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

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day, COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr CommiEBioner Holroyd.) IN RE MEIKLAM. This bankrupt was described as of Bryanstone-square and Waltham-villas, Brompton, and this was a meeting for last examination. The amended statement of accounts by Mr F. B. Smart, shows Dr. to Cr. £8,595 8s id ; ditto holding security, £1,700; liabilities, £31,940; Cr. by doubtful debts, £100; property in the hands of creditors, £2OO. In addition to these sums, the bankrupt has given bonds to an immense amount. Mr. Chidley, for the assignees, now said that he had to apply for a further adjournment, as the bankrupt had not rendered accounts as directed by the Court, and stated his total inability to do so, but another reason for the adjourn ment was that there was an appeal pending in the House of Lords—it would, therefore, be desirable to adjourn the matter till August, to see whether the appeal had been heard, and the result, as possibly if it was successful parties would come forward, so that the bankrupt would have ma terials to furnish the accounts. Mr. Brough appeared for creditors to a very large amount, and supported the application for the adjournment, as soma benefit might result, for at present there was not a shilling for the creditors. His Honour said he thought it was a case in which there ought to be an adjournment sine die. Mr. Chidley said the assignees had no desire to put the bankrupt to inconvenience, and leave him open to arrest by a creditor who had not paid his debt. The examination was therefore adjourned. Mr. Chidley then tendered a proof for a Mr. Hargraves, Cleveland square, for £1,250. The proof was tendered on the last occasion, and ordered to stand as a claim to ascer tain the value of three horses held by him as security— viz., Inheritress, Filly by Mountain Deer, and Sister to Rorac,-, but on being sent for training to Mr. Dawson they proved valueless, and were sold for 4 guineas, 17 guineas, and 25 guineas, being much under Mr. Dawson's charges. The proof was admitted for the full amount, and ono by Mr. Dawson for the difference on his charges. (Before ➢lr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE TIICI►ER. This bankrupt was described as of Old Broad•street, bill broker. The ease has been before the court for a long time, and on th i e bankrupt applying to pass his last examination and discharge, his Honour considered that the bankrupt had subjected himself to criminal proceedings, and the bankrupt elected to be tried by this court. The prosecut ing creditors tendered their charges in writing, but subse quently obtained a rule nisi for leave to amend the charges. Mr Sergeant Atkinson and Mr Brough now showed cause against the rule, and the learned Commissioner read an affi davit, by which it appeared that Messrs. Shoolbred aban doned the prosecution. Mr Griffiths said that other creditors would probably come forward and continue the proceedings. His Honour said that the conduct of the prosecutors almost amounted to a contempt of court. The proceedings throughout had been conducted in a most loose and unsatis factory 'manner, but all the court could do was to discharge the rule with costs. No day was named for further proceeding. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Much uncertainty has prevailed in the money market all the morning, and es it is known that the Bank of England directors are deliberating upon the position of affairs, it will not occasion much surprise if further discount restrictions are adopted, especially as the authorities are charging 9 per cent. yesterday for accommodation. Pending the decision of the executive, the business in the general money market is very much curtaKed, and at the Stock Exchange there is a tendency towards increased depression. About .f.:36,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. A branch in the High•street, Newington, is about to ba opened by the London and County -.Bank. The prospectus has been issued of the Saottish and Universal Finance Bank, capital £1,000,000, in 20,000 shares or £5O each, the first issue to belo,ooo shares. The object is to introduce the CI edit Mobilier system into Scotland, and the directors have sue ccedt d in completing arrangements for the purchase of the business of Messrs. Nathan and Co., of Corn hill, London, bullion and exchange bankers, and also for the transfer, upon equally favourable terms, of the business of M. Monteaux and Sons, Palais Itoyal, Paris, ballion and exchange ban kers. A nucleus being thus obtained, the direc tors will be enabled at once to commence operations. Tll3 company will receive money at call or on de posit, grant loans, make advances on merchandise and dock and other warrants, on title deeds, on con :tracts for works, deal in the precious metals, and by means of the Paris branch it is proposed to under° take the shipment of silver to the East via Mar seilles. It will likewise transact business by the issue of small bills and letters of credit for the con wenience of travellers and emigrants, and negotiate approved foreign or inland bills and cash coupons, &c. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are, in round figures, as under : Great Western 1864. 1863. £57,377 North-W es t ern .... 99,834 90,995 Brighton . South-Western, Midland 17,899 17,693 Great North ern La ncaslare and York s hi re 37,513 26,914 32,4',6 Bristol an d Exeter 53,287 27 6,572 6 North, E astern 58, 6, 821 Great., Eastern Great South -W es t ern of Ireland . 32,826 27,694 Glasgow and S ou th W estern 8,882 8,567 9,3.66 8,637 These returns when compared with those of the same period of last year, exhibit some satisfactory results. On the Great Western there is an in crease of £4,500, on the North Western of £7,839, on the South Western of £335, on the Brighton of £2OO, on the Midland of £6,944, on the Great Northern of £5,490, on the Lancashire and York shire of £5,027, on the Bristol and Ezeter of £55, -on the North Eastern of £5,534, on the Great Eastern of £5,132, on the Great Southern and Western of Ireland of £315, end on the Glasgow rand South Western of £729. The biddings for £300,000 in bills on India took place yesterday at the Bank of England. The pro portions allotted were---to Calcutta, £133,700 ;to Bombay, £120,000; and to Madras, £46,300. The minimum price was as before---ls. 111 d. on Cal cutta and Madras, and ls. Hd. on Bombay. The applications within the limits amounted to £85,000. 'Tenders on Calcutta and Madras at ls. 1111. will receive about 21 per cent., on Bombay at 25,. o:d., about 66 per cent,, and all above these prices in tell. It appears that from this date the drawings of the India Council on India, instead of being £700,000 per month, as has recently been the case, will be limited to £600,000 per month. Two O'CLOCK. ADVANCE IN THE RATE OF DISCOUNT. The principal topic of conversation in City circles an advance in the minimum rate of discount from , 8 to 9 per cent., which the directors, after a careful consideration, notified about an hour ago, So im portant an announcement has naturally occasioned an unusual degree of commotion in monetary and tornmercial circles; while at the Stock Exchange The depression previously apparent has been consi derably increased. The Gazette returns, which will be published this evening, is expected to show a 'considerable decline in the reserve of notes and stock of bullion, and a largo increase in the other securities. In the discount market business for the moment is almost suspended, and the joint-stock banks and private firms have not yet announced any alteration a n their allowance of interest on deposit accounts. The Dover Castle, from Victoria, has brought 167, 1 00 , and t h e M agdalena, from the Brazils, £ 1 2,297 in epecie. The Funds have receded I, the latest quotations for Consols being for money, and 911 for the June sattlernent. Numerous sales have been effected, and the market presents a very disturbed appearance. The alterations in the New Threes, Iteduced. Annuities, and Exchequer Bills, are un important, and most of the Indian descriptions are nominally steady. A general downward movement has taken place In the Foreign Market, end business is dull, Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 701 71 ; ditto CODBOlid63, have declined a, to 50: -1; Mezicin to 422 10 - ::ditto New Loan, I, to 2 1 die.; Greek, 22,1 K ; Spanish Passive, to 338 a ; Portuguese are 481; the Confederate Loan has dropped 23 per cent., to 62 64; and the Russian Scrip is 11 prem. In the Railway Share Market the operations have not been very extensive, but in some few in stances prices have shown a firmer tone. Metro politan have improved £1 to .