The Sun. — London, England, 1861-04-19 00:00:00

that to ambert horn in rge for y chief emainS re, Mr. eddallo Sera to troops estiga ratoodf ued to eating Com- dm is Lara f their theta• iower Ns of itiONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. -11 N CITY, Two o'CLom. During the last few days there has been a fair amount of business transacted in the market for foreign and colonial produce. Tea, at public sale, brought previous prices, while for good and fine qualities of sugars a slight advance took p4,ee. C offee has continued in moderate request, without Material change in value. Rice, spices, and fruit have been inactive, and tallow has continued dull, ?N.C. on the spot being quoted 585., and last three Months 555. per cwt. 4 largo amount of business was recorded in the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, and prices advanced id. per lb. The sales were 20,000 bales. A plan has been introduced to the notice of the Public for the construction of a line of railway from t he Pimlico Station to London Bridge, so as not to interfere with the wharfage. It is projected by Idr • J. Sewell, and is so arranged as to allow plenty of rim for all the purposes of navigation to the shore 'with four lines of rails, with the view of accommo dating both goods and passenger traffic ; the capital required is estimated at the moderate sum of £ 1,0 00,000. About £22,000 in gold was sent into the Bank of England yesterday. The steamer Indus, which leaves to-morrow for India, China, &c., will take out £244,570, viz., £ 2 0,259 in gold, and £176,200 in slim., which includes a Government remittance of £163,100 to Calcutta. There is a steady demand for money at previous r ates, which, consequently, still range as low as 4 1 per cent., notwithstanding the continuance of the Bank of England minimum at 5 per cent. The half year's interest on Russian 3 per Cent. Bonds and on the City of Melbourne Debentures Will be paid on and after the Ist proximo. Notice has been given that 16 Swedish Profincial Mortgage Bonds, of the value of £3,000, have been drawn, and will be paid off at par on the lst of Jane next. During the early part of the day the English Stook Market was decidedly buoyant, and a fur tiler improvement of 1 per cent. took place in "Isequence of renewed purchases for investment. Consols advanced to 921 1 for transfer, and 921 t: for the account; since then, however, sales have taken place for money as well as the account, and the quotations are now 911 3 - 92, and 92 929 respec tively. The New Threes and the Reduced are firmer at 901 1. Bank Stock is at 229 and 231 ; l udia ditto at 222 and 223 ; ditto 5 per Cent. Loan, 101 9 and 102 k; and ditto 51 per Cent. Rupee paper at 931 and 941. Exchequer Bills remain at 2s. dis. to 2s. prem. Continued quietude is exhibited in the Foreign Market, and prices remain steady. Turkish 6 Per Cents, are 70 to 709 ; ditto, 1858, 531 to 531; Spanish are 491 ; Dutch 4 per Cents., 982 ; Por tuguese, 461 ; Russian 4i per Cents. are firm at 91 1 • and Brazilian at 99. 4 I Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report the market for American securites as very firm. The following are some of the prices : _ . Redeemable. Prices United States 6 per Cents 1867-1868 88 90 be. 5 per Cent Bonds Xentucky 6 per Cent. Bonds lB6B-72 84 86 Pennylvania 5 per per C ent Ct. Bonds Illinois Central 7 . 1875 B9 90 I , l lin.oiil Central 6 per Cent. shares, 80 dols. paid 26 25 dis alichig an Central 8 per Cent 1869 87 89 1) 0. do. shares ~ 41 Giv York Central 6 per Ct., ...not convertible... New York Central 7 per Ct., convertible, from suns 15, 1857..59 Do. do. shares New York and Erie, 7 per Ct., „s o lat mortgage . do., 2d mortgage . us. do., 3d mortgage do convertible 1 )0. do. shares Panama 7 per Ct., Ist mort• gage Str. Bonds, not cony L '°. do.. 2d do. 1864 1867 1859 1883 1862 27} 281 9G 98 96 98 1865 1872 The transactions in the Railway Share Market have not been very extensive, but a further slight ithprovement has taken place . in one or two of the Principal undertakings. Caledonians, and Lan %shire and Yorkshire have advanced ss. ; North Eastern (Berwick) 10s.; South Westerns 155.; Midlands have declined as., and Norfoiks 10s. The Foreign lines have been inactive—South Aubtrian and Lombardo-Venetian realise 121, and Bahia and San Francisco 10i. In the Colonial Market Grand Trunk of Canada have advanced ss. ; and East Indian, 53. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have been in steady request, without any material Change in prices. Crystal Palace Stock, however, has improved 10s. to £l. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9 O/iB3i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ' 92 1 1 2 14 . 6 'w 3 per Cent. Annuities 14 -nnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l 5B India Stock .. . 223 2 Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto 51 per Cent .. 100/ Ditto Debentures, 1858 96} Ditto Bonds £l,OOO l3 dis C O llBOlB for Account, May 9 .. 921 1 1 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid. .... • mfr. £5OO 2 dis 2 par Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto 41 per Cent. 1860 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. Ditto Account Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St .. -- Ditto 45 per Cent,' Spanish 3 per Cent. — Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent .. 701 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 25 per Cent... Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent. TWO O'CLOCK Consols, Money 9l/ 2 Ditto Account .. 92 5 THIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON April 19.—Wind this day at noon, North - Easterly; moderate breeze, and line weather, but rather cloudy. DEAL, April 18.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Portland, from Calcutta ; Nicholas Wood, screw steamer, from the Mediterranean. OPP COWES ' April 18.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Teu onia, steamer, from New York, and proceeded for Ham burg. , PORTSMOUTH, April 18.—Wind N.E.—A.rrived—Her MaiJenty's snip Initwable, from Sailca---Honry Ferule, for New Zealand. PooLE, April 18.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Number Two, for Quebec. - - - - PLYMOUTH, April 18.—Wini N.E.—Arrived—Her Majesty's ship Ma,gicienne, from China ; Damascus, screw steamer, from Malta. NEWPORT, April 18.—Wind E.—Arrived—R. M. Mills, frtim Havre for Rio Janeiro. FALMOUTH, April 18.—Wind S.E., strong.—Arrived — bon Antonio, from Rio Janeiro. BRISTOL, April 17.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Carolinaj from New York. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) 13.14 stock stock stock stock 124 10 stock 6.4.0. stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 25 stock stock stock 10 19.16.4 stock stock stock stock stock 10 stock 25 stock stock stock stock stock 12 10 stock 10 stocK stock stock stock stock SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Arrived—Bessie, from Palsgrave ; Alarm Ex Cospatrick, from Bombay; Ceres, steamer, from London ; Laura, from Shields• Southampton, steamer, from Havre ; William henry, Wantworth. Sailed—Willing, for New York; Alice, for Charlestown; Rammonia steamer, for New York ; Ceres, steamer , for Dublin ; Georges, for Cherbourg ; George and Henry, for Littlehamp ton. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday Morning. Arrived, April 18—William and Mary, from Guernsey. Arrived, April 19.—Wave,lrom Colombo ; Tertius, from Treport ; Anna Berendina, from Groningen; Elizabeth and Cicely, from Guernsey; Portland, from Calcutta. Sailed, April 19.