The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-18 00:00:00

140if -s iY MARKET AND COMMERCTA T 4 INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The tendency of the rates of discount is slightly in the direction of greater easiness, first-class bills being now negooiatcd as low as 31 per cent., although that can scarcely be quoted, as the average charge 3i per cent, being generally required by the joint-stock banks and private establishments. There was a further influx of £BO,OOO iu gold at the Bank of England yesterday. The Hibernian has arrived from America with XBO,OOO. The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day are in round figures as under : 1863. 1562. Great Western N orth-Westem S outh -Western 13 rightcn. Midland 39,199 41,653 S outh -Eastern Great Northern Great Eastern 1 ancashire and Yorkshire 32,910 41,713 North Eastern 41,056 40,44 Bristol and Exeter Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 14,521 15,552 Edinburgh and Glasgow Great Luxembourg .. 4,784 4,668 These returns owing to the comparison being made With Whitsun week last year, generally show a eonsiderab e falling off. On the Great Western there is a decrease of £3,297; on the North Western of £4,080; on the Brighten, of £3,948; on the Midland, of 2,454 ; on the South. Eastern of £5,161; on the Great Eastern,of £3,580; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire, of £8,800; and on the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln, of £lO3l. The South Western, however, exhibits an increase of £1,877 ; the Great Northern, of £1,913 ; the North Eastern, of £782, and the Edinburgh and Glasgow of £B4B. TWO O'CLOCK. A t Paris this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were 68f 52c, 68t 55c. Heavy. The yearly meeting of the Natal Land and Colo nization Company was held to-day, Sir James D. x. Elphinstone, Bart., in the chair. The report Was unanimously adopted. It was stated that the result of the first year of the company's operations enables the directors to propose the payment of a dividend at the rate or ss. per share, tree of income tax, after writing off 10 per cent. of the preliminary expenses, leaving a surplus of £362 lls. ld. to be carried forward to the profit and loss account for the present year. The chairman stated that the company's:operations were satisfactory, that the pro posal for equalising the two descriptions of shares would, it was hoped, meet the great difficulty hitherto experienced by the proprietors of the paid up shares who did not now receive more interest than the L 5 shareholders. It would also be the means of increasing the basis of the company's credit by placing a larger fund at the disposal of the directors. A resolution to the following effect was thereupon agreed to, viz• :—That the holders of the 14,000 paid-up shares have the option of receiving in exchange for each Such share two shares of £lO each, with .t 5 paid, charging for the advantage of the conversion 108. for each new share. The operation, when carried oat, would give an actual profit to the company of £14,000, which the directors propose to divide as a bonus amongst the shareholders. The company Would derive the great additional advantage of increasing their uncalled capital from its present s um of £42,500 to £182,500. There is a heavy market to-day for the English Ponds, a few sales having resulted in a decline of i per cent. Consols, therefore, are only 91/ 92 for transfer, and 928 4 for the 9th proximo. Busintss continues dull, and the limited number of transac tions is sufficient to influence the tendency of Values. small amount of business has been transacted in the New Threes and Reduced Annuities, at 91 1 s ; Bank Stock is 232 2331; the March Exche quer Bills, 2s. dis. to Is. prem. ; and Indian 5 per Cents., 1 084- There is less animation and buoyancy in the foreign Market. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, have receded to 711 4 ; ditto Consotides, to 501 51 ; Greek, to 381 to 1; ditto Coupons, to 184 4 ; Spanish Passive are 341 35 ; ditto Certificates, 121 1; Mexican, 371 38 ; Portuguese 491 ; the Confederate Loan is 11. to 01 dis. ; and the New Venezuelan Loan, par tol prem. In the Railway Share Market the operations have continued very inactive, and prices have in several instances exhibited less firmness. Great Western, and North Western have declined ss. ; and London and Brighton, 10s.; Lancashire and - Yorkshire, however, have improved 15s. ; North astern (Ber gvick), 10s. ; and South Eastern, ss. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have re- Il laized inactive at about previous rates. Joint Stock . Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue dull. Imperial Ottoman Bank realised ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam have declined to 76 1; International Financial Shares are quoted u6 l- prem. ; L on d on Fi nanc i a l d o ., 2 21 ; General "redit, 21 4 prem.; and Egyptian Trading Com -13(loYs 21 1 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 23 2 .3} aPer Cent. R e d uce d A nnu iti es Per Cent. Consols Annuities Ne w q A Per Cent. Annuities ' - 'nuities,, 30 yrs, expire iithJan., 1880 — Ditto I - or 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l4/ D itto (Red Sea Telegraph ), Aug. 1908 — Indi a ,s,, oc k 0 D itto 5 per Cent lOB/ I °II BO s for Account, July 9 921 f . . L ., March June. '440 iequer Bills, £l,OOO 2/ per Cent... 2 dis I , Ditto ' £5OO - - 2 die 4 Mt° Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Z•razilian 5 per Cent - Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 'Lilian 6 per Cent Greek 7 per Cent.... ureek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account 385 4 1 ; k i .. Ditto Coupons l9k At alian 5 per Cent. (Maremman a R a il way ) 8 0k keaican 3 per Cent .....Ditto Account " v iew Granada ..„ Ditto 2 per Cent . 325 rortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 ...- Ditto Account .. 491 Russian 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 . .. 934 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive .. — Ditto Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account Turkish 6 per Cent. 185 4 — Ditto 6 per Cent. 1868 Ditto Account 701 Ditto £lOO Bond a. ... Ditto 6 per Cent. '1862 Ditto Account . ... .. . 1.... Ditto 6 per Ce n t. 1863, ... l9B 4d paid a . 7 711 5 Venezuela, 3 pear C en t Pm Ditto Accoum.. "" Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 ............ Ditto Account 58/ 9 Ditto 11 per Cent Dividends on the above payabl e in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 franca_ Ditto Account 721 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Account 925 i Liverpool Cotton laarket—This Day, (REUTER! S TELEGRAM.) Alarket quiet. S•yles of the day, about 5,000 bales, Imports, 2:328 ; previously,l4,s33. THE ST. GEORGE'S CHALLENGE VASE.