The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The discount market is still influenced by the recent advance in the minimum of tle Bank, and there is only a moderate demand for acconnoedation at the new rate. About £3,000 in gold was taken into the Bank On Saturday. The City of Washington has arrived from New Yor k With £5,700, and the Alliance from Geelong, with £54,828. The Anglo French Mexican Loan has been an nounced in London by Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., and the International Finanakl Society, and in Paris by the Sociel e Generale de Credit Mobilier. The amount required is £12,365,000, issued in r 6 Per cent, stock at the price of 63, representing £ 7 ,790,00 sterling, in bonds to bearer of £l,OOO, £5OO, £2OO, £lOO, and £5O eacb, with others of smaller amounts for the Continental market. Of the total, £8,000,000 bonds are to be negotiated for the Mexican, and the remaining £4,365,000 for the French Government in payment of expenses in curred in the expedition. Interest is to cont inence from the let April, and the subscription can "tend over to February next. Discount at the rate of 6 per cent. will be allowed for payments in ad vance, and the stock is to be negotiable in Paris and the other French markets as well as in London. Prom the proceeds of the loan a sum sufficient for two years dividends is to be retained, and an amount is also to be kept for the " next four half-yearly Payments of interest on the Three per Cent. Mexi can Bonds held under the decree of October, 1850, and on the New Three per Cent., Bonds representing the capitalised arrears of interest thereon, as agreed to by the holders of the existing bonds at their recent meeting in London." There is to be a sink ing fund equal to 1 per cent. per annum from let April, 1869. The subscription lists are to be opened in London, all the departments of France, Turin, Madrid, and Amsterdam, and the 231 inst. is the date at which they will be closed so far as regards this market and Paris. Proposals have been issued to-day for a Russian.. Anglo Dutch 5 per cent. loan for £6,000,000, or florins 70,800,000 stock. It is introduced by Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., of London, and Messrs. Hope and Co., of Amsterdam. On the £lOO bonds the payments, amounting in the aggregate to 85 per cent., will extend to Jan. 18, 1865, and on the £B4 15s. bonds £72 is required in the same period. Discount at the rate of 5 per cent. will be allowed for prepayments. The Continental Union Gas Company requires a Capital of £400,000, a large portion of which it is stated to have been already subscribed: It is formed to carry on the business of extensive works now in full operation, with exclusive privileges, in Stras -I)4►g, Cenci, Nismes, Vienne, Roanne, Beaucaire, 11 ' 110 1, Albi, Milan, Genoa, Parma, Modena, and A.iessandria. The shares are of 1;25 each, and the brokers are Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, of Threadneedle•street. Two o'CLocx. At Paris this morning, according to Renter's telegrams, the Three per Cent.Rentes were 68f.,15c., 68 f. 5c., 671. 903. Very great excitement, and still continues. The opening of the English Stock Market indi cated a firmer tone, and shortly afterwards an Improvement of s per cent. took place, but the advance was ultimately lost upon a few sales, sad Culsuls are again 91?; Q for money, and 91i I for the antlunt. The New Threes and Reduced An nuities art 891 1 ; Exchequer Bill., 10s. to ss. die.; India, 1044 1051 ; Enfaced 5 per Cents., 1031- ; and Debentures, 992. Business in the Foreign Market is active, and prices have varied to some extent. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 711 4 ; Clnsolides, 52:- 53 ; Mexican, 47f, a ; do., New Loa., 11 8; Spanish Passive, 341 ; do., Certificated, 12 a; ; Greek, 251- ; and the Confederate Loan, 54 56. In the Railway Share Market business lets been rather more animated, and prices have shown an upward movement. North Western, Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincoln, Metropolitan, and South Eastern have improved 55., and Midland 155., while Great Eastern and Great Northern have declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings exhibit little change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in fair request, and in several instances exhibit a slight advance. The new shares of the National Bank are dealt in at 40t 41i. FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. ~ G OVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto Account, May 5 9l g 3 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 735 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire iith Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. Ditto (Red Sea .TelegraPh), Aug. 1908. Rxchequer Bills, £l,OOO, '2: & 3 per Cent lO 5 dis Ditto £SOO Ditto £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stk, 44 per Ct. Ditto Acc0unt.......... , INDI&N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES . it tot stock, 105 per Cent., April 1874 .-- Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870 ..,. IA ... Account — Ditto 4 per Cent. 1883 — Do ~ ertificates Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 — Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent.... • Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872. lO3l Ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879 Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 156 i Ditt o ditto Aug. , 1066 991 '"ift , Bonds £l,oito ............ . , Ditto under £ l,000 BRITISH FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 45 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent Ditto, £lOO Bonds hilian 6 per Cent Ditto 45 pet Cent Bl Colombian 6 per Cent..... — Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian 7 per Cent lOl Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824- 5 , ex-Coupons — Ditto Account Ditto Coupons — Ditto Account lll Italian 6 per Cent. (111aremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent 471 Ditto Account... . Moorish Imperial per Cent New Granada . . — Ditto Account 3Ol Ditto 2 per Cent. Ditto Deterred — Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Peruvian 41 per Cent • • Ditto Account... .......... .. Ditto 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) . ... Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Portuguese 3 per Cent.,, 1853 Ditto Account ......••••••••.. '. • Ditto 3 per Cent., 1866, ' 7, '9, '6O, 62,3 Ditto Account Ditto Scrip (1863) £3O paid. ...... nussian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ S t Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 Ditto 6 p er Cent, 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent Ditto Account 864 Spanish 3 per Cent 531 Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account Ditto Passive .. — Sp Ditto Account 35 4 1 I qAtiish Cert. of Coup not funded — Ditt o Account .. 12 / S wedish,, 4 per Cent. Varkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account 691 1 Zitto £lOO Bonds.. ha° 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account .. 715 a Ditto 1863 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent V enezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account .. D itto 6 per Cent., 1862 2J Account .. Ditto 15 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Lond .0 Atzst . Is _ rian, 5 per Cent . Ex. 10 Florins. zaelgian 45 per Cent., Ex. 251... telt 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates -D itto Account t 1 al iP•n, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto A ccount „ ' e qrnonteße, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 25f r eruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s. Consols Money TWO O'CLOC . E. 911 5 Di tto 40Co Unt ....... s t 91 bIiARE ItiAhKETS—This day. ;hare Railways. t 3.14. hir., Wol., and Str. Va I. B 1 yille and Tyne. ~rrstol and Exeter ... • Caledonts.n ICosl. 