The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-16 00:00:00

H ONEY HARKETI 'Ali AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The general discount market exhibits a promising appearance. Greater facilities are obtainable in the open market than at the close of lest week, and the bill brokers are anxious t) secure first class paper at t per cent, under the Bank of England mini mum. Long-dated bills are also in good request by the discount firms. The rates now range from 81 per cent. A further sum of £84,000 was taken into the Bank on Saturday. _ _ _ Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co,'s egents in Venezuela advise, under date Bth of April, that they had received for 55 per cent. of the import duties for about two weeks, from the Custom-house of La Guayra, 8,981 dols. 41c. ; do. Puerto Cabello, 33,193 dols. 96c.; making 42,175 dole. 37c.; and under date 22d of April further codections are ad vised for two weeks more, from the Custom-house of La Guayra, 9,061 dole. 81c. ; do. Puerto Cabello, 9,593 dole. 26c. ; malting 18,655 dole. 7c." The accounts frJrn the various manufacturing districts for the past week have generally been of a satisfactory character. At Manchester there has been a good demand for both cloths and yarns for home use and for the Indian markets, and prices have sbown increased firmness. In the woollen dis tricts of Leeds, Bradford, and Huddersfield there has been a more active inquiry for seasonable goods, while a fair amount of business has bee❑ transacted in the hosiery and lace departments of Leicester and Nottingham. In the hardware dis tricts of Birmingham, Sheffield, and Wolverhamp ton the general prosperity of trade is considered very satisfactory in most departments. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning, according to Reuter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 900. An improved tendency is still shown in the market for the English Funds. An advance of f has been established, and Consols are 91 for money, and 908 f, less the dividend, for the account. The Now Threes and Reduced Annuities are 898 ; Exchequer Bills, March, 20s. to 10s. die.; June, 4s. dis. ; India 5 per Cents., 1051 ; do. per Cents., 99; Enfaced 5 per Cents„ 102,,E 10%; and Debentures, 98. In the Foreign Market there is very little anima tion, and prices are tolerably firm. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 711 f ; ditto Consolidei, 481 ; Mexican, 448 ; do. New Loan, i die, par.; Greek, 231 j-; Spanish Passive, 341 8 ; Russian Loan, 18 21 prem.; Swedish, 1/ 1 prem.; and tha Confede rate Loan, 65 67, Business in the Railway Share Market has been only moderately active, but prices have generally exhibited an upward tendency. North Western have advanced ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 155.; Great Western and South Eastern, 10s.; and Groat Eastern, ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit no mate. rial change. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in several instances at slightly improved prices. I t The following are the current quotations of some of the principal new projects :—Provincial Banking Corporation, 4 4 prem. ; International Land Credit, 2 t prem. ; Sabloniere Hotel, t 1 prem.; North Australian Company, 1 1 - 11 prem.; Imperial Bank of China, 1 s prem. ; Thames Ironworks, 11 2 prem.; Millwall Itonworks, 1 a prem. ; Humber Iton works, dis. par. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto Account, May 8 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891.... Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, t,xpire &thJ an., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — March. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent 2O 4 dis Ditto £5OO Ditto £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stk, 51 per Ct. Ditto Account,. INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 — Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Ditto Account — Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888.. Do Certificates Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. 102/ 3 Ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879 — Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 98 Ditto Bonds El.OOO -- Ditto under £l,OOO .... dis FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 4i per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 . Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Ditto Account — Milan 6 ner_ Cent. — Ditto 41 pet Cent Colombian 6 per Cent Cuba, 6 per Cent. .. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1864 Ditto Scrip £4O paid • • Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. Egyptian 7 per Cent.. Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 23} Ditto Account Ditto Coupons — Ditto Account 10/ Guatemala 5 per Cent. Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) —' Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. .. Ditto Deferred — Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) Ditto Account.... • Ditto 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1862 Portugue se 3 per C en t., 1853 Ditto Account ••••• Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 Ditto Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 41 per Cent., 1860 .. Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 Ditto 1864 Scrip, £lO paid Ditto Anglo-D u t c h . p m Sardinian b per Cent .......... Ditto Account —_ Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account — Ditto Passive Ditto Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account .. Swedish, 4 per Cent — Turkish 6 per Cent. 1351 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 J)itto Account...... Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account ................... Ditto £lOO 80nd5...., — Ditto 1863 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 p er Cent. ... . .. Vtmezuela 3 per Cent. ........... .. Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent, 1864 Ditto Scrip, £l5 paid — dis Ditto 11 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Load a, Anstrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. ..... Be lgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f — De tch 2/ per Cent., Ex. 12 Gail — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account — Consols M oney TWO O'CLOCK.9II i Ditto Account Liverpool Cotton Market—T'nis Day. Market opened quiet. Sales, about 5,000 bales. Na change. Imports, 10,171 ; previously, 12,821. THE CONDEMNED CONVICT REILLY.—TIe Home Secretary having declined to interfere with the course of the law in the case of the convict Reilly, the unhappy man Was executed at Glasgow this morning at eight o'clock. W RECKS.—During the past week 34 wrecks h ave been reported, making a total for the present year of 760. IiERR ERNST'S CONCERT iB fixed for the 30th of this months 'SSESSIONS, -harc 106 sk 20 Paid, all leo oo oo 100 stock itock stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock etook Stook Stock stock stock gtock! stock 7i all all 10u lOu 100 100 100 100 all 100 100 Closing Price. 58 40 102 iO3 ad p 1 6a fq 91 77 82 77 88 77 82 100 kO2 08 100 103 105 102 i 3c3i P p 2u EUa 71 13 60 62 60 51 53 43 50 40 42 25 27 23 c 6 102 103 1 1 Business don, 103 i wit & 101 103 10 10i 10i 10 :; 94 95 84 86 101} )02 iP i 94 96 90 94 1011 2 58 60 8 5 82 14 102 103 102 10! P iP 1(.,2 93 95 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 6 p.c.Ja 1877-S1 109 103 105 I Do. ap. c. Feb. (tc Aug. 100 162 104 Do. ep. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 102 104 1031 I Do. op. a. Jan.&,/uly. 10C 90 12 Do. 5 Inscribed s t oc k 100 89 91 ,Cape G.Hopc, B p c,1873 100 106 108 I Dc.Ap &Oct. 1880 100 107 109 Do. 1890 100 108 110 !Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 110 112 ;Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c lOU 105 107 'Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 106 108 !Natal Gov. 6 per cent 100 106 108 -- IN.B.Gov. 6 p.c..) a.&J ul) 100 002 104 Lo. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - IN. S.W. Gov. 6p MA. 100 991 1 00 4, - Du. sp. c.,18e0 to It7l 100 99 101 - Do. d0.,1888 &upwde 100 99 101 994 I •-• , New Zealand O p cent. 100 103 111 !Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. e. I sterling, 1875 lOO 104 106 'Queensland Gm 6p. c lOO - IS. Aus G6p.c.1878. &up lOO 110 112 - Vio.Gov. 6 p. c . J a.&July 100 'Do. to C 1 - I.o.An.&Oce. 100 1071 104107 i BRITISH MINES. 2 jCambrian Consoi. Gold 1 d t.;iifiord Arualge.mated.. 32 34 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist.)j 1 550 660 East Bassett (Illogan).-. 80 67 70 East Clogau Gold Ltd. -- - East Caration ....... 281 291 East Carn Brea... ... . . 3.4. , ! 64 7 W'l Russel (Tavistk.)j 8.13.0 31 4} !GamASt.Aubyn(Gwen 084 7 ,C 9 Great South 'Volgus.... 17s 2 i If !(1. Wheal Vor(lielston 90 31 33 !Grenville..- 6.16. 9} 91 Herd's-Foot 8.12 08 40 11 ingston Downs ~. 4..8.0 31 1 Lady Bertha ... . ...... 2.8.6 f Margaret (Uny ti 18 20 Alarke Va11ey.......... 1,0 0 I 4 61 4 11yndy Iron Ore (Lim. 23 It 1 d New Setun ............ 191 88 95 - • North Downs.. „_. .... . 1 4 1 Basset(lllo4an 3.1.0 2t North Wheal Crotty 2.6.9 44 41 Par Consols (St. Blaze) 20 i i'rovidence( Uny Lelnt., 10.0 41 43 South Uaradon(St.Cleer, 11 950 170 - IS. Carn Brea (Mogan)._ _ - ft:;. Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 /0 50 ;Stray Park ramar Silv.lt Lead Alin _ [ fin Crott v )8 19 West Basset (Illogan),„ 11 9 10 W G radon (Liskeard' 5 16 18 West Seto heat Basset (Illogan, 5t 90 95 Wheal Buller(ltedruth) 10 30 35 Wheal Kitty(U.Lelant) 2.0.6 PiThealLucicott ...... 3.6.8 2 21 W heal Mary Ann ;Lien.) 8 113 121 Wheal Seton 5Bl 200 205 Wheal Tretawney (Lis.)' 7 22 24 Wheal Union I 3.17 2 91 2 2i Ili 124 200 205 22 24 2 24 584 li i 3.17 PREFERENCE SHARES. North Eastern, Stockton and Darlington, C 6 per cent., 32i FOREIGN RAILWAY& Great Luxembourg, 10} rsi amur and Liege gua, 141. per annum, iii BANKS. Alliance (lirs.). 64 British and Californian, 1im.;61 Consolidated Bank, lim., 111 IL European Bank, lim., 121 Imperial Ottoman, 211 1 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 61 London Bank of Scotland, lim., 211 London, Birm, and S. Staffordshire, lim., 241 London Joint Stock, 474 66 London and 11 estminster, 91 31 3 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 311 Mexican, lira., 6 Standard of British South Africa (lima), 33 Union of London, 58 MISCELLANEOUS. Continental Union Gas. lira., 61. Credit Foncier, 10$ Egyptian Com. and Trading, Dm., 5} English and Scottish Marine, lim., 54 Financial Corporation, 4 Gen. Credit and Finanze of London, Um., 10,1 Hudson's Bay, i9i Imperial Financial, lim., 90 Joint Stock Discount, Um., 6i London General Omnibus Company, 2i Loudon Provincial Marine, 3t 4 Mercantile Credit Association, lim., 16k National Discount Company, lira., 14 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 85 Ditto, new, 4s Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, Um., Ditto, (g 4), Universal Marine, Insurance, llm., 5 The Price of Gold. - - The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mule pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.171 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris than London. liy advices fromllamburg the price of gold is 426 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.(5} per £1 sterling. -tandard gold at the English Mitit price is, therefore, about 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills a 60 days' sight is about 200 per cent., and the premium on gold is about 62 per cent. At these rates there is a,:proftt on the importation of gold from the United States. The intention which was entertained of erecting a new theatre at Windsor Castle has, we hear, been ab mdoned. MISSING VESSELS.—The James, which sailed from Hartlepool for Gluckstadt on the 9th of March, and the Queen of England, which sailed from Colombo on the 11th of November for London, have not since been heard of. Her Majesty's Arrival in Scotland. ABOYI:cE, Saturday. The royal train conveying her Majesty and suite entered the Aboyne Station at 27 minutes past one this afternoon, exactly four minutes before it was due, according to the time laid down by the London and North-Western :Rail way Company for regulating its progress throughout the journey. The distance from 'Windsor to Aboyne (b 32 miles) was accomplished in 18 hours and 37 minutes, including two hours and two minutes stoppages, thus showing the actual travelling to have occupied 16 hours, or about 36a miles per hour. The train was under the charge of Mr. William Cawk well, the general manager of the North Western line, and arrived at the different stopping points the minute it was due, with the exception of Perth and Abet deen, each of which stations it reached one minute before the specified time. Large numbers of people awaited the arrival of her Ma jesty, whom they respectfully greeted. After a short delay, her Majesty and suite proceeded in carriages to Balmoral, a distance of 20 miles from Aboyne, and reached the castle about half-past three o'clock. The Prince and Princess of Wales. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales held a Drawing Room at St. James's Palace, oa Saturday after noon, on behalf of her Majesty. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess de Grey, the Hon. Mrs. William Grey, the Marquis of Abercorn, Lord Harris, Lord Alfred Hervey, the Hon. R. Meade, and Major Teesdale, and escorted by a detachment of the Ist Life Guards, left Marl borough House at five minutes to two. The Prince Gf Wales rode out afterwards, attended by Major Teesdale. The Princess of 'Wales, attended by the Hon. Mrs, W, Grey, took a drive in the afternoon. The Prince and Princess of Wales and Prince Arthur, attended by the H.,n. Mrs. W. Grey, Major Elphinstone, and Major Teesdale, honoured the Royal Italian Opera at Covent-garden with their presence in the evening. Prince Adolphus of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ♦isited the Prince and Princess of Wales in the morning. The Prince of Wales visited the Grand Duke of Meck lenburg-Strelitz at St. James's Palace on Saturday. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey and Major Teesdale in Waiting, attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning. The Communion service was read by the Rev. the Sub- Dean, the Rev. J. V. Povah, and the Rev. C. F. Tarver. The Rev. the Sub-Almoner preached the sermon, from Romans viii. 14. Anthem, " Come, Holy Ghost" (Attwood). Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The anthem was sung by Messrs. Francis, Benson, Whitehouse, and Master Bristow. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Arch bishop of Armagh, the Bishop of St. D tvid's, the Duke of St. Albans, the Duke of Manchester, Marquis of Water ford, Earl of St. Germans, Lord Lucan, Viscount Strath allan, Lord Harris, Viscount Hardinge, and Lieutenant- Colonel the Hon. Sir C. Phipps were present during the service. The Prince and Princess of Wales drove to Kew in the afternoon. The Queen will return to Windsor on the 10th of June, where her Majesty will remain until the end of the Parliamentary session. We understand that the Queen will not go to Germany this year.