The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-08 00:00:00

XONEY , MARKET AND COXIMECIAL INTELLIGENCE, In the CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. business in 'general discount m ar k e t th er e i s littl e progress owing to the expected reduc tion to-morrow in the Bank of England minimum. Merchants and others are holding over their bills, be cause they know if a down wale movement be made by the authorities, still greater concessions will be Offered them by the brokers. The public and private establishments are therefore anxious to secure all the paper now brought forward at present rates, Which are 64 and 67 per cent. About 50,000 sovereigns were withdrawn from the Bank yesterday for the Brazils. The W ave of Life has arrived from Port Phillip With £ 2 0,888 and the City of London f rom N ew York with £81,963. T here was no a lt era ti on o f i mportance i n the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon. The shareholders of the London and Caledonian Marine Insurance Company held a special meeting - today for the purpose of confirming certain resolu tions respecting the future government of the Insti tution. Mr. Ambrose Emerson occupied the chair, an d the resolution was unanimously agreed to. Two O'CLOCK. , At Paris thi s morn i ng, accor di ng to Renter ' s telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were 67f. 05c. An improving tendency is exhibited in the English Stock M ar k et i n consequence of several purchases !laving been effected this morning. The Funds have recovered the loss sustained yesterday, and Consols are 90-4 d for money, and 90/ d for the account. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities ar e 89, t , ; Exchequer Bills, I.ls. dis.; India 5 per "tits., 104 a ; Enfaced 5 per Cents., 105; do. 5-1 per Cents., 114; and the Bonds, 20s. die. In the Foreign Market a firmer tone is apparent, and business is rather more active. Turkish 6 per ~.C en ts., 1862, aro 711 1; do. Conso 481; mezicao, 441, 45 ; do. New Loan, 1 die. par; Greek, 24 1 ; Spani,h Passive, 326 & ; do. Certificates, 9 1 10 ; Portuguese, 486 49 ; Russian Loan, 3/ 4/ prem.; Swedish do., 21 3/ prem. ; Italian Bonds, 691 I ; and the Confederate Loan, 64/ 65/. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been restricted, and prices have shown less firmness. London, Chatham, and Dover have de clined £1; Midland, 10s. ; Great Northern A Stock, 63 .; Metropolitan, 53. ; and South Eastern, ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit no change of importance. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares continue in mo derate request, but at rather reduced rates. City Bank has declined to 134, Continental to 18, and Alliance Bank to 61; Discount Corporation have improved to 161-. Imperial Bank of China are quoted dis. to par ; Millwall Iron Works, / Preto, ; and Chamounix Hotel, 1 11 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. G OVERNMENT FUNDS. ' Per Cent. Consols Ditto Account Ju ly 8 New Cent. Redticee 3 per Cent. B9B f March. June. exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2.1 & 3 per Cent. Ditto £.500 ~ Di tto £lOO and £2OO Lank Eland Stk, 51 per Ct. ... New Account.. 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894.... Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — Annuities, 30 yrs, expire bth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — •,. INDialsr GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 4ndia Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 217 Ditto 5 per Cent. July, 1870 Ditto Account Ditto 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 — Do Certificates Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent — Ditto 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 lO5 Ditto 5/ per Cent., May, 1879 ...... • • 114 Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1864 Ditto ditto Aug., 1866 Ditto Bonds.€l,ooo 2O dis Ditto under £1,000.. • FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Ditto 1863 Buenos Avres 6 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) Cbilian 6 per Cent Ditto 4/ pei Cent Colombian 6 per Cent banbana, 6 per Cent. ish 3 per Cent. 1825 Ditto 5 per Cent, , 1863 — . Ditto Scrip £7O paid — Pm 4,,Plador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — *%'''Ylotian 7 per Cent ' 1011 D itto, Second Issue Qreek 5 ~ tto , per Cent 1824-5, ex-Coupons.. •- 241 4 -' i Account .) Ditto Coupous Di tto Account 1-Ifitornaltt 5 per Cent. Di tto, 1889 and 1869 ..... Italianl 5 per Ce nt .(sl aremm ana Railway) At mean 3 per C en t Dit to Account Ditto French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — dis Moorish Imp per Cent erial 5 New G ranada Ditto 2 per Cent. D itto Deferred — Ditto Land Warrants (Hectares) — l'eruvian 41 per Cent .. Ditto Account.... Ditto 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) Ditto 42 per Cent., 1862 .. Ditto Account — P ortu guese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account — Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, 7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 49 8/ Ditto Account Ditto 1863 Scrip, £4O paid Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B9l Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 — Ditto 3 per Cent 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 B7l Ditto Anglo-Dutch .... Ditto Scrip, £2O paid Sardinian 5 per Cent .. Ditto Account Bpanieh 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account 45/ Ditto Passive Ditto Account 321 1 Bpanish Cert. of Coup not funded — 1 Ditto Account Swedish, 4 per Cent — ~. Ditto Scrip, £4O paid — pm Xu - kish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account 9Ol Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Zilitto Account Ditto, £lOO Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Ditto £lOO Bonds 7l/ Ditto 1863 - ~.._ Ditto Guaranteed, 4 p er C en t. ..... Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account _ Ditto 6 per Cent., 1362 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent, 1864 Ditto Scrip, £3O paid Ditto 11 Der Cent Dividends on the above payable in Lond .n Austrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. -- Belgian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f... — Ditto Account Dutch 21 per Cent., .Ex. 12 Gull — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Ditto Account.... Peruvian Dollar Bond s , 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s. Piedmontese, 5 par Cent., Ex. 25f — TWO O'CLOCK. consols Money Ditto Account M---:-...--------- .EMOIRS OF MEYERBEER fire already announced hi more than one quarter. PARIS.—A public dinner, at which the advocates for the abolition of the punishment of death proposed to meet yesterday, was interdicted by the police. Engcne Godard has addressed a letter to the icarnhls to account for the non-performance of his promise to ascend in his balloon on Sunday. All his arrangements, Ile says, had been made, when the positive order of the Minister of the Interior, who feared further disturbances, interdicted the ascent. 13LACKFRIARS BRIDGE,—.Last evening the ap proaches to old Blackfriars Bridge were intercepted on both sides of the river by bartleadea, and the pavement for a short distance was taken up, with a view to prevent the tP.assage of traffic over tits bridge, p re p ara t ory t o i ts d esti uc lon being conancene,ad this morning. An addition 4 11 s to the legacy o f 10 , 0 00 f. made by M. Yerbeer N the Association of Musical Artists, a donation similar amount has been left by hire. to the Association brarnat 4 c Authors an d C omposers, as announced by 1413 3% M eyerbeer in a l e tt er to 31. de SaTnt-George, the iaresident of that institution. Gazette de France states that the weekly Journal.La Paroisse ha s j ust b een again seized for having, 4 an article entitled " Bref Pontifical de Lyon," discu Jur idicall y the note by which the Honiteur interdicted sssd the Publication of that brief. The Discussion of yesterday was „ also seiz e d at the pre -office by ord er o f the Minister of the 44terior. ~IIBT, BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 100 sk 20 GOB to oo 1 datl - waya Paid. all Closing Price. 