The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-23 00:00:00

LIW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COL' lIT OF ('HANCERY. baore the (.1,zi0.) I. INu ('UN I'.\N'.--.\PPLICtTI,N IA r_mty JI:111.1s. 7•..1.y the application on the part of Major Jervis to • •,.• his name from the register of shareholdi n, , w ilia I.,iiiite the chief clerk (Mr. ('hurch) of the Master of "lid reported in the E pr taa on Friday, was i • The interests involved were considerable. :mil oinun was to substitute the Contract Corporation. Mi•-•.rs IMoi.ely. of Liverpool. as the contributories on s .o,mial that Major Jervis and others were merely •• es or trustees (or the Conti Act Corporation, now •i, I a winding- up older. ;oak limn iittendial to ask the asaistance of the chief l• , k. 1k add he saw it mentioned that Any shareholder •••:1•I apply to he taken oil the list. He sa A shareholilor certainly like to be taken off, and seeing the state ., tit he wished to know how be was to proceed. The hief clerk (Mr. Church) said hi: could take out a to he removed from the list, but advised him to i•qoult a solicitor before he proceeded. No doubt a ~:;ixr of shareholders would like to be removed from the n.,ar.s. Edwards, on the part of Major Jervi., said the Wall Certainly most important. Large interest., ed, and they wished the case to go before the Itl.,•ter of the I:011a. Mr. Micha..l Abrahams appeared for the ligublators of !I: Contract CorpotAtion, and Emshe tor M.. 3,1%. . . . Atter a diet union between the parties, The Chief Clerk adjourned th‘e applicaticrl. In ....out days he would go into the matter, and say whr !Jur it waa a cave of such magnitude and importance that it ,:iould go before the Judge. t infer accordingly. (7(4:HT OF QI:EEN'S BENCH. in the Lord Chief : Justice and IllaCkburn, Mt.llnr,and HUI ANT was an action tried before the Lord Chief Justice i.,.11.11ia1l to recover damages from the defendant, who e the rector of Horton, in Buckinghamshire, for f.,.ing to marry the plaintiff. The action, ill i,T. was to try the right of the rector to Calm a certain fee. After the case wan opened a.. facts were turned into a special case for the ..latical of this court, with leave to their lordship. to draw ',nee!. of facts. To-day their lordships gave judgment in the cis... The judgments were written ones, and eLsre.l hedorically and legally the question and law of ,Atoni and prescriptive righte. An litr. Justice Black i '.ll.hicre . .l from the other learned judges, their lord ered their judgments seriatim. Mr. Justice Mellor said the question in this case was ebethei the rector of Horton could charge a certain fee fen the celebration of marriages in that parish. It appeared th.,t train treet to Is:4 the fees actually paid to the rector bel been his, lid. and 13s.,with an occasionally varying ad. da.onal stun from 2s. 6a. to 3s. 6.1. for the publication of ti.c u na. It was argued for the plaintiff that there was h a customary fee or duty pays.ble to ti:e parson and clerk, ond that the fee of 13e. or 13s. 6d. was an mure.u. ...able sum, and, consequently, void. The question, therefore, fur the court to decide was, whether Bee or 13s. 14., the sum claimed, could be sought to be conei dired under the circumstances, to have haul a legal origin. 1:t upon the analogy of a 1110111111 being illegal on the ground of its rankness, lie was of opinion that the isekness of this claim on the ground of ininsemorial cus tom fromparitg the value of money) was destnictive of its claim. This fee appeared to him to be at the present time disproportionate when they cemidcred the mount claimed was larger in many cases than the average amount of weekly wages in agricultural 'wishes. By the late Marriage Act it was. settled that the registrar's fees in case of licence should Le Ins. and otherwise ris. If, therefore, the sum claimed was now considered large what mast it have been in the thee of Richard 1., from which time legal memmy dates:' Historically, therefore, the claim could not beaky ported, for it would have had the effect of prohibiting mar riages altogether in agricultural psrishes. l'pon that ground he was compelled to say that the amount claimed did not and could not have existed. Was the claim, therefore, sup portable on the decisions of custom? He thought not, and that the court ought not to presume a legal origin against the absolute conviction, as jurors, that it never did :old never could have ex i s t e d before or from the time of legal memory. Their judgment must be for the plaintiff. Mr. Justice Blackburn said there was no evidence what the fee was before 180 d, but since then it had ranged in some instances from 10s. lid. to Le. 6a. There were fair inferences of fact that that 13s. was the right fee. Marriage fees were not due of common right, but by immemorial custom fees might be claimed. He thought there was CVI.ItIICC of the custom of a reasonable fee having been paid before and since the time of legal bionory, which in process of time had been ti‘ed .it Lfs., and that the claim fur that sum was good upon the principle that a case was as applicable to a parishioner as to a parish officer for the whole of the inhabitants. The fairness or not of a claim based on the change in the value of money was un satisfactory, and on that head considerable allowance ought to be made. He thought they ought to find that the usage was immemorial, and that the fee was ancient, and that the presumption was in favour of its ancient origin. The judgment of the court ought therefore to be for the defendant The Lord Chief Justice said he was of opinion that this claim could not be upheld in law. It was clear that such a fee could only be claimed by immemorial custom in a parish. The first question they hail to consider was whether the evidence established its payment from the time of legal memory. From 18014 the foes paid in a considerable majority of instances were 10s. for the rector and :is. for the clerk, in a few instances 12a. rid. for the rector and 4. for the clerk, and in a small number of in stances • still higher fee bad been taken. Taking it therefore as it bad been shown that this custom bad existed since PM, ought the court to presume its previous existence for an indefinite period—extending as far back as legal memory, but with this important qualifi cation, that it was only applicable when the presumption of its immeinoriality could not be rebutted, or that the custom could not have existed at that date. In this case the presumption was inadmissible, and the custom, what ever its duration, had no binding validity in law. This was a rural parish inhabited by a large number of agricultural labourers, and 13e, in our days was a very considerable sum to that class. It was impossible, there fore, to believe that, looking to the relative value of money