The Sun. — London, England, 1868-03-10 00:00:00

~~. HONES MARKET A ND COMMERCIAL INTELTAGENC CITY, Two O'CLOCK. There were no bullion operations at the Bank of England yesterday. The City of Buenos Ayres has arrived with 4723,200 from South America. The fortnightly settlement in the Stock Exchange commences to-morrow (Wednesday) and concludes on Friday. The report of the National Bank of India announces that the available balance for the half-year ending with 1867 amounts to £23,792, out of which it is proposed to pay a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. Per annum, with a bonus of 1 per cent. This distri bution will leave £2,200 to be added to the reserve, and £3,064 to be carried f orwar d. "Th e di rectors have much satisfaction in stating that no bad debts have b een i ncurred dur i ng the half-year. The large amount of deposits shows how rapidly the bank has established itself in the confidence of the public, and the directors anticipate that when trade shall have reovered from the present depression, the results will be still more satisfactory. One of the directors has visited the Bombay and Calcutta branches during the half-year, and report both those offices to be in a high state of efficiency. The transfer of the head office from Calcutta to London has been completed." The traffic receipts of the Great Western of Canada for the week ending the 6th instant, show a decrease of £5,338, in consequence of au interruption to traffic by snow. A meeting of the contributories of the Financial Insurance Company (Limited) will be held at the offices of Messrs. C. F. liemp, Carman, Ford, and Co., on Friday, March 20, for the purpose of receiving a report from the liquidators of the said company as to the progress of the liquidation up to the present time. At this meeting the liquidators will proceed to call up the whole of the uncalled capital of the company, and at the same meeting a resolution will be proposed to fix or settle the remuneration of the liquidators. The half-yearly meeting of the Great Western Railway of Canada has been called for the Bth April, When the directors' report will be presented, and a general statement of accounts. The ordinary general meeting of the British American Land Company will be held on the 30th inst., when the directors' report will be presented. Au extraordinary general meeting of the share holders of the Indian Carrying Company will be held on the 17th inst., for the purpose of confirming a resolution passed at the previous meeting for the voluntary winding-up of the company. The city of Liege has contracted a loan o, 12 ,000,000 fr., or £480,000 sterling, at the price of 92, for the prosecution of improvements. The loan is to be redeemed at par by four drawings every year. The rate of interest is not stated. Belgian advices say that although the iron trade is not much improved, it is very far from being so languid as it was a few months ago. Some large orders for rails are expected from the German railway cowponies. The iron manufacturers of Russia have memorialised 'me Imperial Government to place a high duty upon railway engines of foreign manufacture, in order, as they say, that the national industry in this depart ment may be effectually protected. The principle feature in the Stock Markets is a further advance in India Stocks, the demand for which for investment has lately been considerable. In the Foreign Market Italian Stocks have experienced a re-action, and they are heavy. Americans continue Steady at the improvement noted yesterday. Egyptian Stocks have slightly recovered, and they are now firme r in tone. British Railways are very little altered in the absence of operations, but they are steady. The Canadian lines are a point better. Foreign mines are also firmer. Discount is in moderately active request, at 1 to per cent., with fair supplies. The Cotton Market is quiet. The funds show no change, with the exception of a further rise of in India Five per Cents., which are flow quoted 114 to 1141. C onso l s are s till 93 to Rank money an d accoun t. N ew an d R e d uce d, 92 t o k. .uank stock, 249 to 251. Exchequer Bills, lOs to 15s Prem. The Foreign Stock Market is drooping in some respects, but in others it is st ea dy. • Th e c h an ges since ,t night comprise a rise of in Portuguese scrip at 0 1 prem. ; off in the Viceroy's 9 per Cents. at 8 to 89 ; in Mexican a t 151 t o 16 ; a nd in Greek, at 12/ to 121 ; als ew Spanish,o a fall of in at Italian, at 45 t° and of in N 35if to 35k. There is no variation in Turkish, at 32i to 32/ ; iu gYptian (1864), at 861 to 871 ; in the Viceroy's 7 Per . Cents , at 731 to 74 ; and in the Railway Loan, at 00 1 to 91±. American Securities are steady, at yesterday's ad tanees. The 5-20 B on d s are 74 to 71k; Erie, 4911 00 ; and Illinois, 89 to 90. There is no particular feature in railways. The lane is steady, but business is quiet. Metropolitan have been done at 113, but they arc now 112, to 1121, , Ol ' only k above yesterday's pri ce . L ancas hi re an d forkshi re are quoted at 1254 to 1261 ; Midland, 106 to 1061 ; South Eastern, 72/ to 72/ ; London and North Western, 115/ to 1154 ; Great Northern, 10 4 to 1061 ; ditto (A), 103 to 104 ; Brighton, 48 1 to 49 ; Sheffield, 41± to 411 ; Metropolitan, 112 1 to 1124 ; C a l e d on i an, 83 to 83 1 ; G reat E astern , 3 ui to 30i ; and Chatham, 18 to 181. sank shares are without change. The following areA a few quotations : —A gra (A), 10 t o 11 ; Alli ance , to 13 dis. ; Anglo-Austrian, 3;1 to 3/ prem. ; , C hartered M ercant il e, 281 to 29A- ; 161 to e 47 i ; Imp er i a l O ttoman, to 1 d i s. ; London and oauty, 52 t o 53 ; L ou d on and Westminster, 671 to .°81.!; Oriental, 42 to 43 ; London Joint Stock, 33 to ; Union of London, 331 to 341. of I n Fin ance Shares the only movement is a decline in International Finance, at 2/ to 1/. General Credit, 2 to 21-. Credit Foncier, 3to 3k. Poreign m i n i ng s h ares are firmer. St. John del Rey 3 quoted at 17 to 18, being an advance of 1 •, and ehontales are g better, at. 1 to I dis.; Port Philip steady at 1 to 11. }'ln Miscellaneous Securities business is quiet, but aces are, on the whole, steady. Anglo-American f'ersraph is higher, at 211 to 211 ; Atlantic Tele 141Pu 8 per Cent., 5 1-16 to 5 3-16 ; Hudson's Bay, I\ T ! .to ; London General Omnibus, to 2 ; Ocean I,tulne Insurance is 1 lower, at 14 to 15 ; and Uni -1;NI Marine 1, at Ito dis.; but Thames and "Lersey iS / better, at 2/ to 24 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES 8 GO VERNMENT FUNDS. SrP ()out. Console a Do..A.ccount, April 2 _ Per Cent. Reduced 92 1 1 ;, e w ,W 3 per Cent 92 4 1 " 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894..., — 4 no. 5 per Cent. J an. 1873 — h nuities l yBO vrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 D — xd . 0 . for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — 1, 0 (Red Sea Telel.raph), An,. 1908 — t chequer Bill s , £ l,OOO, 2 per et ' . Do £SOO .£2OO 9 'ank of En g l an d St oc k , 41 per Cent pin 2501 Do. Account_. INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIE S . 11 04 Stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 110 . Account D o. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 " ,0. 40 . Ce prtificates ec Cent., Oct. 1888 O. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent B7 13 r ,e• 5 per Cent., J an . 1872 1 -,` ) . 5 / per Cent., M a y 1879 — Do --13 Cent. , 5 Per Rup. Deb., 1872 — . do. 1877 — ? D o. do. 1882 — )`•• Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 — " ,o. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £ 1,000 0 . under £l,000 & t rOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. .Bentine Republic, 6 per Cent — lnitrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 1859 — Wilian 5 per Cent — 0 0 ' 4 4 Per Cent., 1852 — h O . do., 1858....