The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-07 00:00:00

AND 001121ZRCIAL INTELLIGENCE, Share CITY, TWELV E O 'C LOCK . There is n 9 change in th e pos i t i on of the Money Marketc to.day. I ts supplies tre still largely in exs of ordinary commercial requirements, and competition being thus promoted among the banks and discount houses, the rates continue to range as low as 6 4 I per cent. for superior qualities of mer. cantile bills. The opiniun is entertained in some quarters that th e minimum will be reduced on urs day next t o th e extent of 1 per cent., but the 43'7e/tent, sh ou ld i t take place, will occasion no elir Plise, as its adoption within a limited period is fully anticipated. The I(nt has arrived from Port Phillip with I Xl5 , 528 . T here were no bullion operations at the Bank Yesterday. Business in the Fereign and Colonial Produce Algricets during the last few days has not been very Ref ire. The operations in tea have been deferred r .. h tii the public sales, which commence to-day. ilgars have maintained former rates, while there f la lit tle chan ge o f i mportance to record in the values a ,°as rice, fruit, an d sp i ces. The tallow market been dull, and few dealings have been reported either for present or forward delivery. At the annual general meeting to-day of share. holders of the Bank of British North America the re p o rt Presented for adoption •etated that the trade ° i f t he North A merican provinces showed consider "le improvement. At Victoria, Vancouver Island, the business of the bank continued to make satis factory progress, and an agency had been t he ° Pened at S an Francisco. As regards 1863, directors had made ample provision to nl eet all anticipated losses, and there remained a nett profit for that year, after deducting charges and income tax, of £61,413 14s. 7d. Out of this diamount the directors had declared a half -yearly vidend, payable on and after the sth July next, t the rate of 6 per cent., per annum, free of income taz. The sum of £1,413 14s. 7d. will then be left to be added to the rest, which, including that addi. tion and after providing for the dividend paid in January,iast, and for the deduction of £lO,OOO, above referred to, amounted on the 31st December, 1863, to £120,024 2s. 10d. The chairman, Mr. A. W. 3-affray, observed that a loss estimated at £lO,OOO bad occurred in consequence of the depreciated value of American securities, and that that amount had been taken from the rest and carried to the in. den:laity fund. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning, according to Reuter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 66f. 95c. Sales to close engagements for a rise in prices, coupled with the general inactivity of business, f av e led t o a decline of per cent. i n th e E ng li sh , tlil dei Cons o l s now b eing 90 for money and s to, d°, and 90f, for the Bth J u ly. The st 1 1 ) ,receedi ngs present very little feature of interest. Bn h e New Threes and Reduced Annuities are el ; India 5 per C ents., 104 t ; and Enfaced 6 1 Per Cents. 104 105. A general decided decline has taken place in th e F o • rei gn Mark e t, an d b us i ness is quiet. Turkish 6 Per Cents., 1862, are 71 I; do Consolidks have re cedes to 48 ; M ex i can, to 441 -I; do. Ne w Loan, et 3 di. to par; G ree k , 24 ; Spani-h Passive, 31i et 3,2 k Portugu ese are 49 , Italian 691-, Russian S cr i p 4 ,1 prem., S we di sh do. 2-3- 3b preen., and th e Con lederate Loan 65 66. hah 14 the Rail way Sh are M arket the operations st o n '43 not been ver y numerous, b ut in several in- stt a neee prices have exhibited a slight downward s t"verneot. Great Eastern and Metropolitan have 9t , re ceded 1 55.; South Western, 10s.; and Great ti Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire, ss. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings continue 4 t about previous quotations. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have remained j eactive, and prices, in some instances, show lees firmness. Alliance Bank new shares have receded 1, Imperial Ottoman ; I, London and Colonial Merchants Bank I, London and Westminster : 1 1 , ,Aletr o p o li tan and Provincial 1 ; while City Batik 11've improved 1, Peninsular and Oriental Steam have declined 71. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 3 vs OVERNSIENT FUNDS. V 3,1. Cent. Consols hitt ° A. May 8 ceount,9o bt x,Per Cent. Reduced "ew 3 per Cent Maxon. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2/ & 3 per Cent. Ditto £6OO B Ditt o £lOO and £2OO 239 imuk England Star, 6i per Ct. Ditto Account.. Akr l IMI tor GOVERNMENT SECtTRITIES. ita Stock, Ditto 5 per Cent. Cent., April 1874 — July, 1870 Di tto Ac count Ditto 4 per Cent. Oct, 1888 — ~ ,Dittori° Certificates .u.rsit te 'Blifaced Paper, 4 per Cent 104 -- 6 6 . per Cent., Jan. 1872 !Jac° Lit 0 1 per Cent. May, 1879 — --"tto Debentures, per Ct., April 1864 Dltto Dibontto ds El, d o itto Aug., 1866 00 Ditt o under £l,OOO •••• i R EIGN FUNDS —CLOSING PRI CES, .kastrianO Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 8 it to 1859 razilianDs per Cent ..... . Di tto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 tiell OS — Ayres 6 O.r Cent....... D itto Account o,Nto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) -- L ilian 6 per Cent Nur, 41 pei Ce n t ................. cilornbian 6 per Ce n t ~qba,, 6 p er C ent. "' a ,,llish 3 per C en t., 1825 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1863 — b Ditto Scrip £7O paid .. pm ''''' t , I.4ador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. 13i -4ptiati 7 per Cent -- cs bitto_, Second Issue 'N 'ee k 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. ,itto Account i t y it to Coupons 0 Itto Account Llatelnala 5 per Cent. _— It a T itt O, 1839 and 1859 - , - :, 41,1 b Per Cent.plareinnaana Railway) -'''oati 3 per Cent Ditto Acco unt 14 1)i tto French Scrip, Ex 25f 20c ;5l dis uri 4 ° 811 Imperial 5 per Cent ''' Granada • D .. Ditto 2 per Cent..... it . t( , Deterred _ P Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) ' Ovis 4! per Cent .. D itto Acbount... . ) _ ,-iitt o 3 per Cent. (Cribarren) .. 861 uitto 43 per Cent., 1862 tlitt p, . e Account _ j t j'ill t ;These 3 per Cent., 1853 1, - to Account . . •• .uitt . , ‘ b 6 '7 '9 1) . o 3 per Cent., 18 , ) 2 '6O, 62,'3 49 8 eto Account 4 uto 186 3 Scrip, £4O paid - 1 ,l'!Biatio 5 per Cent., 18.2 2 £ St — Litt 4 1 per C ent., 1850 .. !?!otto 3 per Cent 1859 .. Ditto2itt 5 per Cent 1862 Anglo-Du?ch SardinianDitto Scrip, £2O paid Pm 6 per Cent ......... . ... cipatft Oitto AM:2lll2i .. p t i sh 3 per Cer.l; ................ pittitto Account •.............. o New Deferred . . ....... JJltto Ace° t bitt o p 1111 Ditt o aaal ve Zip,iii tiAccoun, 324 2 1 Cert. of Coup not funded — it ) Su. Ac ,. !ut 9- 110 -helash, 4 I _i ll° v _ Per Cent . Pal Ilri c i sh ' ‘ ," 1 , 1 3 , £4O paid bit, : - u Per Cent. 1854 — Lia o Account .o i ,` , !: 6 Per Cent. 185 S t!. Account ...... 691 h'.ctto, £lOO Bonds — Ditto/.! t ° 6 Per Cent. 1862 Ditto . 711 1 Account £lOO Bonds.. bit, Ditto 1863 -- lii,ettht,r Gu aratteed, 4 per Cent. bf,.-,aela 3 per Cent. 1)40'0 Account 13:, u per Cent 1832 ..,to A " 1),,, coolant.. . 56k ditto 6 Per Cent, 1864 it to , I , p. . ...... Di v , per Cent A,14 .utv.dends on the above payable in Lond .11 el, t Pn, 5 per Cent. ___ Ex. It) F10rin5...... I)irttl 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f. 4tl,_to Account. ....... Di tto e u, l per Cent., Ex. 12 Gliiil i ta l i 4 per Cent. Certificates D itto 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — P e "to Aeconnt ................. . .... 691 Pi:•rian Dollar Bonds, 41 per CtEx. 4s. taontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f . C . T HREE O'CLOCZ . 0 11. (1 1 bi tt , A' „ Pcotztkt I, lZey ........ 90 A q -" (1/-17:1 1r - klii --SHARE Railways. 'his day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOu&S. Paid. Closing j Business Price. • done. 8 8i 9 83 R 5 118 119 13.14. Bir., Wol., and Str, V?,'. Blythe and I'm'. l'es t ,`, ;ieat.,andgid.Co. , 'isristol and Exeter i Caledonian .::orik cud Bandon Cornwall Do A (A Lets no dig D o. B Still6pc.pan.has baid to . Dublin - & eedn lielf p a3t June ß . Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. 'Edinburgh & Glasgow. el lasg. and S. Western. GreatEaStern, Ord. etli Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian et GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do ti do '3t. S. an 1 W. of Irelanc (3 reat Western ...... Do Str Val tat. stool, Laneadilre & 'Yorkshire London and Blackwal Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lou,, Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & Scr.th Wester] Alan., Shet., & Lincoln, Alarypon and Carlisle. Do 4 5hare5........ ii etropoli tan Vlidland Do New Do Binning. & Derby ‘lld. Gt. W. of Ircian, Do. 1 shares :Aid Relit Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwie. Do, G.N.E. purchas Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle.... North London Do New 'North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central 'Scot N. E. ' Aber. stool, Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and Welolipoo, Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York, and River Dun Staines, Wok.,undWok. Stockton & Darlington . Do Do New, IS OG Taff Vale. . Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta, and Pim 1 Waterford & Kilkenny! West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland - -Omlord, Do Newport I Do Hereford' all 100 all 100 100 6 7 35 37 16 17 91 93 103 105 461 7i 6i 7 130 131 HO 14. 128 01 03 05 al 111 112 ; t 7 IC4 106 41 43 111 1111 974 98i 134 344 113 )14 1301 131; 101 1(3 601 61 244 t 54 1014 102 574 58, 89i 130 123 123 16 2b 78 79 1O 11; 121 123 36 38 54 66 33 85 flog :oj 10i 106 7} Si E6l 371 9} 10 8 8 165 17 0 ( 6 7 3 E p 105 110 23 25 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Rallwus ta) !Atlantic & Lawrene( k j Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Infl Gu. 5 per cent.. 20 Do. New .. . 20 Do. E. Shares 204 Buffalo and Lake Huron 10 Do. Preference DO l_inftalo,Brant,&Godrich dg. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 187*.z )0 Do. do. July 1, 1870 )0 Do. de. June 1, Id:, it Cleutta.ezS.Eastn. (Li!, st CepeTowu Dock Seri i ocklEastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. rek h:ast Indian. gm. 5 p. c. 20 Do. do. G Ext..... 20 Do. do. H do. .. )ok Grand Trunk of Canada )0 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. )0 Do. no. deferred...... ?0 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. 10 Do. do. deferred...... )0 Do. 3d P, ef. stock ... * Do. do. deferred...... 10 Do. 4th Pref. stock... K) Do. do. deferred-- ,ok GLlndtaPeniu.gua.sp.c 0 Do. New gua. sp. 0... Do. January, 1862 ok Gt. South.of India(Lim uaranteed 5 per cent. 10} Gt. W. of Canada Shares tei Do. New K) Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. 00. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.... .0 Indian Branch Limited ,elt Madras guar., 5 p. o. ok Do. 41 p. o. Extensiou , ok 1 %c . 4A d 0........ O Do. Fifth Extension. ick )Iclb.Corp. np. o. Bnds O Arelb. & Ilobson's Bay. 0 Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. O Scw Br arswickce Cauch. Class A an a B .. 1/0 18 E1/1 bth, N.ll,l•C'dati ;ocl. Soinde ..........) ock Du. De1hi....., 10 Do. do ..... . Do. Punjaub •• • t D u. )ok Do. Indus. St. Flo.) " char: UULUNIAL GOVEIO 6p.c.Ja &Jul 3 1677-81 .... = i Do. Ap. c. Feb. et Aug . - - Do. d P. c. & Sept. Do. 6 p. c. Jan.&July. I Do. 15 Inscribed stocks - l'npeG.Hope, 8p 0,187.9 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 Do. 189( • Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6 p Mauritius 6 per cent ;Natal Gov. 6 per cent p.c.Ja.hJul) 6 p. c.Ap. & Oct. IN. S.W. Gov. 5 p 1S,;( - Do. 5 p. c.,18/9 to L'7( - Do. do.,;888 &upwds New Zealand 6 p cent. ' Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 Queensland Gcv. 6p. c Is. Aus G 6p.c. 1878. &up - !Vlc.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July - Do. to 5 p.0..A.n.&00t.. all all 2 100 100 100 all 100 (100 , 100 2 all 1 Do k 100 ilEn 100 100 100 100 100 Paid, 7 ! all all 1.0(1 Closing 60 6 103 i 104: 400 100 100 100 100 100 park p Ga 84 94 77 82 77 82 77 82 101 103 98 100 106 108 1051 ;o6i P 2vi 211 73 15 61 64 66 68 55 S - 50 5! 43 *5 29 31 27 30 105 106 P 102 101 10 101 10i 10i 90 g 2 82 81 par ip 104 103 97 og 94 94 56 58 3 6 82 Z. 4 [O3 101 [024 1034 d ip 024 104 96 98 1058 61 165 f tii 121 1031 1 21 103 k 2k w 3 21 T SECURITIE. 'lO4 106 163 105 102 104 9: 84 91 93 106 108 107 109 R 9 111 110 112 110 112 106 108 107 IC9 102 104 99i 1001 991 10061 994 IGOil 10J 111 104 100 108 110 110 112 104 03 } 09 110 100 j i 4 ar id! 33 35 560 670 63 65 1091 ~~.E3. BRITISH MI 2 ' oambrian Consol. Gold .tAlfrord Amalgamated Devon G. Cons. (Taoist } East Bassett (Illogan) i East Clogau Gold Ltd. I East Caradon ...... East Carn Brea E. WI Russel (Tavistk , - Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gtven jGreat South Tolgus..., - Wheal Vor (llelston {Grenville... Foot - tlingston Downs Lady Bertha 'Margaret (tiny Lelant )1 arke Valley.. 4 :Ilyndy Iron Oro (Lim !New Seton • North Downs 'I Basse t (.11104 - an i - .Corth Wheal Crotty Par Consols (st. Blaze) 2) rrovidenee(Uny J , SoutliCaradon(St.Cleer 'S. Cam Brea (Illogan) 1 - IS.Wheal Fran. (Illognn - Stray Park ramar Silv.‘t Lead Min 1r in Crott : West Basset (Illog,an) W C. , radon (Liskeard' , West Seton 111 - hea I Basset (Mogan ; 1I heal Buller(ltedruth; - J Wheal Kitty (li.Lelant,), j Wheal Lad, Ott - Theal MaryAnn , ,,ilv en ) I Wheal Seton Wheal. Trelawney (Lis )! IVheal Union :3.4.0 8.13.0 581 0.10. r 8.12 4.18.0 2.8,6 01, 4.3 0 191 3.1.0 2.6.9 10.0.7 11 ts.l4.v' 30.17.61 4f 85 t d 2.0.8 68i 3.17 40 45 29 31 171 18i 94 ioi 16 18 180 190 90 95 30 35 11 21 14 16 220 230 19 21 1i 2 34 5 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western Orig. 46 per cent. pl, 98 Mid .Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Di. to. Bristol and Birm., 6 prr cent., Midland 44 per cent. pf. stk. rd., 1016 Midland, Leicester and Hitchin 4.per et.,793 PREFEmENcE SHARES AND STOCKS. South Eastern 46 per cent., 1859, 97 LINES LEASED Ar FIXED RENTALS. London and Greenwich, 611 Northern and Eastern 5 per cent., 55} 5 Shrew bury and Hereford, 130 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 91 Bahia and San Francisco (11m.) gua. 7 per cent., 171 Great Luxembourg, 10 Sambre and Meuse, per cent. pf., 91 San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., Ilt Ditto (all), 201 20 FOREIGN MINES. Cobre Copper, 34i 5 East del Rey (lira.), Fortuna (limo, 4 Santa Barbara Gold Mine (lira.), St. John del Rey (lira.), 43j DOCKS. London, 751 BANK& Alliance (lim.), 61 1 Ditto, new, 52 4 1 2 A. A u n s g t i r o a ia sia, 3 Austrian, 7 71 g Ditto, new, 571 Bank of British Columbia, 11 1 Bank of otago, Jim., 5 Bank of Queensland (litn), El Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 141 14 City, 13 1 Consolidated Bank, lim., Continental, lim., 181 East-London, lim., Ditto, new, 8 English and Irish, lira., 16 151 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 211 European Bank, 1im.,'131 13 1 Hindustan, uhina, and Japan (11m.),-- Ditto, new, 15, 16 Imperial Bank (lim.). 41n1 Imperial Ottoman, 20:1 19 Laid Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 67, I London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lim., 6 51 61 London Bank of Scotland, Mtn., 19 4 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, Ditto, new, 6 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 26 London and Colonial (lim.), 181 19 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchange, Jim,, 21 Loudon Joint Stock, 47 . LondonLond oand London and 11 e u s t t h m A i nfislteear, 04 African, 2., Merchant Bank, lim 25 i a Mercantile and Exchange, lim., 191 Ditto, new, 14 M etropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 31 34 Oriental Bank Corporation. 