The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-19 00:00:00

'LONEY NARKEi AND comaranciAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. REDUCTION OF ONE PER CENT. IN THE BANK OF ENGLAND RATE OF DISCOUNT. The directors of the Bank of England have just held their weekly Court, and announced a reduction of one per cent. in their rate of interest. The minimum quotation is now eight per cent., and tha public aria relieved from the anxiety experienced within the past few days as to the probable issue of affairs. The measure, it is true, has been expected, but in the present unsettled condition of things no great surprise would have been created if the official quotat',on had been continued for another week at nine p er cent., so as effectually to root out the recent specu'iative mania. Ab out £45,000 in gold was takes into the Bank yesterday. The bar silver brought by the Shannon has been sold at 53 Odd per ounce standard, being another kd lower; the Mexican dollars by the French steamer Florida have also been disposed of at 5s lid per ounce, showing no alteration. The suspension has been announced of Messrs. Jam eel Hurst and Co., merchants, of London, and Mauritius. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are, in round figures, as under : Great 'Western 1864. 1863. £69,471 L 58952 North-Western South-li r estern Brighton, Midland 47,624 38,884 South Eastern Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire..... Bristol and Exeter North •Eastern 61,852 54,791 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 16,818 14,681 Glasgow and South-Western Great South-Western of Ireland These returns, when compared with those or the sante period of last year, are of a highly satisfactory character. Oa the Great Western there is an in crease of L 10,519 ; on the North Western of £14,488; on the South Western of £5,374 ; on the Brighton of £1,874; on the South Eastern of £1,742; on the Great Northern of £7,057 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £7,447 ; on the Bristol and Exeter of £708; on the North Eastern of £7,057; on the Mst,chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln of £2,137; on the Glasgow and South Western of £493 ; and on the Great Southern and Western of Ireland of £707. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning, according to Renter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Ren tee were 66f. 70c. A very quiet and inactive market has prevailed for the English Funds. Prices show vet the slightest variation, and Consols continue at 91,1 for money, and 909 2-, less the dividend, for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 89H ; India 5 per Cents., 1051; E nfaced 5 per Cents., 104; do. 5} per Cents., 114; and the Deben tures, 98 1 g • In the Foreign Market there is very little busi ness, and prices are rather heavy. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 711 ; do., Consolid6s, 481 Mexican, 441 8 ; do. New Loan, 1 01 die.; Greek, 231 I; Spanish Passive, 341 a ; Portuguese, 481 1; Russian Loan, 21 a prem. ; and the Confederate Loan, 66 68. Business in the Railway Share Market has shown rather more animation, and in one or two instances there has been a slight improvement. Brighton, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Great Western have each improved 55.; and North- Eastern (Berwick), 15s. ; while Metropolian have declined 15s. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive, at about previous rates. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in fair re quest, and in most instances support previous quo tations. London and Westminster realise 95; Union of London, 584 ; Hudson Bay Company have declined to 19i ; Provincial Banking Corpo ration are quoted 1 prem. ; and International Land Credit, 2-j-, prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. G OTERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Console Ditto Account, May 8 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent. B9/ i Ne w 2i per Cent. Jan. 1891.... Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — ilynuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. March. June. die Exchequer Bina, £l,OOO, 2 i & 3 per Cent. Ditto £5OO _ Ditto £lOO and £2OO zank England Stk, 5/ per Ct. Ditto Account,. INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 r Cent A ril 1874 217 Pe .)1 3 i2Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Ditto Account Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 . Do Certificates Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. 104 Ditto 5 per Cent. May, 1879 ll4 13 Di tto Debentures , per Ct., April 1861 Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 981 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — Ditto under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 1859 Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 B7 Buenos Avres 6 per Cent . Ditto Account — Chilian 6 per Cent Ditto 41 pet Cent Colombian 6 per C en t 791 Danish 6 per Cent. 3 per Cent., 1825 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1864 Ditto Scrip £5O paid 1 pm -Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — . 2 ls'Yptian 7 per Cent — Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. Ditto Account Ditto Coupons Ditto Account Guatemala 5 per Cent. Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Itali an 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent..... Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — P3rnvian 4/ per Cent Ditto Account ... . , — Oitto 3 pee Cent. (Uribarren) — Ditto 4/ per Cent,, 1862 Ditto Account B7 8 i Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account — Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 Ditto Account 4Bl Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St BBl Ditto 41 per Cent.. 1850 .. 851 Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 Ditto 1864 Scrip, £lO paid Ditto Anglo-D ntch Sardinian 5 per Cent Ditto Account 86 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred . Ditto Account Ditto Passive Ditto Account ............... . Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account ................ Swedish, 4 per Cent Ditto Scrip, £2O paid .. Pin Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account — Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account .. Ditto £lOO Bonds 7ll 1 Ditto 1863 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — Venezuel a 3 per Cent. Ditto Account 23t Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 I lift° Account.... Ditto 6 per Cent, 1864 Ditto 1/ per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Lonl ,a. Austrian, 5 per Cent, Ex. 10 Flolins. Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 251 Datcb. 21 per Cent., Ex, 12 Gull — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account — THREE O'CLOCK. Console Money Ditto Account .... soa i x d _ - Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, Market quiet and steady. Sales, about 6,000 41 ". Imports, 6,184; previously, 62,024. SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. -hare' Railways. ' Paid. Closing I Business 1 Price. i done. i 13.14.1 Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. B ost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall IDo A A gets no div B till 6p c.p an.has ( been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. , Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. Edinburgh & Glasgow.) Glasi;. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian s t GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an I W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & Nor'h Western Lon. & So•,,th Western Han., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do # shares Nletropolitan Midland Do New Do Binning. & Derby 41d. (it. W. of Ireland Do. shares Rid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee I Nth. Eastern—Berwick 1 Do, G.N.E. purchase If Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E. ' Aber. stock 1 Do Scot. Hid. stack 1 Shrews. and Welohpoo; Shropshire Union 1 South Devon 1 South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun 1 itaines,Wok.,andWok g Stockton & Darlingtou E Do Do New, 1866 Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do P. 15.4 stook 204 20 100 100 stock stock stock stock stock stock Vale of Neath ‘rictoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har./¢R West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 8 8i 9 83 85 118} 119. 6 7 35 37 16 17 88 90 10F 106 47 48 47i i 8a 7a 129 131 138 140 128 t 32 90 92 64 64i 1111 111 66 67 163 105 40 41 110 i 111 07i 9.8 54 64 1114 661 IA2 4 41 111 10/ 54 ri 1144 115 i 132 132 i llif 3 3 132 102 IC4 504 61 24i '454 1010 102 57 3 / 4 68 3 / 4 69 90 127 120 1i 2i 1 76 78 10f 11/ 121 123 39 40 54 66 33 85 904 91i 103 106 7i 8i E 66 376 96 10 8 8 165 17 0 5 7 3 4 p 1011 1 2 581 8 891 100 100 100 100 100 91 90i 22 11 2i all 1 140 100 Business done 103 } 1041 51 0 5 2(1 191 24 104 / COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. p.c.J &..1 ul) 1877-84 ..—" 100 103 105 1034 Do. it p. c. Feb. t Aug. 100 102 104 Do. 6p. 6.3 far. & Sept. 100 102 104 Do. Ep. c. Jan.&July. 10C 90 00 91 901 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 89 91 Cape G.Hope, 6p 0,1873 100 106 108 Do.Ap &Oct 1880 100 107 109 Do. 189 t 100 108 110 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 110 112 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 101 104 Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 196 108 107 ,Natal Gov. 6 per cent 100 196 108 N.B.Gov. 6 pm. J a.&J lily 100 101 103 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 —• N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 0., 183( 100 99 100 •-• Du. sp. e. , 1871 to Via 100 99 101 991 --. Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 99 101 99i I •-• New Zealand 6 p cent. 110 109 111 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 103 105 104 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 3. Aus G6p.c.1873.& up 100 109 111 Vio.(lov. bp.o. Ja.&July 100 - !Do. io D.O. An.dzOot. 100 108 102 1081 . j 8 BRITISII MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 id .thfford Amalgamated 32 34 Devon G. Con.. ( " Tavist , 1 560 670 East Busett (Mogan). 30 67 70 • East Clogau Gold Ltd. East Caradon ...... 1.14.6 294 304 30 East Cam Brea... 3.4.0 6t EI WI Russel (Tavistk.) 8.13.0 3/ 4 Gana.&St.AuDyn(Gwen, 581 7 9 Great South Tolgus 178 2/ 3 G. Wheal Vor (Ileiston• 40 33 35 331 44 Grenville .. 6.16.4 94 94 971 Her:Ws-Foot 8.12 18 40 Kingston Downs." 4.18.0 3/ 4 Lady Bertha Margaret (Uny Lelant 9i 15 17 Marke Valley.. 1 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim , 2/ 1.4 d New Setun l9f 85 90 - • North Downs 2l 14 11 ,N.Wh '1 BaSset(lllo4an 3.1.0 14 2 A North Wheal Crotty , Par Consols (St. Blaze) , _ 20 Providence(Uny Lelnt.) 10.0.; 40 92 ;South Caradon(St.Cleer, If 450 170 8. Carn Brea (Illogan) - IS.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 40 50 /Stray Park 30.17,6 25 27 ramar Silv.& Lead Min - rin Crort 9 08 19 West Basset (Mogan), 14 9 10 W Ci radon (Liakeard) 5 16 18 West Beton Wheat Basset (Illogan) 5 90 95 Wheal BUlleratedrutto 10 30 35 Wheal Kitty (ILLelant) 2.0.6 WhealLudintt Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) 8 12 14 • Wheat rietort 5B/ 220 230 Wheal Trelawney (Lis.), 7 20 21 Wheal Union 1 3.17 14 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., red, at 10 per cent. pm., 110 k Mid. Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto. Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 1361 North Staffordshire, 22f Waterford and Kilkenny, 6 per cent., 43} PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 6 per cent., pf., 4i London, Chatham, (to., Aletrop. Cixt., B 6 per cent., Ditto, ditto, C_6 per cent. 80 LINES LEASED AT FLIED RENTALS. London and Chatham, 4i per Cent., Ditto, Com. Fund stock, 5 per cent., 99 Midland Bradford pref. stock, 95} FOREIGN RAILWAYS, Bahia and San Francisco (Rm.) gua. 7 per cent., 174 Dutch Rhenish, Ditto (all), 214 Eastern of France, 19 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 12 Sambre and Meuse, 54 per cent. pf., 93 West Flanders, 74 FOREIGN KWH& Cape Copper, lim., 12i St. John del Rey (lien.), 46 United Mexican oig, 6 Yudanainutana ot S. Australia, lim.,:3i BANKS. Alliance (lim.), 64 35 3 Ditto, new, 521 3 Anglo Austrian, 7 Anglo-Italian, limited, 611 Australasia, 744 Bank of Egypt, 281 Bank of Utago, lira., 44 Brazilian and Portuguese, lira., 131 I British and Californian, Rm., 61 6 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 40 e C o it n y t Consolidated 3 e s nta I B i m a n , k 1 . 8 4 lim i ., 474 East;London, RM., 84. Ditto, new, 8; European Bank, lira., 12; ; Hindustan, China, and Japan (Rm.), 32 Ditto, new, 151 Imperial Bank (lim.), 42 4 Ditto, new, issued at 4 pm., 26 Imperial Ottoman, 218 A London Bank of Scotland, Rm., 23 24 London and Colonial 17_ a London Joint Stock, 43 London and R 1 estminster, 95 m M e e r r e c a b li an ti t ie ß a a n n, d k E llisa , Exchange, 1 2.e 2 , urn., 20 Ditto, new, 141 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lhn., 324 2 Mexican, lint., 7 6:1 National Sank, 381 Oriental Bank Corporation. 614 Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi, lim., 144 South Eastern, lim., 6 5 4 Union of London, 584 MISCELLANEOUS. City (Micas, lim., 6 Commercial Union, Insuran,le, 8 4 Credit looncier, 13 12E Credit 11lubi r, Egyptian Corn. and Trading, line. English and Scottish Marine, 11111,, 6 Finaciai Discßunt, l xn,, 411 MISCELLANEOUS—Continued. Tore-street Warehouse, Bin., 61 7f Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lira., 10} if Hudson's Bay, 191 Imperial Financial, lira., 8; International Financial Society, lira., 11; Land Securities, Urn., 5; London and Caledonian Marine, lira„ sa London Financial'Association, lira., Ditto, new, 16& Mercantile Credit Association, lira., 18 National Discount Company, lira., 14 ; Ditto, new, 9} Societe Financiere d'Epypte, Universal Marine, Insurance, lira., 5i Warrant Finance, lira., c 100 105 21 23 SION'S. Closing Pries. 80 82 104 103! id p ti 61 8} 9} 77 82 77 81 77 82 101 Ic3 98 100 105 107 1041 105 i P 20 21 7t /4 61 63 63 65 53 35 47 49 40 42 26 28 24 03 104 105 1021 1031 10 101 10} 10if; 90 tn 82 84 Par ip 102 103 90 08 9: 91 57 59 E 5 82 ?4 102 i 1031 101 103 Ed ip R 2 103 93 95 13'00k Mare stock stock stock stook BRITISH POSSE Railways Atlantic & St Lawrence Bom.,BarodaBz.Centlnci Gu. 5 per cent... Do. New . Do. E. Shares Buffalo and Lake Huron Do. Preferonce Buffalo,BrantAGodrich 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1,187 k Do. do. July 1, 187:, Do. do. June 1, 18: - 4 Clcutta.& S. E a s tn CapeTewn t Dock Seri] Eastn. Bengal gu. 6 p. East Indian. gu. 5 p. c Do. do. G Ext Do. do. II do. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. Do. ao. deterred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d PI ef. stock Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... Gt.lndiaPenin.c ' ma.6p.o Do. New gua.s p. 0... Do. January, 1862 Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per oent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New ..... Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 51 p. o. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Limited Madras. guar., 5 p. es. .. Do. 41 , p. 0. Extension De. 14 d 0.... Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. 