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

." MONEY 11ARKET AND COMMERCIAL IN TELLIGENC2, 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 httention ; they have slightly improved. Railway stocks are generally steady. The commercial demand fur money is still com paratively quiet at 1 to 2 per cent. There is, holk 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 93A- for money. and account ; New and Re duced Three per Cents. are dull at 91 to 91i ; India Five per Cents. unaltered, at 113 i to 114 k ; Exchequer Bills, 7s to 12s prem. The chief feature in Foreign Stocks is a further relapse in all Egyptian Stocks, with the single excep tion of the Viceroy's Nine per Cents., which remain at 88. to 89.1. The 1864 Bonds are 1 lower, at 85i ; the Railway Loan 1 5 , at S 9 ; and the Viceroy's Seven per Cents., at 721. - Otherwise yesterday's prices are cur rent. Mexican Botnh are 15i to 16 ; Greek 12i to 13 ; New Spanish, 351- to 351 ; Italian (1861), 48k to 48i ; Turkish (1865), 33,E to 331 ; and Portuguese, to prem. In American Securities United States 5-20 Bonds are quiet, at 71, 7 ; to ; Erie Shares are 4 better, at 481 to 48g. Illinois, 894 to 90. Railways are, with some slight exceptions, steady. There is an advance of k in Great Western, at 49 to 494, and of k in Metropolitan, at 1131 to 1141 ; in Great Eastern, at 3:31 to 344- ; and Brighton, 50} to 50g. Great N orthern A are 4 lower, at 96k to 974, and there is a relapse of i t in Caledonian at 714 to 72 ; in Lancashire and Yorkshire, at 125} to 1251 ; and in Midland, 1044 to 105 ; Metropoli tan Extension are steady at 1074 to 108 i ; ditto New District, 2 to 3 prem. ; South Eastern, 73 to 73i ; London and North Western, 114 - to 1141 ; Great Northern, 1024 to 103 k ; and Sheffield, 44 to 444. Foreign Railways are firm. Orel-Vitebsk are now quoted 80k to 81, being 4 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 154, and Great Luxembourg, 94 to 9g. Of bank shares Union of London are unaltered, at 304 to 314 ; London Joint Stock, 30k to. 31A ; Im perial Ottoman gto prem. ; Imperial, 17 to 174 ; Consolidated, 44 to 4;1 ; and Alliance, 134 to 124 dis. Finance shares are quiet. Credit Foncier are 24 to 3 ; General Credit, 2 t i to 2i dis. ; International, 2 to 14 dis. ; and London, 25 to 24 dis. There were no bullion operations at the Bank of aAgland 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 604 d 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. Barings have received a further remittance of £963 9s on account of New Granada dividends. Messrs. George Whiffin and Richard Stone, the liquidators of the London 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. When this company passed into 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 Oro, ' Western Railway of Canada for the week enuing the 27th inst., shows an increase of £1,948 over last year. The follor 'lg is the report for January of the Panulcillo Copper Company (Limited). The Ximena 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 ,ought to be done ; otherwise a ll i s go i ng on well. The improvement i n ore s no ti ce d i n 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. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES . GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 5 per ueut. Consols Do. Account, April 2 93 f 8 per Cent. Reduced 9lf 2 11 f New 3 per Cent 9lf i 2 11 New 2/ per Cent. Jan. 1894 — Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 lO3 Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — xd Do. for 30 yre, expire sth April 1885 — ~„ Do (Red Sea Televaph), Au,..., 190 E — zit chequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2 per Ct. - pm Do £5OO pm Do. £lOO & £2OO 5 pm sank of England Stock, 4f per Cent Sbut Do. Account INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India stock, 10} per Cent., AprillB74 Do. Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oat. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent BB Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do. 5i per Cent., May 1879 — Do 5 per Cont., Rup. Deb., 1872 — Do. do. 1877 Do _ . do. 1882 — D. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 — Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000 Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 Bruilian 5 per Cent — )n. 4} per Cent., 1852 Do. do., 1858 Do. do., 18ti0 Do. do., 1863 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do Account 72k 1 i ISuenos Ayres 6 per Cent — Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Cuba,, 6 per Cent. Guinan 6 per Cent — Do. 4} per Cent — Do. 6 per Cent, B — Do., 1867 Do., 7 per ,Cent., 1866 — Do., Scrip £32 paid G )1 , mbian, 6 per Cant. -Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 , — D olubian Principalities, 7 per Cent — Do 8 per Cent., 1867 — sluador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — Mg_yptiae, 7 per Cent — Do. Se oud Issue 79i Do. £5OO Bonds Do. £lO6 Bonds BO Do. 1864 Do. £s')o Bonds — Do. £lOO Bonds • • ••• - Government Railway Debentures ..... 