The Sun. — London, England, 1856-03-27 00:00:00

rian ight real , wag MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. f . ITY, Two 0'eL,30.1... The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed firmly. Compared with Friday's rates prices of all kinds were quite as high. The sales were estimated at 8,000 bales, including 600 Pernam and Maran ham, at fild. to 7d. ; 350 Egyptian, at 6id. to Bd.; 1,000 Surat, 41d. to 4id.; and 80 Sea Island, at 10d. to is. 40. per IL There was little altera tion to notice in the Railway Share Market. The steamer America with 325,650 dollars has arrived, but the mails have not yet been received in town. Letters from the Continent mention that the establishment of a Stock Exchange in Prague had been decided upon, and that the necessary arrange ments had excited a good deal of attention. Commercial advices from St. Petersburg to the 15th inst. have come to hand. The state of trade was not so buoyant as the prospects of peace had led many to expect, still it was sufficiently marked to show that a pacific result to the Conferences at Paris was generally entertained. For tallow prices have bad rather a downward tendency, but this may be accounted for, as the recent high quotations were partially nominal. Many sales had been effected during this month for delivery in August. Flax is in demand at 24r. for delivery in June, and 24i to 25 for delivery i❑ July. Linseed is also in request at improved prices, being 7r. 30 kopeoks to 7/r. for money sales. For grain the advanced prices since the an nouncement of the pacific negotiations are fully maintained. Extra fine Cubanca has been sold for 9 silver roubles per tchetwert, and good ordinary sorts at Bir. In rye there is not so much de mand, but a few lots have brought sir. per tchet- Wert. Foreign exchanges rule as follows :—on London 37 3-16 7-16 , on Amsterdam 184, 1841, on Hamburg 33 5-16 33k, and on Paris 390 3911. Accounts from IqUique in Peru to the sth Feb., state that nitrate of soda was much in demand at 22 reels per Spanish quintal. The exports in this article during the month of January amounted to 71,352, quintals against 85,570 quintals in the sawe month last year, and 90,726 quintals in 1854. Of the first mentioned quantity 22,196 quintals were exported to England, and 19,339 quintals to Hamburg. _ The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under Great Western north- Western South-Western Brighton Midland South-Eastern Caledonian Great Northern 18b6. £24,230 51,663 13,642 12,463 29,077 ]5,Q13 10,755 21,016 1855. £21,977 50,607 11.342 10,883 26,392 12 008 10.634 19,096 Laneashire and Ycakmhire 21,403 18,280 Zristol and Exeter Chester and Holyhead Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln North Stafford North London North British 5,472 4,582 8.605 6,555 2,044 4,647 5,290 4,353 7,999 6,015 2,036 4,453 These returns are very encouraging, the recepts of most of the principal lines, compared with the corresponding period of last year, showing an im- Portant increase. Money has continued in good demand in Lom bard -street, and at the Bank of England, but no alteration in the terms of discount has taken place. The brokers and others will, no doubt, find good employment for their capital during the next few days, not only on account of the English Loan, but likewise for the commercial engagements of the 4th of April. No change of importance has occurred in the Market for Public Securities, but increased firm ness is observable in the quo"tations, owing to the Confidence felt in the early announcement of peace. This event, though delayed, is now expected in the Course of two or three days, and a more cheerful feeling is experienced among the speculators. There has been rather mote business trans acted, but the market is still quiet. Consols, for Money hay* been 92i 4, and for account 921 1. The New Scrip has risen to 2i. The New 2} per rents. are 75, the March Exchequer Bills 2s. to 54. Prem., and the Bonds 98} to 981. India Bonds Under 1,0001. are 10s. to 6s. dis. Foreign Stocks are inactive, but generally at steady prices. Spanish 3 per Cents. are 441 ; ditto Deferred, 241 ; and the Certificates, si. Russian bonds have been at 104. The Turkish 6 per Cents. ate nominal, but a bargain has been effected in the 4 per Cents. at 1001. Grenada New Active are 214 ; Brazilian 5 per Cents., 1014. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Mexican, 20 ; Peruvian, 78 79 ; Rus- Ilan 5 per Cents., 103 105 ; ditto 44 per Cents., 93 9 5 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 411 45.1 ; ditto De ferred; 24f 25 ; ditto Certificates, 54 to 6 ; ditto -Passive, 7 7i- In Railway shares there is generally a slight im provement. Caledonian, East Anglian, and Lanca• shire and Yorkshire are at higher prices. The ?reign lines are firm. Sambre and Meuse are fully U. higher. Alining shares are again neglected ; banks quiet, and also miscellaneous shares. Barrisli FUNDS THI3 DAY AT OW,' r CLOCK.. ( From th.t OfNcial List. , . :An ..,,.•,. done. ~i 1 NI. Cont. Consols Annuities .. 924 i A eW 2i per Cent. Annuities 75 In lia .kinds, .C,100‘; Ditto, under £lOOO 6 10 d C rtfkrAS ;nr Account Consol Scrip 2/ p a whequer Bills, 2 3 / 4 d. March. June. 21000 - • s2p I 250 0 S mall Ditto Bonds, 1858, 34 per Cent. 983 i R Ditto, 1859 PRICE OF FOREIIIIN FUNDS AT ON ii: O'CLO IL Urazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. lOll Grenada New Active, 1 3 / 4 . per Cent. . .. 214 Xussiau Bonds, 5 per Cont., 1522, £ 5t.... 101 3 / 4 8p , .,,41 Ilmtds, :3 per Cent — Ditto Account Ditto Few Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account 2l i Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. n:,t fun: 53 Turkish Ponds, ti per cent Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in 1..,ri lo TWO O'CLOCK. Console, money 924 i Ditto Account LIST OF GOVERNORS AND DIRECTORS OF THE BANK OF ICVGLAND. The following is the House List of Governors anti Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing, viz..— 5 5 20 10 20 rz, FOR GOVERNORS. Thomas Matthias Weguelin, Esq., Governor. Sheffield Neave, E-q., Deputy Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. „ Arthur Edward Campbell, Esq. Edward Henry Chapman, Esq. Robert Wigram Crawford, Esq. William Cotton, Esq. James Pattison Currie, Esq. Bonamy Dobree, Esq. Benjamin Buck Greene, Eaq. • Charles Pascoe Greaten, Esq. Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq. Th.mson Sankey, E , q. John Oliver Hanson, Esq. John Benjamin Heath, Esq. Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Esq. Henry Lancelot Holland; E-q. John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq. Charles Frederick Roth, Esq. James Malcolmson, James Morris, Esq. George Wards Norman, El.. John Horsley Palmer, E.q. Henry James Prescott, Esq. Thomas Tooke, jun., Esq. The election for Governor and Deputy Governor Will be held at the Bank onTuesday, the Bth of April, and for Directors on Wednesday, the 9th April, from ten o'clock iu the forenoon till four in the afternoon. LONDON AND COUNTY BANIC.