The Sun. — London, England, 1853-03-24 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SPORTING NOTES.—No. CCCXCVI. The list of probable starters for the Great Northamp tonshire Stakes which was published yesterday requires a little: correction. From in‘ormation received, as po 'kerne; a say, I have reason to believe that Molasses will supers, ?.de Termagant as the representative of Low Clifdem's interests, that Butler's horse will be Gossip, and th at Lucio and Lampedo will have to be added to the ilst of starters. Lucio was backed for a goodly sum Yesterday at the West-end-3,000 to 100 taken in the first ins tance, 5,000 to 200 afterwards, and a sprinkling of smaller investments were made at 25 and 20 to 1, the latter the extreme laying price this morning. Count Batthyany's chance with his brown son of Charles the Twelfth and Conflict, Hambletonian, is, in my opinion, ground and condition considered, a very fair one ; and I think I may safely recommend the Count's nomination as being the best in the "long shot" department. Young Bradley will have the mount. I have as yet been unable to discover which is to be the Fyfield horse; the public have backed the Confessor, but it was ru rnoured about last night that The Dandy would turn out to be the animal. Defiance still maintains his position as first favourite, there being no lack of layers, however, at the price, 9 to 2. Hobby Horse is anything but firm ; a very little opposition would send him to the rightabout. To-morrow I shall publish as complete a list, as under existing circumstances is obtainable, of the major portion of the horses preparing or intended for their North amp ton engagements. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. DERBY STEEPLECHASES, &c. WEDNESDAY. The HURDLE RACE HANDICAP of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added, the second to save his stake. 2 Miles. 10 Subs. Mr. Mundy's The Hero, aged, 9st 121 b ...(C. Boyce) 1 Mr. Callaghan's Geraldus, 6 yrs, 9st 101 b 2 Mr. Saxon's Sir Robert, 6 yrs, I.ost 101 b 3 Mr. Rickard's Sir Harry, 5 yrs, 9st 131 b Mr. Choyce's c by Drayton, out of Spring's dam, 4 yrs, 9st 21b Betting-5 to 4on The Hero, 3to 1 agst Sir Robert, and 7to 2 agst Geraldus. Won by two lengths ; the same between second and third. --- The MIDLAND STEEPLECHASE HANDICAP Of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, ancl_s only if declared, with 100 sovs. added. 4 Mlles. 15 Subs. - Mr. Choyce's Springs, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b (carried 9st 41b), (Holland) 1 Mr. Wycherley's Shinrone, aged, 9st 101 b 2 Mr. Dolman na Ringdove, aged, Bst 121 b (carried 9st 41b) 3 Mr. Balfe's Daphne, 6 yrs, 9st 51b 4 Betting-6 to 4on Shinrone, 3to 1 agst Daphne, 4to 1 agst Ringdove, and 10 to 1 agst Springs. Won by a length ; two lengths between second and third. Owing to a misunderstanding in the directions given to the riders by the clerk of the course, Boyce, from a belief that they had to go thrice round, made no effort to win in passing the stand the second time, and went over the ground a third time by himself. On returning to scale he claimed the race, but after investigating the Matter, the stewards awarded the stakes to Springs, who, according to the evidence of the clerk of the course, ran the proper distance. The SELLING STAKES of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added, for four-year-olds and upwards. Three miles. Six subs. Mr. W., Denham's Bobtail, 4 yrs (601.), lOst 31b (Debeau) 1 Mr. Hi tchock's n Cropwell, aged (1001.), 12st 71b Mr. Hassall's L'Agnean, 4 yrs (1001.), list 31b 3 Mr. Choyce's Nimrod 4 yrs (1001.), list 31b 0 Mr. Holland's Ottoman (601.), list 71b 0 Mr. Maltby's Wild Hero (801.), 12st 0 Betting-2 to 1 agst Cropwell ;4to 1 agst Wild Hero and Ottoman ; and sto 1 agst Bobtail. Won by a length. L'Agnean a bad third. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1853, The figures within parenthesis denote the number of days' racing. MARCH. Leamington (1) 29 Northampton (2) .. Catterick Bridge (2) 29 Abergavenny (1).... ..30 ..31 APRIL. Croxtma Park (2) 5 York Spring (2) 19 Epsom Spring (1) 7 Malton (2) 21 Xewmarket Craven (5)...11 Newmarket F. S. (5): 25 MAY. Chester (4) 3 1 Redditch (2) 15 Newmarket Sec Sp (3)...10 Bath (2) l7 . Liverpool Hunt (2) 11 Manchester (3) 18 Shrewsbury (2) 11 1 Epsom (4) .................. 24 Xdinburgh (2) l2 I JTJ: Newton (3) 2 Ascot (4) 7 liampton (2) 15 Beverley, Hull, &c. (2) 15 Newmarket (3) Worcester (2) Carlisle (3) Liverpool (3) ENE. 22 Bibury (1) 23 Stockbridge (1) Winchester ( 1 ) 24 Newcastle (3) 28 -I,Y. ...13 AUG Brighton (2) 3 Brighton Club (1) 5 Wolverhampton (3) 8 North Staffordshire (2) 9 Yarmouth (2) 9 Iteading (2) lO Stamford (2) 19 Nottingham (2) 21 Goodwood (t) as -UST. I York (3) SEPTE: NWaswick (2) 6 Pontefract (2) 8 bcneaster (4). l3 edford (2) 2O Bedford Leicester (2) 21 17 Radcliffe (3) 22 Egham (2) 23 Derby (2) 24 Eccles (3) 29 Lichfield (2) 30 :MEER. I Lanark (2) 22 Manchester Autumn (2) 22 I Newmarket F. 0 . ( 3 ) 27 I Northallerton (2) 29 OCTO: Chester Autumn (2) 4 Newmarket S. 0. (5) 10 NOVE: Worcester (2) 1 Epsom Autumn (2) 3 Cowbridge Hunt (2) 9 Liverpool Autumn (2) 9 BER. Richmond (2).•••••••"':. 19 Newmarket H. (6) ...... 24 MBER. Warwick Autumn (2)...16 Shrewsbury (2) ............ 23 Aberystwith (3)..Last week MESSRS. HOWARD AND CLINTON TO SUBSCRIBERS. IMPORTANT. —We hear by this morning's post that No. 5 Is a little off. This may be but temporary, but as it may be otherwise, we advise you to hedge at the present fa- Pourable odds, as no harm can possibly accrue from it, and it will be easy enough to back it again if we so advise. No. 4 will be tried so highly that if he wins the trial he can win the race—he is now at 40 to 1. We shall know the. result before any one. We have got nearly every event ready for Northampton, but wait in order to be more certain. It will be a brilliant meeting for us. Fee, 10s. 6d. Address H. and C., P. 0., Coventry -street, Soho. RUFF'S GUIDE TO THE TURF. London : Piper, Brothers, and Co.—The spring edition of this valuable and elaborate record of the turf has just made its ap pearance. It contains all its former features, such as a racing calendar for 1852, the entries and nominations for the principal stakes of 1853 and 1854, performances of the two-year-olds, a list of trainers and jockies, besides a tabular statement of the winners in bygone years; and in addition to all this useful matter, Mr. Ruff has in creased the value of the " Guide," by appending to it a carefully prepared and alphabetically arranged table of the horses now in training. We know not how many Years the "Guide" has been in existence, but a com parison between the edition under notice and that of five or six years ago, affords pretty conclusive evidence of the flourishing state of the turf at the present time. The work which could be well called a " Pocket Racing Companion" in its early days, begins now to assume a very formidable and bulky shape ; but it is none the less welcome on that account, and no votary of the turf should remain without a copy of the spring edition for 1853. The trouble and expense of compiling it must have been great indeed, and it is only due to the energy and ability of the compiler, as well as the public spirit of the publishers, that every patron of racing should be th e purchaser of one copy at least, if not more, for it is as much to the interest of the sporting community, as that of either the author or the publisher, that " Ruff's Guide to the Turf" should not only be continued but rendered in all respects as perfect as possible. EFFECTS OF CLIMATE ON MAN.—In the tropical re gions the power of life in nature is carried to its highest degr ee ; thus with the tropical man, the life of the body overmasters that of the soul ; the physical instincts of our nature eclipse those of the higher faculties ; passion predominates over intellect and reason ; the passive facul ties over the actual faculties. A nature too rich, too prodigal of her gifts, does not compel man to wrest from her his daily toil. A regular climate, and the absence of a dormant season, render forethought of little use to him. Nothing invites him to that struggle of intelligence against nature, which raises the powers of man to their highest pitch. Thus, he never dreams of re sisting physical nature ; he is conquered by her ; he submits to the yoke, and becomes again the animal man, in proportion as he abandons himself to external influences, forgetful of his high moral destination. In the temperate climates, all is activity a nd move ment. The alternations of heat and cold, and changes of the seasons, a fresher and more bracing air, incite man to a constant struggle, to forethought, and to the vigorous employment of all its faculties. .A. more economical nature yields nothing except to the sweat of his brow ; every gift on her part is a recompense for effort on his. Nature here, even while challenging Man to the conflict, gives him the hope of victory ; and if she does not show herself prodigal, she grants to his active and intelligent labour more than his necessities require ; while she calls out his energy she thus gives him ease and leisure, which permit him to cultivate all the lofty faculties of his higher nature. Here physical nature is not a tyrant, but a useful helper ; the active faculties, the understanding, and the reason, rule over the instincts and the passive faculties ; the soul over the body, man over nature. MATHEMATICAL LOVER.