The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-20 00:00:00

RONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Rather less activity is reported in the general discount market, the requirements of the mercan tile community being very moderate. There is no alteration in the rates upon which mercantile bills can be negotiated, but the facilities offered in Lom bard •street and other places have materially reduced the inquiries at the Bank of England. No further supplies of gold being immediately available, the bullion operations of the Bank of England on Saturday afternoon were unimportant. It is generally imagined that further quantities will be sent into the establishment in the course of the present week. From the manufacturing districts the accounts during the past week have been more satisfactory. Business at Manchester has been more animated owing to an increased demand for the India and China markets. In the woollen trade of Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, there has been a seasonable business in spring fabrics, while rather less anima tion has prevailed in the hardware districts, parti cularly of Sheffield, Walsall, and Wolverhampton. The advices received by the Asia give the fol lowing description of the New York money mar ket at the latest date :—" Money has become ex tremely easy. Notwithstanding the enormous re ceipts at the Sub-Treasuries for conversion into 6 per cents., and for deposit at 5 per cent, on call after 10 days, the necessities of the Government are such that these Treasury balances do not increase, and the legal tender currency flows out as rapidly as it flows in. The expenditures of government continue as large as ever, and the creation of paper money is speedily proceeding at the rate of about a million a day. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that money should be cheap and abundant. But for the willingness of the Government to receive money on deposit at 5 per cent: the current rate would now have been 4to 5. As it is, it is sto 6. First class houses do not pay over 5 ; ordinary speculators are freely supplied at 6. Debt certifi cates, old issue, are worth a fraction over par; the new issue commands 98 Commercial paper is very scarce ; the best names sell at 6to 6 ; the paper of parties who have been speculating in goods with out adequate capital is current at much higher rates. It is now well understood that Mr. Chase will not offer a loan during the current month. Ho is re ceiving more money than he can receipt for in bonds. Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr. Renter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentes were 69f. 40c.—flat. The transactions recorded in the English Stock Market to-day have not indicated the slightest in crease of speculative business or in the demand for Consols, New Threes, Reduced Annuities, &c.,:on behalf of the investing public. Nor has the tendency of quotations been altogether favourable, Consols having receded to 924 4 for money and account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are quoted 94 ; and Exchequer Bills are ls. die.; Indian Securities show no great alteratioo, the 5 per Cents. being 1094 110; the 51 per Cents. Enfaced, 1154 1164 ; the Debentures, 1004 e ; and the Bonds, 16s. to 20s. prem. Bank Stock is 234. The Foreign Market has been rather heavy, and the transactions have been rather less numerous, speculation being quieter. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, have remained at nominal prices ; do., 1858, also have not been dealt in; and do., 1862, are marked 704 4, showing steadiness. The Consolides have receded fully 4, viz., to 474 4, and the New Loan is 14 4 prem.; Greek Bonds are a per cent. lower, viz , 284 4, and the Coupons are 134 4 ; Italian 5 per Cents. are 704 71, showing a decline of 4 per cent. ; Spanish are steady. The Confede rate Loan is 4 14 prem. Business in the Railway Share Market continued very dull, and several of the princip,l undertakings exhibited a slight downward movement in prices. Great Eisterns, Great Westerns, Midlands, and South Easterns have each receded about ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines were without change of importance. For Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares there was a very limited inquiry, without any material alteration to record in values. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 234 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities S per Cent. Consols Annuities 92 a New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock — Ditto 6 per Cent Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. 99 I)itto 5} per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 100$ i Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100 k Ditt, Bonds £l,OOO - 16 Ditto under £1,000.. Consols for Account, May 7 92i Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2} per Cent 1 die FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Egyptian 7 per Cent.. 971 Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto A (Torint 2Bl 1 9 81 Ditto Coupons Italian 6 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 751 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account .. 34 31 New Granada Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) 6i P,rucian 41 per Cent. Ditto 1862 Ditto Account B9 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 1862 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent. Ditto Account.. Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account. Ditto New Deferred .. Ditto Account Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account.. Venezuela, 3 per ent . ..........." Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 -0 59/ Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Gull — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, 6 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account 7O/ 1 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Account 921 i Liverpool Cotton Market--This Day. (REUTER' S TELEGRAM.) Very strop;.-. Sdles, 10,000 bales ; import, 566 bales ; previously, 11,330 bales, Frightful Accident at the Botallack Mine. TEN LIVES LOST. PLYMOUTH, April 20. A frightful accident occurred at the Beta Hack mine on Saturday night. . Nine men and a boy were coming up the inclined shaft in a waggon. When near the surface the chain broke, and the waggon fell with fearful velo city a depth of 200 faihoms, killing all who were in it instantaneously. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, April 20.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; light breeze, with fine weather, but cloudy at CA.ann,r, April 18.—Wind a Sta nley, for th e C ape of Good Ilcopiell.—Sailed—Edward Snnpnehanna, for Quebec. g 4. P41,1,101)zu, April 20. Wind S.—Arrived—A_ ex mp i h n i g ir t i o t n e : o%ll.B.vannfth ; P r i nce , f rom Matanzal!‘, L ni —08 ton; Juno at with roachittery da'rnead mer ' from Newport for Alexandria, ag e . NE/I'olYr, A pril 18.—Wi n d E.—A rr i ve d—Typhoon, from Live/1)001 for 'long Korg. ...ft.— The v„ d ":"" - -----:—.--......... pt., jeeted intervielid some foreign j oura l s s p ea k of a Prussia. ve bet ween the Cz ar an d th e Ki ng o 0 ao of the most cc; atentific astronomers of Italy, Batista Amici, di ed at the advanced ag e of 7 ,. f ew days since at Florence, b was known at all the learned institutions of Europ e f or hie observations upon the double stars. By the aid of a new etre, and his determi nation of the polar and equatorialind. meter s of the sun, he had made himself a valuable correla t dent of his fellow labourers. He invented some valuablespir amongst theta the achromatic microscope and thes mteelnetsseope with elliptic mirror. He was professor of astronomy at Flo rence, director of the Observatory at Pisa, and many of the Nale 4 t. lac societies of Europe, SRARR. fd.ARKET B—This day. Share Railways. 