The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-18 00:00:00

At the Paris Bourse this day, aceot ding to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 69f. 70e.—flat. There has not been much activity to-day in the market for the English Funds, and the few dealings enteted into have occasioned very little movement, Consols being 921 g for money, and 921 buyers" for the account. The New Threes are 91i1, and the Reduced, 91i a ; business has been recorded in Bank Stock at 234; in Indian 5 per Cents., 1091 110; in the Enfaced 4 per Cents. at 99; in the do. 5 per Cents. at 108/ ; in the do. 51 per Cents., 116 ; and in the Debenture, at 1001 ; Exchequer Billa have improved to ls. dis., 2s. prem. Some of the Foreign Securities have slightly de clined in value, and a large amount of business has been transacted. Greek closed at about 28t 29, and the Coupons at 139 &, being a little lower. Spanish Passive appear heavy at 291 30, and the Certificates remained at about 10f,- a. The Conso lides receded to 48 I. The New Loan is 11- I prem. The movements in the 6 per Cents., 1854,1858, and 1862 have not been of importance. Italian 5 per Cents. have been rather fiAti . .er, at 711 1; Russian 5 per Cents., 1862, closed at about 95 1; Portu guese 3 per Cents., 1862, at 471 48; and Mexican Stock, at 331 I. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been very limited, and a slight depression has taken place in prices. Great Eisterns, Great Westerns, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North Easterns (Berwick), have receded about ss. ; while London, Chatham, and Dover have improved 55., and Great Northern A Stock 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were in moderate request at steady prices. For Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares there has been a rather active enquiry, and late prices have been generally well supported. Al liance of London and Liverpool have improved to 30 and 31. London Chartered of Australia to 28i. Berlin Water Works remain firm at 84 9; and Peninsular Oriental Steam, at 77. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Con so l s A nnu iti es 'i I New 3 per Cent. Annuities nnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 2l 7-16 India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent 4 t)1 ::t0 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 p er C t , , Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 100} D:rt , Bonds £l,ouo Consols for Account, May 7 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2} per Cent 1 pm 1 die 2pm FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Egyptian 7 pet Cent 971 Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ms — Ditto Account.. Ditto Coupons Italian 5 p er Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 75/ 1 Mexican 3 per Cent . ... Ditto Account Moorish I mper i a l 5 per Cent 941 New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent .... 33 Peruvian 41 per Cent. Ditto 1862 Ditto Account 88; 91 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account Ditto 1862 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St . 951 Ditto 44 per Cent ~ 1850 ... Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859.. Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 .. 95 i 1 I Sardinian 6 per Cent. Ditto Account .... 8 5 Spanish 3 per Cent ........ Ditto Passive 30 1 29! Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. Turkish 6 p er C ent. 1854 Ditto Account. Ditto 6 per C en t. 1858 B7l Ditto Account.. 68a a 1 Ditto 6 per Ce n t. 1832 .. 7l; Litt() Account 70 Dividends on the ab ove payable in 7o Lo l ndon. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs na Consols, Money TWO O'CLOCK. Ditto Account 92f 92i Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, (RETJTER'S TEL EGRAM . ) No change. Siles, 10,000 b a l es ; import, 11,327 SHIPPING ---This Day, - ----- LONDON, April 18.—Wind this day a t noon —North- Westerly; light breeze, _with fine weather, but cloudy at times. PonTsmouTa,April 17.—Wind variable. —Sailed —New castle, for London. BRIXIIAM, April 17.—Wind S.—Arrived —Naval Bri gade, from Cochin. Sailed—Ningpah, fur St. John's, Newfoundland. PLYmoonf, April 17.—Wind S.—Arrived —John Tern perly, from London for Sydney. Sailed—Monarch, for Alelb , )urne. CARDIFF, April 17.—Wind W.—Sailed—Maud, for Santauder. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. F ouTnamrrox Saturday Morning. Arrived —St. Pierre, from . St. Ati,alo; Atlanta, steamer, from Jersey; Black-eyed Susan, Sailed— La Mesauge, for Carenta r Z l Cardiff. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH, GRAVESEND, Saturday Arrived, April 17—Laura, f rom Danfzio from Trinidad; Sir Peter, from Gottenburg; Af e a r An i n d , from Kurrachee ; Burr, from Alexand r i a; Christiana, fr a o . ni. Sarpsborg ; ilndreke, from Lomstadt; Marrnora, from Uddewalla ; Sliwan, from Dautz:c; Christian, from Stral- Ruud ; Teviot, from Colombo; Jane Adrien, from Konigs.. berg; Mercel, from Randers ; Browne, from Stralsu r ,d ; ,Tien Broders, from Konsor. Arrived, Aoril 18—Altar, from Aland ; Cily of Peters from burg, from Cochin ; Hoffoung, from Nikioblng ; Egeni, Lvsekehl ; I. l ajHt, from Randers ; Charlotte, from Dr am; Venu3, from Skive; Marie, from Odense. DEAL, Saturday Morning. .j a a ssed—Collma, from Shields, for Alexandria; H.M.S. („toanaanthus, from the west, for toe river ; Asia, from n a 11 , for Trinidad; Colleen Bawn, from London. for Iseetinaezaentirt,la ; .J. S. de Wolf, from London, for Quebec ; Ter, amise, screw steamer, from London, for Rouen ; tier„,,,,e!_Etw•steamer, from London, for Santander ; Bilbao, '" arel., from London, for Bilbao. Fl It -- E 8 - fitf: broke ou---Atbout one o'clock yesterday on the Premises of Mr. J. Larkin, morning a Bowling green Street, Lanib,,th, and, strange as appear, the officials of the Fire Brigade were not apprised it may of the eatbr(ak until one hour and three-quarters after its commencement, thereby allowing plenty of time for the whole street to have been destroyed The inmates fortu nately escaped in safety, ,nd they, With the aid of the neighbours, managed to confine the flames to the lower part of th building, but the damage done was considerable, Notensue. Some time previous a fire also took place on to Mr. J. lia,rison, cora merchant tile premises belonging eain•place, Kentish Town. It was c.aused by some children playing with lucifere, and in the cours e of a few the s econd-floor was on fire, and it was with great minutes ditz that th e children could be rescued. The engines of th eultd p;tri s h and London Brigade from Parringdonstreet at tended, but th e i nmates and neighbours bad succeeded in "“inguishing the flames before the engi nes came, Alder da mage wad done, I nsure d ' Con- ONE Y MARKET; AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. In the Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon the alterations were unimportant. There were no bullion operations of pi:olio inte rest et the Bank yesterday. The imports of specie during the past week amounted to £506,000, and the exports to £140,000. The Poonab, which leaves on the 20th with the East India and China mails, will carry £277,024 in specie.' The money market this morning presents an easy appearance, and 38 per cent. is the rate for the negotiation of 3 months' hills. The Imperial Ottoman Bank at Paris have to-day issued their proposals for the new Turkish loan of £6,000,000. It is to consist of 300,000 bonds of 500 f. each, carrying 301. interest, to be emitted at the price of 360 f., redeemable at 5001, in 23 years, by half-yearly drawings. The instalments extend to the 10th November next, and the bonds bear in terest from the Ist of January last. Deducting the interest, and that for the future instalments, the actual price is reduced to 3421 Mc., giving a return of Bf. 76c. per cent. The reimbursement at par in 23 years represents 11 89c. extra, and hence the real yield is 101 65c. per cent. The subscription is to be open from the 18th to the 23d of April. The loan is quoted in the Stock Exchange this morning at 1 to 11 prem. Two O'CLOCK, SHARE 'his day OPDFNATIY SEALS AND STOuTS. Ha ilways. Paid. Clo3ing Business Price. , done. 8 8! 