The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-29 00:00:00

-(THIS DAY.) this association ing William-street, previous meetings, t were presented, be entered on the .ty. considering the he board of di •rtion of placing holders proceeding lines of vessels, r hail never loot a tire now be= days or a fo e cares of businus to prolong life. tions to be removed whole matter shoal on of the court of the removal of tie jag in St. Francin:4 n ot think the heat able o considersika 1 INIT . . J. Kemp Mania roc. tinge teratiatbd ,n.l directors. IT IVOOLIVICH. I,Nr-PAT nocanya. rh,,nms Daley, said v, :m1 to be concernai :he Royal Arsenal, has ~,lice on a charge at a and of atteintigif rg eant of a Noolwich. The prisoner , a t to years of age, and jog to get et oployamat bat I k.lcp accosted .krtillery Barracks, introd cell himself aa a ace thy sergeant to take in conversatior. satil • 4...1•, named t). police, and called vent Daley escaping. A pre.lily found, in whose .se acknowledged being base had eon: .sscssion, which he hes ..t LE. DI'LLIN, JAN. 25. :s that yesterday the bout four miles from :%lit:hell lifeboat of the , 1 at Sherries, to .one,. .knne, of Aberyst. !i,•r••. though with two u.s partly cut with not i”.at out to DM, ..f distrem there was a hoary nen en • proceeded out, west ti.c crew of four men, Tie weather, however, d, and the lifeboat there. schooner, which was then safe in I)ablin harbour. .1 the wind shifted the '.-(TI3IS DAY.) 8 A.& Extreme. w. I 3, • !),..o 'O.l •; I to NW. he !0.33 8 N (..1.0 r. 43 : 3 W. m N W. 4 W. n 001 3 SW. I I . 4 W.N.W. ; fin .o e O. I W. r.OP 3 ..flo ! N W. r.. 0.111 N ' • W :f; 12 1 . . 7 II; ra 0.70 01 t.. 1 . ! olrg. ;It !sett level. SiNI ate direction d -. !...rut..nictcr expand /lu rin2 leAt 24 beam , 0.. • .1..1104 uetached); 1 --1 , . .ty 1.;17) : o.—overalle -t1• k t0.1..1. II:0114111, room it r. diAntrktlice. %1:1•:- 1,. r tlll4 mooning; the •t inland, where peer I,t • . I nldrnJ de demons la 'wt., I; Valeolis oral pr,..-nr , at all statioss bag • wal .le..rrased at an out t t At Pals and • to the north awl .1 1.1-1 .•"..1$ill;; f r om "motto frvsh westerli weather IS his uifr, living at Wick 1. of his o'ol servants and their The united era yea's, or nearly 75 years status that the famishing ..enik ir e ; clothes from publia fives them a singular appear ' says the writcr, " we still smul.,tion become accustomed l'onstintins female Arabs have naked. And to return to their h crinoline. Thus, in addition ley. gifts iu kind and in clothe• :—" The cloven Australian .c:icti London next May. The/ Wales for Hong Kong in No. are married non ; all of 00 1 r are not only expert cricketers glish prople by their expertaegl itg and spear and in running and g dress consists of white flannel is, with a blue flannel lash sewn IT to the left hip. They WO °liars. and French merino ender wparate coloured cap." ,1:1.};11 Scitour...—The half • children in Dr. Guthrie's linburgli, was held on Monday. nripany. After the examirastietb the institution delivered • short mmeuded the wisdom of the littw oing round the city to solicit eid. a cart she uld be sent n round IS rest oft clothing for the use of Os greatquantity of clothing takillt be iuld not take the trouble to midis he clothes of a lady of sft. ilkar 4l was, might not ht the children. .ere a number of ladies who wet play who would make tba li tA : honourable, useful , an d de my of whom were much in waste E.—Three was have c mansion's diaappetrance ; !raf t , after his quittieg a Sho in WO' %ere he bad purchseda hat, bar of him that hits yet been Nand ugh it is not '2ntirelv inconsigirsot n of his Illyinz volimtarilY society of fir trier'., there is So every. It seems that a svorkslan [elan. I'daudslay anat'o. found ID which had belonged to the missing new hat, but the ore be had been rhich he purchased at the oho, to lireetion, sent to his place d 0 0 .7. , which bor,. some marks d re a r: don of it until within a vary feet . : now given it into the band' feet.: of Mr. tipeke's relations ntilibt_A b. rn with the delay, if even they °I reared alarm by raising theal SZ ' his discovery, from HU. to fd Hentield, near Bristol, b was caught last summer soca stao r its bread, potatoes, moat, theist Ik4h A butcher advertises to neu__A °ll mind of good fat mutton at Itd“ 1 "'" lab bacon at bd. ' -- I:A.W INTELLICIENOL (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COURT. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood.) Dittirr V. LORD PARKER. is was 2 demurrer to a bill filed by Ann Druiff against 1° that a bill of exehange, dated the ,1 m ight be rectified by striking her !'enter, s , u P ibe ra , ili r i g fitih, out of it; and to restrain the defendant from alleigiag, .ctiou which she had brought upon the bill, that she .‘,,int drawer of the same. The ctrcumstancies were peculiar. The plaintiff was the widow and ..tritris of Wm. Druiff,late of Newport, Monmouth b k who in March 1866 advanced to Lord 1 , 21T 11 ro er, , .•• I 2,d Frederick Granville, of Croft House, Fairford, e•terhl,ooo/. on the security of two bills for 500 i. i t r h% rith March, 1866, and payble three months : • .it da e to the drawer's order. One of these hills was • ~n hy 51r, tirancille upon Lord Parker, who accepted it ea , . endorsed by Granville to Drell!. and c it e it upon Grauvilk, who accepted it, and it was .1 . ;... ; e1 but :moville to Druiff, who accepted it, and it ' • ' lured by Lord Parker to Druiff. Singularly t t i n both hills, just above the name of the wa: in..erted the name "W. Druiff," for what 1 did not in any way apper. Druiff died on the 15th The bill were not paid at maturity and were • (*lion the occasion of such renewal the two new . •,, vett , la wn out by Mrs. Druiff's daughter, with ...ks for the signatures of the drawers, sad she, as the through mietake or misadventure, put Mrs. name in the place where the drawer's lama ought i„ t hi r espect exactly following the form of the •e; it: which William Drain name Wall su lt r il ..ther respects the bills (which were ...pe...‘.tivelvtliellth and 25th of September) exactly ram- Tnehill of the 14thSeptemberwis drawn by .1211 , 11,. that a the 25th by Lord Parker, each was llcy the other drawer, sad both were indorsed . nac,i t o Mrs. Druiff. The bill alleged that it never . tbc intentioa of either Lord Parker, Mrs. Druiff, or -.jr. that Mrs. Druiff was to be liable as • , nor ins fact was she one of the drawers, and Lord • : wan misled by the signature of Mrs. Draiff, • . 11..luced to believe or in fact ever did believe w. .s one of the drawers, or was jointly liable with over. The bill then went on to allege that when .• I!I of the 1 1th Sept. fell due Frederick Granville was .1..• found, and Lord Parker was applied to. A COT :. 't took place, and in March, lliG7, his lordship's i• o tote to Mrs. Druiff to say that the bill of the • •', • •-;,ptc tier (the one accepted by Granvillel having :an I.y her, it was quite clear that Lord Parker . not liable to her upon it. Mrs. Druiff there. ..itociiced the action, to which Lord Parker pleaded „!cab set out the bill in its exact form, and averred . • • A. Druiff, in the said bill mentioned as and . 1 . 'l" n l . . I •To n the drawer ttl l e l r g f c un ;f i j th e e , ill not draw the bill, and that her name was in ,• •,..! in the same by mistake. Rejoinder and stir-re ..'