The Aberdare Times

IIAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. THORN, May 6. cautionary measures of a m'llury character II at Warsaw on account of the Russian Cannon have been planted in front of the est3 and judicial inquiries by tlis civil nue to be made. PESTH, May 5. if troops have been dispatched to several a comitats, to enforce payment of the taxes. is of the comities have remonstrated agahi&t

VIL WAR IN AMERICA. to the latest news from America, the In the city of New York continued 'he rolls weie raoidly filling up, and pre- re milking by the various regiments for rture for the seat of war. Colonel Ells- Zouaves were to leave for Washington on and three regiments, the 79th, 56th, and Ibably go on the same day. In the United Court, on the 24th, Judge Bstts delivered charge to the special grand jury empan- cognisance of cases of treason and mis- ison in New York. A gun manufacturer was arrested on the 24th on a charge of Dr. Sabot was arrested for misprision of !y were committed for trial. of councilmen of New York had unani- ted an ordinance providing for raising ars to assist in equipping volunteers for no direct communication between New ashington and Baltimore. The commu- mderstood to be suspended by desire of jnt, in order to prevent its plans of war iito the hands of its opponents. ass meeting in support of the Govern- present crisis of the nation, was held in n the 20th nit. Such a demonstration ore been witnessed in the United States. resolutions were proposed and unani- ed pledging the meeting to use every serve the Union intact and inviolate, and le appointment of a committee of 25 to city in the collection of funds and the such other business in aid of the Govern- publio interests may require. Great svailed throughout the whole proceedings, were ignored, and the entire meeting, listeners, were a unit in maintaining the ur unsullied. agiment, under the command of Colonel sft Brooklyn on the 23rd for the seat of ion were most enthusiastically greeted march through Brooklyn. The 28th, dyn regiment, would leave as soon as the perly armed and equipped. The 8th and ts started for the South on the 23rd. n immense turn out to witness their l immense Union mass meeting was held afternoon in Brooklyn. The number itimated at 25,000. The mayor presided. council of Brooklyn have raised their for the war from 75,000 dols. to 100,000 ivices from Baltimore report that martial proclaimed in that city. All the places the saloons, &c., were closed. Scouts out in every direction to guard the ap- e city, and to give warning in case of the Northern troops. or of Maryland had issued a proclamation i Legislature of that state on the 26th Ivanian troops recently encamped at few miles north of Baltimore, had broken ipment. They had been ordered to return to be diepatched thence to Washington lia. :ounts continued to be received of the ning in Baltimore and its vicinity. No allowed to leave the city, and railroad ut off. passengers for the North could by private conveyance. The greatest said to prevail in the city, and all re closely watched. joicing took place at Montgomery, Ala- news being received of the secession of reat anxiety existed to hear from the •pie being still unaware of the overwhelm- aous Union feeling which has rendered the man since the attack of the secessionists r. Business in Montgomery was almost mded. It was believed that President for Richmond, Virginia, there, in con- iral Beauregard, to concentrate a strong Washington. '!I!

TENED ATTACK ON WASHINGTON. Herald of the 25tb ult. says :— nportant news from Washington. Our ;h Regiment and the Massachusetts 8th at last safely arrived in the national atches to that effect were received in this t. Government has sent special messen- rging the forwarding of troops as fast as as many field pieces as can be sent. It sary to have the national capital re- ipidly as may be, it being believed that its have a strong foroe in the neighbour- » they are preparing for an early attack. that General Beauregard and President .h in Virginia ready to lead the assault. scarcity of food in Washington. rted that a secession army of 6,000 men ighbourhood of Washington on the 22ad xcitement prevailed. The Government sngthening and throwing up defences kpital and all the public buildings, and onary measure possible was being taken. Ive was known as to the secession forces le in the neighbourhood, but an early capital was apprehended.

DF ELEVEN SHIPS OF WAR-BURNING OF THE NAVY YARD. .is a brief account of the destruction of the ard:- re to on the morning of the 21st by the orces stationed there to prevent it falling J8 of the secessionists. All the most :rtr there was destroyed, including the ship Pennsylvania, the Bcrew frigate B sloop of war Germantown, the brigs j* Dolphin, the frigates Colombia, Po- iJelaware, the line-of-battle ship New stocks), and other vessels of less value, the arms, munitions and stores, ship- storehouses. On a preconcerted signal Ie whole was set fire to simultaneously, was the destruction that Commander le navy, and Captain Wright, of the re unable to reach the point of ren- :™arkation, and were necessarily left Union men of Norfolk, it is said, co- the Government troops.

OM THE AMERICAN PAPERS. troops are daily leaving New York for \l°utc for Washington. tJ.?nt"omFry state that Jefferson Davis will lav t}le The last meeting of citizens, y in Union-square, was one of the largest J-uat have ever taken plane in this city it is Quarter of a million of people were present. har/j r .e e ma(l0 by the Mayor, Daniel S. ara O'Gorman, and many other prominent bridges between Philadelphia and Balti- by the ptople of Maryland. Three f.*1 troops who -werein charge of Harper's wpr ^eave at the time of the evacuation Bart ei1 Prisoners by the Virginians they irt th \ho,r tscal>e ,0 Harrisburg, in Peunsyl- that the c'e3tI"ueUon of buildings and arms rv oS!? <>r seven thousand Virginians wire 0\, Pla<: 'bey design invading Maryland, J nitc^r" lice tha line of w&rfaro. Dtiiro i hV»te3 stearcship Star of the West was nt » without resistance oft' I ndi*uiol:i by the w an y.' Sllt* kas been taken to New Orleans 1_ °ard. She had 800 or 900 barrels of pro- lan,?rrespondent of the New York Herald u 411 "i Virginia have been committed to sscession from the beginning, thsir apparent hesitation baing only a mask to throw toe North off their guard. At large public meeting held at Louisville, Kentucky, it <7as unanimously resolved that the State of Kentucky would rsniiin neutral in the present crisis, neither Hiding North nor South, but would arm herself to resist any attack marte upon tier from either side. A patriotic fund, on the plan of the Crimsan fund, has been formed in NJW York, for the support of the families of any of the volunteers who may fall in the war. By order of the collector of New Yosk no vessel is at present allowed to leave the port between sunset and sunrise. The municipality of New York have resolved to appro- priate one million dollars for the equiqment of the volun- teers, the amount to be raised on stock to be called the Union Defence Bonds. They have also received to present Major Anderson, of Fort Sumter, with a ge.ld snuff-box and the freedom of the city. Ail Eogliah volunteer corps hii3 been formed in New York, who will off=r their services to Presi- dent Lincoln. General Henry Wiljon, United States Senator from Mas- sachusetts (says the New York Tribune), passed through our city yesterday, on his way to Washington. He goes as a priv.,te in the Worcester regiment th it arrived here yester- dav morning, and left by steam-boat last evening. Mr. Cassius M. Clay, the Minister to Russia, offered his services as a privste soldier—the first instance of the kind ever known. He Fu'isequontly raised a regiment of Ken- tucklaus, and waa appointed its celonel. REPORTED FALL OF FORT PICKENS. With the tidings of the creat disasters to t-io North we have news of the fan of Fort Pickens. Tuia fort was con- sid -ri-d of great strength, but was probably no more tenable again:; well-canst,-u>red shore batteries thaw was F <rt Su i.t r. It was bails on a low sandy spot, at the western end of the island of Santa B/JSK, which lies in the mouth of the bay of Ponsacola. The entrance to the harbour, one milo broad, was between this fort and Port Mac Rea on the mainland For; Pickens was a first-class fort, bastioned and buiite-fstunoand brick. It was 25 jears in building, only tisiisiied in 1853, and coat a million of dollars. It mounted nearly 200 gut).?, most of them light, and required a garrison of 12.)0 men when on war footing. By the last accounts there were 800 men in the f .rt. If this important position has been lost to the North there has been lost with it the best harbour in the Gcrif of Mexico, and the oaly one which re- mained to the Federal Government. CRITICAL POSITION OF THE AMERICAN CAPITOL. But a still more important matter is tha critical position of Washington, which is at present, held by a handful of Federal troo; s, perhaps 6,000 in number. The connection, railway and telegraphic, between it aud the North has been cut off. The troops from New York and Massachusetts can get as far as Philadelphia. But here the road is blocked before them. They cannot pass through Baltimore, and by this time they will find it necessary to fight their way for every inch of ground through the state of Maryland. It will take much time to get round by sea up the Chesapeake, and when they arrive it may be too late to save the capital. The position of Washington Is just what that of London would be wiih all Middlesex and Surrey in the hands of an enemy in overwhelming force. We believe it is just as open and defence- lest as the capital of England and it loses in the comparison by the want of a population of three millions to fight for it. The army of the South is approaching; the Virginians are reported already on Arlington heights, vi'.hin view of the White House. Unless President Lincoln and General Scott are very prompt in their movements, not all the enthusiasm of New York, not all the devotion of Boston and Philadelphia will prevent the city from falling into the hands of the South, or save the American Capitol from the desecration of an unknown flag It is even doubtful whether Washington can be safely evacuated, should that step seem desirable to the oommander-in-chief. With Virginia pressing it in front, and Maryland in arms all round it, the garrison may shortly find themselves prisoners of war. MR. SUMNER MOBBED IN BALTIMORE. Senator Sumner has been exposed to imminent personal danger in Baltimore. The New York Tribune, in a severe article upon the outrages of the mob which has obtained the ascendancy in that city, says:— Senator Sumner of Massachusetts, unsuspicious o I danger, stopped in their city tho night before the Massachusetts men were there, put up at Barnum's Hotel, registered his name, and walked directly out to visit a friend. Very soon the house was sur- rounded by fierce, vociferous thousands, crying, Bring him out!' groaning, and threatening to tear down-the house. They were assured that there was no such person in the house. At half-past eight, Mr. Sumner returned, was taken in at a side-door unrecognised, and shown to his room. Here he was speedily waited upon by the landlord, and by the manager, who each entreated him to leave to save his own life, with the house and its contenls. He refused, since he could not get ont of the city, and had no right to expose a private dwelling to danger. The landlord then put him into another room, and, of course, denied that any such person was in the house. The mob were thus got rid of. But Mr. Sumner's desire to wait till the second morning train was overruled by the landlord's earnest remonstrances, or rather entreaties, and he left at five a.m., a private carriage taking him from the private door, so that he should not be seen. This was while no one pretended that any affront had been offered to Baltimore, or any special cause for riot existed. The mob wished to kill him simply because he was Charles Sumner, the eminent Republican Senator from Mas- sachusetts."

)ff K I 4'5 Ct u Ipsttllmrtmts dttwral fttfcs. HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. KOSSUTH'S BANK-NOTES TO BE DESTROYED.— On Saturday Vice-Chancellor Stuart pronounced judg- ment in the case of the Emperor of Austria v. Kossuth. He gave a decision in favour of the Imperial plaintiff on all points. The matter will not, however, be allowed to rest here, the defendants having de- termined to appeal. From a statement published in a Ministerial journal, it appears that the printing of the notes became known in the following way :-A press- man in the employ of Messrs. Day showed a spoiled sheet of the notes to an inspector of police, who placed it in the hands of Sir R. Mayne. From Scotland-, ard it found its way by natural transition to the Home Office, and from thence to the Austrian Embassy. DELIRIUM OF THE DYING.—Dr. Winslow, in his work on the Diseases of the Brain and Mind," says the delirium that occasionally accompanies the act of dying is often marked by a singular and significant reference to the minute circumstances of the past life and aged persons have been heard, like Falstaff, not only to babble about green fields," but (in imagina- tion) to converse with and of the companions of their youth, and to talk of particular events that had occurred at the period of their early childhood! An elderly lady, whilst in a state of delirium immediately preceding death, addressed those about her on the subject of marriage, and requested them to arrange her bridal dress, and gave other instructions respecting an event that bad occurred, under unusually peculiar and romantic circumstances, nearly fifty years previously. MR. COBDEN DECLINES A BARONKTCY.—Lord Palmerston, on the part of the Government, has signified his desire to advise her Majesty to bestow on her representative in carrying out the provisions of the commercial treaty with France a baronetcy and the distinction of a privy councillor, both of which honours he has declined. His reasons for so doing we have, of course, no right nor inclination to criticise; but it will gratify his admirers, and it is but just to him and the Government that the fact should be known. FORMIDABLE GUNs.-The cast-steel guns lately made in France have been tried at Gavre, near Lorient. They are said to carry about 13,000 yards, and at 3,000 the projectiles are capable of piercing such plates as those with which the Gloire is covered, namely 12 centimetres, or rattier more than inches English, in thickness. It is said that a new kind of cuirass, invented by the Emperor, as the guns in question are also stated to be, is to be tried in the Invincible. According to another account, the pro- jectiles thrown by these new steel guns weigh about 951bs. English, and it is calculated that falling in the midst of a compact mass of men they would kill or wound a hundred. When will the invention of these murderous weapons cease ? MODEL YOUNS LADIES!