The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-14 00:00:00

NONE y MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK, This being Ascension-day, the directors of the Bank of England, according usual custom, Will not hold their weekly cot r ntil two o'clock. In the meantime the Money Market is in a state of suspense, bankers and brokers refusing to negotiate bill et 3 per cent., the impression being that an advance in the official minimum may be adopted. The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day are, in round figures, as under : 1863. 1862. Great-Western North-Western South- Western Brighton Midland ,South-Eastern Great. Northern Great Eastern I aneasliire and Yorkshire.. North Eastern Bristol and Exeter Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln . 15,097 13,561 Edinburgh and Glasgow Great Western of Canada These returns are generally of a very satistac tory character. On the Great Western there an increase of £4,882, on the North Western of £10,559, on the South Western of £3,030, on the Brighton of £646, on the Midland of £2,803, on the Great Northern of £239, on the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £2,014, on the North Eastern of £2,066, on the Manchester, Sheffi Id, and Lincoln of £1,536, and on the Great - Western of Canada of £1,148 The South Eastern, however, exhibits a decrease of £568, and the Great Eastern of £1,214. Two O'CLOCK. The thirtieth annual meeting of the proprietors of the National Provincial Bank of England took place to-day—Mr. J. M. Laurie in the chair. The report, which was agreed to, stated that the avail able balance from the business of the past 12 months was £181,764, and out of this sum the directors proposed, in addition to the dividend and bonus already paid, a further bonus of 6 per cent., mak ing the division of profits in 1862 in ali 19 per cent, upon the paid-up capital, free of income tax, leaving the reserve as before at £135,0t5 3s. 7d. The market for English Funds is very quiet, but the quotations have been very well maintained. Con sols for money are 931 7, and for the account, less the dividend, 92 *, showing steadiness. Tne New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 911 I; India Stock is 232; do. 5 per Cents. 1091 110; Enfaced 4 per Cents. 98; do. 5 per Cents. 1071, and Ex chequer Bills 4s. dis. to par. The settlement of the account has engaged almost exclusive attention, and the fresh dealings have consequently been very limited; prices have been tolerably well supported. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 711 721 ; do., Consolides, 5l 1 I ex div. ; Spanish Passive, 35 351 ; do., Certificates. 127 a ; Mexican, 36i 37 ; Greek, 321 ; do. Coupons, 15 II; Portuguese, 491 I; and the Confederate Loan 3 to 2 discount. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been of the most limited description. The favourable character of the traffic returns, however, has in some instances caused a firmer tone. Great Western and Midland have improved 55.; North Western, 10s.; Lancashire anti Yorkshire, 15s. The Foreign and Colonial lines have remained very inactive, without any material change in prices. Bdnk and Miscellaneous Shares show little change of importance as regards prices. City Bank are quoted 102; B ink of Australasia, 731 ; London and Westminster, 78 to 781 ; Electric Telegraph, 103; and National Dist:oam Company, 91. HALF -PAST Two. The Bank directors have not made any alteration in the rate of discount. BRITISH FUNDS—.LOSING PRICES. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .. New 3 per Cent. Annuities 2 9 34 1 1 1 I India Sto c k Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto Bnfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 93 Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 p er Ct Ditto . ditto Aug. ' 1864 or 66 1004 Exchequer Bills, £l.OOO 21 per Cent 1 4 dis par Ditto £500 Ditto Small 1 dis par FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent . ...... . Ditto, 1839 an d 1859 100 k Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 Ditto Scrip, £35 paid E quator New Consolidated, 1 per Ce n t l 7Pm QrYPtit).n 7 pet C en t lOO/ IGO G eet-, 5 p er Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ins 32h r :Jitto Account .. 324 4 1 Ditto Coupons l5/ Italian 6 per Cent. (Haremtnana Railway) 80 154Ieltican 3 per C en t Ditto Account.... Navi, Granada Ditto Deferred PoDitto Land Warrants (Hectares) 7k 1 . ,,, tn 41 per Cent. .......... , — Ditto 41 per Cent. 1862 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 D itto 1862 Russian per Cent., 1822, £St 9,5 Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 Bpanish 3 per Cent 541 1 3 2 # h Ditto Account.~ . Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account 4B/ 4 Ditto Prissive Ditto Account 354 1 5 1 Sps.Ttish Cert. of C oup not f unded Turkish 6 per C en t. 1854 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account..... Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., 1892 Dividends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account.. 714 1 THREE O'CLOCK. Collsloiß, Mo ney 92a scl CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Williams.) THE LATE MUTINY AT ELAM-WALL. Juan de Mato Mange, a Peruvian soldier, was indicted for the wilful murder of Emanuel Silva. The prisoner was on board the vessel when the mutiny broke out, and it was alleged that he afterwards took an active part in it. The death of Silva was occasioned by his jumping out of one of the portholes of the vessel avoid th 9 fury of the soldiery, but more particularly the prisoner. The identity of the prisoner was very defective, and the judge put it to the jury whether, under all the circum stances it was worth going on with the case. The jury were of opinion that it wort d be useless, and returned a verdict of not guilty. CHILD NEURDER. Sarah Wigloy, 26, was indicted for the wilful murder of her infant child. The jury acquitted the prisoner of the capital charge, Lut found her guilty of concealment of birth. She was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Channel!) Samuel Robinson, 26, braseifinisher, was indicted for the Wilful roureer of Charlotte Baines. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty, on the ground of insanity. THIRD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. James Crowther and Samuel Goodburn surrendered to an indictment chat g'ng them with conspiracy and fraud. The case was very fully reported when the defendants were examined at the Mansion house, and, it will be recollected, they were formerly in the service of Messrs. Lang and Co., tchuleonial broke rs , Mincin g -l ane, an d t h e c h arge aga i ns t tha;'thw" t hat they h ad given credit to a false extent,fand occasioned, e books had be en f a l sified, and a great loss had been the The d e f ence was that they were not guilty of char and that all that been done had been effected in the course of trade. The case is not expected to conclude to-day. (BeforeO the FURT H COURT. Common Sergeant) him with feloniously utteri ng Alfred Collis pleaded guilty to an i ndictment charging ntent of £7, with intent, Su% a forged order for the pay. He was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment Henry Ledell pleaded guilty to an indictment chargi n o g f g m with stealing Various sums of moue) the proper ty master. im prisonment. months' The le arne d j u d ge s entenced the prisoner to 18 John Down, charged with feloniously breaking a n d en . toting the dwelling &also of Henry Steer, was Isenterined 11411 tilt iraprimuout, Railways. Bir., Wol., and Str. Vail Blythe and Tyne. llost.,Sleat.,and Mid•Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian urr also L3zia,lol, Coro wa I Do A (A en die Do. B till ape.pan.h, been paid to It. Dublin .it Belfast June. Dun., Perth,& Ab. June. I Edinburgh & Glasgow., Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. elk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anzlian OreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern..... • • • Do A stock Do B do S. an I W. of Irelan - I !Great Western .. •• • • 1)o Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and tilackwal Lon., Bright.,(t S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So*.th Western nan., Shcf., Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do $ shares Metropolitan Midland Do Nen. 8 8i 7 8 83 85 1H 115 13i 61 40 42 13 14 92 93 11,7 109 51 634 47 4l 246 256 124 i 124 127 12S ' 134 136 102 104 661 C 74 109 1(91 79 80 11M 120 41 42 981 091 10‘} 1144 44S 45 114 1 1 ; i 27 'z74 14 It. 96 97 j Do Birming. Derb) Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. # shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British lEdin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwici Do, U.N.E. purchas, Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.. North London Do New I North Staffordshire N. and S. W. 