The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-16 00:00:00

CONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Commercial Institute and General Share -change is an association recently formed for the urchase and sale of shares, and also for enabling ivestors to have a dormant interest in public and rivate commercial undertakings. The Institute !eke by the co-operation and association of in ?stors, the command of large capital, the tactical experience and energy of men of osiness, and the economy attending good . ganisation and extensive operations to undertake 1r individuals the management of trading and her operations, and there can be but little doubt iat its merits will be exceedingly attractive to let large section of the public who are anxious ) find remunerative investments, but not being inversant with business matters are precluded .om employing their capital in such descriptions enterprise. It is stated in the prospectus that to average profit derived from dormant shares in .ercantile or manufacturing firms is greatly in [eerie of that obtainable from shares in joint-stock inipa.nies constituted on the existing plan, or from oy other kind of investment, and that the only ifficulty has been in partnership liability, which the tsociation will entirely obviate. The last week's railway receipts ascertained up ) this day are, in round figures, as under : 1863. 1862. reat Western £56,931 £52,115 orth-Western outh- Western righton lidland outh--Eastern 20.022 16,858 reat Eastern reat Northern aneashire and Yorkshire 32,530 30,093 forth Eastern ristol and Exeter idinburgh and Glasgow rand Trunk of Canada .... 17,209 13,518 teat Western of Canada These returns are generally of a very satisfactory haracter. On that of the Great Western there is n inerease of £4 816 ; on the North Western of :7,978; on the South Western of 13,062; on the Irighton of £3 068 ; on the South Eastern of ;3,164 ; on the Great E :stern of £1,899 ; on the treat Northern of £2,274 ; on the Lancashire and ro,kshire of £2,437 ; on the North Eastern o :2,311 ; on the Edinburgh and Glasgow of £176; n the Grand Trunk of Canada of £3,691; and on be Great Western of Canada of £3.089. The Mid- Ind, however, shows a decrease of £54. Two O'CLOCK. At the Pdris Bourse this day, according to Mr. tenter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rentea were Of to 69f. 90c. The annual meeting of the shareholders in the )riental Bank Corporation has been held to day. 'he report and accounts for the year 1862 showed net profit of £193.178 14s. 6d., after defraying urrent expenses, and making provision for all bad nd douhtful debts. The directors had already ivided £88,200, or 7 per cent. of the year's profits, paving to be dealt with £104,978 144. 6d.; and hey now proposed to pay a divideud of 5 per cent. nd a bonus of 3 per cent., making a total distribu ion of 15 per cent. for 1862. The present dividend nd bonus will amount to £lOO,BOO, or £2 per hare, and will be payable here, free of income ax, on or after the Ist proximo, leaving £4,178 4s. 6d. to be carried to the credit of the next ccount. The directors who retired by rotation rare Mr. Gordon, Mr. Bonhote, and Mr. Blyth. dr. Harry George Gordon, who occupied the chair, coved the adoption of the report, and briefly refer ed to the statement of accounts presented by the iirectors, showing an increase in the deposits of ;1,000,000, and that their discount business had eat:bed £9,000,000. While the general operations f the bank continued favourable, he (the chairman) ould not refrain from observing that a large num er of formidable rivals had lately arisen competing or the banking business of India and China, and hough the field of enterprise was large, he consi lered that the banking requirements were now xceseive. It therefore behoved the directors o use all their best efforts and watchfulness n promoting the interest of the shareholders. In eply to a question, the chairman stated that the tank had not sustained any loss whatever from the ate opium frauds. The report was then unani nously adopted, and, after a vote of thanks to the lirectors, the meeting separated. Business in the discount market, which wqs mrtially suspended owing to the expectation of decline in the minimum, has revived, and the 'aces are firmer-3i per cent. now being the owest charge for three months' bills. Notwithstanding the continuance of the rate of liscount at 4 per cent. when a reduction was ex tected, the Funds have shown undiminished buoy- Lney. Shortly after the commencement of busi less this morning buyers came forward, and Con sols improved to 924 93 for transfer, and to 93 for he account; the present quotations are 921 and )2i 93 respectively, the tendency being a little utter. Ttie New Threes and Reduced Annuities have risen to 91- 4 1 ,- i; Indian 5 per Cents. were 109; I; the Debentures 1001 4 ; the Bonds 15s. to 17s. premium; and Exchequer Bills 3s. die. to par. General firmness has prevailed in the Foreign Nlarket this morning, although the dealings are not very extensive. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1862, are 701 71; do., Consolides, 481 ; Greeks have risen to 24 4; the Coupons, to 134 ; Spanish Passives have been 31/ 4, but are now 291 30, and the Cer tificates, 10i Portuguese are 48; and Mexican 33; I. The Confederate Loan has neen 1 prem., but is now 414 prem. Business in the Railway Share Market has been very inactive, and prices have remained without material alteration. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in some instances rather firmer. BRITISH FUNDS —CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 231 6 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ll + 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ..... . 3 2/ New 3 per Cent. Annuities 9lt 1 1 Innuities, 30 yrs, expire &th Jan., ImBo Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 141 India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct„ 1863 1001 Ditto ditto April, Itl6l 100 a Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 1001 D Bonds £l.000 Consols for Account, May 7 93 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2i per Cent — Ditto £SOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 4} per Cent., 1852 -58-60 Buenos Ayre s 6 per Cent Ditto Account 94 Chilian 6 per Cent. Ditto 4 per Cent.. 85 E gypt i a n 7 pet Cent,......,'.................. 98 } }} 6 Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ins — Ditto A•tcoant . 2 Bi i iii Ditto Coupons l3* Italian 5 per Cent. (Dlaremmana. Railway) 75i 5 Mexican 3 per Cent 1 Ditto Account .. 331 i New Granada l5l Ditto Deferred P !rtivhin 3 per Cent. . Ditto 4# per Cent ~1869 .... it f i i:i o Aectaml • • _ Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 1862 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Span Ditto 5 3 per e 1 f eh per C Cent nt., 1862 95 Ditto New Deferred .. Ditto Account.. 3oi 1 i i 291 30; Ditto Passive / Spanish Cert. o f C oup not f un d e d Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 - Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. itios I )itto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 18'i2 I.itto Account Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862' Dividend s on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — Ditto Account .. .... THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money ... It is said that Victor lingo is engaged upon a new Work, which is to be called " '93," and which is to be a sort of link between "Notre Dame de Paris" and " Les I liserables." He has several other works in hand, but he has put them all aside in order to devote himself to this. A Pbiogzaphy of Victor Hugo is shorlly to be published in aris, under th e titl e of " Victor H ugo, raoonte par up. haoia do P. yish" SHARE MARKETS--This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOtAsS. Railways. p aid. Closing I Business Price. dens. sir., Wel., and Str. Val. tlythe and Tyne. lost.,Sleal.