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

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTF.T.T.TGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed firmly. Compared with Friday's rates prices of all kinds were quite as high. The sales were estimated at 8,000 hales, including 600 Pernam and Maran ham, at 6id. to 74. ; 350 Egyptian, at 6id. to Bd.; 1,000 Surat, 40. to 41d.; and 80 Sea Islands, at 10d. to ls. 41d. per Da. There was little altera tion to notice in the Railway Share Market. The steamer America with 325,650 dollars has arrived, buk the mails have not yet been received in town. Letters from the Continent mention that the establishment of a Stock Exchange in Prague had been decided upon, and that the necessary arrange ments had excited a good deal of attention. Commercial ad vices from St. Petersburg to the 15th inst. have come to hand. The state of trade was not so buoyant as the prospects of peace bad led many to expect, still it was sufficiently marked to show that a pacific result to the Conferences at Paris was generally entertained. For tallow prices have had rather a downward tendency, but this may be accounted for, as the recent high quotations were partially nominal. Many sales had been effected daring this month for delivery in August. Flax is in demand at 24r. for delivery in Jane, and 24i to 25 for delivery in July. Linseed is also in request at improved prices, being 7r. 30 kopecks to nr. for money - sales. For grain the advanced prices since the an nouncement of the pacific negotiations are fully Maintained. Extra fine Cubanca has been sold for 9 silver roubles per tchetwert, and good ordinary sorts at Sir. In rye there is not so much de mand, but a few lots have brought Sir. per tchet- Wert. Foreign exchanges rale as follows :—on London 37 3-16 7-16 f, on Amsterdam 184, 1841, en Hamburg 33 5-16 331, and •n Paris 390 3911. Accounts from Iquique in Peru to the sth Feb., State that nitrate of soda was much in demand at 22 reals per Spanish quintal. The exports in this article during the month of January amounted to 71,352, quintals against 85,570 quintals in the Same month last year, and 90,726 quintals in 1854. Of the first mentioned quantity 22,196 quintals Were exported to England, and 19,339 quintals to Hamburg. _ The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under : 18b6. £24,230 61,663 13,642 12,463 29,077 15,913 10,755 21,916 21,403 5,472 4,582 11,605 6,555 2,044 4,647 Great Western . North-Western south-Western Brighton . Midland Louth-Eastern Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire Bristol and Exeter Chester and Holyhead 41%neheatcr, She ffi eld, and Lincoln oorth Stafford North London North British 1855. 021,977 50,607 11,342 10,883 26,392 12,008 10,634 19,696 18,280 5,290 4,353 7,999 6,015 2,030 4,453 These returns are very encouraging, the recepts of most of the principal lines, compared with the corresponding period of last year, showing an im- Portant increase. Money has continued in good demand in Lom• bard -street, and at the Bank of England, but no alteration in the terms of discount has taken place. Th e brokers and others will, no doubt, find good employment for their capital during the next few days, not only on accounT of the English Loan, but likewise for the commercial engagements of the 4th of April. No change of importance has occurred in the Market for Public Securities, butinereased firm ness is observable in the quotations, owing to the This felt in the early announcement of peace. This event, though delayed, is now expected in the course of two or three days, and a more cheerful feelin g is experienced among the speculators. There has been rather more business trans acted, but the market is still quiet. Consols, for looney have been 92i 4, and for account 921 2. he New Scrip has risen to 22. The New 2,5 per Vents. are 75, the March Exchequer Bills 2s. to ss. Prem., and the Bonds 98k to 981. India Bonds finder 1,0001. ire-10s. to 6s. dis. Poreign Stocks are inactive, but generally at steady prices. Spanish 3 per Cents. are 442 ; ditto Deferred, 242 ; and the Certificates, 51. Russian Bonds have been at 1044. The Turkish 6 per Cents. are nominal, but a bargain has been effected in th e 4 per Cents. at 100 k. Grenada New Active are 214 ; Brazilian 5 per Cents., 1014. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Mexican, 20 f ; Peruvian, 78 70 ; Rus -444 5 per Cents., 103 105 ; ditto 44 per Cents., 93 9.43 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 442 451 ; ditto De ferred, 24k 25 ; ditto Certificates, 54 to 6 ; ditto Passive, 7 7i. In Railway shares there is generally a slight im provement. Caledonian, East Anglian, and Lanca. shire and Yorkshire are at higher prices. The Foreign lines are firm. Sambre and Meuse are fully 11. higher. Mining shares are again neglected ; banks quiet, l ' lad also miscellaneous shares. FUNDS Tlll3 DAY.-CLOSING PRICES. f Prom the Official .Lict. Bush's's!. done. . 92i 6 .. 75 1 1)Ar Ocnt Consols Annuities °ll' 4, per Cent. Annuities lam a tiouria A 30114) .. .• . , Ditto, under £lOOO 6 1 0 (1 r ",.,I,)snla ; or Account ‘ 4 nsol Scrip 2 i P IScchequer Bills, 2jcl. March. June. £lOOO ..... **** •• 52 p I £5OO groan 53 pllpld bitto Bonds, 1858,3 i per Cent. 9Bl 4 a Ditto, 1859 PEACES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. ka in %Wan Beads, 5 per Cent. lOll 4 'clustdor Bonds sf Ditto New Consolidated l4l 4 renada Now Active, 1i per Cent. Ditt o Deferred.......... ..... ••• ......... . 7 It v ,lzicsn 3 per Cent a sn▪ saiau Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1622, £ St lOti 4 a d oPaola Bonds, 3 per Cent bitte Account Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent Ditto Account 24i i i , Ditto Passive 'Vanish Committee Cert. of Conp. not fun 5l 1 . p c I brkihh Bonds, 6 per cent - — Ditto Account 97 i i i Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent V .. Ditto Account •nezn e ta Bonds, 41 per Cent — Ditto Deferred, 1, per Cent.........,...., LI Dividends on the above payable In Tmn , lon THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, money . 92a i Ditto Account, April 10 ~... 100 ~ zisr OF GOVERNORS AND DIRECTORS OF THE BANK OF &NOLAND. The following is the House List of Governors and D irectors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing, viz. FOR GOVERNORS. Thomas Matthias Weguelin, Esq., Governor. Sheffield Neave, E. , 1., Deputy Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq. Arthur Edward Campbell, Esq. Ed ward Henry Chapman, Esq. Robert Wigram Crawford, Esq. William Cotton, Esq. James Pattison Currie, Esq. Bouamy DAree, Egq. Benjamin Buck Greene, E.g. Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. Henry Hunks Gibbs, E4q. Thomson Hankey, E-q. John Oliver Hanson, E.g. John Benjamin Heath, Esq. Kirkiman Daniel Hodgson, Esq. Henry Lancelot Holland, E-q. John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq. Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq. Charles Frederick Hath, Esq. James Malcolmson, Esq. James Morris, Esq. - George Warde Norman, E-q. John Horsley Palmer, Esq. Henry James Prescott, Esq. Thosnas Tooke, jun., Esq. The election for Governor and Deputy Governor ►ill be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the Bth of April, and "Vitirectors on Wedaesday, the 9th April, from ten °'ellick in the forenoon till four in the afternoon. LONDON AND COUNTY BANC—Mr. H. Luard, the general manager of the London and County Bank, has re signed, and Mr. W. M'Kewan, his deputy, bas been P t ovisbaslly appulAted to 1111004 him. '0 10 10 10 5 5 20 10 SHARE MARKETS. (T.IIIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day 1"1" , .1 et Nottng: Rust end Emtn. Janet... lelfast & Wlrmouo. 