The Express. — London, England, 1866-05-02 00:00:00

(ISM DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Yr. Commiosieser Goullnua r l annuca • u azy. C. MARI% D.D., AND D. DIONWII. • baukrupts were described as eshoolzmnburs, of ~, Nottinr- hill. Debts shout 7001.; no as. r;.--yasjc lication for order of dkoha was , .of their having oontraoted data swans of payment. ilia liimour, in giving judgment, said it was • meteor of Hit Ind that the principal wake in this ogee was • , . of the church of Bugland,who hod hakes • large s ot up he educational eirtoblishment, got credit . all the tradesmen in the me neighbourhood, had made • with all hisbill of at • then Pv*Pert ade W I of X= .. col en maw to cowl to Sark conduct would be ineiceumbhs is a Imam of the w est duo, or a young aloer in the army, much more so it is s clergyman, end one who figured in the clergy is u dolor of divinity. The younger baninwt, an is the *Cool, who had brought in 3001. oir4OOL wewas in • very different position. 'Mr edam. s oi eared calling of the other beekrupt ought to n , blight him to do justice to his creditors ; and it Well to show that the court, while punishing ordi slisoders, would not overlook the mhiconduct al cos is s higher elms. His order would be rasponded for • moths from the date of the adjudication (6th Jan.) ; scapension in /3runwin's osse would be for four maths , . the mane period, with protection. Mr. B. Oriaths, Xr. Lowrance, and Mr. H. Lloyd op . in the ease. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. THIS DAY. (Before W. H. Bodkin, Esq., Ambient /sags.) TILE DANGEMIS OF TIER POMO RISEN'S. Frederick Karlin was indicted, for that he did on the 17th of March while having the charge of a certain oar rime mad veh icle, milled • van, drive the ems along • alk thos'otighelre la • wanton and furious manne r, whereby Wil lam Major sustained serious bodily berm. Th re e were four other counts in the indiehemet. Kr. M. Williams prosecuted ; Mr. Meteelfe ddeeded. It a ppeared from the evidence that the primmer was d r iving • van on the night of the 17th of Nana in the Hasn•road, Islington, and when it got to the corner of p ae fington-street, it was turned suddenly round into the t i re d. The prosecutor, an aged maa, was about aressing at the time, and before he could recover himself be was knocked down by the van, and his right ankle was injured, with me other bruises. A file of policemen were o x en gems on duty at the time, and they also narrowly sseips 3 Policeeerrant 381 N mid he had eherge of • section of police as this night, and as they were wowing Packington. street, Baser-road, he saw the defendant driving • van at the rate of about eight miles an hour. He turned sud denly mond from the Essex-road into Packington= withoct warning. Some of the palladium rem f l ed some backward ' and several people sloes by screamed oat . He turned his lamp on and sew the pro mentor lying on his back on the ground. He dragged the prosecutor out, and then went after the defendant who had gone fourteen or fifteen yards, and told him that he mart go to the station-house, but be at first refused. He then went and assisted the prpseeulott Ur. Metcalfe addressed the jury, and maid there was no reckless driving at all, and the whole affair had been caused in e=sequenoe of the polioe not keeping the road clear of vendors, who collected crowds at the corner of the street. Several whimsies were milled who gave the defendant • very expellent character. The jury, after a short consultation, said they considered the defendant had been careless, but that there had been no wilful oarelessnees. Mr. Metcalfe said that was a verdict of not guilty of a criminal neglect. The Assistant Judge said he had been fortunate, and warned him as to his future conduct. SECOND COURT. (Before Mr. Payne.) THE LAIN EMMET TO KILL • CONSTABLE err weerarnurrett. Jeremiad; elaseey, 50, a respectable-looking Irishman, was placed in the dock charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm, unlawfully wounding, and for a common as sanit upon Jonathan Rickards, he being a polioe-constable and in the execution of his duty. Mr. Cooper prosecuted ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. R. Barns. The case was one of a rather serious nature. Amanita upon the police are of growing frequency, and many constables who have been assaulted have been maimed for life and rendered unfit to follow any employment. In this case, se in most others, the constable who was on duty in Holland-street, Westminster, was eaed dispersing • mob that had just turned out of a pu blic-house, when a man resented the authority of the constable, and struck him on the head. The constable wised hold of him to take him into custody, and then the pri soner and several others rescued him. The countable was walking away, when the prisoner rushed up to him ant Amok him on the back of the head with • poker. The blow, which broke the constable's helmet, rendered him insauribie, and he would have fallen to the ground 131 not some one caught him. The constable was carried away bleeding to a surgeon's, and was unlit for ditty for some time. ~~~ i 3lr. Cooper having opened the case, called witnesses, whose examination and cross-examination was not con• eluded when this report was despatched. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. BAUM BT CUTTING THE GLASS IX A SHOP WINDOW. i Mows Thorpe, a lad, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt, with being concerned with other hula not in custody, of stealing a quantity of cigars, of the value of 31. , the property of Mr. John Belond, tobacconist, Old Compton-street. Thomas Sheney, 87 C, said that yesterday evening he was in Old Compton-street, and saw the prisoner and three other lads together. The prisoner and one of the Luis walked up to Mr. 13elond's window, and the prisoner then took something from his pocket and cut the glass, while the other lad pulled out • piece of glass end drew out a large quantity of cigars valued at 3/. The other lad put some of the agars into his pocket and dropped others, at made off, as also did the prisoner. He pursued them, and seized theni, when he wee immediately surrounded by about 10 thieves and hustled about and hurt, and the lad managed to get away. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner, to give the con stable an opportunity of apprehending the other lads. LAMBETH. A VISIT TO SPURGEON'S TABERNACLE. Maws Stan/ey, 28, was brought before Mr. Elliott, se remand, charged with being found in an enclosed part n's Tabernacle, Newington,with intent to commit °f a f 0 17 Police -constable Thomas Moore, 805 A, said that since the Prisoner's former 'examination he had made inquiries re- Sleeting him, and found that at the common lodging house in Kent-street, (where he gave his address, he was not known there. Ho further discovered that in sublition to his having been convicted, on a former occa sion, of stealin g a chair from the Tabernacle, he had also been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for stealing some books from a standing opposite to Mr. Spurgeon's, sal since his discharge he had paid a second visit to the nine stall, but the female in attendance on it having !Tengnised him be ran away, but her belief was that his intention was to commit a second offence. Mr. Elliott (to the prisoner)—What have you got to say to the themm against you of being found in an enclosed I'LlOe with intent to commit a felony? Prisoner—l had no intention to steal anything. I have been brought up under Mr. Spurgeon, and thought I had a right to go there for a necessary purpose. Mr. Elliott—Having been convicted of being there before you should not have gone there again. What have you been doing for a living since your discharge from prison ! prisoner —Earning it honestly, your worship. Mr. Elliott—Curs you give me the name of any person Illyhorn you have been employed! Prisoner—l hwe been delivering bills for tradesmen, but I don't suppose they would know my name, and at the lodging -house it is the same there. Mr. Elliott—Your conduct is very suspicious, and I shall send you to prison for 21 days' hard W.wur. On Friday Lord Stanley will ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies when the report of the Jamaica Commission will be laid upon the table. Lord Elcho proposes to-morrow to nominate as follows the select committee on masters and servants hir James Ferguason, Colonel Wilson Patten, Mr. Jackson, Air. Alderman Salomon., Mr. M'Lagan, Lord Grosvenor, Mr- George, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, Mr. Delglish, 11r. Algernon Egerton, Mr. George Clive, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Edmund Potter, and Lord Elcho. THE BANK OF ExoLAmp.—(Tuut DAY.) --Thin morning, at 11 o'clock, a general court of proprietors in the Bank of England was held in the iank-pitrlour, Threadneedle-street for the purpose of electing a director, in the roo m o f Mr. William Cotton. Mr. Holland, the governor, who presided, explained that on the 11th ult. Mr. Cotton was elected 'a director, with other., but that be had not, in consequence of illness, taken the oaths of office within the period prescribed by the charter. His election had therefore become void, and it would be the duty of the proprietors to elect another director in his place. The proprietor. elected Mr. Arthur Edward Camp bell, who was recommended by the court of directors to fill the vacancy. end the leek Do dos Otto the erect doll is to rod I foe their Pre' I b 1 Bare . g for . etl as teal dies , r IMPERIAL 11." ROUSE OF OOIIIKONS. --(THIS DAY.) The firraggs took the chair at 12 o'clock. CASE OF JANE BANILARD. lin SHERIFF called the attentionef 0,1, • Mom Bee"' I eery to the can el hoe Barrard. who Whets committed to prison by the Rev. Mr. Grey a magistrate for Wore's. on the charge _of laving Maim a penny front another child. He wished to know what view wee taken by the government of the oonduct of the magistrate in the matter. Sir G. GREY said that an =planation bad been remised from Mr. Grey of hie coudoet, in which he stated that he had been actuated in the course which he Weaken rimply by oonadentioua motives, and that if he had been guilty of an error it was merely an error of judgment. The Lord Cbaneellor, under all the circumstanoes of the ease , b ad not deemed it to be his duty to diem= Mr. (key from the commission of the pease. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. Mr. CHAMBERS, in moving the second reading of this bill, said it would no doubt be to propose such en alteration of the law as t would be to which he asked the house to assent summarily, sad without clue consideration, The fact however waa, that public opinion bad been very clearly expressed on the subject. All dames of the people had spasm out iipDn it, and there was abundant evidence that they were in favour of having the restriction with which the bill dealt, abcdisbecL restriction, he contended, wee impaled neither by the laws of Greece nor Rome, nor was it in accordance with divine law. There was, he added, no such restriction to be found in the early history of the church. Afterwards the church authorities laid down the rule that marriages could not be contracted within certain degrees al relatioeship tending to the 7th degree : but in 1215 the restraints upon marriage were brought within the limit of the 4th Great grievances arose under that Mate of degree. and the °Demagogue. was that the almost universal voice of Christendom bad sines condemned it. That being se, an act had been passed in 1530, under the operatics of whisk for a period of 300 years such marriages am those which he asked the house to legalise had Kendal phew, nor had it been proved that any scandal or mischief bad been the result. Then ca ms the act of Lord Lyndhurst, rendering _such marriages illegal from the time of its pawing, which he characterised as a raeseereutterly inoonsistent and indefensible. That act drew a distinction between the prohibited degrees, the affinity, and those of conianguinity in pert of the recital, while in another it placed them upon the same footing far some of the pmmel for which it was introduced. Looking at the ac t by the lightof the interpretation whieb had been put upon e i o t aar t i t ti lz s c o ur bench and the judges of the he found that while its fait clauses operating ' retrospectively made valid all marriages which might previously have been contracted with a deceased wife's slater, and all the chil dren of such manages legitimate, it contained other clauses declaring such roarriogee for the future to be sin, eothat that which on the 31st of August might be valid and unob jectionable might., according to legislation . of that de. meription, be on the very following day invalid, and =airtime and contrary to the law of God. (Hear, hear. Could anything, he would ask, be more absurd? (Hear.) Could anything be more to the moral sense of the community than the conic Sons which such an enact ment involved ? He, under those circumstances, felt justi fied in asking the housei to give its sanction to the alteration in the existing law which he propowd, observing that • great ma j or i ty of the bench et bishops were of opinion that marriages with a deceased wife's sister were not contrary to God's law, and that the Bishop of London and 400 of the metropolitan clergy had petitioned in favour of a measure for render ing them legal. The Roman ca holic church, he further remarked, could not be regarded as deem ing such marriages to be opposed to the Divine command, as was shown by.the number of dispensations for them which were granted in France and other Roman catholic countries. One of the main arguments used in support of the law as it stood was that it secured greater domestic purity and simplicity, but the justice of that argument he denied, pointing out that it was not corroborated by experience or the example of Massachusetts and other places in which marriage with a deceased wife's sister was allowed. The hon. and learned gentleman then proceeded briefly to explain the provisions of the bill. [Loft sitting.] MADRAS RAILWAY.