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian ora. and Bandon .3ornwall 8 81 7 8 84 88 112 113 )o A A :rots no di \ Do. B 1 till 6p c.p an. been paid to B Dublin & Belfast June. Oun,,Perthot Ab. Junc. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Lillasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st •ireatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an i W. of Irelan Great Western ...... Do Str Val g - ua. stool Lancashiie & Yorkshirt London and Blackwal Lon., Bright,& S. Coss. Lon., Chat, and Dove) Lon. & North Westert, Lon. & South Westeri Ilan., Shef., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Dot shares... Metropolitan Aidland Do New Do Birming. & Derb) %lid. Gt. W. of lrelan, Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwio , Do, G.N.E. purohas' Do Lecds Do York Do Carlisle .. . North London Do New North Staffordshire .. N. and S. IV. Junction. Scottish Central Scot N. K, Aber. stoc , Do Scot. Mid. stock.. !Shrews. and Welohpoo !Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dut Staines, Wok.,and Wok Stockton Darlingtoi Do Do New, 1880 Taff Vale.. Do B • Do C Ulster Do Do ,Vale of Neath ,Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford R Kilkennx West Cornwall Si. Hartlepool Har.&R i West Midland (Worn Do Newpor Do Hereforb 6 7 40 42 13 14 89 91 107 109 52 63 45 47 24/1 2€l 120} 121 i 120 121 131 136 100 102 66} (61 108 ICB4 4 :64 115 )16 39 40 91 98} 101 1a 44 45 121 121 123 .2st 11 lei 91 93 50 61 24 25 981 991 55 64 86 64 116 118 1 1i 15 , 1 16i I 6 1e '2O 122 44 i 4 98 iGO 48 50 32 33 92 92} 67 69 99 101 7 8 37 38 9 10 t 7 175 t) 1 7 51 i 5 3#p 79 81 154 155 28 30 431 44i !g 88 98 100 BRITISH P etai twftvi, itk_ 1 , anrio St Lawren, I tom., Baroda&.Cent In, Gu. 5 per Pent Do. New Do. E. Shares... tiutialu Ana Lake tiun n Do. Preference iieflalo,Brant,&Godriel p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, Is7l , Do. do. July 1, 187: , 00. .10. Ju.o. I, 1, utra.dt S. bestn. I. 'apeTown & Dock Ser Ewan. Bengal gu. 6 p. Ind.an. gu. 5 p. 0 I Do. do. (I Ext.... stock itock Cock stock s took stock stock stock stock i > 1 Paid. SIt)NS. I;losind Price. 62 L 4 1074 sj 1 1# p 1 p 41 6 71 8 lf 6 1(8 1(8 110 108 9 I(9i Iv?, lk Itp 1 )ip 194 0, 62 66 9 60 54 67 40 its 7 42 32 36 23 26 20 23 ((9111 1 lip 1 Do. do. H do. .. brand Trunk of eanad ' Ist I'r • . Bonds Do. moo. deterred...... so. Pd Pret. Bon 8.. DJ. do d fer ed...... uo. 3d P ef. stock Do. do. d lerr d.... Do. 4th Pref. s o k... Do. du def err. Ot.lndiaPeniu.gua..sp.o Do. New gua. 5 Do. Januiry, 1882 South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. '4t. W. of Canada Share,. 106 108 12} 2. 81 8 lOU 102 91 98 3 'IP 1062 'O7l 101 103 9 Do. New Do. 8 p.c. '73 with't opt. )0. p. a. do. '77-& . I ndian Branch Limited Hadras guar.. 5 p. o. Do. 41 p. o. Extensim. eta A 4', , ck De. 4. d 0.... DO: Fifth Extension. 4elb.l'oro. a p. o. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p.c. Mortg. Bd.. NTrw Br ansurioa Class A an 1. B. NT.ltl.C'da6 po Ist T bde• Soinde )o. Delhi )o. do . .... t . S• ce Jo. Punjaub .... g in )o. Do. -..• • • • ti biz on. I ndus.St. Flo.) 1 sustness done 101 s 108 108} 110 1 91 1 100 63i 4 110* i tf 47 49 12i f 3 5 E 0 12 108 .09 I 7 1( 9 6}106 Oe. 1(4 1 i 101 2 3 i . 11 1•ONI Al. f 1()V ERN N 1 KIN 1 stl:Cl , ItiTi K" , . . (...4,(4. ti p.c.J a 5..) il, 1877-31 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & A tiz_ Ilk It 3 . 5 Do. dp. c.,11ar.& Sept 100 103 14.5 Do. tp. c. Jan.&July. 100 954 961 961 II , Do. 5 Inscribed stoct 100 v 4 46 ( cape G.Hope, 6p 0.187: 100 110 112 i Do.Ap &Oct 1881 100 111 113 I Do. 18s. 100 111 113 I Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 109 113 115 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p r 10 . - - Msu Bins i per cent .. 100 111 1 . 3 112 / Na a G...v. 6 per cent.. 120 tt.9 1:0 1094 -- I N.B.tiov.op.c..la.aJ ul: :00 os} t' , 6, 1051 6 I A../o. 6p. c.Ap. & (Jo. tot - - 'N. S. W. G ov. f' p •.,18 100 101 1024 1021 I Do. sp. c.,115, to I, I 100 101 1026 I Do. d0.,1888 &upwd• 100 101 1024 101/ 211 1 'New Zealand 6 p gent. 100 11u 112 N ova Scotia Gov. 6p. ~. ! sterling, 1875 lOO 106 107 106 Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 1 113 ;5. Aus 1it)p.0.1670.5z. up iOu 111 113 113 IVic.(lov. 6 p.c. Ja.&J al, sill. 109 110 'Do. 1 • -‘ - A n.,47. , 4-t. " 100 1091 lO 4 1091 14 1 1 .41talsi1 NUN ES. 2 (Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 4 id I‘..lluoru Amalgamated.. -- 20 22 Devon G. Cone. (Tavist. 1 515 525 East Baseett ( Illogan ... 30 84 87 1 bast Clogan Gold Ltd. 55. id p East Caradon 1.14.. 42 424 421 East Care B rea. . . 3.4.0 84 E. W'l itu a s e l (Tavistt.)ll 8.1.6 4 4 11 Go a re m a . t &g o t u .A th ub T y o n i r u ze . n . ?' ; 1 7 76 5 11 4 111. Wheal Vor (Helston . 40 64 7 !Grenville... .i.l 6 51 6 !Herod's- Foot ..... .. i ilingston Downs 4. 7.0 21 21 Lady Bertha 111argaret (tiny Lelant 4 4 34 36 itilarke Valley.. 4 vivndy Iron Oro (Lim. 25 1 4 d New Setun • • 191 130 110 North Downs 26 8 .. Wh B'i asest ( 1110 ;an t. 17 , 4 44 .north Wheal Crotty . 2.4.9 5 5i t'ar Consols (St. Blaze) , 14 45 6 SO 'rovidence(Uny Lelnt.; 10.1'..: 40 42 South Caradon(StCleer) 14 395 405 3. Care Brea (Illogan) 5.15.1. . 1 41 , Wheal Fran. (Mogan, 10.1 .0 871 924 (Stray Park 5 1 ramar Silv.& Lead Min 44 1 1 (0 I Pin Crort 4 211 22 I .Vest Basset (Illogan) l5 12 13 ! .1. , Caradon (Liskeard. 5 32 34 ' West Seton . . Wheal Basset (Mogan i'l 671 724 i. heal Buller( Redruth) 5 58 62 Wheal Kitty (li.Lelant)i 2.0.6 - - WhealLud ott , 2.10.0 5 54 5 1 vtir heal 31 aryAnn(Iden )1 8 155 (61 Wheal Seton ..I 584 245 1255 tiro Trslawney (1418. d 7 1.4 1 74 I Wheal Union 3.17 41 56 PREFERENCE SHARES. Cornwall, 5 per o nt. gua., 21 PREFERENCE S Cornwall, 5 per o nt. gua., 21 Great Northern, 5 per cent., 1151 16 GtWestern ( erks & Hants Ext), 4y per cent. red., 9811 Great Western, 5 per cent, red. pref., 1t,31 Lancaster and Carosle, 4i per cent pt., 102 t anca.hire and Yorkshire per cent, stock, 139 Mid.and 4) per cent, pt. stk., 102, Stockton and Darlington, B 6 per cent., 33 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, s per cent., pf., 1041 London, Chatham, dm, Metrop. Ext., B, 6 p er cen t., lot Litto, C 6 per cent., 81 LINES LEASED Ai` FIXED RENTALS. Buckinghamshire, 95• Chester -nd Ho yhead, 5 per cent., 1141 Hull nd Selby, 110 London and Chatham 4 per Cent., P2l Nottingham and Grantham R. & C., 9411 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81 Bahia and San Francisco (iim.l gua. 7 per cent., 211 1 f 1 Grand Russian, gua.: , per cent., 171 Recite ant San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per cent, 18 Rc yal Swedish, 1 Sambre and Meuse, 111 San Paulo ,lira.), gua. 7 per cent., 91 t< 10 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 241 Southern of France, 31t FOREIGN MINES. Port Philip, 11 Y:llllaannace;uannlraoot of S. Australia (11m.), 3& JOINT-STOCK TANKS. London and Liverpool (lira.), 241 1 Anglo Australtod a .`i'r" (Um), 21 British North Arnett af,isi s Bank of Rgypt, 30 4. 90 L Bank of Londo n , 2131 -- j,l Chartered Bank of Australia and China, 251 Chartered Aer. of india4,l, ol adon, and China, 47 City, 95 Continental, 2 English and Irish (lhm), e Sco and Australian Chartered. 2 114,ndustan, hina, and Japan (limo, 131 1 - Imperial Bank (llrn.), 141 London and Comity, 44 Loudon and N Tthern Jim ), 41 L on don and South African, 281 8 4 I London and Westminster, 77. Oriental Bank Corporation, 551 41 • Union Unon of Ireland of Australia,eland(lira., n. t 1 )! DOCKS. London, 57 tif St. Katharine, 56} MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo-Mexican Mint, 20 Berlin Water Worss, 9i 81 9j 9 Crystal :34 Crystal Palace. 