13.14. 25 10 Bt st 50 20 Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. 1111) - 111e and Tyne. I Bost.,SleaLandMid.Co Bristol and Exeter !Caledonian 8 84 7 8 84 86 112 113 Cork and Bandon Cornwall A Do A gets no dig I Do. B till Cp c.p au.has been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast Juno. I Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock I Ditto EastAnglian st iGreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do IGt. S. an 1 W. of Ireland ( Great Western ...... Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire !London and Blackwab Lon., Bright,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western 'Lon. & Scr.th Western Man., Shet, & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do shares Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junotion. 'Scottish Central Scot N. E. Aber. stock Do Scot . stock Shrews. and Welohpool Shropshire Union , South Devon ,South Eastern South Wales , S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington Do 5.4.0 ►4.16.4 ;5 Do New, 186 G... Lt Taff Vale .0 Do B .0 Do C JO ET 'later Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim 1 Waterfbrd Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&R 1 West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford' 12.10 6i 7 40 42 13 t 4 89 91 107 109 52 53 45 47 244 25i 120} 124 120 121 134 136 100 102 66} (61 108 108 k 75 I'6a 115 113 39 40 97 iAi 101 102 44 45 12i 121 12:3 :23! lip 91 93 50 51 24 25 981 99} 55 656 86 €6 116 118 1 1 11 p 151- 16-1 11i 12' 120 122 43 14 98 100 48 60 32 33 92 92i 67 69 99 101 7 8 37 38 9 10 f , 1 7 5 t p 4i 5 2f 31 ts) ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOLS. Paid. Closing I Business Price. done. 112 i I i 51 2 1 11 46 121 f I f 661 1081 8 78/ 1 114 97i 8 71 1011 12 1231 I 2; 79 81 154 156 28 30 43,1 44i 36 38 98 100 iSIONS. Closing Price. 62 64 - 1076 i(B3 1 16p 1 1 513 p 4 7t 8 1(6 ICB 108 110 108 IC9 1(91 !pi 1 3 ltp 1 lip 19i 20 1 62 (6 49 60 54 67 40 ;5 37 42 32 ;6 23 26 20 23 1(91 1101 1 lip 1 lir, 106 ICB 12} .21 8 8 100 102 91 93 a lIP 1063 , 07i 101 103 9 _ 47 49 3 5 8 09 ? 1.9 tP li 61 1b74 102 11,4 I SECti KITH- 1054 1064 113 103 105 951 964 94 96 110 112 111 113 111 113 113 115 111 113 KO 110 1051 1063 1011 102 a 101 1021 101 IG2i 110 112 106 107 L:1 113 111 113 109 110 109} lO9l l BRITISH P Shan 100 BM 20 gailways 24 10 100 t 100 100 stock stock stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stock tlantic & St Lawrence Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Inc Gu. 5 per cent........ Do. New . ...... • • Do. E. Shares... Butlalo and Lake Huron Do. Preference_ .. • 1 Buffalo,Brant,3sGodricl , 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 18721 Do. do. July 1, 18731 Do. do. Juue 1, Iz , '; 1 Clentta.k S. E tn . (Li fl Cape Town 35 Dock Scril Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. (1 East Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Ext:.... Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada no. Ist rr,r. Bonds.. Do. t.o. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do deferred...... Do. 3d P ef. stock ... B tOs li 4' ock Do. do. deferred.. Do. 4th Pref. B. 0.k... Do. do. deferred...... Gt.lndiaPenin. , ua.sp.c Do. New gua. Do. Januiry, 142 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New ....... Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. . Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. o. Do. It p. a. Extension Dc. 4, DO: Fifth Extension. melb.( orp. p. o. Bud & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. C. along. Bdg New Br unswick et Candi class A sn I B N.ll.l.C'da6 po Ist pt bds Scinde Do. Delhi Do. do • Do. Punjaub Do. Do. . Do. Endus.St. Flo./ OLONIAL GOVERN tlp.c.J a &J tat - 1877-S4 ' Do. 6p. c. Feb. & AuL Do. dp. & Sept . Do. Ip. c. Jan.&July. - Do. 5 Inscribed stock Cape G.Hope, 6p c,187: Do.Ap &Oct. 188 t. Do. 189( - 'Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p c Mau , itius 6 per cent .. Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. —. N.B.Gov. 6 p.e.J a.&Jul3 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. Gov. 5p 18, Do. p. c.,18,i to 1::; Do. d0.,1888 &upwds New Zealand 6 p cent. INovaScotiaGov. 6p. c. ster;ing, 1875 Queensland Gcv. 6p. Aus Gt5p.e.1876.& up Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jull Do. to s n.c. An..ltOnt.. BRITISH. MI iCambrian Consol. Gold Uhflord Amalgamated Devon G. Cone“Tavist , East Bassett (Illogan) East Clogau Gold Ltd East Caradon East Cam Brea W'l Russel (Tavistk ; Gam.d/St.Aubyn(Gwen ) G reat South Tolgus Wheal Vor (Helston' Grenville Herod's- Foot i ingston Downs Lady Bertha Aargaret (lJny Lelant arke Valley.. Nlyndy Iron Oro (Lim.) New Setun .. North Downs N. Wh 't Basset ( 1110 ;an North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blazey Providence (Uny Lelnt.‘ south Caradon(St.Cleer , S. Cam Brea (Illogan) ?Wheal Fran. (Illogan , Stray Park _ Tardflr Silv.Bs Lead Min fin Crort West Basset (IIlogan).. W Caradon (LisfrearA West Seton IWheal Basset (Mogan) Wheal Buller (RedrutW Wheal Kitty (I.7.Lelant! WhealLud ott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) IWheal Seton . . Wheal Trelawney (Lis ) Wheal Union ?,.14.e 3.4.0 8.1.6 574 17E 6.16 8.12 4.17.01 2.0.6 9 i 4.3.0 2 . 2.17.0 2,4.9 li 10.0.7 5.15 t' , ; 18.1,9 28.9. 2.0.8 2.10.8 581 12 7 3.17 5 54 154 164 !45 255 lei 174 41 5% PREFERENCE SHARES. Bristol and Exeter 4 per cent. stock, 95 Mid. Consolidated, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 189 Si PREFE ItENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton, &c., 4 , per cent., 1853, 1024 London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., 101 LINES LEASED AL' FIXED RENTALS. North Western, 161 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, Si Bahia and in Franeaco (lim.. gua. 7 per cent., 213 N. Rail of Buenos xyres, gua. 7 per cent., 10i 11 Ditto (24), 3 Sambre and Meuse, 114 San Pau'o limy, gua. 7 per cent., 0/ 10 Ditto (all), 23 West Film:era, 54 per cent. pf., 11 Western and North-Western of France, 214 FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper (lim.), 3 Dun Pecir , Nur h Lel Rey, 1 Fortuna (lim.), 5 Vancouver Coal, el Yudananiutana of S. Australia 3/ Bank of Chartered JOINT-STOCK TANKS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Um.) '3l AI 1 Australasia, 72 London and American Exchange (Urn.), 10i Egypt, 24 , Ed Brazilian aim.), 42k London and onouanßank of India, Australia, and China, 26 London and London Joint s un ' t /. 43 4 ! o r tt e rit B L t s , t n :3, d 6 R an . , P 2 l B a i te(lim.), 221 London and 'We u Oriental Bank c a orpo n ra ste ti o r „' "AI Provincial of Ireland. no -- "P Union of Australia, 52i London, 57/1 DOCKS St. Katharine, 57 MISCELLANKous., Berlin Water Works, Si Crystal Palace, 34 National Discount Company (lim.), North British Australasian, I Peninsula and 0 iental Steam, 776 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements (1lm.) (£2 , , Trust and Loan Co. of Up: cr Canada, 6 THE ALARIMA.--The New York papers stat e that the Governor of Pemerara has issued orders that if the Alabama calls there for supplies, they are not to be fur. nished. According to the latest advises Admiral Wilkes was at Havannah, and it was believes' there that the Alabama was los'. A BOARD OF AUDIT FOR INDIAN RAILWAYS..