The Sun. — London, England, 1863-07-16 00:00:00

!ONES MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The general discount market is rather quiet, there being less demand for accommodation, but 31 per cent. is the lowest quotation for firbt-class three months' paper. About 18,000 in gold was taken into the Bank Yesterday, The Bohemian, from Quebec, has brought £6,000. The fifteenth half-yearly meeting of the share holders of the Bank of London was also held to•day. A dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. was agreed to, and the retiring directors I.c-elected. The London Joint-Stock Bonk held its half yearly meeting to-day,—Mr. Chriety in the chair. The report, which &Owed the usual dividend of 12s. 6d. per share, and a bonus of 7s. per share, both free from income tax, leaving a balance of £lB9 18s. 7d. to the credit of the profit and loss account, of the next half-yer...r, was unanimously agreed to. The biddings for 30,00,000 rupees (£300,000) in bills on India took place at the Bank of England yesterday. The proportions allotted were to Cal cutta, 16,50,000 rupees, to Bombay 12,00,000 rupees and to Madras 1,50,000 rupees. The declared minimum price was as before, ls. p• r rupee on Calcutta, and la. 111,d. on Bombay and Madras. The applications within the limit amounted to 91 lac& Tenders on Calcutta at ls. 11(11. receive about 26 per cent., on Bombay at ls. 114 J., about 24 per cent., and all above these prices in lull; on Madras all in full. The last week's rails ay receipts ascertained up to this day are in round figurrs as under : 1863. 1862 Great Western 1.63,293 £66,174 orth- Wet4tern 101,549 101, 44 out h- estern Brighton Midland south-Eastern 24,766 25,661 Great Northern .. Lancashire and Yorkshire 38,4 ,0 34,374 Bristol and Exeter North Eastern North British Manchester, Sh4ffield, ani Lincoln 16,1'65 14,600 Euinourgh and Glasß ow These returns in several instanc:s show some rather unfavourable features. On the Great 'Western there is a decrease of £2,881, on the South Western of £1,155, on the Brighton of £BlO, on the South Eistern of £895, and on the Great Northern of £1,827. The Londo❑ and North Western exhibits an increase of £505, the Midland of £3,028, the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £4,056, the North Eastern of £1,884, the North British of £1,679, the Manchester, Sheffie.d, and Lincoln of £1,465, and the Edinburgh and Glasgow of £742. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning, according to Mr.Reuter's telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were inanimate, at 68f, 65c. Tne quotations for the English Funds rose last evening / per cent., but speculative sales effected this morning have caused a reaction to the same extent, and Consols are again marked 93 k for money, and 931,- / for the account. Notwithstand ing the adverse movement this morning, specula tors are evincing more disposition to operate in this department of the house, although at the pre sent time little animation is apparent. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 933 ; Bank Stock is marked 235 237; and Exchequer Bills firm at 3s. prem.; India Stock is 2263 ; the 5 per Cent. Loin, 108 7,-; and the 5 per Cent. Enlaced Paper, 1073. The Debentures are 100!, and the Bonds 15t. prem. There is less animation and buoyancy in the Foreign Market. Turkish 6 per C , nts., 1862, are 671 f e ; do. Consolides, 51 51k; Mexican, 371 a ; Greek, 351 R ; dr). Coupons, 161 t; Spanish 1 1 118,iVt', 337 ; do. Certificates, 12a ; Venezuelan, 58 Italian, 711 2 ; do. Maremmana Railway Llan, 791 ; and the Confederate Loan, 1 die, to par. The dealings in the Railway Snare Market have been very limited, and prices have in several instances shown less firmness Great Western and North Western have declined 10s. ; North Eistsrn (Berwick) and South Eastern, Si.; and Great Eastern have advances' 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain dull, at about previous quotations. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in some in. stances rather firmer. Imperial Ottoman Bank realise 191 4; London and Westminster, 774 ex div ; Bank of Australasia, 314 ; Electric Telegraph, 1064 ; and Royal Mail Steam, 664. Interna tional Financial Shares are quoted 4j 54 prem ; London Financial, lt 2 prem. ; General Creuit Co., 17 4 a prem.; Egyptian Trade, 1 1 prem.; and Hudson's Bay Co. 1 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 237 5 7 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities (la i I 3 per Cent. Con so l s A nnuities 935 a 3 f t New 3 per Cent. Annuities Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885. India Stock 2261 Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 931 / Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 55 tier Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100 a D 't , , ttonds fl,thiti Ditto under £l,OOO Consols for Account, Aug, 6 93s 5 laths Stock for Account, 5 per Cent lOB5 Marco. June Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 per Cent.. 3pm 3pm Ditto £5OO Ditto Small — FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES, Brazilian 5 per Cent • . — Ditto 5 per C ent., 1843 • • .. 991 Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Chi liar, 6 per Cent. Ditto 41 per Cent Danish 4 pe r C ent., 1863 Egyptian 7 pet C ent 9Ol 4 Ditto, Second I ssue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ,ns Ditto Account. 3 55 4 I Ditto Coupons l6 5 Italian 5 per Cent•(lareminana Railway ) 795 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 371 1 Moorish Imp er i a l 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) ---- Poytuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — Ditto Account..... P iucisn 41 per Cent — Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St --- Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 Ditto 1860 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 S ardinian 5 per Cent S p S panish3 per Cent: Ditto Account Ditto New D e f erre d . . Ditto Passive Ditto Account ....... Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto Account... Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto A,t, , mint .. .. .... Ditto 6 p er Cent. 1862 . . 671 5 Ditto Ditto Account 675 8 6 pet Cent. 1863 , Xl9 16s 8d pd. Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto Account ......... 24 1 Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Dividends . t:;1; ...... ab:iv . . ...... ... in London. Belgian 44 per Cent., Ex. 25f. • ...... It alia n, 5 per Gent., 99 u lB 6l, E x . 25 francs — Ditto Account Ditto Scrip, THREE O'CLOCK. Camels, Money Ditto August Account _ _ _ Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) Sales about 5,000 bales. Steadier. Impo r t s , 2,388, Previously, 1,249. ----- ENGLI SH AND FRENCH POSTAGE.---A reduction to one-half the charge made on letters to and from England to likely to be the first result from the deliberations of the Post office conference now sitting at Paris. SUICIDE AT WINDSOR CASTLE. --An inquest was held on Tuesday at Windsor Castle by Mr. Man la 6, coroner of her Majesty's household, on the body of rn a :llla aged 30, who had been for nine years house : 0 at the Castle, and who destroyed herself on Monday last by thrown herself from the parap et over th e b,i tth- terrace. Evidence having been given of the deceaseo 4:g under medical treatment at the time she co mmitted and that her mind was greatly dcprersed from her lu ra r a nd mother having become inmates of a lunatic asy ttr,wthe jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased de / d herself i n a fit of ttmporary insanity," SHARE MARKETS---This day. - 11 re Railways, Paid. 3.14. 