The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-17 00:00:00

MONEY NARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCV. . The money --- market continues quiet, and busi ness !very inactive, owing to the expected alteration in the minimum of the Bank of England. There is an increase of £2,062 in the traffic receipts of the South Eastern BeilwaY for the past 'week. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have ap pointed F riday next for a spec ial settlement in the s hares of the following com panies, viz. :—Anglo- 13:rith ' h and Forign 11 tIguese Bank, New Zealand Trust and Loan, Marine Insurance, Oil Wells " of Canada, and St. Cuthbert's Lead Smelting, deal. i ngs in each to be officialy recorded, the three last, however to be marked in the bi-weekly list only. The transactions in the Foreign and Colonial Produc e Mhrkets during the last few days have nor be en very extensive. Sugars, coffee, and rice, how ever, have fully sustained previous prices. The public sales of tea commence to-day, a large quan tity being announced for competition. Saltpetre has continued in moderate request, while some fluctuation has taken place in the tallow market, s. the decline at one time being fully 2s. per cwt. P.Y.C. on the spot, however, is quoted 445. 3d., and last three months delivery 465. 3d. to 465. 6d, per cwt. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this day at 12.45, says Reuters tele gram, the French Rentes were 70f. 45c.—flat. The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of Egypt took place to-day—Mr. W. Tite, M.P., in the chair. The report, which was adopted, recom nlendeethat the usual dividend, at the rate of 7 Per cent. per annum for the half year (£8,750), f ree of income tax, be declared, leaving £4,663 68 . 10d. to be carried forward to the next account. On the Bengal division of the East Ind ian Railway the traffic receipts for the week ending IN. °cr. 30 l a st amou nted to £9,7 61, against £ 8,179 in: the previous year. On t he North-West Pro ,,uenee division the earnings were £ 3,376, a g ainst 4 ,392 in 1861. Th e English Stock Market is exceedingly dull, but notwithstanding the paucity of business prices continue steady, Consols being 921 4 for transfer, and 92i 93 for the sth prox. There is not the slightest feature of interest to comment upon with regard to the current of speculation and the tend ency of the quotations. Ile New 3 per Cents. and the Reduced are firm at 921 93 ; Exchequer Bills flat at ls. dis. ; Bank Stock i s buoyant at 237 and in 239; India do., 227; and the 5 per Cent. Loan re- le plains et) at 108 For • eiga Securities have been dealt in to a fair extent, an d prices have undergone no material I change. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are firm at p t 894 90 4 ; do., 1858, at 736 4 ; do., 1862, 704 ; and the Consolides, 411 42; Egyptian are buoyant 14 , at 100 4-; Greek ; have improved Co upons to 974 -a Mexican 334 ; Moorish 94 ; st v eruvian New Loan 881 894; Portuguese 47 4; Russian 934 4; Spanish 53 ; do. Passive, 264 ; and 6 Venezuelan New Loan 604 614. In the Railway Share Market the operations 1 ,1 have been rather limited, and prices have shown a tl downward movement. Great Eastern, London and Brighton and North Western receded s=. Midland i t ': and North Eastern (Berwick) 10s., and Manchester Sheffield, and Lincoln, 15s. stA Trie Foreign and Colonial uLdertakings remaintd inactive without any material alteration in value. Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares in some instances are a shade firmer. Ottoman Bank , 1 have improved to 421-; Union of A ustra li a rea li se 41 57; and Royal Mail Steam, 56; BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per C en t. R e d uc ed Annuities tPer Cent. Consols Annuities .. -4 i t New 3 per Cent. Annuities 'lLl:mites, 30 s exire bth Jan., 188 0 — Ditto for 30yrs, ex p ire sth April, 1885. 1 5 / In dia Stock litto 5 per Cent Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent los} 134 % 4 ) Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 100 , Ditto ditto April, 1864 100 - .i bonds £l,OOO C .uittouLder £l,OOO D °4B olB for Account. March. 5 It ellequer Bills, £lOOO, 2i per Cent 1 die 3 pm Ditt o £500 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 13razilian 6 per Cent Ditto 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60 Chilian 6 per Cent ~,, Ditto 4i per Cent. B 3l - ‘gpptia n 7 pet Cent lOOl 100 / Ditto, Second Issue G reek 6 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ms 2l 11 1 ~Ditto Coupons Mexican 3 per Cent _ Ditto Account Zloorish Imperial 5 per Cent 'ley? Granada l3l Ditto 2 pei Cent 3ok 1 / Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) .. 7 r ru , ian.4l per Cent. .......... ~ • • • • Ditto 1862 Ditto Account ... BBl 9i Portuguese 3 per gent., 1853 Ditto 1862 .. 47i 7 Ditto Scrip, £25 paid 3i pm Illusion 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 97t Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850.. 8 b r im) 5 per Cent. 1862 93 iiii 3 i Vinian 5 per Cent. c , Ditto Account B 3t ° Panieh 3 per Cent 26 6 Ditto Passive 1 / S panish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 _ Unto Account 9O Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Acaount .. .. .. Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1852 Ditto Account Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto Account,.... Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Dividends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f... — Ditto Account .. • ... 691 i t I i TEIREE 0' JI.,C)CIi, ..._ COD sole, Money _Wu() Account 92i 3 Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day. I IVERPOUL, Feb. 17. quiet. Saks, perhaps t,bout 2,000 bales , p° t, 7,897 ; previously, 2,115. GARIBALDI AND THE POLES. I GO. IP The following is the test of Garib , ildi's address to the Poles who fought under him, menti.in of which has already been made : " lly Brothers have s inytramzc—You ` e ` e C k a m pr e er f a or , F e e w b o ru rd, ary an s d . I wish I could give you,atFort your blood upon the fields of battle o Ital i an who r edem p t i he o n d t is but just that Italy should in and I hope she Will do so. The struggle into w h o l ve ci ; . your unfortunate country has been hurried by despair, sh ou ld excite the opinion of Europe in favour of the oppressed —your fellow- Countrymen. Upon this earth th ere i s no lack bv"nen --- and they hold out to you the hand. May God save Poland I " GARIBALDI.' The ex-Dictator has also sent the folio • wing ad dress to the people of England : Caprera, Feb. 5. triumph by great civil institutions —among your . all men, my name m ll l wa Ye o u f r meetings—free expressionsogf3l3ibdewrtiysh, pesroftoerctthede l' h nation a l so Was pro i n u o s i t l iz d f . or l t a h m e fprartoeurduiotyt oitt highest i)e ye honour.fu l aTtihdeg light euero : s f . liberty w h Whilst timakest iis bitterly t haesEoi of the misery caused by want of labour, it isnot d'scouraogueds,hnoowr forgets its duties —the duties of humanity ; suffering gthlse from a gloriousexaniple of charity to Europe in orr, and aid the slave by your powerful voice and moral supp 1 and cheer those who redeem him to liberty. Englishmen,.. your n o7n Y count r y , the 80118 of noble Poland, too, require your aid and support. T hey have long been protected by you; do not let them perish under the knout —under the barbarous lance of the Cossack. They fight for the independence of their country and for liberty ; for which you already have fought and have triumphed. Proffer your hand unto them ; you will end an oppression protested against so long —you will re 'ilscitate a nation. "G. GARIBALDI." The Judicial Comtnitee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. An appeal from Barbadoes, " Daniel v. Trotman," part heard, was concluded. Jud gment was reserved. The L or d s present were—Lord Rind the Lord. Juaices Knight &Lice and Turner. gsdown a n d '1 Bt.:h o p nt l'ahro ‘nia had at, Interview with the Duke of N ewcast l e yesterday, Sir George Clerk also ha an interview with hi e Grace at the Colon ial-eface. d 100 106} 1031 2$ 15 103} 99 !'OLONIAL GOVERNMENT ' , ECU R1T11 , , , - .1,144 n, n p.c.J. &A 1.. - 1877-S4 - Do. 6 p.c. Feb. &Au 100 I( 3 06 - Do. d p.c.:gar.& Sep( 100 106 108 - Do. sp. c. Jan.&.July. 101 98 97 961 Do. 5 Inscribed stool , 100 tl5 97 95 - ( 'ape G. Hope. 6p 0,187: too 0 , 110 Do.Ap &Oct 188( 100 112 114 114 Do. 189 10 0 (13 115 - !Do. Jan. & July, 1891. 