-(THIS DAY.) This day the annual general meeting of share holders was held at the London Tavern ; Mr. Witssu in the chair. It appeared from the report that the average mileage travelled over, as compared with that of the corresponding half of the previous year, was 598 miles against 538 • the aggregate traffic receipts, 225,1121., against 169,56-1/.' being an increase equal to 32 per cent.; the n et r ecei p ts, 131,5001., against 83,6881., being an increase of 57 per cent. These favourable results were partly due to changes in the tariff and classification. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the company had to regret the loss of their late chairman. General Sim, who had done so much to promote its welfare. The progress of the corn. pany had proved satisfactory, and they enjoyed a remarkable immunity from accidents, which spoke well for the management of the line. There were 32 miles of the north-west line to be completed, and he hoped that that portion would be opened in a short time. There were 156 miles above Cuddapa to be finished, and most of that ground was now occupied by their engineers and workmen. Although the south-west line is not an easy one to work, the cost of working had been reduced to 44 per cent. ; on the north-west the working expenses were reduced to thclow figureof 27i. per cent. The costof the south west line and Bangalore branch was under 11,000/. per mile, that of the north-west line was under 9,200/., including rolling stock and additions made to the works of the line. Great credit was due to the staff for the man ner in which they conducted the works. Resolutions would be submitted for authorising the raising of further capital sanctioned by the Secretary of State. Mr. ARBUTHNOT seconded the motion, which was adopted. The CHAIRMAN moved and Mr. ARBUTHNOT seconded a resolution authorising the directors to increase the capital of the company to the extent of 1,000,000/., con sisting of 50,000 shares of M. each, bearing a guaranteed interest of 5 per cent. which was also adopted. The CH %Milan, in reply to questions put to him, said that the whole line would be finished in about three years' time, and there was reason to hope that it would produce more than 5 per cent. The retiring directors were re-elected. Mr. A. Hall was elected an auditor of the company, and Mr. J. Thomson was re-elected to the same office. „ A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro al errant& STRANGE CASE OF SUPPOSED SUICIDE AT LONDON-BRIDGE. INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) This morning Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, held an inquiry at the Dock Hotel, East Smith field, relative to the death in the Thames of Mary Ann Abbott, aged 38 ears. Benjamin Ston y e identified the deceased as his sister, and raid that she was the widow of a land drainer, and resided with her mother at Barking-side. She was engaged HARWICH. to be married shortly. On Tuesday, the 17th April, she left Barking-aide and was never seen alive by her family The committee resumed their business to-day at after eleven o'clock; Mr. Gathorne Hardy presiding. Henry Lee, elabourer living at Barking-side, said that Counsel fur petitioner, Mr. Serjeaut Dallantine,Mr. Fitz he had been keeping company with the deceased for four james Stephen, and Mr. Clarke. Counsel for the sitting years past, and was engaged to be married to her. Another member. Mr. Rodwell, Q.C., Mr. Henry James, and Mr. young man wished to marry her, and her mother favoured Wolferston. him, and did not like witness to go to the house. On the The petition of Dr. Burt and other electors against the morning of Tuesday, the 17th April, he was leaving Bark- return of Captain :Jervis and Mr. Kelk, on the ground of ing along the Cranbrook-road with a bundle bribery, corruption, treating, intimidation, and a corrupt in his hand, when ho met the den:teed, and he paid agreement with the Great EastenCompany, was proceeded her 8.1. which he owed her. She said '• I will go along with. with you." He said in reply, " You had better go home ; Mr. Serjeant Ballantine opened the petition. He said but she stated that she would never go home, and that she that the inquiry would be considerably narrowed, as the would go with him. It was not a matter of previous allegation as to bribery or treating would not be gone arrangement that they were to run away together ; but into. They would be only required to consider whether she had a basket ana an umbrella, and they walked up an agreement entered into by Captain Jervis, as deputy towards London. Between Barking-side and Hackney sta. chairman of the Great Eastern Railway Company, and Mr. tion they had pints of ale at the different public-houses, and Kelk, was not an illegal contract, and one which invalidated they decided that he should get a lodging f o r her. They I the election. Neither Captain Jervis nor Mr. Kelk took the train to Bow, but could get no lodgings there, I had any connection with the borough of Harwich, or in Whitechapel. By that time it was 11 o clock at except that which arose out of the fact that the former was night, and they had been into seven public-houses. and had a member of the railway board. The borough contained nine points of ale. They decided to cross London-bridge 347 voters, and of these 63 were connected with the rail to get lodgings in the Borough. When nearly across the way, and about 60 of the employes of the company voted fi r bridge, and within fifteen yards of the Southwark side, the sitting members. In 11164 a project was started to run witness stopped for a minute, and the deceased walked on. • line of steamers from Harwich to Rotterdam, and the He then saw her go down the steps towards the water, and management of the line was given to Captain he rushed after her. She ran into the river, and was Jervis, who appointed two electors of great in- ' drowned. Once she rose to the surface, and cried out, fluence in the borough, Mr. Daniel and Mr. Groom, " Oh, Harry !" He ran out up to his knees in mud, but to superintend the neffic. In January, 1863, the railway could not reach her, and she sank. He gave an alarm, and company thought it desirable to make • change in the assistance came, but she was carried away by the tide. management of the steamer traffic, and they sent down a In cross-examination, the witness said that he could not person to take charge of it, but at the instance of account for the deceased's act. When in the Whitechapel- Captain Jervis he was allowed to enter the offices road she had said, " I will not go anywhere." She was of of the company. A move was then made to pm- ' sober habits, but she was not quite sober when she rushed vent the contemplated change, and Mr. Kelk coin into the water. Witness never said that she had fallen municated with Mr. Bidder, then one of the members of over the bridge. He bad notasked her to