—The "Holly Spring Herald" learns that the county of Chickasaw, Miss., has ten companies of volunteer soldiers ready to be mustered into the service of the State. It adds that, in addition to these, the county has a regularly officered and drilled company of young ladies who have pledged themselves, in the event that the men are called into service, to protect their homes and families during their absence, and see that the farms are properly cultivated, and full crops raised not only for the support of the county but of the army of Mississippi. THE CHINESE P.RTBONER.-A t the plunder of the Imperial Palace of Yuen-ming-yuen (the Summer Palace), near Pekin, on the 8th of last October, a little dog was found by Captain Dunne, 99th Regi- ment. Capt. Dunne brought it home by the last mail from China. No other dog like it was found in the Palace. It is supposed to have belonged to the Empress, or one of the ladies of the Imperial family, and is considered by every one who has seen it one of the smallest and by far the most beautiful little animal that has ever appeared in England. Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to accept the dog, it now forms one of the Royal collection of dogs. THE CHURCH MIlITANT I-We believe" mus- cular Christianity is one of Spurgeon origin, and is used by that popular divine to express strong emotions on the part of Christian professors (says the Court Journal). A correspondent informs us that a remark- able instance of this kind has occurred during the past week, and that two reverend gentlemen of Cambria, near neighbours, had a regular pitched battle, one of the combatants receiving such a severe blow in the face as to place his optics in deep mourning for some days to come. One of the "muscular" Christians belongs to the Church and the other to the Dissenters. We re- frain from stating the names of the parties, and hope for the credit of both that the report is highly coloured, or that it has no foundation. SKTTING THE CHANCELLOR AT DEFIAKCE !— The late Mr. Keats, principal partner in the firm of Fortnum, Mason, and Co., London, the eminent pur- veyors of edibles for races, pic-nics, &c in order to prevent his daughter, aged sixteen, making an objec- tionable marriage, made her a ward in Chancery. The Editor was Augustus Henry Garland, an officer in the Guards, whose suit was favoured by the young lady's brother. Recently the brother called at the residence of her guardian, and, under an excuse of taking his Bister for a walk, she left with him, and they then pro. ceeded—the young lady being quite anxious to throw herself into the arms of her lover—to Old St. Pancras ¿ Church, where the marriage w.-u) duly sol'-mbised with Mr. Garland, in the presence of his mother and sister, and the brother of the bride. It is charged that the declaration of the consent of the father is wholly false, and that he always avowed his opposition to the mar- riage. The offending parties are now awaiting judg- ment in the Court of Chancery. SUICTDE THBOUHH Lovic.- On Saturday morning as a bricklayer was proceeding to his work over Primrose-hill, near London, he observed a respectably- dressed man deliberately place a loaded pistol to his right ear. A loud report followed, and the man fell dead instantly. The suicide was attired in a most fashionable manner, and had gold s'uds in his shirt, a quantity of silver and copper in his pocket, and a pa!mr on which was written the following, showing that he had premeditated the rash act:— Friend You who shall find this body take it to the nearest public, house, and deliver the letters you find as addressed." On exaniinin.5r the letters, one was found addressed to the Rev. Mr.Eyre, Berkeley-square a Roman Catholic priest, who on seeing the communication at once iden- tified the handwriting as that of Mr. Richard Goreing, residing in Camden-town, London. From the con- tents of the letter addressed to the Rev. Mr. Eyre, that gentleman is led to believe that the cause of the commission of this desperate act was a love affair in which the unfortunate man had been disappointed. rhe deceased, whose age was thirty-four, belongs to the well-known family of the Goreings, near Shore- ham, Sussex, and is highly respectable. The inquest was opened on Monday, and after a great deal of evidence had been heard, adjourned for a week. How TO SETTLE A QUARBEL !—We mentioned a quarrel which took place lately in a first-class car- riage on the St. Etienne Railway (says a Lyons paper). It was the Marquis de Montmorillon who, when entering the carriage, found himself in the pre- sence of a traveller who would not permit him to pass. The Marquis, irritated at his rudeness, lighted a cigar without asking permission of his fellow- traveller. The latter insultingly ordered the Marquis to extinguish his cigar, and on his refusing to do so he struck the Marquis so violently on the hand that the cigar fell to the ground. The Marquis then seized the aggressor and pitched him out of the window. This scene took place while the train was in motion, and the unknown escaped wonderfully from being crushed under the wheels of the waggons. By lucky chance he fell first on the step of the carriage, and thence rolled on to the road without having received any injury, for he stood up and shook his fist at the Marquis. The Marquis de Montmorillon returned the compliment with his hand, and threw the stranger his cloak, which had remained in the carriage, and went on his way rejoicing. PRUSSIA VERSUS LORD PALMERSTON.—In Monday's sitting of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies, at Berlin, M. Von Vincke designated as tirades the speeches of Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell on the affair of Captain Macdonald, and said though the English alliance was highly estimated by Prussia, yet at the same time the alliance was also a necessity for England. Baron Schleinitz said the impression produced in Prussia by the words of Lord Palmerston was of a most regretable and painful character, and without underrating the value of a good understanding with England, Prussia had no need to sacrifice her independence for the friendship of any power. He then communicated to the Chamber a note he had ad- dressed to Count Bernstorff, to be presented to Lord John Russell. In conclusion, Baron Schleinitz ex- pressed a hope that the good understanding which was necessary to all Europe would not b e disturbed. SUPPOSED MURBER.—Some sixteen years since a woman named Ann Margerson disappeared from her residence and friends at Great EUingham, Norfolk, in a very mysterious and inexplicable manner. Nothing could ever be ascertained with respect to her fate, which remained an impenetrable mystery till within the last few days, when some workmen who were en- gaged in throwing down a bank in the parish found a human skeleton. The skull was fractured, and it is now supposed that the unfortunate woman was mur- dered and buried in the spot from which the remains have now been disinterred. £250 PER ANNUM FOR 10s.