—Taurus, steamer, for Hamburg. DEAL, Friday Morning. Anchored—Pet, schooner, from St. Michael's, for orders. Passed—Pat r i c i a , from Jamaica ; Elida, from the C a p e of Good Hop e; Blackwall, from Adelaide, and Queen of Ava, from Akyab (in tow)—all for London ; Jenny R., for Odessa; Johanna, for Liverpool; Padre, for Cardiff—all from London. THE DUNDRI CHILD MIIRDER.—The inquest on the body of the child found at Dundry was concluded on Wednesday, when a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown" was returned. The pollee have used every exertion to discover the perpetrators of the diabolical deed, but they do not appear to have ob tained any clue on which the slightest reliance can be placed THE INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND.—Yesterday the total amount forwarded to the Lord Mayor in aid of the Indian Relief Fund amounted to £.52,0 00 . By the mail which started yesterday £14,000 was sent to Sir George Clerk, which, in addition to £36,000 previously despaWhed by the two last mails, makes A tvtg 91k50,000. Belfast and Ballymena Bir., Vol , and Str. Val. Birk., La., and Ch June Blyth and Tyne Bost. Sleaf. and Mid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carmarthen 4-.Cardigat, Cork and Bandon Cork, BI rock., &Passage Cornwall .... A gets no divaDo A until 6pc peran. Do B rl3 &sheen d. toB, Dublin & Belfast June Dun., Perth, &Aix June East Anglian ,Eastern Counties _ j ; Ti I SO 82 Gi 98 100 963 97 5 6 t- 42 44 8 8i 16i 1711 49 50 37 39 20 26! Eastern Union, A stock Do Nw A, late EU3ds East Suffolk Edinburgh i 6 Glasgow Edin. Perth, ds Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasp.:. and S. Western Great Nthn. of Scotland Great Northern 99i 97} 7 i Do do A stock Do do B do Gt. S. & W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Irish S th-e astern I Lancashire & Yorkshire Loudon and Blackwall! Lon., Bright.. t S Coast Lond., Chat., and Dover Lond. do Nth. Western Lond. & ith. Western L'derry & Coleraine C'derry & Enniszillea Man. Shef. & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do do shares Metropolitan Midland Do new......... 84 86 281 29 tl2 114 125 127 1111 1121 107 f 1081 120 1:11 106 108 70f 711 60 62 1111 111! 80 61 118 120 46 47 96i 97 94 05 lo} 114 45 45i ?4d 1244 125 11 lin 97 99 Do kirming. & Derby Nfld. Gt. W. of Ireland Do 4 shares Nfid Do, Cray Line Newcastle and Carlisle Newry & Armagh, def Newry, Warnpt. & Ros Norfolk... . North British.. Nor.Dev.RaihtDlc.stock D' 3tk ; A recs no d., 7 6d 52 64 62i53 until Bpelists beenpd.B Do 13 stock ....:.. Nth. Eastern—Berwicki Dodo, G.N.E. purchase: Do Leeds Do York North London ' Do new North c taffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Not. & Grantham Rail reebles Portsmouth Rhymney ,Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shropshire Union Sittingbourne & Sheer. South Devon S.-Durham & I , anc. Un. South Eastern ...... South Wales .......... S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok,. and Wok Stockton & Darlington Do do .. 111 k Do New (1860) Taff Vale 97 et 95 4 45 5 Do Pref. No 1 ThamesHavenDk&Rail Ulster .. Do V ale of Neath Victoria Sta. and Pim I Waterford & Kilkenny; [Waterford & Limerick I West Cornwall [West London Do Ist class ........ Do 2d class .. WestHartlepool Harbr and Rail Weat Midland—Oxford Do. Newport Do. Hereford, 100 100 100 16 13 9 100 100 100 1021103 i id 4p 59, 601 Mt Jl} . 97 09 3; 3}l 91 7E 76 113 114 33} 144 86 88 47 49 40 42 82183* 53 60 93 96 4 7 40 41 10 11 r. St 6 1 P 551 564 2 2 • p *p 74 76 114 12 5 6 43 44 39 41 78 80 PREFERENCE SHARES. 125 41 51 5 P 52& 64 3 103 i P In I Share' Railways. it , aid ! Closing 1 Business I Price. Done. 25 Blythe and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issued at £sl' all stock Reis. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock 100 20 Do. do. do. Shares l4 stock Caledon £10,45 per cent 100 99 101 stock Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. 100 6} Cork & Bandon, 55 p. c. all 20 Cornwall. 5 per cent. 64 iDun.Perth&Aber..Tun all 51 6 14 Do Ist Class Pref all stock E.Angn.Class A 7 &5p.0 100 99 101 stock Do. do. Class B 6 p.c lOO 108 113 stock Do. do. Class C 7 p.c lOO 105 108 stock E. Coun. Ex. sp. c. No.l 100 108 110 stock Do. do. No. 2 100 100 103 107/ stock Do. New 6 per et. stock. 100 121 123 stock Eastern Union, 4 per et. 100 80 82 stock Do. 5 per cent. guar... 100 stock Fidin.&G las. sp.c. shares 100 109 111 stock Do. 4p. c gua. S. &D. 100 90 92 stock Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. 100 74 76 stock Furness, 5 per cent .... 100 stock Mag.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. 1 00 stock Grea.t Northern, sp. ct. 100 113 115 stock c , sp c.ltedm..l o p...rbm 100 111 113 mtuex Do. 45 p. C. do. do. 100 Do. 6p.e. Rolm. 5 p.c. pro 80 105 167 10 Gt. Nh. of Scotld. Ist pr all stock 5 Gt. Sn. & W (Ireland) , I N o 97 go / p. ct. pref. stock 1 50 Great West. (Berks an" Efants) Ext. sp. et. . 6 stock Co. Redeemable,4s Ile; 100 98 100 99 stock Do. Redeemable, 4p. ct 100 89 91 stock Do Irredeemable, do._ 100 90 92 stock Do. 5 p.ct. Redeem. Pref. 100 100 102 1015 8 Do. Birm. Pref. Shares. all 94 10 10 tit. W. Ches. 8 p.c. ptsh. all 17 18 10 Do. do. sp. et. pref all I@l 10 et ock Do Birmg.guar. stock lOO 74 76 261 Do. Chester gua. share all 20 21 131 Do. do. do. 20 Do. do. do. 100 Lan. & Carl. 41 pc. pref 4O stock Lan.&York 6p. c. stock lOO stock Do.Barnsl.st£s 3s 10d p( 100 -. stock Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) stock Lon. & Brig. 5 pc.gu. No ' 100 113 1 1 5 stock Do. sp. c. No. 100 113 115 stock Do. gua. 6p. c. stock Do. do. 5 p.c. No. 4 100 113 115 stock Do. do. 41 per cen ,. . 5 Do. do. 45 p. c. shares all stock Do. 7p. ct. Pref. stock lOO 148 153 stock Do. Gp.c. do. (W.E.&C.P ' 100 128 131 stock • Do.tp.c.S.(div.deftil '6s' 1 0 0 70 73 I stock Do. 4 per cent. Pre! lOO -- stock Lon. Chat. and Dover lOO 85 87 Do.W. A rceiv. no div. 10 / Ex.A 1116 pcispd on all /' no. B B. & Brom ex. all 10 Do. Metropolitan Ex 13 21 stock Lon. and N.W. Cov. and D oN.uneaton, sp. et.— 100 stock Lon. per S.W cent, 7p. ct. stock 100 stock 100 U. 66. Do. (Prtsm. perpl anus of 2s. 6d.. ... .. .... all 12 Londondy. & .. Cole. ssh all 12 Londony. & Ennis. ssh all 131 141 stoc %Tan. Sh. &Lin. 6 per et 100 124 126 6 D0..£6 stock Do. 31 per cent 10 Do. redeem. 6 percent 5 4 I 1 124 Aarycort & Car., 4p. c all 12 Do. 45 per cent all stock %lid. Con. 6p c. stock lOO stock Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c. 100 134 116 stock Do. 45 p. c. pref. stock lOO 100 102 6 Do. 41 per cent 3 stock Do. Leic. & Hit. pref. st 100 92 94 stock Norfik sp. c. Ex. st 184( 100 stock Do. 51p. C. Pref. do. 18-1; 100 stock Do.sWay.Val.Ex.st.lB47 100 stock North British, sp. o. stock Do. New, gua. sp. c lOO 108 110 1 ° i Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. shF 3 414 1 1 0 Do. do. do all st Nth.Dev.R ail. & Dck.Co. 100 st X-East.Cons.Pref. 4p. c 100 91 93 at Do. 41 pc. redeemable.. 100 99 101 st Do. G.N.E. 4 per c. pref. 100 100 102 17 Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. 3.13.4. 4d 1p 20 Do. Leeds, 6p. e. No. 1 13 I'2l Do. do. Quarters, 1848." 9 25 Do. York, H. &S. Purchlo 4d p 20 North Staffordshire ' all 225 23 10 Rhyniney Guaranteed. all 81j Scottish Central, new pt all st Scottish North-Eastern 31 p. c. pref. stool' lOO st Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c lOO -- st Do. 7p. c. pref. stock 100 131 133 10s. South Devon, Ann. 10s. all 101 101 104 10 Do. Fixed 45 per cent. all 1.0.6 South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6) ' st Do. 45 per cent lOO 99 101 st - Do. Fixed 15-p.c. Ist is 100 984 905 st South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 st Do. 45 per cent. lOO 98 100 r st Do. 5 per cent' lOO st S.