—Court Journal. We are enabled to state that their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will honour Ascot Races with their presence on Tuesday, the 7th, and Thursday, the 9th of June. They will proceed from tho railway station to the course in the Queen's carriages, and the grooms and outriders will wear their scarlet and gold liveries. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and Princess Mary, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and the Hereditary Grand Duke Adolphus, left their residence at St. James's Palace, on Saturday afternoon, for Cambridge Cottage, Kew, for the holidays. The French court will not leave Paris before the early days of June, on account of the prolongation of the Legislative Session. The Empress has her reunions dansantes every week, and the Duke and Duchess de Moray receive' constantly, as well as the Countess Pourtales and others of the fashionable world. These last echoes of the season are mingled with the signs of summer. In a few days the Italian Opera will close, the German watering places are being advertised, and Parisians aro already heard speaking about their country houses. Her Highness the Princess Korsakof, and family, have arrived at the Alexandria Hotel. The Duke of Devonshire entertained at dinner on Friday last—The Duchess (Dowager) of Suther land, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Earl Granville, Lord Lyttelton and the Hon. Lucy Lyttelton, Lord and Lady George Cavendish, the Right Hon.W. and Mrs Gladstone, General the Hon. Henry Cavendish, the Hon. Mr and Mrs Talbot, Lady Louisa Cavendish, the Marquis of Hartington, Lord Richard Cavendish, Lord Frederick Cavendish, Mr Frederick Howard, and Miss Margaret Howard. The Duchess (Dowa 4er) of Sutherland has left Chiswick House for Cliefden, near Maid enhead, for the holidays. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster and Lady Theodora Grosvenor arrived at Grosvenor House on Friday from Montcombe House, Dorsetshire. Thil Earl and Countess Delawarr left town on Saturday for Buckhurst Park, Sussex. Sir Alexander and Lady Arabella Bannerman have gone to Buckhurst to pass the holidays with the earl and countess. The Earl and Countess Russell and family will pass the short Parliamentary recess at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond-park. The noble earl will come to town to morrow for a few hours to attend the Conference. The Earl and Countess of Bradford and Miss Moncrieffe have arrived in Belgrave-square for the season. The Earl of Radnor is said to be much better, and several members of his family have left Coleshill in con sequence of the great improvement in bis health. The Countess of Derby will have assemblies on the Ist and 15th proximo. The ConineEs of Leicester and family left Upper Grosvenor-street on Saturday for Holkham Hall , Norfolk. The Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., and the Countess (Frances) Waldegrave left Carlton gardens on Saturday for Dudbrook Park, Essex, to pass the Parliamentary recess. The countess will give a ball on the 22d June at Strawberry Hill. The Count and Countess Emanuel Salino and family have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for the Isle of Wight. Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday for Brockett Hill, Herts, accompanied by Lady Palmerston, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and Ladies Ashley, Viscountess Jocelyn and Hon. Misses Jocolyn, and a select family circle, to pass the holidays. The noble Premier and her ladyship are expected to return to Cambridge House oa Thursday. On Saturday Vis countess Palmerston will have a " reception." Lord and Lady Sondes entertained a select party at dinner on Saturday, at their residence in Grosvenor square. Lord and Lady Londesborough left town on Saturday for Grimston Park, Yorkshire. The Duchess (Emily) of Beaufort has left Hill-street to pass the holidays with the noble lord and lady. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Sunday to pass the Whitsuntide holidays at Brighton. Mrs. Gladstone will pass through town to-day to join the right hon. gentleman from a short visit to Lord Lyttelton, at Hagley Hall, Worcestershire. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart, M,P., left Whitehall• gardens on Saturday for Drayton Manor, near Tamworth. Lady Emily Peel remains in town; A marriage is arranged between the Hon. Eliza beth Lane For, sister of Lord Conyers, and the Rev. Robt. Cracroft, son of the late Colonel Cracroft Amcotts, of Hack thorne, Lincolnshire. ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At a meeting of the fellows of this society held on Saturday— Professor Bentley in the chair—the following candidates for the feLowship were admitted: —Dowager Countess of Longford, Sir T. L. Brinckman, Bart, Lieutenant -Colonel Reade Novell, Mr Drayson, Mr R. C. Cocq, Miss Mount, Mrs Wilkinson, Mr Oliverson, Mrs Elam, Mrs A. Gee, MIS Pollock, Mrs Rimington, Mr A. S. Jourdain, Mr D. H. Stone, Mr Alexander des Fontaines, Mrs R. Gem, Mrs Wheatstone, Mrs R. Moses, Mrs Chidley, Mrs T. Ogilvy, Mrs Whelpton, Mr H. W. Weguelin, Mr J. Paddy, Mrs A. Walker, Mrs A. Harmer, Mrs G. B. Yapp, Miss E. Watson, and Miss Milford, making a total of 101 new sub scribers this season. SUPPLEMENTARY NAVY ESTIMATE.—.A supple mentary estimate was issued on Saturday of the sum re quired to defray the charges which shall come in course of payment between the Ist July, 1864, and 31st March, 1865, under the following heads of the annu a l est i mates, viz. :2 Vote, No. I—Wages to seamen and marines. —For increas ing the full pay of the executive officers, paymasters, and assistant paymasters, navaLinstructors, &c., and petty offi cers of the Royal Navy, £55,266. Vote, No. 14---Half pay, reserved half pay, and retirement of officers of the Navy and Royal Marines.—For additional charge for altering and improving the system of retirement of officers of the Royal Navy, and reducing the number of officers on the active list of the Navy, £5,775. The total is £61,041; and ex planatory tabular statements are annexed, showing the par ticular application of the turns estimated, ock This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOLS. Aiarel Railways, Paid. Bir.. Vol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian WY Ccrk and Band on - 0 • Cornwall Do A A gets no di \H D o. B till 6p c.p an. has een baid to B Dublin 4 Belfpast June .! .' Dun.,Perth,ez Ab. June. !Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg.. and S. W e st ern . ; !Great Eastern, Ord. still ' Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern.. Do A stook Do B do 11.3 t. S. awl W. of Irelanc Great Western Do Str Val gua. stoe!, Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwa:•' Lan., Bright.,4 Lon., Chat.. ;ad Dover Lon. 4 Western LOP_ & So'.th Western Shef., & Lincoln. IMaryport and Carlisle. Dot shares Metropolitan Midland Do New . Do Birming. & Derby I Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. g shares Mid Kent yee Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwites Do, G.N.E. purchas , Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle 'North London 13.14.! ~.18.~' Do New .. :North Statlordshire ii;. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot IN. E., Aber. stoo! Do Scot. Mid. stook Shrewd. and Welohpoo , Shropshire Union South De7OII ,South Eastern (2.10 !South Wales 'S. York. ansl River Dun 6 taines,Wok.,andWok , Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, MC Taff Vale.. Do B Do C..„ Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pun Waterford k Kilkeuny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.ttit 1 West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 100 100 100 100 100 Closing Businese Price. , done. 8 li Si 9 83 F 5 1171 1181 6 7 35 37 16 17 68 90 101. 