The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-08 00:00:00

AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. .. £20,773.985 • • 94,480 .. 15,141,760 .. 206,732 .. 3,119,537 14,767 • • 7,241,739 • • 63,427 .. 13,122,087 .. 484 872 .. 603,014 • • 18,679 .. 12,151,395 .. 100,000 .. 17,470,207 .. 375,747 .. 8,166,780 .. 106,160 Business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days has been rather inactive. Sugars have barely sustained previous rates. For cocoa and coffee there has been a moderate demand, while tea has remained dull. Rice has been in more request, while saltpetre has declined about I.s. per cwt. In tallow there has been more business negociuted, P.X.C. on the spot being quoted 433., and last three months' delivery 455. 9d. per cwt. Two O'CLOCK. An active demand is reported in the general discount market, and very little business is now transacted under n and 3 per cent., even for the best descriptions of mercantile paper. Owing to the demand on China account the Mexican dollars by the West India packet have been sold at ss. 4d. per or, being ltd. above the price realised for the previous supply. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Renter's telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were 69f. 60c.—heavy. The transactions in the English Stock Market to-day have been limited, speculation in this department being very dull, but the quotations have exhibited firmness. Consols have remained as 931 Z- for money, and 931 t, less the dividend for the 9th prom. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities have declined to 911- 8; Bank Stock has recovered to 2341; and Exchequer Bills are steady at 2s. 6s. prem.; India Stock continues firm at 230 231 ; the 5 per Cent. Loan, at 1091 110 ; and the bi per Cent. Enfaced Paper, at 1151. A general reaction has taken place in the Foreign Market, and prices have nearly all ad vanced. Speculation continues very active in this department. Turkish, 1862, are 711- do., Consolides, have risen to 561 1; Greek Bonds to 321 ; Spanish Passive, to 338 341 ; do., Certi ficates. to 11/ ; Mexican are 374; Portuguese, 491; Russian 931 ; and the Confederate Loan is 8 to 1 prem. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been limited, and prices show in several instances less firmness. Great Westerns and Midlands have declined 59. ; North Eastern (York), 10s.; and Great Northern A Stock, 15s. The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in mo deree demand, at about previous quotations. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares con tinue inactive ; London and South African have improved to 28/, 29. ; B ink of Egypt declined to 291, and Bank of Australasia to 721; Peninsular and Oriental Steam are flit at 761, 77. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities Annuities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — India Stock 231 30 Ditto 5 per Cent . Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent :tato 5f per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 . .. ...__ . Ditto ditto April, 1864 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 Consols for Account, June 9 92t i t Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 per Cent 2 Ditto £5OO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. (Milian 6 per Cent. — Ditto 4i per Cent. Egyptian 7 per Cent 991 Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account 3la 4 i i Ditto Coupons l4k ,i- Italia/2'5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 781 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 37 $ 6 i 7i New Granada..... Ditto 2 per Cent Ditto Deferred 9 i i Ditto Land Warrants (H ec t ares ) 6k Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account Ditto 1862 Ditto Scrip, £35 paid 5l k pm Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 Sardinian S per Cent. Ditto Account .. 88 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account s4f A, Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account .. 88/ i Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account .. Ditto, £lOO Bonds 73} 21 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Venezuela, 3 per C en t .......... _ Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 .... Dividends on the above i . f . a . y . a . b . ............... Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gu Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ****** T nni Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 ** Ditto Account. 7 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Account 921 Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) Good market. 10,000 bales or more. Week's sales, 90,540 bales. 23,160 speculation, 18,780 export. Quotations of fair Orleans, 25; Mobile, 249 ; Upland, 24. Estimated middling Or leans, 224 ; Mobile, 21/ ; Upland, 211,, Stock, 328,200. Surats, 7to 19f. Imports of the week, 23,449. West Virginia will be admitted a State in the American Union on the 12th of June next. "This," says Manhattan, "will force us to make 35 stars on our flag." Will it ? _ --- -- • FOUR LIVES LOST.—TWO CAPTAINS DROWNED. —Yesterday a despatch was forwarded to Lloyd's, from the marine department of the Board of Trade, contain ing the particulars of a lamentable accident which occurred off the port of Tampicl. by the upsetting of a boat and the dr owning of two m as ters of ships lying there and two o f their raen. The desp atch , 26 which is dated Tampico, Marc h stataesudt id signed by her Majesty's consul at that port, Ann, on the 9th of that month the English ship Eliza betharrived o , of Liverpool, and the schooner Blonde, of Jersey, ter off the bar and, the weather preventing them . en (ng the harbour', the masters agreed to go ashore in the afternoon ; Blonde (Captain about three o'clock the master of the their boat to t a Charles Parsons) and two men went in ho Elizabeth Thomas E a m on) . 0 .. Ann, and the master (Captain harlymr. O h app j ro l : l lo n g them, the boat pushed off for the boat and capsiked it, approaching the bar a heavy sea struck the two captains and two throwing them all into the sea. The vivors were picked up 00m e‘t e ra t e . n soon disappeared; the sur mannedm t 934 afterwards by a pilot boat, by eight men fro Th e shore, but they were almost dead from exhaustion. _cre7 o f t h e pilot boat acted nobly throughout. - Up t o the Tampico the bodies of none of t t ime of the mail leaving he Wunfortunate sufferers had e still detained oft the been found; and as both ves se l s port the names of the two seam en could till where their families resided. not be obt a i ne d, or Full benefit of reduced duty obtain ed by pur- • ebseingliorniman's pure Tea; very choice at 8 3s 4d. and d 4 s. " High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (form er l y 4s, ?, is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in ev ery town supply it ill NOW°. ONE Y MARKET The Bank of England return for the week ending Wednesday last shows some rather important fea tures. The bullion has been diminished owing to the withdrawals of sovereigns for transmission to Turkey, and unless the influx of Australian and American gold should be actively resumed a further diminution may be anticipated consequent upon the transmission of coin to the Brazils, 350,000 sove reigns for that purpose having been taken from the establishment yesterday afternoon. The reserve of notes has also been reduced. Up to the period when the statement was compiled the authorities had failed to derive any apparent advantage from the reduction in the rate of discount, as the other secu rities show a further important falling off. Sub• joined is our usual analysis : Active Circulation .. . Decrease .. .. .• Bullion Decrease .. Rest .. Increase .. Public Deposits • • • I Increase .. •• Other Deposits.. .. • • Decrease .. Seven Day and other Bills .. Increase Government Securities Increase Other Securities Decrease .. Notes Unemployed .. Decrease ,HARE MARKETS.