The Sun. — London, England, 1857-06-05 00:00:00

Tubed But too ; ca cur . 1, P. .sh in 3orro mblic .ce to e race ing of y that - )f one, ,Ilor of by the advo a that effect, v v. off • s, and ;. e same but re every •n meat under orders educed Lied on would r, from •st, and penny y-order icted at 1 clerics t-office ; t of the chequer Les, and public. J. C. • ICLE. in 3 ou r terature f a well 3, whose a a fanla a familY poverty. iius Who ries are 5 of pity to show her OA nd be 311 • faithfol WooD• , t night, at a brilliant bled. 1r roans° r a visit to Yesterday low of the first sboiff and COO' to explore part of the idezvoug le pellier, and ) attend ;0 be intro' ions, is, 118 leion of th e th a sec s :li Tale iv" ourgb. Vedoesd4 ral Societi erformaece vocalistA Abe SOCiel, r be Om 3 r which rich haS. b ._ e :l Collo?0.t,!; especiallY, COPIP IUjj Undergol3B )ments, bit ;, and o°6 o ffee-houlse 7 RECCE/ Rickardt, of . h , o lbe; to tb: ,ors of tb his ret ur , l3 ; and for La vi rene i , ,hat _the r, C o x to 14/' the .t the Fr e r the cha t; rust 111 v . t d from f t % . 7 4 . , 5201. 1 3 : lursenie p 16s. 34 'i alf year , nee shofl e Exchecl 4B :, nds and , left was ior , ' and ' W. 4 n the VA; e chairlo Iles PO' fel gill er ; loadi o l o f portto • fell on a/ v; 9 • 1) ,„ fell sc o f racturem cradle ortly af t r % ife and •1 y of T b o i ° 6 l in a oc ti r e d, e ey 80 7 , to , ,hey fa h ,d tors i " 7 re ~r ep • Lard P. • waving a d, ttefi )to a be ing Of 0, th the ra ° ,i - o r ). M. " Tha t Zie iect of , i ek oi Q t ip mero s° , o o nUlliC s t. this ta e e , of Fu c- , h ye icial p " u u ot p por . " vit.; al ire cs. b e of tof Bi eboP eeeBe,4lo roc ipct, eo,„o, e e ~ptcr~ e n d w ere lot ab P shop • • tag, _ie ere reT e i• ii'=" a the t - ay, t bs uctiori floe,Birp le ace° out wilt ° b (1 0 bout 19 0 :: ears, t ,,,/ Fre is ilu o t doril i , t o stated MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocic. The Liverpool Cotton Market ye,terday closed 'with a dull appearance, but prices of all descrip tions were unaltered. The sales were estimated at 5,000 bales, 1,500 of which were taken by the exporters. The Railway Share Market closed quietly, and prices were a shade lower. In the Fereign and Colonial Produce Markets this week a fair amount of business has been trans acted, but there is an absence of that a:tivily which WM experienced a few weeks since. Sugar has further declined, the quotations being fully 6d. to It lower than they were last week. Coffee has been in steady • demand, at high rates, but Cocoa has been rather cheaper, and also Rice. In Tea the transactions have been very limited, but pre 'ijous prices are supported , Common Con g ou being 2id- per lb. Spices atti acted very little atten re. Mace is cheaper, bu t Gin g Er, Nutme g s, and 'ilnerto are steady. Cochineal has declined Id. Per lb., and Saltpetre is dull in the absence of 811 ". The Tallow Market has rather improved. Further accounts of gold are announced from Australia, and although a portion may be di verted to the Continent, there i s an ex p ectation that a moderate amount will be sold to the Bank °t England. The vessel which is reported this a lorning, the Walmer Castle, with 40,000 ounces, !allied at 160,000/., and as the wind is now in a favourable quarter, it is expecte 1 that the other a jerdue ships will soon make their appearance. T he total supplies from Au,tralia this week has b een nearly 800,0001., but up to the present time not more than 20,0001. or 30,0001. has been added ta the metallic reserves in Threadneedle street. It Should be mentioned, however, that the greater Part of these remittances have not yet arrived in tow n. i The 'Severn, from Victoria, has been reported th 6 Downs, but she is not supposed to bring t II Y gold. About 6,700/. has arrived from the a lediterranean. taken relaxation in the demand for money has yet en place, as the number of bills falling due to day are almost as heavy as those liquidated yester day. Up to this period no failures have occurred ; t — " , , judging from the caution observed in most de partments of business, no serious embarrassments "'e anticipated. An improvement of ± per per cent. has taken place in the English Stock Market to-day, and its d _ile has undergone a favourable change. Yester day there was a considerable degree of weakness, fi t ..l the tendency was in the direction of a l i i c 7ther decline, but in the afternoon a rally bas place, and the advancing movement .. 4 a since continued. Probably the large arrivals "' gold have produced iucrea.ed firmness, and the m et, and way in which the commercial bills are and the prospect of a diminished inquiry for 1.,7 11 e3r, also give support to prices. Conso l s have 981- 1, and 931 1 3 - fur money, while for aee iml rat business has been recorded at 94i 9 41 ? 4 1 , 3 s. The present quotations are 934 94 and been respectively. The New 3 per Cents. have it; 92a and the Reduced, 92i Y. Bank Stock 4 .., 1-3 i• The Exchequer Bills are par to 4s. prem., b _kl the "Advertised" do. 7s. to 2s. discount. The 4 1,,nds are 98 Y. 1 ,..x Forei gn Stocks are steady but dull. Turlaish R ussian been about 941 95, and the 4 per Cents. 1011 ; per Cents. 5 per Cents. were 1081, and Portuguese 3 `"' Cents. 46a. These are the only securities in Arch;, business bas been recorded. k o "-ne following are the nominal prices of Foreign 22' 2i :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6± ; Mexican, C e i 2 i ; Peruvian 4& per Cents., 76 7 ; ditto 3 per 53i ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 45i 61; c e „ a 'all 5 per Cants., 107 9 ; ditto 41 per 97 91; Spanish 3 per Cents., 41/ 21-; ditto ( 12' Deferred, 251 ; ditto Certificates, 61 4 ; "2 Passive, 5i o , h issers. D. Bell, Son and Co., report that during week there has been very little business in "eriean Securities, and little change in prices. • GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. united Redeemable. Per Cent. States 6 per Cents. 1867-1868...106 10' A znted States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868-106 106 1141, per cent STATE SECURITIES. It. -ttna 5 ... 78 inland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds)... ... 89 91 krachnsetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds). ... 99 101 , a mnisippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk. - uond lu a 1841-1871... 40 42 p t 'aussippi 5 per Cent. Union Bk. Bonds P ennsylvania 5 per Cent. Stock T ennessee 5 per Cent. Bonds 1877... 79 81 t .!nnessee 6 per Cent. Bonds b ."rginia, 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 831 841 '' - rgiuie, 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1888... 84 86 LOANS OF CITIES. te ntreal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... e lt Orleans 6 per Cent. Stock ---- RAILROAD BONDS. laUno is Central 7 per Cont. Ist Mortgage, not Convertible 1875... 90 91 i i rlois Central 6 per Cent 1375... 87 89 1 11 ° 6 Central 7 per Cent. Freeland 11 , 2 140 nds 1860... 1 07 109 "Z l ° B Central (Shares), $3O paid 23 30 p "m-lelhigan Central 8 p. Cont., Convert 18 60 .- 1)0 . do. do. 186 9... 90 91 No York York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 186 4 ... 92 94 ` l7 York Central 6 per Cent., not New 1833... 79 80 f l ew York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort age 1883... B3 85 w . l( . _ork and Erie 7p. Cent. Convertible-1862.- 77 7.9 Fund and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking .r 4l , 1875... 81. 83 P e „ 4111 % 7 per Cont., Ist Mortgage 1865... '., ll3 37lvania Central 6p. Cent., Ist Mort 1880... 89 91 Adusiness in Railway Shares has not been active, bu t rti prices generally have exhibited an improve rent, and, and, with one or two exceptions, an advance to 1 per cent. may be quoted. Midland and No rth-Eastern Berwick improved s s. ; - Vale of Yorkshire, 10s. ; North-Western and Lanc a s hire and I m ( ?rkshire, 15s. ; and Great Western 11 .; South %tern and Great Northern were about ss. lower. p°Feign and colonial lines were not very active. i:Lc, 3B however, in some cases, showed an upward ttu L ency. Paris and Lyons advanced 1/. ; southern of France, ss. ; Northern of France and i)uthern of France, however, were a shade lower. T he Caledonian, Belgian, and East India lines Great very quiet at about yesterday's values. t r e at Western of Canada improved ss. has been Shares no business of any importance s been transacted, and prices are unaltered. 