The Sun. — London, England, 1864-05-17 00:00:00

ONEY NARKEi AND COMM] ECIAL INTELLIGENCE, Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning, according to Renter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 12f. 45e., 66f. 80c. Rather firm. At the second ordinary general meeting to-day of shareholders of the Bank of Wales, Mr. Daniell in the chair, the report which was unanimously adopted, stated that the gross profits of the Bank to the 31st March last amounted to £5,330 165., and after dfidacting expences, there remained a balance of £1,115, which was recommended to be carried to profit and loss new account. The annual meeting of shareholders of the Mer cantile Bank of India, London, and China, took plane to-day, Mr. G. G. Nicol in the chair. The report stated:—After providing for all bad and doubtful debts, and defraying expense of manage ment at all points, the net profit amounts to £196,562 25., to which has to be added a sum of £4,269 9s. 2d. undivided profit, brought forward from the preceding year, making a total of £200,831 Ils. 2d. Out of the above total, £50,000 has been paid in two half-yearly dividends, and £25,000 as a bonus, making together 15 per cent. on the paid-up capital of the bank. A further sum of £50,000 has been added to the reserve fund. The unappropriated balance of £75,831 lle. 2d. is carried forward to the profit and loss account of the current year. As will be seen by the accounts, the premium on new shares paid up to 31st December amounting to £81,140, has been added to the re serve fund ; the balance due in respect of same, £18,860, since received, has also been passed to this account, with which the addition of £50,000 from the year's profits, above referred to, makes a total to this date at credit of that fund of £250,000. A further improvment has taken place to-day in the Market for the English Funds, and Consols, Which are per cent. better, are 911.- for money, and 901 I, less the dividend, for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are 891 f, ; Exchequer Bills, March, 10s. die.; do., June, 9s. to 4s. dis.; India 5 per Cents, 1051 4 ; do. 4 per Cents., 99; 100; Bank Stock is marked 237 239; and Indian do., 217 2181. In the Foreign Market there is less business, and prices are not quite so well supported. Turkish Coneolides are 48-1 # ; Mexican, 444 45 ; do. New Loan, I die. par. ; Greek, 23! d ; Spanish Passive, 344 ; Confederate Loan, 64 66 ; Russian Scrip, prem.; and Swedish, do., 2 prem. The operations in the Railway Share Market have been of a limited character, and prices have not varied to any important extent. North Western have declined 55., and Brighton, 10s.; while Great Eastern have advanced 55., and North Eastern Ber. wick, 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines show little vari, ation as regards values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are generally at steady prices. London and Westminster realize 94; ; Union of London, 591; Hudson Bay, 194. Subjoined are the current quotations of some of the principal new undertakings :—Provincial Bank ing Corporation, 14 prem.; International Land Credit, 2 9 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Console Ditto Account, May 8 per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891 — Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — March. June. Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 24 & 3 per Cent. 18 9 4 dis Ditto £500 Ditto £lOO and £2OO Bank England Stk, 51 per Ct. Ditto Account — INDIA.N GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 217 181 Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1570 Ditto Account.... Ditto 4 per Cent. Oct. 1888.. lOO 99f Do Certificates Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .. Ditto 51 per Cent., May, 1879 —.. Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 Ditto Bondsil,ooo Ditto under £1,000.. FOREIGN FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 B6l Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Ditto Account — Chilian 6 per Cent. Ditto 41 psi Cent — Colombian 6 per Cent Cuba, 6 per Cent. — Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1864 — Ditto Scrip £4O paid • • Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent.. Egyptian 7 per Cent lOOl Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. E (Ditto Account Ditto Coupons — Ditto Account Guatemala 5 per Cent. Ditto, 1839 and 1869 Italian 6 per Cen.t.(M.aremmana Railway) 74 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 I, — Ditto 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Ditto 4/ per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account B6 74 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account — Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 Ditto Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 44 per Cent.. 1860 — Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 e Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 2 86/ 4 Ditto 1864 Scrip, £lO p a id Ditto Anglo-Dutch .... Sardinian 5 per Cent Ditto Account Spanish 3 per Cent .......... Ditto Account .... 621 ' Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account Ditto Passive Ditto Account 34i 4 Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded .. Ditto Account — Swedish, 4 per Cent Ditto Scrip, £2O paid.... Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 . .. Ditto Account 6Bl Ditto, £lOO Bonds — Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account •• -- Ditto £lOO Bonds — Ditto 1863 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent ... 100 Venezuela 3 per Cent. ' Ditto Accr .;ount Ditto 6 per Cent., 1802 Ditto Account,,,, Ditto 6 per Cent, 1864 Ditto 1i per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Loud a, Austrian, 6 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f Dateh 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 64/ Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account THREE O'CLOCK. Consols Money Ditto Account „ „ 901 I a d CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The favourable feeling regarding monetary affkirs continues to increase, and the commercial public, believing that a downward movement will be made this week in the official minimum, are only obtaining accommodation to satisfy present and presiing requirements. The rates for short. dated paper range from 81 per cent., and for six months' bills from 71 per cent. A further sum of £170,000 in gold was ta t ken into the Bank yesterday. During the last few days there has been very little business transacted in the Foreign and Colo nial Produce Markets owing to the Whitsuntide holidays. Sugar, however, has maintained previous rates, while the operations in tea, coffae, and rice have led to no material change as regards values. In the tallow market a steady tone has been appa rent as regards prices for both present and forward delivery. 9'0014 16taines,Wok.,an4Wo - i. Stockton ,I; D'arlingtor, a] Do 1 Do New, 186 C 1 Taff Vale.. ... Do B I Do C Water Do .... , Do 54 Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim lOO Waterford tc Kilkeun) 100 West Cornwall lOO W. Eartlepool Ilar.&R , 100 West Midland —Oxford 100 Do Newport l 100 Do licrefordi 100 BRITISH POSSE hare 100 Sk stock 9 teek stock 100 stook stook stock stook stook stock stock stock Do. Fifth Extension. COLONIAL GOVER. Railways Pt Atlantic &St Lawrence a] Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ina Gu. 5 per cent... Do. New . Do. E. Buffalo and Lase Huron al, Do. Preercnce Bufralo,Brant,&Godriel, 1o( o p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 181%; 101 Do. do. June 1, 18l'i 10( Clcutta.& S. Eastn. (Line, 10( Cape; own & Dock Scrii 10( Haan. Bengal gu. sp. t 10( bast Indian. g . u. 5 p. c. in' Do. do. G Ext ll Do. do. II do. Grand Trunk of Canada t 0 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. al Do. do. deferred- al Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. al Do. do. deferred...... al Do. 3d Pi ef. stock. ... al Do. do. deferred...... al Do. 4th Pref. stock... al Do. do. deferred...... hl Gt.lndiarenin.gua.sp.o 101 Do. New gua. sp. 0... 