The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-05 00:00:00

t LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Days COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE MEIKLAIII. This bankrupt was described as of Bryanstone-square and Waltham-villas, Brompton, and this was a meeting for last examination. The amended statement of accounts by Mr F. B. Smart, shows Dr. to Cr. £8,595 8s ld ; ditto holding security, £1,700; liabilities, £31,940; Cr. by doubtful debts, £100; property in the hands of creditors, £2OO. In addition to these sums, the bankrupt has given bonds to an immense amount. Mr. Chidley, for the assignees, now said that he had to apply for a further adjournment, as the bankrupt had not rendered accounts as directed by the Court, and stated his total inability to do so, but another reason for the adjourn ment was that there was an appeal pending in the House of Lords—it would, therefore, be desirable to adjourn the matter till August, to bee whether the appeal had been heard, and the result, as possibly if it was successful parties would come forward, so that the bankrupt would have ma terials to furnish the accounts. Mr. Brough appeared for creditors to a very largo amount, and supported the application for the adjournment, as some benefit might result, for at present there was not a shilling for the creditors. His Honour said he thought it was a case in which there ought to be an adjournment sine die. Mr. Chidley said the assignees had no desire to put the bankrupt to inconvenience, and leave him open to arrest by a creditor who had not paid his debt. The examination was therefore adjourned. Mr. Chidley then tendered a proof for a Mr. Hargraves, Cleveland square, for £1,250. The proof was tendered on the last occasion, and ordered to stand as a claim to ascer tain the value of three horses held by him as security— viz., Inheritres, Filly by Mountain Deer, and Sister to Horace, but on being sent for training to Mr. Dawson they proved valueless, and were sold for 4 guineas, 17 guineas, and 25 guineas, being much under Mr. Dawson's charges. The proof was admitted for the full amount, and one by Mr. Dawson for the difference on his charges. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE TITCXER. This bankrupt was described as of Old Broad- street, bill broker. The ease has been before the court fora long time, and on the bankrupt applying to pass his last examination and discharge, his Honour considered that the bankrupt bad subjected himself to criminal proceedings, and the bankrupt elected to be tried by this court. The prosecut ing creditors tendered their charges in writing, but subse quently obtained a rule nt - si for leave to amend the charges. Mr Sergeant Atkinson and Mr Brough now showed cause against the rule, and the learned Commissioner read an affi davit, by which it appeared that Messrs. Shoolbred aban doned the prosecution. Mr Griffiths said that other creditors would probably come forward and continue the proceedings. His Honour said that the conduct of the prosecutors almost amounted to a contempt of court. The proceedings throughout had been conducted in a most loose and unsatis factory manner, but all the court could do was to discharge the rule with costs. No day was named for further proceeding. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Much uncertainty has prevailed in the money market all the morning, and as it is known that the Bank of England directors are deliberating upon the position of affairs, it will not occasion much surprise if further discount restrictions are adopted, especially as the authorities are charging 9 per cent. yesterday for accommodation. Pending the decision of the executive, the business in the general money market is very much curtailed, and at the Stock Exchange there is a tendency towards increased depression. About £36,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. A branch in the High.street, Newington, is about to be opened by the London and County Bank. The prospectus has been issued of the Scottish and Universal Finance Bank, capital £1,000,000, in 20,000 shares of £5O each, the first issue to be 1.0,000 shares. The object is to introduce the C: edit Mobilier system into Scotland, and the directors have sue ceed€ d in completing arrangements for the purchase of the business of Messrs. Nathan and Co., of Corn bill, London, bullion and exchange bankers, and also for the transfer, upon equally favourable terms, of the business of M. Monteaux and Sons, Palais Royal, Paris, bullion and exchange ban kers. A nucleus being thus obtained, the direc tors will be enabled at once to commence operations. The company will receive money at call or on de posit, grant loans, make advances on merchandise and dock and other warrants, on title deeds, on con tracts for works, deal in the precious metals, and by means of the Paris branch it is proposed to under. take the shipment of silver to the East via Mar seilles. It will likewise transact business by the issue of small bills and letters of credit for the con venience of travellers and emigrants, and negotiate approved foreign or inland bills and cash coupons, &c. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are, in round figures, as under : 1864. 1863. Great Western North-Wester n South- West ern '•••'••••••• 22,132 21,797 Brighton - Great North ern .... Lancashire and Yorkshi re ... 37,513 32,4‘;6 Bristol and E xeter 6,627 6 North 'Eastern Great E as t ern . .. .. 8 ... 32,826 7 27,694 Great South-W es t ern of Ireland Glasgow and So u th W estern 6 8,637 These returns, w h en compared with those of the same period of last year, exhibit some satisfactory results. On the Great Western there is an in crease of £4,500, on the North Western of £7,839, on the South Western of £335, on the Brighton of £206, on the Midland of £6,944, on the Great 1N orthern of £5,490, on the Lancashire and York shire of £5,027, on the Bristol and Exeter of £55, on the North Eastern of £5,534, on the Great Eastern of £5,132, on the Great Southern and Western of Ireland of £315, and on the Glasgow and South Western of £729. The biddings for £300,000 in bills on India took place yesterday at the Bank of England. The pro portions allotted were—to Calcutta, £133,700; to Bombay, £120,000 ; and to Madras, £46,300. The minimum price was as before—ls. 112 d. oa Cal cutta and Madras, and Is. 11d. on Bombay. The applications within the limits amounted to £85,000. Tenders on Calcutta and Madras at ls. 111 d. will receive about 21 per cent., on Bombay at 2s. Old., about 66 per cent,, and all above these prices in full. It appears that from this date the drawings of the India Council on India, instead of being £700,000 per month, as has recently been the case, will be lialited to £600 , 000 per month. I Two O'CLOCK. ADVANCE IN THE RATE OF DISCOUNT. The principal topic of conversation in City circles is an advance in the minimum rate of discount from 8 to 9 per cent., which the directors, after a careful 'consideration, notified about an hour ago, So im• portant an announcement has naturally occasioned an unusual degree of commotion in monetary and commercial circles; while at the Stock Exchange the depression previously apparent has been consi der-Ably increased. The Gasette returns, which will be published this evening, is expected to show a considerable decline in the reserve of notes and stock of bullion, and a large increase in the other e curities. In the discount market business for the moment is almost suspended, and the joint-stock banks and private firms have not yet announced any alteration in their allowance of interest on deposit accounts. The Dover Castle, from Victoria, has brought 407,40 0, and th e M agdalena, from the Brazils, £12,297 in specie. Th© Funds have receded the latest quotations for Cons o l s being 901 for money, an d 91; for the June set tlement. Numerous sales have been ffected, and the market present s a very disturbed appearance. Tee alterations in the New Threes, Reduced Annuities, and Exchequer Bills, are un important, and most of the Indian descriptions are nominally steady. A general downward movement has taken place in the Foreign Market, and business is dull. Turkish 6 per Cents,, 1862 Consoii , a re 70! 