• — D o "°• d0 ., .' 1860 — Do , do., 1863 — 11ip0 per Cant, 1865 ....0 Account 7ll 1 1 , wt 0 8 i, Ayres 6 per Cent — e i y o 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) % i n 6 Per Cent. int% 6 Do. , per Cent — 1) 1' %I per Cent -- e,. 6 Per Cent, B — D o '1 1867 i)t:34niial,b7japte,r ,Cent., 1866 )1 ''' rip £32 paid 6 per Cent. 11) 4 1 1 ) 1 ., 3 per Cent., 1825 .. 4t o 2ela Principalities, 7 per Cent 651 411 7 Per Cent., 1867 4 8 r,t9 r New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — irblar i, 7 -, , per uent — D ° ; •)ecoud Issue sB34 41 Do, .f590 Bonds £l.oe Bonds B6 1::, 1864 Do. 87 b0 . .E5' ) 0 Bonds (4°(;, 4100 Bonds „,.. 881 441.verurnent Rail way Debentures . ... 904 D r ,"' 5 , Per Cent 1824 . -5, ex Coups — T.,'"' ACCOIIIIt " , 'O. uou _ q Do. Acc ount t to lkteTn ale ' r t per Cent It !I•4llrasG ' ' in a.4 , Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., £25 p _ Do i ' Per Cent., 1865 Account 114x°' karenitnana Raiway _ Ditto lear l 3 Per Cent Du. or Account D o R 1864 — Montem;iPcie! Cont. Anglo-French — k o Ori e j a ,''all 6 . per Cent. e r t , v. ci ra . ` - ti el a terial 5 per Cent 12i t c ° 3 Per C an 321 I ) • Okiferred 64 per 0 La,,,,, A ~thx Narrants (Hectares) Do A ll u Per Cent. 1865 — D o li ceount 764 1 x P e i Cent. (Uribarren) ~i~J~: rcll 9. norning, Princess attended eenwich- f Wales )rton. )t. Ellis, erd ay. .ES TO mday. iblin has is recep- :ce" was flionable 3hylock, a. The lendour, e intro of the led with part of end ap eed only passion shed re all that speech' ill be re of Mr. the part gentle wiil ap the en as Rob ose, the it to a aliraited [-nprove )g post an—the fled the 'ore the to abo- 7, as it not re- British be pro persons in Lon- I in the irnposi as pre ortuue- Ls, pre gested, should astral own in , uld be ml men of this lwledge cal men of Dr. ;icians, et, by actable. in the I your last 16 Iconve - Ltterupt d froul it was )ersono to be , e paid myself )ecially reason• taking ide re sult of pr the sea, I ithout ly and of its tery or ;ritain• OKE. , ct and ning at Sefton, the best itlentau David A Lord host of ervicegi a blur' ) Mark t, IRS. sown to time is 7 gar" iralneso veri id wag" 3ublicly fashion, Prince )f equal ;Ulna! a Ist Ji. ,ers 110 Lnd th e ntionaci ) order o reditoro is been sin ad" outfall saroy de' 51VO arrat i g ° Part ies , e „ntl9 tices for x 'veo in irait 3rs hag s I by ilia Do 44 per Cent.. 1862 Do Account 92 P. 3 per Ct.,1853,'6,'7, '9,'60,'2,'3 2 1'394 I Do. do., 1-67 — Do. do., Scrip, £lO paid —pm Russian 5 por Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 41 per Cent. 1850 Do 4i per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., IY,G2 e .. 814 4 4 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds., Do. do. £Bl 15s. do ~ Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds B7 64 Do. do. £B4 15s. do — Sardinian, 5 per Cent — Spanish 3 per Gen . — Do Account . Do New Deferroa — Do Account Do Passive — Do Acc&unt Do Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do Account Turkish 6 per Cent. — Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 — Do Account Do .£IOC Bonds 634 4 4 Do. 1863 — Do 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do Account Do G per Cent., 1865 54 34 Do 1 por 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 Loudon. French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — Austnan o par Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian. 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutcn . 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil„ — Do Account — Italian 5 per Cent. 1861, Ex. zSi. Do. Account 451 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money 931 f Do. Account, March „ 93} f, CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THANE 3. -410- COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury) SADLER V. SMITH. (Continued from the Sun of last Evening.) Other witnesses were called in support of the defendant's case, and at its termination, The Lord Chief Justice said it would be as well for them to consider what the jury had to decide. In the first place, this was a watermen's race, to be rowed according to the rules of boat racing, and competent persons had informed them that the only point applicable to watermen's races was that with regard to fouling. They had the admitted fact that in watermen's races the start was made with out a starter, and by the common consent of both. There was no such joint consent in this case, and the referee took upon himself to direct what should be done. Let them assume for a moment that the re feree was justified by the facts in what he had done, and no ultra vires being charged, it appeared to him (the Lord Chief Justice) that that was a question of law and not of fact. That being conceded on all hands they need not trouble the jury with it. Assuming that the refer!ee had the power claimed for him, and thitt he had an opportunity of satisfying himself by what he saw that there was an indisposition to start, it might be further assumed that he rightly exercised it. Then came the question, what did the referee order ? He had told them that he ordered Kelley to communicate to Sadler that unless he started the other man was to row over the course, and so entitle himself to the stakes. The first question for the jury was whether or not the communication so di rected by the referee was actually made to Sadler, and upon that there was a strong conflict of testimony. The referee said an opportunity was to be given to start. Was that opportunity given and did Sadler wantonly refuse ? and that was the second question of fact for the jury. Then came the last, and a very important question, viz., whether--assuming that the order was communicated to Sadler and he refused to start—the referee, not having within his knowledge any means of knowing what actually took place, could without further inquiry decide the question ? The whole case turned upon the referee's misdirection in awarding the stakes, and that was purely a question of law ; therefore all the jury need be troubled with was whether the order of the referee was communicated to Sadler, as he intended it should be ; and whether a fair opportunity was given to Sadler to start, which was part of the terms made by the referee. Mr. Sergeant Ballautine said he should ask the jury to find specifically whether at any time Sadler had the bona fide intention of starting. The Lord Chief Justice said he was disposed to assume that in the learned sergeant's favour. It was competent for the referee to form a judgment, and in point of fact he did so form it. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine then at considerable length addressed the jury, contending that Sadler never intended to row the race. Mr. Hawkins, haying addressed the jury for the plaintiff, The Lord Chief Justice, who was suffering from indisposition, and had difficulty in speaking, summed up. He said it was satisfactory to know that the defendant, who was merely the stakeholder, was indemnified, and it was abundantly clear that in point - of fact there was no race, and the first ques tion they would have to determine was whether Sadler ever intended to row. The second question was whether the decree made by the referee was communicated to Sadler in such a manner that he understood it, and could have a fair start. If they should be in favour of the defendant on both those points, he still should be of the opinion that it would not be an answer to the plaintiff's case, and that nevertheless he would be entitled to recover back his money, because the referee stood in the cha racter of a judge; and although he might de cide upon what he saw and upon that which was brought to his knowledge by fair and legitimate means, ho held, and ho thought it only common justice and common sense, that if the referee acted on the information of others, he should give both sides an opportunity of being heard be fore he adjudicated. It would be better if those who were appointed umpires and referees had no pecu niary interest in the matter, because the public looked to them for assistance and information in cases of difficulty, and they ought to be without bias. With a sad want of judgment, but in perfect honesty, Mr. Biffen omitted to see the men put in position, and insist on their starting, but trusted to an interested man to make the communication to his opponent. This case would not end here, and he thought it would have been much better if the men had rowed the race instead of bringing this action. The jury retired at 6 o'clock, and on their return, at 7 o'clock, gave a verdict for the plaintiff. The Lord Chief Justice gave leave to move on points reserved. The announcement was received with cheering. MARKETS—(This Day.) COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE. SUGAR.—The 'market opened with a steady inquiry for both landed and floating parcels, and rates are firm. No. 12 Flavannab, 25s 3d to arrive and landed. Deliveries have increased, and the stock is reduced to 53,300 tons against 70,800 tons last year. COFFEE. —Stock is 14,910 tons, against 10,030 tons last year. The supply on offer is small, and good qualities, being scarce, bring stiffer prices. TEA. —China teas meet a moderate inquiry at late cur rencies. Public sale of Assam have opened with fair spirit. RICE. —There is still a steady demand for Br.liain ; other sorts are quiet, but very dull. 1,406 bags white Bengal in auction bought in at 13s 9d. Stock of rice, 17,900 tons, against 21,000 tons last year. SALTPETRE.— Demand is inactive, but small lots continue to bo taken for immediate orders, at 19s to 19s 4d for good Bougal. OlLS.—Linseed is steady at 31s Gd on the spot, but without much inquiry, English brown rape remains quoted 36s 6d to 37s ; quiet marke.t. Turpentine remains in limited demand. TALLO W. The Market is quiet a:;4256L1 spot; 423 6d all filo month; 43s 3d June; 44s last three months. POTATOES. The supplies of reallygoodciuTlities are still short, but with secondary sorts the markets are tolerably well filled. Prices remain without essential change. Cattle feed in fair supply at late currencies. Sweder, 40s ; wurtzel, 308. Greenstuffs come to market freely, and sell steadily at our last quotations. COTTON. LIVERPOOL, March 10.—Market quiet and unchanged. Sales probably 10,000 bales. Trll SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1868. SHARE LlST.—This Day. OI[DINAItY I A laai AND STOCKS. Railways, Paid. Closing i Price. Bristol and Exeter .... Caledonian ... k.Linbrian Cork and 8and0n...... Corn wall Dublin & Bell ast June Dun„Perfh, & Ab.J uuc • E.London, berip DO. Glasgow ez S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stk.' Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2 Great North of Scotlandl Great Northern Do. A stock • • Do. B stuck 83 15 82 83 2t) 3U 3 4 75 77 70 72 101 103 34 301 6 7 15 6 105 106 103 101 121 I'ls Do. New, is. at 25 pa: GtS, and W. of Ireland, Gt. Western -Original' Do. S. Val. Rail. gua. Do. South Wales Do. W. Mid.—Oxtorcil Do. Newport 95 97 40k itsl 45 47 25 Soj 27 2) Do. Iteraord Laneaehire Yorkshira London and lilackwull, Lou., 13rigli., S Coast Lon., Chat., and Lot et Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lou. h North Wesaero Lou. 4 South Westeri., Man., Shet., it Lincoln! Metropolitan Do. New Do. Extenaion Metropolitan Distriet Do. do. do. Do. and St. John's Vro Midland Do. .C 9 Share Do, Birtuin.. it Derby Mid tient . i 251 1261 4'4 49 18 184 12 15 115 g 116, 81 67 41 iz 113 114 North British Do. Ed., I"th., & Dun N th. Eastern—Berwic6 Do. G.N•E purchase Do. Leeds ..... Do. York DG. Carlisle ..... lbo. Stook. & Darling. Do. do. 1860-61 North London Do. do. 1864 5 . . Do. do. 1866 • North Staffordshire & S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E , Aber. stock 00. Scot, Mid. stock Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern Business done. 84 S 3 j 2f SC 1 3£ iosi ioi 128 i 484 9 81 )/ DU 1151 1 f So 5 113 12i & ICO Nei i i I IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—LAST EVENING. PIRATICAL VESSELS. Mr. TAYLOR asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any claim had been made upon her Ma jesty's Government by the Government of the United States in respect of the alleged piratical seizure in the Chesapeake River by British sailors during the civil war of a vessel now registered as a British vessel at the port of Kingston in Jamaica under the name of the Lizzie Lina, and formerly the Happy go Lucky, commanded by Lieutenant or Captain Edenborough ? Lord STANLEY said he had caused search to be made at the Foreign-office for such a matter from the year 18G1 down to the present time, but not a trace of any such oc currence had been found. Search had also been made at the Colonial-office, but with no different result. REGENT'S PARK. Mr. 11. LEWIS asked whether the works now going on for the purpose of improving the ornamental water in tl Regent's-park would be completed bt fore the end of the summer. Lord J. MANNERS said be had every reason to believ that such would be the case. SCOTCH REFORM BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. HADFIELD protested earnestly against an increase in the numbers of the house, and formally moved the re jection of the bill, which was seconded by Sir WILLIAM SCOTT. Mr. B. COCHRANE hold the concession of seven mem bers to be very inadequate to the claims of Scotland, but warned Scotch members that if they rejected this bill they would get no increase at all. Mr. SMOLLETT, premising that he accepted the bill as an inevitable necessity, proceeded to eliscuss its provi sions and the question of reform generally, in one of his amusing and caustic speeches. Illustrating his argument by its presumed operation in Glasgow and Edinburgh, he maintained that the bill would degrade the representa tion of the great town, and criticised severely the grouping clauses, which he condemned as clumsy and ignorantly drawn, predicting that the Radical party in committee would so manipulate them that the Conser vative interest in Scotland would not for the future return more than one or two members. After sketching a portentous picture of the House of Commons of the fu ture—a compound of elderly landowners, rich traders, working men, union delegates, and Fenian sympathisers, which would very soon be found amenable to corrupt in fluences—he wound up by an emphatic declaration that, nevertheless, he had no fear for the safety and invulner ability of the British constitution. Mr. M'LAREN criticised the details of the bill with much minuteness, condemning the rating clauses, and showing that they would operate in a disfranchising sense He urged the necessity of providing against the creation of fagot votes, and, in a lengthy and elaborate analysis of the population and taxation returns, he sketched a scheme of redistribution which, he contended, was more consistent with justice to Scotland. Mr. M'LAGAN expressed great disappointment with the distribution scheme. A great opportunity had been lost for rearranging the borough representation, which might include a grouping of the small counties. Neverthe less he urged his Scotch colleagues not to refuse this offer, and warned them that it would be found impossible to dis turb the arrangement of last session. Colonel Sykes, Mr. Graham, and Mr. Crum-Ewing de precated opposition to the second reading, and in answer to Mr. Moncrieff, Sir James Pergusson intimated that the Government