor ney-General, intervened, and from the information he had received was induced to plead, and the application on the part of the petitioner that additional evidence might be given was refused. The Attorney-General contended that according to ecclesiastical law parties in pari delicto could not be held as entitled to the relief prayed for, and he ap plied to have the petition dismissed. Lewes ' 5 Brighton Brighton Club 9 Wolverhampton l2 Reading l4 Devon and Exeter Stockton Derby War wick lO Lichfield Doncaster 17 Newmarket F 0 1 Newmarket S 0 l4 The case being the first of the kind under the statute, the Judge Ordinary adjourned his judgment until this morn ing, when his lordship decided as follows : After recapitulating the facts, he said that ho knew of no case where any party, suing for matrimonial relief, had been guilty of adultery, in which such relief was to be given, if that adultery had been clearly proved to have been committed subsequent to the proceedings, or at all. That had been decided in the case of Proctor v. Proctor, where the same circumstances had been proved ; and as the peti tioner in the suit now before the Court had herself proved that she had been guilty of adultery, she was not entitled to any relief in a matrimonial cause for judicial separation or divorce. He must therefore dismiss the petition. Worcester Autumn 5 Liverpool Autumn 13 PRIVATE BUSINESS. EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURES RE SPECTING SER.3IONS 4. BISHOPS' CHARGES. • At the Sheriffs' Court yesterday was tried before Mr. Kerr, the case of Rogers v. Havergai. The plaintiff is a retired clergyman, and the defendant is the Vicar of Cople Vicarage, in Bedford. Mr. Hudson, of Fenchurch street Buildings, stated for the plaintiff that the action was brought to recover £2 10s. for 20 sermons sold and delivered to defendant. Mr. Marchmont, agent to the plaintiff, ;;ted that de fendant ordered upon the 27th April, 1859, a sermon upon " the Thanksgiving for the Termination of the Indian War," price 2s 6d. This was sent, and subsequently de fendant wrote for copy of sermons, and 20 were sent upon general subjects. Since then defendant wrote for a special sermon upon the re-opening of his church, and for this he paid £l. _ _ A number of letters were read by Mr. Hudson, and in one defendant was surprised that so many sermons had been sent, but " he would look them over, and keep what suited him." (Laughter.) The letters provoked great laughter and surprise, such phrases as " Stock sermons," " What have you in stock," and " Send me so and so," occurring so frequently, that his Honour called the business a " sermon manufactory." Plaintiff's agent remarked that many clergymen had four or five sermons a week to preach, besides Bible classes, and it was impossible to give original sermons. The sermons were lithographed in sets of 30. (Laughter.) His Honour—Then, if I went into two or three churches on one Sunday I might stand the chance of hearing the same sermon at each I (Laughter.) Plaintiff's agent—Precisely. In answer to the claim defendant produced a circular sent Lo him by plaintiff, and contended that he had returned the sermons. A desultory conversation ensued, and plaintiff's agent observed that sermons fetched all prices, and some as high as £5 ss. His Honour—What sermons fetch a 5s ? Mr. Marchmont—A bishop's charge or an arcHeacon's address ? His Honour—Do you manufacture bishops' charges ? Witness—l can produce a man who has written them. His Honour—What would a sermon before the Lord Mayor cost ? Witness—From £3 3s. to a ss. His Honour (to Mr. Hudson, who is a Common Council man)—T here is no knowing where our sermons come from. (Much laughter.) Mr. Hudson—l was not aware of it till to-day. Defendant then urged that he had returned the sermons, and complained of the price, but it was shown that he had paid 108. into court for four, thereby admitting the price; that he had kept the sermons for a very long time ; and that plaintiff had not received them back even now. De fendant said that even in 'the case of the sermons paid for he had to rewrite: them before he could preach them. His Ho nour —Perhaps you picked out the tit bits. (Much laughter.) I must hold that you did not return the goods within a reasonable time, and find for the plain tiff for the full amount, with costs of attorney. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STRE ET. AN OLD TRICK REVIVED.—Joseph Williams was charged with the following artful fraud :—Ralph Ingram Newton, a stone mason, living at 25, Lewisham-street, Westminster (and who formed a striking contrast to the prisoner, having a fresh and ruddy look, evidently just from the country, while the prisoner was a dirty dissipated looking fellow), said that some days ago the prisoner met him in the neighbourhood of Leicester-square, and asked him to buy a gold chain, saying he wanted 50s. for it. He told the prisoner he did not want it, but the prisoner returned to him and said he would let him have it for 12s. and his silver chain. He told the prisoner he did not want it, and prisoner then said he should have it for 125., and on his representing that it was gold he bought it. He afterwards found that it was only brass. Yesterday, seeing the man in a public•house, he spoke to him, and he ran out, but he pursued and captured him. Prisoner—Did I not say that it had been stolen? Prosecutor—No, you did not. A jeweller said that the chain was not worth more than as., anal 1 8 0.1 have been VV V/ 1,14 .00 ~a 4131• was no gold whatever in the chain. The prisoner, who said he did not know but that the chain was gold, was then committed for trial. ROBBERY AT A JEWELLER'S BY CHILDREN.