The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-20 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocK. In consequence of the expectation that the directors of the Bank of England will speedily reduce the rate of discount, the money market has become exceedingly quiet, although accammodation can be obtained as low as 71 per cent. The com- Mercial public are aware that a movement on the part of the authorities would probably cause a fur ther important relaxation in the terms current in the open market, and therefore limit their imme diate discount operations as far as practicable. A further small amount of gold, viz., £B,OOO, Was sent into the the Bank of England yesterday. The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon ex hibited a slight decline in the rates on Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Paris, but Vienna and Trieste were rather higher. Gold is now about sixth-tenths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris, and seven-tenths higher than in Hamburg. _ _ _ Business in the Liverpool Cotton Market yes terday was not quite so active, but there was still a fair demand at very full prices. The sales were 12,000 bales. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Massilia, which sails from Southampton to day, takes out in sovereigns £2,790, bar silver £45,520, dollars £60,081, gold coin £15,797, and jewels, gold thread, &c., £5,695. A meeting was held of the New Granadian Bondholders to consider the proposal for the ar rangement of the debt. The Borussia, which sailed to-day for New York, took £lO,OOO in specie from England and £9,750 from Havre; and the New York also left with 120,000 dole. in specie from Bremen and 350,000 f. from Havre. ,_ The market for Public Securities to-day has pre sented a very inactive appearance, the transactions cu speculative account as well as for investment having been unusually restricted. This extreme quietude is partly attributable to an unwillingness Oa the part of the operators to extend their engage tents until further advices are received from America. The quotations, however, are steadily Maintained, although a little heaviness is occa- Bweally exhibited. Consols are 911 92 for trans fer, and 92k for the 10th pros. India Stock has advanced to 222 ; ditto 5 per Cent. Loan remains at look I ; ditto New Scrip is flat, at 1001 ; ditto 5 Per Cent. Enfaced Paper, at 93/; Exchequer Bills, lid. per diem, are Bs. die. ; ditto, 2d. per diem, ls. to 4 8 . prem. About an average amount of business has been recorded in the Foreign Stock Market, and prices Are well supported. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 75 to 75 ; ; ditto, 1858, 541 to 554 ; Spanish have im proved to 49 ; Passive to 18 ; Dutch 4 per Cents. to 1001 ; Chilian 6 per Cents. to 103 ; and ditto 48 per Cents. to 821- ; Mexican are firm at 24k I; and Portuguese remain at 461. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been on a very moderate scale, and several of the principal undertakings have undergone further alight depression. Eastern Counties, Great Nor thern, and North-Western have receded ss. ; and Bristol and Exeter, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 10s. London and Blackwell, Midlands, and South Eastern have advanced ss. The Foreign lines have continued very quiet. South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian have de clined to 12x; Antwerp and Rotterdam realised 51; and Great Luxembourg, 71. For the Colonial undertakings there has been a 'very limited inquiry. Grand Trunk of Canada have improved 55., and East Indian and Great Indian Peninsula have declined ss. Joint Stock Bank and miscellaneous shares con tinue dull. Bank of Australasia, however, has improved £1; Ottoman Bank declined ss. ; and Red Sea Telegraph, ss. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities India Stock. .. ...... ...... •. . Dftto 5 per Cent 1001 / Ditto ficnp .. 1001 Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto 51 per Cent tatto Debentures 1858 951 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO 25 die Caudal for Acc0unt.......... lid. I 2d. Exchequer Bills, £ l , OOO 8 d 41 pm q; FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK Chilian 6 per Cent lO3 .„, Ditto 41 per Cent, zquador New Consolidatedl2l Mexican 8 per Cent Ditto Aecc '3 7 rant ............. New G rena d a Active, 1 per Cent. Ditto Deferred .................. Portuguese 3 per Cent. , 1853. Ditto Account ............... . Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St .. et Ditto 3 per Cent, 1859 .. .. 61 Spanish 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto Passive sr Turkish 6 per Cent • • -- Ditto Account st Dividends on the above payable in London. st Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 2 1 per Cent — st Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent. lOO/ st TWO O'CLOCK. ,ili Consols, Money 9l/ 92 Ditto Account .... 92k 1 el .1 COURSII OF EXCIIANGE.—YEsTimps./ . Amsterdam Ditto 3 Months. 12 1 12 1t Rotterdam — 12 1 12 11 .Aaatvirerp Brussels — 25 621 25 70 Ramturgh Faris Ditto 3 Months. 25 67} 25 7 5 M ex seilies Frankfort on Maine —118 f Vienna 15 35 15 45 Trieste - 33a 33i Petersburgh Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo 48 48 25 95 25 90 25 85 48t 481 26 6 25 95 25 92i 391. 117} 117 i 5231 117 117 .o2i 52! Messina Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro New York — • • • • Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard).... per oz. £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) „ 0 0 0 South American Doublons ++ o 0 0 THE WEATHER. IdETEOBOLOGiCAL REPORTS. This Day, between 8 and B. E. M. D. F. C. LS. 9 a.m. -- ___ N a i rn 2911 43 41 S. 5 6 C. 3 Aberdeen Berwick 2914 42 39 Shi e lds Galway... ... Searborough o. 2 Liverpool Queenstown 29'56 48 47 W. 5 40. 3 Yarmouth 2966 40 39 W.N.W. 6 6 c. 4 London 29.68 42 40 W.N.W. 4 9 o. Dover 2:9 69 4 4 3 43 W.N.W. : 3 6 c o . . 3 Portsmonth Portland ..... 29/6 48 43 S.W. 2 90. 3 Plymouth , 29'77 46 44 W. 5 70. 4 Penzance .• .. 29132 46 45 W. 2 70. 2 Jer5ey........ 29'88 47 45 W.S.W. 3 5 0. , 3 • ExpLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced to 32 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise causing about 1-100th of au inch diminution, and each 10 deg 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. • IL, ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0. , overcast ' (dull) ; r. , ra in ; s., snow ; t., thunder. A letter repeated augments—thus, r.r., mush rain. S. Sea disturb ance (1 to 9). 'WIND AND WEATHER R Ardrossan S.W. ; wet Bradford, ' W. • fin e Bi rm i ng ham, W. ; dull Boston, S.W. ; very fine Brighton, N.W. ; dull Bristol, E. ; rain Cardiff, N.W. ; fine Chatham, N.W. ; fine Darlington S.W. ; fine Deal, N.V. ;_ Min Doncaster, W. ; fine Dublin, S.W. ; rain Dumfries, W. ; dull Dundee, N.W. ; dull Pidinburgh, W. • dull, cold Falmouth, N.W. ; unsettled Glasgow, wet Goole, S. ; fine Gravesend, N.W. ; fine CONTINENTAL STA.' Barcelona, W. ; clear Brussels, s S E rainra in Cherbourg, Copenhagen, S.S.E. ; fine Dunkirk, S.W.; rain Havre, W. • cloudy Leipsic, S.E. clear Leghorn, wa'sr - w r ; rain Xone, S. ; ra h; drid, N.B. ; fine .SPORT, THIS DIY, 9 A.M. Greenock, S.; r a i n Harrogate, W.; fine Holyhead, W.S.W. • rain Hull, W. ; fine Inverness, S.E. ; fi ne Leeds, N.W.; line Leith, S.W. ; dull Lowestoft, S.W.; fine, fresh Milford Haven, S.W.; rain Newcastleoa Tyne, NM.; cloudy Perth, S. ; fine Sheffield, S.S.W. ; fine Stockton on Tees, S.E. ; fine s ll 2.derland, S.E.; fine W e st Hartlepool, S,W.; fine White.,a,on' S.W.; rain clo Wolvertoni Wr.;cloudy .TIONS, MARCH lg. Marseilles, N.W. ; fine Montpellier, W.; foggy M o scow, E.; cloudy Paris, W.S.W. ; cloudy St. Petersburg, S.E.; foggy Strasbourg, S.S.E. ; cloudy Stockholm, S.E. ; cloudy Toulon, N.W. ; clear Turin, W. ; clear Vienna, W.N.W,; clady [Wee Vic• sod st o pted : ae s for State, oern . it, and EL. C. B. A NTI, vzo." •ed i° 1,22 6, Le ea' lan 10 singe' fro l 185 1 ' 1,421; ek are ,the Of .cough he last ed be• rae 80, a who iildre ll ng fir .. . i e. stew ,5 was al. A Three I girls , ondoo . 851-6° I A dosa% r. s oluti on he thir divige o ht 1 1 ° ° ' Forviraruf lid ther e d recta l ' 3ing ne 03' - 6.111.4 RE AfA.REET.