..1. were filed, and on the 12th of December Mrs. •• this bill, charging that her signature would - .....I probably defeat her right to recover at law, • could not safely proceed to trial ; andpraying ):r. I•• M. I.iffard, Q.C., Mr. Quin, Q.C. (of the cam and Mr. Montague Cookson supported the • ~a, on behalf of Lord Parker. Their contention r -Ile was, that there was nothing in the case, as stated which could not be fully and fairly tried in tion at law. )Ir. Amphlett, Q.C., Mr. Fischer, and Mr. Henry James • common law bar), supported the bill. They argued , here a plaintiff at law sets up an instrument as con _n_ a contract upon which he relies, but claims not to by some part of that instrument, on the ground . it is not competent to bim at law to go into .ace to vary the terms of tile contract as it appears in o-trunient. Mr. Gitfard was heard in reply; and his Honour re o vol judgment until this morning. 'file Vice-Chancellor, after stating the facts of the case, • ~...1 that the circumstance of the defendant having .tll home in the action, instead of demurring, made no • ore, inasmuch as it had been admitted that even •• judgment there might be a motion in arrest of judg ..t, if the plea should turn uut to be a good plea. . pendently of whether or not there was • good nee at law, it would certainly not be creditable ,• the course of justice, if a court of competent .oliction were to part with a case without doing com p: te justice between the parties. But upon the cases r:, .t had been cited, especially by Mr. Quoin, his Honour t it pretty evident that • court of law would not limit this sort of defence. No doubt there had been ..scs at law where a defendant had been allowed to " Although my name is here, it is not my agree +, nt, the agreement bare appearing is not the • g which was agreed upon. " But there had 1 .. n0 instance whore a defendant at law .d been allowed to bring forward an instrument say" This contains the thing agreed upon ; but this is .. cor rectly drown instrument." Here what the plaintiff ....A t was, " This bill purports to have two drawers. It r has not two drawers, the name of one has been 1•. upon it by misadventure." That consideration .• • e would warrant this court in overruling the r.nrer. Rut there was another ground on which plaintiff was entitled to relief, which was this that the parties hadagreed to have bills which should 1. renewals of the former, and which therefore should .• tartly resembled the former, but free from all .1 ..h.t and ambiguity. The bill, therefore, must not la. • • ••oeed ; the demurrer must be overruled ; but the coats a...thl he reserved till the hearing, unless the bill were • er dismissed, in which case they would be costs in tl,, coos. A month's time would be given to answer. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. in Ilanco.—(liefore the Lord Chief Justice and Justice Lush.) TIIE QEEEN r. THE ARCHDEACON OE EXETER. !Ir. hit said their lordships would recollect that in this two rules and writs of mandamus bad been issued to . .A the parishioners, two churchwardens. In obedience • th.• first writ the Archdeacon of Exeter had admitted *.; Ware, churchwarden of the parish of Hatherton, and • . cowl writ was to compel him to admit Mr. Clarke, • , p ,hioner, other churchwarden. Hisapplication now st the archtleecon should be compelled to pay the the first mandamus. Lord Chief Justice—Why should you cast on the on the coats of a squabble going on in the parish! .I.lf-- llecause tho archdeacon had taken into his • . holds a matter which he ought not to have done. lord Chief Justice—He has admitted one man—one ,i , plhll to be admitted. ,aid the subsequent conduct of the archdeacon „,1.1 to the other churchwarden elected by the t• was such as to negative the bent fides of the lie waited two months before obeying the 1a.0. , 1.,m5, and then, instead of obeying the spirit of I fi..e.laiuus, which clearly was to recognise the Ow parish to elect two churchwardens, and it, he admitted that one he first refused ~u 1 refused now to admit the one he had • consented to admit, thereby putting the to the coats of the second ma nd amus which had : rented. lord Chief Justice said the dispute was whether urchwarden should be elected by the parish and one ~..ted by the clergyman or both elected by the parish. said the archdeacon well knew from the first •• t the dispute wag the right of the parishioners to elect I, churchwardens. The Lord Chief Justice said he thought there was no rtence for the application. Application refused. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. POLLEYE r. HILL ASOTIIIIL The plaintiff, a journeyman carpenter, brought this .ction against the defendants, his former employers, for serious bodily injuries alleged to have been sustained through their negligent construction of s floorcloth manm factory at Deptford, which was blown down by a severe gale. which prevailed on the I.ith duly last. Mr. Wilbs was counsel for plaintiff, and Dir. Serjeant P.,rri counsel for the defendants. The defendants were contractors for the main portion the building, and at the time of the occurrence some .ther contractors were engaged in enclosing the sides with t‘ rrugated iron. When the structure fell the pleiatitf was "Ti the ground floor, and he received an injury to the pelvis el•ich brought on fits, and was likely to be of a permanent dare. 'rue defence was that the building was properly con. , tructed, and in accordance with the plans and specifics- Lens, as well as under the superintendence of the district sniveyor, and that the fall of it was to be attributed to the removal of certain struts by the other contractors, and to the effects of the gale itself. Mr. Baron Bramwell, in summing up. said the defend ems would not be liable if the plaintiff knew of the dam -rous state of the building, and did not take proper pre cautions for his own safety. The jury. after being looked up a short time, found a ivrdict for the plaintiff—damages, 3504 COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. - _ (Before the Judge Ordinary.) CORNER r. C ODNER (CLERK). Mr. Coleridge. 4.C., ee d Dr. Bwabey for the petitioner; Lr. Deane. Q.V., for the respondent. The petitioner was the wife of a clergyman, and , ':e daughter of a gentleman at Dartmouth, Devon .hire, stained Harris. Respondent married her in 1849, utile he was still an undergraduate at Cam. :idge ; but he was ordained in the following year. The : , orriage was followed by the birth of two aildren, and conduct of their father was described as very 4,,a ge and peculiar. He expressed himself as detest children altogether, and at length be sepia laud himself from hb wife in order to pee rent any further increase of his family. After this be had an attack of insanity, and ever after he was sup -I**,4 to have recovered he seemed to have had still linger about him some trams of mental unsoundness, for he unite to his wife a letter in which be told her " entre °.s." and BA a profound secret, that be had obtained 4 " , lidard Derby, through the intervention of Lord • , tl~ ' f~ '.11.U1 ail".~ •1 1~~1 THE &MOMS, " WEDNESDAY EVENING; I 'JANUARY " 29, W. Shrewsbury, the ambessadonhip of Naples—Ole stay being of course • pure fiction. In 1868, he suddenly disappeared from with a Mrs. Banos, the wife of • gentleman at Faster and lived ~rdoe with her on the Continent as Captain and Mra. c &aela Then be returned to England and Boa with her openly, but her friends interfered and took her away. She had since died. The respondent then went to Elmfteet, in the parish of Combs and Tintend, Devonshire, whore he cohabited with his servant, a woman named Blakeley. During all this time Mrs. Coiner had earned her livelihood by keeping • school. There was no defence, and the court granted • judicial separation on the ground of adultery. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE LEVY—APPLICATION FOR RELEASE. The bankrupt was a general dealer, of Leman-street, Whiteohapal. Debts,l,sool. ;no assets. Mr. K Reed opposed the bankrupt's application for re lease from custody. He bad been in business a very short time, had contracted 1,5001. of debta, and had nothing to give to his creditors. He had already applied to a judge at chambers for release, swearing that be was a minor , i n which he was con fi rmed by his father ; but the judge re fused the application. It was asked that it might not be entertained until the CAM was properly before the court Mr. It Griffiths supported. His Honour dismissed the application. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE CLARE& The bankrupt was a gas engineer, of Crouch-end, Horn sey. He soughs his discharge from debts of 1,389/., of which 8061. was due to unwonted creditors. Meets about 1141. Mr. Pitman. for the smignees, did not oppose, and the bankrupt obtained his order. A creditor, who said that he had travelled for the bank rupt for two years, and had obtained a judgment against Lim for his salary, applied to have 301. allowed him as a servant, bat was told that there was not a farthing of wets in hand. (Before Mr. Registrar Spring Rice.) IN RE CHARLES JOHN MARL The bankrupt was the well known ship builder of Mill. wall, Poplar, residing at Mill's.terrace, Brighton. He was adjudicated bankrupt in Whitecross-street prison, on the 2nd of December, on occasion of the registrar's periodical visitation of the prison. He had been arrested at the suit of Mr. George Pinkerton, a commission agent, a creditor for OIL, and there were six other detainers against him. He obtained his release from custody on the 21st of December. On his examination before the registrar he deposed as follows :—I am a ship-builder, and carried on business at Millwall, Poplar, at the time of my arrest. Pinkerton claimed commission, but I disputed the debt, and a compromise was made. I was bankrupt, in 1855 ; the bankruptcy was superseded in 1850: the certificate was granted. I owe about 11,0001. to creditors in London and the neighbourhood. I have no property. All the ma chinery and stock at Mineral and everything was taken on of by trustees under a deed of inspentorth l P, rt s e e nanuary, 1865, on the 6th June, 1865. Everything was sold by auction in the beginning of 1866. Since: 1865 I have carded on business by pro curing orders, which were executed by the Millwall Iron company at prices agreed upon between ns. Pinkerton's debt was contracted prior to the deed. Since 1865 I have been kept by my family. In the year I have obtained 3,0001. worth of orders, giving me a profit, which I have not yet received, except 501. There will probably be 1001. coming to me from Millwall, on settlement of ac counts. The Milled' Iron Company is the company I have been connected with for the last eight or nine months. I have kept no books. I have been travelling about for orders and had an office at Stillwell. I have not been in any employment or in receipt of any salary. In 1886 I was in the employ of the London Engineers' Company to obtaiu orders. I have not been the managing director of a company within the last few years at a salary of 2,0001. I have no furniture at Brighton ; it is a furnished house. I executed last week a deed of composition to pay a certain sum—about 9001. I tendered a portion of it. The money is in the bands of Mr. Langley, and was provided by friends. It was not mine. The money I obtained from the London Engineer ing Company was spent in support of myself and family, and in paying debts. I had not any house at Norwood. I ree3ived 500 t. from the last mentioned company in March and September, 1866. The bill I received was discounted by Mr. Bulliner. I paid Golding, horse-trainer, a sum out of the fOOI. That debt was contracted before the first deed. I laid him about 220/. I cannot recollect any other debts paid by me ont of the :AIN. The deed of composition was registered on the 17. th of November. The composition was to be paid in 14 days from registration. It was tendered to all the non.aaaenting creditors. In consequence of difficulties having art-en I abandoned the deed of composition, being unabi' to carry it out, and undeeirous of being adjucated bankrupt. This was the sitting for proof of debts and choice of assignees. [The came was proceeding when our report left.) THE POLICE COURTS. (TlB DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE THE RHIN JZIVELLEZY CASE—A " DUFPZIL" Peter McDermott, an elderly man, wearing a yachting jacket, was brought up for further examination on the charge of attempting to dispose of sham jewellery. It will be recollected that the prisoner met • young man named Howard on London-bridge, and offered him what he represented to be a gold watch c hain and a diamond ring and scarf pin for 2/. 18e. The young man went home and got the money, but before theprisoner came up be informed a constable of the circumstance, and the latter took the prisoner into custody. John Curtis, a detective officer, now stated that the pri soner WIZ sentenced to a month's imprisonment about three years ago for a similar offence. On that occasion he asked witness if he was from the country, and re ceiving a reply in the affirmative, he took him to a public-home and showed him some tobacco and pipes. He also offered to sell him some sham jewellery, and stated that he was a mate of a ship, and that they had thrown the captain overboard anti taken the articles out of his sheet. Witness then said be was r police constable, upon which the prisoner seized him by the throat, but ho was ultimately taken to the station and convicted. Monger. another detective, said he had known the prisoner for eighteen or twenty years as • "duffer," and that he stopped every respectably-dressed boy he met in the street and offered him mock jewellery. In the pre sent instance he ascertained that Howard had 21. Ilia. at home, and asked that sum for the chain, ring, and pin. They had some bread and hotter and coffee at the prosecutor's expense, and the latter proposed to take the jewellery toe idlveesinith's and have it tested, but the prisoner would not consent to this, as be said he had ro see his mates and give them part of the money. Since the former examination Howard had gone to Ipswich to his mother's, but he would come and give evidence if required. The Lord Mayor said he would remand the case for a week, and directed that Howard should be written to re• quiting him to attend the next examination. GUILDHALL. MENDING SAT) MCAT TO THE LONIXIN mammy. Mr. James Newman, inspector of meat for Newgate market, applied to Sir It.W.Carden to condemn the carcase of a cow and the carcase of a pig, which he had seized in Newgete-market which were unfit for human food. He said that be had received • communication from an inspector of police in the country respecting the carcase of a cow which hail been sent up to London to be sold for food. In consequence of that letter he went to the shop of a meat salesman in Newgete-market, and inquired for the carcase of beef that