The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-07 00:00:00

31 0 NEy MARKET BEARE ELARKgTS—This day. AND ORDINARY SHARES AND STOC&S. I COII IIIIXECIAL INTELLIGENCE , Share , Railways. I 1 raid. ! Closing Business dane i , Pries. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. ISA. Bir., ITO., and Str. Val. all 8 81 st Blythe and Tyne. There is no change in the position of the Money 10 Bost , Sleat.,andblid.Co all 81 0 Market to.day. Its supplies ere still largely in 23 s 00 c C e 00 a rr i e nic d vo andanl i 1 a Bandonn at Bristol and Exeter 100 118 119 excess of ordinary commercial requirements, an dan 10 Do A ; all 6 7 Competition being thus promoted among the banks MittsA ;:rets no div I all and discount houses, the rates continue to range as 10 Do. )3p c.p an.lT I 1 all ]OW as 0-1 Z- per cent. for superior qualities of men. 50 Dublin & e i e l n ell ' a a sT, ju o nc.l all 3 N cantile bills. The opinion is entertained in some 25 f n ) ; i d ir n . i r u e , r ,r t i lee tie :, s J g t 1 0 1 I: . I II! 10 93 itittarters that the minimum will be reduced on s a 1 ( L I lasg. ands We st ern ) pA 103 2, !n 461 1 1 1 , 0 : aite s r t n o , c oJ . d . ..s . t . l: . In' 2 T. 6, rhursday next to the extent of 1 per cent., but the at ' Dil t t ruvernent, should it take place, will occasion no s al r pittO EastAn2lian at 100 61 j , ~ a tNorthot Scotland 100 100 130 131 sur Pliae, as its edoption within a limited period is Et , Great Northern.. 1 fu lly anticipat e d . at Do A stock 100 128 133 it Do B d o The Reat has arrived from Port Phillip with st Gt. S. and W. of Irelanc 100 91 251 6 ' 4 503 15 ,528. st Great Western . Do Str Val fftitt.stoci 100 IT3 11 The re were no bullion operations at th e Bank at fl L a t r iTo s n h ' Li e ci t l i 3l ° a r cit B w il l a r l e ; 100 66 6721 1121 1 Yesterday. st Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 100 104 106 st Lon., Chat., and Dover 100 41 .1 . ... Business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce 3 at Lon. & North Western 100 0 T i 1 9 A --,L 4 1 - larkets during the last few days has not been very :1 Lon.iia,. ,(t hse7 . l Lincoln.sen 100 534 641 54/ active. The operations in tea have been deferred 50 Mary . port and . Carlisle. ail : 1 all 113 114 1131 13 !mil the pubiic sales, which commence to-day. et Metropolitan 100 1301 131 i 1301 11 _ Sugars have maintained former rates, while there 'I . An i c i l o la r i , e d w le little change of importance to record in the values , , s s O etPd o . a ri r g o 11 b 100 101 103 :f _r D e_a r n all , o f coffee rice, fruit, and spices. The tallow market 25 Do. 1 shares all Juts been dull, and few dealings have been reported 25 51 Vo l f . t e r r a t „in e either for present or forward delivery, at North British at Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 241 • At the annual general meeting to-day of share. Nth. Eastern—Berwtob 100 34 1010 1022 1 holders of the Bank of British I North America the 2i: , B o o, L G e . e N d . s h]. purohas+ it;.. 0 1 0 . 37i 1 - 81 report presented for adoption stated that the trade l Dol .a o r r l i Lle... ' 901 i 91 s of the N or t h American provinces showed consider- st North London . •100 123 128 able improvement. At Victoria, Vancouver Island, 5, 1 1 0 8.4 No p r c t ' h t- S ' L w tTordshire the business of the bank continued to make satin- 1 4 , i : , L. o a t n ti d s .Z. tr e a tlnetion ligli 1 36 1 38 factory progress, and an agency had been , t Scot N. E., Aber. stop: 100 36 38 opened at San Francisco. As regards 1863, 1, eht p re o w e S oo a t i2l ll W i e , ;', o t l o i c p k o o — . 1 :1 0 1 --- -- the directors had made ample provision to . s el goeurzterveounnton ..... 100 54 66 3 meet all anticipated losses, and there remained st South Eastern ..— too 901 903 90i a nett profit for that year, after deducting charges 1. South York,Walesan d River Dun 100 00 104 106 sod income tax, of £61,413 148. 7d. Out of this 20 stainesWok.,andWok all 74 di a mount the directors had d ec l are d a h a lf -yearly oo 12 stpok ton & Darlington a ll 36 4 374. l7 94 10 , d ividend, payable on and after the sth July next, TPA l ; T a e le w." ! c :—. llg Itli 1;1 (at the rate of 6 per cent., per annum, free of income 1g I D )o o L 3, B6 7 I s 3 4 p tax. The sum of £1,413 14s. 7d. will then be left so Ulster to be added to the rest, which, i nc l u di ng t h at addle 25, Do o .. 20 ——F tion and after providing fo r th e di v id end paid in at Vale of Neath 1 00 105 110 1071 Taeuaryilast, and for the deduction of XlO,OOO, above at iV e a t t o e r r i f a ord a i a ltnu m n . ; 100 -- -- referred to, amounted on the 31st December, 1863, 1 i'lr'esilacrTertwooallllar n. ioo " 25 to £120,024 2s. 10d. The chairman, Mr. A. W. at 'West Midland—Oxiord 100 at Do Newport 100 —-- Jaffrey, observed that a loss estimated at £lO,OOO st Do Her 100 bad occurred in consequence of the depr ec i ate d value of American securities, and that that amount BRITISH POSSESSIONS. . had been taken from the re s t an d carr i e d to t h e in- Closing • derneity fund. share Kailways Paid. Price. Business done __ 100 Atlantic &St Lawrence all 60 62 ...... Sk I Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind 100 1034 1041 Ir 4 31 Two O'CLOCK. t Gu. 5 per cent. 20 Do. New - 8 At Paris this morning, according to Reuter's 20 , Do. E. Shares... 74 park p 'l2OOl 'Bu i f c n r aiAd er L en aa ce ell . ur .. on . all all g a telegram, the Three per Cent. Renter were 66f. 95c. Sales to close engagements for a rise in prices, , 00 1 t . tilpttfe capdo. ,Be B anttG7 cleg 100 77 8 C oupled with th e genera l i nact i v i ty of business, 100 Do. July 1,187` 100 77 82 have led to a decline of 4 per cent. in the English 1008 t Do. do. e.i&ustee 1, 1819 1 101 1 7 01 V 3 staotok t i, ; l ig t qoo ng & a l l )o rni ek I S , orii, 100 106 112 funds, Consols now being 90 i for money and to-morrow, and 90ffe it- for the Bth July. The stock East Indian. gu. 5 Proceedings present very little feature of interest. 20>pp..c 100 1051 1061 1051 ? 0 0. do. G Ext..... 15 1 I P 1) . do. H do. .. 15 f p T he New Threes and Reduced Annuities are stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 21 22 89 i ; India 5 per Cents,, 104 i ; and Enfaced 5 100 lig: l t: j o t . l d r ee t rr ß e o d n a• s.. ail 7 6 3 1 2 Per Cents. 104 105. 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. all 66 68 100 Do. do. deferred__ all 55 67 A general decided decline has taken place in the 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock ... all 50 52 Foreign Market, and business is quiet. Turkish 6 100 Do. V II d i , r f e e f r . r s e t d o . cii: .... s ail 43 g 28 9 1 00 00 k Gt D .i e r;d d ia o. p deferred....., 1.01,1) 10527 1 , 3 6 1054 64 per Cents., 1862, are 71 4; do Consolides have re ceded to 48 4; Mexican, to 444 -1-; do. New Loan, 20 Do. New gun. g. sl3 ( I ▪ ) ) .. c .. 12 par 4 p 12f 1 (14 3 ee, •to par ; Greek, 24 el ; Spanish Passive, 31i sto - a CXg . out i . u oFiriel l ialtim .. .` 3 , fir ; Portuguese are 49, Italian 694, Russian Scrip -1 102 ire 10f 20f G 7o 1 ta e ia d a s d P a e ga e r n e t ; 1 41 ) ' 3, 1 4 4 - , prem., Swedish do. 24 34 prem., and the Con- 201 1:3o. kew ... ...... ... 18 101 1,01 f; 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 90 92 federate Loan 65 66. 100 Do. 51 p. o. do. '77-8.. all 82 84 . Ia the Railway Share Market the operations stree Indian g Branch ur, p Limited e . .: 10( 2 ) par 1 th) i 1034 have not been very numerous, but in several in- stook Do. 44 p. 0. Extension 100 97 99 sta nces prices have exhibited a s li g ht downward Mocko Do. Fifth Extension. 2 De. 4S d 0........ 100 92 DI . mov ement. Great Eastern and Metrop o lit an have St-1, 50 Neelit:cariVeVOnViladys. IOOI 56 58 receded 155.; South Western, 10s. ; and Great 100 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. llds; all Western and Lanca s hi re a n d Y or k s hi re, s s, 20 Newlir I:us - wick & Cand u • The Foreign and C o loni a l und er t a ki ngs continue Clas•s A. and B. ... 3N. Ill.C'clas pa lst pi hds all 100 5 82 14 stock Soinde ...........) (100 103 . 104 llt about previous quotations. stock Do. Delhi, I ...: 100 102 4 1031 Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have renreined Do. do. .... . inactive, and prices, in some instances, sb.ow less YO Do. Punjaub Do. Do. .