1; 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 with't opt. al Do. 54 p. c. do. '77-8.... al Indian Branch Limited Madras. guar., sp. 0... 10 Do. 4i p. o. Extension 101 Dc. 44 d 0....... 'nelb.Corp. ap. a. Bnds. 101 & lldobson's Bay. al 1)o. 7 p.c. Adortg. Bds. al. Newßrunswick t Cands Class ©and B. al N.lll.C'da6 pc Ist pt bde Scinde ) Do. Delhi • •i 11 Do. do . . Do. Punjaub ' Do. Do. • , ,11 Do. Indue.St. Flo.) k - *t.,an.Gov. d p.c.J a .tJ ul; 1877-81 10 , Do. 6 P.C. Feb. & Aug. 101 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 101 Do. Fp. c. Jan. &J uly. 101 Do. 6 Inscribed stoct 10( Cape G.llepe, 6 p c,187:1 10( Do.Ap & Oct. 1800 10( Do. 1801. 10( - ;Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 10( Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 10( 3Sauritiue 6 per cent IOC , Natal Gov. 6 per cent_ 10( 6 p.c. J a.&July 10( Do. dp. c.Ap. & Oct. 10( N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c. , Mit 10( Du. sp. e.,18i1 to 1.!;:f 101 Do. d0.,18E8 &upwd6 101 —. New Zealand 6 p cent. 101 Nova Scotia Gov. Bp. c. sterling, 1875 lOl Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOl S. Aus G6p.c. 1878. &up lOl - Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja...tJuly 10( 'Do. In 6 p.o. An..t00t... 101 103 105 0 102 :04 10 102 104 Ii 89 81 )0 89 91 )0 106 108 10 107 109 )0 1(8 110 IU 110 112 10 105 107 PO 106 108 )0 106 108 10 01 103 10 - - 99 100 99 101 99 101 109 111 )0 1103 105 )0 - - [O9 111 0 1107 108 BRITISH MI 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 Clifford Amalgamated Devcn G. Conn. (Tavist ) Nast Bassett (Illogan) -• , East Clogau Gold Ltd - East Caradon 1.14.0 2S 30 lEast Carn Brea... 3.4.0 6 61 —1,. RV'i Russel (Tavistk.)l 8.13.0 31 4 - IGam.l , Bt.Aubyn(Gwen ; 581 7 9 G reat South Tolgus l7s 21 3 I G. Wheal Vor (Lich:ton 40 33 35 Grenville (5.16.4 91 fit El erc..d's-Foot 8.12 18 40 ti ingston Downs 4.18.0 31 4 Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant, e 3. 15 17 Marke Valley.. Ilyndy Iron Ore (Lim ) 21, 1/ g d New Seton l5l 85 90 • • North Downs 2k 11 11 N.Wh '1 Bassetalio.ran 3.1.0 1/ 21 North Wheal Crotty 2.6.9 4/ 41 l'ar Consols (.st. Blaney, ;0 Providenee(Uny Lelnt.) 10 South Caradon(St.Cleer 1, S. Carn Brea (Illog - an) Fran. allogan ) 18.1 Stray Park 130.1 ramar Silv..t Lead Min irin Crott id 3 t 33 1 669 670 I c 7 70 0.7 41 43 .} 450 470 3.9 40 50 7.6 23 30 _ ‘V est Basset (Illogan).. 1 W C , radon (Liskeard) 5 West Seton Wheal Buller( Etedruth) ii Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) Wheal Ludcott Wheal Mary Ann ;Lien ) 8 Wheal iJeton . . f Wheal Trelawney (Lis.); Wheal Union 9 I )8 19 i I 9 _ to 16 18 185 195 90 05 10 30 35 .0.6 - - .5.511 i 2 12 14 Si 12t5 2E5 20 21 17 1i 2 331 4k 9k PREFERENCE SHARES. London and Brighton, 5 per cent. gua. stock, No. 1, Ditto, 6 per cent., 134 South Eastern (Reading Anne., £1.0.6), Ditto, fix, l 46 per cent., 99 FOREIGN RAILWAYS Namur and Liege gua. 141. per annum, Si Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 12 San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 11i 11 Ditto (all), 20 FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper, lim., 12i Cobre Copper, 35 BANKS. Agra and United Service (lim.), 1401 Alliance (limo. 651 51 41 Ditto, new, 55 4 Anglo Austrian, 74 Chartered Alm of India, London, and China, 69 704 City, 126 Consolidated Bank, lira., 111 4 Continental, lim., 171 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 21 1 Hindustan, China, and Japan (Urn.), Ditto, new, 151 15 Imperial Bank (lim.), 43 4 2 Ditto, new, 255 Imperial Ottoman, 211 / 2 Land Mortgage Bank of India, Urn., 6 5 London Bank of Scotland, lim., 22 1 11 London, Birm., and S. Staffordshire, lim., 244 55 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 27 65 London and Colonial (lim.), 16 London and County, 64 London Joint Stock, 481 7 8 London and t 1 estminster, 945 Merchant Bank, lim, 2(5 21 Mercantile and Exchange, lim., Ditto, new, issued' at 2:pm., 145 1 Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, Urn., 344 35 Mexican, Jim., 61 7 New South Wales, 57 65 1 New Zealand Bank Corporation, lim., 141 Oriental Baru Corporation, 621 Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi, lim., 11113} Union of London, 59 5 60 MISCELLANEOUS. Berlin Water Works, lim.. 8j City Offices, lim., 52 f Continental Union Gas, Jim., 6 j j Credit Foncier, 13 12., Egyptian Corn. and Trading, Urn. 5f j Fore-street Warehouse, limn., 6} Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 101 Hudson's Bay, 19, Imperial Financial, lim., 9j 2 International Financial society, Jim., 111 Joint Stock Discount. lim., Land Securities, lim., London Financial Association, lim., 28j 8 j Ditto, new, 161 6 Mercantile Credit Association, Urn., 16 16 16 National Discount Company, tim., 142 Nova Scotia Gold and Land, lim., Ditto, ditto, 21 Oriental Gas (lim.), Ditto, new, I* Rio de Janeiro City Improvements , lim., Smith, Knight, and Co., lim., 5 Societe Finauciere d'Egypte, lim., 5i Telegrai h Construc. and Maintenance, Um., 4j Universal Marine, Insurance, Um., 5 it SHARE MARKETS—This day. Share) Rallwaye. 18.14. r Bir•. Wol., and Str. Val. all and Tyne. j l lost.,Sleaf.,andMid.Co al! Brlatol and Exeter 10( Caledonian 'Cork and Bandon a: Cornwa 11 al. 8 8i d 81 9 rt) 83 65 '0 119 120 II II 6 7 dl 4) 0 A (A gets no (IN a ;Do. B till 6pc.p an.has a: ( been paid to B• Dublin & Belfast June. al Dun.,Perth,&Ab. Juno. al Edinburgh & Glasgow. 10] Ulasg. and S. Western. 10C Great Eastern, Ord. stk lOC Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian 101 iGrcatNorthot Scotland 100 reat Northern Do A etock I 10( 1)o B do Gt. S. an , l W. of Irelane 10( Great Western 10 Do Sir Val gua. stock 10 Lancashire & Yorkshire ice Loudon and 131ackwall 10 Len., Bright.,& S. Coast 10i Lon., Chat, and Dover 10 Lon. & North Western 10 Lon. & Scr.th Western 10 Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 10 Maryport and Carlisle. al Do shares... a] Metropolitan al Midland Do New Do Binning. & Derby 10 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland al Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Lire North British Edin.. Perth, & Dundee 10 Nth. gastern—Berwici, 10 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.: Do Leeds if 35 37 16 17 88 AO 101. 106 47 47 6f 7} )0 120 131 10 138 140 io 128 i. 12 10 PO In 10 , e4i 642 1111 111/ 65 67 1 10: 104 40 4Y 110/ 1111 1 97/ 98i 631 54/ Li I 1144 114 0 1321 132, 103 1( 5 150 i 61 241 25; 101 101 i -d 57i £Bl F 9 90 ; Do York Do Carlisle North London 1 9.16.4 i Do New 4 North Staffordshire ~ a] N. and S. W. Junction al Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stool, 10 Do Scot. Mid. stock lO Shrews, and Welchpoo, al Shropshire Union 10 , South 101 South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun 101 127 HO li .2i p 76 78 1 10! 11} 121 123 39 40 )0 54 66 )0 33 35 10 904 914 103 106 _ 71 81 Li 861 371 7 91 10 , 0 8 8p )a 165 /70 1 S 5 7 t 33 E p All 20 — r 12.10 98 ICO ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOLS. Paid. i C r l ric osi e ng Business ( done. 130 1:39 i i 130 64} 111} I 66 ltfr2i 1101 11 981 15 1 114/ 15141151 1321 12 104 101 f 1 91} i 1041 SIONS. Closing Price. 59 -61- io 1102 1031 11 617 i id 1p 11 81 9; 0) 77 82 10 77 8 10 77 82 10 101 1( 3 )0 98 100 )0 105 10 7 10 104 .105 5 f 5 P tu 20 201 II 71 /3 11 60 62 11 62 64 11 51 63 11 48 60 11 40 42 11 25 27 11 23 CO 0 103 101 , 2 11 101 103 11 10 104 ,8 104 10 11 94 95 11 82 81 2 )0 1014 1021 )0 94 96 )0 90 94 2 - - 1 ►5B 60 n 3 6 00 82 t 4 00 102 103 00 101 10: 2 p ip all ivO 102 .00 ~~2} 00) 93 95 MENT S.ECURITIES. IC3I THE SUN, LONDON: TUESDAY EVENING, MAY . 