—When about the age of 17, Madame de Stael was placed at a convent in France. She was in the habit of visiting a friend who lived across tile square on which the convent was situated. The brother of her friend always insisted on escorting her home, and led her around the two sides of the square. Butas his passion decreased, he gradually shortened the route, until he led her home by the nearest way. The Witty lady remarks :—" By this I learned that his pas -Rion diminished in the exact proportion of the diagonal to the two sides of a square." Probably the most accu rate calculation of waning affection that - maiden ever ?ado. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, MARCH 24, 1853. THE FRENCH EMPIRE. The Paris papers of yesterday had not reached us at t'ae time of going to press, but we learn by submarine telegraph that the Moniteur publishes a decree of the Minister of the Interior, intended to facilitate the transport of articles of French pro duce to the Exhibition at Dublin. They will be carried. free, both going and returning, between Havre and Dublin. The Moniteur announces that the order to set sail was only transmitted from Paris to the fleet on Saturday, evening, that it did not arrive at Toulon. until Sunday morning, and that 36 hours after wards the fleet was at sea. New difficulties have arisen respecting the Pope's visit to Paris to crown the Emperor • the prevailing opinion is that he will come, unless Austria (on account of recent events) should interpose, which probably would deter his Holiness. The corona tion, however, will positively take place in May. The improvement in the transactions on the Bourse reported on Wednesday were not only sus tained, but a further advance was realised in Rentes, both for cash and the account. The Three per Cents., for cash, have improved 25c., and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 45c. For the account, the Three per Cents. are 15c., and the Four-and a-Half per Cents. 30c. higher. . Bank Stock, how ever, experienced a decline of 10f. At the close of the Bourse, the quotations were :—For Cash, Three per Cents., 79f. 25c. ' • ditto, Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 10c. ; for the account, Three per Cents., 79f. 20c. ; ditto, Four-and-a-Half, 102 f. 90c. Bank Stock, 2,680 f. GERMANY. Since the late attempt on the life of the Emperor, the most minute surveillance is exercised clz er, strangers. The Council of War of Prague has condemned three students to be flogged for a demonstration in favour of Kossuth. A telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, March 22, says that the report, current for some days, that M. de Bruck was to be sent to Constantinople as *Austrian Ambassador, gains ground. The funds were firm. The Berlin Cabinet has expressed its resolution to maintain its integrity, not only on the federal question, but also in its relations with England. The intended congress of crowned heads is thus rendered impossible, the Premier, Baron Man teuffel, having utterly repudiated any hostile feel ing towards Great Britain., Considerable interruption to the navigation has been experienced at Hamburg, in consequence of the low water preventing vessels from entering and leaving. The extensive premises of M. Rossbach, at Bar_ men (Rhenish Prussia), containi▪ ng 10,000 tuns of oil, have been destroyed by fire. The total loss is estimated at 100,0001., and 1,000 persons are de prived of occupation. Reports not totally unfounded are current that a schism has taken place in the Prussian Cabi.aet, which, unless arranged, menaces to produce the resig nation either of the Minister-Presi▪ dent or the Minis ter of the Interior, or at least that of the Under-Se cretary of State for the Home Department (brother to Baron de Manteuffel). The cause of this dissen timent is said to be the recent extension of powers accorded to the Berlin President of Police, who, by an arrangement sanctioned by the King, but, as ru moured, without the consent of the Prime Minister, is now made general comptroller of the whole -po lice of the kingdom, and placed at the head of a special department in the Home-office, subject only to the pro forma s uperintence of the chief of that d e partment. Every wellwis▪ her of this country mus t earnestly desire that this dissentiment, which seems to rest upon a point of form more than of fact, may be arranged in such a manner as not to deprive the Crown of the services of the eminent man who, from the month of November, 1848, untll the present period, has afforded so many proofs of his courageous and patriotic▪ devotion to his So vereign and country, and of his statesmanlike and enlarged views, both as regards commercial and abstract diplomatic policy. This is the more to be desired, since the centralization of the police powers in one active and energetic hand seems to be, a measure fraught with general advantage. Under every circumstance this centralization presents a direct tangible point to those who may have to complain of vexatious or harsh conduct on the part of subaltern police functionaries, who were hitherto in a certain measure independent of the Berlin president, and amenable in the first instance only to local authorities. The reports of the British and French fleets hav ing been ordered to the Turkish Archipelago, ac enrn pa.uiod. by the rumours of Count Menschikoff's haughty and peremptory proceedings at the Porte, have caused a most uneasy sensation in Berlin, although no apprehension ought to be entertained of either of these events leading to anything more serious than the further humiliation of the ill-fated Porte, who will be let to pay lets pots casses as well as it can. This Government, according to the assertions of those who ought to be well informed, is anything but disposed to side with the enemies of Turkey, but meantime it is so hampered by northern and southern connections as to render it expedient to steer a natural course. The vernal equinox has brought a renewal of winter under the most distinguished form in Prussia—heavy snow, with sharp frosts. ITALY. Three persons, convicted of having taken part in the movement of the 6th of February, have been executed at Milan. Five-others, convicted of rob bery, had been also condemned to death. Three had suffered ; the sentence of the others had been commuted into ten years' imprisonment. The Pope, at the request of the Dutch Govern-. ment, has created an Archbishop of Utrecht , and four Suffragan B ishops. SPAIN. MADRID, MARCH 18. M. Martinez de la Rosa has been elected Pre sident the Chamber of Deputies b two belonged y 142 votes. Of th of e four V i ce -P res idents elected, to the Opposition. The Three per Cents. were at 43g. TErIiKEY. The Paris papers contain no fresh intelligence ut from Constantinople, b rove that France ha s less the Constitutionnel pub lishes a long a rticle to p interest in the Turkish question than almost any o ther European Power, f or that, "as rega rds the ques ti o n of the Holy Places, France finds herself at present satisfied and disinia and Russia at Con- The Ambassadors of Austr stan ti no ple have requested that Monte the gro same be placed under the protection of Austria, under the in p os ition as th e Danubian principality protectorate of Russia. Th e r umour that the mediation of Prussia. had b een solicited by the Porte, on the question of the Holy Places, is now contradicted. 1853.—0 n and from MAILS FOR NORWAY. Norway will be conveyed m ar a c i h ls , continue, the direc by t s o e sea e between so fo from the United KingdT—oumeGsdES :lAthel2NBdT-I°Zyti. rthoerrwnayot,ieaen. d will direct addressed to Nor rate of postage to be taken on letters _ so on, according way will be is. 4d. the half-ounce, and. d Kin dom for rw a rl rd en ed nla u r n k ti alnfud to the scale in operation in the charging inland letters. This raheteljletclutoetirtiosetshgebpoltaheetheef British and foreign postage on t their destination, and it may either be paid in advance, or the letters may be forwarded unpaid, at the option of the sender, except, however, as regards registered letters, the postage upon which, as well as the registration fee, must be paid in advance. THE LATE FIRE AT DONCASTER CHIJRCH.