8 84 - - 8/ 85 t+7 ligj 120,11 6 64 40 11 15 16 95 96 110 112 53. 644 50 52 244 L 54 128 i 1291 130 131 134 136 101 103 061 67i 76 77 118 t2O 44 46 102! 104 1054 11134 451 1(4 124 121 129 ;294 14 lt d 97 99 55 57 26 28 103 1031 59 60 90 904 118 120 1 1 )1! 16i 161 111 14 :22 124 46 47 99 101 v. 18.4 60 52 31 33 92i J 3 70 72 100 102 71 8t M 3 39 10 11 c. 8 8i 153 )56 5 1 . 6 1 3 Sip 79':581 156 t6O OPPINABY STIARES ANP STOub9. Closing i Busine., Price. done 53f i i 671 6, 114 1 1 7? 1 45i Um* 2; I 3 10aj 11 1 1291 i 56E6 bi 1031 12 32 92 t Bir. Rol„ and Str.Val. l • ;Blythe and Tyne. Bos t.,Sleat.,and Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall D o A A tets no dig Do. 13 CCC been paid to B. ti 11 fp c.p an. ha, Dublin & Belfast June.) Dun.. Perth,& A b. June.. Edinburgh & Glasgow.! , Olasg. and S. Western .1 1G rent Eastern, Ord. stk I Ditto A stock Ditto East A nglian st 1 IG reatNorthof Scotland Great Northern i Do A stock I Do if do ;Gt. S. an I W. of Irelan , ;Great Western i Do Str Val gua. stool; Lancash,."e & Yorkshir, London and iilackwal Lon.; Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lou. & North Western !Lon. & Scr.th Western Man., She!., & Lincoln. .l'ilFyport and Carlisle. DO . 1 shares.. Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. Derby 1l id. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. t shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwio, Do, G.N.E. purchast Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle.. ..... !North London ! Do New ... orth Staffordshire .. N. and S. W. J unction, :.._icottish Central Scot IN. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid, stock Shrews. and Welchpoo; Shropshire Union 'outh Demo South Eastern 'South Waleb S. York. and River Due .•taines,Wok.,andWok Stockton & Daelingtoe Do Do New, 1866 Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do. Do . Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Phil Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall fit. Hartlepool Ilar.&lt. West Midland Oxford Do Newpor' Do Heretore BRITISH , SESSIONS. Closing + ettln. Price. Business don 100 , : 8t Lawren+ 411 62 C 4 634 3 4) , sorn.,Baroda&Cent ln. i , 107 i& 8 ( Gu. 5 per cent........ 20 1)0. New 20 Do. E. Shares isurlatu Anti La.' 54 6.1. ti 11 ' Do. Prelerssnce All 74 8 7 iiithilo,Brant,&Godri ( I + .00 I se - p. et. lids. Aug. 1, 18;2 AA' Do. do. July 1, 187:- iut - 100 o. -10. Jua. 1, ""' st loutta.&B.Eastn.+l,- 100 106 y 707• sl 'apeTown .0 Dock Ser 100 11 84 1094 ,took filatitn. Bengal gu. sp. 10++ 'O9 110 1 09 stock east Indian. tzu. sp. ith 107 1 8 107! 20 [to. do. G Ext lO 14 14p 20 Do. do. H do. vock brand Trunk of Cana& 20 el 100 lio. Ist Pr+ . Bonds 72 74 100 Do. t.o. cl el erred.-- all 55 58 100 Do. 2d Pret. Bonus all 65 67 100 Do. do d. fer •ed all 50 53 100 Do. 3d 1' ef. stock at, 44 46 1 00 Do. do. &ten*. d.... all 35 37 1 00 Do. 4th fret. s:o lc all 26 30 100 Do. du clef all 22 24 ltoci• Gt.lndiaPeutu.gua.sp.c itiu 1074 103: : 108 20 Do. New gua. sp. e l2 1 14. 20 Do. January, 1862 stock Gt. South.ol India (Lin, ~.uaranteed 5 per cent. t+.o 1064 107 204 Gt. W. of CanadaShars-s all It 4 114 114 204 Do. New . 090 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 97 100 (00 Du. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. . all 90 12 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 I I qtock Yiadras guar., 5p.0. .. 100 1064 +074 1065 74 stools Do. 15 p. c. Extensiou 100 1004 10 0 161 z 4tock 1;e. 1. d 0........ 110 t 8 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 - +cod( l'it.l.t.,Orp. p. c. Buds 101 , - 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 53 55 100 Do. 7 p.c. Mortg,. lids. al 11 sisw Br answick Can't, Class Aan t B .. all 3 5 N. Ill.C'daii pc tat, pi bds 100 84 86 -,loss Scinde •(11 , 0 108 109 st Do. Delhi Do. I 2 4 ! fa t 20 1)o. Pun,ittub 1 15 14 IC+ 81 Do. Do. . , , 100 1060 107) ock Do. Indus. St. 10( , ,1024 108 1024 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURI'fI 11,8. - . &al - 1877-S1 - Do.o p.c. Feb.& Au. 100 6 - I 8 - Do. 6p. e.Mar.& Seto 101 +l5 147 1064 • DO. p. c. lth 06 97 960 - Do. o Inscribed stool 100 94 06 - ' a pe G. li ope. O p c,187: 1110 108 110 - Do.Ap &Oet. 188( 100 il2 114 - Do. 180 itA, 113 115 - +Do. Jan. & July. 1891.. 10i 112 1 1 4 114 - Nov.l'7B. lI p s tU 13 115 114 - 'Mau thus 5 per cent .. 100 106 107 1054 - G...v. 6 her cent.. 1)0 +l, 112 -- a.a.lui: .0, 106 I'7 - uo. 6p. c.Ap. & Do.. 10i - - - N. S.W.(iov. p :.,Is tirY 1(0 101 - Do. Sp. to 1 t 10( 101 112 1014 - Do. d0.,1888 & upwd4 101 , 1014 1G24 1044 - 'New Zealand 6 p sent. 110 110 112 1114 - .N Ova Scotia Gov. 6p. I - sterling, 1875 lth• 1( 6 107 - Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO . 0 1(2 - 6. AuB ti0p.c.1876.& up lO 110 112 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&J IN 107 109 - Da to iko.eltOot... 100 •115 1121 112 11! RIOTISI - 1 MINES. 2 jCambrian Consol. Gold 1 4 id •- Is ithorth Amalgamated.. - 25 2 7 - Devon G. Cons. Cfavilit. 1 540 r-60 - I Kast Bassett( 'Hogan •... 30 76 78 78 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 53. 4d iv - l E , ast Caradon earn Brea. ••'..4.i• 8 84 - - +E. W"lllusael (Tavistk 8.1.6 25 Ai 1 1 14m.&St.Aubyn(G wen.: )7 4 S 11 1 - j feat South Tulgus l7s 44 45 - • Wheal Vor Melee] so 65 74 - - erod'a- Foot-- - lugston Downs... . 4. 7.0 24 25 - j Lady Bertha - Margaret ( tJny LCIALI 14 35 V - I ilarke Valley. 4 t 1 yndy Iron Ore (Lim la2 14 - New Setun l9l 110 120 - North Downs ..e.4 2 2+ - j Dasset(lllo.tati 3 34 - I 'ortli Wheal Crotty . 2.4.0 s 4 40 - ICar Consols (ttd,. Blazey 15 4 5 20 'rovidence ( tiny Lelnt. 12 14 - bouthCaradon(St.Cleer 11 415 425 - i. Carn Brea (11logan) 5.15.6 24 25 - 5 . W heal Fran. (Illog's t+ 16.1 .t! l 75 80 Stray Park - Silv.& Lead Mit,. 4. 4 4 - L'in Cron ) 214 224 - i chest Basset (Illogan) l4 12 13 - C. rzdon (I;.9keard. 5 23 25 - IVest Solon - 1W heal Basset (Mogan 54 674 724 - Buller(Redrutli, 6 50 01 - Wheal Kitty . (U.Lelant i l 2.0.6 - - 1W healLttd ott ;2.10.8 3 14 - lix heal DlaryAnn(M.en ,i 12 14 - Wheal Seton . 584 215 225 'seal Tretawney (LlB,l 7 15 17 - , Wheal Union 3.17 34 4 The Abduction and Murder in Islington. CLERKENWELL POLICE COURT. The further hearing of the evidence against the prisoner, William Henry Clarke, who stands charged with the wilful murder of the child Elizabeth Hunter, was proceeded with to-day before Mr. Barker. Mr. Dickie defended the prisoner; and Mr. Humphrey attended for Mr. Rowe, one of the witnesses in the case, in whose nursery the bones of the unfortunate child was found. Mr, Barker said Mr. Rowe was there merely as a witness. Inspector Williamson—We intend to put that person in the box again, as he can now speak to an important fact. Mr. Rowe then said—Since I was here last, from an entry I have found in a day-book in my own handwriting I can state positively that it was the night of the 30th of March, 1862, that the prisoner was out of my house all night. Mr. Barker—You mean that he did not sleep in the house all night ? Mr. Rowe—That is so, Mr. Dickie— You produce the book ? Witness—Yes. The book was then put in, and from certain entries for purch , ,sing plants, he said he was quite certain the prisoner was not at home that night. By Mr. Vickie —I never said to Os prisoner's mother I couid not recollect the circumstance. Mr. Barker—Do you recollect speaking to the prisoner about his being absent ? Witness— Yes, I told him I should not be able to keep him in my employ. I went