spend the night the railway board, and in the course of conversation Mr. with him. She knew on the Monday that he was to leave Kelk stated that he had agreed in the event of Captain Barking on the Tuesday. She did not threaten to commit Jervis obtaining his return for the borough to pay the suicide. entire election expenses of both. Mr. Bidder reported A brother of the deceased said that a City police-consta- the circumstances to the board, and a correspondence ble had arrested Lee on London-bridge on the morning of with Mr. Belk ensued in which several allusions were made the 18th April, and he was detained for some hour on to the agreement, and he did not in any way deny that suspicion but was then allowed to go away. such a contract existed. Counsel contended that the Stephen Britten, • weterman, proved that he found the agreement was illegal and corrupt. Captain Jervis's body of the deceased in the water above London-bridge on influence at Harwich was a railway influence, said the the 28th Aprll. contract was to the effect that that power and influence Mr. J. Willa, surgeon, said that the deceased died from should be purchased to secure and return a person who drowning, and that no marks of violence were visible on had no claim whatever on the electors. If the contract the body. were proved in evidence and sanctioned by the committee, The Coroner, in summing up, said that the use was in the result would be that Harwich would remain a pocket many respect most unsatisfactory and surrounded with in- borough of the railway company. exphcabie circumstances. He advised that an open ver- I [Left sitting.) diet should be returned. The jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased was found drowned in the Thames, bet under what dream- ACTS OF PARLIMCIINT.-Cp to yesterday the stances she came into the water all evidence was not min- number of public acts which rectKved the royal assent in cleat to show." just three months is twenty. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1866. + - arr - r^frrT l' yr .100411011 =Karim' CO FinTrEmAiiiml 'I - LeY,:. .1 Mat committee appointed to try the merits of t h is a = against the return of Mr. Salmi* for met *gam this morning, Mr. hyrion in the chair. The evidence in nmport et the all tion of beibtay ega was continued. The first witness called was Amelia Hands, the wife of the last witness. Witness said she remembered two gentlemen earcinf in toh an er husband's shop previous to the election and solici ting her husband's vote. The elder one said that if Mr. ds voted for Mr. Schreiber, the office of gas inspector ? for which be was • candidate, should be secured to him. Witness remem bered what took place distinctly. She had not discussed the subject with her husband sines, except to persuade him to vote for Mr. Schreiber, though his political principles were the other way. Solomon Gillett, a voter of Cheltenham, met Mr. Stroud and Mr. Burns together on the 23rd of June. They soli sited his vote; witness said it was an early day, and that a , better man might offer. He declined then ; but went to the aloe after, and asked for something to do duri n g the election. A few days afterwards witness was put on. Witness was paid 31. 15s. for 15 days' work as messenirr. There was not much to do the first few days. After that witness took a few notes, put bill-boards in and out, and did jobs of that kind. Witness was told by Mr. Stroud that a better man than Mr. Schreiber would not offer. He then promised to vote for Mr. Schreiber. Witness saw men named Foyle and Bishop also at work as messengers. He saw Mr. Strou d , Mr. Byrne Mr. Barn fi eld , an d Mr. Schreiber frequen tly at th e 'central committee-rooms, Liverpool-plane. Witness never said to Mr. Cheshire that when he asked Mr. Stroud to be put on, Mr. Stroud said, " Of pause you will vote for us " Martin Foyle, St. James-place. Cheltenham —Witness voted at th e lad election for Yr. fickrebber. Witness was employed at the committee room by Mr. H. G. Davis. Witness was not told what he was to have. He had what be earned ; ss. a day for 21 diva. Witness took circulars about, and did something every day except the first Monday. On one «wagon he got rheumatts from getting wet, and then he came down to the committee rooms in a wheel chair, and stuck to the room doing work there. William Symons—During the election witness went about on a fly with a Mr. Edward Parsridge. Near the old hospital they met a voter named Thomas Jones. Witness asked him to vote. Jones asked whether anything WM to be had, because he could get something on the other side. Witness referred him to Paraidp, who took him to the North Ward committee-room. Witness saw Jones taken to a private room to sae Mr. Cochrane. When he came out witness asked him how he had got on. Jones said all right, and held up five fingers. Cross-examimd—Witnees had been in Parsridge's em ploy for 20 years, and was dismissed last November, after giving evidence in a county court action on a bill of sale, in which his master was a party Geo. Sayo, superintendent of . the Gloucestershire police, said he know Joseph Palmer; he was in the force, but left, and took a cyder shop in the High-street. Witness saw Palmer in Cheltenham at the last election. He had money —about three or four sovereigns—in his band. He had previously told witness something about the money. [Left sitting.] (BY amatim 211LIGRAPS.) ASCOT MEILTING.—(THIS DAY.) ~~-~~. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OP 10 SOF& Bwinley Course. Providon, Haslet.= Maid, Vixen, Oninivere, sad Beadle are here. SUNNING-HILL STAMM. Half iv mile. pair, The Rescue, Miss Middleton, Glenochty c, Fakir, Huntsman, Ajax, Misfortune, Veralam, Hippie, and Bush Bose are here. PAID Fonzelv.—lady Bugle Bye, Hornet, King Charles, Moleskin, Fairfield, Fitswilliam, Sttarials, Bow de Charite, and Falkenstein. HANDICAP SWEEPBTAICHEI OF 10 BM. T.T.C. Vabelathus gut 121 b• Confederate, Bst ifils ; Raven, Get 71b ; Gies:dusk, 7st 121 ts ; Grapeshot 7st 91b ; Mies Hobble, 7st 81b ; Little Gentleman, let 411) ; Dalesmsn, let 21b ; Goojeret, fist 131 b ; Raven, Bst 101 b ; John Hali fax, gut slb ; Harlequins, Bst ; Gay Tom, Bst. All are Fr. here. et. PLATE OF 300 SOPS. Cup Course. Sydmonton, Corsair, barring, Sealskin, Grapeshot, Raven, and John Davis are here. PLATE OF 60 SOTS. FOR ALL AGES T.Y.C. Yabalathus, Scarlet, Indian Star, Coup d'Etat, Prim- si, rase, Saocharometer, Noisy o, Gay Tom, Satyr, Raven, et. and Qni Viva are here. et. et. SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY PLATE. Once rouad. aa Hazoldean, Derabouka, Syclmonton, and Goinivere. 86. All are here. et. et. PLATE OF 50 SOVS. FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS. Bt. Half a mile. Sens to be sold for 2001. Idler, Tuber, Soiled Dove, Bt. Glace, and Birkenhead, all to be sold for 100/ each, are a i l bare. St. MINE&-(THIS DAY.) Ors o'Ciocx. 