-Mr. H. Luard, the general manager of the London and County Bank, bas resigned, and Mr. W. M'Kewan, hi 4 deputy, has been provisonally appointed to succeed him. GENERAL FRENCH CLIPPER SOCIETY.—At a meeting held at Paris on the 15th inst. of this company, a reso lution was adopted to increase the capital from 400,0001. to 800,0001., in consequence of tha purchase recently effected in England of eight of the steamers of the Ge neral Screw Company for 500,0001. At the same time kr. C. W. Graham was appointed gerant, in the place of M. Beraud-Villare, and certain modifications in the ; Wilke . were agreed to. Shr. 2F , i(.10 100 100 1 00 130 100 10ft -. 10 • :29. 1 100 Lit 1; 1.0 26 l,w. Xl4 t(K) 100 3, is 1 u h 8 WO 'La; Loo An 20 ' SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. 1 RAILWAYS. Nottng. lie et knel Eastn. Junct... fa ß t S. finilymons. !Arming. Nticlve rh ,tour Valley ..... junet.... Cheat. Es Birk. £5O and £25 0,,n, ; Do., £20.... 7 ttytli ItTyn3origiaa £25 (lead. at £4' Yfristol and Exeter..., .!aledouian. d CaTdigat l arm. KT) , Iliester dt Holyhos , 7ork and Bandon . - York, Black, 4 Fne` riornwall Do. A Do. B iCrie 'T Junction.... I>t:lyin&BelfastJune. Dun. P. & Jnc. i East Anglian Sastern Counties Tniou. A. 8t) IDo., B. Stoat , Do., Now A East Kent ':tat I,,nes.shire ,•`.7,dini um's& Mango gdinb. and Peehlea mdin.Prtl. Qt Dar 4 worth & Clyde Jnn Furness. 1)o. Extension.. Glaetrow S West Great N. of Scotlnd. Great Northern ~. Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Sth. &West.(lrc Glreat Western..... . Do. Stour Val. Ra Qua. Stk.. !rid) South-Fathter - . !, Ines:aster & Carlish rDo., Thirds Do. Net, Thirds...... Lam:ash. and Yorks' a., Wst. Balding Un Liv.Craby.&Southpt 1 London & Blackwall .I.o:id. Bright &S.Cst "aond. and N. West;. I ika. Fifths D0.101.15h.,M&8.,.( Do. blgtittia ILondou andS. Wast_i Do., £5O Do., £4O Ludndrry & Oolerain e Lndndrr: - . k Ennlsli -4ncll.Shef. k Li nel Man. Az Lin. LJ Metropolitan Midlano 1.0. Binang.lkDerb Aidld.G.West.are Half Shares..... v.z , vertstle& Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. &ILI! 6z, Knniskill?, Newry Warrenpoiu wnd Rostrevor.....,„ storfolh 'Tortlln.CountiesUn North British • , t,h Dr‘vw , & Dock Stock /0,, A Stock 'n., B Stock IDo. B Oust-anted. N. iastern—Berwie ' 4 Jo. do. Extension .. Do. Leeds Do. York North London . &S. Wstrn. Ram - stead, and City Jn.. North Staffordshir North Western._ K. gt. S. West rn. Jnue N'unoatou, Ilinekl , - •tud Leicester..... Wore.. u Wolv Icottisli Central ;Scottish Midland •iirmt»hire UT -;outti Devon Eastorn ':oath Wales Vrksh. Pn. 4+kinos,W , k AcWwg Stockton t Darli & arztiep• '73fl" Vale.. Prof., No. 1... -.nes Thy. D.& 11 itYlverstono di Lanes IV,Iu Watorti. & Kilkenn. Wl.terfordAttimer !West C0rnwa11....., f IWAst End of Load' , I and Crystal Palaoe Do. A Do. B (West London. Wimbledn & Cr oydor Closing Prices f Business done yesterday I t Intl! day. - - 26i 27 48 - 4j i 8 i 1, 4 -17 i 15 - 121 12i 601 Eli 134 14 7i - 8 144 -15 A 9A 9i 34 - ?AI 24 - 26 73 - 75 58 -6) 25 - 26 84 - 86 6} 7 934 94 . 4 79 - 80 120 1"22 1c 106 i 62i •-- 63 68 - 12 5i - 6i 6 83 - 841 •• • '""' • 71 100 101 100 1004 par, d par! 1 B 93 94 ... '"" • ~ - }4l 711 - 72 42 - 44 11 - 13 49 - 51 34 3t , ' 311''... 321 76 3 / 4 - 771 6i - 51 4 - 3 3 / 4 '5 3 / 4 - ;6 55 56 88 90 6 - ISt 10. 10 - 26 - 27 101 106 75 - 77 45 47 3 '4 69 - 60 68 - 79 - 3 4 36 „. .. • 19 - 20 34 - 44 6j 7i ••• .....' FOREIGN, %t tt rd. n Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in sh. at par till '64 Ardennes F:e.vtn. Junt 3azi ors to Gni PS, 'BSA, Bombay , 11nrod nontral I ndia.Fi4 ri Do. ntot , Rhenish `:astern cf France 1 Vow F4st Indian, g. 5 p. Do.o p.c.8ud5., , 57 Gee ong v. Melbou:ne guar. 5 per c nt. . Do Lou.allot., do. Tk of Canadal DO. , o. Cort. of Dcbon. con. into Stk. till '6 Do. Comp. 6P. e• do. (lit, Coutra,l of Fran (It. Indian Poninsnt , Groat Luxembourt Constitntod Sharo' Do, Obligstionß,.. Do. re-is. forftd. Sh. (It.Westorn o f Cana , ' a . - 1 1 !arPa Do. New Do. B(1$., payable's7, with option till '55.. Do. do., '62, p.'56... Do. do., '76, p. '60... D. do., '73, without option Hamilton & 'Format' 1)0. z. por cent. LA(' aonst. Az Rasl , Liorre and Turnhout Lucca 4 3 Piet. sp. c.p Lyons and (4cuovs Lyons dr veditArrt, Ws.dras, gua^. 4 p.e Do. New 0., sp. e Do. 4i p. c. Exton Maria Antonia Do. do. Nov Nsmnr dc Liege (~10 Interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. n 0 .20/,Shs Do. ~ ,(17. 3 p. c Bdr (finy. B . 4, Ares.ghP. NorwegistanmkPre Paris toad Lyons T)itto Ronde Paris and Orleans . Rome and Frascati Royal Danish Rvalftwerlish... Do. Obligations Sambre and b Mem De. 5i p. ennt. vref. Scindo, gu ar. 5 p . e Do. enthern of Prams St. Andrew's an ,, Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5 ; c. Prof. W. &N. W. of Franc. West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand I 8i - 81 Ipar 2 p Si 4 ( 3 . 1 1 -- i - 11 :18.1 -38 i 11 -- 13 • 22 -- 22 21i - 21} 9 - 8 16 - 17 - 75 83 --• 85 54 - fi 21i - 211 6i - 64 3 1 3* 25/ -95 i 2i - 2ip 99 100 117 - 122 118 - 123 107 109 '24+ 24 : 115 - 120 11 2 -1 lOi - 011 1 1 8 IPi1 Pi 0 28 - - 88 111 - 3t?/,'l R - 10 50. - 50: 50 - 52 19 - 20 iI 12 - ... - ply) - 3/ - 34i - 35, 16 ::: ii JOINT-STOCK BANKS. kustral9,.:irt. Bank of London iik.&Ln. C. , tritisb N. amorican :Thartd. Rank of Asia Thrtd. Brk. of Anstro'da, & China City `olcnial Commercial of Lon& &one. Cht. Loud. Chart. Bk. of !matron% Ditto Now tendon and County. Lint &E. Bilk g. Corp. Loudon Joint Stock. Loadon and Paris Lond. & Westminster National Pro. of Eng Do. New National of Irelaud New South Wales Oriental Bank of Corporation :'rGailicial of Ireland 1./o. Now R Aus Im et Royal Australia Union of Australia Do.• Now Union of Ei;ucCon 96 rg" 65 - 67 pr i p if - i d 64 66 •• ... 16 16i 16t 161 3i —31 d Ipar 2p 3 -- 2 d ••• ...... +•-• .., - .. 38 io 43 - 44 .. ''' ••• . toe ".° .. 71 73 7i 8i ai 21 6(60/ 15i 16 9 1 a 25 44 25i / 10 all IA 44 4,1! 4 'U 4.11 pit al' THE S . UN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEN IN G, MARCH 27, 1856. N. 44 t NORTHAMPTONSHIRE RACES. (This Day.) AMERICA. L ust 14 • Compan yesterdu firminedis thte day. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LATEST BETTING. EARL SPENCER'S PLATE. 4to 1 agst Post Horse. 6to 1 agst Flacrow. 6to 1 agst Coal Black Rose. Bto 1 agst Berezina. 