The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-10 00:00:00

TIONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. WELVE O'CLOCK. Business i❑ the general discount market con tinues quiet, and although an easier feeling is ma nifested the rates denote firmness. As, however, the commercial community are enabled to negotiate first class bills at 41 per cent. the inquiries at the Bank of England, where 5 per cent. is required, have been very much reduced. During the last few days there has been very little activity in the markets for Foreign and Colo nial Produce. Tea continues in fair request, with out any a ) teration in prices. Sugars, however, were at full rates, as also good and fine descriptions of coffee. Rice, fruit, and spices have been in limited favour at previous rates; while the tallow market has been somewhat influenced by the late advices from Russia, P.Y.C. on the spot being steady at 445. 9d., and last three months' delivery 465. 9d. per cwt. The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap pointed Monday next for a speciel si.ttlement in the shares of the British and American Exchange Banking Corporation, and dealings are to be recorded in the official lists; and of the Metro politan Cab and Conveyance Co., which is not to be marked. There is an increase of £BlO in the traffic re ceipts of the Brighton Railway, and of £733 ou the South Eastern, tor the past week. The ordinary meeting of the Great Ship Company has been convened for the 27th inst. Two O'CLOCK. Paris Rentes were at 12.45 this day (says Reuter's telegram) 70f. 70e.—firm. Shortly after the commencement of business this morning, sales were effected, which led to a decline of about -} per cent., Consols then being 92/ for transfer and 924 for the account. Since then, however, purchases have again preponderated, and the quotations have recovered to 921 4, and 924 respectively. Although a little adverse fluctuation may sometimes occur when sales are pressed, the general condition of the market must be considered as satisfactory. The New Three per Cents. and the Reduced are steady at 94 ; Exchequer Bills, ls. dis. to 3s. pm.; Bank Stock remains at 238; India ditto, 227 and 229; ditto 5 per Cent. Loan 1081. The transactions in the Foreign Market have been very circumscribed, and prices have continued depressed. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1854, have re ceded to 891 ; do., 1858, 721 a ; do., 1862, 681 a ; and the Consolides, 411 1. Egyptian are firm at 100; Greek have declined to 19a; do. Coupons, 8/ a ; Moxican, 32/ ; Moorish, 944 ; Portuguese New Loan, 47; Russian do., 931 941 Spanish Passive are 261, 1; and the Certificates 91 10. In the Railway Share Market the dealings have been limited, and prices generally have been de pressed. South Easterns have receded about £1 to £1 55.; London and Black wall, £1; and North Western, South Western, Midlands, and North Eastern (Berwick), os. Lancashire and Yorkshire however, improved 55.; and Great Northern and Brighton, 10s. The Foreign and Colonial undertakings con tinued flat. Great Luxembourg realised 15Z 2 ; Bahia and San Francisco, 20;::-, 201 ; and South Austrian and Lombardo•Venetian improved to 231. East Indian realised 1061; Great Indian Penin sula, 105:. Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares re. mained without any material change in prices. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 238 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9 2! i 1 i New 3 per Cent. Annuities nnuities, 30 yrs, expire .sth Jan., 1880 — Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 lsk India Stock 1) tia .5 por Cent DittuEnfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. 941 () , tto 51 per Cent Consols for Account, March. 5 ?vim Stock for Account, 5 per Cent loBa Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 3 pm 1 dis Ditto £SOO Ditto Small 3 pm 1 dis FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Equador New Consolidated l6f Ditto Land Warrants .. 4 EgpptTan7pez Cent lOO Ditto, Second Issue Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons l9a a 19 i Ditto Coupons Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada Ditto 5 per Cent Ditto Deferred - / Peruvian 41 per Cent. Ditto 1862 Ditto Account .. 88 74 8a Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 1862 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 9B f Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Scrip, £56 Bs. paid Sardinian 6 per Cent. Ditto Account s3} Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Account .. 531 Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account.. Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account ' 72f f 1 it Ditto £lOO Bonds 7si Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. lOl4 Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto Account 231 Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto 1* per Cent' Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 florins Dutch 2 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Account LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.) (Before the Lord Chief Baron and a Special Jury.) RUSSELL V. ADAMS.-EREACH OF PROMISE. The Lord Chief r,aron summed up the evidence this Morning, at the conclusion of which the jury retired to consider their verdict. They had not returned into Court when we went to press. At two o cbck the jury returned into court and informed the learned judge that they could not agree. The Lord Chief Baron said he was one of those who thought it a disgrace to human nature that juries should be starved into giving a verdict, yet he felt that as they had not been engaged an unusual time in considering their verdict, it might yet be possible for them to come to some conclusionif they gave the facts some further consideration. The learned judge then recapitulated the leading points of the evidence, and remarked it was for them to say whethe r the plaintiff had proved her case to their satisfaction ; if not, it then became their duty to return a verdict for the defendant. Th e jury then again retired, and, in about 20 minutes, eturned into court. In answer to the usual question whether they were agreed, The Foreman said— As the plaintiff has not made out her ease to our entire satisfaction, we of necessity find a Verdict for the defendant. There was a slight attempt at cheering, but it was i n .. atantly suppressed. COURT OF DIVORCE. (Before Sir C. Creswell, Judge Ordinary ) DANtIES V. DAVIES AND HUGHES-A CLANDESTINE HAR- RIAGE IN THE KITCHEN. This was a suit for a dissolution of marriage promoted by the husband against his wife on the ground of adultery with the co-respondent. The marriage took place in May, 1841, the petitioner and the respondent at that time being in the service of Mr. Pressland, living at Cosford, Staffordshire, as valet and cook respectively. The marriage was without the know ledge of the master, but they continued to live there until the year 1846, when for some unassigned reason the peti • tioner left Mr. Pressland's service, and entered that of Mr. Otters, in Bedford-place. The respondent remained at her place, and the co-respondent, William Hughes, succeeded the petitioner as valet. An intimacy ensued between Hughe s and Mrs. Davies, which resulted in the birth of a child, of which Hughes was the father. This morning the Judge Ordinary gave judgment for the petitioner, and the decree nisi was therefore granted. CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.—Mon day, Feb. 9 . —Admissions on payment, 1,177; do. by sea -8:)11 tickets, 961 ; total, 2,138. The Lord -Lk utenancy of Wilts is now vacant by the demise of the venerable Marquis of Lansdowne. It is rumoured that the Marquis of Ailesbury is likely to MC ceel to the office.