89f 9 f f Greek, 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex Coups. Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account Guatemala 5 per Cent .. — lionduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., .£25 p ltliian 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do, Account ~ — _Jo. Maremmana Raiway Mexican 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Do 6 per Ccnt. Anglo-French — hdontevideau 6 per Cent. . — Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada — Do 3 per Cen .— Do. Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) - Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 — Do Account .. ~ .. 791 8f Do 4i per Cent. (Uribarren) ........... Do 4f per Cent.. 1862 Do Account Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,' 30f Do. do., 1e67 — Do. do., Scrip, £lO paid —pm 11 issian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ Sr, — Do 44 per Cent. 1850 Do 4% ); per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cont., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1t,62 ,,- 81 1 i i Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds... 87i Do. do. £B4 15s. d 0..., Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds B7l Do. do. £34 15s. do — Sardinian, 5 per Cent — Spanish 3 per Con Do Account .. . — Do Now Deferroo — Do Account Do Passive — D o Acceant Do Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded ~.. Do A ccoun t Wurkisli 6 per Cent. — Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account D 0„, £lOO Bonds DO 6 per Cent., 1862 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 654 Do. 1863 -- Do 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1865 564 Do 1 per 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 London,. French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — Austrian a per Cent. Ex 10 Florins .., Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 2sf. Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil — Do Account — Italia), 5 per Cent. 1861, Ex. z5l. Do. Account 4 8 : 1- THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 93 Do. Account, March 93 WRECK ON 711 E NORFOLK COAST. CAISTER, NEAR GREAT YARMOUTH, March 30. A very strong north-east wind sprung up on Friday afternoon and increased. much during the night (says the Rev. G. W. Steward). A vessel was seen coming up from the northward between 3 and 4 a.m. She had been driven back by the weather, and hail made for the Cockle Light, intending to get int o Yarmouth Roads between the Scraby and the out side of Ihe Barber Sand, but coming along past the Cockle she was " set in" by the forco of ebb tide with the wind, so that she got to the west ward of the Barber Sand, between the Sand and the shore. She 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 her 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 off 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 do 11 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 IN7ELLIGENCE. 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 tion was bad yesterday by telegraph with her Ma jesty's corvette Racer, on the coast of Bengazi, when she was informed of her having been ordered to England to be paid 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. Nuttall, 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 Southampto❑ packet. The English schooner yacht Daphne left Malta on the 10th inst. for Corfu. The Swedish corvette Gefle, 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 are employed working at the furnaces six days out of seven. THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.—Both crews performed some good practice yesterday. The Oxford crew started immediately op?osito Chiswick Church, rowed hard to the aqueduct at Putney. Their time to Hammersmith bridge on a fair ebb was 4min. 45sec., and to Putney ]3min. 37sec., thus occupying Brnin. 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 front 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 EMBANKMENT.—Mr. John Fowler, Engineer in -Chief, Metropoutan 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 oarried 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 e 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 not to be permitted; and I believe many members of the Metropolitan Board 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 cle,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 ie 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 Metropoli tan Board 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 hut the present THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1868. SHARE LlST.—This Day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Closing Businesa Share Railways. Paid.: 1 Price. done. at - Z rilarorand Exeter ... 