The Sun. — London, England, 1864-04-27 00:00:00

CONEY MARKET! AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is more inq u i r y f or mon ey in the general discount market, and 7 per cent. is the minimum quotation in all quarters, even for the best short dated paper. In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon there Was a slight upward movement in a few leatauccs. The Poonah, which left to-day for Bombay, con ',eyed £114,205 in specie. The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap pointed Wednesday, the 4th proximo, for a special settlement in the Scrip and fully paid-up Swedish G overnment Loan ; and els.) in the shares of the if ollowing companies :—Medoc Railway, Fore-street warehouse, Smith, Knight, and Company, Finan cial Discount, Credit Foncier of Mauritius, City Offices, and the new shares of the National Bank, all of which are to be marked in the daily list. The following companies are also to have a settle tient on the same day, but are only to be marked in the bi-weekly list, viz.:—London Gas Meter, Maritime Insurance, and Queensland Sheep Invest ment. The share list of the International Contract Com- PanY will be closed on Saturday next, the 30th instant. At the meeting-of the Standard Bank of British South Africa, to-day, a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared. There was also a meeting of the shareholders of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, at which it was resolved that a distribution be made of £7 10s. per share, free of income tax ; viz., £6 per share out of the balance of profit and loss account, and a bonus of £1 10s. per share from the insurance fund. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning, according to Renter's telegrams, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 70c. The market for the English Funds has continued extremely inactive, and a few sales have led to a decline of 1-16th per cent. Consols for transfer are 91 } a, and for the account 91i I. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 891 e ; Exchequer Bills, 10s. to 4s. die. ; India 5 per Cents., 105 1 ; do. 4 per Cents., 991 ; and the Enfaced 34 per Cents., 1121; sank Stock is 238 240; and East India do., 218 220, IQ the Foreign Market a slight downward moves went is apparent, and business is very dull. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 711 ; do., Con solides, 52/ 53 ; Mexican, 451 ; do., New Scrip, a 4 9 prem.; Greek, 24/ 25; Spanish Passive, 351 Loan, Portuguese, 49; Venezu ela, 571 58 ; Russian 'Jean, 11 d prem.; Swedish do., par I prem.; Vene zuelan, 11 1 dis. ; and the Confederate Stock, 571 6 4. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been limited, and principally connected with the preparations in progress for the settlement. Prices, however, have remained without material change. Great Eastern have advanced 108., Lancashire and Yorkshire 55., and Brighton 5, while South Western have declined 10s., and North Eastern (Berwick), 15 3 . The Foreign and Colonial undertakings continue inactive at about previous rates. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in some instances a shade firmer. London and Westminster have improved to 91; Chartered of India, Australia, and China to 391, 401 ; and Alli ance Bank to 63k 64; while City Bank have de clined to 126; and Unio n of London, 58i ; General Credit realise 9/ -1 ; Hudson Bay Company, 191 k ; and London Financial 26/ 27. Subjoined are the current quotations of some of the principal now projects :—lnternational Con tract Company,* prem. ; Telegraph Construction, 14 I prem. ; International Land Credit, 2/ 31 prem. ; Sabloniere Foreign Hotel, 11 21 prem. ; North Aus tralian Corapany, l 1 prem.; City Offices, 114 prem.; Millwall Iron Works, 2k prem.; Imperial Bank of China, 2/ 3/ prem.; Humber Iron Works, 1/ / Prem. ; and Thames Iron Works, *prem. ESITISPI FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols 9ll 1 Ditto Account, May 5 — Jer Cent. Reduced 893 ew New 3 per Cent B9i '" I 1 ew 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891... "— A Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 ......... "— 'alluities, 30 yrs, expire Etth Jan., 1680 Ditto for 30 yrs, ex pire sth April, 1885. Ditto (Red Sea T e legraph), Aug. 1908. March. June. Excheque r Bills, £l,OOO, 2! & 3 per Cent. 10 4 die Ditto £soo lO Ditto £lOO and ..... ...... 10 8 40 l i k- rZngland Stk, 41 per Ct. 2391 116° Account. — I ADI&N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 220 105 1 6 1 8 t ) itto 6 per Cent. July, 1670 1 Ditto Account Ditto 4 per Cent. 1 888 ............ Do certificates ................ "itto 4 per Cent., Oct, 18 88 99} 1 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., Jan. 187 2 — Ditto 61 per Cent., May, 18 7 9 ...... • • 1124 Ditto Debentures, 4,per Ct., April 1861 Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 Ditto Bonds ELM l2 die Ditto under £l,OOO. ............. Fift,BIGN FUNDS—ONJI O'CLOCK. Itstrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 1859 —. 'Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent., 185248-60 Di tto 1863 .........••• — 'llenos Ayres 6 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto, /ElOO Bonds `'hilian 6 per Cent „ Ditto 44 pei Cent Colombian Cubs 6 per Cent V ll4 l 6 per Cent. anish 3 per Cent., 1825 quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent - ..,, gYptian 7 per Cent 130 k r , Ditto, Second ISMS '‘./reek 6 per Cent., 1824-6, ex-Coupons 240 Ditto Account Ditto Coupons Ditto Account Italian 6 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent .. Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent .... — New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent. 291 Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — P er uvian 41 per Jent' Ditto Account, - ) — Ditto 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Ditto 4f per Cent., 1862 — Ditto AQcount — Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto.account — Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, 7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 49 Ditt•,) Account . • , Ditto Scrip ( 1863 ) £ 3O p aid - -Pm Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St BBl Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 — Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 .. Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent.......... Ditto Account ...... , 47) ) - a n i Bll 3 per Cent . ......... .... Ditto Account ... Ditto New Deferred 3Dltitt° Account —itto Passive sk , .......... , ~ -D itto Account .. 361 6 ......... 93 - 313 ish Cert. of. Coup not funded ...... s-uitto Account. tu r ,, dish s 4 Per C,ent. rsriell 6 per Cent. 1854 - —. ri_itttto°6A P c ' e ) c r iu C ll e t at. 1858 Ditto A. Joount Ditto 6 _ • 'pet Cent. 1862 714 Ditto Div. Account .. ' a £lOO Bonds 72 1 11 1 2 , Ditt o 1863 l i • ,itto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Cate7,Uela 0 i ~1 . 3 per Cent. I. l tto Account — !`tte 6 per Cent., 1862 i— tto Account . . 67k 8 D D itto 11 per Cent ti Dividends on the above payable in Load .. l e xl l st rian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. b u g l au 45 per Cent., Ex 25f — i .,. , ._ ~_ b . 4 5 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull — I tali i a t ti to 4 per Cent. Certifica , tes . . . t y „ 5 0 per Cent., 1861, Lx. 25 franca Pi e j uo Account — t e ;:utiontese, 5 per Cont., Ex. 25f — ' ll ian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s. TWO O'CLOCK, i R .:301 s Mono Y .uitto Account 9li ff- A melancholy accident happened two days ago at Asnieres. A cutter with eight persons on board caPsized opposite the Isle de Nrhiliy, between the b r id ges o f Qurbevoie and Asnieres, and four of the party perished, s pite bf the prompt assista'ACe given by the boatmen who Wita , esaea the catastrophe. BELRE MARKETS This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOLS• Share! Railways. Cl o sing Bness I Price, dc usine. sip'.. Rol., and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. flost,Sleat,tt dMid.eo drietcd and Exeter ...