The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-25 00:00:00

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Tsc° b y )tassiu • deatbs s and 89 ;1 , 6 istered •- ks of tile cted) s'it° ay morn. ~e how:, yde F ar o eakia ° a , ed lr °3lj a ; (3 be 3s °- W e' ueei a n ot r e . c atr ed 11 ' t o• iGh it C° r ,/.~ XONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There i s a stea d y d eman d f or di s count accommo dation at previou s quotations, and the inquiries at the Bank of England continue limited. Gold is now rather dearer in London than in Paris. The Continental Exchanges yesterday afternoon exhibited steadiness. The True Briton, from Victoria, has brought X 49.600 in gold. The directors of the Midland Banking Company (Limited) have appointed as the general manager Mr. Whi t b read Tomson, who has had twenty - two years' experience in the London and County Bank. The directors have also completed arrangements for Opening a branch at Nantwich early in March, under the management of Mr. Edward Butterworth, many Years in the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, The directors of the Agra and United Service Bank have declared a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. for the half-year, ended 31st Jan., with a bonus of £1 per share. Two o'CLocK. At Paris this morning, according to Renter's telegram, French Rentes were 69f. 05c., 69f. 10c., —rather better than yesterday. The Southampton Dock Company held its half yearly meeting to-day, Colonel Barlow in the chair. The deport presented to the shareholders stated that the net revenue, after payment of the interest on the debenture debt, of the dividends on the pre ference stocks, and of all working expenses for the past six months ending last December, amounted to £8,094, which, added to the surplus from last half year, amounted to £10,636. Out of this sum the directors recommended a dividend to be paid for the half-year of £2 ss. per cent , payable on the 4th March next (being at the rate of 44 per cent. per annum) amounting on £360,350 ordinary stock to £8,107, and leave a balance of £2,528 to b e carried forward. The Chairman, who moved the adoption of the report, which was agreed to with only one dissentient yoke, remarked that the statement was so full and compiete as to rei.der unnecessary any observations as to the progress of the company, which was satis factory. The English Stock Market opened this morning with a flatter appearance, and a few transactions took place at a further slight decline ; but buyers have since come forward whose operations have led to a recovery of 4 per cent., the upward movement being also stimulated by improved advices from the Paris Bourse, Console are now 924, and 924 for the account. The New Three per Cents. and the Reduced are flat, at 924 ; Exchequer Bills, ls. die. to 3s. prem.; India 5 per Cents. remained at 1084. Foreign Securities have been dealt in to a mode rate extent, and prices show no important variation. Greek Bonds, however, have been very flat, and at one time receded to 184, but have since recovered to 194 4, and the Coupons 74 84. Egyptian are steady at 994 100. Mexican Stock is flat at 324 ; Moorish, 934 ; New Grenada 2 per Cents., 334 ; Peruvian New Loan, 874 ; Portuguese do., 461 1 ; Russian do., 934; Spanish Passive, 254 4 ; do. Certificates, 94 4 ; Tarkish 6 per Cents., 1854, are fiat at 894 ; do., 1858, at 714 72 ; do., 1862, 684 4 ; Italian 5 per Cents., 681 69 ; and Venezuelan 6 per Cents., 594. In the Railway Share Market the dealings con tinned very limited, and in most instances prices exhibited increased heaviness. Great Westerns and South Westerns have declined ss. ; London, Chat ham, and Dover, 10s. ; and Caledonians and Great Northern A Stock, 155.; London and Brighton, however, improved ss. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were in active at about previous quotations. Great Luxem• bourg brought 154 ; South Austrian and Lombardo- Venetian, 221 ; Great Western of Canada, 134 4 ; East Indian, 1054 106; and Great Indian Penin sul_a,_lo44 1054. Joint-grock Bank and Miscellaneous Shams were in fair demand, and in one or two instances realised enhanced prices. Ottoman Bank improved to 401 I Union of Australia to 51t 521 ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam to 72; and south Australian Lind to 304 31. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .. New 3 per Cent. Annuities &ramifies, 30 yrs, expire •tith Jan., 1880 — nitto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 1 , / India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. D , tto 5} per Cent ... Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863 Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001 Consols for Account. March. 5 Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 1 die 3 pm Ditto £SOO Ditto Small 1 die 3 pm FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. R,,quador New Consolidated -t gpptian 7 pet Cent 99/ Ditto, Second Issue 5 Greek per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ,ns l9i 181 19a Ditto Coupons M Mexican 3 per Cent 931 oorish Imperial 5 per Cent 14i Ne w Granada Ditto 2 pe t Ce n t Ditto Deferr e d 7l i p . D i:) ,” r i tiit t tii i: :ti Es ei d 3p W er a c rr e a n n t t . s (Hectares) .. 6 1 7 1862 P 0 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 3 per Cent.,1856, '7, '9, and '6O 461 .... Ditto 1862 ttussian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 961 ~ ... Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 ia vDeferred : I ) a 1 Dittoi. E' h 3 Newps seir Passive Cent Ditto46k 25a 1 Turkish Cert. of Coup not funded D .' Bll 6 per Cent. 1854 Venezuela, Dto p p e e r r C C e e n n t t : 1 1 8 8 j 5 28 72 1/ 681 1 231 e 3 r Cent. Per C : 11 18 62 iilpiiiatnDiviidends on the above payable in London. per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. 6B/ 9 Cou.E.iols TWO O'CLOCK. .il Money itto Account Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. (litilLr TER' 8 TELEGRAM.) I IVERPOOL, Feb. 25. Stronger. Sales about 5,000. Import 3,799, Previously 12,079. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.20 per £1 sterling. On c omparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is slightly dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 42 ‘i per mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.4 per £1 sterling. Standard gold at the English Mipt price is, th erefore, about 8 -10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 170 per cent., and the premium on Rol lis 54 per cent. At these rates there is a profit on the I mportation of gold from the United States. RAILWAY BILLS.—The following is a list of railway bi lls (hat h ave b ee n abandoned since the commencement of the session :—Hammersmith, Kew, and Ri chmond ; I s l e of Wi g ht V a lley Junction Leicester square,mmersmith Kew, and Richni pt o i n n d st ; ea D d o a v n e d r E , 1 1 31 .8 e 0 , r i n , and Sa n d wich; Marton aad HarburY; ,`' y 'as, Grav esen d an d F irn i ng h am J u nction; Lytham and ' c , re ' t° n; Kensin g t on , K n i g ht s b r idge, and Metron o olitan ; hiffnal, N ewport, and Norton-bridge; B ur ten• o -Trent and S out h Leicestershire Junction; Greenwich and Wool wieh; Market Harborough and Melton Mowbray ; Great S 1 ' lithern and Western and Midland Great Western Junc tion ; Ay!e,bury and Buckingham ; Londonderry and Laugh Sw illY ; and Fulham and Hammersmith. GEN ERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.