-Yorkshire, 4p. c. gua. 100 85 87 25 Stock. & Dar. Asp. c all 265 275 27 25 Do. B 6 her cent all 311 321 25 Do. C 6 percent all 315 325 F st Watrfd & Kilkny, 6p. c lOO 45 48 st IW.lilid -Oxf Ist Gua stk 100 121 123 st Do. 2d do 100 117 120 ~ at Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red. 100 98 100 st I Do.Perpet. 6p.c. pf 1866 100 120 122 st I Do. till 1869, Ist is. 100 114 116 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railwas. i Paid. Leasing Closing Boldness y ; Co.'s i Price. Done. Bedford and Bletchley Bu 3kinghainshire Chester & Holyhead Do. 5 per cent Do. 5 „ Clydesdale June Colchester, Stour Val E.Lincolnsh. g 6 p , r c E.Union,llerhShs Do. Woodbridge....l Gls.Barr.,tNeilm.Dret. all Ln &N.W . • • • 100 Do 94 96 100 ,Do 53 fin 100 Do l2l 123 100 •Do. 100 Caledon lOO 102 all 'E.U.&E.O 151 161 ICO Gt. North. 123 135 alt !E.Counts. 41 4 100 100 Caledon 100 Do. all Gt. West. all Yk.N.&Br alt Yk.N. Md. all Do. • all Do. 100 Ln&N.W. I 100 S.Eastern 100 Do ..... • 100 Veto &Co. 100 Norfolk,. 100 Do. all IL NW&11 Do. new . Gloster & Dean Forest s llrtlp'l Dock & Rail, Hull and Selby Do. li Alves . Do. quarters Lanc.&CarL gua. 5 p.c ' London ,t Greenwich Do. Preference I Lon.,TilburyA S -end Lowestoft gua. 4 p e 1 Do, a per cent Mile , Bxtn ,&Matlock 5. 5 6. E.Count s II Prefer- M e id n . ee ßr s a 100 i Midland . ' dfiD ock l Newmarkt,BuryEx. 1 gua. 5 percent—. Northn.SsEastn. sp.c. \ all Do. Do. 6p. c. all IDo. , 11 ' Do. Fixed sp. c..... a o. N o rth Western .. all Midland .LBt NW Preston and `Pyre.l all ,& Lyk ] Do. i Shares A. all Do. Itoystn.lliteh., & Shop 100 Gt. North Shrewsbry& Ilereford 100 IT.Brassey Do. do. 1 ( Do. S.-Staffordshire all iM'Clean... Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. WiraPlecla 4 croyd, gi LA Drgtu 3 3 91 96 55 57 15i 16 'l3O 132 100 102 10 * i 11P 89 91 Si I. 1011 1k SIIA.RE MARKET-(THIS DAY). ORDINARY MAIMS AND STOCKS. raid. / C p lo r s ic m* Railways. e. g Business Done 109 111 :200 205 I Al 03 112 117 87 90 THE SUN, LONDOIST, FRIDAY EVENING, !APRIL 19, 1861. 18.8. all all all all all 3.2.10 G# 51 -P 2} lf I 1 11i 124 3# 2f 31 3! 22i 23f 61 61 7f 8 19 20 3711 38i 8 - 0 37 38 52 64 41 32d 13 15 5f 5/ 84 PIR 14 11 , 1 1/ lf 201 214 6 54 19 4 20 9f ES. ?i 21 C 180 190 340 350 100 105 19; 20 64 61 15 17 54 6 5 6 2; 2; 36 /8 2 2; I 1 48 48 31 4 41 51 1 5 6 74 8; 9 94 36 38 4 .4 295 305 2 3 2.14.6 7.4.0 17; 13.9.6 40 6.2.6 8.12 4.11.6 1.8.6 lfi 1.4.0 9.18.9 n 10.6.7 4 1 1, all 18.1R.S 124.8.0 I tt 113 s 5d 135 145 36 38 11 5i 24 5 6 174 18i 74 76 345 355 95 100 110 120 1 21 101 13 15 13 11 474 5 7f 1.7.2 I all I128.6(1. all 1 10s. all all B d I 1_ _l, 51 314 t 1 39 41 8 10 I 2 2i 23 24 It iP 11 p 8i 9 pr 4 p Id 4 6 6 1 61 I IANKS. 79 81 61 63 184 194 51 63 14 14d 20* 20 32 31 71 73 37 39 15i 16 22,1 23 If 34i 35i 2 li 674 684 99 51 161 17 38 40 24i 2511 MEN' T SECU 'Business done 08i 74 99f 20i 1 24 $ 68 ea llf i f 311 i 2} 1} } ,ITItS, MARTLEBONE ELECTION. DECLARATION OF THE POLL THIS DAY. This morning was fixed for the declaration of the poll, and a considerable number of persons assembled round the hustings to hear the announce ment to be made by the returning officer. Of the candidates Sir R. W. Carden was the first to arrive. He was accompanied by Lord John Manners, M.P., Sir Minto Farquhar, M.P., Sir J. J. Hamilton, and other gentlemen. He was fol lowed by Mr. G. W. Cooke, who was accompanied by Mr. Wyld, M.P., and other gentlemen. At a few minutes before eleven the friends of Mr. Har vey Lewis, the successful - candidate, escorted him to the hustings. He was loudly cheered on pre senting himself. Mr: TAMPLIN, the returning officer, made the following return of yesterday's poll : • 5,269 2,612 ▪ 2,369 65 1 Lewis Carden Cooke Marshman .... Twelvetrees He then declared, amidst loud cheers, that Mr. Harvey Lewis had been duly elected a burgess to serve in Parliament for the borough of Marylebone. Mr. Lewis, Sir R. W. Carden and Mr. Cooke successfully addressed the electors. Their speeches consisted generally of complimentary phrases towards one another, and expressions of satisfaction with tho extremely fair manner in which the con test had been conducted. Some reference was made by Sir R. Carden to the recent budget, which he said he thought ought to have provided for the reduction of the tea and sugar duties instead of the duty on paper which would be of advantage to very few persons. The candidates having cordially shaken hands with each other, Mr. Peter Graham, Sir J. Hamil tn.', and Mr. Wyld, M.P., the proposers of the re spective candidates, addressed the assembly, and a vote of thanks having been awarded to Mr. Tamp lin for his conduct as returning-officer, the proceed ings of another Marylebone election were brought to an end. LA TV INTELLI67EIVCE—(2his Day), COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. HART AND ANOTHER V. E. T. SMITH. This was an action brought by the plaintiff against Mr. E. T. Smith, the lessee of Her Majesty's and Drury-lane Theatres, for the recovery of £ll6 for goods sold and deli vered. Mr. Prentice, who appeared for the plaintiffs, said the goods for which the money was now sought to be recovered were supplied by his clients, the extensive ironmongers, for the fitting up of the Alhambra Palace, and also at the defendant's private residence at Fulham. The delivery of the goods having been proved, and no counsel appearing for the defendant, the case was taken as an undefended one. The jury returned a verdict for the full amount claimed. COURT OF DIVORCE. GETHIN V. GETHIN. This was a petition presented by Lady Gethin for disso lution of her marriage with Sir Richard Gethin, on the ground of adultery and malty. From the evidence of witnesses, it appeared that the peti tioner was a lady of highly respectable family, and wa married to the respondent in 1846. After the marriage they cohabited, and resided in Ireland, and also at Sir Richard's country seat in Suffolk, at Hyde, and several other places in England, until 1853. There were two children born, one of whom was still living. The alleged cruelty commenced shortly after marriage, and continued without interruption until the friends of the lady interfered, and a separation took place. Sir Robert was addicted to drinking to excess, and when in that state behaved with such violence that her ladyship was frequently compelled to fly from her home and take refuge at her father's house. In a short time Sir Robert left his wife for a week, and afterwards, on his re turn, a loathsome disease. They communicated her t an o dhenrolacdoh ys a h b i i p tation took place again until 1856, when the respondent, having obtained an ap pointment in the Crimea, desired an interview with his wife, and afterwards induced her to again live with him, but his acts of cruelty were resumed. He then proposed to petitioner that she should be guilty of such conduct as would entitle him to sue for divorce. ' After that disgusting proposal all intimacy was broken off between them. In 1855 Sir Richard took lodgings in the house of Mrs. Leatham, a married lady, at Danes-road, Hounslow, whose husband was absent, and an improper intimacy was alleged to have taken place between him and this lady. Lady GoTin. smil were exar, , s;--. 1, eatham was called, and refused to answer the questiOn whether any improper intimacy had taken place between her and Sir Richard. The case was adjourned to admit of the production of other evidence to prove the adultery. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--(This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SERIOUS ROBBERY BY A BARMAN.—John Frederick Lambert, second barman to Mr. Michael Walker, of the Standard public-house, 227, Piccadilly (lath Scott's), was charged before Mr. Woolrych with robbing his master to a very serious extent. Mr. Walker said that on the previous night, while his upper barman and barmaid was present, he saw the prisoner serve a customer and give change, and fumble a little at the till, and walk away and wipe some glasses. He then asked what he had in his hand, and he replied " Nothing," but at the same moment droppel a shilling at his foot. He (Mr. Walker) then said to the upper barman, " You see how he is robbing me." After the house was closed he said to the prisoner, " Give me what money you have of mine in your pocket, but keep your own." The prisoner thenhanded him 6s. 6d. more. He told the prisoner he should like to see his box, and he found a savings bank book with £ll entered in it, bearing date a few days after the prisoner entered his service, on the 22d January. The prisoner then owned that that was his money, and said that he had another book at Mr. Grevett's, and in which he found also the entry of another £ll on 28th of March. _ _ _ ~__ ln answer to Mr. Woolrych, the prosecutor said that he had been robbed to a very serious extent ever since he had taken the house of Mr. Scott. Moor, 187 C, said he took the prisoner into custody at three that morning, and he gave him a purse containing £1 15s. 4d., and also one of the bank books, containing an entry of £ll, which prisoner said belonged to his master. He also found a gold chain and silver watch on the prisoner. Mr. Walker said he paid the prisoner as second barman £25 a year and board and lodging. . _ Prisoner was committed by Mr . Woolrych for trial. THAMES. ROBBERY I 0 A SHIP-YARD BY A RETURNED CONVICT. —Peter Murray, a strange looking man, with a very rough head of hair, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing a bag of copper nails, the property of Mr. Money Wigram and Co., ship-builders, at Blackwell. It appeared that on Wednesday, the 3d instant, at a quarter past one o'clock, the prisoner was observed by a watchman named Alfred West, in the employ of the prose cutors, coming the shipbuilding yard carrying a box of copper nails. The witness at first thought . he was one of the men employed in the yard, who remained behind while the other workmen had gone :to their dinners to complete some job. On looking at him closely, how ever, he discovered he was a stranger, and was about to arrest him when the prisoner run away towards the river, spread a handkerchief on the ground, and, after hastily emptying the nails into it and spilling a portion on the ground, he took up the handkerchief containing the nails, and retreated to the edge of the wharf or yard and dropped on to the shore, a depth of 14 feet. The tide was out and he ran along the shore, got upon an adjoining coal wharf, and then retraced his steps, dropped on the shore again, and made his escape at Blackwall-stairs. West believed there were about 121bs. of new copper nails in the box, of which the prisoner left behind about 21bs. The copper nails had been taken from a stage alongside a ship which was being coppered. Other witnesses gave evidence of the prisoner being in the yard and taking the nails. The prisoner was taken into custody yesterday (Thursday) evening by Grimes, a police-constable No. 291 K. The prisoner then gave his name Henry Peters, and made a most determined resistance, and also threatened to murder the- policeman. He was eventually secured. Grimes said there were three boxes of copper nails stolen from Money Wigram's yard the day before the prisoner committed the robbery with which he now stood charged. The prisoner was a most desperate character, and had often been in trouble. The prisoner said, in his defence, that if he had been in custody, he had got his living honestly for some time. The prisoner, on receiving the usual caution, said—" I'll plead guilty if you will settle it here. I don't want any delay." Mr. Selfe sentenced the prisoner to four months' impri sonment and hard labour. The prisoner has been convicted twelve times in elevsa years, and was once sentenced to four years' penal servitude RIFLE MATCH IN THE ISLE OP WIGHT.—A match was shot off at the Parkhurst rifle-ground on the 18thlinst.—eight picked men of the Winchester Rifles shoot ing against eight of the 2d Isle of Wight Rifles, 6 shots each at 300 yards, 5 each at 500 yards, and a like number at 700 yards. Winchester 'got 27 points, the Newport Rifles 82, beating their opponents ty 55. Private Alfred 'Woo, 9f Th9mig FArra) was 049 )4994 9f the _ §Orgt BRITISH POSSESSIONS. ,s4r, Railways. Xtlantic & St Lawrence) 3om.,Baroda&.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent..... Do, Do. Buffalo and Lake Huron Do. New . . Do. Preference 3uffalo,Brant,&Godricl) p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1874 Aeutta.&S.Eastn. Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.; ,Cape Town & Dock Scrip Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c Demerara Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. c East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. Do. F Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore Do. 4. p c. Debentrs Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864 Do. 1865-1870 Grand Trunk of Canada 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.. t.lndiarenin.g - ua.sp.c. Do. New gua. 5 p. c... 'Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per . eent. 'Do. do. t. W. of Canada Shares, Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 do Do. 54 p. c. do. '7B do Madras, guar., 4i p. c Do. do. 5 percent . Do. 41p. c. Extension Do. 5 do Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnds. I Newßrunswick atCandaJ Ry.dzLand(Lim.)g.6pc Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land d 0........ Do. do. B Capital d 0... Do. do. Land do. ...... Oude (Limited) ........ Scinde ..........1 Do. Punjaub f 4, Do. Do. ........ Do. Indus. St. Flo. 5,,F.,1 Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. f 100 15 all 100 1 Paid. Closing Price. f 2 93 16 mie 5 5i 6i 7i 75 80 65 70 65 70 41 5 I li li d i lf li d 98i g9i 97 98 995 1001 1 pr 244 21} 67 70 54 59 38 40 41 47 37 40 37 40 91 95 10 lid 2 li d 11 ill 9 sid 95 98 90 93 83 85 92 03 85 88 2 1i di 5 7 FOREIGN RAIL" 5 7 974. 981 1 lid lid 90 92 d WAYS. (Antwerp & Rotterdam. Ardennes .. ... • . Uah.&S.Fran..Lim.7 p.c. Belgian East. Junction Beziers to Graissessac.. Co rmeaux Mine a Rail CopiapO ........&...... Ditto Extension .... Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Grand Rue Guar. 6 p. Do. do. great Central of France Gt.Luxem., Con. she... Italian Junction ...... Lierre & Turnhout Lyons di Geneva. ...... Namur & Liege ........ Do. 6 p. e. Pref. ...4 Northern of France.... Do. New Shares Norwegian Trunk Pref. Paris,Lyons, & Mediter. [Paris & 0r1ean5........ Recife & S. Fran. (Fern.) gua. 7 p. ct. Riga & Dunaburg...... l ,Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... , Sambre & Meuse Do. 5i per cent. Pref..... San Paulo, lira, g. 7 p. c. S.Aust.&Lomb Venetin Southern of France.... S. East Portugal 7 p ct West Flandern Do. 54. p. c. Preference .W. & N.W. of France West"rn of Austria. Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden . . . )o. 8 per cent Pref :ealand BRTTIS Iltred consolss ( lillack): !British Iron 't , Clifford Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) East Bassett (Illogan) East Caradon E. W'l Russel (Tavistk.); Gam.diStAubyn(Gwen.)