10 to 1 agst Any other. The Royal mail steam ship America, Oaptain J. G. Wickman, arrived at mid n i g ht from Boclton and Halifax, with afilvices from New York to the 11th inst. inclusive 52 passengers, and 325,650 do's. in specie. . She i passed the Cunard screw steamer Emu ' hence to Boston, on March 20,, and the Asia, for New York, March 23, 156 miles west of Cape Clear. The Canard steam-ships Africa and Arabia had arrived out, the former at New York ou the Bth, and the latter on the 12th inst. The America re ports nothing of the missing steamer Pacific. There is very little news by this arrival. ALTHORP PARK STAKES. Madame Ciicquot Sixteen ran. In the United States Senate on the 18th instant, on the consideration of the bill appropriating $3,000,000 for increasing the armaments of the United States, Mr. Cass made another violent on slaught upon England. He said England had suf fered so much in the war with Russia that it was not at all unlikely she might try to retrieve her reputation by a war on the Western Hemisphere. Mr. Cass said he did not see how the Central American controversy could be referred to arbitra tion. It was not a question of boundary or indem nity, but a mere question about the meaning of a word. No arbitrator, whether understanding the English language or not, could tell what the mean ing of the word . '" occupy" was better than they knew already. Mr Iveson defended the bill, and•thought there was imminent danger of a war with England. He did not believe the Administration of the American people were in favour of arbitration on the Central American question. On the following day the Senate renewed the consideration of the bill. Mr. Brown supported the views of the Government relative to the Clay ton-Bulwer Treaty ; he did not desire to assist in creating a war spirit ; the treaty was susceptible but of one interpretation. England's construc tion of it was a specific violation of common sense, and if such conduct was responded to by a pri vate individual in his dealings with his neigh bours, it would be very apt to communicate the impression to all impartial witnesses that the fraud was intended. He condemned the conduct of Great Britain in the enlistment case. He was op posed to submitting their difficulties with England to arbitration, for e3 the reason that a great republic like theirs could scarcely expect justice with a crowned head as umpire. The Senate then adjourned. According to documents submitted to the Senate on the 10th inst., the instructions to Commodore M'Caulay, commander of the United States' home squadron, issued in April last, after the Spanish frigate Ferrolana had fired into the United States' steamer Eldorado, were to the effect that, in case of a similar outrage committed on a vessel rightly bearing the United States' flag, he must promptly interpose and resist the exercise of the assumed right of visitation, and repel the interference by force, the Executive taking the ground that the conduct of the authorities of Cuba, in hailing and searching American vessels, cannot rest on the plea of territorial jurisdiction over the high seas in the vicinity of the island of Cuba, the United States' Government denying the existence of any state of facts to warrant the exercise of belligerent rights. The Legislative Council of Canada has passed to a second reading a bill to permit money to be loaned by all parties except banks, at any rate of interest which may be agreed upon, the said interest to be recoverable in the courts oelaw. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) MANSION-HOUSE. FRAIIDUIANT BANKRUPT.—George Frederick Lillicrop, grocer, of 2, Trafalgar-place, Trafalgar-road, Ilagger stone, was charged with defrauding his creditors of about 501. after he had become a bankrupt. Mr. Dollama, of the firnt of Messrs. Howard and Dollman, appeared for the assignees to prosecute, and Mr. Hurophreys appeared for the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence adduced, that the bank rupt, whilst the messenger from the Bankruptcy Coutt was in his house, contrived, to dig a bole in the coal cellar, into which he put several articles of stock, and some of his furniture. He removed to a neighbours. The prisoner had also falsified his boots, by making cer tain accounts paid which bad not been paid, and after wards collected the money and put it into his pocket. The case not being complete the prisoner was re manded. 94 - 93 94 - 113 11 - 13 .- . . it ... ii • *a .... • • 103 - ICB 12i -- 13 234 -24 i 11071 -- 1121 Sti - '‘i 92 - 93 P -t" 55 - 57 132 : iii 7 2d --- SHARKo 115 - 120 115 120 82 86 Xl2 y 4 97 -99 16 - 17 5i - 6 FYI - 105 82 - 87 - ;2 -I`2 •• .... s•. 63 - 70 2 - 118 1106 - 108 jl.Ol - 103 9i - 10 R -6); 94 - 98 f-6 - SR 87 - 89 98 • 100 9 i - 10 1.64 - 17 10 10§ 7-3 -74 19 - 20 - 10 141 - 14 1 (33 - 135 ••• . m. N. •o• ..... ... •.. •-••• ••• ...P, - I'3 -183 91 - 96 1 - • }". - ••• 101 - 1(3 - 92 5 - 5i 1 idl ~. ... I - 14 22/ 23 97 - 99 ... ~ v ip 2i - 2iil PRIVATE AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of circu lation of the private and joiut-stock banks in England and Wales fur the four weeks ending the 16th of Feb., 1856, and gives the following as the average weekly cir culation of those banks during the past month, viz. : Private banks ... ... £3,798,516 Joint-stock banks 2,b8J,601 Average weekly circulation £6,779,150 On comparing the above with tke returns for the pre ceding month, ending the 19th of Jan. last, it shows— A decrease in the circulation of the private banks of £114,708 A decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock banks of 100,269 Decrease on the month And, as compared with the return for the correspond ing period of the preceding pear—viz., Feb. 17, 1855, it shows— A decrease in the circulation of the private banks of A. docrease in tho circulation of the joint-stock banks of £14,239 25,830 Decrease on the yeas. £40,0G9 On comparing the abov with the amounts of the fixed issues, the following appears to be the comparative state of the circulation : The private banks are below their fixed issues £772,385 The joint-stock banks are below their fixed issues 335,539 Total below their fixed i55ue5........ £1,107,924 SUICIDE OF A S.4.LES.IIAN NFITVGATE MARKET.-EXTIMOUDLYAKY CASE. Mr. Wakley, the Coroner for the western division of Middlesex, accompanied by Mr. Brent, the Deputy- Coroner, held an inquest yesterday at the Victory Ta vern, Lower Holloway, touching the death of Mr. Thos. Ward, aged 26, a meat salesman of Newgate-market, who committed suicide on Saturday evening last at his residence, No. 16, Barnsbury-place, Islington, under somewhat extraordinary circumstances. He had been greatly addicted to very intemperate habits for the last few years, having been treated for delirium tremens. He was a widower, having lost his wife about nine weeks ago, and since that period he has been in a state of con stant inebriety, indulged in to assuage his feelings in consequence of her lose. Ann Park said that she was housekeeper to the de ceased, and was present at his death on Saturday even ing, a little after 7 o'clock, in the kitchen of the house. About 20 minutes past 6, he came home in a cab, along with two females (women of the town). He went into the kitchen, and thence passed to the scullery. Wit ness followed him, when one of the femaes said some thing to her, and she stopped him ft an instant. The young woman then told her about one of the bot tles of poison which he shad taken frog him in the cab. At that moment he coughed ;n a strange manner, when witness went into bin, and found him near the window,holding on by the drerser. She asked him what he had done, and loosened