and the disproportion taken at the most moderate rate, that such a payment existed or bad been sub mitted to at the time of Richard I. or since ; and if reference were made to the amount of wages by which, by the Statute o f Labourers, the labouring classes of that period were alone entitled, he thought it impossible to entertain the shadow of a doubt of this fee being altogether out of the question at that early period. Were they, then, to do violence to their consciences as jurymen and as judges by holding that this custom dates Mck to the time of legal memory, when they must be con vinced that such could not be the ease! The law of presumption was a bad and mischievous law, and discredit able to a civilised and an enlightened people, to carry it back for 700 years, but so it was, and th e y must ad minister it as they found it, and consequently they were not warranted in getting rid of its effect by subtle fictions and artificial convictions inconsistent with the law and its effect. Unsatisfactory, however, as that law was, the court must be bonnil by it. In the case of a modus, the rankness was decided by the amount to be paid looking to the comparative value of money that the sum claimed was not such as would have been paid by arrangement. That principle was applicable to this claim. Being convinced that this was not a customary payment, which could not possibly have existed in the time of Richard 1., and was not in a legal sense an imme morial one, he felt bound to give judgment for the _ _ Mr. Justice Lush, who had not written his judgment, said he concurred entirely with the Lord Chief Justice ILTIII .Justice Mellor._ Judin;;;t7;;Ti; plaintiff. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. fittings in Banco.---I Before Lord Chief Justice Bova], and Justices Wile., Keating, and Smith.) DOWNING 0. CAM.. The plaintiff was a greengrocer, living in London, and the defendant WAY a magistrate for liertfordshire, and his residence was near Watford. One morning the defendant not the plaintiff and his eon hawking pineapples in Wat ford, and ho bought two for rm., and directed the plaintiff to deliver them at the house. The defendant believed that he had paid for the fruit, but the plaintiff was paid by the butler; but was afterwards given into custody for o bt a i n i ng money from the butler by fraud. The pin ata action was t o reco v er d amages for false imprison ment, arol at the trial a few days ago it was conceded th it the defendant had acted in the honest belief that the 5v had been paid twice over, but the jury found that he was mi s t a k en as t o the act, and they awarded the plaintiff ;fflf., and his son, who had brought another action, 10/. Gifford, Q.V., now moved for • rule to enter a h"‘nit, and submitted that the case CAWS within the Act of the 24th and 25th,Vict., which said that any person " imm.l committing" any offence punishable by indict ment or summarily might be given into custody, and any person sued for false imprisonment in consequence of so yavimr into custody should have notice of action so as to enabl e him to settle the matter. In this tale there had teen no notice of action. Another point was that the thfcndont was acting in his character of • magistrate, hid was on this ground also entitled to notice of action. The court after a good deal at dismission as to the law the matter granted • rule, but suggested that it was • ease in which it would be prudent to come to an amicable attlement. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. Before the Judge Ordinerf.) tows r. HOPE ANT) comeTto. Jlr.br. spinkx, Q.(,.. and Mr. Coltman, for the petitioner ; (.. Brown for the co-respondent. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1867. Tie parties were servants to Mr. Ralph Dutton, the petitioner being butler, and the respondent lady's maid. In Its:.o they married, and for sonic years they lived to gether ; but • separation was at length caused by the violence and jealousy of the respondent s disposition. The charge against the 11 je was that while thus absent from her husband she committed adultery with the co-respon dent. by whom she had had a child. No denial was pleaded by the respondent herself ; but the co-respondent appeared and filed a number of counter allegations. rile case was still goiug on when our report left. THE REe:ENTs . .PARK ACCIDZNT.—( THIS D.l Y.) The decided change in the weather of last night and this morning has had the effect of considerably diminishing the floating ice, and nearly the whole of the broad water is now cleared. The diving and dredging opera tions were resumed, the latter soon after daybreak, and the former about noon. The moat important fact, however, to be announced is the determination of the authorities to drain the water off. Workmen were this forenoon em ployed in cutting into a private sewer passing under the higher and shallower part of the lake and communicating with the two mansions on the opposite shore. It runs jun) the main road sewer clan to Clarence•gate, but is on a much higher level than the deep water, and some other trench will no doubt be made in addition to the cutting begun this nuorning. • , R. :T. , W. Leith Ardromea 44 30, E. Valletta. 'N.36 50 W.S.W. 91.44 44, 6. Peozauce 29.0 52 S W. Brad 21.80 50' S. W. Locket l.zlo 52' S. Rochefort 46: S. E. Plymouth 29.70 r.O S.W. Weymouth a1.74 40 K. W Pcetemouth 29.74 47 5.8. W. Indian Yarmouth 29.70 30 8.9. W. Saarborourab ;7163 T.l S. Holder 28.U135 S.W. 1 1 r 1 , - , 1 112 1. . Sot W.l 11.. Ito i a to 011 1 o 10.11, t ro , 0.03 3 ILS IS I or 0.23 1 S.s , rnt 0.40 4 tks 21. j tr 0.51 6 13.3'.. rho 0.47 4 S. c B.g. Iro 0.75 3 8.3. W. otia 0.1;1 5 tkL Srm 0.37 2 E.S.E. :taro 0.13 - S.S.W. o ' 4 8. W. it .0.00 2 &W. I I SHARE LIST&-(THIS DAY.) thrs O'CLOCK. In the railway market to-day, the chief change isl'a fall of 21, per cent. in Caledonian stock. North British has also declined 7, while Midland has im proved 2 ; Great Northern A, ; and Metropoli tan, !. _ _ Metropolitan stock is now quoted 130 g to 1 ; Great Western 531 to 1 ; London and North Western, 122t0 1 , Midland, 1231 to 1 • Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 129 to 1; Caled ' onian 118 to 119 ; South Eastern, 72:i to ; Greai Eastern, 34 to 1 ; Great Northern, 120 to 121 ; ditto A, 1311 to 1321 • London, Chatham, and Dover, 18 to 1; and North British, 38 to 1. There is very little inquiry for foreign and colo nial railway shares, and prices are quoted the same as yesterday. Ana AND STOC, Sh. I rd. I Lamm I es Cl'V r rl sante- 1 W ) Y. 1117 19 130 1t: ID df lanstol sad &War .CWSWIAIR 'Cork and lialt7init . ' Cornwall . Dahlia anti 11;111Z/tine Dundee,Porth.tAbdin Ernst DoLoudon Scrip Oast Glasgowaad& Western ' i Great Eastern Ord. St I Do. E. Aug. Stk., No 2 OnatNorth of Scotland Great Northern DOA . 