£2, and Great Eastern, Great Western, and Lancashire and Yorkshire, each Os. North Westernlhowever, have declined 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive, without any material change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are inactive. Alliance have improved to 621 ; Bank of Queens• land to 193 ; while Imperial have declined to 39 3 ; Oriental to 66 8; and Union of London to 563 I; Hudson Bay Company realise 18; ; International Financial, 11 i ; Crystal Palace stock, 33; and London Financial, 26 1. Tae folio wing are the current quotations of some of the principal new projects ;—Provincial Bank ing Corporation, 13- prem. ; International Land Credit, 18 21 prem. ; Telegraph Construction, 13 prem.; S4bloniere Hotel, 11 prem.; .North Aus- tralian 1 13 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto Account, May 8 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Ci • Aat New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1801 Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 Annuities, 30 yrs, expire &tit J an., 1880 — Ditto tor 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — Mizell. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 & 3 per Cent. 15 8 4 dis Ditto Ditto £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stk, per Ct. Ditto Account INDIIN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874.... Ditto 5 per Cent. Juiy, 1870 Ditto Account.... Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 — Do Certificates Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. Ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879 — Ditto Debentures, 4 . per Ct., April 1861 Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 Ditto lionds.el,ooo Ditto un(lor £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent - Ditto it per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 . Bl:ewe Ayres G per Cent Ditto Account — jhilian 6 per Cent Ditto 41 pet Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent — Cuba, 6 per Cent. — Danish 8 per Cent., 1825 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — n ., glTtian 7 per Cent lOl/ / Ditto, Second Issue Greefr,. 6 per Cent., 1824-5, en-Coupons — 'lto Account Ditto Coupons lOl Ditto Account Guatemala 5 per Cent. Ditto, 1839 and 1859 - Italian 5 per Cent.(Mareunuann Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. 3l Ditto Deterred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Peruvian 41 per Cent — Ditto Account.... Litt.) 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 — Ditto Account — Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account — Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 Ditto Account 4B it Ditto Scrip (1863) £3O paid .. pm Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ at B7 5 Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 .. 81 Ititto 3 per Cent 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent .... Ditto Account — Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account Ditto Pasqive Ditto Accoun 4 341 it Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. — Ditto Account .. 11i i Swedish, 4 per Cent. — rurkish 6 per Cent. 1t351 — Ditto Account .. Ditto 6 per Cent. 185 . 8 Ditto Aceou.nt tDitto ' £lOO Bonds 72 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1882 Ditto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds.. Ditto 1863 Ditto Guaratteed, 4 per Cent Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account — Ditto 6 per Cent., 1882 Ditto Account Ditto 11 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Loncl u. Austrian, 5 per Cent„ Ex. 10 Florins. Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f... Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gail 64 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent., Ib6l, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account TWO O'CLOCK. Consols Money ... 9Ol Ditto Account, Juno BANKE.UPTS:CHARGED WITH CONCEALING PRO PERTY.—At the Manchester City Police Court, yes terday, John Taylor and Joseph Hiram Mayoh were charged, upon two informations, with concealing about worth of cheese after making a deed of assignment, and with refusing to give up a cashbook to their trustees. After the case had been opened by Mr. Higgin, who appeared for the trustees under the deed of assignment, Mr. Edwards, on behalf of the defendants, raised a ques tion as to the jurisdiction of the Court, maintaining that the matter should be adjudicated by the Com missioner in Bankruptcy. Mr. Ellison, however, de•. tiled that the Court had jurisdiction, and the case was proceeded with. It was then shown that in January the defendants were partners in a provision shop in Shude hill, where the partnership had been carried on about three months, On the sth or 6th of January the defendants sent 20 cheeses, worth about £4O, to Mr. Ben. Whittaker, pro vision dealer, Every-street, for which they had received no order. On the I Ith of January the defendant Taylor called on Mr. Whittaker in the usual way of business, and when asked why he had sent the cheese, he replied that he thought it would suit Mr. 'Whittaker. Mr. Whittaker told him it would not, and Mr. Taylor promised to send for the cheese to his warehouse. Very shortly afterwards Taylor met Mr Whittaker in the street, and told him either that he had sold the cheese or that he would try to re-sell it, and he also informed him that he was about to make arrange ments with his creditors, On the 14th January, finding that Taylor did not send for the cheese, Mr Whittaker hired a cart and delivered them at the defendants' warehouse. At about half. past three that afternoon, the defendants exe cuted a deed of assignment, and at about four o'clock the defendant Taylor removed the cheese from his warehouse to an f eint id in g described as a coach-house, occupied by Mr W. Bentley, druggist, Shudehill. The cheese was removed there by a porter named Rothwell, who stated that, when Taylor paid him for the job, ho told him " he had no occasion to say anything to anyone about it."— Mr Henry Hargrave and Mr Edwin Whitworth, provision dealers, trustees under the deed, stated that the cheese had not been accounted. for to them.—Mr Ellison said it was difficult to know how he could say that an offence had been committed against the Act of Parliament. It was true that the trustees said the cheese had not been accounted for, but was that conclusive ? The beginning of the cheese transaction with Mr Whit taker was perfectly fair and regular, and the delivery of the cheese to Mr Bentley might only be the fulfilment of a contract entered into before the sign ing of the deed.—Mr Higgin said that if any such contract existed the defendants could not fulfil it, because the sign ing of the deed divested them of all their means.—ln reply to Mr Higson, the magistrates' clerk, Mr Higgin said that the trustees had not traced the goods beyond the possession of Mr Bentley, who had not been examined before the Court of Bankruptcy. The defendants had been examined there.— Mr Ellison : Yes, but you don't bring their evidence into Court. —After consulting with the clerk, Mr Ellison said that though the case was surrounded with many suspicious cir cumstances, it was one of a class that required to be made out upon stronger prima facie grounds than ordinarily induced a magistrate to send a case for trial. He, there fore, did not think it would be of use to send it before a jury. The second charge, of withholding the cash-book, and wh'ch was stated to be a weaker case than the other, was not gone into, the council arranging to proceed no further with it till it had been more fully considered. THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER AND THE VICAR OF ROCIIDALE.