100 81 93 at !Caledonian lOO 71 73 72 11 21 11 2 at it:a:lll)l.Jan - Cork and 8and0n..... - - - - 20 ;,Cornwall all 3 4 st (Dublin & Belfast June lOn 75 77 at Illun„Perth, & Ab. June 1 100 70 72 - 'L. London, scrip Ceti all - 100 - -ti st Glasgow AS. Western 100 102 104 et Great Eastern, Ord. stk. 100 3.1 3131 34 34 at Do. E. Aug!. et. No. 2 100 6 8 st Urcat North of Scotlang 100 I.i 6 4 at Great Northern at D. A stock • 1 1 0 0 0 0 102 96 1 1 ( 8 3 91063 1 ' _l4 i st Do. B stock lOO 121 125 at Do. New, is. at 25 pm 10J - - at Gt S, and W. of Ireland 100 94 95 95 at Gt. Western -Originali 110 48 44 4! 1 419 it Do. S. Val. Rail gua. lot - - t Do. South Wales at Do. W. Mid.-OXIOrU 100 25 30 at Do. Ncwpoit at i/o. Hereford.-. 100 - -- st Lancaehire Yorkshir:.! 100 1251 ;26 1251 at Landon and Blackwatli lou - at Lon., Brigh.,44 S Coast; 10u 5'13 51 1 51. I at I•on., Chat., and .DJver, 10.) it 191, 12 1 191 at Do. Metrop. Ex. A lOO 12 15 at Lvn. A North Western 100 114; 1.41 at Dm. A South Western 100 8 . 1 at Man., She)., A Lincoln Wu 421 13 411 at getropolitan. st Do. New - - at Do. Extension all 107 118 181 71 st Metropolitan District all 73 75 ?II 33 5 •10 t Do. do. do. 10 - - 10 Do. and St. J ohn' s 'u 6 - - at Midland - Do. L 9 Share 7 - - at Do, Birmin.. A Den)) 100 73 73 - did Kent - et North British at Do. Ed., Pth., & Dun lO9 - - et Nth. Eastern---Berwick 100 k 10.) 101 25 Do. G.N•E purchase ;6.13.1 - - et Do. Leeds ..... 100 58 60 st Do. York lOO 53 91 at Do. Carlisle at Do. Stook. & Darling. all 129 131 25 Do. do. 1860-61 lB - • - p et North London st Do. do. 1861 5 ....., 10 - Do. do. 1866 10 North Staffordshire at N. &S. W. Junction st Scottish Central - - Scot. N. E , Aber. stock 100 - Scot, Mid. stook lOO - - - - Shropshire Union st South Devon lOO 43 15 et South Eastern 20 Staines, Wok., A Wok all 9 10 at fall' Vale lOO 143 145 10 Do. C 5 - - V ale of I , .ielath - - - Waterford & Kilkenny 100 - 10 Waterloo & Whiteha 1 6 - - West Cornwall BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 100 Atlantic A St. Lawrence all • 64 66 at I Rom.,l3aroda,ACen.ln. 100 1021 1031 ,031 1 gm. 5 per cent.. 10 Do. F shares l6 41 , 201 Ituffalo A Lake Huronr all 3 4 10 Do. Preference Buff. Brant & Goderich 100 6i. ' e. 1872 100 68 71 st Calcutta AS. E., lint lOO - - at Ja.i.e Town A Dock, g - u lOO IS 52 00 Demerara, 7 p.o. per. p all 99 102 at East Bengal, go., sdo 100 1041 1151 1051 st East Indian, pis p.o. 100 109 116 40 Do. J Extension - - st eirandTrunkof Canada 100 15/ 161 lop Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.o all 78 62 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 41 45 100 Do. do deferred - - 100 De. 2d Pref. Bonds all 33 35 100 Do. do. deterred - - WO Do. 3d Pref. stook all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred - 100 Do. 4th Pref. stock 100 Do. do. deterred - - at .3 t. India Pen. gua. sp.e lOO 109 110 109 13 10. Gua. 5 per cent lB 11 2 p 40 Do. New gua. sp. o 6 11 2/I 94 et dt. South of India gua. 5 per cent at Do. 44 per oent lou 94 9 6 st Do • 2 - - 201 great Wes. of Canada all 164 164 154 201 Do. New ._... - 00 Do. 6p. o Wes. pay. 1873 all 98 100 00 Uo. 54 do. pay. 1877-8.. all 91 91 at Madras, gua. 5 p.o 100 100 102 1024 at Do. 41 do lOO 93 /5 at Do. 41 do lOO 89 91 20 Do. Fifth Extension 5 - 3lelb. Cor. 6p. c. Bnds. 100 - - 60 Mel. dt Hobson's Bay all - - at N.12.1.C'da.6p0 Ist pi.ba 100 83 85 at Gude & Ithiik'nd, g. 5 /no 100 103 101 104 st Scinde 100 100 101 at Do. Delhi j d 100 1004 1014 1014 20 Do. do . 15 4 1p at Do. Punlaub.... n.l 100 10J 101 at Do.lndus St.Flot blO 100 87 89 B.RITISII MINIM ipam. Coneol. Gold, Um. 1 Chiverton Clifford Amalgamated SO 54 6 1 Devon G. Cons. (Tavlet 1 140 460 Drake walls 2.1,0 4 1 East Bassett (Illogan) 294 10 12 East Caradon 2.14.n 4 5 East Carn BrPa 3l 2 24 East Grenville Lost Gannislake .. 8.3.0 4 4 Ettat Loved 3.0.0 8 9 1% 7 '1 itussell (Tayistk 11.7.6 14 2 t. 4 -am.& StAubyn(G wen. 66 4 b 4 ilreat L txey, limited.. all 164 174 Great South 'reigns.... 1.4.0 Gnat Wheal basy..... 14.9.6 .1. Wheal Vor (flehit.n: 40 18 19 ;renville 9.0.6 11 la :lerod's Foot .. 8.10.0 38 40 llingston Downs 5.10.0 24 21 11;:rgaret (liny Lelant 13.17.6 6 ifurkc Valley 4.10.6' 6 61 4 tiwyudy Iron Ore, lltu 3.‘ 24 14 ew S ton forth :oak ear I 38 1 5 7 Bassett(lilogab. 1.4.0 North Crotty 1 2.13.0 2 3 Crosper 8.11.0 2 24 - IS. Uny Lelau ( 1 1 1.6.7 25 27 Caradon (St. Ulcer) 11 380 400 -(outh Coudurrow i.2.0 'i.Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 374 421 '3tray Park . 35.15.6 4 6 Pin Croft 9 14 Vigra and Clogan, lint all West Bassett la 4 14 W. Caradon (Ltakeard , 1: 10 12 West Chiverton ll 61 66 —. West Seton Wheal Bassett ( Mogan 54 75 80 Wheal Buller (itedruth' 16 16 10 Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 21 23 Wheal Seton I 584 84 874 Wheal Trelawney (Lis ' 5.17.0 6 8 on.O.NIA.L VEttz.,..u.ENT shOUItITIE6. British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec.3l, 1872 lOO Can.Goy.6 p.c.Ja. & July 1877-84 Do. 6p. o. Feb. & Aug 1t..0 9a 100 Do. sp. 0. Mar. & Sept' 100 98 100 ' D o . sp. 0. Jan. & July 100 86 88 87 Do. sp. c. Inscribed sk 100 85 67 c apu G.Hope, 6 p.c.1873 100 104 106 Do.Apl.