71 ; ditt o ees have deciined f i k, to 50a ; Mexican to 42a i; ',ditto New Loan, I, to 2 1 dis.; Greek, 221 ; Spanish Passive, g , to 338 d ; Portuguese are 481 ; the Confederate Loan has dropped 2i per cent., to 62 64; and the Russian Scrip is I 11 prem. In the Railway Share Market the operations have not been very extensive, but in some few in stances prices have shown a firmer tone. Metro politan have improved £1 to X 2, and Great Eastern, Great Western, and Lancashire and Yorkshire, each s s. North Western, !however, have declined 105. 1 The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive, without any material change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are inactive. Alliance have improved to 621 ; Bank of Queens. land to 191 ; while Imperial have declined to 39 Q ; Oriental to 66 8; and Union of London to NI I; Hudson Bay Company realise 188 ; International Financial, 11 ti ; Crystal Palace stock, 33 ; and London Financial, 26 I. Toe following are the current quotations of some of the principal new projects ;—Provincial Bank ing Corporation, 11 prem. ; International Land Credit, 11, 2i prem. ; Telegraph Construction, lt prem.; Sablouiere Hotel, 14 prem.; ;North Aus tralian 1 1 ,- lt prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOTERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto Account, May 8 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894.... — Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873... .— Annuities, 30 yrs, expire &th J an., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — March. June: Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2/ & 3 per Cent l5 8 4 die Ditto £5OO Ditto £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stk, 41 per Ct. Ditto Account,. INDI kN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 105 per Cent., April 1874 Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1670 Ditto Account — Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 — ' Do Certificates Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent., J an . 1872 .. Ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879 — Ditto Debentures, 4_per Ct., April 1661 Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 Ditto Bonds.Cl,ooo — Ditto under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 . Buenos Avres 6 per Cent — Ditto Account jililian 6 per Cent. — Ditto 41 pet Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 18 , )5 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian 7 per Cent lOll 1 Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account 221 1 1 Ditto Coupons lOl Ditto Account — Guatemala 5 per Cent. .. Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada .. — Ditto 2 per Cent. 3l Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — • Peruvian 41 per Cent .. Ditto Account.... ~ — Ditto 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Ditto 44 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Portuguese 8 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account • • Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 1 Ditto Account Ditto Scrip (1863) £3O paid — pin Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B7 8 Ditto 44 per Cent., 1850 .. 84 Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent — Ditto Account — Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account — Ditto Passive Ditto Account 3ll / Spanish Cert..of Coup not funded — Ditto Account .. 111 1 Swedish, 4 per Cent — Unraish 6 per Cent. 1864 — Ditto Account — Ditto 6 per Cent. IS6S Ditto Account tDitto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. iBO 2 Ditto Account .. 71 70! Ditto £lOO Bonds.. 7Ol Ditto 1863 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Ditto 14 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Lord , u. Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. Belgian 45 per Cent., Ex. 25f Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. Ditto Account 67 i TWO O'CLOCK. Consols Money Ditto Account, June.. BANKRUPTSiCHARGED WITH CONCEALING PRO PERTY. —At the Manchester City Police Court, yes terday, John Taylor and Joseph Hiram Mayoh were charged, upon two informations, with concealing about £4O worth of cheese after making a deed of assignment, and with refusing to give up a cashbook to their trustees. After the case had bean opened by Mr. Higgin, who appeared for the trustees under the deed of assignment, Mr. Edwards, on behalf of the defendants, raised a ques tion as to the jurisdiction of the Court, maintaining that the matter should be adjudicated by the Com missioner in Bankruptcy. Mr. Ellison, however, de cided that the Court had jurisdiction, and the case was proceeded with. It was then shown that in January the defendants were partners in a provision shop in Shude hill, where_the partnership had keen carried on about three months, On the sth or 6th of January the defendants sent 20 cheeses, worth about £4O, to Mr. Ben. Whittaker, pro vision dealer, Every-street, for which they had received no order. On the l lth of January the defendant Taylor called on Mr. Whittaker in the usual way of business, and when asked why he had sent the cheese, he replied that he thought it would suit Mr. Whittaker. Mr. Whittaker told him it would not, and Mr. Taylor promised to send for the cheese to his warehouse. Very shortly afterwards Taylor mat Mr Whittaker in the street, and told him either that he had sold the cheese or that he would try to re-sell it, and he also informed him that he was about to make arrange ments with his creditors. On the 14th January, finding that Taylor did not send for the cheese, Mr Whittaker hired a cart and delivered them at the defendants' warehouse. At about half, past three that afternoon, the defendants exe cuted a deed of assignment, and at about four o'clock the defendant Taylor removed the cheese from his warehouse to an outbuilding described as a coach-house, occupied by Mr W. Bentley, druggist, Shudehill. The cheese was removed there k,y a porter named Bothwell, who stated that, where Taylor paid him for the job, ho told him " he had Pea occasion to say anything to anyone about B."— lir Henry Hargrave and Mr Edwin Whitworth, provision dealers, trustees under the deed, stated that the cheese had not been accounted for to them.—Mr Ellison said it was difficult to know how he could say that an offence had been committed against the Act of Parliament. It was true that the trustees said the cheese had not been accounted for, but was that conclusive ? The beginning of the cheese transaction with Mr Whit taker was perfectly fair and regular, and the delivery of the cheese to Mr Bentley might only be the fulfilment of a contract entered into before the sign ing of the deed.—Mr Higgin said that if any such contract existed the defendants could not fulfil it, because the sign ing of the deed divested them of all their means.—ln reply to Mr Higson, the magistrates' clerk, Mr Higgin said that the trustees had not traced the goods beyond the possession of Mr Bentley, who had not been examined before the Court of Bankruptcy. The defendants had been examined there.—. Mr Ellison : Yes, but you don't bring their evidence into Court. —After consulting with the clerk, Mr Ellison said that though the case was surrounded with many suspicious cir cumstances, it was one of a class that required to be made out upon stronger prime facie grounds than ordinarily induced a magistrate to send a case for trial. He, there fore, did not think it would be of use to send it before a jury. The second cha - ge, of withholding the cash-book, and which was stated to be a weaker case than the other, was not gone into, the council arranging to proceed no further with it till it had been more fully considered. THE BISHO P OF MANCHESTER AND THE VICAR OF ROCHDALE. —The General Purposes Committee of the Rochdale Town Council have submitted to Mr. Davidson, Q.C., a case similar to that submitted a short time since to Mr. Mellish, Q.C. e as to the right of the Vicar of Rochdale, without the consent and concurrence of the Bishop of Manchester, to sell to the Corporation the excepted glebe lands for a public park. We understand the learned counsel has given an opinion to the effect that the right of sale is vested exclusively in the Vioar, and that the Vicar alone can give a legal title to the lands; that the Bishop is altogether an unnecessary party, and and can only object to the alienation of the land on the ground of fraud ou the part of the valuers, or culpable ne glect amounting to constructive fraud, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1864. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A COLLECTOR CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT AND FRAUD TO THE AMOUNT OP £4oo,—Thos. Charles Cuth bert, of 25, Malvern-road, Dalston, in the employ of Messrs. Manley and Marshall, beer merchants, of No. 29, Soho square, as collector, was charged before Mr. Knox with embezzling several sums of money received on account of his employers. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the prosecution, and, in opening the case, said the pro secutors carried on an extensive business as beer merchants in Soho-square, and the prisoner had been in their employ about three months as traveller and collector, and during that time he had ernbeztled money and defrauded them to the amount of £lOO. A part of the system carried on by the prisoner had been to order larger quantities to be sent to the customers than they ordered, and when they stated that they had not ordered so much, he stated that he would send for it, which he did, and then disposed of it for his own benefit, and in other cases he had sent in fictitious • orders for beer. Mr. Knox said the charges against the prisoner would be robbery, fraud, and embezzlement. Mr. Lewis observcd that he should prove the three charges against the prisoner, but that to-day he should confine himself to two cases of embezzlement, and then ask for a remand. Mr. Edward Hall, of the King's Arms, Duke-street, Grosvenor-square, said that in February last he was in debted to Messrs. Manley and Marshall £6 4s. 6d. for beer supplied. At the latter end of March or the beginning of April he paid the prisoner the amount and took his receipt for the same. On the 6th of April he was indebted to the same firm £6 7s 6 and a few days afterwards paid the rri. sorter the amount and took his receipt for it. The receipts produced were the same. _ - Mr. Francis Biarshall, one of the firm, said it was the duty of the prisoner, who was employed by them as collec tor and traveller, to pay over all moneys received by him on his return to the office. The prisoner had never paid over the sums mentioned by Mr. Hall, and stated that he had never received them. Henry Dawson, 301 A, said he heard Mr. Marshall ask the prisoner yesterday whether he had received any ac counts, and he said, " Only one from Mr. Robinson." On Mr. Marshall asking him whether he had not received other sums, ho said he knew ho had been doing wrong, that he had received other sums, and that if Mr. Marshall gave him time he would pay him. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner for a week. ATTEMPTED WATCH ROBBERY IN TILE HAYMARKET.— John Elsham, charged with attempted watch robbery in the Haymarket, was again brought up. Sergeant Druacovich, of the A division, who took the prisoner into custody, stated that since the prisoner was re manded he had ascertained that both addresses given by the prisoner were false. The prisoner was comitted for a month with hard labour SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOII.B. Share i Railways. Paid. Closing Business Price. f done. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat„andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian ....• Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A D o. B till 6nc,p an.has A gets no diN I been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. i Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Junc.l Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western.l Great Eastern, Ord. stk 1 Ditto A stock I Ditto East Anglian st I GreatNorthot Scotland I Great Northern Do A stock Do Bdo .... Gt. S. an•l W. of Ire/an. Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire Loudon and Blackwali Lon., Brlght.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., arid Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So'..th Western Ran., Sher., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle Do I shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Slid, Gt. W. of Ireland Do. i shares Rid Kent - ... Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase i Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle ;North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. stock l Do Scot. Mid. stock I Shrews. and Welchpoo Shropshire Union South Devon 1 ISouth Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun 1 iStaines,Wok.,andWok 1 Stockton & Darlington 1 Do Do New, 138 G Taff Vale I 13.14. st 10 st st 50 20 [ P.13.4 Do B Do C . Ulster Do 8 8i Si 9 83 E 5 1171 1184 6 7 35 37 18 17 68 90 101 106 '7 6 7i 128} 129 i 1341 1351 13u In 91 93 63) d 1(01 1091 64 86 101 103 42 43 11.9.1 110 97 98 53 S 4 110 11l 1291 1301 44 1 63 / 1 1 1 109 , 1091 / I 97 111 101 12 1.0/ 11C0/ P Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland —Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 100 1(2 51 62 24i '5l I.LO 101 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Bhar, 100 Itlantic &St Lawrenc* all 10 60 Sk Bom.,Barodadt.Centlnd 100 102/ 1031 Gu. 5 per cent. . 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. 5hare5......... 71 id I p 201 Buffalo and Laxelluron all 04 61 10 Do. Preference ..... all 81 94 Buffalo,Brant,&Godrici; 100 lOO 77 82 0 p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 77 88 100 Do. do. June 1, 1871 100 77 82 st Clcutta.aS.Eastn.(Lloi, 100 100 102 st Cape Town 47, Dock Serif 100 92 101 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. 100 103 105 stook Last Indian. gu. sp. c 100 103 204 1034 3 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 15 1 p 20 Do. do. H do. .. 15 / p stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 2u 201 194 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 70 72 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 60 62 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. all 60 61 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 51 63 100 Do. 3d Pref, stock all 48 50 100 Do. do. deferred. —.. all 40 ft 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock... all 25 27 251 EI 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 23 Id stock Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c 100 102 103 1021 3 20 Do. New gua. sp. .. 12 4 4 D 121 Do. January, 1862 stook Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 101 103 102 203 Gt. IF. of Canada Shares all 10 10/ 101 Do. New . . ..... 18 10/ 10 ti 100 Do. 6 p.b. '73 with't opt. all 94 95 100 Do. 51 p. o. do. '77-8.... all 84 86 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 4 In stook Madras, guar., 5p.0. .. 100 1014 1021 stock Do. 44 p. o. Extension 100 94 96 stock Dc. 14 d 0........ 100 90 92 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 stock Mclb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds. 100 50 slelb. & ilobson's Bay. all 58 63 100 Do. 7p. C Blortg. Bds. all YO Newßrur,swick,t Canda Class A and B. all S 5 N.lll.C'dad pc lat pf bds 100 82 04 stock Scinde (100 102 103 stock Do. Delhi... d 100 101 102 20 Do. do ' 2 p 4p q , st Do. Punjaub r.c-. all 101 102 101 Do. Do. ........ , ?,p , 130 Stock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) OOO 95 97 94 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SEC U RITIES. Unk.(4ov.op.c.Ja 1377-31 * . 100 103 105 1011 Do. Ap. o. Feb. Aug. 100 102 104 I Do. 6p. 0.31ar.,tz Sept. 100 102 104 Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. lOC 90 02 I Do. 6 Inscribed stock 100 89 91 ,cape G.Hope, O p 0,1873 100 106 108 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 107 109 1074 Do. 1890 100 108 110 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 110 112 'Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 105 107 (Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 108 - !Natal Gov. 6 per cant.. 100 106 108 N.B.Gov.6p.o.Ja.