The Sun. — London, England, 1857-03-26 00:00:00

0N Y MARI% .022 AN D COMMERCIA , L ETTELLIGENCF. CITY, Two - o'Ceocx. Letters from Liverpool state that the Cotton Market yesterday closed heavily, at previous prices' The sales were 6,000 bales, 1,000 of which were aken for export. The Railway Share Market was steady, and subsequelitly closed at its best point. The shipbuilding firm whose difficultiet we ad verted to yesterday, is that of Messrs. R. J. Brown and Co., of Sunderland and London. Although the subject has been freely discussed during the last two days, wo abstained from publishing the teethe, as negotiations were in active progress to melee s rich arrangements as would aveit a stoppage. These negotiations have , failed, and it is feared that the consequences will be serious, especially in the north, Where the utmost excitement prevails owing to the prospect of other firms being also involved. The liabilities are about 200,0001. or 240,000/• 1 and the assets will probably realise 10s. in the pound, but some affirm that 14s. 9cl. in the pound may be secured. , The assets consist of timber and Shipping, both of which, in the present state of the market, would realise low'prices. At Sunderland much alarm has been occasioned, and the negotia- , tion of paper is rendered almost impossible. Mr. I Brown was connected, in an official capacity, with the Australian Auxiliary Steam Clipper Company, and was a large shipowner. The catastrophe has excited general regret, and his friends deserve Much praise for the exertions they have made to extricate him from his difficulties. The affairs of the London andl e lEastern Banking Corporation appear from the proceedings which took place yesterday to be in a much more unfavourable situation than was generally sup posed. The liabilities aro 397,734/., while the assets are computed at 413,450/. If this sum is realised a return of about 3 1 . per share out of 50/. per share subscribed may take place, but it must be remembered that the amounts set down in such cases are very seldom realised. The statements made by Mr. Coleman, the accountant, show that there has been gross mismanagement of the funds placed at the disposal of the Directors, who, instead of applying them to the legitimate purposes of Bank ulg, have most recklessly involved the shareholders in serious losses, by making advances to themselves and others, rhich render them liable to serious charges. The mere fact of advancing a sum equal to the capital subscribed to Colonel Waugh, on the Bracksea Castle and the Beddington estates, is enough to excite unqualified condemnation, but the loans made to other members of the board Without adequate security fully prove how utterly unworthy they were of the trust reposed in them. It was finally agreed that the Oriental Bank, the Agra Bank, and the North - Western 17 :t ank of India should send out 104,000 . tnext day to meet acceptances falling due, and to hold over a ll o ther bills against the Bank , °/ 1 receiving a commission of 21 per cent. and the turrent rate of interest for all advances , t h e share holders giving their individual prom issor y notes for e remainder of the 1:91. per share to which they are liable. At the meeting of the Ottoman Bank , held this day,, e the report was read and adopted, and a pay 'eat of 15s. per share (being equal to 10 percent. _ Per annum on the called-up capital t o the 31st e ctlnber last) is to be made each registered share wilder on his signing the deed of se ttlement, which thel leave a balance of 12,7291. 19s. to be carried to credit of the current year's account. IVlrt A. H. La and M.P. the chairman, in an e loquent speech, said that four branches had been t l'eeessfully established in Turkey, and at Constan- T u i Ple, where they met the grea,tet resistance. "e Greeks and Armenians, who were the great bankersc ustomer out there were now counted amongst their e 'll,st °neer S. Mr. F;lconet, recommended by the house e ur. Baring Brothers would be of the greatest Per- W yl i ee to the Bank, looking at the great esteem in which th at gentleman was held abroad. He con sidered tl ie N a tional Bank of Turkey would bend fit, inste f i d of being any prejudice to the Ottoman B ank, foe. it would do the first thing needful of Placing tile currency on a sound basis. The chair a.an's speech was received with applause, and the report with the dividend of 15s. per share, or 10 Per, cent, per annum, was agreed to unanimously. A further sum of 50,000/. was sent from the Bank ye: gterday for the Continent. The m oney market is still very active, at full rates. No alteration in the terms of interest and discount- was made by the Directors at their weekly Court to-day. In English Securities more firmness is visible, and sever al purchases of stuck for the May account are report There is still very little disposition to deal hr .wever. The market, though firmer, is in active: Consols have been 931 0-, and 934 1 4 for money, while for account they have been 931 e s. karch E:echequer Bills are par to 4s . prom., and the June ditto ls. discount to 4s. prem. India • Stock is ;i231. k:oreigia Stocks are equally du ll. Turkish 6 per 1 ' ; ' a ents. are 98 to 981,- ; Sardinian 5 per Cents., 9N ; - r a ertugues le 3 per Cents. , 451, and Dutch 2i per 18 "nts., ; Mexican Stock is heavy at 23. 20 The fel: lovsing are the nominal prices of Foreign 100 't°eks :----Grenada Deferred Bond s, 61 7 ; Maxi- 100 C U; 22# Peruvian 4fr per Cents., 77 9 ; do. 3 , ea ter Cents e , 55 7 • P or tuguese 3 per Cents., 44 1 5 i ; 20 iutisian 5 per ()cuts., 107 9 ; do. 4 per Cents., 20 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 41 ; ditto De- 20 feared , 2 5 ; ditto Certificates, 6i ; ditto 20 17 P k 1 assitre, ISit 20 The las F week's railway receipts, ascertained up st. this t o day, are in round figures as under :- -20 1857. ‘1856. 100 Great Wel item 00 North-W e stern ..ssouth-Wcei stern 12,707 13,642 st. adr . 7 , 1 ton 100 Midland Iglnth-Eas: tern great Northern ..4,apeashir() and Yorkshire Chaste r flue ' Exeter 5,338 5,472 100 East aid Holyhead st Lancashire 5,798 wee 100 Lancaster and Carlisle sanchest( Sheffield, and Lincoln 8,863 8,605 n North Stafford Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverh 3, 706 3,355 B elfast :Ind Darlington 6 ,125 6,065 ulster wad Ballypaen , a ulst er 1,358 1,270 thtit) • urgli ana Glasgow docottish North-Eastern Gr and Trunk of Canada G reat We stern of Canada. b A: moderate business has been transact ed in the orilway Share Market, and prices in most stances, have slightly, advanced. Caledo 31lart, Eastern Counties, Treat Northern, and. North Western, improved ss. Lanca shire and Yorkshire, Midland, North British, North-Eastern .(Berwick), and South s Eastern 10s. to 15s. t Great Western and Brighton realised fully fernter quotations. In the Foreign and Colonial Illidertakings prices have also shown an improve ulent. :East Indian advanced 10s., Grand Trunk of Canada 11. 10s., and Paris and Lyons about ss. In Mining shares there is no change of import ance in prices to report. Wheal Trelawny brought 25. Brazilian Imperial 11-1, and United Mexi can 34 , . In Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares a fair business has been transacted at about previ ous rates, Oriental Bank declined 10s. and Union of London 10s. Australian Agricultural shares re ceded 11,, and Electric Telegraph 10s. Canada Land improved 11. BRITISH FUNDS. —CLOSING PRICES —TB IS DAY. (from the Official List:) Binh:teas done 3 Per Cont. ConsolS Annuities 93 4ii a er ,'" w. 3 i per. Cent. Annuities A: eiv 24 p Cent. cities.. .... ... 76i • 0 per Cent. Annuities. ....................... India Stock :NM& Bonds, £lOOO ... ....••••. Ditto, under £l000 Consols for Account 93a i .. - E ;chequer Bills, 24d. ....March. June. £lOOO. par 4 p 1 d 4 £5OO - par 4 p 1 d 4 4 1 d Elima/! 