The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-24 00:00:00

ruE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING- JUNE 24, 1853.

in order that the heaven-born Minister should
occupy the Musnud of the MOGUL, and exercise
despotic sway over myriads of Hindoos. Liberals
are appealed to, in order that they may abandon
all their former professions, and, surrendering
their independence, become the obedient serfs
of the Minister—(and such a Minister o—ready0—ready
to register his decree, and not venturing to prefer
a remonstrance. They are even, with a puerile
attempt at intimidation, warned that the division
lists will be scrutinised, and the names of those
who dare to vote in accordance with their con-
scientious convictions held up to public reproba-
tion. We do not desire to follow this puny
menace. We would not so far insult Hon. Gen-
tlemen, as to suppose that they would be so
unworthy of the positions in which they have
been placed by the independent votes of duly-
qualified constituencies, as to be in any degree
influenced by such unworthy twaddle. But we
must also remind them that these votes will be
published, aye, and closely scrutinised, and that
the proof of their own independence on such an
occasion may afford a strong claim to a renewal of
confidence at a future time. It is ridiculous to
say that the postponement of the question could
lead to a change of Ministry, or even to the much-
dreaded dissolution of Parliament. Its only result
would be, the passing of a short Act, extending
the present system for one or two years, and
ensuring the calm and attentive deliberation
which our fellow-subjects in the East have a right
to demand and expect at our hands.

TURKEY.

FINAL REJECTION OF TT-TF, ULTIMATUM.
BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.
PARIS, FRIDAY, 11 O'CLOCK.
The following important telegraph has just been
received :

" CONSTANTLNOPLE, JUNE 16.
" THE ULTIMATUM OF RUSSIA HAS BEEN FINALLY
REJECTED BY THE PORTE."—Morning Post.

CRICKET.

MARYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND v. THE
GENTLEMEN OF RUGBY SCHOOL.

This match was commenced at Lord's yesterday.
There was a considerable gathering of spectators. Dur-
ing the play there was some very admirable cricket
shown, and on the part of the Rugby gentlemen the bat-
ting was more like that which would be expected from
old stagers than from those who are yet completing their
studies. To-day, when the game will be resumed, it is
expected there will, for many reasons, be a vast acces-
sion of company.
Rugby having won the toss, took the bat in the first
instance, commencing with Mr. Wills and Mr. Banks.
The total of their first innings was 92. The Marylebone
Club then went in and obtained 128. Rugby, who had
now to fetch up a minority of 36, again went to work,
and, as will be seen, with no small effect, for when "time"
was called, they had lost but one wicket, and yet they
had placed a score of 42 upon the paper.
At the close of the day the score presented the follow.
ing appearance : _

RUGBY.
First Innings.
W. Wills, Esq., c Rcay, b
Grundy 0
D. Banks, Esq., b Adams ll c Haygarth,b Grundy 4
J. Parsons, Esq., b Gruny 5
R. A. Clement, Esq., b Adams 17
W. J. Kempson, Esq., b Grundy 13
H. M. Clifford, Esq., run out 2
A. R. Keene, Esq., c Blore, b
Adams
C. W. Fryer, Esq., b Adams... 0
B. Helme, Esq., run out ......... 17
C. Bowen, Esq., hw, b Grundy 8
W. H. Bullock, Esq., not out 1 not out lB
byes 5, 1-b 4, no ball 1 lO byes 2, leg-bye 1_ 3

Second Innings.

MONIIY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL
LYTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sake of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at 8,000 bales, of which 3,000
American wore taken for export and on specula-
tion, The market closed firmly. American and
Surat were tight ; other sorts without alteration.
The sales comprised 6,000 American, 600 Pernam
and Maranham at 6jd. to 61d., 60 Bahia at 6id.,
400 Egyptian at 62d. to 911, and 1,500 Surat at
31d. to 40. per lb. Railway Shares were steady.
In the Produce Markets this week business has
been conducted to a moderate extent at steady
prices. Tea has attracted most attention, although
the dealers are not all prepared at present to pay
the advances demanded by importers. The latter,
on the other hand, abstain from pressing sales.
Sugar has been taken sparingly, but is firm ; and
in coffee not much has been doing. Rice has been
in moderate demand at full rates • and for cocoa,
also, there has been a steady sale. Cotton has
been quieter. Tallow has been firm in consequence
of the Russian dispute.

