The Sun. — London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

ler l er J a so 0. 14 ' ;, to j OlO 61 : l b go° the "". t °3sl id a woo o - ace°l J° 11 0 ° : iß bP t be 0 114 who i P ee ' 'bit 01 bride t i• 0 1° at ,aile d LIP t ter oo ito for 06 bO e s` l " *II , itisr'b ci ro lloo r ) pe• 60 c 0' te ar 010 r io rri°4 ()if II ler ile x 1(0 ,str rf e t i e r , sir f C°°'•jfe 1" A r e A or co" .i rf ii ics t I‘ o ` . AO . o r r; 0. 1; 11 ,10 0$ vflit'rdr 11017Ey MARKET AND 00b121tItCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. n Th ere Was an id ea i n some quarters t h at th e 10.i ect ors of th e B ank of England at their meet i ng ° Y thigh farther r e d uce th e i r m i n i m um rate of bat the court has been adjourned, and the den g "galation s remain unchaned. This result has not tar p productive of the slightest surprise in mane tory Or co mmercial circles, an d th e terms for accom odatioe range steadily at 81 7 per cent. Nt°ti Xs7' 0 00 in gold was taken into the Bank erd ay. Th, -42,8 93 . ' l l 3 on has arri ve d f rom Alexandria with 1,1 4 annual gener a l meeting of the Commercial pr o : i n n3 A o :surance Company will be held on the Bth C o : the prospectus of the London Restaurant Pl uy ma ke ,t o find it is intended to 44.°118 we to e s tablish economicdin tit r°° ras for the middle and working classes nie Londo n. The attempt, which b y tli tio bie l never got f urther than an exper i men t a l 12 -et ' to make a start in the same direction some tittiZ : ntits ago no doubt d e lay e d the benefits of these the glihnlents being given to the public; but now e tee is t a k en in hand by a body of fi rst - ra t 41441378 map, real and bona fide attempt will be up an a.l-admitted want in the metro to; h e eqpital of th e ' new com pany is fixed at `iv, in 10 , 0 00 shares of £5 each. ah e loth ; itet Week's rai. w ay r e ceipts, ascertained up (1 1, are, in round figures, as under 1864. 1863. Guth, „.. °t eater n id 04 • we ern ..... 8, . . 13,763 15,00 8 ............ .............. 41,604 37,757 ............... 0 1 North rn ern 28,893 26,779 ;3441t0l err s Yorkshire.. 6073 5,268 I.;j7° -behe u tt t r 2 e S rri aild, Linco l in n sh_ire 15,789 14,861 egrlw an u a s find Western Ire a d 'tOpolitati 011(11 -Western 6,963 6,993 •• • 8,006 7,t83 . 1,961 2,391 The se .................... .... bt liti v i s ret urns are in several instances of . a rather th tif4et° 7 character, compared with those 'vett: name period o f l ast year . On the South Bri gl° ; 11 there i s a decrease o f £l6l ; on the t eete r ' a nd °f £1,275 ; on the South Eastern, of a nd on the Great Southern and I rt t t „ en °f Irel an d , o f £3O ; w hil e the North Or 4`4Bllovve an increase of £8,767 ; the Midland, 44 0 :, 47 1 the G reat N ort h ern, o f £3,114; the Nt o 7 uir e and Y orksh i re, of £3 , 507 ; th e Man °lll-r„' Sheffield, and Lincoln, of £925 ; and the Itw and South Western, of £123. Pl ies, biddi ngs for £300,000 in bills on India took Porti4eeferday at the Bank of England. The pro )104118 allotted were to Calcutta, £160,000; to 41, £120,000 j and to Madras, £20,000. The hlp o i e ttiti l Price d ec l ared was as b e f ore, ls. 111.1. per 1/ %14 °4 C alcutta and Madras, and ls. 114 d. on tro op l' The application within the limits 111 .1jz t a ed to £ 1 , 8 70,000. Tenders on Calcutta, at ley' "*. will receive about 80 per cent. ; on Born tabt 24 . Old., about 21 per cent.; on Madras, a . t ! 4.11 . ci r l llt 63 per cent ; and ail above these prices in Ite t 4-11 the 3d instant,. When the amount . offered _ °lll 3',6 °o / 300 , the buildings within the Amite were 41440,000, bat the lowest rate accepted was 4 ' On C alcutta, Bombay, and Madras. Two O'CLOCK. t° l47 l3l. °N'enient of per cent. has taken place Iwei k ; 4l the m ar k et for the Engl i sh F un d s , an d I ktpi lit°o ol and ra i lway shares are a ll i n the 4 0 , t el t• Th ere i s a better feeling with regar d 4 4 0 , (1 4t Y affairs at home and political prospects 900 4 ,• Purchas es on speculative account couse ne e PrePonderate, and buoyancy is the result. ho t i ute for transfer ar e 91k and for the Bth 4 4 111 . ° 91 / I. The N ew T hrees and the Reduced tht:lties have risen to 9 1 1 ; Exchequer Bills are ed 3 '' ; nttolt Sto ck,. 239; and India 5 per 4 , 1 031 1041 • thA`leeided un hOtpl:l(lrei Mradertu, mulaorveement has tak en . place in partisularly in Mexican 42 111,44°) vthich have risen 21 per cent., viz., 411 htt 1 . e :9 larg e Tatlti,;°lleed to 221 purchases. Gree k 221 t-; the Coupons to 10 n~ide, ; 6 Per Cents., 1862, to 681 691; do. Con c tlts': 4)18 1 40 ; Portuguese to 471 ; Spa nishd th°3 ; the Certificates to 131 14k ; an t he k eu eritte Loan, 56 58. de shares 441tres of the South Wales Colliery Co. were 11 4 41 0 .1 " to-day a t 21, and closed at 2, 1 premium. i liti ted ltiesB in the Railway Share Market ha s coo 1, i - ver y inactive, and prices have not var ied t o hbeedibPortant extent. North• Western hav e ad . . n It tot tne l t °B •l While most of the other lines rema i n Tile_ rates. kt Vor • ''FSn and Colonial undertakings are dull B th , ' quotations. kt ti t nd Miscellaneous shares, in some instances, 41%tki_81ightly enhanced prices. London and t ° s 'ter realise 79 1 80; London and County., li'il:l44l-13; Metropolitan and Provincial, 2 51 °4 O l Link, 934 65 • and Union of Australia, 531 i to preen, astern Banking Company ar e 11 p q c e e e m te . d ,• 40. 11 it° E Mltre Company, 1 to 11 prem. ; and Na -41 s h . 'PPing Company, 1-, to Q preen. e 13tt, --- 1 s'Ot ' TIS II . PUNDS—CLOSING I'RICES. Dt titx r, WENT ruNDS. Lt)ittf‘;eAllt• Ceneols r)q 1 a 47 sent -'llnr, March 5 ()1 A 4w 3.Rethiced gig L l ktt, 9ient ...................... 91 a pt., i o N , .0 yr., expire.ithJaii., k44'itttgoiate,iYeraNT9eXipolcrare p st h h ) A A p u ril, 1885. h bitL7 81114 , 41 000, 21 3 pe g. ; C l9o en B t: die I , uit to 4560 ........ ..... e .3 i lik . 3 .'" dis £lOO and £2OO ...... 11 111,„''flgiand Stk .it - i thf •Yr• 239 qi ii tit N /4 „ . , 2 per Ct., al • ti! Ntkocir:;j,ik—MNlENT SEMI . 11.721 , ,5 , . _ 00 A e " '4 Per Cent., April 1874.... ) 14 4 , Col Ult .................... • • 1041 3i 41 l itt, ) : Per Cent. July, 1670 100 I tt (l ' Per Cent Oct.BBB bi t ie e " 1,1,, h ant .... 10 die "Ilk, °mist:4,ooo ceder 41,000 k Po n „ Ikr.lll 4 k.KIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. t) it 41 5 , i ) t t , Per Cent h, itt,,,,839 and 1859 —die i 4 l4,qtrip, 1863, £55 paid 11it.,, ':ikYres 6 per Cent _ 'e t . 14, 4 „3 Per ('"n,? 1825 6 11:41 .4i t i W C Co n n t i:Oildated. 1 per Cent — r it L i tte p‘ Per Cent _ li j t i "euond hew° ' -- ,4 ) Akr Cent., 1824-5, e x " e° " 1 " 1 " . 21i 1 I, l 44',,teount 4 'lto ' ° uPotts 101 li i kl 4 k a t connt 4.tt14,- Per Cent 4,4lrlgh'ount * Ira • - • t I),u, penal 5 per Len q urtroa ~ _ 0t, ) ,, Per C en t 1 VI, Una. ito vierred '''l 4 L ui 7 (1 Warrants (Hectares) 4, 1, li I,44l,,tecotil)er Cent 1 1111 , ' Per 'ta t nt N' i ttp ',eent lnt ' Ij i l litti, l Per Cent., 1862 I h i t,4l '" 3 Per Cent., 1853 I l ' 1 413 '''oltnt.. , t 44 ltt, k r c ent. _ 1 8w, , 7, , 9, '6O, 62,' 3 4 - 71 i „q,„.,4n ' tt, , t ) , Per Cent., 182'2, £ St — 14 i4 bid Per Cent 1850 tqll te ‘` l 1860 ) ; a ...... 4 P" cent., 1 ,, t , b , tier Cent 1862 ii 'lit ' ll 6 1 , , 1 1) A ~ , Or C ent .. Vlth'''' , -ount 4 l eer __. 9i t ,it 3 C ent I llt i t Z Ae e ß : t ent 62 4 I st, )urd 1t , 4 A 1 r I) (lerred i)i, t 4 I CC.° llut %,444Nv0 331 a l',,tik`ornnt ........ 33i 11 , l it t, •tki lA A . o f Coup not funded Ili 4 4 4 -01 Int l3l 14} I) it tt , 4 0.." Cent. 1864 "4; 414 ,'" I llt ............ 9l} li lt tk AN N Cent. 1858 v i 'l l(\ i ,., R1'(`:,,1114 .................. 71} i )it l , c -",' Bonds .... .--. Olttt? ti: Cont. 1862 I . n s ' , 2ut .. 691 Si 1 , ) Itlel % V llondm 'alt . ., Aet..Per Cent fl o tint _ hit% iklr Cont., 180 , telL"tint '2 4 1. ) ,. per Cent kcllittlll4:l6(lunds on the above payable in Lund u. 01.4 1 k .1 Per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. ___ iiil,4l 0 por COrit.:Ex. 25f. I llj t t : 4: r e°nt. Ex. 12 Gull 'kr Qenti 1861, F x • , 5 francs — " ^ , l - n ect nt , '' --• _ I ............... , 4 410 M THREE O'CLOCK. to A ')Iln rte °l4A y t . 