1 , 1 1 In the mining market to-day the few sa, transactions effected have consisted chiefly 8 2.. of sales, and prices exhibit a drooping 3; tendency. Chontales shares are quoted If to 10 prem.; Frontino and Bolivia, 17s. 6d. to 2 2 5. 6 d.; 1: Clifford Amalgamated, 84 to 94 ; North Roskear, 3to 4 ; Great Vor, 20} to 214 ; West Chiverton, 86 . 674 to 724 ; Chiverton Moor, 54 to ; and Great a Laxey, 21 to 22. ss COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. I:4- MARKLANE.—(THIS DAY.) fit. Only moderate supplies of English wheat were received B t.„, 1 fresh up to our market to day ; the general quality of the i''," produce, however, was good. Fine samples were in steady gt. request, at Monday's currency ; but, for inferior parce l s , 10 the trade was in a sluggish state. 10 There was a moderate quantity of foreign wheat on the PA steads. In most descriptions a fair amount of business t . —Aopassing on former terms. Bt. Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly ; but no quo- ft, table change took place in prices. at English barley was in short supply, but the show of Bt. foreign was good. For all kinds the demand wise inactive, ak 10 ' at about late quotations. Bt. Malt supported late rates, with a moderate inquiry. 3.• Oats were in good supply and limited request, at anal- 81 tered currencies. Bt. Beans, though firm in price, commanded bat little 10 attention. Si Peas met a slow sale on former terms. Flour changed hands to a moderate extent, at last week's quotations. Agricultural seeds were'in fair request ; but the inquiry for hnse,d and repeseed was heavy. Cakes were dull, but not cheaper. HUDDHPSFIELD. The select committee appointed to inquire into the merits of the petition against the return of Colonel Crosland resumed their investigation this morning ; Lord Naas in the chair. Mr. Thos. Robinson was called and examined by Mr. Waddy. He said—l am • solicitor at Huddersfield, and acted Jointly with Mr. N. Lesroyd, as solicitor to Colonel Crosland's committee. My work was the inside work — preparing the necessary papers for the election—engaging messengers and door-keepers, and seeing that the agents were 'applied with poll-books. The committee met twice a week. No one attended but the members of the committee, the secretary, and solicitor. I never saw anyone else there. The messengers were under the direction of Jonaa Walker. James Hutchinson was employed as a messenger. I engaged him on the Monday before the election, and he continued to act till Friday. I let the payment of the men stand over until the Saturday. Hutchinson com plained that he had not been paid on Friday. I signed for six days' wages, and the account was made out on the same scale as the wages of the other messengers. At the time I engaged and paid him I had no knowledge of his having made a bargain for his wages, nor did I know, when I paid him, that he h ad ne g lected his work. I have been engaged in election matters at Huddersfield for 25 years, but never during that period have I asked a man I have engaged how he was going to vote. I did not know that Hutchinson was a voter until this inquiry began. I never paid any man during the election except the strict value of his services, as far as I know. By the committee—l did not say I would give Hutchin son 7s. a day, and 30s. afterwards, nor did I say to him, " You'll vote for the colonel." John Sunderland Tolson—l am a wine merchant at Huddersfield. I voted for Colonel Crosland at the last election. Beyond that I took no part in the election. Hutchinson used to be • tenant of mine. I did not know he was a voter. He applied for employment as a messen ger, saying that his wife was very ill, and that he had not a shilling in the world. Mr. Wm. Crosland spoke to Mr. Robinson about Hutchinson , who said he would find room for him. In a state of great distress he applied for an advance of money, to be repaid when he was paid for his work. I declined to advance any, but Mr. William Crosland did, on the understanding that the money ad vanced was to be paid back again. I did not say to Mr. Crosland, " You can deal with this young man better than I can." Nor did Mr. Crosland say, " I suppose you will vote for the Colonel." I did not interfere with the em ployment of • single man during the election. By the Committee—Nothing was said about Hutchinson being an elector. Jonas Walker, doorkeeper and head messenger at Colonel Crosland's committee room, said—l kept the room when the committee were sitting. No one but the com mittee entered the room while they were sitting. The clerks and messengers were ordered by me to leave the room while the committee were sitting. When they were not sitting, the room was perfectly open. James Hutchin son was employed as a messenger, and was under my con troL He was in attendance day by day. There were a great many circulars to send out. There were 1.600 voters, and circulars were sent to them three times. Hutchinson was employed to deliver circulars. He was occasionally employed as a watcher. Mr. Nehemiah Learoyd, examined by Mr. Hannen—l am a solicitor at Huddersfield, and a personal friend of CoL Crosland. I assistedllin conducting his election. Mr. William Crosland is a merchant at Huddersfield, and re sides about four miles from the town. lie is a cousin of Colonel Crosland's. He has been waiting here to give his evidence, but has been summoned home in consequence of the illness of his wife. All I have done in the election I have done gratuitously, except that I have charged 501. for the salaries of my clerks. I drew up the requisition inviting Colonel Crosland to become a candi date, and it was signed by about half the constituency. I heard Colonel Croaland's account of the constitution and duties of the committee, and that account was quite correct. I canvassed with Colonel Crosland about two thirds of the constituency. [Left sitting.] CURRENT PRIM& Examen. Per Qr. a. s. 44 to 61 96 to 45 62 to 66 98 to 60 Per QT. WHEAT. Ism, Kent, red, old new . to. white, old w Nor and illo n ao e ln red, old BARLEY. OATS. Scotch potato Irish, white „ black_ U. I . . ES to SO .. 20 to 26 19 to 24 BILIB. Mazagan (1844) l2 to 38 Tick ST to 41 Harrow Pigeon 43 to 48 Malting Distilling Grinding MALT Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk 56 to 65 Kingston and Ware ila to 67 Brown ait to 63 ___ FLoua. IIL Town made: per 1110 lbw Household ST to 3n Country Norfolk and Suffolk, ex ship SS to 14 OATS. English,feed Sooioh,ter.lll Ter Qr. WRAAT. l a Dentate and Konigs berg 4B to 68 Rostock & Mecklen burg 45 to 66 Danish Russian, hard tuft American. red „ white BARLET __ _ OATS e. s. Danish and Swedish 22 to 26 80, Banter BASNS. 45 , Danish BOW= ilUa Maple Boners laDian CONS Si to 36 31 to 35 Grinding Distilling Malting . 20 to SD 3$ to 35 SO to 40 OATS. Dateh hrearinii - 7 22 to 26 1 feeding COIIPARATIVE QUAYTITII FUR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 28, 1886. Qrs. Average. Wheat 71.745 .. 454. 6d. Barley 11.632 .. 361. 3d. Oats 3,696 .. 24a. Od. Attitl% AIS OF GRAIN, dc, CARRIAGE, FROM APRIL , English and Scotch; Irish Foreign Total i'S.