—Two little boys, named Knight and M'Grath, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a gold chain of the value of 355. from the shop of Mr. Lansberg, jeweller, 322, Oxford street. William Furneaux, assistant to Mr. Lansberg, said that on the previous evening he was putting some chains in the window when he saw the prisoner M'Grath leave the shop, and directly after missed one of the chains from the counter. Frederick Sturn, another assistant, said that M'Grath came to the shop that morning and asked if a piece of brass chain was gold, and he then recognised him as the boy he had seen at the shop before. Charles Harwood, assistant to Mr. Gedding, pawn broker, near Lisson•grove, said the chain was brought by Knight's mother, who said her boy had found it, and as he believed it had been stolen, he detained it. Mr. Tyrwhitt said he had done quite right. A constable said that Knight's mother afterwards went to the prosecutor and told him all about it. Knight said he had it from M'Grath. M'Grath said that Knight told him to take the chain, and that his (Knight's) mother would sell it, and give him money to go to the play, Mr.Tyrwhitt said he would remand the boys—the eldes of whom is not more than ten—for a week. THE PRICE OF GOLD. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1} per mile prem., and the short exchange on London is 25.271 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 3-10ths per cent dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 104 i to 105 per cent., which, when compared with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the exchange is against England. But, after making allowance for loss of interest and charges of transport, the present rate leayee U 9 profit 911 sending geld t 9 the TJuited Staten. Miss Coutts Miss Swift Six ran. THE FLYING DUTCHMAN'S HANDICAP. Wildman Ten ran. LATEST BETTING. THE DERBY. 4to 1 aget Diophantus (offered) 9to 2 agst Dundee (offered) Bto 1 agst Klarikoff (taken) 12 to 1 agst Dictator (taken) 12 to 1 agst Kildonan (taken) 25 to 1 agst King of Kent (taken) 45 to 1 agst Neighbour (taken) Offers to bet 1,000 even on Lord Stamford's lot against Mr. Merry's. Manche stc , 22 Harpenden 24 Epsom Odiham 25 Newcastle 25 Bibury Club 26 Stockbridge 27 Winchester 2B Nottingham 16 Stamford lB Southampton 23 Hartlepool 29 Goodwood 30 Radcliffe l9 I Egham 20 Oxford 22 York 28 Plymouth 29 ,MIS tat. Richmond 24 Leisest®r 25 Walsall Monm.outh 26 Manchester Autumn 27 IBER: 1 Newmarket H 2B [BER. Shrewsbury Autumn....l9 MPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS-(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER did not take the chair until some time after 12 o'clock, in consequence of there not being a suffi cient number of members present to constitute " a house." The following bills were read a third time and passed The Alton, Alresford, and Winchester Railway Bill, and Rhyl Bridge Bill. The following bills were considered, and ordered to be read a third time :—Cockermouth, Keswick, and Penrith Railway; Henley in Arden Railway; Southampton and Netley Railway; and West Cheshire Railways. BRTIISH POSSESSIONS. Railways. Paid. Closing Price. 65 68 95 96 41 5} d 6 7 75 80 65 70 65 70 5 5} Atlantic .1z St Lawrence Bom.,Barodadt.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent.. Do, Do. 13 Buffalo and L axe Huron Do. New Do. Preference Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1,187 A Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Lim; Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) Cape Town & Dock Scrip Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c. Demerara Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p c East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. Do. F Shares Ext.. Do. Jubbulpore 4i p c. Debentrs 5 p. c. Deb., 1864 1865 1870 rand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. Do. 2d Pref. 6 per et.. Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. Do. do. 1867.. Do. do. 1872.. Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.e. Do. New gua. 5 p. c... Gt. South.of India (Lim' guaranteed 5 per cent. iDo. do. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 d 0... Do. 54 p. c. do. '7B d 0... Aladras, guar., 4 p. a... Do. do. 5 per cent..... Do. 41 p. c. Extension Do. 5 Melb.Corp. 6 p. a Bnds. Newßrunswick (IL Canda Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land do Do. do. B Capital d 0... Do. do. Land do. Oude (Limited) Scinde ...• • • c i-ms Do. Punjaub Do. Do. ........ c.? Do. Indus. St. Flo. g t g Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. FOREIGN Algerian Antwerp & Rotterdam. , Ardenne5........... Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. Belzian East. Junction Beziers to uraissessaa.. Carmeaux Mine & Rail Copiapo Ditto Extension .... Dutch Rhenish ........ Eastern of France .... Grand Rus Guar. 6 p. c. Do. do. I Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. ells— Italian Junction Lierre & Turnhout Lyons & Geneva Namur & Liege Do. 6 p. c. Pret Northern of France Do. New Shares Norwegian Trunk Pref Paris,Lyons, & Mediter Paris & Orleans.. • • Recife & S. Fran. (Pero.) g - ua. 7 p. ct. Riga & Dunaburg.. • • • • Royal Danish • • • • Royal Swedish .....