The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-17 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, April 17.

It is not yet known whether the King will go this
year to Carlsbad. Ilis Majesty will in any case re-
main in Berlin during the sitting of the Prussian
Chambers. The projected visit of the King to the
Paris Exhibition has not been relinquished.
An official declaration has been published here
with regard to various rumours current as to Prus-
sian armaments.

The declaration states that, with the exception of
the inreased organisation in the line and Landwehr
begun last autumn and now completed, rendered
necessary by the new acquisitions territory, no
special military measures have been at present
adopted.
The Rhenish fortresses are not yet armed. No
unusual demands have been made upon the fire-Arm
fac'ories. The stock of needle-guns in the depots
was already sufficient to furnish the arms required
without further examination.

In to-day's sitting of the North German Parlia-
ment Count Bismarck announced that the Federal
Government have resolved to adhere to the consti-
tution as voted by Parliament. He therefore for-
mally declared the constitution of the North Ger-
man Confederation adopted both by the Parliament
and by the Governments, and read a royal message
stating that his Majesty would close the Parliament
in person at noon in the White Saloon of the Royal
Castle.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, April 16.

The tumults in Oporto on account of the new
taxes have been suppressed by the military without

loss of life.

Count Aguilar, President of the Cabinet, is seri-
ously ill. A change in the Ministry is considered
imminent.

The King will set out for Paris in Easter week.

ENGLAND AND SPAIN.
MADRID, April 16 (Evening).

The Prize Court at Cadiz has declared the cap-
ture of the Queen Victoria by the Spanish cruiser to
have been illegal.
The Epoca considers that by this decision the dif-
ference between England and Spain in this matter
is terminated.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, April 16, Two o'clock.—Considerable
agitation prevails in the market to-day, and quota-
tions are undergoing almost the same violent fluctua-
tions which were the consequence of the war ru-
mours of the past week. Italian Fives, which of
all stocks appear to be the most susceptible to ad-
verse influences, are again distinguished by a fall of
1. per cent., the price at this hour being 48f. 25c.
French Threes, too, are quoted at a decline of 50c.,
viz., at 66f. 43c., and miscellaneous securities are
all Icing offered at sensibly lower quotations.
Credit Foncier have fallen to the extent of 30f.--to
1,320 f. Credit Mobilier have receded 15f. 75c.—to
363 ; and Comptoir d'Escompte 13f.—to 727 f. The
railway market is likewise heavy, with a similar
downward tendency in quotations. Three o'clock.
The market has closed as follows :
per Cents 96 10
Do. end month ....•:
3 per Cents. 66 70
Do. and month 66 57i
Credit 111obilior 367 50
Do. end month 370
Credit Foneier —
Do. end month 1320
RAIL'

Bank Shares
Italian Loan 4B
Do. end month 4B
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
Art.ll3.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1122 50
Lyons and Mediterranean
876 25
Southern
_
Western
Eastern
520
Sardinian

Austrian —
Lombard 375
North of Spain — __.
SaragosEa 9O
Ditto to Barcelona _ _
Roman .