-- We understand that the Indian Government are about to establish a Board of Audit for the examination of Indian railway accounts, to ensure that the charges against revenue shall be fairly made. The Indian Government have, of course, a direct pecuniary interest in seeing that all charges are properly apportioned ; and it is to be hoped that Indian railway accounts will be made out in such a clear and comprehensive manner as to contrast favourably with those of companies at home.—Money MAN, Business done 109 8/1 109/ 109 110/ 10 110} 11 921 3# # 107 107 2i 3 108 1061 si 1021 I 109; I I VIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY ,EVENING, APRIL 20, 1863. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The leading country markets, held on Saturday, were quiet for wheat, yet very little change took place in the rates current in the previous week. All descriptions of spring corn moved off slowly at late quotations. In flour a limited business was transacted on former terms. On the continent the corn trade is devoid of animation, and the business doing for export is very moderate. Ad vices from New York stated that the trade, both for wheat and flour, was dull, at drooping prices. Last week's arrival of English grain was very moderate. The import from abroad amounted to 22,825 quarters of wheat, 10,281 barley, 65,544 oats, 315 beans, 1,533 peas, 130 tears, 761 linseed. 12,050 rape and oilseed, 985 maise, 10 sundry seeds, 136 sacks and 11,253 barrels of flour. Fresh up to this morning's market the arrivals of wheat from Essex and Kent were very moderate. A fair pro portion came to hand in good saleable condition, and at the close of the market this had mostly been disposed of, at prices equal to those current last week. Inferior parcels, however, met a dull inquiry, yet no quotable change took place in their value, compared with Monday last. With foreign wheat the market was well supplied. Dantzic and the best, American produce changed hands slowly, on former terms ; otherwise the trade was very in active, but without leading to any alteration in the cur • rency of this day se'nnig ht. _ _ In floating cargoes of wheat and other grain sales pro gressed slowly, at previous quotations. _ _ The supply of English barley was very small; but there was a moderate show of foreign parcels on the stands. The trade was in an inaotive state ; nevertheless, prices were fairly supported. In the demand for malt there was no animation. The quot+tions, however, ruled stationary. With English, Scotch, and Irish oats the market was scantily supplied. The supply of foreign descriptions on offer, however, was very large. Good and fine qualities met a fair sale, and prices were steadily maintained. Low conditioned parcels sold heavily, and, in some instances, the quotations ruled the turn in favour of buyers. The supply of beans was less extensive, but there was no improvement in the demand, and prices were unaltered from Monday last. Pea&-the supply of which was small—moved off slowly at late rates. The supply of barrel flour was moderately large, and sales were made cautiously at about previous quotations. Other descriptions were in slow request, on former terms. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASVRE, Wheat—Essex and Kent, red, new Ditto, old 4Bs 54s Ditto, white, new 475 519 Ditto, old sos 57s Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s 5 Ditto. new Talavera, Rye— Barley—Grinding 26s 35s Malting 3Bs 43s Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk sos 669 Brown Kingstown and Ware s6s 70s Chevalier 66s 25s Oats —Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 195 21s Potato Youg - hal and Cork, black 169 22s Cork, white Scotch, Feeding 2OB 23s Beans—Tick Pigeons, Peas—Grey, new .. 33s 35s Maple White, new 36s 38s Boilers Flour—Town-made Suffolk 305 32s Stockton and Norfolk. . 29s 31e METROPOLITAN CATTLE. There was only a moderate supply of foreign stock on offer here to-day, and its general quality was very middling Sales progressed slowly, and in some instances the quota tions had a drooping tendency. From the time of year the show of beasts from our own grazing districts, as well as from Scotland, was good, and in full average condition. The attendance of buyers was moderately extensive ; nevertheless, owing in some measure to the decline in rough fat to 2s 2id per 81bs the beef trade was in a very inactive state. The best Scots and crosses realised prices about equal to Monday last ; but other breeds moved oft heavily, and in a few instances prices gave way 2d per Blbs. The top figure was 4s 8d per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we received 2,200 Scots, shorthorns, and crosses; from other parts of England 800 various breeds, and from Scotland 600 Scots and crosses. There were no fresh arrivals from Ireland. We were fairly supplied with sheep, the quality of which was good. All breeds moved off heavily, especially Lin coins and Leicesters, which were a shade lower ; otherwise no change took place in the quotations. Prime Downs in wool sold at 5s 8d ; out of the wool, 4s 8d ; prime half-breed., shorn, 4s 6d ; Lineolns and Leicesters, 4s to 4s 4d, in some instances 4s 6d per 81bs. The supply of lambs was moderate. Good and prime breeds moved if freely at enhanced rates, and other quali ties ruled firm in price. The quotations ranged from 6s 8d to 8s per 81b8. The veal trade was heavy, at 4d per 81b less money; and the pork trade was in a dull state on easier terms. Per Slb. to sink the offal. a. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 4 Second quality do. 3 8 3 10 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4 Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 6 3 10 Second quality do. 4 0 4 6 Lambs, 6s a. d. s. d. Primecrs-wool d 0.4 8 5 4 Pme. S'thdown d 0.5 6 5 8 Large arse. calves 3 10 4 6 Prime small d 0... 4 8 6 0 Large h0g5...... 3 6 4 0 Small porkers 4 24 6 3d to 8s Od. Suckling calves, 12s to 19s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 295. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .. . Cows — Sheep and lambs .... 1,630 Sheep and lambs Calves ..• • Pigs. 470 A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the great metropolitan cattle market, on Monday, April 21, 1862, and this day, Monday, April 20, 1863. Per 81b. to sink the offal. April 21, 1862. 2 Bto 2 10 30 3 4 3 6 3 10 40 4 2 32 3 6 38 4 0 42 5 0 54 5 8 64 8 0 40 4 6 48 5 0 38 4 0 42 4 8 3,420 April 20, 1863. 3 2to 3 4 3 8 310 40 4 4 46 4 8 3 6 310 40 4 6 48 5 4 56 5 8 68 8 0 310 4 6 48 5 0 36 4 0 42 4 6 4,920 Coarse and inferior beasts.... Second quality do Prime large oxen . . Prime Scots, &c Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality do. Prime coarse-woorted do Prime Southdown do. .. Lambs Large coarse calves .. Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers Beasts Sheep and lambs .... 21,460 19,640 Calves Pigs 445 260 SUPPLIES ON SALE, April 22, 1861.—Beasts, 3,610 — sheep and lambs, 17,620—calves, 65—pigs, 630. APRIL 23, 1860.—Beasts, 4,050 —sheep and lambs, 26,820 —calves, 160—pig5,,350. The total imports of foreign stock into London, last week, amounted to 3,716 head. In the corresponding week in 1862, we received 2,539—in 1861, 3,211—in 1860, 1,939 —in 1859, 944—in 1858, 2,318—in 1857, 1,494 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam .... 233 .. 169 5 .. 493 .. 15 Harlingen .... 250 .. 27 .. 4 .. 10 .. Hamburgh 89 .. 2,108 .. . • • Boulogne. l7 1 .. Cuxhaven ..... Vigo NieweDiep — Amsterdam Antwerp. Ostend • • . Corunna .. . 96 .. • - - - Dordt. Calais.. - . . - . . 16 • • --- - • • 10 • . 29 • . --- Total 677 2,456 20 .. 548 .. 