The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-08 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The money market still presents a quiet and easy appearance, the best bills being readily negotiated at 36 per cent. The Foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon ex hibited no material change. A call of £5 per share has been made by the directors of the Anglo-Portuguese Bank, payable on or before the 25th inst. The ninth annual meeting of the proprietors of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, was held to-day--Mr. Mitchell presiding. The report stated that the general balance sheet for the year ending the 31st December last, exhibited a profit of £70,792 51. 4d. The shareholders had been informed by circular, on 29th Aug. last, of the los which this bank,in common with others,had sustained by the extensive opium frauds perpetrated at Hong Kong, and which precluded the directors from re commending a half-yearly interim dividend in October last. They regretted to stare that not withstanding every effort, the hopes which were at first held out to them of recovering a portion of the loss thus incurred had net been realised; and the deficiency, amounting to £50,323 133. 10d., must now be regarded as a total loss. Under these circumstances the directors had de cided to write off that amount from the profits of the year ; and out of the remaining balance of £20,468 lls. 6d., they now recommended that a dividend for the half-year ended 31st December last be declared, at the rate of five per cent. per annum, free of income tax, leaving £4,368 lls. 6d. of undivided profits to be carried to new account. Apart from the loss above noticed, the Directors were able to report that the general business of the bank throughout the year had been very satisfactory. Tne Chairman, in moving the adoption of the re port, reviewed the principal featares of the report, and stated that the past year's oi,erations exhibited both an increase of profit and business, and that the directors contemplated opening new branches in India at places which they believed were destined to become extensive seats of trade. The Board also trusted at a future meeting to be able to re commend that a considerable addition be made to the Reserve Fund. In reply to several questions, the Chairman stated that the manager and Guaran tee Society were held liable for part of the losses sustained through the frauds perpetrated at Hong Kong. The report, after a short debate, was unani mously adopted. Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr. Renter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 69f. 75c.—Quiet. The transactions in the English Stock Market con tinue limited, the settlement having occupied prin cipal attention. A few purchases, however, during the morning resulted in an edvance of per cent., and Consols are now quoted 928 a for money, and 923 for the May account. The New Three per Cents. are firm at 911, the Reduced at 911 ; Exche quer Bills remain at ss. to 2s. dis. ; India 5 per Cent. Loan is 1086, 1091. There has been less buoyancy in the Foreign Market to-day, and the transactions have not been so extensive. Greek Bonds have receded to 271; the Coupons are 123 131; Mexican Stock is 331 ; Peruvian New Loan, 88 ; Portuguese, 48 ; Russian, 961 ; Spanish Passive have improved to 29 the corrifie..es, 10 a ; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, 90; do., 1858, 68k ; do., 1862, 69 ; and the Consolides 481 49 ; Italian, 711 ; and Venezuelan New Loan 60 1. The Confederat e L oan i s 1 1 die. , In the Railway Share Market business has been very dull, but in one or two instances prices have shown rather more firmness. Great Easterns and Midlands have improved ss. ; Caledonians, 108. ; and Metropolitans, 155.; South-Easterns, however, have declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings con tinue in limited favour at about previous quota tions. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares main tain about former prices. London and Brazilian realize 411 42 ; Chartered of India, Australia, and China, 25 to 251 ; Bank of Egypt, 314 314 ; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 77a. The shares of the Westminster and Southwark Bank hate been dealt in at I to 14 prem. The shares of the New Theatre Company have been dealt in at 1 to 11- prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. A nnu i t i es iinuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908, 21 7-16 India St oc k Ditto 5 per Cent .... 1084 91 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent...... Ditto 5f per C en t. Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 100 / Consols for A ccount, May 7 .... 92/ Exchequer Bills, £l.OOO 2f, per Cent.... 5 2 Ditto Ditto Small 2 5 FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58 -60 ...... 931 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent .............. Ditto Account 93 'hid= 6 per Cent Ditto 4i per Cent Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons --- Ditto A ecount .. 271 7 6/ 71 Ditto Coupons 124 131 12/ Mexican 3 per Cent . ... Ditto Account .. 1533/ New Granad a Ditto 2 per Cent ... 33 P;;ruvian 4f • per Cent. Ditto 1862 Ditto Account. BB Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 1862 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 97 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859. Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 ............ 96 - 5/ 6/ Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto Account ................ Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 .......... .... Ditto Account 6Bl Ditto 6 per Cent. 18&2 Ditto Account Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto Account 241 Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — 11itto Account .. 7la Consols, M oney TWO O'CLOCK. 928 Ditto Account 92/ Liverpool Cotton Market —This Day. AML(REUTER'S TELEG RAM ) &ilea about 5,000 bales. Imports net previously, 7,900. Steady. SHOEBURYNESS.—The reader has probably ob served, that ut the point where a narrow but popu bus thorou g hf are j o i ns some l arger an d sti ll more frequen t ed roadway, th e ang l e o f t h e k er b stone i s sometimes quite rounded off by th e cont i nua ll y rus hi ng tra ffi c, an d is t an angle no longe r . N ow, t h ere i s a certa i n water thorough fare in this country called the Thames ; and those who pursue it to the particular place where it rushes into the sea, will ob serve t h at t h cont i nually alternating traffic o f the fresh water downward, and of the salt water upward, has entirely rounded off the corners of that portion of Great Britain which lies at that point of junction, where our fine old river runs into the Gelman Ocean, At one of these turning -points or corners there is situated a town which is, perhaps, the most detestably hideous place upon the surface of the globe—l say this, knowing Woolwich and Chatham, and f olly conscious how briskly they compete fur the proud 4131 inction. 'I he name of this victorious place is Sheerness. Sheerness is the most odious place that man—making the meet of the . natural aids at his command—has ever sue cLeded in constructing. No other town can enter into COM peti ion with it. There i s b ut one Sheerness—though it must be owned, in common justice, that Woolwich is its Prophet. At the other and opposite corner to that occupied by this debsted settlement stands Shoeburyness. Shoe buryness is a place to which I would recommend any gen• *lrian who is fond of a north-east wind to devote his exclu sive attention for a month or two in early spring. If it should happen that the same individual who possesses this taste is also partial to prospects characterised by a certain b treness of look, if he be fond of stunted trees, for instance, i. he would like a chance twice in every twenty-four hours or spending six hours in the contemplation of several miles of wet mud—then would he find himself in his element at Shoeburyness,—.Dickenes "del the Year igtonct." BRITISIi PI SHARE MARKETS—This day. Share! Railways. Paid. 13.14. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Boat.,SleaLandMid.k.lo Bristol and Exeter ',Caledonian Cork and Bandon • Corn wal Do B A A 2ets no di\ Do iti 11 6p c.p an.haF . been paid to B. 'Dublin & Belfast Juno. ;Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. Edinburgh & Glasgow. !Glasg. and S. Western. IGreatEastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthot Scotland Great Northern... . Do A stock ... Do B do Gt. S. an I W. of Ireland (Great Western at I Do Str Val gua. stock at !Lancashve & 'Yorkshire at 'Lotidon and Blackwal at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast at Lon., Chat., and Dover, at Lon. & North Western at Lon. & South Western at Man., Shet., & Lincoln. 50 Maryport and Carlisle. 124 Do 3 5hare5........ 10 Metropolitan Midland k st 4.0 Do New Do Binning. & Derby Mid. Cit. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent I Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.. North London 9.18.4 Do New North Staffordshire and S. W. Junction ;Scottish Central 12.10 8 84 7 8 85 87 112 113 ei 7 40 42 13 14 88 88 107 109 49 50 45 47 24 25 1201 121/ 120 122 134 136 101 103 66i 66! 1081 leBl 7 - ) I'o 114 115 39 40 974 08 10 1011 44i 45} 121 12f 1234 i 2/ 11 lip 91 93 50 51 24 25 981 99 - -d 54i 65§ 851 k6i 118 118 1 1i , 16 18} 11i 14 119 121 42 43 98 100 Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid, stock Shrews. and Weichpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale., . Do B Do C ........... . ... Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta, and Pim , Waterford & Kilkenny IWest Cornwall V. Hartlepool Har.eat (West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 48 50 32 33 911 821 (7 69 99 101 7 8 37 33 9 10 71 149 15i 4i 5 2 3} p 43 14 37 39 99 101 "4har. 100 gtk 20 dal I wave, S.3k; I Paid zo4 to LOO 1 stock stock It lantic & St Lawrenct iiem.,Baroda&Cent In( Gu. s_per cent.. Do. New . . • Do. E. Shares Buffalo and Lake Huroi Do. Preference Buflalo,Brant,/aGodriel 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1875 00. do. Jun., 1, _;lcutta.sS.Eastn.(l. , Cape Town St Dock Seri) Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. East Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. ( Ext..... 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock stock Do. do. 11 d 0... Grand Trunk of Canatb Do. Ist Pre'. Bonds . Do. eo. Do. Id Pref. Bona. Do. do d fer ed..... Do. 3d P ef. stock .. Do. do. d d.... Do. 4th Pref. 8 c; k... Do. do deferred...... Gt.lndiarentu.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. c... Do. January, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per oent. Gt. W. of Canada Sharet- Do. New ....... --- Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 5i p c. do. '77-8.. . Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. c. Do. 4g p. o. Extension De. 4. Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. p. o. Bud , - Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Mortg. Bd.. Newßrunswunt a Cand, Class A ant B N. Itl.C'da6 pc let pi bds &,lnde Do. Delhi Do. d 0...... ca Do. Punjaub Do. Do. .. • • •• Do. Endus.St. Flo.) 100 (100 eck 100 2 10 t_ i(p COLONIAL GOVERLs ~ 1 1. Gov. 6 p.e.J. s t ,l ul 1877-S4 Do. 6 p.c. Feb.& An, Do. p. c.Mar. & Sept i Do. p. c. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stoct ape G. Hope, p c.iB7 Do.Ap & Oct. 188( I Do. 1/39 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p Mau' itius 6 per cent .. Na'a, G.,v. 6 per cent.. IN.II.Gov. 6 p.c.d Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oc, N. S.W. ov. 5 p 18 Do. 5 p.c.,18,1 tot I Do. d0.,1888 dzupwck New Zealand 6 p cent. Noya Scotia Gov. 6p. e. sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6p. c b. Aus G6p.c.lB7e.ttz up - lVic.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July -- Do. in aD.n. WO 100 too too 100 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuR.S. Closing Business Price. done. 85 112 k 131 5O j f 68i 1 9818 12f 4 18 1,41 924 99} 9 129 k 94 31 2/ 79 81 150 160 28 30 SION:-. 4 • Cloein , 2 Price. 62 a ICO RI lip 5 5 ; 1 7i 8 1061 1(5 107 166 107 107 1(8 108 log 11 P 19i 64 56 :0) .8 51 54 57 42 ,5 42 33 36 24 27 20 22 10711 I.oBi 1 11 105 107 121 3 8 74 100 102 93 e 5 1 1 105 lug 99 10t 95 ;•7 47 49 3 5 SO 12 107 118 105 106 if) • 105} 1661 99 101 SECU 104 1071 1 , 4 (6 :04 106 97 98 95 97 /10 112 ,114 116 114 116 113 115 111 112 ill 112 106 107 101 102 100! 1011 1001 1012 , 110 112 106,E 107} '1 113 111 113 108 110 ,08} 109 1034 1 1 0 81 i ttusiness done RITIEh 106 i 6 4 BRIT] SEI All 1081 9_ 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold Amalgamated 19 21 Devon G. Con.. (Tay tat , 1 515 525 East Bassett(lllogani 30 78 82 1 East Clogan Gold Ltd 55. id 1P East Caradon ...... t 14., 42i 131 East Camßrea.... 34.. 91 94 421 WI Russel (Tavistk.) 8.1 . 6 44 44 iGam.etStalubyn(Gwen.) 57 4 14 16 Greatk, lSe Wheal " or ' 170 8 (Grenville... d. 16 51 54 Herod's-Foot 8.12 46 , —iiiingston Downs 4.:7.0 2 2 18 1 Lady Bertha I Ilargaret (tiny Lelant' 9b 434 arke Valley. I 4 Ilyndy Iron Ore (Lim. 2J 1 4 d New Setun .. 192 130 140 North Downs 2l 25 3 ilaseet(lllo4an t. 17.() 41 4 'forth Wheal C ro tty Par ConsolB(st. Blazey 11 44 6 10 t , 'rovidenee(U ny L e l nt.l 10.6.7 t 2 44 ,South Caradon(St.Cleer, 11 390 400 IS. earn Brea (Illogan) 5.15.6 3 , 4 IS. Wheal Fran. (Illogan 18.1-.9 871 921 ;Stray Park 5 'Tamar Silv.‘t Lead NIB, 41 4 1 i 0 .Tin Croft 9 22 23 j West Basset (Illogan) ll 12 13 W Caradon (Liskeard 5 32 34 IWest Seton Wheal Basset (Illog an 5 4 75 80 j ' heal Buller( Redruth , 5 60 65 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant 2.0.6 - WhealLud ott —tw heal MaryAnn(M ' en.; 8 151 164 heal Seton 5Bl 245 255 ''heal Treiswney (Lis. 7 17 18 ;Wheal Union 3.17 I 5 51 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, 1101 Great Western, 5 per cent. red. pi., 1021 West Midland, Oxforu, 14 guaranteed stock, 127 j PREFEMENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton, &c., 4: per cent.. 18.5+, 102 a LINES LEASED AL' FIXED RENTALS. Cheater and Ho yhead, 5 per cent., 1141 Lancaster and Carl sle, 206 , London, Tilbury, and Southend, 91 Midland, Bradford pref. stock, 96 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Great Luxembourg, 151 Namur and Liege, gua. 6 per cent. pt., 201 Sambre and Meuse, 113 San Paulo ,lim.), gua. 7 per cent. (all), 23i South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 241 1 FOREIGN MINES. Scottish AustraPan, a United Mexican (lim ), 64 Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lira), 4 JOINT-STOCK BA.NRS, Anglo Portuguese (lim.), 2} Australasia, 7, Bank of Egypt, 814 I Bank of %riles, Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 251 5 English and I r i s h (lim.), r Lond on. 6„.4. DOCKS. Berlin Water MISC ELLANEOUS. W vi orka, 71 ustr a Joint stock Discount llan Copper, if Canada gand.ahLananci d, A 2 m Peninsula and 0 lenialttea 1,. South Australian L and, 31 -, "I —Yes terday. Course of the _ x E--------mge.----------'-,-.... Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam .. 11 18 11 18 Antwerp.. .. 25 45 11 14 Brussels — 25 45 25 50 Ei am burgh — 13 7i 25 , 50 Short. 25 17i 13 71 Paris Ditto Marseilles 521 Frankfort on Maine - 1191 119 a Vienna Trieste .. 