The Sun. — London, England, 1868-04-08 00:00:00

DIONFY DIATIFLIIT AND I :c I 72IEI , ,CIAL INTALIJCIE,NON, CITY, Two o'CLoCK. The Stock Markets are quietly good. Pending the va cation of the n ex t f ew d ays t h ere h as b een a c l os i ng of transactions, while very few new ones have been takes place in the early part of next week. The Funds remain at about last night's improvement, and they.are quite unaffected by the occasional revival of disturbing political rumours. _ . A fair amount of business is in progress in the Discount Market, very little effect having so far been produced by the commencement of the dividend pay ments. The best bills are taken at 14 to 1k per cent. Consols are not quite so firm at 93f to 93if for money, and 93i for account • New and Reduced 11 4 to 110- ; Three per Cents., 92 to 92* ; India Five per Cents., Bank Stock, 244 to 246 ; Exchequer Bills, 7s to 12s prem. The F ore i gn Stock Market is quiet, but stea d y. Portuguese, and the Viceroy's Nine per Cents., are alone offered at a decline, the former being lower, at to 1 prem. • and the latter ff, at 89 to 89*. On the other hand, prem.; is an advance of ff in Greek, at 1 2 k * to 13 ; and in E gyp ti an R a il way Loan, 89k to 90 ; and of in Italian (1861), at 49* to 49i. There is 1 1 0 change in Mexican, at 151 to 16 ; Greek, 12* to 13 ; New Spanish, 358- to 35k; Turkish (1865), 3 4 * S e ven ; Egyptian (1864), 81 to 82 ; and Viceroy's per Cents., 73 to 73*. In American Securities, United States Five-Twekty Bonds are k better at 72k to 73. Erie shares are f lower, at 48 to d; while Illinois are ff higher, at 0 4 to 95i. English Railway Shares are almost exclusively in fluenced by transactions in anticipation of the settle rent which w ill t a k e pl a ce immediately after the olidays. The prices current are :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 125 k to 126 ; Midland, 105 to 105*; South Eastern, 721 to 73/ • London and North , Western, 11 4 to 114 * ; G reat Northern, 102 to 103 ; d itto A 96i to 97*; Great Eastern, 34* to 35* ; Great Western, 50k to 504 ; Brighton, 50k to 51 ; Caled on i an, 43 t o 44 ; M e t ro p o lit an , 113 to 113 A-; ualedonian 691 to 70k ; and North British, 3311 to 34. , Bank Shares continue quiet, and prices show no change of importance. C.msolidated is ff lower, at 4 i to 4 ; Agra (A shares), 10 to 10*; Alliance, 13 to 12 dis. ; Anglo-Auatrian, 4* to 5 prem. ; Char tered Mercantile, 28 to 29 ; Imperial, 17 to 17k ; Imperial Ottoman, ff to 1 prem. ; London and County, 51 to 52 ; Loudon and Westminster, 67k to .68 i; Orient a l, 42 to 43 ; London Joint Stock, 31 to 32 .. ; Union of L on d on , 31 to 32. In Finance shares little or no businesa is doing. Credit Foncier, is marked at 21 to 3 ; General Credit, 2 to 2a dis. ; International Finance, 2 to Iff dis. Foreign Mining Shares are steady. St. John del Rey is quoted. at 19 to 21. Port Philip, lf to 1* Chontales, 1 to ff dis. Miscellaneous Securities are without feature, anci prices are merely nominal. Anglo-American Tele graph, 22a Atlantic Telegraph 8 per Cents., sto 6,1 ; Fore-street Warehouse, 2* to 2 dis. ; Hudson's Bay steady, at 14k to 14i ; London General Omni bus, 1/ to 2 ; Ocean Marine Insurance, 14 to 15 trem. ; Thames and Mersey Marine, 4 to Off. There were again no bullion operations at the Bank of England yesterday. The City of Baltimore has arrived with £1,710 in specie from New York. The silver market is very quiet, in sympathy with the decline in cotton. The Continental exchanges are rather more favour able to the accumulation of gold here. _ The ordinary gene ra l mee ti ng o f th e P ar a g uassu Steam Tramroad Company has been convened for the 30th inst. A- dividend of £1 per share for the past half-year 18 announced by the Union Steamship Company. The directors of the Sao Vicente Mining Company announce that arrangements have been made with Captain Thomas Treloar, the consulting engineer of the Don Peciro North del Rey Gold Mining Com alnY, to act as co nsu lti ng eng i neer t o thi s Company also. The Aretropolitan Railway traffic return shows this meek a u i ncrease of £ 713 over last year, an d t h e Gla sgow and South - Western an increase of £75. The traffic of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway for the -second week in March, being six da ys,l, was 85,073 d o l s ., b e i ng 27,951 dols. less than for seven days as compared with the corresponding tried of l ast year. T he traffic receipts of the Great a xentburg Rail wa y for the week ending the sth ; show an increase of £1,140, and the receipts of re llombay Baroda, and Central India Railway, 42r the week ending Feb. 15, show a decrease of 4979 . . he stocks of produce in London are, with ttie !Ingle iMportant exception of cotton, considerably be low the quantities held this time last year. The in crease cotton is 21,457 bales. The decrease in jute is 43,894 bales ; in black pepper, 2,096 tons ; in y t :lente, 7,794 bagi ; in cocoa, 2,277 bags ; in cloves, 1 weicages in saltpetre, 2,831 tons; and in tloxv, 1 ,367 . cas - ks. e T he British Empire Mutual Life Assurance i t ° „ l. , n ,P4nY held its annual meeting yesterday, at during "" l eY's Hotel. The amount of new business effected the year 1867 was £207,956. The income for th e Year was - 4 '90.006 3s Bd, and the accumulated 2, ) 11(1 ) arising :solely from premiums, had. reached 89,4 37 43 9d, showing an increase of £45,993 in tt,u pear. The company has now attained its majority, i av ing just completed its twenty•first year. Since ..L3 f ormation it has issued 17,394 policies, assuring aggregate sum of £3,899,870. It, has created i c u r t.il o fit h t' s as tO be t e h t e l ext en t of £190,828, the whole of which appropriated amongst the members, and ,!, 11 ,s paid on death claims £305,041 10s. c . - the following is Mr. Sam Mendel's weekly 11. , e s ular, dated Manchester, April 7, 1868 : b, l)ll( ing the past week a fair but not very active values, was done in this market at daily advancing .1.-arileueess;v gy in re-sale lots of shirtings at irregular 3d to 9d per piece below manufacturers' (potations. Yarns found favour and were placed some what freely b y sp i nners at advanc i ng rates. Thi s nforning there was less animation both in yarns and go e ds) with som e mo d erate reduction in values, but no time was there any marked pressure to make ,Ties, and since noon there is a better feeling and _ l ",re disposition to give out orders at some moderate teauctiou from the quoted prices." BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 Per Cent. Console a bo. Account, May 5 Ne er Cent. &ducat! 92 1 xd . K .,.w 3 per C en t 92 1-2 „ N 21 per Cent. Jan. 1891 — Do. 5 per Cent. J an. 1873 — Annuities 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do. for '3 O yrs, expire sth April 1885 l2 7-16 9-16 1 , bo (R e d S ea Telegraph), Au,„ 1908 — 4.rehcquer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct. - Do £ 5OO — PM Do. £lOO & £2OO mik of England Stock, 41 per Cent 246 4 5 • -Do. Account i 1111)11N GOVERNMENT SEOURITIEB. 'lastock, 10i per Cent., April 1874 •'-',O. Account O. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 ll4 13/ 14* 131 °. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 1-',O. Certificates T.,'-'O. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent ' I . 5 per Cent Jan. 1872 ~ Do ° . ic 5 1 per Cent., May 1879 lOBl 5 per Cont., Rup. Deb., 1872 — Do. •do. 1877 — l., Do. do. 1882 3:;'.. Deb., 5 per Cent. Aug. 1873 °'-'. Bonds,s - Cent., £l,OOO yi per "0. under £1,000 s A r F . OREIGIi FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. . ustri gentine Republic, 6 per Cent 74 3f iklan Bond 5 per Cent. 1859 Wilian 5 per ' Cent — xd I ° . 4 1 per Cent 1852 ~ D 0.1)). do . , 1858..... — °. do . , 1840 — D° do ' 1863 — ~ 1 ,• 0 per Cent, 1865 — --"° Aeeount 751 5 1 11.„enes Ayres 6 per Cent — 0 'ft) 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) 0 8 uel Piper Cent. au 6 per C en t ~c —.e: 9 per Cent V, . r. per Cent, B . '5 1867 ig.l7 per ,Cent., 1866 — 0 ) 1, crip £32 paid k r°B4 , 3 pn. Cent., 1825 Litibiatt Principalities, 7 per Cent — ite° 8 Per Cent., 1867 tidor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — t 4Pt l, 7 per Cent .„ 81f 3201,. Second Issue — b • £5OO Bonds , °. 4106 Bonds — D o D o , .• 1864 .t) • 4 . 51 0 Bonds — (40. £lOO Bonds ~ . 82k 3; Llre,r e ,rulter i t Rail way Debentures .... 901 . 6 - 0 - . per Cent., 1824 1 5, ex Coups 4) 1 .Accotuat bu, u ouPons ,4 0. ACCOUnt : melnala 5 per cent D ia e , r, , Cent. 1860 . , . pea Cett., 181,0 .00 Ace° 74} unt ~ krii IlarenaMaria ltniway — -/;. eat 3 per Cent — 4 -qtto for Account ~.„ e D vo 6 • 1864 — Mou t , Per Cont. Anglo-French — ..ri4au 6 per Cent. h e u"sil imperial 5 or Cent — oDtio.Detreved " jana.da P — Per,°3'aiid Wa rranti(lfeetares) - - 0 I V , 5 per Cent. 1 86 5 — n? lkocount“ 80} 79{ '''''' it Per °out. (Uribarren) „ t ,,,,, 4, -- Do 41 per Cent.. 1162 - Do Account Ports guese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 Do. do., 1Q67 Do. do., Scrip, £lO paid lk 1 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St B3l Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 41 por Cent., 1860 - Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 „, 851 5 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Boncle.„ 854 Do. do. £B4 13s. do. . s . Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds B6 51 Do. do £B4 los. do Sardinian, 5 per Cent 74 1 Spanish 3 per Con.. — Do • Acc , Junt ... Do New Deforree — Do Account ';,-); Do Passive — Do Accennt Do Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do Account Turkish 6 per Cent. — Do Account Do 6 per Cont. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1862 ••• --- Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 6 6,1 7 Do. 1863 - I , 064 Do 5 per Cont., 1865 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed Venezuela, 3 per Cent. — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates — Jfividends on the above payable in Loudon. French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian, 44 per cent., Es. 25f. Dutch ii per Cent. Es. 12 Guil, Do Account ' _ Wiwi 5 per Cent. 1831, E . .;:. 25i. — Do. Account 491 1 CLOSING PRICES. Consols, Money 934 f Do. Account, sth May .. 931 1 HER MAJESIrS OPERA. Last evening a very brilliant audience assembled on the occasion of the performance of Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore." The great novelty of the evening Ras the first appearance of Mdme. Trebelli-Bettini as Azucena, and Signor Fraschini as Manrico, but great disappointment was occasioned by the an nouncement that Madame Titiens, who was cast for Leonora, not having sufficiently recovered from her severe attack of cold, tha music of the part had been undertaken by Madame Sinico. This unlooked for arrangement seemed to damp to an unusal extent the not over usually demonstrative audience, but notwithstanding this adverse circumstance Madame Trebelli accomplished a perfect and genuine triumph. She threw the utmost intensity into the part, and her vocalisation throughout was faultless. The duo with Manrico, " Un Memento," was re demanded, and she received the honour of a recall after " Del rallentati." Fraschini sang with the greatest taste and effect, eliciting very loud applause in "Di quella pira ;" and Madame Sinico was positively charming in " Tacea la notte," and for her splendid reading of " D'amor sull' ali rosce " she received a perfect ovation. The " Miserere," with the delicious introductions for Leonora and Manrico, received .an enthusiastic and well-deserved encore. Mr. Santley, as Count de Lune, gave the celebrated "11 balen" with all that taste and power which was to be expected from such an accomplished musician. The choruses were all given with fine effect, and altogether the entire representation was in the highest degree satis factory. For to-morrow " Linda" is announced, with Mdlle. Kellogg and Trebelli. UNCER7AIN DISTRIBU2ION OF HONOURS. We have seen how extremely unequal and un certain is the commemoration, or absence of com memoration, of our famous men. It is this which renders the interment or notice within our wails a dubious honour, and makes the Abbey, after all, but an imperfect monument of greatness. But it is this also which gives to it that per fectly natural character of which any artificial collection is entirely destitute. In the Valhalla of Bavaria every niche is carefully portioned out ; and if a single bust is wanting from the catalogue of German worthies its absence becomes the sebject of a literary conversation, and the va cant space is at last filled. Not so iu the abbey; there, as in English institutions generally, no fixed rule has been followed. Graves have been opened or closed, monuments erected or not erected, from the most various feelings of the time. It is the general wave only that has borne in the chief cele brities. Viewed in this way the absences of which we speak have a touching significance of their own. They are eloquent of the force of domestic and local affection over the desire for metropo litan or cosmopolitan distinction—eloquent of the force of the political and ecclesiastical preju dice at the moment—eloquent also of the strange caprices of the English public. Why are men so famous as Burke and Peel amongst statesmen, as Pope and Gray, Wordsworth and Southey amongst poets, not in the Statesmen's or the Poet's Corner? Because the patriarchal feel ing in each of these men, so different each from the other, yet alike in this, drew them from the neigh bourhood of the great, with whom they con sorted in the tumult of life, to the graves of father and mother, or beloved child, far away to the country churchyards ,whera they seve rally repose— in each, perhaps, not unmingled w ith the longing desire for a simple resting place expressed in Pop e ' s ep i tap h on him selfh at w icllisTwickenham. Why i s it th a t M on t ague Earl of Sandwich, Monk Duke of Albemarle, re storers of the monarchy, Archbishop Usher, the glory of the Irish Church, Clarendon the historian of the Great Rebellion, rest here with no contempo ary monument, three of them with none at all? That blank void tells again in the bare stones the often repeated story of the ingratit u d eo f Charles 11. to wards ate t d hose