The Sun. — London, England, 1861-03-26 00:00:00

antee of 3al inte 'orts, of ,imately summa issumed ong the ;ee your of my mdship, i's affee- tICK." :yde and eeded to band Of We have le to-dal itnessea• nated at singing hey Wel ras helot om urge ork ; andreturnel yen 6 13 a rr anged t ton viol" Df ge stair t the qd in tio ercantl le be o n ; in P! ' t s telt o t try 1 °, 1 ,0 for I d ," ey fi t/v ci bepas s... Cork f r „i ikren nlbt b e Mel • 11 be J r" tab lils ;. latlY ge• .. 900 ~A 9 ;69, • • 2 24 it; 00 1.01 'clr• 139 d 9, 11 0 .. / • ' k on - a ork ben ° b e line' W ! L e i ind u" ed fr°L l3 „, l ad st 1 : 0 ying s titutio fi doo l6 take the MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The reduction in the rate of discount at the Bank of England has caused a more buoyant feeling in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the past few days. Tea has continued in steady demand at about previous rates. For sugars there has been a more active inquiry, and full quotations have been obtained for good grocery descriptions. In the refined market the scarcity of supplies has caused a decided advance in values. Coffee has continued in fair request, fine descriptions having realised higher prices, Rice has been in better de mand, and late rates have been refused by holders. For saltpetre there has again been an active in quiry, and business has been done at enhanced quo tations. Tallow, however, has continued dull, Without any material change in values, either for present or forward delivery. A. large amount of business was transacted in the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, and prices again advanced Id. per lb. The sales were fully 25,000 bales. A further sum of about £32,000 in gold was sent into the Bank of England yesterday. The steamer Pera which leaves to-morrow for Bombay will take out £15,500 in gold, and £182,240 in silver. The bar silver by La Plata from the West Indies has been sold at ss. Old. per oz. standard, being a further decline of Zd per oz. There is no material alteration to report in the Money Market, but the inquiries continue active, with every possibility of becoming still more numer ous towards the end of the month, and full rates are consequently demanded for accommodation. The preparations for the engagements due on the 4th proximo may also be expected to stimulate the demand, but the payment of the April divi dends which will speedily follow may create in greased easiness. A call of £2 10s, per share, amounting to £200,000, is due to-morrow on the Great Northern Railway 5 per cent. preference shares. There has been a quiet Market for Public Securities to-day, and the quotations have not undergone the slightest change, Consols being 91! for money, and 92 to 92i for the account. India 5 per Cent. remain at 100 ; ditto 4 per Cent. Rupee Paper is ; ditto 61 per Cent. ditto is firmer at 99,1 100 ; but Exchequer Bills have further declined to 13s. and 7s. dis. In the Foreign Market the transactions have been exceedingly moderate, and prices in some instances are fuller. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 74; to 744 ; ditto, 1858, 54i 54 ; £lOO Bonds have receded to 57 ; and Portuguese to 461 ; Mexican, however, are firm at 244, and Dutch 44- per Cents. remain at 101. The preparations for the settlement for the ac count are now in progress in the Railway Share Market, and the transactions are of a rather limited character. Prices, however, are steady, and in nome instances a fractional improvement has taken place. Caledonian, Great Northern, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and Midland have advanced as. ; Great Western, and London, Chatham, and Dover, 10s. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, North- Western, and South-Eastern have been dealt in at about previous rates. Business in the Foreign and Colonial undertak ings has continued very quiet. Sambre and Meuse are steady at 51, and Great Western of Canada at 111 ; East Indian have improved to 991; and Great Indian Peninsula declined to 941. For Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares there has been a very limited inquiry. London Joint-Stock Bank have advanced to 301 ; London Dock Shares declined to 52, National Discount Company to 3,1, and London General Omnibus Company realise 1. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities India Stock .. . Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. 77 Ditto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 1858 95 Ditto 1859 95 ConsOs for Account Exchequer Bills, £I,OOO, 2d I .Dltto, Small FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PR 2 7 13 10 dis MexicanS per Cent 2, .ICES. 4 '4l I Ditto A.oCount Portuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853. .. 41 Turkish 6 per Cent • . 7 Ditto New Loan Ditto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 2i per Cent — Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent. THREE O'CLOCK. C onso l e , Money 914 92 Ditto .000ount THE TVEATIIER. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. This Day, between 8 and B. E. IM. D. F. C. I. S. 9 a.m. —— _ Nairn 29'33 43 42 • S.E. 3 7 o. 1 Aberdeen Leith 29'45 47 44 S.W. 4 9 o. 2 Berwick 29'52 45 42 S. 4 9 f. 1 Ardrossan Portrush Shields Galway 2917 46 45 S.W. 8 4 c. 6 Searboreugh 29'64 44 43 S.W. 4 7 a 4 Liverpool 20.59 47 43 S.E. 3 8 0. 2 Valenti& Queenstown 29'48 46 45 S.W. 4 3 a 2 Yarmouth 29/7 45 44 S.S.W. 2 6 m. 3 London 2974 47 45 S. 1 9 o. Dover 29/6 48 47 S.W. 1 7 o. 1 _Portsmouth Portland Plymonth Penzance I 29'66 49 48 S.S.W. 2 9 r. 3 Jersey ! 29/9 46 47 S.W. 2 sm. 1 EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and:reduced to 32 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10 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 f 1 to 9). I. Initials :—b., blue sky; c., clouds (detache d ) ; ~ fog. ; h., hail ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0., overcast (dull) ; r., rain; s., snow; t., thunder. A letter repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb ance (1 to 9). WIND AND WEATHER Birmingham, S.S.E. ; dull Boston, S. ; fine Brighton, N.W. ; cloudy Bristol, S. ; flue Cardiff, S.W.; dull Chatham, W.S.W., light; cloudy Cork, W.; fine Deal, S.S.E. ; foggy Dublin, S.W. ; fine Dundee, N.W. ; cloudy Edinburgh, W. ; fine Falmouth, S.W. ; rain Glasgow, S.S.E.; rail Goole, N.E. • fine Gravesend, W. • fine Holyhead, ; rain CONTINENTAL STA Barcelona, E.N.E. ; rain Brussels, cloudy Cherbourg, E.N.E. ; cloddy u o Penhagen S.S W ; clear Dunkirk, N.E.f°g" Havre, S. 2 _ - clo udy Leghorn, .u.N.E - f Leipaic, S. ; fi ne ; °g Lisbon, N.N.W. - fog LyonS, W.; cloudy REPORT, THIS DAY, 9 A.M. Hull, S.W. ; fine Kingstown, S.W. ' • fine Inverness, S.W. • fine Leeds, S.W. ; dull Limerick, W. ; fine Lowestoft, S.W. ; fog Manchester, N.E. ; fine Milford Haven, W.S.W.; rain Newcastle on Tyne, N.E. ; cloudy Sheffield, S.W. ; fine Stockton on Tees, N.W.; fins Sunderland. N.W. ; fine Waterford, N.E. ; fine Whitehaven, W.S.W.; fine Wolverton, S.W. ; cloudy ,TIONS, MARCH 25. Madrid, N.E. ; cloufiy Marseilles, S.E. ; cloudy Moscow, S.W. ; clear Paris, S.W. ; cloudy St. Petersburg, S.W.; cloudy Strasbourg, 8. ; very foggy Toulon, E. ' • cloudy Turin, E.N.E. ; cloudy Vienna, E.S.E. ; clear THE GREAT RYT EfiCAsE.