• lea iedonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A (A . div Do. nFE PreaViat.rO'ti' Dublin & Bellast Junc. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow. G, laeg. and S. Western. l Great Eastern, Ord, eth 8 81 Si 9 83 F 5 118 119 6 i 7i Ditto A stoCk.. si c.3reatNorthoi Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do Bdo .... Gt. S. and W. 01 'mime Great Western Do Str Val 'na. stock Lancashire et Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lou., & So•.th Western 'Man., P.,hef., F.; Lincoln. 1 3faryport and Carlisle. Dot 5hare5........ etropolitan !Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. t shares Mid .Kest Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwio. Do, G.N.E. purchalc Do Leeds Do York Do Carliale (North London Do New ;North Staffordshire II:. and S. W. junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stoat' Lo Scot. Mid. stock IShrews. and - Welchpoo , ;Shropshire Union ;South Devon !South Eastern (South Wales S. York. and River. Dun Staines, Wok.,andWok. ' Stockton Darlington Do Do New, 186' Taff Vale.. ... ..... Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and rim Waterford t Kilkenny West Cornwall ..... W. Hartlepool D.ar. &R. West Midland -Oxford Do Newport' Do Ileretordl 18.14. 35 37 16 17 Di. 106 97 •7h 61 7; 128} 1 2 i Wi :374 181 L' 3 91 93 65 65! 110 1101 66 ES 101 103 42 43 111 08 90 ' 64 55 114 i 1151 1301 1301 100 102 611 62i 21i '‘N 1 100 i 101 i 66 67 84 90 128 131 14 241 77 79 j( 111 121 123 64 G 6 33 35 904 91 103 105 0 1.61 37i sq, 10 8 84 p 165 17J 5 7 3 4 pi 96 93 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 4h are dallways lOU sk _- - - A ',antic Jz Law rents Born.,Barodact.Centluti G-u. syer °cut— Do. New . • • Do. E. Shares... Buffalo and Lake fluron Do. Preferonce ...• • • BuTalo,BrantAGodricli 6 p. et. bds. Aug, 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 187: Do. do. June 1, 16;4 Clcutta,&S.Eastn. (Lin, Cape Town Dock Sett 1 Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. ( 1 East indian. gu. 5 p. c Do. do. G Ext Do. do. II do. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Prof. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. ':d Pref. Bonds Do. Co. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred 204 10 iOO Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... Gt.LndiaPentn.gua.sp.o Do. New gua. 5 p. a... Do. January, 1852 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W t of Canada Sh ares Do. New .. Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 51 p. o. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 P. C. Do. 42 p. C. Extension Dc.4.4 d 0........ Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. 0 p. o. Bnds. Meth. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. 61ortg. Bds.' Nuwßrurswick a Candy. Class A an a B ... N.111.C'd0.6 pc Ist pt bds 6cincle Do. Delhi I Do. do . E. Do. Pun) aub Do. Do. ........ , Do. Indus. St. Flo.) COLONIAL GOITER' all iou Closing Price. - 69 61 1011 1021 p 1 61 81 77 82 77 8S 77 82 1(0 102 92 101 104 105 103 k IC4. 1p 1 20 201 72 74 61 43 62 6i 51 63 48 50 90 42 26 2S 23 c 6 103 104, 102 103 101 104 10f 104 , 94 05 83 05 101 /02 95 97 90 9 all ICO (100 1 100 2 all 1 100 k.IOO MEN 58 0 3 5 82 I 4 102 1(3 101 10: p 101 102 95 97 'l' SECURITIES. 102 104 161 103 191 103 89 H 89 91 106 108 107 119 118 110 110 112 112 114 106 108 1 ( ,6 ICB 102 104 991 1001 99 10) gg 100 103 111 101 106 10 112 LOS 109 IES. fd 3t4 7,21 550 cs6o 65 68 101 3/ 109} , P. 15.4 12.10 - ~,u . ( i ov. 6 p.c../ a..t,/ ulv 1877-84 Do. a p. C. "Feb. ,s t A u , Do. 6p. c. Y.dr. ct Sept. Do. SP. Jan.Bouly. Do. 6 :grit:eribed stock Care 'J. cope, 6 p i)o.Ap Oct.& 1880 Do. 1891 , - 1 1 2 , 0. Jan. & July, 1891 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 8 p Mauritius 6 per cent Natal Goy. 6 per cont -- 6 p.c. a.LtJ uly I Do. 6p. o.Ap. Oct.&l !N.S.W.Gov. 6p 3.,18 ,, t p. c.,18t to I Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 'New Zealand 6 p cent. Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 IQueensle,nd Gcv. 6 p. IS. Aus U6p.c.1878.,t up Vlc.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.,tJuly I Do. to ap.a. An.&()05.. BRITIS jUarobrian Consol. Gold uitflord Amalgamated ' Devcn G. Con.. (Tavist ; East Bassett (lllogan).• East Clogau Gold Ltd. Er.st Caradon ...... I ~ : ast Carn 8rea......• • E. W 11tuasal (Tavistk. IGam.&St.AuDyn(Gwen , Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor (lleiston Grenville Fiend's-Foot ingston Downs Lady Bertha 51argaret (Uny Lelant Marke Valley. Myndy Iron Oro (Lim New Scion North Downs N. Wh'i Baseet (Illo2;au, North Wheal Crotty .. Par Consols (St. Blazey' Providence (tiny Lelnt.) South Caradon(St.Cleer, 3. Cara Brea (Illogan).. ;..Wheal Pran. (Illozau; Stray Park raroar Silv.lz Lead Min Pin Crott West Basset (Illogan) W Ct radon (Liskeard, West Seton Wheel Basset (Mogan; Wheal Buller(liedrut ll ) Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) WhealLudcott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) Wheal Oeton Wheal Treiawney (Lis ) Wheal Union 41 43 950 470 40 50 31 33 38 1 9 g 10 19 21 205 1:15 87i 921 35 10 2.0.8 3.5.8 8 58i 7 3.17 1 2 21 lli 121 200 205 2Z 24 2} 21 PREFERENCE AHARES. Great Western, Chester gua. stock, Ditto, 5 per cent. pf. st., 115 Midland, Leicester and Ilitchin 4 per ct.,'921 North Eastern, Stockton and Darlington, B 6 per cent., 32 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. North British (Edin., Perth, and Dundee) 4 per cent., 74 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 91:i Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 16} Great Luxembourg . , 101 Recite and San Francisco (liim), gua. 7.per cent., 161 Sambre and Meuse, 61 West Flanders, 7* FOIIEIGN MINES. United 3lexican 6: Yudananiutana of S. Australia, lim.,:3i BANK6.i Alliance (lim.). 03! 4 Ditto, new, 54 Anglo Austrian, 7 1 Anglo-Italian, limited, 61 Bank of Egypt, 291 Bank of London. 176 8 Bank of New Zealand, 161 British North American. 511 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 40) P' City, 126 Consolidated Bank, lim., 11 East,London, lim. , 8 1 English, Scotch, and Aus tralian Chart:, d, 2 1} E uro pean Bank, lint 14 13/ re Imper ial Bank (11m.), 42 v Ditto, new, issued at 4 _ 26 Imperial Ottoman, 2 1 ; Land Mortgage Bank ••••,ilndia, um. 6 Lon don Bank of Se:otiand, ), 61 20 Lon don and B ""Azilian London and (Jolonial (lim.), 15/ London •.;oint Stock, 471 Lond',ll and Northern * j i m ., 933. Lrniclon and South :01.i„n, :tiondon and 11 e4mi„.+__, Merchant B: jk, Jim 94 Mercant il ' , and Exchange. lim., 19/ MeircrAitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 321 1 Natif.ial Provincial of England, Ditto, ditto, 41 South Eastern, .11m., Standard of lirrtsh South Africa (lim)), 281 Union of London, 5)/ 8 MISCELLANEOUS. • Commercial Union, • Insurance, Financial Corporation, 41 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lint, 10 Hudson's Bay, IN 1 Imperial Financ, lim., 101 International Financial society, lim., 111 London Financial Association, lim., 27 61 Ditto, new, 16 Madras Irrigation and Canal, 11 Marine Investment, Um , 3 Mercantile Credit Association, 1im.2161 Nova Scotia Gold and Land, lim., 3 2i Ocean Marine (Insurance). 201 Ottoman Financial Association, lim., 51 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian E. map, linx Ditto, new, 5 Scottish Australian Investment. lim.. 144 South 4.trican Mortgage and Investment, lim.. 6) Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lim., 61 - 471 I 65} 1104 i 1021 1101 1 11} 934 8 116 1301 i icol } 100 all all all all 100 100 100 18.13.1 !Batmen done 10u 100 100 100 100 1L 2.14.0 3.4.0 8.9.0 581 178 10.6.7 ii 118.1g.91 130.17.61 SITIN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1864. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) SHERIFFS' COURT. THE KEPT LADY AND THE ILUSIC MASTER.-SINGULAR DEFENCE.-BIGGS V. SYMONDS. This was an action to renew a small sum for services rendered, plaintiff being a music-master of 49, St. John's wood-terrace, and defendant a wine merchant, of 64 Lower Thames-street. Plaintiff said that Mrs.Symonds had one quarter's tuition on the pianoforte in ]863. She was living then at 13, Nor folk-road. Mr Miller (for defendant)—Now, how do you know it was Mrs Symonds ? Plaintiff—She said she was, and I had every reason for believing that she was a married woman, Mr Miller—Do you not know that she was a kept lady? Plaintiff—No; I believed she was defendant's wife. Mr Miller—My client is not liable, as the lady was not his wife, but a kept lady. His Honour (ta plaintiff)—How came you to trust her ? Plaintiff—Because 1 thought from her manner and ap pearance`,hat she was a married woman. His Honour—You must be more careful for the future, Mr Biggs—You cannot recover in this case. Plaintiff nonsuited. " THEN ILL BE A BANXRUPT."-JAMES V. GRAY. This was an action to recover for meat supplied, plaintiff being a salesman, and defendant a retail butcher. Defendant asked to be allowed to pay the debt by in stalments. His Honour—l cannot do that, as this is a wholesale transaction. _ . Defendant—Of course you can't. (Laughter.) His Honour—You must pay the whole amount on the 9th of May unless plaintiff willconsent to take instalments. Plaintiff's agent—l cannot. Defendant—Of course you can't. (Renewed laughter.) His Honour—Then you must pay on the 9th of May. Defendant—What, all of it? His Honour—Yes. Defendant—What, the whole hog ? (Great laughter.) Pll--- Here defendant loft the witness-box, and as he got to the harrier he turned round and said—" Do you mean to say I am to pay all by the 9th of May ?" Mr. Thompson (clerk)—Yes, allot it. Defendant (quickly)—Then I'll be a bankrupt. (Roars of laughter, in which the 'judge could not help partially joining.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. - MARLBOROUGH-MEET. ANNOYING A CAPTAlN.—Catherine Thomas, an un fortunate, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with annoying Captain John Glover, R.N. Captain Glover said that on Thursday night last, while proceeding to his residence, No. 27, Bury-street, St. James's, on his return from the opera, the prisoner molested him, wishing him to accompany her some where. He told her to go away, when she said that if ho did not go with her she would slap his face. She then asked him for some money, and thinking he might get rid of her by so doing he at first gave her a sixpence, and then a second. The prisoner still persisted in annoying him, and to escape from her he got into a cab, and no sooner had he done so than the prisoner slapped the cabman's faceand spat at him (complainant). At last he got away from the prisoner. Last night, however, the pri soner, who had evidently ascertained that ho resided in the street, accosted him while crossing the street, and annoyed him, when, seeing a constable, he gave her in charge. The prisoner said she had not been out for a week, and that the gentlemen had made a mistake in the person. Captain Glover said he was positive tie prisoner was the same woman who annoyed him on both nights. Police• constable John Cooke, 106 C, said he was called last night by Captain Glover to take the prisoner into custody for annoying him, when she said that she knew nothing about it. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for seven days. COMMITTAL WITHOUT A FINE FOR ASSAULT.—A cabdriver named George Skelly. badge 14, 1 _86, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting George Roffey, 308 A. The prisoner was seen by Roffey, in Pall-mall, last night creeping u➢ and down with his cab, to the injury of other cabmen on the stands, and on Raley asking to see his badge number he refused. Roffey then stopped the horse, so that ho might take his cab number, when the prisoner gave him several cuts with his whip. Mr. ,Tyrwhitt said it was a wanton assault on the constable while in the execution of his duty. He should committ the prisoner for 21 days. returned to Dillon on Saturday last by some of the pri soner's friends, and is now in the possession of the inspector. The above depositions having been read over this morning, Dillon said—l beg your worship's pardon, but I wish to withdraw from this prosecution. Mr. Yardley —You cannot. Swear him again, and read the depositions over to him. This having been done, Mr Yardley said—Now, at your peril, tell the whole truth, or you will find 'ourself in a difficulty, Dillon—But I am a public man. 11r Yardley—Public prosecutions are not carried on for the benefit of public individuals, but for public safety. Dillon—l am SD well known. Mr Yardley—What do you mean? Dillon—l mean lam a pugilist and a public man, Mr Yardley—What htss that to do with the prisoners? 1. illon —Why they have sten me on several occasions before at benefits, Mr Yardley—What sort of benefits ? Dillon—l mean when gentlemen go for an hour or two to be amused. Mr Yardley then committed both prisoners for trial, and in order to ensure Dillon's attendance, ho (the magistrate) ordered him to be bound over in the sum of 1200 to prosecute, WESTMINSTER. EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION.—A respectable-look ing, middle-aged woman entered the court this morning, and accosting Mr. Selfe said, " My husband has been out of work, or has not done anything to obtain a living for his family for the last 10 months. I have six children, and 1 have had to maintain not only them and myself, but also my husband. I have done it by my hard labour, by doing washing and taking in needle work." Mr. Selfe—What do you want of me ? _ Applicant—l want to know whether you can't make my husband to do his duty—whether you cau't make him work as other men are obliged to do, instead of idling his time about and doing nothing. Mr. Selfe—What do you suppose I can do in such a matter—you must take me to be some omnipotent person if you think I can make an idle man industrious. You might as well ask me to make a man fly. You must have extra ordinary notions of a magistrate's power if you think he can effect such a change in the nature of a man as you de: ire. Applicant—Well, if he has no right to work for me, have I a right to maintain him in idleness by my labour ? Mr. Selfe—Well, I don't say you have, but he has a right to live with you, and in law all you have is his. Applicant—He took a lot of things away on Friday, and came back yesterday without anything, and with scarcely a bit of clothing upon him, and expects me still to maintain him ; but I am determined I will not do it. I am quite sure that ho could get work of some description if he tried, but he won't—he is downrig . ht idle. Can't you do anything for me, your worship, in the matter. Mr. Selfe—l cannot, indeed ; if a magistrate had the power to make lazy men industrious you may depend upon it that his hands would be fully employed, MARYLEBONE. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ROBBERY.—A PROBECU TOR COMPELLED TO PROCEED WITH HIS CASE.