The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-04 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1865,

SHARE MARKETS—This day.

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

Share' Railways. I paid.l Closing I Business
Price. done.

13.14
st
et
Bt
50
20
10
10

`Vol.,Bir., & Str. Val
Blyth and Tyne
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Cork and Bandon
Cornwall
Do. A gets no div
till6p.e.p.an.has
Do. B been paid to B
Dublin & Belfast June
Dup,.Perth, & A b.June.
Edinburgh & Glasgow
Glasgow & S. Western
Great Eastern, Ord. stk.

Do. E. Angl. st. No. 2
Great North of Scotland,
Great Northern
D ). A stock
• I
Do. B .:o

Do. sew, is. at 25 pn.'
Gt S. and W. of Ireland
Gt. Weste n -Original
I) S. V. I. Ilail gua.l
Do. South Wales
Do W. ISIld.-01Cord

Do. Newpo. t

Do. He, eford
Lane shire & Yorkshire
L ndon and Blackwali
Lon., Brigh., & S Coast.
'Lon., Chat., and Dover
Lon. & North Western
Lon. & South Western
Man., Shel., & Lincoln
Maryport and Carlisle
Do. f shares ..
Metropolitan..
Do. New
Mid and

Do, Birmin . k Derby,
Mid Gt. W., Ireland
Do. shares
%i id Kent .
No•th British

Do. Ed., Pth ,"& Dun.
Nth. Eastern Berwick
Do. G.N•E purchase
Do. Leeds
Do. York
Do. Carlisle
Po. Stock. & Darling.
Do. dn. 1855-58
Do. do. 1860-61

North London
Do. New
Do. do. 1864

North Staffordshire--
N. & S. W. Junction
Scottish Central
Scot. N. E , Aber. stock
yo. Scot, Mid. stxk
•4h,-ews & welchpool
Shropshire Union
South Devon
4outh E stern
Staines, Wok., & Wok
Taff Vale
Do. C
Vale of Neath
Waterford & Kilkenny'
West CornwAll
W. Hartlepool H ar. & it
Do. A irredeemable
Do. A. redeemable

100
00
100
100
10

10100
11.0
1. o
100

PktEFERItiNCE SHARE 6

146 }

74 1 31

1211 I }

42 1;
121 ; ;
9) 8

1371 61 7i
•
1341

851 i i

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Gt. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford 2d guaranteed stock, 1181

PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKb.

Great Eastern 4! per cent. pr., 881
Ditto, 5 per cent. pf., 98
Great Northern 5 per cent. irrd., 107

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
Lancaster and Carlisle, 215
London, Tilbury, and Southend, 1011

FOREIGN RAILWAYS;
Bahia and San Francisco tli.n.) gua. 7 per cent., 141 1
Dutch Rhenish, 222
Great Luxembourg, 131
Recite and San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 141
San Paulo (Rm.), gua. 7 per cent., ,7i
FOREIGN MINES,
Cape Copper, lim., 101
East and West India, 135 i

DOCKS.

BANKS.
Agra and Misterman's, lim., 12120
Ditto, new, 591
Alliance I inn.). 33
Chartered Bank of India,' Australia, and China, 28}
Consolidated Bank, lim., 10} I
Imperial Bank, lim.. 30 2
Imperial Ottoman, 151
Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim.,
London and Brazilian (lira.),
London Joint Stock, Pi 54
Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, Um., 161
Midland Bank, lim., 17}
South Eastern, lim., 12}

MISCELLAMEGUIL
Australian Agricultural, 19
Australian Mort. Land and Finance, lim., 3
Berlin Water Works, lim., 161
Ceylon Company, 10
City of Lonuon Real Property, lim., 3
City of Milan Improvements, Urn., 81
Credit Fonder and Mob!.lier of England, 8
Egyptian Corn. and Trading, Rm., .11
Gen. Credit and Finance of Loudon, iim., 6
International. Contract,
International Financial rociety, lim., 6}
Imperi.,l Mercantile Credit Am., lira., 5f
Oriental Financial, lim., 21
Pen.nsula and Oriental Steam. 84f
Quebrada Land, Rail, and Mining, lim., 4e
Royal Mail Steam, 05/
Smith, Knight, and Co., lim.,
Universal Marine, Insurance, lim.Z6l