91{ ............. v•• OM 91A SHARE MARKETS.---Thus day, hare Rallwaya. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Paid. (31°6ing j Busineab I'rioe. done. 8ir,.1V01., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. liost.,Slext.,andMidA;o 1 Bristol and Exeter ...• Caledonian Cora and Bandon Corn wal Do A A eets ("IV Do. B till Apc.pan.bas been paid to 8., Dublin A; Belfast June.l Dun ~Perth,as A b. June. l Edinburgh at Glasgow.; Ghtsg. and S. Westerh.; 'Great Eastern, Ord. st:: I Ditto A stock., Ditto East Anglian al Great Northot Scotland Great Northern 1)o A Btouk Do B do Gt. an tW. of Irelan , Great Western ...... 1)0 Str Val ua. stock Lancasinee& Yorkshire London and Blitokwali Lou., Brig!' t.,ac S. Coast Lon., Chat., amti Dover Lou. & North Western Lon. RE Scr.th Western' Man., Stich, ‘t Lincoln.l Maryport and Carlisle. Do 3 shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of irelanu Do. y shares Mid Kent _ - Do Cray Line North British I Edin., Perth, & Dundee' N th. Eastern—Berwin , Do, G.N.E. purehast Do Lecds 1 Do York Do Carlisle...—. •• .• North London Do New North Statfordshtre N. and S. V. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stow Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welclipot , Shropshire Union [ South Devon ;nth Eastern Louth Wales S. York. and River Dui Wok..and Wok Stockton .Sz Darlington, Do Do New, 186 G Taff Vale. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and rim %Vaterford 4; Kilkenny West Cornwall . Hartlepool liarAK West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do lierelord Burnsti 8 Si Fa 81 84 i 6 121 121 i 64 74 37 39 16 17 04 96 106 tog 19 50 47 40 71 Si 130 131 136 137 134 1 36 05 97 64} 65 1101 111 72 74 104 100 40 42 ILA 1101 100 101 52 53 106 107 134 13 0 4 498101 521 65 25 t 6 1021 1031 t 8 t 9 91} 911 125 130 14 26 I) 79 80 11 11i 123 126 43 45 Pi lOU 63 64 :-,3 f 4 941 es} 99 101 col 10} 88 39 9i 10i c. 7 8 p 165 17,) 5e 6 3i - -1' 87 90 107 172 I - - SSESSIONS. gailways Closing Price. 59 - 61 — 102} 103; 51 5 1 8 ttlantie & St Lawrene. 3om.,liarotta.t.Cent Gu. 5 per oent.. . Do. New Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Late Huron Do. Preference ..•• • • Buffalo, Brant, Godriell 6 p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, hi% Do. do. July 1, 187; , 00. do. Jim, I, 1.,,7- Nefitta.or S. Easrii. I 1,1, Cape Town Z.; Dock Seri, Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. h;ast Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext Do. do. II do. Grand Trunk of Canada 1)o. let Prof Bonds 100 102 99 101 1041 105, 103 1+ 4 P I 1 10 20. 72 74 56 .60 65 67 49 b 5 49 62 34 *2 26 28 22 15 103 104 f Do. uo. deterred...... Do. 241 fret. Do. do. deferred....„ Do. 3d I' , ef. stock Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th ('ref. sto Do. do. deferred...... GLindlareutu.gua. s p.o Do. New gua. 5 p. Do. January, 18(32 Gt. South.ot India (Lim uaranteed 5 per cent. G - t. W. of Canada Shares Do. New .. • •• • Do. 8 p.c. '73 with't opt., ' Do. 56 p. c. do. '77-8.. 1 Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. o. Do. If p. 0. Extension 13c.41 d 0........ Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. p. c. Buds Melb. & llobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. i. Mortg. Bds Newlirm,swielta Candi, Class A an d B N. itl•C'das po Ist 1 bds Scinde •• Du. Delhi Do. do .3 runjaub .... n Du. Do. • .0 Of • DO. indus.St. Flo.) 102 103 91 0 1 101 301 , ,, 92 04 85 87 P lv2 103 OP 96 93 02 95 53 60 all 100 (100 100 2 all Du too_ 3 5 82 84 IC2 103 102 103 p 102 104 102 j $ 97 99 a nek IDo. lodus.St. Flo.) iI O V I If/ VI/ f ,OLONIAL (10 V EHNMEN SECIIItITI.I4,N. a p.c.J ad tit: 1877-Si ...... lOO 101 103 1014 Do. b p.c. Feb. it Aug 100 99 101 Do. 6 p.o.Mar..t Sept. 100 102 104 Do. sp. a. Jan.&.July. 10'' 89 91 894 Do. 5 inscribed stool. 100 81 91 t 'ape (4. Hope. 6 p 0.187 100 105 107 Do.Ap a Oot 1880 100 108 110 Do. 189 t 100 09 111 Do. Jan. 43 July, 1891 100 107 109 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6 p IOU 110 112 Maur Rine 6 per cent .. 100 1',5 107 Natal Gov. 6 per cont 100 197 109 N.B.Gov. 6 p.a. J a.a.lnt) 100 101 103 101 ' Ado. 6p. c.Ap. & Oa. 100 'N. S.IV. Gov. 6 p Ist r 100 99 100 - Do. sp. c.,lbit to 1-7 r 100 99 101 I Do. d0.,1888 upwds 100 1)9 IGO INew Zealand O p cent. IUO iO7 109 Nova Scotia Gov. op. c. sterling, 1875. lo ' ,/ 103 105 - !Queensland Gay. op. c. 100 10. Aus Gtip.c.l67&& up.. 100 108 110 - Vle.Gov. op.a.Ja.aJul) 100 - Do. to C 0.0. A 1).2200t.. 100 1094 1104 1 1101 131tITISH NI IN ES. 2 • ;n1'31,11211' Consol. Gold 1 4 id • Itfiord Amalgamated.. ()even Cons. Javlst, 1 575 M 165 East Bassett (I llognnl.. 30 70 71 tl 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 62. id yar East Caradon 3.14 ., 2S 29 East Cara Brea... :1.4.0 7 70 E. 4'l Russel (Tavistic ,1 8.9.0 4} 6* • ,Garn.drStAubyntGwen ,I 58; to 11 ,(1 reat South Tolgus ' 17s 4 41 , tI. Wheal Vor (lielaton 40 181 191 !Grenville 2.16.. 55/ Iler;:d's-Foot B.ll 85 37 Illngtston Downs 4. 8.0 4# 51 Lady Bertha Margaret (Coy Lelact 9A 17 19 %Luke Valley.. 4 llyndy Iron Oro (Ltai 2l 1* 1 6 New Sctun l9l 80 00 —• North Downs 24 1f 21 Basset (111o.;an 3.1.0 2 24 orth. Wheal Crotty 2.6.9 5 54 51 l'ar Consol8(51. Blaze) rrovldence(Uny Lelnt. 10.6.7 44 40 iouthCaradon(St.Cleer 11 440 (60 9. Cant Brea (Mogan). • HIV heal Fran. (11104 - an 18.16.0 571 621 Stray I'ark VitrnarSllv.23 Lead Mtn. 44 1 # I' in Crott 9 29 21 101 • (Vest Basset (Illogan) ll 11 12 lIV Cr radon (Llliteard 5 21 23 West Soton Wheal Basset (Mogan 14 100 230 %; heal Buller(Kedruthl 10 874 021 w heal Kitty (15.1.e1n0t 2.0.6 40 43 Wheal Loth ott Wheal MaryAnu (Lien ) s 1.4 14 'Wheal lieton 5Bl 175 165 heal Treiawney (LIB ) 7 123 'A !Wheal Union 3.17 24 3 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 5 per cent. red prf., 102 tWestern, Wt. Midland, Oxford, 2d guaranteed stock, 120 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 6 per cent., Ditto, £6, 42 PREFErtENcit SHARES AND STOCKS. • Great Northern, 5 London and S.-Western 46 per cent., 103 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. London and Chatham, 46 per Cent., vo London, Tilbury, and Southend, 101 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (11m.) gua. 7 per cent., 17 1(11 Recife and San Francisco) (lim.), Rua. 7 per cent., 17} Sambre and Meuse, 71 San Paulo (lim.), qua. 7 per cent., SI Ditto (all), 201 FOREIGN RINE& Cape Copper, lim.. 81 i Cobre Copper, 36i 6 Mont. Aurt os Brazil Gold Min. Co., 2j ]'anulcillo Copper, Um., 2} United Mexican (litn:, 6} Yutianamutano. of S. AuetTglia (Um.), 2; 3 JOINT-STUCK BANKS. Alliance Bank of Lon .on and Liverpool (Um.), 47i Ditto, new, 32* Anglo Austrian, 5; 6 Bank of Egypt, 26 5; Bank of London. la, 6 Bank of utago, lim., 311 I Brazlll in and Portuguese, lim., Si 7/ British North American. 19 Chartered Bank of India, A ustralis. and China, 45; ..... _ Ditto, to.w, issued at £lO pm, 33) 24 Chartered ot India, London, and China, 70 Consolidated Bank, Urn., 104 I 6 English. Sooi eh, and Australian Chartered, 211 Hindustan, ultina, and Japan (Rm.), 301 Imperial Bank (11m.). 274 81 8 4 Imperial Ottoman, 181 b t Land Mortgage Bank ni India, lint., 3; 4 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, t,O 49 London Chartered Bank ot Australia, 251 London and County, 59 8 London Joint Stock, : , 81 London and South Arnerlenn. Ilm., London and South-Western (lim.), 14 London and Westminster, 79! en MerchautPtank, lira., 111 Metrop. and l'rov. Bank (11m.), 25 Midland Bank (lirn.), 141 National Provincial of England, I Otto, new, i ii } Oriental Bank Corporation, 65 4 51 5 Sclnde, and Delhi, lint., 7 I ticolunit(e. l'in hAus i tr ib a a l u ia. 39 Union ot Australia, 531 MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, 11111., 0 11 Bombay Gas, Malted, Si Canada Company, 76 Ceylon Company, 104 1 n Commercial storlii : date d Union Discount, ( In n ur m an . 