The Express. — London, England, 1867-07-20 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (raw ous OW coaiwoxnrcr.) PARIS. FRIDAY EVSXING, The great, the sweeping measure of the entire a b o lition of imprisonment for debt, whether in the caw of traders, ordinary citizens, or foreigner*, had a m arvellously narrow escape of being thrown out by the Senate. After three days hot debate it was 311..%cd to pass last night by the measuring cast ~,t p .rity of only 7. The numbers were 53 for rising the bill, and 46 for sending it back to the ps Legislatif for a second reading—a step which have certainly hung up the bill for another :ear, and very possibly have ensured its final !vieetion. There never was such a close division the Senate before. It is the first time that the iiitors have made use of the new prerogative .Lich they most unconstitutionally arrogated to :iotiselves by the :want its eanAttlittnt, passed a few otths ago, of revising a bill proposed by the L • peror and passed by the Corps Legislatif on merits." Hitherto they could only oppose the sing of a bill on the ground that it contained " unconstitutional." It required all I NI. 'Wither and Baroche's eloquence, and all t n it influence, which is not small, to persuade a lAre majority of the Senate to redeem the Dupe r.r's word that imprisonment for debt should k abolished. The Emperor is entitled to 4 11 the credit for the reform—assuming it, 4 ., I for one do, to be a good one. It is quite cer uni that public opinion among the thinking doe's—l do not consider universal suffrage, which sill vote anything, as public opinion—was against tee change. In this case the thinking classes, I i.elieve, think wrong; but the fact that they cling ,livulsively to the power to incarcerate a debtor as e corner stone of credit is undeniable. The .o,,lition of imprisonment for debt was recom_ nwnded in the speech from the throne last year, hut it stood over on account of the known repug rince of the Corps Legislatif to vote it. This s .ision more than half the house abstained roan voting upon it, not wishing to oppose the Emperor's personal wishes, but at the same fade declining to share with him the responsibility of an innovation which they thought would make them unpopular with their constituents. The scant numbers of the deputies who voted for the bill was one of the arguments used by M. Delangle and others against it in the Senate. Had the senators been guided by their own personal convictions, not tsenty of them would have voted for the bill. M. Rouland, Governor of the Bank of France, made an elaborate speech against it, but voted for it out of deference to the Emperor. That was the lead ing motive with the small majority. There were illuminations, extra suppers, and great rejoicings at Clichy last night. Telegraphic despatches were sent by some of the prisoners to feUow prisoners in the provinces with the good news. It is expected that in two or three days the doors will be thrown open. The prison itself will doubtless be " Hausamannised." There are now in it only 100 prisoners, 97 men and three women ; and yet M. Levy St. Amand and others solemnly affirmed that if these were let out the whole trade of France would be ruined. The case of M. Casse came on for trial before the Tribunal of Correctional Police to-day. M. Deles vaux was the presiding judge. The witnesses, all police agents, deposed that on the evening when the Czar was going to the Opera they were told by their superiors that some people would cry " Long live Poland !" and that all who did so were to be invested. Hearing the cry from a group as the 0,44 ye was coining they laid hold of the " gentle man in the dock with the long hair" [meaning M. Cassel He cried " Help ! Murder !" and resisted. Several people came to the rescue, and in the affray the police received blows, but took the pri soner and several others to the guard-house. M. Casse called several witnesses, one of whom had himself been arrested and subsequently dis charged. The President refused to allow the latter witness to answer the question why ho was discharged. All the witnesses deposed that none of the police agents who arrested M. Caste were in uniform. Some said he was laid hold of with un necessary violence, and several affirmed that the a4ents, in order to keep off the crowd who wanted to rescue the prisoner, said, " Let us alone ; he is a thief who cries ' Long live Poland,' to take off y.ar attention while ho picks your pocket." The Imperial Advocate Lepelletier, in his address to the court, said the defence against the charge, which was one of rebellion against lawful authority, would rest upon the allegation that the police agents were not in uniform. He admitted that prima facie that would be a good defence, because a citizen was not bound to allow himself to be arrested by the first corner. But he considered it proved as a matter of fact thatCasse knew that the people whom he resisted, though in plain clothes, were police men. Besides, one of them had his uniform on, Be contended that when a police agent was known, the fact of his not wearing the outward marks of his authority was no excuse for resisting him. The cry of " Long live Poland !" was not in itself illegal in France, but it might become so if it served as a allying cry for a riot. He would allow, however, for the purposes of the argument, that the arrest was illegal; but that did not justify " rebellion " against the agents who affected it. A private in dividual could not be a judge of the acts of autho rity. His only remedy, if illegally arrested, was to complain in the proper quarter afterwards. 31. Floquet did not appear as counsel for M. Came, who defended himself. - - I have not yet seen any report either of his speech a the judgment, but I hear that he is found guilty tad sentenced to three months' imprisonment. There is a great concurrence of testimony that a sported despatch of M. de Werther, the Prussian tabassador at Vienna, stating that the Emperor of itmria's motive in con ciliating: the Hungarians and maw himself crowned King of Hungary was to trengthen his position against Prussia, does really t?ist, notwithstanding official denials in Berlin and 'leans. The Me'lisorial Diplomatique, explaining fie contradiction given by the official journals in henna, says it is etiquette not to insist upon the tiitence of an ambaasador's despatch which the renunent to which it was addressed desires to , ssider as null and void. Nevertheless, it is be- Ltted that M. do Werther can no longer hold his Ftt at Vienna. Tat DZPARTURIC or THZ BELGIAN VOLVICTIZZB. —T• he following is a translation of a document which has ?so distributed to-day among the Belgian volunteers, 1 7 order of their commanding officer, Colonel Ore "4l : " The Gerdes Civiques who do not intend to return cone the Sera* are informed that they ill be ed on Sunday and the following ttt from London to Dover for is. 6d. first ' 44 and ss. second clams, including luggage, not