—The General Purposes Committee of the Rochdale Town Council have submitted to Mr. Davidson, Q.C., a case similar to that submitted a short time since to Mr. Mellish, Q.C,, as to the right of the Vicar of Rochdale, without the consent and concurrence of the Bishop of Manchester, to sell to the Corporation the excepted glebe lands for a public park. We understand the learned counsel has given an op'nion to the effect that the right of sale is vested exclusively in the Vicar, and that the Vicar alone can give a legal title to the lands; that the Bishop is altogether an unnecessary party, and and can only object to the alienation of the land on the ground of fraud on the part of the valuers, or culpable ne glect amounting to constructive fraud, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING,- MAY 5, 1864. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A COLLECTOR CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT AND FRAUD TO THE AMOUNT or £4oo,—Thos. Charles Cuth bert, of 25, Malvern-road, Daiston, in the employ of Messrs. Manley and Marshall, beer merchants, of No. 29, Soho square, as collector, was charged before Mr. Knox with embezzling several sums of money received on account of his employers. Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the prosecution, and, in opening the case, said the pro secutors carried on an extensive business as beer merchants in Soho-square, and the prisoner had been in their employ about three months as traveller and collector, and during that time he had embezzled money and defrauded them to the amount of £lOO. A part of the system carried on by the prisoner had been to order larger quantities to be sent to the customers than they ordered, and when they stated that they had not ordered so much, he stated that be would send for it, which ho did, and then disposed of it for his own benefit, and is other cases he had sent in fictitious orders for beer. Mr. Knox said the charges against the prisoner would be robbery, fraud, and embezzlement. _ . Mr. Lewis observed that he should prove the three charges against the prisoner, but that to-day he should confine himself to two cases of embezzlement, and then ask for a remand. Mr. Edward Hall, of the King's Arms, Duke-htreet, Grosvenor-square, said that in February last he was in debted to Messrs. Manley and Marshall £6 4s. 6d. for beer supplied. At the latter end of March or the beginning of April he paid the prisoner the amount and took his receipt for the same. On the 6th of April he was indebted to the same firm S 6 7s 6 and a few days afterwards paid the pri soner the amount and took his receipt for it. The receipts produced were the same. Mr. Francis Marshall, one of the firm, said it was the duty of the prisoner, who was employed by them as collec tor and traveller, to pay over all moneys received by him on his return to the office. The prisoner had never paid over the sums mentioned by Mr. Hall, and stated that he had never received them. Henry Dawson, 301 A, said he heard Mr. Marshall ask the prisoner yesterday whether he bad received any ac counts, and he said, " Only one from Mr. Robinson." On Mr. Marshall asking him whether he had not received other sums, he said he knew he had been doing wroag, that he had received other sums, and that if Mr. Marshall gave him time he would pay him. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner for a week. ATTEMPTED WATCH ROBBERY IN THE HAYMARKET.— John Elsham, charged with attempted watch robbery in the Haymarket, was again brought up. Sergeant Druscovich, of the A division, who took the prisoner into custody, stated that since the prisoner was re manded ho had ascertained that both addresses given by the prisoner were false. The prisoner was comitted for a month with hard labour THAMES. SHARKS IN SEARCH OF PREY.—James Dennett, aged 30, the master of the schooner New Rambler, lying in the City Canal, Poplar, was brought before Mr. Partridge charged with being drunk and incapable of taking care of himself. John Knowles, 138 K, said the prisoner was very drunk last night in Limehous:, and rolling about and making a noise. The prisoner had a good watch and chain about him, and he believed a good deal of money. There were a number of prostitutes and thieves about him offering to assist him and to help him along. In a few seconds they would have plundered him of everything valuable about him, and he took him into custody and conveyed him to the station-house. Mr. Partridge—What is the prisoner ? Witness—He is the captain of a ship. Mr Partridge—What money had he about him? Witness—l don't know—he was not searched. He had a considerable sum, I believe. Mr Partridge—Well, prisoner, You are captain of tho ship New Rambler, and you wore found drunk and incap able of taking care of yourself this morning at half-past 12 o'clock, with a great number of bad characters about you. What have you to say ? The prisoner—Nothing, nothing; only I was three sheets in the wind. Mr Partridge—Captains ought to keep sober, and exhibit a good example to those under their command. You are fined a half-crown. Captain Dennitt—Thank you, He paid the fine, and was liberated. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES.—Wheat, 393 2d ; barley, 30s 6d ; oats, 19s 4d:; rye, 28s 7d ; beans, 33s 9d ; and peas, 32s Id. THE Six WEEKS' ATERXGES.—Wheat, 393 10d ; larley, 30s 10d; oats, 19s 3d; rye, 28s sd; beans, 33s 10d; ,eas, 32s 7d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LIST WEEK.—Wheat, 85,512 barley, 22,715 ; oats, 7,616 ; rye, 68 ; beans, 4,270 ; peas, 531 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of English beasts here today was only mo derate—of foreign good. Amongst the latter were about 80 from Prussia, in poor condition. For all breeds the demand was in a sluggish state, at barely Monday's cur rency. The extreme price for Scots was 4s 10d per 81bs, We were fairly supplied with sheep, and the mutton trade was heavy, at 2d per 81bs less money. The top price was 4s 10d per 81bs, Lambs moved off slowly, at previous quo tations, viz., from 6s 4d to 78 4d per 81bs. In calves—the supply of which was moderate—very little was passing, on former terms. Pigs and milch cows vero dull, at late rates. Per Blbs.to s s. d. a. d. S. d. Es. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 4 3 81Primeors-vfool d 0.4 4 4 .6 Secondquality do. 3 10 4 2 Pme.S'thdowndo. 4 8 4 10 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Large orse. calves 4 4 5 0 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10 Prime small do 5 2 5 4 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 4 3 8 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. 310 4 2 Small porkars 4 2 4 6 Lambs....6s 4d to 78 4d. ink the offal. Suckling calves, 168 to 22s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 25s each. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .. • ..... I,o6olBeasts ...... Cows ...... 134 Sheep and lambs .... 910 Sheep and lambs.... 6,120 Calves ......... . 220 Calves ... . • 330 Pigs rigs. 2BO BEARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Share Railways. I Paid.' ! Closing i Business Price. ; done. 1114. at 10 8t Bt 50 20 Wol., and Str. Val. tllythe and Tyne. Rost.,Sleat.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A gets no dig A D o. B b itlltip p c a .p id an t . b ho ß s bee. Dublin Belfast June.l Oun.,Perth o t A.b. June.l Edinburgh Glasgow.! Gliass. and S. Western.i Great Eastern, Ord. sta Ditto A stock Ditto 14.:ast Anglian. st (lreatNertitot Suotland :'rent Northern.. •• • Do A stock ! Do Bdo t.s. W. of Irelau, :great Western ......