—James `Ward and James Allen, the former footman, and the latter stableman, at the Red Lion, in the Edgware-road, were charged, on remand, with the following very extensive robbery from the person of James Dillon, the pugilist. _ _ Mr. Rodwell, solicitor, defended Allen. This case excited a great degree of interest amongst the members of the P. it., and the court was crowded by its patrons. The prisoners had before been twice brought up, and were, upon the last occasion, fully committed for trial, but they were formally remanded, in order to see if the notes and property could be traced. The evidence formerly adduced showed that Dillon kept the White Horse in Baldwin-gardens. Between one and two o'clock in the day on the 7th inst., in company of a contractor named Coney, he went to dine at the Red Lion. After dinner he went into the closet without his hat, after which he sat down in the harness room, and fell asleep for about two hours. On his awaking Ward jumped away from him, when Dillon said, " llold hard, old chap, who has been here besides you." On searching his pockets he missed seven half-crowns, a florin in silver, LI 10s, in gold, a large gold ring which had been presented to him, a watch and chain, a £5, £2O, and a £5O Bank of England note. e (Dillon) said to Ward that they bad " cleaned him out; All that Ward replied was that Dillon owed him a shilling for what he had had upstairs, and he had better make haste and leave, as a gentleman wanted to come to the desk and write. In reply to another question as to who else had been there, he (Ward) saw only Ginger and Whitecrose-street (meaning Allen and another person not in custody). Dillon then went into the yard, where he saw Allen and told him of his loss, when he made use of bad language and turned away. The two prisoners then went into a stable with a woman, after which Ward brought him Isis hat, and Paid, "Do make haste our," Abolkt o l eic& on the same day Ward went to the shop Blackman, a butcher in the Harrow-road, and arked for change of, a £5 note, which, upon examining, Blackhian found was a £ 5O note, and told Ward so, and he took it away. The following mornipg 1 :, and called upon her and said that a man had bee r .., robbed in their yard, and that the note he brought the previous day to get changed belonged to a cow driver, who took it away. He requested Miss Blackman not to mention it, as it might cause a bother. On the same morning, and previous to the robbery, Dillon and Coney were in the Wheatsheaf, Edgware-road, where the barman particularly noticed a large ring with a stone in it, which Dillon placed on the counter. In the evening Allen came in, and Jelli nus, the carman, said " You are a fighting man now, for you have a fighting man's ring on." Allen said, " Yes; he had to mind it for Dillon." 'William Bishop, a helper in the stable yard, saw Allen go into the harness-room and shut the door after him whilst Dillon was asleep. After a short time he came out and offered Bishop half a sovereign, which he refused to take. Inspector Steer, of the D division, apprehended Ward, who said he had taken what he believed was a L 5 note to be changed, but it turned out to be a £bo note. He then said he got it from a cattle dealer. Ward said he had heard of the robbery, but knew nothing of it. When at the station house he (Ward) said Allen gave him the note to change, and as he could net do so he gave it to him again. He then told the inspecter that if he went into the coal cellar of the Red Lion he would on a beam find Dillon's watch, with a piece of cocoa nut coir placed in the works to stop the ticking, so that if any person went there they ehould net hear it. The inspector found it as described. Samuel Pubic, 147 D, ap prehended Allen, who said " it was all right; Dillon had him en for £2O over a fight, and that would about square them if he (Dillon) got some back." A gentleman from the Bank of England now produced the £5O note, which had been changed at the Bank for gold by Allen's cousin just previous to the police going there. The police are trying to arrest the cousin. The ring was Glasgow Spring Circuit—April 26, THE NEWARTHILL MURDER.-THE PRISONER SENTENCED TO DEATH. The prisoner, John Reilly, who was found guilty at the last sitting of the Court of the murder of Nancy Stevens or Luffy, was placed at the bar to receive sentence. Lord Deas and Lord Neaves both occupied the bench. _ _ _ Lord Dees • addressing the prisoner, said—John Reilly, nobody can doubt who heard the evidence adduced upon your trial that the deceased Mrs. Laffy was cruelly and barbarously murdered. No jury could bestow more careful and discrimina tion attention upon a case than was bestowed upon your case by the jury. After a long and anxious trial the majority of the jury have come to the conclusion that you are the person who committed the murder. It Eppeare to me that the jury have arrived at the conclusion upon satisfactory evidence, and my brother Lord Neaves, who heard a considerable portion of the evidence, and heard the rest of the material parts of the evi dence read over to the jury, concurs with me in that opinion, You are said to have observed to one of the officers who took you into custody that nobody saw you do it. If you imagined that you might commit a crime such as this with impunity because nobody saw yon do it you were labouring under a delusion which you must now feel to be altogether dispelled; and if any other rersons working through the country or moving through the country as you were imagine that because they are not much known or known at all in the district, and that because there is no eye but the eye of God upon them, they may commit murder with im punity, 1 trust that the result of this case will be a warning to them. The sentence of the Court was then formally pro nounced, and was to the effect that on the 16th of May, between the hours of eight and ten o'clock forenoon, the prisoner should be taken from prison to the common place of execution of the burgh of Glasgow, and there hanged by the hands of the com mon executioner. Profound silence reigned in the Court while Lord Deas pronounced the sentence, whi c h was fi rs t broken by the prisoner exclaiming, in a tone as firm as his first utterances at the beginning of the trial, " My Lord, I am innocent of the crime,." Without betraying the slightest emotion, be turned and quitted the dock. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The supply of English wheat on offer in to-day's market was small, but the condition of the produce was good. Generally speaking, the trade was slow, yet the prices realised shewed no alteration from Monday.. With foreign wheat, the market was by no means exten sively supplied. For all descriptions the demand ruled far from active ; nevertheless, previous quotations were supported, _ _ . Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly, at late rates. There was a fair supply of barley on offer, and the trade generally was in a sluggish state, at late currencies. The supply of oats )n offer was moderately extensive. Most descriptions wero in steady request, at full prices. Beans and peas ruledfirm, at fully late rates. The market was very moderately supplied. In flour sales progressed slowly, at Monday's currency. ARRIVALS MIS WEEE. WiwaL barley. Mal t. Oats. Flout. English.— 653 530 1 1,530 40 1,470 Irish.. - I,ltm •- c °reign.