---This day. RailwayF. Bir.. Wol., and Str. Val all Blythe and Tyne. iloat.,Sleaf.,andMid.t/o all Bristol and Exeter 100 Caledonian lOO !Cork anti Bandon all Cornwall.. ... A gets no div Do A all Do. B 6 P e •P an • haP all been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast Junc. al Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Junc. t Edinburgh & Glasgow. 1 Glasg. and S. Western. 1! Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st 11 GreatNorthof Scotland 1 Great Northern • 1 Do A stock Do 14 do Gt. S. and W, of Ireland 11 Great Western . ..... . I( Do Str Val gua. stock 1( Lancashire & Yorkshire 1 0 London and Blackwali Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast IC Lon., Chat., and Dover 10 Lon. & North Western 10 Lou. & Scr.th Western 10 Shef„ & Lincoln. 10 Maryport and Carlisle. a] Dot shires.. ...... al Metropolitan a/ Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby 11 Gt. W. of Ireland 8 8! 7 8 83 85 111 115 Do, y shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee 10 Nth. Eastern—Berwici• 10 _ _ Do, G.N. E. purohast 116. Do Lecda Do York Do Carlisle.. North London Do New North Staffordshire a] N. and S. W. Junction al Scottish Central !t Scot N. E., Aber. stow, It Do Scot. Mid. stock 0 Shrews, and Welohpooi a t Shropshire Union 10 t South Deyon lO South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun ttaines,Wok.,andViot f al Stockton & Darlington al Do l. Do New, 1866 1 Taff Vale.. DoE ! Do C Ulster Do 2O Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim lOO Waterford & Kilkenny, 100 West Cornwall ! 100 W. Hartlepool Har.&R lOO West ➢Midland : Oxiord 100 ______ ............ __ Do Newport 100 Do Hereford 100 ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuh Paid. Closing 1 Business Price. I done. BRITISH POS; Kailway, Vtlantio &St Lawrena al Rom.,Barodalz.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per Dent Do. New . . Do. E. Shares... • Belalo and LaKe Huron I Et! Do. Preference ...... al Buffalo,BrantotGodrieb to p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1871 101 )o. do. Jwie 1, 18:1 101 iic:uttaT:43.li 7 ..a - gtn.ii ,l : . )1 1, Dock Scril . 101 Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 10( bast Indian. gu. 5 p. c. 101 Do. do. G Ext..... Do. do. El do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada 10( Do. Ist Prof. Bonds.. al Do. do. deferred...... al. Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. al do deferred..... 3d P. ef. stock .. do. deferred..... Do. 4th Pref. s! o k... al Do. do deferred...... al G IndiaPentn.gua.sp.c. 101 Do. New gua, sp. 0... 1! Do. January, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 10 Gt. W. of Canada Shares al Do. New .. Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. al Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. . al Indian Branch Limited Madras guar.. 5 p. o. Do. 4i p. o. Extension it De. 4. d 0........ 10, Do. Fifth Extension. el b.Corp. Rp.o.Bn w• lot Melb. & Hobson's Bay. al Do. 7p. a Mortg. Bcbt. al Vew Br unswiok a Can& Class A an i B al' ;N.lll.C'dao po let 1 bd s 1( Soinde ......... ( 1 ' Do. Delhi Do. do Do. Punjaub . os 7:: ;°." Do. D. - . •• •• . __,. •1( Do. I ndus.tit Flo.) i, /Lt/IN 1 A L 171 / V bit. , , q , „uwrov. 6 p.c.Ja. S.Jui 1877-S1 . . Do. ti p. c. Feb.. Au 101 Do. if p. c. Mar. & Sept 101 Do. Kp. e. Jan.&July. 101 Do. 5 Inscribed stow, 1W ape G. Hope, 6 p c,187. lot Do.Ap &Oct, 1881 lOt Do. 181. 101 - Do. Jan. & July, 1801.. I 0( reylon, Nov.l*6l, 6 p Abell ItIUS 6 per cent .. to Natal G..v. 6 per cent. 1: ul .0 ago. ti p. c.Ap. &Oc to S.W. Gov. h p 18 10 Do. .5 p. c.,18,i to I*,i 10 Do. do„1888 dcupwth 10' New Zealand 6 p cent. 10i Ncya Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 lOl Queensland Gcv. 6p. c 10( S. Aus G6p.0.1878.8t up 10( Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.(tJuly 10( Do. to 6me An.dzOnt... BRITISH 2 Cambrian Con sol. Gold , 1 'Cliflord Amalgamated-, -- Devon G. Cons. (Tavist. ! 1 East Bassett(lllogan)-1 10 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd.l 5E . East Caradon ..... ... , 2..14 'East Caru Brea... .... 1 3 . 4 - - 'E. WI Russel (Tavistk ' 8.1.6 ,Gam.ttrSt.Aubyn(Gwen )i 57 ;Great South I olgus... 1 l' U. Wheal Vor (llelstonl 4. , Grenville , lierod's-Foot B.l Elingston Downs 4. i 'Lady Bertha ' Nlargaret (tiny Lelant) 0j i Nlarke Valley.. 4 , qyndy Iron Ore (Lim ) 2, Yew Setun .. 1! --North Downs 2 i i.Wh'lßaseet(lllo,ran 2.1 .N . orth Wheal Crofty , Par Consols (R. Blazey, 1 20 Providence (Uny Lelnt. 10. South Caradon(St.Cleer 1: ,S. Carn Brea (Illogan) 5.1 l e.Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 18.1 'Stray Park 2B. 5 'ramar Silv.& Lead Alin 4 ! ' fin Croit IJ West Basset (Illogan) l. W Caradon (Liskeard) 5 : West Seton IWheal Basset (Illogan ; Wheal Buller (Itedruth)l 5 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant), 2.0. WhealLuthott , 2.10. I _ 1 Wheal Mary Ann (Men.): 8 Wheal Seton I 581} _ , :heal TreEawney (Lis )! 7 ___ Wheal Union ' 3.17 ei e 40 42 13 14 92 93 107 109 52 63 47 49 24i 23it 124 125 126 127 134 136 102 104 661 (61 1084 109 78 ;9 118 120 41 42 984 99} 10 , 4 1(41 444 45} ti Li 11 12 127 ;27 ,0 14 lad 96 98 tsoi 514 244 25} 100, 101 57} 671 88 88i 00 115 117 5 1 1 11 111 16 Mt Lll 11i 1e Do 118 120 DO 45 16 )0 98 100 49 50 32 33 92 93 68 70 98 100 11 7 8 11 37 38 [5 9 10 8 7 7 10 153 156 8 5 i 3} p 154 156 28 30 45 46 38 4) 98 100 ESSIONS. Closing nl.l Price. 00 1(8 168 2 1 5 / l li p i p `I 4/ 5 7 8 )0 1(8 109 0 1091 110, 10 109 110' 1091 110 5 li 5 1 lip! )0 19} 20 11 62 0 d 15 60 .11 53 66 42 46 1 35 40 ,1 30 33 11 2: 25 11 20 22 10 IG9i 114 12 1 2 I 4 11 lfR 107 108 11i 11, [8 oi 81 11 99 101 11 89 2 ; 11p 00 107 1118 )0 101 103 )0 97 e 9 [1 47 49 11 3 5 LOO £0 83 ono If 9 1I) 100 107 108 2 4 tP It 1} CO '. 7 1( 0 102 I , 4 il6i ti )0 1, 3 6 ,03 i( 6 96 97 10 94 96 )0 110 112 )0 111 113 10 1111 113 )0 1114 116 'll2 114 )0 I tub 110 )u ,v 5 Is 7 Xi 1021 )0 1024. 1034 )0 1021 10:to ;0 (12 106 107 :2 114 112 114 110 112 1102 1111 I'INES. I id 20 22 510 520 115 117 4 t d dl p si 81 Si 4 11 13 Is 5 54 0 64 7 L 6. 51 61 12 47 19 i 7.0 24 3 ),6 4 I k 30 3.0 74 8 32 1 d 91 120 130 21 21 17 . 0 44 4 4 6 4 5 .6.7 It s 4 5 395 405 15. f, 85 PO L 9. 35 87 2ui 21i 12 13 r 29 31 250 260 (5 70 i 50 55 52 15 1 5 6 184 60 270 11i 176 46 6 PREFERENCE SHARES. 881 / North British 5 per cent., 110 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, (tc., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., 101 LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. London and 44 per Ce 924 Nottingham and Chatham Grantham R. n & t., C., 95 Wilts and Somerset, 52 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 84 Bahia and San Francisco (Um.) gua. 7 per cent., 204 Great Luxembourg, 144 Royal Swedish, Sambre and Meuse, 104 Sambre and Meuse, 54 per cent. pf., 9; FOREIGN MINES. Don Pedro, Nor h Del Rey, 1 East del Rey (lim.), 1} Port Philip, 18 United Mexican (11m.), JOINT-STOCK RANKS, Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (11m.), 311 1 Anglo Portuguese (lim.), 81 1 Australasia, 72f Bank of Egypt, 291 Bank of Que,nslaud (am), 6i Bank of Wales, aft British North American, 50 nni Chartered g„gi ihhc 0 1 d 3: I n ilcrhi k i i: of India, i(lil Australia, and China, 26 61 Llmonpderiona! th)t.toAnivarenins, . 