The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-12 00:00:00

the ch in i rete- ;onfe •e the ►vern - Le was Lord ;ir G. wart, M.P., rnard, Lord d the mmon !heap, ipple- Ting mber, 1 Don. anish pford, Lind irden, rman heriff layer . The LORD For of latter Lord , that as ft e rats yor of d the ILL he iorth !ding 3 that Eng- ation :, and lid , lords, y the chief esent IA a tuber f full Vera from. nera apre- iibed r ma here- r the) been pre been. .-or, since from you. rs)-- Id by Dared [is tO tened ring) weep rtune ance• ly ao mar- I say cer- Vme n If the rn ie (ing edu- ad at :o the East, gra- Ltureti ►f his with Olen ith a ed to livier araL- was Mr. L two then" His- ;lake tie of .ch to ebas- close, a left mons XONEY MARKET AND C OMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE o'CLocK. The Bank of England directors have held their Weekly meeting to-day, and, as expected, they have not found it necessary to modify their regulations. At the same time there can be no doubt that an Improvement has taken place in the position of the establishment, and, as accommodation is obtainable at to b per cent, below the minimum, its discount Operations are likely to be very much reduced. Gold is now about 1-10th per cent. dearer in Lon don than in Paris. The nest drawing for bills of exchange on India will take place on the 18th inst., and the amount is £400,00(). A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. G. W. Reynolds and Company, steel manufacturers, of Smethwick and Birmingham, who recently suspended payment, took place yesterday. The balance-sheet compiled by Mr. White, the ac countant, showed that the liabilities amounted to £23,474 Os. 4d., and the assets to £10,136 7s. 2d., leaving a deficiency to be accounted for of £13,337 13s. 2d. No composition was offered, and the meet ing being of opihion that further explanations should be given respecting the trading of the firm, an adjournment was considered expedient. The amount of specie taken out by the steamer Ellora, which left to-day with the Bombay mails, was £449,330, of which £371,550 is in silver, and the remainder in gold. Subjoined is a very excellent resolution just adopted by the committee of the Stock Exchange:-- "Any company issuing, or promising to issue, new shares previous to, or within three months after the first settling day appointed by the committee, shall not be entitled to a quotation in the official list, and shall be subject to any further restrictions that the committee may think proper." The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under 1863. 1862. £8 North-W es t e rn Great Western 50,804 49,436 . South- Western 14,345 13,535 13righton Midland youth-Eastern Great Eastern Lancashire and Yorkshire 31,490 3 },062 3 North- Eastern 3,3E2 36,396 Bristol and Exeter Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 14,638 13,022 Edinburgh and Glasgow Great Southern and Western of Ireland 7,065 7,134 These returns are in most instances very satis factory. On the North Western there is an in crease of £5,198 ; on the Great Western, of £1,368; on the South Western, of £1,505 ; the Brighton, of £810; the Midland, of £2,374; the South Eastern, of £733 ; the Great Eastern, of £2,872 ; the Lan cashile and Yorkshire, of £1,428; the North Eas tern, of £1,966. On the Edinburgh and Glasgow there is a decrease of 1122; and on the Great Southern end Western of Ireland, of £79. At the yearly meeting of the Birmingham Bank ing Company, yesterday afternoon -Mr. Joseph Gibbins in the chair-a dividend of 10s. and a bongs of ss. per share, without deduction, was de clared. The net profits for the year ending 31st of December last amounted to £42,086 lls. 6d., from which £15,000 h a d been taken for the dividend and bonus in September last, and it was now resolved that, after pay ing the present dividend, &c., £12,000 be applied in reduction of the losses at the Dudley branch, and the remaining balance be carried for ward to the new account. •••••• ............. Paris R en t er were at 12. Two O'CLOCK. 45 this day ( says R enter ' s telegram) 70f, 40c., 45c.--flat. Nothing of importance has occurred to-day in the market for the English Funds, the dealings having b€en very limited, while the quotations h ave not varied fro m t h ose current Console are 928 5 z yesterday a f ternoon. ~ for money, an d 92i 1 for the account. The New Three per Cents. are 922 t; and the Reduced, 921 a ; Exchequer Bills: are fiat at is. dis. ; Bank Stock has advanced to 238 and 239 The dealings in the Foreign department have been of a moderate character, but prices have shown firmness. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1354, are 89 90 ; do., so 18 58, 721 73; do., lides 1862, 681-, ; and the: Con have improv e d to 411 ; Greek Bonds 3 are 3 i; and th e C oupons, 8Z 1 ; Mex i can, 321 ; Portuguese New Loan, 47 ; Russian do., 931 94-1-, ; S panish Pas s i ve, 261 ; ditto Certificates 91, being flat ; Venezuelan New Loan is 601. In the Railway Share Market the preparations for the settlement are in progress, and, owing to a rather act i ve inquiry for stock, coupled with the favourable traffic returns, prices have in most in stances shown a marked improvement. Great Western have advanced 10i. ; Metropolitan 15s. ; Great Eastern, Great Northern A Stock, London Etd Blackwell, Midland, North Briti , n, and South Eastern Li ; and London and Brighton £2. The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibited little variation on values. Joint-stock Bank Shares continued in fair re quest, and in some instances realised enhanced rates. Ottoman Bank improved to 40 . 1 4(t ; Mink St eam, 731 f. an Of Australasia, 801; d Peninsula r an d Oriental BRITISR FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock. 238 9 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 924 i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .• . 9l 1 New 3 per Cent. Annuities 921 India Stock — D tto 5 per Cent. lOB Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent lO5 Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 100 11 , t , 'lends C 1.900 Ditto under 41,000 Consol s f or account, March.. . .... 14 10 5 ...... Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 92 1 1 dis Ditto £5OO .... 1 dis D itto Small ............ Greek . 6FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'C LOCK. Ditto Coupn nt., 1824-5, ex-Coup ms., 19i 1 20/ 191 s . y) 73 Itllian 5 per Cent. (Alareininana Railwa Mexica n 3 per Cent . 33 21 New Granada„ •• • Ditto Deferred .......... '— Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 47 Ditto Account 47 --- Ditto 1862 Russian 5 per Cent,, 1822, £ St 601 Ditto 3 per Cent , 1859 93f 4/ Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 831 Sardinian 6 per Cent. .... 531 Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred Ditto Pa ss i ve 46/ • , _ .. Spanish Cert. of Coup. .... tlind .. Turkish 6 per Cent 185 4 . DiDitto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditttto Account .. . . ............ 721 Dittoo 6 per Cent: 1i.f..i 2 Account .... . 688 Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 . ... Dividends on the:0.11).4..1;4%031e in London. It than, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. Consols, Money ....... TWO O'CLO CK. ........., Ditto Account ...................... 94 a biz Loss OF THE H LIFEGUARD. --S, Feb. 11. --It will b e remembered that S the IELD Life steamship, tr a di ng b etween guard lost in th e Newcastle and Lo n d on, was gale of De c . 20 off the York s hi re coast, six hours after she sailed from the Tyne, and that her crew and be.. t ween 30 and 40 passengers, in all about 50 Fouls w ith her. There probably never was so gre a t a l oss o f lif e Whic , perished h attracted so littl e attention in the country, arising Pi,ssibly from the fact that she foundered out at sea where he one witnessed r.. the sad t ragedy, and that except a bo b tha oa t Wes ttatpi Was cked up off Fla m b orough-head, and a stove-in life Passed by a li g h t b rig off Scarborough, she left not "a wrack behind." Anticipating that such would be the case at the time this ves , el was missed, and knowing 4wereo cor oner's in quest could be held unlesssotne of the bodies cast ashore, it was sugg3sted in a c unnaunication sent from t his port that and th , as seafaring m en s t ate d the steamer T yne into Was overloaded deep in th e water when she went out of e the heart of the gale, public opinion was strongly in favour of a Board of Trade inquiry. Such an inc illiry is likely to take place. Mr. Ilaainaon.d is down on the Tyne making a preliminary investigation, to ascertain if the evidence is sufficiently strong to warrant an official i nquiry, I NOTIIER T . ATAL CRINOLINE ACCIDENT.