17, 1864. LAW INTELLIGENCE (This Day), COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before ➢Tr. Registrar Roche.) IN RE GEO. VAN HARE. This bankrupt was described as of Stafford-place, Pim lico, Tunbridge 'Wells, Cremorne Gardens, and the Theatre Royal Jersey, circus proprietor, and this was a meeting for choice of assignees. The debts are stated at £7lO, and the bankrnpt attributes his difficulties to the receipts not being sufficient to meet the expenses, the .illness of horses and their sale at a" total" loss. Mr. Lewis applied for an adjournment, as his client, who was also a circus proprietor, was not present, as he was travelling. The learned Registrar did not think that was a sufficient reason for delaying the choice. Mr. Lewis said that as he found on the proceedings an affidavit by Mr. Kent, the bankrupt's solicitor, that the bankrupt could not furnish the accounts required, he (Mr. Lewis) would question the bankrupt on that point, and also Mr. Kent. Mr. Kent said he should decline to answer any questions but would examine the bankrupt. This was done, and the bankrupt said that he had handed the books, &c., to Mr, W. B. Davies, a solicitor, of Chelsea. The Registrar said that the matter must be cleared up, and after some further discussion the case was adjourned till the 7th June. IN RE DOD. This bankrupt was described as of the Eagle, Farring don-road, and this was a meeting for choice of assignees. • Mr. T. Beard, Basinghall-street, appeared for the peti. tioner. The debts are £1,507, but the assets are not stated, POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, MARLBOROUGH STREET. A WELL• KNOWN THIEF CHARGED WITH BEING FOUND IN A HOUSE AND VIOLENTLY ASSAULTING Two FElClLES.—Frederick Williams, a thick• set young fellow, well known to the police, and who has only just re- - - turned from penal servitude, was charged before Mr. Knox with being found in the house, No. 22, Duke street, Port land-place, and also with assaulting Mrs. Ann Stevens, the landlady, and Ellen Cunningham, her servant. Mrs. Stevens said that on going into her bedroom, yes terday afternoon, she saw a shadow on the wall, and afi er wards found the prisoner in the room with his hand on one of her husband's coats. On asking the prisoner what h; wanted he said he was looking for a painter. She told him she believed he was there for the purpose of com mitting a felony, and held him, and called her servant to go for a constable. The prisoner struggled to get away, and on the servant coming to her assistance the prisoner struck her ( Nirs. Stevens) a violent blow on the check, and then struck her servant in the eyes, blackening both of them in a very bad manner. Ellen Cunningham, servant to Mrs Stevens, proved that while passing the prisoner to go for a constable he gave her two violent blows in the face, blackening both her eyes. William Haley, of 30, Charlotte-place, said that while going along Duke-street, yesterday afternoon he heard cries for assistance, and on going to No. 22 he found the prisoner struggling with Mrs. Stevens and her servant, and trying to get away. Mrs. Stevens was bleeding from a wouad on her face, and the servant fro:n one of her eyes. White, 95 E, proved taking •the prisoner into custody, and Inspector Hubbard, of the E division, said the pri soner was a well-known thief, and had suffered penal ser vitude. Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for three months for being tbund in a house for the purpose of committing a felony, two months for the assault on Mr. Stevens, and two months for the assault on the servant, each sentence to take effect at the expiration of the other, The prisoner on leaving the dock thanked the magistrate. STEALING CHAIRS IN HYDE-PARK.—George Boyd, a tall, miserable-looking man, was charged with stealing four chairs from Hyde-park the previous night, the chairs being the property of Mrs. Pearce, who holds the contract for the supply of chairs to visitors. A constable proved seeing the prisoner about 10 o'clock the previous night with four chairs on his shoulders, walk. ing off in the coolest manner with them. He then took the prisoner into oustody. Mr. Knox inquired whether the chairs were left loose in the park all night, and the constable said they were, being placed in heaps. Barns, the gaoler, said he believed the prisoner was at the Marylebone Police-court yesterday, on some charge, but discharged. Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner for a week. THAMES. AN UNNATURAL CONTEST.—John Attingham, a most dissipated looking ruffian, was brought before Mr Paget, charged with being drunk, disorderly, and assaulting police constable Payne, No. 194 H. The constable stated that last night he was called out of the Lemon-street Station-house, in Whitechapel, to sup press a disturbance in that street, and found the prisoner and his father stripped and fighting. Mr Paget—Fighting with his own father. Payee—Yes Sir. They were knocking each other about most unmanfully. I separated thorn, and the old man loft the street and went home. The prisoner would not go, and became abusive and violent. I laid hold of him by the collar, and he struck at me and kicked me on the legs. He also endeavoured to kick me on another part of my body, and said " I'll rupture you, you —, I will." I narrowly escaped the kick intended for me. I succeeded in taking him to the station. He plunged, kicked, and struggled all the way, and tried to do me a serious mischief. He was very much intoxicated, The prisoner said he was very sorry for what be had done. He was beastly intoxicated last night, and did not know what he did. Mr. Paget—Beastly intoxicated ; what an admission for any man to make. I shall visit this case with great severity. What are you ? The prisoner—l am in the rag trade. It was holiday time yesterday. _ Mr. Paget—l cannot admit that as an excuse. In all cases of this description I shall sentence the offender to im prisonment and hard labour, and where a policeman is assaulted, by kicking, in the execution of his duty, I shall inflict the most severe sentence in my power. I sentence you to be imprisoned for two months, and kept to hard labour, MARKETS--This Day. HAY MARKETS. Smunrinn.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 15s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s Ocl ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 14s per load. Trade slow. CUMBERLAND.—MewIow hay, £3 Os to £4 15s Od ; clover, £4 Os to £5 15s Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 14s per load. A slow demand. WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4lss ; clover, £4 Os to £5 los Od ; and straw, £1 4s to £1 14s per load. Trade inactive. COLONIAL. TEA,—Business has been inactive, and the few dealings entered into have been at about previous rates. A. small quantity is announced for public sale to-day, SUGAR.—A moderate amount of business has been en tered into, without, however, any material change as re gards prices. Good grocery qualities of West India con tinue in fair request. COFFEE.—There has been a steady inquiry for Colonial descriptions at fully late rates, the stocks on hand being somewhat smaller than at the same period of last year. RICE.—A fair amount of business has been done, chiefly for home consumption, at late prices. TALLOW.—The market has been rather more animated, although business has been on a rather limited scale for both present and future delivery. P.Y.C., on the spot, is quoted 40s to 43. 3d, and last three months, 43s 3d to 433 6d per cwt. A TROPHY OF FORT SUMTER,—The Index has the pleasure of chronicling a most delicate and deserved tribute paid by one of the most distinguished men in the South to the first Englishman who, in Parliament, proposed the recognition of Confederate Independence. Mr. W. H. Gregory, M.P. for Galway, has just received from Charleston a fragment of the flagstaff which so long and gloriously held aloft the Southern flag over the bat tered ruins of Fort Sumter. This interesting trophy bears the following inscription : " Head -quarters, Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Charleston, S. C., February 10, 1864. "Piece of flagstaff of Fort Sumter, harbour of Charles ton, sent with my compliments to W. H. Gregory, M.P. for Galway. The flagstaff of that fort has already been shot down 40 times by the enemy's fire since the commence ment of the siege, July 10, 1863. " G. P. BEAUREGARD, General C. S. A." THE Loss OF THE STEAMSHIP MATILDA.