The Sun. — London, England, 1868-03-31 00:00:00

MONEY XARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLMENP-L, * CITY, Two O'CLOCK, The chief feature in the Stock markets is the settlement which is now in process of completion ; but in the Foreign market the principal movements have been in Egyptian stocks. All descriptions except the 9 per Cent. Viceroy Loan are lower. Considerable irritation is beginning to be felt as to the cause of this state of things. Erie Railway shares engross a good deal of attention ; they have slightly improved. Railway stocks are generally steady. The commercial demand fcr money is still com paratively quiet at to 2 per cent. There is, hoii•- ever, a good business doing in advances on Stock Exchange securities in connexion with the settlement 'which concludes to-day. Consols are steady at yesterday's prices —viz., 93 to 93,- for money and account ; New and Re duced Three per Cents. are dull at 91/ to 91i ; India Five per Cents. unaltered, at 1131 to 114/ ; Exchequer Bills, 7s to 12A prem. The chief feature in Foreign Stocks is a further relapse in all I.] , yptian Stocks, with the single excep tion of the Viceroy's Nine per Cents., which remain at 88/ to 891. The 1864 Bonds are 1 lower, at 851 ; the Railway Loan at 89; and the Viceroy's S even p er Cents., 1 at 721. Othorwise yesterday's prices are cur rent. Mexican Bond, are 15. to 16 ; Greek 12i to 13 ; New Spanish, 35 to 35/ ; Italian (1861), 481 to 481- ; Turkish (1865), 33/ to 331 ; and Portuguese, I to I pre tn. In American Securities United States 5-20 Bonds are quiet, at 714- to 72,, 1 , ; Erie Shares are -1 better, at 4SI- to 482. Illinois, 891 to 90. Railways are, with some slight exceptions, steady. There is an advance of in Great Western, at 49 to 49 : 1, and of in Metropolitan, at 1132 to 1141 ; in Great Eastern, at 332 to 34i ; and Brighton, 50i to 502. Great .Northern A are -1 lower, at 961 to 97k, and there is a relapse of -A- in Caledonian at 71-1 to 72 ; in Lancashire and Yorkshire, at 1251 to 1252 ; and in Midland, 1041 to 105 ; Metropoli tan Extension are steady at 1071 to 10Sk ; ditto New District, 2 to 3 prem. ; South Eastern, 73 to 734-; London and North Western, 1141 to 1142 ; Great Northern, 1021 to 103 k -; and Sheffield, 44 to 444. • Foreign Railways are firm. Orel-Vitebsk are now quoted 80k to 81, being i per cent. higher. Smyrna and Cassabo Railway Bonds are 87 to 88, and business has taken place this morning at 88. Lombardo- Venetian are 15 to 15k, and Great Luxembourg, 9k, to 9. Of bank shares Union of London are unaltered, at 304 to 31i ; London Joint Stock, 30k to 31; ; Im perial Ottoman 3 to 3 prem. ; Imperiiil, 17 to 17i ; Consolidated, 43 to 4, ; and Alliance, 13i to 12i dis. Finance shares are quiet. Credit Foncier are 2-4 to 3 ; General C re dit, 2 ; t o 23 di s . ; International, 2 to 11 dis. ; and London, 25 to 24 dis. There were no bullion operations at the Bank of ...:dngland yesterday. In response to the upward movement in cotton in ....averpool, silver is a little firmer in tone, but until the arrival by the West India packet is offered the market will not fairly be tested. In the meantime bars are quoted 60k1 per ounce, and dollars 59d. The late decrees for the conversion of the Tunisian debt in Paris have been abrogated, and a commission has been appointed, of which the Consul-General of France at Tunis is a member, with the object of regu lating the condition of Tunisian finance. The annual meeting of the Anglo-Mexican Mint is called for the 7th of April. The National Provincial Bank of England will hold its annual meeting on the 14th May. Messrs. &rings have received a further remittance of £963 Os on account of New Granada dividends. Messrs. George Whiffin and Richard Stone, the liquidators of the Loudon Mercantile Discount Com pany (Limited), 'lave just made a second call of £1 per share, payable by two instalments on the Ist May and Ist July next. Wh en thi s company passe d i nto liquidation, only £lO per share out of £5O was called Up, and since then the liquidators have not called up more than £2 pe! share in all. It is expected no further call will be required. The South-Eastern Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of £9 compared with the cor responding period of 1867. The traffic return of the G-e.i ' Western Railway of Canada for the week enuing the 27th inst., shows an increase of £1,948 over last year. The folios - '•lg is the report for January of the Pa nulcillo Copper C om p a ny (Li m it e d). Th e Xi mena sailed on the 31st January from Coquimbo, with a cargo of regulus bar and ingot copper, amounting to nearly 400 tons pure. The Minera will follow with same description of cargo, but rather a larger proportion of regulus, the copper contents being about 420 tons. The latter vessel will sail about 18th March. Workmen continue scarce, and not sufficient to carry on the work as it ! ) nght to be don e ; o th erw i se a ll i s go i ng on we l l. rhe improvement in ores noticed in November still continues, and those now extracted are better than hitherto seen in large quantities. Regulus produced in January at Upper Works, about 660 tons ; Lower, 580 tons, equal to 400 tons pure copper. BRITIdIi FUNDII—T WO OVLOCK. I GOVERNMENT FUNDS. Per Oeut. Consols Do. Acco un t, Ap r il 2 93 ilper Cent. Reduced 9ll 2 11 New 3 per Cent 9ll i 41 0 W 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. per Cent. J an. 1873 lO3 Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan. 7 1880 — xd Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — , Do (Red Sea Telet.raph), Au„., 1908 — zirchoquer Bill; £l,OOO, 2 per Ct. — pm Do £5OO — pm .„. Do. £ lOO de £2OO 5 pm 'Milk of England Stock, 41 per Cent Sbut Do. Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India stock, 10k par Cent., April 1874 ••• Do. Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enlaced Paper 4 per Cent BB Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 51 per Cent., :flay 1879 — Do 5 per Cont., Itup. Dob., 1872 — Do. do. 1877 — Do. do. 1882 — D,. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug . 1873 Do. B on d s, 5 per Cent., £l ,000 Do. under £1.000 FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO CLOCK.. tgentine Republic, 6 per Cent — 4 ,u 3 trian Bonds , 5 per Cent. 1859 .u razilian 5 per Cent _ 7.1 0. 41 per Cent., 1852 — Do. do ., 1858.... Do. do., 18i0 Do. do., 1863 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account 721 14 Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent , Do 2 per C en t. (D e f erre d 3 per C ent ) %jabs 6 per Cent. Do. 41 per Cent — Do. 6 per Cent., B — Do., 1867 Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 — Do., Scrip £32 paid ~, I • mbian, 6 per Cent. • — -.artisti, 8 per Cent., 1825 Danubian Principalities, 7 per Cent — Do 8 per Cent., 1867 — ,Ilador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — I.3 33Tptian, 7 per Cent — De. Se 'odd Issue Do. £5OO Bonds Do. £lO6 Bonds BO , Do. 1864 - ju0...£500 Bonds — -Do. £lOO Bonds • •••• ~, ek Government Railway Debentures ..... 89i 9 1 1 `Tre, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups. — O. Account - - ,PO. Coupons Do. Account ~,tuatenaala 5 per Cent . i Lo nduras Gov. Rail. Lean., 10p. Ct., ..