The Sun. — London, England, 1857-08-21 00:00:00

'f n•ria, steal -1 to WaS that n 30 tian 'halo VhiCh the have some She :here uket. •AI 77 lw KET 'a .;=.l AND • COMP - 51. r iaCIAL tyrirmLlGENO.,il, CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Accounts from Liverpool state that the Cotton Market yesterday closed with a very animated appearance, and prices of all descriptions were id. per lb. dearer. The sales amounted to 12,000 bales, 2,000 of which were taken by the spe culator=. The Railway Share Market closed quietly, and prices were Without any material alteration. Rather more activity has been experienced in the markets for F. reign and C lonial Produce this week, in consequence of a disposition on the pmt of the importers to meet the buyers by reduction in the qu.,tations. For some time past the transactions in sugar have been very much circumscribed and holders having found it difficult to effect sales have at length found it necessary to submit to lower prices. At the public sales during the last two or three days a decline of Is. per cwt. has taken place. Coffee has remained tolerably steady, but Costa Rica has declined fully is. per cwt. Cocoa has been rather dearer. Tea remains dull and rice is at rather lower rates. In spices there has not been much activity and there is no alteration of 'import ance in values. Saltpetre has realised full prices, and tallow has scarcely supporte , l the late advance. The dividend on the South Wales Railway Com- pany' s shares is stated to be at the rate of 31 per cent. against 4 per cent. at till same time last year. This has c_Lased a decline in the value of the shares. Later advices have been received from America, by the steamer Ariel, which has brought 35,000/. in specie for England, 25,0001. for France, and 2,400/. for Bremen. It is stated that the ana,;uht of specie exported to Europe from the commencement of the year to end of July was 5,280,000/ , but notaithstanding these exten sive shipments the bullion in the City Banks was steadily maintained. On the Ist instant the stock of the precious metals held by these establishments was 2,600,000/. The following remarks on the commercial prospects of New York are from the New York Herald .--."Thete is reason to believe that the imports will continue to be enormous during the months of August and September. On the strength of the tariff our merchants have s'rained their means to the utmost to give copious orders to the manufacturers abroad ; while the excellent crop prospects of the West encourage the western Merchants to be liberal in their orders to their correspondents here. We look for a continuation or some time to come in the increase of im• Ports both at this and other port.. As to tb e means for paying for them, it is now ob vious that the crops in Europe are going to be so bountiful that our grain will hardly pay the cost of freight to Liverpool. We Must expect to g,t on as well as we can without foreign demand. Especially in view of the pend ing movement for the increase of railway fares, it a eeme-very unlikely that any chsiderable pr , rtion of the harvest will be moved this fall. We cannot expect the cotton bills before the beginning of the Winter. There remains, then, only the two old etap'es with which we have so often been obliged to Pay our European debts—paper securities and geld. The Eastern Counties meeting is now going on a satisfactory manner, Mr. Love being in tha char. A dividend of ss. per share on the consoli dated stock is proposed in the report. Toe chair lban urg-1 the proprietors to oppose the bill in giving the Post-office authorities power to avail themselves at any time of the railway with out consulting the intere-t r,f the proprietors. The report was ultimately adopt-d. The Money Market is rather easier, and the de- Mand is less active. First-claes piper is negotiated at 58, and in some cases at even 51 per cent. Renewed weakness is apparent in the English Stock Market, a decline of a 1 per cent. hav ing occurred to-day. Several sal -s have been Made, which, iu the absence of large inve.tments on the part of the publ'c, have pro luced this move- Meat. Consols have been 91k, and 901 for money, 'white for the account they have been 91. i Abd 9oir to 91. The New Threes are 911 ; and the Reduced, 91i ; Exchequer Bills are 4s. to 3s. dis. ; and the Bonds, 93g. India Stock is 213 k. Foreign secu rities are still without the least 11 Igos of a n i mat i on . T ur ki s h 6 p er Cents. haveu eclined to 941 and the 4 per Cents. are 991 #. 4i . per Cents. are 99, Do. Small Bonds .99 11- Mexican 22k, and Brazilian 4} per Cents. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 61 ; Mexic tn per Cents, 221 a ; Pornvian 41 per Cents. 81 83 ; _ortuguese 3 per Cents., 44i 4511; Rausian 5 per u "ts 112 114 ; Spanish 3 pmr Cents.. 40 40i ; I°. Defer re d, 251 ; do. C e rtificates, 51 ; a ' iv e ,s 6 1. • • Messrs. 1). Bell, Son and Co., report that during the past week the transactions in American and Railway Bonds have . 13en few and unimportant, 44 (1 prices continue wi, bout alteration. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES Re deemable. Per Cent. United States 6 per Cenis. 1867-1868...104 105 United States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...104 105 Alab STATE SECURITIES. lama 5 per Cent jlaryland sper Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 4488.9. 0 . , hn5etts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) Ississippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk Mississippi IS4I-1871... 40 Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Union Bk. Bonds ... 20 5 per Cent. Stock llnsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds ........ 1877... 78 T7nnessee 6 per Cent. Bonds Vrgini a 6 per Cent. Bond 1886._ 80 ' r g p er iuia 5 Cent. (Sterling Bonds) —1888... 83 tost h i on 4 LOANS OP CITIES. 1i per Cent. Bonds o ntreal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-18 8 65... N e w Orleans 6 per Cent. Stock 1883... 74 RAILROAD BONDS. r?ot 11,1 0is C Central 7 per Cent. let Mortgage, 1875... S 9 .c.O liii"is Cent ralllli 6per Cent nois Centr al 7 p per Cent. Freeland i londs 1860...102 1 0 4 I l linois C en t ra l (Sh ares ) , S 3O tkehigan Central 8 P. Cent., Convert, 1M0... 1)0 . do. do. 1869... 89 91 ii .e e w 'York Cent ra l 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 88 90 sv Yolk Central 6 per Cent., not -N C onvertibl e 1883 . 79 81 ew Yo r k an d E r i e 7 per Cent. 3€l Mort ggage 1883... 80 82 : York an d kris 7p. Cent. Convert ible-1862... 65 66 York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking ik Pried 4 -1875... 75 77 ik," 4 ma 7 per C en t., I s t Mortgage - 1865... sYlvan i a Central 6p. Cent.. 1 M0rt.1880... 86 88 The transactions ent ere d i n t o i n th e R a il wa y •Itare Market ti-day have been Prices, h owever, have undergone some slight variations. Great Western, South-Western, and North British inl i ) roved about 54. ; and Caledonian, 10s. ; Mid land and North-Eastern (Berwick) declined ss. ; ttighton 104., and South-Eastern and South Wales 11. , The °reign and Co'onial line. are very quiet. Para and Lyons hive impr ved about 55., and Great Luxewb Burg and Sambre aud Meuse realised Pest rday's quotations. East Indian improved 55.; %nil Madras Guaranteed about ss. Grand Trunk and Groat Western of Canada were steldy. Mines, Banks, and Miec , llanepus Shares have bee n depressed, and in mast instances the dealings Dave been at lower rates. London and County Bank receded ss. ; London Joint Stock, 10s. ; Ottoman Bank, 54. ; and Union of London, ss. El ctric telegraph have declined 10s. Royal Mail Steam, Landon General Ominhus Company, and Orystal Palac?, barely re Elise previous values. ...88 SO -100 - 41 VISH FUNDs.—CIAt6.I Ati Y.K.WES —THIS DAY. (limn the (44°141 Lut3 Busineps fete. 3 '' , ,'?' ( eat . Reduced Annuitlte . Per f , , , 1 .11 .8 9l* 90/ N ._ Jent, I ~,,4 0. 9 ~ ne .. i , , . sly i i ti e 'v ' per Cent. Annuities ihdia Stock * 213 Ce 91A ON 1 90h : ,- •• 11. SO 1 'E thequer Bine, 2id. )I . i) 8 1p 3 d , 1p 2 d • . Trebequer Bonds, ISSB, 34 per Cant' bito. $ 0 iFOREIGNb' . -40 ES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY. 4l'2il im ner Cent....r— to- ti e 1852, 4i per Cent. ' . 