7 8 84 66 112 /13 6i 7 40 f 2 13 14 89 91 107 109 52 63 45 47 24i 31 1201 121 120 121 134 136 100 102 06i (61 [CB I€B4 75 1'6,1 115 110 39 40 Olt 984 101 IC2 44 45 12i 121 123 11 10 91 93 50 51 24 25 98! Hi 55 55} 56 613 i 116 118 1 i 16i lei 111 12 '2O 122 43 14 98 IGO 48 60 32 33 92 921 67 69 99 101 7 8 :17 38 9 10 0 150 153 p 415 4 3 1 P sa 100 100 100 100 100 100 ; 134 44i 100 R 6 3 8 100 28 100 79 81 154 156 28 30 SSIONS. Closin Price. 62 L 4 10 , 104 2 1 ih p 5 1 I} p II 41- 5 it it 8 1(6 IB 108 uo 108 0 9 I(9i 1 1 iir, 19i 'O, 62 (6 (9 60 54 67 40 .5 42 32 "i 6 23 26 20 23 )0 1(9) 12 1 14 4 1 106 108 11 12i 8 84 8 11 100 102 11 91 03 2 1 10 106 i ! 1 lop 07) 10 1 01 103 0 1 4 7 9 _ 1 47 49 i- _ 3 5 .00 Eel 12 100 I(8 09 '.OO 107 IC 9 2 1p 15 1(...61 'O2 104 'T SECURITIES 1051 1061 3 !t 6 [O3 1t , 5 951 96i 94 96 ilo 112 111 113 111 113 113 115 1051 6 111 1 3 It 9 1:0 1( 5i Li:6 1014 1024 101 i 1024 101 i 1024 110 112 106 107 1 113 11 113 109 110 09k 1041 104 i 96i t/ 13.14.. Bir ., Wol., and St r. V a l, I in:, the and Tyne. 10 !Bost.,Sleaf.,andMid.kio et Bristol and Exeter t 'Caledonian !C and Barulon 20 ^rwv.zil .. ,D o A A gcta no di\ Do B till tip c.p an. haF been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. I DilD.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk ! Ditto A stuck ! Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock ! Do Bdo S. an 1 W. of Ireland !Groat Western i Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashi:e & Yorkshire London and Blackwal!! Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., mad Dover! Lon. & Nor' h Western Lon. & Scy.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do 4 5hare5........ Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid, Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwiol, Do, G.N.E. purchase , Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.. North London Do New North Staffordshire .. :N. and S. W. Junction !Scottish Central !Scot N. E., Aber. stoci Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Weichpoo! !Shropshire Union South Devon !South Eastern South Wales !S. York. and River Dun staines,Wok.,andWok. 'Stockton & Darlington I Do Do New, 1866 Taff Va1e..... Do B Do C ............... Ulster Do Do Vale of Death Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford BRITISH POSs; ;liar 100 itk datlways & St Lawrenci 30m.,Baroda&•Ccut Inn I , Gu. 5 per cent.. Do. New Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Lake Huron al Do. Preference • • al 3uffalo,BrantAGodricl ,„ 6p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1 , ,":2 " DO. do. July 1, 1872 10 • )o. do. 1, 1r , 74 101 `l(utta.k.S.EaFtn.(Lil ) 101 ' 'apeTown .t Dock Seri) 101 Eastn. Bengal gu. 6p. ( 101 East Indian. gu. 5 p. c. l{) Do. do. G Ext..... Do. do. II do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada 10 , Do. Ist Prof. Bonds.. al Do. do. deferred...... al Do. 24 Pref. Bon ,s.. al Do. do. dsfer - ed...... al Do. 3d I' ef. stock Do. do. d7.lerr -d ...... al Do. 4th Pref. s o k... all Do. do. deferred...... al' Gt.lndte.Pentn.gua.sp.c 10 , Do. New gua. sp. c... 1. Do. January, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 1(4 Gt. W. of Canada Sharer al Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. al Do. 5i p. o. do. '77-8.. . al Indian Branch Limited 1 :Madras guar.. sp. c. .. tot Do. 41 p. o. Extension 101 Dc. d 0........ 101 Do. Fifth Extension. ‘Telb.Corp. 6p. 0. Both. in llelb. & Ilobson's Bay. at Do. 7p. c. Mort;. Itdh al Newßr unswick Candy Class Arn B al' N.lll.C'da6 pc lot pf bds It Soinde .......... (1 , Do. Delhi Do. Punjaub f;'C 1 if Do. Do. P , 6O, I Do. indus.St. ) lll4O COLONIAL GOVERNME CavAiov. ,tJui) 1877-84 .......... Do. 6p. c. Feb. Aug Do. dp. Seth Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. Do. 6 Inscribed stoci. ape G.Hope, 6 p 0,187. Do.Ap a Oct 188 f Do. 189 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. Ceylon, N0v.1 8 61, 6 p Itsu Itius 4 per cent Na :a Gs,y. 6 per cont DO. 6 p. c.Ap. & Oc, N. S. W. Gov. 5 p 1.,18 Do. 5 p. c.,18, A to 1 - Do. d0.,1888 &upwcit• New Zealand 6 p cent. Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterlinv, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6p. c G6p.e.lBM.it up - Vte.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&J al) Do. In fin.n. A,T,toets. 100 100 100 100 100 BRITISH MINES. 2 Aanbri a , co i 7lBol. Gold lulttlord Amalgamated.. Devon G. Con.. (Tavist. I last Bassett (I 11 oga ).. 1 , Mast Clogau G o ld Ltd. 1 East Caradon ...... East Cam Brea... ..... i W'l Russel (Tavistlt. ,Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.), c; reat South T01gu5....1 H. Wheal Vor (llelston iGrenville ........... 1 Herod's-Foot I ilingston D0wn5...... :Lady Bertha Nlargaret (Way Lelant 111arke Valley.. 4 Wyridy Iron Ore (Lim. New Setun North Downs WWI BasePt (111o4an North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey 10 I 'rovidenee (Uny Lel nt. South Caradon(St.Cleer, S. Cam Brea (Illogan) _'.Wheal Fran. (Illc - „ran c S tray Park 5 Tamar Silv.& Lead Jin 10 !fin Cron West Basset (Illog,an) - w Carzion (Liskeard, '- ,Vest Seto', Wheal Basset (Mogan' Bullerjtedruths Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant; WhealLud , ott W heal Mary Ann (Men. Wheal Seton wheal Tretawney (Lis.; Wheal Union ts. 3.4. n 8.1.6 174 R} 6 2.0.6 2.10.8 8 581 7 3.17 5 51 154 Itil :45 255 111 171 _4! 51 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great T 4 extern 4 per cent. irred., 89 Lancaster and Carlisle, 4i per cent. pf., 103 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., 104 i LINES LEASED AP FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Ho'yhead, 5 per cent., 114} East Lin.oln, 135 FO Antwerp and Rotteßrdam,ElGN RAILWAYS. 8/ Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 211 Royal Panish, 16} Sambre and Meuse, San Paulo gua. 7 per cent., 91- Ditto (all), 231 FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper (lim.). 3 Santa Barbra firqd:Mine (lira.), it Yudatutmutana of S. Australia (lira.), 31 /- T-STOCK RANS. Alliance Bank of JOIN London and Liveri.oo K l (1im.),130 1 Australasia, 72 Bank of Egypt, 29 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 25/ 0 L o u ndo u n u ' Colonial, 40 London a"'il Engi;lish and Irish aim.), 61 / 4 London atind ZTO)rthern (lini '' Londono and Brazilian , lira.), 42 .13. Ayres, and K. Plate:(lim.), 221; 4 London and Wuth rtered Bank of Australia, 281 African, 281 2- i Coy; Bank (lim.), 124 bletrop. Bankreostrainster' Australia, ac ration, 535 41 7 q 6 41 Oriental South Union of Australl : l , i t24 l,3 2"' LLA_Ntous. Union of Ireland (lira,), 1? Anglo-ll'exican Mint s , c to i Berlin Water Works, 84 1 9 Crystal Pal Pee, 34 East India Irrigation and Canal, 91 fiJoint sick k Discount, 24 Peninsula and 0 iental Steam, 77 Rio de Royal M Jan .il e Steam , 60 iro City im p rovem ents (limo (x 2), 33 Trust and Loan Co. of Up; er Canada, 6 s k 1- EXPENSES OF THE DOCKYARDS. —y es t erda y morning was issued the usual annual account of th e expenses incurred upon the building and repairing of ships in her Majesty's dockyards, and by contract, in the finan cial year 1861-2. This account is prefaced by a report from the Accountant-General of the Navy, setting forth the mode in which he has carried ~ut the instructions of the Admi• ralty relative to tee preparation of the dockyard accounts. He states that in this account (the first which has come under his charge (every item is based upon vouchers for material drawn from wore, and for labour applied, signed for by the respective shipwright and factory officers in charge of each particular work. The accountant•general while showing the great advantages of this account allows that it is susceptible of great improvement He hopes shortly to be able to submit also an account showing the cost of manufacturing and repairing articles of store in the several workshops and factories of the dockyards, and another account showing the value of the stock in hand in each dockyard on the 21st of March last. 5.4.0 tP.16.4 12.10 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock 20 stock stock at 1 St iteck all all 100 100 100 1021 i 109; 89 & 4T7 8 1 i ts.l6 : 8.1? 