The Sun. — London, England, 1860-07-17 00:00:00

rhim , to by inone refer came agent ,neral, mutts ;aunts n Rau -2 to 1 n about , odwood s many towards ne time n 1 was e 100 to Le limos hen was Closing 's adviee nw. He Promised f several f success. ie Liver id Plate. Cup and Charing payment AD. has de .opolitan le of en ich still r. Kent. London ty morn nterview inquiry of the nurse was libe th closed 'e admit ^ates had [nspector don, and is hands £lOO by Er. Kent , is should r of the brmance S h his Pre," ,ieutensav ;101 CRY MARKET AND CITY NEWS. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. There has been a steady business in most descrip tions of Foreign and Colonial Produce during the last few days. For tea, however, the inquiries were limited, the late advices by the Overland Mail from China having caused no change of importance in values. The better descriptions of sugars have been in more request, chiefly for home consump tion, and a fair amount of business has been transacted in the refined market at fully late rates. Coffee, has been inactive, with the exception of the finer qualities, which have found ready purchasers at previous rates. The inquiries for rice were on a very limited scale. A partial demand was experienced for the better de scriptions of saltpetre, but prices underwent no change of importance. At the public sale of indigo, there has been little variation in the rates realised for the various qua lities, low and inferior kinds still showing a decline of 6d. to Bd. per lb. on the prices realised at the previous auctions. Tallow has been dull, the chief dealings having been for forward delivery, at about previous quotations. An active demand for money still imparts firm ness to the rates of discount, which are likely to be well supported, while so large an amount of capital is applied to new joint stock enterprise. The rail way And other calls on various miscellaneous shares represent a large aggregate sum every month, and no doubt assist in maintaining the 'value of accom modation, although very little capital is sent out of the country for foreign undertakings. At the cur rent rates, however, the mercantile classes are enabled to provide for their requirements, and trade, although quiet, is generally sound, _ _ _ A fair amount of business was transacted in the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, 10,000 bales having been sold at previous rates. The bar silver by the last West India steamer has been sold at ss, 11d. per oz. standard, being a further decline of id. ; and the Mexican dollars have been disposed of at ss. 21d. per oz., showing a rise of 441. per oz. A call of £1 17s. per share, amounting to £92,500, is due to-day on the Calcutta and South-Eastern Railway shares. A meeting has been announced of the London and County Bank, to receive the directors' report and for declaring a dividend. Notice has been given that a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Streitfield, Laurence, and Mop= timore, will be held on Friday next, at the London Tavern, where a statement of their affairs will be submitted. Increased firmness was apparent in the English Stock Market during the early part of the day, owing to the plan proposed by Mr. Gladstone for raising money for the expenses in China, but sellers have since come forward, and less buoyancy is apparent. Consols have been 931 1 for money, and 931 for account, but they are now practically flatter. The New 3 per Cents. and the Reduced have improved to 931 f; India Loan remains at 104} ; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper is 971 4 ; ditto Debentures are firm at 961 97; and Bank Stock is at 229 and 2301. Business in the Foreign Stock Market continues tolerably active, and prices have improved. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 771 to 771 ; ditto New, 601 601; Brazilian 5 per Cents. are firm at 1001 ; Mexican, at 211 f Peruvian 3 per Cents, at 74t ; Russian 41 per Cents. to 941; Spanish at 491 s ; ditto De ferred, at 391 01; Dutch 21 per Cents., at 65, and ditto 4 per Cents., at 1014 1. The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 21 prem. ; the Thames and Mersey, 119 prem. ; and the Universal, -1- prem. Business in the Railway Share Market has shown rather more animation, and prices have tended upwards. South-Easterns have improved ss. ; Great Westerns, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North-Westerns, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin coln, and North-Easterns (Berwick), 10s.; and Midland, 15s. No change of any importance has taken place in the Foreign undertakings. Eastern of France realise 23f ; Dutch Rhenish, lin ; and Bahia and San Francisco, 71. The Colonial lines are ih moderate request. East Indian are steady, at 994 ; and Great Indian Penin sula have improved to 971; and Grand Trunk of Canada to 281. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are a shade firmer. Union of Australia, ex dividend, are dealt in at 41-1 42 : Union of London, ex divi dend, at 251 8 ; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam have advanced to 73. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 931 1 1 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock. Ditto 6 per Cent. Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. • Ditto 6 per Cent Ditto Debentures, 1858 97 65 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO 6 3 d Ditto under £l,OOO • 7 d Consols for Account, 9th Aug 931 1 Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid Ditto £5OO 1 pm Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Brasilian 5 per Cent Equador New Consolidated Mexican 3 per Cent — Ditto Account Peruvian. 45 per Cent Ditto 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St — Ditto 45 per Cent 94:5 Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 Spanish 3 per Cent. 491 9 Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred Turkish 6 per Cent .. Ditto Account Ditto New Loan Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 25 per Cent 65 Ditto Certificaks. 4 per Cent. Peruvian Doll ar B onds, 44 per Ct. Ex. 4s 825 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money . • .. Ditto Account, August THIS RAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, July 17.--Wind this day at noon—South- Westerly ; light breeze, and sultry weather. MUMBLES, July 16.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Golconda, from Cuba. PLYMOUTH, July 16.—Wind &W.—Arrived—Prin cess Royal and Gibsy, from Quebec. Sailed—Connecticut, for Woosung. BRISTOL, July 16.—Wind W.—Arrived—Woodstock, from Callao ; Home, from Quebec. Sailed—Era, for De merara. CLYDE, July 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Demerara, from Trinidad; her Majesty's ship Goliath; John Gray, from Trinidad. Sailed—James Stewart, for Newfound land. QUEENSTOWN, July 16.—Wind S.—Sailed—Alpine, for Calcutta. FALMOUTH. July 16.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Diana, from Havanah; Feronia and Monteeinia, from Quebec ; Endeavour, from Taganrog. (3T ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. - Wind s.s.E . krriv e d ) July 17— Saxonia, steamer, from Hambur g; Allian ce Sailed' re—e; from Havre. for j er ,4 uIY 16—Bien, for Elsinore; Dispatc h. steamer, (BY SITEXARINB AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morn in g . Wind variable ; tide, three Hamburg Ipure' floo d weath in e fine. se steamer, from Boulogne. Arrived, July 17 Downie, from DEAL, Tuesday Morning' Wind S.S.W., m o d erate. Woolwich. Passed—Her Maj esty ' s ship Dee, from the west for Parred in tow—Bo ro di na, from Quebec for London. THE MAIL S. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritiu s (via South.. ampton) ... (vi • • • • ••a •• Marseille s )Do. Aug.ll 10. Bahamas and Havana (via New York).. .. 4-lig. 4. Canada, &c. (via Londonderry) .. .. • • Aug ;!tu 18 2. Cape of Good Hope, &c... .. • • • • Aug. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) July 1 9. Do. (via Marseilles) July 27. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. • • • • July 19. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) July 19. Do. (via Marseilles) July 27. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. .. July 2 6. Do. (via Marseilles) .. • • July 1 9 Lisbon, Brazils, Buenos Ayres, &c. • . • • Aug. 5. Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto .. .. .. July 21. Malta, Egypt , and Aden (via Southampton) .. July 19. Do. (via Marseilles) .. July 19. United States, California, &c. (% is Cork) .. July 25. Western Coast of Atrica, Madeira, Teneriffe .. West Indies and Pacific, Carthgeua, Cuba, &c. July 30. SHARE MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) share Railways 13.14 stock ißelfast and Ballymena Bir., Wol , and Str. Val. Birk., La., and Ch June 'Blackburn 'Myth and Tyne Bofzt. Sleaf. awl Mid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian • Carmarthen & Cardigan Cork and Bandon •ork, APassan - e Cornwall fDo A CA gets no div Do B until en perm. r hasbeen pd. toB Dublin & Belfast June. I Dun., Perth, &Ab. June (East Anglian E as t e rn Counties 'Eastern Union, A stock Do do B do Do NW A. late EU3ds East Suffolk stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock Do Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasg,. and S. Western Great Nthn. of Scotland Great