„ ..., P. stook Do. Indus.Si:Flo.) '' 1 100 96 98 firmness. Alliance Bank new shares have receded 1, Imperial Ottoman -1, London and Colonial i GOLONIAL GOVERMIIeNd SECURITIE. Merchants Bank -I, London and ' Westminster - 1' ------- T — ' -' -'-' k Lti p.c.-a ..,., 01: Me tropolitan and Provincial 1 ; while City Beek -- 1 i e 8 0 7 . 7 e - e 55 • e: I;eie I X1i 7,. . loo s L e l !o ct e l eon have improved 1, Peninsular and Oriental Steam -: po o: 6 p.c.Mar. & Sept. 100 . 102 104 D 5. p. o. Jan.&July. 10i 9L 94 93 1 have declined 4. Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 Cape G.llope. 6 p 0, 1873 100 106 108 . Do.Ap &Oct. 1880 100 107 109 BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Do. 1890 100 it 9 111 1 , GOVERNMENT FUNDS. : gUT l iNg l iB TplC 100 110 11 . / ( 6 per Cent. Consols Mauritius iS per cent .. 100 106 108 1 D itto,Aceount, May 8 , Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 107 119 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per. Cent. .. March. Ju ne . N. S.W. Gov. 5 p z.,lS ut 100 994 1001 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 24 & 3 per Cent. Du. sp, c.,18 r 1 to 1671 100 991 1006 1 e D itto £lOO and £2OO Ditto XSOO iNew Zeal an d 6 p cent. 1 00 10 ) 111 1 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. zattk England Stk, 54 per Ct. sterling, 18M. lOO 04 106 i Ditto Account 239 Queensland Gcv. op. c. 100 108 110 8. Aus G6p.0.1678.& up.. 100 110 111 Indial!(Dl6.l4 GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. , Vic .(3 ov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 t Stock, 10f per Cent., April 1874 — 'Do. to 6 p.c. A.n.&Oct.. lOO 109 110 1091 _ 1 Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870 .. ..... . 104 i - bitto Account Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 — Do Certificates I D itto Enfaced P aper, 4 per C e nt — a. 'Clifford Amalgamated.. 33 Devon G. Con.. (Tavist.) 1 660 670 f Ditto 5 per Cent , Jan. 1872 .. 104 5 East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 64 66 Ditto 54 per Cent May, 1879 — East Clogau Gold Ltd. d a Ditto Debentures, , 4 per Ct., April 1861 East Caradon '114.6 28 29 ti Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 East Carn Brea... ... . Ditto Bonds £I,OOO D itto under £1,000.. IGreat South Tolgus.... 17 0 21 21 i i FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 1 (3-. Wheal Vor(lleiston ) 40 311 35 1 31} 5 Aus trian Bonds, 6 per C ent — IGrenville ... 6.16.‘ 81 84 .. i ~end's-F00t.........., ...... ... vi.. 8.12 38 40 Ditto 1859 --Lady Bertha I Ditto 44 per Cent., 1852-58-60 B uenos Ayres 6 per Ce n t 4 ' Hyndy Iron Oro (Lim.) 21 11 f 6 ii Ditto Account — New Setun 194 80 85 r) Ditto 1 per Cent. (D e f erre d 3 per Cent.) - • North Downs 24 14 21 tl N.wii'l Bassetallo4-an, 3.1.0 1/ 2 it Chilian 6 per Cent North Wheal Crotty .. 2.6,9 4 4 4 Ditto 4/ pet Cent B2O Par Consols (St. Blaze h Colombian 6 per Cent • 20 , I'rovidence(Uny Lent.) 10.0.7 40 42 o Cuba, 6 per Cent. __ - jgoertb ru Cla e d a oat. g cL i er, 14 450 470 o Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Ditto 5 per Cent, 1863 — iS.Wheal rran. (Mogan) 18.18.9 40 45 t .. Ditto Scrip £7O paid .. pm Stray Park 30.17.6 29 31 4 leader N IfamarSilv.& Lead Min Sl ew,Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. i fin Croft 9 571 181 O'Yptian 7 per Cent _ -- !West Basset (Illogan).. 11 91 101 Ditto, Second Issue Ciceek 5 p er C en t . , 1824 - 5 , ex- C oupons.. West Seton D itto Account k D itto Coupons D itto Account Wheal Ludcott Gua temala 5 per Cent. an .£ Wheal lleton 584 225 235 1 ..,j %il Ditto, 1839 and 1859 .. _ per Cent.(Marem mana R a il way) , W heal Trcla wney (1418.) 7 19 21 j,. b ' , clean 3 per C en t . 4 £ Ditto Account.... m°"1 8 1 1 I mperial 5 der F rench Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c er Cent Great Western Orig. 41 per cent, pf., 98 N ew Mid .Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, £ 4 lew Gra na d a Ditto 2 per Cent. — Di , to. Bristol and Bi rm ., 6 per cent., T ' Midland 44 per cent. pf. stk. r d., 1011 Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. Veravian 41 per Cent al Ditto Accoum,... . BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing share Bailways Paid. Price. Business done 100 ‘lttantic &St Lawrence all 60 62 Sk Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind 100 1034 1044 F'4 31 Gu. 5 per cent. 20 Do. New 20 t Do. E. Shares.. 204 ' Buffalo and Lake Huron all 4 64 10 Do. Preference . all 84 94 ,00 Buffalo,BrantotGocirich 100 77 82 t 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1,1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1.87:; 100 77 8: 100 Do. do. June 1, 187-1 100 77 82 st Clcutfa.arS.Eastn. ( Li n; 100 101 (03 I st t;apeTown & Dock Sari! 100 98 100 stock Hastm. Bengal p. t 100 106 108 stock East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 105 t 4 1064 105 f 20 Do. do. G E x t l5 P 20 Do. do. H do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 21 22 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 73 /5 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 62 64 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds., all 66 68 100 Do. do. deferred._ all 55 57 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock all 50 52 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 43 45 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock... all 29 31 23 100 Do. do. deferred.-- all 27 30 stock Gt.lndtaPenin.gua.sp.c 100 105 106 1054 64 20 Do. New gua. sp. a... 12 par 4 p 12f Do. January, 1862 stook Gt. South.of India(Lim guara.nteed 5 per cent. 100 102 104 204 Gt. W. of Canada Shar es a ll 10 101 1 04 204 Do. New . . lB 104 104 f; 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 90 02 100 Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.. . all 82 84 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 par 4p stook Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 1024 1u34 1034 stock Do. 44 p. o. Extension 100 97 09 stock Dc. 4A d 0........ 100 9. 01 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds. 100 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 66 58 100 Do. 7p. c. slortg. Bds. all 20 Newßrunswick &Candu Claes A and B. ... all 3 5 N.lll.C'clas pa Ist pf bds 100 82 04 stock Sainde (100 103 104 stock Do. Delhi, i • 100 1024 1034 20 Do. d 0.... . 2 d in et Do. Do. l'unjaub . .•.., c, all 1024 1034 103 Do. .„ , 100 stock Do. indus.St Flo.) 1 100 96 98 _ _ _ LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. Northern and Eastern 5 per cent.. 55i: ro REIGN itAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdara,l9l Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 171 Sambre and Meuse, 5i per cent. pf., 91 San Faulo ;lim.), gua. 7 per cent., -- Ditto (all), 201 Ditto 3 per Cent. (Cribarren) Ditto , q per Lent., 1862 t 'Ditto Account Po rtuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account.... — Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, 'GO, 62,'3 49 Ditto Account . ...... Ditto 1863 Scrip, £4O paid - Pm Russian 5 per Cent., 182,2, £ St Ditto 4i per Cent., 1850 .. Ditto 3 er Cent 1859 Ditto 5 per Ditto Cent, 1862 B7l _- Ditto Anglo-Dutch .. SDitto Scrip, £2O p aid — Pm ariinian a per Cent ....... .... Ditto Account Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded D itto Account 6 wedish, 4 per Cent D itto Scrip, £4O paid — Put 4:4arkisla 0 per Cent. 1854 D itto Account _ Ditto 6 per Cent. 1558 Ditto Account €9i _ Ditto, VIGO Bonds _ Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Dit to £lOO Bonds •• _ Ditto 1863 vtnezuel3)`tto Guararteed, 4 per Cent — per Cent. D itto Accoupnt Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 bitto Account.... ...... '- Ditto 6 per Cent, 1864 ............ Ditto Scrip, £3O paid die Ditto 14 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Loud 41 Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. -- Belgian 4i per Cent., E. 25f. . Ditto Account .. Dutch 2i per Cent., .Ex. 12 find Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent., 1 861, E. 25 francs — Ditto Account .........x. ... P eruvian Dollar Bonds, 4} per Ct.E 4s. 691 eduaontes e , 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f...... TWO O'CLOCK. Consols 3.10,iev 1); tto Acc ount 914 D itto July ...... 