110 Contract Corporation inn ., 41 LgYPtian Commercial and Trading, lint., 41 1 ec Telegraph, 105 53 Gen. Credit anti Fi na nce of London, lint., 7; 7 Mitchum a Bay, 176 I Interwitional Financial Society, 121 1 Malian Irrigation (Canal CavO ur). 3 , I , nnt•mtock Discount, Um.. 01 jLondon Finanalal ASSOCIIMOD, itm., 26% 6 London general Omnibus Company, 21.; Ahern — Do SR_ stock 4tmk stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stook stook 20i 20 LOO LOO stock stock stock 20 stock ♦to( et ock Pa:d. all ME KIN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1864. MISC ELLANHOUS—Continued. London Provincial Marine, 2; 3 Mercantile Credit Association, lira., 101 10 1 Natal Land and Colonization Company, lim., 51 National Discount Company, lira., ,2/ 12 North British and Mercantile Insurance, lira., 201' Oriental Inland Steam, lim , 11 1 l'eel River Land and Mineral, 411 Rio eh Janeiro City Improvements, - w , 1 6 Ditto (4), 4i Royal Mail Mi , am, 851 Societe Financiere d slrypte, lim., 51 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), Bra., 71 United Kingdom Telegraph Co. ' 21 Universal Marine (Insurance), lira., 51 THE GALE. The two survivors of the crew of the collier brig Thomas Barker have arrived in Shields, the vessel having been run down, and the mister and seven of the crew drowned. The Thomas Barker, under the command of Mr. Thomas Pyle, and with a crew of nine hands, left the Tyne on Friday afternoon, coal laden, for London. On Saturday, during the height of the gale, and when about four miles from Filey Bay, she was struck on the bow by the Edith and Mary, of Sunderland, in ballast from Southampton. The Thomas Barker went down within a few minutes after she was struck, taking with her the in ester and seven of the crew. The persons saved wero William Walker, seaman, end James Dickenson, apprentice. Walker at the time of the collision was in the rigging, and he fortu nately succeeded in jumping on board the light brig. Dickenson saved himself by rnnning along the jiohoom of the Thomas Barter, and jump ing into the forechains of rte Edith and Mary, whence he was taken abeard that ves sel. The following is a list of the lost: — Robert Pyle, master ; Ri c h ar d Enbleton, mate; Thomas Dennale, cook ; the carpentr, whose name was not known yesterday ; Thomas t..unnex and John Bannerman ; another seaman, who was at the helm when the vessel went down, aid whose name is not known, and James :11‘Donsld, apprentice. The vessel belonged to Nlessrs. Thomas Barker and Sons, South Shields, and was uninsured. The schooner Triumph, of Brisham, arrived in the Tyne on Tuesday. The master reported that while off the Leman and Omer lightship ea Sunday, and while the crew were below at dinner Neil Campbell, an ordinary seaman, who had been left at the wheel, disappeared, but whether he bad thrown himself overboard, as he was in a desponding state of mind, or was accidentally drowned, the master could not tell. The vessel that the steamboats have in tow in a capsized condition off the Typo is the Victoria, from Hull, a Danish bark. She had been coming from Kull on Friday in tow of the Robert Scott tug, when she struck upon IVhitlee Rocks, and, having slid off the reef, she capsized and floated out to sea. The master, his wife, and crew were rescued by the steamtug and brought to the Tyne. The steamboats could not get the deralict into Shields har bour on Tuesday night, it is thought, on account of the masts touching the bottom. '!'hey will have to be broken off in some manner before the vessel can be got into the harbour. On Saturday a number of light and laden vessels were blown to the north of the Tyne, and found shelter behind the Coquet and Fern Islands. On Tuesday night, as the wind got well from the northward, they would be enabled to make their passage south again. A good deal of anxiety. bad been occasioned in Shields since Satur day through the reprehensible practice of taking vessels to sea without their full complement of bands en board, the vessel lying in the offing until the master or mate gathers together the remainder of the crew in the public-houses in the town. A laden bark was taken out thus on Friday evening, short of hands, and the master returned to Shields in a steamboat, leaving an owner of a steamboat and the pilot on board the vessel with the mates and such of the crew as had gone off with her. The ship was blown off the land during the night, and had not - cast up on Tuesday. THE LATE MR. MITRE, By the untimely and lamented death of Mr. Wil liam Mure, the post of Consul at New Orleans is left at the disposal of her Majesty's Government. The late Consul will be regretted by those in New Orleans and in the United States, by whom his im partiality and honourable feeling in the discharge of duties rendered particularly difficult and onerous by the nature of the times were appreciated and acknowledged, even in the midst of great party strife and national animosity. Appointed in 1843, he speedily made himself known at the Foreign office by his lucid and admirable reports, which rose to the elevation of State pagers in largeness of view and accuracy of expression, and his great tact and knowledge of affairs and 1338!1 enabled him to steer his coarse amid peri.s in which his brother consuls in the United States were wrecked, although he never for a moment coilpromiaed a principle or shrank from its assertion. He obtained from the State Legislature of Louisiana large con cessions towards the free blacks, British subjects, who had been incarcerated with common felons during the stay of the vessels to which they be longed in the State ports. By Mr. M ure's exer tions these free blacks were allowed to remain at large under certain conditions, and his services were acknowledged by Lord Palmerston, who, though not in office at the time, wrote a letter to Mr. Mure to express his high sense of the benefit he had rendered to freedom and hutttanity. During the Crampton difficulty he managed to avoid the breath of suspicion and slander, and in many diffi cult questions ho displayed eque judgment and address. From his intimate know:edge of Ameri can affairs, ho was enabled to predict with remark able foresight the sure advent of the tremendous struggle which gave no sign to others, and Lord Russell bestowed high praise on his despatches in relation to the causes of Secession and its probable consequences and result. No man could bcave the climate of New Orleans for so many years without serious injury to his constitution, and Mr. More came to Washington in 1862, on his way to Eng land, in deplorable health, which was aggravated by the hardships of a journey in winter from New Orleans through a country ravaged by hostile armies, and, destitute of ordinary conveyances and facilities for travelling. He came to England in the hope of recovering his strength, bat never alto gether rallied, and expired on the 14th in London from the effects of debility and disease. LAW INTELLIGENCE,--(This Day.) COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary and a Special Jury.) NARRACOTT ♦. NARRACOTT AND lIESKETII. The further hearing of this case, in which the damages are laid at £lo,ooo, was resumed this morning by the exa mination of witnesses to rebut the evidence give❑ yesterday of extreme cruelty on the part of the husband, the petitioner. Mr. Narracott, brother of the petitioner, was examined at some length to show that the respondent was always treated in a very kind manner during the whole time she lived with the petitioner. The Queen's Advocate then cross-examined him, and in answer to questions put to him by the learned gentleman, the witness said ho had not given the slightest intimation to any person of the nature of his evidence. He had merely received a subrcena to attend, and he had done so. The solicitor for his brother had never asked him any questions, and the only circumstance he thought that could explain his being in the witness-box was that being in court yesterday whilst some of the witnesses for the respon dent were being examined, he merely said he could cor roborate many of their statements. He resided with his brother at the present time. He did so for two years after the petitioner was married. After that time his brother removed to Carey Cottage, but he alway to his (witness's) residence every day, as it was the premises in which their business, as grocers, was carried on. He would swear that Mrs. Nhrracott, when she went to her mother's, had sufficient nn4 suitable clothing. He did not know whether she took it with her, but he knew for a fact she had it. She also had food of the best quality, Ho did not dine with them—on the contrary, his brother dined at his house. The learned gentleman pressed the witness here very closely as to the number of times the petitioner dined with him, and after some difficulty it was elicited he took his dinner as frequently at witness's table as he did at his own. Other witnesses having been examined, The Solicitor-General replied on the whole case. The learned Judge summed up. The jury having retired for some time, found that they could not agree as to the issue of cruelty, and awarded damages £2,500. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Kerr,) A NOVEL POINT IN THE LAW OP DEBTOR AND CREDITOR. EARL AND OTHERS V. MARKWITH. This was an action to recover a balance of account—Mr. Vinning appearing for plaintiffs, and Mr. Buchanan for defendant. Mr. Vinning called a witness, who deposed to the supply of goods to defendant. His Honour—Well, Mr. Buchanan, what do you say to this ? Mr. Buchanan—We say that we have paid into court all that plaintiffs have asked us for. This letter is our de fence. Plaintiffs' letter was handed up to his Honour, who found that they agreed to accept £l2 odd, if the money was paid without further trouble. Mr. Buchanan—And that mon ,- _ , y we have paid into court. ......___. Mr. Vinning—But I contend you are not entitled to any deductions in the shape of discount, inasmuch as you did not pay the money without further trouble. Plaintiffs witness—The discount, as deducted from the invoice, represents what is customary to the trade, and it would not have been altos ed to the defendant but that we expected a largo order from him. Mr. Vinning—There was no consideration for the pro mise to take £l2. _ _ Mr. Buchanan—The money paid in is all that you asked. His Honour—So far as I read it, it seems to mean that if the defendant pays the £l2, without the trouble of driving plaintiff into law, they will accept it. He has not done so, therefore I think plaintiffs are entitled to the balance. Verdict for plaintiffs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. YIELDING TO TEMPTATION.—John Potts, a respectable looking lad, in the employ of Messrs. Hollis and Henning ham, stationers and post-office keepers, of Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, was charged before Mr. Knox with being in possession of two silver spoons, the property of Mr. Henningham. A plico-constabla said that about nine o'clock this morn ing he was called to Mr. Melliah's, pawnbroker, in Duke street, Grosvenor-square, and told that the prisoner had offered two spoons in pledge which were believed to have been stolen. The pawnbroker declined to give the prisoner into custody, and he (the constabls) then asked the prisoner whose spoons they were, and he at first said they were his mother's, but afterwards said his mother was dead, and that they were his master's spoons, and that he had taken them from the plate-basket that morning. Mr. William Henningham, 6, Mount-street, Grosvenor• square, said the spoons were his property, and of the value of 30s. He did not wish to prefer any charge against the boy, who had been in his service for 7 years, and always behaved himself. The boy's father had been known to him for many years, and was a very respectable man, and it was out of respect for the father that he did not wish to prose cute the buy, who he had no doubt had given way to temp tation in taking the spoons. The prisoner who, during the hearing of the ease, buried his taco in his hands, and seemed overwhelmed in grief, said he had no questions to ask. Mr. Knox said he would remand tho prisoner for a week to see what could be done, so as to send him out of London and away from bad acquaintances he might have formed. The prisoner was then remanded. WESTMINSTER. A DESERTER FROM THE AMEBIC AN ARMT.—An African, with the uncommonly English name of Robinson, was charged with the following misconduct. Mr. William H. Thelmare, a glass merchant in the Brompton-road, said that yesterday evening the defendant came into his shop and begged. 'He stated 'hal. he had been without food for two or three days, and having no place of shelter was obliged to walk the streets during the night. Complainant recommended him to the parish authorities, but defendant still remained in the shop and importuned him for charity, repeating that it was some days since ho had any food. Complainant gave him about two pounds of bread, and he went away, when complainant having sus• picions about the defendant had him watched, when, in • stead of eating the bread as a starving man would have done, he went to a baker's shop and putting it down, left it, and walked away. In about half an hour afterwards the prisoner was found to have forced himself into another shop in the neighbourhood and was there very abusive and collecting a crowd of persons because he could not get what ho wanted, and he was then taken into custody. Defendant said ho mill not procure any work, and so was obliged to beg. He was looking for a ship. Mr. Selfe—You don't find ships in tradesmen's shops in tho Fulham-road ? Vefendant —There was an American ship, but I could'nt go in that when it left the port of London, because I did not wish to go to America. Mr. Belk—Why not? Defendant—Because I have deserted from the American army. Mr. Selfe—Having abandoned your duty in that respect, you are now going about begging. Defendant—l am flesh and blood the same as other people, although I am dark, and ought not to be permitted to starve. Mr. Selfe—Nor permitted to go about to ditlerent trades men's houses and bully them ii they don't give you exactly what you want. You are committed for 11 days to the House of Correction. THAMES. ROBBERY IN A SUGAR ilOUSE.—Stephca Gavans, a carman, aged 33, of No. 27, Plumreer's-row, Whitechapel, was brought b4ore Mr. Partridge, charged with stealing two brass bottles,, valued at 45., the property of Thomas and Francis Hicks, proprie:ors of a large sugar refinery in Alio street, Whitechapel. It appeared that the prisoner was in the practice of taking blood used in the process of refining sugar to the prosecu tors' establishment, and that on several occasions after ho had delivered bleed pieces of machinery were missed. Thin robberies were of a serious description to the prose cutors, but the metal, though costly in its manufactured state, would not have produced much if sold as old metal. Yesterday when the prisoner came to the factory with a cart load of blood, his actions were strictly watched. and he was seen by a man named Christian Schroeder, a German, who was engaged at the blow-up cis tern, to take up two brass bottles and put them in his pockets. Schroeder saw Chit from a room above, and ho went below, secured the prisoner, end gave him over to the care of boiler. On being asked fur an explanation of this the wit ness said a boiler was a man who attended to the boiling of sugar in the pan. Carl Addix, a German, identified the brass bottles taken from the prisoner. They were the property of Messrs. Hicks. William Hunt, a poliue-constable, Ni,. 184 11, said that when he took the prisoner into custody he said he was very sorry for what he had done, and he supposed as other pro perty had been taken that he should be blamed for the whole. It would have cost 75. to replace the two bottles which were made to screw on to machinery, if they had been lost. The prisoner admitted that ho was guilty of stealing the brass bottler, and pleaded for mercy on Recount el his hav ing a wife and three children. 