PUNCH'S CARTOON To-DAT—meaning John
Tenniel's—might set the London Charivari up (if
it wanted setting up, which it doesn't !) for a month
to come. It is delicious ! The title of it is—" They're
Saved ! They're Saved!" Derby and Disraeli—muffled
up in furs against the unseasonable weather—the
Earl driving helter-skelter the Sledge" Reform"—the
member for Bucks sitting by him with the propitia-
tory bantlings by the sacrifice of which the
hungry pack of wolves careering in the track are to
to be got rid of little by little. Two of them
have already been abandoned to fate—and you
see in the perspective a cluster of wolves
wrangling over the bones of each—here, the
"Resolutions," there " Dual Voting !" Dizzy has
still, cuddled up in his arms, two others of these
sacrificial bantlings, ono labelled " Residence," the
other " Personal Rating." Hungrily, still, upon the
track pant, side by side with the flying Trave-
lers, such leading wolves of the pack as
Gladstone and Bright ! The world of comic
significance thrown into the features of Dizzy and
Derby being just simply indescribable. They must
be looked at—and, looked at, they are safe to be
roared over ! Bravo Punch! Vive la Bagatelle !
FRIGHTFUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday an inquest
was held at the Volunteer Arms, Wantage-road, before
Mr. W. D. Wasbrough, coroner for that division of Berk-
shire, on the body of Mr. William Ireson, a contractor, who
met with a frightful death on Monday afternoon. For a
considerable period the deceased bad held the post of
" ganger" on the line, but relinquished it recently, and
provided the company with the horse labour required
.at
the above station. On Monday afternoon ho had charge
of one of his horses on the siding, and incautiously led it
across the down line at the moment the express which
leaves Paddington at 4.50 approached at full speed, the
train not being timed to stop at Wantage-road. The un-
fortunate man and his horse wore both struck down with
fearful force and instantly killed, and ono of the company's
porters, being knocked down by the horse, was injured,
but not seriously. The jury returned a verdict of "Acci-
dental death."
HORRIBLE SCENE AT AN EXECUTlON.—Yester-
day morning the young man, James Longhurst, who was
recently convicted before Mr. Baron Bramwell, on the
Home Circuit, of a most aggravated murder of a child
named Harriet Sax, was hanged in front of Horsemonger-
lane Gaol, in which he had been confined since his convic-
tion. Yesterday morning, the appointed hour having ar-
rived, he was conducted from his cell to be pinioned,
upon which a shocking scene occurred. At sight of the
executioner he was terror-stricken and resisted violently.
The chaplain addressed a few words to him, which for the
moment appeared to pacify him, but when the executioner
attempted to pinion him he struggled frightfully, and it
took four or five warders to restrain him. He was at
length thrown upon the ground, upon which another
struggle ensued, and he kicked severely the warders who
were Irving to gain the mastery over him. As he lay in
that position, exhausted, his arms were strapped, and i.e
was then raised to his feet. He walked towards the scaf-
fold, attended by the chaplain, but at the sight of it he
appeared to be again seized with a feeling of horror, and
he struggled with all his might and main to release him-
self, but in vain. He was dragged up the steps by the
warders, and held under the beam until the rope was ad-
justed. In that state of things the rest of the preparations
were hastily made, the bolt was drawn, and the convict
soon ceased to liva.
PROLIFIC RABBITS.—Eight years ago 14 rabbits
were turned out in Mr. Austin's estate of Barwon Park.
The number of their progeny shot last year on this estate
was 14,253 ; and in spite of this destruction, and what goes
on outside the estate, they have swarmed over the neigh-
bouring country, and have been futtud at considerable dis-
• tances arQuclo—Melbourne

LITERATURE.