4. 7.0 1 2.0.6 4.3.0 16i 2i 2,1,9 10:A.7 If 3.15. e, 18.1,9 28.9. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING}, APRIL 18, ,1863. LAW INT: This Day. COURT OF PROBATE: (Before the Judge •Ordinary.) CRISPTN V. DOGLIONI. This seemingly inter minable case was resumed agaiia this morning. There has already been a special jury trial of portentous length, resulting in a verdict which decided that the plaintiff, Francisco Crispin, was the natural son cf a rich merchant of English descent, at Faro, in the province of Al. , garve, in the kingdom of Po , tugal,by Barbara Julia Cortes, the daughter of a barber in that town. The suit now comes again before the court for the discussion of several legal points; among others whether Henry Crispin,the plaintiff's father, was by the law of Portugal of noble or plebeian rank ; and whether a person of the latter description, with a natural son, could dispose by will of more than a third of his property P The estate in dispute is said to be worth about £300,000. It was contended that Henry Crispin was not a noble, and that therefore his natural son had a right to succeed as if he were legitimate. Before 1756 no Portu guese trader ever did or could acquire nobility; but by a aeries of statutes which were commenced by Jose 1,, and which continued till 1777, nobility was conferred upon the members of certain privileged companies, and also upon grossos trattos or wholesale merchants. It was denied that Henry Crispin was a grosso trade, because he sold goods over the counter. When the case will close is very:uncertain, as there are no less than ten counsel engaged in it. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. UNFOUNDED CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—George Mills, a respectable-looking young man, in the employ of Mr. Anderson, dyer, of Howland street, Fitzroy-square, was charged before Mr. Knox with attempting to steal the watch of John Joseph Parry, of 39, Upper John-street, Fitzroy -square. Prosecutor said that about halt-past eight the previous evening, having been out with some friends, he was return ing home along the Tottenham-court-road, when the pri soner ran up against him and seized his watch chain. He immediately laid hold of the prisoner, and on a constable coming up he gave him into custody, when the prisoner said it was all a mistake. Fish, 331 A, said when the prosecutor gave prisoner in charge he said the prisoner had his chain in his hand, but afterwards, at the station, said he had his watch in his hand. Mr. Knox asked if anything was known of the prisoner 1 Tho constable said the police knew nothing of him, bui his master was in court. Mr, Anderson, dyer, of 2, Howland-street, said the pri soner had been in his employ nine months, and he believed him incapable of doing ouch an act as that with which he was charged. He bad always found the prisoner strictly honest, and he had been working at his house till half-past eight last night Mr, Knox said it was preposterous to think that the pri soner intended to commit a robbery. What did he find—a young man of good character ran against by a half-drunken man, who then fancies he is about to be robbed, and gives the prisoner into custody for attempting to rob him. Not only should he discharge the prisoner, but he thought that if he brought an action against the person who had given him into custody it would prevail. Tho accused then left court with his employer. THAMES. EXTRAORDINARY AND MONSTROUS ATTACK ON A BLIND MAN.—Henry Hall, a stout and powerful man about 30 years of agP, and described as a labourer, of No. 68, Lambeth-street, Whitechap4, was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with assaulting ant unlawfully wound ing Edward Charles Morris. The complainant, a young man of good education and address, is totally blind. He was led into court by his sister, and appeared to be in a very weakly condition from loss of blood and the injuries he received, There was a large surgical plaister on his left temple. Mr, Partridge said the young man had better have a chair and be seated, It appeared, from the evidence rf the prosecutor, con firmed in every respect by his sister, that he was an actor and was formerly attached to the Theo,lre-Royal Birmingham. He was now living at No. 40, Great Alie street, Whitechapel. Last night between eight and nine o'clock he visited the prisoner who was his brother-in-law, Directly he entered the room the prisoner said to his son who had been leading him (prosecutor) about Birmingham what he had said about him. The boy replied, " Why, father, he said he would screw your neck, I think." The prosecutor said, "You are a young story-teller. I never did say any thing of the kind, if you say that again I will box your ears. The prisoner then began to abuse the pro secutor; an altercation ensued, and the prisoner struck the prosecutor a blow on the face with his fist. A regular melee, as the prosecutor termed it, took place, and the prosecutor end his sister, the prisoner and his wife, a man and a boy, were all fighting together. The prisoner threw the blind man on the floor and pummelled him in a very unmerciful manner. He then flung him on a bed, took a poker from the fire-place and struck him on the head, inflicting a severe wound, from which the blood flowed copiously. The prosecutor said he was "numbed" for several hours after receiving the blow, and his sister said she thought her brother was dead, and said re) to the prisoner, who exclaimed, " Pray God, he is dead; if you don't take him away I will give him some more of it." She then got her poor blind brother out of the house. The neighbours came, and they seated him on a chair. lie was very faint, and lost a good deal of blood. Other evidence was given of the prisoner's violence, and as the prosecutor was very ill and required medical aid, Mr. Partridge said he had better leave the court with his sister directly. He remanded the prisoner until Thursday next. MARKETS—This Day. COVENT GARDEN. The supply of fruit continues very moderate, and prices rule firm. With vegetables the market is by no means extensively supplhd, and the demand for most descriptions rules inactive, at about previous rates. FRUIT. s. d. s. d. Pine apples 8 0 to 10 0 Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0 Grapes, per lb 0 0 to 0 0 Foreign do 1 0 to 2 0 ➢felons .. Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0 Apples, per hf -sv. 2 0 to 4 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100 4 0 to 10 0 Lemons, per 120 3 6 to 7 0 Gooseberries hf sveo 0 to 0 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 0 s. d. s d Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Foreign ditto, puno oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb .. 2 oto 2 Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0 Cobnuts, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Figs, per d0z..... 0 oto 0 6 Damson ...... 00to 0 Currants, per li.sv 00 to 0 0 0 Plums, per de, .. 00to 0 0 Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Raspberries,prpt 0 oto 0 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 2 6to 3 6 Cabbages, pr doz. 1 oto 1 6 Red ditto 0 OSo 0 0 Savoy do., pr dz 0 oto 0 9 Cauliflowers, pdz 1 oto 3 0 Brocoli, per bus. 1 oto 1 4 Potatoes, per ton 80 to 140 0 New ditto, pr pnt 0 9to 1 0 Turnips, dz bunch 1 6to 2 0 Carrots, pr do 4 6to 5 6 Cucumbers Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Green peas, h.- sv . 