6 p. e. Bnds. ~lelb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. e. Mort;. BdsH Newßr ur swiok t Canda Class A and B. N.lll.C'daB po lst pi bds Soinde ) Do. Delhi Do. do . =s: l Do. Punjaub Do. Do. ........ , Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 100 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 (100 1 100 Paid. all 100 all all 10', TITE SUN, LONDON, TITUR DA EVENING, MAY 19, 1864. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Days MANSION HOUSE. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLING £4,000. —Captain Robert Boyle Miller, Lane's Hotel, St. Albans-place, Haymarket, was placed before Sir B. W. Carden, charged with em bezzling (within the last three months) the sum of £4,000 and upwards, received by him as servant to Richard Rylanda and others, shipowners, Grosvenor Buildings, Tithebarn-street, Liverpool. Mr. Maynard, for the prosecution, said the prisoner was formerly in the employ of Messrs. Rylands and Siddon, of Liverpool, shipowners, and was captain of the ship Richard Ryland, which sailed in the month of July last from Liverpool, to Calcutta, with a cargo of cork. It would be his duty to sell the freight, receive the money, disburse the expenses of the ship, and then trans mit the proceeds of the voyage to the owners at Liver pool. The ship Richard Ryland, of' which the prisoner was master, sailed from Liverpool for Calcutta with a cargo of cork, The cargo was sold, and the prisoner received the money at the Mauritius, but the owners have never received any portion of the £4,000 received by the prisoner, neither had they since heard anything of the ship commanded by the prisoner belonging to Messrs, Ryland, which was of the value of £25,000 He should merely submit enough evidence to enable the magis trate to send the prisoner to Liverpool to meet the charge. Mr. Maynard then called, Sergt Spittal, who said—ln consequence of instructions received from the Liverpool police, I, in company with Pack man, took the prisoner into custody, and charged him with embezzling the sum of 4000, the property of his employers, Messrs. Ryland, Seddon, and Co., the owners of the ship Richard Ryland. He said the charge was false. We tools , him to the Bow-lane Station, where be was searched by Sergeant Packman, I told Lim where he had received the money, but he said it was untrue. The prisoner this morning said he was surprised the firm should suppose that he was guilty of anything wrong —that the bill he got in the Mauritius for the money deposited in the bank, he had obtained and changed for safety for his employers. If he had intended anything Wrong he had' a great deal mote money in Calcutta; that h e intended to go down to Liverpool and settle with his e mp l oyers next Saturday. Alderman Carden—Any question, Miller, to ask witness P Prisoner—Oh no, sir, what he says is perfectly correct. Sergeant Packman—l was in company with Spittal when we apprehended the prisoner yeaterday at Lane's Hotel. When at the station I searched the prisoner. On his person I found £6 lOs 7d, and in his room I found £49 in cash, two £5O Bank of England notes, a deposit note on the Stockton Bank for £l,lOO, dated May 12, in the name o Robert Miller. I also found a bank book, showing a cred for £2,800, in the name of Robert Miller. Alderman Carden—Did he say whose money it was ? Witness—He said it was his own. On his way to the Mansion-house he said, " I cannot think how they think I intend to do wrong, because if I had wished to do so I could have done so when I was in the East Indies, and had plenty of money. I intended to go to Liverpool on Sat ur d a y, b u t I've been fool en oug h to stop in London a few days. He said nothing about where he received the money. Mr Walter Partridge, of the firm of Fl etcher, Parr, and Co., Leadenhall st ree t, s aid they were agents to Ryland and Seddon, of Liverpool. They own a ship ca ll e d the Richard Ryland. The d u ty o f the prisoner would b e t o di s b urse the debts incurred by the ship, and trans m it t h e balance to Liverpool. The owners ought to have received intelli• gence from Calcutta relative to the money three months ago. The ship sailed in July last. We charge the priso ner with having embezzled the £4,000. Alderman Carden—You ought to have written to your owners long before this, Prisoner—l wrote them four or five letters. Witness—Nothing has ever been received. George Peacock-1 went with the prisoner to a bill bro ker. I saw a bill for £l,OOO produced for Captain Mi!ler's endorsement. The bill was endorsed. Captain Miller told me the money was to be handed over in hard cash for ship ment to Bombay. Alderman Carden said he did not think it very possible that the prisoner could require bullion for the purpose of taking it to the owners. lie should order the prisoner to be taken to Liverpool to be dealt with there. He thought the City police deserved great credit for getting hold of the prisoner b'etore he could leave London. The prisoner will be formally brought up again to-mor. row, but it will be meroly for the signing of the depositions MARLBOROUGH STREET. FORGERY BY A CLERK OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY....- Joseph Bingham, a young man, clerk, in the employ of the Library Company, was charged before Mr Knox with forging and uttering an order for the payment of the sum of £37 15s 4d. Mr Thomas Tames, jun., clerk at Messrs Ransom's Bank, 1, Pall.mall East, said that on the 6th of April last the prisoner presented the cheque produced and asked him to cash it. He did so, the Library Company having an account at the bank. The amount of the cheque was £37 15s 4d, Mr Henry Fowler, secretary of the Library Company, said the cheque was not endorsed by him as it purported to to be. All cheques were endorsed by him ;no other person connected with the company had any business to do so. In answer to Mr Knox, Mr Fowler said the prisoner had been in the employ of the company nearly a year. Sergeant C. Robinson, of the detective department, Scot land Yard, proved taking the prisoner into custody at New town, Merionethshire, and said that on showing prisoner the cheque he admitted writing the whole of it himself, stating that he was very sorry, bat that he had been drinking at the time. Mr Knox said the writing on the cheque did not look lik that of a man who had been drinking. The prisoner, who had no questions to ask, was committed to the Central Criminal Court for trial. THE ENCOURAGERS 01 DISHONESTY AMONGST SER VANTS.-Mr Knox.received the following letter this morn ing "May 18.—Sir,--May I ask you to lend your aid hi sup pressing another evil which is very prevalent at the West end of London at this season, and is also disseminated by means of handbills dropped into areas of an evening. As the system alluded to i 3 profitable to the servants of families, it is not likely that it will be made public as the other has been [handbills dropped an astrology imposture] throu g h the magnanimity of " a servant." I refer to the bills which state that the "best • ~ • given for ev ery price is c onceivable article of transfer in down areas respecting the household, from g las s , china, brok e n silver, dow n t o bones, fat, rags, &c. There is no address on these hand bills, but an intimation is given that a call will be made in the morning for anything that may be got ready. The po li ce might do much to check the system, if - , they had instructions from their superiors t o direct iste ready to expose abuses of th e k ind—may be of great service i n opening the eyes of th e heads of households to the ne t e h o e f i r t h es e attention pra c tices to it, am it, and th e p re ss— a l ways Sir, yours. &c., "PRO BONO PUBLICO." Another letter has been r eceived from a person complain ex ino. of th e hand -bill nuisance, and requesting that the scamp whose name it bears may be exposed. The hand bill is headed " Your Destiny, Matrimony Made Easy : or, How to Win a Lover," and th e fellow who issued it calla himself "qualified professo r of astrology, " and eeems to abe in great want of postage stomps. was charg e d WESTMINSTER. UNLAWFULL Y ENTERING A ii virithunla unlawfully entering OUSE.