—Laqt Il ur , , lay oioining Miss Her: set Re.i2,h ''''l * 'l, aged 29, ~f 20, 1 , 11-r.a4l, Maids-hill ; w..s attending to her, inothE,r, O W ho It d su , denly been taken ill, when her dress caught -', and b urnt her severely on the neck and arms. She nmined under medical treatment until Monday, when she expired. SHARE ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Share; Railways. Bir., Wol., and Str. V al Blythe and Tyne. Bost ,Sleat,and Mid. Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Corn wal I Do A A Zeta no di Do. B ti 11 tip c.p an. has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,& Ab. Juno. Edinburgh & Glasgow., Glasg. and S. Western.] Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Do. £5 shares Gt. S. an I W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwal' Lon., Bright ,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western ILon. & South Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do * shares • Nretropoli tan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase I Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.. North London Do New North Staffordshire 'N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern 13.14 8.4.0 L 9.18.4! South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale. Do C . • .. Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Ilar.tkß West Midland Oxtord Do Newport Do Hereford (2.10 Paid.'i Closing Business Price . done. b Si Pi 7 8S PO 116 118 6i 7 41 43 13 14 86 87 105 107 47 48 43 4.3 231 24i 124 127 130 131 136 138 104 106 &! 67i 109 109, 74 70 113 115 41 43 981 991 103 104 44 45 13 14t 1278 128 it 17 N es 52 4 53 254 264 101 101; 57 68 89 891 128 130 111 1!4 # 1 1 15; 10 11 111 119 121 4Gi 103 105 48 50 32a 331 95i 97 68 70 103 106 671 1 1 384 39 ; } 7/ 10 11 p 6 8 150 152 p 5 5 ;0, 21 3 p 55} 26 Si p 85 87 110 145 114 j 201 081 91 1031 f 15 14f 1271 29 31 53i 1011 891 i 961 i 42 44 34 36 95 27 BRITISH POS-;ESSIONs. Railways ktlantie & St Lawrene, 110 / 12 .,Baroda&.Cent Inc Gu. 5 per cent.. Do. New . • • Buffalo and Laxe Huron Do. Prefemme •• • • Buffalo,Brant,&Godricl , 6 p. ct, bds. Aug. 1, 1.7 Do. do. July 1, 1572 Do. do. June 1,1 ., C•luitta...tS.Eastu. (1, , , • CspeTown Dock Eastn. Bengal gu. 6 p. Fast Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. (I Ext . Do. do. II d 0... Grand Trunk of Canada• Do. 6 per cent. PreT Do. 2d Pref. 6 per et. Do. 6 per et. Debent) Do. 7 per cent. 1862 . Do. - do. 1867 .. Do. do. 1872.. Gt.lndlaPenin.g - ua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. c... Do. January, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 wlth't opt. Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8.. Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. c. Do. 41 p. c. Extensior Dc. 44 do ........ Do. Fifth Extension. p. o. Bnds !Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Inortg. B&. INewßr unswick t Cand: Class A Capital Shar, Do. do. B Capital d 0... N.lll.C'da6 pc Ist pi bds I .scinde ........, Do. Delhi 4 --' ;Do. do. .... . Do. Punjaub Do. Do. .—. •• •• t g i Do. Indus. St. Flo.) too 100 100 leo 100 lon all alt 100 (100 • 100 2 15 100 k.lOO Pa:ft Price. 65 67 1041 Icsi 1 4k Si p if et 77 60 75 76 73 76 11 3 105 118 !OD 1(51 1,6 t 106 1(44 4 lip .P 21 22 73 75 63 (15 32 31 47 00 32 34 32 34 165 106 P 103 105 12/ 13i 7f- 7$ U' 99 101 92 14 1 lip 102 1 lo3l' 90 97 92 52 53 3 5 3 5 83 65 115 105 103 104 iP 1 P 103 104 98 100 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECU (;„n.(iner, sp.c,•ln. ;July 1877-S1 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. Sc Aug. Do. d p. c. Mar. & Sept. Do. 5 p. c. Jan.&July. Do. S Inscribed stock Cape G.llepe, 6 p 0,1873 Do.Ap &Oct 1880, Do. 189 C,, Do. Jan. & July, 1891- , Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p c, N.B.Gov. 6 p.c.Ja.&July Do. 6 p. c.Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c.,1866 Do. 5 p. e.,1871 to 1876 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds New Zealand 6 p. cent.a Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c ster:ing, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c S.Aus G6p.e.187&& up Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July Do. to Ro.n. An-& , , 1054 1064 4C3 106 106 108 1054 064 04 06 103 110 112 114 113 115 111 113 105 106 100 101 100 101 95 100 109 111 106 107 i(9 11: 109 111 107 100 11C 1101 100 100 100 100 100 BRITISH 4I ;Cambrian Consol. Gold lulord Amalgamated.. • Devon G. Conn. (Tavist. East Bassett (1 lloganl.. East Clogau Grold. Ltd. East Caradou ..... East Carn Brea... . E. WI Russel (Tavistk. Gam.dzSt.Aubyn(Gwen.;, Great South Tolgus.... G. Wheal Vor (Ilelsten (Grenville it erod's- Foot 1; I ingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (Guy Lelant )l ark e Valley.. yndy Iron Oro (Lim ' New &tun North Downs \". WWI corn' Wheal Crotty l'ar Consols (st. Blazey Providence( Uny Lelnt.: South Caradon(St.Cleer S. Cam Brea (Illogan) Fran. (Mogan Stray Park !Tamar Silv.& Lead Min in Crort _ _ West Basset (Illogan).. W earadon (Liskeard West Seton Wheal Basset (Illog , an, l Wheal Buller(Redruth wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) Wheal Lud ott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) Wheal Seton wheal Trelavrney (Lis.) Wheal Union 3.0. n 7.19.0 571 17, 11.15. r Kl 7. 4. 7.0 2.0.6 4.3.0 191 24 1.17.6 2,4.9 10.6.7 If 47f 5i 5 2.0.6 2.10.8 8 58} 7 3.13 PREFERENCE SHARES. Stockton and Darlington, B, 6 per cent., 34k West Midland, Oxford, 2d guaranteed stock, 122} PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton, &c., .P per cent., 1858, 102 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 20aa Great Luxembourg, ot FOREIGN MINES. Fortuna (Urn.), Pont , ibaud Silver, Lead Min. and Smelting, 2i St. John del Rey (lim.), 53. 3 Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lim.), 3a a JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (lim.), 234 Australasia, 80/ Bank of Egypt, 25i English and Irish (lira.), 21 Imperial Bank (lim.), 144 London and County, 404 4 tO New South Wales, 481 8 Ottoman Bank, iO4 Ditto, new, 101 Standard of British South Africa (lim Union of Australia, 514 50l Union of London, 334 4 MISCELLANEOUS. National Discount Company, 74 Peninsula and 0 iental Steam, 734 3 Ditto, new, 444 CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, Wed nesday, Feb. 11.—Admissions on payment, 1,338; ditto by season tickets, 1,144, total visitors, 2,482. THE FIRE INSURANCE DUTY.—Yesterday a Parliamentary paper was issued, showing that in the year ended March 31 last the fire insurance duty amounted to £1,534,810, and in the preceding year it was £1,492,687. THE DUTY ON TOBACCO AND SNUFF.—Accord ing to an official paper yesterday issued the ~u ty on tobacco and snuff in the year ended March 31 last was £5,596,211. The duly is proposed to be reduced this year. A QUESTION ASKED BY A THOUSAND CORRES• roNDENTs..--What have the London poor got by Mr. Pea body's donation ?—Punch,. THE CASE OF MR. WIIITEHURST.—The indict ment in this extraordinary case was removed by certiorari into tha Court of Queen's Bench, and should have been tried at these sittings ; but in consequence of the heavy nature of the causes that have come before the Court, it will be impossible to try it, as the Westminster after-term sittings close to-day. Special jury cases are rarely, if ever, taken during the sittings in term, or at the Easter after• term sittings, from four days only being devoted to the Westminster and Guildhall after-term sittings (two days at each place) ; consequently it will have to go over to the Trinity after-term sittings in June next. The same applies to the case of D ckson v. Lord Combermere and others, which is an lIC ion arising out of the dispute between Lieut.