The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-13 00:00:00

WHITECHAPEL.

reef, from 3s 4d to 4s 4d; mutton, 3s Gd to 4s 8d;
lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 10d ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 10d ; and pork, 3s
Od to 4s Od per 81b., by the carcase. A slow trade.

BOROUGH HOP.
All new hops continue in steady request, at the late int-
proveraout in values, Other kinds move off slowly at late
rate:,

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday at
Guildhall—the Lord Mayor presiding.
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF HOLLOWAY PRISON--
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.
A report was brought up from the Gaol Commit-
tee, upon an instruction from a former Court, in
consequence of the recent dismissal of Mr. Wright
from the office of governor of Holloway Prison, to
inquire into and report upon the duties and emolu-
ments of the office, examine the qualifications of
candidates, and return the names of three fit and
proper persons for the selection of the Court. The
committee stated that no present change was neces-
sary in the duties of the office, recommended that
the salary of the governor should be £4OO a year,
with house, fuel, and light, and that he should give
security for £5OO ; and they returned the names of
Mr. John Weatherhead (then govern or of Newgate),
Captain Vivian Craig, and Captain. Edward H amil-
ton Finney, from among the candidates into whose
qualifications they had examined, as best qualified
to fill the office.
The report having been received and agreed to,
it was further resolved that the Court would forth-
with proceed to the election, and. that the election
should be made by the aldermen then present,
several aldermen having been requested by the
Lord Mayor to enter the court from the adjoining
" Aldermen's Room" for that purpose.
The TOWN CLERK then called over the names of
the aldermen present, commencing with the Lord!
Mayor, who voted in succession until Sir IL Mug-
geridge was reached, and he declined to vote.
LORD MAYOR—But you must vote. The rule is
that every alderman present must vote.
Sir H. MUGGERIDGE—Then I will vote for Mr.
Weatherhead.
Alderman GABRIEL rose next and said—l shrill
not vote.
The TOWN CLERK—But his lordship has ruled
that every alderman present must vote.
Alderman GABRIEL—WeII, I shall not vote.
LORD MAYOR—But you must vote. This in the
rule, and if you break it you will be guilty of a
contempt of Court.
Alderman Gabriel—l do not think that can be
the rule. For, suppose I believe none of the caw
didates to be properly qualified_l do not say - that
is the case now, but it might be—you would force
me to vote for a person I should not consider to be
fit for the office.
Lord Mayor—lf you did not intend to vote., you
ought not to have been present.
Alderman Gabriel—But you sent for me. CHear,
hear.)
Lord Mayor—Then if you refuse to vote, I shall
instruct the Town Clerk to enter upon the jol&trnala
that you have been guilty of a contempt of court.
The Town Clerk suggested that it was not abso-
lutely necessary that the aldermen present k;:houla
vote, as it was only an ordinary poll, and :not a
division.
An Alderman—The Town Clerk does not .agree
with your lordship's ruling.
Lord Mayor—My experience is greater tha, n the
Town Clerk's ; I have been here longer tha n he,
and I say that he is wrong as to our law.
Sir J. Musgrove—But, your lordship—
Lord Mayor—l will not go into a discussion in
the middle of a poll. (Hear, hear.)
Sir J. Musgrove—But the question is wlacther
your lordship is right OR a point connected with
the poll. (Hear, hear.)
Lord Mayor—l have laid down the rule, and
will never submit to have my authority overruled
by an officer of the court. (Hear, hear.)
Some other votes were then recorded, alma the
Town Clerk said all the aldermen present had -voted,
but it was remarked that Sir J. Duke (wh o had
just entered) had not done so.
The Town Clerk—Sir James Duke was not here
when the question was put and carried that the
election be by the aldermen " now present," and
therefore he is not entitled to vote.
Sir J. DUKE said—To save all dispute on the
matter, I think I had better retire (retiring accord'
ingly).
The votes were then cast up, and
The LORD MAYOR declared Mr. Weathe rhea&
duly elected to be governor of Holloway Prison,
during the pleasure of the Court, and subject to
such rules and regulations as might now be in force,
or hereafter be made, in connection with the office'
Alderman WiLsoisr—l shall now move thaA
Alderman Gabriel be taken into custody by the
Sergeant-at-Arms, and brought to the bar, for re-
fusing to obey the order of the Court. (Hear, hear,
and oh, oh.)
LORD MAYOR—And if you do, and the Court
assents, I shall certainly order the officers at once
to act upon the resolution, Hear hear.)
Alderman W I iLsoN—Then move that Alderman
Gabriel be brought to the bar by the Sergeant-at"
Arms. (Oh, oh.)
Sir P. LAURIE—If you do that, I shall at once
move the adjournment of the Court. (Hear.)
Several Aldermen—But he has no seconder.
The motion, not being seconded, fell to the ground'
Mr. Weatherhead being then called to the bar/
formally resigned his office of governor of Newgate'
and that office being declared vacant, it was referred
to the Gaol Committee to inquire into its duties an',
emoluments, to examine into the qualifications
candidates, and return the names of three for the
selection of the Court, as they had just done in the
case of the prison at Holloway.
Soineroaudtjionuernbeud.siness was then transacted, and
the Court

