The Sun. — London, England, 1863-05-23 00:00:00

NONE"Y MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There has been less inquiry for money to-day, and lower terms have been accepted by the banks and discount houses. About £B,OOO in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday. Since Monday last the imports of specie have amounted to £231,000, and the exports to .£586,000. The directors of the Intercolonial Royal Mail Steam Packet Company will recommend a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, at their meeting on Friday next. The East India Irrigation and Canal Company's report, to be submitted at the ensuing annual meeting has been issued, and states that the prose cution of operations has been very favourable, and that the confidence which the directors have enter tained in the success of their undertaking has re ceived continued confirmation. The call of 3 per share made during the year has met with a satin factory response, and the accounts appended show that the sum received was £114,340, and that £17,926 was expended, leaving in hand a balance of £96,413. The Madras Irrigation and Canal Company have also issued their report in anticipation of the ensuing meeting of shareholders. The directors state that they have brought to a satisfactory conclusion the recent discussions with the Secretary of State for India, and that an arrangement has been made with the Government whereby those difficulties which have so long impeded the settlement and execution of a formal contract, and seriously retarded the progress of the com pany, have bee❑ removed, and the right to con struct and develop the entire scheme of works origi nally selected for the undertaking, has been secured to the latter upon such advantageous terms as to greatly improve its prospects. The accounts of re ceipts and expenditure up to Dec. 31 are also fur nished in this rt port, from which it appears the total receipte have been £661,141, and the expenditure £250,442, leaving a balance of £410,699. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were 69f 45c.—inanimate. Rather more firmness has been apparent in the English Stock Market to-day, but the actual varia tion has been unimportant, Consols having closed 931 _a for transfer, and at 9281, less the dividend, for the account. The New Threes and Reduced have been 921 a ; India 5 per Cents. are 1098 1101; and Exchequer Bills have not varied. Increased business has been apparent in the Foreign Market, and the dealings have been rather limited, Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 71/ ; ditto Consolides, 511 R ; Venezuelan 5 6 / 1 ; Egyp tian, 100 ; Greek, 32 / ; Mexican, 351 36 ; Spanish Passive, 34/ ; ditto Certificates, 12 / ; and the Confederate Loan par to 1 prem. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been very limited, and the few operations efficially recorded show a slight decline in prices. Lancashire and Yorkshire and North-Western have declined ss. ; London, Chatham, and Dover and North-Eastern (Berwick), 10s.; and Bristol and Exeter, 15s. The Foreign and Colonial lines remained without any material change in values. Joint-Stock Bank Shares were in good demand, and fully maintained the late improvement in prices. In the Miscellaneous Market business has been dull, and quotations show material alteration. Eng lish and Scottish Marine Insurance shares are quoted a tog prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent llO 9/ 10/ Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1861 100/ Dirt. Bonds £l,OOO Ditto under £l,000 Consols for Account, June 9 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent .... Ditto 4/ per Cent., 1862-58-60 Egyptian 7 per Cent .. Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. Ditto Account 3la I 2 1f Ditto Coupons l4a Itaii.in 5 per Cent. (Nlaremmana Railway) 79 i Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 351 6 New Granada Ditto Deferred Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) 8 a Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — Ditto Account 49ff Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent. .. Ditto Account.... BB/ Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive Ditto Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account .. 701 I Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Dividends on the above p aya bl e in London. Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 4/ per Ct. Ex. 4s. 2/ Consols, Money TWO O'CLOCK. 93/ a / Ditto Account 92/ ad Liverpool Cotton Market--This Day, Opened quiet, but strong. Sales, 8,000 bales or more. Imports, 4,395. The French Government and M. Thiers. The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow ing letter from the Minister of the Interior to the Prefect of the Seine : " Paris, May 21, 1863. Monsieur le Prefet,—l hasten to reply to the report you have addressed to me upon the rumours circulating in the second circumscription of Paris, and according to which the Government, hesitating to oppose M. Thiers, thinks of withdrawing his competitor, M. Devinck. I authorise you to contradict those rumours in the most categorical manner. Had M. Theirs, rendering homage to the great ness of the new empire, presented himself to univer sal suffrage as a friend of our institutions, the Government would have welcomed with sympathy his return to public life; but from the moment of his consenting to join, in order to become their champion, a reunion of the old parties entirely composed of declared enemies of the Emperor and the empire, he himself rendered impossible the wel come the Government were disposed to give to the illustrious historian of the Consulate and the Empire. Whether M. Theirs presents himself to the suffrage of the electors with or without repugnance, whether he consents or refuses to explain his atti tude, equivocation is no longer possible. He remains henceforth one of the representatives of a regime which France has condemned, and which on that account it is the duty of the Government to oppose. M. Thiers is too honest a man for any one to acc use him of taking an oath he does not inte n d to k e l'. But what M. Thiers wishes is the re-esta blishment of a regime which has been fatal to France and to himself —a regime flattering to the vanity of some fe w and injurious to the welfare of all, which displaces authority from its natural basis to feed the i Pa" "Ei of the tribune, which substitutes for the fruitful movement of a c ti on the ster il e ag i ta ti o n of words, whi c h durin g eighteen y ears p ro d u ced only which comme n cin g e and feebl eness a b r oad, and tinued throng amid riots (dans l'emeute) con amid riots. h the uproar presence of aggrandised of riots and finished No, sir, in the France, of that France which has and so glorious since M, Thiers become so prosperous ceased to be at the head of aff a irs his friends have that great city, now the most t irs ; in the midst of rich, and the most beautiful in th tranquil, the most universal suffrage will not opposee universe;—no ! meat which has rescued the country f rom to the govern who had allowed it to fall into th ruin those at abyss,_] am, Alor2ier le Prefet, &c., F. DE PERSIGNY Minister ofthe .' Interior. SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOeKS. Share Railways. 3.14. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleaf.,and Slid.Co Bristol and Exeter I p aid : Closing Business Price. done. Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall 8 8i Do A• A 0 - ets no di - Do. B ti II (ip c.p an.haf• been paid to B. Dublin t Belfast Juno. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg,'. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock 8 9 84 86 115 k 1161 6 1 6/ Do B do Gt. S. an 1 W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire Lotidon and Blackwall Lon., Brig% t., & S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover, Lon. & Nor' h Western Lon. & Scr.th Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do t shares... • Metropolitan Midland 40 42 13 14 91 93 107 109 52i 534 47 49 24i 25i 125 126 127 128 134 136 102 104 67} C7l 6.4.0 Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent _ . Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Ntb. Eastern—Berwlok Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds 110 i 111 78i 79} 118 120 41 42 100 l 1011 1044 11511 44 45 Do York Do Carlisle.. ..... North London 19.16.41 Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction 1 Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews, and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern 111 11 127 1271 1 1p 96 98 st South Wales st S. York. and River Dun 10 staines,Wok.,andWok 15 Stockton Darlington 15 Do 15 Do New, 1866 st Taff Vale. .. 