6 per cent. perpetl. deb., 114.12 i East India Irrigation and Canal, 11:, Electric Telegraph, 1011 Great Ship (Um.) 174 per cent. pref.,;; Joint stock Discount, 2 1 Loudon Gem ral Omnibus Companyalim. ), 11 Madras Irrigation and Canal,l3 National Discount Company (lim.), North British Australasian, f Ottoman Gas lim.) Royal Mail Steam, 601 1 S co ttish Australian nvestment (lim.), 140 South Australian Land, 33 Tim D 19419111 kind, 10 1 90 52Mii 91 ILS 3 ; 8 I 93; 7; lul 21 1 I 126 1 S 84 124 92i i i 41 i i TIIE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1863. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION, HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL 15. BURIALS BILL. Order for second reading read. Motion made and question proposed, " That the bill be now read a second time." Amendment proposed, to leave out the word 'now,' and at the end of the question to add the words ' upon this day six months.'" Question put, " That the word 'now' stand part of the question." The house divided—Ayes, 93 ; Noes, 221. AYES-96. Adair, H. E. Grenfell, H. R. Paget, C. Adam,W. P. Grey, Rt. Hn. Sir G. Pea.e, H. Andover, Lord Gurney, Samuel Pigott, Servant Atherton, Sir W. Hadfield, Geo. Pollard Urquhart W Ayrton, A. S. Hankey, Thomson Potter, It. Aytoun, H. S. Henley, Lord Powell, J. Baines, E. Herbert, H. A. Ricardo, 0. Baring, Thos. Geo. Butt, W. Robertson, H. Berkeley, H. Ingham, R. Roebuck, J. A. Bei keley, C. Jackson, W. St. Aubyn, J. Brand, H. B. Jervoise, Sir J. Scholefleid, W. Bruce, H. A. Kinglake, A. W. Seely, C. Butler, C. S. Layard, A. H. Seymour, H. D. Cavendish, Hon. W. Langston, J. H. Shaft°, R. D. Clifton, Sir R. Levinge, Sir R.G.A. Shelley, Sir J. V. Collier, R. P. Lewis, Harvey Sheridan, H. B. Cox, W. Lindsay, W. S. Smith, Augustus Crossley, Sir F. Locke, John Smith, J. A. Dodson, John G. Lysley, W. Smollett, P. Doulton, F. Maguire, J. F. Stansfeld, J. Dunbar. Sir Wm. Marjoribanks, D. C. Sykes, Col. W. H. Dunne, M. Martin, P. W. Taylor, P. A. Ewart, William Matheson, A. Tite, Wm. Ewart, J. C. Merry, James Verney, Sir Harry Ewing, H. E. C. Mills, J. R. Vivian, H. H. Fermoy, Lord Morris, D. Warner, Edward Fortescue, Hon. F. Morrison, W. Western, S. French, Col. Norris, J. T. White, Jas. Gibson. T. M. North, F. Williams, W. Goldsmid, Sir F. Ogilvy, Sir J. Wyld, James Gower, F. L. Onslow, Guildford TELLERS. Greene, J. Owen, Si H. Peto, Sir M. Gregson, S. Padmore, R. Douglas, Sir C. NOES -221. Adderley, C. B. Gore, W. R. 0. Morritt, W. Addington, Hon.W. Gower, G. W. L. Mowbray, Rt. Hn. J. Antrobus, E. Graham, Lord Wm. Murray, William Arbuthnott, Gen.H. Greaves, Edward Newdegate, C. Astell, J. H. Greenall, G. Nicol, William Bailie, H. J. Greenwood, J. Noel, G. J. Bar ttelot, Col. Gray, Capt North, Col. Bathurst, A. A. Grey deWilton,Lord Northcote, Sir S. H. Bathurst, F. H. Griffith, C. D. Packe, C. Beach, W. W. Gurdon, B. Pac,e, Col. Beaumont, W. B. Hamilton, Lord C. Pakenham, Col. Beecroft, G. S. Hamilton, Viscount Pakington, Sir J. S. Bentinck, G. W. P. Hanbury, R. Palk, Sir L. Benyon, R. Handley, John Papillon, P. 0. Beresfbrd, W. Hanmer, Sir J. Parker, Major W. Bernard, Thos. T. Hardy, Gathorne Patten, Col. W. Biddulph, Col. R.M. Hardy, J. Peacocke, G. M. Blackburn, P. Martopp, E. B. Peel, Sir R. Bovill, Wm. flay. bit . J. Peel, Gen. Bramley-Moore, J. Heathcote, Sir W. Philip., G. L. Bramston, T. W. Heathcote, G. H. Portman, W. H. B. Bridges, Sir B. Henley, J. Potts, George Briscoe, J. I. Heygate,Sir F. Powell, F. S. Brooks, R. Hrygate, W. U Powell, W. Bruce, C. L. C. liodgs.n, R. Pritchard, John Bruce, Sir H. Hollord, R. S. Puller, C. W. Burghley, Lord Holmesdale, Lord Repton, G. W. J. Burrell, Sir P. Hood, Sir A. Ridley, Sir M. W. ButlerJohnstone,ls. Ho 8.41„ T. S. Rowley, Hon. R. T. Buxton, C. Hotham, Gen. Lord Russell, Hastings Cartwright, Col. Howes, E. Salt, T. Cave, S. Hubbard, J. G. Sclater-Booth, G. Chohneley, Sir M. Humberstone, P. S. Selwyn, C. J. Clay, James Jermyn, Earl Shirley, E. P. Clifford, Col. Johnstone, J. J. H. Smith, Sir F. Close, M. C. Jolliffe, Sir W. Smith, M. Cobbold, John C. Jolliffe, H. Smith, Abel Cochrane, A. D. Kekewich, S. Smith, S. G. Codrington, Sir W Kelly, Sir F. Smyth, Col. Coke, Col. Kennard, R. Somes, J oseph Collins, T. King, J. K. Spooner, R. Copeland, Aid. Knight, F. Stanhope, J. B. Craufurd, E. H. J. Knightley, R. Stewart, Sir M. R. Cubitt, George Knox, Major W. S. Stracey, Sir H. Cubitt, Ald. Lacon, Sir E. Sturt, H. G. Curzon, Viscount Laird, J. Sturt, Col. Disraeli, Benjamin Langton, W. G. Talbot, Hon. W. C. Du Cane, C. Leiroy, A. Tempest, Lord A.V. Du Pre, C. Lee, W. Thynne, Lord H. Dutton, Hon. R. H. Legh, W. Torrens, R. East, Sir J. B. Lennox, Lord G. G. Trefusis, Hon. C. H. Edwards, Major H. Lennox, Lord H. G. Trelawny, Sir J. S. Egerton, Sir P. Liddell, Hon. H. G. Trollope, Sir John Egerton, A. F. Long, R. P. Turner, C. Egerton, E. C. Long, W. Vance, John Egerton, W. Lopes, Sir M. Vansittart, Wm. Enfield, Viscount Lovaine, Lord Vernon, H. Jane, Col. Lowther, Col. H. C. Walker, J. R. B. Farquhar, Sir M. Lowther, Captain Walpole, S. H. Farrer, J. Lyall, G. Walsh, Sir J. B. Fellowes, Edward Lygon, Hon. F. Walter, John Ferrand, W. Macaulay, K. Wat l ington, J. Filmer, Sir E. M'Cormick, W. Way, Arthur E. Fitzgerald, W. S. Mackie, J. Welby, W. E. Fitzwilliam. C. W. Mainwaring, T. Whitmore, H. Foljambe, F. J. S. Malcolm, J. W. Wickham, H. W. Forster, Sir G. Manners, Lord J. Woodd, B. T. Foster, W. 0. Martin, J. Wyndham, Hon. P. Franklyn, G. W. Miller, T. Wynn, C. Gard, R. S. Mills, A. Wynne, W. W. B. Garnett, W. J. Mitford, W. T. Yorke, Hon. E. George, John Montagu, Lord R. Gilpin, Colonel Montgomery, Sir G. TELLERS. Goddard, A. L. Mordaunt, Sir C. Cecil, Lord R. Gore, J. R. 0.1 Morgan, C. 0. S. Hunt, G. W. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman.) LACY T. RHYS. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the well known theatrical bookseller of the Strand, against the de fenasknt, the lessee of Sadler's Weds Theatre, for represent ing a pieze entitled " The Roll of the Drum," without the permission of the plaintiff, he being the owner of the copy. right, which had been assigned to him by the executors of the author, Mr. Egerton Wilks. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £lO. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, MORGAN V. LANGEN. Mr. Sergeant Piggott, on the part of the plaintiff, moved for a rule to show cause why the venue of this case should not be changed from Hereford to London. The case had been sent down for hearing dur,ng the last assizes, but had been postponed owing to there not bring time to tr., it. The plaintiff was a governess, and the defendant a surgeon, and the libel complained of was a statement made by the defen dant that she (plaintiff) was " off her head, and only fit for a lunatic asylum." The court granted a rule nisi. COURT OF PROBATE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) NIsWTON AND WINNINGTON V. DOMVILE. The will propunded in this case was established, as also was that in the next case, Blandy and others v. Sowden. The court then proceeded with the oause of Folbrigg v. Folbrigg and othsi s, it which it was said the testator was not in a composed state of mine when' the will was executed. The court pronounced in favour of the will. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ROBBERY BY A. DOMESTIC SERTANT.—A well-dressed young woman, named Rachel Savory, was charged before Mr. Knox, with stealing a turquoise and gold brooch under the following circumstances: — Helen Buckingham, lady's maid to Mrs. Corrie, who has apartments at the house of Mrs. Mary Ann Hunt, 77, Mar. garet-street, Cavendish-squrre, deposed that on Tuesday, between 12 and 1 o'clock, she placed her mistress's tur quoise and gold brooch in the pincushion on the dress ng table. In the course ot the afternoon she (witness) went out, and on her return missed the brooch. She spoke to her mistress, who said she had not seen it, and afterwards to Mrs Hunt, and the brooch was found in the possession of the prisoner. Mrs. Mary Ann Hunt deposed that the prisoner was in her service, having entered it on Saturday last. On the last witness speaking to her about the loss ot the brooches, she questioned the prisoner, who denied all knowledge of it, but subsequently took it from her pocket and handed it to her, Mr. Know asked what sort of character she had with the prisoner, and her age. Mrs. Hunt said she had a very good character from the prisoner's aunt, and that prisoner was about 20 years of age. Ann Franklin, servant to Mrs. Hunt, said she had been robbed of some pocket handkerchiefs and other articles. Mr. Knox said he should remand the prisoner for a week. THAMES. BENEVOLENCE.