--The judicial investigation into the origin of the late lamentable fire, which resulted in the total destruction of the parish church of St. George, at Doncaster, was brought to a close on Tuesday evening last, in the council-chamber of the Guildhall, after seven different adjournments. Since the receipt of the able letter of Mr. Braidwood, of the London fire-engine establishment, and the evidence of Mr. Taylor, the superintendent of the Yorkshire fire brigade, the inquiry has been solely directed to the state of the flues. It has been shown by men of nearly 30 years' experience that the flues were defective, and, in stead of their being swept three times a year, they have only been doneonce. Mr. Lister, the coroner, summed up the evidence in a very clear and lucid manner, directing the attention of the jury to another case in point—the fire at Windsor Castle, and alluded to the leading re marks on that subject in the Times, after nearly three hours' deliberation, the foreman handed the following verdict to the coroner :—" In the absence of more conclusive evidence, the jury find that the actual origin of the fire is involved in mystery ; that it was accidental ; but they incline to the opinion that the pro bable cause may be assigned to the state of the north flue, the defective and unsafe construction of the heating apparatus, and particularly the negligence and inatten tion of those who had charge of them. The jury can not close their inquiry into this awful visitation without strongly impressing upon the town-council the lamen tably defective supply of water, the want of sufficient fire-plugs, and another and a more p o werful engine, w ith sufficient hose for sudden emergencies." Mr. Nicholson, one of the jury, handed the following docu ment to the coroner, which was read :—" That the offi cials to whose custody the church was confided are highly reprehensible for not having had due regard to the appointment of fit and proper persons to attend to the fires and heating apparatus, and the care of theme h d u c e generally, which has apparently f or so long a t p 3.. riously endangeredthe safety of li fe and proper v. G R ge a r r s k o i n n , s Eond.rrd TheN Nicholson, s n o a n m , ejsam signed e s Alexander, w ere jury. a n n i e d n e o T r h g e e p Earl of Harewood has promi sed to attend the public meeting, which is expected to prove a most enthusiastic demonstration of the feelings of the county generally. CITY CENTRAL RAILWAY TERMINUS. Yesterday about fifty gentlemen, including partners in several of the most eminent houses in the City, attended the Lord Mayor, as a deputation from many of the City wards, requesting his lordship would convene a special meeting of the Common Council to receive a petition, praying the Court to give their support to Mr. Pearson's railway and street improvements. Mr. MILLARD, common councilman of Bread-street Ward, introduced the deputation. He reminded his lordship that at a former Court to consider this question he bad been somewhat pertinaciously and discourteously contradicted when he stated that the great houses in the ward were in favour of the project. Before he made that assertion he had called upon many of the leading firms to ascertain their sentiments. Not being a com mercial man himself, he had deemed it his duty, as the representative of commercial men, to consult his consti tuents upon the great commercial features of this case, for the guidance of his conduct in the vote he should give. Having been so contradicted, he had convened a meeting of the ward at their hall of meeting, and the petition which the deputation were about to present was the result. It had been signed by 86 firms, constituting 181 of the 205 parliamentary voters of the ward, and 86 out of the 106 on the list of voters for the Common Council. He would read a few of the names on the first sheet of the petition :----Messrs. Leaf, Smith, and Co. ; Rogers, Lowrey, Holyland, and Co. ; Gillett, Foster, and Co. ; Ellis, Everington, and Co. ; J. and C. Boyd and Co. ; Swan, Pearce, and Co. ; Cook, Sons, and Co.; Robert Owtram - and Co. ; J. F. Pawson and Co. ; Kerr and. Scott ; Liddiard and Co. ; R. Salomons and Sons ; George Smith and Sons ; John Mair, Sons, and Co. ; Hugh Andrews, Sons, and Gee ; Westron, Dignam, and Co. ; Robert Johnson and Nephew ; Lupton, Hoot* and Co. • Lindsay, Bristow, and Co. ; C. Candy and Co. ; Groucock,i Copestake, Moore, and Co.; Watson, Jones, and Gibbins ; Berens, Blumberg, and Co. ; John Hor rocks and Co. ; Welch, Margetson and Co. ; Poland, Meredith, and Co. ; Fishers and Robinson ; and Richards and Co. Mr. HALT said the great commercial firms of Bread street Ward were not the only persons who felt a strong interest in this measure. The inhabitants of every part of the City, and every man who had occasion to visit the City, must feel a deep interest in the success of the un dertaking. The Temple, with which he was connected, was part and parcel of the City. The barristers in the Temple and Sergeant's-inn, with Sir Fitzroy Kelly at their head, had signed the petition, and he understood it had received the signatures of several thousands of citizens of all classes in all parts of the City. Gentle men were present with petitions containing the names of some of the most eminent banking, mercantile, and wholesale and retail houses in several of the other wards. He would read the names of a few. One petition had the names of George Hitchcock and Co. ; Longman, Brown, and Co. ; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. ; Whit taker and Co. ; Hamilton, Adams, and Co. ; H. and S. Orr and Co. ; John Graham, Ludgate-hill ; Samuel Block and Sons, Newgate-street ; Hanson, Smith, and Stevens ; Clarke and Sons ; Morrison, Dillon, and Co. ; and Bradbury, Greatorex, and Co. On another petition he saw the names of Streatfield, Laurance, and Morti more ; Boatts and Ellis ; Fisher and King ; John and Charles White and Co. and Baker, Ruck; and Jennings. On another petition there appeared the names of San derson, Sandeman, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; L. de Rothschild ; Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and Co. ; Robarts, Curtis, and Co. ; Barnett, HOare, and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; and Lubbock, Forster, and Co. Another petition, he understood, had been signed by Smith, Payne, and Smiths, Prescotts and Co., and several other banking firms. The petition was not only signed by persons of the first consequence, but ample time and opportunity had been afforded for the full consideration of the whole matter before a single signa ture had been applied for. At the request of his friend Mr. Millard he had assisted in its preparation, and, from in- , formation supplied by the gentlemen of Bread-street Ward, a series of names, twenty-five in number, had been printed and extensively circulated, with copies of the petition. Many thousands of persons had already at tached their signatures merchants, traders, and profes sional men, from Aldgate to Temple-bar ' and from Bishops gate to London-bridge. In fact, as he understood, if time could be given to collect them, the signatures of , the whole city could be obtained in suppolt o the mea -1 sure. The petition, it would be perceived, did not ask 4,he corporation to advance money to construct the rail road. All the petitioners requested was that the Com mon Council would give the undertaking their encour agement and support, and would contribute their fair proportion of the funds required to remove the Holborn hill nuisance, and to effect the other street improvements which required for the public convenience, quite irre spective of the proposed railroad, but which, if made contemporaneously with the construction of the railroad and terminus, would enable the corporation and the company to effect both objects much more cheaply and efficiently than if they had to be carried out by means of a divided capital and a divided management. The benefits the community would derive from the combina tion of railroad and street improvements, in the manner Mr. Pearson proposed, were of the utmost importance to the citizens, and deeply affected their best interests, commercial, social, sanitary, and moral. No man could regard the crowded streets of the city without feeling that trade must deeply suffer from the impediments created by the vast mass of cabs, omnibuses, and rail road vans constantly passing through the streets, occa sioned, to a considerable extent, by