60 Scinde, Punjab, and lint.,:l3i South Estern, Um., 51 Union of London,sB; Aust al . ia MISCELLANEOUS. n Mort Lard and Finance, .130;1 City Offi Ga s , iirn , .51 Continentalces, Union Gas, um., ei 100 100 100 6.11.4 100 100 10) Bosineßa don, 1'74 3; 4; THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1864. MI SC E LLANEOUS—Continued. Contract Corporation, lira., 5 / 41 Credit Fonder, 14',1 Crystal Palace, 32, 3 Discount Corporation, 16 Egyptian Cora. and Trading, lim. 5 / Financial Corporation,' .4 3/ Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Km., if 1 Home and C donial Assurance, lira., 64 / Hudson's Bay, 19 Imperial Financial, lim.. 7i 1 Indian Carrying, lim., 11 International Financial society, him, log g International Land Credit. lira., 41 Joint Stock Discount, lira., 71:/ Land Securities, Urn., 41 London Financial Association, lim, - - Ditto, new, 151 London General Omnibus Company, 27, Mercantile Credit Association, lim., 14 13i / National Discount Company, lint, 14 3 Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 83 Rhyrtiney Iron, - Ditto. new, 7/ Royal Mail Steam, 90 i 90 Smith, Knight, ftlli Co., lirn.; 51 1 Societe Fina, ciere d'Eg,ypte, 1im.,:51 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lim., Trust and Loan Company rf Upper Canada, . Universal Marine,, Insurance, lira., 58 LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. 1 Mr Rc.lt said it was April 6. She made another strug gle, for in one of her letters she said that Major D had called upon her and had sought to ascertain whether or not she was really engaged to Major Yelverton, a fact he was not likely to find out. The Lord Chancellor said the next letter was one of the most beautiful he ever read. Mr. Rolt fully admitted the beauty of its composition, but contended that it proved the virtual abandonment of negotiations between them. About the letter ho submitted there could not be the slightest doubt or ambiguity. Lord Brougham inquired whether that letter did not mean that Major Yelverton ought not to have proposed to her a private marriage, and that unless he cffered her a public marriage she would not be married to him at r.ll. Mr. Rolt said he could not so read the letter. She said that Major Yelverton had torn from her the one wish of her heart. Lord Brougham supposed that meant a regular public marriage. That was the most obvious interpretation of the words. Mr Rolt said he did not believe that the words had any reference to marriage. She spoke of something she had never thought of before, and that could hardly be marriage. Other letters, however, which he had read, would probably throw some light upon that point. To him it was clear that in these letters she was not referring to marriage, but to a proposal from a gentleman to a lady to live with him without marriage; and he asked their lordships to take judicial cognizance of the matter. At a quarter to 12 Mrs Yelverton, accompanied by the two ladies who were with her yesterday, came into the reporters' gallery and took their seats there. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. OLD coußr. (Before the Common Sergeant.) Henry Simpson, a lad about 16 years of age, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with robbery, and also with having feloniously broken out of his master's house in the night time. The prisoner, it appeared, was in the employ of a licensed victualler, who carried on business at the Marquis of Granby, Chandos-street, On the morning following the offence, the house, which was securely fastened up at night, was discovered to have been broken open from the inside, and a quantity of money stolen. Seaich was made over the premises, when the prisoner was discovered to be absent, and suspicion naturally attached to her. Notice of the robbery was given to the police, and in a short time after the prisoner was taken into custody and charged with the offence. He attempted to explain his conduct, and strongly denied that he had committed the robbery, but said he merely opened tho door and let in some man, who had broken open the place and stolen the money. The Common Sergea n t commente d very severe l y upon the prisoner's conduct, and sentenced him to five years' penal servitude. NEW COURT. (Before Mr Commissioner Kerr.) Robert Thompson, 16, a genteel-looking lad,' pleaded guilty to an indictment, charging him with unlawfully attempting to administer to Mary Ann Lambert certain noxious ingredients with which to injure and annoy her. The priOner was atm charged with administering the same ingredient with intent to murder her, but the grand jury ignored the bill. Mr Sleigh urged, on behalf of the priFoner, that he was very young, and that down to the period of this transaction he had borne a very good character. It appeared that he was annoyed at the prosecutrix in whose establishment he was employed as page, baying refused to give him a holiday in order that he might go to the Derby, and he very foolishly put some poisonous stuff into the cocoa that had been prepared for breakfast, but ho had no intention to cause her any serious mischief, although of course the proceeding was a very wicked and improper ono. The learned Commissioner respited judgment till nexi session, MARRETS--This Day, HAY MARK2ITS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow bay, £2 108 to £4lOB Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 lOs per load. Trade dull. CUMBERLAND.--Mewlow hay, £2 lOs to £4 lOs ; clove?, £4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 10s per load. A slow demand. £4 Os WHItoE TCHAPEL —Mand eadow hay, £2lO B to £4108; clover, Trade inactive, a 108 Od ; straw, £1 4s to £1 10 5 per load. COLONIAL. TEA—The operations have been very restricted conse quent upon the largo quantity to be offered to-day at public sale. SUGAR —A moderate business has been done hi West India, and steady rates have been obtained for superior grocery descriptions, In the re fined market there is no material change as regards values, COFFEE,—Colonial descriptions have been in fair request, Plantation Ceylon having been in demand at fully late RICE,—The operations have been on a rather limited scale, at about former rates. TALLow.—The market has continued dull, and prices have shown a downward tendency for both present and future delivery. P. y.c, on the spot is quoted 40s 6d, July to ,ertember 41s, and last three months 438 6d, COAL MARK ET. Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. s. d. Cowpen Hartley 16 0 Hastings Hartley l6 Eden Main ...16 Wylam 16 6 Walls End. A. d Bruddyll's He1t0n..... 16 9 tlaswel! Hatton ....17 6 South Hatton .........17 6 Russel's Hett0n....... 16 9 Framwellgate ........16 6 Hartlepool ...........17 3 Caradoc ............ 17 3 f3hips at market, 39; sold, 37. Walls Ead. Gosforth l6 3 Hartoa 16 3 Wharncliff e l6 3 Tuustail HOUSE OF LORDS. YELVERTON V. YELVERTON (OR LONGIVORTIL) (Present the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Wensleydale, Lord Chelmsford, and Lord Kingsdown,) This case was continued this morning, and, judging from appearances, there was no lack of interest on the part of the public, who thronged the avenues of the house. Many ladies were present, and they seemed to be greatly disap pointed that Mrs Yelverton was not present at the com mencement of the proceedings. Mr R,lt, Q.U., for the appellant, proceeded with his argument, reading lengthened extracts from the evidence adduced. He dwelt upon the circumstance connected with the interview at Galata, and said that the letters which afterwards passed between them showed that at that time Miss Longworth (Mrs Yelverton) had no idea that a mar riage was to take place between them. The Lord Chancellor said that, while they were in the Crimea, Major Yelverton dined with the respondent and her friends. Mr. 13.11 t said, on one occasion. It was clear that she fol lowed the appellant there, and there was no evidence o a promise of marriage then, although it was evident there were many familiarities between them. This brought down the correspondence irons that time to the time when she arrived in Edinburgh. From that place she wrote that she slept under a flag, which she had brought from the Crimea, and that it gave her the greatest possible satisfac tion. She went on to suggest how money might be made available for their travelling purposes, adding that as she now knew the height, length, and breadth of his wicked ness, he need not be under any apprehension of his losing her good opinions. This would tend to show the nature of the familiarities that