•• Str Val goa. stool; Lancashire & • Yorkshirt. London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coaal Lon., Cat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Len. & So - .th Western Alan., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do t shares 3flletropoli tan Midland Do New Do Bunning. S Derby Mid. (it. W. of Ireland Do. shares &lid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwio Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds '1.16.4 Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Soot N. E., Aber. stool, Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpoo: Shropshire Union South De/or South 14:astern South Wales S. York. and River Dun, staines, Wok.,andWok Stockton dc Darlington Do Do New, 180 G Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do B B Si 9 83 f 5 1171 1181 6 7 35 37 16 17 88 90 10E 106 40i .7 61 71 128 i 129. E 1341 IN 02 01 D 3 01 64 100,f 64 05 101 103 42 43 110 i 110 97 98 53 14 110 111 1201 130;, 100 1(2 51 62 24} 25} Ito 101 66 67 80 00 128 131 16 2i p 77 79 11 11} 121 123 39 40 54 66 33 35 90i 01 Vale of Neat Vi i 63 1 , 1091 ; 1091 2 I 97 111 10i 12 1 91 P 1001 Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford 41: Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool liar.4slt West Midland —Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 103 105 8 9 116 i 37i 9i 10 8 B}E . 165 /7U 5 7 3 4 p 96 93 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Sher, Railways Fwd. Price. Business don( Price. Business 100 iilantie &St Lawrence all 68 40 S k S Som.,Beroda&.Centlno in 1 0 2 4 1 03 1 t Gu. 5 per cent........ 20 Do. New . . 8 20 Do. E. Shares 1:01 Buffalo and Lake Huron all ti 64 10 Do. Preference too t 1 Buflalo,Brant,&Godric.l lOO 77 82 5 p. at. bds. Aug. 1, 187: 10 0 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 77 88 100 Do. do. June 1, ISA 100 .77 82 et Cleutta.&S.Eastn. (Lin 100 100 102 st Caperrown & Dock Scrip 100 99 101 stock loaetn. Bengal gu. Sp. ( 100 103 105 stOCk East Indian. ga. sp. c. 100 113 le4 1031 3 20 Do. do. G Ext l5 i I p 20 Do. do. II do. stock Grand Trunk of Canada luu 2u 201 191 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 70 IL 100 Do. do. deferred.-- all 60 62 10 0 Do. 2d Pref. Bonus all 60 62 100 Do. do. deferred all 51 53 10 0 Do. 3d I': ef. stock 1 00 Do. do. deferred all 40 42 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock all 25 27 251 et 100 Do. do. deferred all 23 06 stock Gt.LuchaPenna.gua.sp.c 100 102 103 1121 3 20 Do. New gua. sp. c l2 4 4 I' 1 2 4 Do. January, 1e62 stook Gt. South.otlndia(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 101 103 102 204 Gt. W. ol Canada Shares all 10 104 204 Do. New .. . ... .. . . 18 10/ 10 6 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt . all 94 95 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8 all 84 66 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 i IP stock Madras . guar., sp. c. stock D0.41p. c. Extension 100 94 96 stock 1)c.44 do lOO 90 92 20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 stock Nlelb.Corp. 6p. c. Bnds lOO 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay all 68 60 100 Do. 7p. c. 51ortg. Bds all 20 Newßrur smokes Ganda Class A anti B N.lLl.C'da6 pc Ist )1 bds 100 82 / 4 &ba stock de ......... (100 102 103 stock Do. Delhi.. ,i 4 ,:' ' 100 101 104 20 Do. do .' 2 r - - 2 ip st Do. Punjaub .... ,-; all 10 p 1 112 101 i Do. Do. ........ , '''„?,,f; ,BO stock Dc. lndus.St. Flo.) 1 000 95 97 94 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SEC URITIES. 4. , zi0.C-lov. 6 p.c.J a. &J ul3 1 1877-54 —. . .... 100 103 105 1044 ' Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 102 104 Do. dp. c.Mar. & Sept. 100 102 104 Do. 4p. c. Jan.&July. 10C 90 02 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 89 91 Cape G.Hope, 6 p 0,1873 100 106 108 Do.Ap &Oct. 1880 100 107 109 1074 Do. 1890 100 1(8 110 ,Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 110 112 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 105 107 ,Mauritins 6 per cent .. 100 106 108 Natal Gov. 6 per cant.. IJO 1(6 108 -- N.B.Gov. 6 p.o.J a.&Jul) 100 102 104 I Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oct. 100 - - N. S.W. Gov. 5p z.,lBut 100 99/ 100/ —. I Du. sp. c.,18t1 to 1d1( 100 99 101 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 99 101 994 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 100 111 ;Noya Scotia Gov. 6p. c. 1 sterling, 1875 lOO 104 106 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO ib, Aus (14.0.11374. d; up lOO 110 112 IVic.Gov. 6 p.c, Ja.e. , ,July 100 - - 'Do. lo an.o. An.ezOot.. 1 100 1074 10841 108 74 131 - LITISH 2 'Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 I Id uiiflord Amalgamated 30 32 Devon G. Cone. (r avis t ) 1 550 660 East Bassett (Illogan) 80 65 68 I East Clogau Gold Ltd f East Caradon ...... I 1.14.fs 30 31, East Carn Brea... 3.4.0 65 7 E. W'l Russel (Tavistk.)l 813.0 3f 45 - Glain.ezSt.Aubyn(G wen , ,- .)81 7 9 tareat South Tolg us. l7s 23- 34 .G Wheal Vor (Rolston, 40 34 36 - ~Trenvil le . Dem-Ws-Foot 8.12 26 38 tlingston Downs 4.18.0 35 4 Lady Bertha Ilargaret (tiny Lelaut ei 18 20 llarke Valley.. 4 llyndy Iron Oro (Lim ; 25 15 1 d New Setun lOl 85 95 • North Downs 2l 15 11 N.Wh'l Baseet(lllogan 3.1.0 11 25 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey 2) t'rovidenee(Uny Lelnt.) 10.0.7 41 43 Southearadon(St.Cleer) 15 450 170 8. Cam Brea (Illogan) — &Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 18.1i 1 .9 40 50 Stray Park 30.17.6 31 33 I- Lunar Silv.& Lead - fin Croft 9 18, 19 West. Basset (Mogan) l5 9 10 W. Cr radon (Liskeard , 5 19 21 West Setoa Wheal Basset (Mogan:, 55 9u 05 Wheal Buller(ltedruth 10 35 40 Wheal Kitty (U.Lclant) 2.0.6 WhealLudeott 13.5.8 2 25 Wheal klaryAnn I.:Jen ) 8 115 125 Wheal 3eton . 58 1975 2025 Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) i 7 24 24 Wheal Union I 3.17 2 25 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, Ditto, 6 p,r cent. pl., 124 Great Western Orig. 1i per cent. pf., KI 8 Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincoln, 6 per cent., Ditto, £6, 4 Midland, Leicester and Hitchin 4 per et., 92 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., Ditto 4i per cent., red., ROI: LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Holyhead, —• Ditto, 5i per cent., 1221 Ditto, 5 por cent., 112} Nottingham and Grantham R. & C., 94i FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent,, 161 Belgian Eastern Junction, 11 San l'aulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 111 Ditto (all), 19 West Flanders, dj FOREIGN MMES. United Mexican (lim;, 6 Yudanamutana of S. Australia, lim., 3ri BANKS. Alliance (lim.), 62 1 21 Anglo Austrian, 6: Australasia, 74 Bank of Otago, Um., 4 Bank of Queensland (Urn), 191 f Consolidated Bank, lira., 11i English and Irish, 1irn.,45 European Bank, lira., 13 121 Hindustan, China, and Japan (ltm.), 82 3 Imperial Bank (lira.), 39 Imperial Ottoman, 20: k Land Mortgage Bank of India, Um., 51 6 London Joint Stock, 46 London and Northern, lint, 23 London and South African, 27 London and South-Western, 25/1 Merchant Bank, lint, 21 National Bank, Ditto,new, 43 _ _ _ New Zealand bank Corporation, lim., lid Oriental Bank" Corporation. i,7} 8:6 Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi, Jim., 104 11 South Eastern, lim., 44 Standard of British South Africa (Hrn,), 324 Union of London, 56i I DOCKS. MEAT MARKETS. NSIVOIT3 . I AND LTIADENEIALL.—These markets are f a i r ly supplied with meat, and the demand is steady, as follows : Beef, from 3s Od t o 4 5 4d ; mutton, 3s Gd to 46 8d ; lamb , 5 s 8 d to 63 4d ; vea l, 4 3 Od to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 2d to 4 s 8 d per 81bs by th e carca se. SOUTHALL, May 4.-0 ur market was moderately supplied with stock, and an average business doing, as tollows : Beet, from 3s 6d to 4s 10d ; mutton, 4s Od to 50 Od ; lamo, 6s 4d to 7s 2d; veal, 4s 61 t o 6 s Od; and por k, 3 3 6d t o 4 s 6d per 81bs, to sink the offal. RODIFORD, May 4 . —Prime stook was in fair request, at full price!, otherwise the trade generally was dull, at our from 3 s 4d t o 4s 10d ; mutt on , 3s s4d to 7 s 4d ; vea l, 4s 6d to 5 s 2d ; and pork, d 3s Gd to 48 6d p er 81b s ; suck li ng ca l ves, 15s to 21s; quarter -old stor e pigs, 20s to 258; and milch cows, i oto quotations s 0 ; : Tanmeba, f 6, -616 to £lB 10s each, ~.............. HAY B 1 .8-o,ll.l;eaanddowsthraaw, T s t S o . £4 15s Od ; clover, £4 4s to £1 14s per load. Ta C TIMBER LAND.