2 : ,: m l s u ) ji , Australian a a l n l i a (Jim.),n C Chartered, I e 3i r e c i l , 221 Imperial Bank (li ) and $. Plate (lim.), 211 L Lo o n ud do on n aanndd IsTSOurtthhAiniil.B4calinll4).24B3 1 9 8) sLondontandar Standard and t B w r l e t s i West a h 8 nthe r. 7 Africa (limi), 191 3I4SaCELLANEODS. Union of London, —issued 90, 281 Berlin Water Works, 8/ r Palace , ip g e a t e o 3 n n s t i . C B a o n n a d l s C r a d v . o u lB r 7 ) 0 , C u ry al s ia ta n l :jock Discount, 4 t 1 Madras Irrigation and Canal, 3/ Oriental Gas (Urn.), 1) 1 ' N jo a Di t n l i o ttt nal Discount Company (lim.), 91 Peninsula and 0. iental Steam, 763 7 O r iental Inland Steam (Jim.), 61 6 S co tti s h Australian Investment, lim., 140 RACING FIXTU. Chester 6 Bath Harpenden l5 19 Epsom Ascot 1 02 Newton Hampton ..10 Odiham 16 Bibury Club l7 Ju RES FOR 1863. Radcliffe 25 Manchester 27 I Marlborough 29 Worcester Summer 2 Newmarket July 7 Liverpool ..13 Abingdon 14 Hungerford l6 FOUtOiraCt 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 ttttt 16 'NE. Beverley. l7 Stockbridge lB 1 Chelmsford 23 Newcastle-on -Tyne 23 Carlisle TLY. Stamford .............. 16 Winchester ............ 21 Nottingham ............ 21 Cambridge ............ 21 50uthampt0n............ 22 CtOodWeoCl ttytooff24 Shure' 13.14. '9.184 12.10 Shan 100 atk 20 20i 10 100 1 100 100 stock stock stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock stook 204 203 100 100 4tock stock stock 4 tock slot ( . St{ Ile/ I I 0 13a 32; XII 107 i 103 104 it 111 1 lob iii SPORTING I: CHESTER RACES-THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. SCRATCIiINGS—May 1, at 8 15 a.m., Automaton, out of tho Derby; at 9 a.m. Creole, out of Chester engagements; at 12 45 p.m. Ernest, out of Chester engagements. May 2, at 9 a.m. Lord Arthur, out of Chester engagements; Trust, out of Chesterfield Handicap, and Westminster Plate, Chester; Miss Livingstone, Sybil, and Coimbra, out of Chester engagements ; Village Maid, out of all engagements ; Dalesman, Ghillie, Voluptas, and Canzo nette, out of Chester Cup; at 12 32 p.m. Piccador, out of Stewards' Cup, Chester; Zapateado and Skipjack, out of Derby. May 4, at 9 a.m. Catch'em Alive, Dualla, Emily di Lona, and Glance colt, out of Chester Cup; Mrs. Hay don colt, out of Derby and St. Leger; Meanwood, out of County Members' Plate, Bath ; at 1 15 p.m. all Mr. Bryan's horses, out of Chester engagements. May 5, at 215 p.m. Anfield, out of Chester Cup. 661 1071, 791 f 1181 LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before the Lord Chief Justi3e and Justices Crompton, Blackburn, and Mellor.) COL. DICKSON V. GEN. PEEL AND OTHERS. The Attorney-General said he appeared to show cause against a rule obtained by Mr. Coleridge, on the part of the plaintiff, agast the defendan s, Gen. Peel, Lord Comber mere, and the Earl of Wilton, as to certain interrogatories which it was sought to compel Gen. Peel to answer. The learned gentleman said, in the year 1858, the plaintiff was lieutenant-colonel of the Tower Hamlets Militia, and the defendant was then Secretary at War. In that year certain complaints were made against Colonel Dickson to General Peel, and as the regiment had been dis embodied more than one year, according to the Mutiny Act, no court-martial could be held, but General Peel directed a court of inquiry to assemble, and in obedience to the finding of the court, Colot.el Dickson was dismissed her Majesty's service. He then brought the present action which had been pending for some time against the three defendants charging them with conspiracy, or with that which amounted to it, as he asserted it was in consequence of the malicious representations made to her Majesty by the three defendants, that he had been dismissed the service, Ile case had long been ripe for hearing when an application was made on the part of the plaintiff, at Judges' chambers, to put certain interrogatories to General Peel with a view of eliciting certain infor mation, The questions in all amounted to seventeen, but some of them were struck out by the learned judge, and a rule had been obtained to show cause why questions 11, 13, and 14 should not be restored. He contended that General Peel was altogether justified in refusing to answer questions, because the plaintiff would elicit quite sufficient information by those interrogatories which had been allowed to stand by the learned judge to enable him to go on with his case. 99i I The Attorney-General was proceeding. 981 , 1031 4f lli i la q 7 li 1001 bse a 91i i COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE PEPPER. This bankrupt was an actuary, and came before the Court with heavy liabilities in connection with public com panies, in one of which the Life Assurance Treasury for £28,000, that company being under proceedings for wind ing up under the Court of Chancery. The bankrupt obtained his order for discharge. IN RE This was an application for release from custody. His Honour said that on referring to the Copy Causes (a list showing the cause of the debtors' detention), there was one for contempt of Court in not paying a large sum of money into the Court of Chancery, whereupon he was taken under attachment. His Honour said it was a case in which he could not in. terfere to relieve the bankrupt. Mr. Sargood said that Mr. Commissioner Holroyd had held that an attachment merely for the non-payment of money was a mere debt, and in the absence of any other allegation of contempt he granted the release. His Honour said that every case had its peculiar facts. The court had a discretionary power, and in this case he would exercise it by refusing the application, but the bank rupt, if advised to do so, might appeal. :Before Mr. CommissionerHolroyd and Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.) IN RE ALFRED GURNEY. This bankrupt, described as of Upper-street, Islington, wine and spirit merchant, came up and passed his exami nation on accounts by Messrs. Hart Brothers and Hayles. The debts, unsecured creditors, amount to X 17,383; to ditto holding security, £19,287. Cr., good debts. £991; pro rerty, £1,275; other in►erests, £4.50; property in hands of creditors, £19,915; deficiexcy, £14,039. THE LONDON AND PROVINCIAL DISCOUNT COMPANY, A pro forma dividend meeliag was heid today, and a few proofs admitted. The debts are stated at £7,000, assets £1,600. AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—An inquiry was held on Wednesday, at the Fulham. bridge Tavern, by Mr. James Bird, coroner for West Middlesex, respect ing the death of a child, the daughter of a medical 1,-cturer, named Rowbotham. Mr. Rowbotham was examined, and stated that, though a member of the medical profession, he was not in practice; he had for some time travelle,. and lectured. The deceased child was his, and aged two years and five months. She was a delicate child from her birth, and he had administered medicine from time to time, and about three months ago the child had a tall, and became gradually worse. He still treated her, and did not then send for any medical man. On the 28th ultimo he sent for Mr. Fyfe, of Brompton, who at tended her; but she died two days afterwards. Mr Francis Goderich, registered surgeon, of Onslow-square who had, by direction of the coroner, made a post-mortem examination, depo.ed that the child had died from serous effusion of the brain, which was a purely natural cause of death. It appeared that Mr. Rowbotham had given a cer•• zificate as to the cause of death, Mr. Fyfe having declined to do so, on which account the inquiry was considered necessary. The relatives of the child, it was explained, be lieved that it had been ill-treated, and threatened to bring the matter before a court of law. The coroner told Mr. Rowbotham that if the child had been buried upon the faith of the certificate given by him, he being a non-registered practitioner, it would have been necessary for the body to be exhumed. The inquiry then terminated. THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY.—I wonder how often the ensuing conversation has taken place, word for word, during the last twelve months? "Lord Duodreary —oh yes, delightful, is it not ?" "Yes, capital —very amusing." " I wonder what he's like off the stage. Did you ever see him ?" "Yes. I met him once at dinner." " Yes ? How very nice. And what is he like ?" "Oh, well, you know, he's a quiet, gentleman-like man." "Really. How very delightful. I'd give anything to see him. They say that acting the part so often has quite made him stammer." " Oh no, not at all. You wouldn't know he had ever acted the part. He doesn't look the least like the character," &c. Can anything be more monotonous, again, than the conversation of that wonderful class of semi. dip lomatic wiseacres who get together at conversational clubs and other places of male resort? The man who knows for certain that on that particular question Government must go out—there is no help for it ; he, again, who "has it from a source that he musn't mention, but wnich leaves no doubt of the correctness cf the report, that Pilgrimstone was sent for in the middle of the night to Windsor in con sequence of the expressions let fall by the Secretary for Peace in the house, the night before last, and that on his return a cabinet council was called to consider," &c. And is it not remarkable that these same political prophets in no wise lose caste or fall in the estimaven of those who listen to them, in consequence of the failure of their predictions? When one of these individuals, for in -taut, announces that a certain noble lora is going out of office on a certain question, and when he noble lord does not go out on that question or any other, one would suppose that this gentleman's next prophecy would be generally disregarded. Not in the slightest degree. Oh, Society ! what sacrifices do peopl , make to thee; sacrifices of health, of comtort, of money, f sleep, of digestion of temper, of inclination. And all for what? Apparently that they may have the opportunity of stand ing upon a landing place, and asking Mrs. Worldly Wise man whether she has seen The Duke's Motto, and what she thinks of it—which, after all, does not matter much—or whether she has attended Professor Pepper's lecture at the Polytechnic, and what she thinks of that—which, if pos sible, matters still less. They get, too, the chance of ex changing defiant stares with several gentlemen who are possessed of a good command of eye, whom tt ey know per fectly well, and who know them perfectly well, but who are as determined as they ara, not to bob first. And these pas times indulged in to the full, and a due amount of iced coffee swallowed, they are at liberty, being very hot, to cool themselves by attending Mrs. Worldly Wiseman to her car riage, bare-headed, with a keen north-easter blowing into the hall, and then, at last, to depart. The next morninre their brains feel as if they had been boiled, and their eyes as if they had been roasted, their legs ache, they have a cold in the head, and rheumatism in the tendon Achilles.- 44 the Year Round. THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE.—NEW YORK, April 25,—The British prize steamer Gertrude, of Lon• don, from Nassau, New Providence, arrived at this port yesterday. She was captured on the 16th inst , off Har bour Island, by the United States gunboat Vanderbilt, tafter a chase of several hours. She was bound to Charles on, South Carolina, and on arriving off that port, and find ing it so closely blockaded, was on her return to Nassau when captured. Her cargo consists of gunpowder and military stores, Liverpool, May 7.—The Pet, which left this port on the 10th of January, has successfully run the blockade of Wilmington, North Carolina, arriving there on the 16th ult. She left Nassau in company with the steamer Flora, keeping company during the passage, and running the blockade together. The Flora is the screw steamer with double screws whose trial trips on the Thames some months ago were so much spoken of by scientific men This is theWilmi first time the Pet has succe, d e d i n ruuning the blockade, ngton being tried after an unsuccessful attempt to enter charloatou, Business done 124 i 126 k St 5 1091 i 6 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1863. E.--This Day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. PARISH PROSECUTION OF NOTORIOUS BROTHEL KEEFERS.—Ainie Jones, a foreigner, and Emily Jones, alias Mason, were charged before Mr. Mansfield with keep ing a brothel at No. 24, Queen-street, Golden•square. Mr. Allen, of Carlisle -street, prosecuted on behalf of the parish authorities of St. James's. Sergeant Appleton, 26 C, having identified the prisoners as the keepers of the place, and as the persons named in the warrant upon which he apprehended them, Mr. Mansfield committed them to the sessions on bail. The prisoners, it appears, kept the lower part of the house, which they converted into a brothel, the visitors to it being principally very young girls, many of them mere children, and those so much complained of as frequenting Leicester•square. The male prisoner has been frequently cautioned both by the police and the inhabitants, but bid delance to them. In consequence of the exertions of the parish authorities Queen-street, new named Denman-street, has almost entirely been swept of the brothel l►eepers, who formerly occupied most of the houses in the street. AN INGENIOUS MODE OF DOG STEALING.—COMMIT TAL.—Edward Wilmot, a lad from the neighbourhood of Cowcross, was charged before Mr. Mansfield with stealing a dog of the value of £6, the property of a gentleman named Wilson, residing at 18, Sloane -street, Chelsea. From the evidence of Mr. George Scott, of Devonshire Cottage, Chelsea, it appeared th , t on the previous afternoon he was in Hyde -park and saw the prisoner crave his pocket handkerchief to a dog, and then roll up the handkerchief into a ball and roll it along the ground. The dog ran after ' the ball, and the prisoner then snatched it up, put it under his arm, and walked off with it; and on being followed by I witness and a constable to Knightsbridge, he threw the dog behind a cart. dog was his p roperty, Mr. James Wil son, 18, Sloane-street, Chelk ea, said the and of the value of 46. He missed the dog, and, being s p o k en to b 3 t h e l as t w i tness, h e went with him and gave the prisoner into custody. Mr. Mansfield committed the prisoner for six months with hard labour. THAMES. THE SAILOR AND THE CRIMP.—AN EXPENSIVE PIPE LlQHT.—Francisco Pignatilli, who has been settled in this country for many years, and has frequently acted as inter preter at this court, appeared before Mr. Partridge, to answer a summons taken out under 236th clause of the " Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," and which charged him with unlawfully detaining £ll 10s., the monies of an Aus trian seaman, named John SaLditch, who had been car penter on board a British registered ship. Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, appeared for the prosecution, and said that Sabditch was paid off at the Sailors' Home, in Well-street, on the 17th of April, and then received £3B, of which he gave £35 in Bank of England notes to Pignatilli, in whose house he was lodging in Strathmore -terrace, Shadwell. The odd £3 was spent the same day by the sailor on a cruise among the grog -shops and loose women in Ratcliff-highway and Shadwell. The sum of £lB ss. was paid back by the defendant, and there was a charge made by him of Ss. for board and lodging. The out fitter had the largest share of the sailor's money There was still a balance due to the sailor of £ll 10s., which the defendant promised to pay in 15 days, There was also a £5 note unaccounted for, Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor, in reply to the c h arge , admitted that Pignatilli owed the sailor £ll 10s., but the case was out of the magistrate's jurisdiction, because the Aust-ian had treated the matter as a debt and accepted an 1.0 U. for the amount. An attorney had also sent the usual " lawyer's letter" demanding payment of the money. With lespect to the £5 note spoken of, the sailor had ignited it at a gas burner for the purp ose o f li g h t i ng hi s pipe, and did not discover his mietake till the note was half consumed. Pignatelli had accompanied the sailor to the Bank of England for the purpose of obtaining a new note for the old one, but was unsuccessful, because the numbers of the old note were burnt out. Mr. Stoddart—Making pipe light s of bank notes is quite as extravagant as the practice of man-of-war's men in the prise -money days making bank-note sandwiches, and eating them between bread and butter. Mr. Smith said Bank of Engl an d notes were not so t p h le e n n t r if e u a l d a t m he on i g .o s .u ea . m a e a n fe a ll s aw th a sY used t o b e. M r. Smith " Aprill7, 1863.