The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-25 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There is a steady demand for discount accommo datior: at previous quotations, and the inquiries at the sank of England continue limited. Gold is now rather dearer in London than in Paris, The Continental Exchanges yesterday afternoon exhibited steadiness. The True Briton, from Victoria, has brought £ 4 9.600 in gold. The directors of the Midland Banking Company (Limited) have appointed as the general manager Alyear.ralVhit bre a d T omson, w h o h as h a d twen ty-two experience in the London and County Bank. The directors have also completed arrangements for openin g a branch at Nantwich early in March, under the management of Mr. Edward Butterworth, many years in the Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, The directors of the Agra and United Service Bank have declared a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, for the half-year, ended 31st Jan., with a bonus of £1 per share. Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning, according to Renter's tele gram, French Rentes were 69f. 05c., 69f. 10c., ----rather better than yesterday. The Southampton Dock Company held its half yearly meeting to-day, Colonel Barlow in the chair. The report presented to the shareholders stated that the net revenue, after payment of the interest on the debenture debt, of the dividends on the pre ference stocks, and of all working expenses for the Past six months ending last December, amounted to £ 8 ,094, which, added to the surplus from last half year, amounted to £10,636. Out of this sum the directors recommended a dividend to be paid for the half-year If £2 ss. per cent , payable on the 4th March next (being at the rate of 4k per cent. per annum) amounting on £360,350 ordinary stock to £8,107. and leave a balance of £2,528 to be carried forward. The Chairman, Who moved the adoption of the report, Which was agreed to with only one dissentient 'voice, remarked that the statement was so full and complete as to ret.der unnecessary any observations as to the progress of the company, which was satis factory. The English Stock Market opened this morning with a flatter appearance, and a few transactions took place at a further slight decline ; but buyers have since come forward whose operations have led to a recovery of k per cent., the upward movemeit being also stimulated by improved advices from the Paris Bourse, Consols are now 92k, and 92} { for the account. The New Three per Cents. and the Reduced are flat, at 92k 8 ; Exchequer Bills, la. dis. to 3s. prem.; India 5 per Cents. remained at 108,1. Foreign Securities have been dealt in to a mode rate extent, and prices show no important variation. Greek Bonds, however, have been very fiat, and at one time receded to 181, but have since recovered to 19 ; !, and the Coupons 7{ Bk. Egyptian are steady at 991 100. Mexican Stock is fiat at 329 ; Moorish, 931 ; New Grenada 2 Per Cents., 331 ; Peruvian New Loan, 871 ; Portuguese do., 4615; Russian do., 93k; Spanish Passive, 258 a ; do. Certificates, 91 s ; Tarkish 6 Per Cents., 1854, are fiat at 891 ; do., 1858, at 71* 72 ; do., 1862, 68* 1 ; Italian 5 per Cents., 688 69 ; and Venezuelan 6 per Cents., 591. In the Railway Share Market the dealings con tinued very limited, and in most instances prices exhibited increased heaviness. Great Westerns and South Westerns have declined 55.; London, Chat ham, and Dover, 10s. ; and Caledonians and Great Northern A Stock, 155.; London and Brighton, however, improved ss. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were in active at about previous quotations. Great Luxem bourg brought 151; South Austrian and Lombardo- Venetian, 221 ; Great Western of Canada, 131-1, ; East Indian, 1051 106; and Great Indian Penin eela, 1041 1051. Joint -Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares were In fair demand, and in one or two instances realised enhanced p r i ces . O ttoman Bank improved to 401 1 7, 'ion of Australia to 514 52-1- ; Peninsular and Oriental steam to 72; and South Australian Land to 30 1 31. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. tank Stock 237 per Cent. Reduced Annuities New Per Cent. Consols Annuities .. ~ 3 per Cent. Annuities , rtiltleb, 30 yrs, expire jith Jan., I SBO India 'itt yrs , o for 30 expire sth April, 1885 1,1 Stock — I ) tto 6 per Cent. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent 4 ' 4O 5 1 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 4 per 2 Ct., Oct., 1863 Co hsols for Ditto Account, ditto March. 5 Aug. 1864 or 66 1 9 001 1 1 Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 1 dis 3 pm Ditto £SOO Ditto Small 1 dis 3 pm , FOREIGN FUNDS—cLOSING PRICES, (.4 :l rtb n e eaiittdttooogr s N e e c w ond Co l n ss s ti o e lidated . :4;Pptian 7 pet Cent 994 1 I 991 1 p c e: iii tt., 1824-5, ex-Coup ms l9l 181 191 n 81 a 321 e c, xican 3 per Cent 931 oriel) Imperial 5 per Cent 41tvt, Granada ' s itu) 2 ue/ Cent lilt. Deferred s eD i t,.. t ol t ;a4d p W er a u rr e a n n t ts (Hectares) .. 61 7 is bitto 1862 . •rorto..„ es° 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 3 per Cent 1856 '7, '9, and '6O 461 ~ , Russian D itto 1862 6 per Cent., 1822 , £ St 96/ s Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 :P :‘ ;. t t . ii blz3P:re:)Le' Deferred e d .. L 1 251 1 1 1:, ,...1...!!.et t izt oat:111116:: pt e p: r e t r; C o ce f en C ntt o . . u 11 p 885 n 584 0 t funded 891 72 1/ I ~,eunitto 6 per Cent. 1862 3 per Cent 231 4 -Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 .. 59 9 81 1., Dividends on the above payable in London. 41141 1, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25f. 6B/ 981 CO nBo. 1 THREE O'CLOCK. 8 , Ron ey .uitt o Accou n t 921 1 Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. (ZBVTER'S TELEGRAM.) IVERPOOL, Feb. 25. Stranger. S a l es a b ou t 5,000. I m p or t 3,799, previously 12,07 g. The Price of Gold. • T he quotation of gold at Paris is about per mille pm., and ?the short exchange on London is 25.20 per £1 sterling. On " I Paring these rates with le English Mint p r i ce of £3 ` 7 a. too. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is " I ghtly dearer in London than in Paris. 11 3` advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4224 per mark, 4 , 11 d the short exchange on London is 13.54 per £1 sterling. St andard gold at the English Mirt price is, therefore, about elo th . per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg 61 44 course of exchange at New York on London for bills at goldsYa' eight is about 170 per cent., and the premium on ie ,Is 4 per cent. At these rates there is a profit on t— "3ll3ortation of gold from the United States. RA ILWAY BILLS.—The following is a list of ,icew, a nd 14 co t i m w e 'i ti Y eera bi e l n Is t n r f h t a h t e haeasvaiennbe:_enHaanaharanadramtLeicester nie(hl since the Ri chmond ; Isle of Wight Valley Junction square, Ramme r smith,lit , w, and Richmond ; Dovdr, De 1, and Sandwich; Marton aad Harbury; BansteadLayntdhatsaonmd Downs, Gravesend and F trniughamJunclicn; Presto n ; Kensinton, K nightsbridge, and Metro o p n o - l T if r a e n nt ; a n d So Newport,Wool and Norton-bridge; Burton and South Leicestershire Junction ; Greenwich and Nvielt; Market Harborough and Melton Mowbray ; Gr eat S o uthern and Western and Midland Great Western Junc tion Lou; Aylesbury and Buckingham; Londonderry an d gh S willY ; and Fulham and Hammersmith. GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.