• • • Do. 7 per cent. Pref Sambre & Meuse Do. 5i per cent. Pref San Paulo, lim, g. 7 p. c .2.Aust&Lomb Venetin Southern of France S. East Portugal 7 p et West Flandern ...... Do. 54p. c. Preference W. & N.W. of France West'rn of Austria est,;rn of Switzerland Wiesbaden Po. 8 per cent Pref.... !Zealand .. . . Alfred Consols (Philack) British Iron Clifford Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon ..... E. WI Russel (Tavistk.) Gam.diSt.Aubyn(Gwen.) Great South Tolg - us G.Wheal Alfa. (Philack) G. Wheal Vor (Helston) Grenville Herod's-Foot Hingsbon Downs 'Lady Bertha Margaret (lJny Lelant) North Downs North Frances (Illogan) N. WWI Basset (Illogan) North Wheal Crofty I Par Consols (St. Blazey), Providence (Uny Lelnt.) ,Sortridze Cons. Min. Co. South Caradon(St.Cleer) S. Carn Brea (Illogan) S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) ,Stray Park ,Tamar Silv.ds Lead Min Tin Croft Vale of Towey (Carm ) West Basset (Illogan) W. Caradon (Liskeard) West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan), Wheal Buller (Redruth) , Wheal Edward (Cals.) Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant), Wheal Mary Ann (Men.)' Wheal Trefaivney (Lis„)' FOREIGN MINES. 3.2.101 ?,1 21 1 E 175 185 340 350 976 1026 23 2* 6 65 15 17 4 5 7.4.0 17i 13.9.6 40 6.2.6 8.12 4.11.6 , 1.10.61 51i 6 . 21 38 40 2 24 n If 52 05 4 4% 4% 41 4f 51 7% 8% 9 94 9 21 11,E 1.4.0 9.18.9 lk 10.6.7 40 42 1 4 al 18.1.5 24.8.0 4 1 295 305 2 3 -} - 1 130 135 35 37 51 5/ 11 2 174 184 67 69 335 345 13; ed 95 100 105 115 It 2 94 104 1.7.2 14 134 14i 20 Australian 1 IBonAccord Copper,Llm 17.6 d 20 IBrazil St.J.del Rey,Lim 15 326 834 336 5 Do. Land and MmingCo. all 4 11 1 Clarendon Cons.MinCo. ; di s. 40 Cobre Copper all 39 41 394 Copiapo , 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co ail 2 Fortuna. all 24 24 20 General all 24 26 2 'Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr 1 4 11 ) 14 Kapunda (Limited) 1 16 14 p 8 ;Linares 28721 5 51 s ' ll3 L prusioc u omanonr s riiti i tttnt t goeip a iuln u bhhi i an , all 86 9 2 fd fp 1 N.Rhin e g : ai CailAuiae Mexican dssi o ct f i ar E vinm . en A : .r . u ,l( Lt. L s e.. L . ?a... e 2 : R it a° . 6 dllls l i 3 4 l 514 fi d i 54 1 Worthing (Limited) all Do • JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 100 Agra&UnitedService Bk 60 81 83 40 Australasia I all 61 62 25 Bank of Egypt all 18 19 100 Bank of London 20 Bank of Turkey 50 British North American all _ _ 20 Chtd.Bank of India, &c. all 204 21 25 Chiller. of In. Lon.& Ch. all 100 City ... 50 72 74 100 Colonial .. ..... 25 37 39 20'11 Com. Bank . of Canada... all 100 Commercial of London. 20 20 Eng.. Scot., & Aus. Ch.. all 154 164 20 Gen. Bk .of Switzerland all 20 Lon. Char.Bltof Austral all 23 236 236 20 Do. new 5 14 1; • 50 !London and County 20 35 36 50 London Joint Stock 10 314 20 London and S.African lO 2 1 4 100 'Londen & Westminster 20 65 67 100 Nat. Prov. of England . 42 20 'Do. new . ... 50 National 13ank ...... 25 20 New South Wales all 25 Orient. B. Corporation 20 ' Ottoman Bank .. . 100 Provincial of Ireland 10 Do. new 25 South Australia .. all 25 Union of Australia I all 38 40 50 lUnion o! London . . l2 25 26 100 Unity Mutual 6O COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. Vulyl 1877-9 lOO 111 114 111 Do 6p. cent.lBBo-2 100 - - Do. 6p. cent.lBB3-4 100 - - Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 :09 111 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 109 111 Do. 5 per cent lOO 1016 1024 Cape G. Hope, 6 p c.lBBO 100 1056 1064 Do. 1890 100 1056 1064 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 1076 1084 Do. Bp. c.Apa& Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. sp. c., 1868 100 99 100 Do. sp. c.,1871 to 1876' 100 99 100 Do. p.c., 1888 & upwds 100 98 99 98 1 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 lOO 1074 1084 S. Ans.aars 1478.& un inn - uov. 6 p.c. uly 100 - - Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct l 100 1054 106 1056 DOCKS. stock (Commercial stock I Do. 4 per Cent.PretDrin. stock East and West India .. stock iLondor stock St. Katharine. stock Southampton stock :Victoria 20 :Do New . MISCELLANEOUS. 100 100 115 117 100 49 50 100 56 58 100 -- 100 96 98 2 id par Anglo-Mexican Mint Atlantic R. Ml. Stm (14, Atlantic Tel. (Limited) Australian Agricultural Berlin Water (Limited) British American Land B.&l.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim.) Do. 8,7p.c.ti111852 (Lim.) Do. C. (Limited) Canada Land Chan.lslands Tel. (Lira Cop. Min.ofEng.&Smltg Do. Pref. 7 per cent Crystal Palace Do. Preference Do. 6 p ct. Perpet. Deb. E.lndi4 Irrig - n. & Canal Electric Telegraph Do. New English & Aus. Copper. Gen. Steam Navigati m 'Great Ship 1 ,Imited) 'Do. 174 p et Preference LQn. District TeL L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) ,Madras lrr. and Canal Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim ) National Dis. Co. (Lim ) Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim ) Netherlands Land Do.B p.c.Pref..iss.atl dis N.lir.& NovaScotiaLand N.ri.Australasian (Lim.) Oriental Gas (Limited). Do. New Shares (Lim.). Orintl. In. Steam(Lim.) Pe e l ß.Lnd.&Min.(Lim) Pen. & Oriental Steams, Do. New Red Sea&ln.Tel.g.44.e Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam ..... Scot. Austin. Inv.