3lrraing. Welverh Stour Val •Hrte ih3. lasnosl,. c'hoshkre Junet....... 26k 27 4k - 4i ••• •-• • Si - Si 17i - LTA 15 - 124 - & Birk. £5O and £25 Con., Do., ..... . Ilyth i Tya a origina £25 (lead. at £4F Bristol and Exeter.. "Irilodonian. 81 - 90 601 - 61 131 - `atm. nnd Cardipu• 'Theater 4 Holyhcal fork and Bandon Black, & PaS , Cornwall ••• ..... ... Do. A Do. B Crie T Junction I) iibindißelfastJnnc ')nn. P. Si A b-r. Jnc East Anglian Eastern Counties o.ast. iniou, A SO 0., B. Stc,ot Do., New A. ast Kent 76 - 16 Ai* 91 35 40 25 - 30 lest lAncasliiro fk • , :dinl .n rgh 4 Glasgo • Edinb. and Peebles &lin. Prth & Dur , l, Forth St Clyde Jen... Furness 1)o. Extension Glasgow it ti. W.st.' Great N. of Scotind. Great Northern ~ Do., A. Stock Do., R. Stock ilt. Sth.ll,West.flrt - , 1, heat Western i)o. Stour Val. Rai! Gus. Stk.. 73 - 75 58 - 60 9+ - 26 - 26 84 - 86 6i - 7 93i - -94 i 79 - 80 121 123 104 1 06 - 62/ 631 Mi 60 Irish South-Easter , . la-ateaster Sr Carlisle ;Do., Thirds I Do. Nov Thirds 68 - 72 5i -- 61 5- 6 • 84, 4 , - 85 Lstwash. mid Yorkt , l `Vet. aiding ' ?n "Av.Crsby .&Soutlipt & Blachwn;l ',and. Bright &S.CA :Ind N. Wenn • lu. Iritthr ... '.- 71 7,i 100 . 101 100 1006 id - par l d - par! 1 I 93 - 94 Do.lol.3L,Mtai. ,C Do. Eighths Condon andS. Wostt Do., £5O £4O Laidnitrrydt Coleraine I mdndriT. & Ennlik '74snch.Shef.k Linch L.., man. & Lin. Un Aetropolitaii Uhiland 27 - 27! id 72 72; 42 44 +c). fiirmng. at I)erh 41 , 11 d. G. West, (I r(i :)o. Half Shares .« - .. ' , / , xavenzitle& Car Hal; Nwpt.Aberg.&llrt iewry &Enniskillo Mowry Warroupoin and Roatrevor \Tort°lk 11 2 13 \Torthn.Connties Ito North British vth Devvr, Rsi l , & Dock Stock 'o., A Stock B Stock N. DoDo. B Onarnntee ~ 4)o. do. Extension G.N.E. ?nrob Do. Leeds Do. York 49 51 34 at,' 31i .% 32i - 771 61 - si. 151 -- 15 i 55 56 88 - 90 North London strn. ,llam• - stead, and City JD,. Yorth Staffordshir \forth Wostern...... 6 51 is —§ ioi v. & S. Westrn. June. Nrunoaton o Hinckley Ind Leicester.. )x, Wore.. & Wolv r'ortgnionth 26 - - 27 Fkottlah Co Aral Scottish Midland ro psh ire UL i m 04 106 75 -- 77 45 47 4 69i 703 68 - 69 4 2 id 36 iontil Devon . iouth Eastern_ 'outh Wales Yrksh. tit Riv. 1)n no .. ... ft. , tines,W( k &Wo Stockton & Darll , tc. , :kton & ['Artier rail' vale )o. Pref., No, 1. s' , ,TrioB Hay. TI.Sc ILTlverstono V , tte •,; Neath 11 - 20 311 - 44 Waterfd. k Kilkonu wnterfordeiLimor (West Cornwall.— ;Arost Ind of Lond, and Crystal Palace: GA -- Do. A Do. B West London..., iWimblodn &Croydol I Business done this day. , 4i i 61 60f 15,E 16 9 4 25 44 25 f 91} on 3} Pia lgi 14 ; i 101 100 i e 15f 93i 4 4371/ / i / 21 32} li 77 6j 7 FOREIGN. 8 i - 8i par 2 p 3i 4 1 3 9i 1 .. 1i•I II 1 381 —3s 11 13. 22 221 211 2li si 16} VT! 74 • 76 84 - .86 5i - 6 r 21i - • 6i - 3} - 36 - 251). 2i - - 100 117 - 122 118 - 123 Inr 109 24 - 24 115 120 lo i 31" i lob —20 i P 8 10 24 3i -f 54 7 64 '49 39. 1 I 1 12i1 8 - 10 4. 4 - 80, f 0 52 19 - 20 iii 7 ii 1 3 - 2 • ••• • prc7 3- 3:4k - k 19 - 164 • htwfiro , tr. rd Do. 5 p.c. Oblg9. eon. in Sh. at par till '64 Ardennes ........ ..oig tan ESAU. •Inr“ Iczierl to nraiss, esN tomhay, tbtrods., tut (I.ntral Do. 'emerara h'itch Rhenish Tastern of France "10. New Fast Indian , g. sp. c. tengion D 0.4 p.c.Bnds.,'s7 Gee ong Melbou ne guar. 5 per c nt. . Do., Lon. allot., do. Tk of ()mind a I u )o. Cert. of Deben. eon. into Stk. till '6: Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do Gt. Central of Fran Gt. Tndian Peninanl Great Lnxembour: Constituted Share ,, Do. Obligation.... Do. re-is. 'orftd. Sh. Gt.Weatornof Cana,' a gbarpg Do. New Do. ;ids. ► payttble's7, with option till '55.. Do. do., '62, p.'56 . Do. do., '76, p. '60.. DG. do., '73, without option ilton Toront Do. 6 per cent . Lake Cond. At Baal , Lierre and Turnhout Lucca v Pist. 5 p. c.p Lyons and Genova I l Lyons d o Afediterrtn vfadrae, guiv. 4 p.e IN. New 0., Gp. 0 tlo. 4 p. c. Bxten Karla Antonia Do. do. New Namur & Liege eriti interost) Do. (ex interest) orthern of France. 00,201. Shs. Do. 207. 3 p. c 1,41 " (finy.B. 6c Ams. Nor PsisaeagnianTyonruks n Pre e Ditto Ronde ..... • Paris and Orleans Rome and Frascati v,oyal Danish Royalilwedish Do. Obligations .... Sambre and Mango_ )o. 54 p. event. Pref. Scinde, guar. 5 p. s Do :nuthern of France_ 3t. Andrew's air' Queboc (A) Nest Flanders ....... Do 54 per 0. Pref.. . & N. W. tic Tr r , TR ;; West. of Switaorland Wiesbaden &Aland ,r()ITPT-81rOCIX: BANIEB. , IRtralvo Bank of London .... ;tri. Col. M.& Fa). C N. American lhartd. Bank of Asir. Bnk. of India, Australis, & China City • lolon•al ':.;ommorcial of Loud.' P.nz.Scot.& ing.Cht. Loud. Chart. Bk. of tustralis Ditto Now f , ndon ‘nd County. Lnd. &E. Bnk g. Corp. London Joint Stock. Loudon and Paris—. Loud. & Westminstel Nbitional Pro.of Eng Do. New 'National of Ireland. New South Wslea.— Oriental Bank of Corporation. iftcvincial of Ireland Do. New R Ails I 2 RE Go Im ef Royal British... Sonth Australia Union of Australia 80. Now . Mai= of 1-4.4au 96 ' 8 65 - 67 Pr p d 64 -- 66 "..." ••• ii - i 16 163 311 3fd IPar 2P 3 -- 2 d ••• .. m. ••. 41, .... •.• 88 = 40 43 - 44 .. ''''' ••• •** ''' i• 71 - 73 71 8i If. g 1,1 Shr. PO A2s. 1 110 0 x10(1 110 tn. too ")14 ono 100 Is all I 0 all ' it' '4 , 411 '4 All Al I 111 Al I TIIE cu. , LONDON, THEJR:SDA Y EVENING, MARCH 27, 1856. LlNgti td..ASED T MIXED HAN'.PALS. Lolala, &MLR A TS. COMPar" Redford and Blet chloy Buckgbamsh. Clydesdale . Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal: R. Lin. e. 6 pc E. Un. H. Sh, Ulm. Barr. & Neill. Direct Do. New Glstr.4 On. Fr Dk. & Railway__ Hull & Solby Do. Sharei. Do. i Shares. Lon.&Greonw Do. Preference Lon.,Til., & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cont. Do. 6 per et. Manch. I3xtn and Matlock Middlesbre & Redcar !London N. Wc't 'L.StN.W. Un. E. C., (;:t.NrtfAu. Count. Caldonis.n • I: this day 94 - 96 94 - tE 11 - /3 4k ... 4i ... ...... .. Do (it. I .rosLr Yk. Now. Berw. Y. &N hi Do Do S. Faste•T Do roto &co ••• •-•- • 103 -106 all 101 1.03 1100 Do L. &N. W Sc. Midi& itckton Darlingt. Midland 12i -- 13 233 -24 i 1071 -112 i Midld.Bradfd Newmarket Bury E. G.spc N.& Est.sp.e. Do. 6 per ct. Do. Pixeds p e Preet. & 1 ,1 y: Do. 4 Shrm. A Roystn.& ITit. Shef.ltoth an Gooleg.s p.c. Shrews. &II er S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 por cent Do En. Coun. S. Count. Do 'Do .l Do ICU North , ) Laneash & Yorksh. P. Brassey M. MCles.n itoekt. & Dar; Inca Do •H *"". •• 2i -2/ : 93 P 55 b 7 ... - ... 25 ••• s•, 133 - 135 Wiltski;ornret 411.0611 this lay. r bi t • Z"tt011 SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock NORTHAMPTONSHIRE RACES. (This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LATEST BETTING. EARL SPENCER'S PLATE. 4to 1 apt Post Horse. 6to 1 apt Flacrow. 6to 1 agst Coal Black Rose. Bto 1 agst Berezina. 10 to 1 agst Any other. I jl2i ALTHORP DARK STAKES. Madame Clioquot Nougat Rollallion Sixteen ran. EARL SPENCER'S PLATE. Flacrow .•.. .... Berezina Octavia 2 22 2 • 71 - 31 -- Nineteen ran. DELAPRE HANDICAP Little Geraid Alcyone King Chat 32 - 33 Eleven ran. SELLING PLATE. Weathercock •••..• Sacrifice filly Six ran. RACING STARES. Stork Queen's Head Three ran CUP. Middleton Nine ran. PREFERENI St. 9t. St. 100 al l 10i 1 0 0 1100 I , ;tw4 ‘herdeen no. No. 2, 7 p. a. Do. Debentures .slythandTyno 10ee c. pref. (issd..2.t 501 !iris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St Do. 4 p. a. Shares , .!aledonian £lO , 'hes. & ae. au- 5 p' !)o. do. Prof. No. 2. Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork dtßandons3p.c Oun.Prtb..& A I er.J. g. Anglian Cis. A Sh ! Do. do. Cls. R 6 p. c. Do. do Cis. C 7 p. c. liar. Co. Ex, spc No. Do. No. 2 Do. New 6 p. c. St T.ast Un., G. 6 p. a. Do. 51., 10 per cent r)o. 101. Debentr.Sl). Do. do. 4 per cart... Taut Lancaqh.6 p. ets - York. J. sth- Edin. & Gl. 5 p.o. sh. Prth.&Dun.4p.c. Furness • Glns. & S. W. 0.5 p.c Groat Northu. 5 p. Do, 5 p. a. Redeem at 10 p. c. prom. . Do. 4i p.c Do. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red at 5 p. c. pm... '3t.. N. of Scot. Ist Pre Gt. S. It W. (Ireland Do. 4por a. Pvt. S W.(R. r.tU.Exipo Do. con. red. 4. p.c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irrcd. 4p. c. . Do. 5 p. c. red. pref Do. ‘lo. do. Do. Birm. Pref.lh.. Do. Chester 8 p. c. P.s Do. do. 5 p. c. do Do. Binn. Gua. Stk Do. Ches. Qua. Sh Do. do, do Do. do, do 'An. & York. F. £2' )o. 6 p. c. Stock . r,on.&Rrigh. Q. 5 p.c. Do. Pref., 5 p. a. St. Do. Now Guar.6 p. c Do. do. 5 por cont Lon. &N. W., Coy. '. Innenton 5 p. at . Lon. & S. W. 7 per ct riondy. Az Color. Sh Condy. & Ennis. S. to. 1.0.6 iarypt.& Carl. 4 p 4 per cont.... 't 0 •Abl. Consol.6 I( 0 I flon.Br. p( 1.01 Do. 4i p. o. Pref. all Do. Pref. 4 4 ; per on all Do. N. 4 p. C. 100 Ditto L. It H. Prof. S all Now., Aber., dm, pr. j 5 p. c. red. 5 p c. pm. Norfolk Ontoature , Do. Prof. 51p. et. St Do. 5 p. u. Eat 0..5A per ct. pref. • Do. Way. Val. 5 p North British LOO 100 !op 1.00 ;00 ion "eptn. IE SHARES. 'N. Perw, 4 p.c. P ,Do. do. do Do Geols 6 p.c ' • do. I Do Quarters Do.Ynrk H.gy p,,, North Staffordghiro, We, vW 1N p Do R. Prof. 101. Sh. Scot. Cent. ,New Pre .4,.)uth Devon Do. fixed, 4i per con Eastern (ReadDi• 'inn.) of .C 1 Os. ed. Do. 4 1 , per cent Do. Fixod 4i p e sh Wales Gus. 4 p. c Do. do. 41 p. c.... ;. Yorksh.4p.c.Gunr. q+eek.& Dar. , 5 p. c. Do. do. do. 'Stock. & Hard. g. F 1 P. O. till July 1, 'sl 4 ;Watortd.& Kilk.6 pi" 115 - 120 115 120 82 86 92 -- 97 - 99 16 - 17 5/ - 6 113 - 105 - 90 - 0 12 -12} 63 - 70 ..• 116 - ilB 104; - 108 101 - 103 in 9a 10 6 - 6A 94 - 96 F 6 - 68 37 - 89 98 • 100 94 - 10 '634 - 17 10 - 10§ 73 - 74 194 - 204 94 - 10 144 -14 i 1 - 33 - 135 ••• .... ... .• ...- GM •~~ ' N~ ... - ..r r *1 = 'I 1100 100 100 all .•• ..'• ••, '1 3 - 135 91 - 96 1 - } .•.. - ' - 101 - 103 90 -92 5 - 53 id ... .•• ... 1 - 14? pm i pm 22i - 98 - 100 9i - • 10 63 9 ... ~ r 134 3 1 -- . ip 21 2idi HINEI 4 . , 1 all 1 4 41,a I. fir. ............ ••• •• - • • 1 all Vagl o A ustrln. Geld ... --- ... I.os - •ai ! XII& Californian I 20 7 kustralian i 1 1 all iustralian Cordillerb ... ... 1 all Aso Maria. • •• • 1 all 3/Oen (Gd.Du , :hy of ... •.. 50 all Rlemar. Iron & Cos ... ••• 20 14 British Iron 3 5 35 26 7irazilianlmp.(issuoc at £5 puh) 30 i all )o. Cornea & Cuiah 21 --224 20 ; 15. Do. St. John DelllT 24 --, 26 1 1 4 rllarendon COWL Mill 1 1 Co. of Jamaica A— IP i 43 all Cobra Copper 6l; 69 5 j 1 lelonial Gold — ... St. all Copper Min. of Eng 35 38 25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent 26 27 ... le Copiapo. 2O 22 2 14 Fortuna 1 4d 1. 20 all lent,,•al l4 —l6 1 all lt.NuggetVeinßeg 1 i 41 all 3troat Polgooth .... 14 I 5 I all IA Wheal Vor rnited 1 . id 1 all Lihorty ... 3 j all Linares 9 7 4 5 ; 11 Lusitanian 1 all Wariquita 1 = 1 1 1 all Now Granada 1 all Nouveau Monde ilo all Pontgi.Sil.& Le. Min 11 13 5 1 Port Philip i i 1 all Quartz Rock I i 50 all thymney Iron l9 21 15 all Do. New 5 -- 7 z d 30 13i iantiago de Cnha.. 31 - 31 34 ... 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co 2 31 3 1 all tenth Australian. 1 4 1 1 all Do. Scrip i - § 1 1 f Do. 10 per cent Prof ... ... , 44 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. 21 -- 24 21 10 9 Pin Croft ...... .. :. . •,. '3l --- 41 -- . 284 all rTnitad Mexican 1 all •Vallor * 11 1 all Vest Mariposa i 1 12s Vorthing Mining 01 Australia 1 all t'nba.. , .... --- •• MIzau.KLL.a..N KOUti, 7 25 19 Australian Agric'ult. 254 264' 23 IP a'l a ns:.raln. Royal Mail ... ..: IU. all lorlin W a t er Works 64 75 SO 40 *it. American Land ... ... 41 •00 32 ..'anada - 1421 .tt, :' 0 1 , 584 • 1094 1094 9 St. 100 Do. 6p. c. Feb & Aug 107 109 St. 100 Do. 6p. c. Mar & Sept 106 —10 i L . , Crystal Palace,..... 2f 3 5 all Do. Preference. 54 . 53 55 li , il Jrystal Pal. of France ... ... •1 i i)nston Iron Oro 20 13 itastern Steam ..... ... .. 5 all En. &Aua Cop Sin Co • 1 14 25 all Vaeetrie Telegraph 21 22 1 all glectric Toleg. of Ir ... ... 5 all Gen. Iron Se Collier ... - . ... lb 14 Oen. Stoma Navigat. .., ..., 18 all General Screw Steam ... ... 161 20 10 Irish Beetroot Sr..law .. .. a 21: alllllol L vEsgm e ed ud dite . ,a G rne e nan. n. O stti m eNo ni .a.Tv bus eil. 3 ..8 4 . __, . 3 i i o 34 10 9 Ifesican&S.Amerien. 54 6 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ~,,, ... 1.0 5 Netherlands Land j 1 14 10 all Do. Do. 2 3 5 2- Do. 8p e P iss at 1d: $ ti 100 80 Ne w B. &N. S. Land 118 -- 2 1 all N. P. Australasian 4 -- i I 20 15 Nrth.ofEuropeStaare ... ••• 1 all Oriental Gas. l4 I 1 12s. Do. "New Shares" Pm L all Peel Rr. Ld.& Mi nr l. 2l 2 5 50 all i'eninenlar& Oriental! ... •• • 664 7 50 10 Do. New..,, 2 all Portland Iron C • io 100 '6O Royal Mail Steam ... ..., ... 1 all ,cot. Austral. Invest l4 1 1 1 i 4 Ditto New....... i 25 all 'South Austral. 354 Siii 364 203 all s l S p n o b . mßaerg , i Registered,..., l rl Scrip.,, nt. : : 1 ~2 1 .. 15 • .5 , Trust& L.OO.lJ.Ca . n. . .... I. 1 24 Vas Diaman's Lsnd i Lit 15 0 1 p*s HS VAN6Plig•haVigir ~,, ......... "... 10, ".1 ..., 11141 120 120 18 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day. ' MANSION-HOUSE. FRAUDULENT BANKRUPT.—George Frederick Lillicrop, grocer, of 2, Trafalgar-place, Trafalgar-road, Hagger stone, was charged with defrauding, his creditors of about 50/. after be had become a bankrupt. Mr. Dollrnan, of the firm of Messrs. Howard and Dollman, appeared for the assignees to prosecute, and Mr. Humphreys appeared for the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence adduced, that the bank rupt, whilst the messenger from the Bankruptcy Coast was in hi. 3 house, contrived to dig a hole in the coal cellar, into which be put several articles of stock, and some of his furniture. He removed to a neighbours. The prisoner had also falsified his books, by making► cer tain accounts paid which had Lot been paid, and after wards collected the money and put it into his pocket. The case not being complete the prisoner was re manded. PRIVATE AND JOINT-STOCK BANKS. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of circu lation of the private and joint-stock banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending the 16th of Feb., 1856, and gives the following as the average weekly cir culation of those banks during the past month, 'viz. : Private banks Joint-stock banks.. 2;989;604 Average weekly circulation 26,779,150 , On comparing the above with the returns for the pre ceding month. ending the 19th of Jan. last, it shows— A decrease in the circulation of the private banks of £111,708 A decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock banks of 100,269 Decrease on the month And, as compared with the return for the correspond ing period of the preceding year—vie., Feb. 17, 1855, it shows— A decrease in the circulation of the private banks of A decrease in the circulation of the joint-stock banks of £14,239 25,830 Decrease on the year .., £40,069 On comparing the above - with the amounts of the fixed issues, the following appears to be the comparative state of the circulation : The private banks are below their fixed issues £772,385 The joint-stock banks are below their fixed issues Tota►l below their fixed iseuea. ..... £1,107,924 MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. GENERAL AVERAGE t•RICKS OF BRITISH COIN For the week ended Moroi' 27, 1856, made up from the Returnso: the Ln , peotor. ch. and Tovrna Lit England end welt- e por imperial Quarter. MIOSA.T. IZARLET. OATS. %TS. I BEANS. ?RAS 671 61 1 371 21 g 23i 21 431 31 1 484 71 39' Gd TM?. SIX WEEKS' AvERAGE. WHEAT. BARLEY. t OATS. , EIE. 1 BEANS. PEAS. 69* 31 36 3 ad 23* 7d / 4Ss Od 41s 4d 40. 