1 • moo. no dlr. on- Do.Bl c. Y paidn Do. Ord. DM Div. Moe OA Booth A Weal. (Ire , Great Western Do.StenrYal.o=Bo Do. Booth Wales I Do. W. Ma —Word I Do. Do. Newport' t. lattosahlre .IE7 It>, to It &Coast al &Dor 171 D L a Erten. Alp. e. lO London & North Weans. I 1221 LoodomMouthWeetent 67 Man. Shel.,& Lincoln= at Metropoilten Do, New I 2 Do. Extension Metropolitan District — Do. do. do.. Do. k 94 John's-yo°d' Midland 123 IE3I Do. A 9 Share' le 1 111 Do. Birm. t Derby. 91 9.. Math Britlah Do. Hdlo.,Perth.Dund , 14 N. Eastern—Berwick Do. G. N. E. Pree 1 De. Leeds Do. York lO2l 103! Do. Carlisle — Do. MockatDarlinp MS SO , Do. do., 186941 19 11 put, North Loudon ! Do. do., 11956-6 11 2 pm ' Do. do. 1866 1 North starfordadr 74 76 N. t & Western hum 114 112 Scottish Central 8 8 1741=08 4B SO South Eastern I 72 73 Staloss,WoklorhanAtte 9 10 TM Vale Do. C I 6 4pm Waterford 'Waterloo .2 Whitehall 4 41 IN SS VS 72 116 118 34 36 6 6 111 93 531 531 32 36 34 37 101 1341 184, 20 IVI 100 100 100 100 100 100 I 130 11 Pal JOINT STOCK LANKS. I Ay* Bank (L len.) ! 4P4on !Mane" I...mitett Anglo Austrian Anglo Egyptian (Lint Aoglo Italian (Lunited; ! Australasia BautotllritianColutubla, Bank of Egypt I Bank of Otago (Limited)! Banta Victcaia,AnWnr I Bank of New Zealand ' lkittali&Callturklan,L); British N. Aaserkk C.Bk. lkata, Ans., China' Mart. Mar. of India, etc City !Colonial. Ban![ (L`; NcriT. Deihl and London Emit London (Limited); Santoro Exchange( Lim., Itaglbb and American Iton.BanklidelanelroLl ling. Soot,& Anal. Charkl Bogliah and Swedish 'L. Imperial Bauk (Limited, Imperial Ottoman —.I lonian Do. New land Mort. Bk. Indlia )/ Do.an ADO:kali* 80yrs Lon.Bk.otlialuco,&c..,L; London and Brazilian Do. New London& ItlreePlate(L )1 Do. New, Ma 'Hem Do. do. do Lon. Ch. Bank of Audit London and County— , London Joint Stock , London & South African Lon. & &Western (Chun.'l London &Venesuela'L), London & Westminster., Merchant Bank (Lim.) .; Do. New MeramtiledtExclian(L )1 Metro. & Pros. Bank,L ) Midland Bank (Lim., National of Anstralaslar National of Liverpool 1 N. Pro. of England Do. Sod a lid National Bank New South Wales North Western Oriental Bank Corporn Provin.Ban Provinc. etlreMnd 100 1 100 I .100 'lOO do. New flocUt Anneals Biseid. of B. & Attics ra)7ci;.uial Unloa of Australia ' al Union of Irelaad (Lim) 11 Oaks at Loudon ..—...' OLONIAL GOVKILNYL.IT MOM& I Pd. alfo.ooo , British Cobs. tip. at.,11111 100,10 C Do. 1823 .... Can. Gov.e p. e., 1.87744. Do. 6porot,Yob.etAng. .... Do. Opted. Mar. 2.214.801 Do. Spar 11116,806 Do. Spore/. Ins. 1:0.0 4 30. CopoolDBopo6por.lB73 —flo. do.lBl/049110 :2 1 :::. 1).3". do. 189040 .... Do. do. 189041 Is 4, D 0.69.0.4.604.1900 109, C.eylon,Nov.lB4, ',6p.ot MAO% Do 1878, do.. 1,000,0091 Do. 1871 d 0.,. 100,000, Do. 1 Mauritian. per 01,1873 SOO, , 100.0001 Do. 18 831 78 100.... Do. 1896 le6,6BolNatal. Gov. 6 per cent.. 166,000 New Brunaoov.6peret. 1,136,8001 New loath Wales Gov... i Ip. eent.,lB7l to 1876 8,671, Do. 6 p. e. 1868 to 1893 850, D0.6p.c.r,1837 to 133 , 160, New Zeeland Oper east. ! 1,000,; Do. 6per neut. 6410,000 Do. 6 per cent. 1891 1 1 N), Do.deleol JuwaltDee ' 150, Noes tiootla 6p. e.,19711 . 1,860,100 Queeneland Ooe. 6 p. et. ion jB.Aust Gov. 6 p. 0,67-77 761, Do. 1878 and aim& 850,0061 Vle.Gov.6p. e.Jao. July 7,000,0001 Do. 0R el April AN. I 2,0111,018 , 5,073,110 1 1,41,500,1 /60.960 187.0714 ,St St" .10D DUCKS. 1192 1 84 4 1 631 37 130 'S_;-q lei .1 52Z 1 3 2 1 31 13u; 1 34; _ Imi ; 38 I . 106 i; 72 3 Oh' 8 G dial • *p 8 7 414 • 7 Ws 64 e 6 13 15 S 4 dis 30 32 53 ;in stl! 37 49 I 7 991 n xtl• ' 45 47 1,458 I 13 19 i Tll 3 i 0 Id , I 11174 3 141.1 6 • 41$ 0 0 1 3 17 134 13 1163• 6 7pm 31 °AL 22 2: 3 2 di* } Wm 80 83 I 9 64b 13 11 db. 7k S pm ISLA I} _}pm 1 3pm t: 118 17 44 46 13 15 9 lea 12 9 Ms 1,7 96 11 17 11 H aa 9 7Ma n 411 4 1 2pa par ape 8789 43 44 mi 1 2pm 43 64 3 Ws 84 Btl t 7 20 20 12 10 die T 5Vs V 49 II 7 dill Kiser 18 100 0• 101 99 101 82 84 82 84 102 104 104 188 103 196 101 103 90 92 101 191 103 108 104 148 101 104 103 106 103 106 105 107 99 100 95 9/ xd -- xd 13 4 97 9 71 zol - 434 4 —, xd _id 90 93 36 96 431 NI 100 102 lin 94 }xd 100 103 99 101 N 98 93 93 104 106 101; 1011 107 106 dam NI 0 et Id 101 l ISO 92 1 -- 1061 107* i Fast sal West India .1100 1.0 334 Loodoo*R.Katharle.loo , 02 06 Do. Doi. 0L op. coot all ! BoaofSouthaupto• 'OO -• Oommorolial -.1 1 00 ' BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Bombay, Bar., and Cent. Ind. gun. 5 per cent., 1011. Bildern Bengal guaranteed 5 per cent., 1011. East Indian guaranteed 5 per cent., 1071, 7. d. Great Indian Peninsula gun. 5 per cent, MI, j. Great Southern of India gun. 5 per cent, 991. Madras guaranteed 5 per cent., 100 g. Madras guaranteed 4i per cent., NO. FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (Lim), gua. 7 per cent., I3L Eastern of Franoe, 21k. Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 31. Recife and San Francisco (Li m ited) via. 7 per cent. 10 to 94. PREFERENCE SHARES. Bristol and Exeter, 4 per cent., SI. Great Western, original irredeemable 4 per cent., 711. 51ISCELLANEOLTS. Anglo-American Telegraph (Lim.), 151. Atlantic Telegraph 8 per cent., G 63, 71. Credit Fonder of England (Limited), 33. g. Fore-street Warehouse (Limited), 131. General Credit and Discount (LimitA, 53, g. Imperial Land Company of Marseilles (Lim.), 11. Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour) (all paid). 61. London Financial Association (Limited), National Diecount Company (Limited)o'SL 3. Do. New, issued at 5 pm. 2 3 to be paid, 1 1.3. , Ocean Marine Insurance. 201. Panama, New Zealand, and Anat. R. Mail (Lim.), Ti. Peninsular and Oriental Steam (all paid), 711, 70. South Australian Land, 34. MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) Oat o'CLooz. The transactions in public securities still consist chiefly of sales, and prices have experienced a fresh decline. Consols exhibit a further reduction of !, per cent., owing partly, it is stated, to the circiunstance that the Bank of England broker has just borrowed a large amount of money in the Stock Exchange on English government Electrifies. The reduction in some of the foreign bonds amounts ton to }. British railway stocks are not generally lower ; the principal movement is a fall of abk., t 21 per cent. in Caledonian. Banking, financial. and miscellaneous shares are inactive, with little business. The demand for money is still moderate. and the supply large. The general rate for bills is par ceut., and for short loans in the Stock Ex change, 2. Consols are now quoted 901 to 1 for money, and 901 to g for the account (February 7). Foreign stocks are flat, and a reduction of A to 1 per cent, is observable in Turkish of 1886. Spanish Certificates, Italian of 1861, and linssian scrip. Chilian scrip is also g lower, at 11 to 11 prem. Turkish Bonds of 1862 are quoted 631 