411(1 8and0n...... Corn wa 1! D o A f' A eta no die Do. E 3 11116 p e.pan.htAs ( been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June.! June.l !Edinburgh & Glasgow.] !Glasg. and S. Ncestern.! ; G reat 14:astern, Ord. stkl g Si 8i 9 83 1 , 5 118 119 ei 35 37 N 17 90 92 10F 106 17 DittoA stock Ditto East Anglian et' !GreatNorthof Scotland 'Great Northern...—. • • Do A stock Do Li do Gt. S. an i W. of Irelan: Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashae & Yorkshirt: London and tilackwa;l Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North NVestern Lon. & Stx.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. 6 3 / 4 74 130 131 138 :19 131 1:3 91 93 652 GGI 11( 1101 67 t 9 1026 1031, 436 446 1116 112 99 11,0 , 546 556 Doi shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. do Derby .Ifd. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Ker t ..•.• 117 )18i1 i3l 132f1 101 1(3 Do Cray Line ...• • • North British Edin., Perth, & Duadee Nth. Eastern—Bervviuk Do, G.N.E. purchabe Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle.....••• • North London Do New North Staffordshire .. N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Soot. Mid. stook Shrews. and Welohpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok., and Wok. Stockton 416 Darlington 81 62 24i '5 991 100 i 56 67 88i 89 128 131 2i p 78 79 1( 1 111 121 123 41 43 98 100 9.16.4 53 64 33 35 901 91 101 103 Si 9i 87 38 94 10 /, 8 84 e , 165 170 5 7 t 3 4 p Do Do New, 186 G Taff Vale- . ••••• Do B Do C Ulster Do ...... Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&K i West Midland -0,:lorti l Do Newport' Do Hereford, _ P ORDINARY SHARES AND STOGILS. Crlriosoine.g Budsoinneest 461 71 ei X l3l 301 V. 151 65 llq 68 7f 1101 11 101 54} tI6 151 10 130 ft i 101 I 89i i 35 4} oci i i 9f 0 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closine oar , itailways ltx A.t antic aSt Lawren, , all 59 61 riom.,Barodaa.Cent In.! L. t 1025 tc3s 103 Gu. 5 per (rut.. 20 Do. New .• • 8 1 P 2.0 Do. E. Shares (4 Buffalo and Lam , Iluron a; 665 'l , Do. Preterunce all 910 00 lintialo,Brant,aGodrter. o p. et. Gds. Aug. 1,1,;• Ut , Do. do. J Illy 1, 16; 00 do. .10. Jim( I, i, ,01 mi Cleutta.as. 100 101 (C 3 1014 st Cape Town 1 Dock So , 100 99 101 'tack Eaatn. Bengal g, , u. 6p. 10 , 105 106 Wet East Indian. gu. 5 p. e 0,41 105; 105 20 Do. do. G Ext l5 I p 20 Do. do. H do. 4tock Grand Trunk of Canada 20 21 100 Do. Ist Prei. Bonds at( 73 /5 725 100 Do. no. deterred all 60 63 100 Do. 2d Prel. Bonds— all 63 65 63 100 Do. do. defer: ed. „ all 51 63 100 Do. 3d P ef. stock tOO Do. do. deferred all 40 12 100 Do. 4th I'ref. stock all 25 27 100 Do. do. deferred all 22 e 5 stook GLlncliaPenin.gua.sp.o Wu 101 105 20 Do. New gua. sp. o l2 I 1 l p Do. January, 1862 stook Gt. South.of India (Lim uaranteed 5 per cent. 100 103; 1045 103 Gt. W. of Cratada Sharer. all It ;01 205 Do. New .. ....... 59; 6 tOO D 5. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. all 93 et 100 Do. 55 p. o. do. '77-8.. . all 82 84 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 3 41' stock Madras guar~ sp. c. stook Do. 44 p. o. Extension 100 96 08 stock Dc.l,( do lOO 92 94 91 20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnct" lOO 50 Alelb. & Hobson's Bay all 57 53 100 Do. 7p. O. Mortg. Bds all 90 Newßrunswick a Candi( Class A and B all 3 5 N.ll.l.C'da6 po Ist l bds 100 82 64 dock goinde • • (100 104 105 stock Do. Delhi d+.: 100 101 103 20 Do. d 0.... 2 3 1p at Do. Punjaub Do. Do. , 100 Cook Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 1000 97 93 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. c.u.Gov. dp.c.Ja &Jut) i 18 -8i - Do 77 • ';'"'"• •• • ••••• 1(0 lO2 104 101 3 p. o.Feb. (15 Aug. 100 101 )( 3 102 D 0.6 p.c.2lar.dt Sept. 100 101 It 3 Do. Ep. 0. J,.n.&July. 10C 90 P 2 Do. 5 Inscribed stool 100 88 90 :Cape G.llope, 6p 0,1873 100 106 108 Do.Ap (k Oct. 1880 100 110 112 Do. 189 t 100 1 1 1 113 -- I - I Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 110 112 ,Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 112 114 ;Mauritius d per cent lOO 106 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cent 100 108 110 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c.J LAO ul) 100 102 104 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. W. Gov. 5 p 18.) 100 991 1001 Du. sp. c.,18/1 to 100 99 10( Do. d0.,1888 &upwcis 100 99 HO 991 ;New Zealand 6 p cent_ 100 110 112 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 lOO 104 106 Queensland Gcv. 6p. C lOO - IS. Aus G6p.e.1878.1t up lOO 110 112 - Vlc.Gov. p.o. Ja.dauly 100 Do. to dux. An• • AURA. 100 108 5 1 0 9 5 108 a BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 6 id cliflord Amalgamated — 34 35 Devon G. Cons. (Taoist , 1 5 60 66 0 0 East Bassett (11logan) 3O d 67 70 East Clogau Gold Ltd. —' - East Caradon ...... 3.14.) 305 311 31 'rata Cam Brea... 3,4.), 61 76 E. W• 1 Russel (Tavistk., 8.9.0 33 46 - ,Gam.liSt.Aubyu(Gwen 38, 9 10 Great South Tolgus.... Dr 3 36 G. Wheal Vor(lleiston 10 35 35 341 Grenville Ilerc•d's- Foot B. l, 'l5 37 iiingston Downs 4. 8 . 0 35 4 Lady Bertha Margaret (Cny [(elan) 3„ 18 20 !a,rice Valley.. 4 ylnly Iron Ore (Lim. .2, 1 16 1() New Seton l9l 83 95 —• North Down* 45 11 2 _- 'i Basset (111(1, 3.1.• 2 25 North Wheal Crotty 2.6.9 41 5 Car Console(0 t. Blazo), .•rovidence(Uny Leint. 10.6.; 41 43 South Caradon(St.Cleer 11 450 170 S. Cam Brea (111ogan) — —' - h.Wheat Fran. (Mogan 14.1 6 .9 40 50 , Stray Park - rarnarSilv.St Lead Milli Lin Cron 4 )8 19 West Basset (Illogan) I 16 :0 11 C• radon (Liskeard 5 19 21 West Seton IVlierd Basset (Illogan) 51 85 90 Wheal Buller(Kedruth) 10 35 40 ‘V heal Kitty (U.Leltuat) 2.0.6 WhealLud. ott Wheal Mary Ann s 13i 14/ Wheal Teton 5Bl 2C026 210 Wheal Treiawney (Lis ) 7 24 I Wheal Union 3.17 2 2 I PREFERENCE SHARES. Gt. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford, 2d guaranteed stock, 12Q North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., - Ditto 43 per cent., red., 100 North Eastern, Stockton and Darlington, A 5 per cent., 273 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Buckinghamshire,7,o l i FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Great Luxembourg*, 11 Sambre and Meuse, San Paulo (lia.), gua. 7 per cent,tB F()REICrIi MINES. Cape Copper, Rm., 13 Linares, dm., 6: St. John del Rey (lira.), 44i 6 Yudanahautana of S. Australia, 1inf.,:31 BANKS. Alliance aim.), 5Si 9 Ditto, new, 49 Anglo Austrian, 74 I Anglo-Italian, limited, 6/ I Australasia, 744 Bank of k ,tago, lim., 44 Bank of Queensland (lim), 21/ British and Californian, lira., 74 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 111 124 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China, 42 Chartered kler. of India, London, and China, 71/ Consolidated Bank, East:London, I'm., 9 English and Irish, lim., 184 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 21/ European Bank, lim., 131 4 Hindustan, Vhina, and Japan (Um.), 36 Imperial Bank (1.1 m.). 40 2 14 Imperial Ottoman, 201 6 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 44 London Bank of Scotland, lira., 22/ L on don and Brazilian atm.), 62 London, Bina., and S. Staffordshire, lim., 284 74 London and Colonial (lim.), 174 London and County. 