-(THIS DAY.) Oise o'Csocz. • The railway Market is fiat, and a decline of per cent. has occurred in South Eastern, Great Northern A, and London, Chatham, and Dover stocks. The amount of business is limited. London and North Western stook is now quoted' 1201 to ; Great Western, 671 to t ; Midland, 1221 to 123 ; Lancashire and Ymkshfre, 1201 to 121; Great Northern, 122 to 123 ; ditto A, 136 to 137 ; Great Eastern, 391 to ; South Eastern, 731 to 74 ; Caledonian, 127 to 128 ; Metro politan, 132 t to 133 f ; and London, Chatham, and Dove', 261 to 271. Foreign and colonial railway securities are dull. Grand Trunk of Canada stock is now quoted 211 to 22. Elb- I Pd. Cloatng prim Wee cooIy B.LILWAYS. lau Honda. l to pm. 110 PI 117 He 66 66 13 16 $ 5 67 70 TO ri 10 13 113 115 3 3 1 40 i 6 7 lee }j} It! lib flee 1374, ltt nei I 6 al r 120/ / I as 27 } 1114 ii 92 • s'3 I 3 93 122 5 Ole 100 I 71101 76 6 _ 73) 6 71 72 109 110 5 47 461 4 2 $ 2 dis 22} l dla 2 par j 1 alai Di 11 : 6 4 bitlisl 10 13 70 72 — 90 20+ xd 93 ISi 24 33 21414 1 13 ills I 3 4 %Pin 20 10 di 24 1014 4 3 d(3 41 47 49 21 2(11 • 43 1 402 3 51pml si - 4415 If lidis 3 las 2fidisi 20 20i I Zuii 6I n 13 It n 11 13 11 2 10 12 8 V iilmill 1 101 par i pmi 91 11 6 1 41, per 4 Kis par zd 315 15 4 3dl. Li }d l par i ar l l " ' 14 pm -- 0 I 77 3 flipm 92 22 4 221 tO 7b LS 47 40 illl 14 16 , 3 2 ills - 4 2 ai l • tO I 96 97 1 9 61 15 1 20 2.5 j 10 7 8 10; 8_ 6 . 4 4 20 • lb par 201111 7 pinl J 74 76 I , 44 46 1 itlis ipm - 74 46 49 P I 441 - e sd 7 si 2014 4 3 2dl4' 11 4 [0 4 3 414 *4 13 dig 5 I dial ill ; 35 37 alitii — as a 51} *Us, I 54 CI. pricesJ 77 81 I 94 86 I ft.Eatn 4 p.c. Mar.&Bep. 100 O.NUut 4 p.e. Jan.& July 100 o.Wstn.—W. p. ct Jan. & July . 100 05 100 Lane.&Yk.4p.e.Jan &fly 100. 93 95 Lon Brigh.4p c.Jan &Jly 100: 90 95 .04 L.&N.W.4p.e.Jan.& July 100 94 96 9:4 4 * Do. 34p. e. Jan.& July 100 L.&S.W.4p.e. Jan &July 100 94 91 Midland4P.e.Jan &July 100 94 96 N. British, E. Y. & D. 8., sp.et , Feb. & Aug .. 100 105 107 16.Eatro.,4p.e..lan.&July 100 94 96 fleat.N.E.,4p.c.Ap.&Oct. 100 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Bombay, Baroda, and Centr al India guar. 5 per cent., 1031, I. East Indian Guaranteed 5 per cent., 104), 4. Grand Trunk of Canada, 211, 1. Ditto, 4th preference stock, 2b. Great Indian Peninsula Guar. 5 per cent.. 1091, 3. 10. Great Southern of India, guaranteed 5 per cent., 1004. Madras, guaranteed 5 per cent., 101, 1003. Do do. 43 per cent., S. Scinde, guaranteed 5 per cent., 99A, 100. PREFERENCE. Great Eastern, Eastern Counties Extension No. 1, 993. Midland Consolidated, per cent., irredeemable, 99 . Midland, Leicester and Ritchin, 4 per cent., S6A. North Eastern tockton and Darlington B), F O R EIGN RAILWAYS. 32. Great Luxembourg, 131, 1. San Paulo (Limited), gua. 7 per cent., 151. South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian, 133, /. MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Mortgage Land an d Finance (Limited), 5, ad. Berlin Water Works (Limited), 10. Credit Fonder and Moliilier of England (Limited), 41, 3, 1,1, ad. Crystal Palace, 3s. Egyptian Commercial and Trading (Limited), 31, 21. English and Australian Copper (Limited), 1. Fore-street Warehouse (Limited), 13. General Credit and Finance of London (Limited), 31, 3,3. Hudson's Bay, 16. Imperial Mere. Credit Assoc. (Liar.). 51, 1, 41, 51, 41 die. International Financial Society (Limited). 31, 41. London Financial Association (Limited), 1 4 1. 4, 4. Madras Irrigation and Canal (161. 10s. paid), 131. Ditto ditto (all paid), 171. National Discount Company (Limited) 121, 13, 121. National Provincial Marine (Limited) , North British Australasian (Limited), 7 : 4- Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited). 14 i. 1 t Jr 4. Qaebrada Lend, RaiL, and Mining (Lim), 24. Noe gra l l t i a z il Stearn, 1071, id. Te Construction ant Maintenance (limited) (121.Trrali 10/ xd. Petroleum (limited), 11. ,__ 36 1.0 SO I 10, SS to 30 I 10, 37 to 41 I 20, 38 to 40 135, White . Yellow Yuma. 100, French, per sack.... 33 to 36 504 Spanish „ .33 to 36 30, American, per 26 to 30 la Canadian 26 to 30 It FS AND PRICES 4W GRAIN. 6 I /OR THE CuRRERPOI , IDING REM 22 1866. Qra Ammo. wheat 62,7E4 .. 395. 6d. Barley 16,974 .. 30e. Od. Oats 3,612 .. 22a. 7d. INTO LONDON, BY WATER .3 TO MAY 1. INCLUSIVE. Barley. i Malt. Oats. Flour. qr.. ! qrs. qrs. brls. sacks. 29C ...2130 110 .. 930 lii2o riSO istio issou ! sot) I 20ao Iwo .. I 6so LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. (THIS DAY.) (Br stncTuic AND INTRANATIONAL TELEGRAPH.) (FROM OUR OWN cominPonurcr.) Market dull, prices falling ; sales, probably about 5,000 bales. MINCING-LANE.—('PHIS DAY.) SUGAB.—The market is steady, but only moderate sales of British West India are reported, including St. Kitt's, at 295. 6d. to 31s. Refined dried goods continue to realise firm prices. COFFEE — The public salesof plantation Ceylon havegone off readily at full prices to extreme rates for fine bold colory ; triage, &c., sold at 545. to 70s. ; fine ordinary and low middling, 78s. fid. to 795. fid. ; middling and fine mid dling, 80s. to 9,31. ; superior, 113 s. to 1225. ; native sold at fid. decline ; ordinary, 645. Cel. ; mixed, 664. ; good ordi nary, 6fts.; fine ordinary, Os. fid. to 70s. A small parcel of line long berry Mocha sold at the advanced price of 12. s. Tr.a.—The market is steady but quiet. Riw."--160 puncheons of Demerara sold at ls. llicr..—Bengal has sold at firm prices; old white at 14s. lid. ; Ballam, Us. 34. ; soft grain at the previous value:. Bassein, 10s. CA. cash ; Rangoon, lls. 3d. S A LTPETRE.—A parcel of Bengal sold for cash at 22a. to 2:3s for refraction 81 to 21. " Corroe has sold at a further reduction of id. per lb. HEMP.—Russian clean quiet, at 33/. TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.) The market is steady, st the following prices:—Town tallow, 451. 3d. ; Petersburg Y. C., on the spot, 475. 6d. ; May to June,47l. 3d. to 473. &L; June, 471. 6d. to 476.9 d.; October to December, 491. BOROUGH HOP MARKET.— (THIS DAY.) Messrs. rattenden and Smith report a fair trade doing in most descriptions of bops, both English and foreign ; fine samples are scarce, and command rather higher rates. PROVINCIAL SMARR MARKETS. LIVCRPOOL, MAT I.—Market closed to-day. BIRMINGHAM, MAT 1. The sales to-day were—Birmingham Banking Company's shares, at &y ; Lloyd's Bank new shares, at lOprera. ; Nottingham Joint Stock Bank, at par: Birmingham wagon shares. at 114; Birmingham Waterworks, at 33; and ditto new 11 shares,al 3 prem. Amongst the closing prices were Lloyd's Bank shares, at 103 prem. ; Birmingham Jointßtock Banks, at 114 to 1151 ; Birmingham Old Mills, at 51 to 6; British and Foreign Railway Plant, at 53 to 5 die. DCBLIN, APRIL 30.—New Three per Cent. Stock. 843 3—Ditto for account. 11th May, 843—Bank of Ireland paid LAOS), 33 5 — Hibernian Banking Company (0.5 paid , 364—National Bank 30paid), 743 f—National of Liverpool ,Limited', (410 el), Tor account. 15i —Royal Bank ..610 paid-. 