to bed about ten o'clock at night. I told him when he went out that particular day, that if he was not at home by ten at night he would be locked out. I heard his voice in the passage about twelve o'cl ck the same night, but I do not know what was said, Miss Jennings will be able to speak about that. Mr. Dickie asked Mr. Rowe whether, when he resided at Truro, he did not go by another name than Rowe. The witness said that was so, but he declined to state anything further than that there was an accusation against him, but that it was dismissed, and the party making it was thought gully of p.:-rjury. Charlotte Jennings, of 5, Oxford-street, Islington, said— I recollect on a Sunday night in March, 1862, Mr. Rowe ordered the prisoner to be in at ten o'clock at night. He did not return as ordered, but came about half-past eleven, and then Mr. Rowe had lock, d him out. I let him into the passage, and on going to Mr. Rowe's bed room-door he felt the handle, and said, " He's locked rue out, so I must go." I locked the street door when he left. On that night he wore a very dark brown coat, with pockets each side, black and white speckled trowsers, with a black stripe up the leg, and a turban, or po , k• pie hat, with two black strings. The prisoner left Mr. Rowe's ser • vice two or three Sundays after that, He went away the Saturday previous to Easter Sunday. When I spoke to him the morning after I had locked him out he said, " I slept all night in the green-house as it was too late to go home to my mo hers." Mr. Rowe had been ill for some time, and the rea.on I know he was at home was that he Level went out for fear of the night air. By Mr. Dickie—l recollect the clothes partly because I was azked how I liked them when he had them new. Prisoner—Did you not see the hat with the strings off? Witness—No. I will swear I never saw you wear the hat without the black strings. Inspector Williamson said that is all the evidence I have to offer to day, and I therefore ask for another remand. Mr. Dickie—l think the police have had plenty of time plete this case against the prisoner, and I object to such course. Mrs. Clarke, the mother of the prisoner, said I recollect seeing my son on Sunday night, in March. He left about a quarter before 11, and returned a,short time atter, and said Mr. Rowe had locked him out. I made up a bed for him, passed the night at home. I never noticed anything _ about h ut e his clothes. Mr. Dickie—You swear to that? Witness—l do. Mr. Barker—Did you not state to the constable that you did not recollect the mouth when ti,is took place ? Witness—The date, but, not the month. jra Mason gave evidence relative to Mr, Rowe's garden gate being left continually open. Mr. Dickie again said he did not think there was suffi cient evidence to remand the lad. Mr. Barker replied he should not be justified in taking any other course than remanding the prisoner until to morrow week at 2 o'clock, and in such a case as the present, it was most important that some legal gentleman should attend and conduct the prosecution, especigily as Govern ment had offered a reward of £lOO for the discovery of the murderer of the child. Mr. Dickie—Will your worship take bail ? Mr. Barker—Oh no, certainly not. Prisoner—l don't get justice. I thought being a poor lad I should, but I don't I've been locked up tor a long while, and for nothing. I say there is no evidence against me, and I ought to be let go, or else you ought to take bail Death of the Duke of Hamilton. By a telegraphic despatch received from Paris we learn that his Grace the Duke of Hamilton died at the Hotel Bristol, in that city, at noon yesterday. His grace had left England for Paris, en route for Baden, and was suddenly taken ill at the hotel men tioned, the disease being congestion of the brain. His grace's family were sent for, and the Empress of the French paid the husband of the Emperor's cousin fissiduous attention till his death. So sudden and premature a death will excite profound emc tions of regret both in Great Britain and in France, his grace having been as well known in the latter country as in his own. The deceased r'uke, William Anthony Archibald Douglas Hamilton, was born on the 18th February, 1811. He was the only son of Alexander, tenth Duke of II F.R.S., by Susan Eu phemia, neughter of Mr.Wm.Beckford, of Fonthill, M.P. He married on 23 - 1 of February, 1843, the Princess Marie Amelie of Baden, youngest daughter of Charles Louis Frederic, reigning Grand Duke of Baden, by the Countess de Beau harnais—the adopted daughter of the Emperor Napoleon and niece of the Empress Josephine—by whom he leaves issue two sons and a daughter, the eldest son and heir, William Alexander Louis Stephen, Marquis of Douglas, having been born on the 12th of March, 1845. In his own person the late Duke of Hamilton combined the dukedoms of Hamilton and Brandon, besides independent marquisates and earldoms con- 'erred at different times. He was Earl of Angus (1327), Lord Hamilton (1445), Earl of Arran (1503), Mat quis of Hamilton (1599), Marquis of Douglas, Lord Abernethy, and Lord Jedburgh Fort st (1633), Earl of Lanark, Lord Avon, Lord Polmort, Lord Machanshire, and Lord Innerdale, (1643), all in the peerage of Scotland, Duke of Brandon, in Suffolk, and Baron Dut►on of Dutton, in Cheshire (1711). He was the Premier Peer of Scotland, Lord-Lieutenant of Lanarkshire, Hereditary Keeper of Holyrcod Palace, Colonel of the Lanarkshire Militia, and Knight Marischal of Scotland. The owner of such prircely seats as Hamilton in La narkshire, Kinniel in Liolithgow3hire, Brodick in ►he Isle of Arran, Ashton in Lancashire, and Easton in Suffolk, could not be other than a foremost man in a social and political point of view. The Doke of Hamilton's father was a Whig of the old school, and probably one of the haughtiest men of his day. He cherished an idea that he was the legitimate King of Scotland, penurious and miserly as ho was; and at his death, in 1852, his body was Embalmed and deposited in a sarcophagus brought from the pyramids of Egypt. Tne late duke graduated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1832. He never sat in the Lower House of Parliament, and, s hen a member of the Upper House never took any part in the debates, if ivaeed he ever voted at all. From his foreign connection he preferred to re side almost entirely abroad, and except for a month during the shooting season, at Brodick Castle, he lived chiefly at Paris and at Baden. He was a ron- servative in his views; and in Lanarkshire his tenantry were always urged to support the Conser vative interest, but personally his Grace never took the smallest interest in the politics of either Eng land or Scotland. Through his wife's connection with the Emperor Napoleon he was always a wel come guest at the Tuileries; and, though a Protes tant, he caused much joy among the supporters of the Pope's temuoral power a few Peers ago, by de voutly kissing the Holy Father's foot, and at the same time placing on it a purse containing notes of the value of several thousand pounds. The history of this illustrious family is curious from its various ramifications. There was a Sir William de Hameldon, a younger son of Robert de Belloment, third Earl of Leicester; and his son, G►lbert, for praising the valour of Robert Bruce, received a blow from John de Spencer, which he returned, whereupon he bad to fly for his life, and hid himself and his servant in a wood in the disguise of labourers. When the pursuers came up to them the two were sawing an oak; Hamilton said "'Through," and deshed across the forest, and