—altsborY Journal, Share BusinesF done, 13.14 23f 1261 7f 13 136 f 67 f } 109} 4 } 74 112} 13 } xd 12 99} 84 9 84 103} i } 41 t 4.0 19.16.4 96 51 61 SHARE BIARKETS—This Day. - 1 POLICE INTELLIGENCE--This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. SINGULAR CHARGE OF HORSE STEALING.—A PERSON CHARGED WITH STEALING HIS OWN PROPERTY. - Mr. Frederick Fletcher, a fish salesman at Billingsgate market, and residing at 12, Globe-road, Mile-end, was charged be fore Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a horse of the value of £4O, the property of Mr. Godwin Winter, corn dealer, of Claybrooke House, Fulham, and Leicester-place, and whose town stables are at Anglesea-yard, Haymarket. Mr. Beard appeared for Mr. Fletcher. _ The prosecutor said, that last night between eight and nine o'clock he drove from Fulham to the Anglesea•yard, where his town stables were. Shortly after Mr. Fletcher came into the yard, and unharnessed the horse, and wished to take it out of the yard. Mr. Beard said he might as well inform his worship at once that his defence would be that the horse was Mr. Fletcher's own property. The prosecutor then said that Mr. Fletcher, having unharnessed the horse, sent his man for a halter and wanted to take the horse away, but he would not allow him and sent for a constable and gave him in charge. Mr. Fletcher laid claim to the horse, and previous to doing so he claimed the harness. Mr. Beard asked the prosecutor whether he did not know that Mr. Fletcher had been defrauded out of a horse, trap, and harness. The prosecutor said ho had a stamped receipt for the horse signed by a person named Clark. Mr. Beard—Yes, the man who stole it from us. Mr. Tyrwhitt--I never heard such a case of horse steal ing before, and I have heard a good many. It is quite clear there was no stealing et the horse at all. The accused is dis charged. Mr. Beard then asked to have the horse restored to Mr. Fletcher, who he said was a highly respectable job sales man at Billingsgate. The prosecutor declined to give up the horse, and upon this Mr. Beard served the police with a notice to deliver the horse to his client. A PROSECUTOR WANTINCI.—JuIie Porn, a well dressed female, was charged with stealing a gold watch of the value of £2B, the property of Mr. Evan Grant, of 12, Dover-street, gentleman. The accused was placed at the bar, but there was no pro secutor in attendance to go on with the case. Inspector Wilson said he did not think Mr. Grant in tended to appear. Mr. Tyrwhitt said if that was so the accused must be discharged. FI-IE SUN, LONDON, THES7)AY EVENING„ FEBRUARY 10, 1863. ORDINARY SHARES AND S.TOuF>S. Railways. Wol. o and Str. Blythe flost.,Sleat.,and y :Bristol and Exeter iCaledonian !Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do A. A Lrets no ilia Do. B till Gp c.p an.has been paid to 11. Dublin & P,eltast June. Dun.,Perth,& Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glasg. and S. Western. ;GreatEastern, Ord. stk, Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Do. £5 shares Gt. S. an , W. of Ireland Great Western ...... Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwal I , Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast' I Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Slid., & Lincoln. ,Maryport and Carlisle. Do shares.. Metropolitan Midland Do New . ....... Do Birming. dz Derby Mid. 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 Lecds 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., and Wok Stockton & Darlington Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale.. .. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool Har.&ft West Midland Oxford l Do Newport Do Hereford! Paid, Closing Price. 8 efi 7 i 9 115 116 Gi 7 41 $3 13 14 86 87 105 107 47 48 43 45 231 24i 124 127 i 130 131 136 138 j 104 108 661 (7 109} 109] 74 76 112 114 42 44 VBl 99 103 104 44 45 12/ 13 127 k 128 f If Ifp 96 98 526 53 266 264 ,1006 101 57 68 89 89} 128 130 110 112 1 p 181 16 - 11 11 119 121 461 47, 103 105 98 50 32i 334 90 964 68 70 103 105 7l 381 6 f 39/ 10 11 p, 7 8 150 152 p 5 5* (, 2 al p 55& 504 2* 21p * p E 1 7 4 140 29 31 42 44 34 36 95 37 BRITISH POSSE Flail ways fiantic & St Lawrenet Born.,Baroda&.Cent Ina Gu. 5 per cent.. Do. New . . Buffalo and Laxe Huron Do. Prof eronce .. .. Buffalo,Brant,&Godriell 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1q72 1110. do. July 1, 187: , , Do. 00. June 1, 17 , 1 Cleutta.& S. E astn. ( .1 ; Cape Town & Dock Scri; 'Eastn. Bengal go. 5 p. lYast Indls.n. go. 5 p. c. 1_ Jo. do. g Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pret Do. 2d Pref. 6 per CT.. Do. 6 per et. Debentr. Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. Do. do. 1867.. Do. do. 1872.. Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. c... Do. January, 1862 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shang. 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. it p. o. Extension. Dc.4• d 0... ... j Do. Fifth Extension. Melb.t p. c. Hint [Melb. & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. nor tg. Bds. Newßr unswick x Cand. Class A Capital Shan. Do. do. B Capital do. N.lll.C'da6 pc Ist pt ids ISeinde Do. Delhi Do. Boni Do. Do. .- •• Indus. St. Flo.) Pald. all SSIONS. Closing Price. 65 67 104} 1054 , 3 51 1 p 71 8i 77 00 73 76 73 76 1(3 105 1( 8 wg I(si 1 , 6 i 106 1061, Thp 21 :2 73 75 63 65 32 34 97 10 32 34 32 34 105 106 I 1 P 103 105 12; X 34 7 l 99 101 u 92 94 It lip 162 k 11,3 i 96 97 92 52 53 3 6 3 h 83 85 105 106 103 104 6 P 1031 1044 98 100 'WESTMINSTER. A SINGULAR SPECIMEN or A RESPECTABLE MARRIED WOMAN.—A well-dressed and good-looking middle-aged woman, who gave the name of Sarah Bailey, was charged with the following gross misconduct : Mr. Dyer, the proprietor of a refreshment house at 64, King's-road, Chelsea, said that last night defendant had goods of him to the value of 7i., which she refused to pay. He then again asked her civilly for the money, when she used the most disgusting language to him, struck him several times, and took up a knife to stab him. Mr. Paynter—What, is she a prostitute ? Defendant—No, I am not, you old swine—l'm a respec table married woman. A youth in complainant's employ confirmed his state ment, adding that he (witness) took the knife from her hand. efendant—You took the knife from my hand, you —1 Do you know that you are speaking of a respectable married woman ? What did you do, eh ? Witness—l helped to turn you out of the shop. Defendant—" You helped to turn me out of the shop— I'll limb you !" saying which she rushed towards him to put her threat into execution, but was restrained by the officers of the court, when she laughed derisively, and repeating "You helped to turn me out, did you ?" ex claimed, " Why, I would eat two better men than you and your master !" Charles Stretton, 139 B—l was called to take defendant into custody. Defendant—Yes, and then I walked into you, didn't I. Of course you're very much hurt, you (Here a volley of the most Elthy epithets followed, which created laughter amongst the low and debased persons assembled.) Mr. Paynter—lf the laughter is repeated I shall certainly have the court cleared. I cannot see anything to laugh at in a human being degraded below the level of the beast. Defendant's previous conviction for disorderly conduct having been returned, it was determined to commit her for three months. The Juridical Society.—The Alabama. A meeting of the members of this society was held last evening at the society's rooms, 4, St. Martin's plao., Trafalgar-square. The meeting was presided over by the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, Al P. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed, Mr. W. W. KERR read a paper on " The Foreign Enlistment Act and the Alabama," or "The Prin ciples and Rules of Neutrality," which latter title he stated would more accord with the subject and scope of his paper. Having explained the principles of international and municipal law, the learned gentleman pointed out how the former was infringed by a neutral nation supplying a belligerent Power with the munitions of war, or by permitting vessels to be fitted out in its ports for the use of such Power, and alluded to the case of the Alabama, which he considered to have been a violation of the Foreign Enlistment Act, and which ought to have been pre vented by Government from putting to sea. He thought it matter of regret the order for the deten tion of the vessel did not reach Liverpool before she put to sea, as when. on the high seas he did not think the Govermnentcould attack or capture her without producing a cause of quarrel with the Confederate States, unless she happened to come into any of the ports of this country, which she had little chance of doing. As regarded the subjects of this country who were on board of her, there could be no ques tion that it was a case of privateering of the very worst description, and that they had brought them selves under the penal clauses of the Foreign En listment Act. It was now well known that Mr. Adams, the American Minister at this Court, had at the instigation of his Government made a de mand on Earl Russell for compensation for the damage inflicted on Am v rican merchant vessels by the Alabama, but in that respect he considered the Federal Government had no claim upon this country, unless in cases where the property she had captured had been brought within its juris diction, and there was, he believed, no such case. He considered it, however, a case where the Govern ment ought to take measures to prevent any such fraud being again perpetrated by putting in force the penal clauses of the Foreign Enlistment Act, as if those who had been instrumental in fitting out that vessel were allowed to pass with impunity other cases of a similar character might occur. On Mr. Kerr concluding his paper some conver ation ensued. Lord STANLEY said he had not come there for the purpose of speaking on the subject, but rather to gain information respecting it. As regarded the legal point of the case, as to the fitting out of the Ala bama in this country being a breach of international law, who would take the interpretation which Mr. Kerr had put upon the law in that reapect a cor rect ? But at the same time he considered the ques tim to be one of fact rather than of law. A great deal would turn on the question as to whether a merchant vessel having to trade in parts of the world where pirates abounded might not be built somewhat in the form of a man-of-war, in order to proteot her against their attacks. That therefore a w s o t u o ld pr b o e s a ec s u i t m in p g le t q h u o c s s e ti w o ho nof h s a n d ip fi b t u te i d ld o in u g t . the Then ves sel, they ought not to do so unless they could be proved to have had a guilty knowledge of the ser vice for which the vessel was intended, and a guilty knowledge of any criminal act was well known to be of all things the most difficult to prove. Strong suspicions did not constitute guilty knowledge, nei ther did carelessness or credulity ; and while the parties in this case may have been deceived-- 7 while they may have neglected to make the necessary in quiries —while they may have acted foolishly, yet that would not constitute a guilty knowledge of the purposes for which the vessel was intended, and no jury would convict them on such evidence. A vote of thanks was then passed to Mr. Kerr for his able paper, and the proceedings terminated with a cordial vote of thanks to Lord Stanley for his kindness in presiding. SILIPPING—This Day S v te a a i ra et e ta r, , SOUTHAMPTON Tuesday Morning. steamer from Alexandria; m .— c ß a o r r e u ti s t s a i n a, ; Hamburg; La Ma- Havre, steamer, from Havre. Sailed.—Honour and Umpire, for Jersey. san A ;e r , iv f e ro d (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Mornin g s Arrived, Feb. B —Weymouth from Frio. Cho w -F oo Arrived, Feb. 10—Queen of the Avon, and the Avon, from Colombo. DZAL, Tuesday Morning, No arrivals. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. IMPERIAL P. HOUSE OF LORDS—This Evening. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. ROME. The Marquis of NORMANBY gave notice that on Monday next he should draw attention t) the despatches and correspondence lately laid on the table on the subject of Rome. At the same time he should ask for some information relative to a certain phrase used in one of the despatches of the noble earl, which seemed to indicate a doubt of the statement of M. Drouyn de L'Huys relative to the approbation by the English Government of the French intervention in Rome in 1849. That interven tion was at the time by the English Government quite in accordance with their policy duce the time of Mr. Pitt, which was that of supporting the independent political posi tion of the Pope. - TICKETS OF LEAVE. The Earl of STANHOPE asked what changes have re cently been made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department as to the system of tickets of leave ? Earl GRANVILLE said it was not thought expedient by the Government to make any extensive changes until the report of the Royal Commission which had been ap pointed was received, but in the meantime the only altera tion was that convicts out on tickets-of-leave and becoming reconvicted had the privilege altogether withdrawn of ob taining a ticket-of-leave. The Earl of DERBY wished to know whether it was the practice, when a convict committed a crime during his ticket-of-leave, he was, when freshly sentenced, bound not only to undergo that sentence, but to fulfil the original term of sentence. Earl GRANVILLE said the second punishment was not superadded to the original sentence. The Duke of MARLBOROUGH asked whether it was true that the notorious Leopold Redpath, who was con victed of one of the most extensive forgeries ever known, and was sentenced to transportation for life, was now, after serving only six years' penal servitude, at liberty on ticket of leave, and, in fact, was now enjoying the fruits of his enormous frauds. Earl GRANVILLE was not conversant with the parti culars of the case referred to. Redpath, he knew, was in the colony at present, and the ticket of leave he had received had been granted by the colonial authorities. Lord CRAN WORTH said Redpath, at the conclusion of his trial, was sentenced to transportation for life. That sentence had been complied with, and it was altogether an other question how he was dealt with when he arrived in the colony, The Earl of CARNARVON regretted the Government had not dealt with the subject themselves. The Home Secretary had had almost the entire charge of the matter for the last ten years, and the whole history of the question was one of an incompetent measure by an i ncom p e t en t Ad ministration. Capital punishment had frequently been re laxed without the slightest apparent reason by the . Home Secretary superseding the judicial functi ons . E ar l GRANVILLE said Sir G. Gr e y was no t i n o ffi ce when the measure of abolishing transportation was intro duced, and the system he had pursued was precisely the same as that of his four predecessors. It was a ma tt er o f opinion whether remedial measures should be proposed on the initiative of the Government, alone, or on the appear ance of the report of the Commission. The Earl of CARNARVON having moved for certain returns connected with the subject, Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OP COMMONS--This Evening. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Private business occupied some part of the earlier portion of the sitting. PETITIONS. INDIAN OFFICERS. Mr. JARVIS, from offiFers in the Bombay army, com plaining of the amalgamation, and praying for inquiry. Colonel SYKES, from officers to the like effect. .SINGAPORE. Mr. GREGSON, from certain inhabitants of Singapore, praying they may be placed in direct communication with the Colonial Office. AUSTRALIA. Mr. MARSH, from inhabitants praying for the separation of the two divisions of the colony. FISHERIES. Mr. M'MAHON, from Limerick, With respect to the fisheries. NATIONAL EXPENDITURE. Mr. FORSTER, from Walsall, for reduction of expen diture of the duties on tea and sugar; also for a 'eduction of the income tax. Mr. S. FI TZGERALD, to the same effect. FIRE DUTY. Mr. FORSTER, in favour of a material reduction in the fire duty. Mr. E. BAINES, in favour of the repeal of the duty. TIOKETS OF LEAVE. Mr. NEWDEGATE, from the justices of Warwick, calling attention to the insecurity of life and property, which they attributed to the present system of dealing with offenders—to the issue of tickets of leave—which did not afford criminals sufficient time to reform, and praying for inquiry. BANKRUPTCY LAW. _ _ Mr. BRIGHT, from bankers, merchants, and solicitors of Birmingham, for an amendment of the law. Sir F. KELLY, to the like effect. SUGAR. Mr. BRIGHT, from wholesale and retail grocers in Bir mingham, praying that the taxation on sugar might be placed on the same footing as tea, coffee, grain, &c. Lord HOTHAM, from Driffleld, to the eame effect. RETURNS. Returns were ordered, on the motion of Mr. BAINES, of various statistics in regard to Post-office Savings Banks; on the motion of Sir G. BowYER, copi e s of a n ordnance of the governor of Malta, regarding the extradition of Italians ; on the motion of Mr. LOCKE, certain returns regarding malt ; on the motion of Lord It. CECIL, the expenditure on the lonian Islands since 1815 ; and on the motion of dr. J. B. SMITH, some correspondence about cotton cultivation in India. PUBLIC PETITIONS. The following members were appointed a committee on public petitions Gregson, Mr. Bonham-Carter, Mr. Calcutt, Mr. Cubi , t, Sir J. Fergusson, Mr. Chas Forster, Mr. Gard, Major Gavin, Capt. Gray, Sir E. Grogan, Mr. H. Johnstone, Mr. T. J. Miller, Mr. H. Russell, Mr. Ald. Salomons, and Mr. 0. Stanley. THE ADDRE , S.—HER MAJESTY'S REPLY. Lord PROBY (Controller of her Majesty's Household) appeared at the bar and read the following reply of her Majesty to the Address : " I have received with great pleasure your loyal and dutiful address. I have received with great satisfaction your congratulations with respect to the marriage of the Prince of Wales. Your expressions of attachment to my person and family are most gratifying to my feelings. You may be assured that I shall always be ready to co-operate with you to promote the welfare and happiness of my people. NOTICES OF MOTION. EASTERN ARMY. An HON. MEMBER gave noticethaton the 10th o . f March he should move for a select committe e on thi s s ubject. MERCANTILE MARINE—SAILORS' HOME. Sir H. STRACEY said, on this day week, that he should move to introduce a bill to appropriate some of the funds belonging to the mercantile marine to the maintenance of Sailors' Homes not in the neighbourhood of dockyards. DISTRESS IN IRELAND. Mr. NAPIER said that on the 24th March he should call attention to the prevalent distress in Ireland, and nuve resolutions thereon. COMMERCIAL TREATIES (ITALY). Mr. S. FITZGE RA LD, on a future day,would call the at tention of the house to commercial treaties, and especially that now pending between this country and Italy. VOLUNTEERS. Lord HOTHAM asked the Secretary of State for War when he would announce the intentions of Lhe Government with reference to the recommendations of the Royal Com mission appointed last year to inquire into the state of the Volunteer torte ? Sir G. C. LE WIS replied that it was the intention of the Government to adopt the suggestions of the Commission. The report would be laid before the house when the army estimates were prepared. LICENSING AND SALE OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. Viscount ENFIELD asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it was intended during the present session to introduce any bill with the view of im proving the present system of licensing houses for music and dancing, and for the sale of spirits ? Mr. LAWSON also asked the right hon. gentleman whether he intended to propose any measure d ur i ng th e present session for amending the law s b y w hi c h t h e sa l e o f intoxicating liquors was permitted and r e g u l ate d ? Sir G. GREY replied that the Gove rnmen t h a d a bill i n preparation with respect to licensing, and especially houses of entertainment for music and sieging. H e cou ld no t, however, say when it would be introduced. The licensed victuallers of Liverpool had framed a bill, and he wished that measure to be discussed by the house before taking any further action in the matter. BANKRUPTCY. Sir F. KELLY asked the Attorney-General whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to bring in a bill in the present session to amend the law of bankruptcy; and whether provision would be made in any such bill for the consolidation of the statutes of bankruptcy ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied that tho Govern ment was not aware that any necessisty existed for an amendment of the law. They intended, however, to ap point, with the permission of Parliament, a chief judge in bankruptcy. The attention of the Lord Chancellor had been directed to a consolidation of the statutes, but he (the Attorney-General) could notpromise to introduce a bill to effect this in the present session. AF FIRMA 11 oNs. Sir J. TRELAWNY obtained leave to introduce a bill to allow certain persons to raske affirmations in all cases where an oath is or shall be required. The bill, he said, was the same as that of last session. IRELAND.. Sir R. PEEL obtained leave to introduce a bill to amend the law enabling boards of t uardians to recover costs of maintenance of illegitimate children in certain cases in Ireland. Mr. D. GRIFFITH aslcod the First Lord of the Trea sury how far the interpretation of the prerogative of the Crown was considered by the Government to extend, in empowering the Crown to relinquish territories, which may have been in the de Ado possession of the British nation, without the knowledge and consent of Parliament ? After a few words from Mr. PEACOCK and Mr. ROEBUCK (who asked for the papers), Lord PALMERSTON replied that the lonian Islands had been placed, with the consent of the Foreign Powers, under the protection of the British Crown, and could not be parted with without the consent of these Powers. The Government offered, in the event of Greece selecting a constitutional , king who was able to protect the country from aggression, to cede the islands to Greene. But as they had not yet accom plishod this, no steps had been taken to attain the consent of the great contracting powers. The noble lord cited cases where possessions had been ceded to the British crown by treaty, and subsequently again ceded by treaty. This was the case with Senegal, Minorica, Fl or ida, and the island of Tobago. The hon. mem b er need be under no apprehension with respect to Gibraltar and Malta, as there was no intention whatever to make a present of these possessions to any foreign power. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Sir G. BOWYER blamed the Government for coming before the house without obtaining the consent of the great Power s . Bills, for which leave was given, were then read a first time, and the house adjourned shortly before six o'clock, HOUSE OP COMMONS—Last Evening. (Gontinued from The Sun of last evening.) MILITIA ESTIMATES. Sir G. LEWIS moved the following resolutions :- 1 "1. That in the opinion of this house, it is expedient 1 to discontinue the practice of appointing a select com mittee to prepare estimates of the charge of the disem bodied militia of Great Britain and Ireland; and that such estimates be in future prepared on the responsibility of Ministers of the Crown. " 2. That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, that she will be graciously pleased to give directions that estimates of the charge of the disembodied militia in Great Britain and Ireland, to the 31st day of March, 1861, be prepared, and laid before this house. The object of the resolutions were to put the militia esti mates on the same footing as tho army estimates, and they could thus be presented in the same way to Parliament, who could then pronounce its veto upon them like all the other estimates. The preparation of the estimates for the militia was placed under the management and control of a select committee of that house, and annually a motion was made by that select committee to prepare those estimates. That system was introduced soon after the passing of the act of 1757, and it had continued without any alteration to the present day. When that peculiar mode of preparing these estimates were introduced, there estimates were sub stantially prepared by the committee. When the change which had afterwards taken place had occurred he was not able to say, but certainly as long as he had been a member of the house, and he believed from a date much earlier, it had been the practice of the Executive Government to pre pare the militia estimates. Those estimates had been brought ready prepared to the committee. The committee generally assented to them with little consideration, and, in fact, the appointment of the committee had become a matter of form. It was no longer a substantial exercise of power; and he had observed that, during the last session, the appointment of that committee had given rise to a misunderstanding. Some members of the house thought the Government had been taking an unusual course in referring the question to a committee, and the subject had given rise to a discus sion. Ho had stated, at the time, that if it met with the general approbation of the house, he would propose that the preparation of the militia estimates should be put upon the same footing as the other army esti mates, and that the whole should be presented to the house simultaneously. The estimates for the yeomanry, for the volunteers, and for the embodied militia, were already in cluded in the army estimates ; and the resolution which he proposed referred exclusively to the disembodied militia. There was also annually a small vote for Jersey and Guern sey militia, which was included is the general army esti mates. For the purpose of the Appropriation Act, the militia vote was included in the same category as the gene ral vote of the army. He was not aware that any inconve nience arose from the present course. If any valid objection were urged against the resolution, he 'IA no desire to press it. But he believed it would be found more convenient that the whole of the charges which he had named should be laid simultaneously before Parliament. At present the charge for the militia, which last year was £750,000, was detached from the other military estimates. It was consi dered at the end of the session, at a time less convenient for discussion, and in a manner throwing less responsibility upon the executive Government than the general army esti mates. With that explanation, ho trusted the house would pass the first resolution. He had placed the second resolu tion on the paper, in order that the house might see what course he proposed to adopt ; but he would only propose the first now; the second he would postpone until the bringing up of the report. The right hon. gentleman concluded by moving the resolution : "That in the opinion of this house it is expedient to discontinue the practice of appointing a select committee to prepare estimates of the charge of the disembodied militia of Great Britain and Ireland; and that such estimates be in future prepared on the responsibility of Ministers of the Crown." Colonel DTAITNE said the only objection to the resolution was that it transferred the old constitutional power of the house to the Crown, and converted the militia into a part of the standing army. Colonel GILPIN thought that if the resoluion was adopted, and the vote for the militia camo before (the house with the general army estimates, it would be impos sible to make any change in them. Whatever course the right hon. gentleman ultimately adopted he trusted that value would be got for the money. Sir G. C. LEWIS said it was not intended: to make any change in the organisation of the militia, but only in the mode of bringing the estimates under the consideration of the house. the change he proposed to make would, he thought, be beneficial to the public service. The estimates would have to be discussed in committee of supply, and would be under the control of that committee. Sir 11. WILLO UGIIBY did not see the value of the pro posed change. Estimates could hardly be saidto be guides to expenditure. Why was the militia expenditure omitted from the general accounts ? If not altered, he should bring the subject under the consideration of the house. Sir G. C. LEWIS said the practice was to include the cost of the embodied militia, but not the disembodied mi litia, in the army estimates. The latter vi as charged in one sum, and the details were kept at the War-office. He should have no objection to furnish the details of the charge for the disembodied militia. General PEEL did not object to the proposed change, but he thought all that was required might be done under the present system. After a few words of further explanation from Sir G, C• LEWIS, Colonel DICKSON suggested a postponement of the re solutions for further consideration. The resolutions were, however, then agreed to. REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS (IRELAND). I Sir R. PEEL moved for leave to introduce a bill for the registration of births and deaths in Ireland. He com plained that at present Ireland, with a population of six millions, had no such system of registration. Such a measure was of the g r e atest importance to a country in many points, and not th e ; ea st so with regard to sanitary measures, either with regard to populous towns or moun tainous districts, as tending to circumscribe disease and mitigate its evils. The subject had excited great attention in Ireland since last session. The Medical Association, which met at Limerick in December last, passed a resolu tion in favour of such a registration, as likely to be produc • tive of beneficial results, and deputations from the Royal Medical Council of Ireland, the Statistical Society, and the Social Science Association, had waited upon him in refer ence to the subject, and had favoured him with their views. They were in favour of dispensary districts, for registration districts, and a compulsory registration of births and deaths. It was impossible to over estimate the value of these statis tics in England and Scotland, and he reminded the house that this was a measure involving no party considerations. Ireland was almost the only civilised country where such a registration does not exist. The want of a measure of the kind was severely felt by the poor in Ireland, and there were numerous instances where parties were unable to oh • tain the property of their relatives who died intestate abroad from want of the necessary proof of relationship. He called upon the house to co-operate with him and remedy that de fect. The English Act, notwithstanding the agitation that took place, was passed in 1836, and the Scotch bill in 1854, but not until after a twenty years' agitation. The right hon. baronet then contrasted the principles of the English and Scotch Acts, observing that the latter was a more per fect and efficient measure than the English Act, and which the Registrar-General for England wished to have adopted in this country. In Scotland registration of births was compulsory. In England it was permissive, and the result was, that