erfte,iixig 50 kilos for the first clam and 25 for t „_ lt ' 4, cond. The point s o f departure for Dover are Cannon '''''et. Ludgate-hill, Charing-cross, and Victoria stations, and the hours of departure of the trains are 7.25 In the I . l '"mialt. and 8.30 in the evening, horn each of .ese four stations. These trains are connected with the mail boats of Ostend and Calais. The conveyance 'Y the Belgian vessels from Dover to Ostend "..,▪ . be gratis for volunteers in uniform. The volunteers , t , to bear in mind that they will h a y s t o d eman d l'lgiage on arriving at Dover, in order that it may THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1867. LAW INTELLIGENCJE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF PROBATE. (Before the Judge Ordinary and a Special Jury.) PIIII.LIPP4 AND PHTLLIPPS rjHOLNEI AND RTONENAII. The further hearing of this cause was resumed this 'no i& jun. , the second attesting witness to the will, ,le we ed that he heard the testator say " Yes " when his brother asked if he wished him to attest the codicil. Elizabeth Spreckley and Sareh Ann Ransom, servants to the testator and two of the residuary legatees, were also examined in support of the codicil. They deposed that tes tator was quite conscious when he executed the instru ment, and that he distinctly answered all the questions which were put to him. (The case was still proceeding when our report left.] THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) BOW-STREET. AyANTLY /MOD IN NT. MIAMI. Murray pow erful.looking man, appeared to a summons charing him with assaulting Caroline Whitman, his daughter. The complainant stated that at •bout 7 o'clock on Tuesday night she was passing through Hampshire Hog. yard, when her father, who lives in High-street, close by, came up and struck her in the face. She bad given him no provocation. Her brother had been calling her names ; but she had not taken any notice. He kicked her in the neck and also in the face, and knocked one of her teeth out. ----- --- Hr. Flowere—How did he reach to kick you in the face and neck? _ . Complainant-014 sir, he knocked me down, and then he kicked me as I lay on the ground. Defendant—Where is the mark Mr. Burnaby (the chief clerk)—Never mind the mark. Complainant (putting her hand to her mouth)—Here's the mark. Here a the place where the tooth was knocked off. (Showing the space where the tooth was missing.) Defendant produced a file, and asked whether she did not strike him with it, which she denied. She denied that she kept bad company, and said the unhappiness with her father was all owing to her mother-in-law. Defendant—You have not got a mother-in-law. Where is your marriage lines? Complainant—lt is my third mother. Defendant—How many mothers have you got? Complainant—My stepmother then. My own mother is dead, or I should not be treated so. A young woman named Ellen Bell who was with the complainant at the time, corroborated her evidence. She did not see the file _ For the defence, Anne Collins, • costermenger, was called, and deposed that between seven and eight o'clock on the evening in question she saw the complainant strike her father with • file. She thought it very hard that • daughter should strike her father. Mr. Flowers—Did you think it hard that the father should kick his daughter in the face? Witness—l did not see him kick her. Complainant—Did not you hold him hack and try to prevent him from kicking me ? Witness—No ; I did not. Policeman E 59 said he was Owing, between eight and nine, and saw the girl hit her father with the file. He did not see the beginning of the quarrel, and he knew nothing of what had occurred an hour before. The father said the girl had left his home to live with some people whom he did not consider fit for her to moo- Mate with, as a ion of theirs had been in prison, and the worst of it wee that she was going to marry him. Mr. Flowers—ln a great many families parents object to their children marrying the persons they chose, but kicking their teeth out is not a good way to prevent it. Defendant said he would let her alone if she kept away from him. Complainant said she was obliged to go to his hones for her clothes, and a pair of car-rings, which he detained. If he would give them up she would keep away. She did not want to punish him. Defendant said he would give up the ear-rings, but not the clothes. Complainant—l know why he won't give me my clothes. His wife haa put them away to get drink. Mr. Flowers, after in vain attempting to induce defend ant to give up the property, said he felt bound to punish him for the assault, and fined him 20e. and coma, which we! paid. . . . Jane Whitman, wife of the former defendant, ap peared to a summons for assaulting Anne Young, the mother of the young man to whom her stepdaughter is To g iiTilinant wee crossing High-street, when she saw defendant reel out of a public-house drunk and knock her husband down, exclaiming, " That is the way I serve Black Murray, and I will serve you the same," which she accordingly did. Mr. Flowers fined her 10s. and meta THE COLLISION AND LOSS OF LIFE ON THE NORTH LONDON RAILWAL INQUEST.-(THIS DAY.) At 12 o'clock to-day Mr. Richards, the deputy coroner, held an investigation at the Three Cups Tavern, High-street, Bow, into the circumstances of the collision near the Old Ford station of the North London Railway, by which Thomas Mead, aged 36 years, lost his life, and three other men were seriously injured. This morning Mr. Jonas Adams, the house surgeon at the London Hospital, reported to the coroner that Charles Frost, a ganger, aged 30 years, one of the injured men, who is at present lying in the hospital ward, is in such • dangerous state that he cannot possibly survive, and that he will shortly die. He has received • compound frac ture of the skull. Superintendent Alcock represented the North London Railway and Inspector Kerressey attended on behalf of the Commissioners of Police. _ The Coroner, on taking . his seat, ordered that the pointaman, James Playwright, through whose alleged negligence the points were left open, should be present during the whole of she inquiry, as he stood in the nature of a person whose acts the jury were about to inquire into. Mr. Rigby, solicitor, represented the mother of the de ceased's wife ►nd his children. He had an object in re presenting the children's grandmother, and he did so under Lord Campbell's tot. He should proceed In the case in a particular way. Mr. Hicks, solicitor, said that he appeared for Mrs. Mead, the widow of the deceased. The Coroner mid that the court was an open one, and both gentlemen could be present, but he thought that the family were represented by Mr. Hicks. and he intimated that be should allow only that gentleman to cross-examine the witnesses. TheTTurYilien proceeded to view the body of the de ceased, which lay in the district deed-hove. It pre sented a shocking spectacle, the left side of the heed being completely crashed in. TERRIBLE ?IRE A T