The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-19 00:00:00

AND COMMERCILL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. REDUCTION OF ONE PER CENT. IN THE BANK OF ENGLAND RATE OF DISCOUNT. The directors of the Bank of England have just held their weekly Court, and announced a reduction of one per cent. in their rate of interest. The minimrm quotation is now eight per cent., and th e public are relieved from the anxiety experienced within the east few days as to the probable issue of affairs. The measure, it is true, has been expected, but in the present unsettled condition of things no great surprise would have been created if the official quotation had been continued for another week at nine per cent., so as effectually to root out the recent speculative mania. About £45,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. The bar silver brought by the Shannon has been sold at 5i °id per ounce standard, being another id lower; the Mexican dollars by the French steamer Florida have also been disposed of at 56 lid per ounce, showing no alteration. The suspension has been announced of Messrs. James Hurst and Co., merchants, of London, and Mauritius. The last week's raiiwny receipts, ascertained up to this day, are, in round figures, as under:— 1864. 1863. Great Western North-Western South- Western Brighton Midland 47,624 38,884 South Eastern Great Northern 'Lancashire and Yorkshire 40,390 32,963 Bristol and Exeter North Eastern ;Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 16,818 14,681 Glasgow and South-Western Great South-Western of Ireland These returns, when compared with those of the same period of last year, are of a highly satisfactory character. On the Great 'Western there is an in crease of £10,519 ; on the North Western of £14,488; on the South Western of £5,374 ; on the Brighton of £1,874; on the South Eastern of £1,742; on the Great Northern of £7,057 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire of £7,447 ; on the Bristol and Exeter of £7OB ; on the North Eastern of £7,057 ; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln of £2,137; on the Glasgow and South Western of £493 ; and o❑ the Great Southern and Western of Ireland of £707. Two O'CLOCK. M Paris this morning, according to Renter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Ren tee were 66f. 70c. A very quiet and inactive market has prevailed for the English Funds. Prices show ret the slightest variation, and Consols continue at 911 I for money, and 901 f„ less the dividend, for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 891 ; India 5 per Cents., 10517 E nfaced 5 per Cents., 104; do. 51 per Cents., 114; and the Deben tures, 984. In the Foreign Market there is very little busi ness, and prices are rather heavy. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 714 ; do., Consolides, 481 . 1 4- ; Mexican, 441 1 ,1 ; do. New Loan, 1 04 die.; Greek, 231 I ; Spanish Passive, 34 t ; Portuguese, 48-a 2 4; Russian Loan, 21 a prem. ; and the Confederate Loan, 66 68. Business in the Railway Share Market has shown rather more animation, and in one or two instances there has been a slight improvement. Brighton, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Great Western have each improved 55.; and North- Eastern (Berwick), 158.; whits Metropolian have declined 158. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain inactive, at about previous rates. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in fair re quest, and in most instances support previous goo tations. London and Westminster realise 95; Union of London, 581 ; Hudson Bay Company have declined to 19a ; Provincial Banking Corpo ration are quoted a 1 prem. ; and International Land Credit, 21, prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto Account, May 8 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 7-- March. June. Exchequer Bill®, £l,OOO, 2,1 & 3 per Cent. dis . . . . _ Ditto £5OO Ditto £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stk, 5/ per Ct. Ditto Account _ Ilipii.N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 105 per Cent., April 1874 217 Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1670 Ditto Account Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888.. — Do Certificates Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. 104 Ditto 65 per Cent. May, 1879 ll4 Ditto Debentures, per Ct., April 1861 Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 981 Ditto BondsZl,ooo — Ditto under £l,000 FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 6 per Cent — 1859 Ditto ' - Brazili an 5 per C ent Ditto 45 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Jo b Ditto 1863 uenos Ayres 6 per Cent .. — Ditto Account Lhilia n 6 per Cent .. Ditto 41 pei Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent — Cuba, 6 per Danish 3 per Cent., 1825" Ditto 5 per Cent, 1864 Ditto Scrip £5O paid .. pm 'quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. 11 gYptian 7 per Cent — Ditto, Second Issue Greek 6 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account Ditto Coupons — Ditto Account Guatemala 5 per Cent. Ditto, 1839 and 1859 Italian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent..... Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — Peruvian 41 per Cent .. -- Ditto Account.... ) Citto 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Ditto 45 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account • • Ditto 3 per Cent., 1556, '7, '9, 'GO, 62,'3 Ditto Account 4Bi I Russian 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St BBl Ditto 41 per Cent.. 1850 B5l Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 .. Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 — Ditto 1861 Scrip, £lO paid .. pm Ditto Anglo-Dutch .... Sardinian 5 per Cent Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent *- i IDitto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account — `:,Ditto Passive Ditto Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Ditto Account Swedish, 4 per Cent Ditto Scrip, £2O paid pm Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1853 Ditto Account — Ditto, £l6O Bonds — rnitto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account .. Ditto £lOO Bonds 7ll 1 -- Ditto 1863 ..,.. D itto-Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — V enezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account — bitto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent, 1861 Ditto 11 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Loud ,a, Austrian 5 per Cent., Ex, 10 Florins. --- , 2101 gian 41 per Cont ., Ex. 25f... — 'ateh 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — Ditto, 5 4 per Cent. Certificates Itali an per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account — TWO O'CLOCK. Congols Molloy Ditto Account - a d ONEY NARKEri 8!"Oek Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, 'Market quiet and steady. Sales, about 6,000 b4 les. Imports, 6,184; previously, 62,024. !SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Share i Railways. Bir.. Vol., and Str. Val. at lilythe and Tyne. B ost.,Sleat,and Hid.Co al Bristol and Exeter 104 'Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall n o A A ^ets no dig al D o. B ti 11 6p c.p an.has al been paid to B. Dublin Az Belfast June, all Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. all ; Edinburgh & Glasgow. 101 'G'lasg. and S. Western, 101 Great Eastern, Ord. stli 101 Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian al 101 UreatNorthof Scotland 101 Great Northern 10; Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and. W. of Irelau, 10( Great Western Do Str Val gua. stool, 104 Lancashire & Yorkshire 10( London and Blackwall 10( Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast 10' Lon., Chat., and Dover 10 1 Lon. & North Western 10 Lon. Sc So'.th Western 101 Ilan., Shef., & Lincoln. 