&Jul) 100 102 104 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. V. Gov. 5 p C.,180t 100 99/ 1001 Du. sp. c.,18/1 to ltlf, 100 99 101 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 99 101 991 - 'New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 109 111 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 104 106 Queensland Gcv. 6p. a 100 S. Aus G6p.0.1873.& up.. 100 110 112 Vlo.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 - Do. io 8 u.a An.&Oot. 100 1074 1081 108 74 BRITISH MINES. 2 CamOriun Consol. Gold 1 Cli !Ord Amalgamated ' 30 32 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) 1 1 550 660 East Bassett (Illogan) 30 65 68 East Clogau Gold Ltd East Caradon ...... 2.14.6 30 81 - East Cam Brea.. - E. WI Russel (Tavistk ) 813.0 31 41 Gam.,kSt.Aubyn(Gwen ) 58i 7 9 mat South Tolgus l7s 21 31 'G. Wheal Vor (I.lelstoW 40 34 36 Grenville .. ... 6.16.0 10 101 Hend's-Foot ...... 8.12 86 38 Hingston Downs 4.18.0 31 4 Lady Bertha Margaret (13ny Lelant; c 18 20 —ll arke Valley. 4 ilyndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 21 11 g 6 New Seton l9l 85 95 —• North Downs 2l If 11 N.Wli'l Basset (111ozan 3.1.0 11 21 North Wheal Crotty Ups Consols (.st. Blaze); 2) Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.0.7 41 43 South Caradon(St.Cleer) 1/ 450 470 S. Cara Brea (Illogan) — S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 18.18.9 40 50 Stray Park 30.17.6 31 33 - Lamar Silv.ez Lead Min — - fin Crort 9 18 19 West Basset (Mogan) ll 9 10 W Cr radon (Liskeard) 5 19 21 West Solon Wheal Basset (Illogan) 5* 90 95 Wheal Buller(tedruth) 10 35 40 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLizthott 3.5.8 2 21 Wheal IlaryAnn(2len.) 8 114 121 Wheal oeton 584 1971 2021 Wheal Trelawney (Lis.) 7 2 24 Wheal Union 3.17 2 21 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, Ditto, 6 per cent. pl., 124 Great Western Orig. 4i per cent. pf., 99 8 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 6 per cent., Ditto, £6, 4/ Midland, Leicester and Hitchin 4 per ct., 92 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Ditto 41i per cent., red., 'COI LINES LEASED A] FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, —• Ditto, 5i per cent., 1221 Ditto, 5 Nr cent., 1121 Nottingham and Grantham R. & C., 941 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (Rm.) gua. 7 per cent., 161 Belgian Eastern Junction, 11 San Paulo (lira.), gua. 7 per cent., 111 Ditto (all), 19 West Flanders, (3) FOREIGN MINES. United Mexican Olin), 61 Yudananiutana of S. Australia, lira., 311 BANK& Alliance (Um.), 62 1 21 Anglo Austrian, 61 Austialasia, 74 Bank of ()tam lira., 4 Bank of Queensland (lim), 19i Consolidated Bank, lira., 111 English and Irish, lira., s;l5 European Bank, lira., 13 121 Hindustan, Uhina, and Japan (lira.), 82 3 Imperial Bank (Urn.), 39 Imperial Ottoman, al Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 518 London Joint Stock, 46 London and Northern, lira., 23 London and South African, 27 London and South-Western, 251 Merchant Bank, lint, 21 I National Bank, Ditto,new, 43 New Zealand Bank Corporation. lira., 111 Oriental Bank Corporation. 671 8:6 Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi, lira., 101 11 South Eastern, lira., 41 Standard of British South Africa (limi), 321 Union of London, 561 I DOCKS. St. Katharine, 73 MISCELLANEOUS. City Offices, lim., 6a Commercial Union, Insurance, si I Credit Mobiliir, 9i Crystal Palace, 33 Egyptian Com. and Trading, lim., 41 a Electric Telegraph, 100} Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 9a Hudson's Bay, 1 4 International Financial Society, lira., 111 11 Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour), 7i Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. IS7O, issued 90, 86 Joint Stook Discount, lirn., 7} 7 London Financial Association, lim., 26 Ditto, new, 15} Mercantile Credit Association, Rm., 17 North British and Mercantile Insurance, lim., 201 Nova Scotia Gold and Land, lint, 21 Royal Mail Steam, 6 Smith, Knight, and Co., South Aiiicau Alortgage and Investment, Um., el) 56 67 8k) 90 128 131 14 2 e Pl 77 79 lug Ilf 121 123 39 40 64 66 33 85 90i 9l 103 105 9 364 374 94 10 g, 8 8 ( 165 170 4 5 7 t 3 E p 96 93 THAMES. SirA.Exs IN SEARCH OF PREY.--James Dennett, aged 30, the master of the schooner New Rambler, lying in the City Canal, Poplar, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself. John Knowles, 138 K, said the prisoner was very drunk last night in Limehouse, and rolling about and making a noise. The prisoner had a good watch and chain about him, and he believed a good deal of money. There were a number of prostitutes and thieves about him offering to assist him and to help him along. In a few seconds they would have plundered him of everything valuable about him, and he took him into custody and conveyed him to the station-house. Mr. Partridge—What is the prisoner ? Witness—He is the captain of a ship. • Mr Partridge—What money had he about him? Witness—l don't know—he was not searched. He had a considerable sum, 1 believe, Mr Partridge—Well, prisoner, you are captain of the ship New Rambler, and you were found drunk and incap able of taking care of yourself this morning at half-past 12 o'clock, with a great number of bad characters about you. What have you to say ? _ _ The prisoner—Nothing, nothing ; only I was three sheets in the wind. Mr Partridge—Captains ought to keep sober, and exhibit a good example to those under their command. You are fined a half-crown. Captain Dennitt—Thank you. He paid the fine, and was liberated. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES.—Wheat, 39a 2d ; barley, 308 6d ; oats, 196 4d:; rye, 28s 7d ; beans, 33s 9d ; and peas, 32s Id. THE SIX WEEKS' ,AVERAGES.—Wheat, 39s 10d ; barley, 30s lad; oats, 19s 3d; rye, 28s sd; beans, 33s 10d; peas, 32s 7d, ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 85,512 barley, 22,715; oats, 7,616; rye, 58; beans, 4,270; peas, 581 quarters, METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of English beasts here to-day was only mo derate—of foreign good. Amongst the latter were about 80 from Prussia, in poor condition. For all breeds the demand was in a sluggish state, at barely Monday's cur rency. The extreme price for Scots was 4s 10d per Blbs, We were fairly supplied with sheep, and the mutton trade Was heavy, at 2d per 81bs less money. The top price was 48 10d per Blbs, Lambs moved off slowly, at previons quo tations, viz., from 6s 4d to 7s 4d per Blbs. In calves—the supply of which was moderate—very :Rae was passing, on former terms. Pigs and mulch cows were dull, at late rates. Per 81bs.to s: s. d. a. d. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 Primecrs-wool d 0.4 4 4 6 Secondquality do. 3 10 4 2 Pme.S'thdowndo.4 8 4 10 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Large wee. calves 4 4 5 0 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10 Prime small do 5 2 5 4 eras. & inf. sheep 3 4 3 8 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. 3 10 4 2 Small porkers 4 2 4 6 Lambs....6s 4d to 754 d. Suckling calves, 16s to 22s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 25s each. ink the offal. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts ... ......... 1,060 !Beasts Cows ...... 134 Sheep and lambs .... 920 Sheep and lambs.... 6,120 !Calves .. ...... ...... 220 Calves ......... ... 330 , Pi gs Pigs. 230 MEAT MARKET:. NBWEWTH AND LEADENHALL.—These markets are fairly supplied with meat, and the demand is steady, as follows : Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 4d; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; lamb, 58 8d to 6s 4d ; veal, 48 Od to 4s 8d ; and pork, 38 2d to 4s Sd p er Sibs by the carcase. SOUTHALL, May 4.