1 0 Do B 51 MA 24i 251 101 102 Do C 58 68i 881 691 Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterfbrd Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.dtit West Midland Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 115 117 1 1 It ID, 16 16} 111 121 118 120 451 1& 98 100 50 51 32 33 914 92 03 70 99 101 7 8 37 38 ' 9 10 o 74 8 p 153 156 5 6i 31I) 53 21 79 82 154 156 28 30 44 15 38 40 99 101 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Shan Railways Fwd. Price. Business don, 100 Atlantic &St Lawrenct all 60 83 i t k J Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Inc 100 1(84 109 i 1094 ( Gu. 5 per cent........ 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares.. 204 Budalo and Laae Huron all 51 54 51 10 Do. Preference .... . all 71 81 w o f Buffalo,Brant,&Godria ( 8 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 187'2 100 Do. do. July 1, 187:-. 100 100 Do. do. June 1, Ih:4 100 st Clcutta—t S.Eastn. (Lin ) 100 108 109 st Cape Town & Dock Sail 100 1( 91 1094 stock Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. c 100 110 112 1114 stock East Indian. go. sp. c. 100 10 91 1091 1091 1 20 Do. do. G Ext 5 14 1 4P 20 Do. do. II do. •• 5 1 14p stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 19 20 100 Do. Ist Fret. Bonds all 61 65 100 Do. co. deferred all 48 61 604 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 55 68 100 Do. do. deferred all 43 47 100 Do. 3d P ef. stock 100 Do. do. deferred-- all 33 26 100 Do. 4th I'ref. sto k all 24 26 25 100 Do. do. deferred all 21 23 stock Gt.lndlaPentn.gua..sp.c lOO 110 1104 1101 20 Do. New gua. sp. C l2 1 2 20 Do. January, 1882 4 1 14. stock Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 107 108 20 t Gt. W. of Canada Sharer` all in 12 20 Do. New ....... 18 9 81 , 100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. all 97 100 100 Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.. . all 89 02 10 Indian Branch Limited 2 1 p 2 1 stock Madras guar., sp. c. stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 101 103 1011 stock Dr. 4* do lOO 28 100 20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnch , 100 50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 49 51 100 Do. 7 p.c. Mortg. Bds. all 20 Newßrunswick &Can& Class A and B .. all 3 5 N.Rl.C'da6 po Ist pt bds 100 84 86 stock &dude .. •• • 1 (100 1091 1104 st Do. Delhi 444 100 107 108 ( Do. do 2 6 fp 20 Do. Punjaub 115 11 lip 161 st Do. Do. tzg. 100 107 1(8 flock Do. Indus. St. Fl o .) 60C 106 1(6 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, a D.( oy, 6 p.c.,1 8. J 1877-S4 . 10f'r 106 107 1061 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aut.. 100 103 I( 6 Do. 6 P.C. Mar. & Sept 100 103 106 Do. Ip. e. Jan.&July. 100 96 97 94 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 95 97 Cape G.llope, 6p c,187: 100 111 113 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 112 114 o. 189 100 112 11 4 Do. Ja D n. & July, 189 1. ( . 103 115 117 Ceylon, Nov.lt•7B, 6p c 100 113 115 Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 108 111 Natal Gov. 8 per cent.. 130 11.,9 111 110 -- N.11.G0v.6 p.c. J a.&J ulj 100 1064 it 7 1071 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 - N. S.W. G ov. 5 p 2.,14 , 100 1024 1034 Do. Ip. c., lb. ito 1.;;t 100 103 1031 Do. d0.,1888 & upwdE 100 103 104 1034 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 112 114 104 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875. lOO 1064 1074 Queensland GCv. 6p. c. 100 t 3 115 b. Aus G6p.c.187&& up.. 100 113 115 Vte.Gov. 6p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 110 112 Do. io 6 p.c. An.&Oot.. 100 1101 1114 1114 10; 114 BRITISH MINES. Cambrian Consol. Gold Vhtlord Amalgamated 1 Devon G. Con.. "ravist ) 1 East Bassett (Illog•an) East Clogau Gold Ltd East Caradon ..... East Carn Brea.,.. E. «'l Russel (Tavistk. ; I Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen.) reat South Tolgus Wheal Vor(Relston; , (Grenville erGd's- Foot 321 1 ingston Downs Lady Bertha Margaret (lJny Lelart Starke Valley.. 'llyndy Iron Ore (Lim.) New Seton North Downs S. Wh '1 Basset (111o4au North Wheal Crotty .. Par Consols (st. Blazey, Providence (Uri)" Leint.; South Caradon(St.Cleer, 3. Carn Brea (Illogan).. ,77. Wheal Fran. (Mogan, Stray Park lamttr Silv.tz Lead Min Pin Craft, I West Basset (Illoaan) ! W Caradon (Liskeard i West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan)l Wheal Buller (Kedruth)l Wheal Kitty (ti.Lelant)' WhealLud ott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) [Wheal Seton . . 5} i Wheal Tre►awney (Lis )' Wheal Union 21 19 2.17.0 2.4.9 11 10.6.7 11 5.15.6 18.1 , .1) 28.9. 474 51 5 2.0.6 2.10.8 8 58i .., 3.17 6 5i 15i 16i :50 260 16 17 44 5 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 5 per cent. red. prf., 105 41 Great Western, Birmingham gua. stock,, 76 London, Chatham, and Dover per cent. pref., 100; Midland, Leicester and Hitchin 4 per et.. i4l 4 West Midland, Oxford, 2d guaranteed stock, 121} PREFEttENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Caledonian ZlO gua. stock, 103 Great Eastern, 4i per cent., pf., 96i London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., Ditto, 6 per cent., C, 82 LINES LEASED A] FIXED RENTALS. Hull and Selby, 1114 Royston, Hitch., and Shep., 138 Shrewsbury and Hereford, 137 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 24 1 Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 1. f Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean, 11 Royal Danish, 16/ 16 San Paulo (hm.), gua. 7 per cent., 0i Southern of France, 30k FOREIGN MINES. Cobre Copper, 19i St. John del Key (lira.), 55 United Mexican (iii.,), 61 Vallanzasaa Gold, lim., Yudanarautana of S. Australia 31ii JOINT-STOCK RANKS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (Urn.), 33 Australasia, 751 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China,:3o 291 City, U 9 10 Imperial Bank (Bro.), 23 1 2 Imperial Ottoman, 21 201 London, B. Ayres, and It. Plate (lira.), 22} London Chartered Bank of Australia, 29i i London and Colonial (lira.), 42 London and County, 433 London Joint Stock, 361 London and Northern (11m.), 4 London and South African, 2ei London and Westminster, 7E2 9 Metrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 12 Oriental Bank Corporation, 551 5 Provincial of Ireland, 90 nem C HINE SE DELICACIES.—How, in the E p i c urus, the Chinese can eat such foal-feeding pigs is incomprehensib le. I rewember reading some name e f a go, in a book on Ch ina b y a naval officer, something the effect that a Chin aman will eat everything but his g o to father, and while hi g hl y amused at their going so far end stopping at that trifling obstacle, I was rather incredulous. Readily now would I endorse his statement, after only hav ing seen them masticate with fond delight their beloved scavengers. I was once taken to a street in Canton where I was shown a shop, the window of which was hung round and across with cooked animals in sufficient abundance to prove that a good trade was not incompatible with a secluded situation. I was rather exultingly told that one lot of the nicely browned morsels was cat, and another opposite, split up and skewered with an eye to effect, was " number one" dog.—From Fleming's Travels on ilorseback in Idantchu 2artary, 126 5 67i 11c} 118 171 lUl* 105 41 In i 1271 8 511 2 la 1021 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1363. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. TOBIN, ON A PETITION OP RIGHT, V..THE QUEEN. The plaintiff in this case was a merchant in the African trade, residing at Liverpool. It also appeared that he was the owner of several vessels trading to different parts of the world, amongst whom was one named the Britannia, and while that ship was performing a voyage she met with certain mishaps, whioh rendered it necessary for her to put into one of the ports on the African coast for repair. While undergoing the operation, one of her Majesty's cruisers seized her on suspicion of being engaged in the slave trade, and in a short time after de- stroyed her by fire, instead of taking her into one of the Admiralty courts to be adjudged as a prize. Pleas were put in by the Attorney-General, on the part of the Crown, that the averments in the petition were untrue, and Mr. Kim perly, on the part of Mr. Tobin, this morning addressed their lordship, contending that under Mr. Bovill's act, the Crown was debarred from putting such a plea in such general terms, and that the petition m , ght be taken as con fessed, as he denied altogether that the Crown was deprived of the right of answering in such a general way. The Court was of opinion that the Crown still held the right that the learned counsel questioned, but granted a rule to show cause why the pleas should not be made more general. EXCHEQUER COURT. :Before the Lord Chief Baron and Barons Martin, Bram well, and Channell.) POOLE V. LEWIS. This action, it will be recollected, was tried a short time ego, and a verdict given for the defendant. The plaintiff, a fashionable tailor, carrying on business in Saville-row, sued defendant for the sum of £3O, the value of certain arti cles of wearing apparel supplied to him. At the trial it was contended the clothes were supplied on the usual terms, viz,, six months' credit, but as that time had not expired the amount was not yet recoverable, and the result was the jury gave a verdict to that effect. Mr. Hawkins, this morning, on the part of the plaintiff, moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside on the ground of misdirection, that the verdict was perverse, and also that there was no evidence to go to the jury to support the terms of the contract as pleaded by the defendant, Mr. Baron Martin said he was not satisfied with the re sult of the trial. The Court granted a rule to show cause. COURT OF PROBATE. ISAACS V. - WHALEY. The will in this case was contested on the ground that it was not made in conformity with the act, and also that it was invalid for want of the necessary witnesses. The pro. perty in question was not of a very large amount. The in strument was drawn up at the request of the testatrix, Mrs. Isaacs, by a female friend, who, as she herself stated, was " not quite a lawyer," and, although her name appeared on the paper it was placed there, she stated, merely as the writer of the will and not as a witness. The sister of Mrs. Isaacs signed the document as did also the female servant. The Court decided in favour of the will, the costs not to be paid out of the estate. GLEN V. BURGESS AND SON. This case was postponed for a fortnight on the ground of the illness of a material witness. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr, Commissioner Fane ) IN RE BVRTON-IMPORTANT QUESTION UNDER DEED OF ARRANGEMENT. Mr. Doria appeared in this case to apply for sanction to issue execution against Henry Burton, under the following cir cumstances :—Burton had obtained protection on executing a deed of assignment for the benefit of his creditors, the majority of whom had agreed to accept a composition of 2s. 6d. in the pound; but Messrs. Davis and Co., dissen tient creditors, having obtained judgment against him, sought to recover by execution, but the sheriff refused to execute the writ, as Burton held the certificate of the regis trar and protection, the deed having been duly registered. Mr. Doria now contended that the deed was not in con formity with the Act of Parliament, as the property had been assigned to the trustee, whose receipt was to be a suffi cient release, and the creditors had to look to him only for payment of this composition. The learned counsel contended that the deed was fraudulent, but unless the curt granted the application the dissenting creditors had no power of testing the validity of the deed, whereas if Burton was taken in execution and applied for his release they would have the opportunity of doing so. Mr. Griffiths contended that there was no ground for suspecting any fraudulent intention, and if the trustee did not act properly he would be liable, but the learned counsel did not think the court would stultify itself by granting the application when all the requirements of the act have been complied with and sanctioned by the officer of the court. His Honour reserved his judgment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ASSAULT ON A CONSTABLE.—Mr, Robert Pryco, a gen tlemanly-looking man, was charged before Mr. Knox with assaulting Police-constable James Gibbings, 130 C, under the following circumstances : It appears that a large number of persons yesterday afternoon collected at the It, gent •street entrance of the St. James's -hall to witness the departure of their Royal High nesses the Princess Alexandra and the Princess of Hesse, and that the persons making a rush towards the carriages, the constable (Gibbings) pushed Mr. Pryce back, and Mr. Pryce, as the constable and Inspector Walker stated, struck the constable, and was then taken into custody. Mr. Lewis, jun.. appeared for the defence, and said that Mr. Pryce, who had been rather roughly used, denied striking the constable. Three witnesses were called for the defence, and said that they did not see Mr. Pryce si rike the constable, but one of them admitted that she was not certain as to the identity of the defendant, and another said that he was not present at the commencement of the altercation. Mr. Knox said that if a blow had been struck, it was a very slight one there was no doubt. He had to decide between the opposite witnesses, and believed the police. As the assault was only a slight one he should find the de fendant ss, THAMES. CATCHING A TARTAR ON TOWER - HlLL—Charles Bur rows, a powerful, stiffly-built fellow, aged 21, who is well known to the police, and has been several times in custody, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with stealing a silk handkerchief from the pocket of Mr. Henry Taylor, a merchant, dwelling at No. 4, Upper East Smithfield. Mr. Taylor was passing over that modern Alsatia, Tower-hill, where thieves, crimps, touters, swindlers, hanky , panky men, mendicants, and nostrum mongers mostly congregate, when he felt a slight pull at his coat behind, and turning round saw his handkerchief in the pri soner's hand. Mr. Taylor, jun., who was by his father's side, exclaimed, "He has stolen your handkerchief," and at the same moment the prisoner let it fall to the ground and ran away. Mr. Taylor, jun., pursued the scoundrel, was soon upon him and knocked him down. The prisoner was soon upon his feet again and made a great resistance, but he soon found to his cost that he had caught a Tartar, for Mr. Taylor, jun., knocked him down again, and re peated his, blows whenever the prisoner made any resist ance. The fellow was secured and handed over to a police constable. The prisoner, who was stated to be a cowardly bully, put on an air of deep humility, and said he was very sorry. He had not been in bed for four nights, had no work and nothing to eat. He hoped the magistrate would forgive him, because he had been knocked about a good deal. Mr. Woolrych—You were rightly served. The pick pockets on Tower-hill are a great plague. You are a pro fessional thief. I sentence you to two months imprison ment and hard labour. FURIOUS AND RECKLESS DRIVING.—OIiver Butler, aged 25, a master baker, of No. 7, Sarah-street, Poplar, and William Rowe, aged 44, of No. 63, Grundy-street, Poplar, greengrocer, were brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with being drunk and furiously driving. James Hillier, a police-constable, No. 457 K, saw the prisoners last night in a cart, near Limehouse Church. The prisoner Butler was driving the horse attached to the cart. The horse was sober; the other animals were drunk and very uproarious. Butler was whipping the horse and driving in a zig-zag direction, first on one side of the Com mercial-road and then on the other. He disregarded the rule of the road, and was driving on the wrong side, when ho came in contact with a gentleman's horse and chaise, and his career was stopped. There was a tremendous smash, the prisoners were thrown out of the cart, but not ma terially hurt, and the pannel of the gentleman's chaise was broken. Mr. William Smith, a commercial traveller, said he was on his right side of the Commercial-road, driving a horse and chaise, when the prisoners drove right upon him and smashed one of the pannels of the cbaiso. He was in very imminent danger, and so were the prisoners. The damage amounted to £5. Butler—l will pay. It was my fault. Mr. Woolrych said the conduct of the prisoners was very absurd, and attended with danger to themselves and the public. He ordered Butler to pay £5. the amount of the damage, and a fine of 10s. for furious driving, and he sentenced Rowe to pay ss. for being durunk and unable to take care of himself. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, May 23.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly ; light breeze and fine weather. COWES, MAY 22.