—Charles Danby, Lower Grosv enor-place, and further at tempting to steal a lead pipe, the M property of the Marquis oaafhni JO iVud h eds n Drew, seletatm-aigNnesocit a 7, a emr.ssnietant to Mr. liaines, auctioneer to the Marquis's estate, sai d that at 6 o'clock on the previous evening his attention was called to the door of the house, No. 7, Lower Grosv enor- p lace, b eing open. The house vas ac y Some boys ran ou t o f a k door mp was a pick near him, and some lead pipe had been rem ove d from the wall and hacked in two, beempty, from and the witness ie a ds . w The prisoner w as th en given into custody. went in. found the prisoner, Th ere Richard Mallon, porter to gr. Harms, said that h e li ve d at No, 8, and heard a noise at the time, and ca ug ht th e leads. He was very much confu sed, and ran away. Witness followed and capture d him. T here was a pi c k axe near him, and some lead p i pe had been r emoved. He said he knew nothing about the pi ckaxe, and had not tou c h ed the lead. Ambrose Juttan, 303 B, said w t ri h t a h fa t lt a lhi t neg a p. i quarter ek Taxh e e marks on . past six he took the prisoner into custody. He said h e wanted to thelo look k w al afterl and n tdh pipe i pwea correspondedl l t hat was liea James Dixon, a contractor, proved that th e p r i soner was at work for him near the spot. He did not know w h at business he had there. and knew nothin g about the pick. Prisoner said the pick did not belong to him, He was looking after a wall that was falling , and had not got i n t o the house for an unlawful purpose. Mr. Arnold remanded him, taking bail for hi s reappear ance. LITERATURE. John Greswold. By the Author of " Paul Ferran." Two Vols. Hurst and Blacket. To turn from the vitiated atmosphere of some fashionable and suffocating assembly and take a strolt in the pure air of the country side, and to do this in company with some clever, pleasant friend, whose lively gossip will amuse, without exciting, like the cup that "cheers Taut not inebriates," will produce a bracing, pleasurable effect, such as is experienced by the satiated reader of the unnatural fictions of the present day, who takes up these vo lumes by the author of "Paul Ferroll." The style is charming, and the perusal of the whole work is a matter of continued satisfaction ; but as for the story which it contains it is, in fact, no story at all. While turning over the pages (as in taking the stroll above alluded to) the reader is happily and beneficially employed, but be yond the pleasant associations of the hour, no more lasting effect is produced upon his memory than might be suggested by the most abstract constitutional. Wilkie Collins, and Miss Brad don, the magician and enchantress of modern lite rature, implore their critics not to unfold the mys teries of their prison -house. We cannot commit a similar gaucherie in the present instance, for in re gard to " Joh❑ Greswold," as in regard to Canning's knife-grinder, " story—Lord bless you there is none to tell!" We leave our hero on his twenty-third birthday ready to begin the world, having made, as his brother tells him, two false starts already. Per haps on some future occasion his future fortunes may be recorded, and we shall be right glad to become ac• quainted with them, for as we have already intimated we have found John Greswold a very delightful companion. The only little romance of the story, and a very pathetic romance it is, is associated with John's brother, the soldier Robert—who returns disabled from the Crimea to the overwhelming dis• may of his young betrothed. Robert at once re leases her from her engagement, and tenderly re garding her as " th© widow of his better days," enacts towards her the part of truest friend and brother. The heroine Ruth is so all perfect as to be removed above the reach of our sympathies es far as John Greshold is from the reached of hers. The following attempted declaration of love presents a specimen of unparalleled obtuseness on the part of the lady—perhaps according to the saying that NONE ARE SO DEAF AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT HEAR. She turned away, but I would not give up the opening which chance seemed to have made to obtain for me a por tion of her confidence. "I know not," I said, "whether I clearly understand you; but this I know, that if it be within the compass of my will and my power I would give —that is, I would use all the power I have to be of the least—that is to be of use." "Never mind it, however," said Ruth. "Thank you for your good wishes, and take no notice." ",You speak so, because I am too obtuse to understand, in the manner of your quick intellect and your clear apprehen sion ; but at least I can offer whatever I have not yet given —whatever remains to me of myself; and you know, yes, I am certain you know, I have everything to beg, to entreat from you, but have already lost all to you." "Now indeed I do not understand you. In what way have we caused you any loss ?" " Unwidingly, I am afraid. Oh, Miss Winspear—oh, Ruth, can you treat me thus ?" " How ?" said Ruth, startled that I used her Christian name. " Indeed I do not in the least understand to what you allude." "Oh I to nothing, since it is thus. That which would be life to me, is yet nothing since you look on it thus." " You say thus,' said Ruth, " but how ? lam very bad at guessing riddles, and since you speak in them I must renounce comprehending. Let us say no more except that I beg you to continue still the course I thought you were kindly taking. You can't help observing, but refrain from speaking; every family has its private matters, and a stranger does harm by meddling with them." "I am a mere stranger then; I am an unwelcome stranger. You despise, you dislike me; you will be glad if I promise never to enter your door again. And if it be not beyond human force, I will do so." "1 cannot comprehend your meaning," said Ruth, "but this is mere nonsense. You have been, you are very wel come; we are glad to see you, when neither you nor we are busy ; you have rendered us a great service." " Oh, for the sake of heaven, do not say that word again. It is of no use to break a man's heart, and ridicule it for breaking. Nay, I have not offended you," I cried, as she turned away. "Forgive me; at least do so much, and I will go." "It is time for me to return to the house," said Ruth. "Besides, it begins to rain. Good evening I Will you have an umbrella ?'' "It is time," said I. "Farewell," and I turned away, stopping after a few yards and turning, but Ruth was al ready at the top of the avenue, and in another minute lost to my sight within the house. Was ever more prosaic love•scene -upon record! Conspicuous among the other characters is the easy, careless, extravagant Lord Ennavant, who gambles away the moneys of his estate more rapidly than his faithful steward can collect them. Here is a characteristic sketch of steward and spendthrift : THE ORDEAL. Rather sooner than was anticipated Lord Ennavant ar rived, and came into the room where we were working to gether. He threw himself into an arm, chair, and at once desired the worst and the best to be told him. " It's like drawing a tooth," said he, " to come into this horrid room and this chair. I know it will be all right by the time I get out of it, but you make me go through tor ments before that happy moment arrives. So now for it. Do your worst, and end by giving me command of the money." " Just