6062 103 i 1041 Atlantic Ac St Lawrene( Born., Barodat.Cent Ina Gu. 5 per cent— Dp. New stock itrok D. E. 5hare5......... Buffalo and Lase Huron Do. Fret cronce Ruffalo,BrantAGodrich 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 167:: Do. do. July 1, 187:, Do. t:L•. June 1,1:•,: Clcutta..&S.Eastn. (1. Cape Town t Dock Seri! 141utn. Bengal gu. 5 p. Last Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. Co. G Ext..... Do. do. II do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. Ist Prat. Bonds.. stock 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 stook DO: CIO. deferred...... Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d Piet stock ... Do. do. deferred...... Do. 4th I'ref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... t.lndiaPenfn.gua.sp:o Do. iN ew gua. 5 p. a... Do. January, 186.2 Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 witlet opt. Do. s p. c. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Limited Madras. guar., 5 p. 0. .. Do. 41 p. o. Extension De. 14 d 0........ Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.Corp. 6 p. o. Buds. Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Mortg. Bds. l Newßrunswiok Cands Class A. and B. N.ltl.C'das po Ist pi Wei Soinde all 100 (100 I' 100 2 1 all 100 tloo_ stock stock par p 6i 84 9i 77 82 77 8! 77 82 101 103 98 100 106 108 1051 104 1 , 24 214 73 :5 6! 64 66 68 55 57 50 5! 43 15 29 31 27 30 105 106 I P Busin ego doo,- 1061 51 Do. Delhi -- -- -- Do. Punjaub .... Do. Do. ........ Do. Indus. St. Flo. 211 201 67 i 102 104 10 10i 10i 10i6, 90 92 82 84 par 4p 1021 1031 97 99 92 Of 104 : 4 lon 41 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. p.c.J ul) - 1877-31 100 104 106 105 - Do. Ap. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 103 105 Do. ti p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 102 104 - Do. 6p. c. Jan.&July. 10C 92 94 94 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93 Cape G.llope, 6 p 0.1873 100 106 108 Do.Ap & Oct 1880 100 107 109 Do. 1861 100 119 111 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 103 110 112 ;Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112 !Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 106 108 ;Natal Gov. 6 per cont 100 107 109 IN.B.Gov. 6 p.o. J a.&July 100 102 104 Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. G ov. 5 p 2.,186t 100 995 1005 Du. sp. 04871 to 187 e 100 994 1006 Do. d0.,1888 &upwde 100 994 1604 1001 New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 10) 111 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 lOO 104 108 —Queensland (icy. 6p. c lOO 108 110 I S. Aus G6p.c.1873.& up lOO 110 112 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 Do. io A p.a. A.n.&00.. 100 109 110 110 91 BRITISH MINES. 2 i Cambrian Consul. Gold 1 id - cli/lord Amalgamated — 33 35 Devon G. Cone. Tavist , 1 560 670 - East Bassett (Illogan) 3O 63 65 East Clogau Gold Ltd. East Caradon ...... 2.14.6 28 29 East Cam Brea... 3.4.0 9 95 984 E. (Tavistk.) 8.13.6 34 45 - iGam.&StAubyn(Gwen., 081 7 9 1G reat South Tolgus l7s 25 24 (1. Wheal Vor (Ifelstou 40 314 354 315 !Grenville . 6.16. r 85 8/ Illemd's-Foot ";.12 38 40 i lling - stoa Downs OlB.O 35 34 - 'Lady Bertha !Margaret (tiny Lela": t ok It 16 !Hark° Valley. 4 Nly - ndy Iron Oro (Lim,; V I 15 1 6 New Setun l9l 80 85 • North Downo 2l 11 24 BaBset(lllo4an 3.1.0 14 2 !- North Wheal Crotty ..12.6.9 4 45 - Par Consols (St. Blazey! 20 i erovidence (Uny Lelnt., l 10 0.7 90 42 South Caradon(StCleer, 15 450 470 S. Care Brea (lllogan).. I S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan ; 18.18.9 40 45 'Stray Park 30.17.6 29 31 1 ramar 511 , 7.& Lead Min - fin Crott 9 174 185 West Basset (Mogan), W Cr radon (Liskeard) 5 16 18 West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan; 54 90 95 Wheal Buller(ltedruth)' 10 30 35 Wheal Kitty (IJ.Lelantl 2.0.6 - IWhealLudcott I 3.5.8 14 24 I Wheal MaryAnni s rilen )! 8 14 16 Wheal Seton I 585 220 230 Wheal Treiawney (Lis )I 7 19 21 1 Wheal Union I 3.17 14 2 SHARE MARKETS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOUkS. I 3harel l Railways. ' Paidi closing I Business ' Price. I done. 13.14. 1 131 r., Rol., and Str. Val. all , 8 84 at Blythe and Tyne. to llost.,Sleat.,andMid.Uo all 84 9 at Bristol and Exeter at Caledonian 50 !;ork and Bandon all 20 ',:c.irn , ;•ii 10 Do A 4 • gets no div a ll 10 Do. B till 6p c.p an.has all been paid to It. 50 Dublin & Belfast June. all 35 37 25 3 IJ Ii n.,rellh 1 A c n i, a . s .1 14o un : 1 a ll 1 6 17 t E dinburgh at Glasg, and S. Western.! 100 st Great:Eastern, Ord. stl, ;00 461 47 1 9 1 1 103 9 10 3 .5 st Ditto A stock at Ditto East Anglian st 100 64 75 7 st , . - ireatNorthot Scotland 100 , at Lireat Northern.. lOO 130 lal. st Do A stock it Do El do et Gt. S. an , IW. of Irelan' 100 91 93 st Great Western at Do Str Val "ua. stool, 100 st Lancashlte & Yorkshire 100 112 1121 5t London and Blackwali 100 66 67 665 st Lon., Brlght.,& S. Coast 100 104 106 st Lcn., Chat., and Dover 100 41 43 42 st Lon. & North Western 100 111 1114 1114 5 at Lon. & So•.th Western 1 971 985 98 st m an ., sl i m, & Lincoln. 100 535 545 544 50 Maryport and Carlisle. all 125 Do 4 shares ........ • • all st Iltetropolitar .. all 113 114 1135 13 st Midland Do New at Do Binning. & Derby 100 iOl 103 50 Kid, Gt. W. o: Irelanc all 25 Do. 4 shares 25 511 d Kent - all 10 Do Cray Line at North British at EdEn., Perth, & Dundee 100 245 251 at Nth. Eastern—Berwia 100 1014 102 1014 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase 16.13.4 —el at Do Leeds lOO 575 685 58 4 at Do York at Do Carlisle lOO st North London 1 0 Do New +913.1 North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction all 104 114 at Scottish Central at Scot. N. E., Aber. stool , 100 36 38 at Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 10 Shrews. and Welohpoo all st Shropshire Union at South Devon ..... lOO 33 85 34 st South Eastern at South Wales st S. York. and River Dun 100 104 106 20 staines,Wok.,andWok all 75 85 25 Stockton & Darlington all 864 375 374 25 Do l7 94 10 ~ 25 Do New, 1866 lO 8 85 ‘ at Taff V a l e .. ..... lOO 165 170 10 Do B 8 6 7 , 10 Do C 3 3 t p 50 Ulster 25 Do 12.10 Do 54 st Vale of Neath st Victoria eta. and Pim lOO I st Waterford & Kilkenny 100 st West Cornwall 1100 I 23 25 at W. Hartlepool Har.&R ' 109 I st West Midland —Oxford, 100 st Do Newport' 100 at Do Hereford; 100 I 56 58 3 5 82 a 103 104 1024 1034 1 d 413 1024 10341 96 98 I'HEFEBENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm., Me Mid .Consolidated, 6 per cent. stock, Ditto, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent.,' — Midland 4} per cent. pf. stk. rd., 1011 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Brighton, drc., 4} per cent., 1858, 99 Metropolitan 5 per cent., 105 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 3f FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and notterdamai San Paulo (litn.