15 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1862 72 .. 2.056 .. 4 .. 402 .. 5 18(11 484 .. 2,206 .. .. 93 .. 328 1861 219 1,522 .. 3 .. 181 .. 14 1859 233 567 .. 9 .. 131 .. 4 1858 252 .. 1,814 .. 252 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Fair average supplies of town and country-killed meat are on sale at these markets. In all descriptions sales pro gress slowly, at the recent fall in the currency. Per 81b. by the carcase. stied Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 0 Nliddling do. .. 3 2 3 6 Frime large do. 3 8 3 10 Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Large pork .... 3 6 4 0 Inferior mutton. 3 2 3 6 sded Middling mutton 3 8 4 0 Prime do .. 4 2 4 4 Veal . 4 0 4 8 Small pork ~ .. 4 2 4 6 Lamb BOROUGH HOP. We have to report a steady demand for all good condi tioned samples of home-grown hops, and late rates are well supported. Inferior qualities movo off slowly, but at full prices. Foreign hops, particularly those of good colour, command a fair sale, and the quotations rule firm. Last week's import amounted to 88 pockets and 391 bales from Dunkirk, 60 bales from Bremen, 374 pockets from Guern sey, 100 bales from Antwerp, and 91 bales from Hamburg. Mid and East Kents 7os to 180 s per cwt. Weald of Kents Sussex Belgian Bavarian American .. 75s to 86a „ The second serie s of WOOL. public sales of colonial wool will commence on the 30th inst. The arrival sin ce th e c l os e of last auction is as follows ;—From New South Wales and Queensland, 10,620 bales; Victoria, 33,185; Tasmania, 2,562; Adelaide, 17,701; New Zealand, 2,069; Cape, 5,694. Total, 7 2 , 13 1 bales, The trade, both as regards home and colonial parcels, is Ter y qu i e t, yet no quotable change h as taken place in p r ices compared with our last report. There is still, how- SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. NEWMARKET RACES—THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. SWEEPSTAKES OF TEN SOUS EACH. Santhal .Etna Columbine HANDICAP PLATE. Miss Emma Revolver _ Four ran, MAIDEN PLATE. Garotter Rigolboiche 2 Five ran. Two THOUSAND.—Haliburton, Double Pas, Knight of the North, Knave of Trumps, Debden, Gelerte, The Tartar, The Prior, Ireton, Woldga, Brick, Beauvale, Light Bob, Nowadaha, Cheerful, Weatherbow, Michael Scott, Physalis colt, and Killarney have paid forfeit. ONE THOUSAND.—Duchess of Kingston, Lurline, Double Pas, Devoninsis, Flutter filly, Miss Whip filly, Slattern, Dame Gillian, Woodbine, and Cachuci have paid forfeit. LATEST BETTING. TWO THOUSAND. 11 to 10 agst Hospodar (offered) 9to 2 agst Saccharometer (taken) 10 to 1 agst Macaroni (taken) 11 to 1 agst Blue Mantle (taken) THE DERBY. 1000 to 15 agst Baldwin (taken) 2000 to 25 agst Donnybrook (taken) Very little doing. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. COMMITTAL FOR DOG STEALING.—James Kearney, described as a shoemaker, of 14, Fitzroy-place, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a dog of the value of £5, the property of John Needham, coachman to a gentleman named Arnold, whose stables are in Harley-mews, The prosecutor went into a publichouse on Saturday after noon with a friend and the prisoner followed them in, and shortly after left, taking the prosecutor's dog with him. On the prosecutor going outside to look for his dog he was in formed by a cabman that a man had gone off with it. The police were communicated with, and prisoner was found and taken into custody, but the dog could not be traced. This morning, however, a person went to the publichouse and left the dog with the barman, and it was now produced in court. The barman at the publichouse said that he observed the prisoner and another man talking together in front of the bar, and the prisoner then put something under the other man's coat, and they lett the house together. Henry Bradbury, a cab driver, said the prisoner was the man he noticed leave with the dog. The prisoner set up a most rambling defence, and Mr. Tyrwhitt committed him for two months with hard labour, informing him at the same time, that if he came before him again he would go to the sessions. ever, a moderate inquiry for low Cape qualities, on Ameri can account. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Full average supplies of home-grown potatoes have been received at this market since our last report. The imports from abroad have been moderate for the time of year—vic, 104 sacks from Rouen, 215 tons from Dunkirk, 138 tons from Brussels, 95 tons from Louvaine, and 1 bag from Calais. The trade, generally speaking, rules quiet, yet very little change has taken place in prices compared with Monday last. Yorkshire Regents .... Do. Flukes . l3os to 1509 „ Do. Rocks.... 9os to 100 s „ o. Seedlings Kent and Essex Regents l2os to 130 s ~ Scotch Regents Do. Rocks Bos to 905 Do. Reds. 7os to 80s „ Foreign sos to 60s „ SEEDS. We have to report an inacti of seed, and, in some instance ward tendency. Cakes are i former terms. Turnip, W hite,p.bus 11s to 14s Swede —s —s Mustard, Brown 9a 12s White, Tares, New 78 scl 8s 6d Old per quarter - s — s Canary, per quarter 46s 52s Rye grass, new s —8 Clover, Red Eng., et. 50s 7481 White Foreign Red 4os 74s White 6oa 76s Trefoil, new. 26s 388 lye market for all descriptions )s, the quotations have a down in but moderate request, on Carraway Coriander l6B 185 Hernpseed, per qr 42s 448 Linseed,Eng.sowing 72s 74s Crushing 6s 70s Baltic —9 —s Odessa —s —5 Linseed Cake, p ton —s —s English £lo Os.£lo 10s Foreign £lO Os £ll Os Rape Cakes,p ton.£6 Os £0 Os Rapeseed, new,pr qr 15s —s TALLOW. The tallow trade is steady to-day, at the improvement realised in prices at the close of last week. St. Petersburg Y.C. is quoted at 42s 9tl per cwt. on the spot, 43s for June, and 45s 9d for October to December delivery. Rough fat is sebing at 2s 21d per 81bs, and town tallow at 41s 6d per cwt., net cash. . - 6s s 6d od to 1862. 1863. Stock this T 1 2 8 , 5 1 9 0 .3 3 1 1 8 ,18 0 8 T 10 8. 9 6 8 1; Price of Y.C. 8 6 d o ti t o 4 4 6 3 6 5 7 5 0 4 d 6 6 ci t 0 0 4_2 4 8 1 8 911 2 0 Deliver) lastweek 1,260 1 488 1,106 1,991 1312 5_68 61 3t d t0 5_98 Ditto from June 1 9,481 73'681 70,411 111,458 72,688 Arrivals last wee 67 736 852 307 Ditto from June 1 93,022 92.791 115.328 92, 57 76,232 Price of Town .... 57s 3d 56s 6d 56s 6ci 47s 9d 44s 3d SPORTING NOTES. The Newmarket Spring Meeting commences to-day, but the events to be decided are not of the smallest importance. The Two Thousand Guineas which will be run tomorrow will bring out all the phases of Newmarket life in great pro minency, as it is the gala day of the spring, and every anni versary of it is recollected as that of the St. Leger in York shire. The field will be relected from the following, and perhaps one or two outsiders may put in an appearance at the last moment : Horse. Trainer. Rider. Hospodar Jennings Geo. Fordham. Maccaroni Godding T Challoner. Blue Mantle Harlock H. Grimshaw. Saccharometer Channel J Goater. Melrose Scott J Osborne. King of the Vale Hayhoe J Rapid Rhone T. Dawson T, Aldcroft. Physalis colt T. Dawson J Doyle. Escape .. Tom Fool Stinton A. Day. Onesander J Dawson A. Edwards. Count Cavern. J Watson J Snowden. Hospodar, the first favourite, before he came out and beat Early Purl and Co., was tried higher than any horse that has been tried at Newmarket for many years, and the rush to get on him for the Derby amongst those cognisant of the fact was very great. Both in the Clearwell and the Criterion he fully realised the anticipations which such a spin had engendered, and he has ever since remained with tolerable firmness in the market. The little work he was doing at one time rather encouraged