The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-01 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Exchange on London, 241. Coffee, good first,
7,100 to 7,200 milreis. Shipments since the depar-
ture of the last steamer, 33,220 bags, of which
11,000 are for the Channel; stock, 290,000 bags;
freight, 50s. to 555.

At Bahia exchange on London was quoted at 26.
Cotton, 9,800 to 10,000 reis. Sugar, 2,500 to
2,600 reis ; brown, 1,900 to 2,000 reis.
Exchange at Pernambuco, 251 to 25.
Sugar, 2,700 to 2,800 reis; brown, 1,850 to
2,450 reis. Cotton, 11,000 to 11,200 rein.
BUENOS AYRES, MAY 29.
Congress was opened on the 25th by General
Mitre, the head of the Liberal party.
Great confidence is felt in the future.

The chambers have granted a concession to Mr.
Edward Lumb (?) for a railroad to the south, with
a guarantee of 7 per cent.
Goods are wanted in the Buenos Ayres market.
Produce is falling.
Freights are high.
Exchange, 6515.

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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAY BILLS.

Yesterday six committees of the House of Pecrs
met for the despatch of business. A committee,
consisting of Lord Wodehouse in the chair, with
Lords Nelson, Abinger, Granard, and Dartrey,
heard counsel and took evidence on the case of the
Stafford and Uttoxeter Railway, the other bills be-
fore them being the Wellington and Cheshire
Junction, Wellington, Drayton, and Newcastle, and
West Riding, Hull, and Grimsby Railways. A
committee on the leading Scottish lines, presided
over by Lord Donoughmore, commenced proceed-
ings and passed the Caledonian Company's bills for
deviations and Leith branches, the Edinburgh and
Glasgow and Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junc-
tion Company's bill, the Edinburgh and Glasgow,
and Glasgow and Dumbarton and Helensburgh
bills, and are now engaged in considering the Amal-
gamation bill of the North British, Edinburgh,
Perth, and Dundee, and West of Fife Railways
bill, which was opened by Mr. Calvert, Q.C. ; Mr.
Hodson, M.P., the chairman of the North British
Company, being examined. In the Duke of Devon-
shire's committee the case for the promoters of the
of the Mid-Kent and Addiscombe Railway closed,
and the opposition on behalf of the Brighton Com-
pany was opened. The opposition to the case of
the East Glocestershire was concluded in the Duke
of Richmond's committee, and rebutting evidence
to it was brought forward, Mr. C. A. Saunders,
secretary to the Great Western Railway, being
examined at considerable length. An arrangement
having been come to between the City of London
Corporation and the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway in connection with their extension line to
Battersea, the bill was transferred from Lord Lyve-
den's committee to that of the chairman of unopposed
bills, and the case of the West Midland Company
for additional works is now under consideration.
The bills passed in Lord Redesdale's committee in-
cluded the Garston and Liverpool, Greenock and
Weymiss Bey, Horsham, Dorking, and Leatherhead,
East Grinstead, Groombridge, and Tunbridge, and
IMetropolitan and Thames Valley. In the Commons
Ithe evidence still occupies Lord Stanley's committee
on the Ellesmere an±l±%.,7sti

THE RECENT MURDER AT FORDING.
BRIDGE.

FORDINGBRIDGE, MONDAY.

George J. Gilbert, the ticket-of-leave
conlviiicst, day
who is charged with the murder of a young
lady named Mary Ann Hall, under circumstances
of the most revolting nature, at a place near Ford-
ingbridge, in the county of Dorset, was brought up
on remand, at the Fordingbridge Police-station, be-
fore Mr. Coventry, one of the county magistrates.
It will be remembered that this murder, which
was perpetrated in broad daylight, only a short
distance from the house in which Miss Hall re-
sided, took place on the morning of Sunday se'n-
night, while the victim was on her way to church,
and from the state in which the deceased was found,
coupled with the evidence of the medical gentle-
men who were examined at the inquest, there is but
good reason to believe that the murder was not com-
mitted until after a desperate but ineffectual at-
tempt at violation. The information of the finding
of the body was given by Gilbert himself ; and it
was from various discrepancies in the statements
which he made, taken in conjunction with his pre-
vious bad character, that he was suspected. It is
stated that Gilbert has only recently left the em-
ployment of Mr. Hall, the father of the deceased
lady, by whom he was engaged as a farm labourer,
and there is a further rumour that in consevese,,
of the manner in which he had conducted bin 2 I'.phen-
• el-
onaye e,
previous occasions towards Miss Hall she t
tamed some suspicion of him. Since his yr
tate, and
sion the prisoner has been in a very lowwisn
confess
there is a general impression that
bet excitement
his guilt. The affair has created g
- reoaf the murder
Owing
in the neighbourhood, and the scene r
ons.
has been visited by thousands ofi
to the excited state of the P
Pe% ehis first examina-
desirable that Gilbert, who
Atrlchester gaol, should
Pits was thought
tion has been confined in vs.ilbie to Fordingbridge.
be taken as privately as
to be in readiness fur
o
P°
-es d thither during Divine
He was consequently reni
service yesterday afternoon,
"doano believe that the prisoner
his examination to
There is good rea:cif.
_destruction, as a rope made
and with a noose readytastened
fhraosm his contemplated
bed
upon him in the gaol. As the
at one end .ere found
been obtained since Monday
evidence which
„ considered sufficiently matured, it was
last was - °t'sable that a further remand should be
thought ads.' leot_houesnd
d and on the application of the police the
further remanded this morning for a
p TC ,
was
rrioscouner
P 1,- One of the new facts that will be spoken to
wee..•
is that the soil found upon the clothes of the pri-
soner is of the same description as that of the gully
in which the body was discovered.

It may deserve the notice of our social reformers
(says the Liverpool Post) that on Saturday night
was in this town an unprecedented amount of drunennebss.
dou
No fewer than 161 persons were taken into custody
ble the
h
the police for drunkenness,
which is about there
average.