904 Jul . t...!rusii, i.,,,, 9111 i FOREIGN MINES. Cobre Copper, 34j 5 DOCKS. BANKS. London, 751 Alliance (lim.). Ditto, new, 52 Anglo Austrian, 71 I Australasia, 73 1 Ditto, new, 57} Bank of British Columbia, 11 Bank of Utago,:lim., 5 Brazilian :nd Portuguese, lim., 14} 11 City, Continental,Consolidated Im . Bank, ,l 8 1 . , 11E East London, lim., Ditto, new, 8 /615 , English and Irish, l E lu ng ro li p s e h a , n S ß co a t n ch k: a u i u m d l . m , A u lu ' stralianChar Chartered, 211 Hindustan, china, and Japan (lim.),.— Ditto, new, 15 i 16 Imperial Bank (lim.), 4l}' Imperial Ottoman, 20:1 19; Land Mortgage Bank of India, 11M., 5 ; London Bank o f M ex i, :o an d S . America, 11M.,6 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 26 London and Colonial (lim.), 181 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange,lim., 2 1 London and South African, 25 London and 11 estininster, 941 Merchant Bank, lim , 25) Mercantile and Exchange, Urn., 19i Ditto, new 14 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, Um., 31 301 Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi, 1im.,•132- South Eastern, lim., 54 Union of Lon don, 584 MISCELLANEOUS. Continental Union Gas, Rm., 61 Contract Corporation, Dm., 5 Crystal Palace, 321 3 Discount Corporation, 16 Financial Corpora t ion, - 4 31 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lir Home and C Assurance, lim., 64 n., / 4 Imperial Financial, lim., International Financial society, lira., io International Land Credit. lim., Joint Stock Discount, him., 71 1 London General Omnibus Company, 24. London Financial Association, lira., ; Ditto, new, 151 Mercantile Credit Association, lim., 13} National Discount Company, lim., 14i P eninsula and Oriental Steam, 83 Royal Mail Steam, 90 Societe Financiere d'Egypte, Thames and Mersey Marine (Wigan*, LAW INT HOUSE OF LORDS. YELVERTON V. YELVERTON (OR LONGWORTH.) (Present the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Wensleydale, Lord Chelmsford, and Lord Kingsdown,) This case was continued this morning, and, judging from appearances, there was no lack of interest on the part of the public, who thronged the avenues of the house. Many ladies were present, and they seemed to be greatly disap pointed that Mrs Yelverton was not present at the com mencement of the proceedings. Mr Relt, Q.C., for the appellant, proceeded. with his argument, reading lengthened extracts from tb.e evidence adduced. He dwelt upon the circumstance coradected with the interview at Galata, and said that the letters which afterwards passed between them showed that at that time Miss Longworth (Mrs Yelverton) had no idea that a mar riage was to take place between them. The Lord Chancellor said that, while they were in the Crimea, Major Yelvertoa dined with the respondent and her friends. Mr. Itolt said, on one occasion. It was clear that she fol lowed the appellant there, and there was no evidence of a promise of marriage then, although it was evident there were many familiarities between them. This brought down the correspondence from that time to the time when she arrived in Edinburgh. From that place she wrote that she slept under a flag, which she had brought from the Crimea, and that it gave her the greatest possible satisfac tion. She went on to suggest how money might be made available for their travelling purposes, adding that as she now knew the height, length, and breadth of his wicked ness, he need not be under any apprehension of his losing her good opinions. This would tend to show the nature of he familiarities that existed between them. She said also that her great strength was in her tenacity of purpose, and that when once she made up her mind to a certain course she could never be turned from it. Now all that was said for an obvious purpose, and was quite inconsistent with the fact she had alleged, that Major Yelverton had offered her marriage at Bala clava. In one of her subsequent letters she said she had received a letter from " Sylvan Blue," a former lover of hers, full of the most amatory diction she ever saw; but she said that, after the treatment she had received from Major Yelverton, she did not feel herself worthy of any body. After this she appeared to surrender. He thought that was as clear as possible; but then again it was equally clear that she made up her mind to struggle in a last effort to induce him to marry her. As he (the learned counsel) had before stated, the appellant resisted those advances in every possible way, and even declined to go on without the correspondence. The Lord Chancellor consulted for sometime with Lord Kingsdown and other noble lords on this part of the case, but did not make any remarks upon it. Mr Rolt proceeded to quote extensively from the respon dent's letters, with a view to show that the respondent had given up all idea of a marriage taking place between them, and that she had virtually bidden him farewell. Lord Kiagsdown enquired what was the date of that letter. Mr RGIt said it was April 6. She made another strug gle, for in one of her letters she said that Major D----__ had called upon her and had sought to ascertain whether or not she was really engaged to Major Yelverton, a fact he was not likely to find out. The Lord Chancellor said the next letter was one of the most beautiful he ever read. Mr. Rolt fully admitted the beauty of its composition, but contended that it proved the virtual abandonment of negotiations between them. About the letter he submitted there could not be the slightest doubt or ambiguity. Lord Brougham inquired whether that letter did not mean that Major Yelverton ought not to have proposed to her a private marriage, and that unless he offered her a public marriage she would not be married to him at 111. Mr. Rolt said he could not so read the letter. She said that Major Yelverton had torn from her the one wish of her heart. Lord Brougham supposed that meant a regular public marriage. That was the most obvious interpretation of the words. Mr Rolt said he did not believe that the words had any reference to marriage. She spoke of something she had never thought of before, and that could hardly be marriage. Other letters, however, which he had read, would probably throw some light upon that point. To him it was clear that in these letters she was not referring to marriage, but to a proposal from a gentleman to a lady to live with him without marriage; and he asked their lordships to take udicial cognizance of the matter. At a quarter to 12 Mrs Yelverton, accompanied by the ,wo ladies who were with her yesterday, came into the •eportors' gallery and took their seats there. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before the Common sergeant.) Henry Simpson, a lad about 16 years of age, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him Aith robbery, and also with having feloniously broken out of his master's house in the night time. The prisoner, it appeared, was in the employ of a licensed victualler, who carried on business at the Marquis of Granby, Chandos-street. On the morning following the offence, the house, which was securely fastened up at night, was discovered to have been broken open from the inside, and a quantity of money stolen. Search was made over the premises, when the prisoner was discovered to be absent, and suspicion naturally attached to her. Notice of the robbery was given to the police, and in a short time after the prisoner was taken into custody and charged with the offence. He attempted to explain his conduct, and strongly denied that he had committed the robbery, but said he merely opened the door and let in some man, who had broken open the place and stolen the money. The Common Sergeant commented very severely upon the prisoner's conduct, and sentenced him to five years' penal servitude. NEW COURT. (Before Mr Commissioner Kerr.) Robert Thompson, 16, a genteel-looking lad, pleaded guilty to an indictment, charging him with unlawfully attempting to administer to Mary Ann Lambert certain noxious ingredients with which to injure and annoy her. The prisoner was also charged with administering the same ingredient with intent to murder her, but the grand jury ignored the bill. Mr Sleigh urged, on behalf of the prifoner, that he was very young, and that down 'to the period of this transaction he had borne a very good character. It appeared that he was annoyed at the prosecutrix in whose establishment he was employed as page, baying refused to give him a holiday in order that he might go to the Derby, and he very foolishly put some poisonous stuff into the cocoa that had been prepared for breakfast, but he had no intention to cause her any serious mischief, although of course the proceeding was a very wicked and improper one. The learned Commissioner respited judgment till neat session. MARKETS—This Day. HAY MARKETS. SMITIMELD.