WILKES BOOTH THE ASSASSIN.--Yesterday after-
noon a telegram was received by Mr. Reuter, from Liver-
pool, announcing that " Wilkes Booth had landed from the
American mail steamer Edinburgh at Queenstown, and was
immediately arrested." This piece of welcome news was
however, speedily contradicted by the subjoined despatch
from Queenstown : " The man who was arrested here,
upon landing from the Edinburgh, was not Wilkes Booth
but a passenger named O'Neill, who bears a striking• like-
ness to the assassin of Mr. Lincoln, and who had preYi9usly
been arrested in Boston. He haabeen liberated:,

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day).

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Hoiroyd.)
IN RE MEIKLAAL—MEIRLAIteS BONDS.

This bankrupt was described as a gentleman of Bryan-
stone-square, and he has been before the Court for some
time. The debts amount to about £42,000, and assets de-
pend in a great measure upon the realisation of certain
securities known Its Meiklam's bonds. A further adjourn-
ment was now asked on behalf of some of the creditors,
and his Honour ordered it.

Adjourned accordingly.
IN RE SIR RANDAL HOWLAND ROBERTS, BART.

This bankr-upt was described as of 17, Aldridge-road-
villas, Bayswater, and to-day he came up to pass his last
examination, and for the order of discharge. The accounts
showed due to creditors unsecured £1,841, as holding secu-
rity £427, and liabilities on accommodation bills, £lOO. By
good debts, £lOO, bad, £5O. Shares in public companies which
have not cost bankrupt any money estimated at £7OO ; pro-
perty inthe hands of creditors, £440; leaving a deficiency of
£1,078. He claims £lOO from the Life Insurance Invest-
ment Company for worth of labour done as a director,
£5OO having been voted to the directors annually. The
bankruptcy is alleged to have taken place in consequence
of the negligence of an attorney employed by the bank-
rupt, and which led to his resigning a military appoint-
ment.

The case was not concluded when our report left.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBORO UGH-S TREE T.

BURGLARY LN COVENTRY-STREET.—John Callaghan, alias
John Williams, alias John Edwards, described as a trades-
men of Queen Ann-street, Liverpool, and who is said to
have been several times convicted, was brought before
Mr. Knox by Sergeant Ackrell, 15 F, charged with being
concerned, with others in custody, in a burglary at the
house of Mr. Stokes, toolmaker, No. 27, Coventry-street,
in December, 1863, when a large quantity of property
consisting of tools and shades, and materials used in* the
nurseries, was carried off by the thieves.
Sergeant Ackrell said that in December, 1863, a burglary
was committed at the house of Mr. Stokes, and he saw the
prisoner with two others, having a quantity of boots and
shoes with them, enter a house in Newton-street, Holborn.
Two of the men wore taken into custody, tried and con-
victed, but the prisoner succeeded in effecting his escape.
Yesterday he went to Liverpool and took the prisoner into
custody. -
It appears that the prisoner was charged with a robbery
from the person on the 16th April, 1863, and committed
from this court for six months with hard labour, there
being at that time a previous conviction against him for
three months as a rogue and vagabond.

The prisoner was formally committed for trial.

WESTMINSTER.