to 544, ex div. ; ditto of 1865, 29/ to A ; Greek, 141 to g ; Spanish Passive, 22/ to 1; ditto Certificates, 141 to Italian of 1861, b 3/ to 545, ex div. ; Mexican, 171 to 18 ; and Russian Scrip, 11 to 11 prem. United States 5-20 Bonds area per cent. bettt., at 74 to but Erie and Illinois Central railway shares are withont variation, at 431 to j and 80i to 81, respectively. International Financial shares are quoted to g dis. ; London Financial, 18 to 17A dim. ; General Credit, 2; to lk dis.; Credit Fonder, sto i dia. ; National Discount, 91 to A prem. ; and Hudson's Bay, 161, to g. It is notified that the directors of the Erie Rail way Company have declared a dividend of 7 per cent. on the preference stock, less government tax, for the year ending the 31st ult., but no distrib/ • tion on the common stock. The fourth ordinary general meeting of the East ern District Freehold Estates Company will be held on the 31st inst., and the seventh ordinary general meeting of the Universal Marine Insurance Com pany on the 4th of February. About 04,000/. in gold was withdrawn from the Bank y esterday for the Continent. The total with drawals since the date of the last return are 452,0001. The bar silver by the West India packet was sold yesterday for Holland at ss. OW. per ounce, being the same price aa that lately current. The Allemania has arrived from New York with 53,000/. in specie for England. On 'Change yesterday afternoon the rates for bills on Hamburg were slightly less favourable for this country, but the Austrian exchanges were quoted higher. As regards other places, there was no change of importance. The list is subjoined : Amsterdam, 3 months, 11.181 to 11.19; ditto, short. 11.151 to 11.161 ; Rotterdam, 3 months, 11.184 to 11.19 : Antwerp, 3 months, 25.371 to no ; Brussels, 3 months, 25.371 to 25.40 ; Hamburg and Altana, 3 months, 13.8 to 13.84 ; Berlin, Cologne, ko., 3 months, 6.254 to 6.1161; St. Petersburg, 3 months, 311 to 31 , Paris, Short, 25.19 to 21.20 ; ditto, 3 months. 25.30 to 25.35 ; Marseilles, 3 months, 25.324 to 25.371 ; Frankfort-on-the-Maine, 3 months, 1191 to 1191 ; Vienna, 3 months, 13.55 to 13.60 ; Trieste, 3 months, 13.55 to 13.60 ; Madrid, 3 months, 48 to 471 ; Santander, 3 months, 48 to 471; Cadiz, 3 months,4Bl to 484 ; Seville, 3 months, 461 to 481 ; Malaga, 3 months, 471 to 471 ; Valencia, 3 months, 484 to 48; Bar onions, 3 months, 481 to 481; Bilboa, 3 months, 471 to 474 ; &wagons, 3 months, 48 to 47 1 ; Leghorn, 3 months, 36.85 to 26.90; Genoa, 3 months, 26.85 to 26.90 ; Naples, 3 months, 26.85, to ; Palermo, 3 months, 26.85 to 26.90 ; Messina, 3 months, 2 6. 811 to 26... NI ; Lisbon, 90 days date, 511 to 511; Oporto, 90 days date, 511 to 511. Tenders were opened yesterday by the crown agents for the colonies for 65,50(Y. Natal govern ment Six per cent. debentures. The applications amounted altogether to 129,200/. of which 26,300 1 ., being at and above the minimum, were accepted in full, and it is understood that the balance was sub sequently disposed of at the minimum price of 94 In the matter of Overend, Gurney, and Co. yes terday, Vice-Chancellor Malins, at the conclusion of the argument, said the case was a most im portant one, and had been very ably and elaborately argued by the counsel on both aides. He added that he would give it his best consideration, and hoped to be able to deliver judgment by the end of this term, or, at all events, on the Ist day of the sittings after term. Judgment may accordingly be expected at the latest in the early part of February. The Attorney-General, during his reply, referred to a statement prepared by the accountant to the Defence Association and put in as evidence, from which it appeared ;hat Messrs. Cavan, Lubbock, and Co. (of which firm Mr. Rennie, one of the directors and promoters of the limited company was a partner) had bills under discount with Overend, Gurney, and Co. at the time of the transfer to the extent of 691,000/. odd. Of this sum, no less than 260,060/. consisted of notes of hand, which it is alleged had been renewed from time to time, and in many instances since the early part of the year 1863. At a meeting of several large shareholders of the Bank of London, holding upwards of 10,090 shares, held at the London Tavern yesterday, resolutions were unanimously passed, having for their object an independent investi gat ion of the present posi tion of the affairs of the beak by Mr. David Chad wick, of the firma Chadwick, Adamson, M'Kenna, and Co. with the view, if possible, of resuscitating the undertaking. A committee of shareholders was appointed to confer with the official liquidator of the bank, and it is understood that Mr. Chadwick will proceed with his investigation as early as practi cable. and report to the shareholders at a general meeting to be called for the purpose. The Australian Agricultural Company have de clared an interim dividend of is. Gd. per share. The South Eastern Railway traffic return shows this week a decrease of 1,347/. compared with last year ; the London, Brighton, and South Coast a decrease of 143/. ; the Metropolitan an increase of 7071. ; and the Glasgow and South Western, a decrease of 639/. _ _ _ . _ At the meeting yesterday of the Irrigation Com pany of France (Limited), the report, which de scribed the prospects of the undertaking as most favourable, was adopted. The directors fully ex pect that two of the four canals now in hand will be finished this summer, and that the other two will be completed in the summer of 1868. _ _ A general meeting of the shareholders of the East London Bank (Limited) is called for the 30th inst., when a dividend law be declared. An extraordinary general meeting of the South Kensington Hotel Company (Limited) is called for the 28th inst., to alter the sixth article of association, and to consider the expediency of letting the hotel fora tarn of years. An extraordinary general meeting of the share holders of the Transatlantic Steamship Company (Limited) is convened bythe liquidator for the . .:3rd Feb., when an account will bepresented, showing the progress of the winding up, and the manner in which the property of the company has been dis posed of. The half-yearly meeting of the Metropolitan Railway Warehousing Company (Limited) is called for the 6th of February. It is announced that in consequence of the great severity of the weather in Brussels the ceremony of inaugurating the works of the Belgian Public Works Company (Limited), which wss appointed to take place yesterday, has been necessarily post poned. The King of the Belgians has signified his intention to lay the first stone so soon in the month of February as the weather will permit. The share certificates will be ready for delivery, in return for the banker's receipts, on and after Friday, the Ist of February. Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas, dock, and other shaves, as given in the Ex change list of last evening : Innirsnoe—Allisnee 'British and Foreign, 121-oeose. Marine, 21; Phoodx. 101 i ; Universal Merin,: (Limited), 2s. Gee Light (loge —City of Moscow Gas, lfo i Contir.ental Union (Limitpli). 10—Imperial, lifi 5:, ex &v. Imperial l'onticiontal, ; Phomix, 93, ex dir. ; Surrey Con sumers, 131 4 : Western, 14 ; ditto C, Docks—Loh.lon anti St. Katharine, Sri, Waterworks—Berlin. 124 ; ditto, New, 51, TUInDAT Consols, which closed yesterday at 90A to 4, for the 7th February, opened this morning at the same quotation, and closed at 00A " buyers." For money the last price was 901 to A. The official business n.T.ort is as follows : Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 00A, 7r, , 1 ; ditto, for ac,..ount, ; Three per Ceuta. Reduced. 891, # ; New Three per Cents., 84, !' # ; At.nnitien, 1885, 1.27, ; Bank Stock, 250, 49 ; Intria Fice per Cent. Stoc:., 107, 6i, 7 ; ditto Foar per Cent. " enlaced" rupee paper, 841; ditto Bonds, :l6s prem. Indian goveniment securities were quiet. but steady. Exchequer Bills remain at 10s. to 14s. pren.. Foreign st.icks were flat, with few dealings. Venezuela Bonds of 1862 were offered, and fell I. per cent. Turkish of 1.8.7i8 and 1862, as well as Venezuela of 1864, and Egyptian Railway Deben tures, also declined s ; and Italian of 1861. w ; bat Spanish Passive improved j ; and Russian scrip, The scrip (.Z the New Chilian Loan, after stand ing at 11 to '2 prem., closed at 1; to II prem. MINES.-(THIS DAY.) 021 Z O'CLOCK. In th 3 mining market to-day Prince of Wales, West Ghireitou, Itedmoor, and Bryn G wiog shares Are in reest, while Clifford Amal gamated, Cook's Kitchen, and Wheal Seton show tatnos. Prices are quoted as follows:—West Chiverton, 624 to 65; Prince of Wales, nit lid. to : Drakewalls, 255. to 275. 6d. ; Brya Gwiog. 174 to 22i •, (Milford Amalgamated, B*o ; Tincroft, 141 to 15 ; Cook's Kitchen, 11 to ; ; Bedinoer, 10e. to 12.‘. 61. ; Wheal Seton, 110 - to 115 ; Great Vur, 17i to 18 ; Wheal llama, 70 to ; and East Basset„ 24 to 26. _ At Great Feta!lack meeting yesterday the ac counts to the end of November showed a debit balance of 375;. A call of 3s. per share was mad.... COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. '_DARK : LANE.-(THIS DAY.) Coristsr: , e as well na by rail the receipts of homegrown wheat were very moderate. As the few millers in atund ence were not di•pused to operate beyond what was actu ally Leeesstry, the trine generally was without actitity. Factors, on the other hand, were not at all anxious to press sales, and in the few transactions which took place, late nnotations were well simpoited. Tl.cre was a moderate quantity of foreign wheat on the stands, the demand for which war in a sluggish state, on former terms. _ _ -- Floating cargoes of ~ r ain were unaltered in value, although the inquiry for them was far from active. Flie malting barley commanded full prices. Grinding and distilling aorta were dull, but not cheaper. Malt moved off slowly. at late rates. Very little business was passing in oats. Nevertheless, prices ruled firm. Beans and peas were dull. at late rates. Flour realised the ft.ll prices of Monday, with a limited demand. _ . . —...—... l'...peseei was in steady request. Linsee.l m.l sgricul t!.:al seeds were .t li. Cakes sth less sought elter. , - ARRIVALS OF GRAIN. &c., INTO LONDON, BY WATER CARRIAGE, 11IIN WEEK. Wheat. Barley. MAIL , Vats, i eloue qrs. qr.. qrd. : car, brls. r • Ica Fnalisb andSeatch, 320 730 370 ! .. .. 970 Irish Foralga I 87r.) UV .. _li 11970 29,0 '.O 1,441 i 1 9C70 I 13210 1 370 1 14900 I F.JSO 1020 OUMPARATIt'E QUANTITLL. 4 AND 1 , 111CF.4 OP GRAIN rot: TYR WILE 110100 INJIt TII2OOI4I.C.PoNDIMG WC= JAN. U. 1007. 1:4 IWO. Qrs Aversge taw Acers2e. Wheat 06,51,:.. lAA. 34. Wheat 53. '4. 3.. CA. 7,1. Barley ...... :.2 An.. .. 4lx. 54. Itarley 07 2 , . I .. 228. 104. Oats 0.175 .. 230. 441. Oats 4.906 .. tic lA. LI VER POOL COTTON MAfIKEI. (THIS DAY.) ELE(TRtO AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.) (PRGN o;:s owii CORRESPONDENT.) The mark:t t. cher improved in demand, but unchanged ;:ice. sale, about 7.000 or 14,000 &des. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) CLERKENWELL comMITTAL or A IncEwEp.'s sERVANT I'OR ENITIZZ7.LENIENT. aged 27, n traveller, of N.K. Little Sutton. street, eletkenwell, was charged on remand with eim hezzling several sums of money, amounting in the whole to about 100/., received by him for and on account of his employers, Messrs. Charles Clarke, brewers, of Little Hutton-street, Clerkenwelh Mr. Weeks, solicitor, defended. From the e% idence of Mr. Robert Griffiths, managing cashier to Messrs. C. Clarke and Sous, brewers, it ap peared that the prisoner was in their service as traveller and collector. The prisoner's duty wadi to pay over the money he collected to witness every night. The pi ironer was in the employ of the prosecutors up to the 7th of Jauntily, on which day he absconded, and he was not seen again until the 14th inst., when he was apprehended iu the country. The prisoner bad never accounted to him for the s u m of 4f. Ma. received by him on the 7th of Jafiu.,ry from Mr. John Teasley, of s, Brunswick.place, Balls-pond, or for many other sums received by him from other customers. Police-constable Miller, 148 0, and he apprehended the prisoner on the night of the 14th inst. at Kingston-on- Thames. He told him he was going to take him into custody for embezzling several stuns of money received by him for Mr. Clarke, his employers. lie said it was a ks..l job ; he WAS very Sony for it, and he would try and get the money and :aware it. Evidence having been given showing the payment of money to the prisoner for which he had not accounted, Mr. Weeks said the prisoner would reserve his defence, but he had to ask that the prisoner might be sent to the Central Criminal Court for trial, instead of to the Middle sett Sessions. _ Mr. Cooke committed the prisoner to the Middlesex s:ems.ons for trial, and said sufficient reasons had not been shown to him to send the case to Newgate for trial. WORSHIP-STREET. INt MENT IN A BURL LARY. I.:ft Arnold, 17, and ElLatellg Gdkons, 16, girl. ~ f loo.e character, were charged on remand with being 1:. poshesi.ion of .2 pieces of table linen and wonting apparel, together with boots and shoes, reasonably suspected to Lave been stolen. loth :soners were in a cab with the property on the looming of the t•th inst., when it stopped at • house in Turville-street, Spitalfields. Arnold entered • house there, and Gully, 84. i If, suspecting all was not correct, it being then between 5 and I; o'clock, questioned the girls, who, refusing any information, were taken to the station-house and charged ; their statement to the magis trate was that two wen, whom they did