-(THIS DAL) ORDINARY SEIA.AtS AND STOCKS. Share: Railways. Paid. Closing Business Price. Done. 5u Belfast and Ballymena 13.14 Bir., Wol , and Str. Val. itock Birk., La., and Ch June 25 Blyth and Tyne 10 Bost. Sleaf. and Mid.Co .took Aristol and Exeter Itock Caledonian 10 Carmarthen & Cardiganl all all 100 !Cork and Bandon. eork, I flrock., .t Passage 10 Cornwall.. Do A (A gets no div. 10 Do 1 until p, peran. B hasbeen • d. toB 10 Dublin & Belfast. June. 5 Dun., Perth, kAb..lunc. Ick East Anglian Ick Eastern Counties )ck Eastern Union, AStock '.sic Do do B do M Do Nw A, late EU3ds wk East Suffolk >ck Edinburgh di Glasgow mk Edin. Perth, di Dundee LO Forth di Clyde Junction )ck Furness ... , (3-1a72 . 7. and S. Western [0 Great Ntlln. of Scotland )ck Great Northern ock —Do do A stock , ock Do do B do ock Gt. S. & W. of Ireland 'ock Great Western ... .. ock Do Str Val gua. stock 12 Irish South-eastern ock Lancashire & Yorkshire ,ock London and Blackwall ,ock Lon., Bright.. & S Coast oek Lond., Chat., and Dover ock Lond. & Nth. Western ,ock Lond. & , th. Western 15 L'derry & Coleraine 15 & Enniszillen )Ck Man. Shef. & Lincoln iO Maryport and Carllsle L2i Do du shares tO Metropolitan ock Nfldland 4.0. Do new ock Do farming. & Derby 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland 25 _ Do 4 shares .?5 Mid Kent........ .•.- • • 10 Do, Cray Line Oo Newcastle and C 10 Newry & Arma,zh, def 20 Newry, Warnpt. & Kos ock Norfolk . . • ock North British. ock Tor.Dev.ltall&Dk.stoc` ock 11 - • stk ; A rees no d. until 6pch as beenpd. B ock Do B stock ......... Del , Nth. Eap.tern—Berwick 25 Do do , G.N.E. purchase ock no Leeds ock Do York ocs North London • ...... 10 Do new ,16A north Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction 12 Not. &Grantham Rail 10 reebles ...... •-.-. • • 20 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney....•- -• .• •• • • ock Scottish Central ock scot N. E., Aber. stock ock Do Scot. Mid. stock... ock Shropshire Uni0n...... 10 Sittingbourne & Sheer, ock South Devon .. 50 Ni 1111. Counties Union.. 5 S.-Durham & I ,anc Un. Ick South Eastern ........ ek south Wales .......... Ick S. York. and River Dun 0 Staines, Wok,. and Wok 5 Stockton & Darlington 5 Do do ,JDo New (1860) rok'lltff Vale ...... .- • • • • • • )ek Do Pref. No 1 15 ThameellavenDk*Rail l lllster , :5 Do ........... ..... )ck Vale of Neath .0 Victoria Sta. and Pim /Chi Waterford & Kilkenny, 10 Waterford & Limerick !O %Vest Cornwall !O West London i 0 Do Ist class :0 Do 2d class .. )ck Westßartlepool Harbr; and Rail )ek West Midland—Oxford' , )ek Do. • Newport, )ck Do. Hereford. all 100 100 100 100 100 100 16 13 4 100 100 100 5 17i all 8 8i 80 82 PREFERENCE SHARES. I Closing Business Lare, Railways. i Paid Price. Done. 25 tilythe and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issued at £5(. ctk kris. & Exet.4 p.et.stock ' 20 Do. do. do. Shares stock Caledon .£10,41 per cent ' stock Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. l 0 Cork & Bandon, 5} p. c. 20 ornwall, 5 per cent 61 Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun 14 !Do Ist Class Prof stock E.Angn.Class A 7 &sp.c stock Do. do. Class B 6 p.c stock Do. do. Class C 7 p.c stock E. Coun. Ex. sp. c. No.l stock Do. do. No. 2 stock Do. New 6 per et. stock. stock Eastern Union, 4 per et. stock , Do. 5 per cent. guar... stock Edin,&G las. sp.c. shares stock Do. 4p. c gua. S. & D., stock Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. stock Furness, 5 per cent ....I stock Glas.& S. - West.g.a. 5 p.c .I stock :Ores!: Northern, 5 p. et .I )ck i ro.sp.c.Redm., 10 p.e.prn Dck ' Do. 41 p. c. do. do. DO I Do. Inc.. Redm. 5 p.c. pm 10 Gt. Nh. of Scotld. let pr. ~ c Gt. Sn. & W (Ireland) ! I ) / p. ct. pref. stook SO C. rett West. (Berke and Rants) Ext. 5 p. ct Dek Co. Redeemable, 4- 1 p.et ock Do. Redeemable, 4p. ct. lek Do Irredeemable, do ,ek Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref. 8 Do. Birm. Pref. Shares. .0 tit. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.sh. .0 110. do. sp. ct. pref ick Do Birmg.guar. stock !64 `Do. Chester gua. shares L3i Do. do. do. 0 Do. do. do. 0 Lan. & Carl. 4; pc. pref ,ek Lan.&York 6p. c. stock tic Do.Barnsl.st£s3s 10d pe eir i Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) Eck I Lon. & Brig. 5 pc.gu. No 1 ck Do. 5 p. c No. 2 Eck Do. gua. 6 p. c. •ck Do. do. 5 p c. No. 4 )ck Do. do. 44 per cert 5 I Do. do. 44 p. c. shares ick i Do. 7 p. ct. Pref. stock )ck Do. Bp.c. do. (W.E.&C.P 1 I ck Do.4p.c. S . (di v .deftil '6,5) ,ck I Do. 4 per cent. Pref ,ek ,Lon. Chat. and Dover I Do.W. (A rceiv. no div. Ex.A tile p cis pd on 0 Do. B B. & Brom ex. 0 Do. Metropolitan Ex B Eck Lon. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, 5 p. ct ck I,on. & 5.W,7 p. ot. stock ck Do. 4/, per cent 6d. Do. (Prtsm. perpl anus. at 2s. 6d. ..... .... L2l Londondy. & Cole. sh L 2 Lon dony. & Ennis. i eh c Ilan. Sh. &Lin. 6 per et' 6 Do. £6 tookDO. 31 per cent Do. redeem. 6 per cent 10 Do. 121 ilqaryi , ort Az Car., 4 p. 12 3 D0.4i per cent. took Mid. Con. 6 p a stook 1 took Do.Con.Bris. k Bir, 6 p.a 1 took Do. 4i p. a pref. stock 1 6 Do. with option till 1860 lock Do. Leic. & Hit. prof. st. 1 lock INorflk sp. c. Ex. st. 1846 1 lock 'Do. 5i p. a Pref. do. 1847 1 ;took IDo.sWay.VaLEx.st.lB47 I stock North British, 5p.0. • I stock Do. New, gua P. I 10 ) Do. Bor. - Un. g. pf. she 10 I Do. do. do stock INth . Dey.Rail. &Dck.Co. stock N-East.Cons.Pref. 4r. c stock Do. 4i pe. redeemable.. stock , Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref.' 17 Do. do. do 20 Do. Leeds, 6p. e. No. 1 124 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 25 Do. York, . Porch. 20 North Staffordshire tO Rhymney Guaranteed. Si Scottish Central, new pt stock Scottish North-Eastern p. o. pref. stock stock Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c stock Do. 7p. o. pref. stool, 10s. South Devon, Ann. 10s. 10 Do. Fixed 4i per cent.l 1.0.6 South Eastern (Rading Ann., 1.0.6) .......... stock Do. 4i per cent., ~, .. stock Do. Fixed lip.c• lot is. stock south Wales, gua. 4 p.c. stock Do. 4i per cent.. stock Do. 5 per cent: stock S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. o gua I 25 Stock. it Dar. Asp. c 25 I Do. B 6 oer cent 25 Do. C 6 percent stock Watrf d di Kilkny, 6 p.c. stock ,W.Mid -Oxf lat Gua stic stock i Do. 2d do stock Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red. stock I Do.Perpet. 6 p.c. pt 1866 stock Do. till 1869, let is. 12i, Do. do. 2d is. 99 101 20 21 6 6} 99 101 108 113 105 108 108 110 106 108 121 123 80 82 131 14i 127 129 t , r 69 71 110 112 90 92 13 115 10 112 02 104 83 85 97 99 97 99 89 91 90 92 [OO 102 9,10 i 17 18 10} 101 74 76 20 21 10 104 15 154 [35 137 11 113 [ll 113 135 140 111 113 100 102 148 153 128 131 70 73 67 89 134 136 99 101 91 93 111 113 109 111 I lip 91 93 too 101 id ip d 22 2 3 100 100 100 all all 130 132 10 10; 221 23} 93 100 98 100 91 93 98 100 85 87 264 2V 314 32! 31i 3 . 2 45 48 123 125 118 121 98 100 1 121 124 1114 116 1001 stock 1 ...,o. ~.. --, _. _ ___, _ 12/ i Do. do. 2d is. I 71 I - - 1 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. " -----------7----- p oid. Leasing Closing filminess Railways. Railways. I ' - , Co.'s. Price. Done. ___,....„ Hetiford and Bfetch ley all Lft OZ N.NY • • , • Buckinghamshire .. .., 100 Ln & N.W 9 1 96 . I Chester & Holyhead. 100 Do. Do. do. 51 per cent. 100 , Do. l2l 123 Do. do. 5 par cent.i 100 IDo. 109 111 Clydesdale Junction.. 100 ,Caledonin 99 101 Colchester, Stour Val. all E.I.J.&R C 151 164 E. Lincol n shire,v. 6 p.c.' ICO ,Gt, North. 135 137 .E.Unton,Harwich She' al t ' R.Counts.' 4 41 Do. Woodbridge ... 100 I - Gla.Bart&Neils,Drct. 100 Ca,ledonin - - Do. New •• - - Gloster& Dean Foreet all Gt. West. - - Hartlpool.Dck.& Rail. all 'N'I.N.&BrI - - Hull and Selby .. • - all Yk.N. Md.'lo9 111 Do. i Shares ... ... . ' all Do. - Do. } Shares .... - - Lanc.& Carl. gua..s p.c., 100 Ln.&N.W 201 204 London & Greenwich ) 100 S. East. .. I 61 63 Do. Preference llOO Do. ..... . 112 117 Lon.,Tilby.& Soutend.l 100 .Peto & Co. 87 90 M r..e a f.e. t r k 1 1 11 all rl., NW ..... sit 3 4 Lowestoft, rut. 4 p.ct.i 100 Norfolk .. - - Do. 1 0 1: tDo. , . , - - 6 per cent M INI a e i d n n :er s a l t i dlo t k n r . d . . 4 : P . a ß ds u tns t-yEx 1 ;Midland 94 96 I D E o .C . onnte 4 1 p N N e o guwm rt a h r n aa . grk & tte E .e. . 