£25 p ta : l ian 5 per Cent., 1865 — DO, Account ~ — "0. Maremmana Raiw a y — - .exica z 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account i , Do. 1864 — 4 " 0 6 per Cont. Anglo-French moutevide a u 6 per Cent. .. — N OW Impe r i a l 5 p er C en t 'ilisy Granada — •"0 3 per Cen — ~.,"0- Deferred P "0 Laud Warrants (Hectares) e ruvian 5 - - per Cent. 1865 — D 0 Account 791 81 per Cent. (Uribarren) "0 44. i per Cent.. 1E62 • 94f p Do A:ccount 0114,411080 3 per Ct.. 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 391 Do. do., 1F67 — 4 O. d o ., S cr i p , ..£lO paid — Pro ' ,, inn 5 per Cent., 1822, £ SL — uo 44- per Cent. 1850 D ° 4X per Cent., 1860 ." D .° 8 - er Cent 1859 - I ' , D° 0 per Cent., ,1862 °• Alio - ' le-Dutch, 1861, £lOO Bonds, 87 1 o. do. £B4 15s. d 0...,, -:- b D o 186 r £lOO Bonds B7l c ,” i 7 lit • do. £Bl 13s. do — ~r(huian, 5 per Cent — Ilaisl i 3 per Cen D ° - ' Account .. 1, 0 Now Deferroo — -0 Account 1")0 P assive — I\ o Accibant " 0 0 Co. C nt ert. of Coup. not funded T 4 Accmou DDVcish 6 per Cent. — o Account D° 6 per Cent. 1858 .. Do Account .. 59 b o £ l OO Bonds ° 6 per Cent., 1862 — Do Account Do XlOO Bonds 6 5 1 41 Do. 1863 Do 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 . - Do 1 for Cent., Guaranteed Venezuela, 3 per Cent. Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... . Dividends on the above payable in Londoia, French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. ‘.4 541, Dutch per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil„ Di Account Italia), 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 251. l-Do. Account 4B- Consols, Money Do. Account, March TWO O'CLOCK. 93 I 93 WRECK ON 7HE NORFOLK COAST. CAISTER, NEAR GREAT YARMOUTH, March 30. Avery strong north-cast wind sprung up on Friday afternoon and increased much during the night (says the Rev. G. W. Steward). A vessel was seen coining up from the northward between 3 and 4 a.m. She had been driven back by the weather, and hail ma le for the Cockle Light, intending to get into Yarmouth Roads between the Scraby and the out side of the Barber Sand, but coming along past the Cockle she was " set in" by the force of ebb tide with the wind, so that she got to the west ward of the Barber Sand, between the Sand and the shore. Sho came along past Scraby and Caister, with the breakers of the Barber on the left, at first at some distance from them ; but get ting past Caister, she came into a narrow passage, and finding the breakers on the shore upon her right hand nearer and nearer, she steered more to the left a little, and drove upon the Barber. There she remained, the sea breaking over her stern and filling hey with water. The crew of the Birming ham lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution, had mustered and were getting ready to launch their boat during this time, and were afloat almost as soon as the vessel struck. They put uff through a heavy sea, and when they arrived at the Sand they found that the vessel was already half full of water, and the master assured the beachmen that all they could don ould be take off himself and crew, as it was impossible to save the ship. However, by great exertion, they succeeded in getting the vessel off the Sand, thus saving both her and the crew of four men. She was the schooner Wave, of Boston, and was bound from Ipswich to Inverness, with a cargo of guano. Much credit is due to the beachmen for their promptitude. No other means of rescue than a lifeboat would have been of service on this occa sion, as no ordinary boat could have approached without the greatest peril. The schooner herself had only a small boat, which was broken in; nor indeed could it have lived through the breakers had it even been whole. NAVAL AND MILITARY LVIELLIGENCE. MALTA, March 19.—Her Majesty's screw troop ship Crocodile, Capt. G. Watson, arrived this morning, nine days from Portsmouth, with detach ments of troops for India. She met with rough weather in the Bay of Biscay, which caused her to roll to the extent of 40 deg. She will leave to morrow morning after coaling for Alexandria. Her Majesty's - despatch vessel, Psyche, Lieut.-Com mander Balfour, left Malta on the 17th inst. for Alexandria, to be placed at the disposal of Lady Lawrence, wife of the Governor-General of India, who is proceeding home via Trieste. Communica- ion was had yesterday by telegraph with her Ma- jesty's corvette Racer, on the coast of Bengazi, when she was informed of her having been orde re d t o England to be p a id off. She will, however, re main with the cable expedition until the re pairs are completed. Communication with Alex andria is still interrupted. Her Majesty's frigate Endymion went out of port to-day to try her en - gines, which have been four months under repairs. It will be remembered that they broke down when she was conveying the brother of the Tycoon of Japan from Malta to Marseilles. This vessel will proceed on Saturday direct to Naples, with Rear- Admiral Kellett, C. 8., who is suffering from ill health. The Arethusa will leave the same day for a cruise, in the course of which she will also visit Naples. Lieut. IN uttall, of the Endymion, has been lent to the Enterprise, in the absence of Lieut. Wallace, in hospital. Lieut. Littledale, of the En terprise, goes home to-day in the Southampton packet. The English schooner yacht Daphne left Malta on the 10th inst. for Corfu. The Swedish corvette (Idle, Capt. Rosengren, left this port yes terday for Naples. Her Majesty's Indian troopship Crocodile arrived at Alexandria on the 23d inst., all well. The troops she had on board (principally draughts) will pro ceed in the Euphrates from Suez to Bombay. We are requested to state that, owing to unavoid able circumstances, the First Lord of the Admi ralty's levee, announced for the 7th of April, will not be held. Several of the departments in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, were closed yesterday, and will be con tinued closed to-day, for the purpose of taking stock. The men, having worked up the time during the past week, are now enjoying two days' holydays, with but few exceptions, where the men are required in stocktaking. It is also said that the departments will be closed on Easter Monday, the men working up the time during the present week, and that the authorities will give the Saturday fol lowing Good Friday as a holyday, without requiring the time to be worked up. 'This will be a great boon to the men, who aro employed working at the furnaces six days out of seven. _ THE UNIVEESITY BOAT RACE.—Both crews performed some good practice yesterday. The Oxford crew started immediately op,osite Chiswick Church, rowed hard to the aqueduct at Putney. Their time to Hammersmith bridge on a fair ebb was 4min. 45sec., and to Putney 13inin. 37sec., thus occupying Bmin. 25sec. in covering the space between the bridges. The weather was fine, and there was no wind, so that a more favourable opportunity for good rowing could not well have been selected. In the afternoon they were again out for a paddle. The Cambridge eight took a brief paddle in the morning, while their opponents were up at Chiswick, but saved themselves for the evening's work, which consisted in rowing the course throughout at top speed. Between five o'clock and half. past, at which hour some hundreds of lookers-on had collected at Putney and Hammersmith, the crew slowly went down against tide to the aqueduct and rowed the course. The flood tide, which for the first hour after its turn bade fair to run apace, visibly slackened before they got away, and notwithstanding the absence of wind, the river could scarcely be pronounced favourable for good " time." Notwithstanding this, and the fact that their boat was kept too close to the Middlesex shore, and out of the tideway in Putney and Barnes Reaches, the crew made excellent practice, rowing 35 effective strokes from first to last. Their time to Hammersmith-bridge was barely Bmin. 40sec., to Barnes-bridge 18min. 4sec., and to the Ship at Mortlake 21min. 21sec.