(Lim.) South Australian Land !Submarine Tel. Scrip do Trust and Agency of. Au o. Registered U. K Co. 01 Upr.Can. * Idoin Tel. Co. (lim.l Van Ma llen I:l°.cisopt.rlasia (lim) It is. Tr LAO 14 15 30 32 4 4i 32 35 18 20 12 14 112 116 81 33 105 1( 7 106 108 fd j d 94 97 3* 3* 1i 1 21 1 31 li t d 1 Did i 1 6_ 10 -1 5 4 r 50 62 71 73 10 12 171 181 171 161 41 51 46 48 126 130 32 n 5 i 7 i i id 9 jp 10 11 1 d i 1 pr li 1d 99 100 974 984 99 100 99 100 19 a 65 68 55 60 36 38 44 47 36 39 36 39 96 87 1 cl f d 93 95 d 11 11i 9i 9}d v 6 100 88 02 84 86 944 054 87 69 5 7 5 7 Hi 09i lad 2 —d 92 94 AYS. 5i 54 2 114 I 11 12 3 3/ 1 2/ 221 23g 6f 6f 7/ 84 19 20 38i 394 8 9 36 37 53 55 41 4 d 13 14 51 6 81 4 i 14 14 / 4 4 22 23 6 61 1 9 1 20 21 ;titaness done 14) 100) 99) 35 97 i (100 15 all 100 18.8. all all all all all all all 15s, 8 100 all 100 all all all all 1 5 1 28i NEW TRIAL IN CRIMINAL CASES. Mr. BUTT rose to move the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to enable a review being taken of erroneous verdicts in criminal cases. In 1844, Sir F. Kelly, following the footsteps of an eminent legal autho rity, introduced a bill for the above purpose, but the con sideration of the bill was delayed until the year 1858, when he introduced the bill again, and its principles were affirmed by a considerable majority. It had been objected to by many to allow appeals from decisions of the Court of Queen's Bench in criminal trials, but in certain cases it had been found of great service. In cases of misdemeanour an appeal was allowed, but in felony there was no such right, and the reason why the distinction was allowed was, that felony incurred, in the event of a conviction, forfeiture of goods, so that a man charged with the more serious offence did not possess the privilege en joyed by him who was convicted of a lesser offence. By his bill he proposed to sweep away the distinction between felony and misdemeanour, and giving the man tried in the Court of Queen's Bench for felony the same right as that possessed by a man -con• victed of the lesser offence ; and he further proposed to extend the power of that court to bring criminal cases be fore them from other courts by a writ of certiorari. In several instances the opinion of the judge went with the verdict of the jury, yet in many cases it had been proved that both judge and jury were wrong, and an innocent man had been in many instances convicted of an offence he bad never committed. He did not think a more glaring want of the bill he at present had the honour of moving the second reading existed than in the case of Mr. Barber, the attorney, !whose case was familiar to the house, from the fact that they had granted him compensation. Then, again, he would instance the ase of the Earl of Dundonald, the noble earl exerted him self to obtain a new trial, but was pertectly unable to do so. If he had succeeded, he would not have gone down to the grave with the sting of his trial rankling in his breast. It was true the ultimate result was the triumph of the noble and gallant earl over the aspersion of his enemies ; but if the bill now before them had been law at the time, much of the suffering of so gallant a man would have been prevented. Dr. Smethurst's case proved the necessity of the bill, and referring to trials still more recent—that of Mr. Kirwan, in Ireland, ,and Mr. Hatch, in We stminster Hall— showed the great , necessity there was for the passing of the bill. The bon gentlemen then proceeded to point out several cases which had occurred in Ireland showing the necessity of his measure, and instanced a case of a man convicted of murder. Before sentence was passed he was asked in the usual form why he should not suffer the penalty of the law. If he had said the witnesses had sworn falsely against him, he was told that was no answer in point of law. If he said to the judge you have ruled a point of law wrong; that was no answer in point of law ; but if he said the clerk had committed an error in drawing up the indictment, and it turned out to be one of the most trivial nature, then he hild sufficient to arrest the passing of the sentence. He knew he shoull be asked if he proposed to give appeals in acquittals as well as convictions, but as he did not do so in this bill, he felt there would be some objection, and he trusted the House would read the bill a second time. Sir. G. C. LEWIS said this was another instance of Wednesday inflictions. Last session the House had in a very marked way rejected a bill, which was precisely similar in its enactments. He did not think that anything had occurred since that time to show that the bill was re quired. Did the hon. gentleman think it was a common occurrence for the innocent man to be found guilty in this country ? (Hear, hear, from Mr. Butt.) If the hou. gen tleman meant by his cheer to infer that it was so, he (Sir G. Lewis) felt a strong conviction, in which he was sup ported by the learned judges of the land, that such a cir cumstance was of very rare occurrence. He thought the bill would be a mockery to man in prison in saying to him you can appeal against your sentence, because it would be entirely useless to give the privilege without you made some provision for the pay ment of the costs. He did not think the case of Dr. Smethurst afferded the slightest argument in favour of this bill, which sought to enact that appeals be given to certain criminal cases. The real ground of uncertainty in Dr. Smethurst's case was the fallibility of the scientific evidence. Then, again, Mr. Hatch's case did not afford the hon. gentleman any stronger argument in his favour. [LEFT SPEAKING.] THE WEATHEE. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. This Day, Letween 8 and B. E. M. D. F. C. L S. 9 a.m. Nairn 3012 55 52 I S.W. 5 9 c. 4 Aberdeen 30 . 25 49 48 S.W. 1 5 c. 1 Leith 3012 57 53 W. 3 8 0. 2 Berwick 3030 53 s') W. 3 4 c. 1 Ardros san Portru sh 30'36 56 55 W. S. W. 3 3 b. 3 Shields Galway 3O 44 00 59 W. 1 9 0. 1 Scarborough 30'38 53 51 W.S.W. 2 1 b. 3 Liverpool 3014 50 49 S. 1 5 f. 1 Valentia Queenstown 30'42 58 57 S.S.W. 1 5 o. 1 Yarmouth 3OlO 53 52 1 b. 2 London 3038 56 53 N.W. 1 3 b. Dover 3 0 .38 58 56 S.W. 1 2 b. 1 Portsmouth 3 0 .38 56 53 N.W. 3 6 0. 1 Portland Plymouth . Penzance 3015 55 54 S.W. 1 9 0. 2 Jersey EXPLANATION.-B. Barometer, corrected and reduced to 32 deg at mean sea level; each 10 feet of vertical rise causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10 dog above 32 deg causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E. Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true — not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud (1 to 9). I. Initials :—b,, blue sky ; c., clouds (detached) ; f., fog. ' -h., hail ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0., overcast ; r., rain ; a., snow ; t., thunder. A letter repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb ance (I to 9). THE BOLTON STRIKE.—The self-actor minders at Bolton continue out, as well as some few of the "strippers and grinders." The whole of the other hands have all got to their work. The interview between the self-actor masters and their hands has not resulted, as was anticipated, in any arrangement being 001210 to so as to QAAJ?I9 t 9 WNW) wprkt UST. AUG SEPT. OCTO NOVE: FROM TEE G_IZETTE or LAST XICHT. DOWNING STREET, MAY 14. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Josias Charles Rivers, Esq., to be Clerk of the Executive Council of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope; and Gerard Oudkerk, Esq., to be book-keeper for the colony of British Guiana. _ _ FOREIGN OFFICE, MAY 11. The Queen h as b een pleased to approve of M. Guiseppe de Martino as Consul -General at Gibraltar for his Majesty the King of Italy. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 14. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Juan Maura as Consul at Nassau, New Providence, for her Majesty the Queen of Spai n . The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Jam& King as Consul at Cape Town for his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz. WAR-OFFICE, May 14. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Thomas Francis Wade, Esquire, Chinese Secretary and Translator to the British Legation in China, who acted as Secretary to the Earl of Elgin's Embassy, and of Henry Brougham Loch, Esquire, who was attached to that embassy in the capacity of private secretary to the Earl of Elgin, to be ordinary member s of the civil division of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. BANKRUPTCTES ANNULLED. Joseph Richardson, upholsterer, Pimlico. Henry Owen and George Uglow, hosiers, Wood-street, City. BANKRUPTS. John Bernard Behrends and William Austin Nichols, merchants, City, to surrender, May 25 and June 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. James Mannion, leather dealer, Liverpool, May 27 and June 24, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Edward Harding, draper, Liverpool, May 27 and June 14, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Richard Forshaw, machine manufacturer, Liverpool, May 24 and June 13, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. John Anderton, stonemason, Liverpool, May 27, at twelve, and June 13, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Robert Foster, engineer, Tranmere, Cheshire, May 27 and June 14, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. John ;Greenwood, stone dealer, Sheffield, May 25 and June 22, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. John Rees, builder, Swansea, May 27 and June 25, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. John Dalley, innkeeper, Starcross, Devonshire, May 30 and June 26, at twelve, at the Exeter District Court. Abraham Cohen, wine merchant, Minories, May 22, at two, and June 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Phillip Turner Miller, linen draper, Aylesbury, May 28 and July 2, at two, at the Court of Fiankruptcy, - Joseph Thompson, yarn and worsted spinner, Waketie*, May 24 and June 14, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Samuel Sheard, currier, High Town, Yorkshire, May 24 and June 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. John Mitchell, wine and spirit merchant, Edinburgh. Goldsmith and Co., watchmakers, Aberdeen. COURSE OP EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY. Arn,sterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 191 12 0 Antwerp .. 