1)5. e P . .c. l \ 5. a 5 11. 6. Do. do. 6 per cent .... all Do. - Do. Fixed 5 per cent all 'Do. N o rth Western Prestoß and Wyre. { all la i i YWI _ _ ..... A L. rk Do. i Share° A. all Do. , . •' 1 Roystn. Hitch., & Slwp 100 Gt.No.r.thl - r• ~132 134 Shreursbrylz llerefoid 100 T.Brassey lop 1 0 Do. Do. 1 South Staffordshire .. all M'Clean.. if',4 p , Wilts and Somsreet • • 100 Gt. West. 90 92 Triml,lecloni4 ()min. all Lei Aorta fai Vi THE SUN, LONDON, VVEDNESDAY :TEVENING. MARCH 20, 1861: lAIPERIAL PARLIAMENT. MARLBOROITGHLSTREET. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(Trns DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair shortly after twelve o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Berwick, Norham, and 1 shiandshires Roads Bill was considered, and ordered for third reading; and the Aberysthwith and Welsh Coast Railways Bill was read a second time. PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented against the Parochial Assessments Bill, and against the desecration of the Sab bath by railway traffic. RECIPROCITY IN NAVIGATION WITH FO- POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day). A STREET FOOT RACE.--Two respectable-looking young men named Henry Johnson and George Cole, residing at 35, Great Titchfisld-street, were charged before Mr. Beadon with causing an obstruction and disorderly conduct in the streets. James Newnham, 96 C, said that at three that morning, seeing a large crowd assembled at the corner of Windmill street and Queen-street, he went up and heard loud shout ing and halloaing about betting on a foot race. The men began running, and he stopped and took them into custody. Cole said he was not betting; he was only looking on. Mr. Beadon said he was not going to have all the thieves in London brought to the spot because they liked to have a foot race. ' Newnham said that what Cole had said was not true; he was starting the men and running with them. The other man got away. Mr. Beadon ordered the defendants to enter into their recognisances for six months. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ROBBERY AT A" CIGAR STORES."—A tall, well-dressed female, named Abbott, of 72, Princes-street, Leicester-square, was charged with stealing a pocket-handkerchief, the property of Mr. Henry Reginald West, of Sherwood's Hotel, Adam-street, Strand, and of Harpenden, St. Albans, surgeon. The prosecutor said that he was pasring the house in Princes-street at a late hour the previous night, and seeing " Cigar Stores" painted up he went in for two cigars. He took off his glove, when the prisoner who served him seized his glove and then his handkerchief from his pocket, and said he should not have it till he had paid for some wine. In answer to questions, the prosecutor said that his only inducement for going into the place was the fact of seeing " Cigar Stores" painted up, and as he wanted a cigar. The prisoner asked him to come inside, but he told her that he was not a young man, and asked for his hand kerchief, but she refused to give it him. He had been to dine at the Freemason's Tavern, the Lord Mayor presiding. He left there at half-past nine, went home, and changed his dress, and then went for a walk, but wao quite sober at the time, not having taken more than a table-spoonful of whiskey and water. Finding that he could not get his handkerchief he gave the prisoner into custody, and now attended at great inconvenience. Inspector Bowles said the prosecutor was quite sober at he time he charged the prisoneit. Prisoner—Did you not say you would go into the parlour, but that some one was there--and did you not ask if any body was there le Prosecutor—Certainly not. There was no occasion to ask whether anybody was there, as I saw a man walking up and down. • Mr. Beadon remanded the prisoner for a week. It was stated in court that some years ago a man was turned out of the same house in a state of nudity, having been stripped while in the house. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways. 00 ,CtTantic &8t Lampanel ~, C ,Bom.,Barodadz.Cent In s '''' ' Gu. 5 per cent 18 , Do, Do. 13 204 IBuffalo and Laxe Huron 20i:Do. New 10 Do. Preference 100 I B p uff . :I..o, l l 3 3 d r e a . n i t L ,AEG ug. 7dLic 7 b 2 98,1 , 100 . do. July 1, 1874 I 100 Do. do. June 1, 1871 - - - 5 20 20 29 17i 20 itock kl `e utta.&S.Eastn. (Lim ape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.' ape Town & Dock Scriy ylon Guarantd. 6 p. c emerara astn. Bengal gu. 5 p. ( i'East Indian, g - u. sy. c. Do. F Sharei Ext.., Do. Jubbulpore Do. 4i p c. Debentrs. Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864., Do. 1865-1870 Grand Trunk of Canadf Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct.. -)o. • x - ref. 6 pin _ Do. 6 per ct. Debentr Do. 7 per cent. 1862 ' Do. do. 1867 Do. do. 1872 t. In diarenin. gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. Do. do. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. Bonds pay. '76, with opt, till '6O Do. do. '73 fill '6O . . Do. do. '73 without opt. Do. 54 p. c. do. '77 d0...' Do. 54 p. c. do. '7B d 0... Hadims, guar., 44 p. c... Do. do. 5 per cent .... Do. 4t p. a. Extension Do. 5 ,Nlelb.Corp. 6 p. 0. Bnds. i NewErunswick do Candal R y. ArL an d(Lim. )g. 6pd Class A Capital Share' Do. do. Landdo • . Do. do. B Capital d 0... Do. do. Land do. •• • • Oude (Limited) ..... Scinde ...... Do. Punjaub 0 ,Do. Do. ........ i ) R 'Do. Indus. St. Flo. Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip., FOREIGN all all all 100 sa. /100 15 all 100 1 Paid. Closing Price. 100 66 72 ,ATL . 92 93 16 164 44 5 6 7 75 80 65 70 65 70 tt 5 11 I}d 6 pr 11 11d 98/ 99i 97 98 99i 100 h li 6 21 22 68 72 58 62 40 42 48 52 33 42 3$ 42 95 96 lld 1 d 2 Isd Ilf Ilf 91 Af A V 5 100 90 83 81 83 92 03 86 FS 2 1!r 6 7 6 7 97 98 2 d - -d 90 92 $. di MAYS. bi 51 - -P 1; ; IJ4 12 13 31 21 , 1 3 1 23 24 7 71 7f 7; 19 20 8711 381 8 9 37 38 55 57 4 30 51 61 81 RI 14 111 11 1 d 20j211 6 61 91 9 214 224 175 185 350 370 1071 1121 15 15i 6i 7 - 18 20 64 7 1 li A ni 100 stock 100 100 100 stock 20 stock 100 100 100 stock stock stock stock stock Antwerp & Rotterdam Ardennes Bah.&S.Fran-Lim.7 p.c. .Belgttn East. Junction 43esiers to Graissessac.. Cr - neaux Mine do Rail Copiapo ........& Ditto Extension Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Grand Rue Guar. 6 p. c Do. do. Great Central of France Gt. Luzern., Con. she Italian Junction Lierre & Turnhout Lyons & Geneva Namur & Liege Do. 6 p. e. Pref. Northern of France New Shares Norwegian Trunk Pref ' paris,Lyons, & Mediter 1 Paris & Orleans Recife & S. Fran. (Peru ) xua. 7 p. ct. It & Dunabulim .. rgr Royal i Danish Royal Swedish So. 7 per cent. Pref ambre & Meuse Po. 51 Der cent. Pref San Paulo, lim, 7p. S.Aust. &Lomb Venetin Southern of France S. East Portugal 7 p ct West Flandern ...... Do. 5 p. c. Preference W. & N.W. of France West"rn of Austria Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden Do. 8 per cent Pref Zealand BRTTIS TrEe [British Iron !Clifford Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) !East Bassett (Illogan) !East Caradon ...... I lE. WI Russel (Tavistk ); Gam.eSt.Aubyn(Gwen )1 !Great South Tolgus I G.Wheal Alfd. (Philack) l G. Wheal Vor (Holston) 'Grenville yferod's-Foot Hingsion Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant), ;North Downs , North Frances (Illogan) IN.whl. Basset (1110 4 an)l (Par Wheal Crofty IP,ar Consols (st. Blazey) Providence (May Leint4 ISortridze Cons. Min.Co.l ISouthCaradon(St.Cleer), IS. Cam Brea (Illogan) ;S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim. I S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan), ,Stray Park 'Tamar Silv.& Lead Min. (Tin Croft Vale of Towey (Cum ); West Basset (Illozan) W. Caradon (Liskeard) , West Seton , Wheal Basset (Illogan) ,Wheal Buller (Redrizth) ! (Cals. : (Wheal Kitty (ILLelant Wheal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Trelawney (Lie, FOR,EIG: Au - Wm/lan IBonAccord Copper.Ltm. Brazil S t.J. del Iley,Lim Do. Land and Mini ngCo. ' Clarendon Cons. MinCo 'Cobre Copper ICopi apo DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co l ,Fortuna... 