Scotland possessed a more perfect registration than England. In the former country the six yea's' ave rage of births gave 347 in every 10,000, and in England 343 in every 10,000. Having detailed the other points of difference, the right hon. baronet said the principal point to be considered was the machinery to be adopted, the size of the districts, and the cost. Last year he proposed a similar measure. It had originally been proposed by the noble lord the member for Cockermouth, and by it it was proposed to make the constabulary the registrars, but it did .. not meet with the approbation of the house; and he has come to the conclusion, after further consideration of the subject, that it would be unwise to place the extra duty of registrars upon that body. (Hear, hear.) He. .believed it would be impossible to pass a measure containing such a provision, and he was convinced of the impossibility of its efficient working in Ireland. (Hear, hear.) By the present bill, it was proposed to make the poor-law unions, as in England, the area for registration; the medical officers of the unions and the dispensary doctors to be the registrars, and the clerks of unions the superintending registrars. The average population of each registration district would be 7,400. There were 163 unions in Ireland, 718 dispensary districts, and 777 dispensary doctors. The registrar would receive Is. upon each entry, and the superintending regis trar 2d ; while the expense of the scheme, which would be covered by a sum of £116,000, was to be thrown upon the rates. That was in accordance with the English plan. It was proposed to raise the salary of the Registrar-General to the amount of £l,OOO a year; in England the same officer received £1,200 a year. Registration would be couP a ul . 8 .7 in all cases, and in that way they avoided the principal id blot on the English system; but the medical officers would to . be subjected to a penalty for the omission Lord NAAS could not congratulatehis register. Lord Mend fur giving effect on the machinery which he hod e selectedsthat had been brought to his proposal. Of all the sch fun k of registration into the forward, that of tbrownig t.hee verywor worst. (" Oh I" from hands of the doctors was tn Dr. Brady.) At any ra te, the selection of registrars ought not to be limited to the dispensary doctors. Mr. BRADY believed that, without th e doctors, it impossible to world be entire ly carry out any system of • tion o f births and deaths,revue and that none was so fit as they to be entrusted with the work. Mr. MAGUIRE congratulated the right hon. baronet on having got rid of the police as registiars. To be useful the bill must be popular, and it never would have been po pular if the important (Wise of registration had been eon. !OLONIAL GOVERNINIENT SECII ;to.(iov. 6 p.c.J a :.July 1877-81 Do. 6 P.C. Feb. Jz Aug. 100 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 Pape G. II ope, 6p. e,1873 100 Do.Ap ct Oct 1880 , 100 Do. 18901 100 Do. Jan. & July, 1891_ 100 Ceylon, N0v.1861, 6p c 100 N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. J a.,tJuly, l 100 Do. 6p. u.Ap. Oct ! 100 N. S.W. G oV. 5 p c.,1860 100 Do. 5 p. c.,1871 to 1876 100 Do. d0.,1888 ;tupwil9 100 New Zealand 6p. cent. 100 Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6p. C S. Aus G6p.c.1870.& up Vic.Grov. 6 p.c. Ja.drJuly Do. to sp.o. A ti.AiOnt ICU 100 lOu 100 WO RN 1061 'lO3 106 106 108 95i 964 94 96 104 110 112 1 114 113 115 111 113 105 106 100 101' 'CO 101 99 ICO 109 111 'lO6 107 [(9 11: I 109 111 107 109 Ile 11011 ES. BRTTIS Cambrian Consul. Gold, Ulu lord Amalgamated.; Devon G. t_7on, Javist. 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London and Chatham 4. per Cent., 95 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 7; Bahia and San Franc sco Rua. 7 per cent., 201 1 / Buenos Ayres Great Southern (lira.), 2i Great Luxembourg, )51 Namur and Liege, llf. per annum, 81 Royal Swedish, 7 per cent., 11 Sambre and Meuse, 10 San Paulo Jim.), gua. 7 per cent., 9.1 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 231 Turin and Savona, 2i West Flanders, 5 ; per cent. pref., 10} FOREIGN MINES. East del Rey (Um.), Fortuna (Urn.), 41 4 Mont. Aureos Braz. Gold Min. Co, (Um.), 31 3 Port Philip, 11 Scottish Australian, it St. John del Rey (lim.), 544 5 United Mexican (lim ), 5 41 Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lira.), lf JOIN T-STOCK I;ANKS. Agra and United f London and Australasia, 7S/ 9 Service( uira. ),93 Alliance Bank 0 City, 130 i 0 London and Colonial (Um.), 3a London and County, 10 London Joint stock, 3 5 London and Middlesex, 2/ London and S outh African, 24/ / London and south-Western (lien.), 11 London and 'Westminster, 7 71 7 National Provincial of 9 1and, 120 , new, 144 len—Ditto, 21i Union of London, 3 Ottoman Bank, 3.4 36 3 1 /---Ditto, new, 101 I • DOCKS . East and West India, 1371 MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Agricultural, 22,1 3 Crystal Palace, 32 Crystal Palace, 6 per cent. perpetl. deb., 110 E glish and Australian Copper, lt Italian Irrigation Canal, 1 London Gem ral Omnibus Company (lim.), 11 National Discount Company, 8 7i LORD LANSDOWNE AT HOME.—The doors of Bowood and Lansdowne House remained open to every man who made his mark in literature until yesterday. In the room in which Moore had sung his melodies, Macaulay afterwards talked his essays, Lady Morgan told her Irish stories, and Jerrold cracked his jokes. Lord Lansdowne was no great speaker, and no very bright wit; but his shrewd good sense enabled him to value at their true worth the more showy and shining quali les of his guests. It may have been after that overbearing table ta 1, during which Mr. Carlyle is said to have caught "flashes of silence," that Lord Lansdowne exclaimed, "I wish I could b e as certain of anything: as Tom Macaulay is of everything," 12/ 13 121 128 54 i 100 1 I ; Business don• 1041 6 105 iii 31 1031 3 itITLE6. 1051 zd 961 51 61. 110 i 1081 110} fided to the constabulary of Ireland. He concurred with the hon. member who had just spoken, that the doctors were the right men to be employed as registrars, though it would be well to leave a certain discretion, as to the persons to be appointed, to the boards of guardians. Mr. M'MAHON said it would be his duty to offer oppo sition to t' .e bill. The taxpayers who would be called upon to pay £116,000 requhe'l by the bill, would not get any value for their money unless th 3 bill were to incorporate provisions for the registration of marriages. The real diffi culty in the registration of marriages was making it a penal offence to celebrate mixed marriages. That act, which was totally unfit for the present century, ought to be repealed, and then there would be no difficulty about introducing a useful measure. Mr. GEORGE was surprised that so long time had been allowed to elapse without introducing a bill for the celebration of marriages. He did not think there would be any difficulty in bringing in, as contemporaneous measures, a bill for the registration of marriages as well as one for the registration of births and deaths, and at the same time a bill to regulate the law of marriages in Ireland. He ob jected to the registrars in the proposed bill being paid out of local rates. Sir G. BOW YER thought the right hon. baronet had acted wisely in bringing in a bill for births and deaths, and in omitting the subject of marriages. He believed that the marriage law in Ireland was satisfactory in its present state to the Roman Catholics, and his advice was to interfere with it as little as possible. After a few words from Sir R. PEEL in reply, the bill was brought in and read a first time. THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. Mr. H. SEYMOUR moved the appointment of the select committee of last year to inquire into the present state of the Ecclesiastical Commission, and to report to the house whether the ecclesiastical revenues cannot be more advantageously administered for the interests of the church than they are at present. Several returns were ordered, and the house adjourned at a quarter before 8. LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening. WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 10. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Henry Francis Howard, Esq., her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary at the Court of Hanover; Augustus Berkeley Paget, Esq., her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Denmark ; and Edward Esc,., E,., her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic, to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. G. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Caroline Augusta, Dowager Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, now Extra Lady of the Bedchamber to her Majesty, to be one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of Maria Anne, Lady Macdonald, resigned. DOWNING STREET, - FEL 9. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Brevet Colonel Stephen John Hill, C.B. (now Captain-General and Go vernor-in-Chief in and over the colony of Sierra Leone), to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the Islands of Antigua, Montserrat, Saint Christopher, Nevis, the Virgin Islands, and Dominica and their dependencies. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Richard Pine, Esq., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over her Majesty's Forts and Settlements on the Gold Coast and their dependencies. FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 6. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. W. Roberts as Vice-Consul at Weymouth for his Majesty the King of the Belgians. - WHITEHALL, FEE. 7. The Queen has been pleased to present the WIN?. Thomas Dykes to the charge and office of first minister of the united churches and parishes of Ayr and Alloway, in the Presbytery and shire cf Ayr, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. William Shaw to the church and parish of Alloa. CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 7. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Reigate.—Granville William Gresham Leve son Gower, of Titsey Park, in the county of Surrey, in the room of the Hon. William John Monson, now Lord Mon son, summoned to the House of Peers. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Joseph Peiigoe, builder, Tunbridge Wells Charles Garner, farmer, late East Grinstead James Hunt, plumber, Sheffield BANKRUPTS. The following are the only bankrupts of any importance which appear in the Gazette:— Charles Fox, builder, Lincoln William Spreat, currier, Gloucester George Mitton, publican, Liverpool Wm. Chapman, engineer, Bath John Finch, builder, Frimley, Surrey Richard Boardman, car proprietor, Liverpool George Keeble, painter, Ipswich John Weare, farmer, Wellebury, Somersetshire Henry Eland, grocer, Blaydon, Durham Adam Carter, ale merchant, Bolton Thomas Rushforth, joiner, Huddersfield Thomas Long, machine broker, Burnley George Evans, farmer, Hodnet, Salop John Jones, grocer, King's cross John Pengelly, draper, Brighton John Arkell, shoe maLufacturer, Hoiton Richard Gale, barge builder, Poplar George Cappel, merchant's clerk, Camberwell SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. John Pearson, farmer, Broadley, Nairn Joseph Maxwell, bricklayer, Dumbarton James Lillie, sewed muslin manufacturer, Glasgow Alex. Black, wood merchant, Whanland Robert Livingston, coalmaster, Rawyards, near Airdrie Ewen M'Kenzie, painter, Glasgow Messrs. Smiths and Mackay, ironfounders, Inverness Alexander Morrison, cab proprietor, Partick William Asher, bookseller, Nairn Thomas Lough, cabinet maker, Edinburgh SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CITY BETTING—THIS DAY. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 16 to 1 on the field (offered) 25 to 1 sgst Shropshire (taken freely) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 25 to 1 agst Queen of Spain (offered) 30 to 1 agst Gardener (offered) 33 to 1 agst Misfortune (taken) GREAT NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 12 to 1 agst Grimston (taken freely) 12 to 1 agst Croagh Patrick (offered) 100 to 6 bar two TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 4to lon the field (offered) 10 to 1 agat Michael Scott (taken) 16 to 1 aget Tom Fool (taken) CHESTER CUP. 20 to lon the field (offered) ARRIVALS AT READING. Light of Other Days, Alma, Mutineer, Omar Pasha, Corkscrew, Sapperton, Oliver Twist, Windsor, Ascot, Cockatoo, Playman, Gamecock, Long Odds, Deceiver, and Bayard. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863. FEBRUARY. Lincoln 25 MARCH. Nottingham Spring 3 I Doncaster Spring l6 Derby Spring Liverpool Spring 10 Northampton .. 24 Shrewsbury l2 Croxton Park 27 APRIL. Newmarket Craven.. 6 I Liverpool Hunt Club.. .. 10 Durham . 6 Thirsk Knighton. 7 Epsom Spring 16 Llanboidy.. Catterick Bridge.. 8 York Spring ...28 Abergavenny ... 9 Salisbury Electric and International Telegraph Company. MEETING THIS DAY. At the half•yearly meeting of the Electric and Inter national Telegraph Company, held to-day, the Right Hon. Robert Grimston in the chair, a dividend for the half-year of 31 per cent., or 7 per cent. per annum, was recommended to be declared. The report stated that notwithstanding the numerous reductions in the rates which have been made during the last year, the buoyancy of the revenue continues unimpaired. ______ a medal to be Hotel Sir f C ra h m ar T l un es bEri.dGgaremryehllas.s arr ived at the Cla rendon 'lle Prince of Wales has or dered age with the Princess struck to commemorate his with its production, and a nd is now busily engaged in en nitaeolkaeridi have been b y e a e n n e h n a tr s u b s e te en d which w i l l b e in gold, silver, and bronze. Alexandra. Messrs. Hunt i t sitting,wi i 1 gr ho a n v o in ur g ed th wi e m th ed a a —Court Journal. cg. that Mr. Verner, the n . . Dublin Sir William Verner, has started mot: learn by a telegraphic oofsi William from as a ca ndidate on the Conservative interest for the borough of Lisburn. ~ What a time it Was," says the Reader," which i n politics includes such names as Chatham and Holland—and their greater sons,—Burke and Barre Sheridan and Windham, Camden and Mansfield; and in, events such momentous epochs as the first Chatham Ad ministration, the great constitutional struggle waged round the ignoble person of John Wilkes, the American war, and the dawning of the French Revolution ; which in litera ture and political science moves round Johnson and Gold smith, Adam Smith, Burke, Robertson and Gibbon ; which saw the old school of fiction die out with Fielding, Richard son, and Smollett, the new inaugurated with Sterne, Miss Burney, and Mrs. Inchbald ; which, in the painter's art, takes in the last decennium of Hogarth and the dawn of Lawrence, and covers the whole career of Reynolds, Gain!' borough, and Wilson ; which, in the art of the stageL l : glorified by the glius of Garrick and lienler 9 .:f . Pritchard, Yates, and Siddons, Kitty Cliv e lr ''''' by the Abington ; and, in the literature of the th eatre, and Mrs. comedies of Goldsmith and Colman , ~. hen cl Cowley.", PNEUMATIC DESPATCH COMPANY. The efforts of our engineers to make air do duty as steam, to utilise the law by which air rushea in with great force wherever a partial vacuum is created, has at last in this company resulted in a very practicable scheme by which parcels are trans mitted by a kind of air•post, somewhat after the same fashion as that by which the late Mr. Brunel tried to propel cars on his atmospheric railway. There is, however, this important difference be tween the two plans, that, whereas Mr. Brunel's looked very well in theory, it was found all but Dimepaposastiobhlee