61 5 London, Hamburg Cont. Exch lira., 20 14 Lou d o n Joint Stoc k, 46 6 London and Northern, lira., 24 Merchant i fc lira., 181 Provincial Bank, am ee rle 0 p ontet B an ? d k, E and Mexican, Mu, la Midland Bank (Hun), 17 oriental BanK Corporation. (37 6 3 Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi, lim., 121 12 Ditto, new, 12 South Eastern, Jim., 44 Standard of British South Africa (limi), 30 Union of Ireland, Urn., 21/ Union of London, 521 MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, Um.. 84 s n c t o r u a n c t t Coorrppoorraattiloonn,Di, 1 1 1 1 7 , 1 Egyptian Com. and Trading, lira., 5/ Gtn. Credit and Finalize of London, lira., 10 Hudson's Bay, 19 Imperial Financial , li m., 101 21 International Financial ociety, lim., 1 Joint Sock Discount. iim., 71 London Financial Association, lira., 201 7 . 4 Ditto, new, 151 ondon Provincial Marine, p Mercantile Credit Association, lim., 161 'A:l=les and Mersey Marine (Insurance), Urn,, 7 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1864. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The demand for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday ruled heavy, and prices declined in several instances is per quarter. Malting barley was dull, and drooping in value ; but in oats, beans, and peas, including floor, no quotable change took place. Both on the continent and at New York buyers of pro duce on British account operate cautiously, and prices rule in some instances the turn easier. Up to this market last week the arrivals of English grain, &c., were but moderate. The imports from abroad amounted to 4,832 qrs of wheat, 1,267 barley, 19,366 oats, 1,600 rye, 20 beans, 275 tares, 8,932 linseed, 2,758 oilseeds, 220 sacks and 1,200 barrels of flour. The arrivals of English wheat, fresh up to our market to-clay, were but moderate. The trade, however, both for red and white qualities, ruled heavy, and, compared with Monday last, the prices realised exhibited a reduction of fully is per quarter. The supply of foreign wheat on the stands was by no means extensive. Dantzic and lionigsberg wheat were held at previous rates; otherwise, the trade was dull, and the quotations had a downward tendency. Floating cargoes of grain were in limited request, at about stationary prices. The market was seasonably well supplied with mostkinds of barley. For all descriptions thel trade ruled heavy, and prices declined is per quarter. Malt sold heavily, and the quotations gave way is per quarter. The supply of oats on sale was moderate. Generally speaking, the trade ruled quiet, yet no change took place in the rates current on Monday last. The supply of beans on sales was small, and the trade ruled firm, at extreme rates. Peas fully supported last Monday's currency, with a steady demand for all qualities. The show of samples on offer was very moderate. For flour, both English and foreign, the demand ruled inactive at previous quotations. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE, Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 37a to 418 Ditto, old -s —8 Ditto, white, 1863 4ls 47s Ditto, old 8 —8 Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old 375 41s Ditto, 1863 Talavera, Rye— Barley—Grinding 23s 25s Malting 258 385 M a lt—Suffolk and Norfolk 603 66s 508 548 Brown Kingstown and Ware 6os 568 Chevalier 66s 688 Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolush., Feeding lBs 2 3 s Potato Youghal and Cork, black lss 23s Cork, white l6B 23s Scotch, Feeding l9s 238 Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey Maple 3ls 33s White Boilers 33s 36e Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk 2Bs 303 Stockton and Norfolk 278 29s American, per barrel l9s 25s METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The show of foreign stock in to-day's market was only moderate for the time of year, and its general quality was by no means first rate. From our grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, the arrival of beasts fresh up was tolerably good. The English beasts were of middling quality—those from Scotland very prime. Most breeds commanded a steady sale, and, in some few instances, the quotations advanced 2d per Blbs. Inferior beasts sold at last week's currency. A. few very superior Scots and crosses realised 68., but the general top figure for beet' was 4s 10d per 81bs., at which sales pro gressed steadily. The arrivals from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridge shire amounted to 1,950 Scots, crosses, and short horns; trom other parts of England, 700 various breeds; from Scotland, 337 Scots and crosses ; and, from Ireland, 140 oxen. With most breeds of sheep, we were somewhat scantily supplied—but their general condition was good. The mutton trade was firm, and really prime sheep were 2d. per Sibs. higher in price. The best Downs, in the woe), sold at 6s ; out of the wool, 4s 10d per Blbs. Lambs were in fair request a:, very full prices, viz , from 6s to 78 4d per 81bs. About 500 arrivtd from the Isle of Wight. In calves—the supply of which was only moderate—very little was doing, at last wtek's quotations. The sale for pigs was heav: Per 8113e.t0 s: i v ilk at th la e te off r a a l t . es. s. d. s. d. s. d. a. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 Primecrs-wool d 0.5 4 5 8 Second quality do. 3 10 4 2 , Pme. S'thdown d 0.5 10 6 0 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Large orse. calves 4 4 5 0 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10 Prime small do 5 2 5 4 Crse.; inf. sheep 3 8 4 4 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. 4 8 5 2 Small porkers , 4 2 4 6 Lamb5....65 Od to 75 41 Suckling calves, 17s to 23s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 26s each. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Cows f l Sheep and lambs .... 1,630 Sheep and lambs 19,020 ; Calves Calves 149 ; Pigs Pigs. 49JI The total imparts of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 4,525 head. In the corresponding week in 1863, we received 3,716—in 1862, 2,539—in 1861, 3,211 —in 1860, 1,939—in 1859, 914—in 1858, 2,318 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDUIN LAS'S WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam .... 430 .. 83 .. 283 .. 233 Harlingen •• . • 714 • . • • 1 25 • a Hamburg .... 18 .. 1934 .. , Amsterdam. •• • --- • • • • • • • 80u10gne...... • . 245 Bremen ... .• • • • • .• Dordt. Nieu Diep Antwerp. 7 .. Ostend ....• 39 .. - .. - .. 12 .. 76 _ .. - .. 16 .. 57 Calais . •• Oporto 9l .. Dunkirk. 8 .., .- .. - .• - • • - .. - .. --- .. 146 Total .... 1327 .. 2104 .. 1 .. 337 .. 756 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1863.. 1862 .. 72 .. 2,056 .. 4 .. 402 .. 5 1861 484 .. 2,206 .. .. 193 .. 328 18 6 0 1859 233 .. 567 .. 9 .. 131 .. 4 1858 252 .. 1,814 .. .. 252 .. A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan cattle market, on Monday, April 20, 1863, and this day. Monday, April 18, 1864. Per 81b. to sink tho offal. April 20, April 18, 1863. 1864. Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 2to 3 4 3 4to 3 8 Second quality do 3 8 310 310 4 2 Prime large oxen .. 4 0 4 4 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, &c... 4 6 4 8 4 8 410 Coarse and inferior sheep .... 3 6 3 .10 3 8 4 4 Second quality do. .. 4 0 4 6 4 8 5 2 Prime coarse-woolled do 4 8 5 4 5 4 6 8 Prime Southdown do. .. 6 6 5 8 610 6 0 Lambs Large coarse calves: Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 2 4 6 4 2 4 6 Beasts .. Sheep and lambs Calves Pigs.. 470 490 SUPPLIES ON SALE, April 21, 1862.—Beasts, 3,420 — sheep and lambs, 21,460—calves, 37—pigs, 445. APRIL 22, 1861.—Boasts, 3,6 lo—sheep, 17,620—calves, 65—pigs, 630. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets are but moderately supplied with town and country-killed meat. The trade, however, is dull, at our quotations. Per Sib. by the carcase. a il e CI s d 8 6 Inferior beef .. 2 10 3 2 Middling mutton 4 0 4 4 diddling do. .. 34 3 8 Prime do .. 44 4 6 Frime large do. 3 10 4 0 Veal Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Small pork Large pork .... 3 2 3 10 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 6 3 10 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. For the time of year the supply of potatoes on sale at these markets is very large. Good and fine parcels are in fair average request, and prices rule tolerably firm ; other wise, the trade is dull at about last week's currency. A few parcels were received from Portugal last week. Yorkshire Regents 4os to 60s per ton. Flukes Rocks Perth, Forfar, and Fife Regents 40s to 60s ~ Rooks Kent and Esstx Regents SEEDS. The inquiry for cloverseed was inactive, yet prices ruled firm. For trefoil there was a Moderate demand, at previ ous quotations. Canary and tares were a slow sale. Lin seed and rapeseed fully supportel last week's prices. A fair business was transacted in cakes, and prices ruled firm. Turnip, White,p.bus.lls to 14s Carraway 22s 268 Swede —s —s Coriander 125 168 Mustard, Brown .. 108 13s lienipseed, per qr 44s 465 White. Tares, Spring....4s Od 48 6d Crushing Old per quarter - b —s Baltic —9 —s Canary, per quarter 52s 6 s Odessa —s —s Rye grass, new 22s 24s Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s Clover, Red Eng., ct. 42s 7's English £9 10E1.00 16s White Foreign Red,— 4 s 48s Rape Cakes,p toti.Es Os J.:6 Os White sls 68s 1 Rapeseed, new,pr qr 625 05s Trefoil, new, 22s 27s I BOROUGH HOP. The amount of business passing iu our market is still of limited extent. Prices, however, both of English and foreign qualities, rule firm. The import last week amounted to 105 bales from Antwerp, 11 Hamburg, and 23 bales from Rotterdam. Mid and East Kents £5 Os to £9 10s per cwt. Weald of Bents 5 Os to 7 78 Sussex Yearlings 3 Os to 5 Os I, Bavarian 5 52, to 8 8s 71 Belgian American WOOL. Long stapled English wool continuo) very arm in price, Particulars. Stock this nay._ Price of Y.C. Delivery last week Ditto from June 1 Arrivals last week Ditto from June 1 Price of Town .... 1850. 1851 1863. 3 ' oBB 76.031 37A60 41.823 5682.1 to 59861 to 4hs‘d t0 1 42s 93 to Od —s Cd 46s 6d —s Od 1,486 1,116 1,9:/1 1,312 73,63 70,411 111,458 72,688 736 285 307 92 ,791 115,323 92.157 76,232 56s 6d 568 6d 478 9d 4i'B 3d Roman Catholic Chaplains, (From the Times.) t 2.106 Ole Od to —s Od 1,',02 63,37 50 82,639 43s Od It will have been observed with regret filet the Middlesex magistrates have decided, by a large ma jority, neither to appoint Roman Catholic chaplains to their gaols nor even to pay priests for visiting Roman Catholics in the county prisons. Oar readers will remember that a bill was passed last year which gave the magistrates power under certain circum stances, with the consent of the visiting justices, to appoint a Roman Catholic priest as minister, and to give him a fixed and sufficient remuneration. Wherever the number of prisoners exceeds 30 the Act may be put in force. Where it is not adopted, prisoners are only 'visited by a priest at their own request. TLe Middlesex county prisons are a good instance of the necessity of some such measure. According to a letter which we pubish in another column, the number of Roman Catholic prisoners in the three county prisons is no less than 649. The number in the House of Correction is 391, in the Westminster Bridewell 223, and in the House of Detention 35. All these at present have no regular religious instruction. They will, of course, in nearly every case exercise their right of refusing to receive the visits o' the chaplain of the Established Church, and there is no one else to go to them. They may, if they ask for it, receive visits from a priest, but it is not surprising that, as stated on Thursday, " compratively few prisoners have mace such re quests ;" and the result is that a 1 these prisoners, remain without any religious influence—we might almost say any moral influence—being brought to bear upon them. They are simply subjeated to the hard lessons of the penal discipline of the gaol, and left to deduce the moral for themselves. Mr. Laurie endeavoured, by the most obvious arguments of justice and common sense, to induce the magistrates to put an end to this disgraceful state of things. He proposed resolutions for the appointment of regular Roman Catholic ministers for these three prisons, leaving the details of the arrangements in the hands of the visiting justices. Such a straightforward propoeal, however, seems to have been felt at once to involve a liberality of feeling which was not to be expeoted in the board of magistrates, and Mr. Cox endeavoured to substi tute a proposition which should give a less serious shock to traditional prejudices. Ho only ventured to propose that the justices should be requested to carry out so much of the set as relates to " per mitting a minister of the chuch or peranation to which prisoners belong to visit them at proper and reasonable times" under any necessary regulations, and that they should be authorised to pay such ministers a moderate remuneration. Even this, however, was far too much for the meeting. and the amendment was rejected by no less dmajority than 65 to 7. Upon this another amendment was proposed, directly denying the necessity and the justice of the proposition before the Court. It committed the magistrates to the opinion " that 'the present arrangements for the moral and religious instruction of the prisoners are suf ficient," though, es we have explained, at far as Roman Catholic prisoners go, there are no such arrangements at all; and " that any appointment by the Court of permission by the visiting justices for Roman Catholic priests to attend at the prisons on all occasions, whether their ministrations are re quired or not, would be unnecessary and improper,' —a statement of which we will venture to say that, like many Protestant manifestoes, it contains as much ingenious misrepresentations as any of the Roman Catholic evasions which are these gentle men's bugbears and every honest man's abomi nation. No one proposes, ever did propose, that Roman Catholic priests should be allowed to attend at the prisons "on all occasions," but only on such occasions as shall be permitted by the regulations of the visiting justices; nor was it ever contemplated that they should attend " whether their ministrations are required or not," but only when it shall reasonably appear that such ministrations are required. The sole question is when it shall be considered that this requirement exists. At present it depends upon the caprice of the prisoner; the proposal of the act is to make it depend on the judgment of the magi strates. However, the amendment was scarcely even criticised, and this di s i ngenuous a nd extrava gant resolution was adopted by a ma jority of 70 to 24, or nearly 3to 1. The original proposal was therefore rejected, and the result received with loud " cheers." The cheers proceeded, of course, from the magistrates themselves. There are very few other persons who will receive with any satis faction a result which proclaim s that two-thirds of the magistrates of such a couuty as Middlesex are still capable of denying the claims of reason and justice. The speech of the gentleman who proposed the amendment—Mr. Sergeant Payne—is a curio sity as being delivered by an educated and learned gentleman to a body of magistrates. It consists of nothing but a string of those load and irrelevant, and for the most part unfounded, decla matorybe eulogised or studied a which m b a u y t t Protestant platitudes Institutes, which are banished from the conversation and almost from the recollec tion of all reasonable men. Mr. Sergeant Payne "did it," it must be confessed, i n a sty l e w hi c h would have done honour to the most free and inde pendent "buncombe endentoraj on platform orator p w l ho f e m ver thundered P ro t es t an t or in pulpit. " Three centuries ago their ancestors had fought for an amended form of religion, and they ought to hold by a Reformation which was founded in good sense." " When once the door was opened there was no knowing when it would be closed." "If they admitted priests, there would be a sealed confession, and what would there be to prevent improper communications being made between the priests and the prisoners ?" 