'Junction Scottish Central Scot IN. E., Aber. stocli Do Scut. Mid. stock Shrews. and %Veichpooi I Shropshire Union I 'South Devon South Eastern ;South Wales S. York. and River Dun staines,Wok.,and Wok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 186 G .Taff Vale. Do B i .. Do C 50i 615 24 25 100 100, 571 67f 68 68i 115 117 1 1 1 1 1 16 16; 111 12i 116 120 45,E ifi 98 ICO 49 50 32 33 919 92 t 8 N 98 100 7 8 47 38 9 10 74 8 153 156 5 ti 3} 3 1 p tUlster Do Do ;Vale of Neath (Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford le Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.tt R West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford SHARE MARKET S.--This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOurs S, 84 Mt Paid. ClO9lll j Busines Price. I dcne. 154 156 28 :10 94 15 :48 4 1 99 101 Burma pos,;EssToN. Closin liar gat il.v.ye Pam. Price. 13usinesa don 10 0 St Lawreut , all CO 63 tom.,Barodaili.Cent In, 10 , 1184 , (.9 / 109 Gu. 5 per cent... 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares. 204 fiutlalo aud Lahr Dui, 1: II; 41 5 10 Do. Preference all 7 8 t o o 'ltiflalo,Brant,aGodriel to 1 d p. et. bds. Aug. 1, IN7I 10, - 1 Do. do. July 1. 187 i to( 100 , o. do. Juas I, I.- - sI lcuttit.,o•lB.l , ,astn., I. 100 1( 8 IC9 at 'apeTown & Dock Scr 100 094 , 104 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. S l. 100 1104 1116 stock h.ast Indian. gu. sp. LW. 1( 9 1 110 110 si 10 20 Do. do. G Ext.... 5 15 lip 20 Do. do. 11 do. vock Grand Trunk of l'anod• to. 19 , •i 0 IN 1 so. Ist l'r • . Bonds •1 61 (5 64 100 Do. s, o. deferred.-- all 47 52 99 100 cd Pref. Bon s so 54 66 100 DJ. do d fer ed all 42 s 6 1 00 Do. 3d 1' ef. stock 100 Do. do. d •ief r d.... AI 33 1:6 10 0 Do. 4th I'ref. so k all 21 26 100 Do, au deferr, all 21 21 stock (It.lndiaPenits.gua.sp.o. lut 110 ,104 1104 20 Do. New g - ua. sp. c... 12 1 2 20 Do. January, 1862 .. 4 15 11 stocis it. South.of india(Lin euaranteed 6 per nen,. 11:0 107 1(8 107 20 4 I. W. 01 Canada. Sliaroi all 11 14 115 20 4 Do. New . .. 1r 94 9 1 0 0 Do. 6 p.c. '73 witit't opt. all 90 101 100 Do. 56 F. c. do. '77-8.. . all 89 s 2 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 11 p +tuck Madras guar., sp. c. too 10 7 0 8 xn stock Do. 41 p. o. Extensio , 100 10: 103 stock I , c. 4 , .. ICO 97 09 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 4tua p. c. Bun • 5 , Melb. & Ilobson's Bay. all 47 49 IN Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. all SO sismßruntswick a Candi Class Aanl 13 all 3 5 N.lll.C'da6 pc Ist pi bds 100 04 86 9 to, x Scind e .... • • •• .) ( 10, 0 9 1 Al Do. Delhi 100 107 108 Do. d 0.... 1 , L 1 2 ti o 2a 20 Do. Pitujaub < 1 , 1 5 7 4 sl DU. .. ?A 100 111 148 ek indus.St. Flo.) ( 10 10t 0 6 , rl,l)is,l l A , - R r.,.‘ ' I I p.e..la &.4 1877-S1 Do. ep. c. Feb. Am 100 o 3 •4 6 Do. dp. Sets, Lou ;0:3 I. 6 Do. .5 p. c. Jan.&July. 10t; 1(6 97 9: 7 Do. 6 Inscribed stoct 100 95 t. 7 'ape G. Elope, 6 p c. 187: 100 .11 113 Do.Ap A pet. 188; 100 112 114 Do. 169 , 100 12 114 Do. Jan. & July, 1891_ 100 1 , 5 117 Ceylon, N0v.1:461, fs p t 10; 113 115 115 Man itius per cent .. 106 112 101 Na a. G,v. 6 ler cant.. 130 0 9 111 00 1064 1' 7 1065 i.o. Bp. e.Ap. & Oc, 10t, - - N. S.W. 60V. Op 1.,14 • 101 1024 1 , 3 I Do. sp. to 1 100 103 1034 1031 Do. d0.,1888 it..upwds 100 1035 10.11 New Zealand 6 p 2enl. 100 112 114 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. e 51eri1ng, 1875 lOO 1064 1074 1061 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 .3 115 o.Aus Gop.e.ii7o.a up. tor , !it 114 - Vle.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.aJul', 100 ,10 111 _Do. to 6 Dm. Ao.al Mi ' 100 •104 1115 111 101 NII N ES, 2 Cambrian Con sol. Gold - 1111ura Amalgamated - 'two!' O. Con.. ;Tay 18L - ..ast Bassett (1 Hogan 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd - last Uaradon ..... - I l.:ast Carn Brea.. • - - %V '1 Russel (Tavistk - ;Gana.&SLAunyn(Gwen , - reat South 'Coigne - Wheal Vor (11elstota - renvi Ile - l emir s- Foot - ingston Downs - Lady Bertha - rgaret (tiny Lelani - Clarke Valley.. I 4 tlyndy Iron Ore (Lim - New Setun - North Uowua, - iiassPt( I 110 ;HI , orth Wheal Crotty . -ar Consols (:St. Blaze) 2) i 'rovidence(Uny Lein,. - I iouth Caradon(St.Cleer - IS. Carn Brea (Illogan) - - .Wheal Fran. (Illogsn - tray Park 5 V.tmar Silv..tt Lead Me - in Cron - , Vest. Basset (Illoaan) - W Caradon (Liskeard - West Beton - Wheal Basset (Mogan - t. heal Buller(ltedruth) - heal Kitty (U.Lelant) - WhealLud ott - wheal Mary Ann (Men - Wheal Seton . . - heal Trelawney (Lis.) - ;Wheal Union 6s. •!. 1.1. 3.4.0 8.1.6 J 7, t'.l6 4.7.0 2.0.6 17.( 5.13 16.1 28.9. 17e 5i 5 2.0.6 2.10. S ti 684 3.17 5 5i 154 164 150 /60 174 4) 5 111 102 34 5 i PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Anglian C, 7 per cent. lA, HQ Great Northern, 5 per cent., 1176 Great orthern, 5 per cent.. red. at 5 per cent. pm., 107 i Great Western, 4 per cent. red., 100. Great Western, 4 per cent. irred , 906 buith Eastern (treading Anna., £1.0.6), 24 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 4i per cent., pf., 94 Ditto, 5 per cent. pf, 100 London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 801 London, Chatham, dm., Metrop. a xt. , B, a per cent., 102 Ditto, ft per cent., U, LINES LEASED At` FIXED RICNTALS. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 4 • FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 8i Bahia and San Francisco (hm.) gua. 7 per cent, 201 Eastern of France 201 N. Rail o f B uenos Ayres, gua. 7 per cent., 11 . South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 221 FOREIGN MINES. Cobre Copper, 191 Lon Pedr Nor h Del Rey, 1 1 East del Rey (lim.), IGt N. Copper of South Australia (lim.,) Kapunda f il m.), 11 St. John d e l Rey (lira.), 56 Yudana mutana of 8. Austrla (lim.), 31 1 Van Diemen's L.gnd, 16 JOINT-STOCK RANKS . CharteredCliartere t Chartered Bank any. A ustralasia, 31 i a, s h 4 C us o t l r u a m ii b a l , a , , ,n l d o City. 102 English and Irish li Imprrial ( m.), 5% Ottoman, 211 $ A Chtna, 26 1 Lonaon and Colonial 4% a London and Westmi nster, 78 8 Victoria, 100 DOCKS. MISC EL LANEOUS. Electric Telegraph, 103 Italian lrrigat on (Canal Cavour), 5 Joint stock Discount, 4. National Discount Company (11m.), 91 Royal Mail Steam, 64 A special meeting of the shareholders of the London and South-Western Bank took place to-day for t►he purpo e of emending the sixth clause of the articles of association s by which the bank is at pre sent restricted from transacting business within 30 miles of Loudon. THE WEATHER AND THE CROES.—The want of rain was all last week an urgent subject of com plaint among the farmers of the Eastern counties, the bar ley especially stanoing in need of additional moisture, while vegetation generally was passing into a languishing state yesterday fr •rn the same calm. On Monday night there was a heavy fall of r a i n , w hi c h p rove d hi g hly acceptable, and siterday morning promised a further supp'y. The grasses neraldn! now ac qu i re a 'lipid development, and keep for stock ! will l, present a corresponding a b un d ance. Th e w h ea t s are e . . lly 100 g es.tremelY Eatiez. well in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Aare! 13.14. 