10' Maryport and Carlisle. al Do f shares,. al Metropolitan al Midland Do New . Do Birming. & Derby 10 hid. Gt. W. of Ireland al Do. 4 shares Bestuid Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee 10 Nth. Eastern—Berwic4 101 Do, G.N.E. purchas(. 6.1 Do Leeds lOl Do York Do Carlisle 10( North London Do New Sorth Staffordshire al and S. W. Junction. al Scottish Central 104 Scot N. E., Aber. stocli Do Scot. Mid. stock lO Shrews. and Welchpool al Shropshire Union 10, South Devon lOl South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dim 10 staines,Wok.,andWok. al Stockton & Darling - tot al Do . 1: Do New, 1866. Taff ..... 10( Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria eta. and Pim l, Waterford & Kilkenny 10( West Cornwall lOO W. Hartlepool Ilar.Azit ! 100 West Midland --Oxford 1100 Do Newport! 100 Do Hereford! 100 13.14. 4.18. Closing Business Price. done. I f 13 11 I 849 )0 83 115 o 1184 119 li l 6 7 11 3 5 11 1 6 88 0 101. 37 17 90 106 47 ei 71 47i } 10 1 129 131 19 128 140 128 (AL 64 f 1114 664 !' . -. 4 1 4 1111 a 101 i 2 58} 8 894 91 9O /0 9O 92 0 64 64 111 i 111 65 07 103 105 40 4 I 1104 111 974 98), 534 344 1 1144 )”, 0 131 132, 102 IC4 )0 ooi 61 )0 24i 25; )0 101 104 13.9 )0 571 58i 0 89 90 )0 127 180 5 1i 24 1 11 76 78 ii lot Ili )0 121 123 )0 39 40 54 66 33 35 90k 91} 103 106 ll 74 84 11 361 374 i 7 94 10 0 8 84 }0 165 170 8 5 7 3 3 E 1. 20 - - 100 105 ;SIONS. BRITISH POSSE •_hare 100 sk 20 stock etcck stook 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Stook stook Indian - Branch Limited stook stock stook stock stock stock COLONIAL GOVERIs Railways Pa titlantic Is, St Lawrenct al Llom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind 1 Gu. 5 per cent... Do. New . ...... Do. E. Shares Buffalo and Lam: iluron al Do. Preference al Buflalo,BrantotzGodricl 10 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1672 Do. do. July 1, 1873 10 Do. do. June 1, 1674 10 Cleutta.ez S.Es.stn. (I,in), 10 Cape Town Dock Seri! 10 Eastn. Bengal go. 6p. c 10 East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. 10 Do. do. 0 Ext 1 Do. do. H do. .. 1 Grand Trunk of Canada 10 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. al Do. ao. deferred...—. al Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. al Do. do. deferred...... al 3d Plef. stock ..; Li] do. deferred...... al Do. 4th Pref. stock... al Do. do. deferred...... al Gt.lndtaPentn.gua.tp.c 10( Do. New gua. sp. a... I'4' Do. January, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim _ guaranteed 5 per‘cent. 10( Gt. W. of Canada Shares al. Do. New .. 1 Do. 6 p.c. '73 wlth't opt. al Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.... al Bladrits, guar., sp. o. .. 101 Do. 41p. o. Extension 10( Dc. 4* d 0........ 101 Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. sp. 0. Bnds. 10( Melb. & Hobson's Bay. al: Do. 7p. c. Mortg. Bds. ah Newßrunswick Cand a Class A and B. ar N.lll.C'das po Ist pt bds Soinde Do. Delhi.. ll Do. Do. Purijaub r ) Do. Do. , 1 1 , Do. Indus. St. Flo.) I Closing bid. I Price. 59 ill ',OO 102 103 id p 1 a 6} ll 81 Oi if. 77 82 O 77 81 0 77 82 0 101 li3 O 98 100 O 105 107 ,0 104 k 1051 5 i 5 ,0 20 21 11 72 14 11 61 63 11 C 3 65 .11 53 LI 47 LI 90 .1 26 I 24 0 104 2 )0 1021 1034 11 10 101 8 104 104 s; 11 90 02 H 82 84 2 par 4p 00 102 103 00 96 98 , O i 94 94 1 157 59 11 8 5 [OO 82 fi , l 100 102 i 1034 ,00 101 103 2 id ap all w 2 103 .00 Business done 160 193 95 'MENT SECURITIES. 103 105 102 :04 !O 102 104 1i 90 02 10 89 01 10 106 108 JO 107 109 00 ICB 110 la 110 112 )0 102 164 Pa 106 108 10 106 108 10 101 103 13 15 99 100 10 99 101 10 99 101 10 103 111 )0 !in 105 )0 - - 109 111 )0 10 llo7i 1081 :NES. k_;iw.Gov. 6p.c.J &Jul} I 1877-S1 . . 10 , - Do. ap. c. Feb. & Aug. 10; j D 0.6 p. 0.31ar. & Sept. 101 Do. Ip. c. Jan.&July. 101 j Do. 5 Inscribed stock 10( ;Cape G.llopc, 6 p c,187:3 10( Do.Ap t Oct. 1880 101 Do. 1800 101 - t Do. Jan. P July, 1891.. 10 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 101 jMauritius 6 per cent .. 10( ,Natal Gov. 6 per cont.. 101 I - N.B.Gov. 6 p.c..; a.&July 101 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. DI IN. S.W. Gov. 5p 0.,18A 10( - Do. sp. c.,lBii to 1:'2( 10( Do. d0.,1888 upwds 10( New Zealand 6 p cent. 101 jNova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. I sterling, 1875. lOl Queensland Gev. 6p. c. 101 a. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up.. 101 1 Vic. Gov. e p.c. Ja.lJuly 101 - ( Do. to 5 D.o. A0.&031,...1 101 BRITISH 2 , 2ambrian Consol. Gold 1 ‘.)1111ord Amalgamated -- - Devon G. Cone. (Tavist ) East Bassett (Illop;an) 3( East Clogau Gold Ltd - East Caradon ..... East Carn Brea... 3.9 E. WI Russel (Tavistk,) 8.1 - Gam..&St.Aubyn(Gwen ; Great South Tolgus t G. Wheal Vor (Helston, 4( Grenville iHemd's-Foot . 8j I ilingston Downs 4.1, Lady Bertha Ilargaret (tiny Lelant llarke Valley.. 4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 21 Mew Seto n li -- North Downs 24 N.Wli '1 Basset . 3.1 North Wheal Crotty ~ 2.0. Par Consols (St. Blaney , 23 , Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.( ISouth Caradon(dt.Cleer7 1 ; ;S. Cara Brea (Illogan) - IS.Wheal Fran. (Illo;;a1.3 lB.l - ( Stray Park 303 ' fernar Silt& Lead Min I .` fin Croft I West Basset (Ilhgran) 1; CrW. radon (Liskeard; 5' West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) 5 : Wheal Buller(Redruth) 11 . Wheal Kitty (U.Lelatit) 2.( WhealLudcott Wheal Mary Ann ( * Lien ) 8 I Wheal 3eton sf Wheal Trmawney (Lis )( • • Wheal Union.... - 1 id 32 34 1. 56) 670 10 67 70 14.6 30 31 4.0 6i tt 13.0 3i 4 iBl 7 9 17s 2i 3 [0 34 36 ( 9t 911 .12 .18 40 18.0 3i 4 15 17 30 4 5i G .9/ 85 90 18 1 1 LU 14 2 5.9 4 ,7 ! 41 43 450 i7O 18,91 40 50 17.01 23 80 0 78 19 9_ 10 16 18 lj 185 195 ,* 90 0 LO 30 35 .0.6 - - .5.81 lb 2 S 12 14 225 233 '- 1 20 21 .17 I 1i 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. Mid. Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 136 k Waterford and Kilkenny, 6 per cent., 43i 331 4} PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., London, Chatham, (to., Metrop. e, xt B 6 per cent„ Ditto, ditto, C. 6 per cent. 80 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lira.) gua. 7 per cent, 17i Dutch Rhenish, -- Ditt• (all), 21} Eastern of France, 19 FOREIGN MINES. St. John del Key (lim.), 46 United Mexican (Ilia;, 6 Yudananiutana of S. Australia, lim., a BANKS. 6.lllanCe (lim.), 64 35 Ditto, new, 52$ Anglo-Italian, limited, 65 Australasia, 744 Bank of Egypt, 281 Bank of Otago, lim., 4 4 Brazilian and Portuguese, TIL, Consolidated Bank, lira., 114 Continental, lira., 185 European Bank, lim., 125 Hindustan, china, and Japan (Um.), 32 Ditto, new, 153 Imperial Bank (liin.), 42 Imperial Ottoman, 215 London Bank or Scotland, lim., 23 25 London and Colonial (lim.), 17 . 5 London Joint Stock, - 18 London and Westminster, 95 Merchant Bank, lim., 23 25 Mercantile and Exchange, lim., 20 Ditto, new, 144 5 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lim., 325 2 Mexican, lim., 7 63 National Bank, 385 Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi, lim., 14} South Eastern, lira., 6 5A union of London, 583 MISCELLANEOUS. City Offleas, lira., 5 Commercial Union, Insurance, 81 Credit Foncier, 13 121 Credit Mobil , r, 91 Egyptian Com. and Trading, Ern. 5} English and Scottish Marine, lira., a Financial Discount, lira., 4} Fore-street Warehouse, lim., 6 n Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lint, 101 Hudson's Ray, I9Y _ Imperial Financial, Jim. , International Financial ,t , ociety, lira., Ha Land Securities, Lm., London and Caledonian Marine,. him., 51 London Financial-Association, lira., Ditto, new, 16i Mercantile Credit Association, lira., 16 National Discount Company, lim., 14 1 Ditto, new, 91 Societe Fina' ciere d'Egypte, Universal lit - mine, Insurance, Inn., 5 1 Warrant Finance, lim., ri A NEW PARK FOR PARIS is being opened at the Buttes St. Chaumont. MANSION HOUSE. CHARGE OP EMBEZZLING £4,000.