The Sun. — London, England, 1864-03-03 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE o'CLOCk. There is still a good inquiry for accommodation in the general money market, preparations still being made for meeting the commercial bills due to-morrow,' the 4th. The a 4 e for first class paper is therefore maintained at 6 per cent,, very few exceptions being reported at 55 per cent. A special general meeting of the Intercolonial Royal Mail Steampacket Company was held to day. The report recommended the creation of 37,500 new £lO shares, and represented the affairs of the com pany to be in a most prosperous state. The biddings for 40,00,000 rupees (£400,000) in bills on India took place yesterday at the Bank of England, and the following are the official particu lars :—The proportions allotted were, to Calcutta, 22,00,000 rupees; to Bombay, 16,00,000 rupees ; and to Madras, 20,00,000 rupees. The minimum price was, as before, is 1113 per rupee on Calcutta and Madras, and is 114 d on Bombay. The appli cations within the limits amounted to 237 lets. Tenders on Calcutta at is llid will receive about 11 per cent. ; on Madras at 2s about 44 per cent ; and all above these prices in full. The directors of the Credit F.ncier have brought forward a new companion institution to their own, entitled the Credit Mobilier. The former company is purely for making investments in landed secu rities, while the latter will be entirely devoted to financial transactions, and will, therefore, cooperate with other monetary and industrial undertakings, negotiate Government and municipal loans, aid in carrying out concessions, make advances to con tractors for English and foreign railways, and other public works, and lend money on approved securi ties. The capital required is £1,000,000, but the first is only to consist of half that amount in shares of £5O each, which are now quoted 26 3 premium. The last week's raimay receipts, ascertained up to this day, are, in round figures, as under:-- 1864. 1863. Great Western £54,724 £52,507 North-Western South-Western Brighton DI idland South Eastern Bristol and Exeter . . 5,119 6,436 North Eastern Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire 34,830 31,080 Glasgow and South-Western Midland and Great Western of Ireland These returns, compared with those of the same period of last year, are, with a few exceptions, of a favourable character. On the Great Western there is an increase of £2,217 ; North Western, £6,990 ; Midland, £4,414; North Eastern, £3,273 ; Great Northern, £3,384 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, £3,750 ; and Glasgow and South Western, £156. The South Western, however, shows a decrease of £9,42; Brighton, £1,715; South Eastern, £1,355; and Great Western of Ireland, £1,668. Two o'CLocx. At the Pfris Bourse this morning, according to Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 42c.—Flat. _ _ The Stock Exchange Markets opened this morn ing with a very general appearance of depression, and a few sales following close upon each other sent the English Funds down 4- per cent. Nothing new of a political or monetary character has since occurred to occasion the heaviness now perceptible, but speculators nevertheless, seem to possess but little confidence in the ability of the present English Government to bring about a successful issue of the Dan° German difficulty. Consols are 91 for money, and 91 s for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities ar e 89! ; Exchequer Bills, ss. die. to par; and India 5 per Cents., 104/ if. Foreign Stocks have not varied to any material extent, and business has been quite. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 691 9 ; do. Consolides, 501 ; Mexican, 434. ; Spanish Passive, 351 ; do. Cer tificates, 14 / ; Greek, 22t 23 ; Portuguese, 48i tl ; Russian, 836 89; and Italian, 66a a. In the Railway Share Market a heavy tone has prevailed, prices generally showing a downward movement. North-Western, Metropolitan, and Midland have declined 10s., and Great Northern, Great Western, and London and Blackwall, £l. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings remain without change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous shares are generally shade bitter. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto Account, March 5 9lh 3 per Cent. Reduced B9i New 3 per Cent. B9l i Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. Ditto 3 per Cent.. 1859 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2: & 3 per Cent 6 dis Ditto £SOO Bank England Stk, 4} per Ct., last hf.-yr. par INDIC( GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 10} per Cent., April 1874.... Ditto Account — Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Ditto Accounl.... . Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 — Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 por Cent., Jan. 1872 .. Ditto 61 per Cent., May, 1879 • . -- Ditto Bonds.El,ooo . Ditto under £1,000.. Ditto:Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 Ditto ditto Aug., ISM FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 1859 — Brazilian 5 per Cent ........ Ditto, 1839 and 1859..... Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852-53-60 Ditto 1863 .. -- Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Ditto 2 per Cent. — Ditto Account Ditto Deferred — Colombian 6 Scrip £65 pd — Chili= 6 per Cent Ditto 41 pei Cent — Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Eqnador New Consolidated, 1 per Cont — Egyptian 7 per Cent 9Ol 1001 Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons -- Ditto Account Ditto Coupons Ditto Account lO/ Guatemala 5 per Cent. .. Italian 5 per Uent.(Maremmana Railway) -- Mexican 3 per Cent 42 1 Ditto Account . f 3/ 3 Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891.... Peruvian 41 per Cent .. IJitto Account — ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto 41, per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account — • Ditto 11 per Cent Piedmontese, 6 per Cent., Ex. 25f — Ditto Scrip (1863) £42 8 6 . 3 d. paid ---pm Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account.. Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 Ditto Account 4Bl 89 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Ditto 41 per Cent 1850 Ditto 6 per Cent, 1862 B9 8 Sardinian 5 per Cent .. Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Pitt° Account — Ditto Passive i tta Account 3 51 a 'Milk Cert, of Coup not funded .. — Ditto Acc ount Turki s h A6cPceoru_Cent. 1854 Ditto 92 Ditto 6 p er c u e . Ditto AccountLit' 1858 Ditto £lOO B onds 6B , • Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Ditto, two Bonds.. •..•• 691 1 Venezuela 3 per Cent. 691 Ditto Account ..... . — Ditto 6 per Cent., 186 ' 2 . *************** 24 i Ditto Account —„„ Di v id e nds on the above ********* uu payable in Lend n. Belgian 4 per Cent., Ex. 25f." * * Ditto Land Warrants (Hectare)*) **** *** Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 1 2 Guil *********** Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ...... -- French Re n t e r , 4} per Cent., Ex. 25 f G61... 75 ,. Ditto 6 per Cent,•lB63 Italian, 6 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs , Ditto Account 661 a , Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 4 1 per Ct. Ex. 4 s. " TWO O'CLOCK. onmols Money Ditto Account.. • 91 it Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, No change in the market. Sales, about 6,000 balm Import, 3,247; previously, 26,903. SHARE MARKETS.---This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOIIS. Railways. I Fail , Closing , 1 done. Business share I Price. ; I L_________L____----. 13.14.: 1 Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. all 8 64 £5 1 Blythe and Tyne. I all —.-; 10 :Ilost.,Slent,andslid.k;o all 8 5 ' at I Bristol and Exeter I 100 83 15 at I Caledonian . ' 103 120 12t 50 Cort an;', Bandon all 20 Cornwall 1100 Do. Do A B all 6 1 7 4 A gets no die 1 all till 6p c.p an.hasi all been paid to B. 50 i Dublin & Belfast June. all 3 7 39 25 IDun., 1 0 VI I Perth,&Ab. June. all 16 17 et ( Edinburgh & Glasgow., 100 04 1 951 et ,Glasg. and S. Western.! 