—It will be gratifying to the volunteers throughout the country to know that an additional prize has been decided upon by C ol• Lindsay, to be awarded to the winner of this beautiful prize in the contest at Wimbledon. A purse of five dragon sov ereigns will be found inside the vase upon presentation at the Crystal Palace, in addition to the gold and enamelled jewelof St. George, &c. The entries for the selection of representatives from the various battalion s in England, Scotland, and Wales are rapidly progressing; but as the list will close on the 26th of Jane, the adjutants and shoot ing c ommittees of such battalions have no time to lose, bearing in tniud that there is no limit to the number of e ntries of competitors for selection, at 2s. each, provided th ey are in all respects qualified according to the rules. A. Photograph of the vase will be presented to every represen tative in the contest at Wimbledon, which, together with the dis tinguishing badge, he will receive on application for 131° Paati-tieket. PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm., 111 i Great Western, 4 per cent. irred , 92a Lancashire and Yorkshire rd. 6 per cent. stock, 138} Mid. Consolidated, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 110 West Midland gua. Shares 51 per cent. 1863, 2i PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Metropolitan 5 per cent., Si FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lhm) gua. 7 per cent., 201 20 Recite and San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 16} San Paulo ;Um.), gua. 7 per cent., 91 Ditto (all), 2: South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian,l22i FOREIGN MINES. Cobre Copper, 291 89 7 Port Philip, 14 y St. John del Rey (Um.), 57 Vallanzasca Gold, lien., 1i Yudanamutana of S. Australia (Um), 32-1 JOIN T-STOCK RANS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool K (lim.), Hi 6 Bank of Queensland (lim), 9 British and American Exchange (Urn.), n' Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 121111 - English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 23i Imperial Bank (11w.), 22 Imperial Ottoman, 191 London and 441 London Join t Stock , , 37i New South Wales, 52 Provincial of Ireland, Ditto, new, 86 PII SCELLANEOUS, Berlin Water Wor:, {B , si I Electric Telegrdph, iOst :i leinancial Society, lira., 81 9 Si ash Australasian, i i North n o t r e t r h n a ß t r i o i ÷ n p Peninsi:;la and 0 iental Steam, 76 DAtto, new, la WRECK OF A VESSEL O N STONE.--A TELE ;.....rmy small coasting sloop, the Daring, of Brixha lost on Tuesday afternoon on the Eddystone r rn2 Was e g e 3 ,: e in t bal was from Salcombe, which she left in the m a c) last, bound round to Wales for a cargo of calm, one and two o'clock, when off the Eddystone Lighth o we s e : she ran on the north-east rock. Her captain and owner (Lloyd) was steering at the time, but appeared to be ignorant of the exact locality of this rock. The light keepers perceived the danger the sloop was running on, and waved to her to keep off. The captain noticed the signal, and shifted his helm, but too late, as almost imme diately afterwards the sloop struck. She then wore off into deep water. The crew proceeded to sound her pump well, bu . on looking into the hold they perceived she was filling with great rapidity, having stove in a large hole forward. They then took to their boat, and she went down in about ten 'ninnies after the accident. The crew con sisted of the captain, one man, and two boys, and they were picked up by the Plymouth trawling sloop Secret, whose cr ew witnessed the accid en t, an d brought the shipwrecked hands into port on Tuesday night, The clew lost nearly everything they had on bvard. LAW INTELLIGENCE —This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. WAY AND WIFE V. THE GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. This was an action for an injury sustained by the wife by the falling of a mast upon her, in consequence, as was alleged, of the want of due care on board one of the company's steamers in which she and her husband had been passengers to Herne Bay. Mr. Huldleston, Q.C., Mr. Mellish, Q.C., and Mr. Lumley Smith were for the plaintiff; Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. C. Pollock were for the company. In August last the lady and her husband were passengers on board of one of the company's steamers, the Prince of Wales, to Herne Bay, and while they were going down the river one of the masts suddenly snapped short about a foot from the deck and fell heavily upon the lady, doing her severe injury. She was detained at Herne Bay until Octo ber, and the expenses came, it was said, to nearly £l5O. The plaintiffs' case was that the mast was made of two pieces, one of which was let into the other, and that partly from this defect and partly throuvh the want of proper supports the fracture took place at the point of junction as the men were hoisting or shifting the sails. The caso for the defence was that the mast was made in the ordinary and, indeed, approved way, and that the acci• dent arose simply through a " sudden squall," and it was so stated in the report made by the company to the Bosrd of Trade at the time. After a long trial in which there was a great deal of evi deuce on both sides, _ , The Jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff; damages, £l,OOO, SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Kerr.) CAUTION TO SERVANTS ILL-USING ANIMALS-EALVEY V. GRIFFIN. This was an action to recover wages, alleged to he with held by the defendant, who is a iivery stable keeper. His Honour—Why does defendant refuse to pay the money ? _ _ . Plaintiff—He says that I beat a horse belonging to him, and I did not. Defendant—My attention was called to the plaintiff, who had been cruelly beating a horse belonging to me. I found that the animal was seriously injured, and I prosecuted the plaintiff at Guildhall. He was fined 40e., which he paid. Plaintiff—l paid the fine, but I was quite innocent, I assure you, _ _ _ His Honour—l have no doubt that the magistrate was satisfied before you were fined. The fine was for the public offence, but as you have misconducted yourself you must forfeit your wages. Verdict for defendant. THE COVET IS SASE.-HULL V. BATTY. This was a claim to recover £4 4s.—defendant being the well-known Italian warehouseman of Finsbury-pavement. Mr. Pook, of Basinghall-street, stated that his client, the defendant, was obliged to attend the Society of Arts to-day upon a most important inquiry into the rights of prize -medal holders. He had a good defence to the action, and appl , ed fur the case to be adjourned. His Honour said defendant must pay ss. costs. Plaintiff—lt is a great bother. Mr. Pook—The money is quite safe. The defendant is of Finsbury-pavement. His Honour—l must not know anybody here. You had better pay the money into court. Mr. Pook—He will do so. His Honour—There, Mr. Hull, the Court is quite safe, you know. (Laughter.) Adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. "YOUNG MEN FROM THE COUNTRY" IN THE HAY MARKET.---Charles Robinson, coachman, living at 20, Eccleston-square, and Henry Farrington, coachman, living at 18, Eccleston-square, were charged before Mr. Knox with being drunk, and behaving in a disorderly manner in the Haymarket. Austin, 188 C, said—At " closing " time this morning I saw some persons turned out of a tavern in the Haymar ket, and as soon as they got outside they began fighting. Mr. Knox What is closing time ? Austin—Four o'clock. The defendants then beaked the females, and urged them to fight, and on his interfering they began laughing and jeering, and said that if they gave me 2d. I would let them see a good fight with the —. Soon afterwards I saw one of the defendants fighting with a young man, and as they were both drunk I took them into custody. One of the defendants said—We are young men from the country, and were on our way with another coachman to see Covent-garden, and went up the Haymarket, and stood to see what was going on the same as others did, when the constable told us to move on. A girl at the time took our friend's watch. Neither of us were drunk. Sergeant Harrison—They were both drunk. Mr. Knox—l believe you are both from the country. Instead of seeing Covent-garden you got drunk, and saw the inside of a police-station. You must pay ss. each. A HARD CASE.