The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-18 00:00:00

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were in moderate request at steady prices. For Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares there has been a rather active enquiry, and late prices have been generally well supported. Al liance of London and Liverpool have improved to 30 and 31. London Chartered of Australia to 281. Berlin Water Works remain firm at 8t 9; and Peninsular Oriental Steam, at 77_ BRITISH FUNDS --CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock ... 234 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 21 7-16 India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. 99 Ditto 5 per Cent fiitto 51 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct,, 1863 Ditto ditto April, 1864 1004 Ditt , . Bonds £l,OOO .. Consols for Account, May 7 92/ 1 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 24 per Cent 1 pm 1 die 2pm FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Egyptian 7 per Cent.. Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ditto Account.. Ditto Coupons 134 i / Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 751 1 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 2 per Cent .... 33 Peru c,au 44 per Cent. Ditto 1862 Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto Account Ditto 1862 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 954 Ditto 41 per Cent ~ 1850 .... Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 6Ol Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 Sardinian 5 per Cent. Ditto Account .. Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account.. . . 54 Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account B7l Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per C en t. 1862 Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs 7ll TWO O'CLOCK, Consols, Mon©y Ditto Account 921 Liverpool Cotton Market —This Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) No change. Sales, 10,000 bales ; import, 11,327 bales. SHIPPING—This Day, LONDON, April 18.—Wind this day at noon—North- Westerly; light breeze, ,with fine Weather, but cloudy at times. PORTSMOUTH, April 17.—Wind variable.—Sailed—New- castle, for London. BRIXHAM, April 17.—Wind .—Arri ve d—N aval Bri gade, from Cocain. Sailed—Ningpah, f or St. John's, Newfoundland. PLYMOUTH, April 17.—Wind S.—Arrived—John Tem perly, from London for Sydney. Sailed—Monarch, for Melbourne. CARDIFF, April 17.—Wind W.—Sailed—Maud, for Santander. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning. Arrived —St. Pierre, from St. Malo ; Atalanta, steamer, from Jersey; Black-eyed Suean, from Cardiff. Sailed— La Mesauge, for Carentan. Ey MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Arrived, April 1 7—Laura, from Dantzio; Eliza Ann, from Trinidad; Sir Peter, from Gotte bur Mermaid, from Kurrachee ; Burr, from Alexandri:- C m h g a r r is ii t i i o a r n a a, from Sarpsborg ; ki.ndreke, from Lonistadt; Uddewalla ; Shwan, from Dantzic ; Christian, from ' S f t r r o lg sund ; Teviot, from Colom'oo ; Jane Adrien, from I(o n i g ,_ berg ; Mercel, from Randers; Browne, from StraisulTd; Tien Broders, from Konsor. Arrived, ALril 18—Altar, from Aland ; City of Peters. burg, from Coch , n ; Hoffnung, from Nikiobing; Eg.eni, from Lysekehl ; Hajet, from Randers ; Charlotte, from Dram; Venus, from Skive; Marie, from Odense. DEAL, Saturday Morning. P assed—Collura, from Shields, for Alexandria; 11.M.5, Rhadarnanthus, from the west, for the river; Asia, from London, for Trinidad; Colleen Bawn, from London, for Naiazanilla; J. S. de Wolf, from L,ndon, for Quebec; T er, et Tami se , screw steamer, from London, for R ouen ; screw steamer, from Lurion, for Santander; Bilbao, screw sti.aalei., from London, for Bilbao. The Price of ,Gold. --.0.-- r m., and The quotation 01 o - old at Paris is about i per mille terling. On ort be ell exchange 'on London is 25.22 i per ..£1 s . °TeParing these rates with the English k l7s• too. that gold is Per ounce for standard gold, it appears r arty 2-10thsMint price of £3 ter cent. dearer in Loudon than in Paris. Ry atlvlces from Ilarnbur the price of gold is 4t4 per mark, and the short exchano-e gon Lodon is 13.51 per £ 1 sterling. %-tandard gold at the English Mirt price is, therefore, about 6- and s per cent. the in London than in Hamburg GREAI FIRE IN Tup c E h • morning , - ITY.-- arty tle a fire of a most nestructive nature broke out in the premises occupied. by Messrs. Capel and Co., wine coopers. B eething.lane, City. The fire was discovered by the police, and information was immediately sent to the Watling -street and ether stations of the London Fire Brigade. The ex tensive premises closely abut on Mark. lane, and from thE great rapidity with which the fire spread, fears were enter co nflagration twined for the entire locality. Happily, the Witil coufined to Moue, Capel's premises. RONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. In the Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon the alterations were unimportant. There were no bullion operations of public inte rest at the Bank yesterd iy. _ _ The imports of specie during the past week amounted to £506,000, and the exports to £140,000. The Poonah, which leaves on the 20th with the East India and China mails, will carry £277,024 in specie.' The money market this morning presents an easy appearance, and 31 per cent. is the rate for the negotiation of 3 months' bills. The Imperial Ottoman Bank at Paris have to-day issued their proposals for the new Turkish loan of £6,000,000. It is to consist of 300,000 bonds of 500 f. eaoh, carrying 30f, interest, to be emitted at the price of 360 f., redeemable at 500 f., in 23-1 years, by half-yearly drawings. The instalments extend to the 10th November next, and the bonds bear in terest from the Ist of January last. Deducting the interest, and that for the future instalments, the actual price is reduced to 342 f. 54c., giving a return of Bf. 76c. per cent. The reimbursement at par in 231 years represents lf. 89c. extra, and hence the real yield is 10f. 65c. per cent. The subscription is to be open from the 18th to the 23d of April. The loan is quoted in the Stock Exchange this morning at 1 to lf prem. Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this day, according to Mr. Renter's telegram, the 3 per Cent. Rented were 69f. 70e..—flat. There has not been much activity to-day in the market for the English Funds, andthe few dealings entet ed into have occasioned very little movement, Consols being 924 for money, and 921 " buyers" for the account. The New Threes are 91i f„ and the Reduced, 914, 1 ; business has been recorded in Bank Stock at 234 ; in Indian 5 per Cents., 1091 110 ; in the Enfaced 4 per Cents. at 99 ; in the do. 5 per Cents. at 1081 ; in the do. 51- per Cents., 116; and in the Debenture, at 1001- ; Exchequer Bills have improved to ls. die., 2s. prem. Some of the Foreign Securities have slightly de clined in value, and a large amount of business has been transacted. Greek closed at about 28/ 29, and the Coupons at 13 a I , being a little lower. Spanish Passive appear heavy at 29/ 30, and the Certificates remained at about 101 a. The Conso lides receded to 48 1. The New Loan is Lit prem. The movements in the 6 per Cents., 1854, 1858, and 1862 have not been of importance. Italian 5 per Cents. have been rather flAtt.er, at 711 I; Russian 5 per Cents., 1862, closed at about 95 i; Portu guese 3 per Cents., 1862, at 47/ 0; and Mexican Stock at 331 / 4.. In the Railway Share Market the operations have been very limited, and a slight depression has talc.