the distance of the railroad termini from the centre of business. The city of London about to learn wisdom before it was too late from Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Birmingham, and other towns. The citizens of London asked for the same railroad facilities as the inhabitants of these places had obtained, and they looked to their representatives in the Common Council as the proper persons to assist in procuring for them these advantages, while they were to be had. The Lord Mayor (Mr. Haly said), would recol lect the struggle the corporation had made to retain the cattle market in Smithfield. That questio vex' ta had been set at rest by Parliament ; but there was another, quite as important, to which public attention, they might de pend upon it, would soon be directed. It was impossible for them to permit Newgate-street, and Gracechurch street to be blocked up with meat vans and carts. The ground on which the meat and hide markets stood was, he was informed, in the most valuable parts of the City, and as sites for warehouses and shops would fetch large sums, quite adequate to the compensation of the owners ; whilst the markets might be removed to cheap ground over the railway, and in direct communication with the intended cattle market in Copenhagen-fields. The proximity of the great carcase market in the City to the cattle market in Smithfield had afforded one of the strongest arguments for the retention of them both. The present plan, by securing a rapid, cheap, and fre quent railway communication, would place them, prac tically, close to each other, and it appeared to him of the deepest importance to the perpetuity and prosperity of both. A railroad into the densely populated parts of London, like the City and Clerkenwell, would afford the means, and the only means, of solving the difficult pro blem of extramural interments. By means of cheap and frequent trains, with funeral carraiges at stated hours, the humbler classes might have the mournful privilege of attending the funerals of deceased objects of their affection without the sacrifice of time and money that would otherwise place such a privilege wholly beyond their reach. The uses of the proposed railroad, as a means of enlarging the number of persons who might have the advantages of suburban residences, could not be too highly estimated. This might be called an omni bus line. By means of frequent and cheap trains upon such a line, numbers of the mechanics and artisans de pendent upon the City for their occupation might be conveyed nightly four or five miles in the country,where they would be able to recruit their exhausted strength. and where their families might reside free from those sources of moral and physical pollution which abounded in the crowded courts and alleys of the City ; while the ground on which their wretched dwellings stood would fetch a large price for the formation of new streets, and the construction of business premises which the in creasing trade' of the City would require. Lord Shaftesbury had obtained a committee of the House of Lords to consider this subject, and he trusted that Mr. Pearson would be examined before that committee. His lordship, as chairman of the Society for Improving the Dwellings of the Poor had already investigated the sub je6,, and after hearing Mr. Pearson, and examining his plan, his lordship hr,d pronounced strongly in its favour, as an important agent for the improvement of the moral, social, and sanitary condition of the working classes. The means of facilitating the transmission of letters from the post-office to the northern railway stations, which the project contempl at e d, was an affair of the highest portance, not to the City or the metropolis alone, but to the nation at large, and this part of the plan must re ceive the consideration it merited. On behalf of the p e titioners he ha d to re q uest his lordshi p would name a n early day fo r the presentation of the petition to the Common Council ; and he hoped the corporation, as ad ministrators of vast public revenues entrusted to them for the benefit of the representativescitizensa,nwdowuelduldfeenletthtereda7virteh of a body of petitioners that levity the fi'r said to represent the wealth, intelli gence, bed industry of this great commercial city. gence, an and Mr. PATTEN, as members of the sponsibility of their position, Mr. B nd expressed themselves warmly in the Lord Mayor , a 4,ol,l3rilattroduced gentlemen of the deputation to that, as a member of the firm of J. Mr. WALKER said for many engaged years in exten sive commercial tran eak uon this subject, and he himself well qualified to f;i3 favour of the petition. had no hesitation in benefit upon the trade project would confer imrn n which were now seriously sayinge that ee the execution of the and commerce of the City, of the leading thorough ng impeded connecting imp the the metropolisthe the with the mann- All our principal facturing districts of the country. and if the same b ranc hes of trade were on the increase, facilities'were gra nted to the City as were enjoyed else where, the hp readield by y etitio in ny citizens would not fear com wever, n an- a in- of the markets of the world. It was,o the City, that le condition of successful trade dispensable redress the remedial measures should be adopted to that evils that surrounded them. He must confess growing that he had heard o f no proposal calculated to effect this object except th e g reat measure for which the peti tioners prayed. Mr. LoWRY (of the firm of Rogers, Lowry, Holyland, and Co.) confirmed the statements of Mr. Walker, and said that if the corporation permitted this opportunity of improving the 'City to pass by, it would entail upon them indelible disgrace. It was an unfortunate circum stance that the mercantile and wholesale firms of the City were not represented in the Common Council, and that the commercial interests of the City failed to re ceive the attention to which they were entitled. Where the fault rested, and how it was to be remedied, was not a question then under discussion ; but, as well for the interest of the retail as the wholesale dealer, it behove d the Common Council to look with favour upon this gra( it project, calculated as it was to advance the interests s of all. Trade in every department was harassed in its opt rations by by the stoppages in the streets. Neither cm 3 tomers nor goods could have the facilities of passel .e through the street which were indispensable to the su c cessful prosecution of trade ; and if those facilities wer not obtained, trade, both wholesale and retail, would I banished from the City, to find a refuge in other plat( where they could be obtained. It was an undoubte d fact, that it was in the contemplation of some gres of wholesale houses to form establishments at Manchest! and other manufacturing towns, and to convey th!: r goods for exportation to other ports of shipment u :- stead of bringing them to the metropolis. He wish( ADI the corporation of London might last for ever, for he w: is a warm advocate of local self-government, and an u.l compromising enemy of centralisation ; but he at ti le same time desired that its continuance should be bast id upon its usefulness, and that it should deserve and el a joy the respect of the great body of the citizens. Mr. Ross said that as a medical man of extensive prActi , ce among the poorer classes, he could vouch for the acchtrac of the statements as to the wretched state of their cave r crowded dwellings. In the discharge of his professit)n al duties, as well as in connexion with charitable objects,.. he had visited the garrets and the cellars of the poor, am d although the dwellings they occupied were unfit for th e habitations of human beings, they were often in situa tions which, if opened up as public thoroughfares, wool d yield large rents for the erection of business premise: 3. The proposal to give the mechanical c l a sses opportunati , of escaping from these nests of disease and hotbed of vice, by means of cheap trains, early and late, was :-an admirable conception, and calculated to redress one of the greatest evils under which the crowded parts of ti ie City laboured. Mr. BUCKMASTER (late chairman of the board of gust r dians of the West London Union) confirmed Mr. Ross' 's statement, and bore testimony to the unanimity wit h'. which the citizens hailed this project as one of the greatest improvements of the age, beneficial alike to the commercial interests and the sanitary condition of the City. Mr. KIRK and Mr. HERAPATH, also part of the depu tation from the petitionors of Farringdon Ward, de s cribed the strong feeling which existed there in favour of the project. It had been objected by some persons