1,1 QUA' TITLES OF OR UST SOLD LIST WEio: Wheat, 77,410; Harley, 67,730; Oats, 20,361; Rye,lBG; &CADA 5,513; Peas, I,f'll quarters. MEAT MARKETS. NEITGATE AND LEADENIIALL.—We have a moderate demand for each kind of meat, as follows :—Beef, from 3s 01 to 4s 4 , 1; Mutton, 3s 2 , 1 to ls 4 1 ; Lamb, 6s to 7, ; Veal, 4s 4d to tis 41; fork, 3s 2d to 44 8d per 81bs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, March 23. —To-day's market was very mode rately supplied with each kind of stock, which sold steadily, as follows :—Beef, from 3s 41 to 4s 34 ; Mutton. 3s 44 to 5s ; Lamb, 6s 01 to is 04 ; Veal, 4a 61 to 5a 64 ; POrk, 3s 41 to Is 6(1 nor Slbs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, March 26.—Thera was a fair trade here to day, at full quotations. Beef, from 1s 44 to 43 101 ; Mut ton, 3s 64 to 5e 2ii ; Lamb, 6s 64 tc, sa ; Veal, 4s Cl, to be 44 ; Perk. 3s 64 to 48 61 per Sibs. Quarter-old Store Pigs, 204 to 26s each. HAY DIAAKETS. SrarriviELD.—Meadow hay, :11 15s to 5115 s ; clover do., 4/ 58 to 6/ 128 ; and straw, 11 4s to 11 9 per load. A moderate supply and a sluggish trade. CUMBEELAND.—Meadow hay, 41 Os to 51 15s; clover do., 41 10s to 6' 108 ; and straw, 11 5s to 11 10s per load. Trade steady. WHITECTUPEL.—Meadow hay, 3118 s to 51 14s; clover do., 41 104 to 61 158 ; and straw, 1/ 48 to 11 98 psr load. Both hay and straw sold slowly, at our qutitations. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Ifs! eh 27.—Wind this day at noon, N. 8.; fresh breeze and fine clear weather. PoRTbMoUTH, March 26. —Wind E.N.E., frosb— Arrived—Alverton, from Bourabaya, for Rotterdam ; Vulture, Batavia, for Bremen ; Adolph von Nassau and Rabenhaupt, Batavia, for Amsterdam ; Free Trader, Pe nang ; Sonananth, Bombay ; Honour, Mauritius ; Protec tor, Demerara. Off tb.s port—Oriental, from Hamburg, for Rio Janeiro. _ PLYMOUTH, March 26—Wind E., strong—Arrived— Protector (s.), from Newcastle, for Rio Janeiro. Sailed— Ethiops (s.), for the coast of Africa. Mo►n.—The Sir Charles Napier, for Madras, did not sail yesterday as re ported. FALMOUTH, March S.—Wind E., strong gales.—Ar rived—Eliza, from Sydney, N.S.W. Off the port.— Bonbons, from Calcutta, for Dunkirk. PENZANCE March 25.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived—joven Agostina, from Trinidad de Cuba, and not the St. Andero, as reported yesterday ; Eburn, Boston. HULL, March 26.—wind E.S.E.—Sailed—Chance, for New York. COWES, March 26.—Wind E.—Arrived--Josephus, from Calcatts ; Jenne Albert, Callao. BUCHAREST, March 25.—The Consul at Varna commu nicated the following British vessels to have been wrecked at Kustendje, on this coast, on the 14th and 15th inst., viz. :—Saaresbrook, Mary Nixon, Cadet, and Zealous, of London ; Aenes King, William, and Wave, of South Shields ; Constantine, of Liverpool ; Mary Hudson, of Hartlepool ; Eliz t Ann, of Whitby. and Emily Kate, of Sunderland—in all 11 vessels ; no lives lost. SUNDERLAND, March 26. Wind S.E.—Sailed—Golden Fleece, for Demerara. The Jane Hunter, of London, drove against the pier and stove her stern. CHRISTIANSAND, March 19.—The Dawson, of Sunder. land, was picked up, derelict, off this coast, and has been brought in here with three feet water in her hold and decks swept. (PER RLHOTRIO TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Arrived—Elizabeth, from hiiddlestons ; Express, (I.), Jersey. Sailed—Washington, for New York; Alliance, (s.), Havre; L. Coq and Georges, Cherbourg ; Wonder, (a.), aid Crapand, Jersey ; Duke of Cornwall. (a.), London. LIVERPOOL, Thursday Idorniag. Wind E. Off—Arabian, from Bombay ; Guatemala Packet, Gua temala ; Black Swan, A.gameinnon and Leona New Or leans; Montezuma, Mobile; Bridgewater, New York; Onward, Sierra Leone ; Rosalie, Buenos Ayres. Sailed—Black Eagle, for Bombay; Sea Bell, New Or leans ; American Union, New York; Earl of Derby, Con stantinople. SUBMATLINN AND BRITISH TELE4RAPB.) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 10.0 A.M. Wind E., strong; tide last hour's ebb. Arrived.—Anna Margaretha, from Tanning. Sailed.—Chanticleer, far Newfoundland; City of Que bec, Montreal; Great Britain, Montreal. GENERAL PRINCE' CLIPPER Soclrrr.—At a meeting held at Paris on the 15th inst. of this company, a reso lution was adopted to increase the capital from 400,000/. to 800,0001., in consequence of tha purchase recently effected in England of eight of the steamers of the Ge neral Screw Company for 500,0001. At the same time Mr. C. W. Graham was appointed gerant, in the place of M. Beraud-Villars, and certain modifications in the statutes were agreed to. Grisi and Mario intend to quit Paris about the 3d or 4th of April for their residence at Falham, near London, whither their yciuthfut family repaired from Brighton on 11 0 07 bet' -- - AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAIri MORNING. r The Royal mail steam ship America, oAptain J. G. Wickman, arrived at mid n i g ht from Boston and Halifax, with alvices from New York to the 11th inst. inclusive "52 passengers, a nd 325,650 dols. in specie. 4e passed the Canard screw steamer Emu ' hence, to Boston, on M arc h 20, and the Asia, for New York, March 23, 156 miles west of Cape Clear. The Cunard steam-ships Africa and Arabia had arrived out, the former at New York on the Bth, and the latter on the 12th inst. The America re ports nothing of the missing steamer Pacific. There is very little news by this arrival. In the United States Senate on the 18th instant, on the consideration of the bill appropriating 53,000,000 for increasing the armaments of the United States, Mr. Cass made another violent on slaught upon England: He said England had suf fered so much in the war with Russia that it was not at all unlikely she might try to retrieve her reputation by a war on the Western Hemisphere. Mr. Cass said he did not see how the Central American controversy could be referred to arbitra tion. It was not a question of boundary or indem nity, but a mere question about the meaning of a word. No arbitrator, whether understanding the English language or not, could tell what the mean ing of the word " occupy " was better than they knew already. Mr. Iveson defended the bill, and thought there was imminent danger of a war with England. Ho did not believe the Administration of the American people were in favour of arbitration on the Central American question. On the following day the Senate renewed the consideration of the bill. Mr. Brown supported the views of the Government relative to the Clay ton-Bulwer Treaty ; he did not desire to assist in creating a war spirit ; the treaty was susceptible but of one interpretation. England's construc tion of it was a specific violation of common sense, and if such conduct was responded to by a pri vate individual in his dealings with his neigh bours, it would be very apt to communicate the impression to all impartial witnesses that the fraud was intended. He condemned the conduct of Great Britain in the enlistment case, He was op posed to submitting their difficulties with England to arbitration, for the reason that a great republic like theirs could scarcely expect justice with