- n place in prices. Great Elsterns, Great Westerns, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North Easterns (Berwick), have receded about ss. ; while London, Chatham, and Dover have improved 55., and Great Northern A Stock 10s. Railways. Wol., and Str. Val. Blythe and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian 'ork and Bandon Cornwall 8 8/ 7 8 84 66 112 113 Do A A `rots no diN Do. B ti 11 6p e.p an. ha, been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. IGreatEastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st iGreatNorthot Scotland (Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an , l W. of Ireland I Great Western st Do Str Val gua. stock st 'Lancashlte & Yorkshire st Loudon and Blackwall st Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast at Lon., Chat., and Dover St Lon. & Nor'h Western at Lon. & Sw.th Western st Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 50 Maryport and Carlisle. 126 Dot 5hare5........., 10 Metropolitan St Midland 5.4.0 Do New Do Binning. do Derby Ind. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 4 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase 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 Welchpool !Shropshire Union ;South Devon ;South Eastern ;South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines,Wok.,andWok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1866 Taff Vale... Do Do C later .... Do . Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford Kilkenny) !West Cornwall W. HartlepoolHar.&R 1 West Midland Oxford Do Newport, Do Hereford! SHARE MARKETS—TMs day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOefi.S. Closing Business Paid. Price. done. BRITISH POSSE fiat 'ways tlantie & St Lawrene, tiona.,Baroda&Cent Inc Gu. 5 per cent.. Do. New . . Do. E. Shares.. Buffalo and Lake Hurun Do. Preference .. • • Bullalo,Brant,LeGodricl , p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 )0. do. June 1, 1879 utta..tS.Eastn.(l. ,, ) 'apeTown ,t Dock Seri) Eastn. Bengal gu. b p, c Kast Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext..... Do. do. 11 do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada 4). Ist Fr '. Bonds.. Do. Go. deferred...... !ri Fret. Bon s.. Da. do d fer ed...... Uo. 3d P ef. stock Do. do. d lerr. d. Do. 4th Pref. s o k.. Do. do deferred..... Gt.lndfarenln.gua.sPTc . Do. New gua. 5 p. c... Do. January, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New I Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8.. Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. 0. .. Do. 41 p. o. Extensior Dc. 44 DO. Fifth Extension. kielb.Corp. R p. o. Both Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. Mortg. Bds. \Tewltranswiek Cands, Class A and B N. Rl.C'da6 po let p 1 bds Soinde .......... Do. Delhi 4 4 Do. do •• • ' F.,' e Do. Punj Rub .... rca c., Do. Do. • .... , Ea. Do. Indus. St. Flo.) i COLONIAL DOVER. ati.Goy. 6 p.c.Ja &Jul 1877-S8 Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & Auc Do. dp. . & Sept I Do. Ip. c. Jan.&July. Do. 6 Inscribed stock cape G.Hope, 6 p 0,187: I Do.Ap & Oct. 188( I Do. Jan. & July, 1891 . . Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p ( niau Itlus 6 per cent .. Nalal Gov. 6 per cont.. -- N. a.&July Do. 6 p. c.Ap. & Oct. IN. S.W. Goy. 5 p 18, DO. 5 p. to 1—;( I Do. d0.,1888 &upwcik New Zealand 6 p cent. NoYa Scotia Gov. Bp. c. sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6p. c a.Aus (16p.e.167 - 6.& up - Vic.Oov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) Do. to RD.°. Ar,ton, 6i 7 40 12 13 14 89 91 107 109 52 63 45 47 24i 25i 124 1211 120 121 134 136 100 102 66i (61 108 ICBa 7511 76i 115 116 39 40 91 98} 101 102 44 45 124 121 123 123! li lip 91 93 50 51 24 25 98f 99} 55 654 86 86} 116 118 1 lit 16i 16k 111 12 120 122 43 44 98 ICO 48 50 32 33 92 621 67 69 99 101 7 8 37 38 9 10 7i 7 p 150 153 1 5 kt 3$P 79 81 154 155 28 30 43i (4i 36 38 98 100 ISIONS. Price. 62 14 107* 1 lbp 1 p l* 41 6 7* 8 116 1(8 lUB ‘lO iOB 9 Irgi +l,i 1} 111) 1 l9i o'i P 62 66 '9 60 54 67 40 .5 42 32 76 23 26 20 23 I(9k 11)i 1 lip 1 lip 100 ICB !21 1 84 8 100 102 91 93 1 liP 1063 'o7i 101 103 97 9 47 49 3 6 FO (2 1(8 109 lu? 1(.9 t% P , 1061 107 i tO2 104 1' SEC II 105 i 106 i 1(3 1(5 103 105 95} 96} 110 112 111 113 111 113 113 115 111 113 L(9 110 11.5 i 10th 101 1023 101 1024 1 101 1623 Ilv 112 106 107 1:1 113 111 113 [O9 110 ,091. lO 9 20 22 615 625 84 67 id p 42 42i si 9 4 4+ 14 16 51 51 64 7 5} 6 46 48 2* 2f 1 34 36 8 4 1 4(1 130 140 24 3 4 44 5 ,4 4a 54 10 12 305 405 I 4i 87i 92i 37 39 I 1 21i 22 12 13 32 34 265 275 (7i 72} 58 62 5 154 5i Itii 35 255 1'? 174 .11 51 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, 4 per cent. irred., 891 Lancaster and Carlisle, 41 per cent. pf., 103 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., 104 i; LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS. Chester and Ho'yhead, 5 per cent., 114/ East Lin.oln, 135 6 FOREIGN Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81 AILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent.. 211 Royal Danish, 16} Sambre and Dleuße, 111 San Paulo ;lira.), gua. 7 per cent., 91- Ditto (all), 231 FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper aim.). 3 Santa Barbara 61^Ad:Mine (Um.), i Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lim.), 3i 1 JOINT-STOCK tANKS. Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (1im.),:30 1 Australasia, 72 Bank of Egypt, 29 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and Chins, 24 6& Colonial, 40 English and Irish (lim.), 6,1 I t London and Brazilian , lim.), 4.- London, B. Ayres, and R. Platealim.), 224 i London Chartered Bank of Australia, 281 Londonop London and Northern (lira ), 4i 5 41 andnd pSoruovtli.BAafnrkicaunim, 2.)8,411-2: South AusZrnakli 1-. nd cm and Westminster, 77 Corporation, 55i 41 Orieuttil B Union ot A.ustradaB,l62} " 14VC143LLANEOUS. Union of Ireland (Urn.), 1 2 4 . Angio-Mexican Ire;ig3a4tion' aindlC9'anal, 41 Berlin Water Works 'e ° * E Cr a y: t t l a n l d P ia al Joint stock Discount, 24 Peninsula and 0 iental Steam, 77 Rio de Royal Mai Janl Steam, 604 improvements aim.) (42), 34 Trust and Loan Co. of Up i Cr C anada, 6 5. RACING FIXTURES FOR, 1863. APRIL. Newmarket F. S .. "2 2 0 1 I York b u fy. ................... roi Llanboidy .. MAY. Chester Bath 12 Manchester Harpenden 15 Marlborough 29 19 Epsom JUNE. Ascot o N ad e ai l li t ap o nat n on 0 1 Stockbridge lB ..10 Chelmsford 23 16 Newcastle-on -Tyne .....23 Bibury Club ......17 Carlisle 3O Ju Worcester Summer 2 Newmarket July 7 Liverpool 13 Abingslun 14 Hungerford l6 'LY.: IStamford l6 Winchester 2l Nottingham 21 Cambridge 2l Southampton. 22 Ctoodwood •Ifirrlt22 Share' 13.14. 25 10 st st 50 20 , 19.16.4 12.10 stock at 20 at ,teck BRITISH NII 2 iCambrian Consol. Gold uintoru Amalgamated I Devon G. Cons. (Tavist I East Bassett (Mogan 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 1 East Caradon bast Carn 8rea...,, E. W'l Russel (Tavistk.; Gam.dtSt.Aubyn(Gwen.) Great South Tolgus G. Wheal Vor(Helston' ,Grenville El erod's- Foot ....... - Hingston Downs... Lady Bertha ilargaret (Uny Lelant - arke Valley.. 4 tlyndy Iron Oro (Lim New Setun .. .... North Downs wti Basset( 11 lo 4 -ait • , lorth Wheal Crotty . t'ar Consols (5,t. Blaney 'rovidence (Uny Lein!. South Caradon(St.Cleer S. Carn Brea (Illogan) Wheat Fran. Stray Park 'famar Silv.tt Lead Min rin Croft Nest Basset (Illogan) W earadon (Liskeard West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan Bulleratedruth, Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant, WhealLud ott Xlieal Mary Ann (Men Wheal Seton . . heal Treiawney (Lis.. Wheal Union 44i I 2 business don, 1081 1 110} 10 i MED It [TIES 1051 6 104; 96i t 89 i 41! 81 I 1.14.. 3.4.0 8.1.6 .5.16 K.l' 4. 7.0 2.0.6 4.3.0 2.4.? 1 .5.15. f 18.1 -.9 28.9. 