had been sent to him and he said that be hail sold it to a man in the market. He went there and found it. It was there being offered for sale. He seized it, and brought it to the court for inspection by the worthy alderman. The cow bad suffered from inflammation of the stomach, and had died in stead of being killed. It was wholly unfit fur hunem food. The man mid he had given 2s. tad. per stone for it. The carcase weighed 400 lbs. The same morning his attention was called by Mr. Nathan, a meat salesman in Netnate-market, to the carcase of a sow pig, which was so bad that the men would not handle it. It had died from starvation, and was in the worst condition he ever saw meat. It wee wholly unfit for human food. Sir Hobert AV. Carden, having examined the meat, un hesitating condemned it, at the same time recommending the circumstances to be reported to the Commissioners of Sewers, that they might prosecute the senders of the meat. Mr. Newman said it would be done. MARLBOROUGH - STREET. A PAINFUL CASE. Ruth Brown,• young female in the service of Mr. Tho mas Wedmore Bravington, pawnbroker, of No. 50, Prineee-street, Loioester-square, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with attempting to commit suicide, by taking poison. Mr. Bravington said the prisoner bad been In his service as &domestic servant fur about six or seven months. Yes terday he had occasion to scold her and give her notice to leave. in consequence of her misconduct. She afterwards became very excited, and threatened to throw a pound weight at his assistant's! head. Subsequently, being short handed, Mrs. Bravington went downstairs to prepare tea, and saw the prisoner with a tumbler of water in her hand, take a bottle from her pocket. Mrs. Braviogton said, " Ruth, you are not going to take poison " and the pri soner replied, " I know what I am about," and took up the tea things. The bottle being missed, he took the ri , oner downstairs, when she showed where she had secr eted the bottle, in the fireplace. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, The witness said that the bottle contained oxalic acid, and the prisoner bad got it from *chemist's next 'lcor, and it was labelled "poison." The prisoner said that she would not go home to her parents, that she was tired of her life, and that sooner than go home she would go on the streets ; and he then gave her into custody for her own protection. seeing the state of mind she was in. Mr. Tyrwhitt said Mr. Bravington had done quite right. Mr. Bravington said the misconduct he complained of was the prisoner's making too free with the assistants. The prisoner, crying, asked to be let off, promising that she would not do such a thing again. She had not treated her father and mother prop3rly lately, and she was ashamed, therefore, to go to them. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, The prisoner said her parents lived at Uxbridge. Mr. Tyrwhitt sail the hest course would be to remand the prisoner till Monday. In prison she would have au opportunity of being quiet and receiving good advice. In the meantime her parents should be written to. Mr. Bravington said that a sister of the prisoner's, who had lived with him, being at times almost in a state of he hecility, made him fearful that she would have carried out her threats. The prisoner was removed from the court in a very excited state. Its CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice Shee.) THE MURDER IN LAMBETH. Thow,tarlark,27.lalmurer, who pleaded guilty at the last sessions to the wilful murder of a child named Alice Smith, was placed at the bar to receive judgment. Mr. Sleigh, who with Mr. Straight, was instructed by the sheriffs so defeud the prisoner, said that the case had stood over from the previous session in order that inquiries might be made with regard to the @tato of mind of the pri soner. He was bound to inform the court that he bad conferred with the medical officer and the other officials of the prison, and the result was that be was not in a position to lay any evidence before his lordship to show that the prisoner was now in an unsound state of mind. At the same time the question would still remain whether, at the moment of the commission of the act, the prisoner was not affected by some unnatural impulse, and he mentioned this with a view to ulterior proceedings. Mr. Justice Sbee said he would not enter into that ques tion. He was aware of the peculiar facts connected with the case, awl this wan the reason why he had consented to postpone the judgment. Mr. Sleigh said he was only anxious to remind the court that the prisoner had treated the child previously with the greatest possible kindness. Mr. Justice Shee said he was aware of that fact, but he could not take it into consideration at that time. The prisoner was then formally called upon to dsteath ate whether he had anything say why judgment of to should not be passed upon him. lie made uo reply. The leaned judge then assumed the black cap, and lad dressing the pnsoner said he had pleaded guilty at the session to an indictment which charged him with the wilful murder of Alice Smith. His learned counsel end he (the learned judge) also had endeavoured to induce him to withdraw that plea, and to have the facts investigated, but he persisted in that plea ; but upon the representations of his learned counsel, judgment was postponed. in order that inquiries might that there was no evidence to be brought forward to show that at the present time he was not fully aware of what he was doing, and quite competent to plead. For all that appeared to the contrary, therefore, he was responsible for the act be had committed, and he had, therefore, no alternative but to peas upon him the sentence of the law for the offence. His lordship then pawed sentence of death in the usual form. The prisoner did not exhibit the slightest emotion when sentence of death was pronounced, but he touched his head with his finger and sai d, " I beg your pardon, my lord, but as I mu cast , will you grant me an order to see my frieuds Mr. Justice Shee told him that every facility would be afforded him in this respect. He was then removed, and was subsequently handed over to the sheriff of Surrey to carry out the sentence. THE "PECULIAR PEOPLE."—ENTRAORDINART CASE. Thomas Wagstaffe, and Mary Andrews IVagstafe, his wife, surrendered to take their trial for the manslaughter of Lois Wagstaffe. Mr. Metcalfe prosecuted by the direction of the court. The prisoners were undefended by counsel This was the case of the " Peculiar People," as they term themselves, a peculiar religions denomination, one of whose tenets appear to be that in ease of illness no doctor should be called in, but that entire reliance should be placed in God, and no other remedy than anointing adopted. The offence imputed to the prisoners was that while the child in question was suffering from en attack of inflammation of the lunge, all that wee done was to &anoint the chest of the child and call in the elders of the Peculiar People to pray to God for its recovery. Mr. Justice Wiles expressed his opinion at the outset that the facts would not support a charge of man slaughter. The only offence imputed to the defendants appeared to be that they had not called in a medical inan, hut, according to his evidence, even if he bad been ...ailed in the same result would have been arrived at. He said, however, that probably the better course would be to