La Liberte de la Presse et le Suffrage Universe!.
Par M. Dupont-White. Pp. 79. Charles
Douniol, Paris.
A remarkable paper appears in the current
number of Blackwood's Magazine—a paper entitled
" Universal Suffrage and the Ballot." It takes
into consideration those two great principles as
they are known to operate in the United States of
America. It is the result, manifestly, of mature
deliberation on the part of a philosophic observer,
on the part of one who has clearly thought the matter
out thoroughly for himself, who has made his own
calculations, who has drawn his own conclusions,
who has scrutinised facts and figures with his own
eyes, and weighed the whole matter quite indepen-
dently in the balance of his own individual judg-
ment. Whoever he may be—for this contributor to
Maga, of course, writes there quite anonymously,
affording us not even the clue to his recognition
afforded by one of those half-masks of a nom-de-
plume placing within our reach the chance of a just
possible detection of his identity—Whoever, we say,
the writer of this able and vigorous disquisition
upon Universal Suffrage and the Ballot may be,
would, or we are indeed mistaken, be among the
first to appreciate the importance of this other
political treatise (upon a kindred subject and
having a kindred title) produced some time
previously, not as an anonymous contribu-
tion to a periodical as eminent as Blackwood,
but in the form of a separate and distinct
brochure, having its author's name frankly affixed
to it, and setting forth his arguments therein
with all due emphasis and deliberation, in reference
to the political situation in France, not in America
—in regard to a Despotism, not to a Democracy.
" La Libert6 de la Presse et le Suffrage Universel"
is the succinct title of this last indicated, though
in point of publication this much earlier-issued dis-
quisition ! M. Dupont-White—a name well-known
and highly appreciated among Parisian politicians
—is the author of it. Its appearance was by a
significant, and we can hardly help calling it by a
really impressive coincidence immediately anterior
to the imperial foreshadowing of those constitutional
changes in the Governmental machinery of France
by which the Emperor Napoleon 111. recently
affected at least to take the initiative (at
last) in the long delayed work of—it is
his own phrase—Crowning the Edifice. Whether
sooner or later—through the agency or operation of
these just-named constitutional changes—the Edifice
is in very deed to be Crowned, or not—certain
it is that the announcement of them by the Em-
peror himself, was immediately preceded by the
publication (chez M. Charles Douniol, Rue de
Tournon, 29) of M. Dupont-White's searching and
remarkable disquisition Sur la Liberte de la Presse
et le Suffrage Universel. As significantly it was so
—as that M. de Lamartine's " Histoire des Giron-
dins," directly preceded the events of February,
1848. It being, here, in neither instance, implied by
us, of course, that the connection between the two
was as that between cause and effect—the coincidence
in each case being in this place simply pointed out
as a coincidence. Yet even so regarded—that is
purely as a coincidence—each has obviously its
significance. Directing attention, however, more
particularly in the present instance to the eloquent
brochure of M. Dupont-White, in respect to
" Liberty of the Press and Universal Suffrage,"
it may be as well to remark at once that
he enters into an examination of those two vitally
important themes—themes of more especially vital
importance to the forty odd millions of the French
population—as a friend of one and (almost) as a
foe of the other ! As a champion or vindicator at
any rate of that 2Egis of all Liberty among civilised
communities, nobly entitled, here in England, by
Edmund Burke, " the Fourth Estate !" As the
avowed adversary, at any rate, of the in-
discriminate and wholesale application to all
such results, of that potent " popular right,"
according to some (teste Bright), that mere
" political privilege," according to others (teste
Disraeli), the right or privilege to vote for
the election of legislative representatives. In
other words—M. Dupont-White is heartily and en-
thusiastically for Freedom of the Press, and, if not
against, certainly very cold-bloodedly in favour si",
Universal Suffrage ! For the one, and, almost avow-
edly as we have said, against the other with the
fervour, devotion, and enthusiasm of a publicist who,
though in intellect a philosopher, is in heart and
soul intensely and essentially a patriot. Perhaps,
for that matter, we should rather here have
said that, strictly speaking, M. Dupont-White
is with enthusiasm in favour of Liberty of the
Press ; while, on the other hand, he is abso-
lutely indifferent to, if not actually contemptuous of,
Universal Suffrage. Nor can his comparative dis-
dain for the latter be very much marvelled at if
only it be borne in mind, for example, that out of
the furnace of Universal Suffrage, out of the
crucible of the Ballot-box, there have come, on the
one hand, a pure Democracy as in America, and, on
the other, a pure Despotism as in France. Give
me—that is France (our pamphleteer almost seems
to say in so many words) Liberty of the Press, and
I care not for Universal Suffrage ! At any rate,
by comparison ! That is, to all intents and pur-
poses, the gist, that is &e gravamen, of M.
Dupont-White's whole argument : that is the back-
bone of his entire disquisition. Fletcher of Saltoun
spoke not more sententiously or more emphatically
of the primordial value of the gift of song inspiring
the popular ballad-monger, as compared with the
authority devolving upon those legislators and
administrators among whom so little wisdom is said
to be in any way an essential qualification, accord-
ing to the cynical dictum of Oxenstiern. Freedom
of the Press, M. Dupont-White does not, it is true,
regard as an absolute political panacea. But—
short of that—he is its eulogist to the very utter-
most. He regards it as the first essential. He is
apparently content to restrict his demands to that
and to that alone—as a commencement. Liberty
of the Press first and foremost. Anything else you
please afterwards. The exordium of his pamphlet
—for the brochure is essentially oratorical in its
tone—the exordium of his pamphlet is perhaps
the very best part of it all. In it he descants
upon—how shall we better designate it than
by the very word itself ?—the decline of the
national esprit of France—that esprit which is
the arch indication of the genius and of the
aggregate idiosyncrasy, so to speak, of the
people—of the whole race of Frenchmen. Public
Affairs he regards as having sunk almost inde-
scribably in value in the national estimation-'—as
having dwindled into utter insignificance as com-
pared with matters of the most frivolous character.
At the first turn of the leaf, by the way, on
opening this pamphlet, we find disdain for
Universal Suffrage in the words " qu'une base toute
materielle ne suffit pas a fonder les gouvernements."
And, confronting this on the opposite page—under
the axiomatic assertion " l'esprit baisse en France"—
we encounter this most sorrowful reflection on the
part of a philosophic politician like M. Dupont-
White--" h faut "litre bien jeune pour n'avair pas
menzoire d'un temps ou la chose publique tenait plus
de place dans les esprits, et trouvait des esprits plus
eclaires, plus informes, plus curieux d'un avenir par
dela fin courant." Now, on the other hand, as the
s Client signs of the general decadence, to what does
he point ?—" an the'atre, la desuetude du sijflet: le
gout, c'est le digora," and so forth—while, around
him, he recognises—"popularite croissante des
journaux creux, des spectacles sus, des romans
trousses, de tout un art enfin qui s'appele realisnze
et que j'appelle cynisme, pour le choix qu'il fait de
certaines re'alite's. la witness of all which he ap-
peals to the unanimous testimony of those hommes
((esprit et ('experience, who have passed their whole
time in directing the public journals—such as they
are—men whose testimony, he says, cannot be dis-
dsined, adding (as he says this), very finely, "
sont a l'egard du public comme le cavalier qui a
la tongue habitude d'une monture et qui la sent mollir,
delaillir sous sa main etentre ses jambes." Referring
to the ancien regime—in one sense almost wistfully—
he regrets in regard to it what he calls " the nobility
of taste, the elevation, and the intellectual culture
distinguishing an epoch—formal sometimes, but
passionate and sensitive to great things. . . In
those days," he says, "you might speak of thQ corn-