his neckcloth, when be attempted to saysoniething, but was unahhand fell down on his hands. She then got him in a chsir, and sent one of the women for Mr. Huddlestone, the surgeon, and the other for some neighbours, seve-al of whom came in to her assistance. Mr. Huddles;one also ar rived in a few minutes. The deceased never spoke. the stomach-pump wan used, but he died in a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes afterwards. She found two bottles on the dresser, one being a half-pint and the other a small phial. M.. Huddlestone here produced; the bottle alluded to, together with some others that had been found upon the person of the deceased. There were five small phials, all filled with essential oil of bitter almonds, and bearing the labels of several chemists in Islington, and upon the label was printed the words, "Twenty lour drops are sufficient for a pint of custard." They must have been easily obtained. The Coroner said that the practice of selling those things in that way wan abominable. The word " poison" was not even written upon one single phial, those Phials containing at the same time one of the strongest poisons existing. The jury returned a verdict that he had destroyed his life by poison whilst in a state of temporary insanity. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. • GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the week ended March 27, 1856, male up front the Returns o t the In Apectors In the ditlereat Cities and Towns in England and Walks per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. BARLEY. t OATS. RYE. 1 BEAM. Priv 67i 5d 37s 21 23s 21 431 51 40A 71 39s 6d THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGE. WUE4T. BAILLT.Y. OATS. - BEANS. Pius. 694 3t 36s 3d I 23s 7d 46s Od 41, 43 40s ld QUAKTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 77,410; Itar , ey, 67.730; Oats, 20,361; Rye, 186 ; Beans. 5,513; Peas, !XII quarters. MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATB AND LEADENHILL.—We have a moderate demand for each kind of meat, as follows :—Beef, from 3s 0.1 to 4s ; Mutton, 3s 2 , 1 to 4s 4 ; Lamb, 6s to 7s ; Veal, 48 4d to 5s 4(1; Pork, 3s 2d to Cs Sd per 81bs, by the carcase. _ . SOUTHALL, March 2G.—To-day's market waavory mode rately supplied with each kind of stock, which sold steadily, as follows :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 83 ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s (,d ; L tmb, 63 01 to 'is 0,1 ; Veal, 4i Gd to 5s 6d ; I'ork, 3544 to Is 6d ' , or Sibs, to sink the offal. RostFoßD, March 26.—Thera was a fair trade here to day, at full quotations. Beef, from :is 4d to 4s 10d ; Mut ton, 3s 6d to 5s 2d ; Lamb, 6s 6d to 7s 6d ; Veal, 4s Gd to 5a 4d ; Pcrk. 3s Gd to 4s G• 1 per 81bs. Quarter-old Store Pigs, i:O5 to 26a each. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, '4/ 15s to 51155; clover do., 41 5s to 6/ Us • and straw, 11 4s to 11 96 per load. A moderate supply and a sluggish trade. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 410 s to 51155: clover do., 41 103 to 61 103 ; and straw, 11 5s to 11 103 per load. Trade steady. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ 18s to 51 14s; clover do., 41 10s to 61 15s ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 11 93 per load. Both hay and straw sold slowly, at our quotatima. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day.) LONDON, March 27.—Wind this day at noon, N.E. ; fresh breeze and fine clear weather. PORTSMOUTH, March 26.—Wind E.N.E., fresh— Arrived —Alverton, from Sourab:Lya, for Rotterdam ; Vulture, Batavia, for Bremen ; Adolph von Nassau and Rabenhaupt, Batavia, for Amsterdam ; Free Trader, Pe nang ; Somnauth, Bombay ; Honour, Mauritius ; Protec tor, Demerara. Off the port—Oriental, from Ratnburg, for Rio Janeiro. PLY MouT H, March 26—Wind E., strong—Arrived— Protector (s.), from Newcastle, for Rio Janeiro. Sailed— Ethiope (s.), for the coast of Africa. Mem.—The Sir Charles Napier, for Madras, did not sail yesterday as re ported. FALMOUTH, March 26.—Wind E., strong gales.—Ar rived—Eliza, from Sydney, N.S.W. 9ff the port.— Reubens, from Calcutta, for Dunkirk. PENZANCE March 25.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived—Joven Agostino, from Trinidad de Cuba, and not the St. Andero, as reported yesterday ; Eburn, Boston. HULL, March 26.—wind E.S.E.—Sailed—Chance, for New York. COWES, March 26.—Wind E.—Arrived—Josephus, from Calcutta ; Jenne Albert, Callao. BUCHAREST, March 25.—The Consul at Varna commu nicated the following British vessels to have been wrecked at Kustendje, on this coast, on the 14th and 15th lust., viz. :—Snaresbrook, Mary Nixon, Cadet, and Zealous, of London ; Af::nes King, William, and Wave, of South Shields ; Constantine, of Liverpool ; Mary Hudson, of Hartlepool ; Eliza Ann, of Whitby, and Emily Kate, of Sunderland—in all 11 vessels ; no lives lost. (PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Arrived—Elizabeth, from Middlestone ; Express, (s.), Jersey. Sailed—Washington, for New York ; Alliance, (s.), Havre; Le Coq and Georges, Cherbourg; Wonder, (a.), and Crapaud, Jersey ; Duke of Cornwall, (s.), London. LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind E. Off—Arabian, from Bombay ; Guatemala Packet, Gua temala ; Black Swan, Agamemnon, and Leona New Or leans ; Montezuma, Mobile ; Bridgewater, New York ; Onward, Sierra Leone ; Rosalie, Buenos Ayres. Sailed—Black Eagle, for Bombay ; Sea Bell, New Or leans ; American Union, New York ; Earl of Derby, Con stantinople. (ST SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELIEGRAPIL) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 10.0 a.m. Wind 8., strong; tide last hour's ebb. Arrived.---Anna Margaretha, front Tonning. Sailed.—Chanticleer, for Newfoundland; City of Qom *, 7:146tr0al s Groat Britian, iioareal. COMMERCIAL. The New York money market continues in an easy position. Stocks, under the influence of the English advises per Africa, were inactive, and tended down wards. Exchange on 'London, 1081 to 1091 ; Paris, 5.171 to 5.221. The cotton market closed easy at 10 to 101 c., for mid (fling uplands, and at 100. to 101 d. for Mobile do. Flour was more firstly held, and closed at $7 121 c. to $7 25c. for common to good State, which was an ad vance of about 12} cents. per barrel. Wheat was from 3c. to sc. higher, with sales of good red to amber coloured Tennessee, at $1 75c. to $1 80c. Corn was higher, with sales of white and yellow . at 70c. to 71c., and with some sales of the latter reported at 72c. Pork was inactive, with moderate sales of mess at $l5 75c., and small lots at $l5 871. Freights to Liverpool were firmer. Grain was engaged at Bd. ; and 9d. in bulk and ships' bags. ANOTHER DREADFUL STORM' IN THE BLACK 28A. UPWARDS OF TWENTY SHIPS LOST. A. telegraphic deepath, dated Constantinople, March 24, was posted yesterlay at Lloyd's, briefly announcing another terrible storm in the Black Sea, which appears to have been severely felt in the ♦icinity of Kustendje, between Varna and the mouth