the layers, and elevated the hopes of Saccharometer's friends, but since then Jennings has seemed determined to make up for lost time, and he has been sent along, so that there need be no appre hension of his fitness ; and with Fordham on his back, his fine propelling powers and great speed, I am at a loss to find a better representative in the coming contest. Saccha rometer's escutcheon, like that of Hospodar, has never been tarnished by defeat, as he won the Newmarket Two Year Old Plate, the July, and the Chesterfield, the only three races for which he ran, the two former easily, and the Chesterfield after a contest which proved him to be a real honest horse. Both his noble owner and trainer are fond of him, and from his last year's performances he is bound to run well. Maccaroni, beaten easily by Automaton when amiss last year, justified the good opinion his stable expressed of him the other day, when he beat a good field easily on the home ground, his opponents including three good performers like Valentine, the Giraffe colt, and Le Marechal. Neither of these could make him gallop, and we think the heavy sums of money intrusted to him for a " place " are likely to be safely landed. Blue Mantle was in tremendous force during the Ascot week last year, and had he not run for the July and Chesterfield, and been reserved for the Houghton engage ment, he would perhaps have been in a different position in both markets at the present time. No hot se has done better than Blue Mantle during the winter, and if in anything like his Ascot form he must be with the leading favourites, if not the actual winner. Melrose is "dark," and as there was little or no mention made of him until Early Purl met with an accident (happily one of little account, and from which he hae since recovered), a short time since, I cannot regard his chance as worth much. Rapid Rhone and the colt by Young Melbourne, dam by Gameboy out of Phy salis, will both run in Lord Glasgow's interest, and if Rapid Rhone is better than the latter he must get a place. Count Cavour only ran twice, viz., at Beverley, for the Bishop Burton Stakes, which he won, beating nothing, however, of any note ; and at the Curragh, when, owing to his having had a bad sea passage, he was easily beaten for the An glesey Stakes by Roman Bee and Double X. The Count is a gcod-looking horse, and being by Longbow, the best looking sire at Newmarket, oat of Sister to Satirist, ought to race. King of the Vale is the best shaped big horse I have seen since the days of his grandsire, the celebrated Harkaway, but he is deficient in the quality of the latter, and as neither his legs nor feet are adapted for hard ground I think he will not show to so much ad vantage in this race as he did in the contest with Gladstone and Oscar, his clever defeat of whom would otherwise en • title him to great consideration. Escape, after his Epsom exhibition, will hardly run, independent of which, such a shifty gentleman is not worth a thought, as King of the Vale, through Gladstone, alone holds him safe. From the above remarks it will be seen that I prefer the chances of Hospodar, Blue Mantle, and Saccharometer, and I should not be surprised to see them run first, second, and third. But for the reasons stated in my opening remarks, I will place my sole reliance on HO SPODAR, and if he is defeated, I expect it will be by BLUE MANTLE. In the Sweepstakes of 300 sovs each, over the Beacon Course, there are five 4-yr•olds engaged, two of which, Ellangowan and Duntroon, are hors de combat, and as Balder cut up wretchedly last week, Lacydes has only to beat Freeholder to place the stakes to the credit of Lord Stamford. The Coffee Room Stakes of 50 sovs each will probably fall to Villafranca. The Free Handicap on the Rowley voile, for which eight horses accepted, seems likely to fall to Atherstone or General Hess, the latter's recent running in the City and Suburban entitling him to the preference. The principal race in the list for Wednesday is the Newmarket Two-Yr-Old Plate, for which 76 youngsters are entered, only the following 14 of which have yet run :—Vandervelde, Clairvoyante, Whitefield, Faith, Royston, Cosette, Sacrilege, Garotter, Nathalie, Vat° B 9 Quoon of tho Vale, Langford, Ramrod, and Vacuna. The three former are each penalised 51b, which precludes their chance of winning; and the best of the remainder are Faith and Sister to Queen of the Vale, the latter of whom I expect to see win. The nine horses nominated for the Prince of Wales's Stakes are, with the exception of Not tingham, very moderate, and failing his running, which is doubtful, Citadel ought to win. Malek is not likely to op pose either Buckenham or Harlequin far the 50 soya Sweep stakes on the last three miles of the Beacon Course; and the 50 sovs Sweepstakes on the Ditch mile is at the mercy of Lord Stamford with either Oscar or Cassidia; while Revolver ought to be good enough to dispose of Sea King, Dunkeld, Gaulois, and Vive le Refine for the 50 soya Sweepstakes, Across the Flat. In the Weight for Age Sweepstakes in the Rowley mile, Biondella, Little Lady, end Wingrave are engaged, the latter of whom will stay the distance best. For Thursday there are eight races in the list, the principal of which is the One Thousand Guinea Stakes, for which 66 fillies are nominated, with a likelihood of only the following fourteen reaching the starting post : Probable Riders Lady Augusta Tornado G. Fordham Amelia Cadeau . , -- Columba.. Gold Dust "'ease Me Not Ch fby Teddington out of Sage's dam .... Custance B fby Young Melbourne out of Brown Bess T. Aldcroft Crafton Lass Alice Br f by 6tockwell out of Miranda J. Goater Villafranca Of these only Amelia, Crafton Lass, Gold Dust, and Villa franca have run this year, and each of the three first named won her engagement in the Craven week, while Villafranca won hers at Paris. Amelia beat Canace and Cassidia so easily for the 50 soya Sweepstakes on the T.Y.C. that I regard her to have a better chance than Crafton Lass or Gold Dust, neither of whom I suspect are as good as Villafranca. To estimate the chance of the others, their running last year must be referred to, by which it will be seen that the race on public form will lay between TORNADO, LADY AUGUSTA, AMELIA, and VIL LAFRANCA; and as TORNADO was undoubtedly the best performer last year, I shall trust to her alone to carry me through. The other items to be decided are of very little importance. A FRESH MAN. TATTERSALL'S-SATURDAY. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 6to 4 agst Hospodar (offered) 7to 2 agst Saccharometer (take 4to 1) 10 to 1 agst Blue Mantle (offered) 10 to 1 agst Macaroni (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Rapid Rhone (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Melrose (offered) THE DERBY. 6to 1 agst Lord Clifden (offered) 7to 1 agst Hospodar (offered) 10 to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered) 14 to 1 agst National Guard (taken and offered) 18 to 1 agst Glenochty oolt (taken and offered) 28 to 1 agst Ranger (taken) 28 to 1 agst Carnival (offered) 1000 to 30 agst Melrose (offered) 40 to 1 agst Rapid Rhone (taken and offered) 50 to 1 agst Early Purl (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Giles the First (taken) 3000 to 40 agst Avondale (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Cairncastle (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Poland (offered) 2000 to 15 agst Light Bob (taken) BATH AND SOMERSETSHIRE COUNTY MEET- 1N G. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13. Acceptances for the Somersetshire Stakes of 6 sous each. Two miles and a distance. Age et lb Bally Edmond .... b 8 12 Brighton . 