The Express. — London, England, 1867-06-04 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chief Baron, and Barons Martin, Bramwell, and CluanelL) THE ATToMNLI-GENERAI, r. DAKIN AND OTHERS. This was an information of intrusion by the Attorney ..ocrJ against the sheriffs of Middlesex, for having in her Majesty's royal palace of Hampton Court, writ of lied facias ut the suit of one Ferdinand Hirsch- M, against the go ods of Lord Henry Gordon. This pro ioding was decimal a violation of the privileges of the and the facts having been stated in the shape of a case for the opinion of the court, the matter was argued at considerable length last term. The court now proceeded to give judgment, and there being a difference of ..pinion among their lordships Mr. heron Mailmen delivered his judgment first. He was of opinion that Hampton Court was not a royal resi dence in the sense necessary to render the privilege con tended for on the part of the crown applicable. The pala c e w . O once a royal residence ; but it had long ceased to be ; and this was • privilege, not of a building, but of the person—a privilege that the place where the sovereign resided, not actually at tho moment, lot oc,isionally, or usually, should not be invaded by officers fur the purpose of executing a process of this kind. lie thought the royal prerogative would suffer if it wer e pushed to such an unreasonable extent as to give a privilege to the bricks and stones of Hampton Court, and sloes to deprive a creditor of his remedy against his debtor. Mr. Baron Martin. in concurring with Mr. Baron Bram. uid he was disposed to give the privilege which protected the person, residence, and property of the crown the widest possible application, and be would extend it not only to Buckingham Palaee, 11 indoor Castle, Osborne, and Balmoral, if it were in Etwiand, hut to every place where the Queen actually red.led. or what was ordinarily understood to be her dwelling-place. But when a palace formerly occupied by the crown ceased to be entirely a royal residence, and when there was no probability of the Queen ever going to live there—and thus was so in the Glad of Hampton Court- in his judgment no privilege attached to it. Her Ilaje.ty had thought fit to appropriate the palace to an enun•ly different purpose from that of a royal residence, and had divided it into 70 different apartments for 70 dif ferent families lie said judgment should be for the de fendants. The Lord Chief Baron said he was of opinion that the immunity of a royal palace from the execution of civil pro cess was not lost because it had ceased to be a royal resi dence for a considerable time, if the sovereign had not abandoned possession of it. He thought this privilege still existed at Hampton Court and at every royal had in which the sovereigns of this kingdom had once resided and might come to reside again, and which was actually in the occupation of, and kept up and maintained at the expense of her Majesty. On that ground he thought the intrusion of the defendants was unlawful, and that judgment should be for the crown, but as his learned brethren were of a different opinion, judg ment would be for the defendants. Judgment for the defendants. Mr. Baron Channel! did not hear the arguments and took no part in the judgment. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Bodkin, Assistant-Judge.) HOW ?Hi FURCHASIRS OF COAL ARE ROBBED. IrdGam Bates, 22, carman, was indicted for stealing two sacks of coal, value es. 6d., the property of Daniel 1111:arthy, his muter. The pi : WCtutor is a coal merchant, carrying on his busi ness at No. 37, Waverley-road, Peddington, and the pri. toner was in his servi ce as carman . O n T ues day, the 14th of May, the prisoner was sent with two tons of coal to be delivered to the Lord Craven public-house, in the Keno*li med. The coal was contained in twenty sacks. When the prisoner delivered the coals at their destination, he asked the potanan to count the sacks to see that he had delivered the proper quantity. The potman accordingly counted the sacks and said he could only make nineteen in stead of twenty, and upon this the prisoner said there must be some mistake, and accordingly shot down another sack, and then went away, there being then three or four sacks of coal remaining in the van. The prisoner bad not long quitted the Lord Craven public-house when he proceeded to the house of • Mr. Spencer, of Elgin-mews,agrocer,andcorn and coal-dealer,where he saw Mary Ann Spencer, a little girl, and told h er th a t h e h a d brought some coals: The little girl said that her father was not at home, but the prisoner said they were very cheap coals, that they were 65., and shot the sacks of coals in the stable, but it appeared he only obtained two shillings for them. In answer to the asaistant-judge, the prosecutor said the prisoner only left the wh ar f w ith two tons of coal and the whole ought to h ave been delivered at the Lord Craven public-house. The prisoner, in his defence, said the coals he sold at Mr. Spencer's did not belong to his master, and that they were some he bad purchased from a man while he was on his way to deliver the others. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. The Assistant Judge said it was a delusion for pur chasers of coal to suppose, they got the proper quantity by counting the racks. This robbery had been committed with considerable ingenuity, for although he bad appa• rently shot 20 sacks of coal into the cellar, two or three sacks still remained, and these he had sold to another per son, and the proper purchaser was defrauded of that amount. The; prosecutor said he bad frequent complaints from his customers that the coal they received was exhausted much sooner than they expected, but be was unable to explain how it could be, am the proper quantity was always emit out. The Aseist.mt-Jutige having again commented upon the artful robbery the prisoner had committed, sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months. THE POLICE COURTS. (TlllB DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. arrourrigo TO kiTCAL LETTIRS THOM LITTER-BOXES. Axe Letheridge, • decent-looking middle-aged woman, wm brought u p i n custody before the Lord Mayor , charged soda att empt i ng to steal letters from the letter-box of the house No. 8. New Broad-street, which is let out in offices. From the evidence of William Lovell, who is the resident messenger in charge of the offices in question, it ap peared that while looking out of his bedroom window, which commands a view of the street door, be saw the prisoner tampering with th e l e tt er -b ox placed in the door for the general use of the occupants of the offices. He at once mine down stairs, and on soddenly opening the street door he found the prisoner in the act of attempt ing to force her finger into the aperture of the letter-box *lnch contained one very large letter, addressed to J. H. Beatty, Esq., 8, New Broad-street. The letter, from its size, had not descended to the depth of the box. He at once laid