1 The prisoner was committed for trial. The Wreck of the Royal Victoria, Yesterday the Board of Trade received from the receiver of wrecks at Lerwick the deposition of Mr. John Pearson, chief officer of the iron ship Royal Victoria, 1,444 tons burden, which was lost off the Shetland Islands a few days since, within a short time after her sailing on her first voyage to Calcutta. The 'crew abandoned the ship in the boats, and several of them died from exposure and starva tion. Mr. Pearson states that the Royal Vic toria belonged to Messrs. Fermi° Brothers, of Liverpool, and held the class of A 1 on Lloyd's register for 22 years. The officer is of opinion that her crew, 36 hands, was insufficient in num ber for the management of the vessel, especially as she was overmasted and rigged. On the 16 hof January, on sighting Cape Wrath and St. Kildare, the wind b!ew fresh from the westward, and in creased ; and on the 18th it blew a gale. The ship was laid to, under a lower maintopsail, and heading about W.N.W. till four p.m., when a heavy squall struck her, and threw the ship on her beam-ends. An endeavour was made to get the vessel off before the wind by hoisting the foretopccast staysail, but it would not recover. At six p.m., Captain Leslie caused the mizenmast to be cut away, and shortly afterwards the mainmast, which in falling alsocar ried away the foretopmast, leaving the ship in a more unmanageable position. The officers and crew stuck to the vessel until four o'clock the next day, when, finding that there was no lilcelihood of her righting, they took to the boats and abandoned her, He (Mr. Pearson) had commend of the pin nace, with seventeen hands, and Captain Leslie took charge of the lifeboats with fourteen hands. It was blowing a heavy gale, with hail end a fearful sea running. Soon after dark the two boats parted company, and did noc again see each other. The pinnace reached Shetland at noon on the 233, her crew having suffered the most fright ful privations, and two of the men died in the beat. The captain's boat was driven ashore two days afterwards, in another part of the island, with only two of her hands oat of fourteen living. Among those who perished were Captain Thomas Leslie, the master'; John Brown, the boatswain; Scott, Ellis, Mears, and Kelly, seamen. The names of the Kennel!, Henry Nemis , Jeremiah D r i s coll, Henry °, Henry Scaswell, Mike survivors are—John Sparg Birch, John Dove, Peter Lawless John Hayes, William Davey, Charles Tooley, Joe. Taylor, Thos. Warren, and James Jenkins. At the time the beats abandoned the ship she was lyi ng i n a b o ut lat. 59 N., and long. 1 2 1 W. The loss o f th e s hip is esti mated at £35,000, and the cargo at £1,600. DIARKETS—This Day. DIARK-LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES —Wheat, 405 841; and peas, 335 7d. barley, 315 Ild ; oats, 19 e ld ; rye, 29 8 id ; b eaus , 53e 7d ; . . TIIR SIX WEEKS' AVERA.ORS. -- Wheat, 40A 8(1; barley, 32s Od ; oath, 18 8 10 d ; rye,peas, 33s 3d. 29e 2d ; b ea ns, 338 8d ENOLTEM GRAIN SOLD LSAT W aux.......wheat, 103,806; barley, 84,464 ; oats, 19,906; rye, 69 ; beans, 6,458; peas; 1,501 quarters. C ATTLE. demand m a a Ot ne METROPOL ITA N all breed s to-day ruled . emarket was steady t fully v ery limited, Th e y t M h e e Ef Monday's currency. The best Soots so l d at 6 s, i n some instances at 65 2d per 81bs. Sheep, th oug h in very mode rato supply, moved off slowly on former t erms. Th e b es t Downs,e were in the wool, li disposed The few lambs on off 81 bs. Calves were in moderate request at from 4s to 55 per 81b s . we readily realised 6 o .f p at er 78 81 per be, The supply was limited. In pigs and mulch cows very little was doing at drooping currencies. Per 81bs.to 5 s. d. a. d. Crse. & inf. beasts 3 8 4 0 Second quality do. 4 2 4 4 Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Prime Scots, etc. 4 10 6 0 Crse. & inf. sheep 4 0 4 6 Second quality do. 4 8 6 2 Suckling calves, 18s to 26s 20s to 255 each. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts 720 ink the offal. d• Primecra-wool d 0.5 4 6s. d. R• 8 Pino- gthdowndo.s 10 6 0 Largo cm. calv es 4 0 4 6 Primo small d 0... 4 8 5 0 Large LoKs ... 3 6 4 0 s a m n a d ll l p ti o ar rk t o o r r a .o . l . (i. a 4 tor ' u 2 1441", PORRION SUPPLY. Beasts ..... .... 2 " Sheep and la ni b ti 901) Calves 75 Pigs Cows llO Sheep Calves rigs 312 MEAT MARKETS. NEWOATB AND LEADENNALL. — A soasonablv good sup. ply of meat is on side to-day, and the trade rules steady at the annexed currency :—I3 , ef, trotu 3s Od to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3m 8d to 4s 6d ; veal, 34 8d to 4s 8d ; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 4d per 81bs by tho carcase. SOUTHALL, Feb. 17.—The supplimt of stock were only moderate; nevertheless the trade Wm+ inactiv e , fol lowing pri ces : __B ee t, f r om 3a 6d to 4m lid ; ruuto Om Od ; veal, 4 s 4d t o 4s 8d ; lamb, Os Od to O s Od ; and por k , 3s 6d to 4s 6d per 81ba, to sink tho Aral. , t 4 h s e od -- - ce s a t . oc It s m fo o li v o e w d off v il e z , @ f i r % w in ly 3 , l3 at Bd b to ar,il B y o sta . ti p ° , u n t a w ry n. p 4 r s i Pigs, 208 to 268; and Itompottn, F e b. 17.—A1l kinds of 4d to 6a od ; veal, 4s 2d to 4s 8d ; and pork, is 8d to 41 6d per 81bs; totaling calves, 16s to 245; quarter-old store milch COWS, £l4 to £l3 :Os each. HAY MARK2TS. SMITIIPTET.D.—Meadow hey, £3 Os to £4 Gs Od ; clover, £4 Os to £ 5 Od ; and straw, £ 1 28 to £1 10a per load. Trade dull. - C UMBNO.LANDo—MOit4OW hay, £3 Os to £4loa Od ; clover, £4 Os to 8. Od ; and straw, £l3r to £1 10a per load. A slow demand. WIIITECIIATEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 Gs Od ; clover, £4 Os to L. 5 108 Od ; and straw, LI 24 to XI lOs par load. Supply good. THE FRENCH IN MEXICO. Tho -11,thiteur publishes the following intelligence from Mexico, addreesed to the Minister of War : "Mexico, January 9th. " A despatch from General Neigre. the commandant in the city of Mexico, sums up the operations of the expedi tionary column of the interior from the 16th December to the 29th, General Bazaine, who arrived on the 16th Dec. at Lagos, being resolved to rapidly pursue Doblado, who was marching on Aguas Calientes, organised a light column with two days' provisions. While he was on his march the chief of a band named Chavez, who had occupied the country of Lagos for the last three years, came and placed himself under his orders with 500 horsemen. The General in-Chief directed hint to make a forced march on Ledesma, where the old Juarist chief arrived at four in the afternoon of the 18th, thus getting the start of the French column, which did not reach Puerto, 3i leagues in the rear of Ledes ma, until 6 o'clock. Gen. Douay, who went in pursuit of Uraga after the affair of Morelia, came up with his rear guard at Zamora. Tho Mexican General, being closely pressed, had no other means of preventing his stores and baggage from falling into the hands of the French than by setting fire to them, Gen. Bazaine, who arrived at Lodesma in tbo night of the 18th Deo , left again on the 20th for Aguas Caliontas, where.he hoped to come up with Doblada, but the enemy on the same day left, and marched with all his stores on Guadalajara or on Zaca tecas. From the 20th to the 23d Dec. the General in Chief made useless efforts to overtake the enemy. The Juarist army was in full retreat, dispersed and flying in all direc tions, without any fixed plan of operations. On the morn ing of the sth January the General entered Guadalajara without firing a shot; the enemy did not defend the two positions of Puente Calderon and Puente Grande; some musket shot fired by our auxiliaries sufficed to put to flight large party of cavalry which had announced their approach to the Juarist troops, and they immediately evacuated the place, The inhabitants are animated with the best feelings towards the French. General Bazaine, before falling back