100 11l 113 - Ceylon. N0v.1861, 6 p 10 0 - - M , u itius 1 Der cent .. 100 110 112 1111 10/ - Na a G,v. 6 per coot . 100 t. 9 111 -- li.Gov. 6 p.c. J a.&J uI3 lu , 105 106 - I LA). dp. c.Ap. & Oct 100 - N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 00811 , 100 109 101 1001 - Do. Sp. c.,1871 to 187 , 100 100 101 - Do. d0.,1888 &upwd. 100 99 IGO 191. - New Zealand 6p. cent. 100 (09 (II - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. - ster:ing, 1875 it; 106 107 - ,Queensland Gov. 6p. c. 100 9 11. - 'b. Aus G6p.c.1876.& up. tth 109 111 Vle.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 107 109 Do. to Rn.a An.&Ont. 100 III lll not FIRTTISTI MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold , 1 kd n - übtioru Amalgamated.. - el 23 - Devon G. Cone. (Taviat., 1 530 540 - East Bassett (Illozanl.. 30 48 50 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. ss. kp - East Caradon 1.14. 46 47 - East Carn Brea .0.0 10. (1 - E. W'l Russel (Tavistk , 7.19.0 4f 5 - Gam.iSt.Aubyn(Gwen ) 57, 17 19 - Great South Tolgus l7e 61 7 - (3. Wheal Vor (Helston 40 5 6 - Grenville - Flerod's- Foot 8.1? 50 52 - ;lingston Downs 4, 7.0 2. 3 - Lady Bertha Margaret (I.Jny Lelant (' 33 tO Clarke Valley.. 4 11trndy Iron Oro (Lim 23 4ds pr - New Setun . . 191 135 145 - orth Downs ' 4 2t 3} h Hassel - (1110 (..17 34 4 - north Wheal Crotty . 2.4.1 44 5 'ar Consols(St. Blazey 11 5 6 - tO Irovidence(Uny Lein( 10.6. - 1 43 - !South CaradOn(St.Cleer I 395 4( 1 5 - S. Cam Brea (111 wan) 3.1 51, 21 21 Fran. In.l .9 87f 921 - Stray Park 1 ' - ,vs ,i a linei T ht n steect a i r rßil o S taft, Lead NI 1 1 1 2 1M 0 t 7e b s p t . . 1 0 : . 7 : 6 : 86 1 8 3 ,1 : 6i a C aS t rea t! e . r (*i a e s. k rt . 'nl ‘l , .* v Ann ( . 111 er-ua. e r-t i. 2: : 8 'l'3's / 53 14 237 : 55 :i Wheal Seton 5 84 40 7 5 • 2374 42 ; 71 (8 Wheal Union 3.17 151 PREFERENCE SHARES. Gt. Western ( erks & Hants Ext.), 4.1 per cent. red 98 North Eastern, York. H. and Selby purcha se , 91 " West Midland, Oxford, Ist guaranteed stocx. 129 PREFEITENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton, &c., 4 per cent., 1858, till Metropolitan, 5k North British (I,din., Perth, and Dundee) 4 percent., Eli LINES LEASED AA: FIXED RENTALS. Shrewsbury and Hereford, 138 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, Si Bahia and San leranc.sco (lim.) gut. 7 per cent., 211 Great Luxembourg, 16 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aid.n), 11 Sambre and Meuse, 11 * San Paulo gua. 7 per cent., 9/ Ditto (all), 23k South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 23/ Western and North-Western of France, 221 FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper a(m). 3/ Fortuna (lim.), 4/ Mont. Aureos liraz. Gold Min. Co. (Rm.), 3k Port Philip, 11 Santa Barbra Gold Mine (lim.), if St. John del Rey (lim.), 541 4 Alliance Bank of O L l o N n is d United Mexican (ii.o.), A 51 Yudanamutana of S. uetralia (lim.), / 4 - o S n T a O n C a K Liv it e A rp N o K ol S. ohn.l Australasia, 80 24/ Bank of Egypt, •,51 British North American 50? A Chartered Bank o ind,; English and Irish oim.)., 3 AuTtralia, and China, 2l London Uhirtered Bank of Australia London and County, 40 3 9, v‘stralia, 24 London and Middlesex, 2 ' 4 London and South African, 241 London and Westminster, 77k 6/ 7 Oriental Bank Corporation, 56 Ottoman Bank, 414 6 26 i Ditto, new, 111 1.21. Scinde, Punjaub. and Delhi (llm.l, 3 Union of Australia, .51 Union of London, 34} DOCKS. East and West India, 139 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, I , i Australian Agricultural, 23 East India Irrigation and Canal, E lish and Australian Copper, l/ Indian Carrying (lim.), 1 Italian Irrigation Canal, ; London Di s trict Telegraph (1 , m.), 2 National Discount Company (Rm.), 81 North British Australasian, Peninsula and 0 iental Steam, new,. Land, Rail, and Mining ( li m. ) ,. 2 2 Quebrada lioyai Mail Steam, 56 i Telegraph to ludia 1 Sir ThOnlaa Frem Chairman of the Customs, ? tid Mr. Stephenson, Chairman of Inland Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Eachequr yesterday At his official residence in Downiug-street. to th e since a sent that at th e , ;Be la 01 of the my Thel )spe cte trera. ver/SOOr O Lt q o r : e tore ( ' Uni °l l rebe' ,AN 9) SHARE ILLARKETS.—This Day ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuh.3. PaidShare' Railways. Closing Business • Price. done. 13.14. Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val 25 Blythe and Tyne. 10 Bost., S leaf ~ and Mid.Co at Bristol and Exeter at Caledonian 50 Cork and Bandon 20 Cornwall 10 Do Af A nets no di , 10 Do. B till Op c.p an.has been paid to B. . 50 Dublin & Belfast June. 25 Dun.,Perth,& Ab. June. at ;Edinburgh & Glasgow. at . Glasg. and S. Western. st Great Eastern, Ord. st k at Ditto A stock at Ditto East Anglian at GreatNorthot Scotland et Great Northern at Do A stock at Do B do at Gt. S. an •W. of Irelan. st Great Western I at Str Val gua. stock at 'Lancashire & Yorkshire at (London and tilackwal at Lon., Bright.,dz S. Coast at Lon., Chat., and Dover st Lon. & North Wester'. at Lou. Al South Western at Man., Shef., & Lincoln. SO Maryport and Carlisle 1 2 i Do I shares... 1 0 Metropolitan at Midland ,4.0 Do New ............ at Do Binning. & Derby SO mid. Gt. W. of Ireland 25 Do. 6 shares ........ 2 5 Mid Kent ............ 1 0 Do Cray Line ...... st North British ........ at Edin., Perth, & Dundee at Nth. Eastern—Berwto i 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase at Do Lecda at Do York at Do Carlisle ...... •• .• at North London 10 Do New 415.4 North Staffordshire iv N. and S. W. Junction at Scottish Central at Scot N. E., Aber. stock', st Do Scot. Mid. stook 10 Shrews. and Welchpool at Shropshire Union st South Devon at South Eastern at South Wales st S. York. and River Dun 20 staines,Wok.,andWok. 25 Stockton & Darlington 25 8 8 fi 7 88 DO 1161 1171 6i 7 41 13 13 14 88 83 106 108 48i 49i 45 47 24 25 128 129 131 132 136 138 104 108 61 (8i 110} 1101 741 75b 114 )15 41 42} 1001 'ol* 101 1,2 444 454 Ist U 128 29 16 112 96 98 54 554 26 28 [O2 103 574 584 90 9 11l 1:4 161 Iff 11i lit 121 123 461 47 1 103 105 tO 51 32 34 97i 98 68 70 103 105 7 8 88i 39i 10 li p 7i 8 p 15U 152 5 51 2! Sap 5511 p * 83 86 150 .60 Do :5 Do New, 1860 it Taff Vale.. .0 Do B LO Do C 00 UlBter 2..5 I Do 2.10 Do et Vale of Neath st Victoria sta. and Pim et Waterford & Kilkenny st West Cornwall st NV. Hartlepool Har.&lt st West Midland Oxford at Do Newport at Do Hereford 29 31 BRITISH P dal IWSVN t I antic & St Lawrene , 3om.,Baroda,t.Cent Inc r Gu: 5 per cent.. !O Do. New . ...... 0 Do ‘ E. Shares.. Buitalu and Labe Elurob 10 Do. Preference ...... Iluflalo,Brant,&Godricl p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1r,71.. Do. do. July 1, 187:- 10. , 10. Jun, 1, 1' t 1 utta.t S.Eastm 1 tpeTown Dock Ser :ock Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. ock f,aot Indian. gu. 5 p. 20 Do. do. G Ext.. 20 DO: do. H do. .. k Grand Trunk of sin id 'n. lat . Bonds Do. o. deferred.- ii Pref 8011 s.. D . do d ler ed...... ,0 3d P ef. sto k Do do. d le. r d.... Do 4th I'ref. a o k Do. ..tu deferr , 4t.lndfartutu.gua.ap.t I Do. New frua. 5 p. c.. 0 Do. January, '862 .. ,ot Wit. South.ol India(Lin. uaranteed 5 per cen n. VC. of Canada Shai 04 Do. New Do. 8 p.c. '73 with't (up 10 Do. 54 F. c. do. '77-8. l 0 Indian Branch Limited nadras guar, 5 N. c. " Do. p. a. Ext.ensio lie. do Do. Fifth Extension. .. lb.) orn. p. c. tin ,, Nlelb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p.o. ,•w =amok ac Can. Clap,. A rn t B N7.ltl.C'da6 pc Ist 1 bdhicinde Do. Delhi .. . • Do. do W to. Punjaub tt Do. Do. )0, ;)o. Indus. St. Flo.) 44 16 37 42 96 100 SSESSIONs. THE SUN, LONDON LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) QIPPS V. GIPPS AND FIUME. His lordship gave judgment in this case, which was be fore the Court a abort time ago. The learned judge referred to the principal facts of the case, and sid it appeared to him that the proceedings would never have been instituted if a sum of £l,OOO had been paid. He thought the circumstance as near collusion as possible, and that the petitioner ap peared to show but little compunction at the state his wife had been living with the co-respondent. Having well con sidered the subject, he had made up his mind to dismiss the petition. Petition dismissed accordingly. coon T. COOS. This case also stood over for judgment. It will be recollected that the suit was instituted by the wife against the husband, the 1. cumbent of Scymer, Mr. Ipswich, who sought for judicial separation on the ground of cruelty. The petitioner said her husband treated her with the greatest indignity, that he removed her from presiding at the table at meals, that he took the keys from her and gave them to hie daughter, and also that after she had left his house through ill-treatment, he refused to allow his chil dren to visit it. His lordship granted a decree nisi for dissolution. SHERIFF'S COURT. (Before Mr. Kerr.) UPSETTING A COSTERMONGER AND HIS DONKEY.