4 8 3 Vinegar Hill ...... 5 8 2 Flirtation ........ 5 7 12 Catch 'em Alive .. 4 7 9 Balham Lord Stanley...... 4 7 9 Canary ...... 7 3 Freeholder ...... 4 7 2 Golden Dust ...... 3 7 1 Lord Clyde ...... 4 6 12 Portland ....... 6 6 9 The highest weight aceoptin, raised to Bst 121 b, and t Age et lb Maid 4 6 9 Sing It earst arPY:wgeo l o d rn g" .. . 3 33 6 6 6 96 1 l3londin 3 6 1 His Excellency Br. to Springbok 3 6 0 Alcestis Raglan .......... 3 5 12 Symphony ...... 3 5 12 Dictator .......... 3 5 12 ig being Bst 71b, it has been the others in proportion. The Baize of Turin states that the gaoler of the prison of St. Michele at Rome has disappeared with the minutes of all the political prosecutions in his possession. WESTAIIN STER. EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF THE POLICE. Edward Salisbury, a poor man, was charged with creating an ob struction by selling things in the street. Police-constable William Frank, 237 B, said on Saturday night, at half-past eight, .1 was on duty in Grosvenor-row, Pimlico, when I saw the defendant there with a barrow loaded with greens, walking up and down in the carriage.. way. A man with a h orse mid cart wan t e d t o come out of George-street, and the defendant was blocking the way, and refused to go until he had tit rved his customers. He was serving a customer, and kept the man with the cart until he had finished. Mr. Selfe—Can you tell me whether there is any pre scriptive right for people to stand and block up the thorough fare in Stratton -ground, Westminster ? Policeman—l don't know, your worship. Mr. Selfe—l should like to know, for I can't see how one with any show of decency can fine men with barrows for being in Grosvenor-row, while others are allowed with impunity in Stratton-ground. If the public convenience is to be at all considered, I cannot see a greater nuisance 4 han that in Stratton-ground. Policeman—We have no orders to interfere with it. Mr. Selfe—lt is not only people with barrows or stalls who obstruct the street, but the shopkeepers them selves take the road facing these houses. I should like to have some light thrown upon the matter. I don't want a crusade against these poor people, but there ought to be a uniform rule. It seems unjust that these stands should be permitted in one part of the district and disallowed in an other. Defendant, you must walk on when told. You are discharged. THAMES. MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—A fellow named John Shun, who can only be designated as a thief and a ruffian, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with violently as saulting Margaret Griffiths. The prosecutrix, a well dressed woman of the town, had formerly associated with the prisoner, and his brutality was so greet that she severed the connexion. He wished to renew it, but she refused all intercourse with him. He then commenced a system of perseou. ion and annoyance towards her. He frequently hunted her about the streets, abused and threatened her. His villany and intimidation not meet ing with the success he wished, he illused her and on seNeral occasions knocked her down. A few months ago he fractured her jaw. She was in the hospital for some time. He recommenced his annoyance and brutality when she was released from the hospital. He met her on Thursday night last in Salmon•lane, Limehouse, while she was in company with another woman, named Margaret Farrer, and struck her a tremendous blow with his fist on the face, between the eyes, and exclaimed, " You know what that is for," and ran away. The complainant was very seriously injured by the blow. Both eyes were blackened and swollen, and from the state of her face it was believed that the prisoner had some blunt instrument in his hand when he struck her. Yesterday (Sunday) evening the prisoner broke into the woman's dwelling in Railway-place, York-road, Ratcliff, and she escaped from him by getting over the wall of a neighbour's house into the next yard. He followed her, seized her round the waist, and then com menced pummelling her with his fists. The women in the neighbouring houses interfered, and gave him into custody. In answer to a question, the woman said, H e wan t s me to live with him and keep him, and I will not do anything of the kind. Mr. Woolrych said the prisoner was a brutal, savage, and cowardly fellow. He sentenced him to six months' im• prisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. THETFORD ELECTION. — The nomination for this borough, to supply th e vacancy occasioned by th e e l eva ti on of the Earl of Euston to the peerage, will take place this morning at the Town-hall. As has been stated previously, Lord Frederick Fitzroy is the only candidate, and will be returned without opposition. The estimated cost of the Albert memorial cross is £lOO,OOO, of which sum £70,000 has been subscribed. The House of Commons (the ilthenceum says) is to be asked to grant a sum sufficient to make u p the defi c i ency . We understand (says Gal i gnani) that the petition which was presented lately to the Queen of Spain, in favour unfortunateatheladies,man of m ata t l e orask was signed by a b ove 30,000 French omau Catholics. ROYAL INSTITUTION. An interesting and very animated lecture was delivered at the Royal Institution on Friday even ing by Mr. F. Buckland, " On the Culture of Fish," on which occasion the Duke of Northumberland was in the chair. Mr. Bucklaud vary enthusiasti cally urged the importance of the subject of pisci culture, which, he contended, deserves to be can sidered as a science rather than as an art ; and he entered into the matter so thoroughly con amore, and used so much action and freedom of expression, that he carried his audience completely along with him, and they seemed to be highly amused as well as interested. Fish are among the most prolific of living creatures, the number of eggs that each one contains being so great that if they were all to be developed, the rivers and the sea would soon swarm with them. In a turbot weighing eight pounds upwards 485,000 eggs have been counted, each one of which, as Mr. Buckland said, if properly taken care of, would become a turbot that now sells for 10s. Such a fish would, therefore, be more profit able than the mythical goose that laid golden eggs, and the practical advantages of attending to the culture of fish was plainly manifest. He described the manner in which salmon and trout, especially, deposit their eggs in the beds of rivers, and the many dangers the spawn usually encounter, which so far diminish the number that it is estimated that not more than one egg in a thousand becomes a matured fish. It is a mistaken notion to suppose that the birds that skim along the surface of rivers are destructive to fish—they only eat the insects that would destroy the spawn, and are therefore useful ; but the most destructive aquatic poacher is the swan, which dives its long neck to the bottom and shovels up hundreds of the eggs in its broad beak. The plan to be adopted in the culture of the fish is very simple, and the ap paratus required may be easily provided. The spawn is collected and transferred to boxes containing gravel that has been boiled, to kill the insects it con tains, and through the boxes a stream of water not deeper than liin. is kept constantly flowing, at a temperature of about 40 or 45 degrees. All that is then required is the practice of the sometimes very difficult act, as Mr. Buckland observed, of letting things alone for about 35 days, when the little fish will come out of the eggs. In that first stage of development they