BERMONDSEY-(THIS DAY.) The moat extensive oonflagr. ation that has hap pened in the populous parish of Bermondsey for a long period broke out about three o'clock this morning, and in a comparatively short time reduoed to ruins property valued at several thousand pounds. The scene of the disaster was an immense space of ground in Riley street, Bermondsey-street, on which were erected the manufacturing premises of Mr. Benjamin Wells, builder and joiner. On one part of the Fround stood the carpenters and joiners' workshops forming one block five Boors high and nearly 50 feet long by 30 wide. Each of these shops was filled with goods, some finished and some partially so, and the tools belonging to the numerous work men had been left in various parts. By the time the engines had arrived three-fourths of the im mense buildings were sending forth huge bodies of flame which ignited the piles and stacks of timber in the open yard. The fire continued its fearful ravages, and it was nearly 9 o'clock before it could be said to be safely extinguished. Five floors of the factory had then been burnt out, the roof destroyed, the timber severely damaged by fire, &c. The origin of the disaster is at pre sent unknown. When the shops were closed but night everything appeared perfectly safe, and there was not the least smell of anything smouldering. Unfortunately the sufferers were not insured. DEATH OF Max. PHELPS. —The death of Mrs. Phelps, the wife of Mr. Samuel Phelps, the eminent actor, is announced this morning. She had been for some time past in declining health. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN YORKSHIRE. —The weather during the last three weeks has been moot propitious for all description of crops. The beautiful sunny weather which ended June and commenced July was all that could be desired to cut and secure the hay crop, which has been unusually large this summer, the greater bulk of which has been secured in excellent condition. The wheat crop has also much benefited by the recent dry season, and the absence of heavy winds has enabled the bloom on the wheat to come to full maturity. Barley generally being light and short in length required rain, and the last four days' intervals of rain and sunshine has had a most beneficial effect. Clover and gnus pastures keep up their growth and ver dure, making eatable for both sheep and cattle very abun dant. Turnip sowing is now completed, except upon very late strong soils. Where autumn cleaning and culture was accomplished, and swedes and marigolds sown early, the plants have obtained a most vigorous and healthy growth, presenting every prospect of becoming a large crop. Later sown swedes and white turnips have had much to contend with in the continued drought which prevailed up to Fri• day last, bat the recent rains will materially help forward the late sewn turnip crop. The general appearance of the eel's indicate that harvest will be a fortnight later than u sual.—York Herald. DEPUTATION PROM THE REFORM CLUB TO THE SULTAN!-!THIS DAY.) This afternoon a deputation from the Reform Club attended at Buckingham Palace, sit the request of the Sultan, to receive his thanks for an invitation he had received to a banquet at the Club. A few days ago this invitation had been sent by the committee of the club, in accordance with a requisition from its members. In the reply, sent through his ambassador in England, the Sultan expressed his regret that his engagements did not permit of his complying Rath that request ; but that he was desirous of expressing in person hisregret that other engagements prevented his accepting it, as well as to thank the club for its courtesy. To-day a deputation which attended for that purpose presented the following address to his Majesty : " We, the members of a deputation of the Reform Club, approach your Majesty with feelings of sincere respect. We are the representatives of a society formed not only for social intercourse, but for the maintenance and promo tion of those principles of civil and religions liberty, which we consider to be identified with the truest interests of mankind. We believe that the best method of diffusing these enlightened views is by mutual friendly intercommunication of nations, especially of their ruler s and statesmen. It is therefore with feelings of supreme gratification that we hail your Majesty's advent to our shores, this first visit of a member of your august dynasty to the seat of the British Empire. Had it been in your Majesty'. power to have aceepted the banquet which we presumed to offer, we should have profoundly estimated the great honour conferred upon our society. But we are, nevertheless, deeply sensible of your Majesty's condescension in permitting us to have this Interview and of personally expressing to the sovereign of a country, with which our own has been so long on terms of perfect amity, how much we feel your Majesty'. kindness in coming so great a distance to visit us, how cordial a welcome we give you, and how sincere are our desires that your Majesty's life may long be preserved in health and happiness." Major Beare presented the address, prefacing it with a few words expressive of the pleasure which the depu tation felt on the occasion. The Turkish Ambassador at Florence received the Wares+, and translated its contents to bin Imperial Majesty as well as his Majesty's reply, which was to the effect that he had been deeply impressed with thewarrothof thereceptionhe hadreeeivedin England, and was most grateful to the English nation for the hoe pitali, with which he had been greeted. He added his regret that the deputation should have bad to wait a short time owing to his sudden indisposition. This was due to the shock caused by learning that the wife of his ambassador here had died very soon after her being taken unwell at the ball at the India House last night. Other deputations, two being from Manchester and Liverpool, were than received in rapid succession. Several members of both houses of parliament were also pre sented to his Imperial Majesty. THE REFORM BILL. The following waa issued yesterday by Lord Colville, the government " whip" in the Upper Home : "CERTAIN AND MOST IMPORTANT DIVISION. " Earl Grey having given notice of an amendment upon the second reading of the Reform Bill on Monday next, which it is impossible for the government to accept, your lordship's personal attendance on that evening is moat earnestly and particularly requested. "Thursday, July 18, 1867." MEETING OP CONSERVATIVE PEERS. ea or ow or $ f • of es We learn from a ministerial paper that yester day afternoon, at these o'clock, a meeting of members of the House of Lords took place, on the invitation of the Earl of Derby, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treastu7, in Downing-street, for the purpose of considering with him the present aspect of the Bill for the Representation of the People, which has been sent to their lordships from the House of Commons. A considerable