hear the evidence. The facts were accor dingly gone into. It appeared that the child in question had been weakly from its birth, and that it was attacked by inflammation of the lungs, and died of that malady. No medical man was celled in, but all that was done was to anoint the chest, and to pray for the restoration of the child. A witness named Fanny Adlain, who was one of the sect of " Peculiar People , stated, in answer to questions put by the learned judge, that the members of " the church" dial not think it was any sin to call in a doctor, but since they had come to the " tru e knowledge of the Lord," they had entire faith in God. She had herself, she said, suffered severely from serious illness, sad bed never called in a doctor, but had placed faith in God, and she always recovered. Mr. JusticeWilke to the witness)—Then yon think it is • superfluity to call in a doctor ? Yon believe God will answer your prayers, and that be will heal the patient without the assistance of a doctor' Witness—Mit is our belief. We have sees se many The Dukeof Argyll spoke onMondayst a meeting held in Glasgow on behalf of the American Missionary Association. He urged the strong claims which the negroes in the Southern States had on white men, end pointed out that assistance rendered to the former would be regarded in America as an opportune expression of the goodwill of this country towards the America& people. A Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian lays :—" Lord Hobart, whose controversy with ' Histori. cus' has et length come to • close, is about to proceed to C o nstantinople, where he was some years sy sent as corn nuSsioner to inquire into the state of Turkish finance, in the capacity of resident director of the Ottoman Bank, with a salary of 3,00. a year. His business trainiag well qualifies him to undertake the post ; and his high charac ter for probity and independence is likely to impart general confidence to the institution, which now forms • very im portant element in Levantine commerce." In the Jury Court, Edinburgh, yesterday, Fanny Pugh, who, up to a recent period, had the management of the Crews Hotel, obtained • verdict against the Hoe. Brace Ogilvy for 1,2001. for breach of promise of maniacs. The late Mr. Charles Kean is said to have left property amounting to upwards of 30,0001. ARRIVAL or THE liloarsnialc.—GßEENCASTLE , JAN. 29.—The Moravian, from Portland on the ISth arrived here this morning. WHITEHALL, JAN. 2.l.—The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend Robert Welter War to the church end parish of Greyfriers (formerly called the new church and parish of Dumfries), in the pr and co unty of Dumfries, vacant by the transpo:abtioll the Reverend Donald MacLeod to the church and parish of Montrose. The Queen has also been pleased to present the Reverend William Mouse Macpherson to the church end parish of Ifonymusk, in the presbytery of Darkish, and county of Aberdeen, vacant by the death of the Re verend Thomas Henry Dawson .-oa:ette. THE NAIL TRADE.—REDUCTION OP TWENTY PER CENT. IN WAGES. —Yeeterday it was MIRORDOIId through the nail making districts in the neighbourhood of Sedgley, that, in consequence of the depression in the nail trade, Mrs. Tinsley (who is said to employ between 2000 and 3,000 nailer.) will, after Satur day next, redoes the wages of the makers of all kinds of nails 20 per cent. The news, which was announced by the bellman, astonished the poor nailer., who are already enduring great privations from the slackness of trade. As Mrs. Tinsley is probably the largest ;smeary in this expected "r6ealar that tr ge e e in th t e h r e nt sc f l aciorT v2llts able to contipue to give the present rate of wages,le to foe u nless they make a like reduction, they may be usab compete in trade. Mrs. Tinsley announces that she is " emmelled" to take this step, sad it is expected that the milers will not strike.— Wolrerliamplon Chronicle. HORRITAL POR DISRASLS Of THROAT, 32, GOLDIER-SQVAIR, W.—Daring the week spading 23411 January, 3103 mamas were under Mattson% of whom 42 wore new INN. man where a recovery has taken plan that we have satire i COMMERCIAL A ND IfAi.._ Faith. We wonder that it Is' elf very well for those who -..--.--. have no faith to mil in a &rotor. MARK-LANE,—crius DSO.) The medical gentleman who bad been called in ''' F .... j , .... to maak.iaua this .„,..,,aathivaaaints o f bum . said that be discovered upon a post 'normal exami- rutm"-wireat were sp in vary ..w nasaZ namtly of nation that the child died from aerate i n fl a mmation twit ., quality. Theattendance of mul l = was umies a . of the lungs, and he expressed an opinion that the snap- and in both red and white parcels a l es progressed slowly, toms must have been very urgent, and that if • medical at Monday's quotations. man had been called in the child's life would probably i With foreign wheat the marked was well supplied. The have been saved. I transactions were of a retail stuurseter, at late rates. Mr. Justice Wiles summed up the ease at considerable , Floating cargoes of grain were firmly held, but the &- length, and be observed that it was notorious that the ' mend for them was not active. medical protesdon di ff ered very much as to the treatm ent , g a me y any barley was onsale. rim malt i ng uunt l awen , of lung diseases, and the mole question for them was whether quite as clear, and other descriptions were firm in value. the prisoners had ceased the death of the child by grass I Malt was dull, but not cheaper. The supply wasseason and culpable negligence. • ably extensive. The jury after • short deliberation returned a verdict of i • Only • moderate quantity of oats was on offer; never l'i'w I:,,ing. but at the same time censured the prisoners i theless there was • want of animation in the demand, at for not having called in medical advice. Monday's advance in prices. Beans were quiet, and the transactions in peas were on • limited scale. For flour the demand was by no means active, at about stationary prices. Not much business was passing in seeds, st late our. rencies. Cakes were in fair request. CUMNT MCI& set Tii: Wales i. User, Leek red, to - '67 6.5 to 75 „ .15e. late, —to „ 66 to 761 Norio& sad Lincoln red Milting Distilling Grinding SS to 36 MAW. War, Norfolk, ;ad Suffolk fit to WI Singatou and Wars 62 to 09 Brown 6O to 571 RIL Saw 43 to 48 ter Qr 011 S. M " übb.. Scotch ia.whi por i . 2 30 4 tototo "' -- BURL 40 to a Mk 40 So 43 41 So 44 Harrow M i m i . _ 46 so 34 PLS. Orr/ 42 to 44 #VM 44 to 47 44 to 48 Hodes !LOUR._ Town unda: Fs; 180 IN to Sa 1 IM. SO is di Household ea to $T Country Norfolk and Suffolk 48 In 50 mob* 0•3111. English. feed lO to 33 „ potato scotch, teed Yoftll6l. Pot 4r. r. rw Qr. WHIAT. Dentate and Konigs berg 7O to 67 Rostock & Mecklen burg 76 to ROI Danish Danish Russian, hard soft Ann;ican, red 66 to 72 whit ßo.R e ... 66 to 73 IBMS Conn. White 45 to 47 ILa6R Ortiottng Distilling Ilalttog OArs. Spanish . 52 67 Dutch brewing feeding ARRIVALS OF GRAIN, &e.. INTO LONDON BY RATER CARRIAGE THIS WEEK. Wbeat. 1 ltailey7Oets. --- E lo gra qr.. erg. ye. tirla. 7ltlo •. English eadsestek 1.60 80 150 1410 Irlah 1 Foreign --- Total Yaw, 1,810 qrs. OATS. I. Danish and Swedish LT V to St li osdan BEANS. 44 to 4S LIVERPOOL annrox MARKET• (THIS DAY.) (HT TELEGRAPH.) (TION 013 N OWN 0013X11•01 1 MINT.) The market continues quiet , but steady, tad the sales toot up about 10,000 to 12,00) bales. MINCING-LA.NII.