1 : 0 r Joint Stock' Bank Shares there is a very Ited inquiry. Bank of Australasia advanced ab out 10s. ; and Union of Loudon declined s s. I.Aliscellaneous Shares have been quiet. Royal 41ail Steam declined about 10s. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List;) Business done. Ilklik Stock 3 PCT Cent. Reduced Annuities 921 i Per Ccnt. Consols Annuities... ...... :mew 3 per Cent. Annuities 924 a Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1560 — Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1835 lB 1-16 1 1111 a Bonds, .ZlOOO Ditto, under £lOOO , 4 d Consols for Acconnr, July 9 ..... .. 94. f i &chequer Bills, z4d. I £lOOO ....... .. . par 4pl ' 8ma11,................... . ...... 1 p Ditto Advertised 7 2 d -- DLit° deihl6, t,,58, 34 per Cent.......... — Ditto, 1859 P ortuguese OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOC K, 80nd5,.5 per Cent., Con. 1841 , — Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent. ...Ditto Account . ... 46i , to ssian Bends, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent.... 1035 i l'arkiih Bonds, 6 par cent 9li Ditto Accoun Lire Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. - bitto Account lOl bisuienclo an the above payable to 60,t 'co. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, money Ditto for account ..... ....... 11 °r( Wednesday afternoon, a body was brought out of the Lundhill pit, which was claimed as that of Israel 13-obson, of Lundhill, aged 20, making a total of 116 recovered up to the present time. PALL OF THE NEW ROMAN CATHOLIO CATHEDRAL dT PLYMOUTH.—The Roman Catholics in Plymouth c Oe for some time past had in course of erecion, in a leading to Eldad, a noble-looking structure, which l i r aa to serve them as a cathedral for the new diocese of Wards completion, and it was expected that it wool I be l e adY for consecration on the 4th of August next. That ° Pe was entirely destroyed yesterday (Wednesday), for early in the afternoon about half of the roof fell in with 1 • h t remendous crash, and the building, with its lofty Western front standing apart from the roof which con nests the transept with the chancel of the church, pre terits the app eara nce of a ruin. Happily no live were o st. The church was formed with side aisles, and from o ne sad t o t h e other the roof, which was an extremely : I V' one was supported by arches which sprang from These pillars were formed of Bath stone, and the arches Springing from them were of brick. The Bath nce proved weak for the weight which it had to sus am, and some it split, and thus endangered the whole structure. Before the meas ures for shoring up could be the architect saw t that the building was likely to fall, an d h e h a d only time to warn the men to leave the building, and then to get away himself, when the four mrn uthe arches of the nave, and the large eastern arch, fell with a tremendous crash, bringing down with them the southern clerestory. —Plymouth Jauiltat of Yesterday. ~- ~. N ` ~° ~~-`. SHARE MARKETS—(This Day.) RAILWAYS. Closing Frlesi yesterday raid I RAILWAYS. 10 Ambg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. June.— all Belfast & Ballymena all Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Valley 100 Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct all Blackburn all Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45).... 100 Bristol & Exeter_ ... 100 Caledonian. 100 Chester 4 Holyhead all Cork and Bandon.... all Cork, Black. & Pass all Cornwall all Ds. A 8 Do. It 45 Dublin&BelfastJune all Dun. P. &Aber.Junc. 100 East Anglian all Eastern Counties 100 EasternUnion,A.stl 100 Do., do. B 81 Do. New A 176 East Kent .......... 100 East Lancashire all East Suffolk ........ 4 Do. 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow all Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edinb.Prth.&Dunde , all Forth and ClydeJunc. 100 Furness 160 Glasgow & S.Westerr all Great N. of Scotir.nd 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 100 Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. 100 Great Western. 100 I Do. Str.V.R gua.St all 'lrish South-Eastern all 'Lancaster & Carlisle. 14i Do., Thirds 12 Do. New Thirds .., 100 Lancash &Yorkshir. 6 Do., do. F. £l6 no., Wet. Riding Un all Do. Southport. ..... all London & Blackwall 100 Lond.Bright.& S.Cst. 100 London &N. Wester all Do. Fifths all Do. ,101.5h.,M&8 0 2i Do. Eighths 100 London & S. Weaterr• all Lndndrry.&Colerainr all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Ntanch.Shef.&Lincln. 1 Metropolitan 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement ...... 100 Midland 100 Do. Birming.& Derby all Aidland G.West.(lr.) all Do. 1 Shares all Newcastle &Carlisle.. all Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd 9 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry, Warrenpoint & Rostrevor ,100 Norfolk 1 31 Northn.Couuties Un 100 North British 100 North Devon, Rail. & j Dock Stock . ...... 100 Do., A Stock 100 Do., B Stock 100 'T. astern Berwick 23 3 3 Do. do. Extension 161 Do do. G.N.E.Purch. all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York WO North London . . ... 3/.1 N. &S. Wstn., Hamp• stead, and City Jn 171 North Staffordshire all North Western.. all N. &S. Westin. June 100 Oxford Worcester 4 Wolverhampton 16 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney 100 Scottish Central 100 Scot. N.E.Abrdo. St 1100 Shropshire Union 6 Sitingbourne &Sheer. all South Devon 100 South Eastern all ,Do. 4} per:. Shares 100 South Wales 17 IS. Yorksh. RiverDnn all Staines,Wok.,&Wok. all Stockton & Darling 15 Do. do., 1854 3 , Do. do., 18N5 16i1Stockton & Hartlepl 100 'Taff Vale 100 Do. Pref., No. 1 22 Thames Hay. D. &R all Vale of Neath. ..... all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick all West Cornwall 1 all West End of London and Crystal Palace all Do. A all Do. B all West London 0 all Do. First Class all Do. Second Class .0 all Wmblodon &Croydon 50 .13i St. 20 50 20 10 BRITISH PI all lAttan. and St. Law. 9 Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lncl,guar. 5 p.c. all IDo. 14 Buffalo & Lake Hur.l l 00 Buff. , Brnt. & Gorich. .01 1 6 p.c.bds., 1 Aug.,' 72, w Do, do., 1 July, '73 LOO Do. do., 1 June, '74 1 2s. Calcutta and S. East. ?,sqd Central laude (Li ch. ) lOs Ceylon bares 1 Do. B. do. a all Demerara . 2 2s. Eastern Bengal 100 East Indian 15 De. C Shares all D 0.42 p. c.Bnds. ,'57 all Do. do. do., '59, do. all Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent. 100 Gd. Trunk. of Canada all Do. 6p. c. Deben all Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 per c 4 Do. New. guar. 5 p.c. all Gt. Wcstn. of Canada 103 Do. New all - Do. Bd.s., payable '57 a ll Do. do., '76, p. '6O all Do. do., '73, do. all Do. do., '73, without) option all Madras, guar. 4i p.c I all Do. do., 5 per c. 10 Do. 4i p. c. Exten. 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. 5 Do. 4th Ex., do. 20 20 20 20 ss. Oude (Limited) %I 5 Scinde, guar. 5 per c :0 all Do FOR: tintwrp & Rotterdam Ardennes... Belgian East. June,. Beziers to Graissessac Carmeaux&Toulous, \ Coal Mines and Ry Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New Euphrates Valley iGt, Central of France Great Luxembourg Italian Junction Lake Coust. & Bale Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo-Venetian Lucca 4 Pist. sp. c. p . Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran. Maria Antonia . Do. New \Namur & Liege Do. do. 6 p. c. Prof, Northern of France., NorwegianTrnk. Prei Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Reeife & San Fran LO 50 17 Rome R Ro s l oP m m y e a rn b e l r aa e : nn w a d n el F d g :::: a u p s t. e i .c . .. : 1 20 all Royal Danish 10 all Do. 5i per cent. pref 20 all Southern of France 81 all West Flanders 10 all Do. 51 per c. Pref 20 all W.& N.W. of France 20 6 Western of Auetiia 20 all West. of Switzerlane 6 I all Wiesbaden 6 all Do. Bp. cent. prof. 20 l all Zealand ......... .. JOINT-STO I lAustralssia ............ Bank of Egypt ...... Bank of London Bri. Col Bk. dt Ln. Co British N. American I • •CBk of Ind.Au.dsCh (City Colonial Commercial of Loud. Eng.Scot.