—Arrived--New York, steamer, from New York for Bremen. PLYMOu'rn, May 22.—Wind E.—Arrived—Jane, from Callao for Ostend. EY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. , Saturdaorning. Arrived, May 2 2—Bi GRAVESEND tuar and Anne, fro y m M Antwerp; Maria, from Norden ; Wilton, from Jamaica; Lucerne, from Gibraltar. Arrived, May 23—W ave d en, from Dantaic; Elizabeth, from Guern sey; W indar, from Hamburg; Bremen. Ghent ; J o h n B u ll , Sailed—Flecha, for Gh steamer, for Hamburg. Schwal, from DEAL, Saturday Morning. passed—Uranius, for . D emerara; John Romilly, for St, Selena ; Seine and Tamise, screw steamer, for Calais—all from London. Royal Agricultural Society of England. The annual general meeting of the above society was held yesterday, in Hanover-square —the President, Viscount Eversley, in the chair. Among those present were Lords Berners, Portman, Tredegar, and Walsingham ; General Hood, Sir A. Macdonald, the Hon. W. Cavendish, Alder man Copeland, M.P., Mr. Fisher Hobbs, Mr. Owen Wallis, Mr. R. Barker, Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, &c. On the motion of Lord PORTMAN, seconded by Mr. R. SMITH, Lord Feversham was elected president of the society for the ensuing year. The house list of the council was adopted unanimously. The Secretary, Mr. H. HALL DARE, then read the report of the council for the last year, which was as follows : " The council have the satisfaction of reporting favourably of the progress made by the society in the attainment of its practical and useful objects. The number of its members at the present time differs only by six from the numbers at the date of the last general meeting, 205 names having been removed by death or otherwise from the list, while 211 new members have within the last five months been elected into the society, which now consists of—life governors, SO ; annual governors, 88 ; life members, 1,263 ; annual mem bers, 3,735 ; honorary members, 17; making a total of 5,183. Mr. Bowly, of Siddington-house, Cirencester, has been elected a member of council in the place of the late Mr. Jonas Webb. The funds of the society are in a highly satisfactory state ; every claim against it has been regularly discharged as it has become due ; and while £16,488 17s 10d remains invested in the New Three per Cents., an ample cash balance is available for current purposes in the hands of the bankers. A deposit account having been opened with the bankers, the society will receive interest on the funds which accumulate in the early part of the year, and will not be required till the show-yard is erected. The council have to report the favourable progress of the preparations for the country meeting of the society, to be held this year in the city of Worcester, in the week commencing on Mon day, the 20th of July, which will be the day on which the judges will award the prizes in the classes of live stock. The show and trial-yards will be opened as fol lows :—Wednesday, July 15 : The trial-yard opened from noon till 6 p.m. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, July 16, 17, and 18: The trial yard open from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m. Monday, July 20 ; Cattle 'yard open from 8 a.m., when the judges will commence inspecting the live stock and making their awards ; the implement -yard, open from 8 a.m. ; the show-yards will close at 6p m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, July 21, 22,'23, and 24. The gene ral show open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mr. Dent, M.P., has accepted the office of steward of stock ; and Sir Archibald Macdonald that of steward of implements in the place of the Honourable A. Vernon, resigned. The entries for im plements are more numereus than in any previous year in all the three departments of shedding, seed and model sheds, and machinery in motion. Papers have been read at the weekly meetings by Mr. Taylor, of 88, Parliament- street, on Materials for Cottage Building, by Mr. Bailey Denton, on the Effect of Underdrainage on the Rivers and Arterial Channels of the Country ; on the Adulteration of Oilcakes, by Professor Voelcker ; on the Animal Parasites, by Pro fessor Symonds ; and by Mr. Ruck, on Steam Cultivation. The council have decided, subject to the usual conditions, to hold the society's meeting next year at Newcastle-upon- Tyne. The country meeting in the year 1865 will be held in the district comprising the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Somerset." The report having been adopted, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, and after a reply from the noble lord, in which he congratulated the meeting on the great benefits which the society had rendered, and was still ren dering, to agriculture, the proceedings terminated. ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this society was held yesterday at the London Tavern. Mi. ALEXANDER (the treasurer of the society), who occu pied the chair, apologised for the position in which he was placed, owing to the regretted absence of Lord Brougham. With respect to the struggle which was now going on in America between North and South, he expressed his opinion that, though war was a great evil, yet that the g o o d which would be effected by the civil war in America fully justified the society in wishing the Federal cause to succeed. Mr. Ores. BUXTON stated the purport of a letter which he had received from Lord Brougham that morning, stating that his lordship declined to attend the meeting on the ground that he believed every Englishman ought to remain strictly neutral on the question in dispute between the Northern and Southern States of America. The announcement was received with some few hisses and other expressions of disapprobation, and a gentleman present proposed a resolution to the effect that the reason assigned by Lord Brougham for his non-attendance was not satisfactory, and that the secretary be requested to forward a copy of the resolution to his lordship. The resolution, however, having no seconder fell to the ground. Mr. Buxton explained that Lord Brougham had not given any promise to attend the meeting, but that the secretary had announced his lordship's name, believing that the noble lord would attend the meeting. Mr. CHAMEROYZOW, the secretary, read the report of the proceedings of the society, and the financial accounts showed that the balance now in the hands of the treasurer was £l6, and the outstanding liaLilitips won. -Clg7 Thn during the past year were £74, and the subscriptions were under £2OO. Sir T. FOWELL BUXTON, who moved the adoption of the report, expressed his regret that, even at the present time, slavery should exist to so great an extent in various parts of the world, and especially that Spain should still continue to give so much support to the system. He expressed his opinion that slavery on the continent of America was fast approaching its termination, and that probably before many months they would see it completely extinguished. The resolution, seconded by the Rev. Dr. MASSIE ; was unanimously agreed to. The Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL proposed, as a second resolution, "That the society deemed it of importance at this crisis to reaffirm the fundamental principle of the anti slavery movement ; that slavery is a sin and crime before God, and that its speedy ab dition was devoutly to be desired on the grounds of religion and humanity." The resolution, seconded by the Rev. W. ARTHUR, was also unanimously adopted. - - Some other resolutions of a formal character were also adopted, and the proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the chairman. MARKETS--This Day. COVENT GARDEN. Increased supplies of fruit and vegetables are on sale here to-day, and the demand rules inactive, at the subjoined currency : FRUIT. s. d. 6. d. Pine apples 8 0 to 10 0 Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0 Grapes,per lb 0 0 to 0 0 Foreign do 1 6 to 2 6 Melons . . 0 0 to 0 0 Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0 Apples, per hi -sv. 2 6 to 4 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100 5 0 to 10 0 Lemons, per 100 4 0 to 7 0 Gooseberries hi sve3 6 to 5 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 0 s. d. s d Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Foreign ditto, pun° oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb .. 1 oto 1 9 Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0 Cobnuts, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Figs, per d0z..... 0 oto 0 0 Damson .. -• ...... 