existed between them. She said also that her great strength was in her tenacity of purpose, and that when once she made up her mind to a certain course she could never be turned from it. Now all that was said for an obvious purpose, and was quite inconsistent with the fact she had alleged, that Major Yelverton had offered her marriage at Bala clava. In one of her subsequent letters she said she had received a letter from " Sylvan Blue," a former lover of hers, full of the most amatory diction she ever saw; but she said that, after the treatment she had received from Major Yelverton, she did not feel herself worthy of any body. After this she appeared to surrender. He thought that was as clear as possible ; but then again it was equally clear that she made up her mind to struggle in a last effort to induce him to marry her. As he (the learned counsel) had before stated, the appellant resisted those advances in every possible way, and even declined to go on without the correspondence. The Lord Chancellor consulted for sometime with Lord Kingsdown and other noble lords on this part of the case, but did not make any remarks upon it. Mr Rolt proceeded to quote extensively from the respon dent's letters, with a view to show that the respondent had given up all idea of a marriage taking place between them, and that she had virtually bidden him farewell. Lord Kingsdown enquired what was the date of that letter. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MA RLBOROUGH-STREET. COMPLAINT AGAINST AN OMNIBUS CONDUCTOR.— Robert Wood, conductor of one of the Atlas and Waterloo Omnibus Association's Omnibuses, appeared before Mr Knox, to answer the complaint of Mr Henry O'Hara Moore, gentleman, of the Finchley New-road, of using abusive language towards him. Mr Herring, jun., appeared for the defendant, and Mr Richard, one of the directors of the Omnibus Association, attended to watch the case. The evidence of Mr Moore went to show that on the 25th of May he got into the omnibus of which the defen dant was the conductor, at Clearing-cross. The omnibus R proceeded on its j ourney, and from Charing-cross to the egent-circus, Oxf or d -street, the omnibus stopped three times, ani there was great delay. He complained each time, and the defendant in the Regent circus addressed the driver to the effect that he (Hr Moore) was mad. In answer to Mr Herring, jun., the complainant said the omnibus might have stopped a minute twice—that a boy got up, and that he did not like the boy being along side of him, On asking the defendant why he stopped, he said, "To take up passengers." Mr Herring, jun., was about to address the magistrate on the defendant' s b e h alf, bur Mr Knox said there was no occasion for him t o d o so. He usually, in cases where men were summoned for usinz r.busive language, found there was something like foul language uttered, but in the present case there was nothing of the sort. He had no doubt the truth was that the defendant felt irritated at the complainant's frequent c,mplaints, and that he said to the driver, " Oh, he ( meaning the complainanf) must be mad." He should dismiss the summons. Mr Richards was about to speak on behalf of the defen dant, but Mr Knox said there was no necessity for him to do so. PLATE ROBBERY BY A FOOTMAN. —Arthur Wilson, footman, in the service of Mr. Charles Henry Moore, a gentleman residing at No, 45 , Wimpole-street, Cavendish square, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing sixteen silver forks, the property -h; - .3 master. Solomon Bierman, assistant to Mr. Levy, pawnbroker, of 54, Dudley-street, said—On Se urday night at half-past eleven the prisoner came i n t o the shop and asked if I would buy some silver forks, I said g, y„,,, at the same time ' observing some marks on some the prisoner produced. The prisoner left, and last night at a quarter to twelve I was called down and saw the prisoner. On asking him what he wanted, he said he had brought so me silver forks. I asked him how he became possessed of them, and he said a man who was dead had given them to him. I then sent for a constable, and gave the prisoner into custody. Mr Charles Henry Moore, of 45, said— The Nv prisoner lived with me as a servant and let me in last i m , niolt at 11 o'clock, and shut up th e p l ace as usual. The forks produced are my property. pole-street Mr Knox—Had you missed them ? Mr Moore—Not till the officer came to me. I had given out to the prisoner in May a quantity of plate, and when the prisoner returned it he must have kept back the forks, all of them bearing my crest. Mr Knox—How long has he been in your service ? Mr Moore—Since the 19th March. I had a good cha racter with him and always considered him a good servant, and never had the least reason to was su ppose he w as di s h ones t. ress, but after wrWm. Fitzgerald, 50 F—On asking the p r i soner where he g pa h r e igse s on a n i te d l re m from an ,s servant, a refused his marl adhclo had been d ea d some an d t h at he had W let himself out of the house last n ight with a k ey. o a t ds the time. forks i a d The Prisoner said he was guilty. Mr Knox—ln allowing the prisoner to plead lam stretch ing my power to its utmost limit. It is a serious case, the prisoner having betrayed the trust reposed in him by robbing his master, and but for the prisoner's previous character, which he has now lost, I should have sent him to the sessions. The prisoner will be committed for six months, with hard labour. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—We eannot wonder that a House of Commons so notoriously favourable to the Danish cause should view with apprehension the long de lays of the Conference, and be agitated by the criais which is apparently at hand. The refusal of Lord Palmerston last night to enlighten his audience as to what has actually passed at therecent meetings gave occasion to a little demonstration, in which baffled curiosity, mingling with a suspicion that the Conference was about to prove a solemn and pompous failure, caused some cutting things to be said of her Majesty's Government. But though the traditions of British official life do not allow Ministers to communicate the results of each sitting of the Conference to Parliament, there is no reason why the country should bs..kept in ignorance of that which it can do no harm to know. It has been truly said that what is made a secret by Ministers in their answers to the House of Commons is no secret to foreign Embassies or to tho conductors of the foreign press. Everything that passes at the Conference, even to the opinions of the several re, presentatives and their mode of advocating their respective causes, is soon known with something like accuracy by communities which are certainly not more worthy to be well-informed than our own. We may, then, fairly put our readers in possession of what we believe to be the present state of the negotiations, convinced that by so doing we confer a benefit on both parties to the dispute, and aid in the most efficient maener the efforts of those who are labouring in the cause of peace. The meeting of the Conference which took place yesterday, though it has no striking success to record, has not been entirely barren. Of course the greatest at tention was given to the matter of most immediate importance. The permanent settlement of the dis pute may be delayed, but the question of the sus pension of hostilities is urgent. On Sunday next, the 12th inst., hostilities will be renewed, unless in the meantime a prolongation of the present truce can be agreed upon. This matter formed the chief subject of discussion yesterday. The Danes showed through their representatives their usual spirit of defiance and recklessness of conse quences, Apparently thinking that the chapter of accidents may possibly bring a better solution for them if the war continue aua they stand before the world as a brave people struggling against two mili tary tyrannies, the Danes play a bold game. When a renewed suspension of hostilities was proposed they declared that they would only consent to an additional term of a fortnight. Austria and Prus sia, on the other hand, desired a suspension of arms for two