3 4 p par PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY. Xquador New Consolidated . l4B Mexican 3 per Cent — Ditto Account ........................ . ... Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con, . 1 . 84 . 1 Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent. 451 Russian Bonds, 11522, E St., 5 per Cent., •, per Cent. .............. . .......... : -- 974 Sardinian Bowls, 5 per Vent. Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cm'• •9U 1 S 25 Spanish Committee Cort. of Coup. net fun 6 61 Turkish Bonds, ti per cent 9B Ditto Account . A , i. ends on the above .ayabie In Lonat.n., 3 'rench Rentes, 44 per Cent... . . — Ditto 3 per Cent. ‘)f. 27c , ' -. Belgian, 26 per Cent., ex. '25 francs — Ditto 44 per Cent.. ex. 25 francs Dutch Exceange, 2{ per Cent., 12 Guilders 651 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certihostes 99 • • THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, money 93g Ditto, Ae;:ount:( April 8) INDUSTRY IN FRANCE. —The Department of the Ma- 1 rine and Colonies is now about founding, in the Rue de Ri voli, at the corner of the Rue St. Florentin, a perms tent txhibition of the productions of the French colonies, Similar to that formed by the Minister of War for those of Algeria. A special commission has been formed for its management, of which Vice-Admiral Ceeille is president. It held its first sitting on the 18th, and it is expected that the exhibition will soon be open to visitors. all Atlan. and St. Law. 9 Bon5.1) Ihroda, and Cen.lnd,guar. 5 P.C. all Do. 101, Buffalo & Lake Hut.. 100 Buff. , Brnt. & Godcli. 1 100 6p. c.bds., 1 Aug. ,'72, Do. do., 1 July, 73, 100 Do. do., 1 Juno, '74 2s. Calcutta and S. East. 281 d Coatral °ado (Litn.) 108 Ceylon A sham:, 1 Do. B. do. 100 all 100 100 all all all Demerara 2s. Eastern Bengal 100 East Indian 15 Do. C Shares all D 0.4 p c.Bnds.,'s7 au Do. do. do., '59, do. all Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent. ICO 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. Westn. of Canada 8 Do. New all Do. Bds., payable '57 -1,11 Do. do., '76, p. '6O a ll Do. do., '73, do all Do. do., '73, without option all Madras, guar. 4. P.C all Do. do., 5 per C. 10 Do. 4) p. c. Exton. 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. 5 Do. 4th Ex., do. j ss. Oudo (Limited) 5 Scinde, guar. 5 per c 9 all Do ... iii.o3 MINES. e" — fißE MARI:EITS—(ThIis Day.) * - RAILWAYS. Closing Price this day. Basiness done this day. ihr.i 4'103 RAILWAYS. i pi , , .„, kl„. „ 4 mog. 0t,,n2,.. Dos, & Eastn. June 50 all Belfast & Ballymena 131 all Birmng. Wolver'i. 4 Stour Va11ey......... 'A. 100 Birkenhd.. Lancsh. d Cheshire Jurct 5 all Blackburn 5 all Blyth & Tyne origina £25 (iss. at £45) 1. 100 Bristol dr Exeter t. 100 Ca1ed0nian.........: t. 100 Chester & Holyheae 0 all Cork and Bandon D all Cork, Black. & Pass ) all Cornwall ) all Do. A ) 8 Do. B ) 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc i all Dun. P. &Aber. June ▪ 100 East Anglian 1 all 'Eastern Cour ties ;. 100 EasternUnion,A.stk , • 100 Do., do. 8...; ; Si Do. New A ......: 173 East ,Kent ... . 100 East Lancashiro ..... all E 451 Suf f olk ........ 4 Do. . 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow all Edinb. and Peebles_ 100 Edinh.Prth.&Dundee all Forth and Clyde June. 100 Furness . . 100 Glasgow &S. Western all Great N. of Scotland 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 100 Gt. St h. &West. (Ire. ) 100 Great Western. 100 Do. Str.V.R. gua.Stl all Irish South-Eastern all !Lancaster &Carlisle. .6ii 14i Do., Thirds .... .6t,- 'l2 Do. New Thirds ... 11. 100 Lancash. &Yorkshire 6 6 Do., do. F. .1.6 ... 3 i no.; Wst. Riding Un. O all Do. Southport. . 1i all London & Blackwall 4. 100 Lond.Bright. &S.Cst. t. 100 London &N. Western O all De. Fifths . i 0 all D0.,10/.5h.,M&8...C) 24 23 Do. Eighths 1. 100 London di S.Wesitern! 5 all Lndndrry.&Colerainei 5 all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. I t. 100 Manch.Shef.SiLincln. ) 1 Metropolitan ) 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement ;. 100 Midland ;. 100 Do. Birming.& Derby 1 all Midland G. West. (Ir. ) i -t ;all Do. 3 Shares ........ 1 ail Newcastle &Carlisle i all Newpt.Aberg.&Flrfd I 9 Newry & Enniskillen 1 all Newry, Warrenpoint 4 Rostrevor . 100 N0rf01k...... ...... 33 Northn. Counties Un . 100 North British . 100 North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock 100 Do., A Stock _ 109 Do., B Stock .... ..... 100 N.Esstern— Bericlek 0 2:31D0. do. Extension .. 5 16'Do do. G.N.E.Purch, all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York 100 North London ..... 31.1 N. &S. Wstn., Ramp. stead, and City Jn 173 North Staffordshire all North Western.. all N. &S. Weatrn. June. 100 Oxford Worcester & W o l ve rhampton.-- 16 Portsmouth i 10 nhymney 100 ' Scottish Central , 100 Scot. N.E.Abrdo. St 100 Shropshire Union .'.' 4 Sitingbourne &Sheer all South Devon ..... 100 South Eastern all Do. 43 per c. Shares 100 South Wales... ...... 17 S. Yorksh. RiviarDnu 7 Do.. all Staines,Wok.,&Wok. all Stockton & Darling_ 15 Do. do., 1854 3 Do. do., 18'5 i 163 Stockton 4 Hartlepi 100 Taff Vale 100 Do. Prof., No. 1 22 Thames Hay. D. &L all Vale of Neath.... all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Lirnerscl7 all West Cornwall.. . 10 all Vest End of Londor and Crystal Palace 5 all Do. A 5 all Do. B 20 all West Londo-i 10 all Do. First Class 20 all Do. Second Class " 10 all Wmbled on &Croydoi 1-11tITISli Pi 4a 4B 8 - 9 65 - 67 81 - 9 91 - 92' 681 - 6n, 35 37 j - 4i fr) : - 101 19 t i - 20„ 104- - 114 50 -5: 34 - 35 , 8 - 7 98 - 99 56 g - ii 7i - B,f 96 - 97 86 - 87 121 - 123 105 - 107 63 - 682 64 - 66 70 - 75 7 - 3 p 7 - 8 j - ) 1 1011 - 102 1 6 - 6 : f 1108 - 109 1 1013 - 105 Id par -10 i; l ---- 82- t - 82, 51 - 55 ... - ... 15 - 16 54 - 56 44 - 45 86 87 —34 d - 3 39,1 401 631 96 93 041 - 74 - 11 .... 31 - 4 - 112 - 27 - BO - -18 i - 76 - 44; 3d 46 a 25 I .711 St.lloo :5 all Blyth and Tyne 10 p. &pref. (issd. at 50/.) Bris.&Ex.4 p.c. St. Do. 4 per c. Shares.. C'aledn. £ l O 4!: p c iChes. & Ifo. 51 p c. Do. do. 5 per cent.., Cork Sz Ba.ndor Dun.Perth.kAber.J, E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c. Do. do. Cis. C 7 p. c. Eas.Co.Ex,sp.eNo.l IDo. No. 2 ....... Do. New 6 pr. c. St. East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51.. 10 per cent. Do, 101. Debentr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent... East Lancash.6 p .cts E.&W. York: J. sthr, Ellin. & Gl. sp. c. Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.c. Farness, 5 p. Glas. & 5.W.G.5 pc. (Great Northn. 5 pc. Do. 5 p. c. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem.... Do. 41 per cent Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 51 p. c. pre m. Gt.N.ofScot.lst Pro Gt. S & W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per c. Pref. qt. Gt. W (B.&H.Ex.spc I •W. Do. con. red. 44 p.c. IDo. con. red. 4 p. c., Do. irred. 4 percent. Do 5 p. c. red. pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Sh Do. Chester Sp. c. P. S Do, do. 5 p. c. do Do, Birm. Gua. Stir D). Chesh. Gna. Sh Do. do. do.. Do. do. do.. TJan.& York. 6 pc. St. Lon. &B. C. 5 pc. No.l D0.,P.,5 p.c.a.N0.2 Do. New Guar. 6p. c. Do. do. 5 p. c., No. 4 Lon. & N.W., Coy. & NuncaLon 5 p. Lou. & S.W. 7 perct. late 3d Shares ... Londy.& Color. Sh. sJondy.&Ennis. Sh. M:., S.,&L. 6 p. Cant. Do. do. do. £6 ..... Do. do. 3. per cent. Marypt. &Carl. 4 p.c. Do. per cent Do. do. Ifid.Consol.6 p.c. St. D0.C0n.8r.13ir.6 p.c. Do. 4A p. c. Pref. SL. Do. L. &11. Pref. S. New., Aber., &c., pr. 5 p.c.red. 5 p.c. prn; Do. Perpet. 6 r. Nora. D cb. 4 p.c. SI). Do. 5 p. c. Ext. 1846 Do. 5A p.c. pf., 1C47 D0.1rv.V.5p.c.,184 7i !North British .... D ,, . 