25 50 25 55 Brussels — 25 50 25 671 flamburgh Paris Ditto Nlarseilles — 25 571 25 65 Frankfort on Maine — _ 1181 118 k 4 51 Vienna 14 16 Frieste 14 10 14 50 Petersburgh Berlin vladrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa 25 I tO 25 621 25 621 25 '75 25 67} 25 _97f Naples • Palermo Messina Lisbon `)porto Rao Janeiro Vow York 39i 1171 1171 5,4 391 117/ 117/ V'oreig,n Gold in Bars (Standard)....per oz. Z 3 17 9 qexican Dollars -4 fiver in Bars (Standard) „ 0 0 0 South American Doublons „ 0 0 0 THIS pars MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. The fresh arrivals of English wheat in this morning's market were small. Good and fine samples changed hands readily, at very full prices to, in some instances is per quarter advance on last week's rates; but inferior kinds were a dull sale on former terms. In foreign wheat a fair retail business was transacted, and the quotations occasionally favoured sellers to the ex tent of is per quarter. Floating cargoes of grain were in moderate request, at very full prices. We have to report a moderate demand for barley at pre vious currencies. Malt was firm in value, but the inquiry for it was by no means active. Oats moved off steadily at extreme quotations. E Beans ruled firm ; but peas sold slowly at late rates. In the flour trade there is very little change to report. Generally speaking, there are no sellers except at full prices. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. Eng1i5h........ 280 r 50 1,760 240 Irish — I 750 11,215 1,501 , 11,155 1 803 sack 6,542 brie. WHITECHAPEt. The supplies of meat are moderately extensive, and the trade rules heavy, as follows : Beef from 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s Sd ; lamb, 5s 8d to 6s 861; veal, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; and pork, 4s Od to 5s 2d per 81bs. by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. Good and fine hops move off steadily, at full pticea, but other kinds are much neglected. COUNTRY HARKENS. NEWCASTLE-UNDER LYNE-MAY 13. At this corn market there was a very fair show of wheat. The trade was moderate, and prices were about is over the rates of last week—white making 64s to 70s red b6s to 665. The supply of barley was small, and not much changed in value. Oats were in steady request, with a firm sale, from 26s to 34s per 24 stone. Beans met with a ready sale, from 45s to 60s per qr. LEEDS-MAY 14. Our market to-day was fairly attended by millers, and the trade in wheat was of a more active character, at fully last week's rates. Beans, barley, oats, and other articles unaltered, SLEAFORD--MAy 13. The attendance was, moderate to-day, with a tolerable supply of wheat. Trade free, at rates unattainable the last week. White wheat ruled at 60s to 68s, red 54s to 62a per qr. Barley was in limited supply, at 37s to 43s ; oats in dull demand, at former prices, 22s to 30s; beans from 44s to Ns; peas, —ste —s. LYNN—MAY 14. There was a moderate attendance. The supply of wheat was an average one, with a slow business. Good sorts realised previous quotations; inferior hardly so dear. Bai ley in small sully, at the prices of last week. Oa t s were in fair demand. eans in short supply, and in some cases advanced Is. Peas firm. Old white 56s to 60s I Old red ..50s to 54s 8ar1ey...... 28s to 42s I Oats.. Beans .3Bs to 44s I Peas 48s to 54s NORWICH CATTLE. The show of store cattle to-day was large. Sales dull. At the close more than one-fourth remained unsold. Scots, 4s Od to 4s 6d ; shorthorns, 3s 6d to 4s ; Irish, 3. Od to 3s 6d ; Devons, 4s to 5s 6d (estimated weight when fat). Fat beasts a large show, and sales brisk, at 8s Od to 8s 6d psi. 1 illy. Sheep—There was a good supply of sheep in the pens. Fat sheep, 8s Od to 8s 6d per stone ; prime, 10s Od, Pigs—A fair supply. Store pigs, 18s to 25s ; fat pork, 7s 6d to 8s Od per stone. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, May 15.—Wind this day at noon, N. ; light breeze, and fine weather very mild. CARDIFF, May 13.—Wind E.—Sailed—Dolphin, for Havana; Huron, for Quebec. • SWANSEA, May 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Delamere, from Caldera. YARMOUTH ROADS, May 13.—Arrived—Sweet Home, from Shields, for Bilboa, with loss of foretopmast. PORTSMOUTH, May 14.—Wind N. W.—Arrived— H.M.S. Megmra, from Plymouth. Sailed—H.M.S. Icarus, for Sheerness. NEWPORT, May 14.—Arrived—Fanny Huntley, from London, for St. Jago de Cuba; Selah, from Bristol, for Boston. MUMBLES, May 14—Arrived—Hampshire, from St. Jago de Cuba. _ SLIGO, May 7.--Arrived—Marengo, from New York. SUNDERLAND, May 13.—Sailed—Massaniello, for Madras. SHIELDS, May 14.—Wind S.S.E.—Sailed—Cal ed°llig ' for Callao. OFF QUEENSTOWN, May IC—Arrived—goulda ne, (80, from A.kyab ; Wilton Wood, from Buenos 41-Yres• (BY ELECTRIC Tinzarts24l.) ... , from Dublin, and left for SOUTHAMPTON Wednesday morning, Arrived—Mary, from London' North Star, Brackley, Eclipse, Uziella, Amelia, and Queen ctoria, from N ew . port; .ady Eglington, steamer, London; L'Etoile, from Carentan; Henderson and George Thomas, from• Cat diff. Sailed—Hercules, for Hull. The New York steamer, which sail s 4 ., - , York, takes slit £13,500 specie. to -day for New (Bir sysmA nlNE G A ß N A D VE M S A E O N N D E:r w lc ed T n t e L s E d o ay itA isi r o x rnin .) g. May 14—Arabia, f rom Colombo; George Kidd, fro t ri Al v a ed u;itius ; Blue Jacket, from Terceira ; Leon Ray m ond,. from St. Michaers; Porcon, from Calingapatam. Arrived, May 15—Eleanor, from Table Bay; Taunton, packet, from Guernsey ; Helen, from Demerara ; Wm. Brown, from M aur i t i us. Sailed—Ranger, steamer, for Cronstadt ; City of Ham burg, for Hamburg. Passed DEAL, Wednesday Morning. —Pioneer, from Cardiff, for Hamburg; St. Joseph, from Santander, for London ; Imperatrice Eugenie, for Port Natal; gwrgetwn, f9r liarbacl99l—b9th tr9tramPaido. CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS'. Yesterday, at a Court of the Commissioners of Sewers, held at Guildhall, Mr. Deputy Christie in the chair, Dr. Letheby, the medical officer f reported on the state of 203 houses that had been inspected during the week, and he submitted a list of 59 places for sanitary improvement. He likewise re ported that the officers had seized 1,6741 b. of meat as unfit for human food. Nearly the whole of thia was seized in Newgate-market by Mr. Fisher and Mr. Newman. 