—Oar readers will remember this case, which some months since came before th e Court of Probate and Divorce, when a declaration Rrfoersmedsto secure a declaration Serres, made. The next step of o f thebe taken► t c l y b of weMrs. informed, are of the legitim ac y of Mrs. Olive who was, it is step as the d au g hter of 11.R.H. t he uke of will be taken necessary Cumber land, the broth er of George 111. Thiss eP Mr.ce legal ri th as soon as funds can be p rovided for the tw°i expenses. Sir F. K ell y , Dr. Phillimore, and ssary well have kindly u ndertaken to conduct the appealwdoes t fees ; but many witne sses will be required, and ot her heavy outlays will be necessary to the prosecution of the suit. A committee has been formed, composed of highly respectable gentlemen, for the purpose of raising funds to enable M x B . Ryves to push her claims to a legitimate test and a final issue; and subscriptions are made payable at Spooner and Attwood's, Gracechurch-street. A singular circumstance may be here mentioned. The statement has gone the round of the papers that her Royal highness the late Duchess of Kent was brought with great difficulty from the Continent to this country just prior to the birth of Victoria, our most gracious and beloved Queen. The Duke of Kent was in great pecuniary difficulties at the time ; and it is nearly certain that the sovereign of these realms would not have been British born had it not been for Olive Serres, who, at the last moment, and at great personal sacrifice, advanced £4OO to H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, to enable him to defray the expenses incurred by the duchess in the journey to England. Olive Serres is dead : the Duchess of Kent is also dead. The daughter of the former is now an impoverished claimant for royal honours ; the daughter of the other occupies the grandest Rd mightiest throne in all this world 1-05toway Zino. SHARE MAREET-(THIS DAY.) ORDINARY SHAttES AND STOCKS. Shard Railways. I Paid.' ClosPr ice. in Done.g Busi ess VIII Bella,4t and Ballymena all 13.14 ,Bir., Wol , and Str. Val ! all 881 stock 'Birk., La., and Ch Duna 1 100 100 80 82 25 Blyth and Tyne all 10 Boat. Sleaf. and Mid.Co I all 5 4 6 4 stock Bristol and Exeter stock Caledonian 10 Carmarthen k Cardigan all 50 Cork and Bandon all 20 Cork, Ilrock. Passage all 20 Cornwall . , 10 Dos ( A gets rio di-v fall 13 Do B !mill 6pc peran. oasbeen toB Dublin & Belfast. •Juac. all 42 44 25 Dun., Perth, &Ab. .1 um all 8 81 stock East Anglian lOO 17 18 stock Eastern Counties lOO 491 501 491 stock Eastern Union, A stock 100 37 39 stc..ik Do do B do 100 26 28 25 Do .Nw A, late EU3ds 131 stock East Suffolk stock Edinburgh & Glasgow 100 84 86 stock Edin. Perth, & Dundee , 100 254 261 26 1 0 Forth & Clyde Junction' all 'stock Furness stock Glasg. and S. Western 100 111 113 10 Great Nthn. of Scotland all stock G reatNort h ern lOO 110 111 1104 stock Do do A stock , 100 1044 1054 106 5 stock Do do B do stock IGt. S. &W. of Ireland 100 107 109 stock Great Western stock Do Str Val gun. stock I 100 60 62 12 Irish South-eastern 1 all stock Lancashire & Yorkshire! 100 1114 1114 1114 12 stock London and Blackwall 100 61 02 611 stock Lon., Bright.. & S Coast 1100 118, 119 stock Lond., Chat., and Dover 100 46 48 474 stock Lond. & Nth. Western 100 954 95 95 4 65 1 stock Loud. & Sth. Western lOO 911 021 92 1 25 L'derry & Coleraine all 25 L'derry & Enniskillen all 1 0 / 11 4 stock Man. Shet. & Lincoln lOO 464 474 464 71 50 Maryport and Carlisle all 121 Do do 1 shares all 10 Metropolitan 6 3/ lid stock Midland 6.4.0. Do new stock Do Birming. & Derby 100 03 101 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all 25 Do 4 shares a l 25 Mid Kent.. 10 Do, Cray Line 100 Newcastle and Carliale all 10 Newry & Armagh, def 9 7 6 d 20 Newry, Warnpt. & Ros all stock Noifolk lOO 54 56 stock North British . 100 631 641 64 1 4 stock Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stook 1100 stock Da A stk ; A recs no d. until 6pchas beenpd.B 100 stock Do B stock ... 100 stock Nth. Eastern—Berwick 100 102 1024 102 25 Dodo, purchase 16 13 4 4d /1)d stock I Do Leeds 100 601 601 stock 'Do York ........ ...... 100 901 014 904 stock North London 10 Do new 5 19.16.4 North Staffordshire 174 t 54 31 1 13 4 1 1' N. and S. W. Junction all 91 101 12 Not. & Grantham Rail ll 78 70 10 Peebles all 20 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney all stock Scottish Central stock Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 34 .15 stock Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 86 88 stock Shropshire Union 10 Sittingbourne & Sheer. all stock South Devon 50 Ns hn. Counties Union 3/ d 25 S.-Durham & Lane. Un 224 stock South Eastern ..... 100 831 841 644 3 4 stock South Wales 100 59 61 stock S. York. and River Dun 100 94 97 20 Staines, Wok, and Wok all 4 7 25 Stockton & Darlington all 401 414 411 25 Do do 25 Do New (1860) 3 6 61 p stock Taff Vale stock Do Pref. No 1 lOO 25 ThamesHavenDk.t Rail 22 50 Ulster •• ' all 55% 561 25 Do 12 10 Do _ : 2 d p stock Vale eiNeath 10 Victoria Sta. and Pim I all 111 114 stock Waterford & Kilkenny, 100 50 Waterford & Limerick all 20 West Cornwall 20 West L0nd0n.......... all 10 Do let class ........ all 20 Do 2d class . .... all stock Westnartlepool Warbr , and Rail lOO stock West Midland—Oxford 100 43 45 stock Do. Newport 100 40 43 stock I Do. Hereford 100 79 81 stock stock stock stock stock stock 25 stock stock stock 10 19.18.41 stock stock stock stock 10 stock stock stock stock stock stock 12 10 stock 10 stocx stook stock stock stock PREFERENCE SHARES. Closing Business Share' Railways. IPaid p rim Done. Blythe and Tyne 10 per e. pref. (issued at £5O Kris. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock Do. do. do. Shares Caledon £lO, 4+ per cent Do. Quer. Shares, No. 2. ,Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. Cornwall. 5 per cent Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun ,Do Ist Class Pref E.Angn.Class A 7 &sp.c ,Do. do. Class B 6 p.c Do. do. Class C 7 p.c E. Coun. Ex. 5 p. e. No.l Do. do. No. 2 Do. New 6 per et. stock. Eastern Union, 4 per et. Do. 5 per cent. guar... I Edin.&Glas. sp.c. shares I Do. 4p. c gua. S. &D. Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. Furness, 5 per cent .... Glas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. I Great Northern, 5 p. et. Po 5p c Redm., 10 p.c.pm Do. 41 p. c. do. do. Do. bye. Redm. 5 p.c. pm IGt. Nh. of Scotld. Ist pf. 1 Gt. Sn. & W(lreland)l 1 1 p. ct. pref. stock 1 Great West. (Berke and Hants) rxt. 5 p. et Co. Redeemable, 41 p.ct. Do. Redeemable, 4 p. et. Do Irredeemable, do ' Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref Do. Birm. Pref. Shares Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.c. ptsh. Do. do. 5 p. et. pref Do Birmg.guar. stock Do. Chester gua. shares Do. do. do. Do. do. do. 'Lan. & Carl. 4i p c. pref Lan .&York 6 p. c. stock Do.Barnsl.st.ts 3s 10d pc Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) Lon.& Brig. 5 pc.gu. No.l Do. 5 p. c. No. 2 Do. gua. 6 p. c. IDo. do. 5 p. c. No. 4 Do. do. 41 per cen ,- . Do. do. 41 p. c. shares Do. 7 p. et. Pref. stook Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P , Do.4p.c.S.(div.deftil '65) Do. 4 per cent. Pref Lon. Chat. and Dover I Do.W. A rceiv. no div Ex.A til 6pcis pd on Do. B B. & Brom ex. Do. Metropolitan Ex B Lon. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, 5 p. et Lon. & S.W, 7 p. ct. stock Do. 44 per cent Do. (Prtsm, perpl anns of 2s. 6d.. .. ... Londondy. Cole.. 4 sh Londony. & Ennis. 1 sit Sian. Sh. &Lin. 6 per ct Do ..£6 Do. 34 per cent Do. redeem. 6 r.er cent 7farycort & Car., 4 p. c Do. 41 per cent. Mid. Con. 6 p c. stock Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c Do. 41 p. c. pref. stock Do. with option till 1860 Do. Leic. & Hit. pref. st. I Norflk 5 p. c. Ex. st. 184 s Do. 54 p. c. Pref. do. 1847 ,Do.sWay.Val.Ex.st.lB47 ' North British, 5 p. o Do. New, gua. 5 p. c Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. sits Do. do. do Nth.Dev.R ail. & Dck.Co. N-East.Cons.Pref. 4 p. c. Do. 41 p e. redeemable Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. Do. do. do Do. Leeds, 6 p. e. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, ~ &S. Purch. North Staffordshire Rhymney Guaranteed. Scottish Central, new pt Scottish North-Eastern 31 p. c. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen,qua.6p.c. Do. 7 p. e. pref. stock South Devon, Ann. 10s. Do. Fixed 41 per cent , South Eastern (Reading) Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 41 per cent. Do.Eixed i Ip.c. Ist is. south Wales, gua. 4 p.c. Do. 41 per cent. Do. 5 per cent: S.-Yorks - hire, 4 p. e gua. Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B 6 ner cent Do. C 6 percent I Wated & ICilkny, 6 p. c. W.Mid -Oxf Ist Gua stk Do. 2d do Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf. red. Do.Perpet. 6p. c. pf 1866 Do. till 1869, let is. I Do. do. 2d is. 99 101 20 21 6 6} 99 101 108 113 105 108 108 110 106 108 121 123 80 82 110 112 90 92 113 115 111 113 102 104 83 85 97 99 97 99 89 91 90 92 100 102 91 10/ 17 18 101 101 74 76 20 21 10 104 15 154 1 135 137 1 112 114 112 114 1 135 140 112 114 101 103 148 153 128 131 70 73 86 88 13} 141 t 26 128 1 TH 68 70 133 135 100 102 91 93 11 113 ,09 111 91 93 WO 101 id ip 22 i pdi i 23 130 132 lot NI 221 23} 98 100 99 100 08 100 85 87 26 27 31 i 32 1 31i 321 45 48 122 124 118 121 98 100 121 124 114 116 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. • Railways. p aid. Leasing ,Closing Business Co. s. Price. Done. Bedford and Bletch ley ; Buckinghamshire....; Chester cis Holyhead.), Do. do. per ceiat.l Do. do. 5 per cent. Clydesdale Junction..