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

IMAREET AND CITY IVEWS. , Two O. In consequence o f th e CITY expectation ' that the directors df the Bank of England will speedily reduce the rate of discount, the money market has become exceedingly quiet, although accommodation can be obtained as low as 7,1 per cent. The com mercial public are aware that a movement on the part of the authorities would probably cause a fur ther important relaxation in the terms current in the open market, and therefore limit their imme diate discount operations as far as practicable. A further small amount of gold, viz., £B,OOO, Was sent into the the Bank of England yesterday. The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon ex hibited a slight decline in the rates on Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Paris, but Vienna and Trieste were rather higher. Gold is now about sixth-tenths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris, and seven-tenths higher than in Hamburg. Business in the Liverpool Cotton Market yes terddll was not quite so active, but there was still a fair demand at very full prices. The sales were 12,000 bales. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship IVlassilia, which sails from Southampton to day, takes out in sovereigns £2,790, bar silver £45,520, dollars £60,081, gold coin £15,797, and Jewels, gold thread, &c., £5,695. A meeting was held of the New Grenadian Bondholders to consider the proposal for the ar rangement of the debt. The Borussia, which sailed to-day for New York, took £lO,OOO in specie from England and £9,750 from Havre ; and the New York also left with 120,000 dole, in specie from Bremen and 350,000 f. from Havre. The market for Public Securities to-day has pre sented a very inactive appearance, the transactions on speculative account as well as for investment b aling been unusually restricted. This extreme Wetude is partly attributable to an unwillingness the part of the operators to extend their engage ments until further advices are received from America. The quotations, however, are steadily maintained, although a little heaviness is occa sionally exhibited. Consols are 91i 92 for trans fer, and 92k 1 for the 10th nrox. India Stock has advanced to 222 ; ditto 5 per Cent. Loan remains at 100- I; ditto New Scrip is flat, at 1001 ; ditto 5 Per Cent. Enfaced Paper, at 931 ; Exchequer Bills, per diem, are Bs. dis. ; ditto, 2d. per diem, ls. to 4s • prem. About an average amount of business has been recorded in the Foreign Stock Market, and prices are well supported. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 75 to 76 k ; ditto, 1858, 541 to 554 ; Spanish have im- Proved to 49 ; Passive to 18 ; Dutch 4 per Cents. to 1001 ; Chilian 6 per Cents. to 103 ; and ditto 4k Per Cents. to 821 ; Mexican are firm at 241; and Portuguese remain at 461. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been on a very moderate scale, and several of the Principal undertakings have undergone further alight depression. Eastern Counties, Great Nor thern, and North-Western have receded ss. ; and B ristol and Exeter, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 10s. London and Blackwall, Midlands, and South Eastern have advanced ss. The Foreign lines have continued very quiet. South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian have de clined to 121 ; Antwerp and Rotterdam realised 6 1; and Great Luxembourg, 7k. For the Colonial undertakings there has been a 'very limited inquiry. Grand Trunk of Canada have improved 55., and East Indian and Great Indian Peninsula have declined ss. Joint Stock Bank and miscellaneous shares con !mile dull. Bank of Australasia, however, has improved £1; Ottoman Bank declined ss. ; and Red Sea Telegraph, ss. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities India Stock Ditto 6 per Cent Ditto Borip .. 100 a Ditto Entaced Paper, 4 per Cent. — Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto 51 per Cent tlitto Debentures, 1858 958 f, D itto Bonds £ l,OOO 25 di g "348016 for Account 14d. I 2d. lizehequer Bills, £l,OOO 8 d 1 4 1 pm Ditt o , s ma ll ti t , FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. s'.ilian I per Cent b Ditto 41 per Cent, ' l „,quador New Consolidated ''..esieon 3 er Cent — N_ l) itto Ac c o unt ___. , 9 4k k ' I N Grenada Active, 3f per Cent. — r b it Deferred 6 - "fuguee f 3 per Cent.. 1853 .. .. 461 i b Ditto Account ..•.... 46t 441 ssian 5 per Cent. 1822. £ St • • Ditto 4 3 / 4 . per Cent. 1860 .. 9o} 0 Ditto 8 per Cent 1859 qtaliala 3 per Cent. 496 Ditto Account Ditto Passive ..15 Cert. of Cent Coup. not funded 5l Atuskish 8 er Ditto Acc per 75 i i 5 'Ditto New Loan Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 2f per Cent — Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent. THREE O'CLOCK. Console, Money 9ll 92 Ditto Account THE WEATHER. METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. This Day, between 8 and B. E. M. D. 1 F.C.1. S. 9 a.m. .......______— ---- - I'Le ir n 2 9 .11 43 41 S. 3 7 o. 2 t_Dertleen .. 2914 39 37 S. S. W. 5 6 0. 3 " L 'lleick 2914 42 39 W. 4 8 0. 5 Shields 6 al waY •• . tearboreuih 2948 40 38 W . , 3 70. 3 .Q'" l verpool ueeu a tow n., 29'56 48 47 W. 5 4 o. 3 L a rmouth.. 29'66 40 39 W.N.W. 6 6 c. 4 ondon Nrteth Portland t i nlouth 44 W. 5 70. 4 -,- enzanoe Jer sey 29'88 47 45 W. S.W. 3 5 o. 3 EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduoed 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. Xaposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true— Xtot magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud (I to 9). I. Initials :—b 'blue sky; c., clouds (d e t ac h e d) ; ' fog. • h., hail ; 1., lightning , ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0 ., overcast (dull) ; r., rain ; a., snow ; t., thunder. A letter repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb ance (1 to 9). `WIND AND WEATHER .....&rdrossan, S.W. ; wet Bradford, W. ; fine 4ir tningham, W. ; dull toaton, S.W. ; very fine Br ighton, N.W. ; dull Bristol, E • rain e Ardiff, N .W. • fin. ~C h atham, N.W. ; fine ,_•liarlington S.W. ; fine 1 1 144 ) ffne W • ; fine S.W. D ubli ; rain Dues, W. ; dull Dilzdee, N.W. ; dull I ,„ l4: dinburgh, W. • dull, cold ; unsettled ~'llasgow, wet ,`"roo l tare/d e, miS ; fine ", N.W.; fine C ONTINH NTAL STS Barcelona, W. ; clear 'lsrnasels, S E. ; rain 'l,lkrbourg, S. ; rain , n e Penhagen, S.S.E• ;fine - "ttnitirk S W • rain ' ' ga rb W. io, :vrif,- cloudy L l, S.E. •, clear e ghorn, W.N.W.; rain ilana,_ S. rain N. 8.; fine k,EPORT, THia DAY, 9 a.m. Greenock, S. ; rain Harrogate, W. ; fine Holyhead, W.S.W. ; rain Hull, W. ; fine Inverness, S.E. ; fine Leeds, N.W. ; fine Leith, S.W. ; dull Lowestoft, S.W. ; fine, fresh Milford Haven, S.W. ; rain Newcastleoa Tyne, N.W. ; cloudy Perth, S. ; fine Sheffield, S.S.W. ; fine Stockton on Tees, S.E.; fine Sunderland, S.E. ; fine Weet Hartlepool, S.W. ; fine Wlntehaven, S.W. ; rain Wolverton, W. ; cloudy .TIONS, 341Incx 19. Marseilles, N.W. ; fine Montpellier, W. ; foggy Moscow, E. ; cloudy Paris, W.S.W. ; cloudy St. Petersburg, S.E. ; foggy Strasbourg, S.S.E. ; cloudy Stockholm, S.E. ; cloudy Toulon, N.W. ; clear T ur i n , W. ; clear Vi enn a, W.N.W. ; oloudy Advices from Naples announce that the sale by it h l tetion of the property of the late Prince of Syracuse is to i h " Place imm e di a t e ly, b eg inning with the objects of art. 13 Chioja Palace and its beautiful g arden were to be put I.IIP at 2 00,000 ducats (4f. 25c. each), and his Villa at Son • e ato at 100,000 ducats. a Lrhe Armonk of Turin, the ultra-clerical organ, ' 3 unces that one of its editors is going to proceed to 1,; 4310 ) in order to lay at the feet of the Supreme Pontiff, a " r ire chest filled with valuables, and the sum of 64 000 fr. Fitected during the two first months of the preseni year. st."