—Our market was maderately supplied with stock, and an average business doing, as follows: Beef, from 38 Gd to 48 10d ; mutton, 4s Od to 58 Od ; lamo, 68 4d to 7s 2d; veal, 48 6d to 58 Od; and pork, 3e 6d to 4s 6d per 81bs, to sink the offal - - - - _ ROMFORD, May 4 . —Prime stock was in fair request, at full prices, otherwise the trade generally was dull, at our quotations :—Beof, from 3s 4d to 4s 10d ; mutton, 35 10d to 58 Od ; lamb, 6s 4d to 7s 4d ; veal, 4s 6d to 68 2d ; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per £3lbs; suckling calves, 15s to 21s; quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 258; and milch cows, £l6 to £lB 108 each. •••• •• 1 1....... HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. — Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 15s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 14s per load. Trade steady. CUMBERLAND. -- MeEtiow hay, £3 Os to £4l6s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 58 to 14s per load. A moderate demand._ _ WHITECHAYEL. — Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4lss ; clover £4 Os to £5 17s Od ; and straw, £l4s to £l. ]4s per load, Demand inactive. IMFRGVED CAST - IRON.—Cast-iron composed of old and new metal, in certain proportions calculated to give it great power of resistance, acquires a new degree of strength by an addition of 2 per cent. of wolfram, or tungsten. In one of these combinations the increase of the power of resistance to fracture per square centimetre, was 44 kilogrammes with French wolfram. In another, formed of one•third of old English cast-iron and two-thirds of old ordnance, the increase, with German wolfram was 67 kilogrammes per square centimetre. M. Leguen has recently shown that, subjected to a second fusion, the cast-iron containing wolfram is still superior to other cast-iron similarly treated. After this operation, the difference of resistance in favour of the former was 26 kilogs. per square :centimetre ; and German wolfram is superior to French even after a second fusion. A third fusion of the same castiron having been directly effected in a Wilkinson's furnace instead of being done in a crucible, as in the pre ceding cases, the tenacity of wolframed castiron was again greater than that of the common sort treated in the same manner. Hence it may be concluded that the action of wolfram subsists even when the fusion is effected directly in a furnace, and remains after several successive fusions. The wolframed castiron mentioned above, containing frag ments of old ordnance, seems to become stronger at every successive fusion. Another proof of the superiority of wol framed cast-iron over the common sort is, that bars made out of the former do not bend so much as the others under the action of equal weights, whence it may be inferred that the wolframed sort is more elastic and more capable of re sistance. In all cases, therefore, in which it is required to have cast-iron offering great resistance to fracture, the ad dition of a small quantity of wolfram offers an easy means of obtaining it. The wolfram must be pulverised, but need not be reduced. French wolfram must, however, be roasted, in order to drive off the sulphur and arsenic it contains; but German, being purer, need only be reduced to powder ARRIVAL OF GEN. GARIBALDI AT GIBRALTAR.— The following telegram, announcing the arrival of General Garibaldi at Gibraltar, was received from the Duke of Sutherland yesterday. As the Undine left St. Mawes on Thursday last, the voyage has been effected in five days, the time anticipated at the time the vessel left England : " Gibraltar, Tuesday. The yacht Undine arrived here to day, and leaves on Wednesday night for Caprera. All well on board," Arrival of the Duncan Dunbar from Sydney. A telegram from Falmouth announces the arrival of the Duncan Dunbar, Capt. J. B. Swanson, from Sydney. This ship had made the fastest passage of the season. She left Sydney on the 14th February, and was off the Lizard the 4th inst. ; 80 days, The Duncan Dunbar left Sydney on February 14th, and brings the following passengers :—Mrs. Clarke and two children, Mr. and Mrs. G. Thorn ton and servant, Mr. and Mrs. W. Tucker and servant, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Bettington, three children, and servant ; Mr. and Mrs. Selby, 2 children, and servant ; Mr. and Mrs. Price, Masters Tucker (four), Miss Thornton, Misses Tucker (three), Miss Christian, Miss Uobcroft, Miss Moore, Miss Rayner, Mrs. Warland, Mrs. Blatt, Mrs. Rayner, Mrs. Wunsch, Mrs. Atkins and child, Messrs. J. G. Galloway, Christian, G. W. Thorn ton, H. Cadell, George Roberts, J. Blackburn, Major Chisholm, Misses Chisholm (two). Cargo, 3,127 bales 3 packages wool, 391 casks tallow, 2,500 trenails, 1,216 packages copper, 4 hogsheads sweepings, 2 cases tortoiseshell, 14 packages sundries, French Academy of Sciences. —+--- At the last sitting M. Robinet read a paper on a plan of his for purifying the sewers of large cities, and preventing the pestilential exhalations issuing from them. His plan consists in establishing a communication between the sewers and the furnaces of large manufactories burning coal. By this means a draught would be produced, carry ing all the infected air into the fire, where it would be de. composed. At Paris the consumption of coal is about 700 millions of kilogrammes per annum ; and supposing the combustion of the tenth part only of this quantity to be turned to account for producing the draught in question, four millions of cubic metres of pure air would be daily carried through the sewers, being seven times the volumes of air they can contain. M. Guerin-Meneville produced a specimen of a fourth kind of silkworm, the Bombyx Rolel, which he feeds on the leaves of the oak; twenty cocoons of this species having been sent to bim by Captain Hutton from the high table-land of the Himalaya, on the frontiers of Cashmere, The leaves suited to this species are those of the Quercus incana, a kind of oak much re sembling the cork-tree. This new silkworm cannot fail to be acclimatised in the centre and north of France, the climate of which is very similar to that of the Himalaya chain, Its cocoon is larger than the common one, and its silk is of a light grey colour. Dr. Paulet of Plancher-les-Mines, in the Hante-Soane, sent in some statistical remarks on the prevalence of wens in that department, from which it ap pears that the number of persons allicted with such ap pendages is not by any means affected by the nature of the portable water of the country. Thus, at Plancher-les-Mines, where wens are very frequent, and at Belfray, where there are none, the water has precisely the same chemical composi tion, neither containing any traces of iodine. Moreover, the higher we go up the valley, the fewer are the wens we meet with, and at the top of the mountain, there are none. But as the ventilation of valleys is much more imperfect than that of open ground, Dr. Poulet is inclined to attribute the frequency of wens in those parts to this cause. Dr.Velpeau produced a lay-figure, the invention of Dr. Collongues, and so constructed as to enable students to practise auscultation upon it, so as to become acquainted with the various noises of wheezing, murmuring, fremitus, &c., produced in the chest. These different sounds are produced by a combina tion of india-rubber tubes and bellows. SHIPPING-THIS DAY. LONDON, May s.—Wind this day at noon—South. East ; moderate breeze and cloudy. CLYDE, May 4.—Arrived—lndia, from Demerara—En. deavour, from Trinidad—Helena, from Havannah—Eliza, from Bahia. FILMOUTII, May 4.—Arrived—Dunkeld, from Havan. nah, leaky. OFF PLYMOUTH, May 4.—Wind N.W,—Arrived— Dover Castle, from Port Phillip. NEWPORT, May 3.—Wind N.W,—Sailed—Adler, for Bermuda. SWANSEA, May 2.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Georgina Grenfell, from Caldera. PILL, May 4.—Wind W.—Arrived—Carolitz, from Tzinidad de Cuba. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. PLYMOUTH, Thursday, 11 a,m. The Duncan Dunbar, Captain Swanson, 80 days from Sydney, has just passed up Channel outside this port. SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Arrived—Marquis of Bute, from Sunderland. Sailed—Emanuel, for Finland—Phantom and Catherine, for Sunderland—Chester (steamer), for Cardiff. MT MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, May 4 —Wille de Blaye, from Charente— Liverpool, Halson, Arthur Pardeu, and Balissima—all from New York—Glen, from Ghent—Simeon Hardy, from Barbados—Heroine, from Jamaica—Abeona, from Cam peche—John, and Henry—Elizabeth, from Trinidad. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed.—Palante, of Colchester, from the north for the west. HIGHBURY BARN.—Last evening, a dinner, at which about 200 gentlemen sat down, was given in cele bration of the fourth anniversary of the opening of the tavern by Mr. Giovannelli. Mr. Thomas Beard occupied the chair, and proposing " Tbe health of Mr. Giovan nelli," paid a warm nompliment to him for the way he had conducted his establishni?mt, to which Mr. Giovannelli re plied in appropriate terms. 1. 1 110 evening was enlivened with vocal and instrumental music, a). - Id the company separated at a late hour, highly satisfied with their entertainer and entertainment. NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND' SCHOOLS. —A new Roman Catholic church was opes Ned on Tuesday at Turnham-green. It has been built from desl ; ,qns of Messrs. Willson and Nicholl, of Marylebone-road. It ft; a small, handsome building, Gothic in style. There were pre- I sent Cardinal Wiseman and many other ecclesiastics, and a large number of the laity, The sermon was preached by Cardinal Wiseman, who dwelt at considerable length on the claim of the Roman Catholic religion to fixedness of doctrine. He referred to Dr. Colenso's work,:and also to " Essays and Reviews ;" he also spoke in strong terms of condemnation of the attention paid to Garibaldi by Protestant bishops. After the service the cornerstone was laid of the new Roman Catholic schools which are being erected in the same neigh bourhood from designs of Mr. Pugin, There was afterwards a dejeuner, at which Cardinal Wiseman presided. DR. NEWMAN'S APPEAL FOR " FAIR PLAY" from the readers of his contest with Mr. Kingsley. —" Whatever judgment my readers may eventually form of me from these pages, I am confident that they will believe me in what I shall say in the course of them. I have no misgiving at all that they will be ungenerous or harsh with a man who has been so long before the eyes of the world; who has so many to speak of him from personal knowledge ; whose natural impulse it has ever been to speak out; who has ever spoken too much rather than too little ; who would have saved himself many a scrape, if he had been wise enough to hold his tongue; who has ever been fair to the doctrines and arguments of his opponents ; who has never slurred over facts and reasonings which told against himself; who has never given his name or authority to proofs which he thought unsound, or to testimony which he did not think at least plausible; who has never shrunk from confessing a fault when he felt that he had committed one ; who has ever consulted for others more than for him self ; who has given up much that he loved and prized and could have retalned, but that he loved honesty better than name, and truth better than dear friends." THE POSITION OF THE MINISTRY (according to Blackwood).—The Lord Palmerston of to-day is not his former self. Doubtless even the most vigorous capacity must begin to decline when life has overstepped its ordinary limit of four score years. But it is rather to the indirect than to the direct effects of advancing age that we attribute the peculiar differences which the veteran Premier now presents to the Palmerston of former days. A natural but dangerous ambition prompts him to keep office to the last. Were he to fall, he could not look forward to another premiership. His has been the greatest reputation of any English statesman since Sir Robert Peel. Indeed, of late years there has been en enthusiasm for Palmerston such as there was not for Peel. But that enthusiasm is waning. The Cabinet has become wholly discredited. Blunder after blunder, failure after failure, has marked its career. In foreign affairs its power is paralysed by disunion. At the critical juncture, a line of policy which has been followed for months is suddenly abandoned, in consequence of a split in the Cabinet. Eager to remain in power to the last, Lord Palmerston gives way before threats of a secession, which would endanger his Ministry. Rather than resign; he be comes a roi faineant. But the interests of the country suffer from such a course. The moral influence of England is temporarily annihilated; our threats of hostility are disre garded and contemned; and our promises of material assist ance are given only to be broken. At present, England has not a single ally, and her name has become a laughingstock among the great powers. She is a terror to no one, and a danger only to those who trust in her. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The weather has undergone a most important change for the better in the Eastern counties this week. April has passed away almost without rain, and the crops suffered to some extent in consequence. On Sunday the long-desired rain charged clouds, however, made their appearance, and on Sunday evening they began to dischage their contents. On Monday and yesterday light genial spring showers fell at intervals, and the change which has been already wrought upon the face of country is marvellous, the fields and plan tations now displaying in all their exquisite beauty the fresh delicate hues of spring. Keep for stock has long been very scant, but the grasses will speedily become luxriant, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening, The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. BOILER EXPLOSIONS. Mr. FEB RAND brought in a bill with reference to boiler explosions, which was read a first time. STREET MUSIC. Mr. BASS brought in a bill with reference to atm music, which was read a first time. AUSTRIA AND DENMARK. Mr. D. GRIFFITH gave notice that on the 13th ins on the motion for adjournment of the house for the Whit: suntide holidays, he should call attention to the permission which had been given to the Austrian squadron to leave these shores and take up a position favourable for the fur ther prosecution of the war against Denmark without any practical check or supervision by means of the presence of a British naval force. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES INIETRIC SYSTEM) BILL. Mr. EWART moved that the house resolve itself int committee on this bill. Mr. H UMBERST ONE said he did not believe the people of this country were prepared to give up their weights and measures to which they had long been accustomed, and measures bearing foreign names. If the house had just confined itself to a measure for mak;ng improvements in the weights and measures of this country, it would have re ceived:very properly general support. As to the measure now before the house he should say " no" to the proposi tion for going into committee. Mr. ADDERLEY thought great convenience would accrue to the commercial and trading community by the adoption of the metric system, The house had already twice adopted the principles of the bill, and he therefore hoped the measrire.would be aliuwed to go into committee, After a few words from Mr. D. GRIFFITH, the house went into committee on the bill. Clause 1 was agred to. On clause 2, Mr. M, GIBSON said the clause enacted that from and after this bill the metric system shall be legal, and may be used for all purposes of weights and measures. He thoueht that was proceeding too fast, because no means of verifi- cation had yet been introduced into the bill proposed to establish a new national standard. (Hear.) He thought for the present, the hon. gentleman having this bill in charge ought to rest satisfied with going the length o: enacting that no contracts shall be deemed invalid in which the weights and measures therein mentioned referred to the metric system. He did not think that one single retail dealer in the country would go to the expense of providing himself with a set of metric weights and measures which would cost him over £2O, on the chance of a customer coming in and desiring to be served in litres and grams, in- stead of ounces and pounds. (Hear, hear.) Mr. AYRTON was of opinion that steps ought to be taken to disseminate information to the