- Colonel Dickson r.nd the Earl of Wilton. Should the case of Glover v. Peraigny and others, with reference to the Morning Chronicle, be entered for trial, it will also have to be postponed for the same reason. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 12, 1863. 'his Day DEVONPOR' This Day. STATE OF THE POLL. The election is causing much excitement in the borough. The state of the poll at 11.15 a.m. was as follows : Ferrand Grey POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. BURGLARY.—Robert Taylor, a sweep, was charged with burglariously breaking and entering the house of Wm. Payne, a master sweep, of 5, Margaret's-court, Maryle bone, and stealing a sweeping machine and several other articles. The prosecutor said that on Tuesday week morning, at half-past five o'clock, he found the folding door of his cellar had been forced open, and one of his machines and a quantity of tools, &c., had been stolen. Th 3 whole of the articles produced were his property. In answer to questions from Mr. Knox, the prosecutor said that he saw the cellar safe at four the previous after noon, and that some of the persons residing in the house heard a noise at the cellar door about half-past one in the morning. The prisoner had been in his employ, but dis charged. Richard Wells, a sweep, said he lived at 3, Lonsdale road, and at half .past 7 on the morning of Tuesday week the prisoner came into a publichouse in the Hereford-road, where he (witness) was with a friend, and said he wanted to sell a machine and some tools, as he was tired of the business. He advised the prisoner not to sell the articles, and his (witness's) friend offered to lend the prisoner half a-sovereign on them. Next day the prisoner came and said that he had lost ss. of the half-sovereign, and some more money was lent him, he stating again that the articles were his own property. Since then, his friend stating that he should have the articles if the prisoner did not redeem them, he (witness) advanced the money and redeemed them, and took them home. Porter, 55 D, said he took the prisoner into custody yes terday afternoon, and went to 3, Lonsdale-road, where he found the articles produced. He wished for a remand, as he believed there would be several other charges against him. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner for a week. Two boys, named Harris and King, were charged with stealing some money from the till of Mrs. Ferris, of 21, Market-street, Mayfair. The case being proved against the boys, Reeves, 44 C, said ho had made inquiries, and found the parents of both boys to be very respectable people. The mother of King said her boy had been in employ at Drury lane Theatre, and had been decoyed away by the other boy. Mr. Knox remanded them for a week. WESTMINSTER. EXPOSING GOODS FOR SALE.—Alice Poynter, a girl only 14 years of age, was charged with steal.ne; a piece of carpet, value 25., the property of Mr. Henry Pike, furniture dealer, 51, Marlborough road, Chelsea. Prosecutor said that at a little after eight o'clock last night, he was informed by a person that somebody had taken a piece of carpet from his door. He went out and missed the carpet, and directly after saw the prisoner with it in her possession. He then gave her into custody, and she was taken to the station. Mr. Paynter—Where was the carpet when it was taken f Prosecutor—Dutbide my door. Mr. Paynter —Exposed so that anybody might take it. Prosecutor—Yes, anybody might take it. Mr. Paynter—lt is most disgraceful to expose property in this way, it was putting a temptation in the way of needy or dishonest persons. Prosecutor—Other shopkeepers do the same. Mr. Paynter—That does not make it a bit better. Other shopkeepers should not do it. No one should tempt another to the commission of crime. You also commit an offence against the law by exposing these things upon the footway. Prosecutor—We are obliged to expose our things or we should not sell them. What are we to do ? Mr. Paynter—You are not to expose goods, and if you arb brought before me for placing them on the footway I will convict you hi the full penalty of 405., of that you may depend. Prosecutor—My things are placed on private ground. Mr. Paynter asked prisoner what she had to say. She replied that another girl threw the carpet at her. Mr. Paynter—.ls she known ? Dennis, the gaoler—She has been here before for the same sort of thing. Mr. Paynter—Then I shall commit her for trial at the sessions, and I will not allow the prosecutor any expenses. Committed accordingly. m.eLnitnTo—llus Day. MARK LANE. ERLAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 457 7d ; barley, 35s lld ; oats, 20s 4d ; rye, 35s 2d ; beans, 36s 3d ; and peas, 36s 10d. THE SIX WEEKS' ATERAGES. Wheat, 47s 5d ; barley, 35s 2d ; oats, 20s 6d ; rye, 34s 6d; beans, 36s sd; peas, 37s 3d, ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 77,436 ; barley, 77,541; oats, 19,207; rye, 55; beans, 5,031; peas, 1,220 qrs. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. To-day's market was very moderately supplied with beasts as to number, but the general quality of the stock was good. All breeds moved off slowly; nevertheless, Monday's prices were supported. The best Scots and crow sea realised 4a 10d per 81bs. Sheep, the show of which was limited, were a slow inquiry, at late rates. The best old Downs, in their wool, were worth 6s per Blbs. Shorn Leicester produced 5s per 81bs. Dorset lambs sold at from 7s to 9a 4d per 81bs, but the demand for them was by no means active. Calves were in fair average supply and sluggish request, at a decline in value of 2d per Blbs. The top price was 6s 4d. In pigs and mulch cows very little was doing, on former terms. Per blb. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 6 Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. 4 2 4 10 s. d. s. (1. Primecrs-wool d 0.5 0 5 6 Pine. S'thdown d 0.5 8 6 0 Large one. calves 4 2 4 10 Prime small do 5 0 5 4 Large hogs 3 8 4 4 Small porkers ..., 4 6 4 8 Suckling calves, 12s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 21s to 28s. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Cows l2O Sheep Sheep Calves Pigs 3OO MEAT MARKETS. NEVGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The supplies of meat are moderate, and the trade rules steady, as follows : Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 2d , mutton, 3s 8d to 4s6d ; veal, 4s Od to os 4d ; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 6d per 81bs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, February 11.—The supply of stock was very moderate, and the trade ruled inactive, at about stationary prices. Beef, from 3s Gd to 4s 10d; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 10d ; veal, 4s 6d to Os 4d; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 6d per 81bs, to sink the offal. RoMFORD, February 11.—Prime stock sold readily at very full prices ; otherwise the trade was in a sluggish state. Beet; from 3s 8d to 4s 10d ; mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 10d ; veal, 4s 8d to 58 4d; pork, 3s 8d to 4s 6d per 81bs ; suckling calves, lOs to 19s ; quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 298 ; and much cows, £l4 Os to .£lB Os each. HAY MARKETS. S➢fITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 48 Od ; clover, do., £3 lOs to £5 15s ; and straw, £llos to £1 18s per load. A fair demand. CUMBERLAND.. -- Meadow hay, £2 2s to £4 6s ; clover, £3 10s to £5 12s Od ; and straw, £1 12s to £1 18s per load. Supply moderate. WEITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £1 4s; olovez do., £3 108 to £5 15s; and straw, 10s to £1 18s per load, Trade rather dull, COAL ARKET. Frioes of Coal per Ton a s. d. the close of the market. Byass's Bebside West Hartley .... . .14 0 Lambert's West Hart -1 l4 0 ley Tanield Moor l2 6 Tanfield Moor Butes l2 6 Davison's West Hart-14l ley Hastings Hartley 14 0 North Pelton Gas l4 0 olywell 15 6 West Hartley 14 0 Bell's Primrose l2 6 alker Primrose 13 0 Eden Main.......... 14 6 Walls End. a. d. Kelloe South Kelloe.. 14 9 Hartlepool.. l6 0 South Hartlepool. 15 6 Cassop ... 15 6 Ileugh Hall 15 0 Tximdon Hartlepool l6 0 W.Hunwick... 15 0 Riddell .... 14 0 Russel's Hetton 15 0 Eden 14 6 Acorn Close.. Byron l4 6 14 0 Harton Breddyll's lletton 15 3 south Hettou Byron ............ • l4 6 ', 222; sold, 99. Walls End. Whitworth 15 01 Ships at market Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) LIVERPOOL, Feb. 12. At the market this morning cotton was strong. Sales 5,000 or more. Import, 1,591; previouslYl 5,185. REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—Yester day the underselling bakers throughout the metro polis made a reduction of a halfpenny in the 41b. loaf. which is now sold in the northern districts at 51d. to Gd., and in the districts south of the Thames at 6d. and 61d. Household bread (seconds), sd. to aid. per 41b. loaf, and country bread (unweighed) at sd. per loaf. No alteration has been made in the prices of the best or fancy bread, SPORT *G INTELLIGENCE, READING ST EEP :JE CHA SE S—WEDNESDAY. The genial weather and the promising appearance of the programme tempted a verl large number of spectators, both local and metropolitan, to visit the steeplechase ground, ana the company present were well rewarded, for the sport was of a fair average description, and the general management of the meeting unexceptionable. The line of country was the same as last year, awl one mile and a half from the town of Reading ; and tie fences, without being particu larly formidable, were suficient to test the stamina and racing qualities of the competitors. It will be perceived, from the return of the sport given below, that the well known Ben Land was in " great form," winning three of the events, and running second for the fourth, with horses from his stable, The betting ring was tolerably were filled, and daring the afternoons demonstration was made in fa vour of Satellite for the Liverpool Grand National Steeple chase, who, after being backed for all the money that could be got on at 100 to 8, closed at no higher offers than 10 to 1; Jealousy was also supported at 25 to 1, and finally 20 to 1 was the longest price obtainable. Mr.W. Hibbard, the clerk of the course, deserves especial credit for the manner in which the whole of the busines of this capital afternoon's sport was conducted. Subjoined are full details of the running : A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, 1 ft, with 25 added; gentle men riders ; 13st each, winners extra. About three miles. 8 subs, one of whom declared. Mr. Fetherstonehough's Windsor, 13st. ... (Owner) 1 Mr. T. Duffield's Skir m i s h er, 13st 71b (inc. 71b extra) (Owner 2 Mr. G. R. Gross' s G ame b oy, 13st (Mr. Henry) 3 The Dutchman and Lemon Oliver also ran. Betting-6 to 4 agst Windsor, and immediately after start ing he was backed at evens against the field. Directly the flag fell the favourite went to the front, and leaving his horses whenever he pleased, sometimes taking a lead of a hundred yards, ho went on from end to end and won by a distance. Lemon Oliver stopped after going little more than half the distance, and The Dutchman fell at the brook jump near the finish. The Great Berkshire Open Steeplechase (Handicap) of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, and only 2 ft if declared, with 100 added ; winners extra. About three miles and a half, 22 subs, 13 of whom paid 2 sovs each. Mr. B. Land's Ascot, 12st llb (13. Land, jun.) 1 Mr. T. Redford's Omar Pasha, list llb (Palmer) 2 Capt. Cooper's Cockatoo, list 41b .. (John Istightingall) 3 The following also ran :—Playman, Supperton, and Wil ful. Betting-2 to 1 agst Ascot, sto 2 agst Omar Pasha, 3to 1 agst Cockatoo-100 to 15 agst Sapperton, and Bto 1 agst Playman. Ascot rushed to the front, Sapperton lying second, and the rest close together, led by Omar Pasha. After passing the Stand, Sapperton, at a merry pace, headed Ascot, who was followed by Omar Pasha, Playman, Cockatoo, and Wilful, in the order named. No alteration occurred during the first mild and a half, until ascending the hill beyond the Stand, where Sapperton, who had just previously been passed by A scot, again assumed a clear lead, Cockatoo hav ing taken third place, being at the time completely in a white lather. The Playman at this time occupied the fourth place, Omar Pasha fifth, and Wilful many lengths in the rear. At the jump out of the ploughed land, Ascot went to the front, whilst Sapperton suddenly stopped, evidently beaten, and dropped into the fourth place. Ascot was fol lowed by Omar Pasha, Cockatoo being third, Sapperton fourth, with Playman and Wilful bringing up the rear. About three fields from the finish Ascot held a strong lead, the only other horse near being Omar Pasha. Without any effort Ascot maintained his own, and won easily by a dozen lengths; Cockatoo was a bad third, and Sapperton walked past the post fourth; Playman and Wilful trotted in some minutes after. A. Selling Steeplechase of 5 sous each, with 25 added, for 4- ilyr-olds and upwards. Selling allowances. About three miles, 3 subs. Mr. B. Land's Deceiver (EGO), 12st .......... (J. Land) 1 Mr. John islightingall's Orkousta, (£10), llst 91b(Owner) 2 The Tatler also ran, Betting—Even on Deceiver, and 6 to 4 each against The rater and Orkousia, The latter made play until passing the Stand, where Nightingall eased his mare, and Deceiver ascending the hill took the lead, with The Tatler in close attendance. On the opposite side of the course The Tatler momentarily held the front position ; but half a mile from home was beaten. Orkousta made bar final effort after passing the cottages, but never got up, and was beaten by 20 lengths. The Tatler walked in. The winner was bought in for 66 guineas. The Whitley Stakes (Handicap) of 5 soya each, in case of acceptance, with 30 sous added; entrance 1 sou; winners 71b extra. Two miles and a half. Mr. Milton's Gladiator, aged, lOst 121 b.. (J. Nightingall) 1 Mr. B. Land's Oliver Twist, list 21b .. (B. Land, jun.) 2 Mr. It. I'Auson's Glautias, lOst 71b. (Headland) 3 The following also ran : —Corkscrew, Alma, Python, Long Odds, Gamecock, and Fairplay. Betting-7 to 4 agst Oliver Twist, 2to 1 agst Glautias, 100 to 15 bar two, 10 to 1 agst Fairplay, Fairplay, after going a short distance, took a command ing lead, but before half the distance had hpori neaten ; ulacuator, half a mile from home, came out, and after an excellent race with Oliver Twist in the last quar ter, won by two lengths; Glautias a bad third; Long Odds fell early in the race and except the first three nothing else passed the post. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 10 to 1 agst Satellite (take 12 to 1 freely) 12 to 1 agst Jealousy (takes) LINCOLN HANDICAP. 10 to 1 agst Libellous SCARBOROUGH STEEPLECHASES—WEDNESDAY. The Scarborough Open Steeplechase (Handicap) of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, and 3if declared, with 50 added. About three miles and a half. 15 subs., 6 declared. Mr.G.Sinif son's Red Robin, aged, list 101b(W.Simpson) 1 Mr. A. Dunhill's Endor Witch, aged, lOst 71b (Marson) 2 Mr, J. Cadman's Cherry Bounce,azed, lOst 71b(Christian) 3 Mr. J. Hickes's Wild Flower, 6 irs, lOst 71b (Dixon) 4 The following also ran :—Joe Maley, Jessamine, and Multum in Parvo. Betting-2 to 1 agst Endor Witch, 3to 1 agst Jessamine, 5 to 1 agst Red Robin, 6 to 1 agst Joe Maley (off.) Won by a length and a half; four lengths between se cond and third ; a bad fourth. The Innkeepers' Plate of 1 soy each, with 15 added ; sell ing allowances. About two miles and a half. 10 subs. Mr. Tindall's Crookshank, list (X2O) (Mr E. Crawshaw) 1 Mr. J. F. Leighton's Sam Weller, list 7lb (X3O) (Mr. Leighton) 2 Mr. Wellburn's Cato, 12st (II0) (Mr. G. Pearson) 3 The following also ran :—Widewake, Paddy, Seawar Lass, Lord of the Tees, and Jeanie Deans. Betting-3 to 1 agst Wideawake, 4to 1 agst Sam Weller, 5 to 1 each agst Crookshank and Lard of the Tees. Won by a length; a bad third. The Yorkshire Hunters' Stakes of 5 sous each, 2 ft, with 50 added ; second to save his stake; weight for age; selling allowances, &c. About three miles and a half. 13 subs. Mr. W. J. Simpson's Rarey, aged, 12st 21b (J , Hopper) 1 Mr. Fernand ez ' s R ook the' Gardener, 6 yrs, 12st 21b (Mr. Skipworth) 2 Mr. A. Dunhill's Endor Witch, aged, 12st 21b (Mr. Leighton) 3 Mr. T. J. Smith's Sportsman, 6 yrs, 12st 91b (in. 31b ex.) (Mr. Crawshaw) 4 Brompton and Cherry Bounce also ran. Betting-2 to 1 agst Rarey, sto 2 agst Rook the