—Meadow hay, £2 10s to £4 lOs Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 108 Od; and straw, £1 4s to £1 108 per load, Trade dull. CumßEßLArin.-31ea4ow hay, £2 10s to £4 10s; clove, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 lOs per load A slow demand. WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £2los to £4 10s; clover, £4 Os to £5 108 Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 108 per load, Trade inactive. COLONIAL. TEA—The operations have been vary restricted conse quent upon the large quantity to be offered to-day at public sale. ' SUGAR—A moderate business has been done in West India, and steady rates have been obtained for superior grocery descriptions. In the refined market there is no material change as regards values. COFFEE,—Colonial descriptions have been in fair request, Plantation Ceylon having been in demand at fully late rates. RICE.—The operations have been on a rather limited scale, at about former rates. TALLow.—The market has continued dull, and prices have shown a downward tendency for both present and future delivery. P. Y.C. on the spot is quoted 40a 6d, July to September 41e, and last three months 43s 6d. COAL M. Prfoes of Coal per Ton at ARKET. t the close of the market. s. d. Cowpen Hartley 16 0 Hastings Hartley l6 0 Edon Alain 16 3 Wylam 16 6 Walls End. N. d Braddyll's Hetton ..... 16 9 Haswell ... 17 6 Hetton ......17 6 South Hetton ...17 6 Russel's Hetton ...... 16 9 Framwellgate .. 16 6 Hartlepool l7 3 Caradoc l7 3 39 ; sold, 37. Walls End. Gosforth l6 3 Harton 16 3 Wharncliffe l6 3 Tundall ships at marks A CONFEDERATE CARGO.—The iron steam brig Harriet Pinckney, Captain Johns, belonging to Mr. Bond, and bound for Liverpool, put into Milbay on Sunday even ing for coal. She left Bermuda on the 18th of May, and brings 100 tons of tobacco, 703 bales of cotton, and 170,000 in gold, chiefly on account of the Consedetate Government. among her 14 cabin passengers are—Mr and Mrs Musson, Mr H, Tapp, Mr F. Spinner, Miss Deeterre, the Rev. T. Frith, and Lieut. Brawley, who belongs to the 6th South Carolina Regiment, and lost his arm May 31, 1862, at the battle of Seven Pines, Chickahominy. He left Wilming ton May 10 in the steamer Thistle which followed the Con federate ram Lawley, when she dispersed the Federal blockade ships. At the mouth of the river ten of these were outside, and one made an effort to overtake the Thistle. Ex-Senator C. C. Clay, of Alabama, and Mr Jacob Thom son, of Mississippi, left Wilmington in the Thistle, and after arrival at Bermuda started for Halifax. It is re ported that they are engaged in the secret service of the Confederate Government, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1864. .This Day. POLICE I I—This Day, M ARLBOROUGH-STREET. COMPLAINT ♦GAINST AN OMNIBUS CONDUCTOR Robert Wood, conductor of one of the Atlas and Waterloo Omnibus Association's Omnibuses, appeared before Mr Knox, to answer the complaint of Mr Henry O'Hara Moore, gentleman, of the Finchley New-road, of using abusive language towards him. Mr Herring, jun., appeared for the defendant, and Mr Richard, one of the directors of the Omnibus Association, attended to watch the case. The• evidence of Mr Moore went to show that on the 25th of May he got into the omnibus of which the defen dant was the conductor, at Charing-cross. The omnibus proceeded on its journey, and from Charing-cross to the Regent-circus, Oxford-street, the omnibus stopped three times, ani there was great delay. He complained each time, and the defendant in the Regent circus addressed the driver to the effect that he (Mr Moore) was mad. In answer to Mr Herring, jun., the complainant said the omnibus might have stopped a minute twice—that a boy got up, and that he did not like the boy being along side of him, On asking the defendant why he stopped, he said, "To take up passengers." Mr Herring, jun., was about to address the magi'trate on occasion for him t o d o so. He usually, in cases where men w erdeefesnudmamnt's be half, but M r K nox sa id th ere was no summoned for using e.busive language, fou n d there was somethin g lik e foul language uttered, but in the the present case there was nothing of the sort. He had no doubt the truth was that the defendant felt irritated at the complainant's frequent Complaints, and that he said to the driver, " Oh, ho ( meaning the complainanf) must be mad." He should dismiss the summons. Mr Richards was about to speak on behalf of the defen dant, but Mr Knox said there was no necessity for him to do so. PLATE ROBBERY BY A FOOTMAN. —Arthur Wilson, footman, in the service of Mr. Charles Henry Moore, a gentleman residing at N o , 45 , Cavendish square, was charged b e f ore Mr. Knox with stealing sixteen o f silver forks, the property his master. assist Solomon Bierman, Wimpole-street, ant to Mr. Levy, pawnbroker, of 54, Dudley-street, said—con Saturday night at half-past eleven the prisoner came i n t o the shop and asked if I would buy some silver forks. I said Yee," at the same time observing some marks on some the prisoner produced. The prisoner left, and last night at a quarter to twelve I was called down and saw the prisoner. On asking him what he wanted, he said he had brought some silver forks. I asked him how he became possessed of th em, aa d h e sa id a man who was dead had given them t o h im. I then sent for a constable, and gave the prisoner i nto custody. Mr Charles Henry Mocre, of 45 , Wim pole-street, said— The prisoner lived with me as a servant, and let me in last night at 11 o'clock, and shut up the place as usual. The forks produced are my property. Mr Knox—Had you missed them Mr Moore—Not till theofficer came to me. I had given out to the prisoner in May a quantity of plate, and when the prisoner returned it h 3 must have kept back the forks, all of them bearing my crest. Mr Knox—How long has he been in your service ? Mr Moore—Since the I)th March. I had a good cha racter with him and always considered him a good servant, refusedr om a ni is h address, but and never had the least moon to sup pose he was dishonest. Wm. Fitzgerald, 50 F—On asking th e prisoner where he some tehe time. forks from he The after wardsprisoner said he was a gentbman's servant, and that he had let himself out of the how() last night w i th a key. Prisoner said he was gtilty. s ai d fan who had b een dead Mr Knox—ln allowingthe prisoner to plead lam stretch ing my power to its utmost limit. It is a serious case, the prisoner having betrayed the trust reposed in him by robbing his master, and but for ;he prisoner's previous character, which he has now lost, I should have sent him to the sessions. The prisoner will be committed for six months, with hard labour. WESTMINSTER. BREAKTNG ♦ VALUABLE PANE op GLASS.—EIIen Kay was charged before Mr Arnold with breaking a pane of plate glass, the property of Mr James Waterfield, licensed victualler, and landlord of the Old Rose and Crown, Medway-street. __ ... Mrs Elizabeth Waterfield, wife of the prosecutor, stated that about nine o'clock the previous night the prisoner and her husband came to the bar, when the former asked for a pint of beer. Prisoner said, "If you fill the pint I will smash the window." Witness drew the beer, when the prisoner immediately flung a heavy stone at a pane of glass, which was smashed to pieces. Mr Arnold—Where did she get the stone from ? Witness—She took it out of her pocket. The prisoner said that she told Mr Waterfield that she would break the window if he continued to serve her hus band, who was in the habit of spending the most of his money at the house, and who in consequence left her and her children without food. Mrs Waterfield observed that the prisoner's husband did not spend half-a-crown a week at her house, Mr Arnold—Was he sober ? Witness—He was, sir. Prisoner stated that he was not sober. A witness for the prosecutor corroborated the evidence, and said that the prisoner's husband seemed sober. Mr Arnold—What was the value of the glass ? Mr Waterfield—£s. Mr Arnold—Nothing would justify you in going delibe. rately to do damage to this amount. You have got yoursel into a deal of trouble by it. The prisoner was remanded in her own security of £5 to appear there on Thursday, TtiAMES. SINGULAR FAMILY Q U ARREL.