—A female, named Brown, applied this morning to Mr. Knox for his advice under the following circumstances:— The applicant said that some time ago her and her hus band sold their life interests in a little property for the sum of £lOO, the money being paid over to Mr. H. W. Young, a solicitor, who acted for them. Some of the money was paid over to them by Mr. Young, but Mr. Young was sub subsequently chargtd with forgery, and convicted, his pro perty being seized by the sheriff. At this time Mr. Young had about £45 of her and her husband's money in his hands. Messrs. Parsons and Lee, of 15, Coleman-street, City, then wrote to the sheriff (Mr. Gammon) requesting that applicant's claim might be investigated, in answer to which the sheriff stated that money had been paid over to the Crown-office. She then went to the Crown•office, and was there informed that the accounts had been made up, and that the officers could not interfere. As she was in great distress—her husband having had to un ;ergo two operations—she had attended in the hope that she might find some means of getting her money. Mr. Knox said the applicant had better petition the Se cretary of State; it was the only course she could pursue. The Awards at the International Exhibition, MEETING THIS DAY. A meeting of prize medalists was held this day, at the Royal Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi, for the pur pose of considering the best means to be adopted for their protection, in consequence of a recent decision in the Vice- Chancellor's Court, by which it appeared that there did not exist at present any legal power to restrain non-exhibitors and others, who had not received awards at the late Exhi bition, from making use of the medals as trade marks, or otherwise. The chair was occupied by Mr. Alderman Copeland, M.P. The CHAIRMAN said he had been called upon to preside at that meeting by a number of gentlemen, who were en titled to medals by merit, and by the council of the Exhi bition, who complained of the use of those medals by per sons who had not had them awarded them, in furtherance of their trade. He could not help calling such a proceeding a fraud. He was not fond of using strong language, but in a case like the present, he thought it was right to speak very plainly, and he was of opinion that any per son who acted in the way described, viz., by falsely representing that he had received a prize medal, placed himself in anything but a favourable light as an honest tradesman. He should be very glad to hear obser vations from any gentlemen present, and also to assist them in approaching Earl Granville, in order to induce his lord ship to take some steps by which all persons who committed such a fraud would be punished. Mr. WADE moved the following resolution, viz.:— " That, in the opinion of this meeting, the use of the Ex hibition prize medals of 1862, or any previous exhibition, by any person or persons other than those to whom such medals have been awarded by her M.jesty's Commissioners under the direction of the jurors, is a direct fraud, tending to deceive and mislead the public, to injure the authorised medal holders, and to subvert the objects of the Exhibition." Mr. S. C. HALL thought that the resolution ought to be so worded as to embrace "honourable mention," because he thought it quite as bad to make use of the latter term as in asserting they had received medals when such was not the SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY' SHARES MYD STOtIF S. Share! Railwaye. C p l ri os ce. ing Busines, done. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter iCaledoniati aa - .Corx aid i3anklon jCornwaP IDo A i'"- gets no d: \ I Do. B N e . l ''P ci)P'll.l'.7 B. ) ~n paid to i. mp, ,, h & B e lt ast June. -" .fiun.,Perth,&Ab. Junc.l !Edinburgh & Glasgow.' .Glasg. and S. Western.! Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do It do Gt. S. an IW. of Ireland 'Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashi..e & 'Yorkshire London and Blackwali Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & Str.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do j shares . . Metropolitan ..... ..... Midland .............. Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British ilFdin.' , Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick IDo, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle North London I Do New North Staffordshire and S. NV. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock.. Shrews, and Welchpool Shropshire Union South, Devon ... South Eastern South Wales , S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1866 Taff Vale.. . Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pin lwaterfiard & Kilkenny West Cornwall 111 , . Hartlepool Har.&K 1 West Midland Oxiordl Do Newport Do Hereford BRITISH P gaiiwass Atlantic & St Lawrence liona.,llarodatir.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent Do. New Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Lake Linton Do. Preference Buflalo,BrantotzGodrich i p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 182 Do. do. July 1, 1876 )o. do. Jun, 1,1 , -! :lcutta..rS.Eastn.iL Caperown W Dock Son), Haan. Bengal gu. 5 p. c Last Indian. go. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext Do. do. H do. Brand rrunk of Canada Do. Ist Bonds Do. do. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. D. do defer , ed...... Do. 3d P ef. stock Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th I'ref. sic. k... Do. do. deferred...... Gt.lnchaYeum.g - ua.sp.e. Do. New gua. • bo..Janu r iry, 1862 .. , Gt. South.of India (Lim), guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Share Do. New ....... Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 51 p. 0. do. '77-8.. llndian Branch Limited Madras guar.. 5 p. c. .. Do. 41 p. 0. Extensiop Dc. 44 d 0..... ... Do. Fifth Extension - . Melb.Corp. a p. o. find, Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7p. c. dortg. Bds. Newßr mama et Candu Class A and B. N. Rl.C'da 6 pc Ist pi bds Sande Do. Delhi.. •• Do. do . ..„. d Do. Punjaub c. Do. Do. , t,tg Do. [ndus.St. Flo.) a si Si 8/ 85 87 114 1181 6 6i 40 f 1 14 15 91 93 108 110 53 64 48 50 24 15 128 129 131 k 1321 134 136 101 103 662 (71 75 77 1 120 122 43 45 101 f 102 k 1044 104 451 46 llf Ili 128 3 / 4 .24 1 3 / 4 IE, 97 99 514 624 244 25? 101/ 102 k 58i 594 89 89i 115 117 11 11 p 16 16i 11 4 12i 119 121 464 (74 99 101 60 52 32 33 91/ I;2i 69 71 100 102 74 8 28 39 10 11 ol 8 p 153 156 5} 61 I. 3 3i p 78 82 155 157 28 30 45i (6i 38 40 102 105 SIONS. Closia , 2 Price. 57 CO 109 it° 1 1d p 11 p 5i 61 7i 8 108 Icg 1101 111 1 2 109 11 i 11 11p 1 lir , 194 ,04 72 71 55 68 61 6f 48 62 43 45 35 17 25 27 22 21 1104 1101 1 2 1 1 14, 1084 1094 11 91 , 9? 100 89 e 2 1074 108 p i 102, 103 ‘9 101 50 53 3 5 84 86 lit 112 to 11,9 IP lt 1074 A luB4 105 K 7 T SECURITIEs 107 108 115 107 1(5 107 97,1 asi 96 98 108 110 112. 114 113 115 115 ►l7 113 115 109 111 109 111 108 109 1034 8 1021 1031 103 104 .01} 104 i j 112 11-1 ,08 109 :3 115 13 115 10 11! 11 1111 COLONIAL GOVER Gov . 6 p.e.Ja. &..I ut) I 1877-S4 ..... - Do. 6p. o . Feb. & Aug. I Do. (1 p. 0.31 ar. & Sept Do. p. c. Jan.&.July. Do. 8 Inscribed s t oc k Cape G.Hope, 8p 0.187: Do.Ap & Oct. 188 t Do. 189( - Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. ,Ceylon, NovatlB, 6p c Mauritius 6 per cent .. 'Natal GL.v. 6 per cent.. N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. J ul3 Do. tl p. c.Ap. & Oct. S.W.Gov. 6p 18 Do. 5 p. c.,1 8 / 1 . tole,( - I Do. d0.,1888 &upwds ;New Zealand 6 p c en t . Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. i sterling, 1876........ 'Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. - S. Aus G6p.c. 167 a & up.. IVic.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July Do. lo .1 p.c. AD.,lcOot.. BRTTI i Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 4 1( lulmord Amalgamated 20 22 Devon G. Cone. (Tavist ) 1 530 640 East Bassett (Illogan), 30 78 82 I. East Clogau Gold Ltd 51. id 4) East Caradon 265 27j -- East Carn Brea... ... . 3.4.0 7 75 W'l Russel (Tavistk:) 8.1.6 31 st Gain. &St.Aubyn(Gwen.) 571 , 11 13 Great South To_lgus 17s 45 41 ti. Wheal Vor(Relston ) 4.0 64 7 IGreuville 6.16.c 6 65 Herod's-loot ....... . 8.12 41 16 Gingston 4..7.0 25 3 Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelaut :+4 33 a 5 Mance Valley.. 4 Alyndy Iron Ore (Lim , 2A 14 New Sawa . . 191 110 12( North Downs 25 11 24 I Basset ( I 110 4ap 17.( 34 4 I•co - rth Wheal Crotty L'ar Consolscß. Blazey, 15 44 20 ferevidence(Uny Leint.) 