as I had arranged with the banker, to give you credit for necessary expenses for the next three months--" " That can't be helped. It makes not the slightest difference to this sum, This is a wholly unnecessary ex pense." " With a little prudence, and the great storm that swept down your Gloucestershire timber, you might have got on till rent day, and then paid the banker with the rents, ne glected tte butcher, and gone on again." "Well, I'm glad you think £5,000 is an equivalent for for only a little prudence. So I have committed no great eAcess after all. It ought to be all the easier for you to supply me." " It is, however, not easy at all," said Mr. Points, gloomily. "But I have met with one expedient, the suc cess of which I shall know in the course of the evening, and would have sent you word--" "If I had not been in such a devil of a hurry? But I want to be clear of the thoughts; for although I never' make myselt miserable except in this accursed room, there is always the sense that I shall have to go through it till it is done. So what is it ? Lord Ennavant occasionally learns some home truths from the plain-spoken John Greswold, and is happy to befriend him, when he can do so without personal inconvenience. Mrs. Winspear is a capi tally drawn character —while Miss Nation, the fast fine lady, is assuredly a caricature. Her con• versation reminds us of another would-be fine lady—Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Skeggs. We take leave of John Greswold with a pleasant remi niscence of our passing intercourse, but with regret to leave him with his fate and fortune a mystery and his history " nowhere." A NEW PARK FOR PARIS is being opened at the Buttes St. Chaumont. Advices from Tours state that the Bishop of Evreux has got much worse, and is now dangerously ill. The Archbishop of Tours, at whose house he has been stop ping, administered the last sacraments to him the night before last, and prayers have been offered up in all the churches. The King of Greece has invited the represen.. tatives of France, England, and Russia to accompany him in his excursion to the lonian Isles. The Official Gazette of Turin publishes a Royal decree suppressing the spscial administration of the seques trated estates of the ex-Duke of Modena, and transfers it to the agents cf the. State domains. Tire Napoleonien of Rodez states that M. Ga robuau, Cure of Cassagnes Begoubes (Aveyron) has been murdered. The authorities of Rodez went to the scene of the crime to institute an inquiry, the details of which are not yet given. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH THE ISLE OF OF Wu:am—The Lady of the Lake, a steamer fitted up like the American river steamers, has commenced running between Cowes and Southampton. There are now no fewer than five steam packet communications between the Isle of Wight and the mainland, viz., between the island and Littlehampton, Portsmouth, Stokos Bay, Southampton, and Lymington. THAMES• A MOST INCORRTGIBLE THIEF. —:Margaret Da tts ki n, a most wretched looking woman, 52 years of age, wh o ap peared to be 80, was charged with stealing a waistcoat, the property of Henry Hopkins, of 58, Cburch•lane, White chapel. The prisoner entered the prosecutor's house, the str ee t door of which was open, and went into the yard behind. A waistcoat, which had been recently washed, was hanging on a line to dry. The prisoner removed it, and was leaving the house with it, when the prosecutor's wife and another woman saw her and gave her into custody. Roche, the g a ol er o f th e co urt, said the prisone r h a d b een a great ma n y ti mes i n cus t o dy, and shheeweaosum lay afraid to hersay how many ti mes s h e h a d b een convicted. She h a d f or many pooryearsp been in andthe practice atealtng o a f ny s t n h e i a n k g ing into the hou ses of hands on. She was no sooner out of prison than she was in custody. He believed nothing would ever stop her from picking and stealing when she was out of prison. An officer said the prisoner had been found In singular positions in the houses of the poor. At one time she was discovered at daybreak by a poor woman, seated on the tor of a copper in the wash-house. She had been in this pee tion, and nothing could induce her to move until she was taken down and removed by the police. The magistrate said the prisoner was a dangerous old woman, and committed her to the House of Correction fur three months, and to be kept to hard labour. The Suspected Murder by a Wife in Lambeth, Last evening Mr W. Carter, coroner for Surrey, held an inquiry at the Spanish Patriot Tavern, Lower Marsh, Lambeth, touching the death of Stephen Weston, aged 34, who was alleged to have been murdered by his wife on Sunday last. Mr Edwin appeared for Mrs Weston; and Inspector Edmonds had charge of the case for the police authorities. Elizabeth Sweetman was the first witness called—She said that she was the mother of the deceased's wife, and she lived with the Westons. Deceased was a tripe dresser and dog's -meat seller. Ho occupied the house, 1, Johanna - street, Lambeth. His wife, Sarah Weston, and four chil dren, the eldest nine years of age, lived with him. 'Witness had lived with them three or four years. Samuel Samuels, a cooper, was called, and he gave the same evidence he had already given before a police -court. He said that on Sunday morning he was in the street looking on at a fight between two women, when he heard a cry of "Murder," proceeding from 1, Johanna -street. He climbed up on the ledge of the Spanish Patriot, and thus got on the top of Mr Weston's shop window. A girl opened the window and he put his head in. He saw by the light of a candle Mrs Weston holding deceased's head and knock ing it against the handles of the chest of drawers. He was partly on the floor and partly on the bed. He was trembling, but not struggling. She knocked his head twice. Witness said, "If you don't leave go, you coward, I'll knock you down with this flower pot." She let go, and deceased's head fell. Witness said ho is dead. She said to witness " You have got up there to rob the place." She left the room, and witness got down. She came to the door with side spring boots on, and said, "I have get his boots on now." She said she would lock witness up, and that he had no business to interfere between her and her husband. Witness had known them both to be of drinking habits. She said one night last week that she would do for her husband one of these days. She was drunk then. Witness had heard her threaten him, and show him a knife at other times when drunk. Deceased had only a shirt on as he lay on the floor when his wife was beating him. Mrs. Sweetman, re-called, said that she was at home on the morning of the occurrence. The front room was the sitting-room, but witness and three of the children slept in it. Deceased and his wife occupied the back room. De ceased had been in and out of bed all day on the Saturday. He had not been to business, for, witness thought, he was out of his mind, 'Witness asked a policeman to come up on the Sunday morning, but the officer would not. Witness did not see him struck. She saw some one come to the window. She had not called any one. She went to the door, but it was only to get some one to put deceased into bed, as he was out of his mind. Witness went upstairs, and saw the poor man lying on the floor on his face. She did not know whether he was then dead. He had jumped out of his own bed, and come into the front room. 