hold of the prisoner and detained her inside the hall until a police.constable came up, to whom he gave her into custody. Police mutable Harman, 877, proved that he received the prisoner into custody, and on searching her at the Police-station, found upon her, among other things, a of quantity ougef letters addressed to the Superioresa th Ref in Soho-equare. He had 'ince been to that establishment, and had ascertained that prisoner had been an occasional inmate of that institution from which a quantity of letters and memoranda had from time to time been missed. The superior was not at home, but one of the sisters of the establishment desired a remand for the attendance here of that lady on a future occuion. The prisoner denied the charge, and accounted for the letters found in her possession by stating that she had frond thorn lying about in the Refuge and had them up as waste paper. picked The Lord Mayor remaudel the prisoner for the attend ance of the lady matron and for further inquiries as to the Prisoner's antecedeuto. BOW-STREET. A DERERTER FROM THE ARTILLERY. v'i'a Jackals a youth about 18 years of age, who said he w as a shoe black, was charged with having deserted from the Royal Artillery on tho 3rd February, and also With having at the time of hie apprehension assaulted P olice -constable Grey, 53 F. and Groves, 83 F. Grer stated that from information he had received he went yesterday afternoon to the Foregate, St. Clement's banes, where he found the prisoner standing under the PiPillars with some other young men. Witneas laid hold of l lars cuff of his coat, and said "You must consider yourself in my custody as a deserter from the Royal Artillery." The prisoner sprang upon him clasping him round the body with his arms, a nd tripping bun with b ot h l egs, so that they fell to the ground to rthe?. witness underneath. He then attempted to bite Mmes., who defended himself by seizing the prisoner by the hair, ands* held b ac k hi s h ea d . Th e o th er po li ceman a a by-passer, came to his assistance, and palled the Prisoner off from him. As soon as the prisoner found him self sn his feet again he kicked witness (who was in the set rising) in the mouth, cutting his lip against a tooth on the inside and the boot outside. He was taken to the cdion house. On the way he observed that before the ! i on-martial he should only get 56 days, and added, When I come out 1 will kill you," ( 'roves corroborated this statement, and added that the Prisoner kicked him also. Mr. Can., landlord of the tavern and dining-rooms, 265, s ‘ t il, said he was pawing at the time and saw the pri- Z , " lying upon the policeman, the latter being without ,;*helmet, and partly hidden by the body of the prisoner. He lid not know it was a policeman until they changed P ss itiona and he saw the uniform buttots. He went to the c omplainant's assistance at the earns time with Groves. Re sivr the prisoner kick the two constables. Several of th e bleanders, including some of the cabmen on the rank, THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1867. utged the prisoner to resistance, calling out, "Give it him," &c. The prisoner said he did not intend to kick the con stables) that was accidental. Mr. Vaughan sentenced the prisoner to one month's im prisonment for the assault on Grey, and ten dart for that on Groves, ordering him to be brought up at the end et that period on the charge of desertion. CLERKENVIML. DESPIRATE RIOT AND CAPTURE OF EIGHT THIEVE.% .... Jaws White, aged 18, who refused his address, a paper glazer, William Sarington, aged 21, of 6, Suffolk-street, St. Pancras, a labourer, JoAn Bennett, aged 16, of 6, Horse shoe-alley, Wilson-street, Finsbury, a labourer, Darn: Oliver, aged 19, of 2, Camden-passage, Islington, a French polisher, Benjamin Askew, aged 16, of 12, Fleur-de-lie court,Nottoe-Folgate, a labourer, William Smith, aged 17, having no fixed residence, a seaman, df icAael Hooper, aged 19, of 13, Fox-court, Gray's-inn-road, a coeternionger, Reuben Robinson, aged 17, of 1, Old Montague-street, Whitechapel, a hawker, and George Dan, aged 17, of 79, Chalton-street, St. Pancras, a painter, were charged with being severally concerned with stealing from the persons of Mr. Griffith Williams, Mr. Chas. Westmacott, Mr. James Taylor, Mr. Ernest Almond, and Mrs. Jane Martin, one silver watch, one gold watch, one silver watch, • gold guard chain, a two-guinea piece, a one-guinea piece, one half-guinea piece, one quarter-of-a guinea piece, one silver gilt watch, one gold chain, and one gold locket. The prisoners Oliver and Dan were also charged with assaulting Police-constable Charles Miller, 1381:, in the execution of his duty in the Pentonville.read. Mr. James Taylor, of 226, Pentonville-road, said—yes terday I was standing at my door, when a mob of two hundred or three hundred roughs following the regiment of the Finsbury militia came past my house. As they were passing a boy, not in custody, snatched at my chain and took my watch. I saw him pass it to the pri soner White. I followed the boy, and told a constable. He took the boy into custody, and when they had got a short distance towards the police-station the mob surrounded and called out, " Stone him," and " Knock him down." I saw all the prisoners there that are now in custody. I lost sight of the prisoner 'White when he had my watch, and I next saw him at the police-station. Cross-examined by the prisoner White—l could not catch hold of you when you had my watch in your pos. session, because you ran amongst the crowd. Mr. John Norton, of 9, Stanhope-street, Hampstead road, said—l was driving down Pentonville-road, when I saw a boy give something to the prisoner White ; it looked like a silver watch what I could see of it. When he had received it he ran among the crowd. On seeing the prosecutor coming up with his chain dangling I told him wh .t I had seen. All the prisoners were in the crowd. Cross-examined by White—l did not lose sight of you till you were taken into custody. I did not see you pass the watch to anybody. Ernest Almond, of 266, Pentonville-road, said—l was standing at my door when the crowd came by me. Some one stole my watch. I cannot swear which one of the prisoners took my watch, but I saw all the prisoners in the crowd. Mrs. James Martin said—l was standing at the door when the crowd came by. Some one stole my locket. I could not swear to any of the prisoners though I saw some of them there. Police-constable Charles Miller, 17.8 G, whose face was covered with bruises, said—l was on duty in the Penton ville-ro,ul, when the first witness pointed out a boy who he said had stolen his watch. I took him into custody, when a mob of flu men surrounded me. The prisoner Oliver threw me down, assisted by two others. I was kicked while I was down by the prisoner Dan and others. Some one in the crowd said, " Let the have it" The pri soners, Smith, Robinson, Miceli, and others, threw stones at me. On searching the prisoner Smith, I found a por tion of a gold Albert chain, which I believe to be