10.6.7 12 44 ;South Caradon(St.Cleer) 15 4024 40: _ Carn Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6, 25 3 —e. Wheal Fran. (1110g,an),18.1 , .9 75 80 - Stray Park 28.9. 36 38 5 Tamar Silv.,t Lead Alin 45 0 Tin Croft ;I 20 21 West Basset (Mogan). • 14 12 13 W Caradon (Liskeard) 5 25 27 West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) 54 675 725 Wheal Buller (Itedruth) 5 50 CO • Wheal Kitty (13.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLud.!ott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) 8 1 5 16 Wheal Seton 584 230 240 wheal TreLawney (Lis.), 7 1 5 17 , Wheal Union I 3.17 35 4 Paid. all THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1363, THAMES. RECTOR'S RATE IN SHADIVELL,—ALLEGED ILLEGAL CHARGES OF A BROKER —Mr. Cornelius Lyon., the land lord of the George and Vulture public-house in Wapping wall, Lower Shadwell, who complained a fortnight since that his goods were distrained upon fur non• payment of a rector's rate to which he objected on conscientious grounds, again appeared before Mr. Woolrych to complain of the illegal conduct of a broker, named Thwaites, of No. 13, Upper North-street, East India-road, Poplar. The com plainant was accompanied by Mr. Crighton, a Guardian of the Poor, and other inhabitants of Shadwell, who have lately entered in a compact in opposition to the rector's rate, which is levied in pursuance of a local act passed 100 years ago, to provide a stipend for the rector in lieu of tithes. Mr. Lyons said he was in arrear 16s, Bd. only, and a broker named Thwaites seized 18 pewter pots and a pier glass. The " condemned " price was 28s. Bd, The pro perty was knocked down at Middleton's action room, and sold for £2 2s. 6d. The legal charges of the distraint amounted to 11s, 6d., which he thought was quiteFufficient, when the original debt was only 16s, Bd., in all £1 Bs. 2d, The broker returned him 12s. 2d., which was 2s. 2d less than the sum to which he was entitled. He refused to re ceive less than the proper balance, and the broker said he should have none. He had since written to the broker for the real balance of money to which he was entitled, and had received no anwar to his letter. He was opposed to the payment of the rector's rate, because he was a Roman Catholic and paid towards the support of his own priest and church. Mr, Woolrych said he had nothing whatever to do with the transaction, and had no jurisdiction to act in this case. The warrant of distraint was signed by Mr. Statfield and Mr. Dixon, county magistrates, and if there had been any irregularity a complaint must be made to those gentlemen, who would no doubt afford redress. Mr. Lyons and Mr. Crighton expressed their determina tion to seek redress of the two justices, and to agitate the subject of rector's rates in Shadwell, until the law was re” pealed. THE HEIR OF FRANCE.—The Prince Imperial, says a letter from Paris, is now 7 years old, not very well grown, or what would be called a fine boy for his age, but healthy, and with an interesting countenance and very gentil manners. On the occasion o f his birthday, the other day, he att e 'fad the theatre with the Emperor and Empress, and after the performance walked about among his little orother soldiers in the pit, distributing barleysugar, and fol lowed by his two small aides-de-camp, all in uniform. He is very affectionate, and fond of paying little attentions towards those with whom he is allowed to associate, sending them bouquets of his or gathering and letters of his own com position on their isms-de-fete with great regularity. His instetutrice from his infancy is an Englisitwoidat recom mended originally by the Queen, and formerly in the house. hold of the Duchess of Argyll To those who believe that the Empress's tiltramontane tendencies are very strong, and bear much weight in the Cettneils of State, it May be surprising to hear that this lady—Miss Shaw—is a strict Protestant, whose attendance at her own church is entirely sanctioned by the Empress, and who is permitted so far to influence her pupil as to induce him to pass his Sundays altogether in English fashion. Several times the little fel- M. Meunier, l to ow has been known to say that ho would not allow people work on Sunday as they do in Prance. Since Ills seventh chosen apparently solely for his good moral birthday a tutor has been appointed for him—a young man, is greatly attached, to whom his his halcOleryareanatafileahlleodw qualities. The little Prince, however, still spends the authority over him. Another larger portion of his time with mwoarsepiruo g onvv o i verness, to whom he future r v u i er n en g c i be n yo d ftubsc such c d lha h y m n bl t te o cioni disob e y gd ennottaolinthoest one occasion, the re itdeedd againct for the Court entire to attend on the Prince. The Emperor's fondness for /a' be extreme, and the littl e f e ll ow seems folovcor hild appears to when standing by his f at h er ' s k nees while he pollaitapPy as out to him whatever may be likely to amuse the boy 8 linagUlittiQll. Mr. WAnE objected to the suggestion. He thought " honourable mention" ought to be dealt with by a separate resolution. Mr. HALL could not agree in that opinion, because it seemed to him quite as important that the one class of ex hibitors should be protected as the other. The words "honourable mention" were then agreed to be introduced into the resolution. Mr. JOHNSON moved the next resolution as follows : " That the prise medal holders and others, to whom awards were made by virtue of the awards of the jurors, conse quent upon the superior skill displayed, have acquired an interest in the awards, which they are now entitled to con sider as a property of commercial value." Mr. COLES seconded the motion. A GENTLEMAN present said he was of opinion that the only value of the medal was as an advertisement. As far as the awards were concerned, he looked upon the whole thing as a farce. There was, however, a commercial value attached to them. Mr. WADE thought the last speaker was rather in oppo sition to his opinions. He did not think that anything that was of commercial value could be considered as a farce, He was sure the majority of gentlemen present were not of opinion that the awards were a farce. The resolution was carried unanimously. Various other speakers addressed the meeting, but the decision arrived at was that steps be taken to obtain an act of Parliament during the present session to protect the right of holders of awards, and to prevent those who had not from representing to the contrary. A vote of thanks to the Chairman terminated the pro ceedings. case. Arrival of the Explorers of the Nile, Captain Spoke and Captain Grant, who have earned a place in history by their discovery of the source of the Nile, are now in England. They ar rived at Southampton yesterday, on board the Pera, and were, as may be supposed, welcomed with en thusiasm. As soon as it was made known that the Pera had arrived, bringing the above gentlemen, the Mayor, F. Perkins, Esq., accompanied by the Town Clerk, on behalf of the Corporation, and Cap tain William Henry Jones, R.N., Colonel Rigby, Dr. Bullars, and other gentlemen, waited on Captains Spoke and Grant, and presented them with the fol lowing address : Gentlemen,— As Mayor of the town of Southampton, may I claim the honour of very briefly addressing you on behalf of the Corporation and inhabitants. It would ill beeeem the representatives of an ancient sea port whose history is connected more or less with every period of the annals of England, to neglect an opportunity of most respectfully greeting travellers whose recent dis coveries have solved the perplexing problem of all ages, by ascertaining the true source of one of the most wonderful rivers on the face of the earth. And it would be quite as unseemly in us either to at tempt on such an occasion to speak of the value of your labours, or to detain