The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-23 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales•

The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive Yes-
terday. -

Tie Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied
by Prince Alfred, and attended by the Hon. Mrs'
Bruce, Lieut.-Colonel Keppel, and Lieut. Haig'
wint in the evening to the amateur performance 0
the Bijou Theatre.

Sir William and Lady Gomm have arrived at
the Portland Hotel,*Southsea, from London.
The Right Hon. the Speaker will hold his firs
Levee on Wednesday evening next, March 29, at tea
o'clock. Full dress.

Lady de Lisle and Dudley has arrived at the
St. George's Hotel.

The Earl and Countess Russell's dinner party,,
arranged for this evening, is unavoidably postponed.,

Naval and Military Intelligence.

That portion of the Channel fleet which has been
lately lying at Spithead, consisting of the Achilles,
20, screw iron frigate, 6,121 tons, 1,250-horse power,
Capt. E. W. Vansittart; Black Prince, 41, screw
iron frigate, 6,109 tons, 1,250 horse-power, Capt.
Lord F. H. Kerr ; Defence, 16, screw iron frigate,
3,720 tons, 600-horse power, Capt. A. Phillimore ;
and Liverpool, 39, screw wooden frigate, 2,656 tons,
600-horse power, Capt. Rowley Lambert, left that
anchorage yesterday morning under steam for the
Channel and Portland roadstead. The wind was
fresh from the northward, and the ships might/
therefore, have left Spithead under canvas in lieu of
steam, while at the same time a large saving would
have been effected in the expenditure of fuel, and
also in the wear and tear of machinery-.
Her Majesty's ship Pallas, in basin at Woolwich/
has commenced receiving her boilers (four in 11101"
ber) and machinery, supplied by Messrs. Humpbri°
and Tennant. The engines are constructed on the
double cylinder system, and are of the nominal power
of 600 horses, intended to indicate 3,600 horses. The
small cylinders are 51in., and the large cylinders
102 in., stroke 3ft. 3in. There are four boilers, each
18ft. long, by 12ft. wide, containing collectively
11,400 ft. of heating surface, and 420 ft. of fire bar.
The propeller is 18ft. diameter, 20kft. pitch, and i'4
intended to make 75 revolutions per minute, at which
speed the vessel is expected to go 14 knots per hour-
The whole of the shot, shell, guns, and other
War Department stores belonging to her Majestya
screw frigate Phaeton, 39 guns, 2,396 tons, 400"
horse power, Captain G. Le G. Bowyear, ha d
been landed at the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham, an
.
the frigate dismantled, preparatory to being pad
off into the Steam Reserve.

The enormous sheer legs, made of plates of wrought
iron, which were erected at the head of the fitting
basin a few days ago in Woolwich Dockyard, Were,
yesterday tested under steam and bore a strain a"
90 tons. They were made in the dockyard facto*
under the superintendence of Mr. Trickett, and ill
considered fully capable of hoisting double t 123"
weight.
Detachments from the Ist and 3d battalions a
Grenadier Guards, under the command of Lieut.'
Col. King, left Victoria Station for Eastbourne °IL
Monday for their annual course of ball practice at
the Government range. These detachments will be
relieved by others, until the whOle of the recruits
have completed a course of musketry.
A considerable number of officers who had been
on leave of absence until the 14th of March have
rejoined their depot at Colchester, preparatory to
the commencement of the drill season. The dept
of the 97th Regiment being above the authorised
strength has been called upon for volunteers to the
Ist battalion Rifle Brigade, now stationed in Canada;
each volunteer will receive an additional bounty of
is. on final approval.
The appointment of Col. J. 0. Travers, C. 8.,
second Commandant of the Woolwich division of
Royal Marines, Light Infantry, to be Col.-Com-
mandant of the Chatham division, in succession to
Col. T. Lemon, C. 8., who has been promoted to th©
active list of General officers, was announced at
headquarters yesterday.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Joseph C. Grigg, assist.-surP
to Greenwich Hospital ; T. Jameson, assist.-sn
to the Victory ; R. Drummond, chief engineerLef
the Indus, for the Renowh ; A. M'Farlane, ewer,
engineer, to the Indus, for the Topaze ; W. Tedtd
engineer, to the Asia, for hospital treatment ; an
G. Roe, of the Indus, promoted to engineer.