100 0 108 st 'GreatEastern, Ord. stk 471 ' B i 100 at Ditto A stock I 100 4 7 49 at Ditto EastAnglian st ; 100 7 6 at GreatNorthot Scotland 100 at Great Northern lOO 126 128 127 at Do A stook llOO 1 3 'l 3 at Do Bdo 1 10 0 In 134 et Gt. S. an i IV. of lrelan at 'Great Western .. et Do Str Val gua. stook 100 I at Lancashlte & Yorkshire; 100 1191 1101 et London and Illackwalll 100 72 7' 70 at Lon., Bright ~& S. Coast! 103 104 106 1021 at Lon ., Chat, and Dover 100 .: 941 at Lon. & Nor' h Western 100 110 1101 1 07 i I et Lon. & Scv.th Western 100 991 1001 991 st Man., Shet., (1; Lincoln. 100 511 521 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all 12 4 Do i shares . all , at Metropolitan all 109 110 181 4 i st Midland 4.4.0 Do New at Do Binning'. & Derby 100 99 101 50 Ilid. Gt. IV. of Ireland al l 25 Do. 1 shares 26 Mid Kest .. ...... .- all 10 Do Cray Line et North British 644 at Edin., Perth, Dundee 100 24 0 at Nth. Eastern—Berwto k 100 1031 104 1014 I 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 d a at Do Lecds lOO 59 58 at Do York . et Do Carlisle.. et North London 10 Do New 771 781 '9.16.4 North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction all 11 111 at Scottish Central at Scot N. E., Aber. stoo k 1100 44 4 at Do Scot. Mid. stock— , 100 V 100 10 Shrews. and Welohpooi all at Shropshire Union at South Devon 100 24 26 st South Eastern st South Wales et S. York. and River Dun 100 100 102 20 stalnes,Wok.,andWok.; all 85 94 25 Stockton & Darlington' all 28 39 25 Do l7 91 101 ~ 25 Do New, 1860 8 7. 84 g. st Taff Vale. 10 Do 13 8 51 8 i 10. Do C I 31 45 p 50 Ulster 25 Do 12.10 Do 5l at Vale of Neath a t Victoria sta. and Pim : 100 at Waterford & Kilkenny: 100 et West Cornwall lOO 22 24 et W. Hartlepool liar.tß 1 100 et West Midland -Ozlord, 100 st Do Newport' 100 —-- at Do Hereford l ' 100 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing , Thar ' Railways Paid. I Price. Business done 100 it lantio &St Lawrenia all 59 61 60 Sk Bom.,Baroda&•Cent Inc 190 103 101 1041 Gu. 5 per cent. 20 Do. New ....... • • 8 p 1 p 20 Do. E. Shares... 7l p 1 p 201 Buffalo and Laxe Huron all 61 bi -10 Do. Preference 100 Buffalo,Brant,&Godricl, 00 sp. ct. lids. Aug. 1, 18% ' 100 Do. do. July 1, 18.7 100 100 Do. do. June 1, 1871 100 st Cleutta...t S.Eastn. (Lin, 1 101 103 et Cape Town Dock Sort 100 00 lOl 103 stock Eastn. Bengal Ku. 6p. i 100 105 )06 steek feast Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 lt4 1 1 5 101 20 Do. do. G Ext l5 # 1 p 20 Do. do. II do. stook Grand Trunk or Canada leo 191 201 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all :3 100 Do. do. de:erred.-- ' all 57 dl 100 Do. 2d Prel. Bon is all ,06 61 100 Do. do. e.eflrr ed.._ 100 Do. 3d I'ref. stock ' all 49 52 100 Do. do. deferred-- all 34 tz 26 28 261 100 Do. 4th I'ref. stock al l 100 Do. do. deferred all 22 C 5 stook GLlndiarenln.gua.sp.c 100 1031 104; 104 20 Do. New gua. cp. 0.. 12 I 1 20 Do. January, 1882 stook Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 103 104 201 Gt. W. of Canada Sharer all 9} 10 201 Do. New . 100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. all 92 94 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77-8.. •. all 85 87 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 p I p 21 1 stook Madras. guar., sp. O. 100 1021 103; 103. 2 1 stock Do. 41 p. a. Extension 100 97 09 stook De. 4s d 0........ 100 'k2 96 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 L -- stock slelb.Corp. 6p. o. Bad, 100 ' 50 Melb. & llobson's Bay. all 58 00 100 Do. 7 p.c. Mortg. Bds. all 20 Newßrunswick Cands Class A and B .. all 3 5 N.lll.C'da spo Ist I belt. 100 82 64 Atotk Scinde .........• (100 103 101 1 031 stock Do. Delhi i loo 1121 1035 1 103} 20 Do. do • —l t 2 at Do. Punjaub all IC2I 1031 103 Do. Do. ........ f L P 100 +l3 ock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) No COLONIAL GOVERN M ENT SRCU arms. - Col. Gov. 6 p.c.J &dui) 1877.81 - Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug 100 100 112 Do. 6p. c.Mar. Jr Sept 100 102 le4 Do. Ep. c. Jan.&.) uly. 10i 8) Al 811 Do. 8 Inscribed stocl. 100 8) al C'apeG.llope, 6 p 100 106 1(8 Do.Ap &Oct. 18. St 100 118 110 Do. 1891 100 110 112 Do. Jan. k July, 1891.. 101 108 109 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 111 111 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 1c.6 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cant.. 1)0 if.B 110 - N.B.Gov. 6 p.o. a.&J ul) 100 101 103 Do. 6p. c•Ap. & Oct. 100 - 'N. S.W.Gov. by 190 00 100 --I Do. sp. c., 18 t 1 to 1:,11 100 ¢ 99 10 1 d0.,1888 dtupwd 4 100 99 IGO --New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 ICB 110 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. sterling, 1875. lOO 104 106 Queensland Gcv. Bp. c. 100 Aug G0p.c.1873.6tup.. 100 10/ 111 Vlo.liov. 6 p.o. Ja.&July 100 Do. to n.e. An.&oo _.. 130 118 11l 1111 101 _ _ BRITISH MINES. 2 ;Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 # Icl Gli fl or d Amalgamated.. I HI Devon G. Con..(Tavist., 1 570 ASO I East lin.asett(lllogan).. 30 621 674 d Nast Clogau Gold Ltd. —.— East Caradon ...... 234.6 3: 33 ;East Caru Brea... . 5.4.0 61 7 E. %'1"1 Rime. Javistk. 8.9.0 44 41 - ;Gam.&sl-.Auhyn(Gwen 581 10 11 (Iret, South Tolgus.... 17s 4 41 Wheal Vor (Deist= 40 26 38 361 751 6 - , Grenville 8.16.1 51 51 lierA's-Foot B.lO .65 57 - liingston Downs 4.18.0 4 41 Lady Bertha 'Margaret (tiny Lelact 01 17 19 , Marke Valley.. 4 '5l yndy Iron Oro (Lim , 21 1 81 05 New Setun l9l 4 • {N or th Downs 2l If 2 - N.Wh'i B asse t(lllozan 13.1.0 2 21 2 'North Wheal Crotty 2.6.9 . - tar Consols (0,4. Illazey - !V rov idencic(Uny Lelnt. 110.6.1 44 46 •SouthU a radon(St.Cleer) 14 440 100 10 S. Corn Brea ( 1 llogan) — I -18. Wheal Fran. (Mogan 11 8.18.6 2 5 60 Stray Park .30.17.6 23 30 ['moor Silv.& Lead Min.' - !fin Croft 9 20 201 West Basset (Illogan) l4 11 12 —%V Cr radon (Llakeard) , 20 22 West Soton I%Vheal Basset (Mogan:' 51 190 2 00 !Wheal Bulleratedruthd 10 871 921 - Wheal Kitty (U.Lelaut, 2.0.6 31 37 WhealLud , ott Wheal MaryAnnt,:den ) 8 134 141 Wheal lleten . 5Bl 175 185 IWllealT reia wney (Lis.). 7 212 11 Wheal Union I 3.17 24 21 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 4/ per cent., pf., 1021 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTAL& Birkenhead, 82} London, Tilbury, and Southend, 100/ IeuREiGN RAILWAY& Antwerp and Rotterdam, 9/ Dutch Rhenish, 171 Great Luxembourg., lel amur and Liege gua. I4t. per annum, 81 San Paulo (litn.). gua. 7 per cent., 81 Ditto (all), 21 1 FOREIGN MINK& Alamillon, limited, 1 Cape Copper, limi t 101 Cobre Copper, 35 Fortuna (lim.), 31 Mont. Aureos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 21 St. John del Rey (lim.), 501 50 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Agra and United Service (lim.), 1221 Alliance flank of Lou Jai and Liverpool (Um.), 481 Ditto, new, ?al Australasia, 74} 7 Ditto, new, 47 Bank of Egypt, 26} Bank of London. 164 3 Bank of Queensland (11m). 144 Brazilian and Portuguese. lim., 8 British and American Exchaoge (lira.), 18/Ch Ch ar t er ed Bank of India, Australia, and ina s 411 Continental. lim., 81 Consolidated Bantc,llim., 101 East London, Um., 74 English, Scoich, and Australian chartered, 211 English and Swedish, lim.. 78 Hi n dustan, china, and Japan (lim.), 311 Ditto, new. issued at 2pm 81 Imperial Bank (lim.), 261 Imperial Ottoman, 181 Land Mortgage Bank of India, ltrn., London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, Ditto, new, 5} London, Birm , and S. Staffordshire, lim., 121 London and County, 57 Merchant Bank, lim., 111 1 Metrop. and rm.,. Bank (11m.), Oriental liana Corporation, 641 4 Provincial of Ireland, 911 Union of London, DOCKS- St. Katharine, 711 Victoria, 1001 MISCELLANEOUS Bombay Gas, limited, 41 Commercial Union (insurance), 9} 9 Contract Corporation. litn.. ell 6 Di count Corporation, limited, 11 1 Egyptian Commercial and Trading, Him, Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Hui., 871 Hudson's Bay, ISI / International Financial Society, 121 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 3 Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1870, Issued 90, 85 J oint•stoc k Discount. 