public generally as to the metric system, before a measure of this description was passed into a law. He thought that what he proposed might be done in about six months, After some discussion, Mr. M. GIBSON proposed that a clause should be intro duced into the bill acknowledging contracts made in the metric system ; and said that, in the event of his proposition being agreed to, he would undertake to publish a table of equivalents in an official fcrm from the Board of Trade. Mr. ENVA.RT eventually moved that the Chairman re port progress, on the understanding that the right hon. gentleman (Ur. Gibson) would do all in his power to meet the object of the bill. The motion was agreed to, and the Chairman accordingly reported progress, CHIEF RENTS (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. LONGFIELD moved that the house go into com mittee on this bill, which was merely permissive, the object of it being to facilitate the disposal and purchase of land in Ireland, upon which there were small limited in terests in,the form of chief rents. After a short discussion the motion was agreed to, bu on the first question, viz., that the preamble be postponed, Colonel French moved that the Chairman report progress, The committee divided, when the appeared— For the motion Against it .... Majority —2B The preamble was then postponed, and the consideration of the clauses of the bill was then proceeded with. The first three, after some amendment, were agreed to. Clauses 4,8, and 9 were struck ont. The other clauses were agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be reprinted.j ADMIRALTY LANDS AND WORKS BILL. This bill was read a second time. PROMISSORY NOTES AND BILLS OF EX CHANGE BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. PIER AND HARBOUR ORDERS CONFIRMA TION BILL. Mr. M. GIBSON obtained leave to bring in a bill for confirming certain provisional orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour, 1861, relating to Brighton, Eastbourne, Sandown, Walton on the Naze, Clevedon, Rhyl, Bray, Kircubbin, Walton (Suffolk), Holy wood, Exe Bight, Lytham, Ardglass, Filey, Greenock, Carlingford Lough, Wexford, Torquay, and Oban. COLONIAL GOVERNORS. Mr. B. COCHRANE moved for copy of all correspon dence since 1840 between the Colonial-office and governors of her Majesty's colonies, respecting the granting of pen- alone or superannuation allowances to Governors of Colo. nies,—Ordered. NEW WRIT. A writ was ordered to issus for the election of a member for the borough of Stockport, in the room of Mr. Kershaw, deceased. The house then adjourned. Mr, Murray Dunlop, M,P„ on Garibaldi' s Departure, In answer to a communication sent to Mr. Dun lop, M.P. for Greenock, by Mr. .Tames Beith, one of the Garibaldi Reception Committee there, Mr. Dunlop, in a letter dated "London, April 30, 1864," says:—" Strongly participating in the keen disap pointment universally felt at the sudden and un expected announcement of Garibaldi's intended ture, I also shared the suspicion generally roused that Cileans had been resorted to with a view of in ducing biln to leave Britain. lam now, however, thoroughly satisfied that nosuch view was entertained by the parties made the communication which led to this unhappy result, and that no such object was either wished or contemplated. The proposal made to him was simply that he should-restrict his visits to a more moderate number than that intended, and it was made with the sincere and sole view of saving him from the injurious consequences of his fulfilling the mass of engagements in which the kindness of his disposition and anxiety to gratify the wishes of the people of the country had involved him. No one was prepared for the resolution which he' adopted of abandoning all the visits, and at once leaving the country ; and those who suggested the restriction remonstrated as earnestly against that re solution as those did who viewed it as the successful result of a conspiracy set in motion by foreign influ ence. It was very unfortunate that Garibaldi did not see his way to any middle course ; for I believe that the inhabitants of the towns that would have been disappointed have as much of his own noble spirit of self-abnegation as to have led them to have sacrificed their expected gratification of welcoming him among them—intense though that would have been—rather than either expose his health to in jury or compel him to leave the country without completing his intended visit through it. He felt, however, the greatest repugnance to drawing a line between one set of towns and another, and he was, I doubt not, also moved by the idea that his presence was considered inconvenient under exist ing circumstances. That he should have entertained such an idea was not unnatural, and it was probably encouraged by the circumstance that Mr. Gladstone was rather thoughtlessly drawn into the proceed ings by those friends who wished the General to contract his labours; being yielded to by Mr. Glad stone, I am confident, in his ardent earnestness for the General's health, from the absolute unconscious ness of any purpose that could possibly warrant the suspicion of any similar object. Still the idea being once admitted into Garibaldi's mind, it became, from his great sensitiveness and generous spirit of self-denial, almost a necessity of his nattily that he should shrink from the possibility of his being a burden to those who had lovingly wel corned him. It is to be regretted th at some should h Bought seek to turu his going—as they wouldhave to turn his staying—to same pol i t i c al res ult,ult, and BO desecrate one of the grandes t sights t vilnessed in the tribute o f hi s affec tion our day, of a truly great ma n coming, i n simpli city and sincerity, to p a y a great and free nation, and and sympathy to receiving in return the hearty welcome of their un alloyed and unbounded admiration and love." DANISH CRUISERS.—LUBECK, April 30.—The D an i s h cruisers, acting upon the circular of the Director •General of the Custom-house of tho 13th of April, consider all German ports as hostile, and have refused a great many Schleswig-Holstein vessels coming from Great Britain entrance into this port, Wismar, and other non blockaded German ports daring the last few days. Schles wig•Holstein vessels would therefore do well to avoid Ger man ports in the Baltic for the future. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day, (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CHESTER RACES—Tats DAY. DEE STAND CUP. Moulsey 1 Danaus Macbeth HANDICAP PLATE. Persuasion Dermot Asthore 2 Crytheia Five ran. LATEST BETTING. THE DERBY. 18 to 1 agst Blair Athol (taken) The Advertising Tipsters on the Chester Cup _ __...__ The following paragraphs are selected from the notices of the advertising humbugs which have appeared day by day in the Manchester Guardian. It does not matter to them what horse wins a great race, as they are certain a day or two after to say they sent the winner to their sub.; scribers, telling them at the name time to show the circular containing their glorious success to their friends : " Bottomley's Selections —Chester Cup—Put a little on Accident to win, and Change for a place. One week, 12 stamps; to Derby, 36; season, 12s. 6 d.—Address T. Bot. tomley, Poynton, Stockport. " Chester Cup—l have sent you Change, coupled with. Accident, from 100 to 1, to win and a place; if beaten it will be by 49 or 72; the trial was a very near one.—W. Bull, Levenshulme, Manchester. Future events, terms as usual. " Chester Cup—Back Oldminster and Change to Win and for places, they are the most genuine performers. Terms —reason, 15s. ; to Derby, 58.—Address W. Herdman, B ox 38, Ashton•under-Lyne. " Chester Cup—Hersey filly and Accident are the most dangerous. The one sent at 66 to 1 will give a good account of himself ; the one sent for a place I think is certain to run in the first three. Terms—one week, 13 stamps; to Derby, 42 ; season, 13s.—Address E. W. Whitaker, B 11, Bury, Lancashire. " Chester Cup—Subscribers, you are well on Change, having sent you him ever since the weights appeared. He or Lord Zetland will about win; put a little on the latter for a "situation." Selections for the Great Northern (a, certainty), and Somersetshire Stakes, 13 stamps.