'General Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr 1 ,Kapunda (Limited) Linares Lusitanian 1 5fariquits IN.RhineCopof S.A.us.L Pontgibaud Silver,Leadi Mining and Smelt... . Port Philip • Scottish Austrin. (L.) United Mexican 'Worthing Do — IBusiness done REIGN COUNTRIES. Mr. LIDDELL gave notice that, after Easter, he would call attention to those portions of the report of the com mittee on the Merchant Shipping Act which related to reciprocity in respect to navigation with foieign countries. COUNTY RATES AND EXPENDITURE BILL. Sir J. TRELA WNY, in moving the second reading of this bill, said he did not require the house to pass it in its present form, but merely by the second reading to affirm its principle, which was to afford ratepayers greater control in the management of rates for counties. The bill contained 123 clauses, of which about thirty were important to his purpose. The first clause was essential to the object he proposed to accomplish, and it provided that a board should be constituted for the purpose of dealing with county expenditure, which was to be elected by the Board of Guardians. One magistrate and one guardian were to be members of this board, and they should each be rated at the value of £lOO a year in the county where they resided. He proposed also to give guardians the power of dealing with the expense of the constabulary, re pairing prisons, and other matters of a financial character. However, it was his intention that magistrates should re tain as much power in reference to such subjects as would induce them to take an interest in county business, which they might not be inclined to do, if they did not possess certain authority. With regard to gaols, which came in the same category as constabulary, he proposed that what related to them should be placed in the hands of the financial board for the establishment of which the bill provided. As regarded temporary repairs he would give the board the power of making them where they were of a temporary character. With respect to pauper lunatics the bill provided that magistrates still retain the same functions as at present, but committees should be formed to secure an economical course in reference to the expenditure. These were the principal points of the bill, and he did not propose to go into details. In considering the objections to the bill, he said he was aware that it had been asserted by the opponents of the measure that the present system worked very well ; but what he complainad of was that the magistrates were a fluctuating body, and there was no se curity for their having the same magistrates for four consecutive quarter sessions. The hon. baronet then referred to the large in - crease in county expenditure to show the necessity that existed for its being placed under more responsible and efficient control. Sir M. RIDLEY moved, asian amendment, that the Lill be read a second time that day six months. He said that the bill brought forward in 1850 was limited to the present, and the committee who reported on the bill considered it would have the effect of excluding a numerous body of gen tlemen in the country from attending county business. He did net oppose) 'the election principle, but it was a very serious matter to attempt to infuse, in any . considerable degree, a new element into an aneientlinstitution, which practically had :not been found an inoperative or exhausted statute. He believed the present bill, so far from simplifying the checking of accounts, would have an effect directly contrary, and create confusion, from the conflicting interests that would be brought into contact by its provisions. If the measure were passed into law, in his opinion, it would affect most injuriously the proper discharge of county business, and utterly fail in remedying the evils which some members considered to exist. vv Mr. W. E. FORSTER said that he did not pledge him self to the details of the bill, but he felt bound to support its principle. He thought the time had arrived when they should do away with the anomaly of money being disposed of without any contest by the taxpayers, which does not exist in regardjo other disbursements of money, whether for imperial or local purposes. He might be asked why this question was agitated at present, and his reply was that a number of sources ior county expenditure had arisen which had not existed some years ago, as might be shown by the appointment of constabulary and other charges *ith which hon. members were acquainted. (Hear, hear.) He objected to one detail of the bill, that which provided for the election of one magistrate on the board which the hon. baronet proposed to constitute. It was very desirable they should have a judicial element on that board, but he thought magistrates would object to the principle of election, and he thought the better plan would be to allow them to make the selection from their own body themselves. He concluded by expressing a hope that the house would agree to the second reading, and any alterations that were considered desirable could be made in committee. Mr. PACKE opposed the bill on similar grounds to those of the hon. baronet who had moved the amendment, and that the measure was too crude to be brought forward in its present state. Sir J. SHELLEY supported the bill and he thought the objections raised to the bill would be more appropriately considered in committee. Great authorities, including the late Sir Robert Peel, had approved of the principle on which the bill was based, and he thought the time had arrived for settling the subject to which it related. Mr. PHILIPS said that he thought the hon. baronet (Sir J. Trelawny) should have brought forward some in stance to show that the present system was defective, but he was unable to do so. He defended the mode of dealing with county expenditure, and entered into details to show that such expenditure was legitimately increased, in conse quence of disbursements that were imperatively required. He did not see the propriety of affirming the principle of the bill which the hon. baronet (Sir J. Trelawny) asked them to do when they disapproved of the details, what he consi dered a very clumsy mode of legislating. He felt bound, therefore, to oppose the motion for the second reading of this bill. LLEPT SPEAKING.] COMMERCIAL BANS OF LONDON. The following is the report of the directors : " Information having been received at a late hour on the evening of Friday, 15th February, that the bank had been robbed by a ledger-keeper at Henrietta-street (named. Durdin), to the amount of £67,000, steps wero at °ace taken to summon all the directors in or Rear London for the following morning. "At this meeting, after consultation with the solicitor and manager of the bank, it was determined that, as the first duty of the directors was to protect their customers against the run which was inevitable, it was desirable to seek assistance in some shape from one of the joint-stock banks. The London and Westminster being the largest bank, negotiations were at once opened with that establish ment, and they engaged to advance any sum, not exceed ing a million, which might be required to meet your lia bilities ; you directors undertaking, as far as lay in their power, to influence their customers to transfer their accounts to the London and Westminster Bank. The details of this arrangement, which you are now asked to confirm, will be read at the conclusion of this report. " The arrangement was confirmed by a board especially summoned for the purpose at eight o'clock in the morning, on Monday the 18th ult. " In adopting the course they did, the directors were in fluenced by the following considerations : "Three courses were open to them :—To close the doors of the bank—to stand a run which was certain—or to make some such arrangement as is now submitted to you. "To .lose the bank's doors would have been an unneces sary and unjustifiable cruelty to its custcmers, and would have exposed the commercial world to a panic, the extent of which, at the present moment, it is impossible to measure. To the shareholders, the result would have been a winding-up under bankruptcy, with its attendant vexation and expense. This course, therefore, was dis carded at once. _ _ _ " The bank was in a position to risk the second course, and stand any run, which could be reasonably anticipated ; but with money at 8 per cent. as the minimum rate, and an inevitable sacrifice on securities not instantly convertible, the price of fighting the battle must have most seriously affected the property of the shareholders. " The directors believed, looking to the result of the run on them in 1866, when the deposits were reduced from £1,500,000 to £BOO,OOO, a reduction from which they . had not, up to the present time, recovered to any appreciable extent, that a second run would leave them at its termina tion no business worth preserving. The winding-up of the bank must have followed, and that would, practically, have plabed you in the same position in which you now stand ; but with this materiel difference, that you would then have paid a heavy price for that which now costs you nothing. " It may be said that the bank, forced, for these reasons, into an arrangement of some kind, might have made a better one. Your directors think otherwise. With a week—with Party-eight hours before them—they might possibly have done it; but Monday would have found the bank with a run upon it ; and the London and Westminister positively refused to deal with us in any shape after a run had once commenced. "There can be little doubt that other banks, influenced by the same considerations, would have followed this coarse. Be that as it may, the want of time, the necessity for secrecy, so long as secrecy was possible, prevented negotiations with other establishments. "The present arrangement, by which the great majority of your customers have transferred their accounts to the London and Westminster Bank, may be looked on as the price paid to that company for having saved you from the anxiety and loss of a run. " Doubtless it is a most painful price to pay; it was not agreed to until other proposals had been made and rejected; but if your directors are right in their belief that remune rative business was at an end, this price becomes nothing, as your accounts would have left you of themselves, as they did in 1856. The profits, if any, of the small business which might have been left to you (looking at the necessity of re-creating a reserve fund), would have afforded little or no dividend for a series of years, during which your shares must have remained at a nominal price. " As it intended to ask you to appoint some of your own body to advise and co-operate with . the directors, in the pre sent position of the bank's affauy, !,.t has not been thought necessary, nor was it possible within the time, to give you more than an approximate statement of the liabilities and assets on the evening of last Saturday, the 16th inst. The figures, however, are given, which show the state of the accounts on the day of the transfer of the business and at the present time. " Whilst, on the one hand, the directors would regret to state anything calculated to create an unfavourable impres sion of the value of the shareholders' property, they must (having regard to the notorious uncertainty attending the realisation of assets under the circumstances the bank is now placed), guard themselves against making any state ment that may create expectations which the result may not realise :—they confine themselves to the expression of their hope:that the shareholders' capital will be returned to them in full." Advices from Naples announce that the sale by auction of the property of the late Prince of Syracuse is to take place immediately, beginning with the objects of art. The Chioja Palace and its beautiful garden were to be put up at 200,000 ducats (4f. 25c. each), and his Villa at Sor rento at 100,000 ducats. The ,Armonia of Turin, the ultra-clerical organ, announces that one of its editors is going to proceed to Rome, in order to lay at the feet of the Supreme Pontiff, a large chest filled with valuables, and the sum of 64,000 fr. collected during the two first months of the present year. The same journal asserts that the Pope has received 1500 sterling offered by the savages of Australia ! We are glad to hear that the savages of that distant country are so well off. NATAL EXPENDITURE. Two or three years ago, during one of the paroxysms of public indignation produced by the extravagance of our naval expenditure, an explana tion was offered which really threw some light upon the mysteries of the Royal dockyards. What produced the disclosure was an elaborate statement showing, beyond all doubt, that the French dock yards, with a far smaller outlay, had actually turned out more work than our own, and that our neigh bours could contrive to build more ships than we built, and yet spend less money upon them. When this became known the official mind took the alarm, and a history of the matter was at length vouch safed for public information. We were-told it was all a mistake to suppose that the millions of money voted for shipbuilding were employed in building ships. That was only an accidental duty—a kind of work to which money might be devoted if there happened to be a good margin, and if the work men were not otherwise engaged. The real busi ness of our artificers and the real object of Parlia ntentary votes lay in another department altogether —viz., in fitting, refitting, outfitting, dismantling, and stripping ships ; in pulling our men-of-war to pieces and putting them together again ; in taking a ship of the line or a frigate just as she had been brought into perfect order, and reducing her to the condition of a hulk, so that before she could be again commissioned she would require to be fitted out anew, and generally in doing and undoing after a fashion which prevailed in no other establish ment under Heaven. The Minister who made this statement, after speciously defining these proceed ings as repairs, fittings, and so forth, plainly con fessed that this was the way the money went; that her Majesty's establishments, her Majesty's artifi cers, and her Majesty's stores were employed, in the main, upon this kind of business, and that the fabrication of new ships was a mere work of supererogation, to be performed with such surplus of funds or labour as happened to be available. We now wish to show what is perpetrated in this way' even at a time when the attention of the country is especially directed towards the cost of the navy. The other day the Marlborough, a fine screw three-decker, came into Portsmouth from the Medi terranean. She was not only in excellent order, but her crew seemed to be of 'the real old stamp of British seamen. Hither they were good men ori ginally, or they had been made so, for their appear ance actually created a sensation at Portsmouth, and they were recognised as specimens of what men-of-war's men used to be and ought to be. From all we have lately heard of these matters we should imagine she must have been about the best ship in the Mediterranean Fleet, and the fittest for any possible service. This, however, is not to save her from the harpies. On Friday next she will be paid off, and the work of " stripping an refitting" will be pursued, we are told, incontinently. What the cost will be it is impossible to say, but, unless we are greatly mistaken, the bill for the work will convey a better explanation of our dockyard expen diture than any of the official documents produced for that purpose. This is really too bad. No doubt, it is all in the usual course, but it is precisely this " usual course" which has produced an expenditure of £12,000,000 annually, and leaves us in arrear of the world after all. We are sorely perplexed with the manning of our fleet, and we find ourselves surpassed by our neighbours in the best class of fighting ships, but in " stripping and refitting" we have no rivals. There we are always up to the mark. That kind of work we are sure to execute without stint or failure, and, though half our crews are ill-disciplined, and our iron-cased fleet is in an " unsatisfactory" posi tion, we are as ready as ever at dismantling and destroying. We find out that we have got one splendid ship in the finest possible order, and the use we make of the discovery is to bring her into harbour, disperse her model crew to the four winds, strip her of her fittings and reduce her by costly efforts to a state in which she may be fitted out over again. By and by we shall hear that the