! Great South Tolgus 1 G. Wheal Alfd. (Philack) jG. Wheal Vor (Helstony ,Grenville Herod's-Foot Hingeton Downs Lady Bertha 'Margaret (tiny Lelant)! North Downs ,North Frances ( Illoy; an) !N.Wh'l Basset (Ills ;any, (North Wheal Crofty ; Par Consols (St. Blazeyy Providence (Uny Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. South Caradon(St Cleer) S. Cam Brea (Illogan) 1 S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim; IS.Wheal Fran. (Illogan): !Stray Park Tamar Silv.& Lead Min. Tin Croft Vale of Towey (Carm ) West Basset (Illogan) W. Caradon (Liskeard) West Seton ;Wheal Basset (Mogan), ;Wheal Buller (Redruth): Wheal Edward (Cals.); Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant); Wheal Mary Ann (Men)! , Tretawney (Lis.); a.,nt 20 Australian 1 BonAccord Copper,Lim. 20 , Brazil St.J.del 5 .Do. Land and Mining Co. 1 Clarendon Cons.MinCo 40 Cobra Copper Copiapo 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Col 2 Fortuna... 20 General 2 Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr Kapunda (Limited) 3 Linares 5 ILusitanian 1 Mariquica 1 N.RhineCopoiS.Aus.L i 20 ,Pontgibaud Stiver,Leadi Mining and Smelt 5 Port Philip 1 'Scottish Austrin. (L.) 28113 , 1 United Mexican 1 I Worthing Do . JOINT-STO Agra&UnitedService Bk , Australasia Bank of Egypt Bank of London ..... .. (Bank of Turkey ;British North American Chtd.Bank of India, &c. Ch. Mer. of In. Lon.ez Ch. City Colonial ........ Corn. Bank of Canada.. Commercial of London. Eng., Scot., & Aus. Ch.. Gen. Bk .of Switzerland, Lon. Char.Bkof Austral Do. new London and County London Joint Stock • 'London and S. African London & Westminster (Nat. Prov. of England Do. new , National Bank ........ New South Wales (Orient. B. Corporation lOttoman Bank • Provincial of Ireland I Do. new South Australia Union of Australia .... l Union of London . Unity Mutual • !OLONIAL GOVER: ICan.tirov. 6 p.c.Ja. &July 1877-9 Do. 6p. cent.lBBo-2 Do. 6p. cent.lBB3-4 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Aug. Do. 6 p. c. Mar. & Sept. Do. 5 per cent Cape G. Hope, 6 p c,lBBO Do. 1890 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja. &July Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. 5 p. c., 1866 Do. 5 p. c.,1871 to 1876 Do. p.c., 1888 & Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterlinz, 1875 S. A us,thip.c.lB7B.& up Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja &July Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap.&Oct 111 114 :08 110 108 110 1001 ioli 1051 106 1051 106 1071 1084 98i 994 981 994 98 09 1071 108} LlO5 1051 111 112 111 1011 k 98f 107 i 1051 } i DOCKS. stock ;Commercial lOO stock I Do. 4 per Cent.Pref.Min lOO stock I East and West India stock ,London . 100 50 stock ISt. Katharine • 190 stock 'Southampton lOO stook 'Victoria ........ 100 97 99 20 Do , New 2 id par MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint all 14 15 10 Atlantic R. Ml. Stm (1d)1 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited) I all 25 Australian Agricultural' 19 29 31 10 Berlin Water (Limited) all 44 41 50 British American Land 40 50 B.&l.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim.) all 34 36 20 Do. 8,7p.c.ti111852 (Lim.) all 18 20 20 Do. C. (Limited) all 126 144 321 Canada Land all 114 118 10 Chan.lslands Tel. (Lim ' all Cop.Min.ofEng.&Sraltg. all 25 I Do. Pref. 74 per cent all et. Crystal Palace at. Do. Preference at. Do. 6 p ct. Perpet. Deb. 100 106 108 20 E. India Irrign. & Cana, 1 ad d at Electric Telegraph 25 Do. New l5 5 English & Aus. Copper. all 3 31 15 Gen. Steam Navigate m 3 14 1 Great Ship Limited) all I 1 Do. 176 pct Preference all if 3 5 Lon. District Tel. (Lim.) 36 4 L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) all. 1 14 20 Madras Irr. and Canal 1 6 IV 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim) all 26 36 25 National Di 3. CO. (Lim.' , 5 16 1 d 20 Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim ) , 5 1 06d 10 Netherlands Land all 5 Do.B p.c.Pref..iss.atl dis all 4 1 100 N. Br.&NovaScotiaLand 80 5 10 1 N.ll.Australasi an (Lim.) all 1 1 Oriental Gas (Limited). all 4 1 1 Do. New Shares (Lim.). 15s. pr 10 • Orintl. In. Steam (Lim., 8 , 4 36 at. Peelß.Lnd.&Min.(Lim) 100 47 50 60 Pen. & (Mental Steam all 68 70 50 Do. New 25 0.1 106 20 Red Sea&ln.Tel.g.4lp.c all 17k 184 P 181 1 50 Rhymney Iron all 166 176 15 Do. New. 100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 49 51 at. Scot. Austin. Inv.(Liial ) 100 124 128 25 South Australian Land all 33 35 1 Submarine Tel. Scrip all 1 Do. do. Registered 10 Do. do all 5 4 7 10 Trust and Agency of Austrlasia (lim)l4 is. ; 20 rr.tz Ln.Co. of Upr.Can., 5 5 'U. K'dom Tel. Co. (lim.) 1 1 d I p 100 Yau Dieraen'a Laiig 281 9 10_ NEWMARKET RACES.—(This Day.) BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. SWEEPSTAKES OF 35 SOVS. Cowley 1 Canto SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SON'S. Plum Ellsworth SWEEPSTAKES OF 100 SOUS. Walloon Hesper 2 Three ran. £5O HANDICAP PLATE. Neophyte Southport Selina filly Ten ran. BENNINGTON STAKES. Wing 44 40 1 Prince Plausible 2 Six ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SON'S. Madge Wildfire 1 Palaiseau Four ran. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 11 to 2 agst Sweet Hawthorn (taken) 9to 1 agst Overton (taken) 100 to 8 agst Diophantus (offered) 15 to 1 agst Walloon (taken) 25 to 1 aget Copernicus (taken) 25 to 1 agst Struggler (taken) CHESTER CUP. Bto 1 agst Chere Arnie (taken) Bto 1 agst Wallace (taken) 16 to 1 agst Man-at-Arms (taken) THE DERBY. 7to 2 agst Dundee (taken) 20 to 1 agst Kildonan (taken) 30 to 1 agst Sweet Hawthorn (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Struggler (taken) 1000 to 15 agst The Drake (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Imaus (taken) ORES FOR 1861. Newmarket F S 29 Y. Bath 2l Manche , L 6 22 Harpenden 24 Epsom 2B 'NE. Odiham 25 Newcastle 25 Bibury Club. 26 Stockbridge "Winchester 2B Nottingham 16 Stamford Southampton 23 Hartlepool 29 Goodwood 30 RACING FIXT' Doncaster Spring 23 Chester 7 York l4 Malton Salisbury - 16 Chelmsford Beverley Hungerford Ascot 11 Hampton l9 Newton 19 Newmarket ' Carlisle Worcester .. 4 Liverpool July Abingdon 9 Pontefract 11 CURIOUS LITERARY DISCOVERY. The Library Committ — ee of the Corporation of London have been charged by the Court of Common Council with the duty of investigating the circum stances connected with the removal, about 260 years ago, of a large portion of an ancient manu script of great antiquarian interest, called Libet- Custunzarum, belonging to the Corporation, from the custody of the City Chamberlain, and its recent discovery among the Cottonian manuscripts in the British Museum. The curious part of the story is that the civic authorities of the present day were not aware of the loss of the part of the book in question until shortly before it was found, though the manner in which it was abstracted from the archives of the corporation in the early part of the 17th century, seems ..to have given rise to an ani mated controversy, and many vain efforts towards its restoration at that time. From a statement made recently in the Court of Common Council by Mr. Charles Reed, one of its members, it appears that in June, 1858, an application was made to the Court by the Government, through Sir John Romilly, the Master of the Rolls, for permission to be given to Mr. H. T. Riley, then engaged in the compilation of his Liber Albus, to inspect certain records in the custody of the Corporation. Mr. Riley found, in prosecuting his researches, that 110 folio leaves of Liber Custumarum, a book described by Mr. Reed to be perfectly unique and priceless in value, were missing, and he immediately mentioned