Mr. Justice Keiting on the Shrewsburl

Magistrates.

The Lent assizes for the county of Salop were opeue(l,3;
Shrewsbury yesterday. Mr. Justice Keating in address
the grand jury, referred to the case of Thomas Ellis, bettor
known as John Morgan, who, it will be remembered, sore
two months ago succeeded in duping the magistratoe.4l
Shrewsbury and by their aid robbing Mr. Chas. AshW°:-„,
of all his portable property, under the pretence that he "11-",.
entrusted with a warrant for the apprehension of gr. f
. worth as a thief. His lordship said—That a gentleman °,
hotel °I
respectable position and station, coming to an
Shrewsbury, for the purpose of continuing his jouroelft:
the following morning, should be suddenly charged -per
having stolen his own property from a person he had /ley.,
seen, and at a place where he had never been—that °hT:.
should have been effected by a youthful, but alreadY C°7io
victed thief, who upon his unspported assertion that be as
a policeman received the most implicit credenT;
that the gentleman so charged should have been oblige"be
give up his property into the hands of that thief, should bo
taken to the station-house, and there, having declared nut
he was, whence he came, and whither he was going, eb°,.--ng
nevertheless be taken before the magistrates—that 11060
repeated before them the statement made at the police-all yt
it should be utterly disregarded by them, nay, that his recV:vo
for permission to communicate with his friends should
procured for him only a remand for four and twenty heilf—td
and that all this should have been effected by a rut a a
convict, flourishing a piece of paper which he 0110,0ci
warrant, these are things which one might expect to
but if
represented on the stage, or in the pages of a novel ; buoy
you were told that they actually took place in the c°°lo4
of Salop—not in a secluded village, or in an insolent lutt° as
but in this town of Shrewsbury, you would say thatlo,o
absolutely impossible, if you did not know that I.t
literally true. His lordship then gave a circumstantud;d
count of the proceedings of Ellis, from the time he see°%ip
the Shrewsbury police sergeant, in the Market-Kluare'tcle
to the time he left the town, professedly to bring the Nagto
maker from Aberdare, and continued ; Gentlemen, t'eb;6o.
a certainty, is a most extraordinary and astonishing c
oso
That all these things conld have taken place without gi.,lie
culpability resting somewhere, is difficult to conceive; tit is
same time, whether such culpability exists, and ville!rev to-
chargeable, does not concern the nature of your incl°l'"ittg
day, which will be confined to the evidence acconiPtt.°,'
the bills sents up to you as as against this man, inoludly'ilio
they do, the charges of felony, perjury, and forgery use
charge of perjury rests on the document which he on'
warrant ; this I have not seen i
, and all I know of it so ate
tamed in the statement made by the prisoner befe,r.ory
magistrates, and that statement is almost as extra,oral
with
as the details of the case itself ; for he liberally treatsost
the utmost contempt the credulity of those upon ,11.°latest
so successfully imposed, and points out how the slip bite
exercise of precaution on their part would have $9-ve
from the serious dilemma in which he found himself a'
end
result of their singular credulity ! His lordship thoutioed
the statement made byEllis on his committal,and e°,ll,toir•
—ln all this, gentlemen, it is much to be lamented 'tiered
Ashworth should, under such circumstances, hay.° tscri
a great inconvenience and annoyance. I observe lo ,
crest,
ing his property, he mentions that on his ring Was ltihworth
armsollowedd, an his motto, fac recte nil time. That
herb
P laced
f the fac recte I have no doubt, and if
e° " oter
the same confidence in the nil time it would have be
for him. (Laughter.)