26 10 at st 50 20 9.16.4 iOO 5.1.0 100 all TrIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1863 POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EXTENSIVE UTTERING or FALSE CIIEQEES FRAUDS ON WEST-END TRADESMEN.—CIement Tudway, a tall, respectably-attired man, about 55 years of age, who refused his address, and was described as of no occupation, was charged before Mr. Knox, by Sergeant Joy, with ob- taining a riding whip of the value of £1 155., from Mr. T. Callow, whip manufacturer, 8, Park lane, by means of a false cheque on the bank of Messrs. Child, Temple-bar. Mr Parkes, solicitor, defended. Mr. T. Callow, whipmaker, of 8, Park-lane, deposed that on the 27th April the prisoner came to his shop and asks d to see some riding whips. He showed the prisoner several, and he selected one of the value of £1 155., and then said that he would pay for it at once if he (Mr. Callow) would give him change fora cheque. The prisoner then mentioned the names of one or two of his customers, and believing the cheque to be genuine, he told the prisoner that if he gave his name and address he would take the cheque. The pri soner then gave him a printed card with the name of Clement Tud Nay, - street, Russell-square, upon it, and having given the prisoner change for the cheque which was for £5, on Messes, Child, Temple-bar, and signed Clement t udway, he left, taking the whip with him. Sub sequently be (Mr. Callow) paid the cheque to a person named Richard Morgan, who returned it to him as having been didioncured by Messrs. Child. On going to the address on the card the persons there knew nothing of the prisoner. Mr. Robert Potter, cashier and clerk at Messrs. Child's bank, said that no person of the name of Clement Tudway had funds at the bank. Mr. Parkes asked the witness if they ever had a customer of the name, and the witness said they had a customer of the name of the Rev. Clement Tudway, some years ago, but his account had been closed. Sergeant Joy asked tor a remand, as there would be other cases, he believed at least 30, the prisoner having uttered false cheques in all directions, and all on Messrs. Child's Bank. Mt. Knox said he had an objection to the court be'ng made the means of settling these cases. He would hear another case if it was ready. Mr Grandiard, assistant to Messrs. Farmer and Rogers, shawl warehousemen, Regent-street, said that on the sth of May, the prisoner came to the house and selected a shawl of the value of LW 108., and ten ered a cheque on Messrs. Child's Bank for the amount, which, after some conversation, he consented to take, and the prisoner left with the shawl, Before taking the cheque prisoner added the date. In answer to Mr. Knox the witness said that it wa. , be lieving the cheque to be genuine that induced him to take it. Sergeant Joy said there was a person from Messrs. Swan and Edgar's present who could speak to the prisoner at tempting to utter a ch que there yesterday. Mr. Knox said that any further cases could go to the sessions. Sergeant Joy then said that his attention being called to the prisoner yesterday afternoon by a person in Messrs. Swan and Edgar's employ, he took him into custody on Mr. Callow'a charge. The prisoner some time after asked him to go to Mr. Callow and try and settle it for him, but he told him he could not do so, as there were several other cases against him. The prisoner, who reserved his defence, was committed for trial, several tradesmen being in court to prefer charges against him, WESTMINSTER. EXTRAORDINARY DETECTION OF A RAILWAY SER VANT.—John Pollock was placed at the bar, charged with being found in the refreshment rooms of the Victoria Station, with intent to commit a felony. The prisoner wore the livery of the Crystal Palace Rail way. Mr. Arnold asked what position he held there, and was told that he was office porter at the railway. John Parish, 140 B , said—At half-past one this morn ing I was on the platform at the end of the lost property office leading .o the refreshment-rooms. I suddenly heard a noise in the co , ms, and Mr. Freeman, who was ath me, went towards the room, when we saw a cat suddenly come through the fanlight. I told him I was certain there was something the matter. We sent to Mr. Fisher, the pro prietor of the rooms, for the keys, but the prisoner was discovered before they arrived, and taken into custody He tried to get out of the window and unfastened it to do so, and was found on the floor of the room. A railway guard got in and we brought him out by the window. Mr. Arnold—How had he got into the room ? Witness—He had got over the wall at the end of the hotel, and lifting a cellar flap entered the rooms from be neath them. Mr. Carpenter, superintendent of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Police, directed the magistrate's attention to a great number of articles upon the table, and an empty purse found at the prisoner's lodgings. The purse has been left at the railway a few days ago, and then contained gold and silver. Parish produced a sewed purse which he said had been leiz by a lady at the statiin, and contained £3 6s. Alter apprehending the prisoner be searched his lodgings, and tb. re found 19 bottles of wines and spirits, a box of cigars, a quantity of glass, and other articles of a miscellaneous character. Mr. Arnold—Will any of these things be idertified ? Superintendent Carpenter—They will ; and it your wor ship will grant a remand we shall be enabled to complete the case against the prisoner. A great deal of the property belongs to Mr. Fisher. The prisoner was remanded for a week. THAMES. MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A WIFE. --William Neville, a rigger, who has been in custody 12 days, was brought up on remand, charged with cutting and wounding his wife in a very shocking manner. It appeared from the evidence of the wife, who was a very reluctant witness, and did all she could to save her husband, that she was dwellin, with him and her five children in Sophia.street, Poplar, up to the 2d instant. On the even mg of that day she went to the White Horse public house, in Poplar, in search of him, and, finding him there, asked him for money to buy victuals for the children. He came out of the house, and sbe spoke very angrily to him several times. Two or her children came up and spoke to him while he was speaking to a young man, and he gave one of the children 2d. They went home together, and she threw the halfpence at him, and aggravated him, and, of comae, he struck her with his knife which he always carried about with him. She had five children, and a better father to them and a better husband to her never lived than the pri soner when he was sober. Michael Barry, a police constable, No. 313 K, produced a rigger's knife of large dimensions with which he prisoner had inflicted a severe wound on the arm and which caused a large effusion of blood. The prisoner said his wife in flitted the wound on her own arm. There was a pail with a good deel of water and blood in it in the room where the transaction took place. The woman was recalled and said she did not know whether her husband struck ber or not. She got the blow in the confusion between the lights. Mr. F. IL Anderson, a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons and assistant house-surgeon at the Poplar Hos pital, saw Mary Neville on the 2d instant. She was evi dently in a slight state of collapse. There was an extensive lacerated wound with blunt jagged edges, evidently inflic ed with some very sharp weapon on the right arm. It was three and a half inches in length and two inches deep. Iha muscles were cut through. The only wonder was how toe knife escaped the radial artery. The woman was very ill, and lost a very large quantity of blood. The knife pro dueed would have inflicted such a wound. The prisoner said he did cut his wife with