his descendants have always since taken en oak tree with a saw in it as their crest, and the word " Through " for their motto. The eldest son of Sir Gilbert Hamilton swore fealty to Edward I. in 1292. Tne second earl was regent of Scotland on the death of James V. (1542), and heir presumptive to the crfmn ; and in 1549 he was created Duke of Chatel herault, in Poitou--a title which, by-the-by, was borne by his descendants, the duites of Hamilton, until the last few years, when a Chancery suit decided that it belonged of right to the Marquis of Abercorn. The fourth earl was created Marquis of Hamilton, and his son Earl of Cambridge and Baron lnverdale. In 1633 the son of the latter was created Mar q uis of Clydesdale, and ten years afterwards Duke of Hamilton. The first duke was beheaded in 1649, and the second found himself left penniless, his estate being forfeited, and his title passed to Lady Anne Hamilton, his niece, who married the eldest son of the Marquis of Douglas, and obtained for him the Dukedom of Hamilton, and for his second son the Earldom of Selkirk. In 1711 the English Dukedom of Brandon and Barony of Dutton were conferred on the Duke of 1 - I+milton ; but it wes decided by the House of Lords that by the 23d Article of the Union no peer of Scotland conic' be created a peer of England. Tee sixth Duke of Hamilton married one of the beautiful Misses Gunning, whom Horace Walpole so repeatedly menti ons i n hi s letters , a nd his son succeeded to the Marquisate of Dougle.a and the Earldom of Angus, in 1761, by the death of the Duke of Douglas, not without a struggle. Toe " great Douglas case" was the most exciting effair in England, and indeed in Europe, for many years. Dr. Johnson vehemently espoused one side ; Boswell was the a d vocate on the o th e r. The " princely Douglases," as Swift called them, had been long at the head of a baronial family in Lanark shire. There was " the good Sir James," " the flower of chivalry," and the friend of Bruce, who was slein on his pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre, whither he bad travelled to deposit Bruce's heart. The Earldom of Douglas was conferred in 1350. The fourth earl was created Duke of Touraine by Charles VII. King of France. The first earl rebelled against his sovereign and died, a pensioned monk, in the Abbey of Lindores, when his title passed to the son of William, first Earl of Douglas, by the Countess cf Angus. The fifth Earl of Angus was the famous " Archibald Bell-the-Cat," the hero of a well-known story. He was the "great ear)." The sixth earl married the Princess Margaret, widow of James IV., King of Scotland, and by her had a daughter, who was mother of Henry Darnley, King Consort of Scotland, and father of James I. of Eng land. The eldest son (by the second marriage) of the eleventh earl, w ho was created Marquis of Douglas in 1633, married the Duchess of Hamilton. The third marquis, who was in 1703 created Duke of Douglas, was the hero of the " great Douglas case," in so far as he left his sister, Lady Jane, the heiress of his vast estates, to starve in his lifetime, and to die in a garret, leaving a son by her husband (Colonel Sir John Stewart, of Grandtully), whom he on his death bed declared his next tar, le heir, Boswell was for Young Douglas, and he was successful in the House of Lords against the Duke of Hamilton, who ob tained the Marquieate of Douglas and Earldom of Angus by his death, but not the estates. In 1782 the eighth Duke of Hamilton again broaght forward his claim to a seat in the House of Lords as the Duke of Brandon, and he was in that year summoned to the house by that title. The late duke, whose death we record this day, leaves issue, besides the son and heir, born in 1845, a son—Lord Charles George Archibald Hamilton— born in May, 1847, and a daughter—Lady Mary Victoria. The present duke was for a short time at Eton, but, like his parents, has mostly spent his life abroad. THE COURT-MARTIAL ON LIEUT. CUL. CRAWLEY. —The United Service Gazette announces "that Chelsea, not Chatham, will most probably be the locus in quo. A great deal of extra expense would be entailed by having it take place at Chatham, and besides, the public mind, now morbidly suspicious of everything that i 3 done in connection wig h this unhappy affair, would be apt to imagine that some final mischief was intended in removing the investigation to Chatham, where the action of public opinion would bo much less direct on all concerned than it would, bo •up posing the trial to be carried on in the atetropolia. PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. C. 6 per cent. pref., 1324 34 Great Eastern, E. Anglian A stock, 5 per cent., 1055 Ditto, ditto, A stock, 7 per cent., 47 Ditto, ditt., B per cent. pf, , I'4B Lancashire and Yorkshire 6 per cent. stock, 135 DL to, 46 per cent., B:aekburn pur., 103 North Eastern (G.N.E. 4 per cent. pref.), lu2i uth Eastern (Reading Anne., £1.0.6), 236 West Alidland gua. 5A per cent., 1863, 3 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Kent Coast, (i per cent. pref. B, 5i London and S.-Western .14 per cent., 105 North British, £lO gua. shares, 1861, 1001 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. Buckinghamshire, 961 Colchester, Sto.,r Valley, 68 London, Tilbury, and z,outhend, 96 Midland, Bradford pref. stook, 97 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 20f Dutch Rhenish, 17 I Great Luxembourg-, in Ottoman (Smyrna to Aldna), 111 Recite awl San Francisco gua. 7 per cent, 161 ,an Paulo gua. 7 per cent., Ditto, 22 West landers, Western and North-Western of France, 21k FOREIGN MINES. Santa Barbara Gold Mine (Um.), I St. John del Rey (lim.), 55 Yudauau.utana of S. Australia (lim.), 311 JOINT-STOCK AN KS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Urn.), 35 41 5 Australasia, ;6f Ditto, new, 314 Bank of New Zealand, li Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 10) Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and Chi na, 3 0 Imperial Bank (11m.), 2.4 2 Imperial Ottoman, 19 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 28 London and County, Pa London and Westminster, 771 Union of Ireland (limo. 154 Union 01 London, ;s5l MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Falace, 381: Electric l'elegrapli, 106,E Gen. Crt dit and k inance of London, Urn., 31 Italian irrigation (Canal Cavour), 5f Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds rd. 1870 issued 90, N 7} f Joint•stoek Discount, 6 bf 6 .:ladras Irrigation and Canal, 31 National Discount Company, lim., 91 Oriental Inland Steam, Um., 5} Royal Mail Steam, 66f OFFICIAL VALUATION.—So great has been the cheapening of goods since the official value was fixed at the Custom-house that the official valuation of our produce and manufactures exported in 1862 was £240,720.869, while the real va!tie was but £123,902,264, or about half. Tho cotton manufactures exported were of the declared value of £30,548,731, but at the Custom-house they were officially reckoned worth £125,163,261, _ - T 27 29 46 17 39 41 104 106 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1863. for me. Mr. Barker—That is a matter of opinion. Prisoner--There is no evidence against me. I don't get the justice I ought to have, but I'm a poor lad. The prisoner was then remanded. The crowd assembled outside the police-court was very great and the excitement iutense. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, M ARLBOROUGH• STREE r. WIFE BEATING.