The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-27 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND COMMXRCIAL INTELLIGENCE CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is more inquiry for money in the general discount market, and 7 per cent. is the minimum quotation in all quarters, even for the best short dated paper. In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon there was a slight upward movement in a few Instances. The Poonah, which left to-day for Bombay, con !eyed £114,205 in specie. The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap pointed Wednesday, the 4th proximo, for a special e ettlemont in the Scrip and fully paid-up Swedish Government Loan; and als) in the shares of the following companies : —Medoc R3iiwoy, Fore-street Warehouse, Smith, Knight, and Company, Finan cial Discount, Credit Foncier of Mauritius, City Offices, and the new shares of the National Bank, all of which are to be marked in the daily list. The following companies are also to have a settle ment on the same day, but are only to be marked in the bi-weekly list, viz, :—London GAS Meter, Maritime Insurance, and Queensland Sheep Invest- The share list of the International Contract Com pany will be closed on Saturday next, the 30th instant. At the meeting of the Standard Bank of British South Africa, today, a dividend at the rate of 10 Per cent. per annum was declared. There was also a meeting of the shareholders of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, at which it was resolved that a distribution be made of L 7 103. per share, free of income tax ; viz., £6 per share out of the balance of profit and loss account, and a bonus of £1 108. per share from the insurance fund, Two o'CLoca. At Paris this morning, according to Renter's telegrams, the Three per Cent. Ren tee were 66f. 70c. The market for the English Funds has continued extremely inactive, and a few sales have led to a decline of 1.16 th per cent. Consols for transfer are 91 1 I, and for the account 911 I. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 891 ; Exchequer Bills, 10 e. to 4s. die. ; India 5 per Cents., 105 1 ; do. 4 per Cents., 991 ; and the Eafaced 31 per Cents., 1121; Bank Stock is 238 240; and East India do., 218 220. In the Foreign Market a slight downward move ment is apparent, and business is very dull. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 715 4 ; do., Con solides, 52k 53 ; Mexican, 451 a ; do., New Scrip, / prem. ; Greek, 24/ 25 ; Spanish Passive, 351 368 7 Portuguese, 49; Venezuela, 571 58; Russian Loan, la 4 prem.; Swedish do., par 1 prem.; Vene zuelan, 14 1 die. ; and the Confederate Stock, 67 1 58/. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been limited, and principally connected with the Preparations in progress for the settlement. Prices, however, have remained without material change. Great Eastern have advanced 10s., Lancashire and Yorkshire 55., and Brighton 5, while South Western have declined 10s., and North Eastern (Berwick), 15e. The Foreign and . Colonial undertakings continue inactive at about previous rates. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in some instances a shade firmer. London and Westminster have improved to 94; Chartered of India, Australia, and China to 391, 401 ; and Alli ance Bank to 63; 64; while City Bank have de clined to 126 ; and Union of London, 58/ ; General Credit realise 9/ ; Hudson Bay Company, 191 i; and London Financial 261 27. Subjoined are the current quotations of some of the principal new projects :—lnternational Con tract Company, 21 pron.; Telegraph Construction, 11 prem. ; International Land Credit, 2134 prem. ; Sabloniere Foreign Hotel, 11 21 prem.; North Aus tralian Company,ll prem.; City Offices, I prem. ; Millwall Iron Works, 21 I prem.; Imperial Bank of China, 2/ 31 prem. ; Humber Iron Works, prem. ; and Thames Iron Works, 21 prem. •••1.......g...• • BRITISH FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols 9l/ / Ditto Account, May 5 — per Cent. Reduced 893 New 3 per Cent B9/ New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873. ........ -- Aunuities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880 Ditto for 30 yrs, ex pire sth April, 1885 Ditto (Red Sea'Telegraph), Aug. 1908 March. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent. 10 4 die Ditto £5OO ........... 10 Ditt o £lOO and ..... ...... 10 Bank England Stk, 41 per Ct. .......... 2391 8 40 unto Account.. INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874.... 220 18 Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1570 . ...... . 1051 5 / nitto Account ..... — Ditto 4 per Cent. 18 88 .............. Do Certificates ................ Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888. 99/ Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 p er Cent Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 —2l Ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879 ll2/ Ditto Debentures 4 . per Ct., April 1861 -- Ditto ditto Aug., 1666 D itto Dondsll,ooo l2 dis Ditto under £1,000.. — FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. ustrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditt o 1859.....••••••..' per Cent ... ..... . Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 — Ditto 1863 zuenos Ayres 6 per Cent 94 Ditto Account Ditto, £lOO Bonds ................. c . 1111-ian 6 per Cent Ditt o 4± pei Cent. •— C olombian 6 per Cent — Danish 6 per Cent. .................... tj 3 per Cent., 1825 — Egyptian New Consolidated, 1 per Cent 'gYP • c t ban 7 per en lOOl 1301 Ditto, Second Issue ..... lOOl 1 creek 6 per Cent., 1824-5, ex -Coupons 241 Ditto Account Ditto Croupous — Ditto Account Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) _ Mexican 3 per Cent . 451 / „ . Ditto Acc0unt..................... Moorish Imperial . per Cent New Granada — Ditto 2 per Cent 291 Ditto Deferred .............••••• •••• Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 4/ per Cent .. 85 Ditt o Account... . Ditto 3 per Cent. (Erribarren) Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account .............. Portuguese • 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account • • Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, 7, '9 ' , 60, 62;3 49 Ditto Account Ditto Scrip (1863) £3O paid • . pm Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St BBl Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 Ditto 5 per Cen t, 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent .. Ditto Account B Panish 3 per Cent ........ Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account Ditto Passive .......... Ditto Account Phnish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account Swedish, 4 per Cent. .. ............ aurkish 6 per Cent. 1854 -Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds 72 11 Ditto 1863 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent Venezuela 3 per Cent. :Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Ditto 1} per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Lond )11, A ustrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 1 0 Florins. z Dutch 4f per Cent., Ex. 25 f •uutch 2} per Cent., Ex. 12 (luil -- Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Account : p leanaontese, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 2 5 f eruvio.n Dollar Bonds, 4f per Ct. Ex. 4s. —. T W 0 O'CLOCK. C 0 ,11 5015 Money Ditto Account . • .. 91f A melancholy accident happened two days ago at Alnieres. A cutter with e,ght persons on board eaPsiz3d opposite the Isle de Nuilly, between the bridges of 9 o urbevoie and Asnieres, and four of the party parished, lt l . qoite of the prompt assistance given by the boatmen who vintlikeened the catastrophe. bbAIE MARKETS This day. ORDINARY SHA: Sharej Railways, 19.1&4 12.10 WOI., and Str. Val. Uly - lhe and Tyne. Bristol mid ixetcr Calc..,lonian Cork and Bandon ICorn wail '1")0D,„„ tithipc.pan.hat , A(A g.rig no di , (been paid to B. & Beliaet Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Gl9s,ow. G iasg, and Greti;E:utern, Ord. :ilk Ditto A stock Ditto East Ang Ilan st GreatNorthol Scotland Great Northern Do A stook 11066t4if•• Do 11 do • Gt. S., an 1 W. of Irelad Groat Western .......