OBTAINING MONEY UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—Edward
Devalin, a man about 42 years of ago, was charged with
being drunk, and causing a crowd to assemble in the
neighbourhood, Knightsbridge.
Police-constable M'Gettican, 307 B, proved that at half-
past ten last night he found the defendant exposing
"duffing" jewellery for sale, and asking people to buy a
gold pin cheap. He refused to go when told, and was
taken into custody. When searched a neck chain, a ring,
to represent diamonds and rubies, and a pin were found,
all spurious.
The police now stated that a person wished for a war-
rant against the prisoner, for obtaining money under false
pretences.
Henry Griffin, groom to the Marquis of Abercorn, said he
came up from Cirencester a month ago, and was now stay-
ing with the marquis in Chesterfield-street. He was in
Oxford-streeton Saturday last, at four o'clock, and met pri-
soner, who asked him if he wanted to buy a parrot, stating
that he had some on board ship. This prosecutor declined,
and prisoner then produced an Albert chain, which he
offered for four dollars, or an English sovereign. He took
out a knife and cut it to prove that it was gold, and prose-
cutor believed it, but told him he had not the money. They
then adjourned to a neighbouring public-house, and pri-
soner finding he had only lls. offered to take that for it.
Tho money was paid ; and prosecutor being suspicious,
went to a jewellers in South Audley-street, and ascertained
that it was spurious.

Prisoner said he did not represent it as gold ; he said it
was gilt, and as good as gold. How could he afford to sell
it for lls. if it was gold ?
He was remanded till Tuesday for evidence to show that
the chain was spurious.

INDIA.

The French mail steamer has brought us Calcutta
papers to April 4. We take the following from the
Calcutta Englishman of that date :
" Owing to the Galle mail leaving only the day
after the one -via Bombay, we shall not despatch an
overland mail by the Bengal steamer. To make ip
for the deficiency, our readers will receive this num-
ber by the French mail, and we shall despatch another
overland by the Bombay mail, closing here on the 7th.
" The screw steamer Bengal, with the mails from
London to Feb. 26, arrived here on the afternoon of
the 31st ult., and the express portion of the mails of
a week's later date also came to hand last evening.
Our latest telegraphic intelligence from London is
dated up to March 27, via the Indo-European line.
"Money continues easy, and there is little to report
since our last. The Bank rate remains the same.
Governmentpaper at one time slightly improved, but
has again retrograded. Exchange has also receded.
The markets for produce are dull, and there is little
doing. News from Europe is anxiously expected,
and there is an unwillingness to act until authentic
information arrives of the progress of events in
America.

" In shares, the new speculations carry all before
them, and the progress of these great undertakings
is very remarkable. Sir Charles Trevelyan read his
financial statement on Saturday, and prominently
noticed this great change, promising such remark-
able things for India. Tea shares and shares in
steam companies are neglected. Government seems
now to have awakened to the vast advantage to be
gained by giving encouragement to private enter-
prise, and the next few years will see great results."

"His Excellency Sir Hugh Rose, previous to his depar-
ture, issued the following General Order :
" Headquarters, Calcutta, 22d March, 1865.

" The Commander-in-Chief in India, at the expiration of
his term of service, considers it his duty to thank the army
for their discipline and efficiency.
"All the reports received from the officers commanding
divisions and brigades, and the approval of his Royal High-
ness the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, give evidence
of the satisfactory state of the one and the other.
" Tho links of authority, ascending to the Government
of India and the Secretary of State for India, prove that
the 'same weed of praise is due to the native army.

" The native army, which was remodelled and reorga-
nised after the events of 1857, had to encounter great diffi-
culties in the fulfilment of that object; but the unwearied
zeal and ability of the officers and the good feeling of the
men prevailed over every obstacle, and the State has now
at its service an efficient, obedient, and well-disposed
native army, who, young as they are, have already done
good service in the field.
"These results could not have been obtained if the
patronage:of the army had not been devoted exclusively to
military merit.
"In a wise and most disinterested spirit, the Govern-
ment of India allowed the officer who had been selected for
the chief command at a time when one of the most import-
ant parts of his duties was the re-organisation of the army,
to administer its patronage.

" Sir Hugh Rose claims no merit whatever, for having
considered this honourable trust as a sacred one; he pub-
lished a General Order in which he announced that in
whatever way an officer could prove his merit and good
service, he would reward him with the appointments which
the Government had been pleased to place at his disposal.