'earl 3 per ( :ens Ilitsbitto Acco un t 41 " k,/ Pt 2" St., 5 per Cont bit "1 '. L to, 445 per Cent. 99 8 8 !Att e s mall 99 * 0 i, 9 _ ii,,, e!.,,,t e , .; p er cent ttc Few Deferred, 3 per Ceti'. 1,(1tto Account 2si t, . ry "nda, t per cent .ttto Account . 0, tto Guar,. teed, I , er C '''' ." 994 a Dut Doeh ir Dividends on the above payable in London. - rJz , angt,, 2i per Con,"., 12 Guilders . A . 't.r Cent. Uertifiestes. ----- COna , rnoney 9 ols THREE 0'01;06K. Cunbols for account, S eptem b er 6° • 9111-5. , . cePt Tate's CHANGFEI In aocieLt days the celebrated pre " know thyself;" in modern times it bag been BttilYiPPlatittd y the fever more fashionable maxim, "Snow neighbobur and ything abouthim FHAIIE I'ILARKETS—(This Day.) RAILWAYS. E.AILW Aire. I :*ric,e th s day litiginess done this day. Xmhg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. Belfast & Ballymena Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Va11ey......... Birkenhd. Lancsh. dr Cheshire Junct Blackburn ....... . Myth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) Bristol & Exeter 'aster 1z Holyhead fork and Bandon. . rinrk, Mack. & Pass Cornwall D. A Do. B • Dublin&Belfast Juno. nun. P. &Aber. June. Karst Anglian Eastern Counties Easternlinion,A. stk. Do. no. P New A East Kent ... ....... East Lancashire East Suffolk Do. Edinburgh & Glasgow Mint). and Peebles Edinb.Prth.&Dunden Forthand ClydeJunc. Fnrness . Glasgow & S. Western Great N. of Scotland Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock ..... Gt. Sth.&West.(lre.) PreatWestern. ....• St. 'lOO Do. Str. V. R gua. St 12 all ,Trsh South-Eastern 5C all Lancaster & Carlisle. 164 1 144 Do., Third 5............ 161 12 Do. New Thirds ... St. 100 Lancash. &Yorkshire 16 6 no., do. F £l6 .. 3 1 no., wst. Riding Un. 20 all Do. Southport 11 all London & Blackwall St. 100 Loud. Bright. &S. Cst. St. 100 London &N. Weston, 30 all Do. Fifths 10 all n0.,161.5h.,M&8 0 123 5 Da. Eighths St. 100 r,ond on & S.lreatern 25 I all 25 1 all St. 100 Lndndrry.dreoleraine Lndnarry. dr Ennisk. %fanch.Shef. &Linein.' Metropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement Midland . St. .100 St. 100 50 , all 25 all 100 ; all Do. Birming. & Derby kfidland o.West.(lr.) Do. i Shares Newcastle & Carl isle Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint At Rostrevor lorfolk_.. ........ Northn. Counties Un North British . ...... North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock Do., A Stock Do., B Stock .......„ N. Eastern Berwick Do. do. Extension Do do. G.N.E.Purch Do Leeds Do. York North London N. & S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn 173 North Staffordshire all North Western all N. &S. Wcstrn. June 100 Oxford Worcester & 1 Wolverhampton 16 !Portsmouth 10 'Rhymuey 100 Scottish Central ... 100 Scot. N.B. Abrdri. St 1100 'Shropshire Union 6 Sitingbourne &Sheer all !..ioutlt Devon..., 100 ;Sloth Eastern.. all ;Do. 4. per:. Shares 100 'South Wales... .... . all S. Yorksh. RivtrDu . n l 10 Do. . all Staines,Wok.,&Wok. all Stockton Sr, Darling 15 Do. do., 1814 5 Do. do., OM 16,?, Stockton & Hartlepl , 100 Taff Vale 100 Do. Pref., No. 1....: 22 Thames flay. D. &R all Vale of Neath all IWaterfd. & Kilkenny rd&L' •iz all i Water,o imene all West Cm nwall all [West End of London ! and Crystal Palace all 'Do. A all Do. B all West London all I Do. First Class all I Do, Second Class... all I Wmbledon &Croydon 5.} - 5i 81 - 9 67 - 69 7i - 8i 88 - 90 78i - 791 34 - 36 .5 ••• ...... ••• 20 - 22 1 11i - 11# 31 - 34 48 - 51 17 - 18 C 6 - 97 sib I - 0.. i - 101 - 103 8 - 9 97 - 98 90 - 92 121 - 123 103 - 105 53 - 531 63 - 65 72 - 75 7 - 8 p 7- 8 p 99 - 99 i - 11 6 - 61 04 - 106 .02 -102 i id i 94 95 39i : :1-6.?„ ••• - ••• 831 -84 i 55 -56 i ni = ii 63 - 65 3/. --311 45A - 46! 94.'; - 95 233 - 23 21 - 10, 43 - 46 78 - 79 95 - 97 4h 7 8 1.0 101 22 33 61 bh,lj 101 - 106 21 - 25 48 - 50 3 - 2,t 16i -17 i 72 -- 73 85 - F 7 144-15;I - 9 - 41:1 , 40 - 42 21i - 22 3i - 4 7 - 9 3 - 3i 5 - 4 BRITISH POSSESSIONS t. 50 St. St, lri all WO 100 .31.1 5 5 20 10 20 10 100 all , Atlan. and St. Law. 18 9 Bombay, BAroda, and Cen.lad,guar. sp.c. 1 d par 18 all Do. 20i 103 Buffalo & Lake Hur. 41 4id 100 101 BO:, Brnt. & Go4ch. Q . ° 160 100 6 p.c.bds.,l Aug.,'72l — 92 Do. do., 1 July, '73i 85 90 100 100 Do. do., 1 June,'74l 85 90 20 2s. Calcutta and S. Dtst. 2s'd Central Gude (Lim.) 20 lOs Ceylon A Blares 20 1 Do. B. dn. 176 all Demerara . 20 2s. Eastern Bengal 'lt. 100 East Indian 20 15 Do. e Shares ino all Do.4A p.c.Bnds.,'s7 100 all Do. do. do., '59, do. 20 all Geelong & Melbourne ••.. -- ••• li - 1$ r 100 101 d -- par guar. 5 per cent. St. 100 Gd. Trunk. of Canada 00 all Do. 6p c. Deben 20 all Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 pert 20 4 Do. New. guar. 5 p.c 20i all Ot. Wcstn. of Canada 20} 101 Do. New .00 all Do. Bds., payable '57 .00 all no. do., '76, p. leo all no. do. , '73, do 1.00 all Do. do., '73, without option 20 all Madras, guar. 41 p.c 20 all Do. do., 5 per c. 20 10 Do. 4i p. c. Exton. 20 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. 20 5 Do. 4th Ex., do. 20 ss. Oude (Limited) 20 5 Scinde, guar. 5 per c 20 all Do 201 —20 i 50 52 85 87 19 1 —19 i; 21 1 3 ! 211, par 99 101 105 110 1205 110 106 103 17 18 191 20 2 ld d par 7 -111; FOREIGN. 10 all A -itwrp &Rotterdam 6} 6R 20 18 Ardennes — ... 5 all Belgian East. Junct. •31 1 A 20 16 Be ziers to Gra,issessac ... ... 6 all Carmeaux& Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry. 4 5 20 12 Dutch Rhenish D 22°0 all e Eastern New 20 nio w f France 27 - 27.2 20 2s. Euphrates Valley 20 18 Gt. Central of France 231 211 20 all Great Luxembourg 7 7i 711 16 4 Italian Junction 20 all Lake Conet. & Bale .., .... 120 all Lierre and Turnhout ... —II 20 6 Lomhardo-Venetian 4 4 12 5 all , Lucca di Pist.sp.e.l ... 20 all 'Lyons and Geneva 20 all Lyons & Mediterran ... ... 33A all Maria Ante - , %. - -. 10 all Do. New — ... 20 all Namur &Liege 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Pref l9l 19+ 16 all Northern of France 341 34 10 i all NorwegianTrnk.Pref 9 10 20 I all Paris and Lyons 351 3 5 + 35 1 20 all Paris and Orleans 57 5 9 20 7 Reelfe di San Fran , (Pernam.) g. 7p. c 1 d . r ai 10 71 Rama and Fra.saati, ... ... 20 all Royal Danish l6 18 5 all Royal Swedish 1 1 20 all Sambre and Meuse._ 71 7i 7i 10 all )o. 51 per cent. pref. 7/ —t./ 20 all souther] of France.. 254 26 :001 allalalll 1 v‘ W v West i s s t :I..N. 1. .i; Flanders 10 all Do. 5) 5 per c. Pref . 9 -- 91 Switzerland 2 : . 7 , ./ -- 7 2 6 0 6 7 1: 7 o c f e A: ii f t ri tz. s F e t p l i t ... _ .. . 6 all Wiesbadenw ... 20 all Zealand ... • --222_1•_••_2_2::L___=1__. — JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all !Australasia ~• 25 181 Bank of Egs .. t''',........... s' 2 l 4 1 89 .1 100 50 Bank of London .. - .. 47 40 all Bri. Col Bk.& Ln. Co. . — 49 50 all British N. American .. a *** i f ..... •ii 64 61/ 1 1 2 0 0 0 508 Ici e. ty ßk. of Ind. Au. dioh 63 -- 6 5 190- 25 Colonial -. 100 29 Commercial of Load. .. _ ... 20 all Eng.Scot.&Aus.Cht. 19 1 19+ 19+ 20 all ILon.Ch. Bk.of Aust. 17 1 181 20 all Ditto New — ". 50 20 London and County .. ... 291 ... 50 Lad.diE.Bukng.Corp ... ... 50 10 London Joint Stock ... ... 291130 ICO 20 Lond.andWestminst ... ... 100 35 National Pro. of Eng ... ... 20 10 'Do. New 50 22/ National Bank - 20 ill New South Walee 46 4i 25 41 Oriental Rank Corp 36 37 20 l5 Ottoman Bank -id 144 14 100 1 ;5 Provinc al of Ireland ... -- ... 10 111 Do. New ... .. 5 I R.A 118 . 8.&C.1m.C0. ~. ... 25 all Louth Australia 33 31 25 all , Union of Australia ! 511 (.21 511 ... 21 Do. New 1000) 5100 wthelistrtyLuktuon.fl L0ad..... .. 60 10 - Union of London .....—: .. i. . 1 7 . . a 26 rEt SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST _2l, 1857 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. , I rtuui RAILWAYS. 100 wo all 100 all 100 Buckgb anisl . qlydeeale Jc. Col.Stour Vy. E.Lm. g. 6 p., E. Un. H. Sh. Gias. Barr. & Neils. Direct. Do. New Glstr.&Dn.Fr Bull & Selby Do. Shares Do. Shares Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lon. Til., &S. Do. Btrk. Sh. Manch.Bxton. and Matlock Bradfd. Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. N.&Est.s p.c. Do. 6 per ct Do.Fixedsp.c Prest. dr Wyly Do. i Shrs. Roystn. dr Hit. Shrews .& Her S. Stafrordsh IWearVaLg6pc 'Do. I.Vilts &ging rgt , 1 100 54 all all all all al l 101 Leasing Inmpanies Lu.