—John Higgs, a rope maker, of Westov er - s t reet, Stepney, and Harriet Higgs, his wife, appeared b e f ore Mr Partridge to answer a charge of assaulting Mr s S arah Lawrence, the wife of a coach bud ilder, dwelling i n Ni cholas -street, St. Peter's-road, Mile en. soli • street Mr Charles Young, and Mr Joseph Smith, pas T s h in e g co a m lo p n l g ain i az Mrs Jane Higgs anda.mvsit: c . aor, conducted the prosecution, solicitor was for the defence. of the defendant. On Wednesday woman, is a cousin night last she was I Stepney, in company with a met the defendants, who assailed Riggs, her daughter, when they assailed Mrs Lawrence with a good deal of foul abuse and called her a long black finishing the sentence w musical to the ears ith a name very un °f Complainant asked th e a married woman. The in defendant immediately struck they meant. The male t:nek Mrs Lawrence a violent blow on the should er and who had more fighti ng a u away. Mrs Harriet Higgs, about h er, k ept up th e con t es t an d used most offensi ve epithets towards Mrs Lawrence and tried to pull her bo nnet the female defendant sever off. She was also struck by A mob of disorderly raffia a l times, and kicked on the knee. 138 and boys collected, and Mrs. Harriet Higgs, who was fe arfully excited, instigated them at Mrs Lawrence and her two c ompanions. Mrs Harriet Riggs called out, " one, two, three ; hip, hip, hoor-ay 1 did give a loud shout, followedhollea, b o ys I" and the boys a nd put them in great peril. T complainant and her friends, i n Bromley. street. Harriet R iggs missed them and raised G eorg e Higgs, brother of thepaired to the house of Mr. ca rries on the business of a ate male meson, and seeing the male def en dant, and who comp l a i na nt and her friends approach repeated her bad language, raised a shout and Higgs called out , "Let her come out, I'll t ear h er li ver mob collected, and Harriet out." Richard B aker, a po. , ico constable, No. 215 K, said it occupied him 15 m in utes to disperse g r ea t e xcitement prevailed , Mrs Jane the crowd, and that sister of Harriet Higgs, confirmed the statement of Mrs Higgs, who is the Lawrence, whose per son w as at the present time marked with bruises inlicted by Harriet Riggs. Miss Higgs, a young lady, was cal led to give ovide nco uncle and aunt, but Mr Partridgesaid there Was no occasion to hear her . arriet Higgs called out while Mrs. Lawrence was • • "Oh you wretch !" and shook his he r evidence Charles Young called attention to this-e fist at her. Mr parsecs, which Mr Partridge said had n xhibition of intern • saidot escaped him. In cross-examination, Mrs Lawren ce had insulted her several times. She did the defendants Higgs a rogue. She did say, "This is db ecause I won't conceal property stolen from Mr Gray," Mr Joseph Smith said Mrs Lawrenc e had revived a very old affair, the destruction of Mr Gray' s rope robbery of his property 13 years ago near ground and the court, and had made accusations against Messrs T. and rope makers, who were the b rothers of mrs .Harriett Higgs, the defendant, and Mrs. Jane Higgs, Witness for Mrs. Lawrence. The Bishops h ad made a charg e against Mr. Gray in that court, and NI.. Gray had, t hrough his friend, Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, com menced a ctions fe T. and R. Bishop. Mr. Joh n Hi gg s a nd Mr. r libel against George Higgs, who was present, had ma rried two si s t ers, and the whole family were disunited' lie was instructed that Mrs Law rano° commenced the affray, and that John Higgs did not strike her at all. • who did not materially lrSmith called two case,witnesses, alter i the omp believed one of them altoget her. After a long investigation Mr P artridge said it w a s very clainant,s an d the mag iatrate said he die likely Mrs. Lawrence might have smashed something against the defendants, but it was plain they had assaulted her, used most disgraceful languag e , a n d caused mo b s to collect. Their conduct was q uit e unjustifiable and he fined them 20s. each and 4s. costs. The m oney was paid. KENNY MEADOWS' PENSION ! — Her Majesty, on the recommendation of Lord P almerston, has been graciously pleased to confer upon Mr. K enny M ea d o ws, the artist, a pension of £B O a year, in consideration of the merit displayed in his " Illustr at ed Shakspere" and other well-known works. [Why upon earth cou ld they not make it £2O more, so as to have given the square sum of an hundred per annum, They have taken their time about it, as it is—twenty years at the very least having elapsed since the publication of Tyas's Illustrated Shakspere I And now they spoil the dole by deducting from it a paltry score of pounds sterliogl--ED, SvN.] SPIRIT OF JOURNALS, TIMES.—We cannot wonder that a House of Commons so notoriously favourable to the Danish cause should view with apprehension the long de lays of the Conference, and be agitated by the crisis which is apparently at hand. The refusal of Lord Palmerston last night to enlighten his audience as to what has actually passed at therecent meetings gave occasion to a little demonstration, in which baffled curiosity, mingling with a suspicion that the Conference was about to prove a solemn and pompous failure, caused some cuttiog things to be said of her Majesty's Government. But though the traditions of British official life do not allow Ministers to communicate the results of each sitting of the Conference to Parliament, there is no reason why the country should be kept in ignorance of that which it can do no harm to know. It has been truly said that what is made a secret by Alinisters in their answers to the House of Commons is no secret to foreign Embassies or to the conductors of the foreign press. Everything that passes at the Conference, even to the opinions of the several re presentatives and their mode of advocating their respective causes, is soon known with something like accuracy by communities which are certainly not more worthy to be w:?11-informed than our own. We may, then, fairly put oar readers in possession of what we believe to be the present state of the negotiations, convinced that by so doing we confer a benefit on both parties to the dispute, and aid in the most efficient manner the efforts of those who are labouring in the cause of peace. The meeting of the Conference which took place yesterday, though it has no striking success to record, has not been entirely barren. Of course the greatest at tention was given to the matter of most immediate importance. The permanent settlement of the dis pute may be delayed, but the question of the sus pension of hostilities is urgent. On Sunday next, the 12th inst., hostilities will be renewed, unless in the meantime a prolongation of the present truce can be agreed upon. This matter formed the chief subject of discussion yesterday. The Danes showed through their representatives their usual spirit of defiance and recklessness of conse quences. Apparently thinking that the chapter of accidents may possibly bring a better solution for them if the war continue ana they stand before the world as a brave people struggling against two mili tary tyrannies, the Danes play a bold game. When a renewed suspension of hostilities was proposed they declared that they would only consent to an additional term of a fortnight. Austria and Prus sia, on the other hand, desired a suspension of arms for two months. It is easy to understand the rea sons which induce the allies to propose this ex tended truce. They are in possession of the Duchies ; they hold the administration of them, and are able not only to represent the opinions of the people as they please, but even to create a certain amount of feeling by skilful management. There are districts where the Schleswigers are pretty evenly balanced between partisans of the Prince of Augustenburg and honest liegemen to the Dane. To be able for two months to work upon the in■ habitants of such districts is no small advantage to Powers which are intent on showing that nearly the whole country is German by race and instincts. Then the advance of the season would bring nearer the time when the Danes must forego one of the most efficient weapons of warfare—the blockade of the German ports. It need hardly be added that the lengthening out of the war will be unfavour able to the weaker State, which