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 20 FOItEIGIci MMES. Alamiilos, limited, 1 Fortuna (lira.), 4 Pontgibaud Silver, Lead Min. and Smelting, S St. John del Itey (limo, 44 31 BANKS. Agra and United Service (lim.), 130 Alliance (lim.), .61 Anglo Austrian, 74 Australasia, Ditto, new, 664 Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 14 British and Californian, lim., e 4 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and:China, 391 City, 134 Consolidated Bank, lim., 114 Continental, lim., 18 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 21} English and Swedish, iim.. 1 11 European Bank, 1im.,1131 4 4 Hindustan, Ofina, and Japan (lim.), 32 Imperial Ottoman, 104 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 54 London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate, Ditto, new, 6 London and County, 63 London and South African, 254 Merchant Bank, lim , 231 Mercantile and Exchan v cre. Urn., 1 9; National Provincial of England. Ditto, ditto, 38 Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi lim., 134 South E 'ster n , l ice„ si Australian 'Mort. Land and LFLinANaine, lira EOulj,S., Berlin Water Works, lim., 8i Ceylon Company, 12 [lb Discount Corporation, 16} Egyptian Corn. and Trading, Urn. 5} Fore-street Warehouse, lira., 6 7 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Um., 7/ Hudson's Bay, lU Imperial Financial, lira., 7: Indian Carrying, lirn., I# International Financial :Society, lira,, lot International Land Credit, lira., Joint Stock Discount, lira., 7in London and Caledonian Marine, lira,, 51 London Financial Association, lira., 27e Ditto, new, 151 London General Omnibus Company, 2& on 3l , t lim., 131 3 L i o e u r ca d o n a t e r o c v r i e n d o i i t a l Ass a o r c Mine, at National Discount Company, lira., 14fi Ditto, new. ill New Zealand Trust and Loan, 21 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, lim., Smith, Knight, and Co., lila, 5A Societe Financiere cl'ggYPte, 11111',15i rock I THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1864. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before Mr Justice Crompton.) MANSLAUGHTER BY A LUNATIC. Peter Prederick Knight was placed at the bar to plead in an indictment charging him with the manslaughter of Win. Harringdon. It will be recollected that both prisoner and deceased were inmates of Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, and that death was occasioned through an encounter between the two unfortu., nate men. Dr Gibson, surgeon of Newgate, and another medical gentleman, said they considered the prisoner to be in a state of mind quite unfit to plead. The learned Judge said, that being the case, he should order him to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. NEW COURT. (Before Mr Baron Bramwell.) KEEPING AN UNLICENSED LUNATIC ASYLUM. Mrs Sophia Leander surrendered to an indictment pre ferred against her by the Commissioners of Lunacy with keeping an unlicensed house for the reception of lunatics. The defendant, it appeared, was the proprietor of an establishment called Zion House, Hackney, and it having come to the knowledge of the Commissioners in Lunacy, they sent Dr Christie, the proprietor of a licensed establish. ment, to examine and report upon the facts of the case. The doctor informed the Commissioners that he examined six persons, who all exhibited undoubted evidence of dis eased mind, some of them, in fact, bordering on idiotcy. There were in addition between 70 and 80 other patients all subject to delirium; but it was alleged that the establish. meat was not a lunatic asylum, but a charitable institution founded mainly for the safe custody and treatment of per sons suffering from temporary idiotcy or unsoundness of intellect. The Act of Parliament makes it a misdemeanour of carrying on an unlicensed asylum for the reception of lunatics or idiots. Serjeant Ballantine addressed the jury for the defendant. Mr Baron Bramwell summed up the evidence, and said, the question of the jury to decide was aye or no—had the defendant contravened the provisions of a very salutary Act of Parliament, which was calculated, at the same time, to protect the helpless and those who undertook their care and custody. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. • . The counsel for the commissioners said they had no desire to press for punishment, all they desired was the suppression of the establishment. Mr Baron Bramwell said that being the case, the better course to pursue would be to direct the lady to enter into her oven recognisances to appear for judgment it necessary, and in the meantime some arrangement agreeable to all parties could be entered into. THIRD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) Michael Moran was indicted for assaulting and robbing an aged man named John Rear. The jury found him guilty, and several previous convic tions having been proved against him, The Common Sergeant sentenced him to seven years' penal servitude. MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. The supply of English wheat on sale here to-day was moderate. Both for red and white qualities the trade ruled quiet. Nevertheless selected parcels supported Monday's currency. The market was moderately supplied with foreign wheat. In nearly all descriptions sales progressed slowly, yet prices ruled stationary, Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, at late rates. The supply of barley on sale was seasonably large. The trade, however, was moderately active, and Monday's prices were supported. Malt changed hands slowly, at late rates. Oats, the supply of which on sale was moderate, ruled firm, at quite previous quotations. Beans and peas were quite as dear as on Monday. The flour trade was steady, and late prices were sup ported. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. English...— 180 . _ Irish.. — N'oreign 1,350 Do — Malt 2,120 Oats. Flout. 293 I 1,130 710 13,710 3) Om, 7,993 brie. BOROUGH HOP. Our market is quiet, and inferior hops are somewhat lower in price, WHITECIIAPEL. The trade is in a sluggish state, at the annexed cur rencies : Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s ; mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d; lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 4d; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d; and pork, 3s 4d to 4s Sd per 81bs by the carcase. Course oic a the Exchange.—Yesterday. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam .. 12 Ot 12 Antwerp.. — 25 62 4 25 67t t Brussels — 25 621 2.5 671 Hamburgh — 13 8} 13 81 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine .— 120 1201 Vienna Trieste Petersburgh — 321 321 Berlin — Radrid .• . • 48 481 Cadiz Leghorn — 25 70 25 77i Milan — 25 70 25 77 1 Genoa — 25 70 25 75 25 75 25 80 Naples Palermo •— 25 75 25 80 Messina — 25 75 25 80 Li s b on —51 a 0p0rt0.... . —51 i Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars 0 0 0 Silver in Bars (Standard) SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE — This Day. LONDON, June S.—Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, bnt rather cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, June 7.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Her Majesty's ship Pearl, from China. FALMOUTH, June 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Gambier, from Porto Rico, CLYDE, hue 7.—Wind W.—Arrived—Excelsior, from Bordeaux. CARDIFF, June 6.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Britannia, for New York. SHIELDS, June 7.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Anne, from Trieste, (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FALMOUTH, Wednesday Morning. The East Inlia and London Shipping Companies steam ship Lady Jocelin, Captain Kerr, from Sydney, New South Wales, for London, put in here this morning to replenish fuel. She brings 3,000 bales wool, 26 first class cabin pas. sengers, and has landed a mail. She fell in with much ice. off Cape Horn, and has experienced strong east winds for the last month, (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday 'Morning. Arrived, June 7—Cotherstone, from Colombo. Arrived, June 8--Mellona, Ann, and Alliwall, from Guernsey. Sailed June B—Steamer Panther, for Boulogne—Nano• veer Hevellyn, for Calais—Prince 011 e, for Colombo— Bilboa, for Bilboa—Mangalery, for Cochin—Eliza Blegden, for Vlaandringen—steamer Diana, for Amsterdam—steamer Belgium, for Ostend, _ DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Passed, June 7—Ernest March, from the west, for the east ; Sydney Jones of Carnarvon, and Susan Ann of Dart mouth, from the north, for the west; Cornwallis, from London, for Moreton Bay. Passed, June B—Stewart Wortly, from London, for Car diff. The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2 per mille pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.25 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appe.trs that gold is about 1-10th per cent. dearer i n London than Paris. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 123 per mark and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £1 sttrlin:. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 3-10ths per cent, dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 204 per cent., and the premium on gold is 663 per cent. At these rates there is a small pro t on the importation of gold from the United States. A SPECIMEN OF THE GRAPHIC STYLE OF TACITUS;—GaIbs was hurried to and fro with every movement of the surging crowd ; the halls and temples all around were thronged with spectators of this dismal sight. Not a voice was heard from the people or even from the rabble. Everywhere were terror-stricken countenances, and ears turned to catch every sound. It was a scene neither of agitation nor of repose, but there reigned the silence of profound alarm and profound indignation. Otho, however, was told that they were arming the mob. Ile ordered his men to hurry on at full speed, and to anticipate the danger. Then did these Roman soldiers rush forward like men who had to drive some Vologeses or Pacorus from the ancestral throne of the Araacidai, not as though they were hastening to murder their aged and defenceless Em peror. In all the terror of their arms, and at the full speed of their horses , they burst into the Forum, th rusting aside past or future, could deter the crowd and trampling on the Senate. Neither the sight them fr om committing a crime , wh i ch an y one succeeding totemples, n nf or th th e the thought of nor ru th l e er s s anctity of the tur overhanging power roust avenge, POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A TRADESMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING HIS WIFE,-Mr Jas- William Dexter, milliner, of No. 1, Oran bourn-street, was charged before Mr Knox with assaulting his wife, Jane. The complainant, who gave her evidence in a very pe culiar manner, said—l have only been confined three weeks. My husband last night caught hold of my throat and nearly choked me, and then told a policeman what he had done, and the policeman refused to take my husband because I had no marks on me. We then went indoors, and my husband gave me a blow on the nose and tore my clothes. He was drunk, and always is drunk. Defendant—How many half- num terns of brandy did you have yesterday ? Complainant—Oh, fifty. Defendant—Were you not put to bed yesterday at dinner time insensibly drunk? Complainant—Oh, yes. Inspector Walker—The complainant has been drinking this morning. Police-constable, 51 C — About half-past 12 last night the complainant asked me to take the defendant into cus• tody, but as she had no marks about her I refused, telling her she could come this, morning to the court. Mr Knox—You were perfectly right in doing M. Constable—The defendant said he had not illused his wife. Tho defendant had been drinking a little, but his wife was very excited. On going round my beat again I found the complainants nose bleeding, and on her charging her husband with having again assaulted her I took him into custody. The defendant said his wife had fallen in the passage. Defendant—Did I not try to avoid my wife? Constable—You did. Defendant—Look at my h an d s your wors hi p. Sh e i s always clawing me. Y esterday she had five half quarterns of brandy before dinner, and was then put to bed. Later in the day she threw several things at me, and I went out till night to avoid her. On returning she again clawed me, being intoxicated at the time. 'We have been married seven years, and I attend to business and keep the books. A young woman was called, and said that Mrs Dexter broken her neck, had been drinking and fell, and but for her would have Mr Knox—lt is quite clear to me that Mrs Dexter, who was said not to be sober yesterday, is not sober to-day, and had her husband attempted to strangle her she would have some marks on her throat. It is pretty evident what sort of a woman she is by the answer as to the 50 half quarterns of brandy. It is not a case.for a magistrate's interference, and I am sorry the defendant has such a drunken wife. The defendant was then discharged, and as he vas leav ing the court his wife attempted to assault him, but was prevented. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE THROUGR JEALOUSY. - Jane Reed, a respectably attired married woman, living in -mews, -gpidaectee'rmwtans charged before Yr. ed attempt to destroy hK C e h ni asopexlfe,l From the evidence of a young man named Wm. Summers, residing in Charlton. street, Fitzroy-square, it appeared that on the previous afternoon he heard screams proceeding from the house where the prisoner resided, and on going to see the cause, he was informed that a female was hanging in a back room. He immediately went to the room and saw the prisoner being held from the floor by two or three women, a cord attached to a beam being tied round her neck. The prisoner was quite insensible at the tine. In answer to Mr. Knox witness said the prisoner was the wife of the foreman of a yard. Mrs. Mary Ann Robbins, residing in th e same house, said her daughter informed her that Mrs. R ee d was hang ing in the room, and on going down she f oun d i t to b e the d ca o s w e n .. She then gave an alarm, aa d S ummers cut her William Moorcrofs, 165 E, said the prisoner told him that her husband had threatened to cut her th roa t , an d s h e did it because she would not give him th 3 chance. The husband of the prisoner said th® fact . was his wife had made the attempt on her life through j ea l ousy . H e went into a public-house with a frienl to have a glass, and two women were there, and some kind person went and told his wife he was drinking with women. He believed that a feeling of jealousy and a little drink had induced his wife to aot as she had done. Mr. Knox said it was a serious matter, for if the prisoner had not been seen, as - she fortunately was, she would have been a dead woman. He did not think the prisoner's mind could be in a right state if she did such a thing for such a trivial cause. He should remand her for a week that she might be seen Sy the physician ant the chaplain of the House of Detention. • WESTMINSTER. NEIGHBOURS' QUARRELS. — George Cotton appeared to a summons before Mr. Arnold, charged with making use of abusive language towards a femala named Ogilvie, who was subsequently charged with throwing a pail of water over an infant. Mr. Drew, solicitor, of New Basinghall street, was engaged for the complainant. It appeared that the complainant and the defendant were neighbours, living in George-street, Chelsea, and that they were not on friendly terms. On the 27th of May, com plainant was at her door, when the defendant, who hap pened to see her, made use of some filthy expressions, and called her an old washerwoman, complainant not being of that occupation. Upon this summons being issued, a counter-summons was taken out against the complainant, who was accused of throwing a pail of water over an.infant belonging to the defendant. Numerous witnesses were examinel:on each side, and it was stated by one of them that the infant was nearly drowned. Complainant denied that she flung the water as alleged, and said that she intended the water for the defendant's son, who was annoying her, and that accidentally some of the water went over the child. She was sorry that any of it went over the infant. Mr Arnold observed that such was most likely to be the case, and that he thought the best course to take was to hold each to bail to keep the peace towards the other for six months. This was done, and the parties left the court. T HAMES. DANGEROUS SPouT.