stolen. Police-sergeant Reuben Limeborn, IG, said—l took the prisoner Robinson into custody in the Pentonville-road, and he was rely violent. Mr. Cooke said—l do not think that there ill sufficient evidence against Hooper, and therefore lie will be dis. charged. As to the other prisoners they will be remanded for a week. MARYLEBONE. NOVEL POACHING. &mad Anosfroap, aged 50, Edward Oltrer, aged 15, both sweeps, were charged with stealing pigeons under the following novel circunrtancea Poliejoonstable John Trout, 237 S, said about half past three in the morning he was in plain clothes in the Edgware-road, the Maida-hill part, and saw the pri soners lay down a set of bird nets in the middle of the road. Attached to the nets by bits of string were three decoy sparrows. They caught four. The elder prisoner then sent the younger one to the cab rank to pick up some chaff, which was placed in the nets. Some pigeons were feeding in the road, and Oliver drove them towards the nets. Two alighted in them, and were picking up when Armstrong pulled the nets over them. He took his handkerchief from his neck, placed the pigeons in it, and gave them to Oliver to carry away. They were both taken into custody. A number of complaints bad been made by persons who bad lost their pigeons. Parties like the prisoners even lay down their net, when there are any fowls or ducks about, to catch them. The pigeons were produced in court, and were a very fine pair. Armstrong said—How many times do pigeons come down on people's hands even in Piccadilly! Why in Marylebone workhouse they pay as much as half-a-crown • day for the pigeons that come down there. Besides you see them about cab ranks ; but they are only " rocks," not like these. Mr. trEyncouri remanded the prisoners for a week, and refused to accept baiL tressing character, and he at first believed that the husband could be held criminally responsible for the state in which he had kept his wife, she being, as it was proved, an imbecile, but he now considered that no criminal blame could attach to him, for he had applied to the pariah, lie must say that the manner in which the parish orders for visiting and removal of the nick poor were issued was, to use a very mild term, a very loose one. It was calculated to give the doctors unneces sary trouble, and to increase the rates. The relieving officer should have gone and seen that the case was a fit one for removal, the printed orders distinctly stated that that was his duty, and he had admitted that he had never done it. That was a great mistake on his part. The jury, after an hour's deliberation in private, re turned a verdict, "That the deceased died from the mortal effects of softening of the brain from natural causes, accelerated by the surrounding circumstances under which she had been living, and the jury recom mended the coroner to call the attention of the board of guardians to the cue as to visiting ordera." SHOCKING DEATH OF A WOMAN FROM DESTITUTION. INQUEST.-THIS DAY. This morning an inquiry was held at the Spread Eagle tavern, High-street, Homerton, respecting the death of Caroline Raymond, aged 44 years, who was found dying in a room under circumstances of a mbocking character. James Raymond, 5, Plaiaant.place, Hackney said that deceased was his wife. She had been bedridden for a week. On Friday she complained of weakness, and spat up water. lie was a shoemaker, and he worked for the shops. He did not use his own materials. He had four children, aged three, nine, twelve, and fifteen years. The eldest boy was at sea, and one of the other children was a cripple. His average earnings were 15e. a week, and oat of that he had to pay 2a. 6d. rent. Three weeks ago the deceased became so careless and slovenly that witness refused to sleep with her. Dr. Ribble saw her, and he said that she was suffering from no disease, and that she wanted fresh air. On Friday the landlord reported the case to the sanitary inspector, and he cameand saw her. The parish doctors were then called in, and on Saturday night she was removed to the workhouse. The room emelt from want of ventilation. They lived in two rooms, one of which was very small, and he worked in that. There was a bedstead in the room, and on that his wife lay. She was in a wretched state. The children lay on the floor. Last August be, as well as his wife and children, left the Dethnal•green workhouse. During the whole of last winter they had no furniture or bedding of any kind, and they all slept on the floor. The bedstead on which the deceased was found lying belonged to the landlord. Three years ago his family were destitute, and they had been compelled to go into the Shoreditch work house, and they were passed on to Bethnal-green. He had not applied to the parish for relief since he left Bethnal. green workhouse. They were in want, and the children were as bad as ourselves." Mr. J. W. Jones, sanitary inspector to the Board of Health for Hackney, said that on Thursday, Mr. Payne, the landlord of the house, informed him that th e d ecease d was living there in such a shocking, filthy condition that he could not hear the house. The smell from the room was fearfuL Last Friday he visited her, and he found her lying on the bedstead almost in a state of nudity. She bad no chemise on and she was only partly covered by small bit of drugget. She was in • most deplorable state, and witness was obliged to give her little daughter some disinfecting powder, the smell in the room was so fearful. He told the husband to call at the Town-hall the next morning, but as be did not do so, witness got Drs. Ninall and Snipe to give an order for her removal to the Hackney Union. The doctors saw her before she was removed, and she was given medicine. She was adffering from diarrhus. Rhe was in a dreadful state on Saturday. The bit of dragnet had been removed, and an old coat, which only party covered her limbs, was thrown over her. Mr. H. Payne, the landlord, said that the deceased lived in his house one year and seven months. She was his own sister. She had been very neglectful for years. He was a cordwainer, Catherine Bridetock, nurse in the receiving ward of Hackney Workhouse, said that the deceased was brought into the ward at half-past 9 o'clock on Saturday night. She was in such a low, weak, exhausted state that she had to be given brandy and water to revive her. She expired at balf.past 5 o'clock on Sunday evening. Dr. George Miller, the workhouse surgeon, said that when he was called to see the deceased he found her dying. She was very much emaciated. Mr. R. W. Tomlinson, relieving officer ' said that on the Bth of April he gave an order for the medical officer to visit the deceased. _ _ _ . This w itness was cross-examined by the coroner, and he said that he hail not visited the deceased. According to the published orders of the Poor-law Board be ought to have visited the woman. If be had thought that it WILII an urgent case he should have done so. He never visited such cases. The Coroner—The printed rules declare that you should do so