11 30 11 36 Petersburgh Berlin Madrid . ... 49 49h Cadiz Leghorn — 25 55 25 60 Milan — 25 55 25 60 Genoa — 25 521 25 60 Naples Palermo .. 25 571 25 62i \lessiva — 25_671 25_621 Lisbon. Oporto — 62/ 63 ° Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz.. L3 17 9 Mexican Dollars 0 Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doubloons I, m gyt t•• 9., • 9 9 II 0 0 0 THE SUN, CONDO I CRIMINAL COURT.---This Day. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Wilde.) THE ACTON MURDEE. Joseph Brooks, labourer, 25, and Isaac Brooks, 23, baker, were indicted for the willful murder of William Davey, a police-constable at Acton, on the 19th January last. The prisoners pleaded not guilty. The deceased was a police-constable in the T division, on duty in the neighbourhood of Acton. While so en gaged, he made a report to his sergeant in reference to some wood which had been stolen from a house in which the prisoners had been engaged as bricklayer's labourers. It appeared that Joseph Brooks had redeemed his gun from a pawnbroker's on the evening in question, and shortly after he came home violently agitated. After the murder the police went to the prisoner, Joseph Brooks's house, and asked him if he had any firearms, and he said "No," but he had left a gun at his place of woi k. They ordered him to getout of bed, and on tearing it up they found a gun between it and the mattress. It had been discharged. A powder flask was also found, which it was evident had been attempted to be concealed. Both prisoners lived in the same house. On Isaac being asked to spell his name Mrs. Davey recognised the voice she heard at her door on the night of the murder. The deceased lived at Petherton-villa, Cavendish road, and the residence of the prisoner was but a short distance from that place. The deceased went on duty at six o'clock, and he was seen on his beat at eight o'clock, after he had made his report relative to the removal of the timber. The constable afterwards went home to get his supper. A knock was shortly afterwards heard at the door, and deceased's wife went to ascertain who it was. On opening it a man was outside, and asked for her husband. He said—" Is Mr. Davey at hand ?" She could not distinctly see who it was. She then called out, " William you re wanted." He went to the door, and she turned back. As soon as ehe got away from the door, she heard the discharge of firearms, and, on turning round, she found her husband dead. On an alarm being given, the police at once proceeded to the residence of the prisoner, and there the gun was found as above described. The police-constables, and the wife of the unfortunate man, and a witness named Winning, de• posed to the above facts, the latter adding that she saw both prisoners. Isaac was urging the other to make haste. Jane Lake, who came into the witness-box crying, said she lived with her father and mother at Turnham-green She knew the two prisoners. Isaac Brooks was married, and Joseph lived in the same house. Joseph was keeping company with her in January last. On Monday, Jan. 19, at ab , ut six o'clock, she went to their house. They were both in. Joseph had corduroy jacket and trousers on. They both went out for a short time after she arrived. They were away about a quarter of an hour. When they came back Jeseph sat down and asked witness what time the pawnbrokers closed. She said she would go and ask her mother. Her mother was out. She told Joseph her father said 10 o'clock. Upon that Joseph asked Isaac Brooks to take his trousers and pawn them, and get as much as would redeem his gun, which was at Mr, Ayre's. She went with Mrs. Brooks to Ham mersmith. They pledged the trousers and got the gun. Mrs. Brooks gave the gun to Joseph , he said he was going to sell it. At that time Isaac was indoors, and he was so when Joseph gave directions about the gun. Joseph was asked where he was going to, and he said to Black Lion-lane. Witness asked - him to let her go with him, but he refused. He then left the house with the gun. Isaac remained at home. She was there when Joseph came back. He was away about 20 minutes. Isaac seemed very restless whilst Joseph was away. She did not recollect anything parti cular that he said. When Joseph came back h© had the gun with him. He put it in a corner of the room. He said, " God bless the man, if I had him here I'd shoot him with it." She was not quite sure the word was " bless." He appeared rather hot when she put her hand across his face because he looked so hot. She said "You've been running Joe," He said "No, I've not." He then went out to get some beer. Her mother then came in and they both left together about half-an hour afterwards. Isaac had been in doors all the time. When she first saw Joseph he had his cord suit on, but before he went out he changed it and put on a brown jacket. The jacket produced was it. When he came back he took his jacket off and put it on the stairs. When he went out for beer he had his cord jacket on. The pawnbroker's assistant proved th. 4 gun was pledged in the name of Brooks. It was clean when it was pledged, but it had been destroyed since it had been redeemed. Mr, Ayres confirmed the evidence of the girl Lake. Matthew West said he saw a man getting over the hedge after the shot had been fired. By the Judge—He could not see whether he had any thing in his hand. James M'Evoy said he saw a man leaning on the muzzle of a gun. He was dressed in a dark jacket. He had dark hair binder his chin. (1 his description corresponds with Joseph Br)oks.) It was about a quarter past eight when khe saw the man first. Emma Rice said she saw a man near Petherton- villa with something before him. To the best of her belief, it was the prisoner Joseph. The Judge—Do you feel confident it was him ? Witness—Yes. ithin half an hour she saw him within a yard of Petherton-villa. James Edwards gave similar evidence, but he could not, on account of the darkness of the night, be certain it was the prisoner Joseph. Charles Catlin said he saw Isaac amongst the persons looking at the body of the policeman. Prisoner Isaac—Mind what you're at, Charley. Witness continued—They walked together, and they agreed it was a cold blooded affair, and that it must have been done out of spite. A number of other witnesses spoke to the fact of seeing Isaac Brooks in conversation with Catlin. Mr. Bingham, surgeon, of Acton, said when he saw de ceased the top of his head had been blown off. He found 23 or 24 shots in the brain. They were No. 5 shot. The gun must have been discharged close to deceased's head. Mr. John Searle, inspector of the T division, said when he proceeded to the home of Brooks hs found his coat, from the pocket of which a powder flask fell. He also found some loose shot, which corresponded precisely with that discovered in the brain of the murdered man. This being Ihe case for the prosecution, Mr. Justice Wilde intimated that no case had been made out against the prisoner Isaac Brooks, and that consequently he must be acquitted. Mr. Best, of the Oxford Circuit, then addressed the jury for the prisoner Joseph Brooks. The Learned Judge, at the conclusion of the learned counsel's speech. summed up the evidence, NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Mellen) CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH. Emma Brown, 17, pleaded guilty to an indictment charg ing her with the concealment of the birth of her infant child. Sentence deferred. THE ACCIDENT AT A COAL - DEPOT. John Edmonds and William Lester surrendered to an indictment charging them with the manslaughter of John Stafford. After the trial had proceeded for a short time, a statement was read, which had