that the concentration of stations from various lines north of the Thames in one spot would lead to the inconvenient crowding 'of the thoroughfares in Farringdon War d. The inhabitants thought otherwise, as these petitions proved. They thought that the raising Holborn valley, and the construction of the new street from Farrin jdon street, would diminish the present•overcrowding of Lud gate-hill and Fleet-street, by effecting a better distrib ca tion of passengers, and by turning to use Farringdol street, which was one of the widest, yet at the same timt' one of the least frequented, streets in the world. Mr. HOWELL (of the firm of Ellis, Everington, and Co.), said that, unless some measure were speedily adopted to facilitate the access both of passengers and goads from the provinces, the City would speedily lose the high position it had hitherto occupied in the com mercial world. Already many purchasers from the mid land. counties were transferring their custom from London to Manchester, in consequence of the superior railroad facilities it afforded. He felt no enmity against the Corporation of London. He hoped, with a previous speaker, that they would long deserve and enjoy the confidence of the public ; but a heavy re sponsibility rested upon them in this matter, and they , ought not to allow to allow slight impediments to pre vent the accomplishment of this great undertaking. If they permitted the present opportunity to escape, and allowed houses to be built along the valley, as proposed by the Improvement Committee, they would bitterly re gret their folly, to be afterwards repented, as in the cases of Maidstone, Northampton, and many other towns. The trade and population of the metropolis had increased in a rapid ratio during the last few years, and the re venues of the corporation had increased in proportion. The evils and their cure were thus both placed in the hands of the Common Council, and upon them would rest the responsibility, if they shrunk from the duty of applying a portion of their increased revenues to redress the augmented evils which the same causes had pro duced. Mr. COPESTAKE (of the firm of Groucock, Copestake, Moore, and Co.) and Mr. HUNTER (of the firm of Gil lett and Co.) severally expressed strong opinions in favour of the project, and in which opinions they be lieved the leading commercial houses in the city all concurred. Mr. G. SMITH (of the firm of Smith and Son, of Wat ling-street) trusted the Lord Mayor would, when the petitions were presented, impress upon the Common Council the paramount duty of giving this measure their ardent and zealous support. By giving additional out lets and inlets to commerce it would, in this age of pro gress, enable this city to maintain its ancient reputation as the greatest commercial city in the world. The LORD MAYOR said he was placed in a difficult po sition. As the chief magistrate of the city, and the chairman ex officio of the Court of Common Council, it behoved him to be careful not to commit himself to any opinion upon this momentous question, which was about shortly to be submitted to their deliberate consideration. He, however, must congratulate himself upon the recep tion of a deputation composed of gentlemen of the class and station he saw around him. It had been a subject of regret, often expressed in the Common Council and elsewhere, that gentlemen of their high standing, re spectability, and intelligence stood aloof from the cor poration. He trusted that their , presence, and the interest they took in this great question might be ac cepted as a token that the corporation would receive the benefit of their council and assistance. He could not name a day for convening a special court as requested. He believed that could only be done upon a requisition the consult Com m o t n h e C o t u o n w c ni themclerk s frome selves. s a . co H m e pe w te o n u t ld n , um ho b w er ev o e f r, upon this as a matter of form ; but he could assure the deputation that if it could not be done, he would put the petitions at the head of the paper of business for the next court, for both the importance of the subject, and the number and respectability of the petitioners, chal lenged the earliest and most serious attention of the cor poration. He must, however, take the liberty of giving a piece of advice to the promoters of the measure, which was to look as little as possible to the Government or the corporation for pecuniary assistance. The Government, he knew from experience, were very cautious how they promised assistance for local objects. The premier would perhaps refer to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, and they to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who would in cautious terms express his regret that the demands for reduction of taxation left him no surplus for local improvements. The corporation, in like manner, might fairly state that their revenues and estates were deeply mortgaged, as was the fact. He wished, indeed, that they had been m or t gage d to carry out some bene ficial project like the present ; for it was impossible for any reflective person not to see, and resolve in his own mind, that the state of the streets of London rendered it absolutely necessary that some great improvement should be made, and particularly in the locality in which it was proposed to effect this mighty change. Mr. HALT, in thanking the Lord Mayor on behalf of the deputation for the courteous reception and attentive consideration of their request, said that his lordship's last remark called for one observation. was distinctly understood by the petitioners that the promoters of the railway project proposed to carry it out as a commercial undertaking by a subscribed capital, and did not ask, either from the Government or the corporation, any pecuniary assistance. What they asked was, that the public authorities, out of public funds, would provide a due portion of the charge for raising Holborn valley, and effecting the other necessary street improvements in that locality in the manner recommended in the Railway Commissioners' Report of 1846. DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT CHAPEL.—A most inter esting discovery of a beautiful Vestige of Gothic archi tecture, in excellent preservation, has been made be neath the house at the south-east corner of Leadenhall street, and directly opposite Aldgate pump. The arches and vaults on We basement nave been hitherto used as a storehouse for,;, wood and other materials, but the extreme beauty •of the architecture, particularly the sculpture and groi4}ng, led 40 an Anyestigation. After the most diligent research it was ascertained to be the remains of a chapel dedicated to St. Michael, and is described by old historians as " next Aldgate." It appears to be of very great antiquity, having been built by Norman, Prior of St. Katherine of the Holy Trinity, in the reign of Henry 1., and his Queen Ma tilda of Boulogne, about the year 1108, and is now nearly 750 years old. The chapel consists of pillars and arches ; its length from north to south is 48 feet, and its breadth from east to west 16 feet. The walls are con structed with oblong blocks of chalk, similar to those of Rochester Castle ; the arches are of stone, the keys of which arej beautifully sculptured with knots and other devices, and exhibit at a glance the skilful masonry of our ancestors. The chapel has been filled with soil and rubbish nearly to the capitals of the pillars. From the ground to the crown of the arches is 10 feet, and, allow ing the shafts to be buried 16 feet, gives a height of 26 feet to the interior of the building. The iron hinges and casements are still attached to the walls, from which cir cumstance it is conjectured that the structure originally stood on the surface, but that in subsequent years the ground outside was raised gradually until at last the relic of past ages was completely buried. At the southern extremity there is an appearance of an arched passage in the direction of St. Katherine's Docks, the site of which the priory of St. Katharine formerly occupied. The foregoing description is necessarily brief, but a visit to the spot would amply repay the antiquary, or other per sons interested in the study of the remains of past ages. DEATH FROM DRINKING RAW SPIRITS. —Two men died from the effects of drinking raw spirits, on Monday last, at, Cullompton, Devonshire. It appeared that an innkeeper of that town, named Silas Frost, entertained some of his customers with a quantity of brandy, rum, and gin mixed ; these men drank so freely of this mixture that two of them died very soon afterwards. The ma gistrates for the borough have directed the police to look after the innkeeper's house very strictly for the future. JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.