Marlborough has been recommissioned, and that several hundred shipwrights, having been first. employed in pulling her to pieces, are afterwards engaged in putting her together and making her fit for sea once more. That is the kind of work that absorbs the energies of our establishments, till all of a sudden we find that we really ought to have been building some new ships, and are then in volved in a panic and its consequences. Cannot this kind of thing be stopped ? We are slow enough about other matters. We take years to convince ourselves of the superiority of steam to sails, screws to paddles, or iron to wood, and it is a pity that some of this official circumspection can not be exercised in the work of " stripping and refitting." Why should we not try a few " experi ments" in this case also ? They are very likely to be remunerative. If the Admiralty would but ascer tain exactly how much it costs to dismantle a ship of-the-line and disembody her crew, and then how much might be saved by dispensing with this tra ditional process, the conclusion might be a very instructive one. This very year we are voting nearly £5,500,000 for the material of the Navy, and, according to the system which we see thus pointedly illustrated in the case of the Marlborough; the best part of this enormous sum will go in fit tings, refittings, and repairs. That is the work to which our new docks, our new stores, our trainee, artificers, and our costly establishments wil_l be principally devoted. We shall build a few; sloops and gunboats, but the chief expenditure will lie in repairs and outfits. This, then, aught to he the chief mark for economists. The necessary and un avoidable charges in this way of a Navy like ours are surely large enough without being increased by this wilful waste. With a great number of ships in commission, we must needs have much wear and tear; but it would be better to reduce this expense to its narrowest limit, instead of swell ing it enormously by gratuitous destructiveness.- 2inzes. The Brussels journals announce the decease in that city of Major-General Robert Blake Lynch, of the British army, aged 84. The gallant officer was a native of Dublin, and served many years in India. THE GREAT METROPOLITAN SEWER. The works of this great undertaking are rapidly proceeding at Stratford, West Ham, and Plaistow, extending to Barking Creek. From the magnitude of the works and the extent of the tunnels the labours of the large body of workmen employed will be extended, however, over a lengthened period. REPRESENTATION OF OXFORD UNIVER SITY. A. rumour is prevalent amongst the " residents " in the Uni versity of Oxford that, in the event of the Chancellor of the Exchequer electing to stand for the additional seat about to be given to South Lancashire, the Evangelical party in the university will put in nomination Mr. Charles Gray Round, of Balliol College. Mr. Round graduated in 1818, when he took a first class in classics, in conjunction with Sir Richard Bothell, M.P., her Majesty's Attorney amoral. 5 6 98 99 95fr 96 51 42 44 8 84 164 174 50 51 37 39 26 28 85 87 25 26 110 112 109 110 101 102 129 131 107 109 704 71 80 62 111 k 111 Th 81 f 2 1l 117 118 47 49 951 91i 91i 02i 104 114 47 48 3i 24d 128 I2Bi 11. 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Register ed In Do. do. ~. • all 51 84 1 1 "` --• le Ln. Co.oflipr.Can:, 5 '",..... - -sett' a Land •.. 84 94 101 1® IVO WM., _ ._ 91i 9 99} 9 21i 921 181 f 2.14.6 7.4.0 lib 6cll FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIG BT. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCIT 13. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon Colonel George Everest, C. 8., and F.R.S., on the Retired List of the Bengal Artillery, formerly Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, and Surveyor -General of India. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood, upon Colley Harman Scotland, Esq., Chief Justice of Madras. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MARCY 19. lst Regiment" of Dragoon Guards—Cornet Thomas Arm strong Gough to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Grews, promoted. 6th Dragoons—Lieutenant George M. Billington to be Captain, by purchase, vice Joseph Thomas Wetherell, retires ; Cornet Henry Albert Reade Revell to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice the Honourable Edward Roden Bourke, promoted ; Frederick 'Wise, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Stewart, promoted ; Cornet William Ward Bennitt to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieu ten Ott: Bourke, promoted. Bth Lkht Dragoons—John Gaspard Le Merchant, Gent., to be' Cornet, by purchase, vice Clarke, promoted. 15th sight Dragoons—Captain Horace Trower to be Major, by purchase, vice Hen ry Lee, promoted by purchase to an Unattached Lieutenant-Colonelcy ; Lieut. Phineas Butrto be Captain, by purchase, vice Trower ; Cornet Hugh Humphrys to be Lieutenant, by p urc h ase , v i ce Bury. 16th Light Dragoons —The surname of the Cornet ap pointed on 12th March, 1861, is Maillard, not Mallard, as stated in the Gazette of 12th inst. 18th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Henry Maxwell How ard from the 4th Royal Lancashire Militia, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hicks, promoted. Royal Artillery—Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Maclean from the 42d Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice McMunn, promoted on the Staff. 6th Regiment of Foot—Rnsign Alexander Courtenay Hall to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Edmund Hall, who retires; John Vincent Rigg, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fitz Gerald, p romote d Ilth Foot—Francis William Braithwaite Gattey, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Leigton, promoted. 10th Foot—Major Harvey Wellesley Pole Welman, from the 86th Foot, to be Major, vice Brevet Lieutenant-Colo nel Richard Motclesley Best, who exchanges. 11th Foot—Lieutenant David Baker Gabb, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Paget John Bourke, who retires ; Ensign Roper Dacre Tyler, to be Lieutenant, by pur chesie, vice Gabb ; John Hely, Gent., to be Ensign, by purc i lsase, vice Ferdinand Russell, appointed to the 49th Foot 12th Not=—Ensign Alfred Handcock, from the Royal Dub lin City Militia, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dun levie, promoted ; "William Henry Brooke Peters, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mac Donnell, promoted. 13th 'Foot—The surname of the Ensign appointed on 22d ultimo, is levers not Jevers, as stat e d i n th e G az ette of 22d February, 1861. 15th Foot—Ensign John Joseph Grier to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Maunsell, promoted. 17th Foot—James Stuart Thornton Duesbery, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice William Villett Rolleston, pro moted in 2d West India Regiment. 18th Foot—Loftus Corbet Singleton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Marsland, promoted. 20th Foot—Arthur Joseph Stourton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Elliott, promoted. 22d Foot—Haworth Peel Massy, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Parry, promoted. 29th Foot—Charles Edward Pinckney Simpson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice William Graham Arnold, who retires. 30th Foot—James Alexander M'Mahon, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Brownlow, promoted. 35th Foot—Edward Douglas Jones, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ed ward Laws, who retires. 36th Foot—Captain and Brevet-Major Edward Charles Butler to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet Lieutenant- Colonel James Nugent, who retires ; Lieutenant Horace EdWard Willett to be Captain, by purchase, vice Butler ; En'tign Christophet Spurgeon to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice - Willett. 42d Foot—Lieutenant Edward Arthur Elgin to be Instruc tor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Fraser, about to retire from the service. 46th - Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Matthew James Ed ward Fagan, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Meane, promoted on the Staff. 