The Press. — London, England, 1854-09-16 00:00:00

SEVEIikL parties in the neighbourhood of Forkhill, in Ulster, are in a state of agitation as to the " whereabouts " of a female named Catherine Byrne, alias M`Guinness, to whom has been left the sum of 20,0001., besides valuable annuities. Patrick Byrne, the husband of Catherine APGuinness, was, it appears, sentenced to transportation some years ago at the county Antrim assizes. Soon after the execution of the sentence he was left property by a distant relative ; the property was transferred to his son Thomas Byrne, who was then in America, and who has since died, leaving it, with other sums, to his mother ; and now the relatives are in a state of great anxiety as to the existence or fate of the interested party. Mrs. Byrne is supposed to be in Belfast, and had two of her sons em ployed as tanners there some time ago. ACCORDING to a recent report of the state of the mutual benefit societies in France, it appears that, at the end of 1852, there were 2,438 societies in existence, having 271,077 members. At the end of 1853 there were 2,773 societies, with 318,250 members, being an increase of 47,179 members. The receipts of these institutions arising from the periodical payments of members, bequests, entrance dues, fines, and interest of capital invested, amounted, in 1853, to 4,962,005 f. 24c., being 738,841 f. 83c. more than in 1852. The sums expended amounted to 3,732,452 f. 31cs among which were 1,495,434 f. 81c., in pecuniary indemnitie to the sick ; 782,707 f. 03c. in medical attendance and medi, tine ; 419,553 f, 12c. in pensions to aged members, 110,944 E 12c. in assistance to widows, and 194,751 f. 36c. in funeral expenses. The other expenses were the charges of management, certain allowances made to members on ac count of the dearness of provisions, &c. The surplus of receipts over the expenditure in 1853 was 1,219,562 f. 93c. whilstin 1852 it was only 1,065,216E21c. The reserve capita of the different societies amounted on the 31st December 1853, to 12,019,561 f. sc. The Kolner Zeitung gives an account of the profits of the gaming-bank at Homburg, one of the most celebrated of the German watering-places, at which gaming is allowed by the Government. The shares in the bank are of the amount of 500 florins each, and on these the following divi dends have been paid :—ln Sept., 1847, a dividend of 44 florins ; in 18tH, two dividends, one of Si florins and the other of 59 florins ; in 1849, two dividends, one of 03 flo rins and the other of 53 florins ; in 1850, two dividends, ode of 36 florins and the other of 125 florins ; in 1851, two dividends, one of 11 1 florins, the other of 72 florins ; in 1852, two dividends, one of 72 florins, the other of 37 flo rins ; in 1853, two dividends, one of 84 florins and the other of 190 florins ; and in March, 1854, one dividend of 133 florins, another being due in September. This, how ever, is only a part of the profit made out of the frequenters of these German hells. Before the shareholders receive anything, the Government receives a large rent from them, as its share of the plunder; and all the expenses of the costly establishments in which the gaming takes place have to be defrayed. giourg glarlat ditg FRIDAY EVENING. ME week opened well, with a slight improvement in Consols on the closing prices of Saturday. The rise was maintained on Tuesday, but prices drooped on Wednesday, with some of the symptoms of a reaction. Political considerations had not much weight on the market, it being understood that little impor tant news could be expected for some time. The public, who had been looking for a favourable time to sell, rushed pretty freely into the market: this, and the report of a fresh French loan of 10,000,0001., caused offers more general than the market could sustain at its price, and it gave way accordingly. Even the change in the weather took away from the buoyancy of the market : speculators began to feel that the harvest had produced its effect, and that nothing further was to be expected from it. Consols