„ S aixa journal asserts that the Pope has received £5OO t o lg offered by the savages of Australia ! We are glad offelear that the savages of that distant country are so well w, 4 FRENCHWOMA N IN ENGLAND .-- Miss Selena o t d urY has long enjoyed a high reputation in the literary her which ehe rewri te no danger of losing by having, as 'a, _preface tells, n the MS. " Autobiography of u:pa° Constance ," for a more amusing and interesting th at ', 11 ` 1 )5 .3 l'arcly read. " Madame Constance" is not often u carricature of French manners and feelings we ' l,l 7 )taa meet in English books, but a real natural French ljer descriptions of London life, seen from a Prenct pond of view, are excellent. SHARE MARIET.-(THIS DA 7-.) ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 100 Atlantic &St Lawrence Share] Railways. ip a id.l Closing i Business stk f Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind Price. Done. t Gu. 5 per cent.. 18 Do, Do. B 50 Belfast and Ballymena all 201 Buffalo and Laxe Huron : 13.14 ,Birk., Wol , and Str. Val. all 8 81 201 , !Do. New ....... I stock , Birk., La., and Cll Juno. 100 80 82 10 Do. Preference .... 1 25 Blyth and Tyne all 100 1 Buffalo,Brant,&Godric.ll 10 Bost. Sleaf. and Mid.C o all 5 6 1 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 stock Aristol and Exeter stock Caledonian 10 Carmarthen & Cardigan all 5 Clcutts.&S.Eastn. (Lim 50 Cork and Bandon all 20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim. • 20 Cork, lilrock trassage all ~2 0 Cape Town & Dock Seri • 20 Cornwall .... . 174 emerara a I all 20 Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. ( I 10 D o A(A gets no div. 10 Do B . 11ntil 6pc peran . all . hasbeen 1 d. toB stock East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. 1( 50 Dublin & Belfast. June. all 42 44 20 Do. F Shares Ext a 25 Dun., Perth, &Ab. June. all 8 84 20 Do. Jubbulpore a stock East Anglian lOO 161 174 164 17 100 Do. 44 pc. Debentrs. a stock Eastern Counties lOO SO 51 504 1 00 Do. sp. c. Deb., 1864.. a stock Eastern Union, A stock 100 37 39 100 Do. 1865-1870 a sty Do do Bdo 100 26 28 stock ' Grand Trunk of Canada 1C 25 Do Nw A, late EU3ds. 134 100 I Do. 6 pier cent. Pref a stock East Suffolk stock Edinburgh & Glasgow 100 85 87 100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. a: stock Edin. Perth, & Dundee 100. 254 264 254 4 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. al 10 Forth & Clyde Junction all 100 Do. do. 1867.. al stock Furness stock Glasg. and S. Western 100 110 112 stock GtlndiaPenin.gua.sp.c. 10 10 Great Ntbn. of Scotland all 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... , stock Great Northern lOO 1094 1104 110 91 101 stock Gt. South.of India (Lim) stock Do do A stock stock Do do B do stock Gt. S. &W. of Ireland 100 107 109 201 Gt. W. of Canada Shares al stock Great Western stock Do Str Val gua. stock 100 80 62 100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with, 12 Irish South-eastern ... all opt, till '6O stock Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 1114 112 111 1 lOO Do. do. '73 till W.._ stock London and Blackwall 100 61 92 614 2 100 Do. do. 'TS without opt al stock Lon., Bright.. & S Coast 100 117 118 100 D0.,51 P. c. do. '77 do al stock Lond.. Chat., and Dover 100 48 49 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '7B do al stock Lond. &Nth. Western 100 951 951 964 51 stock Madam s, guar. , 44 p. o 10( stock Lond. & sth. Western.. 100 914 924 921 stock Do. do. 5 per cent 10( 25 L'derry & Coleraine .. all stock Do. 4/ p. c. Extensio 25 L'derry & Enniskillen all 104 114 20 Do. 5 do all dock Man. Shef. & Lincoln.. 100 47 48 47 stook Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds IOC 60 maryport and Carlisle.. all 20 Newßrunswick at Cando 124 Do do 4 shares.... all Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6p al 10 Metropolitan 8 34 24d Class A Capital Share 'took Midland 3.4.0. Do new.... took Do uirming. & Derby 100 101 103 .. Do. do. Land do. ...... 50 mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all 20 Oude (Limited) ........ 5s 25 Do 4 shares el stock Scinde ... ...... 4,4 10 n MM Kent ... ... 10 Do, Cray line 100 Newcastle and Carlisle all —-- stock Do. Indus. St. Flo. ,g , 10 10 Newry & Armagh, def 9 7 6 d 10 Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip._ 1 20 Newry, Warnpt. & Ros all F OREIGN EM took Norfolk.. lOO 13 15 took North British . 100 634 641 64 21 41 10 Antwerp "lz Rotterdam , al took Tor.Dev.RaildzDk.stock 100 20 Ardennes. al took D" A stk ; A reos no d. 20 Bah.&S.Fran..Lim.7p.o. 2 until 6pchas beenpd.B 100 5 Belgian East. Junction al took Do B stock .. —.. 100 20 Beziers to Graissessac.. all took Nth. Eastern—Bernick 100 1014 102 102 14 25 Do do , 6 .N.E. purchase 16134 1.6 1p d 6 Cat—neaux Mine & Rail 30 lock Do Leeds lOO 60 601 100 Copiapo lock Do York took North London 10 Do new 5 20 Eastern of France .... al] 1.16.4 North Staffordshire— 171 31 31 i 131 114 20 Grand RUB Guar. 6p. a 10 10 N. and S. W. Junction all 91 105 20 Do. do. all 12 Not. & Grantham Rail ll 73 75 20 Great Central of France all 10 Peebles ........ 20 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney.....- ock Scottish Central ,ock Scot N. E., Aber. stook 100 34 35 20 Namur & Liege ........ all ock Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 86 88 ' 20 Do. 6p. e. Pref......... all ock Shropshire Union 10 Sittingbourne & Sheer. all 18 Do. New Shares ~ l5 ock South Devon 60 Nthn. Counties Union 34 d 20 Paris,Lyons, & Mediter. all 25 S.-Durham & Lane. Lin 224 20 Paris & Orleans.. .... all ock South Eastern ock South Wales .... ock S. York. and River Dun 100 84 97 20 Riga & Dunaburg...... 16 20 Staines, Wok,. and 'Wok all 4 7 20 Royal Danish.... 25 Stockton & Darlington all 404 414 411 1 5 Royal Swedish 25 Do do ll 104 114 n 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... all 25 Do New (1860) 3 661 p 20 Sambre & Meuse . .... all ock Taff Vale ock Do Pref. No 1 lOO 20 San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. c. 4 25 ThamesHavenDk&Rail 22 -- 20 S.A ust. &Lomb Venetin 14 10 Ulster ••• 25 Do ........... ..... 10 Do . : ....... xik Vale of Neath 1.0 Victoria Sta. and Pim all 111 114 114 t i 2O W. & N.W. of France .. all vic Waterford & Kilkenny 100 20 Western of Austria.... 6 SO Waterford & Limerick all 20 .West,,rn of Switzerland all 20 West Cornwall ?a West L0nd0n..........; all 6 Do. 8 per oent Pref all l 0 Do Ist class ... all 30 Zealand 10 Do 2d class .. .... all -•••••• )ck WestHartlepool Plarbr j .__._._____ BRITISH MI and Rail _ ' 100 lAlfred Consols (1 3 11'ilack),2.11:1( ick West Midland—Oxford, 100 44 45 20 British Iron l 16 )ck Do. Newport 100 40 43 Clifford 1 nil )ck Do. Hereford 100 79 81 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) 1 1 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 8.4.0. stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 9.16. stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 12 10 stook stooK stock stock stock stock PREFERENCE SHARES. Railways. Share! ! paid Closing Business Price. Done. stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock; stock 2s. 6d. Blythe and Tyne 10 per, c. pref. (issued at £5O fsrls. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock Do. do. do. Shares Caledon £lO, 41 per cent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. Cornwall. 5 per cent Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun. ;Do Ist Class Pref 1 E.A ngn.Class A 7 8r5p.0 (Do. do. Class B 6 p.c I Do. do. Class C 7 p.c Coun. Ex. 5 p. C. No.l Do. do. No. 2 Do. New 6 per ct. stock. Eastern Union, 4 per ct. Do. 5 per cent. guar... I Edin.tGlas. sp.c. shares I Do. 4p. c g - ua. S. &D. , Do. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. Furness, 5 per cent .... Glaa.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. Great Northern, 5 p. io Do. 44 p. c. do. do. Do. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm Gt. Nh. of Scotid. Ist pf. I (Gt. Sn. & W (Ireland) 4 p. et. pref. stock Great West. (Berke and Hants) Ext. 5 p. et Co. Redeemable,4i p.ct Do. Redeemable, 4 p. et Do Irredeemable, do Do. fsp.ct. Redeem. Pref Do. Birm. Pref. Shares Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.c. p!.sh Do. do. sp. et. pref .. Do Birmg.guar. stock.. Do. Chester gua. shares Do. do. do. Do. do. do. 1 1 all :I 100 12i stock stock ill 1 100 99 101 124 stock stock stock 20 21 6 61 99 101 108 113 105 103 108 110 106 108 121 123 80 82 Lan. & Carl. 44 p c. pref. Lan.&York 6p. a. stock. Do.Barnsl.stls 38 10d pc Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) .. Lon.& Brig. 5 pc.gn. No.l Do. 5 p. c. No. 2 Do.gua.6p.a. Do. do. s.del . No. 4 Do. do. per cl - . .... Do. do. p. a. shares.. Do. 7p. at. Pref. stock. Do. 6p.a. do. (W.E.&C.P.) Do.4p.c.S.(div.dettil '65) Do. 4 per cent. Pref limn. Chat. and Dover Do. W. (A rceiv. no div Ex.A til6 p cis pd on Do. B B. & Brom ex. Do. Metropolitan Ex B Lon. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, 5 p. at Lon. & S. W, 7 p. ct. stock Do. 44 per cent Do. (Prtsm, perpl anns. of 2s. Londondy. & Cole. sh. I Londony. & Ennis. sh ‘fan. Sh. &Lfn. 6 per a' Do. X 6 stock stock stock stock stock stock 5 1 1 tB2BI 101 10J Mock stock stock stook 84 stock Do. 31 per cent Do. redeem. 6 percent 7.laryoort & Car., 4 p. Do. 4f per cent. Mid. Con. 6 p a stock IDo.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 n.c , Do. 44 p. c. pref. siock ! Do. with option till Mai I Do. Lela & Hit. pref. st.; Norfik 5 p. c. Ex. at. 1846 Do. 54 p. c. Pref. do. 18471 'Do.sWay. Val. Ex. 5t.1847 'North British, 5 p. o. po. New, gua. 5 p. Do. Bor. lin. g. pf. shs Do. do. do INth.Dev.Rail.& Dck.Co. I N-East.Cons.Pref. 4 p. c. iDo. 44 p c. redeemable Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref Do. do. do Da Leeds, 6 p. e. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, •.& S. Perch 'North Staffordshire.. Rhymney Guaranteed Scottish Central, new pi' Scottish North-Eastern, 34 p. c. pref. stock.... Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c. Do. 7 p. c. pref. stock South Devon, Ann. 10s 1 Do. Fixed 44 per cent. South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 44 per cent Do.Fixed4ip.c. Ist is south Wales, gua. 4 p. c Do. 44 per cent. Do. 5 per cent; S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. e gua Stock. & Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B 6 per cent Do. C 6 per cent IWatrfd & Kilkny, a p. c W.Mid -Oaf let Gua stk Do. 2d do Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red. Do.Perpet. 6 p. c. pf 1866 Do. till 1869, Ist is. Do. do. 2d is. stock stock 1.0 100 100 100 all all stout stock stock stock stook stock 13f 14} 4211 128 89 n A, tp, 20.11 l Alfred Consols( ...ek),2.11:10 British Iron 1 16 !Clifford I nil Devon G. Cons. (Tavistol 1 ;East Bassett (Illogan) i 30 East Caradon 12.14.6 WI Russel (Tavistk ); 7.4.0 iGam.dSt.Aubyn(Gwan y 541 Great South Tolgus.. 175 IG.Wheal Alfd. (Philack)l 13.9.61 G. Wheal Vor (Helston) 9* ;Grenville 5.14.6 IFlerod's - Foot 8.12 illingsbon Downs £10.6 Lady Bertha !Margaret (Uny Lelant)l 9* !North Downs I 2* ;North Frances (Mogan); 114 ,N. Wh'l Barnet (1110 any 4s !North Wheal Crotty 1 9.18.9 :Par Consols (St. Blazey)! 1* !Providence (Uny Lelnt.), 10.6.7 sortridze Cons. Min.Co.l lls !South Caradon(St.Cleer) S. Cam Brea (Illogan) • 1 'S. Dev Iron &Gen., Lim S. Wheal Fran. (Illogan) Stray Park Tamar Silv.& Lead Alin ,Tin Croft Vale of Towey (Cann ) West Basset (Illogan) W. Caradon (Liskeard), !West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan)I Wheal Buller (Redruth) Wheal Edward (Cals.)f o MU 4) Wheal Mary Ann (Men. , Wheal Trelawney (Liti.)) 11 4 all ;18.18,9 , 24.8.0 44 9 ASS 6d 474 • 100 i stock stock stock stook stock stock 12i stock stock stock stock stook stock stock :- F - 61.18/G Australian BonAccord Conuer,Lirn.l Brazil St.J.del ey,L' I Do. Land and 31 iningCo.l IClarendon Cons. MinCo 1 Cobre Copper Copiapo .. • • DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Col LFcrrtuna. General Gt N. Cop. of S. Austr. Kapunda (Limited) Linares Lusitanian Mariquira N.RhineCopoiS.Aus.L , Pontgibaud Silver,Leadi Mining and Smelt 1 Port Philip Scottish A ustrin. (L.) United Mexican 'Worthing (Limited) 1 De. all a ll 1 108. all all JOINT-STOCK B 'Kgra&UnitedService Bki lAustralasia Bank of Egypt Bank of London . ..... . Bank of Turkey British North American Chtd.Bank of India, Azc. Ch. Mer. of In. Lon. .t Ch. City Colonial ........ Corn. Bank of Canada.. Commercial of London. Eng., Scot., az Aus. Ch.. Gen. Bk .of Switzerland Lon. Char.Bkof Austral, London and County .. .. 'London Joint Stock ( London and S.African.. l !London do Westminster, Orient. rea a iwt t ei . no P snt o. r a o ußl v t.Bh . caon Walesof n . g . a . n . 1 . Do. new atiOn ;Ottoman Bank . Provincial of Ireland 'Do. new 'South Australia lUnion of Australia 'Union of London ...... !Unity Mutua1........ !OLONIAL GOVERN Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. & July Do. 6p. cent. 1879 Do. 6p. cent.lBBo-2 Do. 6p. cent 1883.4 Do. 6p. c. Feb. dc Aug. Do. 6 p. 0. Mar. & Sept Do. 5 per cent Cape G.Hope, 6 p 0,1880 Do. 1890 N.B.Gov. 6 p.o. Ja. &July Do. 6p. c. Ap. Oct N, S. W. Gov. 5 p. c., 1864 Do. 5 p. c.. 1871 to 1876 Do. p.0.,188 8 ‘t upwde Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. O. sterling, 1875. S. Aug. G 6 p. 0.1878 & up Vie. Gov. 6 p.o. J& &July Do. do. 6 p.c. Ap. &Oct.— DOCKS. Commercial lOO Do. 4 per Ceut.Pref.lllin 1 100 East and West India ; 100 London I I°° ,St. Katharine lOO Southampton lOO Victoria . ......... lOO Do. New . k 2 MISCE Anglo-Mexican Mint all 13 14 10 Atlantic R. M 1 Stm (Id) LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limited) all 25 Australian Agricultural 19 28 30 283 `• lO Berlin Water (Limited) all 4} 41 43 , 1 Leasing Closing l Business 50 4 3ritish American Land 40 Railways. 1 P ai d 1 Co.'s. ' Price. 1 Done. 50 BAI.Mag. Tel. A. (Lim.) all 34 36 20 Do. 8,7p.c.ti111852 (Lim.) all 18 20 Bedford and Inetchley all - Ln .W .. . • 20 10. C. (Limited) all 124 143 Backinghamshire .... 100 Ln &N.W 95 97 323 Canada Land all 116 120 Chester & Holyhead.. 100 Do. 63 533 10 Chan.lslands Tel. (Lim ) all Do. do. 53 per cent. 100 Do. 121 123 stock Cop.Min.ofEng.&Smltg all Do. do. 5 per cent. 100 Do. 109 111 24 Do. Prof. 73 per cent all 20 22 Clydesdale Junction.. 100 Caledonin 99 101 stock Crystal Palace Colchester, Stour Val. all E.U.&E C I 153 163 stock Do. Preference E.Linoolnshire,g.6 p.c. ico IGt.North. , l3s 137 20 E.lndia Irrign. & Canal 1 id 3 G a iD li co ol ß.arr o N n i H rT arwi .eil.. ch She l all I E.Counts. 44} stock Electric Telegraph Do. Woodbridge ... 100 1 s : D .. rct.... 1 10 00 0 I D Ca 4 l o. e_donin .... ......_ G uri l ua o rtl a l te lapn r oo & d I D 43e e l an cbki. R. Forest .a:pi..cL.. laaa a oo l ll l ;,: l Dyyk G Lo t. " N.N W ... t e ß s .d. t. r 1:-09 111 5 Engliet & Aus. Copper. all 3} 31 3} 15 Gen. Steam Navigati m 14 1 Great Ship Limited) all 1 1 1 Do. 173 pet Preference all Do. 3 Shares ....... C Sh ar ar L e g s ua. - 5 . •• • 5 Lou. District Tel. (Lim.) 3 *— La D a o c .. & 3 4 L.G. Omnibus Co. (Lim.) all 3 1 1. 1 all ;Do. .• ! __•_ 20 Madras Irr. and Canal 1 1} 11 Do. Preference ...... 100 Do . isi. W 201 204 10 Med. Exten. Tel. (Lim.) all 23 33 London & Greenwich 100 S . East. 112 117 20 Nerbu.Coal&lron (Lim.) ¢ 1} Ofdl Lon.,Tilby.& Soutend. 100 ;Pet° & Co. 87 90 Lowestoft, gua. 4 p.ct. 100 'Norfolk., s D i o a . n 6 c. p ,B er ax ce ta n . t i . m .. a .. tk ... 1 1 0 1 I D , o liwcu — 3l 3 — l 10 Netherlands Land 6 Do.B p.c.Pref..iss.atl die a a i n l — 3 - 1 ' 100 N. Br.&NovaScotiaLand 89 Mid. Bradford Prefer enoe Stock • • • Z O 6 O 6. Midland 94 1 96 p 1 N.B.Australasian (Lim.) all i 1 1 Oriental Gas (Limited). all 1 1 Newmarkt.,BuryEx 1 Do. New Shares (Lim.) . .15s. pr guaranteed sp. e. 10 Orintl.ln.Steam(Lim.) 8 41 3} Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c. all IDo Do. do. 6 per cent .... all 'Do. — Do. Fixed 5 per cent. all Do . . 