• Do Str Val gua. stool Lancashire & Yorkshire London and iitackwai; Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dove! Lon. & North Western' Lon. & Str.th Western Man., Stmt., & Lincoln. Marypprt and Carlisle. Do t shared Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Md. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwiob Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York DO Carlisle North London I Do New :North Staffordshire .. ! N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. B. K, Aber. stool Do Soot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welohpool ,Shropshire Union ; South Devon South Eastern South Wales !S. York. and River Dun! IStaines,Wok.,andWok. 'Stockton & Darlington) Do Do New, 1866 Taff Va1e.......... Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford W eat Cornwall iW. Hartlepool II arAR West Midland --Oxiordi Do Newpor t ! Do Ilereiordi 8 8 Si 9 83 65 118 119 61 7i 35 37 10 17 10t 106 47 47} 6i 7i 471 I len it 133 4 137 i 91 93 65 65 110 im (16 C 8 101 103 42 43 111 111 08 09 54 55 1 . 0 115; 130} 134 100 102 1514 62 24} ',5) 1 1001 101 i 110 111 934 8 115 1301 I ICOI i BRITISH POSSE aallwayb r:antie & St Lawrence ilora.,Barodait.Cent In Gu. 5 per cent De. New . ...... Do. E. Shares... II nfinio and Laxe tluruu Do. rreteronee ! Butalo,llrmit,,tGodricl p. et. lids. Aug. 1,187:i Do. do. Jiiiy 1, 1875 De. do. .Luce 1, 18; Clout ta.4: S. Eastn. ( Li 1., Cape Town Deck Sari Hutu. Bengal gu. 5 p. East Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext (16. 11 do. .. Gland rrunk of Canada Do. Ist :ref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds..l Do. do. deferred......, Do. 3d Pref. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. stook... Do. do. deferred...... GLlndiafeinia.gua.sp.e Do. New ghat. 5 p. c... Do. Jandiry, 1852 .. Gt. South.of Judia(Lim g uaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. ot Canada Share!. Do. New Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. Do. 51 p. o. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. o. Do. 41 p. o. Extension De. 46 d 0........ Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnds. Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. nortg. Bds. INewßrunswiok& Cands Class A and B. po Ist alt bdsl loinde • • Do. Delhi Do. do ••- • r Do. Punj aut ) Do. Do. • - ••• •• Do. Indtrn.St. Flo.) COLCNIAL GOVER , ES AND STOO.S.S. Paid. i Closing Business Price. done. 56 67 84 90 128 131 14 2 6 P 77 79 1U 111 121 123 54 66 33 35 90a 91 103 105 S 9 26} 37i 91 10 t. 8 Si 165 17) 5 7 t 3 4 p 95 93 ,SIONS. -;hart Closing 'aye Paid. Price. Business don , t Lawrcnec all 59 61 it. Cent Ind pi , . 1011 1024 102/ cat— ..... ...... 8 Toe ..axe iiuren all 61 mce all 81 95 t,allodricl , I , 77 82 tug. 1, niy 1, 1175 100 77 88 lullo I, 1814 100 77 82 astn.(l,ll. , 100 ICO 102 Deck Seri, 100 99 101 gu. 5 1). 100 104 105 gu. sp. c. Ice 1031 1(44 1011 G Ext l5 4 I p H do. of Canada Ice 20 201 0. Bonds all 72 14 'erred all 62 63 1. Bonds all 62 6i erred all 51 63 1. stock erred all 40 42 et. stook all 26 2S erred.-- all 23 C 6 .u.gua.sp.c 100 103 104 1031 la. sp. c l2 5 1 1 7, 1862 India(Lim 5 per cent. 100 102 103 ada Sharer all 101 101 is 101 1 0 1 7f with't opt. all 94 95 D. '77-8 all 83 85 h Limited 2 4 •sp. o. Extension 100 95 97 95 100 tO 94 90 Extension. 2 -- p. o. Bnds. 102' son's Bay. all 58 6) .ortg. Bds. all aka Canda iB. all 3 5 31" tt bds 100 82 14 •• (100 102 IC3 • • • 100 102 10! uG 2 p SP t all 101 102 , 4 100 j " , 95 97 I 3OVERNMENT SECURITIES. o.Ja 100 X lO2 104 104 35 'ch.& Aug. 100 101 103 Cana Sept 100 101 103 ran.&July. 10i 69 61 'Wed stock 100 89 91 , p 0,1873 10 0 106 108 a Oct. 1880 100 107 119 189( 100 1( 8 110 1091 uly, 1891.. 100 110 112 1573, 6p c 100 112 114 )er cent .. 100 106 108 per cent.. 130 1(6 108 s.Ja.aJul) 100 102 104 & Oct. 100 6 p 7,.,13m 100 995 1001 100 Bet to 'tit 100 09 10 ) 18 a upwds 10 0 99 100 16 p cent. 100 1 03 ill lov. O p. , 75 lOO 104 106 105 2Cv. 6p. c lOO 1673.& up lOO 110 112 Ja.a.July 100 kn.aoot.. 100 108 109 108 BRITISH MINES. nsol. Gold I 31 1 id Igamated..l - 1 121 t e .(Tavist.;' 1 550 660 551 (Illogan).. 30 65 68 Gold Ltd. 2.14 .0" 301 311 *ea... . 13.4.0 6 1 7 4 1 (Taristk.) 8.9.0 3; 45 )yu(Gwen, 581 7 9 rolgus.... 17e 25 34 r (Ileisten, 40 32 34 6.16. 10 101 10 8.12 A 6 38 mns 4.18.0 34 4 2.8.0 4 ay Lelant 4 18 20 r.. Ore (Urn 2l 14 1 d 191 8.3 95 1/ 14 15 P t 111N,u, 3.1.0 14 24 I Crotty 2.6.9 45 5 •.st. Blazey • Jny Lelnt. 10.6.7 41 43 in(St.Cleer 14 450 470 (Illogan) — n. (Dinar) 18.18.9 40 50 30.17.6 31 33 Lead Min. 18 19 14 9 10 (Liskeard, 5 19 21 471 205 115 (Mogan, 54 871 921 r(ltedrutb; 10 35 40 (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 • tt Ann ;:den ) 8 I 11/ 121 584 200 205 wney (Lie ) 7 22 24 1 3.17 21 2g 'OO stock 4 tet* stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stook • took 100 100 10 stook stook stock 20 stock 50 100 stock stock stook t,tto.blov. ti p.c.Ja &J ul. 1877-14 Do. 6 p. c. Fcb. Do.a p. c. Mar. a Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stock Cape G. Hope, 6p 0,1873 Do.Ap a Oct. 1880 Do. 189( D. Jan. & July, 1891 'Ceylon, N0v.1578, 6 p iMaurittus 6 per cent Natal Gov. 6 per cent , N.13.G0v.6p.c.J a.aJul) j Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oct. IN.S.W.Gov. p Do. sp. to Itlt Do. do.,;888 a upwds New Zealand 6 p cent. .Nova Scotia Gov. op. c. sterling, 1875 ,Queensland Gcv. 6p. C S.Aus G6p.c.1678.a up Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 'Do. in an.a AndeOct. ~. . . .- !Cambrian Consol. Gold Gnilord Amalgamated ) I)even G.Cons.(Tavist ) East Bassett (Mogan)" East Clogau Gold Ltd East Caradon itast Carn Brea.. • E. W'lltussel (Tavistk.) Gam.&St.AuDyn(Gwen , (beat South Tolgus.... G. Wheal Vor(llelsten, Grenville .. HerfA's-Foot • . iingston Pawns Lady Bertha Marp.ret (Uny Lelant 31a:ae Valley.. 'iyndy Iron Ore (Lim New Setun North Downs h 'i Basset ( I ilo z, an North Wheal Crotty I'sr Consols (tit. Blaze) • Providence (Uny Lelia South Caradon(Steleer 3. Carn Brea (Illogan) Fran. (Mogan Stray Park Camar Silv..t Lead Min., rin Croit West Basset (Illogan) G radon (Liskeard,, West Seton • •••• \I heal Basset (Mogan ~ Wheal Buller(ltedruth; l ‘V heal Kitty (U.Lelant) Wheal Luthott Wheal IllaryAnni s Llen ) 1 Wheal Lieton Treiawney (Lis ), li'heal Union PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, Chester gua. stock, —; Ditto, 5 per cent. pf. et., 115 Midland, Leicester and Hitchin 4 per ct.,'92i North Eastern, Stockton and Darlington, B 6 per cent., 32 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. North British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., 70e FOREIGN RAILWAY S. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 911 Bahia and San Francisco (Um.) gua. 7 per cent., 16U Great Luxembourg, 101 Recite and San Francisco (11m.), gua. 7 per cent., 16i Sambre and Meuse, Ea West Flanders, FOREIGN MINES. United Mexican (11m3, 61 Yudanamutana of S. Australia, 1im.,:31 BAIIKS.I Alliance (lim.). 01 4 Ditto, new, 54 Anglo Austrian, 7 * Anglo-Italian, limited, 61 Bank of Egypt, 291 Bank of London. 