-Any person desir- ous of becoming possessed of the above-named annual incoma are requested to make an immediate application, enclosing a postage-stamp to James Anderson, Box 30, General Post-office, London, who will furnish the fullest par- ticulars by return of post. A gentleman having observed the above advertise- ment in a Manchester paper, for sheer curiosity's sake, sent a stamp, and received a circular containing the following precious information 2,5002. to 10s. against naming the winners of the three following races, namely—Goodwood, Cesarewitch, Cam- ridgeshire. Open till the 24th of July. A different horse to be chosen for each race. Should a horse be chosen that has heen laid against it will be declined and the money re- turned. The gentleman did not send the 10s., but no doubt there are persons simple enough to do so. THE WEATHER AND FRANCE.—At this period last year (writes a Paris correspondent) the weather was cold and wet, and farmers were praying for summer heat to revive the vegetation. This year farmers are complaining of the want of moisture, and they are cry- ing out for sunshine and rain. The dry cold weather which has prevailed since the beginning of April has not caused any injury to wheat sown in rich, well-tilled land, but it has not been favourable to wheat sown late in the autumn, and which is consequently thin and weak. White wheat and the produce of foreign seed has suffered more than the native produce, which is better suited to the variable climate of France. Some heavy showers of rain and sleet have fallen, and the earth is considerably refreshed, but a cold north west wind still prevails. In fact, the weather when snow and hail fell was more like that of the month of May. A STRICT SEARCH.—We take the following from a Paris letter:- A gentleman suspected, as it appears on good ground, of being the bearer of letters from the Orleans family to friends of theirs in Paris, was arrested two or three days ago, and so vigorously searched that he was almost stripped naked. Twenty-seven letters were found upon him. One of these was from the Due d'Aumale, and it being thought by the Government officers that the absence of thia letter might be made an excuse by the counsel of M. Dumlneray for putting off the trial, it was sent to M. Dufaure. QUEENSLAND.-It may not be generally known that all adults going to Queensland direct from Europe at their own expense receive, immediately after land- ing, a land order to the amount of 181., and after re- siding in the country for two years continuously, a further order to the amount of 121, Two children over the age of four and under fourteen are reckoned as one adult, and their parents receive orders accordingly. They may also be given to persons paying the passages of immigrants, and are no less open to foreigners who become naturalised in the colony than to persons leav. ing the United Kingdom. DiSOOVERY OF A ROMAN VILLL-The Rev. Wil- liam B. Philpot, rector of Walesby, writes to the Times announcing the interesting discovery of a Roman villa For the sake of your antiquarian readers I wish to state that an extensive villa, with its dependent establishments, has been lately brought to light by the plough and the spade. The plough struck against one of the under piers of one of the hypocausts. The ploughman, imagining it to be some kind of draining tile, or an old chimney pot, took the opinion of an intelligent local antiquarian. He kindly com- municated with myself. We were helped in our labours by the tenants and neighbours, and when the principal portion had been laid open to view the Rev. Edward Trollope, the discoverer of the villa on the property of the late Earl of Westmoreland, paid us a visit, and on Tuesday last kindly explained the idea of the Roman villa to a large assembly from the adjoining parts. Our villa stands within half-a-mile of the great Roman road from Camulodunum to the settlements in Yorkshire. From indications in the neighbouring fields it is not unlikely that this may have been a settlement of some extent. Coins have been found of the period of one of the Gordlans, of Constantine, of Constantius II., and of Constans: also some fragments of handmills, a stone chisel, faggot-fork, spindlewhirls, and numberless pieces of funeral urns, dolia diotm, and jars ef many sorts and sizes, some of very choice Samian and Duro- brivoo ware. The hypocaustal features are very clearly marked, as the furnaces, flues, aabpits, and under piers, which are filled with clay, and much burnt. There are foundations of the walls of three rooms, and a cold plunging bath, with a long drain by which the water escaped down the slope of the hilL Bones of red deer, oxen, and sheep have been dug up, with the usual number of oyster shells. The spot commands a view of Lincoln, and is within a few minutes' walk of a view of the Humber and the sea. THE GROWTH OF AN AUSTRALIAN TOWN.—The rise and progress of towns in Australia are extraordi- nary. Some 30 miles from Adelaide, in South Australia, a town called Gawler has sprung up within the last few years which now numbers about 20,000 in- habitants. It has its corporation, churches, chapels, public buildings, and societies. According to the general and commercial directory of Gawler, the town has a Church of England, and one of Scotland, Catho- lic, Independent, Wesleyan, and Bible Christian chapels, and a free Presbyterian church; also two branch banking companies, a literary institute, odd fellow, freemason, building, agricultural, horticultural, and British and foreign Bible societies, two public schools, a rifle corps, &c. Twenty-three years ago scrub existed where the the town is now built, and where the chief houses now stand, a man, in exploring the then lonely spot, perished from hunger and thirst AFRICAN NATIVE PECUHAKmES.—Dunng his travels in the Gorilla country, M. Du Chaillu met with a splendid tribe of natives, fine warlike negroes, but all addicted to the horrible practice of cannibalism. These negroes have one peculiar characteristic; they will not dine off a defunct relation. The ties of kindred obtain for the deceased immunity from being served up before his relations, but the latter are at liberty to exchange his body for that of a person unconnected with the family! This race of negroes are excellent workers of j iroD, and fashion most terrible implements of warfare with great ease and skill. Wealth consists in the number of wives and slaves the more fathers-in-law a negro I has the more renowned his name, and the greater his fo.- -[,e- wi-ii, i-f- )t)-ta;n Tivea from different tribes, and the relations thus ob- tained assist in increasing his wealth. In several dis ■'riots he saw cotton growing wild around the villages, hut the natives made cloth from grass", of which he had several beautiful specimens in his possession. THE NEW RUYAL MARRIAGE.—It is the faehion, or it used to be the fashion at one time, (remarks the John Bull) to sneer at these German princes as petty potentates, the democratic adulation being reserved for rhose sovereigns who wielded great material forces. But after all we do not know whether the connection of the Crown of England with these minor German thrones is not of more solid ad- vantage to us than the casual alliances which oommon interests may for the time engender between Kngland and any of the greater powers. There is less ianger of our quarrelling about questions of dominion and of interest; there are more elements of personal attachment about the position of the prince who has not much voice or responsibility in the greater movements of European politics. More than all, the relations of friendship or affinity between the Throne of England and the German Courts introduce our European policy to the favourable consideration of united Germany-a country which is more likely than anv other to have common interests with ourselves, and which is more than any other inclined to adopt our own quiescent attitude of non-intervention in the concerns of other nations. ASSISTANCB TO MANUFACTURERS IN FRANCE.