7i. Preference g. E. Berw. 4 p.c.Prr. Do. do. do Do. Leeds 6 pc. No. 1 Do. do. Qrs., 1848... Do. York 11.d,5. Par. North Staffordshire Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c., Ist guar. Do. 6 p. c. 2d guar Scot. Cent. New Pref, Sc.N.E.Abcr.g.6p.c. Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. Do. dc).3i p.c. pf. St South Dovon Do,: i. fi : t. o e c r l 4 I ) e r ,,,, c ( c i in nt ; S. Ann.) of D. Os. Gd. Do. 4. per cent Do. Fixed 44 p.c. Sh S. Wales Gtia. 4 p. c. Do. do. 4?,• p. c . S.Yorksh.4 p.c.Guar. Stock. &Dar., sp. 0, 5 Do. do. do. Stock. & Huai. g. 5 p.c. till July 1, '56 Watorfil&Kilk. 6 pc. BRITISH MINES. ... L 6 l 2 Alfred Cons. (Philic 20 14 British Iron .. ... 20 Conduraw (Carbrn 10 1 iDev. Gt. Oasis. (Tay ' ~. 14s Groat South Tolgus : 10/ 3,0 r rt. W.Alfrd. (Philk 7 IGrt.W. Vor (ffelstn; Sstid:Lady Bertha 21 -- 23 7 -- 8 155 -- 165 150 -- 470 134 14 , 8A -- 91 6 -- lt , 19 29 -- 31 6 -- 7 22A -- 23? 8 9 10 -- 345 -35 a 6 -- 7 320 -- 330 1101 111 10i 56 7 7 85 4 65 21?; 5C5 x!l3 ~. 7i N. Frances (Illogan) ... N. W.I.3.:SSCL (Illogan) ~. 3/15:North Wheal Crofty 1 !Par. Cons. (St. Blaxy) 9 ll'orkellis U. (Wend.) 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co 2i S. Caradon (St. Cleer) 2 S. Carn Brea (Illogn.) 5.W.19 I Franees(lllogn.) 5 4i Tam. S. &L. Yin. Co [0 9 Tin Croft 40 Un. Mines (G weunap) 12s 6,V. of Towoy (Camar.) 1. W. Basset (Illog tn) .. 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd.) 5 Wh. Basset (Illogan) .. 5 Wh. Buller (Rdruth). 5) Wh. Edward(Calstek) h 7s Wh. Kitty (U. Llant) 8 Wh. Ma. Ann (Menht. S 4 Wk. Trelawney (Lis.) 20 20 20 20 FOREIGN. - - 5t 210 - 2301 - 1 34 - 35 165 - 175 150 - 270 :335 - 345 18 - 20 43 - 45 24 - 26 20 I all 1 lio ...................... , ... , .r V LI, L'avr .1.1 A.A.., A.d.J• --..----- . FOREIGN. 20 7 Australian 35 27 Brazilianlmp.(issued 10 all Antwrp &Rotterdam 61 7h 7h 7 at £5 pm) 20 14 Ardennes 5 t all Belgian E ast. Junct. li 1- 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 19 21 20 20 16 Beziers to Graissessae 3 1 —4j p 1 6 Clarendon Con. Mmu. 6 all garmeaux&Toulouse Co. of Jamaica-- 1 id Coal Mines and Ry• 51 -- 6 40 all Cobro Copper 6l 63 . 20 12 Dutch Rhenish 20 all Eastern of Franco ... 344 31/ . 11 1 Z 2 all Fontana 20 all Do. New 3 all Linares 2 2 0 0 12ss. EuphratesGtVofalFlerayn.c.e. p 2 a l r i --.._ Ip 4 i p 5 1/ Lusitauian 20 17 Great Luxembourg._ 6i 64 61 4 , 1 all Mariquita 16 4 Italian Junction...... ... ... Cral 1 all New Granada — 20 all Lake Const. Sr kale —— 4 1 all Noveau Moudo - • i _ 20 all Lierre and Turnhout ... 20 all Pont.Sil.Ldlll4 Smlt 7 20 6 Lombardo-Venetian 51 6 p 5 1 Port Philip • 5 all Lyo ns & Piat.sp.c.p. ••• ••• 30 16., Santiago do Cuba 20 all Lyons and Geneva ... 34 —35 i 1 all youth Australian 20 all Lyons & Mediterran. ... ••• 1 1 all Do. Scrip 33j all Maria Antrmla ....... ••• -- ••• •• --- ••• 1 all Do. 10 p. c. Pref.._ ... ••• 10 all Do. New . - ............ ... ••• , 281 3 all United Mexican 34 4 3, 7 , 20 all Namur & Liege ...... Si 9 904 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Pref. 21 21.4 MISCELLANEOUS. 16 all Northern of France.. 40 401 10 all NorwegianTrnk. Prof 9 10 25 19 Australian Agricult. 21 23 221 14 20 all Paris and Lyons 613 —61 j i 10 all Australn. Royal Mail ... —• , 20 all Paris and Orleans 59 61 10 all Berlin Water Works.. 41 5,1 20 7 Recife & San Fran., 50 40 13-it. American Law' 40 45 (Penner.) g. 7p. c. i •-• ?l P , lea 32i C...nada 1- ... • : St. 100 Do.Go. 6 pc•JanSa ul y ••• -- ... 0 7j Rome and Frascati. 20 all Royal Danish lB —2O S.. , 100 Do. 6 p.c.Feb.SrAug. ... ... 5 all Royal Swedish ____ li 13 St. 100 D 0.6 p.c. Mar.&,Sept. ... ... 20 all Sambre and Meuse._ 9 10 St. all Copper Min. of Eng'. 35 40 10 all 'Do. 54 per cent. prf. 84 9 25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent. 26 28 261 20 all Southern of France_ 34 —31 j all 'Crystal Palace ......... 23 23 24 2 4 0 a l ll B 8/ all West Flanders 4l 5 5 all (Crystal Preference ...... 53 5 3 10 all Do. 54 per c. Prof . 94 10 20 all IW.&N.W. of France 33 31 1 1 Duston Iron 0re...... ... ••• • 20 6 I Wcstrn ofAustria par 1 p CrYEasstetarnlPsalt.eoafra...n..c.e. ......, -- ...... 20 all 'West. of Switzerland ••• ... St. 1.00 Electric Telegraph ... 92j —93 j 3 6 all Wiesbaden 6 all Do. Bp. cent. prof. ••• •• • 5 all En.&Aust.Cop•SmCo 13 11 20 all Zealand• - ... 10 10s. E. & Ind.Jctn. Tel. par / p _------- 25 all Gen. Ir. Sc. C01.(1ir0..) ... —...- JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. . I .. 20 5 London Discount ... .3 - id• 40 all A.ustralasia 93 95 931 4 all Lond. Gen. Omnibus 44 -- 43 25 181 Bank of Egypt 100 50 Bank of London 56 —5B 58 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tel. ... 40 all Bri.Col. Bk.&Ln. Co ... ... 10 all Mexican & S.Americn 2 - 31 50 all British N. American ... ~. , , 5 5 Nat, Discount C 0.... 1 —3d 44 8 C.llk.of Ind.Au.&Ch 11 id 5 5 Do. New 20 ••• 10 5 Netherlands Land._ 1 li • 1 ............. .. ... ••• 00 , 50 Cit Y..................... 68 70 100 25 Colonial . 10 all Do. Do. lof Lond. ••• 5 all Do. 8 p c • Pf. iss. at 1d 4— 4 00 &Aus•Cht. 174 18 5 1 Do. Do. 20 all En2,..500t. par ill • of Aust. 18 —l9 181 100 80 New K. &N. S. Land 18 22 10 20 Commercial all Lon. Ch. Bk. ...18— 19 18 St. WO N.S.W. Gov.s p.e.D. 20 •••1 all N. B. Australasian... 1 _ i* 20 20 kn • mp ...••• 20 all Nrth.ofEuropeStea]n ••• -- .d 14. ' 4 134 50 50 Lnd.&E.En g 1 all Oriental GPs 50 10 Loudon Joint Stock.... .•• -- .• all DijoitutdooNn eavrna.:..6)...n. ty .. 32 3 1 ss, Do. New Shares parip t -- ••• 25 all IPeelßr. Ld. & Minrl. 28 24 00 35 National Pro. of Eng. ••• -- • 50 all Peninsular & Oriental 67 69 20 10 Do. New ........••••••' ... , •• • 100 20 Lond.ancl\Vestrnms ... .. 79 • 50 10 Do. New 4 5 p •••• 50 224 National Bank ...... .. „,,, 50 all Rhymnoy Iron 20 all - New South Wales .... 48 au 39 -- 40 ' 304 15 all Do. New. 54 74 25 all Oriental, Bank Cori). y3 100 60 Ro!ral Mail Steam__ 01_ ... 1 20 15 'Ottoman Bank ...... 14 —ig P 593 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 11 14 00 25 Provincial of Ireland ... ••• 1 10 all Do. , It SOl A it u h s'BGiin.Co. .•‘; --- K : : C I I o. New... .. . . ........ ..• -- ''. ••• St. 100 S.Aus. Gov.6p.c.bds. ... .., 25 5 all 'f . s al 2 l 4 L ) U o n . i , o h n i.e o w f Aiustralia Australia......... 54 . 6 i ...... ", / i a 1 25 all South Austral. Land 35 —37 1.36.1 1 all Submarine Tel. Scrip / 1 ~0 110 Union of London .... 1 all Do. Registered 120 5 Trust&Ln Co.U.Can. ... ... 00 50 Unity Mutual ll -- d 100 284 Van Diemon's Land 11 —l3 121 121 100 50 Notrn Bk.of Load., 1 a ~. 8 d 40 I st!'. loo Y.Qo.6p,cJay. & July ... -... -- - ,254 -- 26 2 ?- 254 ts 20 20 10 St. 11 10i 36 i i i a. 1221 2 105 681 1011 21 1/ 2i 1084: WU 3I 10 3ti I 82i 321 44i 851 61 6 40 39i 18 75j I 8G.4 4t 4 12 41 20. -- 4 -- 2 - 3 - G ... -. SSESSIONS ... - i - ip 93 98 96 98 96 98 rar P ii 7= iK.P 1116 - 112 I 2 -21 p 21, - 22 1 56 - 58 85 - 8 214 - 21 1 - 264 - 26 31 - 99 - 100 120 - 125 120 - 125 107 109 19; 20 21i —21 i par 41) fi tp 2 - 2Ap 201 i m rr 1r) v rP E SUN, LONDO N, kJ S 14. A IC V I'l4 N? G MAS6R4. M it CII 26 85 7; LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. BAILWAYS. Buckf, , hamsl). Vy.' • E.Lin. g. 6 p.e E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils.Direet. Do. NOW .Glstr.SzDa.Pr hull & Selby. Do. A Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lou. Til., &S. I Do. Bark. Sh. Manch.Bxton. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. Nees .narket DuryE.G.spc. NT.4.lEst.5 P.C. Do. 6 per 0t..1 Do. Fixed sp.c Prest. & Wyre Do. t i Shrs. A il,oystn.& Hit. Shrews .St Her S. Staffordsh.. WearVaLg6pc Do.. WiltslzSomrst Closing 1'r.006 this day. 92 - 94 98 - 102 11 - 13 1.34 - 137 3 - 41 iiii - 16 12} -- 13 23 -- 24 LO2 -- 105 P 2. -- 2i 89 -- 91 P 55 -- 57 1 131 - 134 8 - 9 9 - 91 - 32?, 88 - 90 PREFE: ' Leasing Companies Ln. &N. W. Caladon E.U.drE.O Gt.Northu E. Count. Caldonian. Do.. Gt.Westn Y. & N. 21, Do IDo S. Eastern. Do Peto & Co Do Lu. drN W. dr Midld. E. Count Do L.