been put in by one of the defendants ; and the learned judge asked the jury whether they thought there was sufficient evidence to go on, and whether they thought there might not have been great negligence on the part of the workmen themselves P If they were of that opinion, it would be needless to proceed further. The jury, after a short consultation, took that view of the case, and the defendants were acquitted. THE MUTINY AT BLACKWALL On a bill being preferred this morning before the grand jury against Oliva, one of the soldiers attached to the Peruvian corvette Arica, who stands charged upon the coroner's inquisition with the manslaughter of Callegas during the late mutiny at Blackwell, it was announced that the other wi nes.es were not in attendance, that they were pi isoners on board the hulk, and that the authorities intended to send them back to Peru, in order that they might be tried under the n artist law of their own country. Under these circumstances the grand jury had no alterna tive, and accordingly no bill was found. The prisoner, however, must be arraigned on the coroner's inquisition, which will, of course, result in his immediate acquittal, as no witnesses will be in attendance. It is thought that the prisoner will be claimed by the commander of the Arica as the murderer of Colleges, and that he will be removed on board the corvette and tried by court-martial for the crime. The other prisoners, at present in irons on board the ship, will also undergo trial for the share they had taken in the mutiny. It is expected that immediately the Arica gets clear of English water the prisoner and the ringleaders will be dealt with summarily. LORD DUNDREARY IN LIVERPOOL.—Mr. Sothern Princercad e hisof Walesfir st Theatre,pear i n n e e his i nth nativee on Basta. Monday. Fo r wee k s prev i ous, t h ough the prices P to r w " n ' o n f ee Liverpool, at the were raised, all the seats in the dress boxes were let for a month—the duration of Mr. Sothern's engagement—and on the evening of Monday the approaches to the theatre were blocked up by an excited crowd for upwards of an hour before the doors were opened. When Mr. Sothern appeared i n the costume, now familiar to everybody, he ex perienced a most enthusiastic reception, and not even in London were his performances ever more successful or amusing. " Our American Cousin" was put on the stage with a degree of magnificence and completeness never pre viously witnessed in Liverpool, and the whole performance was admirable. Yesterday, Mr. Sothern, who in his youth ful days was in a mercantile house of business in Liverpool, west on 'Change, introduced b 3 Mr. James Baines and Mr. A. Henderson, lessee of the Prince of Wales Theatre. He was cordially welcomed by many of his old friends and acquaintances, and followed by an immense crowd of curi ous sightseers as soon as he was known and recognised. FREE HANDICAP. SPORTING NOTES. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. , WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1863. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) NEWM RISE r RACES-THIS DAY. Santhal 1 Mr. Trimmer Four ran. LATEST BETTING. CITY AND SUBURBAN. 7to 1 agst Adventurer (taken) 20 to 1 agst Weatherspy (taken in force) [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Some counter-attractions in the way of other race meet ings in the North of England, and volunteer reviews in the South, tended greatly to the generally poor character of the Craven Meeting on he opening day. With the exception of the Handicap Plate, which brought out a field of 18, the quality of all the animals that stripped on that day was not above the average of platers, unless Romanoff, after get ing off some of his "bullock" fat, should further disap point those who had no faith in him. However, the layers against Mr. Saxon's Derby outsider, Jerry, must have en joyed some degree of satisfaction at his shameful beating by Water Kelpie over the Rowley mile. The int rest of Tues day's racing was centred in the Newmarket Handicap, which absorbed the attention of bookmakers and the public. The success of Mr. Ten Broeck's horse was hailed with delight by his friends and the habitues of the Turf gene rally, as his patience and praiseworthy perseverance justly entitled him to a grand coup some day. In these days, while it is the habit of racing prophets, and the public as well, to " go for" the favourites, I may especially congra tulate myself upon having departed from that rule on Mon day last, as The Sun of that evening contained the all but unqualified prediction that Bedouin would win, thus dis carding the PhyAalis colt, who stood so firmly as first favourite for the Newmarket Handicap. However, turning from this bit of self-gratulation, let me address myself briefly to the few remaining events on the programme. Elevea races are down for decision to-morrow, four of which have yet to close, while one, the Sweepstakes of 25 soya, over the last half of the R.M., is " off" by consent. The Aske Produce Stakes has only three engaged, and Lord Stamford's "flyer," Flying Fish, will have little difficulty in disposing of Trump Queen, giving the latter the 31b. allowance into the bargain. The Sweepstakes of 50 sovs., T.Y.C., will be carried off by the French horse Le Marechal. The Claret Stakes is scarcely above the standard of "Chancellor's" wine, as, with the exception of Buckstone, who will have to meet Zetland, there is nothing above mediocrity in the race, and I shall expect to see Mr. Merry's colours success ful, The Fourth Newmarket Biennial Stakes, D. 1., has a numerous entry of 69 subscribers, most of whom have either "paid" or are hors de combat. John Scott's stable are reported to be in such good force that I must look in that quarter for the winner; moreover, I hear such good ac counts of Welcome that I shall give him my sole confidence. The Sweepstakes of 50 sovs, over the Rowley mile, has only seven subscribers. Should Valentine run he will be found the most dangarous ; but, in his absence, the Baron's Giraffe colt will probably repeat his victory of Monday over the same course. The Free Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 soya each, T.Y.C., will lie between Zora and Benjamin. Friday's card presents only four events closed, and a match (no day mentioned). The Bennington Stakes will fall to Curacoa, the Sweepstakes of 25 says each to Carintha, and Lord Stamford will in all probability repeat his victory by winning the Sweepstakes of 100 sovs each, D.M. The Port Stakes is a gift of The Marquis. The Catterick Bridge Meeting will be brought to a close to-morrow. There are only two events of any interest for decision, the Borough and Hornby Handicaps. For the former I incline to the chances of Bohemian, and in the event of Upperhand going to the post for the latter he ought to win. PEGASUS. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day. A RETURNED CONVICT COMMITTED FOR ASSAULTING THE POLICE.—James Hurst, a powerful-looking young man, was charged as follows : Wm. Gordon, a plain clothes officer of the C division, said that shortly before one this morning he saw the pri soner and several others outside a public house in Old Compton-street, making a disturbance, and as he noticed several thieves from Seven-dials amongst them, he stood to watch them. Ha then heard a female cry out, " There's Gordon over the way," and directly after the prisoner crossed over and struck him, and then kicked him, at the same time, with a horrid expression, saying he would be hanged at Newgate tor him. He knew the prisoner as a returned convict, and in the habit of working by day and going out with bad characters at night. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the officer said that the pri soner had been drinking, and that he believed he belonged to the same class as those who were at the cout t the previous day for anoaulting the /.4,1j0e. Sergeant Davy, 17 C, proved hearing the prisoner say he would be " lagged" for Gordon, and also receiving a kick from the prisoner, who was so violent that it took several constables to get him to the station. Pr.soner asked the magistrate to deal leniently with him. Mr Tyrwhitt said that when he saw a returned convict attacking a man in plain clothes for nothing on earth, h. should be wanting in his duty if he did not send him to prison. The prisoner would go to prison for each of the assaults, and would have to find a good surety in the sum of £2O to keep the peace for six months afterwards, and persons of the prisoner's class would find that the law was beginning to be sharper than it used to be. STEALING A WitLIDING RING. —Fanny Ingham was charged with stealing a wedding ring, of the value of 21s , from the shop of Mr. Andrew Campbell, jeweller, of 43, Tottenham-court- road. The prisoner went into the shop of Mr. Campbell and asked to see some wedding rings. ?Qr. Campb e ll, j un , showed her a tray of rings, and on telling her the price w as 215., she said that Was too high, and on Mr. Campbell turn ing his back and returning to the tray, he missed o ne o f th e rings, which was subsequently found by Martha Preston, Mr. Campbell's servant, on the prisoner's finger. The prisoner, who either was, or pretended to be, much overcome while in the dock, bat who, Mr. Campbell said, had used very vile language on being taxed with the rob bery, pleaded guilty, and was committed for three months with hard labour. WESTMINSTER. IMPROPER CONDUCT AT A TAVERN.—Thomas Eadon and John Jones were brought before Mr. Arnold, charged with creating a disturbance at the house of Mr. George Robons, the Two Brewers' Tavern, Stratton-ground, West minster, and assaulting him as well as his potman. Complainant said that at four o'clock yesterday afternoon the defendani s and some others who were in front of his bar began quarrelling and fighting. Complainant theta endeavoured to quiet them, and finding the disturbance still continued, called in a policeman and turned them out, but they forced their way in again, and Eadon assaulted complainant by pushing him about and striking him, and they also attacked the potman. They were both of them sober at the time. George Andrews, the potman, said that in consequence of the defendant's violence towards Mr. Robens he went to his assistance, when Eadon knocked him down, and Jones kicked him in the mouth while he was on the ground. George Brown, 114 B, said that he endeavoured to re store order - in the puulic house, and removed the defen dants, who afterwards continued their violence. The defendants told a long rambling story, in which they endeavoured to make it appear that their oonduot had been perfectly blameless. After two or three witneasas had been called, whose evi dence was contradictory, Mr, Arnold said that Mr. Robens was much to be com mended tiir endeavouring to preserve proper order in his house. Eadon was fined 2)5., or seven days, and J nes was com mitted for 14 days. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. A very small supply of English wheat was received fresh up to this morning's market. Selected parcels were in fair demand, and prices ruled firm : otherwise, the trade was devoid of animation. The supply of g ranaried samples of foreign wheat was large, and sales progressed slowly in all descriptions, but without leading to any quotable change in the currency. Floating cargoes of grain were in limited request, on former terms. Fine malting barley was t lerably firm, but other de actiptions sold heavily, at previous quotations. Malt changed hands plowly on former occasions. The supply of oats was only moderate, yet the demand ruled by no means active. Beans and peas, the supplies of which were small, steadily supported previous quotations. Flour was but little inquired after, but prices ruled steadily. ARRIVALS THIS Arlmx. Wheat. Barley. Malt Oats. Flour. Elm. Bah...— 320 400 I 1610 480 Irish _ 6,450 2,190 5,420 50 aka 6,970 brie. BOROUGH HOP. The business doing in our market is very moderate, yet prices rule stationary. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat is moderate, and the demand rules inactive, as follows : Beef, from 2a Gd to 3s 10d ; mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 2d; lamb, 6s Od to 6 s Od ; vea l, 3 s 10d t o 4 s 4d ; and pork, 3 a 4d t o 4s 4d per 81bs by the carcase. It has been proposed to found a colony at the north-west of Australia, to be called Prince Albert's Land, LITERATURE. Deep Waters. A Novel. By Anna Drury. 3 vols. Chapman and Hall. The authoress of " Friends and Fortune" is gifted with singular dramatic power. Many of the most stirring scenes and incidents in her romances are depicted with so much spirit and vigolir that the attention of the reader is enthralled, and ho quite realises the adventures that pass before him. Such a faculty of narration is a happy possession for a novel writer, and in these days of sensation-romances it is one of peculiar value. For the lovers of that school, Miss Drury presents the felicitous combina tion of a series of incidents of startling and effective interest, related:with so much adherence to proba bility in detail as to render them in many respects akin to that truth which is stranger than fiction. " Deep Waters" is the name inscribed on the title, page of these volumes ; and deep in truth are the waters passed over by the narrative—waters again and again stirred to their very depths by the out bursts of tempestuous passions. We will not mar the interest of the story—for it is, as we have said, a story full of interest—by a premature disclosure of its mysteries. We have too much sympathy with the spell-bound novel reader, who follows with breathless curiosity the mazes of his book, to wish for one moment to destroy that delightful " ignorance " of coming events, which for the time being consti tutes his " bliss." Miss Drury's own pen shall, as far as we are concerned, be the only one to reveal the histories of Anne Clavering and Eleanor Ormonde —histories for the most part chronicles of love and of sorrow, those two most faithful teachers of frail humanity. Widely contrasted are the characters of the two heroines. Anne, the las' descendant of a proud but impoverished family, brought up almost in isolation in the deserted home of her an cestors ; undisciplined by education, but with an impassioned heart and an excitable imagination, ren dered more intense by lonely reveries and by roman tic reading, is at first the creature of impulse, over powered by her feelings whether for good or for evil. Eleanor Ormonde, on the contrary, is a type of all that is tender and loveable in woman. She is placed in scenes of most trying vicissitude, subjected to sorrow and difficulty in every guise. She is throughout consistently staunch in her obedience to duty, and undeviatingly devoted in self-sacrifice to others. Besides these two very charming heroines, the persons of the drama are very numerous. The hero, Frederick Atterbury, "Not half a villain and but half a knight," is a type of some of the evils of this age of speculation and commercial deception. Martock, the lawyer, is the evil genius of the tragedy; Despard, and Pierre point, and Compton are in their several ways spe cimens of the so-called friends who hurry the un stable man on to his own destruction. Rupert Clavering, the old uncle from Australia,and Captain Sydney, the shattered hero from the Crimea, are genial, and generous, and loveable. Many others, even'ameng the minor characters, have sufficient in dividuality to be particularised, even down to Miss Craggs, the lodging-house keeper, who would have been dear to the heart of George Cruikehank in her supreme detestation of the Bottle. Miss Craggs, who, when appealed to on behalf of a dying man, exclaims, "Brandy ! sir, did you say ? 