--Captain Robert Boyle Miller, Lane's Hotel, St. Alban's-place, Haymarket, was placed before Sir R. W. Carden, charged with em bezzling (within the last three months) the sum of £4,000 and upwards, received by him as servant to Richard Rylands and others, shipowners, Grosvenor Buildings, Tithebarn-street, Liverpool. Mr. Maynard, for the prosecution, said the prisoner was formerly in the employ of Messrs. Rylands and Siddon, of Liverpool, shipowners, and was captain of the ship Richard Ryland, which sailed in the month of July last from Liverpool, to Calcutta, with a cargo of cork. It would be his duty to sell the freight, receive the money, disburse the expenses of the ship, and then trans mit the proceeds of the voyage to the owners at Liver pool. The ship Richard Ryland, of which the prisoner was master, sailed from Liverpool for Calcutta with a cargo of cork, The cargo was sold, and the prisoner received the money at the Mauritius, but the owners have never received any portion of the £4,000 received by the prisoner, neither had they since heard anything of the ship commanded by the prisoner belonging to Messrs. Ryland, which was of the value of £25,000 He should merely submit enough evidence to enable the magis trate to send the prisoner to Liverpool to meet the charge. Mr. Maynard then called, Sergt Spittal, who said—ln consequence of instructions received from the Liverpool police, I, in company with Pack man, took the prisoner into custody, and charged him with embezzling the sum of £4,000, the property of his employers, Messes. Ryland, Seddon, and Co., the owners of the ship Richard Ryland. He said the charge was false. We took him to the Bow-lane Station, where he was searched by ' Sergeant Packman. I told him where ho had received the money, but he said it was untrue. The prisoner this morning said he was surprised the firm should suppose that he was guilty of anything wrong—that the bill he got in the Mauritius for the money deposited in the bank, he had obtained and changed for safety for his employers. If he had intended anything wrong he had a great deal more money in Calcutta; that he intended to go down to Liverpool and settle with his employers next Saturday. Alderman Carden—Any question, Miller, to ask witness ? Prisoner—Oh no, sir, what he says is perfectly correct. Sergeant Packman—l was in company with Spittal when we apprehended the prisoner yeaterday at Lane's Hotel. When at the station I searched the prisoner. On his person I found £6 10s 7d, and in his room I found £49 in cash, two £5O Bank of England notes, a deposit note on the Stockton Bank for £I,IOJ, dated May 12, in the name of Robert Miller. I also found a bank book, showing a credit for V,BOO, in the name of Robert Miller. Alderman Carden—Did he say whose money it was ? Witness—He said it was his own. On his way to the Mansion-house he said, "I cannot think how they think I intend to do wrong, because if I had wished to do so I could have done so when I was in the East Indies, and had plenty of money. I intended to go to Liverpool on Saturday, but I've been fool enough to stop in London a few days. He said nothing about where he received the money. Mr Walter Partridge, of the firm of Fletcher, Parr, and Co., Leadenhall street, said they were agents to Ryland and Seddon, of Liverpool. They own a ship called the Richard Ryland. The duty of the prisoner would be to disburse the debts incurred by the ship, and transmit the balance to Liverpool. The owners ought to have received intelli. gence from Calcutta relative to the money three months ago. The ship sailed in July last. We charge the priso ner with having embezzled the £4,000. Alderman Carden—You ought to have written to your owners long before this. Prisoner—l wrote them four or five letters. Witness—Nothing has ever been received. George Peacock—l went with the prisoner to a bill bro ker. I saw a bill for £4,000 produced for Captain Mi!ler's endorsement. The bill was endorsed. Captain Miller told me the motry was to be handed over in hard cash for ship ment to Bombay. Alderman Carden said he did not think it very possible that the prisoner could require bullion for the purpose of taking it to the owners. lie should order the prisoner to be taken to Liverpool to be dealt with there. He thought the City police deserved great credit for getting hold of the prisoner before he could leave London. The prisoner will be formally brought up again to-mor , row, but it will be merely for the signing of the depositions. MARLBOROUGH STREET. FORGERY BY A CLERK OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY...-. Joseph Bingham, a young man, clerk, in the employ of the Library Company, Pall-mall, was charged before Mr Knox with forging and uttering an order for the payment of the aum of £37 15s 4d. Mr Thomas James, jun., clerk at Messrs Ransom's Bank, 1, Pall-mall East, said that on the sth of April last the prisoner presented the cheque produced and asked him to cash it. He did so, the Library Company having an account at the bank. The amount of the cheque was £37 15s 4d, Mr Henry Fowler, secretary of the Library Company, said the cheque was not endorsed by him as it purported to to be. All cheques were endorsed by him; no other person connected with the company had any business to do so. In answer to Mr Knox, Mr Fowler said the prisoner had been in the employ of the company nearly a year. Sergeant C. Robinson, of the detective department, Scot land Yard, proved taking the prisoner into custody at New town, Merionethshire, and said that on showing prisoner the cheque he admitted writing the whole of it himself, stating that he was very sorry, but that he had been drinking at the time. Mr Knox said the writing on the cheque did not look .ik that of a man who bad been drinking. The prisoner, who had no questions to ask, was committed Lo the Central Criminal Court for trial. THE ENCOURAGERS OF DISHONESTY AMONGST SER. VANTS.—Mr Knox received the following letter this morn• ing " May 18.—Sir,—May I ask you to lend your aid in sup pressing another evil which is very prevalent at the West end of London at this season, and is also disseminated by means of handbills dropped into areas of an evening. As the system alluded to is profitable to the servants of families, it is not likely that it will be made public as the other has been [handbills dropped down areas respecting an astrology imposture] through the magnanimity of " a servant." I refer to the bills which state that the " best price" is given for every conceivable article of transfer in the household, from glass, china, broken silver, down to bones, fat, rags, &c. There is no address on these hand bills, but an intimation is given that a call will be made in the morning for anything that may be got ready. The police might do much to check the system, if they had instructions from their superiors to direct their attention to it, and the press—always ready to expose abuses of the kind—may be of great service in opening the eyes of the heads of households to the existence of these practices.—l am, Sir, yours, &c., "PRO Boxo PUBLICO," Another letter has been received from a person complain ing of the hand-bill nuisance, and requesting that the scamp whose natte it bears may be exposed. The hand bill is headed "Your Destiny, Matrimony Made Easy; or, How to Win a Lover," and the fellow who issued it calls himself a "qualified professor of astrology," and seems to be in great want of postage stamps, WESTMINSTER. UNLAWFULLY ENTERING A HOUSE.