The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The discount market is still influenced by the recent advance in the minimum of the Bank, and there is only a moderate demand for accommodation at the new rate. About £3,000 in gold was taken into the Bank on Saturday. The City of W as hi ng t on h a s arrived from N ew York with £5.700, and the Alliance from Geelong, With £54,828. The Anglo French Mexican Loan has been an nounced i n L on d on b y M essrs. Gl yn, Mil ls, an d Co,, and the International Financial Society, and in Paris by the Societe Generale de Credit Mobilier. The amount required is £12,365,000, issued in e 6 per cent, stock at the price of 63, representing £7,790,00 sterling, in bonds to bearer of £l,OOO, £ 5OO , £2OO, £lOO, and £5O each, with others of smaller amounts for the Continental market. Of the total, £8,000,000 bonds are to be negotiated for the Mexican, and the remaining £4,365,000 for the French Government in payment of expenses in curred in the expedition. Interest is to com mence from the Ist April, and the subscription can extend over to February next. Discount at the rate of 6 per cent. will be allowed for payments in ad "vance, and the stock is to be negotiable in Paris and the other French markets as weli as in London. l'rom the proceeds of the loan a sum sufficient for Vice years dividends is to be retained, and an amount is also to be kept for the " next four half-yearly payments of interest on the Three per Cent. Mexi can Bonds held under the decree of October, 1850, and on the New Three per Cent. Bonds representing the capitalised arrears of interest thereon, as agreed to by the holders of the existing bonds at their recent meeting in London." There is to be a sink ing fund equal to 1 per cent. per annum from Ist April, 1869. The subscription lists are to be opened in London, all the departments of France, Turin, Madrid, and Amsterdam, and the 233 inst. is the date at which they will be closed so far as regards this market and Paris. Proposals have been issued to-day for a Russian- Anglo Dutch 5 per cent. loan for £6,000,000, or florins 70,800,000 stock. It is introduced by Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., of London, and Messrs. Hope and Co., of Amsterdam. On the LlOO bonds the payments, amounting in the aggregate to 85 per cent., will extend to Jan. 18, 1865, and on the £B4 15s. bonds £72 is required in the same Period. Discount at the rate of 5 per cent. will be allowed for prepaymente. The Continental Union Gas Company requires a capital of £400,000, a large portion of which it is stated to have been already subscribed. It is formed to carry on the business of extensive works now in full operation, with exclusive privileges, in Stras burg, Cette, Nismes, Vienne, Roanne, Beaucaire, Albi, Milan, Genoa, Parma, Modena, and Atessandria. The shares are of £25 each, and the brokers are Messrs. Hill, Fawcett, and Hill, of Threadneedle-street. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning, according to Renter's telegrams, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 68f.,15c., 681 . 5C., 67f. 90z, Very great excitement, and still continues. The opening of the English Stock Market indi cated a firmer tone, and shortly afterwards an Improvement of * per cent. took place, but the advanc e was ultimately lost upon a few sales, and Consols are again 91.1 I for money, and 91 1 a for the account. The New Threes and Reduced An nuities are 89; ; Exchequer Bill., 10s. to ss. die.; India, 1044 1051 ; Enfaced 5 per Cents., 103; ; and Debentures, 994. Business in the Foreign Market is active, and prices have varied to some extent. Turkish 6 per Cent s ., 1862, are 71* 4 ; do., Clnsolides, 521 53 ; Mexican, 47/ b; do., New Loan, 1* 1 ; Spanish Passive, 34* 4 ; do,, Certificates, 121 s ; Greek, 251; and the Confederate Loan, 54 56. In the Railway Share Market business has been rather more animated, and prices have shown an upward movement. North 'Western, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Metropolitan, and South Eastern have improved 55., and Midland 155., while Great Eastern and Great Northern have declined ss. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings exhibit little change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in fair request, and in several instances exhibit a slight advance. The new shares of the National Bank are dealt in at 401 411. FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. a Per Cent. Consols Ditto Account, May 5 9lt a x ,per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent. B 9B ~, i 1 "ew 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2/ & 3 per Cent lO 5 die Ditto £SOO Ditto £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stk, 41 per Ct. Ditto Account . 'NOUN GOVERNMENT SEOURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 ....• Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Ditto Account Ditto 4 per Cent. 1888 Do Certificates Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct. 1883 — Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872. lO3l Dino 51 per Cent. May, 1879 — Ditto Debentures, per Ct., April 1861 Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 991 Ditto Bonds Sl.OOO — die Ditto under £l,OOO .............. .. • • die BRITISH FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent..... Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 57/ Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ailian 6 per Cent. Ditto 45 pei Cent B4 Colombian 6 per Geat — :Bquador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Egyptian 7 per Cent.. Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824 - 5 , ex-Coupons — Ditto Account 25 4 42 54 Ditt o Coupons — Ditto Account ll4 Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway ) Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account !Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto Account Ditto 2 per Cent. — Ditt o Deferred — Ditto Land Warrants ( Hectares) rbruvian 45 per Cent .. Ditto Account .-•• ........ .. ) — Oitto 3 per Cent. (HlTribarren) Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 , Ditto Account..... L'artucruese 3 por Cent.,;1853 Ditto Account .................... Ditto 3 per Cent . , 1856, '7, ' 9 l '6O, 62;3 Ditto Account .. Rustto Scrip (1863) 130 paid. ...... - -ni Pul s__ia n 6 per Cent., 1822, L St .......• ul Ditto 44 per Ce t 1850 Ditto n., ...... 5 , 3 per Cent 1869 ....... . i s _bitto 6 per Cent, 1862 .............. 901 ttrdinian 6 per Cent .... 1 b bitto Account " 2 1 3 anish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account "Ditt o Passive -p Ditto Account 35 4/ ,x . iisti Cert. of Coup not funded ...w.uitto Account '',;,_ edish, 4 per Cent. ` .l .Erkish 6 per Cent. 1851 — Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1853 Ditto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds.. 704 3 ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account _. Ditt o 1863 v unto Guaratteed, 4 per Cent — Ditto 3 per Cent. 4 ) Ptc , 6 per Cent., 1862 .. Ditto Acc0unt.......... Ditto 11 per Cent , Dividends on the above payable in Load •n. Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. 4_ l glan 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f Dutch 21 pe r Cent., Ex. 12 Gail — ~!tto 4 per Cent. Certificates '',ltto Account — Itd an, 5 per Cent , 1861, Ex. 25 francs — .Ditto Account . 6Bl 8 Piethnontese 5 per Cent.. Ex. 25f uvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 45. C onsols M oney TWO O'CLOCK 918 Ditto Account SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 1, '.1 - ii Railways. Paid. Price. Clo • sing 1 Businedone.ss --L ------- 13.14. 