&oct. 1890-1900 100 109 110 Do. do 1880-90 100 107 109 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 100 106 105 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 98 100 'Ceylon, Nov. 1878, 6 p lOO 110 in Do. 1872, do lOO 105 107 Mauritius, 6p. a, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 . 1882, Mayls, Nov lb 100 107 104 DO. 1895, Feb. & Aug.. 100 1(6 08 Natal cioy. 6 per cent.. 100 N.B.Goy.6p.o.Ja.&July 100 99 10 N. S.W. Gov.s p•c.,1860 100 99 101 Do. 5 p.c. 183 to 1876 100 98 90 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1806 , 100 154 961 New Zealand, 6p. cent i 100 - Do. 5 per cent.... ... 100 974 984 984 Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c sterling, 1875 l9O 102 104 ' Queensland Gov. 6p. C lOO 103 105 1034 3 ;S. Aus.Gov. 6 p,0. 1 868-0 100 - I Do. 1878 & upwards lOO 110 111 6p.o.Ja.&July 100 - Do. do. April & Oct lOO 1114 112 i FREF.ERENCE SHARES. London, Chatham, and Dover 5 per cent., 41 rbit:FtaMNLIE tit:LA.lMb AND STOCKS. Midland A and B a per cent., 1031 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. South York. and River Dun, 94 OaIC 1 G N KAALWAY: , . Bahia and San Francisco. 11. n., gna. 7 peroent., 15 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 15 FOREIGN MIN Frontino and Bolivia Gold, lim., 9-1,3 Peatarena United Gold, llm., 2i Scottish Australian, lim., 1 3-16 St. John del Rey, lim, 23i United Mexican, lint., DOCKS 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 Talue of a portmanteau and its contents, which had been stolen from the top of the defendant's cab. Mr. 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 portmanteau 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 fur being concerned in the robbery. His honour aske I how defendant could be made liable. Mr. Dowse stated that the case of Powles v. nyder, 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 had charged 2d. for. the portmanteau. His Honour replied that what he wanted to arrive at was whether any negligence could he traced to the defendant's deiver. 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 DITELLIGENCE.-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 waa 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. Mr. Tyrwhitt told the prisoner that she must not act as she bad done. She would have to pay the damage, but under the circumstances only a penny fine. THE STREETS TRAFFIC ACT. —George Smith, carman to a coal merchant, and George llarris, 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 i a 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 ono of his teeth gone. George Birch, No. 267 K, confirmed the state ment of Dowell. Mr. Benson said there was no doubt whatever the prisoner had committed a savago and malicious assault on the constable because he acted the part of a peace-maker, and prevented the prisoner killing his wife. •lle was considering whether he ought not to commit the prisoner for trial fur this brutal and unprovoked outrage. He could not punish the prisoner for this outrage as he ought to be punished. lie sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned fur two months and kept to hard labour, which was the heaviest punishment he could inflict. THE B' ix-KEEPER NUISANCE. 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 iu 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 sixpenc?, 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 pine- Used 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 bat, 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 Shakspeare 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. 111 A RKE7'S--(77tis Day.) COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE. 617 GAR —Refined sugars are firm, with a moderate in quiry. Dutch crushed is quoted rather stiffer, at 29e 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.—T he 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. The market is firm, with a fair demand for 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 Gd for good middling. Rum.—The late advance is well maintained, but the activity in the market has subsided. The clearances are large, but are exceeded by the imports, and the stock is increased to 22,810 pus. against 25,750 pns. last year. SALTPEI t II.I.—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 6d on the spot. English and foreign brown rape, 36s ; pale, 38s to 89s ; cocoa nut, Ceylon, 49s to 49s 6d ; Cochin, 54 . s 6d to 555. WESTMINSTER. A DISCHARGED WORKMAN'S It EVENGE.—lienry 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 lie 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 we.ks 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 in November last, and witness's firm had done with out them for a few months. He 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.