is less able to bear a protracted drain of its resources, and that there is more likelihood that the allies will be able to have their own way when the neutrals become tired of the Danish question through lapse of time, and when the British Parliament is prorogued, than now that the interest is general and the sympathy with the Danes manifest on every side. This pro posal for a two months' suspension of hostilities, however, met with so positive a refusal from Den mark that it was not pressed, and at last it was agreed that the representatives of the belli gerents should refer to their respective Govern ments the proposition for a suspension of hosti lities. Tne matter was no doubt referred to Copenhagen, Berlin, and Vienna by telegraph, and the answer will come soon enough to allow the ques tion to be finally settled at a meeting of the Confer ence which will be probably summoned for Thursday. It can hardly be supposed that a prolongation of the truce can be rejected by either of the parties. Although the Danes are described as eager for war, and even the Jutlanders, having been plundered -of everything, are urging the King to fight it out, yet the dishonour that the Copenhagen Ministers will do themselves by rejecting such a reasonable pro posal makes it probable that there will be no diffi culty interposed by either party, and that till the middle of July, at all events, the land will be free from bloodshed. There is all the more reason to hope that this new suspension of hostilities will meet no obstacle, as there is some chance at least of a e'impromise being accepted. All accounts from Copenhagen represent the Danes as indignant at the notion of any concession, as being full of con sternation and shame that England should think of taking away Holstein and a part of Schleswig from them. To give up the line of the Eider, to give up the Dannewarke and the town of Schleswig itself would be intolerable. On the other hand, the German papers are demanding every inch of both duchies for the Prince of Augustenburg. They cannot conceive bow any foreign conclave of statesmen should think of demanding that he shoeld forego his birthright. Is not Schleswig irrevocably !lofted to Holstein, and does it not extend to the very frontier of Jutland ? It is clear th a t th e p ar ti es ar.i ;rrecon cilable in their demands, and to make either Skate is one of the most difficult tasks which could be attempted by a neutral. Yet the persevering efforts of our own Government, supported by France and Russia, have not been wholly urine cessful. The neutral Powers have, we believe, proposed the line of the Schlei as the frontier between an independent German State to be formed to the south of it, and a purely Danish kingdom to the north. This, in our opinion, is an arrange ment far more advantageous to Denmark than a renewal of the political relations which have heretofore obtained between the Kingdom and the Duchies. Better Fart of Schleswig permanently and completely incorporated with the monarchy and forming a compact mass with it than two semi independent, but wholly discontented, provinces Whatever may be the present irritation of Denmark, there is so much of reason in the new scheme that we cannot think it, or one even less favourable, would be long rejected. But for the present the allies refuse to give up so much. They concede the principle of drawing a line across Schleswig; and this, indeed, is the chief success which the Confer. once has as yet obtained—that whereas a fortnight ago they demanded the whole of the two Duchies, they are now willing that the Danish population in the northern part of Schleswig should remain united to the monarchy. They ask that the line should be drawn north of Flensburg, which they claim to be a German town, and to have a German popula tion on the oouth and west of it. On this question of detail, then, the neutrals and the two German Powers are at variance. But it is certainly a step to have obtained such a basis for negotiation as the admission that the line must be drawn so as to divide the two rival races. To have advanced thus far gives a chance of peace, because it makes more conspicuous the folly and inutility of the war. A war for a province may seem respectable, but when it is for a belt formed by two parallel lines less than twenty miles distant from each other it can hardly excite either enthusiasm or admiration even in Germany. HERALD.—In the debates in the Upper House, and in the columns of the leading journal, the friends of the working man have been ventilating their last now patent plan for his moral and social elevation. They would make him independent by rendering him an object of universal suspicion, and would foster habits of integrity by practically forbidding any one to trust him. They agree that the Lord Chancellor's Debtor and Creditor Bill " involves a question of the highest importance to the welfare of the working propose to solve the problem classes," and they P by depriving a large class of creditors of their legal remedy. Because 9,000 persona annually are com mitted to prison for refusing to pay d e bt s w hi c h they have the ability but not the inclination to dis charge, the Lord Chancellor would stop the credit of some millions to whom such credit is an accom modation, and not unfrequently a condition of existence. The noble and learned lords on the Ministerial side of the house have propounded views of our social system which to us at least have all the charm of novelty. Tradesmen in poor neighbour. hoods who read the parliamentary debates will learn a great deal more about themselves and their power than they ever knew. The tradesman, we are gravely assured, is not dependent upon his cus tomes, but his customers upon him. He stands behind his counter, not as an industrious struggling citizen, but as a small autocrat dispensing favours to a crowd of bondsmen, who must either take his goods at any price he likes to charge, or go to gaol if they attempt to free themselves from his influ ence. The remedy for all this is, in the Chancellor's opinion, exceedingly simple. Because some men betray the confidence of their creditors, he would punish the creditor for placing confidence in his customers at all ; because some tradesmen abuse their legal remedy, he would take that remedy away from all tradesmen whatever ; and because certain Chancery barristers have blundered in their application of the common law when sitting as county court judges, he proposes not to re quire that the judge shall know the law, but that the law shall be altered to remedy evils which have arisen solely from the errors of the judge. comprehend why the Legislature should adopt diametrically opposite systems in dealing with ' debts under and above £2O; why the creditor's right against one class should be enforced and ignored against another; why the small trader should be liable to all the process which the inge. unity of lawyers has devised for the constraint of defaulting debtors, but should have no such remedy when he, in his turn, seeks to enforce precisely simi lar claims against his customers. Modern legisla tion has swept away the usury laws, because ex perience showed that they only aggravated the evils they were intended to prevent ; and on principles of abstract justice we have abolished the immunity formerly enjoyed by the owner of real estate from the payment of his simple contract debts. We shall be going back a long way if we introduce into the contracts of our humbler fellow citizens an element whose operatiou will not greatly differ from that of the old statutes of usury, or if we confer on a dis honest or shuffling artisan an exemption from the burden of his legal obligations as complete as that which the owners of real estate formerly enjoyed. Mr, Lawson's Permissive Bill, - A public meeting was held last evening at Exeter Hall, at the instance of the United Kingdom Alliance for the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic, in favour of Mr. Law son's bill, which stands for second reading to-morrow. Lord Calthorpe presided, and the attendance was very nu- merous, the large hall being filled. Letters were read from Lord Brougham and the Rev. W. Arthur sympathising with the object of the meeting, but apologising for not being able to be present. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, drew atten- tion to the enormous amount of misery, suffering, and even death which ensued from indulgence in intoxicating drinkt, and remarked that, as the Government and Parliament did not seem disposed to do any thing for the suppression of the liquor traffic, it became the working classes, who suffered most from it, to act for themselves, and to agitate for such legislative measures as should put an end to the temptations to which from this cause those classes were exposed. The Rev, Mr MOSELY (of Rochdale) moved the first resolution, declaring that the common sale of intoxicating beverages was the occasion of innumerable social, moral, and plitical evils, subversive of public order, and an tagonistic :n national progress; and that it was, there• fore, the duty oi' the citizen, magistrate, and the legislator to put forth every effort to abolish a system productive of burdens and calamities so inevitable and intolerable. He observed that publichouses would always be necessary, and when property conducted supplied a want and tended to the comfort and benefit of the public, and while the sanc tioning of them rested in the hands of a body of persons who were for the most part ignorant of the wants of the neighbourhood, or might be susceptible of a job, they were public injuries. There was no security that they were con ducted in consonance with public morality, or with the pre sent state of civilisation. Public-houses, as at present con ducted, were directly opposed to the spirit of the age in which we lived. The Permissive Bill would to a certain ex tent remedy this evil; though it was not all that was re quired. The working classes were, he believed, almost to a man not only in favour of the bill but of a Maine liquor law. This was proved by the resolutions passed at. and the peti tions emanating from, the various town meetings held all over the country, and the total absence of petitions against it. The resolution was seconded by Mr T. CLEGG, of Man chester. Some remarks from Sir NV. d Beckett, who was not able to attend, were read by the Rev. D. Burns, in advocacy oi Mr Lawson's bill. The resolution having passed, . irrLAwsoN, M.P., addressed the meeting, observing that the resolution just carried described the character and principle of the bill, which simply placed it in the hands of the citizen to put down that which was often an intolerable nuisance and an offence against morality and order. (Hear, hoar.) He regretted to say, however, that the House of Commons looked coldly upon it; and the reason was that the House of Commons, not being elected by the masses, did not sympathise with the wishes and feelings of the great body of tho people. (Hear, hear.) He admitted that the House of Commons in the present day had .exhibited more practical regard for the wants of the poorer classes than at any pi evious period, but the mischief was that the members of that house not being elected by the working classes, did not know their sentiments on questions which so intimately affected their well-being as the one under dis cussion. The present meeting would to a considerable ex tent enlighten them on that point ; and if those classes per severed, he had no doubt that ere long they would succeed. Mr Hope, secretary to the Alliance, the Itev. ft. Maguire, and others, spoke to resolutions in favour of a per missive law, to enable the ratepayers of any parish or to ern ship to veto the common sale of intoxicating liquors within their district by a vote of a two-third majority, which would be perfectly compatible with all the claims of justice and legitimate commerce, and promising on the part of the meeting to use every constitutional method to procure the adoption by the Legislature of the measure introduced by Mr. Lawson and Mr. Bagley, and adopting a petition in favour of the bill. - - - - - - - A. vote of thanks to Lord Calthorpe concluded the pro ceedings. DEATH OF MR. NASSAU W. SENIOR.—We have to record the death of Mr. Nassau William Senior, late master in Chancery and Professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford. Mr. Senior having gone through the usual curriculum at Eton, entered at Magdalen College, where he graduated in 1811, taking a distinguished first class in classics. Amongst his college contemporaries were Sir John T. Coleridge, the Earl of Delawarr, the Bishop of St. Asaph, the Provost of Oriel, the Dean of St. Paul's, and other gentlemen who have aised themselves to prominent positions in the learned professions and in litera ture. In 1818 he was called to the bar, and in 1836 was appointed a Master in Chancery, during the Chaneellorahip of Lord Cottenham. In 1825 he was elected Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, being the first incumbent of the professorship which was founded in that y ear by the late Mr. Drummond , M.P. He resigned it in 1830 , and was succeeded by the late Dr. Whateley, Archbishop of Dublin. In 1847 he was re-elected to the same office success ion to Dr. Trav ers Twiss. For some , e in years he held the office of Exami ner in Political Economy in the Uni versity of London. He has written many works on the sc i en ce to the pursuit of which he devoted hi s lif e , an d h as contr ib u ted to the Quarterly, Edinburgh, and o th er rev i ews . Mr. Senior was 73 years of age,, The reasoning by which thi s l eg i s l a ti on is justified is not a little singular. To be indepen dent, we are told, a man must be out of debt, and to be honest he must live within his means. A nobleman advising his son would urge the young man to keep within his income, and would point out the advantage of dealing with a full purse, kept full by frugality; therefore the state is in effect to say to the debtor, you shall not take credit because that may cause you to go beyond your wages ; and to the creditor, you shall not give credit because your aim in doing so is to get the working man into your thraldom, and to compel him to live for ever after oil the mortgage of his wages, that you may exact an unreasonable profit on the goods you sell. We hesitate to differ from such authori ties, but we cannot reconcile these statements with facts sufficiently patent to everybody's observation. Let any one walk through a poor neighbourhood, and discover if be can any trace of the petty shop keeper of Lord Westbury's imagination. If showy shops, and tempting tt dv e rtisements, and importu nate tenting are indications of severe competition, then assuredly every tradesman in such morain ies s too anxious to get business to render an extra charge of 100 per cent. possible in any case where he would give credit at all. In such places of ne cessity cash payments are the rule, and credit is, as it should be, the exception ; but it is going- too far to say, as the Lord Chancellor's bill does in effect, that the retail dealer shall be debarred from the legal means of obtaining his debt which are open to larger traders. Between the shopkeeper in Ihe New cut and the merchant in Mincing -lane the difference is not of kind but of degree ; and if it be right, as all systems of law have hitherto held it right, to enforce the fulfilment of contracts by legal penal ties, there can be no good reason why any one c:ass of honest citizens should be deprived of its advan tages. A working man is out of work for a few weeks ; his wife has brought him a new burden ; his eldest child wants fitting out for apprenticeship or for service, his second has had a long illness, or the youngest has just died, and the father's resources have been drained to pay the undertaker's bill and the funeral fees: where at such times must the man go if not to those who have had his money when there was no illness in his house and no void in his pocket ? In general he can go to his tradesman now with the claim which his past custom gires him; but we do not think his condition will be much improved if the law officiously steps in to set up an artificial barrier to the workman's receiving and the tradesman's affording an accommodation which the one wants, and the other, under existing circumstances, is quite willing to give. Should the Lord Chancellor suc ceed in his present attempt we feel some curiosity to know how far the principle of the bill is to be applied. Is the state to become an universal Pater familias, compelling everybody to be frugal, by for bidding every one e l se to give him credit ? If the Law of - debtor and creditor is to stand "on a foo ing which shall discourage the habit of mortgaging wages," must we not of necessity go on in the same direction and take away the remedies of creditors who trust persons receiving salaries, or living by their own professional exertions, or dependent upon their profits in trade ? Finally, to be consistent, ought we not to adopt the same rule even in the case of a debtor having money in the funds or estates in land, because the creditor con never know how far he is laying himself open to the reproach of in ducing his customer to live beyond his means ? If we are to come to this it is well that we should un ierstand it at the outset, for we altogether failto SPORTING INTELLIGiNCE --. TATTERSALLS'—LAST EVENING. ASCOT STAKES. 