—The 7t,6.h h alt verir:v trteetitie of the shareholders in b _Ts compa rcl-str an was held yesterday, at their offices, 71, Lom- John Wilkin, Esq., in the chair. The r, port Of the direei; ors and a s t atement of the accounts for the year endin g the 3 Est D ecember last were read to the meeting. The report Was hi g hly lv e d satisfactory, and una n i mous l y ee re dividend of and adopted by th e p ropr i e t ors . Th e customary anuu I , ls. per sh are , b e i ng at t h e ra t e of 10 per cent. I t " m, and t h e usual bonus of 2s. 6th per share w ere Lich declarEd, The cordial thanks of the proprietors were then voted to the chairman and directors for their able and Zealous service s i n the mangement of the couwany's affair s , Ili the proceedings terminated, PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, 112 13 Great Eastern, E. Union 4 per cent. guaranteed, 86 Gt. Western ( erks & Hants Ext.), 4t per cent. red., 981 Oh Ditto, 4 per cent. irred., B.'b London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent. pref., 1011 Mid. Consolidated, Bristol and Birm., 6 per cent., 137 South Eastern (treading Anne., 11.0.6)), 24 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, &e., Metrop. Ext., B, 6 per cent., 111 Metropolitan, 5; LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Lancaster and Carlisle, 211 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 8} Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. 7 per cent., 20; Great Luxembourg, 151 Namur and Liege, 14f. per annum, 8} Recite and San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 181 Sambre and Meuse, 104 San Paulo gua. 7 per cent. al Ditto (all), 23k South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 221 Turin and Savona (all), 7 FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper (lim.). 3 Dun Pedr , Nor h i , el Rey, 4 I Port una (urn.), 4 5 Mont. Aureos Braz. Gold Min. Co. (lim.), 3 Port Philip, Santa Bath tra Gold Mine aim.), 4 St. John del Rey (lira.), 574 6 Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lim.), 34 1 DOCKS. St. Katharine, 561 6 Alliance Bank o j t ° L i :n T d - o B U T a I n IC d IC WANKS. Lire;pool(lim.), 24i Anglo Portuguese (lim.), 3} Australasia, 8 Bank of London. /121 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 21i City. 911 3/ English and Irish (lim.). 3/ 1 F.n , r., Soo . and Australian Chartered, 261 London lh rtered Bank of Australia, 27 Loniion and Colonial • 3 , London and County, 42 - 1121 London Joint stock, 5 9 London and Middlesex, 21 London and South African, 251 London and Westminster, 771 6 ottoman Bank, 40 : 40i 39140 f If Ditto, new, 1 lii3 Union of Australia, 521 11 Union of Ireland (lim.), 9 Union of London, 34 MISCEL LANEOITS. Berlin Water Works, 7 Crystal l'abiee, 33 Ditto, Pri Terence, 103 E glish and Australian Copper, London Gen , ral Omnibus Company (lim.), National Discount Company (lim.), Peninsula and`O iental Steam, 72 2 Scottish Austiaan Investment (lim.), 141 2 South Australianli Land, 301 1 CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.—Yes terday the admissions on payraent were 610; do. by 601$011 tickets, 682 ; total, 1,092. Vales. ding are lsor, bath he town. laapel and as far as 1, and tbo I 1 covered 1 he nave. .eats will a be glad taken a fashion, o feet to n blocks, tapering ns of the e Guard 'he whole d with a th an em- •onet and 1:)t wined. the right ght, over ase of the a limited ousehold. been at- Knights' inionship d wooden on-table, will take however, ?red, and mpse can )m which over to her for a hitectnre Knights' is really )d places, star and ose seats 'omatique 3 invited it view iront of evinced place, no so in- very inch nine out It to bear the cere it of the een quite e floor of only see inly seen tact, her ely only rocession standing id, be as ither the ow dedi nsort by finished, ng with ?en quite ble addi- interior. Aare are e, is also i support ►vo been mosaics e placed done to historic 1 chapel of their 3 proces s which fast ad )ut that and and ►pointed is neces- is said, of mere the 7th ales will Western ~ as was re to the town of 'y VIII. Idsor are r to the )leted at is being e itself. ;ht, and iat is to 3pleodid of the n if we carriage i of the ons sent er corps 'ed evert t 16,00 0 that the Princess Park, so sive line At day• st week - anuarf• ature of which 15 previous rd week rrection deaths 87 than ortalitl which White •evalent Is from rred in id 3 in referred ire 896 Dtic dis -55 frorn )m local ~tal dig' ;ainst a at there violent ,ads. ;; bron- :ntaritin° were 4 3. Tsc° issitan. atl3B by Ind 896 ered in of the ed) ulurt'" how6e - e Pa lk ' ki tlO ng irOrd beJS and Seco" not re- j a COO: L it COW' SHARE MARKETS--This Day• ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuI).S. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val.l Blythe and Tyne. Bost., S leat.,and Bristol and Exeter 'Caledonian Cork aria Bandon Corn 4 • • Do A \ ets no ;iv tillApe.pan.ha. Do. B been paid to B. . !Duhlin & Belfast June. Dun., Perth,& Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk 8 8i 7 8 8D DO 118 k 118 b 61 7i 41 13 13 14 88 20 106 108 19i 95 47 24 25 Ditto A stock _ Ditto East Anglian st 'GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an I W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire Sr Yorkshire 1 London and Blackwall !Lon., 13right.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., aad Dover Lon. Si North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Dot 5hare5........ , Metropolitan !Midland 126 123 1281 12ti 136 138 102 104 67} 67! 1004 110 74 75 118 114 89 40 100 i 101 10 4 1014 45 46 181 14 1281 1281 1i 11p 96 98 Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. shares Mid Kent _ . Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Lecds 53 54 26 28 [Ol4 1024 d 57i 68i 89i 9C6 Do York Do Carlisle North London Do New 'North Staffordshire 111 114 1 II) 161 16 1 i 11i 111 121 123 15 46 103 105 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, 1860 Taff Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath 50 51 $3 35 96 964 E 9 70 103 105 74 8 I 38* 39* I 10 11 0 7 8* p 150 152 5 54 2 i ai pi (Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall 83 86 160 160 29 31 %N. Hartlepool Har.&R.l West Midland Oxford, Do Newpor! Do Hereford Railways. (I°sing-, BUsinesP Price. done 42 44 37 4') 97 99 BRITISH POS,ESSION`;. taliwavr T antic tt , St Lawrent, :oin.,Barorla&.Cent In. Gu. 5 per o , nt.. 00. New Do. E. Shares... flutialo ana Lake Li tirm Do. Preference cutTalo,Brant,/zGodricl p. ct. bds. Aug. 1,1,7 t Do. do. July 1, 187 1.1n 7 t, 1 ittta.,.;•:nstn. I w'rown nor* g, • Easttt. Bend au. 5 v. Last. Indian. au, 5_ p. Do. do. ti Ext.., Do. do. 11 do. . Grand Trunk of CanAd no. Ist Pre'. Bonds Do. Lo. deferred...... 'u. 2d !ref. 80n,5.. Do. do d ter Do. 3d P ef. stock ... Do. do. d terr d.... . Do. 4th Pref. s o k... Do. uo deferred...... Gt.lndtaPemn.gua.sp.e Do. New gua. 5 p. c... Do. January, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Share, Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8.. . Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., 5 p. c. Do. 41 p. o. Extension De. 4+ d 0........ Do. Fifth Extension. Melh.Con, a p. o. Bnds tielb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c.. Alortg. Bds Newßrunawiek&Cand, Class A sni B itl.C'da6 pc let ibds Scinde .......... Do. Delhi .. o D o o . . p d u o n . i ... u . 13 — Do. Do. •• •• g,,q 00. Indus. St. Flo. J COLONIAL GOVER? up.ouv. 8 p.c.J &J ui, 1877-St Do. 8 p. c. Feb. & Au, Do. 6 p. c.Mar. & Sept I Do. p. c. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stock ,( ape G. Hope, 8p c,187: Do.Ap &Oct 188( Do. 189 'Do. Jan. & July, 1891. Ceylon, N0v.1 8 61. 