"By these means officers, who had given practical and
sure proofs that they possessed the highest military quali-
fications, wore placed at the head of the re-organization of
the army.
"The Commander-in-Chief thanks the officers of the
army for the manner in which they have justified his con-
fidence in them, and fulfilled their part of their obligation.
" Constant inspections have proved to his Excellency how
unwearied have been their exertions and the exercise of their
abilities to do justice to their selection; and, while it has been
his Excellency's duty almost always to eulogize the success
of their efforts, their earnest goodwill and judgment have
rendered, with rare exceptions, reproof unnecessary.
" The re-organisation of the native army, which has
-taken place during his Excellency's command has made it
necessary that he should dwell particularly on points rela-
ting to them.

" The praise which it is His Excellency's duty to bestow
on the officers of the Native applies just as much to those
of the British Army; and it may be said, that the officers
and mon of all the armies under His Excellency's command
have not only scrupulously obeyed his orders and wishes,
but have done their best to anticipate them.

" The Commander-in-Chief in India entertains the con-
viction that the army will not relax the zeal and exertions
which have brought them to the present high standard, and
that they will continue to merit the confidence of the very
distinguished general officer who has been selected to suc-
ceed him, of Government, and their Most Gracious Sove-
reign.

"Sir Hugh Rosa bids the army farewell, with the most
earnest wishes for their welfare and happiness.
" Their good conduct has rendered his great command a
source of satisfaction,- not of anxiety and the parting with
them is his only cause of regret.

"By order of his Eicellency the Commander-in-Chief,
"E. HAYTHORNE, Colonel, Adjutant-General."

" Sir William Mansfield has issued the following
General Order on the recent changes in the army :
Gz.NEBAL ORDER BY 1118 EXCELLENCY THE COM-

MANDER-IN-CHIEF.