106 47 ,7¢ 64 74 129 130 1 1311 134 130 Ot 91 93 63i 64 111 114 64 65 101 in 40 41 110 1101 07i 98i, 53 S 4 1121 114 13u 13tii 64} 110} 110 011 971 51 115 134 'lO4 107 7 - 6 36i i 37¢4 94 10 165 17 0 5 • 7 3 E p 95 97 BRITISH Pi nanwaya tantio & St L%wrenet Born.,Baroda.t.Cent Ino Gu. 5 per cent... Do. New . ...... Do. E. Buffalo and Lake Huron Do. Preference Buflalo,Brant,&Godricli 0 p. ot. bde. Aug. 1, 18:2 Do. do. July 1, 1871 uo. do. Jude 1, lbt-i ,3 1Cutta.&S. E;astrt. (Lip; Cape Town Dock Scri; Fastn. Bengal gu. 6 p. last Indian, gu. 5 p. c Do. do. G Ext Do. do. H do. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. no. deferred Do. 20 Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d P, ef. stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... Gt. IndiaPentn.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. a... Do. January, 1852 Gt. South.of India(Lim K uaranteed 5 per Dent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New ...... Do. 6 p.o. '73 witlet opt. l Do. 51 p. o. do. '77-8.. . 'lndian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. 0. .. Do. It p. 0. Extension Dc. 46 d 0........ Fifth neib.corp. 8 p. c. kinds. Sielb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Kong. Bds. Newßrur swick Can& Class A. and - N.lll.C'das pc Ist p 1 }idsSoinde ...... Do. Delhi Do. do •• • Do. Punjaub Do. Do. ...... , Do. [ndns.St. Flo.) 101 IC3 50/ 61/ 241 '5 100 100 55i 664 88} 60 128 131 14 26 I 76 78 104 111 121 123 39 40 54 56 33 35 90 90} THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1864. Of II rt tirafir 111411 1 , KETS—This Day. MARK -LANE. There was less activity in the demand for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday, and in most instances, the supplies on offer could only be disposed of at a reduc tion in prices of is per quarter. All descriptions of spring corn moved off slowly, at barely late rates. Flour ruled inactive, at:previous currencies. At New York, at the date of our last advices, an efficia announcement had been made of the re-opening of the canals, and a further decline had taken place in the value of breadstuffs. On the continent, however, wheat is tolerably firm in price. Up to our market, last week, the arrivals of English grain were very moderate. The imports from abroad were confined to 9,651 quarters of wheat; 4,592 barley; 31,715 oats; 60 beans; 77 peas; 17 tares; 135 sundry seeds ; and 250 sacks of flour. There was a decline in prices of whear of is to 2s per qr. Wheat —Eases Ditto, old. .................... —8 —s Ditto, white, 1863 403 453 Ditto, old Norfolk and Linc3ln, red, old -8 -8 Ditto, 1863 qr 33s to 40s Talavera, Rye— -63-I:pmeErAsu.am. Barley—Grinding Kingstown Malting -8 -8 , Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6os 66s i ß i r in o - Chevalier..., . . . Oats —Yorkshire an Lincoln . sh , Feeding lBB 23s Potato ........ . and . iiar . e . ......... Youghal and Cork, black lss 23s Cork, white. ..... Scotch, Feedi ng l9B 23s Beans—Tick Pigeons, ............ Peas—Grey. .................. White ....................... Maple Boilers 36s 4 Flour—Town-made, per 280113 Suffolk Stockton and Norfolk .. ... 27s 29s American, per barrel l9s 25s METROPOLITAN CATTLE. The supply of foreign beasts in to-day's market was rather extensive—of foreign sheep only moderate. Sales progressed slowly, at about stationary prices. The arrivals of beasts fresh up from our own grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, were seasonably exten sive as to number, and, for the most part, of prime quality. From Ireland the receipts were again limited, and in but middling condition. All breeds or beasts moved off heavily, at fully last Monday's decline in the quotations. In some instances prices were rather in favour of the butchers. The best Scots and crosses sold at 4s Bd, prime Downs, short horns, &c.. at 4s 4d per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 2,100 Scots, crosses, and shorthorn s ; from other parts of England, 700 various breeds; from Scotland 462 Scots and crosses; and from Ireland 1:50 oxen and heifers. With sheep we were tolerably well, but not to say heavily supplied. Good and prime Downs and half-breds moved off steadily, at full currencies. Otherwise the mutton trade was heavy, on rather lower terms. The top figure for Downs was 5s per Sibs. Lambs—the show of which was tolerably good —were in request, at very full prices. The general rates were 6s 4d to 7s 8d ; but very superior lambs made 8s per Sibs. We had a slow trade for calves, at from 4s 2d to 5s 2d per 81bs. The supply was goed. There was very little doing in pigs, at late quotations. Per Blbs.to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Ors°. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 6 I Primeers-wool d 0.4 6 4 8 Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Pme. S'thdowndo.4 10 5 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 4 Large orse. (Alyea 4 2 4 10 Prime Scots, &e. 4 6 4 8 Prime small d 0... 5 0 5 2 Urse. & inf. sheep 3 6 3 10 Large h0g5...... 3 6 4 0 Second quality do. 4 0 4 4 Small porkers , 4 2 4 6 Lambs....6s 4d to 7s 81. -• • _ Suckling calves, 168 to 22s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 25s each. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .. Cows„ — • Sheep and lambs .... 4,570 Sheep and lamb s 25,5201Ca1ve0 ..... ... 174 Calves Pigs 530 The total imports of foreign stocz into London, last week, amounted to 6,478 head. In the corresponding week in 1863, we received 6 189—in 1862, 3,646—in 1861, 5,430 —in 1860, 5,215—in 1859, 3,865 —in 1858, 1,239 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LASI WEER. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam .... 464 .. 569 43 .. 403 .. 259 Harlingen .... 256 .. 296 .. 44 .. 2 Hamburg; .... 67 .. 2923 .. . .. 269 Amsterdam.... 142 .. 80u10gne...,.. Bremen ....... 33 .„ • • • • Dordt. 38 •• 131 .. •• Nieu Diep Antwerp .. 2 .. Ostend ...... 46 .. Cadiz 4l .. -- .. - .. - - 77 - -- .. 15 . - 11/ 79 . . 17 • • - Oporto — :. Dunkirk 24 .. "--' • • •• ""'" •• —" is •• .. 227 Total ..., 11 11 .. 3919 .. 43 .. 492 .. 913 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1863 728 .• 4,842 .. 313 .. 299 .. 7 1862 .. 303 .. 2,485 315 491 52 1861 756 .. 3,802 .. 299 328 .. 245 1860 1850 177 .. 3,248 .. 210 .. 206 .. 24 1858 A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, May 18, 1863, and this day, Monday, May, 16, 1864, s small, and both combing and clothing descriptions com mand extreme rates, Business has been done in the new clip at high prices. Last Week's Imports, • From Hobart Town .. 1,258 bales. ~ Otago 1,909 „ ~ Auckland .... Lyttleton ~ Melbourne 2,075 „ „ Sydney Current prices of English wool per lb. Fleeces —South Down hoggets 1 111 to 2 01 Half-bred do Kent fleeces .. 2 1 2 2 South Down ewes & ‘vethers. 1 91 1 10} Leicestor do, Sorts—Clothing Combing The tallow tract ward tendency, epot, and town tal. per Blbs. Particulars. Stock this clay.. Price of Y.O. .. Delivery last week Ditto from June 1 Arrivals last week Ditto from June 1 Price of Town .... TALLO W. le is dull to-day, and prices have a down- T.Y.C. is quoted at 40s 3d per cwt. on the low at 33s 91 net cash. Rough fat 2s Old 1850. 1841 1862. 