0 o to 0 0 Currants, per h.sv 0 oto 0 Plums, per dc)... 0 oto 0 0 Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Raspberries,prpt 0 oto 0 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 2 oto 2 6 Shallots. per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Cabbages, pr doz 0 9to 1 6 Horseradish, pdn 1 oto 2 0 ditto 0 OSo 0 0 , Parsley, per ditto 0 3to 0 4 Savoy do., pr dz 0 oto 0 9 ' Celery, per ditto 1 oto 2 6 Cauliflowers, pdz 1 oto 2 0 1 Beet, per doz. .. 1 6 to 2 0 Brocoli, per bus. 0 oto 0 0 ' Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Potatoes, per ton .. 0 oto 0 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 2to 0 3 New ditto, pr cwt 13 oto 16 0 Idushrooms,P ptl. 0 9to 1 3 Turnips, dz bunch 1 6to 2 0 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Carrots, pr do 4 6to 5 6 Cabbage lett,score 0 oto 0 0 Cucumbers 0 6to 3 0 Mint and savory..o 3to 0 4 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 Bto 0 8 Green peas,ll.-sy. 0 oto 0 0 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 Brus. sprouts, h.s. 0 oto 0 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Onions, doz. bn.. 1 6to 1 9 j Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 New Do., dz bun 0 Bto 1 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 3to 0 6 Spinach . . 0 Bto 1 01 Asparagus, pr do. 3 6 to 6 0 Turnip radishes 0 6to 0 8 ; Seakale, per bun. 0 oto 0 0 NEWUATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkeys, Os Od to Os Od ; geese, Os Od to Os Od each ; goslings, 5s Od to 75 Od ; ducks, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; ducklin gs , 2s 6d to 4s 6d; rabbits, is Od to 2s Od each; wild do., 7d to is ld ; pigeons, Os 8d to is Id each; Surrey fowls, lOs Od to 14s Od • chickens, 8s Od to 9s 6d ; barn -d oor f ow l s, 5s Od to 7s Od; capons, Os Od ; hares, Os Od to Os Od ; ptarmigan, Os Od to Os each ; pheasants, Os Od to Os Od ; partridges,Os Od to Os Od ; woodcocks, Os to Os Od ; snipes, Os to Os Od; teal, Os Od to Os Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to Os Od ; widgeons, Os Od to Os Od ; plovers, Os Od to Os Od each; guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od each; Ostend fresh butter, 9d to Os lld ; English, Ild to is Od per lb ; English eggs, 7s Od to Os Od ; French do., 5s 6d to 6s Od per 120; leverets, Os Od to Os Od each. BILLING SLATE. ;sturgeon, and halibut, Od per Salmon, is 3d to is 6d ; trout, Od to Os ; eels, 5d to 10d ; brills, is Od to 5s Od ; doreys, is Od to 7s Od ; mullets, Os 6d to 2s 6d ; 6d' per pair ; common p ib r . a7z, b o o s ts ; , s 2 k s a 6 te d , t 4 o d i t s o s 6 ; deo; cod, is 041 to 58 co . lobsters, 6d to 3s Od; crabs, 6d to 2s 6d ; plaice and garnets, —s per bushel ; whitings, 3s Od to lOs ; haddocks, 4s to 16s ; smelts, Os Od to is 6d; ° oy ci st t e o rs ° :3 10 0 8 c1 to e — ach s ;; n s a o t l iv es e , s, 3 s d 6s tL ls flounders, Os Od per dozen ; mackerel, 40s per 120 ; fresh herrings, 5s per 100 ; bloaters, Os to Os per 100 ; carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace. • NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s Od ; mutton, 38 Od to 4s 4d ; lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 4d ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 6d; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per 81bs. by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 6d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 43 4d; lamb, 5a 4d to 6s 4d ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 6d ; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per 81bs by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 7id to 8d , of household do., sid to 7d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. ; 801 b to 881 b, 3id t o 4id ; 8. 0 41 b, Od to Od ; 1041 b to Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2 td to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d t' 1121 b, Od to Od. Horse hides , 9s Od to lO s 6d ; calf sk i ns, light, 2s 6d to 4s Od ; full, 7s Od t o O s O d ; polled sheep, Os to 3 ; d 9 t 6 o lb 4d to ° 8113 34 t d 0 ; 9 6 7 1 2 b 1 , b 4Td B t o o lb sd Od to Os Od ; half-breds, Os Od to Os Od ; Downs, 7s Od to 9s Od; lambs, 2s 6d to 3s 10d; shearlings, is 7d to Os Od. The M.P.'s I Saw at the Derby. (From the Field.) The form of the motion for adjournment which the Speaker put on Tuesday night in the House of Commons should have been "that this house do now adjourn over the Derby Day," for that is the exact meaning of the ad journment on the Tuesday preceding the Derby. When the House commenced day-sittings on Wednesdays, an ad journment over the Derby Day of course became a legisla tive necessity, because it is impossible that" Mr. Speaker" can be in two places at once; and, as he must be at the Derby, he could not very well take the chair in the House of Commons at the same time. Still, although the adjourn ment over the Derby has of late years been looked upon as a " standing order," the Minister of the day, in submitting the motion, has usually made some allusion to the great carnival, always trying to be funny on the subject, and not always suc ceeding ; but on the present occasion Lord Palmerston made the motion as a mere matter of course, and without adding a single word upon the subject. Yes, it is now understood that the House of Commons on the Tuesday before the Derby Day adjourns to Epsom Downs; and, although the popular branch of the Legislature does not go to Epsom in a body, I sappose we may assume that the great bulk of them are there somewhere; but, whatever they may be at Westminster, the members of the House of Commons when they go to Epsom Downs are not gregarious, and therefore, in attempting a record of the " M.P.'s I saw there," it must not be understood that I intend to give a kind of " division list" of the members of the Legislature who were at Epsom. Why, Asmodeus himself would be unable to do so. On such an occasion Epsom is a mighty bottle of hay, and the members of the House of Commons may be consi dered the proverbial needles thereof. Auspiciously for my mission, at the very moment that I arrived, in that pitiless rain, at the grand stand, the Prince of Wales drove up, his carriage literally dash ing through the mud, which all around the entrance to the stand was of the consistency of and far more plentiful than turtle soup. Thus the first member of Parliament whom I met—for as the Prince is the first peer of the realm he is of course a member of Parliament—was the Heir ap parent to the British Throne, on this, his first visit, to the world-renowned Derby. His royal highness was aecom panied by the Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of Hesse, Major Teesdale, and Capt. Westerweller, and he was con ducted to the Jockey Club stand, where he was met by Lord Torrington, Lk.rd in Waiting. The royal party were well prepared for the inclement day, and they seemed to find much consolation in the cigar case, for they smoked incessantly. The Prince of Hesse seemed to me to take more interest in the proceedings than the Prince of Wales did, but perhaps this impression was produced by the Duke of Cambridge being almost continuously engaged in explaining everything around in minute detail to the Prince of Hesse. It was said that when the horses took their preliminary canter for the Derby, the Prince of Wales was most struck with the appearance of The Gillie, and backed his fancy for £lOO. Having seen the Prince and his friends take their places in the part of the peculiar stand—certainly not conspicuous for its importance or architectural dignity—which is appro priated to the grandees and magnates of the turf, I took my way about the course and into the paddock, and on the road thither I met the Earl of Cardigan and his lady, and they appeared to me to be in some annoyance at the miscarriage of some instructions which had been given in London. They had come down by railway, and I expect the carriage which was to have conveyed them to the course was the im portant part of the miscarriage to which I have alluded. I then met the Earl of Chesterfield, who, as he dashed into the mud at the entrance to the paddock, seemed rather to enjoy a rainy Derby Day. He was all alone in his glory. Then came the Earl of Shrewsbury, also alone, but I could plainly see that he didn't like either the rain or the mud. He, however, was compelled to struggle through both, in order to reach the paddock. And indeed it was quite a relief to get into the paddock, for although it is true you could not escape the rain there, yet the splendid turf was so de lightfully elastic, that it seemed