1 61 r., Wol., and Str. Val. all 8 8/ ,6 ;Blythe and Tyne. 10 ; liost„Sleat.,andMid.i.;o all 8 4 st Bristol; and Exeter at , Caledonian .,. Do r, 118 119 50 !Cork and Bandon all 20 'Cornwall 10 Do. B all et 7 4 10 Do A(A gets no div a ll till 6p c.p an.lis s all ..._ been paid to B. 50 'Dublin & Belfast June. all 35 37 , 25 'Dnn.,Perth,&Ab. Junc.l all 16 17 st !Edinburgh & Glasgow.; 100 90 92 • at ,Glasg. and S. Western.; 100 104 1( 6 st Great Eastern, Ord. eta! 100 17 .71 461 71 0; et Ditto A stock ! 100 -- at Ditto East Anglian st 100 61 71 st GreatNorthot Scotland 100 at Great Northern lOO 130 131 131 305 st Do A stock at Do Li do st Gt. S. an iW. of Irelan 100 91 93 at 'Great Western .. .. ... . 100 651 661 651 1 at Do Str Val gua. stock 100 st Lancashae & Yorkshire 160 111 1101 110 at London and Blackwall 100 67 f 9 68 71 st Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 100 1025 1031 st Lon., Chat., mid Dover 100 431 446 at Lon. & North Western 100 1116 112 110; 11 101 st Lon. & Sty.th Western 100 9 1(.0 at Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 100 511 556 541 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all 121 Do t shares.. .....• , at Metropolitan a ll 1171 4 181 1 16 15 1 161 st Midland Do New at Do Binning. & 100 101 1(3 Derby P 50 Mid. Gt. W. of' I re land all 25 Do. 1 shares 25 Mid Kept 10 Do Cray Line St North British st Edin., Perth, & Dundee 100 241 '451 at Nth. Eastern—Berwid.• 100 901 105 101 1 25 Do, G.N.E. purohati , 16.13.1 0 et Do Leeds lOO 56 67 st Do York st Do Carlisle lOO et North London 10 Do New 0 .18.4 North Staffordshire lu N. and S. W. Junction all 111 111 st Scottish Central at Scot N. E., Aber. stock 100 41 43 st Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 98 100 1 0 Shrews. and Welohpoo) all st Shropshire Union et South Devon.. ...... st South Eastern st South Wales st S. York. and River Dun 100 101 103 20 staines,Wok.,andWok all 81 91 25 Stockton & Darlington all 37 38 25 Do l7 95 10 e :5 Do New, 1866 lO 8 81 t st Taff Vale. 10 Do B 8 5 7 I 10 Do C 3 3 4 p 50 Ulster 25 Do 12.10 Do 5l et Vale of Neath et Victoria sta. and Pim lOO at Waterfbrd d; Kilkenny 100 et West Cornwall lOO at W. Hartlepool Har.&R lOO et West Midland -Oxford 100 --- tit Do Newport 100 at Do ilerefordl 100 I --. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing bar, tLailwaya Fwd. Price. Business dons 100 itlantio &St Lawrenct all . 59 61 st llom.,BarOdadr..Centlnc 100 1 02} 1 034 103 IGu. 6 per cent........ 20 Do. New . 8 20 Do. E. 5hare5......... 74 (14 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 664 10 Do. Preferance ..... all 9 10 Butialo,Brant,&Godricli 00 /10, p. et. bds. Aug. 1,157:. .00 Do. do. July 1,187; , iOu tOO 00. do. Julio 1, lo: i 100 et Cleutta.sS.Eastu.(Lin 100 101 (03 1011 et Cape Town 2r Dock Seri, 100 99 101 .tock Haetn. Bengal gu. sp. 100 105 106 • steek East Indian. gu. sp. c. 10(1 lull 1054 105 20 Do. do. (4 Ext..... 15 p .20 Do. do. H do. .. 15 6 16 stock Grand Trunk of Canada tue 20 21 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. 411 73 05 724 100 Do. no. del erred..... . all 60 63 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonus.. all 63 65 63 100 Do. do. defer/ ed...... all 51 63 100 Do. 3d I' ef. stock ... all 48 60 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 40 12 100 Do. 4th I'ref. stook.— all 25 27 100 Do. do. deferred.-- all 22 t 5 stook GLlndiaPenin.gua.sp.o 100 101 105 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 12 Do. January, 1382 stook (It. South.of lndia(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1034 1044 204 Gt. W. ol Canada Sharer all 1(4104 , 204 Do. New ... . ... 18 104 100 Do. 8 p.o. '73 wlth't opt. all 93 94 100 Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.. . all 82 84 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 4 fp stock Madras. guar., 5p.0. .. 100 lin 103 1(2 stock Do. 44 p. o. Extension 100 93 98 stock Dc. 4s d 0........ 100 92 94 91 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stock Melb.Corp. r 5 p. o. Buds 100 50 3lelb. & ilobson's Bay. all 57 59 100 Do. 7p. e. alortg. Bds. all 20 Newßrunewiok Canch, Class A and B. all 3 6 N. Itl.C'da6 po let pi bds 100 82 14 twit Soinde • • (10t, 104 105 stock Do. Delhi. I ..: 100 101 103 40 Do. do .. Es 3 5 2 I fp et Do. Punjaub all 1024 1034 102 k Do. Do. ........ 9,g , lOU - Stook iDo. Indus. St. Flo.) too 97 93 Stook COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 6 p.o.Ja. 4.r.1 ul) j 1877-81 . ........ tuts 102 104 10 , 1 3 Do. p. c. Feb. & Ang. 100 101 u 3 102 D 0.6 p.c.Mar.& Sept. 100 101 103 Do. p. o. Jan.&July. 10, 90 92 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 88 90 ,Cape G.llope, ep 0,137; 100 106 108 Do.Ap &OCt. 1880 100 'llO 112 Do. 189 t 100 111 113 - Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 110 112 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 112 114 iMauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cent. 100 108 110 -- IN.B.Gov.Op.o.Ja.&July 100 102 104 I Do. 6p. c.Ap• & Oct. 100 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 100 991 1001 Du. sp. c.,18/ Ito It/1 100 99 109 ••-• Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 99 100 99j - !New Zealand 6 p cent 100 110 112 !Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. stening„ 1875........ 100 1 04 106 ! Queensland Gcv. 6p. c. 100 - iS.Aus G6p.0.1878.2; up.. 100 110 112 - iVic.6lov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 lo 6 p.o. An.dithst. 100 1081 1091 i 108/ —-- BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 6 id uhflord Amalgamated 34 95 Devcn G. Con.. (Tavist ) 1 55 0 660 East Bassett (Illogan) 30 67 70 East Clogau Gold Ltd East Caradon ...... 9 .14.6 301 311 31 Nast Cam Brea... 3.4.0 61 7 h 1 tsrl Russel (Tavistk.) 8.9.0 3/ 4 - Gs.m.&St Aubyn(Gwen , 581 9 10 —'Great South Tolgus 17s 3 31 G. Wheal Vor (11elston 40 35 35 341 Grenville 0.16., 101 114 Her:Ws-Foot 8.12 AS 37 I-ling/ston Downs 4.: 8.0 31 4 Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelaut 91 18 20 Starke Valley.. 4 11 yndy Iron Oro (Lim : 21 16 t d New Setun l9l 86 95 • North Downs ..,?/ 11 2 Wh Basset( Illo.can 3.1.0 2 21 North Wheal Crotty 2.6.9 41 5 ear Consols (6,t. Blaze> Providence(Uny Lelnt. , 10.6.7 41 43 South Caradon(StCleer 13 450 170 S. Cam Brea (Illogan) — Fran. (Mogan 18.10.9 40 50 Stray Park rsmarSilv.& Lead Min. fin Cron 'l 18 19 West Basset (Mogan) l6 10 11 1V Cr radon (Liskeard) 5 19 21 West Setou Wheel Basset (Mogan) 51 85 00 Wheal Buller(ltedruth) 10 35 40 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 WhealLud: ott W heal Mary Ann (:len ) is 136 141 Wheal 3cton . 581 2to 210 Wheal Tresawney (Lis.) 7 21 24 Wheal Union 3.17 26 21 PREFERENCE SHARES, Gt. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford, 2d guaranteed stock, 120, North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Ditto 46 per cent., red., 100 North Eastera, Stockton and Darlington, A 5 per Cent., 27k LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. Bucklnghamshire,:9 l f FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Great Luxembourg, 11 Sambre and Meuse, Si Sao Paulo (lint), gua. 7 per cent., 8 FOR,EIGN MINES. Cape Copper, lim., 13 Linares, St. John del Rey (lim.), 44! 5 Yudananiutana 0 S. Australia, lim.,:3} BANKI. Alliance aim.). 5E4 9 Ditto, new, 49 Anglo Austrian, 75 1 Anglo-Italian, limited, 65 5 . Australasia, 74, S Bank of .tago, lira., 41 Bank of Queensland (lim), 211 British and Californian, hm., 75 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 111 121 Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and Chins,. 