had never insisted that the additional mem bers would be seven, and no more. It would be for members who thought that particular constituencies required additional representation to make out their case. After some general observations from Mr. REARMS and Mr. Gramm, Mr. LAING assorted that though the old Whigs op posed the bill because they thought its defeat would em barrass the Government and retain the Scotch vote on their side at the next election, and through the extreme Radicals, more partisan than national in their feeling, op posed it, desiring to keep the question of Redistribution open, yet the real independent and moderate Liberals of Scotland were disposed to accept the bill on the con dition that ten additional members should be given to Scotlam', that the distribution scheme wore amended, and that the creation of fagot votes should be preventel. He advised the Government, therefore, to consider, between this and the next stage, the propriety of making their concessions. These remarks provoked a strong protest from Mr. 2ILLICE (supported by Mr. KEN'ARD and Mr OBAtYP who maintained that the state of opinion in Scotland was diametrically opposed to Mr. Laing's view of it. The Scotch members would not be bribed to ac cept some of the evils contained in the bill by any in crease in their numbers. Ho had every desire to settle the question at once, and was ready to accept whatever Parliament thought just to Scotland, but rather than take the bill as it stood he would wait till the new Parliament. The LORD ADVOCATE, in winding up the debate, explained the rating clauses, and, while intimating that both the amount of increase and the mode of distribution were matters for commitee, he pointed out to those who demanded 25 members that 12 at least on their principles would have to be taken from Ireland—a suggestion which nobody had been bold enough to make yet. The group ing scheme, he showed, was on the same principle as that of 1832. Mr. HADFIELD withdrew his amondmolit, and the bil was read a Becloud time. The Sea Fisheries Bill passed through committee. The Railways (Extension of Time) Bill was road a third :ime and passed. The Metropolis Subways Bill was read a second time. The LORD ADVOOA.TE brought in bills to improve the system of registration of writs, the procedure in re gard to ecclesiastical buildings and glebes, and for the consolidation of titles to land in Scotland. Sir W. HUTT re-introduced his bill for the better credit of railway accounts. Sir S. NORTHOOTE brought in a bill to enable gua ranteed Indian railway companies to raise money on de benture stock. The House adjourned at twenty-five minutes before twelve o'clock. The _Hants Advertiser mentions the death of Mr ‘lontgomery Dilley, the once famous horse trainer, I Littleton, in Hampshire. He trained for Lord George Bentinck, Lord Bruce, the Hon. Mr. Greville, and Mr. George Payne. He was the trainer of 111a,ngo, which won the St. Leger in 1837, and Alarm. He was a wealthy and ben evo l ent man and highly respected in Southampton, where he lived retired for many years, and where he died. He has left considerable sums of money to charitable institutions in that town. He was nearly 80 years of age. AN EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE CONSPIRACY. A case of a very singula r nature l a t e l y came b e f or e the magistrates at the Birmingham P o lice-court. A respecta ble-looking middl e - aged woman, dressed as a widow, was charged, with a man not in custody, with having conspiret to solemnize a marriage, in which the man personated gentleman since deceased, for the purpose of afterwards Rising a specious title to his property. The circumstances, Is detailed to the court, were as follows :—Mr. George Brittan, the gentleman now deceased, was an ironmonge,, and general merchant, who had for many years earner , on business at Stourbridge, in Worcestershire. ni:sc Brittan was a bachelor, and for a number of years the prisoner, whose nam e was Mary Ann Shaw, aliaa Osborn, lived with him in the capacity of housekeeper, there being no other inmates of the cottage in which they resided. On the morning of the 23rd of October last Mr. Brittan died very suddenly, at the age of 75. He had just completed the act of shaving, when he fell back in his chair and at once expired. The relatives were called in, and began to make some arrangements respecting the dis position of the property of the deceased, who was worth several thousand pounds, and had died intestate. To their surprise, in the afternoon, Mr. Roland Price, a local attorney, came into the house and coolly proposed that the relatives should take the freehold property of the de ceased and the half of the real estate, and that the other half should go to his widow, and the relatives were perfectly astounded when the housek eeper c l a i me d t hi s whichin support of this claim pu r p or t e d th a t s h e deceased a t St. A n d rew ' s , about a y ear b e f ore, b y t r h) e rah l od a ud t rbu i c o eci n lee,ndß t da o oumrl t ely h ae r r e s deceased, B e ec a die s rr e n ittdi to the ne gt a ahh n t eea d , m he Rev. J. Hill, the incumbent, in the presence of William `isher, the sexton, and a woman named Susannah Kingdon, who was said tc be her sister. The relatives at once enteres a caveat at the Worcester Court to prevent letters of adnee, 'istration being granted to the alleged widow, and causA nquiries to be made respecting the alleged marriage. A register of such a marriage was found in the register las St. Andrew's parish, in Birmingham ; but when . 1. 1 5 Rev. Mr. Hill and the sexton were taken over to Stour, bridge and shown the corpse of the deceased they both affirmed that he was not the man to thorn the prisoner • had been married, and the incumbent positively declared that no man like the leceased had been married in his church. A photograph •,f the deceased was also shewn to the clergyman and the sexton, which further confirmed them in their opinion. ft was also stated that on the morning after Mr. Britten died the prisoner met a man n ame d Willi am eflnmarriage certifi ca t e , So it a pp ears you although you e n l s d o s m; eh t i o cohn w e l s i oldshemil es e he : or s e h gm e o N a v r e ik d ne d t h, l se name, could not persuade me ;" and the two afterwards went 2. n d had something to drink togeLlicr. There was also indubitable evidence to shew that at the time when the alleged marriage took place Mr. Brittan was in Stour bridge, and had not been able to leave it for some weeks previously, in consequence of infirm health. The solicitor for the prisoner stated that she had only been taken into custody on the previous night, and, as there had been met time to prepare a defence, he applied for a remand for a e w days. This was granted, and the prisoner was ac- Wrdingly remanded till Wednesday, bail being reNficlt _ SPORTING NOTES. There are not many points of interest to refer to in con nection with the three days' sport at Liverpool last week, the Grand National Steeplechase, of course, being excepted? and a brief resume of each day's sport is all that is neces sary for the purposes of the future. The first day's pro ceedings commenced with a walk ovar for the value of the Mersey Cup by Lord Westmoreland's Master Willie. The next event, however —a Handicap of 100 sovs—was a dreadful blow to backers, who were so eager to be on that before the flag fell the odds of 6 to 4 wore increased to 4 and 5 to 1 on Mistletoe, who was defeated in the commonest of canters by King's Daughter, which is an other proof how weight will tell, and bring most classes of handicap horses together. Hilda next cut down the five youngsters opposed to her in the Tyro Stakes, not withstanding her penalty of Sib„ with great ease, and the gentleme❑ who again had to lay odds must have re covered a portion of their previous loss. The two next affairs, the Trial Steeplechase and a Selling Stakes, were too insignificant to require comment. A field of twelve went to the post for the Spring Flying Stakes, but there was a tedious delay at the post, and Chivalry, who, be fore the flag fell, went ovar the course twice, and one or two others who broke away and ran some distance, must have materially injured their chance thereby. The winner turned up in Dawdle, who won a similar handicap here last November, and ought to have had 101 b er 141 b more on her back thi s j ourney . I t would be desirable, — in my opinion, to expunge those conditions of several of the races at this mooting, The Sefton Handicap and The Welter Handicap to wit, wherein it states that horses beaten for certain stakes, and not placed second or third, are allowed Mb, because it appears to me an inducement for owners to start their horses expressly to get the allow ance. It seems quite preposterous that Moonbeam, who won The Sefton Handicap, on Wednesday, should be able, after incurring a penalty of 101 b for previous win ning, to get off Mb of that weight by starting for The Flying Stakes. Chivalry is another case in point, as he claimed 6lb from a similar cause, and won the Welter Handicap on Thursday. The Annual Hurdle Race, which wound up the day's proceed ings, was won cleverly by Pearl Diver, but an unfor tunate scrimmage, caused by Archimedes, spoilt Steamboat's chance, and brought ono or two of the other competitors to grief. Tho Groat Steeplechase attracted an enormous concourse of people on Wednesday—a number, in fact, never excelled in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Very little atten tion was paid to the two prior events of the day, in the first of which, the Welter Cup, Three per Cent., who started favourite, landed his backers by a neck, and in the next Brick upset a great " pet " on Musketeer, who was backed against the field for The National Hurdle Handicap, by a similar distance. In duo course the twenty-one competitors for the Grand Steeplechase proceeded to the starting place, and with commendable punctuality, a few minutes only after the appointed time, were despatched on their journey. Poor Chimney Sweep was the first to come to grief, and in crossing the lane struck his leg; against saara stonework with such fearful violence and injury to himself that Lord Coventry at once ordered him to be destroyed. Every sportsman will sympathise with his lordship, who is not only one of the staunchest supports of this national pastime, but one of the finest judges also. There can be no doubt from the Sweep's antecedents, and the amount of m eaey for which his noble owner had backed him, that The Lamb would have met with a more worthy opponent in him had this unfortunate catastrophe not occurred. The pace was first rate throughout, but a long way from home only The Lamb, Pearl Diver, Alcibilde, Capt. Crosstree, Moose, and The Huntsman's Daughter were in the hunt ; in short, after jumping into the racecourse, it was any odds on one of the first-named pair, who ran locked together until after they landed over the last hurdle, when Pearl Diver's bolt was shot, and Lord Poulett's horse won cleverly, amidst the greatest enthusiasm, by two lengths. The Aintree Plate was won by Dawdle, and Moonbeam's victory for the Sefton Handicap, to which I have previously alluded, finished the day's programme. The attendance on Thursday was a wretched contrast to the previous day, but it• was about on a par with the in difference of the sport, the only event of the slightest in terest being the Liverpool Spring Cup, in which Knight of the Garter left ten others behind him as if they were standing still. He was giving lumps of weight away to every animal engaged in the race, but they were a bad lot, with the exception of one or two, who had not been half prepared, and will do their owners a good turn the first time of asking. Mr. Frail has received the usual amount of supportfor his Spring Meeting, but we fear he will miss the patronage so liberally bestowed upon him by the noble supporters of John Day's stable on previous occasions. The other meetings during the week are of too second rate a character to render it desirable for me to give any advice about. A FRESH MEN. PROGRAMME OF CHELMSFORD SPRING MEETING. WEDNESDAY. Tho Hyde Plato of 30 sovs, for two year olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; five furlongs. The Springfield Selling Stakes of 3 soys each, with 25 added; two year olds 7st 31b, three 9st 315, four lOst, five six, and aged, lOst 31b ; half a mile. The Boreham Handicap of 3 sovs each, 1 ft (to the fund), with 30 added; one mile. The Scurry Handicap of 3 sovs each, with 30 added, for all ages ; three-quarters of a mile. The Essex Plate of 30 sovs, for two year olds : colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b ; half a mile. The Fairlands Handicap of 15 sovs each, 10ft, with 60 added ; half a mile. SHREWSBURY SPRING MEETING. The Wilton Pl a t e o f 80 soya WEDNESDAY (handicap). About half a mile, straight. The Whitehall Handicap of 5 sous each, 2 ft (to the fund) with 50 added. About three quarters of a mile. The Spring Handicap Steeplechase of 150 sous, added to a sweepstakes of 15 sous. each. About three miles and a half. A st st Astrolabe ......... ... ge lb a 12 7 MA ge lb :Noose Doctor ............... al2 6 Orne The Nun ............ a 11 13 Tuscul anum 6 10 6 Daisy .................. a 11 9 Greenland The Lamb ......... 6 11 7 Cameo Northern Light ... a 11 6 Flying H orse Globule ............... all 5 Corkscrew (I I b) Pearl Diver ......... a 11 5 Clansman 6 10 2 Hall Court ............ a 11 2 Helen Despatch ...... ...... a 11 4 Portland Columbia ...... a 11 0 Th a l ass i us Garus ........................ alO 12 O wen R oe 5 10 0 L.S.D. ............... alO 11 Shove Carue... Flandrin .......... 610 10 Woodbury Hill Huntsman's Daugh alO 7 Golden Cross A Steeplechase Plate of 100 sous (Handicap). Two miles and three-quarters. A Hurdle Race Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2 ft (to tho fund), with 50 added. One mile and three quarters, over six hurdles. A Selling Stakes of 3 says each, with 25 added ; two year olds Get 101 b, three Bst 121 b, four lOst 11b, five and up wards lOst 31b. About 5 furlongs, straight. A. Plate of 40 sous (Handicap); winners after the declara tion of the weights 71b extra. About half a mile, straight. RACING FlX'r MA. Chelmsford Spring M lO Shrewsbury Spring 10 West Drayton l2 Warwick Spring Bromley Spring 6 Durham Hendon 1 43 Newmarket Craven 13 Knighton l4 Abergavenny Chester 5 Winchester York Spring Doncaster Spring Salisbury l4 West Drayton 1 Croydon 2d Summer Manchester 3 Ascot Summer 9 Beverley, Hull, and East Riding lO Windsor Summer Chelmsford - Worcester Summer Carlisle 7 Newmarket July 7 Pontefract Reading Down Royal Corp. l5 Liverpool July M. AUG Brighton Brighton Club 6 Lewes Summer ...... Wolverhampton ll Stockton Plymouth Windsor August l3 Egham lB Hastings York August rRES FOR 1868. (~111. Margato Epsom Spring Meeting 24 Croxton Park Northampton tIL. Catterick Bridge l6 Lewes Spring Thirsk Curragh April 2l Newmarket Ist Spring 27 SEPT Baden Warwick September Abingdon Leicester Doncaster September 8 Brecon l4 Richmond Hampton Autumn l5 OCT Bedford 1 ' Bromley Autumn Newmark:A 2d October 5 I Chelmsford Autumn NOVE. Shrewsbury Autumn Leamington and Wary Bath Croydon Ist Summer Harpenden Epsom Summer Newton Hampton Newcastle 23 Bibury Club 23 Stockbridge Alexandra Park 3O Odiham, Stamford Radcliffe ..... Huntingdon: Nottingham July Southampton Goodwood Dover Oxford Scarborough '24 Canterbury Derby Summer Weymouth. Lichfield Tunbridgo Margate 3l ,MBER. Kelso Hendon Monmouth .. Newmarket tat October Walsall West Drayton Royal Caledonian 'Lunt and Western M 'BELL Cheltenham l3 Ealing IsT4wmarket Ileug - htuu 19 Worcester Autumn., 27 &BELL g rick6hire Runt l7 105 107 106 106 74 76 34 35 1011 102 i Oh 614 9+ 95 128 132 130 132 P 114 110 liP 56 58 10‘1 111 67 59 45 47 72 73 ➢ 10 14Z 145 Stained, Wok., & Wok Taff Vale Do. C Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny Waterloo & Whiteha I. West Cornwall 9}72i i k h 64 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. 