—Charles Danby, a middle-aged man, was charged with unlawfully entering a house at No. 7, Lower Grosvenor-place, and further at tempting to steal a lead pipe, the property of the Marquis of Westminster. John Drew, assistant to Mr. Haines, auctioneer to the Marquis's estate, said that at 6 o'clock on the previous evening his attention was called to the door of the house, No. 7, Lower Grosvenor-place, being open. The house was empty, and witness went in. Some boys ran out of a back door from the leads. He found the prisoner, There was a pick near him, and some lead pipe had been removed from the wall and hacked in two, The prisoner was then given into custody. Richard Mallon, porter to Mr. Harms, said that he lived at No. 8, and hoard a noise at the time, and caught the leads. He was very much confused, and ran away. Witness followed and captured him, There was a pickaxe near him, and some lead pipe had been removed. He said he knew nothing about the pickaxe, and had not touched the lead. Ambrose Juttan, 303 B, said that at a quarter past six. he took the prisoner into custody. He said he wanted to look after the wall that was near falling. The marks on the wall and pipe corresponded with the pickaxe. James Dixon, a contractor, proved that the prisoner was at work for him near the spot. He did not know what business he had there. and knew nothing about the pick, Prisoner said the pick did not belong to him. He was looking after a wall that was falling, and had not got into the house for an unlawful purpose. Mr. Arnold remanded him, taking bail for his reappear.. ance. THAMES. A MOST INCORRTGIBLE THlEF.—Margaret Dunakin, a most wretched looking woman, 52 years of age, who ap peared to be 80, was charged with stealing a waistcoat, the property of Henry Hopkins, of 58, Church•lane, White chapel. The prisoner entered the prosecutor's house, the street door of which was open, and went into the yard behind. A waistcoat, which had been recently washed, was hanging on a line to dry. The prisoner removed it, and was leaving the house with it, when the prosecutor's wife and another woman saw her and gave her into custody, Roche, the gaoler of the court, said the prisoner had been a great many times in custody, and he was afraid to say how many times she had been convicted. She had for many years been in the practice of sneaking into the houses of poor persons and stealing anything she could lay her hands on. She was no sooner out of prison than she was in custody. He believed nothing would ever stop her from picking and stealing when she was out of prison. An officer said the prisoner had been found in singular positions in the houses of the poor. At one time she was discovered at daybreak by a poor woman, seated on the top of a copper in the wash-house. She had been in this pos- 104& 5} 108 i 8 TIM SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1864. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, tion, and nothing could induce her to move until she was taken down and removed by the police. The magistrate said the prisoner was a dangerous old woman, and committed her to the House of Correction for three months, and to be kept to hard labour. The Suspected Murder by a Wife in Lambeth, Last evehing Mr W. Carter, coroner for Surrey, held an inquiry at the Spanish Patriot Tavern, Lower Marsh, Lambeth, touching the death of Stephen Weston, aged 34, who was alleged to have been murdered by his wife en Sunday last. Mr Edwin appeared for Mrs Weston; and Inspector Edmonds had charge of the case for the police authorities. Elizabeth Sweetman was the first witness called—She said that she was the mother of the deceased's wife, and she lived with the Westons. Deceased was a tripe dresser and dog's-meat seller. He occupied the house, 1, Johanna. street, Lambeth. His wife, Sarah Weston, and four chil dren, the eldest nine years of age, lived with him. 'Witness had lived with them three or four years. Samuel Samuels, 0 cooper, was called, and he gave the same evidence he had already given before a police -court. He said that on Sunday morning he was in the street 'coking on at a fight between two women, when he heard a cry of "Murder," proceeding from 1, Johanna-street. He climbed up on the ledge of the Spanish Patriot, and thus got on the top of Mr Weston's shop window. A girl opened the window and he put his head in. He saw by the light of a candle Mrs 'Weston holding deceased's head and knock ing it against the handles of the chest of drawers. He was partly on the floor and partly on the bed. He was trembling, but not struggling. She knocked his head twice. Witness said, "If you don't leave go, you coward, I'll knock you down with this flower pot." She let go, and deceased's head fell. Witness said he is dead. She said to witness "You have got up there to rob the place." She left the room, and witness got down. She came to the door with side-spring boots on, and said, " I have get his boots on now." She said she wo u ld l ock witness up, an d th a t h e had no business to interfe re b etween her and her h us b an d . Witness had known them both to be of drinking habits. She said one night last week that she would do for her husband one of these days. She was drunk then. ViTitness had heard her threaten him, and show him a knits at other times when drunk. Deceased had only a shirt on as ho lay on the floor when his wife was beating him. Mrs. Sweetman, re-called, said that she was at home on the morning of the occurrence. The front room was the sitting-room, but witness and three of the children slept in it. Deceased and his wife occupied the back room. De ceased had been in and out of bed all day on the Saturday. He had not been to business, for, witness thought, he was out of his mind. Witness asked a policeman to come up on the Sunday morning, but the officer would not. Witness did not see him struck. She saw some one come to the window. She had not called any one. She went to the door, but it was only to get some one to put deceased into bed, as he was out of his mind. 'Witness went upstairs, and saw the poor man lying on the floor on his face. She did not know whether he was then dead. He had jumped out of his own bed, and come into the front room. 'Witness did not call out "murder," nor did any one else. When a person was in a deranged state, it would be natural to wish some one to assist. She only wanted the police to keep him in bed, Deceased had drunk two half quarterns sherry that day. Elizabeth Frances Weston, an intelligent little girl, was then sworn. She said she lived with her father and mother at No. 1, Johanna-street. On Sunday morning all the family were in the front room. Deceased had come in out of the other room. He fell across the bed. Witness did not see what caused him to fall. He was noisy, and he had been out of his mind all day. Nothing was done to him as he lay on the floor. Some one came to the window. Wit ness did not know why. Witness's mother was trying to pick him up then. She did not strike him. She did not beat his head against anything, His head was not near the chest of drawers, but was right away from it. It was not true that she struck his head against the drawers. No one told her what to say, The coroner said that great difficulties were caused in this case by the arrest of the wife. This court had the power to examine any one as to the cause of a death, but by the wife's being taken into custody no statement could be obtained from her. It was possible that she might be able to explain how the matter really stood. Dr, J. Wilcocks Wakem said that on Monday he made a careful examination of the body of the deceased. There were 35 marks of violence. There were bruises such as a blunt insrrument—a poker for instance—would have made, There were other marks of injuries inflicted some days previous. The injuries were principally on the limbs. The head was puffy externally. The post-mortem examination showed that the bruises on the limbs were superficial, and not sufficient to 'affect vitality. There were the marks of five or six blows on the head, and blood was effused under the scalp. The blows had