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE
WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
In the week ending Saturday the total deaths
registered in London were 1,201, and they exhibit
an increase of 134 on those of the preceding weekt'
In the ten years 1849-58 the average number al
deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was
1,151, but as the deaths in the present return 00"
curred in a population which has increased, these
can only be compared with the average raised in
proportion to the increase—namely, with 1,266'
The figures show that the deaths of last week woe
less by 65 than the number which would have oc•
curred under the average rate of mortality for tile
first week of April.
The deaths from smallpox rose last week to 221
of which number nearly half occurred in the east
districts ; those from measles declined to 15. Fifty-
eight cases of scarlatina and 13 of diphtheria were
fatal. Whooping-cough carried off 61 children!
five of these in the sub-district of Somers .town. AT'
14, Catherine-street, Hoxton New-town, three:
children have died from scarlatina since the 3d
inst., and two others have been attacked by the
disease. The medical attendant considers that the
severity of the complaint in this instance is due to
the bad drainage of the locality. A tailor, aged 79
years, at 5, Back-road, St. George's-in-the-East,
was " found dead from want of proper nourish-
ment."
Last week the births of 923 boys and 914 girls,
in all 1,837 children were registered in Londo_ng
In the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1849'58
the average number was 1,556.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the ineFi
height of the barometer in the week was 29.831,11.?;
The barometrical readings underwent very small
variations during the first four days: afterwards
the lowest was 29.41 inches, the highest 29.5:4
inches. The mean temperature of the week NO!!
56.3 deg., which is 11.1 deg. above the average at
the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher.) The mean daily temperature was
likewise above the average throughout the week;
and on Wednesday and Thursday this excess was 15.4
fell to
to and
its 1. respect.. deg., on vely. The thermometer
Tuesday, and
rose to its highest, 79 deg., on the following daY'
The entire range was, therefore, 35.5 deg. The
range was 21.8 deg. The range et'
Wednesday
lowest degpoint, .1,3
was so much as 33.5 deg. The differ-
encemednnbeedstadalwieyyen the mean dew point temperature and
air temperature was 9.1 deg. The wind blew °ll,
every day from the south-west. The rain measured
was 0/0 inch.
In the 13 weeks that ended April 2, 16,147 deaths
were registered in London, of which 8,160, or
rather more than half, occurred under 20 years 0'
age. The quarter was healthier than the sarnef
period of last year, and much healthier than that of
1855. The mean temperature of the first quarter
in the
.present year was unusually hih—viz., a
deg. ; in that of 1858 it was 38 deg. ;g in 1855, 34.=
deg. But, though the recent mortality has been
comparatively not great, scarlatina (including
diphtheria) has contributed a remarkably ileag
proportion, the deaths from it having been 1,1" a
while in four corresponding quarters they ranged
only from 353 to 705. Smallpox has lately increase'',
for whereas the deaths from it in the two
quarters of 1857-8 were 60 and 41, in the id.
quarter they were 201. Of these 201, 8 oceu're the
in the west districts, 38 in the north, 43 who
central, 83 iu the east, and 29 in the south.
ditch,
parts chiefly infested were Finsbury, S:0
W
and Bethnal-green.
an
525 violent deaths, 436 occurred by accidefat
or negligence, 25 by murder or manslaughter,
64 by suicide,