61 1 London and Caledonian Marine, lim., 31 L on don Provincial Marine, 31 Lo n don Finanzial Association, Inn.. 261 M ercan tile Credit Association, lim., 13,1 North British and Mercantile Insurance, lim., 191 Nova Scotia Gold and Land, lien., 1 04 Royal Mail steam. 85 • Societe FiDal2Ciere d 'Egypte, 5 Universal Marine (Insurance), 41 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1864 LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) COURT OF DIVORCE, (Before the Judge-Ordinary and a Common Jury.) WRIGHT V. WRIGHT, BUNTING AND BIIICKNELL. This was a petition presented by the husband, a butcher, carrying on business in Clerkenwell, praying for a dissolu tion of the marriage on the ground of adultery committed by the wife with the co-respondents. The case, during its development, was one of great de pravity. The marriage took place in 1846, and the final separation in 1851. Previous to the respondent leaving her husband she used to frequent low places of entertain ment, and on which occasions she would remain from home daring the night, and it was during this course of dissipation that the particular acts mentioned in the petition were com mitted. Robert Oxenham, Mrs. Sermon, and other witnesses hav ing been examined, Mr. William Higgins, a coffeeheuse keeper at 60. Red Crosa-street, said in Nov. 1855, a cabman brought a woman to his house. She stayed all night as she was very drunk. She kept sending the servant out for brandy. As she did not get up the next morning at the usual time ono of the servants went up, and, from what was told him, he went into the room, and there found a number of deeds and jewellery lying about the room. He considered it his duty to read a portion of the documents, and after doing so, he discovered the address of Mr. Wright, with whom he im mediately communicated. In a short time the petitioner arrived, and he (witness), in company with Mr. Wright, went up to the apartments. Petitioner asked the respon dent for his keys. At first she refused to give them up, bat afterwards she threw thom on the ground. Mr. Wright who seemed quite overcame, gathered up the papers and left the house. Mr. John Watson, clerk to the solicitor for the petitioner, proved the handwriting of two letters written from Norfolk as that of the respondent, Mrs. Wright. For the defence some witnesses, relatives of the respon dent, gave evidence to prove cruelty on the part of the petitioner, and also to prove adultery had previously been committed by her with persons unknown. Rebutting evidence was then called on the part of the petitioner. The foreman of the jury said his colleagues did not re quire to hoar a single word in reply. They had made up their minis more than an hour ago. On being asked by the officer of the court what their de cision was, The foreman said they were of opinion that the respondent had been guilty of the charges brought against her in the petition. Tht Judge Ordinary immediately issued a decree nisi, with costs, against the co-respondent. As the parties concerned in the cause were preparing to leave the Court, His lordship said he considered the answers to:the peti• Lion filed in the cause was most disgraceful. In them the respondent deliberately swore to every srecies of cruelty as having been committed towards her, and yet not the slightest effort had been made to sustain or prove one of them. It was the most disgraceful proceeding that had ever come within his knowledge and he would tee whether he could not put a stop to it for the future. Mr. Brewster (one of the counsel concerned in the de fence), said he hoped his lordship did not think he was concerned in the matter, as ho had nothing to do with those answers, neither had he seen them before they were put on the file of court. His Lordship did not impute any blame to the learned gentleman; he was too well acquainted with the high honour of all the gentlemen practising in the court to blame any of them for such a state of things. To mark his feeling in the matter, he should give orders that the costs of that answer should not be allowed, and thus prevent them from falling upon the husband. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Pane.) IN RE PAYBODY. This bankrupt was described as of Kettering, innkeeper, and this was a meeting for last examination and release from custody. Mr. Camp opposed on behalf of Mr. Hecknott, hop mer chant, on the ground that the bankrupt had obtained hops to the value of £52 4s on the representation that the inn and brewhouse were his own property, but it was afterwards ascertained that this was a misrepresentation. The bank rupt sold the hops a day or two after they were delivered, and even afterwards petitioned this court. Ile had been in prison for seven months. Mr. Camp urged that this was a very gross cue of obtaining goods under false pre tences. His Honour thought the bankrupt had been sufficiently punished, and granted the release. IN RE GROVER. This bankrupt was described as a vocalist, of Fulham, and this was a meeting for last examination and discharge. Tho debts are £lsl—no assets. There was no opposition, and tho order of discharge was granted. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE ELLIS. This bankrupt was described as of the M inaries, plumber and glazier. The acer,unts by Messrs. Johnstone, Wintle, and Co , show debts £1,193. do. holding security, £705. Credit by do. good £l5O, property given up, £lll. Mr. J. B. Sorrell, Mark-lane, appeared for the assignees, and the order of discharge was granted. RE lIARDISTY. This bankrupt was a clerk in the offico of the Poor-law Board, residing in Prospect-place, Wandsworth-road. His debts are about £9OO. The assets, consisting of furniture, had been assigned under a bill of sale, but have since been recovered for the estate. The case was adjourned for further investigation. RE DANIELS AND DIARR.-lIEAVY FAILURES. The bankrupts had carried on an extens ve business as merchants, in Cannon-street, but both have incurred habil' • tics to the extent of £3,1300. This woe a meeting for last examination, but as the bankrupts did not surrender they were proclaimed in the usual manner. Mr. Cooper, of the firm of Johnstone, Cooper and Co., is appointed manager of the estate. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Tbia Day. MARLBOROUGH -STR EET. SINGULAR CHARGE OF ROBBEILY.—Itiary Wright, a married woman about 50 y ears of age, was charged before Mr. Barber, who sat for Mr. Ku( x, with stealing the sum of £. l , 10s. from the person of Mr. Tomlin, cutler, of 9, Market-street, Newport-market. Mr. Tomlin, an elderly man, said—l have known the prisoner for years, and her husband is a customer of mine. As ehe called on me yesterday, I asked her whether she would take a glass of anything. She said she would, and I told her to fetch a quarters of rum, and we a fterwards had a nother. We then went to a publichouse and had some more, and I left her there and went to a neighbour's. On going home again I found the prisoner lying on a sofa. In answer to Mr. Barker, the prosecutor said he charged the prisoner because there was no one else to charge. Ile had lain down alongside her and went to seep, and when he awoke he missed his money. He was not quite sober. The prisoner denied taking the money, and a constable stated when she was searched at the station, only one shilling and a penny piece were found upon) her. Mr. Barker discharged the prisoner. ROBBERY AT A TAVERN. —Stephen Wright, a labourer, was charged before Mr. Barker with stealing a quantity of plated forks and knives and spoons from the pantry of the Cranbourn Tavern, Cranbourn-street. The potman in the employ of Mr. Watson, the landlord of the Cranbourne, having deposed to sewing the prisoner in the pantry with the artioles of the value of £3 in his pos session, and Sergeant Gordon, 0 C, having proved taking the prisoner into custody, Mr. Barker asked the prisoner whaler he would plead before him or go for trial. The prisoner admitted his guilt, and was oommitted for three months with hard labour, ...