the circum stance to the chairman of the Library Committee, which led to a partial investigation of the matter. Not long afterwards Mr. Riley discovered in themost accidental manner the missing 110 leaves among the Cottonian manuscripts of the British Museum, and measures are now being taken by the Court of to procure their restorati,'rn +b book in the cuet-...t., ui the enep.....,Lion, of which they originally formed part, after a separation of 260 years. The records of the Court of Common Council have been ransacked for information on the subject, and the result is shown in the subjoined extracts. The first is under the date of February 24, .1601 :—" Item, it is ordered that Mr. Cambell, Aldn. Mr. Chamberlen, Roberte Smith, and John Stowe, Merchaunt Tayler, or any three of them, shall presently treate with Mr. Tate, of the Temple, or any.others whom they shall think meet, touch ing the procuring of Liber Custumarum and Liber Antiquorum .Regum, and to certify this Court of their doinge therein." Again, under November 10, 1607,—" This daye it is ordered that Mr. Chamber lain, Mr. Town Clerk, Mr. Edmonds, and Mr. Robert Smith, or anye three of them, shall repayre to Sir Robert Cotton, Knight, from this Court and require him to deliver to the Cittye's use three of the Cittye's bokes which have been long tyme miss ing. The first called Liber Custumarum, the second called Liber Legum Antiquorum Regum, and the third called L leetwood, which are affirmed to be in his cuetodye." Then, }ender the date of January 16, 1608,—" Item, it is ordered that Sir Thomas Love, Sir Henry Montagu, Recorder, and Sir John Swynnerton, Knight, and Mr. Robert Smith, to attend them ; shall forthwith repayre to the Rt. Honble. the Lord Privye Seale, and lyke wyse to Sir Robert Cotton, Knt., and Fran cis Tate, Esq., and to deale with them for the redelivery of certain aunciente bokes be longing to this Cittye, and now or late re mayning in their custodyes." February 21, 1608— " Item, one boke newly bound, conteyning a part of an old boke heretofore belonging to this Cittye, called Liber Legunz Antiquorum .Regum, and a part also of another of theCittye's boke sailed Liber Custumarum, which bokes have been long missing oute of the boke-howses of the Guildhall, and now lately restored by Francys Tate, of the Middle Tem ple, Esquier, in whose custodye the same have long remayned, was their delivered into this court to be safely kept in the boke-howses among other the bokes belonging to this Cittye." January 9, 1610 Certain books belonging to the Citty to be re stored : The transcript of Liber Albus delivered to Mr. Recorder, which hath remayned in his hands about one yore. Parte of the Libor Custumarum and parte of the Liber .Legum Regum Antiquorum, which, as this Courte is informed are in the custody of Sir Robert Cotton, Knight, which came to his handes after the death of Mr. Fleetwood, sometyme Recorder of this Citty and • which, by the meanes of Sir John Watte and Sir John Jolles beinge of spe ciale acquaintance with Sir Robert Cotton this Courte hope to procure to be restored to the Citty agayne. A boke called Fleetwood, made by the said Mr. Fleetwood, Recorder. Whereupon it is ordered that Mr. Recorder shall be entreated to restore backe the said booke and Sir John Jones and Sir John Watte have promysed to deale effec tually with the said Sir Robert Cotton for the other two which are in his handes." It was stated by Mr. Reed that a certain number of leaves of another book had been inserted in the mutilated manuscript to restore it to its original thickness, and that only the portion of Liber Custunzarum which was re turned to the corporation at that time, but that which was kept back and which has been found in the British Museum, are emblazoned with the arms of Sir Robert Cotton. So the matter remains at lresent. THE WEATHER. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. TriiDay, between 8 and B. E. M. D. F. C. I. S. 9 a.m. ---- Nairn 30'27 45 44 S.S.E. 1 9I o. 1 Aberdeen Leith .. Berwick 3 0 .32 46 44 S.E. 2 8 0. 3 Ardrossan 30'30 46 45 E. 3 6 f. 2 Portr, , sh Shields Galway 30'16 58 54 S.E. 4 5 c. 2 Scarborough Liverpool ...:130'.:5 60 46 S. E. 2 2 a 1 Valentia I 30 . 07 60 54 E.S.E. 1 4 b. 1 Queenstown 3O 00 55 54 KS. E. 3 4 o. 2 Yarmouth.... 3028 43 42 E.N.E. 4 6 m. 4 London 30•23 47 44 E.N.E. 2 9 0. Dover 1 30•10 51 47 E. 6 1 c. 5 Portsmouth ; 30.18 53 48 E. 3 9 0. 1 Portland Plymouth 30.10 49 48 E.N.E. 7 3 b. 4 Penzance l3 O -11 60 49 E.N.E. 1 3i b. 2 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 (fo r evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true.— not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud (1 to 9). I. Initials :—b., blue sky; c., clouds (detached) ; f., fog. ; h,, hail ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0,, ov er cast (dull) ; r., rain ; s. , s n ow ; t. , thunder. A letter repeated augments—thus, rer., much rAjz, S. &(4 disturb limo (1 to TILE NAVE It appears that the Princess Royal, 91, grounded on the Winter Shoal in Plymouth Sound on Tues day afternoon, not in endeavouring to go to the westward, but to the northward of that shoal. She should, therefore, have gone nearer to the Citadel before attempting to make for Hamoaze, or else her jib should not have been hoisted. A very few fathoms would have taken her clear of danger. Her rise on the rock was rather understated in The Sun of yesterday ; instead of one to four feet, it should have been three to five feet—competent authorities say five feet. The diver examined the bottom on Wednesday and brought up a piece of her fore foot, about two feet six inches long ; he stated that there are several feet gone. The gunboat Weser having been removed, the Princess Royal is now in No. 3 dock at Keyham Steatnyard. However much this accident is to be regretted, it has been the means of bringing under special obser vation the very efficient condition of that por tion of the Channel fleet now at anchor in the Sound. It consists of five screw steamships — viz., the Donegal, 101, Captain Henry Broadhead, inside the western portion of the break water ; the Aboukir, 90, Captain Charles F. A. Shadwell, inside the Camber ; the Conqueror, 101, Captain Edward S. Sotheby, inside both; and the Hero, 91, Captain Alfred P. Ryder, and the Centurion,.Bo, Captain Henry D. Rogers, C. 8., yet further in. The officers on duty on board all the ships were apparently watching the Princess Royal. Boats were manned simultaneously. Between the striking of the ship on the rock and the starting of a pinnace from the Donegal with the stream anchor and all appurtenances only four minutes and a half elapsed. Equal activity was manifested by Commander Brown, Master Attendant, and the executive of the Devonport Dockyard, in the despatch of steam ten ders and launches. On Wednesday again a boat belonging to the Aboukiewas upset in the Sound, but the crew were promptly rescued by assistance from the ships just enumerated. The artisans at Keyham steamyard were em ployed yesterday in shoring the Princess Royal, 91, for the purpose of renewing her fore-foot, false keel, and garboard, damaged on Tuesday last when she grounded on the Winter Shoal in Plymouth Sound. The paddlewheel steam frigate Magicienne, 16, Captain John E. Commerell, from Hongkong, Dec. 27 ; Singapore, January 12 ; the Cape of Good Hope, February 27; St. Helena, March 12; St. Vincent, March 28 ; and Madeira, April 7, which put into Falmouth, short of fuel, on Wednesday, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday morning, and saluted the flag of Port-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, which was acknowledged