Gar dener, 3 to 1 agst Sportsman. Won by a length; six lengths between second and third . a bad fourth. A BRIGAND'S COUP. —Italian letters and news• papers contain excited accounts of the capture of Marquis Avitabile bylone's band of brigands. Here is one of the most graphic versions we have seen :--" The Mar quis Avitabile, president of the Neapolitan Bank, was on a visit to one of his estates, situate on Mount Vesuvius, near Tone del Grecco. On the morning after his arrival the Marquis proposed to one of his bailiffs to accompany him on a shooting excursion in the neighbourhood. The two had not proceeded far when they found themselves surrounded by a company of armed men. The bailiff had scarcely time to cry, Here is Pilone's band 12.1 when one of the party, approaching the Marquis, inquired, if he were M. Avita bile, and on receiving an affirmative reply, added, I will trouble you to follow me.' The Marquis accompanied his guide to a secluded spot upon the skirts of the mountain,and was forthwith conducted into the presence of an individual dressed in a rod shirt, a hat ala Italiana, and displaying three decorations on his breast. Be was attended by about 35 other persons accoutred in the same fashion as the first batch. The protagonist, no other than the redoubtable Pilone himself, then addressed his prisoner in the following terms :—' Marquis,—l am the conimander-in-chief of the outposts of 'he army of occupation, in the service of his Majesty Francis 11. Without further preamble, I beg to inform you that as you could spare 60,000 ducats for Gari baldi, you certainly will not grueße the same sum to us. You need not fear any ill treatment. We have orders not to touch the persons of you dots of Liberals ; but as you do us much harm, intercept cur correspondence, and take our money, it is but just that you should be mulcted in your turn." To this the Marquis repli e d that such a sum as (0,000 ducats was out of the question either for Garibaldi or any one else. To be blief, after some haggling, it wa , agreed that the Marquis should pay 20,000 ducats, £3,240, for his release. A messork;er was sent to Naples, and the family of the hostage, after obtaining a promise from the authorities that no attempts should be tak en against Pilone and his followers btfore the safe return of the Marquis, proceeded to collect the money. 12,000 d uc ats were furnished by the bank, and th e remaining 8,000 were raised by notes of hand signet by some of the Mar quis's The brigand se ems to have treated his visitor with great respect, invited lina to dinner at a road side tavern, and in a convivial menent showed him a de cree bearing the signature of Francis , and nominatin g the possessor, in fact, as he had stited, to the post of com mander losts, and among other curiosities in the chief b r o i f ghn th d e d advanced i3pla y ed diploma i nves ti ng hi m o i Ll ivh t th all the money e paym en t o f the money, allis with the d i u ty of a a rI napol eons, cav ilier. fo _e cliangers' shops in Naples hactbefn home in the Mar• quis was set at liberty, and returned in the main of the day of his capture." STATE OF TRADE, CARDIFF, Feb. 10.—Within the last few days the orders have arrived more rapidly than usual at the iron works, and there are sound indications of im provement. The Aberdare Iron Company are exe cuting a large order for rails, and the extensive works are well employed. The quotations for iron exhibit increased firmness, but as yet no actual advance has taken place. In consequence of the ad vent of calmer weather, the coal trade is beginning to recover from the temporary depression which has characterised it for the last two or three weeks, and many of the steam coal collieries are better em ployed. There is no change to report in prices. LEICESTER, nth—There has been rather more doing in regular hosiery goods during the past few days, business improving as the year advances. Manufacturers are working to order, and no stocks aro allowed to accumulate. In the rural districts business is quiet. Wools are without material change in price, with a quiet market. Yarns are realising very high prices, and contract spinners are well employed. NOTTINGHAM, I th.--There has been no improve ment in the lace trade during the past few days; indeed, generally speaking, the market has been more quiet for some descriptions of goods. There is not much doing in plain nets, in which branch profits are small. A few buyers have been in the market, but their operations are in many cases limited. Narrow silk edging continue in tolerable request, and the demand for black laces for trim mings is expected to improve shortly. Stocks of all kinds of goods are extremely light. In hosiery there has been a fair business doing in some classes of goods, and the tone of the trade generally is im proving ; the high price of yarns, however, checks speculation. PAUPERISM IN SCOTLAND. The report of the Scottish Board of Supervision for the year ending on the 14th of May, 1862, has been presented to Parliament. On that day—a period of the year chosen, we believe, as furnishing a fair average pauper census—the number of regis tered poor, with their dependents, was 118,928; in 1861 it had been 117,369. The number of casual unregistered poor receiving relief was 7,391, and the number of pauper lunatics, 5,204. The expen diture of the year 1861.62 was considerably greater than in the previous year, and amounted to £765,135, being 4s 11id per head of the population; the in crease over the preceding year being no less than £81,233, or 611. per,head of the population. The commissioners state that the increase was general over the country, and that it arose, not from in crease in the number of persons receiving relief, although there was some little augmentation of that number, but rather from an increased average rate of expenditure on each pauper. The average allow ance to each registered pauper rose from £5 9a 14cl in 1860-61 to £5 17s 5d in 1861-62. There has also been en increase in the cost of management, which is partly attributed to an enhanced sale of remune ration demanded for services of all descriptions in Scotland. The rate per cent. of the pcor law ex penditure on the annual value of real property, as returned in 1856, was in 1860-6.1 £5 168 103-,d, and in 1861-62, £6 108 91d. ; on the value as estimated, for 1859 it would be £5 18s 81d, or lls 2d per cent. greater than in 1856, when similar returns were available. In Scotland outdoor relief is still the rule, and relief in the poorhouse the excep tion ; for although many poorhouses are in pro gress, and the sum of £31,617 was expended upon building in the course of the year, yet the returns state that the number of inmates in workhouses on the 30th of June last was only 7,465. In giving evidence before a Parliamentary committee in 1861, the general superintendent of poor said of this system of extensive outdoor relief, that it had considerably deteriorated the character of the people; " the state of things in the Highlands of Scotland," he said, "is perfectly deplorable." The present re port shows that in the county of Caithness one per son in every 19 (reckoning on the population found there at the census of 1861) is either regularly nr occasionally a pauper on tae rates, and in the county of Argyle one in every 16. The report contains a remarkable account of a system of sending diseased and weakly pauper children frornGlasgow,Greenock and other places to board with the crofters, or small farmers, of the healthy island of Arran, two or three at a house. The children are not a little pleased at exchanging town life, and the restraint of a poorhouse, for the free run of the farm and the j sea-beach. The visiting officer reports that they are well treated, but he is afraid the scheme may grow too great. At present only about 130 children have been sent, but if the number should be in creased he fears the effect upon the islanders of the forced introduction of unhealthy elements in the population, for many of these children will settle in Arran and become component parts of its popu lation. But the farmers find it answer; the addi tion to their expenses is very slight, they gec some of their work done without wages, and the 10s. or 