Northern Do do A stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock Po do II do at. S. & W. of Ireland Great Western stock stock stock stock 124 stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock stock Mock stock stock stock 19.16.4 stock stock stock stock 10 stock stock stock stock stock stock 12 10 stock 13 stock Do Str Val gua. stock Trish Sonth-eastern Lancashire & Yorkshii'. London and Blackwall Lon., Matt & S Coast Lond., Chat., and Dover l Lond. &Nth. Western Do ele•hths Lond. & , th. Western L'derry & Coleraine L'derry & Ennisiollen Man. Shef. & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Do do 4 shares Metropolitan Midland .. Do firming. Sr Derby M. Gt. W. of Ireland Do shares MM Kent stock 25 stock Do, Cray Line Newcastle and C irlisle Newry (lit Armazh, def Newry, Warnpt. & Ros Norfolk . . N'hn. Counties Union North British.. Nor.Dey.Rail&Dk.stocv D .A. stk ; A recs no d. 77 78 30 31 until (Inclim beenpd.l3' 101 106 10 11 41 414 all 100 3} 100 100 Do B stock .... Nth. Eastern—Berwick' !Dodo, G.N.E. purchase, noLeeds .............. 104) 100 100 10 13 4 100 100 100 17} all Do York' North London North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Not. Grantham Rail Peebles Portsmouth Rhymney Scottish Central Scot. N. E.. Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid. stock Shropshire Union Sittinebourne & Sheer. South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok,. and Wok Stockton & Darlington Do do Stockton & Hartlepool Taff Vale Do Pref. No 1 ThamesHavenl.k&Rall Ulster . • • Do ....... ......... Do: Vale of Neath 16] 10P 106 ' 11 100 48' 52 - lli 11 Victoria Sta. and Pim.. Waterford & Kilkenny Waterford & Limerick West C. , rnwall ........ 'West London. Do Ist class Do 2nd class ........ 'West Midland—Oxford PO, Newport Do. Hereford' all 100 all all all all all 'lOO all 100 6 6i 45 47 10 11 PREFERENCE SHARES. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. 8 Si 76 78 Hi 12} 6/ 7 1 105 107 94 95 6i 7 8 9 154 164 56 57 36 38 25 27 1151 116 1144 1154 133 135 113 114 704 71 60 65 10?1 10Z 69'71 114 115 114 12 104 to 3, 121 12; 954 96i 94/ i 161 , 56f i 1074 } 1 71 115 96 51 3 2d 1191 no 96 98 7 6d 55 57 3) 3d 63 641 98 09f lf }d 53163 f S3f M 104 106 31 3a d 94 10 6 1 61 41t i 119! 20 115 117 30i 31i 86 88 50 52 4 3d 44 16 84 Es} 67 69 79 82 6 8 394 404 Si 94 1) 551 55i 2 3ip d 991 i d 54 85 1111 Closing Business Paid. I p rice. t 71 701 1031 I f f ,ATL . Antwerp Az Rotterdam 41..rdennes .............. Balt&S.Fran-Lim.7p.o. Belgian East. Junction 113eziers to Graissessac.. Carmeaux Mine & Rail Copiabo Ditto Extension Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Grand Rus. Guar. 6 p. c • Do. do. Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. shs Italian Junction Lake Constance & Bale Lierre & Turnhout Lyons & Geneva Maria Antonia Do. New Namur & Liege Do. 6 p. c. Pref Northern of France Do. New Shares Norwegian Trunk Pref Paris,Lyons, & Mediter Paris & Orleans Recife & S. Fran. (Pern ) gua. 7 p. ct. lim.. Riga & Dunaburg Rome & Frascati Royal Danish Royal Swedish ........ Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... Sambre & Meuse Do. per cent. Pref..... San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. c. S. A ust. (35L omb Ven e tin Southern of France.... West Flanders ..... Do. 54 p. c. Preference.. W. & N.W. of France .. Western of Austria.... Western of Switzerland Wiesbaden ...... Do. 8 per cent. Pref.... Zealand i all all BRITISH MINES. Share' Railways. Paid, Closing I Business Price. Done. 25 Lllythe and Tyne 10 per 1 c. pref. (issued at £5O , 11 ctk Finis. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock 100 94 96 120 Do. do. do. Shares l4 stock Caledon £10,41 per cent 100 103 105 stock Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. all 61 Cork & Bandon, 51 p. c. all 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent. all ' Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun all 54 61 61 stock E.Angn.Class A 7 drsp.e lOO 101 103 stock Do. do. Class 13 6 p.c lOO 114 116 stock Do. do. Class C 7 p.c lOO 105 110 106 stock E. Conn. Ex. sp. c. No. 1 100 111 113 stock Do. do. No. 2 100 110 112 stock Do. New 6 pet ct. stock. 100 126 128 stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct. 101 79 81 stock Do. 5 per cent. guar._ 100 stock Edin.&Glas. sp.c. shares 100 111 113 stock Do. 4p. c. nt. S. &D. 100 90 92 stock F.din. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. 