number of persons assembled to witness their lordships' arrival. The Earl of Derby arrived shortly before three o'clock, and amongst those who were earliest in attendance were the Lord Chancellor, Earl of Malmesbu7, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Col ville, Lord Hylton Lord Henniker, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Leconfield, Lord Tatton of Egerton, the Marquis of Lothian, the Earl of Lucas,, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Dartmouth, the Duke of Marl borough, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl Nelson, Lord Penrybo, Earl Cathcart, Earl Cadogan, the Earl Beauchamp, the Earl of Tankerville, the Marquis of Brietol, the Earl of Annealey, the Earlof Powis, the Duke of Richmond, Lord Churston, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Duke of Rutland, Lord Ashbrook, Lord Redesdale, Lord Courtown, Lord Ravensworth, the Earl of Csrnarvon, the Duke of Buccleucb, the Earl of Harewood, the Earl of Harrington, the Earl of Normanton the Marquis of Hastings, the Earl of Pomfret, Lord Tredegar, Lord Mid dleton, the Marquis of Downshire, the Earl Manvere,Lord Willoughby de Broke, Lord Lillord, the Earl Stanhope, Lord Northwick, the Earl of Stnulbroke, Lord Lytton, Lord Faversham, the Marquis of Westmeath, the Marquis of Bath, Lord Galloway, the Earl of Denbigh, the Marquis of Aberoorn, Lord Boston, Lord Wynford, and many others whose names it was impossible in the hurry to obtain with accuracy. The Earl of Derby received them in the large room upside*, and thanked them for their attendance. He said it was highly desirable that the Reform Bill, which had been earefull7 considered by the House of Commons, and which had given much anxiety to her Majesty's go vernment during its progress in the Lower House. should be passed as speedily as possible through the House of Lords, and that it should be subjected to as few alterations as possible, the discussion of which would necessarily pro long the session to an inconvenient period. He said he was not yet aware of the precise nature of all the amendments which were to be proposed, but to some of those which were to be placed on the paper he should give his decided opposition. Some of the amend ments which he understood were to be proposed would entirely invalidate the bill, and open the path for a re newed discussion of the whole subject in another session of parliament. The bill as it at present stood would, he trusted, prove a satisfactory settlement of the question for • long time to axone. A long discussion ensued, in the course of which a strong impression seemed to pre vail that the lodger franchise. as settled by the House of Commons' bill, should be adhered to in its integrity, but that at some future time there might be some better plan adopted for the redistribution of seats. Their lordships separ.ted with the full understanding that every effort shall be made to carry through the bill as speedily as pos sible, and with as few alterations as possible. There were about 100 peers present. _ Anothericecnint of the meeting differs essentially from the above. It says :—" The discussion was earnest and animated. Decidedly adverse and even severe remarks were made on the course taken by the administration, especially on the mode of introducing the measure, and conducting it through its preeese of remodelling. Perhaps the most salient point of attack was the lodger franchise, which was condemned in unmitigated terms, as tending to render the franchise practically a manhood suffrage. On the other hand, some of those present held that the actual operation of the bill, and of the impugned clause in par ticular, would probably be conservative ; and it was dis tinctly stated that, at all events, the government would deed by the clause. The redistribution p►rt of the scheme called forth less discussion than might have been expected, and it was to be inferred th►t, even with respect to the provisions which had been most assailed, no serious attack would be made by the objectors in the house." TROUBLES AMONG THE MORMONR.—The Halt Lake Videete, of June 15, says :—" On Sunday afternoon Brigham Young preached • lengthy sermon, boldly and openly announcing that Amara Lyman, Orson Hyde, and Orson Pratt had apostatized and were cut off from the church. Orson Hyde had been chosen President of 12 apostles last April. Pratt is one of the 12, and Lyman bad been one of the apostles also. Young was severe on Hyde, bat particularly so on Pratt. He denounced the latter as an unbeliever, and as now in possession of the devil." A correspondent of the New York Tribtuu, writing from Salt Lake City on June 18, says : " There are palpable signs et dissolution in the Mor mon church. The Josephites (the followers of Smith), pronounce polygamy a sin, and they claim to be the true Mormon Church and entitled to the church property. When Brigham was South this spring he had to cutoff seve ral hundred members for heresy because they adhered to Smith, and over 100 waggons of emigrants are now in the mountains on their way east to escape his fearful vengeance. The Morrisitm are another class of dissenters and have no fellowship with the Salt Lake Chu r ch. They denounce polygamy and are constantly receiving acquisitiose to their numbers. They have • strong settlement is Utah, at Soda Springs, under the very shadow of the Prophet. Every sermon I heard from the Monsen@ betrayed nervous fears as to divisions, some appealed some unfolded the duty of sub m i ss i on , an d Brigham , thundered his fierce anathemas against the faithlew. Gentile dealings and associations are forbidden, be canes Mormonism cannot bear c on t ro l with Arts* and truth, nor win its crowning crime of polygamy bear contact even with vice. Virtue and vice are alike its foes, and equally fatal to its perpetuity. Thus is the Mormon- ism of Young beset by @chums, perilled by wowing inter nouns with gentiles, and soon the Pacific Railroad will [al valleys of of lb° 1+14C;,17; ' tCar7th: g v a; r v a, m th:Z i o e n r, tre st ail:f IT titr,; iho7 mast take care to pour get it addressed at the the West, and in but a few years the distinct " "sal for their respective places of destination." this people Unlit fade away." THE REVIEW AT WIMBLEDON. (THIS DAY.) Up to the time we write there is every p of a successful meeting at Wimbledon to-da r y7R: I weather has been fine, and this fact and the ' announcement of the presence of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the Sultan of Turkey have led some thousands of visitors to the camp. The principal thoroughfares have been lined with volunteers, in all kinds of uniform, I who are to take part in the review. The traffic from the Nine Elms and Waterloo stations has been remarkably brisk throughout the morning. Many visitors, however, preferred taking the road, and, in addition to private vehicles, a number of 1 1 omnibuses were conveying passengers to the Wimbledon Camp. Besides the