50 Pen. & Oriental Steam . a 2511 10 68 70 11 353 i 1 r 0 Ete : (l )o ge N arlnd.Tel.g.43p.e all 181 19 p 181 North Western 1 all 'Midland 15} 151 50 Rhymney Iron 15 Do. New all 44 I 60 49i 8 i Preston and Wyre..! allall 1 fp: /4 0/:. N y W k. 1 _ Do. ?c Sharesloo Royal Mail Steam Stock Soot. Austin. Inv. (Lim lOO 123 128 Roystujlttch.,& Shepi 100 Gt.North..l32 134 rhS .ewsbry& Herefordl 100 T Brassey 99 101 99 21 . o u r m h a .A ir Australian Lane La p n ~ all 32 , 34 Do. Do. 1 I South Staffordshire .. all M'Clean.. 103 11 1 Do. do. Registered .... all 53 ..1 Wilts and Somerset.. 100 'Gt. West. 90 92 10 Do. d 0...... all °l Wmbledon& Croydn. all IA BOR. Pi 91 20 Tr. a Ln. 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I Business done MARLBOROUGH-STREET. 68 72 A STREET FOOT RACE.—TWO respectable-looking young men named Henry Johnson and George Cole, residing at 35, Great Titchfield-street, were charged before Mr. Beadon with causing an obstruction and disorderly conduct in the streets. 92 03 16 16i 4i 5 6 7 75 80 65 70 65 70 41 5 James Newnham, 96 C, said that at three that morning, seeing a large crowd assembled at the corner of Windmill street and Queen-street, he went up and heard loud shout ing and halloaing about betting on a foot race. The men began running, and he stopped and took them into custody. Cole said he was not betting; he was only looking on. Mr. Beadon said he was not going to have all the thieves in London brought to the spot because they liked to hare a foot race. Newnham said that what Cole had said was not true ; he was starting the men and running with them. The other man got away. Mr. Beadon ordered the defendants to enter into their recognisances for six months. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ROBBERY AT A" CIGAR STORES."--A tall, well-dressed female, named Abbott, of 72, Princes-street, Leicester-square, was charged with stealing a pocket-handkerchief, the property of Mr. Henry Reginald West, of Sherwood's Hotel, Adam-street, Strand, and of Harpenden, St. Albans, surgeon. The prosecutor said that he was passing the house in Princes-street at a late hour the previous night, and seeing " Cigar Stores" painted up he went in for two cigars. He took off his glove, when the prisoner who served him seised his glove and then his handkerchief from his pocket, and said he should not have it till he had paid for some wine. In answer to questions, the prosecutor said that his only inducement for going into the place was the fact of seeing " Cigar Stores" painted up, and as he wanted a cigar. The prisoner asked him to come inside, but he told her that he was not a young man, and asked for his hand kerchief, but she refused to give it him. He had been to dine at the Freemason's Tavern, the Lord Mayor presiding. He left there at half-past nine, went home and changed his dress, and then went for a walk, but was quite sober at the time, not haying taken more than a table-spoonful of whiskey and water. Finding that he could not get his handkerchief he gave the prisoner into custody, and now attended at great inconvenience. Inspector Bowles said the prosecutor was quite sober al the time he charged the prisoner. Prisoner—Did you not say you would go into the parlour, bat that some one was there—and did you not ask if any body was there Prosecutor—Certainly not. There was no occasion to ask whether anybody was there, as I saw a man walking up and down. Mr. Beadon remanded the prisoner for a week. It was stated in court that some years ago a man was turned out of the same house in a state of nudity, having been stripped while in the house. • 41 98 100 id par 'EOUS, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY :EVENING, MARCH 20, 1861. The Cockatrice, 4, screw gunboat, has been com missioned at Portsmouth by Lieut. Robt. M. Gill son, lately serving on board her Majesty's screw troopship Perseverance. She is manned, with the exception of a few petty officers. The Cockatrice is one of the new class of gunboats, of a somewhat larger tonnage than the old class, fitted with con densing instead of high-pressure engines, and alto gether more suited for foreign service than their predecessors. It is rumoured that she goes to Van couver's Island, but no station has yet been officially named for her. The Pandora, 5, screw, has been placed in dock at Portsmouth for coppering and fitting valves, Szc. This vessel has been recently launched from Pembroke dockyard, and is of the Torch and Philomel class. The Elfin, Royal paddle yacht, Ins been docked at Portsmouth, to carry out necessexy repairs, &c. Our correspondent at Plymouth has received a file of the Bermuda Royal Gazette,, in which it is stated that, the screw steamship St. George, 90, Capt. the Hon. Francis Egorton, with his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, was expected at the island in May. The screw steam frigate M ersey, 40, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8., from the West Indies, arrived on Feb. 18, and was appointed to leave in a few days for England. Lieut.-Col. H. Bt. George Ord, Royal Engineers, was daily expected to succeed Col. Freeman Murray as Governor. Col. Lloyd, R.E., arrived on Feb. 12, to relieve, lieut.-Colonel Freeth in the command of the Royal Engineers. The letters received at Plymouth firo m the paddle wheel steam sloop Hydra, 6, Command er Richard V. Hamilton, were dated from Port Royal, and not Greytown, as stated in The Sun of yesterday. It appears that a portion of her fore fool', is gone, and that several sheets of copper have bean scraped off. To dock her at Havannah would cost more than £l,OOO, and the temporary repairs xeceived there would be superseded on a thorough refit at home. It is quite possible for her to return to England in her present state. Up to February 2.3, Admiral Sir Alexander Milne had not arrived at Port Royal The destination of the Hydra is depon dent on the decision of the Commander-in-Chief. The surveying screw steamer Bann, 3, J. S. Wells master, from the Scilly Islands, arrived at Plymouth on Monday afternoon. She is now up Hamoaze to have some defects made good. The gunboats Heron and Dotterel were removed yesterday from No. 3 dock in Keyham. steamyard, to give place to the screw steam3l tip Princess Royal, 91, Capt. Charles Fellowes, flag of Admiral Robert Smart, Commander-in-Chief of the Channel fleet. The Princess Royal will, howqver, make a trial trip outside Plymouth breakw &ter, for the impose of testing some portion of her machinery before entering the dock. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—James Bed ie„ master to the Victory ; William Loney, surgeon, to the Cum berland; John Cockin, surgeon, to the Emerald; and Wm. H. Bowen, clerk, to the Marlborough. NA TILL EXPENDITURE. Two or three years ago, during ono of the paroxysms of public indignation produced by the extravagance of our naval expenditure, an explana tion was offered which really threw some light upon the mysteries of the Royal dockyards. What produced the disclosure was an elaborate statement showing, beyond all doubt, that the French dock yards, with a far smaller outlay, had actually turned out more work than our own, and that our neigh bours could contrive to build more ships than we built, and yet spend less money upon them. When this became known the official mind took the alarm, and a history of the matter was at length vouch safed for public information. We were told it was all a mistake to suppose that the millions of money voted for shipbuilding were employed in building ships. That was only an accidental duty—a kind of work to which money might be devoted if there happened to be a good margin, and if the work men were not otherwise engaged. The real busi ness of our artificers and the real object of Parlia raentary votes lay in another department altogether —viz., in fitting, refitting, outfitting, dismantling, and stripping ships ; in pulling our men-of-war to pieces and