—WiIIiarn 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 his wife, put the room in tolerably good order, and were leaving the house, when the prisoner came behind Dowell and fairly kicked him down the stairs. Before Dewell could recover him self at the foot of the stairs the prisoner sprang upon him, kicked Lim A second time, and struck TALLOW. The market continues quiet, at 43s 6d ; spot, 43s Gd April to June, 43s 9d; June, 44s 6d last three months. POTATOES, 'cc. 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; secrnd, 50s to 84s ; straw, 30s to 346 per load. COTTON. LIT] RPOOL, March 31.—Market held firmly —un changed. Sales probably 15,000 bales. ADELPIII 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 CATASTIIOPIIE.—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 WTurtemburg. 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. The loco motive getting detached pursued its course with the con ductor and a stoker towards Geisslingen, but the carriages that f)llowed the fractured car were precipitated upon it with a fearful shock, mounting over each other till a vast heap of ruin was accunaalated. 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 b 0 deplorable a state as to require to be taken to the nearest hospital. Southampton, 73 BANES. Australian Agricultural, 15i East India Irrigation and Canal. 171 ElActnc and International Telegraph, 162 Fore-street Warehouse, lirn., 91 Hudson's Bay, 141 Agra. iim., A, Ditto, h, 71 Anglo- Austrian, 10k Australasia, 53 Consolidated, lim., 41 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 161 Imperial Ottoman, 101 Land Mortgage Bani of India, lim., 1 London and Couni,y, 611 London Joint Stock, 311 1 London and 11 estminster, 671 8; Ditto, Scrip, 46 National Provincial of England, 1311 Oriental Bank Corporation 42, Provincial of Ireland, 89 Union of London, 311 MISCIMLAN/COUB; Anglo American Telegraph, 22 1 Atlantic Telegraph, 51 6 Ditto, is per cent. 103 5 Credit Fonder of England, lim., Crystal Palace, Ditto, 6 per cent. perpctl. deb., 110 Egyptian 0 per Cent., Viceroy Loan, gua. bylEgyp t. Gov., 89 Gen. Oredit and Discount, i int_ 6 1-16 International b'inancial 31 London Crenural Omnibus Compan lien, 1 15-16 .11adras Irr.gation and Canal (guaranteed 5 per cent. by Government), 11,3 Nerbudda Coal and Iron, lirn., If Peninsula and Oriental steam, Dito, new, 1867, Royal Mai Steam, 60k Viceroy of Egypt 7 per cent. (Mortgage) LOan, 72 POETICAL SATIRE.-It is understood in literary circles that a new 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 in the reading world. The title, we believe, is "Horse and Foot, or Pilgrims to Parnassus," and the motto on the first page "I'll not march through Coventry with them, that's flat." Mr. Rotten will publish the work. fait mu) EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLoCK. NOTICE. The Third Edition of " The Sun" of last evening, con taining the Latest Betting at Tattersall's and Arrivals at Northampton, was published in time for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. NORTHAMPTON RACES—Tiffs DAY. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. • TRIAL STAKES. The Trial Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 50 addel ; three yr olds ist, four Bzt )Ib, live 9st llb ; six and aged 9A 31b. One mile. Lozenge Out-and-Outer STAND PLATE. The Stand Plato of 50 sws (Handicap); winners of any handicap after March 27 (at ten itan ) slb extra ; ono mile. Yard-arni Graud Duke Duuoon . Six rau. NO RTIIAMPTONSH [RE CUP. Tho Northamptonshire Cup Stakes of 10 sous each; three year olds 6st 91b, four Bst 71b, five 9st 11b, six and aged 9st 41b ; the winncr to be sold for 500 sous if demanded; two miles; 14 subs. Wellow Rampart 2 Six ran. SWEEPSTAKES. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, 3 ft, with 50 added, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; winner of any race 31b, if of 200 sovs value 51b, of 300 71b extra; having started twice without winning allowed 31b, thrice or more 51b ; Althorp Park Stakes Course. Half a mile. 20 subs. Curieuse Sister to Veda 2 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. The Great Northamptonshire Stakes of 100 sovs, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs each, 15 soya ft; two miles. 