—On Mr. Partridge taking his seat for the third time since his appointment he handed to our re porter a letter of which the following is a copy : " Sir,—l enclose postage stamps to the amount of 10s., which I request may be applied for the benefit of the child, Mary Mahoney. whose case was reported in the newspapers of the 13th instant. I beg to state that my motive is the conside, ation that the just punishment to which her brutal step-father was sentenced may possibly be productive of evil of another kind to his victim, namely, that of want from the cessation of the man's earnings during his impri sonment." Mr. Partridge said the money should be applied accord ing to the wishes of his benevolent corre.pondent. A LUCKY ESCAPE.—Jane M'Cormack, an old and dirty Irish woman, who has been convicted of felony three times, and is known to be a most dexterous thief, was brought be. fol a Mr. Partridge, charged with stealing 13s. 6d. 'rum the person of George William Fen Lewis, a waterman, of No. 8, Pill-street, Ratcliff-Highway. The prosecutor stated that he was returning from a theatre at an early hour this morning, whea he was ac costed by the prisoner, who asked him to treat her, to which he replied that he had no objection whatever, if a plblic house were open. They went to a pub ic•house, but could not obtain admission, and he left her. Directly afterwards he missed his money, 13s. 6d. It was wrapped up in a small piece of paper. He ran after the prisoner, and said, " Now, give me back my money, or I will send you to prison." She refused to restore a farthing to him, and he gave her into custody. Mr. Partridge —Were yen sober? Witness —l was sober enough to know what I was about. A. police constable named William Andrews, 33 H, said the prisoner was given into his custody. lie found no money upon her. He searched a narrow court where the man said he lost his money. He could find nothing there. The prosecutor was the worse for liquor, indeed, very drunk. Mr. Partridge said the e v id ence did not go far enough to in committin g th e prisoner for trial, and prisoner to be disoha rge d. jourdsteirfeydhthime THE CHANCELLOR'S BUDGET. This morning au extraordinary scene was pre sented in the approaches of the House of Commons, showing the great interest the announcement to be made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer has ex cited. For many days the Sergeant-at-Arms, Lord Charles Russell, has been overwhelmed with appli cations for orders for the gallery this evening, and every member has been solicited for his order also. As it is more than possible that each of 650 odd members have given their order of admission to the Strangers' Gallery, and as the said locality will only accommodate at the most about 150 or 200 persons, the number of persons doomed to disappointment will be some what considerable. It is the rule of the Sergeant at•Arms that applicants for admission to the Strangers' Gallery with member's orders should have the right of entree according to the order in which they arrive ; and it may be imagined that some of the more enthusiastic poli• ticians and those interested in taxable commodities likely to be effected, arrived very early this morn ing. Some were in attendance as soon as eight o'clock, bringing with them bread, meat, cheese, and beer, in order to sustain themselves during their weary stay. By 10 o'clock there were more persons waiting than the gallery would accommodate, and those that arrived after that time would have little chance of gaining ad mission. Amongst the parties " well up" were numbers of peculiar looking individuals, just the sort of persons who would feel no interest in the statement one way or the other, and after inquiry it was discovered that those parties had been engaged by several gentlemen, at fees varying from half-a-sovereign to half-a-crown, " to keep the seats warm," which they had secured early in the morning, whilst they transacted their business during the day ; the possessors of the orders engaging to return and relieve the sitters before four o'clock. Made up of such materials, it is not to be wondered at that the proceedings of the day were not of au entirely intellectual character. By direction of the Sergeant-at-Arms, the gallery is to be opened at an hour earlier than usual, so as to afford as much accommodation as possible to the public. THE MURDER IN ST. GILES'S. This morning a rumour became very general that the assassin of the unfortunate woman had been captured by the police, but, from inquiries in the proper quarter, it is to be regretted the report is untrue. The rumour arose; no doubt, from the fact that during the whole of ►his morning two men have been selling about the crowded neighbourhood of Seven Dials, "A lull, true, and particular account of the capture of the bloodthirsty murderer of Emma Jackson " The bills were bought with the greatest avidity, and therefore the fellows must have made a " good thing" by their gross imposition. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. —Wheat, 45s 6d; barley, 35s 8d ; oats, 21s 5d ; rye, 31s 9d ; beans, 35s lld ; and peas, 35s 2d. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. -- Wheat, 458 6d ; barley, 36s 5d ; oats, 218 5d ; rye, 33s Od ; beans, 35s 10d; peas, 35s 10d, ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 70,773; barley, 26,858; oats, 9,529; rye, 44; beans, 3,964; peas, 422 qrs. METROPOLITAN CATTLE. Although the supply of beasts on offer in to-day's mar ket was only limited, the demand for all kinds ruled very inactive, at Monday's decline in the quotations. Sheep, the show of which was only moderate, met a dull inquiry. In prices, however, no further ohange took place. The best Downs in the wool sold at 68 8d per 81ba. We have to re port a steady inquiry for lambs at extreme rates, viz , 6s 4d to 78 6d per Ms. The supply of calves being on the in crease, the veal trade was heavy at 2d per Sibs. less money. Pigs and mulch cows were very dull at late rates. Per 81b. to sink the offal. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Crse. &inf. beasts 3 2 3 4 Primecrs-wool d 0.4 8 6 4 Second quality do. 3 8 3 10 Pme. S i thdowndo.6 6 6 8 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4 Large orse. calves 4 2 4 10 Prime Scots, Om. 4 6 4 8 Prime [mall do 5 0 6 4 Crse. & inf. sheep 3 4 3 10 Large hogs 3 6 4 2 Second quality do. 4 0 4 6 Small porkers ... , 4 4 4 6 Lambe, 6s 4d to 7 - s 6d. Suckling calves, 128 to 208; and quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 295. TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts ... . Cows 132 ( Sheep and lambs Calves rigs 296 / FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep and lambs Calves Pigs MEAT MARKETS. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL.--The supplies of meat are only moderate, and the demand rules inactive, as fol lows .—Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s Od , mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; lamb, 6s Od to 7s Od ; veal, 4s 4d to 5s Od ; and pork, 3s 4d to 48 8d per 81138, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, April 15.