2.0.6 2.10.8 8 58i 7 3.17 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF PROBATE. (Before the Judge •Ordinary.) CRISPIN V. DOGLIONI. This seemingly interminable case was resumed again this morning. There has already been a special jury trial of portentous length, resulting in a verdict which decided that the plaintiff, Francisco Crispin, was the natural son of a rich merchant of English descent, at Faro, in the province of Al garve, in the kingdom of Poi tugal,by Barbara Julia Cortes, the daughter of a barber in that town. The suit now comes again before the court for the discussion of several legal points; among others whether Henry Crispin,the plaintiff's father, was by the law of Portugal of noble or plebeian rank ; and whether a person of the latter description, with a natural son, could dispose by will of more than a third of his property ? The estate in dispute is said to be worth about £300,000. It was contended that Henry Crispin was not a noble, and that therefore his natural son had a right to succeed as if he were legitimate. Before 1756 no Portu guese trader ever did or could acquire nobility; but by a Series of statutes which were commenced by Jose 1., and which continued till 1777, nobility was conferred upon the members of certain privileged companies, and also upon grossos trattos or wholesale merchants. It was denied that Henry Crispin was a grosso tratto, because he sold goods over the counter. When the case will close is very:uncertain, as there are no less than ten counsel engaged in it. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,--This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. UNFOUNDED CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—George Mille, a respectable-looking young man, in the employ of Mr. Anderson, dyer, of Howland street, Fitzroy-square, was charged before Mr. Knox with attempting to steal the watch of John Joseph Parry, of 39, Upper John-street, Fitzroy-square. Prosecutor said that about half-past eight the previous evening, having been out with some friends, he was return ing home along the Tottenham-court-road, when the pri soner ran up against him and seized his watch chain. He immediately laid hold of the prisoner, and on a constable coming up he gave him into custody, when the prisoner said it was all a mistake. Fieh, 331 A, said when the prosecutor gave prisoner in charge he said the prisoner had his chain in his hand, but afterwards, at the station, said he had his watch in hie hand. Mr. Knox asked if anything was known of the prisoner? The constable said the police knew nothing of him, but his master was in court. Mr. Anderson, dyer, of 2, Howland-street, said the pri soner had been in his employ nine months, and he believed him incapable of doing such an act as that with which he was charged. He had always found the prisoner strictly honest, and he had been working at his house till half-past eight lest night Mr. Knox said it was preposterous to think that the pri soner intended to commit a robbery. What did he find—a young man of good character ran against by a half-drunken man, who then fancies he is about to be robbed, and gives the prisoner into custody for attempting to rob him. Not only should he discharge the prisoner, but he thought that if he brought an action against the person who had given him into custody it would prevail. Tho accused then left court with his employer. THAMES. EXTRAORDINARY AND MONSTROUS ATTACK ON A BLIND MAN.—Henry Hall, a stout and powerful man about 30 years of ag,, and cescribed as a labourer, of No. 63, Lambeth-street, Whitechap-1 was brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with assaulting and unlawfully wound ing Edward Charles Morris. The complainant, a young man of good education and address, is totally blind. He was led into court by his sister, and appeared to be in a very weakly condition from loss of blood and the injuries he received, There was a large surgical plaister on his left temple. Mr. Partridge said the young man had better have a chair and be seated. It appeared, from the evidence of the prosecutor, con firmed in every respect by his sister, that he was an actor and was formerly attached to the Theatre-Royal Birmingham. He was now living at No. 40, Great Alie street, Whitechapel. Last night between eight and nine o'clock he visited the prisoner who was his brother-in-law, Directly he entered the room the prisoner said to his son who had been leading him (prosecutor) about Birmingham what he had said about him. The boy replied, " Why, father, he, said he would screw your neck, I think." The prosecutor said, "You are a young story-teller. I never did say any thing of the kind, if you say that again I will box your ears. The prisoner then began to abuse the pro secutor, an altercation ensued, and the prisoner struck the prosecutor a blow on the face with his fist. A regular melee, as the prosecutor termed it, took place, end the prosecutor and his sister, the prisoner and his wife, a man and a boy, were all fighting together. The prisoner threw the blind man on the floor and pummelled him in a very unmerciful manner. He then flung him on a bed, took a poker from the fire-place and struck him on the head, inflicting a severe wound, from which the blood flowed copiously. The prosecutor said he was "numbed" for several hours after receiving the blow, and his sister said she thought her brother was dead, and said s' to the prisoner, who exclaimed, " Pray God, he is dead; if you don't take him away I will give him some more of it." She then got her poor blind brother out of the house. The neighbours came, and they seated him on a chair. He was very faint, and lost a good deal of blood. Other evidence was given of the prisoner's violence, and as the prosecutor was very ill and required medical aid, Mr. Partridge said he had better leave the court with his sister directly. He remanded the prisoner until Thursday next. MARKETS—This Day. COVENT GARDEN. The supply of fruit continues very moderate, and prices rule firm. With vegetables the market is by no means extensively suppli.d, and the demand for most descriptions rules inactive, at about previous rates. FRUIT. s. d. s. d. Pine apples 8 0 to 10 0 Colonial do., each 0 0 to 0 0 Grapes,per lb 0 0 to 0 0 Foreign do 1 0 to 2 0 Melons 0 0 to 0 0 Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0 Apples, per hf-sv. 2 0 to 4 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100 4 0 to 10 0 Lemons, per 120 3 6 to 7 0 Gooseberries hf eve° 0 to 0 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 0 s. d. e d Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Foreign ditto, puno oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb .. 2 oto 2 6 Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0 Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Figs, per doz 0 oto 0 G Dam son . 0 oto G 0 Currants, per h.sv 0 oto 0 0 Plums, per do. .. 0 oto 0 0 Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Raspberries,prpt 0 oto 0 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 2 6 to 3 6 Cabbages, pr doz. 1 0 to 1 6 Red ditto ..... 0 0 to 0 0 Savoy do., pr dz. 0 0 to 0 9 Cauliflowers, p dz 1 0 to 3 0 Brocoli, per bus. 1 0 to 1 4 Potatoes, per ton 80 to 140 0 New ditto, pr pnt 0 9 to 1 0 Turnips, dz bunch 1 6 to 2 0 Carrots,pr do 4 6 to 5 6 Cucumbers 1 0 to 3 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 0 to 0 0 Green peas, IL-sv. 0 0 to 0 0 Brus. sprouts,h.s. 1 3 to 2 0 Onions, doz. bn 1 3 to 1 6 New Do., dz bun 1 0 to 1 3 French beans, h.s. 0 0 to 0 0 Leeks, per bunch 0 0 to 0 0 Shallots, per lb .. 0 6to 0 6 Horseradish, pdo 1 oto 2 0 Parsley, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Celery, per ditto 0 10 to 1 6 Beet, per doz. 1 ti to 2 6 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 2to 0 0 Mushrooms.p ptl. 0 9to 1 6 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Cabbage lett,score 0 oto 0 0 Mint and savory-0 oto 0 0 Endive, per score 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 0 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 2to 0 6 Asparagus, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Seakale, per bun. 0 9to 1 6 BILLING SGATE. Salmon, is 4d to is 6d ; trout, Od to Os ; eels, 5d to 10d ; prawns, Os ; skate, 4d to 6d ; sturgeon, and halibut, Od per lb. ; turbots, 2s 6d to 20s ; cod, is Od to 5s Od ; brills, is Od to lOs Od ; doreys, Is Od to 7s Od ; mullets, Os 6d to is Od ; lobsters, is Od to 3s 6d; crabs, is to 3s ; plaice and gurnets, Od to Os Od each; soles, 6d to is 6d per pair ; common oysters, s to —s ; natives, —s to —s per bushel ; whitings, 3s Od to 9s; haddocks, 4s to 15s ; smelts, is Od to 1s 6d; flounders, Os Od per dozen; mackerel, 40s per 120 ; fresh herrings, 55 per 100; bloaters, Os to Os per 100; carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s Gd to 3s 10d ; mutton, 2s 10d to 4s Od ; lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 4d ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 6d; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 4d per 81bs. by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 2s 10d to 4s Od; lamb, 56 4d to 6s Od ; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 6d ; and pork, 3s 6d to Is 4d per 81bs by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 7id to Bd, of household do., sid to 7d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 24d to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 3id ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 4d ; 801 b to 881 b, 3id to 4fd 881 b to 961 b, 31c1 to 41d ; 961 b to 1041 b, Od to Od ; 1041 b to 1121 b, Od to Od. Horse hides, 8s 6d to lOs 6d ; calf skins, light, 2s 6d to 4s Od ; full, 6s Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, Os Od to Os Od ; half-breds, 9s Od to lOs 6d ; Downs, 7s Od to 9s Od; lambs, 2s 9d to 4s Od; shearlings, is 5d to is 6d. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkeys, 6s Od to 98 Od; geese, Os Od to Os Od each; goslings, 6s Od to 8s Od ; ducks, is 9d to 2s 6d ; ducklings, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; rabbits, is Od to is 6d each; wild do., is to is 2d ; pigeons, Os 6d to is Od each; Surrey fowls, lOs Od to 15s Od ; chickens, 8s Od to 10s Od; barn-door fowls, 4s Od to 7s Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, 2s 6d to Os Od ; ptarmigan, Os Od to Os each ; pbeasanLs, Os Od to Os Od ; partiidges,Os Od to Os Od ; woodcocks, 3s to 3s 6d ; snipes, Os to . Os Od; teal, Os Od to Os Od ; wild ducks, 3s Od to 3s 6d ; widgeons, Os Od to Os Od ; plovers, Os Od to Os Od each ; guinea fowls, 5s Od to 6s Od ; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od each; Ostend fresh butter, lid to Is 1d ; English, is Od t s o Is 4d per lb ; E ng li s h eggs, 6a Od to 8s Od ; French do., s Od to 68 Od per 120; leverets, Os Od to Os Od each. hAY MARKETS. do. SMITHF Os £3 IE to adow h a y, £2 O s to £4 Os Od ; clover Trade l slow. £5 10s e ; and straw, £1 lO s t o £1 1 6 e per load. CUMBERLANIL—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 4s ; clove, do., £3 10s to Both hay and £5 IOR ; and straw, El 10. t o £1 16s per load. straw sold slowly, at p rev i ous quotations. W H ITECIIAPEL —Meado w do hay, Z 2 Od to £4Oa ; clover Trade dull, and draw, 41 106 t o XI 16 8 per l oa d . , £3 lOs to X 5 Ws Lieut Chas. Augustus Goodfellow, late Bombay Engi neesrs (now of the Royal Engineers) —For gallant con duct at the attack on the Fort of Beyt, on the 6th Oct., 1859. On that occasion a soldier of the 28th Regiment was shot under the walls of the fort. Lieut. Goodfellow rushed under the walls, under a sharp fire of match locks, and bore off the body of the soldier, who was then dead, bat whom he at first supposed to be wounded only. MOROCCO, SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 17. The Ellora, which arrived here this morning frc•m Gibraltar, brings the following detailed ac count of the events which have recently taken place in the vicinity of Dar-el-Baidar Easablanca THE MURDER IN ST. GILES'S. Yesterday Dr. Lankester resumed the inquiry at the Oporto-stores, Broad-street, Bloomsbury, into the circum stances connected wiih the murder of Emma Jackson. The Coroner said that last Friday he opened the inquiry for the purpose of taking the depositions of the prin cipal witnesses. The brother of the deceased said he knew nothing of the death. The servant of the house said she remembered letting the deceased and a man into the house, but she, being sleepy, did not take any particular notice of the parties. She said that she went upstairs and found the window wide open, but the door locked on the outside The Coroner then called— The son of the keeper of the house, who underwent a long examination both by the coroner and the jury, but nothing was elicited from him to throw the least light on this hor rible murder. The Inspector of the E Division, who took the charge at the station, was also examined, but his evidence was of very little consequence, as he only proved the finding of a halfpenny between the chemise and the bedclothes of the deceased, slightly saturated with blood. He also tated that he hed found a thimble in the bed where de ceased lay, which he had shown to the mother of the un fortunate woman, who partially recognised it as belonging to her daughter. The other evidence adduced was not of the least im. portance. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder agaiusi some person or persons unknown." THE VICTORIA CROSS. (From the _London Gazette of lastgrening.) WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 16. The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her in tention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned officers, whose claims to the Fame have been submitted for her Majesty's approval, on acciunt of acts of bravery performed by them in India, as recorded against their names, viz. : Lieutenant (now Captain) Robert Hope Moncrieff Aitken, late 13th Bengal Native Infantry (now of the Bengal Staff Corps)—For various acts of gallantry performed during the defence of the Residency of Lucknow, from the 30th of June to the 22d of November, 1857 :- 1 1. On three different occasions, Lieutenant Aitken went into the garden under the enemy's loopholes in the " Captain's Bazaar." On two of these occasions, he brought out a number of bullocks which had been left in the garden ; —subsequently, on the 3d of July, the enemy having set fire to the Bhoosa Stock in the garden, and it being appre hended that the fire would reach the powder magazine which hae been left there, Lieutenant Aitken, accompanied by other officers, went into the garden, and cut down all the tents which might have cammunicated the fire to the powder. This was done, close to the enemy's loopholes, under a bright light from the flames. It was a most dan gerous service. 2. On the night of Aug. 20, the enemy having set fire to the Baillie Guard Gate, Lieut. Aitken was the first man in the gateway, and, assisted by some sepoys and a water••caider of his regiment, he partially opened the gate under a heavy fire of musketry, and, having removed the burning woe d and straw, saved the gate. 3. On the evening of Sept. 25, this officer led on 12 sepoys of his regiment, for the purpose of attacking two guns opposite the gate referred to, in order to prevent their being turned op the late Major• Gen. Havelock's second column. Having captured them, he attacked and took the Teree Kotee, with a small force. On the morning of Sept. 26, with a small party of his regiment, he assaulted and cap tured the barricaded gateway of the Furreed Buksh Palace, and the palace itself. On this occasion he sprang up against a small wicket gee on the right, and pre vented the enemy from shutting it, until, with assistance, it was forced or :n, and the assaulting party were thus enabled to rush in. The complete success of the attack was solely owing to this officer's distinguished bravery. 5. In a subsequent Sortie on the 29th of September, Lieut. Aitken volunteered to take a gun which still continued firing, taking with him four soldiers through the houses and lanes to the gun. The enemy fired on this party from the houses, but they held their ground, until a stronger party coming up, the gun was upset from its carriage, and taken into the Residency. Another gun was subsequently taken. LONDON GAZETTE--Yesterday. WAR OFFICE, APRIL 11. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Colonel Neville Bowles Chamberlain, C. 8., of the Bengal Army, to be an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders of the Mcst Honourable Order of the Bath. FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 16. The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. le Comte de Castelnau (Consul-General) as Consul at Melb9urne for his Majesfy the Emperor of th' French. DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 15. The Queen has been pleased to !appoint Charles Piers, Esq., to be Superintendent-General of Convicts for the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. INDIA OFFICE, APRIL 17, Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of the under mentioned promotions and alterations of rank amongst the officers and staff corps and of her Majesty's Indian Mili tary Forces. BENGAL STAFF CORPS. To be Majors—Captains (Brevet Major) Alexander Ross, Elliot Hutchinson, and Archibald Swiney Haig. To be Captains—Lieutenants Brook Samuel Bridges Parlby, Charles Edward Orman, Raiford Fellowes, Dash wood Ross. Charles Macfarlane, John Gillespie, and Chas. William Fletcher. BENGAL ARMY. Army Rank—The undermentioned officers having corn pleted fifteen years' service, to be Captains by Brevet;— Lieutenant Robert Durie Griffin, late 64th Native Infantry; Lieutenant James Andrews Mouat Biggs, late 10th Native Infantry. Medieal Officers—Promotions—Assistant-Surgeon Nor man Chevere, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Crozier deceased; Assistant-Surgeon Sydney George Bousfield to be Surgeon, vice Guise, retired. BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of any importance which appear in the Gazette :,, James Ilarrison, cattle dealer, York George Deighton, cabinetmaker, York John Lane, tailor, Newark, Notts Riichard Pearson, stuff merchant, Islington Samuel Phillips, builder, Westminster Robert Webb, farmer, y a idi ng , Kent Melchor Lopez, cigar importer, Priory-grove, Brompton Wm. R. Raymond, chemist, West Ham, Essex Thomas D. Hayley, draper, Guildford William Coldicott, provision dealer, Birmingham Wm. Brown, steel manufacturer, Sheffield John Ault, sen., hair pin maker, Birmingham Walter Haocock, grocer, Fulham, Cambridgeshire John Sutherland, tailor, Upper Fitzroy-street Coleman H. Davis, stationer, City-road John Carlisle, veterinary surgeon, Brampton James Lewis, tailor, Narberth Wm. Nixon, farmer, Ffynony Buth Heorge (add, bookseller, Portsea, Hants R.,bert Veysey, farmer, East Anstey, Devon John Hamson, joiner, Macclesfield, Chester Edward H. J. T own , ale and porter merc h an t , B radford James Bell, boot an d shoemaker, M ar k et R asen,Lincoln. Martin Dunn, jun., b u i lder, Gates h ea d William Williams, li censed victua ll er , Bi r k en h ea d SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. Robert Reid, innkeeker, Letham Thomas Gibb, builder, Edinburgh Walter Stewart, Merchieton Bank, Edinburgh Messrs. Urquhart and Company, merchants, Dingwall George Bearup, potato merchant, Crieff Course of the Exchange--Yesterday, Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 11 18/ 11 181 Antwerp • 25 45 25 60 Brussels _ 25 45 25 50 Hamburgh .. ..... 13 7i 13 8 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort on Maine —119 a Vienna 11 40 Trieste _ 11_ _35 11 Pet,ersburgh — Berlin - Madrid Cadiz Leghorn .— 25 521 25 60 Milan — 25 521 25 60 Genoa — 25 521 25 671 Naples Palermo — 25 571 25 621 Messina — 25 571 25 621 Lisbon — 521 52f - Oporto — 52 53i Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per oz £3 17 9 Mexican Dollars Silver in Bars (Standard) South American Doubloons 0 0 0 LARGE ARRIVAL OF EMIGRANTS IN BIRMING HAM.—Miss Burdett Coutts, who takes a lively interest in the success of the emigration movement, has lately sent out at her own cost several hundred emigrants to the Australian colonies. Last night, at nine o'clock, about one hundred emigrants, with their wives and chil dren, arrived at the New-street Railway Station, en route for Liverpool, where they will embark for Australia this day (Friday), leaving Birmingham by an early train. The party of emigrants was accommodated with l o d g i ngs i n th e town last night, Chief Superintendent Glossop giving the party the assistance of detective-sergeant Cl ar k e t o procure them respect a ble lodgings. Miss Burdett Coutts defrays the costs of the outfit of the emigrants to Australia.—Bir mingham Gazette. DiscoVERY OF ROMAN REMAINS AT THE TOWER. For some time past a number of men have been employed at the Tower in making some necessary alterations for the improvement of the citadel. A few days ago, in the course of the excavations which were being carried out for that purpose, near the ticket office the navies came against a wall which was soon found to be of Romap construction, and which was at a depth of above 12 feet from the surface. Upon further removing the soil the wall was discovered to be about ten feet in thickness and of a semicircular forma- tion, in an excellent state of preservation, being composed of ch-ilk and Kentish rag. It is situated at a distance of about sixty feet to the west of the fi rs t s t one entrance to the Tower. It has been visited by some eminent antiqua rians, who are of opinion that at the original construction of the Tower it formed a barrier to the tidal influence of the Thames, In the hostilities that have been for some time carried on between the tribes there are ranged on one side the three tribes of Zeeyda, Senate, and Wolidzian, and on the other the tribe Medioona. The first-named tribes are under the orders of Ben• niasheesh. One account says that the cause of hos tilities was the refusal of the Medioona tribe to pay the heavy contribution imposed on them by the Sultan. Whether this were so, or whether the fighting originated in a private quarrel amongst the tribes, it is certain that now the Medioonese are treated as enemies in revolt against the Sultan's authority, and the three tribes fight ing against them have the Sultan's warrant for their act, his officer Boabeed Sherghee,who was sent down to arrange the matter, being in the camp and acting in concert with their united tribes under Benmasheesh. To understand the position of the inhabitants of Dar-el-Baida it must be mentioned that the Medioona tribe, being in the immediate vicinity of the town, has furnished the chief portion of its Moorish inhabitants. The sympathies of these are naturally strongly excited in behalf of their tribe, which has been maintaining a contest against odds, and has been driven under the very walls of the town. O❑ March 28 a contest took place just outside the walls. The movements on both sides could be seen from the fl At roofed houses. About 1,200 were engaged on this occasion, and the Medi oona tribes succeeded in driving cif their assailants. On the 30th the inhabitants of Dar-el-Baida were again alarmed by seeing all the neighbouring hills covered with horsemen clustered as thick as bees. The poor Medioonese were given up as lost, as it seemed impossible that they could resist the hest mustered against them. The attack was made with great fury. The excite ment in the town was at the highest pitch. The native inhabitants, from the cause we have men". tioned, are all sympathisers with the Mediooneee, and men and women crowded the walls cheering on their tribe and waving handkerchiefs and flags. The field of battle must have presented a singu lar appearance ; the wives of the persecuted tribe followed their husbands up to the enemy, with their babies slung over their backs, and beating tom-toms to keep the warlike fury of their husbands at the proper point of excitement. The belief that the Medioonese must be overpowered became so general that their friends inside got pickaxes, and were preparing to make a hole in the wall on the side where the battle raged, in order to let in the fugi tives one by one without the danger of their pur suers following and taking the town by a rush. The prospect of having 2,000 or 3,000 wild Arabs in the town, even if their pursuers were kept out and the eight were not renewed in the streets, degenerating into indiscriminate plun der and bloodshed, was sufficiently alarm ing, but fortunately the repeated cavalry charges were successfully resisted, and the day ended by the assailants retreating to the hills. As each succeeding attack seemed to press the Medioonese more severely, and the danger of the town was only averted for the time, but not re moved, the