to whom ho ow e d so much and gave so little. why is it that poets like C o l er id ge, S cott an d Burns, astronomers like Herschel, discoverers like Harvey m e a nd Bell, have no memorial? Because, for the moment, the fashion of publi c i n t ermen t h a d me drifted away from the abbey, or lost heed of de parting greatness in other absorbing interests or ceased to regard proportion in the distribution of sepulchral honours. It is well that this should be so. Westminster Abbey is, as Dr. Johnson well said, the natural resting place of those great men who have no bond elsewhere. Its metropolitan position has, in this respect, powerfully contributed to its fame. But even London is, or ought to be, insignificant com pared with England; even Westminster Abbey must at times yield to the more venerable, more enduring claims of home and of race. Those quiet graves far away are the Poets' Corners of a yet vaster temple ; or may we take it yet another way, and say that Stratford-on-Avon and Dryburg, Stoke Pogis, and Grasmere are chapels-of-ease united by invisible cloisters with Westminster Abbey itself ? Dean Stanley's Memorials of Westminster Abbey. PORTSMOUTH, ruesday. His Imperial Royal Apostolic Majesty the Emperor of Austria has been most graciously pleased to confer the decoration of the order of Franz Joseph on the Chevalier Van den Bergh, Imperial Royal Austrian Vice-Consul at Portsmouth, Southamp ton, &c., as a mark of his Majesty's approbation of his services. REPRESENTATION OF LAUNCF.STON.—There is no reason to doubt that this Cornish seat, vacant by the re signation of Mr. Campbell, will be filled by Mr. Lopes, of the Western District, who has arrived in the borough and issued his address. There is no probability of any oppo sition, the Liberals deeming it useless to engage in a fight until the general election, when the constituency will be considerably enlarged. The nomination is fixed for Thursday. EARTHQUAKE AT JERSEY.—The inhabitants of the island of Jersey were alarmed on Saturday morning, be tween the hours of 1 and 2 o'clock, by two distinct shocks of earthquake, which followed each other in ralAd succes sion. The sound and the effect of the shock were like what would Le produced by a heavy vehicle or other heavy ob ject being dragged over rough paving stones. Many of the residents in the town of St. Helier were awakened by the noise and the peculiar sensation produced. Several got out of bed and looked into the street, expecting that the noise was produced by a passing vehicle. Articles of furniture were made to vibrate most distinctly in numbers of dwellings. The course of the vibration appeared to be from east to west. THE TEA TRADE, April 6.—The deliveries in London made up for the week are 3,425,3921 b., being an increase of 517,3641 b., as compared with the previous week. PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Western, Orig. 43 per cent.. 783 Great Western, 5 per cent., rd.. 83 Hid Consolidated, 6 per cent. stook, Ditto, Bristol and Birin., 6 per cent., 130 North Eastern, Cons., 4 per cent., Ditto, 43 per cent. rd., 94.1 . PREFERENCE SHAKES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 43 per cent., Ditto, 5 per Cent., 1862, 49 London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext. 8, 6 per cent., 36 London, Br4liton, 44 per cent., 1853. Ditto, 5 per cent., 1835, 88 Midland A . and B £5 per cent., 1041 LIVES LEASED AT FIXED RENTA.I. 8. 1 London and Blackwall, 88 FOREIGN RAIL WAYE 4 . Bahia and San'Francisoo,liAn., per_cent., 151 Great Luxembourg, 9k FOREIGN MINED; Anglo Brazilian Gold, I St. John del Hey, lira, 201 DOCKS London and St. Katharine, 47i BANES. Agra. Ilm., A, Ditto, B, 8 * Anglo- kustrian, 101 1 .Australasia, 55 1 Caartered ter. of India, London, and China, 29 City, 12 Consolidated, lira., 41 English and Rio de Janeiro, Um., 71 English, Scotch, and Australian C nattered. 161 Imperial Ottoman, 11 Land .51ortgage Bank of India. lira.. 1 London Bank of Alexia() and S. America, Um., 10 London and County, 51} 2 London Joint Stock, 32 11 London and Westminster. 681.71 Metropolitan Bank, lira., 71 National Provincial of England, 132 Ditto, 23 and 3d issue, 39 Oriental Bank Corporation. 43 Provincial of Ireland, 891 1 MISCELLANEOUS; Anglo American Telegraph, 22/ Atlantic Telegraph, ... Ditto, Ei pur cent 101} Bombay Gas, Elm., 41 } B. and I. Ma4netio Telegraph, Um., 125 Ceylon Company, 7 CLunmercial Union, Insurance, 5 Credit Ponder of England, Mm., 2* 3 Ebbw Vale, 121 Egyptian 9 per Cent., Viceroy Loan, g'll4. by Egypt. Gov., 891 Electric and International Telegraph, 165 Gen. Credit and Discount, I lux,. 54 International Financial society, tim., 3} London General Omnibus Compan lim, 1 15-16 National Discount company, 11 New Quebrada, Ottoman Gas lira., lf Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 57} Ithymney Iron, 171 17 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 181 itoyal Mai Steam, 59 61 1 Submarine Telegraph, 72 1 Telegraph Construct. and Maintenance, 11,1 Thames and Mersey Marine, Insurance, liui., 41 Upper Assam Tea, lira, 41 Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per oeizt. (Mortgage) Loan, 731 CRIMINAL COURT.—This Day. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) THE MURDER AT FOREST-HILL. Richard Bishop was indicted for the wilful Mur der of Alfred Cartwright at Forest-hill. It will be recollected, from the report of the case which has already appeared in 2he Sun, that the prisoner was .with others drinking at. the Swiss Cottage public-house on Thursday last, the deceased and his father being then present. After a short time had elapsed the prisoner said he was quite ready to fight any one for a shilling, and then he struck the deceased twice with his fist. Cartwright said he should give the prisoner into custody, because if he did not know better he must be taught. He then left the place with the inten tion of looking for a policeman ; but not finding one he returned to the public-house, by which time a constable had arrived there. He gave the pri soner into custody, and on their way to the police station, after they had gone about 300 yards, the prisoner said to Cartwright, " Are you going to lock me up for the trumpery affair ?" Cartwright told him that be intended , to so, and they continued on the road to the station. Having gone some distance further, Cart wright went up to the constable who had the pri soner in custody, with the intention of speaking to him, when the prisoner repeated the question he had already put to him, and receiving the same answer, he fumbled about with his right hand until he got a large clasp knife from his pocket, with which he made a thrust at Cartwright and stabbed him in the abdomen, and before the wounded man could be conveyed to the hospital he expired: Evi dence was produced on the part of the prosecution to prove that the prisoner was not drunk as was alleged. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The Clerk of the Arraigns asked the prisoner, in the usual form, whether he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed. The Prisoner replied—Yes, I have. I had been drinking hard that day a great quantity of rum. Eight witnesses could be found to speak to that, but the case had not been inquired into as it ought to have been. Proclamation of silence having been made, • Mr. Justice Keating said the jury had ,corac, to the conclusion that he was guilty of the indictment preferred against him, and he did not see how any body of men, under the obligation of an oath, could have done otherwise. It was the most wilful, pre meditated, and deliberate murder he had ever known, and he hoped the prisoner would make the best use of the time that was left him on earth. The law was more merciful to him than he had been to the unfortunate man, the father of a family, - whom he hurried out of the world without one minute's preparation, as it gave him time to prepare to meet the sentence he would have to undergo ; and he also implored the prisoner to use that time in the consideration of the position he would occupy hereafter. The sentence of the law was that he be hanged by the neck until he be dead, and that his body be afterwards buried within the precincts of the prison. The Sheriff of Kent was ordered to see the sen tence of the law carried into effect. The prisoner left the dock quite unmoved. ,; CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER. Henry Lee, a carman, was indicted for feloniously killing and slaying Robert Forster on the 12th of March last. The death of the unfortunate man was occasioned through a public-house row in Bermondsey. The jury found a verdict of not guilty, but the learned judge cautioned the prisoner to avoid pub lic-houses for the future. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Piggott.) CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER BY BURNING., Mary Manning, an Irishwoman, with a baby in her arms, was indicted for the wilful murder of Honorie Sweeting. The prisoner resided at Providence-place, Ful barn, in the same house as the mother of the unfor tunate child_ On the 27th of February Mrs. Sweeting had occasion to leave her room to chop some wood, leaving the child, which was about ten months old, sitting up in its cradle, the prisoner being in her own room putting her baby to ,sleep. Mrs. Sweeting then heard her child crying, and on returning up stairs she found the prisoner sitting in front of the fire with her own baby in her lap. Her (Mrs. Sweeting's) baby continued to cry very violently, but up to this time she had taken no no tice of the child beyond trying to quiet it. This she was unable to do, and then she saw blood about the child's legs. She took up the infant, and then found it had been dreadfully burned about the lower part of the body, although there was no mark of fire being applied to the clothes of the unfortunate infant. Mrs. Sweeting accused the prisoner with having burnt the child, but she denied it very strong terms. The child was at once taken to the doctor's, but it expired the following day. Mr. M. Williams, for the defence, said there was no evidence to prove that the prisoner had placed the child near the fire, and as it might have fallen close by it and thus received the injury, he hoped they would adopt the most merciful view of the case and find the prisoner guilty of manslaughter. It should be remembered that the prisoner alleged she and the mother of the child had been drinking during the day, on which the child received by some means not clearly known the injury which caused its death. The jury after a short deliberation returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. Sentence deferred. THIRD COURT. (Before the Common Sergeant.) OBTAINING MONEY BY FALSE PRETENCES. Edward Vaughan Arbuckle was indicted for un lawfully obtaining by false pretences a sum of money from Marmaduke Marsden. The jury found him guilty, and the learned Judge sentenced him to five years' penal servitude. FOURTH COURT. (Before the Recorder.) STEALING TEA. William Neville, carman, was indicted for steal ing a quantity of tea, the property of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company ; and a man named Solomons was also indicted for re ceiving the same. The learned Judge sentenced the prisoners to 18 month's imprisonment with hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY. THAMES. AN UNMANLY SEAMAN.—Thomas Byrne, a sailor, who has recently been paid off, and with the usual improvidence of seamen has spent all his money and lost all his clothes, except those he stood upright in, was brought before Mr. Benson charged with as saulting several persons. Last night the prisoner was intoxicated and stag gering about Ratcliff-highway, running at and pushing down every girl he met with. He met with a girl named Alice Simmons and knocked her down with his fist. Her screams brought a police constable, named Edward Bucknell, 169 H, to the spot, and he took the prisoner into custody. The policeman was then struck. The prisoner, in extenuation of his conduct, said that he had lost his money and his clothes, and he was very tipsy last night. Mr. Benson—That is no excuse for your running a muck and assaulting every girl you met with. You also assaulted the police. You are sentenced to 10 days' imprisonment and hard labour. WORKHOUSE BIRDS.—Anna Tinsley, Eliza Byrne, and Jane Mahoney, three able-bodied girls, were brought before Mr. Benson, charged with refrac tory conduct in the City of Loudon Unien House, Bow-road. Mr. John Saunders, master of the Union, said that the prisoners had been in the workhouse or the workhouse schools all their lives. They were very disorderly and violent girls, and they were swear ing, roaring, and phoutiug and disturbing thi4 other inthates yesterday. - They set all authority at de fiance. Tinsley and Mahoney had been in prison before. The prisoners all denied that they had offended in the manner stated, and made a long and cla morous defence. They declared they were ill-used, beaten, imprisoned, and half-starved. Their state ments proved to be a tissue of falsehoods. The City of London Union is the best managed in the kingdom, and the dietary and treatment very liberal. Mr. Benson did not think that any advice or im prisonment would do them good. tie sentenced Tinsley and Mahoney to 21 days' imprisonment and hard labour, and Byrne to seven days' impri sonment and hard labour. Railways. Share ;Mal and Exeter .... Caledonian Cambrian. Cork and Bandon...— ' rn wall Dublin & Belfast June Dun„Perth, & A b.J um E.London, scrip CP:ti Do. Glasgow & S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk. Do. E. Angl. st. No. (great North of Scotland Great Northern Du. A stook Do. 13 et•ock.... Do. New, Is. at 25 pal, (RS, and W. of Ireland Western —Original. Do. S. Val. Rail. gua. Do. South Wales .... Do. W. Mid.