—Fair average supplies of stock on offer, and the trade g enerally rules inactive, as fo lows : Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 8d; mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 8d ; lamb, 6s 4d to 7s 4d ; veal, 4s 6d to 6s 4d ; and pork, 3a 8d to 4s 6d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ItOMFORD, April 15.—B,asts and sheep were somewhat lower in price ; otherwise the trade ruled steady : ; m u tt o n, in the wool, 38 10d t o 8 6d to 58 4d ; pork bs Beef, 8 d from o lamb, 6 6 d . to 6d 4s t 8 07 d 6d , veal, 4 3s 8d to 4s 6d per 81 b8 ; suckling calves, 108 to 19s ; quarter-old store pigs, 20s to 28s; and milch cows, £l4 Os to £lB Os each. HAY MARK2TS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 Os Od ; clover do., £3 lOs to £5 lOs; and straw, £1 108 to £1 16s per load. A slow demand. _ _ . Meadow hay, CUMBEHLAND..—Meiviow hay, £2 2s to £ 4 4 s; clover do., £3 10s to £5 lOs ; and st raw , .61 10s to £1 16s per load. £2 Os to £4 Os ; clove, Su w pp H ly rr t m o c le ß r A ab y l l y L g — oV i . do., £3 10s to £6 lOs ; anti straw, El 10s to £1 16s per load. Trade rather heavy. MIMING—This Day. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. SOU THAMPTON , Thursday Morning. Arrived—Amazon, from L on d on ; Havre, steamer, from Havre; Letitia, from Sund er l an d. Sailed— charlotte, for G uernse y St. Malo, for Sunder land; La Pottle, for Cherbourg. BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, April 15 —Wenesberg, from Gothenburg; Inje, from Emden ; Carl, from Rostock; Elector Shewp Cast, from Christiansand ; Aleda, from Dram. Arrived, April 16—St. Elmo, from Bordeaux. Sailed—Caatsworth, for Gefle and Port Phillip; Geppina, for Kolding ; Sophia, for Dantsic ; Eendraght, for Konigs berg; Der Nord, for Batavia • M a tchless, for Antigua; Plymouth Rock and Progress , Batavia; New York. EAL, Thursday Morning. Passed, April 15—City of Bombay, from London, for Calcutta; Garibaldi, from north for west, Passed—Bore, from Alex ndria, for London; La Hogue, from Sydney, for London; British Isles, from Sunderland, for Cartagena; Matilda, ftom London, for Martinique; Scotland, from Loneon, for Halifax. GRAND BILLIARD MATCH FOR £2OO. A a t s a t l a l n e d H b o i u l s l i e a rLd eicester atch -square, i m e e a s t t c e h r wa s clu s a l; e l a , yed last between evenings Hughes and William Dufton. The match arose out of the late Grand Billiard Handicap, in which Dufton b came the winner of the cup. Dufton being put in the handicap at 25 points in 200, Hughes was not satisfied with the result, and hence the match last evening, in which Dutton received 200 points in 1,000. The stakes were £lOO a-side. Mr. Roberts had a new table fitted up expressly by Yeman and Cox, of St. Michael's-place, Brompton square, which was, especially as to the playing part, a very beautiful board. Fred. Morris was the marker, and performed his duty with great care and accuracy. Hughes won the break and £5 to £4 was laid on him to money. Hughes took the lead, and was soon 35 to 216; but Dufton regained his points without Hughes scoring further. They con tinued even up to 60. When the first 100 had been played, Dufton had increased the points given by 14. They went on p 7 l a t o y i z n g 4 the next 100 with varbe u d ft scores 07 or 4 est ; ill Morr i s announced Hughes 189, being laid on Dalton, and freely taken. They proceeded, each scoring average breaks, till, at Hughes 260, Dufton 493, £2O to £lO was laid on the last-named. At the third 100 Hughes reduced the points given by making some gool breaks, and brought the score to Hughes 406, Dufton 537, and Hnghes was backed at £5 even. Just then, how ever, Dufton got a break, and pulled up 30, and then 33, white his arlversary only scored 18, so that the fourth 100 showed Hughes 424, Dutton 600. He (Dalton) went on with another break to 633 and then 655, Hughes making his lot 434. Hughes then got up a fine 47, but his antagonist scored steadily. The game was shortly called, Hughes 506, Dufton, 701. Hughes then made 40, but still Dufton played on and justified the confidence of his friends by keeping still ahead all his points and more, and got up to his sixth hundred, After era ca lo li n e g d break or 60 ('he break of the evening), Morris the score—Hughes 607, Dufton 853, From that point, although Hughes pulled up once or twice, it was of no avail, as when the game was called, Hughes 836, .Dufton 974, the last named player got in and made the game off the balls, winning easily by 164 points. The courtesy and attention of Mr. Roberts, the champion, was as usual uni formly bestowed, and after the game Dufton and Hughes were again matched for £lOO aside, Duf ton receiving 100 points in 1000, THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—This Evening. The Lord Chancellor took his seat at the usual hour. PETITIONS. Lord COLVILLE presented a petition against the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday. Lord CHELMSFORD presented a petition against the viaduct which the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway proposed to erect across Ludgate-hill. The noble lord said the proposed erection was uncalled for, that it would lead to great inconvenience, that it would be un sightly, and that it would shut out the only view which could be had in that direction of St. Paul's Cathedral. As the company had come to Parliament for further powers and an extension of time, he thought it would be unwise to let such an opportunity slip as now presented itself of pre• venting the work being carried iato execution. It would be a great hindrance to business, a complete eyesore to the me tropolis. The company proposed to construct a portion of their works after Ludgate-hill had been crossed by tunnelling, and he thought it quite possible that instead of a viaduct, the object of the railway company could be effected by commencing the tunnelling before it came to Ludgate-hill. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Fochabers and Garmouth Railway, and Cork and Kinsale Junction Railway bills were read a third time and passed. ALKALI WORKS REGULATION BILL. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to make it compulsory on the part of owners of such works to take steps and ma4e such arrangements as would prevent the escape of muriatic gas which created such injurious effects to property and the inhabitants situated in its vicinity. The bill made it compulsory on all owners of such works to effect such alterations as would be deemed satisfactory to an inspector to be appointed by Government, whose duty it would be to see that the injurious gas was condensed at 95 per cent. In the event of non-compliance, the measure laid very heavy restrictions on the owners, and also a flue of £2 per day for every day that the nuisance was allowed to ex , st after conviction before a magistrate. The works were also to be subject to visitation by the Go vernment inspectors both day and night. He hoped the house would agree to the present bill ; and if it was thought proper to deal with other works, that it would be done by a separate measure. The Earl of DEBBY said the bill to a certain extent embodied the recommendations of the committee which had lately investigated the subject, but he should have much wished that, in addition to alkali works for the manufac ture of sulphuric acid and ammonia, alum should have been included. He should not oppose the second reading, although he thought there would be a great deal of danger in applying it as a remedy for so great an evil. (Hear.) He approved of the appointment of inspectors, because although the evil might be mitigated during the day when it would be palpable, during the night the noxious vapours might be emitted, and thus defeat the intentions of the Government. mile should like to know whether the inspectors were to be the only parties entitled to sue for penalties, because, in the event of that being so, and the district of each inspector being of great extent, it would be impossible for them properly to execute their duties, because it could not be expected that they should be present at more than one place at a time. The committee to which he had alluded re corded that any person might sue for the penalties, and he thought that course a much better one than that proposed in the measure at present before them. The penalties he considered rather peculiar, for the first offence the owner of the works to be fined £5O; for the second £2O; and for every day the nuisance was continued after conviction £2 a d..y. He thought that the penalty for a second conviction was generally larger than the first ; and as to the infliction of £2 a day, he thought it would be found that some of the manufacturers would submit to the infliction rather than go to the expense of making extensive alterations. Earl GREY said what was urgentiy required was some general law which would enable persons who suffered from nuisances of every description to proceed against the parties by whom he had been injured. He did not object to the present bill, but he should have been pleased if the measure had been more extensive. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS.---This Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. THIRD READINGS. The following bids were read a third time :—Bala and Dolgelley Railway—Caledonian Railway (Improvement, &c.)—Flint, Holywell, and Mostyn Roads—Great Wes tern and West Midland Railways Am,ilgama• tion—Great Western, West Midland, and South Wales Railway Companies Alnallamation--G uild ford and Leatherbead Railway—London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway(Dorking to Leatherhead) - Lon don, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (South London, Tooting, &c., Junction Railways)—Maidstone Water — Manchester Corporation Water—Mercantile Marine Ser vice' Association, Liverpool—Ogmore Valley Railways -- Peterborough Cattle Markets—Saint Luke's (Nliddlesex) Workhouse and Vestry Hall —Southampton Port, Har bour and Pier. The following bills were considered and ordered to be read a third time :—Evesham and Redditch Railway— Furness and Midland Railway. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY BILL. Mr. R. MILLS objected to proceeding with this bill, on the ground that the company did not do its duty to the locality, actually putting the inhabitants of Egham and Staines to 6s 6d. expense to telegraph to London (21 miles), whereas the peolle of Leeds and Manchester could commu nicate with London for ls. (Hear.) Ho moved that the further progress of the bill be postponed until to-morrow. — Agreed to. ATTENDANCE OF H.R.H. PRINCE ALFRED AND PRINCE LOUIS OF HESSE. At a quarter ELiter four their Royal Highnesses were ushered into the Peers' Gallery, and took up their position immediately in the centre at the back of the clock. The CHANcEnLon of tho EXCHEQUER entered the house at 25 minutes after four. At this period the house—espe cially the Opposition benches—was exceedingly full. Every seat in the Strargers' Gallery was fully occupied, and the Members' Gallery, opposite the Government benches, was nearly filled by hon. members. THE DISTRESS IN THE COTTON DISTRICTS. Mr. FERRAND gave notice that on the 27th he should move that it is the duty of the Government to take into consideration, without delay, what measures were neces sary to relieve the distress prevailing in the cotton districts. SEIZURE OF THE ALEXANDRA. Mr. HORSFALL gave notice that to-morrow week, on the motion for going into committee of supply, he should call attention to the seizure of this ship, In reply to Lord A. CECIL, Sir G. GREY said detectives had been employed by the authorities of Liverpool to watch the conduct of Contede rate agents in London supi osed to be engaged in the con struction of Confederate ships. No " spies" had been em ployed by the Government. THE BUDGET. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose at 20 minutes to 5 to move that the Speaker leave the chair, in order, in the Committee of Ways and Neans, to bring forward the financial statement of the Government. At this time the house was completely filled. The hon. gen tleman was loudly cheer el, The motion was agreed to, and the Speaker accordingly left the chair. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proceeded to say (addressing Mr. Massey) that the expenditure imme diately after the Russian war was £64,664,000, and that in 1859-60 it rose to £69,502,000, exhibiting an augmentation of £1,838,000, In 1860-61 the expenditure was £72,8 , 12,000 —an augmentation in two years of L 8,178,000, or an average outlay in these four years of £71,195,000. or without the outlay for fortifications £70,678,000. The increase of the expenditure was perfectly justifiable, because there was an anxious desire to increase the defences of the country on the part of the public and the Parliament. For four years the finances of the country had been kept in a state of tension. Last year the income and expenditure nearly balanced one another. The income and expen ° diture which the Government now asked the house to consider was a hopeful and favourable one. The harvests of the last three years had only been ordinarily favourable, but then there was the drawback of the distress in Lanca shire. The losses thus inculcated during the past twelve months should not be lost upon the house, or the country. The magnanimity with which the distress had been borne,en h and the calm endurance of the people, could not be sP: isen too h,ghly of. (Cheers.) The price of cotton d since the distress, from 6d. or 7d. per lb. ttoin-dsu. and 2 s. I d . ge in an l y at the time he spoke. And he could n light hopes as to the future. Th is and the o distress of Ire land, as yet but little noticed , had to some extent interfered with the revenue. Otherwise he probably should have been able to exhibit a brighter picture of the finances of the nation. Agricultural statistics, carefully computed, in respect to Ireland, exhibited that, from 1856 to 1860, the annual value of agriculture and stock—the four usual items —was £39,437,000, whereas in 1862-3 it had descended to £27,327,000, and the duty from spirits, which was £2,463,000 in 1561-2, had only reached £2,292,000 in 1862-3. These causes must be taken into consideration in reviewing the present finances of the country. The esti mated amount of annual revenue at alat March last was £70,040,000, but the actual revenue had been £70,108,000. The expenditure had been £69,301,000, leaving a surplus, after the usual deductions, of £1,301,000. (Hear, hear.) The right hon. gentleman then entered into an expla nation of the various chief heads of the revenue, and the alterations thereon, as compared with the previ ous year. The greater part of the spirit duty had been realised, but the amount, owing to the distress in the country, had not been realised. Illicit distillation had not prevailed to a very great extent during the last two years. Probably the consumption of the milder cad less inflamma tory liquors had something t) do with the falling off in the spirit duty. The estimated expenditure for the current year was £67,719,000, and the income £71,490,000, show ing a differeece over the estimated charge of £3,741,000. (Loud cheers.) Some of the items of expenditure were not matured, such as the Galway subsidy. (Hear, and laugh ter) Notwithstanding the great remission of the customs duties, these duties had increased in two years £2,500,000. Ic was the duty of the Government to seek to remove all the anomalies of taxation. The law altering the duty on tobacco had already become law. Chicory was familiar to this committee—(laughter)—and an opinion prevailed that it should be taxed as much as coffee. Such was his opinion. He proposed to assimilate the two duties—those on coffee and chicory—and he proposed to ask the house to pass a resolution to that effect this even ing. Strong liquors sold in clubs were not now sold with a license. (Laughter.) He