you filo happily restored to your native shores, on the very threshGld of that home which you may well be eager to reach ; we beg leave, therefore, simply to be allowed to congratulate you on that Divine protection which has carried you unharmed through regions in which so many noble votaries of science have either fallen victims to pestiferous climates, or have perisiied by the hands of their savage inhabitants. Praise then be to God that we have the pleasure of seeing you safe in your own country, and honour be to that un flinching courage which no danger has daunted, no diffi culties have discouraged. Long may you live to enjoy the honours which you have so bravely won. _ _ The Mayor, with his usual hospitality, invited the renowned discoverers to a banquet, which they were compelled to decline, being under an engage• meat to wait upon the Geographical Society, but at the same time expressed the pleasure it would afford them to accept of his worship's invitation on a future occasion. So widely felt is the interest which was displayed in the seaport of Southampton, and which, before many hours have past, will be demonstrated in a more extended area, that we offer no apology for placing before our readers some personal account of these twin heroes of modern investigation. They are both stalwart men, above the average height, and possessing the well-knit frames of which pick and flower of our army may be said physically to consist. It required, indeed, somewhat more than ordinary physique to undergo such immeneo hard ships as, for three years, these two English gentle men have unflinchingly borne. Before encountering the almost inconceivable difficulties of African travel, they had seen hard service in other parts of the world; and Captain Grant, we are informed, suffers even now from his old Indian wounds, more than from the effects of fever in Africa. He lost part of his hand at the siege of Lucknow, and has other marks of the memorable Sepoy rebellion. However, of the two officers Captain Grant appears at present the healthier, air Companion having hardly recovered an affection of the lungs which he suffered during part of his African wanderings. These notable travellers, who have explored the Mountains of the Moon—as the cluaters of the hills are called which border the Lake Nyanza--and who have traced the source of the Nile to those acclivi ties over whose sides torrents of rain fall into the lake and cause the periodical flow of the stream, bring marvellous accounts of the fertility and natural wealth of regions through which they have passed. Cotton and every tropical product was seen by them growing in lavish abundance; and vast accumula tions of ivory strewed their route for very many met with, to the ey but these arid nleoargtuheass. well Deserts,as thson inodfeethdo, tEquator;li t r acts were of no great magnitude. Attended by L p Zanzibar guides aeages of various tribes, whose photo gigantic sa . aug ht to this country among graphs have been b.. i=e and Grant castrated other trophies, Captains sp through obstacles which even shrank from facing, till they rear. , . the Lake a ad once Nyanza, To this wild spot Capt. Speke before made his way; Blot his second journey N.: l P from some causes, more arauous than the first. Both gentlemen were robbed d everything, and etripped nearly naked, by the, barbarous people whom they encountered during their journey. Only a remnant of their following proved faithful to them, and ac compaeied them as far as they travelled. They have brought home the ekuli and horns of a gigantic buf falo which had been shot near the Equator. It is gratifying to state that, the instructions of Earl Russell, the Custom-house auttoritieo at Southampton passed the luggage of Captains Spelte and Grant free; and that all possible faeOties were afforded thew for rc,Aelains , Loudon early iq 1. -- s he day. MARKETS—This Day. MARK LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. —Wheat, 46s lid • barley, 32s 4d ; oats, 22s 10d; rye, 348 10d ; beans, 39 s 8d; and peas, 36s Ild. IHE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 46s 85 • barley, 3385 d ; oats, 22s 6d ; rye, 34 s 5 d ; beans, 38s 9d; peas, 358 11d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 75,642 - barley, 1,756; oats, 6,167; rye, 106; beans, 3,029; p eas , 181 qrs. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was a full average supply of beasts on sale in our market to-day, in good condition. Prime Scots, &c., sold steadily at full prices, but other breeds moved off heavily at barely late rates. The highest quotation was ss. per 81b. The show of sheep was moderately extensive. Downs and half-breds were firm in price; otherwise, the mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at Monday's currency. The top figure was 55. per 81b. Lambs were in good supply, and heavy request on former terms—viz., from ss. 4d. to Gs. Bd. per 81b. We have to report a dull sale for calves—the sup ply of which was large—at previous rates. Pigs were rather cheaper. In milch cows very little was doing. Per 81b. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. a. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 81Primeers-wool d 0.4 8 4 1@ Second quality do. 3 10 4 4 Pine. S' thdown d 0.4 10 5 0 Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Large crse. calves 4 0 4 6 Prime Scots, etc. 4 10 5 0 Prime small do 4 8 5 0 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 0' Large hogs 3 4 4 0 Second quality do. 4 2 4 61Small porkers 42 4 6 _ _ Lambs, 5s 4d to 6 Bd. Suckling calves, 12a to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 275. TOTAL SUPPLY. i FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts ... Cows l3O c Sheep and lambs .... 1,100 Sheep and lambs Calves 4lO Pigs Pigs. 3301 MEAT MARKETS. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL.—The supplies of meat are moderate, and the demand rules inactive, as folloj s : —Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 4d , mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; lamb, Od to 5s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to 4s 5d ; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 8d per 81bs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, June 17.—The supplies of stock were season ably extensive, and the trade generally ruled inactive, as fol lows :—Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 10d; mutton, 3s 10d to 5s Od ; lamb, 58 4d to 6s 4d; veal, 4s Od to 4s 8d; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 6d per 81ba, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, June 17.—Prime stock was in fair request here today, at full prices, otherwise the trade ruled heavy, as tollows :—Beef, from 3s 8d to 4s 10d ; mutton, 3s 10d to 5s Od ; lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 8d , veal, 4s Od tu 48 8d ; pork, 3s 8d to 4s 6d per 81bs ' • suckling calves,l 2 s to 20s ; quarter-old store pigs, 19s to 265; and milch cows, £l4 to £lB 5s each. HAY MARKZTS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs ; clover do., £3 lOs to £5 15s; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. Trade slow. CUMBERLAND.—MewIow hay, £3 Os to £4 lOs; cloves do., £3 lOs to £5 12s ; and straw, 18s to £1 16s per load. Trade dull. WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to lOs; clover do , £3 lOs to £5 15s; and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s per load. Supply moderately good. COAL N Prices of Coal per Ton a , s. d. Davison's West Hart- AI KET. the close of the market. Walls End. ley l5 3 Holywell 16 0 Wylam 15 9 Car way and Duffryn Malting , 19 6 Eden Main....... 15 9 Hastings Hartley l5 3 8. d. Walls End. Brsddyll's Hetton 16 6 Riddell Ships at niarkei Hartlepool.. l7 0 [-length 11.9,11 16 6 East Hartlepool 17 0 Trimdon Hartlepool 17 0 Framwellgate.. l5 9 Russel's Hetton 16 6 K elloe Hetton 17 6 Haswell .. l7 6 Stewart's 17 0 South Kelloe. 