- The Moniteur publishes a report to the Emperor Napo ieon by the Commission charged to examine the appli- cation for loans sent to the Government by manufac- turers in conformity with the Imperial decree of the 5th of December last:— The report states that more than 600 demands were pre- sented, the total sum asked for being nearly 80 millions. Out of the above number 272 were considered inadmissible, while 200 have already been admitted, for sums amounting to 38,420,000fr. Out of the above number of applicants 162 are to furnish mortgage security either for the whole or a part of the sum advanced to them, and in the other cases the high respectability of the houses have been considered as sufficient guarantee. The Commission considers that the longest time for the complete reimbursement should not ex- ceed 12 years, but in the majority of cases it is to take place by 10 equal annual payments, with iuterest decreasing every year. A WARNING TO RAILWAY TRAVELLERS. — A shocking accident has occurred at Derby, by which a porter lost his life in endeavouring to save that of a passenger who had recklessly jumped on to the stepa of a carriage while the train was in motion. The facts were as follow:—The North Staffordshire train had just started, when a passenger named G. Walker, of Wootton, near Asnbourn, came running along the sta- tion platform and sprang on to the step of one of the carriages, and attempted to open the door. All the doors, however were locked, as the passengers alighted on the other side of the carriages, which being known to a porter named Hull, he ran up to Walker, and seized hold of him for the purpose of pulling him back on to the platform, when by some means his foot slipped, he fell over the buffers at the end of the car- riage, and no less than six of the carriages went over him, killing him instantaneously, and mangling his body in the most frightful manner. The passengers were horrorstruck at what they had witnessed, and screamed loudly. At the inquest, the coroner severely censured Walker for attempting to get into the train after it was in motion, and ordered him to be summoned before the county magistrates for infringing one of the company's bye-laws. A FLAG TO FIGHT UNDRR.—M'Pherson Wash- ington, a lineal descendant of the "Father of his Country," owns the celebrated "crimson flag of Eutaw," which was carried at the famous fight, as well as at Cowpens (says an American paper). There is a story connected with that piece of cloth that deserves narration. Just before the battle of Eutaw, William Washington called upon a lady and asked her for something red to inspire the boys in the coming fight. She withdrew, and returned with the desired colour carefully wrapped up. Our revolutionary mothers wore red petticoats in those days, and, not being able to obtain anything else, she sacrificed her crimson jupe on the altar of her country. It was carried into many a hotly-contested field, and wherever it was seen the boys thought of their sweethearts and wives at home, and struck for freedom with terrible force. That little flag is now borne by the Palmetto soldiers, being in the present custody of the Washington Light Infantry. TRADE IN FRANCE. — Confidence has been further confirmed in commercial and manufacturing circles (writes a Paris correspondent) by the pacific lan- guage used by the Emperor Francis Joseph at the opening of the Austrian Parliament. The news from America has, unfortunately, created fresh alarm among the French cotton manufacturers. They fear that their eupply of cotton will be curtailed, and that the Ameri- can market will be closed to French produce. A cer- tain tightness is observed in the money-market, which is attributed, among other causes, to a report that the railway companies are about to issue railway bonds to the amount of 240,000,000f. THE CROWN OF GOLD FOR THE EX-QUEEN OF NAPLES.—A letter from Munich says :— M. de Boddien, Marshal of the Court of Mecklenburg, arrived here the day before yesterday, and was on the following day iavited to dinner by the Duchess Louisa, mother of the Queen of Naples. M. de Boddlen was the bearer of a letter from the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg to the Duchess Louisa, begging her to transmit to the Queen Maria of Naples the crown of laurel in gold, which forty German princesses had resolved to send to her Majesty as a mark of their sympathy. This crown, which has been delivered to the Duchess by M. de Boddien, is composed of about 120 leaves, on some of which are engraved the names of the donors. After the arrival of the Count de Trani, a courier will be dispatched to Rome with this magnificent present, which is accompanied by a letter signed by all the princesses.

GOVERNMENT AID TO VOLUNTEERS. There is a misconception as to the terms of this aid in many even well-informed quarters (remarks the Volun- teer Service Gazette), and it arises from confounding the assessment of the sum per head, as the means of arriv- ing at what is required for the corps, with a personal payment to the lndividtfel as a compensation or reward, m some part, for his services. There is no doubt that to pay the individual, or even to bargain with him for payment, would be in breach of the Volunteer system. To relieve him of the expenses incidental to his training and his shooting, by subscribing to the funds of the corps, is not only not in violation of that BJstem, but has been from the very first in strict accord with it. The honorary subscriptions to the corps have been throughout a leading feature; and what is this but the means whereby the effective is freed from the more pressing expenses ? The form of resolution pro- posed by Sheriff Bell relates merely to the mode in which the quantum is arrived at. It carefully ex- cludes all notion of payment to the individual, and is, in other words, merely saying, that after a careful ex- amination of all the necessary expenses incident to keep a corps thoroughly efficient in drill and rifle prac- tice, lOOl. paid by Government to the funds of every corps consisting of 100 effectives would be efficient. The individual would never touoh the money; he would have no claim to it; but the corps csuld demand it in aid of the expenses specially pointed out in the resolutions of the captains, as long as the indi- vidual continued an effective. There is a still further misconception we would wish to remove; it is, that any payment, in whatever shape, would bring the force immediately under the control of the Horse Guards, and thus the great feature of freedom of action, so es- sential to the permanence of the movement, would be destroyed. The Horse Guards neither have, nor wish to have, any voice in the matter. The Volunteer force is legally and constitutionally placed under the War Office, and there it will remain, whether Parliament gives the aid sought for or not.