--The annual report of the registrar of joint-stock companies for the year 1852 has been printed. It contains a list of 414 joint-stock com panies which were provisionally registered, and of 110 others which were completely registered during the year 1852, as well as a list of 354 of the above companies which were provisionally re g istered but h ave not obtained complete registration. The total amount of fees received at the head-office in London during the year was 5,5451. 7s. Bd.; and at the branch-office in Dublin, 1071. Bs. It is also stated that there were no prosecutions under the act for offences during 1852, but that 78 companies have either failed to make a return of the appointment of au ditors, or no auditor's report has been received with re spect to them. No bankruptcies likewise of joint-stock companies took place during the year. 20 20 10 St. St. St. St. St. 26i 13k' 20 20 60 16 20 5 2 10 5 20 20 20 20 33i 10 20 THE sn AR,E MARKETS. BRITISH R AILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices "Yesterday. Business done thfs day. 29 - 30 (;-4 - - 10, 7i —Wad 21 22 d 3i —*lad 101 105 641 21 22 641 18i —19 i .. - ... i -li pm 8 - 9 , . - ... 5 vi - 4 - 12i —l3 xd 10 - 11 74 8 72 —73 ad 5L 57xdi 73 75adi 32 -- 34 61 -- 63 80i -81 i 45 -- 47 122 --124xd 107 —lOB xd t 901 -- 91 6i -- 7 92 -94 x 13 -- 13ip 75 —76 d at -3/ d 16 —I6A - 1B - 103 A - 104, 1184 119, 2i —3p ad —l4pad 90 21 5i —44 d 3Ad 114 —12 i! 19 21 1 294 30i1 3* 3 dr 744 75 1 43 45 1 50 -- 52 3 1 -- 3# 3 -- 3d 3 -- 3i 9 -- 10 51 -- 53 7A -- 8 21 -- 2# d 35 -- 36 q - 4 d 8 -- 84 3 4PI 48 - 49 100 - 102 63 - 65 64 - 66 710 - 75 13 -- 20 9 -- 10 14 -- 15 3f— 8d 21 -- 22 771 -- 78 36f 36i 12 -13 A 4 -- 1/ 2i l 15 —15 i 9 9j 29 31 9 P 64 L . 694 71 t 28 2scl OS 59 Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost & Eastn. Junct Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct. Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O Bristol and Exeter edonian Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock an Passage Dublin&Belfast June Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction Do. New East Anglian (£25 L and E. & L. & D.) Do. Do. (181. E.& II.) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, Clas A. (late E. U. Sh.) Do., do Do., B. and C East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk & Binning. June Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. and Peebles Edin. Prth. &Dundee Glasgow& S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Great Western Irish Sonth-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds TAncash.& Yorkshire Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackwall Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond. Brigt. & S. Cst. London &N. Western Do., Fifths D0.,X10 Sh.M.&B. C London & S. Western Do., £5O Do., £4O Londerry.&Coleraine _ _ Lndndrry . k Ennisk. Manch. Shef. &Lineln 'Do., i t q Man. & Lin. Un 1 100 Midland 100 Do. Firming. & Derby 474 Midland G. West.(lr.) 17 Do. Shares all Newcastle & 'LOO Newmarket Do. Bury Extension 16 Newp. Aberg. &Hftd ri 3,:ewry & Enniskillen a n Neiv:ry, Warrenpoint, and Bestrevor Norfolk Do., New Northn.Coutdies Un North British , North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., q A Deferre d Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshir,•L . North Western N. & S. Westrn. June. Oxford, Worcester, &I Wolverhampton Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury& Birmg Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock Shrowsby.& Here:ord Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves do Do Do. Oswestiy Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yorksh.River Dun Do. Stockton & Hartlepl Thames Haven Dock and Railway' Vale of Neath • Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford& Limerick West Cornwall , Wimbledon&Croydn Woodford . ..... York Newctl.&Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G. N. B. Purchase York & N. Midland 100 . 100 all all all 8; all LOO all 100 it 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 12 1 100 31 an 100 all 100 6 all 5 174 all 100 100 100 100 all all 64 all 100 all 15 11.1 s 1 103 20 114 100 PREFERENCE SHIRES. 'Aberdeen . . . Do., No. 2, 7 p. e Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5h per cent. Cork&Bandon 53 p.c. Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction E. Aug. (705.) 6 p. Et. Do. (X 5), 7 per cent. Do. (X 7 17s), 7. pet. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2 Do., New 6 p. c. St Eastern Union Scrip Guar. 6 per cent East Lancash. 0 p. cts Edinb. Prth.& Dund Glasgow & S. Western Guar. 5 per cent Great Northn. 5 p. e Do. 5 p. s., Redeem _ at 10 p. e. Prem.— t.S out,hn. & Westn.i Gt. Hants (Ireland) wnetfnE.x E . si (Berkeg ht p. & Great Western, fixed 4i per cent Lan. & York. F. £2O Do., 6 p. e., Stock Lor don and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c Do. Pref. 5 p. c., St Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852 Do. New Guar. 6 p. c London & S. Western, Con. Thirds ..... Londonderry & Cofer. Shares.... Londndry. & Ennisk 4 Shares . Manch. , Shef. ,& Lin , Shares, No. 1 Do., New, £lO Do., £6 ..... Marypt. & Carl. 4 p. a Do. 4i per cent Mid. Consol. 6 p.a.St Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. 4i per cen:; Norfolk Extension De. Guar. 5i per ct Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent North Bri:, , sh North Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, & Wolve7.l. £15,6p. c. Do. Shrewsbury & Birm. New Guaranteed Shrewsby. & Chester Nor. W. (Min), 2 p. c. Do. 5 per cent. South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) f Os. 6d. S. Yorksh. 4p. e. Guar. Waterfd.&Kilk. 6p. c. York, Newcastle, and Eerwick, 4 p. c. Pref Do York & N. Midland, H. & S. Purchaso... .. - .64 los 1106 los 18 19 id , par 6 - 3 - 3g a- -4 , ____ 11,1) IA - 1 1 r 14t - 15 - 19 - 3i 1 ( 8 1 1109 - 111 Si 74 105 107 bxd .50 —152 .65 IT 153 3 ip 104 = 112 t 13 - 8 - 9 101 - 11; 4 —ipxd - ... 148 - 149 22 4 -23 p 109 - 111 25 - 26 1 lip 11 114 174 184 liP 15 16 )ar t p 26i —2 6 i 20 21 i d par 101. - 103 5 -5.; Par p FOREIGN. Antwrp.&Rotterdam lgian Eastn..iunct Charleroi & Erquelin Dijon and Besangon Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension...... Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref Luxembourg Do. (Railway) Do. Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. cent. pref Lyons & Med*erran, Madras [Maria Antonia Do. New Namur & Liege (with I interest Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. o. Bds (fmy. B. &Ams. She.} Norwegian Trnk. 2re Paris and Lyons Paris and OrleaVs Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Paris Caen &Cherbrg. Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Do. 5i per cent. pref Southern of France Upp erlndia West Flanders Do. 5i per c. Pref Western of France._ West. of Switzerland .New Zealand., id 1 p L3i — 2 2 14 i 2 1 p 2 p p 1 1! p 141 8 1 -- 11 1 —2 ' d i p 11 p 2 2i p . - ... 74 - 7 6 - 7 351 - 36 14 -- 15 8i -- 91 171 41-142 p 41 -- 42 32i -33 i 4 -5 p - l9i -- 9 2N P 1 9 --i 1 41 4- 51 par 9tp - par ,11813 x 4 91 90x il 4 30 i 4 31 781 3q x d 126} 110 131 x d LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS Leaa!ng C inpans ,_ondon & N. West. Closing Prices Yesterday. ••• •••-••• . Gt.Westn Do 30 - 31 291 --301 30 - 31 29 - 30 104 -106 521 151 - 153 321 - 331 all 100 all 100 Do Do L. &N. W Caledon Gt.Nrthn. Gt. Westn Yk. New. & Berw. Y. &Mid Do D 0.. . IS. Eastern D 0... Norfolk Do L.& N. W & Midld Stckton & Darlingt. Midland E. Count Do D• L. &N.W &Ln&Yk Do Gt Northn D 0...... ... 1 Lancash Szl Yorksh. M.MClean Stockt. & Dar'ugt Do IGtWestn, 111 -- 113 55i -- 564 27 -- 284 13i -- 14 254 -- 264 19 - T 19i 25 - 27 2 3ixdl .05 —lo6xd 64 - 66 ad .49 —lslxd A 8 —lsoxd 1— A d 32 - 33 11024 - 1031 ReiLwATM. Bed.brd and Bletcbley. Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee.... Do. withouigr Birm. Wolv. do Dudley guar. Do.wtht guar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln gr. 0 per cent. Olstr.d: Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. A Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. C per ct. Manch. Batas. and Matlock Middlesbre' & Redcar Midld.Bradfd Northern twill Eastarn sp. c. Do. 6 per ct. De. Fixeds p c Prest. k Wyre Do. Shares. Roystn. & Hit. Do. Shepth. S t Shef.Roth.and Goole g. 5 p. c. S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do Wilts&Somrst MINES. 