100 761 771 stock Furness, 5 per cent 100 stock Glas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c. 100 118 120 stock Great Northern, sp. ct. 100 117 119 stock Do,sp,c.Redm., 10 p.c.pm 100 112 111 stock Do. 41 p. c. do. do. 100 Do. sp.c. Redm. 5 p.c. pm 80 86 88 10 Gt. Nh. of Scotld. Ist pf. all Gt. Sn. W (Ireland) 4 stock . & 1 100 98 100 To. ct. pref. stock 50 Great West. (Berke and Hants) Ext. sp. ct 6 stock o. Redeemable, 41 p.ct lOO 99 101 1001 stock Do. Redeemable, 4p. ct lOO 88 92 stock Do. Irredeemable, do_ 100 90 92 stock Do. 5 p.a. Redeem, Prey. 100 102 104 8 Do. Birm. Pref. Shares. all 91 10% 10 Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.sh. all 17 18 10 Do dcs p. et, pref all 101 11 stock Do Birmg.guar. stock 100 75 77 77 264 Do. Chester gua. shares all 20 201 131 Do. do. do. 15 151 15 1 20 Do. do. do. stock Lan.&York 6p. c. stock lOO 139 141 stock Do.Barnsl,st£s 3s 10d pc 100 stock Do. 6 per c. (E, Lan,) . 100 stock Lon. & Brig. 5 pagu. Noi 100 117 119 stock Do. sp. c. No. 2 100 117 119 stock Do. gm. 6p. C. stock Do. do. 5 p.c. No. 4 1 00 11 7 119 118 stock Do. do. 4% per cee. 100 104 106 5 Do, do. 41 p. c. shares 3l stock Do. 7p. et. Pref. stock lOO 155 158 stock Do. tie, do. (W.R&C.P ), 100 132 136 stock Do.4p.c.B.(div.dettil '65) 100 68 70 25 Lon. Chat. and Dover ill 20 % 21} stock Lon. and N.W. Cov. and Nuneaton, sp. at.,, 100 116 118 stock Lon. & S.W. 7p. et. stock 100 1521 1571 stock Do. 41 per cent lOO 2s. 6d. Do. (Prtsm. perpl anns of 214. 6d... .... all 124 Londondy. & Cole.l oh. all 12% Londony. & Ennis. IA. all 121 121 stock Man. Sh. &Lin. 6 per et. 100 126 128 6 Do. £6 stee Do. 3% per cent 10 Do. redeem. 6 percent 5 4 4 p 121 Marycort & Car., 4p. c all 121 Do. 41 per cent. all stock Mid. Con. 6p. c. stock lOO stock Do.Con.Bris. & Bin 6 p.c lOO 140 142 stock Do. 41 p. c. pref. stock lOO 101 105 1 04 % 6 Do. with option till 1860 3 stock Do. Leic. & Hit. pref. st. 100 94 90 954 5 stock Norfik sp. c. Ex. st. 1846 100 stock Do. 5% p. e. Pref. do. 1847 100 stock Do.sWay.Val.Ex.st.lB47 100 stock North British, sp. C. stock Do. New, gua. sp. c lOO 108 110 10 1 Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. he 1 1 p 10 c Do. do. do. all stock Nth.Dev.Rail. & Dek.Co. 100 stock N-East.Cons.Pref. 4p. c. 100 92 94 stock Do. Berwick, 4 p.e,. Pref. 100 98 99 99 17 Do. do, do 13.4. 1 4 d 20 Do. Leeds. 6p. e. No. 1 13 121 Do. do. Quarters, 1848.. 0 25 Do. York, A. & Punch. 10 I d 20 North Staffordshire.... all 221 23% 10 Rhymney Guarantee. , all 8% Scottish Central, new pf all stock Scottish North-Eastern 34 p. c. pref. stock„ 100 73 75 stock Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.e, 100 122 124 stock Do. 7p. e. pref. stock 100 130 135 10s. South Devon, Ann. 10s. all 101 11 10 Do. Fixed 4% per cent. all 1.0.6 South Eastern (Reading Ann., 1.0,6) stock Do. 41 per cent. lOO 103 105 stock Do. Fixed Ip.e. Ist is. 100 103 105 stock 4 outh Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 89 91 stock Do. 41 per cent. lOO 99 101 stock S.-Yorkshire, 4 y). c. gua. 160 86 88 25 Stock. & Dar. A. sp. c all 28 29 25 Do. B 6 per cent all 33% 34% 25 Do. C 6 per cent all 33 34 stock lVatrfd & Rilkny, 6p. c lOO 45 50 stock W.Mid -Oxf lst Gua stk 100 126 128 Do. 25 do 122 124 Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red. all 10 101 Do.Perpet. 6p.e. pf 1866 all 111 ISI Do. till 1869, Ist is. all 1 1 p Do. do. 2cl 5 Do. Hereford 11 p.c. pl. all LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Railways. 1 rucl.. Leasing \Closing Co.'s. Price. Bedford and Bletchley Buckinghamshire Chester & Holyhead. : Do. do. 5i per cent. Do. do. 5 per cent. Clydesdale Junction.. Cilchester, Stour Val. E.ldneolnshire,g.6p.c. .E.Union,Harwich She Do. Woodbridge Glg.Ba rn& Neils.Drct. Do. New Gloster& Dean Forest Hartlp ool.Dck.& RaiL Hull and Selby LnWN.W 67 98 Do. Do. 12 6 128 Do. 113 115 Caledonia 101 106 E.U.StE C 16 17 Gt. North. 138 140 E.Counts.l 4/ 41 • all 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 all 100 100 Caledonin 100 Do. —. Gt. West.' all YltN.&Br all Yk.N, Md. all IDo. ..... • Do. 100 ;Ln..rt 100 S. Bast 100 bo.. . „,, 100 IPet6 a tle. , 100 iN9rfolk 1 fOO iDo. alt NW,t3l Do. Shares „ , Do. I Shares . • „ Lane& Carl. gua.s London & Greenwich Do. Preference Lon.,Tilhy4 Soutend Lowestoft, gun.. 4 p.et Do. 6 per cent. • _ - M B ane,,man. Matk Mid. Bradford Prefer ence Stook ..„ • Newmarkt.,Buryrox 5. sA guaranteed 5 p. e. Eastn. 5 p.c.' Do. do. 6 per cent • • Do. Fixed 5 percent. all North Western Preston and Wyre. all Do. Stares •......A. all Roystn.Hitch, . Shep 100 Skrewsbry& Hereford, 100 - Do, o. ...... Sonth Staffordshire Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West. W . imbledon& Organ. all L. & Brgtn\ DOCKS. E.Countg Sharel Parks. 126 1 i 210 i Do. 1)9.