as if one was walking on velvet. Of course, like all the rest of the folks who had the privilege of the entree, I bent my steps to the spot where the favourite was being led about the enclosure; and when I reached the levee—for such I supposed it was—l found myself sidu by side with the Earl of Dudley, who was earnestly discussing the points of the favourite with Sir Joseph Hawley, who, I should say, knows a good point of a racehorse when he sees one if any man in the world does. The Earl of Dudley discussed the subject so earnestly that the thought struck me that it was strange that a man of his enormous wealth did not keep a stud. He is a yacht ing man, I know ; I wonder he is not a racing man as well. How very loudly that peculiar-looking gentleman in the light, very light, green coat, with extraordinary facings, is talking to all around him, and oracularly giving his opinion on the other side of the favourite. Some people who listen to him may think, and justly so, that his opinions are occasionally full of sound, sometimes of fury, and always signify nothing. But he must not be recognised by me in my glance round the paddock—for, is he not a member of the Jockey Club, and very often blatant in his demands for a peculiar exclusion especially connected with Newmarket? and is he not a representative of the poetic lyre of Eng land ? But make way, there I for here is approaching a wond rous judge 01 men and horses too, ana one wnose opinion, when expressed upon any subject, is circulated over all the world. He is an old man—a very old man--but he walks as erect as he did half a century ago, and with as firm a tread, and there is as much fire in his eye now as then. He approaches, leaning on the arm of the Marquis of Ailes • bury ; and he, too, comes to have a look at the favourite, Yes, the Prime Minister of England— Lord Palmerston — forgetting all the cares of State for the hour, comes person ally to examine the great favourite for the great race. And if you will look down at his boots, you will see that the venerable Prime Minister has spurs thereon, which fact plainly shows that, spite of that drenching rain and of the rivers of mud that are in the roads, he has ridden down from London, to be one amongst the mighty multitude that is the feature world-renowned of the great Derby Day. Having critically examined the favourite, Lord Palmer ston, with a springy step upon that springy turf, still lean ing on the arm of the Marquis of Ailesbury, makes the round in the paddock of the other horses ; and he is on of the last to leave the exclusive spot, and wend his way bac e k, careless of mud and water, to the Jockey Club Stand to view the race. Here they come trooping to see the favourite. Hero is Mr. Bailie Cochrane, who, whether on the back benches of the House of Commons, or on the Downs of Epsom, always ap pears to me like an overgrown boy. And next comes Major Baresford (the immortal W. B.) ; he is not so upright now as he was before the Frail electioneering days of years ago. See who comes hero, literally skipping along as though he were a schoolboy in a playground. Lord Henry Lennox forgets his speech that he did make the other day and the speech that he is going to make about the affairs of Italy, in his anxiety about the favourite. Why, surely we shall " make a House" presently around the favourite. Mr. Bankes Stan hope scrutinises Lord Clifden through his eye-glass; Sir John Hay tells Sir Edward Codrington that the favourite is the finest horse he ever saw ; General Peel points out to Mr, Greville what he thinks the best point about the horse ; and Mr. Whiteside solemnly takes the opinion of Mr. Napier Sturt, who gives it, and then appeals for confirmation to Capt. Gerard Noel, who, by the by, I saw compare his betting-book with Mr. Knatchbull Hugessen at the door of the House of Commons on Tuesday night, and in the face of the whole house during the discussion of the temporalities of the Irish Church. The course has been cleared for the race, and now the paddock is deserted. I, like the rest, take my way to the stand, and I go round by the back entrance, and there I stumble against Mr. Daniel O'Connell, who is floundering in the mud—the only remaining son of the great Dan—who until a few weeks ago was the member for Tralee, who is now an income tax commissioner, and who therefore was perhaps on the look out for whom he might surcharge. And so the last M.P. I saw there was an ex-M.P., who, let us hope, will be exemplary in his new office. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.—Monday—Geographical, at 1— Anniversary ; Linnean, at 3—Anniversary. Tuesday— Royal Institution, at 3—" Sound," Professor Tyndall; Zoological, at 9—" Mr. Motley's Birds from Borneo," Dr. Sclater. Wednesday—Horticultural, at I—Great Exhibi tion ; Society of Arts, at 8 ; Archaeological Association, at 81,—" Recent Discoveries of Antiquities, Salop," Rev. T. Owen Rocke ; " Pedigree of Derwentwater of Cattle Rigg," Mr. Powell. Thursday—Royal Institution, at 3—" Geo logy," Professor Ansted ; Antiquaries, at 8—" Portraits of the Wives of Henry VIII.," Mr. J. G. Nichols. Friday— Horticultural, at 2 Election of Fellows ; Royal Institu tion, at 8—" The Vedas," Professor Max Muller. Sa turday—Horticultural—Promenade; Royal Institution, at 3—" Electric Telegraphy," Professor W. Thomson.— Athenceum. FATAL ACCIDENT AT BRISTOL.—An accident, attended with a fatal result, occurred on Thursday at the Bristol Suspension Bridge works. Several stagings, on an immense scale, are in course of erection, to be used subsequently in the erection of the bridge, owing to which the men are compelled to work at a very great height, thereby incurring great peril in the progress of the work. The accident referred to took place in the afternoon of Thursday, at the buttress of the bridge, on the Peigh Wood side. Two men were engaged on the top of the tower in fixing a portion of the staging, one of them being on the temporary platform and the other just below him, suspended in a seat for the purpose of performing his part of the opera tions. There were two men at the bottom of the tower en gaged in steadying a " guy" rope, and assisting those on the staging in fixing a " derrick " or pole, when by some means or other the " gug" rope to which the derrick was attached slackene too much, and the deceased, who w as steadying the pole and endeavouring to place it in position, was overbalanced by its weight, and was precipitated to the bottom of the buttress, a depth of 70 feet, falling headfore most upon the ston es, literall y smashin g h is skull, surgeon was sent for, but his services were unavailing, t h e poor fellow only s urvived a f'ew , was minutes,e savedtherefore H sbssycpl as com panion, who was at work beside h ro pes to which his seat was attached, with a scratch of the face. More Federal Ships Burned by the:Alabama and Florida: PERNAMBUCO, May 1. The Bremontier, French barqne from Bordeaux (out 35 da s), bound for California, put in here this morning to land the master and crew of two Ame rican vessels taken and burnt by the Confederate steamer Florida, Captain Moffat, which is now cruising off Fernando de Noronha. Taken April 23, lat. 1.12 S., long. 28.55 W., American barque Henrietta, of and from Baltimore, 437 tons (out 26 days), Brown master, bound for Rio de Janeiro with 3,100 barrels, 300 half ditto, flour and sundries, consigned to Phipps Brothers ; burned same day. Taken April—Ship Oneida, of New Bedford, 437 tons, Potter, master, from Shanghae (out 86 days), bound for New York with 8,060 half chests of tea; burned same day. Previously taken and burned —Ship Common wealth, of Boston, 1,245 tons, with a general cargo, bound for Francisco, California; barque Lapwing, of Baltimore, 504 tons, California clipper, from Boston with a cargo of coal, bound for the Cape of Good Hope. This vessel is being fitted out as a Confederate cruiser, 35 new guns having been sent aboard. _ _ The masters report that nine other vessels had been previously burned by the Florida. BURNED BY THE ALABAMA. March 23—Schooner Kingfisher, of Fairhaven (whaler), 121 tons register (36 barrels of oil) ; burned same day. March 25—Ship Nora, of Boston, 927 tons, from Liverpool, bound for Calcutta, with 1,520 tons of salt ; burned March 26. March 25—Ship Charles Hill, of Bostoa, 699 tons, Percival, master, from Liverpool (out 41 days), bound for Monte Video, with 990 tons of salt, lat. 1.23 north ; burned following day. April 4—Ship Louisa Hatch, of Rockland, 853 tons, Grant, master, from Cardiff (out 28 days), 3.30 south, with 1,033 