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

HAY.

Supplies of liaystuffs at Smithfield and Whitecbapel to-
day were only moderate, but quite adequate to the demand,
and prices remained without quotable changes. Meadow
hay, 60s to 81s ; clover, first cut, 80s to 100 s; second cut,
50s to 84s; straw, 30s to 34s per load.

TALLO W.
Market steady, at previous quotations.
COTTON.
LIvERPooL, March 19.—Sales probably 10,000 bales.

The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and
firs. Gladstone entertained at dinner yesterday, at their
tesidence in Carlton-house-terrace, the Duke of Cleveland,
the Earl of Meath, the Countess Cowper and Lady A.
Cowper, the Countess (Frances) Waldograve and the
Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, Lord and Lady Frede-
rick Cavendish, Lord Charles Russell, Lord Ronald L.
Gower, the Hon. 0. Lytteltou, the Right Hon. Charles P.
'Villiers, Hon. Locke Sing, Mr. and Mrs. Ellice, &c. After
dinner Mrs. Gladstone had a reception, which was very
numerously attended.

ALLEGED INHUMANITY.--It will be recollected
that at the time the bark Superior, of South Shields, was
run into and sunk by the steamship Lena, of Hull, in the
Channel, it was charged by the survivors of the Superior
that two men belonging to that vessel were allowed to
sink and drown in that vessel by the default of Mr.
Leonard Jackson, the master of the steamer Lena, and
his Channel pilot. By instructions from the Board of
Trade, 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

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 curried
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 co avulsions,
and while in that state he was sent in a cab with his mother
to the hospital. Nothing is known of the young woman
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 E. 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 Brshinaputra. By a
Pundit, under the direction of Captain T. G. Moutgotnerie,
R.E."

DIVIDEND OF THE NOP.TIE BRITISH RAILWAY
COMPANY.—The following official intimation 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 vi 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 4- per cent. on the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow 5 per Cent. Preference Stock No. 3.
The present eircuaistutees of the company necessitate these
dividends being paid by deferred warranty."

.PREFERENCE :SHARES.
treat Northern, 5 per cent. rd. at 5 per cent. pm., 1(
London, Chatham. and Dover 5 per cent., 45

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
London and Blat,kwall, b 7
Nottingham and Grantham It. and C, 921
South York. and Wirer Duu, 97
10itid UN RAIL WAY e.

Dutch Rhenish, _
Ditto, all,—
Ditto, new. 5}
G mboutt4.
ottonfan (Smyrna to Aidin), 3
A ,ur A UM, /' *all ,4 Lombardo Venetian. 151
Western and North-Western of France, 22

FOdkatiN
Don Pedro. North Del Rey, 21 Pm
St. John del hey, Inn , 20

BANt S.

Alliance. 11.11.1711 i
Australasia, 60
itarceteo Oani: of India, Australia, sad Claim, 18
COusolidated, iirn., 4
Imperial Ot °Loan, IU
LO:oloit Chartered ouritt of Australia, 23
.uatiou and Count),
~Otolou Joint 6tOCk„ 311
OUdOll and bt editullit,e'k, 68
uitto, scrip, 47}
National l'roviucia! of England.
Ditto. a and Issue, 37f
Union or A110,1'4113, 50
1111SUICLLANIGOUti.
Anglo American Telegraph, 22 1 /
atlantic Telegraph, o 3
Ditto, n p..:r cent IUS 2i
Canad.. Viinpany, 18
,eylou Couipany,
Ditto, A shares. 2 4
City of Mo>cow Gas, dm., 81
Credit o: England, Ilm., 3
Egyptian per Cent.. Viceroy Loan, gua. by Egypt, Goy., 89
tore-street Warehouse, Inn., lvi
nudson's Bay, 14 I
,nternational 3 3-16
National .:iseount (Ampany, 1 / 11
ceuinau.a and Oriental
Lao, new,
Rio de Jaoeiro City improvements. 16
Viceroy of Egypt 7 per cent. tll.lortgage) Loan, 74i 31

• ANOTHER SUICIDE AT BRIGHTON.—On Tuesday
evening an inquest was held at Brighton on the body of
George Solinger, a tailor, aged 38. Deceased had been in
the habit of drinking to excess, and on Tuesday morning
he went into a tap-room, where several men wale convers-
ing about the suicide of Mr. Dalrymple. Deceased joined
in the conversation, and said he must be a strong-minded
man who would dare blow out his brains. In a second or
two afterwards he put a loaded pistol to his face and fired
it, the explosion carrying away nearly the whole top of his
skull, and scattering particles of his brain and bits of flesh
over the bystanders. Either the ball or a pieoo of the
skull (the latter is thought the more likely) hit one man
close to deceased on the temple with ',Alen force as to came
blood•to flow freely. A verdict of "Temporary insanity"
was returned.

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Mrlrch 18.

Tire Queen drove out yesterday, awompanied
by the Dowager Duchess of Athole and Miss
Macgregor.

The Queen walked in the grounds thin morning,
and drove, accompanied by her Royal Highness
Princess Louise.

Princess Beatrice rode in the Homo Park.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Capt. Ellis,
rode out yesterday.
The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by
the Marchioness of Carmarthen.

THE PRINCESS LOUlSE.—Yesterday, being the
20th anniversary of the birth of her Royal Highness
Princess Louise, her Majesty the Queen arranged that
Dr. Elvey, attended by Messrs. Adams, Mil.ehell, Knowles,
Barnby, Dyson, Marriott, Tolley, Brig gs, Hunt, and
Bridgwater, choristers of St. George's Chapel, should
serenade the Princess. They reached the Castle at half-
past seven in the morning, and stationed themselves under
the window of her Royal Highness's roam ; they sang a
selection of appropriate music. In Windsor the day was
celebrated by an exhibition of flags, by the ringing of
church bells, and in other ways.