12s. a month received for each child helps to pay rent. SINGULAR CHARGE OF BIGAMY. At the Hammersmith Police-court a stout buxom looking woman, who gave the name of Mary Ann Seller, was placed in the dock, before Mr. Ingham, charged with intermarrying with Edwin Seller, her first husband, William Randall, being alive. Mr. Martin defended the prisoner. The first witness examined was William Deverell, who stated that he lived at 19, Stamford-road, Ful ham. The prisoner was his sister: He was too young to be at her first marriage, which was in the year 1844. He was now 39 years of age. Her first husband was still alive. Witness produced a copy of the certificate of her second marriage, at St. George's, Hanover-square, on Feb. 19, 1860. She was married the second time in the name of Mary Ann Goldstone, which was not her right name. By Mr. Martin—l am the prosecutor; not either of the husbands. The first husband will prosecute I am almost positive. Mr. Ingham—You have taken up the case on your own account ? - Witness—l have. lam the prosecutor. Mr. Martin—What is your motive for prose cuting your sister ? Witness—Because she is a base woman, for speak ing ill of myself and my wife also. Mr. Martin—Do you not know that the second husband would not hurt a hair of her head ? Witness—l can't say what he would do. He is not man enough to come to the court. Mr. Martin then cross-examined the prosecutor as to his knowledge of the time the prisoner lived with her husband, but he appeared to be unable to give any accurate answers. He said that he knew she lived with Randall for three or four years from 1844. He at first stated that she lived with her first husband up to seven years ago, but afterwards he could not state whether it was up to sixteen or seventeen years ago. Elizabeth Dodd, of No. 78, Queen's-road West, Chelsea, said prisoner was her sister, and she was brought to the court to give evince by her brother. She spoke with reference to the first marriage, and said the prisoner liv e d with Randall up to within twelve months of her marriage with Seller. The prisoner had been in service, and went home to sleep. The prisoner here shook her head, and called her sister a wicked woman. The sister further said that the first husband had complained of his wife's marriage with Seller. Police• Constable Fullord, 371 V, produced a copy of the first marriage certificate, which he obtained from Somerset House. He said he took the pri soner into custody on Tuesday night, and on tell ing her the charge she said it was correct. Mr. Ingham then remanded the prisoner for a week, and accepted bail for her appearance. He told the constable that both husbands would have to attend on the next occasion. TUSSAIJD'S EXllll3lTloN.—Determined to keep pace with the times by making this truly popular exhibi tion one of the most attractive and instructive of all the metropolitan sights, the spirited proprietors have, at con siderable outlay, added a magnificent set of Court jewels, manufactured by that eminent jeweller, Granger, of Paris, medal a t ra t a h r e v enou International of Ex hibition, enjoys the special patronage of his who, we understand, Imperial Majesty the Emperor Napoleon 111. dee s These oe prize composed of real diamonds, & j h e i w bi e t l io s n o , bt a a n in d ed we t r h e e instead of imitation, would . be worth at least £40,000 I The much so, that no person but an experienced judge c e . i xu m i s Btp i h t t o o e e n r Ct e w ih s n o i e gn r o k e u s m T l e d a ep n d aa s e s h t sw e i i epnitgt is a o h of le without d i ::: fflceeyror inferior ono; leaves eaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore , always ed, on the leaf pre ventsgoa alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents, Business dons ITIES. LITERATURE. 4 Successful Exploration through the Interior of Australia. From the journals and Letters of Wil liam John Wills; edited by his father, William Wills. Richard Bentley. It is melancholy to recall the fact that the first successful exploration across the continent of Aus tralia was attended with such fatal resulte to those who accomplished it. The more so that the deaths of Robert O'Hara Burke, the leader of the expedition, and of William J. Wills, the surveyor and astronomer, who was second in command, were owing not to any fault of their own or to hostility of the natives, or to other circumstances over which they had no control, but rather to a combination of personal ill-feeling, neglect of duty, and gross incompetence on the part of those who should never have been intrusted with responsible situa tions. This interesting volume emanates from the pen of Dr. Wills, the father of the deceased surveyor, a promising young mar, who, in his endeavour to earn fame and advance the ends of science and the prosperity of his adopted country, fell a victim to ill-regulated arrangements, and died of exhaustion in the wilderness at the early age of twenty-seven. The work contains a short bio graphy of Mr. Wills, but the principal portion of the volume is devoted to a full narrative of the ex pedition, and a reprint of his diary and notes dur ing the memorable months of his adventures. In the year 1861, when the first intelligence of the re sult of Mr. Burke's exploration became known in this country, we endeavoured to give our readers an idea of the work that had to be done, the hardships to be endured, and the precautions necessary in an Australian exploration. We showed that unless the sole power were vested in thehands of an energetic and practical man, to whose will all others con nected with the expedition must snleserve with the implicit obedience and discipline of a military com mand, ill feeling and trouble would be sure to take place. Likewise that all employed as subordinates should be competent men ; that is to say, thorough bashmen, and men of some education. Hundreds of such are to be found in Australia. The gold mania drew thousands of adventurers from this country—men whose volatile disposition and whose thirst for riches in a lump led them to throw up good situations at home and seek their fortune in the unknown world. From men such as these, who having proved the folly of their trust in the aurife rous deposits of the antipodes, turned their energies to practical account, and became stock-keepers or rough riders in the interior, really useful and practi cal assistants could be procured; in the want of these lies the secret of the failure of all Australian explo. rations. Money to a liberal extent has been granted many a time and oft to enable parties to penetrate the interior by the various Australian Governments, but the same penurious and fatal mistake has pre vailed throughout them all. The Government is liberal, private individuals send in contributions, a large sum is raised, large salaries are given to the leader, the doctor, and half-a-dozen other men in authority, but a fatuity seems to hang over those who sit in office in Melbourne, Sydney, or Adelaide, which blinds them to the fact that it is by the competency of the minor agents that the talent of the scientific leaders can be developed. We will ask the question of any reasonable individual—is it likely that, for the poor pittance of six shillings a day, men of colo nial experience will work—men who know the bush as well as the aborigines —men who have devoted years to the study of a science unknown in a civilised country, viz., the reading of past evente from the footprints of those who have passed before? It is an instinct in the savage; it is a science in the European—and as a science, with his knowledge of the habits of his countrymen, the "old hand," or long-experienced stockman, can " strike off a track" or find water where science is at fault. These are the men who should be the accessories to an exploration--men who from habit will ride for four and-twenty —aye, and for forty-eight hours, if necessary, without food or drink, and care little about it—men who have self-reliance. But men ~r 0310 ulnae nave mere price. e near value is known by proprietors, and it is not likely that they will throw up lucrative situations, or even forego the pros pect of them if out of employ to join a haz irdous undertaking for less pay