The Sun. — London, England, 1863-06-03 00:00:00

fti - 0 NE Y ',L; ARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. An active demand is still experienced in the general money market, and the rates exhibit firm ness. At the Bank of England yesterday the bullion operations were rather important, £39,000 in bar gold having been sent into the establishment, while 90,000 sovereigns were withdrawn for transmission to Constantinople. The prospectus has recently appeared of the Pho tegenic Gas Company, the object of which is to purchase M. Mangruel's patent, with a view to its general introduction throughout the kingdom. The light is said to be obtainable either from ordinary gas or atmospheric air, to possess great brilliancy, and to be free from ammoniacal and sulphurous acid vapours. Besides these desiderata, it is stated to be less costly than ordinary gas, and that its use will not necessitate great alterations in existing fittings. Application for licences by sub-companies have been made to the patentee to apply the atmos pheric air to the lighting of railway stations, vil lages, &o. The capital is fixed at £200,000, in aharee of £5 each. The Dunaburg and Witepsk Railway is a Rus sian line, projected under a concession granted by the Imperial Government, and the company has a fixed nominal capital of £2,600,000, on which the Czar guarantees an annual interest of 5 per cent. for 85 years, and an additional one-twelfth per cent. to redeem the capital at par at the expiration of that term by annual drawings, commencing the first year after the completion of the works. The com pany is constituted according to English law, With directors residing in London, and an agency is Riga. The Government guarantees to pay the interest in sterling money, end not, ae in previous eases, in roubles, and to pay the interest and sink ing fund half-yearly. The net receipts of the line are applicable in relief of the guarantee, but the company is authorised, in priority, to set apart 10 per cent., to the extent of £ l O O , O OO, to form a re serve fund against contingencies, and the share. holders are to be entitled to all profits np to 6 per cent., and to one half of all further profits, above 6 per cent., until the Government be reimbursed the monies it may have paid in respect of the interest; after which the shareholders are entitled to the whole of the profits. The line will be 161 English miles in length, convect Dunaburg with Witepsk, and enable the wheat-growers of Sindlensk, Mohilew, &c., to transport their produce at all seasons of the year, as well as at a less cost than the present cumbersome means afford. The shares are quoted 4 11 prem. O'CLOCK. At Paris thi s morn i ng, according Two to Mr. Renter's telegram, the French 3 per Cent. Rentes were firm at 69f 60c. There has been very little animation to-day in the market for the English Funds, and the tendency 'of prices has been rather unfavourable, Consols having receded to 911 92 for money, and 91 15-16ths 92 1-16th for the account. The New Threes and the Reduced Annuities are 911 ; India 5 per Cents. are 1071 ; and the 4 per Cents. Enfaced 96. Bank Stock is 233 235. Zile general tendency of the Foreign Stock Market has been rather unfavourable, and the deal ings have been upon an extensive scale. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, have continued steady at 701 2 ; those of 1862 have been 71t /, since recovering to 72 4 ; and the Consolides have declined to 618 %; Greek are quoted 32Z 334, and the Coupons, 151 t ; Spanish are also flatter, tho Passive being 34 4 f and the Certificates 12 4 ; the Confederate Loan is de pressed, at 3 2 die. Dealings have been recorded in Portuguese 3 per Cents., 1853, at 49i t, and in the 1862 issue at 494 Z. Russian 4f per Cents. have been marked 911, the 3 per Cents. 69, and the 5 per Cents. 92-:. Business in the Railway Share Market continued inactive, and prices have shown a slight downward movement. Caledonian, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln have receded ss. ; Great Eastern, Great Western, Midland, and North Eastern (Berwick), 108. ; North Western, 155.; and London and Black- The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have re mained without any material variation. Dutch Rheinish realise 171 ; Recife and San Francisco, 161; Grand Trunk of Canada are firm at 20k ; and Great Western of Canada fiat at 111 ; East Indian are quoted 1091-, ; and Punjaubs, 107!. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares generally remain steady at about previous rates. International Finance Company Shares are quoted 6 1- 8 prem. London Financial ditto, li 21. prem. ; General Credit ditto, 2 1 : 34 prem. ; and London and Liebon Cork Wood Company ditto, I 11 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 233 1 3 per C en t . Reduced Annuities 91 4 1 3 per C ent. Consols Annuities 9l/ 2 New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 2} per Cent. Annuities.... 91f_ New 35 per Cent. Annuities ...... Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — IndiaDi for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto Stock. 5 per Cent .................... 1071 1 Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 967 Ditto Ditto 5 per Cent Dittss per Cent o bonds £l,OOO. Bank Stock for Account Bank Stock for Account Console for Account, June 9 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 21 per Cent — Ditto £5OO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS —ONE O'CLOCIt. Brazilian 5 per Cent . Ditto 44 pe r C en t., 1852-58-60 .. ...... Chilian 6 per C ent. Ditto 41 per Cent . Equador New Consolidated, l]per Cent l7l Ditto, Provisonal Land Warrant _ Egyptian 7 per Cent Ditto, Second Issue .. .. .. ..... .. Greek 6 per Cent., 1 824-6, . e.x.-Cou pons — Ditto Account Ditto Coupons ... . ............... _.. ..... Italian 5 por Cent. (Maremman.a.Railway) 801 Mexican 3 per Cent NDitto Account ew Granada Ditto 2 per Cent...... .. 331 Ditto) Ditto Deferred .................... ; . 91 Perur and • Warrants (Hectares) ikn 41 per Cent; ........ s ..... Ditto 41 per C en t, 1862 .......... '— Ditto Account Portugues e 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Ditto 3 Account.. ...... . per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62 — Ditto Account Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St ...... Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859. Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 • 921 Sardinian 6 per Cent Spanish 3 per Cent . . DittDitto New Deferred Ditto Account. Ditto Passive o Account Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854... .. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 . Ditto Account .. 701 i Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account. 7ll I 21 2 Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. _ Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto Account 26 Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Dividends on the above payable inl,ondi London. Ditto 4 Dutch p er Cent. Cent Ex. 12 Guil p ., Certificates It alian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 franca _ 724 Dit to Account.. Consols, Mon y TWO O'CLOCK. Ditto Acc,o 911 2 Account 92 ad An e„cedi---- cently been I l g-tY gracious tribute has very re offered to the skill and taste of our Bri tish manufactureArsltohfofurniture, by his Imperial Majesty Napoleon Ili. long been noted for ugh the French themselves have workmanship in the prtohdaucet liegance and cunning of their decorations, the P. on of furniture and other home —mperorxiNesapoleon has yet, by imperial brevet, conferred upon ,4 Messrs, Jackson and Graham, of Oxford-street, the stititlae KofEspE urnisseurs:de l'Empereur." STATUE OF OVER, D PORTICO.