1863, 28,562 ) 66,967) 35,489 ( 39,541 52861 to 58s 01 to 48 861 to:43B3dt°' Oct —8 Oct --a Od —s Od 905 1,31 1,196 1 291 77,908 17,331 116,367 77,230 733 674 1,693 220 94,389 117,2L4 95,110 78,492 Sts Od 56s 5d 468 6d ( 148 3d 49,554 4us 3d to —s Od 1,134 72,69.2 638 84,399 41s 61 POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, MARLBOROUGH STREET. RUNNING AND WALKING MATCHES IN HYDE PARK— ASSAULT ON A PARK CONSTABLE. —ll illiam Amos, a young man, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with disorderly conduct in Hyde Park yesterday mottling, and also with assaulting Wilson Millin, Hyde Park constable. Wilson Millin said—Yesterday morning my attention was called to a crowd of 200 or 250 persons near the Maga. zinc Barracks in Hyde Park. I went up and found the persons had collected for the purpose of a walking or running match, which was about to take place. There was a good deal of betting going on, and a good deal of noise. I did my best to disperse the persons, it being one of the most riotous mobs I had seen for some time. The prisoner came up and struck me on the head and damaged my hat. I then took him into custody and to the police station. Mr Tyrwhitt—Are the persons in the habit of going to the park on Sunday mornings ? Millin—Yes, every Sunday morning there are a number of the lowest persons from all parts of London there for the purpt,se of taking part in running and walking matches, and there is always a scene of great disorder. Prisoner—Seeing a crowd of persons I went to see the cause, and finding there was going to be a foot race, I stopped to see it. Millin—l requested the prisoner to go away severs] Imes. Dennis Corktin, another park constable, said—l saw the crowd collected for a walking and running match, and saw the prisoner strike Millin on the head. ThG crowd was riotous. Mr. Parkes, inspector of the park constables, said—Run. ning matches and foot races in the parks are strictly pro hibited by the Commissioner of Woods and Works. Per sons are in the habit of assembling nearly every Sunday morning for the purpose of foot racing and running matches, and the park constables had orders to put it down both from the Ranger of the Park and the Commissioners of Woods and Works. Mr Tyrwhitt—The parks are intended for recreation, and I do not believe it was ever meant that they should be used for the purpose of running races by a set of betting men, who, when the lost their money, o'ten became very abusive. The constable had done quite right in preventing disorder in the park. The parks are not the property of the public, but the property of the Crown, and it will never do to let authority over the parks be taken away from the persons in whom it is vested. I shall fine the prisoner 108, and the fines will be a great deal heavier if the practice goes on. Per 81b. to sink tho offal. _,............. l‘lay 18, May 16, Coarse and inferior bea s t s.. 1863. 1864. 3 4to 3 8 3 2to 3 6 Second quality do ........... 310 4 4 3 8 4 0 Prime large oxen ............ 4 6 4 8 4 2 4 4 Prime Scots . , &c. ........... 410 5 0 4 6 4 8 Coarse and inferior sheep .... 3 6 310 3 6 310 Second quality do.. . ........ 4 0 4 2 4 0 4 4 Prime coarse-woolled do ..... 4 4 4 6 4 6 4 8 Prime Southdown do. . ..... 4 8 410 4 10 5 0 Lambs ............ 6 0 7 0 6 4 7 8 Large coarse calves ........ 3 10 4 4 4 2 410 Prime small do. .......... .. 4 6 410 5 0 5 2 Large hogs ................ 3 4 4 0 3 6 . 4 0 Neat small porkers .......... 4 2 4 6 4 2 4 6 5,270 Beasts ...... , ...... 4,170 Sheep and lambs •• .. 2(3410 25,820 209 Calves ........ ...... 209 Pigs . • ......... 510 I 480 SUPPLIES ON SALE , May 19, pigs, 430. MAT 20, 1861.—Bea s t s , 3, 51 ' 0—s eep h 181— , 20, 460 — calves, 143—pigs, 390. 1862.—Beasts, 3,98Q — sheep and lambs, 25,37 —calves NEWGATEDENHALL. AND L-......E A These markets Per re 81b.m od b e y ra th te e ly ea s r u c p a p s l e i . ed with most de scriptions of town and co un t ry -killed meat to-day. T he trade generally is dull, and pri ces rule, i n some i ns t ances , 2d per Sibs lower than on Mond ay l as t . s (.1 s d Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 0 Inferior s Lo i na r o i fr i d . e t g n d rs eim e l o i i large i prao g l uarl d ud: .. . t. .0 d . . n. o .. .. 343 3 3 620 2 8 4333 6 3 1 1 0020 tided hliddlingmutton 4 0 4 4 Prime do 4 6 4 8 Veal Small pork Lamb BOROUGH Hop . The supply of hops on sale here i s b y no means ex t ens i ve. In good and fin e p arcels a fair business is doing for imme diate consumption, at full prices, Otherw i se, th e t ra d e con ti nue s dull, at drooping currenci es . F avo urable ac counts have been received from the plantations within the last few days. The import last week was 102 bales from New York. Mid and East Kents.. £5 Os to lOs per cwt. Weald of Kents ...... 5 Os to 7 7° " Sussex .............. 4 155 to 6 lss „ Yearlings ............ 3 Os to 5 Os ~ Bavarian ............ 5s to 88s „ Belgian ............ 9_Os to o os ~A merican .......... 3 lOs to 5 15s „ tphreoyd command in som e in stances however, i s a d u ll uce, BOR OUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The arrivals of potatoes to these markets have since we last wrote fallen off, and th e market to-day i s b ut mode rately supplied with most descriptions. G oo d and prime qualities m m or o e nevemooffsy. Unsoundteadily,nd inquiry. Last week 3,3 56 bo xes arrived from Genoa. Yorkshire Regent 5............ 60s to 60; per ton. Flukes .................. 5 . 5 s to 70 a Rocks ........ . ......... 4as to 60 s '' Perth, Forfar, and Fife Regents 40s to 55 s ' R _ Rocks Kent and Essex Regents ...... —s to —s ~ ____-• SEEDS• The transactions in cioversced were very limited, and the quotations were almost nominal• Canary commanded a slow sale; while the inquiry for tares has been on the in crease, There was an inproved demand for linseed, at ex treme rates. Rapeseed ruled dull, on former termed. Cakes were quiet, and no change has taken place in the quota tions. Carraway 22s 26s Coriander l2s 16s aempseed, per qr 44s 46 s Linseed,Eng.sowing 763 ns Crushing sBs 63s Baltic —s —s Odessa —3 -8 Linseed Cake, p ton — s - s English £9 10s£10 IGs Foreign lOs £lO 5s nape Cakes,p ton.£s Os £6 Os Rapeseed, uew,pr qr 62s 65s Turnip,White,p.bus.lls to 14s Swede —s —s Mustard, Brown lO3 13s White, Tares, Spring....4s Od 4s 6d Old per quarter --s —s Canary, per quarter 52s 6's Rye grass, new 22s 243 Clover, Red Eno•., et. -s s White —s —s Foreign —s —s White. —s —s Trefoil, new, WOOL. Cape and wool continue to b e we l l A at u te s n tr d a e l d ia b n y s rule actve, and a s li g ht The public sales o f colonia l q h u o a m l i tei eand t the b foreigniddinbugyers. Both for advance on the opening rates has in some instances been obtained. The export demand is in a healthy state; greasy Cape and Adelaide qualities have been taken freely on American account; and in good and fine wools for shipment to continental ports a fair business has been transacted. Up to the .present time about 35,000 bales has been disposed of. Good Australian clothing has realised is 111 d to 2s 7d —do combing, is lid to 27d —do, greasy, is 11d to is 61d —good and flue Cape, is 8d to 2s—wedium do., is 5d to is 70—and greasy, 91d to 11d per lb. In the private contract market, as regards English wool, great firmness continues to prevail. The supply of old qualities on sale THAMES. Mr Bureham, of the Southwark Police Court, presided this day for Mr Paget. Owing to the great number of ap plicants for warrants, summonses, and advice, the hearing of the night charges did not commence until half-past 11 o'clock, The K division have 22 charges, the H division nine, and the Thames division one, Besides the night charges, there are 10 summonses to be heard, and the charges which are likely to turn up in the course cf the day. The business is comparatively light for Monday. POLICE OFFICIOUSNESS.