8 p Mmu itius i uer oert Nit' a G,v. 6 per cent. -- It. Gov. p.c..) a.a.) Li; i o, 6p. c.Ap. & Oct lii. S. W. G ov. 5 p c., 186. - Do. 5 p. c.,1871 to 187 Do. d0.,1888 &upv(7,l - New Zealand 6p. cent ;Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. .ter; ink!, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6 p. c. - A us lii p.c. krs7o.Sz. vin.Gov. ti p.c. Ja..4..Jul - Do. 1. D.n. An..4tOnk -hat too atb GU ' 1(0 100 1 102 104 13 t3i 7i 7} 99 101 92 94 1 lip 102} 11.34 96 98 43 :5 49 51 3 6 83 65 1051 1061, 103 104 ip 03 104 fp 98 100 • T SECURITII. 106 107 113 106 106 108 91 97i 95 97 119 111 12 114 113 115 111 113 110 112 9 111 104 1011 100 IUI 19} 100 i iu9 111 I. l Bf 107 i ' 0 112 '0 112 108 110 11 111} 110 114 at 11 BRITISH NIT )Cambrian Congo'. Gold 1 id n Inioro Amalgamated - 19 21 h•von con.. "ravint 530 140 .. :ast Bassett( Illovan 70 75 711 21 'East Clogau Gold Ltd. ss. id East Caradon t 44; 451 - I East Carn Brea.... I 'i W Russel (Tavistk 7.19.0 41 5* l la.m.ArSt.Aubyn(Gwen ) ,7 19 - , Ireat South Tolgus l7. 6 4 ; - `;. Wheal Voralelstoti P 6 7 - 5 56 - flerod's- Foot ill 50 52 ingston D0wn5...... 4. 7.0 24 3 I.ady Bertha '1 irgaret (tiny L e l an , 37 39 Clarke Valley., • ‘'vntiv Iron Orb (Lim el 1 6(1 New Setun l9 135 145 - _North Down. 2 34 - iiase.t(lllo 4 ao '..17 3t forth Wheal Crotty . 2.4. t. 44 5 4/ l'ar Consols(R. Blazey 14 45 61 10 rrovidenee(Uny Lelnt. , 10.6.: 0 42 - South Caradon(St.Cleer, 14 395 405 - S. Carn Brea (Illogan).. 5.15.1 21 21 - =.Wheai Fran. (Mogan 18.1 85 90 - Stray Park 5 'Tamar Silv.St Lead Min le 10 Tin Crort 9 18 19 - West Basset (Illog - an) ll 121 134 - W Caradon (Liskeard, 5 31 33 - West Seton - Wheal Basset ((Mogan) f 1 65 70 - Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 60 70 - Wheal Kitty (li.Lelant) 2.0.6 7 8 WhealLud ott - Wheal IllaryAnn (M en ) 8 15/ 16 --Wheal Seton . . 681 r 25 235 heal Tretawney (Lis.) 7 17 18 - Wheal Union 3.17 41 51 106 i ) all i all 49 I 9 46 1091 10 1131 14 14 4039# I 100; 451 13J 15 p 101 i d 33i 96 J iusiness don 10 1061 51 101 l 5 5 103 i 3 i 93 i 100 100 f THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1363. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before the Lord Chief Justice.) THEWLIS V. MUMPORD. This was an action brought by the plaintiff for the seduc tion and consequent loss of service of his daughter, a girl aged 16 years. It appeared from the opening statement of the learned counsel, that the plaintiff, a tradesman at Huddersfield, having a very large family, had apprenticed one of his daughters, Eliza Jane, to a Mrs. K a y e, a milliner in the town. There were several other girls there as apprentices at the same time, and in February. 1861, one of them intro duced the plaintiff's daughter to the defendant, on the street. After this they met on several different occasions', and in the May following the defendant accompanied Miss Thewlis to the Huddersfield tair. They did not see much of, each other again till September, but one evening during that month the defendant, having per suaded Miss Thewlis to take a walk with him into the country, about a quarter of a mile from the town, had, it was alleged, seduced her. After this they did not meet again till the month of November, when it was asserted criminal intercourse again took place. The result was that Miss Thewlis gave birth to a child in August, 1862, of which she declared the defendant was the father. The plaintiff had been put to great expense by what had occurred, having had to board his daughter and her child, and having been obliged to take another younger daughter from school to supply her elder sister's place. The case was resumed this morning by Mr. Digby Sey mour, Q.C., who made a very strong appeal to the jury on the part of the plaintiff, during which he told them he felt satisfied that they would give ample and adequate damages for the great injury she had sustained. The Lord Chief Justice having summed up the case, The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. SECOND COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn,) ITTWOOD V. IRVING. This was an action brought by the plaintiff for compen • sation for the injuries he had sustained from being crushed against the wall by one of the defendant's waggons. The defendant paid £2O into court as compensation, but the plaintiff considered that insufficient, and therefore instituted the present proceedings. Mr. Hawkins, Q C., addressed the jury in behalf of the defendants, contending that the sum paid into court was quite sufficient to compensate for any inconvenience the plaintiff suffered through the acts of the defendant's car man. The jury gave a verdict for £lO in addition to the sum paid into court. SHEPPARD V. BUTT, M P. In this case, which was undefended, the jury gave a ver dict for the plaintiff for £lOO. SHERIFFS' COURT. (Betore Mr. Kerr.) THE MEANING OF THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS.-..- IMPORTANT DECISION.-MOTION V. MON./MEN. This was an action to recover for goods sold and deli vered. Defendant had pleaded the statute of limitations, and now said he knew nothing of the matter. Plaintiff urged that the goods had been sent in on Feb. 9th, 1857, and defendant had admitted the delivery. Defendant—l know nothing about it. Plaintiff—You admit the delivery of your plea. His Honour— h, nu. It is more than six years ago, and he pleads the statute. Plaintiff—l have always understood that when that plea is put in the defendant admits the delivery of the goods. His Honour—Then you have made a mistake. It ad mits nothing. He pleads it to prevent mistakes. You have sued him for goods alleged to have been supplied on the 9th February, 18:57, and he denies the knowledge of the transactions, but in order to be on the safe side he pleads the statute, and I must find for defendant with costs. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. FORGERY ON THE UNION BANS.—John Squire, piano forte-maker, of 1, Frederick-place, Caledonian-road, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with obtaining £3O by means of a forged cheque on the Union Bank of London. The case having.been opened by Mr. Reeves, solicitor to the bank, who said it was one of a painful nature, inasmuch as the prisoner was the son of the person whose name was forged. _ _ Mr. Charles H. Heise, one of the cashiers of the Union Bank of London, Argyle-place branch, said that Mr. John S iuire kept an account at the bank. The cheque produced, dated 23d Feb., 1863, purporting to be drawn by Mr. John Squire, for £3O, and numbered 56,572, was presented to him, and he paid it in two £5 notes, numbered 48792 and 3, and £2O in gold. He believed the prisoner to be the person who presented the cheque. Mr. John Squire, pianoforte-maker, of Sutterton•street, Caledonian-road, said he kept an account at tha Argyle place Branch of the Union Bank. The cheque produced was not in his handwriting, though it was a good imitation. It was not signed with his knowledge or by his direction. There was a counterfeit in his cheque-book, numtered 56,572. On the morning of the 23d of February, the cheque book was in his writing-desk at which he had been writing. The prisoner had access to the room and the desk that morning He found yesterday morning that the cheque had been torn out. The prisoner, his son, on Monday said he was ill and did not come to work, but the next day another son informed him that he had seen his brother the previous day with money, and in consequence made an examination and found the ci.eque had been taken from the book. W. .iarsh, 170, N division, proved taking the prisoner into custody, and scotching him at the station. He found one £5 note, 45793, on him, and some money, and an old cancelled cheque. The Solicitor said that that was the one evidently used to copy from. Prisoner said he had nothing to say. Mr, Tyrwhitt remanded him for a week. BALLAD SINGERS AND THE ROYAL MARRIAGE.