not know, em ployed them to hire a cab and convey • bundle from River-terrace. Islington, to Turrille-street, where they would meet them. ltiudiehl badge 14,62 3 , the cab driver, swore that Arnold did engage him from off the City-road stand, but denied having seen any man. He said that Gibbous, whom the other represented as her sister, entered the cab while going towards River-terrace, got out at Alfred street, turned a corner, and was being followed by Arnold, when she came back with a large bundle, which was placed in the cab, thegirls directing him to drive to Spitalfieldi.. He knew nothing of them and nothing more than he re lated of the circumstance. The due report of this case brought forward a claimant in the person of the Rev. Charles Peter McCarthy, clerk in holy orders,at whose residence,l4,Colebrook-row, otherwise River-terrace—a burglary of very dazing character and robbery of above one hundred pounds' worth of plate and other property was committed, just previously, it would seem. to the prisoners' apprehension—not any of which but that in question has been heard of. The rev. gentleman gave an elaborate and detailed account of the breaking in as manifested by a ances shortly afterwards, from which it was evidenttra e t a ift least three men had been' engaged in the violence, as an iron bar crossing one of the doors, which could be re moved only by pulling, would require such an amount of forse to bend it. Entrance was effected at the rear of the premises, and the basement storey entirely ransacked. Every precaution appears to have been taken to avoid the possibility of burglary, and the door leading into the front kitchen was faced with sheet-iron. The linen in question had been placed at the bottom of the kitchen stairs by the servants on the previous night for reinov.d by the laundress, and the selected boots from a rack whore there were above 20 pairs, 15 'Airs of which could nut be found. The thieve appear to have been disturbed, as one boot was found on the stairs and another in the garden or yard ; removal was was doubtless effected over the garden wall of the adjuking hones, for a wire fencing dividing the two gardens was torn down, and the plate basket was lying close by ; the bundle once pushed over the road-wall would be instantly in the resemaion of the girls in Alfred-street, as the residence is only one door round the corner of it. Mr. McCarthy said that he was awakened early by various strange noises, which he attri buted to the gusts of wind. He rang for the servants, who subsequently apprised him of what bad occurred. Inspector Wiseman attended to watch the case by direc tion of the police commissioners ; and the girls, who cried, but made neither admission nor defence, were remanded. MARYLEBONE. THE CALAMITY IN THE PARK. A bricklayer's labourer, named John O'Doenel, attended before Mr. D'Eyncourt, and made the following statement: He said—On the occasion of the accident he brought out eight persons alive. The first six, when be got them to the bank, were hurried away, and he saw no more of them, as they were taken away by the icemen and others. The last two he got out were brothers, residing in Randolph street, Camden-town, and they had presented him with half-a-sovereign. When he got them out one was almost dead. Mr. d Eyncourt asked what was done under such cir cumstances? Applicant said he ran theta along, and ran them into a public-house, where ho got half a pint of brandy, and for which one of them had to leave his scarf-pin in pay ment. lie rubbed the ears of the insensible one, and shook hint, and then took them home in a cab. He hoped, if this was published the other iii would come forward and recognise him. Mr. d'Eynoourt asked if he could swim. Applicant said he could, well, but there was no chance. He seized a rope from one of the icemen, and tied it round his body, and went in. Mr. d'Eyncourt inquired what made km shake so. Applicant (who seemed very ill, and shook in every limb) said he was upon the occasion in his wet clothes for an hour and a half, and he bad felt numbed and shaken like this ever since. Mr. d'Eyncourt said no doubt the Royal Humane Society would recognise his services. Applicant mid ho had their paper to fill up, on which were the names of the brothers. They would give him a bronze medal, &thing that was of no use, as it would not give his children victuals. He had been frozen out by the weather. He had work to go to directly the frost had gone. He had left borne morning after morning with only • bit of dry bread and a drop of coffee to seek for a job at anything. His children bad had to fare the same. When at Liverpool he saved eleven lives, and then did not ask for a medal. Mr. Young, the secretary of the Royal Iluinane Society, said every ►ttention would be paid to his claim. Maybank, 270 S, said be saw him in the water. It may be mentioned, in addition to the above, th►t the applicant has partly lost the use of his right side through ins efforts. Mr. d'Eyncourt granted him two guineas from the poor box. ANOTHER CASE. In this case applicant said he threw off his emit, bat, and boots, and left them on the bank. He went in and brought out two boys belonging to a poor man named Denton. When he got on shore some one had stolen his things. He had been to the society. They had given him nothing to compensate him. The poor man had given him 21. _ _ d'Eyncourt said Le could do nothing for him. He must lay his claim before the society and they would see to it. DESTRUCTIoN or AN OneERVATORV.—On Sunday Last the observatory connected with St. Gregory's College, Downside, near Bath, was totally destroyed by fire. It originated apparently in the heating apparatus, which kindled the joists of the ground floor; the flames, which caught some stuffed birds and other natural history speci mens in the museum kept in the lower room, were rapidly communicated to the equatorial room above, in which was a magnificent refracting telescope of 15 inches diameter and 20 feet focal length. The observing stages formed capital fuel for the fire, and in leas than an hour the whole was one mass of flame, leaving no possibility of rescuing anything. The loss of the glass and astronomical plant attached to the telescope is the more unfortunate as the observatory had only just been placed in full working order. The loss to the college of the antiquities, curiosi. ties, and natural history collections in the museum cannot be estimated, for they contained many unique and in. valuable specimens, and were the result of fifty years' accumulation._ EMYRY.—So far as is known, there are but two mines of emery in the world, one at Chester, in Ramplen county, Malaachusetts, and the other in the classical little island of Naxos, in the dEgean Sea. The latter has been controlled b 7 an English house, and they have always charged their own prices, Some time ago the Cheater Iron Company's property was found to contain emery, which wAs examined and reported On. favourably.