—A correspondetilttE writes a to ns in refer- KURT-LANE Old Drury," ence to the proposed performance of the Shake ere Monument Fund b , e t th ‘ a ‘ t the stag ov in er the aid ..Dabtained for a very portico in: Brydges-street might case, two advan small sum of money, and that, in t good figure tages would result, namely—havingnat spot where ready to hand, and securing its removal of fr v o e nT a it is lamentably inappropriate and out the image of the immortal bard stPan.ds, for th ere with sarcastic significance to a blank Pn p inti" saying, as plainly as a statue can say, c, Th l e 7bil l , nothing in my way going on here!" Where theyewi;sl find a suitable place for the statue, adds the writer, remains to be seen; but at any rate, they do Rot app ear to care much about him in that neighbourhood. SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOKS. Share Railways. , Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bost„Sleaf.,andMid.eo Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A Do. B 1 A gets no div tillapc.pa n .h as en aid to B. Dublin & be ßelf p ast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Ireland Great Western .. Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat, sad Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & Swath Western Man., Shef., & Linc oln. Maryport and Carlisle. Dot shares Metropolitan Midland Do New & Derb Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Do BirElliDg. y Mid Kent Do Cray Line ,North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purohase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shrews. and WeichpooJ Shropshire Union South Devon ..... South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale. . . Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.ezli West Midland -Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford BRITISH P Share 100 sts I 20 Railways Atlantic & fit Lawrence Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind Gu. kper cent... 20i 10 100 100 100 stock stock stook . DO. E. Shares... I Buffalo and L axe Huron Do. Preference ...• • • Suffalo,BrantotGodrich 6 p. ot. bde. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1879 Clout ta. & S. E est n. (Dr: ) Cape Town & Dock Seri' Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. c liast Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. U Ext Do. do. II do. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 2d Pref. Bonds Do. do. deferred Do. 3d Pref. stock Do. do. deferred Do. 4th Pref. sto .k Do. do. deferred Gt.lndlaPenin.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. c Do. January, 1862 Gt. South.of India (Lim; guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares stock 4took ISSE iSIONS. Paid. all 100 Closing Prioe. 64 57 108} LON 1 lA p 11 51 16 1 8 8t 108 109 1094 1101 110 1,2 1094 110 14 Itp 1 14p 194 204 68 70 5t 65 58 60 45 60 41 43 34 36 27 30 23 25 110 111 1 2p 1 16P 1074 1084 9 114 Btll4 97 100 89 02 4 ;P 107 108 101 102 98 100 Do. New Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt. Do. p. c. do. '77-8.. Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 6 p. o. Do. It p. 0. Extension Dc.li do .... Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Bnds. Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. o. Mortg. Bds Newßrunswiok Cauda l Class A and B N.Rl.C'da6 po ist pt bds Soinde Do. Delhi—. 4i Do. do •• • r. Do. Punjaub 4±. Do. Do. ........ , Do. Indus. St. Flo.) all 100 (100 1 100 109/ 50 53 20& 20 69 8 Ho 100 3 5 84 86 IG9i 1104 107 108 A IP 1} Ifp 107 108 101 106 COLONIAL GOV ERN MEN I •it;C 11.11 1 r.;,- A 7 1 7 0- 16 p.c.Ja &Jul( 18 100 107 108 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug 100 103 106 ' Do. dp. c. Mar. ft Sept 100 103 106 Do. Ip. c. Jan.&July. 100 97 98 974 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 95 97 gape G.Hope, 6p c,1871 100 108 110 1091 ! Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 112 114 I Do. 189( 100 113 115 IDo. Jan. & July, 1891 100 115 117 !Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 113 115 .Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 108 110 ;Natal Gov. 6 per cent NO 109 111 N.13.G0v.6p.0.Ja.&Ju1) 100 107 108 Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. G ov. 5 p 18, 100 1024 1030 Do. sp. c.,18,1 to 1 , 27 e 100 103 104 1034 Do. d0.,1888 &upwdi 100 1034 1010 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 112 1H Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. I sterling, 1875 lOO 107 108 108 74 ,Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO 113 115 S. Aus G6p.c.1878.&up lOO 113 115 ;Vlc.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 110 112 Do. io 6 p.c. An.&Oot.. , 100 111 1114 1114 BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 4 Id Uhilord Amalgamated.. 21 23 Devon G. Con.. (Taoist.) 1 525 535 East Bassett (Mogan). 30 106 109 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd.. 52. 4d ip East East Ccaarnradßonrw:: ... .. . . 3. . 1.14.0 774 4.6 31 32 304 E. WlRussel (Tavistk.) 8.1.6 34 4 Gam.&St.Aubvn(Gwen.) 571 11 13 G reat South Tolgus l7s 44 5 G. Wheal Vor (Helston . ) 40 60 7 Grenville 6.16. 50 6 Fiery:Ps-Foot 8.12 4o 47 Hingston Downs 4.17.0 24 3 Lady Bertha Margaret (Clay Lelant ; 91 32 34 34 Marke Valley.. M 6.4 64 yndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 24 14 New Seton l9l 110 120 North Downs 24 14 24 N.Wh'l Basset (1110..,ran 1.17.0 34 44 North Wheal Crotty .. 2.4.9 44 41 Par Consols (St. Blazey) 14 40 20 Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 42 4 SouthCaradon(St-Cleers 14 400 410 S. Cam Brea (Illogan). : 5.15.6 3 34 F.. Wheal Fran. (Illogan) 18.1..9 75 80 'Stray Park 5 Tamar Silv.& Lead Min 44 4 4 Tin Croft 9 194 204 194 West Basset (Illogan) l4 12 13 ;W Caradon (Liskeard) 5 25 27 West Setort Wheal Basset (Illogan) 54 70 75 neal Buller (Itedruth) 5 45 5 0 Wheal Kitty (U.Lclant) 2.0.8 WhealLudeott Wheal Mary Ann (Men ) 8 16 18 Wheal Seton 5BO 40 250 Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 16 17 I-- Wheal Union 3.17 34 44 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 44 per cent. red., 100 • North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., 93 North Eastern 4,per cent. pref.), 101 PREFEItENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 4i per cent., pf., 96} London and Blackwall, 4i per cent. stk., 101 for money London, Chatham, dm., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., 10) LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 4 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Dutch Rhenish, 17i Recite and San Francisca gua. 7 per Cent., lig San Paulo (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 9i Ditto (all), 23,21 FOREIGN MINES. Alamillos, limited, Don Pedro, Nor h Del Rey, 1* East del Rey (lim.), 11 St. John del Rey (lim.), 55 United Mexican (litu.), Vallanzasca Gold, lim., JOINT-STOCK BANKS. ukallniatn:feLßoanndkoonf, London and Liverpool ( Urn.), 33 1 3 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 10; 1 11 Chartered Ban , of India, Australia, and China,:29l Imperial Ottoman, 201 London and Brazilian aim), 4 2/ London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, 246 London and County, .14 London and South African, 26 Midland Bank aim.), 86 76 New-South Wales, 526 Oriental Bank Corporation, MI DOCKS. Katharine 6415 411515 MISCELLANEOUS, s L t o . n K d a o t n h . Crystal Palace, 34 East India Irrigation and Canal, 61 E. glish and Australian C opper, ItDaliitat, 6 pernolrriga oetionnt( BCaonnadls rd.o avolurtd6 issued 90, 3013 Joint stock Discount, 4} 4 * London District Telegraph (lira.), London General Omnibus Company (lim.), Oriental Inland Steam (lim.), Royal Mail Steam, 62f S. African Irrigation Investment (lira.), 41 Lady Egerton of Tatton had an assembly on Monday evening, at her residence in St. James's_ square. Previous to the assembly Lord and Lady Egerton entertained at dinner the Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda, the Earl of Brecknock, Viscount Dunlo, Lord and Lady Calthorpe, the Hon. Miss Calthorpe, Colonel and Lady Rosa Greville, Sir Hugh and Lady Hume Campbell, Sir Lawrence Palk, Mr. R. Monckton Milnes, M.P., Mrs. White of Woodlands, &e. The Duke of Brabant was expected in Brussels on the 31st ult., but he sent a telegram to say that he intended prolonging his stay in Paris for a few days. On Sunday his R o y a l Hi g h ness gave a gran d dinner to the E. mace of Orange, the Dutch Minister. M. de Lightenveldt, sad the ofdoers of the Prince's cite. /,1 I Closing 1 Business - — 1 Price. I done. 1 8 81 6 9 85 87 1171 1181 6 7 39 41 13& 14i 91 93 108 110 53 64 48 50 24& 251 127 128 128 129 134 136 101 103 68 (81 11l 1111 776 784 116 118 41 42 103 1034 1046 1056 45 46 12} 12i 129} 1291 4 lip 97 99 52 53 244 254 1022 103 i 59 60 90 901 115 117 1 11 p 16 161 11 121 119 121 46 47 98 100 60 52 32 33 921 92, 70 72 100 102 7 8 37i 38i 9 10i ,) 7 1 81 p 153 156 51 of 3 3i p 79 82 165 157 28 30 444 454 38 40 99 101 118 17$ 53 f 2/ 431 I i 102 f I i I 105 t 45} Business done THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 3, 1863. The Late Fatal Railway Accident. CORONER'S INQUEST.