1 all Agua Fria 108 all Anglo Californian — p 10 2 Australasian d— 14 p 20 5 Australian 1 all Australian Cordillera P 1 all A—stralian Freehold. par— p 1 all Ave Maria - p 1 all Baden(Gd. Duchy of) par p 1 all British Austrin. Gold 20 13.5 British Iron 4 7 9 p 35 244 Brazilian Imp. (issued at .45 pm.) 5 54 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba 4 - - 44 40 4 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 29 —3O 1 4 Carson's Creek.. par 4 p 40 all Cobre Copper 47 —49 49 5 1 Colonial Gold 24 p 313 14 Copiapo 54 64 St. all CopperMinersof Eng 75 80 25 all Do. Preference 74 —B4 p 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co l4 1 d 43i 20 all General l7 —l9 2 all Great Nugget Vein 2 2 p 3 all Great Polgooth 1 1 p 1 all Lake Bathurst 4 dis— par 1 all Liberty — g p 1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co I d 1 all Mariquita 4d par 10 9 Mexican &S. Americ. 84 9 8a 1 all New Granada p 1 all Nouveau Monde ll p 5 1 Port Philip — P 1 4 1 all Quartz Rock par p 50 all Rhymney Iron 24 —26 15 Do. New 7 8 30 10i Santiago de Cuba 1 all South Australian 4 10 7 Tin Croft ll —l3 284 all United Mexican 6 - 7 1 all Waller 1 all West Granada P 1 all West Mariposa — p lf 1 all Yuba Par —p I JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 924 - 934 93 50 all British N. American 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 2 100 25 Colonial — 100 20 Commercial of Lon don — 4 English Scottish and Australian 24 2ip 12i 20 74 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 44 — 5 p 171 !i0 20 London and County 50 •10 London Joint Stock 100 20 Lond. & Westminster ... 35 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India 50 224 National of Ireland ... 25 a3l Oriental Bank of Corporation s7i SSI 594 8 25 5 Do. New — 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... 48 10 all Do. New — 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp. Co idis— 4p 25 25 South Australia 5O 52 25 all Union of Australia... 76 77 ... 24 Do. New 50 10 Union of London — 40 all Union of Madrid MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Agricult.. Austrlasn.Pcific.Mail Australn. Royal Mail' Brit. Americn. Land Canada Crystal Palac• Crystal Pal. of France' Eastern Steam 1 Electric. Teleg. of Ir. Gen. Steam Navigat.. General Screw Steam. Irish B3etroot Sugar! Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel' Netherlands Land.... Nrth. of EuropeSteaml Peninsular & Oriental! Do. Do. Royal Mail Steam.... South Austral. Land Submar. Telegraph... Universal Emigration 52 - 54 and Colonisation.. Tan Diemen's Land. iii - 24 23i MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Weekended March 24,1853, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. .. IWREAT. 'BARLEY. I OATS. I RYE. I BEANS. ( PEAS. 45S 5a ( 31s 9d 18s 10d 1 30` 10d I 34s 23 its lld DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. I EMMET. I OATS. I RTE. I REAM I TEAS. IS Od Is Od is Od Is Od Is Od Is Od QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 90,268 ; Barley, 63,037; Oats, 21.449; Rye, 127 ; Bears, 6,76 b; Peas, 2,244 quarters. HAY MARKETS. SISITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ Os to 4/ 10s ; clover ditto, 4/ Os to 5/ 5s ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ 13s per load. A. moderate supply, and a steady demand. CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ 5s to 41 12s ; clover ditto, 4/ Os to 5/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 13s per load. Trade firm, at full prices. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ 3s to 4/ 10s ; clover ditto, 4/ Os to 5/ 5s ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 11 13s per load. Supply good, and trade firm. MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—The general demand at this market to-day ruled steady, at full prices.— Beef, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 38 6d to 4is 8d Veal, 3s 4-d to 4s 6d ; Pork, 2s 10d to 4s 2d per 8 1 bs, by l'the carcase. SOUTHALL, MARCH 23.—The supply of stock on offer being moderate, the general demand was steady, and prices were on the advance :—Beef, 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 4d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; Pork, 3s Gd to 4s Od per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, MARCH 23.—Our /market to-day has been firm, and the quotations improved fully 2d per 8 lbs. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 53 4d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; Pork, 3s Od to 3s 10d per 81bs. Quarter old Store Pigs, 19s to 24s each. HAILSHAM, MARCH 23.—The demand ruled firm for all kinds of stock at this market to-day, as follows : Beef, from 3s 6d to 4.8 4d ; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 4d ; Veal, 3s 6d to Is 4d ; Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 10d per Sibs. ARUNDEL, MARCH 22.—Beasts and sheep realised 2d per 81bs more money, and the value of pigs was supported. Beef, from 3s Gd to 48 4d ; Mutton, 4s Od to 5s 4d ; Pork, 3s Od to 3s 8d per Blbs. CHICHESTER, MARCH 23.—The demand for each kind of stock at this market ruled steady, on higher terms. Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 4s 4d to 5s 6d ; Pork, 3s 4d to 38 8d ; Lamb, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per Blbs. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, March 24.—Wind this day at Noon, N., light breeze, and frosty weather. DEAL, March 23.—Wind, E.N.E., blowing hard. Ar rived from the River, and sailed—Oscar the First, Port Philip ; Flora ' do. ; Courser, Valparaiso. MARGATE, March 23.--The Maria and Louisa, from Hartlepool, ran into the Wm. and Nancy, and lost her bowsprit ; the latier received no damage. PORTSMOUTH, March 23.—Wind, N.E. Sailed—York Town, New York. OFF FALMOUTH, March 23.—Crusader, Honduras ; Herman Theodore, Galveston, and both sa il e d for Ham'_ burgh. LIVERPOOL, March 23.—Wind, N.N.E. warra ll Ar r iz a: Ayrshire Lass, Newfoundland. Sailed —St. Lawrence, Montreal ; Coquette, Melbourne ; Mary Town ; Normand° Rueters, Batavia ; Ellen, Panama • Nordskov, Rio Janeiro ; Frederick, Bahia ; Zaleika, Per: taymd Lydia, c o j a ; In H a i o e a r a i o T , 0 u S s t b . er Thomas do.; ; Bpo H sht o e c en 3 l e sf itt a ey y :a 11 , 13 un d eaek Atseanthe, New Orleans ; Arctic (a), New York • N — e - v St. John's do. ; New England, do. ; Agnes, port ; Ann Davies, Castine ; Siam N B ; Snowden do. ; Belcarrey, do. ; Medora, lif , • • Toronto, 'Montreal ; Emma, Newfoundland. a al" N.S. ; JERSEY, March 22.—Sailed—Ellen, Pernambuc o. Newfoundland. SWANSEA, March 23.—Wi nd, Sailed Deton, CORK, March 22.—Sailed—William Bryan, Honduras. BRIDLINGTON, March 2 3.—The Robert and Betsey, Hartlepool to Lynn, has been run on shore in a sinking state. NEWPORT.—Sailed—Aun M. Fester, New York; Ori ental, Quebec. CARDIFF, March 23 . —Wind, N.E. Sailed—Jane and Barbara ,zoN , Hrksa P T.yto a w n i, a s m , a ; Bengal, N Orleans • Lady P eel, New NFlegeeNrUcEYe forMHarchburg2% WEinsdfSld—ArrAlvtel-- GRIMSBY, March 2 a 3 lll .—Wind . , Sailed—Anthra cite, Melbourne. ALICANTE, March Ceres , from Newcastle, which got on shore on the 4th inst., has been sold. 101 - 104 102 lh 6k 4 CITY IMP.ROVEMENTS.' Business this day ad ad ad ad But, while this foray is still in preparation, and the parties threatened are thinldng of revolvers and life-preservers, it occurs to some of the wiser heads of the city that though the part of Robin Hood may draw very well at the minor theatres and over the water, it is rather too good a joke for Guildhall. Indeed, those redoubtable heroes Gog and Magog themselves would recoil from the at tempt to plunder 3,000 able-bodied men of their money in the face of day, not to speak of the nuis ance of the " value received"—viz., the abominable freedom. These persons, therefore, are bethinking themselves of strengthening and reforming the cor poration by more legitimate methods. There are, indeed, measures of this tendency always about, and hardly a session passes without somebody going about with a bill for tinkering up the incurable corporation. Sir Benjamin Hall, we believe, has one this session. .But a movement on quite a grand scale, and eventually rather unanimous, was made in the city on Tuesday. A Court of Common Council was held, the Lord Mayor in the chair, and three propositions discussed with all the spirit men borrow from despair. The first proposition was a bill to extend the franchise for the ward mote elections to all persons rated at 101. a-year ; the second, a bill . "to effect suitable alterations in the corporation ;" the third, a committee of the whole court to consider what reforms are required in the Courts of Alder-, men and Common Council. It will be observed that these three propositions are successively wider in their range, and there was no little diversity of opinion as to the comparative prudence of begin ning with the very small instalment of enlarging the wardmote