The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-08 00:00:00

E AND COAIIaRCIAL INTELLIGENCE. _ In th CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. 0 ,u e - meral disc ount market there i s l itt l e I si ness in progress owin g t o th e expec t e d reduc -1011 to-morrow in the Bank of England minimum. Merchants and others are holding over their bills, be iL)tise they know if a downward movement be made the authorities, offered them by stiit greater concessions will b e Private establishments are therefore anxious to deers all the paper now brought forward at present rates, Which are 61 and 6 Z- per cent. About 50 , 00 0 sovereigns w e re withd rawn f rom a Bank,yesterday for the Brazils. The Wave of Life has arrived from Port Phillip ; it £20,888, and the City of London from New o , rk W i th £81,933. f If here was no a l terat i on of importance in the Qrelgii exchanges yesterday afternoon. T he sha re h olders of the London and Caledonian t'alarine Ins urance Company held a special meeting t ?' 4l aY for th e purpose of confirming certain resolu t4lB r especting th e f uture government of the Insti ation. Alr. Ambrose Emerson occupied the chair, 11114 the resolution was unanimously agreed to. Two O'CLOCK. 0 4 t Pari s thi s morning, according to Reuter's "egratn, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 671. 05c. 5 . , 411 , Improving t en d ency i s ex hibi te d i n the English Cae.lc Market in co nsequence o f severa l purchases „ 7 lng been e ff ecte d th i s morn i ng. The Funds "ca've recovered th e l oss susta i ned yesterday, and onBol B are 904 , a for money, and 90* LI for the ac count. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 89 1 ; Exchequer Bill s , lls. die.; India 5 per ‘dente,, 104 ; Enlaced 5 per Cents., 105; no. 51 Per Cents., 114; and the Bonds, 20s. dis. Zo the Foreign Market a firmer tone is apparent, arid business is rather more active. Turkish 6 per t ents., 1862, aro 71-1 -1; do, Consolides 481; 41 eziean, 441 45 ; do. New Loan, 1 dis. par ; Greek, 2 41 ; Spanish Passive, 327 H ; do. Certificates, 10; 9 4 Portuguese, 484 49; Russian Loan, 3* 4/ Prem.; Swedish do., 21 31 prem. ; Italian Bonds, 69 4 *; and the Confederate Loan, 64* 654-. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been restricted, and prices have shown less E rnaness. London, Chatham, and Dover have de- Vinod ; Midland, 10s.; Groat Northern A Stock, 55.; Metropolitan, 55.; and South Eastern, ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit no change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in me- A der ate req ues t, b ut at rat h er re d ucad rates. City lnk has d ecl i ne d to 134 , C ont i nental to 18, and ilsate Bank to 61; Discount Corporation have Improved to 161. Imperial Bank of China ara , 11.1()t ed dis. to par ; Mill wa ll I ron Works, -2- ; and Charnounix Hotel, 1 1-1 ; prem. e F OREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. nv. - • ERNMENT FUNDS. ' Per Cent. Consols pith-, A 90) a 3 ' - -.ceount, July 8 -,,Per, Cent. Reduced , v , 3 per Cent. B 9g i i Erra. Mhrch. June. -- '.equer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 , 4 & 3 per Cent. Ditto £SOO b Ditt o £lOO and £2OO i'anit England Stk, 5i per Ct. t , Ditto A ccount Ditto' 3 ' , v 2 per Cent. Jan. 1891... . annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Litto f or 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Atto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — I n Its naLt Iv GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. dia Stock, 101 per , Cent April 1874 217 . Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870 to Ac count Ditt o 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 — . r , Do Certificates "itte Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent.... D itto 5 per C en t., Jan. 1872 .. 105 4 Ditto 51 per Cent. May, 1879 Ditto Debentures, per Ct., April 1864 Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 99 Ditto Bonds Cl,OOO 2O dis Ditto under £l,OOO - BPI FISH FUNDS —CLOSING P RICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent... razilian 5 Ditto er Cent 1859 . D itto 41 pe p r Cent., 1852-58-60 $ Ditto 1863 ue nos Ayres 6 per Cent _ Ditto Account r , Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cont.) ok,hilian 6 per Cent - Ditto 41 psi Cent — Cab l-.• 2 . .- •--• t nulan 6 per G ent Va, 6 per Cent. Sili sh 3 per Cent., 1825 . Ditto 5 per Cent, 1863 — Dit • • • pm E to Scrip £7O paid L.lnador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. .Ytian 7 per Cent lOll Q.4)itto, Second Issue , 9k 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons Ditto Account Ditto C oupons 24k— — _1)44, Account titiOnaalas per Cent. ... jt ti; -40 , 1839 and 1859 . — Ai " 4 6 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Ditto— .3llcan 3 per Cent Account ..Dit.to IST .. Preach Scr sip, ECent x. 25f 20c —die p ew Granad a Sipe ...t o , Imperial 94 m, 84 Ditto 2 per Cent. .... — Ditto Deterred 9 ,-,'lvian 44 per Cent .. Ditto Account... Otto 3 per Cent. ............ uitto 44 per Cent., 1862 Po rtuguese Account 864 ° lnguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account 4Bl Ditto 3 p , ,er Cent. 1856 '7, '9, '6O, 62, ' 3 Ditto Account 49 81 , Ditto 1863 Scrip, £4O pa id Ditto 41 per C en t., 1850 Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 .. Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 - Ditto Anglo-Dutch Q ~ Di inian 5 p tto Scrip,er £2(ont paid atd e D itto Account 'Panish 3 per Cent D itto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account 454 Ditto Passive 8 I) itto Account 321 4 PWsh Cert. of Co u p no t f un d e d S Ditto Account lO 9/. 104 10 e Cent uitto Scrip, £4O paid — 4 a rkiall 6 per Cent. 1864 — pm bitto Acc ount 904 J) itto A cco 'hit° 6 per unt _,Cent. 1858 Ditto, £lOO Bonds — Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 D itto Account .. 71it , Ibitto £lOO Bond s 7ll Ditto 1863 --. 1-, Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent 'enezuela 3 per Cent. _ Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Mho Account.... Ditto 6 per Cent, 1864 D itto Scrip, £3O paid Ditto 11 per Cent 'ti.strian, 5 Dividends on the above payable in L on d , n . Bel g ia n 4 4 per per Cent., E x .2 Ex. 510 . . Florin 9. - f . D itto Account — D utch 24 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .... Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — ~ Ditto Account .......... ... . l'uvian Dollar Bonds, 4/ per Ct. Ex. 4s. ' l edinontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 251 Co nsols Money ........ T HREE O'CLOCK. 90k i bitto Account The Price of Gold. • --- th Th e quot a ti on of gold a t P a ris is about 2 per tnille pm., and ° e short exchange on London is 25.25 per £1 sterli ng , on e l' 4lP „ at ing," these rates with the English Mint price of £ 3 1% 1 1,1* wid. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is it uu t 1 -ICth per cent. dearer in London than Paris. 4 ,„ Y advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark 'de short exchange on London is 13.58 per £1 stcrlin:. 3..i otk ' a rd gold at dearerlis hint price is, therefore, about 1 ,,," Per cent, in London than in Hamburg. coddle n.ours e or exchange at New York on London for bills at ch,rht is about 204 per cent., and the premium on II ", aught per cent. At these rates there is a smal pro t im portation of gold from the United States. to TA R TUILIBODY BRIDGE MURDER. CASE.