& .W Do Gt. Northn T. Bralsoi M. MClean' Stk.&Dar Do Gt.Westn LtENCE SHARES. --= 94 -- 98 -- 61 75 - 77 115 - 117 107 - 110 101 - 103 62 - 64 - 10 95 - 96 84 -- 86 100 -- 102 10 -- 10. 16A -- 17' 10 -- 10. 72 -- 75 194 -- 19 94 -- 141 -- 14 135 -- 137 1155 - 17i7 66 Cs 131 - 136 -98 A 88 - 89 1,1 - lipl - 111 114 - 113 105 - 110 65 - 174 - 184 23 -23 i 100 - 101 9f - 101 27 - 28 2 -- 3 pi 2j. - 3h SUN OFTICE, Six o'Clock. NORTHAMPTON RACES.--;This Day.) (BY BLECTRIO T.ELEURAPB.) CIIP STASES. Amati Companion Greylivg Six ran. ALTITORP PARK STAKES. Eurydice Happy Land Seven ran. EARL SPENCER'S PLATE. Dead heat with Cumberland and Peter Flat. Stakes divided. DELAPRE HANDICAP. Si.ormsail. Aff6han... LATEST BETTING. EARL SPENCER'S PLATE. 5 to 2 age, Vaulter (taken) Sto 1 aget Hospitality (taken freely) Nothing else backed. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 7to 2 aget Vedette (400 to 100 taken) 7to 1 bar one (offered). 1000 to 100 aget Kent (taken) METROPOLITAN. Bto 1 on the Field (offered) 10 to 1 agst Fisherman (iOO to 9 taken) CIIESTEII CUP. 10 to 1 agst St. Giles (taken freely) 1000 to 30 agst Dulcamara 1000 to 15 agst Sir Colin (offered) 1500 to 30 agst Gemma di Vergy (taken) DERBY. 20 to 1 agst Skirmisher 20 to 1 agst Kent (offered) REPORT OF THE RUSSIAN MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. A. copy of a report on the organisation of the Run:an medical department and the sanitary state of their Cri mean hospitals was laid before the House of Commons on the motion of Mr. Stafford. The report, which is suffi ciently interettiog, is drawn up by Dr. Mouatt and Mr. Wyatt. They divide their subject -matter into four heads-1, the organisation of the medical department generally ; 2, the surgery of the war ; 3, medical history and the sanitary condition of the hospitals and camps ; and 4, the prevailing diseases in, the Russian army, as well as those of the native population or Tartars. These are again subdivided. The medical department includes two classes of stu dents-1, those educated at the expense of the state, and 2, those educated at their own txpense at the various Universities. T.:e right of the first class to serve in the army is compulsory (for a period) ; every medical officer may retire on half-pay after 25 years' service, and on full pay after 30 years' service T. each regiment, which con sists of four battalions of 1,000 men rach, is attached a medical staff of one surgeon-xusjor and three surgeons of battalions," which latter term applies to every junior medical officer who first joins a regiment ; but, if attach-, ed to an hospital instead of a regiment, his primary ap /*nation would he Ordiaateur de l'Hopital. His pay will be 250 silver roubles, or Mt. a year, with service and forage. The next step is that of surgeon of a regiment, or Ordincteur superrieur, the pay of which is 346 roubles, or 1,3604 a year. roe third grade is that of a doctor of a division, or of a regiment 01 Guards, or chief officer of a small hospital, or aide to a chief officer of a larger hospital. In this case the rank is that of lieutenant colonel or colonel with 505 roubles salary, and 176 table-money. Then come the superior grades of doctor of a corps (555 roubles salary); doctor-in-chief of a corps of the Guard ; and, lastly, di rector of the medical department attire army, or general staff-doctor of an army, or member of council of the ciili trry medical department of the empire. The last rank is that of major-general or general, and,the pay 725 roubles and 300 table-money. One advantage of the Russian system is this—tbat if the state of the service precludes the pro motion of a medical officer from want of vacancies, his prospects as to pay and retire.nent still progressively advance by thp provision for increase of pay after every five years'. successive service, and also increase of relative army rank for any special merit displayed ; and as there is no induccm2.nt for prolonged ser vice, old and effete officers give place to young and efficient successors. In every regiment there is a dispenser, who holds the rank of a non-commissioned officer, and in every general hospital is an apothecary. Then there are the dresstv, or " felchers," who are young lads taught what the French term la petite chirargerie, their duties being analogous tai those of the medical subordinates . attached to European rugiwents in India. The cookieg for the hospi tals appeared excellent, and welt conducted by regularly attached cooks. There were found five different scales of diet. The bread sup- plied was white and of fine qeality, but the sick, from habit, often preferred tLe btack. The soup' contained 11b. of meat per man, and plenty of cabbage and other vege tables; it was thickened with meal, and found a very ex cellent and palatable pottage. Tea was largely consumed by all classes. Each sick eel her costs the Government some 25 kopecks, or le., per diem. An officer belong ing to the Russian " Intendance" resides in all large towns where troops are stationed, and purchases all things requisite for hospital and regimental require ments, supplying them to the colonel on requisition ; animals and vehicles for the use of the sick and wounded are liberally given by the nation, and the ambulance arrangements appear to be very efficient. Tee female uuraes are highly spoken of ; they are all ladies, called " Sisters of Mercy," generally widows of officers. From what the authors of the report saw of these valuable women, they are led to the con clusion, irresistibly, that female nursing, as a general rule, can only be successfully practised from either the predominance of strung feelings of deceition or affec tion. The full diet for hospital convalescents was 21b. of black bread, 11b. of meat, Alb. of .barley for gruel, 1, litre (quart) of kwass, 3ez. of brandy, and salt; the low diet (B 2) included 1,1-Ib. of white brew], 41b. of meat, 'Alb. of barley, a A litre of white wine, and salt. Th e daily rations for "duty" men cf the Russian army include 111). of black bread, 111 e. of meat, 1 litre of kwass (a fermented beverage), a 4 litre of sour cabbage, a # litre of barley, 22 grains of salt, a of a grain of horse-radish, a of a litre of vinegar, and #of a grain of pepper. The brave defenders of Sebastopol c p appear itai operations r a h t a i o v n e s wereenjoy enjoyed performed the best modern surgery. Among 80,000 woundei, 10,000 am putatione). Union or healing by the first inten tion is never attempted by t a n d e (includinga lt fit u a s ge s a s n o f3 eu ol3 r oe g o e v o e n r s y on account of the impossibility of obtaining so de sirable a result in crowded hospitals ; when it is attempted P.Yeatnia, abscess, and pblegmonous in flammation are the almost invariable results. One-fourth of the fatal cases after operation resulted from ,pyannia ; erysipelas and phlegmonous inflammation were common, but there was no great amount of hospi tal gangrene, and very little tetanus ; both these affec• tions were generally fatal. The circular operation seems to have been preferred to the flap, in all amputation cases, and some good stumps were seen. Wounds of the Incases headand of cheat are stateduie cavity to hav of e the been h es, in bleed ing singularly fatal. ing is not resorted to, bu t di g i ta li s a d m i n i s t ere d instead. wounds e t No real typhus was detected in any of the hospitals, notwithstanding their crowded condition. It may be asked to what cause is to be attributed the very large amount of sickness and mortality among the Rus sians. The authors of the report think it partly due to intermittent and bilious remittent fevers, with a marked tendency to adynatnia; and a low typhoid state, and diarrheas, which occasionally degnera ted into dysentery. Remittent fevers are the en demic of the Crimea, and this is the disease from which the Tartars chiefly suffer. This was aggravated by the Russian system of subterranean hutting. The Russian soldiers appeared unhealthy, either pre maturely old and withered, or very young ; tbeir aspect was sallow ,and their persons and camps generally the reverse of clean. They have a pre dilection for strong waters, which form part of their rations. In physical conformation and height they were above the average, equal in height to the English, but inferior to them in capacity of chest and muscular conformation. The horses, even of the officers, were in wretched condition, and had no kind of clothing. Such is a summary of the most interesting details of the Re port. REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS.—The amount paid for the registration of electors in England and Wales in the year 1853 was 55,8351. 15s. 6d. THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL.—We are happy to learn that the Right Hon. J. Stuart Wortley is gradually re covering from his serious attack of brain fever, and has for some days past been considered out of danger. The right hon. and learned gentleman will, however, be compelled, for several weeks to come, to abstain from professional duties, it being essential to his complete res toration that heshould avoid WI unnecessary excitement. The suspension has been announced of Messrs. R. James Brown and Co., extensive timber merchants and shipbuilders and owners at Sunderland. Their direct debts amount to 80,0001. upon acceptances and 30,0001. on open account, while their indirect commitments on bills discounted are 150,0001. Their assets, it is hoped, may realise about 14s. 9d. in the pound. The house had been established about 12 years, and apprehensions are entertained that its stoppage may bring down several smaller firms. A CHIEF JUSTICE " BRAWLING " IN THE CHURCH. — The two learned judges now presiding in the courts at Warwick Assizes, attended St. Mary's .Church of the ancient town on Sunday morning last. The Rev. Albert Boudier, the assistant minister, read the service, and in the course thereof commenced to rend the prayer usually offered during the sitting of Parliament, doubtless un aware that Parliament bad been - dissolved the previous evening. Lord Campbell, who was cognisant of the fact of the dissolution, created some excitement by ex chiming, "No, no, there is no Parliament !" upon which the rev. gentleman desisted from putting up an useless supplication. 0 4 " * **, lor tr ,1 11 It, Iv 4, 4 , w . 4 Business this day. THE NOMINATIONS. Boston Bradford Brecon (Borough) Bridgenorth Bridgewater Bridpert Brighton Bristol Buckingham Bury Bury St. Edmunds Caine Canterbury Cardiff (District) Carmarthen (Borough, Carnarvon (Borough) Chatham, - Cheltenham Chester Chichester Chippenham Christchurch Cirencester Clitheroo Cockermouth Colchester Conway Co wbridge (Borough) Cricklade Dartmouth Derby Devonport Devizes Dorchester Dover Droitwich Dudley Durham (Borough) Evesham Exeter Eye FrOCCIO Gate•thead Gloucester Gr.►ntham Great Grimsby Grimsby Guildford Halifax ilarwioh Ha-tiogs Havertordwest ,Hereford 11::.Nrsham Huddersfield hull Ipswich Kendal , Kidderminster Konresborough Lanca4ter Leeds Leominster Lewes Leicester Lambeth Marylebone rarnt•tapl3 Beautnaris Cambridge Cambridge Univenity Denbiuh Boroughs Flint District Rochdale MONDAY, Southwark Brecknockshire Cumberland (East) Derhyshice (South). Devon (South) Durham (North) Essex (South) Gloucestershire (East) Herefordshire Huntingdonshire Rent (East) Leicest er.h,re (South) Norfolk ( West) Not thatnptonsh ire (N.) TUESDAY, Bedfordshire Berivihire . Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Carmarthenshire Caruarvonshire Dovon (North) Dorset Durham (3onth) Essex (North) Giamorganshire Gioucestecshire (W.) Rants (North) ENGLAND 2 THURSDAY (TiliS Westminster Bath Bedford Blackburn Coventry FRIDAY, City of London Finsbury Tower Hamlets Atingdou Andover Arundel Aqhburt on , Ashton-under-Lynn Ayleebury Banbury Berwick-on-Tweed Beverley Lewdley. Birmingham Blackburn Lodmin Bolton' ND WALES. Day), March 26. Cat lisle !lei tford Nottingham Windsor 41arch 27. Lincoln Liskeard Liverpool Ludlow Lymington Lynn Lyme Macclesfield Maidstone Mahlon Maltou Manchester Marlborough Marlow Merthyr Tydvil Monmouth (District) Montgomery (1:bro) Morpeth Newcastle on-Tyne Newport (Isle of Wight) Northallerton Nerti)arnptou Norwich Oxford University Pembroke Peterborough Plymouth Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Retfurd Richmond Ripon Rye Salford Salis!Jury Sandwich Scarborough Shaftesbury Sheffield Shrewsbury Southampton South Shields Stafford Stamford Stockport Stoke-on• Trent Stroud Snnderl+nd Swansea Ta to worth • Taunton T 3% IF; t ock Thetford Thirek Tiverton Tattles Tytemouth Wakefield Wallingford Wareham Warrington War wick Wells Wenlock estbury Weymouth Whitby Whitebayon Wigan Winchester Wolverhampton Woodstock Worcester WycJmbe Yarmouth York SATURDAr, March 28. Huntingdon Midhurst New cast': undr-Lyme Oldham Oxford (city) Peterborough Preston Lichfield Shoreham March O. Oxfordtbire Radnorshire Rochester Rutlandshire Salop (South) Shropshire (South) Staft - ird (North) Staffordshire (North) Suff3:k (West) Surrey (East) Wiltshire (North) Worcestershire (West) I Yorksbire (West) March 31. IR rtferdshi re lAncaQhire (North) Lino, (North) Leicestershire (North) Northamptonshire (S.) Northumberland (S.) N..ttinghamithire (N.) Sal 1p (North) Shropshire (North) Stafford (South) Staffordshire (South) Westmoreland Worcestershire (Had) WEDNESDAY, April 1. Lancashire (South) Surrey (West) Linc)lubhire (South) I 'Wilts (South) Suffolk (East) Yorkshire (North) THURSDAY, April 2, Middlesex Montgomeryshire Cornwall (West) Northumberland (N.) Merionethshire I Wiltibire (South) Monmouthshire Yorkshire (East) nurser, April 3. • Cheshire (South) I Kent (Wes.) Denbighshire • I Warwickshire (North) SATURDAY, April 4. Cheshire (North) Flintsbire Cornwal I (East) Hampshire (South), _ MONDAY, April G. Derbyshire (North) I Norfolk (East) SCOTLAND. TLIUnSDAY (This Day), March 2G. Leith Dundee, Edinburgh FRIDAY, MarCh 27. Greenock I St. Andrews SATURDAY, March 28. Kirkcaldy Kilmarnock Pai-ley MONDAY, March 30. Invernessahire Linlitbgowshire Montrose Paisley Stirling Burghs [ARCH 31. Fife Peebles.hire Renfrewshire Selkirk shire April 1. Elgin Wigton Burghs Dumfries Falkirk Burghs Inverness Banffshire Bute Forfarshire Glasgow Haddingtonshire TUESDAY, Aberdeen AyrBbire Claekmanan &Kinross Edinburghshire WEDNEBD, Aberdeenshire Dumfriesshire THIIRSDA' Elgin and Nairn FRIDAY, April 2. Stirlingshire Argyleshire Dumbartonshire SATURDK Caithness MONDAY, Wick IREL. SATURDAY, Cork Dublin Ennis MONDAY, Armagh A.thlone Carlow Clonmel Dublin ITniversity TUESDAY : Bandon Drogheda April 3. Lanarkshire . April 4. Wigtowshire April 6. AND. March 28. • Enniskillen Limezick Portarlington March 30. I Dundalk Galway Kilkenny Kinsale Mallow March 31. I • Cashel WEDNESDAY, April 1. SATURDAY, April 4. Carlow (County) I Limerick (County) Cork (County) I Louth WEDNESDAY, April 8. Armagh (County) THURSDAY, April 9. Dublin (County) I Fermanagh TUESDAY, April 14. Tipperary REWARDS of GALLANT CONDl:MT.