The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-23 00:00:00

Do. Deferred
Do Land fiarrants (Hectares)
Pe -urian 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Account 66

Do 41 per Cent., 18t,5
Do 41 per Cent. (llribarren)
Do 41 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Platiguesa 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9;60,'2,'3 42
R issian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 41 per Cent. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 pm Cent., 1859 —
Do 5 per Cent., 1862 BB} 1
Po. 5 per Cont., 1864 9oi 11
D. Anglo-Dutch, 1806, all paid BB/
Do. do. £25 paid 2l pin
iarlinian 5 per Cent
Sp tnisli 3 per Cent
Do Acerfunt
Do New Deferred —
Do. Account
Passive Do —
Do Ace:quit —
Styinish Cert. of Coup not funded —
Do Account
S wedish 4 per Cent.
Do. 41 per Cent. 1864
Do. Scrip, £OO paid
Pnrkish 6 per Cent. 1851
Do. Account

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Do 6 per Cont. 1858
Do. Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account 56
Do £lOO Bonds —
Do 6 per Cent., 1863 49
Do 5 per Cont., 1865
Do. Account
Do. 6 per Cent., 1865 4B
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed lOl
Venezuela, 3 per Cent. —
U 1). 6 pet Cent, 1864 32
Ditto 11 per Cent. •

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Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austnau, o per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
Belgian. 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2i per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Rentes 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. -
Railal„, 3 per dent. 1831, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account 531
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 91
Do. Account 9lk I

The Reporters' Gallery in the House of

Commons.

The Reporters' Gallery consists of two rows of
seats. The first row, says the London Review,
which is sunk below the level of the floor, is divided
into 15 boxes, which are allotted to the different
London newspapers. Of these the limes has three;
most of the other morning papers have two, and the
Globe and Sun have one each. Each of these seats
has a broad desk and a separate inkstand. There
are also four other seats in some respects similar,
but far less convenient for reporting, as they are
raised above the level of the gallery, and their occu-
pants face the side galleries instead of the body of
the house. These 19 seats are, in point of fact, all
in which writing can be done with comfort ; and the
occupants of which can see and hear well enough to
report with fulness and accuracy. The back seat of
the gallery is not divided into boxes, and will pro-
bably accommodate about 25 or 30 persons. A
narrow ledge, scantily furnished with inkstands,
runs in front of it, and it is certainly possible
for those who occupy it to take a general note of the
substance of a debate. But writing is a matter of
extreme discomfort ; and there is this further dis-
advantage that, although the leading members on
the Treasury and front Opposition benches may be
heard, they cannot be seen. It will, therefore, be
seen that the gallery cannot accommodate, however
imperfectly, more than about fifty persons ; and this
was sufficient at the time it was constructed. At
that period there were fewer morning newspapers
than there are at present. None but reporters were
admitted ; it was enough to provide a front seat for
each reporter and summary writers actually on duty,
and to accommodate in the back row those who were
waiting to take their " turns." This back row was,
in fact, originally regarded merely as a place in
which a man could hold himself in readiness for
his work, and could sit for a short time before
going on," in order to gather the thread of the
debate. Of late years, however, a number of
weekly newspapers have obtained admission to the
gallery for gentlemen who write summaries of the
Thursday and Friday evenings' proceedings ; and

it has become the custom for the morning news-
papers to send down " leader writers" to hear the
debate.), co that they may be able to write upon
them without waiting for proofs of the reports ;
and the taste for descriptive sketches of the pro-
ceedings in Parliament, or of prominent members,
has further increased the demand for accommoda-
tion for those who supply these kind of articles. The
result is, that on any evening of unusual interest the
gallery is most inconveniently crowded, not so much
by reporters as by journalists in general. Instead of
being merely a " reporters' " gallery, it has been
converted into a gallery for the London press in
general, and, as might have been expected, it is
'totally inadequate to this; and work is now too
frequently carried on in it under circumstances of
great difficulty and embarrassment. Even if it
were desirable, it is impracticable, to go back to the
old system, and to exclude every one but the re-
porters for the morning and evening journals. The
hour at which newspapers of large circulation are
compelled to go to press renders it absolutely neces-
sary that their articles should be in type as early,
as possible ; and, moreover, there is an unquestion-
able advantage to a writer in hearing instead of
merely reading a debate. It is, therefore, highly
desirable that measures should, if possible, be taken
to increase the accommodation.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.

(This Day.)

The Market opens with a rather better feeling,
Sales 8,000 bales.

CABINET COUNClL.—Summonses were issued
yesterday for a Cabinet Council this afternoon, at the First
Lord of the Treasury's official residence in Downing-
street.

DR. L/VINGSTONE.—Commodore Hillyar, in a
letter dated at Bombay, the Ist inst., addressed to the Ad-
miralty, states that one of her Majesty's ships proceeded
on the 2d of Jan. to Quiloa, with. Dr. Seward, her Ma-
jesty's acting political agent and consul at Zanzibar, to en-
deavour to ascertain the truth of the report that Dr.
Livingstone had been murdered by a Zulu tribe near Lake
.N y assn.
TALL" LEGISLATORS.—The average height of
members of the United States senate is 5 feet 113 i inches ;
14 are over 6 feet. Mr. Cowan is the tallest : he is 6 feet
3} inches in height; and Garrett Davis is the shortest, he
being 5 feet 51 inches only. Mr. Sumner is 6 feet 3} inches
and Mr. Wilson 5 feet 10 inches. The average circum-
ference of the heads of senators is 221 inches. ThQ largest
heads, however, are not die best.—American paper.
A PiCKLED BABY.-'—The Salt Lake Telegraph
tells the following story. A little four year old, living in
a neighbouring ward, has a habit of getting into babyhood
scrapes every day. At one time he tips over the work-box
and then come down all the multifarious " fixins" of the
women folks; this done, he climbs into the wash tub, gets
wet, and bawls out furiously until mamma runs to get her
" darlin' baby" out of the mess, which is no sooner done
than the young rascal pulls the cat all around the room
by the tail, making poor pussy mew in the most agonis-
ing manner. But " mamma's little pet " got into
a very bad scrape the other day, whereby he got
badly pickled. Having made his way to the pantry,
and observing a large jar of pickles, the little fellow
thought he would have at least what big folks call a square
meal, so in went the head in the jar of pickles, but out
the head couldn't get, and as a consequence, " darlin' " sot
up a very lively and interesting noise, which attracted the
frightened mother, who found the young hopeful just in
the fix described. Amidst screams and cries the jar had
to be broken before the baby's head could be extricated,
which having been done, "little pickle," as ho is now
called, cast sly looks at his ma, and then at the pickles,
exclaiming, " 0, mamma, I'se never dowin to det pickled
aden I"

THE CONSERVATIVE REFORM BII.L.—A nume-
rously attended and enthusiastic meeting was held at Hull
last night. Resolutions were carried condemning the
Government bill. A Conservative amendment was pro-
posed to the effect that it was the desire of the Govern-
ment to settle reform on constitutional principles, and re-
jected by seven to one. The ex-Mayor presided, and the
leading men, both Liberal and Conservative, addressed
the meeting.
FRAUDULENT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.—The
number of weights, measures, scales, and weighing-
machines found by the inspectors in South London to bo
deficient from April, 1865, to March, 1867, inclusive, is as
follows : —Weights, 2,091; measures, 1,877 ; scales and
weighing-machines, 803—total, 4,771. The profits accru-
ing to the tradesmen, and the consequent loss to the
customers, from such a state of matters, must have been
enornieus.—Smela Loncitni Press.