• DO. IP Midland L&".NWI L.Yk. ) ~,••. Gt.Nortk i T.Brasseyi Share Mines. I Pa; A. l Closing I Business Price. Done. Allred Consols (Philack) 2:11.10 3 34 f3i 20 British Iron Clifford — 235 145 Devon G. Cons. (Tavist ) 1 430 440 East Bassett (Mogan) 30 132 13781 East Caradon ... 2.14.6 88 61 Jl4 E. W'l Russel (Tavistk.) 7.4.0 12 4 13 Gam.&StAubyn(Gwen.) 541 378 398 Great South Tolgus l7s 12 13 G.Wheal Alfd. (Philack) 12.13.9 4 14 G. Wheal Vor (Helston) 94 Grenville 5.14.6 24 .14 Herod's- Foot 8.12 29 30 Hingrston Downs 4.8.6 31 48 Lady Bertha Margaret (Uny Lelant) 98 38 40 North Down,s 24 44 51 North Frandba (Mogan) 1i 38 ft N.WII - 1 Basset (1110 an) 5s 5 6 North Wheal Crofty Par Consols (St. Blazey) 14 12 13 20 Providence (Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 45 47 Sortridge Cons. Min. Co. 12s 14 14 South Caradon(St Cleer) 18 2921 2974 S. Cern Brea (Illogan) 34 2 st 1 S. Dev. Iron &Gen., Lim all 1 S.Wheal Fran. (Mogan) 18.1-z.9 165 165 Stray Park 22.18.0 56 58 5 Tamar Silv. & Lead Min. 44 21 24 10 Tin Croxt 9 4 48 Vale of Towey (Carm ) 13a 6d 4 4 West Basset (Illogan) l4 18 19 W. Caradon (Liskeard) 5 67 69 Went Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) 58 140 150 Wheal Buller (Redruth) 5 878 ni Wheal Edward (Cain.) 6} 1k 28 Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant) 1.7.2 138 148 Wheal'M aryAnn (Men.) 8 22 23 Wheal Trelawney (Lis.) 58 27 28 5 1 28•2•82 FOREIGN MINES. Australian BonAccord Copper, L im. Brazil. Imp. (is. at £ Do. St. Johndel Rey,Lfm i Do. Land and Mining Co. Clarendon Cons.MinCo Cobre Copper Copiapo DunMoun.Cop.Mm" g.Co . Fortuna... General Gt. N. Cop. of S. Austr Kapunda (Limited) Linares Lusitanian Mariquica N. Rhin eCopotS. Aus. L Pontgibaud Silver,Lead Mining and Smelt— Port Philip Scottish Austrin. (L.) United Mexican 'Worthing (Limited).... Do. 18s 27} 15 all al all 2 all 128.6 d. lOs. all all lOs. 1 d lir 11 a 26 27 dis. 45 47 11 13 2 21 23 24 d par 1 lOl 11 p d p i d 26 i i a 6 „ 1- (1 11 2_ i t COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Can. Gov. 6 p.c.Ja. &July 100 112 115 Do. 6p. cent. 1881 100 Do. 6p. cent. 1879 100 —111 f Do. 6p. cent. 1880 100 - Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug. 100 111 111 Do. 6p. c. Mar. & Sept. 100 111 113 -- I Da, 5 per cent lOO 1001 101 100/ Do. Scrip 5O N. B.Gov. 6 pm, Ja.&July 100 .105 106 Do. 6p. o. Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S. W. Gov. sp. c., 1886 100 981 991 Do. sp. c.. 1871 to 1876 100 08 29 Da, 5 p,c.,1888 & upwd9 100 971 9 8 1 97 / 8 / Nova Seotia Gov. 6p. c.' sterling, 1875., ~ „ 100 106 107 - S,Aus.Gt. 6 p.c.18784 un. 100 107 109 Via, Gov. 6 p,c. Ja.&July 100 Do, do. 6 p.o. Ap.&Oct. 100 1072 1081 _lOB 7/ 81 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 148 7/ 8 t 100 Agra&UnitedService Bk 50 .0 Australasia all 68 70 691 26 Bank of Egypt all 21 22 100 Bank af London 20 Bank of Turkey • , 3 50 British North Amenaan all 20 ,_ ,Chtd.Bank of India, &a, all 19k 201 25 .0,31er. of In. Lon.& Ch all 30 32 100 City 100 Colonial . „„ t .. 25 2011 Com. Bank of Canada, all 100 Commercial of London . 21 22 20 Eng., Scot, & Aus. Ch all 16} Id/ 20 Gan, Bk .of Switzerland all 20 Lon. Char.Bkof Austral all 221 231 ,23 50 London and County „ 20 50 London Joint Stoc k ~ 10 ;XI 1 100 London & Westminster 20 100 Nat. Prov. of Engladd , 42 Do. new l2 50 Natl4np.l Bank ...... .. 25 20 New Soil; ll• Wes all 20 Do. new 25 Orient. B. Corporation 431 20 Ottoman Bank 100 prfivinigia of Ireland 25 10 D s o o u . t n h e w A . u , s , t „ r , a , l , i , a „ ;; ; ; ; . ‘ l.l _- 25 Union of Australia 50 Union or London l2 4.4 100 Ifuify illutual•• ••.. •• 60 Mrs° K,LANgous, 10 ,An g lo-Mexican Mint „ all 131 141 141 11 1000 !Atlantic Tel. (Limited) all 51 20 00 A BJ turstuti British 1 W ater tcn ro Agricultural ;(Limited)! taallndl 40 19 _2: _3l 50 B.&I.1Iag. Tel. A, (1 , 1414 41 37 39 20 I Do. 8,7p.c.ti11185 2 (L 8 .1 1 1 13 u ? c, Do. C. (Limited) 321 Canitda Land all 116 118 Id Ohan.ialancla Tel. (Lim ) all 6 8 stock Cop.Min.ofEng.4Smilg, all 2 ? 27 26 Do. Pref. 74 per cent. stook Cyrjtal paw stock Do. py a t erem p s stock Do. 6p. c. Pupa ; 1001)0, 100 104 106 10 41 Stock 'Electric Telegraph 2# Do. New l5 1 4 P ati )n 9504! Madras D l' LGPr e cir e t D:74:l l ' r it ici b A : ct e t ui : jT t gu d e r 4. ! V o C : 1! ::( (( e )! all l.a l l 2 1 ._ P .31 21 2. 1 141 : 11 34 I I I I Ir~ oieg io Med. Exton. Tel. (Lim.) all 2 (Urn. 5 it 4 10 Fahtirlan,ds Land . all id 5 Do.B -- 100 N. Br.&NovaScotiaLand un 1 N.B.Australasian (Lim.) ail 10 15 1 211Pfltal Gas (Limited). all 1 1 0. NAN . Ip.rps (Lim.). 15s. 1 10 Orinti,lfi.SWangLim)A 6 2 . pr 10 Ditto A. • — 10 Ditto C. 2s. gizAciic Pmpt,,Lnd.&Min.