&N.W. Caledon... E.U.diE.O Gt. Northn E. Count. Caldonian. cit.Westn. Y. & N.M Do Do S. Eastern Do Peto & Co Do Lat. &N. W & E. Count Do Do Do L. dr!s . W Do Gt. Northn T. Brassey M. MClean Stk.&Dar Do at.% 'estn. Olositia Priees this day 94 - 91 94 - 96 11 - 13 3i !loi :16 12 12} 22i —23 i 98 100 id p 21 2i 91 92 - P 51 56 29 - 131 8 - 4 - 94 ii. - 32 85 - 87 ,E SHARES. 89 - 91 95 - 97 5i - 6i 111 -- 115 112 -- 116 - iP - 12/ -12 i iii - ili di 116 'lO5 - 107 100 - 102 60 - 62 10k - 10; 51 91 -- 93 82 84 83 -- 83 98 -- 100 94 -- 10 1b -- 1741 -- 104' 68 -- 72 18i -- 104 9i -- 11 -- 14 1135 - 139 113 - 115 153 - 155 $ - 64 - 130 - 132 97 - 99 87 - 89 11 - 11.3 102 - 104 91 96 14 ld - 22 -22 A 112 - 114 102 - 104 18 - 19 221 - 23 98 - 100 95 - 100 26 - 27 3. - 2ipl - ii = i'i 20 itriy t ral bitt _on ►SUN OFPICE, Seven o'Clock. YORK RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SCRAMBLE HANDICAP. Beatrice Red, White, and Blue Conductor Fourteen ran. KNAVESMIRE STAKES. Drumour Kent Two ran. GIMCR ACK STAKES. Princess Royal Sister to Ellington Eight ran. GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES. Vedette Skirmisher (Templeman) 2 Saunterer Five ran. Won by three lengths. SAPLING STAKES. Sedbury NURSERY PLATE. ..Walked over. Lady Alice Julia Eleven ran. IMPERIAL PAR LIAMEN T HOUSE OF LORDS.—(This Evening.) MERSEY CONSERVANCY BILL. On the tuot , on of Lord REDESDALE the standing or ders were suipeaded, and the above bill passed through all its stages. The Bishop of CHICEIESTE Et presented a petition from a plAce in Essex against the Divorce Bill. OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS BILL. Lord CAMPBFL,L expressed his satisfaction at, hearing that the anntnonk, had passed this bill with cer tain atnendmen•s. These amendments were quite in the spirit of the bill, and on Monday neat he should mova that their lordships should agree to these alterations. THE MUTINY IN INDIA. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, seeing the noble earl the Lord President of the Council in his place, moved for the production of a copy of the order issued by the Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay army requiring that the ranks of the native army should only be recruited from the high caste division of the population. He believed that that order had been issued a few days before the mutiny in the Bengal army broke out, and it was then cancelled by the local Go vernment. Nevertheless it was necessary that that order should be produced, in order that their lordships might be iu a positifm to judge whether such a provision as that order enforced did not form an element in occa,ioning the revolt. It was the opinion of all parties acquainted with India that nothing tended more t 3 the laxity of conduct, or to excite a spirit of mutiny than such an exclusive system as that which he had referred to, Nothing was more calculated to make the naives arrogant and proud than this homage to caste. The only question to be considered was not who was the best but who would make the most loyal soldier. Earl GRANVILLE said there was not the slightest objection to the production of the paper moved for by the noble earl. It was only fair to the commanding officer referred to to obs , -rve that it was the natural wish of the European officers generally that the solliers enlisted should be of the highest caste. It was a great 65 mistake to suppose that this or any similar order led to the mutiny in the Bengal army. It would be presumptuous in him in the present state of affairs to give any distinct pledge au to thecourse that would be aiopted with respe4 to the re-organisation 93 of the Indian Army. 88 The subject then lropped. LUNATICS (SCOTLAND) BILL. The Commons' amendments to this bill were consi dered and agreed to. _ BOUNDARIES OF BURGHS BILL. The Commons' amenthoents to this bill were also considered and agreed to. POLICE (SCOTLAND) AND SMOKE NUISANCE (SCOTI.AND) BILLS. The Commons amendments to these two bills were agreed to. CONSOLIDATION FUND (APPROPRIATION) SILL. Earl GRANVILLE moved the third reading of this bill. Lord MONTEAGLE then rose and commented at great length on the financial mea4ures passed during the present session, and passed a glowing eulogium upon the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, but, in his opinion, the financial system at present in existence was such as coal n it for a moment be defended. [LEFT SPRAYING ROUSE OF COMMONS—(This Day.) The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock, GOVERNMENT STORES. Mr. NICOLL asked the Secretary to the Treasury if, with the return ordered for detailed accounts of the receipt and expenditure for navy, for army, including commissariat, and for ordnance services for the year, up to the 31st day of March, 1856, there will be any ob jection to include a detailed account of the nature and value of public stores in band at that date ; together with a statement of the produce of sales of condemned and surplus stores dining that year ; and if the evidence taken by the Public Contracts Commissioners would be circulated during the recess? Mr. WILSON said that the return to which the hon. member referred had been prepared and laid on the table of the house, and if the hon member would refer to the published quarterly accounts he would find, under the head of old stores, what they produced to the revenue. A detailed account of the produce of sales and surplus stores would be very difficult to make out, and he thought the expense, time, and trouble it would entail on the department would not be compensated by the value of the return when it was made. The report of the Contract Com mittee had been presented to the house, and he had no doubt it would be circulated during the recess. CHAPLAINS FOR THE INDIAN ARMY. Sir HARRY VERNEY asked the Secretary for War what number of chaplains had been appointed to accompany the military force now proceeding to India ? Sir JOHN RAMSDEN said that the providing of chaplains for the Indian Army devolved upon the East India Company. He believed that there were chaplains at every station in India. FRENCH REFUGEES. Mr. WILLIAM WILLIAMS asked the First Lord of the Treasury, whether there was any truth in the rumour that, in compliance with an application from the Government of Prance, the Government of this country would expel some of the French refugees who have sought an asylum in this country ? Lord PALMERSTON said his answer first was that no such application bad been made to her Majesty's Government—(hear, hear)--by the Government of France. His next answer was something like the ex rceuasteorgaivtieonn o b f y e a tra a r r l i e ps a h l f i o . r , t n a o a t t t r h in e g y in h g ad th n e on b o el t ls o o r n ing t — he (laughter)—that the Government had no power to expel them. (Hear, hear.) CHAPLAINS FOR INDIA. Sir H. VERNEY renewed his question on the Chap. lains tor India, which was answered by Ms. V. Smith in similar terms to Sir J. Rarnaden. BISHOP HIND. _ _ Mr. GRIFFITH asked the First Lord of the Trea sury whether her Majesty's Government were disposed to make provision for a retiring pension to Dr. Hind, late Bishop of Norwich, now that the retiring pension granted to the late Bishop Bloomfield of 6,000/. per annum had fallen in? _ _ _ Lord PALMERSTON said that the late Bishop of Norwich resigned his bishoprick under circumstances painful to himself but honourable to his p ersona l cha racter, for, finding that his infirmities prevented him from adequately performing the duties of his high and stc of h a had prevented. sacred office, he resigned without any stipulation. It was the intention of her Majesty's Government to frombav a have asked the sanction of Parlia . nent to sanction some o gen eral r provision nfirmt infirmities, on b but circumstances resignationireuinans He hoped, howcv,r, next session to be a bl e to d o so, and to make it retrospective to meet Dr. Hind's case. At present the Government had no means from which to make a provision for Dr. Hind. SAVINGS BANKS. In answer to a question from Mr. HAMILTON, Tho CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER de clined to give a positive pledge to re-introduce the Savings Banks Bill next session, but he should be pre pared next session to propose the appointment of a select committee