tons of coal for the Peninsular and Oriental Company, bound for Point de Galle (Cey lon). The Alabama having taken out a supply of coal off Fernando de Noronha, the vessel, &c., was burned the 19th inst. April 15—Barque Lafayette, of New Bedford (whaler), in 1.23 north ; burned same day. April 15—Schooner Kate Cory, of Westport, 125 tons (whaler); burned 19th April off Fernando de Noronha. _ _ The masters of the Charles Hill and Louisa Hatch, with 60 men, arrived here from the Island of Fernando de Noronha on the 26th April ; and there still remained on the island, 42 men, waiting a vessel for this port. The Alabama is reported to have passed this port on the 29th inst., steering for the southward. HAY MARKZTS: hay, £2 Os; £4 Os Od ; clover do )£ 1 10a t o £1 16 s per load. Trade slow. SMITHFIELD: ., £3 i ] Os to ii l‘ o ise;a2dW straw, CUMBERLAND.. — Mea g ow hay, £0 Os t 0 £4-213 • clov er do., £3 10s to £ 5 lOs ; and straw , £1 lOs to £ll6s per load. Trade inactive. —Meadow hay, £2 Od to £4 ; clover - - doW, in3yriEosCHtoALPEsLios and straw , 141 108 to £1 16s per load. A slow demand. THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND. (born. the Special Correspondent of the Times.) CRACOW, May 17. Since Jezioranski's last battle there has been a general calm along the Galician frontier, disturbed only from time to time by some rapid and sudden attack upon the Russian outposts, under the direc tion of the übiquitous cavalry chief called " Bonza" —the name not of a family nor of any living crea ture, but of a heraldic symbol. The conflicting re ports that have reached Cracow as to Jezioranski's latest movements have doubtless been transmitted by telegraph to London. One day we were told that he had been beaten and had sought refuge in Galicia, with all his army—another that he bad not even been engaged, and that he was still in the kingdom. I learn from a friend who has just left Jezioranski that these statements, apparently so impossible to reconcile, are nevertheless both of them true as regards the main points, for Jezioran ski is still in the kingdom, and nearly all his troops have crossed over into Galicia. This is what is called " dividing the army into two detachments" —one detachment consisting of the army minus the commander, the other of the commander minus the army. The only battle in which Jezi oranski's corps had been worsted was a battle with hunger. It had had no meeting with the Rus sians since the great fight at liobylgnks, but the Russians appear to have been on the point of encircling it, and they had certainly succeeded in cutting off its supplies. General Jezioranski, with General Waligorski, and a great band of followers, made his way to Czerwinski's detachment, in which he is now serving, at some distance in the interior. As to his men, very few of them have fallen into the hands of the Austrians, and the arms are, for the most part, in safety. It cannot be said, then, that Jezioranski's army has been destroyed. It has been temporarily dissolved, but its elements can, ' and will, be combined again in some form or other. I❑ estimating the forces at the disposal of the Polish National Government, it would be a great mistake to count those insurgents only who are actually in the field. At present every one who joins n detachment organised by the National Go• vernment becomes a soldier of the Polish national army and must obey orders, not only as long as his detachment remains in the field, but as long as the insurrection lasts. If the corps to which he belongs is driven in he has to report himself at headquarters, and to hold himself in readiness to start again for the frontier at the shortest notice. The soldiers of the insurrection receive regular pay (if they happen to want it), and owe the same obe dience to their chiefs which would be required from them in any other army. A national police, too, has been organised, and has been found very useful in the Kir.gdom. Its action, it is said, will soon be extended to Galicia, and especially to Cracow, for the benefit of a number of insurgents who are tem porarily unattached, and who in the meanwhile do not seem to know exactly what to do with them- selves. Besides its police, properly so called, the National Government employs a body of commissioners for collecting taxes and giving and receiving informa tion of various kinds. The war tax amounts to 10 per cent. on clear income, and is, or ought to be, paid by every one except the peasants, who are not allowed to Fly anything to any one, and who are so petted by both Governments—national and anti national—that they would be quite spoilt were they not already far beyond the possibility of spoiling. Will the Russians succeed in making the Polish peasant fight against his late master, or will his late master succeed in making him fight the Rus sians? Probably, after taking what he can get from both sides, he will remain quietly at home, doing no work, paying no rent, and enjoying him self after his own fashion. The proprietors are convinced that he will never take up arms for the Russ;an Government, whatever inducements it may offer him; and hitherto he has certainly not given the slightest sign of an intention to strike a blow in its favour. He has shown himself ready enough to earn a dishonest penny by s elling es bi e s but, rule, to his country's enemies, insdtirde: ) r ule, ho has carefully abst ained from actihvueetv:ienvteerr: ference on either side. In no do battle has the Polish peasant been a lly fought well for on particular estates he has nperecrearuta districts and a in e seem to im TOa for the Russians, where as i his own people. If, as ma ny p • we re all peasants there would be labourers thousands of peasa already under arms—not only , nt fa w r i ni th the class gine, the kossunierntts in Lithuania, but in the Kingdom itself ; but the e a st m p o a m r e t domestic of peasant proprietors), workmen, and (not kss u t n o iebr:caornefo ufonrdethdefon: servants. When a commander has not ' rifles enough f o r all his men he arms a portion of them with sythes; if there were an adequate military weapons we should supply of prop er sythemen at all. probably hear of no Travellers from 'Warsaw excite ment prevailed there on thesay that great been brought from the . l3th. Cannon had bridges, so citadel and posted on the as to There was a co mmand citadel was mined, rumourandamong and 25 of the houses f the suburb of Praga. the soldiers that the was . about to be blown up, facing it had been searched throughout. Fresh o had been formed at all posts of infantry and Cossacks barriers, and . detach ments were moving about in ever of insurgents, who had shown every direction msel in search the city. The whole of the district of ve ß s a c wa s , 9 th o e centre of which is about 50 miles to the south or south-west of Warsaw, was in • the hands of the in surgents, and under the civil as well as military rule of the Polish National Government. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK. SPAIN, A telegraphic despatch announces that Djemil Pacha, the Turkish Ambassador in Paris, and also accredited to the Court of Spain, bad an audience of Queen Isabella the day before yesterday to present his cre dentials. The Ambassador and his suite were conveyed to the Palace in Court carriages with the usual ceremonial, and the reception given to him by her Majesty was most cordial. The Queen charged him to convey to the Sultan the assurance of her friendship. THE MAIL STEAM-PACKET SERVICE. There are now 130 Channel and ocean mail steamers subsidised by the British Government. The mail steam packet service has been in existence 20 years, and during that period about 30 packets have been wrecked, in which upwards of 2,000 persons lost their lives, and through which £3,000,000 worth of property was destroyed. Our channel and ocean mail steamers traverse nearly three mil lion miles and carry a couple of millions of passengers in the course of a year. Since the Atlantic has been crossed by steam 20 steamers (mail packets and others) have been lost in that ocean, viz., the President, Columbia, Humboldt, City of Glasgow, City of Philadelphia, Franklin, Arctic, Pacific, Lyonnais, Tempest, Austria, Indian, Arago, Hun garian, Connaght, United States, North Briton, Anglo- Saxon, and two named Canadian. In the Atlantic two steamers have been burnt, the Amazon and Austria, and Iwo foundered, the President and Pacific, It is worthy of notice that there is no record of any great inhumanity ptao tised at any of the wrecks of the great ocean steamers on the part of crews