'British Columbia, 6 per oeut., Deo. 31, 1872.... 100 - rean.Gov.o p.c.Ja.& July 1877-84 Do. 6p. o. Feb. & Aug.. luo 98 100 98g Do. sp. a. Mar. & Sept 100 48 100 Do. sp. o. Jan. & July 100 86 87 Do. sp. e. Inscribed w 100 84 86 Cape li.llope, 6 p.c.1873 100 103 105 oo.Apl.BtOct. 1890-1900 100 108 109 109 Do. do 1880-9 u 100 107 109 Do. Jan.&July, 1890-91 100 106 108 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 98 100 Ceylon, Nov. 1878, 6 p.c 100 110 111 Do. 1872, do lOO 105 107 Mauritius, 6p. 0, 1878, Jan. and July Do. 1878 .. lOO 106 WS Do. 1882, illayls, N0v.15 100 107 109 Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug lOO 109 111 Natal , iov. 6 per cent lOO IC4 306 N.B.Gov.6p.c.Ja.&July 100 99 10 N. S.W. Gov.s p - c.,186e 100 Do. 5 p.c. 18;1 to 1876 100 98 99 99; Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 189 6 100 1-51 961 954 ; New Zealand, 6p. cent 100 Do. 5 per cent.... Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. o sterling, 1875 l9O 102 104 k Queensland Gov. 6p. c lOO 1 0 3 105 Aus.Gov. 6 p,c.1868-9 100 Do. 18;8 & upwards lco 110 111 100 Do. ° d v o . , 6 A P p .° ;?l * & & O j o u t I .! 100 110 112 1121 rossEssiows. Lou Atlantic& St.LaWrence all 64 46 Bom.,Baroda,,aCen.in. 100 1021 1031 1031 3 I gu. 6 per cent... 20 Do. F shares lO 5 fp 20; Buffalo & Lake Unroll all 3 4 10 Do. Preference 100 Butl.,Braut,&Goderich 6 p.c. 1872-3-1 lOO 68 71 at Calcutta &S. E., Mtn lOO st Jape Town & Dock, gu lOO 18 52 .00 Demerara, 7 p.c. per. p all 99 102 at East Bengal, gu., sdo 100 104; 106; at Nast Indian, gu. 5 p.c. 100 IC9 110 1091 ; ; 20 Do. J Extension 15 at Trunkof Canada 100 15; 165 16; 100 Do. Equip. Mort, Bonds 1 charge 6 p.c all 73 62 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 43 45 100 Do. do deferred 100 De. 2d Pref. Bonds all 1 3 35 100 Do. do. deferred all -- 100 Do. 3tl Pref. stook all 27 29 100 Dq. do. deferred 100 Do. 4th Pref. stook 100 Do. do. deterred at tit. India Pen. gua. sp.c lOO 109 110 1095 73 o. G ua. 5 per cent lB 11 2 40 Do. New gua. sp. c 6 If 21 , at It. South of India gua. 5 per cent at Do. 4f per cent lO9 94 96 at Do . 201 • reat VVes. of Canada all 161 165 15; 20; Do. New ,00 Do. 6p. o Bus. pay. 1873 all 98 100 300 Do. 54 do. pay. 1677-8 all 91 91 at Madras, gua. 5 p.c at Do. 41 do lOO 93 96 st Do. 41 do lOO 89 91 69; 20 Do. Fifth Extension 5 at Melb. Cor. 6p. c. 'lnds. 100 50 Mel. & Hobsoc's Bay all st N.Rl.C'ds.,6pcistpf.ba 100 83 65 at Gude &Rhiik'nd, g. 5 p.O 100 104; 105; at Scinde . . lOO 100 101 st Do. 20 Do. do gi. 1 ; Delhi „; 5 100 5 100; 10: p ICOS 15 at Do. Punittub a,n i 100 101 101 st Do.lndus b ° 100 87 89 11111T181,1 MINES. Cara. Coneol. Gold, Um. 1 Chivertan Clifford Amalgamated BO 54 61 Devon G. Cons. (Taoist 1 431 445 Drake walls 2.1.0 4 I East Bassett (Illog an) 294 10 12 :East Caradon 2.14.6 4 5 , east Carn Brea B4 2 2 2 1 'n; as t Grenville 2.14.0 14 last Gunnislake .. 8.3.6 4 i East Lovea . 2.9.0 8 9 E. 19'1 Russell (Tavistk 11.7.6 11 2 1.4 am..lz StA abyn((i wen. 66 4 5 4 Great Laxey, limited., all 17 18 Ureat South Tolgus.... 1.4.0 Great Wheal Basy... 14.9.6 - G. Wheal Vol' (11elstnn 40 18 19 174 Grenville 9.0.6 11 11 tierod's loot .... 8.10.0 38 40 11 ingston Downs .. . . 5.10.6 21 21 Margaret (Uny Lelant 1317.8 6 8 _ Marke Va11ey.,,....,,, 1 4.10.6 6 61 4 Ilwyndy Iron Ore, ira 31 21 11 New S ton North loskear N.Wh Bassettallogan 1.1.0 .... North Wheal Crotty Prosper United......, 8.14.0 2 21 Pruvidenee May Lelant 11,5,7 29 31 S. Caradon (St. Cleer) i la 380 400 'outh Condurrow ',Wheal Fran. (Mogan 18.18.9 37/ 421 Stray Park . 35.15.6 4 6 l'ln Croft V 13 14 Vigra and Clogan, lina all West Bassett (Mogan w. Caradon (Liskeard 12 10 12 West ChivertOn ll 67 69 - West 5et0n......... —. Wheal Bassett 'lllogan 54 85 95 Wheal Buller atedruth 16 16 io —. Wheal Mary Ann (Men. 8 21 23 Wheal Seton Whea! Trelawney (Lis 5.17.0 7 9 t'REFERENCE Bristol and Exeter 4 per cent stock, ARES. . 86 ritrIFER: O N R C : IG S I I N A R RI A G I s L A v :s . irocKs. Venetian, IQ London and North-Western, 5 per cent.,tiog Antwerp and Rotterdam, 01 sSoanutPhaAuluos,tran., and Lombardo G om pe u r ar ee d n o t FOREIGN MINICB. Chontales Gold and'Silver Mining, Um., 31 Pon Pedro, North Del itey, 2} Pm Port Phillip, 11 St. John del Itey, Urn , 17 a DOCKS. East and West India, 124 J 5 BANES. Agra. lim., A, 10i Anglo Egyptian, lim., 10} Bank of Egypt, 31 Bank of utago, lim., 4.1 British North American. 49} ; Chartered , ter. of India, London, and China. 29 81 Consolidated, lonian, Ditto, new. 3S Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 1 5-16 London Joint Stock, 331 London and %I estminster, Ditto, Scrip, 47 I 'Metropolitan Bank, Bin., 7/ National Provincial el England:a Ditto. and :Id issue. 37 Oriental Bank Corporation, 43 2j Union of Australia, 501 Union of London, 33/ 4 MISCELLANEOUS. Anglo American Telegraph, 211 / 2 11 Atlantic Telegraph, 531 4t 1;; Ditto, 8 per cent., 105 31 Australian Mort. Land and Finance, Vim., 41 Berlin Water Works, lim., H Ditto, new, e Commercial Union, Insurance. 5,1 Credit leoncier of .Enpiana. lim.. 31 Egyptian 0 per Cent., Viceroy Loan, gua. by Egypt. Gov., 831 Iniernational Financial .z,ociety,lim.. 3 k Madras Irrigation and Canal (guaranteed 5 per cent. by Government), 103 National Discount company, It 4 11 I'eninsn!a and Oriental iteltui, 571 Dito, new, 1867, 51 6 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 17 161 Telegraph Construct. and Matateuance, Bin., 11/ 15 Thames and 3lersey Marine, Insurance, lun., 1.1 Viceroy of Egypt (3lortgage) Loan) 73i 4 1 WRECK OFF THE NORFOLK COAST.—CAISTER, *NEAR GREAT YARMOUTH, Monday. Yesterday afternoon a heavy gale of wind sprung up from the west with driving snow and sleet. About six o'clock a vessel was seen on the Scroby Sand, and the Birmingham lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was therefore at once launched, and proceeded off to her. A steam-tug also wont out from Yarmouth to her assistance, as it was hoped she might bo got off the sand There was, however, a heavy sea breaking there, and the vessel, which was the barque Sparkling Wave, of Sunder land, laden with coals, has been lost. The crew are for tunately safe, having been rescued by means of tho life • boat. UST. EDIIION SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK NOTICE. The Third Edition of The Sun of last night, containing the Latest Betting and arrivals at Chelmsford and Shrewsbury, was published in time for the country post and for delivery in town at 7.15 pm. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day OW ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SHREWSBURY RACES—THIs DAY. STAND PLATE. The Grind Stand llandicip of 5 sovs ea - 1, 2ft (to the fund), with 50 added. Ab.jut five furlongs, straight. Innerdale Lady Diana Miss Alice. 3 Four ran. MIDDLE TON PLATE. The Middleton Plate of 100 sovs, for two yr olds ; colts Bst 121 b, fillies Bst 81b; winners of 100 sovs olb, twice 71b extra. About half a mile, straight. Palmitin° Esher a Wiz ran. SHROPSHIRE CUP. The Shropshire Spring Cup (handicap) of 150 sovs, added to a sweepstakes of 15 sovs each. About one mile and a half. ruont Orno Feodor 3 HURDLE RACE. The Spring Hurdle Rice Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2 ft (to the fund), with 50added. About two miles and a quarter. Mrs. Allan 1 Nu Endsleigh Five ran. WELTER HANDICAP. ---- The Welter Handi cap o f 5 sous eac h , 2 ft (to the fund) with 50 added. About seven furlongs. Rhymer Squire 2 Confederate SEVERN STEEPLE. Tho Severn Steeplechase Plate of 100 sovs, added to a handicap of 10 sovs each, 3 ft. About two miles and a quarter. Woolbury Fan.