his knife, and was very sorry for it. They had lived happily together 16 years, ann he never raised a weapon to her before. She was a good wife, but her temper was " hot," and she provoked him very mucb,but for all hat he ought not to have struck her. He had always endeavoured to do his duty to his wife and chil dren. His wife thought he had been'at work on the 2d of May, but he had not. and he had no money to give her ex cept 2d., which she threw at him. When the wound was inflicted he wantel to bind his handkerchief round the wound, but he was too agitated and was quite unable to do so, and that caused the filor of the room to be covered with blood as described by the police constable. The depositions were completed by Mr. Bowdler, the second clerk, and the prisoner was committed for trial. SHIPPING ---This Day, BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. SOUTHAMPTON, Weunesday Morning. Arrived—Courier (steamer), and Halcyon, from Havre; Georges, from Cherbourg. EY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Wednesday MornT E g. Arrived—Criterion, from Porto Rico; Rifleman, from Jamaica; Margaret, from Trinida J ; Lena, from Wolgast; Son Belle, from Colombo; Marksa, from St. Kitt's ; 11 , 4- bola, from Mauritius, 'Protean from Savanna; Ornelis, from Port Augusta. Arrived, May 14—Telegraph, from Mauritius; Eliza beth Ann, fro m C o l om b o; t . o l eroon, from Penang; Elec tric Spark, from Cal ao ; Esukralda, from Tarragona; GieLbrook. from Jamaica; Eicott, from Trinidad. Sailed, May 14. 1 -Owen Glendower, for New Zealand ; Royal Visitor, for Port Philip; w illiam Carey, for Wel lington, New Zealand • Ulysses and Duman for Calcutta; Reba, for Nassau. DEAL, Tuesday Morniug. Passed—Truro, from Belize ; Osbert, from Trinidad ; Adam, from Calcutta (iu tow); Salvadorc, from Terceira; all for London; Morning St r, from Lonaon for Antigua, Merida, from London for Jersey, Loaner, from London for Montevideo; Augusta, steamer, from Liverpool for London. THE 0 . RELIEF FUND.--The 'widows and relatives of the crew of her Mhjesty's late ship Orpheus, who have been paid allotments for the month of April from the relief fund at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, are requested to attend at the college at 11 o'clock An Friday morning, the 29th of May, when thty paiiideattihoensttiotOrtrUleht.nettBfrfoomr the frUtulintwhi4Obi e )y..bidAzd .t t2va atgue time, owthillerbeapP LITERATURE. Lectures on the history of England. By William Longman. Lecture V. Longman and Co. The first volume of Mr.Longman's History of Eng land—he himself still modestly calling it '° Lectures on the History of England"—is now completed. It has grown up slowly and steadily during the last few years, Lecture after Lecture. Accordingly, in fact, as these same Lectures have, one after another, been delivered orally at Chorleywood. Gradually accu mulating, as the printed pages have done, in this way, they have come at last to number up, in Vol. a goodly aggregate of 459 altogether. From the earliest times, from "Before the Romans,'' Mr. Longman's survey of our annals has come down to nearly the middle of the fourteenth century. His Fifth Lecture presents to us a succinct epitome, end a readily appreciable estimate, of the Reign of li!ng Edward the Second, that reign extending over an interval of a good score of years—namely, from A.D. 1307 to AD. 1327. Scattered through the letter-press of this Lecture, as through its prede cessors, are several very curious woodcut Mastro , ions, one of these depicting the two-handed sword tt Hawthornden, said to have belonged to King Robert Bruce, quaint old claymores, and lochabar .xes, to say nothing of a map of Scotland in the 14th century, and a plan of the ever-memorable battle of Bannockburn. Hardly ever have we seen a more clearly arranged, a more searching, or a more ad mirably useful Index than the one here copiously given at the close of this first Volume of the Lec• tures. it is a complete synopsis of the contents of the volume it is appended to—as complete, as In. dices always should be, if deemed worthy of com piling at all. The pleasantest thing to us, however, in all this last instalment of the First Vulume of these Lectures of Mr. Longman, upon our national IliFtory, is the manly, outspoken, admirably well written Preface contained in it. A Preface we take to be at all times a rather difficult thing to write—judiciously, Mr. Longman's Preface, however, is really, in some respects, a kind of model Preface in its way. It is penned throughout in perfect good taste. It has a personal interest about it, as all Prefaces necessarily must have : and yet, in spite of that, it is not in the least egotistical. It is in no way deprecatory of honest criticism —on the contrary, by the tone of it, that criticism it seems earnestly to court. Its opening words of explanation no one will read with more interest or more zest, we should imagine, than that Veteran Author and Publisher, who has also himself written, upon a yet larger scale, the records of our native land, Mi. Charles Knight ! An interest and a zest certain to be participated in hardly less, we should sappose, by another of the people's publishers further north—author as well as publisher—by that thoughtful scholar we mean who has the reputation of having penned the •‘ Vestiges of Creation." Turning here, however, to the very opening paragraph of I‘ll._ Longman's Preface, we read: —" I feel that some explanatio❑ is needed of the reasons which have induced me 'o step out of my province as a publisher, and en croach on the domains of authors ; for, indepen dently of a natural feeling, akin to jealousy, which ei•her author or publisher must feel if one or the other attempt to combine the two vocations, it is dear that they cannot, as a general principle, be united with advantage. I trust, however," adds Mr. Longman with dry humour, " that authors will forgive me, and not revenge themselves by turning publishers. There is, nevertheless, some advantage in a publisher dabbling in literature, for it shows him tte difficu'ties with which an author has to con- 'end—the labour which is indispensable to produce a work whit❑ may be relied on--And it increases the sympathy which should, and which in these days does, exist between author awl publisher." He then goes on to relate bow it chanced that he found himself, about eight years ago, committed to the responsibility of lecturing upon The History of England. The circumstances which caused him, he says, to undertake the task at all, were solely and simply attributable to his neighbourly solicitude to forward the interests cf a society established no further back than 1855, for the improvement of the labouring classes in and around the little village of Chorleywood, down in Hertfordshire. A year or two after the establishment of that homely asso ciation, Mr. Longman appears to have been incited by the loc3l incumbent, to the Delivery of a course of Lectures on Engli s h History before the intelligent, though but poorly educated, agri i3ulturists of the neighbourhood. The Reve. rend Mr. Scrivener, the clergyman in ques ;ion, to whom this fortunate suggestion (as it has proved in its results) presented itself, was him self induced apparently to throw out the hint by the success of a lecture delivered in 1857 by Mr• Lon gm an, before the Chorleywood Association, upon the suhj• et of Switzerland. "In an easy moment,', says Mr. Longman in his Preface, "I promised" — promised, that is, the delivery of the suggested course of Lectures on the History of England. And here, in this substantial " Volume One," is proof po sitive of the lucky thought of the incumbent of Chorleywood, and of tha earnest and conscien tious labours of the Author-Publisher, that have resulted from that lucky thought or suggestion. Addressing himself originally to plain thinking and (fur the most part even it might be said) unlettered Englishmen, Mr. Longman has written his book hroughout in clear and simple