been inflicted with a blunt instrument of small superfices. Blood was effused on the brain. Witness was decidedly of opinion that death was attributable to violence inflicted on the head by a blunt instrument; but the deceased was so diseased that very little violence would have been sufficient to produce death. In answer to the Coroner, Dr. Wakem said that a person struggling violently in delirium tremens might, if forcibly held down, sink back and die of exhaustion. The two blows seen by the witness Samuels were not in themselves sufficient to cause death. Thera had been general violence. Witness considered it impossible that the injuries could have been self-inflicted in knocking about under the influence of delirium tremens. After some further evidence, the court was cleared, and the jury having deliberated for nearly two hours, it was decided to adjourn the inquiry until Monday next. A fatal accident occurred two days back on the Lyons Railway, at Saint-Romain-la-Motte. A goods train, consisting of 80 trucks, ran off the line, and about 24 of them were thrown on to each other by the shock. ' l le guard received serious injuries and died a few hours I ter, but the breaksman jumped from his seat and was only slightly bruised. Ei g h t other persons were in the train, but all escaped unh ur t . The accident is supposed to have occurred from a horse having broken through his box and fallen on to the line. The poor animal was almost ground to shreds, as traces of its blood were found between the rails for a distance of nearly a mile and a half. Two other horses were killed. The Marquis de Turgot, the French Ambassador in A Switzerland,ustra shay r eturned to Berne, and re. sumed the duties o f his pe s t . th e France, " has j ust met w i t h a fivancial c h eck Which has produced a certain sensation. Sh e wished to contract a loan of 77 millions of florins (nearly 193 trillions of francs), and has only been able to obtain 23,500,000 thalers (a little more than 58 millions of francs.)" HIS ROYAL HIGEINESS TILE PRINCE OF WALES is to take the chair at the lecture to be delivered at the Royal United Service Institution by Capt. IL W. Tyler, R.b., on dered." the subject of " Railways strategically consi- T H F, ICING OF PRUSSIA. is going to Gastoin, in otrpchoapn Copenhagen d en the Tyrol, to take waters for th e b enefit of hi s h ealth. T HE DANISH WA.R.--A subscription alone wounded opened up ofthe war in Denmark for the single widows, p ro duced in a day a wards of 300,000 f. The K in g put his name d own f or 12,000 f. a year during a period of ten years. aorftPbort Langley, F raser Ri ver , on - - quake was felt on Th orne ' s at half-p ast seven in the evening. three t C h r e eTe 2 kh :th f lt was accompanied by a hoa rse, thundering rumble, an d lasted for about 30 s econds. The sky was at the ti m e clear and brilliant, an d the atmosphere calm and m ild. So frightful was the c ommotio n of the quick and aw f u l rockings as to make it a mome nt of great susp ense as t o shocko February, miles e o br f ua east an ry e , whether the beholder would be buried with the log shanty, which cracked, rolled, and tottered around him, in a conglo merated mass of heterogeneous ruins.—Britigh Columbian. . - THE ALPACA IN A USTRALIA. —The l as t accounts .„ ' from Australia state that the hopes Which had been entertained of the naturalisation of the Peruvian alpaca have been disappointed. Of the 300 introduced by Mr. Ledger from Peru, five years ago, and purchased by the Government of New South Wales for £15,000, the whole have died off, and their progeny, numbering 330, are in an unhealthy condition. Some Persons throw the blame on Mr. Ledger for inefficient management, and others con elder that the mistake was in their having been kept all together at one locality under Government care, instead of their having been distributed among individual settlers, some of whom would probably have discovered the precise districts most suitable to them. During a discussion on the subject in the Colonial Legislature nearly every speaker was in favour of the Government immediately getting rid of the cost of keeping them, an d of having to maintain a staff of officers to attend to them, and a resolution was ac cordingly adopted that they should be disposed of as soon as possible, either by auction or in any other way that might seem expedient. THE MINERS' STRIKE IN SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE. —Yesterday an open-air meeting of miners was held at Bilston, to receive a report from a deputation of men who had been appointed to wait upon the masters who had given notice to about 1,000 or 1,500 men in the Bradley district for a reduction in their wages of 3d. a day. Between 1,000 and 1,500 men were present; and the deputation reported that those of the mesters whom they had been able to see all objected to withdraw the notice, some of them saying that before they w ou ld d o so they would blow out their furnaces. Several speeches were then delivered, the b - arden of the whole being that the masters were trying to oppress the men, but that the men were determined that to the uttermost they would resist the effort. Aid, it was stated, would be forthcoming from every other mining district in the kingdom ; and other trades' unions, it was added, had offered assistance. The struggle would be the stronger because it was felt that if the masters succeeded with this notice they would give one all through South Staffordshire for a reduction to 3d a day. Similar views were expressed at three other meetings. LITERATURE. John Greswold. By the Author of " Paul Ferrol" Two Vole. Hurst and Blacket. • To turn from the vitiated atmosphere of some fashionable and suffocating assembly and take a stroll in the pure air of the country side, and to do this in company with some clever, pleasant friend, whose lively gossip will amuse, without exciting, like the cup that " cheers but not inebriates," will produce a bracing, pleasurable effect, such as is experienced by the satiated reader of the unnatural fictions of the present day, who takes up these vo lumes by the author of "Paul Ferroll." The style is charming, and the perusal of the whole work is a matter of continued satisfaction ; but as for the story which it contains it is, in fact, no story at all. While turning over the pages (as in taking the stroll above alluded to) the reader is happily and beneficially employed, but be yond the pleasant associations of the hour, no more lasting effect is produced upon his memory than might be suggested by the most abstract constitutional. Wilkie Collins, and Miss Brad don, the magician and enchantress of modern lite rature, implore their critics not to unfold the mys teries of their prison -house. We cannot commit a similar gaucherie in the present instance, for in re gard to " John Greswold," as in regard to Canning'b knife -grinder, "story---Lord bless you there is none to tell !" We leave our hero on his twenty-third birthday ready to begin the world, having made, as his brother tells him, two false starts already. Per haps on some future occasion his future fortunes may be recorded, and we shall be right glad to become ac quainted with them, for as we have already intimated we have found John Greswold a very delightful companion. The only little romance of the story, and a very pathetic romance it is, is associated with John's brother, the soldier Robert—who returns disabled from the Crimea to the overwhelming disk may of his young betrothed. Robert at once re leases her from her engagement, and tenderly re garding her as " the widow of his better days," enacts towards her the part of truest friend and brother. The heroine Ruth is so all perfect as to be removed above the reach of our sympathies es far as John Greshold is from the reached of hers. The foliowing attempted declaration