0 oto 0 0 1 Brus. sprouts,h.s. 1 3to 2 0 Onions, doz. bn 1 3to 1 6 ; New Do., dz bun 1 oto 1 3 French beans, h.s. 0 oto 0 0 Leeks, per bunch 0 oto 0 0 I Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0 6 Horseradish, pdo 1 oto 2 0 Parsley, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Celery, per ditto 0 10 to 1 6 Beet, per doz. 1 6to 2 6 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 2to 0 0 Mushroomed) ptl. 0 9to 1 6 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Cabbage lett,score 0 oto 0 0 Mint and savory..o oto 0 0 Endive, per score 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 2to 0 6 Asparagus, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Seakale, per bun. 0 9to 1 6 BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, is 4d to is 6d ; trout, Od to Os ; eels, 5d to 10c1 ; prawns, Os ; skate, 4d to 6d ; sturgeon, and halibut, Od per lb. ; turbots, 2s 6d to 20s; cod, is Od to 5s Od ; brills, is Od to lOs Od ; doreys, is Od to 7s Od ; mullets, Os 6d to is Od ; lobsters, is Od to 3s 6d; crabs, is to 3s ; plaice and gurnets, Od to Os Od each; soles, 6d to is 6d per pair; common oysters, s to —s ; natives, --s to —s per bushel ; whitings, 3s Od to 9s ; haddocks, 4s to 15s ; smelts, is Od to is 6d ; flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, 40s per 120 ; fresh herrings, 58 per 100 : bloaters, Os to Os per 100 ; carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace. NEWPORT. - - Beef, from 28 Gd to 3s 10d ; mutton, 2s 10d to 4s Od ; lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 4d ; veal, 3s 10d to 48 6d ; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 4d per Gibs. Ly the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s Gd to 3s 10d ; mutton, 2s 10d to 4s Od; lamb, 5s 4d to 6s Od ; vtal, 3s 10d to 4s 6d ; and pork, 3s 6d to 48 4d per Blbs by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 7id to 8d , of household do., qd to 7d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2id to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 31d ; 72lb to 801 b, 3d to 4d ; 801 b to 881 b, 31d to 41d , 881 b to 961 b, 31d to 44d ; 961 b to 1041 b, Od to Od ; 1041 b to 1121 b, Od to Od. Horse hides, 8s Gd to lOs 6d ; calf skins, light, 2s Gd to 4s Od ; full, Cs Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, Os Od to Os Od ; half-breds, 9s Od to lOs 6d ; Downs, 7s Od to 9s Od; lambs, 2s 9d to 4s Od; shearlings, is 5d to Is 6d. Turkeys, O s Od ENVGA to TE 9s Od; geese, O AND LEAENH to OsALL. Od each ; goslings, b s Od t o 8 s O d ; ducks, Is 9d to 2s 6d ; ducklings, D s Od 3 s 6d to 4s 6d; rabbits, is Od to is 6d each; wild do,, is to is 2d ; pigeons, Os 6d to is Od each; Surrey fowls, lOs Od to 15s Od ; chickens, 8s Od to lOs Od; barn-door fowls, 4s Od to 7s Od ; capons, Os Od • hares, 2s 6d to Os Od ; ptartui,,an, Os Od to Os each ; pleasants, Os Od to Os Od ; parrieges,Os Od to Os Od ; woodcocks, 88 to 3s 6d ; snipes, Os to t . s Od; teal, Os Od to Os Od; wild ducks 3s Od to 3s 6d ; widgeons, Os Od to Os Od ,• plovers, Os Od ' to Os Od each ; guinea fowls, 5s Od to 6s Od ; roasting pigs , Os Od to Os Od each ; Ostend fresh butter, 11d to is Id ; English, is Od to Is 4d per lb ; Enlish eggs, 6s Od to 8s Od ; French do., 5s Od to 6s Od per 120 ; leverets, Os Od to Os Od each. lIAY IVIAIIIi2TS. do 103 to £5 10s ; and saw, £1 10 s to £1 16s per load. SMITIIFIELD. 3 —Meadow htray, £2 Os to £4 O s Od ; clover Tr . a , deslow. do., .t:1 1 0 £2°.,8 £4 4g ; clover to 16s . per load. A tl ios to A £ N S D Both hay and straw s ol d s lowly, pre v i ous quotations. WIIITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £2 Od trEla.i—os;le,n ow ,,tr h away, E £4 Os ; clover do , £3 lOs to :Co 10s; and straw, Li 10 a to £1 Ws per load. Trade dull, THE BUDGET, OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. HERALD.—We may congratulate Mr. Gladstone and the country upon the evidence which all the leading propositions of his Budget furnish of his real readiness to le irn, although he makes wry faces in the process. The Budget he brought before the House of Commons last night substantially carries out the views put forward by the Conservative party. The army and navy estimates have been reduced, as Mr. Disraeli insisted they should be, and the proceeds are to he applied to the removal of the war duty on tea and the reduction of the income tax, as the Opposition, by their support of Mr. Horsfalt's motion, demanded. The great reductions of taxation which the Budget of last night offers ate the work of the leaders of the Opposition ; the petty, peddling projects for inconveniencing the public are Mr. Gladstone's own. TIMES.—When we have said that in all its principal features the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Finan cial Statement has been fully anticipated, we have pronounced its highest praise. What is best to be done is dictated by circumstances forced upon the observation of all, and the moderate degree of humility end common sense required for acquiesc ing in th e general verdict is the quality we are to hope for in a Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Gladstone has the happy art of telling us what we ought to do a n d must do, au& while binding us to a necessity, flittering us with the sense of free choice and self-respect. He gives us some small taxes to play with; he lets us put on or throw off a few stamp s an d licences. W e try if they will fit, and if they don't something else will. But, on the whole, we do as we are bid. Just now we are re ceiving the reward of our obedience. After endur ing for the last few years an enormous increase of expenditure, we are rewarded by seeing three and a half millions removed from the load, and, though that load is still heavy enough, it is light by comparison. POST.—There can be little doubt that Mr. Glad stone's Budget will meet with a favourable recep tion. With s o l arge an re mission of taxati on b ecame an a b so l ute necessity. available surplus, the The income tax is particularly obnoxious, and there fore in it some diminution was indispensable. But, turning from direct to indirect taxation, there is no commodity which more imperatively demands a re mission of the duty imposed upon it than tea. It has ceased to be a luxury, and has become a neces sary of life. In the stormy debates to which the Budget of 1861 gave rise the Opposition urged the repeal of the tea duty. It will not be therefore in their power to object now to a measure which they were themselves the first to advocate. As Mr. Glad stone well observed, his budget makes no preten sions to originality. The . point s o f di spute to which it may p ) s s ibly give rise will depend ra th er upon the advisability o f remitting taxes to so large an will prob a bl y b e as k e d , Gloonvernment can rely upon a amount than upon the means by whi c h th ey are r w e h m e i t t h t eedr T in t t h u e t h q t u h e e s t surplus of £500,000, and whether in the present condition of Europe and America it is advisable to strike upwards of £3,250,000 out of the revenues of the kingdom. To these questions, however, the Chancellor of the Exchequ er w i ll doubtless be able to offer satisfactory replies. DAILY NEWS.—Mr. Gladstone desires the country to regard his present Budget as the fulfilment of a solemn undertaking to reduce the burdens of the country, and relax the "tension" o f th e nat i ona l finances. Since the beginning of th e R uss i an war , our expenditure has increased at a rate of more than eighteen per cent. The Chancellor of the Ex chequer benevolently attributes much of this " optional" expenditure—depend en t o f p u bli c feel ing at home, on the policy of foreign states, on the prevailing appetite for e xpenditure, which grows by expenditure, and which seizes the public, the departments, and responsible Ministers themselves —to the transformation or reconstructions required by the advance of science in the naval and military services. It is not perhaps Mr. Gladstone's business to inquire too closely into this convenient fiction of the War D e p ar tment. But it is notorious that a Go vernment over the water, not remarkable for military parsimony, has managed its transformations and re constructions farmore efficiently and at half the cost. Have not jobs, and blunders, and follies, called " fixed forts," swallowed millions of English money, without replacing a wooden fleet, or procuring a gerviceable gun ? Thanks, however, to our finan cial and commercial policy, even the accumulated distres es of Lancashire and Ireland have not been sufficient to create a deficit in the Treasury. Last year there was bat the shadow of a surplus ; this year the reveeue shows an increase of £805,000, and the estimated revenue of the opening financial year shows a surplus of £3,741,000. So that in most adverse aad trying times the Chancellor of the Ex chequer is enabled to come down to the house and propose not only to strike twoptece in the pound off the income-tax, but actually to administer relief to that large class of respectable sufferers who are condemned to pay income tax, not out of their abun dance, but out of their starvation. Mr. Gladstone is the first Minister who has had the courage to alle viate the pressure of the income tax where it is most severely felt, if not to redress the inequalities of its incidence on fixed and precarious incomes. By fixing £lOO as th e li m i t o f li a bili ty to the tax, removing the distin ct i on of £ l 5O incenses, and al ilowing mok every o a deductiontaxableirc o om f xe6o, he has conferredbetween £lOO and a substantial boon on thousands of deserving vic tims, whose incomes, a s he confesses, are tested with terrible accuracy. ADVERTISER. —So favourable a budget could not but he received with frequent and hearty plaudits by the house. And no less heartily will it be hailed in all parts and by all classes throughout the country. It will be the most popular Budget which has been submitted to the H ouse of Commons f or many years past, and it will contribute very considerably to in crease Mr. Gladstone's popularity with all classes, great es that p o p u l arity previous l y was. People will hereafter b ecome in a measure reconciled to the Income-t ax ; a t l east they will, one and all, admit that though still far from pleasant, it is now an evil which is tolerable. We could have wished that Mr. Gladstone had appli e d his power f u l m i nd to the consideration of the practicability of making a dis unction between such incomes as are precarious and those which are fixed and permanent. No doubt the matter is surrounded with difficulties, but it is the province of a man of genius to grapple with difficul ties, and his glory to overcome them. And of this we feel assured, that had the right hon. gentleman brought his superior intellect to deal with the qnes tion, his t fforts would have been crowned with suc cess. However, while regretting that he has not dealt with this aspect of the qaestion, we must not be insensible of nor ungrateful for, the amelioration of the pressure caused by she Income-tax, which the provisions of his Budget, as developed last night will insure. Th e a l terations an d re d u ctions in the Income-tax will be felt to be a great boon k and if we are bound to he thankful for small mercies, the nation will not be ungrateful for a blessing of such great magnitude as that which Mr. Gladstone has benevolently bestowed on the whole country. THE SILKWORM, - M. Guerin-Meneville, at a late sitting of the French Socie.e d'Acclimatation, gave an account of the results obtained in various parts of France from the endeavours to overcome the baneful effects of the disease of the silkworm. It appears from this account that all attempts to find a specific against this disease have signally failed, but that most practical men are now of opinion that the disorder is owing to the blight which has attacked the mul berry tree in various districts. It is now certain breeds brought from places where the disease of the silkworm does not exist yield a goad crep the first year in the infected districts, but cannot be propagated, their eggs being tainted like those of the diseased worms. Hence breeders are obliged every year to import eggs from foreign countries, when they can find healthy ones, which becomes daily more diffi cult. Nevertheless, from the experiment made with great care, it would seem that eggs obtained from diseased silkworms will produce a breed exempt from the disease in a country where the latter has not yct broken out. In order the better tocorrpare the results obtained in different departments, M. Guerin- Meneville has established a " central laboratory of comparative serieicult tire," at the school of Ailanthi culture, which he has founded at the Emperor's farm, near Vincennes, where all the experiments made by the various agricultural societies of France are repea t e d, compared, an d centralised. The acclimati sa ti on of the silk wo rm w hi c h f ee d s on the Aila n th us , or Japan varni s h tree, i s pro gressing favourably both in France and in other parts of Europe. The Palma -Christi silk worm has succeeded admirably at La Plate. That which feeds on the oak has failed in France for the present, but it is likely to succeed this year in Holland, eggs having been brought over from Japan by M. Pomp, Van Meert der Woort. The silkworm is called Ya-ma-mi by the Japanese ; it lives in a wild state in an island called Fatsy-sio, which is a place of exile ; the silk it yield s is made into very strong stu ff, which never changes its colour, but which on the other hand takes no dye. This silk is a monopoly of the Japanese Govern ment, and is not allowed to be an article of trade.— Galignani, to revolt had been able to excite. Our troops have dispersed the bands which had shown themselves in the Governments bordering on the Kingdom of Poland, and their remains are pursued in the woods in which they have sought refuge. However, in spite of the folly of a hopeless struggle, the chiefs continue to exercise all their efforts to mislead the peaceable populations, and employ with that object sometimes promises, sometimes menaces, and some times violence. Those inhabitants of the western Governments who had joined the rebel bands and have been taken by oar troops, or those whose parti cipation in the revolt has been proved by any other means, are given over to justice. But we know that all are not equally guilty, and we wish to give them the means of profiting by our feelings of sovereign clemency. With that view, We command that the superior authorities shall be charged to declare within the limits of the localities confided to them, that We grant en entire and complete pardon to all the inhabitants of the west implicated in those dis orders, who not having incurred any responsibility for other crimes, shall return to obedience before the 13th of May next. We maintain the hope that this sovereign favour will be justly appreciated by all well intentioned persons, and that, on their side, they will continue to co-operate in the maintenance of order End the public tranquillity, firmly convinced that on this condition depends the realisation of the plans which, since the commencement of our reign, We have conceived with the idea of extending the rights granted to Our faithful subjects and of pro gressively enlarging the sphere of activity traced in the different local institutions of Oar empire. The directing Senate is charged with the task of taking the necessary measures for the execution of the present ukase. " ALEXANDER." OVATION TO GENERAL BUTLER ! A letter dated New York, April 3, says :—Gene ral Butler last night addressed an audience of about 4,000 people assembled at the Academy of Music. He told his admiring listeners, many of whom were ladies, that he would show no mercy. He did not desire the restoration of the Union as it was. He desired to punish the rebels, to hang them, to reduce them to beggary, to confiscate their pro perty, and to parcel out their plantations among the Northern soldiers. He advocated the arming of the slaves against their masters and mistresses as a war measure amply justified by necessity, and the re duction of the whole South to the condition of a conquered territory, having no rights bat such as the gracious conquerors should choose to bestow upon it as an incentive to future good conduct. As regards foreign nations, and especially Great Britain—which he seems to hate with an earnest ness of hatred, such as