42 Chartered 41er. of India, London, and China, 711 Consolidated Bank, 1im.,111 East:London, lira., 9 English and Irish, lira., 185 1 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 215 European Bank, lira., 131 4 i m perial Bank (lira.), 40 2 11 Imperial Ottoman, 20) 6 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 41 London Bank of Scotland, Um., 221 London and Brazilian aim.), 62 London, Birm., and S. Staffordshire, lira., 285 71 London and Colonial (lim.), 175 i x London and County, 61 5 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exch lim., 20 15 London Joint Stock, 465 6 London and Northern, lira., 24 Merchant Bank, din 175 Mercantile and Exchange. lira., 18 ei ropolitan and Provincial Bank, Midland Bank (lim.), 17 Mexican, lim., 75:5 Oriental Bank Corporation. 67 61 punjab, and Delhi, lim., 121 12 ScinDdeit, Ditto, new, 12 Sou th Eastern, lim ., 46 5 Stan d a rd of Britis h South Africa (lime), 30 Union of Ireland, lim., 215 Union of London, 525 MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, Bra.. 85 ontract orporation, lim., 15 Discount Corporation, 111 Egyptian Corn. and 'Trading, Era., 55 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lira., 10 Hudson's Bay, 19 Imperial Financial, Um., 105 25 International Financial ••ociety, lim., 14:5 Joint Stock Discount. iim., 71 London Financial Association, lim., 265 75 Ditto, new, 15.5 ondon Provincial Marine, /5 Mercantile Credit Association, lim , 165 T hames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), Him. 7 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1864. MARKETS—This Day. and the late advance in the quotations is fully supported. The excitement in this description has, however, in some measure subsided. For Down wool there is a steady in quiry, and prices rule firm. Purchases at high rates still continue to be made in new produce in first rate hands. Colonial wool, by private contract, is in fair average re quest at fully last week's currency. The next public sales will probably commence on the sth prox. The arrivals to date are :—From Sydney, 9,466 bales; Port Philip, 34,663; Van Dieman's Land, 1,591; Adelaide, 10,811; New Zealand, 3,265; Swan River, 1,121; Cape, 6,975. Total, 67,898 bales. last sentence was no doubt irresistible. There is one other argument, however, which we have kept to the last as the gem of the whole speech. "It was impossible," be said, " to regard the proposal as anything but an attempt to increase the number of Roman Catholic subjects." We confess we are at a loss to understand what this means; er how the visits of Roman Catholic priests to Roman Catholic prisoners would have any tendency to increase their or any other species. Would it have been credible before the event that all this nonsense should have been not only spoken, but listened to patiently and approved by 70 magistrates of the metropolitan county ? They had before them two simple considera tions—one of common justice, the other of com mon reason. The question of justice may be simply proposed in the familiar coeeideratloa of doing as Vicy would be done by. If many hundreds of our countryman were constantly liable to be immured in a Spanish prison, these seventy gentlemen are just those who would get up a great agitation and go on deputations to Lord Palmerston to get Protestant chaplains appointed to the Spanish gaols ; and they would think it monstrously hard if the Pontifical Government refused to allow the establishment of a Protestant clergy man and a Protestant church at Rome. Yet no other considerations whatever, except force, can be brought to bear on the Spanish or Roman Govern ment which do not equally bear on the magistrates of a county with a large number of Roman Catholic prisoners. As to the consideration of reason, the question is, as we have before put it, whether these prisoners shall have any religious or moral influence brought to bear on their minds at all. It is idle to say they can have it if they like. It is much the same thing as telling a man with hydrophobia that he may drink water if he likes. The very men who will not send for the priest are just those who want him most. The opposing magistrates seemed to speak of the matter on Thursday as though a minis ter were a sort of luxury which ought to be denied to prisoners, in the same way as amusing books or newspapers or venison, as though he were a sort of dispenser of agreeable theological excitement or con troversial delicacies. But we appoint chaplains to our gaols for the supposed purpose of initiating a process of improvement by awakening in the minds of prisoners religions and moral motives. He is sup posed to be as essential a part of the prison as the cell, the rank, or the treadmill. His duty and use are, ao to say, to interpret to the convict the external consequences of his crime, and force them home on his conscience and reason. If this be necessary for Protestant prisoners, it is certainly necessary for Roman Catholic prisoners ; and it is, in fact, nothing short of a direct derelection of duty when it is not provided. We hope the day is not far off when the prejudices we have been exposing —perhaps more foolish than bigoted—will yield to these simple considerations, and when Roman Catholic ministers will be regularly admitted, not only to our gaols, but even, in spite of Sergeant Payne's almost inhuman expression, to lunatic asylums. That any English gentleman could be led to refuse to the unhappy inmates of county lunatic asylums the chance of the comforting, and therefore restoring, influence which the ministra tions of priests of their own religion might afford is alone sufficient to condemn the spirit which prompted the opposition of the Middlesex Magis trates. MARK-LANE. The demand for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday ruled heavy, and prices declined in several instances is per quarter. Malting barley was dull, and drooping in value ; but in oats, beans, and peas, including flour, no quotable change took place. Both on the continent and at New York buyers of pro duce on British account operate cautiously, and prices rule in some instances the turn easier. Up to this market last week the arrivals of English grain, &a., were bur, moderate. The imports from abroad amounted to 4,832 qrs of wheat, 1,267 barley, 19,366 oats, 1,600 rye, 20 beans, 275 tares, 8,932 linseed, 2,753 oilseeds, 220 sacks and 1,200 barrels of flour. The arrivals of English wheat, fresh up to our market to-day, were but moderate. The trade, however, both for red and white qualities, ruled heavy, and, compared with Monday last, the prices realised exhibited a reduction of fully is per quarter. 'f he supply of foreign wheat on the stands was by no means extensive. Dant zic and 1i onigsberg wheat were held at previous rates ; otherwise, the trade was dull, and the quotations had a downward tendency. Floating cargoes of grain were in limited request, at about stationary prices. The market was seasonably well supplied with mostkinds of barley. For all descriptions the; trade ruled heavy, and prices declined is per quarter. Malt sold heavily, and the quotations gave way is per quarter. The supply of oats on sale was moderate. Generally speaking, the trade ruled quiet, yet no change took place in the rates current on Monday last. The supply of beans on sales was small, and the trade ruled firm, at extreme rates. Peas fully supported last Monday's currency, with a steady demand for all qualities. The show of samples on offer was very moderate. For flour, both English and foreign, the demand ruled inactive at previous quotations. Current prices of English wool, per lb. Fleeces —South Down hoggets 1 111 to 2 01 Halt-bred do Kent fleeces South Dawn ewee & wethers. 