of love presents a specimen of unparalleled obtuseness on the part of the lady—perhaps according to the saying that NONE ARE SO DEAF AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT HEAR. She turned away, but I would not give up the opening which chance seemed to have made to obtain for me a por. tion of her confidence. "I know not," I said, "whether I clearly understand you; but this I know, that if it be within the compass of my will and my power I would give —that is, I would use all the power I have to be of the least—that is to be of use." "Never mind it, however," said Ruth. "Thank you for your good wishes, and take no notice." " i You speak so, because I am too obtuse to understand, in the manner of your quick intellect and your clear apprehen sion ; but at least I can offer whatever I have not yet given —whatever remains to me of myself; and you know, yes, I am certain you know, I have everything to beg, to entreat from you, but have already lost all to you." "Now indeed I do not understand you. In what way have we caused you any loss ?" " Unwidingly, I am afraid. Oh, Miss Winspear—oh, Ruth, can you treat me thus V' " How ?" said Ruth, startled that I used her Christian name. " Indeed Ido not in the least understand to what you allude." "Oh I to nothing, since it is thus. That which would be life to me, is yet nothing since you look on it thus." " You say ' thus,' said Ruth, " but how ? I am very bad at guessing riddles, and since you speak in them I must renounce comprehending. Let us say no more except that I beg you to continue still the course I thought you were kindly taking. You can't help observing, but refrain from speaking; every family has its private matters, and a stranger does harm by meddling with them." "I am a mere stranger then; I am an unwelcome stranger. You despise, you dislike me; you will be glad if I promise never to enter your door again. And if it be not beyond human force, I will do so." " I cannot comprehend your meaning," said Ruth, "bu t this is mere nonsense. You have been, you are very wel come; we are glad to see you, when neither you nor we are busy ; you ha're rendered us a great service," " Oh, for the sake of heaven, do not say that word again. It is of no use to break a man's heart, and ridicule it for breaking. Nay, I have not offended you," I cried, as she turned away. "Forgive me; at least do so much, and I will go." "It is time for me to return to the house," said Ruth. " Besides, it begins to rain. Good evening ! Will you have an umbrella ?" "It is time," said I. "Farewell," and I turned away, stopping after a few yards and turning, but Ruth was al ready at the top of the avenue, and in another minute lost to my sight within the house. Was ever more prosaic love•scene upon record! Conspicuous among the other characters is the easy, careless, extravagant Lord Ennavant, who gambles away the moneys of his estate more rapidly than his faithful steward can collect them. Here is a characteristic sketch of steward and spendthrift :-- TILE ORDEAL. Rather sooner than was anticipated Lord Ennavant ar rived, and came into the room where we wets working to gether. He threw himself into an arm chair, and at once desired the worst and the best to be told him. " It's like drawing a tooth," said he, " to come into this horrid room and this chair. I know it will be all right by the time I get out of it, but you make me go through tor ments before that happy moment arrives. So now for it. Do your worst, and end by giving me command of the money." " Just as I had arranged with the banker, to give you credit for necessary expenses fur the next three months--" " That can't be helped. It makes not the slightest difference to this sum. This is a wholly unnecessary ex pense." " With a little prudence, and the great storm that swept down your Gloucestershire timber, you might have got on till rent day, and then paid the banker with the rents, ne glected the butcher, and gone on again." " Well, I'm glad you think £5,000 is an equivalent for for only a little prudence. So I have committed no great excess after all. It ought to be all the easier for you to supply me." "It is, however, not easy at all," said Mr. Pointz, gloomily. "But I have met with one expedient, the suc cess of which I shall know in the course of the evening, and would have sent you word--" "if I had not been in such a devil of a hurry P But I want to be clear of the thoughts; for although I never make myself miserable except in this accursed room, there is always the sense that I shall have to go through it till it is done. So what is it ? Lord Ennavant occasionally learns some home truths from the plain-spoken John Greswold, and is happy to befriend him, when he can do so without personal inconvenience. Mrs. Winspear is a capi tally drawn character—while Miss Nation, the fast fine lady, is assuredly a caricature. Her con • versation reminds us - of another would-be fine lady—Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Skeggs, We take leave of John Greswold with a pleasant remi niscence of our passing intercourse, but with regret to leave him with his fate and fortune a mystery and his history " nowhere." A FRIGHTFUL HINT !—The &fajta ltaliana of the 14th calls the attention of Garibaldi to the follow ing points ;—That Caprera is a rock where there are not many houses, and where he resides with a very few persons and without any precaution. 2. That the Greek Archipelago is full of small islets full of pirates, always ready for plunder. 3. That consequently it might happen that, seduced by the promise of a rich reward, some pirates might surprise and carry him off, or perhaps kill or throw him into the sea. " For those reasons," adds that journal, " we recommend him to keep a sharp look out." Advices from Tours state that the Bishop of Evreux has got much worse, and is now dangerously ill. The Archbishop of Tours, at whose house he has been stop ping, administered the last sacraments to him the night before last, and prayers have been offered up in all the churches. The King of Greece has invited the represen tatives of France, England, and Russia to accompany him in his excursion to the lonian Isles. The Official Gazette of 'Turin publishes a Royal decree suppressing the special administration of the seques trated estates of the ex-Duke of Modena, and transfers it to the agents of the State domains. The Napoleonien of Rodez states that M. Ga. robuau, Cure of Cassagnes Begoubea (Aveyron) has been murdered. The authorities of Rodez went to the scene of the crime to institute an inquiry, the details of which are not yet given. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH THE ISLE OF or WIGHT.—The Lady of the Lake, a steamer fitted up like the American river steamers, has commenced running between Cowes and Southampton. There are now nu fewer than five steam packet communications between the Isle of Wivht and th e ma i n l an d, v i z ., between the island and Littlehampton, Portsmouth, Stokes Bay, Southampton, and Lymington. Naval and Military Intelligence, THE ARMY. His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com manding-in-Chief will hold a Levee at one o'clock on Monday next. Major-Gen. Sir R. Dacres, K.C.8., accompanied by Brigadier Major Hay, Assist.