'Witness did not call out "murder," nor did any one else. When a person was in a deranged state, it would be natural to wish some one to assist. She only wanted the police to keep him in bed. Deceased had drunk two half quarterns of sherry that day. Elizabeth Frances Weston, an intelligent little girl, was then sworn. She said she lived with her father and mother at No. 1, Johanna-street. On Sunday morning all the family were in the front room. Deceased had come in out of the other room. He fell across the bed. Witness did not see what caused him to fall. He was noisy, and he had been out of his mind all day. Nothing was done to him as he lay on the floor. Some one came to the window. Wit ness did not know why. Witness's mother was trying to pick him up then. She did not strike him. She did not beat his head against anything, His head was not near the chest of drawers, but was right away from it. It was not true that she struck his head against the drawers. No one told her what to say, The coroner said that great difficulties were caused in this case by the arrest of the wife. This court had the power to examine any one as to the cause of a death ; but by the wife's being taken into custody no statement could be obtained from her. It was possible that she might be able to explain how the matter really stood. Dr, J. Wilcocks Wakens said that on Monday he made a careful examination of the body of the deceased. There were 35 marks of violence. There were bruises such as a blunt insrrument—a poker for instance—weuld have made, There were other marks of injuries inflicted some days previous, The injuries were principally on the limbs. The head was puffy externally. The post-mortem examination showed that the bruises on the limbs were superficial, and not sufficient to ,effect vitality. There were the marks of _ _ _ five or sis blows on the head, and blood was effused under the scalp. The blows had been inflicted with a blunt instrument of small superfices. Blood was effused on the brain. Witness was decidedly of opinion that death was attributable to violence inflicted on the head by a blue t instrument; but the deceased was so diseased that very little violence would have been sufficient to produce death. In answer to the Coroner, Dr. Wakem said that a person struggling violently in delirium tremens might, if forcibly held down, sink back and die of exhaustion. The two blows seen by the witness Samuels were not in themselves sufficient to cause death. There had been general violence. Witness considered i impossible that the injuries could have been self-inflicted in knocking about under the influence of delirium tremens. After some further evidence, the court was cleared, and the jury having deliberated for nearly two hours, it was decided to adjourn the inquiry until Monday nest. A fatal accident occurred two days back on the Lyons Railway, at Saint-Romain-la-Motte. A goods train, consisting of 80 trucks, ran off the line, and about 24 of them were thrown on to each other by the shock. he guard received serious injuries and died a few hours later, but the breaksman jumped from his seat and was only slightly bruised. Eight other persons were in the train, but all escaped unhurt. The accident is supposed to have occurred from a horse having broken through his box and fallen on to the line. The poor animal was almost ground to shreds, as traces of its blood were found between the rails for a distance of nearly a mile and a half. Two other horses were killed. The Marquis de Turgot, the French Ambassador in Switzerland, has returned to Berne, and re. mined the duties of his pest. " Austria," says the France, " has just met with a financial check which has produced a certain sensation. She wished to contract a loan of 77 millions of florins (nearly 193 millions of francs), and has only been able to obtain 23,500,000 thalers (a little more than 58 millions of francs.)" HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES is to take the chair at the lecture to be delivered at the Royal United Service Institution by Capt. H. W. Tyler, R.E., on the subject of " Railways strategically consi dered." THE KING OF PRUSSIA is going to Gastoin, in the Tyrol, to take waters for the benefit of his health. THE DANISH WAR.—A subscription opened in Denmark for the widows, orphans, and wounded of the war produced in a single day at Copenhagen alone upwards of 300,000 f. The King put his name down for 12,000 f. a year durinea period of ten years. The shock of an earthquake was felt on Thorne's Creek, three miles east of Fort Langley, Fraser River, on the 28th of February, at half-past seven in the evening. It was accompanied by a hoarse, thundering rumble, and lasted for about 30 seconds. The sky was at the time clear and brilliant, and the atmosphere calm and mild. So frightful was the commotion of the quick and awful rockings as to make it a moment of great suspense as to whether the beholder would be buried with the log shanty, which cracked, rolled, and tottered around him, in a conglo merated mass of heterogeneous ruins.—British Columbian. THE ALPACA IN AIISTRALIA.—The last accounts from Australia state that the hopes which had been entertained of the naturalisation of the Peruvian alpaca have been disappointed, Of the 300 introduced by Mr. Ledger from Peru, five years ago, and purchased by the Government of New South Wales for £15,000, the whole have died off, and their progeny, numbering 330, are in an unhealthy condition. Some persons throw the blame on Mr. Ledger for inefficient management, and others con sider that the mistake was in their having been kept all together at one locality under Government care, instead of their having been distributed among individual settlers, some of whom would probably have discovered the precise districts most suitable to them. During a discussion on the subject in the Colonial Legislature nearly every speaker was in favour of the Government immediately getting rid of the cost of keeping them, and of having to maintain a staff of officers to ittend to them, and a resolution was ac cordingly adopted that they should be disposed of as soon as possible, either by auction or in any other way that might seem expedient. THE MINERS' STRIKE IN SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE. —Yesterday an open-air meeting of miners was held at Bilston, to receive a report from a deputation of men who had been appointed to wait upon the masters who had given notice to about 1,000 or 1,50 men in the Bradley district for a reduction in their wages of 3d. a day. Between 1,000 and 1,500 men were present; and the deputation reported that those of the masters whom they had been able to see all objected to withdraw the notice, some of them saying that before they would do so they would blow ou their furnaces. Several speeches were then delivered, the burden of the whole being that the masters were trying to oppress the men, but that the men were determined that to the uttermost they would resist the effort. Aid, it was stated, would be forthcoming from every other mining district in the kingdom ; and other trades' unions, it was added, had offered assistance. The struggle would be the stronger because it was felt that if the masters succeeded with this notice they would give one all through South Staffordshire for a reduction to 3d a day. Similar views were expressed at three other meetings. Naval and Military Intelligence, THE ARMY. His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com manding-in-Chief will hold a Levee at one o'clock on Monday next. Major-Gen. Sir R. Dacres, K.C.8., accompanied by Brigadier Major Hay, Assist.