THE STRUGGLE FOR THE YOUNG MARQUIS OF BUTE. In the House of Lords three appeals have been argued In this celebrated case. They were Stuart v. the Marquis of Bute." Stuart v. Lady E. Moore and another" (first and second appeals). The appeals were argued together. The first was from the Court of Chancery, and the two latter from the Second Division of the Court of Session In Scotland. In stating the case, the Attorney-General said he appeared for the Marquis of Bute, and also for Major- General Stuart. The present Marquis of Bute was born in Scotland on the 20th of September, 1847, and was therefore now in his 14th year. His father died on the 18th of March, 1848, without appointing a guar- dian for his son, who was at that time in England, and on the 3rd of May following a petition was presented to the Court of Chancery, in the name of the infant Marquis, under which his mother, the Marchioness of Bute, was appointed guardian during his minority. The mother continued to fulfil the duties of guardian to her child until her death, which happened in De- cember, 1859. By her will she expressed a wish and desire that Major-General Charles Stuart, Lady E. Moore, and Sir Hastings Gilbert should be appointed guar- dians; and, in accordance with that wish, Major- General Charles Stuart and Lady E. Moore were so appointed by the Court of Chancery. At that time the young Marquis was in Scotland in the care of Lady E. Moore, and a number of letters passed between her and Major-General Stuart, the result of which had been to remove Lady E. Moore out of all question of claiming any interest in the guardianship or custody of the child. She therein promised to deliver up the custody of the Marquis to Major-General Stuart whenever he chose to demand him of her. About the end of February, 1860, Major-General Stuart went at her invitation to Mount Stuart, to fetch the boy back to England, but he was persuaded by Lady E. Moore to leave him there for a day or two longer, when she promised to bring him herself. After some delay Lady E. Moore and the child arrived in London, but she did not take him to General's re- sidence, and after a few days she wrote to that gen- tleman stating that she found the Marquis contemplated leaving her with alarm, and was so unhappy about it that she felt to remove him from her care was a step that ought to be well considered before it was adopted. She added, Bute himself ought to be consulted before 70 decide." General Stuart became most anxious ipon receiving this communication, as the boy, up to ha.t time, had been brought up without any sort of control, and had received no education whatever, and ^ordingly he wrote to Lady Moore informing her that if the Marquis was not at once placed in his hands he should apply to the Lord Chancellor on the subject. Lady Moore replied in the following words :— I agree with you that, unless we can reconcile our t'tews, the Lord Chancellor is the proper person to decide our rights." General Stuart again wrot-s > <•. her, intimating that he should at once lay the ur.utr before the Lord Chancellor, whereupon Lady E. Moore the same evening put the child into the night express train and took him off to Edinburgh, thinking that thus she had taken the ward in Chancery out of the jurisdiction of that Court. The next day a petition was laid before the Court of Chancery, praying that a scheme might be drawn up for the education and maintenance of the young Marquis. Now, when Lady E. Moore fled under cover of the night, she did not revoke the authority she had previously given to her solicitor in London, and accordingly when the case came on, she was represented by counsel who assented to the order then made that such a scheme should be settled.. The following scheme was then drawn up in accord- ance with that order :—The infant Marquis, together with a tutor, is to reside with his guardian, the said Charles Stuart, or where the said Charles Stuart shall consider proper, till the end of the month of August, 1860, and he is then to be sent to a proper private school, and on his attaining the age of 14 years he is to be sent, with a private tutor, to Eton or Harrow, as bis guardians, the said Charles Stuart and Lady Elizabeth Moore, may determine. Necessary and proper establishments at Cardiff-castle in South Wales, and Mount Stuart in the island of Bute, are to be kept up for the occasional residence of the infant Marquis. In May, 1860, Major-General Stuart, having ascer- tained that Lady E. Moore had carried the infant Marquis to Edinburgh, proceeded thither to demand him, and, on her refusal to deliver him up, the Court of Chancery ordered her to hand him over to the General. Lady E. Moore having refused to comply with the order of the Court of Chancery, Major-Gene- ral Stuart applied to the Court of Session for such order or warrant as was necessary to compel her to deliver up the infant. When the case came on for argument, Lieutenant-Colonel James Stuart appeared voluntarily by counsel before the Court of Session in the character of tutor-at-law to the young Marquis, as his nearest male agnate. After a great deal of litigation had taken place the Court of Session ordered that the young Marquis should be handed over to the Earl of Galloway-the person nominated by the tutor-at-law—to be placed at school until he should arrive at the age of 14, when he would be entitled by the law of Scotland to choose his own curators. They also prohibited his removal from their jurisdiction until he had arrived at that age. He (the Attorney-General) contended that the young Marquis, being a ward in Chancery, and having been improperly removed from its jurisdiction, the Court of Session ought to have exercised its power by directing that he should be delivered into the custody of the guardian ap- pointed by the Court of Chancery. He submitted that the power of the Crown over an infant having once been exercised through the Court of Chancery, the Court of Session had no right to interfere in the matter, and that, in any case, the Court of Session were bound to have done that which was for the benefit of the infant—namely, to have sent him back to Eng- land, where he would be properly brought up and educated. The learned counsel concluded by proposing that their lordships should settle a scheme by which the infant should be sent to Eton for a time, and that he should then be sent to one of the Universities to complete his education. An ineffectual attempt was then made to settle the question, but the proposal was objected to on behalf of Lady Moore and Lieutenant-Colonel Stuart. Mr. Rolt, on behalf of Lady E. Moore, said that her only object was to do that which was most for the bei efit of the young Marquis, and that her only desire throu^'iout the proceedings was to promote his interest. Her desire was that whoever had the custody of the young peer should be a person who would command his affection and respect, and these, notwithstanding his many high qualities, she did not think Major-General Stuart would ever possess. The young Marquis was now nearly 14 years of age, was intelligent and affection- ate, and it was impossible that he should not have wishes and feelings which ought to be consulted, when con- sidering how and where he was to pass the next seven years of his life. His mother had strongly impressed upon him the fact that he was a Scotchman, and that it was important that he should maintain his rights as such. In coming to a decision their lordships ought to take that point into consideration, and not, by making an order contrary to his wishes, allow him to grow up under a sense of wrong and in antagonism with their lordship's house. Was it right to place the I boy in the hands and under the control of one of whom he had a terror and dislike ? He was addressing their lordships as a Scotch court, and on behalf of a Scotch boy, he demanded that his rights as such should be pro- tected, and that he should be allowed when he arrived at the age of 14 to choose his own curators. He asked their lordships to settle a scheme by which he might be brought up and educated in Scotland. The Attorney-General replied. Their lordships took time to consider their judgment. The case has occupied their lordships for three days. Further consideration postponed sine die.