—the space between the two last mentioned landmarks being completed in 3min. 17sec. THE THAMES IiMBANKMENT.—Mr. John Fowler, Engineer in -Chief, Metropolitan District Railway, replies as follows to the letter of Mr. Bazalgette, in reference to the delay in the completion of these works :—" The Thames Embankment Works from Westminster-bridge to the Temple-gardens have been carried on without interrup tion for several years, but nothing has yet been done to the works for continuing the Embankment from the Temple-gardens to Blackfriars-bridge. I need scarcely say that until the works are extended over this intervening space the Embankment will be of little use to the public, and none to the railway company. The Metropolitan Board of Works have Parliamentary power to execute this part of the Embankment according to one of two alternative plans —either on arches with a roadway 70 feet wide ; or by a solid embankment and continuous wall, with a roadway 100 feet wide, corresponding with the whole of the Embank ment and road way from Westminster-bridge. It is obvious that to contract the roadway to 70 feet at this part and adopt a different mode of construction for the embankment wall would be a great public, misfortune, and ought riot to be permitted • and I believe ma n y mem b ers o f the Metropolitan B oar d Of Works are sincerely anxious to escape this misfortune. As between the railway company and the Board of Works no doubt a different proportion of compensation would result from the adoption of one plan or the other ; but, to place themselves in a position perfectly free from any charge of a de-ire to act in the matter with a selfish regard to their own interests only, the railway company have proposed to leave to the decision of the same arbitrator as already named in the Act of Parliament (Lord Stanley) the proportions to be borne by the two parties if the solid embankment and the hundred-feet roadway .0 adopted. The anxiety of the public to have the works of the embankment completed from Westminster-bridge to Blackfriars-bridge at the earliest possible day cannot exceed that of the railway company, since they have always ex pected that a very considerable part of their remunerative traffic will arise between those points ; and if the Metropolis tan Beard of Works will proceed vigorously with their em bankment and roadway from Temple-gardens to Blackfriars bridge, the Embankment, the Embankment roadway, the railway, and the walks and gardens may all be completed and in the enjoyment of the public in less than twelve months from the present time." PREFERENCE SH ARES. London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent., 46 ettbitehiltENCE SHAktlcts AND STOCKS. Midland A and B £5 per cent., 1031 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. South York. and RiTer Dun, 96 FOREIGN RAILWAYe. Bahia and San Francisco, 11. n., gus. 7 per cent., 15 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 15 FOREIGN MINIM:: Frontino and Bolivia Gold, lim., ft-Id Pestarena United Gold, Ilm., 2; Scottish Australian, lim., 1 3-18 St. John del Key, lim , 234 United Mexican, lim., BANKS. Alit ance, lint.. 12 Anglo- .kustrian. 10 Bank of Egypt, 332 City, 12 Consolidated, lint., 41 Imperial Ottoman, 101 Lana Mortgage Bank of India, lint., 1 1 16 1 London Bniik of Mexico and S. Ameri:;ft, Ilm., 11 London and County, Ditto, new, 334 London Joint Stock, 314 London and tl estminster. 0;13 Ditto, Scrip, 46 I Midland Bank, lim., 151 National Provincial of tllngland. 1311 Oriental Bank Corporation 42, Provincial of Ireland, 89 Union of London, 314 MISCELLANZOOL Anglo American Telegraph, 21i 2 Atlantic Telegraph, 53) Ditto, S per cent 1032 Australian Agricultural, 15f Credit Fonder of England, lim., 3 Crystal Palace, 23 mast India Irrigation and Canal.'l7l Egyptian 9 per Cent., Viceroy Loan, gua. byjEgypi. Goy., 8% EiL tam aria International Telegraph, 162 Wore-street Warehouse, lien., of Li udson's Bay, 14y • Madras Ire gation and Canal (guaranteed 5 per cent. by Government), 103 Viceroy of Egypt 7 per cent. (Mortgage) Loan, 72& THE BURGOMASTER OF BRUSSELS.—M. AnSpaCh ; Burgomaster of Brussels, having brought an action for de famation against MM. Dolez and Orts, publishers of the journal the Espiegle, the defendants have been condemned to the payment of 10,000 fr. as damages. POETICAL SATIRE.—It is understood in literary circles that a now poem of very considerable power, sharply criticising the peculiarities of modern verse, is about to be published. The author is spoken of as an Oxford graduate, and a man of mark amongst members of the University, who look forward to his book making some sensation iu the reading world. The title, we believe, is "Horse and Foot, or Pilgains to Parnassus," and the motto on the first page "I'll not march through Coventry with them, that's flat." Mr. Hotten will publish the work. BRITISII MINES. IC- IC,ana. Consul. Gold, Um. 81 1 34 — hiverton CliWord Amalgamated 3O 54 66 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist 1 440 460 L'rakewalls 2.1.0 4 4 East Bassett (Illogan) 291 10 12 Nast Caradon ') 14.0 4 5 East Cam BrPa 34 2 24 East Grenville East Gunnislake . 8.3 .0 East Loved 3.0.0 8 V E. IV% Russell (Tayistk 11.7.6 11 2 StAubyn(G wen. 66 4 5 4 treat Laxey, limited all 161 174 scat South Toigus 1.4.0 - rcat Wheat :3. Wheal Vor (lielst“u 40 18 19 ; renville 9.0.6 14 16 .lerod's loot 8.10.0 38 40 .lingston Downs 5.10.G; 24 24 tlargaret (Uny Lelant 13.17.6 8 is darke Valley v.10.0 6 61 4 vlwyndy Iron Ore, lii 31 21 14 ,C". 4 S ton North Welt ear ./.Wll Bassett(lllogan 1.4.0 N;orth Wheal Crony .. 2.13.0 2 3 Orosper 8.11.0 2 21 eroVidence,UnyLelant 11.6.7 25 27 S. Caradon (St. Cleer).. 14 380 400 South Condurrow ...... 4.2.0 - S.'Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 374 424 itray Park 135.15.6 4 6 . l'ln Croft 9 14 15 Vigra and ()Logan, lim all West Bassett (Mogan Caradon (Liskeard 1t 10 .2 West Chiverton. ...... • 11 61 0 6 —. West Seton 474 133 195 Wheal Bassett, elllogan 51 76 80 - Wheal Buller (Redruth 16 16 19 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 21 23 Wheal Seton - Wheal Trelawney (Lis I 5.17.0 6 8 Lt) V rain 4 ALEN SECUItITIN6. ißritish Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec.3l, 1872 lOO Can.Goy.6 p.c..Ja.dt July 1877-84 Do. 6p. o. Feb. & Aug., 93 100 , Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept! 100 98 100 00. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 88 88 87 Do. sp. c. Inscribed ski 100 85 67 Cape U. Hope, 6 p.c. 1673 100 104 106 Ito.Apl.&Uct 1890-1900 100 109 110 Do. do 1880-9() 100 107 109 Do. Jan.