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that tSaE R A
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for which
in the case of the
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It is Secretary the mu Il
PlhtEaalt era
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authority
Eyhas been condemned, but the
b immediately put upon his trial on a charge of stabboo
Alfred Rebbeck, the potman of the house in
affray took place. prisoner Ni

MONEY MARKET

AN!‘

COMMERCIAL It: TELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
There was a partial expectation that the Bank of
England directors would, at their weekly court, this
Morning, have reduced the rate of discount to 4 per
cent. It is, however, very generally considered that
the measure has only been deferred for another
Week, because money is much cheaper on the Con-
tinent, gold is flowing into the vaults of the Bank
here, and trade is very inactive. In the course of a
Short time the distribution of the Government divi-
dends will, undoubtedlys increase to a large extent
the floating capital of the discount market, and
competition will be excited among brokers and
bankers for the business brought forward.
The enquiry for accommodation to-day has not
been large, and the rates have remained at 4i per
cent. for the best bills, with exceptional operations
at 41 per cent.

The Bank of Belgium has reduced its rate of dis-
count to 31 per cent.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :
• 1865. 1864 I
Great Western £61,567 £59,524 11
North Western 99,178 95,220 E
South Western ... 22,031 20,409
Brighton
... 15,529 15,203
Xidland 45,757 44,176
South Eastern 19,266 18,166
Great Northern 35,422 31,742
Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 36,302 85,480
Bristol and Exeter ... ... 5,582 5,611
North Eastern 55,916 51,971
kanchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 17,506 19,959
Great Eastern 28,538 26,834
These returns, when compared with those of the
eituilar period of last year, are generally of a very
satisfactory character. On the Great Western
there is an increase of £2,043 ; on the North
Western of £3,958 ; on the South Western of
£1,622 ; on the Brighton of £326 ; on the Midland
of £1,581; on the South Eastern of £1,100; on
the Great Northern of £3,680 ; on the Lancashire
and Yorkshire of £822 ; on the Bristol and Exeter
of £165 ; on the North Eastern of £3,945 ; and on
the Great Eastern of £1,704. The Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, however, exhibits a decline
of £2,453. •

Two o'CLocc I I
The English Stock Market has been very flat to-
day, and prices have tended downwards. One cir-
cUrnstance which has contributed to the heaviness
°f quotations has been the announcement of the
failure of a broker who, it is believed, has accounts
°Pon in nearly every department of the house.
Consols, for money, are 89 #, and for the account,
8g 4. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities
ate 87k ; Exchequer Bills, 4s. to 6s. prem. ; India
6 per Cents., 104# 105 ; Enfaced 4 per Cents

co .
and Bonds, 11s. prem.
Very little change has occurred in the Foreign
Market, and business is rather inactive. Turkish
6 per Cents., 1862, are 73f f ; do. Consolides,
6,3 i ; Mexican, 26k f ; ditto New, 251 ; Greek,
c 22 ; Spanish Passive, 322. 33 ; do. Certificates,
17i 188 ; Italian, 638 4 ; ditto New, 3} 3 dis. ;
and the Confederate Loan, 33 35.
Business in the Railway Share Market has re-
mained very inactive, and the general tendency of
Prices has been towards a decline. Caledonian and I,
western
Western have each receded ss. ; South II
.and North Western, each 10s. ; and
Brighton, 15s. ; while Great Eastern have improved
108. ; and South Eastern, ss.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings the
°llerations have been on the most limited scale,
Without any material change in values.
L ank and Miscellaneous shares remained exceed-
'ugly dull. London and Westminster, however, 2s
7ve advanced to 94 ; Imperial Ottoman have de-
etgrked to 16:1 ; European Bank to 138 ; General
Stock
and Finance are steady at 6f ; Joint
t() ck Discount at 78 8 ; South African Land and _
Finance are quoted 12 2 prem. ; and Rio de Janeiro
Ns) 1 18 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
a GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
Per Consols
Cont.
4 °. Account, April 6 B4
I,rer