—Yesterday, at the general meeting of the members of Lloyd's, the follow ing votes were unanimously carried :—The sum of 251. to Donald Thompson and four men, composing a boat's crew, for their praiseworthy and gallant conduct in say g, at the imminent risk of their own lives, two survi vors of the crew of the Ahti, wrecked near Dunnet Head in the month of Sept. last. The sum of 101. in aid of the subscription on behalf of the widows and orphans of the crew of the lugger Vicbry, of Margate, who were drowned by the capsizing of their boat off Kingsgate on the sth of last Jan., and the sum of 251. to the Ship wrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society in aid of the fund. for general purposes, TDB FRENCH BUDGET OF 1858. db. LORD ZALAIESBURY AND LORD PALMERSTO37. " Gentlernen,—We are about to submit to your ex areination the estimate of the receipts and expenses pro posed for the year 182. Last year, at this period, we congratulated ourselves with you on the hopes of an early peace. Peace has been signed—a glorious and hating one, a work of wisdom rend straightforward dealing ; a new treaty of Paris, very different from the cid one, and in which are written by the hand of France, and sanctioned by all Europe, great prin ciples of humanity too long contested, and the rules, henceforth certain, of . international maritime lew. At the same time Heaven gave a son to the Emperor and to France. To these great benefits of Providence we must respond by moderation and wisdom. The ensemble of tee budget which we now submit to you is summed up, so to speak, in the words of the Emperor at the opening of your session :—'l have resolved to reduce the expenses without suspending great public worke, without compromising acquired poretione, and to diminish certain taxes without injuring the finances of the State. The budget of 1858 will be pre sented to you in equilibrium ; all the foreseen expenses have been set down in it. The amount of the loans will suffice to pay the balance of the expenses of the war ; all services way be assured without our having need to apply anew to public credit.' As you know, gentlemen, the year 1856, which bes just concluded; shows a not able augmentation in the produce of the indirect taxes and revenues, and yet the year 1855 was itself excep tionally productive. The year 1855 produced 957,600,000 francs, In that sum, new duties figure for 33,230,0001 r. for ha!f a year. The year 1856 produced 1,033,000.000 francs, in which the new duties figure for 79,647,000 francs for a whole year. You wit! remark, gentlemen, that the estimate of the receipts for the year 1858 has been made with that pru dent reserve which last year obtained your approbation. At the same time, to be consistent with ourselves, and to obey the wishes of the Emperor, we heye inscribed in the budget all the foreseen expenses, and. we have set them down at the true figure, as much at least as it is possible to do for things to came. "Suppression of the second war decirne on the regis tration duties.—The new war dechne on the registration duties will be suppressed from Jan. 1, 1858; which wir he a relief of 23,000,000 f. "Abrogation of Article 1 of the law of the 6th Prairie.), An VII, and suppression of the stamp duty en printed noires and prospectuses.—Art. 1 of the law of the 6th Psairisl, An VI f, is thus conceived :—'Printed notices, whatever may Ee their object., which are cried and dis tributed in the streets and public places, or which are put into circulation in any other manner, anal be subjected to a stamp duty, with the exception of addresses con taining the simple indication of domicile or a simple notice of charge of residence.' Althoush this duty was reduced by Art. 6 of the budget of the 2810 April, 1816, which fixed it at 10e. for the whole sheet, at sc. for half a sheet, at 24a. for the quarter sheet, and at In. for the half quarter sheet, cards, and others papers of smaller dimensions, commerce and manufactures have not ceased during fifteen years to demand its suppression. It pre sents the icconvenience of being quite out of proportion with the value of the object taxed. It quadruples and even quintuples the price of printed papers ; thus re stricting the employment of this useful mode of publi cation, it becomes an embarrassment to the deve lopment of commerce and manufactures in general, and causes a real and special prejudice to the print ing trade. It is the cbject of numersais frauds, which, ' being exercised on a largo scale, destroy the ele ments of just and hone t competition, and favour, to the injury of honest manufacturers and traders, those who do not fear to disobey the lam. The laws of the 25:h March, 1817, and of the 15th May, 1848, which admitted exceptions to the law of the 6th rrairial, An. VII, gave riqe to incessant difficulties and to disputes on the application of it. Fresno 1337 to .1850, the produce of that stamp duty did not exceed annual:3 , 500,000 fr. ; from 1850 to 1855, it amounted to resrly 1,000,000 fr. But the suppression of it wi”. not cause au equal loss to the treasury. At precut it is only at the post-office that contraventions in this matter can be ascertained ; and in most cases it is private enterprises which, especi ally iu towns, aro employed to convey and distribute printed papexs. From the moment the stamp duty shall be suppressed the post-office, thanks to the reductions of postage effected by the law of the 25th June last, will resume its advantages, and the treasury will find in the postage a large compensation for what it will leis by the stamp duty. The repeal of Art. lof the law of the 6th Prairie), An VII, by removing a permanent cause of discontent, withock occasioning sensible preju dice to the treasury, will give satisfaction to wants aris ing from the extension of commerce and manufactures. We think that this measure will obtain your approba -4;.,.. " Nlodifieationq in the law of Jane 5, 1850.—Increase in the duty on French and fireign transferable securi ties.—ln conformity with the wish repeatedly expressed by the Legislative Body, the Emperor has charged us t' propose to you to levy a new tax on transferable seat:- cities. The law of June 5, 1850, established a propor tional stamp duty on negotiable share; and bonds of com panies. That tox was 50c. per 100 f. on the nominal capi tal of the share, if the duration of the co mosny did not exceed 10 years, and lf. if it was for a longer period. This proportional tax once paid, the share acquired unc'er the law of 1850 a double advantage; it had no more stamp duty to pay during, the whn!e continuance of the c )in pany, and was exempt during tile same space of time from any Tormality of registration in case of transfer. According to the proviAons of that same lr w, if the com panies wished to 'avui:l the payment of the proportional duty, they might enter into an annual subscription for the whole period of their duration. In that case they would have to pay sc. per 100 f. of capital. Such is the general economy of the law of 1850. IVe continue to transferable securities all the advantages conferred on them by that law ; but we propose to convert this pro portional stamp duty once paid into an annual and obli gatory tax of 150. per 1001. of the real capital of the share. By that system proportional duty on the issue will cease, and the subscription which was before optional becomes obligatory. Different conside rations have induced us to recommend this plan to your serious examination. In the first place, it avoids the creation and the introduction into our laws of a new tar, which appears difficult and perhaps even dawerous. We find, besides, in a 1-tw already ektals- Hailed, the princii le and the basis of the new duty to he levied. In the second place, the annual stamp duty leaves to transferable shares all their liberty, and does not in any way interfere with the different negotiations of which they are the object. Maintained, and as it were embodied, in the law of 1850, it removes all rea sonable fear of further increase. Simple and easy of collection, and moderate in its amount, it will not in any way impede industrial progress, and its proceeds arc destined to be increased only by the development of the object taxed. like myselF. often supported you in maintaining tho honour of Eughnd and defending her best iuetitutions of sacrificing thee to the basest personal motives. "If the charge had not proceeded from so high a quarter I should have despised it. I declare it to be ut terly unfounded as regards myself, and I believe it to be equally vo as regard the gentlemen with whom I found myself in unusual accordance upon the China vote. By iti very nature it was unconnected with any party creeds as to religion, finance, or politics, and this is the simple and true explanation of the medley division that en sued. " The country having been committed, my humble vote will support a wAr which has now become necessary to English interests and honour, but which at first might have been avoided without a sacrifice of either. . . " I have the honour to rem tin, " Your Lordship's obedient servant, " MALMESBURY. " The night Hon. Viscount Palmerston, K.G." About 50,0001. in bar gold was taken from the Bank yesterday f,,r exportation to the continent. 