for money, which opened on Monday at 95} to I, and closed on that day at a full advance of a quarter, gaining on Tuesday a further advance of an eighth, fell on Wednesday for a short time to 951, and left off at that price on Thursday, after a heavy market all day. Yesterday the closing price was 951. The report alluded to of the French loan pressed especially on yesterday's market, although the rumour was discredited in the best-informed quarters. The cost of the public improve ments was assigned as the ostensible cause of the loan ; but the municipal system of France, and more especially of Paris, where the chief expense has been incurred, relieves the general public from the greater portion of the burden attached to these improvements. The funds might have fallen still further but for the arrival on Thursday of several large parcels of gold from Australia, which had been for some time expected. The total value was estimated at 509,2711., besides about 337,4001. arrived yesterday. There have been other arrivals from America during the week, and the entire sum which has entered the country is estimated at over a million, part of which is, however, destined for the continent. FOREIGN FUNDS. The French funds during the early part of the week were unexpectedly heavy, and have declined on the whole nearly # per cent., notwithstanding a par tial recovery on Wednesday. There are symptoms of uneasiness in the corn. mercial world ; and the failure of the firm of David Scott and Co., of Manchester, is by some regarded as the harbinger of further calamities. It is asserted that commercial difficulties are not instantly felt at the commencement of the war, and that a continu ance of the present unsettled state of affairs will pro duce mischiefs from which we have too easily fancied we had escaped. True or not, this opinion is not the less held, and has injurious effects. RAILWAYS. The railways have suffered by the prevailing de pression, but not to the same extent as Consols. Even during the rise at the beginning of the week, the advance VMS not maintained in many of the lines, and on Thursday and Friday prices ruled decidedly lower. The aggregate receipts are favourable, espe cially in the Scotch and Northern lines. The half yearly general court of proprietors of the Bank of England was held on Thursday, J. G. Hub bard, Esq., the governor, in the chair, who said he had to inform the court that the net profits of the half year were 025,3261. Os. Id., making the amount of rest, on the 31st August, 3,054,0121. Bs. Id. After the dividend now proposed of 41 per cent. for the half year, free of income tax, the rest would be 3,000,017/. Bs. Id. The dividend was agreed to unanimously. The anticipations of the reduction of the Bank rate of discount have been again doomed to disap pointment. Bank and Mining Shares have been on the whole well sustained. BRITISH Ft OFFIC. 3 per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 3 per Cents Long Annuities Blink Stock, 7 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cnt. Rich. Bills, 21d. per diem India Bonds, (1,00014. IUOTAI .ITuesd. 1 - . 8p SIG -9 I 6 -4 - - I 6P BANK OF ENGLAND. THE PRESS. ing Prices. lON. Wed. i Thurs i Friday. Xonc l .l 95 9bti t i 1954 %1 ''J5l 111551 v3 3 / 4 954 19 6p An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Ath Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Saturday, the 9th day of Sept., 18154. ISSUS DRPARTMENT. Notes issued .... £26,630,110 Government Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities .. 2,981,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 12,090,1:0 Silver Bullion .... /K 630,1101 BANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors'Capital C 14,553,000 , Government Seen- Rest Public Deposits* 4,342,708 Dead Weight An.) /10,996,955 Other Deposits Seven Day & other Notes 7,008,180 Bill■ /33,416,316 /33,416,163 • including Exchequer, Savings Banks, Commissioners of National Debt, and Dividend Accounts. The foregoing return, when compared with that of the preceding week, ending Sept. 2, exhibits the following changes. In the Public Deposits Other Deposits Notes Issued Do. Reserved Seven-day Bills Coin and Bullion Government Securities . Other Securities DECREASE of The Rest The amount of active circulation in Notes £19,621,351 Do. in Seven-day and other Bills 1,059,551 426,630,110 20,681,602 13,321,819 Thurs. Friday. 