‘ Colchester, Stour Val. E. Lincolnshire,g.6p.c. E.Union,Harwich Shsi Do. Woodbridge 1 Gls.l3arr.&N eils,Dret ' Do. New Gloster Dean For( at' Hartlpool.Dck.& Rail. Hull and Selby Do. Shares Do. Shares Lanc.& Carl. gua.s p.c. London Do. Prefe &rence Greenwich Lon.,Tilby.& Soutend. Lowestoft, gua. 4 p.c Do. 6 per cent ...... Manc.,Buxtu.& Matk. Mid. Bradford Prefer ence Stock ......x I Newmarkt,BuryiE guaranteed 5 p. c. 5 Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. Do. do. 6 per cent Do. Fixed 5 per cent. North Wes tern Preston and Wyre. Do. Shares Roystn.Hitch., & She Slare o 7 u sbry& 11 ere o f . ora D South Staffordshire .. Wilts and Somerset.. WintleClolla CrOydn. Ln ArN.W &N.W Do. Do. Do 'Caledoniu E.U.&E Gt. North. E.Counts. 'Ca 4 l.edonin IDa ...... !Gt. West. Yk.N.&Br Yk.N. Md. Do. Do. rLn & N W S. East I Do. Peto & Co. (Norfolk I Do. IL NW&M ( Midland , E.Counts ...... Do. . ... Midland L&Nw) Do. L.yk. . .. Gt.Nortii • . T.Brassey M'Clean.. Gt West LA Brgta 94 96 53 531 121 123 109 111 , 99 101 ; 156 61 135 137 41 41 ;109 111 !201 204 61 63 112 117 87 90 Share 100 stk 18 20i 204 10 100 100 100 3 3} 94 96 k 4P 55 57 151 15} 132 134 100 102 i p 89 10 i gi 8 1 91 100 100 100 100 100 loot 10 f .iT.. • BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railways. 'Atlantic & St Lawrence' Born., Barodia. Cent Ind Go. 5 per cent.. .. Do, Do. Buffalo and Laze Huron iDo. New Do. Preference ...... Buffalo,Brant,&Godrich 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. .June 1, 1879 Clcutta. AtS. Ea s tn. (Lim) Cape, East n. Prov. (Lim.) Cape Town & Dock scrip Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c 'Demerara Eastn. Bengal go. 5 p. c 'East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. Do. F Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore Do. 44 p c. Debentrs Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864 Do. 1865-1870 Grand Trunk of Canada Paid. 100 Price. Do. 6 per cent. Pref.. Do. 2d Pref. 6 per ct.. Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. Do. do. 1867.. Do. do. 1872.. G t. IndiaPenin.gua.sp.c. Do. New gua. 5 p. c... Gt. South. of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. Do. do. 1 65 70 92 §3 16 16i d' 4i 5 d 8 7 75 80 100 100 100 all 65 70 65 70 4f 5 11 1 d # fi li 13 d 99 160 97 08 00i . 1004 3 201 214 40 42 45 50 34 42 38 42 9t4 95e lid liJ !Gt. W, of Canadahareal Do. New Do. Bonds pay. '76, with, opt, till '6O ...... Do. do. '73 till . '60..... Do. do. '73 without opt. Do. 5} p. c. do. '77 d 0... Do. 54 p. c. do. '7B d 0... Madras, guar., 4 1P- c• • • Do. do. 5 per cent .... Do. 4 p. o. Extension Do. 5 d 0........ Melb.Corp. 6 g. o. Bnds. Newßrunswick a Canda Ry.ctLand(Lim.)g.6pc Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land d0........1 Do. do. B Capital d 0... Do. do. Land do. Dude (Limited) ........ Scinde .......... Do. Punjaub g Do. Do. ........ 5 Do. Indus. St. Flo. g. ,Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. FOREIGN 2 li d llt 14 91 4 d 95 98 90 93 se. (100 15 all 100 1 RAIL 82 84 92 93 86 88 12 14d 5 7 5 7 971 Nil 2 d 101 cr 'NAYS. 'NAYS. Business done 4 :49 it I 214 656 41 3W 9if 61 16k 11} THE SUN, LONDON, "'USDA A.ntrwerp & Rotterdam. Ardennes Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac.. Cfo-neaux Mine dr Rail Copiapo Ditto Extension .... Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France (Grand Rue Guar. 6 p. c. Do. do. Great Central of France Gt.Luxem., Con. she... Italian Junction Lierre & Turnhout Lyons dr G eneva . . Namur & Liege ........ Do. 6 p. e. Pref. ........ Northern of France.— Do. New Shares ~.... Norwegian Trunk Pref.' Paris,Lyons, k Mediter. 'Paris 0r1ean5........ Recife & S. Fran. (Fern.) gua. 7 p. et. 1irn...... Riga ,tr Dunaburg...... Royal Dani5h.......... Royal Swedish ........ Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... Sambre & Meuse ...... Do. 54 per cent. Pref..... , San Paulo, lim, g. 7 p. c. S.Aust. &Lomb Vene tin Southern of France.... . East Portugal 7 p ct.' est Flandern ........ Do. 54p. c. Preferenco • • 1 W. & N.W . of Francs .. Western of Austria.... Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden ...... ...... Do. 8 per cent Pref.... Zealand . . bi- 6I -p 11 li.l i 11 12 13 31 21-1 31 31• 22 23 61 7i 71 7; 19 20 371 381 8 9 37 38 55 67 4} 311 51 0 1 8* 8* 11 11d 14 11d 201 214 6 6t 9 9 1 21 i 226 BRITISH MINES. 2.11.10 16 nil Alfred consols (Philack) British Iron Clifford Devon-G. Cons. (Tavist ) East Bassett (Illogan) 1 East Caradon ..... IE. Russel (Tavistk.) GAM. diSt.Aubyn(Gwen.), Great South Tolgus G.Wheal Alfci. (Philack), IG. Wheal Vor (Helston)l Grenville 'Herod's-Foot ,Hingsbon Downs 'Lady Bertha ;Margaret (t.7ny Lelant), North Downs North Frances (Illogan) ,N.Wh'i Basset (1110 ,an) , (North Wheal Crofty Par Consols (St. Blazey) l ,Providence (Uny Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. , South Caradon(St.Cleer) S. earn Brea (Illogan) S. Dev. Iron et Gen., Lim. S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan) Stray Park I Tamar Silv.Sz Lead Min. Tin Crott Vale of Towey (Carm )1 West Basset (Illogan) W. Caradon (Liskeard) West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan)1 ;Wheal Buller (Redruth) 'Wheal Edward (Cale.), !Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) Wheal Mary Ann (Men.) I Wheal Trexawney (Lie.) 2.14.6 7.4.0 FOREIGN MINES. 20 Australian 1 I BonAccord Copper,Lira. 20 , Brazil St.J.del Rey,Lim 5 ; Do. Lan d and Mining Co. 1 'Clarendon Cons.MinCo 40 Cobre Copper Copiapo 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming,.Co 2 Fortuna. 17.6 15 all all 20 General 2 'Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr Kapunda (Limited) 3 Linares 5 , Lusitanian 1 iMariquita. 1 ,N. Rhin eCopot S.Aus. L 20 'Pontgibaud Silver,Lead, Mining and Smelt S IPort Philip 1 , Scottish Austrin. (L.) 231•81 United Mexican .. 1 'Worthing (Limited) Do. all 1 10s. all all all 125.6 d. B JOINT-STOI ,grattUnitedService Bk, ,ustralasia rl3ank of Egypt Bank of London Bank of Turkey British North American Chtd.Bank of India, &c. Ch. Mer. of In. L on.& Ch. City Colonial ........ ... Com. Bank of Canada.. Commercial of London. !Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch.. Gen. Bk .of Switzerland Lon. Char.Bkof Austral London and County .. 'London Joint Stock .. London and S. African.. 1 London & Westminster !Nat. Prov. of England IDo. new ........ +National Bank .... •• • • ,New South Wales.- lOrient. B. Corporation . Ottoman Bank . . 'Provincial of Ireland .. Do new 'South Australia .. •.. Union of Australi a . ... Union of London . , Unity Mutual COLONIAL GOVER: Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. &July Do. 6p. cent. 1879 Do. 6 p. cent.lBBo-2 Do. 6p. cent 1883-4 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug. Do. 6 p. c. Mar. & Sept. Do. 5 per cent Cape G.Hopo, 6 p c,lBBO Do. 1890 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July Do. 6 Jo. c.Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. b p. c., 1866 Do. 5 p. c.,1871 to 1876 Do. p.c., 1888 & upwds Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. C sterling, 1875 S. Au5,G6p.c.1878.& up Vic. Gov. 6 p. c. Ja &July Do. do. 6 p c Ap.&Oct DOCKS. Commercial Do. 4 per Cent.Pref3lin 1 East and West India London .••••• St. Katharine. Southampton Victoria .. ... . . Do New . •-•• • • MISCEL Anglo-Mexican Mint Atlantic It. MI. Stm (1d) Atlantic Tel. (Limited) Australian Agricultural Berlin Water (Limited) British American Land B.&l.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim.) Do. 8,7p.c.ti111852 (Lim) Do. C. (Limited) Canada Land_ Chan.lslands Tel. (Lim.) Cop.Min.olEng.&String. Do. Pref. 7i per cent Crystal Pa ace Do. Preference ,E.lndia Irrig - ,n. & Canal Electri9 Telegraph Do. New Engliqh & Aus. Copper Gen. 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If 63 65 50 52 17 18 38 40 23 24} 801 73 T SECU. ,ITIES. :07 109 110 112 ' 100} 1001 ICB 1081 108 109 108 i 1071 98 99 98 09 971 98j 106 107 107! 