— Three fellows named Jones, Phillips, and Sharp, wire charged " with causing an obstructi.in in Little Windmill street, Tottenham-court-road, by singing a ballad in disparage ment of the Prince of Wales. The defendants were found by Chapple, 36 E, singing a ballad capable of a most indecent construction relative to the forthcoming royal marriage, and as 'here was a large crowd round them, and persons could not pass, he took them into cus►ody. Mr. 'I yr v, hitt, after cautioning the defendants that if brought before him again they would be fined 40s. each, said that he should content himself by fining the defendants ls. each. Appaling Colliery Accident at Wednesbury. The fire in the workings beneath the surface still continues to rage, and as the supporting pillars of coal are consumed, the buildirgs above are giving way, and on Monday last the blacksmith's hovel was entirely prostrated. The adjacent erections also lean considerably, and are shortly expected to come to the ground. As no smoke was perceptible on Sunday last it was conjectured that the fire was lessening. Since that time, however, the opening caused by the first crowning in on the site of the old shaft has considerably widened, and from the cavity smoke of a light colour is emitted in dense volumes. The appearance of the earth forming the sides of this fissure is a sufficient indication of the heat to which it has been subjected by the influence of the flames. A number of men are now engaged in filling up the whole of the cavity in order to completely enclose the fire, and thus to prevent the ingress of any current of air. It is, however, thought by many persons that a general crowning-in or subsidence of the whole surface is inevitable. Persons well acquainted with the locality account for the dangerous proximity of the old shaft to the river by asserting that within the last few years the course of the stream has been diverted from the channel in which it originally flowed many yards farther distant. The inquest upon the bodies of Pitt and Gettings p d yesterday. witness called was Ed ward Stone, one of the colliers e accident happened. He said that when at 6 o'clock opened first 'employed The at the co.liery at which the on the Thursday night he ascended the shaft the whole of the pit arrangements were in an efficient state. No ocision been made. mode in which the pitwas worked W hen a decent was m .de two or three hours after com the accident, it was tou:A that the water, at the P h ia ad nt o s n of any t he' o distance of 20 yarns from the bottom of the sh ft, ndered further progress impo ssible. Witness p ro. ceeded as tar as he was able , and findin g no men, began t o s h ou t an d beat upon a tin pla t e. N o answer was, however, returned to the call' The substance of the remainder of the witness's t yid< nee has been th a Pitt! wnen recovered, had bee n found to hays already published, with the exceptio n of the fact sustained . wound in the back. He also further stated that no road had ever been driven in the direction of the watercr*urse. In the new. road in had occurred about attempt which the men warn working no fire , had ever been observed, but flames bad at intervals broker through thedarn, and so recently as three months since fire of the soaft. 41) or yards from the bottom night ,f Thursday to r e es m c pt e w h a this the for t the witne , s could give no reason. ( The son. (The Government Inspector here remarked that such a course was most extraordinary,) The inquiry adjourned till the 2m5 tand made daringrox the The final arrangemc-nts for the proposed loan of imovoo, on the seurity of cotton, have been made between Messrs. Erlanger and Co., of Paris and Frankfort, and the Confederate Government, with the eon seat of Congress, and the particulars will probably be issued in a day or two, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BIRMINGHAM STEEPLECHASES—TUESDAY. The Scurry Handicap of £25 ; winners extra. Two miles. Mr. Hall's Jerry, 6 yrs, lOst 71b : (Mr. Miles) 1 Mr. Wright's Orkousta, aged, 10st 61b .... (J. Kendall) 2 The following also ran :—tuff. Corkscrew; and Mytton disqualified. Betting -11 to 8 agst Orkousta, 3to 1 agst Corkscrew, 7 to 2 agst Mytton, The latter was first away, followed by Orkousta, Cork screw, Jerry, and Luff (out-paced) bringing up the rear. After passing the stand Corkscrew dropped . behind, and Jerry took third place. Jumping into the ploughed land Luff refused, although he was again put at the fence, which he took the second time, he had lost so much ground that he was out of the race. Mytton continued with the lead, which he increased at the far side, but on clearing the fences the trio took close order, and, after an exciting race, Mytton, who was never headed, came in first by half a length; Jerry beat Orkousta a similar distance, and Luff trotted in. Corkscrew fell half a mile from home, but Mr. Wood was not hurt. An objection was lodged against Mytton for going on the wrong side of a post, and after having conclusive evidence, the stewards awarded the han dicap to Jerry. The Birmingham Grand Annual Steeplechase of 10 cove each, 5 ft, with 100 added ; winners extra. 25 eovs, Bof whom pay 3 cove each. About three miles and a half. Lord Coventry's Emblem, aged, 10st 31b .. (G. Stevens) 1 Mr. Milward, jun.'s, Joe Maley, aged, list 131 b (inc. 91b ex) Mr. Dixon's Maritana, aged, 12st 31b (J. Dickson) 3 Capt. Lthristie's The Dane, aged, list I Ilb (W. White) 4 The following also ran :—Heads or Tails, Doubtful, Northern Light, and Emblem. Betting-3 to 1 agst Emblem (at first 100 to 40), 7to 2 agst Heads or Tails, 4 to 1 each agst The Dane and Doubt ful, 6 to 1 agst Maritana, 6 to 1 agst Northern Light. Northern Light was first off, but Doubtful soon took up the running, and came by the stand slightly in advance of Joe Maley, Emblem following fhird,Northern Light fourth, Head or Tails fifth, The Dane sixth, and Maritana several lengths in the rear. Heads or Tails refused at the jump on the opposite side of the course, and joined Maritana. Lord Uxbridge's horse again refused at the succeeding fence—the jump into the ploughed land—and being out of the race was stopped in the park. Proceeding up the fallow, the compe titors formed Indian file, long intervals separating each. There was no alteration in the positions of the front divi sion until approaching the Stand the second time, when Joe Maley rushed in front of Emblem, and on the opposite side of the course took up the running from Doubtful, who was succeeded by Emblem; the other three ascending the ploughed land almost in a line some lengths from the leader. Atter emerging from the park Emblem took up the run ning, The Dane, joining Joe Maley and Maritana, obtained second place at the last fence, but twisting a plate in the run home was stopped 50 yards from home, and there re passed by Joe Maley and Maritana. Emblem after going to the front was never caught, and won easily by 10 lengths; two lengths intervened between second and third, and a similar distance divided Maritana and The Dane. Nothing else passed the post. The Licensed Victualler& Plate of 5 sovs each, with 30 added; winners exua. Two miles and a half. Mr. B. Land's Deceiver, aged, list 41b (inc 71b extra) (B. Land, jun.) 1 Mr. W. W. Baker's Light of Other Days, aged, list 71b (John Nightingall) 2 Mr. J. Ashwood's Mytton, aged, lOst 101 b (Childs) 3 The following also ran :—Xanthus, Sunflower, Worces • ter, and Buzzard. Betting-5 to 4 agst Light of Other Days, 7to 2 agst Deceiver, 4 to 1 agst Xanthus. Sunflower made play with Mytton, Light of Other Days, and Deceiver in close company. After going half a mile, Deceiver took up the running. Light of Other Days follow ing second, and M)rtton third. The race from this point lay between the favourite and Deceiver, and a most excit ing struggle ensued, which resulted in favour of Deceiver by a head; Mytton was a bad third, Sunflower walked in fourth, Worcester was out-paced from the start, Xanthus jumped on the wrong side of a post and was stopped, whilst Buzzard refused at the road turn. The Hunters' Welter Cup, value 100 sous, by subscription of 10 sous each, 5 ft, the surplus to be paid by the Fund ; gentlemen riders, winners extra. 