a crowned head as umpire. The Senate then adburned. According to documents submitted to the Senat e on the 10th inst., the instructions to Commodore M'Caulay, commander of the United States' home squadron, issued in April last, after the Spanish frigate Ferrolana had fired into the United States' steamer Eldorado, were to the effect that, in case of a similar outrage committed on a vessel rightly bearing the United States' flag, he must promptly interpose and resist the exorcise of the assumed right of visitation, and repel the interference by force, the Executive taking the ground that the conduct of the authorities of Cuba, in hailing and searching American vessels, cannot rest on the plea of territorial jurisdiction over the high seas in the vicinity of the island of Cuba, the United States' Government denying the existence of any state of facts to warrant the exercise of belligerent rights. The Legislative Council of Canada has passed to a second reading a bill to permit money to be loaned by all parties except banks, at any rate of interest which may be agreed upon, the said interest to be recoverable in the courts of law. COMMERCIAL. The New York money market continues in an easy position. Stocks, under the influence of the English advices per Africa, were inactive, and tended down wards. Exchange on London, 102/ to 1091 ; 5.171 to 5.221. The cotton market closed easy at 10 to 101 e., for mid dling uplands, and at 100. to 101 d. for Mobile do. Flour was more firmly held, and doted at $7 12./4c. to $7 25c. for commna to good State, which was an ad vance of about 121 cents. per barrel. Wheat was from 3c. to sc. higher, with sales of good red to amber coloured Tennessee, at $1 75e, to $1 SOc. Corn was higher, with sales of white and yellow at 70e. to 71c., and with some sales of the latter reported at 72c. Pork was inactive, with moderate sales of mess at $l5 75c., and small lots at $l5 871. Freights to Lfverpool were firmer. Grain was engaged a Bd., and 91 in bulk and ships' bags. ANOTHER DREADPUL STORif IN THE BLACK SSA. UPWARDS OF TWENTY SHIPS LOST. A. telegraphic despath, dated Constantinople, March 24, was posted yesteriay at Lloyd's, briefly announcing another - terrible storm in the Black Sea, which appears to have been severely felt in the vicinity of Kustendje, between Varna and the mouth of the Danube. It hrAte out on the morning of the 14 h instant, and continued with fearful violence for 43 hours, in the course of which no less than six English. barques and five brigs, chießy employvd iu the transport stores service, and ten foreign ships, were wholly wrecked. The names of the English vessels are reported in the message as follows : The barque Zealous, 339 tons burthen, Captain Colli son ; she was a Sunderland built chip, launched in 1844, belonging to Messrs. Collinson and Co., in the city, and was classed in Lloyd's registry A 1 for 12 years ; crew saved. The barque Snarsbrook, 459 tons, Captain Caithness commander, belonging to the vrt of London ; she w;l3 launched at Sunderland in 1852, and was classed A 1 for nine years ; crew saved. _ _ The barque Constantit,s, 603 tons, Captain Rogets master, belonging to Bristol, where the owners, Messr s. Brass and C‘)., reside ; she was built at Duelwater in 1847, and clamed at Lloyd's as A 1 for twelve years ; c:ev saved, Tha barque Cadet, 347 tons, Captain Hatfieltl, of London ; launched at Nova Scotia in 1849 ; classed A 1 for four years; crew saved. The barque Agnes 278 tons, Captain Gray, be. . . longing to North Slitel6, Messrs. Wodhouse and Co. owners ; ship built at Sunderland in 1846, and classed A 1 for eight years ; crew saved. The tarque March Hizon (it is thought that some mi-take has occurred in telegraphing the name of this ship, the name is not to be found in Lloyd's Registry) ; the crew is reported safe. The English brigs lost are—The Mary Hudson, 304 tons, Captain Brewis, belonging to Hartlepool, crew saved ; the Emily Kate, 233 tons, Captain Gowring, belonging to North Shields, crew saved ; the Elizl Ann, crew saved ; the William, crew saved ; and the Wave, crew saved. Among the other wrecks there were three French ship —the Ville de Dunkerque, the Voile, and the Jourrier Jenin ; the crews were saved. The whole of the Enesh vessels were insured at Lloyd's. THE FRENCH . BUDGET. Th© Union of yesterday continues its examina tion of the budget, from which we extract the fol lowing particulars : " It is known that the total amount of expenditure for next year (not reckoning supplementary or extraordi nary credit.) is 1,695,057,165 fr. ; that is 96,770,636 fr. more than in 1856. This expenditure is thus divided amongst the Mini-terial departments :-1. The Ministry of State.—This Ministry receives a subvention of 9,028,300 fr., representing an increase of 133,100 fr. The central administration figures for salaries 438,600 fr., bureau expenses 115,000 fr. Tho Council of State, sa laries 2,012,0001 r., expenses 107,0001 r. The archii es, salaries 100,0001 r., expenses 24,0001 r. The fine arts and theatrical subventions are thus divided :—Aca•lerny of France at Rome, 123,900 fr. ; school of fine arts in Paris, 111,500 fr. ;- gratuitous drawing schools in Paris, Lyons, and Dijon, and assistance given to the depart ments, 63,800 fr. ; works of art, decorations of public buildings and medals, 950,000 fr. •, encouragement to art and letters and subscriptions, 211,000 fr. ; annual in demnities to artists, authors, &c., 137,700 fr. •, imperial 1 theatres, 1,515,000 fr., of which 820,0001 r. to the Opera; 240,000 fr. to the Comedic Francaise, 240,000ir. to the OperaComique,loo,ooofr. to the Italian Opera,loo.ooofr. to the Odeon, &c. Historical monuments, 870,000 fr. extraordinary works, viz ~ the junc ion of the Louvre to the Tuileries, _4,000,000fr. The Legion of Honour : Its expenses are estimated at 11,059,950 fr., or an in crease of 1,951,200 f. on last year. The number of mem bers of the legion on Ist September, 1855, was—grand cross, 60 ; grand officers, 225 ; commanders, 1,080 ; officers, 4,769 ; chevaliers, 48,503. The penrions of the legion amount to 7,817,5001., to which must be added 74,000 fr. presents, and for the military medal with which 9,542 soldiers arede(eorated,l,t336,4oolr. 2. The Ministry of Justice—The budget of expenditure amounts to 27,476,270 Fr., or an augmentation of 56,500 fr., which includes an increase of allowance for Algeria of 54,0001 r. 3. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs—The expenditure of this department has not increased ; it remains at 10.006,6001., yet the salaries have been increased by 19,500 fr., which hal been met by reductions in other expenses.to an equal amount. Amongst these expenses are salaries of diplomatic and consular agents,s,34l,Boof. ; secret expenses, 550,00efr. ; extraordinary miisions, 430,000 fr. ; subvention to Abd-el-Rader, 120,0001 i. &c., &s. 4. Ministry of the Interior—The expenditure shows an increase of 3,079,140 fr., or a total of 148,860,080 fr., amongst which are :—Secret expenses for the public safety, 2,000,000 fr. ; National Guard, 85,000 fr. only; charity, 2,616,0101 r. The expenses in curred for convicts are- -Ist. Ordinary expenses and transport for convicts, 16,650,0001 r. To this chapter must be added 800,000 fr. for 1857, which the following note explains is a manner uneatisfactory :in the light of public morality :- 1 In reckoning even on a fall in the price of provisions, the sum of 16,380,600 f. would be ne cessary, in consequence of the increased number of con sumers, We have still to examine the budgets of the ininietiier of Finance, War, Navy, Public