oil the city of Mexico, proceeded to the admin istrative organisation of the country. The enemy's army dispersed, disunited, and removed from the capitals whence it could no longer deprive any resources, has taken refuge in the poorest and most thinly-populated States. It will infallibly break up altogether in a short time, and no longer act except as guerillas. The inhabitant' despoiled by those bands, feeling themselves supported by the French army and by the Mexican trove, now well armed by us, will easily rid themselves of the remnants of the Juarist army, General Bazaine on the 30th Deo. received accounts from General Donny, who was in pur • suit of General Uraga, and had come up with one of his convoys. The Juarist General in that encounter lost a considerable quantity of stores destined for boring cannon and coining money, as well as ingots of copper and 145 mules laden with arms and ammunition. General Neigre informs the Minister of War that on the 31st December a body of 30C Juariate, having received information that the diligence from Queretaro to Mexico would convey the mail of the General-in-Chief, placed themselves on the road about 33 leagues from the capital. The passengers and the escort, attacked by superior forces, made a vigorous but useless resistance. Tho diligence was pillaged, most of the despatches torn up or thrown away, a fact which explains why several of the journals did not receive any news from the expeditionary corps by the last mail. S3MO letters, however, and amongst them one from the General-in-Chief, were recovered, sent to Mexico, and thence to France." SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Feb. 18.—Wind this day at noon—North; moderate breeze, and cloudy weather. FALMOUTH, Feb. 17.—Wind N. W.—Arrived—Sir Colin Campbell, from Para. Cowles, Feb. 17.—Wind N.W.—Arrivod—Ornen, from Santander. NEWPORT, Feb. 17.—Wind N.B.—Sailed—Harriet, for St. Thomas. CLYDE, Feb. 17.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—City of Amoy, and William Kidatoa, for Bombay—Albion, ecrow steamer, for Otago, N.Z. HULL, Feb. 17.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Thotis, from Calcutta. (BY ELECTRIC TP.LEGRAPII.) PLYMOUTH, Thursday Morning, 10 o'Clock. The Danish frigate Niels Juel, 46, which left here yester day morning, was actively employed all day within a com paratively short distance of the harbour. She was observed to bring to and overhaul 10 or 12 merchant ships, includ ing an American bark bound to London, which subsequently received a channel pilot. At one time the frigate was well east of the port towards the Start, when one of her boats was between the Eddystone ant the Ramehead to the westward. Two boats were detached from her, each contained 30 loft well armed. The wind was then northerly ; a light breeze. During the day the frigate was occasionally descried from the Citadel. This morning she has not yet been seen. SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday morning. Sailed—Catherine Jacoba Henrietta, for Batavia. The North German Lloyd steamers between London and Bremen have been transferred to the Rusmian flag, and the company's steamers running to Now York via Southamp ton will probably very soon sail under the same flag. The Hansa, having undergone a thorough overhaul, ie ready to take her dcprirture for now York on the 2d of March. Tho Now York ie receiving new boilers. (Ey MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, Feb. 17—Sidney Eggers, from Calcutta. Arrived, Feb.lB—Clio, hom Memel. Sailed—Warren Hastings, for Brisbane; Annie Morico, fur Jersey. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passed—H.M.S Dee, from Portsmouth, for Woolwich ; (; urtrueda Getnine, for Santander; Florence, for Marseillos; Canada Bell, for Bombay—all from London. Spilled—Mary Stenhouse, fur London (in tow). Mr. Bacon, in continuation of his excellent series of Danish war maps, has just published one with the Faroe Islands distinctly laid down, and also another of Flensburg. Both aro well and distinctly coloured. THE NEW YORK lIIOTB.—A hard case has just coma to light. Last summer Colonel O'Brien had his headquarters in Tammany Ball, and was raising an Irish regiment. Ile took part against the rioters. They caught him, beat him until ho Was dead, and then hung him up to a lamp. His body was shoved into Potterstleld. The widow is in a most destitute condition, and has asked aid from the city I " Hall Columbia, happy land." While the wifo of Colonel 0' Brie n has been left to starve, the fellow Andrews, who led the mob, has been sumptuously provided with lodgings at Fort Lafayette. Ile was brought to Now York lately to be 'riot, but General Dix and the district attorney quarrelled, and so Andrews was Fent back to his cell,— Manhattan's Lefty.. 1101 10 i 1 I r ßuldneem don, 104 2/ 1051 1031 4} 1034 f SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocK. THE PRUSSIAN OCCUPATION OF ALTONA. BERLIN, Feb. 15.—A number of documents have been published here, throwing some light upon the history of the Prussian occupation of the three Holstein towns. It appears that the two great German Powers instructed their representatives at the Frankfort Diet to lay stress upon the difficulties which the existing state of affairs in Holstein cast in the way of their cam plign in Schleswig. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE. SEVEN O'CLOCK. WATERLOO COURSING MEETING. Waterloo Cup. By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. The following aro the only dogs loft in to contest tho above valuable prize, up to the hour of going to prose : Mr Spinks's Sea I'iuk, Mr llaywood's Rebe, Mr T. Willians ne King Death, Lord Lurgan's Master Sweeny, and Lord Wilton's Glendower. The final ties %ill be run off to-morrow. TAT TERSALLS'—This Evening, LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 10 to 1 agat Bantam (taken freely) 100 to 6 agst Emblem (taken) 100 to 6 agst Emblematic (taken freely) 20 to 1 agat Martha (taken) 25 to 1 agst Portlind (taken) 28 to 1 asst Leading Article (taken) 33 to 1 agat Worcester (taken) 33 to 1 agst Thomaatow•n (taken) 40 to 1 agst Harry (taken) 40 to 1 agst Mauchline (taken) CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst 13Iackdown (offered) 20 to 1 agst Golden Pledge (offered) 40 to 1 agat Accident (offered) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 6to lon the field (offered) NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 20 to 1 apt Sheridan (taken) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 20 to 1 agat Liston (taken) TILE DERBY. 18 to 1 vet Forager (taken) SPORTING INTELLIGENCE--This Day. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAM.) CHELMSFORD RACES--Tuis DAY. STAND HANDICAP PLATE. Usher Fanfreluche Eleven ran. SKREEN'S HURDLE RACE. Vulture ltevolt Six run. MOOR HALL STEEPLECHASE. Kettledrum Forester Five ran. BRAXTED PARK STEEPLECHASE. Null and void. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS--This Evening. The Loin) CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at live o'clock. - - Lord HOUGILTON presented a petition from a public meeting held in Manchester, against any interference on the part of this country in the Dane-German war. Lord REDESD ALE presented a petition from Finsbury against the soheme for the extension of metropolitan rail ways. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE gave notice that on Tuesday next be should put a question to hfr Majesty's Government relative to recruiting in Ireland for the Federal States. MUSEUM FOR PATENTS. The Earl of PO WIS asked whether her Majesty's Go vernment intended during the present year to establish a proper museum and library tor patents? Too noble earl referred to the want of a well-organised establishment of the nature referred to, because If such was really in existence it would afford technics for persons contemplating bygone inventions, and also allow inventors to become acquainted with that which had already been discovered. Earl (MANVILLE agreed in many of the observations of phe noble lord, and ho thought the present accommoda tion ought to be extended. lie could give no distinct answer to the question furtherthan assuring his noble friend that the matter was under the consideration of Government The Earl of ROMNEY called attention to the state:of the law with regard to the removal of clerks of the peace from their Aloe, and asked whether Government would consider the subject with 8: view of amending the lsw in that respect. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the subject would be taken into 3onsideration with a view of ascertaining who. ther some judicious amendment of the law could not be made. _ _ _ ..... Lord CRANWORTII: thought the evil complained of could be met if the power of removing clerks of the peace from (Ace was given to the Lord Chancellor. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OP COMMONS—This Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before 4 o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. Mooß took the oaths and his scat on his election for Brighton, in the room of Mr. Coningham, and was received with cheers from the Conservative benches. GREAT EASTERN AND NORTHERN JUNCTION RAILWAY BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. G. 11. PACKE opposed the motion on the ground that there was no necessity for the undertaking,and moved the rejection of the bill. Captain J Eft IS supported the motion. Mr. EGERTON, as a director of the Great Northern, sail that he did not oppose the bill on the ground of the lucre fact that it would introduce competition with the line in which he was interested, but that it enunciated a new principle, namely, as to the tights of a largo commer cial company who bad no interest in the proposed under taking to come forward and subscribe a largo sum for its construction. Ile therefore would aeoond the amendment, Lord J. MANNERS opposed the second reading of the bill on principle. After some remarks by Alderman SALOIiONS, Mr. MASSEY said that the time had passed when Par liament would take into consideration the question of com petition as being a ground for _rejecting a bill. With reference to the second objection, he could only say that the company who had advanced the money for the new lino had complied with the standing orders and could not be objected to at present. Sir J. SHELLEY protested against the house being in fluenced by the opinion of the Chairman of Ways and M eans. Col. WILSON-PATTEN took exception to the remark of the last speaker. Mr. PACKE then withdrew his amendment, sad the bill was read a second time. ARMY ESTIMATES. Sir 11. WILLOUGHBY asked the Under Secretary of State for War if the accounts of th• army receipts and ex penditure for the year ending March 31, 1863, would be presented previous to the discussion on the Army Estimates tor the current year? The Marquis of IIARTINGTON said he believed that explanatory statements had already been laid on the table, and the necounts in question would be in the hands of Wm. members in the course of a few days. TARIFF BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND THE ZOLLVEREIN. Mr. S. BEAUMONT asked the President of theßoard of Trade for the production of a tariff between Austria and the Zoliverein, which was officially published at Vienna in November. 1863. Mr. lIUTT said that the doctunent alluded to would be laid on the table shortly. CAPTURE OF BRITISH ♦ESSELS. Mr. 11. BAILLI It asked the Attorney-General whether he was of opinion that when a English merchant vessel WAN captured by an American ship of war in the harbour of a neutral State, it was the duty of the Government to wait for the action and decision of a prize court before reparation was demanded from the American Government; and, if so, whether the Government would also have to wait for the action of a prize court it' an English vessel should bo taken out as a prize from an English harbour; and, whether, the capture of the British wand Science by an American ship of war in the Mexican harbour of Matamoros was not a violation of international law, and a direct act of hosti lity against England. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said with regard to the principle involved, it could not be doubted that when an English vessel was captured in neutral waters, the Govern ment should not wait fur the action of a prize court. In reference to the NUM of the Science, it wan denied by the American captain who CRl A Ml ll re t :h y O uo ve u l: in neutral waters, and no answer had yet been received v this Government in reply to their communication with t i lt% than aw- : t that American Government. make that representation . 11e was hap p y t o 1,: l e o state that nothing was more distinct no neutral vessel could be taken by the American Govern. went in the Mexican waters, and that even if • by stress of weather beyond the neutral it were driven still be protected. line they would THE REV. DR. PA/ Mr. O'NEILL asked the Undo NE. Foreign Affitirm whether her M r Secretary of State for taken any steps to obtain compensation aibety's Government had by the Rev. Dr. Payne, in co for losses sustained upon him by a Greek soldier nsequenee of an assault made whether it WAR Intended to t r. in April, 1862 ; and, if not, Mr. LA.Y AR I) • punishment was sufficient for his o ff en :d ee (n. dthat Ake any steps for this purpose? said the soldier had been condemned to twelve mo nths' imprisonment, and ho thought that I.ll(tahrealeteaditrowas seized RURAL PARISHES. Mr. ROGERS naked the Secretary of State for the flow ell RS if, after n county had been divided into highway districts under the Act of ISG2, facilitiea bo allot* to t rural parishes, where the population according to the last census was more than 3,000, and such parL 'Shims desire to withdraw from such districts by adopting the L noel Government Act of 1868 P Sir G. GREY said that no additional facilities would be afforded for the purpose mentioned by the hon. member. QUEEN'S COLLEGE (CORK). Lord NAAS asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whe ther the report of the President of the Queen's College, Cork, to her Majesty, for the past year, had yet been pre sented; and whether that report contained the whole of the correspondence which had taken place between the Irish., Government, Dr. Bullen, and Sir It. Kane; and if it doe,i not whether he would lay the entire correspondence on di table of the house Sir R. PEEL said the report of the President of Coe Queen's College in Cork had been presented, and was l aid on the table of the house yesterday. There would be no objection to publish the correspondence alluded to. RELATIONS WITH BRAZIL. Mr. HUNT asked the Under Secretary of State for Fo reign Adults whether the Portuguese Government had ten dered its good diked to bring about a renewal of diplomatic relations between this country and Brazil, and whether her Majesty's Government had accepted those good offices, and whether any papers upon the subject would be laid upon the table? Mr. LAYARD said that the offers of the Portuguese Government made last year had been accepted by his noble friend at the head of the Foreign-office, but he could not state whether it had been accepted by the other Government or not. No correspondence had taken place on the subject. VESTRY CESS ABOLITION BILL. Sir R. PEEL, in moving the second reading of this bill, said that the object was to abolish a power which the vestries in Ireland had possessed for a considerable tire; as it was found that these powers were no longer desirable. The right hon. gentleman entered into some details in support of the bill, eirr E. GROGAN would not oppose the bill, but thought it required much consideration. Lord NAAS ejected to a portion of the bill. After some observations from Colonel French, Mr. Lefroy, Colonel Dunne, and other hon. members, The bill was road a second time, and ordered to be corn. mitted on Thursday next. PENAL SERVITUDE ACTS AMENDMENT. Sir G. GREY, in moving for leave to introduce a bill to amend the Penal Servitude Acts, said