• •••••• .41, THAMES. DRUNK OR SOBER.—AriIAT ON TIIR BLACRIVALL Rethway.— Henry Byford, a well-dressed man, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with being noisy on the Blackwell Railway, ttud esaeulting James Dewdney, a signalman. It appeared from the evidenoe that on the arrival of the Woolwich train at the Shadwell station of the London and Blackwell Railway at half-past four o'clock yesterday after noon, the prisoner was standing in the doorway and ob• struoted the passengers who were passing out. He was re quested by a porter named James Floy 1 to pass on down the platform, where he would be out of the way. The prisoner used the most disgusting language to the officer, and threatened him. The passengers leaving the train were put to groat inconvenience, and as the prisoner refused to doaist, James Dowdney. a signalman, tuok him by the arm and led him down the stairs. The prisoner turned round on the signalman on the stairs and struck him. He also seized him by the throat and tore his collar right away. A police constable was called, and the prisoner was given into custody. All the witnesses said the prisoner was the worse for liquor, and two of them said he was neither drunk nor sober. Mr. Partridge asked the constable, 498 K, if the prisoner was drunk or sober ? Ile replied that ho was neither one or other. Mr. Partridge could not understand such fine drawn dis tinctions. A man was said to be the worse for liquor, lout not drunk, and two witnesses said that he was not drunk and was not sober. A man must be ono thing or the other. The I risoner said ho was making a little merry with some sailors on the platform, and if he had :offended anyone ho was sorry for it. He caught the signalman Dewdney, who was pushing him down stairs, to save himself from tailing. Dlr. Robert Wilding, of No. 23, Newgate-market, said he was with the prisoner, and confirmed his statement up to the period of being led away by the signalman. They had been drinking a little wine. Mr. Partridge said it was nit proved the prisoner was drunk. The sooner the police constable Stapleton could give a decided answer the better. He fined the prisoner 203. The money was paid. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The Torch, 5, screw steam gun vessel, 423 tons, 80-horse power, Commander F. H. Smith, from the West Coast of Africa, arrived at Sheerness on Tuesday, the Ist inst., and was inspected by Capt. J. Fulford, of the flagship Formid able, for Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.8., on Wednesday, atter which she proceeded to Chatham to be paid out of commission. The Trafalgar, 70, screw steamship, 2,900 tons, 500-horse power, Capt. Thomas H. Masco, which was paid out of commission on Monday last by Capt. Charles Wise, A,D.C., Captain-Superintendent of Sheerness dockyard, was recommissioned on Tuesday by Captain Charles F. Schornberg for coastguard service at Queensferry, North Britain, in the place of the Edinburgh, 60, which it is re ported is shortly to b 3 sold out of the service. On Tuesday Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.B. hoisted his flig, white at the fore, on the Cumberland, Capt. W. K. Hall, guardsloip of steam reserve, having succeeded Admiral Sir Goorge R. Lambert, K.C.8., as Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness. At sunset the same day Admiral Sir G. It. Lambert struck his flag on board the Formidable, and on Wednesday morning, the 2d inst., Vice- Admiral Sir Charles Talbot transferred his flag from the Cumberland to the Formidable flagship. The screw steamer Ariadne, 26, Capt. E. W. Vansit tart, of 3,214 tons and 800-horse power, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from the West Indies, having sailed from Bermuda on the 13th ult. When she left there were lying there her Majesty's abjps Nile (flagship of Vice- Admiral Sir A. Milne, K.C.8.), waiting the arrival out from England of the Duncan, screw line-of-battle ship, with the new Commander-in-Chief, Rear- Admiral Sir J. Hope, K,C.B.— the Terror, guard ship—the Phaeton, 39, screw, Capt. G. Le G. Bowyer—the Liverpool, 39, screw, Capt. Rowley Lambert—the Pylados, 20, screw, Capt. Arthur W. A. Hood—and the Petrel, 11, screw, Commander G. W, Watson. A heavy north-east galewas experienced on the 231 inst. off the Western Islands, during which a marine fell overboard and was lost, notwithstanding that the skip was hove to and a boat lowered in charge of a lieutenant in the endeavour to rescue him. The following passengers and in valids arrived in the ship from Bermuda :—Lieut. Evans, invalided from her Majestya ship Nile--Rev. Mr. Pember ton, chaplain, and Sub.-Lieut. Lloyd, invalided, from her Majesty's ship Pylades—Midsbipman Mercer, invalided from her Majesty's ship Rosario—Capt. Luard, in valided—Lieut. Bradford, 39th Regiment, on leave-1 ser geant and 11 men 39th Regiment, invalids-7 man of the 15th Brigade R.A., invalids-2 military and 5 naval pri soners, and a number of naval invalids and time-expired men. The whole were landed from the ship yesterday and forwarded to their respective destinations, with the exoep tion of the men belonging to Plymouth, who will be sent on to that port in the Geyser, 6, paddle, this morning. The Ariadne is ordered to the eastward ,to pay out of commis sion, and will sail from Spithead this morning. _ _ _ The examinationsof naval engineers at Portsmouth, with a:view to candidates receiving certificates from the Rev. Dr. Woolley, commenced at the dockyard school on Monday and concluded yesterday (Wednesday). Only 15 candidates presente4 themselves for examination. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty:—Commander J. Ward (b), to command the Rifleman, her complement having been altered, vice Mr. Reed, master, suspended at his own request on account of ill health—Frederick A. Johnston, master, to the Indus, additional for the Assurance —Alexander Cross, staff-sur geon, promoted to be a Deputy Inspector General of Hos pitals and Fleets, on the retired list—llenry Louis Fleet, nominated to a naval cadetship—and Thomas Robinson, assistant clerk to the Princess Royal. THE ARMY. A general order from the Horse Guards signed by Lieut.- Gen. Sir It. Airey, Quartermaster-General, has been received at Chatham garrison, announcing that in con sequence of the numerous accidents that have occurred from the use of sails in garrison boater the Field-Marshal Com manding-in Chief, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State for War, has directed that, as a general rule, in future sails are not to be used in boats manned by troops. If a general or other officer commanding at a station wishes an exception to be made to this rule in the case of any particu lar boat, and considers that the use of the sails may be re sorted to with safety, special application is to be made to the Quartermaster-General for the retention of the necessary sails, a report being at the same time forwarded to the de partment. All sails not proposed to be specially retained in possession of the troops are to too forthwith given into the charge of the principal military store officers at the respec tive stations. Ire accordance with a special order received at the ord nance store department, Chatham, from the War Depart ment, all heavy Armstrong guns, including 7-inch and up wards, are to be in future designated ty their calibres, in stead of by the weight of their projectiles. 