merce des bus like Galiani ; you might even be A
foundling or the son of a cutler without its being of
any consequence or any obstacle whatever to your ad-
vance. Art and talent saved all ; les yens d'esprit, les
chose: d'esprit were both esteemed, pleasures d'esprit
being, moreover, eagerly sought after. . . That
epoch had, at least, this advantage over us, that
each man then invented his own esprit, his own
judgments, his own mots. People did not care
to repeat or to adopt them, to take them ready-
made (so to speak) from infinitely small litterateurs
and comtesses de lansquenet, as they were called for-
merly, or from the representatives of commerce as
they are termed nowad iys." Nothing could well be
more felicitous than the terseness with which our
pamphleteer not only comments, but in commenting
illustrates, and by illustrating goes so far as to de-
monstrate, if we [night so express it, the cogency of
his reasoning. Hear him, by way of exemplar,
where he takes occasion to remark " La science
aujourd'hui senzble dire que la lunziere est chaleur, et
que la chaleur est force. Or, l'histoire nous raconte
un esprit jrancais tout semblable a ce cosmos, tut
esprit dont la clarte fait I'ardeur et dont l'ardeur
fait le proselytisme, la propagande a main arrne'e."
The eclecticism, so to speak, of his sympathies,
one could hardly better illustrate than by refer-
ence to what he says in the way of intellectual
vindication, so to speak, of the First Empire,
which, as he remarks, if it had not a great
living literature of its own, left behind it at
least the theme for it and the inspiration,
the fruits of which are destined to appear
later on. Besides which, as he observes, 11
caused the name of France to reverberate
throughout the world—of itself matter for epical,
for lyrical, above all, for tragical celebration,
being for that matter for a whole people an addi-
tional reason of itself for aspiring to be free ! And
now —as the culminating point of his whole
argument—he remarks elsewhere (as sententiously
as emphatically)—" The only thing this country
wants in order to be free is—the Liberty of the
Press." La settle chose qui manque ace pays pour
etre libre, c'est la liberte de la presse. Having said
which all that need, here at any rate, be observed
in regard to M. D apont- White's masterly
pamphlet on the " Liberty of the Press and 'Uni-
versal Suffrage" has been already remarked. It is--
or rather let us say at once, it was—as the clarion
trumpet-note giving the signal, we are almost
tempted to assert, for those constitutional conces-
sions in regard, among other things, to the accord-
ing somewhat more of freedom to journalism 10
France, which have, at least, marked one addi-
tional step towards the Crowning of the Edifice by
the Emperor Napoleon 111., as chief of the State
and head of the Government. That already, to A
considerable extent, France actually at this moment
does possess the priceless boon, aegis, palladium,
right, privilege (call it what you will) of Liberty of
the Press, this very brochure by M. Dupont-White
affords of itself a very signal attestation. And
so long as the journalism of France can find Buell
vindicators as the author of this philosophic argu-
ment on " The Liberty of the Press and Universal
Suffrage," his countrymen need have no apprehen-
sion but that sooner or later there must come, 3$
come there will assuredly, that Crowning of the
Edifice which has already been foreshadowed--
when the political pyramid in France, the pyramid
based already upon the broad material foundations
of Universal Suffrage, will be perfected by the
completion at last of its still unfinished apex! Con-
spicuously fluttering from the summit of which--our
pamphleteer would seemingly suggest—will eventw
ally be a banner not unworthy of being placed there
side by side with the glorious gonfauon of France'
here the banner of a Free Press, there that of the
imperial eagle and the golden bees.