of the Danube. It broke out on the morning of the 14th instant, and continued with fearful violence for 48 hour., in the course of which no less than six English barques and five brigs, chiefly employed in the transport stores service, and ten foreign ships, were wholly wrecked. The names of the English vessels are reported in the message as follows : The barque Zealous, 339 tons burtben, Captain C,illi• son ; she was a Sunderland built ship, launched in 1844. belonging to Messrs. Cobinson and Co., in the city, arid wa+ classed in Lloyd's registry A. 1 for 12 years ; crew saved. Tne barcrie SnarAbraok, 459 tons, Captain Caithness comtuand,r, belonging to the port of Loudon ; she waa launched at Sunderland in 1852, and was clasatd A 1 for nine yard ; crew saved. The barque Constantine, 608 tons, Captain Bogs]. master, betonging to Bristol, where the owners, Messrs. Brass and C,., reside ; she was built at Ra,,:kwater in 1347, and claised at Lloyd's as A. 1 for twelve years ; e►ew saved. The barque Cadet, 347 tons, Captain Hatfield, of Loudon ; launched at Nova Scotia in 1849 ; classed A 1 for four years; crew saved. The barque Agnes King, 278 tons, Captain Gray, he. longing to North Shields, Messrs. Wodhouse and Co. owners ; blip built at Sunderland in 184 U, and 'classed A 1 fir eight years ; crew raved. The barque March Hikon (it is thought that some mistake has occurred in telegraphing the name of this ship, the name is not to be found in Lloyd's Registry) ; the crew is reported safe. The English brigs lost are—The Mary Hudson, 304 tons, Captain Brewis, belonging to Hartlepool, crow saved ; the Emily Kate, 238 tons, Captain Gowring, belonging to North Shields, crow saved ; the Eliza Ann, crew saved ; the William, crew saved ; and the Wave, crew raved. Among the other wrecks there were three French Alps —the V;I:e de Dunkerque, the Voile, and the J ourrier Jenin ; the crews were saved. The whole of the English vessels were insured at Lloyd's. THE FEENCII BUDGET. The Union of yesterday continues its examina tion of the budget, from which we extract the fol lowing particulars " It is known that the total amount of expenditure for next year (not reckoning supplementary or extraordi nary credit-) is 1,695,057,165 fr. ; that is 96,770,636 fr. more than in 1856. This expenditure is thus divided amongst the Ministerial departments :-1. The Ministry of State.—This Ministry receives a subvention of 2,028,300 fr., representing an increase of 133,100 fr. The central administration figures for salaries 438,600 fr., bureau expenses 115,000 fr. The Council of State, sa laries 2,012,0001 r., expenses 107,000 fr. The archiN es, salaries 100,0001 r., expenses 24,0001 r. The fine art. and theatrical subventions are thus divided :—Academy of France at Rome, 123,900 fr. ; school of fine arts in Paris, 111,500 fr. ; gratuitous drawing schools in Paris, Lyons, and Dijon, and assistance given to the depart thente, 63,8001 r. ; works of art, decorations of public buildings and medals, 950,0001 r. ; encouragement to art and letters and subscriptions, 211,0001 r. ; annual in -1 deuanities to artiste, authors, &e., 137,7001 r. ; imperial theatres, 1,515,000 fr., of which 820,0001 r. to the Opera, 240, 000 fr. to the Comedie Fraucaise, 240,000 tr. to toe OperaComique,loo,ooofr. to the Italian Opera,loo.ooofr. to the Odeon, &c. Historical monuments, 870,0001 r. ; extraordinary works, 'is, the juncion of this Louvre to the Tuileries, 4,000,000 fr. The Legion of Honour : Its expenses are estimated at 11,059,9501 r., or an in crease of 1,951,200 f. on last year. The number of mem bers of the legion, on Ist September, 1855, was—grand cross, 60 ; grind officers, 225 ; commanders, 1,080 ; officers, 4,769 ; cheva'ier-2, 48,503. The pen ions of the legion amount to 7,817,5001., to which must be added 74,0001 r. presents, and for the military medal with which 9,542 soldiers are deoora'ed,l,636,4oolr. 2. The Ministry of Justice—The budget of expenditure amounts to 27,476,2701 r., or an augmentation of 56,5001 r., which includes an increase of allowance for Algeria of 54,000 fr. 3. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs—The expenditure of this department has not increased ; it remains at 10,006,6001., yet the salaries have been increased by 19,5001 r., which has been met by reductions in other expenses to an equal amount. Amongst these expenses are salaries of diplomatic and consular agent 5,5,341,8 00 1.; secret expenses, 550,0001 r. ; extraordinary missions, 430,000 fr. ; subvention to Abd-el-Xader, 120,9001 J. &c., &I. 4. Ministry of the Interior—The expenditure shows an increase of 3,079,140 fr., or a total of 148,860,080 fr., amongst which are :—Secret expenses for the public safety, 2,000,000 fr. ; National Guard, 85,000 fr. only ; charity, 2,616,010 fr. The expenses in curred for convicts are--Ist. Ordinary expenses and transport for convicts, 16,650,000 fr. To this chapter must be added 800,0001 r. for 1857, which the following note explains in a manner unsatisfactory fin the light of publics morality :--‘ In reckoning even on a tall in the price of provisions, the bum of 16,380,600 f. would be ne cessary, in consequence of the increased number of con sumers.' We have still to examine the budgets of the ministries of Finance, War, Navy, Public Instruction, Agriculture, &c., which we reierve for some future oc casion." . The annual meeting of the British American Land Company was held yesterday. The report was adopted, and a dividend of 5 per cent, on the paid up capital was agroed to. UILWATI. 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Invest l4 1 4 1 Ditto New — iP 25 all 'Smith Austral:Land 35 36 sr; Submar. Tol. Scrip — 1 20 all • Do. Re , r ° isterOd. 15 5 Trust dtL.Co.U.Can 100 .2 8 9 Vs' Dlamen's Land 144 154 . .19 pt. - voisTscAligaillyl a?, 25 pit, 161 84; i 101 100 i 15i 93i 4 711 1 I 43 821 it 77 61 46t 68 i it 25i i I In 1.22 13f 33 2i 29k all all 10) 100 all all L._ i M. KOSSUTH ON TIII AUSTRIAN CONCORDAT. Last night the ex-( overnor of Hungary delivered a lecture on the Austrian Concordat, at the School rooms connected with Spa-fields Chapel, Exmouth street, Clerken well. Although there was a charge for admission, the room was crowded to excess. The illustrious exile was cheered in the most en thusiastic manner as ho ascended the platform, accompanied by a number of his friends. Tho Rev. T. E. THORESBY, the pastor of the chapel, introduced the lecturer by observing that the illustrious man, to whom it would be their high gratification to listen that evening, needed no in troduction to an English audience. (Loud cheers.) He was sure they would give him a hearty wel come. (Renewed and protracted applause.) It was necessary, however, for him to say .one word as to the course of lectures which M. Kossuth was now about to inaugurate. The place was built for the instruction of children in the day, and of adults in the evening. They would attain that object by a vat iety of means. They would diffuse a know ledge of history, politics, science, at