BANBURY.—The Conservatives have brought
forward a candidate in the person of Mr. Alderman Alen'
of the City of London, and with a fair chance of success. The
Whigs declare for their present representa Radice, tiv Mr. Samuidate,
The
but are sorely embarrassed by the al , cand
Sir Charles Douglas. Parties, thus far, are eyenly disrideclo
with a bias toviarcl*Aij)eral Cwaseryatiaa.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The Royal Bride has arrived from Australia with
29,291 ounces of gold, valued at £111,164. These
remittances will, no doubt, prevent any extensive
efflux from the Bank of England, but, as soon as
the availeLble supplies thus afforded are sent away,
it is prob able that the exportation of silver to the
East, if maintained, will cause a further diminution
of the metallic reserves of the national establish-
ment. The recent Australian consignments have
all been 'taken for the Continent, and it is expected
that the next few remittances will be disposed of
in a similar manner.

The rapidity with which the instalments of the
new Indi an loan are to be paid must, it is thought,
exert son ie influence on the tendency of the money
market. Of the £7,000,000 now applied for, more
than half •will be paid before the rth proximo, and
the whole completed in the short space of three
months. The previous operation was spread over
a much longer period, and it created comparatively
little effect, but since then a large absorption of
capital has taken place through numerous channels
lately opened, and the market is not so easy. The
sudden call of so large an amount may, therefore,
be expected to impart more .Armness to the rates of
discount, especially as symptoms of an advance
have been recently developed.
The favourable reports yesterday afternoon from
most of the Continental bourses denote greater
confidence in the tendency of political affairs. For
some time previously confidence in the satisfactory
solution of the Italian question, by means of a Con-
gress, had sensibly declined, but it has again been
revived by the general observations of some of the
Continental journals, and the effect on the value of
national stocks was almost instantaneous. The
Austrian funds at Amsterdam yesterday advanced
3 per cent., and the French funds per cent.
Consequent upon that recovery a better feeling
now prevails at the Stock Exchange, and the
general tendency of values is in the ascendant.

The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon ex-
hibited a further advance in the rates on Vienna
and Trieste.

There were no bullion operations•of importance
at the Bank of England yesterday. The whole of
the gold by the Roxburgh Castle, viz., £166,000,
has been taken for transmission to the Continent,
and the greater portion of the specie by the Asia
has also been taken for the same purpose.
Letters from Liverpool report that the Cotton
Market yesterday closed heavily, and prices tended
downwards. The sales were estimated at 6,000
bales. In Railway Shares rather more animation
was apparent, and quotations were decidedly firmer.
A moderate amount of business has taken place
in the market for public securities to-day, and a
fractional advance is exhibited in the quotations of
the Funds. Very little variation has ensued, but
the market has been favourably influenced by the
advices from the Continent and the rise on the foreign
Bourses. Consolshavebeen about 951 for money and
account, and at the present moment there are " sel-
lers" at that price. Th eGovernment broker has bought
£lO,OOO Reduced Annuities for the Savings Banks.
Bank Stock is rather firmer, at 2231 to 2211 ; and
the New Threes at 941 1, but the Reduced are flat
at 91. Exchequer Bills are steady, at 335. to 365.
prem. India Loan Debentures have receded to
961, and the Bonds are par to Is. prem.
Business in the Foreign Stock Market is rather
more animated, and prices in some instances are
rather firmer, Turkish 6 per Cents, being 871 to
881; ditto New Loan, 77:1 to 781 ; and the 4 per
Cents. have improved to 1021 to 103 ; Dutch 21
per Cents. at 614 ; and Russian 5 per Cents. at 110
to 1101 ; Mexican have receded to 21, Portuguese to
451, Sardinian to 77 and 79, and Buenos Ayres
Deferred to 181. The New Austrian Loan is quoted
2 to 1 dis.