in all cases. The witness said that he did not know that he was neglecting his duty when he was giving the order and not visiting the deceased. He bad not looked into the rules about visiting before the present affair occurred as be did after. He did not see the woman. The reason people were not visited was that it would take ► staff of six re lieving officers to visit all the cases. Dr. Miller, recalled, said that the post mortem exami nation of the deceased's body proved that her blood was very thin and watery from impoverished living. In the abesnoe of any disease, he believed that death was brought about by the condition of the woman's brain. The condi tion in which she bad for such a length of thus lived would undoubtedly accelerate any disease. The Coroner said that the case was one of a very di► P.ROFE.4SOR GOLD WIN SMITH ON " THE DERBY." Mr. Goldwin Smith has addressed the following letter to the Manchester Examiner :—" Sir, —The cor respondent of one of the journals, describing the Derby, says that among the cheering which hailed the NUMMI of the victor ' was to be beard here and there • sound, half scream, half sob, telling a tale of heavy lots, if not of absolute ruin.' Subsequent report seems to confirm the tale. This is the spectacle which Lord Palmerston compared to the Isthmian games. It is about as like the Isthmian games as the character of Lord Palmerston was like the character, cast in a narrow but genuine and noble mould, of the Greek hero. The reward of the victor at the Isthmian games was • crown of leaves ; this, with an inscription on enduring marble in his city, and the more enduring monument of Finder's verse. Of betting I believe we have no record. If any sobs and screams mingled with the exultation of victory, they told only of the honouratlo agony of defeat. If a parallel is to be sought in antiquity for these sports of ours, it should be sought rather in the delirious and degraded passions of the Roman circus in the last age of degenerate Rome. It is needless to say that this is horseracing no longer. It is a gigantic system, or rather frenzy of national gambling. The horses are no more than the two straws pulled from a haystack, or the two drops of rain running together down the window-pane, on which, for want of anything better, gamblers have been known to stake their money. The whole kingdom at the approach of the Derby becomes a gambling table, at which men who never saw a horserace, who could not tell the points of a horse, who would not know Hermit from a hack, and even women and boys, hasten to taste the vile delight of gambling, often to their demoralization, eometiines to their ruin. As to the pretence of keeping up the breed of horses, it is needless to say that it is about as valid and about as sincere as the defence of fox-hunting on the ground that it clears the country of vermin. Gambling— gambling, every year more extensive, every year for higher stakes, as the need of excitement increases—this is now the grand national amusement, and its crisis is the great national event. The men of theCommonwealtb put a stop to bear-baiting and the other ' sports ' of that time. This is set down as • proof of their moroseness, and Macaulay says, in his epigrammatic way, that the bear baiting was put down, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Vane or Cromwell would probably have answered that it was not because it gave pleasure, but because the pleasure which it gave was an ignoble, unmanly, and de grading pleasure, unworthy alike of • Christian and of an English citizen. Those days, however, are gone by. Nobody would now propose to interfere legally with any amusement not contrary to public order or decency. We have learnt that • censorship of manners in attempting to cure throws in the disease. If, indeed, as the Times tells us, the aristocracy, our hereditary legisla tors, are gambling away their estates and impoverishing their titles, it may become necessary that the state should step in for the protection of hereditary wisdom. But other wise, as offences against Heaven must be left to the juris diction of Heaven, so moral diseases must be left to moral cures. It is hard to meet in any moral philosopher with a good diagnosis of the moral malady of gambling, or a good prescription for its cure. Moral philo sophers occupy themselves too much with general senti manta and theories, too little with the practical examina tion and treatment of the infirmities to which humanity is heir; they are too much of the preacher and essayist, too little of the physician. There seems to be no principle or propensity in human nature in itself evil; our vices are the depravations or over-excitements of natural tendencies and desires. The feeling of hope, or whatever it is that leads us to venture and aspire, is capable, I presume, like other feelings, of being over excited by artificial stimulants, such as the gambling table or the betting ring affords. Or perhaps a lower but more natural explanation may be found in the love of gain combined with the dislike of labour. But one thing seems certain, that the passion for gambling pre vails only in the absence of any worthy object of interest or desire. A man whose mind was full of manly aspirations, or whose heart was occupied by strong and pure a ff ections, would not be se en waiting at the telegraph office, with agony in his face, for the news of a horse race, or heard screaming and sobbing at Epsom because one animal had got its head before another. The clergymen and moralists who are lamenting and denouncing this base mania will find that in the case of the individual they will do little by attacking it directly. The only way of expelling the unhealthy and immoral interest is by implanting an interest which L healthy and moral. And as with the individual, so it is with the nation. Give us a parliament capable of being the organ of national aspiration and effort, let great questions be once more handled in earnest by great men, Ist our poli tical chiefs once more display the qualities which touch a nation's heart, and the soul of England will soon cease to be absorbed by • horse race. That it should be so absorbed at present is not wonderful. I see in the shop windows • caricature the form of which is itself taken from the race course. A jockey, whose looks bespeak him the most knavish of his tribe, is distancing his less cunning rivals in • race. This is a caricature of the Reform struggle in the House of Commons, a caries tare, no ; but • simple picture of she humiliating reality. On the greatest of all national questions this parliament, which Mr. Lowe calls heroic, not only allows itself, but is apparently pleased, to be ridden by cajolery and fraud ; and the victory in legislation belongs to him who is most I familiar with the tricks of the turf and most unscrupulous in practising them. Who can blame the nation for turning its mind to a more genuine and purer object of interest in a race horse ?