EPITOME OF NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN. "The Advertiser (supposed to be a Yankee) begs to express his contempt for everything in the shape of a Detfotivt" on his route between Cheetham Hill and Corn- hill, Hulme,' on Sunday evening last."—Advertisement in Manchester Examiner. Agents have arrived from America by the Persia to purchase rifled cannon of the Armstrong, Clay, and Blakely patterns, also nearly 200,000 rifles and levolvers for immediate shipment. Those persons who talk of the numerical inferiority of the British navy will be gratified to learn the strength of our Mediterranean fleet. Officially it is said to consist cf fifteen sail of the iine, nine frigates, and twenty-three other vessels-all, with one exception, steamers. This, it must be remembered, is only the Mediterranean detachment, and fairly it may be said that the sea has much more the appear- ance of an English than a French lake at present. A meeting of a very particular character was held at Willis's Rooms, London, on Saturday. Captain Trotter gave his second address to the upper classes," and hia sub- ject was the Holy Spirit In his Work and Person." The rooms were filled with the nobility, and the report says that the address was very warmly received. The Confederate States have already shown an in- clination to issue letters of marque. Against the regular navy of the North the South is about to call forth the pre- datory instincts of the whole world. We have been told that there are letters of marque now in London, and agents have arrived by the last steamer, to make contracts for Armstrong guns and all other warlike stores of the most recent invention. Of the census papers, upwards of ten millions were printed. The printers, Messrs. Ford, of Long Acre, London, commenced their work so long ago as January, and even then the number was completed barely in time. One ream of paper would produce 1,000 papers, so that for the whole number 10,000 reams of post paper would be required. A singular contretemps arose out of a case which was heard on Friday, before the Judge of the Silford County Court. A man named Thomas Green was sentenced to twenty days' imprisonment for contempt of court. The officers of the prison were giving Thomas" a bath as a means of punishment, and to their astonishment, they dis- covered that the prisoner was a woman. What is more curious, she has worked and passed as a man for many years, she also married as a man, and, as is stated, has lived very happily with her wife." An application was recently made by some of the Burnley spinning firms to the overseers of St. Pancras, in London, In order to procure the workhouse children as ap- prentices in Lancashire. The overseers were perfectly wil- ling to agree to such a course, but there is a fatal legal ob- jection In the act of Parliament, which prevents the ap- prenticing of metropolitan workhouse children beyond 40 miles from their parish. The Poor-law Board have agreed to support the abolition of this clause, if any member of Par- liament will bring in a bill to that effect. Marshal Pelissier is now styled Duke of Malakoff, which is about as ridiculous as Duke of John Smith; for Malakoff was the name of the German stonemason who was the contractor for the masonry of the tower. There are stone bridges in China three or four miles long, and an arch of the incredible span of 600 feet. The Horse Guards has determined again to increase the height of the recruits, and to look otherwise to a higher physical value, as the market is overstocked, and recruits offer beyond the demand-the result of a generous care for the welfare of the soldier, and a desire to enhance his intel- lectual and moral position. Brown wishes for the command of a ship, gets it, and has his head blown off on the first broadside. Smith wishes Mary Jane to name the day she names it, and he never smiles again. It's always so. True happiness, I maintain, consists in disappointment. Mrs. Beauebampla Ven- geance," in Blackwood. An instance of the injustice of the income. tax-one of a class which has hitherto been little, if at all, noticad- has been pointed out. A certain joint-stock bank in London has added to its capital in ten years no less than 600,0002. from profits, on which no income-tax has been paid, it being only levied on the dividends which were declared in addition to the above large reserve but a private banker or trader must pay on all his profits, whatever portions of them may be added to capital. De Boni, a. friend of Garibaldi, has been sent to England, to buy muskets and contract a loan. An appeal was heard on Tuesday in the Bail Court in London of interest to persons holding railway season or other tickets. A gentleman travelling on the Eastern Counties line refused, on demand, to show his annual ticket, and, on being taken before a magistrate, was convicted in the penalty of 40a., in accordance with the company's bye- law. Against that conviction the present appeal was brought, but Mr. Justice Wightman affirmed the conviction.. One hundred mea could not carry the amount of the national debt of England, counted out in ten-pound Bank of England notes, notwithstanding the lightness of the paper they are printed on. During the last and present month, large numbers of Mrds, denominated spring chickens have appeared in tob., London poulterers' establishments. These chickens are not hatched under hens, but by steam. Chickens, by this art- ficial operation, can be brought into existence at any time. It is understood that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will employ the Midsummer vacation in tin practical study of military duties and movements, and wil for that purpose, visit the camp at thoCarraghofKildar". His Royal Highness will probably be attached to the 1-t Brigade, and do duty with the 1st Battalion of the Grenadi; Guards, in which corps he will go through a course of military instruction. Blondin, of Niagara celebrity, will arrive in Eng- land on the 22nd of May, and make his first accent at tin Crystal Palace shortly after that date. In the case of the mysterious murder and svicide st Carlisle, the coroner'sjuryhave returned a verdict os wilful murder and suicide against Jane Davidson that i-, tlm bhe h^d murdered Horsley and afterwards poisoned Lersel». The pulpit at Mr. Spurgeon's Tabernacle is quit < unique. It is a capacious gallery, with a table, a desk, an I a sofa for the preacher's use." It is large enough 1-. accommodate twenty or thirty people. Mr. John Dickinson, the celebrated paper-maker, il about to enter the ranks of authorship with a work under th i title of" Maiden Thorpe; or, Interesting Events about tfc-i Year 1825." ° The Toronto Globe states that the public accounts of Caaaaa for the past year exhibit a deficit of 2.289,916 dollars. Among the" Items peculiar to the year is the expense ut receiving the Prince of Wales, amounting to 204,884 dollars. King Bonny, who has been for several years in th; < country completing some arrangements with our Govern- meat for the suppression of the slave trade on the Coast ot Guinea, is about to return to his own country. He tak. s back in his suite several Englishmen, including a missionary. Four hundred and twenty persons in the parish 0: Abernetby, or over 25 per cent. of the inhabitants, bear th < surname of Grant. The resolution which had been announced, of treat- ing privateers as pirates, Is absurd, barbarous, and im- possible of execution (remarks the Saturday Review). Th, Americans themselves are responsible for maintaining tha employment of privateers as lawful in war, and it would b" monstrous to treat Secessionists as ordinary criminals. The Emperor of the French has drawn upon himself an immense increase of business since he set up as a re- dresser of grievances. The Prince Couza is now coming t., Paris, and a Circassian Prince is also on his way there, both to pray for Imperial intervention. The extensive ironworks at Bockum (Westphalia) which employ 900 hands, and want 600 more, are now en gaged in making cast steel cannon for Italy, and an engineer officer has been sent there from Turin to superintend their manufacture. It has been ascertained that in a quarter of a year, the quarter ending last Midsummer, upwards of 1,000 per- sons were convicted in Great Britain of the disgraceful offence of using false or unjust weights, scales, or measures. Very often the same tradesman has been found to have a number of short weights in his possession. The Indian Famine Relief Committee have trans- mitted above 100,000i. from this country to India. It i i obvious, however, that to effectually grapple with this greuu calamity, a very much larger sum will be needed. A large fire has happened at Price's Patent Candle Works, Bromborough Pool, Cheshire. Upwards of 500 tons of palm oil, which was in the filtering-room, were destroyed, and other parts of the building much damaged. The build- ing, stock, and plant were insured. About 1,000 people are thrown out of employment by this conflagration. The weavers of Ghent have had a serious disturb- arce in consequence of a strike. It is the English story repeated, but only with a little revolutionary violence added to it. The weavers of one firm struck, and the employers got fresh hands from the country to supply their places, and a row ensued. The manufactory was stormed, and the police were called out, obliged to use their weapons, and a great many were wounded. Affairs at last grew so serious as to call for the interference of the military. The mill.owners at Bolton have finally resolved on a general Lock out." This determination has been made in consequence of the refusal of the self-acting minders" to. resume work, and about 10,000 persons will be thrown out ot employment by their obstinacy, as some would call it—per- severence, as others would name it. The managers and directors of some of the provincia savings banks have given notice that the banks will be open twice a week in future, instead of once. This is In conse- quence of the opposition threatened by the new Post Offica Savings Banks. All perambulating musicians, says the Literary Gazette, are, it is said, to be put down in Paris. Mr. Charles Babbage, whose antipathy to organ-grinders Is constantly evinced In the London police-courts, is probably of oplniou that a similar course might be profitably adopted in England. If only a fine were imposed on those who played wrongly o.' out of tune, as we believe is customary in some parts of th > Continent, society at large would be no inconsiderable gainer by the change. Specimens of fine English abound in some journals. One provincial writer says "Till late in the evening tin preacher kept the congregation wrapt in his beautiful language and pictures."