—Thy' halt yearly meet i ng of t h e share h o ld ers in this c ompany was h eld yesterday, at their offices, 71, Lorn ard"trect ; John Wilki n , E sq., i n the chair. The r , por t of the directors and a statement of ihe accounts for the year en ding the 31 st December last were read to the meeting. The r eport was hi g hl y sat i s f actory, and unanimously re di ce ie d a nd adopted b y th e propr i etors. The customary dividend of 14 s. per share, being at the rate of 10 per cent. Per an tmo3, and the usual bonus of 2s. 6d. per share were the n decl ared, The cordial thanks of the proprietors Were n voted to the chairman and directors tor their able and zealous services in the mangement of the company's affairs, 4 44 the proceedings terminated, SHARE MARKETS—This Day• ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuJ , 3 Closing Businessßailways. Paid. Price. done. 8 8i 7 8 8% PO 116 117 0 7} 41 43 13 14 88 20 108 108 484 494 45 47 24 25 126 (23 128 k 129 k 136 138 102 104 671 67} 1011 f 1101 74 75 1133 1146 40 41 100 i 101 10 6 104 45 46 131 128} ,281 11) 96 98 53 54 28 28 ,1014 1021 d 57i 58i 89i 9C4 111 1:1 # li P 16} 16 llt 11/ 121 123 45 40 103 105 50 51 33 35 96 96i 58 70 103 105 76 8 386 396 10 1 i p 7 ! 8 1 p 150 152 5 56 21 3t p 83 86 150 i6O 29 31 42 44 37 40 97 99 Share Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat.,and ;Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Corn wa Do A A gets no oh - till rip e.p an.has 'Do. B been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. !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 Gt. S. an W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val Yorkshire stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western' Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby bid. Gt. W. of Ireland 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds Do York _ Do Carlisle.. . North London Do New North Staffordshire .. ;N. and S. %V. Junction Scottish Central Scot Ml. E., Aber. stock - Do Scot. 'Mid. stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok. Stockton St Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale.. .. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall V. Hartlepool Har.&R. West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Shari too eV, dal I wltve. tlantio & St Lawrence com.,Baroda&Cent In, flu. 5 per cent. Do. New Do. E. Shares.. tiatialo Anti Laze LLUI tu6 to WO I too WO DoNPreteronee Ruffalo,Brant4Godriel p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1 , — Do. do. July 1, 187. >o. Jim , ' I, leutta.,es.l4:astu. I ape Town Ar, Dock Sr,' Plagtn. Bengal gu. 5 p. b=ast Indian. gu. 5 p. c " - Do. do. U Ext: Do. do. H do. . Grand Trunk of Cw ol& Do. lot Bonds.. Do: t:O. Pref. Bon is.. D. do d fer ed...... Do. 3d P ef. stock ... Do. do. d'lerr d...... Do. 4th Pref. Do. uo deferrL d...... Gt.lndtaPemn.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. a... Do. January, 1862 Gt. South.ot India (Lim truaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. ot Canada Shan-, Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. sal, p. o. do. '77-8.. . Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. c. Do. 41 p. c. Extension De. 4. d 0.... .. DO. Fifth Extension. vletb.Coro. A p. u. Bnc- Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Mort g. BdA. ewßrunswicx Cand Claw, A sn i B ... erode. dab pc Ist )1 lath. Seinde Do. Delhi Do. do g : Do. Punjaub . ' 01 . D . _o. Do. . Indus. St. 141 o.) $!OLON1 A I, GOVER Pare. Closi Price. 61 66 104 1( 5 p I iP 76 8 77 FO N 7! 76 73 76 1(3 105 118 i('9 1(51 6i 105} "68 4 Ifp I i 20i AiP 65 68 50 53 56 68 41 6 40 44 31 33 2 28 22 24 105 i 154 11 11 102 104 13 )3; 99 71 101 92 ¢4 1 tip 103 It 4 96 98 _3 5 1031 3 O 3 :•11.(74,. ti ..12j ILI 1877-54 j Do. 6p. c. Feb. &Au ; Do. 6p. c.Mar. & Ser, Do. p. Jan.&July. I Do. 6 Inscribed stoct ape G. Hope, o p c, tB7: I Do.Ap & Oct. 188( I Do. 189 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6 p itius i per oent Na a G.v. 1 per estit tt.Gov. 6 p.e.da.a.lul 6 p. c.Ap. & Oct N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c., 186 Do. r. p. c.,1871 to 187 I Do. d0.,1888 &upwd. New Zealand 6p. cent. Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. sterlinq, 1875 Queensland Gov. ap. e. , Aus Gtip.e.1876.& up. Via. Gov. 6 p.c...16..&Jul Do. in A o.c. An.&o6t FIRTTISEI \II 49 51 3 6 83 B 5 1051 106 103 104 I 03 104 98 100 1041 5 stlCl' RA I I 106 107 1(3 '•O6 106 108 Pi 07i 05 07 10. 110 112 114 113 115 111 tl3 110 It 2 9 111 ir)si 6,3 lOna 101 i 100 101 99} 100 i 109 11l ,06i 107 i 112 110 )12 [OB 110 lel Itll 111 111 11 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 Id 4!) k2litiorit Amalgamated.. 18 20 Devon G. Con.. (Tavist. 1 530 040 !Cast Bassett(lllogani.. 30 7 0 7 5 71 4 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. ss. id P - East Caradon 454 East Carn Brea. E. W 1 Russel (Tavist k 7.19.0 5 52 GarnASt.AubyrnGwen ) 47. 17 19 Great South Tolgus l7s 6} c U . Wheal Vor(Uelst 30 6 7} Grenville 6.15. 5 5} 50 52 ,(lingston Downq Lady Bertha Margaret (llny Lelant ( f . 37 39 Nlarke Valley. 4 Ilyndy Iron Ore (Lim ' 23 1 d New Setun l9l 135 145 aurth Downs 2i 2} 3} WWI ilasset(lllo.,ah 3} 31 orth Wheal Crotty l'ar Consols(st. Blaze) 1F 44 54 20 t'rovidenee(Uny Lelut. to.(:.; 0 12 B So . C u t a h re Ca ß r r a e d n oV i o t. g C a l n ee ) :' . 5 : 1 1 5.0 395 2 i 45 - . .Wheal Fran. 18.1 .9 85 90 28.9. 38 10 Stray Park 5 itimar Silv.,k Lead Min. 44 17 1} 10 Crott 9 , )84 West Basset (Illogan) l4 12} '34 W Caradon (Liskeard 5 31 33 West Set= ...... Wheal Basset (Mogan ! 4 65 70 Wheal Buller(Redruth) 5 60 70 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 7 8 WhealLud• ott Mary Ann (Men ) 8 156 16} Wheal Seton .. 584 225 235 4'4 heal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 17 18 Wheal Union 3.17 , 4} 5} PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, 112 13 Grear Eastern, E. Union 4 per cent. guaranteed, 86 GtWestern ( erks & Hants Ext.), 41 per cent. red., 94 9,1 Ditto, 4 per cent. irred., 814 London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 101/ Mid. Consolidated, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., ni PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Metropolitan, LINES LEASED AL' FIXED RENTALS. Lancaster and Carlisle, 211 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, Si Great Luxembourg, Sambre and Meuse, 10} South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 221- FO REIGN MINES. Don Pedro, Nor h l)el Rey, Mont. Aureos Braz. Gold Min. Co. (lim). 3 Yudanamutana of S. Auetralla (lim.), 4 I DOCKS. . - St. Katharine, 56} JOINT-STOCK RANKS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (lim.), 244 Australasia, 8 } City, 944 3} Eng., sco ~ and Australian Chartered, 20} London and County, 42 4 1} 2} London Joint Stock, 5 London and South African, 254 London and Westminster, 77} A Ottoman Bank, 40 41 40} 39} 404 Ditto, new, } Union of Australia, 524 11 Union of Ireland (limo, 9 Union of London, 34 Berlin Water WoMrks ISC EL LANEOUS., 7 E glish and Australian Copper, 1 London Gen. ral Omnibus Company (lim.), I} 1 Peninsula and 0 iental Steam, 72 South Australian Land, 304 1 SHIPPING—This Day, (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wennesday Morning, Arrived, Feb 24 —Julia, from New York. Arrived, Feb. 25, -Emma Eden, Shietteal, and Wave, from Guernsey ; Adeine, from Palermo; Conference, from Shanghai, Jauet Cowan, from Tuticorin. Sailed, Feb. 25.—Belgium, steamer, for Ostend; Sir G. Banks, steamer, from Calais. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Anch' red.—Tstanboul, from London, for Port Phillip ; True Briton, from Melbourne, for London (in tow). The brig reported on shore on the Goodwin is off, and is supposed to have been towed to Ramsgate. NEGRO SAILORS AND SOLDIERS IN THE WEST.