48th Foot—Major John Guise Rogers Aplin to be Lieu tenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Benjamin Riky, deceased; Captain James Mancor to be Major, without purchase, vice Aplin ; Lieutenant Ed ward Feneran to be Captain, without purchase, vice Mancor; Ensign Pulteney Edward Bowlby to be Lieu tenant without purchase, vice Feneran. 49th Foot—Ensign Ferdinand Russell, from 11th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Robert Emslie Henry, who reties. 50th Foot—George James Campbell Allardice, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice White, promoted. 56th Foot—Staff! Assistant-Surgeon Edward Knapp Wur tele Smith, M.D., to be-Assistant-Surgeon, vice Taylor, appointed to the Staff. 624 Foot—Eugene Charles Pollexfen, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Charles Callaway Ross, appointed to the 92d Foot. 70th Foot—Charles William Howard, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Collins, promoted. 75th Foot—Lieutenant Harry Philip Dawson to be In structor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Cornwall, returned home invalided. 81stFoot—Mark Saurin Wynne, Gent., to be Ensign, sdtout purchase, vice Cowper Rochefort, who resigns. 81115:Toot—Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Richard !Mordesley Best, from 10th Foot, to be Major, vice Har vey Wellesley Pole Welman, who exchanges. 87th Foots—Ensign Edward Willoughby Pardoe to be liieutenant 4 by purchase, vice Hickson, whose promotion by purchase, on Jan. 4, 1861, has been cancelled ; En sign George Cox, from 2d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Par doe. 90th Eoot—John Henry Hedges, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Murray, promoted. 91st Foot—Atherifi.” (:a„+ by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant gurney, pro moted ; Staff Assistant-Surgeon Wm. Traill, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Watson, appointed to the Staff. 94th Foot—Edward Smyth Mercer, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Buller, promoted. 95th Foot--Lieutenant Edwyn Brenton Andros to be In ' structor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Nicholas, returned home invalided. 97th Foot—Staff - Assistant - Surgeon Samuel Edward Maunsell to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Porter, appointed to the Staff. 98th Foot--Ensign Charles Frederick Sharp, from Royal North Lincoln Militia, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Percivar Herbert Dobbs, who retires. Ist West India Regiment—Ensign Edward Roberts, from the 49th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ar thur - William Crombie Nowlan, who retires. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—John Charles Jobling, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Edward Negus Wood, 7: Who retires ; Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Lancelot An drewes White to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Noott, who exchanges. Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Lieutenant Mortimer James Macdonald to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant Ernest C. Wilford, appointed to 49th Foot. Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Ensign Francis Nolan, from Ist West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Bolton, promoted. UNATTACHED. Major Henry Lee, from 16th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase. Lieutenant -Julius Henry Stirke, from 12th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Assistant-Surgeon John Meane, from 46th Foot, to be Staft-Surgeon, vice Surgeon-Major Dolmage, placed upon half-pay. Assistant-Surgeon John Alexander M'Munn, M.D., from Royal Artillery, to be Staff-Surgeon, vice Chartres, appointed to 100th Foot. Assistant-Surgeon Edward Gregg Noott, from Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice White, who exchanges. Assistant-Surgeon Joshua Henry Porter, from 97th Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Fagan, appointed to 46th Foot. Assistant-Surgeon Duncan Campbell Taylor, MD., from 65th Foot, to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon, vice Maunsell, kwointed to 97th Foot. Assistant-Surgeon Robert Watson, from 91st Foot, to be Stag' Assistant-Surgeon, vice Edward Knapp W. Smith, M.D., appointed to 56th Foot. To be Staff Assistant-Surgeons from Oct. 1, 1860, the antedate not to carry back pay—Charles Henry Young Godwin, Gent. ; John Walters, M.B. ; Franklin Gillespie, M.D. ; Albert Augustus Gore, Gent. ; Thomas Maunsell, Gent.; George Farr White, Gent. ; Frederick Ro bert 'Wilson, M. 8.; William Henry . Jones, M.D.; Nathaniel Alcock, Gent. ; Donald Macgillivray David son, M.D. ; Robert Edward Heath, M.D.; Robert Adams, M.D. ; Reginald Croft Lever, Gent. ; Bronislaw James Fazdowski, M. 8.; James Thompson, Gent. ; Caleb Shera Wills, Gent. ; Robert De Burgh Riordan, Gent.; Samuel Hope, Gent. ; Thomas Young Baker, Gent.; John Henry N. Bracken, Gent. ; Patrick Quinlan, Gent. ; Frank Pout, Gent. ; Patrick Charles Baxter, M.B. ; Samuel Gamble White, M.D. ; Henry Lamb, Gent.; Henry Offley Harvey, Gent. ; Erskine Bur nett Grant, M.D. ; Wrn. Robert Wall, Gent. ; Thomas Pattison Flynn, Gent. BREVET. Lieutenant• Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Sir Robert Wal pole, K.C.8., Rifle Brigade, to have the local rank of Major General in the East Indies. Captain William M'Bean, 93d Foot, to be Major in the Army. Paymaster Wellington Browne, 80th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Captain, under the Royal Warrant of 27th January, lii6o. BANKRUPTS. Robert Barrie, builder, York-street, Covent-garden, to surrender, March 28, at two, and April 25, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alfred Mordaunt, chemist, Southampton, March 28, at twelve, and April 25, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. William Riley, butcher, Ilkeston, April 4 and April 18, at half- past eleven, at the Shirehall, Nottingham. Peter Scott, timber merchant, Liverpool, April 4 and 24, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. John Measor, upholsterer, Brighton, April 8, at two, and May 6, at twelve, at the Co urt of Bankruptcy. George Groom, lithographic ' printer, Alderreanbuty, April 9, at twelve, and May 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. k iTu p ry t c - y e Thomas Gray, manufacturer of material; fo r making paper, Garrett Mills, Wandsworth, March 2 , a two, and April 26, at half-past one, at the Court ofßan • Alexander W. Laidlaw, wine merchan t, oity, March 27 and May 1, at twelve, at the Court of Bank- Walter Parry, carpenter, Brecon, _April 9 and M a y 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Bristol. Spencer Percival Pennell, commission merchant, Liver pool, April 4 and 17, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. James Bolton Robertson, draper, South Shields, March 26 and May 14, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Dis trict Court. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS, Gustave Bruhns, merchant, Glasgow. Rev. James Stormonth, teacher, Edinbure• h. = John Fortune, w a t c h an d clock ma k er , Eainblig.. William Mackersy, W r it er t o th e Signet, Edin ° 7 g Robert Davidson, builder, Dundeerdec'eased A F ury has long enjoyed --- - RENcriwomAN IN ENGLAND.--MiSS Selina Bunb a high reputation in the literary world, which she is in no danger o f losing by having, as "Madame Constance" is not her preface tells rewritten the MS. " Autobiography o f Madame Constance," for a more amusing and interesting novel we have rarely read. that absurb carricature of French manners and feelings we too often meet in English books, tarbu natural French woman. Her descriptions of London life, seen frozu a 1 kreLtCh point a T im, are acellout, THE IV Arr. The Cockatrice, 4, screw gunboat, has been corn ( missioned at Portsmouth by Lieut. Robt. M. Gill son, lately serving on board her Majesty's screw troopship Perseverance. She is manned, with the exception of a few petty officers. The Cockatrice is one of the new class of gunboats, of a somewhat larger tonnage than the old class, fitted with con densing instead of high-pressure engines, and alto- . gether more suited for foreign service than their predecessors. It is rumoured that she goes to Van-- couver's Island, but no‘station has yet been officially named for her. The Pandora, 5, screw, has been placed in dock at Portsmouth for coppering and fitting valves, Ac. This vessel has been recently launched from Pembroke dockyard, and is of the Torch and Philomel class. The Elfin, Royal paddle yacht, has been docked at Portsmouth, to carry out necessary repairs, &c. Our correspondent at Plymouth has received a file of the Bermuda Royal Gazette, in which it is stated that the screw steamship St. George, 9G, Capt. the Hon. Francis Egerton, with his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, was expected at the island -in May. The screw steam frigate Mersey, 40, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8., from the West Indies, arrived on Feb. 18, and was appointed to leave in a few days for England. Lieut.