—Johtf Callaghan, a labourer, was charged with assaulting John Chester, a police canstable 23 H. The complainant stated that he was waited upon by a lodging-house keeper at a quarter to one o'cicck on Sunday morning. Tile man said there was a lodger in his house who had made a disturbance, and used obscme language. He went to the house, and the prisoner was pointed out to him as the offender. The prisoner refused to leave the house until he took him into custody. Mr Burcham—What for ? Witness—For using obscene language and making a dis turbance. Mr Buz cham—You did not hear him making a disturbance or using bad language ? Witness : No, I did not. Mr. Burcham—Then why did you take him into custody ? Witness—The lodging-house-keeper could not get him out of the house. Mr. Burcham--You had nothing to do with that at all. You saw no breach of the peace, heard no disturbance, and you ought not to have taken the prisoner into custody. He is discharged. RAILWAY INTEL LIGENCE, TRENT, ANCHOLME, AND GRIMSBY, On Saturday the directors of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire made an inspection of this line. The party left Manchester by a special train, and passing through Penistone, Doncaster, &e., epent a short time at Keadly in examining a great bridge construc'el over the Trent at that point. They then passed on to Grimsby, where an enter tainment took place, tc, which the mayor and corporation and several of the leading gentlemen of the neighbourhood were invited. The new line will furnish a more direct communication with the coalfields of South Yorkshire than at present exists, and will have an important effect upon the trade of the port of Grimsby. WORCESTER, DEAN FOREST, AND MONMOUTH. The first sod of this line was cut on Friday at Speech well-house, Forest of Dean. The ceremony was performed by Lady Campbell. The company afterwards sat down to an excellent dijeuner. The Dean Forest line when com pleted will open a direct roue from South Wales to the Midland counties, and it is expected that a large quantity of Forest coal will then be brought down to Newport for shipment, and the - Welsh ironmasters will be able to get the hematite ores from the Forest, instead of from Cumberland, as is the case at present. FURNESS AND MIDLAND. The first sod of this undertaking, extending from Wen nington to Carnforth, was turned on Thursday, near Castle ton Hall, by Mr M'Lean, the resident engineer. The vicar of Melling turned the next sod, and Mr, Woodveis, the con tractor, completed the barrow lord. Mr. M'Lean stated it was his intention to have the line in work for the summer traffic of 1866, LLANELLY. A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held on Saturday at Radley's Hotel, Biackfriars ; Mr. J. Biddulph in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said there were four bills on the list. The first bill was not sufficiently advanced to submit to the proprietors in compliance with the standing orders of the House of Lords. The second bill was promoted by the Harbour Commissioners for the purpose of further amend ing and extending the Acts for the improvement of the rivers Burry and Loughor, and Lliedi, in the counties of Carmarthen and Glamorgan ; and for the improvement of the harbour of Llanelly, and to grant certain powers to the Llanelly Railway and Dock Company, and the South Wales Railway Company, in relation to the improvement of the said harbour, He said the directors had made an agreement with the Llanelly Harbour Commissioners to convey the company's dock at Llanelly to the commissioners for £l,OOO a year. The commissioners would enlarge the dock, instead of making another dock, to provide for the increasing trade of the port, and when it was completed the tolls and dues would be appropriated—first to paying the £l,OOO a year to the railway company, then £l,OOO a year to the com missioners for their outlay, the net surplus, if any, would then be divided between the railway company and the com missioners, in the proportion of one-fourth to the former and three-fourths to the latter, until the commissioners re ceived 5 per cent, on their outlay. When the net surplus exceeded that paymsnt then the excess would be divided equally between the railway company and she Harbour Commissioners. The company now cleared £1,300 a year by the clocks, so that, in fact, they gave up £3OO a year as a sort of subscription to the commissioners, in consideration of the expenditure of £70,000 on the enlargement and im provcment of the dock. A formal resolution approving the bill was carried unani mously. The next was a bill to incorporate a company for the makirg cf railways in the counties of Carmarthen and Cardigan, to be called " the Swansea and Ab3rystwith Junction Railway." The only clause affecting the Llanelly Company was that for authorising working and traffic arrangements, and the supply of rolling stock. A formal resolution approving the bill was adopted, and the meeting was adjourned to Thursday, the 26th inst,, for the consideration of two other bills. THE PRESIDENT OF TUE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY has issued cards for a reception, on Tuesday next, in Bloomsbury. square. Another Dreadful Tragedy in Lambeth. 1864. EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER (THIS DAY) As soon as the night charges had been disposed of, Sarah Weston, a decent-looking female, about 30 years of age, who appeared to be suffering severely from the effects of drink, was placed at the bar before Mr. Woolrych, charged with causing the death of Stephen Weston, her husband, by violently assaulting him on Sunday morning in their own house, Johanna-street, Lower Marsh, Lambeth, Samuel Samuels, a cooper, living in the Borough. road, said that about two on Sunday morning he heard cries of murder inside the prisoner's house. He climbed up to a front window which was opened by a girl, and he saw the 'prisoner and her husband on the floor. She was partly sitting and had hold of her husband's head, when she struck him on the floor. He called out, and then she turned around and let . go her husband's head, which dropped on one side, and he saw he was dead. The mother of the deceased came and calleed out "For God's sake fetch a policeman or she'll kill my son." The prisoner then got up, put on her husband's boots, and went downstairs. He went down to the front door and saw her coming out, when she told him to go away, but he refused, and remained until a policeman came up, when they entered the house, and saw the deceased lying dead. A surgeon was sent for immediately. Susan Weekly, residing at No. 3, Plum-street, said that between 2 and 3 she heard cries of murder as she went in the house and saw the mother and the prisoner. She went upstairs and saw the prisoner's husband dead. The last time she saw him alive was on Saturday morning, and then he appeared in his usual health. When she entered the room he was lying partly on the bed and partly oil the floor. Witness knew that he had been very ill for some time, especially the last two or three days, therefore he was extremely weak. During the Saturday night she had called the attention of the police to him. The children opened the door and cried "Murder," and then she entered the house. She saw no blood or mark of any kind. He looked as if he fell down and died. Cotterell, 92 L, said he was called in about two o'clock on Sunday morning, when a man said you had better go upstairs as the man is dead. He went there and found deceased lying on the bed, and he was quite dead, Witness then fetched Waken, the divisional surgeon. Inspector Edwards here asked for a remand until after the coroner's inquest. Mr Woolrych accordingly remanded her for a week, and she was removed immediately to Horsemonger-lane Gaol. SOUTHERN VIEWS. From the headewaters of the Red River to the coast of North Carolina the