—(THIS DAY.) SUGAR. —A moderate huffiness is doing in Wed India descriptions at a slight decline on lad week's prices. Bar bados*, 325. 6d. to 34a. 61. ; St. Kitt's to 305.; Demerara, Ds. 6d.; ditto cr talliaed, 33e. lid. ' te a small parcel of common daggwry Madras sold at 28a. Be -6 d ull of isle at t ut r l e ic Tious peloes CCored.—Thep sales of plantation Ceylon have gone off steadily, at full prices, except dull and grey aorte, *Lich are only In moderate request. Ordinary to fine ordinary sold 51s. Gd. to 675. ; grey, 669.6 d. to 70s. ; low to goal middling, 70.. ral. to 83a. lid.; bold, 86s. to iitis. 6d.; rry, 80s. to 91s. lid. Cocoa. —The market is inactive. TEA.—Common and fine qualities are in good request, at firm prices. Medium sorts dull of sale. RICE.-- About 7,000 bap of Madras sold, for arrival, at Ils. 7 id.: that on the spot being at lie. 9d. COTTON.—The market is lees active, and prices in some cases are barely supported. Hruv.—St. Petersburg clean is firmer. 391. now de manded. JETE.—The market remains quiet. Rms.—About 100 casks sold at previous pri d ces. Ma tiu Is. Bd. • and Demerara p s,ieces, 2s. I. common, i Is. 11d. ; hogsheads at 2s. 21. • and barrels at 2 s. 3 d. • liai.rrrrar..—No sales report:ed. ) . Cureu.—A parcel of fine Pegu sold at 52a. fid. TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.) The market is eat. Town tallow, 41s. )d.; Peters burg Y. C. on the spot, 425. 9d. ; January to March, 425. tid.; March, 45. tid. ; October to Deosnaber, 44a. BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—(THIS DAY.) Yawn. Pattenden and Smith report that the demand for both English and fore i g n hops continues steady at late rates. At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 28th day of January, HIS, her Majesty baying been pleased to appoint the Right Honourable William Tatton, Baron hie' don, to be her Majeste's Lieutenant for the county of Chester, his lozdship this day took and sabecribed the oath appointed to be taken thereupon instead of the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration.— Annus HeLre.— Ga:ctte. A meeting of the Judicature Commission was held vesterday. Present :—Lord Cairns ; Sir William Erie ; Sir James P. Wilde ; Sir R. J. Phillionore ; Sir W. P. Wood ; Mr. Baron Bramwell ; Mr. Justice Smith ; Sir latuidell Palmer, Q.C., M.P. • ILr. W. M. James, Q.C. ; Mr. Quoin, Q.C.lathery ; Mr. Ayrtoa, M.P. • Mr. Hunt, P. ; Mr. F. D. Lowndes ; Mr. Hollins ; end Mr. Bradshaw, the timmterv. THE IRISH CHURCH. — Last nig ht a large meeting was held at the Horns, Kennington ; Mr. H. it. Ellington, presiding. In opening the proceedings the chairman regretted the absence of Mr. Thos. Hughes, /LP. He said the Irish question was cootemedly the subject uppermost in men's minds just now, and somehow or other they bad the notion that the misery of Ireland was to be attributed to the state church in that country. Few could go into the subject and examine it in all its details without coming to the conclusion that it was high time so fruitful a source of mischief and heartburnings was dons away with. Ae the lash church would doubtless bs one of the feat subjects which the new parliament wouldtake into consideration, it behoved constituencies to evoke such an expression of feel ing that even a tory government would be compelled to take action. Mr. Mason Jones, who was received with great cheering, entered at Brent length upon the qeestion, contending that nothing but impartial dieendownmem of all religious bodies in Ireland would offer a satisfactory settlement of the difficulty. Other gentlemen then shimmed the meeting upon the adoption of a petition to parliament, and the proceedings were closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. Ties MieurciL EDVcATION OP WOWEBL—Last evening the court of assistants of the excluded f Apothecaries' CDIII. piny decided that ladies sshouldnal he f r om their esaminations in arts ; and it is moat probable that this important concession will be followed by admitting thm unreservedly to the medical ezandastions. We hear that e this decisionlas been manly brought 'healthy Dr. N. Buchanan, as able and highly respemed peat mister of the company, end now an inffeential member of the ooart of assistants, which is the governing body. Dr. Buchananis also • considerable subscriber to the funds of the Female Medical Society sad is a member of a select committee reeentif e red " to p re emie the development of the Ladies' College on a w and public UAL" This college, as is pretty well known, has now been in wuroessful operatics for four years at 4, Fits:ay-square. It has already become nearly self-supportiag,and Imeamong Mallet of subscribers and Meads the noises of the Duke end Duchess of Argyll, Mrs. Gladstone, Lord Houghton, Arch bishop Manning, the Wei of Shafteammuy, and °sham. NZWINOTON AND WALwORTH BOUT KITCHEN ASSOCIATION.—The Rev. Alfred c..V (chairman) aohnow ledges with thanks the following denatieee /Irs. Marsh ledges moat, 501. ; Assistants at Mr. W. Tern's and Co., ; Anonymous, from Remte, IL ; Lambeth Pollee Cour t iftd donation), Si. o Tax TERRIBLE WRECKS ON Tll2 ClLAuoisoarr sums Cos r.—The adjourned inquest wipes leas[ the bodies of the seamen cast ashore on the Idensmieemmin. Gower, was held on Monde evening at the Farmed Anse, before Mr. Edweril Stria, coroner, the Rey. D. Davies, the clergyman lof the parish, doubt that ascerta ined 01 11N1 jury. libas now been se Imes than fifty.two deaths base ia emuesquenee of lies os the even in g of the fearful &meters which took p the 22nd, and that of the nineteen vowels which left the port of Lianelly, only six rode out the *dews el the akers ever the Bury bar, irhW• b 7 the way, is a geological formation nee ett lalmest. Tbe coroner, in remising up, reeomemaied the modem of signals on the Gower sands, together with tate VF • lifeboat at the lightship. The jui herd the bodies had formed the crews of ems Of the meshed vessels, and the foreman said that ad set Mese perste the recommendation of the p ia *lir ver dist if that gentlemen would make it to Se Imbrue cow missions:a Llaaelly. The WOWS add he woad as this, and the jury woo secs after disabled The wrest of Gower is now liberally strewn for miles with snug conceivable fragment's, pardon of a -Wes =elk ens with coal, with white the a l= be ere e Zatiry w hile the exposed sad belated anon receiving, in the irmlileg oilmen of died beaks.: dumb but eloquent to the emplating alike te use oertainty of life and to the timpanist 'my el lie me es. the occasion in quietism. MONET -11rOFET.