—The p o 4 t l ° l' Thomas A rno t f or t h e murder of a lad named David 1 5 i °ll on the All oa road, near Tullibody Bridge, on March a Iti ; t l a . t . took pl ace on M onday before the High Court of cia rY in Edi n b urg h . I t was stated by the prisoner's 1 0 : z i l !'el• that he was insane and unable to give instructions f or defence, and that therefore he was not a fit subject of Evidence having b e en l e d as to t h e state of mind (111 b 4 cous.d, th e C our t f oun d t h at the case was beyond t c) . one of present insanity, exempti ng th e party from ; ti 4 s l . t Order for the strict custody of th e accuse d i n Alloa unt ilthen her Majssty's pl easure s h ou l d b e known, was ber; 6stolid,lid,; en Arnot, whose demeanour in court had b een was d removed from the bar, BEARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. share Railways. Paid. Closing Business Price. done. I I 1114.! Bit... Wol., an d Str. Val. all 8 ti st ; glvtlie and d Tyne. 1/ -- , ' 10 amt.,Sleaf.,andMid.Oo.! all I 8 5 9 st Bristol and Exeter 1 100 iB3 45 845 st Caledonian ' 10) i 118 119 1 115 1 50 ICore and Bandon a:l i all 1 6 7 20 1 1 0 0 i ' D C D ' , o ) ) l . l A i w j a t !i ii ! G !* p et e s .i? n r.n o .h d a iN s; ! aall 1 .. t been paid ) 5 0 I Dtl.blat Z.; Ballast J une. I all 33 3 ? 25 !Dlln.,Perth,&Ab. June.i all 16 17 st Edinburgh es Glasgow. 100 01 93 at IG brag. and S. NVestern.,l 100 103 105 at IGreatEastern, Ord. anti 100 16 i 7 6 5 5 et Ditto A stock 1 100 -- at Ditto EastAnglian at 100 61 7 / at GreatNorthof Scotland 100 et Great Northern....— at Do A stock lOO 144 144 1445 35 st Do Bdo llOO 123 134 at Gt. S. and W. of Irelano 1100 91 93 at Great Western at Do Sir Val gua. stock 100 I st Lancashire &Yorkshire 160 111 1125 at London and 131ackwall 100 66 67 661 E t Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 103 104 105 at Lou., Chat., and Dover 100 41 43 42 4 at Lon. & North Western 100 111 1115 1115 5 1 at Lon. & ST.th Western 100 975 985 93 75 at Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 100 5i 25 544 50 Maryport and Carlisle, all 125 Do 5 share 3.. . all at Metropolitan all 113 114 1131 13 at Midland Do Nets at Do Birirting,..4s Derby 100 101 1C 3 60 Slid. Gt. W. of' Ireland all 25 Do. 5 shares - 25 Mid Kent ... all 10 Do Cray Line ...... all —.— st North British at Edln., Perth, Si Dundee 100 245 '450 at iNth. Eastern—Berwies 100 1015 1025 161 4 25 Do, G.N.E. purcham. 16.13.4 —ii at Do Leeds lOO 575 fB5 58 4 st Do York at Do Carlisle lOO st ,North London 10 Do New I 5 1 1k25 p 45.4 North Staffordshire i all I 77 79 774 84 10 N. and S. W. Junction all lu4 114 at Scottish Central at Scot IN. E., Aber. stmt lOO 36 33 at Do Scot. Mid. stock 1100 10 Shrews. and Welohpoo I all at shrogshire Union I '.' et ',Soot Devon TOO 53 85 24 at !South Eastern at (South Wales at S. York. and River Dun 100 1104 106 20 staines,Wok.,andWok all 8 9 15 Stockton & Darlington all 865 374 375 15 Do l7 05 10 , :2 Do New, IsicC. lO 75 85 , it Tail' Vale. 10 Do 13 8 6 7 i I 0 Do C 35 3 4 p ;0 Ulster !5 Do .10 Do 54 it Vale of Neath it Victoria sta. and Elm lOO it Waterford & Kilkenny 100 , t West Cornwall lOO 23 25 t IW. Hartlepool Hardiat lOO t West Midland --Oxford' 100 j t Do I Newport 100 -- t Do Hereford! 100 I— , l 0.18.4 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. I Closing 4 bor• ilanwlys road. Price. Business don. __ _ 100 .u,antle &St Lawrence all 60 62 ___ sk 1 liora.,Baroda&.Cent Ind 1 , ; ,, /03i jolt flu. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. New ...... 8 I— -- .0 Do. E. Shares. ,;0 Buffalo and Lake litiror all I , (1 10 Do. Preference oo Brant&Godricb 77 o p. Lit. Lids. Aug. 1, 1 is 00 Do. do. July 1, 187; 100 77 8 • 100 00. do. Jun,± 1, 1•;;-; 100 77 52 st ; iilcutta.LS.lt;L:stn. 100 101 1( 3 st I Cape Town lack Sri 100 88 100 stock Bengal gn. 5 11. 100 106 108 steek East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 1051 30.4 1061 51 20 ' Do. do. G Ext l5 4 - 21 p 20 Do. do. II do. .. 15 21.: stock Grand Trunk of Canada luu 201 214 211 201 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 73 15 73/ 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 61 61 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. all 66 CS 67 164 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 55 57 100 Do. 3d P: et. stock ... all 50 5 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 43 s 5 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock... all 29 31 30 100 Do. do. deferred...—. all 27 .30 27 stook Gtlncliarenin.gua.sp.c 100 105 / 1 1066 :054 20 Do. New gua. sp. a... 12 p Do. January, 1802 _ stook (It. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent 100 IC3 101 104 3 4 206 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 1 0 101 206 Do. New 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 90 9') 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77-8.... I all 82 81 10 Indian Branch Limited I 2 par 4p stook Modals guar., sp. o. 100 1, 3 , 4 stook D 0.41 p. a. Extension 100 97 99 • stock Dc. 44 d 0........ 100 92 01 20 Do. Fifth Extension: 2 -- stock gelb.Corp. 6p. 0. Ends 100 50 Nrelb. & Hobson's llay.l all 56 58 100 Do. 7p. c. 51orty. lids. all 20 Newßrl swick Class A. and B. all 3 5 N.lll.C'das pc Ist pi bds 100 82 74 stock Sot (100 103 104 stock Do. Deih1........ El• • 1100 1026 1031 , 103.1 4/ 20 Do. d 0.... I 2 d 10 at Do. Do. Duo. PWaub t 1 all 102/ 1034 no _ 8 `cck ID°. Indus.St • Flo.) .ga 000 106 98 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 6 p.c.J a SzJul3 1877-81 - Do. ap. c. Feb a A ng. 100 103 106 D 0.6 p. c.3lar & Sept. 100 102 104 Do. Sp. c. Jan &J uly. lOt 94 04 94 Do. 5 Inscribed stool, 100 91 93 Cape G.Llope, 6 p c,1871' 100 100 108 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 107 109 Do. 1890 100 1(9 111 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 110 112 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 8p c 100 110 112 1032 ,31auritius 6 per cent .. 100 100 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 107 IC9 N.8.G0v.6 p.c.Ja.&Jul) 100 102 IC4 I Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - N. S.W. Gov. 5 p 18eJ4 100 996 1006 Do. sp. c.,184.1 to 157( 100 991 1004 - ! Do. d0.,1838 & upwds 100 994 1101 100'j - New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 101 111 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. o. sterling, 1875 lOO 104 100 !Queensland (Icy. 6p. c lOO 108 110 - Aus (16p.c.1876.6; up lOO 110 112 - Vlc.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 i- Do. to 6 0.0. An.&00... 100 109 110 1 110 91 i 110 9f BRITISH MINES. 2 , uambrian Consol. Gold I / Id Amalgamated ] 33 35 Devon G. Con.. (Tavist ;, 1 560 670 East Bassett (Illogan) 30 63 65 East Clogau Gold Ltd lEast Caradon 2.14.6 28 29 East Cam Brea... ... . E. gr'l Russel (Tavistk ) 8.13.0 31 4 1 - ,Gam.&St.Autlyn(Gwen , fAii 7 9 ,Great South Tolgus l7s 24 1 Wheal Vor (He's ton 40 311 351 315 It; renville 6.10. t. 85 85 Llend's-Foot 8.12 88 40 - :I ingaton Downs 4.18.0 35 3a. - Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny .Lelant 9/ 14 16 , I )larke Valley.. 4 , Nlyndy Iron Ore (Lim ) 24 14 5 New Seton 195 80 85 - • North Downs 2k 11 25 - ;N. WWI Basset(lllo4an 3.1.0 14 2 I North Wheal Crotty - l'ar Consols (St. Blazey, 20 trovidenoe(UnyLelnt.) 10.0.7 40 42 ;south Caradon(St.Cleer, 14 950 470 ;S. Carn Brea (Illogan) Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 18.18.9 40 45 - Stray Park 30.17.6 29 31 - Painar Sift& Lead Mill - fin Croit 9 171 181 West Basset (Illogan) l4 91 194 %V Cs radon (Liekeard) 5 16 18 I West Seton IWheal Basset (Illogan)' ti t 95 IWheal Buller(ltedruth)! 10 30 35 , Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant), 2.0.6 - IWhealLudcott ; Wheal MaryAnui s rtlen ) , 8 14 16 Wheal Teton ' 581 220 230 !Virheal Treiawney (Lis.)': 7 19 21 !Wheal Union j 3.17 I 14 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm., 1104 London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 95i Mid .Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto. Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent.," — Midland 4} per cent. pf. stk. rd., 1011 - North Staffordshire, 22f PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton, &c., per cent., 1858, 99 Metropolitan 5 per cent., 105 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 3/ Shrewsbury and Hereford, 133 FOREIGN RAILWAYS; Antwerp and Rotterdam,9l Dutch Rhenish, 18i Great Luxembourg, 10 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 12 San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent.., Ditto (all), 20 South Austrian and Lomba-zdo Venetian, 211 FO.EIGN MINE& Alamillos, limited, j Fortuna (him.), 4 Ponts.Tibaud Silver, Lead Min. and Smelting, St. John del ney (lira.), 44 1 31 Valhazzav' a Gold, lim., 11 Wor,hin.g (limited), 7, BANKS. AR - ra and United Service (lint.), _l,lO Alliance: Imo. 61 • Ditto, new, 5 Anglo Austrian, 73 1 Australasia, 731 Ditto, new, 56k Bank of Egypt, 28 Bank ot Queensland (11m) 181 19 Brazilitn and Portuguese, lint.. 14 1 British and Californian lam. , 6 Char tered Bank o t Astralia. and China. agiN City, t 135 6 ered jAer. of l ndia. London, and China, 69 Consolidated Bank, 11 m., 11 Continental, li m ., 1 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 211 1 English and Swedish. lint.. 111 12 European Bank, lint., 6it Ilindu.stan, Otina, and Japan wino, ws Imperial Ottoman„l9,7, -4 hand Mortgage Bank 01 India, lint., 5/ London B ,uk of Mexico and S. America, lint., 5} London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, Ditto, new, 6 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 26 London and Colonial (litn.), D Loudon and County, 63 31 21 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange, London Joint Stock, 47 63. 21 London and South African, 251 41 Londonanßdanllk, lien , 2 e s u tmin st4r, 941 Merchant Mercantile and Exchanv,2. lint., 19 / Ditto, new, issued at 2 pm., 13} 3 Tetropolitan and Provincial Bank, lint,, 211 National Provincial of England, Litt°, Lew, 44 Ditto, ditto, 18 0 National dank, Ditto, new, 421 Provincial of Ireland. 031 Scinde, Punj a b, and Delhi, lint., 1 3 1 - 1 5011114 Eastern, Lital„ MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Mart. Land and Finance, lion., 3-1 Berlin Water Works, lim„ 8; Bo.i,bay Gas, lim., 5 k Ceylon Company, 12 Si Continental Union Gas, lim., 6; .1 Credit Fonder, 14/ Crystal Palace, 34 Discount Corporation, 10 4 16 Egyptian Corn. and Trading, lira. 5i 1 1 5 Financial Corporation, Fore-str( et Warehouse, lira., 6/ 7 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lion., 71 Home and C fonial A ssurance, lim , 61 Hudson's Bay, 19 Imperial Financial, lion., Indian Carrying, hm., 1; International Financial society, lion., 101 ; International Land Credit. lion., 4; Joint Stock Discount, lion., 7t 1 * London and Caledonian [Marine, lion., London Financial Association, lion, 2 7: it Ditto, new, 15i London General Omnibus Company, 2; London Provincial Marine, 31 Marine Investment, lira , 3 Mercantile Credit Association, lim., 131 13 National Discount Company, lim., 141 Ditto, new, 91 1 New Zealand Trust and Loan, 21 Quehrada Land, Rail, and Mining, lion., 2; Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, Um, :al Royal Mail Steam, 90 Smith, Knight, and Co., Ihn., 5- 1 Societe Financiere d'Egypte. 1im.,"51 South African Mortgage and Investment, lim., 6; Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lira., 6,0 t Trust and Loan Company cf Upper Canada, 58 Universal Marina, Insurance, lion., 61 CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day OLD COURT. (Before Mr Justice Crompton.) MANSLAUGHTER. BY A LUNATIC. Peter Prederick Knight was placed at the bar to plead in an indictment charging him with the manslaughter of Wm. Harringdon. It will be recollected that both prisoner and deceased were inmates of Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, and that death was occasioned through an encounter between the two unfortu nate men. Dr Gibson, surgeon of Newgate, and another medical gentleman, said they considered the prisoner to be in a state of mind quite unfit to plead. The learned Judge said, that being the case, he should order him to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. NEW COURT. (Before Mr Baron Bramwell.) KEEPING AN UNLICENSED LUNATIC ASYLUM. Mrs Sophia Leander surrendered to an indictment pre ferred against her by the Commissioners of Lunacy with keeping an unlicensed house for the reception of lunatics. The defendant, it appeared, was the proprietor of an establishment called Zion House, Hackney, and it having come to the knowledge of the Commissioners in Lunacy, they sent Dr Christie, the proprietor of a licensed establish ment, to examine and report upon the facts of the case. The doctor informed the Commissioners that he examined six persons, who all exhibited undoubted evidence of dis eased mind, some of them, in fact, bordering on idiotcy. There were in addition between 70 and 80 other patients all subject to delirium ; but it was alleged that the establish ment was not a lunatic asylum, but a charitable institution founded mainly for the safe custody and treatment of per sons suffering from temporary idiotcy or unsoundness of intellect, The Act of Parliament. makes it a misdemeanour of carrying on an unlicensed asylum for the reception of lunatics or idiots. Serjeant Ballantine addressed the jury for the defendan Mr Baroa Bramwell summed up the evidence, and said ; the question of the jury to decide was aye or no—had the defendant contravened the provisions of a very salutary Act of Parliament, which was calculated, at the same time, to protect the helpless and those who undertook their care and custody. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The counsel for the commissioners said they had no desire to press for punishment, all they desired was the suppression of the establishment. Mr Baron Bramwell said that being the case, the better course to pursue would be to direct the lady to enter into her own recognisances to appear for judgment if necessary, and in the meantime some arrangement agreeable to all parties could be entered into. THIRD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) Michael Moran was indicted for assaulting and robbing an aged man named John Kear. The jury found him guilty, and several previous convic tions having been proved against him, The Common Sergeant sentenced him to seven years' penal servitude. MARKETS--This Day. MARK-LANE. The supply of English wheat on sale here to-day was moderate. Both for red and white qualities the trade ruled quiet. Nevertheless selected parcels supported Monday's ;urrency. The market was moderately supplied with foreign wheat. In nearly all descriptions sales progressed slowly, yet prices ruled stationary, Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, at late rates. The supply of barley on sale was seasonably large. The trade, however, was moderately active, and Monday's prices were supported. Malt changed hands slowly, at late rates. Oats, the supply of which on sale was moderate, ruled firm, at quite previous quotations. Beans and peas were quite as dear as on Monday. The flour trade was steady, and late orices were sup ported. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat, Barley. English.-- 180 Forool 1,350 Do Malt. Oath. Flow. 2,120 290 I 1,130 710 13,710 3) sks, 7,89) brie. BOROUGH HOP. Our market is quiet, and inferior hops are somewhat lower in price, The trade is in a sluggish state, at the annexed cur- WHITECHAPEL. rencies : Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s 61 to 41 Sd; lamb, 5,s 4d to Gs 4d ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s Sd; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 8d per Blbs by the carcase. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1864. Course of .the Exchange.—Yesterday. Amsterdam ........ Short. 11 171 11 171 Ditto 3 Month!, 12 0/ 12 / Rotterdam .. 12 01 12 I Antwerp ......... ... 25 62± 25 67± 8ru55e15............ 25 62t 25 67± Hamburgh ......... 13 81 13 8/ Paris .............. Short. 25 20 25 30 Ditto Marseilles .......... 25 60 25 67± Frankfort on Maine - 120 1201 Vienna ............ 11 80 11 90 Trieste Petersburgh Berlin Madrid a... 48 481 Cadiz Leghorn - 25 70 25 77± Milan — 25 70 25 77z Genoa — 25 70 25 75 Naples Palermo .. . 25 75 25 80 Messina — 25 75 25 80 Lisbon — 51! 611 Dporto...- Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... S 3 17 9 Mexican Dollars .. Silver in Bars (Standard) SHIPPINGINTELLIGENCE—This Day. LONDON, June B.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, bnt rather cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, June N.W.—Arrived—Her Majesty's ship Pearl, from China. FALMOUTH, June 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Gambier, from Porto Rico. CLYDE, June 7.—Wind W ,— Arrived—Excelsior, from Bordeaux. CARDIFF, Juno 6.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Britannia, for New York. SHIELDS ; June 7.—Wind Ig.W,—Arrived—Anne, from Trieste, (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FALMOUTH, Wednesday Morning, The East India and London `hipping Companies steam ship Lady Jocelin, Captain Kerr, from Sydney, New South Wales, for London. put in here this morning to replenish fuel. She brings 3,000 bales wool, 20 first class cabin pas songers, and has landed a mail. She fed in with much ice off Cape Horn, and has experienced strong east winds for the last month. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGBAPII GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, June 7—Coctierstone, from Colombo. Arrived, June 8--MeNona, Ann, and Alliwall, from Guernsey. Sailed June B—Steamer Panther, for Boulogne—Nano. veer Hevellyn, for Calais—Priuce 011 e, for Colombo— Biiboa, for Bilboa—Mangalery, Lt. Cochin—Eliza Blegden, tcz Vlaandringen—kteamer Diana, for Amsterdam —steamer Belgium, for Ostend, DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passe::, Juno 7—Ernest Marck, fro m t h e west, for the east ; Sydney Jones of Carnarvon, and Susan Ann of Dart mouth, from the north, for the west; Cornwallis, from London, for Moreton Bay. Passed, June B—Stewart Wortly, from London, for Car diff. MEMOIRS OF MEYERBEER are already announced in more then one quarter. I\l. Eugene Godard has addressed a letter to the journ a l s to account for the non-performance of his promise to ascend in his balloon on Sunday. All his arrangements, he says, had been made, when the positive order of the rof the Interior, who feared further disturbances, in ordtcted the ascent. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. 1 A TRADESMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING HIS WIFE.—Mr Jas William Dexter, milliner, of No. 1, Cran bourn-street, was charged before Mr Knox with assaulting his wife, Jane. The complainant, who gave her evidence in a very pe culiar manner, said —I have only been confined three weeks.. My husband last night caught hold of my throat and nearly choked me, and then told a policeman what ha had done, and the policeman refused to take my husband because I had no marks an me, We then went indoors, and my husband gave me a blow on the nose and tore my clothes. He was drunk, and always is drunk. Defendant—How many half-quarterns of brandy did you have yesterday ? Complainant—Oh, fifty, Defendant—Were You notput to b a d yesterday at dinner time insensibly drunk ? Complainant—Oh, ye s . Inspector Walker—The complainant has been drinking this morning. Police-constable, 51 o —Ab out half-past 12 l as t n i g ht the complainant asked me to take the defendant into cue.. tody, but as she had no marks about her I refused, telling her she could come this morning to the court. Mr Knox—You were perfectly right in doing so. Constable—The defendant said be had not illused his wife. The defendant had been drinking a little, but his wife was very excited. On going round my beat again I found the complainants nose bleeding, and on her charging her husband with having again assaulted her I took him into custody. The defendant said his wife had fallen in the passage. Defendant—Did I not try to avoid my wife? Constable.—You did. Defendant—Look at my hands your worship. She is always clawing me. Ye s t erday she had five half quarterns of brandy before dinner, an d was then put to bed. Later in the day she throw sever a l things at me, and I went out till night to avoid her. On returning she again clawed me, being intoxicated at the time. We have been married seven years, and I attend to business and keep the books. A young woman was called, and said that Mrs Dexter had been drinking and fell, a n d but for her would have broken her neck. Mr linox—lt is quite clear to ma that Mrs Dexter, who was said not to be sober yesterday, is not sober today, and had her husband attempted to strangle her she would have some marks on her throat. It is pretty evident what sort of a woman she is by the answer as to the 50 half quarterns of brandy. It is not a case for a ---M O2 - , i strato ' s i nter f erence , and I am sorry the defendant has su c h a drunken w if e. The defendant was then discharg e d, and as he was leav ing the court his wife attempted to assault him, but was prevented. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE THROUGII JEALOUSY. - Jane Reed, a respectab;y attired married woman, living in Chapel-mews, Portland-place, was charged before Mr. Knox, with the following determined attempt to destroy herself: -- From the evidence of a young man nam e d W m. Summers, residi prngienviCohuas afternoon rlto h ntreet,eF heard ltzroy-square, it appeared that on the sc reams proceeding from the house where the prisoner resided, and on going to see the cause, he was informed that a female was hanging in a back room. He immediately went to the room and saw the prisoner being held from the floor by two or th ree women, a cord attached to a beam being tied round her neck. The prisoner was quite insensible at the time. In answcr Co Mr. Knox witness said the prisoner was the wife of the foreman of a yard. Mrs. Ma r y A nn Robbins, residingresidingin the same h ouse , said her dau g ht er informed her that M rs. R eed was hang ing in the r oom , an d o n going down s h e f ound it to be the ease. She then gave, an alarm, and Summers cut her down. William Moorcroft, 165 E, said the prisoner told him that her husb , &nd had threatened to cut her throat, and she did it because she would not give him the chance. The husband of the prisoner said th e f act was hi s w i fe had made th e a tt em pt on her life through jealousy. He went into a public-house with a friend to have a glass, and two women were there, and some kind person went and told his wife he was drinking with women. He believed that a feeling of jealousy and a little drink had induced his wife to act as she had done. Mr. Knox said it was a serious matter, for if the prisoner had not been seen, as she fortunately was, she would have been a dead woman. Ho did not think the prisoner's mind could be in a right state if she did such a thing for such a trivial cause. He should remand her for a week that she might be seen 'ay the physician and the chaplain of the House of Detention. WESTMINSTER. ICEIGITI3OURS' QUARRELS.