practice,oimnpanythe w wohrin i kg, so farlewithth as it h ePneumatic Set gone, is found in its cheapness and its expedition to he expectationsonly a le n gth p p a re sst n thirde d o o f f i t a . At su se r w o h f ic a h bo w u e t re on f e orm mile has been laid from the arrival platform of the Easton Station to the N th W or - estern District Post-office, in Eversholt-street. This length, though quite sufficient to give a fair 'of samp l e the speed and power of this subterranean parcels' line, is, of course, only the first step towards a regular series of these " despatches," which are hereafter to be laid so as to connect together all the great railway stations and chief district post-offices. Before entering further on the subject of these future extensions we must explain what the pneumatic despatch means, and how it is carried into practice. The " tube," as at present laid, is very like an elliptical gas main, 33 i nc h es high by 30 wide, and laid at an average depth of about nine feet below the road. The pipes of which it is composed are made in nine feet lengths, with socket joints filled in with lead so as to keep them perfectly airtight, and on the inside, at the bottom. of the tube, are cast iron rails, like miniature rail way metals, two feet apart. The car to run on these is made of wrought iron, weighs nearly Bowt., is about eight feet long, and runs upon four wheels, 29 inches in diameter. In this short enumeration we have described almost the whole of the plant and rolling stock required for a pneumatic despatch railway. The car we have spoken of, when placed in the tube on the rails, is blown from end to end, backwards or forwards, as it is wished. The way in which this is accomplished is as simple as it is ingenious. Air, like all other substances in nature, has a weight of its own, which, though very light —only 11 7 oz. to the cubic foot—is nevertheless enough to bring it under the influence of the laws of centrifugal force, which give it a tendency to fly off with more or less pressure, accord ing to the velocity with which it is whirled round from a centre. This inevitable law is turned to good account in working the parcels' despatch. At each end of the tube we have described a hollow iron wheel is erected, working in an airtight box. This wheel is 21 feet in diameter, with a thickness of about two feet at the nave or centre—a thickness which gradually diminishes towards its outer cir cumference, so as to give it the same cubical con tents at the rim as at the middle. This wheel is con nected with a steam-engine of about 17-horse power, which turns it at a velocity of from 70 to 90 miles an hour, when the air which is drawn in through its hollow centre is thrown off from its periphery with a force which gives a pressure of from five to seven ounces on the square inch, very nearly the pressure of a hurricane, and all of which, by opening a valve at the end of the tube, is driven through it with almost irresistible velocity. The cars we have already spoken of, when on the rails in the tube, fill it almost completely, and expose a surface of nearly five square feet to the blast. They are therefore driven along it at the rate of nearly 30 miles an hour. In literal fact the cars are either drawn or driven along by what is virtually a chain of air which costs nothing and of which the weight and friction aro almost nil. Nothing, in fact, can well be simpler, cheaper, or more effective than the whole apparatus, and the ease and certainty with which the wheel does its duty and sends one or more cars, heavily laden, flying before it is asto nishing. At present, as we have said, the line is only laid for a short length, but already by this route the mail begs for the North-Western district aro despatched on the instant of their arrival at Euston-square, and though for this small distance the saving of time effected amounts to only a few minutes, yet such a saving promises to become im portant in proportion as the line is ex tended. It is intended to lay down forthwith a line of 48-inch tubes to form pneumatic stations in connexion with the Camden-town station of the London and North-Western Railway ; a cen tral site in High Holborn ; the Smithfield Neer Market; in Gresham-street, in connection with the large carrying firms for goods and parcels; the General Post-office, Covent-garden market, and the new terminus of the South-Eastern Railway at Charing-cross. This entire line, with its branches, will be about five miles in length. Its cost, laid complete, including stations, machinery, compensa tions, and purchase of sites, is estimated at £131,000, and the whole, it is said, may be com pleted and brought into practical use within a year from the commencement of the works. On this outlay the directors calculate upon giving a net divi dend of not less than 10 per cent. per annum, but on this point we can say nothing. It is stated that Messrs. Pickford alone convey 400 tons of par cels a day through London at a cost of 9d. per ton per mile, whereas the Pneumatic Company could afford to do the same work quicker at a penny a ton a mile, and yet be large gainers by the transaction. But, paying or not paying, the public are sure to gain from the labours of the new p com any by get ting their parcels transmitt ed throughout London in a tenth of the time and for a tenth of the cost now expended in sending them from one district to another. Between the pneumatic despatch and tho subterranean railway the days ought to be fast ap proaching when the ponderous goods vans which now ply between station and station shall disappear for ever from the streets of London. If only this result is brought about, the promoters of the two schemes may be considered in the light of public benefactors, and from this point of view alone we are inclined to wish success to the exertions of the Pneumatic Despatch Company. The engineers of the undertaking are Mr. Rammel and Mr. Latimer Clark.—Times. MARKETS—This Day. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD: —Meadow hay, £2 10s to £4 4s Od er load. clover, do,, £3 lOs to £5 158; and st raw, £llos to £1 18s p Trade firm for good and prime qualities. Supply only mode- 1 14 8 s p ; er cl l o o v ad er . rate. CumßEßLAMeadow 12119, £2 6s to £4 4s ; clover, ; g ai nd i :z aw ha7 ll .£ l 2 oB s to s to .c £3 10s to £5 16s Od ; and straw, lOra to £1 18s per load. A steady trade. WH ITECH.--- A moderate demand. do., £3 10s to £5 15s COLONIAL. T EA ,Thera has been a limited business transacted, and p ' oes have remained without material alt era ti on. -11 S u c l an.—The market has been rather dull, but full prices are current for good grocery descriptions. Refined descrip tions have been in fair request at about previous quotations. COFFEE.—A limited amount of business has been trans acted, and there is little variation to notice in prices. RICE.—For the better ptalities of East India there has been a fair demand, and prices are generally well main tained. SALTPETRE.—Business has been dull, and prices have in some instances tended downwards. TALLOW.—The market has been unsettled, and prices have shown some slight fluctuations. P.Y.C. on the spot, however, is now qu ote d 44 8 9d ; and f or last three mont h s delivery, 46s 9d per cwt. Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) LIVERPOOL, Feb. 10. The market this morning was steadier. Sales about 3,000. Imports 1,521, previously 3,664. --_!_- of Mr. Hind, chairman of the Birkenhead deputation, consisting com in ision, Mr. Mocatta, chair man of the Library Committee, Birkenhead, Mr. A. Wal law clerk, with Mr. John Laird, M.P., had an interview with Mr. Hamilton, yesterday, at the Treasury, on the a üb ject:of the erection of a public library at Birkenhead. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. 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