tonal tirtraar•

lIER MAJESTY, &c•

WINDSOR CASTLE, April 16.
The Queen and Princess Beatrice rode on pool°
in the Home-park this morning.
Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, attended by
Lady Churchill, went out walking. Prince Leopold
also went out walking, attended by Mr. Legg.
Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline J 331",
rington, the Hon. Flora Alacdonald, and Lord Alfren,
Page, went to London last evening, and honour.l
the performance at the Haymarket Theatre lot,
her presence. Her royal highness afterwards r°
turned to Windsor Castle.
Lord Skelmersdale has succeeded Lord Raglan AS
Lord in Waiting.

The hincess Christian.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Christian's 11:
covert' goes on favourably, and the infant prince
quite well.

• Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridg°'
accompanied by the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-
Strelitz, left St. James's Palace, on Monday, for Cambridge
Cottage, Kew, for the Easter holidays.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary and tit°
Prince de 'Peck leave town to-morrow to join their 013'
tives at Kew. T
The Duchess of Somerset has left Brown's Mote
for Bulstrode Park.
The Duchess (Eleanor) of Northumberland I'll:
arrived at her residence in Whitehall-gardens, from visitit
the Earl and Countess of Macclesfield, at Sherborne Cast.-
Oxfordshire.
The Earl and Countess Percy left town yestcrdsl
for Albury Park, Surrey, to pass the Easter recess. Pt
The Earl Granville will entertain a large parti r
Walmer Castle for the great Volunteer Review at D°l/6,-(i
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Earl eio
Countess Spencer, and a large party are expected t°
among the guests.
The Countess of Granville was confined on Still'
day last, and gave birth to a daughter.
(er
The Rev. Thomas Claughton, vicar of Kicl-dlie
minster, has been appointed by Lord Derby i°
Bishopric of Rochester.

THE DISPUTE WITH SPAIN.—The belief is gaif
ing ground that, at the eleventh hour, the Spanish GeVe-t
ment will make the concessions required of them
in
cases of the Tornado and Victoria ; and some of our el;
temporaries have gone so far as to assert that concilint°4o
overtures to that effect have already been received by "tio
Foreign Office. We are sorry to weaken this favulltso
impression, but we believe that up to this moment, 01
communications from Madrid, in reply to Lord Stanley
demands, though not couched in unfriendly or defiant /$0
guage, have been of an evasive and unsatisfactory clu'lle,-00
and are far from warranting the sanguine expectat'",
which in some quarters have been founded on the
Herald. 000
We learn by telegraph that at a nuo3er-re
meeting of the Norwich Political Union last night °Lie
test and remonstrance against the Government Ite' of
Bill was adopted. A copy will be sent to every niciul)c-
the House of Commons. ,000
MR. GLADSTONE AND REFORM.—Mr. Glacl3-0,
has sent the following letter, in reply to a vote of Co-01
dance which had been passed in the right hon. gentlerli,,f;lo,
leadership by the Guildford Reform Association
11, Carlton-house-terrace, April 14.—Sir,—I bog t°
knowledge with gratitude the letter and resolutiolll:oige
have been good enough to address to me. You will 041
observed the division last night, and it will probabli :jot/
you to an altered estimate of any power possessed bi.)Deg'
to improve the Reform Bill of the Government. 400
however, to assure you that my attachment to the d
xO4
end in view is unaltered.—l have the honour to V
W. E. GLADSTONE.—Mr. E. W. Brooks."
-
A 1\ Annow ESCAPE.—On Wednesday after'vel
as Messrs. Parton and Page were driving down gill-:001
in a dog-cart, a little girl about four 'years 01d, -:feel;
M'Nulty, ran from behind a cart standing in the
be
She was knocked down, and the wheel passed O.Vr
4olY:
chest, grazing her chin slightly. She was take°
Fry's immediately, but on examination it was foul'''.
she had not been in the least injured, the wheel
it were, given a sort of jump over her.—.l/aidstane
THE NEW NOVEL, " RAYMOND'S
itbe
"If this book," says The Examiner, "be a first no,ren
one of the best first novels published of late ye'll'e, 601'
story is original, and constructed with a masterly otic;
The development of character is natural, though Afi:ll
and the main character, 'Raymond's Heroine' is
(iO/
fine touches. Another merit of the work is thatittefl
to rue is natural, and its narrative always well Wrio'i°;
The book is one of those which are worth reading pe
There will ba as many smiles over it as tears,i:34llll
merit is at the close of the last chapter, in a thcl:
happy end."