In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been moderately active, and prices, in most instances,
chew a further improvement of about 1 per cent.
The arrangements for the settlement, however, are
now in progress, but the charge for carrying over
is not heavy. Eastern Counties, Great Northern,
Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire have
advanced Cs. ; and Midland, North British, and
South Eastern, 10s. South Western and North
Eastern (Berwick), declined ss.
The Foreign lines are also at slightly improved
rates. Paris and Lyons have advanced to 33;
Lombardo-Venetian Old Shares to 9 9-1, and the
New Shares to

The Colonial undertakings are rather flat.
Great Indian Peninsula are at 100-1, ; Grand Trunk
of Canada, 34 to 35; and East Indian, 1011 102.
The New Shares and the Debenture Bonds are
quoted at about previous rates.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares show
little variation from yesterday's rates. Union of
Australia have declined 10s., and Devon Bapunda
Mining Shares are quoted y to 1, prem.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .... 94
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
Ditto Debentures
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,000
Consols for Account (May 5) 95
I
ar.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & 11d.. Mch June.
33 6 1
Ditto £500
Ditto Small, 11d.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent.
Ditto 1858, 41 per Cent. 941
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent. ......... ~.. •
Ditto Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cent
Peruvian 41 per Cent
Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Portuguese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent llOl 10
Ditto 41 per Cent
SarcPnian, 5 per Cent 77 9 8
Ty,-kish 6 per Cent.....
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
78
Ditto Guaranteed 4 per Cent. Venezuelan 5 per Cent 11
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Gull. 21 per Cent 644
Consols, Money TWO O'CLOCK.
or, 1
Consols for Aje ...
ot'mot (Mayne) ; ..... "'-1 I sellers.
.... 901
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Her Royal Highness_dle Duchessed of Cambridge
honoured and the Princess Mary h the French Gallery in
Pall-Mall with a visit on Saturday.
The Duchess of Somerset has arrived at Wal-
lace's Hotel, Hyde Park-corner, from Wimbledon Park.
t The Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denison will
leave
Notts, for town
the Easter holidays. early next week for their seat, oss•
n Park,
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian have
left Claridge's Hotel for Blickling Hall, near Aylshara,
Norfolk.

The suspension has been announced at Marseilles
of the firm of Aquarone fils Porro and Co. Their liabili-
ties are understood to be large.
DAY OF THANKSGIVING.—A supplement to the
Gazette of Tuesday contains a notice filing
Sunday, the
Great Britain
Ist of May, in all Established Churches of
and Ireland, as a day of thanksgiving for the suppression of
the Indian mutiny.
THE OUTWARD BOMBAY AND AUSTRALIAN,
AIAILS.—SOUTIIAMPTON, April 12.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamship Ripon, Capt. E. Christian,
was despatched hence to-day for Gibraltar Malta, and
Alexandria, taking out the heavy portion of 'the mails for
Bombay, the Mauritius, Australia, New Zealand, &c. She
has 70 first and 20 second class passengers, among whom
are Capt. Cruikshank, for Melbourne ; Lieut. Harrison,
Ensigns Carruthers, Harvey, and Johnstone, for Gibraltar.
Sir D. Barclay proceeds via Marseilles for the Mauritius.
On freight the Ripon has a full cargo, and 2,968 boxes of
specie and jewellery, value £795,039 7s. ; viz., £3,000 in bar
gold, £125 in rupees, £787,028 in bar silver and five-franc
pieces, and £1,780 in sovereigns, for Bombay ; and jewellery
for Bombay, Mauritius, Melbourne, and Sydney, value
£3,116 78.
RETURN OF THE PRINCE ALBERT.—GALWAY,
Monday.—This morning the inhabitants of Galway were
surprised to find that the Prince Albert had returned to
the Roads, having sailed on Friday morning for New York.
At first it was currently reported that it was the Circassian
Which had arrived ; •but closer inquiry showed that it was
the Prince Albert. It was found that she had been obliged
to return in consequence of her having sprung a leak. It
appears that when she had been at sea for some time a leak
was discovered in the forward part of the vessel, it is sup-
Posed in that portion where she had been in contact with
the ice on her homeward voyage. The pumps having been
Put to work, it was thought that the water could be kept
(loula, but all the efforts of the officers and crew were un-
it availing, as it still continued to gain on the vessel. Finding
Would be dangerous to continue the voyac-e, Catain
Nicholson thought it expedient to return toes Galway,
where the vessel arrived this morning at eight o'clock. The
passengers were not well pleased at finding themselves
awillgain in the Bay of Galway ; but it is understood that they
be despatched in another steamer on 'Wednesday or
.11rsday, which will arriva here from Liverpool. The
started
Albert sailed 360 miles in 24 hours after she had
„(0.., and had not the unfortunate accident happened bhe
um nave made a rapid passage,