-Quartermaster- Gen. Capt. Nangle, has just made his half-yearly inspection of the troops at Warley barracks, near Brentwood. The troops, to the number of 700, executed several marceavres in a creditable manner. At the close they were formed in close column and addressed by the gallant majcr-general, who en forced the advantages and importance of temper ance. The general then proceeded to inspect the hospital, married men's cottages, schools, barracks, &e., all of which were declared to be in a satisfac tory state, while the arrangements in the new block of buildings, including the reading and recreation rooms and sergeants' mess, were specially com mended. In accordance with instructions to that effect re ceived from the Horse Guards, a number of non commissioned officers and men of the Royal Engi neers experienced in land surveying were yesterday selected from the companies at headquarters, Chatham, to proceed to Portsmouth, for the pur pose of being employed in surveying the land on which will be erected the additional fortifications near Spithead, and also to prepare the plans of the ground proposed to be set apart as gardens for the soldiers. A detachment of trained buglers and musicians also received orders yesterday to proceed from Chatham to join the 7th company of Royal Engineers at Dover, and the 20th and 26th com panies at Weymouth. The Woolwich division of enrolled pensioners, in command of Major Mackinnon, yesterday went through their annual official inspection on Wool wich-common by Col. I. Travers, R.A. The drills commenced on the 6th inst., since which time the whole force has !leen through a course of exercises and manoeuvres in separate companies, in which they acquitted themselv9s with great credit. They yesterday mustered at the review ground in full force, numbering 375 strong, and fired 10 rounds of blank ammunition. The inspecting officer ex pressed himself highly pleased with the appearance of the veteran soldiers and their steadiness under arms, remarking that in case of emergency they would form a most formidable auxiliary to act with the regular troops. Their arms, clothing, and accoutrements, he added, were all in good condition, for which and for their correct manoeuvres he gave them great commendation. He said he should not fail in making a most favourable report of his in spection to the Horse Guards. The men were all hale and active-looking, varying from 40 to 50 years of age, 55 being the maximum age for their being re tained on the enrolled list of the corps. The majority of the men are employed as mechanics and labourers in the Arsenal and dockyard. Each man is allowed a compensation for lost time—namely, as enrol ment money, and at the rate of 2s per day during the drills to privates, 2s 6d corporals, 3s ser geants, and 3s 6d sergeant-majors. Their cloth ing is renewed every seven years. Major Mackin non formerly belonged to the 16th Lancers, and is a most zealous staff officer. He has seen many years active service, having been, as appears from Hart's list, 10 years in India. He served through out the campaign of Affghanistan under Lord Keane, and also in the campaign of the Sntlej in 1846. During the inspection yesterday the death of the late superintending officer, Sir Alexander Tulloh was announced. He resigned the post on attaining his rank as Major-General, and died on Monday last at Winchestef of inflammation of the lungs. The announcement WAS received with much regret. THE NAVY. Yesterday Sir J. D.H. Elphinstone, M.P., and the other members of the Committee on Dockyard Ma nagement, &c,, appointed by the House of Commons, visited Chatham dockyard, and commenced their investigations at that establishment. During the early portion of the morning the members of the committee visited the Lord Warden and Bellero phon, iron clad vessels, under construction, and from personal observation, as well as from informa tion obtained from the officials employed on those vessels, elicited many interesting details connected with the system of labour pursued at Chatham dockyard. The remaining portion of the morning was devoted to the transaction of official business in the Captain Superintendent's and other offices, and later in the day the members of the committee in spected the works in progress for the enlargement and extension of the dockyard by the creation of additional steam basins, docks, factories, and other buildings, the whole covering a space of 300 acres beyond the area of the present dockyard. On the previous evening the members of the committee landed at Chatham dockyard from the Vivid, paddlewheel steamer, Staff Commander H. W. Allen, which brought them from Sheerness, where they had been occupied in inspecting the dockyard, naval barracks, and other establishments. During their visit to the naval barracks the com mittee expressed themselves in an unfavourable manner of the system of crowding in the building, one of the rooms which was only fit for 100 being required to accommodate 300 seamen. Yesterday the War Department transport Bo marsund was placed beneath the steam crane at the Ordnance wharf, Chatham, and during the day shipped 12 of the 68-pounder smooth-bore 95 cwt. cast iron guns for the iron cased frigate Caledonia, 35, 4,125 tons, 1,000 horse power; the Armstrong guns, consisting of 11 110 pounders 7 inch, two 20- pounders, one 9-pounder, and one 12-pounder hav ing been previously snipped on board. The War Department transport Marlborough also shipped at Chatham 50 tons of solid and hollow 68- pounder cast-iron shot for the Caledonia. By direction of the Admiralty every exery exertion is to be used to hasten the completion of the Caledonia for immediate commission. The Orontes steam troopship, Capt. W. H. Hire, arrived at Spithead last evening from the West Indies, with the 14th Regiment on board. She is ordered into the harbour, and the troop: will land this morning, en route for Aldershot. George Barnes Haddock has been appointed lieu• ,enant to the Royal Naval Reserve. STATE OF TRADE, DUNDEE, May 17.—There was rather a better feeling in the market to-day, and more inquiry, if not more actual business done. Flax and tow are still very quiet, and difficult to sell excepting redue, d prices are taken. Fine jute is saleable at or about late rates, but common is very dull and cheaper. Flax and tow yarns were in some request to-day at previ ous prices, but jute yarns were in favour of bnyers. The better class of linens continue in good demand at about former rates. Hessians were more in quired for, but the prices offered were generally considered under the value, and little business was done in them. In other sorts of jute fabrics there was more doing, and a further improvement is now looked for. LEICESTER, 18th.—The hosiery trade continues in a satisfactory state. The annual holyilays have this week interrupted business, but on the whole trade is in a healthy state, and as days me over will resume it s s w o o o n n te a d s t a h n e ti h v o it ly y: Wools are making hi g h r ates, and are very firm. Yarns are very stiff, prices are extremely high, and spinners are engaged c hiefl y toer. NOTTINGHAM, i s t h,The Whitsuntide h o l y d aya have interfered to some extent with the lace trade, and consequently there has not been much doing during the p ast few days in the ware h ouses. There wili be a speedy improv emen t i n the Ger mantrade should peace be established on the Cont i nen t. Plain nets are still selling at a'most unremnnerative prices. Silks, Mechlina, and quil lings keep in demand, but there is not much im provement in the silk lace aid edging trade. In the hosiery trr,de there is not much change. The home demand is improving, orders to a fair extent having been placed. Yarns continue scarce and dear. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST. 4 O'CLOCK. HOLLAND. The Dutch Minister of Finance has made known to the Second Chamber the principal points of a bill which he proposes to submit next session to the States, and which has for object the suppression throughout the kingdom of the octroi-duty, which Is to be replaced by a uniform system of excise to be levied direct by the State. MARKE T 8 T his Day. : 11 .IAFtK-LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES.—Wheat, 39s 3d ; e and p barley, as, 29s 9d ;6d oats, 19s 8d ; rye, 2 8 s 5d ; beans, Ms 3d ; 32s . oats, 19s 5d ; rye, 29s 2 d; beans, 33s sd ; THE Wheat, 39s 6d ; E N GLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.