100 to 30 agst Canary (take 4 to 1) 11 to 2 agst Sheridan (taken) 7to 1 agst Alabama (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Hypermnestra (taken) 10 to 1 agst Hippolyta (taken) 10 to 1 agst Bally Edmond (take 100 to 8) 100 to 8 agst Wandering Minstrel (taken) ROYAL RUNT CUP. 10 to 1 agst Taje (taken and offered) l 1 to 1 agst Amelia (taken and offered) ]OO to 7 agst Exchequer (taken) 100 to 7 agst Evelina (taken) 100 to 6 agst Trumps (taken) 30 to 1 agst Gem of the Sea (taken) 33 to 1 agst Tademus (taken) ASCOT GOLD CUP, 7to 2 agst Lord Clifden (offered) 7to 2 agst Little Stag (offered) 4to 1 agst Secttish Chief (offered) 5 to 4 agst Lord St Vincent's two coupled THE DERBY, 1865. 16 to 1 agst Liddington (taken) 33 to 1 agst Zambesi (taken) 6,000 to 160 agst Farewell (taken) ASCOT RACES. HORSES STRUCK OUT THIS DAY. Hunt Cup--Despair, Nebuchadnezzar, Mott!Rey, Bella of the Vale, Grosvenor colt, Atherstone's dam, Dau m , s and Blue Bell. Prince of Wales Stakes—Copenhagen and Syron, RACING FIXTU Jr. Newton Odiham 2 2 2 1 Bibury Beverley 22 Stockbridge Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract . ll Abingdon Liverpool July Stamford l4 [RES FOR 1864. 'NB. Chelmsford .. 28 Newcastle-on-Tyne .... 28 New Forest Hunt 2a Ipswich .. 3O Worcester (Summer) Nottingham . 19 Winchester l9 Southampton .. 2O IChesterfield King's Lynn 2l Goodwood 1;7131'. Au Bright on 2 Brighton Club Lewes Huntingdon Wolverhampton Reading Egham Dover Oxford lB Yarmouth York August Plymouth Lichfield ........ 29 Devon and Exeter .... 30 Stocktcn .... .......... 80 Derby ................ 31 'EMBER. SEPT: Weymouth 1 Baden-Baden Warwick September 6 Bridgwater 8 Leicester 8 Doncaster .. Brecon ............... . 19 Richmond ... ......... 20 Royal Caledonian Hunt 21 M0nm0uth............ 22 I Manchester Autumn .. 23 I NewmarketFirst October 27 WEIR. NON'S: Worcester Autumn .... 1 I Shrewsbury Autumn .. 14 I Leamington &War. Hunt 22 The Southern States, The arrival at Plymouth yesterday of the iron screw steam brig Harriet Pinckney from Bermuda has supplied considerable information regarding the active traffic carried on between that jsland and Wilmington, the chief port of the Southern States, and of the internal condition of the Confederacy. The steamship Thistle, which brought from WE• mington to Bermuda 927 bales of cotton, and some of the passengers who landed at Plymouth, left on the 10th of May, and was followed by the steamers Minnie and Greyhound, but as neither of these has since been heard of they are supposed to have fallen into the hands of the Federal blockaders. The Helen and the Atalanta, which left between the 10th and 12th with cotton and tobacco, had arrived, and were discharging their cargoes. Ten or 12 vessels were at Bermudareadytogoacross. Theyexperienee some difficulty in entering the port of night. Wilmington, but not much in departing during a d ark The rates of freight range from £3O to £6O per ton for all descriptions of goods. Passage money outwards 300 dols. (X6O). The restrictions of the the Confederate Government on the traffic are very severe; one is that fcr every 100 tons of cotton or other produce exported in a ship she shall bring back 50 tons of clothing, bacon, or other stores in the quartermaster's department. Silks, wines, teas, sugars, and similar " luxuries" are prohibited from importation. Cotton is valued per lb. in Wilmington at 2 dole, to 2,4 dole, Confederate cur rency, and the same article in Bermuda at 45c. to 48c. (about 25.) in gold. Shoes are estimated at 50 dole, per pair, Indian corn 15 dole. per bushel, and bacon at 3 dole. to 4 dole. per lb.:Theseprices are, how ever, almost nominal. The recent acts on taxes and funding have sensibly diminished the curreney, but as yet have had no appreciable effect on the prices of provisions. The intelligence now brought fully confirms previous accounts of the privations en dured by the Southerners. They have scarcely any wines ; coffee is a great luxury, and all ranks live on the plainest food. The news from Carolina by passengers who have come to England in the Harriet Pinckney is to the effect that no indication of des pondency exists. They in no way relax in their pre parations for the continuance of war. Attention la paid exclusively to raising provisions and to securing a full commissariat for the army. Only enough cotton is sown to provide seed from season to season. The army is maintained entirely by conscription. No one available for military service is permitted to leave the country. The prisoners and commissariat are in charge of men between 45 and 60 years of age, and of lads over 17 years. At 18 they go up to the military stations, enter their names, and select their companies. There are few foreigners in the Confederate army; the Germans are not relied and on, as faithful they soldiers. desert r s. e n freely nh t good e plantations, &c., were never more obedient or in dustrious. At the outbreak several left for the North, but those who could get back returned to their old masters and spread such an account of their sufferings that all are now contented to remain. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —(This Day.) LONDON, Jane 7. _Wind this day at noon—South- West; moderate breeze and fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, June 6.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Her Majesty's ship Racoon, from Gibraltar. Sailed—Her Ma jesty's ship Aurora, for Dublin. (EY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH,) GRATESENI), Tuesday Morning; Arrived, June 7—Eureka, from Havre—Hermann Hill, tom Porto Rico. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Anchored and Passed—PrinoesF, for Port Phillip— Harkaway, for Corfu—screw steamers Maria Pia and Turping, for Oporto—all from London. Anchored and passed, June 6—Jane, of Oporto, from Cadiz for London. Sailed—Steamer Claudia; Berbice; and Wave Queen; with nearly all the outward bound. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. by British packet........ June 5 - . Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. June 18. ' ae nsion, and _St. Helena.. June 29 via Marseilles ......... June 1 9 . Singapore, vi.a So uthTnpton.June 18 * C .cl a r p a e zi o l f an G d oo C d ap ff e osup V ed e , r sm d ia s China, Penang, via Marseilles ...June 12. . Falkland Islands ...... I d Tgo n n , .vi a. ..................... ........ .. jJuunnel-8 I via Marseilles.... June 12. . _ out bay), via Southampton ............ June 11, India (2) via Marseilles ... J r ............. line J. -- June 5. Portuga 1.... Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton June 11, Malta, IndiaGibra Gibraltar, e vi l ; t a t 4 8 ) , o f i l i n t via Marseilles June 5. Newfoundland June 8. Oporto end Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet June 8. by U.S. packet by Canadian packet June 3. All parts of West Indies. including Chili, Peru, J J une 10, California, and BritiNla Columbia We see in our advertising columns the prospectus of a new company, comprising the flourishing pro• perty known as " Princes Club," distinctive for its English speciality and the high rank of its members. This is a noticeable instance, though of now daily occurrence, of individual enterprise and ownership merging into the powerful principle of optional participation and self ' -governance, and growing favour t w e i h t d h s w t o h i s c h h o c w or t p h o e r m at a e r a k s e s d o c a t o n t d i o y n e s t are regarded by even our very highest class. KONIGSBURG, June 4.—The TVilna Courier an nounces :hat M. Stugieluki, an official of the muni cipality of Swalki, has been taken prisoner in a band of insurgents and condemned to death cod shot.