108 i 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 97 99 2 id par ,ANEOUS. all 13 14 28 30 4} 41 34 36 18 20 121 141 114 118 29 80 102 101 id 96 99 d ' 3} 31 I I 1* It 2* 34 I* lid 14 Old 1 1 4t 47 60 67 69 10 n 184 19 p 164 17} 44_ 64 50 6i 123 128 32 34. _~ b~ 9 101 1091 11 181 CI 40 314 107} 8} MEN' 100 all all all all 5 28i :EVENIAG, MARCH_ 26, XB6l. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EVENING) COLLEGE OF ARMS, MARCH 26. In reference to the order for a General Mourning for her late Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, which was an nounced in the Gazette of the 18th inst., These are to give notice, that it is not expected that the Public should appear in Mourning after Thursday, the 11th of April next. E. G. F. HOWARD, D.E.M. POLICE HITELLIGENCE.—( This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A NARROW ESCAPE.—Two smart females named Ann Doore and Eliza Jenkins, were charged as follows : Bentley, 55 C, said, about one this morning he was in Arundel-court, and saw a gentleman, who he had since ascertained to be a Mr. Jefferson, with the two prisoners, and putting his arms round their necks. Sometime after, on passing through the court again, and while standing in a doorway, the prisoners passed him, and he heard Jenkins say to Doore, " Hold your noise. Yon don't know so much as I do. You have not been so long about." The priso ners then turned into the Haymarket, and on his passing down the court he saw a pocket-book lying on the stones. He then went after the prisoners, and seeing Mr. Jeffer son's name in the book, he had now attended. Mr. Jefferson, accountant, of Cedar-road, Walham-green, said the pocket-book was his property, and was of value to him on account of the memoranda it contained. He had been standing treat to the girls, but did not know of his loss till spoken to by the constable. Inspector Webb said nothing was known of the prisoners. Mr. Mansfield said they had had a narrow escape. If anything had been known of them as pickpockets he should have sent them for trial. He hoped it would be a warning to them, and he would recommend them to keep their hands from picking and stealing. He should now discharge them. Lieutenant `Alfred Kingston, of I, Church-place, Pic cadilly, was charged with being drunk and incapable. 73 C, finding the defendant drunk, and as he had pro•. perty about him of some value, he took him into custody, fearing that he might get into the hands of bad characters. Discharged. THE TELEGRAPH FRAUDS IN INDIA. For some time past frauds on an extensive scale have been practised on the electric telegraph wires. A few specu lators in opium have caused messages to be most grossly falsified whilst passing through the wires between Galle and Bombay. A meeting of the members of the Chambers of Commerce was held, and a committee appointed to report on the delinquencies of the electric telegraph department. In common with the rest of the inhabitants of Bombay, we are awaiting with some anxiety the report of the committee Meanwhile two of the signallers, George Pecktall and Wm. Allen, dismissed from the public service, have been com mitted to stand their trial at the next criminal sessions, for having cut and used the wires for the transmission of ficti tious telegrams by agents of opium speculators. As it was found impossible to corrupt the telegraph establishment to such an extent as to ensure the falsification of the messages iirom Galle, a set of scoundrels set their wits to work to find out how this might be done independently of the telegra phic officials. It very natdrally struck them that amongst the number of discarded signallers there might be found one who, either from motives of revenge or for a sufficient pecu niary consideration, might be prevailed upon to lend himself to the fraud, and it unfortunately happened that a person of this description was found ready to their hand. A young man of the name of George Pecktall, who had formerly been employed as a signallerin theGovernmentElectric Telegraph Office, but who had been dismissed for miscondict, consented to aid the conspirators in their designs, and assisted by another dismissed signaller, named William Allen, who had been turned out of the Indore-office some time ago, pro ceeded from Bombay to Poona, where they planned the ex pedition which is likely to consign them to a felon's cell. The evidence given in the Bombay Police-office makes it quite clear that these young men must have obtairied pos session of one of the instruments used in the Railway Tele graph Department to enable them to accomplish their ob ject. They set out from Poona fully equipped with all that was necessary for their purpose, and proceeded to a spot in the immediate vicinity of the village of Beebee-chaw-addee, about four or five miles off at the foot of the Katruj Ghaut, over which the telegraph wire from Sattara passes. Their operations seem to have consisted in first cutting the wire and then inserting a signal instrument and battery, by which means they read off the messages as they were being flashed from Poona without the fraud being detected. They then worked the telegraph to the advantage of their em ployers by falsifying the original message, which latter they delivered to their agent in Poona, and before the fraud was discovered, which was not until after the arrival of the China mail steamer from Galle, enormous sums of money were alledged to be made by the parties in the secret. There was of course an interruption between Sattara and Poona as soon as these young depredators disconnected their battery from the wire, as the latter had been cut completely through, and on the inspector proceeding to the spot he as certained that there had been foul play in the matter ; bu it was not until the China mail arrived that the falsifica tion of the messages was discovered, when a light burst upon Mr. Wickham, Deputy Superintendent of Electric Telegraph Department, who was not long in finding a clue to the whole affair which he has successfully followed up.--; Bombay Gazette, Feb. 27. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MARCH 26. The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General at Ham burg, enclosing a copy of a Decree, passed by the Senate of Bremen, abolishing from the Ist inst. the duties levied until that date upon goods in transit through the territory of Bremen, as also the export duties charged in lieu thereof. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. Perthshire Rifle Volunteers-14 Battalion— George Parris Salmon, Esq., late Major of the Bengal Artillery, to be Adjutant from Feb. 21, 1861. Cheshire Rifle Volunteers-sth Battalion—James Swe tenham, late Captain 54th Regiment, to be Adjutant, from July 27, 1860. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT. sth Cheshire Artillery Volunteers-2d Battery—Lieu tenant Restel Ratsey Bevis to be Captain. 3d Battery— Andrew M(Nicol, Esq., to be Captain. Cheshire Rifle Volunteers-4th Company—George Tre vor Roper, Esq., M.D., to be Honorary Assistant-Surgeon. 15th Company—John Woodward, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Davies, resigned. Bth Cheshire Rifle Volunteers-3d Corepany—Lieute nant Thomas Antrobus, to be Captain; Ensign Albert Gray, to be Lieutenant ; John Wright, Gent., to be Ensign. MEMORANDA. 6th Cheshire Artillery Volunteers—Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to allow Captain William Laird to assume the title of Captain-Commandant. 11th Company Cheshire Rifle Volunteers—Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept the resignation of the Commission held by Lieutenant Hugh Craig in the above Corps. BANKRUPTS. Philip Raphael, publican, Duke street, Aldgate. Thomas Wood, builder, Colchester. John King, saddler, New Alresford, Southampton. James Harden Gates, builder, Manor-street, Clapham. John Manley, baker, Liverpool. John Whittaker, spirit dealer, Wrexham. Minshull George Phillips, mercer, Newcastle-under- Lyme. William Stroud Partrige, surgeon, Birmingham. George Pryde, ship chandler, Liverpool. Richard Evans, flannel manufacturer, Tyddyn-y-pandy, Merionethshire. James Booth, jun., worsted manufacturer, Bramley, Yorkshire. Charles Kedman Jarvis, bookseller, Sheffield. Willmott Gabriel, eotton spinner, Stockport. Williom Barclay Stewart, cloth agent, Manchester.: James King, cotton manufacturer, Shawforth, Lanca shire. Robert Snowdon, carver and gilder, Newcastle-on-Tyne: George Edward Parker, dealer in foreign goods, Moor gate-street, City. George Norman and George Bennett Norman : brass founders, Birmingham. Richard Field, sen., corn dealer, Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire. Jonathan Craven, stuff manufacturer, Birstal, Yorkshire. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. John Campbell and Co., slaters, Laurieston, Glasgow. John Douglas, innkeeper, Cumnock. Alexander Thomson, shoemaker, Kilmarnock. John Leask, merchant, Macduff. Nathaniel Grieve and Co., merchants, Banff. Sarah Leask, feuar in Macduff, Banffshire. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tms DAT. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 12 lt 12 1f Antwerp Brussels — 25 62} 25 70 Hamturgh Paris Ditto Marseilles — 25 70 25 75 Frankfort on Maine — 1181 1191 Vienna Trieste Petersburgh. — 33} 331 Berlin Madrid .... Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo Messina Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro .. .. New York — .i. .. Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard).... per oz. £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) ,, 0 5 Of South American Doublons -48 f - 481 - 25 0 - 25 85 - 25 85 38k - 116/ - 116/ -62 f 621 481 48f 26 5 25 90 2,5 90 39 117 117/ 52 53 SPORTI2VG INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER-MONDAY. Zitella, for the Earl Spencer's Plate, was very freely sup ported to-day, and finished a better favourite then Spanish FJy, against whom fo to 1 was offered ; and Seclusion was also backed for this event. For the Northamptonshire Stakes, King of Diamonds was in force. The City and Suburban remains without change. 10 to 1 was offered on the field for the Chester Cup, and 100 to 6 was taken about Mau-at-Arms ; Butterfly would have been backed at a small advance on 100 to 6, and Wallace was much talked about. but stood at 30 to 1 (offered), take 100 to 3. Bto 1 was taken against Diophantus, and 10 to 1 would have been taken about Matador, for the Two Thousand Guineas. For the Derby, 9 to 2 was taken about Dundee, and it is evident that Rouge Dragon is coming strongly into favour for this raoe, 100 to 7 being taken very freely. Closing prices : EARL SPENCER'S PLATE. 10 to 1 agst Zitella (taken) .10 to 1 apt Spanish Fly (taken and offered) le. to 1 agst Seclusion (taken) NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 100 to 7 agst King of Diamonds (taken) 100 to 7 agst The Rap (taken) 110 to 6 agst Moorhen (offered) 100 to 6 agat Man-at-Arms (offered) 20 to 1 agst Rattlebone (offered) CHESTER CUP. 10 to 1 agst Chere Amie (offered) 16 to 1 agst Man-at-Arms (taken) 25 to 1 agst Sweet Hawthorn (offered) 30 to 1 agst Wallace (offered, take 100 to 3) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 10 to 1 agst East Sheen (offered) 100 to 7 agst First Lord (offered) 100 to 6 agst Industrious (offered) 20 to 1 agst Benbow (offered) 40 to 1 agst Dover (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 7to 1 agst Klatikoff (taken) Bto 1 agst Diophantus (taken) 10 to 1 agst Matador (wanted) 10 to 1 agst Sweet Hawthorn (offered) 12 to 1 agst Russley (taken) DERBY. 4to 1 agst Dundee (offered, 9to 2 taken) 100 to 7 agst Rouge Dragon (taken freely) 30 to 1 agst Matador (offered) 35 to 1 agst Bombardier (taken) 66 to 1 agst The Drake (taken) DESCENDANTS OF DANIEL DE FOE. In the month of June, 1857, James De Foe, the great grandson of the author of "Robinson Crusoe," died, having derived support during the last years of his life, part from a subscription set on foot for his benefit, but principally from tin industry and self-denial of two unmarried daugh ters. Protracted sickness, and much unavoidable distress consequent upoa it, occurred to these daughters after the death of their father ; whereupon, at the commencement of the present year, a few persons to whom the fact was known appealed to Lord Palmerston for the grant of a small sum out of the Queen's Bounty. It ought to be generally known that this appeal was at once generously responded to by the Prime Minister, and that the sum of £lOO was with great kindness granted to the poor descendants of one of the most remarkable writers of England. Such details of the case as wore submitted in support of the application to Lord Palmerston may be interesting to our readers, and we there fore append a copy of the memorial : "The undersigned respectfully submit to Viscount Pal merston's kind consideration the subjoined statement in support of an application for a small sum out of the Queen's Bounty in aid of the present distress of two great great granddaughters of Daniel De Foe :—On May 19, 1857, Jas. De eru Foe, eee, , d t i h ed e great-grandson co ttage in Ke nn i ngton, w h ere h e h a d t grandson of th e aut h or o f ' R o bi nson lived in great poverty for many years. He was upwards of 80 years old. Disabled by a severe rupture from working at the business he had followed as a carpenter and boxmaker, he was chiefly maintained by his wife's earnings as a laun dress. His wife died, and his means necessarily became more straitened. During the last three years and a half of his life he received assistance from a small subscription set on foot by a few persons to whom his circumstances had be come known, and to which Lord Lansdowne very liberally contributed. After the death of his wife his principal sup-. port had been derived from the industry and self-denial of two unmarried daughters, to whom a small balance of the subscriptions was paid over at his death. These poor women are not the sale survivors of James De Foe. A son is clerk to a timber merchant at Chelmsford, but is unable to render them assistance. Another daughter, who is married to a working undertaker, and a fourth, who is teacher in a school in France, though with sufficient means to support them selves, cannot render any assistance to those, the only re maining members of James De Fee's family, for whose benefit aid is now respectfully solicited from Viscount Pal merston. The eller, Sarah, who devoted herself to the care of her father, is a dressmaker. The other, Jane Amelia, is of extremely delicate health, and is wholly dependent upon her sister for support. During 1860 the elder has been un able to obtain continuous employment, and her occasional labour has not been sufficient to procure the common neces saries of life for herself and her invalid sister." DULWICH COLLEGE.—The second mastership of Dulwich College, rendered vacant by the preferment of the Rev. Alfred Pavah, M.A:, to the rectory of St. °lave's, Hart-street, has been conferred upon Mr. Henry John Raby, M.A., Fellow and Classical Lecturer of St. John's College, Cambridge. • 111 IS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, March 26.—Wind this day at noon, South- Westerly; light breeze, and cloudy. FALMOUTH, March 25.—Wind variable.—Sailed—Maid of the Seas, for Kurrachee ; Mary Matthews, for Cape de Verde; Torlodes, for Rio Janeiro; Commodore Villa, for Ricos. PLYMOUTH. March 24 —Wind N.E.—Arrived—Cen taur, from Rio Grande. Sailed—Philo, for Havannah ; Fortunate, for New York. PORTSMOUTH, March 25.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived— Riehard Brown, from Belize. Sailed—Carnatic, for Ade laide ; Sovereign, for Madras ; Mary Montague, for • Jamaica. BRISTOL, March 25.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—Rubi con, from Mauritius. DARTMOUTH, March 25.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Forti tude, for Columbo ; Schwabbe, for Rio Janeiro ; Thomas Lawrence, for Havannah. (RT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, March 25—Abbyla, from New York; Brilliant, from Jersey; John Watson, from Seaham ; Edward, Alma, Test, and West Lothian, from Sunderland ; Despatch, steamer, from Jersey. Sailed—Azores, for Cardiff; Havre, steamer, for Havre; Southampton, steamer, for Jersey; Georges, for Cherbourg; Breeze, for Portsmouth; English Rose, for Sunderland; James and Emma, for Portland; Ed ward Barnett, for Newport. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, March - 25—Aley, from Antwerp ; W.S.R., from Ghent; Thomas, from Dunkirk. Sailed, March 26—Boug, steamer, for Odessa. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed—Rotterdam, ship, from Rotterdam, for Batavia; Storfurst Constantin, from London, for New York. Anchored—Sclultz, from London, for Cuba. MONUMENT TO SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.