176 8 Bank of New Zealand, 161 British North American, 51* Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 401 891 City, 126 Consolidated Bank, Um., 11 East'London, Rm.. 81 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 21t European Bank, lira., 14 131 I m perial Bank ( lira.), 42 Ditto, new, issued at 4 pm., 28 Imperial Ottoman, 2,1 1 Land Mortga g e Bank of India, Um., 6 1 L on don Bank of Scotland, lim., 20 1 Lon don and Brazilian aim), 61 London and Colonial (lim.), 151 London Joint Stock, 47b 8 Loudon and Northern, Um., 231 London and South African, 27 London and 11 estminster, 94 Merchant Bank, tim , 161 Mercantile and Exchange. Urn., 191 111 etropolitan and Provincial aßank, lim., 321 National Provincial of Engl. Ditto, ditto, 45 South Eastern, lira., 41 1 Standard of British South Africa aim)), 281 Union of London, 531 8 MISCELLANEOUS. Commercial Union, Insurance, 81 Financial Corporation, 4; Gen. Credit and Finalize of London, 10 91 91 Hudson's l' a y' Internationa l Financial ociety, ~ 111 ; I m p e rial Financ ial, lira., Urn London Financial Association, lira., 27 61 Ditto, neW, 16 Madras Irr,gation and Canal, 11 Marine Investme,t, lim , 3 Mercantile Credit Association, lira., 161 Nova Scotia Gold and Land, lira , 3 2i Ocean Al arine (Insurance), 201 Ottoman Financial Lesociaton, lint., 51 Panama, New Zealand, aud Australian E. Mail, Um., So h u a t ni ti e ; Litt° new, Scottish Australian Investment, lira., 144 aiinicaa Mersey .3erloBery Maxine (Insurance), lire., 61tgage and Investment, lira., et Thames LAW INTELLIGENCE,---(This Day,) STIERIFF' COURT. THE XEPT LADY AND THE MUSIC MISTER.-SINGULAR DEFENCE.-BIGGS Y. SYMONDS. This was an action to renew a small sum for services rendered, plaintiff being a music-master of 49, St. John's wood-terrace, and defendant a wine merchant, of 64 Lower Thames-street. Plaintiff said that Mrs.Symonds had one quarter's tuition on the pianoforte in 1863. She was living then at 13, Nor folk-road. Mr Miller (for defendant)—Now, how do you know it was Mrs Symonds ? Plaintiff—She said she wae, and I had every reason for believing that sho was a married woman. Mr Miller—Do you not know that she was a kept lady? Plaintiff—No; I believed she waa defendant's wife. Mr Miller—My client is not liable, as the lady was not his wife, but a kept lady. His Honour (to plaintiff)—llow came you to trust her ? Plaintiff—Because 1 thought from her manner and ap pearance that she was a married woman. His Honour—You must be more careful for the future, Mr Biggs—You cannot recoNer in this case. • Plaintiff nonsuited. "THEY I * l.l. BE A BANKRUPT."-JAMES V. GRAY, • This was an action to recover for meat supplied, plaintiff being a salesman, and defendant a retail butcher. Defendant asked to be allowed to pay the debt by in stalments. His Honour—l cannot do that, as this is a wholesale transaction. Defendant—Of course you can't. (Laughter.) His Honour—You must pay the whole amount on the Ma of May unless plaintiff willconsent to take instalments. Plaintiff's agent—l cannot. Defendant—Of course you can't. (Reneweda laughter.) His Honour—Then you must pay on the 9th of May. Defendant—What, all of it? His Honour—Yes. Defendant—What, the whole hog ? (Great laughter,' I'll--- Here defendant left the witness-box, and as he got to the barrier he turned round and said—" Do you mean to say I am to pay all by the 9th of May ?" Mr. Thompson (clerk)—Yes, all of it. Defendant (quickly)—Then I'll be a bankrupt. (Roars of laughter, in which the judge could not help partially joining.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, —4.- MARLBOROUGH-STREET, ANNOYING A CAPTAlN.—Catherine Thomas, an un fortunate, was charged beforo Mr Tyrwhitt with annoying Captain John Glover, R.N. Captain Glover said that on Thursday night last, while proceeding to his residence, No. 27, Bury-street, St. James's, on his return from the opera, the prisoner molested him, wishing him to accompany her some where. He told her to go away, when she said that if he did not go with her she would slap his face. She then asked him for some money, and thinking he might get rid of her by so doing he at first gave her a sixpence, and then a second. The prisoner still persisted in annoying him, and to escape from her he got into a cab, and no sooner had he done so than the prisoner slapped the cabman's face and spat at him (complainant). At last he got away from the prisoner. Last night, however, the pri soner, who had evidently ascertained that ho resided in the street, accosted him while crossing the street, and annoyed him, when, seeing a constable, he gave her in charge. The prisoner said she had not been out for a week, and lilt the gentlemon had made a mistake in the person. Captain Glover said he was positive tie prisoner was the same woman who annoyed him on both nights. Police•constable John Cooke, 106 C, said he was called last night by Captain Glover to take the prisoner into custody for annoying him, when she said that she knew nothing about it. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for seven days. COMMITTAL WITHOUT A FINE FOR ASSAULT.—A cabdriver named George Skelly. badge 14,!86, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting George Roffey, 308 A. The prisoner was seen by Roffey, in Pall-mall, last night creeping up and down with his cab, to the injury of other cabmen on the stands, and on Roffey asking to see his badge number he refused. Roffey then stopped the horse, so that he might take his cab number, when the prisoner gave him several cuts with his whip. Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a wanton assault on the constable while in the execution of his duty. He should committ the prisoner for 21 days. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESI)A Y EVENING, APRIL 27, 1864 returned to Dillon on Saturday last by some of the pri soner's friends, and is now in the possession of the inspector. The above depositions having been read over this morning, Dillon said—l beg your worship's pardon, but I wish to withdraw from this prosecution. Mr. Yardley —Yuu cannot, Swear him again, and read the depositions over to him. This having been done, Mr Yardley said--Now, at your peril, tell the whole truth, or you will fad yourself in a difficulty, Dillon—But I am a public Mr Yardley—Public prosecutions are not carried on for the benefit of public individuals, bat for public safety. Dillon—l am so well known. Mr Yardley—What do you mean? Dillon—l mean lam a pugilist and a public man, Mr YArdle3 —What has that to do with the prisoners? l'illon —Why they have seen me on several occasions before at benefits. Mr Yardley—What sort of benefits ? Dillon—l mean when gentlemea go for an hour or two to be amused. Mr Yardley then committed both prisoners for trial, and in order to ensure, Dillon's attendance, ho (the magistrate) ordered him to be bound over in the sum of £2OO to prosecuf e. Glasgow Spring Circuit—April 26, THE NEWARTHILL MUTEDEB,.-TIIE PRISONER SENTENCED TO DEATII. The prisoner, John Reilly, who was found guilty at the last sitting of the Court of the murder of Nancy Stevens or Liffy, was placed at the bar to receive sentence. Lord Dees and Lord Neaves both occupied the bench. Lord leas addressing th e p r isoner, said—John Reilly, nobody can doubt who heard the evidence adduced upon your trial that the deceased Mrs. L?ffy was cruelly and barbarously murdered. No jury could bestow more careful and discrimina tion attention upon a case than was bestowed upon your case by the j u ry. After a long and anxious trial the majority of the jury have come to the conclusion that you are the person who committed the murder. It appears to me that the jury have arrived at the conclusion upon satisfactory evidence" and my brother Lord Nerves, who heard a considerable portion of the evidence, and heard the rest of the material parts of the evi dence read over to the jury, concurs with me in that opinion. You are said to have observed to one of the officers who took you into custody that nobody saw you do it. If you imagined that you might commit a crime such as this with impunity because nobody saw you do it you were labouring under a delusion which you must now feel to be altogether dispelled; and if any other persons working through the country or moving through the country as you were imagine that because they are not much known cr known at all in the district, and that because there is no eye but the eye of God upon them, they may commit murder with im punity, 1 trust that the result of this case will be a warning to them. The sentence of the Court was then formally pro nounced, and was to the effect that on the 16th of May, between the hours of eight and ten o'clock forenoon, the prisoner should be taken from prison to the common place of execution of the burgh of Glasgow, and there hanged by the hands of the com mon executioner. Profound silence reigned in the Court while Lord Peas pronouciced the sentence, which was first broken by the prisoner exclaiming, in a tone as firm as his first utterances at the beginning of the trial, " My Lord, I am innocent of the crime." Without betraying the slightest emotion, he turned and quitted the dock. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The supply of English wheat on offer in to-day's market was small, but the condition of the produce was good. Generally speaking, the trade wits slow, yet the prices realised chewed no alteration from Monday. With foreign wheat, the nmrket was by no means exten sively supplied. For all descriptions the demand ruled far from active ; nevertheless, previous quotations were supported. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates. There was a fair supply of barley on offer, and the trade generally was in a sluggish state, at late currencies. The supply of oats' on offer was moderately extensive. Most descriptions were in steady request, at full prices. Beans and peas ruled firm, at fully late rates. The market was very moderately supplied. in flour sl.les progressed slowly, at Monday's currency. ARRIVALS THIS NITTLEz. Wheat. Barley, Malt. Oats. Flout. English...— 550 530 / 1,520 4O / 1,970 Irish.. --1,100 • - 2,000 I 13,710 eke, brls. WESTMINSTER. EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION.—A respectable-look ing, middle-aged woman entered the court this morning, and accosting Mr. Selfe said, " My husband has been out of work, or has not done anything to obtain a living for his family for the last 10 months. I have six children, and 1 have had to maintcin not only them and myself, but also my husband. I have done it by my hard labour, by doing washing and taking in needle work." Mr. Selfe—What do you want of me I' Applicant—l want to know whether you can't make my husband to do his duty—whether you can't make him work as other men are obliged to do, instead of idling his time about and doing nothing. Mr. Selfe—What do you. suppose I can do in such a matter—you must take me to be some omnipotent person if you think I can make an idle man industrious. You might as well ask me to make a man fly. You must have extra ordinary notions of a magistrate's power if you think he oan effect such a change in the nature of a man as you de: ire. Applicant—Well, if he has no right to work for me, have I a right to maintain him in idleness by my labour ? Mr. Selfe—Well, I don't say you have, but ho has a right to live with you, and in law all you have is his, Applicant—He took a lot of things away on Friday, and came back yesterday without anything, and with scarcely a bit of clothing upon him, and expects me still to maintain him ; but I am determined I will not do it. I am quite sure that he could get work of some description if he tried, but he won't—he is downright idle. Can't you do anything for me, your worship, in the matter. Mr. Selfe—l cannot, indeed ; if a magistrate had the power to make lazy men industrious you may depend upon it that his hands would be fully employed. MARYLEBONE. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF P.OBBERY.—A PROSECU TOR COMPELLED TO PROCEED WITH HIS CASE.—James Ward and James Allen, the former footman, and the latter stableman, at the Red Lion, in the Edgware-road, were charged, on remand, with the following very extensive robbery from the person of James Dillon, the pugilist. Mr. Rodwell, solicitor, defended Allen. This case excited a great degree of interest amongst the members of the P. R., and the court was crowded by its patrons. The prisoners had before been twice brought up, and were, upon the last occasion, fully ccrnmitted for trial, but they were formally remanded, in order to see if the notes and property could be traced. The evidence formerly adduced showed that Dillon kept the White Horse in Baldwin-gardens. Between one and two o'clock in the day on the 7th inst., in company of a contractor named Coney, he went to dine at the Red Lion. After dinner he went into the closet without his hat, after which ho sat down in the harness room, and fell asleep for about two hours, On his awaking Ward jumped away from him, when Dillon said, "Hold hard, old chap, who has been here besides you." On searching his pockets he massed seven half-crowns, a florin in silver, £1 10s, in gold, a large gold ring which had been presented to him, a watch and chain, a £5, £2O, and a £5O Bank of England note. He (Dillon) said to Ward that they had " cleaned him out.' All that Ward replied was that Dillon owed him a shilling for what he had had upstairs, and he had better make haste and leave, as a gentleman wanted to come to the desk and write. In reply to another question as to who else had been there, he (Ward) saw only Ginger and Whitecross-street (meaning Allen and another person not in custody). Dillon then went into the yard, where he saw Allen and told him of his loss, when he made use of bad language and turned away. The two prisoners then went into a stable with a woman, after which Ward brought him his bat, and said, "Do make haste out." About 3 o'clock on the same day Ward went to the shop of Mr. Blackman, a butcher in the Harrow-road, and asked for change of. a£s note, which, upon examining, Miss Blackman found was a £5O note, and told Ward so, and he took it away. The following morning Ward called upon her and said that a man had been robbed in their yard, and that the note he brought the previous day to get changed belonged to a cow driver, who took it away. He requested Miss Blackman not to mention it, as it might cause a bother. On the Fame morning, and previous to the robbery, Dillon and Coney were in the Wheatsheaf, Edgware-road, where the barman particularly noticed a large ring with a stone in it, which Dillon placed on the counter. In the evening Allen came in, and Jelli nus, the carman, said " You are a fighting man now, for you have a fighting man's ring on." Allen said, " Yes; he had to mind it for Dillon." William Bishop, a helper in the stable yard, saw Allen go into the harness-room and shut tho door after him whilst Dillon was asleep. After a short time he came out and offered Bishop half a sovereign, which ho refused to take. Inspector Steer, of the D division, apprehended Ward, who said he had taken what he believed was a £5 note to be changed, but it turned out to be a £5O note. He then said be got it from a cattle dealer. Ward said he had heard of the robbery, but knew nothing of it. When at the station house he (Ward) said Allen gave him the note to change, and as he could net do so he gave it to him again. He then told the inspector that if ho went into the coal cellar of the Red Lion he would on a beam find Dillou's watch, with a piece of cocoa nut coir placed in the works to stop the ticking, so that if any person went there they E hould not hear it. Tho inspector found it as described. Samuel Doble, 147 D, ap prehended Allen, wile said " it was all right; Dillon had him en for £2O over a fight, and that would about square them if he (Dillon) got some back." A gentleman from the Bank of England ROW produced the £5O note, which had been changed at the Bank for gold by Allen's cousin just previous to the police going there. The police are trying to arrest the cousin. The ring was BOROUGH HOP. The business doing in our market is restricted to the im mediate wants of buyers, yet prices, both of English and foreign hops, rule firm. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the demand rules inactive, at the annexed quotations : Beef, from 28 8d to 4s 2d; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; Lamb, Os 4d to Gs 4d ; veal, 38 10d to 4o 8d ; and pork, 3s 2d to 4s 4.1 per Blbs by the carcase. THE TERCENTENARY OF SHAKSPERE, As a cottribution to the recent festival the Messrs. Moses and Son have lately issued an extraordinary pamphlet, which, whilst regarded as a literary curiosity, will well repay the time occu pied in its perusal. It is not often that we can say as much for pamphlets published by London trading firms, however eminent; but, in this instance, vast quantity of labour and Tesoro!' has been ex pended, and the result has beet most pleasiyg and satisfactory. At the conclusico of a capitally written introduction, the Messrs. Moses say Our main purpose in this little pimphlet is not to prove that Shakepere is st the head of ell the poets in the world —that ware indeed a work of supererogation—but to help to show, as far at least as one example can effect that purpose, that the reoognition of his greatness ea so grand and impres sive an occasion as the occurrence of his three hundredth birth-day, is not confined to any single quarter of this vast metropolis, in which his genius w as first developed, nor to any particular class, or rank, or profession of the descen dants of his fellow•citiz•;Hs. We eagerly, but humbly, take our small share in the general commemoration of a day that ought to be regarded with deep interest by all intel ligent peoplo in all civilised lands, but especially by every native of the country which had the honour to give him birth." Then follows hundreds of q uotations from the works of the immortal bard to show the importance of dress as an ornament to the person, commencing with the judicious precepts put into the mouth of Polonius when parting with his son— Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man; And they in France, of the best rank and station, Are most select and generous chief in that.—Hamlet. The little publication is exceedingly well timed, and quite worthy of being preserved amongst the pleasant recollections of the 23d of April, 1864. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—An ordinary general meeting of this society was held yesterday, in the Council Room, South Kensington, when upwards of 30 new Fellows were elected. Amongst them we noticed Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, Lady Geo, Paulet, Hon. Mrs, David Murra), Captain J. B. Martin, Sce. After the election Mr. Bates gave a very interesting lecture on the Vegetation and Insect Life of the Amazons; it was illustrated by nu merous plants and a magnificent display of butterflies, which proved a great attraction to the numerous assemblage of Fellows and their friends. A QUEER CRRISTIAN.—Parson Brownlow, a cordial hater of the South, says in his paper, the Knoxville Whig and Rebel Ventilator :—" Had we our wish wo would throw hell wide open, and place all such beast-like offizers an men upon an inclined plane, at an angle of 4d degrees, grease tho planks with hog's lard six inches thick, with a wicket at the bottom, and send them, as one stream of traitors, robbers, and assassins, into the hottest part of the infernal regions." DR. COLENSO, before his return to Natal, will (out of motives of philanthropy, of course), publish a people's edition of his work on the Pentateuch, to be issued at a moderate price—a shilling is the standard cheap form —and to ho condensed by the omission of the Hebrew criticisms. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.- 0 a Monday last a shock ing accident betel Mr. James Jones, an elderly gentleman, who has for many years held the responsible position of engineer to the Oxford City Waterworks Cona pany. lle had made an inspection of some fittings in con nexion with the waterworks in the upper story of Mr. Joel Evans's brewery, in the parish of St. Clement, Oxford, and on reaching the bottom of the ladder he missed his footing and fell headforemost into a large vat of boiling liquid. Mr. Evans, who preceded him down the ladder, and some of the men, attracted by the agonising screams of Mr. Jones, immediately rescued him, and , medical aid was speedily at di ves ting him or his clothing his fiesh was hand, but in d r ope Infirmary,eledfr om whereb o d iiya ,Ba a w n s d i a e a' as hopelessremoved o The t h the vat was entirely unprotected, and this is the third accident (two of them fatal) that has oocurred from the same cause in this neighbourhood iu a few weeks. THE WAR IN DENMARK. (From the Times Special Correspondent at the Danish Head-quarters.) HoRUP-HAV, April 22. This is the last letter dated " Danish Head quarters" that will reach you from any spot in the Isle of Alsen. The officers of the Staff are to follow General Gerlach to the Island of Fanen to day or tomorrow. Only one division is to be left behind for the defence of Ala, under the orders of General Steinman. The D.snes have here no more than 24 pieces of field artillery left, besides such cannon as is still standing on the shattered bat• teries along the Sound. The Church Battery at Sonderborg is alm)st untouched; not so the one near the south windmill, nor any of those on the right of the town, at Sur!cekke, Baadsager ; Ron have, 8.73. New works have, however, been lustily constructed both in the town of Sonderborg and on the sea-shore to the north of it, where sunk bitteries have b: en substituted instead of those flimsy bastions above the level of the ground, among which the Prussian cannonade has made such tremendous havoc. With such means of de fence the Danes cannot flatter themselves to hold Alsen for days or even for hours against any earnest assailant. Thero is not one officer of any rank who flatters hiluself in the least about it; but they have orders " to hold their ground as they best can," and are ready to immolate themselves without murmur. The very bridges before Sonderborg have been but imperfectly blown up. Long lines of pontoons still project, like piers, from the banks on either side. It is impossible to doubt that the Prussians have it in their power to sweep the eastern shore from their vantage ground of B roager land, from Dybboll hill, from the tete-de-pont, and from Ragebol, for one or two miles inland, when the patching up of those broken bridges, and the crossing over in large, irresistible masses, will be the affair of a moment. I make no mystery of this, because it must be as obvious to the Germans as it is to the Danes themselves. On the other hand, the Prussians go to work with their wonted circumspection and tardiness. They are making assurance doubly sure. We see them from our v. atch-lowers crowding the opposite shore, down to the very water edge, making themselves at home in the tents and barracks the Danes left be hind them, removing the cannon from the Dybbol bastions, rearing new batteries half way between the crest and the lowest slopes of the hill, advanc- ing their re doubted cannon within an easy stone throw of the Alsen coast. As yet, however, they have hardly fired a shot. It was given out yester day that " there was to be an armistice from 4 to 8 in the afternoon," but before and after that period of time the suspension of hostilities was just as absolute and cornpfete. If the Prussians are at all inclined to act, they take a good deal of time to prepare about it. They are leisurely and delibe rately sharpening the knife 'which is to cut their victim's throat, and this latter awaits its doom calm and resigned, well aware that no exertion on its part can either ward off or deprecate it. Truly the sacrifice of Denmark is a melancholy spectacle for a neutral to witness. The war that is momentarily languishing here seems to be about to be removed to a distant quarter. 