"Adjutant-General's Office, Poonah, March 14, 1865.
" When Sir William Mansfield assumed the command of
the Bombay army he was aware that great and radical
changes were impending over it, as consequences of the
terwination of a state of war, and of the transfer of the
Government of India from the late Hon. East India Com-
pany to the Crown under Act of Parliament. His Excel-
lency then expressed a confident hope that the discipline of
the army would not suffer under his command. Sir William
Mansfield, now that his command of the Bombay army
closed, has the warmest satisfaction in recording his belief
that that hope has been amply justified. It may be well to
cast a glance at 'the changes which have been effected,
Firstly, there was the reduction of the army from a war
footing to a peace establishment, which may be stated in
numbers as a reduction in all the arms from 70,000 to 40,000
men. Secondly, there was the measure of the amalgama-
tion, which, while extending, by Official Gazette, the pri-
vileges attendant on military rank on account of the Indian
officers to all the world, instead of being restricted, as they
had been heretofore, to India, included the formation of the
staff corps, the abolition of the local character of the
British portion of the forces of the late Hon. East India
Company, and the early retirement of many field-officers
and others, owing to the grant of liberal pensions. Thirdly,
there was the measure of the re-organisation of the army,
by which the regimental position of the officers, British
and native, has been raised, a more direct responsibility
thrown on both classes, while the roll of a regiment now
presents the names of officers actually serving with it,
instead of a long list of gentlemen, of whom but a portion
was interested in the corps, or ever present in its ranks.
Such are the extraordinary changes of the last five years,
according to which the entire body of the Bombay army
has not only been re-modelled in form, but has been re-
organised according to ideas absolutely different from those
under which it was originally constituted. To carry
through such difficult duties in as satisfactory a manner as
those alluded to, would have been impossible without the
most cordial and intimate co-operation of the Headquarters
Staff, during the term of his Excellency's command.
It is evident that that Staff has had to perform duties
unexampled in the history of the Bombay army. Sir
William Mansfield begs to return his most sincere thanks
to Lieut.-Colonel Stock, the Adjutant-General, who has
been his most confidential adviser throughout for the last
five years; to Lieutenant-Colonel Phayre, the Quarter-
master-General; to Colonel Skinner, the Judge-Advocate-
General (now on leave of absence) ; to Lieutenant-Colonel
Field, the Acting Judge-Advocate-General; to Colonel the
Hon. F. Thesiger, 95th Foot, who acted as Deputy-Ad-
jutant-General, British troops, prior to the amalgamation
of the Staff offices; to Lieutenant-Colonel Kirby, Deputy-
Adjutant-General ; and to Major Flood, Military Secretary.
His Excellency would further tender his best thanks
and acknowledgments to the Major-Generals commanding
divisions ; Major-General C. Van Straubenzee, K.C.8.,
N.D.A. ; Major-General Green, C. 8., N.D.A. ; Major-
General Kenner, C. 8., S.D.A. ; and Major-General
M. W. Smith, C. 8., P.D.A. ; to Brigadier-General Lucas,
late Commandant and now Inspector of Royal Artillery ; to
the Brigadiers-General Commanding Brigades, and to the
several officers commanding brigades of artillery and regi-
ments of cavalry and infantry, for the zeal and discretion
with which they have performed their respective duties,
and their share in affording superintendence and execution
to the reforms which have been adverted to. His Excel-
lency would further beg the Principal Inspector-General,
Dr. St ovell, and Deputy Inspector-General of British Troops,
Mr. Canning, to accept his warm acknowledgments for the
excellent manner in which they have presided over their
respective medical departments, and the energy with which
they have directed the efforts of the medical officers under
their orders for the improvement of the health of her
Majesty's troops, and for the spread of sanitary reforms.
His Excellency would request the Commissary-General,
Lieut.-Col. Dunsterville, and the Superintending Engineers
of Circles, to accept his assurance that their zealous co-
operation in the execution of the orders of Government for
the provisioning and lodging of the troops has, in
like
manner, been of the greatest advantage to the pubrleiscssheris-
vice. In conclusion, his Excellency would ep
high opinion of the state of the regiments,several
x British
and native, serving in the Bombay Presidency, and of their
very good conduct, which has rendered his command so
pleasant to him.
"Subject to the confirmation of Government, all
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from this date will bo made for the information
General Sir Charles Van Straubenzee, K.C.8.1S-
By order, .. _rae
"H. STOCIi, Lieut,-Col., ctoju t UV=

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE MORAVIAN.
(Via Greencastle.)

NEW YORK, APRIL 22 (Evening).
It is positively reported that Sherman and John-
ston are negociating. The rumour that the latter
had surrendered with kis army is at present uncon-
firmed.

Reports receivedfrom Goldsboro' state that John-
ston's army had become demoralised since Lee's
surrender, and Johnston dared not risk a battle.
In consequence of Johnston's repeated offer to
surrender, a portion of Grant's army has been
relieved from guarding the Southside Railroad, and
sent to Washington.
The Evening Post says private letters from
Washington Create _some uneasiness concerning
Secretary Seward's condition. •
It is reported from Richmond that Mr. Jefferson
Davis and his Cabinet have reached Augusta, and
established a Government there preparatory to
flight to the Trans-Mississippi Department.
The New York Chamber of Commerce has passed
resolutions of condolence on account of the death of
Richard Cobden.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money abundant. Gold, 1491. Exchange on
London, 1611 163. On Paris, 348,1. Stocks very
firm. New York Centrals, 951. Illinois, 114.
Erie, 77 ; 5.20 United States Bonds, 1068 ; Cotton,
slightly firmer ; Middling Uplands, 38c. Flour
good inquiry. Wheat and corn slightly firmer.
Provisions and coffee steady. Sugar slightly firmer.
Petroleum quiet ; crude, 37c ; refined, 52c.

CANADA.
GREAT FLOODS IN CANADA.

MONTREAL, APRIL 22.
Great floods have taken place in the districts of
Berthier and Soul, in Canada.
Several islands in the St. Lawrence have been
submerged, and many lives and much property
lost.