proposed to compel clubs to pay the same rates of license as was charged upon the keepers of hotels and coffeehouses. (Laughter.) Beer licenses of £1 taken out with one to sell spirits would be assimilated with those which paid £3. Beer-sellers would be allowed to take out £1 licenses to sell not less than two dozen bottles or 41 gallons of beer to be drunk on the premises. Carriers would be charged one half the duty charged on omnibuses and other stage carriages. Railways, now charged a duty of 5 per cent. on their traffic, with exemptions, he proposed a duty of 31 per cent. without exemptions, which would destroy an anomalous state of things, but which would most probably result in the same thing, so far as the Treasury was concerned, (Hear, hear.) The law on charitable legacies in Ireland. which were not taxed, would be assimilated to that of England. Then he proposed to render endowed charities amenable to the income• tax, which hitherto had not been the case, except so far as church building sites and charitable subscriptions were concerned. At present the income-tax on £2,000,000 of this was returned, He estimated £75,0j0 of revenue from this source. He would now proceed to state the ends to which the Government proposed to devote the surplus he had specified. (Hear, hear.) After the Ist of July next he proposed to abolish the charge of ld. inwards on goods adopted in 1861, and which he confessed had not worked well, and had, indeed, broken down—this, he confessed, he did not without a pang (laughter) ; the Is. 6d. stamp on bills of lading outwards would like wise disappear at the same date. (Hear, hear.) This would involve a less of £191,000, or in the nine months, to £143,000. Mr. Pitt considered that the lowest of incomes to be taxed should be £2OO, though £6O was the original rate. The income •tax, in its imposition by Sir R. Peel, who limited it to £l5O, only intended it to be a temporary tax, but this had unhappily been been found a fallacious view. (Hear, hear.) He proposed to mitigate the tax on incomes between £lOO and £2OO, by allowing £6O to be removed out of these incomes from taxation. At present a man with an income of £lOO paid £2 lOs ; under the proposed plan he would pay £1 lOs ; £125, £3 2s 6d—£2Bs 9d ; £l5O, £5 12s 6d—X3 7s 6d ; £175, £6 lis 3d—X4 6s 3d. He be lieved this reduction would constitute a great boon to the public. (LEFT SPEAKING.) We shall continue the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement in a later edition. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. EPSOM RACES—This DAT. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. TRIAL STAKES. Buckephlm Argonaut.... Six ran. HEATHCOTE PLATE. Poland Eas , . Sheen 2 Rapture _ - Twelve ran. TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES. Molly Carew Diomed Narbonno Twelve ran. CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP. Adventurer Umpire 2 General Hesse Comet .. Oberon .. Thirty ran. Won by a neck. Two lengths between the second and third. The winner was objected to, but over ruled. Buckenham was scratched immediately after winning the Trial Stakes. LONDON BRIDGE STASES. Alcibiade Bagnal Antidote Ten ran. INKERMAN PLATE. Portland Tarragona. 2 Twelve ran. LATEST BETTING. METROPOLITAN. 3to 1 agst Adventurer (taken) 4to 1 agst Bedouin (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS, No change. THE DERBY. 6to 1 agst Lord Chtden (taken) 7to 1 agst Hospudar (taken) 12 to 1 agst Saccharometer (taken) 14 to 1 agst National Guard (taken) 20 to 1 agst Glenochty colt (taken) Course of the Exchange.—This Day. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 15th day of April, 1863: ISSUE DEPARTMENT. .otes issued ...—..X28,019,225 Government Debt £11,015,1(0 Other Securities .. 3.634,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 14,3:9,225 Silver Bullion .... £:.9,019,225' £29,049,225 BANKING • oprietors' Capi al £14.553,000 Rest Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- EPARTMENT. i Government Seen- rifles (including Dead Weight A nnuity) £11,12 ',445 Other Securities 18,748 232 Notes Gold and Silver 83e,012 Coln counts ) 5,769.276 Other Deposits 15,013.391 Seven Day and other Bills 820,040 £39,050.134 W. X 39,050, ,34 MILLER, Deputy Cashier. April 16, 1863. SHAKESPEARE'S r ER- CENTENARY.—Next year, A.D. 1864, U the third centenary of Shakespeare's birth. What day in April shall we choose for our exhibi o.ea, and will long tion of gratitude and admiration to this great benefactor of mankind—to the great poet who has poet's value, even in this cont:nue to give, employment and bread to printers, sta trueeatbenefactor to the world has then, tioners, binders, and publishers, to a ctors and to Beene . painters ? To take no higher itable." G us a t ts lords What view than a and hie his impliedld.y,in this lowestm e re.an s t e i lnes sense estimate th ink v of t t h a e William Shakespeare, been ? What da this man, ";Nouk'YL a les," says shall we choose! Speak po„. Sir Hugh Evans, mulberry-tree table shall we find large enough to gi ve atypic, roomhis and verge enough for • wirers? What chairman's voice still circling ad furthest seat of the \Valhalla t o will ever reach the the 23d of April, 1864 o that day—be it the 22d due honours the third when we shall celebrate or birth.— centenary with all Once a T r e a . Y of William Shakespeare's It will probably be in the recollection of our readers that when the Royal Mail steamer Avon was wrecked at Colon last November, during a terrific gale, the United States brig-of -war Bainbridge narrowly escaped a similar fate, and that Mr. Milne, fifth engineer of the Avon, with four other persons belonging to her, put off to the brig in a boat, and rescued her crew at great personal sacrifice. Mr. Milne has just received from President Lin coln a very handsome gold watch, on which is inscribed— " To John Milne, from the President of the United States, for honour, courage, and humanity." The watch was for warded through the American minister in London, and on Thursday last Mr. Robert Ritchie, the company's superin tending engineer, had the gratifying task of handing it to Mr. Milne. A small 4uantity of gold, viz., £19,000, Was taken into the Bank of England yesterday. THE CITY POLICE. The Lord Mayor is understood to have received a communication from Sir George Grey apprising him that it is the intention of the Goverumeut to introduce a bill in the House of Commons, having for its object to place the whole of the metropf lis, including the City, under one system of police. The Aldermen have been summoned to attend a meeting at Guildhall to-day, for the express purpoke of hearing the letter of the Home Secretary read and shaping their course of action. For years past nothing has occurred to cause greater excitement and alarm among the members a e te hi t g h h ei e r st po to lic t e he wi l t o h w t e h s a t t th o e f y th m e a m y e h t e ro s p ai o d lis te . F he rt u an p in arms at the suggesti on , of the Corpor a ti on th an t h e propos i t i on t o amalga mate and already a great amount of bitter party feeling has been engendered, which is chiefly directed against Sir George Grey and Sir Richard Mayne. Ward meetings are bein g held all over the City to protest agai ns t th e threatened innovation, which is denounced in speeches and resolutions as being opposed to the principle of local self-government, akin to centra lisation, aimed at some of the time honoured pri vileges of the Corporation. A favourite figure of speech is, that it is an attempt to introduce " the thin end of the wedge," and that, once deprived of the management of the ir p olice, the ri g ht of elect tinhgemtsheelvires, would own and a stipendiary would be substituted for an unpaid ma g istrac y . It would, however, be an error to supp ose that the p ub.in m a follow, gistrat es t on which they pride feeling in the city of London on this or on any other