language. The fact that he has done so imparts to the work one of its chiefest charms —namely its exceeding lucidity and perspicuity both in style and arrangement. CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED BUNYAN. Me Pilgrims Progress. Illustrated by H. C. Selous and M. P. Privlo. No. 1. Cassell, Petter, and Glslpin. Another monument to the fame of John Bunyan, the Tinker, is here begun to be set up. It gives pro mise of becoming perhaps the noblest yet raised in his honour. IC is nothing less than the issue, in penny weekly numbers, of a wonderful illustrated edition of his masterpiece. A w.inderful illustrated edition, we repeat, deliberately end advisedly. F or the embellishments comprised in each penny num . ber are drawn and engraved with a grace and a delicacy that really demand the appli. cation to the serial (ot which they are but the accessories) of that otherwise extravaga nt adjective. Speaking of the le.ter Prees, Lord Macaulay has said, in one of his most ce l e b rated cr.ticisms, "This is the highest miracle of genius, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another; and this miracle the Tinker has wrought. There I s n o place, no turnstile, acquainted." Are not these high words of praiee a w s i c t e h n w t , h n i o c h d e w c e l i v a i r t e y n , o n t o p r e e r s f t e i e n t g i y --words pronounced j b u y s t i t fl h e e d of modern times— iiite7rary critic E tell one can answer, from his own personal remembrance. And here, in this penny initial number o f t h e new popular edition :of the most famous prose g to re t a h te e st fu l allegory in our language ( as Spencer's 41 Fairy Queen" is the most renowned in our poetic literature) here, once more we begin with Christian, pack on back and staff in hand, the immemorial Pilgrimage. Above the initial letter, on page one, over against Chepter the First " The Den and the Dreamer"—lies half recumbent—his wallet slung by his side, his elbow a resting on the book—The Book—his bands clasp ,ed—his eyes lookin g up to the starry crown of glory promised to him in the skies —the Pilgrim, Christian ! A little further on "Evangelist Direct/ 3 Christian to the Wicket Gdte"—that being ti ne subject of the first half page illustration. The first full-page engraving is exactly o r f ep D rr s oo" e tr n o t o in ti g ._ " Christian setting o running ! away from taunts and j eers! away from entreat i es an d s upplications ! It we could but obli terate h ere an d u out from o t p h p e os City it e . there from the wondrous allegory a word or two of fiercest bi gotry and most narrow-minded intolerance, word a blurted out in the fervour of his Puritanical z cal by the otherwise all-but in spired Tinker-All egorist, we should exult, without one qualm, over I .his further popularisation of his msrvellous.y imp ressive narrative. Ad it is—being a Puritan—the T ioker speaks the Truth but frag mentarily. But., As it is , he cries it aloud wit h strange enthrall, ing eloqUtlite, that, ever since the allegory of tile "Pilgrim's Progress" was written, has fixed the attention and fired the imagination of generation after generation. With this one, but im portant reservation of approval we have spoken of, attaching simply to the original text, we cannot but admire the enterprise of the well known publishing house to which the English public are indebted for the issue of this singularly cheap and surprisingly beautiful edition of the Tinker's Dream of the Path leading up from Earth to Heaven. STANFORD'S MAP OF THE KINGDOM OF POLAND. An admirably distinct and peculiarly well-timed " Map of the Kingdom of Poland"—as it was ! and as it may yet be again !—has just now been issued from the press by Mr. Stanford, of Charing-cross. It will be heartily welcomed by every earnest stu dent of contemporary European History into whose hands it may fall. For it shows more clearly than almost any atlas map of the country here delineated, not only its past and present extent, but the succes• sive Seizures of its Territory, by Russia, Austria, and Prussia. Seizures made, some of them, further back than the first of the three infamous partitions —1772 being the date of the First Partition-1793 the date of the Second Partition-1795 of the third and final Partition. The anticipative cessions of Polish territory being made--one of them as far back as 1660, namely, that of Esthonia to Sweden. Another, a larger one, in 1667, to Russia. A third, in 1721, again to Russia, the latter cession (being that of the little northern State of Livonia. And so bit by bit, within a period of considerably less than two centuries, has Sarmatia been stealthily at first (in 1660) flagrantly, brutally, and insolently at last (in 1795) been disintegrated, and its blood- stained soil divided among its robber neighbours. Every murdered Pole buried away artier it, however, by Russia, Austria, or Prussia is proving now to have been but as dragon's tooth sown in its soil. One ready ever to leap up afterwards at the first opportunity, an armed patriot, eager to fight or die in vindcation once more of his country's independence! Looking at this excellent map of Poland, as it was and as it yet may be again, we can hardly doubt but that it will be so, that it must he so in the end—Poland being at heart manifestly resolved to struggle to the last gasp for its independence, and Europe, the whole of Europe, saving only the three robber nations who have shared its spoils amongst them, sympathising earnestly in that sublime deter. mination. DR. GIIILLOTIN. Carried away by his own enthusiasm, the worthy doctor went so far as to praise his machine and namesake, as not only doing away with all suffering, but causing actually a pleasing sensation. The " patient," he said, really did not feel the slightest inconvenience, but merely "une leNre fraicheur sur le cou." The phrase caused some hilarity ; and when the doctor continued, "avec cette machine je vous fats sauter la tete d'un din d' ail et vous ne soujrez point," the whole assembly broke out into Homeric laughter. Louis XVI., says the Reader of Saturday, had no sooner heard of he new machine than he desired to see a design of it. He accordingly ordered Dr. Anthony Louis to summon M. Guillotin to the Tuileries, together with Charles Henry Saneon, to give the necessary explanations, it being understood by M. Guillotin that the presence of his Ma jesty should be looked upon as entirely incognito. The in terview, which took pace on the 2d of March, 1792, is de scribed as follows in "Les Memoires des Saosons" The palace of the Tuileries looked already like the tomb of an exp•ring monarchy. I t walking with Dr. Guillotin along the vast galleries, formerly filled with smili n g (lour tiers, but now empty and silent, Charles Henry Sanson felt overcome by a sudden presentiment of evil. The servants whom they met looked pale and careworn; sorrow was impressed on every face. Thus they arrived at the study of Dr. Louis, whom they found sitting in an arm-chair, in front of a large table covered with green velvet fringed with gold. After a few compliments, exchanged between the two physicians, Dr. Louis demanded to see the plan of the new machine, and Guillotin handed him the design of Herr Schmidt, to which my grandfather had added a short description, indicating the use of the different parts by letters. While they were engaged in examining it, a door, hidden under tapestry, opened at the other side of the apartment, and a new comer entered the room. Dr. Louis, who sat till this moment, quickly arose, and Dr. Guitlotin made a profound bow, which, however, was not acknow ledged by the stranger. The latter, addressing Dr. Louis, asked in a rapid mode of speech— " Eh, hien, doctor, what do you think of the machine P" " It seems very complete," replied the doctor, " and to justify all that M. Guillotin has said about it. Here is the design." Ths stranger examin-d tho sketch for a moment, and then, shaking his head, exclaimed— " But are