then stonebreakers on the roads can earn. It was partly from this cause that the fatal results of this expedition emanated. The man left in charge of the depot at Cooper's Creek deserves more our pity than our censure. William Brahe, left in a responsible position, in charge of the depot at Cooper's Creek, deserted his post the morning of the day that Mr. Burke, Wills, and King reached it in the evening. Four of his men had died, others were ill, and he yielded to the prompting of his feelings rather than his sense of duty. Yet a last hope induced him after his party had retraced their steps for two days to ride back on the chance of yet meeting the lost ones. He came to the trysting place which had already been visited by Burke and his companions, and, finding no one, seems not to have noticed the fresh tracks of the camel, and so returned to his party. Thus by sheer stupidity two valuable lives have been lost. From the time that the three wanderers after much toil and distress reached Cooper's Creek only to find it deserted, the conduct of all parties seems in explicable. True, Brahe and his companions had deserted them, but they had left provisions in the cache which, if not in large quantities, was sufficient to restore their strength and enable them to follow in the track of Brittle, but Burke seems to have com mitted the fatal mistake of trying first to reach South Australia, relying only on a report he had heard that there were cattle stations near Mount Hopeless, a name of evil omen, as it too surely proved to himself and friends ; failing in this they once again returned to the cache, and from that period seem to have gradually sunk from ex haustion. King, the sole survivor, is indebted to the kindness of the natives for his preservation, for when his two companions had died he sought their camp and was hospitably received and supported until discovered by a party sent in search of the missing ones. The question may be asked,what were the authorities in Melbourne about all this time! We do not wish to dwell upon this painful scene, but we wish it to be distinctly understood that, through their petty prejudices and unwarrant able favouritism in confiding places of trust to incompetent men, the .Exploration Committee are responsible for the deaths of O'Hara Burke and William J. Wills. Burke is said to have been hasty, perhaps he was ; bat if properly supported, he was the man to carry out such an undertaking as he entered upon, and Mr. Wills was the man to take part with him. But as the case now stands—betrayed, de serted, and forsaken by their followers, neglected by those in Melbourne who had undertaken to look to their wants, the unfortunate adventurers perished of want when aid was within a few days' journey of them. Victoria is an energetic colony, but when the next exploration is to take place, let ha p ublic e the meeting of its inhabitants subscribe to have work done by private contract, and never again sacrifice the lives of its explorers to. eve society. In the caprice of incompetent members of a ina h conclusion, we must state that kebeDrt.oWillsthose has ofoserbworhnoe, an y expression of ang r y feeling w in his anxiety for the safety of his son, and hi s indignation at the supineness of the administration, his exhortations with contempt, and, treated as it were, referred him to the " Circumlocution-office." While sincerely sympathicing with him for the loss of his gifted son, we beg him to remember that the names of O'Hara Burke and William John Wills will be read of hereafter in the pages of history as the first successful Australian Explorers, and that though his son died in early manhood he had lived long enough to be remembered by posterity. FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. —A new shaft in the Neville-hill Colliery, near Leeds, is in course of construction, and while two men, named Joseph Heaton and Benjamin Banks, were engaged in lting the shaft with brickwork on Monday afternoon last, a collapse of a portion of the shaft took place, and the two unfortunate men were killed. They were at work on a scaffolding 27 yards from the top, and were precipitated to the bottom, a large mass of the brickwork and the earth from the sides of the shaft falling upon them. Great care had to be used in securing the 1, sides of the shaft before the ruing could be removed, and the bodies were not recovered until yesterday. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMON S.---YeSterday. The SPEAKER took his seat at the Clerk's Table at 12 o'clock, but a house was not made until 20 minutes after 12, PRIVATE BUSINESS. Private business occupied a portion of tho earlier put of the sitting. INDIAN ARMY. Col. SYKES presented a petition from officers of the Indian Army, complaining of the operation of the amalga mation scheme—one that he had served for 14 years, and that an officer who had served only S years had been placed over him, and praying for redress. FISHERIES. Mr. S. FITZGERALD presented a petition from Armagh in favour of the Irish Salmon Fisheries Bill. An HoN. MEMBER presented a petition from Carrick on-Shannon to the same effect. GAROTTING. Mr. ADDERLF.Y gave notice that on Monday next he should move for leave to introduce a bill to afford greater protection to her Majesty's subjects from violence. SALMON FISHERIES (IRELAND). Mr. M'MAHON, in proposing the second reading, ob served that, up to 1842, the law of England and Ireland with respect to the regulation of fi3hcrics was identical. Up to thai period every person had a right to fish in the tidal waters of the country, as, indeed, they had from time immemorial. Assuredly up to that period there had been no encroachments upon their undoubted rights by viers, or otherwise. From the very earliest times enactments had been passed against the setting up of all obstructions to the free passage of the fish. The hon. member cited the various acts, and explained the nature of the numerous re ports of the 'Commissioners on the Salmon Fisheries of England, Scotland, and Ireland. For many years past all obstructions or nuisances in the rivers had been strictly forbidden by the Crown and the Legislature. The act of 1812, which this bill sought materially to modify, was hur riedly smuggled through the house, conferred the most monstrous powers on the owners of lands abutting on the sea, shores, and estuaries, and rivers ; in fact, it empowered them by allowing the use of stakes and bag nets, to virtually enclose the water and its produce like a gentleman's park. He could not find that any dis cussion took place on the till of 1842; indeed an hon. member present, he learned, observed at the time ; "This must be a monstrous Irish job, as no Irish members have spoken against it." (Laughter.) The act was a complete violation of the common law of the land and tne non; or the people, as defined by the Great Charter. The act had com pletely ruined many people who had made a living out of the fisheries before it became law. The new bill would not in terfere with a singlo vested right. It might be said that some people had bought property, with the fishing powers given by the bill, in the Encumbered Estates Court, and on the assurance of the commissioners that those powers would not be disturbed; but if any commissioner had given such an assurance he ought to be dismissed from his office. However, he did not believe that any suggestion ot the kind had been made. As there had been endless commissions and reports on the salmon fisheries,he did not see what good could arise from the amendment intended to be proposed by his hon, and learned friend. Mr. BUTT then proposed the following amendment : " That any legislation affecting the rights of the owners of property secured by the existing laws regulating Irish fisheries, ought to be preceded by a full and complete inquiry, either by a royal commission or a committee of this house." He said the whale question amounted to a contest between the owners of the upper and lower fisheries, and if the bill was passed it would virtually confiscate a multitude of undoubted rights, clearly and deliberately granted ,",by the Act of 1842. A full and exhaustive in quiry was urgently needed, Colonel WHITE seconded the amendment. It