-- 2,000 11,710 I eke, brie. BOROUGH HOP. The business doing in our market is restricted to the im mediate wants of buyers, yet prices, bath of English and foreign hops, rule firm. WHITECHAPEL. The supply of meat on sale is moderate, and the demand rules inactive, at the annexed quotations:-- Beef, from 2s Si to 4s 2d; mutton, Se 84 to 4s 4d; lamb, 5s 4d to Os 44 ; veal, 3s 10d to 4e 8d; and pork, 3s 2d to 4s 4,1 per 81bs by the careen. THE TERCENTENARY OF SEIAKSFERE, As a contribution to the recent festival the Messrs. Moses and Sou have lately issued au extraordinary pamphlet, which, whilst regarded as a literary curiosity, will well repay the time occu pied in its perusal. It is not often that we can say as much for pamphlets published by London trading firme, however eminent ; but, in this instance, a vast quantity of labour and reseeroh has been ex pended, and the result has been most pleasing and satisfactory. At the conclusion of a capitally written introduction, the Messrs. noses say : " o u r main purpose in this little pamphlet is not to prove that Shakepero is at the head of all the poets in the world —that wore indeed a work of supererogation—but to help to show, as far at least as one example can effect that purpose, that the recognition of his greatness on so grand and impres sive an occasion as the occurrence of his three hundredth single quarter of this vast birth-day, metropoli is nots,inwhciecnhfihniesdgteoniausnywas first developed, nor to any particular class, or rank, or profusion of tho descen dants of his follow•citizens. We eagerly, but humbly, take our small share in the general commemoration of a day that ought to be regarded with deep interest by all intel glands, but especially by every native t P oe fq thele in a country iv w se h d ich had the honour to give him birth."l enlall Then follows hundreds of quotations from the works of the immortal bard to show the importance of dress as an ornament to the person, commencing with the judicious precepts put into the mouth of Palming when parting with his son — Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For else apparel oft proclaims the man ; And they in France, of the best rank and station, Are most select and generous chief in that.—lfonlet. The little publication is exceedingly well timed, and quite worthy of being preserved amongst the pleasant recollections of the 23d of April, 1864. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—An ordinary general mcetlag of this society was held yesterday, in the council Room, South Kenslogterni when upwards of 30 new Fellows were elected. Amongst theta we noticed Lord Stratford do lkdcliffe, Lady Geo. Paulet, lion. Mrs, David Murray, Captain J. B. Martin, &c. After the election Mr. Bates gave a very interesting lecture on the Vegetation and insect Life of the Amavne ; it was illustrated by nu merous plants and a magnificent display of butterflies, which proved a great attraction to the numerous assemblage of Fellows and their friends. A QUEER CIIRISTIAN'.—Pa rson B rownloic, a cordial hater of the South, says in his paper, the Knoxville IVhig and Rebel Ventilator :—"Had we our wish we would throw hell wide open, and place all such beast-like officers an men upon an inclined plane, at an angle of 45 degrees, grease the planks with hog's lard six inches thick, with a wicket at the bottom, and send them, as one stream of traitors, robbers, and assassins, into the hottest part of the infernal regions." DR. COLENSO, before his return to Natal, will (out of motives of philanthropy, of course), publish a people's edition of his work on the Pentateuch, to be issued at a moderate price—a shilling is the standard cheap form —and to be condensed by the omission of the Hebrew criticisms. DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Monday last a shock ing accident befel Mr. James Jones, an elderly gentleman, who has for many years held the responsible position of engineer to the Oxford City Waterworks Com pany. He had made an inspection of some fittings in con nexion with the waterworks in the upper story of Mr. Joel Evans's brewery, in the parish of St. Clement, Oxford, and on reaching the bottom of the ladder he missed his footing and fell headforemost into a large vat of boiling liquid. Mr. Evans, who Preceded him down tho ladder, and some of the men, attracted by the agonising s creams of Mr. Jones, limmediately rezoned him, and medical aid was speedily at hand, but in divesting him of his clothing his flesh was literally peeled from his body, and he was removed to the Radcliffe Infirmary, where he lies in a hopeless state. The vat was entirely unprotected, and this is the third accident (two of them fatal) that has oocurred from the same cause in this neighbourhood in a few weeks. THE WAR IN DENMARK. (From the Times Special Correspondent at the Danish Head-quarters.) HoRUP-HAY, April 22. This is the last letter dated " Danish Head quarters" that will reach you from any spot in the Isle of Alsen. The officers of the Staff are to follow General Gerlach to the Island of Funen to day or to-morrow. Only one division is to be left behind for the defence of Als, under the orders of General Steinman. The Danes have hero no more than 24 pieces of field artillery left, besides such cannon as is still standing on the shattered bat• teries along the Sound. The Church Battery at Sondcrbcrg is almost untouched; not so the one near the south windmill, nor any of those on the right of the town, at Suricelcke, Baadsager, Ronhave, 8:3. New works have, however, been hrstily constructed both in the tow❑ of Soaderborg and on the sea-shore to the north of it, where sunk batteries have been substituted instead of those flimsy bastions above the level of the ground, among which the Prussian cannonade has made such tremendous havoc. With such means of de fence the Danes cannot flatter themselves to hold Alsen for days or even for hours against any earnest assailant. There is not one officer of any rink who flatters himself in the least about it ; but they have orders "to hold their ground as they best can," and are ready to immolate themselves without murmur. The very bridges before Sonderborg have been but imperfectly blown up. Long lines of pontoons still project, like piers, from the banks cn either side. It is impossible to doubt that the Prussians have it in their power to sweep the eastern shore from their vantage ground of B roager land, from Dybboll bill, from the fete-de pone, and from Ragebol, for one or two miles inland, when the patching up of those broken bridges, and the crossing over in large, irresistible masses, will be the affair of a moment. I make no mystery of this, because it must be as obvious to the Germans as it is to the Danes themselves. ' On the other hand, th© Prussians go to work with their wonted circumspection and tardiness. They are making assurance doubly sure. We see them from our watch-towers crowding the opposite shore, dawn to the very water edge,making themselves at home in the tents and barraoks the Danes left be hind them, removing the cannon from the Dybbol bastions, rearing new batteries half way between the crest and the lowest slopes of the hill, advanc- ing their r& doubted cannon within an easy atone throw of the Alsen coast. As yet, however, they have hardly fired a shot. It was given out yester day that " there was to be an armistice from 4 to 8 in the afternoon," but before and after that period of time the suspension of hostilities waa just as absolute and complete. If the Prussians aro at all inclined to act, they take a good deal of time to prepare about it. They are leisurely and delibe rately sharpening the knife 'which is to cut their victim ' s throat, and this latter awaits its doom calm and resigned, well aware that no exertion on its part can either ward off or deprecate it. Truly the sacrifice of Denmark is a melancholy spectacle for a neutral to witness. The war that id momentarily languishing here seems to be about to be removed to a distant quarter. 