95 subs., 40 of whom declared. Mariner Lord Hastings Thalia Thirteen ran. PYTCHLEY STAKES. The Pytchley Stakes of five soya each, with 40 added; two year olds 7st 101 b, three 9st 101 b, four lest 101 b, five, six, and aged list; mares and geldings and maiden four year olds and upwards allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for 300 sous, if entered for 250 soya allowed 31b, 200 71b, 150 121 b, 100 171 b, GO 241 b, and 30 281 b. Spencer Plate Course, straight. Vermicelli Ilagar 2 Landlord 3 Seven ran. WHITTLEBURY STAKES. The Whittlebury Stakes of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, with 100 added ; two year olds, Est 81b, three Bst 81b ; fillies and geldings allowed 31b ; a winner of a sweepstakes amounting to 500 sovs with ten subscribers 71b, win ners of a 200 sovs sweepstakes with ten subscribers 51b, all other winners of plates or sweepstakes to the amount of 100 sovs 31b extra ; weights not accumulative ; three year olds which have started three times without win ning allowed 51b. About three-quarters of a mile straight 31 subs. Beauty 1 Athena 2 . DELAPRE HANDICAP. The Delapre Handicap of .5 soya each in case of accept ance, with 50 sovs added : the winner to be sold for 100 soya if demanded ; winners of any handicap after March 27 (at ten a.m.) 51b extra ; Althorp Park Stakes Course (about half a mile). Acceptances to be declared on Mon day evening, March 30, by eight o'clock. Zisca Flying Jib Chateau Margaux 3 Four ran. ROTUNDA CLUB AND COAIMISSION 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, 8, Black friars-road. LONDON COMMISSION EXCHANGE, FARRINGDON-ROAD, E.O. Established Nov. 1, 1867. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION FIVE SHILLINGS. TILE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. Resuming the work from yesterday both crews were out early this morning. The Oxford crew went out first, and paddled to Mort lake, easing several times on the road, and coached from the bank by Messrs. Morrison and Risley. After a rest at Mortlake, they rowed the entire course on the ebb, accomplish ing it at somewhat over in 21 min. 8 secs. If this be true it is one of the finest trials ever rowed at the state of tide. The Cautabs went out after wards, and, with Mr. T. S. Egan, their trainer, at the coxswain's thwart, and coached from the bank by Mr. W. R. Griffiths, the stroke of last year, went as far as Chiswick; rowing a trial between the bridges in very fast time, doing 36 and 37 strokes per minute. At 5.30 the Cantabs were to row the London Rowing Club twelve oar. ARRIVAL OF THE HERMANN. NEW YORK, March 19 (Evening.) Mr. M'Culloch has addressei a letter to the Finance Committee of the Senate, stating that the bill passed by the House of Representatives, and now before the house, for removing the internal tax upon domestic manufactures, would reduce the revenue over $100,000,001 He fears that if the bill becomes law the revenue for the next fiscal year will be insufficient to meet the in terest on the public debt and the current expenses of the Government. The House of Representatives has passed a bill continuing the Freedmen's Bureau one year from July next. The bill providing impartial suffrage in all the States has been called up in the Rouse. Governor Brownlow has notified to Mr. Stanton that the Tennessee Militia are amply sufficient to protect Nashville and the State Archives in case of a rebel attack. The New Jersey and Michigan Republican Con ventions have declared in favour of the nomination of Grant for the Presidency. Advices from Hayti state that Salnave has been defeated and his army dispersed near Cape Haytien. The French Admiral has demanded the arrears due to France from the Haytian Government. The North German Lloyd's steamer Hermann, from New York on the 20th instant, ar rived at Southampton to-day (March 31st) with 107 passengers for that port, Havre, and Bremen, 48 sacks of mails, $15,000 in specie for L)ndon and a large cargo for Bremen. LtiNDON GAZETTE-THIS EVENING. FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 27. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Ilezekia G. Wells as Consul at Manchester for the United State of America. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. H. Reinhold as Consul for the Presidency of Bengal, to reside at Calcutta, for hisMijesty the King of S weden and N or way. FOREIGN OFFICE, FEB. 21. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus, her Majr)sty'sAmbassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia, to be her Ma jesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the North German Confederation. FOREIGN OFFICE, MAUCJI 12. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Fre derick Glennie, Esq., her Majesty's Consul at Mexico, to be her Majesty's Consul for the Provinces of Galicia and the Asturias, to reside at Corunna. WHITEHALL, MARCH 31. The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend James Rankin to the church and parish of Muthill, in the Presbytery of Auchterarder, and county of Perth, vacant by the death of the Reverend James Walker, DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 30. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Horatio James Huggins, Esq., to be Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court et her MejeO t rfi Piottlomtat 01 ilitria 149120 7 On the Western Coast of Africa, and George Phillippo, Esq., to be Queen's Advocate for that Settlement. WAIL-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, MAucu 31. Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-General Richard John Stot herd to be Colonel-Commandant, vice Lewis Alexander Hall, deceased. _ _ 6th Dragoons —Surgeon Lancelot Armstrong, M.D., from the 13th Hussars, to be Surgeon, vice Surgeon-Major John Sheldon Furlong, M.D., who exchanges.-1 7th Hussars—Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Arthur Scudamore, C. 8., has been permitted to retire upon half-pay, receiving a portion of• the former dif ference between Cavalry and Infantry. 13th Hussars—Surgeon-Major John Sheldon Furlong, M.D., to be Surgeon. 15th Hussars—Captain Bryan Burrell to be Major; Lieu tenant Joseph Norton to be Captain; Cornet William White to be Lieutenant; Ensign. William Henry Fife, the 17th Foot, to be Cornet. 17th Lancers.—Captain W. Jesser Coopo, from half- pay, late 64th Foot, to be Captain ; Lieutenant IL Augustin Robinson to bo Captain, by purchase; W. Trevelyan Somerset lievill-.Davies, Gont., to be Cornet, by pur chase. 21st Hussars.—Staff Assistant-Surgeon John Corbet, M. 8., to be Assistant-Surgeon. Royal Engineers—Captain Edward Belfield to bs Lieut.- Colonel ; Second Captain Alexander Dirom to be Cap tain ; Lieutenant Richard Warren Stewart to be Second Captain. - - Military Train—Lieutenant Edward William Henry Webb to be Captain by purchase ; Ensign .Walter Crawford Rees to be Lieutenant by purchase. Grenadier Guards Lieutenant and Captain Edward Smith Bridges to be Instructor of Musketry. Ist Foot- Staff Assistant-Surgeon James Davis Gunning to be Assistant-Surgeon. 3d Foo:—Eusign Ashby Pochin to be Lieutenant, by pur chase; Ensign Charles Butler, from the 19th Foot, t..) be Ensign . 9th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Arthur Charles Jackson, to be Eusign, by purchase. 10th Foot—Staff-Surgeon Thomas Jerro.m Orton to be Surgeon. 17th Foot—William Henry Fife, Gent., to bs Ensign, by purchase. 19th Foot— Gentleman Cadet George Burridge Rogers to be Ensign, by purchase. 36th Foot—Quartermaster-Sergeant John Bryant to be Quartermaster. 37th Foot—Ensign Henry Beauclerk Bethune to be Lieu tenant, by purchase; Gentleman Cadet Arthur Reginald Hennell, to by Ensign, by purchase. 41st Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Mathew Moriarty Gallwey, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon. 48th Foot -Lieutenant Pulteney Edward Bowlby to be Instructor of Musketry. 49th Foot—Staff-Surgeon Robert Beale to bo Surgeon. 96th Foot—Ensign Herbert Charles Marrayat, from the 17th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase. Half-Pay—Captain and Brevet-Major John Osborne Bur ridge to be Major, without purchase. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon James Hannan, from the 49th Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon; Assistant-Surgeon Nathaniel Norris, from the 41st Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-THIS EVENING. The LOB.D CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at five o'clock. The Railway Extension of Time Bill was read a third time and passed. The Indian Railway Company's Bill was committed and passed. LONDON COAL AND WINE DUTIES BILL. This bill was read a second time. THE BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Tho Earl of MALMESBURY said that it would bn remembered that some attention had been called last ytar to the business of the house. With regard to the questiou of the proxies, he might say that they were the privilege of the estate, and the committee stated that it was quite right that they should exercise this privilege, and he should therefore move that the following new standing order be added to the roll of standing orders :—" That the practice Of calling for proxies on a division should bo discon tinued, and to proveut this order being lightly suspended that twice the usual length of notice be given of any motion for its suspension. Some remarks were made by Lords Carnarvon, Rodes dale, and Lyveden. _ (LEFT SITTING.] HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tars EVENING. The SPEJount took the chair at 4 o'clock. THE IRISH CHURCH. A great number of petitions were presented both for and against the disendowment of the Irish Church. PUBLIC BUSINESS. Mr. BOUVERIE complained that the orders of the day should have been appointed to take precedence of notice of motions on Tuesday. The Marine Mutiny Bill was fixed for a third reading chat day as the first order, an arrangement altogether irregular and unprecedented. If the arrangement was drawn into a precedent the right of independent members would be seriously interfered with, and the opportunities that now offered themselves for bringing forward motion& The SPEAKER said there was nothing irregular in the proceeding, and there were many precedents for such an arrangement. MUTINY BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. MARINE MUTINY BILL. This bill as amended having been considered was agreed to, and read a third time. QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY. Mr. BOUVERIE postponed the moving for a select committee to consider the matter until a future day. IRRIGATION (INDIA). Mr. KINNAIRD postponed moving for a select com mittee on this subject. Ile did so with great reluctance, because 100,000 persons perished by famine a short time ago, the calamity being no doubt accelerated by the want of irrigation. THE IRISH CHURCII.