=-1711-01-14-E, o' O'Ceollts The stock markets are generally firm to-day, in comequeme of a preponderance of purchases. Fresh transactions, however, are checked by the intervention of the fortnightly settlement. Consols are in - good request, and have advanced per cent. A similar movement has manned in the New Three per Cents., and Three per Cents. Reduced. Foreign bonds meet with inquiry. Home railway securities have improved in several cases, although, with a large supply of stock, the " beckwardations " are not so heavy as they were a fortnight ago, amounting in most cases to Ito per cent. Metropolitan, however, is still scarce among the dealers, and the rate for the loan of it to the next account is f per cent. Holders of this stock are not disposed to sell previous to the announcement of the half-yearly dividend, now daily expected. Most other 'securities are without change of importance, apart from a fall of 1 per cent in Erie Railway shares. The general rate for bills in the discount market is 11 to 11 per cent., but occasional transactions are reported at 11. Loans are obtainable in the Stock Exchange at per cent. per annum. Consols are quoted 931 to 1 for money and the account (6th February), and the Three per Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 931 to y. The railway market is firm, but there is no gene ral variation in prices. South Eastern stock is in demand, and has advanced per cent., viz., to 681 to 1. Metropolitan end Great Eastern are better, at 1171 to g and 301 to 31, respectively. The prices are as follows :-Great Western, 451 to ; London and North Western, un to 1 ; Midland, 104 4 to 1 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1251 to 1 ; Cale donian, 761 to 1 ; South Eastern, 68 tot ; Great Northern, 107 to 108 ; ditto A, 1081 to 1 ; London and South Western, 79 to 81; London, Chatham, and Dover, 18 to ; North British, 341 to 351 ; Brighton, 46 to ; Berwick, 1031 to 1041 ; and York and North Midland, 95 to 96. A good demand prevails for foreign stocks, and a rise of Ito per cent, is observable in several cases. Turkish of 1862 are at 58} to 59 ; ditto of 1865, 311 to 1 ; Greek, 121 to 13 ; Spanish New Three per Cents.,36 to ; Portuguese scrip, 21 tot pron. ; Italian of 1861, 421 to ; Egyp tian of 1864, 891 to 001 ; and Mexican. 15/ to 16. United States 5.20 Bonds have improved 1 per cent., viz., to 711 to 721, but Erie Railway shares are 1 lower, at 481 to 1. Illinois Central show no movement, at 861 to 1. Anglo-American and AtlantieTelegraph Eight per Cent. Preference shares are unchanged-the former at 201 to 1, and the latter at 41 to 5. With regard to bank shares, London and County are 1/. better, at 541 to 551. Union of London are quoted 34 to 35 ; Alliance, 121 to 111 dis.; and Imperial Ottoman, 1, to 1 dis. Financial shares are inactive, but London Finan cial show a recovery of 10s., vie, to to 22 dis. International Financial are at 21 to 1,1 General Credit, 21 to 1 dis. ; and Credit Foncier, 61 so I dis. A meeting of the shareholders in the North Western Bank (Limited) was held yesterday at Liverpool. The report stated that the general business of the undertaking had steadily im proved during the last year, but, in con sequence of recent heavy losses, the directors had found it necessary to appropriate thereto the undivided profits, amounting to 20,0001., of former years, which had formed a reserve fund, as well as a considerable sum from the profits of 1867. It was proposed to pay a dividend for the six months at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, but an amendment in favour of the adoption of the report, with the exception of the dividend clause, was carried. The to sses for the year 1867 reache d 38,00a-3, of which has been sustained through Messrs. Camp bell and Co., and three houses connected with them. The directors of the British Land Company (Limited) have resolved to recommend at the annual meeting, to be held on the 23th February, a further dividend of 5 per cent., and a bonus of 10 per cent., making (with the interim dividend of 5 per cent.), 20 per cent. for the year. The Midland Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of 1,9721. over last year. The chief desire of the investing public at present seems to be for investments which shall involve no ulterior liability, but at the same time yield a good rate of interest. In the railway market the amount of muss o fide business isstill diminishing, and primate= to be chiefly regulated by gambling operations. The public are effectually deterred from investing by the successive disclosures of mismanagement and deception which are made front week to week. Little more than a month ago the Midland Rail way proprietors were startled and their property grievously depreciated by a demand from their directors for a sum of 5,000,0001. Since then ex treme dissatisfaction has been occasioned by the reports and figures which have been published, laying bare the unsound condition of the Caledonian Railway Company. On Monday the tendency to distrust was aggravated by the guarded utterances of the auditors of the Manches ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Company, and yes terday the feeling of discouragement was further increased by the publication of the report of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway di rectors. These gentlemen state, in effect, that the old system of accounts was utterly misleading, owing to the official habit of charging to capital numerous expenses which ought to have been de- PROKINCIAL SHARI MAIMS'S. frayed out of revenue, and that during a - great part of the time when dividends of 6 per cent. le -ems today : Caledonian. 761 1-Great LIM 91 4 3 .1.43"...01dre and Yorkthlre, 12:4 41 . 5 .4 -1,26 / 0 a were paid on the ordinary stock, the company was 4-11epebe!tv . , tet.itt: Us note really earning enough to pay the whole of its loortiesTstiribitatt-lioloZio;_hrigt:l4s7l.7427l, preference interest. Accordingly, on the present gawk, is t lanuc.and Cru e t kyle= 7 p e e t 7:ll ( l 4 . I..fo r tworse l i occasion the net balance is only sufficient to pay r o %°° - ,T21.,,,,,, we e. 5.50 Bond! 1a.n2.. it Mr Ao 1.1 No. interest on the preference stocks created prior to eesallie:r, Think 01.111701.1..A.2.7e01 =-4.ll=67l7;ymitlit; 1865. -BMA sad lid. Teiesesph A. ttleAted . 125 6-Unittel. to per oast. nor., Ti-bastes The Mexican dollars by the steamer Duro were Kine1e,„71162".0 C°121.111. Mom. sold yesterday for the Continent at 4e. 11d. per uescalseel, JAS. ss.-oar market,..t.0.10241.;,: itit57.71072,1.5 ounce, showing a rise of id. The bar silver has Inniblegnlttred7c)o:4 ant Tpate St o lle lowest. Atlant.to not yet been disposed of. 1 0 11 -Caleanattn. 714 T o n veSi I " l "" k j e s pr i tt I P p sr --G= Edger% 111 1- 4 On'Charige.yesterdAy afternoon the rates for sheet 6 6-E666,41 ,24._orm A. , 04 „„,‘ bills on Paris were quoted rather worse for this The e et • iSe- [}e tan , 261 3 led Sort. country, while as regards Hamburg and Vienna memo, and seem cost 4:4.12j sad a slight advance was observable. The list is sub- w , na rare ree-ussrepoutea, joined : fi 4 ° 101 l Ai -North 1: 77 11117l.t 6 1 17 et a:. 14x1--6outh Matas, Amsterdam, 3 months, ILI9I to 12.0 ; ditto, short, ee e _ i s t = 7Z; u u the ispeanoe t ILI7I to ILISe ; Rotterdam, 3 months, 11.191 to r 2.0 ; 77 4 L - _ - __ Aa dh seem e d Fl e e p ee r e nt. tin. It. 961 e 4 -Dover Antwerp, 3 tO 25.37 i BROM* 3 months., r o dr.ind.a.llAlf per Cent. 126 , ...2. 6 . 0 :: 6 216.1rhader 26.321 to 36.371 • and Alums, Smooths, 13.91 to modems. 105-Deese rya! Cent. . tea Via. 13.9 i _De* OlagitT s !Pl., 3 menthe. 6.2111 to 11.27 i ; s t i t inum rdom are railer armor Company Sbares vassal • Plitiebing„ 3 nos Eti to 321 ; Paris, short, r .lO Ude. II Yea : sinatamsw eemaie kouree. st .tle. to 5 t 0 2 . 04 5. 010 . imaths, •5.30 to 25.35 , Idsomanss, guru. at ; wia , c9411 , 04 A 48 4 .47 cantrigr: $ te. Prankferteiethe , '• - s h ,„„ e 1,500 W bow, 1.16 ; ante ( . 7 ▪ semrlik 1901 to Mk s, Vbiona. 3 =ado. 1230 is strdle...petoss: Lloyd's Boa Mares, t 12.25 ; 12.10 so 12.26; Mae*A, pm : sou waassworea svgs, to • 07M 1 immthe, 4111 6 18 h Saimaa'. 3 imea*a, 4_131 to 18= Team at sad MEMillilaum CaaS* Mork_ atestbo, 16 491; ree=3: to RV; Mous, JAL !7.-Dew DODO pot . 11.)