General Haynan in all pro. bability felt for the draymen of Messrs. Barclay and t Perkins—he was equally truculent and arro gan t. " It may not have been wise," he said, "at the time of the affair of the Trent to provoke England ; but, thank God, we were getting into a position to remember that case ;" and at this amiable suggestion the war fanatics burst into a wild fit of enthusiasm. " From pit to ceiling," saye a delighted reporter, " the little perfumed squares of cambric waved like so many miniature flags," while the men sprang to their feet and cheered lustily. " What was the remedy," he asked as the cheers sub sided, " For English sympathy with the South, and for the fitting out of Alabamas and Floridas in English ports to prey upon the commerce of the North ? The remedy was non-intercourse. They should proclaim non-intercourse, so that no ounce of American food should by any accident get into an Englishman's mouth until these piracies were stopped. He would also stop the exportation of gold, so that Western products would have to be shipped to France, instead of to England, to be ex charged for silks and laces." These sentiments were enthusiastically cheered ; and the great Butler, blushing at his own glory, and for the time being the happiest and best appreciated public man in America, retired from public gaze amid a group of hero worshippers, all anxious to shake hands with him. Mr. Lincoln and all the ambitious Generals and financiers who have an eye to the Presidency must look to themselves. The strong man who is to sit in his chair, dispense his patronage, wield his power, and direct the destinies of the North promises to be Benjamin Franklin Butler. DISCOVERY OF ROMAN REMAINS AT THE TOWER. For some time past a number of men have been employed at the Tower in making some necessary alterations for the improvement of the citadel. A few days ago, in the course of the excavations which were being carried out for that purpose, near the ticket office the navies came against a wall whiPhwas soon found to be of Romar construction, and which was at a depth of above 12 feet from the surface. I Upon further removing the soil the wall was discovered to be about ten feet in thickness and of a semicircular forma tion, in an excellent state•of preservation, being composed of ch ,lk and Kentish rag. It is situated at a distance of about sixty feet to the west of the first stone entrance to the Tower. It has been visited by some eminent antiqua rians, who are of opinion that at the original construction of the Tower it formed a barrier to the tidal influence of the Thames. LARGE ARRIVAL OF EMIGRANTS IN B IRMING HAM. — Miss Burdett Coutt e , who takes a li ve l y i n t eres t in the suc'ess of the emigration m ovement, has lately sent out at her own cost several hundred emigrants to the Australian colonies. Last night, at nine o'clock, about one hundred emigrants, with their wives and chil dren. arrived at the New-street Railway Station, en route for Liverpool, where they will embark for Australia this d a y (Friday), leaving Birmingham by an early train. The party of emigrants was accommodated with lodgings in the town last night, Chief Superintendent Glossop giving the party the assistance of detective-sergeant Clarke to procure them respectable lodgings. Miss Burdett Coutts defrays the costs of the outfit of the emigrants to Australia,—Bir mingliant gazette. In addition to the manifesto relative to an amnesty, the following ukase was addressed by the Emperor of Russia to the Senate, bearing tho same date, the 12th April : " The rebellion which had been a long time pre pared in secret, and which has at last broken out in the kingdom of Poland, has also led to disorders in some pat to of the weeteru provinces of the Empire. The unseen authors of the movement against our Government, obstinately opposing the realisation of our kind intentions for the organisation of the affairs of the kingdom, have endeavoured to increase the difficulties which we were encountering in that task by enlarging the circle of their criminal undertak ings and of their pernicious influence. With those views they had for a long time past been seeking to shake the feelings of devotedness to waids us of our faithful subjects of the western governments. With that object they have employed the same means which within the limits of the Polish kingdom have had such deplorable though incomplete results. Lastly, armed bands have crossed the frontier of the Em pire, in order to spi ead in the western countries the disorders which neither the attempts of the revolu tionary emissaries nor their clandestine invitations THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.--This Day. TATTERSALL'S—Tun EVENING. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 6 to 4 agst Hospodar (offered) 7to 2 agst Saccharometer (take 4 to 1) 10 to 1 agst Blue Mantle (offered) 10 to 1 agst Macaroni (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Rapid Rhone (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agat Melrose (offered) THE DERBY. sto 1 agst Lord Clifden (offered) 7to 1 agst Hospodar (offered) 10 to 1 agat Saccharometer (offered) 14 to 1 agat National Guard (taken and offered) 18 to 1 agat Glenochty colt (taken and offered) 28 to 1 agst Ranger (taken) 28 to 1 agst Carnival (offered) 1000 to 30 aget Melrose (offered) 40 to 1 agst Rapid Rhone (taken and offered) 50 to 1 agat Early Purl (taken) 1000 to 15 agat Giles the First (taken) 3000 to 40 agat Avondale (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Cairncastle (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Poland (offered) 2000 to 15 agst Light Bob (taken) RUSSIAN MANIFESTO. 66 , 104 76 11 ii 39a 40 97i 8 1 7; 1011 44i i I Husiness don. 1082 1 6 19t 110/ 10 i 081 9 LITERATURE. The Story of Elizabeth. Smith, Elder, and Co. One of the heroes of ancient Greece, when his friends were lamenting round his death -bed that he left no children to preserve his lineage, exclaimed triumphantly, " Two fair daughters have I," naming two of his victories, " who will bear my name to the latest posterity," and the prophecy has been realised to this day. Happier, than the warrior of Greece, the author of " Vanity Fair " can boast not only a goodly offspring among the e,reations of his fancy, but " fair daughters" also, who bear his name and inherit his genius. " The Story of Elizabeth" bears no author's name upon the title-page, but rumour, we believe correctly, ascribes it to Miss Thackeray. Such an author ship would make any volume welcome, but this work would be welcome ware the author's name unknown. Again and again it has been our happy office in these columns to award our genial tribute to the author of " Pendennis," and with yet greater pleasure we now congratulate him on his daughter's auspicious entrance into the world of literature. "The Story of Elizabeth" is a charming little romance, fresh in its style, original in its treatment, and conspicuous throughout for its entire freedom from any appearance of effort, or affectation, or striving for effect. It is simple, and natural, and 'truthful. As the microscope reveals greater marvels than even Lord Rosse's telescope, so does the attentive student of one human heart discover more matter for amazement, and interest, and instruction, than can be obtained by a more superficial survey of all mankind, even "from China to Peru." The narrator of Elizabeth's history is aware of this, she concentrates all our attention upon her heroine, and for the time being we feel for her, and we feel with her, albeit we do not always have good reason to approve of her. Poor Elly is no ideal perfection, but just such a one as Words• worth might have pictured— "A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food, &c. " This is the story (so begins the history of Eliza beth) of a foolish woman, who, through her own folly learnt wisdom at last; whose troubles —they werenot very great, they might have made the happi ness of some less eager spirit—were more than she knew how to bear. The lesson of life was a hard lesson to