10,000 Prussians, we are assured, have been marched to the north, and serious apprehensions are entertained of a second bombardment of Frede ricia. It is, perhaps, for this reason that the Danish head-quarters are being removed to some place, as yet unnamed, in the island of Feuer', where they may be equally at hand to watch the progress of operations at the entrance of the Little Belt and on the Alssund. I may soon have to follow them there, but, for the present, I am anxious to guess what the designs and intentions of the Prussians really are; and, in the event of their trying to force their way across the water here, I wish to see the last downfall of Alsen—it' fall it must. The body of General Du Plat, together with those of several other cfficers, was conveyed across the strait yesterday, in a sc con d hatch, by the Prussians. Gcneral Du Plat has been the real hero of the Dyb- bol day. He was at the rear of his retreating columns, and, taking the lead of a few of his men, was show ing a bold front to the enemy, when he was struck by several rifle balls, and borne to the ground. His followers were instantly at his side, and endeavoured to lift him up ; but he declined all assistance, saying he was a dead man, and begging his friends to hold out as long as it was possible egainst the over whelming Germans. His wishes were obeyed, and he sank back, to all appearance lifeless; bat he lifted himself up again by a last effort, and his voice was still heard repeating, " Hold out, my friends ! Hold out for God and Denmark !" It was at this moment that Major Rosen, informed of the Gene. ral's fall, came up ; but he had hardly reached the spot when he was stretched by the side of his dear friend, mortally wounded. General Da Plat's corpse wore two laurel wreaths round:its head when it came into his friends hands, f inj these, the Prussian officer who came across with it informed us, were laid on the brow of the dead hero by no 10b .,c illustrious bands than those of Prince Frederick Charles :mei. Marshal Wran gel,who wished to show before the ey of their whole army in what estimation they held en e. 7 emy's valour. Pity the General's gallantry did not en,;.itlo him to have his boots restored to him; but the Puma" are evi dently mad after Danish shoe-leatht.:', and the bodies of all, without exception , w ho fe:.l on the Dybbol heights were brought bask to na in their souks. THE CONFERENCE. Tho following are the resolutions of the Frank fort Diet on the subject of the Conference— " 1. To accept the invitation to the Conference proposed by the British Cabinet ; and, consequently to request the President to send a reply to the notes of the Plenipotentiary of Great Britain, under the dates of 23d and 26th ultimo, conformable to the pro ject proposed by the united Committees. "2. To send to the Conference a representative of the Confederation, and to select for that purpose a statesman who does not belong to the German States already represented at the Conference. "3. To proceed immediately to the election of the said Plenipotentiary, by ballot. " 4. To request the President of the Diet to take all such measures as might ulteriorly appear neces sary." The Plenipotentiary of the Confederation to re ceive the following instructions:— " 1. To exert all his efforts to assure the recap. nition of the right of the Germanic Confederation, and of the Duchies of Holstein, of Schleswig, and of Lautnburg, and especially to obtain the greatest possible independence for these latter. 6 . 12. To avoid as much as possible all dissension between the German Plenipotentiaries at the Con ference, to concert preliminarily with the represen tativEs of Austria and of Prussia, whenever any im portant deliberation is to be brought forward, the representatives of the said Powers being equally invited to follow the same example under analogous circumstances." The Bavarian representative proposed to substi tute tile following, i d nstead of the words, " to obtain t h e greatest possible independence for the Duchies *,— "To endeavour to obtain the recognition of the rights of the hereditry Prince of Augustenburg as Duke of Schleswig Holstein, aud, eonbequently, the complete teparation of the Duchies from Denmark.' The Bavarian amendment was rejected by the Diet. AN EARTHQUAKE has been felt at Presbourg. No accident occurred. M. Allard, a distinguished painter of Lyons, who at the commencement of the winter went to Rome with his mother, wife, and four children, to study the great masters, has just been murdered in his studio. When found he was in a dying state, hav ing receivLd no less than 16 wounds on the head with a heavy instrument. The murderer is believed to be a man who had sat to him as a model for a picture representing Judas giving the kiss to our Saviour. The model was sitting for the figure of the betrayer. The man has been since arrested at CivitaYeechia. 1 CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : MARSEILLES, April 26. The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived here at 11 a.m. to-day. The mails left for London at 11.30 a.m. LONDON GAZETTE.—Last Evening. At the Court at Osborne, Isle of Wight, the 26th day of April—present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. This day the Right lion. Sir James Plaistecl Wiide, Knight, stud the Right llon. Henry Austin Bruce, M.P., were, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Hononrabl Privy Council, and took their respective places at the Board accordingly, DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 25. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieut.-Colonel Henry Fitzharding Berkeley Maxse (Lieutenant-Governor) to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Island of Heligoland. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Peter Better, John Gottlob Bufe, and Michael Jaspers, Esqrs., to be members of the Executive Council of the Island of Heligoland. Her Majesty hat further been pleased to eppoint Knutz Nohren Michels, Henry Gatke, Peter Botter, Kruger Franz, Joachim Rickmer Stoldt, Peter Jasper Michels, John Gottlob Bufe, Nickels Peter Block, Conrad Payens , Jasper Friedericks Payens, Herrmann Ehricks, and John Deucher, Esqrs., to be members of the Legislative Council of the Island of Heligoland. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, APRIL 23, The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lieut.- Colonel John Augustus Todd to be Exon ot her Majesty's Roy al Body Guard .of the Yeomen ot the Guard, vice Cap min Barron, resigned. APRIL 25. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the Right Hon. Lord Foley, to appoint Paget John Bourke, Esq., late Captain llth Foot, one of her Majesty's Honour able Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice R. 11. S. Vyvyan, Esq., resigned., The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the Right lion. Lord Foley, to appoint Sussex L. A. B. Mee siter, Esq., late Captain 28tn Foot, one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice S. It. Dampier, Etq., resigned. CROWN OFFICE, APRIL 26. MEMBER RETVRNED TO SERVE IN TILE PRESENT PAR LIAMENT. Borough of Merthyr Tydvil—lrenry Austin Bruco, Esq., Vice-President of the Committee of Privy Council on Education. WAR• OFFICE, PALL-MALL, APRIL 26. 9th Lancers--Cornet Charles Agnew to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Greaves Blake, who retires— Cornet Edward Philippe Mackenzie to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Charles Ashburnham Floyd, who retires —Ensign Hamilton Hamilton Johnston, from the 56th Foot, to be Cornet, vice Agnew—Henry Augustus Candy, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Mackenzie. 18th Hussars—Lieutenant Thomas Fuller to be Captain, by purchase, vice William Henry O'Shea, who retires— Cornet Arthur Octavius Hughes to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fuller—James Stuart, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hughes. Bth Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant William Theobald But • ler to be Captain, by purchase, vice Angus William Hall, who retires—Ensigu Matthew Liddon to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Butler—Henry Harcourt Horn, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Liddon. 10th Foot—Lieutenant Ernest Archibald Berger to be Captain, by purchase, vice John Edmund Whaite, who retires—Ensign henry Handley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Berger—George Frederick Trevor Parker, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Handley—Lieu tenant William Whitla to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Berger, promoted. 