that the measure was founded on the report of the commissioners which was pre sented to hon, members too late last session to enable him to bring in a bill on the subject. While there had been an increase last year in a particular description of offence, such as to justify the alarm of the public, still, notwith standing the increase in the population, it appeared from the report of the commission that there had been a decrease in crime in the United Kingdom. The mom , mendations of the commission were of two classes, the first of which related to administrative details, which no doubt were very important but required no alteration in the exist ing law to give them effect. The second class did require some alterations, and the bill was so frstned so as to effect that object, and amongst that class of recommendations was that the term of penal servitude should not be less than seven years. It had been found that sentences for short periods of penal servitude had not failed in the object, but had actually produced an injurious result. LLI:FT SITTING.] Bank of England Return,--This Evening, An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Sth Victorin, cap. 32, for tho week ending on Wednesday, the 17th day of Feb., 1864 188 DE DEPARTMENT. Notes bend .......X27.813,1.!5, Government Debt .£11,015,1C0 Other Securitien .. 3.634,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 12,863,125 Silver Bullion .... £27,513,124 £27,513,125 BAN KING D ZPARTIMM. Proprietors' Capi tal .£14,553,000 Rest Public Deposita (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis miasionera of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- Government Secu rities (including Dead Weight A nnuity) £11,124,5131 Other Securities 1i0.856,744 Notes Gold and Silver 720,61 Q COLD counts) 7,079,789 Other Deposits 13,300,156 Seven Day and other Bills 548,192 .£39,0:6,983 M. L 30,066,934 ESHALL, Chief Cashier, Feb. ,8, 1864. Th© Olympic Theatre. TO TUE EDITOR OF TILE fitiN. Sir,—May I ask the assistance of your column to give publicity to my contradiction of a report, which has been embodied in newspaper paragraphs that I have become manager of the Olympic Theatre My friends, Messrs. Emden and Robson, are still the prosperoul managers of that very successful little theatre, and long may they remain so I should not have thought it necessary to con., Um:lid this report, but that it has drawn on me a fllod of letters, the answering of which makes serious inroad on the time of Yours respectfully, Tom TAYLOR. Lavender-sweep, Wandsworth, Feb. 17. GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY. - *--- MEETING THIS DAY. The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders in this company was bold this afternoon at the London Tavern. Mr. James Goodson, chairman of the board of directors, presided. The CHAIRMAN said ft was satisfactory to know that during the past half-year the traffic had been remunera.. tire, lie had to communicate an increase in the revenue of the past half-year, as compared with that of the corre sponding period of 1802, of £33,202 12s. 3d., the whole of which had accrued in the goods traffic, earnings, the pas senger receipts having been nearly the same as those for December half year of 1802, when they were largely in creased by the passenger truffle to the International Exhibi tion. It was proposed to pay a dividend on this occasion at thu rate of £2 106 per cent. per annum. This would require £104,494 15s, leaving £2,221 18s Id to be carried forward to the next account. Under the circumstances, ho thought this would be found a satisfactory dividend, inasmuch as they had for a long time been struggling with difficulties, but were now emerging into light. having referred to the extensions proposed, and to the London and Rotter dam traffic via Harwich, the Chairman concluded by moving the adoption of the report. Captain JERVIS. M.P., seconded tho motion, which after • lengthened discussion, was adopted. A resolution declaring the dividend was agreed to, and it was announced that the warrants would be posted oil Monday, the 20th inst. THE CASE OF MADAME BUONAPARTE against Mr. Lewis, her late attorney, was resumed in the Common Pleas yesterday morning, and after a masterly address from Mr. Whiteside for the fair plaintiff, and the charge of the judge, the jury found a verdict for £lOO damages, and £l6O on the money counts, for memo) , received by Mr. Lewis for her use, and costs. The verdict was received with applause in a crowded court. The baptism of the Infanta to whom the Quoen of Spain has recently given birth, took place on Sunday last in the Chapel Royal of tho Palace at Madrid. The god father and godmother were Duke Robert of Parma and his sister, Margarita-Theresa, represented by Don Francis do Fuels, and the Marchioness do Novalieches, gouvernanto of the Prince of the Asturias and hie Royal sisters. Tho Papal Nuncio was present, and the ceremony was performed by the Patriarch of the Indies. Tho Infanta received the names of Maria. Eulalia-Frsincisca-Margarita, etc., etc., the whole number of names being, according to the Madrid journals, above eighty. Tho Infante Don Philippe, son 01 the Duke do Montpenoier, is better. The Oat-Deutsche Post states that a fall of 81:10Wi nearly black, took place a few days back at Purkersdorf, in Austria. On being examined with a microscope, it w as found to be covered with exceedingly small insects, which had given to it a dark colour. The Civil Ti ibunal of the Seine has just given, judgment in nn action brought by M. Saigno,, a retired builder, against M. Lambert, stock-broker, to recover a sum of 62,886 f. In March, 1 8 62, hi Saig n ,,, - accused a Lambert sold for them theasM. ofNorthern theaboveTheyweretried at cou the prisoner having pleaded in h er d e f ence that the the female bonds had been given to her by M. Saigno as an acknowledgment of certain coniplaisanoes on h er part. aliately after the trial, M. Soigne commenced ci v il p roceedings mind his wife to recover the 62,886 f., and obtained a judg ment in his fav our , b ut the defendants took their against Leroy mea sures so adroitly that he has never been able to derive any benefit from the decision. Being thus baffled in his efforts to recover his property from the Leroys, M. Saigno coin• menced an action against M. Lambert, whom he considered liable, o n the ground that ho had not taken proper precan.. tions to ascertain the position of the Leroys before ho handed over to them the value of the bonds. M. Lambert's counsel, however, proved that Leroy had been intro , lnced to M. Lambert in 1869, and had subsequently on several occasions employed him to make purchases. M. Lambert, therefore, had no reason to suspect Leroy of anything wrong. The Avocat-Imperial having also expressed his opinion that M. Lambert's conduct was perfectly blameless, the Tribunal gave a judgment rejecting M. Saigne's de mand, and condemned him 10 pay all costs of suit. , FLOODS IN THE NoltTII.-I'hu sudden thaw of Saturday and Sunday last caused considerable inundations in the vales of the North and East Ridiert On Sunday and Monday the rivers Eye, Durwent, at.n! Ouse, with their tributaries, overflowed, 'and laidiv:hae.las joining lands under water. On Monday ni l " At well) thought to have reached the highest poinno., turn the Nor ton the banks of the rickyards (Baron's) dfiedet submerged. water, and the works wore probably _ O , to sit . very ' 'rho damage to farmers at this season *th " great invo - anee. WESTER rt N DISPENSARY FOR DISFASES OF TTIE SKIN.—The twelfth annual meeting of this charity was held on Tuesday at the Dimpenoary, 21A, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy square. Ilia ehsir was taken by the prenident, the Jtuv. eiluOli Dale. Thu report of the committee was read, and the woofing separated after a vo t! of thank.; t Mr. Hunt, the surgeon, and to therm ehaituutn, • .aOO , ~~ ,atrice' 1 Ser !ea bl av diog is d the IX' ~16, i t h tl3O 8 dro" 13.14. 45 10 8t et 50 20 , 9.16.4 12.10 st " 100 5.4.0 100 23 25 1051 5