100,0004, ,overeig,s, are said to have been taken by the Govern meet this week for transmission to the Cape. TEE CASE OF FRATRICIDE AT MAIDSTONE.—The in quest on the body of Ttesmas Edwards, the young man who was murdered at Maidstone on the 18th inst., was resumed yesterday. The father and mother of the pri soner, George Edwards, proved that he had taken the ICZ3 up stairs with him on the day of the murder, and a policeman deposed to finding it in the bedroom, covered with blood. A verdict of wilful murder against Geo. Edwards was returned. The prisoner exhlbits the greatest indifference, and says he was at Baxley, three miles off, at the hour the murder took place. THE BILLS OF, EXCHANGE ACT.—A return lately moved for by Mr. Keating of the number of writs is sued under the Bills of Exchange Act in the superior courts in 1856, and also of the number of judgments under the act, &c., has just been printed. In the Court of Queen's Bench the number of writs issued under the act in 1856 was 3,399, and the number of judgments 2,950. The total number of writs issued in the Queen's Bench in 1856 was 29,6071., and the total number of judgments 11,024. The total average number of writs issued during the last four years was 24,910, and the average number of final judgments 9,652. The number ofjudgmeuts on verdicts in 1856 was 639 ; the average number in four years being 761. In the Court of Ex chequer the number of writs issued in 1856 uncle; the act was 14,845, and the number of judgments under the act in the same time 5,961. The total number of writs issued in 1856 was 45,385, the average of four years being 38,132 ; and the total number of final judgments in ,1866 was 16,932, the average being 13,177. The number of judgments on verdicts in 1856 was 840, the average being 871. In the Court of Common Pleas the number of writs issued under the act in 1856 was 4,922 the number of judgments is not returned. The tota number of writs issued during the year was 17,665, and the total judgments 6,096. The number of judgments on verdicts in 1856 was 345, the average being 337. THE INCREASE IN THE PUBLIC EXPENDITHBE.—A re turn lately presented to Parliament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the various sums voted in supplyunder the heads 'of army and navy, ordnance, and. mil"' laneous services in every year from 1835 to 1856, iecln sive, shows the gra d ual and progressive increase w hich has taken pla ce i n public expenditure sincethe first named peri o d. U nder the hea p d of the Amy estimates, from 1835 to 1845 , the vote var i es in each year from 5,793,456/. to 6,364,4261. ; from 1845 t r o I h B e s4 a r i m t va y ries mates, including the expense from 5 ,979,272/. to 7,167,4861 .; in lBsl3todied n g year were voted svhiph in this and the succeedi ng year or nearly double to gether, suddenly rises to 7 • _ 1 13, The vote . for the Ordnance that of any preeedig s Ye w ar as 1,296,0591., from which Department in it bad gradually increased to of . the e Period up to 1853 • • 3,053,5671. ;9990,1651. The total vote for the army in 1854 it increased to 5,986,6621., and in 1855 to , • • • and or dnan ce. 7,484,3504, from which period up services, including the commissariat and militia, was in 1835, to gradually increased to 14,796,7211., or a bout what it was 19 years previ ous ly ; an d i n 185 5 the doubleivt o bad te w 21,779,6971. which is four times what in , it was 1835 •in 1856 the total v o t e was 20,478,034/. The navy estimate for 1835 was 4,245,7231. ; in 1845 i was 6,943,7204 ; in 1854, 14,812,6091. ; in 1855 it rose to 19,456,1121. ; and in 1856 it was 16,773,5961. The same progressive increase is observable throughout every department. It would be both tedious and unnecessary to recapitulate all the items. The total supply voted in 1835 was 14,123,2551.; during the next five years---viz., in 1840, it had increased to 17,622,513/. ; in 1845 it was 18,735,5911.; in 1850 it was 20,012,735/. ; in 1855, 62,207,8221.,- -that is, it had increased fourfold in 20 years ; in 1856 it was 50,564,6241. .A. considerable pro. i portion of the great increase in the liter years is due to I the exigencies of the Russian war, " Budget of Receipts.—The estimate of the receipts for 1858 has been male according to rules admitted last year, and approved of by you. We have confined ourselves for this estimate within the limit of the receipts realised in 1856, and by the provisions admitted by the budget of 1857. The taxes and indirect revenues on which this calculation is almost exclusively based stand in the budget of 1857 for a sum of 1,031,010,000 francs. We propose to you to admit them in that of 1858 at 1,030,340,000 francs. We must add, that in this total estimate, account has been taken of a diminu tion of 24 millions, the causes of which are explained above, and also of an increase of receipts of 14 millions, being the probable result of the new duty on transferable 6ecur sties. "Budget of Expenses.—The budget of 1858 as com pared with 1857 pre , ?ents an increase of expenses ,of 18,081,526 francs. Different causes have produced this considerable augmentation ; it !will be suffi cient for us to point out the principal ones. The department of Finance claims for itself alone an increased expenditure of 27,855,3661 r., in which atuonnt are set down 5 millions for the Transatlantio Steam packets ; 5 millions for annual reimbursement to the Bank of France on the loan of 75 millions made in 1848 (hitherto this annual reimbursement bad been placed at the charge of the floating debt) ; 5 millions for the in crease of small salmis 's in different branches of the finance department ; 7 millions for the reserves of the sinking fund ; and the remainder for other expenses con nected with the collection of the indirect taxes. The department of the Marine receives an extraordinary grant of 11,251,299 fr., the inevitable results of the wear and tear of a war, so nobly sustained, and also called for by the progress every day making in naval science. "The ways and means of the budget aro estimated at And the ordinary expenses at 1,716,986,190 Making a surplus of receipts of 20,128,981fr." Here follows the summary of the budget which was read to the Legislative body by the president when the bill was presented on the 21st, and which was given in this journal on Monday, 23d. The following are the articles of the budget which relate to the new duty on shares and bonds : "Art. 6. From the promulgation of the present bill the duties established by Arts. 14, 22, 27, and 31 'of the law of June 5, 1850, on the shares and bonds of financial, commercial, and industrial companies are con verted into a single obligatory duty of 15 centimes per annum for every 1001 r. of the capital of the said