—The legislature of Tasmania during the last session voted a sum of £l,OOO for the erection of a monument to the memory of Sir John Franklin, in connexion with the improvements now being carried out on the fine site in Hobart Town on which stood the vice• regal residence at the time the distin guished Arctic navigator was Lieutenant-Governor of the colony.—Australian and New Zealand Gazette. THE CHARING-CROSS RAILWAY AND BRIDGE.— Yesterday additional workmen were engaged in clearing the sites of those houses recently pulled down in Agnes and Francis-streets, Waterloo-road, and in the York and Belvedere-roads, (Pedlar's-acre), the ground being imme diately required for the construction of the railway from Hungerford-bridge to the terminus. The works of the railway bridge are progressing rapidly, the large iron cylinder for the support of the new bridge being in a very advanced state, and the enlargement of the stationary piers is being actively proceeded with. FREEHOLD LAND IN HERTFORDSHIRE.—In con sequence of the late discussion in the House of Lords re specting the removal of houses required by the various railway companies in London, the demand for building in, around, and at a considerable distance from the metropolis will no doubt materially increase. The Conservative Land Society is already increasing the number of its valuable suburban estates, its last purchase being the forty-third, and the third in Hertfordshire, in the town of Hertfor d adjoining the estate lately allotted. It is situated close No the railway station, fronting the main street of the town. FIVE CHILDREN POISONED.—At Allerston, a village on the Yorkshire Moors, five children, four of one family, named Hicks, and the fifth named Jones, have been accidentally poisoned. The children were at play in Hicks's garden, on Saturday, where they found what they took to be a bed of carrots, and they all ate freely of the roots. They were subsequently seized with sickness, and exhibited all the symptoms of poison. On Monday one of Hicks's chil dren, five years old, died, and another is in a critical state, the other three being convalescent through the timely use of antidotes.—An inquest has since been held, and it has been ascertained that the supposed carrots were wild par snips, of which the seed was purchased and sown for car rots, the white variety of which the roots resembled, but were smaller, and had larger foliage. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased was poisoned by eating wild par snips. A letter from Jaffa (Syria) states that all Pales tine was deluged with torrents of rain in the commencement of the present month. Several villages were inundated, and a number of houses tkrown down, burying the inhabi tants under the ruins. On the mountains of Judea the olive plantations have suffered severely, both the trees and the soil having been washed away in many places. At Jeru salem rain and snow fell in such abundance as to fill all the cisterns of the Holy City, to the great joy of the inhabi tants, who say that there has not been such a supply of water for more than 200 years. A FLYING LEAP.—On Thursday evening a horse belonging to Mr. R. Bourne, of Totnes, performed a very extraordinary feat. The horse in question had been ridden by Mr. Bourne's clerk to Broadhempston, and, on its way home, ran away. Coming down Bridgetown at a great pace without the rider, it made a flying leap over the Totnes Bridge turnpike-gate, clearing a distance of 18 feet 8 inches and a height of something over five feet six inches.— Weston Times. LITERATURE. The English Sportsman in the Western Prairies. By the Hon. Grantley F. Berkeley. Hurst and Blackett. Louis Napoleon went to war with Austria for the sake of an idea—how he fulfilled, it is patent to all. The French Emperor is not alone in undertaking enterprises for an idea, for the Hon. Grantley Berkeley was seized with the idea that he should like to kill a buffalo on bis native prairies, for which purpose he crossed the Atlantic and penetrated to the outskirts of American civilisation. How he succeeded is manifested in the window of The Field newspaper, in the Strand, as also in the present interesting narrative of his adventures. Before entering upon an analysis of the work, we may men tion that it is compiled from a diary kept by the author during his travels. Of course all private matters are suppressed ; but l'eyond this all the de tails of his journey which are without interest are omitted, and only thome parts which contain interest, or are necessary as connecting links, are submitted to the inspection of the reader. It is a difficult task to discriminate in a narrative of this kind be tween being prolix or going to the other extreme, and making what ought to be amusing a dry epitome. The lion. Grantley Berkeley has, however, hit the Juste milieu. lie is plain and straightforward, and tells things as they happened. He expresses his opinion of Americans as he found them, without favour or affection. As a whole Brother Jonathan ought to be satisfied ; for if his shortcomings are freely censured, his good points are brought out in bold relief by the very comparison. On first arriving in America Mr. Berkeley was disappointed at his reception, until he found out the reason for the supposed neglect, which we can not do better than give in his own words : " I confess myself to have been surprised at this, for my brother sportsmen in America had been apprised of my coming visit; and as an Englishman was about to throw himself, in that sort of off-hand manner generally so pleasing to men who make the plains and forests the scenes of hearty companionship, on their generosity, I naturally expected that they would give me some sort of facility or counsel, not only as to my journey to the Far West, but more particularly as to the conveyance of my dogs, unprotected as they were by their laws, and not even recognised on the rail as things for which the company had provided any means of conveyance. When I assure my readers that this apparent neglect surprised me,' that star prise only lasted till I became better and locally acquainted with the men among whom I was about to travel. When I made their acquaintance 1 understood it all, and for bre vity's sake, as well as perspicuity, my knowledge is summed up in the following few words. " No man who signs himself of whatever rank is gene rally believed to be the person he represonts himself to be until some other man in America introduces him according to the signature he has given out. The Prdsident is not believed to be the President, and Mr. Cobden is not believed to be the free-trade orator, when on travel, unless, like sharks, they have a pilot fish or ' man in black' t o ver ify or proclaim their individuality—hence no one believed in me." In vain did the adventurer, befiire leaving England, seek for information from his friends who had been in America as to outfit, pro bable expense, and other matters of detail ; everybody could tell him everything but what he wanted to know, and in the end he started with his English dogs and English guns, and left the rest to chance. How the advice of friends proved fallacious was manifested on his arrival at St. Louis, before he had entered the prairies, by his finding himself, what is commonly termed, " hard up." Here it was that the true American character showed itself, inasmuch that tt gentleman with whom he had not two days' acquaintance under stood his " fix" before he had half explained it, and saying it was perfectly natural for a stranger to have underrated the expenses of so long an expe dition, gave him to understand that any money he wanted would be at his service. While speaking highly of the upper classes in America, the author condemns the abuse of th e l aw o f equa lit y as prac tised by the lower classes, and says, with truth, thatif the gentlemen of the United States would maintain their proper position, and repudiate the fellowship of the lower order of society, it would be ultimately a benefit to both parties ; but as it is at present, the liberty of which the of iroXXot are so proud renders the private individual a slave. On reaching Kansas, the last settlement on the bounds of civilisation, he purchased waggons, horses, and mules, and en gaged an incompetent guide (such was his fortune) and some