—Oxford Do. Nowport. Do. Yorlishirt. !Landon and Illackwall Lon., 23righ.,A S Coaati 11-on., Chat., and Dover Do: Metz'Op. Ex. A.. Lon. .North Western Lou. South Western 'Man., Shet., 4 Linooh, Do. New Du. Extension 3letrupohtan District. do. do. Do. and St. John'BW'd Alidiand Do. LSI Share. Do, liirnain.. ,Sr. Derby mid tient North _British Do. Ed., rth., & Dun th. Eastern—Berwict, Do. U.N•E purohast Do. Leads Do. York. _ Do. Carlisle ..... Do. Stock. & Darling. Do. do. 1850-61. North London . Do. do. 186* 5 Do. do. 180 . orth Staffordshire N. & S. W. Junotion . Scottish Central Scot. N. E ,Aber. stock Do. Scot, Mid. stack.. SnropshirC Union .... South Devon. South Eastern . Staines, Wok., & Wok Pali Vale Do. C V ale of Neath IVaterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whitens. I Went Cornwall f/ti Itlantic& St. Lawrence all 51 66 „, 1 ilom.,Baroda, a Cen.in. 100 1 024 103 4 " gu. 6 per cent 20 Do. F shares lB i iP 20 3 / 4 Buffalo & Lake Huron all 3 4 to Do. Preference all 5 7 ion I / Butf.,Brant, &Goderich " 6 p.c. iii 72-3-1 lOO 63 71 st Oaltiatta . 3 / 4 .: 8. E., 11tH lOO at. )al e Town & Dock, gu lOO 18 52 00 Demerara, 7 p.o. per. pi all 99 102 st East Bengal, gu. ' sdo 100 t 043 / 4 166 4 st Nast Indian, gu. 5 p.o. 100 109 110 20 Do. J Extension at tirand Tr unkof Canada 100 15 4 16 1 too Do. Equip. Mort,Bonds 1 charge 6 p.o all 78 82 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 41 45 (00 Do. do deferred 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds all 33 35 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do. 3d Pref. stook ' all 27 100 Do. do. deferred 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock 100 Do. do. deterred at ;4 t. In Pen.gua. sp. o lOO 109 110_ 3 I •o. Gus. 5 per cent lB 14 2k, 20 Do. New gua. sp. o 6 1 4 2 p at .3 1. South 01 India gua. 6 per cent st Do. 41 per cent lou 9 4 96 at Do • 2 -- 20 3 / 4 ircat Wes. of Canada all 1 6 4 1 6 1 20 3 / 4 Do. New.... 00 Do. 6p. o lif.s. pay. 1873 all 98 100 00 Do. 5 3 / 4 do. pay. 1877-8 all 91 93 st Madras, gua. 5 p.o at Do. 41 do lOO 9 3 95 at Do. 44 do lOO 89 91 29 Do. Fifth Extension 5 at Afelb. Cor. Bp. 0. Bnds. 100 50 310. & Ilobsou's Bay., all '— at N.lll.C'da,6pc 111tptbs. 100 83 65 st Gude Z.; liiiiik'nd, g. 6pe 100 103 101 st 831nde 100 100 101 at Do. Delhi l5l ~, 10 0 iOO4 101 3 / 4 20 Do. do ..iti6. 15 3 / 4 I P at Do. Punjaub.... om, 100 10) 101 at oo.lndus St.Flot b° 100 87 89 BRITISII MINES. Cam. Coneol. Gold, Um. 1 3 r Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated SO 54 64 1 Devon G. Cons. (Taviat. 44U 400 urake walls 2.1.0 4 2 East Bassett (Illogan) 294 10 12 East Caradon 2.14.0 4 5 East earn Brea 3l 2 2 3 / 4 East Grenville cast Gunnislake East Love,' 3.9.0 8 9 F.. W'l Russell (Tayistk 11.7.6 1 3 / 4 2 Liam.& BtAubyn((4 wen. 6 6 1 5 4 Great Laxey, limited all 16 3 / 4 174 13reat reat "rh Boutelgli Sissy. . . 1.4.0 14.9.6 _ ;I. 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John'sW'd 6 100 1041 105 1001 1 Share " 7 & Der b) 100 73 75 ,t . . all ritish ...... 100 33 35 • Pth., & Dun. 109 tern--Berwick 100 10) 101 1.1•10 purchase 15.13. ads ..... 100 58 50 Irk lOO 93 91 rliale . . ... 100 128 132 ack.& Dar ling. all 129 131 1 3 0 4 . 1860-61 lB —1) 3ndou 1864 5 . lO o. 1865 affordshirs 100 57 it 58 • Junotion Central E ,Aber. stock 100 ot, Mid.stack lOO re Union evon lOO 43 15 'stern Wok., & Wok all 9 10 100 143 145 •• ieath 'd & Kilkenny 100 ) & Whitella 1 8 7111 Wei -- BRt'TISII POSSESSIONS. k St. Lawrence all 61 66 70da,0/Cen.ln lOO 1024 1031 1031 ar ;hares lO 1 iP ; Lake Huron all 3 4 eference all 5 7 nt,&Goderich 872-3-1 lOO 69 71 & S. E., lina lOO & Dock, gu lOO 18 52 a, 7 p.o. per. pi all 99 102 igal, gu., sdo 100 104 1 1654 1054 tan, gu. 51..0. 100 109 110 1108 Extension unkof Canada 100 1 5 3 164 u. Mort,Bonds rge 6 p.o all 78 82 Pref. Bonds all 41 45 deferred Pref. Bonds all 33 35 deferred Pref. stook ' all " 41 ' deferred all Pref. stook deterred Pen.gua. sp.c. 100 109 110. 1094 a. 5 per cent lB 13 2 L!, w gua. p. 0 6 14 li' of India 3er cent 1 per cent lOO 9 4 9 6 2 of Canada all 1 6 4 1 6 1 154 w 1873 all 98 100 pay. 1877-8 all 91 93 du ua. 5 p.o 100 100 1 00 9500 1 0 2 1031 do lOO 89 91 fth Extension r. 6p. 0. Bnds. 100 obsonts Bay all —.— a,spoltitptba. 100 83 85 g. 5 p.O 100 103 104 100 100 101 5 1 e, 100 1001 1014 1014 t. 3 1 1) sub OO 10) 101 10.1 100 87 COLOSIIL GO VERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 per cent., De 0.31,1872 lOO Can.Gov.6 p.c.Ja.& july 1877-81 - Do. 6p. fa. Feb. & Aug lOO 93 100 -- Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept 100 98 100 Do. sp. c. Jan. & July 100 88 88 87: Do. sp. c. Inscribed sk 100 85 6.7 Cape G.Hope, 6 p.c.1873 100 104 106 oo.4platOot 1890-1900 100 109 110 Do. do 1880-90 100 107 109 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-9 i 100 106 108 Do. 5 per oent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1000 lOO 98 100 Ceylon, Nov. 1878,6 p.c 100 110 111 Do. 1872, do lOO 103 107 .11.auritius, 6 p. o, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 18 78 ... lOO 106 LOS ')o. 1882, Mayls, N0v.15 100 107 109 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug lOO 106 198 Natal , bov. 6 per cent lOO -- N.B.Gov.6p.o.Ja.&July 100 99 10 N. S.W. Gov.s p'c., 1868 100 99 101 Do. 5 p.c. 1871 to 1876 100 98 99 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1896 , 100 95j 961 96/ New Zealand, 6p. oent 100 Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. 0 sterling, 1875 l9O 102 104 ‘,;zueensland Gov. 6p. c. 100 103 105 , S.Aus.Gov. 6 p,0.1808-9 100 DO. 1878 & upwards lOO 110 ill Vic,t3ov. 6 p.c. Jas& July 100 Do. do, Aprll & Oot lOO 11 ij 1124 1091 1 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENT LNG, APRIL 8, 1868. SHARE LIST.--This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. raid. / Closing I .1311 SilaC89 Prim. dine. THE SPECTA 7OR ON MRS. GAMP. Mr. J. Clarke has achieved a certain success in the delineation of Mr. Dickens's greatest character —Mrs. Gamp—but he has produced the character with such " modifications" (as Lord Stanley says with regard to the Irish Church) that it could scarcely satisfy the mind of her profoundest ad mirers. To act Mrs. Gamp is a greater effort, of course,—because Mrs. Gamp herself is so much grander a conception,—than to act Bailey Junior ; and we do not deny, therefore, that Mr. J. Clarke has achieved something greater than Miss E. Far ren in her impersonation of Todgers's boy. But certainly the masculine nature in Mr. Clarke has in jured Mrs. Gamp, more than the woman in Miss Farren has injured Bailey Junior. Hence her Bailey Junior, though a considerably inferior, is, on the whole, a more perfect artistic effort than Mr. Clarke's more ambitious and more powerful per formance. The pert, keen, Loudon gamin, half drilled, but with an ambition for flashy grandeur, is quite within Miss Farren's grasp ; indeed, we are not quite sure that she was not born for the part. But the conception of Mrs. Gamp can scarcely be within any man's grasp,—though more nearly perhaps than within any woman's, for Mr. Dickens, though he has constructed her character most truly on the foundations of a monthly nurse's propensi ties, has given it an originality, a force of initiative, a far-reaching variety of comprehension, to which we never saw any actress ever approach. Still, the masculine basis is a false basis for the character, though it may be subservient to the effects of imagi native freshness and grasp with which the great humourist has endowed his greatest creation. Con sider this only—that Bailey Junior's precocious ex