16 9 ;t, 63; sold, 51. HOW WE ARE REVENGING SUMPTER. The following is from the Old Guard, a monthly journal, recently established in New York:— "HOW WE ARE REVENGING SUMPTER, "The following are the reported casualties of this war from its beginning to Jan. 1, 1863 : Federals, killed 43,874 " wounded " died of disease and wounds 250,000 " made prisoners Total Confederates, killed 20,893 If wounded died from disease and wounds .... 120,000 )1 made prisoners Total "They have killed twenty-two thousand eight hundred and seventy-four more of our men than we have of theirs. " They have wounded, not mortally, thirty-nine thousand four hundred and fourteen mere of our men than we have of theire. " One hundred and fifty thousand more of our men have died of disease and wounds than of theirs. " They have made prisoners of forty-six thousand more of our men than we have of theirs, "Our total casualties are two hundred and thirty-seven thousand two hundred and ninety-seven ram e than theirs —that is, our casualties have been fourteen thousand more than as much again as theirs, " This is the way we have 'revenged the firing on Fort Sum pt er.' "But this is not all. We have spent almost two thou sand millions more of money than they have spent. "We have made two hundred thpusand of our women widows. -" We have made one million of children fatherless. " We have destroyed the constitution of our country. " We have brought the ferocious savagery of war into every corner of society. W e have demoralised our pulpits, so that our very religion is a source of immorality and blood. " Instead of being servants of Christ our ministers are servants of Satan. "The land is full of contractors, thieves, provost mar sii3ls, and a thousand other tools of illegal and despotic power, as Egypt was of vermin in the days of the Pharoahs. " We are rapidly degenerating in everything that exalts a nation. " Our civilisation is perishing. " We are swiftly drifting into inevitable civil war hem in the North. " We art turning our homes info charnel houses. " Th re is a oprpse in every family. " The angel of death sits in every door. " The Devil has removed from Tartan's to Washington. " We pretend that we are punishing the, rebels, but they are punishing us. " We pretend that we are restoring the Unfon, but we are destroying it. " We pretend that we are enforcing the laws, but we are only catching negroes. " That is the way we are ' revenging Sumpter.' " Selling our souls to the Devil and taking Lincoln and Co's. promise to pay. We have it in greenbacks and blood " That is the way we aro revenging Sumpter.' NIZNY MUSIC BY WEBER. —Mr. Benedict pro mises to produce, at his concert on the 22d, some as yet unpublished MS. compositions of Carl M. Von. Weber, a duet for soprzmo and tenor, an arietta for soprano, and a choral war-song, "We trust in God." These pieces are it e ms in a li s t o f " mo zister" dimensions, including some forty or more pieces, some new or unfamiliar, the rest suffi ciently hackneyed. M USCU L A R HEROES. —Any n umber of such books as " Guy Livingsto ne, " might bs.q written by any o ne who could hit off the particular trick i,'. f style. Take a giant with knotted muscles, and some worat...n for him to love or dirt with—alternate between inchoate adn2tery and incohate seduction, flavoured with scowls, re'icence:- and the affectation of being unaffected—and you have only sot to change the names and vary the Greek quotations in order to make as many novels as the public will buy. It must be a strange sensation for the author to bring on the stage his fourth or fifth giant with knotted muscles, and to tell the reader for the tenth time, in a sort of confidential aside, that he does not hold him up as a model of virtue, with his hard face and evil smile. Such a giant must in time be come a sort of Frankenstein. "Master," he might say, " I have held a man out at arm's length and choked him. I have swung out my mighty fist from 'my left hip and felled to the ground a man bigger than myself. I have crumpled up a silver cup between my fingers in the agony of death, and what on earth am Ito do now l'" If his master would or could have the kindness to tell him to go to his own place and stay there, it would be a satisfaction to his readers and himself. —Saturday Review. WELLINGTON AND TALLEYRAND, AS " SIX" AND " HALF-A-DOZEN !"—lsabey, having been com missioned to paint the Congress of Vienna, in which were to figure united, at the end of a conference, all the per sonages who formed part of it—" Monsieur," said Lord Wellington, with the genuine British pride, to the artist, " I consent to figure in your picture only on condition that I occupy the first place : it is mine, and I held to it." " Mon cher ami," said Prince Talleyrand, " authorciiseide as 1 lam to represent France, as regards both you an ii , ' ought to occupy the first place in your picture or not to -r in it all." How were these pretensicn's to be re appe, 9 coneiled . It was indispensable that they s hould be ;and after mature reflection, was the p l an hit :Lpen by :be artist,e tering the ball of confe this :—Lord I,l4.llington filc,caesd upon him, so that he could rents, and all eyes were othft,:lie scene, whilst Talleyrand, believe himself the k. °g centre, had, in reality, the seated in an arm-chairurit. I:hen Isabey persuaded the noble pictorial place of ag°r:hy°andsorno r seen in profile, because he lord that he was far Iv. 'w hich so flattered the Duke of ranks n e k k s e sketch his() f thus resembled Id . i Wellington that he.insistecl.on p urchasing E bland an picture,which is now in 1 b I this farailY as the one of the most glorieua ru\nnorials of hie career. — IA Batons (I' 4utrifois, 66&a 111 2 1201 44 31 101 i i 105 Business don• 109 toi 26 i 1101 i & 2i 107; 8i i 111 k MENTAL ARITHMETIC. Take the square of five, multiply it by fifteen, divide it by three, deduct eight from it, add four dozen to it, give me the result in pence, and tell me how many eggs I could get for it at three farthings apiece. The problem is hardly stated, when a dozen small boys pour out answers. Some wide, some very nearly right, some worked as far as they can with, such accuracy as at once to show what link of the chain has been dropped in the hurry. For the moment none are quite right ; but behold a labouring spirit beating the buttons on its corporeal waistcoat, in a process of internal calculation, and knitting en accidental bump on its corporeal fore head in a concentration of mental arithmetic ! It is my honourable friend (if be will allow me to call him so) the fifer. With right arm eagerly extended in token of being inspired with an answer, and with right leg foremost, the fiter solves the mystery ; then recats both arm and leg, and with bump in ambush awaits the next poser. Take the square of three, multiply it by seven, divide it by four, add fifty to it, take thirteen from it, multiply it by two, double it, give me the result in pence, and say how many halfpence. Wise as the serpent is the four feet of performer, on the nearest approach to that instrument, whose right arm instantly appears and quenches this arithmetical fire. Tel! me some thing about Great Britein, tell me something about its principal productions, tell me something about its ports, tell me something about its seas and rivers, tell me something about coal, iron, cotton, timber, tin, and turpentine. The hollow square bristles with extended right arms ; but ever faithful to fact is the fifer, ever wise as the serpent is the performer on that instrument, ever prominently buoyant and brilliant are all members of the band. I observe the player of the cymbals to dash at a sounding answer now and then rather than not cut in at all ; but I take that to be in the way of his instrument. All these questions, and many such are put on the spur of the moment, and by one who has never examined these boys. The Uncommercial invited to add another, falteringly demands how many birthdays a man born on the twenty-ninth of Feb ruary will have bad on completing his fiftieth year ? A general perception of trap and pitfall instantly arises, and the fifer is seen to retire behind the corduroys of his next neighbours, as perceiving special necessity for collecting himself and commun ing with his mind. Meanwhile, the wisdom of the serpent suggests that the man will have had only one birthday in all that time, for how can any man have more than one, seeing that he is born once and dies once ? The blushing Uncommercial stands corrected, and amends the formula. Pondering en sues, two or three wrong answers are offered, and Cymbals strikes up " Six !" but doesn't know why. Then modestly emerging from his Academic Grove of corduroys appears the fifer, right arm extended, right leg foremost, bump irradiated. " Twelve, and two over !"