'rho terms " 110- pounders," " 70-pounders," &c., will consequently cease to be recognised in the service. A couple of 300-pcunder smooth-bore guns, with coiled tubes and solid ends, made in the Royal gut: factories at Woolwich, have been proved this week at the Plumstead butt. The first gun proved was fired two rounds, with a charge of 50lb of powder and'a 6001 b. cylinder shot, and two subsequent rounds with 351 b. of powder and a 300 W. oylindcr shot. It was then ascertained that the shot could not be driven home. The fifth charge, partially loaded,was extracted, and on examinations flaw was discovered in the inaer tube near the breach. The second gun withstood the test well, and will be sighted and prepared for cupola service. An order has been received at Woolwich from the War Department for the while of the Armstrong guns now in store to be fitted with new sights before any further issue takes place, which will cause some considerable delay. MARKETS--This Day. INIAItK-LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY ASEA.GES.—Wheat, 40s GI ; barley, 32s O 1; oats, 19s 4d R. ; rye, 39s Od ; beans, 33s Id ; and peas, 32s Od. THB SIX WEEKS' ATERAOF.s. -- Wheat, 40s 9I ; barley, 32.0 Id ; oats, 19e ld ; rye, 30s ltd; beans, 33s bd peas, 33s Od. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.--Wheat, 100,24`; barley, 75,956; oats, 13,418; rye, 2 ; beans, 13,338 ; peas, 1,577 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of beasts on sato here, to-day, was very mode rate, and the condition of the stock was inferior. Prime breeds moved off slowly, at Monday's currency—the late figure being 5s per Sibs—whilst inferior breeds were very dull, at barely stationery prices. Sheep—the show of which was by no means extensive—were a dull inquiry, at late rates. Downs, in wool, realised 5s 10c1 to 6s—out of the wool, 4s 101 to 5s per 81bs. \Ve have to report a dull trade for lambs, at from 6s 81b to 78 41b per Sibs. Calves, though in short supply, were heavy, and 2d per Sibs lower than on Monday. In pigs and mulch cows very little was doing, at barely late rates. Per 81be.to s s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 6 3 10 Secondquality do. 4 0 4 4 Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Prime Soots, dr, o. 4 10 5 0 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 10 4 4 Second qualitydo. 4 6 5 2 Suckling calves, 201 to 26. 20s to 26s each. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts ... Cows l2O Sheep Calves Pigs, 340 ink tho offal. • P. d. A. d. L P a r r im go ec h ri o lwool d 0.5 4 5 8 , Pme.S'thdowndo. s 10 6 0 1 I.krgo orse. calves 4 0 4 6 Prime small do 4 8 5 0 3 6 4 0 i Small porkers..., 4 2 4 6 ; and quarter-old store pigs; FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 3lO Sheep and lambs Calves Pigs ~1 .— MEAT MARKETS. NEWOATE AND LVIADENHALL.—The supplies of moat aro moderate. and the trade rules inactive, as fol1ow8: Beef, from 3e Od to 4s 2d; mutton, 3a Gd to 48 6d • veal, 4e 41 to 4s 8d; and pork, 31 4‘.1 to 4a 4d per 811)8 the UMW. SourrALL, March 2.—Our market was fairly supplied with stock, and the trade ruled boavY, as follows from 3e 6d to 4. lad ; mutton, 3,10 d to Gs Od ; veal, 4. 4d to 48 10d; lamb, Os Od to Os Od; and pork, 38 Sd to 48 61 per albs, to sink the offal. ltomvonn, March 2.—Prime beasts and sheee w er in moderate request, as follows' —l3eaf, from 3s 4d mutton, 48 Od to Os Od; veal, 4s 4d to 4a 10d ; and pork, quar ter-old store pig% 38 8d to 4s Gd per 81be; auokling calTos, Ns to 225; 20s to 20s; and milch cows, £l4los to £l9 each. HAY MARK2TS. SMITHPIELD.—Moadow hay, £3 Os to £4 be Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and stray', 2a to £1 10s per load. A fair demand. £3 Os to £4 Si ; clover, CUMRERLAND.—MerIow £3 Oa to £4lo+ Od 'clover , £4 Os to £5 108 Od ; and straw, Al 2s to £1 108 per loud. Trade inactive. WILITEOH4PEL £4 Os to £5 Ws Od ; and straw, XL 2.4 to £ 1 103 per load. Supply good. COAL MARKET. Prtoes of Coal per 'Von at the club( of tho market. B. d. • Wall En 4. Lamborea Nast Hart- 7;r —— a ' l4 6 Davison's West Hart ley 11 9 Wylani 17 0 Cowpon Hartley 14 9 Eden Main l7 0 p. d. • Walla End. Ilotton 18 6 &nab lletton ..IS 6 Stowartia 18 0 13ruldyll'a kletton 17 3 Ships at mark( .... ... Haswell East Hartlepool IS 6 South Ilai t I ep001.,. . Trimdon II artlopool.. 1te110e.... ...... 17 6 South Kelloe . I leugh Hall 1 , 9 Tunstall ... Riddell Wharueliffe l6 0 Hartlepool 62; sold, 38. DEATH OF THE REV. PREBENDARY JAMES, OF HANOVER CHAPEL.--By the death of the Rev. Thomas George James, Prebendary of "%Vella, the important post of incumbent of H anover Church, Regent-street, has become vacant. lianover Church, to which a district is now apper tioued, is worth £ 7CO, with a population of £5,000. The incumbency is iu the gift of thu rector of St. George's Hanover-square. Capt, Speke on Civilisation in Central Africa, ~- -- A meeting was held at the residence of the Mar quis Townshend, Grosvenor-place, on Tuesday, for the purpose of considering Captain Speke's plan for the civilisation of the natives of equatorial Africa. Amongst those present were Lord Kinsale, Col. Sir Thomas Trowbridge, Mr. Perry Watlington, M.P., Col. Dawes, Capt. Speke, Dr. Murie, and the Rev. W. Denton. Capt. STEKE arose amierwarm applause, and spoke for a considerable time on the subject before the meeting. 110 said it was gratifying to observe the existence of a strong determination on the part of this country and the Government to suppress the slave trade. At preseni our exertions had been un successful, and would so continue as long as they were confined simply to the presence of men-of war along the coast of Africa. As soon as that was withdrawn the slave trade would revive, The only method, in his opinion, was to educate the negro to maintain his own right, and to parti cipate with us in the abolition of this inhuman traffic. It might be true that in America and Cabs the trade had declined ; yet at Z anzibar it was three times as great as at Cuba. The slave trade also on the White Nile was almost unparalleled; the merchants sent large parties up she country to obtain ivory in any way they could, by beads or bullets, and sided with one chief or another to rob the natives and capture slaves. It was calculated that the capture of one slave involved the loss of four lives. The cost of our present system of sup pression was something like £150,000 annually, and so large a sum should realise much greater results. The propositions he had to make were the follow. ing, and were calculated, in his opinion, to effect the objects he was assured all present desired :-1. That our Government bo petitioned to use its influ ence, conjointly with the Egyptian Government, to suppress the illegitimate tendencies of the White Nile trade; and, for that purpoce, to^establish an alliance with the Bari negroes, at the foot of the cataracts above Gondokoro, 2. Teat our Govern ment be petitioned, with other European Govern ments, to support an united Cnurch mission, to bo sent, via Luwakem on the Red Sea, to Berber on the Nile, thence up the Nile to the foot of the cataracts above Gondokoro, whence, by land, they would march up the Nile to the kingdom of Unyoro. 3. Tbat the missionaries composing the mission be selected not for the purpose only of preaching to the Wahuma, but for general instruction ; and that they shall be bound to he self-supporting after the first two or three years, or until a trade can be insti tuted with Egpyt. 4. That when the King of Unyoro can see and understand that ;egitimate trade is the beat thing for the maintenance of his Government and the prosperity of his people, de• tacbments of missionaries shall be sent further on to the kingdoms of Agunda and Karague. 5. That our Government be petitioned to make some ar rangement with the Sultan at Zanzibar to put a stop to the slave trade in his dominions. 6. That our Government be petitioned to recognise all per sons convicted of taking part in slavery as conniv ing at murder, and to treat them accordingly; for without bloodshed slaves cannot be caught. 