11 subs. Mr. J C. Tilbury's Forlorn Hope (11 b), 13st (Mr. Atkinson) 1 Mr. Park's The Lady of La Garaye, 13st .. (Owner) 2 Mr. Featherstonough's Windsor, aged, 13st (Owner) 3 The following also ran :—Pantomime, Leyerett, and Ireley. Betting—Even on Windsor, 5 to 2 agst Ireley, 6 to 1 agst Pantomime, 7 to 1 agst any other. The Lady of La Garaye made the running f r the first mile, when the lead was taken up by Ireley, who was passed by Forlorn Hope half a mile from home. The latter was never again caught, and won in a canter by nearly a dis tance. Ireley fell in the Park when in possession of the The races terminated a few minutes after five o'clock. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-TUESDA.T. For the Lincoln Handicap any advance upon 5 to 1 would have been taken about Libellous. 6to 1 was readily taken about Hubert. 9to 1 was the highest offer agst Revolver, and 10 to 1 agst Peignoir. 100 to 8 was freely taken about Flash-in• the-Pan, the backer wishing to go on. Lop catcher seemed to be creeping into favour again, and the last bet that we saw booked was 100 to 12. No other event for this meeting was touched upon. For the Liverpool Steeplechase The Orphan was in great request, and 20 to 1 was readily booked. 100 to 4 was almost as readily taken about Northern Light. Nothing else was named. Closing prices :-- LINCOLN HANDICAP. 6to 1 agat Libellous (offered) 6to 1 agst Hubert (taken) 17 to 2 agar Lopcatcher (taken) 9to 1 agst Revolver (offered) 10 to 1 agst Peignoir (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agat Flash-in-the-Pan (taken) 16 to 1 agst Comet (taken) 16 to 1 agst Antar (taken and offered) 16 to 1 agst Douche (offered) 25 to 1 agst Henham Lass (taken) 25 to 1 agat Everlasting (taken) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 7to lon the field (offered) 20 to 1 agst The Orphan (taken) 25 to 1 agst Northern Light (taken) YORK SPRING MEETING. Weights for the Great Northern Handicap of 20 sous each, h ft, and 6if declared, with 100 added, Two miles, over the old course. 62 subs. Age at lb Adventurer . 4 6 7 Magnum Bonum.. 4 6 7 Fairy King 4 6 6 Flytrap 4 6 6 Prologue .. 6 6 6 Early Morn .. 4 6 4 Erin-go-Bragh .. 3 6 3 Oakapple 3 6 0 Donnybrook .. 3 6 0 Port Royal 3 6 0 Ophelia, by Idleboy 3 6 13 X X .. .. 3 6 12 Marmion .. 3 5 12 Laura .. .. 3 6 11 Accident .. .. 3 5 10 Jack of Hearts .. 3 5 9 Venison .. .. 3 5 9 Muffler .. 3 5 9 Physalis colt 3 5 9 Middlewatch .. 3 6 9 Abbotsfordian .. 3 6 9 Lady Superior .. 3 5 9 Picco .. 3 6 7 Fantail .. 3 5 7 Lazy Boots .. 3 5 7 Contralto .. .. 3 5 7 M a nfred .. 3 5 7 Watford .. .. 3 6 7 East Lancashire .. 3 5 7 Bullet .. 3 7 Cachuca 3 5 7 24, and forfeits to be declared arch 3. Age et lb Carbineer b 8 12 Ivanhoff .. 5 8 12 Caller On .. 5 8 10 Rapparee .. 6 8 9 Knutsford.. .. 6 8 3 Croagh Patrick .. 5 8 2 Carisbrook.. .. 4 8 2 Crater .. .. 6 8 0 Dulcibella 6 8 0 Joey Jones 5 7 10 Prince Plausible.. 6 7 10 Doefoot .. 5 7 8 Dusk • • .. 5 7 8 The Monk.. .. 67 7 Milverton .. 5 7 7 Earl of Surrey .. 4 7 4 Welcome .. 4 7 3 Haddington .. 4 7 3 Piccader 4 7 2 Harlequin .. 4 7 '2 Gorse .. 4 7 0 Sappho .. .. 47 0 Citadel .. .. 4 7 0 Fitz-Eva .. 5 7 0 Viscount Brignall 5 6 13 Charles Fox .. 4 6 12 Somersault .. 6 6 10 Villetta .. 4 6 10 Queen of Trumps 4 6 10 Physician, by Chan ticleer .. a 6 7 Weights published February Mai RACING FIXTU FEBRI Lincoln MA: Nottingham Spring 3 Derby Spring Liverpool Spring.... lO Shrewsbury l2 AP. Newmarket Craven 6 D ur ham . 6 Knighton LlanboidY Catterick Bridge 8 Abergavenny Chester 5 Bath .12 Marlborough l4 Harpenden l5 _ Ju Aecot 2 Newton 10 Hampton ..10 Odiham 16 Beverley. l7 Ju WorcestAr 2 Newmarket July 7 Liverpool. l3 Abington 14 Hungerford l6 . _ Air Brighten Brighton C1ub.......... 6 Lewes ................ 7 Reading .. . ........... 12 York August ..........13 SEPTE Devon and Exeter 1 Derby Summer Leicester lO Doncaster 15 OCTO Newmarket S. 0 ..12 Lincoln Autumn... 20 I Nova; WOrCelter, scuut 3 I THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day. LINCOLN RACES-THIS DAY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TRIAL STAKES. _ Manrico Souvernaire Prologue Seven ran. CITY HANDICAP. _ . Fontenot' Conundrum Real Jam __ 3 Nine ran. BROCKLESBY STAKES. _ _ ..._ Sister to Tomyris __ _ 1 Lady Nichol Faith Twenty ran. SELLING STAKES. Lord Arthur ................. Court Martial Five ran. GRAND STEEPLECHASE. Pine Apple 1 Maritana .. • • Canteen Eight ran. LATEST BETTING. LINCOLN HANDICAP. 4to 1 agst Hubert (offered) 6to 1 agst Libellous (offered) 10 to 1 agat Manrico (offered) 10 to 1 agst Lopcatcher (offered) 10 to 1 agat Flash-in-the. Pan (offered) 10 to 1 agat Revolver (offered) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 7to lon the field (offered) 16 to 1 agst Emblem (taken) 20 to 1 agst Shropshire (taken) CITY BETTING—THIS EVENING. LINCOLN HANDICAP. sto 1 agst Libellous (taken) 11 to 2 agst Hubert. (taken) 9to 1 agst Revolver (taken) 9to 1 agst Lopoatoher (offered) 10 to 1 agst Peignoir (offered) 12 to 1 agst Flash in the Pan (taken) 20 to 1 ag , t Manrico (taken) 20 to 1 agst Weatherwise (taken) 20 to 1 agst Sea Nymph (offered) HURDLE RACE. Evens on Satellite (taken) 4to 1 agst Any other (offered) MARKETS—Thirs Day. MARK LANE. Fresh up to this morning's market, the arrival of English wheat was very moderate. Both for red and white qualities, the trade ruled heavy, at Monday's decline in the quotations of 2s. per quarter. - The supply of foreign wheat was moderately extensive, chiefly ex granary. The demand for all ki n d s was in a sluggish state, and prices were barely supported. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, on rather easier terns. Fine barley realized extreme rates ; otherwise, the barley trade was dull, and the quotations had a downward tendency. The malt trade was dull, infericr produce, especially, being very difficult of sale. Sweet oats were in fair demand, at very f u ll pr i ces; but indifferent qualities commanded little attention, Beans moved off slowly, on former term s . Peas, the supply of which was small, changed hands at extreme currencies. Flour sold heavily, and in same instances prices ruled the turn in favour of buyers, ARRIVALS THIS WEED. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English...— 5901 24 0 $ 200 1 130 I 480 Irish.. — I 300 -- 'oreign.... 1,310 3,870 i 9,320 I 550 slat 690 brim. BOROUGH HOP. The business doing in all kinds of hops is very mode rate, yet no change has taken place in prices, compared with our previous report. WHITECHAPEL. Pair supplies of meat are on offer ; the trade rules heavy. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 2d ; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; and pork, 38 4d to 4s 2d per Blbs by the car case. COUNTRY MARKETS. I , -- - MARKET HARBOROUGH—TuEsDAY. White wheat, 49s to 52s ; red, 43s to 47s per 36 stone. Barley at 35s to 37s per qr., grinding 30s to 32s per 30 at. Oats, 27s to 31s; new, 21s to 24s per 24 at. ; beans, 34s to 43s per qr. LEEDS -TUESDAY, There was very little demand for wheat, and last Fri day's rates were about maint a i ne d . B a rley, oats, beans. &c,, sold at late prices. SHEFFIELD -TUESDA Y. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...2os Od to 21s Od White it ...22s Od to 24s 6d f New red 7 ...16s Od to 18s Od New white „ I ...20s Od to 21s 6d 71 Beans ... 16s 6d to 19s 6d ,t ~ Peas, per qr 4580d to 556 Od Grinding barley, per qr 2Bs Od to 30s 04 Malting ditto, „ 34s Od to 40s Od Oats 2ss Od to 30s Od Flour, is 9d to 2s 2d per stone. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY• At our market to-day there was a fair attendance of the town and country trade. There was a dull business doing in wheat, and prices were 2d per cental lower. Flour also without change. Indian corn difficult to sell. MELT ON M 0 WE RAY—TuEsDAT. The following were the currencies :—New white wheat, 508 Od to 63s Od ; new red, 45s Od to 49s per 36 stone ; beans, 422 to 44s for old ; new sorts 34s to 37s per 38 st. ; barley, 355 to 37 s f or ma lti ng, and. 27s to 30s per qr. for grinding; oats, 21s to 30s Od per 24 stone. DUBLIN —TUESDAY. We had a slow, dull market to-day for every description of grain, at about former prices. s. d, s. d. 0, d. a. d. Wheat, white 26 0 to 28 6 Beans.. Do., red 23 0 ..... 24 0t027 0 to 26 0 Bere ......... 12 o to 13 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black lO ot o 12 0 Indian corn .. 31 6t036 0 SHIPPING —This Day. --- (EY MAGNETIO TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Weunesday Morning. Arrived, Feb. 24 . —Julia, from New York. Arrived, Feb. 25,—Emma Eden, Shietteal, and Wave, from Guernsey ; Adeine, from Palermo; Conference, from Shanghai; Janet Cowan, from Tuticorin. Sailed, Feb. 25.—Belgium, steamer, for Ostend; Sir G. Banks, steamer, from DEAL, Wednesday Morning. Anch“red.—lsta n b ou l, from London, tor Port Phillip ; True Briton, from Melbourne, for London (in tow). The brig reported on shore on the Goodwin is off, and is supposed to have been towed to Ramegate, THE REPRESENTATION OF DIIMFRIES 811R01111...- On Monday last Major Walker, of Crawfordton, who contested these burghs in 1859 and was nearly success ful, ann6unced that, for private reasons, he did not intend to appear as a candidate at the next general election. On Fri day, the 20th inst., Colenel Clark Kennedy, C. 8., issued an address, intimating his intention of opposingthesitting mem ber, Mr. W. E wart, in the event of a dissolution of Parlia ment. Ccl. Kennedy promises to support Lord P a l mers ton's Government, and his political opinions appear to be those of a moderate liberal. The present member is a Radical. THE GREENLAND FISHERIES.—Year by year the number of whalers sailing from Hull decreases, and two less will leave the port for the Arctic Seas this year. On Saturday the sailing ship Bolus, Captain Gray, sailed for Greenland, and the steamer Lady Seals, Capt. R. Wells, will leave for the same destination early this week. The steamer Diana, Capt. W. Wells, and the barque Truelove, Captain Walker, belonging to the Hull Whale and Seal Fishing Company, are announeed to sill for Davis Straits on the 3d of March. The whaling barque Emma, which has sailed from Hull for a number of years, has been pur chased by a shipping firm in Dundee. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORR.S.--YelitBrdßY was iasued a Parliamentary return, which gives, under the head of " Current Ordinary 1 6. counts," a state ment of receipts and payments from 26th March, 1861, to 25th March, 1862 The balance in hand on 26th March, 1861, nes £7,641, and the receipts from sewerage and drain age, £56,329; metropolitan i mprovements, £32,091; genet al purposes, £78.059; and fees under Gas Acts, £325; together, £166,8q5. The payments were :—Sewerage and drainage, £46,531, metropolitan i mprovements, £47,626; general purposes, £61,856; expenses under Gas Acts, £2,493; i n gross, £158,508; leaving a balance in hand on the 26th March, 1862, of £15,839, A statement and account of all arrears of rates and other moneys owing to, and of mortgages and ocher debts and liabilities owing by, the board, on the 26th March last, were : Moneys owing to the board, £158.691; and debts, loans, and ether special £361,835. In addition to the moneys owing to the board, there is a cash balance in hand of £16,839, and also a sum of £64,814 invested in, the New Three per Cent. Annuities, for the repayment of moetfsge debts, pursuant to 18 and 19 Vic., ei 120, s, 190. Association of Chambers of Commerce. The annual meeting of the Association of Cham bers of Commerce of the United Kingdom was held at the Westminster Palace Hotel yesterday, Mr. S. S. Lloyd in the chair. • The following were the Chambers represented and the names of the delegates :—Mr. Darnton Lupton and Mr. W. Hirst, Leede ; Mr. T. Wilson, Leeds and Goole; Mr. J. V. Godwin, Mr. John Darlington, and Mr. Jacob Behrens, Bradford ; Mr. G. Dixon and Mr. I. S. Wright, Birmingham ; Mr. Oliver Ellis, Dewsbury ; Mr. C. Allhusen, New castle-on-Tyne ; Mr. Robert Jackson, Mr. I. Job son Smith, Mr. H. Hall, and Mr. W. Smith, Shef field; Mr. W. H, Wills, Mr. Mark Whitwell, and Mr. L. Bruton, Bristol; Mr. J. Lumsden, Mr. H. J. Atkinson, and Mr. C. Norwood, Hull ; Mr. J. W. Carlile, Mr. C. H. Jones, Mr. Joseph Wrigley, jun., and Mr. Joseph Battley, Huddersfield; Mr. E. Akroyd and Mr. J. G. Bowman, Halifax ; Mr. Frank P. Fellows, Wolverhampton ; and Mr. Edward Day, Dewsbury. The draught report of the standing committee was read and adopted. Reviewing the measures of commercial reform which characterised the past year, the report re ferred to the treaty of commerce signed in January last between France and Italy, and expressed an earnest hope that the negotiations for an Anglo- Italian commercial treaty may now be brought to an immediate and satisfactory i.,sue. Reference was made to the satisfactory treaty with Belgium and with the King of Burmah ; to the passing of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1862, by Parliament ; to the extension of the time of ownership of regis tered designs in articles made wholly or chiefly of metal from three years to five; and to the Act for the incorporation, regulation, and winding-up of trading companies and other associations. The com mittee express a hope that the petty import and export charges imposed by the Customs Act of 1862 may be abolished this session. The Partner ship Law Amendtr ent Bill, the Patent Laws, and the International Maritime Law were commended to the attention of the Chambers. The committee trust that at no very distant date a bill may be enacted which shall not only consolidate the entire statute law of bankruptcy, but render procedure in bank ruptcy what it ought to be—at once the most simple, economical, and speedy method of dealing with the evil to which it relates. The attention of the various Chambers of Commerce is urgently required, the committee observe, to the unsatisfactory fiscal rela tions with Great Britain of foreign States (espe cially of the Zallverein, Austria, Russia, Spain, and Portugal). The report proceeds to review the ob jectionable provisions of the tariffs of these States, any specific allusion to the enormous protective duties imposed on the manufacturers of this country by the United States of America being purposely avoided. "The present circumstances of that great country," say the committee, "are so exceptional that the committee can here only express a hope that, at the termination of the present unhappy and disastrous civil war, the tariff of the United States may be revised in a spirit more in accordance with sound commercial