-BEADLY V. BRASS. This was an action to recover £3 3s for damage done to a donkey. Mr. Buchanan, for the plaintiff, said that his client was a costermonger, who owned a nice little donkey, and on the 19th December plaintiff was in Duke's-place. He was standing still, and the defendant's man came up with a heavy cart. Though called on to stop, he refused, and went right on running over the poor little donkey and in juring his foot. Plaintiff and a witness proved the above facts, and added that defendant's driver was told what would be the result of his recklessness, but he ran right on. Defendant's clerk said that the man had left the service of Mr. Brass, and it was not likely he would have gone on in such a ulauuer. _ _ . His Honour considered that in the absence of the driver it would be impossible for defendant to dispute the case. Defendant must pay for the donkey. Mr, Buchanan applied for the oosts, which were obtained. CABBY AND 'BUS MM.-GRANT V. LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY. This was an action to recover for damage to a cab; Mr. Buchanan arpeared for the company. Plaintiff said that on a certain day he was in Cornhill, and defendant's driver knocked the cab on to the pavement and broke the springs. Mr. Buchanan called the 'busman, who described the language used by cabby ; the latter calling out " Why did you drive me on t ) the pavement, you pig." Witness said, " I didn't;" when plaintiff retorted, " You're a -- liar ;" to which witness answered " Thank you." All the witnesses described plaintiffs language as being highly figurative, and much interlarded with adjectives of an expletive character. Plaintiff, in answer to the defence, said—Why, it is a well-known fact that the company can get as many wit nesses as they like, as I was told to-day in court. After asking one of the witnesses if he had ever been employed in that capacity before for the company, plaintiff closed his case with " Oh, it is no use going on, they will swear anything." Verdict for defendants. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. COMMITTAL OF A WELL-KNOWN THIEF.—A PROSE CUTOR REBUICED.—Ann Manning, a woman known to the police, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a gold watch, of the value of £2O, the property of Mr. John Frederick Howriett, watchmaker, of 21, Brewer-street, Golden-square. The pro:ecutor said that at the prisoner's solicitation he treated her with some ale at the Feathers, in Oxford-street, and afterwards accompanied her to another house and had more drink, and then to a house in Union-street. On going up the stairs he was pushed or knocked from the top to the bottom by a man or woman, and on getting up missed his gold watch as.d money. The watch produced was his property, and of the value of £2O. Police-constable Tidy, 118 C, said that at three this morning, seeing the prisoner suddenly leave the prosecu tor, he went up and asked him if he had lost anything. At first he said he had not, but afterwards said he had lost his watch. He (the constable) then went after the prisoner, who ran away across Oxford-street into Cavendish-square, and on asking her where the gentleman's watch she dropped it on the pavement, with the remark, " There it is." He then took the prisoner to the station, and went back to the prisoner in Union-street, when he identified the watch. The prosecutor and prisoner had been drink ng. Boden, the messenger of the court, said prisoner had been aente_..e.mi inna years' penal set vitude. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for trial. After the case was over, the prosecutor said he wished to make a complaint against a constable he spoke to on first finding he was robbed. _ . Mr. Tyrwhitt told him he ought to be ashamed of him self, as he had gone about drinking with the prisoner and got robbed, and had had the good fortune to get his watch back entirely through the exertions of the police. He (the magistrate) would listen to no complaint at all, and if the prosecutor liked, he could go to Scotland-yard. THAMES. EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—James Macdonald, a man about 48 years of age, who appeared to be half starved and very ill, was brought before Mr, Wool rych charged with attempting to commit self-destruction. A police .constable named Meades, 488 A, stated that at two o'clock this morning he was both alarmed and surprised at the discovery of a man hanging to the railings in front of a house in Hardwick-place, Commercial-road. He cut him down immediately, removed him to the station-house, and obtained madical assistance. The man was nearly suffo- cated, and in a few minutes would have been dead if he had not discovered him. Mr. Woolrych—How did the prisoner hang himself ? Meades—He made his handkerchief fast to the railings, and made a slip noose for his neck, which tightened when he threw himself down. He was quite black in the face when I came up. The constable then produced the old cotton handkerchief which the prisoner had used. He added, the prisoner said he " was tired of his life, and in great poverty and distress." Mr. Woolrych (to prisoner)—How came you to do this rash and wicked act ? The prisoner feebly replied that what the policeman said was true, and that he was in great distress, and in want of food. Mr. Woolrych remanded the prisoner to the Clerkenwe House of Detention for a week. A. SCAMP. Richard Stollard, a lighterman, was brough , before Mr. Woolrych charged with deserting hie wife and six young children, and leaving them chargeable to the parish of St. George-in-the-East. Mr. W illiani Rolston, a relieving officer of St. George, said he was desired by the Board of Guardians to prosecute this case, which was a very bad one indeed. The prisoner was in the receipt of good wages, and had abandoned his lawful wife, the mother of his children, and been living with a loose woman who knew he was married. The pari.hhad been allowing six shillings per week for the support of the wife and five children. The sixth was maintained by a relative. The prisoner was before the Board of Guardians on the 30th of January. He then promised to maintain his family, but that promise had never been realised. Yesterday (Monday) morning he visited Mrs. Stollard and her five children in a miserable room, No. 84, Old Gravel-lane, Ratcliff .highway. There was no furniture in the room, the children were in a state of nudity, the wife cold and insufficiently clad. It was a scene of desolati , n such as he had never before witnessed. " The place," continued the witness, stunk so dreadfully that I was compelled to run into the street to recover myself in the fresh air—l shall never forget it. Mr. Woolrych—What , has the parish expended for the relief of Mrs Stollard and her children ? Mr. Rolston-42x., I believe, sir; the prisoner promised to pay that, but he has not done so. The prisoner, in defence, said his wife neglected his home and children, and was a very dissipated and drunken Woman. When he allowed her £2 per week she expended nearly the whole of it in strong drinks. He found 65 dupli cates in her possession for property she had pawned. He was in one situation for 13 years. He obtained others, and his wife came to the residence of his employers and made a disturbance, and he was thrown out of employ several times by her bad conduct. He rave his wife 6s. on Saturday. Mr. Woolrych said the English vocabulary was insuffi cient to express his detestation of the conduct of the prisoner, who left his wife and family to the cold charity of the parish while he was carrying on an adulterous intercourse with another woman. He sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprisonment and hard labour, and he (Mr. Woolrych) would repeat that sentence every time prisoner was brought before him, if he did not properly support his wife and children. Mt. Woolrych—l am very glad to hear it. Mr. Rolston —Th e wife and family will now be taken POPULATION " Bureau des LongiotardeAB:::, G ut ß o B D .