7. That our Government be petitioned to form a chain of negro depots round the east and west sides of Africa, in sufficient numbers to half man our men-of war, end yet to have a strong reserve at each depot, who shall be educated and brought up for the holy purpose of liberating their fellow coun tryinen from the thraldom of slavery ; as it :is ob• vious that the great sums of money now spent with a view to suppress slavery are doing more harm than good. 8. That, as much as possible, negroes should be educated and employed in all British services, and taught to abhor the slave trade, which they have hitherto been taught to consider legiti mate from the fact that they are purchased with European articles of merchandise. Fertility and good government are necessary to the missionary ; from the want of these essentials the Z imbeei Mis sion had failed. The great belt of fertility he (Captain Speke) had diecovered within three degrees of the equator, on either side; the existence of three kingdoms, governed by kings of Abys sinian origin, of an intelligence superior to the natives, and of milder disposition ; at Unyoro a King who would readily :entre the missi Mary ; the opening of the ivory trade and other products down the Nile--guaranteed the success of a mission. A settlement, with an English consul, should be established at Gondokoro to prevent the passage of muskets without a written authority. The trade with this country would then be carried down the Nile, instead of, as at present,t hrough Zanzibar and so roiled the coast. He would also observe that the climate on the equatorial bolt was more healthy than is usual in intertropical Africa. lie recommended his propositions to the meeting with great confi dence, as he was assured it was the best course to suppress slavery by the education of the natives in Christianity, and the advantages of commerce and agriculture. (Applause.) Dr. Murie, Mr. Perry Watlington, the Rev. S. May, and the Rev. Wyndham Malet having ad dressed the meeting in favour of Captain Speke's plan, Mr. C. MURDOCII proposed the following resolu tion :—" That this meeting, having considered a statement made) by Capt, Speke, is of opinion that an association should be formed for the suppression of the slave trade, the instruction of the natives of Central Africa in the truths of Christianity, and opening a wide field for commerce in lands remark ably rich and fertile." The Marquis TOWNSSrID seconded the resolution. Mr. PERRY WATIANGT9N then proposed ; "That the gentlemen present ho a vpointed a committee to carry the preceding resolution into effect, with power to add to their number." The Rev. WYNDIIAM Marl' seconded the re solution. Tho Marquis TowesllEam they pat the third resolution " That the committee ho.'d a meeting on Monday, the 7th inst., and that Air. Herbert Safford, of 6, Bolton-row, bo requested to under take the duties of honorary seoretary ;" and fourth, " That the thanks of the meeting be given to.Cap taia Speke." These resolutions having been agreed to stem. con. and after some observations from Colonel Dews and Mr. Herman Lowenthal upon the success of the mission in Africa with which they were acquainted, the meeting adjourned. LANCASTER GRAMMAR 6CIIOOL. —we have great pleasure in observing that the Itlyal Gram mar School of Lancaster still maintains its high reputation, not only at the universities, but also what is of almost equal importance, in the middle class examinations. It is there by shown that boys are as well prepared for commercial pursuits as they are for the more learned professions. Fur the Cambridge Mathematical Tripes of this year, we find that Mr. Metcalfe was 2Gth wrangler, and Messrs. Bolden and I'ritt occupied good positions among the senior and juniuroptitnes. Tho following wore successful candidates at the Cambridge local examination, held in December last. In the list of senior candidates, first class honours were ob teined by Irvine and Baynes—second class, Ilawxby—third class, Barton. Among the junior candidates—first class, Fitzgerald—second class, Bond, Cooper, and Murton — third class, Fowell and Leach. Booth and Wane passed also to the eatisfaction of the examiners. IV hile Irvine and Baynes were first and second of the senior candidates examined at Liverpool, Fitzgerald surpassed all rival com petitors, and his name accordingly figures at the head of the whole list which embraces boys from all parts of the king dom. Should Lord Derby give the same live or 10 guinea prizes that he did ins e last, both will:have been carried off by Lancaster boy w un ho have been entirely educated at the Grammar School of Lancaster. Tii E ELEVENTH EDITION OF RENAN'O " Vie de Jesus," unchanged in form and 'nice, has just been issued by Messrs. Levy fatres of Paris.NATIONAL SAINTS. —St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, wan a Scotchiumi, named Succath. Being of noble birth he was summed Patricius, which became afterwards Patrick. St. David, the patron saint of Wales, was the sou of a Cymric prince and uncle of King Arthur. St. Gall, the apostle of the Swiss, was Colhmban, an Irish priest. St. Augustine, the apostle of the Saxons, was an Italian. St. Boniface, the apostle of the Germans, was a Levonshire man, named Winifred. Constantine the Great, who Ora made Christianity a state religion, was born in Britain. Pelagius, one of the great heresiarchs of the ancient Christian Church, and who as an eyewitness wrote an account of the sack at Rome, was one Morgan, a Briton. St. Dunstan was a Glastonbury man. St. Swlthin, who escorted Alfred the Great when a boy to Rome, was a Win chester monk. St. Buethiais lived and died a pagan. Ile was canonised on account of the inestimable value of his gre at work on " The Consolations of PhilosoptlY to Reli gion and Morality," LORD DITNDREARY'S CHARACTER SPORTING As MR. BOTHERN MS CONCEIVED IT. What he has so marvellously worked out is the complete disappearance of all such intellectual power as involves even a momentary cffoit of atten tion from a supercilious mind by no means devoid of natural clearness, eager for amusement, and re sentful that almost every amusement does draw upon the power of attention. lie catches at straws floating on the surface of thought, and resentfully abandons it the moment he finds that he cannot even follow the indolent train of association it suggests without some effort of discrimination, There is a chronic crave in him to individualise his own thoughts without effort to himself, and chronic anger because he can't succeed, Lord Dundreary would be even a lucid-mindid man if be could attend to anything for two consecuti ve minutes. If he calls everyone and everything "a fellah," even to the candles on his dressing-table, it is not confusion of thought, but simply indolence in expression, which induces him to use the abstract instead of recalling the specific term. When he can explain binoself without an effort, there is something graphic in it notwithstanding the lassitude of his exposition—as when he defines the game of draughts by "wound piece of wood hopping over each on squares of leather," or illustrates his own assertion that he is a good-natured fellow, by explaining that " two out of every thwee mon who know me would think so," and adds, after a brief pause, that " the third knell who didn't think so so would be an ass." Then the habitual angriness of his state of mind is only the natural disgust attending the discontinuity of his own thoughts, and the perceived impossibility of remedying it without an effort. When ho says of the peacock, "I hate a bird all tail and no head," and reviles the pigeons for tumbling head over heels because " I hate a bird that doesn't know its own mind,"—the irritation he feels is merely a mode of cuttieg short' his thoughts about a rather singular phenomenon which be feels would haunt him if he didn't