—COMMITTAL WITHOUT A FINE, Joni Regan, ot 31, Little Windmill-street, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt on a warrant with assaulting his wile, Mary Regan. The wile said that on the previous molting her husband came hAne from the publichouse where he had been almost stripped of his clothes, He Lock away all his and the children's clothes, and sold them, ant: then beat her op the head with a poker. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the complainant said her husband had been drinking since Monday. Mr. Howard, the landlord of the house, said the prisoner broke down a cupboard door, some of the banisters, and tore his trousers while he was assisting the police, Prisoner said his wile irritated him so much that he feared he should be hanged for her. Mr. 'lyrwhitt asked whether the prisoner worked at all, and aas told by the wife that she kept the home, and paid the rent, end she was willing to work for herself and chil dren, but would not work to keep her husband in idleness. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for a month, and ordered him to fiud one surety for a month afterwards. SUNDAY TRADING.—CAUTION TO LICENSED VIC. TUALLERS —Mr. James Harrison, of the Sun, Noel-street, Wardour- street, attended befora Mr. Tyrwhitt to answer the complaint ot Inspector Bowles, ot the C division, ot serving during the prohitdted hours on Sunday. From the evidence of Binsted Webb, 112 C, it appeared that at half-past ten on the morning of Sunday week he knocked at the side door of defendant's house, and was admitted by the defendant. He called for a pint of "cooper," with which he was served by the defendant, who received the money for it; and while in the house two persons came in and had a quartern of gin each, which they paid for and took away with them, and some others were also nerved, Defendant admitted that all the constable said was true, but said that it was the first time he had been summoned, and that he had not long been from the country. Mr. Bowles said there had been no conviction during the time the defendant had kept the house, but he had reason to believe that Sunday trading had been going on for some time, and in consequence a plain clothes officer was obliged to be employed. . Mr. Tyrw . hitt fined the defendant 20s. and costs. WESTMINSTER. BRUTALITY TO WIVES - Jeremiah Connelly, a costar. monger, was charged with violently assaulting his wife. Complainant had a severe laceration on the top of he: nose, and had previously complained of her husband's cals. conduct. Complainant said ; "My husband, who stands there often ill-uses me. He began ill-treating me on Saturday, and has been at it ever since. He kno , ked me down and kicked me and pulled me al( ng by the hair of the head — that was on Monday morning between the hours of eight and nine, and I am afraid of him." Mr. Arnold—When did he ill-use you last? mplainant—Last night after I had been out to a hard day's work to which I had to walk eight miles. When came beck I fetched my baby from where it hal been minded, and took it home and put it in bed, and then my husband came in and beat me. Mr. Arnold—Were you up or in bed when he beat you? Complainant-1 waa lying down with the baby. I was very tiled. D 1 r. Arnold—Were you asleep ? Complainant—No, I waa awake when he came in and struck me. I don't want to hurt him, but I want him bound to keep the peace towards me. Defendant—There was a man told me something wrong about her, and I want him to prove his words. Ho said she had been with another man. Mr. Arnold— W hat do you say to the assault? Defendant—lt was near the door where I hit her, not on the bed. Why does she keep with bad company that 1 warn her against ? Mr. Arnold—That has nothing to do with the charge. Defendant—But that's the reason of it. Mr. Arnold—There is no reason for your ill-treating her. It' she has even done all the wrong you can possibly sus- Peet, she is not to be knocked about like a dog. It she has committed any wrong you have your remedy, but you are not to beat her about because you think she has offended. I must protect her. Defendant entered into bail to keep the peace for six months. THE UNITED STATES MAIL.--The LiVU P °C)I, New York, and Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw steamer City of New York, Capt. Kennedy, sailed yester day from Liverpool for New York, with the United Statts mails. Besides the mails, she took out a full cargo, and had 80 cabin paceengers. LITERATURE. ;*eiseitudes of a Gentlewoman. 3 vols. Hurst and Biackett. This is a pleasant, homely tale, naturally and plersantly told. It has no sensation effects, neither does it excite a very breathless interest. Yet the fluctuating fortunes of Janet Tudor will be followed eagerly by many sympathetic readers, who will re joice in the ultimate reward of her patient txndendur in g perseverance. The first volume, which relates the youthful history of the heroine and her brothers, is perhups the best of the three. The vat ions charac ters introduced, and the various little home-Scenes described, are wonderfully natural. There are glimpses, here and there, of a dried sort of resem blance to the early chapters of the " Mill on the Floss." Perhaps some remembrance of that story unconsciously lingered in the recollection of the authoress. The stories are essentially dissimilar, but the readers of the first work will not fail to re cognise, on a perusal of the second, the peculiarities we have alluded to, but which we shall not enume rate. Janet Tudor, the heroine, is surrounded by very uncongenial relatives. Her mother is dead. Her lather, Fulk Tudor, is a clever, weak man, who idles away his time, and brings ruin on all connected with him. Janet's favourite brother, Tom, is of much the same character, and her other bro- ther, Harry, is more industrious but less steady in his principles. Her mother's family are wealthy and parsimohious, and highly censorious of the ill-doings of the Tudors. Tne old servant, Grace, is Janet's true friend throughout. Her homely and affectionate tyranny is naturally described, but we are inclined to think her economy some what exaggerated when she propoees to bestow upon the children, by way of precaution, and to prevent them being wasted, the contents of some old medicine bottles, cough mixtures end lotions intermingled indiscriminately We hardly think her "making the most of things" would have quite extended to such a point. However, Grace is a very worthy old lady ; and equally worthy are her relatives, the warm-hearted, hospitable farmer Harris and his wife. Under their humble roof poor Janet finds a shelter more congenial than the condescendingly bestowed charity of Aunt Wood and Uncle Jere. miah Higgins. " Jeremiah, on the pinnacle of wealth, looked down into the valley where dwelt those he paid," and Aunt Wood is even more impe rious. Very different are the characters of Mr. Bateman and his son Andrew, Janet's favoured lover. Janet has many lovers, but there is singularly little love-making in her history a quiet history, marked by many vicissitudes in her outward for tunes : but in her inward feelings characterised throughout by steady principle and abiding virtue. Mistress and Masd, By the Author of "John Halifax." One vol. Hurst and Blanket. The new volume of Messrs. Hurst and Blackett's " Standard Library" contains the very charming story of " Mistress and Maid." by the popular author of " John Halifax." Like the majority of Miss Muloch's very interesting works, this is essen tially a domestic story. The interest is centred upon a little group of individuals, but for that very reason the interest is not diminished but rather augmented. Hilary Leaf and Elizabeth Hand