ternal criticism on Mrs. Gamp has to be curtailed of one of its most expressive features—morally as well as physically impressive, we mean—in order to suit Mr. Clarke's impersonation : " There's the re mains of a fine woman about Sairah, Poll," ob served Mr. Bailey, with genteel indifference ; " too much crumb, you know, too fat, Poll; but there's many worse at her time of life." The criticism in italics is necessarily left out at the Olympic, for it would be a very false criticism on Mr. Clarke's "Mrs. Gamp." There is certainly by no means " too much crumb" about her—too much crust rather, both physically and mentally. She is, indeed, bony ; and being bony, and in physique altogether more like Mr. Dickens's conception of her " pard ner Betsy Prig," than the true Mrs. Cramp, there is a want of keeping between the unwholesome but overflowing imaginative fat of her mind, which so fills iu and cushions the hard knobs of her indi vidual selfishness, and her physical appearance. But even if Mr. Clarke were fat, and not lean, we do not think that—fat being by no means a pecu liarity of either sex—the shortcomings of his quali fications for the character would be removed. The freshness and audacity, the incessant initiative, the sustained selfishness of purpose in Mrs. Gamp's imagination are masculine in their originality ; but the plan of its manifestation, the indirectness, the subtle innuendo, the wealth of involved suggestion, the fussy detail, the dappled surfaee of her profes sional sentiment, are all completely female, and it is in the delineation of these that Mr. Clarke's efforts are so imperfect. To explain what we mean, let us contrast for a moment the style of Mr. Mould the undertaker's professional sentiments with the style of Mrs. Gamp's. Both are vulgar people, full of the same class of vulgarities, and Mr. Mould is, as pictured by Mr. Dickens (he is omitted from the play at the Olympic), much more of a true carica ture than Mrs. Gamp ; but note how Mr. Dickens makes Mr. Mould's professional self- interest and self-admiration diffuse itself equably and uniformly, as it were, over his mind and speech, while Mrs. Gamp's washes and eddies in and out of the wind ing course of her fertile invention, with a truly female finesse, a truly female delight in domestic detail, and yet with a breadth and sweep of con ception as masculine as the form is feminine : " I'll tell you what, my dear' (Mr. Mould observes, when Mrs. Gamp bad just left him, after some very acute flattery), 'that's a very shrewd woman. That's a woman whose intellect is immensely superior to her station in life. That's a woman who observes and reflects in an uncom mon manner. She's the sort of woman, now,' said Mould, drawing his silk handkerchief over his head again, and composing himself for a nap, one would almost be dis posed to bury for nothing, and do it neatly, too.' " But compare that with the exquisite detail and finesse with which Mrs. Gamp offers a suggestion of precisely identical philanthropy and generosity — her object being, however, to convey to Mr. Peck sniff an idea of the terms she should expect for her. funereal job : " Ah !' repeated Mrs. Gamp, 'ah dear! When Gamp was summoned to his long home, and I see him a lying ie Guy's Hospital, with a penny piece on each eye, and his wooden leg under his left arm, I thought I should have fainted away, but I bore up !' . . . You have become indifferent since then, I suppose ?' said Mr. Pecksniff. Use is second nature, Mrs. Gamp.'—' You may well say second natA-, sir,' returned that lady, one's first ways is to find such things a trial to the feelings, and so is one's lasting custom. If it wasn't for the nerve a little sip of liquor gives mo ([ never was able to do more than taste it) I never could go through with what I sometimes has to do. "Mrs. Harris," I says, at the very last case as over I acted in, which it was but a young person, " Mr. Harris," I says, "leave the bottle on the chhaley-piece, and don't ask me to take none, but let me put my lips to it when I am so dispoged, and then I will do what I'm engaged to do ac cording to the best of my ability." " Mrs. Gawp," she says, in answer, " if ever there was a sober croetur to be got at eightoonponce a day for working poople, and three and-six for gentle-folks,"—' night watching,' said Mrs. Gamp, with emphasis, ' being a extra chargo,—" you are thatinwallable person." "Mrs. Harris," I says to her, "don't name the charge, for if I could afford to lay all my follow croeturs out for nothink, 1 would gladly do it, sich is the love I bears 'em. But what I always says to them as has the management of matters, Mrs. Harris"—here she kept her eye on Mr. Pecksniff —" bo they gents, or be they ladieg, is, don't ask me whether I won't take none, or Whether I will, but put the bottle on the chimley-piece, and let me put my lips to it when so dispoged." What a subtle finesse, and yet what a stretch of bold imagination there is here—as unlike Mr. Mould's sober and practical measurement of his individual regard for Mrs. Gamp, by his approach to willingness "to bury her for nothing, and do it neatly too," as is the illimitable sea which yet winds so close and subtly round the coasts, and creeks, and inlets of the islands it en compasses, from the mere artificial moat of a mediaeval castle I Now, what we mean by saying that Mr. J. Clarke's sex is a great hindrance to him in the efficient delineation of Mrs. Gamp, in spite of some incidental advantages, is that he fails to give to his manner this vulgar finesse, this womanish interest in the:inns and outs, the details and domestic pictures, of Mrs. Gamp's vagrant, yet thoroughly practical imagination. He acts her severe style admirably. Nothing could be better than the way he booked Mr. Pinch with the umbrella at the steam packet wharf, and then sa vagely replied to his courteous question of which packet she wanted, " I suppose nobody but your self can want to look at a steam packet without wanting to go a boarding of it, can they, booby ?', Mr. Clarke is admirable also in the common-place servile parts, where he makes Mrs. Gamp curry favour. with young married ladies whom she thinks possible customers. But Le brings out her meditative memories as if they were points (which, of course, to the andiance, they are), and without any of the fat and rambling pensiveness of Mrs. Gam p's rehearsing. imagination. For instance, when she recalls the fate of her own children, " ' My own,' I says, has fallen out of three pair backs, and hail damp door-steps settled on their lungs, and one was turned up snailin' in a bedstead unbeknown r " Ur, Clarke doefi sot teem really absorbed at all in the intrinsic interest of what he is recalling ; but, on the contrary, speaks it to the audience as one of his points. Mrs. Gamp is, no doubt, almost as difficult to act when in dulging these great recollections, as is Hamlet in reverie and soliloquy—and Mr. Clarke makes the same sort of mistake in delivering her recollections as Mr. Fechter in the celebrated, " To be, or not to be ?'' He does not let his mind wander gently over the subject, with a sort . of chuckling emphasis on ,the detail. He thrusts out his recollections with too much emphasis on the jokes, though, we admit, with the thick and snuffy articulation of the true Mrs. Gamp. His conception of the way in which Mrs. Gamp probably took snuff, and of the audible convulsions in the throat which followed that operation, is perfect. Again,, her frenzy of passion with Betsy Prig, when both those ladies have drunk enough from the teapot to inflame as well their noses as their passions, is very good. But these are but the superficial traits of this great creation. The audacious originality of Mrs. Gamp's genius in inventing a Mrs. Harris (with a family history of an immense minuteness and detail that is worthy of Defoe, and capable of indefinite extempore additions from time to time), and the immense subtlety with which this artifice is used as the medium of panegyric on ber own capacities and virtues, both professional and domes tic, _is not at all adequately expressed in Mr. Clarke's impersonation. We have said that there is insufficient lovingness in the way in which be makes her recall the real and imaginary incidents of her picturesque career. There is also a want of cunning self-importance in the manner of those circumbendibuses which she always brings round with such admirable dramatic success of aim to her own merits and hopes. And theft is a general de ficiency of spontaneousness and involuntary cur rent about the drift of her recollections and inven tions. Mrs. Gamp, though cunning enough, is not, we must remark, consciously so in her recollections. They turn on the pivot of self unconsciously. When she offers to prepare toast and butter for others, she asks them if they would like it " with out crust," and then lapses with a perfect uncon sciousness into the theme of herself, for whom, of course, it turns out that she is really preparing it— " by reason of her tender teeth, which Gamp, being in liquor, knocked out four at a blow," &c. But this turn of her reverie is entirely spontaneous, re verting to herself only as the natural centre of all things, and is not in any way wrenched cunningly to her purpose. _ _ The; is, then, an immense abandon of nature about Mrs. Gamp, which Mr. Clarke renders very imperfectly. Perhaps it is beyond not only him, but all human actors. A woman who could con template quite casually laying out " all her fello w creeturs" from the love she bears them, is not easily to be portrayed on any human stage. NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE. Forty non-commissioned officers and men of the 2d Battalion of the 17th Regiment at Chatham have been transferred to the Ist Battalion in Ire land, in consequence of the service companies being below their proper complement. By direction of the Secretary of War volunteer ing has been opened at the Royal Engineer estab lishment, Chatham, for the companies of Royal Engineers attached to the Public Works Department in India. The volunteers required are those who are acquainted with handicraft trades, besides archi tects and engineers. About half the number re quired have already volunteered, and volunteering is still open. An order received from the Horse Guards directs volunteering to be opened from the depot and other companies at headquarters for the four companies of Royal Engineers employed on the trigonometrical survey of Great Britain, each of which is below its proper strength. The St. Lawrence, Indiaman, Commander Wil cox, arrived from Calcutta yesterday evening at Spithead, with time-expired and invalided soldiers, accompanied by the following officers:—Col. Bird, and Capt. Macpherson, 93d Regiment; Capt. Gard ner, 105th Regiment ; Lieut. Davy, 105th Regi ment ; and Sir George and Lady Youall. The St. Lawrence sailed from Calcutta on the 3d of January last, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope on the 9th of February, sailed thence on the 13th, and called in at St. Helena February 21. The troops will disembark from the ship at Spithead this morning. The Admiralty paddle.yacht Enchantress, Staff- Commander J. E. Petley, is in dry dock at Wool wich, being refitted and re-decorated for conveying the Prince and Princess of Wales to Ireland on their approaching visit to that part of the United Kingdom. The Repulse, frigate, is completing rapidly her armour-plating, so as to be ready for launching about the 25th of the present month. Staff-Commander George Raymond, late of the Dee steam transport, is appointed to the Britannia, training-ship at Dartmouth. The chartered ship Matilda Atheling, taken up by the Government, has sailed from the Nore, having on board a number of convicts under lengthened terms of penal servitude from the establishment at Chatham for conveyance to Gibraltar. Among the convicts despatched from Chatham are several of the Fenian prisoners, together with the two convicts, Corbett and Sweetland, who recently made an at tempted escape from the Chatham prison. The Matilda Atheling will receive on board a few con victs from the establishments at Portsmouth and Portland. A strong military guard from the 13th Light Infantry and the 15th Regiment proceeds in charge of the convicts. Ills Prussian Majesty's iron frigate Prins Frede rick Carl, some time under repair at Plymouth, left on Monday for the Baltic. The Prussian corvettes Medusa and llertha, which arrived on Sunday from the Mediterranean, left the Sound yesterday morn ing for Kiel. The Prussian brigs of war Rover and Masquibb, are now in the Sound. The homeward bound merchant ship Salisbury landed passengers at llbay yesterday morning. AIARIiETS—(This Day.) CORN. The general character of the trade is firm but quiet. From the country markets quotations come steady, with moderate transactions. From the Continent the reports indicate firmer markets. At Mark-lane to-day there was a moderato attendance, and only a limited trade. English wheat moves off slowly at Monday's rates. Foreign held for quite the previous value, but purchased sparingly. _ . But little doing on the coast; some thirty-six cargoes there, but the samples of the greater number are only just coming to hand, and not much therein doing at the moment. Flour unchanged in value, and a limited sale. Grinding barley rather firm. Malting unaltered. Beans very firm, and rather dearer. Peas sell in retail at unaltered currency. Oats in good steady demand at late rates. No change in seeds. NEWGATE AND LEADENITALL MEAT.—The markets were firm yesterday, but to-day aro dull at the lowest quotations of Monday. Beef, 3s to 4s; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; veal, 3s 4d to 4s 6d; pork, 4s to 4s 8d per stone of 81b by the carcase. Poultry,—Supplies are moderate, but about adequate to the present dull demand. Monday's quotations may be repeated. _ . Wild fowl is only moderate supply, and unaltered in value. Eggs steady in value at Gs for French, and 8s English. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The demand is very active, and prices firmer. 2,500 bags common to fair Jaggery Madras in public sales sold at 23s 6d to 265, being 64 dearer. Several sales have also been made favourably, principally in Manilla sugars, at stiffer prices. COFFEE.