get up temper and abuse it. None of this is native imbe cility—it is a haughty sort of lucidity which is furious because in this universe nothing is isolated and comprehensible at a glance, so that you are in danger of being led on from one thing to another in a very perplexing way which does not suit a man anxious to find adequate amusement in the straws floating on the surface of his thought. Even the uphill triumphant catch in his voice or crow which is his equivalent for laughter, admirably ex presses this momentary character of his perceptions, for his sense of the ludicrous is not the full meeting of two incongruous ideas in his imagination, but a mere point, a spark, an infinitesimal gleam of in congruity, which it is a triumph in him to have caught at all, and which vanishes from his grasp just as ho catches eight of ft. The angry stare with which his lordship looks at us when he gets into difficulties about folding his arms, and can no more remember how the double junction is effected than a child learning to tie its shoe for the first time, is one of Mr. Sothern's moet effective touches in this carica ture; the difficulty represents somehow the single threat of his associations, which is never quite equal to the mastery of any two simultaneous actions, end the resentment which be evidently feels at the failure of memory and the need of recollection, betrays the indolent pride which is at its root. Even the lop sided rut: with which he mekos his exit from the room is expressive of this utter want of coherent mental effort. One leg drags the other after it, as it were, instead of their both marching together, just as one thought succeeds and excludes another which ought to be combined with it. Of course the worth of the whole conception is is the caricature. and in that alone. But it is wonderfully subtle caricature, in which almost every movement of the muscles of the face, every tone of the voice, and every grotesque discontinuity of thought, contri butes something to the effect. Of course the mere power of caricature is by no means rare in comic actors, but the powers of subtle intel'ecitsul caricature such us Mr. Sothern shows in this character, we take it, exceedingly rate. It is a caricature, for instance, which even Mr. Dickens—an accomplished actor, we believe, as well as a writer of caricature—could scarcely have executed. The whole conception is grafted on the social eondition in which Lord I)undreary is supposed to have been brought up, and with all his rudeness and eccentricity the notion of an aristo cratic substratum of manners as well as of pride and indolence, is always perfectly conveyed. It is all subtle caricature, though it is caricature of the most extreme and doubly-distilled character. EXPENSIVE SAVING. -- When Susan's brother, John, who is a cashier at a large linendraper's. came to dinner on Christmas--lay, and we told him how be had been saving, he burst out a laughing." "What are you laughing at ?" I dye, " What am I laughing at P" bo•saye, almost choking himself with a mouthful otgoose—" why, at you." " What for," I says. "For being so jolly green," he says. " Jolly green 1" I rays; "is it jolly green to lay by money for a rainy day P—leamtways for a Christmas-day, when a family r, quire', extras ?" "Fiddlesticks 1" John says. "Let roti ask you a question, George." " Twenty," I eays ; go ahead, John. " Well," ho says, " When did you begin to pay into the goose•club at the Yorkshire Grey P" "At Mtieuminor." I says. "And you paid in sixpeuce every week for 2G weeks?" " Yee," I says, " I did." " Which made 136., George " Exactly," 1 says. " Well," he says, "is the goose and the liquor worth it?" "Judge for yoursolf, John," I says. "Could I la.ve bought such a goose as that you are now partaking of for less then eight • and-6x in the shop'?" No," he s►ys, " I don't• think you could. " Very well," I says, ." where's your fiddle- Nil( lot, and how do you make rue out jolly green ri. Why this way, George," ho says—" iu . tho first place, you've been losing the interest upon your money for six months." " That's not much," 1 says. " Na," ho says, "perhaps not; but that's not all. I'll be bound to Kay, George, if you'll only be candid enough to confess it, that every time you wont to the Yorkshire Grey to pay in 6d, to the goose-club, you had a glass of something?" " I don't deny it," I says; "you can't well go to a publichouse without having a glass." "Sometimestwo," ho says. " Well," I says, "sometimes two; perhaps three, when I happened to meet a friend." Then, let us say, George, that every time you went to pay is 61. to the club, you spent, on an average, another 64. on drink." "It might be about that," I says, " Very well then, George, upon your own showing, your goose, and bottle of gin, and bottle of rum, have cost you 2Ga., to aay nothing of your loss of time, and injury to your constitution through drinking more than was good fur you." " I never thought of it in that way, John," I says. " No, of course not, George," he rays; "for if you had thought of it in that way, you wouldn't have been such a fool Os to do it." "But you'll admit," that Susan hits has had her money's worth at tho grocers's, and not paid more than she ought?" I'm not going to dispute that," ho says; "but you must remember that the grocer has had the use of her money, and supposing ho had failed about the beginning of December, what would have became of Susan, and all the other Christmas-club geese ? I'm surprised at a sensible man like you, George, doing such things, when there's a Post-office Savings Bank close to your door."—J)ickcns's "All the rear Round." i'. AREA OF THE 11111'11st' EMPIRE is 4.369,729 square miles; its population (1861) is 224,389,000. hence our Queen reigns over nearly ono-third of the laud of the earth, and about n fifth of its population. Scarcely fewer than thirty native languages arc spoken by her sub jects : for instance--English, French, Malian, Dutc h, Spanish, Portuguese, H e b re w, (Ireek, Persian, Ar abic, Maltese, Chirkso, Armenian, llindostance, Mahratti, Tamil, Telflgfi, Carnatien, t 4 , i o g 4l `'sel Malay, Burmese, llottontot, Kew, Negro, Maori, bes i des . many barbarous tongues which lava not been formed tub. written languages. In her Majesty's realm there are four great established religions—the Christian, the Brahman, the 20,000,000; th e Mohammedan, the Buddhis t. Of these the Chriatiatts number, at a rough estimA te, 34,031,161 ; the disci p les of frho i :Ut d u a r u e n e ' habitti of life, and subjects exhibit as many IBlruadldinhlias,t,6oo,ooo,ooo,oo,ooooo ; possibly exst in the memb ers o f t h e h uman d m i e v d er es sit o ie f thought , s atshcreAun, the British i family. Place auto by aide an Englishman, Hindoo from British India, an Arab front Aden, a Chinese from Hong Kong, a Negro from South Africa, tin Indian from North America, and n native Australian, and we shall have speci• men, o f each of the great types of the human nice. Assemble together Reeducated Englishman and a heavy French Canadian and a grave un tutored Hottentot ; a lively arise-eating Htndoo and a roan and bellicose Red Indian ; eating New Zealander; a graceful lonian and a lumpish Esquitnaux; and between all these subjects of ono Sove reign there would be as little in common as could possibly exist between inhahitnuts of the same planet. Mr. MAIN FRISWELL'S recent little volume of 6181 3 1 •" Thu Gentle Life," a reprint of papers from the Saturday _Review, lots succeeded to well as to.induce that geetleteau to arrange another series for publication. E--This D (nY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) DERBY }LACES--!ms DAY. Love Letter.. Amazon Three ran. RACING FIXTU MA Nottingham Spring 1 Derby Spring 3 Liverpool Sbrow•abury Doncaster Spring Crox ton- park 1 Edinburgh Spriag 2 A bergnvenny Thirok • 5 RES FOR, 1864. LCIL. Chester .. 