3 7 7 3d3 3 c 1 I it i 11 —i 2t 2 is 2f 2 die P 2 3p.2f 3pm Par iPii YP 17 8 17 8 die die 1f fp 1 7 54 1 8 9 p 181 9p 46 60 38 40 P dis 23 }d iP - P 941 8 9 18i 9jp 48 50 97 9 29 d 8 - pm; - pm 31 4 6 7p In 11 - PM 31 4 7p 16 7 Coin and Bullion in both Departments FOREIGN RAILWAYE Mond. 6i 34 1 3 Antw. & Rttrdm. Bezrs.to Graiss. Belgian East. J. Charle. & Erque. Dijon & ilesano. Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Pen Grand J. of Fra 0.W.0f Can.,Sh B. (2d is.) 1878 Le.&Pis. 5 pcpf. Luxembourg Lyons & Geneva , Madras Maria Antonia Na. & Lge.(w. in) Nrthrn. of Fruce. Norw. Trnk. Prf. Paris & Lyons Paris & Orleans Paris & Rouen Paris & Strasbg. P.,Caen & Cher. Qbee./t Rchmnd, Rouen & Havre Royal Swedish Sambre& Meuse S. E. of France' Stlirc of France Upper Ind. Scrip Wet. Flanders Wstn. of France Westrn. of Switz.j Zealand dii Ili il par ii 7 341 * 8 .. 9 b 149 6: 88 40 1231 - a It i - T 4 7 i 11 - 6 -- -7 ,Tuesday. 6 ;1 I t li .7 P!'l.! td r aw' 1 -- 1 „ F 1:1 8i - PI - i)I P 1 2i 2di 24 3p i parl P 17e 84 1 " dial It IF Par i P 34e i 9 9 19k fi 49 61 38 40 Inil 31 4 6 7 p le 7 Wednes. 6 7 dis 3 3d 1} 1 21 2 d p I 3 lt pp r 17/1 disi li pp - P 7 1 341 i 8 9 18i 911 49 61 98 40 a3i dir 8 4: - P 31 — 4 P 8 7 p die 18 7 RaILIVATO—. Aberdeen Milberg., Nottng., Bata I East Junction Birm.Wolv. Stour Val. B irk., Lan./ Cho e. J uuc. Do._( . 3hes. &Birk ,601.41 Do. do. 201. Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Cork and Bandon Dublin & Belfast Juno. Dundee, Perth, & Aber deen Junction East Anglian Eastern Union East Lancashire E.& W. I. Oka. & Air. Jn.l Edinburgh rt Glasgow ) Eastern Counties ..._. EiTniigh., Perth, Dund ! Great Northern Gt. Sth. and Wit of Ire Great Western Hull and Selby . . _ _ Irish South-eastern Lancashire& Yorkshire 1 Lancaster and Carlisle I Leeds Northern Lon., Tilbury, & Sthend Lon., Brighton, do London and Blackwall London and Nrth•West. Londndrry. & Coleraine Londndrry. tt Ennsklln. Man.,Shef.,& Lncolnah. Midland Do. Dim. and Derby Newmarket Newp.,Aber.& Hereford' Newry and Enniskillen' New., Warrnpnt.,& Hos., _ . Norfolk - Nrtbrn. Counties Union North British North Devon North Staffordshire North-Western N.& Sth..Western Junc.l Oxf., Wrcstr., and Woly. Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Birming.l Shrewsbury & Hereford Shrewsbury & Chester Shropshire Union South Devon South-Eastern and Doi , . South. Western South Wales Sth. Yorksh. & Riv. Dun Stockton At Darlington Thms.llaven Dk.it Rail Vale of Neath Waterford & Kilkenny' Waterford & Limerick' West Cornwall Wimbledon & Croydon' Woodford York, Newc., and Ber. York and Nrth Midland • BANKS — Australasian Chartered Bank of Asia Ch. Bank of India, Ans ' tralia & China Eng. Sctch & Aust. Ch.ll Lon. Bnk of A us. & India Lon. Char. Bnk of Aust.!! Oriental Bank Corpor.' , Lon. Aus. Bnking & Old Importing Company South Australia Union of Australia Do. New MINES — Brazilian Imperial Do. (St John del Rey)! Cobra Copper Colonial Gold Nouveau Monde MISCELLANEOUS — Australian Agricultural Brit. American Land ' Canada Crystal Palace Cryat al Palace of France North British Aua. Land Do. Preference Peel River Land &Min Scottish Aust. invest South Australian Land Van Diemen's Land FOREIGN FUNDS. B Olean .... ... . 44 Ditto 2l Brazilian 5 Do. New 4} Buenos Ayres 6 Chilian 6 Danish 6 Ditto 9 Dtoh. (Ex 12 0 ull )2i Ditto 4 French 3 Do. 41 Do. Bank Stock Granada Deferred 1} Mezioan ....Do. Account 3 Peruvian 44 Peruvian Scrip .... Portuguese 4 Russian 5 Ditto 44 Sardinian 5 Spanish 3 Do. New Deferred 3 Do. Pass. Convert. Turkish Scrip 6 Per Caf, Al ond.l It).11 2 1 104} 5 - I 954 6i Wed. 95 73(90c 97f 75c 2345 f. 'RES. 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