putting them together again ; in taking a ship of the line or a frigate just as she had been brought into perfect order, and reducing her to the condition of a hulk, so that before she could be again commissioned she would require to be fitted out anew, and generally in doing and undoing after a fashion which prevailed in no other establish ment under Heaven. The Minister who made this statement, after speciously defining these proceed ings as repairs, fittings, and so forth, plainly con fessed that this was the way the money went; that her Majesty's establishments, her Majesty's artifi cers, and her Majesty's stores were employed, in the main, upon this kind of business, and that the fabrication of new ships was a mere work of supererogation, to be performed with such surplus of funds or labour as happened to be available. We now wish to show what is perpetrated in this way even at a time when the attention of the country is especially directed towards the cost of the navy. The other day the Marlborough, a fine screw three-decker, came into Portsmouth from the Medi terranean. ane was UU ...c o ollent order but her crew seemed to be of the real ota stamp of British seamen. Either they were good men ori ginally, or they had been made so, for their appear ance actually created a sensation at Portsmouth, and they were recognised as specimens of what men-of-war's men used to be and ought to be. From all we have lately heard of these matters we should imagine she must have been about the best ship in the Mediterranean Fleet, and the fittest for any possible service. This, however, is not to save her from the harpies. On Friday next she will be paid off, and the work of " stripping and refitting" will be pursued, we are told, incontinently. What the cost will be it is impossible to say, but, unless we are greatly mistaken, the bill for the work will convey a better explanation of our dockyard expen diture than any of the official documents produced for that purpose. This is really too bad. No doubt, it is all in the usual course, but it is precisely this " usual course" which has produced an expenditure of £12,000,000 annually, and leaves us in arrear of the world after all. We are sorely perplexed with the manning of our fleet, and we find ourselves surpassed by our neighbours in the best class of fighting ships, but in " stripping and refitting" we have no rivals. There we are always up to the mark. That kind of work we are sure to execute without stint or failure, and, though half our crews are ill-disciplined, and our iron-cased fleet is in an " unsatisfactory" posi tion, we are as ready as ever at dismantling and destroying. We find out that we have got one splendid ship in the finest possible order, and the use we make of the discovery is to bring her into harbour, disperse her model crew to the four winds, strip her of her fittings, and reduce her by costly efforts to a state in which she may be fitted oat over again. By and by we shall hear that the Marlborough has been recommissioned, and that several hundred shipwrights, having been first employed in pulling her to pieces, are afterwards engaged in putting her together and making her fit for sea once more. That is the kind of work that absorbs the energies of our establishments, till all of a sudden we find that we really ought to have been building some new ships, and are then in volved in a panic and its consequences. Cannot this kind of thing be stopped ? We are slow enough about other matters. We take years to convince ourselves of the su p er i or it y o f s t eam t o sails, screws to paddles, or iron to wood, and it is a pity that some of this official circumspection can not be exercised in the work of " stripping and refitting." Why should we not try a few " experi ments" in this case also ? They are very likely to be remunerative. If the Admiralty would but ascer tain exactly how much it costs to dismantle a ship of-the-line and disembody her crew, and then how much might be saved by dispensing with this tra ditional process, the conclusion might be a very instructive one. This very year we are voting, nearly £5,500,000 for the material of the Navy, and, according to the system which we see thus pointedly illustrated in the case of the Marlborough, the best part of this enormous sum will go in fit tings, refittings, and repairs. That is the work to which our new docks, our new stores, our trained artificers, and our costly establishments will be principally devoted. We shall build a few sloops and gunboats, but the chief expenditure will lie in repairs and outfits. This, then, ought to he the chief mark for economists. The necessary and un avoidable charges in this way of a Navy like ours are surely large enough without being increased by this wilful waste. With a great number of ships in commission, we must needs have much wear and tear ; but it would be better to reduce this expense to its narrowest limit, instead of swell ing it enormously by gratuitous destructiveness.- 2 imes. The Brussels journals announce the decease in that city of Majoi-General Robert Blake Lynch, of the British army, aged 84. The gallant officer was a native of Dublin, and ■ered many years in India. THE GREAT METROPOLITAN SEWER. The works of this great undertaking are rapidly proceeding at Stratford, West Htui, and Plaistow, extending to Barking Creek. From themagnitude of the works and the extent of the tunnels the abours of the large body of workmen employed will be extended, however, over a lengthened period. REPRESENTATION OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY.—A rumour is prevaleit amongst the " residents " in the Uni versity of Oxford that, in the event of the Chancellor of the Exchequer eecting to stand for the additional seat about to be giver to South Lancashire, the Evangelical party in the univwsity will put in nomination Mr. Charles Gray Round, of 3alliol College. Mr. Round graduated in 1818, when he to k a first class in classics, in conjunction with Sir Richard Bethell, M.P., her Majesty's Attorney- THE ARMI. In accordance with orders to that effect received from the Horse Guards the Royal Engineer detach ment at head-quarters,Chatham, is in course of being broken up, in order that the whole of the non commissioned officers and men composing it may be draughted into the four new depot companies—the 35th, 36th, 37th, and 38th—which. the Duke of Cambridge has directed to be formed at Brompton. Upwards of 2,000 soldiers assembl ed on Monday morning in Plymouth Citadel, the g ates of which were closed against civilians. They consisted of ten companies of Royal Artillery, and'. all other men off duty from the 12th Regiment, Royal Marines, 53d, 61st, &c., and were under the 3 command of Major-General N. Hutchinson, commis tnder of forces in the west, aided by Capt. J. B. Birk, major of brigade, and Brevet Lieut,-•Col. J. 13,. Mann, town major. Sentence of court-martial was read against eight privates belonging to various re giments. One had taken the bounty in several different places ; he now belongs to the 53d. Variouer proportionate terms of imprisonment were award ed to him and four others. The remaining three were sentenced to be flogged, and it was to witness the execution of the punisnmeu ..._ c,"1.11.1. assembled. The first tied ap—Reddlington, private in the 12th Regiment, recently retu tiled from Indi —had 25 lashes at the Cape of Good, Hope, on the voyage home. His present offence is of a nameless character, for which he received 50 'Ashes, admini stered by two drummers. The second ("Webster), belonging to the same regiment, reaeived the like punishment for robbing regimental: clothing from his comrades. The third, a private inn the 61st, had 50 lashes for striking the adjutant of his regiment. After being released from the triangles the pri soners were immediately dressed, placed under guard, and marched behind their respective regi ments to barracks. The punishment was admini stered near the monument on the open lawn in the centre of the citadel. THIS DAY'S 111ARKEZS. CORN EXCHANGE.. The arrivals of English wheat up to this morning's market were again limited, and, generally 'speaking, in very poor condition. In the trade, for all qualities, we have to report continued firmness, and good and fine samples command is to 2s per quarter advance on last week's cur rency. Inferior descriptions quite maintain their value. The importation of foreign wheat is confined to 5,150 quarters, and all descriptions are in good request, at an im provement of quite Is per quarter. Floating cargoes of grain are mostly held for is per quarter more money. The trade for barley, with the exception of the finest qualities, is very heavy, at barely late rates. In malt the transactions have been confined to actual wants, on former terms. Oats moved off steadily, at full prices. Beans command extreme currencies, but white peas are ♦ery dull._ . All kinds of flour are very firm, and in some instances the quotations have been on the advance. ARRIVALS THIS WEEX. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oath. Flour. English.• .. 260 750 1,450 2O 1 1,670 Irish F0reign........ 5,150 NO 6,420 300 sacks 2.890 brls. THIRD EDITIOJ. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—(Tins DAT.) The SPEAXEIL took the chair shortly after twelve o'clock, PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Berwick, Norham, and lshlandshires roads Bill was considered, and ordered for third zeading; and the Aberysthwith and Wslsh Coast Railways Bill was read a second time. WHITECHAPEL. The supplies of wheat are tolerably extensive, and the trade generally rules heavy, as follows : Beef from 2s 6d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 6d ; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 10d per 8113 s. BOROUGH HOP. Our market is still very dull, and anything but really fine quality with difficulty realises previous quotations. IBIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, March 20.—Wind this slay at noon—North- Westerly; moderate breeze, with dill rainy weather, but fine in the morning. - - PORTSMOUTH, March 19.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived— Adele, from Antwerp for New York. DHAL, March 19.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Gladiator, from Savannah. DARTMOUTH, March 19.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived— Fortitude, from London for Colombo. PLYMOUTH, March 19.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived— Monarchy, from London for Calcutta. Loucar FOYLE, March 20.—Arrived—Canadian, screw steamer, from Portland, U.S. Cowls, March 19.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Jose phine, from London for Lisbon, with loss of sails. KINGROAD, March 19.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Grace Hammond, from Cardiff for New York. SUNDERLAND March 19.—Sailed—Queen of th e Netherlands, for New York. (BY ELECTRIC TELIGRA.PR.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Arrived—Sohwalbe and Adler, steamers, from Bremen; Ralph, from Swansea; Havre, steamer, from Havre; Telegram, from Swansea ! Lady Eglinton, steamer, from Dublin. Sailed—Leader, for Jersey ; Borussia, steamer, for New York; Edward and Mary, for Jersey; Lady Eglinton, steamer, for London ; Brilliant, for Jersey. Tho Borussia, which loft at daylight this morning for New York, took £lO,OOO specie from England, and £9,750 from France. The New York, steamship, leaves this afternoon, taking £15,000 from France. (Br SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived—Albion, from Guernsey. Sailed—Dashaway, for Calcutta ; Ragsthan, for Algoa Bay; Flecha, for Ghent. Dim, Wednesday Morning. Anchored—Nero, for Lisbon; Waverley, for Calcutta— both from London. Passed—Young America, from London, for New York. Sailed—Constantia, for Southampton; Gloriaua, B. B, Green, Carnatic, with several others. 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Several petitions were presented against the Parochia] Assessments Bill, and against the desecration of the Sab bath by railway traffic. RECIPROCITY IN NAVIGATION WITH FO REIGN COUNTRIES. Mr. LIDDELL gave notice that, after Easter, he would call attention to those portions of the report of the com mittee on the Merchant Shipping Act which related to reciprocity in respect to navigation with foreign countries. COUNTY RATES AND EXPENDITURE BILL. Sir J. TRELA. SVNY, in moving the second reading of this bill, said he did not require the house to pass it in its present form, but merelyby the second reading to affirm its principle, which was to afford ratepayers greater control in the management of rates for counties. The bill contained 123 clauses, of which about thirty were important to his purpose. The first clause was essential to the object be proposed to accomplish, and it provided that a board should be constituted for the purpose of dealing with county expenditure, which was to be elected by the Board of Guardians. One magistrate and one guardian were to be members of this board, and they should each be rated at the value of £lOO a year in the county where they resided. He proposed also to give guardians the power of dealing with the expense of the constabulary, re pairing prisons, and other matters of a financial character. However, it was his intention that magistrates should re tain as much power in reference to such subjects as would induce them to take an interest in county business, which they might not be inclined to do, if they did not possess certain authority. With regard to gaols, which came in the same category as constabulary, he proposed that what related to them should be placed in the hands of the financial board for the establishment of which the bill provided. As regarded temporary repairs he would give the board the power of making them where they were of a temporary character. With respect to pauper lunatics the bill provided that magistrates still retain the same functions as at present, but committees should be formed to secure an economical course in reference to the expenditure. These were the principal points of the bill, and he did not propose to go into details. In considering the objections to the bill, he said he was aware that it had been asserted by the opponents of the measure that the present system worked very well ; but what he complained of was tkat the magistrates were a fluctuating body, and there was no se curity for their having the same magistrates for four consecutive quarter sessions. The hon. baronet then referred to the large increase in county expenditure to show the necessity that existed for its being placed under more responsible and efficient control. Sir M. RIDLEY moved, as!an amendment, that the bili be read a second time that day six months. He said that the bill brought forward in 1850 was limited to the present, and the committee who reported on the bill considered it would have the effect of excluding a numerous body of gen tlemen in the country from attending county business. He did net oppose the election principle, but it was a very serious matter to attempt to infuse, in any considerable degree, a new element into an ancient institution, which practically had not been found an inoperative or exhausted statute. He believed the present bill, se far from simplifying the checking of accounts, would have an effect directly contrary, and create confusion, from the conflicting interests that would be brought into contact by its provisions. If the measure were passed into law, in his opinion, it would affect most injuriously the proper discharge of county business, and utterly fail in remedying the evils which some members considered to exist. Mr. W. E. FORSTER said that he did not pledge him self to the details of the bill, but he felt bound to support its principle. He thought the time had arrived when they should do away with the anomaly