by the Impreg nable, 104, Capt. Lord Frederick Kerr, in Hamoaze. Rear-Admiral R, L. Warren hoisted his flag (blue at the mizen) yesterday on board the Emerald, 51, screw, Captain A Cumming, at Spithead, under the usual honorary salutes. Yesterday Capt. E. G. Fanshawe (1845), late of the Trafalgar, 91, arrived at Chatham Dockyard, and took up his appointment as Superintendent of that establishment, in succession to Capt. G. Gold smith, C.B. The pitch of the screw of the steamship Gibral tar, 101, at Devonport, having been altered from 22ft. bin, to 27ft. 6ia., a trial of her engines and machinery took place on Wednesday, at the measured mile outside Plymouth Break water. Capt. Astley C. Key, C. 8., of the guardship of steam ordinary Indus, with Commander John E. F. Risk, Mr. John Scott, her master, Mr. John Ward, assistant-engi neer of Keyham Steamyard, and Mr. James Steil, inspector of machinery afloat, represented the Ad miralty. Mr. Maudslay, jun., and Mr, Warrener, engineer afloat, were present on the part of the manufacturers of the engines, Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, London. The Sun of the 21st March last contained an elaborate account of the ship and her engines ; it will, therefore, be only necessary now to state that she is pierced for 101 guns, has neither masts, guns, nor stores of any kind on board, and draws 18 ft. forward and 22 ft. 6 in. aft. The engines are a pair of direct acting of 400-horse power each, and possess all the modern improvements. With wind easterly. a light breeze, water smooth, weather fine, she first ran from west to east, 11 841 knots ; second, 12 676 ; third, 12.121; and fourth, 13.284; maximum of two runs, 12.7 ; mean speed of four runs, 12.480 ; mean revolutions, 59 ; pressure, 201 b. This result is considered very satisfactory. The ventilation of the engine-room and stokehole was well maintained, and the vibra tion of the propeller (Griffith's) was comparatively small. The assistant-engineers of the Gibraltar complain, and apparently with much reason, that their mess-room, like those in all other line-of-battle ships, is on the orlop deck, and is therefore supplied only with two bull's-eyes for light and ventilation. When the ship has a list, and frequently at other times at sea when the weather is rough, the water obstructs the light and prevents the possibility of opening the scuttles. The mess-room is then unfit for human occupation, and is rendered worse by the necessity of burning a lamp. It is suggested that a portion of the gunroom, or some other cooler place, should be appointed to the use of the assistant engineers, into which they might retreat after their severe duties in the heated atmosphere of the engine -room and stokehole. Within the last few days a question has arisen relative to the ultimate disposal of the handsome brass gun which was captured in China two or three years since, and brought toEnglandby Capt.W. H. Stewart, C. 8., in the Nankin, 50, and landed at Chatham Dockyard, where it has ever since remained among heaps of stores and other articles, appa rently neglected and forgotten. The gun is of very large size and of beautiful workmanship, and its weight is calculated to be about 9 or 10 tons. Another gun, similar in all respects to that now lying at Chatham Dockyard, was also captured in China, but unfortunately, in getting it on board at Canton, it fell overboard and was irretrievably lost. The reason for the gun being allowed to remain in its present situation, on the anchor wharf, is stated to be a difficulty which has arisen relative to its ownership, Capt. Stewart being understood to claim it as his private property. It is stated that some time since the Crystal Palace Company offered £l,OOO for the gun, but that that sum was refused. Yesterday the anchors, together with a quantity of other stores, for the floating battery Thunder bolt, 16, were put on board that vessel in Chatham harbour. Each of the anchors shipped weighs 46 cwts. The cables for the Thunderbolt are expected to arrive from Sheerness. Admiralty orders have been received at Chatham directing the frigate Arethusa, 51, which is now in dock undergoing the process of conversion from a sailing ship to a screw steamer, to be supplied with the following armament, viz.:-10 68-pounderi, each of 65 cwt., and 9ft. in length; 22 of 56 cwt. each, and 9ft. 6in. in length; 18 of 45 cwt. each, and Bft. 6in. in length; and 1 swivel 68-pounder of 95 cwt. and 10ft. in length. The Arethusa, which has been several months in hand, is in a very for ward state, and a few weeks more will, it is confi dently expected, see her completed. The addition made to her length amidships, in order to adapt her for a screw steamer, has made her one of the longest 51-gun frigates in the British navy. The Gorgon and Swift were daily expected at the Cape from Rio de Janeiro. The Miranda sailed from the Cape for Australia on the 26th of Feb- ruary. The Inflexible, 6, paddle, Commander G. A. C. Brooker, arrived at Spithead yesterday evening, from China and the Cape, sailing from Simon's Bay on the 26th of February. The Edgar, 91, screw, Capt. J. 'Caton, flagship of Rear-Admiral J. E. Erskine, will ship her Arm strong guns, consisting of one 100-pounder and two 40-pounders, at Spithead on Monday. The Cruiser, 17, Commander J; Bythesea, is re ported to have arrived at Falmouth from China. After coaling, she will continue her: voyage to Spithead, and is expected there to-day. The screw steam frigate Orlando, 51, was put out of No. 1 dock in Keyham steamyard on Wednesday afternoon, and moored in the basin. Yesterday morning she was towed out of the basin and placed at her moorings off Wilcove, in Hamoaze. The Ariel, 7 guns, screw, Commander Alexander, Arziyeti B ay, CAP GoQd, Rope ; Feb. ruary 25. With the exception of the three days previous to making the land, and three days Wes. terly gale to the north-east of Tristan D'Acunha, she had light winds with three days' calms in lat. 38 S. and long. So E., which will account for her long passage from Cape Verd. The Herald, sailing frigate, sailed from the (,'ap© for England February 26. The Sampson, Cyclops, and Magicienne, paddle-steamers, sailed far England on the 27th of February ; the Sparrowhawk to follow about the 2d of March. The Cruiser arrived from China, en route for England, 27th of February. The Brisk, was senior officer's ship at the Cape. The Ariet after refitting would relieve the Lyra on the East Coast, when the latter would proceed to England: A memorial from about 600 •of the shipwrights now employed at Chatham dockyard has been laid before the Board of Admiralty requesting their lord ships to allow the memorialists to be employed on the iron mail-clad steam frigate Achilles, about to be built at that establishment. Commander James E. Bickford was yesterday appointed to the Forte. A" REPRISAL EXECUTION" IN BONNY • Mr. Hutehinson, in his work on Africa, just published, described as follows a dreadful scene he witnessed in Bonny : " As I looked through the slit in the wall on the space between my place of concealment and the Juju house, I observed no change from its appear ance the evening before. No gibbet, nor axe, nor gallows, nor rope, no kind of preparation, nothing significant of death, save th e s k u ll s i n th e pilla r s o f been place, a t o relief,e the Jul a house, th at seeme d l eer i ng at me with. an expression at once strange and vacant. It stillnessweuld o h f av t e he heard i n t something e a t h w ing awful of what I had read of the preparations for an execution in Liverpool or London—of the ham mering suggestive of driving nails into scaffold, drop, or