was most important that there should be further inquiry, as those, like him, interested in the low fisheries were not satisfied with the inquiry of last year; indeed they were not fairly represented in it. He read extracts from several official reports, setting forth that the stakes and bag nets had not had a detrimental effect, and that the fisheries were greatly improving. He was not opposed to legislation on the subject, and would readily meet the supporters of this bill half-way, but he objected to the property enjoyed under the Act of 1842 being suddenly taken thus forcibly from its owners. A large amount of capital had been invested in these fisheries in purchases in connection with the Encumbered Estates Act, and it was impossible that the rights they purchased on the faith of an Act of Parliament could be taken from them without, at least, full and un b assed inquiry. Mr. LONGFIELD supported the second reading, con- tending that there had been ample and exhaustive inquiry. There had been commissions and committees out of number. Phis bill was presented for the sole benefit of the public. He ridiculed the idea of a Royal Commission, moved by the gallant colonel, and probably headed by him. The public had been too long robbed by stake weirs and bag nets, utterly unauthorised even by the act of 1842; in fact, these destructives injured the fish, and interfered with the navigation. No one save those interested in the present defective state of the law could honestly object to the bill. The legislation of 1842 completely nullified the interests of the public. Even in Waterford estuary alone 1,000 poor men who obtained their living by the fisheries were thrown out of employment. Two of the most eminent judges that ever sat on the Irish bench had decided that the putting up of weirs in some foreshores was opposed to the public interest and the law of the land. Mr. HASSARD opposed the bill, because it was of a far too sweeping nature. The house ought not to take the rights conferred or purchased under an act of Parliament away without adinb t.oulpensutlon to the owners. ft the present weirs and bag nets were considered objec tionable, their construction might be modified so as to make them less objectionable. It was a fallacy to say that these nets injured the production of the salmon, for there had never been a more productive year of • salmon in the estuary of Watertoid than the last. All the matters raised in this discussion ought to be in quired into by a committee or Royal Commission. And he hoped the Government would accede to this course. Mr. J. B. SMITH, was not an owner of fisheries, and, indeed, had no interest in the matter. However he had been a member of the recent committee, and he desired to state that the evidence testified that the great evil wee the existence of fixed engines. For instance it was proved that : the effect of this injurious mode of fishing in the Tweed had been to reduce the number of fish from 40,000 to 4,000. Mr. HODGSON spoke against the injurious effect of bag nets, and considered that they ought to be abolished. He, therefore, earnestly trusted that the bill would be adopted. Mr. MONSELL admitted that gross abuses had grown up under the act of 1842, and that the time had come when there should be effective legislation on the subject. No inquiry was needed, for they had more than enough of it. The Government had ample materials in hand, out of which they could easily frame a bill fair alike to all parties. He pressed upon the right hon. baronet, the Chief Secre tary for Ireland, to frame such a bill, and he was satisfied it would meet with the approval of the house. In that case he suggested that bag-nets should be entirely prohibited, and especially so in narrow estuaries as at present in which large numbers of salmon were surely snared ; the owners of the fisheries ought to be compelled to pay a certain rate on their takings. Colonel DUNNE supported the views of the hon. mem ber for Limerick (Mr. Monsell). He feared if the present system was continued that it would lead to the entire destruction of salmon, and read statistics to show that the take of fish on the coasts and rivers of Ireland had greatly diminished during the last few years. He should support the bill, but trusted that the Government would take up the subject and introduce a measure under their own auspices. The house had before it ample materials for legis lation. _ _ _ Sir R. PEEL said the bill was identical with the one read last session, and referred to a committee. It would be better, he thought, to read the bill a second time than re • ferring the subject to a commission. (Hear, hear.) He doubted much if a bill could be framed to meet the desires of the upper and lower proprietors of river rights. However, with the assistance of the hon. gentle men who had spoken, he would venture to undertake a measure in the earnest hope that it might prove accept able to all parties. As the fixed engines had been in the rivers for 20 years before the passing of the bill of 1842, it could hardly be said that they could be abolished without compensation to their owners. A difference of opinion pre vailed as to the augmentation or decrease of salmon in the rivers, Assuredly, if the rivers were getting depopulated, it would be their duty to interfere. But Mr. Fennell gave it as his evidence that it was only the lower parts of the river that possessed any commercial value. He should be glad to take charge this session of such a bill as the one suggested by the hon. member for Limerick, and if the hon. member (Mr. M'Mahon) would consent to withdraw his bill—(no, no)—he would endea vour to embody some of its less objectionable provisions in a new measure. He was prepared to endow commissioners with more power, and make a charge upon the proprietors of weirs and bag nets ; he would limit the projection of stake nets to the low waters of the neap tides, instead of low penalties waters of the spring tides, and bag nets to one bag, also the number of fixed engines, and would increase e d h the extend the for the infringement of the law. he should vote l e o f u the hon. etu.s s hon. and learned opening of the nets from 24 to 36 hou rs. H mem ber determined to proceed with his wets for m th r. e H s e . I TV la s z g r e s d h:r a r t . ) friend should withdraw amendment,l and that hi s o th er hon. friend should postpone ad • Lord NAAS recommende d the option of the course his his bill, the Secretary for recommend re Ireland. Ho should support the second reading, and ed by the right hon. baronet hoped • * the matter would be defi n i t i vely settled this session. de (Dvide, .) Mr. 0. GORE hoped the hon. member for Wexford would proceed with his bill. (Divide.) After a few words from Mr. GEORGE, who considered the bill of 1842 b ase d on ust principles Mr. M‘MAIION , replied. - He would not compromise one single tittle of this bill, but should press it on. He warned the right hon. baronet to be cautious how he acted in this matter, as any undue opposition to it might lead to sura destruction to other measures. Mr. BUTT withdrew his amendment. The bill was then read a second time. Mr. M'MAHON postponed the committee for a fortnight. Ile should be happy to adopt auy amendments that might promote the object he had in view. DRAINAGE (IRELAND). Colonel DICKSON moved the second reading of this bill, which was agreed to, and ordered to be committed to morrow. SUPPLY. The report on supply was brought up by Mr. BRAND, and agreed to in the usual manner. CHURCH RATES COMMUTATION. Mr. NEWDEGATE obtained leave to bring in -a bill to establish a charge in lieu of church rates for the commuta tion thereof, and to afford facilities for the provision of other funds applicable to the purposes of the church rates. Read a first time. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT ON WOMEN. Lord RAYNRAM moved for leave to bring in a bill for the better prevention of aggravated assaults upon women and children. Read a first time. NEW WRIT FOR LISBURN. On the motion of Col. TAYLOR a new writ was ordered to be issued for Lisburn in the room of Mr. Richardson, resigned. The house adjourned at twenty minutes after four. 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