•••• Rear-Admirol Poit , ?r writes from the Mississippi that he is filling up his crews with negroas, who are socking to him to enter the service. General ( urtis has organised one negro regiment at Helena, and is rapidly filling up =gm— .4mfrican paper. 49 I 9 46 67 I 1091 10 113} 14 40 100 i f • 131 I I 11 p gusiness don. 1061 51 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRU - AttY 25, 1863, LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCII. (Before the Lord Chief Justice.) THEIVLIS V. MITMFORD. This was an action brought by the plaintiff for the seduc tion and consequent loss of service of his daughter, a girl aged 16 years. It appeared from the opening statement of the learned counsel, that the plaintiff, a tradesman at Huddersfield, having a very large family, had apprenticed one of his daughters, Eliza Jane, to a Mrs . Ka y e, a milliner in the town. There were several other girls there as apprentices at the same time, and in February. 1861, one of them intro duced the plaintiff's daughter to the defendant, on the street. After this they met on several different occasions, and in the May following the defendant aacompanied Miss Thewlis to the Huddersfield fair. They did not see much of each other again till September, but one evening during that month the defendant, having per suaded Miss Thewlis to take a walk with him into the country, about a quarter of a mile from the town, had, it was alleged, seduced her. After this they did not meet again till the month of November, when it was asserted criminal intercourse again took place. The result was that Miss Thewlis gave birth to a child in August, 1862, of which she declared the defendant was the father. The plaintiff had been put to great expense by what had occurred, having had to board his daughter and her child, and having been obliged to take another younger daughter from school to supply her elder sister's place. ,The case was resumed this morning by Mr. Digby Sey mour, Q.O , who made a very strong appeal to the jury on the part of the plaintiff, during which he told them he felt satisfied that they would give ample and adequate damages for the great injury she had sustained. The Lord Chief Justice having summed up the case, The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. SECOND COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn,) ATTIVOOD V. This was an action brought by the plaintiff for compen • sation for the injuries he had sustained from being crushed against the wall by one of the defendant's waggons. The defendant paid £2O into court as compensation, but the plaintiff considered that insufficient, and therefore instituted the present proceedings. Mr. Hawkins, Q C., addressed the jury in behalf of the defendants, contending that the sum paid into court was quite sufficient to compensate for any inconvenience the plaintiff suffered through the acts of the defendant's car man. The jury gave a verdict for £lO in addition to the sum paid into court. SHEPPARD V. BUTT, M.P. In this case, which was undefended, the jury gave a vet , . diet for the plaintiff for £lOO. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Betore Mr. Kerr.) THE MEANING OP THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.-•• IMPORTANT DECISION.-MOTION V. MONAILEN. This was an action to recover for goods sold and deli vered. Defendant had pleaded the statute of limitations, and now said he knew nothing of the =tier. Plaintiff urged that the goods had been sent in on Feb. 9th, 1857, and defendant had admitted the delivery. Defendant—l know nothing about it. Plaintiff—You admit the delivery of your plea. His Honour— h, nu. It is more than six years ago, and he pleads the statute. Plaintiff—l have always understood that when that plea is put in the defendant admits the delivery of the goods. His Honour—Then you have made a mistake. It ad mits nothing. He pleads it ti prevent mistakes. You have subd him for goods alleged to have been supplied on the 9th February, 18:57, and he denies the knowledge of th• transactions, but in order to be on the safe side he pleads the statute, and I must find for defendant with costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. FORGERY ON THE UNION BANE.—John Squire, piano forte-maker, of 1, Frederick-place, Caledonian-road, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with obtaining £3O by means of a forged cheque on the Union Bank of London. The case having been opened by Mr. Reeves, solicitor to the bank, who said it was one of a painful nature, inasmuch as the prisoner was the son of the person whose name was forged. Mr. Charles H. liaise, one of the cashiers of the Union Bank of London, Argyle-place branch, said that Mr. John S ,wire kept an account at the bank. The cheque produced, dated 23d Feb., 1863, purporting to be drawn by Mr. John Squire, for £3O, and numbered 56,572, was presented to him, and he paid it in two Z 5 notes, numbered 48792 and 3, and £2O in gold. He believed the prisoner to be the person who presented the cheque. Mr. John Squire, pianoforte-maker, of Sutterton -street, Caledonian-road, said he kept an account at the Argyle place Branch of the Union Bank. The cheque produced was not in his handwriting, though it was a good imitation. It was not signed with his knowledge or by his direction. There was a counterfeit in his cheque-book, numt ered 56,572. On the morning of the 23d of Februat y, the cheque book was in his writing-desk at which he had been writing. The prisoner had access to the room and the desk that morning He found yesterday morning that the cheque had been torn out. The prisoner, his son, on Monday said he was ill and did not come to work, but the next day another son informed him that he had seen his brother the previous day with money, and in consequence made an examination and found the cheque had been taken from the book. W. arsh, 170, N division, proved taking the prisoner into custody, and searching him at. the station. He found one £5 note, 48793, on him, and some money, and an old cancelled cheque. The Solicitor said that that was the one evidently used to copy from. Prisoner said he had nothing to say. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded him for a week. BALLAD SINGERS AND THE ROYAL MARRIAGE.—Three fellows named Jones, Phillips, and Sharp, were charged " with causing an obstruction in Little Windmill street, Tottenham-court-road, by singing a ballad in disparage ment of the Prince 01 Wales. The defendants were tound by Chapple, 36 E, singing a ballad capable of a most indecent construction relative to the forthcoming royal marriage, and as here was a large crowd round them, and persons could not pass, he took bon into custody. Mr. Tyr vi hitt, after cautioning the defendants that if brought before him again they would be fined 408. each, said that he should content himself by fining the defendants ls. each. MARKETS—This Day. MARK LANE. Fresh up to this morning's market, the arrival of English wheat was very moderate, Both for red and white qualities, the trade ruled heavy, at Monday's decline in the quotations of 2s. per quarter. The supply of foreign wheat was moderately extensive, chiefly ex granary. The demand for all kinds was in a sluggish state, and prices were barely supported. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, on rather easier teams. Fine barley realized extreme rates ; otherwise, the barley trade was dull, and the quotations had a downward tendency. The malt trade was dull, inferior produce, especially, being very difficult of sale. Sweet oats were in fair demand, at very full prices; but indifferent qualities commanded little attention. Beans moved off slowly, on former terms. Peas, the sup?ly of which was small, changed hands at extreme currencies. Flour sold heavily, and in same instances prices ruled the turn in favour of buyers, ARRIVALS THIS wuBK• Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English 5901 200 29 0 i 130 I 480 Irish — _ 300 • i•'oreign.... 590 brio. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. LIN'2OLN RACES-THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) 'IRIAL STAKES. Manrioo Souvernaire Prologue Seven ran. LATEST BETTING. LINCOLN HANDICAP. 9to 2 agst Hubert (taken) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 7to lon the field (offered) 16 to 1 agst Emblem (taken) 20 to 1 agst Shropshire (taken) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BIRMINGHAM STEEPLECHASES—TUESDAY. The Scurry Handicap of £25 ; winners extra. Two miles. Mr. Hall's Jerry, 6 yrs, lOst 71b ' (Mr. Miles) 1 Mr. Wright's Orkousta, aged, lOst 51b .... (J. Kendall) 2 The following also ran :—Luff. Corkscrew, and Mytton disqualified. Betting-11 to 8 agst Orkousta, 3to 1 agst Corkscrew, 7 to '2 agst Mytton, The latter was first away, followed by Orkousta, Cork screw, Jerry, and Luff (out-paced) bringing up the rear. After passing the stand Corkscrew dropped behind, and Jerry took third place. Jumping into the ploughed land Luff refused, although he was again put at the. fence, which he took the second time, he had lost so much ground that he was out of the race. Mytton continued with the lead, which he increased at the far side, but on clearing the fences the trio took close order, and, after an exciting race, Mytton, who was never headed, came in first by half a length; Jerry beat Orkousta a similar distance, and Luff trotted in. Corkscrew fell half a mile from home, but Mr. Wood was not hurt. An objection was lodged against Mytton for going on the wrong side of a post, and after having conclusive evidence, the stewards awarded the han dicap to Jerry. The Birmingham Grand Annual Steeplechase of 10 soya each, 5 ft, with 100 added ; winners extra. 25 sous, Bof whom pay 8 cove each. About three miles and a half. Lord Coventry's Emblem, aged, 10st 31b .. (G. Stevens) 1 Mr. Milward, jun.'s, Joe Maley, aged, list 131 b (inc. 91b ex) Mr. Dixon's Maritana, aged, 12st 31b (J. Dickson) 3 Capt. Christie's The Dane, aged, list 111 b (W. White) 4 The following also ran :—Heads or Tails, Doubtful, Northern Light, and Emblem. Betting-3 to 1 agst Emblem (at first 100 to 40), 7to 2 agst Heads or Tails, 4 to 1 each agst The Dane and Doubt ful, 6 to 1 agst Maritana, 6 to 1 agst Northern Light. Northern Light was first off, but Doubtful soon took up the running, and came by the stand slightly in advance of Joe Maley, Emblem following fhird,Northern Light fourth, Head or Tails fifth, The Dane sixth, and Maritana several lengths in the rear. Heads or Tails refused at the jump on the opposite side of the course, and joined Maritana. Lord Uxbridge's horse again refused at the succeeding fence—the jump into the ploughed land—and being out of the race was stopped in the park. Proceeding up the fallow, the compe titors formed Indian file, long intervals separating each. There was no alteration in the positions of the front divi sion until approaching the Stand the second time, when Joe Maley rushed is front of Emblem, and on the opposite side of the course took up the running from Doubtful, who was succeeded by Emblem; the other three ascending the ploughed land almost in a line some lengths from the leader. Atter emerging from the park Emblem took up the run ning, The Dane, joining Joe Maley and Maritana, obtained second place at the last fence, but twisting a plate in the run home was stopped 50 yards from home, and there re passed by Joe Maley and Maritana. Emblem after going to the front was never caught, and won easily by 10 lengths ; two lengths intervened between second and third, and a similar distance divided Maritana and The Dane. Nothing else passed the post. The Licensed Victuallers' Plate of 5 sous each, with 30 added; winners extra. Two miles and a half. Mr. B. Land's Deceiver, aged, llet 41b (inc 71b extra) (B. Land, jun.) 1 Mr. W. W. Baker's Light of Other Days, aged, 1 Ist 71b (John Nightin gall) 2 Mr. J. Ashwood's Mytton, aged, LOst 101 b (Childs) 3 The following also ran :—Xanthus, Sunflower, Worces • ter, and Buzzard. Betting-5 to 4 agst Light of Other Days, 7to 2 agst Deceiver, 4 to 1 agst Xanthus. Sunflower made play with Mytton, Light of Other Days, and Deceiver in closa company. After going half a mile, Deceiver took up the running. Light of Other Days follow ing second, and Mytton third. The race from this point lay between the favourite and Deceiver, and a most excit ing struggle ensued, which resulted in favour of Deceiver by a head; Mytton was a bad third, Sunflower walked in fourth, Worcester was out-paced from the start, Xantbus jumped on the wrong side of a post and was stopped, whilst Buzzard refused at the road turn. The Hunters' Welter Cup, value 100 sous, by subscription of 10 sous each, 5 ft, the surplus to be paid by the Fund ; gentlemen riders, winners extra. 11 subs. Mr. J C. Tilbury's Forlorn Hope (h. b), 13st (Mr. Atkinson) 1 Mr. Park's The Lady of La Garayo, 13st (Owner) 2 Mr. Featherstonough's Windsor, aged, 13st (Owner) 3 The following also ran :—Pantomime, Leverett, and Ireley. Betting—Even on Windsor, 6 to 2 agst Ireley, 6 to 1 agst Pantomime, 7 to 1 agst any other. _ _ _ The Lady of La Garaye made the running f r the first mile, when the lead was taken up by Ireley, who was passed by Forlorn Hope half a mile from home. The latter was never again caught, and won in a canter by nearly a dis tance. Ireley fell in the Park when in possession of the field. The races terminated a few minutes after five o'clock. CITY BETTING—LAST EVENING. LINCOLN HANDICAP. sto 1 agst Libellous (taken) 100 to 15 agst Hubert (taken) 10 to 1 agst Lopcatcher (taken) 14 to 1 agst Flash-in-the• Pan (teen) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 20 to 1 agst Orphan (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 100 to 8 agst Michael Scott BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-TVESDIT. For the Lincoln Handicap any advance upon 5 to 1 would have been taken about Libellous. 6to 1 was readily taken about Hubert. 9to 1 was the highest offer agst Revolver, and 10 to 1 agst Peignoir. 100 to 8 was freely taken about Flash-in. the-Pan, the backer wishing to go on. Lop catcher seemed to be creeping into favour again, and the last bet that we saw booked was 100 to 12. No other event for this meeting was touched upon. For the Liverpool Steeplechase The Orphan was in great request, and 20 to 1 was readily booked. 100 to 4 was almost as readily taken about Northern Light. Nothing else was named. Closing prices : LINCOLN HANDICAP. sto 1 agst Libellous (offered) 6to 1 agst Hubert (taken) 17 to 2 agst Lopcatcher (taken) 9to 1 agst Revolver (offered) 10 to 1 agst Peignoir (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agst Flash-in-the-Pan (taken) 16 to 1 agst Comet (taken) 16 to 1 agst Antar (taken and offered) 16 to 1 agst Douche (offered) 25 to 1 agst Henham Lass (taken) 25 to 1 agst Everlasting (taken) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 7to lon the field (offered) 20 to 1 agst The Orphan (taken) 25 to 1 agst Northern Light (taken) YORK SPRING MEETING. Weights for the Great Northern Handicap of 20 sous each, h ft, and sif declared, with 100 added, Two miles, over the old course. 