&Aus.Cht. 1 Lon. Ch. Bk.of Aust I Ditto New ILondon and County I Lnd.&E.Bnkng.Corp Loudon Joint Stock Lond.andWestminst National Pro. of Eng. Do. New National Bank ...... New South Wales .... Oriental Bank Corp. Ottoman Bank ...... Provincial of Ireland Do. New R.Aus.B.SLG.Im.Co South Australia 'Union of Australia Do. New Union of London Unity Mutual vostrn Bic of Loid -* all 5 all !O 16 6 all 51 - 5B 8i - 9 67 - 69 8i - 9 89 - 91 71? - 72 35:1 - 4 - 11L - 52 -- 35 - ... ".. - 7 0 98 8 97 - 53 = 61 ii - u 95 - 97 8 - 9 96i - 97 1 , 87 -- '2l - 123 103 -105 63 - 631 63 - 65 70 - - 6 - 61 110 - 112 1031 - 104 9J - 103, 42k 7 42 - 83 - 834 1 54 - 55 ••• - ••• 141 - 15.3' 62 - 64 3i - 34 42 - 43 88A --- sf - 42; - 68 - 96 - - 4i , 10 -10 A 30 - 31 7 - 5 105 107 25 26 48 50 3 2 d 18i —19 A 73 744 87 - 6 - 6 - 40 - 20 - 21 4 - 4} 24 - 54 - , SSESSIONS. - ip la par }92 95 90 93 90 93 11: ii'p 1 - 107 --109 i 1 -I.}p 19i -- 20 62 -- 64 91 -- 92 21 -- 211 -- 9 23}-- - 100 -- 101 410 -- 114 410 -- 114 'lO6 —.lOB 19 20 21 21! d •• 11 - lip 6 -- 7 1# ii par 1p 4i - 5h 2 - 1 28, - 29 par IP 214 - 24, 6$ - 61 4i - 28 29 8 - 84 20 -20 i 37i - 3711 9 - 10 57 - 57 56 - 58 / d Pal 1 . 6" 18 8 - 8 28. 29 4 5 9. 9i 30 31 par 1 p !K BANKS. 87 891 2 lid 50 52 li - ti 62 - 64 i4i - iii 1 7 7 - 1T 48 38i 391 id par 9 61 sm.. 63 ii - ii 6 - 7 16 lid 10 = 8d Business don• this day. 40 all 25 18i 100 50 40 all 50 all 20 8 00 50 0 25 O `2O 0 b all O all O all '.O 20 i 0 50 10 20 22i l all all 115 ERE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY .EVENING, JUNE 5, 1857 ihr: I Paidl RAILWAYS. Leasing •companies Closing Prices yesterday. it. 100 it. 100 5 all it. 100 5 all it. 100 !Buelc.gharnsh ! c Cl o y i sero ur v eJ 3 e iE.Lin. g. 6 p.c IE. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. dz Neils. Direct. I Do. New GlstrADn.Fr Hull dr Selby Do. A Shares I lDo. Shares , !Lon. &Creenw Do. Preference !Lon. Til., Do. Bark. Sh. Manch.Baton. ana Matlock Maid. Bradfd. -New .narket 3uryE.G.spc. N.dzEst.s P.C. Ln. &N. W. Cal adon 93 - E.U. dr E.O Gt. Northn E. Count. Caldouian. ii - 13 31 - 133 3 - 4i It. 100 ;5 all 50 all all L 24 all 1 ,.2i all !O all ;t. 100 LO 74 5i all ;t. 100 64 51 1 Q t. Westn. Y. & N.M Do 166 = 16 S. Eastern, Do 12+ —12 i 2 236 40 . t 106 s P 21— 2a 88 PO Peto &Co Do La. &N. W. & Midld. E. Count Do Do ... Do is -► E 4 50 66 all 50 all 25 all 12A; all St: ).00 'Do. 6 per ct..l Do.Fixeclsp.c Prcst. &Wyre' 'Do. i Sims. A I Roystn.& Hit. L.&l\.W Do Gt. Northn T. Brassey I M. MClean &Dar 1 1 Do 1 Gt. Westn -. 3 130 - 1• 9 - 9i .0 I all Her 12 all S. Staflordsh 50 all WearVal.g6pr 25 all , Do. . St. [lOO Wilts &Somrs. ..• ••• 314 - 32 87 - 89 PREFERENCE SHARES. all IBlyth and Tyne 10 p. e.pref. (issd.at 501., 1 100 Bris.&Ex.4 p.c. St. ' 5 Do. 4 per c. Shares 100 Caledn. £lO p. C 1.00 Ches. & Ho. 5i p.c 100 Do. do. 5 per ce-i., all Cork &Ba , lons p.c all D un.Perth . &Aber...) 2 A. Anglian Cls. A Sh. WO Do. do. Cls. Bop. c. 100 Do. do. Cls. C 7n. c all Eas.Cn.El - ,5p.c No.l all Do. No, 2 • all Do. New 6 pr. c, St. all East 17n., G. 6p. c. all Do. 51., 10 per cent all Do. 101. De'oentr.Sh all Do. do. 4 per cert I 00 East Lancash.6 p.cts all E.&W. York. J. sths 5 Min.& Gl. sp. c. Sh. 100 Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.e.l 100 Furness, sp. e 1 100 Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c 100 Great Northn. 5 p.c 100 Do. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem 100 Do. 4 per cent .. . 60 Do. 5 p.c., Red. at p. c. prem. all Gt.N. of Scot.lst Pre 100 Gt. S di W. (Ireland) 15 Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. Gt.'W.(B.&H.Ex.spc 100 Do. con. red. 4i p.c. 100 Do. con. red. 4 p. c. 'OO Do. irred. 4 per lent. 1.00 Do sp. C. red. pref. all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh all Do. Chester Bp. c. P. S all Do. do. 5 p. c. do.. 00 Do. Birm. Gua. SAE all Do. Chesh. Gua. Sh. all Do. do. do all Do. do. do. 100 Lan. & York. 6 pc. St. 100 Lon. &B. C. 5 pc. No.l 100 D0.,P., 5 p.c.St.No.2 '.OO Do. New Guar. 6p.c. 100 Do. do. sp. c., N 0.4 100 Lon. &N. W., Cov. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct... 100 Lon. & S.W. 7 perct. late 3d Shares ..1 all Londy.& Color. all Londy.&Ennis. Sh. 100 IL, S.,&L. 6p. Cent. 41 Do. do. do. £6 ". 100 Do. do. 3j per cent. all Mary pt. & Carl. 4 p.c. all Do. 44 per cent 104 Do. do. 1 100 Consol.6 p.c. St 100 Do. Con. Br. Dir. 6 p.c 100 Do. 4. n; c. ?ref. S 100 Do. L. & T. Pre. St, all New.,Aber., &c., pr. p. c. red. 5 p. c. pm. 8 Do. Perpet. 6 pr. et. l all Norfk D eb. 4 p.c. Sh. 100 Do. sp. c. Ext. 1346 100 )o. 5i p.c. pf , 1847 100 Do.Wv.V.sp. ~1847 100 North Britiso 34 Do. 7t. Preference 100 N. E. Berw. 4p. c. Pr* Eq Do. do. do 13 Do. Leeds 6 pc. No.l 9 Do. do. Qrs., 1848 10 Do.Yort. Pur all North Staffordshire 100 Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c., Ist guar. 100 Do. p. c. 2d guar all Scot. Cent. New Pref. 100 Sc.N.E.Aber.g.6 . ).c. 100 Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. 100 Do. d 0.3 p.c. p:. St all Socth Devon all Do. fixed 4i cent all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 4:1 per cent 1100 Do. Fixed 4i p.c. Sh 100 S. Wales Gun. 4p. c 100 Do. do. 4i p. c all S.Yorksh .4 p.c.Guar all Stock. &Dar., 5 p c, 15 Do. do. do. all Stock. & Hartl. g. 5 p.c. till July 1, '56 1 all Waterfd& Kilk. 6 pc. .•• - ••• 92 - 94 94 -- 95 51 - 64 1 108 - 112 108 - 112 - _l,, 12i 1 ... 71 - 72 di 105 - 107 99 -101 61 -- 63 10i -- 10„ 51 -- 6 93 -- 95 83 - 85 85 -- 87 100 -- 101 9A -- 10 16i -- 17 91 -10 i 72 -- 74 19 -- 19 9 1 --91` 14i -- 141 134 -- 136 138 - 141 1 115 - 117 .54 - 156 - P 66 - 68 130 - 132 95 - 97 86 - 88 11 - 111 ••• ..• 101 -- 103 91 - 92 ld id 224 —22 i 1111 - 113 114 - 116 (05 - 110 18 7.- - - 19 22 3 / 4 -- 98 -- 1 0 00 05 -- 100 27 - - ••• • - 3 •• __ BRITISH ALINES. . . 2/12 Alfred Cons. (Philk., 18 19 181 , 20 14 British Iron . . 20 Condurow (Cambrn.) 145 155 10 1 Dev. Gt. Cnsls. (Tay.) 165 475 ... 14s Great South Tolgus l6 18 ... 1113 Grt. W. Alfrd.(Philk ) 74 7i ... 7 Grt.W. Vor (lielstn ) 4i 54 ... 13s Lady Bertha ... 74 N. Frances (Illogan) 15 17 ... ... N.W.Basset (Illogan) 184 194 ... 6115 North Wheal Crofty 4 , 5 • ... 14 Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) 22 23 ... 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) il,; 4 ... 6s. Sort. Cons. MM .Co lt -- U it ... 24 S. Caradon (St. Cleer 330 340 ... 2S. Carn Brea (Illogn. 5 6 ... 19 S.W. Frances(lllogn. 300 -.- 320 5 4 i Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. 1i 11 10 9 Tin Croft 44 4i ... 4 0 Un.Minen (Gwennap) 175 200 ... 1256 V. of Towcy (Camaro i 1 ... 14 W. Basset (Illogan) 29 30 ... 20 W. Caradon (Liskrti ) 135 —'l4s ... 4 Wh. Basset (Illogan) 260 270 ... 5 Wh. Buller (Rdruth) 320 340 ... s;'i Wh. Edward(Calstek) 6 64 ... 117 F Wh. Kitty (U. Llant) 17 19 „• 8 Wh.Ma.Ann (Menht.) 46 48 ... 4i Wh. Trelawney (Lis.) 23 . 24 FOREIGN MINES. 20 7 Australian 35 27 Brazilianlmp.(issued l I 4 at 45 pm) 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada ... ... 20 15 Do. St. - John Del Roy 15 17' 1 4 Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica...-. a Id 40 all Cobre Copper s'3 55 16 Copiapo •. 2 all Fortuna 20 all General 3 all Linares 5 li Lusitanian 1 all Mariqiita 1 1 all New Granada — 1. all No veau Monde 20 all Pont.Sil.LdM.& Sm l '. 5 7 5 1 Port Philip - ... 30 16,, Santiago do Cuba 1 all South Australian 1 all Do. Scrip 1 all Do. 10 p. c, Pref ... . 281 i all United Mexican MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Agricult. l Australn. Royal Mail' Berlin Water Works , Brit. Aync ican Land Canada Do.Co.6pc.,,an&July Do,. p,c. 'eb.k, Ae 7. D 0.6 p.c. I iar.f:Seit. Copper Min. of Eng. Do. Pref. 7 1 p. cent Crystal Palace Do. Preference Crystal Pal. of France Dustou Iron Ore 'Eastern Steam Electric Telegraph Electric Tel. of Irel. En.&Aust.Cop.SmCo Eur. & Ind.Jetn. Tel. Gen. Ir.Sc, Col.(lim.) Gen. Steam Navigat. London Discount Loud. Gen. Omnibus :l,lagdalena St. Navig. Mediteran. Elec, Tel. Mexican & S Americn Nat, Discount C 0...., 1 - Do. New Netherlands Land._ Do. Do. Do. 8 p.e.Pf.iss.at Id. Do. Do. New B. &N. S. Land N.S.W. Gov.s p:e.D. N. B. Australasian... NAIL of EuropeSteana Oriental Gas .Do New Shares IPeelBr. VI. & Minrl 'Peninsular & Oriental Do. New .. . Rhymney Iron Do. New. Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austral. Invest Do. New S. Aus. Gov. 6 p.c.bds South Austral. Land Submarine Tel. Scrip Do. Registered True. La. Co. Up. Can. Van Diemen's Land,.. 174 -184 i i - 5 148 - 152 112 - 1121 30 - 35 25 27 2 - 24 5i 5-b 11 - li 21 21 11 id 1$ la 4 4} 41 41 par ip 18 22 i - 9 -10 i 1 - li P - iP it - 2 • ''.... doe 19 -21 5 - 7 59 - 61 - ••• 34 : ia I 1 ... 1 11 - 12 :5119 0 all .0 all 0 325 It. 100 100 it. 100 3t. all 35 all 5 all 5 all 4 all 1 20 18 R. 100 1 all 5 all 10 10s. 25 cal 15 14 ail 11 10 LO all 10 all 5 5 5 5 10 5 W all 5 all 5 1 00 80 St. ICO 1 all 10 all 1 all 17 3 / 4 13 Business this Coy MANCHESTER RAC* —(pus Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) . LATEST BETTING. SALFORD BOROUGH CUP. 3to 1 agst Romeo (taken freely) sto 1 agNt Sir Humphrey (taken) Nothing else backed. ARRIVED- Pantomime and Pothunter. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) CITY SHERIFF'S COURT. (Before Mr. Prendergast, Q.C.) MEDICAL CHARGES.-STOKOR v. MORTON. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a surgeon and accoucheur, to recover of the defendant the sum of 131. 3s. 6d. for medical attendance on his wife. Mr Hicks appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Buchanan for the defendant. The plaintiff proved his attendance, and stated tbat the charges wore fair and reasonable. Mr. Buchanan urged, on the contrary, that they were too high, being only a case of accouchnoent. The plaintiff said that it Wai a very dangerous case, and he had to make several visits both before and after the lady was confined, but ultimately the chill died. Mr. Buchanan said that the plaintiff bad charged two guineas for the visit on the accouchment, and 1/. 3s. 6d. fur medicines. His Honour suggested that the plaintiff should accept 121.. and this was ultimately agreed to ; to be paid at 254. per month, as defendant's salary was only 1001. per year, and his wife was still ailing. Costs were allowed; but the plaintiff said he would foiego the fee he waiea titled to as a witness. ISAACS V. BENSUSIL This was an action to recover,the su►n of 1&. 155., for , geods'sold. The merits of the ease were of no interest,- except for an observation by the defendant, who, in the course of the pltintifl's evidence, exclaimed, " Don't believe him, my lord, for there is not a Jew in London but will tike a false oath. Mr. Buchanan—What I Do you want to keep the Jews out of Parliament ! Defendant—l said nothing about that. Defendant was then sworn, and was proceeding to make a statement. Mr. Buchanan—Stop—let me ask, do you feel your- self ander any obligation on the oath you have taken 1 Defendant—Yes. I shall be liable for the conse quence if I speak falsely. Mr. Buchanan—Yes. But do you believe in a state of punishment hereafter ? Defendant—l won't answer your question. Mr. Buchanan—Then I leave it to the Court to con sider the value of your evidence. Dcfendant was then examined, and His Honour gave judgment for the amount claimed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day). BO W-STREET. PURSE ROBBERT.—This morning two men, - named Irving and Martin, were placed at the bar on remand, charged with stealing a purse containing a cheque for 91. and other money, the property of Roderick Mac keazie. _ From the evidence of the prosecutor, it appeared that a few days ago he was in Charles-street, Drury-lane, when the prisoner Martin came up to him and said he was " hard up and starving ;" and taking compassion on him, he took him into a public-house and there gave him some money to purchase food with. Martin left the house, and in a short time returned with a quantity of bread and cheese, which he devoured voraciously. He (prosecutor) then gave him some beer, and after hav ing done so, he quitted the house and proceeded to a barber's shop to get shaved, to which place the prisoner Martin followed him. After baying been shaved, he took out his purse to pay, When Martin seized hold of it and made off. Prosecutor followed him and over took him at the top of Charles-street, where the prisoner Irving came up, and both prisoners then made their way into a house in the same street. On the arrival of the police the house was entered, and Martin and Irving were found together in a back room. The purse had not been found. Both prisoners were known as constant associates. In answer to the charge, the prisoners denied the:rob bery. Martin said Mackenzie had been 'treating him the whole of the morning with beer and gin, and that be was so drunk he did not know what he was about. Mr. Jardine committed both prisoners for trial. BURGLARY.-- Thomas Ray was charged with burglariomly entering the house , of Mr. Miller, No.• 4, Tavistock-row, a Salesman in Covent-garden market. The prisoner said about 10 minutes to five on the morning of the 2d of June, he lefi his house, and after a short absence sent his son home to get a writing desk. On the son of the prosecutor entering the dining room he found the prisoner. The street door was securely fastened when he left the house. police-coastable proved a former conviction against the prisoner, and said also that he was the associate of Ithieves of the lowest description. The magistrate committed the prisoner for trial. MARKET NEWS,— (TI.Us Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. Coastwise, a moderato supply of English wheat has come to h4nd this week in fair condition ; but fresh up to-day, by land carriage, the receipts were limited. The show of samples was far from extensive, and the demand for most kinds ruled inactive, at e Monday's currency. Upwards of 41,000 quarters of foreign wheat having come in that grain moved off heavily. In the quotations, however, no change took place. Floating cargoes of grain were firm in price. Although the imports of foreign barley have been ex tensive the show of samples was limited, and the trade ruled steady at late rates. Malt sold slowly on former terms, We had a very extensive show of oats. The oat trade was consequently heavy, and prices were the turn lower. Beans, peas, and flour were unaltt,red in value. ARRIVALS THIS WERR. \ Wheat. \ Barley. Malt. English ,2,660 40 2,720 Irish - - Oath. 50 Flour. 1,380 Foreign 1 41,130 I 16,810 67,50 11,940 METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. To-day's market WAS moderately well supplied with beasts, which moved off steadily, and Monday's prices were well supported. Sheep, the show of which was limited, were in good request, and the quotations were firm. There was an active inquiry for lambs, on higher terms, viz., from 6s 4d to 7s 4d per Blbs. The supply of calves was limited, and the veal trade ruled firm, at very full prices. The pork trade was heavy, at barely late rates. There was a moderate inquiry for mulch cot's, at full cur rencies. e. d. a 4 4 . PrimeSonthdown 410 5 0 Large crse. calves 4 0 5 0 Prime small d 0... 5 2 5 6 Large hogs ...... 3 8 4, g Small porkers ... 4 4 5 0 Suckling calves.. 23 0 30 0 . Quarter old pige.2l 0 28 0 7s 4d. Per 81bs to sink the offers s. d. 0. d. Interior Beasts. —3 4to 3 6 Beoend quality.... 3 8 4 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, dm. 4 8 5 0 Inferior Sheep ...3 I 3 4 socond quality ...3 6 4 0 PriMe tree.-wlled.4 2 4 8 Lamb, 6i 4 TOTAL SUPPLY: Beasts 1,050 Sheep and lambs Calves 2lO Pigs 250 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts -- 90 Sheep and lambs .. I9S Calves 94 Pigs — NEWGATII AND LEADENHALL. The trade generally r u l ed steady, at full prices. Per 81bs by the carcase. a. d. a. d. a. 4. s. d Beef, interior 2 8 3 0- Mutton, Inferior 210 3 4 Do., middling 3 2 3 6 . Do., middling 3 6 4 2 Do. prime large.. 3 84 0 1 Do., prime 44 4 8 Do., do. small ....4 2 4- 4 1 Veal 3 9 4 10 Perk, large ........ 3 8 4 2 i Pork. small ~4 4 5 0 Lamb, 5s Sd to 65 63. BOROUGH HOP. All the plantation accounts are not considered favour. able, the duty is called 13 0 , uest, 00 and 135,000/. Most kinds of hops are In fair re q prices generally supported. Mid and East Kent pockets 3l 101 to Si 12s ; Weald SUSEIOX, 31 Os to 3/ 12s ; year of Kent, 31 50 -to 31 15s ; Hugs, 1/ 105 to 3/. per cwt. COLONIAL - _ TEA.--The market has been firmer, and there were ' buyers of comm on cgou atpackage 120 per lb chiefly . Othcongou, er descraripe - tions wer 0n 2,000 e steady. 