—The Board of Trade inquiry as to the loss of this steamer has concluded, and the assessors came to the conclusion that up to a certain pzint the course pursued by the pilot was justified, but that he might have been more cautious, and not have depended upon a compass which ho had been told was defective. There was nothing culpable proved against him, but he ought to have been more careful. With regard to the _master they thought that, considering he had only been up the Channel °nue before, he was justified in delivering the charge of the vessel into the hands of the pilot, but he ought to have pointed out to the pilot the want of dependence on the compasses. They did not consider that the Bristol pilots had any felonious intention on board the wreck, but they were merely trying to save the articles from the salvors. The master and the second mate had their certificates returned. The Matilda, it was reported, was intended for the Confederate service. The town and neighbourhood of Bayonne was visited two days since by a violent tempest, which raged for nearly thirty•sia hours. An English brig which attempted to enter the port in the midst of the storm was struck by several seas, which damaged her poop, and so injured the captain and two sailors that it was found necessary to take them to the hospital; Trial for Murder by Poison in France. The proceedings commenced on Saturday at the usual hoar. After the witnesses for the prosecu tion had been heard, those for the defence were called. Dr. Hebert, head pharmacian at the Clinique, deposed as follows :—" I intend to combat the re port of Drs. Tardieu and Rousain, as its conclusions are not justified by the facts. In the first place the report expresses astonishment at the wonderful preservation of the body after a lapse of 15 days. It is true that mineral poisons prevent decomposi tion, whereas vegetable poisons do not. But this is only a trifling inaccuracy; and I will therefore pass on to examine the physiological experi ments with dogs, rabbits, and frogs. As to the dogs, the report states that the experiments de monstrated-Ist, The gradual slackening of the circulation ; and 2d, the contraction of the ventricles. I maintain that these facts were suffici.nt to justify the conclusion that digitaline was not present. As to the second experiment, I assert that the experts were mistaken in attributing the death of the rabbit to digitaline. That sub. stance has little or no effect on rabbits and other herbivorous animals. As to the experiments made on dogs and rabbits with the substance extracted from the organs of the deceased, no effect was pro duced on the dog, but the rabbit died. I venture to affirm that digitaline did not cause its death; the putrid matter w as most probably the cause. As to the frogs, I h ave no confidence in the results obtained by the experts. The learned Stannins says that frogs are very little affected by digita line. I have tried it on several myself, and I could show them to the jury, all alive and well." A long discussion here ensued between Dr. Hebert and the exports, which did not seem to throw much light on the matter,. for each of them firmly adhered to his previously expressed opinions, and as they had appealed to the authority of wPro fessor Claude Bernard, of th e C o l lege of F rance , h e was called in and deposed t o the following effect : "I have been occupied in researches on digitaline and other poisons which act on the heart. Digita line has a rapid action on the superior animals by arresting the circulation. It stops the contraetion of the heart, and death is the consequence. The cadaverous rigidity of the heart rapidly follows death when caused by digitaline." Dr. Tardieu, in reply to a question from the Pre sident, declared that Professor Bernard's opinion confirmed his statement that the relaxation of the heart is the characteristic effect of digitaline. Dr. Vulpian and Professors Bosley and Raynal, of the Veterinary School of Alfort, who have all made experiments on animals with digitaline, were next heard, and expressed opinions coincident with those of the experts and Professor Claude Bernard as to the effects of digitaline. A number of witnesses were then examined whose evidence chiefly bore on the habits of the prisoner and his intimate relations with Mme. Pauw, to whom some of them represented him to have been very generous. The porters of the different houses where he had lived stated that, previously to hie marriage, Mme. Pauw visited him every day. Several domestics who had !Nen in the prisoner's service deposed that he was a good master, and a number of his patients spoke highly of his skill as a physician and of his liberality in supplying them with medicine gratis. The list of witnesses being exhausted, the Pres dent adjourned the pleadings to Monday. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—(This Day. 33Y MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND Tuesday Morning. Arrived, May 16—buret and Napoleon, from Gravelines. Arrived, May 17—Conrad, from Colombo—Esstueo, from Helsingborg. Sailed, May 1 7—Danio, for Adelaide. _ DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed, May 16—Azorian, from London, for Canaries— Alfred the Great, from London, for Madras. Passed, May 17—Wilton, from London, for Jamaica— Legal, of Bilboa, f rom H avanna h , for London—Thomas Dryden, from Shangh a e, f or L on d on . Passed in Tow—Sylpb, from Barbadoes, for London— Majestic, from Jamaica, for London—Carlo, from Trieste, for London—Frank W., from Marseilles, for Lynn. Spoke by tho French bark Greenvilles, Capt. Lefette, from Callao for Dunkirk, April 2d, the bark Wensleydale, from Llanelly for Bombay, 46 days out, lat. 45, long. 38— the same day, Yarratilda. Capt. Conway, for Panama, 39 days out, lat. 6.25, long. 38, WHAT A CAPITAL IDEA!—Daring a residence at Nice, for the amendment of his health, the Rev. Wil liam Blood [horrible name] was shocked by the idolatries of the Romanists into a conscientious desire (says a writer in last Saturday's Athenceum) to convert them to a purer faith. Not "having the Gospel to give them, the ques tion," says Mr. Blood, "arose in my mind, What can I best do ?' " " The response immediately came, Get The Amazon' translated : it contains the Gospel ; its title will excite their curiosity [and no wonder] and get for it a read ing [otherwise unprocurable] ; the narrative will interest itnheru,an which it n c their m a a t k te e n s ti k o n n :w so n le ,, m ” nis , e their minds, and prepare them for th e reception of the glad tidings of redeem g love • The Amazon' is a tract by Mr. Blood (the writer in the Athemzum goes on to inform us), and the fact makes his cool commendation of its interest and efficacy, as preferable to that of any other work which could have been selected, significant, to say the least of it. "Prenez mon ours !" is not a phrase of which we ought to be reminded when topics so grave as those of this volume are in hand. It was by aid of The Amazon' (a tale of the well-known sea disaster) that the great oppression of ltalY Was to b e ma d e to melt away . Th e reverend author soon wrought himself to the point of con sidering all friend s who were less sanguine than himself as little better than traitors and recreants. Not being g, ve ry well able to afford" the expense of print ing that translation when it was executed, he applied for ecu 10 n ; • 'ary aid to "an intimate friend, a very rich Christian," and on the latter de clining to entertain the application, Mr Blood has placarded his refusal as " a specimen of self-deception." Two other "rich a nd great Protestants," who refused in a similar fashion "to stand and deliver," are also introduced with notes of displeasure. There is something too much of this confident