62 subs. Age st lb Carbines* 5 8 12 Ivanhoff .. 5 8 12 Caller On .. 6 8 10 Rapparee .. 5 8 9 Knutsford.. .. 5 8 3 Croagh Patrick .. 5 8 2 Carisbrook., .. 4 8 2 Crater .. 6 8 0 Dulcibella .. 6 8 0 Joey Jones .. 5 7 10 Prince Plausible.. 5 7 10 Doefoot .. 5 7 8 Dusk .. .. 5 7 8 The Monk.. .. 6 7 7 Milverton .. 5 7 7 Earl of Surrey .. 4 7 4 Welcome .. 4 7 3 Haddington .. 4 7 3 Piccador 4 7 2 Harlequin .. 4 7 2 Gorse .. .. 4 7 0 Sappho .. .. 47 0 Citadel .. .. 4 7 0 Fitz-Eva 5 7 0 Viscount Brignall 5 6 13 Charles Fox .. 4 6 12 Somersault .. 6 6 10 Villette 4 6 10 Queen of Trumps 4 6 10 Physician, by Chan ticleer .. a 6 7] Weights published February Age st lb Adventurer .. 4 6 7 Magnum Bonum.. 4 6 7 Fairy Bing .. 4 6 6 Flytrap .. 4 6 6 ProlGgue 6 6 6 Early Morn .. 4 6 4 Erin-go-Bragh .. 3 6 3 Oakapple .. 3 6 0 Donnybrook .. 3 6 0 Port Royal .. 3 6 0 Ophelia, byldleboy 3 5 13 XX .. .. 3 6 12 Marmion 3 512 A Laura t 3 3 6 5 11 10 Jack of Hearts .. 3 6 9 Venison .. 3 5 9 Muffler 3 6 9 Physalis colt 3 6 9 Middlewatch .. 3 5 9 Abbotafordian .. 3 5 9 Lady Superior .. 3 6 9 Picco •• 3 6 7 Fantail 3 5 7 Lazy Boots 3 6 7 Contralto •• 5 Manfred .. ••3 75 Watford .. •• 35 7 East Lancashire :: 3 5 7 ,tirc2hCß4,asucall.hneudtefaorfe:its to be d33ecl°s-aredl RACING FIXTU, rRES FOR 186 UARY. _ _ FEBI 25 Linc01n......: Nottingham Spring ...... 3 Derby Spring .......... Li v erpool 5pring........ 10 Shrewsbury ......12 AP Newmarket Craven 6 D ur ham . Knighton Llanboidy Catterick Bridge.. 8 Abergv.YOUr • I . I 9 91.199 9 Doncaster Spring ..16 Warwick Spring 18 Northampton 24 Croxton Park 27 Liverpool Hunt Club 10 Think l4 Epsom Spring 16 Newmarket F. S ..20 York Spring 28 *4ll4intrYlvt.immtliN Appaling Colliery Accident at Wednesbury. The fire in the workings beneath the surface still continues to rage, and as the supporting pillars of coal are consumed, tt.e buildings above are giving way, and on Monday last the blacksmith's hovel was entirely prostrated. The adjacent erections also lean considerably, and are shortly expected to come to the wound. As no smoke was perceptible on Sunday last it was conjectured that the fire was lessening. Since that time, however, the opening caused by the first crowning.in on the site of the old shatt has considerably widened, and from the cavity smoke of a light colour is emitted in dense volumes. The appearance of the earth forming the sides of this fissure is a sufficient indication of the heat to which it has been subjected by the influence of the flames. A number of men are now engaged in filling up the whole of the cavity in order to completely enclose the fire, and thus to prevent the ingre's of any current of air. It is, however, thought by many persons that a general crowning-in or subsidence of the whole surface is inevitable. Persons well acquainted with the locality account for the dangerous proximity of the old shaft to the river by asserting that within the last few years the course of the stream has been diverted from the channel in which it originally flowed many yards farther distant. The inquest upon the bodies of Pitt and Gettings opened yesterday. The first witness called was Ed ward Stone, one of the colliers employed at the co.liery at which the accident happened. He said that when at 6 o'clock on the Thursday night he ascended the shaft the whole of the pit arrangements were in an efficient state. No complaints of the mode in which the rked washad m o anye ttwo o o c o c r a t s h i o r n e e b h e o e u n rs m a a f d i i distance of 20 yards frog + the bottom of the sh ft, descentp t W h it e hwe a n c a c sa id w et, it was found that the water. at the ndered further progress impossible. Witness pro. ceeded as tar as he was able, and finding no men, began to shout and beat upon fi tin plate. No answer was, however, returned to the call. The substance of the rema i n d er o f the witness's evidt nee has been t a h lr a ead p v it p r, W ublished,with the exception of t he fact ,vintomunrdecionvetrheed,b,l:ckad. beenHe also found to have sustainedfurther stated th at no road h a d ever been driven in the direction of the waferccsurse. In the new toad in which the teen were working no fire had ever been observed, but flames had at intervals broken through th i_ag e ah ot dam, ctcfa Tr andrhe Thursday about s s d o a r y e c t recently t r l oe y r a sp s i threeyardshe et.rno months marit dh seitnocre bottom t fi h r e hs n the witne-s could N f the shaft. ogivaettnemsocut the made during the e Inspector here remarked The inquiry adjourned till that such a course was reason. (The Government most extra.. rdinary.) the 25th prox. The final arrangements for the proposed loan of L'3,000, 0 0 0 , on the security of cotton, have been made between Messrs. Erlanger and Co., of Paris and Frankfort, and the Confederate Government, with the con sent of Congress, and the particulars will probably be issued in a day or two, BOROUGH HOP. __ _ ...,.. _ ....„,.... The business doin g in all kinds of hops is very mode rate, yet no change has taken place in prices, compared with our previous report. WIIITECHAFEL. Fair supplies of meat are on offer ; the trade rules heavy. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 3s 2d to 48 2d ; veal, 35 6d to 48 6d ; and pork, 35 4d to 4s 2d per 81b5 by the car case. COUNTRY MARKETS. •••• ..... 1,, - MARKET HARBOROUGH-TUESDAY. White wheat, 49s to 528; red, 43s to 47s per 36 stone. Barley at 35s to 37s per qr., grinding 30s to 32s per 30 at, Oats, 27s to 31s; new, 218 to 24s per 24 at. ; beans, 348 to 43s per qr. LEEDS—TUESDAY. There was very little demand for wheat, and last Fri day's rates were about maintained. Barley, oats, beans, &c,, sold at late prices. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY, Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushZ...2os Od to 21s 03 White 9 f , ...228 Od to 24s 63 New red , , ...168 Od to 18s Od New white „ 2 f ...20s Od to 21s 6d Beans )I 19 ... 16s 6d to 19s 6d Peas, per qr .................. 45s Od to 56s Od Grinding barley, per qr ...... 2Bs Od to 308 04 Malting ditto, „ 348 Od to 40s Od Oats „ ......... . 258 Od to 30s Od Flour, is 9d to 2s 2d per stone. LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY, At our market to-day there was a fair attendance of the town and country trade. There was a dull business doing in wheat, and prices were 2d per ce n t a l l ower. Flour a l so dull, without change. Indian corn difficult to sell. MELTON MOWBRAY---TUESDAY. The following were the currencies :---New white wheat, 50s Od to 53s Od ; new red, 45s Od to 49s per 36 stone ; beans, 42s to 44s for old; new sorts, 348 to 37s per 38 st. ; barley, 35s to 37s for malting, and 27s to 30s per qr. for grinding; oats, 21s to 30s Od per 24 stone. DUBLIN—TuESDA.Y. We had a slow, dull market to-day for every description of grain, at about former prices. s. d. s. cl. - Wheat, white 26 0 to 28 6 Do., red 23 0 to 26 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black lO 0 to 12 0 s. Beans.. 24 0 to 27 0 Bere. ...... 12 otol3 0 Rapeseed Oatmeal..... 13 6t015 0 Bakers' flour Indian corn LONDON GAZETTE—Yesterday. BUCKINGHAM-PALACE, FEB. 16. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been pleased to make the following appointment in his house hold :—To be Honorary Physician, Henry Wentworth Acland, Esq., M.D. FEBRUARY 21. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been pleased to appoint Claudius F. Du Pasquier, Eq., F R.C.S., M.S.A., to be Surgeon Apothecary to his household. CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 23. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. .City of Chichester—John Abel Smith, of Belgrave square, in the county of Middlese , , in the room of H. W. FreLland, resigned. DO WNING- ST REET, FEB. 21. The Queen has been pleased to appoint William James Maxwell, Esq., to be Collector of Customs of her Majesty's Settlement of Lagos. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 24. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.—Assistant-Commissary• General William Palmer to be Deputy-Commissary- General, vice Mylrea, deceased; Deputy. Assistant-Commis sary-General William Manic R , igers to be Assistant- Commissary-General, vice Palmer; Deputy-Commissary- General Edward Strickland, from half Tay, to be Deputy- Commissary- General. BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of any importance in the GAzette James Robinson and Frederick Priest, auctioneers, Nos. 8 and 9, Upper St. Martin's-lane Johd Enders, tailor, 12, Providence-row, Finsbury Thomas Maisey, cheesenionger, 3, St. George's-terrace, Kilburn John Deacon, house agent, 12, William-Bt., Kennington Wm. Smith, oil merchant, Leeds Matthew Bell, cutler, Sheffield Henry Cock, cattle dealer, Truro Edith Brownbridge, grocer, Bishop Auckland William Fielding, clogger, Bolton Charles Robinson, butcher, Penrith Fredk. Turner, builder, Penge, Surrey Peter V. Timothy, surgeon, Dunstable Bedfordshire James Et. Home, chemi s t, Ch ur ch Stretton, Salop Wm. H. Bowden, butcher, Plymouth James Burman, baker, Camberwell Henry William Williamson, builder, Surrey John Cock, offal butcher, Skinner-place, Leadenhall market Course of the Exchange--Yesterday. ---- Amsterdam - Short. 11 15 / 1 3 Months. 11 17f 11 1 1 1 7 6 t Ditto Rotterdam 11 17/ 11 17 Antwerp • • 25 42k 25 50 25 42k 25 50 Brussels —H am burgh — 13 7 13 7k Pa 25 17k 25 25 ris Ditto 25 50 Marseilles 119 a Frankfort on Main e ll9 11 95 Vienna Trieste Petersburgh Berlin ........ . ....- 491 M adrid Cadiz Leghorn .... 25 62k 2 5 5 7/ Milan •• • • —. 25 52k 25 5 7k Genoa 25 521 25 57i Naples —, 25 55 25 60 Palermo .. '25 571 25 62 k Messina ............ -.... 25 571 25 621 Lisbon 521 521 Oporto... ...... 2 Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars . • Silver in Bars (Standard) ... 0 0 0 South American Doubloons 0 0 0 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Aus.ralia and Mauritius, via Southampton ' ..Mar. 21. via Marseilles Mar. 15. Jrazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Mar. 6. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Mar. 3. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southarupton Mar. 4. _ via Marseilles Feb. 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton ................. eb. 25. via Southampton.. Mar. 4. India (Calcutta), and Ceylou, -- via Marseilles ....Feb. 27. India (B om b a y), via Southampton. ...... Feb. 26 .. , ia Mareeiiles Feb. 20. Portugal.... Mar. 6. malta, Egypt, and Men, via Southampton Feb. 25. via Marseilles Feb. 20. Newfoundland ................ ..Mar.,7. Oporto and Vigo .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Feb. 26. by U.S. packet.... _ by Canadian packet. Feb. 20. W.C. of Afri ca , M a deira, and Teneritle Mar. 10. (iahamas, via New York Mar. 12. Mexico Feb. 28. All arts ot West Indies, includin lifornia. and British Columbia..... Peru ... .... 1 Feb. 28. THE REPRESENTATION OF DUMFRIES BURGHS.-- On Monday last Major Walker, of Crawfordton, who contested these burghs in 1859 and was nearly success ful, ann , unceo that, for private reasons, he did not intend to appear as a candidate at the next general election. On Fri day, the 20th inst., Colonel Clark Kennedy, C. 8., issued an address, intimating his intention of opposing the sitting mem ber, Mr. W. E wart, in the event of a dissolution of Parlia ment. CO. Kennedy promises to support Lord Palmerston's Government, and his political opinions appear to be those of a moderate liberal. The present member is a Radical. THE GREENLAND FISHERIES. —Year by year the number of whalers sailing from Hull decreases, and two less will leave the port for the Arctic Seas this year. On Saturday the sailing ship Zolus, Captain Gray, sailed for Greenland, and the steamer Lady Seale, Capt. R. Wells, will leave for the same destination early this week. The steamer Diana, Capt. W. Wells, and the barque Truelove, Captain Walker, belonging to the Hull Whale and Seal Fi s hing Company, are announced to sail for Davis Strnits on the 3d of March. The whaling barque Emma, which has sailed from Hull for a number of years, has been pur 'chased by a olliPPiag drU in Dundee. Association of Chambers of Commerce. The annual m eting of the Association of Cham bers of Commerce of the ILiited Kingdom was held at the Westminster Palace Hotel yesterday, Mr. S. S. Lloyd in the chair. The following were the Chambers represented and the names of the delegates :—Mr. Darnton Lupton and Mr. W. Hirst, Leede ; Mr. T. Wilson, Leeds and Goole; Mr. J. V. Godwin, Mr. John Darlington, and Mr. Jacob Behrens, Bradford ; Mr. G, Dixon and Mr. J. S. Wright, Birmingham ; Mr. Oliver Ellis, Dewsbury ; Mr. C. Allhusen, New caetle-on-Tyne ; Mr. Robert Jackson, Mr. J. Job son Smith, Mr. H. Hall, and Mr. W. Smith, Shef field ; Mr. Ws H. Wills, Mr. Mark Whitwell, and Mr. L. Bruton, Bristol; Mr. J. Lumsden, Mr. H. J. Atkinson, and Mr. C. Norwood, Hull ; Mr. J. W. Carlile, Mr. C. H. Jines, Mr. Joseph Wrigley, jun., and Mr. Joseph Battley, Huddersfield ; Mr. E. Akroyd and Mr. J. G. Bowman, Halifax ; Mr. Frank P. Fellows, Wolverhamptoa ; and Mr. Edward Day, Dewsbury. The draught report of the standing committee was read and adopted. Reviewing the measures of commercial reform which characterised the past year, the report re ferred to the treaty of commerce signed in January last between France and Italy, and expressed an earnest hope that the negotiations for an Anglo- Italian commercial treaty may now be brought to are immediate and satisfactory issue. Reference was made to the satisfactory treaty with Belgium and with the King of Burmah ; to the passing of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1862, by Parliament; to the extension of the time of ownership of regis tered designs in articles made wholly or chiefly of metal from three years to five; and to the Act for the incorporation, regulation, and winding-up of trading companies and other associations. The com mittee express a hope that the petty import and export charges imposed by the Customs Act of 1862 may be abolished this session. The Partner ship Law Amender cut Bill, the Patent Laws, and the International Maritime Law were commended to the attention of the Chambers. The committee trust that at no very distant date a bill may be enacted which shall not only consolidate the entire statute law of bankruptcy, but render procedure in bank ruptcy what it ought to be—at once the most simple, economical, and speedy method of dealing with the evil to which it relates. The attention of the various Chambers of Commerce is urgently required, the committee observe, to the unsatisfactory fiscal rela tions with Great Britain of foreign States (espe cially of the Zollverein, Austria, Russia, Spaio, and Portugal). The report proceeds to review the ob jectionable provisions of the tariffs of these States, ' any specific allusion to the enormous protective duties imposed on the manufacturers of this country by the United States of America being purposely avoided. "The present circumstances of that great country," say the committee, "are so exceptional that the committee can here only express a hope that, at the termination of the