* -- Mea r low hay, £3 Os to £ 4l6s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £ 5 15 $ Od and straw, £.l 5s to £1 14s per load. r S mO d s e t T steady. ea Fl 1 d 5 7. 1D6 A moderate demand. WHITECHAPEL ^Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4153 ; clover D £4 em O a s u t d o inactive. s e " ; and straw, £1 4 s t o £1 ]4 s p e r load. IMMICITED CAsT.inoN.—Cat-iron composed of old and new metal, in certain proportions calculated to give it great power of resistance, acquires a new degree of strength by an addition of 2 per cent, of wolfram, or tungsten, In one of these combinations the increase of the power of resistance to fracture per square centimetre, was 44 kilogrammes with Fren ch wolfram. In another, formed of one-third of old English cast-iron an d two-thirds of old ordnance, the increase, wi th German wolfram was 67 M. Leguen has cast-iron recently skilogrammescontaining an p i entrihnagstq, wolframu subjected e bje c c e t n eid t s i centimetre. still second fusion, the superior to othere . cast-iron similarly treated. After this operation, the difference of resistance in favour of the former was 26 kilogs. per square :centimetre ; and German wolfram is superior to French even after a second fusion. A third fusion of the same castiron having been directly effected in a Wilkinson's furnace instead of being done in a crucible, as in the pre ceding cases, the tenacity of wolframed castiron was again greater than that of the common sort treated in the same manner. Hence it may bo concluded that the action of wolfram subsists even when the fusio n is effected directly in a furnace, and remains after several successive fusions. The wolframed castiron mentioned above, containing frag ments of old ordnance, seems to become s t ronger at every successive fusion. Another proof of the superiority of wol framed cast-iron over the common sort is, that bars made out of the former do not bend so much as the others under the action of equal Nveielts, whence it may be inferred that the wolframed sort is more elastic and more capable of re sistance. In all cases, therefore, in which it is required to have cast-iron offering great resistance to fracture, the ad dition of a small quantity of wolfram offers an easy means of obtaining it. The wolfram must be pulverised, but need not be reduced. French wolfram must, however, be roasted, in order to drive off the sulphur and arsenic it contains; but German, being purer, need only be reduced to powder ARRIVAL OF GEN. GARIBALDI AT GIBRALTAR. — The following telegram, announcing the arrival of General Garibaldi at Gibraltar, was , received from the Duke of Sutherland yesterday. As the Undine left St. Mawes on Thursday last, the voyage has been effected in five days, the time anticipated at the time the vessel left England:-- " Gibraltar, Tuesday. The yacht Undine arrived here to day, and leaves en Wednesday night for Caprera. All well on board," Arrival of the Duncan Dunbar from Sydney, A telegram from Falmouth announces the arrival of the Duncan Dunbar, Capt. J. B. Swanson, from Sydney. This ship had made the fastest passage of the season. She left Sydney on the 14th February, and was off the Lizard the 4th inst. ; 80 days, The Dancan Dunbar left Sydney on February 14th, and brings the following passengers :—Mrs; Clarke and two children, Mr. and Mrs. G. Thorn ton and servant, Mr. and Mrs. W. Tucker and servant, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Bettington, three children, and servant ; Mr. and Mrs. Selby, 2 children, and servant ; Mr. and Mrs. Price, Masters Tucker (four), Miss Thornton,Misses Tucker (three), Miss Christian, M'ss Cobcroft, Miss Moore, Miss Rayner, Mrs. Warland, Mrs. Byatt, Mrs. Rayner, Mrs. 'Wunsch, Mrs. Atkins and child, Messrs. J. G. Galloway, Christian, G. W. Thorn ton, H. Cade'', George Roberts, J. Blackburn, Major Chisholm, Misses Chisholm (two). Cargo, 3,127 bales 3 packages wool, 391 cssks tallow, 2,500 trenails, 1,216 packages copper, 4 hogsheads sweepings, 2 cases tortoiseshell, 14 packages sundries, French Academy of Sciences. At the last sitting M. Robinet read a paper on a plan of his for purifying the sewers of large cities, and preventing the pestilential exhalations issuing from them. His plan consists in establishing a communication between the sewers and the furnaces of large manufactories burning coal. By this means a draught would be produced, carry ing all the infected air into the fire, where it would be de. cempooed. At Paris the consumption of coal is about 700 millions of kilogrammes per annum ; and supposing the combustion of the tenth part only of this quantity to be turned to account for producing the draught in question, four millions of cubic metres of pure air would be daily carried through the sewers, being seen times the volumes of air they can contain. M. Guerin-Meneville produced a specimen of a fourth kind of silkworm, the Bombyx Rolel, which he feet's on the leaves of the oak ; twenty cocoons of this species having been sent to him by Captain Hutton from the high table-land of the Himalaya, on the frontiers of Cashmere, The leaves suited to this species are those of the Quercus incana, a kind of oak much re sembling the cork-tree. This new silkworm cannot fail to be acclimatised in the centre and north of France, the climate of which is very similar to that of the Himalaya chain. Its cocoon is larger than the common one, and its silk is of a light grey colour. Dr. Paulet of Plancher-les-Mines, in the Hante-Soane, sent in some statistical remarks on the prevalence of wens in that department, from which it ap pears that the number of persons afflicted with such ap pendages is not by any means affected by the nature of the portable water of the country. Thus, at Plancher-les-Mines, where wens are very frequent, and at Belfray, where there are none, the water has precisely the same chemical composi tion, neither containing any traces of iodine. Moreover, the higher we go up the valley, the fewer are the wens we meet with, and at the top of the mountain, there are none. But as the ventilation of valleys is much more imperfect than that of open ground, Dr. Poulet is inclined to attribute the frequency of wens in those parts to this cause. Dr,Velpeau produced a lay-figure, the invention of Dr. Collongues, and so constructed as to enable students to practise auscultation upon it, so as to become acquainted with the various noises of wheezing, murmuring, fremitus, &0., produced in the chest. These different sounds are produced by a combina tion of india-rubber tubes and bellows. SHIPPING-THIS DAY. LONDON, May s.—Wind this day at noon—South- East ; moderate breeze and cloudy. CLYDE, May 4.—Arrived—lndia, from Demerara—En deavour, from Trinidad—Helena, from Havannah—Eliza, from Bahia. FALMOUTH, May 4.—Arrived—Dtmkeld, from Havan. nah, leaky. OFF PLYMOUTH, May 4.—Wind N.W,—Arrived— Dover Castle, from Port Phillip. NEWPORT, May 3.—Wind N.W,—Sailed—Adler, for Bermuda. SWANSEA, May 2.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Georgina Grenfell, from Caldera. PILL, May 4.—Wind W.—Arrived—Carolitz, from Tzinidad de Cuba. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. PLYMOUTU, Thursday, 11 a,m. The Duncan Dunbar, Captain Swe,nson, 80 days from Sydney, has just passed up Channel outside this port. SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning. Arrived—Marquis of Bute, from Sunderland. Sailed—Emanuel, for Finland—Phantom and Catherine, for Sunderland—Chester (steamer), for Cardiff. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, May 4 —Willa de Blaye, from Charente— Liverpool, Halson, Arthur Pardeu, and Bolissima—all from New York—Glen, from Ghent—Simeon Hardy, from Barbados—Heroine, from Jamaica—Abeona, from Cam peche—John and Henry—Elizabe•h, from Trinidad. DEIL, Thursday Morning. Passed.