Instruction, Agriculture, &c., which we reserve for some future oc casion." The annual meeting of the British American Land Company was held yesterday. The report was adopted,_ and a dividend of 5 percent, on the paid up capital Ilas agrood to. 46} 13} 68 1170 68 It 14 16 25 k fig 8 Nu ri i i 12i 181 13} 33k 2k 3k 2k 29k 7k 3 6 4 136 7 116 M. E. OSSOTH ON T.HPI A USTRIAS CONCORDAT. Last night the ex-Governor of Hungary delivered a lecture on the Austrian Concordat, at the School rooms connected with Spa-fields Chapel, Exmouth street, Clerkenwell. Although there was a charge for admission, the room viis crowded to excess. The illustrious exile was cheered in the most en thusiastic manner as he ascended the platform, accompanied by a number of his friends. The Rev. T. E. MORESBY, the pastor of the chapel, introduced the lecturer by observing that the illustrious Wan, to whom it would be their high gratification to listen that evening, needed no in troduction to an English audience. (Loud cheers.) He was sure they would give him a hearty wel come. (Renewed and protracted applanse.) It was necessary, however, for him to say one word as. to the course of lectures which M. Kossuth was now about to inaugurate. The place was built for the instruction of children in the day, and of adults in the evening. They would attain that object by a variety of means. They would diffuse a know ledge of history, politics, science, art, literature, and also of social economics, our rights, duties, re forms, and progress. (Cheers.) The gentlemen who had had the arrangement of the lectures dif fered in their religious and political opinions. They were, therefore, in no case responsible for the opi nions of the lecturers, nor were the lecturers to be supposed in any case to favour their opinions. M. KOSSUTH then came forward, amidst loud and long-continued applause. After a brief intro duction, he gave a very able historical sketch of Hungary, in relation to Protestantism ; and showed the services that country had rendered to the cause of civil and religious liberty. He showed also the advantages it had conferred upon Europe by distinguishing between religion itself and the tyrannical ambition of the Papacy. The Hun garian people drew a broad distinction between Church .and State, and would not allow the former to encroach upon the latter. This had led to a great deal of manly independence on the part even of the Hungarian Catholics themselve. They had even refused to become the tools of the Papal See. In the centre of Europe, Hungary had always constituted a great barrier to Papal aggression. Their Diet and their municipal privileges enabled his patriotic countrymen not only to speak against tyranny, as Englishuien coulddo inpublic meetings, but to counteractits i utentions. But this free expres sion of opinion had been put au end to by foreign bay onets. England looked on, Without saying a word, While Russiadestroyedthe liberties of Hungary; but Europe—particularly England—had already suf fered retribution for her indifference on that occa sion, and would suffer still more. Had Hungary still been free there would have been no Concor dat, no war, no Paris Conferences ' and no tempo rising, unsatisf ac t or y p eace . (L ou d cheers.) How was . it that this fe e bl e , vacc il a ti ng Pie M ono h a d been able to accomplish that which many of his ablest predecessors had attempted, but which none of them had effected ? Because time was when the Pope and temporal tyrants were at variance ; in this case they had united for the common object of the subjugation of the peoples. (Loud cheers.) Rome never changed in her endeavours to secure universal dominion ; although, as to the means by which she sought to attain her ends, she was perpetually changing. He showed the importance to liberty and Protestantism of Hungary being free, by asking his audience to consider what would have been the fate of Europe if Hungary had embraced Mahomedanism, instead of repulsing its aggressions on Europe, or if it had gone over to the church of which the Czar was the head ? The fear of Hungary going over to the Greek Church, or becoming entirely Protestant, had, whilst sheaves in possession of her ancient freedom, served as a check to the Papal See, and prevented it from encroaching, so much as she otherwise would have done, upon civil and religious freedom in that country. But the Pope had well chosen his opportunity to make this advance upon poor Hungary ; and, in fact, upon Protestantism and liberty throughout the world ; for where was there a nation which had been exempted ? (Hear, hoar.) He concluded by quoting an expression used by Oliver Cromwell in the House of Commons in 1658 —"Look how the house of Austria is preparing to destroy the Protestantism of Hungary. You may say, 'lt is a great way off, and what is it to us ?' I tell you it is something to you. It concerns the religion of you all, and all the best interests of Enilaud." (Loud cheers.) The second and concluding lecture is to take Place next Wednesday, in the same rooms, and at the same hour. M. Kossuth has announced that he will then go into the details of the Concordat, and explain the position of Protestantism in Hun. gary. Last night he was listened to throughout with the most profound attention, and warmly ap plauded very repeatedly. The lecture was a mas terpiece—full of choice and instructive historical allusions—abounding with facts which Englishmen ought to ponder, stated.with that elegance , carnest nes dignity, and ability for 'which' the illustrious lecturer is so deservedly celebrated, and of which a brief paragraph necessarily conveys no idea. • As the lecture will probably be repeated in several places, we abstain for the present from giving a full report. FRAUDS ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN _RAILWAY COMPANY. LITERPOOL, March Pai•sonnage, corn penFation clerk in the Liverpool establishment of the goods department of the London and North-Western Railway Company, was this day brought before J. S. Alarn.field, Esq., stipentliaty police•magistrate, on re mand from Monday last, charged with defr4uding the company. Mr. blenkinsop appeared for the prosecution, and 1 Mr. Brotberton defended the prisoner. Mr. James Henry Butler, merchant in Liverpool, stated that in February, 1854, he ordered a pair of globes from Mr. Wyld, in Loudon, at a cost of 121. 18n. The g'obes were forwarded by the London and North-Wes- Urn Railway Company. Toe globes were not delivered to the witness, as being damaged on the way, he refused to receive them. WitnCss threw the globes on Mr. Wyl l's hands ;• but befori — doing so he mad , - a claim against the company for 131. 3s. 61., being 121. 