of money being disposed of without any contest by the taxpayers, which does not exist in regard to other disbursements of money, whether for imperial or local parposes. He might be asked why this question was agitated at present, and his reply was that a number of sources for county expenditure had arisen which had not existed some years ago, as might be shown by the appointment of constabulary and other charges with which hon. members were acquainted. (Hear, hear.) He objected to one detail of the bill, that which provided for the election of one magistrate on the board which the hon. baronet proposed to constitute. It was very desirable they should have a judicial element on that board, but he thought magistrates would object to the principle of election, and he thought the better plan would be to allow them to make the selection from their own body themselves. He concluded by expressing a hope that the hone. would awes to the second reading, and any alterations that were considered aestrable couia wane In committee. ➢ir. PACKE opposed the bill on similar grounds to those of the hon. baronet who had moved the amendment, and that the measure was too crude to be brought forward in its present state. Sir J. SIIELLEY supported the bill and he thought the objections raised to the bill would be more appropriately considered in committee. Great authorities, including the late Sir Robert Peel, had approved of the principle on which the bill was based, and he thought the time had strived for settling the subject to which it related. Mr. PHILIPS said that he thought the hon. baronet (Sir J. Trelawny) should have brought forward some in stance to show that the present system was defective, but he was unable to do so. He defended the mode of dealing with county expenditure, and entered into details to show that such expenditure was legitimately increased, in conse quence of disbursements that were imperatively required. He did not see the propriety of affirming the principle of the bill which the hon. baronet (Sir J. Trelawny) asked them to do when they disapproved of the details, what he consi dered a very clumsy mode of legislating. He felt bound, therefore, to opposo the motion for the second reading of this bill. Sir G. C. LEWIS said that when it was asserted that the principle of the constitution that taxation and repre sentation were coincident, it should be remembered that there were many local objects to which that principle was not applied. In fact the church rate, which was ♦oted by the vestries, was one of the few local taxes in which the popular _element of the coincidence of taxation and representation was introduced to any considerable extent. The theory. of the constitution was to leave the management of local affairs to local authorities. He admitted, however, that it was desirable when practicable to introduce that element as soon as possible, and he would vote for the second reading, re serving to himself ample powers of objection to the details in committee. He considered that these details at a first glance appeared to require considerable amendment, for some of them related to matters which had been previously settled. It had been said that Government should take up this subject, but the fact was that bills were frequently pressed on their adoption, which, unless they were pf per manent importance, they were unable to introduce to the house in time to get them passed. It was therefore neces • sary that the Government should be cautious before taking up any measure that proposed to effect an alteration in our existing administration of business, local or otherwise. He believed that the magistrates discharged their duties in reference to local expenditure in a very creditable manner, but at the same time he believed that in some places there' was some dissatisfaction expressed at the powers of county magistrates. However, there was not that pressing demand for the measure that would induce him to take the bill out of the hands of the hon. baronet, who must wend his way through the intricacies of a com mittee—(laughter)—whey he would find serious objections to some of the most important details. (Hear, hear.) Colonel W. PATTEN said he had come to the house with the intention of supporting this bill, but when he heard from the right hon. bart. (Sir G. C. Lewis) who said he would vote for the second reading, but made a speech against the measure, that the Government would not take it up, he thought there was no chance of its success. There was a feeling in some places against the existing system of the administration of county finance, and he was a nxious to give effect to that feeling. At the same time the bill was very imperfect, and its radical defect was that it would in troduce into the administration of county expenditure con flicting jurisdiction, which could not be expected to work satifactorily. Mr. BARROW, whose name was on the bill, defended the principle, which he considered was just and expedient. Ha contended that much discontent prevailed in many counties in reference to their local ex p enditure, and that o h n a g t during stand tingh in support of whi c h, e last 10 years h th e a r t e ferred discontent th th w e fact ac t of long num bers of petitions were p resent ed from month to month, and a week to week, during the sitting of Parliament, all pray ing for some bill of a character similar to though no such measure was then before the house. He contended that they should apply to this subject the same principle as was applied to other descriptions of tatation, of separating the financial and administrative departments. Mr. B. OSBORNE said that whatever else would result from this discussion, it would show the tenant farmers who were their friends, and this was a tenant farmer's question. He strongly caiderane d the conduct pursued by the Government in reference to a measure of this description, a nd censured th e speech of the Home Secretary. That right hon. baronet had not stabbed his friend's bill, but he lowered it into some dark corner, and there smothered it. (Laughter.) H e adverted to Cornwall to show the dissatisfaction entertained towards the present system. In this county the whole of the magistrates had lost the whole confidence of the consti tuency. Attention and interest were concentrated on the 1 ;subject of the estsblisbautnt of Ansacial boards, wood, if that subject were not satisfactorily arranged before next election, the return of members for that county would depend very much on the opinions entertained by candidates on this subject. He contended that Government should take up the subject, considering that they had nothing to do— (laughter) ; and he called on the house to put a pressure on them to compel them to introduce a measure on this question. Mr. DEEDES opposed the bill, and condemned the course pursued in regard to it, which he considered was leading to nothing more than a waste of the public time. He condemned also the hon. baronet (Sir J. Trelawny) for introducing a measure that was so evidently undigested, and would have to be licked into shape in committee. He defended the manner in which county magistrates dis charged their duty in regard to finance ; and he appealed to the hon. baronet (Sir J. Trelawny) to withdraw the bill under the circumstances, and by that means save a waste of public time. Sir J. PAKINGTON also complained of the careless ness of the three hon. members, whose names were on the bill, in taking up the bill of 1853 without having taken the trouble of expunging the clauses which related to matters already disposed of. He deprecated the course taken by. the Ministry in reference to this bill, as well as other mea sures introduced this session, and. said that the right hon. baronet (Sir G. C. Lewis) in respect to this bill appeared fo be unable to approve and afraid to condemn. He ac counted for the dissatisfaction alluded to in Cornwall by stating that the