horizon is fairly radiant with Confederate victory. Forcing its way through the darkness of Yankee concealment, Banke's defeat tells that all is well in the Trans-Mississippi depart ment. Forrest, at Fort Pillow, undoes in an hour the year's work of Grant, and obstructs, in a very inconvenient manner, the free navigation of the Mississippi. Confederate horsemen career confidently in Western Kentucky, and white flags are barging out at Columbus. It was proper that these brilliant affairs in the West should be furnished with a pen dant in the East, and nobly has it been done by Hoke, at Plymouth. There, too, has storming been the order of the day, and success has been as cola plete as at Fort Pillow. Hitherto, though often led against fieldwork; the Confederate soldiers have rarely been called upon to assail permanent fortifica tions. These twe brilliant examples fully attest their prowess in this trying mode of warfare, and evince that striking eupereerity of elan which most signally elevates them above the Yankee soldier. Not an instance in the war can be mentioned of the Yankees having driven our men from in trenched positions. These cheering victories, coming in such rapid succession from so many different quarters, are auspicious of final success. They re semble those minor combats which so often, on the eve of great battles, have seemed to cast the shadow of coming events before them, and to give an earnest of future victory. While the two great armies are collecting their strength and preparing for a decisive spring, these hopeful auguries cannot fail to inspirit the one and to throw a gloom over the other. Thus far the year has been marked by a series of unbroken triumphs to the Confede rate arms. Should the stream continue to set a little longer in the same direction, it will sweep away all the impediments in the coarse of our youthful republic. The facility with which we have achieved these triumphs is encouraging in another point pf view. The enemy must have weakened his armies of occupation in the various districts he has overrun. His garrisons are a mixture of whites and blacks—enough, probably, of the former to prevent the Africans from following their own in clination and surrendering at the first summons. By such a disposition it was thought that their conquests might be retained, and the negro soldiery be made to serve a useful purpose. The event has disappointed these expectations. They have lost their hard-won conquests, and as yet have failed to strike any compensating blow by means of the cuncentratioe for the sake of which they have weakened themselves elsewhere. The details of the affair at Plymouth are not yet fully ascertained. It is, however, safe to pronounce it one of the most brilliant affairs of the war. Its immediate fruits are important. Those which may ultimately flow from it, the possession of an abundant country, and the possible command of the inland waters of North Carolina (though as yet the subject of uncertain speculation), may well excite high hopes for the future. General Hoke, judging from the large number of his prisoners, does not seem to have made such thorough work as that by which Forrest has so shocked the tender souls and frozen the warm blood of the Yankees. The re sistance he encountered was, probably , not so des perate, and the blood of the victors wabsnott:tea tcd, though in a fortification carriedte T t h he e ga h r t rison muses .civilised strictloss the laws warfare b ly large. acknowledge power of exam ple might seem, the victor to put all t o the s wo.d in such cases. However severe such an and their it would strike a sal utar y terror in end, the Y an k ees which will be useful t o them in the melancholy their barbarities merit is absurd. ln th e rap id f a l l of w hine at meeting apart of the punishment we see something like a revulsi on of the gunboat these p o sitions which the Yankees gained so easily At that period they made most of the acquisitiod's which they have since bed apparently i n a firm grasp. The reflux of the tide is no less sudden than its advance. The year 1864 may undo the work of 1862, and suggest a solution of many difficulties which seemed almost insurmountable. — Richmond Examiner, April 27. mania. During the whole of yesterday (Sunday) the greatest ex citement prevailed throughout the neighbourhood of the New Cut, Lambeth, owing to the circulation of a report that a female had murdered her husband in his place of business, a narrow thoroughfare, known as Johanna-street, running out of Lower Marsh, New Cut, Lambeth. At No. 1, Johanna-street, have resided a man and his wife named Weston, the former being a vendor of cats' and dogs' meat, and the latter, owing to her dissipated habits and violent conduct, was described as the " terror of the neighbourhood.' Some time since, during one of her drunken fits, after spending all her money, and asking for more to get drink, and being by her husband very properly refused, she commenced to knock him abou', and then took up a knife and stabbed him. He was uider surgical attendance for a considerable time, and it was then expected that he wculci have died from The effects of the injuries he had received. His wife was then locked up and taken before the magis trate. After her examination she was remanded, but her husband having recovered from the injuries he received, he refused to prosecute, and she was in consequence dis charged from custody. From that time up to yesterday she had still gone on in the same abandoned manner. About two o'clock yesterday, whilst the usually noisy neighbourhood was comparatively quiet, the inhabi tants were aroused by cries of " murder I" Police• con stable Cotterell, No. 92 of the L division, who was on duty close by, was proceeding towards the spot, when he was met by a female who pointed out the house the cries proceeded from. He entered the front shop, and upon looking through a window he saw a woman beating her husband on the head and knocking it against the drawers. The woman who pointed cut the house to him accompanied him into the room, when they found the man lying on the floor perfectly insensible. The woman was forthwith taken into cus tody, and surgical assistance sent for. Mr. Wakem, the divisional surgeon of the police, promptly attended and upon making a careful examination of the unfortunate man pronounced life to be extinct. Dr. Donahoe, of the Westminster-road, likewise promptly attended; but of course could not render any assistance. The woman was removed to Tower-street Police-station. So drunk was she at the time that it was the opinion of the police that she was labouring under delirium tremens. Orders were there fore given that she should be carefully watched through out the night lest she should attempt to destroy her own life as well as that of her husband. The brother of the woman has taken the children of the deceased to his own house for protection for the present. SECOND EDITION. i'UN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day: CITY BETTING—Tms DAY. There was net a large attendance at the Club, 'which, perhaps, may be due to the glorious weather. The feature of the morning was the silent force, if we may use the ex pression, of Scottish Chief, who bids fair to resume his cad quotation very soon. DERBY. sto 1 agst General Peel sto 1 agst Carubuscan 7to 1 agst Scottish Chief Bto 1 agst Birchbroom 12 to 1 agst Paris 10 to 1 agst Coastguard 15 to 1 agst Blair Athol 15 to 1 agst Bartyah • 20 to 1 agst Forager All taken freely. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, CITY BETTING-SATURDAY. SOMERSETSHIRE STAKES. 