t, literature, and also of social economics, our rights, duties, re forms, and progress. (Cheers.) The gentlemen who had had the arrangement of the lectures dif fered in their religious and political opinions. They were, therefore, in no case responsible for the opi nions of the lecturers, nor were the lecturers to be supposed in any case to favour their opinions. M. KOSSUTH then came forward, amidst loud and long-continued applause. After a brief intro duction, he gave a very able historical sketch of Hungary, in relation to Protestantism ; and showed the services that country had rendered to the cause of civil and religious liberty. He showed also the advantages it had conferred upon Europe by distinguishing between religion itself and the tyrannical ambition of the Papacy. The Hun-1 gariau people drew a broad distinction between Church and State, and would not allow the former to encroach upon the latter. This had led to a great deal of manly independence on the part even of the Hungarian Catholics themselves. They had even refused to become the tools of the Papal See. In the centre .of Europe, Hungary had always constituted a great , barrier to Papal aggression. Their Diet and their municipal privileges enabled his patriotic countrymen not only to speak against tyranny, as Englishmen could do in public meetings, but to counteract itsintentions. But this ft ee expres sion of opinion had been put an end to by foreign bay onets. England looked on, without saying a word, while Russiadestroyed the liberties of Hungary; but Europe—particularly England—had already suf fered retribution for her indifference on that occa sion, and would suffer still more. Had Hungary still been free there would have been no Concor dat, no war, no Paris Conferences, and no tempo rising, unsatisfact o ry p eace . (Loud cheers.) How was it that this feeble, vaccilating Pio Nono had been able to accomplish that which many of his ablest predecessors had attempted, but which none ' of them had effected ? Because time was when the Pope and temporal tyrants were at variance ; in this case they had united for the common object of the subjugation of the peoples. (Loud cheers.) Rome never changed in her endeavours to secure universal dominion ; although, as to the means by which she sought to attain her ends, she was perpetually changing. He showed the importance to liberty and Protestantism of Hungary being free, by asking his audience to consider what would have been the fate of Europe if Hungary had embraced Mahomedanism, instead of.repulsiug its aggressions on Europe, or if it had crone over to the church of which the C zar was the head ? The fear of Hungary going over to the Greek Church, or becoming entirely Protestant, had, whilst she was in possession of her ancient freedom, served as a check to the Papal See, and prevented it from encroaching, so much as she otherwise would have done, upon civil and religious freedom in that country. But the Pope had well chosen his opportunity to make this advance upon poor Hungary ; and, in fact, upon Protestantism and liberty throughout the world ; for where was there a nation which bad been exempted ? (Hear, hear.) He concluded by quoting an expression used by Oliver Cromwell in the House of Commons in 1658 —" Look how the house of Austria is preparing to destroy the Protestantism of Hungary. You may say, 'ltis a groat way off, and what is it to us ?' I tell you it is something to you. It concerns the religion of you all, and all the best interests of England." (Loud cheers.) The second and concluding lecture is to take place next Wednesday. in the same rooms, and at the same hour. M. KoSsuth has announced that he will then go into the details of the Concordat, and explain the position of Protestantism in Hun gary. Last night he was listened to throughout with the most profound attention, and warmly ap plauded very repeatedly. The lecture was a mas terpiece—full of choice and instructive historical allusions—abounding with facts which Englishmen ought to ponder, staled with that elegance, tamest nes I, dignity, and ability for which the illustrious lecturer is so deservedly celebrated, and of which a brief paragraph necessarily conveys no idea. As the lecture will probably be repeated in several places, we abstain for the present from giving a full report. . FRAUDS ON TEE LONDON AND NORTII IVESITI:IV JAILJVAY COMPANY. LIVERPOOL, March 26.—William, Parsonage, com penPation clerk in the Liverpool establishment of the g. ods department of the London and North-Western Railway Company, was this day brought before J. S. Mansfield, Esq., stipendiary police-magistrate, on re mand fi,in Monday lait, charged with defrauding the company. _ _ Mr. i3lenkinsop appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Brotherton defended the prisoner. Mr. James Henry Butler, merchant in Liverpool, stated that in February, 1854, he ordered a pair of globes from Mr. Wyld, in London, at a cost of 121. ISs. The g'obes were forwarded by the London and North-Wes tern Railway Company. The globes were not delivered to the witness, as being damaged on the way, he refused to receive them. Witness threw the globes on Mr. Wyld's hands ; but before doing so he made a claim against the company for 131. 3, rid., being 121. 18s., the value of the globes as charged in the invoice, and ss. 6d. for carriage. At Mr. Wyld's request the witness did not prosecute the claim against the company, as Mr. Wyld stated in a note to him that ho (Mr. Wyld) had settled with the company in London. Witness never, get anything from the company, and never had any parson named Winter in his employment. A receipt shown to the witness, purporting to he given by W. Winter, is not in the handwriting of any one in the witness's employment ; and, so far as witiess knows, there is not another James Henry Butler carrying on bus'ne s in Liverpool. Mr. Henry Horne, of the firm of Chaplin and Horne, carrying a;ents for the London and North-Western Railway Company, proved that he settled a claim with Mr. Wyld in London with respect to two globes da maged in course of transit from London to Liverpool. The settlement was made at the Great Globe, in Lei. nester-square, by payment of Si., wade in June, 1854. Mr. W. S. Fricker, chief clerk at the Waterloo sta tion of the railway company's establishment in Liver pool, said the prisoner was a clerk in the company's service, and his duty was to investigate and settle claims. Mr. Richard Salter was the cashier, but he had run away. The last time witness saw Mr. Salter was on Thursday last. Witness knows prisoner's hand writing, and, on being shown a book, said it is a book of accounts kept between the prisoner and the cashier. It has been kept partially by the prisoner and par tially by Mr. Salter, the cashier. When any claim is made against the company, the prisoner had to inves tigate it, and be had to hand in a voucher of the cir cunestancee, which voucher would be transmitted to London to the audit board, and if the company were liable, money was sent down to pay it, and it would be the duty of the prisoner to pay the money. On reference to a book containing a register of such vouch ers, witness finds it stated that Mr. Butler's claim was forwarded to London on the 14th of March, 1654. The receipt referred to as having been granted by \V. Winter is partly printed and partly written. The writ ' ten part is in the handwriting of the prisoner. It is dated in April, 1854. Another case was that of Messrs. Thos. Edgley and Co., in which a claim of 91 . 