principles, and with the preEent opinions of the other leading commercial nations of the world." In the negotiation of commercial treaties it is very important at all times that the special interests of British manufacturers should be duly considered. It would be a fatal mistake (says the report) to follow the details of the treaties which may have been concluded with other States by the French, or by any other foreign Government. With regard to our repeal of the Navigation Laws, the committee observe that it is to be regretted that many of the principal maritime nations decline to respond at all to this liberality on the part of Great Britain, but by imposing extra tonnage dues on British as compared with their own shipping, and by differential duties on the goods carried therein, succeed, in many instances, in practically exclud ing British vessels from participating in the foreign, colonial, or coasting trade of such countries alto gether. This is a ground for just complaint, and one to which the attention of the Foreign-off ce and lot the Board of Trade should be constantly directed by the various Chambers of Commerce. In conclud ing their report the committee advert to the increase of our exports, and the gratifying results to France no less than to England of the adoption of a more liberal commercial policy by the former. The following is the programme of subjects for discussion by the association to-day : Birmingham—The Partnership Law Amendment Bill, 1862. Bradford—The Extension of the Principle of Limited Liability to Private Partnerships. Leeds—The Desirability of a General Registration of Partnerships. Bradford, Birmingham, and Sheffield—The Patent Laws. Birmingham—The Defects in the Bankruptcy Act. 1861, as exemplified in its practical working, Bradford—The subject of Foreign Tariffs generally, and the Desirability of an Improved Mole of Communication between the Foreign-office, the Board of Trade, and Cham bers of Commerce in reference to Commercial Questions. Bristol—Belligerent Rights at Sea. Hull—The Desirability of Abolishing the Petty Import and Export Charges imposed by the Customs Act, 1860, the Scheldt Tolls, and the Impropriety of granting Powers to Railway Companies to run Steam -vessels. Leeds—The Abolition of Extra Rates charged on Goods removed Inland for Bonding. Bradford—lncorporation of Chambers of Commerce. Hull—The Desirability of Tribunals of Commerce. Leeds—The Desirableness of an Alteration in the Mode of conducting Legislation on Private Bills. Bristol—Private Bill Legislation. Leeds—The Desirability of the Abolition of the Duty on Fire Insurance, or its reduction and extension to all kinds of insurance against Fire. _ Bradford—The Question of having Extra Facilities granted for the Transmission of Patterns by Post. Huddersfield—The Metric System of Weights and Measures, and the Report of the Select Committee of Par liament thereon. A considerable part of the morning was occupied in dis cussing Mr. Scholefield's bill on Limited Liability. There was great diversity of opinion with respect to it, more par ticularly in relation to the partnership of clerks; and the question was ultimately disposed of by a resolution recom mending the bill to the consideration o f the associated Chambers of Commerce in their separate capacity. A re solution was afterwards passed unanimously in favour of the compulsory registration of all partnerships. The meet ing then proceeded to the consideration of the Patent Laws. AN EXTRAORDINARY IMPOSTOR. Yesterday, the Wolverhampton magistrates::in vestigated a case in which a young woman has certainly for a year been living by a series of impostures that, but for the indisputable evidence in their favour, would have been considered im possible. She is about twenty-five years of age, good looking, and full featured, has passed by the names of Harriet Bell, Catherine Bell, and Eliza beth Hodges. She alleges that she is the widow of a man who died in America, that she is herself an American, that her father and twelve brothers are soldiers in the British army, and two more brothers are sailors in the British navy. Her practice is to be found " insensible" on the floor of a railway car - riage , and on her recovery to say that she has been drugged and robbed, or if she fixes upon a male assailant to sly that she has been assaulted. In March last she was found so acting at W At the last named place she accused three y Newtown, and near to Montgomery. young twice remanded on the grave offence, and they h w e er h e ad her hair cut and her charge. At Oswestry s from the railway station men of a spine blistered. cupped on the head, and being insensible, she e h e w spine. At the end of last again blistered on . d from Paddington-station to month she was came she was taken to thAeghaolsnap:ital at Shrewsbury, where, StHospital, supposed to have taken poison. she recovered ; said sh e bad Mary's been drugg ed end assaulted in the car riage , and ro bbed of 3 0 s. On the night of the 4 th inst. she was c arried, apparently dead, from a train at Strood. A the usual r estoratives Physician (Dr. Brown), finding no action of the heart after applying restoratives, ordered her to be taken to the dead house. A surgeon (Mr. Lengstone) came, and after two hours "animation was restored," The case was mentioned in the newspapers at the time as " a daring robbery, and a wonderful reco very," and the police were said to be in search of the woman who robbed her of 305., her muff, and shawl, and then drugged her. Her fare was paid back to London. She repeated the trick at Bir mingham, Coventry, and Wolverhampton. At the last-named town Mr. Keogh, the house surgeon of the hospital, recognised her as the woman he cupped at Shrewsbury. The Chief Constable investigated her antecedents, from which the above was aster. tained ; and the Magistrates gave her three months' shenth ' hard labour. In leaving the Court, she said would get the Chairman six months when she came Shrewsbury Autuum....l7 t out. 'RES FOR 1863. [TART. 25 Doncaster Spring l6 Warwick Spring 18 Northampton 24 Croaton Park 27 Liverpool liunt(lub....lo rsk Epsom Spring 18 Newmarket F. S 20 York Spring ...28 Salisbury ......30 [AY. Epsom l9 Radcliffe 25 Manchester 27 Bibury Club 17 Stockbridge lB Ch e l msford 23 Newcastle 23 Carlisle LY. Pontefract .............. 16 INottingham ............ 21 IWi n chester .......... 21 .. 50uthampt0n........... 22 G oo dwood .............. 28 Ftla. 25 Eghara 25 Stockton 27 Oxford ... Lichfield Brecon 2l Monmouth 24 Manchester Autumn 25 Newmarket Ist Oct. 29 IBE R. 1 Newmarket lioughton ..28 :MBER. THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND. A letter from Cracow of the 19th inst. gives an account of the attack on the town of Miechow by the insurgents, and their defeat. The Russian gar rison of Miechow consisted of 800 men, and the in surgent chief Kurowski determined to attack them with his corps, consisting of 1,500 riflemen, cavalry, and pikemen. The attack was made without any order from the superior revolutionary authority, and therefore Kurowski alone is responsible for the consequences. He attacked the town on three different points. The first column, composed of cavalry, preceded by riflemen, advanced and entered, notwithstanding a murderous fire from the Russians, who were barricaded in the houses. The insurgents arrived at the great square without oeing ab e to answer the Russian fire except with their revolvers. In the meantime another column, composed of riflemen and pikemen, attacked a church occupied by the Russians. The church and churchyard were taken by assault, but the affair cost the Poles a number of men. They never