have no mouths, but each one is provided by nature with a bag attached to the gills which supplies it with nutriment until further ad vanced in growth. With the aid of the electric lamp several eggs were exhibited just before they were hatched, with the fish visible inside and mov ing about; and the embryo fish, on first bursting from the eggs, with their bags of nutriment at tached, were also exhibited swimming in water. Though they had no mouths they were provided with large eyes, and their hearts could be seen beating rapidly, When further developed they are placed in ponds and fed. In England the food given them is liver ground very fine, but in France they are :characteristically fed with frogs. When sufficiently advanced to provide their own food the fish are introduced into the rivers to -take care of themselves, and to repay when afterwards caught for the pains bestowed on them in their infancy. In this manner 40,000 fish, comprising salmon, trout, greylings, and chad, were put into the Thames last year; and as the cost of rearing them is not much more than a farthing each, if only a small propor tion grow up and come back to be caught, they wig repay the expense. In France the rivers have been stocked with as many as six millions of fish of various kinds. One of the problems which the pis cioulturists are now engaged in solving is the in troduction of salmon into the rivers of Australia; and it is confidently expected to be accomplished by packing the eggs in ice. Mr. Buckland showed some eggs of salmon that had been kept alive in ice long enough to perform the voyage to Australia, and he had no doubt that in a few years the rivers of Australia would be stocked with salmon from this country. He explained the manner in which the eggs and embryo fish are sent from one part of Europe to another, and he showed a bottle full of minute Swedish salmon which he had received within the week, some of which were caught and exhibited great activity when displayed on a screen with the electric lamp. In noticing the great wariness of trout, Mr. Buckland said there is a well-known trout in the river at Hampton, which anglers have for a long time vainly at tempted to catch, and they report it to be so sagacious as to know the name of every maker of tackle that is used in the Thames. It has been observed during the culture of fish that not un frequently two fish are contained in a single egg, and they are joined together near the middle, like the Siamese twins. A specimen of this kind Mr. Buckland had been so fortunate as to procure alive for exhibition in the lecture room, each fish being distinct in every part but at the point of junction. At the conclusion of the lecture, Mr. Buckland made a feeling allusion to his father, the late Dr. Buckland, and there was a burst of ap plause unusual with the audience at the Royal Institution. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT. On Saturday afternoon last a shocking accident occurred on the river Wey, close to the town of Guildford, which caused the loss of three lives by drowning. From a few particulars which we have been enabled to gather it appears that at about a quarter to 5 o'clock two gentlemen—one of whom appeared to be a German and the other an English gentleman, who had been staying fer some days at the Angel Hotel, in company with the wife of one and the mother of the other, for the benefit of their health.—presented themselves at Mr. Wells's boat house, at Guildford-bridge, and stated that they should like to have a row on the river. As neither of them was expert at the oar, they requested that a man might accompany them to pull the boat, and a lad named George Wheatley, who was well accustomed to the river and a good waterman, was selected for this purpose. The boat which they hired was a stout skiff, called the Prince of Wales, calcu culated to carry four persons, and at 5 o'clock they set out on their excursion, never to return. Shortly after 6 o'clock, a messenger arrived at Mr. Wells's, in breathless haste, and informed him that one of his boats was lying bottom upwards, nearly oppo site Mr. Ross D. Mangles's park, at Woodbridge, and that some hats were floating on the water. Mr. Wells without a moment's delay despatched a punt and the drags in the direction indicated. When the punt arrived on the spot, the truth soon became appa rent. The drags were let go, and after two or three trawls, the holies of the three unfortunate deceased were raised from the bottom of the river, and deposited on the lawn in front of Woodbridge House. They were thence conveyed to the BD Tavern, at Stoke, where medicalattendance waesthe ob tained without delay, but too lat e to be e any use, cannot pie vital spark having long since fle h d• mesieY't3 my ot h e r and wife ture the agony and dismay of of the deceased gentlemen and e o t u f e e l e V ; n h be uttl saw their the a acct_fgriile on receiving the fatal intelhg no one course, to describe how it was most disheartening. As tion is that one of the gen been about try his hand at an theo Osnteemsidteo a t n h d e rower's oto d ac e e er n m: t re , arn i ne t ddme i i:bhthuattthht:ahayse :e: impossible, bill] ap ed fi. t g oo 111 " 11 1 :11 thus caps i ze d the boat. The three bodiesdwepraeifro,uonnde close t o gether, as if, in the a gony of es had clasped the other. - Wheatley, wh o wa s regu larly employed by M r . - W ells, has b een long acous, tomed to the riv er , an d he is stated to have been ave agood boatman and an expert swimmer. The bodies await an inquest by the county coroner. In the Italian Parliamentt:tTurin it has been proposed by th e R a di cal members to strike from the Budget the sum o f 1 , 110 , 0 00 f., which the State pays towards the support of the great Italian theatres—La Scala, in Milan, San Carlo, in Naples, &o, Although the motion was opposed in the professed interests of art and culture, by some of the Southern deputies, it met with suoh a strong support among all parties, that the Minister Peruzzi had to give way on the principle, and only to plead for delay and compromise, and the necessity of humouring the city populations. The Chamber at last voted that the en dowment of theatres should immediately disappear from the ordinary budget, empowering the Government, however, to enter as extraordinary ex p e nses any sums that migh t be necessary to discharge existing obligations to theatre managers, ac. CRIME IN FRANCE, .Ao.tu,inffid The Court of Assizes of Seine-et-Oise has just tried a farmer, named Tourly, on a charge of mur dering M. Jambe?), mayor of Mflliers, on the 23d November last. It appeared f r om the ev idence that, on the day abov e -n ame d, M. J am b on wen t o ut with his gun for a f ew h ours ' s h oo ti ng , an d neve r re turned. A gene ra l searc h was commenced in the neighbouring brsu w . r j o Ac o a d p s oi , ns a t .a n n d zpol o rai n notiait the ei ox t na h m i a r i d bnoa d ut a ti y o na h s i lh s eo b a w i g , d ue y de s h tfwroa f at he had received in the face the charge of a gun loaded with small shot, and had afterwards been beaten about the head with some blunt instrument, or kicked with heavy shoes, j until his and several of his t eet h knocked aowuzaslbtrorkeans also ascertained that the murder had been com mitted at a place nearly a league from the spot where the body was found. The police came to the conclusion that the murderer was one of the many poachers who abound in that neighbourhood, and one of them was arrested on suspicion. Soon after, the prisoner stated in a public-house that he was the murderer, and could not allow another to suffer for his crime. He