3 s. 2 d. had been made on Messrs. Chaplin and Horne for the delay of four cases of lint transmitted to Messrs. Kirk and Furniss. Mr. George Hitchin, a clerk with Chaplin and Horne, paid 71. to Mr. Thomas Edgley iu settlement of his claim. This was in December, 1854. A receipt for the full amount of 91. 3s. 2d., purporting to have been granted by a person named Harrison, as payment of that claim, bad been presented by the prisoner. No person named Harrison was in the employment of Messrs. Edgley and Co. After the particulars of the cases bad been gone into as to entries in books and other details, Mt. Bi en ki nsop applied fur a remand till Friday, which was agreed to. We regret exceedingly to announce the premature de mise of Mrs. Alexander Mackinnon, after giving birth to a stillborn child, on Tuesday last. "M. Chappuis's daylight reflectors," says the Builder, " are well known to be devised upon sound principles , and to answer their pu r p ose. Th e recent improvements consistr a m using silver plated surfaces instead of leaf sil ver, and that of metal instead of glass for the silvering. Some of the reflectors are also contrived to obviate and soften the dazzlir ffeot of refracted light , wh ic h is done by filling the r e fle ted surface with numberless concavi ties and convexities, and thus diffuse the light at different angles. In the gas reflwctocs, the former mode of using Copper-plated surfaces is done away with, and a coal. bitiation of crystal with silver plated copper is urea in such a manner as to exclude air from the silvered sur face ; and, at the same time, permit the glass to expand when heated. Many thousands of these useful articles Ihave been sold within the last three or four years, and a great addition to comfort obtained in numberless in. . 1 *Woes._ MERCANTIL le 1 1 16RALITV—PRAUDS ON UNDERIYBiTERS. Au unusually large attendance of members of Lloyd's took place yesterday, at the annual meeting at the Sub scription Rooms, Royal Exchange, in consequence of it notice given by one of the members of his intention to firing forward a motion in relation " to the condition of the underwriting business as it now exists." T. Baring, M.P., president, in the chair. The private business having been disposed of, Mr. WATTS rose and said he had Been compelled to give the notice attached to the requisition nuincooning the present meeting, as it seemed to him the only avail able means of calling the attention of members gene rally to the serious condition of a considerable and an increasing portion of the underwriting business to some of the mischiefs that had already occurred, and I to the inevitable result that must take place, unless some immediate • and effectual steps were taken to arrest that downward tendency which the room for some time past had exhibited. Take, for instance, what had occurred during the last year or there-about% The unusual event—to the houour of that association it might be so de:cribed—bad taken place of several members declaring themselves unable to meet their en gagements. Next, they had witnessed the withdrawal of a body of influential members from the underwriting department, on the groand that the risks and liabilities were so disproportioned to the premiums, that the-busi ness of underwriting was to a great extent not only an unprofitable, but a ruinous operation. Then there had been individual secessions, some giving up business wholly, some in pelt ; some determining to refuse to in sure goods to any port of export, especially manufac tured goods shipped from the Mersey or the Clyde ; others bad come to a similar resolution with respect to bodies of ships, and to open policies, because the expe rience of late years had proved that no possible profit could be made out of such a class of risks. Was this A state of things to be permitted to prevail without some effort being made to put an end to it ! Was it fitting that such a condition of business ought to be allowed to exist in such an ireportaut and influential association as that of Lloyd's —au a-sociation which was a commercial necessity, and intimately interwoven with the iibola vast commercial fabric of the empire! What was the cause of this state of .things ! The answer was not difficult. Of late years a- cemplete change had oc curred, not only in the mode of conducting business, but in the principles which governed business trans actions ; and, he might add, a new race had come forward, with a new code of commercial morals, to put those principles into action—thet while everything had done homage to what he supposed, in the phrase of the day, he must describe as the "progress of the age," there had been no analagons movement on the part of the underwriter, who bad not adapted his system of business to the alterations that had occurred. And the natural consequence wa , , that, under the pressure of competition, which acted with peculiar severity in the direction of profits, he found himself distanced in the race—he saw, without any corresponding counteraction on his part, that business year by year became more uncertain, inure speculative in character—in fact, to a great extent, as he should endeavour to show, almost a matter of gambling, but of *that kind of gambling in which the stake was the underwriter's whole capital, and where marked cards and loaded dice were used against him. Ile would briefly remind the meeting of the purpose for which that room was established. it was established on simple and intelligible grounds— for securing the shipper and shipowner against the perils of sea and storm ; and, though the underwriter's liabilities were extended in various directions, and embodied in that piece of antiquated incomprehensible jargon called a policy of assurance, still the liabilities and responsibilities of the underwriter were sufficiently limited and defined to enable bins to make those calcu lations performed in all other occupations, and by a fair adjustment between premium and risk, to see his way with tolerable clearness to a reasonable profit. But would any member attempt to define the extent of an underwriter's liability at the present ? He bad in vain attempted to ascertain-them. He found the most exag gerated, contradictory, and preposterous notion afloat on that question. In fact, it would appear that the genteel practice was to assume that the underwriter's liability begat' everywhere and ended nowhere—that it was only necessary to get an underwriter's name on a policy, by the lure of a small premium, of which, in particular classes