&July, 1390-9, 100 106 108 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 68 :00 Ceylon, Nov. 1878, 6 p., 100 113 111 Do. 1872, do lOO 103 107 11attritius, 6 p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 . 00. 1882, Mayls, Nov. 15 100 107 109 Do. 1895, Eel.. & Aug..l 100 it 6 108 Natal Lloy. 6 per cent..l too - N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&J uly 100 99 10 N. S.W. Goy.s p•c.,1860 100 99 101 Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1876 100 98 99 Do. 6 p.c. 1888 to 1896, 100 951 961 New Zealand, 6p. cent) 100 Do. 5 per cent.... ••• 100 971 984 931 4 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. sterling, 1875 l9O 102 104 Queensland Gov. 6p. c. 100 103 105 1034 3 S. Aus.Goy. 6 P.C. 1868-9 100 Do. 1878 & upwards lOO 110 111 Vio,Gov. 6 p.o.Ja.&July 100 Do. do. April & Oct lOO 1114 112 i THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1868 SHARE LlST.—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share! Railways. ! Closing Paid ' Price. Business done. e - L of and kxeter .... 100 81 13 st Caledonian -„, • 100 72 73 72 11 st Cambrian - Cork and Bandon - - - 20 4.)ornwall all 3 4 st Dublin & Belfast June lOO 75 77 at Dun„Perth,&Ab.Junc lOO 70 72 - E.London, Scrip Cezti all - - Do. 100 - at Glasgow &S. Western 100 102 101 st Great Eastern, Ord. stk. 100 3'4 31 3 , 34 31 et Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 100 6 8 at • (ireat North of Scotland 100 15 64 at Great Northern lOO 102, 1031 34 31 at Du. A stock . 100 96 V 8 1 964 st Do. 13 stock lOO 121 1/5 st Do. New, Is. at 25 pm 100 - - at GtS, and W. 01 Ireland 100 91 93 95 st Gt. Western -Original 100 4 6 19 49 1 at Du. S. V4l. Rail gua. 100 - - 't Do. South Wales st Do. W: Mid.-Oxiord 100 25 3u at Do. Newport lOO 45 28 st uo. ereford - - et Lancashire& YorkahirLi 100 1251 i 25, et I..indon and Blackwali' luo - - st Lon., Bri g - h., & S Coa,tl 100 50 51 50; 1 st 1•on., Chat., and Dover 100 1 9 19 1 at Do. Metrop. Ex. A lOO 12 15 st Lon. & .North Westeri, leo 1114 115'_1 11 st Lon. A South lVeStert, 10e 8 • 87 at Man., Sher., A Lincoln 100 421 13, 411 at Atetropplitan..... at Do. New lO - - st Do. Extewion st $ Metropolitan District all 73 75 741 31 20 Uo. do. do. 10 -- 10 Du. and St. Jolin'aW'u 6 - - at Midland - Do. £9 Share 7 - --- st Do, tiirmin.. & Derb) 100 73 75 - Oid Kent - - st North British at Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun, 100 - - st Nth. Eastern-Berwick 100 1011 1011 25 Do. G.N•E put - chant 16.13.3 - - at Do. Leads st Do. York lOO 13 91 at Du. Carlisle . , ... 100 124 132 at Do. Stock.& Darling, all 129 131 15 Do. do. 1860-61 lB -•-- at North London st Do. do. 1864 5 - Do. do. 1866 10 North Staffordshire 100 57 59 st N. &S. W. Junction at Scottish Central - - Scot. N. E . Aber. stock NO uu. Scot, Mid. stack lOO - - Shropshire Union at South Devon lOO 43 45 , at South Eastern 10 Staines, Wok., A Wok all 9 1u st Cad - Vale 10 Do. C - - V ale of Neatli - - - Waterford & Kilkenny 101) - - 10 Waterloo & IVllltelia 1 6 - Cornwall - - - BRITISII. YUSSESSIONS. 100 it A no t in lan 3 ic ar A o S d t a . o l l a c w e r n e . n i o n e . all 64 66 100 1021 10341 .031 4 gu. 6 per cont.. 40 Do. F shares l6 1 1p 101 Buffalo A Lake Huron all 3 4 10 Do. Preference IButL, Brant, Goderich 100 6 p.c. 1871-3-1 IVO 68 71 at Calcutta &S. E., lint lOO - - at ;a l c Town & Dock, gu lOO 14 52 00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. pi all 99 102 at v.:itat Beng - al, gu. , sdo 100 1011 1654 1054 at East Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 100 109 110 40 Do. J Extension - - st irand Trunkof Canada 100 151 164 100 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c all 74 82 100 Do. Ist Prof. Bonds all 43 45 100 Do. do deferred - 100 De. 2d Pref. Bombs all 33 35 100 Du. do. deterred - - 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred - - 100 Do. 4th Pre!. stock 100 Do. do. deterred - - at ut. India Pen. gua. sp.c lOO 109 110 log /3 o. Gua. 5 per cent lB 14 2 p 10 Do. New gua. sp. c 6 14 2 p at , 41. South of India gua. 5 per cent st D.. 41 per cent loo 94 06 st Do • 2 - - 204 ;rest Wes. of Canada all 16 1 161 154 204 Du, New ...... ; alt - -- 00 Do. 6p.ußt a. pay. 1873', all 98 100 06 00. 54 do. pay. 1877-8 all 91 93 at Madras, gua. 5 p.o 100 100 102 1021 st Do. 41 do lOO 93 95 at Do. 14 do lOO 69 91 10 Do. Fifth Extension 5 - st Melb. Cor. 6p. c. Blida. 100 - - 50 Mel. A Ilobson's Bay all - Sr N.R.l.C'da.6pclstpLbs 100 83 65 at Oude&Rhiik'nd, g. 5 p,o 100 103 104 104 st Scinde 100 100 101 1 at Do. Delhi . 1100 1001 1014 , 1011 20 Do. do 4, 15 BE Do. Punjaub... . 5,4 100 10) 101 P st Do.lndus St.Flot 4° 100 a 7 89 LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. CITY OF LONDON COURT. (Before R. M. Kerr, Esq.) CAB PROPRIETORS AND LUGGAGE.-DIERDON V WARD. This was an action to recover £l7 10s., the value of a portmanteau and its contents, which had been stolen from the top of the defendant's cab. ➢lr. Dowse, for the plaintiff, stated that on the morning of the 26th December last, Mr. Dierdon hired the defendant's cab and gave into the care of the driver the porttnanteau in question. It was stolen from the roof of the cab in the Southwark bridge-road, and a person was now undergoing a sentence of five years' penal servitude for being concerned in the robbery. His honour asked how defendant coul d be made liable. Mr. Dowse stated that the case of Powles v. Ilyder, 20 and 25, Law Journal, was a case in point, and it was there laid down that the owner of the cab was the person to be sued for negligence. his honour wished to know on what legal grounds defendant could be made liable at all. Mr. Dowse contended that there was a contract between plaintiff and defendant for the safe carriage of the luggage, and the defendant's driver bad charged 2d. for the portmanteau. His Honour replied that what he wanted to arrive at was whether any negligence could be traced to the defendant's driver. There was a case of Ross v. Hill, second Common Bench 887, where it had been decided that the cab proprietor was not a common carman within the meaning of the term, and that the only obligation on him was that he should use ordinary care. It was for the plaintiff to show that there had been negligence. Mr. Dowse then called evidence to show that the cab was provided with a guard and chain. The guard had been put up, but the cabman admitted he had not used the chain, as he was not obliged to do so. He had been desired to take care of the port manteau, and he had taken ordinary care. The fact was that the morning of the 26th December was a very foggy one, and some thieves connected with the " thieves' bazaar," which had been recently discovered, had stolen the trunk from the top of the cab. He (the cab man) could not help it, as it was so dark at the time. He had never lost anything before this. He had driven for 32 years. It having been urged for the defendant that a cab proprietor was not liable, under the act, as a common carrier, Mr. Dowse quoted the case of Morley and Dunt, reported in the Law Times, which laid down that the owner of a cab was liable for any loss of property occurring through negligence, and his honour said he should take time to consider his judgment, and to read the case of Ross v. Hill, which bore very strongly on the present case. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A PENNY FlNE.—Catherine Quick, a young woman, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with wilfully breaking a pane of glass, at No. 28, Saville street, Foley street, the property of William Wood, rustic-worker. The complainant, an elderly man, said that he was a married man, but had had the indiscretion to visit the prisoner, but was now anxious to discon tinue the connection. Yesterday between four and five o'clock, the prisoner knocked at my door Mr. Tyrwhitt—Then your wife has found out what has been going on ? The complainant said she had, and the prisoner scratched him, broke the window, made a great disturbance, and threatened everybody. The prisoner said the complainant the night before that kept her out all night. He had lived with her after she left her situation, and was the cause of all her misfortunes. Air. Tyrwhitt told the prisoner that she must not act as she had done. She would have to pay the damage, but under the circumstances only a penny fine. TIIE STREETS TRAFFIC ACT. —George 'Smith, carman to a coal merchant, and George Harris, carman to a brewer, were summoned before Mr. Tyrwhitt, under the Metropolitan Streets Traffic Act, the first named for unlawfully delivering coals in Pall-mall, and the other beer in New Bond-street at a time within the limits of the Act. Smith pleaded guilty. The case having been proved against Harris, A person stepped forward and said he represented the defender Harris's employers, and that they had no wish to infringe the act, but at the same time they the commissioners of police might have given them notice before summoning them. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that as they were the first summonses under the new act, he should only ia pose a fine of ss. in each case. him a violent blow with his fist on the mouth, which actually dislodged one tooth and broke another. The two constables immediately collared the pri soner, who entered into a long and desperate struggle with them. It required four men to secure him, and remove him to the station-house. • The prisoner denied having struck Dewell at all. Mr. Benson—Who did strike him ? Look at his mouth, which is cut, and one of his teeth gone. George Birch, No. 267 K, confirmed the state ment of Dewell. Mr. Benson said there was no doubt whatever the prisoner had committed a savage and malicious assault on the constable because he acted the part of a peace-maker, and prevented the prisoner killing his wife. He was considering whether he ought not to commit the prisoner for trial for this brutal and unprovoked outrage. Ile could not punish the prisoner for this outrage as he ought to be punished. Ile sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for two months and kept to hard labour, which was the heaviest punishment he could inflict. WESTMINSTER. A DISCHARGED WORIMAN'S REVENGE.--Henry Burden, mason, was charged with wilfully damaging stone steps in an unfinished house in Upper Grosvenor Gardens, Pimlico. William Herne, carpenter, said that on the previous evening, a little after five, his attention was called to the prisoner, whom he saw knocking the stone step with a brick. The prisoner appeared as though he had been drinking, but he knew perfectly well what he was doing. Witness asked him why he was damaging the step, when the prisoner replied, " You don't think I would do such a thing, do you ?" A constable was sent for, and the prisoner given into custody. The prisoner had been em ployed on the works, but was discharged about five weeks ago for neglect of duty. Thomas Holmes, a boy engaged upon the build ings, deposed to seeing the prisoner strike the stone steps very violently several times with a brick. The prisoner had no business whatever on the premises. Police-constable 168 B said he took the prisoner into custody, and upon telling him what he was charged with, he said that he was merely trying the nature of the stone. Mr. R. G. Walter, builder, said the damage done to the steps amounted to about £8 ; fourteen blows in all had been struck. The prisoner had been in his employ, but the whole of the masons struck iu November last, and witness's firm had done with out them for a few months. Ile believed the pri soner committed the damage as a trade " spite." The prisoner—l beg your pardon. It was not on that account that I damaged your property. I own I did damage a few things, but I had a little to drink, and I am very sorry for it. Mr, Ingham—l think this a most deliberate, malicious outrage. I shall order you to be impri soned for two months with hard labour. THAMES. PEACE MAKING AND PEACE BREAKING.--William Nichol!, a labourer, was brought before Mr. Benson charged with violently and savagely assaulting Police-constable Dewell, 474 K. Last night at a very late hour the policeman heard the breaking of glass and the screams of a woman in a house in Bath-street, Bromley. He hastily summoned another policeman to his aid, and they entered the house, which was a scene of riot and confusion. Men were shout ing, women calling out murder, and children cry ing. The prisoner, who was intoxicated, and the cause of this disorder, was in his room on the floor with his wife, with whom he was engaged in a violent struggle, his hand twisted in the hair of her head, and kneeling upon her. Her screams were terrific, and blood was issuing from her nose and mouth. The police con stables pulled the prisoner off his wife, and remon strated with him on his brutality. He was in a violent passion, and threatened to exterminate the constables and his wife. Dewell and his brother officers made peace between the prisoner and hi: wife, put the room in tolerably good order, and were leaving the house, when the prisoner came behind Dewell and fairly kicked him down the stairs. Before Dewell could recover him self at the foot of the stairs the prisoner sprang upou him, kicked, him a second time, and struck, THE B' Ll7-KEE PER -V LV CE. Not so much on account of the amount extorted as the annoyance accompanying the demand is this grievance at our theatres, justly complained of in a letter from a correspondent in a late issue. At the same time, we must point out that if civility is to be an article of price, it is manifest he or she who pays the higher will obtain the greater quantity. For instance : if A gives sixpence, he will not only not receive the same attention as B, who gives a shilling, but not anything approaching that accorded to C, who gives half-a-crown, the extent of a box keeper's extortion, and seldom parted from except ing for lack of smaller change. Now, we are going to say that no fees should be allowed on any pre tence whatever, and we hope to succeed in their abolition with the assistance of the play-going public. But if they are to be perpetuated by any self-willed manager, at least the sum expected should be distinctly prescribed, and change be always ready in the hand of the box-keeper to be offered, not asked for. The cabby dodge of never having change ought neither to be permitted by the management nor put up with by the public. A very good plan for limitation of an abuse of this description has been adopted at the new opera-house, Langham-place, where a printed notice—" Sixpence charged for custody of coats, &c."