—Palante, of Colchester, from the north for the west. HIOHBURY BARN.—Last evening, a dinner, at which about 200 gentlemen eat down, was given in cele bration of the fourth anniversary of the opening of the tavern by Mr. Giovannelli. Mr. Thomas Beard occupied the chair, and in proposing "The health of Mr. Giovan nelli," paid a warm compliment to him for the way he had conducted his establishment, to which Mr. Giovannelli re plied in appropriate terms. The evening was enlivened with vocal and instrumental music, and the company separated at a late hour, highly satisfied with their entertainer and entertainment, NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND SCHOOLS. —A new Roman Catholic church was opened on I Tuesday at Turnham-green. It has been built from designs of Messrs. Willson and Nicholl, of illarylebone-road. It is asmall, handsome building, Gothic in style. There were pre sent Cardinal Wiseman and many other eccleslastics, and a large number of the laity, The sermon was preached by Cardinal Wiseman, who dwelt at considerable length en the claim of the Roman Catholic religion to fixedness of doctrine. He referred to Dr. Colenso's work,:and also to " Essays and Review s ;" he also spoke in strong terms of condemnation of the attention paid to Garibaldi by Protestant bishops. After the service the cornerstone was laid of the new Roman Catholic schools which are being erected in the same neigh bourhood from designs of Mr. Pugin, There was afterwards a dejeuner, at which Cardinal Wiseman presided. DR. NEWMAN'S APPEAL roii, FAIR PLAY" from the readers of his contest with Mr. Kingsley. —" Whatever judgment my readers may eventtolly form of me from these pages, I am confident that they will Lselieve me in what I shall say in the course of them. I have no misgiving at all that they will bo ungenerous or harsh with a man who has been so long before the eyes of the world ; who has so many to speak of him from personal knowledge ; whose natural impulse it has ever been to speak out ; who has ever spoken too much rather than too little ; who would have saved himself many a scrape, if he had been wise enough to hold his tongue; who has ever been fair to the doctrines and arguments of his opponents ; who has never slurred over facts and reasonings which told against himself; who has never given his namo or authority to proofs which he thought unsound, or to testimony which he did not think at least plausible; who has never shrunk from confessing a fault when he felt that he had committed one ; who has ever consulted for others more than far him self; who has given up much that he loved and prized and could have retalned, but that he loved honesty better than name, and truth better than dear friends." THE POSITION OF THE MINISTRY (according to Blacktoood).—The Lord Palmerston of to-day is not his former self. Doubtless even the most vigorous capacity must begin to decline when life has overstepped its ordinary limit of four score years. But it is rather to the indirect than to the direct effects of advancing age that we attribute the peculiar differences which the veteran Premier now presents to the Palmerston of former days. A natural but dangerous ambition prompts him to keep office to the last. Were he to fall, ho could not look forward to another premiership. His has been the greatest reputation of any English statesman since Sir Robert Peel. Indeed, of late years there has been an enthusiasm for Palmerston such as there was not for Peel. But that enthusiasm is waning. The Cabinet has become wholly discredited. Blunder after blunder, failure after failure, has marked its career. In foreign affairs its power is paralysed by disunion. At the critical juncture, a line of policy which has been followed for months is suddenly abandoned, in consequence of a split in the Cabinet. Eager to remain in power to the last, Lord Palmerston gives way before threats of a secession, which would endanger his Ministry. Rather than resign, he be comes a roe faineant. But the interests of the country suffer from such a course. The moral influence of England is temporarily annihilated ; our threats of hostility are disre garded and contemned; and our promises of material assist ance are given only to be broken. At present, England has not a single ally, and her name has become a laughingstock among the great powers. She is a terror to no one, and a danger only to those who trust in her. THE WEATHER AND TIIE CROPS.—The weather has undergone a most important change for the better in the Eastern counties this week. April has passed away almost without rain, and the crops suffered to some extent in consequence. On Sunday the long -desired rain charged clouds, however, made their appearance, and on Sunday evening they began to dischage their contents. On Monday and yesterday light genial spring showers fell at intervals, and the change which has been already wrought upen the face of country is marvellous, the fields and plan tations now displaying in all their exquisite beauty the fresh delicate hues of spring. Keep for stock has long been very scant, but the grasses will speedily become luxriant, St. Katharine, 73 MISCELLANEOUS. City Offices, lim., 6/ Commercial Union, Insurance, 8f I Credit Moblihr, Crystal Palace, 33 Egyptian Com, and Trading, lim., Electric Telegraph, NO/. Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Bra., 9/ Hudson's Bay, tiff International Financial Society, lim., 111, Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour,, 7/ Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds, redem. 1670, issued 90, 86 Joint Stock Discount, hui., 71 7 London Financial Association, lira., 26 Ditto, new, 15/ Mercantile Credit Association, lim., 17 North British and Mercantile Llsurance, lira., 201 Nova Scoria Gold and Land, lim , Royal Mail Stearn, 5 Smith, Knight, and Co., lim., / South a 11 iCall Mortgage and Investment, lim., 611 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—Last Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. BOILER EXPLOSIONS. Mr. FEB RAND brought in a bill with reference to boiler explosions, which was read a first time. STREET MUSIC. Mr. BASS brought in a bill with reference to streei music, which was read a first time. AUSTRIA ' AND DENMARK. Mr. D. GRIFFITH gave notice that on the 13th inst., on the motion for adjournment of the house for the Whit• suntide holidays, he should call attention to the permission which had been given to the Austrian squadron to leave these shores and take up a position favourable for the fur ther prosecution of the war against Denmark without any practical check or supervision by means of the presence of a British naval force. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES CMETRIC SYSTEM) BILL. Mr. EWAILT moved that the house resolve itself hit committee on this bill. Mr. lIU3II3ERSTONE said he did not believe the people of this country were prepared to give up their weights and measures to which they had long been accustomed, and measures bearing foreign names. If the house had just confined itself to a measure for making improvements in the weights and measures of this country, it would have re ceivedvery properly general support. As to the measure now before the house he should say " no" to the proposi tion for going into committee. Mr. ADDERLEY thought great convenience would accrue to the commercial and trading community by the adoption of the metric system, The house had already twice adopted the principles of the bill, and he therefore hoped the measure would be aliuwed to go into committee, After a few words from Mr. D. GRIFFITH, the house went into committee on the bill. Clause 1 was agred to. On clause 2, Mr. 11.1, GIBSON said the clause enacted that from and after this bill the metric system shall be legal, and may be used for all purposes of weights and measures. He thought that was proceeding too fest, because no means of verifi cation had yet been introduced into the bill proposed to establish a new national standard. (Hear.) He thought for the present, the hon. gentleman having this bill in charge ought to rest satisfied with going