-Col. H. St. George Ord, Royal Engineers, was daily expected to succeed Col. Freeman Murray as Governor. Col. Lloyd, R.E., arrived on Feb. 12, to relieve Lieut.-Colonel Freeth in the command of the Royal Engineers. The letters received at Plymouth from the paddle wheel steam sloop Hydra, 6, Commander Richard V. Hamilton, were dated from Port Royal, and not Greytown, as stated in The Sun of yesterday. It appears that a portion of her fore foot is gone, and that several sheets of copper have been scraped of. To dock her at Havannah would cost more than £l,OOO, and the temporary repairs received there would be superseded on a therough refit at home. It is quite possible for her to return to England in her present state. Up to February 23, Admiral Sir Alexander Milne had not arrived at Port Royal The destination of the Hydra is dependent on the decision of the Commander-in-Chief. The surveying screw steamer Bann, 3, J. S. Wells master, from the Scilly Islands, arrived at Plymouth on Monday afternoon. She is now up Hamoaze to have some defects made good. The gunboats Heron and Dotterel were removed yesterday from No. 3 dock in Keyham steamyard, to give place to the screw steamship Princess Royal, 91, Capt. Charles Fellowes, flag of Admiral Robert Smart, Commander-in-Chief of the Channel fleet. The Princess Royal will, however, make a trial trip outside Plymouth breakwater, for the purpose of testing some portion of her machinery before entering the dock. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—James Bedie„ master to the Victory ; William Loney, surgeon, to the Cum berland; John Cockin, surgeon, to the Emerald ; and Wm. H. Bowen, clerk, to the Marlborough. TIdE ARMI. In accordance with orders to that effect received from the Horse Guards the Royal Engineer detach ment at head-quarters,Chatham, is in course of being broken up, in order that the whole of the non commissioned officers and men composing it may be draughted into the four new depot companies —the 35th, 36th, 3:7th, and 38th—which the Duke of Cambridge has directed to be formed at Brompton. Upwards of 2,000 soldiers assembled on Monday morning in Plymouth Citadel, the gates of which were closed against civilians. They consisted of ten companies of Royal Artillery, and all other men off duty from the 12th Regiment, Royal Marines, 53d, 61st, &c., and were under the command of Major-General N. Hutchinson, commander of forces in the west, aided by Capt. J. B. Kirk, major of brigade, and Brevet Lieut,-Col. J. B. Mann, town major. Sentence of court-martial was read against eight privates belonging to various regiments. One had taken the bounty in several different places ; he now belongs to the 53d. Various proportionate Lc, uA,,, of 1... pi i.cfnuient were awarded to him and four others. The remaining three were sentenced to be flogged, and it was to witness the execution of the punishment that so many soldiers were assembled. The first tied up—Reddington, private in the 12th Regiment, recently returned from Indi —had 25 lashes at the Cape of Good Hope, on the voyage home. His present offence is of a nameless character, for which he received 50 lashes, admini stered by two drummers. The second (Webster), belonging to the same regiment, received the like punishment for robbing regimental clothing from his comrades. The third, a private in the 61st, had 50 lashes for striking the adjutant of his regiment. After being released from the triangles the pri soners were immediately dressed, placed under guard, and marched behind their respective regi ments to barracks. The punishment was admini stered near the monument on the open lawn in the centre of the citadel. THIS DAY'S MA.R.KETS. CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of English wheat up to this morning's market were again limited, and, generally speaking, in very poor condition. In the trade, for all qualities, we have to report continued firmness, and good and fine samples command is to 2s per quarter advance on last week's cur rency. Inferior descriptions quite maintain their value. The importation of foreign wheat is confined to 5,150 quarters, and all descriptions are in good request, at an im provement of quite is per quarter. Floating cargoes of grain are mostly hold for Is per quarter more money. The trade for barley, with the exception of the finest qualities, is very heavy, at barely late rates. In malt the transactions have been confined to actual wants, on former terms. Oats moved off steadily, at full prices. Beans command extreme currencies, but white peas are very dull. All kinds of flour are very firm, and in some instances the quotations have been on the advance. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English 260 ( 750 1,450 2O 1,670 :,..- Irish — -- 500 Foreign 5,150 900 6,420 300saeks 2,590 brls. WHITECHAPEL. The supplies of wheat are tolerably extensive, and the trade generally rules heavy, as follows : Beef from 2s 6d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 4a 6d ; veal, Ss 6d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s ta to 4s 10d per filbs. BOROUGH HOP. Our market is still very dull, and anything but really fine quality with difficulty realises previous quotations. THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, March 20.—Wind this day at noon—North -_Arri....,7:lraridviaggito_r, Westerly ; moderate breeze, with da ll rainy weather, but fine in the morning. PORTO:WITTE, March 19.—Wind W.N.W.—.A n i Ted _ Adele, from Antwerp for New York. fro D na ll S L a March 19.—Wind W TNT Au , van M n ar ah oh . 19.—Wind N.W. London for Colombo. PLYMOUTH, March 19.—Wind N.N.W.—Arriyed— FoDrtAitßuTdme,ofruTz, m onarc hy, from London for Calcutta. Lotran FOYLE, March 20 .—Arrived—Canadian, sc rew steamer, from Portland, U.S. Cowls, March 19.—Wind w.N.w......Arrivhd—Jose phine, from London for Lisbon, with loss of sue. KINGEOAD, Marsh 19.—Wind N.W .,— .4tiTived—Gritee Hammond, from Cardiff for New York. SUNDERLAND March 19.---Sai l " 1—Q11 " 11 of the Netherlands, for New York. e1:0Mmo . agvre. ; W steamer , edil : 3 dle7, E s te ß am Ali e ß r s .) f* s o vviemPT°N , Ral A. p rri h, ve fro t i sch s w iran albe sea ;a aHavre,dy— em Bremen ; Telegram, frau Sw Eglinton, steamer, from Dublin. Borussia, steamer, for New sailed _Leader, for Jersey ; (BY EL:: York; Ba yard and Mary , f or , Jersey; Lr*d 7 Eglinton, steame r, for London ; Brilliant, f or J ers y. The Borussia, which left at daylight this morning for N ew York, took LlO,OOO specie from EnglaiLd, and £9,750 from France. The New York, steamship, leaves this aft el rnoon, taking £15,000 from France. (Ey SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELI ZORA2II.) GRAVESEND, Wednesit.aly Morning. Arrived—Albion, from Guernsey. Sailed—Dashaway, for Calcutta ; Ragatiu In, for -Algoa Bay; Flecha, for Ghent. _ _ . , DEAL, Wednesell q Morning. Anchored—Nero, for Lisbon; Waverley,. for Calcutta-- both from London. Passed—Young America, from London, . re )7. New lA . Sailed—Constantia, for Southampton; (1 7.oriants, B. Green, Carnatic, with several others. It is stated that the re-issue og Iv Ir. Dicl welts has been a decided success. f ig ich for oral be ine. into B of II be it at the Ireso pre' s an- by Lues. want Duo ;the tain- veer' been sing IoW- 5 -- ) ...... 5 -. 60 611 C 1 2 20 2 all all all all all 17i 13.9.6 9} 5.14.6 8.12 4.10.6 1.8.6 2 9 i 11i 4s 9.18.9 ii 10.8.7 all !18.1. 3 4.0 24.8.0 471 1 5 5 7.5 1.7.2 all 1 10s. all all iii