14th Foot—Sergeant-Major John Mills to be Quarter master, vice James Spry, appointed Lieutenant in 17th Foot. 17th Foot—Lieutenant James Spry, from ,Quartermaster 14th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Arthur Hare Palmer, who retires upon temporary half-pay—Ensign Richards Horwood Thinning to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jams Spry, who retires—Robert Loring, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase. vice Dunning. 21st Foot—Lieutenant George Albert Grant to be Captain, by purchase, vice F. R. E. Burnside, who retires—En sign Kinnear Browne to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Grant—James George Proudfoot, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Browne. 22d Foot—Henry Hall, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stuart, transferred to the 86th Foot. 51st Foot—Qnartermaster William Sibbald, from 89th Font, to be Quartermaster, vice Thomas Lawrence, cashiered by the sentence of a General Court-Martial. 56th Foot—John A. F. Austen, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Johnston, transferred to the 9th Lancers. 58th Foot—Lieut. Joseph Barrington Deacon to be Adju tant, vice Lieut. W. J. Hall, who resigns the appoint- men t. 78th Foot—Quartermaster -Sergeant Alexander Weir to be Quartermaster, vice Charles Skrine, appointed Paymaster. 86th Foot—Ensign Hartwell Ilarvoy Stuart, from the 22d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Henry Francis Lineyd, who retires. 00th Foot—Ensign James Charlton Shirley to Le Lieute nant, by purchase, vice William Ritchie, who rctires— William llenry Adolphus Denys, to be Ensign, by pur . chase, vice Riftley. 102 d Foot—Captain Frank Samwell, late her Majesty's In dian Military Forces, to be Paymaster. 103 d Foot—Ensign Hugh Do is Mottee Hervey, from the 105th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Edward Bonitaly Gardi ner, deceased. Rifle Brigade—Lieutenant Edmund George Johnson, to be Captain, by purchase, vice the Hon. Arthur Annes• ley, who retires; Ensign George• Anson Hillyard to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Johnson; nookes Evelyn Crompton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ilyard, 3d %Vest India Regiment—Captain Robert William Har ley to be Major, by purchase, vice A. Dunlop, promoted, by purchase, in 2d West India Regiment; Lieutenant William John Close to be Captain, by purchase, vice Harley; William Everitt Last, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vico Stewart, promoted. Cape Mounted Rifleman—Lieutenant Charles B. Marshall to be Captain. without purchase, vice E. A. Lynar, whose promotion, on 22d March, 1864, has been can celled; Ensign William Henry Sans to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Edward Alexander Lynar, who retires. DEPOT BATTALlON.—Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Major, John Dennis Swinburne, from the 83d Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Major, Edwin Griffiths, who retires upon half-pay. STAFF.—The appointment of Brevet-Colonel li. Hamilton, C. 13 , 78th Foot, as Deputy-Adjutant-Genera: in Ceylon, to bear date 26th November, 1860, and not 6th of that month, as then notified in " Gazette," DNATTACHED.--BreVet-0010Del Henry Law Maydwell, from Major half-pay Depot Battalion, to be Lieutenant- Colonel, without purchase. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—The transfer to the Staff of Assistant• Surgeon Henry Knaggs, from the Cape Mounted Riflemen, to bear dato 29th March, 1864. CHAPLAIN'S/DEPARTMENT.—The Rev. James L. Moody, M.A., Chaplain cf the Fourth Class, to be Chaplain of the Third Class. BREVET. Lieutenant-Colonel Roberi William Lowry, 47th Foot, having completed the qualifying service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel under the Royal War rant of 14th October, 1858. The Commission as Brevet-Colonel of Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Celonel the lion. Charles Dawson Plunkett, t Foot, has been antedated to 12th September, 1863. tmastor, with the honorary rank of Major, Edwin • retired upon half pay, late of a depot battalion, to Griffith', have the morary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. ADMIRALTY, Arran 22. ht Infantry—Second Lieutenant Edward Royal Marine Lig. of the Woolwich Division, to be First William Sampeos.. citham Division, vice E. Willis to Lieutenant at the CI: half-pay, BANKIYPTS , , --- -- The following are the only upts of commercial im portance in the Gazette: — Edward Martin, boiler maker. Bromic) . William Johnson, wino merchant, liollou.ly Austin Johnson, draper, Sevenoaks, Kent Mary Gibson Richardson, stationer, Camden 'Own James Greenwood, pork butcher, Aldershot George Coppen, grocer, Lewisham, Kent David A. Singer, tailur, Poland-street , Oxford - street John F. S. Goday, attorney, Sudbury George Sewell, jun., baker, Walworth Charles Fysh, grocer, Peterborough Richard Hirst, commission agent, Huddersfield William N. Dingley, coal merchant, Liverpool Henry Burns, boo:makcr, Liverpool William Smelt Ludlow, warehouseman, Aldermanbury William Frederick Wir.dharu, stage coach proprietor, Paddington James Pinfold, innkeeper, Banbury William F. Slipper, butcher, Bayswater George Oldham, shirt maker, London -wall, City David Burwood, upholsterer, Clapham John Meakin, tea dealer, Macclesfield James Whork, poulterer, Manchester Edward Edwards, dairyman, Manchester . . . BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Joseph Nicholls, clerk, Dudley Henry Augustus Barton, Pimlico SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Donald M'Lood, painter, Inverness Grigor Burgess, tlesher, Grantown, Inverness-shire James Goudie, blacksmith, Drumgrear, Ayrshire Walter Logan, stationer, Ayrshire Thomas Cooke Barlow, wine merchant, Glasgow France and Morrison, wool spinners, Alva Moses 111.'Coy or M'Kay, grocer, Milton, Dumbartonshire Course of the Exchange.--Yesterday.; Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 12 0 12 US Antwerp — 25 571 25 621 Brussels — 25 671 25 621 Ilamburgh — 13 81 13 91 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine — 1191 119 Vienna Trieste peter burgh Berlin — Madrid . ... 47/ 4SI Cadiz Leghorn .. 25 621 25 t7± •Milan Genoa — 25 621 25 671 Naples Palermo .. 25 65 25 7(1 Messina — 25 65 [25 70 Lisbon r^ 51/ 62 3porto..•^ • —61 b Foreign Gold in Bars (Statidati), per 0z.... £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) THE TOILETTE OF THE EMPRESS OF MEXICO comprises, ,:mong other things, it is sai ', 52 splendid ball and state dresses, one for each week in the first year of her Majesty's feign. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day, BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. NEWMARKET RACES.—Tms DAY. PRINCE OF WALES' STAKES. King of the Vale Reserve Five ran. £5O HANDICAP PLATE. Atlas ........ I Disappointment 2 Moulsey . Fourteen ran. Won by a neck. A length between second and third. SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS. The Warrior Procella Four ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS. War Dance .......... . 1 Verger ............................................ IWO-YEAR-OLD PLATE. La Mechante Shrupnell .. ......................... 