the length of enacting that no contracts shall be deemed invalid in which the weights and measures therein mentioned referred to the metric system. He did not think that one single retail dealer in the country would go to the expense of providing himself with a set of metric weights and measures which would cost him over 120, on the chance of a customer coming in and desiring to be served in litres and grams, in stead of ounces and pounds. (Hear, hear.) Mr. AYRTON was of opinion that steps ought to be taken to disseminate information to the public generally as to the metric system, before a measure of this description was passed into a law. lie thought that what he proposed might be done in about six menthe, After some discussion, Mr. M. GIBSON proposed that a clause should be intro duced into the bill acknowledging contracts made in the metric system ; and said that, in the event of his proposition being agreed to, he would undertake to publish a table of equivalents in an official fcrm from the Board of Trade. Mr. EWA.RT eventually moved that the Chairman re port progress, un the understanding that the right hon. gentleman (11r. Gibson) would do all in his power to meet the object of the bill. The motion was agreed to, and the Chairman accordingly reported progress, CHIEF RENTS (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. LONGFIELD moved that the house go into com mittee on this bill, which was merely permissive, the object of it being to facilitate the disposal and purchase of land in Ireland, upon which there were small limited in terests in the form of chief rents. After a short discussion tho mction was agreed to, but on the first question, viz., that the preamble be postponed, Colonel French moved that the Chairman report progress. The committee divided, when the appeared— For the motion Against it Majority —2B The preamble was then postponed, and the consideration of the clauses of the bill was then proceeded with. The first three, after some amendment, were agreed to. Clauses 4,8, and 9 were struck out. The other clauses were agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be reprinted„ ADMIRALTY LANDS AND WORKS BILL. This bill was read a second time. PROMISSORY NOTES AND BILLS OF EX.- CHANGE BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. PIER AND HARBOUR ORDERS CONFIRMA- TION BILL. Mr. M. GIBSON obtained leave to bring in a bill for confirming certain provisional orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Fier and Harbour, 1861, relating to Brighton, Eastbourne, Saudown, Walton on the Naze, Clevedon, Rhyl, Bray, Kircubbin, Walton (Suffolk), Holy wood, Exe Bight, Lytham, Ardglass, Filey, Greenock, Carlingford Lough, Wexford, Torquay, and Oban. COLONIAL GOVERNORS. Mr. B. COCHRANE moved for copy of all correspon dence since 1840 between the Colonial-office and governors of her Majesty's colonies, respecting the granting of pen sions or superannuation allowances to Governors of colo nies,—Ordered. NEW WRIT. A writ was ordered to issue for the election of a member for the borough of Stockport, in the room of Mr. Kershaw, deceased. The house then adjourned. Mr, Murray Dunlop, M,P„ on Garibaldi's Departure, In answer to a communication sent to Mr. Dun lop, M.P. for Greenock, by Mr. James Beith, one of the Garibaldi Reception Committee there, Mr. Dunlop, in a letter dated " London, April 30, 1864," says :—" Strongly participating in the keen disap pointment universally felt at the sudden and un expected announcement of Garibaldi's intended departure, I also shared the suspicion generally roused that means had been resorted to with a view of in ducing him to leave Britain. lam now, however, thoroughly satisfied that no such view was entertained bj the parties who made the communication which led to this unhappy result, and that no such object was either wished or contemplated. The proposal made to him w;f..Ls simply that he should restrict his visits to a more moderate number than that intended, and it was made with the sincere and sole view of saving him from the injuvions consequences of his fulfilling the mass of engagemnts in which the kindness of his disposition and anxiety to gratify the wishes of the people of the country had involved him. No one was prepared for the resolution which he adopted of abandoning all the visits, and at once leaving the country ; and those who suggested the restriction remonstrated as earnestly against that re solution as those did who viewed it as the successful result of a conspiracy set in motion by foreign influ ence. It was very unfortunate that Garibaldi didnot see his way to any middle course ; for I believe that the inhabitants of the towns that would have been disappointed have as much of his own noble spirit of self-abnegation as to have led them to have sacrificed their expected gratification of welcoming him among them—intense though that would have been—rather than either expose his health to in jury or compel him to leave the country without completing his intended visit through it. He felt, however, the greatest repugnance to drawing a line between one set of towns and another, and he was, I doubt not, also moved by the idea that his presence was considered inconvenient under exist ing circumstances. That he should have entertained such an idea was not unnatural, and it was probably encouraged by the circumstance that Mr. Gladstone was rather thoughtlessly drawn into the proceed ings by those friends who wished the General to contract his labours; being yielded to by Mr. Glad stone, I am confident, in his ardent earnestness for the General's health, from the absolute unconscious ness of any purpose that could possibly warrant the suspicion of any similar object. Still the idea being once admitted into Garibaldi's mind, it became, from his great sensitiveness and generous spirit of self-denial, almost a necessity of his nature that he should shrink from the possibility of his being a burden to those who had lovingl9 wel- corned him. It is to be regrette d that some should seek to turn his going—as they wo uld have sought ', to turn his staying—to sam e P o and so litical re ult ma n coming, in sirepli desecrate one of the grandest s ights witnessed i n bute of his affec tion day, of a truly gre at city and sincerity, to p tien and sympathy to aay the tri great and free n at i on , an d receiving in return the hearty welcome of their un alloyed and unbounded admiration and love." DANISS CRUISERS. — LUBECK, April 30.—The Danish cruisers, acting upon the circular of the Direetor.General of the Custom-house of the 13th of April, consider all German ports as hostile, and have refused a great many Schleswig-Holstein vessels coming from Great Britain entrance into this port, Wismar, and other non blockaded German ports dark g the last few days. Schles wig•Holstein vessels would therefore do well to avoid Ger man ports in tho Baltic for the future. SECOND► EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CHESTER RACES-THIS DAY. DEE STAND CUP. Moulsey Danaus 2 Macbeth .. HANDICAP PLATE. Persuasion Dermot Asthore 2 Crytheia Five ran. DEE STAKES. Groville Solan Cutaway Eight ran. LATEST BETTING. TILE DERBY. 18 to 1 agst Blair Athol (taken) The Advertising Tipsters on the Chester Cup The following paragraphs are selected from the notices of the advertising humbugs which have appeared day by day in the Manchester Guardian. It does not matter to them what horse wins a great race, as they are certain a day or two after to say they sent the winner to their sub scribers, telling them at the name time to show the circulars containing their glorious success to their friends : " Bottomley's Selections—Chester Cup—Put a little on Accident to win, and Change for a place. One week, 12 stamps; to Derby, 36; season, 12s. 6d.—Address T. Bot tomley, Poynton, Stockport. " Chester Cup—l have sent you Change, coupled with Accident, from 100 to 1, to win and a place; if beaten it will be by 49 or 72 ; the trial was a very near one.—W. Bull, Levenshulme, Manchester. Future events, terms as usual. " Chester Cup—Back Oldminster and Change to win and for places, they are the most genuine performers. Terms —reason, 15s. ; to Derby, ss.