—I ma, kc, GOLOWIN SMITH." AT raz PARIS RAcits. —Concluding his description of the races on Sunday, thecorrespondent of the Post writes : —"Any faithful historian who is celled upon to record the varied company or worlds' which dotted the racecourse to-day would leave a conspicuous blank if he were to omit the mention of many dozens of young ladies occupying broughams and open pony chaises of varied build, but almost invariably well horsed. gentleman, no father, no brother, none of the family apparently accompanying these exquisitely-dressed young women, and yet they must have rich ' relations 'of some sort. Look at their wonder ful headdress ; it must be an age of luxuriant hair ; nature is evidently most bountiful in her crops this year of race 1867 ! A wilderness of golden, nut-brown, purple-black ; and that the pearly flesh tint, and eyes which perhaps art has made larger And more lustrous ; there is no excuse for not entering into the compact of holy matri mony. Observe, too, how the whole world imitate the demi- swede. Who sets the fashion now in Par'? I gaze with wonder on a princess, a real and true princess ; her hair, ab ! ye gods forgive me if it be not her hair as grown on her own head ; it falls in a sort of uncombed confusion over a narrow back, just as you might imagine a beauty's tresses look coming from a bath. la all this studied nag ligenoe to charm the imperial people, or is it to promul gate a new fashion? We know why certain young ladies make themselves conspicuous by attractive toilette oon colts, but what object have the holies of the grand-week in making male people turn round and inquire, although we have so many mighty sovereigns amongst us? Let the curtain drop; investigation ought to have its limits, even if we are moral doctors or great artists. The races to-day painted a true picture of Paris life. Sovereigns smiling under a maak ; women indulging in sham amulet ; deceit and deception; sharpers and dupes ; sunshine and then • storm about 4 o'clock; just as it shoed be !" THS Worst LONDON YACHT CLUB. —The entries for the ocean match of this club on Saturday next closed last night, and are are as follows : SCHOONERS AND YAWL& Names. Tons. Description. Owners. Avoset Loadstar Anita Minstrel Julia Modena 133 . &Maser .. DLL A. 0. Wilkinson. COTTIRIL Namur. Ti... Owners. Mobs ShoWilig lft Mr. Norge Wells. Pbryne 66 Mr. T. Groves. Mo. Tingles 46 11r..1. Duncan. Vanguard Amason The eaves is from the Lower Hope into Harwich harbour. Schooners and yawls, classed together, will sail for • prise of 501. They have a time allowance of a quarter of a minute per ton up to 150 tons. Cutters sail for • prize of 401. ; half • minute per ton will be allowed then, up to 75 tons. Nu time allowances will be made above either of these. The race is to start at 5.30 cm. The Queen of the Thames will accompany the vessels, leaving Graves. sad at 5. LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGF,I 4 4 CH (By numuni.) ASCOT MEETING.—(THIS DAY.) TRIAL STAKES. New mile. Ostreger (not to be sold), Marquis of Carabas, Tortuga, , Seedy Suit, Vietreso, Little Ben, Buckingham, Warrington, Sweet Home, Black Diamond, Musa (4,001.), Colombo, Pero, Belfast, Charles the Second, Spur geon, Misfit c, Viciousness, and Magpie c (2001.). All are here. MAIDEN PLATE. Half a mile. Kettledrum, Mr. Briggs, Sorrel, Bore's, Contempt, Mums, Dulcet, Eastby, Vortigern, Miss Eleanor, Lady Constance, Mexico, Bouquetiere , Betty, Nyanza, North Marston, Paul Jones, Charnwood. Vale Royal, and Seheidam are here. PRINCE OF WALES'S STAKES. One mile. Marksman, Vauban, Achievement, Julius, Owain Glyndyr, Star of India. Van Amburgh, Mandrake, Glengarnoek, Beanstalk, Jasper, Ravioli, Seville, and Harpenden are here. QUEEN'S STAND PLATE. T.V.C. Ceerops, See Saw, Mn. Stratton, Corporal, Formosa, Roden, Knight of the Garter, Speculum, Nyanca, Bounce. away, Ostreger, and Mies Gladiator are here. ASCOT STAKES. Two miles and a half. Goraera, Lucifer, Cedric, Peer, Dalesman, Opoponax, Actwa, Steamboat, Miss Harriette, Lord of the Dales, Zenobia, Orne, Stokeley, Rupert o, Sweet Home, CMOs lanes c, Ganymede, Vixen, Stephen Langton, Attaché, and Glengamock are here. TENTH ASCOT BIENNIAL. T.Y.C. Suffolk, Europa, Triangle, See Saw, Black Diamond, Nyanza, Vale, Royal Patrician, and Helvellyn are here. GOLD VASE : Two miles. Knight of the Garte; - , — iioulae;, Rama , Grand Crone, Regalia, Tyndale, Corporal, Cordell& o, Flying Bond, Tounnalin, and Roquefort are here. THIRTEENTH ASCOT Onoe round. Sealskin, Dalmatia, Mirells, and Wettish* are here. Annivin.—Savernake, Xi, Padisha, Palmer, Blue Gown, Restitution, Arapeile, Colytto, Idanonor, Blanche of Middlehie f, Leading Suit, Freemason, Mail Train, Ban dills., Charles the Second, Arlunees, and Camellia. CRICKET.-(THIS DAY.) NARYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND V. LA/MA.9MR,- At Lord's this morning, in excellent time (a few minutes after 11) play in this match proceeded. The we-Aber, although dull and showery, was a decided improvement on that of the previous day, and considering the early hour, there was a fair number of spectators present, which gradually increased as the play progressed. Captain Hills and Hearne, the " not out " of Monday, took their places at the wickets, and Mr. Appleby and Hickton resumed the bowling. One only was added to the score when Captain Hills wuclean bowled by the former for 8, and when 26 were booked, and before he had scored Shaw was well bowled by Richton. Mr. Fitzgerald and Hearne were now associated, and gave indications of making a stand, Hearne being great with his usual fine forward drives, and giving the Lanca shire men plenty of exercise in the field. They knocked Mr. Appleby off, and Storer took his place, whose fi nish over yielded two. The total was increased to 59, when Hickton with a fine ball destroyed the symmetry of the hon. secretary's wickets by bowling over his off stump, let ting in Wootton. Shortly after this Hearne put one of Rickton's up at mid-on, but Ricketts made a mess of it. Wootton was also let off at long leg by Mr. Rowley, and then, as a matter of course, both were bound to score, till Storer sent the latter down one a little bit too good, which carried away his off stump, the total denoting 81 for six wickets. The next man in was Riddulph. Storer's bowling was good, averaging one ran per over far the first twelve. Rens continued to come fast and when our despatch left at 1 o'clock the score stood as ander. Miamians—lint Innings. J. Grandy b 'nekton J. Übatterton b Hickton Mr. R. T. Ifills b Appleby 8 T. Hearne, not out lfr. R. A. Fitzgerald b Blake 1 0. Wootton b Storer S. Biddulph not out Byes, 3; wide, 2 Taloa as CANADA COMPANY.