months. It is easy to understand the rea sons which induce the allies to propose this ex tended truce.. They are in possession of the Duchies; they hold the administration of them, and are able not only to represent the opinions of the people as they please, but even to create a certain amount of feeling by skilful management. There are districts where the Schleswigers are pretty evenly balanced between partisans of the Prince of Augustenburg and honest liegemen to the Dane. To be able for two months to work upon the in• habitants of such districts is no small advantage to Powers which are intent on showing that nearly the whole country is German by race and instincts. Then the advance of the season would bring nearer the time when the Danes must forego one of the most efficient weapons of warfare—the blockade of the German ports. It need hardly be added that the lengthening out of the war will be unfavour able to the weaker State, which is less able to bear a protracted drain of its resources, and that there is more likelihood that the allies will be able to have their own way when the neutrals become tired 'of the Danish question through lapse of time, and when the British Parliament is prorogued, than now that the interest is general and the sympathy with the Danes manifest on every side. This pro posal for a two months' suspension of hostilities, however, met with so positive a refusal from Den mark that it was not pressed, and at last it was agreed that the representatives of the belli gerents should refer to their respective Govern ments the proposition for a suspension of hosti lities. Tne matter was no doubt referred to Copenhagen, Berlin, and Vienna by telegraph, and the answer will come soon enough to allow the ques tion to be finally settled at a meeting of the Confer ence which will be probably summoned for Thursday. It can hardly be supposed that a prolongation of the truce can be rejected by either of the parties. Although the Danes are described as eager for war, and even the Jutlanders, having been plundered of everything, are urging the King to fight it out, yet the dishonour that the Copenhagen Ministers will do themselves by rejecting such a reasonable pro posal makes it probable that there will be no diffi culty interposed by either party, and that till the middle of July, at all events, the land will be free from bloodshed. There is all the more reason to hope that this new suspension of hostilities will meet no obstacle, as there is some chance at least of a c ,mpromise being accepted. All accounts from Copenhagen represent the Danes as indignant at the notion of any concession, as being full of con sternation and shame that England should think of taking away Holstein and a part of Schleswig from them. To give up the line of the Eider, to give np the Dannewarke and the town of Schleswig itself would be intolerable. On the other hand, the German papers are demanding every inch of both duchies for the Prince of Augustenburg. They cannot conceive how any foreign conclave of statesmen should think of demanding that he should forego his birthright. Is not Schleswig irrevocably united to Holstein, I and does it not extend to the very frontier of Jutland ? It is clear that the parties are irrecon cilable in their demands, and to make either abate is one of the most difficult tasks which could be attempted by a neutral. Yet the persevering efforts of our own Government, supported by France and Russia, have not been wholly unsuc cessfal. The neutral Powers have, we believe, proposed the line of the Schlei as the frontier between an independent German State to be formed to the south of it, and a purely Danish kingdom to the north. This, in our opinion, is an arrange ment far more advantageous to Denmark than a renews; of the political relations which have heretofore I ,'ltained between the Kingdom and the Duchies. Bette! cart of Schleswig permanently and completely in,,lrporated with the moriarchy and forming a compact _mass with it than two semi independent, but wholly ,discontented, provinces. Whatever may be the p resen t h e sitation of Denmark, there is so much of reason in the new scheme that we cannot think it, or one even lesa: favourable, would be long rejected. But for the present the allies refuse to give up so much. They concede the principle of drawing a line across Schleswig; and this, indeed, is the chief success which the Confer. ence has as yet obtained—that whereas a fortnight .ago they demanded the whole of the two Duchies, they are now willing that the Danish population in the northern part of Schleswig should remain united to the monarchy. They ask that the line should be drawn north of Flensburg, which they claim to be a German town, and to have a German popula tion on the south and west of it. On this question of detail, then, the neutrals and the two German Powers are at variance. Eat it is certainly a step to have obtained such a basis fo; negotiation as the admission that the line must be drawn so as to divide the two rival races. To h ave a e;anced thus far gives a chance of peace, because it makCa more conspicuous the folly and inutility of the war, A war for a province may seem respectable, but when it is for a belt formed by two parallel lines less than twenty miles distant from each other it can hardly excite either enthusiasm or admiration even in Germany. HERALD.—In the debates in the Upper House, and in the columns of the leading journal, the friends of the working man have been ventilating their last new patent plan for his moral and social elevation. They would make him independent by rendering him an object of universal suspicion, and would foster habits of integrity by practically forbidding any one to trust him. They agree that the Lord Chancellor's Debtor and Creditor Bill " involves a question of the highest importance to the welfare of the working classes," and they propose to solve the problem by depriving a large class of creditors of their legal remedy. Because 9,000 persona annually are com mitted to prison for refusing to pay debts which they have the ability but not the inclination to dis charge, the Lord Chancellor would stop the credit of some millions to whom such credit is an accom. modation, and not unfrequently a condition of existence. The noble and learned lords on the Ministerial side of the house have propounded views of our social system which to us at least have all the charm of novelty. Tradesmen in poor neighbour. hoods who read the parliamentary debates will learn a great deal more about themselves and their power than they ever knew. The tradesman, we are gravely assured, is not dependent upon his cue tonic s, but hits customers upon him. He stands behind his counter, not as an industrious struggling citizen, but as a small autocrat dispensing favours to a crowd of bondsmen, who must either take his goods at any price he likes to charge, or go to gaol if they attempt to free themselves from his influ ence. The remedy for all this is, in the Chancellor's opinion, exceedingly simple. Because some men betray the confidence of their creditors, he would punish the creditor for placing confidence in his customers at all; because some tradesmen abuse their legal remedy, he would take that remedy away from all tradesmen whatever ; and because certain Chancery barristers have blundered in their application of the common law when sitting as county court judges, he proposes not to re quire that the judge shall know the law but that the law shall b e a l tere d to remedy evils which have Alison solely from the errors of the judge. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day, ASCOT RACES—Tars DAY. (Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,) TRIAL STAKES. Auditor Cat ch'em Alive Menace Twelve ran. GOLD VASE. Young Rapid 1 Fairwater Wingrave Twelve ran. Little Stag made strong running for a mile and a hal. Beaten at distance. LATEST BETTING. ASCOT STAKES. 