ONE XARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

TWELVE o'CLock.
To-morrow being the 18th a large number of
Australian engagements have to be met, and the
necessary provision for them has exercised some
influence in stimulating the demand, and causing a
little more firmness in the terms asked by discounters
for monetary accommodation. The market, how-
ever, is practically unaltered, and in a clay or two
even greater easiness is not improbable.
A further influx of gold took place at the Bank
of England yesterday, amounting to £60,000.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
have advanced 1, to 311 32f, and the Consolidated
Mortgage Bondi remain firm at 22 22i.
At the meeting held to-day of the Chartered
Bank of India, Australia, and China, the report
submitted stated that the operations for the year
ending December 31 last showed a net profit
amounting to £97,028. This result the directors
deemed satisfactory, considering the long con-
tinuance of the late crisis, with its depressing in-
fluence on every branch of Eastern business. That
crisis not only led to more failures, but seriously
prejudiced the realisation of the bank's claims on the
estates of firms which had previously suspended pay-
inent,especiallythose connected with Bombay. Under
these circumstances the directors, after instituting a
fresh careful revision of all bad and doubtful debts,
calculated up to the present time, have considered
it their duty to write off the sum of £68,332 14s. Bd.
from profit and loss account, to be met in great part
by the earnings of the year, but necessitating the
`by
transfer of £lO,OOO from the reserve fund,
which now only stands at as much more. The
directors believe that the crisis in the East is now
at an end, and knowing the excellent position of the
bank, and that its capital is quite intact, have no
hesitation in recommending the shareholders to de-
clare a dividend for the half-year ended on the 31st
December last, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum,
free of income-tax, which will leave the sum cf
£1,134 18s. 9d. to be carried forward.

Two o'CLoox.
According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to-
day, the French Routes were 66.60. Heavy.
At the close of business yesterday afternoon Con-
sols were 1 per cent, lower, and they remain at that
decline, being 901 for transfer as well as for the
account. This depression was occasioned by sales
in realisation of profits after the previous advance,
and the receipt of reduced prices from the Paris
Bourse, and which were supposed to possess politi-
cal significance. Despite this temporary relapse in
the value of the Funds, the market continues to
exhibit considerable strength. The New Threes
and Reduced Annuities are 891 j ; Exchequer Bills
17s. preen ; Bank of England Stock, 251 253 ;
India Stock, 219 ; ditto 5 per Cents., 1091 110 ;
and ditto Bonds, 495. to 525. prem.
In the Foreign Department of the Stock Ex-
change there has been less firmness. Greek have
declined 1 to 121 13, Spanish Certificates 1, to 124 13, and Russian Scri
Mexican have pl,to 2 11 dis. ex div. ; hile
advanced . to 151 1, and Italian
continue at 48 1, Spanish Passive 20 1, and Turkish
5 per Cents at 27 1. Chilian and Danubian Scrip
are at nominil quotations.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been to a fair extent, but in several instances prices have shown a slight further decline. Great Northern
and Metropolitan have each receded 1, Brighton
and South Eastern each 1, and Great Western,
Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Midland, each 1 ;
while Great Eastern have improved 1.
The Foreign and Colonial lines exhibit no mate-
rial variation in prices. South-Austrian and Lom-
bardo-Venetian, are dealt in at 15 151; Great
Western of Canada, at 131 ; East Indian, at 1071
108 ; and Great Indian Peninsula at 108.
are
4raerican Securities show little change. Illinois
1 lower, at 761 77 ; United states 5-20 Bonds,
1, at 74 ;
but Erie Shares remain at 37f 38.
Bank Shares remain very quiet. City Bank are
land
marked 12/ ; Imperial Ottoman 8 8 1-16th ; Mid-
-81 ; and Union of London 42. Miscellaneous and Finance Shares show little
Change of importance, with the exception of Atlantic
1'
,graPh 8 per Cents., which have declined to 88,1 0. Anglo-American Telegraph are also flat at
18. 181 , Hudson Bay Company at 16 ; National
Discount Company at 121 ; and City of Moscow
Gas at 151.