10,000 Prussians, we are assured, have been matched to the north, and serious apprehensions are entertained of a second bombardment of Frede ricia. It is, perhaps, for this reason that the Danish head-quarters are being removed to some place, as yet unnamed, in the island of Funen, where they may be equally at hand to watch the progress of operations at the entrance of the Little Belt and on the Alssund. I may soon have to follow them there, but, for the present, I am anxious to guess what the designs and intentions of the Prussians really are; and, in the event of their trying to force their way across the water here, I wish to see the last downfall of .Alien—if fall it must. The body of General Du Plat, together with those of several other cfficers, was conveyed across the strait yesterday, in a second hatch, by the Prussians. General Da Plat has been the real hero of the Dyb bol day. He was at the rear of his retreating columns, and, tak:ng the lee d of a few of his men, was show ing a bold front to the enemy, when he was btrnek by several rifle balls, and borne to the ground. His followers were instantly at his side, and endeavoured to lift him up; buy he declined all assistance, saying he was a dead man, and begging his friends to hold out as long as it was possible against the over whelming Germans. His wishes were obeyed, and he sank back, to all appearance lifeless; but he lifted himself up again by a last effort, and his voice was still heard repeating, " Hold out, my friends! Hold out for God and Denmark !" It was at this moment that Major Rosen, informed of the Gene ral's fall, came up ; but he had hardly reached the spot when he was stretched by the side of his dear friend, mortally wounded. General Du Plat's corpse wore two laurel wreaths round:its head when it came into his friendie hands, and they, the Prussian officer who came across with it informed us, were laid on the brow of the dead hero by no less illustrious hands than those of Prince Frederick Charles and Marshal Wrangei,who wished to show before the eyes of their whole army in what estimation they held en enemy's valour. Pity the General's gallantry did not entitle him to have his boots restored to him; but the Germans are evi dently mad after Danish shoe-leather, and the bodies of all, without exception, who fell on the Dybbol heights were brought book to us in their socks. THE CONFERENCE. The following are the resolutions of the Frank fort Diet on the subject of the Conference— " 1. To accept the invitation to the Con ferenee proposed by the British Cabinet ; and, consequently to request the President to send a reply to the notes of the Plenipotentiary of Great Britain, under the dates of 23d and 26thultimo, conformable to the pro ject proposed by the united Committees. "2, To send to the Conference a representative of the Confederation, and to select for that purpose a statesman who does not belong to the German States already represented at the Conference. "3. To proceed immediately to the election of the said Plenipotentiary, by ballot. " 4. To request the President of the Diet to take all such measures as might ulteriorly appear neces sary." The Plenipotentiary of the Confederation to re ceive the following instructions : " 1. To exert all his efforts to assure the recap nition of the right of the Germanic Confederation, and of the Duchies of Holstein, of Schleswig, and of Lauenburg, and especially to obtain the greatest passible independence for these latter. 4 , 2. To avoid as much as possible all dissension between the German Plenipotentiaries at the Con ference, to concert preliminarily with the represen tatives of Austria and of Prussia, whenever any im portant deliberation is to be brought forward, the representatives of the said Powers being equally invited to follow the same example under analogous circumstances." The Bavarian representative proposed to substi tute the following, instead of the words, " to obtain the greatest possible independence for the Duchies "To endeavour to obtain the recognition of the rights of the hereditry Prince of Augustenburg as Schleswig-Holstein, and, consequently, the Duke of complete separation of the Duchies from Denmark.' The Bavarian amendment was rejected by the Diet. AN EARTHQUAKE has been felt at Presbourg. No accident occurred. Al. Allard, a distinguished painter of Lyons, who at the commencement of the wiutcr went to Rome with his mother, wife, and four children, to study the great masters, has just been murdered in his studio. When found he was in a dying state, hav ing receivEd no less than 16 sounds on the head with a heavy instrument. The murderer is believed to be a man who had sat to him as a model for a picture representing Judas giving the kiss to our Saviour. The model was sitting for the figure of the betrayer. Tho man has been since arrested at CivitaYecobia, CALCITETA AND CHINA MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : MARSEILLES, April 26. The Eusine, with the above mails, arrived here at 11 a.m. today. The mails left for London at 11.30 a.m. LONDON GAZETTE.—Last Evening, At the Court at Osborne, Isle of Wight, the 26th day o f April—present, the Qti.en's Most Excellent Majesty i n Council. This day the Right Hon. Sir James Plaisted Wilde, Knight, and the Right Hon. Henry Austin Bruce, M.P., war, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and tcok their respective places at the Board accordingly, bOWNING-STREET, ArittL 25. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieut.-Colonel Henry Fitzharding, Berkeley Masse (Lieutenant-Govornor) to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Island of Heligoland. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Peter Better, John Gottlob Bufe, and Michael Jaspers, Esqrs., to be members of the Executive Council of the Island of Heligoland. Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Knutz Nohren Michels, Henry Gatke, Peter Better, Kruger Franz, Joachim Itickmer Stoldt, Peter Jasper Michels, John Gottlob Bufe, Nickels Peter Block, Conrad Payens, Jasper Friedericks Payens, Herrmann Ehricks, and John Deucher, Esqrs., to be znerul;ers'of the Legislative Council of the Island of Heligoland. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Arm', 23, The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Licut.- Colonel John Augustus Todd to be Exon of her Majesty's Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard, vice Cap tain Barron, resigned; APRIL 25. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the Right lion. Lord Foley, to appoint Paget John Bourke, Esq., late Captain 11th Foot, one of her Majesty's Honour able Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice R. H. S. Vyvyan, Esq., resigned. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the Right Hon. Lord F01,,v, to appoint Sussex L. A. B. Mrs siter, Esq ' late Captain 28th Foot, one of her Majesty's Honourablo Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice S. It. Dampier, Etq., resigned. • CROWN OFFICE, APRIL 26. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN TIIE PRESENT PAR LIAMENT. Borough of Merthyr Tydvil—Henry Austin Bruce, Esq., Vice-President of the Committee of Privy Council on Education. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, APRIL 26. 9th Lancers—Cornet Charles Agnew to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Greaves Blake, who retires— Cornet Edward Philippe Mackenzie to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Charles Ashburnham Floyd, who retires —Ensign Hamilton Hamilton Johnston, from the 56th Foot, to bo Cornet, vice Agnew—Henry Augustus Candy, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Mackenzie. 