—George Cotton appeared to a summons before Mr. Arnold, charged with making usa of abusive bingusge towards a female named Ogilvie, who was subsequently charged with throwing a pail of water over an infant. Mr. Drew, solicitor, of New Basin gliall street, was engaged for the complainant. It appeared that the complainant and the defendant were neighbours, living in Gaorge-sireet, Chelsea, and that they were not on friendly terms. On the 27th of May, com plainant was at her door, when the defendant, who hap pened to see her, made use of some filthy expressions, and called her an old washerwoman, complainant not being of that occupation. ' Upon this summons being issued, a counter•summons was taken out against the complainant, who was accused of throwing a pail of water over an infant belonging to the defendant, Numerous witnesses were examined:on each side, and it was stated by one of th em that the infant was nearly drowned. Complainant denied that she flung the water as alleged, and said that she intended the water for the defendant's sou, who was annoying her, and that accidentally some of the water went over the child. She was sorry that any of it went over the infant. Mr Arnold observed that such was most likely to be the case, and that he thought the best course to take was to hold each to bail to keep the p eace t owar d s the other for six months. This was done, and th e parties left the court. TH AMES. DANGEROUS SPORT. —A raechanic named Hemming, of Glanen's-street, Bow-common, came before Mr Partridge, and complained of the dangerous nature of the pigeon shooting, practised in the grounds of the Prince of Wales tavern, on Bow-common. The shot from a rifle aimed at a tamed pigeon struck his back window, broke five panes of glass, and were scattered about the room. Two shots entered nce. his breast an d put him to great pain and incon venie Mr Partridge—How far is the shooting ground from your house ? Applicant—About 50 yards. Mr Partridge—How far is the house from any public thoroughfare ? - - Applicant-1 can't say, / believe it is close to a public thoroughfare. Mr Partridge said the police of the district ought to take action in this matter directlY, and summon the owner of th e ground. He recommended th e applicant, and a man w h o a ccompanied him, to proceed to the Poplar Station house,the and consult the poli ce on subject. B ATTLI NG IN THE REGE NT ' s CANAL. TWO young men, named James W ilson a nd Patrick Connelly, were brought before Mr. Partridge charged with bathing in the Regent's Canal at Stepney last night, „ , ~ iison was taken out of the water. Connelly, a rough blackguard, after going into the Canal, a state of nu dity. He was drunk. Smith, 345 K. s aid there Were many in the canal last night and this morn in g , and the inhabitants of the houses atial, s t o od on the bank ill in Stepney on each bank complained of the nuisance. The district of Stepney and Limehouse intersected by the canal was densely populated—in fact, bathing there was as pe have were posted on the banks strict orders to take into public and open as it would be if a canal passed through L u d ga t e -hill and Piccad ill y . Largo printed broadsides of containingthec custody all persons ba thin g in the Re gent's Canal. Penalty, 40s or one month in the House of Correction with hard labour, Regent's Canal-office, y ce, ci,_ . road-basin, June, 1864." ana ltlie following :—"rho Police words An officer of the Regents Can al Company swill, that a place was set apart for bathers in the Victoria Dock, and the Regent's Canal Company had provided a large piece of water with half an acre of ground in Canabridge-heath, Bethnal-green, The admission to the place was one half penny only. Mr Partridge said there was no excuse whatever for public bathing and indecent exhibititns in pepulous districts bordering on the canal. He fined Wilson os, and ordered that Conolly should find one surety to keep the peace for a month. [EnuATA—In our report yesterday the substitution of the word "smashed" for "insinuated" altered the meaning of the magistrate's observations. It should have been thus :—Most likely the complainant Mrs Lawrence in sinuate:: something against the defendants after the attack upon her. The rest of the sentence was correctly given,] Additional Particulars of the Accident on the South -Western Railway. - - - Five persons wero killed by this accident last night. Mr. Edwin Hall, corn m erchant, Duke- street, Manchester equare, had his legs cut clean off abov e the knees, and his body was fearfully mang led. A man name d C or b et t, b u t known in racing circlet, as " Padwick's Mouse," and who lived in the same house as Mr. Hall, died fron concussion and fractures. Mr. Willey, landlord of the Globe Inn, King's-road, Chelsea, died from concussion. Mr. Clegg landlord of the Harp publichouse, Jermyn-street, was also killed; and Mr. William Winfield, farm bailiff and gar dener to C. Bracebridge, Etcp, of Sherborne, died from concussion. An apprentice to the chief cook of the Prince of Wales was so severely injured that both his feet had to be amputated; and Mr. E sau Tri gg , publican, Brigh ten , was taken to the Charing - cr oss Hos pital, having sustaine d a fractured lag and two broken ribs. The inquest will pro• bably be held to-morrow, The " Situation," (Ftona the Realm of To-day.) There is every reason to anticipate that the Danish Government will persist in its prudent oppo sition to the indefinite prolongation of the armistice The German Powers for strategical, the English Cabinet for perliamentary, purposes, are equally desirous of gaining time. In a few months the sea son, which is advantageous to the Dines, will have passed away; in a few weeks Parliament will be disbanded ; and when the summer is over Dinmarle will once more be at the mercy of Germany, and the guardianship of English interests and English honour be entrusted to an uncontrolled and vir tually irresponsible executive. We frankly con fess that the prospect of further disaster to Den• mark is not the apprehension which we have principally i❑ view when we express the anxicus hope that the design which the German and English plenipotentiaries are pursuing together may be speedily and finally frus trated. We are more concerned to perceive that the peace of Europe cannot be considered secure as long as a question so fertile in discord is allowed to remain unsettled. But what touches us most nearly is the reflection that,if the Ministerial tactics attain their object, we may again be subjected to the humiliation under which the country is still smarting, and be condemned to witness another aeries of threatening despatches, followed by vacil lating conduct, and resulting in concession and surrender. If the peace of Europe requires that the Danish questio❑ should no longer be left in suspense, it is no less indispensable to the honour and dignity of England, that the opportunity should immediately be given to Parliament, undisturbed by current negotiations, to review the foreign policy of Her Majesty's Government, and to determine whether we are still to be represented before the world by men whose acts and language are so little in corres pondence with the generous spirit of our country. It is because we believe that it will have the effect of hastening a solution, that we congratulate the country upon the animated debate which unexpectedly arose in the House of Commons on Monday night, No one can reproach the Opposition with a want of forbearance, and Mr. Disraeli's demand for information is as little open to the charge of being excessive as it is to that of being premature. Mr. Kinglake, though too anxious to serve the German cause to subject the Government to inconvenient interpella tions, fully acknowledged the force of Mr. Disraeli's position, that the reserve of the House of Commons was dependent upon the fidelity of Ministers to