00 to 30 agst Canary (taken) 9to 2 apt Hippolyta (taken) sto 1 agst Sheridan (taken) ASCOT RACES. HORSES STRUCK OUT THIS DAT. Hunt Cup--Despair, Nebuchadnezzar, Moulsey, Belle of the Vale, Grosvenor colt, Atherstone's dam, Danaus, and Blue Bell, Prince of Wales Stakes—Copenhagen and Syren, THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, ASCOT RACES-THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRA£II ) SWEEPSTAKES. Siberia Reinfreti WESTMINSTER. BREAKTNG A VALUABLE PANE OF GLAss.--Ellen Kay was charged before Mr Arnold with breaking a pane of plate glass, the property of Mr James waterfield, licensed victualler, and landlord of the Old Rose and Crown, Medway-street. Mrs Elizabeth Waterfleld, wife of the prosecutor, stated that about nine o'clock the previous night the prisoner and her husband came to the bar, when the former asked for a pint of beer. Prisoner said, "If you fill the pint I will smash the window." Witness drew the beer, when the prisoner immediately flung a heavy stone at a pane of glass, which was smashed to pieces. Mr Arnold—Where did she get the stone from ? Witness—Sho took it out of her pocket. The prisoner said that she told Mr Waterfield that she would break the window if he continued to serve her hus band, who was in the habit of spending the most of his money at the house, and who in consequence left her and her children without food. Mrs Waterfield observed that the prisoner's husband did not spend half-a-crown a week at her house. Mr Arneld—Was he sober ? Witness—He was, sir, Prisoner stated that he was not sober. A witness for the prosecutor corroborated the evidence, and said that the prisoner's husband seemed sober. Mr Arnold--What was the value of the glass ? Mr Waterfield—V. Mr Arnold—Nothing would justify you in going delibe rately to do damage to this amount. You have got yourself into a deal of trouble by it. The prisoner was remanded ih her own security of £5 to appear there on Thursday. THAMES, SINGULAR FAMILY Q U ARREL.—John Higgs, a rope maker, of Westover-street, Stepney, and Harriet Higgs, his wife, appeared before Mr Partridge to answer a charge of assaulting Mrs Sarah Lawrence, the wife of a coach builder, dwelling in Nicholas-street, St. Peter's-road, Mile end. High- Mr Charles Youn g, solicitor, conducted the prosecution, and Mr Joseph S m i t h , solicit or was for the defence. The complainant, a very r passing along street, the defendant. O n espectable woman, is a cousin We dnesday night last she was S tepney, is company with a Mrs Jane Higgs and Miss Hi ggs mot the defendant s , who as I gg B , her daughter, when the; good deal of foul a b ase, an r il ed Mrs Lawrence with a finishing the sentence called her a lung black musical to the e ars of With a name ver y un complainant asked them a married woman. Th e defendant immediately s we at they mean t. Th e ma l e struck blow on the shoulder and ran Mrs La wrence a v i o l ent a who had more fighting about her, kept Mrs Harriet Higgs, used most offensive epithets. tow ar d s Mrs Lawrence and er, k e pt up t h e contest and tried to pull her bonnet off. the female defendant sev eral t * She was al so s t ruc k b y A mob of disorderly ruffians :Ines, a n d ki c k ed on the knee. Harriet Higgs, who was fearfalir boys collected, and Mrs. t 3 throw stones and mud at A i r excited, in s ti ga t e d th em co mpanions. Mrs Harriet Ili s Lawrence a n d h er t wo th r ee; hip, hip, hoor-ay i_. ggs called ou t, " one, two, did give a loud shout, fonawentd e loa, boy s I" an d t h e b oys a nd put them in great peril. Thoomplainant and her friends, in Bromley-street. Harriet Ili ! sought refuge in a house a loud clamour. She then repairedB missed them and raised George Higgs, brother of the ta to the house of Mr. carries on the business of a Stot :le defendant, and who complainant and her friends approa:ason, and seeing the repeated her bad language. A. mob , raised a shout and collected, and Harriet Higgs called out, "Let her com e out, I'll t ear h er li ver out." Richard B aker, a police-constable, it occupied him 15 m inutes to thedisperssteeb No. 215 K, said crowd, and that great excitement prevailed, airs Jane Higgs, who is the sister of Harriet Higg s, con firmed the statement' Lawrence, whose perso n was at the present time with bruises inflicted by Harriet Ri ggs. Miss Higgs, a young lady, was called to give eviden ce against her uncle and aunt, but Mr Partridge said there Harriet was no occasion to he ar her. Higgs called out while Mrs. Lawrence was givi ng her evidence "Oh you wretch I" and shook his fi a t at her. Sir Charles Young called attention to this exhibiti on of ;nte perance, which Mr esca p ed If - Partridge said had not m• In cross-examinatioe, Sirs Lawrence sa i d lm. the defendants had insulted her several times. She did not call John Higgs a rogue. She did say, "This is , b ecause I won't conceal property stolen from Sir Gray.' Mr Joseph Smith destruction of Mr said Mrs Lawrence b ad revived a I , e very old affair, the Gray' s re_ ground and robbery of his property 16 years ago near the court, and had made accusations agains t Messrs T. and ..., ..u.. Bishop, ' rope makers, who were the br others of M rs. Harriett Higgs, the defendant, and Sirs. Jane Hi ggs, witn ess for Alrs Lawrence. The Bishops had made a charge against Mr. Gray in that court, and Mr. Gray had, through his friend, Mr. Stoddart, solicitor, com menced actions for libel against T. and R. Bishop. Mr. John Higgs and Mr. George Higgs, who was present, had marri ed two sister s , and th e whole family were disunited. He was instructed that Mrs Law. ranee commenced the affray, and that John Higgs did not strike her at all. Mr Smith called two witnesses, who did not materially alter the complainant's case, and the magistrate said lie dis believed one of them altogether. After a long investigation Mr Partridge said it was very likely Sirs. Lawrence might have smashed u something against the defendants, but it was plain they had assaulted her, used most disgraceful language, and caused mobs to collect. Their conduct was quite unjustifiable, and he fined them 20s. each and 4s. costs. The money was paid. KENNY MEADOWS' PENSION ! — Her Majesty, on the recommendation of Lord Palmerston, has been graciously pleased to confer upon Mr. K enny M ea d ows , the artist, a pension of £BO a year, in consider a ti n of the merit displayed in his " Illustrated Shakspere" and other well-known works. [Why upon earth cou ld they no t make it £2O more , so a s to have given the square sum o f an hundred p e r a nnum. They have taken their time about it, as it is—twenty years at the very least having elapsed since the public,vion of Tyas's Illustrated Shakspere And now they spoil the dole by deducting from it a paltry score of pounds sterling I—Eni 5171.t.1 STAND PLATE. Le B eamais Lady Clifden Zambezi _ Fozlrteen ran. MAIDEN PLATE. King Charming 1 Shrapnell Cordelia ............ 3 Twenty-three ran. ASCOT STAKES. Hippolyta Black Deer ..... 1 ....... 2 Lady ilylda Fifteen ran, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—This Evening, The LORD CHANCELLOR took bis seat on the woolsack at 5 o'clock. The Bishop of OXFORD laid on the table a bill for pro viding additional facilities for the performance of service in collegiate schools and colleges in connection with the United Church of England and Ireland. The bill was read a first time. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Chittendenc - Disabilities Removal, Bolton and St. Helen's Road, North British Railway (Abbey liolme and Seagate Branch), Southampton and Netley Railway, Bod min Railway, Solway Junction Railway, Scottish North- Eastern and Scottish Central Railway Companies, and Wisbeach Water Bills were read a second time. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Moira and Gresley Roads—North Western Railway — Halifax and Ovenden Junction Railway—North British Railway (Perth Branch)—and North Cheshire Water. UNION ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Lord WODEIIOUSE moved the second rea4ing of this bill, the object of which was to remedy in the act passed in 1862. some slight defects After a short discussion, in which Lord St, Leonards and the Earl of Romney took part, the bill was read a second time. PENAL SERVITUDE ACTS AMENDMENT BILL, On rho motion for going into committee on this bin, Lord BRO UG HAM expressed his strong approval of the bill, because it brought the convicts released with a ticket of leave under the supervision of the pol t ice.S h u a c t h t a he s y ys h te a m d had acted very well in Irel and, where it had been i n opera. Lion for some time. approved of the bill, and also of th e Lord LYTTELTO N conduct of the Governmentin respect to w given and what they had refused the colonies. The house then went into committee. Clause 1 was agreed to. On clause 2 being read, Earl GREY rose for the pu r pose of moving an amend ment, and was (LEFT SPEAKING.) 