- ec. A 3 c l e , oid d le, Algiers l a l a o r a hadthe increase . of 11,183 heads withi a European population w o i f t t h he th y e ea c r en lB su 6 s l, 0 1 f ,8 1 8 8 5 58 marriages, 8,227 births, and 205,888 th souls, which shows an of the last three years, com e same date. In the 5,850 deaths took place in Algiers. the births were 7,072 legitimate, 671 recognised, and 4 m 197g 88 eftimate born. The proportion of deaths was 1,603 men, p co a u re r d se women, aid 3,366 children. Compared with the atalistics of Pa , Algiers has less marriages , the number of births is n _ . larger and that of deaths smaller than in the 20 arrond issements of the capital. 491 i i 12 , 1 8 131 1 08i 18 110; I 75i 6 5 i 1116 i li is 1i f 1 451 1 li 13) ; ; 129 81 55%, I 27i 7 104 a 113 6 Hi I I 22 981 8 71 69i 71 44} I tußiness don' 105( f } 21 105 106 k 106} y 6 lositt 11 / I 103 ICS 13 3 7! 71 99 10i 92 4 1 1 2 3 96 98 412 4 49 3 5 83 65 1051 :05 1.3 104 41) 1 , 3 101 P 98 100 , TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1863. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TIM ,TES, BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-MONDAY. The members were occupied to-day with selecting their Committee of Management, and other purely local matters The few offers made upon racing business indicate no change since Saturday. Closing prices:-- LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. Bto 1 agst Satellite (offered) 100 to 8 agst J ralousy (offered) 25 to 1 agst Lincoln (taken) WATERLOO CUP. 100 to 8 agst Mr. Blackstock's nomination (wanted) 25 to 1 agst Mr. Gregson's nomination (taken) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Knowles' nomination (taken) RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. 1863-64. Wages to seamen and marines 12,921,951 Victuals and clothing for ditto 1,416,986 Admiralty-office.. 165,322 Coast Guard Service, Royal Naval Coast Volunteers, and Royal Naval Reserve 299,69 Scientific Branch Her Majesty's establishments WEST MIDLAND. The directors report that the aggregate net receipts of the West Midland and Great Western Companies, includ ing the South Wales and Shrewsbury Railways, after pay • men t of rent charges to South Wales, Worcester and Here f rd, Severn Valley, and other companies, amount to £705,743, which, in conformity with the agreement between the companies, are divided in the proportion of 17i per cent., or £123,505, to the West Midland, and 82i per cent., or £58z,238, to the Great Western Company. The above amount of £123,505 is divisible between the Oxford and Newport section. in the following proportions, viz., Oxford, 78 per cent., or £96,334, and Newport, 22 per cent., or 127,171. Ihe result to the Oxford section will be that, alter payment of interest on debentures, amounting to £41,710 ; dividend on Chipping Norton Railway capital, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, £480; dividend on the first guaranteed.stock, at 6 per c en t. p er a nnum, £25,439 and dividend on the second guaranteed stock (including the portion held by the company), £14,577, there remains a balance of £14,127. at hoine - Her Majesty's establishments 183,316 36,370 abroad Wages to artificers, &c., em ployed in her Majesty's establishments at home.. 1,121,878 Wages to artificers, &c., em ployed in her Majesty's establishments abroad Naval stores for the building, repair, and ou fit of the fleet; steam machinery, and ships built by contract : Section I. Storekeeper- General of the Navy.... 1,334,051 Section 11. Controller of the Navy .. New works, improvements, and repairs in the yards, &c 433,298 Medicines and medical stores 66,000 Miscellaneous services 69,957 867,349 Total for the effective ser v 9068,604 ice Half-pay, reserved halt-pay, and retired pay to officers of the Navy and R)yal Marines 719,341 M ilitary pensions and allow- 483,106 ances pensions and allow• 194,932 ances .. MENT. Army department (conveyance of troops) The navy estimates for the year 1863-64 were published yesterday. It appears that the Govern ment is able to reduce the expenditure by more than a million (L 1,058 273) without injury to the effective service. The number of seamen is 39,000, against 40,000 last year; of boys, 9,000, as last year; of coast guards, 9,000, being 1,150 more than last year; of marines 18,000. The naval coast volunteers a re taken at 8 , 000, and the royal naval reserve at 16,000 —making, with the men, boys, and marines, a total of 100,000 ; exactly as in the year 1804. The following is an abstract of the particular votes which will be asked, with the corresponding votes for the last year expended, showing the increase or decrease under each head : 1862-63. £3,078,121 1,362,093 170,832 297,602 68,045 176,624 33,610 1,147,678 66,08: 1,774,184 1,453,56 464,170 66,000 98,708 £10,228,029 702,308 481,036 194,282 Total for the naval servioe.. £10,465,882 £11,605,( FOR THE SERVICE OF OTHER DEPARTMENTS OF GOVERN £270,150 £188,650 Grand total £10,736,032 £11,794,305 It will be observed that the principal decrease has taken place in the Storekeeper General's Depart ment and that of the Controller of the Navy, which have to do with timber, steam-engines, and iron plated ship-building. There is a large increase in the cost of convey ing troops between Great Britain and the colonies, which must mean, we hope, the return of regiments at present out. The Murder at Kingswood Parsonage. It may be remembered that in June, 1861, Mrs . Halliday, the wife of the parish clerk of Kings wood, near Reigate, was murdered at the par , sonage-house there, of which she had charge in the absence of the incumbent's family. In the room where the poor woman was murdered there was found a package of papers, which proved of the highest importance. There were several letters in a foreign language, bearing date so recent as the Friday before the murder. These letters were in a pocket-book, which also contained the names of several persons, and the name of the person to whom the letters belonged—Johann Carl Franz. There was also a letter from the cele brated vocalist, Mdlle. Titiens, which, it appeared, had been written by that lady, in reply to an application for money, from a distressed German, who wanted assistance to enable him to reach his own country. After a time the police succeeded in apprehending this man Franz, and he was committed for trial at Croydon assizes, when it was proved that he had been seen near the parsonage-house on the day of the murder, along with another foreigner, and that some cord which it was proved that they had previously purchased of a Mrs. Pitcher at Reigate, resembled the cord with which the legs of Mrs. Halliday had been tied. When the Superin tendent of Police showed Franz the package of papers which had been found in the room he for a moment turned paie, and then hung down his head, seemingly absorbed in thought. Some days after, he made a statement to the effect that while travel ling in the company of two Germans from Hull, they robbed him of a bundle containing his clothes and the papers in question. The inference which the pri soner wished to be drawn from this was, that the men who had robbed him: i had committed the murder. At the Croydon assizes, held on the 6th of August, Franz, who was described as a native of Saxony, was placed upon his trial and acquitted. Here the matter rested, and the police did not succeed in gaining any further clue until Saturday last, when a supposed accomplice in the murder was apprehended at Hull. Two months before the commission of the murder, a foreigner, named Edward Schmidt, came to the house of Johann Pifer, a German lodginghouse keeper, residing in Myton-street, tiull. He remained there eight days and then went away. Before going he gave Pifer an old coat in lieu of payment for his lodgings, as he had no money. Two days after the man Schmidt had left a person named Franz came to lodge at the house. Pifer had pi eviously observed in Schmidt's possession a faded brown pocket-book. Schmidt and Franz appear afterwards to have met at the village of Cave, and here while asleep it is supposed Schmidt took Franz's papers from him and put them in his own pocket-book. When Franz was tried for the murder Pifer stated that he believed that the pocket-book which was found in the room where the murder had been committed was the same he had seen in the possession of the man Schmidt. On Saturday last, Pifer saw Schmidt in High-street, Hull, and passed him. He afterwards