—THIS DAY. Mr. W. Carter, the coronei, crened, an inquiry this morning into the causes connected with the Slath of Geo. Salmon, an engine-driver in the employ of the London ) Brighton, and South Coast Railway, Watkins, the guard of the train which met with the acci dent, said the deceased with himself joined the train at East Croydon with engine No. 131, for the purpose of taking it along the loop line to Victoria Station. Nothing happened until they were between Streatham and Balham when the explosion occurred, and the next thing he recollected was seeing the deceased lying on his face on the bank of the line dreadfully scalded. He was a very careful man, and was always very attentive to his business. The house-surgeon deposed to the deceased being brought to the hospital suffering from severe in juries on the evening the accident occurred. There never appeared to be the slight est hope of his surviving. The stoker who was with the deceased was very rapidly improving, and perhaps he might be able to give some in formation relative to the cause of the fatal accident. Some further evidenc3 was taken when the investiga tion of the matter was adjourned until the 24th inst. FUNERAL OF THE TWO GUARDSMEN. This afternoon a great concourse of persons assembled outside the Guards' Hospital, Rochester-row, Westmin ster, for the purpose of witnessing the departure of the funeral cortege of the two unfortunate soldiers who were killed on the occasion. Shortly before two the bodies of the men were conveyed from the hospital in the ordinary kind of hearse, followed by mourning coaches in which were the relatives and Mends of the deceased. The orderlies of the hospital also followed, and on the arrival of the melancholy cavalcade at Brompton Cemetery it was received by the greater part of the regiment with the usual military honours, the band playing the "Dead March" in " Saul." At the conclusion of the prayers the firing party, which consisted of about 24 men from the company to which the deceased belonged, advanced, and, having fired a farewell volley over the graves of their deceased comrades, the mourners,, troops, and spectators lett the ground. The report of the medical authorities relative to the other sufferers at present inmates of the military hospital, is very satisfactory ; all are progressing as well as could be desired. Pryme, who received such injuries to his back and ribs, and whose life was despaired of, is now in a fair way of recovery. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A GENTLEMAN CHARGED WITH ANNOYING FEMALES IN THE STREETS.—John James, described as a gentleman, of No. 9, Lansdowne-terrace, Regent's-park, was chargal before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk and disorderly, and annoying females in Berkeley-square, &c. Cronin, 215 C, deposed that about 10 o'clock the previous evening he was in Berkeley-square, and saw the prisoner put his arm round a female's waist. A man then inter fered, and got the prisoner to desist and go away. He (Cronin) then followed the prisoner, and saw him behave in a similar manner towards two other females, who seemed much annoyed, and, after struggling with the prisoner, suc ceeded in getting away. He then crossed over and remon strated with the prisoner, telling him that if he did not con duct himself properly he should take him into custody. The prisoner then went on to Hay Hill, when, having seen him stop another female, he took him into custody. The prisoner said he was very sorry, and was drunk at the time. Mr. Tyrwhitt said such assaults on females could not be passed over, and prisoner must pay 205., or be committed for fourteen days. FRAUDULENTLY DISPOSING OP PROPERTY.—Ernest Barranie, described as a merchant, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with " that being the bailee of three rifles, four pistols, and other property belonging M. Alexandre David CaHt, he did fraudulently convert the same to his own use." Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough- street, ap peared for the prosecution. The case was very imperfectly laid before the magistrate, but it appears that the prosecutor (M. Carit) is the agent for a French house, and entrusted the accused with the property, and that he pledged it improperly. . _ The accused was remanded for a week. A FEMALE PICKPOCKET. — Deborah Lingard. a young woman, who gave a false address, was charged with pick ing the pocket of a young Frenchwoman in Regent-street the previous afternoon. The prosecutrix had her attention called to the prisoner by two ladies (whose attendance at the court this day week will be of essential service in furthering the ends of jus tice) who said the prisoner was robbing her, and putting her hand inta her pocket she missed her purse. The prosecutrix, Louise Bertrand, of 1, Green-terrace, Clerkenwell, said she did not see the prisoner pick her pocket, but the ladies did. Remanded. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—This Day. The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. THIRD READING. Tile Cork and Kinsale Junction Railway was read a third time. SECONI) The following bills were read a secoi:• time—Dare Valley Railway, and Launceston and South Devon Railway'. The house, for a Wednesday, was unusually full in con sequence of the interest excited by the Public-houses Bill. LISBURN ELECTION. The members of this committee, appointed to try the merits of the petition against this election, were called to the table and sworn. PUBLIC-HOUSES BILL. of this bill. Mr. HADFIE LD presen t e d 73, A very large number o f p et i t i ons were prese nted in favour signed by 19,136, in favour; Viscount EN FIELD two, b u t h e b e gged to inti mate that he entirely di ssente d f rom th e i r p r ayer—(hear, hear) ; Mr. VANSITTART, with - a similar disclaimer—(hear, hear) ; Mr. PEASE, from a place in Ireland, praying that the bill might be extended to that country; Mr. H. BERKELEY, two against the bill, on the ground that its provisions would contravert the liberty of the subject— (hear) ; Mr. Cox, several to the like effect; also by Mr. ROEBUCK, from 24,000 to 25,000 of the male inhabitants of Sheffield, which he looked upon as an expression of the opinion of the town on the subject; Mr. J.B.Smint, several from Stockport. Mr. SOMES then moved the second reading of the bill. Had the bill been placed in other and better hands, greater justice would have Leen done to the subject. He feared it would suffer from his advocacy, He disclaimed being actuated, in proposing this bill, by a blind and bigoted zeal for the Sabbath ; neither had he any desire to trench, as he had been accused, upon the liberty of the working classes. No one more sincerely desired to promote the true interests of the industrial classes than he did. The opening of public houses for eight hours on the Sabbath was a great evil, constituting a temptation and a snare to working men on a day when they were at leisure, and had some portion of their wages in their pockets. In Manchester, last year, 3,373 people were taken into custody for drunkenness, and 1,549 of these cases occurred between 10 o'clock on Saturday and Monday mornings—far more than all the apprehensions for the rest of the week. Several magistrates and judges gave it as their opinion, based upon their magisterial and judicial experience, that drunkenness was the fertile cause of all crimes. Mr. Broughton, the magistrate of Southwark Police-court, declared that there was more drunkenness on Sunday in London than in all the capitals of Europe. The hon. gen tleman concluded by moving the second reading of the bill, Mr, PEASE seconded the motion. Captain JERVIS moved that the bill be read a second time that day three months. Mr. K. SEYMER seconded the amendment. Mr. CLAY thought the bill ought to be allowed to go into committee. Mr. HORSFALL supported the measure. (LEFT SITTING.) LONDON GAZBerE--Yesterday. WHITEHALL, MAT 30. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land unto Francis Richard Sandford, E sq . FOREIGN OFFICE, m Ay 9. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint James George Ferguson Russell, Esq., now a Third Secretary, to be a Second Secretary in her Majesty's Diplomatic Service. FOREIGN OFFICE, mAy 26. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Victor Arthur Wellington Drummond, Esq., now Paid Attache to her Majesty's Legation at Athens, to be a Second Secretary in her Majesty's Diplomatic Service. DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 1. The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Robert Phelps, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Island A Saint Helena. CROWN-OFFICE, J UNE 2. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. _ . . City of London—George Joachim Goschen, Esq., citizen and spectacle-maker, in the room of Western Wood, Esq., deceased. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 2. Garrison—The Rev. Joseph Yates Dod, M.A., to be Chaplain to the Tower of London, vice the Rev. Henry Melvill, who resigns. Commissariat Department—Assistant Commissary Ge neral Alfred Salwey to be Deputy Commissary General, vice Ed wards, placed upon retired pay; Assistant Commis sary General Thomas Forsyth Moore, from half-pay, to be Assistant Commissary General, vice Salwey ; Acting De puty Assistant Commissary General John Igglesden Troup, from Ensign, sth Foot, to be Deputy Assistant Commis sary General. Chaplain's Department—The Rev. T. H. Cole, M.A., to be Chaplain of the Foarth Class. ADMIRALTY, MAT 28. Corps of Royal Marines—Lieut.-Colonel George Brydges Rodney to be Assistant Adjutant-General of the Corps, vice Colonel Travers, resigned. MAY 29. _ _ . Corps of Royal Marines—Major-Gen. John A. Philips, to be Lieutenant-General, vice Wearing, deceased; Colonel- Commandant Thos. Holloway, C. 8., to be Major-General, vice Philips; Col. and Second-Commandant John Hawkins Gascoigne, C. 8., to be Colonel-Commandant, vice Hollo way; Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Oates Travers, C. 8., to be Colonel and Second-Commandant, vice Gascoigne ; Captain Charles William Adair, to be Lieutenant- Colonel, vice Travers ; First-Lieutenant Fitzmaurice Creighton, to be Captain, vice Adair ; Second-Lieutenant Nassau William Irwin Hamden Stephens, to be First- Lieutenant, vice Creighton. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. . Thomas Richardson, builder, Kingston-upon-Hull John Jones, wine merchant, Pimlico BANKRTJP TS. The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im portance in the Gazette : Samuel Goldston, tailor, Birmingham James Gray, joiner, Sheffield Wm. West, butcher, Salford Arthur Gallafent, brushmaker, New-cut Wm. Gray, dyer, Church-street, Hackney Kennett Harris, warehouseman, Noble-street, City Wm. Sims, chair maker, Fitzroy-square Wm. T. Perry, poulterer, Clapham-road William Barber, skin dre sser, B o w George Summerfi-ld, butcher, Broughton Samuel Clyne, tailor, Birmingham William Lever, cab proprietor, Bury Francis W. Wooldridge, butcher,_hit ec ross .street Erith George Wilkin, butcher, WUpp er Thomas Pilbeam, engineer, Prince's -place, Clapham.. road. Edwin Piff, harness mak er , Epsom William Gurnet Selves, tob accon ist, Strand George Edward Cambell, hotel keeper. Southampton-row James Elsden, innkeeper. Soaham, Cambridgeshire Wm. Walker, builder, Easthorpe, Leicestershire John Lees, tailor, Royton-road, Oldham SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. John Reid, farmer, Ardler, Aberdeenshire John Hunter, farmer, Bowhouse, Dumfriesshire William Gray, baker, Banchory-Ternan Bald and Millar, ironmongers, Glasgow Al ex ander Gilmour and Co., drysalters, Glasgow William Selkirk, tailor, Edinburgh John Scott, Kirkintilloch Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) No change. Firm. Sales, about 5,000 bales. Import, 21,737; previously, 17,784. MARKETS—This Day. MARK LANE. The supply of English wheat received fresh up to this morning's market was very moderate. Selected samples changed hands slowly, but at full prices. For inferior parcels there was very little demand, yet there were no sellers, at reduced rates. With foreign wheat, chiefly ex granary, the market was well supplied The demand for all descriptions was very inactive; neverthess, Monday's currency was steadily supported. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair average request, at late rates. The barley trade ruled firm, and fine grinding and dis tilling parcels changed hands at rather more money. The supply on offer was small. Malt was firm, and for good and fine produce slightly en hanced rates were paid. There was a full average supply of foreign oats on the stands, but tae market was scantily supplied with home grown produce. Most descriptions were in fair request, at Monday's currency. Beans and peas were in short supply, and the trade ruled firm, at extreme rates. In all kinds of flour sales progressed slowly. Neverthe less the quotations were well supported. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt Oats. Flom. English 210 I 30 I 1020 550 6 80 Irish — 1 110 Foreign...— 9,280 I 10,42 0 1 28,880 sks. 2,510 brie BOROUGH HOP. Our market continues firm, and late rates are well sup ported. The supply of foreign hops on offer is large. WHITECHAPEL. The trade is dull, at reduced rates :—Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d; lamb, 6s Od to 58 8d ; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; and pork, 3s 2d to 4s 2d per Sibs by the carcase. ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED). —We are requested to state that the following influential names have been added to the list of directors of the above company : —William Bevan, Esq. (Messrs. William Bird and Co.), Laurence Poultney. hill ; Thomas Dakin, Esq. and Alderman (Messrs. Dakin Brothers), Abchursh-lane, Director of the Bank of London; Johu Elin, Esq. (Messrs. J. B. Din and Co.), Abchureh lane, Director of the London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate Bank; George Garraway, Esq. (Messrs. F. and G. Garraway), St. Helen's-place; R. Lane, Esq. (Messrs. Lane, Harkey, and Co.), Old Broad-street; Pieter Gerhard Vanderbyl, Esq. (Messrs. Rutherford and Vanderbyl), London. THE ORANGE REIGN OF TERROR,—It would have been some mitigation of the terrible system of re pression carried out in 1796 had it been carried into effect by a regular military force, disciplined to the usages of civilised war, and free from the passions of an infuriated party , but the Government thought fit to place arms in the hands of 37,000 Protestant yeomanry, who admitted no Catholics into their ranks, and were suffered to assume the Orange Ribbon—the insolent badge of Protestant ascend ancy. The cruelties perpetrated by these men, both before the rebellion, and while it was raging, and after it was sap pressed, differed only in degree from the worst enormities of the French revolutionists. Unuer the authority to search for concealed arms, any person whom any ruffian, calling him self a Protestant and loyalist, and either with or without a military uniform, chose to suspect or pretend to suspect, was liable to be seized, tortured, and put to death. Hun dreds of ustoffending people, and people who were guilty of no other offence than professing the creed of their fathers, oorrothf the scalp fall a word of discontent, were flogged until they were insensible, or made to stand upon one foot upon a pointed stake. These were the most ordinary punish matteanrttse.rsas. Sometimes the wretched victim was half hanged, subjected s bw e e t l e d ravishment,t aa o :hwii in unlimitedr se treatment. construed was torn from the head by a pitched cap. an . Catholics, and reputed malcontents of the better class, were the regular troops, were billeted on them at free Militia and yeomanry, nd of England. ailsleetoaf licenceprpe e s i a .s r t s afn t o o cr ehamveu robbery, r b d e e e r n . na a rsisaebvl devastation,yB History NOVA SCOTIA GOLD MlNES.