franchise, and of reforming the whole C9rporation—wards, Aldermen, Common Council, and everything. Some were for a little at a time ; others for everything at once—that is, to have one trouble and have done with it. But the question gradually developed in the civic mind, much as a similar question is apt to bud, to blossom, and to bloom in the genial bosom of a country gentleman whose family mansion falls short of his wants or his ideas. Beginning, perhaps, with the concep tion of a new study, or a larger drawing-room, he successively discovers the necessity of a new dining room, hall, conservatory, chambers, offices, and so on, till he satisfies himself the whole house must be rebuilt, and that, as he afterwards sees, on an entirely new site. The more thoughtful members of the Corporation of London have evidently ar rived at the last stage of this development, so far as regards their private convictions. They know that the whole must be reformed, if not merged in a still larger reform. The only question about which they differ is, whether it is expedient to ask for a purely preliminary measure, the extension of the word franchise for instance, or go for the whole at once. The Court on Tuesday eventually decided on a resolution comprising both the first and the second resolutions. A committee is therefore to be appointed forthwith to prepare a bill for the ex tension of the wardmote franchise, the bill to in clude such other reforms as may be thought suit able for the Corporation. With this result the Court appeared to be quite satisfied, and parted good friends. In all the above propositions one proviso is very properly made, and that is, that the support of Government should, if possible, be obtained. In our lnimble opinion, however, nothing is more likely than that Government should hesitate to as sist by its support in cobbling up a wretched affair which, as well for what it does as for what it pre vents, we do not hesitate to call the great scandal and nuisance of the British metropolis. That me tropolis is naturally one. For all the purposes of a city it demands one management. Its drainage falls into one river ; its thoroughfares concern all who traverse them. The more its water and its as are severally under a general system the better. Its thieves and other disorderlies run to and fro without regard to boundaries, and only dodge sepa rate jurisdiction. Its poor, though they may work in one parish, live in another, and demand relief from a third,. are the poor of the whole metropolis. .Its port, its markets, its public buildings, its parks, its places of amusement, its river, its bridges, its ti l . ic te e h - l c ee o a u r t sst plain railways,. belong to the whole metropolis. Its regulationspo lice-courtsnfindependence, p Governmentendbelcoen, ganat thathe courage, r a w p h o o se, l s e e . sasn l ed t s ability, adnudt that feels the least confidence in itself , to • one municipality . for the whole of London, withgive t us he usual division into wards, and a suitable' arrange_ went . of the magistracy. Ours is the onlymetropo lisrrange- in the world that has not municipal - institutions, and to this reason may be traced, m other, the fact that London dissatisfies , ore than to any and disappoints foreigners. The that exist with jurisdictionamon only authorities ment—which has too much to dogus are our Govern affairs, and which always shirks to attend to local when it can—and our wretched metropolitan business generally simple nests of jobbers parish vestries, themselves about parish . , for few trouble intention of robbing the affa . irs, unless with . an parish. In fact, parish business in the metropolis is usually abandoned to the tender mercies of attorneys, contractors, and their respective touters. . We want . a municipality of so large, ced a sort that noblemen, omprehensive, and dignifi , , gentlemen, merchants, bankers, and the • ingnest ranks of professional. life may be glad to hold office in it, instea n ow ating the very name of a corporation as theydo. And why have we not such a body , ' Simply because there alr eady exists a thing called a corporation , misgo vernir t - K. , oppressing, and corrupt in g j ust one-twen tieth of the people in this metropolis—exactly 5 per cent. of the population of London. Because there is a city about a mile and a half long and . half that in width in the heart of this metropolis . , therefore London is not to be a city at all, and is to lose all the undeniable advanta g es of a united municipal administration. At this moment we are giving to a pr ivate company the arterial drainage of the metropolis/ because there is no municipal body competent to grasp such an undertaking. At this moment several projects for parks and other improvements are in abeyance till the opportunity will be irrecoverably past, simply because they seem nobody's concern. If Government is to give its aid to any Corporation, we trust it will not be an illusory attempt to quicken and freshen up th e stale old affair in the " city," but the long-d es i re d grant of municipal institutions for the whole metro polis of London. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—OR Wednesday last, the 16th inst., Mrs. Sarah Beckett, the wife of Mr. John Beckett, tin-plate-worker, 11, Stacey-street, Stepney, was safely delivered of three sons, who, with their mother, are doing well. ( From the Times.) That part of the metropolis which is called the city of London, and which has about as much right to be considered London as Little Britain has to be the British empire, is just now in that mixture of flurry, bustle, worry, and fidget, which old ladies commonly feel when put a little out of their way, particularly if that way is a bad one. There are rather serious indications of a storm overhead, a pressure from without, and an unsteadiness in the ground underneath. So, among their frenzied efforts to repair their position, such as the intro duction of Batty's troupe into the Lord Mayor's show, the good people of the City have been trying to reform their representative system, specially ex cepted, at th e i r reques t, from the operation of the Municip a l Reform Act. The freedom of the city has been for some time rather at a discount,—why, • we do not exactly know, but probably the fact that it is thought disgraceful to belong to the City of London has something to do with it. Formerly they pounced on any man that opened a shop, and, flourishing an old parchment, made him pay 251. for taking out his freedom, which was much the same thing as making a ship-passenger drink a gallon of sea -water on crossing the Line, and pay for it at the rate of a guinea a-quart. However, some years ago people began to suspect that a posse of drunken beadles invading a man's premises, and insisting on his taking out his freedom, could not be really such an irresistible power in this civilised age. They accordingly turned out the intruders, and set them and their masters at defiance. So many did this that the auth or iti es b egan to perceive that it would be a moral impossibility to make a thousand people pay 251. a-piece for what they did not want at any price. They lowered the figure therefore to 51., and sent their myrmidons again round the city levying black mail on peaceable shopkeepers. But here, again, the fact th a t a ll respec t a bl e people would rather pay 51. to get rid of the thing than to have it told with fatal effect, and the freedom of the city proved as unsaleable at 5/. as at 25/. It was in vain the city pressgang went about the streets ; every man who valued his character or his peace, and wished to keep out of city elections and city squabbles, shut his door in their faces, and would not be " free." That is the present state of things, and the Corporation have actually ordered summonses to issue against- some 3,000 respectable persons for trading without being " free." At this moment that number of men, who have hitherto fancied themselv es i n a l an d of? liberty, and under the 'shadow of our glorious constitution, walk the streets in fear, lest th ey should be suddenly seized, subjected to some disagreeable process, and robbed of 51. into the bargain. Such, we are credibly in formed, is the extent of the threatened municipal razzia, but we have it on the authority of one of the speakers at the Court of Common Council on Tuesday that 1,240 summonses had been issued from the Chamberlain's offices • that 156 timid persons had paid the fine ; that 293 had begged to be excused; 299 had pleaded that they were whole sale traders ; and 492 had adopted the more sen sible and more dignified course of taking no notice of the summons. 100 7 : all 100 6 100 all all 2 all 10 all 11 all 12i i 58i 9 lloii 7i a ad ad