mendicancy among the clergy of a Church who are on no abuse more eloquent than on the mischief done by the begging Romanist friar. Which of us does not know by heart the slit card gapin g for a guinea, with the envelope ready directed. and the fluent appeal fir alms for some local clerical object which comes up to town from total strangers in places as far distant as Merionethshire or Wensleydale or the Fens? -. ..._ _ T H E LATE FIRE IN fi Et r A e YT w l. h —We e b h r a o v k e e 0 already u:at G mentioned much damage. The following is taken from a p rivate le tter addressed to a gen tl eman i n Paris, and dated f rom G onaives, April 22 : —." A d rea df u l conflagration has ta ken place, and more th an h a lt th e t own i io e n s , e in d Hayti, a and did has been burnt down. The fire began thus :—A man who tried to put them out himself. had a cotton store was smoking, when by some accident the cotton caught fire, and, instead of crying out for help to ex tinguishthat they communicated to an apothecary's shop, an d, as there was a very strong wind, which were all madeof several houses, The consequence flames, wase reduced to ashes. Not one house is l e f t near the market place, where all the business is done—so you oan fency the, immense loss that everb od y has undergone. Th e h ouses destroyed have not yet bee n coun ted, but I thi n k th ey must be something like 20 0 , w hic h for a small town like Gonaives is immense. Th ere was no t a single p ump rea d y. nor prison d was anybody burn m t ak an effort to put o u t the fire. The down, e but all the pr i soners first got out, and I need not tell you t o wha t amount th ey p il laged, To people who are such thi eves, th e opportunit y was too good to be lost, They all of them had got arm s b y some I am told th a t the President has sent 100,000 g ourde (ab p rfi r e e a v n e s n ' t a t n h d em we fr r o e m re s a t d e y al t i o ng a • ssassinate any w ho attempted to out 4d. each) for the distressed inhabitants, and a subscription is being raised at Port-au- Prince in their behalf. At the theatre of Port-au-Prince a benefit is to be given for the sufferers. The loss is sup posed to be about 30,000,00 0 gour de, or £ 50 0,000. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE HALFPENNY J OURNAL. —An endeavour lies been made to induce th e Chan cellor of the Exchequer to become one of the staff of a daily journal —to ascend to the t e mpting and el evated position of leader-writer for a h a lfpenny paper I Th e p roprietor of a little little fly-sheet, called a nevrqaper, published somewhere in i London, had the co o l Effrontery to enclos e th e right hon. production gentleman a cheque for a letter, hundred guinea s , with a o s tfatain leading that the art i cle service for requiredtbe for colrun s it was t.h h e rag; and with a liberality which cannot be too highly commended, he informed the Chancellor that in accordance with the custom prevailing i n his editorial department, M r. Glad stone, like the o th er con tributors, should be a ll owed consi derable scop e i n th e s t a t e ment of his opinion s . T he Chan cellor was t o b e a t lib er ty, also, to dev o t e the cheque to charity, should h e so thi n k fit. Mr, tiladst one ' s secretary returned the money in a note, stating that whil e the r i g h t hon. gentleman appreciated the object of the proprietor, his public duties would not permit of his accepting the engage ment. Next day monster capitals in the halfpenny sheet announced an "important special correspondence between the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and this journal." This was what the individual wanted. It was the trick of a small Barnum —London Correspondent of the Liverpool Albion. A TALE OF A LAY FIGURE. On Thursday night an alarm *as raised that a murder had been perpetrated in a house in a respectable locality in Belfast, and that the corpse of the victim had just been dis covered. The body of the unfortunate man who had been so unfairly dealt with was found concealed in a box under the bed in a room which wise used by a young n_an—a lodger in the house--as a sleeping apartment. As soon as the affair became public through this person, several policemen were brought to the scene of the supposed tragedy, for the purpose of inquiring into the matter, and ascertaining, if possible, and bringing to justice, the cruel assassin. Great consternation was created in the neighbourhood. Anxious were the inquiries to find out thename, address, appearance, occupation, ecc., of the murdered man ; but, as these facts had not transpired up to the hour of our going to press, we can only publish the following brief yet dreadful tale : The young man alluded to had for a short time lodged in the house in question, and in the room, concealed under his bed, ho • observed a queer, coffin-shaped, rough-looking deal box. Often did be look wistfully at the strange piece of furniture, for he could not get rid of a hankering suspicion that therein all was not well. On Thursday night, therefore, his curiosity, coupled with the aforenarned suspicion, impelled our lodger to draw the box gently and quietly from underneath the bed. He stopped. Conscience whispered to him that it was none of his business what was in the box, but, on further debate within himself, the young man made up his mind to open the lid, His heart throbbed: The lid he opened, but not a moment did he look at the contents—for, horror of horrors! —there lay stretched at full length before him—a corpse 1 There could be no mistake about it—he was certain a foul and bloody murder had been committed and here was the unhappy victim I The silent language of the fact made its own eloquent revelation, Vain would be the attempt to describe the horror depicted on the counts,- nance of the second floor lodger. To have lain with and upon a corpse was dreadful—in fact it was too much to bear. Now, the young man was determined to ferret out the mystery connected with the shocking spectacle he had seen in the deal box, Under such trying circumstances every one must give him credit for acting with so much coolness he appears to have done. It would have been bad policy, our cunning lodger knew, to have created an alarm in the house. He did not want the landlady to have the remotest suspicion of his discovery, for that must havo been ruinous to his plans. The young man, shortly after witness ing the melancholy sight, put on his hat, and strolled about the street, but when out of sight of his landlady's house, he made his way with hurried steps and a sense of palpitation at the heart in search of a policeman to whom be might re late his tragic story. Police were found, and, attended by the heroic young man, they proceeded to the apartment in which probably the unfortunate corpse had made its last struggle. The box was produced in presence of the authori ties, and then with great solemnity the lid was raised— when, surely enough, as object worth notice presented itself. There lay the body, cold as ice, and though dumb it bore an expressive countenance. A titter from the police, followed by a loud laugh—induced the hero of the tale to take another look at the figure in the coffin. Affrighted or ashamed of the figure he himself cut, the lodger bounded down the stairs, and was out of the neighbourhood in half a minute, or about the same time it takes the fire• brigade to turn out. The secret of the young man's terror is easily explained. The landlady of the house is the widow of an artist, who in the pursuit of professional business, required certain lay figures, and one of these models was placed in the position in which it was found by the lodger. The rest will he readily conceived. The poor fellow who has been the victim of a common failing—curiosity —h as not been seen or heard of since " that dreadful night." The serious part of the business, however, is this : Unless ample satisfaction be given by the young man for the annoyance he created, we understand the Law Courts will be called on to take cognisance of the matter.