-Quartermaster- Gen. Capt. Nangle, has just made his half -yearly inspection of the troops at Warley barracks, near Brentwood. The troops, to the number of 700, executed several manoeuvres in a creditable manner. At the close they were formed in close column and addressed by the gallant majcr-general, who en forced the advantages and importance of temper ance. The general then proceeded to inspect the hospital, married men's cottages, schools, barracks, &c., all of which were declared to be in a satisfac• tcry state, while the arrangements in the new block of buildings, including the reading and recreation rooms and sergeants' mess, were specially com mended. The Woolwich division of enrolled pensioners, in command of Major Mackinnon, yesterday went through their annual official inspection on Wool wich-common by Col. J. Travers, R.A. The drills commenced on the 6th inst., since which time the whole force has been through a course of exercises and manoeuvres in separate companies, in which they acquitted themselves with great credit. They yesterday mustered at the review ground in full force, numbering 375 strong, and fired 10 rounds of blank ammunition. The inspecting officer ex pressed himself highly pleased with the appearance of the veteran soldiers and their steadiness under arms, remarking that in case of emergency they would form a most formidable auxiliary to act with the regular troops. Their arms, clothing, and accoutrements, be added, were all in good condition, for which and for their correct manoeuvres he gave them great commendation. He said he should not fail in making a most favourable report of his in spection to the Horse Guards. The men were all hale and active-looking, varying from 40 to 60 years of age, 55 being the maximum age for their being re tained on the enrolled list of the corps. The majority of the men are employed as mechanics and labourers in the Arsenal and dockyard. Each man is allowed a compensation for lost time—namely, as enrol ment money, and at the rate of 2s per day during the drills to privates, 2s 6d corporals, 3s ser geants, and 3s 6d sergeant-majors. Their cloth ing is renewed every seven years. Major Mackin non formerly belonged to the 16th Lancers, and is a most zealous staff officer. He has seen many years active service, having been, as appears from Hart's list, 10 years in India. He served through out the campaign of Affghanistan under Lord Keane, and also in the campaign of the Sutlej in 1846. During the inspection yesterday the death ,of the late superintending officer, Sir Alexander Tulloh was announced. He resigned the post on attaining his rank as Major-General, and died on Monday last at Winchester of inflammation of the lungs. The announcement was received with much regret. THE NAVY. Yesterday Sir I. D.H. Elphinstone, M.P., and the other members of the Committee on Dockyard Ma nagement, &e„ appointed by the House of Commons, visited Chatham dockyard, and commenced their investigations at that establishment. Daring the early portion of the morning the members of the committee visited the Lord Warden and Bellero phon, iron clad vessels, under construction, and from personal observation, as well as from informa tion obtained from the officials employed on those vessels, elicited many interesting details connected with the system of labour pursued at Chatham dockyard. The remaining portion of the morning was devoted to the transaction of official business in the Captain Superintendent's and other offices, and later in the day the members of the committee in spected the works in progress for the enlargement and extension of the dockyard by the creation of additional steam basins, desks, factories, and other buildings, the whole covering a space of 300 acres beyond the area of the present dockyard. On the previous evening the members of the committee landed at Chatham dockyard from the Vivid, paddlewheel steamer, Staff Commander H. W. Allen, which brought them from Sheerness, where they bad been occupied in inspecting the dockyard, naval barracks, and other establishments. During their visit to the naval barracks the com mittee expressed themselves in an unfavourable manner of the system of crowding in the building, one of the rooms which was only fit for 100 being required to accommodate 300 seamen. The Orontes steam troopship, Capt. W. H. Hire, arrived at Spithead last evening from the West Indies, with the 14th Regiment on board. She is ordered into the harbour, and the troops will land this morning, en route for Aldershot. George Barnes Haddock has been appointed lien. tenant to the Royal Naval Reierve. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES.—Wheat, 39s 3d; barley, 29s 9d; oats, 19s 8d; rye, 28s sd; beans, 34s 3d; and peas, 32s 6d. THE SI% WEEKS' AVERAGES.—Wheat, 39s 6d ; barley, 30s 6d ; oats, 19s 5d ; rye, 29s 2d ; beans, 33s 5d ; peas, 32s 4d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 101,621; barley, 11,432; oats, 6,470; rye, 4; beans, 4,138; peas, 496 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Our market, to-day, was fairly supplied with beasts ; but the general quality of the stock was by no means prime. All breeds moved off slowly, at Monday's currency—the top figure being 4s. Bd. per 81bs. The show of Sheep was only moderate ; neverthelese, sales progressed slowly, at previous rates. The best Downs changed hands at Oa. per 81bs. There was a good demand for lambs at full prices—viz., from 6s. 4d. to 7s. Bd. per 81bs. Calves, the supply of which was moderate, were dull, at unaltered quotations. In pigs very little was passing, and milch cows were almost nomi nal in price. Per 81bs.to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. s. d. 13. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3. 6 Primecrs-wool d 0.4 6 4 8 Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Pme. S' thdown do .4 10 o 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 4 Largo orse. calves 4 2 1 10 Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8 Prime small d 0... 5 0 5 2 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 3 10 Large h0g5...... 3 6 4 0 Second qualitydo. 4 0 4 4 ;Small porkers.... 4 2 4 6 Leanbs....6s 4d to 7s Bd. Suckling calves, 16s to 234 ; and quarter -old store pigs, 20s to 23s each. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts ... 1,030 i Beasts Cows l4O Sheep and lambs .... 810 Sheep and lambs.... 6,l2olCalves .. 260 Calves 3BO ! Pigs Pigs 290 MEAT MARKETS. NE'WGATB AND LEADENITALL.—The supplies of meat are limited, and the demand is inactive, as follows : Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 2d; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d; lamb, 5s 8d to 6s 10d; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and pork, 3s 2d to 4s 6d per Sibs by the carcase. SOUTRA.LL, May 18.—Fair average supplies of stock on affer here, to-day, Generally speaking, the trade ruled inactive, as follows :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s Od ; lamo, 6s 6d to 7s 6d; veal, 4s Od to 4s 10d; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 6d per 81bs, to sink the offal. • ROMFORD, May 18.—Prime stock was in fair request, at full prices, otherwise the trade was rather heavy —Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 8d; mutton, 3s 10d to 5s Od; lamb, 6s 8d to 7s 8d ; veal, 4s 6d to 4s 10d ; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per 81bs ; suckling calves, 15s to 22s ; quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 245; and milch cows, £l4 to £lB each. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £ 4 15s Od; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s Od; and straw, £ 1 4 s t o £1 14s per load. Trade slow. CIIMBERLAND.—MewIow hay, £3 3s to £4 15s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 16s Od ; and straw, £l4s to £1 14s per load. Trade dull. WHITEOHIPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 15s ; clo ver £4 Os to £5 153 Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 14s per load, Trade inactive. COAL MARKET. • p rim of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. a. d. West Hartley ........ 