the basis of their negotiations. Even according to Mr. Kinglake, a change in that basis ought to be com municated to Parliament in order that it may have the opportunity of expressing its unaltered confi denee i❑ the Government, or its disapprobation o their new policy. If we be rightly informod, the Danish pleni9 pot( ritiaries hE.ve adroitly availed themselves of the opening afforded by the English proposi tion to place the Government in an embarrass ing dilemma. They have, it appears, agreed to accept the propofel boundary of the Schlei, on the condition that England should make its accept ance by Germany an ultimatum. Although in our own opinion the Government should have adhered to a system of non-intervention, which would have made such a demand impossible, it cannot be denied that, after all that has been written and said by her Majesty's Ministry on the Schleswig-Holstein question, Denmark has a right to expect that the arbitration of so great a country as England should, if necessary, be bapked by efficient action. Unless this demand be complied with, and unless the Ger- man plenipotentiaries show themselves on Thurs. day next more yielding than they appeared on Monday, it is probable that the labours of the Con ference will be brought to an abrupt conclusion. It is satisfactory to rcflect that the interval in the negotiations will be usefully occupiNi by de bates in Parliament, which can now no longer be postponed, By a variety of expedients, the Govern ment succeeded in suppressing discussion before Easter, and since then the Conference has COI= to their assistance ; but the country is impatient of delay, and unless the regular organs of opposition in Parliament be found ready, as we have every reason to anticipate that they will, to perform their constitutional duties, the indignation of the people will find vent through other and unsuspected chan nels. Nothing could be more fatal to the influence of Parliament than the neglect, at such a crisis as he pr6sent, of its supreme functions as the autho- rised interpreter of public opinion. The Gun-cotton Explosion at Stowmarket, The inquest on the body of Elizabeth Barnard, the second person whose death had been caused by the explosion at Messrs. Prentice's guncotton factory, was resumed on Monday morning at Stow market. Mr. F. B. Marriott, the coroner, stated that the Secretary of State for War had instructed a competent officer to inspect the works and give evidence at the inquest. After several of the workpeople had been re-examined Mr. Manning Prentice stated that he had visited various scientific gentlemen in London to endeavour to ascertain the cause of the explosion. Professor Tyndal, to whom the knife used in cutting the cotton, with its notches, was shown, at once expressed his opinion that it arose from this knife coining in contact with the copper wire employed in the cotton which is cut. Mr. Prentice also read a series of new regulations for the factory, prepared with the concurrence of Mr. Abel, the chemist to the War Department. Dr. William Allen Miller, Pro fessor of Chemistry at King's College, London, the first scientific witness examined, said, Dr. Frank land and myself came down from London on Satur. day, and visited the Gun-cotton Factory, where we saw the whole operation of the manufacture of the cotton. We then proceeded to make experiments on the ignition of gun -cotton by mechanical means, particularly with the cutting machine. 'We made a great number of experiments, our object being to satisfy ourselves upon the conditions which I were likely to arise, and t o ascer t a i n th e cause o f! the explosion, We took pieces of copper wire and placed them so that they should be cut through, and endeavoured to ignite it in that way, The copper was placed in various ways, sometimes spirally and sometimes in the rope, and we also tried to shave a piece off. We made 40 or 50 cuts through the rope and the copper in various ways, but did not succeed in firing the cotton in this way. We put some small pieces of flint into the rope, and cut it three or four times without any explosion, but on the fourth or fifth cut the cotton exploded. I think there can be very little doubt that the ex plosion was caused by the action of the knife either upon copper or grit. lam not certain which, but I think most probably copper. Dr. E. Frankland, Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, London ; Dr. T. Richardson, technological chemist, Newcastle-on -Tyne, and Professor of Chemistry at Durham University; and Mr. J. Scott Russell, C.E., were then examined, and gave evidence confirming that of Dr. Miller. The coroner said that the public reuit feel that everything possible had been done to investigate the cause of the explo sion, and that Messrs Prentice had done all in their power to throw light on the matter. The evidence of the scientific men was that the explosion was produced by the knife coming in contact with the copper wire or with a piece of grit; but they all inclined to the opinion that it was with the wire and not wi li the grit. He did not know that they were called upon to decide which of the two it was, so long as they were satisfied it was accidental; and it was clear that if the rules now arranged were attended to there would be no danger of an explo sion in future. After a consultation of about three quarters of an hour the jury found "That the said Elizabeth Barnard died on the 29th day of May last last from injuries received by her clothes having been accidentally set fire to by an explosion at Messrs Prentice and Co.'s gun-cotton factory on the 24:h day of May last. The jury wish to state that they are entirely satisfied with the manner in which the recommendation for a scientific inquiry has been carried out," SECOND EDITION. bUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—TIIis Day, -0- ASCOT RACES—This DAY. (Br ELECTRIC TEL - EGRIPII.) VISITORS' PLATE. Jessie OldmiLster Privateer Ten ran. , CORONATION STAKES. Brun Auricula . Rouge Crosse Six ran. ROYAL HUNT CUP. Gem of the Sea .... Crisis Evelina Thirty-four ran. Gem of the Sea objected to for crossing Crisis at the side of the course, preventing him getting up. Objection overruled. ASCOT DERBY STAKES. Peon Calista colt Alpheus ...... Four ran. HUNT CUP —Tajo scratched. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK, lIVIPERIAL PABLIAMEN HOUSE OF COMMONS—This Day. The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. r The following bills were read a third time and passed : Charing-cross Railway—Londonderry Improvement— Somerset and Dorset Railway (Cheddar Valley and Yatton)—Somerset and Dorset Railway (Extension to Shepton Mallet)—Stamford and Essendine Railway— Weald of Kent Railway—Worcester, Bromyard, and Leo minster Railway. The following bills were read a second time :—Bem bridge Railway, Tramway, and Pier— Fleetwood Docks— Herne Bay, Hampton, and Recluver Fishery—Newq - uay and Cornwall Junction Railway—Redruth and Falmouth Junction Railway. LONDON DOCKS, ST. KATHARINE DOCK, AND VICTORIA DOCK AMALGAMATION BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. LOCKE moved that the bill be read that day six months. Mr.LAYAHD seconded the motion. Sir M. PETO supported the bin. After a short discussion, the amendment was withdrawn on the understanding that the Board of Trade should look closely into and deal with the clauses of the bill, GAOLS BILL. Sir G. GREY said he should postpone the second read ing of the bill which stood for to-morrow until this day week. INTOXICATING LIQUORS BILL. A lard; number of petitions having been presented in favour of the bill, Mr LAWSON moved its second reading. The object of the measure, which is commonly known as the " Permis