—A mechanic named Hemming, of Glanen's-street, Bow-common, came before Mr Partridge, and complained o f th e dangerous mature of the pigeon shooting, practised i n t h e grounds of the Prince of Wales tavern, on Bow-c ommon. The shot from a rifle aimed at a tamed pigeon struck his back winiow, broke five panes of glass, and were scattered about the room. Two shots entered his breast and put him to great pain and incon venience. Mr Partridge—How far is the shooting ground from your house ? action . He recommended 3, Applicant i — dg About eN fars7oyards' directly ? I can't say. is the house from any public I believe it i s c l ose t o a pu bli c thoroughfare A p prliacarPartridge mattere d g thoroughfare. said Mr of the district ought to take inthis police on the subject. Is and summon the owner of the round licperoceed to th e P o plar Station ed th e app li can t, an d a man w h o accompanied him, t o Patrick young rcen, named tor.J a m Partridgee s ‘ir i l andson charged hoßusAer,HandG IN consult TAEthßet Gt Connelly, were brought before with l bathing in the Regent's Canal Wilson was taken out of the wa ter. Connelly , a rough aa la t Stepney last nightb, wri lackgua r d, a ft er going into the wer s e ta m te a o n t y nudity. inthe ca H na e l was last Canal, stood on the bank in a drunk. he inh a bit an t s o f th e h o uses mplained of the nuisance. i n a i night ieatphile3yt4hsi on 1. ae saidl m ach in gtt bankhae li e d e t 0 The district of Stepney and Linaehouse intersected by the wordsilly. were posted on the banks canal was densely populated-...iu fact, bathing there was as public and open as it would be if a ;d L rge canal passed through a printed broadsides of the canal :—it The police have strict orders to take into custody all persons bathing in the Regent's containing g a i a n t i o n - g h ? il l Canal. Penalty, 40s or one month in the House of Correction with hard labour. Regent's Canal-office) Ci ty - road-basin, June, 1864." eaniodllfwicin Vs An cfficer of tho Re g Company Canal Company said that a place was set apart for bathers in the Victoria Dock, and the Regent's Canal C o mpany had provided a large piece of water with half an acre of ground in Cambridge_heath, Bethnal-green, The admission to the place was one half penny only. Mr Partridge said there was no ex cuse whatever for public bathing and indecent exhibitions in populous districts bordering on the canal. He fined Wilson os, and ordered that Conolly should find one surety to keep the peace for a month. [E R RA T A—In OUT report yesterday the substitution of the word " smashed" for " insinuated" altered the meaning of tho magistrate's observations. It should have been thus :—Most likely the complainant Mrs Lawrence in sinuate . something against the defendants after the attack upon her. The rest of the sentence was correctly given.] Additional Particulars of the Accident on the South -Western Railway, - - d - - - - above th e k nees , and his body w , as fearfully Five persons were killed by this a ccident last n i g ht ' Mr. Edwin Hall, corn merchant, Duke- s t reet Manchester. ma ngled. A man named Corbett, but known in racing circles as isFadwick' s M ouse, " an d who squarehadhislegs cu t clean off lived in the same house as Mr. Hall, died fron concussion and fractures. Mr. Willey, landlord of the Globe Inn, King's-road, Chelsea, died from concussion. Mr. Clegg landlord of the Harp publichouse, Jerrayn-street, was also killed; and 111 r. William Winfield, farm bailiff and gar dener to C. Bracebridge, Efcl., of Sherborne, died from concussion. An apprentice to the chief coo k o f the Prince of Wales was so severely injured that both his feet had to be amputated ; and Mr. Esau Trigg, publican, Brighton, was taken to the Charing -cross Hos p i tal, having sustained a fractured leg and two broken ribs. The inquest w ill p ro • bably be held to-morrow, The " Situation," (From the Realm of To-day.) There is every reason to anticipate that the Danish Government will persist in its prudent oppo sition to the indefinite prolongation of the armistice The German Powers for strategical, the English Cabinet for parliamentary, purposes, are equally desirous of gaining time. In a few months the sea son, which is advantageous to the Danes, will have passed away; in a few weeks Parliament will b 3 disbanded; and when the summer is over Ihnmark will once more be at the mercy of Germany, and the guardianship of English interests and English honour be entrusted to an uncontrolled and vir tually irresponsible executive. We frankly con fess that the prospect of further disaster to Den mark is not the apprehension which we have principally in view when we express the anxious hope that the design which the German and English plenipotentiaries are pursuing together may be speedily and finally frus trated. We are more concerned to perceive that the peace of Europe cannot be considered secure as long as a question so fertile in discord is allowed to remain unsettled. But what touches us most nearly is the reflection that, if the Ministerial tactics attain their object, we may again be subjected to the humiliation under which the country is still smarting, and be condemned to witness another I aeries olthreatening despatches, followed by vacil lating conduct, and resulting in concession and surrender. If the peace of Europe requires that the Danish question should no longer be left in suspense, it is no less indispensable to the honour and dignity of England, that the opportunity should immediately be given to Parliament, undiaturbed by current negotiations, to review the foreign policy of Her Majesty's Government, and to determine whether we are still to be represented before the world by men whose acts and language are so little in corres pondence with the generous spirit of our country. It is because we believe that it will have the effect of hastening a solution, that we congratulate the country upon the animated debate which unexpectedly arose in the House •f Commons on Monday night, No one can reproach the Opposition with a want of forbearance, and Mr. Disraeli's demand for information is as little open to the charge of being excessive as it is to that of being premature, Mr. Kinglake, al though too anxious to serve the German cause to subject the Government to inconvenient interpella tions, fully acknowledged the force of Mr. Disraelea position, that the reserve of the House of Commons was dependent upon the fidelity of Ministers to the basis of their negotiations. Even according to Mr. Kinglake, a change in that basis ought to be com municated to Parliament in order that it may have the opportunity of expressing its unaltered confi dence in the Government, or its disapprobation of their new policy. If we be rightly informed, the Danish plenia potentiaries have adroitly availed themselves of the opening afforded by the English proposi tion to place the Government in an embarrass ing dilemma. They have, it appears, agreed to accept the proposed boundary of the Schlei, on the condition that England should make its accept ance by Germany an ultimatum. Although in our own opinion the Government should have adhered to a system of non-intervention, which would have made such a demand impossible, it cannot be denied that, after all that has been written and said by her Majesty's Ministry on the Schleswig-Holstein question, Denmark has a right to expect that the arbitration of so great a country as England should, if