occasion is at all fairly reflected in these assemblies. They are usually held in some little schoolroom capable of holding fifty or a hundred people, as at toe election of an alderman or a common councilman, and any more than in numbers they cannot be said to represent in any considerable degree the intelligence or wealth of the citizens. A notable instance is at hand. The ward of Langbourn, which is located in the midst of the populous and wealthy community in Fenchurch and Lombard-streets, and in the neighbourhood of the old East India House, has a constituency for civic purposes of less than 270, and at the recent hotly contested election for an alderman, not more than 200 of them took the trouble to record their votes. It was considered a proud circumstance that a banker on the one side and on the other had been allured from his, business for half an hour to propose or second the candidates on the day of nomination, and six hours of the following one were spent in polling the 200 voters. But it is not only in the wards that resistance is made to the contemplated change. Appeals are being addressed directly or indirectly to the corpo rate bodies throughout the kingdom, with the view to enlist their sympathy and assistance, by allega tions that it also concerns them, as a blow aimed at municipal institutions. 'The petitions to Parliament, too, are being sent in some instances to leading members of the Opposition, with the obvious in tention of making it a party question. This partizan spirit betrayed itself in the Court of Aldermen on Tuesday during a conversation as to the distribution of a sum of money which had been forwarded from her Majesty to the Lord Mayor, to be given to poor people who had suffered injuries in the City on the night of the illuminations. One member of the Court went so far as to call it an act of indiscretion, judging it from its alleged effect in. eliciting the number of accidents, such as they were. The tone of the whole conversation was to deride the notion that there had been such a thing as an accident in the City on the occasion, barring, of course, the six or eight lives which were sacrificed, and a few black eyes, and it was not until an ob servation by Alderman Mechi, gently adverting to the humane feeling which had prompted the Royal donation, that the subject was allowed to drop.— Times. GRAVEYARD SECRE TS. The mania which seems to exist now for selling antiquated church property, and removing the remains of the dead from their last resting-places to make room for the upward tendency of business, has led to some curious developments which have startled the community, and in many instances given rise to suspicions not much to the credit of certain persons holding high position as churchgoing folks and vir tuous members of society. The case of the Sullivan-street Chut ch was the first that attracted the attention of the pub lic. The disgraceful details of the manner in which the bodies were removed from the vaults of that church must be still fresh in the recollection of our readers. Many coffins were discovered in a state of perfect preservation, with the, shrouds also immaculate, but with nothing else save a shovel full of dust; and it was generally believed at the time that certain persons had carried on a very profitable business in the bodies 4 f the dead interred in the vaults of the church. But if the developments which were brought to light by the removal of the remains from the Sullivan-street Church are to be considered strange, they are nothing as compared with what has been since discovered in the gravel of the old Baptist Church, corner of 'Wooster and Amity-streets. About a month ago the trustees of the latter church resolved to remove the remains cf the dead to Cypress Hills Cemetery, preliminary to selling the pled talalaoniNdvre.gion property. Here, as in the Sullivan-street vaults, coffins were found deprived of their tenants. One day, while the labourers were engaged in their work, a grave was disco vered which had once contained five or six coffins, with their remains. All but one of these coffins were very nearly gone. The third coffin was still in a good state of preser vation. The curious part of the story remains to be told. The bodies in all the coffins except the third from the sur face, already alluded to. had wasted away into undistin guishable collections of flesh and bones. The body in the third coffin was still left perfect in form, the stockings and shroud in a good state of preservation, and the flesh hard ened almost to petrifaction. Dr. Sayre was invited to view the body, and expressed the greatest surprise at what he witnessed. The shroud was covered the entire length with a smooth white substance resembling wax. On examina tion the body proved to be that of a woman. A party of physicians have since visited the church, at the invitation of the city inspector. They found the shroud coated with a thin, white, mouldy substance, which might have resulted from the deposit of the gases in the coffin, or might have been the residue of some antiseptic) matter sprinkled there in for the purpose of preserving the body. On removing the shroud the body was discovered to be somewhat .nore altered than when at first viewed after disinterment. The skin was of a dark reddish colour, resembling dirty leathert or the covering of old cheese. The legs, abdomen, cllesarms, hands, and in fact every portion of the h b a o t d adipose driedexaminingretainedtissueswiththeverylifter, or Crum 'odkm°7ninsstakable evidences performed ' that a post ?notion be about as Biro were converttehdTe:itngueennta. they ibody iw w • abdominal owe culty,. edistoly after death. ID were discovered. It 8 , 0 -ested by the medical examiners that the . inatioll had been that of some unfortunate creature of poison, like ilra. Stephens, was body might be who had been the victim s, whose body, it will be re membered, was perfectly sat t black, saturated with arsenic. From the fact that the hai r was jet in a perfectly sound 3: and th a t th e t eet h were condition, it is conjectured that the woman, whoever she was, could n o t h ave b een more t h an 5 years old at the time of her death. However t hat may be, it i s p re t ty certain that the remains must have been interred over 30 y ears ago, f rom the fact that the coffins found above the one which contained her body showed by the dates on their plates that they had lain beneath the earth for that full period. This is the only way that the length of time her remains have been buried can be arrived at, inasmuch as there was no plate on the coffin to speak fur itself. It is a remarkable tact that there was not the slightest stench from the body, even from the head, which had decayed. The prevailing idea seems to be that there was some foul play, Perhaps the only conclusion that the authorities will ever be able to arrive at will be that of the moody Hamlet, that there are stranger things in heaven and earth "than your philosophy ever dreamt of."--.4Tho York, herald. G case connection i o on w il i r t l h F WIFE.— E — , a k l o e u n t t sk pa a ss e i t o r n an i t e r Aptreivr gambling came under the notice of Mrs. Atkinso onen, the f authoress of "Recollectio ns of Tartar Steppes." In o the magazines of the bazaar a lady was observed whose history might be briefly summarised in the statement that she was lost and won at cards. Her husband had been a wealthy Siberian, but, like many of his countrymen, he was a inveterate gambler. In one night he lost every ko peck he possessed —land, house, and furniture followed.— and last of all he staked his young and beautiful wife. Site was also "lost," and the victor entered calmly into 10os-RA,,,' sion of his wi nnings. It is not a little curious to - hear -- that t he pair thus s trangely mated had lived tool er 20 Years ' and "led a most happy an d euquplary iiie.,, Share 13.14 10 st st 50 20 4.4.0 '9.18.41