—The market is steady, with a fair demand. TEA.—The sales were resumed and concluded to-day without change in prices. RICE is firm, but without activity. SyrcEs.—The auctions to-day wore small, and have passed off without quotable change. OfLs steady at 34s for linseed and 35s for brown English rape. TALLOW. This market is quiet, but steady, at 41 s Gd spot, 44s 9d to 45s Juno, 45s to 45s 3d last throe months. The feeling in favour of annexation to the United States is said to be steadily growing in Nova Scotia. The town of Digby in that province has a newspaper, called the Bluenose, which is started for the purpose of advocating aluututiva t 9 t 149 Vaittcl §toto. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. NOTICE. The Third Edition of " The Sue of last evening, con taining the returns of the Racing at Bromley and he Latest Betting, was published in time for delivery in. town at 7 p.m. THE FENIANS IN NEWGATE. The grand jury at the Central Criminal Court, this afternoon found true bills against the whole of the Fenians now in custody in Newgate, with the exception of O'Neill, against whom they ignored the indictment. THE EASTER VOLUNTEER REVIEW. It has this morning been decided by the War Office authorities that the field-day on Portsdown_ hill shall take place, and the march past on South sea-common shall ba also done if possible. The old, arrangements therefore stand. (By Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, Tuesday Evening. Colonel Warde, from the War Office, met the Mayor of Portsmouth and committee this afternoon. The Mayor has just told the council assembled in the Guildhall that the original review programme will be adhered to, subject to certain conditions. General rejoicing in the town. ASSASSINATION OF MR. D'ARCY M'GEE.—NEW YORK, April 7.—Mr. J. D'Arcy M‘Gree was shot dead at Ottawa to-day. The assassin escaped. THE IRISH CHURCH.—LIVERPOOL, April 'B.—. An enthusiastic demonstration of Protestant working men took place at the Town-hall, Staleybridge, last evening, to hear a lecture by Mr. Charley in defence of the Irish Church. A Dissenting minister occupied the chair. The hall was crammed. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. LATEST WEST END BETTING. CHESTER CUP. 10 to 1 agst Dalby (taken freely) 16 to 1 agst Caithness (taken) 18 to 1 agst Viridis (taken) 100 to 5 agst Seville (taken) 40 to 1 agst Stradbroke (taken) TWO THOUSAND. 3to 1 agst Rosicrucian (taken) Bto 1 agst Formosa (taken) 9 to 1 agst Typhoeus (taken) 14 to 1 agst Green Sleeve (taken freely) No other alteration worthy of notice. VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—Trus DAY, CHESTER CUP. 9 to 1 agst Dalby (off., take 10 to 1) 15 to 1 agst Caithness (offered) 100 to 6 agst Viridis (offered) 20 to 1 aget Seville (taken) 33 to 1 agst Stradbroke (offered—take 50 to 1) 50 to 1 agst Patrician (offered) NEWMARKET BIENNIAL. Offers to take 3 to 1 about the Earl. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. sto 2 agst Rosilrucian (offered) 7 to 1 agst Formosa (offered) Bto 1 agst Typhoeus (offered—take 100 to 12) 100 to 8 agst Green Sleeve (taken) 100 to 7 aget Pace (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst Vale Royal (taken and offered) 100 to 7 aget Harvester (offered) 100 to 7 aget See-Saw (offered) 100 to 6 agst Restitution (offered) 1000 to 20 agst Michael do Basco (offered) DERBY. sto 1 agst Lady Elizabeth (off., take 525 to 100) 7to 1 agst Rosicrucian (taken) 10 to 1 agst Green Sleeve (offered, take 11 to 1) 1000 to 40 agst Harvester (offered) 40 to 1 agst The Earl (off, take 50 to 1) 40 to 1 agst Restitution (offered) 50 to 1 agst Franchise (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst The Earl, with a Biennial win (taken) ROTUNDA CLUB AND COMMISSION EXCIIA.NGE 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, FARRINUDON-ROAD, E.C. Established Nov. 1, 1867. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION—FIVE SHILLINGS. W. B. ROCHE, Secretary RACING F.IXTi AP. RES FOR 1868. Newmarket Craven l3 Hendon l3 Knighton l4 Lichfield Spring l4 Abergavenny ..... 16 Catterick Bridge l6 Eastbourne . 2O Lewes Spring Thirek Curragh April Croydon Spring , ILiverpool Hunt Newmarket Ist Spring 27 Cardiff .AY. Chester 5 Eglinton Hunt 7 Winchester .York Spring Doncaster Spring Salisbury ll Bath Wye Croydon Ist Summer Harpenden Epsom Summer Paris [NE West Drayton 1 Croydon 2d Summer „ 3 Manchester 3 Ascot Summer 9 Beverley, Hull, and East Riding lO Windsor Summer Newton Hampton Newcastle 23 Bibury Club 23 Stockbridge Alexandra Park 3O Chelmsford 2 Worcester Summer 2 j Carlisle Newmarket July Huegerford Pontefract Reading Down Royal Corp. AUG Deauville 3 Leek Brighton Brighton Club Lewes Summer Wolverhampton ll Stockton Plymouth Windsor August l3 ligham l7 Llastiugs York August SEPT] Baden Warwick September 1 Abingdon 3 Leicester Doncaster September 8 Brecon l4 Richmond Hampton Autumn l5 Kelso IZ, Bedford 1 I Bromley Autumn Newmarket 2d October 5 Lauark Chelmsford Autumn 13 I Cheltenham l3 NOVE Shrewsbury Autumn Leamington and Warll STEEPLI AP. Ealing Newmarket Houghton 17 Bromley Autumn Worcester Autumn. 29 Lincoln Autumn 29 JULY. Liverpool July M. Udiham l6 Stamford Radcliffe .... 2O lluutingdon 2l 1 Nottingham July Southampton I Goodwood UST. Doter I Oxford 22 Scarborough 2O Canterbury Great Yarmouth Derby Summer Weymouth Ipswich O7 Lichfield Tuubridge Margate 3l MBER. Hendon l7 Monmouth . 17 Newmarket Ist October 22 Walsall 23 Edinburgh \Vest Drayton 29 Royal Caledonian Hunt and. Western M PBER. IbIBEtL 9 ickshire Hunt l7 CHASES. IIL. Bromley .. 6 Hambledon Aldershot Hendon Knighton Abergavenny OCTOBER. Bromley DECEMBER. 26 St. Albans Kingsbury 8 The Price of 'Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and tile abort exchange on London is 25f. 170. per £1 sterling. On cpmparing these rates with the English Mint price of 3 lis. lOid. per ounce for st andard gold, it appears that gold is about the same price in Paris ano in London. Elie course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 109) per cent. At this rate there is no profit on the importatiim of gold from the United States. REGULATION OF RAILWAYS BlLL.—Yesterday afternoon sso a meeting ciatio Liverpool r o . o jl Andersontradesmen the chair,eld at the Law Rooms,ofi w h e n the loth clause of the Regulation of Railways Bill was discussed, and it was resolved—" That, in th e op i n ion of this meeting, it is undesirable that the monopo lizing powers of railway companion should be in any way increased ; that the bill now before Parliament, called the Regulation of Railways Bill, will have that effect, and, therefore, it is necessary that such steps should be taken as will prevent its becoming law, and that the Council of the Tradesmen's Guild and the committee of the Guardian Society be appointed a committee, with power to add to tito4 utttuber, to oppow ths) oaicl t 4 Pox. 144104 t.", igh tnds UI,3C jc - the ave lave and Cher :ay, ller, Lth the )cal the sou of and ;th, ms. lity nes ►m the igh Lieu the low mst hat ter ole he on bo )SO nd in st, so ,he ors - on iot he do he !r- Pt ey ss at ire tit ;es 4 1 I