142 ii 4 3 64 5 112 f 111 k 974 541 1131 13 [3Ol 1k rates The reasoning by which this legislation is justified is not a little singular. To be indepen dent, we are told, a man must be out of debt, and to be honest he must live within his means. A nobleman advising his son would urge the young man to keep within his income, and would point out the advantage of dealing with a full purse, kept fall by frugality; therefore the state is in effect to say to the debtor, you shall not take credit because that may cause you to go beyond your wages; and to the creditor, you shall not give credit because your aim in doing so is to get the working man into your thraldom, and to compel him to live for ever after on the mortgage of his wages, that yen may exact an unreasonable profit on the goods you sell. We hesitate to differ from such authori ties, but we cannot reconcile these statements with facts sufficiently patent to everybody's observation. Let any one walk through a poor neighbourhood, and discover if he can any trace of the petty shop keeper of Lord West bury's imagination. If showy shops, and tempting advertisements, and importu nate touting are indications of severe competition, then assuredly every tradesman in such localities is too anxious to get husine.se to render an extra charge of 100 per cent. possible in any case where be would give credit at all. In such places of ne cessity cash payments are the rule, and credit is, as it should be, the exception ; but it is going too far to say, as the Lord Chancellor's bill does in effect, that the retail dealer shall be debarred from the legal means of obtaining his debt which are open to larger traders. Between the shopkeeper in the New cut and the merchant in Mincing-lane the difference is not of kind but of degree; and if it be right, as all systems of law have hitherto held it right, to enforce the fulfilment of contracts by legal penal ties, there can be no good reason why any one crass of honest citizens should be deprived of its advan tages. A working man is out of work for a few weeks; his wife has brought him a new burden; his eldest child wants fitting out for apprenticeship or for service, his second has had a long illness, or the youngest has just died, and tlae father's resources have been drained to pay the undertaker's bill and the funeral fees: where at such times must the man go if not to those who have had his money when there was no illness in his house and no void in his pocket ? In general he can go to his tradesman now with the claim which his past custom gives him; but we do not think his condition will be much improved if the law officiously steps in to set up an artificial barrier to tie workman' s receiving and the tradesman's affording an accommodation which the one wants and the other, under existing circumstances, is quite' willing to give. Should the Lord Chancellor suc- need iii his present attempt we feel some curiosity to know how far the principle of the bill is to be applied. Is the state to become an universal Pater- faMilias, compelling everybody to be frugal, by for• bidding every one else to give him credit ? If the law of debtor and creditor is to stand "on a foot ing which shall discourage the habit of mortgaging wages," must we not of necessity go on in the same direction and take away the remedies of creditors who trust persons receiving salaries or living by their own professional exertions, or dependent upon their profits in trade ? Finally, to be consistent, ought we not to adopt the same rule even in the case of a debtor having money in the funds or estates in land, because the creditor can never know how far he is laying himself open to the reproach of in ducing his customer to live beyond his means ? If we are to come to this it is well that we should un derstand it at the outset, for we altogether fail to comprehend why the Legislature should adopt diametrically opposite systems in dealing with debts under and above £2O; why the creditor's right against one class should be enforced and ignored against another; why the small trader should be liable to all the process which the inge. nuity of lawyers has devised for the constraint of defaulting debtors, but should have no such remedy when he, in his turn, seeks to enforce precisely simi lar claims against his customers. Modern legisla- tion has swept away the usury laws, because ex perience showed that they only aggravated the evils they were intended to prevent; and on principles of abstract justice we have abolished the immunity formerly enjoyed by the owner of real estate from the payment of his simple contract debts. We shall be going back a long way if we introduce into the contracts of our humbler fellow citizens an element whose operation will not greatly differ from that of the old statutes of usury, or if we confer on a dis honest or shuffling artisan an exemption from the burden of his legal obligations as complete as that which the owners of real estate formerly enjoyed. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. HOUSE OF COMB lONS. --This Evening, The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. DISCRIMINATING DUTIES. Mr LINDSAY moved an address for copy of any cot. respondence between her Majesty's Government and the Governments of France, Spain, and Portugal from 1860 to 1863 inclusive, relating to :he abrogation of the die eliminating duties still levied upon British vessels and their cargoes trading with those countries. He contended that there should be an alteration in the existing system, in order that there might be more facility afforded for the extension of our shipping commerce with different countries on the continent, particularly Spain, France, and Portugal. Mr M. GI tiSON said that he fully concurred with the hon. member as to the inexpediency of maintaining the navigation laws in their integrity, as they were found to be unsuited to the exigencies of the time and the principle of free trade. They had been in communication with the Governments of France, Spain, and Portugal on this most important subject, and the result was satistactory, the tendency being to carry out fully the principle of free trade. The motion was agreed to, and the return was accord ingly ordered. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. Mr, CAIRD moved the following resolution :—" That, in the opinion of this house, the collection and early early publication of the agricultural statistics of Great Britain would be advantageous to the public interests." He drew attention to the importance of this subject, and alluded to the practice that prevailed in Ireland, that of making the police the collectors of these statistics, but he considered that the adoption of such an agency would not be suitable to the circumstances of this country. He strongly advocated the application of the operation of the Oidnance survey Department to this subject, and he called the attention of the house to the value, in a scientific point of view, of an extensive and practical record of the agricultural productions of the country, which would be free from any thing of an inquisitorial character. Col. BART rELoT opposed the motion, and contended that the inquiry instituted under the agency that the hon. member advocated would necessarily be inquisitorial and distasteful to the farmers generally, Mr. PACKE also opposed the motion. [LEFT SITTING. LONDON GAZETTE.