71510. of it were diseased, 3581 b. putrid, and 6011 b. from animals that had died from natural eauses. It consisted of 8 sheep, 1 calf, 1 pig, 16 quarters of beef, besides 17 pigeons, 5 widgeon, and 1 fowl. The mortality returns are still above the average for the season. Last week there were 54 deaths in the city, whereas the number for the corresponding period of the last five years is but 49. More than half of the deaths were among children of less than five years of age, and only seven were among old persons of 60 and upwards. The chief causes of death were as follows :—Phthisis, 9 ; pneumonia, 5 ; and bronchitis, 6. Among the zymo ftic class of diseases there were 13 deaths, viz,, 7 from m m swcahr°le7ifneg;ecr°,ug2hiro2mfrdonliphrhiletriirizeadnc;felvefrroml diarrhoea, S . • • Sixty-eight births were registered dur ing the week, of which number 35 were boys and 33 girls. Dr. Abraham moved that it be referred to the city solicitor to prosecute the persons con cerned in the sale o f the diseased and putrid me..t mentioned in the medical officer's report. Mr. Pear son, the city solicitor, submitted that if some little discretion were allowed him in this matter the com missioners would proceed gradually, as they were now doing, to put a stop to this traffic, and that it would increase the difficulties of conviction if they were to appear too frequently before the criminal tribunals. He believed that was also the opi nion of the judges before whom such cases had been tried, who, nevertheless, had commended the course which the commissioners had already adopted in all such transactions. Thereupon the motion of Dr. Abraham was agreed to in a modified form. Deputy Lott asked Mr. Haywood, the engineer, when the upper part of Cheapside would be open for traffic. The greater portion had been quickly and satisfactorily repaired, but the remainder had been a week in hand, and omnibuses from the northern enhurbe of London wore compelled to go through the narrow streets on the North of Cheap side and the Bank, delayed and obstructed at every turn by those gigantic nuisances, Chaplin's and Pickford's vans. (A laugh.) The engineer stated that the delay had been occasioned by the great fall of rain on Saturday which had caused a sink ing of the work, but he hoped the whole of Cheap side would be open to-morrow (this day). The Court, after the transaction of some routine busi ness, adjourned. DBSTRUCTION OF GRIMBLII AND CO.'S VINEGAR WORKS. Between one and two o'clock yesterday morning -a fire broke out at Messrs. Grimble's steam vinegar works, in Cumberland-market, Regent's Park. The plant occupied a large space of ground, and com prised warehouses, stores for grain, houses for vats, a spacious brewery, and the machinery depots, the whole running in one direction behind nine houses, and only terminating at Augustus-street. A fire raging so furiously amongst so many buildings, it is hardly necessary to say, caused the utmost excite ment amongst the neighbours, and several painful scenes were witnessed of per i sons rushing wildly into the street in their night clothes, bringing with them their children, A plentiful supply of water was procured, and the hand engines were placed in the most command ing positions, and at once set into full operation. The water, however, thrown upon the flames ap peared to make scarcely any impression, and the spacious range of warehouses, the 17 vat-houses, and the store-rooms, presented one broad sheet of fire, which kept lapping over the backs of some eight or nine other houses in the market, as well as threatening several more in Augustus street. The official report of Mr. Braidwood states " That the warehouses of Messrs. Grimble and Go., in Cumberland-market, the store-rooms, and 17 vats, are nearly destroyed ; the offices, the brew houses, and machinery are seriously damaged by fire, and the back of house scorched and glass broken. The contents and buildings were insured in the Sun Fire-office. The fire was extinguished by firemen, with engines of the brigade." Eight other houses were partially damaged. The Earl and Countess of Harewood and family come to town to-day from Hareword House, Yorkshire, for the season. Reports were in circulation yesterday in the City of the probability of another Indian loan, but they are be lieved to be to a certain extent premature. It is thought that, in consequence of the disturbance to the revenue from the famine, the Government may require between this date and the sth of April, 1862, about £4,000,000, and Sir Charles Wood is therefore expected before the session closes to take a vote authorising that amount. The negotiation of the loan, supposing it to