present unhappy and disastrous civil war, the tariff of the United States may be revised in a spirit more in accordance with sound commercial principles, and with the present opinions of the other leading commercial nations of the world." In the negotiation of commercial treaties it is very important at all times that the special interests of British manufacturers should be duly considered. It would be a fatal mistake (says the report) to follow the details of the treaties which may have been concluded with other States by the French, or by any other foreign Government. With regard to our repeal of the Navigation Laws, the committee observe that it is to be regretted that many of the principal maritime nations decline to respond at all to this liberality on the part of Great Britain, but by imposing extra tonnage dues on British as compared with their own shipping, and by differential duties on the goods carried therein, succeed, in many instances, in practically exclud ing British vessels from participating in the foreign, colonial, or coasting trade of such countries alto gether. This is a ground for just, complaint, and one to which the attention of the Foreign ()Wee and of the Bard of Trade should be constantly directed by the various Chambers of Commerce. in conclud ing their rE port the committee advert to the increase of our exports, and the gratifying results to France no less than to England of the adoption of a more liberal commercial policy by the former. The following is the programme of subjects for discussion by the association to-day : Birmingham—The Partnership Law Amendment Bill, 1862. Bradford—The Extension of the Principle of Limited Liability to Private Partnerships. Leeds—The Desirability of a General Registration of Partnerships. Bradford, Birmingham, and Sheffield... The Patent Laws. Birmingham—The Defects in the Pankruptcy Act. 1861, as exemplified in its practical working. Bradford—The subject of Foreign Tariffs generally, and the Desirability of an Improved Mo le of Communication between the Foreign-office, the Board of Trade, and Cham bers of Commerce in reference to Commercial Questions. Bristol—Belligerent Rights at Sea. Hull—The Desirability of Abolishing the Petty Import and Export Charges imposed by the Customs Act, 1860, the Scheldt Tolls, and the Impropriety of granting Powers to Railway Companies to run Steam- vesse l s. _ _ Leeds—The Abolition of Extra Rates charged on Goods removed Inland for Bonding. Bradford—lncorporation of Chambers of Commerce. Hull—The Desirability of Tribunals of Commerce. Leeds—The Desirableness of an Alteration in the Mode of conducting Legislation on Private Bills. Bristol—Private Bill Legislation. Leeds—The Desirability of the Abolition of the Duty on Fire Insurance, or its reduction and extension to all kinds of Insurance against Fire. Brad ford—The Question of having Extra Facilities granted for the Transmission of Patterns by Post. Huddersfield—The Metric System of Weights and Measures, and the Report of the Select Committee of Par liament thereon. A considerable part of the morning was occupied in dis cussing Mr. Scholefield's bill on Limited Liability. There was great diversity of opinion with respect to it, more par ticularly in relation to the partnership of clerks; and the question was ultimately disposed of by a resolution recom mending the bill to the consideration of the associated Chambers of Commerce in their separate capacity. A re solution was afterwards passed unanimously in favour of the compulsory registration of all partnerships. The meet ing then proceeded to the consideration of the Patent Laws. AN EXTRAORDINARY IMPOSTOR. Yesterday, the Wolverhampton magistrates:7in vestigated a case in which a young woman has certainly for a year been living by a series of impostures that, but for the indisputable evidence in their savour, would have been considered im possible. She is about twenty-five years of age, good looking, and full featured, has passed by the names of Harriet Bell, Catherine Bell, and Eliza beth Hodges. She alleges that she is the widow of a man who died in America, that she is herself an American, that her father and twelve brothers are soldiers in the British army, and two more brothers are sailors in the British navy. Her practice is to be found " insensible" on the floor of a railway cm:- nage, and on her recovery to say that she has been dru g g e d an d ro bb e d, or if s h e fixes upon a male assailant to say that she has been assaulted.hPool at In March last sh e w a s found so acting at W e Newtown, and near to Montgomery. At men of a t B the last named place she accused three young re manded on the charge. At Oswestry she hadere w her hair cut and her spine blistered. from the railway station she was taken to the hospital at Shrewsbury, where, being insensible, she w wa s cupped on the head, and again blistered on the spine. At the end of last r m onth was carried from Padaington-station to S t . Mary's she Hospital, supposed to have taken pois on . After the usual restorati v es she recovered ; said she had been drugged end assaulted in the carriage, and robbed of 30s. On the night of the 4th inst. she was carried, apparently dead, from a train at Strood. A physician (Dr. Brown), finding no action of the heart after applying restoratives, ordered her to be taken to the dead house. A surgeon Mr. Langstone) came,and after two hours "animation was restored." The case was mentioned in the newspapers at the time as "a daring robbery, and a wonderful reco very," and the police were said to be in search of the woman who robbed her of 305., her muff, and shawl, and then drugged her. Her fare was paid back to London. She repeated the trick at Bir mingham, Coventry, and Wolverhampton. At the last-named town Mr. Keogh, the house surgeon of the hospital, recognised her as the woman he cupped at Shrewsbury. 'The Chief Constable investigated her antecedents, from which the above was ascer; tained ; and the Magist ra t es gave her three months' hard labour. In le a vi n g the Court, she said would get the Chairman six months when she came out ~~ TIE INSURRECTION IN POLAND. A letter from Cracow of the 19th inst. gives an eccount of the attack on the town of Alkchow by the insurgents, and their defeat. The Russian gar rison of Miechow consisted of 800 men, and the in-' surgent chief Kurowski determined to attack them with his corps, consisting of 1,500 riflemen, cavalry, and pikemen. Tne attack was made without any order from the superior revolutionary authority, and theiefere Kurowski alone is responsible for the consequences. He attacked the town on three different points. The first column, composed of cavalry, preceded by riflemen, advanced and entered, notwithstanding a murderous fire from the Russians, who were barricaded in the houses. The insurgents arrived at the great square without being ab . e to answer the Russian fire except with their revolvers. In the meantime another column, composed of riflemen and pikcmen, attacked a chinch occupied by the Russians. The church and churchyard were taken by assault, but the affair cost the Poles a number of men. They never theless continued their course through the streets, exposed to a volley of musketry, and they likewise arrived at the great square, cheering and declaring to their chief that they had rather die than aban don the ground they had conquered. They next attacked, but ineffectually, another church and a convent in which the Russians had barricaded them selves. At eight o'clock in the morning Kurowski gave the signal to retreat, just at the moment when the column