(Lim.) 100 473 5 2 50 Pen. & ooptio. Steam . all 72 74 73 50 DO:New p p 25 12 13 p 371 20 RedS,eadcind:Tpl.g.lo : 9 all Ad p 50 lib_rmney Iron 15 DO: law •" " 100 Royal Mail ' 41 9 ~,, 0.5,2 SPI • »tack Scot. Austin. Inv. (Lim.) 26 South Australian Land a l a 4 3 8 Submarine Tel. Scrip all I 1 Do. Rcgistercd pc.(10.. „ all ei 74 la 1 Tr. * C9.ortTpr.can - 5 3,4 VaPicaketV 4 La " " 28 jll2 114 I ( Commercial l on Do. 4 per Cent.Pref.Min lOO East and West Indies l'..,' ,London lOO St. Ratharine. lOO Southampton lOO Vittoria Do N ew 208 211 62 64 115 120 92 94 -...- 2i 31 96 98 p i 56 581 lii 15 136 139 1 1 4 1 # 6 1O 1 1 0 91 93 3 8i ,1 1 ( Closing 97 0 - 99 p stock stock stock 1 stock stock stock i stock THE SUN, LONDON,. TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1860. POLICE INTELLIGI?IWE-( THIS DAY .) Paid. Closing . Price. usiness done MARLBOROUGH-STREET, 84} 85} 94 95 1} Idi Mr. Tyrwhitt, lately magistrate at the Clerkenwcil Police-court, took his seat to-day in this court, in the place of Mr. Peregrine Bingham, resigned, after upwards of 20 years' service as a metropolitan magistrate. _ _ ei 6 1 75 80 MAKING AWAY WITH ARMY CLOTHING BY A WORK WOMAN.—BAD CASE.—Ann Walker, a tailoress, was charged with converting to her own use the materials for ten militia capes, of the value of £5, entrusted to her to make up by Mr. John Raper, tailor of 14, Castle-street Leicester-square. The prosecutor said he was employed in making army and police clothing, and on Thursday last he gave the pri soner the materials for ten militia capes to make up. She should have brought them back on the following Saturday night, but failed in doing so, and he could not find what she had done with them. Ho foutd her in St. Jaraes's Workhouse, where she told. him that she had brought him back six, but had lost four ; but she had never been near him since he gave her the materials. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the prosecutor said she was to receive 6d. each for the capes, and could make eight in a day. '7O 75 tiS 73 d ip 1k 01 aj 9 9 11 100 111 i dj d par d par 99 99i 101 1011 21 22 28 28} 90 92 53 55 GO 65 50 I+s 50 55 97 971 d 11 18th ilk Ili Vf 9tcl i 96 98 Mr. Stephen Ranby, tailor, Little Newport-street, here stated that he had also entrusted the prisoner with the materials for some blouses of the value of £3, and she had never brought them back, and would give no information about them. 96 98 95 97 90 92 86 88 96 94 90 92 11 1 d Mr. Tyrwhitt said he should remand her that inquiries might be made. 5 7 I MPERIAL PARLIANI ENT HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.) SAVOY. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying for a copy of the letter addressed by the Foreign-office to the Duke of Wellington in 1815, concerning the military fron tier of Savoy referred to in Lord John Russell's des patch to Lord Cowley of April 24. The noble lord said he had for some time wished to bring this subject under the notice of their lordships, and in now availing himself of that opportunity, at the outset he might say that none of their lordships entertained a higher, value of the importance of the alliance of France with England than he did, because he looked upon the fact of a feeling .of amity existing between two such powerful nations as a guarantee for the peace of Europe. The noble marquis then entered at some length into the _question of the military frontier of Savoy and the late annexations to the French Empire, and contended that according to the terms of the treaty of 181,5 those places were to be consi dered neutral, and he thought that there could be no cer tainty that these annexations would cease at Nice, but that, on the contrary, they might possibly go on extending until they reached Genoa. He thought the Government ought to give the house all the information they possessed upon the subject, because the course France was pursuing was not, in his opinion, that of a great Power, which valued the alliance of England, nor was it at all consistent with the wish for the tranquillity of Europe. It was said that we had become a military nation, and that we were thinking of nothing but armaments and volunteers. Why was this ? Were the estimates voted in Parliament peace estimates ? He contended we could not be considered to be in a position of peace. We were in a position of suspended hostility. He, for one, wished to get out of that position, and there • fore he thought it best to speak openly and honestly to the French Government, so that practical assurances might be given which would at once tranquilise the public mind. But was our excitement on this subject unfounded, or were our preparations unnecessary ? With reference to any invasion, they were more or less unnecessary, because