—Dickens's "All the Year Bound." FLAGRANT MISCONDUCT. One of the moat flagrant cases of misconduct yet recorded in the history of public enterprise seemed likely to be passed over without even a warning being deduced from it. Yet its features, so far as the injury it has occasioned is concerned, are as bad as those which during the past year or two have given notoriety to such persons as Mr. Peter Morrison, Colonel Waugh, and others. The case is that of the West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Company, which was started in 1852, and which has been brought to a condition of ruin that has necessitated Parliamentary interference. For a long time charges had been circulated against the management, and especially against the conduct of the chairman, Mr. Ralph Ward Jackson, but they were of a character so serious that no one could assume the responsibility of making them public without such legal preols as it is always impossible to obtain in the case of great railway companies, who hold control of their own books, and can consequently defy assailants to pro duce any figures that shall be positively accurate. Moreover, the parties interested, as well as all out side observers, were blinded by a resort to the old plan of securing the appointment of a friendly corn mittee of investigation. Mr. Thos. Sturge was chair man of this committee, and his character as a respect , able merchant induced all partiets to receive with confidence a report which amounted, on the whole, to an approval of the directors' management. This report was issued in 1860, but the actual state of the concern could not be much longer concealed, and in 1862 a bill in Chancery was filed, which re sulted in a receiver being appointed by the Court. This session a bill has been brought into Parliament to enable certain arrangements to be made for the future administration of the property, and a com mittee of the House of Lords has just reported upon it in terms which may happily prevent a series of most iniquitous proceedings from being altogether condoned. The committee announce as the "aston ishing results" of their inquiry that whereas the company were legally entitled to borrow only £337,224, they had issued up to Dec. 31, 1861, debenture bonds and debenture stocks to the amount of 12,721,722, exclusive of debenture bonds and de benture stocks deposited with creditors as securities for loans to the value of £161,000. After such a gigantic instance of malfeasance, carried on delibe rately, and even defiantly, for years, it is evident that the investors in railway debentures of all kinds hold their property subject to the possibility of the most unpleasant discoveries, and the Lords' Commit tee, " having regard to the ruin which has been brought upon innocent lenders and shareholders by the illegal proceedings of the directors of this com pany," recommend the house to devise means to prevent their repetition for the future. Finally, after detailing the manner in which a large portion of the immense sums thus raised was illegally expended, the committee submit that a searching inquiry should be made, " and if it should appear that Mr. Jackson, his co-directors, and the persons who acted as auditors of the company and certified to the false accounts, are guilty of the charges brought against them, that the authority of the house should be exercised to secure their prosecution and punishment." If the evidence laid before the com mittee be found to be substantially true, " Mr. Ward Jackson," it is remarked by their Lord ships, " and his co-directors have for a series of years wilfully contravened the provisions of their acts of Parliament, and have concealed their ille gal course from the shareholders and creditors of the company and from the public by the con tinued and systematic publication of false ac counts. The affair was, however, on the eve of being hushed up, but the authority thus exercised has now brought it to a position in which it cannot without public scandal be suffered to remain.— limes' City Article. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, June 18.—Wind this day at noon—South- Easterly ; light breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, June 17.—Wilid S.—Sailed--lier Ma jesty's ship Esk, for Australia. PLYMOUTH, June 17.—Wind S.Vir.—Sailed—Beeshine, for St. Thomas. F ALMOUTH , June 17.—Wind & W.—Sailed—Julie, for Fernand e. LOUGH FOYLM , June 18.—Arrived —Hibernian, screw steamer, from Quebec. _ ET PLA GNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. nine 17 —Tyne, from Lanvig ; Forest Queen, Arrived'. 1; 0 - Grande ; Lizzy, from Garand. from f ag June 18—Harmony and Alert, from Dantsic ; Matilda, from New York , Tally Ho, from DEAL, Thursday Morning. passed—Heindrick, from Rio Grande, for London. Anchored—Talavera, from London, for St. Mitt's; Jane of tiunderland, from the northward for the westward ; gl a i ss Ee a l u v a . e nd Arabella, from London, for S4lcomba ; Conrad, from Car , denas, for London; Guina, from Middlesboro, fer Vera Cruz. THE SHAM FIGHT AT WANSTEAD ON ►SATUR DAY NEST, UNDER LORD RANELAUR.—It is expected that not lees than 3,000 men will be assembled on this occasion. The arrangements for the day will, we un derstand, partake more of the character of a sham fight, with a defending and attacking force, in which a house will be occupied and defended ; than a mere review of troops. It will be, in fact, a miniature Vicksburg, the attacking party closely investing the house, but meeting with an obstinate resistance from its gallant defenders, who are at length, and in the very nick of ticce, relieved by a force advancing from the rear and attacking the be eiegera. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS--Last Evening, The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. PETITIONS. By Sir J. HAY, from chemists of Wakefield, against the bill for prohibiting the sale of poisoned grain; several against the Endowed Schools Bill. PRIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND READlNGS.—Morayshire Railway ; North Lon don Hallway Extension. THIRD READllsiG.