shares and bonds. " Art. 7. For companies created hereafter the duty shall be determined during the first three years, with re spect to shares, according to their nominal capital, and with respect to bonds according to the rate of emission. For the years following it shall be levied on the capital fixed every three years, according to the average price of the shares and bonds during the triennial period preced ing. Fur companies established previously to the pro mulgation of the present law the duty shall be levied, during the first triennial period, according to the aver age quotations of the three preceding years. If the ooze" pany has not been in existence three years, the average shall be determined on the since its creati o n. period which has elapsed "Art. 8. The amount of the proprelonal (NO paid, h in y v c i o r m tu p e a o n f ie A s r e t s s ia l h 4 lis a h n e d d 2 p 7 ri o e f r th t e e l t a h w e of p June 5 , 1850, the present la w , s h a ll b e i ncluded in t h e duties which they will h ave t o pay hereafter,lin virtue ofrotmheuplgraetcleodninOgi article. "Art. 9. Shares and bonds issuea by foreign compa re nies sh a ll b e su bj ected, l i k e F re nch, to a tax which al shall not exceed 15a. per 100 f. per ann um on their value. A regulation of the public a dministration shall establish the proport.on sod tl a manner in which this tax shall b collected. The followi ng "Art. 10. Th e s ame regu l a ti on s h a ll lay clown all the is the exposs de s mo tif s o f the necessary measures for the execution of the present law. budget of 1858, l a t e l y presen t e d t o the Legislat ive". able to a fi ne o f f rom 50f. t o 3001." Art. 11. Every contrarention of this regulation shall e Body: The d ocumen t b ears th e s i gnature of E. b h BoinvillierP, President of the finance section of the Council of State, and MM. Gode:le and Vuitry, members of the same body : Lord Ma7melbury presents his compliments to the editor of The Sun, and would feel much obliged to him to insert the enclosed letter in his journal. Wbitebsll Gardeup, -March 25. I "Lon, Ma. "My Lord,—l am one o f those who don thought rch it 2s their duty to vote against your Government upon the China question, and who have in consequence been exposed to your public invectives and misrepresentations on the subject. You have uttered and written these at a mo ment when we are unable to reply to them in Parlia ment, and I therefore adopt the less usual course of an swering you through the press. " The invective is of comparatively little consequence; but it is important that the public, who are now occu pied with the primary causes and proceedings of the Chinese war, and who have never read the blue-book ' except in extracts, should know exactly what they were. Teat blue-book was Sir John Bo wriog's justification Of his acts. "It became our indictment against him, and the Home of Commons upon its evidence gave a verdict against the defendant. "Now, that verdict was founded upon what appeared in the hlue-book as having occurred up to the time it was produced, and when the events were related accord ing to their respective dates. But this undoubted evi dence lives in direct contradiction to the statement which. you make to your constituents at Tiverton. "To them you write— "'An insolent barbarian wielding authority at Canton had violated the British Meg, broken the engagements of treaties, offered rewards for th e h ea d s o f British subjects is that part of China, and planned their destruction by Murder, assassinations, and poisons. The British officers, civil and naval, on the station had taken those measures which appeared to them to be proper and necessary to obtain redress.' "Now, my lord, the inference which must be drawn from these lines is that all those outrages preceded our seizures of the ships, shelling forte, and bombarding Canton itself, and were the provocations to our aggres sion. This inference is not true, for, with the exception of the first one—namely, the -supposed violation of the British flag on board the Arrow, all the others were subsequent to and in retaliation for our operations con ducted without any declaration of war. "You would make your constituents believe that the issue upon which the minority in the Lords and the renjority in the Commons decided was that all the out rages which you enunierate could not and did not justify our hostilities, whereas they only declared that the ori ginal dispute of the Arrow did not justify the violence of our measures—measures which bad subsequently it - duced barbarous reprisals and engaged us in a sangui nary war. That was the real issue and verdict before Parliament ; but you have, both in your address and in your speech at the Mansion-house, attempted to mislead the public as 0 this fact by mixing up the successive events and confusing the impressions of your audience. If the blue-book were within their reacn, they would find that Sir J. Bowr:ng did obtain or secure important compen , ation for the first offence, and might then have stayed his hand until he received orders from home, but that the bloodshed and minces that have followed are the consequence of other demands which you yourself in your wiser hours had officially pronounced to be dange rous and unprofitable. ' " You proceed to tell the voters of Tiverton that we are men 'who have endeavoured to make the humiliation and degradation of our country the stepping-stone to power.' What opiniop, my lord, have you of the me• mory and credulity of your eonntrymen if you think they have forgo'.ten that Lord J. Russell hag but late y re tired from your own Cabinet, and that Lord Derby, hav ing re-igned office on the first hostile division of the House of Commons in 1852, has supported yourself and your colleagues with all the strength of the Conservative party during every phase of the Russian war ? " Such statuinents may. perhaps, be forgiven in an address as an electioneering clip-trap ; but was it decent to use the table at the Mansion-hou-e as a hustings ? For 1 . find that at the L , rd Mayor's dinner on the 20th inst. you are rep rted by the Tiinesto have spoken thus : ---' It them; who voted against us had ris,e2 to power, what ought they to have done as the logical and inevit able consequence of -their vote ? They asserted that our proceedings were unjustifiable . • . . They must have paid the rewards which had been given for the heads of our merchants, and the cost of the arsenic which had ben u,ed in poisoning cur fellow sub jects at Hong Kong.' And this is the language of the Prime Minister of Eng land at the banquet of the first magistrate of the capital, surrounded by foreign ambassadors and all the talent, rank, and wealth, of hie party. What they thought of this extraordinary insult to seine 400 members of Par liament is easilygueesed and known; but what would the most ignorant of our countrymen have said of your logic had you addressed themthus in an analogous case,of pos sible. occurreecel 'Two men quarrel, and proceed from words to 1,1 b as ; one is killed. The survivor is tried, his counsel pleads justifiable homicide, the jury give a ver dict of manslaughter. Pending the trial the relations of the deceased take np the feud, and poison those of the accused. Tile jury, logically, must pay for the poison.' " Have I not, thee, a right to call your Lordship's • speech in the City an electioneering clap-;;rap I But was it the place and the audience for such a cone I The im patience of obscurity er the irritation of misfortune may sotnetteass excuse invective, but you had on that occa sion no such palliation. You are the popu ar Minister of the day. You may Justly refer your countrymen to very long and, I admit, very useful services to the State. 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