1 9 1 10 Leicestor do. Lincolnshire hoggetts Sorts—Clothing Combing Noils .. Brokes 0 0 0 0 CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE, Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 37s to 41s .. Ditto, old —s —s Ditto, white, 1863 4ls 47s Ditto, old —s —s Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old 37s 41s Ditto, 1863 Talavera, Rye— Barley—Grinding 23s 25s Malting 2ss 388 Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6OB 66s Brown Kingstown and Ware 6OB 66s Chevalier 66s 68s Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding lBB 23s Potato 21s 258 Youghal and Cork, black lss 23s Cork, white Scotch, Feeding l9B 235 Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey Maple White Boilers 335 36s Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b Suffolk Stockton and N0rf01k....... American, per barrel l9s 258 METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The show of foreign stock in to-day's market was only moderate for the time of year, and its general quality was by no means first rate. From our grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, the arrival of beasts fresh up was tolerably good. The English beasts were of middling quality—those from Scotland very prime. Most breeds commanded a steady sale, and, in some few instances, the quotations advanced 2d per Blbs. Inferior beasts sold at last week's currency. A. few very superior Scots and crosses realised 55., but the general top figure for beef was 43 10d per 81be., at which sales pro gressed steadily. The arrivals from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridge. shire amounted to 1,950 Scots, crosses, and short horns; from other parts of England, 700 various breeds ; from Scotland, 337 Soots and crosses ; and, from Ireland, 140 oxen. With most breeds of sheep, we were somewhat scantily supplied—but their general condition was good. The mutton trade was firm, and really prime sheep were 2d. per 81bs. higher in price. The best Downs, in the wood, sold at 6s ; out of the wool, 4s 10d per 81bs. Lambs were in fair request az - , ♦ery full prices, viz , from 6s to 7s 4d per Blbs. About 600 arrived from the Isle of Wight. In calves—the supply of which was only moderate—very little was doing, at last week's quotations. The sale for pigs was heavy, at late rates. Per 81bs.to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 8 Second quality do. 3 10 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, etc. 4 8 4 10 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 8 4 4 Second quality do. 4 8 5 2 Lambs....( Suckling calves, 17e to 23s 20s to 26s each. GARIBALDI AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. (THIS DAY.) The presentation of the trades' addresses to General Garibaldi having been arranged for to day, the early trains to the Crystal Palace were crowded in an extraordinary manner. The gates of the Palace were opened at nine o'clock, and immediately after thousa ids of visitors arrived in quick succession. The weather was all that could be desired, and no doubt this greatly swelled the number of those present. Nothing like an estimate of the number present at the time of writing could be iformed, as every five minutes brought fresh acquisitions to the already enormous assemblage. The proceeding will be as great a success as the presentations of Saturday ; and as that event will be found in another part of The Sun, it is only necessary at present to say that the demonstration of to-day was nearly in all respects similar, except as to the filing past the General of the numerous deputations, each of whom presented the address of their respective bodies. s. d. s. d. Primecrs-wool d 0.5 4 5 8 Pme. S' thdown do . 5 10 6 0 Largo orse. calves 4 4 5 0 Prime small do 5 2 5 4 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Small porkers , 4 2 4 6 is Od to 7s 4d. and quarter-old store pigs, -- - TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .... Cows - Sheep and lambs .... 1,630 Sheep and lambs.... 19,0201 Calves Calves 149 , Pigs Pi gs 49JI The total imparts of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 4,525 head. in the corresponding week in 1863, we received 3,716—in 1862, 2,539—in 1861, 3,211 —in 1860, 1,939—in 1859, 944—in 1858, 2,318 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDtair LAsl WEER.. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam .... 430 .. 83 .., .. 283 .. 233 Harlingen .... 714 .. •. 1 25 .. Hamburg .... 18 .. 1934 • • ~ . • Amsterdam.... .. 80u10gne...." .. Bremen .. •• .. •• .. Dordt. 2O .. 87 .. - .. 1 .. ..- Nieu Diep .... .. Antwerp. 7 •• Ostend ...... ... 39 .. Calais — il• Oporto 9l •• Dunkirk 8 •• SYDENHAM, 12 o'clock. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. The attendance is beyond all precedent. The interior of the building presents a sight of the most extraordinary nature. Everything bids fair to pass off with the greatest effect and order. QUARTER PAST Two. Attendance about 26,000. Not 50 many here as expected. ____ - • . -- . • -- - 245 HALF-PAST Two. "..... • • ''''' • • -- • . ---- - . . - • • 12 .. 76 - . • -- • a 16 . . 67 General just arrived. Received with enthusiasm. Numbers greatly increased. Deputations filing past. .--. • • -- • • "-- • . - -- .. - .. - .. 146 •••••••• •••••••••• ••••••• 1.•••••• ~..... Total .... 1327 .. 2104 .. 1 .. 337 .. 756 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1863 677 .. 2,456 .. 20 .. 648 .. 15 1862 .. 72 .. 2 , 056 .. 4 .. 402 .. 5 1861 484 .. 2,206 .. .. 193 .. 328 1860 1859 233 .. 567 .. 9 .. 131 .. 4 1858 252 .. 1,814 .. .. 252 .. A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan cattle market, on Monday, April 20, 1863, and this day. Monday, April 18, 1864. Per 81b. to sink tho offal. April 20, April 18, 1863. 1864. Coarse and inferior beasts.... 3 2to 3 4 3 4to 3 8 Second quality do 3 8 310 310 4 2 Prime large oxen .. 4 0 4 4 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, &c 4 6 4 8 4 8 410 Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do Prime coarse-woolled do 4 8 6 4 5 4 5 8 Prime Southdown do. .. 6 6 6 8 510 6 0 Lambs Large coarse calves: Prime small do. Large hogs Neat Small porkers.... Beasts Sheep and lambs Calves Pigs 470 490 SUPPLIES ON SALE, April 21, 1862.—Beasts, 3,420 — sheep and lambs 21,460—calves, 3 7 — pigs, 445 . APRIL 22, 1861.—Beasts, 3,610 —sheep, 17,620—calves, 65—pigs, 530. , . _ , • _ . - .4k., The French Press on Garibaldi's Visit to England, SECOND EDITION. The Monde says that the English Cabinet sane. tions the demonstrations through hatred to France. Our contemporary expresses itself in these terms : ;Whilst onr sophists labour, at the rehabilitation of Satan, the enerey of God ; of Judas, the enemy of Jesus Christ; and of Julian the Apostate, the enemy of the Church, there is at a few leagues from France a nation which does not content itself with writing and speaking, but which acts—a nation which acclaims and receives as a King, a hero, and a virtuous man, the declared enemy of France and of the Catholic Chards, and the friend of Eng • land and of Mazzini. It is not an ignorant populace who press its crowds round him, who carry in triumph, and who abandon every occupation to see end hear him and touch his hand, but all classes, all .; ages, and all conditions of the nation, old men, women, and children, all are in movement ; workmen, tradesmen, and manufacturers, all rush to meet him. The official world rival in enthusiasm with simple citizens; members of the House of Commons mix with peers; the aristocracy show themselves as eager as the democracy; Whigs and Tories manifest equal admiration ;:even the Mi nisters of Queen - Victoria follow the cortege of the hero, and go so far as to endeavour to make her Majesty take part in the demonstration, by advising her to confer the Order of the Garter on the