Sardinian 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per Cent ..., —
Do Acc/Junt
Do Nov Detetted
Do. Account
Do Passive
Do Account 2Ol.
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Do Account
S wedish 4 per Cent.
Do. 41 per Cent. 1864
Do. Scrip, £6O paid
t'urkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Do. Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858
Do. Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cont. 1862
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Gent., 1863
Do 5 per Cent., 1865
Do. Account
Do. 6 per Cent., 1865
Do. 4 per Cent. Guaranteed lOOl
Venezuela, 3 per Cent.
6 per Cent, lsf2
Do. 1861
Ditto 1i per Cent.
Divilends on the above payable in Loudo4.
Austrisn, a pm. Cent., Ex. 10 Florins
11,1gian, 4t per cent.,Ex. 25f.
Dutch *2* per °Ant. x. 12 Guil,. —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ....
.
French Bentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 251.
Italian 3 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 251... 4B
Do. Account
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 9Ol
Do. Account

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MARKE T S.—T his day.

MARK-LANE.

Very little English wheat was received fresh up to-day ;
but nearly the whole of Monday's unsold supply was
brought fora ard. Forall kinds the demand was inactive ;
nevertheless previous rates were supported.

The imports of foreign wheat have been only 7,360
quarters. Importers were very firm in their demands.
In prices, however, no change took place.
Floating cargoes of grain were quite as dear as last
week.. The arrivals were only moderate.
Over 10,000 quarters of foreign barley having arrived
the sale for that article was restricted, yet prices were well
supported.

Malt was a dull inquiry, but not cheaper. The supply
was good.
Oats were quite as dear as on Monday.
Beans and peas, as well as flour, were unaltered in value.
REIr ♦RRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and scotches
220 80 1,290 10 810
Irish
Foreign 7,360 10,750

4,630 180 sacks
kis

COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN.
For the week ending April: For the corresponding week
13, 1867. last year.
Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver.
Wheat .......48;719-60s 9d Wheat 55,193-44s bd
Barley ..... ....15,098-39s 9d Barley 19,05.5-37 s Od
Oats 3,871-21s scl, Oats

WHITEMAPEL.
Thero is a fair demand for each kind of meat, as
follows :

Per 81b. by the carcase.
Beef 3s 2(1 to 4s 6d Veal
Iluttou ... 3s 4d to 4s 8d I Pork

BOROUGH HOP.
Our market is in a very inactive state, and quotations
are barely supported.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
This Day.

Market opens quiet. Sales probably 7,000 or
8,000 bales.

Mr. Wyld has just published, in anticipation of
the Easter Monday Volunteer Review, a capital plan of the
ground at Dover, showing the successive positions of the,
attacking and defending forces, the rendezvous, the routes,
and the ground for the spectators.

NATIONAL DEBT.—Yesterday a return was
issued, showing the amount of the National Debt in each
year since 1854, the increase, diminution, &c. From
1855 to 1857 the debt increased from £801,978,763 to
£831,722,963, and then went on diminishing to
£802,842,949 last year.
THE NEW SUGAR DUTIES.—On and after the Ist
of May, by the Act 30 Viet., c. 10, the following new sugar
duties of excise will be levied : —Refined sugar, 12s. the
cwt. ; net equal to refined sugar, 11s. 3d. first class ; 10s. 3d.
the second class, 9s. 7d. third class, and Bs. the fourth class.
On molasses 3s. 6d. the cwt., and the same sum on sugar
us..d for brewing.