are the mistress and maid of the narrative. Hilary is the youngest of three very dissimilar sisters. Joanna, the eldest, who has filled a mother's place to Hilary, is gentle and serene, and subdued by many sufferings. Selina, the second, is capricious and fretful—the jarring chord in the household harmony. Hilary, the youngest, is worthy of a closer acquaintance; and we must refer the curious to Miss Muloch's interesting pages for correct por traits of this very loveable " Mistress" and her devoted and true-hearted "Maid." The Grade Lesson Books, in Six Standards. By E. T. Stevens, associate of King's College; and Charles Hole, Head Master of Loughborough Collegiate School. The Messrs. Longman are always famous for their school-books. They have now brought out a very admirable series of elementary works, especially adapted to meet the requirements of the "revised code." These books are divided into six standards, and each embraces not only lessons in Reading and spelling, but also in writing, arithmetic, and dicta tion. The lessons of Number I. ate easy and sitnp'e and each successive volume graduary advances ac cording to the advancing requirements of the pupil. Whether for school classes, or for home instruction, these grade lesson books are likely to become favourites with both teachers and pupils. 'ECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF•PAST 4 o'CLocK. ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL. A general court of the governors of this hospital was held yesterday afternoon, at the London bridge Railway Terminus Hotel, Alderman Sir John Mus grove in the chair, for the purpose of considering and determining on a site for the new hospital building. The minutes of the Grand Committee, held on June 23 last, containing, amongst others, the report of the conference between the deputation from this hospital and Bethlehem Hospital, pursuant to the resolution of a previous general court, and the com munications which had taken place with the Metro politan Board of Works relative to the site at Stan gate, were read and confirmed. The minutes which suggested subsequent committee meetings relative to the question of site, the substance of which has been already publi'shed, were also read and con firmed. The report of the Grand Committee of Silly 14, which recommended that power should be given to them to purchase either the Stangate site for £lOO,OOO, or Bethelhem Hospital, as they in their discretion should decide, subject to the approval of the governors, was then read. The CHAIRMAN moved the reception and adop tion of the report, observing that it was open to Mr. Adams, who had given notice of a motion for the purchase of the Surrey Gardens, to move it as an amendment. Major LYON proposed an amendment that the committee have power to conclude a bargain for the purchase of the land opposite the Houses of Parlia ment, provided the sum did not exceed £90,000. Mr. Alderman HUMPHREY hoped the meeting would not agree to the amendment. The grano committee would do what they thought beat under the circumstances. If they went to Bethlehem and offered £175,000, it might be raised to £200,000; and if, after taking that course, the committee next treated with the Board of Works for Stangate, they would probably be told that, as they had offered £175,000 for Bethlehem, the price of the land at Stangate was £120,000. Mr. GRAY hoped the meeting would agree to the suggestion of Mr. Alderman Humphrey, and reject the amendment. The amendment was then put and negatived, only three supporting it, and the resolution was carried, 39 governors having held up their hands in its favour. This concluded the principal business for which the meeting was convened. THE AUTHORSHIP OF UNCLE Tom's CABIN ' We don't believe this story" (any more than Little Paul Dombey believed Mrs. Pipchin's apologia about the Mad Bull) as told by Mr. Malet in his "Errand from the South," upon the authority of one Dr. Harrill. lie (Dr. Harrill) was at Castleton in 18,64. Dr. Howe was there, and a Mr. Hall was at Prospect Hill, near White Hill These gentlemen were friends of the family of Mrs. Beecher Stowe, who was loft badly off. This lady had travelled in the South, where few Northerners ever go, except it be to settle there; she had written notes about the slaves. judge Howe concluded, as an abolitionist and universalist, t o it was sgrecd to bring it out under Mrs make out a book, and employed Hall, a clever hand, to r conscientious write it. lie called it . 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' a fiction on hep e r e a l ci n f g or th vgr at it f i al the :aid notes ; book, wrote a pamphlet a te d e Beecher Judge S Howe we' s nwa was m e. to gHivaellmwrasts. tßoebee: Stowe part -' c with dismissal from the profits,Which immensely exceeded all their expect • c '' and proved fortunes to them both. tebrut in he th w e a s s a t m h e re d a i t s e t n r e ic a t ations, A c • impressions would be made by the hie congregation, and the pamphlet tMoectoll;antieBrtarnctinitis; Was quashed." SUICIDE. —°n Tuesday a gentleman Weber, eng a g ed in business in Liverpool, s h o t him selfnamed through the head at his house ie had betrayed symptoms of insanity,in Grassendale-park. lie but availed himself of the tame and w as wa t c h e d, monetaryabsence of his attend • ant to commit the act. .3 AUSTRALIA. VICTORIA. The summary of the Melbourne Argus of the 25th of May says : " The business accomplished a by the Parliament of Vic toria during the month s been small in amount. The laboured Legislative Council have with some diligence, gone but the results have no t beyond the advancement by a few stages of the measures submitted to them. The Electoral Act Amendment Bill, the Local Government o Bill, b and the Customs Laws Amend men t Bi l l pas.ed t h ro ugh committee; and the Immi grat i on Bill, theve Reforma tory Schools Bill, and the Youthfal Offenders Bill have g been read a second time. The Immigration bill will be con , icier( d in com mittee . Some members have taken n obj.ction to the composition of the advising body sitting in London proposed to Le created by the bill, and over this bone theme has been considerable skirmishing. It is hoped, however, that the information brought by last wail, as to the formation of a Victorian Emigration Society in London (such as the Government contemplates), and the desire that has grown up among the Lancashire people to seek Austra lian shores, will induce a majority of the Council to fall in with the views of the Ministry and the Lower House. By the passage of the bill, a sum of about £25,000, now lying in the Treasury for immigration purposes, would be placed at the disposal of the Agent-General. 4 THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. Bank of England Return.—This Day. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 15th day ( f July, 1863: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. 'utes issued ..—.X28.536.095 Government Debt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities .. 3.834,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 13,880,095 Silver Bullion £28,536,0951 £28,536,095 BANKING oprietors' Capi- I al £14.553,000 Rest Nubile Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, COGIGIIts- Missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- EPARTMENT. 1 Government Seen- rities (including Dead Weight A nnuity) £11,046.8138 Other Securities 20,928,633 Notes Gold and Silver 863,781 Coln counts) 4,918.458 Other Deposits 11,381,914 Seven Day and other Bills 655,98 £39.8 (6,382 M. 7 £39,816,382 RSHALL, Chief Cashier. July 16, 1863. NAVAL PROMOTION—This Evening, The following appointment was made at the Admiralty this day : Surgeon Cecil Crundel, to the Leander. IMPERIAL P HOUSE OF LORDS—This Evening. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. NEW PEER. Lord SEYMOUR, son of the Duke of Somerset, took the oaths and his seat as a peer of the United Kingdom His lordship was introduced by Lord Foley and Lord Ches terton. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Birmingham and Sutton Coalfield Railway, Hast ings Harbour, Wexford Free Bridge, London and North Western Railway (new branches), and the Kettering and Thrapstone Railway bills were read a third time and passed, PETITIONS. The Marquis of BATH presented a petition against the rish Fisheries Bill. ALTERATION OF JUDGES CIRCUITS BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to enlarge the powers of her Majesty in order that certain alterations might be made in the circuit of the judges. The bill was rendered necessary by the rearrangement that had been made in th duties of revising barristers. Lord BROUG dAM expressed his approval of the mea su►e. The bill was then read a second time. FISHERIES (IRELAND) BILL. Lord S CAN LEY of ALDERLEY said Parliament had already given increased protection to the salmon fisheries of England and Scotland, and the object of the present bill, of which he moved the second reading, was to assimilate the law in Ireland, as far as possible, with that of England. In the event of the bill passing the second reading he proposed to proceed with it in committee on Monday next, when he should be happy to consider any alterations in the several clauses that might be suggested. Lord CHE LMSFORD pointed out several objectionable enactments in the bill, and was [LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF LORDS—This Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. GREAT WESTERN AMALGAMATION BILL. On consideration of the Lords' amendments to the Great Western, West Midland, and South Wales Railway Com panies Amalgamation Bill, Mr. D. GRIFFITHS moved that the house do disagree to new clause E, enforcing a revision of tolls whenever the dividend of the united company's stock shall equal or ex ceed 6 per cent. Mr. HODGSON sec ,nded the motion. Mr. MASSEY supported the new clause. Mr. D. GRIFFITH withdrew his motion, and the Lords' amendments were agreed to. The following bills were read a third time :—B an ff, Mac duff, and Thrill Extension Railway—Banff, Portsoy, and Strathisla Railway—Dare Valley Railway—Hammer smith and City Railway---and Uxbridge and Rickmans w rth Railway. GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY (STEAMBOATS) LOND ON, CHATI IAM, AND DOVER RAILIVA Y The 1 further conaid ,eration of this bill was postponed t it Monda: r. The l Private busineess occupied the house down to six o'clock, and was likely to extend later into the evening. SPOIL! LING INTELLIGENOE.—This Day. 14Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. STAMFORD RACES-THIS DAT. STAMFORD LEGER. Tippler.. •• 2 Taje .. ~ Two ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS. Midnig At Mass Chaper on Allianc Procell ci BURGHLEY STAKES. Million I tire • Grimst c )13. Herleq g tin 3 Six ran. LATEST BETTING. GOODWOOD STAKES. 6to 1 aget Bellman (taken) 7to 1 agst Anfield (taken) 9to 1 agst Blondin (taken) 14 to 1 agst Evenhand (taken) 14 to 1 aget Knutsford (taken) 000DWOOD CL P. 2to 1 aget Buckstone (taken) 9to 2 aget La Toucquea (taken) HUNGERFORD RACE S-THIS DAY. CRAVEN STAKES. Principal .......................................... Rho/ems .......................................... Peru : . .................... 3 Four ran BERKS AND WILTS STAKES. Lavender .................... 1 ""'• ••••• 2 Flirtation .. Four ran. BILL. On the order for the consideration of this bill, as amended by the House of Lords, Mr. A. EGERTON opposed the bill on the ground that it was not good public policy to permit railway companies to become steamboat proprietors in addition to their present responsibilities. In the past the house had repeatedly re fused granting such powers to railway companies. Here power was sought to run boats between Harwich. Flushing, and Antwerp. The subject should be referred to a select committee. He moved that the bill be considered this day two months. . . ....._ Mr. WARNER seconded the motion. Capt. JERVIS supported the bill. The house had authorised the Great Eastern Railway to make a line to Harwich at a cost of £25,000, and surely it would be MOW' sinus to prevent th, m from bringing traffic to their line by means of a new and expedition- line of packets: (Hear, hear) Other railway companies had been permitted to run boats, and there were the strongest reasons why the powers sought should be conferred upon this company. The transit of passengers and goods to the north of Europe would be materially cheapened, so that he was not surprised the General Steam Navigation CompaDY opposed this bill in order to perp&tuate a monopoly. (Hear) Lord STANLEY oppesed the bill on the ground that It wou'd establish a monopoly over the sea traffic, which might be worked at a loss so as to obtain traffic to this railisra)'; It would be well to reler the matter to a se lect comet ttee and to take evidence upon the matter. tee Said the Mr. WOODD, as chairman of the commit allowedt the case to be_ mpa nies company had made out a strong powers sought, but he objected delegating cu such extensive prives. Mr. M. GißSON ile s g aid there were P e. dents for the p ( a l I r e l j a a r : granting of such powers as thoeesoughtieoctuteesbiolli hear.) As the select committee of both ment had approved of the bills, h e did not think the ho use No persons would do well to throw the : -tl tit. on between Har having established steam cotarotuer W illing to foreg o h with and Rotterdam, were wi lli ng to give th e giving powers to a c omv - anYro ba ble that in the fut ure public that boon, because it vinPan d seek power to do it? some person mignt come !orW that this was one of the excep s to run steamboats should be Sir H. CAIRNS demed practice of the house. The tional cases in which powers at tb s e B its railway and steamboat rates granted, looking to be run off the company might so arr corn as to run off all other Mr. CLAY stud tberePweetirneg no bo boats boats. . . _ cA ntNS went on to contend that the commit route. the house sufficient evidence, as was Sir H. t b e fore to support the granting of the powers tee had not usual in simPiluar_e_ases, soug ht by few ords from Mr. CRA:WP the bill. After a -- ORD, amidst cries of "divide," „ yr A ssßY said public policy was materially con- Nr. 4-- • and similar measures. If they gave cerned in this s and ambitious railway enormous companies extra pwers ss in this case they had security that they would not virtually endow them.with monopolies inimical to the public welfare. In this case the railway company would e njoy a virtual monopoly. The bill was not originated in that but the other house, the standing orders of which were not very strict with respeA to the introduction of such bills. Besides, the select committee had net, as stated by the hon. and l earned gentlem an opposite, adduced a suffi cient evidence a by the h ouse After a few w or d s from Mr. s a ho z u N ld Lm a y c , cede to the bill. Mr. COBBOLD, as connected with the locality and its railways, Warmly supported the bill. This bill had not been brought forward until every means had been taken to in dnt e exi s ti ng steam companies to put on a regular line of communication, one having existed for centuries. (Divide, divide.) Mr. LOCKE said the real question was whether the General Steam Navigation Company, which ran from the Thames and occupied a long time in the passage to Rotter dam, should have the monopoly instead of the new company. (Hear, hear.) Harwich was the natural port, and the shortest and quickest sea voyage. Mr. MALINS supported the bill. Sir H. BRUCE said the subject was thoroughly investi gated by the committee, who heard counsel at great length on both sides. (Divide, divide.) After a few words from Mr. HAISARD and Mr. ADAMS, who trusted the house would not act unjustly to the pro moters after the great expense to which they had been put, The SPEAKER read the standing order of the house t 'and said, according to his interpretation, they had not in this case been complied with. He suggested that the bill should be recommitted, with an instruction to the committee to state their reasons for approving of the bill, which they had snot, done, and which was imperative, according to those orders. Speaker was adopted, Ultimately the proposition of the Sp and the amendment withdrawn. ? 