—Accounts from Bays d s Sherbroke, Wi ne H arbour, and Isaac Harbour gold fields are most encouraging. A gentleman who recently ew t. r eturnedor quartz fr om crushed hed eastern G 0 , gold e i a v fields, e yielded 115thea that 33 6 3 t cliawnd t t o n s 6 . o f gold. The quartz was taken f rom the Nw c laim on the Mulgrave lead at Isaac Harbour, and is the result of four men's labour for five months . —Planta Stan dard, May 5. . Course of the Exchange—Yesterday. Amsterdam 11 11 15171 11 11 18 15/ Ditto .. 3 Months. 1t Rotterdam — 11 171 11 18t 25 45 25 50 Antwerp.. • . Brussels — 25 45 25 50 Hamburgh _ 13 71 13 8 P ar i s Ditto Marseilles 25_ 45 25 50 Frankfort on Maine —119 k --11 35 11 45 Vienna 11 40 11 45 Trieste P e tersburgh .. Berlin ...... 49 Madrid ... • • . _ 49 Cadiz 25 49; 49i ` )7 65 _ 47f :65 Leghorn 25 4 7f 25 52/ Mil an .... ,-- 25 47t 25 65 Genoa ,-- 25 47f 25 56 Naples ....- 25 60 25 55 Palermo ....- 25 50 25 65 Messina .62 / 521 Lisbon I - Oporto — 62 1. 63 Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz ' £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars .......... :0 ........ Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doubloons The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about i per mille pm., and price n o l f s 13.61 the short exchange on London is 25.26 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Hint price of £3 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly 3-10ths ker cent. dearer in London than in Paris. gold is 424 per mark, g on th L s o per £1 sterling. standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about and ßy a th d r e fl i o f r r t orft ex if eh a a m n b g ur e 6-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 80 days' sight is 163 i to 164 per cent., and the premium on gold is about 481 per cent. At these rates there ie a prat on the importation of gold from the United States. The Registrar describes L on don as the greatest of h3c,9 m 9 p , e living cities, i its population in 1861 amounting to 2,8362,890 houses, peopling streets and t o i B ri l n squares extended over 122 square miles, along the terraces of land rising from the banks of the Thames. POSTAGE BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND.—It Is believed, says a contemporary, that arrangements are on the eve of completion for a uniform and international postage system, at reduced rates, between France and Eng land. DECOMPOSITION OF HUMAN BODIES.—On Mon day Dr. Lankester held an inquest, at Portland Town, on the body of a young woman who died suddenly; and some of the jury remarked on the rapid approach to decomposition which the body presented. The coroner took occasion to observe that undertakers would do a service to the public if they placed charcoal instead of sawdust into coffins, and kept the lid off. These simple means would re tard decomposition, M. CARACCIOLI. A Monsieur le Redactenr-en-Chef du Times. PriONSIEER LE REDACTEUR,—J'apprends quo dans le Times, du 16 Mai, votre correspondent de Turin, YOUB ecrit : —" Quo les aventuriers qui ont fait cause commune avec les brigands ont its traites d'une fagon trop douse. Si le Comte de Christen &aft attache a la meme chaine qu'un malfaiteur ordinaire, a common malefactor (c'est-a-dire un voleur ou un assassin), on doit so rappelor que ce memo malfaiteur n'6tait que le complies du Comte, et que tons deux ( 7it fait ensemble une expedition de brigandage, &c. Le fait est, qtic, messieurs de Christen et Bishop sont traits comme des gentilhomules: pour leurs compagnons de capti vittl le bagne eat trop bon." Il no peut y avoir de doute sur la personne quo Von a voulu designer par co mots—un malfaiteur ordinaire, a common malefactor. C'est le Chevalier Achille Caracciolo des Dues de Girifoles. Il fit en effet avec le Comte de Christen la campagne des Abruzzes, gentiment appelee par votre correspondent, une expedition de brigands, quoiqu'il n'ignore pourtant point que cette campagne a eu lieu pen dant le siege de Gaiite, et que ces soi-disants brigands ont fait capituler a Banco, un des meilleurs generaux Piemon tois, le Gineral do Sonnaz a la tile de sa division. De plus, M. Caracciolo juge avec M. de Christen dans le meme proces, condatnne avec lui a 10 ans de travaux forces, enferme dans la meme cellule a Santa Maria Apparente, fist au bagne attache a la meme chaine. Ainsi quo l'attesta Lord Henry Lennox, dans son eloquent diseours, quand, en parlant de sa visite au bagne of Nisida, it dit avoir eu de la peine a reconnaitre attaches ensemble par de fortes chaines, Monsieur de Christen and Monsieur de Caracciolo. Il est done evident, Monsieur le Redacteur, que votre oorrespondant n'a pu avoir en vue que le Chevalier Carac ciolo quand it traitait de malfaiteur la personne qui avait etc attache a la meme chaine que le Comte de Christen, et qui auparavant s'etait battu avec lui. Il y a certaines in suites qui partent de trop bas, et s'attaquent trop haut, pour qu'elles puissent arriver a leur but : elles n'eelabous sent que ceux qui les lancent, et ne rne:ritent que la dedain, Mais j'attache trop de prix a l'opinion de la libre nation Anglaise pour garder le silence, quand je vois que les servi teurs du Piemont, cherchent l'abuser par d'aussi groissiers mensonges, et que, non contents d'applaudir aux fusillades, ils cherchent encore a salir da venin de la calomnie les plus nobles caracteres. _ Ignorant les faits je n'en doute pas, vous avez donne a l'insulte, monsieur le redacteur, la publicitd par votre jour nal ; a ma reponse vous devez cette meme publicite. Beau-frera de M. Caracciolo et amide M. de Christen j'ai le drcit de l'exiger ; mais j'aime mienx m'en rapporter a votre loyaute, certain qu'elle vous fera un devoir de publier ma lettre. Votre correspondant s'est garde de nom mer la porsonne qu'il insultait, c'est toujours en se cachant ainsi que marche la calomnie. Aussi pour la demasquer et pour toute reponse n'ai-je voulu que nommer celui que I'on sppelle an malfaiteur, le eomplice du Comte de Christen ! Oui, ils etaient complices l'un do I'autre, complices pour faire leur devoir de soldats I Officier de l'ancianne armde Napolitaine, M. Caracciolo n'abandonna pas son drapeau, et c'est pour etre reste fißle a son serment et a son roi qu'il gemit aujoud'hui, avec son noble compagnon, M. de Cnristen, sous les verroux Piemontais. Mais, aussi sous la veste et le bonnet rouge du bagne, son honneur de gentil h)mire 6tait intact, et it ne cessait pas au moins de porter noblement son nom. Un dernier mot, monsieur, votre correspondent pretend qua Messieurs de Christen et Bishop sont traitds comma dis gentilhommes, mail qua pour leurs compagnons de cap tivite le bagne est trop bon. J'ignore comment sont traites ces infortunes, jo sais seulement qua M. de Christen est encore le compagnon de cellulo de M. Caracciolo dans la fortress') d'Alexandrie a M. Bishop est aussi detenu. Je n'insiste pas, monsieur le redeeteur, pour vous de mander d'inserer ma lettre dans le plus prochainnumero de votre journal ; je sais qu'en Angleterre, a quelque parti qu'on appartienne, os respecte les vaincue, et toutes les in fortunes noblement supportees,—Agreez, monsieur, le redacteur, Ece. VISCOMTE DE LUPE. Nuits C6te d'Or, le 29 Mci, 1863. P,S. Je doie vous prevenir, monsieur, qua j'adresse une copie de cotte lettro plusieurs journaux et qua je lui don nerai la plus grande publicite on France et a l'etranger. [Translation.] SIR,—I understand that in the Times of the 16th ult. your correspondent at Turin wrote to you:—" That the ad venturers who have made common cause with the brigands have been treated in the gentlest manner. If the Count de Christen was attached by the same chain to a common malefactor (that is to say, to a thief, or an assassin) one ought to recall to mind that that same malefactor was only the accomplice of the Count, and the two