magistrates there had found it necessary to establish rural police and to repair their gaols simultaneously, by which the rates had to be increased. Any dissatisfaction of a similar character in Worcestershire was traceable to the county magistracy having been com pelled by Government and by local requirements to in- I crease the expenditure, which ;endered them unpopular. He approved as much as any other hen. member of the princi ple of representation in taxation, but he thought it would be paying too dear for that principle to deprive the country of the services of a number of gentlemen who had hitherto so efficiently managed the business of counties. He warned the house against the danger of introducing a revolution into the administration of county business merely for the sake of a theory, and he considered that this question, if entertained at all by the house, should be brought forward by the Government. Mr. WYLD supported the bill. Mr. HENLEY expressed his surprise at the statement by the Home Secretary, for, considering the importance of the subject, every one must perceive that it could not bo handled with any chance of success by a private member. He denied that the bill would introduce the principle of representation, for under its provisions it was most probable there would be a disagreement be tween the conflicting jurisdictions that would be called on to act together, and then the matter would have to be referred to the Home Secretary. Such being the case, he concluded the effect of the bill was to introduce into the administration of county expenditure a centralis ing system. He thought the bill should not have been introduced in a state that would render it necessary to re model it altogether, and he ridiculed the arguments of the supporters, who said, in fact, " I approve of the principle of the bill, but I know it cannot be carried out." (Laughter.) He would support the principle of a bill introduced by Government if it were free from the defects of the present measure, and feeling that the effect of the present bill would be to throw the business of counties into the hands of a central government, he felt bound to oppose the motion for the second reading. Sir H. VERNEY supported the bill. - - After a few words from Major PARKER and Mr. &LATER BooTH against the bill, Sir J. TRELAWNY replied. The house then divided, and the numbers were— . For the third reading Against Majority —3B The bill was accordingly lost. PUBLIC CHARITIES BILL. Mr. HARDCASTLE, in moving the second reading of this bill, said that the object was to provide for the appoint ment of trustees to incorporated charities, and to make such alterations in the existing law as would facilitate the ma nagement of these charities, so as to carry out more effec tually the benefits which they were proposed to confer. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it certainly was competent for any gentleman to introduce a bill for the ad ministration of charities, but great care should be taken in passing such measures that the house did not•aggravate evils which they wished to remedy. He gave credit to the hon. member for bringing forward this bill, but it proposed to deal with questions that required the greatest care in their treatment. Some of the clauses of this bill proposed to do what was quite unnecessary, having been already provided for by the existing law. He contended that this measure was uncalled for, and that if the law required any interference, that proposed by the bill was not suitable. • - - - Mr.HARDCASTLE said he would, under the circum stances, withdraw the bill. The order for the second reading was then discharged. GREENWICH HOSPITAL WORKS BILL. This bill was read a second time. The other orders of the day were disposed of, and the house adjourned at 6 o'clock. WARWICK RACES.—(This Day.) BI ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. WELTER HANDICAP. The Greek Miss Eleanor Tyrant 3 TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES. Estrelda Jung Prs.o Ethel Twelve ran. WARWICK HANDICAP. Cosmopolite 1 Emblem 2 Aneurin Eight ran. Wcn by a length and a half. DEBDALE STAKES. B al zarine .. Cores Maid of Tyne g Dive ran. £4O HANDICAP PLATE. Count Horne Yellow Girl Sloth WALTON HANDICAP. Gwellyan Queen Bee Prince of Orange Six ran. ACCEPTANCES FOR THE ANNUAL STEEPLE CHASE. Four miles. (Run to-morrow.) The Huntsman, Jerusalem, Brunette, Cosmcpolite, Anatis, Thomastown, Tumbler, Romeo, Medora, Penarth, Freshman, Tom Sayers, Sir Charles, Dunboyne, Morgan Rattler, The Sweep, and Ghika. BETTING ON THE COURSE. CHESTER CUP. 100 to 3 agat Sweet Hawthorn (taken) FROM THE GAZETTE 9F LAST NIGRT. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Assistant-Surgeon John Meane, from 46th Foot to be Stag -Surgeon, vice Surgeon-Major Dolmage, placed upon half-pay. Assistant-Surgeon John Alexander M'Munn, :M.D., from Royal Artillery, to be Staff-Surgeon, vice Chartres, appointed to 100th Foot. Assistant-Surgeon Edward Gregg Noott, from Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Staff Assistant -Surgeon, vice White, who exchanges. Assistant-Surgeon Joshua Henryer, from 97th Foot, to be Staff Assistant -Surgeon, vice Fagan, appoi n t e d to 46th Foot. , Assistant-Surgeon Duncan Campbell Taylor, MD., from 65th Foot, to be Staff Assistant -Surgeon, vice Maunsell, appointed to 97th Foot. Assistant -Surgeon Robert Watson, from 91st Foot, to be Staff Assistant -Surgeon, vice Edward Knapp W. Smith, M.D., appointed to 66th Foot. To be Staff Assistant-Surgeons from Oct. 1, 1860, the Godwin, Gent.; John Walters, M.B. Franklin Gillen:de, Gent.; George Farr White, Gen - t. ; antedate not to carry back M.D. ; Albert Augustus Gore, Gent . . , Thomas Mannsell, A so d n a , m ll s, l t .D . i . i.D R . o ; bet tßeEgidnwaladrd H eath, pay—Charles Henry 'Young M.D.; Robert Af. „,. • James Thompson, bert Wilson, M. 8.-- ; William Henry Jones, M.D. ; Nathaniel Alcock, Gont. •, Donald Maeg illivra Y F r ederick Ro- David- Bronistaw James Fazdowski Lever, Gent. ; t •'Robert De Burgh Gent. ; Caleb Share Wills, hen - ; Gent. ; Patrick Charles Riordan, Gent.; Samuel Iwo, Gent. ; Thomas Young Quinla n, Baxter M G .B e k t • • . Baker, Gent ; John Henry lit. Bracken, Gent. ; Patrick , saraue i Gamble White, M.D.; Henry' Lamb, Gent.- i fenr y Offley Harvey, Gent, ; Erskine Bur nett Grant, 1'4. 11 , • Wm. Robert Wall, Gent, Thomas Pattison ; Gent. _ Pattison Flynn, Frank gout, BANKRUPTS. Robert Barrie, builder, York-street, Covent-garden, to surrender, March 28, at t wo, and Apr i l 25, at one, at the Cour t of Bankruptcy. Alfred Mordaant, chemist, Southampton, March 28, at twelve, and April 25, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. William Riley, butcher, Ilkeston, April 4 and April 18, at half. past eleven, at the Siiirehall, Nottingham. Peter Scott, timber merchant, Liverpool, April 4 and 24, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. John Measor, upholsterer, Brighton, Aptil 8, at two, and May 6, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. George. Groom, lithographic printer, Aldermanbury, April 9, at twelve, and May 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Thomas Gray, manufacturer of materials for making paper, Garrett Mills, Wandsworth, March 28, at two, an d April 26, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alexander W. Laidlaw, wine merchant, ou;rrßury city, March 27 and May 1, at twelve, at the Court of ruc. Ban - Walter eleven,at carpenter,Parry, errPourtßankruptcy,;..i Br is t ol. Liver- Spencer Percival Pennell, Couk of Brecon, April 1 9 . and MAY 7, at er South Shields, March James Bolton Robertson, p_ dra ii wcastla-upon-Tyne Dia - Liver pool, April 4 and 17, at elevecon,maratTliso—Liverpool District 26 and May 14, at twelve, at the e triot Court. Ling e of lite the 11. a tie aly. row fes- na- ng- Lich for )rm be in e. im- nto of 1 be t at the !eat; ne- an by Les ant 0.01 the in- 0313 ing )w-