of risks, it was intended he should never see a shilling, to make that circumetence the Mon d:4ton for every conceivable and unfounded kind of claim. Look at the increased risk for which under writers now. were responsible. First, there was the great change in the sizti of mercantile vessels, the un wieldy and dangerous class of vessels now employed, the clipper nuisance and danger, the use of iron in the construction of large ships, the oifficulty—ae every ship owner well knew—of procuring competent caetaine and ' mates, the impassibility of manning ships with able bodied British seamen, the necessity of making use of under-sized, drunken, (import, and foreign Inbbere, quite unfit for seamen's duties—thanks to legislative tinkering of the laws by ignorant statesmen, for the most part set is motion by interested adventurers, who now feel the consequences of their own selfishness, and are the most eager to retrace their steps. Above all, look at the increased risk of collision arising from the introduction of etearn, and the reckless seed-- tire of safety to speed. Each of these changes would constitute a large iteni inehe hat of additidisal liabilities, but combined, they press with inch crushing force on the underwriter' profits and c Thal, as to make the underwriting business ens of c weiin loss, and 'tethers of uldream rule, if persevered in to any extent.. It might be urged that this was a question of premium only, and that underwriters had the remedy in their own bands, by insisting on a suitab:e advance of pre mium. He denied that the view he was about to pre sent to the meeting of the question had anything what ever t) do with premium. It was on higher grounds that he placed his question. But be would observe, with respect to the feeling that underwriters had the remedy in their own hand , practically such was not the case. That which would be found at the root of all the existing mischief, and if nothing was done, all the mischief in store, was the utter want of unity in that room. It was an association without the association principle. There was no co-operation for the common interest, as was the case it, all other societies founded for a specific object. There were no general rules for keeping business within legitimate channels, and for the guidaiice of members in cases of emergency ; hence it was that, as every new inetuber was obliged to conduct business according to his experience or waist of experience, an irregular system of business was eitreduced, and inno vations and novelties, all telling against tee underwriter, became established usages. It was therefore hopeless to expect, as experience proved, that any co-operation, even for the common benefit could be brought about. He bad stated that the case he proposed to bring under the notice of the meeting was not a question of pre mium, it was a euestieu involving the character and the honesty of a portion, and an mereasing portion, of the business transacted in that room. lie asserted that a shameless system of imposition was practised or, cite un derwriter ; that there was an organised system of preme ditated fraud in the guise of claims for particular average for damages by sea water, which wee rapidly identifying ilself with ordinary litt.ineee, and against which the underwriter had no sufficient protection. It was impos sible to write goods to any port in the world without having a claim for alleged sea damage. The extent and audacity of this system indicated a condition of commer cial morality perfectly appellate. Shippers and mat ewe turers looked not to the profits of markets so much as to the profit they could extract from the pockets of under writers by manufactured claims for pretended sea damage. It•was necessary to check this nefarious busi nese ; it could not, however, be done by the present safeguards. It was a delusioento consider the law as affording any protection to underwriters against dis honest claims. The extra costs, if successful, which was very doubtful indeed, and the annoyance, would be found in nearly every instance to outweigh the amount of the dishonest claim. Then, again, the system of agents was rather a favourer of manufactured claims than an obstacle, because the agents, though disposed to act fairly could hardly be expected to do so when it was considered that their duty and their interest were placed at variance by the mode of payment. It was the same with the class of persons called average staters. They were, with come honourable exceptions, rather an assistance to the fraudulent claimant than a protection to the underwriter. The proposition be had to make was for the meeting to agree to establish a, board of investigation, to which all doubtful and disputed claims should be referred. The decision of this board should be binding, either for the claim to be paid er re-. sisted, out of a common fund. He also proposed that a register of claims, the names of parties, and the nature of the claims, be kept for the use of the members. He was satisfied that these securities must be afforded to the underwriter, in order to put a Stop to scandals which every year were becoming mere prevalent. It was ne cessary to have some tribunal to which to refer claims, and to do that which underwriters could net, or would: not do for themselves ; and it was equally necessary to have a register for claims, in order that underwriters might know who they were who 'dipped theirhastes so . deeply int o t h e i r pockets, and also that unserupuloaa. traders might be warned that henceforward they 1044 be marked and known, and that the source of disheneek profit, through the agency of fictitious claims for datniagee,. by sea water, which they had opened for themselves, would be closed for the future. The speaker then re verted to the committee, and suggested slit tliey alumld be empowered to frame some general rules for the Q O 4 - duct of portions of the business, and conclud=leenee ing two resolutions to the effect tha t it was . Cie,- a ppoint a tribunal to investigate claims, and times rew g ister of claims be kept, to which underwriters were to• have unrestricted access. Mr. HOPPER seconded the motion, which was put and declared to be negatived. Mr. WATTS was quite prepared for this result. He was satisfied tbat the time was at hand when all mem bers—leading members and junior members—must cone bine for self-preservation. The same over-trading that had occurred with respect to Australia, and for whioh the members had been made to suffer by unprincipled, shipper* so severely, would soon be repeated, now that peace was at hand, and speculation and over-trnaing, with their consequent reaction, might be expected to go on in their customary round. • Mr. WILLS thought that the proposition for a board of examination of claims nes beset with insuperable difficulties and could not be advantageously carried out. The other propoeition for a register of claims might be of use to members, and was worth further considera tion. . 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