The amount of bills drawn in the fortnight to
last evening by the Hon. East India Company was
as follows :

Bengal..
Madras.

. £459,434 14 8
44,151 13 9

Total £503,586 8 5
The following report upon the Mining Market is
furnished by Messrs. R. Tredinnick and Co. :

" Wheal Seaton has paid a dividend of 51. for the
past two months, and the mine is looking well. Kir-
cudbright has paid another dvidend of ss. per share,
making 20s. per share this year, yet the shares are sell-
ing at 51. ; another dividend is promised for the coming
two months, Dolcoath shares, which have receded 651.
to 701., paid dividend of 21. for March and April months.
Spearne Consols for January, February, and March ;
paid 2s. 6d., and the shares are worth 91. to 101. ; of
progressive mines, we are advised that the West Ding
Doug looks well. Lelant Consols with more powerful
drawing machinery would probably pay dividends. East
Margaret is fast advancing, the steam stamps lately
erected are now constantly at work ; seventy men are
engaged on Tutwork, with 25,0001. of Tin Ore disco-
vered. West Darlington is divided into 1,024 shares,
and the returns will probably materially increase in the
course of two or three months. Leeds Town Consols is
fast getting into lull play on the lodes ; machinery, at
great expense, has been erected, and some of the lodes
are now being effectively developed. A general meeting
will shortly/be held, when a call of ss. per share will be
made to erect steam stamping machinery."
There is a much more buoyant market for public
securities, and the feeling is certainly one of in-
creased confidence, although no positive informa-
tion has yet been received. The conclusion come
to, appears to be that as circumstances have occur-
red to delay the entry of the Russians into the
Moldavian provinces, there are strong reasons to
hope that some amicable arrangement will be
effected. Consols have been 98 2 this morning,
and are since 982 The New 31 per Cents. have
advanced from 1012 to 102 i, and the 3 per Cents.
are 99 1. Bank Stock has improved to 229 and
2291. Exchequer Bills are worth 2s. to 55., and
East India Bonds 28s. premium.
Foreign Securities have, in some instances, been
firmer. Mexican Bonds have rallied to 28 and
281. Peruvian 41 per Cents. have been at 84 to
85. Sardinian Stock is better, being at 94i to 95.
Russian 41 per Cents. have been supported at 1021;
Spanish New Deferred Stock is at 231 to 1.
Railway Shares have been rather firmer within
the last hour, but still with very little doing in the
English lines. Scottish Central and Bristol and
Exeter have advanced. French Shares are much
the same. Upper India are still in demand.
The Gold Mine Shares have been dull again, but
at full quotations.

The Joint Stock Bank Shares have been steady
except the Australasia, which continues flat.
The Land Companies' Shares have been firmer
nominally, and Crystal Palace are better.
Metcalfe Mine Shares are 6to prem,

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
( From the Official List.)

• Business done.
Bank Stock . .
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.... .....
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities . . shut
New 3i per Cent. Annuities loli 2}
[ndia Bonds, £lOOO . .
Ditto, under £lOOO 2B
Consols for Account 9Bi 8 I i
Exchequer Bills, id.
£lOOO ,, 2 5 p
£5OO
. 25 p
Small
2 5 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil
Equador Bonds .
Mexican 3 per Cent. -
Ditto for the Account 2B 8
. Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. B4
Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent.
Russian Bonds,'s per Cent.
Ditto 4i per Cent.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent... 95 4i
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 23i ti
Pividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2 per Cent. ..........
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 96

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for Opening 19th July 9Bl i x d