DRAUGHT MATCH.—Arrangements are making
at Glasgow for a draught match between James Wylie, of
Leven, and Robert Martins, of Douglass, to commence on
June the 10th. The stakes are £lOO a side, the match to
be 50 games, wins and draws to count.
THE THAMES.—The river is daily getting into
good order for trout fishing. A fine trout of 81bs.
was taken at Chertsey, on Saturday last, by one of the
members of the Thames Angling Preservation Society.
Another member tried the Haliford waters a few days
since, but only got one touch, which entirely cleared his
bait. In the previous week he was more successful,
having taken two trout of nob., in splendid condition, at
Iroulsey, which he believes were of the Thames breed.
This same gentleman, two seasons since, captured nine
large trout out of the preserved waters. J. Keen, of
Chertsey, has taken a trout of Vbs. and one of the same
weight was taken by a gentleman at Sunbury. Tom
Davis, of Moulsey, has been very fortunate with his
patrons, having caught four trout in ono week, the largest
being about 411 b. The lovers of fish culture will be glad
to learn that the young fry, at Hampton are in a healthy
state, and 'a considerable number have been turned into
the rearing ponds at Sunbury.—lVest Surrey Times.
ilomfoinr.—On Friday evening an old man,
named Jeremiah Twohig, about 60 years of age, employed
as dairyman by a farmer named Lynch, was beaten to death
by three other men on the roadside at a place called Codrum,
about a mile from Ballyvourney. The parties were return-
mininatingg from a
in fthe death of air, when a dispute arose between them, ter-
a man named Kelleher. Twohig and the severe injury of
STATISTICS or DRILL.—In an article on the new
ciil Sion , military organisation,
fiWfO‘the.niulAcr of moritlis and days lost to the Temps publishes a curious
agri-
culturecal-
and manufactures by the drill to which the army,
the reserve, and the national guard mobile will be sub-
jec
hitech ivesd. The
471 result shows a total of 5,663,681
months,'
w g,973 years and five months, or 169,910,430
days consumed each year in barrack or depot.
THE BREWER PROTECTOR.—At the sale of the
library of the late H.B. Titubs, Esq., of Worcester, March 20
the autograph of Oliver Cromwell prefixed to a warrant for
the payment of an allowance to Sir C. Wolseley was
knocked dawn by Mr. Bentley, the auctioneer, for six
guineas, the Fa-chaser being Mr. Patrick Johnson, solicitor
of London, who, it was stated, is a descendant of the Pro-
tector.—Brewers' Journal.

THE CASE OF STABBING AT EVERTON.--.A. day or
two ago we reported a case of a sailor named Parsons
having quarrelled with some fishwomen at a beerhouse in
Everton, and that one of the women drew a knife, as did
Parsons, who stabbed one of them. The woman, Bridget
Cannon, has since died from the injuries inflicted on her
by Parsons with the knife. He was brought before the
stipendiary magistrate on Saturday at Liverpool, and was
then remanded for seven days on the charge of stabbing
only. An inquest will be hold on the body of the deceased
woman.

DETENTION OF THE MAILS FOR BOMBAY VIA
MARSEILLE&—In consequence of an injury to her ma-
chinery, the mail packet China will be unable to leave Mar-
seilles on the morning of the 20th inst. The mails for
Bombay, which, in due course, should be, despatched from
London on the evening of the 18th instant, will not be
made up until the evening of Saturday, the 20th instant.
—General Post Office, April 16.

AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS IN ENGLAND.—At
present agricultural prospects aro somewhat cheering, from
the upward movement in the value of wheat ; and so soon
as seed-time is over, thrashing will go on favourably,
weather permitting, as the millers are anxious to secure
the best qualities at market prieeq, and higher rates are
consequently in the ascendant.—Afark Lane Express.
A COINCIDENCE OF "INSTRUCTION.”—Mr. Dis-
raeli's reply to Mr. Locke was a masterpiece of Par-
liamentary sarcasm and rebuke, and probably recallo to the
mind of the honourable member for Exeter an incident
which occurred to him about five and twenty years ago,
and which, perhaps, he had himself almost forgotten. It
is as fellows :—The late Master of 134i0l College—Dr,
Joukyns—in summing up on some rather damaging anti
depreciative reports furnished by the Mors as to the de-
meanour of ono of the scholars of the house, who, on
the whole, was deservedly regarded as an ornament to that
body, addressed him in that peculiar croak, which no man
who has ever hoard it can either imitate or forget—
" Mister Coleridge, wo regard you as a very clever young
man ; we think very highly of you, Mister Coleridge very
highly indeed—but not so highly as you do of yourself"_
Essex Gazette.

INTERESTING TO LADlES.—Notwithstanding the nume-
rous preparations for the restorat on and improvement of
the Human Hair which are daily put before the public, and
all professed to be infallible, but of which the facts are mush
to be questioned, we have now an opportunity of vouching
for the virtues of that long-established ar icle, Rowlands'
Ataosssar Oil. Airs. J. Kennaby, of Carlton-terrace, Great
Dover-road, became quito bald ; and although not possessing
much faith in any article effecting a restoration of the hair,
was persuaded to give Rowlands' Oil a fair trial ; and, after
the use of three bottles, she quite recovered it, and now pos-
sesses a beautiful head of hair, of considerable length. The
lady is too much gratified to withhold the jualce due to the
Vroprietors of this invaluable preparation.