--Wheat, 101,521 ; peas,b a r1ey 3 , 2 3 Six WEEKS' AVERAGES.— 32s 4d, ; barley, 11,432; oats, 6,470 ; rye, 4; beans, 4,138 ; peas, 496 quarters. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Our market, to-day, was fairly supplied with beasts ; but the general quality of the stock was by no means p r i me. All breeds moved off slowly, at Monday's currency—the top figure being 4s. Bd. per Blbs. The show of sheep was only moderate ; nevertheless, sales progressed slowly, at previou s rates. The best Downs changed hands at ss. per 81bs. There was a good demand for lambs at full prices—viz., from Gs. 4d. to 7s. Bd. per 81bs. Calves, the supply of which was moderate, were dull, at unaltered quotations. In pigs very little was passing, and mulch cows were almost nomi nal in price. Per 81bs.to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 6 Primecrs-wool d 0.4 6 4 Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Pme.S'thdowndo.4 10 5 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 4 Large orse. calves 4 2 4 10 Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8 Prime small do 5 0 5 2 Crse. ez inf. sheep 3 6 3 10 Large hogs 3 6 4 0 Second qualitydo. 40 4 4 Small porkers 42 4 6 Lambs.... 6s 4d to 7s Bd. Suckling calves, 16s to 23s ; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 23s each. TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts ... Cows l4O Sheep and lambs .... 810 Sheep and lambs 6,120 Calves Calves 3B o lPigs ..... . Pigs. 290 / MEAT MARKETS. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL.—The supplies of meat are limited, and the demand is inactive, as follows : Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s gcl ; lamb, 5s 8d to 6s 10d; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and pork, 38 2d to 4s 6d per Sibs by the carcase. SOUTHALL, May 18.—Fair average supplies of stock on zffer hero, to-day, Generally speaking, the trade ruled inactive, as follows :—Beet, from 3s 4d to 46 8d ; mutton, 38 Sd to 58 Od ' • lamo, 6s 6d to 7s 6d; veal, 4s Od to 4s 10d ; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 6d per Blbs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, May 18.—Prime stock was in fair request, at full prices, otherwise the trade was rather heavy : —Beef, from 3s Gd to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 10d to 5s Od ; lamb, 6s Sd to 7s 8d ; veal, 4s 6d to 48 10d ; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per 81bs ; suckling calves, 15s to 22s ; quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 245; and milch cows, £l4 to £lB each. HAY MARK2TS. SMITHFIELD.--Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 15s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 14s per load, Trade slow. CUMBBRLAND.—Meiviow hay, £3 3s to £4 15s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 14s per load, Trade dull. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 15s ; clover £4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 148 per load, Trade inactive. COAL M Prices of Coal per Ton at .RIVET. the close of the market. s. d. West Hartley ..16 0 Holywell 17 3 Buddle'sWest Hartley 16 9 Lambert's West Hart- e. d ley - 15 9 Tanfield Moor 14 3 Tanfield Moor Butee 14 3 Wylam 17 6 Bower's West Hartley 16 0 West Wylam l6 6 Eden Main l6 0 Iletton l7 6 Ships at mark RACING FIXT' Walls End. Hartlepool.. 17 0 Tunatall Caradoc l6 9 Haswell K elloe Gosforth l6 6 Riddell l5 6 Wharncliffe 15 6 Braddyll's Hetton... 16 0 South Hartlepool.... l6 3 Whitworth 16 :et, 80; sold, 53. Bath Manchester , (Summer ,ES FOR 1864. Wye 1 Maidstone 3 Ascot .. Hampton l5 Newton Odiham Bibury I Harpenden I Epsom 24 ,NE. Newmarket July Carlisle Pontefract Abingdon Cambridge Liverpool July Stamford Beverley 22 Stockbridge Chelmsford 2B New Forest Hunt 2B Newcastle-on-Tyne .. Worcester (Summer) Ipswich LT. Brighton 2 Brighton Club Lewes 6 Huntingdon . . 9 Wolverhampton Reading Egham Oxford lB SErT: Weymouth 1 Warwick September 6 Leicester Bridgwater Doncaster Nottingham . Winchester l9 Southampton .. 2O Chesterfield King's Lynn Goodwood Dover York August Yarmouth Plymouth Lichfield Stocktcn Devon and Exeter Derby Brecon .. 19 Richmond Monmouth 22 Manchester Autumn Newmarket First October 27 OCTOBER. Bedford 4l Lincoln Northallerton .. 6 Gloucester Newmarket Second Oct. 10 Newmarket Houghton 24 • The Price of Gold. By adyices from Hamburg the price of gold is 426 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.6 i per £1 stcrlin4. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills a 60 days' sight is about WO per cent., and the premium on gold is about 62 per cent. At these rates there is a profit on the importation of gold from the United States. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.17 i per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 10id. per o unce f or standard go ld , i t appears that gold is nearly 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris that,: London. THE MOST STRIKING ILLUSTRATION OF THE SAT ING THAT THE PITH OF A LADY'S LETTER IS THE POST SCRIPT :—" P.S.—You will see by my signature that I ant married." The effective force of the Austrian troops assembled on the frontier of Transylvania and the Buko wins amounts to 30,000 men. They occupy the whole . 1 1;,e of the Carpathians. A STEEPLECHASE BY MOONLIGHT.--DuDALK„ May IG.--Last night, immediately after the clock struck twelve, several officers of the gallant 4th Dragcon. Guards, stationed here, started off for Dowdalhill race. course to witness a moonlight steeplechase of three miles, which Lieut, Farquhar undertook to perform with hist favourite race mare Lady Annie. Lieut. Farquhar came in. unscathed, and had 15 minutes to spare, neither he nor his faithful nag being much the worse of their midnight steeplechase. I understand that chances were considered so much against the gallant rider that several bets were offered, by which he netted £lOO. The race was an im promptu one, and arose at the m ess table a few minute's before it was un dertaken,—Dubli n Evening Mail. D l a T O t RK An inquestEAT was York on t h e body of a boy about 14 years of age, named Robert C or bett, who had died cn t h e previous n i g h t, His father h a d gone to America tw o years ago from Clonmel, Ireland, and a fortnight before last Christmas deceased was exhibited at Reynold's waxwork exhibition at Liverpool as a " Irving skeleton." He had • since been taken to the principal towns, and was last week exhibited in Castlegate,York, after having visited was Leeds, B ra df ord, Huddersfield, and Wakefield. Ho dressed in a fantastic style, and was so frightfully ema. elated that there was no wonder one of the witnesses de- scribed it as a disgusting exhibition. His mother took him round the country for the sake of a livelihood, though it was stated that the poor boy himself was desirous of being shown to an admiring public as one of the greatest wonders of the world. Mr North, surgeon, who was called in about two hours before the deceased's death, which he attributed to a scrofulous disease, thought the public exhibition of tha child was highly objectionable as regarded his health, but he was not prepared to say that death was accelerated thereby. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased had died of scrofula, and at their request the coroner severely reprimanded the mother for her conduct, stating, however, that as it had not been made out that her conduct had acce lerated her son's death, she had escaped a criminal verdict. Leeds Mercury. The Echo de Vesone states that M. de Tonnens, ex-King of .Araucania and Patagonia, who is now staying at Perigueux, has recently received letters from his old kingdom assuring him that his return is impatiently expected by the population, and that he may rely on an enthusiastic reception if be Will return, UST. MBER. 104 I