1 keep no spirits in my house. I am a total abstainer from spirituous liquors in any form. If you can't keep life in without brandy,it's my belief you had better let it alone." While the characters are thus for cibly depicted, many of the scenes are described with a vivid colouring that impresses them on the memory. There is one of this kind at the begin ning of the first volume, where Anne Clavering is parting from her lover, his love only just de clared. Her old uncle, half anxious and half un conscious, ha followed her as she quits the house. He had not very far to go.: There was an old stile dividing one of the fields from the plantation, and there, by that stile, with her back to her home, his niece Anne was standing, her hand clasped in_ those of Frederick Atterbury, leaning on the rails from the other side. There they stood in the light of the April sunshine, as if there were no world but that spot, and themselves— " divided by the boundary raiis as fstA was d ividing them that hour." The picture, as they stand there in eloquent silence, reminds us of that charming representation of the " Dawn of Love," so familiar to all. A little later on a very different picture recurs to our memory. Who that has witnessed Frith's admirable delineation of the "Railway Station" does not recall the sad, startled features of the terror-stricken wife, whose husband is just arrested by the ministers of justice. Such an im pression, so sad, so terror-stricken (although the incidents are not analogous) is over us during many chapters of this narrative. Here is a little glimpse, very different from the one already quoted. Eleanor is going in search of her husband, guided by his friend Despard. A stranger enters the carriage, and the open-hearted, truth-loving Eleanor finds herself the heroine of a mystery. "She found a slip of paper gliding into her hand. With instinctive caution she opened it unobserved and read, ' He followed me from town. We are watched, take care.' The feelings of one who has gone from the warm daylight into a dark underground labyrinth, and there with only a fast wasting candle in his hand suddenly discovers he has lost his way, might in some degree resemble those of Eleanor, thus unexpectedly removed from her own clear world of openness and security into a region where all seemed stratagem, concealment, and dangers unknown." We will reveal no more. Her tender love and abiding faith sustain Eleanor through her many trials, and the readers of her history recognises to the end, as the closing lines remind us, the guiding mercy, that ever makes a pathway for those tha follow it even through the DEEP WATERS. Remarkable Adventures and Unrevealed Mys steries. "The World's Mine Oyster." By Lascelles Wraxall. 2 vols. Bentley. A brace of mottos Mr. Wraxall has here chosen for his title page—the earlier of them being incom parably the better : to wit, Mine Ancient Pistol's " Why, then, Me World's Mine Oyster." Second thoughts, according to the ungrammatically ex pressed old proverb, decidedly not being in this in stance the best, or, to put the statement in words a little more correctly (with a due regard to the manes of Lindley Murray), the better—our author's later motto to his new work will be found to have been rather inaptly selected from All's Well that Ends Well. The purport of his thirty-four narra tives, distributed in as many chapters over the pages of these two curious and interesting volumes, one would rather be inclined to suggest, ought, if the writer had only cherished any respect for the fit ness of things, to have been a couplet or a quatrain from sL.me work expressing by its title exactly the reverse some drama, let us say, answering as nearly as possible in name to " All's 11l that Ends Ill." What upon earth Parolles has got to do at all with a literary compilation like this, it would be difficult to imagine. " Rust, sword! cool, blushes I and Parolles live," may be all very well as applied to some of these adventurers. But which amongst them all could possibly echo—say, for example, The Man with the Iron Mask !—the second line quoted— " There's place and means for every man alive." It is remarked by Mr. Wraxall at starting that the work before us is " the result of many years' random readings and research." He refers, even in the next sentence of his Preface, to the fact of his t from his " common-place book." If so, we have the that, satisfac tion of assuring him and his readers together, according to our estimation of the results of his labours, they have led him to the fabrication of Book. The two anything but a Common-place volumes under notice, inde ed, while superficial, no doubt, in several instances, and unsatisfactorily confused in several others—for interest might vie with many and many a clever romance. They might be described without exaggeration, in truth, as suggestive of a long series of romances as won drous in their character as any related to the Sultan Caliph by the Vizier's daughter, Scheherazade! And yet, all the while, th e narrator is telling the history of men and women and children who have actua lly lived—of events, however wonderful, that have literally taken place ! To afford the reader a general notion at once of the kind of Adyentureri whose careers are here related by Mr. Larcelles Wraxail, e w ill particularise some at least of the heroes and herd - us he has selected. Here, for example, to begin with, is a chapter about those French Pretenders—" The False Dauphins." The latest of them all, however, be'ng omitted by an oversight—namely, the aged French teacher, who died a year or two since, leaving behind him the most plausible tale in regard to his royal ante cedents : this latest of the False Dauphins having breathed his last, it may be remembered, in some obscure street turning out of Tottenham-court road. There are recounted here at in tervals, moreover, the lives and exploits of suppositions Barons and Counts, such as de I Ripperda, de Kalb, de Ruggiero, St. Germain, Axel Fersen, and de Bonneval. Here, those who list may be enthralled over the astounding narra tive of the discovery of the 1 1 V ild Boy, Kaspar Hauser. The annals :of the King of Madagascar are told by Mr. Wraxall in another chapter ; and, in strange contrast to this, also, in another, the daring Life and deplorable Death of Wm. Walker, the last and the most enterprising of all modern Filibusters. Having alluded now, however, to the character of this very singular production, as a whole, we will restrict all our further remarks in its regard to two of the most attractive chapters contained in these volumes—one in the first, re lating to that still inscrutable problem " The Iron Mask"—one in the second, to that most splendidly audacious of all mere adventurers, Cagliostro. It is related of the Great Napoleon, by the way, though Mr. Wraxall makes no mention of the feet, apparently being altogether unaware of it, that that Emperor and Log, besides being for many years the Master of Europe, was Master also of this Secret! The wonder always being to us, in respect to this same mystery of the Iron Mask, that while so many are known to have been cognisant of the real identity of the singular and unfortunate