3 York Spring Sulit•bury l2 Baal Warwick • • 1G Durham Nort hamptuu 29 Cattcricl• .. Epsom Spring Newmarket Craven Newmarket First Spriug 2i Manchester II apendon Epson . 24 JUNE Ascot .. Hampton l5 New Forest Hunt Newton Odihsin tVoroest.r (Sumner) .. 30 Bibury Stockbr id ge V LT. Newmarket July Carliele .. Abingdon Liverpool July Stamford l4 Pontefract Nottingham Winchester .... Southampton .. 2O Chesterfield Goodwood ...... 29 13rigbf on 2 Brighton Club Lewes 6 Rending lighrm Oxford lB Yarmouth SErT: Weymouth 1 \Varwiek September 6 Leicester 8 Doncaster Brecon l9 York August • 23 Plymouth Derby Lichfield Stockton .. .. 'lO Devon and Exeter Richmond Monmouth 22 Manchester Autumn NewmarkutFiret Octubcr 27 Ocrourm. Northallorton 6 Gloucetter Newmarket Second Oct. 10 Newmarket Houghton 24 llNovnuirAt. Shrewitbury Autumn .. 11 I Worcester Autumn 30 Leamington& War. Hunt 22 STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864. MARCH. Grand Military (Rugby Hunt) l4 AruiL, Abergavenny .. 6 r'o~•L:unt:n. Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt 22 Our Heroes and our Statesmen. A PA Sing* a song of gre nbael s. l'oe.stla fu l of track, over head and ears in &Id, And out of ready cash. UODY. Forne, under Abe's chair, llarA:ng 1 ko a d,g. Schenk, (low at Ba timore, D, 1,1; d fly work ; Butler, Lt NorlulK, As say.iso . a Tur:. Helps of tax col retort! An busy aa a bee ; A'nt we iu a pretty flx. With d at fifty-three. Ab in the White Hou e, Prce'antatio,b writing; 31e the. tin the Rapidan, Atratd to do the fighting. Hanks. cut in Texam, Cutting ructi a fl,uri ; I etcher, Ia i•rooriyn, 11ow,h:g lot the ntiAer. Seward, In the i abin t, Surrounded by his spies ; ui eek, with the telegraph, Busy forging lies. Chen, In the Treasury, mrtllless notes ; Cul tls, at Harrisburg, 31:.kt,,g shoddy cats. Gintr.ore, in ( harleinon, Ludt in a tog; Lots o! Ab litat • a up a ye•l, In c roes r. rs n Ilrownhw, Ant stn them all to h- 1L Iternaide, at linoxvi!le, la n k tat of flx; ahlgrlcu e t. z;uniter, ng a, the takks. Grant, at Chattanooga, T‘y.ng brag to thr.en ; Is it at.y wonder, The Union's gJne to smash 2 Foreign Mail Packet Lint. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Soutliampton Mar. 20. via alureeillea Mar. 11. iirazil and Cspo Vents, by British pathut. Mar. Cp. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. ilolenn 111sr. 30. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southanipten.Mur. 3 __ via Marbeilles Mar. 14, Falkland Wanda Gibraltar, via Southampton .. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 3. via 51 greedier. Mar. 14. India (Bombay), via Southampton Mar. 13. via 51aracillea Mar. 7. P0rtuga1.......... 51alta, Egypt, and Men, via Southampton Mar. 3, via 51arseillea Mar. 7. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. 0. and Mitten N. Atnarica, Ly lint. p.tvicet .... Mar. 2 ' by. U.S. packet.... by Canadittn pockct.Mnr 4. W.C. of Africa, hlndoira, and Tenoriilo Mar. 10. Bshamar, via New York Mir. 11, Mexico All carteof West lndioo, including Wlli, Peru, I mar. —, California. and Britiph Columbia. Tho Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Parts is about 4 per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.35 prr £1 sterling. Ou comparing these rates with the English Mint price of .0 17e. Wid. per ounce for standard gold, it apps, s that roll u about 3-laths per cent. dearer in London than in Part I. fhe course of exchange at New York on London for bills at CO days' sight is 174 to 175 per cent., and the pren.ium on gel iis about A9l per cent. At these rates there id a profit on the importation of gold from the United States. Tho Court of Ass'is - e of tho Rhone hag just tried a man namod Margotton, aged 49, a weaver by trade, on a charge of having by false representations caused (ho child of a woman with whom he c,iliabited to bo registered as tho legitimate offspring of his wife. It appeals that the prisoner was mirried at 'foram iu ISI9 to a woman named Mario Givro, by whom he hid (Iva children. In 'SU, having funned an illicit connec:im with a woinsn namod Berard, he deserted his wife and family, and went to live at Amplopuis, where he and Berard lived as man and wife. In February, 1869, the woman Berard gave birth to a male child, whom the prisoner got registered as the son of his wife, and Palls fled the registrar of the fact by producing the certifLato of his marriage with Marie Givre, In July following the local authorities were informed that Berard was not the prisoner's wife, and ho was arrested. In his defence the prisoner stated that his only object ill committing the fraud was to save the child fror, the disgraca of ille• gitimacy, but the Mayor of Atnplepuis dip3sed that the prisoner had stated that his object in washing tho child to bo regarded as legitimate was that it might Share the property coming to Lis children from his wifeislamily. The jury having found the prisoner guilty, ho Court sentenced him to two years' imprisonment. UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.—Some changes since our last notice have taken plaice in the position of the Cambridge crow. Mr. Selwyn has been removed from No. 2 oar to the stroke, Mr. Kinglake front the stroke to No. 6, and Mr, Hawkins from No. 4 to No. 2. The orew commenced rowing on Monday in a very largo outtrige race.get not the new b3at by Mr. Matthew Taylor , ex p ressl y built for the occasion, and in which they purpos e rowing the Although they cannot be raid to have improved 00 :ouch as their friends could wish, yet it is contideatly hoped that by the day of the race (the 19th inst.) this powerful crow will have attained that perfection of style wowli has for 80 many years characterised the rowing of u nivetsity wen. Betting is brisk at 6 and 6 to 4 on Oxford. THE GREAT EASTERN STEAMSHIP.---LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.—Cur readers will no doubt remember that on the 17th of last month the Great Eastern wits put up for unreswehrovi.l : r e e l; att2:oloic f a o u r ct t i h o e n, v A o • sti lll e m i. th l e n h c ig or, h:s . t bidder was a Mr. John Rote, of 117, St. James's-street, n ' some difficulty in reference to the payment of the tfl , qt i h h er u etrpo i: 4 ll vs t o c a o l a tl t w id o ns e n i f tu o y n n el crl:ft r i the .ailultocntaieo.unsedebri,fict.ohn.e,nldeihoinpt.hbMerorkv.aecr:su,enlrawerpdaus, repudiated the w ooly knocked down to Mr. Yatos, of the Great Esstern steamship Company (Limited) for a sum similar to that offered by Mr. Rae. Today, however, Mr. Rae, acting upon legal advi ce , procee d ed to M r . C unar d' s an d hero tendered £25,000, and claimed the great ship as Lie pro perty, stating that as he was the first bidddr of £25,000 on the 17th February, ho had au indisputable right to the ship. We understand his money was telused and his claim of course dismissed. MDLLE. AnkLINA PATTI is heard of this season, as lest year, as captivating not only the Parisians , but Rossini : by her pretty singing. The patriarch lived wally years, ,it Is said, .hearing no music whatever. lle now gives soirees, at which Mdlle. Patti and other artists slog little pieces of his composition. THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS AS MT. FOR THE CITY OF LONDON.—A movement is on foot is West minster for the purrose of securing the return of SU .101 . n Remaly, the Master of the Rolls , as member fur the city at the utat general election. The Master of the Rolls is the only judge who is at liberty to livid a seat in the lloure of COIIIIIIOIIP. MARSEILLES, Feb. I.—Letters from Rome of the aay 27th announce thit Ole duty on fbur bas been abolished by a Papsredibcto A dvnced be and the , captain of the Ponti fical Gendarmery, vo. oa frontier, has been arrestd. 14iftoen persons have been taken into custody at Rome, in constquerce of the murder of two clerks of a money•chenger. total visitors, 1,112, CRYSTAL PALACE.-oao Shilling Day, Wednet,- day, March 2.—Adarissiens on payments, 469; ditty lly season tickets, 643 i vBT. :MBER.