sive Bill," is to enable any parish, on the approval of the proposition of a majority of ratepayers, to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors during Sunday, by entirely closing the public •house for four•and-twenty hours. Capt. JERVIS rosa to move that the bill be read a second time this day six months. He had been five years against his will in the States of America where the sale of intoxicat ing liquors was prohibited, and he knew that drunken- ness had increased there, A man there, instead of going to a bar to take his glass, want down into a cellar, where ho got drunk and was kept there, because if he came up end was seen, the seller would be fined as well as the drinker. Amongst the higher classes people were ob:igod to close their shutters before they brought their wine on the table. (Laughter.) Mr ROEBUCK said that during the many years he had been in Parliament, he had never heard submitted a more mischievous bill. H 3 did not mince the matter at all. (Laughter.) By this bill it was proposed that the House of Commons should abdicate its functions. In the next place the bill would sow dissension in every parish in Eng land, and by the time it came into full operation England would be no place for a peaceable person to live in. His next objection to the bill was that it was eminently an unjust bill and directed entirely against the poor, It was a most cruel bill. He had great faith in the intentions of the per sons who brought forward their bill, but none in their in tellect—(hear, hear)—and regarded it as mere idle talk on a bill which it was well known could not pass. If West minster. under this bill, put this bill in operation, would that extend to the refreshment room of the House of Com mons ? Would it have the effect of preventing the in troduction of intoxicating liquors into that housa ? Could anything be more foolish than that? (Laughter.) This was a bill directed against the poor; for the rich, who could lay in a stock of such things as they wanted, would not be in the slightest degree affected by it. As between the nngistrates and the municipal authorities he preferred the magistrates, although he readily admitted that the question was well worthy of consideration. Mr MARTIN opposed the bill on the ground that it would lead to smuggling, and to worse evils than those which at present existed. Mr SCOURFIELD thought the bill would give wide spread annoyance. Sir G. GREY opposed the bill, on the ground that it would give an intolerable tyranny to the majority. With regard to an increase in the number of convictions, it was no proof of the increase of drunkenness, as by the refreshment houses a new class of offences had been created. He thought the evil might to a great extent be prevented, if there were a better administration of the law in the metropolitan districts. At present a man might be convicted two or three times, and yet was able to transfer the license. He thought that in such a case the house should be closed for at least two years. Mr. BUXTON considered that great improvements had taken place in the habits of the working classes. In that improvement he considered all reforms rested. Mr. HUMBERSTONE opposed the bill. Me. W. FORSTER sympathised with temperance prin ciples, but he could not vote for the bill. Ho could not think it right to transfer the power of granting licenses from the magistrates to town councils, although he thought the inhabitants should have some voice in the number of licensed houses there should be. He hoped that early next session a bill would be brought forward by the Govern ment for putting the drinking houses of the country under some general system. (Hear, hear.) Mr HENLEY said the duty of granting licenses was a very unpleasant duty devolving upon magistrates. The difficulty they felt was not with regard to public houses, but with rt gard to beer houses, on the establishment of which he thought there ought to be some restraint. lie believed that if this bill passed the people of a parish on which an interdict was placed would go out of the parish, and people would drink twice a s muc h. H e opposed the bill because it was unjust, and because he believed it would be wholly inoperative. Mr PEASE had hoped that the Government would have been induced to support the bill after the multitude of petitions that had been presented. The house then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment .................. 292 Ageinst it .......................... 35 .Majetity against •the bill ............ —257 The bill was consequently lost. VALUATION OF LANDS AND HERITAGES (SCOTLAND) ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill, which was proposed for second reading was in parliamentary language " talked out" at a quarter to six. RAILWAY COMPANIES POWERS BILL. This bill Was read a third time and passed. The house adjourned at 5 minutes to 6. A SPECIME N OF THE G RAPHIC S TYLE OF TACITIJS ;--Galb a was hurried to and fro with every movement of the surging crowd ; the halls and temples all around were thronged with spectators of this dismal sight. Not a voice was heard from the people or even from the rabble. Everywhere were terror-stricken countenances, and ears turned to catch every sound. It was a scene neither of agitation nor of repose, but there reigned the silence of profound alarm and profound indignation. Otho, however, was told that they were arming the mob. Ife ordered his men to hurry on at full speed, and to anticipate the danger. Then did these Roman soldiers rush forward like men who had to drive some Vologeses or Pacotus from the ancestral throne of the Arsacidw, oat as though they were hastening to murder their aged and defenceh es Em peror. In all the terror of their arms, and at the full speed of their horses, they burst into the Forum, thrusting aside the crowd and trampling on the Senate. Neither the sight of the Capitol, nor the sanctity of the overhanging temples, nor the thought of rulers past or future, could &mu them from committing a crime, which any one succeeding to power must avenge. The Gazette:de France states that the weekly i d ' journal La Paroisse has j ust been a gain seized for h av i ng in an article entitle d " Bref Pon tifical de Lyon," discus juridically the note by which the Monileur interdicted the ss pu blication of that brief. The Discussion of t yesterday a lso se:zcd at the pest - ctlice by order of the I\linister was also the Interior. FARM — A public dinner, at which the advocates for the abolition of the punishment of death proposed to meet yesterday, was interdicted by the police. FOURTH EDITION SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 7 o'CLocK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, ASCOT RACES—Tms DAY. (EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH SIXTH BIENNIAL STAKES. • • Baragah. Honyfox . Toronto Six ran. TWELFTH TRIENNIAL STAKES. Tennyson Koenig Blooming Heather filly •, Thirteen ran. S WEEPSTAKES. Gamecock Deception Hawkshaw 2 3 Seven ran. £lOO PLATE. Antidote Wild Thyme Columbine Eleven ran. FERNHILL STAKES. 3 Attraction .... 1 La Mechante ...................................... 2 Moatissirua filly Nine ran. LATEST BETTING. ASCOT GOLD CUP. sto 2 agst Lord Clifden (taken) 5 to 2 agat Scottish Chief (taken) 10 to lagat Little Stag (offered) Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. General tone of Market firm 7 Sales, probably 6,000 or 7,000 bales. GRANT FIGHTING IT OUT " ON THIS LINE !"