to enquire •into the operation, &C., of Savings Banks. (Hear, hear.) CUBA. Sir G. P. PECHELL inquired of the First Lord of the Admiralty whether any additional vessels, including gun-boats, had been sent to the West India station for service on the coast of Cuba. Sir C. WOOD said that as soon as the house voted the ne-essary men he ordered four gun-boats to be im mediately got ready for Cuba. Two of them would be ready to sail in a few days. BULLION, &c. Mr. NEWDEGATE moved for the following re turns :—Account of the notes, securities, bullion, &c. of the Bank of England, as published weel=l:y in the Gazette, according :o the Act 7 aid 8 Vic. c• 32 (in continuation of Parliamentary paper, No. 410, of session 1856) : Returns of the quarterly averages of the weekly liabili ties and assets of the Bank of Eng'and (in continuation of Parliamentary paper, No 410, of session 1856 ; from the latest dates given therein to the present time :) Of the monthly average aggregate amount of Parliamen tary notes payable to bearer on demand, in circulation in the United King iom ; di-dinguishing, those circulat , ,al by the Banks of England and Ireland, and by private and Joint-Stock Banks in England, Scotland, and Ire land ; together with the buiiion in the Bank of England (in continuation of Parliamentary paper, No. 410 of ses sion 1856, up to the present time) : Of the minimum rate of interest at the Bank of England on the let of each month in the years 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, and first six months of 1157: Of the general weekly average prices of wbeat,, barley, oats, rye, beat,,, and pets per quarter (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 410, of Session 1856) : and of the quant itit s of wheat and wheat flour, and of all other kinds of grain and meal, stated in quarters, imported into Great Britain during each month of 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856, and first six months of 1857, distinguishing each kind separately ; and whether imported from Ireland, the colonies or foreign parts, giving the monthly averages thereof, also the average price and totals for each year, and foi the first six months of 1857 (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 410, of Session 1856). Agreed to. DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL. On the motion for tho third reading of this bill, Mr. H ENLEY proceeded to review the dis cussion that had taken place on the bill, and the changes that bad been made in it in many of its mAterial parts When the bill was introduced, the Government said it was a perfect measure, and that any one attentively reading it could not fail to understand the opinion of the Government on it, and in consequence the Opposition had bad, both in the house and out of it, " the doge of war" let slip on them for opposing the measure and attempting to discuss it. On the introductio❑ of the measure, the Opposition stated that there was no time to fully consider the subject, and he thought he should be able to show, from the result, how correct was their prophecy. It was said when the bill was introduced that it made no change in the law, but merely altered the proceedings relative to divorce, and got rid of a great bhet on the institutions of the country and the scandal attaching to actions of crinz. con.; and it was further alleged that the bill would bring home to the doors of all classes of her Majesty's subjects those privileges in reference to divorce which were only now within the reach of the rich. It was quite impos sible at the period of the session when the measure was introduced to give it that consideration which its ins pertance demanded, and he thought he should be able to show that the objects for which it had been introduced were not likely to beattained, and that the measure stood in such a position as showed it had not received that consideration that was either creditable to the Govern ment or the importance of the bill demanded. The hon. gentleman then referred to .the period that had been occupied in discussing it. Seven days—morning and evening sittings—had been occupied in committees, and the result had been 13 material changes in the b:11, although they had been told it was a perfect measure, and had received ample discussion by competent persons in the other house. Of these 13 changes no less than 10 of them were made without divisions and as• sented to by the Government on the reasons and obser vation advanced by hon. members on both sides of the ; two material alterations bad been made by the Attorney-General, and one on a divi.doa by the oppo nents of the measure. Fifteen divisions had taken place in the Committee. Of the=e 7 were proposed by gentle men who voted for the second reading. The bill as amended had made a material change in the status of a woman separated from her husband judicially or di vorced, and enlarged the grounds relative to the charge and custody of children. Toe most material change made in the bill was in reference to the constitution of the new tribunal and local jurisdictio❑ ; security to a wife after separation ; the grounds on which divorce was to be obtained ; increased discretion to the court to dis miss suits ; fine on the committal of adaltery ; procedure in the new court, and the right of appeal. The right hon. gentleman then entered into other details of change., and concluded by expressing an opinion that this important question had not been suff's - iently con sidered, and regretted that Government should have considered it necessary to press the measure through this session. Sir G. GREY congratulated the house on the pro spect of the brl being read a third time without a division, from the right hon, gentleman having con cluded h:s review of the measure without a motion. He said that he considered the statements of the right hon, gentleman showed that the bill had been maturely considered, and was a sufficient answer to the barge of undue haste made against the Govern ment. He defended the bill, and urged that the changes that had been made in the bill ivcre by no means of that importance with reference to its principle attached to them by the right hon. gentleman, though he (Sir Geo. Grey) admitted they were great improve ments. (Hear, hear ) Sir W. HEA.THCOTE said the Opposition were by no means satisfied with the state of the bid, and their declining then to go to a division which would not test the real opinion of the house was not to be taken as con senting on their part to the bill passing. Mr. A YRTON thought the house had done its duty in making the bill as perfect as possible. After some remark from Mr. NE WDEGATE, Lord J. MANNERS entered his protest against the third reading of the bill. He objected to it principally because it imported for the first time into the statute law of England the dissolubility of marriage by human law. He entered at some length into other objections he bad to the details of the and said that it was to be regretted that a bill of so much imp irtanca had been forced so late in the session through a itded Rouse of Commons. The manner in which it had been forced through that house was a source of great regret and ob. j-e.ion to hi and never during the whole of his Parliamentary career had he heard such complaints against the conduct of business in that house as had been made by persons of weight and influence against the pro ceedings of the noble lord in reference to this bill. Lord PALMERSTON said that the intention of the hon. gentlemen opposite not to divide the house was consistent with their conduct throughout the discussion on the bill. He denied that any member of the Govern had enunciated an opinion or anything that could approach to it that the bill should bu hurriedly passed through the house as it came down from the other honse. The government had always shown not only their readiness but their desire that the bill should be fully and properly discussed. It had been said that the hill should not be passed both privately and publicly. On one occasion an hon. member said to him, " You shan't pass the bill," and he replied to him, " Won't we." (Laughter.) On another occasion the hon. member for the University of Oxford spoke . of the Greek Kalende, which he sabsequently explained as not used in reference to delaying the bill, but