• 2 Benazet 3 Four ran. CHELMSFORD RACES—Mrs DAY. TRIAL STAKES. Tho Trial Stakes of 54143.aeb, with 25 added ; two year olds Gst 71b, throe Sat nig four 9st 121 b, five add up wards 10st. Three-quarter's of a mile, straight. Lupus . Cater . Aqua Marine.. 1 3 Six ran. STAND PLATE. Marquis of Worcester . Veui.... Coruot 2 &von ran. BELHUS SELLIN( RtICE. The Belhus Selling Race of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ; two war olds 7St 31b, three 9st 31b, four lOst 31b, five, six and aged lOst 81h ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. Half a mile, straight. Simple Simon ..... 1 Lupus 2 Brine Nine ran. CHtLMER HANDICAP. The Chelmer Handicap of 15 sovs each, 10 ft. About one mile, straight. 45 subs. Artesian 1 Thorndyke 2 Ettrick Twelve ran. TWO YEAR OLD PLATE. The Two Year Old Plate of 100 sous ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies, Bst 71b. Half a mile. Amadou 1 Lampoon Lelia . . SWEEPSTAKES. A S weepstakes of 10 sous each, 2 ft (to the second), fo.t two year olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b; half a mile. Topsy Lc VICTORIA CLUB BEITING-THIS DAT. CITY AND SUBURBAN. 100 to 9 egst Blinkhoolio (offered) 12 to 1 agst Nemea (offered) 100 to 6 agst May/lower offered, take 20 to 1) 100 to 3 agst Lady Rosehill (taken) NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STALES. 100 to 7 agst Mandrake (offerel) 100 to 6 agst Leap Year (offered) 100 to 6 agst Ackworth . (ofiered) CHESTER CUP. 14 to 1 aget Viridis (taken) 40 to 1 agst Caithness (offered—take 50 to 1) 50 to 1 agst Bracken (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Planet (taken) ONE THOUSAND. 3to 1 agst Lady Elizabeth (offered) TWO THOUSAND. sto 1 aget R , osizrucian (taken and offered) 11 to 2 agst Pace (offered) 6 to 1 agst Formosa (offered) 8 to 1 agst Green Sleeve (offered) 10 to 1 agst Typhoeus (taken) 18 to 1 agst Vale Royal (offered) 25 to 1 agst See Saw (offered—take 30 to 1) DERBY. 6to 1 agst Lady Elizabeth (offered) Bto 1 agst Rosicrucian (offered) 11 to 1 agst Green Sleeve (taken) 12 to 1 agst Pace (offered) 18 to 1 agst Typhoeus (taken) 40 to 1 agst See Saw (taken) 66 to 1 agst Betrayal (offered—take 1000 to 16) LATEST BETTING AT THE ROTUNDA CLUB. CITT A-ND SUBURBAN. 12 to 1 agst Blinkhoolie (taken) 14 to 1 agst Nemea (taken) 16 to 1 agst The Breach (taken) 20 to 1 agst Cheltenham (taken) 20 to 1 agst Franchise (taken) CHESTER CUP. 15 to 1 agst Viridis (taken) 20 to 1 agst Beeswing (taken) 25 to 1 agst Dalby (taken) 25 to 1 agst Weather Star (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. sto 1 agst Rosicrucian (offered) sto 1 agst Pace (taken) 6to 1 agst Formosa (offered) Bto 1 agst Green Sleeve (offered) DERBY. sto 1 agst Lady Elizabeth (offered) 16 to 1 agst Suffolk (taken) ROTUNDA CLUB AND COMMISSION EXCHANGE. Three Doors from Blackfriars Bridge, Surrey Side, IS NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS. Annual subscription, Five Shillings. Applications for membership should be made to the Secretary, 3, Black friars-road -....-_,--- SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This Day. - - GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, March 9--Lord J. Russell, steamer, from Dun kirk; Eliza Reid, from St. Michael's; Alpine Crag, from Kustendji ; Stirling, from Smyrna; Banff, from Licata; Adele, from Girgenti; Fort Regent, from Manilla ; Regina, from Caen ; Undine, from Alozandria ; Princess Royal, from Villavicosa; Aurora, from Carolinensiel ; Louisa, n from Wilmington ; Excel sior, from Cochin. Arrived, March 10—Torbay Lass, from Trieste; bells, from St. Michaol's; Julia, Trial, Mary Ann, I and London— all from Guernsey ; Rivoli, from Cardenas • Eleanor and Jabia, both from Caen; Titania, from Rouen Josephine, from Lisbon; Flecha, steamer, from Ghent Fy en oord, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Druid, steamer, from ; G ib ra lt a r; John Bull, steamer, from H avre ; Rhine, steamer, from Ostend. - • Sailed, March 9—Velasquez, steamer, for Malaga; Vigilant, steamer, for Calais. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed—Anglo-Indian, ship, from London, for Bombay Priscilla, brig, from Palma, for London. Most of the outward-bound are weighing for the west ward. VACIIER'S PARTAMENTARY COMPANION never came out more promptly or more opportunely than it has just no w d one in its is,uo for this current mon th of March, in which are given all the changes consequent upon th.) formation of Mr. Disraeli's Ministry. As the pocket companion of members and journalists, the little brochure is without a rival, ant is therefore always especially welcome, carefully revised and corrected as it is throughout. IMPERIAL PAR LI ANENT HOUSE OF LORDS—Tors EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at five o'clock. The Court of Appeal Chancery (Despatch of Business) Amendment Bill passed through committee. The Public Depo s it s (Extra 1 - I . 2ceipts) Bill was read a third time. The lii‘gistration of Writs (Scc tland) Bill was seid a third time. BUILDING ENDOWMENTS BILL. Lord REDESDALE gave notice that on Friday next lie should ask what course the Govern ment intended to take with regard to this bill, as he thought it desirable that their lordship. should be in formed of what was intended to be done with the building ground in Victoria-street, IVestminster. The house then adjournA. lIOUSE OF CO:UNIONS—TiIIs EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. SALFORD HUNDRED AND MANCHESTER couras OF RECORD BILL, On the motion for the reading of this bill a second time, Mr. CHEETHAM moved as au amendm e nt th a t i t b e read a second time that day six months. The house divided, when there appeared— For the second reading lO4 Against it Majority in favour of the bill COVENTRY ELECTION PETITION. The following members were nominated as a committee to try the merits of the petition presented against the late return for Coventry :—Mr. Corrance, Mr. Groenall, Mr. R. Hodgson, and Mr. P. Urquhart. REPRESENTATION OF. BRISTOL. Mr. POWELL presented a petition from Bristol, signed by between seven and eight thousand persons, praying the house to declare the seat now held by Sir Morton Peto vacant. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. In reply to Mr. W. LESLIE, Lord R. MONTAGU said it was not the intention of the Government to bring forward any measure to roader more compulsory the isolation of persons suffering from small pox or scarlet fever. Tho law as it at present stood was quite sufficient for the safety of the public. THE STATE OF IRELAND. Mr. MAGUIRE then rose to move the following rose ! lution :—" That this house will upon resolve itself into a committee, with the view et taking the condition and circumstances of Ireland into immediate consideration." He said, in bringing forward this subject, he had to ask for the indulgence of the house whilst he did so, be cause it was a motion of the gravest description.. He thought the time had arrived when the condition of Ireland might be considered irrespective of party and sectarian feeling, because at that particular time its towns were now such as only could be com pared to a beleaguered place ; its barracks were crowded with soldiery, and there were in addi tion to all that a force of 13,000 constabulary, all armed with the most deadly weapons known to military authorities. The station-houses of the constabulary were being loopholed—there were gunboats in the rivers, and there was " watch and ward" all round the coast in looking out for suspicious cruisers. (Hear, hear.) They had had trials in all the courts, and also by commissions. Thera was unusual searching of houses, the ransacking of whole streets in search for arms; and, to crown all, the Constitution was suspended. Any man now who spoke freely his mind on the present condition of Ireland was looked on with suepicion, and, in fact, such was the stet° of personal liberty in that country that it was to be equalled only by that enjoyed by the subjects of the Emperor of Morocco or the Kin.