—Belfast 11orthern Whig. Jones, Loyd, and Co.'s Bank, There is much of the romance of history in the origin of some of the great private banking houses still existing in our days—though all more or less threatened with destruc tion by the giant of joint-stock enterprise. The origin, among others, of the house of Jones, Loyd, and Co. was very curious, Mr. Lewis Loyd, the founder of the house, father of the present Lord Ovs.rstone, began his career as a Welsh dissenting minister in a small chapel at Manchester, the congregation of which included a Mr. Jones, a sort of half •banker half-manufacturer. In addition to Mr. Jones there was a Miss Jones who attended the sermons of the Rev. Mr. Loyd, and, as often happens, the maiden found the orations so eloquent that she fell in love with the preacher. The affection was responded to by the mini ster, and the two, fearing the purse-proud mer chant would never consent to the messaliance, were pri vately married. Of course, when the affair became known to Mr. Jones, sen., as it could not fail to do, ha was exceed ingly angry, but, seeing that things went on pretty com fortably with his daughter, he became reconciled in the end to his reverend son-in-law : but, though fond of attending sermons, he did not think preaching a good busi ness, and after a while proposed that Mr. Loyd should give up the Welsh Dissenting chapel and enter his count ing -house as a partner, under the firm of Jones, Loyd, and Co. Mr. Loyd consented; and, to extend the business, it was subsequently agreed that he should go to. London, and establish a bank under the name of the Manchester firm; so that Jones, Loyd, and Co., of Manchester, might draw bills upon Jones, Loyd, and Co., of London, or, as it was facetiously called at the time, '• pig upon bacon." It soon turned out that Mr. Lewes Loyd was eminently fitted to be a banker, for his clearness of head, untiring industry, and perfect honesty proved the foundation of success for the new establishment. After a very long and honourable career Mr. Loyd retired from business, being succeeded as head of the London firm by his son, Mr. Samuel Jones Loyd, who was subsequently created Lord 0 verstone. Thus, the falling in love of a young Manchester girl with a Welsh dissenting minister was the cause of the establishment of an important bank, besides leading to the creation of a peer of the realm.—Railway News, Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DIIE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. May 19. via Marseilles May 13. brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet June 5. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena May 29. illaina, Penang, and Singapore, via Southarnpton May 19. via Marseilles May 27. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. May 19. • India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. May 19. via Marseilles ....May 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton May 27. via Marseilles May 21. Portuga1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton May 19. via Marseilles May 21. Newfoundland ..May 25. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... May 19. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. May —. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritio .. June 10. Bahamas, via New York June 2 Mexico...... All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, i may 14 California. an d B r i t i sh Columbia.. EARTHQUAKE AMONG THE GOLDFIELDS.—The British Columbian says :—" We have received the following from a rural correspondent The shock of an earthquake was felt on Thorne's Creek, three miles east of Fort Langley, Fraser River, on Sunday, February 23, at half-past 7in the evening. It was accompanied by a hoarse, thundering rumble, and lasted for about 30 seconds. The sky was at the time clear and brilliant, and the atmosphere calm and mild. So frightful was the commotion of the quick and awful rockings as to mako it a moment of great suspense as to whether the beholder would be buried with the log shanty, which cracked, rolled, and tottered around him, in a conglomerated mass of hetreogeneous ruins. Its course was across the Creek from north to south. FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last sitting a paper was received from M. Valz, the astronomer of Marseilles, on the deviation of the tails of the 4th and sth comets of 1863, from the planes of their orbits. From calculations founded upon the results of observation, he shows that the tail of the 4th deviated from the plane of its orbit by an angle of 1 deg 29 min; while that of the sth presented a deviation of 33 min, Hence the only four comets for which data exist sufficient to determine this circumstance, have their tails outside the planes of their orbits; from which it may be presumed, until observa tion shall have proved the contrary, that this is the case with all comets.—M. Guerin Meneville produced some liv ing specimens of two different species of Chinese silkworms feeding on the leaves of the oak tree. One of these species, the Bombyx Pernii, is reared in various cold and moun tainous provinces in China, that of Kooy-Cheoo espe cially, which exports upwards of 40,000 bales of silk from this insect per annum. Tho other species, the Bom byx Yama-mai, is reared in Japan, where the exporta tion of its eggs is prohibited on pain of death, because the silk derived from it is a Government monopoly. These specimens were peculiarly interesting, from the cir cumstances that they had been hatched long before the oak had put forth its leaves, so that M. Meneville had been obliged to feed them with the leaves of the Photinia alabra, a Chinese shrub, which puts forth leaves from the beginning of March. This experiment had succeeded perfectly,—MM. Bouche de Vitray and Desmartis sent in a paper on the possibility of transmitting the odium Tuckeri from plants to man. They have observed that, since 1852, the first year in which that parasite appeared, the number of cases of croup and diphtheria of every kind, which they considered to be produced by a variety of the oidium albicans, a parasite acknowledged to cause the thrush, has increased considerably. This singular coincidence is, in their opinion, owing to a sort of relation ship existing between the two parasites. They foresee the objection that might be made, viz., that the two oryptoga mous plants are not of the same species; to which they reply that they are of th e same gen us, and that the oidium Tuckeri may be susceptible of proteism. Business done 80 1021 i 1041 4 i 991 i '1074 8 e SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, RADCLIFFE RACES.-MONDAY. The Stand Plate (Handicap) of 50 Boys, for ; win ners extra. About three-qua r t ers o f a m i le. _ _ - Mr T. Cliff's Ross, 5 yrs, Bet 31b (1-1 Taylor) 1 Mr T. T. Drake's Worthless, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Tomlinson) 2 Mr Martinson's Lisette 4 yrs 7st 61b ........ (Carroll) 3 Mr Dent's Mantalini, d yrs, Est Mr Wood's Captaiu Knight, aged, Bst 101 b .... (Lomas) 5 Mr A. Scott's Fidelity, 4 yrs, 7st 6lb .. (J. H. Harrison) 6 Betting-5 to 2 each agst Lisette and Worthless, 4to 1 each agst Ross and Captain Knight. Won by half a length; a length between second and third ; a bad fourth. A Handicap Plate of 5 soya each, with 30 added. About 0130 rune and a quarter. Mr Lincoln's Rifle, 3 yrs, 6st 715 (Kenyon) w.o The Wilton Cup (Handicap) of £lOO, added to a Sweep stakes of 5 soya each, 3 ft; second to save his stake; winners extra. About one mile and a half. Mr Rich's East Lancashire, 4 yrs, 7st 10Ib (Inc. 101 b ex.) (car. 7st 111 b) Mr Arnbery's Lady de Trafford, 3 yrs, sat 91b (J. Grlinshaw) 2 Lord Wilton's Lady Evelyn, 3 yrs, sst Blb (Jamieson) 3 Mr G. W. Morris's Siva, 3 yrs, Gat 31b (Carroll) 4 Betting-13 to 8 on East Lancashire, 3 to 1 agst Lady de Trafford, 5 to 1 agst Siva, 8 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn filly. Won by three-quarters of a length ; a bad third. _ _ The Heaton Park Handicap of 5 sous each, with 30 added ; winners extra. One mile. Mr Ambery's Lady de Trafford, 3 yrs, 7st llb Grimsbaxv) 1 Mr Barber's Jack's Alive, 4 yrs, 7st 131 b.. (J. Snowden) 2 Mr T. Cliff's Riflo, 5 yrs, Bst 1oib Betting—Even on Lady de Trafford, 7 to 4 agst Jack's Alive, 3 to 1 agst Rifle. Won by a length; five lengths between the second and third. SOMERSETSHIRE STAKES.