18n., the value of the globes as charged in the invoice, and ss. 6d. for carriage. At Mr. Wyld's request the witness did not prosecute the claim against the company, as Mr. Wyld stated in a note to him that he 4Mr. Wyld) had settled, with the conopsny in London. Witness never got anything from the company, and never ha-I any parson named Winter in . his • nployment. A receipt shown to this witness, purporting to be given by W. Winter, is not in the handwriting of any one in the witness's employment; and, so far an witness knows, there is not another James Henry Butlee carrying on buninain in-Liverpool . Mr. Henry Horne, of the .firm of Chaplin and Horne, carrying agents fur the . London and North-Western Railway Company, proved that he settled a claim with Mr. Wyld in London with respect ti two globes da maged in course of transit from London to Liverpool. The settlement was made at the Great Glebe, in Lei cester-square, by payment.of 51,, made in June, 1854. Mr. W. S. Fricker, chief clerk at. the Waterloo sta tion of the railway company's . establishment in Liver pool, said the prisoner was a clerk in the company's service, and bin duty was to investigate and settle claims. Mr. Riclisird Salter was the cashier, but he had run away. The last time witness saw Mr. Salter was on Thursday last. Witness knows prisoner's hand writing, and, on being shown a book; said it is a book of accounts-kept between the prisoner and the cashier. It has been kept partially by the prisoner and par tially by Mr. Salter, the cashier. When any claim is made against the company, the prisoner had to inves tigate it, and he had to hand in a voucher of the cir cumstances, which vonchr would be transmitted to London to the audit board, and if the company were liable, money was sent dawn_ to .pay it, and it would be the duty of the prisoner to pay the money. On reference to a book containing a register of such vouch ers, witness finds it stated.that Mr. Butler's claim was foriwarded to London on the 14th of March, 1854. The receipt referred to as having been granted by W. Winter is partly printedand•partly written. , The writ ten 'part is in the handeriting of the prisoner. It is dated in April, - 1854.' Another case was that of Messrs. Thos. Edgley and Co., in which a claim of 91. 3s. 2d. had been made on Messrs. Chaplin and Horne for the delay of four cases of lint transmitted to Messrs. Kirk and Furcisa Mr. Genige Hitchin, a clerk with Chaplin ,aud. Horne, paid 71. to Mr. Thomas Edgley in Settlement of *his claim. This was in December, 1854; A receipt for the full i amount of 91. 3a. 2d.. purporting to have been granted by a person named Harrison, as payment of that claim, bad been presented by thio prisoner. Ne,,person named Harrison was in the employmont of Messrs. Edgloy'and Co. After the particulars of the cases had been gone into as to entries in books and other. details, Mr. Blenkinsop which w as agree d to . applied for a remand till Friday, We regret exceedingly to announce the premature de mise of Mrs. Alexander Mackinnon, after to a still-born child, on T ues d ay last. giving . b i rth " M. Chappuis's daylight vefiectors," says theßui/der, " are well known to be devised upon eound principles, and to answer their purpose. The recent improvements consisqin using silver plated surfaces instead of leaf sil ver, and that of metal instead of glass for the silvering. Some of the reflectors are also contrived to obviate and soften the dazzling e ff ect of refracted lig h t , whi c h is done by filling th e re fl ected surface with numberless concavi ties and convexities, and thus diffuse the light at different angles. In the gas reflecwrs, the former mode of using copper-plated surfaces is done away with, and a cons. bination of crystal with silver plated copper is used in such a nianneras to exclude air from the silvered sur face 1 ;- and, at the same time, permit the gla ss to ex p and when heated. Many thousands of these useful articles have been sold within the-last three or four years, and .. a great addition to comfort obtained in numberless. in atikaginit". . _ ____ AfERCANTILE MORAUTY-FRAUDS o.ti UNDERWRITERS. ---o-- -- An unusually large attendance of members of Lloyd's took place yesterday, at the annual meeting at the Sub scription Rooms, Royal Exchange, in consequence of a notice given by one of the members of his intention to bring for Ward a motion in relation " to the condition of the under% riting business as it now exists." T. Baring, Esq., M.P., president, in the chair. The private business having been disposed of, Mr. WATTS rose and said he had been compelled to give the notice attached to the requisition summoning the present meeting, as it seemed to him the only avail. -able means of calling the attention of members gene- rally to the serious condition of a considerable and an increasing portion of the underwriting business to some of the mischiefs that had already occurred, and to the inevitable result that must take place, unless some immediate and effectual steps were taken to arrest that downward tendency which the room for some time past had exhibited. Take, for instance, what had occurred during the last year or there-abouts. The unusual event—to the honour of that association it might be so detcribed—had taken place of- several members declaring themselves enable to meet their en gagernente. Next, they had witnessed the withdrawal of a body of influential members from the underwriting department, on the groand that the risks and liabilities were so disproportioned to the premiums, that the lousi ness of underwriting was to a great extent not only as unprofitable, but a ruinous operation. Then there had been individual secessions, some giving up busisede wholly, some in past ; some determining to refuse to in, sure goods to any port of export, especially manufacis tobutohid•eeider: o goods od ds hesiopms,eto a s and o open shippedfimi roomla:the Mersey or the Clyde; policies, because with respect to because the expe rience of late years .had proved that no possible profit could be made out of such a class of risks. Was this a state of things to be permitted to prevail without some effort being made to put an _end to it ? Was it fitting that such a condition of business ought to be allowed to exist in such an important and influential - association as that of Lloyd's—an association which was a commercial necessity, and intimately interwoven with the whole vast commercial fabric of the empire ? What was the cause of this state of things ? The answer was not difficult. Of late years a complete charge had oc curred, not only in the mode of conducting business, but. is the principles which governed business trans. actions ; and, he might add, a new race had come forward, with a new code of commercial morals, to put those principles into action --that while everything had done homage to what he supposed, in the phrase of the day, he must describe as the "progress of the age," there had been no analagous movement on the part of the underwriter, who• had not adapted his system of business to the alterations that had occurred. And the natural consequence was, that, uuder the pressure of competition, which acted with peculiar severity in the direction of profits, he found himself distanced in the race—he saw, without any corresponding counteraction on his part, that business year by year became more uncertain, more speculative in character—in fact, to a great extent, as he should endeavour to show, almost a matter of gambling, but of that kind of gambling in which the stake was the underwriter's whole capital, and where marked earls and loaded dice were used against him. He would briefly remind the meeting of the purpose for which that room was established. It was established on simple and intelligible grounds— for securing the shipper and shipowner against the perils of sea and storm ; and, though the underwriter's liabilities were extended in various directions, and embodied in that piece of antiquated incomprehensible jargon called a policy of assurance, still the liabilities and responsibilities of the underwriter were sufficiently limited and defined to enable him to make those calcu lations performed in all other occupations, and by a fair adjustment between premium and risk, to see his way with tolerable clearness to - a reasonable profit. But would any member attempt to define the extent of an underwriter's liability at the present ? He bad in vain attempted to ascertain them. He found the most exag gerated, contradictory, and