33—Dublin and Ihoghada aim paid., for account, n&—Great Southern and Western (0100 paid., 92—Midland Great Western :FlOO paid), 63. Sir William Jolliffe, on Friday, will ask the First Commissioner of Works if it is the intention of the go vernment to refer the Commons Metropolis Bill to the e msideration of a select committee. A few days since, as some recruits were being exercised at firing at a mark near Liestal (canton of Bale- Campagne, Switierlan4), a shot unfortunately took place I at the very moment when Captain Wetzel, who was near the butt, came forward to make a signal, and the ball struck him in the foreheal, killing him en the spot. This sad event has caused great pain in the district, as the deceased ofßeer was universally esteemed. 33 to •1 DS to 31 24 to tti Maple . White . Boilers 28 tO 28 20 to 25 25 to 30 22 to 26 702 Per Qr. No. I SII. 92,028. Bt. 4088316 St. 510,990, 1 St. sig.ooo St. 630,000 St. 1028323 St. 312,30 St. 239.7:0 St. 82,431 St. fi' Sul ,1 r;111 1 ' $ ' \ - I 1 1 1 i ii 1 1 1 ".. )1 i d 1 1 ! $ . i $ I I . \ .: I ) 1 1 1 .• ' ... 1 i . , i ' l .l' l I ORDINARY MARRO AND STOCK& 100 • Masi and Baster 100 .odedonlaa 100 ,Cambrian A all Cork and Bandon 10 all Cornwall 100 litarnand BelfutJune 100 Dandee,Pertb,&AbdJn all , Fad London 0 crip Cert. 100 , Do 100 'Glasgow sad S. Wakes l 100 °rest Fasters Ord. St. 100 , Do. & Ass. SUL , No. 100 , GrostNorth of Scotland 1300 lore.c Noyt n 100 'Fo.S. l Alec. se dia. an -100 l i Do.B 1 tUllp• a. lopoldlt 100 Do. Dies So. a' SS pm. 80 ,Do. Ord. Def. Div. Stock 100 (lt South & Waal. (Its) (Great Weetaa 60,0001 50 10,0001 60 40,000 100 t 100,000' 20 60,000 60 33 to 35 35 to 35 37 to 40 $9 to 40 4000' 50 ~ 1561100 I,ooojloo 1,0005 10000 ) ; o°°l l o° oo 40,0001 50 37,500 20 60,000 10 60,000 20 tic, 1 26: 0 66 1 i, 20,000 20 211,000 20 21,000 20 27,210 60 20 . .000 100 87,500 20 12,600 20 20,000 25 17,051 100 10,000 100 40,000 25 10,000 100 80.000. 50 100 Do.StourValGus.atk 100 Do. South Wales ... , 100 Do. W. ifigl—anitara 100 Do. Do. li 100 LiocashfroLYor _ . .. . . 1. 4 : 7 0 Lou. ,Briol ll , d 3. COSA 100 London,Chalham,d.Dov 100 Do. 31 et. Eaten. Aep. e. 100 London & North Woman. 100 LondonttSouthWestern 100 Ilan. Shet.,B Uncolnah 100 jetropolitin 7 Do. New 8 Do. Extension 511 Metropolitan District 10 Do. do. de. . 8 Do. dB& John's-wood 100 ilidLuld 5 Do. E 9 Shares 100 Do. Birm. & Darby all Mid Kent 1 17s0 North British 1100 Do. inlin.,Perth,Dund 100 N. Fitters—Berwick 1 A6l Do. O. N. Z. .100 Do. Leeds 100 Do. York 1100 Do. Carlisle 1 all Do. Ssock.&JsrUng 18 Do. do., 188041 LOO North London Do. do., 1864 T Do. do., 1885 1.00 North Staffordshire 100 N & 8. Western June 'lOO Scottish Central 100 Scottish N. IL Aber. 88k. 1100 Scottish Midland 100 Shropshire Culos 1100 Routh Devon 100 South llastern all Wokinghunote 100 Taff Vale 8 Do. C 100 Vale of Nesth 'lOO Waterford 5: Kilkenny ; 8 Waterloo & Whitehall .100 Wed Occnwall JOINT BTO C RTETEKT-BAILS. !Delhi and London East London ;thultod: "Eastern Exchange; Lim.) Tor.r.; a - South African' ;Lon & S. Viestern ,Ln. Loudon &VCllezuela.L 'London & Weehntnater. 'Merchant Bank ;Lim.; . ational Hank iNew Sunlit Wales N•Ar Zealand ,Lindted: 'North Western . _ Swats. 571 671 SY so 26 40 36 96 190 1 1911 96 96 17 19 19:111 In a a U _64. 11i pro Pul ft .96 111 19 S i p 661 ft 96 66 57 16 V 100 110 $6 363 10 11 pm 120 122 1 2 pm I 2 pm 74 IS 108 112 149 161 06 68 40 61 TS 74 • e 11 140 143 1 e 7 100 103 U 66 _ad I CI Agra& Masterman's X) 15 o o Albion OABlaneeLonAlAvaepool 25 'Anglo Austrian 6 !Anglo Egyptian o,Lbn.) ll l Anglo Italian (Limited , 24 MILD c Bank Cur. new ah 10 ' Australasia all Ltankof BritlahCohtm all Do. New, fanned 2 pas. 5 Bank of (Bank of = t on Bank of Otago , Limited' 10 Bank of 4uuensland iL. 25 Illankof Victorls,Austral 25 :Bank of New Zealand lO o :Barned'allanlOlSmited; 10 o Brazilian& Portuguese, lo 1 :British &CalifornlankLl I 1 :British N. America . 0 ICharleaLalatte &Co. (L) I I IC. Bk. India, Aus., Chi al i IChart. Mar. of India, &c a' 1 ,City 1 lOolonial oil Corn. Bank of Canada 5 C orn. Bank of India, etc I Consolidated Bank (L) 81 82 Se 10 all 20 ill 41 to 19 tb I a inglish and American English Joint Stock (L.) . Eng.fieot.&AusL ()hand; English and Swedish k L.;, European Bauk(Limited l• Hlndusn.Cliina&JaP. L 2 . Do. issued at 2 pin: 1 2 Do, New I 2 Imperial Bank kLimitod)i 2 Imperial Ottoman Do. New lonian Do. New Land Mort. Bk. ) rp c Deb..1864,307rs a Lon.Bk.oftlemoo,k.c.lL, 1 London awl Brazilian 4 Do. New Londoit.t.lUverPlate: l - ) Do New, iss. at liprn. If Lon. Ch. Bank of Austri. al London and County 2l London Joint Stock : Do. New Mervantile&ExchinkL ; 'Metro. & Pray. BankkL , Midland ofntistralWitil I National of Llyerpool ItineiTtal Bank Corporn al !Orient.Com B.Llateo L•. 1 Do. do. latoN. F. 4 I Do. do. lateF.C. 4 Prorin.BankingCorp.j 11 Prostate. of Ireland 2: It4elnde,Punl.,4t Delhi II DO. issuod at Ypm I South Australia a jBtand. of B. R. Africa Do. do. isa at B pin . Union of Australia a 'Union of Ireland 'Um,. 2 Uniou of Londnn DEBENTURE 81.< MONEY MARKET.-(THIB DA then The transactions in stocks and shares to-day are very limited, and the general course .of prices is unfavourable, owing to the political oesateilientions abroad and to an impression that the directors of the Bank of England may to-morrow raise the rate of discount, with a view to cheek the outflow of gold. Consols are unchanged for money,but have declined per cent. for the account. Foreign bonds and English railways have also given way, but the re duction in the latter is not general. Financial s hares are flat, with the exception of Credit Foncier and Mobilier, which exhibit a alight improvement. There is a good demand for money to-day, and the lowest rate for bills and for advances in the Stock Exchange is 6 per cent. • Consols are now quoted 84 to both for money and the account (May 9). Turkish Bonds of 1865 and Italian of 1861 are heavy, and have declined If and 4 per cent., re spectively. Spanish Passive have also receded ; Brazilian scrip, t ; and Mexican, 4. Spanish Cer tificates, however, have risen 4. Some of the present prices are as follows : Turkish, 1862, 63 to 65 ; • ditto, 1865, 30 to ; Greek, 114 to 12 ; Spanish Passive, 254 to ; ditto Certificate% 151 te 164 ; " Italian, 1861, 434 to 44; Brazilian scrip, 41 to 3} dia. ; and Mexican, 191 to 4. American securities are steady. 5-20 Bonds are quoted 687 4 to 694 ; Erie Railway shares, 501 to 51} ; and Illinois Central, 784 to 7 9 . The Oneida, from Brazil, has brought 51,8181. in specie. International Financial shares are now quoted It to 1 dis. ; London Financial, 5f to 6 dis. ; General Credit, 4 to t die. ; Imperial Mercantile, 5i to 44 dis. ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier, 4to dis ; Overend, Gurney, and Company, 4 to 4 dis. ; and National Discount, 74 to 8 prem. About 50,000/. in gold was withdrawn from the Bank yesterday for transmission to Paris, making a total of 280,0001. taken out since the date of the last return. These withdrawals are beginning to excite an apprehension of an advance in the Bank rate of discount. The causes of the export of gold are believed to be chiefly sales of securities here on foreign account, and the withdrawal by continental bankers of the balances which for a long time pest have been sent over for employment at the re latively higher rates obtainable for money in the London market. At this juncture it is satisfactory to know that the demand for silver for India hie completely subsided, and that the continued de cline in the price of cotton almost precludes the prospect of its reviving. The steamer Tasmanian, for the West Indies, will take to-day only 3,0001. in gold, and 15,0001. in silver. The following Australian gold ships are now on _ the way to England, viz.. :-The Chariot of Fame, with 34,500 f. ; the Mediator, with 17,0001. ; the "' Su ff olk, with 78,500 i. ; the Donald ki•lisy, with 2 - 18,0001. ; the Macduff, with 119,0001. ; and the 1 4 7 Royal Standard, with 4,6001. The total is _ 271,5001., of which a large proportion is now due. On 'Change yesterday afternoon the rates foe i " bills on Austria and Italy were little more than nominal, owing to the alarm of war. The other exchanges were somewhat firmer than on Friday. The rates were as follows : Amsterdam, 3 months, 11.10 t to; ; ditto, 3 days, 11.16 to dis 17 ; Ruttenlam, mon th s, 11.191 to 1 • Antwerp, 3 mouths, 21.42 t to 47 t ; Hamburg, ens. banoo, 3 months, 13.9 to ; Paris, 3 days, 2%.10 to lit • ditto, 3 months, 25.373 to 42t- Frankfort-on•the-31aine, 3 months, 1191 to 1203 ; Peters burg per rouble, 3 months, tri to h ; Vienna, elf. So., 3 months, 11.20 to 30; Trieste, ditto. 3 months, :1.20 to 30; Madrid, 3 months, 461 to 7 ; Cadiz, 3 months. 473 to t ; Leguorn, 3 months, 'J6.'2O to 26.30 ; Genoa, 3 months, 23.20 to 26::.) ; Milan, 3 months, 26.20 to 26.30 : Naples, months, 2.i.'29 to 'Al.'s(); Palermo, 3 months, 21420 to 26.30 ; Messina, 3 months, 26.20 to 20.30 ; Lisbon, 'JO days, 514 to 1; Oporto, 90 days, 51t to 1. Au instalimmt of 15 per cent. fell due yesterday on the Egyptian Government Railway Loan, but a considerable portion had previously been paid in full. '.!! It is reported that the Brazilian government has resolved on an expenditure of 260,000!. in the fur ther construction of roads in the province of Bahia, with a view to the development of its great re sources. The president of the province, Dr. Dantas, has ordered the construction (4 a market place at the terminus of the railway, which will cost 12,0001. A pamphlet on the Anglo-Brazilian railways is in course of publication at Rio de Janeiro, in which the writer, tienhur Christian Ottoni a n eminent deputy, recommend s, as a solu tion of ' the difficulties as to the Pernambuco Rail way Company, that the government should extend a guarantee per cent. to the total cost of that line, and apply 1 per cent. to the gradual amorti zation of its share capital. The din:bull of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China have issued their eighth annual report, to be presented at the meet ing on the 15th inst. It is as follows : The directors have the pleasure to present to the share holders the audited balance-sheet and profit and loss ac count of the hank for the year ended 31st December last. After providing for all bad and doubtful debts, and defray ing cost of mainup.inent at all points, the net profit amounts to I 1d.,t0 which Las to he added a sum of 66,760/. 7s. 31. undivided profit brought forw:,rd from the preceding year, making a total of 103,0**,31. 14s. 2d. out of this Mull 101,2: 0 ./. Las been paid in two half-yearly dividends--nauie1y,63,7501.,0r81 per cent., on the Ist July, and 37,1001., or:, per cent., on the Ist .Tar.uary last, nialdng together 13, Is:r cent. for the year. TLe unappioixiated balance of 2,713/. 14s. 2d. is carried forward to the profit and loss account of the current year. The shareholders will be prepared to learn that the bank suffered severely during the past year, owing to the commercial crisis which occurred iu the East, as well as from exceptional losses at Bombay. Fur a time also trade was `! paralysed as to render banking and exchange operaions impracticable with safety or profit. From this combination of adverse circumstances the result contrasts unfavourable with that of previou , years, but the directors are glad to state that the operations of the current ytete are thus far very satis factory and encouraging. As Intimated in the last report, the Mauritius agency was closed ou the 31st December last. The dir.eters retiring on this occasion are Mr. D. Linisch and Mr. t;. ...‘l,.y, who, being eligible, offer them selves for re-election, and the court recommend them ac cordingly. Toe shareholder. will hare to appoint auditors for the current rear. An e xtraw.ditiary meeting of the Metropolitan Railway Company is called for the 23rd inst., to 4:4 'wider a bill maw bef.‘re parliament The directors of the ittig!o.Egptian Bank (Limited) liave issued notice of :in interim divi dend of 104. per share, being at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum for the past half-year, payable on the 7th inst., and have also made a call of 71. 10s, per share, payable in twu instalment', via, 41. on the 31st Mat., and 31. 10s. on the 15th of June next. It is notified that the certificat:s for the second issue of slutres in Reuter's nt t'ompany (Limited) am now ready for deli‘.ry, In exchange for the bankers' receipts. Subjoined are the quotations of insurance,. gas, dock, and other shares , as given in the latest ' Exchange list : Insurance.-Imperial Fire, 352 ; Imperial " London, 463 ; Rock Life, 7 5 , cx div. Gas. -European. new, 131; Imperial, 75, 1 Continental, 95t ; London, 119, A ; Plrenix, Consumers, 14, ex die. ; Westminster Chartered, new. 421, ; Western, 141. ex div. Waterworks.-Chelsea . -. Grand Junction. Docks. Surrey Commercial, 109. Subjoined are Inc iiiii,.... , ...- dock, and other sha res, as given in the !stoat Stock Exchange list : rial Life, 201 ; Insurance.—lmperial Fire, 382: Impe London, 414 ; Rock Life, 7t, ci div. Gas. —European. new, 6t ; Imperial t 75, A ; Imperial Continental, 951; London, 09, A ; Ph , entx, 261, I ; Berwey Consumers, 14, ex div. ; Westminster Chartered, tin; ditto, new. 42}, 1 ; 'Western, 14i, cx div. .1. Waterworks. --Chelsea, 29 • Grand Junction, 78k, 9. Douka.—Surrey Commercial, 109. .._.. —_ ._..— . TRAFFIC RETURNS. -. miles Pas. Mer- Total, Total. • ItAILPATS. open singed dandle& 1916. 111119. Week ending April la it L S co ttish North Eastern . 143 . 5,983 5,773 Weak ending April 1:1. i Belgian Eastern Junction lll4 110 107 9111 B r econ and Merthyr Week ending April IA Slasgem tSouth Western l4O 11.372 10,1101 Week endi ngpril A 26 Cambrian l3O LOW 1,131 1,131 2,129 Great Lazamboarg s.n 134 1,1E6 4 , 968 8,144 5,149 U On/the ne 3 134 . i metropolitan North Landon l l4l 3,010 1,329 4,530 3,5% . . I . :I ion 8 all; 51. I a 0! tn. for ' no, es woo Bet :Rd ale , of the ions •:iea teas use-