18th Hussars—Lieutenant Thomas Fuller to be Captain, ' by purchase, vice William Henry O'Shea, who retires— Cornet Arthur Octavius Hughes to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fuller— James Stuart, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hughes. Bth Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant William Theobald But ler to be Captain, by purchase, vice Angus William Hall, who retires—Ensign Matthew Liddon to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Butler—Henry Harcourt Horn, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Liddon. 10th Foot—Lieutenant Ernest Archibald Berger to be Captain, by purchase, vice John Edmund IVhaite, who retires—Ersogn Henry Handley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Berger—George Frederick Trevor Parker, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Handley—Lieu tenant William Whitla to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Berger, promoted. .4th Foot—Sergeant-Major John Mills to be Quarter. master, vice James Spry, appointed Lieutenant in 17th Foot. 17th Foot—Lieutenant James Spry, from Quartermaster 14th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Arthur Hare Palmer, who retires upon temporary half-pay—Ensign Richards Horwood Dunning to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jams Spry, who retires—Robert Loring, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase. vice Dunning. 21st Foot—Lieutenant George Albert Grant to be Captain, by purchase, vice F. R. E. Burnside, who retires—En sign Kinnear Browne to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Grant—James George Proudfoot, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Browne. 22d Foot—Henry Hall, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stuart, transferred to the 86th Foot. 51st Foot—Qnartermaster William Sibbald, from 89th Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice Thomas Lawrence, cashiered by the sentence of a General Court-Martial. 56th Foot—John A. F. Austen, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Johnston, transferred to the 9th Lancers. 58th Foot—Lieut. Joseph Barrington Deacon to be Adju tant, vice Lieut. W. J. Hall, who resigns the appoint ment. 78th F o ot—Quartermaster -Sergeant Alexander Weir to be Quartermaster, vice Charles Skrine, appointed Paymaster. 86th Foot—Ensign Hartwell Harvey Stuart, from the 22d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Henry Francis Sneyd, who retires. 100th Foot—Ensign James Charlton Shirley to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice William Ritchie, who retires— William Henry Adolphus Denys, to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Shirley. 102 d Foot—Captain Frank Sasnwell, late her Mejesty's In dian Military Forces, to be Paymaster. 103 d Foot—Ensign Hugh De is I!ottee Hervey, from the 105th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Edward Bonainy Gardi ner, deceased. Rifle Brigade—Lieutenant Edmund Geo:go Johnson, to be Captain, by purchase, vice the Hon. rthur Aunts ley, who retires; Ensign George Anson llii.lyard to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Johnson; Rooker Evelyn Crompton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hillyard, 3d %vest India Regiment—Captain Robert William Mir - ley to be Major, by purchase, vice A. Dunlop, promoted, by purchase, in 2d West India Regiment; Lieutenant William John Close to be Captain, by purchase, vice Harley; William Everitt Last, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stewart, promoted. Cape Mounted Rifleman—Lieutenant Charles B. Marshall to be Captain, without purchase, vice E. A. Lynar, NI hose promotion, on 22d March, 1864, has been can celled; Ensign William Henry Sens to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Edward Alexander Lynar, who retires. DEPOT BATTALlON.—Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Major, John Dennis Swinburne, from the 834 Foot, to bo Paymaster, vice Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Major, Edwin Griffiths, who retires upon half-pay. STA7lr.—The appointment of Brevet-Colonel H. Hamilton, C.B , 78th Foot, as Deputy-Adjutant-Genera: in Ceylon, to bear date 26th November, 4860, and not 6th of that month, as then notified in "Gazette.' UNATTACHED.—Brevet-Colonel Henry Law Maydwell, from Major half-pay Depot Battalion, to be Lieutenant- Colonel, without purchase. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—The transfer to the Staff of Assistant , Surgeon Henry Knaggs, from the Cape Mounted Riflemen, to bear date 29th March, 1864. CIIIPLAIN'Si DEPARTMENT.—The Rev. James L. Moody, M.A., Chaplain cl the Fourth Class, to be Chaplain of the Third Class. BREVET. Lieutenant-Colonel Robert William Lowry, 47th Foot, having completed the gtialitying servico in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel under the Royal War rant of 14th October, 1868. The Commission as Brevet-Colonel of Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel tho Hon. Charles Dawson Plunkett, Int Foot, has been antedated to 12th September, 1863. Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Major, Edwin Griffiths, retired upon half p,q, late of a depot battalion, to have the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. ADMIRALTY, Arlin. 22. Royal Marino Light Infantry—Second Lieutenant Edward William Sampson, of the Woolwich Division, to be First Lieutenant at tho Chatham Division, vice E. Willis to half-pay. BANKRUPTS, The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im portance in the Gazette: — Edward Martin, boiler maker, Bromley William Johnson, wino merchant, Holloway Austin Johnson, draper, Sevenoaks, Kent Mary Gibson Richardson, stationer, Camden Town James Greenwood, pock butcher, Aldershot George Coppen, grocer, Lewisham, Kent David A, Singer, tailor, Poland -street, Oxford-street John F. S. Gooday, attorney, Sudbury George Sewell, jun., baker, Walworth Charles Fysb, grocer, Peterborough Richard Hirst, commission agent, Huddersfield William N. Dingley, ooal merchant, Liverpool Henry Burns, bootmaker, Liverpool William Smelt Ludlow, warehouseman, Aldermanbury William Frederick Windham, stago coach proprietor, Paddington James Pinfold, innkeeper, Banbury William F. Slipper, butcher, Bayswater George Oldham, shirt maker, London-wall, City David Burwood, upholsterer, Clapham John bleakin, tea dealer, Macclesfield James Whork, poulterer, Manchester Edward Edwards, dairyman, Manchester BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Joseph Nicholls, clerk, Dudley Henry Augustus Barton, Pimlico SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Donald M‘Leod, painter, Inverness Grigor Burgess, flasher, Grantown, Inverness-shire James Goudie, blacksmith, Drumgrear, Ayrshire Walter Logan, stationer, Ayrshire Thomas Cooke Barlow, wino merchant, Glasgow Franco and Morrison, wool spinners, Alva Moses M'Coyor M'Kay, grocer, Milton, Dumbartonshire Course of the Exchange.—Yesterday. ', Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 12 0 12 08 Antwerp .. 25 571 25 621 Brussels — 25 571 2.5 621 Hamburgh — 13 tit 13 91 Paris I)it.to Marseilles Frankfurt on Maine - 119} 114 Vienna Trieste Peter burgh Berlin — Madrid Cadiz Leghorn —2 i 25 671 Milan — 25 67t 25 70 Genoa — 25 621 25 67/ „ _ __ Naples Palermo ,— 26 65 25 7d Messina .. Lisbon —51 i Opor t 0... - • — 51& 52 Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars .. Silver in Bars (Standard) THE TOILETTE OF THE EMPRESS OF MEXICO comprises, among other things, it is sai , 52 splendid ball and state dresses, one for each week in the first year of her Majesty's reign, SECOND EDITION. _________________ SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLoCK, ROME. MARSEILLES, April 2 6.—Letters from Rome of the 23d state that an English banquet has taken place in honour of Shakspere, but without any political character. The Emperor of Mexico has decorated Cardinal Antonelli and different other personages. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, BI ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. NEwmARKE r RACES.—Tms DAY. PRINCE OF WALES' STAKES. King of the Vale Reervo Five ran. £5O HANDICAP PLATE. Atlas .............................................. 1 Disappointment .................................... 2 MoulseY Fourteen ran. Won by a neck. A length between second and third. SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS. The Warrior ....... ... 1 Precella Four ran. .. SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOUS. War Dance Verger .. 2 1 WO-YEAR-OLD PLATE. La Meehante Shrapnel'.. Nineteen ran. SPORTING NOTES. The result of The Two Thousand Guineas turned out exactly as I predicted in Thi Sun of Monday— the judge's decision and THE FRESH MAN'S pro phecy entirely coinciding with each other. With regard to The One Thousand Guineas, to Le decided to-morrow, I see no reason to alter the opinion I expressed on Monday, and shall again endeavour to forestall the judge by placing MASQUERADE - SARDINIA MOLLEY CAREW 3 A FRESH MAN. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—This Day, The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. H. A. BRUCE the new Vice-president of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education, took the oaths and his seat on his re-election for Merthyr Tydvil. CHURCH RATES COMMUTATION BILL. On the order of the day for the second reading of this bill, Mr. HADFIELD objected that this was a bill relating 'o taxation, and ought to be considered in a committee of he whole house by resolution. The SPEAKER, having cited some cases, overruled the objection. Mr. NE WDEGATE then proceeded to move a second rending of the bill, which proposes to substitute for church rates an annual charge of 2d in the pound, to be deducted by the tenant on paying his rent, unless he has made an agreement to the contrary. This chun h charge would be counted into the county and borough rates, and the amount placed in the hands of the governors of Queen Anne's Bounty as trustees, and to them a ratepayer objecting to a proposed expenditure might appeal, and ultimately to the Lords Justices. But a certain proportion of the ratepayers, with the leave of the.vestry, might obtain from the quarter sessions an order exempting the parish from liability to church charge if no church rate had been levied for the last seven years, or if within those years a proposal for a rate has been on three successive occasions rejected on a poll. The bill allowed the order of exemption to be revoked on the application of the ratepayers. He was not sanguine of carrying the bill; but he trusted the house would consent to read the bill a second time, when he should move that it be referral to a select committee. Sir C. DOUGLAS objected to dealing with the question of church rates at the present time, because it had been decided by most parties to go to the hustings and fight the question upon the dissolution of the present Parliament. lie hoped that if the present Government should be in office on the assembling of the new Parliament they would take up this difficult question and deal with it as a Govern ment measure. lie, therefore, moved, as an amendment. that the bill be read a second Ulna that day six months. Mr. SALT supported the second reading of the bill. [LEFT SITTING.] The Primrose-hill Meeting, TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. Sin,—As one who was present at the Garibaldi meeting on Primrose-hill, permit me to state that the reports of the same are not incorrect as Sir George Grey insinuates they are. and that the conduct of a largo body of police was scandalous. Sir George Grey says that only three con stables were present. I saw a large body, and so did thou< sands.—Yours, FOR THE WHOLE TRUTH, 71 Thayer-street, Manchester- square, April 27. SHIPPING-THIS DAY. LONDON, April 27.—Wind this day at noon—North; moderate breeze and fine weather, but cloudy. FALMOUTH, April 26,—Wind E,—Arrived—Anguepa, from Mauritius. CLYDE, April 26.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Britannia, steamer, from New York. Sailed—Cumberland, for New York. SWANSEA, April 25.—Wind E.—Arrived—Rose, from Santander. 071' PALmorrit, April 26.—Wind E.—Arrived—Talbot, from Calcutta. PORTSMOUTH, April 25.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—New castle, from Calcutta. NEWPORT, April 25.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Rochester, for New York, BRISTOL, April 25,—Wind 1%1,W. —Arrived--Britannia, from Matanzas. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Morning. Passed up Channel, off this port, yesterday morning, the ship Manila, and in the evening the ship Talbot, both from Calcutta, for London. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAMII. GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, April 26—Alliance, from Gothenburg; Ban• dion, from Uddewalla—Helena, from Porto Rico. Arrived, April 27—Neptune, from Krageroe—Prince Albert, from Guernsey-1 rederick Maria, from Nykoping —Oak, from Ghent—Ligerleon, from Jamaica—Susan Gray, from Oporto—Kron Pinsen, from Landscona--- Allue, from Krageroe—Walhalla, from Sannesund— Neptunus, from Warborg. Sailed, April 27—Rainbow, steamer, for Calais—Gustaf Wass, steamer, for Gothenburg—Belgium, steamer, for Ostcnd. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed—Spray of the Ocean, from London for Sydney-- Ellen, for Barcelona—Sea Serpent, for Alicante—Edith, for Shanghai—all from Shields. Anchored--Westeru Bottom, from Corfu for London— Emma Ives, from Matanzas for Hamburg, ANOTHER MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT THROUGII FIRE,—A lamentable accident occurred on Monday to Mrs Conway, residing in Satherland-street, Westbourne grove. Mrs Conway was in her dressing room attiring herself for the purpose of proceeding to an evening party, when by some means the flames of a candle on the dress. ing-tablo caught a lace cap placed on the looking -glass. Mrs Conway instantly snatched the cap from the glass, and throwing it on the floor imprudently attempted to extinguish the flames by trampling o n t h em, when the fire communicated itself to her dress. A servant was in the room at the time ; but instead of en deavouring to assist her mistress, she ran screaming from the room, and on the other inmates rushing into the apart ment the unfortunate lady was discovered running wildly about, the room and completely envelop e d i n G ras . Mr. Conway, with great presence of mind, immediately stripped off his coat and threw it over her and succeeded in extin guishing the fire, but not before the greater part of the lady's dress bad been burned and various parts of her per• son seriously ii,jurod. Iler recovery is despaired of. ThSTIIIONIAL TO A POLICE INSPECTOR. -.-Inspec tor Whicher, who for thirty years held an appoint ment in the detective department of the metropolitan police, and had risen to be one of the chiefs of the detective force at Scotland -yard, took his leave of the service on Saturday last, retiring upon a pension of £5O per annum. Advan tage was taken of the occasion, and, his brother officers having assembled in a body, presented their late inspector with a mag n ifi cent mass i ve gold signet sing, of the valu e of £5O, manufactured expressly f or him, and engraved wi t h monogram J. N•" Mr. Whicher, in thanking hi s brother i nspec t ors a nd the sergeants who had served und er the him for this proof of their regard, said he was happy to find he quitted the force with the esteem and good wishes of those around him. FIVE YOUNG PERSIAN GENTLEMEN have arrived in England to he educated at the expense of their own Government, under the care of his Excellency Mahmoul Khan, the Ftreian MiniEter in this country,