—Peterb :rough, Wisbeach, and Sutton Railway. ENDOWED SCHOOLS BILL. Mr. DILLWYN, in moving the second reading of this bill, said he regretted that a large number of petitions had been presented against his measure. He considered, how ever, they were based on a misapprehens - on of the measure, and doubtless much of the abuse that had been heaved upon him personally was attributable to the same cause. When he placed his bill on the paper for to-day it did not occur to him that the Oxford commemoration would then be under celebration,and that a number dhoti. members, especially the two members for the University. would desire to be at Oxford to meet the Prince and Princess of Wales. Though at the time he declined to postpone his bill, he begged now to move that the order for the second reading be discharged, as he saw no probability of pressing the bill to its ultimate stages this session. He wished to have the measure fully and calmly discussed, and would be ready in the future to introduce all reasonable amendments. He denied that his measure could be construed into an attack on the national Church. He was actuated by an earnest desire to remove all civil disabilities on account of religious opinions. Next session he should reintroduce the bill. Mr. SELWYN, in seconding the motion, denied on his part and those who acted with him in that house that any attacks had been made on the hon. member for Swansea (Mr. Dillwyn). They had discussed the subject temperately and courteously. The attacks he alluded to must have been made out of doors. Mr. DILLWYN admitted that this was so. Mr. SELWYN trusted this was the last occasion on which they would be assed to enter upon the discussion of a measure of this kind, which had now been five years bef ore the house, and that instead of entering up ,n unprofitable discussions the hen. member would devote his experier. ce and time to rectify the wants of the population in regard to education and its spiritual need. (Hear, hear.) Mr. LO WE hoped they had heard the last of the bill. By it if a Dissenter founded a school for Dissenters it would be so used, but if the King of England established a school for the education of those attached to the Church of England. his gift would be void. (Hear, hear.) Ho need state no further, because this was a fatal objection to the bill. These discussions created ill feeling between Dis senters and members of the Church of England. -Lord HENLEY hoped the hon. member would proceed with his bill next year, because, at present, Government injustice was inflicted upon conscientious Dissenters in con nection with their Endowed Schools. Mr. FORSTER considered that the bill would simply uphold that spirit of civil and religious liberty, which for many years had been the bent of the legislation. He blamed the Government for their conduct on the bill, Mr. HADFIELD approved of the bill, because it would remove a piece of spiritual intolerance of the most objec `ionable nature. The order for the second reading was then discharged. NAVY PRIZE MONEY. Sir J. HAY moved the second reading of this bill. Lord C. PAGET said the Government had a Consolida tion Bill in preparation which would be introduced early next session. After a short discussion, in which Mr. Hardy, Mr. Col lier, and Mr. Selwyn took part, Mr. STANSFELD said be trusted the hon. bart. would withdraw his bill after the pledge of his noble friend that a consolidation bill of the most complete and compre hensive nature would be introduced very early next session. Ultimately the bill was read a second time. ELECTION PkUITIONS BILL. Mr. HUNT moved that the Speaker leave the chair. Sir F. GOLDSMID hoped the bill could not be pro ceeded with, as it would tend to encourage bribery and corruption by discouraging bona fde petitioners. Mr. ADDERLEY considered that the bill ought to be proceeded with. Mr. K. HUGGESON supported the measure, citing his election experiences in support of immediate legislation on the subject. A committee should examine petitions as soon as presented, and decide like a grand jury whether or no they should remit it for further investigation. Mr. AYRTON hoped the Government would take up the matter, and bring in a bill on this subject. With this view he would move that the bill be referred to a select committee. Sir F. GOLDSMID seconded the motion. The house divided, when there appeared— For the motion 92 Against Majority The motion was therefore carried. MARRIAGES REGISTRATION (IRELAND) BILL. The house went into committee on this bill. Sir E. GROGAN proposed an amendment to the effect that notices of marriage should be accompanied by a solemn declaration of one of the parties. On a division the numbers were— For the amendment Against it Majority —74 Sir E. GRUGAN, however, withdrew his other amend ment on the paper, and the bill passed through committee. The house resumed. SUPPLY. Report brought up. OFFENCES (SOUTH AFRICAN) BILL. This bill was read a third time. CIVIL BILLS COURT (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. O'HAGAN moved the second reading of this bill, and explained at length its provisions. A high bailiff would be appointed in each county by the chairman, with a substantial salary of from £250 to £3OO a year, and required to give ample sureties for the due performance of his office. This officer would have the appointment of the under bailiffs, and would be responsible for their acts. The bill would clearly define the fees to be charged. In most respects the mode of proceeding adopted would be assimilated with that of England. The bill would take away the fees now allowed to creditors in seizing growing crops, which at this time resulted in great evil. The Government would be quits ready to adopt all reasonable amendments. Mr. GEORGE opposed the bill, considering it in oppo sition to the desires of the people of Ireland or the legal profession. After considerable discussion the bill was read a second time. Mr. LONGFIELD moved that the bill be referred to a select committee. On a division the numbers were— For the motion 36 Against it Majority The house then adjourned at half-past 5. AQUATICS. DREWITT AND WILSON FOR £2OO. The match between George Drewitt and Teasdale Wil son came off this afternoon, the distance being the usual one, viz., from Putney to Mortlake. As far as position at starting was concerned, fortune favoured Wilson, for, as winner of the toss, he chose the Middle sex side of the river, and the usual , preliminaries having been arranged, the start was effected at about a quarter to four. Wilson after the first few strokes seemed to have a decided advantage, but is soon as Drewitt settled down to his work he quickly diminished the trifling lead Wilson had obtained. Before the men passed Finche's Drewitt had altogether altered the state of affairs, for here he had obtained a clear lead. The race was virtually over at this point, for Drewitt had it all to himself, and he rowed in a winner easily ; in fact, he won the match just as he pleased. Odds at starting, 7 to 4 on the loser. :s FOR 1863. RACING FIXTt Jr Stockbridge l3 Chelmsford 23 Newcastle -on-Tyne 23 Ji Worcester Summer 2 Newmarket July 7 L i ver pool... 11 13 Abirtialon Hungvrford l6 Pontefract 16 Stamford ..16 rz. Ipswich 25 Carlisle IWinchester ............21 Nottingham ............ 21 Southampton. ........... 22 Cambridge ............ 23 Knutsford .... 23 Hartlepool ... . ........ 27 .Goodwood 22 GUST. AU Brightcn ..... Brighton Club 6 Lewes Wolverhampton ll Reading Wenlock York August lB Plymouth. 20 l Eghani 25 Stockton 25 Oxtord Lichfield MEIER. SEPT] Devon and Exeter 1 Derby Summer Weymouth Kings Lynn ..... , 3 Warwick . 8 Leicester lO Doncaster 15 ------- Word sley Brocon 2l Richmond 22 bionmout'u 24 Manchester Autumn 25 Newmarket let Oct. 29 Edinburgh, !to. Club 30 OBER. Lincoln Autumn 2O Kelso 2l loucester 22 Newmarket Houghton 26 11 f BEE. Shrewsbury Autumn 16 SFI. OCT, Coventry Bedford 6 Caledonian Hunt . Newmarket S. O. 12 NOTE Worcester 3 1 IRI Ju Bellewitown .......... 9 i Down Royal Corporation.2l . Trsmore .. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER, AND SUICIDE IN —Yesterday John Wheidoo, who a p A i :0 . 1 at his wife, in the middle of April last, NOT i fl ed NG a first r and then discharged another at his head, was committed tor trial and is shockingly disfigured, but she survives as well as himself, oth their lives were for a time despaired f T b en married five years, when they guar o h though h a d been relied and separated, and the crime was ctralxiitted because the wife refused to live with hita again. 1&14.! 1 19.15.4 12.10 at let Share' 100 stk 20 zoi to too stock stock stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock stock St 1 20 pock SSE all 100 (100 " ?2 15 1 100 10t- MEN 100 100 100 100 100 51i 1022 913 f 5 1 I 11[ i 27 i