- Cent Reduced B7l 1,
:TeW 3 per Cent B7i i
' 5,'W 2i per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
A ._'-'O. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
-"attuities, 30 yre, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do., for 30 yrs, expire sth April,BBs —
k,'-'1? (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 —
-e4equer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 per Cent —
DO.De £5OO 4 6
t £loo and £2OO
%It of England Stock, 51 per Cent —
11114)(1 1.0 GovERNmENT SEcurtmEs.
Vial Stock, 10f per Cent., AprillB74 —
0 Account
h•• 5 per Cent. July, 1870
DDO• Account
°• 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
I)40. Certificates —
°•j. Znfaced Paper 4 per Cent B9
-ll°. 6 per Cent., Jan. 1872
-no• 5-i per Cent, May 1879 —
DO). 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 —
D 0•
Bonds, £l,OOO ll pm
0- under .£l,OOO

4,4,5, -
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
ka rl.an Bonds, 5 per Cent
ellan 5 per Cent
0. q per Cent., 1852-58-60
to Do. 1863
Olos Ayres 6 per Cent —
th„e I per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
an 6 per Cent —
°•to1 41 per Cent Boi
tlb, obian 6 per Cent. —
Da 6 per Cent.
13! 6 per Cent., 1864 —
koll'• Scrip, £55 paid
bolt 3 par Cent., 1825
1, )3
kto:
b 7 per Cent, 1773 1864 —
u-77, £25 paid —
t
be X 65 lan Principalities
d
l Daid
ka
dor gew Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
)., Provisional Land Warrant —
r tian 7 per Cent 94i
b°•l Second Issue 94} 4 ..
0 XlOO Bonds , 95
,13,, Do. 1864 96 I 6
mteeScri £55 paid —pm
bn , 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
D° Account
)° Coupons
o ,k_c
o._ i: ount —
'ernala 5 per Cent.
lic;* 1839 and 1850 —
Pft-
14,865 per Cent (Maremmana Railway)
Scrip,tki
b"
£25 paid
00431 3 per Cent.
• Account
b, )4 1864
i,toPer Cent. Anglo-French
Nit ~ rench Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c dis
lyi„,_
eoris,,ean 6 per Cent., £3O paid
Itt r.,4 Imperial 5 per Cent
bo;ranada l2l
~to 1)- I),er Cent —
1,.001. eierred
°,1111,:!-Jand Warrants (Hectares)
Do1)13411 41 per Cent.
Do ~Per Cent. (Uribarren) —
i,;0.7 per Cent., 1862
ollit 4account
bo 'IIA
eSe 3 r Cent 1853
I:10 u
-', e Pecount "
'
It bo , Per Cent, 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3,
1k 'lhecount 47'l
De qj 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St.,
o '4 Per Centr, 1850
Dog
Do Per Cent 1.11g(9)
54
h 5
!q -o Per ~
1862
ta, Cent.,
1864
EgOia
1 s'O. 11 5 per Cent
1:ioi81411, ?,count

(hit
hilt

bo A 4 3 per Cent
I:10 v'xce unt•lB
bo, :,:i ew° Deferred —
uo b`°°ount
0 ,f 1 •
4 0 4 ssive
t°,lli,heeeunt 32/ 3
1%."(1 A-' ert. of Coup not funded -
I,:skii'„Leceunt l7/ 18 17i 18
44'4' ;I,' al Per Cent. _
he Ac _Per Cent. 1854 —
Doper' -uunt 94 i
o Cent. 1858
(I.t .unt 7oi
Vt) G'y_•Bonds
V 0.461 Cent. 1862
'O. °G lint
731 I
4, 'EI% 13
,b C pc.. ends 73-k i i
v., 0 qi, 1 Cent. 1863
hb 4ara
t Nei eteed, 4 per Cent —
to. 4,,°: 3 Per Cent. 0 '"ount
be. AtPe... r Cent, 1862 _
6 lliat
et te.r Cent.,1864 4li i
111:titri llidends on the above payable in London.
t Iti 44, 5
4011, ii Per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
,b q 0 Per cent.,
%'l4 l'er Cent .t 12 Gull
~ 1,,,_
_,,, g. _
1 b'til tFer Cent. Certifi....tes
tk'°' cente; 3 per Cent. —
oI 61317
tt Aeeo ti tent., 1861, Ex. 25f.
631
13I°
o,lt 40, THREE O'CLOCK.
out .4„,, ..ey
89
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