of them had together embarked upon an expedition of brigandage, &c. The fact is that Messrs. de Christen and Bishop are treated like gentlemen—for their companions in captivity, the con vict prison is too good." No one can possibly have an instant's doubt as to the iden tity of the person intended to be indicated by these words, a common malefactor—viz., the Chevalier Achille Caracciolo des Duce de Girifoles. He, it was in effect, who made with the Count de Christen, the Campaign of the Abruzzi, politely called by your correspondent, an expedition of brigands, although he could not but be perfectly well aware that that campaign took place during We siege of Gaeta, and that these so-called brigands had compelled to capitulate at Banco one of the ablest of the Piedmontese generals, General de Sonnaz, at the head of his division. More than that, M. Caracciolo, tried in the same cellos with M. de Christen, condemned with him to ten years' incarceration with hard labour, shut up in the same cell with him at Santa Maria Apparente, was attached with the same chain to him at that convict establishment—all which was attested by Lord Henry Lennox (very recently in the House of Commons) during the course of the eloquent speech delivered by his lordship when, describing his visit to the convict prison of Nisida, he spoke of having had the pain of recognising fastened together by the same strong chains Messrs. de Christen and Caracciolo. It is thus evident, sir, that your correspondent could not possibly but have had in view M. the Chevalier de Caracciolo—when he designated as a malefactor the person who had been attached to the same chain with the Count de Christen, and who had already been associated with him in the same warlike enterprise. There are certain insults which emanate from a source too low, and are directed altogether too high, to render it possible that they should ever reach their aim. They bespatter only those by whom they are hurled—and they merit only disdain. But I attach too much value to the opinion of the free English nation to remain altogether silent when I see that the sycophants of Piedmont endeavour to delude it (that Public Opinion in England I) by any such monstrous misstatements as these— and that, not satisfied with applauding fusilaeds, they strive to sully with the venom of infamy the noblest characters. Ignorant, I doubt not, of the facts here stated, you h ave given to this insult, sir, the publicity of your journal. To my reply, therefore, you owe that same publicity. A s th e brother-in-law of M. Caracciolo, and as the friend of M. de Christen, I have the right indeed to demand this. I prefer, however, on the contrary, simply to appeal to your sense of courtesy and generosity, feeling assured that you will hasten, in discharge of an honourable duty, to publish my letter. Your correspondent, it is observable, carefully guards himself from mentioning the name of the person whom he insults. It is always thus covertly in fact that calumny advances to its end. And now, also, in order at once to unmask• it, and as my solo and sufficient response, I have wished to do no more than simply to name him who is called a malefactor and the accomplice of M. de Christen I Yes— they have been accomplices the one with the other—accom plices, that is, to do their duty as soldiers An officer of the old Neapolitan army, M. Caracciolo, would not abandon his flag—and it is precisely because he remained faithful to his oath and loyal to his king, that he has to lament to day, together with his noble companion (and accomplice !) M. de Christen, under the Piedmontese prison-bolts. Yet, as under the vest and the red cap of the convict prisoner his honour as a gentleman remained intact, he is still none the less enabled to carry his name nobly and unsullied. One word more. ; air : your correspondent pretends that Messrs. de Christen and Bishop are treated like gentlemen, although for their companions in captivity the convict pri son is too good. Now, lam ignorant certainly as to how those unfortunates are treated. I only know that M. de Christen is still the companion in captivity of M. Catlicciolo in the fortress of Alexandria, where Mr. Bishop is Also detained. I now only urgently request you, sir, that you will pub lish this letter of mine in the earliest possible number of your journal. I know well that in England, no matter what political party one may belong to, respect is always shown to the vanquished, and always accorded to misfortunes that are nobly endured.—Accept, sir, the assurance of, &c., VISCOUNT DE LUPE. P.S.—I think it but right to apprise you beforehand, sir, that I shall address a copy of this letter to several other journals, and that I purpose giving it the greatest poasitle publicity in France and generally throughout the Continent. THE LOUVRE.—The Museums of the Louvre were raised by Napoleon I. to a high degree of splendour. Louis XVIII. further enriched them with 111 paintings, at a cost of 668,265 f. It was also during his reign that the Venus of Milo was added to the Museum of Antiquities. Charles X. purchased 24 paintings for 62,790 f., and com pleted the Museum of Antiquities, which boars his name. Louis Philippe purchased for the Louvre only 33 paintings, at a cost of 74,136 f. Since the accession of Napoleon 111. the New Louvre has seen several new galleries formed. Thirty master-pieces of the highest order of merit have been bought, at an expense of nearly 1,000,000 f., among them being "The Conception," by Murillo, for which 615,300 f. were paid to the heirs of Marshal Soult ; also, two pieces by Velasquez, two Hobbemas, and one a beautiful Denner. Several invaluable pieces of sculpture have also been ob tained; and, last of all, the Campana collection, which cost 4,000,000 f. The Apollo Gallery is now terminated, deco rated, and furnished, The Emperor is organising the great museum which is to bear his own name, and that e of f e French school of painting, on the right and left Napo _ Pavilion Denon, the first floor of the New Louvrjeen. odours of leou 111. has contributed more largely to the e p a the Louvre than any other Sovereign sine Galignani. °Francis 1. EARLY BIRTHPAYS..—The n r c was a certain birthday , sense time when, inseparable from one's own bfi Ntv ell-earned distinction. sense of merit, a consciousness soa g raceful achievement of When I regarded my birthday a perseverance, independence, my own, a monument of my and good sense, redounding greatly to my honour. This was at about the period when 0 0 1 1 y y m m v p i i a a Squires became w as most in volved in the anniversary. beautiful (of course), and I loved her to that degree, that I used to be obliged to got out of my little bed in the night, expressly to exclaim to Solitude, " 0, Olympi a Squires I Visions of Olympia, clothed entirely in sage-green, from w hich I infer a defectively-educated taste on the part of her respected parents, who were necessarily un acqua i nted with the South Kensington Museum, still arise before me. Truth i s sacred, and the visions are crowned by a shining . white beave r bonnet, impossibly s uggestive of a little feminine poatboy,—Charles Dickens in " .AU the Year Round." 