her. She would not learn, she revolted agains the wholesome doctrine." Here is a picture of ELIZABETH. "Elizabeth had great soft eyes and pretty yellow hair, and a sweet flitting smile, which came out like sunlight over her face, and lit up yours and mine, and any other it might chance to fall upon. She used to smile at herself in the glass, as many a girl has done before her ; she used to dance about the room, and think, " Come life, come life, mine is going to be a happy one." Such is the buoyant and impetuous being to whom the lesson of life is so severe. At one time over come by sorrow, and heart-weary with hope de ferred, she exclaims, " To-day lam twenty, and I feel a hundred. Oh, what a sin and shame to con demn me to this hateful life. Oh, what wicked people these good people are. Oh, how dull ; oh, how stupid ; oh, how prosy ; oh, how I wish I was dead, and they were dead, and it was all over !" At another time her sorrowful Mt ditations take a better direction. She is wandering out in the busy city alone— "As she passed by the columns of St. Philips's Church, somebody came out, and the curtain swung back, and Elly, looking up, saw a dim, quiet interior, full of silent rays of light falling from the yellow windows and chequering the marble. She st pped, and went in with a sudden impulse. One old woman was kneeling on the threshold, and Elly felt as if she, too, wanted to fall upon her knees. What tranquil gloom, and silence, and repose I Her own church was only open at certain hours. Did it always happen that precisely at eleven o'clock on Sunday mornings she was in the exact frame of mind in which she most longed for spiritual communion and consolation ? To be tightly wedged in between two other devotees, plied with chauferettes by the pew-opener, forced to follow the extempore supplica tions of the preacher—did all this suffice to her wants ? litre was silence, coolness, a faint, half-forgotten smell of incense, there were long, empty rows of chairs, one or two pcople kneeling at the little altars, five or six little pious candles burning in compliment to the various saints and deities to whom they were dedicated. The rays of the little I candles glimmer€d in the darkness, and the foct-falls fell quietly along the aisle. I, for my part, do not blame this poor foolish heart, if it offered up a humble supplication here in the shrine of the stranger. Poor Elly was not very eloquent ; she only prayed to be made a good girl end to be happy. But, after all, eloquence and long words do not mean any more." Poor Elly is rescued for the time from her misery and monotony, and brought home from a sick-bed, which had nearly proved her death bed, to be nursed in England by dear old Miss Dampier, quite a fairy godmother sort of old lady, benevolent, and sympathetic, and with an old maid's ideal sympa thy for love and lovers. Here Elizabeth rejoices in what no foreigner can appreciate : THE ENGLISH ATMOSPHERE. " Here, in England, whither her good friend had brought her to get well, the air is damp with sea breezes ; the at mosphere is not keen and exciting as it is abroad; the sky is more often gray than blue ; it rarely dazzles and bewilders you with its brilliance; there is humidity and vegetation, a certain placidity and denseness, and moisture of which some people complain. To Elizabeth—nervous, eager, ex citable—this quiet green country, these autumn mists, were new life. Day by day she gained strength, and flesh, and tone, and health, and good spirits. We must give a glimpse of some of the other cha racters of the story. Here is one of Elly's lovers indulging in very characteristic speculations : A LOVER'S MISGIVINGS. "He wonders whether he and Elly will be happy to gether ? He pictures stormy scenes ; he intuitively shrinks from the idea of her unconventionalities, her eagerness, her enthusiasm. He is a man who likes a quiet life, who would appreciate a sober, happy home—a gentle, equable com panion, to greet him quietly, to care for his tastes and his ways, to sympathise, to befriend him. Whereas now it is he who will have to study his companion all the rest of his life ; if he thwart her she will fall ill of sorrow, if he satisfy her she will ask more and more; if he neglect her—being busy, or weary, or what not—she will die of grief; if he want sympathy and common sense, she will only adore him. Poor Elly I it is hard upon her thf.t he should make such a bug bear of her poor little love. His courage is oozing out at his finger -ends." We have not room left for a portrait of Will Dam pier, who, if he occasionally did foolish things" did them sensibly, which is a very different thing from doing sensible things foolishly. It seems to me," adds the authoress, " that is just the difference be tween men and women." The pastor Tourneur is well described ; he belongs to a high order of spirituality, and is "humble, holy, and self-deny ing." Very different is his second wife, Caroline Gilmour, the mother of Elizabeth. Her portrait is only sketched in by a few touches, but it is un mistakeable, and is singularly repulsive. We lose sight of Elly at last as she exclaims that she "does not want to be the only happy woman in the world," and she hurries out to the po r cheoes "the fresh rain-scented air," and the dooi:in closes after after her; and we close the volu me, re/o leave her happy after all, and y et leave of her and of her Story. re luctant to take ---- Poems and 7ranslations. By Philip Stanhop e ur Blackwood and Sous. little vol 1 o f them, NV o r e I g e i y i s . h p t p o g . e2tob7e.. original most „ • h e d translator Homer's translated Odyssey The accomplished ... . .nthe bpencerian stanzl has verse 1 r in a charming mo s o t herein into collectedE volume, ory of them, contributed by him a few in years past at uncertain intervals to the pages of the fugitive pieces', Ma k c wood. As a translator Mr. Woraley is at all times felicitous. From Homer's Iliad he here takes the famous passage in the sixth Book artin descriptive of th e pg of Hector and Andromache. Often as it has before been rendered into English verse, and that, too, by scholarly poe t s no less gifted than Chapman, and Pope, and Cowper —the passage comes to us, secur e of a fresh and earnest welcome, penned a:•.' it is with so tender an apprecia tion of the exquisite h pat os and majestic beauty of the incident herein so marvellously depicted by the Patriarch of Poets, and so echoingly repeated in our own vernacular by the youngest and, in some respects, the most variously gifted among all his Translators. But that we have so recently luxuriated over Sir Edmund Head's delicious version of Propertius'Elegy on Cornelia, we should have read Mr. Worsley's more literal translation with still greater pleasure than that which it has actually afforded us. Sir Ed mund's is more of a paraphrase or amplification, it is true ; but it is from first to last exquisitely beauti ful. Turning, however, from the various tr ans l a tionsai given in this graceful volume, to the or i g in spos ed at once pro ductions themselves, we are almost di I to give our prefernee to those lovely " Stanzas to Wordsworth," in which, while doing homage to his chosen Poet, Mr. Worsley proves himself beyond all doubt to be a poet also! Milton he apostrophises on the preceding pagein a noble sonnet beginning finely— " God gave to thee :he keys of heaven and hell 1" But in thi s very sonnet he says to MiEon, a little further on, almost in the language of a genuine Irish B u ll, t h at Jehovah io ndet do we thy than a passing e t tonguetrust to speak a t i h e l e i e anticipation anawfuln t s i p o e n ak unspeakable s gloomli Earnestly ' hat it n is pre sentimentt n which ind uces M r. Worsley i his manly but most affecting p re f ace to remark of these poetic effusion& —" It is my h ope that kindly critics may, never theless, be able to det ect i n them the germ of some thing better, and that p oss ibl y with some readers they may have a permanent va l ue o f their own, if, as 1 bare good reason to fear, m y /ve should not b e ash spared for future