2 Nineteen ran. SPORTING NOTES: The result of The Two Thousand Guineas turned out exactly as I predicted in The - Sun of Monday the judge's decision and THE FRESH MAN'S pro.. phecy entirely coinciding with each other. Wi th regard to The One Thousand Guineas, to te decided to-morrow, I see no reason to alter the opinion I• expressed on Monday, and shall again endeavour to forestall the judge by placing MASQUERADE SARDINIA MOLLEY CAREW 3 A FRESH MAN. INIPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—This Day, The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. H. A. BRUCE the new Vice-president of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education, took tho oaths and his seat on his re-election for Merthyr Tydvil. CHURCH RATES COMMUTATION BILL. On the order of the day for the second reading of this bill, Mr. HADFIELD objected that this was a bill relating [o taxation, and ought to be considered in a committee of he whole house by resolution. The SPEAKER, having cited some cases, overruled the objection. Mr. NE WDEGATE then proceeded to move a second rending of the bill, which proposes to substitute for church rates an annual charge of 2d in the pound, to be deducted by the tenant on paying his rent, unless he has made an agreement to the contrary. This church charge would be counted into the county and borough rates, and the amount placed in the hands of the governors of Queen Anne's Bounty as trustees, and to them a ratepayer übjecting to a proposed expenditure might appeal, and ultimately to the Lords Justices. But a certain proportion of the ratepayers, with the leave of the vestry, might obtain from the quarter sessions an order exempting the parish from liability to church charge if no church rate had been levied for the last seven years, or if within those years a proposal for a rate has ban on three successive oocasions rejected on a poll. The bill allowed the order of exemption to be revoked on the application of the ratepayers. He was not sanguine of carrying the bill; but ho trusted the house would consent to read the bill a second time, when he should move that it be referred to a select committee. Sir C. DOUGLAS objected to dealing with the question of church rates at the present time, because it had been decided by most parties to go to the hustings and fight the question upon the dissolution of the present Parliament. He hoped that if the present Government should be in office on the assembling of the new Parliament they would take up this difficult question and deal with it as a Govern ment measure. He, therefore, moved, as an amendment, that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. SALT supported the second reading of the bill. [LEFT SITTING.] The Primrose-hill Meeting, TO THE EDITOR OF THE. SUN. Stn,—As ono who was present at the Garibaldi meeting on Primrose-hill, permit me to state that the reports of the same are not incorrect as Sir George Grey insinuates they are, and that the conduct of a large body of police was scandalous. Sir George Grey says that only three con stables were present. I saw a large body, and so did thou, sands.—Yours, FOR THE WHOLE TRUTH, 71 Thayer-street, Manchester-square, April 27. SHIPPING-THIS DAY• LONDON, April 27.—Wind this day at noon—North; moderate breeza and fine weather, but cloudy. FALMOUTH, April 26.—Wind Et—Arrived—Anguepas from Mauritius. CLTDII, April 26.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Britannia, steamer, from New York. Sailed—Cumberland, for New York. Sr•NsuA, April 25.—Wind E.—Arrived—Rome, from. Santander. On PALMOITTH, April 26.—Wind E.—Arrived—Talbot, from Calcutta. PORTSMOUTH, April 25.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—New castle, from Calcutta. NEwr, owr, April Z.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Rochester, for New York, BRISTOL. April 25,—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Britannia, from Matancis. ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Morning. Passed up Channel, off this port, yesterday morning, the ship Manila, and in the evening the ship Talbot, both from Calcutta, for London. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, April 26—Alliance, from Gothenburg; Ban dion, from Uddowalla—Helena, from Porto Rico. Arrived, April 27—Neptune, from Krageroe—Princo Albert, from Guernsey—Frederick Maria, from Nykoping —Oak, from Ghent—Ligerleon, from Jamaica —Susan Gray, from Oporto—Kron Pinsen, from Landscona— 'Bolus, from Krageroe—Walhalla, from Sannesund— Neptunus, from Warborg. Sailed, April 27—Rainbow, steamer, for Calais--Gustaf Wass, steamer, for Gothenburg—Belgium, steamer, for Ostend. DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed—Spray of the Ooean, trona London for Sydney.— Ellen, for Barcelona—Sea Serpent, for Alicante—Edith, for Shanghai—all from Shields. Anchored—Western Bottom, from Corfu for London—. Emma Ives, from Matanzas for Hamburg, ANOTHER MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT THROUGH FIRE.—A lamentable accident occurred on Monday to Mrs Conway, residing in Sutherland-street, Westbournc. grove. Mrs Conway was in her dressing room attiring herself for the purpose of proceeding to an evening party, -hen by some means the flames of a candle on the dress. ing .,..shie caught a lace cap placed on the looking-glass. Mrs c on ,. -ay instantly snatched the cap from the glass, and throwit,:r it on the floor imprudently attempted to extinguish at the time; but inst ea d o f en the flames by tramplin g on th em , when the fire ominunicatod itself to h er d ress. A sorvaut was in the ro.otn deavouring to assist her mistress, she ran screaming frons the room, and on the other inmates rushing into the apart ment the unfortunate lady was discovered running wildly about the room and completely enveloped in times. Mr. Conway, w:th great presence of mind, immediately stripped off his coat and threw it over her and succeeded in extin guishing the fire, but not before the greater part of the lady's dress had been burned and various parts of her per son seriously injured. Iler recovery is despaired of. TESTIMONIAL TO A POLICE INSPECTOR.-.4l:lSpe t . for Whicher, who for thirty years held an appoi n t_ ment in the detective departLrtent of the metropolitan police,,, and had risen to be ono of the chiefs of the detective force at Scotland-yard, took his leave of the service on Saturday last, retiring upon a pension of £5O per annum. Advan tage was taken of the occasion, and, Lis brother offioera having assembled in a body, presented their' late inspector with a magnificent massive gord signet ring, of th e value of £5O, manufactured expressly for him, and engraved with the monogram "J. W." Mr. Whicher, in thanking hi s brother inspectors and the sergeants who had served under him for this proof of their regard, said he was WO' to fi nd he quitted the force with the csteem and good wishes of those around hint. HENDERSON, in hie sr.,;cond character in London,. Hamlet, came into more direct coutres; with Gar• rick, whose greatest idolaters found heavy fault in Hender eon's young Dane for flinging away his uncle' s picture— subsequent to the famo us speech i n which he compares the portraits of his fath er and uncle. On the following night, he retained the pi c t ure i n h i s hand, and the same party ridiculed him, on t h e ground that if he was ri g ht the filet night, he mu s t necessar ily have been wrong the second! Ho was said, too, not to have man a g ed his hat p ro p erl y ore first seeing th e Gh os t ; and similar carpings were made against th e new actor , only to hear those words " the fair ° Pheno I" peoph went, as to the most exquisite mu s i c. But what was that to the Garrick faction who pronounced him disqualified, because in the closet scene he did not, i n his agitation, upset the chair. " 61r. Garrick, sir, always overthrew the chair:"—Their Majesties' Sovants, by Doran. FIVE YOUNG PERSIAN GENTLEMEN have arrived in England to be educated at the expense of their own Government, under the care of his Excellency Mahmoud Khan, the Persian Minister iu this country. stock stock stook 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock stook 100 - 100 10 stock stook stock 20 stock 50 100 stock stock stock I I -..