be needed, will most likely not take place until toward the end of the present year. All the other arrangements connected with Indian finance will, of course, depend upon the success which the various rail ways may experience in supplying their respective wants. An extraordinary case of conspiracy to defraud by means of a suppositious death came before the magis trates at the Dublin police-office on Monday. A Mrs. Maria Higgins was entitled to a life annuity, payable out of the Court of Chancery, with power to dispose by will of the fund in court. In 1858 the husband of this woman produced a certificate of her death and of her burial in Glasnevin Cemetery, and also a will, purporting to be made by her, and in virtue of it a sum of £5OO was drawn out of the court. Recently the fraud was discovered, and the coffin, when examined, was found to contain only stones and rags. A young man named Deiereux was implicated in the fraud. The case was remanded till Friday. SHOCKING CASE OF CHILD MURDER DISCOVERED IN DEAN'S-YARD, WESTMINSTER.—OnMonday an inquest, adjourned from Friday last, was resumed and concluded before Mr. St. Clair Bedford and a respectable jury, at the Westminster Hospital, on view of the_body of a newly-boi n infant, a female, which was found near to Dean's-yard, Westminster. It appeared from the evidence that on Tuesday last, as a youth named Lead was passing a pas sage leading into College-street from Dean's-yard, he saw a basket, and spoke to the porter ab out it. On its b e i ng child.op ene d hwas body found was t t o removed contain the o thedea d body of a female Westminster Hos pital, where, on its being seen by Mr. Charles Costello, he found a piece of tape which had been used for a stay lace tied tightly round its throat. It was then handed over to Mr. W. B. Slater, the house surgeon, for a post-mortem examination. Mr. Slater said that in his opinion the de ceased had been alive above 24 hours. He found great congestion of the brain, and there were bruises on the face and head. There was a deep indentation on the.: throat caused by a ligature being tied tightly round it. The lungs floated in water, and were fully inflated. lie attributed death to the ligature. Police-constable Grant, 32 B, said that he and Constable Powley, 228 B, had may every pos sible inquiry in order to discover who placed the body where it was found, but without success. Verdict—Wil ful murder against some person or persons unknown. THE ASHTON STRIKE.—The coal miners at the extensive colliery at Limehurat, near Ashton-under-Lyne, held a general meeting in the large room of the Welling tnn Inn, Oldham-road, on Monday, when the differences existing between the masters and men were fully discussed. With reference to the penny in the shilling reduction, about which the men turned out last week, ,the employer: have agreed not to enforce it, What the workm e n met about was principally in reference to the stoppage of six pence from some of the colliers employed in a different mine to theirs. It was ultimate sn ly : and all seems now to be satisfactory. _ con Wednesday from this thisopseorotfwitha cargo or agreedhship Majesty, a j resumees tJosephy. work,Fishie AMERICAN SHIPS AT CARDIFY last, Captain Rowl_and t , s o ail f in th g e i s apprehensive, as the ship is an asking applied at our police court for tb . l per mission to take the oath of allegt i s but has been naturalised in ord ßritain, anc e is a native of Barnstaple ' America. He is awn be captured. As he felt desirous American, that . • 0 . der British colours, he also wished to transfer Bai lin ° nu to the Crown of Great his allegianceinformed him that he must have • cohfaretesadforasCaubia:mr.ibatuyisth one, in accordance with The th m e apro visions trates his ship duly of the Merchant Shipping Act, if he wished tci secure t h e protection of th e B r i tish flag. The oaptain thanked e the Magistrates, and left the court somewhat perplexed as adopt to secure th to the best cour se h e could a e speedy de parture of his ship. The A • merman shipowners and masters who are now in • this port are placed in a similar painful situation. Some of them are determined to hoist British colours on their passage outwards, whilst others declare they will lose every stick rather than lower the American flag. We fear that this town and neighbourhood will for some time to come be serious sufferers by the war that has just broken out.—Star of Gwent. A YOUTH ACCIDENTALLY SHOT.—On Saturday evening, a melancholy fatality occurred to William Ryland, 15 years old, who lived with his widowed mother in York street, Cheetham. The deceased and Charles Wilcock, w ho was about the same age, were firing with pistol and ball at a target which they had formed against the wall in. Mrs . Ryland's cellar. Whilst the deceased was passing f ro m the target to the place from which they had been shooting, a distance of about six yards, Wileock, in prepar ing for the next shot, accidentally pulled the trigger of the pistol, and the shot entered the left temple of deceased, passing completely through his head, and causing imme diate death. An inquest was held, on Monday, before Mr. lierford, the city coroner, when the jury returqed a Ter i diet of "Accidental death." UE. vley, I the nce. iusi nu. Share) 100 stk 18 20i 204 10 100 100 100 178 20 stock 100 - 100 100 stock stock stock stock stock stock 1000