was accordingly taken into cus tody, and before the examining magistrate he re peated his statement, but declared that he had only fired in self-defence at the moment the deceased was going to shoot at him ; he added, that after the murder he had removed the body in a wheelbarrow to the place where it was found. In court the pri soner repeated the same story, but the medical evidence clearly proved that M. Jamban's jaw had not been broken by the shot, but by blows or kicks, and several of the murdered man's teeth were found at the spot where the struggle took place. The prisoner, however, maintained that those injuries must have been caused by his having overturned the harrow there. This ex planation, however, seemed very improbable, and was further invalidated by the fact that the prisoner, before his apprehension, had sold the shoes he wore on the day of the crime. After hearing a great number of witnesses, and M. Lachaud for the de fence, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty, with extenuating circumstances, and the Court sentenced the prisoner to twenty years' hard labour. The Tribunal of Correctional Police on Friday tried two Englishmen, named Haynes and Fulton, oa a charge of picking poekets in the church of St. Eustache on the 9th of last month. Several police agents deposed that the prisoners, some days before their arrest, had excited suspicions, and a watch was set on their actions. On the day above-mentioned, after lurking some time about the Bank of France, they were seen to enter the church of St. Eustache, which was crowded at the time. While two officers fol lowed them into the sacred edifice, others were set to watch the doors, and when the prisoners came out both were arrested. Fulton had in his posses sion a purse containing 82fr., which was afterwards identified by a gentleman who had been in the church. Haynes had a pocket-book containing cards and papers of no use to any person but the owner, and a purse with 420 fr. in gold and bank notes, the owners of which w er e subsequently dis covered by the police. The two prisoners, who said they were working jewellers, professed not to know each other, but as they had been constantly seen together, this statement was unworthy of credit. As the evidence was conclusive against the prisoners, the Tribunal declared the charge proved, and cola. demned both of them to two years' imprisonmen t and five years' surveillance of the police. ROBBERY Ar THE CLUNY MUSEUM. The Court of Assizes yesterday tried the man Gaudichal, a Belgian, who attempted to rob the Hotel Cluny on the night of the 31st of January last, and was caught in the fact. The table of the court was covered with articles which the prisoner had taken from their eases and packed up ready for removal. They consisted of-1. The " Rose of Baste," containing 305 grammes of pure gold, and having a large sapphire in the middle, which was presented by Pope Clement V. to the Prince Bishop of Basle in the 14th century ; 2. A large gold book binding and clasp of the same period, set with 40 precious stones ; 3. A bishop's crosier of the 13th century, made of ivory and boxwood, and richly jewelled ; 4. An antique girdle of massive gold, of the Celtic period, weighing 400 grammes ; 5. A number of gold bracelets, chains, and girdles ; and 6. Two abbots' crosiers, of geld filagree, set with jewels, both of which the prisoner had broken from their staves. As the circumstances of the crime must be fresh in the memory of our readers, it w ill suffice to say that the prisoner entered the Museum in the afternoon of the 31st of January, carefully noticed the position of the articles which he thought most valuable and most easily removed, and then concealed himself in a large chest in the chapel, where he remained until dark. He then issued. from his concealment, and with the aid of a dia mond broke the glass cases, and packed up his booty ready for removal. When the guardians made their usual round at 9 o'clock the robbery was dis covered, and the prisoner found concealed in the chapel, with all the stolen articles in his possession. Before the examining magistrate, and again in court, the prisoner confessed that, having been un fortunate in business, and obliged to separate from his wife, he conceived the project of retrieving his circumstances by robbing the Museum of the riches which he had observed when on his wedding tour some years before. He came to Paris in January, visited the Museum several times, matured his plans, and at last attempted. their execution, tut was baffled by the vigilance of the guardians. Among the witnesses examined was M. Dusommerard, the director of the Museum, who, after deposing to the circumstances of the robbery and the prisoner's arrest, stated, in answer to the question of the Pre sident, that the prisoner had shown some judgment in making his choice, as he had not selected the most valuable articles, but those which could be most easily sold. Ho might, for instance, have taken the golden altar of Basle and the crowns of the Gothic Kings, but they were all so well known that, had he offered them for sale, discovery would have been certain. In answer to a question as to the value of the articles taken by the prisoner, M . Court sew. 'a prisoner h Dusommerard said that intrinsically they we re . ° lu r e was i i t t h n e e l s r s e r s a and counsel worth at least 50,000 f., but cal and artistical point of view extenuating circumstances, fcoarl in calculable. b d l e e f . e n A ce f , t After e j s u r r i y n g fo t u hi es, five years' imprisonment.— Galtg. that dwt hei andn the with tented him to tram'. Double Attempt at Suicide. ayraYfternoon Dr. Lankester held an in- I relativequestE on t a rSa t a : t o t ur h c f E deatha s t n o r 0 C a s tle 1 -,---- floor-cloth worker, who ;aye:Union-street, Jamescommitted J it L t ff e e d re su y i s e , i a d g e, ed af 6 t 7 er , a a second s It attempt, und er the following melancholy circumstance appeared that the dec ease d h a d suffered fo r years from chronic asth ma , an d f or t h e last four months had been unable t o li e i n a b e d. been medically attended, and within the last ten days he had shown signs of derangement. He repeatedly prayed to the Lord to deliver him, and had desired his wife to remove his razors from a drawer. On Thursday morning last he was left alone for a few minutes, and on the return of the wife she found something prevented her turning the handle and opening the door. She tried to force the door, when she heard something tall, and, on getting into the room, she found her husband on the floor in a crouching position, with his black silk handker chief round his neck, with which he appeared to have strangled himself by attaching it to the . room doer handle. Mr. Pearse, surgeon, was immediately called in, and found life extinct. k n on ex the neck, the body there were some slight ma io r n s of the heart and on the left side near the re d g weeeds, one very there were three or four punctured with a pair of deep, which deceased bad d covered with blood on sc i ssors , which were fhadun b ee n taken from a drawer the table. The scissors examination after death by the deceased. The.ase of the lungs and heart, showed extensive .dise sist an attempt at strangu which would readily as . d d h - s ro Certain internal sign p ve eat to have lation. A verdict of " Bu l l • ulation. icide by been by strang . . strangulation while in an unsound state of mind" was ultimately returned. Paid. an 100 100 0", ' 100 100 M EN , SSE 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 all all all all 100 100 100 100 100