—Accident and Greenland were struck out of the Somersetshire Stakes this (Monday) after noon at Tattersall's. THE CHANTILLY RACES.—SIINDAY, May 15, THE OAKS. The Prix de Diane, of 10,0001, for 3-yr-old fillies. Entry, 40Uf ; forfeit, 250 f, or 200 f only if declared. The second to receive I,ooof. Weight, 1081bs. Distance about 2,100 metres. Thirty subs. Count de Lagrange's Fille do l'Air M. Schickler's Poudriere M. Lunel's Fantasia The foilowing also ran:—Mlle. de Rosay, Civility, Gueule de Loup, Somo Sierra, and Perle. Betting-7 to 4on Fille de l'Air, sto 1 agst Poudriere, 6 to 1 agst Perle, and 8 to 1 agst Gueule de Loup. Mlle. de Rosay and Somo Sierra, who had been started to make the running for their stable companions, went away at a dashing pace, with Gueule de Loup and the favourite following, Fantasia coming last of all. No change took place until after passing the stables, when the two leading horses, who had been running a long distance in advance, fell back, and Fille de l'Air and Poudriere who had passed Scrupule and had been running fourth, placed themselves in the van. From this moment the race was re duced to a match between those two. They ran alongside of each other as far as the distance post, when Fille de l'Air went away and won in a canter by half a dozen lengths. The same interval separated Poudriere and Fantasia; Civility was fourth, Scrupule fifth, Perle next, while Mlle. de Rosay and Somo Sierra tailed off and did not pass the post. A Scotch Romance, A morning paper gives a summary of the main facts of a remarkable case which is being heard in the Scotch Court of Session. The plaintiff is Mr Gordon M'Leod, and the de fendant Mr Hans G. Leslie, of Denlugas, and the object of the action is to establish the terms of a document whioh has been lost. The plaintiff was married in 1854 to a sister of the defendant, greatly against the wishes of old Mr Leslie, In May, 1856, Mr Leslie was seized with the illness of which ho died, and then for the first time since the marriage sant for his daughter, Mrs M'Leod, to attend him on his death bed. In April of the same year Mr Leslie made a settlement by which he provided for Mrs M'Leod the life interest of £5,000, the principal sum to go to the children of the mar riage. This fact was communicated by the factor of Mr Leslie to Mr M'Leod when he arrived at Denlugas, after his father-in-law's death. Before the lid of the coffin was finally screwed down, a mysterious incident occurred which was the beginning of a train of circumstances which led to the present action. The factor states that he was ordered by Mr Leslie to place a certain packet near his heart when he died. The factor told Mr M'Leod that it merely contained a pair of slippers which a lady had worked for the old gentleman, while another story was that it enclosed a lady's portrait. After the death of Mr Leslie his estates were taken up by the defendant the action, Mr Hans George Leslie, the only son, who at the period of his father's death was captain in the ',7th Bengal Native Infantry. Mrs M'Leod died about the year 1860, leaving three children, for whose interests Mr M'Leod, as their administrator, prosecuted the action, Shortly after his marriage, and before his father-in-law's death, Mr M'Leod states that ho had been told by the late Mr Shepherd, a writer to the signet, in Edinburgh, that there was a contract of marriage between the late Mr Leslie and his wife, under which Mrs M'Leod had certain rights as one of the children of the marriage. Mr M•Leod could find no trace of such a document, but about three years after his wife's death he received from a gentleman who had been a clerk with the late Mr Jas. Souter, W.S. (brother to the Denlugas factor), information of a much more definite kind. It appears, from the mass of evidence already taken on commission, that two contracts had been made, about 1828, between the late Mr Leslie and his wife. Miss Ramsay, of Barra; the one antenuptial, in view of the marriage, and the other postnuptial, in implee went of the agreement made before marriage. By these contracts the late Mr Leslie provided an annuity to his wife of £5OO in the event of her survival, and also a sum of £4,000 payable to herself and her heirs, The lands of Den lugas were conveyed in security of these provisions. He also bound himself to provide £16,000 for the younger children of the marriage in the eventof there being an heir male, or £20,000 if no heir male was born of the marriage. Mrs Leslie ii:ed many years ago, Mrs M'Leod being the only younger child of the marriage who survived her and Mrs Leslie, while the defendant is the heir male born of the:marriage. These contracts have in some mysterious manner disappeared, and it is to prove their contents that the present action has been brought. They were in exist ence in 1854, when Mr M'Leod was married to Miss Leslie, old Mr Leslie having sent them to James Souter, W.S., of Edin burgh, by the hands of his factor, to obtain the opinion of counsel upon their effect. The greatest secrecy was observed in this transaction. Lord Kinloch, one of the judges of the Court of Session, formerly Mr. Penney, of the Scotch bar, and Mr, George Moir, ad vocate, have given evidence that they gave an opinion at the - time stated on such a case. Five persons alone were acquainted with the existence of the contracts, Mr Sheppard, W.S. who had been agent for the Barra family, and who first gave Mr M'Leod a hint of their existence, being dead. The five were, old Mr Leslie himself; Mr Souter, the factor; Mr Souter's clerk (who copied the papers, but who has, as yet, not been discovered—the factor declaring he cannot now tell which of his clerks it was) ; Mr James Souter, W.S.; and bis clerk, who laid the papers before counsel. Mr. James Souter and Mr. Leslie having died, and the clerk who made the copies in the factor's office not being known, the parties who knew of the contracts were reduced to Mr. Souter, the factor, and the clerk of the late Mr. Souter, Mr. Reid, who was the sole clerk of Mr. 3, Souter, states in his evi dence that he made copes from the principal documents, blank so far as regarded the names of the parties and of the estate, and that the copies were so made out by order of Mr. James Souter, that it should not be known nor traced that those had reference to the marriage contract of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie, whose daughter was interested in them, and was married, or about to be married, to Mr. M'Leod, The plaintiff found that infeoffmont or seisin had been taken upon the marriage contracts by search in tho Register House in Edinburgh, where such documents are preserved. In this instrument the two contracts are nar rated and the attesting clauses given at length. The name of the solicitor who prepared the contracts of 1828 was thus discovered, and although he had long been dead, his busi ness books were traced, it is said, to the waste room of a paper mill, and the whole charges for preparing the con tracts found carefully stated, including the price of the stamps and the charge for "extending" or copying out upon the stamped paper. Moreover, in an old tin box, the draft of the postnuptial contract was found, in the hand writing of the solicitor who had been the agent both for the Barra family, of which Mre. Leslie was a member, and for Mr. Leslie himself, But the contracts themselves have not been discovered. The question accordingly recurs :—What did the packet contain which was buried with Mr. Leslie? The factor declares he does not sus pect that the parcel