eight men, and started into the desert. Of the cool assurance of the free and independent inhabitants, the following is a specimen : "I was very busy packing my ambulance at the stores where my dogs were, which was close to the side of the public road, when a huge jingling thing, called in America a stage-coach, with four horses, and many passengers, pulled up, and a big Bob: hoy, seated on the box by the coachman, thus in a very insolently familiar tone addressed me, " Hallo, guv'nor, so you're a going to the plains, and I guess I'll go along with you.' " I had already had much to find fault with that morn ing, and being very busy packing, my frame of mind was not such as to put up with insolence, so I replied, ' Guess there's two words to that, bargain.' How so, guv'nor P' replied the fellow. Why,' I said, 'guess you won't .go without my permission, and that you won't have.' ' Reckon I shall,' asserted the fellow, ' so guess I'll go on into town and get my fixings.' You can do as you like about that,' I replied, ' but as I don't like your method of speech, and as I intend to be master an d h ave none b ut men with me, I guess you're not the sort of fellow I want.' Guess somehow I'll get my fixings,' rejoined the Boh-hoy ; go ahead, coachman,' and off he drove. " On the following morning, before we started, this fellow returned and made his application again, saying he had got his fixings but I told him, as I had told him before, that he should not go, and I left him behind." In the purchase of his horses he experienced great difficulty from the American dealers bringing him worthless cattle, and asking exorbitant prices. " What!" said the author to an acquaintance standing by when a most outrageous imposition was attempted, " is it possible that they take me to be such a fool ?" " No," replied the other, " but you are paying for the sins of a countryman. A young Englishman was here not long ago who bought horses at the price of the dealer, and then sold them for next to nothing, so that they enter tain but a poor opinion of you altogether." The Yankees, however, had misjudged their man. The Hon. Grantley had seen too much of life, and was too good a judge of horseflesh to be done, and he declared that as horses were so dear and so in different in that locality he would buy none, and go on foot, and to enforce this belief he refused for some days to ; inspect any of the horses brought to him. The ruse succeeded, and he eventually procured some fine cattle; but when he tried the same dodge in the purchase of mules to draw his waggons, saying that he would take oxen, it did not answer, the American was too 'cute to be taken in in that respect; he would not be lieve that a gentleman, for the sake of a few dollars, would employ such slow animals as bullocks. At Fort Riley he was most hospitably entertained by the commander and the other officers on the station, and in company with one of them, a Captain Bayard, he killed his first Bison. His last and most re markable exploit was the destruction, single handed, of the Bison which now stands in the window of the office of the Field. This animal was not shot down while running, as is commonly the case, but the hunter being mounted on a flighty horse, which was afraid of the Bison, and very restive, be found it impossible to take correct aim, and after some dozen ineffectual shots, and having been led by his wily antagonist through almost impassable creeks and morasses, he was surprised by it suddenly turning short round and charging. This game was kept up some time, until a favourable opportunity offering, the Hon. G. F. Berkeley succeeded in dis patching his bold and mighty foe. The sketches of observations of a man who has studied characterand American manners are well written. They are the knows how to appreciate it. We have all laughed at the absurd mock delicacy of our transatlantic friends, and the misconstruction they put upon words used as a matter of course with us; but the follow• ing caps all we have ever heard : "Among the many kind civilities shown me in America, a very pretty girl of about 14 or 15 was once permitted to drive me out in what her father called his buggy, but which carriage had four wheels, and was a sort of curricle drawn by a pair of horses, to show me the woods in the full efful gence of their autumnal tints. The afternoon I allude to was very hot, and the declining sun giving signs of a glorious set in purple and in gold, and the air so hushed that on the road (or no road) in which we were, there was no noise by horse-foot or wheels, and therefore no difficulty in conversation. The pretty, smiling girl was driving, with a mare on the near side, very free to her work and hot, while on the off side there was a horse as lazy as anything I ever saw. My charming companion was perhaps a little diffident of being able to amuse 'an English nobleman,' and consequent a little shy and nervous, but still most anxious to keep up the conversation. She kept looking up in my face with her bright, laughing, yet half-timid eyes, while at the same time, with a sort of feverish twitching of the whip in her hand, she never left off touching up the mare, who had already done the entire work, and driving her half mad. The mare at last, lathered from head to foot, while the horse was as cool as a cucumber, began to give in, so I said I will tell you what , dear , if you keep aggravat ing themare in that way, you'll knock her up.' " ' Possible I well ! hum—hum, I'd like to know !' re plied my companion , more bashful than ever ; ' but don't, Lord Berkeley; you—you oughtn't; don't, Lord Berkeley.' Don't I' I exclaimed ; yes, you will, if, y ou keep fid ge ting her in that way with the whip, you'll assuredly knock her up.' " Possible I ' rejoinei my dear little friend, ' but you sho*ldn't—l'm sure if I thought so I would never touch a whip again. Don't, Lord Berkeley—you oughtn't— don' t—' " Looking into her pretty face, we/gluing wh at on earth it was that I could have said, I saw that she was blushing and really embarrassed ; so I changed the conversation, amused, though, by observing that my caution as to the mare was attended to, as my friend ca rried her whi p more p u e e r d mi t t o her maervyeels atto erect, waving it a fter the manner of a fair y 's wand. Our most agreeable drive terminated soon after this, and, as I handed her from the buggy, I saw she had grow n so laughingly bashful that she dared n come in contact with mine , and I continued what it could have been that I had said to make BO inex plicable an impression. "In the evening her mother had a tea party, at which she presided with a long clay pipe in her mouth ; 413, gene frequently luxuriated in by the married ladies of the frontier towns and villages, when after tea she put out her pipe and got up to stand by the door 'to receive company.' Of course I took my place near her, with a view to observe American frontier usages and manners. Two or three guests arrived, and then a tall, high-shouldered, raw-boned gentleman, with a long nose, small eyes, and a high fore head, very upright, very stiff, and very grave, his face decked with a long pointed beard, stained either by the sun or the juices and smoke of tobacco, and redolent of spitting and of pipes, " ' Good evening, Mr. Smith," said the hostess, ' but where is your good lady? I had hoped to have seen her with you.' " ' She's k noc k ed up, ' replied the matter-of-fact guest. "' 'What I d ear me, again in that interesting situation 'l' Oh, good gracious I ' I cried to myself, as I tarried away to conceal my great inclination to merriment ; ' now I know what it was that I said to my pretty com panion in the buggy. ' Well, did you ever—no I never ;' hang me, but 1 will get an American dictionary, and if there is not mile in print. I'll publish one.' " The work is embellished with several well executed Engravings, and we may confidently assert that the narrative of the transatlantic adventures of the Hon. Grantley Berkeley will be read with satisfac tion by every true sportsman, and by all who can appreciate an exciting story cleverly written. PARLIARENIARY AND RAILWAY COMJITITEES. HAMMERSMITH, PADDINGTON, AND CITY' JUNC TION RAILWAY.