— A me non paper. THE WEATHER.-(THIS DAY.) The thermometer at 12 o'clock to-day indicated r. rise to l tico..'hove freezing, whereas yesterday at the name hour the glass stood at 5 deg. below that point. This ettraonlitutlily sudden change in the weather involves the disappearance of the mow and frost which we have ex perienced since the lit inst., and pedestrians have now to wend their way trough mud and wet. A number of men were en t , , a‘ed this morning in clearing the scaffolding at the works at new Blackfriarsdnidge preparatory to the recomi,encen.ent of the ordinary labour there ; and there ...re wally other signs of the resumption of work, which. it !nay be hoped, will soon alleviate to a consi•lerable , xtent the distress now so prevalent in the metropolis. In ptiries this morning have not led to the knowledge of any serious accident in connexion with the ilasgerous estate of the streets lest night. The frozen condition of the sleet, or hail, which then fell rest.luil in • covel scene in various parts of London. Around Belgravia and the Faux• hall-bridge-road skating was going on in every direc tion on the pavement and in the roadway ; and the same seasonable sport was being practised with vigour in the New-road, Oxford-street, Holborn, Farringdon-street, and other large thoroughfares. At 2 o'clock to-day the ther mometer still betn.yed an upward tendency, the atmos phere being n.:at, with a light breeze blowing south-west. SHOCKING LiE.4TH FROM DESTITUTION. INQV EST.—(THIS DAY.) This forenoon an inquiry was held by Mr. Humphrey, ooroner, at the Green Gate Tavern, City road, to.iel.;ng the death from exposure and destitution, of Richard Daily, aged tit years. Eli.a Bramwell, 4, Gloucester-court, Whitecross-street, said that the .ieteased was a harness-maker, and he lodged with his wife in a back room in witness's house. Ile was not in r,...g..:11r work, but last Saturday he got some harness to make for which he was to have received when done. T'iey kept their door locked, for witness behaved they had nothing in the room but the harness. On Sunday morning his wife came down to witness, and said that he was ill, and that she would go the workhouse to get the parish .lector. She returned at half-past 9 o'clock, and witness went upstairs with her. They found deceased dead, huddled up on a heap of rags in the corner of the room. The body was naked. There was no bed in the room. Witn .1/1, however, did not think he died w from want for he had had two Its during the ppi c.vious week. His wife went away after she found her husimnd dead and she had not turned up since. Witness called in police.constahle Swaim, 90 G, and he summoned the police-surgeon to the deceased, but the latter was quite dead. Mr. G. E Yarrow, M.R.C.S., said that be made a pwt, mortem examination of the body of the deceased, and he found the organs generally healthy. The stomach and in testines were empty. There was effusion of blood at the base of the brain, which caused death, and was no doubt promoted by exposure and want of proper comforts. The Coroner having summed up, The jury returned a verdict " That deceased was found dead from etftlb;Aln on the brain, accelerated by exposure to the cold." WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) EI.NMAY, JANCART 8 A.X. REFARKS.. Barometric pressure haTTecre;sed considerably over the British ides, and is unsteady. Temperature has risen rapidly on our southern coasts, and is there from 15 to 20 deg , higher than on our northern toasts. The winds on the Scottish coasts are light sinl variable, and on our other coasts chiefly south.wetterly, moderate to fresh. A large amount of rain has fallen in the south • .1 England and Ireland. We read in the New York Notion :—" The colored people of Philadelphia offer their fellow-citizens this winter a lecture course, which it is safe to say is sur paned by no other in the country in point of ability and respectability. Nor isthis the first season they have put to shame the prejudice which still insists on their exclusion from street-cars and the bench which, as only the otherday, refuses to punish those indecent assaults which one may look fur in vain even in the city of New Orleans, is its public conveyances. It is an unfortunate satire on this unchristian proscription, that Philadelphia stands quite alone in compelling its city cars to suspend running on Sunday. The churches we know are strong enough to opposeo . the po pu lar revaihng for Sunday jo,fcan. cask, w hich c th forbledemand the certainly not more at war with our notions of democracy than with the religion which they profess ?" THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE METROPOLITAN RAIL%.%T.—DILtTH or ONE or THE ACCUsED will be recollected that an investigation was held at St. Bartholomew's Hospital respecting the death of several persons who lost their lives in consequence of an iron girder having fallen upon the last carriage of a train that was passing on the Metropolitan Railway, near the Aldersgate.street station. The coroner's jury, after a protracted inquiry, returned a verdict of " Man slaughter" against two of the foremen who were carrying out the orders of the Thames Iron Works Company. (inc of the accused men, Richard Chaning, has, since the return of the verdict, been in • very low nervous state, and the anxiety of his approaching trial at the Central Criminal Court appeared to prey upon his mind. On Saturday be complained of being very ill, and a doctor was sent for. He, however, ex pired yesterday at the house where he lived, Slade's place, Clerkenwell. An inquest wall be held, when the cause of his death will be discovered. SUSPECTED SUICIDE OF AI.4;DY BY BC:ENING. Yesterday an inquest was held at York, on the body of a widow lady, named Frances Elira Macmillan, who met with her death under extraordinary circumstances. The deceased at the beginning of October last came from Toot ing, near London, and went to reside in East-parade, Heslington-road, in the outskirts of York, for the purpose of being placed under the medical treatment of Dr. Hitch- Mg, the superintendent of the Friends' Retreat for the reception of the insane. Her attendant was a widow named Turner, and afterdinner on Ft iday last the deceased proposed to her to pay a visit to Mrs. Hitching. They got ready in a room upstairs, and the deceased was the first down again. When Mrs. Turner tried to open the door of the room in which Mrs. Macmillan was, .be found it was locked, and on Mrs. Turner going to the window she saw the upper part of the person of the de ceased lying on the fire. She immediately opened the window, went into the room, and took the deceased off the fire. She also sent for