met him again about half - past four o'c lock, near the Wilber force monument. Pifer stopped him and said, " Why did you steal the papers from Franz ?" Schmidt replied, " I am the man who committed the murder, but you cannot prove i t." Pifer then seized him and held him until the arrival of a police constable. Yesterday, Schmidst was placed at the bar of the Hull Police Court, and was remanded until today. The Fish in " The Field" Window. Mr. Frank Buckland, 2d Life Guards, in a letter to the Field, sa) s:—" The young trout, salmon and salmon trout, are growing very fast ; is many of them the umbilical bag is nearly absorbed, and they will in a few days begin to feed by the mouth. It is interesting to observe how, as the bag de creases, the form of the fish grows into shape and assumes the proper fish colour. My bridge experi ment has succeeded well, but for plates of zinc I have substiti.ted bits of common slate, such as are used for roofing houses. These, supported by four stones, form capital " hides" for my young fish, and it is most amusing to see them all run away fright ened when I lift up the slate. I have found from painful experience that the quantity of water sufficient, say for five hundred eggs, is not suffi cient for 500 live fish. When born from those eggs, the actions of hundreds of tiny gills soon absorb the oxygen from the water, and I have been obliged to increase the stream and thereby the labour in sup plying the water. We are rearing fish under con siderable disadvantages, A warm sun during the day, and gaslight during the night (to say nothing of the heat of the steam engine below, which is used for printing off the Field) are not the most fa vourable conditions for young fish ; notwithstand ing all these most un-salmonlike conditions, I have a merry nursery of baby fishes, though, of course, I have to pick out the dead ones ever y morning. Ido not, however, think I lose more than about 15 or 20 per cent. of the number, but the little wretches re quire a great deal of care and attention. Our friend, Mr. Ponder, thinkieg, I suppose, that I must be a fish as well as a human doctor, has kindly sent me up a bottle full of cripples from his apparatus, at Hampton. I have already hatched out a most curious specimen myself, viz., a trout with two heads, and one umbilical vesicle. This double fish is alive and well. Mr. Ponder has sent me not only a simi lar specimen (also alive), but also a fellow with one tail and two heads, which are joined together; also, a charr with four eyes, a trout with body twisted like a bell spring ; besides this, a trout with bo dy as round as a ring, as well as n umerous ot he r patients fit for the Orthopaedic HosPit e a n h ormous Allies, of Worcester, has sent salmon, which he found dead,_ Waorncester. He has a the banks of the Teme, near In d rather an high, on nose which places Pun o ch_! ifshisnlOwer jaw. Of him and the skin se'quite in the shade, a P t to the British Museum, I propose to misakwoorn ost-mortem to-morrow, pre vious to his being s ent .fi thless carcase. where Dr. Gunther has scientific designs upon his apparently wor _ Through the kindness o f S. Gurney, Esq., M.P., T. Hibbert, Esq., of Chalfont Park, I have been andape enabled to restock my glass rods with some fine spe cimens of trout ova, some of which I took from the fi s h, others I took from the fishes' nests—rather cold work —but all giving good promise of future life. It will be curious to see whether town or country Will be able to batch these dish out first. MID-KENT. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yea. terday at the office, Dm e-street, Westminster—Mr. W. A, Wilkinson in the chair. The report, an abstraot of which has appeared in Me Sun, was taken as read. Revolutions were passed adopting the report, declaring a dividend at the rate of 21 per cent. for the half-year, re electing Mr. Wilkinson, the retiring director, and Mr. Christian, the, retirin g auditor. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceed ings. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. It appears that 53,968 ordinary shares were recorded in favour of Mr. Anderson's amendment, and 48,433 for the motion of the directors, showing a majority of 5,535 ordinary shares; and that 30,316 preference shares were recorded in favour of the motion of the directors, and 2,196 in favour of the amendment, showing a majority of 28,120 preference shares; the result being a majority of 22,685 s h ares, or 3,841 votes, in favour of the directors' motion for the adoption of the report. HULL AND SELBY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday at Hull, Mr. J. R. Pease in the chair. The Secre tary read the report, which stated that the balance in favour of the company was £33,557, and the directors recommended that the dividends to be declared out of it should be £2 9s 6d. per whole, or £5O, share; £1 4s. 9d. per half, or £26, share; and 12s 41d. per quarter share, on the capital stock of the company, subject to deduction of income-tax retained by the lessees. Mr. Whitaker was elected a director in the room of Mr. T. Digby, deceased. The Chairman moved that the report be received and adopted, and the dividends therein recomended be declared. The motion having been agreed to, the retiring directors were re-elected, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. STAINES, WOICINGHAM, AND WOKING. The report of the directors states that the receipts on past half year am oun t t o £1,200 capital account during the fur sale of surplus land, and the payments amount to £3,054. The gross traffic receipts for the half year amount to £9,394, against £8,404 in the corresponding period of 1861, showing an increase of £990. The sum of £1,499, carried forward at the last meeting, has been applied towards liquidating £2,091, the residue of the amount carried temporarily to the debit of capital, and which is now redived to £592. There will remain £l,BOl, out of which the direckrs recommend the proprietors to declare a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the preference shares, amounting, less income tax, to £1,203, leaving a balance of £598. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday before the examiners the bill of the Manches ter and Milford, for powers to construct new lines in that district, to purchase lands and make arrangements with other companies, and increase the share capital by £32,000, together with the bill of the Tunbridge Wells and East bourne for an extension from the South-Eastern at Tice hurst to the London and Brighton at Hailsham, aud to raise £370,000, were declared in some respects not to have complied with the formal proofs required by Parliament. The bills for the proposed Greenwich and Woolwich Railway, and the Kensington, Knightsbridge, and Metro politan Junction Railway were withdrawn. Royal Marriage Procession in the Olden Time. In 1236 Henry 111. married Eleanor of Provence, at Canterbury, and journeying to London with his bride, they were met i❑ Southwark by the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and the principal citizens, to the number c f 360, all being mounted on stately horses, dressed with splendid furniture. The busier streets were adorned with tapestry and plate. At night fall torches were kindled all over the city. Henry V. entered London with his Queen (Kathe. rine), being welcomed by an immense multitude o the Londoners, the Corporation having prepared a magnificent pageant for the occasion. Previous to this, Edward the Black Prince had wedded the beautiful Joan, Countess of Kent, much to the joy of the whole nation, and especially of the Londoners, who kept holiday for many days to celebrate the event. This warrior Prince of Wales kept another grand festival, when, in 1357, he entered the City from Southwark, in company with his prisoner, John, King of France. The Royal captive rode on a noble white horse, but the Prince accompanied him on a mean -looking black peney. They were met by the whole Corporation splendidly attired, who conveyed them to the Savoy, where John was to lodge. The procession was several hours in passing through the City. Henry VI., a good but weak Sovereign, married Margaret, a daughter of the blind King of Anjou. Their reign was little but a succession of troubles ; yet she was a noble-minded Queen, and upheld the red rose of Lancaster with no feeble hand. Her hapless son, Edward, Prince of Wales, married Ann of Warwick, at Amboise, but while a mere lad was mercilessly