THE MARKETS. THE PROVINCIAL CORN TRADE. Reports from the leading provincial markets show but little alteration in the general features of the corn trade. During the week the weather has been much the same as previously noted and, in consequence, the progress of the growing crops is nearly unvaried. MARK LANE, MONDAY. The supplies of English wheat at Mark-lane this morning: were short, but there were apain considerable arrivals ,.f foreign. The best samples of English were in increasing de- mand, and quotations were fully maintained but secondary qualities still show a downward tendency. For foreign wheat there is a fair retail demand, without quotable change. Flour is about the same as last Monday. Malt commands a steady sale at previous prices. An average business hai been done in beans. Prices substantially unaltered. Peat are in short supply, and Monday's prices are maintained. There have been large arrivals of foreign oats during ttioi week, but not in excess of the demand, and for good quali- ties previous prices are required. The seed trade Is inactive but with orders sufficient to keep up prices of all deaorip- tions. Oil cake is the turn lower, with a fair business at the reduction. PRICES BRITISH. WHEAT Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, white, per qr. 40 to In BARMY. Malting 81 to 37 OATS Essex and Suffolk 1# to 2t BHANS Mazagan 32 to 4 Tick and Harrow 32 to 43 SEED Canary per qr. 60 to 6a Carraway perewt 32 to Rape per qr. 70 to 7(5 Hempseed ..per qr. — to 43 LONDON SEED. Calcutta seed has sold largely at 49s 3d up to 60s, c. f. and L, according to quality for parcels arrived, or close at hand. Bombay also sells freely at 53s. Black Sea seed is quoted at 61s cost, freight, and insurance to the Continent, or 62i de- livered in United Kingdom. Rape seed still maintains ait upward tendency, fine sound Calcutta bringing 60s firm Bombay Guzerat, 66s; brown Ferozepore, 68s 6d to 69s 6 1 spot, and 6d to Is more to arrive. Linseed cakes most a steady demand, but at rather low prices. London made it quoted 10l 6s to 10l 16s; New York barrels, 10110s bags, 9110s to 9115s Westerns, 91. Two cargoes of Termonde cot- ton seed have been sold at 5117s 6d, and 61 is now asked. MARK LANE, MONDAY.—With half the supply required for exports, prices of linseed were somewhat improved, eak. being quite as dear. The seed trade was nearly over, an occasional speculative inquiry obtaining for red cloverseed but white was too dear for this purpose. Trefoil, tares, and canary were dull and unchanged in value. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY. There was a good seasonable supply of oxen and sheep on sale, and the condition of the stock was quite up to an average. The demand was rather brisk and anything offering at lite rates found a ready sale but an advanc t could hardly be quoted, although in many cases asked. Th < mutton trade was tolerably active, and the extreme of let-, rates were generally current, whilst in occasional sales tb < seller obtained a slight advantage in price. Lamb found a steady sale, without much change in the general currency. The veal trade was dull, and Thursday's rates were barely maintained. Pigs met a fair inquiry at the prices quoted. Prices :-Beef, 4s to 5s; mutton, 4s 6d to 6s; veal, 58 t > 5s 6d; pork, 4s 6d to 58 2d lamb, 6s to 8s per stone of 8 lbs., sinking the oifal. PROVISIONS. The supplies of foreign butter having sensibly increased, price of fine qualities receded 4s. per cwt., the top price < f the best Friesland being 110s. Inferior qualities are t<i some extent nominal, as very little is doing in them. Th < cheese trade continues dull, and quotations still tend down- wards. Bacon meets but few inquiries, and buyers have tha turn of price in their favour. The sale of Irish bacon It less active, and prices are the turn lower. Prime sides may be quoted 71s to 73s. In Irish butters the business passing Is of merely a nominal character. Mess pork is quoted &s to 93s steady. The outside quotation for fine Hambro meut is 6811 per cwt. CORK BUTTER, May 4.—lsts, 116s 2nds, 116s 3rds. 110i; 4ths, 87«; 6ths, 61s; 6ths, 60s. Inspected and weighed, 570; sold, 500. In good demand. POTATOES. Fair average supplies are on sale In the London markets, for which the demand on the whole rules steady at about previous quotations :-York flukes, 125s to 150s per ton; Scotch Regents, 90s to 125s ditto cups, 80s to 95s ditto rocks, 868 to 100s Dunbar regents, 160s to 175s; Lincolnshire ditto, 100s to 110s; foreign, 65s to 90s. LONDON PRODUCE MARKETS. MINCING LANE, TUESDAY. SUGAR.—The market Is quiet, but with a fair inquiry for floating cargoes, and one of Porto Rico sold at 23s, landing weight, and without allowance for damage. COFFEE—There is a steady, but not to say active, demand at the previous currency. RICK-For landed parcels the tendency of prices is st 11 against the seller, and only such lots as offer cheaply me jt attention. SALTPETRE —Some small lots of good refractions have been sold at full prices, but generally the market is inactive. METALS —For Scotch pig iron there is still a dull market, and 48 J 3d to 48s 6d is the nearest quotation. Spelter is flrin, at 18l 7s 6d to 18i 10s. Tin is quoted 1342 10s to 13511 >r Straits. OILS —Linseed is in steady demand both for consumption and export, and the price is firm at 28s 6d to 28s 9d. R'ipo:l olt brings 40s 6d for foreign brown, and 42s for pale. TURPENTINE —The market has been Vbry excited to d:'y, and as mncii as 561 has been paid for small lots. This is m rise of 20s per off. TALLOW.-To-day there is but little doing; 58s is citerjd for May and June; 65s would be accepted. For the 1 st three months, 56i to 65J 6d is the value of sneep Odessa. No beef otrering. 533 6d to 54s to South American; 53s 8d old Y.C., and 64s 9d town tallow, net cash.