—is placed at the entrance. Such a plan in the box lobby would insure equal civility to all where " the tyrant cus tom " is persisted in, and prevent the vulgar knaves who do the "date oblatum" from imposing on—if not insulting—ladies who visit places of amusement with their daughters, unattended by a gentleman, which is too often the case where the fee is not to their liking or, inevitably, where one is refused altogether. Now, can such abuses as these be tolerated longer, or will they be persisted in by managers ? The answer to the second question is easy :—Yes, if it is their interest, and it manifestly is, if they make money out of it by letting the box-lobbies at so much per week. But what if the attraction be equal at two houses, and the extortion system be ptac tised at one and gratuitous civility be the order of the night at the other? Will not the manager of the second find it his interest to adopt the latter plan if the public support be larger ? Certainly; and as certainly it would be. But the difficulty is to con vince all parties concerned. The enlightened policy pursued by Mr. Webster at the Adelphi " strikes fiery off indeed " in con trast with that of other managers, and the quiet, unobtrusive attention of his female staff in front of the house is a model to be imitated and extolled. Since the abolition of crinoline women can (and should) be employed, with advantage, in many ca pacities instead of men: first, at less wages; second (as a rule) with more reliance; third, insuring more civility. There are not so many occupations open to females that one of such should be allotted to men ; and we commend, therefore, female box keepers to all the managers in the metropolis and provinces, both those who do, and those who do not, intend to abolish the "hateful system of ex tortion." The change will be of the greatest advantage alike to the management and the public— "The drama's laws the drama's patrons give."— Therefore, the public have the redress of all such grievances as these in their own hands. Let them resolutely refuse all gratuities in places of public amusement, whether they be to box-keepers or coat-tenders—and two annoyances will be done away with that mar their pleasure and spoil their temper. The coat-keeper nuisance is little less tolerable than the box-keeper, inasmuch as the visitor is almost denuded merely to find an excuse that a fee may be paid to the assiduous lynx at the stall, who ejaculates, " Leave your coat, sir !" " Leave your shawl, marm !! ;" " You can't go in with that hat, sir !! !" " Not admitted in bonnets, Miss ! ! ! !" to his or her utter disgust and discomfi ture, if at all a nervous or retiring individual. We say, " reform it altogether," and let the acceptance of a fee in a theatre be a cause of instant dismissal. Let a proper polite "Arbiter Elegantiarum " be posted at the lobby entrance of the boxes. Let him supervise and direct the movements of the box keepers, as well as judge the hue of costume ad missible, and the occupant of the boxes will be subject to no more persecution than " the meaner sort -of people who frequent the pit," or " the groundlings" as Shlkspeare designates them— who are not pestered and mulcted because they know how to protect themselves, and will not permit it.— Racing Times and Amateur Dramatic Chronicle. MARETTS--(This Day.) COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE. SUGAR—Refined sugars are firm, witl;;;;Treiate in quiry. Dutch crushed is quoted rather stiffer, at 29s 10id to 30s for B, and H No. 1. Deliveries of raw sugar con tinue very good, and have further reduced the stock to 52,400 tons against 65,400 tons last year. The market on the spot is steady, with only moderate supplies offering. COFFEE.—The advances are well kept up, and an increase of last year's at this time, but recent heavy imports have increased the stock to 15,250 tons, being 6,400 tons more than was held at this time in 1867. Tho market is firm, with a fair demand fur both colonial and foreign coffees. TEA.—Small public sales have opened this morning, with good competition at previous rates. RlCE.—There is not much passing, but rates are main tained. At auction, of 703 bags Bengal, only one lot sold, at 13s 6d for good middling. RUM.—The late advance is well maintained, but the activity in the market has subsided. The clearances are largo, but are exceeded by the imports, and the stock is increased to 22,840 pus. against 25,750 pns. last year. SALTPETRE.—The quantity warehousing is about equal to the deliveries, and stock remains without any material alteration. JUTE meets a steady inquiry at firm rates. HEMP.—The market for Manilla is firm but quiet; 2,000 bales come to auction to-morrow; Clear St. Petersburg is quoted .£3B per ton. OIL.—For all descriptions the market is quiet with very little change in prices. Linseed offered at 36 Gd on the spot. English and foreign brown rape, 36s ; pale, 38s to 398 ; cocoa nut, Ceylon, 49s to 49s 6d ; Cochin, Ms 6d to 558. TALLOW. The market continues quiet, at 43s 6d ; spot, 43s Gd April to June, 43s 9d ; June, 44s 6d last three months. POTATOES, 4c. The supplies at market to-day were good, and the trade steady. HAY AND STRAW. Trade quiet with adequate supplies. Meadow hay, 60s to 84s ; clover, first cut, 80s to 100 s; second, 50s to 84s ; straw, 30s to 34s per load. COTTON. LIVERPOOL, March 31. —Market held firmly —un changed. Sales probably 15,000 bales. ADFLPIII THEATRE.—Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and Colonel Du Plat, honoured the performances at this theatre with her presence yesterday evening. AWFUL RAILWAY CATASTROPIIE.—The Courrier du Bos-Rhin gives an account of a dreadful railway accident that took place on the 20th on a steep gradient between Geisslingen and Amstetten, in Wurtemburg. A goods train, composed of 25 cars, was coming down the incline, when a waggon of too slight a construction, being the third in the train, suddenly broke down. Tho loco motive getting detached pursued its course with the con ductor and a stoker towards Geisslingen, but the carriages that followed the fractured car were precipitated upon it with a fearful shock, mounting over each other till a vast heap of ruin was accumalated. Three persons were com pletely crushed ; a fourth was pierced through and through by a hop stake, and several others were found to be in so deplorable a state as to require to be taken to the nearest hospital. SPORTING OPINIONS. (From the Sporting Gazette.) Northampton races take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, the bill of fare for the two days extending to 17 races, nice of which are appointed for Tues day. The principal races for the opening day are the Northamptonshire Stakes, the Whittlebury, a Sweepstakes for Two Year Olds, and the North amptonshire Cup Stakes, and an early commence ment will be necessary to get through so many races, as we had proof on Tuesday, at Epsom, when, owing to the great delay in starting the horses, it was found necessary to postpone the Heathcote Plate to the following day. The acceptances for the Northamptonshire Stakes was most flattering to the handicapper, as fifty-five, of the ninety-six horses weighted, remained in ; but, nevertheless, owing to some being scratched and others found