—Address W. Herdman, Box 38, Ashtoi-under-Lynx. " Chester Cup—Hersey filly and Accident are the most dangerous. The one sent at 66 to 1 will give a good account of himself; the one sent for a place I think is certain to run in the first three. Terms—one week, 13 stamps ;to Derby, 42 ; season, 13s,—Address E. W, Whitaker, B 11, Bury, Lancashire. " Chester Cup—Subscribers, you are well on Change, having sent you him ever since the weights appeared. He or Lord Zetland will about win; put a little on the latter for a "situation." Selections for the Great Northern (a certainty), and Somersetshire Stakes, 13 stamps.—Scrutttor, Post-office, Leeds." THE BISHOP-MA&ING PREMIER.—Of the present Bishops, Lord Palmerston has had the nomination of 13 (including Peterborough, which will be filled in a day or two), namely, Canterbury, York, London, Durham, Carlisle, Ely, Gloucester and Bristol, Norwich, Peter borough, Ripon, Rochester, and Worcester. The knowledge of Verdi is not great at Odessa. Recently the " Ballo inlMaschera" was announced at the Italian Opera there, and two-thirds of the company arrived in masks and costumes to assist at the masked ball . of Verdi. FELICIAN DAVID, THE COMPOSER, is about. to produce an opera, the text of which is Shakepeare's " All's Well that Ends Well." THE BOATSWAIN'S WHISTLE.—In our degenerate days, the "pipe," or " call," or " whistle," is attached chiefly, if not exclusively, to the office of the boatswain and his mates ; but in the " good old times," the kings, both of England and Scotland, wore the whistle as a symbol of maritime sovereignty. Thus, when James V. made a tour of inspection of his coasts, sending a precept at the end of May, 1530, to Dumbarton, that boats and ships, well victualled, might be sent to the isles to meet him there, he ordered his working goldsmith, Mossman, 'to convert 4f ozs. of gold of the mine into one guhissel, which whistle was at that time the emblem of supreme command in naval affairs. —United 'Service Magazine. "SATISFACTION."—CoIoneI looser and his wife were at a ball, and in the course of the evening one General Plugugly so far forgot himself in the absence of the colonel for the purpose of liquoring up, as to salute Mrs. Hoosier in an oscu!atory manner. She screamed. The intelligence of the outrage was conveyed to Colonel Hoosier, and he, hot from the bar, and redolent of cocktail, rushed into the very midst of a quadrille, crying out " Stop the ball, Thunder and gumbo! stop the ball! General Plugugly has kissed my wife I " There was an awful pause, an ominous lull. The teeth of men were set, the cheeks of women blanched ; and revolvers and bowie knives were uppermost in the minds of all. Shortly, how ever, the voice of Hoosier was once more heard crying, "Musicians, rosin up I The ball may go on agin. Gene ral Plugugly has behaved like a gentleman ; by gum he's loaned me five dollars.—Temple Bar. DESPATCH OF THE AMERICAN MAILS.—SOUTH !LUPTON, May 4.—The Hamburg American Company's steamship Germania, Captain Schwensen, sailed hence this afternoon with the English, French, and German mails for New York. She took out 277 passengers, a very largo cargo on freight, and 10,000 f, value in jewellery from hence. BLUCHER'S PIPE AT WATERLOO.—On the morning of the memorable battle of Waterloo, Henneman had just handed his master (Blucher) a lighted pipe, when a cannon-ball etruck the ground close by, scat tering earth and gravel in all directions, and causing the white charger on which Blucher was mounted to spring aside—a manoeuvre that broke the pipe into a thousand pieces before the owner had time even to lift it to his lips. " Just keep a lighted pipe ready for me; I shall be back in a few moments, after I have driven away the rascally French churls." With these words Blucher gave the com mand, "Forward, boys I" and oft ho galloped with his cavalry. Instead, however, of a chase of a few minutes, it was a rapid march of nearly a whole hot summer day, as we all know from history. After the battle was over, Blucher rode back with Wellington to the place where he first got a glimpse of the combating armies, and nearing the spot where Blucher had halted in the morning, they saw to their surprise a solitary man, his head tied with a handkerchief, one arm in a sling, and calmly smoking a pip e ! "Donner and Blitz I" cried Blucher. " why, that i s my Henneman. How you look, boy; what are you doing hero alone ?" " Waiting for your speedy return," was tb.e grumbling answer. " You have come at last 1 I have waited for you here, pipe in mouth, for the whole long day. This is the last pipe in the box. The cursed French have shot away every pipe from my mouth, have ripped the flash from head, and shattered my arm with their deuced bullets. It is well there is an end to the battle, or you would have been too late even for the last pipe." Say ing which he handed to Blucher the pipe, to enjoy the re maining fumes of the weed. Wellington, who had listened atiNatively to the conversation, here remarked to Blucher, " You have just admired the unflinching loyalty and bravery of my Highlanders, what shall I say to this true and devoted soul ?"" But your Highlanders had no piPe to regale themselves with."—Bsntley's Magazine. WHIG V. TORY.—The Wnig has his dogmas ; world . amiss" by the Tory has his traditions. The Whig is a political doctrinaire; the Tory is a political devotee. The Whig eat with the preci sion in the Divine origin of "liberal measures ," . an d i s ever ready to cure " the something in the importan t prac tical . consequences morsels of Parliamentary reform, doled recruit their ranks from sion of a parish overseer; the Tory looks more to the spit it than to the letter of the law, and his confes sion of faith is instance, s n ap the government among F r om th i s original rather a sentiment than a creed. diffe rence of constitution many have been led by plebians—Pitt, t e h n e su p e e . opl T e h ; e th T e o l r v ie h s, ig fo f r ara in n s i Addington, have served ; but the whip have consistently held that only a select tribe, a consecrated. caste, can lawfully minis ter before the ark of the constitution. Moro than 70 years ago, in a letter addressed. to Junius, Horne Tooke complained C T an h n e i T ug o , ri F eselel ! warmly that the Rockingham connection preferred rather to make wa tches and to extend the family alliances th a n to add 6 , their languid property and feeble character to the ability of a Chatham or the confidence of a public." Even at this day the reproach (if it be a reproach, and a pure c o fg would probably not consider it such) has not been q uite wiped away. --Fraser. RAILWAY ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon the Hertford branch train left King's-cross at 1 30, and having separated, as usual, at Hatfield, proceeded on its journey, At Welwyn Junction it appears that the points had to be changed to allow of the passage of the train Hertford, and as far as could be ascertained the signalman held them properly for a time but not long enough. Th e train consisted of an engine, tender, and three carriages, and had passed the junction points in safety; but unfor tunately before the last carriage, containing about 30 per sons, had reached the spot the lever by which the points of metal are directed was released. The last portion of the train became separated, and the consequence was that ono of the carriages was upset. Mark Austin, a shoemaker, Mr W. G. Bradshaw and Mr C. Bradshaw, brewers, of Hatfield, and several other persons, are seriously injured. As soon as the accident was notified to the officials Dr. Drage an d other meeical men were brought to the spot, and rendered every assistance to the sufferers. The officials of the company will institute a strict inquiry into the cause of the accident. MISSING SIIIP.—The Atlantic (English bark), Crowell, from Licata for Hamburg, with rough brimstone, put into Cadiz for repairs, sailed thence on the 13th ot November, and has not since been heard of,