necessary, be backed by efficient action. Unless this demand be complied with, and unless the Ger man plenipotentiaries show themselves on Thurs day next more yielding than they appeared on Monday, it is probable that the labours of the Con ference will be brought to an abrupt conclusion. It is satisfactory to reflect that the interval in the negotiations will be usefully occupied by de bates in Parliament, which oan now no longer be postponed, By a variety of expedients, the Govern. meat succeeded in suppressing discussion before Easter, and since then the Conference has come to their assistance ; but the country is impatient of delay, and unless the regular organs of oppositio❑ in Parliament be found ready, as we have every reason to anticipate that they will, to perform their constitutional duties, the indignation of the people will find vent through other and unsuspected chan nels. Nothing could be more fatal to the influence of Parliament than the neglect, at such a crisis as the present, of its supreme functions as the autho rised interpreter of public opinion. The Gun-cotton Explosion at Stowmarket. The inquest on the body of Elizabeth Barnard, the second person whose death had been caused by the explosion at Messrs. Prentice's gun-cotton factory, was resumed on Monday morning at Stow market. Mr. F. B. Marriott, the coroner, stated that the Secretary of State for War had instructed a competent officer to inspect the works and give evidence at the inquest. After several of the workpeople had been re-examined Mr. Manning Prentice stated that he had visited various scientific gentlemen in London to endeavour to ascertain the cause of the explosion. Professor Tyndal, to whom the knife used in cutting the cotton, with its notches, was shown, at once expressed his opinion that it arose from this knife coming in contact with the copper wire employed in the cotton which is cut. Mr. Prentice also read a series of new regulations for the factory, prepared with the concurrence of Mr. Abel, the chemist to the War Department. Dr. William Allen Miller, Pro fessor of Chemistry at King's College, London, the first scientific witness examined, said, Dr. Frank land and myself came down from London on Satur• day, and visited the Gun-cotton Factory, where we saw the whole operation of the manufacture of the cotton. We then proceeded to make experiments on the ignition of gun-cotton by mechanical means, particularly with the cutting machine. We made a great number of experiments, our object being to satisfy ourselves upon the conditions which were likely to arise, and to ascertain the cause of the explosion. We took pieces of copper wire ' and placed them so that they should be cut through, and endeavoured to ignite it in that way, The copper was placed in various ways, sometimes spirally and sometimes in the rope, and we also tried to shave a piece off. We made 40 or 50 cuts through the rope and the copper in various ways, but did not succeed in firing the cotton in this way. We put some small pieces of flint into the rope, and cut it three or four times without any explosion, but on the fourth or fifth cut the cotton exploded. I think there can be very little doubt that the ex plosion was caused by the action of the knife either upon copper or grit. lam not certain which, but I think most probably copper. Dr. E. Frankland, Professor of Chemistry at the Royal Institution, London ; Dr. T. Richardson, technological chemist, Newcastle-on -Tyne, and Professor of Chemistry at Durham University; and Mr. J. Scott Russell, C.E., were then examined, and gave evidence confirming that of Dr. Miller. The coroner said that the public must feel that everything possible had been done to investigate the cause of the explo sion, and that Messrs Prentice had done all in their power to throw light on the matter. The evidence of the scientific men was that the explosion was produced by the knife coming in contact with the copper wire or with a piece of grit; but they all inclined to the opinion that it was with the wire and not with the grit. He did not know that they were called upon to decide which of the two it was, so long as they were satisfied it was accidental ; and it was clear that if the rules now arranged were attended to there would be no danger of an explo sion in future. After a consultation of about three quarters of an hour the jury found " That the said Elizabeth Barnard died on the 29th day of May last from injuries received by her clothes having been accidentally set fire to by an explosion at Messrs Prentice and Co.'s gun-cotton factory on the 24th day of May last. The jury wish to state that they are entirely satisfied with the manner in which the recommendation for a ecientifio inquiry has been carried out," IKPERIAL PARLMONT HOUSE OF COMMONS—This Day. The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Charing-cross Railway—Londonderry Improvement— Somerset and Dorset Railway (Cheddar Valley and Yatton)—Somerset and Dorset Railway (Extension to Shepton Mallet)—Stamford and Essendine Railway—, Weald of Kent Railway—Worcester, Bromyard, and Leo minster Railway. The following bills were read a second time :—Bem bridge Railway, Tramway, and Pier— Fleetwood Docks— Herne Bay, Hampton, and Recluver Fishery—Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway—itedruth and Falmouth Junction Railway. LONDON DOCKS, ST. KATHARINE DOCK, AND VICTORIA LOCK AMALGAMATION BILL. Oa the motion for the second reading of this bill, lir, LOCKE moved that the bill bo read that day six months. Mr. LAYARD seconded the motion. Sir M. PETO supported the bill. After a short discussion, the amendment was withdrawn on the understanding that the Board of Trade should look olosely into and deal with the clauses of the bill, GAOLS BILL. Sir G. GREY said he should postpone the second read ing of the bill which stood for to-morrow until this day week. INTOXICATING LIQUORS BILL. A large number of petitions haying been presented in favour of the bill, Mr LAWSON moved its second reading. The object of the measure, which is commonly known as the "Permis sive Bill," is to enable any parish, on the approval of the proposition of a majority of ratepayers, to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors during Sunday, by entirely closing the public-house for four•and-twenty hours. [LEFT SITTING Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. General tone of . Alarket firm. Sales, probably 6,000 or 7,000 bales. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts. Hallways. ~.--....:---,,,.....---......-..., 1864. 1863. 1864. 1863. £ £ Belfast and N, Counties 136 136 2,018 2.C66 Belfast and Comity Down 49 49 758 675 Blyth and Tyne . 28 28 1,944 1,139 Bristol and Exeter 1214 1214 6,910 6,579 Caledonian 252 2341 18,675 16.856 Coekermouth& Workington B4 8i 3t , 3 237 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 902 415 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage si 61 2 4 233 Cork and Youghal 324 324 533 962 Cornwall 654 53i 1,904 1,619 Deeside l7 17 390 368 Dublin& BellastJunction 63 63 1,180 1,173 Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,598 1.707 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9l} 48} 2,763 2,505 Edinburgh and Glasgow 173 169} 8,233 8.093 Furness, &c Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrtk.,&E. Union Great Northern 353 351 31,063 26,312 Great North of Scotland 5B 58 2,131 2.157 (it. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 712 582 533 9t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3735 329 8,789 8,144 Great Western 1056i 10561 64,515 61:376 Inverness & Aberdeen June— 861 862 1,356 1,2.:8 Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 1,476 Irish North-Western 145 145 1,597 1,851 Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 3954 31,303 44,416 Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 219 162 Limerick and Foynes 26k 261 112 126 Llanelly 461 461 737 722 London & North-Western London and Blackwall 5l 51 1,950 2,1E4 1 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 261 250 26,84 20,872 London, Chatham, & Dover 72 n 5,669 5 230 Do. Metropolitan Extension 101 6 5 1 ,4 9 66S Han.