16 0 H o lywell .. ...... 17 3 Buddle'sWest Hartley 15 9 Lambert's West Hart ley .......00......... 1 1 5 9 3 Tmifield Mr Tanfield Moor Butee 14 3 Wylam 17 6 Bower's West Hartley.l6 0 West Wylam l6 6 Eden Main 16 0 Hetton 17 6 Ships at marl a. d Walls End. Hartlepool ..17 0 Tunstall ..15 6 Caradoc l6 9 17Haswell K elloe Gosforth l5 6 Riddell Wharncliffe 15 6 Braddyll's Hetton 16 0 South flartlepool 16 3 Whitworth l6 6 ;et, 80; sold, 53, SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocs. HOLLAND. The Mitch Minister of Finance has made known to the Second Chamber the principal points of a bill which he proposes to submit next session to the States, and which has for object the suppression throughout the kingdom of the octroi-duty, which is t'o be replaced by a uniform system of excise to be levied direct by the State. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN HOUSE OF COMMONS —This Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed :—. Bedford Gas, Chelsea Water, Liverpool Improvement, Liverpool Sanitary, Metropolitan Railway (Additional Powers), Midland Railway (St. Pancras Branch), N ew ., castle-upon-Tyne and North Shields Road, Stroud Gas, and Swansea Harbour Trust. CHINA. Col. SYKES gave notiCelhaito-morrow he would ask by what law, right, or ordinance British subjects in China were subject to trial for breaches of neutrality. MR. HERBERT. Sir S. NORTHCOTE gave some explanations in refe rence to Mr. Herbert and his pictures now being prepared for the house. Mr. Herbert wished him to state that he never intended or wished to dictate terms to the house. Mr. C. BENTINCK said he had great admiration for Mr. Herbert as an artist, and regard for him as a per sonal friend. He did not mean to say anything disre. spectful of Mr. Herbert. DANISH AFFAIRS. _ _ _ In reply to Mr. WHITESIDE, Mr. LAYARD said that it was understood that after the adoption of the armistice on the Dano-German question, no further contributions on the defeated by way of making good the expenses of the war would be levied. Her Ma jesty's Government had seen statements in the newspapers recently to the effect that that provision had not been com plied with, but no official communication had been received on the subject. THE AUSTRIAN SQUADRON. Sir J. PAKINGTON inquired whether the Govern ment had received any information that the Austrian squadron bad gone to the Baltic. - Mr. LAYAgD said that part of the squadron had re mained at Lisbon, and he presumed it had gone to join the other part in the North Sea. RUSSIA AND CIRCASSIA. Mr HENNESSY asked whether the Government had received any information in reference to the proceedings of the Russian Government in Circassia. Mr. LAYARD said the Government had received a de spatch from Constantinople, in which it was stated that a large number of Circassians, feeling it impossible to live under the rule of Russia, had sought protection in Turkey. Great mortality had taken place. He should have no ob jection to produce the papers. THE CHURCH BUILDING AND PARISHES ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. Sir L. PALK inquired whether this bill would be pro. ceeded with to-morrow. Sir G. GREY said it would not ba taken until the 26th inst. THE GUARDS. Colonel KNOX inquired whether the Guards were ordered from Canada. The Marquis of HARTINGTON asked the hon. and gallant gentleman to givo notice of his question. THE NATIONAL GALLERY. Lord J. MANNERS gave notice that on the vote for the National Gallery at Burlington-house he should oppose it, with a view of retaining the National Gallery in its pre• sent position. SUPPLY. Mr, MASSEY brought up the report on supply, which was agreed to. UNION ASSESSMENT ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill passed through committee. RAILWAY COMPANIES POWERS BILL. This bill passed through committee, SUMMARY PROCEDURE (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. ADMIRALTY LANDS AND WORKS BILL, This bill was read a third time and passed. RIVER POLLUTION (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was read a second time. LIMITED PENALTIES BILL. This bill was read a second time. CHIEF RENTS (IRELAND) BILL. The report of amendments on this bill was brought nil and considered. HIGHWAYS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Sir G. GREY moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend the act for the better management of highways in Eng. land. After a short discussion, in which Mr. LIDDELL took part, leave was given, and the bill was accordingly brought its and read a first time. The house adjourned at five minutes past six o'clock. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, MANCHESTER RACES-THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH, TRAFFORD PARK STAKES. Clown Lady de Trafford 2 Dr. Rooke Four ran. TWO YEAR OLD STAKES. Brown Bread Yanilla Two ran. TRADESMEN'S CUP. Trust Oldminster f Greville Three ran. Dead heat for first place. Bank of England Return,—This Evening. An Account, pursuant to I cap. 32. for the week ending of May, 1864: he Act 7th and Bth Victoria, on Wednesday, the 18th day ISERTE DET Notes issued .......X27.251 t6si 'AMTMENT. .C 27,251,1651 "TANKING DJ Proprietors' Capi tal . X 14.553.000 Rest . ... 3,280,727 Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Sa vi ngs ' Banks, Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- counts) 7,566,651 Other Deposits— 12,962,402 Seven Day and other Bills £38,858,607 M. May 19, 1861. Government Debt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities .. 3 .634,900 Gold Coin &Bullion 1 2,601,164 Silver Bullion .... 427,261,1 GS iPARTDINNT. Government Secu rities _(including Dead Weight A nnuity) X10,7R5,267 Other. Securities 20,973,429 Notes 6,431,633 Gold and Silver 666,28; Coin --. £811,856,607. .RSHALL, Chief Cashier. FOURTH EDITION SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 7 o'CLoca. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, TATTERSALLS'.—Tnis EVENING. DERBY. sto 1 agst General Peel (taken and offered) 13 to 2 agat Cambascan (taken) 15 to 2 agst Birchbroom (offered, take Bto 1) Bto 1 agst Scottish Chief (taken) 14 to 1 agat Coast Guard (taken) 15 to 1 agst Paris (taken) (take an 2 d s 20 to 1 agst Ely (taken.freely) (taken and offered) (taken) o f ffer l ed). 25 to 1 agat Baragah (taken and offered) 2 2 5 2 t to o 11 agst tt Copenhagen Athol n l apags:FPorrinagceerAjttahknern 33 to 1 agst Hollyfox (taken and offered) 25 i t t o o 35 to 1 agst Historian (take 40 to 40 to 1 agst Valiant (t a k en) 1) 40 to 1 agat Strafford (taken and offered) 50 to 1 agst Ackworth (taken) MANCHE STER — RACES—THIS DAY. Up to the hour of going to press we had not recefvecj the conclusion of these races. The Echo de Vesone states that M. de Tonnens, ex-Ring of Araucania and Patagonia, who is now staying at Perigueux, has recently received lettere from his old kingdom assuring him that his returg is impatiently expected by the population, and that he may rely on an enthusiastic reception if he will return. A STEEPLECHASE BY MOONLIGHT.--DUNDALK, May 16.—Last night, immediately after the clock struck twelve, several officers of the gallant 4th Dragoon Guards, stationed here, started off for Dowdalhill race course to witness a moonlight steeplechase of three miles, which Lieut, Farquhar undertook to perform with hie favourite race mare Lady Annie. Lieut. Farquhar came in unscathed, and had 15 minutes to spare, neither be nor hie faithful nag being much the worse of their midnight steeplechase. I understand that chances were considered so much against the gallant rider that several bets were offered, by which he netted £lOO. The race was an promptu one, and arose at the mesa table a few minuted before it was Undertaken,--Dublin Evening Afaq,