3s, advertised for public sale on the 12th inst. SUGAR. .For home consumption a large business has been done at an advance of about 6d per cwt on late rates. The quantity on offer, however, of all descriptions was limited. The Refined Market rules firm, and full prices are realised for brown lumps. COFFEE.—There has been a good demand for Planta tion Ceylon which has fully maintained previous values. Native Ceylon and Foreign were in fair request at full rafeF. RICE. —Very few dealings have been reported. Prices however rule firm, holders refusing to give way. 12.131 C—A good inquiry exists for Jamaica at full rates, 1 other qualities are quiet. SPICES —A fair demand has been experienced for mace, nutmegs and pimento at late rates, and ginger was slightly improved. COCHINEAL.—At the public sales of this articles prices ruled about ld per lb. lower for the inferior qualities. Other descriptions ruled steady. SALTPETRE.—Rather more business has been done by private contract, and prices are supported. TALLOW.—An active demand has sprung up for present delivery, and prices have advanced. P.Y. C. on the spot bring 59s 61 to 69s 9d, and for last three mouths' delivery b7s 3d per cwt. 1011 4 i 4 1 ii 74 8 8 89,1 21 2 43i 69 99 St: 25 St. St. St. 1 10 12 25 20i 20 St. 25 10 1.0.0 91 ... 21 ... ••• 23i 12a ••• 5 10 1.3 J, 24.) St. 1001 1311 IM PERLA. R, / L IVA YGRI E V Aff C . (Prom the Times.) Three hundred millons of money, at the very least, have been invested in the railways of this country. There are thousands of men still Eviler who can resold et when the whole national debt of the kingdom, ntongh then considered incredible, was but 240 millions, and even now the figures symbolising railway property represent an amount equivalent to one-third of our prodigious State (Ali gatioes. Now, when it is asserted—no doubt with substantial accuracy—that the average profit upon these investments iu this tranquil, prosper ous, and well-governed country is only 3/. 12s. 4d. per cent., and that of all the railways e,tablished and at work three only have their sharps quoted at a premium, nobody will deny that the proprietors, if not an illused, are certainly an unfortunaee body ; nor are we in the least degree disposed to wonder or complain at the agitation' which they seem to bo preparing, and whichtheyinaugurated at the metro politan meeting reported iu our columns of yester day. There is no need of expatiating on the " widow's annuity" or the " orpl.an's eatrimouv," or any other particular investment appealing special force to public sympathy. All this is comprised in the bare mention of the aggregate at stake. Hundreds of millions could not possibly be subscribed without the desti nies of thousands of familiei being involved in the success of the venture. It is equally manifest that in the security and productiveness of such a mass of property the interests of every individual in the community must be more or less concerne I. No body can doubt the reality or maenrtude of the evil ; the only question is as to its cause, and as to the remedy which can be most hopefully applied. We can readily excuse the splenetic force of ex pression in which the sufferers depict ghat they consider their grievances, and in some respects their protests are undoubtedly well founded. It was certainly hard upon railway shareholders that : they should be visited at once bath with legislative :centre/ and 'unrestricted competition. From one, 'at least; of these conditions thep might have ex pected. to be spared.. When the Stategraut4 a md nopoly it should, of course, see to some equity of dealing between the monopolists and the public ; but, when itleaVes these dealings to find their level by the natural operations of trade, direct interven tion assumes a gratuitous and oppressive aspect.. Railway Shareholders complain that legislation, which controls their proceedings, regulates their prices, and limits their profits, should also expose them to the risk of being undersold by com peting lines; and their expostulat:ons are so far reasonable enough. It cannot be denied, in fact, that our whole policy in these railway transactions would have admitted of incalculable improvement if we could have brought the experience of 1857 to the deliberations of 1845. Money might have been saved in all quarters alike, proprietors might have had heavier profits, passengers better accommoda tion at lower rates, and the country at large a greater amount of benefit. In justice, how ever, to the statesmen and legislators of those days, it must be remembered that the question was entirely new, while the fault charged to their a'count amounts, after all, to little more than an omission of control .over those very bodies who now complain of the results of freedom. It is not fair to say that the extravagance of en terprise and competition was the immediate work of our rulers ' • these elements of mischief were supplied by the speculators themselves, and all that the Government neglected was the restriction of this exuberance within what, as is now discovered, would have been more salutary bounds. Yet it is by no means improbable that if a policy of repression had been actually adopted it would have been held accountable for all the mis haps and deficiencies afterwards experienced, and the late Sir Robert Peel might be denounced per haps at this very moment as the arch-obstructor of railway development in England. As regards the minor grievances alleged on be half of railways there is not quite so much to be said. If they are heavily rated for the relief of the poor, it must at any rate be plain after recent discussions that there is plenty of other property in the same case. If they are undersold by the Post office in the parcel-carrying department, the fact is only an unavoidable incident in the progress of public accommodation.. The Post-office has a machinery pervading every quarter - Of the kingdom with its ramifications, and to expect that this ma chinery should be withheldl from the service of the publicin order that rail waysmight have more parcels to deliver at - such stations as they touch is utterly preposterous. Still more injudicious was the com plaint that companies should be charged so heavily for their dealings with the Hares and limbs of her Majesty's hubjects,•while,.AS regards the limi tation of profits so feelingly put forth, if the course is clear up to 10 per cent., and the average Performance at present is under 3i, there is surely scope for about as much expansion -as can be anti cipated just yet. However, we are not concerned to gainsay the assertion that Railways have here and there been hardly treated, and certainly we should rejoice to see this immense aggregate of property producing better returns and bearing a more becoming value in the market. But, after saying this much, we are bound to add, that a very considerable portion of the hardships alleged is traceable to the con duct of the companies themselves. In what respects, indeed—to go at once to the very marrow of the question,—have railways disap pointed their proprietors ? Certainly not in the amount of receipts, for, as regards the returns per mile from goods and passenger traffic, we doubt if there is a single line in the kingdom which has not exceeded the most sanguine estimates of produce originally formed. The public, then, have done all Mid more than all their part in the way of en couragement ; they have been most liberally forth coming with their patronage and their money, and the only reason why profits are small is, that these returns are intercepted in their way to the pockets of the shareholders by the enormous claims which must be satisfied before any dividend can bo declared. The simple truth is not that fares, as a general rule, have been pushed too low by com petition—not that traffic has been abstracted by a carrying department of the Administration itself— not that mailbags are conveyed at a loss—not, in short, that anything keeps money out of the rail way tills—but that too many mouths have to be idled from the produce before the actual pro prietors can come in for their turn. The receipts, in short, of Railway Companies are abundant, and would be remunerative enough in most cases, even after working expenses had been defrayed ;—what impairs the dividend is not the smallness of the divisible total, but the number of the divisors. And ghat created this hungry multitude ? Why, the greed, the ambition, the conflicts, and the liti gation of the companies themselves, which so swelled the capital on:which interest was to be paid that even an unexpected fertility in returns has proved insufficient for the objects desired. There is another point, too, which cannot be passed over without destruction to the soundness of the whole argument. Why , is it that property which, if not so productive as it ought to be, is at any rate producing upon an average tetween 3 and 4 per cent., should be quoted at such dispropor tionate prices in the share-market Y Very likely 31. 