-1.0. t. Giovanni Sabditch the sum of eleven pounds ten shillings, to be paid within a fortnight. " FRANCESCO PIGNATILLI. "J. WATERS, 47,Wellin;ton-street, Strand, Witness." Mr. Partridge asked whl the money was not paid to the sailor. Mr. Smith said Pignatilli would pay the amount as soon as possible, and put in a letter from an attorney demanding payment of the debt. Sabdit h admitted obtaining a light for his pipe with a £5 note. He wanted his money. _ _ Mr. Stoddart said the 1.0 U. was a shall iw artifice to defraud the sailor of his hard-earnt d wages. This was a moat crud proceeding. In three weeks she sailor had got rid of £3B wth the aid of Fignatelli and others. Mr. Partridge said whatever opinion he might have of this transaction, the acceptance of the 1.0. U. dew ived him of a jurisdiction. Ho could not act under the 236th clause of the Merchant Shipping Act. The sailor would sue the de fendant in the county court. He must dismiss the sum- MOLLS. MARKETS—This Day. MAR K.. LANE. The fresh arrivals of Etglish wheat to this morning's market were moderate, and the condition of the produce was good. The demand was by no means active, either for red or white parcels ; nevertbfiess, Monday's quotations were well supported, and a fair business was transacted. The inquiry for foreign Ivheat was chiefly in retail. Im porters, however, were firma, and all descriptions changed hands at quite previous rates. The show of samples was moderate. Floating cargoes of grain continued firm at extreme currencies. The market was scantily supplied with barley. Both grinding and distilling sorts were in steady request, and prices had an upward tendency. Malt changed hands steadily, at full quotations. A moderately good suppl y of oats, chit fly foreign, was on the stands. Good and fine corn moved off freely, at extreme rates. Inferior produce was a slow 'sale, but was not cheaper. Beans and peas were in limited supply and steady request, at fully previous rates. Barrel flour fully supported previous quotations, and other descriptions ruled firm as to price. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. malt Oats. Flout. 1,940 I 40 2640 60 1,360 1ri5h.......,.. 110 Foreign...... 6,480 30 1 29,970 I 3,350 brls. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat is somewhat more extensive, and the rade rules heavy, on easier terms. Per 81b. by the carcase. edad e dad Inferior beef .. 2 10 3 0 Middling mutton 3 10 4 2 \liddling do. 32 3 6 Prime do .. 44 4 6 Frime larme do. 3 8 3 10 Vaal •• 3 8 4 8 Do. small d 0... 4 0 4 2 Small pork ~ .. 4 2 4 4 Large pork 36 4 0 .amb Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8 May 7, 1863. "On Thursday, 30th April, his Gra,te the Duke of lhautort's hounds got sway with an old wolf, only about 200 yards behind him, and he took them the most brilliant run possible of one hour and 40 minutes, without a check, hardly a hesitation -17 miles by 'he map. Unfortunately they came to a highly-manured field, which smelt so strong at the distance of 200 or 300 yards that they came to a check, and lost their wolf. It was the duke's last day, and ❑e was so much pleased at the fine run that he did not so much regret not killing, though that would have made a brilliant finale perfect. Five Englishmen and five Frenchmen were up at the finish ; and, altogether, as ts run, it was a great success. The duke bad had one very good run of 40 minutes some days back; but the hardness oi Je ground and the intense heat prevented the scent being sufficiently good for the hounds to kill the wolf." Bank of England Return---Yesterday. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 6th day f May, 1863 : MEM DEPARTMENT. otes issued ........X28,940,785 Government Debt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities .. 3.634.”00 Gold Coin & Bullion 14,290,785 Silver Bullion .... £28,940,765' ovrietors' Capi- 428,940,765 t al £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- counts) 7,291,739 Other Deposits 13,122,087 seven Day and other Bills 603,014 £38,639,377 1 NV. EPARTMENT. Government Secu rities (including Dead Weight A nnuity) £12,151,35 Other Securities 17,470 20 Notes Gold and Silver 850,995 Coin £38,639,377 MILLER, Deputy Cashier. GREAT INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE FOR £4OO. The second deposit in the international match for the Championship, between Robert Chambers, of New castle, the present holder of the title, and Richard Green, the Champion of Australia, who seeks to wrest it from him, was made last night at Mr. Pankhurst's, the Bull's Head, Barnes, a large number of pers,ins int erested in these , e o n h , n Mac- with l a r ma tt e rs being drawn together, among Whom Green himself, Harry Salter, George Drewitt , we noticed kinney, John Tagg, and several oth er water sprinkle of gentlemen amateurs, in c l u di ng Messr s . d and Robinson, who represented the north country interest. making £lOO as i de, or half of The deposit was £5O asid e , the stakes down. The n ext d eposit is to be made at Mr. Wilcox's, the White Hart, Barnes, on, the 21st inst, BOROUGH HOP. We continue to have a good consumptive demand fer most kinds of hops, and in some instances a further advance has taken place. Foreign hop-, of which the supply is moderate, participate to a slight extent in the upward move ment in the currency. Mid and East Kents 7os to 1908 per owt. Weald of Knots Sussex , 7os to 126 s Bavarian Belgian American .. 758 to 868 COLONIAL. TEA—The market has r-tnained dull, and prices have exhibited no material alteration common c.ongou is quoted 13d to 144 per lb. quot.-d 47s 6d per cwt. P SuGAu—A very limited business h as b een done in West India, which has barely sustained f ormer rates: other de scriptions have sold slowly at previ ous quotations. In the COFFEE—The dealings have been t o an average extent refined without anmaterial change to record in va l ues. o n market are n o material a l teration can be re orted. RlCE—Th ere has been a more active demand for the in ferior descriptions, chitfly for exportation, and full prices have been paid. e-aton SALTPETRE—The o • s e ave not been ver y exten sive, and a decline of a P bout i ls p cwt. has been established in prices. TALLOW —A firmer tone has been apparent, P.Y.O on the spot being now quoted 435, and operations for last three months delivery are reported at 458 9d per cwt. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Singapore • Aus*.ralia and Mauritius, via SoutTcampton. May 19. via Marseilles May via Southampton. May 19. 14. ,irazil and Cape Verds, by British pachet. June 4 via Marseilles May 14 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena May 29. aw l Ceylon, •Via So uthampton May 19 Falkland Islands June 4. Gibraltar, via Southampton May 11 china, Pena_ng, and via M arseilles May 14. ' Southa India (Bombay), via rupt o , l ...... May 11. via Marseilles . _ ....... May 21. Portuga 1.... India (Calcutta), So ‘lalta, Egypt, and Aden, via. uthampton May 11. _ via Marseilles M a y 14. Newfoundland. ............................. May 13. Oporto and Vigo .. IL S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet .. . May 13. by "U.S. Packet.... b y Canadian p ao k et .M a y 15. 