—THE ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. G. HARDY then resumed the adjourned debate. He said the resolutions brought forward fur the dis endowment of the Irish Church had beau placed before the house by the right hon. gentleman in a manner that showed how great wus the issusof the conflict. The debate, as far as it had proceeded, had been carried on with much bitterness, and it was plain from that circumstance the object of the resolutions was not confined to the disendowment of the Irish. Church, but to an attack upon her Majesty's Ministers. (Hear, hear.) The opposition was not confined to or carried simply by hon. gentlemen opposite, but the Ministry had been attacked on the flank by a noble lord who himself some short time ago accepted a seat on the same bench as himself. He felt it one of the highest honours he could attain to sit in the Cabinet of the right honourable gentleman, who now was the first Minister of the Crown, and in order to do so ho could safely say he had sacrificed no principle. (Hear, hear.) The present moment, when public business was much ia arrear, in his o r iuion, was not the proper time for the bringing forward of such an abstract reso lution as that submitted by the right hon. gentleman--(hear, hear) —because the present Parliament could not pledge that which was yet to assemble. The question had been suddenly started—(hear, hear)—it had taken the people by surprise, and he felt that her Majesty's Government could not be condemned for asking time before a matter of such great importance was decided. (Hear, hoar.) Although the matter had not yet become fully known to the country already the rustle of petitions had been heard, and he felt certain that when it became more generally known not only would the number of those petitioners increase, but that increase would include briny members of the Nonconformist body. (Hear, hear.) The Government had been condemned fornot meeting the motion with a direct negative—(hoar, hear) —but he might say for himself that he was not all indisposed to take such a course; on the contrary, he was perfectly ready and pre pared to do so. The right hon. gentleman then went on to comment in strong terms on a letter which the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Gladstone) wrote to one of his con stituents in 1865. The writer, in answer to an inquiry as to his views upon the Irish Church, went on to say "the question was so remote that it was quite out of reason to suppose it would arise for a very long time." (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") The letter ho had alluded to he had received from the office of one of the daily newspapers, and if the right hon. gentleman would deny that he had ever written to the effect stated he would at once withdraw the letter. (Mr. Glad stone here asked for the letter, which Mr. Hardy at once handed to him.) If it was true that the right hon. gentle man had written the letter, he could only say that the opinion which he entertained on the subject of the Irish Church had not been very generally known. (Hear, hear.) At all events it was but fair to say that his new born zeal had only existed since 186.5. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) It might be said he was now descending to personal motives, but he would ask, were no personalities cast at her Majesty's Government last night ? Why the most envenomed shafts were aimed at tLetn with most unmistakable intention. (Hear, hear.) lie was of opinion that the resolutions proposed a most uncalled for attack, and it was one that would bring about a state of things few had had the courage to contemplate—it would inflict a great wrong on all those by whom, this country was bound .by religion, by blood, by treaty, and by compact. (Hear, hear.) A great authority in the house in former years had declared that the disendowment of the Esta blished Church in Ireland would make private property unsafe, and had not events shown how property held by lay corporations was not by any means secure. But how did they propose to deal with the rights of the laity in the matter—(bear, hear). — it was a lay question. They might pay off the clergy, but how would they deal with those who had a vested interest in these funds—(hear, hear) how were they going to compensate those for the interest ;yo wishol to deprive them;? (LEFT SPEAKING.) COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening. 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