2 , SELLING STAKES. Surbitan Hill Sanity 2 HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. Lufra Lord of the Manor .. 2 Nine ran. .... LADIES PLAT Overture Champagne Seven ran. PONTEFRACT RACES.—Tins DAY. NOTTINeLEY STAKES. 1 Little Stag Saragossa 2 .. 3 Theobalda Six ran. MEMBERS' PLATE. Charles Fox Devotee 3 Luna Six ran. WEST RIDING HANDICAP. Dictator Capt. Crow 2 Charles Fox Four ran. SPECULATION PLATE. Balderstone yille Gratura LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commimeioner Holroyd.) IN RE BALDRY. This bankrupt was a fruiterer at Norwich, and this was a meeting for last examination and discharge Mr. 11, Griffith opposed; on behalf of creditors, on the ground that the bankrupt had incurred debts shortly before his bankruptcy and when in a state of insolvency, as he had offered a composition of 4s. in the pound, which the credi tors refused to accept, as they believed that the bankrupt was not acting fairly. It was now alleged that he had fraudulently made away with or concealed a gold watch and chain, and he had only got £5 Bs. for his furniture, and he now owed £498 without anything for a dividend. The bankrupt swore that he bartered away his watch for funds twelve months ago—the chain he had with him. Mr. Griffiths—Why did you not give it up to your assignee ? Bankrupt—Because he said it was not worth anything. Mr. Sargood—Not worth anything I—it is gold, is it not ? Bankrupt— Some people call it so : I call it brass. (Laughter.) The article appeared massive and valuable. Mr. Gr►ffith said it was only a " duplicate" of the gold chain, pnd asked for a further adjournment to make inquiries, as the creditors believed some property was con ceale 9. Mr. Brough supported. His Honour saw no occasion to doubt the bankrupt, and if he had concealed property he would be worse off atter hi s pass ing his examination than before. As to the con tracting the debts, the bankrupt had kept up paying the creditors with whom he dealt up to his bankruptcy ; he had come before the Court himself, but the creditors might have made him bankrupt if they had thought fit. Bankrupt pass ed and obtained his discharge. MARKETS—This Day. MARK LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. —Wheat, 46s barley, 30s 10d ; oats, 23s 6d ; rye, 34s 5 d ; beans, 40s 2d and peas, 393. THE SIR WEEKS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 488 9d ; barley, 31s 3a ; oats, 23s 2d ; rye, 33s 9d ; beans, 39s 10d ; peas, 37s sd. E NGLIS H GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Whea, 66,237; barley, 813 ; oats, 2,101; rye, 11 ; beans, 1,374 ; Peas, 67 qrs. t 0 00 number seasonablybweerraossatstnhdberq i t y n. . s i v el thel beasts mutton well supplied with ------ METROPOLITAN CATTLE. extensive, per Sibs. a t Al ouday's d eclin e 6 n the quotations—tbe realised tme t nidae beasts, both market dull inquiry, Although thetop fisugpuprelyfoorf tshheeebpta: firm lambs moved off steadil y , sB per Sibs. Good and A at lull cur rencies.Downslamb Otherwise, the trade was in a sluggish state, on former terms. Calves — the show of which was eaten old slowly. at barely previous r a t es, p • siv i pigs and mulch cows very dull. Per Sib, to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. a. ds d. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 \ Prinaecrs-wool d 0.4 8 . 4 . 10 Crse n ' d q uality do. 3 10 4 se 4 Pme.S'thdowndo.4 10 6 0 p r ime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Large crse. calves 3 8 4 2 p oi se Scots, &C. 4 10 5 0 Prime small do 4 4 4 8 ors ,. & inf. sheep 36 4 0 Large hogs 36 4 0 Second quality do. 4 2 4 6 Small porkers 4 24 6 Lambs, 5s 4d to 6s 4d. Suckling calves, 12s to 208 ; and quarter-old store pigs, 19s to 263 each. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .... ........ 1,1201 Beasts 6BO Cows ......... . .... 135 f Sheep and lambs Sheep and lambs .. 12,800 Calves . 600 Calves ......... ... 720 Pi g s Pigs ............... 330 / fairly_ supplied, MEAT MARKETS. NEVE/ATE A an N d r. th L e EA de D m E a N n H d A L ia L— T inactive, ese as markets foo v I !Le Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 2d, mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; lamb, 41 10d to 5s 10(1; veal, 38 10d to 4a 4d ; and pork, 3s 6cl to 4s Bcl per Blbs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, July 15.—The supplies of stock are good, and the trade generally rules heavy on easier terms. Beet. from 3s 8d to 4s 10d ; mutton, 3s we to 5e Od ; lamb, 515 2d to 6s 2d ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 6d ; and pork, 38 10d to 48 6d per Blbs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, July 15.—Beasts and sheep moved off slowly at 2d per 81b less money. Other stock ruled about stationary. Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 10d; mutton, 3s 8(1 to 58 8d; lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 4d , veal, 48 Od to 48 6 d ; pork, 3s d to 4s 6d per 81bs ; suckling calves, 12 s to 188 ; quarter-old store pigs, 18s to 265; and milch cows, £l4 to £lB each. HAY MARK2TS. SMITHFIELD. Old Meadow hay, £3 10s to £4 16s ' • new do., £ 3 to £ 4 ; old clover , X s lOs t o £ 6 6 s; new do. £3 10s to £4 lbs; and straw , Ll 8 s to £ 1 16 s per load. A moderate demand. . CUMBEHLAND.— £4 load.do.,Old Mea d ow nay, £3 lOs tolss ; new do., £ 3 Os to £ 4 Os; old oiover, £ 4los to £ 6 O. • , n ew r £3 10s to £4 158; and straw, £1 lOs to 16s e Trade steady. WHITECHAPEL —Old Meadow hay, £3 8s to £4 15a; new do , £3 as to £4 Os; old clover, £4 lOs to £6 6a; new d , ) , £31013 to £4 15s; and straw, £lBs to Ll ]6s per load. Supply rather limited. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, July 16.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather; but rather cloudy. PLYMOIITH, July 15.—Wind W.—Sailed—The Murray, for Melbourne. CLYDE, July 14.—Sailed —Margaret Falconer, for Buenos Ayres. DUNDEE, July 15.—Wind S.E. —Arrived—Atkinson, from Quebec. PILL, July 15.—Wind calm.--Sailed—MaryDumlas, for Quebec. _ l IIE DREADALBANE CAUSE.—An appeal has b een presented by Lieut. Ch a rles Wm. Campbell to th e li ma° of the judgment of the First Di v i s i on of the Court of session, refusing to sequestr a t e th e Breadalberia e states, L o rds against j judicial fact or , till the question be tween him and Mr. Campbell of Glenf a ll oc h , as to the sue cession to these estates shall b e determined. The appeal has been referred to the Appal Committee.— Witting. /7