Duke of Sutherland, the host of Garibaldi. The delirium is universal. But is it delirium ? Lord Pal merston, who at fit st was not well pleased at the arrival of the adventurer, soon changed his conduct by recognising what he could not prevent, and has resolved to turn the visit to his own advantage. if his wish has been to obtain a striking glorification of the Italian Revolution, he has certainly succeeded; if he has wished to show that England is still the cordial enemy of France, the enemy of the Papacy, and the instigator of revolutions, he has been suc cessful ; his triumph is complete, sad he has, moreover, the satisfaction of seeing that a great part of the French press unites its plaudits to those of London, and triumphs with it at the shameless insults offered to France. It is from this time agreed that France has done nothing in Italy, that England alone rendered possible that glorious revolution; that she alone can secure the complete accom plishment of it, and that to her alone the gratitude of Italy will be due. We willingly leave that glory to England and to the adventurer whose name is so justly posted up by the side of those of Mazzini, of Scanst'eld, and of Palmer ston ; the manifestations in London relieve France from a heavy responsibilite , and in that point of view we rejoice at them. One of the first consequences will be, it is said, the return to power of Baron Ricasoli, a convert to Protestantism and a man devoted to England. So much the better, for all veils will then rent asunder, the blindest will be compelled to see clearly, and if the patriotic journals which here acclaim the hero of Marsala persist in their en thusiasm, no one can be mistaken as to the sentiments with which they are inspired. The Gazette de France affects to consider Gari baldi es a nulity popular for the moment and likely to become an instrument in Lord Palmerston's hands should the fitting occasion arise The conduct of the English towards Garibaldi (says the writer) excites many very angry feelings and an indigna tion bordering on disgust. We confess, for our part, but this is purely a personal opinion, that we entertain none of these sentiments. Garibaldi is a noisy nullity, an ' heroic blockhead,' as was remarked by his friend Mazzini, who knew him from experience. Circumstances and the political game of Count Cavuur have made him a celebrity, a popular type; he has served as a screen for the Piedmontese plot ters, as he is now used to mask the political machinations of the English. Garibaldi, as wo have said, is a diplomatic instrument, serving as a bugbear in the hands of those who will take the trouble to use him. For this, it suffices to ctli him a hero, a god, to wreathe crowns for him, to receive him with acclamations to overwhelm him with polite attentions, toicall him one's friend.' He has a special weakness for this kind of appellation. It was by calling him his friend,' and allowing himself to be addressed in letters as ' dear Victor,' that Victor Emmanuel held him so long in the service of his ambition, Some will perhaps think that this is not paying too dearly for Garibaldi's services, for Garibaldi may, at a given moment, become very useful, when a pretext of agitation is wanting to cover a premedi tated usurpation ; but there are persons who will not de scend to such a complaisance; and would find such a strata gem repugnant in spite of all the advantages connected with it. England does not feel any of these scruples, and at this moment she is striving to attach the "hero" to her self by the cheers of the people and the visits of the no bility. Lord Palmerston requires such an auxiliary for the scheme he meditates ; it accords with the views of his strategy to send Lord Clarendon to Paris and to wel come Garibaldi. The general is an invaluable instru ment to the English, because it is possible to exaggerate his influence without increasing his power. An able man, like some members of the Radical party, would take advantage of these acclamations to extend his power of ac tion ; he would take his earnest and make his conditions; Garibaldi does riot see so far. _ _ . SUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 O'CLOCK.. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURGH, April 16.—The Bank has reduced to 5 per cent. its discount of three months' bills, and 51 per cent. for those of six 'months, and on advances on merchandise and securities. ,SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. CITY BETTING.—Tnis DAY. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 11 to 4 agat Fille de l'Air (taken) 8 to 1 agat General Peel (taken) Bto I agst Sir Roger (taken) 10 to 1 agat First Flight (offered) 12 to 1 agat Claremont (offered) 15 to 1 agst Copenhagen (taken) 16 to 1 agat Durham (taken) 16 to 1 agst Hollyfox (offered) 20 to 1 agat Laotnedon (taken) CHESTER tup. 10 to 1 agat Change (taken) 10 to 1 agst Lord Zetland (taken) 12 to 1 agat Little Stag (offered) 15 to 1 agst Greenland (taken) 16 tc 1 agst Hersey filly (offered) 16 to 1 agst Gordian Knot (taken) 20 to 1 agst The Clown (taken) 25 to 1 agat Welcome (taken) RACING FIXTU: API Lewes Spring l9 Cardiff Chester .. 3 York Spring Salisbury l2 Blayion Radcliffe Ju: Wye Maidstone 3 Ascot Hampton l5 Newton Odiham Bibury Newmarket July Carlisle Pontefract Abingdon Cambridge Liverpool July Stamford RES FOR 1864. RIL. Newmarket First Spring 25 Redditch .. 16 Bath Manchester (Summer Harpenden Epsom 24 'NE Beverley 22 Stockbridge Chelmsford.. 2B New Forest Hunt 2B Newcastle-on-'Tyne Worcester (Summer) Ipswich .. 'LY. Nottingham . l9 Winchester l9 Southampton .. 2O Chesterfield King's Lynn Goodwood LST. Bright on 2 Brighton Club Lewes 5 Huntingdon . . 9 Wolverhampton Reading Egham Oxford SEM' Dover York August 2E Yarmouth Plymouth Lichfield 29 Stocktcn Devon and Exeter Derby 'EMBER. `Weymouth 1 Warwick September 6 Leicester 8 Bridgwater Doncaster Brecon .. 19 Richmond Monmouth Manchester Autumn NewmarketFirst October 27 Bedford Northallerton 6 Newmarket Second Oct lO Lincoln Gloucester Newmarket Houghton 24 Worcester Autumn .... 1 Shrewsbury Autumn .. 14 IRI Springhill 2 Galway Hunt 3, 4 Nenagh lO, 11 Ju: Leamington &War. Hunt 22 rhe Union enters into the following disquisition on the probable motive for Lord Clarendon's visit Cork Tullamore Tipperary 3O, 31 Curragh . 28, 29, 30 to Paris : What is the object of this mission f Is it the Danish Duchies? Is it Eastern affairs and the convents of the Danubian principalities P Is it the Suez Canal. All those hypotheses are possible and probable. We should not, how ever, be astonished if the noble lord was charged with negotiating some still more important interests. The Eng lish cabinet may have the desire to obtain from Paris some clear, explicit, and categorical declarations as to the manner in which the eventualities of peace and war are viewed. England has not at the present mo ment any wish to draw the sword ; she strongly desires that the conflict which has broken out in Germany ah•iuld not lead to a:general conflagration, and her own embarrass ments cause her to with for an amicable solution. Bus who knows if she does not desire, before becoming, in a certain manner, a guarantee for peace, to be sole to rely upon something mere than that attitude of reserve, of isolation, and meditation, to employ a word in fashion, which she re marks in the French Government ? The Earl of Clarendon would no doubt not be sorry to take back before the 20th some assurances a little more significant than all that Earl Cowley has thus far been able to obtain. The game— a dangerous one—which the Ministry is allowing to be played, not without a certain affectation, around Gari baldi by the population, the aristocracy, and the revolutionary and anti-papal passions of England, might in its turn indirectly serve Lord Clarendon as an argument which cuts both ways, in favour of the thesis which he has come to support. If the French Government was not absolutely pacific and conservative, England would declare herself hardly able to restrain the outbursts of the famous condottiero, and then war, if it broke out, would inevitably assume the character of a demagogical conflagra tion. Even Victor Emmanuel, who feels that he himself is outstripped and overpowered, begins to be afraid. England is persuaded that in presence of this peril she will receive pledges of a firm resolution not to run the risk of hostilities; these are what Lord Clarendon has probably come to pro cUre, not concealing the fact that, if he returns without be ing able to obtain them, the British Cabinet will feel re leased from all responsibility as to what serious events the future may bring forth " SEPTEMBER. Curragh 6, 7, 8 OCTOBER, Curragh lB, 19, 20 STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864, NOVEMBER. Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt 22 Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. Market rather quiet. Sales probably 5,000 bales. SHIPPING--This Day. LONDON, April 18.—Wind this day at noon—South- West; moderato breeze and fine weather. FALMOUTH, April 17.—Wind N.—Arrived--Partheon, from Zanzibar. COWES, April 16.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Lady Bea trice, from Bahia, DOVER, April 15.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Phonia, for Richibucto. MILFORD, April 17.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Jamaica Packet, screw steamer, for Jamaica. OFF OROOSILATEN, April 18.—Arrived—China, screw steamer, from New York. REPRESENTATION OF DEVIZES.—Sir Thomas Bateson, Bart., the Conservative candidate, was elected this day without opposition. The Gordian knot of the Eve Under-Secretaries in the Rouse of Commons has been cut by the unsolicited resignation of Mr. Chichester Fortescue. Mr. Lowe has also resigned the office of Vice-President of the Council. Lord Dufferin and Lord Wodebouse are spoken of for the •acant Under-Secretaryship, anal Mr. Fortescue to succeed Mr. Lowe. -- EXECUTION IN IRELAND.—On TlinrsaY morn ing, at 8 o'clock, the last sentence of the law was carried into effect at Waterford on the person of Thomas Walsh. The facts cannected with the case were of a most revolting nature.—They are thus bi idly related :—Thomas Walsh and Thomas Connolly both lived in a wild district in the south of Waterford. The daughter of the former married the grandson of the latter, and all went to live in the same house. The old meta never agreed, and were always quarrelling. One morning young Connolly left home, and the old men and Walah's daughter were left alone in the house. Walsh availed himself of this oppor tunity, knocked down Connolly with a hatchet, and then, dragging his lifeless body into an outhouse, actually chopped it up into small pieces. These he made so small that he was able to take them in handfuls and bury them in a garden which joined the house, But afterwards he thought this place too near, so at night he again took up the mangled remains, put them into a bag, and conveyed them to a bog about three miles distant, where he buried them, making three or four portions, and burying them in different places. When young Connolly came home next day of course he missed his grandfather, and, his suspicion being aroused, searched for, and after several days' search, found portions of his mutilated remains. As yet there was no direct evi dence against old Walsh, but his daughter, who had been, according to her own statement, an unwilling witness to all that has been related, and who, believing herself to be in danger, saw no means of getting out of it except by swear ing against her father. Her father was hanged on her evidence, and it may be said on her evidence alone. There is something so unnatural in this that most persons wish the Crown could have dispensed with her evidence. A considerable crowd had assembled long before the time ap pointed for the execution. It was principally composed of women, girls, and boys. Few men were present. It was very orderly, very quiet—indeed, most looked as if they were deeply impressed with the scene. Precisely at eight o'clock the condemned man was led to the scaffold. He looked pale and worn, trembled violently, and could scarcely stand. He was attended by the Rev. Mr, Dunphy of this city. The executioner did his business expedi tiously—he was evidently no young hand. His face was blackened, so that it was impossible to tell what he was like. Walsh was placed on the trap ; in a tew moments the bolt was drawn, and the struggling, quivering body was swinging in the air. In a short time he ceased to struggle , —hie soul was before his judge, NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. These markets aro hut moderately supplied with town and country-killed meat. The trade, however, is dull, at our quotations. Per Sib. by the carcase. stied s d s 6 Inferior boef .. 2 10 3 2 Middling mutton 4 0 4 4 Nliddling do. .. 34 3 8 Prime do .. 44 4 6 Prime large do. 3 10 4 0 Vaal Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Small pork 4 0 4 8 Large pork .... 3 2 3 10 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 6 3 10 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIRLDS. For the time of year the supply of potatoes on sale at these markets is very large. Good and fine parcels are in fair average request, and prices rule tolerably firm; other wise, the trade is dull at about last week's currency. A few parcels were received from Portugal last week. Yorkshire Regents Flukes Rocks Perth, Forfar, and Fife Regents 40s to 60s ~ Rocks Kent and Essex Regents SEEDS. The inquiry for cloverseed was inactive, yet prices ruled film. For trefoil there was a moderate demand, at previ ous quotations. Canary and tares were a slow sale. Lin seed and rapeseed fully supported last week's prices. A fair business was transacted in cakes, and prices ruled firm. Turnip, White,p.bus.lls to 14s Carraway 22s 26s Swede —s —s Coriander 126 188 Mustard, Brown .. 10a 13s Ilempseed, per qr 448 46s White, Tares, Spring....4s Od 46 6d Crushing 5BB 63s Old per quarter -s —s Baltic —s —8 Chnary, per quarter 52s 6:s Odessa —B —8 itye grass, new 22s 24s Linseed Cake, p ton —s —8 Clover, Red Eng., et. 42s 7ts English £9 10s.£10 163 White Foreign Red.... 4 8 48s Rape Cakes,p ton.£s Os .£6 Os White sls 688 Rapeseed, new,pr qr 62s 65s Trefoil, new 22a 278 BOROUGH HOP. The amount of business passing in our market is still of limited extent. Prices, however, both of English and foreign qualities, rule firm. The import last week amounted to 105 bales from Antwerp, 11 Hamburg, and 23 bales front Rotterdam. Mid and East Kents £5 Os to £9 10s per cwt. Weald of Kents 5 Os to 7 7s ~ Sussex 4 15s to 6 155 Yearlings Bavarian 5 5s to 8 8s I , Belgian American WOOL. Long-stapled English wool continues very firm in price, TALLOW. The tallow trade continues very inactive. P.Y.C. is quoted at 41s per cwt., on the spot ; 41s 9LI for July to September, and 43s 6d to 44s for October to December de livery. Rough fat, 2s lid per Blbs. Town tallow, 40s 3d net cash. Particulars. 1850. 1851 1862. 1863. 1864. --- Stock this day_ al •I•••••••RR - 76-081 37460 ( 41.823 .2,1(6 56x2;1 t 0,595 65 to 4t st,d to 42894 toils Od to Delivery lastweek 1,186 1, tue 1,991 1,312 I,f 02 —6 Od —s Cd 46s 6d —s Od — s Od Price Ditto o fr f o Y m 'C J ' une 1 ;3,63 70,441 111,458 72,688 63,37 , Arrivals last week 733 283 I 307 50 Ditto from June 1 91.791 115,323 92.157 76,232 82,639 Price of Town .... 