efforts," Before closing our refe rence to these pages of graceful, and scholarly, and pathetic verse by Philip Worsley, it would be un grateful on our part, as numbered among his readers, and, therefore, also by necessity, among his admirers, if we did not mention here in terms of fitting admiration his two classically imagined and eloquently written Poems opening the Col lection—" Phaethon" and " Narcissus," but more especially the latter. A bounden duty also it seems almost to us, here, to thank this gifted young Translator for his metrical versions towards the close of the volume, of some of the sublimest of the Catholic Hymns, such as Thomas of Celano's Dies free, and Giacopone's Stabat Mater. Com pletely satisfactory they are not, any one of them as a whole —very far from it in our estimation. But here and there they are undoubted improve ments upon all preceding translations; here andthere they are more than simply satisfactory, they are wonderfully felicitous. We shall yet hope to have occasion to congratulate Mr. Worsley later on upon his having adventured upon " fresh fields and pas tures new," with his pains and sorrows passed and his constitution reinvigorated. Introductory Text-Book of Physical Geography. By David Page. pp. 193. Wm. Blackwood and Sons. The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties is an intellectual course unknown to the readers and students of Mr. Page's Text-Books. Already he has inducted them upon that well-smoothed way of his, a very royal road to learning, a King's highway, open to all who list—now as a Geologist now as a Geographer. Another addition to the series of Page's Text-Books—perhaps the most notable amongst them all—is the very one here submitted to our consideration. It is the very avant courier, or gentleman usher, as one may say, to that mighty potentate in the realms of Modern Knowledge, the Wondrous Kosmos of Humboldt. It is an index finger, as it were, illus trating the almost scriptural text of our English poet, bidding us " Look thro' nature up to natures God ! " It is wonderful how much book learning has here been packed together within so small a compass, and so symmetrically—and yet at the same time without resulting in an effect merely superficial. As an introduction to the science of Physical Geo graphy, the volume is completely satisfactory. It is the very companion volume to be thumbed indus• triously by all those who are but just beginning to sit at the feet of Mr. Keith Johnston, that Gamaliel among Physical Geographers. For, of the abun dant stores of knowledge squandered over the ample pages of " the Physical Atlas," this little Text-Book is the very microcosm. RECENT WILLS AND BEQtESTS. (1 . 1 om the Illustrated London News.) The will of Miss Hester Walker, of Weybridge Park, Surrey, was proved in the London Court under £90,000 personal property, and probate granted to John Walker, Esq., her brother, and Francis Walker, Esq., her nephew, who are the executors and trustees. The will bears date 1856, and a codicil, 1863. The testatrix appoints her brother, who is her executor, the residuary legatee of her personalty, and directs her real estates to be sold, and the proceeds arising therefrom to be divided amongst her said nephews and nieces, to whom liberal legacies are bequeathed. Legacies are also left to her servants—to three of them £lOO each. Miss Walker forgives all persons who may be in debted to her in any sum. The following are her bequests to charitable institutions—To the National Benevolent Society, £2OO ; the Blind School, St George's-in-the-Fields, £2OO ; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Old Kent-road, £200; and the Infant, Orphan School, Wanstead, £2OO. The will of Sir Matthew Blakiston, Bart., of Sandybrooke Hall, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, was proved in London on the 2d inst. by his son, Sir Matthew Blakison, Bart., and the testator's nephew, Matthew Folliott, Esq. The testator was formerly in the Indian army, and is of an ancient and distinguished family long settled in Derbyshire. Sir Matthew was in his eightieth year, and died on the 23d of December last, having executed his will only three days prior thereto. After making spe cific bequests to his wife, Lady Blakiston, he directs that her ladyship may select such plate, books, rand linen as she thinks proper, and that his servants may each receive a year's wages over and above what may be due to them. The testator then be queaths the rest and residue of his property to his eldest eon and heir, who inherits the estate and baronetcy. The will of Admiral Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas, G.C.8., late Barton Court, near Hunger ford, Berkshire, was administered to in the London Court by his son, the Rev. James Whitley Deans Dundee, M.A., Vicar of Kintbury, Berkshim the residuary legatee, to whom the grant was made from the circumstance of the excutors who were appointed—namely, Major-General Sir William Brereton, K.C.8., K.H., and S. B. Merriman, Esq; —having renounced probate. The per o s t o ,h n eha a 1 l i a, t, adYNa lhdas w iovel a yda a , e Admiralty, sworn under £16,000. The will belarsvidhaot had won Decem ber, 1859 ; and the gallant Adm l ira , orders, d as appears distinguished honours and severa l from List, " ist , , , the aratkne sdhs attainedti r a e r a. s tgo: preceding tahhnee .. xa n ain i 2 a nB ; a t s 3g i u o :l B 0 : 1381 :n to her marriadgs 1 for Wiltshire and had represented Dev i zes in Parliament in r'eanTdotLoady Dundas, his r e l ict, the high appointment of D at Weymouth in October and . Gre e 11 Deputy-Lieutenantwichbaegir neal° settlement, Lord Sir of i P urely James yn he wa s e eo w:ll • WI he leaves, in r a es le id g u ac e y of of hif I he has devised Property ,00 0; and b e 1 e a a n v d c s g t r e a h n i d s a s u o ao g n f ht a t gee family 1 l e y h a o i e lo rn y h f trusts as all his under reali6eosotatteos,his butler. tja e 8 a T r a h e e the settlement of his estate at Barton Court. Wieniawski T , i Thalherg i s now in Paris, on hi s way here; and the violinist, is expected. LONDON, - ny CHATHAM, AND DOV ER R AILWAY. —. OPENING OF THE GREAT TUNNEL UNDER THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—Yesterday afternoon the completion of one of the mos t i mpor t ant portions of the works in connexion with the metropolitan extensions of the railway system (under the auspices of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company), was celebrated at the Penge Wood end of the great tunnel running from Dulwich, under Sydenham hill, to that place. The chief engineer of the company, Mr. F. T. Turner, accompanied by Mr. Betts, one of the con tractors for the construction of the line, Mr. Watson, and Mr. Baldwin, both of whom are heads of departments under Messrs. Pete, Bette, and Crampton, together with several other officials of the compiny,assombled at the cutting near f the Alleyn's Head, Dulwich, and proceeded to the mouth work men the tunnel, where they were escorted by a numbhcer do tailsew men bearingfltwbeaux, and minutely iospected ork I t t may l" the construction of this most gigantic on the metropolitan extension kifnrei:,rs, bridge over the Thames at Bloc . . the last here character. Th e even excluding the junction of g be mentioned that this is one of lines, moswatnidmtphoertafneattuirreosrkosf 2,200 yards in length • there ar e 182 feet below ' eleven shafts, the deepest one being tunnelits progress iitself is no The engineering passed At this the level. staff, contractors, and other officials having en who had made the ins • where a large temporary platform was o o l f es t s h t e ha m n ostteecsting spot some hundreds of persons had t t h h e e g b e r n i c through k i ewni rk, the tunnel, emerged at assembled,erected• and inspection ascended th scoffbiding, when Mr. Turne r , th e e gra tification of effecting the completion of this gre a t ra il way chief engineer, had the work. by laying the lest brick, • In the operati on o f w hi c h h e was immensely cheered. Share 124 122 k 3 11 991 }