mortal behind it, every individual depository of the secret (puissant though more than one amongst them was) appears to have shrunk in terror from the dread responsibility of divulging it! The Regent Orleans, for example, Kir g Louis XV., and, again, the Emperor and King Napoleon the Great. No marvel, if princes and powers like those remained dumb upon the sub. ject, no marvel, indeed, that the subordinates entrusted with the custody of the Mysterious Cap tive had their lips sealed from first to last. Accord ing to our author, however, the Regent Orleans wrote, once upon a time, as follows—wrote thus for the edification of the Princess de Valois, who divulged the document to Cardinal Richelieu— The unfortunate prince whom I educated, and had under my supervision until toward the end of my life, came into the world on September 5, 1638, at half-past eight o'clock in the evening, during the supper of the king his father, Louis XIII. His now reigning brother (Louis XIV.) was born on the same day at twelve o'clock, during his father's dinner. But while the birth of the future king was cele brated so splendidly and brilliantly, the birth of his brother was most sal, and kept very secret ; for the king, who was informed by the midwife that the queen would be delivered of a second child, allowed no soul in her room beyond the chancellor of France, the midwife, the first chaplain, the queen's confessor, and myself, in order to be witnesses of what was going on, and of what he would do in case of the birth of a second child. It had been prophesied to him that his consort would be delivered of two children. The younger of these twins—marked, we are told, with a mole above his left elbow, a yellow spot on his neck, and a small mole on his right hip—being (it is needless almost to add that this is intended as the inference), " The Man in the Iron Mask." We are somewhat provoked, by the way, to find it here stated quite coolly that the mask, after all,vvas not of iron, but of velvet ! "We shall be told at last"— we well remember the late Sir William Napier ejacu lating these words, with a serio-comic air of indig nation—`` We shall be told at last that Whittington never had a cat !" In spite of the dis tinctness with which the correction we have here specified in regard to the mask not being of iron but of velvet (vide p. 130 of vol. I.), we " don't believe that story" any more than little Paul Dombey did Mrs. Pipchin's apologue about the Mad Bull. As to the attraction in Mr. Wraxall's second volume—the chapter already re ferred to as relating to " IL it, sin gularly interesting throughout, as almost anything having reference to Cagliostro could hardly fail to be, is also in some particulars to our mind singularly unsatisfactory. The birth of Joseph Balsam° at Palermo is stated, as it seems to us (without any sufficient authority), too positively as having oc curred on the Bth of June, 1743. His being the son of a bankrupt bookseller of that same place—as here distinctly intimated by Mr. Wraxall again, without any st.fficient autho rity appears to us to be as little based upon fact as Cagliostro's own preposterous state ment that he owed Lis existence to the loves of an angel and the Princess of Trebizonde. Born, according to Mr. Wraxall, in 1743, and dying, as Cagliostro is believed to have done, in the year 1797 in one of the dungeons of the In quisition in the Castle of St. Angelo—the Grand Caphta as he called himself, Divo Cagliostro as his worshippers named him, Prophet, Magician, Alche ; mist, Rosicrucian, discoverer of the aurunzpotabile, quaffer of the elixir vitce as he affected to be, would ap pear to have livel during little more than half a cen tury,though assuming to have survived, in perpetual youth and in the flush of health and strength unin terruptedly during upwards of one thousand years. Mr. Wraxali's grotesque description of the great impostor's appearance—stout, squinting, brown, short, but " with a splendid head, that might have served an artist as a model to represent the poe t under the power of inspiration"—is (save in that last particular), about as unlike the original, we believe, from all our own researches, in his regard (and they have been not a few) as that coarsely-painted portrait of Cagliostro, which hangs (we wonder if the author has any knowledge of its existence) upon one of the staircases in the grand old palace of Versailles. With all its shortcomings, however, these volumes form a wondrously interest ing repertory of extraordinary adventures : a book of authenticated mysteries, far and away, in its living interest, beyond any of those ghostly pre tences of mystery (in themselves, literally, not worth a rap !) fabricated by the wiles of a Home or by the credulity of a Howitt. Half-Hours with our Sacred Poets. Edited by Alexander Grant. Illustrated by H. S. Marks, pp. 374. Hogg and Sons. Among our Sacred Poets, Mr. Grant, the com piler of this collection, has wisely included some of the greatest of our great writers, whom a narrow minded sectarian editor might have set aside obtusely as profane. Here, in goodly company _ with Southwell, and Donne, and Quarles, e o s, than d Herbert are the far prouder names (some orf in the greatest names in our literature fspeiner,of our history) of Chaucer, Young, Addison, Raleigh, of Milton, Pope , an d Tennyson. m atter of course; Ths gentle Cowper is here de Thompson, Cowley, Wordsowsoartn Isaac Watts, with and. the g ogoodf and gifted Reginald here, too, is the simple-min ded names in the (some of . whose y H o e u b n e say nothing Ptoollok, those hisot Wither rbe like name), of Shirley, of leaves will never noble catalogue. like Uric, 8-eble, and Milman. T o eac h Toplady, M ou se l ec tion, or cluster of selections, Mr. Grant has pre fixed a brief biographical notice. H ow c h arm i ngly these are written for the most part the little memoir o f the martyred priest, Robert Southwell, will, if turned to by the reader, sufficiently well testify. Of the illustrations by Mr. Marks we can say but little in praise. But, apart from these mere acces sories to them, these " Half-hours with our Sacred Poets" demand one closing sentence of praise es a valuable, no less than a very graceful gift-book. 1 lie Flower of Christum Chivalry. By Mrs. W. R. Lloyd. pp. 314. Illustrated by J. D. \Vat __ son. Hogg and Sons. Unlike thebook last noticed in this one particular, the volume whose title we have just given, reveals its value to us much more rapidly than by a perusal of the letterpress•—viz,, by a mere glance through its very clever woodcut illustrations. As to the letterpress itself—to revert for one passing moment to that really subordinate part of the work, though one substantially, of course, constituting the bulk of it—its extrinsic worth may be guessed from the very manner of the autlaorm'sprefatory remarks. " In selecting her bouquet," quoth Madame, speak ing of herself in the third person thus nffectedly— she " has strolled about in the wide historic garden, choosing now, perhaps [she goes on to tell us] for the sake of a rare scent, now of a fair bloom, but more commonly because of some one excellent virtue," and so forth! Furthermore, we read that, "Be lieving there are plots of ground in the world which are worthy of research, other than the field of battle or the champ clog, the author has attempted to show that something worth gathering may be found in many a neglected spot." When it is added that, precisely in this gilliflovver• water fashion, we have related to us the really noble and impressive his tories of Saint Bernard, of the Abbe de l'Epee, and others among the world's great practical philanthro