wanting, the field will hardly comprise more than fiftee❑ horses. We have seen no fewer than thirteen of those engaged run this year—viz., Lucifer for the Nottingham Spring Handicap, Sister to Vedette for the Spring Cup at Liverpool, Christmas Carol and Tormentor for the Great Warwickshire Handi cap, Stradbrokc and Thalia for the City and Suburban, and Blueskin, Moutagnard, Stephen Langton, Nine Elms, Guy of Warwick, and Mariner, for the Great Metropolitan, the greater number of whom cut up so badly that there will be no occasion to discuss the chances of more than Lucifer, Christmas Carol, Tormentor s Blue skin, and Montgnard. Christmas Carol and Tor mentor meet at only 11b difference to what they carried at Warwick, but though the former won by three lengths, I think if the Oaks winner of 1866 has done sufficient work since then she will turn the tables on the Stanton horse. I question if she can quite win though, as the weight she is burdened with being rather more than she will like over this severe course. Ackworth ran only once last year— viz.; at York for the Ebor Handicap, when he looked as well as the day he left Danebury, and as I hear he is now in a blooming condition, he ought to hold a forward place in the contest, as I believe he never lost the good form he once possessed. Lord of the Dales may run, but from what we saw of him in November at Danebury, he cannot be near fit, and will only hurt those who back him in his present condition. Though I have enumerated him among the probable starters, I hardly expect to see him at the post. Wolsey, if he starts, is about to try and get a distance he never ran before, his performances being confined to short courses. Last year, it will be remembered, he was second to Tib thorpe at Goodwood, giving him 141 b, and receiving 81b. from Lozenge, he was beaten by the latter for the Cambridgeshire, after running a dead heat. Many good judges are of opinion that the horse able to get the Cambridgeshire course can stay over a longer one, which may turn out to be so in Wolsey's case ; but I would not on that account be justified in recommending him, and though I expect to see him run well, I must look elsewhere for the win ner. Lucifer will stay the course, and as he ran well at Nottingham, when not near wound up, I shall expect to see him finish in the front rank. Ailesbury would, in my opinion, like a less se vere course, but as he is fancied by the Epsom division he had better be kept harmless. Lord Hastings is nicely weighted, but as he was last year no better than King of the Fairies, he must have improved immensely if he can take the prize to Middleham. Roquefort, as well as Blueskin, is likely to represent Mr. Savile, for cleverly though the latter won the Great Metropolitan, this race is no certainty for him, should Montagard run, as the French horse meets him on 101 b more favour able terms than at Epsom, which ought very nearly to turn the tables. Roquefort I conse quently consider to have the 15est chance. Leap Year had some form about him last year, but I fancy he would like a less severe course. Beauty is very heavily weighted for a three year old, but as she stays well she cannot be out of it, after what Speculum did in the City and Suburban. Finally, my opinion is that the race will fall to Ackworth or Lord Hastings, next to whom I expect to see Lucifer. In the Whittlebury, though the entry is not so numerous as I have known it, there are several good horses engaged, viz., Athena, Speculum, and De Vere, who are penalised 71b. ; Blue Gown, Beauty, and Lietor 51b., and Belphegor and Lure 31b. each ; whilst so many of the others take a maiden allow ance of 51b, that it is not easy to select the winner ; but as neither Blue Gown uor Speculum will, I be lieve, run, I think the race will lie between ATHENA and BEAUTY, despite the penalties they have to carry, and I think the former is entitled to the preference. In their absence it may fall to Eleonara or Coup d'Eclat, both of whom possess plenty of speed. For the Two Year Old Sweepstakes, twenty-one youngsters have been nominated, in cluding Curieuse, winner of the Brocklesby ; De Vere, winner of a sweepstakes at Lincoln and the Two Year Old Stakes at Epsom ; Hilda, winner of the Little John Stakes at Nottingham, the Har rington Stakes at Derby, the Tyro at Liverpool, _ _ . and both the two year old - races at Warwick ; and Lure, winner of the Walton Stakes at Epsom. The two former are penalised 71b, and both the other 31b. Most of the others are " dark," so I can give no opinion respecting them, beyond stating that the filly by Trumpeter out of Farfalla ought to be able to hold her own in any company. As she can not, however, be very fit, my vote must be for _ _ _ Hilda, who I expect to see turn the tables on her Lincoln conqueror, Curieuse, who has now to give her 41b. In the Northamptonshire Cup Stakes fourteen horses are engaged, of such very mode rate form that I think it will fall to The Pope and Rampart, as the old horses can hardly give them the weight they have to do. The three that I consider best in the Stand Plate are Goojerat, 5 yrs, Bst 31b ; Wild Briar, 5 yrs, 7st 71b ; and Cornet, 3 yrs, Gst 71b ; and Monarch of the Glen, 5 yrs, Bst •61b ; Flying Jib, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b ; and Harrogate, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b, ought to have as good a chance as anything for the Delapree Free Handicap, a race which has often told the winner of the Spencer Plate. The largest field of the meeting will doubtless figure in the scurry for the Earl Spencer's Plate, five furlongs, on the second day, and some down right " clippers" promise to enter the lists. Ves pasian, Tibthorpe, and Laird of Scotland are my choice. The St. Liz, one mile and a quarter, is almost as open an event as the chief handicap, but either Wolsey or Louis of Hesse should win. For the Althorp Park States, for two-yearsolds, half a mile, many a " Derby horse " has made its debut; and De Vere (71b extra), Cd'urieuse (71b extra),:and Lure (31b extra), are not likely to cause any respectable youngster being kept in the stable. De Vere is also in the 20 Sovs. Sweepstakes, and, being unpenalised, he might prefer that journey, as the task appears comparatively easy. The Grand National Hunt Meeting at Bedford is greatly benefited by being enabled to follow on to Northampton races, as otherwise the programme might not have been considered attractive enough with such a paucity of entries for the minor events. But most of the fifteen in the Grand National Ifunt Steeplechase, for which 250 sovs are added, will probably enter the lists ; and it will be a treat if only the Doctor and Alcihiade contest the Kimbolton StakPs. In the Grand National Handicap (300 sous added money) Alcibiade is reckoned the better of the twain, and we cannot help thinking the Doctor bas a great chance there, for all his 12st 41b, the most threateni ng o f his opponents being the Tiger and King Arthur, SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO A BALLET GIRL.