50s 65 56s 65 47s 95 4is 3d 43s 05 Roman Catholic Chaplains, (From the Times.) It will have been observed with regret filet the Middlesex magistrates have decided, by a large ma jority, neither to appoint Roman Catholic chaplains to their gaols nor even to pay priests for visiting Roman Catholics in the county prisons. Our readers will remember that a bill was passed last year which gave the magistrates power under certain circum stances, with the consent of the visiting justices, to appoint a Roman Catholic priest as minister, and to give him a fixed and sufficient remuneration. Wherever the number of prisoners exceeds 30 the Act may be put in force. Where it is not adopted, prisoners are only visited by a priest at their own request. The Middlesex county prisons are a good instance of the necessity of some such measure. According to a letter which we pub'ish in another column, the number of Roman Catholic prisoners in the three county prisons is no less than 649. The number in the House of Correction is 391, in the Westminster Bridewell 223, and in the House of Detention 35. All these at present have no regular religious instruction. They will, of course, in nearly every case exercise their right of refusing to receive the visits of the chaplain of the Established Church, and there is no one else to go to them. They may, if they ask for it, receive visits from a priest, but it is not surprising that, as stated on Thursday, " comparatively few prisoners have made such re quests ;" and the result is that a 1 these prisoners, remain without any religious influence—we might almost say any moral influence—being brought to bear upon them. They are simply subjected to the hard lessons of the penal discipline of the gaol, and left to deduce the moral for themselves. Mr. Laurie endeavoured, by the most obvious arguments of justice and common sense, to induce the magistrates to put an end to this disgraceful state of things. He proposed resolutions for the appointment of regular Roman Catholic ministers for these three prisons, leaving the details of the arrangements in the hands of the visiting justices. Such a straightforward proposal, however, seems to have been felt at once to involve a liberality of feeling which was not to be expected in the board of magistrates, and Mr. Cox endeavoured to substi tute a proposition which should give a less serious shock to traditional prejudices. He only ventured to propose that the justices should be requested to carry out so much of the act as relates to "per mitting a minister of the church or persuasion to which prisoners belong to visit them at proper and reasonable times" under any necessary regulations, and that they should be authorised to pay such ministers a moderate remuneration. Even this, however, was far too much for the meeting. and the amendment was rejected by no less a majority than 65 to 7. Upon this another amendment was proposed, directly denying the necessity and the j us tice of the proposition before the Court. It committed the magistrates to the opinion " that the present arrangements for the moral and religious instruction of the prisoners are suf ficient," though, as we have explained, ae far as Roman Catholic prisoners go, there are no such arrangements at all; and " that any appointment by the Court of permission by the visiting justices for Roman Catholic priests to attend at the prisons on all occasions, whether their ministrations are re quired or not, would be unnecessary and improper," —a statement of which we will venture to say that, like many Protestant manifestoes, it contains as much ingenious misrepresentations as any of the Roman Catholic evasions which are these gentle men's bugbears and every honest man's abomi nation. No one proposes, ever did propose, that Roman Catholic priests should be allowed to attend at the prisons " on all occasions," but only on such occasions as shall be permitted by the regulations of the visiting justices; nor was it ever contemplated that they should attend " whether their ministrations are required or not," but only . when it sh a ll reasona bly appear a b r e e e r e e n ci s u i d i required . that The thisoele tquestionhat suc such when ministrations teio shall requirement exists. At present it depends upon the caprice of the priso ner ; the proposa l o f t h e act is to makeit depend on the judgment of the magi s.etvreant e c s r t c H i s e e w d e v e n r d , t t b h i e s d a i ni si e n n g d e m nu e o n u t s w an a d s extrava gantscarcely resolution was adopted by a majority of 70 to 24, or nearly 3to 1. The original proposal was l t h e refore rejected, and th e resu l t rece i ve d with " cheers." The cheers p rocee d e d, of course, from the magistrates themselves. There are very few other persons who will receive with any satis faction a result which proclaims that two-thirds of the magistrates of such a county as Middlesex are still capable of denying the c l a i ms o f reason and justice. gentle man who proposed the T Serg eant Payne—is a curio haemestipdeemcelantolmtrh.e learned gentleman to a body sity as being delivered b y of magistrates. It consists of nothing but a strin g of those loud and an educated and part unfounded, decla imr r a e t l o e r v y a nt, platitudesan df'or w t the which most y be eulo g i se d or s tudied at Protestant Institutes, but which are banished from the conversation and almost from the recollec tion of all reasonable men. Mr. Sergeant Payne "did it," it must be confessed, in a style which would have done honour to the most free and inde pendent orator who ever thundered Protestant "buncombe" on platform or in pulpit. " Three centuries ago their ancestors had fought for an amended form of religion, and they ought to hold by a Reformation which was founded in good sense." " When once the door was Opened there was no knowing when it would be closed." "If they admitted priests, there would be a sealed confession, and what would there be to prevent improper communications being made between the priests and the prisoners ?" Who, indeed, can tell what horrible ochemes, what new Guy Fawkes plots for the blowing up of the Queen, the Arch bishop of Canterbury, and Mr. Newdegate might not be hatched if two such persons as Father New man and an Irish convict got together in a prison cell ? May we suggest that the same danger exists from Roman Catholics loose as from Roman Catholics tied up, and that Mr. Payne himself and the whole Constitution are in imminent danger of being suddenly blown up so long as half a dozen priests and a dozen Irish Catholics exist in London? One or two other such dreadful consequences were suggested : and then came the peroration :—" It was said that the strong Protestant feeling of the country was sufficient to cheek Roman Catholic arrogance. He trusted that it was so, and he hoped that mi,tance would be made to every attack, however small, from a sense of thankful ness that we no longer lived under the blighting influence of A Roman Catholic priesthood." That Indisposition of Garibaldi, General Garibaldi, we are informed, through a letter addressed to us from Stafford House .by Signor Negretti, is not so well as his friends would wish him, there being very little doubt that the continued exertion of receiving eo many visits, and calling on so many friends, is telling greatly on his health, much more than the General himself likes to acknowledge. MR. SIMS REEVES AND THE ROYAL DRAMATIC COLLEGE.--We have been requested by Mr. Sims Reeves to state that there was nothing in the announcement of his illness to merit the derision with which it was received when made at Drury. lane Theatre on Wednesday afternoon. He was seriously indisposed, and the fact is conrfimed by his absence from Exeter-hall on Friday, when the oratorio of " St. Paul" was performed. DRURY-LANE 'THEATRE.'