Dr. Hitching, who attended immediately, and he found burns between the shoulders and the back of the neck and head. He and Dr. Williams attended the deceased until her death, which took place on Monday morning. Dr. Hitching stated that during the time be had known her he had not considered her to have any disposition to commit suicide, and Mr. Wood, the coroner, observed to the jury that in the absence of evi dence on the point it would be difficult to find that the deceased had thrown herself on the fire, althou/h it scen.ed extraordinary she should have locked the door if there bad not been some strong reason passing in her mind for doing so. The jury returned a verdict that she died from the effects of the burning, but whether caused by her own act or otherwise there was not sufficient evidence to show. Dr. Kit2hing spoke in the highest terms of Mrs. Turner's atten , ion. AChTRALLAN BEARS. —A white native bear is a curiosity that we never saw or even heard of until the 3rd inst. Such an animal, however, w►s brought into town on that day, from the Ironbark forest, where it was obtained by Mr. lienfatber, a fanner, residing at Jan Juc. Native bean of a dark brown and also of a slate colour are not at all uncommon, but perfectly white ones have been, we believe. hitherto almost unknown. These animals an usually very sluggish, and generally sleep all day ; this one, however, is lively, and sits up looking at the spectators out of eyes of • pretty light blue colour. An enthusiastic admirer of native products purchased the animal, and pre sented it to Mr. Bunce for exhibition at the Botanical Gardens. where it is likely to be an attraction for some time. —Gee long Register. &w. WIDMANN BHA& AND STOCKS. 120 122 131 la U 3 Si 14 15 Cl.priees. MINCING-LANE.-(THIS DAY.) licu.tt.—The market Las become dull. and the liminess done is at prices in favour of buyers. I:mined—Prices of dried goods are maintained, owing to the modest. quan- tity °tiering for hale. Pieces *ell briskly. Cu. rim continues in fwd request • al - out 150 casks of Plantation Ceylon sold by private cataract. TrA.—The demand for China teas has become quiet; the public sales of Indian areprognsaing steadily at full rates to 2.1. advance for tine Peime. RICE.—The demand continues inactive. detaand for lieu:cram Mut bacome acti% e. About .150 pune.rona sold at la. 7d. to !.. VA., and a small woe] of good. in Mids., at Is. thl. CurriON.—A fair amount of business has been done at prices in buyers' favour. H r.—.t small parcel of Tobasoo sold r.t 495. JUTZ.—About 2,000 bales sold at Jinn prices. SALTrEtl:f..—Al.unt *YU bags of fine qtality sold at 19a. 3d. Coicii.—A parcel of fine Pagan mold ►t 441. TALLOW MARIEET.-(THIS DAY.) The ;rketis genet. Town tallow is quoted Sts. ; Petersburg. Y.C., on the spot, 445. ; January to Meech, 41s. March. tis. ; April to Juue. 44". to 445. 3 d. ; October to December, 455. to 455. BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—(THIS DAY.) Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report ► ceatinued steady demand for coostmumtien, with a very limited supply, the late advance being fully 'maintained. pßorlivcrAt SHAM JURIST& LIVL/1 1 001. Sae. today: Great Eastern, 3511: • 1-Laneashtre and Yorkshire, 1291 f g 01-L.:ohm and North iV'estent. 131 ii 1 Il!irsjil-KlRObleff,Obvinekl. And Lim talnshire, 1 g ; 1 t-lietropealle. 110 MH 304--31h 1 . land. Iz-south :.astern. 79 t; area P"a" 411 ". :u5l-t:reat 0.;:ro of I manta. 'sited States alp bat. share% LW- Liverpool Marti.- Credit 'Limited', p .7-Liverpool and London and Globe Fire met Life, al p.-Al 31t.nie Bah:ranee Lha.ted 1 .1. Itoall Insurance.::: p-Cithm Marine :Lhults.P. 1 r: -Atlantic Tele. per. rer.L...5.14-Natiensil Steam Limn.. I 13/. MAD:raimrig, Very food business a.:lone :at at generally hot ev hz . • . Atlantic Telegraph Preferenee 1 -15 1 :t cent.. t.71-c..tm :Elated Rank Limited p. Ip.-Idle Vale Co. mitred, 13 7-16.1.--rlreat Eastern, Z.l:, 5 411 t 1 t 1 -gnat hortheru, A. 131 11 1 1 `-Great Wtatern Canada, 134 7.1 h • -Great Wt.stern. 5 - 4447' t J.. -Johll and Co. Lindted4 Pld.-Lastrasttire and taf • . 4 -leaden and N•will Western, 111.1-Mattehtster, held, 'itd LJuto:n. :31 111 .„ 113 -Metropolitan. 1301! !- Midland. 144 t 1-North British, 331-Ahuth Eadern. 731 • :-.sta vele) Coal awl Den CO. Malted . 115. p ilitelfersey Marine insurance .Limited.. 3 5-1.: h.-South Tort. sldre, Mil- FA. t Anziiim. No 1. 7 1-% hiteharch Funtt 33 -Dot er It lc: pee Cent. pref. ati cam die. 141/111:4011AM, JAN.....-TllO transactions tmtlay were in Bir mingham Joh.: 71:. L Bank shares, at 351: Bir o Fire in vi.rvoce. at 7. liirn:ingliarn Wagon shares. at to; • rued Metro ju.litan Rails tr7rlsge and Wagon blurs.. ut 94. healer pelees:-Lonoon .01:1 N.-tilt Wer.tern Railway rawer., at • Malolovervi. 611. Meld. and Llncolndairt. Hallway Slosh. layers, at 53: tgruiughant Town aud District lank share-, buyers. at Ili : Wnnhißbm 14.6.1 Midland Bank Cures. buyen,, at Lap ; singoedslili. Jul::: stock lank Limited . 1 prem., fellers; aud Birmin;!emn Imancial shares, at 1 db. to par. OUTR.to:F. IN rilE QrEEN'S COUNTY.—The home of the gamekeeper of General Dunne, M.P.. at Brittas. was attacked by an armed party on Sunday night. After some shots had been bred upon both sides, the mar:lndere sumeedod in curving off two vista—Dab/is Errnino Mad. FEN. NEW Yong.: -Under the heading " lizzlitnout of 01.• C. 0..1. R. Stephens," the S Yori Herald of the Nth says:—" Fenianiem, the Irish Republic, and the Chief organizer Stephens appear to have all suddenly collapsed. Few sensible people. we presume, anticipated any other termination to the slier than that announced at the meeting of the representatives of the organisation on Sunday. that Stephens, the C. 0. I. R. , bad turned out to be a H.t..e n-mn and had bocce)e an csfaat ports, his whereabouts and the funds in his poseessionbeing a tethec ircles and centres of circles. Fenianism made a good deal of noise in its day, and it has gone out of sight in most isnomiaioue fashion. A• few miserable pretenders succeeded in in triguing out of the movement the only two sincere men who probably ever intended to put it to any honest uses— Olifahany and Gen. Sweeny. Falling into the hands of the Philistines its fate was only a matter of time. We trust that the exposure will serve as a warning to our honest. wars-heartei and patriotic Irish citizen., labourers, , vac chanica, and servant women not to be led astray again by aeltish and deeign n ; , ellows who play neon their generous nature in ords: line their own pockets and make a little notoriety." 7• - ••• • . ,:e, , s. i L. ! 1 . . ~: :~. . !ii , ry •.! • :!•!. • nivnt ot t..t.e.1 ! :11-! i. ~..r LL N_l V. .1 • pto- Coll vny :odd here, c ti:a 1 had I ..3,1 them 300 I atil4 11114 1 hvrtJ I J lil4 st iktr: iOre sire ripe. prer, I at