'and W.C. of Africa, Madeira, 1 eneritle May 10. ;ahatnas, via New York .................... June 4. Nlexico .................. ....May ` 9 ' Al Ca plifornia; an arts of We d BXitish st Indies, C°ll4l 'noludi n4 _ 14 1 -g Chili' Peru,' j May 14. 1 ...... t 9,. ATTEMPTE TRANS VIC TS. The annual reports from Bermuda and Gibraltar have been laid before Parliament. At Bermuda the system of administration has been greatly im proved, and with satisfactory resin ms s , but in view of the approaching dissolution of the establishment Governor Ord has reported., briefly, stating, how ever, that the year's ext:erienee has confirmed his opinion of the Practicability of maintaining a prison establishment at Bermuda in equal condition to, and at no greater comparative cost than, a borne prison; and that there are circumstances which, under proper organisation and management, might be made to impress it with a different character in the eyes of the criminal class, so that, while it would have an equal chance of reforming criminals, it ought to have a far greater effect in deterring them from crime. From Gibraltar,to which we sent 150 convicts last year, and received back 152, the Con troller reports favourably. The men have been engaged on drainage and other public works, profit able to the public and advantageous to the convicts by teaching them the means of earning a liveli hood. The number of hours on the public works is limited to eight, but the whole day is devoted either to industrial, moral, or religious training. The quantity of food allowed is described as con siderably less than in the prisons of England, but yet found to maintain the prisoners in good health and condition. It comprises, in the course of the week, for men hard at work, 30 ounces of fresh meat and 10 of salt meat (without bone), 51b, of potatoes, 81Ib. of bread, 7 pints of soup, 7 of cocoa, and 7of tea. Against the judgment of the Con troller, the privilege of smoking tobacco for half an hour, morning and evening, is allowed to men of the very best character in the higher stages of penal servitude. Differences in degree of diet and indul gences are so apportioned as to make a positive and well-defined demarcation between the various classes and stages into which the men are divided according to their conduct. The value of the labour of the convicts averaged in 1862 £3l 14s. 9d. per man, and the net expenses of the establishment £35 13s. 4d. per man. The Comptroller states that the pri eaners are not allowed to suppose that they are en titled to be released on ticket-of- leave, as a matter of course, at the expiration of the prescribed mini. mum period of probation ; he says, on the contrary, that the greatest possible care is taken in selecting for release none but such as have evinced, after some years of watchful observation, such good evidence of amendment as may rationally lead to the hopo that good conduct may be expected to become the rule outside, as it has been inside, the prison walls. The chaplain states that attention to religious duties cannot be rendered in the hope of obtaining a miti gation of punishment, as it is not the practice at Gibraltar to require the chaplain's opinion in re commending prisoners for a ticket-of-leave. ll considers that few, comparatively, manifest a de tided purpose to enter upon a new and better course ; but that the remedial agencies under which the con victs are brought must have a restraining operation upon them. Some there are, he says, without con science and without feeling in regard to Divine or human duties and obligations, and who have been trained and prepared not only to commit crimes and offences, but to believe that it is right to do so whenever they deem it necessary to their present pleasure or profit. The Controller adds that it is difficult to obtain correct information with regard to the conduct of the prisoners who have been dis. charged, but that it is known that many are lead ing honest and respectable lives, both in England and in foreign countries, and some are maintaining themselves and their families in comfort by trades and occupations the knowledge of which they acquired in prison. me, and then I'll leave you.' RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. The chances of a naval war are now the topic of warm discussion. The Governor-General of Fin land in his report speaks of a growing restlessness of the people and of their Scandinavian tendencies, and urges the Government to increase the Russian forces in the Grand Duchy. In the mean time 12 vessels of war, mostly steamers, are being armed. Three vessels ale already cruising, and six more will shortly leave Cronstadt. In a note to the Governor-General of Moscow, the Emperor thanks the capital, which he calls the " dearly beloved city of his birth," for the address conveying the expression of their loyal sentiments. In his rerly to the deputation by whom the ad dress was presented, the Emperor said—" I still have hope that we may avoid a general war. If, however, war should be our destiny, I am convinced we shall knew how to de:end the boundaries of the empire and the countries which are inseparably connected with it." The order of St. Vladimir of the first class has been conferred upon the promoters of the address. A special reward has been instituted and confer red upon al: high officials who co-operated in the emancipation of the serfs. WOLF-HTJNTING IN FRANCE. This experiment, in which the Duke of Beaufort has shown so much enterprise and perseverance, ha s now been brought to a close. His grace h as much reason to be satisfied with the sport he has obtained, and with the warm welcome he has obtained at the hands of our neighbours. His famous pack have proved themselves in every respect worthy of their great fame. The result of the expedition has proved quite successful, inasmuch as it has elicited the fact that the duke's foxhounds would face and kill any thing when called upon. It was no small trial to ask the dogs to encounter so new and strange a quarry as a wolf ; and the duke has every reason to be proud of the ready pluck of his Badminton pack. We have received the following account o the last day's hunt : 'D SUICIDE. On Wednesday evening one of the mo s t appalli ng and desperate attempts at murder and suicide which have been perpetrated in Nottingham for many years past was committed in Narrow-marsh (a low part of the town). A man named John %Vheeldon, a sawyer, purchased two small pistols on Monddy, at the shop of Mr. Woodhouse, pawnbroker, Clum ber-street. About 5 o'clock on Wednesday evening Wheeldon was in Narrow-marsh, and seeing his wife passing, called her. She went to him and ac companied him into the house of a man named Mit chell, where their child was. A conversation took place, characterised by bitterness on both sides, and at its close the woman heard the click of a pistol trigger. She rushed towards her husband to wrest the pistol from his hand or throw up his arm, but before she reached him he fired, and the bullet took effect between the eyes, entering the head. There were three men present, but they either had nut presence of mind, or Wheeldon was too quick for them, and had discharged the pistol before they could prevent him. The woman fell speechless, but soon arose and staggered into the street,where, after having walked a few paces, she would have fallen had not a butcher named Calch caught her in his arms.Wheeldon followed his wife into the street,and walked along until he came opposite to the Wheat sheaf beer-house, in which he lodged. Here he took another pistol out of his pocket, and pointing at his right ear, fired. The ball took effect, and ho fell on the footway. A cab was sent for, and Sergeant Hopkinson, with four constables, came up. The woman was placed in the cab, with a constable in charge, and conveyed to the General Hospi tal. The bullets in both cases remained in. The man sustained a fractured jaw-bone. At about nine o'clock he became speechless, and deaf