102/ 3 2i GAME PROSPECTS. We have the usual contradictory accounts from the North of Scotland. Last season, about this time, all was couleur de rose—assurances of nume rous and abundant coveys before the eggs were hatched, while, as unfortunately happened, a ;ion siderable portion of them were never hatched at all. This season there are rival prophets, one set of whom rejoice the sportsman with the intelligence that "on all the extensive moors grouse are abundant, the hatching season well advanced, and the more early nests containing young grouse." The other set revel in accounts of deep snow, hail, rain, dead birds, and black prospects—the writers warning the Cockneys against high rents and barren hills. Possibly both speculatiors are exaggerated, and, as with us on the low ground, the real prospects of sport on the 12th of August (which, by the way, falls this season on a Wednesday) can not as yet be anticipated with any degree of accuracy. All that can be said about the Ayr shire moors, as yet, is that the stock left last season was, notwithstanding an almost universal jubilee by sportsmen, under an average ; and, where they were not spared, very low indeed ; so that, even for anything like a fair show of birds in August, a very dry and warm spring is indispensable. So far as it has yet gone the season has not been unfavourable ; and, after E 0 wet an early spring, we may hope for dry weather and heat. Even on the best moors, where there was scarcely any shooting last season, the old birds, though healthy, are scarce. The cause of this scarcity has been the subject of many inte resting communications in the Field, and the fact of the scarcity, with occasional dead birds on moors little shot last season, is rather freely, we think, ascribed to disease. Those who ;have paid much attention to the habits of grouse might, we think, discover another, if not the chief, cause. A jubilee to be of much consequence to numbers would need to be universal, or at least much more general than can possibly be attained. Late in the season grouse join passing packs, and will go miles from home to cornfields, casting in their lot with the pack they chance to join, the survivors generally returning to their native ground at the pairing season. But their numbers are severely thinned by constant shooting for the market by parties who take a licence and a small extent of ground, and make a trade of "rickle-shooting." And a very remunerative trade it is, however ruinous to the fair sportsman. These " rickle shooters," who pay £5 or /8 for the right to shoot over from 500 to 800 acres of ground which possibly never bred a grouse, lay down sheaves of corn lavishly in a line, and, themselves concealed in houses made of straw, shoot at the flocks that come the entire autumn and winter days. Each of these men will, after harvest, when the fair sportsman can scarcely get a shot, kill more grouse in one week than the average sportsman, on the best ground, kills in a season. No wonder grouse are scarce and occasionally diseased after such wholesale slaughter. Half-a-dozen grouse are often killed at a single shot, and probably twice as many wounded ; and our theory is that these wounded birds which languish and die are the diseased birds, whose ailments are speculated about so scientifically in the sporting papers. The fact of a bird being reduced to a skeleton is assumed to be conclusive of disease, but when we have the know ledge that birds are thus woanded wholesale towards the close of the season, it seems more than probable that their emanciated appearance is the result of pining under wounds for months. In con clusion, we do not think last season's blank was to be ascribecLto unusual disease, but simply to the wet season having rotted almost all the eggs; and we see no reason to anticipate any other than fair sports this season, if we are spared heavy rains till the coveys are on the wing. This applies equally to black game.—Ayr Advertiser. HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the .Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) In the week that ended last Saturday the total number of deaths registered in London was 1,296, exhibiting a slight increase on that of the previous week, which was 1,259. The average number, as ob tained from the returns of corresponding weeks in the ten years 1853-62, and corrected for increase of population, is 1,139. The number contained in the present return is, therefore, 157 more than it would have been if the average rate of mortality had pre ♦ailed. The births in last week exceeded the deaths in the same period by 701. Sixty-eight deaths from smallpox were registered last week, 21 of which occurred at the age of 20 and upwards. Typhus was fatal in 46 cases, diarrhoea in 12, scarlatina in 78, measles in 39. Of 178 deaths assigned to diseases of the respira tory organs, 93 were caused by bronchitis, 54 by pneumonia, Bby asthma. Phthisis was fatal in 159 cases. The son of a labourer, residing at Plum stead, died from the effects of poison, the paper on the walls of the bedroom containing large quantities of arsenic. A girl, aged 14 years ; died in the West minster Hospital from tetanus. A man, aged 57 years, died from carbuncle. The deaths of four persons were caused by delirium tremens, and one person died from intemperance. Six deaths oc curred from burns or scalds ; five children and one adult were suffocated. The deaths of two nonagenarians were recorded ; they were aged respectively 94 and 98. Last week the births of 1,005 boys and 992 girls, in all 1,997 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number (corrected) was 1,770. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.978 in. The barometrical reading was 29.71 in. at the be ginning of the week, and rose to 30 . 14 in. on Thurs day. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 55 . 4 deg., which is 0.4 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature was 79.7 deg. on Friday. The lowest night temperature was 34.9 deg. on Tuesday. The entire range of tempe rature in the week was therefore 43.8 deg. The mean temperatures of the water of the Thames was 55.3 deg. The difference between the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 5.5 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 76, cowplete saturation being represented by 100. The direcLion of the wind was north-east and west. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, June 3.—Wind this day at noon—West; light breeze and fine weather. CARDIFF, June 2.—Wind S.W. - -Sailed—Winifred, for Madras. SWANSEA, June 2.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Countess of Bective, for Cuba. Louus FOYLE, June 3.—Arrived—Bohemia, screw steamer, from Quebec. ren li ce u , L f L o'r Vjun alp e ar 2— a . iso l . Vind S.lV,—Sailed---Abbot t Law. China. OFF PORTLAND, Juno 3.—Arrived — Ant i po des, from GRAVESEND, w from Cochin ; Afred, from (BY MAGNETIC TELE__.O Arrived, June 2—Lindayo_,3wal ; rdnens2ay Morning. d Stadt Worcum, from Sydney; Gloriana, from Grf f Worcum. 3—Martlet, from Hamburg ; Stadt Dor dr South, for Sydney; Elise and Char d---ilrooolofotfoloo, for Sydney ; Nina Claypole, for e A c r h r t iv f e r d o , m J D un o o rds. INo taSi e s a s:a f i Nassau; s t s . ° la go de C uba ; D R EhA h i Linn,ael: i i r 0 r Ostend n i n g ~• N or mandie, ste amer, for Dunkirk. Nfe y or Londo n; C our i er, from Havre, of New York, from Passed—anSi, ep for well, Stavanger from ; China, Ayres, for Antwerp; Wool oomooloo, from Lond on , Sydney. CRIME IN SCOTLAND.—The tables of criminal offenders in Scotland in 1862 show an increase of mroarrestohianagle2. per cent, ov e r th e comm itt a l s o f 1861. They were 3,229 in 1861 and 3,630 in 1362 ; 351 were un d er 1 6 The number who had a superior education increased 15 per cent. ; the number who could neither read nor write increased only 5 per cent , and the class from which they are drawn is doubtless diminishing. Those who could road and write imperfectly increased' IS per cent, Offences against property committed without violence, con stituting half the committals, increased 7 per cent.; offences against property with violence, 19 per cent. ; offences against the person, above 20 per cent. ; 2,693 persons were found guilty ; two were sentenced to death, and one of them exe cuted ; 224 to penal servitude ; 2,183 were sentenced to im prisonment, the majority for teams not exceeding three months. Of the 2,997 actually tried 741 had previous con victions proved against them —a smaller proportion than in 1861. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, June 2.