you sure that this hollow knife ii really what is wanted ? How can a sword thus shaped adapt itself to all necks ? The circle appears to be much too small for some, much too large for others." There was a momentary silence. From the commence ment of the entrance of the stranger into the room,Charles H. Sanson had not taken his e y es from him. He had heard the sound of that voice before, and seen that face, and it flashed upon him on a sudden that it was the king. It was, iudeed, Louis XVI., in dark dress, with no signs of his au gust rank on his person. Wnen his majesty made the ob s ervation about the concavity of the falling sword, my grandfather was stiuck with the truth of the remark. In voluntarily he lilted his eyes to the neck of the king, covered only by a thin lace collar, and saw at a glance that it was of extraordinary large di m ensions, surpassing by far the diameter of the circle indicated by Schmidt . Acold shudder ran over him; and, while still meditating within himself, be was aroused by the voice of the king, who, pointing to him by a look, asked the doctor in an under tone— " Is that the man P" "It is," replied Anthony Louis. "Ask his opinion , exclaimed his majesty. " You have heard the remark of monsieur?" said the physician ; " please give u s your opinion on the shale of the instrument." " Monsieur is perfectly right," answered Sanson, laying stress upon the word monsie ur; "the concave form of the knife seems a real detect " The king smiled, being evidently pleased, and, taking up a pen, corrected the sketch, by altering .he concave into an oblique line. He then retired thri,ugh the door where he had entered, making a slight sign with his hand. In little more thau ten mouths after, on the 21st of January of the following year, the head of Louis XVI. fell under the very instrument of death approved of and cor rected by his majesty. DRAMATISED NOVELS.—The rage for dramatising novels, says the Mirror. did not reach its height til► the appearance of Mr. Dickens as a leader in the world of prose fiction. The reality of his pictures, which any one might test, without further knowledge than is acquired by a familiarity with ordinary life, and which was altogether different in its kind from anything that had been presented before, would alone have ensured a wider popularity than was ever attained by Sir Walter, whose admirers, at least on this side of the Tweed, belonged to classes more or less ariat, cratic, while to the charm of matter and style was added the advantage of the serial form in which Mr. Dickens's works were given to the public, and which increased the number of his readers to an indefinite ex tent. The immense popularity of his works was at once detected by th, London managers, and turned by them to profitable account. A. dramatised " Pickwick," brought out before the novel was even completed, was the main support of the Strand, during Mr. Hammond's management, and not long afterwards "Nicholas Nickleby" and " Martin Chuzzlewit" drew crowds to the Adelphi and the Lyceum. Theatrical companies were then stronger than they are now, and people derived unbounded gratification from see ing how far the characters of which they bad read were adapted to the peculiarities of this or that favourite actor. The dramatised novel then reached its zenith as a type, its nadir as a species of theatrical entertainment. BANBURY CAKES.—It is worthy of remark that cakes had formerly not unfrequently a religious significance, from their being more used at religious seasons than at other times. The triangular cakes made at Con gleton, in Cheshire, have a raisin in each corner, thought to be emblematic of the Trinity; the cakes at Shrewsbury may have had something to do with its old religious shows. Coventry, on New Year's day, has its GA-cakes. Then we hive the Twelfth-c4e with its bean; the Good Friday bun with its cross ; the Pancake, with its shroving or con fession, and the Passover cake of the Jews. The minced pie was treated by the Puritans as a superstitious observ ance, and after the Restoration it almost served as a test for religious opinions. According to the old rule, the case iT cruet of a minced pie should be oblong, in imitation of the cradle or manger wherein the Saviour was laid ; the ingredients of the mince being said to refer to the offerings of the wise men.— John Timbs in Once-a-Week. A MIRACLE IN TELEGRAPHY. —A project j o s f law" was recently present ed to the Corpsethe Morse eg latif, which proposes that i t should supersede apparatus now in universal use. The pan-telegraph is termed an autograph and an autorneteur. " A despatch written at Paris, ' says a correspondent, " is reproduced without the assistance of any clerk at Ma seilles, wi.h the most rigorous fidelity, as is also a portrait, sketch, or draw ing of any kind. Nor does the Casselli apparatus need so great a supply of electricity as that of Morse, and it is much less affected by the condition of the atmosphere. Th e Empress has lately hscl her likenesses telegraphed to Some of her friends its the provinces, and last week Casselli tele graphed a painting of a full-blown rose from the Observa tory to the bureau of the Telegraphic Administration. The petals were of a beautiful pink colour and the leaves of an equa lly good green—in short, ' , Ner o e exactly lik e th e ti nts of the original. R n Rossini also, many days ago , tele graphed to Marseille s b y his apparatus a melody w hich he improvised in honou r o f the diliCA gone the rounds of the 1) tal. : 1 "1" : . : and which hay 0,018. 51 673 I 1093 I 9 3 99; 104 1 105 1271 97i 1001 1 89 8a 161 it O2i 2 THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. CARDINAL ANTONELLL Our di linct and positive contradiction several days since of the revived rumours of the Resigna tion of Cardinal Antonelli, we have just now had fully confirmed by telegrams, dated Rome, May 10. Cardinal Antonelli is still at the Head of the Pontifical Government. Monsignor de Merode is still Minister of War. The Ministry, in point of fact, remains exactly as it was. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. WARSAW, MAY 9. Exaggerated severity and compliance constantly succeed each other here since the outbreak of the movement of 1861, and have afforded the cause of revolution great assi,tance. The Government and its organs appear dt ficient in legal sense. This was displayed last night, with regard to the courier of the French Government, M. Harry. Between 2 and 3 a.m. the Hotel de l'Europe, where this gentleman had taken up his_ quarters, was surrounded by military, and sub jected from basement to garret to a thorough search. It may be observed, by the way, 'hat the military authorities entered upon the domiciliary visit without the knowledge of the police, and that the police patrols in the vicinity of the hotel were detained by soldiers during the search, that they might not carry intelligence to the Chief Police Commissary of what was going on. During the examination an officer with a file of men got into the apartment of the French courier, stopping hero upon his journey from Paris to St. Petersburg. The cfficer demanded the opening of the courier's baggage. M. Harry refused, stating that it contained despatches from his Government. The officer threatened violence. M. Harry produced a pistol, and declared he would fire if violence were offered. Thereupon the officer withdrew and reported the occurrence to the colonel in command. The colonel immediately repaired to M. Harry, and apologised for the annoyance to which he had been subjected. As may be supposed, the people here regret that the combatants did not come to blows, so as to have quickened the French intervention which everybody considers certain to happen. The reply of Prince GortEchalicff to the notes of the three Powers has produced the best impression in this city, as the Poles are convinced it will sa.- tisfy none, and cannot fail more or less to offend each. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day, TATTERSALL'S—Tats DAY. DERBY. sto 1 agst Lord Clifden (off red) 11 to 2 agst Macaroni (taken and offered) 9to 1 agst Saccharometer (take 10 to 1) 10 to 1 agst Gillie (taken) 100 to 6 agst Hospodar (taken) 100 to 6 agst King of the Vale (taken) 100 to 6 agst Tom Fool (taken) 20 to 1 agst. Ranger (take 25 to 1) 40 to 1 agst Fantastic (taken) 40 to 1 apt Giles the First (taken) 50 to 1 agst Blue Mantle (taken and offered) 60 to 1 agst Scamander (taken) 50 to 1 agpt King of Utopia (taken 50 to 1 agat Early Purl (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Donnybrook (taken) 1000 to 5 agst Stockman (offered) OAKS. 6to 2 agst Lady Augusta (offered) Bto 1 agst Bur alis (taken) Bto 1 agst Miss Armstrong (taken) 9to 1 agst Old Orange Girl (taken) 12 to 1 agst The Orphan (offered) 20 to 1 agst Fantail (taken) 20 to 1 agst Tornado (taken) CITY BETTING—TiIIs DAY. THE DERBY. sto 1 agst Lord Clilden (taken) 11 to 2 apt Macearoni (taken) 10 to 1 agst Saceharotneter (taken) 12 to 1 agst Gallo (taken) 15 to 1 sgst Ranger (taken) 12 to 1 agst Ho: podar (taken) 16 to 1 age Torn Fool (taken) 18 to 1 age King of the Vale (taken) 33 to 1 agst National Guard (taken) 60 to 1 agst Seamander (taken) 100 to 1 agst Donnybrook (offered) IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS---This Evening. This being Ascensbn Day their lordships did not as semble. HOUSE OF COMMONS.--This Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. NEW MEMBER—ANTRIM. Mr. O'NEILL took the oaths and his seat. THIRD READINGS. The following bills were react a ih rd time :—Blackrock, Monkstown, and Booterstown Improvement—Cork and Youghal Railway—Cowes and Newport Railway— Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway—Saff►oa ‘Valden Railway Bill—Teign Valley Railway—Tramore Embank ment. __________ PETITIONS. By Mr. NORRIS against the amalgamation of the metro politan city police, Mr. HENLEY against the sale of intoxi cating liquors on he Sabbath; Mr. HEADLAM, to the same ,ffect ; Mr. WHALLEY against the Prison Ministers Bill. SIR WM. WISEMAN, It N., AND HIS DISTANT COMMAND. Sir. F. SMITH asked the Secretary to the Admiralty, whether there was any truth in the report that Captain Sir William Wiseman, R.N , who was lately Vice-Presi d•nt of the Ordnance Select Committee, was about to be sent to a distant command. Ile had no desire, in asking the question, to cart any imputation on the gallant officer lie confessed, however, he was surprised that he should have bean appointed to so distant a command, looking at the position he had recently held. Lord C. PAGET replied that Sir W. Wiseman had been offered and accepted the commodoreship on the Australian station. He was a very able and gallant officer, and he could assure his hon. and gallant friend that the Admiralty had no intention, in offering him the appointment, of shelv ing him, because, strictly speaking, he had nut yet served nis full time. THE LOSS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON. Mr. DA.W SON askee the President of the Board of Trade whether any detai ed report had been made to this department of the loss of the Anglo-Saxon steam ship from ' Londonderry to Quebec, on the 27th April, and whether the circuwat 'aces of that lamentable event were correctly stated in the public press; also, whether the Government had ever refused permission for the use of Daboll's fog trumpet upon Cape Race iu Newfoundland ; and, if so, what wero the grounds for such retuaal P lie desired to re wind the right hon. gentlemen that three wrecks had already taken place on that coast, Mr. M. GlbSO g replied that no detailed statements or reports had yet reached the Board of Trade with respect to the wreck ot the Anglo Saxon. The official pa ticulars with respect to that melancholy event would not arrive until the next mail. It appealed that last year the Associated Press ot New York put forth a proposal to erect a fog signal cue e Cape Race, but neither the colonial authorities nor the Home Government, deemed it well to entrust the work to e h d executon of foreigners. But the Board of Trade h d g Tr. be heard h"et:rd att upon the steam ship owners intezested in th. e the waters off Cape Race the propriety of beach. The adequate fog signals upon that important . . _ r _ . erecting "g Big- Board of Trade had the power of to required them, nals on points that appeared rneeari-egailtimo= i n 2. for the cost of and of taxing ships P"crh-owever, with respect to maintaining them. It a e peare sullieleli,enbtulty goodthey aldignhot.t calrtedwita,ohseinucusuunrailttheteed however, quite certain tendon of the Board of expense Cape u ui u ß n a of i c u e : , erectingthtau that o the u i p t o h B w e b ; t P s e t ish e e s on t : 0 :a t : , important point like ( ape Race I to dS; da b t e teso e t re hg c ao t d e t a h ' re:73ll3:anrng r t h ethu e i co n 6 i de r a t i o u o f t h that Trad t e h t e o fog re c t signal j igh ts e i e cfti that 1t! saying wthaestyah chat promisedojotdw on s e . at the Board of .?n. one of th 9 adjacent hills i t n a l ' u --°llBe. Preatiloinaceoi The g e a u bj v e a c s t ilAwrrecliait,°sT'eYtbeuernavadaelrs in foggy weather which could b the Trinity tour nide distance, and it Was a gun th was,Trad eh b e a w d ev p e ru r, pos u e n d de t r o ethreect consideration House. if there would b e an off i cial inquiry disaster ? mr. DAWSON inquired oi the Ids. i‘ i i n . te G t i h ses B e s ca o u Needid. t 4 re his depa r t men t. not ( reply t o th e quest i on until the subject uttve °ilk:jail Yj i }SILL. This bill, pRi w N _ as amend e d, Was considered and agreed to, with the addition et an ' a .l n l i N e n i d B n T i e li n t it b S y Mr HENLEY, and the bitl ordered to be read a third time. The VOLUNTEERS BILL. reading ot HARTIN • . reading , G lON moved the second ot this bill, and ex I • was cased upon the recem p le tun d ea . Its provisions. , The bill tu anon of the late \ lunteer” Commission. In the recent estimates, £198,000 was unanimously voted without a ny o f position in aid ot the volunteer force, testifying that Pa,liament and the public considered that some additional aid ought to be given to this important service. The noble lord explained the qualifications that would be requisite in order to entitle corps to a share in the grant so voted by Parlia ment. It was proposed in the future to allow 20s. a yew to each volunteer, and 10s. extra for pro ficienc y in ball practice. This year it was proposed to allot 15s. _to lc? toot, and 20s. tot each mounted rifleman. He paid A . h e q 'pment of the complement, to the tilleiency and 00 e 'l . ' ll trained men .1 volunteers, which now numbered 15t!,0 . w n.g in danger wow d who in the event a the euunity be. . $ . , , tiUCULti. body fur 1 • Wietillitt, tal . 16 diolial9o • 1 / 1 0 G""11- ment claimed no credit for the present condition of the vos lunteers, as it had spontaneously risen out of the chwalrom feeling of the people. It owed most of its success t the unwearied exertions of Lord Elcho. (Hear, hear. — All the Government had done was to foster the movement, and to give it all the legitimate assistance in its power. Major ED WARDS said the bill would be generally ac ceptable to the volunteers. Col. FRENCH said he should in committee take the sense of the house as to whether Ireland would not partici pate in the grant, and have a volunteer force of its own, as in former times, when the body constituted a great support to the regular army. Sir J. SHELLEY hoped it would never be forgotten that the force was thoroughly voluntary, and trusted no rigid unalterable rules would be forced upon them. If so, the existence of the volunteer force would be endangered. Regtmewal orders should, in the first instance, ernanwe from the War-office, subject to the adaptation by the corps to the particular circumstances of each. He should propose a few amendment. in committee. Colonel DUNNE supported the bill, and suggested that the proper time to enter upon a