in one ear ; it is supposed the bullet must have injured the base of the brain. The woman was bleeding profusely, and in her case it is supposed the bullet must have taken a down ward direction and lodged in the neck. The statement made by the unfortunate woman after she was removed to the hospital was to the following effect :—" John Wheeldon is my hus band. We have been living apart about a fort night, when he sold my home up. Between 4d and 5 this (Wednesday) aft e r noon I was going down Narrow-marsh alone, when I heard my husband call me and say ' Come here.' I turned round a n d went with him into Mitchell's house in I:.iarrow marsh. My husband followed into Mitchell's house Mr. Mitchell and two other men were there. My husband said to me, ' God help you, you look a poor creature.' I said 'Yes, and you don't look much better. You're paying 128. a week for your board now, but when you was with me you were not con tented.' Ha said, don't feel contented now. Do you want any money ?' I said, No; you may take it to the Scotobwoman that fetched the warrant for me.' He said, The warrant will do you no harm now. I'll pay any money f or y ou .' H e to ld me to Kiss my child which was then in the room. I kissed my child. Ile said, Will you take the child ?' I said, 'No, I cin't. I can't maintain it. You've taken the bread out of my mouth, or I could have done it ; but if the Lord spares me I will get a living now' He said, ' Yes, my wench, you won;d2 He said, ' Have one glass with I said, ' No, never while I live. You have scandalized me to .he utmost, and I can think of you no more. I will ake a little house, and try to manage the best way I can.' He said, ' You know I won't let you live in chat way.' I said, I will get a protection paper.' I then heard him draw a trigger. Mitchell looked round, and I said, Oh! he's got a pistol.' I ran towards my husband, who shot me on the faca. I fell on the floor, and tried to speak, but could not. I then got up, and ran into the street. I was shortly afterwards taken to the hospital." The man's case is hopeless; the woman also lies in a most dan- ST. PETERSBURG, MAY 2. I gerous state. THE MURDER OF COLONEL KIMBALL We do not knew of an event in the whole history of the war that reveals to the public the abject con dition to which the American press has fallen equally with the recent killing of Lieut.-Colonel Kimball, of the 9th New York. Among the bravest of the brave of the youths who rushed to the defence of our country, decorated with the trophies of 18 contested actions, blameless as a soldier, th 9 idol al his regiment, he is ruthlessly shot down in his own camp while in the performance of a so!dier's duty, and there is not one voice raised to vindicate his conduct or demand atonement for his murder ! Set ting aside the merits of the case, and let them be what they will, how can the press justify its silence on a state of facts that intensely stirred the public and made every heart burn with indignation? The answer is found in the fact that his slayer was a popular Irish general, and those crouching jour na►s, not truly estimating Irish honour and justice. feared the Irish vote. The humiliation inflicts a blush upon the cheek of every citizen, and makes us almost feel as if we were a conquered race. It .eminds us of the tame Saxot,s, who bent content edly beneath the Norman yoke, and lost their coun try because they were no longer worthy of retaining it. Not a word of sympathy or defence for the brave boy who had been in 16 battles! Not an expression of regret for that bold spirit whose flashing sword was the first upon a long causeway, and over the ramparts at Roanoke, and who, incessant in his duty, was the model soldier of the Army of the East. Shame on suck countrymen as have no gentle word for such a countryman as he! The paragraph announcing Col. Kimball's death appeared here on Tuesday. The statement was that he had been shot down by Gen. Corcoran for refusing to let him pass without the countersign. It was a statement to ap peal to the indignation of every journalist, as it did to every citizen ; but no journalist ventured to speak upon the subject. There was nothing said by the press on the next day; on the third a contradic tion of the fact that Colonel Kimball was on picket duty, and an assumption that he therefore had no right to demand the countersign, appeared in a Hartford paper, and presently all our city journals, as it moved by a common motive, gave it a republi cation. The public, however, reasoned the matter for themselves. They knew that an officer was bound to have the countersign, and that it was easier to give it than to sheet the man who asked for it. We believe the Nets of the casewili prove to be that Lieut.- Col. Kimball, who wt,i3 the most vigilant officer in the camp, was going his rounds; or it may be he was voluntarily inspecting the pickets of his regiment. At any rate he was within the limits of his camp, and he found a mounted party late at night passing to the front. He would have been an unworthy sol dier had he not required the countersign ; and . Gen. Corcoran is unfit to be one for not having hieh ;hoe stantly responded with it. The first idea . in the picture of Napoleon being c e ° lby the sen tinel citizen has of military rigour ispiewndeu scathe sentinel ; of Washington beingsto stopp ed by the ; a Frederick the Great being is criminally It is the imperative er who moves about ord is set to be instructed in the in camp after the guar ] dof Kimball • an o d f tb Zo b rc o o o ran for not having it and c s o d o e n u n u t tn y t t n ee o e r f i sh : egavnfneldrisyst the countersig n. ' sol dier desire no statement of latter etemr drew g iving it . We own . . He was surrounded by his but Corcora n If the as disci .editable Kimball was alonaes. well his sword, he did so according to the routine of the challenge, he centre of N his mounted tor C orcor Corcoran h n t d o it sa y i s t absurdh athat i staff, and hhiimentdhsrohneghoadararon2gahnteetoatn'edar pride, we demand that he be held to answer for p it. Ti o te ; d h e e at e O w l such a man as Kimball mu h st not tinned ; and the military go by unques mit it would be unworthy of that would obedience.per no not afraid. and the preyss,obe MurderMessieurs of the army has no nationality, and no people are less likely than the Irish t o s hi e l d a criminal on mere cousi aeration of his birth or station. Unless Corcoran be promptly relieved and tried, we predict that the troops of his envision will he worth nothing to the country.—Wilkes's Sprit of the Age. Mr. Bright, M.P., in writing to the Birmingham town-clerk, says :—" I have not yet seen Mr. Soholefteld, but I have no hesitation in saying that I am opposed to any measure which vests the control of the police force in the hands of the Secretary of State."