preposterous notion afloat on that question. In fact, it weuld appear that the genetal practice was to assume that the underwriter's liability began everywhere and ended nowhere—that it was only necessary to get an underwriter's name on a policy, by the lure of a small premium, of which, in particular classes of risk, it was intended he should never see a shilling, to make that circumstance the foun dation for 'every conceivable and unfounded kind of claim. Look at the increased risk for yi hich under writers now were responsible. First, there was the great change in the ide s of mercantile vessels, tboeun , wieldy and dangerous class of vessels now employed, the clipper nuisance and danger, the use of iron in the construction of large ships, the difficulty—as every ship owner well knew—of procuring competent captains and mates, the impossibility of manning ships with able bodied British seamen, the necessity of making use of unders'zed, drunken, otoport, and foreign lubbers, quite unfit for seamen's duties—thanks to legislative tinkerirqs of the laws by ignorant statesmen, for the most part set in motion by interested adventurers, who now feel the consequences of their own selfishness, and are the most eager to retrace their steps. Above all, look at the increased risk of collision arising from the haroductiou of steam, and the reckless Racii ties of safsty to speed. Each of these changes would constitute a large item in the list of additional liabilities, but combined, they press with such crushing force on the underwriters' profits and capital, as to make the underwriting business one of certain loss, and petbais of ulihrove ruir, if persevered in to any extent.. It might be urged that this was a question of premium only, and that underwriters bad the remedy in their own hands, by insisting on a suitable advance of pre- eo mium. He denied that the view he was about to pre sent to the meeting of the question had anything what ever t t do with premium. It was on higher grounds that he placed his question. But he would observe, with respect to the feeling that underwriters had the remedy in their own hand , practically such was not the case. That which would be found at the root of all the existing mischief, and if nothing was done, all the mischief in store, was the utter want of unity in that. room. It was an associeti:ni without the association principle. There was no co-operation for the common interest, as was the case in all other societies founded for a specific object. There were no general rules for keeping businesa within legitimate channels, and for the guidance of members in cases of emergency ; hence it was that, as every new member was obliged to conduct business according to his experience or want of experience, an irregular system of business was introduced, and inno vations and novelties, all telling aeaiest the underwriter, became established usages. It was therefore hopeless to expect, as experience proved, that any co-operation, even for the common benefit could be traught about. He bad st %tett that the case he proposed to bring under the notice of the meeting was not a question of pre mium, it was a question involving the character and the honesty of a portion, and au increasing portion, of tbe business trausacted in that room. He asserted that a shameless system of imposition was practised or, the un derwriter ; that there was an organised system of premt dit ited frond in the guise of claims for particular averae • for damages by sea water, which was rapidly identifying itself with ordinary business, and against which the underwriter bad no sufficient protection. It was impos sible to write goods to any port in the world without having a claim for alleged :sea damage. Toe extent and audacity of this system irelicstod a condition of commer cial morality perfectly appalliuo. shippers and mai ufac turers looked not to the profits of markets so leech as to the profit they could extract from the pockets of undet writers by manufactured claims for pretended sea damage. It was necessary to check this nefarious busi ness ; it could not, howet er, be done by the present safee ' uards. "ft was a detosion to consider the law as afferdieg any protection to underwriters against die honest claims. The extra costs, if successful, which was very doubtful indeed, and the annoyance, would be found in nearly every instance to-outweigh the swot:lnt of the dishonest claim. Then, again, the system of agents was rather a favourer of manufactured claims than an obstacle, because the agents, though disposed to act fairly could hardly be expected to do so when it was considered that their duty and their interest were placed at variance by the mode of payment. It was the same with the class of persons called average. staters. They were, :with some honourable exceptions, rather an assistance to the fraudulent claimant than a protection to the underwriter. The proposition he bad to make was fur the meeting to agree to establish a. board of investigation, to which all doubtful and disputed claims sheiuld be referred: The decision of this board should be binding, either for the elaim to be paid er re sisted, out of a common fund. He also proposed that a register of claims, the names of parties, and the nature of the claims, -be kept for the use of the members. He was satisfied that these securities must be afforded to the underwriter, in order to put a stop to scandals which every Aar were becoming more prevalent. It-was ne cessary to have some t r ib una l to w hi c h t o re fer claims, and to do that which underwriters could net, or would not do for themselves ; and it was equally necessary to have a register for claims, in order that underwriters might know who they were who dipped their hands so deeply into their pockets, and also that unscrupulous traders might be!warned that henceforward they would be Marked and known, and that the source of dishonest profit, through the agency of fictitious claims for damage would be closed for th e f uture . by sea water, whichtheyhao o T p h er e ied sp f eak or t e h r em th s e e n lve r s e ,_ vetted to the co mm fr i a tt m ee e , as4esuggegneesrtael u d rles for the consthat they should be erapowered to i d u u g c t twoof portions i o o n f h s ttoe the that d i c o t w n c a s l u d e x e d p e b d tt i e m nt ow. to a ppoint a tribunal to investigate claims , and that a re gister of claims be kept, to which underwrit e s were to have unrestricted access. Mr. HOPPER seconded the motion, which was put and declared to be negatived. Mr. WATTS was quite prepared for this . result. lale, was satisfied that the time was at band when all mem bers--leading members and junior membene—must com bine for self-preservation. The male over-trading that bad occurred with respect to Australia, and for which the members• bad been made to suffer by unprincipled shippers so severely, would noon be repeateo, now that peace was at hand, and Speculation and aver -trading, with their consequent reaction, might be expected to go on in their customary round. Mr. Wtoos thought that the proposition for a board of examination of claims Ras beset with insuperable' difficulties and could not be advantageously carried out. The other proPesition for a register of claims might be of •use to members, •and was worth further oonsidera- tion. It was arrangea that the discussion should be revived by ancther motion for next Wednesday; and, sifter a vote of thanks to the chairman, tb• PNlting adjourned. of he n re 20 2t 15 .00 20 IA 20 n► 11 100! 100 100 100 20 20 100 50 100 100 100 20 1)4! 11.0 8 i i 6 i i 16 i -