slain at Tewkesbury, 1471. His widow afterwards became the wife of ttichard 111., and is the Lady Ann of Shakspeare's drama. Henry VII., by espousing Elizlbeth of York, united the contending factions, and gave his people a reasonable cause for rejoicing, as he thus termi nated long years of intestine war. His son Arthur, Prince of Wales, when hardly 14, was martied to Katherine of Arragon, a princess much his senior, who, on the demise Of her boy husband, was induced to wed his brother Henry. afterwards Henry VIII. The history of that learned, accomplished, and 1 popular Monarch and hi s s i x unhappy wives, his brutish foLies and caprices, his cruelty and licen tiousness (sparing neither man in his anger nor 1 woman in his lust), are well known. Ttie procession of Lady Anne Boleyn through London, previous to her marriage, was remarkably gorgeous . May 31, 1538, all the citizens were busy rem early morning. The streets were covered with gravel from the Tower (where she lodged, and where she was socn to die on the block), the foot paths were protected by barriers, and occupied by the Companies, in full livery. Corn hill and Grace church-street were tapestried and hung with rich arras. Cheapside had a still richer dressing of cloth of gold and fancy velvets. At a signal from the 'rower guns the procession issued from the fortress. First came the Franck ambassador and his train, 12 knights in blue velvets, their horses decorated with white crosses ; a troop of English gentlemen, two and two; the Knights of the Bath in full cos tume; the abbots, bishops, and peers on horseback, robed, and with massive gold chains; the Lord Mayor, with the City mace; Garter King-at-Arms, and the Lord Marshal; the Queen's household, in scarlet robes; the High Constable with his wand oi office; lastly, a splendid chariot draped with white silk, and drawn by white palfreys in housings of white damask, Anne Boleyn keeping her state under a gilded canopy hung with silver bells,—City Press. THE GEORGE GRlSWOLD . — Liverpool, Monday Evening.—The address from the Liverpool Cham ber of Commerce to the captain and lieutenant of the George Griswold was presented to-day at St. George's-hall, at a crowded and enthusiastic meeting, The Mayor of Man chester took part in the proceeding s . AN ANCIENT COSTUME R EVIVED.—The readers of the Constatutionizel (says a Paris letter), who knew that the great and novel feature of the late ball at the Tuileries was to be the representation of the h ero i n e of M. i Flaubert's novel, " Salammbo," were disappointed at not seeing the name of the lady who personated that character, or any description of her dress. But, on referring to the P ress e, I find the fo llowin g p ara g ra ph, which the Constitu tionnel, for some mysterious reason, h as s t ruc k out f rom i ts o therwise litera l production :-..-.44 The Countess de Cas tiglione was attired as Salammbo, with her hair given to the wind, a golde diadem above, bare arms, and naked feet in g olden sandal s ; the long train of her robe was b orne by t he Ccunt de Choiseul as a negro, who held an a ntique I parasol over her head. The dazzling beauty of the countess uevor ceased to captiYsto geuersti atteution.'" THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—This Evening. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. _ STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY moved the appoint ment of the Standing Orders Committee, in the absence of Lord Redesdale. The names were the same as those of last session. The committee was accordingly reappointed. THE BRAZILS. Earl RUSSELL said he was detained by pressing busi ness from a , tending last evening when the subject of the Brazils was mentioned. He did not think that the subject could be properly discussed in the absence of the papers, but as so many ex parte statements had been made, he would take the liberty of making a few observa tions. Her Majesty's Consul at Rio Grande had dis covered that many articles of wreck wtre found in possession of persons near ; and also he learned that the bodies of ten persons had been drowned. But that was not altogether true, as only four had perished. A rumour also was current that they had been murdered. He insisted on an inquest, but the bodies were not produced until many days after, and so decomposed that they could not be identified. This increased the suspicion that foul means had been used, in which the local authorities were implicated. In consequence of this a full inquiry was de manded ; and subsequently strong measures were taken, only in consequence of the evasive answers received. With regard to the officers seized, they were put into a police cell, and the letter which they sent to the commander of the ship was never delivered. They were liberated the next morning without trial. In these circumstances it was desirable that fit reparation, should be made, which, however, was not obtained till 1862. Earl DERBY said there had been great anxiety for the production of the papers. It appeared that the Govern ment had acted in a violent manner, and he hoped when the subject was discussed the Government would be able to show that they had not sanctioned the acts com plained of. The noble earl had compl4ined of an ex parte statement, and had made a statement of a similar nature. With regard to the officers seized he would say nothing at present; but, with regard to the wreck, it took place in a distant part of the country which was almost un inhabited ; as yet the Government made no strong demand for restitution of the full value of the ship and cargo. Earl t.USSELL said there was not a demand for the value of the ship, but there was such a demand for repara tion as the Government had given in the case of an Aus trian ship on the Irish coast, whore the vessel appeared to have been wrecked, and the offenders could not be brought to justice. THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. A message from her Majesty was read to the house by the LORD CHANCELLOR, relative to the Prince of Wales, and requesting the house to take into their consideration what provision should be made for his Royal Highness. Earl GRANVILLE moved that her Majesty's gracious Address should be taken into consideration immediately, and in doing so referred to the auspicious event which he considered would be a subject of rejoicing to the whole country. The Earl of DERBY seconded the motion, waiving all question as to notice which on a subject which was unop posed might have been given. Their lordships, he was cer tain, would heartily concur with the House of Commons in whatever was thought necessary to be a proper provision for a marriage in which the country had so great an inte rest. AFFAIRS OF ROME. The Marquis of NORMANBY rose to call the attention of the house to the correspondence lately presented on the affairs of Rome, and also for the purpose of asking her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for some explanation of certain passages contained therein referring to the policy of her Majesty's Government on this subject in the year 1849. The papers referred to ex plained that, although in 1849 there had been acquiesence in the French occupation, there was no approval of such a proceeding. The French occupation arose out of the as sassination of the first constitutional minister of Rome on the steps of the National Assembly, which, however, passed the order of the day instead of paying any attention to such an event, and a few days after that the intelligence of the proclamation of the republic was received. He received a despatch from Lord Palmerston expressing the opinion that the Pope should have temporal sovereignty, and that despatch he thought did not confirm the recent statement. of Earl Russell that acquiescence did not imply approval. It was then that Lord Palmerston entertained the hope that with the return of the Pope there woul be a return to constitutional government, but another despatch from Lord Palmerston in March stated that the Govern ment had much pleasure in hearing of the proposed French occupation. It was atter he had protested against the pas• sage of the French troops across the frontier, thinking that if once they passed that position they might not return ; but Lord Palmerston admitted that might be quite true, tut that he could not prevent it, as the Pope if not restored by the French Government, would be restored by some other Power. Earl GREY rose to order. He did not think it was con sis, ent with the order of the house to refer to private papers. The Marquis of NORMAL` BY was (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE Or COMMONS—This Evening. The SPEARER took the chair at four o'clock. NE W ME MBE R—DEVON PORT. Mr.W. B. FERRAND took the oaths and his seat for De vonport. The hon. member was introduced by Lord John Many ers and General Peel. The hon. member was re • ceived with loud cheers from the Opposition. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a second time :—Alyth Railway _.Andover and Redbridge Railway— leeve and Evesham Road—Farnborough and Aldershot Railway— Great North of S cotland Rai way—Great Western and West Midland Railways Amalgamation—Great Western, West Midland, and South Wales Railway Companies Amalgamation—Flerne Bay and Canterbury Junction— Lancaster Canal and London and North-Western Railway —Mersey Docks and Harbour Board—Milford . Railway—, Mistley, Thorpe, and Walton Railway—Ogmore Valley Railway ' s—Vale of Neath Railway—Furness Railway Company and Barrow Harbour Commissioners. LIVERPOOL LICENSING BILL. Lord FE ttMOY moved that this bill be read a second time that day s i x months, on the ground that it would in troduce by a pri vate bill an entirely new mode of licens ing for a sing le town in the empire. If a change were required in the present form of licensing it should no t b e effected by a private bill, but by a measure brought forward on the authority of the Government, Free trade ought not to be introduced into the business of licensing ; to magis . trates ought to be proper dele gated, as now, the power of . adjudicating upon the parties to be intrusted with licenses. In. Liverpool the question of licensing was made a party question, but that was no reason the house should be called to favour one set Of partisans. The motion having been seconded, Mr. HORSFALL said the bill did not arise from any party feeling in Liverpool. One set of the magistrates were in favour of a great extension of licenses, whilst another considered that they should be materially restricted. The powers sought by this bill were exceedingly wholesome. Persons only of good character and able to give secu rity for their good conduct by bond, and rated to the poor at £5O, would be granted licenses. Different localities required different modes of dealing in this re gard. For instance, Liverpool had 500 licensed houses, whilst Manchester, with a smaller population, had no less than 600. The bill was framed in accordance with the re po tof the house of last session. He believed only one petition had been presented against the bill, and he believed that was simply in favour of closing publichouses on the Sabbath. He should support the second reading of the bill. Mr. AYRTON considered that the bill ought not to have been introduced as a private bill, and in that shape ought ought not to be proceeded with any further. As the bill would affect the law and the revenue he, s h o uld be glad to know who was responsible for it? It appeared merely to be based on a petition from Mr. La mb and o thers, who not venture to give their names and addresses. There was no valid reason why the law should be altered to favour Liver pool alone. (Divide divide.) ft was b not P a r t s o . be quietly se ttled by ac , mrnittee of five members stairs. Mr. MASSEY exp lained that ysome ancient statutes of the house some bills affecting trade were allowed to be introduced as private bills, and this bill before the house wa was introduced in accordance with these rules which were framed about 100 years ago, before private bills were known to the house. The bill was based on the report of the committee of this house on licensing ; and he believed was approved of by the magistrates of Liver pool. (No, no.) Liverpool possessed half a million of in habitants, and probably was entitled to exceptional legisla tion in regard to a matter of this kind, which, atter all, was a mere matter of police. Mr. HARDY opposed the bill, considering that it ought never to have been introduced as a private bill, but before the house, and discussed clause b, clause. (Hear, hear.) If this plan of introducing private bills were made a prece dent, the Government might avail themselves of it to pass several bills that ought not to be treated otherwise than as public bills. If this bill were passed, tne Government ought to adopt a general bill for the whole country. Mr. WILLIAMS opposed the bill. Mr. J. E WART said the magistrates of Liverpool were in favour of the bill. Sir G. GREY supported the bill. It was essentially con nected with the police operations. That was the principal element they had to consider In all such masters r _the house should not lose sight of this—that the public pio_ o al r itY s ' was a paramount question. A bill adapted h e country. large locality might not suit the %% tee to be The bill ought to be sent to a carefully investigated and then he he whole house. He hoped the house :veoriddnisoctusstsoepd theb bill at this stage. The CHANCELLOR e E n it t of c w o es CH r d e e r c to t see sidered that it would be welolftotmheak E e a X n e p E e r C m U bill so far as Liverpool was concerned, whether its provisions weredap e o ru t ed ;he in Wh o The present system ofcensing at Liverpool exceed ingly anomalous, a nd required mate rial amendment. Mr. WALPOLE said the committee referred to had re ported in favour of a g eneral system of licensing for the whole country, and considered that an exception ought not to be made in favour of Liverpool. He understood that the bill was not promoted by the magistrates, but by the pub licans of Liverpool. Mr. HENLEY should vote against the bill, because it was exceptional. If a good bill could be devised he saw no reaso n why it should not be applied to the whole country. The house then divided, when the numbers were-- For the second reading lOB Against it 124 Majority against the second reading —l6 The bill was therefore lost. SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY BILL. Sir J. DUKE moved the second reading of this bill. Mr. DODSON opposed the bill, because it would not confer any substantial public benefit. He hoped the house would throw out the bill, and thus prevent a useless waste of money and time in opposition between the contending lines. The whole matter had been set at rest by legislation in 1861. He moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. 'qr. C. GILPIN supported the bill, and contended that it was a far superior line to the one opposed to !t. O line, although never opposed by a few of the lanci Teewn and some of the inhabitants of Folkestone, 1, great UNIONS An excellent me, and woul d CO Q " advantage in time and speed, on the public. The bill ought to be carefully investigated upstairs in committee. The bill had successfully passed that house, but was lost in the House of Lords through the opposition of landowners. Mr. M. MILNES deprecated the practice of bringing forward these kind of bills year after year, and thus putting the landowners and others to enormous expenses. Mr. NORRIS would, as in 1861, vote in favour of the bill. The house ought not to permit landowners to stand in the way of the construction of an important public work, Mr. MASSEY said it was quite true that the bill was carefully investigated by that house in 1861, and ultimately thrown out of the House of Lords, but surely that house was as competent to judge of the necessity of the bill as the Upper Horse. Since 1861, he understood the opposition of one of the most important of the land owners had been withdrawn. He considered that the bill ought to be referred to a committee up stairs. The promoters were, he thought, specially entitled to the favour of the house. (Hear, hear.) Mr. LYGON explained, as cone of the members of the committee of 1861 on the bill, that it met the approval of a large majority of the committee. Mr. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN said his name was on the bill, and he desired to say it was not exactly the same bill as 1861. Since that period the company had made ar rangements with some of those who had heretofore opposed it. The bill should be referred to a committee up stairs. Col. KNOX opposed the bill. He could not understand how 20 minutes could he saved in three-quarters of a mile. (Laughter.) He thought the house ought not to let rich railway companies tire out legitimate opponents in the way it was asked to do. The promoters ought to pay the expense to which opponents had been put before they were allowed to proceed. ..