—The committee of the House of Lords that, under the chairmanship of Earl Grey, have just concluded their inquiry into the merits of this measure for a railway commencing by a junc tion with the Great Western, near Greee-lane bridge, and terminating at the Broadway, Hammer smith, together with two branches to and forming junctions with the West London Railway, and thence by the Metropolitan or underground railway into the City, at an estimated capital of £lBO,OOO, report, as regards " the number of houses to be taken and the consequent displacement of the poor," that compulsory powers of purchase given by the bill extend only to 51 houses or cottages tenanted by the labouring classes, and that it is not expected that inconvenience will be experienced, as although these houses are within the limits of deviation, and may be taken for the railway, only ten of them are upon the centre line delineated on the plan, and that in the neighbourhood, the Latimer-road, where these houses are all situated, and adjoining it there are a number of houses in an unfinished state, and which have remained so for years, partly for want of funds and want of occupiers, but which are all adapted for the labouring classes. Their lordships report that the line will afford a speedy and con venient communication to those of the labouring classes employed in the densely peopled parts of the metropolis, but who reside in the suburbs. CHEAP TRAINS FOR THE WORKING CLASSES ON THE NORTH LONDON RAILWAY.—The following are the terms of the special clause inserted by the select committee of the House of Lords of which Lord Colchester was chairman :—" The railway company shall run a train every day in the week, except Sunday, from Kingsland station to Liver pool-street, City terminus, and one train from Liverpool-street to Kingsland, at such hours in the morning and afternoon as may be most convenient for the labouring classes residing at or beyond Kingsland, and having business in London, at fares not exceeding ld. per passenger for each journey, provided that if in any period of six months it shall be found that less than 100 passengers on the ave rage shall have been conveyed by each of such trains, the company, on proof of that fact to the stitisfac tion of the Board of Trade, may discontinue the running of the trains, but the Board of Trade may at any time order the resumption thereof by the company if it shall seem to the Board desirable." lURIONETIISHIRE RAILWAY.—The bill for this proposed railway has been withdrawn. 1111GRA27021 , S OF THE PAIUSIA NOBILITY. The Revue 211unicipale gives the following C'irious particulars on this subject. Philip Augustus hav ing selected the feudal castle of the Louvre for his residence, the nobility began to cluster round that site, a tendency which was not materially checked by Louis IXth's selection of the present Palace of Justice for his residence. But when Charles V. installed himself in the Hotel de St. Paul, the nobility followed him, and settled in the quarter now called Quartier de l'Arsenal. But as the Hotel St. Paul was too near the river, royalty soon quitted it for the Palais des Tournelles. Immediately the nobility migrated from the Arsenal to the neigh bourhood of the new royal residence—that is, in a marshy district, still called Le Marais. Henry 11., on being mortally wounded in a tournament, expired in the last-mentioned palace on the 15th of July, 1559. The royal dwelling thereby acquired n sinister reputation ; it was abandoned, sold under Charles IX., and was ultimately transformed into the Place Royale under Henry IV. Meanwhile the. royal -family migrated to the Tuileries, and was followed, as usual, by the nobility, who built man sions in the immediate neighbourhood and on the opposite bank of the Seine. Under the reign of Louis XIV. the Palais Royal became the centre of trade in articles of jewellery and fashion, but was soon dethroned by the Boulevards. The financiers and bankers took to the Chemins de Porcherops, which, at the commencement of the present cen tury, was transformed into the Chaussee d'Antin, but the nobility still remained faithful to the Faubourg St. Germain. In our days another great change is taking place. The working classes are leaving the narrow and unhealthy streets of the centre of Paris for the eastern quarters; the com mercial world, which had begun to migrate to the north, returns to the centre ; peopling and adding splendour to the two great thoroughfares of the Rue tie Rivoli and the Boulevard de Sebastopol ; while the nobility, as well as the new financial. gentry, are travelling westwards, seeking the wide spaces which abound near the Arc de Triomphe, and the Champs Elysees, in order to find there suf ficient room for princely dwellings in proportion to their means. " What, asks the Revue blunicipale, " will be the ultimate centre of Paris under Napoleon 111. ?" and it answers to the question with " The Church of the Madeleine." UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, MARCH 25. The election of Poor Law Guardians to represent the Uni versity and the Colleges took place to-day. Dr. Adams, of St. John's, was reelected, and Mr. Octa'rius Ogle, of Lin coln College, was elected, to represent the University. Mr. H. Cholmeley, of Magdalen College, and Mr. Wingfield, of All Souls, were elected, in the room of Dr. Fell, of Magdalen College, and Mr. Dyke, of Jesus College, to represent the - Colleges. The other Guardians remain unchanged. Congregations will be holden for the purpose of granting graces and conferring degrees on the following days in the ensuing term—viz., Wednesday, April 10; Thursday, May 2; Friday, May 10; Saturday, May 18. Candidates for degrees are required to enter their names in a book kept for that purpose at the Vice-Chancellor's house, on or before the day preceding the day of Congregation. The Curators of the Taylor Institution will proceed to the election cf a Teacher of Italian on Thursday, May 16, 1861. Applications and testimonials are to be sent into the Regis trar of the University on or before the 2d of May. The Teacher will enter on his duties in Michaelmas Term. CAMBRIDGE, MARCH 25. This being the Feast of the Annunciation the Vice-Chas. cellor attended Divine service in the chapel of King's Col lege according to ancient custom. The sermon was preached by Dr. Okes, the Provost. The following gentlemen have obtained scholarshipa by open competition before residence at Christ's College : E. P. Metcalfe, from Jedburgh School, and A. H. Simpson, from Tunbridge School, scholarships of £7O per annum ; G. Statham, from Liverpool Collegiate School, and T. Per kins, from Tiverton School, scholarships of £6O a year; and J. W. Cartmell, from Uppingham School, a scholarship of £5O per annum. THIS D.AY'S MARKETS. - ,A , ... HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £5 68 Od ; clover £3do., steady. ; and straw, £1 108 to £2 2 s p er load. Tra CUMBERLAND. -- Meadow hay, £2 O s to £5 58 - ? e s a t c l to £slss clover, £3 Os to £5 158 Od ; and straw, £1 185 to £2 2:1 per lead. Trade slow. WHITECHAFEL. — eadow hay, £2 Os to f 5 63 Od ; clover, aOsto £5 1 5 s Od ; and straw, £1 10s to £2 0. per load. A moderate trade. COLONIAL. TEA.—There has been very little business transacted; prices, however, are well maintained. SuGAR .—Th e mar k et has continued moderately active, and the recent advance in values has been fully sustained ; in the refined market full rates have also been obtained for dried goods. COFFEE.—_A fair amount of business has been done in plantation Ceylon, and fine qualities have sold readily at high prices. The stocks on hand, compared with those of the same p er i o d of last year, show a deficiency of about 700 tons. RICE. —The demand:has been more active, particularly for the finer descriptions, and holders have demanded higher rates, which in some instant's has restricted opera tions. S ALTPETRE.—For the better qualities there has been a more active enquiry, and pricks in most instances have° shown an upward tendency. TALLOW.—Very little alteration has taken place in the for tallow market d ur i ng th e l ast f ew d ays, th e acquiZ consumption, however, has slightly improved. PY•• • on the spot is quoted 59s ; 58s, April to June delivers., aid 55s 6d last three months' delivery. Lord and Lady Wodehouse will leave town in a few days, on a visit to Mr. and the Ron. 47 efle R a ik eg Cuxrie, at Mirley Warren, Rants. 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