/ The French Press on the Polish Question. The Russian notes still as..l d subject for coulment to the Paris journals, which with very few excep tions continue to express their diw.atistactioN. The !ford, hovv,ver, faithful to its defence of Russian interests, publishe,. a long article, in which it highly approves of the language ut niece Gut tse-aket/. Our contemporary's observations commence in this manner :—" When, after the manifestations which took place in the French Senate on the subject of ( the affairs of Poland, a report was current that France, England, and Austria had come to an under standing to address to the Russian Government observations tending to place the peace of Poland on durable bases, everyone saw in those preliminaries of a combined diplomatic action the repetition of what took place in 1853 on the subject of the Holy Places, and which led to the Crimean war. Public opinion in Europe was excited ; and whilst some, refusing to believe in the possibility of a war with Russia, insisted on the difficulties which this action of the three Powers was about to create for the Russian Government, others, taking their wishes for realities, argued on those very difficulties to show the impossibility of avoiding such a war. We neither participated in those pusillani mous fears nor in those culpable hopes. Drawing our convictions solely from the clearly avowed sen timents and the wishes of the Russian Government and its nation, equally desirous of putting an end to the constantly renewed embarrassments created for them by Poland, we did not hesitate to declare that, so long as the object should be to loyally seek in common a remedy for an evil of which Russia was the first victim, Europe would find the best dis positions on the part of the Russian nation and Go vernment ; but that if, on the contrary, in order to remedy one evil attempts were made to create a still greater one; if the question were introverted by carry iug it from purely Polish ground into Rus sian ; if, in a word, the pacification of Poland was only understood to be an obligation for Russia to renounce her territorial unity, which has cost her so many sacrifices and so much time to consti tute, in that case Europe would find the Russian nation and the Government equally, united to resist to the last extremity such pretensions. Facts have proved both our affirmations to be cor rect." The writer then enters into an examina tion of the Russian notes, and affirms that the characteristic point to be remarked in them is the desire of Russia to come to an understanding with the other Powers. The article terminates as fol lows :—" The candid and loyal appeal of the Empe ror Alexander so the frankness of the Emperor Na poleon will not, we are convinced, have been made in vain. The Sovereign who has been the liberator ,f so many millions of oppressed men, will be doubtless anxious to justify the confidence placed in him by the Sovereign who is the emancipator of so many millions in serfdom. When the object is the same, there is no difficulty in coming to an un derstanding as to the means. From the exchange of communications prepared under such feelings, the result must be a favourable arrangement, which will not only benefit Poland, but will also facilitate the conclusion of all the other difficulties, the solution of which must secure to Europe that general pacification which all nations impatiently await in order to freely pursue the development of their international relations and the completion of their internal institutions. The Polish question, far from being what those who have endeavoured to envenom it hnve perhaps hoped—a brand of discord between France and Russia—will have been for those two nations a fresh subject of conciliation and of alliance. Such, at least, is the hope and the wish of all those who consider that alliance necessary for the progress of civilisation and for the peace of the world." The Patrie refers to the part of the Russian Notes which attributes the insurrection in Poland to the revolutionary bodies existing in other countries and denies in toto the truth of the assertion : " That accusation," it says, " is not merely un just, we might say that it is culpable. It is so, because ita object is both to deny to Poland her sufferings and her rights, and to deprive her, by an unfounded terror, of the sympathies of all Europe. It is of still greater gravity, if we examine more closely in what terms it is expressed by Prince Gortschakoff. The Russian Government does not simply admit the complicity of the heroic defenders of Poland with the Revolutionary party, Mazzinian or other ; he replies that the conflagration lit up on the bgnks of the Vistula, found abroad, that is to say no doubt in France, in Austria, and England, inexhaustible ailment. We do not know what in terpretation the journals devoted to Russia will give to these words, but as for ourselves we can only look on them as a denunciation to Europe of the great intervening Powers. All the clever ness of the Russian diplomatic language will not succeed in dissimulating this strange interversion of parts. It is no longer Russia who oppresses Poland, but France, Austria, and England who raise that country to revolt ! It is no longer the Polish national insurrection which is a menace to the peace of Europe, but the revolution, which has its seat at Paris, London, and Vienna. Attack then the revolution, therefore, cries the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, and down with the nations which wish to be free! And the day in which the sacrifice of all patriotic aspirations and of all popular rights shall have been consummated in Europe, the Rus sian domination in Poland will no longer be any thing than a generous protectorate, the precious favours of which Muscovite magnanimity willingly extend. We will not defend the policy of the three Powers against such accusations. But let us once more repeat for Poland, never was a cause more foreign to the subversive calculations of the revolu tion than this holy one which during the last half century has produced only heroes and martyrs." The Monde writes even more strongly in the same sense. It says—" The tactics of Prince Gortscha koff would be very adroit if he had to deal with simple and inexperienced adversaries, Instead of keeping himself on the defensive, and merely endea vouring to justify Russia, he accuses the Powers ßoe f via. having favoured the evil, he indicates the _l2 tion as being the sole cause of the insurrectioncouni_ Poland, and he invites those who giv e eels to Russia, to unite with her, on the eon- Crary, to aid her in compressing Poland and in over coming that revolution which c ontinually disturbs onciliator Europe. If all the blame were not on the side of Rus sia, if the Poles did not loudly repudiate thz s un port of the cosmopolite revolutionists, prince r'' rice G oit _ schekoff would have the best of it, an d -p diplomacy must yield to his arguments, b u t ''tll.° P ean the is exactly the contrary of what he advances truth truth is so evident that th e y withstanding their Polite Russian repli not may be taken as a model and c • . es, of a . , The forbearance with Wh' ipieniatic audacity. form, them proves that the ~ leh the Powers of gaining y uav e net abandoned receive serhethin a b oiled all hope hope cannot, as it a - y ne g °t iatien, but that There is, moreoverappears to us, be v , a ery strong. for the polessomewhat - serious lesson end in th e endeavours to R position which Russia -"time No more clearly • one can tell them that the great Revolution is their greatest enetn _ Y . Fortunately, they understand that to be the case ; and the repudiati on o f Mieros lawski sho ws that Poland is not revoluti onary . Th e against Russia, d e f en d a t the same ti me t h e i r religion, their country, and jus tice; they have nothing in common with the ene mies of religion, the destroyers of l natio na lit "es and the despi sers o f t h e most anc i ent and the most uni versally admitt e d r i g ht s . Di p l omat i c delays n will at least have this advantage, that they will perm it Poland to more and more separate her cause from that of the revolution. The successes which the Insurgents every day obtain are better for them, than all negotiations. F.,ussia wishes to haVe for her the fait accompli; if the Poles have it for them, diplomacy will more r e a dily satisfy them." --...................11.11..1 maneirninalvaielent contact r t e hcae two ladies, turning th it ACCIDENT. -- A serious accident octchueryrebdolten Wednesday evening in South Audley-stre et , through the horses in the Earl of Tankerville's carriage beyond the taking fright from some disarrangement of the pole. Th e with all a c n a d ° a b a t in t the corner brougham,oosri n n e i y c r I street h w er e completely over, and breaking the arm of The ladies were rescued with ditlieithy, but 0 c o ac h in an fright sustained no injury. 1011 7 98 7