pists, the reader will know precisely what it is in this volume he has to expect. Of the embellishments, however, we can speak really in admiration. They will raise still higher, in the estimation of all who see them, the fast-rising reputation of Mr. Watson among the cleverest of our book illustrators. Lectures on the Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain. A Course of Six Lectures by Professor A. C. Ramsay, F.R.S. Pp. 145. Stanford. It is remarkable how much knowledge there is we might say, compressed, comprised, almost, within the flan . ow compass of these six lec tures. They afford their readers now, as they afforded their bearers originally, neither a restricted nor a superficial survey of the geology and geography of the United Kingdom. They are penned—it is impossible not to have a con sciousness of this at almost every page as we read on—by one who brings to his task as lecturer a long familiarity with the theme on which he discourses. The mere arrangement of that theme as here considered, in other words, the mere distriba tion of it, in portions or sections, through these half dozen lectures,is admirably perspicuous. After a most lucid classification of the Rocks in his introductory Lecture, Professor Ramsay takes into consideration --first, the Physical Structure of Scotland, and after that, as a wider subject, the Physical Structure of England. He then describes very beautifully the distribution of the Miocene and Pliocene Tertiary Strata. Brief though the series is in itself, few though the leaves making up this little volume in which they have been printed in a collected form, none will rise from an attentive perusal of its contents without having had the boundaries of their knowledge extended, or if not extended (we allude here to those already familiar by study with the subject matter of these Lectures), with their previously acquired information, in a manner vivi fied, certainly better systematised. THE PHOENIX PRISONERS. One of the Phoenix prisoners has published the following letter to Sir Robert Peel : " Skibbereen, March 12, 1863. " Sir,—ln December, 1858, I, among others in this county, was imprisoned on a cha rge o f treason felony. Lord Derby and his party had then the direction of Government. Bail was refused for us, and we were kept in gaol until the following assizes, when we had hopes of trial. We were disappointed even in this, for the Government, seeing it could not sustain the charge, postponed our trial until the next assizes. In the commencement of April, 1859, we were offered our liberty if we only pleaded guilty, or if we consented to leave the country. Knowing the falsity of what was sworn against na by Sullivan Goula, we refused to do either. " The Government of which you are a member came into office a few months afterwards, and the propositions were renewed to us, but rejected. The assizes came on in July. We were determined to do anything rather than plead guilty to what was sworn against us. On the first day of the assizes we would listen to no terms but trial. We went to court the second day, with the same intentions. Mr. M'Cirthy Downing and Mr. Neligan urgently recommended us to plead guilty—that it was only a matter of form to get the Crown prosecutors out of a fix—that there would be nothing evermore about the matter, and that there were no funds to employ counsel for the defence. We consented, ou condition that Dan. O'Sullivan, Agreem, would be immediately released. " Ifyou will refer to the Judge's and the Attorney. General's remarks on that occasion, you will see it stated that we were not to be called up for judgv meat unless found guilty of those practices with which we were then charged. Is it not then mon strous to assert that we could be called up for any other offence ? A meeting of sympathy for the struggle of the suffering Poles was organised here in Skibbeieen last week. In this we have differed with the parts of her Majesty's dominions where such sympathy is manifested only in the manner of expressing it. Some of the Phoenix prisoners were naturally supporters of the demonstration. The police, or other authorities, made some official noise about it, and on the appointed day about 200 armed police, beaded by four magistrates, suppressed the procession. I was one of the party myself to tell the magistrates that we had no intention to violate any law, nor were we doing it ; but we would, how ever, disperse if they insisted upon it. We acted as they desired. "This evening Mr. O'Connell, R.M., called upon me and Mr. Moynahan, and informed us we were to to be called up for sentence if there be a repetition of this so called offence of manifesting sympathy with the Pales. Doubting that the Government, in this season of festivity and rejoicing, gave him instrue , tions to this effect, we have asked him to read or show us this agreeable information, but he has re fused to do so, telling us to write to the Castle, and , that we may get a copy of them. " I now respectfully do so, us I told Mr. O'Con nell that I would to-morrow again assist in the same demonstration of sympathy for the Poles if it could be of any service to them, just to prove whether or not such a threat could be carried out. I am anxious to know if he has authority for issuing it. I told him that the present Attorney-Genera l (one (one of our counsel on the occasion referre d could not ha so ignorant of the terms ofour that forbe ttherienagteonuedt. with the Government, or so anxious to . break . treaty, as to be a willing party message. t protest, under a form of to the Stipendiary's " I will not, withou t i r e Governmen t, d.t character submitto in a despotic as you have eona i neg i ou n on Constitutional pt essing fin r wanner with transportation for ex spoken, manly, and E ng li sh your duty as Chief Secretary for respect fully request a suitable reply Polish or Irish politics; and in the discharge of Ireland, I L 3' to what concerns me and Mr. Moynuhan in this l etter.--I remain, sir, respectfully yours, " JER. O'DONOVAN, Rossa." SHIPPING—This Day, (ny MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESND, sand . Arrived, April 7—Lady Gra E y, from d Alia ; orning Eliza, from Vieques. Arrived, April 8-- Wbeatsheaf, from Guernsey; Clio, from Jamaica; Ella, from Somibean; Stephenson, from St. Kitt's. Sailed —Hanover (steamer), for Ostend ; Rainbow (steamer), for Calais. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed—City of Edinburgh, for Glasgow; Cameltopard, for Nassau—both from London; Mary, of Liverpool, from the West, for the North; Coem( politan, of Itamsgate, and John Gray, barque, both from the North, for the Wrest. Sailed—Geelong, for the Cape of Good Hope; Constance, for Shanghai ; with several others westward. The Chancellor of the G r E O he ll eN e g eor u irnac e oh r ne c si c tir n aa t r centimes ues to go on favourably. A great man 3, of the leading nobility and gentry, and also the principal members of the diplomatic corps, called personally or sent to make inquiriesTaltorrdtbse right hen. gentleman's health in the course of yesterday. Sir George Cornewall Lewisnlto‘,‘.evbwasbe entitled generallyiotioeda . it a c c r h e e dited with the authorship of the Letters of Ilistoricus cn International Law, contributed to the lones, and recently ever, that bihysl‘wlersisterer.ilNslmacim.vielrlasnarany dbecill:n. t lt he a , p r p e ea w rs a , r h a o w o - f is d M efe r r . r A mi n fo t h r o a n u y i on T i r h o 0 1 r l o t p w e o 'e , l of the . birthday of the Ray." for his A hAi sdoc magnificent lapnhte. tdason Groot, t the en] anniversary e hn r en a il chef hoafs Frizacv The Luipreo tent the jewel,