—On Friday evening, March 20, at Day's Crystal Palace Con cert Hall, Srnallbrook-street, Birmingham, when the whole of the ballet girls were on the stage, one of them named Fanny Smith, struck with a wand the wick of a lamp which was fixed on a pedestal about seven feet high. A portion of the wick, saturated with spirits of wine, fell upon her dress, and it ignited directly, and in a moment she was enveloped in flames. She rushed off the stage and then on, and then off again, and was at length rolled in a man's coat, and the fire was extinguished, not, how ever, until she was dreadfully burned all over the body The sight of the girl in flames appeared to cause a panio amongst the audience, who rushed wildly to the doors. The entrance having lately been very much widened, the hall was soon cleared of the greater portion of the audience The tudvrtuuttte girl expired QLI Nonclay morning. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. —This Dv NORTHAMPTON RACES-THIS DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. TRIAL STAKES. Lozenge Out-and-Outer LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. sto 1 agst Roquefort (taken) sto 1 agst Lord Hastings (taken) 9to I agst Purveyor (taken) 9 to 1 agst Lucifer (taken) 10 to 1 agst Thalia (taken) 12 to 1 agst Tormentor (taken) TATTERSALL'S-L A.ST EVE7AN4. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE sTAlres. 4to 1 agst Lord Hastings (taken, and offered) 6to 1 agst Purveyor (taken) 100 to 8 agst Blueskin (offered) 100 to 6 agst Tormentor (taken) 100 to 6 agst Thalia (taken) 100 to 6 agst Lucifer (taken) 20 to 1 agst Christmas Carol (offered) 20 to 1 agst Hulsey (offered) BPENCER's PLATE. 7to 1 agst Innunaster (taken) 20 to 1 agst Reindeer (taken) 20 to 1 agst Moonbeam (taken) Loonie reported to be scratched. CHESTER CUP. 1,000 to 20 agst Romping Girl (taken) 500 to 6 agst Boeswiug (taken) TWO THOUSAND. 3to 1 agst Rosicruzian (taken and off.) 7to 1 agst Fortno,a (offered) 7 to 1 agst Paco (offered) 9to 1 agst Typhoons (taken) 20 to 1 agst Vale R >yal (taken) DERBY. 1000 to 75 agst Pace (taken) 15 to 1 agst Speculum (taken) 16 to 1 agst Suffolk (taken) 20 to 1 agst Blue Gown (taken) 2000 to 25 agst Restitution (taken) ROTUNDA CLUB AND COMMISSION EXCHANGE Three Doors from Blackfriars Bridge, Surrey Side, IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS. Annual subscription, Five Shillings. Applications for membership should be made to the Secretary, 3, Black friars-road. LONDON COMMISSION EXCHANGE, FARRINGDON-ROAD, E.C. Established Nov. 1, 1867. ANNUAL SußsciurrioN—FlVE SHILLINGS. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1868. APRIL. Newcastle Spring I Edinburgh Spring Bromley Spring 6 Lewes Spring I Durham Newmarket Craven .... 13 Curragh. April I Hendon l3 Croydon Spring Knighton l4 Liverpool Hunt Lichfield Spring l4 `Newmarket Ist Spring Abergavenny ..... 16 Cardiff Chester . Egliuton Hunt 7 Winchester York Spring Doncaster Spring Salisbury J U 5 Bath Wye Croydon Ist Summer Harpenden Epsom Summer Paris STE Newton Hampton Newcastle Bibury Club Stockbridge Alexandra Park West Drayton 1 Croydon 2d Summer Manchester 3 Ascot Summer 9 Beverley, Hull, and East Riding lO Windsor Summer Chelmsford Worcester Summer Carlisle 7 Newmarket July 7 Hungerford Pontefract Reading Down Royal Corp. . __ I Liverpool July M. lf Odiham l6 I Stamford Radcliffe • . 2O I Huntingdon 2l Nottingham July 1 Southampton I Goodwood UST. AUG Deauville i, Leek Brighton Brighton Club Lewes Summer Wolverhampton ll Stockton Plymouth Windsor August l3 1 Egham l7 i Hastings York August SEPTE. Baden Warwick September Abingdon Leicester Doncaster September 8 Brecon Richmond Hampton Autumn l5 Kelso OCTO Bedford 1 Bro►nley Autumn Newmarket 2d October 5 Lanark 8 Chelmsford Autumn 13 Cheltenham l3 NOME Shrewsbury Autumn Leamington and War Dover Oxford Scarborough 24 Canterbury Great Yarmouth 25 Derby Summer Weymouth Ipswich O7 Lichfield Tunbridge Margate 3l :MBER. Hendon l7 Monmouth .. Newmarket Ist October 22 Wal sa I I l3 Edinburgh West Drayto a 25 Royal Caledonian Hunt and Western M -- 30 IBER. Ealing Newmarket Houghton 19 Bromley Autumn Worcester Autumn 27 Lincoln Autumn 29 3J.BER, rickshiro Hunt l7 STEEPLECHASES. APRIL. Grand National Hunt Knighton (Bedford) 2 Abergarenny Roy.Artillery(Woolwich) 3 Hambledon I Bromley 6 Kildare Hunt Aldershot I Hendon OCTOBER. 3ronilay DECEMBER. Bt. Albans Kings bury 8 I STUD NEWS. At the West Auckland Stud Farm, Mr. Taplin's Seam. stress (the dam of Derventio), by Nutwith, a colt by Marsyas, and will be put to him again. At the Wheatley Paddocks, Doncaster, on the 25th inst., Mr. Sadlor's Demira„ by Master Bagot, a brown colt by Carbineer, and will be put to Rapid Rhone. At Barton Hill, Mr. It. Nelson's Leoliue, by Picaroon, her dam Pelisse, a brown filly by Claret, and has been named Katinka. At Belhus, Aveley, Rumford, Essex, on the 21st inst., Queen Anne, a bay filly by King John, and will be put to Amsterdam. At Moldron Stud Farm, Richmond, Yorkshire, on the 19th inst., Flush, by Fazzoletto, a brown colt by Saunterer. At Dalkeith Park, on the 16th inst., Flirt, by Kremlin, a filly by Chief Baron, and will bo put to Laughing Stock. At Coleraine, Ireland, on the 25th inst., Dr. Carson's Morning Star, by Handsome Jack out of Polka, by Emilius, a chestnut colt by Mr. Chaine's Commoner, by Elvas out of Clinker and Clincher's dam, which has since been. named The Phrenologist. On Wednesday next will ho published the April part of llPCall's Racing Chronicle, with results to the end of March, &c. Tho bay yearling colt Vaulter, by Commotion out of Golconda (Pantaloon's darn), is dead. The assumed name of Mr. V. St. John has been re gistered. Mr. Adamson's colours are amber, mauve belt and cap. Hereford Hunt Steeplechases are appointed to take place on Thursday, April 2. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, Via Sonthampton.....Mareh 23 Ditto, via Marseilles ............. ..........April 19. Ditto, via Panama ....... ......... ......... March 3). Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video April 6. Ditto, by French packet April 22. . Cape Voids, by Br az il packet ...• .. April 6. Cape of Good Rope, A.soension, and St. Helena.... Marc h 23, China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton .. March 28. •• Ditto, via Mars e ill es Ap r il 5 . ... Falkland Islands Gibraltar. via South am pton ... March 28 India, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles .. Malta, Egypt, ,to. Ditto, Mantillas.. March 21 Mauritius, Cape 01 Goo.' Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Ilarselites Newfoundland .. • ....... April Portugal .. . • April 6 Ditto, by p riN Lie ship to Oporto ... Ditto r .tto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &0., by British packet Ditto, by 1_ i ited States packet Ditto ditto 'New York) Ditto ditto Ntw York) Ditto dittt (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian ps.oket March 27. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe S. West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Balla - • - mas) March 3 ). Cuba, and 'lexico ...March '4O. Bahamas, via New Y &Larch E 5. Bermuda, Ila lt h The quotation ut gold at Paris is uouut at par, and the shut exchange on London is 25f. 150. per £1 sterling. On Comparing these rates with the English Alia price of La lis. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appe.u - s that gOld to 41?Qut Que-tenth clearer in karts tlau ha Ludo. of .ad ted :ri ual 10, re ,ed est ,lie Ida yea ►na Ill; Dtl ero Of DO' are n