various metro- , politan corps, several from country places, 300 belonging to Woolwich Arsenal, and others from parte of Kent, &c., were in London this morning, ready to be I pre sent at the review. The household cavalry will be represented by the Ist Life Guards, and the 3rd Hussars, and the Guards by the 2nd and 3rd , Grenadiers, the 2nd Scota Fusiliers, and several , battalions of the Coldstream'. The Guards left I London by the Nine Elms station. There were two trains of Grenadiers, one conveying 671 and the other 563. The third train conveyed 623 Coldstreams, and the 4th 702 Fusiliers—the total being 2,569. The Belgian volunteers mustered in the quad rangle of Somerset-house at 12 o'clock, and after wards marched across Waterloo-bridge to the South Western terminus, where four trains were specially set apart for the despatch of Belgians to \Vimble don. They were loudly cheered during their pro grms. More than 500 of the Metropolitan police left Waterlco for Wimbledon ; and, apart from the volunteer " specials," the trains conveying the general company (which included a large number of well-dressed ladies) left the station in quick suc cession. COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. (THIS DAY.) (sr TILLORAPH ) (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The market steady. Sass about 15,000 bales. TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.) The market is firm, and prices are as under :—Town tallow, 435. 3d. ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 45a. ; July to September, 455. ; October to December, 465. ; December, 465. 3d. to 465.6.1. MARcrr AVERAOM—Town tallow, 455. 9d. ; fat by do., 2s. 21d. ; yellow Russian, 465. 3d. ; melted stuff, 36e. ; rough do., 18s. 9d.; greaves, 20s. ; good dregs, 6s. SMITHFIELD HAY MARHET.—(THIS DAY.) Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade at the following price,, viz .: — Prime clover, from 110 s. to 115 s. ; inferior ditto, 80s. to 955.; prime old bay, 841. to 905.; inferior ditto, 60s. to 70s. ; pnme new clover, MM. to 905.; inferior ditto, 60s. to 70a.; prime new hay, 65e. to 70s. ; inferior ditto, 50s. to 605.; straw, 40s. to 465. COVENT GARDEN.—(THIS DAY.) Home-grown and Continental fruit still continues plen tifuL Plums are arriving in excellent condition. Melons, English, French, and Dutch. are abundant. Strawberries are becoming scarce. Grapes are plentiful. Forced vege tables are now fut giving place to outdoor produce. The potato trade continues sataafaatory. Peas are now cheap, as are also new potatoes. Flowers chiefly consist of orchids, pelargoniums, mikeolarias, eytims, mignonette, and roses. !FRUIT. Apples, per bathe!, te to >ti O;rnisee, per 100, Se to 14a Cberries, per lb. ed to Is Peaches, per dos. les to Its Grapes, per lb.. lis to es Pine Apples, per lb., es to et Lemons, per 100, 10s to 121 etrawberries, perlb., ed tots Intozi*aria - Artichokes, per dos., is to 44 lettuces, per score, Is to is tid Aspersgunperbundle,l•6l togs Mint. per bunch. 4d to ad Beet, per doz., ls M ts Mushrooms, D. pott.,ls tid to is Cabbages, per dos., is fd to ts Mustard t Cress. D. Puna, 2d Carrots, per bunch, 6d to 8d Onions, per bush, 45 to 5s —young.)). bunch,9d to is 64 Parsley, per bunch, to to 4d Cauliflowers, p. doe., 3s to es Peas, per peck, 6d to 8d Celery, per bundle, Is lid to 2s Potatoes, York Regents, p. tau, Cucumbers, each, 6d to ls gd 140 s to 1605 Barbee, per score, fa to 3a Rocks, do., 100 s to lIM Garlic and Shallots, per lb., 8d flukes, 1505 to 180 s Herbs, per bunch, fd to 44 Other sorts, 75s to 80s Horse Itadish,p.iyand.,4s to 6s Spinach, per hush., is to 3s Leeks, per bunch, td to 4d Turnips, new, per do., 4d to 6d The " Meeting in Royal Parks Bill," stands for • aeoond reading in the House of Commons on Monday. . - Earl Beauchamp has been appointed to the Under-Secretaryship of the Home-office, vacated by the Earl of Belrnore, on his appointment to be Governor of New Smith Wales. THE tritivaiterrY ELECTION.—We are informed on good legal authority that the proceedings at the pend ing election for the university, causod by the appointment of Mr. Selwyn to the Solicitor-Generalship, are wholly illegal, and that the election will probably be declared void on petition, owing to the extraordinary omission of the Vice-Chancellor as the returning officer in not pub .. .. halting the proctlemation of the election in . the form -pre scribed by ' The Corrupt Practices Act, 18.4." This mr• cumstanoe is the more strange since the proper notice has been given on all previous occasions since the passing of that act —Cambric* Independent, SHAMEFUL ASSAULT IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.— At the Knaresbro' petty sessions, on Wednesday last, be fore T. C. Wilkinson, Esq., Major Harrison, and C. Briggs, Esq., Samuel Maywood, of Balaton, near Leeds, miner, William Henabaw, of the same place, miner, and William Woolley, of Milli/law Mills, near Preston, miner, who had been arrested upon • warrant, were this day chanted with having, on Wednesday evening, the 10th day of July instant, unlawfully committed an aggravated and indecent assault upon Sarah Ann Wilkinson, in a third. class railway carriage on the North Pastern Railway, be tween Harrogate and Leeds. In a tunnel the defendant Henahaw seised the complainant by both her wrists, and he and the other defendants, or one of them, threw her down upon the dour of the carriage and attempted to take moat indecent liberties with her. The complainant screamed out as loud as she could, but was held down by her hands aqd feet until the tram emerged from the tunnel and the light appeared, when the defendants rose up and commenced repeating most disgusting language to wards the complainant and the other passengers in the train. The complainant, who is a young girl under 17 years of age, cried bitterly, and was much distressed at the outrage that had been attempted to be committed upon her, and her clothes were torn in a very disordered state. hen the train arrived at the next station she and her friend left the compartment and went into another compartment of the same carriage, where some married females were sitting with their husbands. The three de fendants remained in the compartment in which the com plainant had been sitting until the train arrived at Leeds, andel! the way continued using most disgusting and im proper language towards the complainant and the other female passengers there. The magistrates convicted each : of the defendants charged, and ordered them to be im prisoned for six calendar months, with hard labour. THE CHIKIME IN AUSTRALIA.—EIIIeing the month • party of Chinese, accompanied by • European, ; have been busily engaged visiting cemeteries in the coun try districts, exhuming the bones of deceased Chinamen for the purpose of transmission to China. The bones , I after exhumation, are carefully counted, to ascertain that none are absent, and are then tied up in parcels, Libelled, and enclosed in boxes with a quantity of written papers, and a pack of Chinese playing-muds. Incense and per- I fumed papers are kept burning during the ceremony. The number of skeletons which have been thus taken up is very great —Melbourne Argus, May 27. M. ALEXANDRE DUMAN FILE ON FIRST REPRE sVITATIONB.