'Who, indeed, can tell what horrible schemes, what new Guy Fawkes Mr. Newdegst e might the Qleen, the Arch bishopp l o t s for o the f C blowing terb o rupCanterbury, a !l o a f not be hatched if two such persons as Father New man and an Irish convict got together in a prison cell ? May we suggest that the same danger exists from Roman Catholics loose as from Roman Catholics tied up, and that Mr. Payne himself and the whole Constitution are in imminent danger of being suddenly blown up 20 long as half a dozen priests and a dozen Irish Catholics exist in London? One or two other such dreadful consequences were suggested : and then came the peroration It was said that the strong Protestant feeling of the country was sufficient to check Roman Catholic arrogance. He trusted that it was so, and he hoped that re:iitance would be made to every attack, howiver small, from a sense of thankful ness that we no longer lived under the blighting influence of a Roman Catholic priesthood." That last sentence was no doubt irresistible. There is one other argument, however, which we have kept to the last as the gem of the whole speech. "It was impossible," be said, " to regard the proposal as anything but an attempt to increase the number of Roman Catholic subjects." We confess we are at a loss to understand what this means; how the visits of Roman Catholic priests to Roman Catholic prisoners would have any tendency to increase their or any other species. Would it have been credible before the event that all this nonsense should have been net only spoken, but listened to patiently and approved by 70 magistrates of the metropolitan county P They had before them two simple considera tions—one of common justice, the other of com mon reason. The question of justice may be simply proposed in the familiar coesideration of doing as they would be done by. If many hundreds of our countrymen were constantly liable to be immured in a Spanish prison, these seventy gentlemen are just those who would get up a great agitation and go on deputations to Lord Palmerston to get Protestant chaplains appointed to the Spanish gaols ; and they would think it monstrously hard if the Pontifical Government refused to allow the establishment of a Protestant clergy man and a Protestant church at Rome. Yet no other considerations whatever, except force, can be brought to bear on the Spanish or Roman Govern ment which do not equally be.:r on the magistrates of a county with a large cumber of Roman Catholic prisoners. As to the consideration of reason, the question is, as we have before put it, whether these prisoners shall have any religious or moral influenc.l brought to bear on their minds at all. It is idle to say they can have it if they like. It is much the same thing as telling a man with hydrophobia that he may drink water if he likes. The very men who will not send for Ilia priest are just those who want him most. The opposing magistrates seemed to speak of the matter on Thursday as though a minis ter were a sort of luxury which ought to be denied to prisoners, in the same way as amusing books or newspapers or venison, as though he were a sort of dispenser of agreeable theological excitement or con troversial delicacies. But we appoint chaplains to our gaols for the supposed purpose of initiating a process of improvement by awakening in the minds of prisoners religious and moral motives. He is sup posed to be as essential a part of the prison as the cell, the rank, or the treadmill. His duty and use are, so to say, to interpret to the convict the external consequences of his crime, and force them home on his conscience and reason. If this be necessary for Protestant prisoners, it is certainly necessary for Roman Catholic prisoners; and it is, in fact, nothing short of a direct derelecfion of duty when it is not provided. We hope the day is not far off when the prejudices we have been exposing —perhaps more foolish than bigoted—will yield to these simple considerations, and when Roman Catholic ministers will be regularly admitted, not only to our gaols, but even, in spite of Sergeant Payne's almost inhuman expression, to lunatic asylums. That any English gentleman could be led to- refuse to the unhappy inmates of county lunatic asylums the chance of the comforting, and therefore restoring, influence which the ministra tions of priests of their own religion might afford is alone sufficient to condemn the spirit which prompted the opposition of the Middlesex Magis trates. GARIBALDI AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. (THIS DAY.) The presentation of the trades' addresses to General Garibaldi having been arranged for to day, the early trains to the Crystal Palace were crowded in an extraordinary manner. The gates of the Palace were opened at nine o'clock, and immediately after thousa ads of visitors arrived in quick succession. The weather was all that could be desired, and no doubt this greatly swelled the number of those present. Nothing like an estimate of the number present at the time of writing could be _formed, as every five minutes brought fresh acquisitions to the already enormous assemblage. The proceeding will be as great a success sip the presentations of Saturday; and as that event will be foutid in another part of The Sun, it is only necessary at present to say that the demonstration of to-day was nearly in all respects similar, except as to the filing past the General of the numerous deputations, each of whom presented the address of their respective bodies. SYDENIIAM, 12 o'clock. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. The attendance is beyond all precedent. The interior of the building presents a sight of the most extraordinary nature. Everything bids fair to pass off with the greatest effect and order. QUARTER PAST Two. Attendance about 26,000. Not so many here as expected. HALF-PAST Two. General just arrived. Received with enthusiasm. Numbers greatly increased. Deputations filing past. and the lato advance in the quotations is fully supported. The excitement in this description has, however, in some measure eubsided. For Down wool there is a steady in quiry, and prices rule firm. Purchases at high rates still continue to be made in new produce in first rate hands. Colonial wool, by private contract, is in fair average re quest at fully last week's currency. The next public sales will probably commence on the sth prox. The arrivals to date are :—From Sydney, 9,466 bales; Port Philip, 34,663; Van Dieman's Land, 1,591; Adelaide, 10,814; New Zealand, 3,265; Swan River, 1,124; Cape, 6,975. Total, 67,898 bales. Current prices of English wool, per lb. Fleeces —South Down hoggets 1 11 to 2 Oi Halt-bred do Kent fleeces south Down ewes & wothers 1 9 1 10 Leicester do, Lincolnshire hoggetts .. Sorts—Clothing Combing Noils Brokes 0 0 0 0 TALLOW. The tallow trade continues very inactive. P.Y.C. is quoted at 41s per cwt., on the spot; 418 9d for July to September, and 43s 6d to 44s for October to December de livery. Rough fat, 26 lid per 81bs. Town tallow, 40s 3d net cash. Indisposition of Garibaldi, General Garibaldi, we are informed, through a letter addressed to us from Stafford House by Signor Negretti, is not so well as his friends would wish him, there being very little doubt that the continued exertion of receiving so many visits, and calling on so many friends, in !ening greatly on his health, much more than the General himself likes to acknowledge. Mn. SIMS REEVES AND THE ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE.—We have been requeste d by Mr. Sims Reeves to state that there was nothing in the announcement of his illness to merit the derision with which it was received when made at Drury- lane Theatre on Wednesday afternoon. He was seriously indisposed, and the fact is conrfimed by his absence from Ex.eter-hall on Friday, when the oratorio of St. Paul" was performed. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The annual benefit of Mr. Walter Lacy takes place on Wednesday neat (20th). On this occasion " Henry IV." will be p reo edo by a scene from "Twelfth Night," a selection from the at:Pg 6 of Shakspere, with music and dancing of the poet's tinse--0 entertainment in perfect keeping with the week of cele- brations. FATAL ACCIDENT AT A STEEPLECHASE.—On Saturday an inquest was held before Mr. C. C. Lewis on the body of Mr John Chiietian Tilbury, aged 2C, who died from injuries sustained by the fall of his horse upon him at the South Essex Steeplechases on Thursday last. The inquiry took place at the house of Mr. Campbell, on whose farm the accident occurred. Mr John Tilbury, of 9, Glocester-crescent, Hyde-park, said—The deceased was my son. He kept a riding establishment, and I acted as his assistant. Mr Samuel. Augustus Baker, of Chelmsford, veterinary-surgeon,—On Thursday last deceased rode a horse of mine at the South Essex Steeplechase in the Hun ters' Stakes. I had not seen him before to my knowledge. He volunteered to ride, and appeared perfectly well and sober. He asked me if I had anything to say as to the riding of the horse. I told him he knew better what to do than I could tell him. The horse was a fine, clever jumper, and it had never before been in a steeplechase. It is coming five years old, and had 'dem regularly hunted the whole season once a week, or twice in a fortnight. He is an easy horse to ride and of good temper. The horses started about three o'clock, and immediately afterwards I saw the horse loose. The deceased jumped the horse over the hurdles in front of the stand three times before starting. Mr. James White, jan., of Brentwood, said,—l saw the horses start—there were Bof them. Deceased was the last but one when he made the jump from the road. Six horses were before him. When he came to the fence the horse appeared not to be able to regain his stride, fell on its knees and rolled over the deceased. I ran to the deceased, who was lying on his side insensible. I, Mr. Burtwell, Mr. Pryor, and Mr. Shorter picked him up and brought him to Mr. Campbell's house, where he was immediately attended by several me dical men. John Slater, late of Heron-gate, said, — I know the fence and saw the deceased fall. I was standing about 4 rods off. The horse did not clear the fence as it ought— it appeared to catch its fore lcgs in the bushes—it stumbled, but did not appear to go light down. I saw the deceased and over its head. Mr. Robert fall opposite the horse, Finch Jordisor, of South Ockenden, surgeon, said,—l saw deceased immediately after the accident at Mr. Camp bell's house. I found him insensible on a sofa. There was no appearace of external injury. I remained with him until about six o'clock on Friday morning. He was then dying. My son remained with him until he died, at half past eleven. I have made a post mortem examination since death, and discovered on the right side of the skull a minute star fracture, through which blood was exuding ; but the other injuries he received by so severe a fall would be sufficient to cause death. Nothing could have been done to save him—it was a hopeless case from the first, A report that deceased was not sober at the time was most indignantly denied by Mr. Tilbury, who said his son was most abstemious. This ebidence was confirmed by Mr. Kerridge. Tho jury returned a verdict of accidental death. ' The wife of the deceased was Miss Lydia Thompson, the celebrated actress, by whom be had one child, The French Press on Garibaldi' s Visit to England, The Monde says that the English Cabinet sane. tions the demonstrations through hatred to France. Our contemporary expresses itself in these terms : ;Whilst our sophists labour, at the rehabilitation of Satan, the enemy of God ; of Judas, the enemy of Jesus Christ; and of Julian the Apostate, the enemy of the Church, there is at a few leagues from France a nation which does not content itself with writing and speaking, but which acts—a nation which acclaims and receives as a King, a hero, and a virtuous man, the declared enemy of France and of the Catholic Church, and the friend of Eng land and of Mazzini. It is not an ignorant populace who press in crowds round him, who carry is triumph, and who abandon every occupation to see end hear him and touch his hand, but all classes, alli ages, and all conditions of the nation, old men, women, and children, all are in movement ; workmen, tradesmen, and manufacturers, all rush to meet him. The official world rival in enthusiasm with simple citinns ; members of the House of Commons mix with leers; the aristocracy show themselves as eager as the democracy; Whigs and Tories manifest equal admiration ;!even the Mi nisters of Queen Victoria follow the cortege of the hero, and go so tar as to endeavour to make her Majesty take part in the demonstration, by advising her to confer the Order of the Garter on the Duke of Sutherland, the host of Garibaldi. The delirium is universal. But is it delirium? Lord Pal merston, who at first was not well pleased at the arrival of the adventurer, soon changed his conduct by recognising what he could not prevent, and has resolved to turn the visit to his own advantage. If his wish has • been to obtain a striking glorification of the Italian Revolution, he has certainly succeeded ; if he has wished to show that England is still the cordial enemy of France, the enemy of the Papacy, and the instigator of revolutions, he has been suc cessful ; his triumph is complete, and he has, moreover, the satisfaction of seeing that a great part of the French press unites its plaudits to those of London, and triumphs with it at the shameless insults offered to France. It is from this time agreed that France has done nothing in Italy, that England alone rendered possible that glorious revolution ; that she alone can secure the complete accom plishment of it, and that to her alone the gratitude of Italy will be due. We willingly leave that glory to England and to the adventurer whose name is so justly posted up by the side of those of Mazzini, of Stansfeld, and of Palmer ston; the manifestations in London relieve France from a heavy responsibility, and in that point of view we rejoice at them. One of the first consequences will be, it is said, the return to power of Baron Ricasoli, a convert to Protestantism and a man devoted to England. So much the better, for all veils will then. rent asunder, the blindest will be compelled to see clearly, and if the patriotic journals which here acclaim the hero of Marsala persist in their en