--, Manhattan " says :—Grant's memorable speech completely shading the remark of the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, " Up Guards, and at them"), "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes me all this summer," has be come a heading for everything. Brandreth heads his pill advertisements with it, Bryant's Ministrels announce it in negro talk, Omnibus lines, in announcing the lowering of fares to six cents., say," We propose to fight it out on this line." I see advertisements quote it, and so does the announcement of Coster, the bed bug ;exterminator ; he too proposes to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer and the roaches, and moths, and other things, will feed it THE PERMISSITE BlLL—Yesterday Lord Pal merston received a numerous deputation from the United Kingdom Alliance. The interview took place at his lordship's residence in Piccadilly; and the object of the deputation was to solicit his lordship to support the second reading of Mr Lawson's and Mr Bazley's Intoxicating Liquors Bill in the House of Commons to-day. The de putation was headed by Lord Calthorpe, and consisted of 51 gentlemen, including Messrs B. Whitworth, T. Clegg, Councillor Thompson, G. B. Addison, S. Pope, J. H, Raper and T. 11. Barker, of Manchester; W. Saunders, of Ply mouth; J. Guest, of Rotherham; G. Tatham, of Leeds; W. 11. Higginbottom, of Bolton ; W. Hoyle, of Bary ; Edward Whitwell, of Kendal ; W. J. Clegg and Joseph Pearson, of Sheffield ; W. Campbell, H, Dyson, and G. Ward, of Leeds; the Revs. the Hon. Leland Noel, Canon Jenkins, W. N. Molesworth, of Rochdale; Dr. Barns, Dawson Burns, J. S. Workman, and 5, Schadhorst ; Pro fessor Newman, and several gentlemen connected with the metropolis. Having been introduced by Lord Calthorpe, whom Lord Palmerston recognised and shook heartily by the hand, Mr Pope stated the object of the deputation, and presented to his lordship a memorial representing that there was a strong feeling against the present licensing system, and a prevalent conviction that strong drink was an ex ceptional article of trade, that many landowners had stopped the sale of it on their estates ; and that agitation had proved that the people were prepared for the Intoxicating Liquors Bill, which the memorialists prayed Lord Pahnerston and the Government to support. Mr Pope was followed by the Rev. W. N. Molesworth, who spoke for the manufac turing districts; Mr Saunders, of Plymouth; Mr Tatham, of Leeds ; Professor Newman, the Rev. H. Gale, and Mr. Raper. Lord Palmerston listened to all with marked at tention and evident interest, and elicited several pertinent explanations ; and on retiring the deputation thanked his his lordship for the courtesy and consideration which had been extended to them. NOT DEAD YET. By J. C. Jeaffreson, Author of "Live it Down," &c. 3 vets.--" This is a very clever novel. There is a hearty pleasant tone throughout, and the interest is sustained from the very first to the very last page, The characters are sketched with a masterly hand. Rupert Smith, the man about town,' plausible schemer, and thorough villain; Edward Smith, the artist, as pure and noble-minded a character as novelist ever depicted ; Sir hank Starling, the hard unforgiving old baronet ; Mr. Purfloet, the family solicitor; John Harrison. Newbolt, the Radical Boanerges of the House of Commons, who buys pictures as an investment, and thus becomes the patron of Edward ; his daughters Ida and Florence ; the rollicking but right-hearted medical man, Nat Savage ; pretty Kitty Kent, Rupert'a victim ; Dick O'Mulligan, the fortunate digger—are all true to the life, and could only have been depicted by one who is quite familiar with all the various aspects of modern society."— United SerVief: Magazine, GALLANT EXPLOIT OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.—Nov. 18, 1863.—We drove the enemy to-day from his advanced lines in front of Knox ville, close under his works. This sortie was the occasion of one of those dashing feats of individual gallantry which demands a passing notice. A breastwork was charged by our infantry. They winced under the galling fire of the enemy and wavered, when Captain Stephen Winthrop, formerly captain in her Britannic Majesty's 22d Foot, who had joined our ranks and was on duty in Alexander's Artillery Battalion, stationed several hundred yards from the scene of conflict, mounting his horse and dashing across the plain—the only horseman in the melee—rode in advance of the wavering line up to the very works of the enemy. A hundred rifles were lowered upon him, but he moved on, and rallied the wavering line; the work was carried, and Winthrop borne away with a Minie ball through his shoul der, his sword scabbard broken by another, and the point of his sword cut off by another. His escape was miraculous, but he is doing well, and will soon again report for duty. —Richmond Enquirer of Feb. 16, 1864. A NICE STATE OF THINGS (according to " Man. hattan").—Look at our position truthfully, and y ou will see that I have described it. There are many of our citizens who have long foreseen the gloomy state of that which is about to come upon us. Look at the gold market. Up, up --nearly at its highest point again. In vain the Government buys largely of exchange, and throws it upon the market at a losing price to keep down gold; it has no effect. G o ld r i ses, or rather greenbacks are going down. All kinds of merchandise is rising. Merchants re f use to sell goods at any pr i ce, and will not unt il t h e fi g h t i n Virginia between Grant and Lee is settled one way or the other. This makes consumers and manufacturers anxious to buy. Shoes that cost in 1860 1 dol. sc. now sell for 5 dole. Boots made for 5 dole. now sell for 12 dole. It is so with every article that is sold. If this goes on few will be able to wear boots and shocs. We shall have to step into sabots as they do in Holland, though wood is so high that a pair of wooden shoes would cost about 3 dole. 50c. Everybody talks about the gloomy prospects. Men shake their heads and say, " What are we coining to?" Others see hope in the prospect so cheeringly and so constantly announced in the daily papers when Grant shall have captured Lee. But this has been so often repeated that it is an old story. Tens of thousands have left this city for the country —within 200 miles of New York—in order to live cheaper. Of these thousands are returning to get a foothold in the city. They find food higher in the interior than here. It is almost impossible to get board anywhere. P roprietors are afraid o f th e r ise in articles. Everything is adulterat e d. Pow deredu s t a rwhite that sugar sells cheap by the s unsafe t buy,o A heavy white b ton, is mixed • w ith sugar, and sold f or genuine, so s that to use the article in tea or coffee, or in " icecrearn cue is liable to die by me ans o f the tr:in ' eral substance left in the stomach. Fortunes are still made in Wall street on paper. Tested by sterling* bills or (void the prof ts fly elf. Th e • • nt ' mininr , schemes and bubbles swell out into magnificent proportions. Men without a dollar have become rich by mining stocks. All w io aro interested in the places of public amusement are getting rich. Those pLiees are crowded every night. It seems as though cur citizens throng to them to dri;-e away care, and I judge it is so, because the more foolish the amuse ment the larger the crowd. If Jack the Giant Killer was played at Nib:o's it would draw crowded houses every night, especially if the actors could sing an allusion to oar great giant Grant. Murders keep up to the average standard. Not a day passes without one or more murders, In addition to the legacy of io,ooor. made by M. Meyer beer to the Aesociatiouo► Musical Artists, a donation of a similar amount has been left by him to the Associa•ion of Dramatic Authors and Composers, as announced by lame. Meyerbecr in a letter to M. de Saint-George, the president of that institution.