over passengers, or of meu over women and children, but there are records of deeds of heroism and huma nity by men in supreme peril. There is scarcely any record of cowardice on the part of the officers of ocean steamers, but numerous instances of skill, daring, self-command, and self denial. There is scarcely an instance of crews or the lower order of passengers in mail steamers breaking open spirit stores and getting drunk in time of shipwreck, such as we read in old chronicles. There has hardly ever been an in stance of a commander leaving any one behind in a wrecked steamer, but many commanders have lost their lives by re • maining to the last and trying to save those under their charge. The horrors, therefore, of many shipwrecks have been less than they used to be, showing an improved spirit and humanity from the spread of education amongst sea faring men, and the great power of public opinion. Even common sailors now prefer to risk their lives in acts of humanity for the sake of the goo 4 opinion of the world, rather than have the finger of scorn pointed to them for saving their lives by acts of cowardice or inhumanity. The wreck of an ocean steamer, with sometimes 600 or 700 souls on board, is sufficiently horrible, without disgracful accompaniments. The most dreadful loss of an Atlantic steamer was that of the Austria by fire, in the middle of tha ocean, with the greater part of 1,000 persons on board. Whole families first em braced each other and then, joined hand and hand, jumped overboard, and perished. The most melancholy losses on the Atlantic were, perhaps, the foun dering of the President and Pacific , n w hen or where, or whether those on boa ono rd knows were precisely ous ly e ngulphed or endured the agony of seeing uncensci h ap proach of death. Two of the most sin gu l a r wrecks te in con nexion with mail packets were that of the Tay in the West n I n di es , which was abandoned by the captain as a certain wreck, while an en g ineer and one or two of the crew insisted upon remaining behind and succeeded in saving th e steamer, and h er owners £500,000; and that of the Tyne, which had made a fine passage of 4,000 miles from the South Atlantic, and when in sight of its haven, and the passengers had voted an address of congratulation to the commander for their safe arrivel, the ship was wrecked on the iron-bound coast of Dorset. Almost all the wreck d mail pac kets were lost in fogs or in the darkness of night, through steaming on to keep time with the mails. The fol lowing are the names of the ships lost by the owners of the Anglo-Saxon, viz. :—The Canadian (No. 1) in 1857, the Indian in 1859, the Hung in a rian in 186 0 , the N orth Britain and Canadian (No. 2) 1861, and the Anglo-Saxon in 1863. Owing to the loss of the latter, we shall rarely receive news from Cape Race. At an immense expense the telegraph has been extended to that point from New York, and a staff is kept at the Cape for the reception and transmission of news. It is in con templation, however, to keep a fast steamer there to run out to sea, and communicate with the European and Ame rican packets. DENMARK AND POLAND. The students of Copenhagen have issir , d the following address to the Polish people : " Poles!—The struggle of your people for independence and liberty has excited a lively sympathy in our country, and, while our fellow-citizens chiefly display it by collecting money to further your cause, we, the youth of Denmark, students of the learned professions, wish to give you a marked expression of our sympathy. " If even at earlier periods internal disagreements and errors of her sons have contributed to accelerate the melan choly fate of Poland, still, on the other hand, history teaches us that the treacherous fraud and open violence of neigh bours superior in power have completed her ruin. In spits of the law of rations, the country and people of Poland have been divided and scattered under the dominion of strangers; despite of the treaties entered into for the protection of Polish nationality , she has been oppressed and 11-treated, the religion of the people violated, her language abolished, or nearly so, and many of the noblest some of the country are confined in distant prisons, or driven into exile. No country, and no people, in an age calling itself that of enlightenment and humanity, has suffered what Poland and her people have suffered. What is regarded as merit and honour in every other land—love of its past glory and prosperity, fidelity to its nationality and its language, devotion to the common country, and belief in its future prosperity—are, as concerns the Poles, looked upon, and punished as the greatest crimes. There fore, every attempt at the emancipation and regeneration of Poland is fully justified, and perfectly worthy of the participation and active support of the whole civilised world. The tyrannical Government of Russia should not have attempted, like nigh t bur g lars, to carry off all her in telligent youth to the barracks of St. Petersburg, or to the forts of the Caucasus; and Prussia, the first originator of the partition of Poland, should not, by lending assistance to such infamous measures, have betrayed her evil conscience, though by so doing she has only kindled again the sympa thies of all noble and generous hearts in ',Europe for your good pt c ao a rl u ei ss s e e l 8 . O fr u o r m sy a m d p o a u th b y le fo s r o y u o rc u e o , ü b g o h th t th fr b o e m do t u h b e ly ac s kn tro o n w g . ; for " i ledgment of the wrongs you have suffered and from the as surance that the emancipation and restoration of Poland will contribute to secure the safety of our own country, and the future welfare of the Scandinavian north. The same Go vernment that has oppressed your people and ca used YOUX calamities has also, wherever it had the opportunity, endes voured to extinguish and ann ihilate Slavonian nationality and language, pretending merely to promote the march of intellect ; it has acted the very same part in South. J.utlannd. (Schleswig) that it is now acting in P.osen; It 1/7_ coour smutty menacing our frontiers, our nationality, d l F a o n l g a u n a d g . e ;Aitrewgoeunl regenerated a t i e f d i t Poland could, isp r o e u p r u e the policy of usurpation and ambitious conquest. And, as ally e 5 againsta t o f the Slavonian tribe can only find liberty and safet y by at atfuroralus II t t a r i c b h e i s n g s themselves eek l li forayer t o n d a u , on fr om regeneratedth Poland. a m ora e i v n e o . rthor r, Poland f eer I God protect and proraote her just o n u t s h ly e adopted at a meeti ng ca use. 13th May, 1583.) of the stud e nts (Signed on behalf of the meetin g ) p a :nh u a n g a e n n im o .s (Thisaddrcosfs Jo " CUR. Fumßasonstx. " Erotrt hsax. " Sontus NELLEMAIT. " CHR. REICHARDT. "H. G. Ull7ll.Elit" THE LATE RIOT AT PR rday, at the EsToll_yeste Preston intermediate sessions, eight young men, named Michael M'Gough, Richard Pie, James Hoyle, William Harrison, Owen Clarke, John Harley, James Wil cock, and Jeremiah Cowen, were charged with unlawfully and riotously assembling at Preston, on the 22d of April, to disturb the public peace. Particulars of the disturbance in which they took part have already been given in our columns. All the prisoners were found guilty, and they were sen tenced as follows :—Pye, Hoyle, Harrison, Harley, and Clarke, six months' imp r i sonmen t ea ch; Wilcock and M'Gough, 12 m on th s ' eac h ; an d C owen , three years' penal servitude. o F r ras Tl e l r z , POLICE THE _colonel City, serve d in the new Commissioner of Police for theaC,nd, ni. NEW rO L I Y H - E E L c E T C T T y E . D COMMIBSIONEeRs the several grades of the serviceuae wa s made ensign in during 30 years of active duty. in the army in various parts of the world, c 1836, brevet major in 1831, lieutenant in 1834, captainn-colonel in 1851, and colonel 1846, major in 1849, lieutenant --colonel regiment, and on the staff. omm YP s 'a s 6 i s o e n d ed thr otti ou c g e h r in 1854, on full pay, w ! t jai ,. 1856, he was chosen, on the Leaving active serviLlina the same year, as chief constable 14th of that month, a ks, an appointment which he at pre sentof the county of Perks, h o lds.. fi be signified rof electors at Strasbo urg hav pp A e support to M. Wilma Bazrot, that gentle g 0 has r ra ed t i their nusnau his consent to come forw ar d as candidate, hastriZa forwarded his authorisation to M. Edou ar d Gl oxon, m e mber of the Constituent Assembly of 1848, t o s i gn for him t he oath of allegisuee required by the conetitution,