discussion of the details was when the bill was in committee. The bill was then read a second time. (LEFT SITTING.) THE NEW VOLUNTEER BILL, The Act introduced in the House of Commons by th 9 Under-Secretary for War has been printed. It provides, in the first place, for the acceptance by the Crown of services proffered through lieutenants of counties, and for the immediate formation of corps on that basis. The permanent staff to be attached to every volunteer corps is to consist of an adjutant commissioned by her Majesty, and of so many ser geant instructors as may seem fit. Officers, except such as are on the permanent staff, will take their commissions from the lieutenant of the county. Officers of the volunteer force are to rank with officers of her Majesty's Regular and Militia forces as the youngest of their respective ranks; and with officers of the Yeomanry force according to the rank and date of their commissions in the respec tive forces. The acceptance of a commission in the volunteer force by a member of Parliament will not render his seat vacant. The conditions on which a volunteer may, unless on actual mili tary service, quit his corps, are that he shall give 14 days' notice in writing, that he shall deliver up all arms, clothing, and appointments issued to him, and that he shall pay all money due or becoming due by him, either as subscription or fine. Ap peals are to be made to two deputy lieu tenants or to one deputy lieutenant, and a justice of the peace for the county to which the corps belongs ; and their determination, after hear ing evidence on oath, will be binding. Whenever any vol un t eers are on ac t ua l m ilitary service, or aro undergoing i nspect i on , or are vo luntarily doing any military duty, her Majesty may put them under the command of general or field officers of the army, but so, nevertheless, that th e vo l u nteers shall be led by their own officers under such command. An annual inspection of every volunteer corps is to be held, by a general or field officer of the Queen's army. The declaration o f requ i s i tes of e ffi c i ency ay from time to time b e ma d e b y h er M a j esty in Council. The rules for officering administrative regiments formed by the union of two or more volunteer corps are similar to those laid down in respect to separate corps; and notwithstanding the formation of any such regiment the separate corps formed into the same will be severally deemed volun teer corps for all purposeb of the Act. The second part of the bill relates to actual mili tary service, and it gives power to the Crown to dinct lieutenants of counties, in case of apprehended invasion, to call cut the volunteers. if any such officer, volunteer, or noncommissioned officer, not incapacitated by infirmity for military service, refuses or neglects to assemble or march he shall be deemed a deserter. An officer of the volunteer force disabled on actual military ser vice will be entitled to half-pay, according to hie rank ; and the widow of such an officer killed on actual military service will be entitled to the like pension for life as the widow of an officer of her Majesty's army. A volunteer or non commissioned officer of the permanent staff, disabled on actual military service, will, according to his rank, be entitled to the like pension and other benefits, if any, as a soldier of her Majesty's army. The third portion of the act relates to matters of discipline; the fourth to the rules and property of corps; the fifth to the acquisition of land for ranges; the sixth to exemptions; and the seventh to miscel laneous provisions. The schedule contains the form of oath to be administered to officers and volunteers, And•the forms of warrants and certificates to be used in various cases. The act concludes with an un necessary statement that its terms do not extend to Ireland. STATE OF TRADE. DUNDEE, May 12.—St. Petersburg advices report that the new flax is not turning out well, and that there will be little of really good quality shipped there this season. The Russian markets all keep high, and at Riga prices have again an upward tendency. Here holders are firm, and there is a fair consumptive demand. Fine tows continue in mode rate request, and maintain their value ; but inferior sorts are not inquired for. Jute barely keeps its price, and sales can only be effected by meeting buyers to a small eAtent. Flax yarns of superior spin and quality are in good request, at full prices ; but common are less wanted. Towyarns, especially of second class spin, were in favour of buyers, and jute yarns, with the exception of a few sizes which are ,earce, can now be got on easier terms than before. Tne American advices to hand yesterday are very discouraging for our manufacturers. An order had been received from Washington to charge an addi tional import duty of 10 per cent. on all goods, either of all jute, or having any jute in them, thereby rais ing the duty from 30 to 40 per cent. on these fabrics. The order was instantly acted upon, and the mer chants have been compelled to pay the advanced rate, but they have done so under protest. The bet ter descriptions of linen continue in good request, and the Australian demand is taking up large quan tities of sacking. The district manufacturers still keep busily employed at paying prices. LEICESTER, 13th.—There is very little improve ment in the state of the hosiery trade. Business is on the whole quiet. The orders that are recediavea are by no means large, and manufacturers proreat accordingly. At Hinckley and Loughborough. g d in Leicester distress exists among the open atives, n h a e wse y od a o r li n ss mar kettphreirne is firm and high prices are wade. many are only partially em ploy ed. There are no st0:11., Is very little change, and what ispur a c lnl h ' tlt3hteh.—lasTthfeewlaedeaytsr.adenh.as beat very limited extent, only for present eithercal lyo forhosiery prese or v us y e. ere T s. he buyers earzhcoeehdai:egjcYomge in the market have pu rc h ased to et NorrnvonAuldie, • p la i n goods are in very little demand,r the same may be said of the fan and indeed facturers finish only what is fancy trade. Alanufae actually stocks whatever ale c wanted, and no created. The s ilk remains without lace trade an eh black silk laces for trim ming sange. A little is doing in fashions being still and in quillings, the The • in favour of the latter hosiery trade continues goods. ROCHDALE, depressed. e 11 th. —The flannel trade keeps ac tive, the manufacturers being in full employment, many of them on good orders for future delivery. The attendance of buyers in the market to-day, how ever, was n, t so numerous as last week, and the actual sales of flannels were not very ,large, business being rather checked by the firmness with which the manufacturers keep up their prices. The Yorkshire goods trade , s steady, both as to prices and demand. Wools are firm in price, and a more active disposi tion to purchase has been shown to-day than for the last few market days. ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.--The sun will be partially eclipsed on the afternoon of Sunday next, the 17th inst. As viewed near the metropolis, the moon will enter upon his disc at 6h• 42w. 245. p.m., Greenwich time, at a point 88 degrees from the vortex towards the wes e t, lvis or 6si n_ b eir in ly cci. at the right hand extremity of the sun's horizlntal diameter. The eclipse will bone its maximum at 6h. 28m. 30s. when very nearly third of the solar diameter will be the moon, and will end at 7h. 12w. Os. su p l i dai awbovuerteldialbr an-hour before sunset, the last contact occurring a l i tt l e to the left of the apparent upper point of the disc. =his coun try, otfryth,eantwd oinsotlhare cc.ipseaelipe of f f 018o6to4bworill 19,b October 8, 1866, the Pun will set in Loudon a few m in ut e s i b s e t f b or e e ° t u b greatestisoe o , r h h o a s k e a 1 (IT that, p t hweinl will in k ° tu : la a ! i eit utita ;Alan:J.l 6, 1867. wholly v • • b , - hit :e uere