—Scrutt.tor, Poet-office, Leeds." THE BISHOP-MAKING PREMIER.—Of the present Bishops, Lord Paluierston has had the nomination of 13 (including Peterborough, which will be filled in a day or two), namely, Canterbury, York, London, Durham l Carlisle, Ely, Gloucester and Bristol, Norwich, Peter.. borough, Ripon, Rochester, and Worcester. The knowledge of Verdi is not great at Odessa. Recently the " Ballo iniMaschera" was announced at the Italian Opera there, and two-thirds of the company arrived in masks and costumes to assist at the masked ball of Verdi. FELICIAN DAVID, THE COMPOSER, is about to produce an opera, the text of which is Shakspeare's " All's Well that Ends Well." THE BOATSWAIN'S WHISTLE.—In our degenerate days, the "pipe," or " call," or " whistle," is attached chiefly, if not exclusively, to the office of the boatswain and his mates; but in the " good old times," the kings, both of England and Scotland, wore the whistle as a symbol of maritime sovereignty. Thus, when James V. made a tour of inspection of his coasts, sending a precept at the end of May, 1530, to Dumbarton, that boats and ships, well victualled, might be sent to the isles to meet him there, he ordered his working goldsmith, Mossman, to convert 41oxs. of gold of the mine into one guhissel, which whistle was at that time the emblem of supreme command in naval affairs. United Service Magazine. " SATisrAcTioN."—Colonel Hooser and his wife were at a ball, and in the course of the evening one General Plugugly so far forgot himself in the absence of the colonel for the purpose of liquoring up, as to salute Mrs. Hoosier in an osculatory manner. She screamed. The intelligence of the outrage was conveyed to Colonel Hoosier, and he, hot from the bar, and redolent of cocktail, rushed into the very midst of a quadrille, crying out" Stop the ball, Thunder and gumbo I stop the ball! General Plugugly has kissed my wife I " There was an awful pause, an ominous lull. The teeth of men were set, the cheeks of women blanched ; and revolvers and bowie knives were uppermost in the minds of all. Shortly, how ever, the voice of Hoosier was once more heard crying, "Musicians, rosin up I The ball may go on agin. Gene ral Plugugly has behaved like a gentleman ; by gum he's loaned me five dollars.—Temple Bar. DESPATCH OF THE AMERICAN MAILS.—SOUTH• AMPTON, May 4.—The Hamburg American Company's steamship Germania, Captain Schwensen, sailed hence this afternoon with the English, French, and German mails for New York, She took out 277 passengers, a very large cargo on freight, and 10,000 f. value in' jewellery from. hence. BLUCHER'S .I".lyE AT WATERLOO.—Oa the morning of the memorable battle of Waterloo, Henneman had just handed his master (Blucher) a lighted pipe, when a cannon-ball struck the ground close by, scat tering earth and gravel in all directions, and causing the white charger on which Blucher was mounted to spring aside—a manceuvro that broke the pipe into a thousand pieces before the owner had time even to lift it to his lips. " Just keep a lighted pipe ready for me; I shall be back in a few moments, after I have driven away the rascally French churls." With these words Blucher gave the com mand, "Forward, boys I" and oft he galloped with his cavalry. Instead, however, of a chase of a few minutes, it was a rapid march of nearly a whole hot summer day, as we all know from history. After the battle was over, Blucher rode back with Wellington to the place where he first got a glimpse of the combating armies, and nearing the spot where Blucher had halted in the morning, they saw to their surprise a solitary man, his head tied with a handkerchief, one arm in a sling, and calmly smoking a pipe! "Donner and Blitz I" cried Blucher. "why, that is my Henneman. How you look, boy; what are you doing here alone ?" "Waiting for your speedy return," was the grumbling answer. " Yau have come at last I I have waited for you here, pipe in mouth, for the whole long day. This is the last pipe in the box. The cursed French have shot away every pipe from my mouth, have ripped the flesh from head, and shattered my arm with their deuced bullets, It is well there is an end to the battle, or you would have been too late even for the last pipe." Say• ing which he handed to Blucher the pipe, to enjoy the re maining fumes of the weed. Wellington, who had listened attentively to the conversation, here remarked to Blucher, "You have just admired the unflinching loyalty and bravery of my Highlanders, what shall I say to this true and devoted soul ?" "But your Highlanders had no pipe to regale themselves with."—Bentley's Magazine. WHIG V. TORY.—The Whig has his dogmas ; the Tory has his traditions; The Whig is a political doctrinaire; the Tory is a political devotee. The Whig believes in the Divine origin of "liberal measures," and is ever ready to cure "the something in the world amiss" by morsels of Parliamentary reform, doled out with the preci sion of a parish overseer; the Tory looks more to the spirit than to the letter of the law, and his confession of faith is rather a sentiment than a creed. From this original diffe rence of constitution many important practical consequences ensue. The Tories, for instance, recruit their ranks from the people ; the Whig families keep the government among themselves, The Tories have been led by plebians—Pitt, Addington, Canning, Peel, Disraeli, are the chiefs they have served ; but the Whigs have consistently held that only a select tribe, a consecrated caste, can lawfully minis terte: before the ark of the constitution. More than 70 years ago, in a letter addressed to Junius, Horne Tooke o°m thanplained to warmly that the Rockingham connection preferred rather t o make matches and to extend the family alliances ability ad d "their a C public.''Even at this day the reproach (if it be reproach, and a pure Whig would probably not consider it such) has not been quite wiped away.—Fraser. RAILWAY ACClDENT. —Yesterday a f ternoon the Hertford branch train left King's-cross at 1 30, and having separated, as ustia l, at Hatfield, p rocee d e d on i ts journey. At Welwyn Junction it ap pears that the points had to be changed to all ow of the passage of the train t 3 Hertford, and as far as could be ascertained the signalman held them properly for a time but not long enough. The t ra in cons' . ste d of an engine, t en d er, and three carriages, and had Pa ssed the junction points in safety; but unfor tunately before the last carriage, containing about 30 per sons, had reached the spot the lever by which the points of m etal are directed was released. The last portion of the tra i n became separated,. and the consequence was that ono of the carriages was upset. Mark Austin, a shoemaker, Mr W. G. Bradshaw and Mr C. Bradshaw, brewers, of Hatfield, and several other persons, are seriously injured. As soon as the accident was notified to the officials Dr. Drage and other medical men were brought to the spot, and rendered every assistance to the sufferers. The officials of the company will institute a strict inquiry into the cause of the accident. MISSING SHIP.—The Atlantic (English bark), Crowell, from Licata for Hamburg, with roue' brimstone, put into Cadiz for repairs, sailed thence on the 13th of November, and has not since been heard of. THE TRUTH AS REGARDS THE FINANCIAL EM. BARRASSMENTS OF THE DUCHESS DE BERRY. — Her liabilities were estimated at four millions and a half, The Count de Chambord has employed three millions of his own capital to meet the debts of his mother. For the re maining million and a half he is said to have accepted, but only by way of loan bearing interest, the offer of money from some faithful friends. The duchess, moreover, gave up all her property to her son when he charged himself with her debts. It principally consists of the Vendramini Palace at Venice, with its collections of pictures, and of the estate of Brunsee. The calculation is that, after the settlement of the liabilities and the realisation a the property, the dry lose will not exceed two millions,