6 to 1 agst Deerstalker (taken) DERBY. sto 1 agst General Peel (taken and offered) 6to 1 aget Cambuscan (taken and offered) 9to 1 agst Scottish Chief (offered-8 to 1 taken once) 10 to 1 apt Birch Broom (taken freely) 11 to 1 agst Coast Guard (taken and offered) 100 to 7 apt Paris (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Blair Athol (taken) 22 to 1 agst Ely (taken) 22 to 1 agst Baragah (offered) 28 to 1 agst Copenhagen (taken) 33 to 1 aget Prince Arthur (taken) 33 to 1 agst Historian (taken) 33 to 1 agst Forager (taken) 50 t o 1 agst Aokworth (offered) RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864. JUNE Wye 1 Maidstone 3 Ascot .._ Beverley 22 Stockbridge Chelmsford 28 Hampton l5 Newton Odiham Bibury • • New Forest Hunt 2B Newcastle-on-Tyne 28 Worcest,r (Summer) 30 Ipswich - • • .. 30 SALTERS' HALL, On Saturday evening the ancient civic Company of Salters entertained his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and a select company at dinner at their fine corporate hall, in St. Swithin's-lane. The guests began 10 arrive shortly after 6 o'clock, and were received in the drawing-room by the Master of the Company (Mr. Alderman Gibbons) ; the three wardens, Mr. Joseph Solly, Mr. Thomas Weston, and Mr. Henry Graham Stokes; and by Mr. Thompson, their clerk. A detachment of the City of Loadon Rifle Brigade, under the command of Captain Haywood, attended on the occasion as a guard of honour to his Royal Highness the Coni mander-in•Chief, who is honorary colonel of he regiment, and to whom they are always proud of every opportunity of paying a similar compliment. The Duke, attended by Colonel Tyrw hitt, as equerry, presented himself at the Hall at half-past 6, and on his ar rival the band of the Coldstream Guards played the National Anthem. His royal highness was welcomed with every mark of nigh consideration by the Master and Wardens. The guests shortly afterwards proceeded to the dining ball, escorted by the wardens. They were about 160 in num ber, and among them were the Right Rev, the Archbishop of Armagh, Lord Primate of Ireland ; the Earl of Leven and Melville, Lord Harris, Sir Hervey Bruce, M.P., General Sir Andrew Scott Waugh, Rear Admiral Wellesley, Sir Thomas Bateson, M.P., Alderman Sir James Duke, M:P., Mr. Pope Hennessy, M.P., Mr. Mof fatt, M.P., Colonel M'Murdo, Colonel Sargent, Lieut.-Col. Wood, Mr. Pownall, Chairman of the Middlesex magistrates; the Rev. Dr. Vivian, Mr. Henry R3barts, Mr. R. W. Blencowe, Chairmen of the Sussex Quarter Sessions; Mr. George Moore, Mr. J. P. Reynolds, Prime Warden of the Dyer's Company; Mr. Benjamin B. Williams, Master of the Saddler's Company; Mr. Thomas Dunnage, Master of the Cutler's Company; and Mr. Edmund Wigginton, Master of the Joiners' Company. On the removal of the cloth the loving cup cir culated round the board, and then the MASTER gave in snecession the toasts of" The Queen" and "The Prince and Ptincess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family," which were drunk with every mark of respect. The MASTER next proposed " The Church," associating with the toast the name of the Archbishop of Armagh, the Primate of Ire land, who enjoyed the respect of all who knew him. His Grace returned thanks, and adverted to the fact that the Worshipful Company of Salters was intimately connected with the diocese over which he had been called to preside. His Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, whose name had been associated by the Master with the toast of "The Army and Navy and Volunteers," presented himself to respond to it, and was hailed with cheers. He said— Master, Wardens, my Lords, and Gentlemen,—You have done me the honour of asking me to be present at this meeting and of proposing my health. I feel great gratification in having had the advantage of being present on so interesting an occasion, and in having had my name coupled with the Army, with which I am intimately associated. The Master has made some appro priate remarks with reference to the policy of keeping up the efficiency of the services, and has said the best way to remain at peace was to be prepared for war. That is a senti ment I have ventured to enunciate on many occasions, and it is one which I am always desirous of bringing under the notice of the public whenever I have an opportunity; for if ever there was a period in our history when that sentiment ought to be well considered it is the time in which we now live. The situation of this country is peculiar. There is an innate and strong feeling pervading the people that peace is that which is most advantageous and desirable for this great nation; but at the same time, living in a state of the pro foundest peace, we see • oureelves surrounded and our inte rests very much concerned by other nations, who are unfor tunately not in the same peaceful condition in which we happen to oe. Ido not think that anybody can deny that we have done our best to keep our hands clear of what is going on abroad. What have we done P We have endeavoured to use our moral influence, and let us consider what moral influence means. It is the finest and noblest sentiment whish a nation can possibly en tertain, and which, if really supported as it ought to be. is that to which we ought and do aspire. But moral in fluence only exists where there is physical power. (Cheers.) Moral influence without physical power is no influence at all. The way to make your moral influence bear eller so a ff a irs of the world is by keeping your physical Peawread efficient that should the moral influence break down y d a laugh.) a t the same th time the resort can be made to the physical. (Cheers des Entertaining, therefore, the strongest 0" ant influential,wbes his influence throughout the world, should be, if possible exer cised re an all cised through moral means, I have strongest conviction that we ought keep l up e efficiency of the services by every means in our andpoudert,hthat if we the nation s earth. (Cheers ) Briton and that exalted position do not England will cease towhboioldb.theaysteopryfruthß;ri I feel convinced that the i nter e s t of the services with country to occupy:among which I am connected and of the other serviee are dear to the whole community, and that every Englishman is • as are only animated by the desire to aware those servo per form their duty by their country, and that the authorities who direct them have but one object, which is to do every thing i n their power to put and maintai n th em on a foot ing w ort by of the nation. Our army, as you are aware, is scattered all over the world. When great wars are going on, public attention is always directed to its operations, but there are occasionally small wars, as now, when those engaged in them may be exposed to much hardship, but may excite, nevertheless, little regard. We have now a small war on our hands in New Zealand, and the conduct of the troops engaged in it has been such bs to command the admiration of all acquainted with the circumstances. I think the gallant manner in which General Cameron has acquitted himself himself in that p ar t o f th e w orld with a small numb for troops is well de serv i ng cons ideration. It only remains at this hos me to say h ow gra tifi e d I am in being present seni cheered on pitable boa r d : (His Royal Highness wa re suming his seat.) b r iefly responded on the part R ear - Adm i ra l WELLESLET, of the Navy. Colonel M‘Murrno replied for the Volunteers. proposed as a toast, " The The Duke of CAMBRI o a ths Worshipful Company of Master, and Prosper i ty Salters." drunk with great cordiality, and the The toast was r h i ms elf and the Wardens, responded to the MASTER .or compliment in appropriate terms. 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