—This group of judges, he explains, is formed of the most dissimilar elements, the most incompatible the one with the other, as to capacity, manners, and position. They are men of letters, men of the world, artists, men of the Stock Exchange, officials, great ladies, clerks, women of good character, women of light cha racter. They all know one another by sight, sometimes by name, and, without having exchanged a word, they know that they shall meet at the Premieres, and are glad to meet at them. How this is brought about is • mystery even to a Parisian. Equally mysterious is the . process b 7 which they arrive at their conclusions, which are infallible. It is a fatal mistake to pack an audience; and the fine ladies are pronounced by this experienced judge to be • most detestable public, for a first perfor- , mance. " They think they do you a favour in coming, and are not at all obliged to you for giving them places, for which you are tormented and besieged. They may not go to the extent of wishing the play to fail, but it is • matter of perfect indifference to them whether it succeeds or not. In either case they lisp, 'lt is charm ing,' as they would say, ' It is going to rain,' and think they part quits. Ten women of the world in the lower ' tier of boxes at • first representation are to the author what an ove rweight of a hundred pounds is to • favourite in • race. The beat use that can be made of a fine lady, according to M. Dumas, is to place her in the second or third tier, so as to attract attention, and sug gest that no better place was disengaged. A new beauty, perfectly new, may also do good service in a conspicuous part of the house by occupying attention between the acts. A rival author may become dangerous at critical moments, when the fate of the piece is wavering in the balance, and a gesture, an exclamation, or an impatient movement, may turn the scale; as when Charles Lamb, being present inco gn ito in the pit at the first representa tion of his faros " Mr. H.," was thus addressed by a gen tleman who sat next, " This is sad stuff, sir ; I will hiss if you will begin."—Quarterly Review, new number. HONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) 011 o'OLoos. The Stock Exchange is closed, and there is very scant attendance in the City. The attractions of Wimbledon have drawn away almost everybody whose engagements have not compelled their attendance at the several markets. The banks, of course, are open, but there is no demand for discount, and rates are inclining down wards, though the terms nominally remain at 1/ to 2 per cent. A report has been issued by the official liqui dators of the Leeds Banking Company, from which it appears that another call, the amount of which is not stated, will be required to be made upon the contributories. The directors of the Bank of Egypt have issued their report in anticipation of the general meeting on the 38th inst. It shows an available balance of 26,3101., and a dividend is recommended at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of 8,8101. carried forward. The dividend is pay able on August 6. The report of the directors of the Midland Bank ing Company was issued this morning. The fol lowing is a copy. The directors feel pleasure in laying before the share holders, in accordance with the articles of associa tion, the accompanying balance sheet and state ment of profit and Ices for the half-year endod 30th June, 1867, examined and certified by the auditors, The balance sheet shows that after providing for bad and doubtful debts, the gross profits for the half year, in. eluding the balance from last account, were 27,0171.6 e. Id., and after deducting interest paid or due to customers and all the expenses of the bank, there will remain a balance of 10,8231. 7s. 7d. From this balance the directors propose to pay the usual dividend of 6 per cent. per annum for the half-year, upon the paid-up capital of the bank. free of income tax ; to write off 25 per cent. of the amount now standing at the debit of " Preliminary Expenses" Ao oount (which will absorb 1,5681. 9a. 8d.); to retain 1,5141. 13a. 11d. for rebate on bills discounted and not due; and to carry forward to profit and loss new account the balance which will then remain unappro priated of 3,0861. 7s. ; having out of the profits of the bank established a reserve fund of 10,0001., the directors now propose that the above large payment off preliminary expenses should be made, witha view to the complete ex tine tion of the item with as little delay same, be found expedient. The unusually low value of money during the whole of the half year, and the inactivity in the general trade of the country, have been very unfavourable to the realisation of banking profits. The directors, therefore, have more than ordinary satisfaction in submitting to their fellow share holders the above results, which are attributable in a great degree to a large increase in the number of accounts and to the improved character of the company. The divi dend will be payable on the 6th August next. The following has been receired by the Chair man of the Committee of Spanish Certificate holders : Spanish Legation, London. The Spanish Minister presents his complim ents te Mr. Robertson, and begs to forward him copy of a telegram =oared from her Catholic Majesty's Minister of THE XIMISTER OP rniAl4cE TO THE lIIXIBTEB PULVIPOTENTIARY OP SPAIN. Madrid, 18th July, lfi47. The Gangs publishes to-day the decree for the payment of the Certificates at twenty-five per cent.. in the Exterior at forty-five, in conformity with the authority conceded by the law of the 11th inst., and the order for the execu tion of this law relative to the Certificates and the Passive Debt. (Signed) BAR/A:CALLA-VA. Meetings of the Spanish Certificate-holders are convened for Thursday, the 25th inst., and of the Passive Bondholders for the following day, to con sider the terms now arranged. It appears that a great effort is being made by their committee to simplify the position of the Passive Bondholders by so arranging that they shall receive a fixed amount of 3 per cent. stock and not be called upon to make any payment on account of a subscription to new stock. About 67,0001. in gold was sent into the Bank yesterday. The Russia, from New York, has brought 288,5001. in specie. On Change yesterday afternoon hills on Belgium and Hamburg were quoted slightly worse for this country, but as regards Vienna and St. Petersburg the movement was in the contrary direction. The usual list is subjoined : Amsterdam, 3 months, 11.191 to 11.191; ditto, short, 1118 to 11.19 ; Rottenlam, 3 months, 11.191 to 11.191; Antwerp, 3 months, 25.371 to 25.40 ; Brussels, 3 months, 25.371 to 25.40 ; Hamburg sad Altana, 3 months, 13.91 to 13.91 ; Berlin, Cologne, ke.. 3 months, 6.26 to 6.26 f; St. Petersburg, 3 months, 34 to 32 , Paris, short, 25.121 to 25.221; ditto, 3 months, 25.321 to 25.37' ; Marseilles, 3 months, 25.321 to 25.371 ; Frankfort-on-the-Maine, 3 months, 1201 to 1201 ; Vienna, 3 months, 13.0 to 13.10 ; Trieste, 3 mouths, 13.0 to 13.10 ; Madrid, 3 months, 491 to 49; Santander, 3 months, 491 to 49; Cadiz, 3 months, 491 to 49 ; Seville, 3 months, 491 to 49; Maw, 3 months, 49 to 481 ; Valencia, 3 months, 49 to 481; Bar. colons., 3 months, 491 to 491 ; Bilks, 3 months, 49 to 481 ; Seasgoem, 3 months, 49 to 481 ; Leghorn. 