—The annual benefit of Mr. Walter Lacy takes place on Wednesday next (20th). On this occasion " Henry IV." will bo preceded by a scene from "Twelfth Night," a selection from the songs of Shakspere, with music and dancing of the poet's time—an entertainment in perfect keeping with the week of cele brations. FATAL ACCIDENT AT A STEEPLECITASE.—On Saturday an inquest was bold before Mr. C. C. Lewis on the body of Mr John Christian Tilbury, aged 2e, who died from injuries sustained by the fall of his horse upon him at the South Essex Steeplechases on Thursday last. The inquiry took place at the house of Mr. Campbell, on whose farm the accident occurred. Mr John Tilbury, of 9, Glocester-crescent, Hyde-park, said—The deceased was my son. He kept a riding establishment, and I acted as his assistant. Mr Samuel Augustus Baker, of Chelmsford, veterinary-surgeon,—On Thursday last deceased rode a horse of mine at the South Essex Steeplechase in the Hun ters' Stakes. I had not seen him before to my knowledge. He volunteered to ride, and appeared perfectly well and sober. He asked me if I had anything to say as to the riding of the horse. I told him he knew better what to do than I could tell him. The horse was a fine, clever jumper, and it had never before been in a steeplechase. It is coming five years old, and had been regularly hunted the whole season once a week, or twice in a fortnight. He is an easy horse to ride and of good temper. The horses started about three o'clock, and immediately afterwards I saw the horse loose. The deceased jumped the horse over the hurdles in front of the stand three times before starting. Mr. James White, jun., of Brentwood, said,--I saw the horses start—there were Bof them. Deceased was the last but one when he made the jump from the road. Six horses were before him. When he came to the fence the horse appeared not to be able to regain his stride, fell on its knees and rolled over the deceased. I ran to the deceased, who was lying on his side insensible. I, Mr. Burtwell, Mr. Pryor, and Mr. Shorter picked him up and brought him to Mr. Campbell's house, where he was immediately attended by several me dical men. John Slater, late of Heron-gate, said,—l know the fence and saw the deceased fall. I was standing about 4 rods off. The horse did not clear the fence as it ought— it appeared to catch its fore legs in the bushes—it stumbled, but did not appear to go right down. I saw the deceased fall opposite the horse, and over its head. Mr. Robert Finch Jordisor, of South Ockenden, surgeon, said,—l saw deceased immediately after the accident at Mr. Camp bell's house. I found him insensible on a sofa. There was no appearace of external injury. I remained with him until about six o'clock on Friday morning. He was then dying. My son remained with him until he died, at half past eleven. I have wade a post mortem examination s i n ce death, and discovered on the right side of the skull a minute star fracture, through which blood was exuding ; but the other injuries lie received by so severe a fall would be sufficient to cause death. Nothing could have been done to save him—it was a hopeless case from the first. A report that deceased was not sober at the time was most indignantly denied by Mr. Tilbury, who said his son was most abstemious. This ebidence was confirmed by Mr. Berridge. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The wife of the deceased was Miss Lydia Thompson, the celebrated actress, by whom he had one child. OCTI BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. Arrived, April 17—Lion, from Harlingen—Precursor, from Adelaide—Golden South, from Demerara—Alphing ton, from Algoa Bay. DEAL, Monday Morning. Arrived and Passed, April 17—Cetvantes, screw steamer, from London for Alicante. Passed—Eugenie, from London for Nassau—Rouen, from London for Nassau. Arrived, April 18th---Zephyr, from London for Ri Janeiro—Golden Fleece, from London for Algos Bay— Blanche, screw steamer, from London for Corfu. Lifeboat Services. WITHERNSEA, NEAR HULL, April 16. The new lifeboat of the National Institution stationed at Withernsea has happily been the means (reports Captain Swann) of rescuing three men from a position of great peril. Some of the fishing boats left Withernsea early this morn ing, and returned all safe with one exception, the wind at the time being about S, but variable. Shortly afterwards it suddenly veered round due N., and at 12 at noon it was S.E. These sudden changes in the wind caused a troubled sea with a very heavy surf. Shortly before two o'clock the absent boat was seen about two miles out. It was quite im possible for her to make the land ; had she attempted to do so she must inevitably have been swamped. On her making signals for assistance the lifeboat was manned and launched in a masterly manner, and with great rapidity. The fishermen were reached; their things taken from their boat and the boat taken in tow. The liteboat behaved admirably, and was brought in by the coxswain through the heavy surf in most creditable style, and again placed on her carriage quickly. The service was performed to the entire satisfactian of the lockers on. It is somewhat odd that the men saved are part of the old lifeboat's crew, one of them being the late coxswain. The cost of this boat, which is named the Pelican, was presented, through Wm. Wilson, Esq., to the National Lifeboat Institution about two years since by Miss Sarah Lcekinere of Henley Castle Vicarage. The Price of Gold. quotation ot gold at Paris is about / per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.17/ per £1 ster li ng. On comparing the rates with the English Mi nt pr i ce 0 1 £3 17s. lqd- theun same ° for stLanonddarodngaonld Paris,d,ia ppe.,rs that gold ii about By advices trunillamburg the pri ce o f gol d i s 4231 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per .1:1 stcrlinn, per tandard gold at the English Mi n t ;wice therefore, about 1-10th per cent. dearer in Lond on th an in Hamb urg , pee price eoursc of exchange at New York on Landon for bills at 60 days' sight is 1771 to 178.1 per cent., and the premium on gold is about 3 percent. At these rates there is no profit on the importationoi gold from the United States. At an extraordinary general meeting held to.. day of shareholders in the London and Provincial Marine Insurance Company, Admiral Sir Henry Leeke, Bart., M.P., in the chair, it was unanimously determined to increase the capital of the under taking from £710,000 to £1,000,000 by the creation of 14,500 new shares of £2O each. The new shame are to be issued at a premium of £1 each, and to be. offered to the proprietors in the first instance in the proportion of two new for every five shares now held. The advices relating to the condition of trade in the manufacturing districts during the past week are, in most instances, of a favourable character. At Manchester the speculative demand for cotton occasioned a slight rise in prices for that staple, and rather more business was transacted. For cloths, woollen, and worsted descriptions, the re spective markets at Leeds, Huddersfield, and Halifax, presented a steady hut quiet appearance. At Bradford there was experi enced little more buoyancy in consequence of the advance in cotton, and at Leicester there prevailed a full inquiry for hosiery goods. Large ordera from the country and abroad had been received at Shef partments consequently present a fipld and Birmingham, and the future aspect of et i t n iß t f h a e c s t e or d; appear auce. v aff er a y ir Es IBER. I%fBER. SH. !