- of Abyssinia. (ffear,• hear.) Th e state of Irela'nd in 185 1 was nut to be at all compared to what it was in 1867, and it was altogether ridiculous to contrast the state of things of these two periods. It appeared to him that from human causes alone the pro luctive power of the country was going beck, and the reason for such a state of things was that the farmers were beginning to lose befit from a want of security, and withheld their means from those laadlords who were not guided by a higher law than Parliament enacted. The towns of Ireland were falling to decay; of course he excepted such places as Dublin, Cork, Waterford, Limerick, and one or two others, but with that exception a sense of despair seemed to fill the minds of the traders in the other towas, and their only hope appeared to be in emigration to other lauds. And what was the state of Irish feeling at the present moment ? If he said there was lgeneral discontent, he thought he should be using a mild definition of it, but if he said there was almost universal disaffection ho should be a great deal nearer the truth. He did not say Parliament was responsible for all that existed, but for a great deal of it, and it had in a great measure been brought about by the attempts made by England to blot out the history of Ireland. (Cheers from the Irish benches.) What had England done for Ireland since she had assumed the responsibility brought about by the Union. Why, the manufactures of the country have been destroyed, and trade and comm , rot : lam t . annihilated ; and, then, how was the Union brought about ? Why, its perpetration was dark and hideous. It was effected through terror of false promises and corruption, and all the great and brilliant inducements made at the time had been totally and systematically dis regarded. Cork had been promised docks and arsenals, but we should like to know when it was likely they would be erected. Other and great pro mises had been made for other places, but like all that he had said, they were altogether passed over and totally dis regarded. One of the great grievances of Ireland was the state of land tenure. (llear, hear.) He had spoken seine time ago to an American gentleman who inquired the reason that the land was not so freely cultivated as it ought to be, and when he was told that the great want was security by 1 eases, he said such a thing was an almighty grievance, and that they would deal with such a system in the country at the other side of the Atlantic by revolu tion. He (Mr. Maguire) did not go to that extremity—he did not think that revolution was the great panacea for national suffering—(hear, hear)—ho had a strung hope in the wisdom of the people, and in the wisdom of those who occupied important positions in Parliament. Let them but bring forward measures to improve the great and crying evil that existed in respect to the tenure of land in Ireland, and a great thing would be done towards destroying that feeling of disaffection and discontent that existed—(heer, hear)—, though that groat but unfortunate country, whimli instead of being one of the most glorious appen dages of the British Crown was a constant thorn in the side of Great Britain. (Hear, hoar.) Too many in Ireland held their property at the will of others—(hear, hoar) -and until that state of things was altered—until Ireland was pacified—which she could only be by having justice done her. Until that was done it was hopeless to hope for a restoration of tranquillity and contentment in the country. iLEFT SPEAKING.] LONDON GAZETTE-THIS EVENING. INDIA OFFICE, lancir 9. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Frederick Augustus Barnard Glover, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service, to be a Judge of the MO Court of Judicature at Fort William, in Bengal. INDIA OFFICE, Man= 9. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Duarkanath Mitter, Esq., to be a Judge of tho High Court of Judica ture at Fort William, in Bengal. Foreign Mail Packet List. '.MAILS DUE. Atistralia and New Zealand, via Southampton...... March 28. Ditto, via Marseilles 22. Ditto, via Panama Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video April 6. ". Ditto, by Frenoh packet Cape Verde, by Brazil packet Cape of Good Hope, A scension, and St. Hal' u. ****. ** * * ............. e 22. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton March 21 Ditto, via , Aarstilles. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India. via Southampto n ................ March 25. Malta,March 25. Dlt E to g , y v p ia t, M ao ar7 . ll .. e .. ...... ............. March 9, Ditto, Marseilles March 9 Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Marsh 21. Ditto, Marseilles Marsh 15. Newfoundland Portugal April 6 Ditto, by pr,‘ r.is ship to Oporto . • Ditto z ,tto to Lisbon United States, t auada, California, &0., by British _ -------- packet .. — . March 9 Ditto, by I lifted States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto 'Ncw York) .. ....... Ditto ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet .....March 13. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife March 18. West Indies and Pazific (except Mexico and Baha- raas) -- Cuba and Mexico March 16. March 10. Bshamas, via New Y .. .. .. Bermuda, via Halifax . The Price of Gold. The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 25f. 12;c. per .£1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 Os. 104 d. p er ounce fol. standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly twl-tentipt delrer in i>lr , q , imn in London. EXPORTS OF MACIIINERY.—During the past year the foreign and colonial demand for British steam engines was tolerably good, the value of the exports in the 11 months ending November 30 being £1,829,578, as com pared with £1,611,142, to the corresponding date of 1866, and £1,797,435 in the first 11 months of 1865. It is worthy of note that a decrease, instead of an increase, would have been observed in the demand for British steam engines last year but for the very argo deliveries of locomotives to the Indian railway companies. Thus, the value of the steam engines sent to British India to November last year was no less than £357,627, as compared with £157,987 in the corresponding period of 1866, and £271,298 to the corre sponding date of 1865. The exports of other British ma chinery remained about stationary last year, having at tained a total of £2,781,928 to November 30, as against £2,785,90 8 in the first 1t months of 185 G, and £3,015,219 to the corresponding date of 18 ;5. In the ten years end ing 1866 inclusive the value of the steam engines exported from the United Kingdom was as follows : 1857, £1,069,2 i 9; 18, - 8, £1,097,278; 1859, £973,310; 1860, £1,238 ; 333 ; 1861, £1,258,164; 1862, £1,624,876 ; 1863, .£1,59:,036 ; 1864, £1,617,117 ; 1865, £1,958,033 ; and 1866, £1,7.;0,492. The wholeperiodthe sf subjoinedexports of h : ,180 o 7 t , . :r m 2 ,Bt :c 4 l, ,4 h 2 i r y (luringlBsB, x2, t 5 h 0 0 2 same ; 1 • 1859, £2,757,961; 1860, £2,599,488 ; 1861, £2,955,006 ' • 1862, £2,467,797 ; 1863, £2,772,976; 1864, £3,231,175 1865, £3,261,100 ; and 1866, £2,998,692. Shire