3 months, 27.25 to 27.30 • Genes, 3 mouths, 27.25 to 27.30 ; Naples, 3 moat/a il 27.25 to 27.30 ; Palermo, 3 months, Y 1.25 to 27.30 ; awina, 3 months, 27.25 to 27.30; Lisbon, 90 days' date, 54 to 52 ; Oporto, 90 days' date, 521 to 52. At Paris the rate of discount in the open market is per cent., or about k below that current here. At Vienna and Turin the rate is 5 per cent. ; at Hamburg, 1/ ; at Frankfort and Brussels, 2 ; at Amsterdam and Berlin, 2i ; and at St. Petersburg, 8 per cent. The great case of the dissentient shareholders in Overend, Gurney, and Co. is to come before the House of Lords on Monday next, at 11 o'clock. The arguments will doubtless be long. On Tuesday next will be held at the London Tmern a meeting of shareholders in the Brighton Railway Company, who, while approving of the amalgamation with the South Eastern Company, disapprove of the terms proposed. Mr. Joseph Samuda is to take the chair. _ The Caledonian Railway traffic return shows this week a decrease of 4791., compared with the cor responding period of la st year. From the report of the directors of the Mer -1 chant Shipping Company (Limited) we extract the ; following paasawe : The directors propose that the dividend now to be de ; dared shall be 1/. per share on all fully paid-up shares. I and a proportionate rate upon the other shares (free of income-tax); this, with the interim dividend already paid, will amount to 10,240/. The amount carried to the reserve, insure/Dos, and depreciation account is 4,2571. 19s. 7d. I The half-yearly report of the directors of the Danube and Black Sea Railway and Kustendjie Harbour Company (Limited) states the net available balance at only 2,0101., " an amount, it is deeply regretted, insufficient for the payment of the 8 per cent. preference dividend, which cannot therefore be declared, but must remain as a charge on future pr kills." A first dividend of 3s. in the pound will be pay able to-day to the creditors of the New Zealand Banking Corporation (Limited), at the offices of Messrs. Johnstone, Cooper, Wintleand Evans, the accountants. The bills of exch a nge remitted by Mr. Evans, the official liquidator at Dunedin, it is stated, only arrived at maturity on Mon day last, and every facility has been afforded by the chief clerk to the Master of the Rolls to enable the dividend to be paid. At the half-yearly meeting yesterday- of the Peel River Land and Mineral Company (Limited) the directors' report was adopted, and a dividend de clared of 1 per cent. A call of 11. 10s. per share is due on Monday, the 22nd, on the 50,000 shares of the Central Ar gentine Railway. This makes the 201. share paid up in full, and raises the share capital of the com pany to 1,000,0001. sterling. An extraordinary general meeting of the proprie tors of the Bank of Egypt will be held on the 30th inst., to receive the directors report for the half year ending the 29th ult. The directors of the Company of African Mer chants (Limited) have declared a payment of in terest, in anticipation of the annual dividend, at the rate of 2s. Q. per share. A general meeting of the Provincial Banking Corporation will be held on Friday, the 2nd et August. The report of the directors of the Eastern Dis trict Freehold Estates Company (Limited), to be presented at the meeting convened for the 25th inst., states the balance available for dividend, in cluding the sum brought forward, at 1,908/. It is mentioned that This sum will admit of the payment of the fixed divi dend on the capital paid in advance of calls, a dividend of 15 per cent. per annum on the ordinary capital, and the carrying forward the sum of 221. 16a. 6d to the credit of the current half year. The amount to the credit of dividend equalization account is 1,100/. This recount was este blished, as its name indicates, for the purpose of equalizing dividends, and the directors, at the approaching meeting, will submit for the decision of the shareholders whether the sum of 5451. 9s. od. necessary to bring the dividend up to 20 per cent. shall be taken from that fund, or whether the smaller dividend of 15 per cent. shall be declared. Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas, and canal shares, as given in the Stoc Exc hange bat of last evening : Insnrann—Commerrial Union, 4, .', 31 ; Ocean Marine, 20; Phoenix , 104 j ; Rock Life, 7j ; Thames and alone) Marine (Limited), 5 7-16 ex div. ; Universal Marine, (Limited), 3)„1„;. Gaslight and Coke—Great Central, 13 ; Imperial, 63, ex div. ; Western. 1:1.;, 14 ; ditto B, 7. Canal—Regent's (or London), 22, FRIDAY EVINING. Consols, which closed yesterday at 341 to j for the Bth of August, opened this morning at the same quotation, and closed at 944 to /. For money the last price was 941 to 4. The Three per Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cents, were quoted at 3 o'clock 931 to 4. The official business report is as follows ;—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 944, g, a, ; ditto, for account, 941, ; Three per Cents. Reuced, 94, 31, ; New Three per Cents., 94, 31 ; Bank Stock, 266, 6 ; India Stock, 219, id. ; ditto Fire per Cent., 1114, 11, I, 4. Owing to the almost entire abeorptiun by the investing public of the floating supply of the India Five per Cent. stock and debentures, as well as India Bonds and Exchequer Bills, there was an increased demand to-day for Indian railway deben tures, and prices showed an upward tendency. Bank of England stock was in request. Very few dealings were recorded in foreign stocks. Italian Bonds of 1861, Mexican, and Turkish of 1865 were flat, and declined to per oent., but Spanish Certificates advanced Other wise no variation occurred. The amount of business in bank shares was limited. Chartered Mercantile of India and Lou don and Westminster were flat, and fell 11., but Imperial showed firmness, transactions being re corded at 19. _ _ _ _ _ In the market for financial shares, London Finan cial experienced a fresh decline of 11. , but the other descriptions were without movement. Prices dosed as follows :—lnternational Financial, 21 to dia. ; General Credit, 21 to 2 din. ; London Financial, 25 to 23 dis. ; and Credit Foncier, 6 to 61 dis. Anglo-American and Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent. Preference shares declined 21. 