he felt perfectly convinced that no invasion of this country would ever take place. They talked of showing 25,000 or 30,001 volunteers in arms, but what could that number do in case of an inva• sion ? If there really was an invasion at any time they would have millions of men able to yield a spade or to fire their own fowling-pieces, and not bad soldiers into the bar gain, down on the coast within a few hours of the fi st land ing. However, there was not the most remote chance of any prince in his senses ever attempting to invade this country; but at the same time, looking at the general state of Europe, we were quite justified in making these armaments and pre parations, and all he contended was, that such a state of things was not peace but merely a state of suspended hosti lity. Lord WODEHOUSE said there would be no difficulty about the papers, but with respect to his noble friend's ob jection to going into the conference without a previous un derstanding, it should be borne in mind what were the cir cumstances which had induced the Government to consent to a conference. Very singularly his noble friend had over looked the wishes of Switzerland herself inhis observations, whereas it was at the request of Switzerland that her Ma jesty's Government had consented to berepreeented. (Hear.) The Swiss could not only appeal to the general ques tion of European expediency, they had a right to a confer ence of the powers by the Aix-la-Chapelle protocol, and an express stipulation of the treaty of Vienna. (The noble lord here read the concluding clause of the treaty of Vienna, which provided for Switserland an appeal to the powers in the case of any violation of her territory, and proceeded)— It appeared, then, that the Swiss were empowered to de mand a conference, and they had demanded it; and that was the reason why her Majesty's Government were ready to go hete the conference. With respect to previously at tempting to bind France to a certain policy, that would be evidently begging the question, and going merely to regis ter decrees which had been already settled. Besides, to ask for any stipulations would be a mistake, seeing that they could have no stipulations stronger than the treaties actually in existence. Now any one who looked at the map of Europe would see that the present position of the Lake of Geneva was exposed en both sides, whereas formerly it was only exposed on one side. The argument used was that the independence and neutrality of Switzerland were strength ened by the territorial possessions which had been secured to her upon her frontiers. Neither he nor any one else could affirm that by going into the conference they would not ob tain for Switzerland a complete and free discussion of the question, and if there sheuld be no agreement come to Switzerland would not be left in any worse position than she was in now. (Hear.) He denied the conclusions to to which his noble friend had come, and he would maintain that they would not by their conduct ratify the treaty of Turin. The French Government put the matter in this point of view. They said the conference was required to meet for the purpose of reconciling the 92d article of the treaty of Vient a with the 2d article of the treaty of Turin. Some people said that would be to narrow the basis of dis cussion ; but if those two documents were to be considered they would open the whole question. He thought he had explained some good reasons for going into the conference, and he did not see those dangers a-head which his noble friend had pointed out. His noble friend had spoken at some length about the disquieted state of Europe, and also the state of this country, and said that he (the Marquis of Clanricarde) thought it would be increased by a conference. But he (Lord Wodehouse) considered that if such changes were to take place between France and Sardinia as had been made by this treaty, without die cussion between the powers of Europe who signed the treaty of Vienna, the disquiet of Europe would be increased. Persons would naturally say there had been one change, and thepowers of Europe had not taken any steps with regard to it, and therefore other changes might take place with the same result. He did not mean to say, supposing a conference to meet and separate with out obtaining any such result as wished for, that that would be a satisfactory or favourable position for the question to be left in. Bat what he said was, that not going into a conference would be dangerous and impolitic and unsafe, and it would be to disregard the views of Switzerland if they refused to enter into a conference. His noble friend had alluded to the understanding which