12s. 4d. is too small a rate of interescbut it is , higher than Consols, and the security is only inferior in its character to terra firma itsel f . Nothin g m in at the meeting aplainedAlie ugly fact that of all these numerous creations three only were quoted at a premium. This fact can be in terpreted only by the indefinite distrust to whieh uncertainty gives rise, and this uncertainty in the public mind is due to the obscurity of railway ac counts. Let the worst be known, and men will risen come forward to make it better, for this is proverbially the point at which things mend. Provided there was nothing behind the scenes—no mischief to come out by and by when all was thought to be over — the natural and unvarying elasticity of such pro perty in a country lik9 this would soon be reckoned upon to bring things round. The road to a rise in shares lies through a real and incontestible audit. In the main, the improvement of railway pro party must rest with the shareholders thgislema - solve& If there are any points on which le tion presses them unfairly, they will have the good wishes of the public in agitating for redress, and, independently of such points, if the authority of Parliament can enable them in any way to act more effectively for their own relief, we trust that they may obtain the facilities desired. The aggre gate and taxable wealth of the nation, as was ob served at the meeting, is affected by the deprecia tion of funds so enormous, and= the question assumes an importance truly imperial. But even Parliament itself cannot recall what is past, and the counterpoise is only to be found in good management and resolution. Let the companies first deal as liberally with the public as the public does with them ; not stint their accommodation, not cut down their working staff, net curtail the very indulgences to which they are drives. If they are forced to carry a p as senge . r sixty miles for 55., they need net ex p ose the F and their caprice by charging 78. 6 d for one-half of the identical distance. Let g at theta abstain of their own accord from ales? to make them well-behaved by comp . each other's throats, and not pray the si LegisAlinabtuovree all, let them look boldly into their own attaa rs, and give the public the benefit of their dis it they do this for themselves they th w d ve ill r o more s; than " a strong Gover nment and willingcoa,,Parlia ment," and even " Lor d Palmerston" himself can ever do for them. L PARL lAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANcELLon took his seat on the woolFack at five o'clock. _ Lord Brcughain was this evening in attendance. The nolde and learned lord looked remarkably well. LAW OF LIBEL. Lord CAMPITTL presented a petition from a cer tein party who was put to very gre;t expense, in conse quence of an action having been brought against him for libel, which consisted in the publication of the proceed ings at a public meeting, in a newspaper. The petitioner prayed for an amendment of the law. On 1114 motion of the noble and learned lord the petition was referred to the committee now sitting to inquire into the law of SECOND READINGS. On the motion of L'rd R.EDESDALE, the Exeter and Exrnouth Railway Bill, Great Southern and Western (Capita!) 8,11, and the Inverness and Nairn Railway Bill was read a second time. North Eastern Railway (Capital) ; Portsmouth Rail way ; Tralee and Killarney Railway ; Wycombe Rail way. PUBLIC BUSINESS—ELECTION PETITIONS. The SPEAKER announced that he had received communications from Mr. Coppock, stating that it with not intended to proceed with tha petitions against the return of Mr. Christie, for Newcastle-under-Lynn; and against the return of one of the members fur North . Staffordshire. Mr. RICHARDSON also commnnicated to the Speaker that it W 39 not his intention to defend his re turn for the borough of Lisburn. ELECTION COMMITTEES. The following members were sworn on the General Election Committee, empowered to commence' their sittings forth with—Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Walpole, Mr. B. Carter, Sir W. Somerville, Sir W. Heathcote, Mr. Miles, and Colonel W. Patten. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented i❑ favour of Mr. Headlam'e Medical Bill, and against Lord Elcho's Medical Bill, against the Superannuation Act, in favour of Mr. Hardy's Beer B 11, in favour of the Oaths Bill, against Church rates, &c. NEW WRIT. Oa the motion of Sir W. J. JourrrE, a new writ WAR ordered for the county of Carmarthen, in the room of Mr. Davis, deceased. ELECTION PETITIONS. The following petitions against the return of members have been examined and found unobjectionable :—Lis burn, Newport, Beverley, Taunton, Bodmin, Weymouth, County of Gel A-ay, Bath, Mallon, Lanark, Bradford, Ipswich, Falkirk, Sligo County, Huntingdonshire, Pe t?rbero', Queen's County, Per srnoutb, Chatham, Lym ington, Sandwich, North • Staffordshire, Yarmouth, Totnes, Athlone, Clare, Meath, Finsbury, Sligo borough, Berwick, Dover, Gloster, Newcastle-under•Lyne, METROPOLITAN WORKHOUSES. Viscount RA YNHAM gave notice that he shoul l on this day fortnight move for a select committee to in quire into the condition of the metropolitan workhouses. INDIA. Mr. SMITH gave notice that on the 231 he should call the attention of the house to the obstacles that im .pede the application of capital to India. GRAND JURIES, &c. (IRELAND). Mr. HAMILTON gave notice that on the 23d he should move for a select committee to inquire into the grand jury laws, &c, (Ireland). THE BALLOT. Mr. H. BERKELEY gave notice that on the 233 he should bring on his motion relative to the ballot. OATHS BILL. Sir F. THESIGER said that for the convenience of members he wished to state that he, and those who acted with him, had no intention to oppose the second reading of the ()Atha Bill on Monday next—(hear, hear)—but that on the going into committee he shool I move the in troduction of certain words, to have for their object the continuatio❑ of the Christian character of the as sembly. He and those who thought with him considered the present alterations in the oath an improvement. THE BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER an. nounced that, i❑ the event of any estimate being com pleted to-morrow evening, and the debate on the Oaths Bill not occupying mush time on Monday, he should proceed with the civil service estimates. THE PAPER DUTY. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it was the intention of Government with a view to the promotion of education to propose any measure for granting a drawback on the paper duty, as regarded paper and books•used for the purposes of education ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was not his intention at present to introduce a measure for the purpose of granting a drawback as asked. LUNACY—ST. MARYLE BONE. Mr. KINNAIRD asked the President of the Poor law Board whether he had received any communication from the Board of Guardians of St. Marylebone in answer to the report of the Cdmmissioners on Lunacy, and whether he would have any objection to lay such communication upon the table of the house ; and whether any steps were about to be taken for the purpose of preventing the continuance of the system now prevailing in the Mary lebone Workhouse in regard to the treatment of pauper lunatics? Mr. BOUVERIE said that, with respect to the first part of the question, a letter had been received from the Board of Marylebone Guardians, containing a report of a committee of their own body on the sub ject, and recommending certain steps for the re medying of the evils that existed in the workhouse relative to the pauper lunatics. The question of admit ting the Inspector of the Poor-law Board to the meeting of the Board of Guardians, and to take part in the pro ceedings, was now before the Queen's Bench, where it would be fully argued. He had no objection to produce the papers. The inspector had lately visited the work house with a special regard to the state of the pauper lunatics, and the guardians were remedying the evils complained of, as far as the accommodation of the work house would permit. (Hear, hear ) CHURCH RATES. Sir J. TRELAWNEY asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if it was his intention to introduce a bill for the abolition of church rates this session ? Lord PALMERSTON said that Government had a measure on the subject in preparation, and he hoped before long to submit it to the consideration of the house. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. TRELAWNEY said that the answer of the noble lord was so unsatisfactory that he should bring on the motion he had given notice of on this subject this evening. (Hear, hear.) Sir J. PAKINGTON asked the noble lord if, by using the expression " before long," be meant this ses sion or next session ! (Laughter.) Lord PALMERSTON said that anything having refe• rence to the next session must be very long. (Laughter.) He meant this session. (Hear, hear.) VOTING PAPERS. Lord R. CECIL moved for a select committee to inquire into the expediency of collecting the votes at elections in counties and universities by way of voting papers. The noble lord entered at some length into the question, and urged that it would have the effect of preventing bribery and corruption, and be the means of dispensing with the ballot. It would also have the effect of increasing the number of votes at elections, because a large number who did not vote under the present system would by the mode he proposed. It had been tried with reference to munici pal elections, and the election of Beards of Guardians, and was found to work well. Is would also meet many of the of of the noble lord the member for Middle sex relative to the expense of bringing voters to the poll. Mr. M'CULLAGII opposed the motion, because, from the advanced state of the session, it would be im possible for a committee to investigate properly the pro posed alteration, which struck at the root of our elec toral system. The present manly system of voting was as bold as the constitution of the house itself, and to that was opposed what he might term an "effeminate " system, because under it at present women were al lowed to vote for certain officers. The difference in the principles in use and proposed was this, that the law was to give the franchise originally, and it now carried out in practice the spirit and theory of the constitution. Any man once placed on the registry could not be divested of his right by any person, and it was his own fault if he did not exercise it. He considered there were five distinct contingencies to this mode of election, by which the acts of other per-one, without privity or oom plicity of the voter, might prevent his exercising his right to vote at all. The point was that it was possible the voting impels might not be delivered to the voter at all, and he instanced the case of Swansea and Banbury. where the elections of guardians were declared null and void from that circumstance. Another point was that of falsifying or forging the papers, which be illustrated by a circumstance of that kind that occurred in 1855 in the borough of Lambeth, where the parties were punished by criminal proceedings. There was the case of an indictment against five agents at West Bromwich, who were found guilty of tampering with voting papers, and were sen tenced to three months imprisonment, and when the Poor-law Board Inspector went dawn and investigated the matter, he found that 342 voting pspers bad been tampered with, and the majority of them found for geries. The honourable gentleman further proceeded t s illustrate his argument by showing th e abuse of power nn the part of collectors of these papers in elections for boards of guardians, and he proceeded to remark on thes faults and irregularities attending these mere at elections, which showed the system was a bad hone, and wou ld not work, because st e m was been declared void in consequence by the Poor Law Board. (Hear, hear.) After some general remarks he said that the Government ought not to consult the interest of the few against that of the many who voted under the present system. This was considered by ma n y as the half-way house to the Ballot, though repudiated by the noble lord, but he differed from him, and he moved the previous question. Mr. BOWYER seconded the amendment. Lord EBRINGTON, after some general remarks in r eply to the last speaker, said he should support the ori ginal motion, because before a committee means might he found for preventing the frauds complained of. One objection, to the proposed mode, was the bad pay ment of agents, instead of intrusting the delivery nod collection of the papers to the police. This subject ought to be incorporated into the reform bill of next see. , sion. In Marylebone, eltotion by voting-papers was gain ing in popularity. Lord STANLEY th oug ht that the noble lord (Lord R. Cecil) had made a mistake in mixing np the two elections of counties and universities. If the proposed alteration had been confined to universities he should have Supported the motion, but he could notin countiea, bectoaousefathreormneoa; sure would have the effect of either going far enough for such constituencies. Sir G. GREY opposed the motion for inquiry on t h e ground that it was purely one of those questions which the house could not dev olve on any committee, but must decide for itself. Mr. H. BERKELEY compared the propos a l to a mere puddle, as compared with the whole sea of reform t i which he would lead them in the ballot. Lord .1. MANNERS recommended his noble friend to withdraw his motion, a suggestion to which Lord R. CECIL acceded, and the motion was with drawn, intimating that at some future period be would propose a bill on the subject. GENERAL COMMITTEE OF ELECTIONS. Mr. WALPOLE brought up the report, observing that it was impossible that the report could be made be fore that day. The members of the general committee PUBLIC BATHING. The Marquis of WESTNIINS rEtt brought in a bill for the be ter management of public bathing plicei. The noble I ,rd said he had been at Ramsgate and Margate last season, and there witnessed scenes of indecency that loudly called for improvement. The bill was read a first time. SALE OF POISONS. Earl GRANVILLE moved that the house go into committee on this bill, which was one intended to put a stop to the great facility of purchasing poisons. The fifth clause of the bill was the most important, as it provided that the parties purchasing any poisonous in gredient should be accompanied by a witness known to the sel!er, or else to provided with a certificate of a respectable medical prac titioner or clergyman is the neighbourhood. The 6th clause enacted that certain poisons should be kept under lock and key, and that when sold they should be placed in bottles of a certain shape, or coloured pap r. The vendor was also required to keep a register of the quantity of poison sold, and al'o an accurate entry of the name and address of the purchaser. The oill, he felt convinced, would be one of great good, and *would afford that protection which was at present so loudly called for. Lord CAMPBELL said he felt great pleasure in sup porting the present bill. It was one which was loudly called for, and he doubted not that great good would follow the passing of such a measure. The Earl of HARD WICKE said, if the present bill passed, one half of the chemists' shops would be.closed during the next six months. Many poisons were used in medicines, and if any person was supplied with a bottle containing a certain mixture a part of which was poison he would refuse to take it. Toe bill en• acted that poisonous compounds were to be made up in a certain manner, but he thought all legislative en• actments would be found useless to meet the evil in question. He should therefore oppose the bill. Lord TALBOT DE MA LAHIDE said many of the enactments Gf the bill had been borrowed from, Ire land, and such being the case, he hoped an effort would be mad.