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9l 91 1,369 2,796 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan . 3l 31 2,214 2,379 Midland (incl. N.-Western).. 641 630 34,199 43,317 Midland Gt.Westn. of 'rind... 262 . 2591 5,225 5,136 Alonkland - - 71i 1,648 1:555 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal.. 44 - 14 2;515 i 2,506 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095 1079 i 58,862 53,539 North London 9 9 3,122 3,568 North Staffordshire 254 254 7:582 8.951 Oswestry and Newton... 5O 42 1,114 1,063 GRANT FIGHTING IT OUT "ON THIS LINE !" " Manhattan " says :—Grant's memorable speech completely shading the remark of the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, " Up Guards, and at them"), " I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes me all this summer," has be come a heading for everything. Brandreth heads his pill advertisements with it. Bryant's Ministrels announce it in negro talk. Omnibus lines, in announcing the lowering of fares to six cents., say, " We propose to fight it out on this line." I see advertisements quote it, and so does the announcement of Ccster, the bed bug :exterminator ; he too proposes to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer and the roaches, and moths, and other things, will feed it THE PERMISSIVE BlLL.—Yesterday Lord Pal merston received a numerous deputation from the United Kingdom Alliance. The interview took place at his lordship's residence in Piccadilly; and the object of the deputation was to solicit his lordship to support the second reading of Mr Lawson's and Mr Bazley's Intoxicating Liquors Bill in the House of Commons to-day. The de putation was headed by Lord Calthorpe, and consisted of 51 gentlemen, including Messrs B. Whitworth, T. Clegg, Councillor Thompson, G. B. Addison, S. Pope, J. H. Raper and T. H. Barker, of Manchester; W. Saunders, of Ply mouth; J. Guest, of Rotherham ; G. Tatham, of Leeds ; W. H. Higginbottom, of Bolton ; W. Hoyle, of Bury ; Edward Whitwell, of Kendal ; W. J. Clegg and Joseph Pearson, of Sheffield ; W. Campbell, H. Dyson, and G. Ward, of Leeds ; the Revs, the Hon. Leland Noel, Canon .Tenkins, W. N. Molesworth, of Rochdale; Dr. Burns, Dawson Burns, J. S. Workman, and S, Schadhorst ; Pro• fessor Newman, and several gentlemen connected with the metropolis. Having been introduced by Lord Calthorpe, whom Lord Palmerston recognised and shook heartily by the hand, Mr Pope stated the object of the deputation, and presented to his lordship a memorial representing that there was a strong feeling against the present licensing system, and a prevalent conviction that strong drink was an ex ceptional article of trade, that many landowners had stopped the sale of it on their estates ; and that agitation had proved that the people were prepared for the Intoxicating Liquors Bill, which the memorialists prayed Lord Palmerston and the Government to support. Mr Pope was followed by the Rev. W. N. Molesworth, who spoke for the manufac turing districts; Mr Saunders, of Plymouth; Mr Tatham, of Leeds; Professor Newman, the Rev. H. Gale, and Mr. Raper. Lord Palmerston listened to all with marked at tention and evident interest, and elicited several pertinent explanations ; and on retiriug the deputation thanked his his lordship for the courtesy and consideration which had been extended to them. A NICE STATE OF THINGS (according to " Man hattan"). —Look at our position truthfully, and you will see that I have described it. There are many of our citizens who have long foreseen the gloomy state of that which is about to come upon us. Look it the gold market. Up, up—nearly at its highest point again. In vain the Government buys largely of exchange, and throws it upon the market at a losing price to keep down gold; it has no effect. Gold rises, or rather greenbacks are going down. All kinds of merchandise is rising, Merchants refuse to sell goods at any price, and will not until the fight in Virginia between Grant and Lee is settled one way or the other. This makes consumers and manufacturers anxious to buy. Shoes that cost in 1860 1 dol. Sc, now sell for 5 dole. Boots made for 5 dols. now sell for 12 dole. It is so with every article that is sold. If this goes on few will be able to w ear b oots and shoes. We shall have to step into sabots as they do in Holland, though wood is so high that a pair of wooden shoes would cost about 3 dole. 500. Everybody talks about the gloomy prospects. Men shake their heads and say, " What are we coming to?" Others see hope in the prospect so cheeringly and so constantly announced in the daily papers when Grant shall have captured Lee. But this has been so often repeated that it is an old story. Tens of thousands have left this city for the country —within 200 miles of New York—in order to live cheaper. Of these thousands are returning to get a foothold in the city. They find food higher in the interior than here. It is almost impossible to get board anywhere. Proprietors are afraid of the rise in articles. Everything is adulterated. Pow dered white sugar is unsafe to buy. A heavy white substance that sells cheap by the ton, is mixed with sugar, and sold for genuine, so that to use the article in tea or coffee, or in icecream, one is liable to die by means of the mineral substance left in the stomach. Fortunes are still made in street on paper. Tested by sterling bill s or go t profits fly off. The mining schemes and bu b bles Men without out into magnificent prop ortions. without a dollar have become rich by mining stocks. All who are interested in the places of public amusement are getting rich. Those pla ces are crowded every night. It s eems as though ou r citizens throng to them t o drive away care, and I judge it is so, because the more foolish the amuse ment the larger the crowd. If Jack the Gi an t Killer was played at Niblo ' s if h itwoultdde actorscrowd edraw could sing an allus i on ry o houses night, t especial lyoar great giant G rant . M ur d ers e keep up to the average standard. Not a day passes without one or more murders, LONDON GAZETT E. —Last Evening, FOREIGN OFFII .3E, JuNs 7. Eari Russell, K.G., her Majes ty'!; Principal Seeretaryof State for Foreign Affairs, has re ceived the following De. spatch from the Honourable Cl tarles Augustus Murray, C. 8., her Majesty's Envoy Ex traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Dresden : Dresden, June 2, 1864. My Lord,—l have the honour to inform your Lordship that great and continually recurrit g inconvenience is expe rienced at this mission from the number of travellers claiming (I do not say falsely) to be British subjects, who apply hue for passports, but who are entirely unprovided with any proof whatever of their nationality, beyond their own assertion. This is, I believe, chiefly caused by an idea prevalent in England, that in Germany generally, but at any rate in Saxony, passports are not required. This is true, so far as relates to passing through the country; but the police re gulations prohibit any residence, or even a short stay, in Dresden, unless a passport be deposited at the police office, Again, many travellers go to Austria via Dresden, an, if unprovided with passports, are invariably turned back at Bodenbach, the frontier station of Bohemia. They are then forced to return to Dresden, and apply to me for passports; and frequently, having no proof whatever to offer that they are not Americans, or other than British subjects, are de tained here until the necessary proofs can be sent from England. As the time is now approaching when the usual influx of British travellers may be expected, I would venture to sug gest to your Lordship that much inconvenience would be spared to travellers, as well as to her Mtsjesty's missions, if the advisability, if not absolute necessity, of all persons providing themselves with passports before going to Ger many were made known to the public through the Foreign. office.