—The yarn-market has been remarkably quiet to-day, but spinners are remarkably firm, and do not evince any disposition to give way. There have been some large offers made for yarns, at about Id. per lb. decline on the terms of last week, which have all been declined.. This market, as well as the Liverpool cotton-market, has been unfavourably affected by the news to hard per City of N ew Y or k steamer. Some of the p:i vate telegrams received here respecting the Liver - pool cotton market led to the inference that they had possession of American news that had not reached Manchester. Later on this afternoon it Liverpool tthe e i ternf n cottonelvs Nnichairckhehtawdacsauthseadt e o s r e t e i d n t t h h a e t was unea r s e i uneasiness stating the probability of 100,000 bales of cotton reaching New Orleans as the result of General. Banks' recent operations in the Teche country, the quotations of cotton at New Orleans being reported at 48 cents., and declining. Whatever may be th© cause the market here has been very inactive, for all kinds of yarn. Sellers, however, owing to the contracts on hand, appear indisposed to press sales, and, with the exception of one or two descriptions of yarn for India, which are rather weaker in price, there is no change. For cloth, also, we have had a quiet, dull market. Scarcely any business has been effected. Manufacturers are quoting the same prices as last week, but to effect sales it would be necessary to make some concession. This applies to shirtings and all classes of fabrics suitable to India, as well as to printer's and other cloths suitable to the home trade. For some weeks past the market has not been affected by the unfavourable advices to India, but this morning the buyers for the lead ing shipping houses have shown more shyness, and the large offers making by some of them last week, but which fell hrough owing to the demand for higher rates, have not been renewed. There is some business reported on American account from the blockade runners, and it will be observed in the cotton circular of Messrs. Gibbes and Co., of Charles ton, that there is plenty of inducements, from the fact that prints selling here at a shilling per yard realise in the Southern States as much as 12s. 6d. per yard. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report :—" Since our last report business has been interrupted by the holidays, and little or nothing has been done during the week. The unfavourable accounts to hand per telegraph from Bombay and Calcutta have also caused buyers to hold aloof, and on the whole we have an exceedingly quiet market; but as pro ducers generally are free from stocks, and in many cases deeply engaged, there is no anxiety to sell, and we make no change in our quotations." LEEDS, 2d.—There has been a large attendance of both buyers and sellers at to-day's markets. The principal business has been done in good meltons, for which many of the leading merchants were in quiring, and nearly all offered for sale were bought up. No advance was effected in prices, but it is quite evident that the plain trade is really very much better than it has been for more than a year. The demand is not confined to blacks, but indigo-dyed blues, browns, steel mixtures, and Oxford bird's eye mixtures are taken in fair quantities. Three quarter shirtings and thin fabrics in bright fancy colours have not much regard, though some small capitalists chose occasionally to job in them on specu lation. Superfine black unions are in about the same oondition. The manufacturers are too much engaged in working to order to bring any of their new styles to market, but it does not transpire that any novelties have been forthcoming beyond what have been noticed in these reports. NOTTINGHAM, 2d.—At this Exchange-hall to day there was a moderate attendance of merchants and manufacturers ; but the demand was of only a limited character for lace yarns, and prices were the same as heretofore. The inquiry for hosiery yarns was also slow, and very little change from late rates occurred. All kinds of silks were nominally unaltered. In the brown net department very little business was done, and recent rates may be quoted. ROCHDALE, lst.—To-day's market cannot be re ported in a better condition than it was last week; Buyers have not attended so numerously as is their wont, and the few who were present from a distance made the least possible impression on the stocks in hand. High prices are still the impediment to more extensive sales of plain flannel; but finer and fancy sorts are in better request. The shipping trade is but slack, although a few orders have recently been received. The prices of other woollen goods of Yorkshire make remain high, though sales are not brisk. The wool market is in a very quiet condi tion, and calls for no special remark. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. CHARING-CROSS RAILWAY. A special general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yesterday at the offices of the South Eastern Railway Company, in compliance with the standing orders of the House of Lords, for the purpose of considering the provisions of the fol lowing bill now pending in Parliament :—A bill for regulating the capital and debenture debt of the Charing•cross Railway Company, and for authoris ing the amalgamation of that company with the South Eastern Railway Company, and for other purposes. The Hon. Mr, BYNG occupied the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the object of the bill was to enable them to increase the capital of the company in order to enable them to grant the lease of the site of the hotel to the Charing-cross Hotel Company, and to enable the South Eastern Rail way Company to lease this undertaking or to amalgamate it with their own. The pur chase of St. Thomas's Hospital had absorbed a considerable amount of capital, and provision was not made for it in the original estimates, and it had become necessary by the present bill to raise the necessary capital. It had also been found necessary to take steps for enlarging the accommodation pro vided by the railway; and indeed there was every reason to believe that even with this third line of rails, which had been laid down, it would be as much as they could do to carry on the traffic to their own and to the public satisfaction. The direc tors had promoted the erection of the hotel, and had little reason to doubt that it would prove of con ; siderable advantage to the undertak in g . Another of the the the objects of the bill was to capita! authorised Company. The total amount g th Eastern Charing-cross Company with tfhceaa amalgamate t o ot which they were to be raised was £70 0,000, hotel £65,000. read the heads of the bill, hteimsheotuhlde line ee would have be some o opened,m e in formation empowered The s oi t c o a o it then subscr i be . ou towar d s the . capital of the and after a slight discussion a resolution was carried approving of the bin. were getting r i a e T s h i r o t o l said d t e l r i s e impatient at the delay in the opening. asti‘ill the shareholders The CHAIRMAN, in reply, observed that their engineer assured him that the line would be opened in September next. LONDON, BRIGHTON , AND SOUTHCOAST. Yesterday an adjourned special meeting of this the company was held at the London-bridge Station, for purpose of considering the following bills pending in Parliament :—An act to confer further powers on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway with reference to the widening and improve ment of the Pimlico railway and for other purposes. An act to enable the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company to extend their railway to Green wich and Woolwich, to improve the communication with the Victoria station, and to execute certain other works in connection with their undertaking, and to amend the acts of the said company—Mr. Scott in the chair. th e b oa rd deeply regretted The CHAIRMAN said the late accident on t he lice, and sincerely sympa thised with the unfortunate sufferers. They bad or dered au inquiry woulde cause ot the accident, and tys no7toSbOl O a n m s e a . t s ri fy le th d e et p a t i l l b s li o c f trusted that that the the company bills had already been explained to the shareholders. A retolution a pproving, of the bills was then car- ried.e mee ting was then made specia l, and the T h shareholders confirmed an agreement between the Brighton and the Horsham, Dorking, and Leather.. head company for the working of the latter line by t h e former. The proceedings then terminated, 13.14. 6.4.0 1946.41 12.10 1281 9 67& I Mt 921 i 70