composed of cavalry and pikemen arrived, This handful of men commenced a fresh attack on the Russians, but after having lost some men they were likewiss forced to retreat. The insur gents lost in this sffair about 100 killed and wow ded, and several of thelatter finding that their comrades had retreated, committed suicide. The Russian loss was rather less—it is calculated at 80 killed and wounded. During the struggle some houses caught fire, but no great injury had been done up to the time of the insurgents' retreat. The Russians, however, would not suffer the inhabitants to extinguish the fire, and the town continued to burn during the whole of the 17th and 18th. Nei ther would the Russian commander suffer the in habitants to bury the dead for three days. When the insurgents retreated the Russians pillaged the town and then murdered several of the inhabitants in their houses, and among them the mayor, beloved and respected by everybody, a Russian functionary, and the public accountant. After the battle of Aliea chow a number of the insurgents principally Gall cians, crossed the Austrian frontier and arrived at Cracow. Those who had retained their arms were disarmed by the Austrian autlorities. A great number of wounded arrived on the 18th and 19th at Cracow, and were placed in the public hospitals. The unfortunate Polish conscripts have been de spatched by railway from Warsaw to the interior of Russia. The Presse has the subjoined summary of affairs in Poland:— " On comparing the intelligence received from different sources, it is easy to form a distinct idea of the situation and to estinaato the extent of the insurrectional movement, The Poles are divided into numerous bands, each of which has its centre of operations. The government of Radom is enclosed between two insurrectional bodies, commanded by Kurowski. 'I he first of them occupies the south-eastern dis trict ; the south is guarded by flying detachments, which connect the east with the west, and keep open communica• tions with the second corps, strongly posted in the west, and protected by extensive forests. Here appeared the fist detachments of the corps under Langiewicz, encamped on the frontier of the department, watching the isolated movements of the Russians and preventing their concentra tion. In this government the Russian troops occupy the towns of Miechow, Kielce, Kaut kie, Czenstochawa, Radom, and Sandorair. The centre of Kurowski's corps is at Dona brows. Statements, which we consider exaggerated, repre sent this corps to be 6,000 strong. Its lines extend to Olkusz and Ojow, and threaten the railway from Cracow to Warsaw. As for Langiewicz, he threatens the high road from Cracow to Warsaw, via Radom. In the government of Lublin, the high road from Lublin to Lemberg is threatened by the corps of Frankowski, some of whose de tachments are in communication with other bands extending into Volhyrda. Lastly, in Vollaynia itself there is a band under the command of Neczaj, a Cossack by birth. To this gtneral sketch we may add that Lithuania and the go vernment of Augustow ale overrun with bands whose num ber and movementsare altogether unknown. Forests, lakes, rivers, marshes, render repression impossible. These bards extend to the very gates of Warsaw in the forests lying between Siesnewice and Psolimon. Some German journals speak of numerous desertions from the Russian army in Lithuania." The English Sieges of Charleston. When tidings are hourly expected of the bom bardment of Charleston, it is curious to reflect that this city was placed in a simile r emergency 87 years ago, in the war of Great Britain with America, and that then, as now, one of the most gallant defenders of the Southern States was a General Lee. In,the beginning of June, 1776, the whole of the British fleet, under Admiral Sir Peter Parker, anchored off Charleston Bar. Previous to their arrival the city had adopted means oi defence, and works were erected on Sullivan's Island, mounted with 30 pieces of cannon, in a very advantageous situation for an noying ships in their advance to the town. The militia of the province assembled in great numbers for the defence of the capital, aided by several con tinental regiments, and the whole were commanded by General Lee, who had traversed the entire ex tent of the continent with great speed in order to place himself in command of them. On the 28th of June, the Bristol and Experiment, each carrying 50 guns, supported by several smaller ships, had with some difficulty crossed the bar and advanced to the attack of the fort on Sullivan's Island, con structed entirely of palmetto, a soft and spongy wood, into which a ball entering is buried, and ' makes no extended fracture. A furiouscan w no as nad cannonade now commenced from the shipping, which re turned with equal fury, and with more effect, from the fort. The ships were almost torn to pieces, and the slaughter was frightful. The firing did not cease till evening, when the ships slipped their cables and withdrew from the scene of action after a contest maintained on both sides with uncommon spirit and vigour. The Actaeon, of 21 guns, having run aground, was deserted and set on fire. Captain Morris, of the Bristol, received a mortal wound ; Captain Scott, of the Experiment, and Lord William Campbell, late Governor of the colony, who now served as a volunteer on board the fleet, were dan gerously wounded, with more than 200 men of the crews of these two ships only. The design on Charleston was, after this disaster, •aban cloned, and Sir Peter Parker immediately sailed for New York. Six days subsequent to this unsuccessful attempt to subjugate Charleston, the Declaration of Independenceev er w se as of fortune promul gated. In the spring of 1780 a befell Charleston, on which occasion Lincoln. OnwasA de:re iApri ldleidn, instead of attacked , by a c t h l i a n t t y o n e , a r b r t o h k e e ß g r r i c t i u s n h dt at r o o t p h s e , d under e G e e o n f G. a Sir u o, Henryloo yards in front of the American lines, which, though Ino more than field works, the English commander, anxious to spare bloodshed, treated with the respect ful homage of three parallels, and made his advance circumspectly. The place was defended by Gen. Lincoln, with a numerous garrison. On April 20, the second parallel being completed, terms of capitu lation were proposed on condition of the defenders being allowed to withdraw, an offer which the be siegers unhesitatingly declined. The third parallel was carried in a few days, and preparations were made for an assault. Gen. Lincoln, on being in formed by the engineers that the lines were no longer defensible, consented to surrender the city on the terms originally proposed bySir H. Clinton, in consequence of which about 6,000 men, consist ing of contin en t a l t roo p s , m ilitia, and sailors, be came prisoners of war on May 4, 1780. In the fol lowing year the Royal army placed in a similar condition, Lord . Yorktownuw alCornwallis beingNver e C tion in. October, October, colours force l7Bl . 1 to T h p e r ohpoonsoeuterms marching ula ar c c a h p ib it go out with ator flying, which had been refused to Gen. Lincoln o n Ihie giving up Charleston , was now refused t o L or d C o rnwallis, and Gen. Lincoln was appointed to re ceive the submission of the army at Yorktown, pre• cisely in the same way as his own had been con ducted 18 months before. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inf er i or l e aves as in the usua l kinds. Hornim an ' s T ea is uncoloured, there f or e, alwaY good gltike. 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