-(THIS DAY.) A yearly general court of proprietors was held at 1 o'clock at the Company's oboes, No. 1, East India avenue. Mr. Emma GILLEAPIR, governor, in the chair. The finance statement showed that the funds in hand amounted to 40,4101., and the liabilities to KW— leaving a balance of 39,4401. Of this it was proposed to apply 21.9491. to repayment of capital, and 17,491/. to dividend, being it. 10s. per share dividend for the half-year ending 10th July next, and U. 15s. per share as a first instalment toward/ repayment of the capital of the company. Tee CHAIRMAN, after speaking of the general prosperity of the company's affairs, observed that the report from a gentleman who was sent out to Canada by the company to Medea to inspect the gold discoveries there bad been re ceived, and he must recommend the shareholders not to be too sanguine on that subject. The dividend and return of capital recommended by the board were sanctioned by the meeting. BANK OP BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. (THIS DAY.) The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders was held at one o'clock, at the London Tavern, Mr. H. It. FARRIR in the chair. - - The report appeared in last Friday's Erpreas. The CHAIRYAN, in moving the adoption of the re= observed that the board were much gratified at enabled to state that the 'maimr of the bank had been progressing soundly and steadily. This was the case notwithstanding great financial difficulties. The distribution now recommended was larger than any that had been made for some years, and he saw no reason why the dividend should not con tinue to increase . The construction of the Interoolonial Railway must lead to the expenditure of • good deal of money, and that would tend to benefit the bank. The report was adopted without discussion, and a divi dend of 455. per share having been declared, the proceed ings terminated in the usual manner. This morning both Howes of Convocation assembled for business. The population of New South Wales, on the 31st December last, was 431,414, of whom 239,823 were males. The Sydney and Goulbourn, New South Wales, mail coach was robbed by bushrangers on the 23rd February last. Among the passengers was the well-known Dr. Lang. The yield of the various gold fields in New South Wales was 13,000 ounoes daring the mouth of Feb ruary last. The French frigate Nereide had put into Sydney, New South W►les, on her way to New Caledonia, with 200 female immigrants. We are authorised to state that the Archbishop of Canterbury has become the patron, and the Archbishop of Armagh the vice-patron, of the 'Poor Clergy Relief Society. THE PROGRESS OF THE BEI3BIO/Ir.—Parliament has been sitting four months, and has produced twenty six public and, seventy-one load statutes, including the number that received the royal sweat on Friday last. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT THE EALING STATION or THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—A. dreadful and fatal accident, which should serve as a caution to such railway travellers as are in the habit of getting into car riages while train. are in motion, occurred at the Haling station of the Great Western Railway on Sunday evening about half-past 9 o'clock. As the Reading up-train, which left that town at half-part 8 o'clock, was coming slowly up to the platform of the Ealing station, one of the pawn gen, • respectable man about 30 years of age, being evi dently over-anxious to obtain his seat, attempted to catch hold of one of the carriage bsndles. He mimed his footing and fell beneath the train, one of the carriage wheels paw ing over his neck and killing him instantaneously. The train was at once stopped, and so quickly that the second wheel did not pass over the deceased. The carriages were then disconnected, and the body removed to the Feathers Inn, to await the inquest. The poor fellow was aooom psnied to the station by a young woman who, on witness ing the fearful occurrence, was so overcome that she fainted. It is said that the deceased held a position in • Srm in Drury-lane, and is understood to have left a wife and child. ACCIDENT AT ALDERSHOT.—Yesterday afternoon —whilst General Renny wee making the half-yearly in spection of the 72nd Highlanders--a military tram waggon with two horses and driver dashed through the companies of the regiment. A number of the men were knocked down, and the driver was also injured. Those who suf. fared mast were conveyed to the hospital. ADMIRALTY, JUNE 3. APPOINTKENTS. —Pay masters H. H. Wyatt, to the Oetavia ; and R. Allen, to the Euphrates. Master Assistant F. C. Ganda, to the Victory. Assistant-Surgeon Dr. A. J. Ireland, to the Pheebe. Acting Engineer P. Richmond, to the Fisgard, for service in the Speedwell. Engineers W. H. Green and J. Dearden, to the Malabar. First-elass Assistant-Engineer W. T. Searle, to the Malabar. Second-class Assistant-Engineer W. Siddorn, to the Malabar. THE CONDEMNED FENIAN If `CATTERTY.—The commutation of the sentence of death on Captain Weal forty has been officially communicated to the convict. OILYSTAL PALACE,—ONE SHILLLNO DAY. —Mom- DAY, JUNE 3. —Admissions on payment, 1,487 ; ditto by Isom tickets, 710 ; total visitors, 2,247. N.W. N.L x . a:w . x.x.w. F.Y. N.W. N. W. N. W. N. W. N.N.E. . _ 0.34 2 1.00 3 rtSerenter in the south than it inn; but to the north it Is trn rout have backed to sooth e north-east, and the weather firnren. sr LIONTIFINO.-011 Sunday evening, as Mr. Bush, • collector of income taxes at St. lees, Hunts, was returning home from Huntingdon, he was struck by lightning ; but the effect was not immediately fatal. After lying some time he managed to get up and crawl to his home. His friends were horrified to find his face greatly disfigured, sad that be was suffering so much as to make it doubtful whether he would live or not. In the same district other accidents occurred during the storm which prevailed there on Sunday. A Cnut-Danar.—" Who wrote that article last week about the English love for racing r said Donner. "It was a very good article, wasn't it? said Pruth. " dear fellow, don't I know better than to find fa . ilt with any article in a paper you conduct! Everything is per fect, or at least you swear it is, and quite right too. I only wanted to know whether that was by Mark Derwent." " But what was the matter with the article?" persisted Mr. Petah. "Again I tell you, nothing. Only if it was Derwent's I wonder he did not bring in • story I told him about crabs." " Tell me. I am very fond of crabs." " Not as instruments of gambling, I hope." " Gambling! 0, throwing crabs you mean." " A good shot, and yet a miss, Pruth. What business have you to know anything about dice ? No, sir, the story was this. A friend of mine, • great contractor, who was making a harbour somewhere, fancied that he did not get work enough out of the men who went down in the diving bell. He felt that they wasted time, bat be could not imagine how. So, one day, when they were at dinner, he went into the bell. And them he found seven large crabs, and on the back of each was chalked the name of a favourite for the Derby. The men had crab. races at the bottom of the sea."