__; Sir B. BRYD - GES denied that the bill would be of any real public benefit. The landlord who had not agreed with the company was not residential. The opponents had al ready been put to an expense of £5,000, and it would be too bad to make them pass again through the ordeal of opposi tion, and to incur the like expenses. (Divide, divide.) Mr. CORBALLY intimated that the case before the house strongly indicated that a new mode of legislating with respect to private bills was desirable. The President of the Board of Trade intended to-night to move for a select committee on the subject, which would remedy, he hoped, the evils complained of in the , course of this discussion. The house then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading Against Majority . 11. The bill was consequently lost. PRIVATE BILL FEES. Mr. R. HODGSON then rose to propose rescinding so much of the table of fees charged at the House of Commons (under the standing order of the house passed in 1852 as multiplies the fees payable on the petition, first, second, and third readings, and report of private bills, according to the money to be raised or expended under the authority of such bills—the reduction to take effect in respect of private bills introduced in the present session. [LEFT SPEAKING.] LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, FEB. 16. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been pleased to make the following appointments in his house hold :.—To be Honorary Chaplains—The Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D., Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, the Rev. Charles Kingsley, M. A , the Rev. Henry Mil dred Birch, M.A., the 11 , -v. Charles Feral Tarver, M.A. To be Physicians in Ordinary—William Jenner, Esq., M.D., Edward Sieve King, Esq., M.D. To be Surgeons in Ordinary—J ames Paget, Esq., George Pollock, Esq. To be Surgeon Extraord nary—John Minter, Esq., R.N., M.D., F.R.C.S. To be Honorary Physicians—Thomas King Chambers, Esq., M.D., William Henry Acland, Esq., Alexander Armstrong, Esq., M.D., R.N. WHITEHALL, FEB. 14. The; Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry Brougham Loch, Esq., C. 8., to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, in the room of Francis Pigott . Stainsby Conant, Esq., deceased. WHITEHALL, FEB. 17. The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend Charles; William Maude to the rectory of Munden Magna, in the county of Hertford, and in the diocese of Rochester, void by the death of the Reverend Henry Dawson. FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 16. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Edward Hyde Hewett, Esq., to be her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Loanda. CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 16. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. _ County of Cambridge—George John Manners, Esq. (commonly called Lord George John Manners), in the room of Edward Ball, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward or Bailiff of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 17. 10th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Sir Sydney John Cotton, K.C.8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Thomas Burke, deceased. WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Feb. 17. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant Frederick John George Hill to be Second Captain, vice Balfour, pro moted; Lieutenant Robert Charles Walter Campbell to be Second Captain, vice Frederick Sydney Maude, de ceased ; Quartermaster-Sergeant Joseph Vignaux to be Quartermaster, vice John Cass, retired from half-pay; the first Christian name of Lieutenant Feilden is Haugh ton, not Houghton, as stated is Gazette of 6th instant. BREVET—Quartermaster John Cass, retired upon half pay, Royal Artillery, to have the honorary rank of Cap tain, BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Win. Kerr Howatt, draper, New Windsor BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of any importance in the Gazette of last evening:— Edward Murruss, licensed victualler, Maidstone John Keyse, draughtsman, Newington William Fryer, shoe manufacturer, Norwich Samuel Nichols, jeweller, Birmingham William Nicholson, tailor, Bedford John Cassidy, plumber, Huddersfield Elihu Price, merchant, Birmingham Thomas A. Turner, currier, Birmingham Daniel Ward, engineer, Bridport Thomas Rider, commission agent, Manchester John Clayton, farmer, Chesterfield Elias Bucuris, publican, Everton Wm. Collins, farmer, Burn-bridge, near Selby John Masters, carpenter, Weymth Devonshire Robert Spencer, farmer, Milton Abbott, Richard K. Adams, baker, Southampton James Clarke, butcher, Exeter Edwin Hanson, carver, Bradford George Stansfield, farmer, Idle, Yorkshire John Dent, carpenter, Atherstone John Fermor, builder, Bushey-heath, Herefordshire Thomas Thomas, draper, Bayswater-road Samuel Adams, farmer, Great Waltham SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Thomas Jackson, innkeeper, Inver, near Dtmkeld Alex. Todd. tailor, Forfar Johu Dow Bell, farmer, Rashiehall, near Balbeggie John Munro (Bain), farmer, Springfield, Alness Course of the Exchange—This Day. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 17t ' 11. 18/ Antwerp .. 25 45 25 60 Brussels — 25 45 25 50 Hamburgh — 13 71 13 71 Paris Ditto M arse ill es Frankfort on Maine.. 119 1 Ila n 90 Vienna Trieste Petersburgh — 35 351 Berlin — Madrid . ••• 49 49/ Cadiz .............. B b s 25 Leghorn ..........• • 25 65 25 60 Milan — 25 55 25 60 Genoa — ' 2s .55 25 60 Naples — 25 571 25 621 Palermo .. 25 60 25 65 Messina .. 25 60 25 65 Lisbon — 521 521 Oporto — 521 521 i Foreign Gold in B ars (St an d ar ,l), p er oz. . £ 3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doubloons 0 0 0 MARKETS—This Day. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 4s Od ; clover, do., £3 lOs to £5 15s ; and straw, £1 103 to £1 188 par load. Supply only moderate—trade steady. UUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 4s; clover, lOs to £5 159 Od ; and straw, £1 10a to £1 18s per load- A moderate demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 4s ; clover do. £3 108 to £5 15s; and straw, A steady trade. .61 109 to £1 18s per load. COLONIAL . dm it un ed t b il us th in e ess p t u r b an lic sac s t a o l d es , c n ' enc m of business has been done in operations wns ieh TEA.—There oin hav i : h . _IIOA.E.—A fair . a . s and prices have been well main pt 1023 , refined market also a slight advance has • ed In the ta m ' t 'n the value of dried goods. taken Pace '- The operations in Plantation Ceylon have COFFEE. — been to an average extent and price, and are well sustainad. good grocery demon RICE. — For the latter description of East India there has been more inquiry, and late quotations are current. SALTPETRE.—Business continued rather dull, and the few bargains entered into have been at about former rates. TALLOW.—'I he market at one time exhibited increased having to-day l)beea t dvryrrlei depression, and a decline of about 2s. per cwt. took place. A rally, however, has since occurred, P.Y.C., on the spot, being quoted 445. 3d., and last three months delivery 40s. to 40s. 3d per cwt. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Feb. 17.—Wind this day at noon—North Easterly ; light breeze and very fine weather, with frost. - HULL, Feb. 17.—Wind W.—Arrived—Wemetlye, from Shields for Genoa, leaky. CARDIFF, Feb. 16.—Wind E —Sailed—Victoria Reed, for New York. FLEETWOOD, Feb. 16.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Mary Hannah, for Cuba. CLYDE, Feb. 16.—Arrived —Ride, from Savannah; Witch of the Wave, from Smyrna. Sailed—Livonia, screw' steamer, for Gibraltar. Monte Video. . .. - Wind N. — Sailed—Ca from G RI MSBY, Feb. 16— onr MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) - <V SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Arrived—New Y or k steamer, from Bremen; Alliance, steamer, frHavre. Sailed—Charlotte, for Guernsey. GB.AVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Feb. 16—Hartiott, from Louvain. Arrived, Feb. 1 7—Seine, steamer, from Boulogne. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed, Feb. 1 6—Rlate, for St. Michael's; Finzel, Pr Shanghai; Sybil, for G ibraltar; Lorg on VIA wall--all from London for Axiutv 1p g, rd n. up mid yal, the by rom irgO, 38 ter was Eng were t the We rapt. airs LenlY here, every ,rthet Pge' Paid. ni lu3i 96;