British Vice-Consul, Mr. Wooldridge, volunteered to seek an interview with the Sultan's officer, Boabeeb, and urge him to post pone all further proceedings against the offending tribe until the result of a representation to the Sultan should be known. A letter was accordingly despatched to Boabeeb appointing a place of meeting at a small river between the two hostile camps, and on the 31st at six in the morning the Vice-Consul proceeded to the spot under an escort of four soldiers provided by the Laid. The conference was a hurried one, and tot unattended by danger, for when Boabeeb, with 30 cavalry, was seen descending to the place of meeting, the Medioonese construing the movement into a hostile one, sent out a body of cavalry to meet him. Boabeeb therefore halted at some distance from the place of meeting, and des patched a soldier to enquire the object of the party which had followed the Vice Consul. The Medioona cavalry consented to retire out of range, but the hostile Arabs remained in sight of each other, and Haggi Boabeeb expressed his fears that unless the conference were a short one he should not be able to restrain the Wolidzean from coming on. On the return of the British Vice- Consul to the town, the representatives of the other European Powers hastened to learn the result of the interview. It was understood that Boa beeb had declined at first to grant any delay in executing the orders of the Sultan to chas tise the Medioona, but upon its being urged upon him that he was not authorised, in the execution of those orders, to endanger the safety of one of the Sultan's towns and the lives and property of the Christians and Europeans in it, thereby embroiling his master with foreign Powers, and that he should delay operations till further orders from the Sul tan, Boabeeb said he would take time to consider and consult with Benniasheesb, and send in the reply in the afternoon. The reply was duly re ceived and made known to the Europeans in Dar el-Baida. It was from Benniasheesh, whose autho rity appears to be superior to that of Boabeeb, and was as follows : " The Sultan has given me orders to slay, chase, exterminate, and eat up the Medioonese ; and I will slay, chase, exterminate, and eat up the Medioonese until none remain, no matter what are the conse quences. I will not stop until I receive counter orders from the Sultan." Up to April 4 no further attack had been made, but it was asserted that Benniasheesh was collecting his forces for another fight. A formal prutest by the consuls had been sent to him, and his reply had been received. He had offered to suspend hostilities on certain conditions, which the consuls could not accept. In the meantime representations have been made to Sir John Hay, who is now ac Morocco, transacting business with the Sultan, and his intervention will no doubt lead to the requisite orders being sent to respect the safety of Dar-el-Baida. Prac tically the same object has been already attained by the presence of her Majesty's steam sloop Trident, and probably other vessels of war, from which men would be landed in case of neces sity to man the walls and keep out the barbarous tribes. WEDDING PRESENTS TO THE PRINCE AND PRIN CESS OF IVALEs.—Yesterday being a students' day at the South Kensigten Museum, the numbers admitted on the payment of a fee of 6d. was 5,198. The amount taken was £129 19s. EXPENSES OF THE DOCKYARDS.—Yesterday morning was issued the usual annual account of the expenses incurred upon the building and repairing of ships in her Majesty's dockyards, and by contract, in the finan • cial year 1861-2. This account is prefaced by a report from the Accountant-General of the Navy, setting forth the mode in which he has carried out the instructions of the Admi • ralty relative to the preparation of the dockyard accounts. He states that in this account (the first which bas come under his charge (every item is based upon vouchers for material drawn from store, and for labour applied, signed for by the respective shipwright and factory officers in charge of each particular work. The accountant-general while showing the great advantages of this account allows that it is susceptible of great improvement He hopes shortly to be able to submit also an account showing the cost of manufacturing and repairing articles of store in the several workshops and factories of the dockyards, and another account showing the value of the stock i n hand each dockyard on the 21st of March last. FIRES.—About one o'clock yesterday morn Larkin a fire bloke out on the premises of Mr. J. a s it may Bowling green-street, Lambeth, and, stwraenreg ° n ot apprised appear, the officials of the Fire B ri g a e d of the outbreak until one hour and thirneeet; quar ters after its of time for th e commencement, thereby allowing whole street to have been de n s tioyedP. The inmates fortu nately escaped in safety , d r they, with the aid of the ne i g hb ours , managed to confine the fl tmes to tho lower part of the building, but the damage done was cons id era b le, Not insured. So ma time previous a fire also took place on the premises belong in g to Mr. J. Harrison, corn merch ant. Cain place, Kentish Town. It was caused by some children playing with lucifers, and in the course of a few minutes the second-floor was on fire, and it was with great difficulty t h a t the children could be rescued. Th e engines of ths par i s h and London Brigade from Farringdon-street at tended, but the inmates and ne i gh b ours bad succeeded in ex tinguishing the flames before the engines came. Con siderable damage wt , 4 dQue :awed. " As she passed by the columns of St. Philips's Church, somebody came out, and the curtain swung back, and Elly, looking up, saw a dim, quiet interior, full of silent rays of light falling from the yellow windows and chequering the marble. She st pped, and went in with a sudden impulse. One old woman was kneeling on the threshold, and Elly felt as if she, too, wanted to fall upon her knees. What tranquil gloom, and silence, and repose I Her own church was only open at certain hours. Did it always happen that precisely at eleven o'clock on Sunday mornings she was in the exact frame of mind in which she most longed for spiritual communion and conselal ion ? To be tightly wedged in between two other devotees, plied with chaulereftes by the pew•opener, forced to follow the extempore supplica tions of the preacher—did all this suffice to her wants ? Here was silence, coolness, a faint, half-forgotten smell of incense, there were long, empty rows of chairs, one or two p€ ople kneeling at the little altars, five or six little pious candles burning in compliment to the various saints and deities to whom they were dedicated. The rays of the little candles glimmered in the darkness, and the foct-falls fell quietly along the aisle. I, for my part, do not blame this poor foolish heart, if it offered up a humble supplication here in the shrine of the stranger. Poor Elly was not very eloquent ; she only prayed to be made a good girl and to be happy. But, after all, eloquence and long weeds do not mean any more." _ _ _ Poor Eily is rescued for the time from her misery and monotony, and brought home from a sick-bed, which had nearly proved her deathbed, to be nursed in England by dear old Miss Dampier, quite a fairy godmother sort of old lady, benevolent, and sympathetic, and with an old maid's ideal sympa thy for love and lovers. Here Elizabeth rejoices in what no foreigner can appreciate : 66 1 1 it 76 115# 394 401 974 8i 7t 1011 12} 124 3 It 994 i LITERATURE. The Story of Ell . zabeth. Smith, Elder, and Co. One of the heroes of ancient Greece, when his friends were lamenting round his death-bed that he left no children to preserve his lineage, exclaimed triumphantly, " Two fair daughters have I," naming two of his victories, " who will bear my name to the latest posterity," and the prophecy has been realised to this day. Happier than the warrior of Greece, the author of " Vanity Fair " can boast not only a goodly offspring among the creations of his fancy, but " fair daughters" also, who bear his name and inherit his genius. " The , Story of Elizabeth" beers no author's name upon the title-page, but rumour, we believe correctly, ascribes it to Miss Thackeray. Such an author ship would make any volume welcome, but this work would be welcome ware the author's name unknown. Again and again it has been our happy office in these columns to award our genial tribute to the author of " Penclennis," and with yet greater pleasure we now congratulate him on his daughter's auspicious entrance into the world of literature. " The Story of Elizabeth" is a charming little romance, fresh in its style, original in its treatment, and conspicuous throughout for its entire freedom from any appearance of effort, or affectation, or striving for effect. It is simple, and natural, and :truthful. As the microscope reveals greater marvels than even Lord Rosse's telescope, so does the attentive student of one human heart discover more matter for amazement, and interest, and instruction, than can be obtained by a more superficial survey of all mankind, even "from China to Peru." The narrator of Elizabeth's history is aware of this, she ooncentrates all our attention upon her heroine, and for the time being we feel for her, and we feel with her, albeit we do not always have good reason to approve of her. Poor Elly is no ideal perfection, but just such a one as Words worth might have pictured— "A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food, &c. " This is the story (so begins the history of Eliza beth) of a foolish woman, who, through her own folly learnt wisdom at last ; whose troubles—they werenot very great, they might have made the happi ness of some less eager spirit—were more than she knew how to bear. The lesson of life was a hard lesson to her. She would not learn, she revolted against the wholesome doctrine." Here is a picture of ELIZABETH. "Elizabeth had great soft eyes and pretty yellow hair, and a sweet flitting smile, which came out like sunlight over her face, and lit up yours and mine, and any other it might chance to fall upon. She used to smile at herself in the glass, as many a girl has done before her ; she used to dance about the room, and think, " Come life, come life, mine is going to be a happy one." Such is the buoyant and impetuous being to whom the lesson of life is so severe. At one time over come by sorrow, and heart-weary with hope de ferred, she exclaims, " To-day I am twenty, and I feel a hundred. Oh, what a sin and shame to con demn me to this hateful life. Oh, what wicked people these good people are. Oh, how dull ; oh, how stupid ; oh, how prosy ; oh, how I wish I wa. dead, and they were dead, and it was all over !" another time her s3rrowful meditations take a better direction. She is war.dering out in the busy city alone— THE ENGLISH ATMOSPHERE. " Here, in England, whither her good friend had brought her to get well, the air is damp with sea breezes ; the at mosphere is not keen and exciting as it is abroad ; the sky is more often gray than blue ; it rarely dazzles and bewilders you with its brilliance; there is humidity and vegetation, a certain placidity and denseness, and moisture of which some people complain. To Elizabeth —nervous, eager, ex citable—this quiet green country, these autumn mists, were now life. Day by day she gained strength, and flesh, and tone, and health, and good spirits. We must give a glimpse of some of the other cha racters of the story. Here is one of Elly's lovers indulging in very characteristic speculations : A LOVER'S MISGIVINGS. "He wonders whether he and Elly will be happy to gether P He pictures stormy scenes ; he intuitively shrinks from the idea of her unconventionalities, her eagerness, her enthusiasm. He is a man who likes a quiet life, who would appreciate a sober, happy home—a gentle, equable com panion, to greet him quietly, to cars for his tastes and his ways, to sympathise, to befriend him. Whereas now it is he who will have to study his companion all the rest of his life ; if he thwart her she will fall ill cf sorrow, if he satisfy her she will ask more and more; if he neglect her—being busy, or weary, or what not—she will die of grief ; if ho want sympathy and common sense, she will only adore him. Poor Elly I it is hard upon her thf.t he should make such a bug bear of her poor little love. His courage is oozing out at his finger •ends." We have not room left for a portrait of Will Dam pier, who, if he occasionally did foolish things" did them sensibly, which is a very different thing from doing sensible things foolishly. It seems to me," adds the authoress, " that is just the difference be tween men and women." The pastor Tourneur is well described ; he belongs to a high order of spirituality, and is " humble, holy, and self-deny ing." Very different is his second wife, Caroline Gilmour, the mother of Elizabeth. Her portrait is only sketched in by a few touches, but it is un mistakeable, and is singularly repulsive. We lose sight of Elly at last as she exclaims that she "does not want to be the only happy woman in the world," and she hurries out to the porch into "the fresh rain-scented air," and the door closes after her; and we close the volume, rejoicing to leave her happy after all, and yet reluctant to take leave of her and of her Story. - - Stanhope By Piii"P So ns . Poems and 7ranslations. Blackwood and T W h o e rsley. erian stanza has into English verse in . th n a charm i ng little volume, here collected together accomplished pp . 207 translator. W m . sp e r" cHomer's Odyssey m by os h t o m f them, translatea of B 1 ack tcood. As i in years past at e n em t P e ie v c a e l sl9v's Hectoro original 8 contributed I t ea h y n e a i i 3. herea a g t e s all times felicitous. a th f e ew fug of it takes the famous pa as uncertainstranslatorag_ ti o vh f i 3i y . Andromache. Often A i n the slat Book Homers Iliad he descriptive of the before been rendered into English From vaPe:rrsleti,naansd that, too, by scholarly poets no less gifted than Chapman, and Pope, and Cowper —the passage comes to us, secure of a fresh and earnest welcome, penned as it is with so tender an apprecia tion of the exquisite pathos and majestic h2auty of the incident herein so mar vellousiy depicted by the Patriarch of Poets, and so echoingly repeated in our own vernacular by the youngest and, in some respects, the most variously gifted among all his Translators. But that we have so recently luxuriated over Sir Edmund Head's delicious version of Propertius'Elegy on Cornelia, we should have read Mr. Worsley's more literal translation with still greater . pleasure r than that which it has actually afforded us. Ed mund's is more of a paraphrase or amplification,tsit t is true ; but it is from first to last h exquisitely translationslsiely beauti ful. Turning, however, from duetions themselves, we are a mos given in this graceful volume, to varioustot tdhiespoorsiegdinaatloperooe -1 The Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties is an intellectual course unknown to the readers and students of Mr. Page's Text-Books. Already he has inducted them upon that well-smoothed way of his, a very royal road to learning, a King's highway, open to all who list—now as a Geologist now as a Geographer. A qother addition to the series of Page's Text-Books—perhaps the most notable amongst them all—is the very one here submitted to our consideration. It is the very avant courier, or gentleman usher, as one may say, to that mighty potentate in the realms of Modern Knowledge, the Wondrous Kosmos of Humboldt. It is an index finger, as it were, illus trating the almost scriptural text of our English poet, bidding us " Look thro' nature up to nature's God !" It is wonderful how much book learning has here been packed together within so small a compass, aid so symmetrically—and yet at the same tim a Nithout resulting in an effect merely superficial. As an introduction to the science of Physical Geo .iraphy, the volume is completely satisfactory. It is the very companion volume to be thumbed