—This Evening, FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 7. Ear: Russell, K.G., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received the following De. spatch from the Honourable Charles Augustus Murray, C.B , her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Dresden : ' Dresden, June 2, 1864. My Lord,—l have the honour to inform your Lordship that great and continually recurring inconvenience is expe rienced at this mission from the number of travellers claiming (I do not say falsely) to be British subjects, who apply here for passports, bnt who are entirely unprovided with any proof whatever of their nationality, beyond their own assertion. This is, I believe, chiefly caused by an idea prevalent in England, that in Germany generally, but at any rate in Saxony, passports are not required. This is true, so far a s relates to passing through the country ; but the police re gulations prohibit any residence, or even a short stay, in Dresden, unless a passport be deposited at the police office. Again, many travellers go to Austria via Dresden, and, if unprovided with passports, are invariably turned back at Bodenbach, the frontier station of Bohemia. They are then forced to return to Dresden, and apply to me for passports; and frequently, having no proof whatever to offer that they are not Americans, or other than British subjects, are de tained here until the necessary proofs can be sent from England. As the time is now approaching when the usual influx of British travellers may be expected, I would venture to sug gest to your Lordship that much inconvenience would be spared to travellers, as well as to her Majesty's missions, if the advisability, if not absolute necessity, of all persons providing themselves with passports before going to Ger-. many were made known to the public through the Foreign office.---I have, &c,, Sied CH, The Right Hon. Earl Russell , K.G., &c.A, Munn.tY. WAR OFFICE, JUNE 7, The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Major-Gen. William Marcus Coghlan, of the Royal Artillery, some time Political Resident and Commandant at Aden, to he an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JUNE 7. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Miss Florence Catherine Seymour to be one of the Maids of Honour in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Hon. Lucy Caroline Lyttelton, resigned. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 25. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Ainslie Grant Duff, Esq., now Attache to her Majesty's Embassy at St. Petersburg, to be a Third Secretary in her Majesty's Diplomatic Service. MAY 26, The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. William Stuart, now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Washington, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Embassy at Constantinople. JUNE 6. The Qneen has been pleased to approve of Don Enrique Fox, as Vice-consul at Plymouth for the Republic of Guatemala, BANKRUPTS, The following are the only bankrupts of commercial ina= , portance in the Uazette:- 1 homes Booth, builder, Halifax Joseph Ginder, master mariner, Bow-road Stephen Evans, grocer, 'rroedyrhiew Charles Elford, shoemaker, Birmingham Thomas William Cliaesns,rybußi l u d l e ai r, er iu sh n i d7 y m o a r t s r h , Manchester Edward ire Arthur H A . m C e, h s is h n a a t l t l e , w o r a w y i c c h lerk, Wimble d on James Jackson, miller, Holderness, Yorksh i re Will Settle, mason, Batley, Yorkshire Alfred Michell, cod agent, Bow James Livett lad William Chas. Stevens, auctioneers, Ch a d e John Clayton, dealer in iron, Lambeth amtler Pl mouth DH,,deynirywha O lley, cloth manufacturer, I eadon, Yo r k s hi re Thomas Morris and John Jones, b u ild ers, Birkenhead ThomasG d i e b s b l in to s w . bo B o hi tm Pe a h ker, Rugby,'y Warwickshire Edwin Hudson, grocer, Boughton Monchelsea, Kent John Woodyatt, miller, Upper Arley, Seaffordshire Joseph Paine, blacksmith, Stoulton, Worcestershire William Nall, jun., innkeeper, Burbage, Derbyshire Isaac Hodgson, blacksmith, Gallowbarrow, Lancashire SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Stevenson and Picken, bonnet manufacturers, Stewartcu James Pearston, commission merchant, Glasgow PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Mid Wales Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. The following bills were read a second time and ordered to be considered :—Hayling Railways—London Docks, Saint Katharine D oc k, an d Vi ctor i a (L ondon) Dock Atom.. gam ation—Waterford and Wexford Railway and Rosslare Harbour. THE PERMISSIVE BILL. Mr DALGLISH presented an immense number of peti. tions in favour of this bill, emanating from districts where teetotalism is in the ascendant. Several petitions per contra were presented, and the petitioners alleged that the inter. ference of Parliament in reference to the closing of public hcuses was uncalled for. SALE OF PROVISIONS BILL. Mr. H. BERKELEY gave notice that on an early day he would move for leave to bring in a bill to amend this bill, which, he contended, was injurious to the public inte rests in its operation. THE PRISON 11IINISTERS BILL. Mr BLACK asked the Secretary of state for the Home Department if it was intended by the Prison Ministers Bin, now under the consideration of the house, to give to the Secretary of State the right to appoint ministers of different religious persuasions to officiate in pri sons. and to award th e amount of recompense to be paid for their services, contrary to the opinion of the justices or county board, as provided in the Prisons Act of 1863. Sir G. GREY was understood to have answered in the negative. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—(This Day. LONDON, June 7.—Wind this day at noon—South. -...- West; m o d erate b reeze and f i ne wea th er , PORTSMOUTH, June 6.—Wind N.W.—ArriNed—Her Majesty's ship Racoon, from Gibraltar. Sailed —Her Ma. jesty's ship Aurora, for Dublin. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning: Arrived, June 7—Eureka, from Havre—Hermann Hill, from Porto Rico. DEAL, Tuesday 11forning. Anchored and Passed—Princess, for Port Phillip— Harkaway, for Corfu—screw steamers Maria Pia and Turping, for Oporto—all from London. Anchored and passed, June 6—Jane, of Oporto, from Cadiz for London. Sailed—Steamer Claudia; Berbice ; and Wave Queen; with nearly all the outward bound. have en ior, _ to D re E c A or T d Er t O h F e deathl NlVa.ssbaEuNiTlLiii—iamWso late master in Chancery and Professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford. Mr. Senior having gone through the usual curriculum at Eton, entered at Magdalen .N of As 3 s i A r tr . College, where h e gr aduated in 1811, taking a di s ti ngu i shed first class in classics. Amongst his college contemporaries were Sir John T. Coleridge, the Earl of Delaw arr, the Bishop of St. Asaph, the Provost of Oriel, the Dean of St. Paul's, and other gentlemen who have raised themselves to prominent positions is the learned professions and in litera ture. In 1818 he was called to the bar, and in 1836 was a ppointed a Master in Chancery, during the Chancellorship of Lord Cottenham. In 1625 he was elected Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, being the first incumbent of the professorship which was founded in that year by the late Mr. Drummond, A He resigned it in 1830, and • was succeeded by the late Dr. Whateley, Archbishop of Dublin. In 1817 he was re-elected to the same office in succession to lir. Travers Twiss. For some years he held the office of Examiner in Political Economy in the Uni versity of London, He has written many works on the science to the pursuit of which he devoted his life, and has contributed to the Qu weedy, Edinburgh, and other reviews. Mr. Senior was 73 years of age. JUSTICE TO THE CATHOLIC GAOL CHAPLAII';'S ! A return has been issued (says the Spectator) show ing that on the Ist January, 1861, there were in the Irish county and borough gaols 364 Established Church pri soners, with 39 Established Church chaplains receiving £1,607 a year amongst them; 122 Presbyterian prisoners, and 14 Presbyterian religious instructors receiving £5OB a year amongst them; and 2,513 Roman Catholic prisoners, and only 39 Roman Catholic chaplains receiving £1,727 amongst them, And this is justice to Roman Catholics ! They do seven times the work of the Established Church for almost precisely the same pay,