thusiasm, no one can be mistaken as to the sentiments with which they are inspired. The Gazette tie France affects to consider Gari baldi as a nulity popular for the moment and likely to become an instrument in Lord Palmerston's hands should the fitting occasion arise : The conduct of the English cowards Garibaldi (says the writer) excites many very angry feelings and an indigna tion bordering on disgust. We contess, for our part, but this is purely a personal opinion, that we entertain none of these sentiments. Garibaldi is a noisy nullity, an' heroic blockhead,' as was remarked by his friend Mazzini, who knew him from experience. Circumstances and the political game of Count Cavuur have made him a celebrity, a popular type; he has served as a screen for the Piedmoutese plot ters, as he is now used to mask the political machiaetions of the English. Garibaldi, as we have said, is a diplomatic instrument, serving as a bugbear in the hands of those who will take the trouble to use him. For this, it suffices to call him a hero, a god, to wreathe crowns for him, to receive him with acclamations to overwhelm him with polite attentions, tojeall him ' one's friend.' He has a special weakness for this kind of appellation: It was by calling him his friend,' and allowing himself to he addressed in letters as ' dear Victor,' that Victor Emmanuel held him so long in the service of his ambition. Some will perhaps think that this is not paying too dearly for Garibaldi's services, for Garibaldi may, at a given moment, become very useful, when a pretext of agitation is wanting to cover a premedi tated usurpation; but there are persons who will not de scend to such a complaisance; and would find such a strata gem repugnant in spite of all the advantages connected with it. England does not feel any of these scruples, and at this moment she is striving to attach the "hero" to her self by the cheers of the people and the visits of the no bility: Lord Palmerston requires such an auxiliary for the scheme he meditates ; it accords with the views of his strategy to send Lord Clarendon to I'aris and to wel come Garioaldi. The general is an invaluable instru ment to the English, because it is possible to exaggerate his influence without increasing his power. An able man, like some members of the Radical party, would take advantage of these acclamations to extend his power of ac tion; he would take his earnest and make his conditions; Garibaldi does not see so far. _ . _ thu Union euters into the following disquisition on the probable motive for Lord Clarendon's visit to Paris What is the object of this mission? Is it the Danish Duchies! Is it Eastern affairs and the convents of the Danubian principalities? Is it the Suez Canal. All those hypotheses aro possible and probable. We should not, how ever, be astonished if the noble lord was charged with negotiating some still more important interests. The Eng lish Cabinet may have the desire to obtain from Paris some clear, explicit, and categorical declarations as to the manner in which the eventualities of peace and war are viewed. England has not at the present mo ment any wish to draw the sword; she strongly desires that the conflict which has broken out in Germany should not lead to a:general coeflagratioa, and her own embarrass ments cause her to with for an amicable solution. But who knows if she does nut desire, before becoming, in a certain manner, a guarantee for peace, to be wale to rely upon something mere than tkat attitude of reserve, of isolation, and meditation, to employ a word in fashion, which she re marks in the French Government ! The Earl of Clarendon would no doubt not be sorry to take back before the 20th some assurances a little more significant than all that Earl Cowley has thus tar been able to obtain. The game— a dangerous one—which the Ministry is allowing to be played, not without a certain affectation, around Gari baldi by the population, the aristocracy, and the revolutionary and anti-papal passions of England, might in its turn indirectly serve Lord Clarendon as an argument which cuts both ways, in favour of the thesis which he has come to support. If the French Government Was not absolutely pacific and conservative, England would declare herself hardly able to restrain the outbursts of the fatuous condottiere, and then war, if it broke out, would inevitably assume the character of a demagogical conflagra tion. Even Victor Emmanuel, who feels that he himself is outstripped and overpowered, begins to be afraid. England is persuaded that in presence of this peril she will receive pledges of a firm resolution not to run the risk of hostilities ; these are what Lord Clarendon has probably come to pro cure, not concealing the fact that, if he returns without be ing able to obtain them, the British Cabinet will feel re leased from all responsibility as to what serious events the future may bring forth " h: L. " . FRESENTATION OF DEVIZES.—Sir Thomas Bateson, 17'11" the Conservative candidate, was elected this day withal. opposition. The Gordian kn.'t of the Eve Under-Secretaries in the House of Common,' has been cut by the unsolicited resignation of Mr. Chicheste; Fortescue. Mr. Lowe has also resigned the office of Vice-s'resident of the Council. Lord Dutlerin and Lord Wodebouse Are spoken of for the vacant Under -Secretaryship, and Mr. Fokleecue to succeed Mr. Lowe. EXECUTION IN IRELAND. — On Thursday morn ing, at 8 o'clock, the last sentence of the law was carried into effect at Waterford on the person of Thomas Walsh. The facts connected with the case were of a most revolting nature.—They are thus briefly related :—Thomas Walsh and Thomas Connolly both lived in a wild district in the south of Waterford. The daughter of the former married the grandson of the latter, and all went to live in the same house. The old men never: agreed, and were always quarrelling. One morning young C onn olly left home, and the old men and Walsh's daughter were left alone in the house. Walsh availed himself of this oppor tunity, knocked down Connolly with a hatchet, and the:lt dragging his lifeless body into an outhouse, actually chopped it up into small pieces. These he made so small that he was able to take them in handfuls and bury them in a garden which joined the house. But afterwards he thought this place too near, so at night he again took up the mangled remains, put them into a bag, and conveyed them to a bog about three miles distant, where he buried them, making three or four portions, and burying them in different places. When young Connolly came home next day of course he missed hie grandfather, and, his suspicion being aroused, searched for, and after several days' search, found portions of his mutilated remains. As yet there was no direct evi dence against old Walsh, but his daughter, who had been, according to her own statement, an unwilling witness to all that has been related, and who, believing herself to be in danger, saw no means of getting out of it except by swear ing against her father. Her father was hanged on her evidence, and it may be said on her evidence alone. There is something so unnatural in this that most persons wish the Crown could have dispensed with her evidence. A considerable crowd had assembled long bef ore th e ti me ap pointed for the esecutiun. It was principally composed of women, girls, and boys. Pew men were preaent. It was very orderly, very quiet—indeed, most l ooked as if they were d eeply impressed with th e scene. P rec i se l y at e i ght o'clock the condemned man was led to the scaffold. lie looked pale and worn, trembled violently, and could scarcely stand. He wa s a tt en d e d b y the Rev. Mr. Dunphy of this city. The executioner did his business expedi tiously—he was evidently no young hand. His face was blackened, so that it was impossible to tell what he was like. Walsh was placed on the slap ; in a few moments the bolt awin w gi a n s drawn, tint t h e air . and the Ina ahortstruggling, time be quivering body ceased t na struggle g w g a l e s . —his soul was Wore his judge. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—Tbis Day. CITY BETTING.—Tats DAY. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 11 to 4 agst Fille de l'Air (taken) Bto 1 agst General Peel (taken) to 1 agst Sir Roger (taken) 10 to 1 agst First Flight (offered) 12 to 1 agst Claremont (offered) 15 to 1 agst Copenhagen (taken) 16 to 1 agst Durham (taken) 16 to 1 agst Hollyfox (offered) 20 to 1 agst Laomedon (taken) CHESTER CUP. 10 to 1 agst Change (taken) 10 to 1 agst Lord Zeiland (taken) 12 to 1 agst Little Stag (offered) 15 to 1 agst Greenland (taken) /3 to 1 agst llersey filly (offered) 16 to 1 agst Gordian Knot (taken) 20 to 1 agst The Clown (taken) 25 to 1 agst Welcome (taken) RACING FIXTU. API RES FOR 1864. Lewes Spring l9 Cardiff Newmarket First Spring Z 5 Chester York Spring halitbury . 12 Blay,ton Radcliffe Redditch .............. 16 Bath ................ 17 Manchester (Summer .• 13 Harpenden......... 20 Epsom ................ 24 ,NE Wye Maidstone 3 Ascot Hampton l5 Newton Odiham Bibury Beverley .... 22 Stockbridge .......... 23 Chelnistord ............ 28 New Forest Hunt .... 2F.s Ne wcastle-on-Tyne Worcest , r (Summer) 30 Ipswich .. Newmarket July Carlisle Pontefract Abingdon Cambridge Liverpool July 73 Stamford Nottingham . l9 'Winchester l9 Southampton .. Chesterfield King's Lynn Goodwood Bright on 2 Brighton Club Lewes 5 Huntingdon . 9 Wolverhampton Reading Egham Oxford .. 1S SEPT: Weymouth 1 Warwick September 6 Leicester 8 Bridgwater Doncaster OCT Bedford 4 Northallerton 6 Newmarket Second Oct lO Dover York August %,.. Yarmouth Plymouth Lichfield 29 Stockton 10 Devon and Exeter .... 30 Derby ... . :m.BER. Brecon .. 19 Richmond Monmouth . ... 22 Manchester Autumn .. 23 Newmarket First October 27 Lincoln Gloucester Newmarket Houghton 2l :MEER. Worcester Autumn .... 1 Shrewsbury Autumn .. 14 j IRI Leamington &War. Hunt 22 SIT. Springhill 2 Galway Hunt Nenagh lO, 11 Jr Cork Tullamore Tipperary 3O, 31. Curragh 28, 29, 30 SEPTEMItER. Curragh 6, 7, 8 OCTOBER. Curragh STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864. NOVEMBER. Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt 22 Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, Market rather quiet. Sales probably 5,000 hies. SHIPPING—This Day, LONDON, April 18.—Wind this day at noon —South- West; moderate breeze and fine weather. FALMOUTH, April 17.—Wind N.—Arrived—Partheon, from Zanzibar. COWES, April 16.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Lady Bea trice, trona Bahia. DovEu, April 15.--Wind S.W.—Sailed—Phonia, for Richibucto. MILFORD, April 17.—Wind N.B.—Sailed—Jamaica Packet, screw steamer, for Jamaica. OFF OROOKHAVEN, April 18.—Arrived—China, screw steamer, from New York. BY ➢IAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Arrived, April 17—Lion, from Harlingen—Precursor, from Adelaide—Golden South, from Demerara—Alphing ton, from Algoa Bay. DEAL, Monday Morning. Arrived and Passed, April 17—Cervantes, screw steamer, from London for Alicante. Passed—Eugenie, from London for Nassau—Rouen, from Londen for Nassau. Arrived, April 18th—Zephyr, from London for Ri Janeiro—Golden Fleece, from London for Algoa Bay—, Blanche, screw steamer, from London for Corfu. Lifeboat Services, WITRERNSEA, NEAR HULL, April 16. The new lifeboat of the National Institution stationed at Withernsea has happily been the means (reports Captain Swann) of rescuing three men from a position of great peril. Some of the fishing boats left Withernsea early this morn ing, and returned all safe with one exception, the wind at the time being about S, but variable. Shortly afterwards it suddenly veered round due N., and at 12 at noon it was S.E. These sudden changes in the wind caused a troubled sea with a very heavy surf. Shurtly before two o'clock the absent boat was seen about two miles out. It was quite im- possible for her to make the land ; had she attempted to do so she must inevitably have been swamped. On her making signals for assistance the lifeboat was manned and launched in a masterly manner, and with great rapidity. The fishermen were reached; their things taken from their boat and the boat taken in tow. The lifeboat behaved admirably, and was brought in by the coxswain through the heavy surf in most creditable style, and again placed on her carriage quickly. The service was performed to the entire satisfactian of the lookers on. It is somewhat odd that the men saved are part of the old lifeboat's crew, one of them being the late coxswain. The cost of this boat, which is named the Pelican, was presented, through Wm. Wilson, Esq., to the National Lifeboat Institution about two years since by Miss Sarah Lcckmere of Healey Castle Vicarage. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per milk pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.17/ per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 10/d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is about the same price in London and Paris. By advices fromliamburg the price of gold is 4231 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per £1 ,tandard gold at the English Mirt price is, therefore, about 1-10th per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 00 days' sight is 1772 to 1782 per cent., and the premium on gold is about 32 percent. At these rates there is no profit on the importationoi gold from the United States. At an extraordinary general meeting held to. day of shareholders in the London and Provincial Marine Insurance Company, Admiral Sir Henry Le M.P., in the chair, it was unan i mously determined to increase the capital of the under. taking from £710,000 to £1,000,000 by the creation of 14,500 new shares of £2O each. The new shares are to be issued at a premium of £1 each, and to be offered to the proprietors in the first instance in the proportion of two new for every five shares uow he;d• The advices relating to the condition of trade in the manui:l.cturing districts during favourable cha r acter. are, in most iastances, of a the past week At Manchester the speculative demand for cotton occasioned a slight rise in prices for that staple, and rather more business was transacted. For cloths, woollex, and worsted descriptions, the re spective markets at Leeds, Huddersfield, and Halifax, presented a steady but quiet appearance. At Bradiord there was experi enced little more buoyancy in consequence of the advance in cotton, and at Leicester thorn prevailed a full inquiry for hosiery goods. Large orders from the country and abroad bad been received at Shef field and Birmingham, and the future aspect of affairs in these departments conse t T h h e e T re i s a e ri o a f satisfactory appearance. The Admiralty Court of Copenhagen has declared queutly present a very l FranciQca of Dantzic, to h e lawful p rizes . The o P f i S ll t a r u a s t u h n e d ' A t r h i a e n e Fi o d f e 1 il e l o e f m ' e ‘ , e m a and the Therese of Pillau, the Ariane of Mem e l, and th e cargoeu tr a e l h f, the bean efirst-gniavaten up. first-named being pronounced n FRANEFORT, April 14.—The Ga . maric Diet this day adopted by a large majority the proposition of the committee relative to 11 8 Conference. Baron de Beust was named almost unacituouly ple4 l ' patentiary for lUST. BER.