indus• triously by all those who are but just beginning to pit at the feet of Mr. Keith Johnston, that Gamaliel among Physical Geographers. For, of the abun dant stores of knowledge squandered over the ample pages of " the Physical Atlas," this little Celt-Book is the very microcosm. RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (From the Illustrated London News.) The will of Miss Hester Walker, of Weybridge Park, Surrey, was proved in the London Court under £90,000 personal property, and probate granted to John Walker, Esq., her brother, and Francis Walker, Esq., her nephew, who aro the executors and trustees. The will bears date 1856, and a 1863. The testatrix appoints her brother, who is her executor, the residuary legatee of her personalty, and directs her real estates to be sold, and the proceeds arising therefrom to be divided amongst her said nephews and nieces, to whom iiberai legacies are bequeathed. Legacies are also left to her servants—to three of them £lOO each. Miss Walker forgives all persons who may be in debted to her in any sum. The following are her bequests to charitable institutions—To the National Benevolent Society, £2OO ; the Blind School, St George's-in-the-Fields, £2OO ; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Old Kent-road, £200; and the Infant Orphan School, Wanstead, £2OO. The will of Sir Matthew Blakiston, Bart., of Sandybrooke Hall, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, was proved in London on the 2d inst. by his son, Sir Matthew Blakison, Bart., and the testator's nephew, Matthew Folliott, Esq. The testator was formerly in the Indian army, and is of an ancient and distinguished family long settled iM Derbyshire. Sir Matthew was in his eightieth year, and died on the 23d of December last, having executed his will only three days prior thereto. After making spe cific bequests to his wife, Lady Blakiston, he directs that her ladyship may select such plate, books, and linen as she thinks proper, and that his servants may each receive a year's wages over and above what may be due to them. The testator then be queaths the rest and residue of his property to his eldest son and heir, who inherits the estate and baronetcy. The will of Admiral Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas, G.C.8., late Burton Court, near Hunger ford, Berkshire, was administered to in the London Court by his son, the Rev. James Whitley Deans Dundas, M.A., Vicar of Kinthury, Berkshire, the residuary legatee, to whom the grant was made from the circumstance of the excutors who were appointed—namely, Major-General Sir William Brereton, K.C.8., K.H., and S. B. I.llerriman, Esq. —having renounced probate. The personalty was sworn under £16,000. The will bears date Decem- ber, 1859 ; and the gallant Admiral, who had won distinguished honours and several orders, as appears from the stars preceding his name in the "Navy List," attained to the age of seventy-two, and died at Weymouth in October last: Sir James had held the high appointment of a Lord of the Admiralty, and had represented Devizes in Parliament in „ er each 1836 8, and Greenwich in 1841. 52 ; he was also a magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for Wiltshire and Berkshire. The will is purely of a family nature. To Lady Dundas, his relict, he leaves, i y £2,50D, and to a grandson and EgaCy o f grandaue , ht a legacy additionotfo .L he l r ,O rn oO ar ; ri a a n g d e residue of his property h —e leav€s‘o his butler. The he has devised all his real to his son, to whom trusts as the settlement estates, under the same Court. of his estate at Barton ise6totloon: settlement , a I es, _a alberg «' is is no w i n P aris, on his way here ; and the violinist, llATHAlvl,isAeNxtectecl. LONDON, C DOVER RAILWAY.—. OP ENING OF CR es THE GREAT TUNNEL - UNDER THE YSTAL PALACE. Y t erday afternoon the completion of one of the most important portions of the works in connexion With the metropolitan extensions of the railway system (under the auspices of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company), was celebrated at the Penge Wood end of the great tunnel running from Dulwich, under Sydenham hill, to that place. The chief engineer of the company, Mr. F. T. Turner, accompanied by Mr. Betts, one of the con tractors for the construction of the line, Mr. Watson, and Mr. Baldwin, both of whom are heads of departments under Messrs. Pete, Betts, and Crampton, together with several other officials of the company, assembled at the cuttingnea o r f the Alleyn's llead, Dulwich, and proceeded to the mouth the tunnel, where they were escorted by a number of details of work men bearingffunbeaux, and minutely inspected the t way hero the construction of this most gigan tic work. I important xorks be mentioned that this is one of the most . 0 even excluding tir, on the metropolitan extension linos,s and the features oi bridge over the Thames at Bla n k t fr e i r a e r st , ing character. The its progress are of the niost yards in length; there at a tunnel itself is no less than 2,2oobeing 182 feet below the level, ' eleven shafts, the deepest ono t s and other officials haw.ng staff, contrac orr The engineering ed at the last junctirin of d through the tunnel, eme g r platform was or ected• passe large ten:Torn 9 the brickwork,where a of persons had assemble d, and At this spot some hundreds rho inspection ascex ti ed who had made the the gentlemen s eoffolding, when I Mr Turne r, the chief engineer 9 had the . the completion of thi s gratification of eiTectiir ft brick, ia the grewt railway • work. by laying the a operation of which he c h ee red, was lattuaroelY to give our prefernce to those lovely " Stanzas to Wordsworth," in which, while doing homage to his chosen Poet, Mr. Worsley proves himself beyond all doubt to be a oe t also! Milton he apostrophises on the preceding page in a noble sonnet beginning finely— " God gave to thee the keys of heaven and hell:" But in this very sonnet he says to Milton, a little further on, almost in the language of a genuine Irish Bull, that Jehovah Fashioned thy tongue to speak the unspeakable Earnestly do we trust that it is less an awful pre sentiment than a passi ng an ti c ip a ti on of gloom which induces Mr. Worsley in his manly but most affecting preface to remark of these poetic effusions ti;eie i s t s, be ableismy hopeto d that m cr t it h i e cs ge m rm ay o , f n s e o v m e e r: thing better, and that possibly with some readers they may have a permanent value of their own, if; as I have good reason to fear, my l!fe should liot, spared for future efforts." Before closing our refe rence to these paws of graceful, and scholarly, and pathetic verse by Philip Worsley, it would be un grateful on our part, as numbered among his readers, and, therefore, also by necessity, among his admirers, if we did not mention here in terms of fitting admiration his two classically imagined and eloquently written Poems opening the Col lection—" Phaethon" and " Narcissus," but more especially the latter. A bounden duty also it seems almost to us, here, to thank this gifted young Translator for his metrical versions towards the close of the volume, of some of the sublimest of the Catholic Hymns, such as Thomas of Celano's Dies Ira, and Giacopone's Stabat Mater. Com pletely satisfactory they are not, any one of them as a whole —very far from it in our estimation. But here and there they are undoubted improve ments upon all preceding translations; here and there they are more than simply satisfactory, they are wonderfully felicitous. We shall yet hope to have occasion to congratulate Mr. Worsley later on upon his having adventured upon " fresh fields and pas tures new," with his pains and sorrows passed and his constitution reinvigorated. Introductory Text-Book of Physical Geography. By David Page. pp. 193. Wm. Blackwood and Sons. 4h an tOO da 1 20 CO } to too 1 stock itock a•ock 100 100 100 100 100 too 100 too stock Paid. 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 (100 1 100 I leo 10f: 100 100 100 10n 100 6 f 191 1 194 9 102} 1 1091