__•ez en bvia . , & - trbz . : Isaias. 10 48i Vole . llav 431 43 1 Bar - t r eg a r a Zgr a g e tteVair a d Irelan% 011-Thratill six pee Wass, Mies, MO 48 4 ; NM** a - i llt = 2. 8 ! 4 : CastaiBte. PI-Matted Stew ammo I.to Yews. 6 twr .cut. Si Elni6ol6. 00hsj 60 48 1 (111=sa twee re-ismose neat errs TAW. 1621.1erialii.ft moods, SAO to um ; umm, 3 momme . .Vjel o- to !reamed of Liverpool (UMW), LIS pa _re C a ton l . 19.50 ; Naphs, 3 mod= 19.40 to 29.50 ; Palo~, 3 tor sooTed, =Jer i 4.431101113..a101104 -nica6s, *4O to lace} Memiaa. mam op t o 2ll.4 o to se M ess la ws la , Wades (ti p od m a. 70 -mau ;.g." 21.50 ; Lakes, 99deps' diete,lll to 1511 ; 99 9131 .0111114 waters (4110.1 661-Bettest ago (mints Deem tisSe,sli to 511. Manaus Lime • :all paid), es-Dublta par awl. afaed prO apa, peep. am pee. so , At a meatus/ of aharehold.ers of the Albion Bank ease felreeteleefo,r,..„.. 4 i re rep t. p ee p peed. .dl6O 9 .16). (Limited), he yesterday, it was reported that the 911 _4=3,7,,i" w e e s e se c ammo: tram date ad Da" ems awnings for the past hall-year amounted I. datiailSß • Ar3324-12‘.2L,Thich enabled the dirsotori, after & paying the current,e=peae, to declare &laden at the rate of 5 tef 'test. per annum, k olieting for ward 5731..195. 101. to the gent and loss account of next half-year. A roasting of the London and St. Katharine Pocks Company was held yesterday. The net profit the for the half-year anionnied to 137,M01., and present available balance is 74,029/. A dividend of I.i per cent., free of income tax, was declared, m aking a total distribution of 2,1 per cent• for the twelvemonths. The amount left to be carried for- • ward to the credit of profit and loss is 2,070/. The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of 1,3741. over the corresponding ~. [ period of 18117; and the Metropolitan an increase of 4221. The traffic return of the Great Western Railway of Canada for the week ending the 24th inst. shows au increase of 1,647/. over last year. The traffic of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway for the brat wee k in January amounte the d to 85,245 doles, being 13,827 dole. more than in same period of last year. The adjourned general meeting of the Brazilian Land and Mining Com pany _ (Limited) is to take I place on the 31st inst. The extraordinary meeting Bled for the same day is to be adjourned. The report of the liquidators of Smith, Knight, and Co. (Limited). presented at a meeting yester day, -. shows that a total of M 1,820/. is now claimed from the company. Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas, dock, waterworks, and canal shares, as given ir the Stock Exchange list of last evening : Insunince—Allianoe British aisd Foreign, 13; C,eitimcr. dal Union SA, a ; Guardian, 48; Leaden and Provincial Marine, la' •, Maritinie (Limited), 16a; Phoenix, 107. a. 6; Bon life. 4f ; Universal Life, 33 ; Universal Marine, (Limited), 4a, I. GasliOt end Coke —Bombay (Limited). 41 ex dir.; British Provincial. 2 , , 29 ; t;reat Ceatred, 121 ; Imperial Centinentid,94i, a ; WeettuinsterChertered, 4; ; Western, 14 a ; ditto B, 8. Docks—London and St. Katharine, 49a 49. , 710, Waterworks Bcrliti, 13a, a ; Chelsea, 11l a ; East Leadoe,ll7 ex iiiv. Canals—ilesent'a (or London), Lli. Subjoined is a re - eurt of yesterday's sale at the "Open Stock Exchang e (LimitedP :—The Great Republic Gold and Sa yer Mining Compr.ny of Virginia 50/. bond, 19/.: Patent Pneumatic Loom, 31 ; Varna Itailwey, 2& ; Credit Foncier, 3; ; Novara and Lake Orta Railway bond for 5001., o!. With reference to the Eastern mails, the follow ing is from the Lond...t toed Choi/11l TelegAt ph : The time-table originally prepared ter the new postal service having proved in tame respects unsatisfactory as regards the Australian mails, a new table, slightly altered, has been hailed by tin Peninsular and Oriental Company at the request of government. Under the previous arrangement, the inward Australian mail would have arrived three to four days after the .I...wittch of the out ward one, causing a delay of more than three weeks in answering the homeward letteis. In order to obviate this, the nomad outward Chime mail reader the new contract, which would have he‘n despatched o riday, the ' 20th h March, is postponed until Friday, the 2 F 7tb. There w thus be an inter, al of there weeks, instead of a fortnight, between the two Match wails for China, but after that they will leave Loudon every alternate riday, in accord - adth the etigical scheme. Tr E.DAT Evierise. Consols, which closed yesterday at ir..t/ to 1, both for monoy and the oth February, opened this morning at the same quotation, and so closed, after temporarily touching 33,1 to 0. The Three per Cents. Reducvd and New Three per Cents, were quotv'l at 3 o'clock 331 to g. The otticialbusi newt report is as follows :—Three ler Cent. Con sols, for money, feat /, I. ; date, for account, 931, I ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 931, 0,1, g ; New Three per Cents., 931, 0,1, g : India Stock, 21.5 ; ditto Five per Cents., 112, 111, 12/ ; ditto Four per Cent., 101 ; ditto Five per Cent. " enfaed " rupee paper. Itl3, ; ditto Five and-a-llalf per Cent., 1081 i ; ditto Piet, per Cent. Debentures, 10% ; ditto Bonds, 425. prem. The India Five per Cent. Stock was a little more offered. Exchequer Bills declined Is., closing at 225. to 28s. prem. There was a considerable am o unt of business in foreign stocks, which were generally steady s , but in a few instances the tendency of prices wa y s some what flatter. Italian of dee / per cent. ; Port ugue s e scrip. ; and Brazilian of IRA,e other as well as some of the Egyptian Bends, it. On th hand, Buenos Ayres Deferred improved l peh oer Spanish New Three per Cents., g ; and t ferred, /. Colonial Government securities were dealt in to an increased extent. Victorian and seine of the New South Wales and Ceylon debentures were in chief request, and rose / to 1 per cent. United States 5-20 Bonds showed delitess, and declined / per cent. Erie Railway shares receded and l'anarna Second Mortgage Bonds 2. while Atlantic and Great Western Debentures awl Con solidated Mortgage Bonds, as well as Detroit and Milwaukee, rose per cent. Prices closed as fol , lows :---15-20 Bonds, 1882, 71/ to 72 ; Erie Railway abases, 49/ to I ; Illinois Central, 80/ to /, ox div. ; Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures, 24} to 2.34 ; and Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 23/ to 24. •••!.. MINES.-(THIS DAY.) thin o'CLcals.. There is not much fresh business in the mining market to-day, owing to the conimenc er n ent of the settlement. Prince of Wales share s are roted 58s. to 60s. ; North Crofty, 3to ; Wot Chirer tow, 67 to 68 ; Great Vor, 20 to 21 ; Wost Drake walls, Bs. to 10s.; Chiverton Moor, 6 to 6/ ; West Frances, 40 to 45 ; Corn lire.a, 24 to 25 ; West Prince of Wales, 2 s. to lls . ; Wheal Seton, 87. to 924 ; East Lovell, 81 to ; Great Retallack, 2i to 34 ; and Now Locell,7s. 6d. to 10s. Annexed are the q uotations for foreign and colo nial mining share s : St. John del Rey, 30 to 32 ; Don Pedro, 2# to ; peon.; Anglo-Brazlian, par to prem. ; Pestarena, dis. to par : Chontales, dm. to par; Roam Grande, par to prem.; Anglo- Italian, par to prem. ; United 'Mexican, 14 to ; Prontirto and Bolivia, ; to 1 ; Port Phillip, lf to ;: Central American, ilia. to par; and Anglo-Arzentine, Ito prem. [For today's Oars Lists see pare 4.] 3 I 1 ~~~~ '~,