the Government thought so, and it was in consequence of those threats that he (Lord Palmerston) said on a former occasion the G ,vernment would sit till September to pass the bill. The noble lord then referred to other matters connected with the pro gress of the bill, and aleo its details, and said that he denied that marriage was considered indissoluble by the Church of England, and referred to the 25th Article of religion in confirmation of his statement. With reference to the concession made to the clergy in the blil, his lordship expressed a hope that they would understand the feeling that induced Government to agree to it, and that they would not look upon it as a principle which if carried out would be detrimental to the interests of the Church of England. He considered the bill had been improved by the amendments that had been intro duced into it ; and in reference to the charge that the bill had not been introduced to allow the house to be come acquainted and understand its provisions and give their attention to it, he said that when it first came to that house there were 347 members on the first division, and that further progress showed that the supporters of the bill were as two to one. In conclusion, the noble lord referred to the good conduct of the house — (laughter) —in disposing of public business, and he wished then to express through them to the country the fat that the members sent to the new Parliament had not been unfaithful representatives, or neglectful of their duties. He congratulated them on there having been fewer irregularities during the last election than usual in reference to bribery, &c., and that during the short session of three months hon. members had actively, per severingly, carefully, and successful l y attended to the business before them. (Cheers.) The bill was then read a third time and passed amidst cheers. SALE OF OBSCENE BOOKS, &0., PREVENTION promoted; Richard Thomas Tidswall, Gent., to be First Lieutenant, vice Stafford, promoted ; Charles Manly Browne, Gent., to bo Second Lieutenant. NOTICE OF IN rENDE!) DISTRIBUTION OF NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. Department of the Accountant• Gene r al of the Navy Admiralty, Somerset-house, Aug. 20, 1857. Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and ma rines, and to all persons interested therein, that the distri bution of proceeds arising from the Servianvessel St. ElEna, captured on the 27th April, 1855, by her Majesty's ship Albion ; and the slave brigantine, name unknown, sup pcsed to be the Chatsworth, captured on the Ist January, 1856, by her Majesty's ship Hecate, will commence on Monday, the 14th Sept., 1857, in the Prize Branch of the Department of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset House." Agents and other persons holding powers of attorney, prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share of any captor, serving in the above-named ship, are re quested to present the same at this office. Any officer, seaman, marine, or other person, who may desire to receive his share from the Collector of Customs or Inland Revenue within the United Kingdom, is required to intimate the same by letter to be addressed "On Prize Bad ness, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, London," in which letter his own place of residence is to be precisely stated, as well as the place of the nearest Collector of Customs or of Inland Revenue, from whom it would be convenient to receive such share of prize money. The following are the shares due to an individual in each class : ST. ELENA. Flag share Captains each Third class Fourth class 1 0 9 Fifth class 0 11 7 Sixth class Seventh class Eighth class 0 3 5 Ninth class Tenth class CHATSWORTH. Commander 106 811 I Seventh class Third class .... ..... 25 6 11 Eighth class Fourth class 16 5 11 Ninth class Fifth class Sixth class BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. The Lord amendments to the Burials Acts Amend• ment Biil, Probates and Letters of Administration B 11, and Ecclesiastical Commissions Bill, were considered and agreed to. RETURNS. Several unopposed returns were granted. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Lord PALMERSTON moved the adjournment of the House till Monday at 3 o'clock. PE RSIAN EX PEDITION. Colonel SYKES asked the President of the Board of Ciintrol, whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to confer upon the offi .ers of the Persian expedition the customary testimonials of approval of the successful military operations, in brevets, honours, and a medal? Mr. V. SMITH said that the distinctions to be awarded must be left with the Government ; after rE ceiving recommendations from the Governor-General of India through the Court of Directors; and on that depended when they would be granted. THE NOTICE PAPER. Mr. GRIFFITH submitted t the Speaker the ques tion, whether when an important amendment placedjupon the notice paper was subsequently altered in its leading principle, it wculd not be desirable that some note of such change should be appended to it. The SPEAKER said he thought it would create great difficulty and complioatioss to adopt the course suggested. He thought also it was not too much to expect from every hon. member that he read the notice paper each day. The motion was then agreed to and the House ad journed at half-past three o'clock. LONDON GAZETTE—;This Evening.) FOREIGN-0 FFICE, AUG. 2 . The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. David Wilson as Consul at Colombo for his Majesty the King of the Netherlands. DOWNING-STREET, AuG. 21. The Queen has been pleased to appoint TAotnas Tickel, Esq. ' to be Colonial Engineer for her Majesty's Forts a nd Settlements on the Gol,t Coast. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, AUG. 21 Tho Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the Right Honourable Lord Foley, to appoint Wm. Walker, Esq., one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentle men-at-Arms, vice Champion, retired. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Capt. Hugh Robert Hnghes to be Major, vice Tottenham, promoted. let or South Durham Regiment of Militia—Ensign Wm. Matthews Gales to be Lieutenant, vice Smith, resigned. Durham ATtillery Militia—First Lieutenant Hu g h Staf ford to be Captain, - trice I'earse, appointed Paymaster to 6th Dr goon Guards ; Second Lieutenant Charles spencer Malley to bo First Lieutenant, vice Featherstonhaugh, SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—The directors of this company have resolved to recommend the proprietors at a at the ensuing half-yearly meeting to order paymen t divi dividend of 9s. on each 301. Et:ck, which, w ith dend of 15s. paid last half-year, is at the rate o f 4/. per cent. per annum. ; "The One brief item of news in the correspondent will be read with melancholy tmiahabad has been Presbyterian missio A n il he houserburnt, the press letter f o i n n r t e C r a e l s c t u stroyed by the mutiny. aratus, &c., all gone. c kt n IDSTONE. Steph F en Ox. and pLlousn,,dv:l:3(ol6onh_ool libo.rafroY;niza.sPt.P EXECUTIONS AT A George .n. -.7-ibna 1- rdward-s, who were convicted of mur d er .cu,e,. at 12 o'cl.-ck in front of the count at the late assizes for the county . of Kent, were ex. A yesterdayy gaol their sentence. Edwards it • ,will recol. d his r e u c r t s e u d a , nt m t u o rdere b r o ther by chopping his head nearly to pitces with an ax., ar.d Fox %vas convicted of m urdering his sweetheart. Both the cu l pr i ts were very young, Edwards being only 18, and F ox 23 years o ld . ARMY HUTS.—The total number of huts supplied to the Ordnance and War Departments in 1854-55 and 1855.56 was 8,610, whereof 1,017 were appropriated to t .0 Curra2h Camp, 1,731 to Alder,hot, 433 to Shorn cliffs, 281 to Colchester, and 139 to Woolwich. At present there is hutting a •commodation for 2 152 offi cers in Great Britain and Ireland, and 41.133 non commissioned tlficers and private soldiers. 23,109 men were butted on the Ist April last. THE CHILTERN HUNDREDS.