contained the contracts, because he had received instructions in relation to it in 1851. The case is still going on, and the Court may ti fil ffi.. find that the existence and terms of the contracts are 5 ciently proved, in which case it will be unnecessary to to invade the tomb with the view of discovering decide should th la esealed fav p e a u ck r et ef reallythe h f c hildren I th entitled to the sum of £ 16 , 000 provided for the younger children of tho marriag e is in the e o t tetracts of e i Court 1828, as coming in place of their mother, Mrs. .M'Leod, and to the half of £4,000 as joint heirs with the defendant to old Mrs Leslie; the two earns amounting, with interest since 1856, to considerably more than £20,000 ; and in ad dition they will be entitled to the sum of £5,000 which old Mr Leslie provid ed for them in his trust set tlement, evi dently the p r ovisions i pinrtoevnidionngs in th their attobeinplace of, an d not in addition to, grandmother's carriage contract. lif Tanc Histoire de la Litt erature Angla i se " havt;gheeinp'raesented to the French Academy to compete for the Bordin Prize, the committee unanimously recog nised its claim to that distinction, The Academy, how ever, in its last sitting, rejected the conclusions of the com mittee, and decided that the prize should not be awarded this year. It is said that the philosophical opinions of the author were the cause of this decision, SECOND EDITION. ---- SUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 o'CLocK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, BATH RACES—Tats DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TRIAL STAKES. Suburban Black R0ck...., .. 1 2 Nebuchadnezzar .... 3 Five ran. LATEST BETTING. DERBY. sto 1 agst General Peel (taken) 11 to 2 agst Carubascan (taken) 7to 1 agst Scottish Chief (taken) 8 to 1 agst Birchbroom (take 9to 1) 16 to 1 agst Paris (taken) 30 to 1 agst Historian (taken) 6000 to GO agst Idler (taken) THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING. INTELLIGENCE --.This Day, BATH RACES.—Tars DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. COUNTY MEMBERS' PLATE. Raglan Vabalathus 2 Pelios Nine ran. THIRTEENTH BIENNIAL STAKES. Jazabel - 1 Tennyson Fifteen ran. KELSTON STAKES. Usher Bonny Glen Gazelle 3 Eight ran. BATH HANDICAP. Oberon Liston 2 Comet .. 3 12TH BIENNIAL STAKES. Oceola 1 The count and Izaac Walton ran a dead heat for second place. Nine ran. LATEST BETTING. DEBBY. 6to 1 agst General Peel (taken) 6to 1 apt Cambascan (taken) 7 to 1 agst Birehbroom (taken) 7to 1 agst Scottish Chief (taken) 1000 to 30 agst Hollyfox (taken) 1000 to 80 agst Coastguard (taken) RADCLIFFE RACES—This DAY. RADCLIFFE PLATE. Worthless . Nemo Mantalini 3 GREY DE WILTON STAKES. Lady of Coverdale STEWARDS' CUP. Lady de Trafford Fontenoy Nemo LONDON GAZE T TE, —This Evening, FOREIGN OFFICE, MAT 4. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Alex ander Graham Dunlop, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Cairo, to be her Majesty's Consul at Cadiz. MAY 14. The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Philipp Goldschmidt as Vine-Consul at Manchester for his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburgh. MAY 17. The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Theophili. Chrestien as Consul at Rangoon for his Majesty the King of the Belgians. BANKRUPTS. That portion of the Gazette containingthe . bankrupta had not arrived when we went to presto. Course of the Exchange.—This Day. Imsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 12 i 12 1 Antwerp .. 25 72t 25 771 Brussels — 25 72t 25 77} liamburgh __ 13 9i 13 10 _ ___ Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine — 1201 1201 Vienna Trieste .. 11 80 11 90 Petersburgll Berlin — .Nladrid - 471 48 Cadiz Leghorn .. M ilan 25 -80 -- . 255 25 821 25 90 Genoa 25 822 26 87i Naples Palermo .-- 25 90 26 95 Messina — 25 90 26 95 Lisbon .. 511 611 Oport0...- Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... .£3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, Market opens very quiet. Sales, probably 4,000 bales. HEATH OF SCOTLAND.—The Registrar-General of Scotland has issued his usual monthly return for the eight principal towns. It shows that since the establish ment of the Register-office, nine years ago, there never were so many marriages or so many births in any April as in that of 1564, and only once (in the cold April of 1860) so many deaths. Births, marriages, and deaths have all been above the average; life seems to be going on at rather a fast rate. Greenock, Aberdeen, and Glasgow Continue to suffer from typhus ; and throughout the town populations one death in every four was caused by the zymotic (epidemic and con tagious) class of diseases. The month was characterised by a high mean temperature, 474, which is 2.8 above the average; and the temperature was nearly uniform over the country. The humidity was above, though the amount of rain (varying from I'2 to 3 inches) was below the average. The barometric pressure was high throughout the month, and in general free from any sudden fluctuations. East winds were below their usual frequency in April. An exciting chase occurred two days since in the streets of Bordeaux. Two stags, brought from Pondichery by Captain Joubert, as a present for the Bor deaux Garden of Acclimatization, had just been lauded from the steamer, when one of them escaped from its keepers and started along the quays at full speed, followed by a crowd of people. The terrified animal at last took refuge in a cafe, to the great alarm of the customers present, and was secured without injury to itself or its captors. cele brated Yesterday Cardinal translation l - - Carmelite sterda a y nd C p a r r o d c i e n s a si l on W of i the m Stock in the garden and chapel of th e Duke's. lane, Church•street, Kensington: The Friars, e ceremony which is one of ancient date, i s held in h i g h regard by the Catholic Church. The high mass was sung by th e Very Rev. Dr. Hearn, the Vicar - G eneral ; and after the Gospel, a sermon was preached by the Rev. Fathe r O'Sullivan. 11 • At the close of the Bervice a co ection Was mad e f rom et Teli co f the shrine of St. Simon Stock—au English Saint whose period dates back twice the distance of "The Reformation" — o th er wise to as far back as six h un d red years ago. The Carmelite Fathers, who are established at Kensington, take their nam afro Mount Carmel, in Palestine, on the which eave a monastery. Mount Carmel is to p of w celebrated as being the place where Elijah destroyed the priests of Baal. T a g CASE OF THE SAXON.--There is a naval court martial in session at the Philadelphia Navy yard for the trial of Acting -master Charles Dananhower, of the United States navy, upon a charge of murder on the high seas, in shooting James Gray, mate of the British bark Saxon, charges aro preferred by Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, upon the information of Lord Lyons, British Minister. The case was submitted to a court of inquiry, after the return of the Vanderbilt, on which the accused was serving, and. ho was fully exonerated from blame, and justified for the act, and the finding of the court, it was understood, was approved by the Secretary of the Navy. His Lordship, the British Minister, not being satisfied with the result of the proceedings, has induced the Government to convene a court-martial for the trial of Mr. Dananhower, and the case is, as we have said, in process of trial,--.Yew York _Herald. The Correctional Tribunal of Montpellier tried on Saturday eighteen persons charged with attacking the houses and assaulting the persons of the wit nesses who gave evidence in favour of M. Armand in the recent trial at Aix. Two of theni were acquitted, and the others were condemned to terms of imprisonment ranging from six months to a fortnight. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.171 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 1-10th per cent. dearer in Paris than London.