coffin—of a crowd gathering round the place before early dawn—and of the solemn tolling of the bell that chimed another soul into eternity. Everything seemed as if nothing beyond the routine of daily life were to take place. Could it be that I had been misinformed—that the ceremony was adjourned to another time, or was to be carried out elsewhere? No. A distant murmur of gab bling voices was heard approaching nearer and nearer, till passing the corner house on my left, I saw a group of negroes. An indiscriminate crowd of all ages and both sexes, so huddled together that no person whom I could particu larly distinguish as either an executioner or culprit was visible amongst them. But above their clatter ing talk came the sound of a clanking chain that made me shudder. They stopped in the middle of the square, opposite the ju-ju house, and ceased talking. " One commanding voice uttered a single word, and down th e y sa t u p on th e gr ass, forming a circle round two figures, standing upright in the centre—the executioner and the man about to be killed. The former was remarkable only by the black skull-cap which he had on him, mad by a common cutlass which he held in his hand. The latter had chains round his neck, his wrists, and his ankles. There was no sign of fear or cowardice about him—no seeming consciousness of the dreadful fate before him—no evidence even upon his face of that dogged stub bornness which is said to be exhibited by some per sons about to undergo an ignominous death. Save that he stood upright, one would scarcely have known he was alive. Amongst the spectators, too, there was a silent impassiveness which was appal ling. Not a word, nor gesture, nor glance of sym pathy, that could make me believe I looked at beings who had a vestige of humanity amongst them. As the juju butcher stepped back and mea sured his distance to make an effectual swoop at his victim's neck the man moved not a muscle, but stood as it were unconscious—till—Chop the first blow felled him to the ground. The noise of a chopper falling on meat is familiar to most people. No other sound was here—none from the man, nor a whisper nor a murmnr from those who were seated about. I was nearly crying out in mental agony, and the sound of that first stroke will haunt my ears to my dying day. How I wished some one to talk or scream, to destroy the impression of that fearful hough, and the still more awful silence that followed it. Again the weapon was raised to continue the decapitation— another blow as the man lay prostrate, and then a sound broke the silence. But, oh, Father of Mercy ! of what a kind was that noise —a gurgle and gasp accompanying the dying spasm of the struck-down man. Once more the weapon was lifted —I saw the blood flow in gory horror down the blade tn Imtohet 'a hand, and there it was visible in God's bright sunshine to the whole host of heaven. Not a word had yet been uttered by the crowd. More chopping and cleaving, and the head, severed from the body, was put, by the juju exe cutioner, into a calabash, which was carried off by one of his women to be cooked. He then re peated another cabalistic word, or perhaps the same as at first, and directly all who were seated rose up, whilst he walked away. A yell, such as reminded me of a company ortigers, arose from the multitude—cutlasses were flourished as they crowded round the body of the dead man— sounds of cutting and chopping ros e am id s t th e clamour of the voices, and I began to question myself whether, if I were on the other side of the river Styx, I should see what I was looking at here throagh the little slit in the wall of my hiding-place? A crowd of human vultures gloat ing over the headless corse of a murdered brother negro—boys and girls walking away from the crowd, holding pieces of bleeding flesh in- their hands, while the dripping life fluid marked their road as they went along; and one woman snap ping from the hands of another—both of them raising their voices in clamour—a part of the body of this poor man, in whom the breath of life was vigorous not a quarter of an hour ago ! The whole of the body was at last divided, and nothing left behind but the blood. The intestines were taken away to be given to an iguana—the Bonnyman's tutelary guardian. But the blood was still there, in glistening pools, though no more notice was taken of it by the gradually-dispersing crowd, than if it were a thing as common in that town as Heaven's bright dew is elsewhere. A few dogs were on the spot, who devoured the fragments. Two men arrived to spread sand ever the place, and there was no interruption to the familiar sound of coopers' hammering, just beginning in the cask-houses, or to the daily work of hoisting palm oil puncheons on board the ships." THIS DAY'S MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. Most of the samples of the English wheat on sale here to-day came to hand in fair condition, but the show was far from extensive. All good and fine qualities moved off steadily, at full prices ; but inferior parcels ruled dull, at barely late rates. In the demand for foreign wheat there was no activity l yet the quotations, especially:for good and fine samples,were well maintained. For floating cargoes of grain the inquiry was limited. In their value, however, there is no change to report. Fine malting barley sold steadily, at previous rates ; bUt all other descriptions ruled dull. The transactions in malt were chiefly in good and fine qualities, at late rates. The oat trade was firm, at fully the late advance in prices. Both beans and peas changed hands at full currencies. In flour a moderate business was doing on former terms. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt Oats. Flour. English 1,120 i 2,030 5,090 I 10 1,710 • Irish — --400 -- Foreign 13,320 2,030 8,360 720 sacks -- brls. NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of meat on sale here are largo; and the trade generally rules inactive at our quotaanao• Per 81b. by the carc ase ' adad Inferior boor .. 2 8 3 0 Middling do. .. 3 2 3 6 Prime large do. 3 8 3 10 Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Large pork 4 0 4 8 Inferior mutton. 3 6 3 101 sdsd midongmutton 4 0 4 4 Prime do . 4 4 4 8 Veal 4 4 6 4 Small pork Lamb fine sOwile continue i i i n O ue P For good and to haveos plesrtecwadty. mand, and prices are well supported. All oth er k i nds, however, move Easto d v s a off slowly Kent pockets so lowlyonformerte s rms to 2:o .. GOa 168 s Sussex Yearlings ... : 110 s 180 a COLONIAL. 4 TEA.—At public sale the biddi ngs were not very ac ti v e t and previous rates were sustained for most qualities.. SIIGAR.—The inqui r i es for good grocery descriptiotl 9 _ have o have been on the inc rease, and prices have slightl9,2_ vaneed. In the r e fi ned market dried goods ha vv" dealt in, at slightly enhanced rates. COFFEE.—The de a li ngs h ave b een moderate, active, ' skein good and fine d escr i ptions of Plantation C°?,43 a, shade ;1:n re g high prices. N a ti ve C ey l on , h owe ver, 7 cheaper. RICE. —The mark e t has been dull, and East Indian qua lities are at rath er l ower quotations. a have been reported SALTPETRE.—OnIy limited dealing at about previous values. ortan speculative account ce have been entc rel., TALLOW.—NO dealings of imp. on into either for consumption T . ted AL, and hot three pleutb. a P.Y.C. on the spot IP 14 7 49 , OP, pez CV, ' ll llll itris live heal sped sing else ,wer If of d to ex well .em. pee the the .;ci- ish Leir )ocl in Of 'ill Share! Share 100 stk 18 20i 204 10 100 100 stock 100 stock 100 100 100 100 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stook 2011