—Our Penis contemporary the Presse, in a memoir of the late General Anson, states, with a!l gravity, that in "August, 1853, he be :, came the representative of the division of Chiltern. (the fact being that he then left Parliament by accepting the Chiltern Hundreds), "and was at the same time apdointed to schigh command in the East Indies," BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Thomas Pyecroft, carrier, late of Caistor, Lincolnshire. William Rob.nson, dyer, Spring Meadow, Saddleworth, Yorkshire. William Organ, saddler, Walsall, Staffordshire. BANKRUPTS. Joseph Willmott and John Hartley. sawyers, Essex street, Kingsland-road, Middlesex, to surrender Aug. 29, at twelve, and Oct. 2, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Alderznanbury ; Roscoe, King-street, Finsbury-square. Anthony Garforth, Paul Garfortb, and Enoch Garforth, manufacturers, Earlsheaton, Yorkshire, Sept. 8, at half past eleven, and Oct. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hops official assignee, Leeds ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds ; Cariss and Cudworth, Leeds. Thomas Welborn Potter, miller, York, Sept. 15, and Oct. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Leeman and Clarke, York; Black burn, Leeds. Thomas Dale, chapman, Leek, Staffordshire, Sept. 3 and 25, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham; Challinor, Han ley ; Smith, Birmingham. Samuel Murfin, innkeeper, Litchurch, Derbyshire, Sept. 8 and 22, at half.past tan, st the Shire-hall, Nottingham. Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Gamble, Derby ; Knight, Birmingham. George Fox, fret cutter, Well's-street, Oxford-street, Sept. 5, at twelve, ani Sep'. 30, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Stansfeld, official assignee; Neate, Chan cery-lane. Standing, enamor, Kingsland-road, Sept. 5 and 30, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee ; Jones, Coleman-street. Alice Gordon, shipowner, Sunderland, Aug. 2S, at ele ven, and Oct. 6, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon- Tyne ; Brignal, Durham. Christopher Fairlatnb, cheesemonger, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, August 28 and Oct. 9, at twelve, at the Newcastle upon-Tyne District Court. 11,111,,r, official assignee, New castle-upon-Tyne • Watson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Har wood, Clement's-lane. Jesse Busfield, cloth manufacturer, Yeadon, Sept. 7, at half-past eleven, and Oct. 16, at eleven, at the Leeds Dis trict Court. Hope, official ascignee, Leeds; Rawson, George, and Wale, Leeds ; Bond aed Barwick, Leeds. William Andeld, millwright, Gteat Driffield, Sept. 9, and Oct. 7, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Car rick, official assignee, Hull; Shaw, Derby ; Preston, Leeds. George Arkwright Pearce and Charles Rose, timber merchants, Pimlico, Sept. 4, at one, and Oct 1, at eleven, at the Cuurt of Bankruptcy. Canaan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Shepheard, Moorgate-street. Cornelius Davis and Fredelick Norman, cement and lime merchants, Westminster, Sept. 4, at half-past one, and Oct. 1, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canaan, official assignee, Aldernianbury; Chidley, Basinghall street. John Bean, coal merchant, New London-street, Aug. 29, at eleven, and Oct. 2:3, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canaan, official assignee, Aidernianbury ; Norton, Son, and Elam, Bishopsgate. , Robert Johnson, builder, Calthorpe-street. Gray's inn road, Sept. 3, at half-past twelve, and Sept. 30, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Young and Plews, Mark-lane. William Edward Hunt, licensed victualler, Strand, Sept. 3, at twelve, and Sept. 30, at half-past one, at t < he Court of Bankruptcy. Stausfeld, official assignee ; Bich ley, Surrey-street, Strand. Joseph Chitenden Cawthorn, stock dealer, Stock Ex change, Sept. 10, at twelve, and Oct. 3, at eleven, at the C iurt of Bankruptcy. Canna!, official assignee, Aldei manbury ; Norton, San, and Elam, New-street, City. John Thorburn, bookbinder, Pleydell-street, Fleet street, Aug. 29 and Oct. 2, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Bas inghall-street ; Innes, Billiter-street. Ed ward William Hammond, woollen manufacturer, Staincliffe, York, Sept. 8 at twelve, and Oct. 9 at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Mason, York ; Cariss and Cudworth, Leeds. John Gatrell, younger, farmer, Askliam Richard, York, Sept. 1 at hal-past eleven, and Oct. 2 at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; 31a= sox, York ; Cariss and CiLiworth, Leeds. Thomas Nathaniel Ashman, curriar, Yeovil, Somer setshire, Sept. 1 and Oct. 8, at ,:elevon, at the Exeter Dis trict Court. Hirtiel, official assignee, Exeter ; Garland and Fear, Sherborna and Yeovil ; Terrell, Exeter: Wm. Newsome and Edward Wm. Hammond, woollen manufacturers, Stainctiffe, York hire, Sept. 8, at twelve, and Oct, 9, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Cariss and Cud worth, Leeds, John Deckree, Percival-street, Goswell-stroet, wine and spirit merchant, Aug. 31, at, two, and Sept. 28, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Chidley, Basinghall-street. Jas. C. Cockerel!, dealer in horses, Wandsworth-road, Sept. 3, at one, and Sept. 30, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Staasfold, official assignee; Chid ley, Basinghall-street. BANK OF E An Account pursuant to the Act 7 the Week ending on Saturday, NGLAND. Tth and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, f. r th© 15th day of Aug., 1857. ►STMENT. ISSUE DEP, Notes Issued • • .... • 25,075,7G5 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities.- 3,459,500 Gold coin and bullion 10,600,765 Silver bu11i0n........ - .C25,075,7;5 J. Dated the 20th day of Aug., 18: X 25,075,765 ELSEY, Deputy Cashier. BANKING DE . PrOpriCtOrS'CaPltal .. 14,553,000 Rest . „ 3,635,247 Public deposit E (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav- PLETMENT. Governmentsecnritlea (Includg.Dead Weight Annuity) .... .... 10,593,654 Other securities .. ... 18,203,493 Notes • • .. .... 5,682,740 Gold and silver coin.. G 39,141 ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 5,530,867 Other deposits ...... 10,6!6,829 seven Day and other 8i115........... 733,010 £35,139,033 ) J. R Dated. the 20th day of Aug., 185' £35,139, , 33 ELSEY, Deputy Cashier. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Aluscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending A ug. 18, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid on payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : s, d. From the British Possessions in America 3B 51 COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Tats DAY. Nmsterdam ............ 11 17 Ditto, three months .. 11 19% Rotterdam . . ll 1 % Antwerp .............. 25 42 Brussels .• •• •• • • •• •• • • 25 42K, Bamhurgh •• •• •• •• •• •• 13 8% Anions, .• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• • • Paris • • •• •• .• .•• •• •• •• 25 25 Do. three months ••25 65 Marsetiles • • •• • • • • • • •• 25 65 Bourdeaux •• •• •• •• •• ••• • • FrankfOrt•oo.slaine •• •• 119% Berlin •• •• •• •• •• .• •• •• •• Vienna" , •e• •• •• •• •• •• •• 10 32 Trieste• ••••••••••• • • •• 10 34 Petersburg •• •• •• •• •• .. 36% Madrid •••••.• •• •• •• 49 Cadiz ••• •• •• •• •• 50 Btreelona .• .• Seville• • .• .. • 00000 • • • • Gibraltar ......•••••••• ,Leghorn 29 90 Ganoa •••.•. 25 80 411 Jan Venice.........• Naples •....... ...... 42% Palermo .... Hesslna . 128 1 4 Lisbon .......... • 52 3 % Oporto ................ 62% Rio Janeiro ..... . ••.... Buenos Ayres...• •• .• New York,6o days' sight Philadelphia ...... PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ: Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 %lexicon Dollars .... 0 0 0 New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 diver In bare ...... 