theless continued their course through the streets, exposed to a volley of musketry, and they likewise arrived at the great square, cheering and declaring to their chief that they had rather die than aban don the ground they had conquered. They next attacked, but ineffectually, another church and a, convent in which the Russians had barricaded them selves. At eight o'clock in the morning Kurowski gave the signal to retreat, just at the moment when the column composed of cavalry and pikemen arrived. This handful of men commenced a fresh attack on the Russians, but after having lost some men they were likewise forced to retreat. The insur gents lost in this affair about 100 killed and wounded, and several of the latter finding that their comrades had retreated, committed suicide. The Russian loss was rather less—it is calculated at SO killed and wounded. Daring the struggle some houses caught fire, but no great injury had been done up to the time of the insurgents' retreat. The Russians, however, would not suffer the inhabitants to extinguish the fire, and the town continued to burn during the whole of the 17th and 18th. Nei ther would the Russian commander suffer the in habitants to bury the dead for three days. When the insurgents retreated the Russians pillaged the town and then murdered several of the inhabitants in their houses, and among them the mayor, beloved and respected by everybody, a Russian functionary, and the public accountant. After the battle of Mk chow a number of the insurgents principally Gall • oians, crossed the Austrian frontier and arrived at Cracow. Those who had retained their arms were disarmed by the Austrian authorities. A great number of wounded arrived on the 18th and 19th at Cracow, and were placed in the public hospitals. The unfortunate Polish conscripts have been de spatched by railway from Warsaw to the interior of Russia. The Prase has the subjoined summary of affairs in Poland:— " On comparing the intelligence received from different sources, it is easy to form a distinct idea of the situation and to estimate the extent of the insurrectional movement. The Poles are divided into numerous bands, each of which has its centre of operations. The government of Radom is enclosed between two insurrectional bodies, commanded by Kurowski. The first of them occupies the south-eastern dis trict ; the south is guarded by flying detachments, which connect the east with the west, and keep open communica tions with the second corps, strongly posted in the west, and protected by extensive forests. Here appeared the first detachments of the corps under Langiewicz, encamped on the frontier of the department, watching the isolated movements of the Russians and preventing their concentra tion. In this government the Russian troops occupy the towns of Miechow, Kielce, Kautkie, Czenstochawa, Radom, and Sandomir. The centre of Kurowski's corps is at Dom brows. Statements, which we consider exaggerated, repre sent this corps to be 6,000 strong. Its lines extend to Olkusz and Ojow, and threaten the railway from Cracow to Warsaw. As for Langiewicz, he threatens the high road from Cracow w Warsaw, via Radom. In the government of Lublin, the high road from Lublin to Lemberg is threatened by the corps of Frankowski, some of whose de tachments are in communication with other bands extending into Volhynia. Lastly, in Voihynia itself there is a band under the command of Neczaj, a Cossack by birth. To this general sketch we may add that Lithuania and the go vernment of Augustow are overrun with bands whose num ber and movementsare altogether unknown. Forests, lakes, rivers, marshes, render repression impossible. These bands extend to the very gates of Warsaw in the forests lying between Siesnewice and Psolimon. Some German journals speak of numerous desertions from the Russian army in Lithuania." The English Sieges of Charleston. When tidings are hourly ea-Fected of the bom bardment of Charleston, it is curious to reflect that this city was placed in a similar emergency 87 years ago, in the war of Great Britain with America, and that then, as now, one of the most gallant defenders of the Southern States was a General Lee. In the beginning of June, 1776, the whole of the British fleet, under Admiral Sir Peter Parker, anchored off Charleston Bar. Previous to their arrival the city had adopted means of defence, and works were erected on Sullivan's Island, mounted with 30 pieces of cannon, in a very advantageous situation for an noying ships in their advance to the town. The militia of the province assembled in great numbers for the defence of the capital, aided by several con ' tinental regiments, and the whole were commanded by General Lee, who had traversed the entire ex tent of the continent with great speed in order to place himself in command of them. On the 28th of June, the Bristol and Experiment, each carrying 50 guns, supported by several smaller ships, had with some difficulty crossed the bar and advanced to the attack of the fort on Sullivan's Island, con structed entirely of palmetto, a soft and spongy wood, into which a ball entering is buried, and makes no extended fracture. A furious cannonade now commenced from the shipping, which was re turned with equal fury, and with more effect, from the fort. The ships were almost torn to pieces, and the slaughter was frightful. The firing did not cease till evening, when the ships slipped their cables and withdrew from the scene of action after a contest maintained on both sides with uncommon spirit and vigour. The Acuson, 3f 21 guns, having run aground, was deserted and set on fire. Captain Morris, of the Bristol, received a mortal wound; Captain Scott, of the Experiment, and Lord William Campbell, late Governor of the colony, who now served as a volunteer on board the fleet, were dan gerously wounded, with more than 200 men of the crews of these two ships only. The design on Charleston was, after this disaster, aban doned, and Sir Peter Parker immediately sailed for New York. Six days subsequent to this unsuccessful attempt to subjugate Charleston, the Declaration of Independence was promul gated. In the spring of 1780 a reverse of fortune befell Charleston, on which occasion it was defended, instead of attacked, by a Lincoln. On April lin that year the British troops, under Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, broke g rcund at the distance of about 1,100 yards in front of the American lines, which, though no more than field works, the English commander, anxious to spare bloodshed, treated with the respect ful homage of three parallels, and made his advance c ircumspectly. The place was defended by Gen. Lincoln, with a numerous garr i son. On April 20, the second parallel being completed, terms of capitu lation were proposed on condition of the defenders being allowed to withdraw, an offer which the be siegers unhesitatingly declined. The third parallel was carried in a few days, and preparations were made for an assault. Gen. Lincoln, on being in formed by the engineers that the lines were no longer defensible, consented to surrender the city on the terms originally proposed bySir H. Clinton, in consequence of which about 6,000 men, consist ing of continental troops, militia, and sailors, be came prisoners of war on May 4, 1780. In the fol lowing year the Royal army at Yorktown were placed in a similar condition, Lord Cornwallis being forced to propose terms of capitulation in October, 1781, The honour of marching out with colours flying, which had been refused to Gen. Lincoln on his giving up Charleston, was now refused to Lord Cornwallis, and Gen. 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