—" Sooner or Later," by Shirley Brooks. Tus Uss oe Foss. —The Indian wears his sables as well as the delicate lady ; and butalo-skins form the robes of the savage as well as the rugs of Engliab carriages or Canadian sleighs. The soft rich velvet skin of the sea otter adorns the person of the native of the North Pacific as well as the cloak of the Chinese mandarin ; and the delicate white ermine, with black-tipped tail, is the choicest ornament of the Blackfoot warrior of the Ameii. can prairies as well as the symbol of royalty and dignity in this country. The wearing of skins seems, indeed, to be a mark of each extreme of the human race—the most primi tive and the most civilised. Nature has supplied the eni- male of northern climates with coats of unequalled quality for keeping out the cold and enduring wear ; and these ad mirable properties, and the fact of the material being ready made, no doubt induced our savage forefathers and their contemporaries, in the first instance, to transfer such use. ful coverings from the bodies of the inferior creation to their own. But this is not the only cause of the almost universal love for furs. There is • handeome appearanoe about soft glossy fur of the finest kind, which is very striking, and which has caused it to be valued as an article of ornament alone. It may be questioned whether the ladies who roll along in their menages wrapped in seal skin and sables do not regard the beauty of their clothing quite as much as its property of warmth ; and it is the combination of usefulness with • handsome appearance which makes them prize it so highly. The mandarin, however, wears the fur of the sea-otter —nearly the whole supply of which be monopolises—pnrelyfortheeakeof orna ment. The Blackfoot chief prises the tiny ermine-ekin u a garniture for his head, or a trimming for his fire-bag or his medicine-belt. The same for is esteemed by Christian primate as an emblem of dignity and regal power. It sons borne alone on the coats-of-arms of the ancient earls of Brittany ; and in England, in the time of Edward 11.. none but members of the royal family were permitted to wear it. —l3locireood's Magazivic for June. r. E. 10 2. T. W. 143 7 ---- --.-- I. N elm Aberdeen 29.77 53 N.N.W. 1 Letth *.8154 W.N.W. 4 Ardrossan i 110.82 N.N.W. I 3 Oreencastle ,29.90 1 66 B.W. 2 Valenti 20.0256 8.8. W. 2 Cape Clear 30.11 N. W. 4 it=.*.996s W.N.W. 1 —.19.91 W. I Penzanes 30.10 N.W. 6 Brest soso N. W. I Locket 80.14 1 ,66 N.N.W. 2 Rochefort 30.16 N. $ Plymouth 30.06 W. lb 1 Weymouth $0.06 W. $ Portsmouth 30.00 W. 19 1 Loadou 112.97 66 W.N.W. 2 : Yarmouth 26.8717 N.W. 6 Scarborough 29.83 54 N. 3 Shields 29.85 54 N.W. 2 Uelder The yeemnre of the stmosp& was yesterday, and is still Incra diminishing. Winds on the we west. Much rain has fallen In s generally cloudy. CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING VIE GRAND DUCHY OP LUXEMBURG. This afternoon the above correspondence, com mencing with a despatch from Lord Stanley to Earl Cowley, dated April 10, and concluding with a despatch from Earl Cowley to Lord Stanley on thel2th May, and filling in all 37 pages, was issued for the information of parliament. The tone of Lord Stanley's despatches, which are nume rous, is substantially that her Majesty's government would observe, in cue of hostilities, the strictest neutrality ; but his lordship did not withhold his counsel from Prussia, and on the 19th of April he wrote to the minister at Berlin that the Prussian cabinet might do well to consider whether it might not give way on the question of garrison. " 1 should wish your Excellency," wrote the noble lord, " to place before Count Bismarck confidentially this view of the ques tion, and you will not conceal from him the deep regret with which her Majesty's government would witness the commencement of a war between France and Prussia, for an object apparently of such little practical value, especially as such a war could not fail to retard the consolidation of Germany, towards which so much progress has lately been made." In -Bother his lordship wished Lord Loftus to remind Prussia of the disadvantages of her position. " She has • very long sea-coast and ports to defend," writes his lordship, " while the amnion is favourable for maritime operations, she has no means of resisting naval pressure by France on her own waste, and the havoc which the naval superiority of France would enable her to commit on German cora -1 merce, not only in Europe, but also in other parts, where it is actively carried on, might produce a very serious financial crisis in Germany." COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. LIVERPOOL COTTON AND CORN MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) (st tu.saitAra.) OWN 0011 OWN COINNS?ONDXIrr.) COTTON.—Tbe market continues to improve, and Ame rican staples are fully id. per lb. dearer. Sales ..bout 15,(00 Wes. . . . Corot.—The market moderately attended. Wheat in limited demand. Although the market opened with a steady tone, towards the close it assumed an easier aspect, and wheat was quiet at a decline of 3d. to 4d. per rental ; flour Is. per sack cheaper, and little business doing. Beans and peas lid. per qr. lower. Oats and oat meal quiet, without quotable change in v.due. Indian corn—The business passing is but retail, at Is. per qr. de cline ; new mixed 385., old 395. LEEDS CORN MARKET.—(THIS DAY.) (PT nuourn.) (not[ OUR OWN COI Wheat held firmly for late rates, and very little busi. new done in consequence. Spring corn fully as dear. MINCING-LANE.-(THIS DAY.) Sun.te..—The market has opened firmly at the full prices of last week. The private sales included Tobago, at 31s. ; Cubs muscovado, 31s. to 325. ; Native Madras, 265. 6d. ; brown Mauritius, 275. 6d. to 30s. Gd. • grainy, 345. Gd. to 365. (id. Refined continues in fair demand at fully ket week's currency. COPPER.—For both plantation and native Ceylon busi ness has been done at the full currency of last week. COCOA.—About 600 bags have been sold. Trinidad, &,s. to 545. ; Granada, 50e ; Guraquil, 65e. Ten.—The market continues quiet : the public sales are going off steadily. RUN. Rice, and SALTPETRE. —No sales reported. Corros.—There are buyers at previous prices, but few sellers. Jurc-6,000 bales sold at former prices, including cutting, at 9/. Se. to 91. 10s. Herr.—St. Petersburg clean, 311. to 35/. 10e. TALLOW MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) The market is steady. Town tallow is quoted 41s. 9d. ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 43.. tid. ; June, 43e. Gd. ; October to December, 445. 3d.; December, 44e. lid. to Us. 9d. HAY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade slow at last day's prices, viz. :—Prime clover, from 100 s. to 110.. ; in ferior ditto, 80s. to 905.; prime second cut, 90a. to 100 a ; inferior ditto, 365. to 60s. ; prime meadow bay, 80s. to Kw. ; interim ditto. 60.. to 70s. ; straw, 40.. to 465. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TUESDAY. JUNE 4. 8 A.ll. MONEY MARKET.