-; t 3 as , imilate the law with respect to the sale of poisons in the three countries. Lord.REDESDALE sugg, , ested:that the bi►l should be referred to a select committee before their lordships proceeded further with it. Earl GRANVILLE said be had not the slightest ob jection to the course proposed by the noble lord oppo- sits. After a short conversation the bill was ordered to be referred to a select committee. DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL On the report of the amendments on this bill being read, Lard BROUGHAM rose to express the strong objec tion he felt to c-rtain omissions in the -bill to which generally he entirely agreed. He had another objection, and that was to what had been called the amendments made in committee en the bill. He would venture to say that never in the course of his legislative experience was the word amendment more inapplicable than in this instance, inasmuch as a defect was retained in the mea sure which he had hoped to see removed. What was one of the great ofje.ctions to the action of crim. con., agreed to on all sides, or on nearly all sides 1 One of the greatest, and in his opinion the greatest, objection to that action was the grievous and crying injustice which was done in that action to the unhappy wife of the party who brought the action. An instance had occurred, which he believed had been mentioned before, where an action for crim. C:113. had been brought and compromised by the payment of a trifing sum to the husband. All the husband wanted was to get rid of hie wife, so he charged her with adultery ; but when he got before the Ecclesi astical Court it was proved beyond all doubt the ; the guilt of the wife was an impossibility, for the marriage bad never been consummated, either by the husband or (.aid the noble lord) or by any other man. (Laughter.) To nearly, though not quite, the same degree, his objec tions would also apply to the proceedings authorised by the bill for obtaining a divorce because the adulterer was made no party. The LORD CHANCELLOR said it was proposed to make both the wife and the adulterer parties to the suit. Lord BROUGHAM said in that case he must beg his noble_ and learned friend's pardon. He would, therefore, proceed at once to the very strong objections he entertained against what had been call the amend ments to the bill. He found that a new species of divorce altogether had been invented, but there was no necessity for their lordships to patent it, for no other state or country would ever desire to pirate the invention. It was a divorce that was neither a mensa et thoro nor a thicalo matrimonii, but yet re tained all the defects of both those systems. With respect ,to one of the parties, it was a complete divorce—the vinculum was dissolved, and the husband might marry again. But with respect to the other party—the wife, it was only half a divorce, and she could not marry again. It left her not altogether free, nor yet altogether fettered. She was doomed to the altera tive of prostitution or want, of sinning or starving, of the streets or the workhouse. With all that respect which it was natural for him to feel towards their lord ships, and with every desire to admire originality of con ception, he felt he should be guilty of some of the in consistencies which characterised that measure, and some of the hypocrisy that it encouraged, were he to express any admiration whatever for their lordships' very original invention. Even setting all justice and morality aside—and it was no light matter to do that in an assem bly presided over by his noble and learned friend the Lord Chance:ler, and adorned by the heads of the church —but even setting justice and morality aside, what was to be gained by the Present measure ! Its professed ob ject was to prevent adultery, but did it show that it would have any such tendency, or anything like it I Did it not tend to encourage the offence it was directed against ! It went upon the as:umpeion that in the ma joiity of cases the woman and not the man was to be taken as the principal offender ; but a long experience of such cases went to show most unquestionably that it was nearly always the man and Lot the woman who was the most guilty. Yet that bill encouraged the man to per severe iu his criminality by giving him an act of Parlia ment guarantee against the consequences of his crime, by preventiog him from marrying the woman. Then with regard to the woman, what did the bill do for her ? The fear of loss of station in lite, and the deprivation of the children, might be taken in must cases to be suffi cient incentives to virtue in a wife. But take one of the worst cases where a woman had neither self-respect nor natural affection, he believed the fear of loss of posi tion would at all events be a greater restriction than an act of Parliament to prevent her marrying, not merely the adulterer, but any other person whomsoever. The strength of female attachments was well known, and it was no uncommon thing in these cases for the adultery to be committed by parties who could not possibly marry. Indeed, in the very next divorce case that would come before their lordships, the seducer was a married man, and the woman a wife and a mother. The more he looked into it, the more he felt convinced that a greater blot upon the legislation of this kingdom had never been at tempted than by the so-called amendments that had been , made in commi tee upon that new species of divorce. Lord REDESDALE said the noble and learned lord who last Rpriz e bad omitted to allude to the grounds upon which the principal amendment was supported by those who brought it forward. The Scripture said " Whoso marrieth a woman that is divorced, comitsit teth adultery," and the b.ll in its original shape ap peared to be opposed to the law of God. Lord BROUGHAM. said he was perfectly aware that that suggesti6n had been given as the reason, and he had recently read a work by an eminent barrister, in which the language of Scripture was twisted about until it ap- peared to bear that meaning. But those parties all ar gued as though St. Mark and St. Luke had not given a very different version of the words. At all events, the objection came a century and a half too late, for their lordships had been granting divorces of that kind by a different mode for the last 150 years. Lord REDESDALE said St. Matthew gave the words with great distinctness as coming from the lips of the holy Saviour himself, and he (Lord Redesdele) could not think that a practice of 150 years was sufficient to jus tify opposition to the Word of God. The Earl of DONOUGHMORE said he had voted for the amendment because he c onsidered that tmhatr notcon was a contract, and that if one party b tract, the other should ha ve a remenail_tytigut hethe doffence think it right that the party cone i should profit by his crime. The report a at then brought up sa n T d o ag vv re l e T d N to E . sus. ADMINISTRATION OF The report of the select committee on this subject bay ing been brought tins Lord CAMPBELL moved a resolution, that select committees should in future examine witnesses without s worn, and that in com their havingr private billsp r ey ir t i o h n e sl witnesses should be examined m ittees on p on oath, excep t only in cases where it might otherwise be ordered by the house. His lordship said that the se lect committee had approved and recommended that course. The resolution was agreed to, after which their lord ships adjourned at 25 minutes after six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YEsTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the Chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and pas. sed :—The Atlantic Telegraph Company and the Austra lian Agricultural Company. The following bills were further considered and ordered to be read a third time :—Cardigan Markets and Improvement ; Cork Gas ; Dartmouth and Torbay ailway ; Great Yarmouth Britannia Pier ; Mayo r's ourt of the City of London ; North Eastern and liar 'tlepocl Dock and Railway Companies Amalgamation ; ving 100 100 IGN. 37 6B 97 fi 64 A 63' looi 83f i