--I have, &c., (Si g ned) CH. A. MIIRRA.Y. The Right Hon. Earl Russell, 6;.;. WAR OFFICE, JUNE 7. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Major-Gen. William Marcus Coghlata, of the Royal Artillery, some time Political Resident and Commandant at Aden, to he an Ordinary tilember of th e Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JUNE 7. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Miss Florence Catherine Seymour to be one of the Maids of Honour in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Hon. Lucy Caroline Lyttelton, resigned. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 25. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Ainslie Grant Duff, Esq., now Attache to her Majesty's Embassy at St. Petersburg, to be a Third Secretary in her Majesty'4 Diplomatic Service. _ _ Mir 26. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. 'William Stuart, now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Washington, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Embassy at Constantinople. JUNE 6. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Enrique Fox, as Vice- .;onsul at Plymouth for the Republic of Guatemala, BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of commercial 1111 portance in the Gazette:— Thomas Booth, builder, Halifax Joseph Ginder, master mariner, Bow-road Stephen Evans, grocer, Troedyrhiew Charles Elford, shoemaker,,Birmingham William Henry Bulmer, shirt maker, Manchester Thomas Cass, builder, Lund, Yorkshire Arthur H. Cbisnall, railway clerk, Wimbledon Edward Ames, hatter, Norwich James Jackson, miller, Holderness, Yorkshire Will Settle, mason, Batley, Yorkshire Alfred Michell, coal agent, Bow James Livett and William Chas. Stevens, auctioneers, Cheapside John Clayton, dealer in iron, Lambeth Henry Odes Row, shipchandler, Plymouth David Whalley, cloth manufacturer, Yeadon, Yorkshire Thomas Morris and John Jones, builders, Birkenhead t Thomas Gibbins, bootmaker, Rugby, Warwickshire Edwin Hudson, grocer, BoughtDn Monchelsea, Kent John Woodyatt, miller, Upper Arley, Staffordshire Joseph Paine, blacksmith, Stoulton, Worcestershire William Nall, jun., innkeeper, Burbage, Derbyshire Isaac Hodgson, blacksmith, Gallowbarrow, Lancashire SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Stevenson and Picken, bonnet manufacturers, Stewartal James Pearston, commission merchant, Glasgow Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton . . June 18. via Marseilles . June 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. July 5.1 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. June 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. June 18. via Marseilles ...June 12. Falkland Islands 6 • •• Gibraltar, via Southampton June .; India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via South amp t on J unelB via Marseilles June 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton June 11. via Marseilles Jane 20. Portugal.... July 5. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton June 11. via Marseilles July 5 Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... June 16. Uy U.S. packet... by Canadian paCliet:Junelo. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, June 10. California, and British Columbia.. RACING FIXTU: Ju: RES FOR 1864. NB Newton Odiham Bibury Beverley 22 Stockbridge Chelmsford.. 2B Newcastle-on-Tyne .. 2B New Forest Hunt 2B Ipswich Worcester (Summer) Carlisle Newmarket July Pontefract Abingdon Liverpool July '3 Stamford l4 Nottingham Winchester l9 Southampton .. 2O Chesterfield King's Lynn 2l Goodwood .. 26 (MIT. Bright on .. 2 Brighton Club Lewes Huntingdon Wolverhampton . . 9 Reading Egham Dover Simi. Oxford .. 13 Yarmouth York August 23 Plymouth Lichfield 29 Devon and Exeter Stocktcn .... 3O Derby tILBER. Weymouth 1 Baden-Baden Warwick September 6 Bridgwater Leicester 8 Doncaster Brecon l9 Richmond Royal Caledonian Hunt 21 Monmouth 22 I Manchester Autumn NewmarketFirst October 27 NM R. NoTr Woroester Autumn .... 1 Shrewsbury Autumn .; 14 OCT , Bedford .. 4 Edinburgh and Lothians Club. 5 Newmarket Second Oct. 10 Leamington &War. Hunt 22 Lincoln .. Kelso .... Gloucester Newmarket Houghton 24 BIIR. IRISH. JUNE. Carragh, 2B, 29, 30 JULY. Down Royal Corporation ............ 1 SEPTZIIREEt. Curragh ...... 6,7, 8 OCTOBBR. 18, 19, 20 Curragh. s ........... STEEPLECHASING FIXTURES FOR 1864. NOVEMBER. Leamington and Warwickshire Hunt 22 NOT DEAD YET. By I. C. Jeaffreson, Author of "Live it Down," &c. 3 vole.--" This is a very clever novel. There is a hearty pleasant tone throughout, and the interest is sustained from the very first to the very last page. The characters are sketched with a masterly hand. Rupert Smith, the man about town,' plausible schemer, and thorough villain; Edward Smith, the artist, as pure And noble-minded a character as novelist ever depicted ; Sir Frank Starling, the hard unforgiving old baronet; Mr, Parfleet, the family solicitor ; John Harrisos Newbolt, the Radical Boanerges of the House of Commons, who buys pictures as an investment, and thus becomes the patron of Edward; his daughter s Id a an d Florence; the rollicking but right-hearted medical man, Nat Savage; pretty Kitty Kent, Rupert's victim ; Dick O'Mulligan, the fortunate digger —are all true to the life, and could only have been depicted by one who is quite familiar with all the various aspects of modern society."— Unit ed Service Ma g azine, GALLANT EXPLOIT OP AN ENGLISHMAN IN THE CONFED ERAT E AR: Nov. 18, 1863.—W e d rove the enemy to-day from his advanced lines in front of Knox.. ville, close under his works. This sortie was the occasion of one of those d ashing feats of individual g allantr y w hich n otice. A breastwork was c h arged by winced under the ga lli ng fi re of the w avered, when Captai n St ep h en Winthrop, ec cita da ry p p o w ta .as i sT n in i ligey in Britannic M a j es t y ' s 2 2d F oot, who our ranks and w as on d uty in Alexander's hfeoonuard demands e r m! n i e n jyro f ii a infantry end Artillery Battalion, stationed several hundred yards from plain—the only hors eman i n t h e melee—rode in advance of t h e s cene of conflict, mounti ng hi s h orse and dashing across the the wavering line up to the very works of the enemy. A. hundred rifles were lowered upon him, but he moved on, and rallied the wavering line ; the work was carried, and Winthrop borne away with a Minie ball through his shoul der, his sword scabbard broken by another, and the point of his sword cut off by another. His escape was miraculous, but he is doing well, and will soon again report for duty, —Richmond Enquirer of Feb. 16, 1864. THE TULLIBODY BRIDGE MURDER CASE..--ThEl trial of Thomas Arnot for the murder of a lad named David Paton on the Alloa road, near Tullibody Bridge, on March 15 last, took place on Monday before the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh. It was stated by the prisoner's counsel that he was insane and unable to give instructions for his defence, and that therefore he was not a fit subject for trial. Evidence having been led as to the state of mind of the accused, the Court found that the case was beyond doubt one of present insanity, exempting the party from trial. Order for the strict custody of the accused in Alloa prison until her Majesty's pleasure should be known, was then made ; and Arnot, whore demeanour in court had been very stolid, was removed from the bar,