The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-19 00:00:00

HAY.

Supplies of haystuffs at Smithfield and Whitochapel to-
lay were only moderate, but quite adequate to the demand,
and prices remained without quotable changes. Meadow
,ay, GOs to 84s ; clover, first cut, 80s to 100 s; second cut,
;Os to 84s ; straw, 30s to 34s per load.

TALLOW.
Market steady, at previous quotations.

COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, March 19.—Sales probably 10,000 bales.

The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
M.P., and
Ars. Gladstone entertained at dinner yesterday, at their
..:sidenco in Carlton-house-terrace, the Duke of Cleveland,
he Earl of Meath; the Countess Cowpor and Lady A.
iowper, the Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and the
flight Hon. Chichester Fortescue, Lord and Lady Frecle-
.-ick Cavendish, Lord Uharles Russell, Lord Ronald L.
lower, the Hon. C. Lyttelton, the Right Hon. Charles P.
Villiers, Hon. Locke King, Mr. and Mrs. Ellice, &c. After
dinner Mrs. Gladstone had a reception, which was very
aumerously attended.

ALLEGED INHUMANITY.---it will be recollected
:hat at the time the bark Superior, of South Shields, was
run into and sunk by the steamship Lena, of Hull, in the
Manuel, it was charged by the survivors of the Superior
chat two men belonging to that vessel were allowed to
4ink and drown in that vessel by the default of Mr.
Leonard Jackson, the master of the steamer Lena, and
ris Channel pilot. By instructions from the Board of
i'rade, the Local Marine Board of Newcastle-on-Tyne
went fully into the matter during the past two days, and
had all the evidence before them ; and as regards allow-
ing the two unfortunate seamen belonging to the Superior
to drown, the master and pilot of the Lena were acquitted
of all blame, and the master had his certificate returned to
him.

SCENE ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.—At a quarter
past eleven o'clock on Monday night, when the footways
on Westminster Bridge were still thronged with passen-
gers, a young woman was seen to rush from the road to
the eastern parapet, and, giving one wild shriek, to throw
herself over into the river beneath. The purpose was so
suddenly executed that none of those who witnessed the
deed were able to prevent it. For a few moments the
body was seen floating ou the water before it was carried
away by the tide and lost to sight. A respectable
woman who was on the bridge, accompanied by her son,
a boy of about twelve years of age, was so extremely agi-
tated by the thought that by quicker movement she might
possibly have prevented the suicide, that the lad, under a
dread that she too would throw herself over the bridge,
screamed with horror, and at length fell into convulsions,
and while in that state he was sent iu a cal, with his mother
to the hospital. Nothing is known of the young yeoman
who jumped from the bridge except that she was without
a shawl, and that her bonnet flew off as she ran to the
parapet, and remained on the footpath.

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—At the evening
meeting on Monday next—Sir R. I. Murchison, Bart., pre-
sident, in the chair—the paper to be read will be " A Jour-
ney to Shasa and the Source of the B:ahmaputra. By a
Pundit, under the direction of Captain T. Cr. Montgomerie,
R.E."

DIVIDEND OF THE NORTII BRITISH RAILWAY
COMPA.NY.—Tho following official intimati,n has been
issued by the North British Railway Company :—" The
directors have gone over the revenue accounts for the
half year ending 31st January last, and they find that the
surplus available for division vt ill admit of dividends being
declared at the half-yearly meeting on the 27th instant
on all the company's preference stocks, down to and in-
clusive of the North British 1863 Preference Stock, and
also a dividend to the extent of di per cent. on the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow 5 per Cent. Preference Stock No. 3.
The present circumstances of the company necessitate these
dividends being paid by deferred warrants."