0 0 0 IMPERIAL PARLIAIVIENTT HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) PRIVATE BUSINESS. Carew's Estate bill and Keay's Divorce bill were read a third time and passed. SALE OF OBSCENE BOOKS, &c., PREVENTION BILL. This bill was considered and agreed to, after the in- troduction of a clause that it should not Extend to Scot land, because the common law of that country met the evil, and the machinery of this bill could not be worked there. POOR LAW (IRELAND). Mr. BRADY asked whether medical Poor Law offi cers were bound to attend on persons whose tickets of attendance had been suspended in consequence of their ineligibility to Poor Law relief from position and cir cumstances, but who alter wards got renewed tickets for attendance without a!teration or oimunition of their pe cuniary circumstances. Also, whether in the event of a Poor Law medical officer falling ill in the discharge of his duties, or otherwise, the guardians had power to stop from his salary the amount paid by them for his substi tute. Mr. H. HERBERT believed there was nothing to prevent persons from obtaining medical relief under the circumstances in question. The matter might generally be left to the discretion and good feeling of the Dispen sary Committees, but some instances of abuse undoubt edly existed which he should be glad to remedy if poe stble. In answer to the second question, it certainly appeared rather bard to stop from the salary of the medi cal officer the amount paid by the guardians during his illness to his substitute. He did not feel qualified to de clare the law on this subject, but any gentleelan who fel; aegrieved might refer the question to the Poor Law o,.mmissionere. itusiness this day Do.. PREFEREN 1131 y th and Tyne 10 p, e.pref. (issd.at 500 Bris.&Ex.4 p.c. St. Do. 4 per c. Shares.. Caledu. £lO 4i p. c. Ches. & Ho. 5i p.c. Do. do. 5 por cent... I Corli &Pandonsip.c. ID an. Perth. kAber.J. E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B Op. c. IDo. do. Cls. C 7 p. c. Eas.Co.Ex,sp.cNo.ll Do. No. 2 Do. Now 6 pr. c. St, East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51., 10 per cent, Do. 101. Debentr.Sh I Do. do. 4 per cent... East Lan c ash .6 p . cts. E.&W. York. J. sths I Min.& sp. c. Sh, lEd.Prth.& - Dun.4p.c. Furness, 5 p. c Glas. & p.c, IGreat Northn. 5 p.c, !Do. 5 p. c. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem no. Ai per cent ..... 11)0. 5 P:c., Red. at 5 p. c. prom. Gt,N.ofScot.lstPre Gt. S & W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per c. Pref. gt.l 13.&H.Ex.5pe Do. con. red. 43 p.c. Do. con. rod. 4 p. c. Do. irred. 4 per tent. Do 5 p. c. rod. pref. Do. firm. Pref. Sh Do. Chester Bp. c. Do. do. 5 p c. do Do. firm. Gna. Stk Do. Chesil. Gua, Sh Do. do. do. Do. do. do Ltn.& York. 6 pc.St '.on. &B. G. 5 pe.NO.l p.c.St.No.2 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. Do. do. 5 p. c., No. 4 Lon. dt N.W., Cov. Nuneaton 5 p. [,on. & S.W. 7 per ct. late 3d Shares Londy.& Color. 3 Sh Loncly.SLEnnis. 3 Sh S.,&L. 6 p. Cent Do. do. do. £6 Do. do. 3f per cent. Aarypt. Carl. 4 p.c. Do. 4. per cent Do. do. .. Ntid.C.nsol.Gp.c. St. Do. Con. Br.Bir. 6 p. c. Do. 4A p. c. Pref. St, Do. L. &H. Pre. St. New., Aber., &c., pr. 5 9.c.rod. 5 p. Perpat. 6 pr. ct. orf tr. Den. 4 p.c. Sh. • • DC 5 p c Eat g 46 • Do. 5 p.c. pf , 3 E 47 Do.Wv.V. sp. ~1 3 47 North British 71. Preference N". E. T3erw. 4 p. o. )o. do. do go. Leeds 6 pc. No.l Do. do. Qrs., 1848 Do. York H.& S. Pur North Staffordshire Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c., let guar. Do, p. c. 2d guar Scot. Cert. New Pre' Sc.N.E.Aher.g.6p.c Do. do. 7 p.c. pr. Do.-do.n p.c. p". St South Devo Do. fixed q n • e mt. S. Eastern (Reading ) Ann.) of E 1 Os, ad, Do. 4. per cent Do. Fixed 4i p.c. Sh S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c Do. do. 4A p. c S Yorksll:4 p. c. Guar Stock. &Dar., sp. c Do. do. do. Stock. & Huai. g. 3. p.c. till July 1, '56 Waterfd& Kilk. 6 pc. BRITISH MINES. 21121ATfrell Cons. (Philk. 14 British Iron 20 Condurow (Cambrn.) ; 1 'Dev.Gt. Cnsls. (Tay.) 14s Great Smith Tolgus 1113 Grt.W.Alfrd. (Plink.) Grt. W. Vor (Helstn.) 13s Lady Bertha 7A N. Frances (Illogan) N.W.11 tsset (Illogan) (1/ 15,North Wheal Crofty 1h Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) -9 Po , :kellis U. (Wend.) Gs. Sort. Cons. Min. Co 2i S. Caradon (St. Cleer) 2 S. Carn Brea (11l ogu. ) 19 S.W. Franees(lllogn.) 4 'Dr e. &L. Min. Co 9 Tin Croft 40 lUn.Minea (Gwennr 12s 6:V. of Towcy (Caoaar.) IW. Basset (Illogan) 20 'W. Ca;adon (Liskrd ) 51 Wh. Basset (Illogan) 5 Wh. Buller (Rdruth) 5} Wh. Edward(Calstek) 117 s Wh. Kitty (U. Limit) 8 IWh.Ma.Ann (Menht.) 4a iWh. Trelawney (Lis.) 15 -16 i 6 - 7 115 - 125 415 - 455 16 - 17 7 - 7i 3 -- 4 11 - 9 - 11 17 - 18 3 - 4 20 - 21 41 - 14 - 315 - 325 5 - 6 285 -- 293 1 - 11 4 - 4i 140 - 160 . - 1 26i -27 i 115 - 125 220 - 230 290 - 300 5f - 51 22 21 46 - 48 23 - 25 FOREIGN MINES. 20 7 Australian 35 27 lirazilianlmp.(issued at .C 5 pm) 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada ... ... 20 15 Do. St. John Del Roy 12 14 1 4 Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica— ... ...d 40 all oobre Copper 44 46 454 ... 16 Copiapo 2 all Fortuna 20 all General 3 all Lin ares 5 1i Lnsitanian 1 all Mariquita 1 all Nem Granada 1 all IsToveau Monde 20 all Pont. Si I . Ld7d. & Sml" 5 7 6 5 1 Port Philip ... ... 30 16, Santiago de Cüba 1 all Routh Australian 1 all Do. Scrip ••• ....." 1 all Do. 10 p. c. Pref ... .00.1 ... , 284 all United Mexican 34 3 3 3 4 MISCELLANEOUS. 25 19 kustraliau Agricult. 21 —224 i 10 all .Vistraln. Royal Mail ... ••• 10 all Berlin Water Works 4 5 50 40 grit, American Laud 35 40 1 . 100 Do.G.).Gpc.JanSauly 1114 138 -- 1 0 0 32# Can a d a 1 1 1 42 St 24 St. 100 Do. 6 r.c.Feb.SrAun. St. 100 b 0.6 p.c. Mar.&sept. .... ••• ... ... St. all Copper Min. of Eng. 30 35 S 5 all no. Pref. 74 p. cent. 25 27 5 all kTirystal Palace ll 11 14 5 all Do. Pret:rence 4 all Crystal Pal, of France 1 1 Duston Iron O ro .. ••• 20 18 Eastern Steam...— . **: ** St. 100 Electric Telegraph 1 all Electric Tel. of Irel ..„ 5 all En.daust.Cop.SYnCo 14 14 10 10a. Eur. &,Ind.Jetn. Tel, .. 25 all Gen. Ir. Se. Col.(lim.) : ••• 15 LI Gen. Steam Navie b mt. ••• ... 20 5 London Discou n t ~,I 18 iii .„ ...... 4 ill Loud. Gm. Omnib us 38 3l 31 i 2 1 0 0 all tlagdalena St. Na v i g. Mediteran. Elec. Tel. .. ••• 10 a:). Mexican&S.Americn li i' 5 5 Nat. Discount Co. , lit 141 31 i 5 5 Do. New ..• 10 5 N e therlands Land.,,, A 10 all Do. Do. 5 all IDo.S p c•Ptiss.at ld 2' 3 5 2 Do. Do. 100 SO New 13. &N. S. Land_ 16 1K 16 3t, WO N.S.W. Gov. s p.c 0. 97 . .‘ 1 a. 1 ' , I . •13 Australasian-. 9 -4 10 all Nrth .of Europe Steam 84 9 1 1 all Oriental Gas - 11 12 19s. Do New Shares 4d A p i 25 all PeelbrJ Ld. & Minrl ll 2 50 all Peninsular & Oriental 68 70 69 50 10, Do. New . , 4 —44 p 50 all Rhymney Iron li all Do. Now.. 60 60 Royal Mail Steam !53 60 60 1 all Scit. Austral. Invest : I t 1 1$ all Do, New ..... .. 100 All S.Aus, Gov. 6 11. e. bds. 106 108 25 all South Austral, Land 32 34 1 ail Submarine Tel. Scrip i i 1 1 ;all DI Registered ...... 1 i 1 20 6 True, Ln. Co. Up. Can. 1 1. 284 Wan D iomen ' s L a nd... 11 ..-1 , 90 79 i 83 9i 354 5 97i 8 53i i 3 i I 9.9 i i 6A 1041 1021 4 94 i 93 4i 5.} 86 5 10 i 1011 4 513 193 i 100 100 109 100 all THE ARMY. Col. NORTH asked whether it was true that officers who were to be appointed to the regiments about to be raised were now employed on the recruiting service, but were only receiving their halt-pay. Sir J. RA MSDEN believed that the question referred to those officers whom it was proposed to appoint to two of the new battalions about to be raised. As soon as the names of those officers had been seen and approved by her Majesty they would appear in the London Gazette. In the meantime they hi..d been directed to go down to the head•goarters of the - new battalions, to receive any recruits who might arrive. Until their names appeared in the Gazette, which would be in a few days, it would be impossible for them to receive their full pay. CJI. NORTH understood teat those officers bad been sent to all parts of England and not to head-quarters. Bir J. RAMSDEN believed they had only been sent to the head-quarters of the new battalions. RAILWAY BETWEEN MADRAS AND BA.NGALORE. - _ Mr. ROBERTSON asked what steps were being taken to complete the railway eamrranuittation between Madras and Bangalore. Mr. V. sniff" believed that no steps had been taken for constructinz this line, The rule laid down by the directors of the Eu;t India Company was that the trunk lines should be completed before they consented t the formation of branch lines, and the trunk line to Madras was not yet completed. It was true that Ban galore was one of the principal military stations o:` the Madras Presidency, and a proposal having been male to construct a rail way from Bangalore to Madras, with a promise that it should not interfere with the progress of the trunk line, the directors now had the proposal under their consideration. FINANCES OF