6d., dosing at 181 to ; and 44 to 1 respectively, while Telegraph Construction were unchanged at 2 to 1/ dis. Hudson's Bay shares dosed at 15 to 1, and National Discount at 61 to 7 prem. The changes in the miscellaneous market comprised a rise of B. in Peninsular and Oriental Steam, and a reduction of 2s. 6d. in New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency The only movement in colonial government securities was a reduction of 1 per cent. in Canadian Six per Cents. of 1877-84. The market for American securities was rather flat. The 5-20 Bonds, including those of 1885, declined 1 to 4 per cent., Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures 1, and Erie Railway shares 1, but Illinois Central improved 1. Prices were last quoted as follows :-5-20 Bonds, 1862, 724 to 1 ; Erie Railway shares, 45 to 4 ; Illinois Central, 771 to 1, ex div.; Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures, 274 to 284 ; and Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 214 to 224. MINE&-(THIS DAT.) Oxs Mom. The Mining Exchange is certainly open, but there is no attendance, and prices are nominally the same as those of yesterday. The subjoined report on the metal market is fmm the circular of Messrs. von Dadelszen and North We have to report a more animated business in some branches of the metal trade, combined with aslight advert*, in value, while in others there hu been very little business and a tendency for lower prices. Iron.—Welsh bars rind rails continue quiet but without shange is value; Stafford. shire descriptions are more in demand ; Scotch pig ire& keeps its position at Ida. cash. Copper.—A limited busi ness has been done in English ; tough, 761. to 751., and considerable sales of manufactured are talked of slight under 801. ; foreign, 9uiet ; Burrs, WM. nominally ; lam, 831. ; Chili bars in Liverpool, QC Tin.—The market is strong with a considerable amount of business; Strata, 87/. 10.. cash, and SKI. to arrive ; Banta, 92J. ; English tin full up ; in Holland the market is firm at 531 f. Tin plates. —Cokes maintain their recent advance, and charcoal are also more in demand. Lead.—No change to report, very quiet market. Spelter.—An extensive business has best during the last few days, varying in price frog reported during warehouse to 211.25. od. ex ship, sad in out ports front %K. 17a. tid. to 21!. 2a. fid. for special brands. PROT7NCIAL SHARE MARKETS. LiVIIIIPOOL, 3r LT 10. Saks to-day : Great Eastern, 161 1 ;If -Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1281 8-Landon, Brighton, and booth Coast, 491 I 1 1 1 1 1 1-London and North Western, 111 1 -Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 44}, ) 1--Metre polite., 1191 20160-Midland, 114 1 14 114 4-Birkeuhdd, 1161 i x d-Grend *trunk of t'anada, 161-Erie, 45-Vuited States 6-911 181 E, 71 1- Dutch Rhenish. paid up, VI r d. -- srrat Lale" ,.. hnUTIF shares. 101 9-18 l-Bank of Liverpool 241 en all- B ast. ern Lichens, Bank ~ Limited!, 1 d. -Lancashire Insurance, 11-Ii 1 x d. p.-Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent., 41-Ebbe Vail mited , IN d. 111101INGRAIL JOLT 19.-RMID4IIII done: Birmingham Old Union Mill, at 51 per share. Closing prices: London and North Western Itellway meek. 1111 to 112/-Birmlnghana C11.41 i 82 ~.:—Warsick and Nolan Canal, 17, buyers-Loyd's. , 'Limited'. 4 to VI prem. : Birmingham Financial (Limited .14 to 11 dia -Birmingham Gas New ordinary, Inuni, 41 prem., buyers-Gloucester Wagon ;Limited , . It to 141-131redwhant Broad-street Brewery, lo, buyets-and Muntes Metal ,Limittal, 3; to Idle. G ascifitelltk, JOLT 10 -There was a better business doing, ii improved prises. Anglo-American 1 elegreph ,Liniited), 14-Ai l:link Telegraph Pref. 8 per cent., 86 31-Bolekow. Yanellan, and Co. (Linalted,, 7 d.-Consolidated Bank I Limited). 1 p.-Erice. 46 Great Eastern, 261 1 i 1 1 7 61 7 - tireat Northen A. 110/ 1 104 -Grand Trunk of Canada, 17161-Greet Western, 40111 1-Lsn milks and Yorkshire, I'A-London and North Western, 114 1 1-Mencheater and County Bank (llinitol, it p.- tient-heater, bliefOrid, and Lincolnshire, 44 11 1 11 -Metropolitan, 120 lig : 1 1 ijijklei:ggitokiiimso-Atiriandoi 4 iisitia - N"rill siellsh- 301 F.-South EN , Vms. 6 3% itik ThAmas and k.ersey Marine IMMIX:a ;Limited). 3 5 . 16 P.-Undo.' •q-^ l eil 5 20 Years' Boiols, 721.1-London and Brighton, e/1 11 11 luile 1 I i 1. ' Dracut, Jute 18.-Three per Cent. COlllOll, 641-New Three per Cent. Stock, 9!196-Ditto, for ac aunt, bib August, 92/ 92-Indla 6 per (Sent. Stock transferable at the Bank of Ireland:, 1111 1-Alliance and Consumers* Gas, 6 per cent.. lid-Bank o il Ireland „cilia paid', Sat-Hibernian Banking Company 1:115 ', )11-N attune' Bank ;Les paid', 60 1101-Dltto, for account, q...,1-Proviucial Bank tris paid', 1.44 1 -Royal Bank IVO ta leaki Pa ` 321-Great Southern and Western 610 1 4 , 96- 51141 ind Great Western and Railway Canal .Clon ), in 514 - Dublin and Drogheda 4 per cent gnaraisteed Ace perp. 'CHO paid% $8 td- Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford. U per cent Miry. I haeo paid , 140-Ditto .1160) redeemable land 'all paid , es- Irish North Western. I per cent, pep., Mask, 21. Terme Raccirre.—The traffic returns of rail ways in the United Kingdom for the week ending July 13, amounted on 12,823 miles, to 787,235/., and tor the corresponding week 11466 on 12 560 „ miles, to 767,3411., showing on incr wi ae of 26 3 m iles and of 19,14541. The receipts on 14 of the principal railways in the Med K ingdon amounted for the week ou 9,26: 4 miles to 657,5901., and for the corresponding week of last year, on 9,102 wiles, to 640,500/., showing an increase of 166 miles and of 17.0901. The increase on the Great Eastern amounted to 54. W. ; on the Great Northern to 2,0621. ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire to 2,51141. ; on the London and NorthAVestern to 1,163/. ; on the London and Brighton to 2,1071.; on the London and South Western to 1,177/.; on the Midland to 3,279 ; on the North British to 2,239(. ; en the North-Eastern to 2.155/. ; and on the South Eastern to 2,0441. ; total, 19,3171. ; but from this must he deducted 479/. the decrease on the Cale donian ; 225 L on the Great So uthern and Western, 1,26. 4 /. on the Great Western, and 21:01. ou the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, leaving the increase as above, 17.090/. The receipts on 52 other railways in the united Kingdom amounted, on 3,565 riles, to 12:1,645/., and for the corresponding week of last year, on 3,45+ 4 miles, to 126,84 1/ ., showing an increase of 77 miles and of 2,5011. The goods traffic on the 14 systems of lines above men tioned amounted for the week to 316,472/. against 305,652/., showing an increase of 11,090/. The passenger', parcels, mails, &c., tra ffi c on those lines amounted to ;.140,844, and for the corresponding week of 1506 to Ei4,1481, showing en increase of 5,99... The total receipts for the past week show an increase of 15,47.1/. as com pared with those of the preceding week, ending the uth instant.