-(71116 DAY.) Ups o'OLuat. The markets for public securities are decidelly firm to-day, owing to the drooping tendency of •he rates of disco u nt and the improvement in the weather. The amount of business is large, and comprises many purchases for investment, chiefly on ordc.fis from the country. Consols, in which preparations for the monthly settlement on Thursday have commenced, are in active demand, and have ex perienced a fresh rise of per cent. The Three }fir Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cents. me II higher, compared with the official closing prices of yesterday. British railways and banking, finan cial, and miscellaneous shares are also in request, at better prices in many cases, but foreign bones are slightly dull. The demand for money is very moderate, aad the supply large. The rate for the beat paper is 24 per cent., with occasional transactions at 21. The charge fur short loans in the Stock Exchanke on English. government securities is 2 to ?! per cent. Consols are now quoted 941 to ei div., both for money and to-morrow's settlement, and the Three per Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 94} to g. In the foreign stock market the only chauFe in the speculative descriptions is a decline of to per cent. in Turkish of 1866, and halls& of 1861. Turkish Bonds of 1862 are quoted 60 to 61 ; ditto Five per Cents. :of 1865, 333 to ; Greet, 1611 to g ; Spanish Paaaire, 241 to 1; ditto Certifi cates, 15j to ; Italian of 1861, 521 to 1)3; and Mexican, 171 to 1. Financial share's are in request, at an inipeosie• ment. London Financial are 21. better, at 18 to 16 dia. International Financial are quoted ltio 11 dis. ; General Credit, 11 to 1/ die. ; Credit Foncier, 4 . 4 to 4} dia. Hudson's Bay are firm, at 161 to 17 ; and National Discount steady at si to prem. The dealings in bank shares are numerous, and the market is firm. London and County are quoted 61 to 63 ; London and Westminster, 107 to 110 ; Alliance, Bto 6 dia. ; Imperial Ottoman, pas to prem : and Union of London, 44 to 46. . . United States 5-20 bonds have declined per cent., viz.. to 723 to 73 ; but Erie and Illinois Central Railway shares are per cent. higher, at 40} to 41, and 781 to ;9, respectively. Anglo-American Telegraph shares have improved 55., the present price being 181 to I, but Atlantic Telegraph 8 per cent. preference are unchanged, at ti to I. A special meeting of the shareholders of the London and Westminster Bank will be held on the 17th of July, when a dividend will be declared and a resolution proposed for increasing the capital, by creating 30,000 new shares of 1001. each. The annual meeting of the South Australian Company is convened for the 19th inst., to receive a report and statement of accounts for the past year. The failure of another member of the Stock Ex change, a speculator for the fall, is announced. About 37,0001. in oold was sent into the Rank yesterday. The steamer Pero will take to-day only 4,5031. in specie for the East. Accounts from New York announce the ship ment to Europe of a further sum of 100,0001. in gold. The Palmyra, from New York, has brought 88,0001. in specie. The traffic return of the Great Western Railway of Canada, for the week ending the 17th tilt., ' shows an increase of 1,1071. over last year. With reference to the San Paulo Railway, the following is an extract from tie traffic manager's report, dated Santos, May 5 : I have much pleasure to inform you that the tratho of the line is still rapidly increasing, and that in spite of the Raster week, when there is an almost entire cessation of business here, our receipts for the past month amount to 30 per cent. more than in March. Receipts for March, 9,8111., plus 30 per cent., gives 12,78 W. fur April, or 34. per mile per week. The numbers are published of 455 bonds, repre senting 31,0401. of the Sardinian Five per Cent. Loan of 1831, which have just been cancelled. MON DA I EVICTIG. Consols, which closed on Saturday at 94k ex div., both for money and next Thursday's settle ment, opened this morning at the same quotation, declined to 931 to 94, and closed at 94} to For the 10th of July the last price was 90 to I. The Three per Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cents. were quoted at 3 o'clock 93i to a. The official business report is as follows:—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 941, }, 31, 41, ex div.; ditto, for account, Oat, 3j, ex div. ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 931, 4 4, I ; New Three per Cents., 933, 4, 30, }, ; Bank Stock, 252, 4, 5 ; India Five per Cent. Stock, 1091, 9 ; ditto Four per Cent., 100, ex div. ; ditto Four per Cent. " enlaced " rupee paper, 86 ; ditto, /lye per Cent.. 103} ; ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 108, 3 ; ditto Bonds, 575. prem. The India Five per Cent. stock, which is now quoted ex the dividend, was rather more offered. The March Exchequer Bills, which bear 3 per cent. interest, were quoted 225. to 275. prem., and the June. which carry only 2} per cent., 20s. to 24a. prem. The foreign stock market was dull, and prices experienced a little reaction in some cases. Rus sian scrip declined k per cent. ; Spanish Passive, the Committee's Certificates, Italian of 1861, and Turkish of 1865 (Five per Cents.), ti ; Mexican, l; Chilies Scrip, ; Russian of 1862 and 1866, Spanish I Three per Cents., Egyptian of 1864, and Vane zuelan of 1864, 1 ; Turkish of 1862, 1 ; and Spanish New Deferred, Venezuelan of 1862, and Egyptian Railway Debentures, On the other hand, Turkish of 1803 unproved 3 per cent. ; ditto, of 1865 (Six per Cents.), 2 ; Greek, 1} Buenos Ayrean Deferred, Chillers Six Cent s and B, and Turkish G uar.inteed, 1 ; and Braz ili an of 1865, 4. YINE.S.-(THI8 DAY.) Osni *Twat. The mining market is firm to-dai, especially so regards shares in tin mines, which are in request, owing to the upward tendency of the quotations for that metal. Great Vor shares are quoted 171 to 18 ; Wheal Seton, 120 to 125 ; Wheal Basset, 67 to 69 ; West Chiverton, 65 to en ; Wheal Agar, 355. to 40a. ; Prosper United, 24 to 1 ; West Kitty, 19s. to 21s. ; North Cro ft y, 44 to ; and Chivertou Moor, 41 to 5. Foreign gold mining shares are in act ive request, and prices are again better in several cases. St. John del Rey are quoted 61 to 63 ; Don Pedro, 31 to prom. ; Anglo-Brazilian, to ; prem. ; Rossa Grande, 7-16 to 9-16 ; Pestarena, it to 1 prem. ; to prem. ; Chontales, to / prem. ; and Florian° and Bolivia, 7.1 G to 9-16. RAILWAYB.-(THI8 DAY.) Owl o'Osom The railway market u firm and the general course of prioes favourable. London, Enghton, and South Coast stock has improved per cent. • Great Western and Great Eastern, ; and Metro: politan, London and North Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and London, Chatham, and Dover, 1. Metropolitan stock is now quoted 1271 to 128 : Great Western, 464 to a ; London and North Western, 1167, to 117:, ; Midland, 115& to 116, 1 . ; Lancashire and Yorksire, 129/ to 1301 ; Cale donian, !1.1. to 112 ; South Eastern, 69 to ; Great Eastern, :331 to as! ; Great Northern, 117 to 118 ; ditto A, 1 15 4 to 116 Lcndon, Chat ham, and Dover, 1.5; to 191 ' • Brighton 6 2 1 i 637 ; and North British, 84 to 35 [For to-da)%s Share List see page 4.1 the ith baa MPS the ring re. eell fdte ill Of lIIW ige jolt lial 1 V .