THE MURDER AND SUICIDE AT POPLAR.—Yesterday
morning Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Norfolk Hero
Tavern, Gate-street, Eastilndia,road, Poplar, to inquire
into the deaths of Mary Picking, aged 43 years, who
was brutally murdered on Tuesday morning last, and
Francis James Picking, aged 40, who afterwards com-
mitted suicide. The circumstances related yesterday
were given in evidence, after which the jury returned a
verdict "That the deceased Francis James Picking de-
stroyed his wife and his own life, being at the time in a
state of temporary insanity."
METROPOLITAN ASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVING THE
DWELLINGS OF THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES. —The an-
nual general meeting of the shareholders in this under-
taking was held yesterday afternoon at the London
Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the report, and
upon other business. Sir Ralph Howard presided, and
amongst those present were observed the Right Hon. the
Earl of Carlise, Lord Radstock, the Right Hon. Vis Count
Ebrington, Lord Robert Grosvenor M.P., Lord Claude
Hamilton, M.P., Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, M.P., &c.
&c. The secretary having read the report, the chair-
man proposed the re-election of Lord Robert Grosvenor,
M.P. and Mr. E. Hill as directors, which, after
a slight conversation, was agreed to. The chairman
moved the adoption of the report, and stated that he re-
gretted very much that the dividend to be declared on
this occasion amounted only to one and a half per cent.
The rooms in Albert-street, Spitalfields, still remained
unlet, the reason for which he could not account for,
and that circumstance had thrown them out very consi-
derably. The committee lately appointed to consider
the plan adopted by Lord Kinnaird, and other benevo-
lent persons, of buying old houses and again letting them
out (instead of building new ones) had reported against
its adoption by this society, for, notwithstanding 12 per
cent. had been realised from one of the houses, the com-
mittee were of opinion that if it became known that the
society were in the market to buy up such houses, they
would rise so much in price that nothing could be
realised from them. He concluded by moving the adop-
tion of the report. Dr. Southwood Smith seconded the
motion, and stated that the society having given to their
lodgers the means of removing filth, they had not had a
single case of fever, a fact which must be highly satis-
factory to the shareholders and the public. Mr. Smith
moved, as an amendment to the report that a committee
be appointed to consider and report upon the state of
the accounts, and that this meeting be adjourned for
that purpose. He considered the accounts to be in a very
rotten condition, and kept in a very loose manner. A
long discussion having taken place upon the matter the
amendment was withdrawn, and the original motion was
carried unanimously. A dividend of 14 per cent. having
been declared, the usual compliment was passed to the
chairman, and the meeting separated.
ANNUAL DINNER TO UNION CHILDREN.—For some
years past the parochial officers of St. Andrew, Holborn,
St. George the Martyr, and St. Sepulchere Without,
have, by private subscriptions, given every poor child,
of both sexes, in their several unions, a day's recreation
and substantial dinner in the month of June, and yester-
day the children were conveyed in caravans to High-
bury Barn Tavern grounds, where an agreeable repast
was prepared for them. They all looked healthy, and
seemed highly delighted with the day's pleasure. Some
of their parents had been tradesmen and householders in
the parishes.
DEFEAT OF RUSSIANS IN THE CAUCASUS.—The Porta-
fogio Maltese, of the 11th, quotes letters from Trebizond,
announcing that the Czar having ordered Lieutenant-
General Wrevsky to attack Schamyl in his capital of
Argille, the Circassians saw themselves closely invested
on 13th April, by 40,000 Russians, and 36 field-pieces.
Partial attacks were made by the latter on different
points ; but Schamyl, prudently avoiding a general bat-
tle, manoeuvred to get the Russians in such a position as
to close up their retreat and prevent their advance, and
succeeded completely. He then attacked them on all
sides, and routed them with great havoc, 23 guns, and an
immense quantity of provisions falling into his hands.
Five battalions of Poles and irregular troops went over
to the Circassians on that occasion, and Schamyl subse-
quently issued a proclamation, declaring that Russian
deserters are henceforward to receive his protection.
A SHARK IN THE CLYDE.—A few days ago, while
Mr. Day, from Glasgow, was walking along the G-are-
loch shore, near Roseneath Castle he noticed a large
fish floundering in the shoal water near the margin.
Having neither hook, pike, nor leister, Mr. Day at-
tacked it with a stout stick, but the fish showed fight,
snapped at the stick, and broke it in three pieces before
it could be secured and shoved on shore. It proved to
be a male shark, fully four feet in length. The mouth
of the " sea lawyer," which was eleven inches in breadth
and thirteen in depth, was armed with a formidable,
array of sharp teeth, and had it not got into shoal
water, the capture, of course, would not have been an
easy or a safe one. This is the second shark, which has
been caught on the Gareloch within a short time,—
North British Afail,

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