GREECE. Mr. SPOONER wished to ask the Government whe ther any report had been received from the cornali.ision ere appointed by the protecting Powers to inquire into the finances of Gre-ce, and if there were any prospect that their bettor admirlis.iration would r.lieve the Con solidated Fund of any portion of the, annual charge for interest on the Greek Loan guaranteed by Great Britain which was not paid. Lord PALMERSTON said that a commission had been appointed by the three protecting Powers t) rxl - into the state of the finances of Greece, and to make a report to their Government. In the meantime they were instructed to suggest to the Greek Govern. ment any remarks or improvements which might sug gest themselves during the progress of their inquiries. The commissioners had not yet made their report. The Greek Government had given them every fair facility for the prosecution of their inquiries, but he was afraid he could not hold out the expectation that their labours would lead to any earlier fulfilment by the Greek Go vernment of their engagern:rnt themselves to pay the in terest of the sinking fund of their loan. EAT INDIA LOANS. /dr. DISRAELI would be glAd if the President of the Board of Control would give the house any information respecting the precise nature and security of the loans now being negotiated by the Elst India Company. Mr. V. SMITEI said that the loans negotiated by the East India Company had always been made on. the secu rity of the revenue of India. The lean was always an open one; the total sum to be raisel was specified, and the minimum interest was also sta'ed. On the payment of the loan the secretary of the cimpany gave a promis sory note, pledging the revenues of the East India Cault pany for the payment of the interest. With that security the creditors had always been satisfied, and he Loped always would be. LOSSES BY EUROPEANS IN INDIA. Mr. V. SMITH wished to be snowed to esidaiii that a misunderstareling bad arisen with regard to a question put to him on Tuesday night. The right hon. gentleman (Mr. Disraeli) had asked what was proposed to be done with respect to the sufferers in the recent events in India He understood the question to refer to the widows and orphans of those persons in the civil and military service who had perished by the massacres, and he replied that the same scale would be adopted as in the case of persons perishing in action. His reply showed the impreasio❑ he was under, but did not meet the meaning of the right hon. gentleman's question. He was told ttat the inter pretation put by the public upon his answer wa.4 that the East India Cojnpany bad under their consideration a scheme of compensation for the loss of property sustained during the recent mutiny; but the fact was that no such scheme had been in t'eir contemplation. Such a ques. tion of compensation opened up 4 much wider question, into which the directors of the East India Company were ❑ot prepared to enter. Mr. DISRAELI had confined his inquiry to property and ha , i asked whether it was intended to compousate those European subjects of her Majesty whose property had been destroyed during the insurrection. He had not put his question on the paper, and the right hon. gentleman might, therefore, easily have been uti-lcd al to his meaning. He still wished to know whether it was the intention of the Given:merit to take into consi deration the claims of those European subjects of her Majesty in India whose property had been injured or destroyed during the insurrection. Mr. V. sir must reply that the question em braced so very wide a field that it was impossible to answer it without deeper 'consideration than had been hitherto given to this subject. • THE MILITIA BILL. , On the order of the day for the third reading of this bill, Col. NORTH said he wished to put a question to her Majesty's Government with reference to the regiments of militia about to be embodied. It was of very great importance to the officers that they should know what rejmenis were to be selected, in order tbat they might not be absent from the country in the event of their own regiments being called out. He wished to incinire what rule was to be followed in this matter, and whether those regiments which had volunteered for service abroad in the late war would have the priority in being embodied at this moment. Those regiments who had had the ad vantage of doing garrison duty, especially in the colo nies, and of being joined for a year and a half or two years with the line, would necessarily be much more efficient than the others ; independent of this considera tion the officers of those regiments had been put to se rious expense in fitting themselves for that service, and it was certainly understood that when they returned to this country their regiments would enjoy the benefit of being retained in an embodied state borne months afterte the rest of the militia had been disembodied just inh E sa n n ;e l an manner d. Aansotrhbee Another regiments point sn w w h ii i ii c so h shu edhhaed desirednev quitteder to the militia infor mation was as to the new order ß that order the in regard to recruiting. recyruit for the line within officers sumof should ss. for bringing g re i n ce g i v i e to o heir head-quarters. The war rant ad jutantsoirol e of w were milesen abflrt recruiting any remuneration, except stated• the and it was also in circular that a recruit ; they would be liable to the same contingencies as the re. said, that the recru cruiting officers of the line—viz., in case of the recruits not being passed after inspection they would be subject to the expense of enlisting them. It appeared that the su rgeons of the militia regiments were to be the surgeons who would pass the recruits ; and the Government were entitled to thanks for the concession they had made in this respect. During the late war, it was intimated to the surgeons, both of the militia and the line, that they aught not to be as strict in their examination of recruits as they were in time of peace ; but as those officers were to be made responsible for the cost, should the re cruits be rejected, they ought to have definite iustruc tiens as to whether the orthal preliminary to the passing of the men should or should not be a stringent one. He ss had again t o ex p ress hi s h o p e th a t d u ring the recently ale case h e her the lieutenant- Majesty' s G overnmen t wou ld take into c o_nsi h d a e r d r e a c tion the claims of a body of o—cers to w called their attention. He referred to operation. To show the working of this principle t 1854, had had a retrospechteivheon. and gallant member colonele of tae army on whom the war rant of October, o lonel after he had been 49 1807, became lieu'enan c mp hayed in the Peninsul a , an d years in tile service, was e quoted the case of a colonelt. who entered the army in - was never absent during the campaigns of 1810, 1811 , 1812, The officer in question was Lieut.-C: 7 l , nel Alve s, noye 18M and 1814. Major-General Alves, on the retired I , st, w he was passed over by 53 j un i ors, ow i ng to sne retrospective action of the warrant of 6th Oct., 1854. He entered the army Nov. 5, 1807 ; was promoted to be colonel on the 9th Nov., 1856 ; and the sth Dec., 1856, took the retired full-pay, with step of rank. His services :—General Actions.—Bu , :aco, Fuentes D'Oner, Ciudad R. idrige, Badajos, Salamanca, Vittoria, Py renees, Nivehe, Nice, Orthes, Toulouse. Actions. —Retreat to and occupation of the Lines cf Torres Vedraq, Potubol, Redinha, Fez d'Arouoe, Gunrda, Sabu gal, El B )(lon, Mica do Ponce, Capture of Madrid and Retire, Affiirs on retreat from Madrid to Portugal, Pas sage of the Ebro, Blockade of Pampeluna, Vio Bigorre ;pert te LIP • the a the the', a $ll ,anka Lig to Pal r by Z 43; the table cted. lade, s by d at ,ock, aller, sting [nary lebtg free- (I for sqrs. 4581. i ad?, litor, pr rtY )sseS, mina 7bose ction i his 1 and ities, from wing troy, eived .!osts, )ank- t R® gton, 3ssrS. each 25, d tor .301., neap- 0111. , that vhich it re- ailor with sell. ay.) BUS h an with i ver, im of lain per." oney lt if the eing was cab care trite ibed •ged hie, 3ur- of ing uck 25 50 25 12i, 20 1 25 12i St. 10 St. / 1 1 124 20 12 25 20 23 10 I all I all 100 100- 100 100 1.00 100 • all all 100 100 100 100 3! 100 100 100 1 00 100 all all 41 4