existed before the late war, and he traced thence the course of events which had suddenly followed, but it was not for him to praise the despatches of his noble friend, under whom he was happy to serve, though he was glad the view which he had adopted had been approved. His noble friend the Secretary for Foreign Affairs bad shown in the despatches that he was fully sensible of the importance and gravity of this ques tion, and that he felt the importance of maintaining the territorial possessions of Switzerland. His neble Wend also felt what a serious inroad had been made in, the territorial arrangements of Europe. It world be useless to discuss the motives of those who had taken part in these matters. But one thing was perfectly certain, that the treaties which had been concluded, and by which Savoy had been conceded to France, had ;seriously affected ee l altered the position of Switzerland, and had greetkS clkPeinialeed the safety of that country, and 14 given a precedent of a dangerous and un setieketoey charecte.e tq Europe. (Hear, hear.) The Marquis of NORMANBY said lAa agreed that some attention ought to be paid to the wishes of Switzerland, who had invited this eonference, but he did not agree with his noble friend that the position of Switzerland was worse than it had been before as regarded Europe. On the contrary, the gallant stand which she had made had raised her in the eetireetien of Europe. He would not dispute tho eneeenitenes which bad been expressed in reference to the noble lard the Seeretary for Foreign Aeair's despatches, but lee thought they all strewed to this moment no settled plan of action--they had not carried conviction to the minds of any of these parties to whom they had been sent. He thought that with regard to the south side of the Lake of cieneve there had been something unreasonable in the alarm directed to that part of Switzerland, but after the discussion in conference they would be better able to meet the difficulties of the ease. He was not one who believel that any form of government ought to be changed by a sud den ebullition of popular feeling, At the same time he did not think, with noble lords opposite, that universal suf frage should only be adopted as against existing sovereigns in Italy, and not in the case in Piedmont. He believed, with his noble friend, that the King of Sardinia was quite as blameable as any one else, and one of the despatches of the noble lord at the head of the Foreign-office stated that the transfer of Savoy to France was a blot on the escutcheon of Sardinia. (Hear, hear.) The noble marquis then re ferred to the dates of despatches in the blue-book, and stated that they were not accurate; as for instance, a de• spatch dated the 6th on February, from Lord Cowley, was not received before the Bth of February, In one of the early despatches received from Count Cavan; he declared that Sardinia would not sell, hatter, oe exchange any part of her territory, and yet at that moment she had signed a paper for the trensfel , of Savoy, and it was also said that no engagement whatever existed between France and Sar dinia, 4114 that the latter had had no intention of selling or eecnaaging Savoy, but that if the people had any grievance they possessed the constitutional right of petitioning the parliament of Turin, and their petitions would be con sidered. He wanted to know how it =we about that the despatch containing such inapoetant information was three days on the road, instead of only 24 hours. Earl GitANVILLE explained that the first information be gave their lordships in reference to this subject the Go vernment received by telegram. Lord WO REHOUSE said that Lord Cowley sometimes dated his despatches a day or two before sending them ; and further, A messenger was not sent over every day. The Marquis. of NORMANBY continued—He did not remember a similar instance of delay, and it was strange it should happen on suoh an important occasion. He fully believed that the motion which was discussed in their lord ships' house in February would have bean carried if all the despatches had then been placed on the table. He hoped the noble lord at the head of the Foreign-office would not take the course which ho had expressed in his despatch of the 15th of May, because he believed that he would not be supported by any other European power. The noble mare quis, as usual, spoke in such a low tone as not to be very distinctly heard in the gallery. Yiscount STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE said he was glad the motion had been accepted by the Government as ooncession to the very moderate and reasonable Brea. of Railways. Atlantic & St Lawrence Bom.,Baroda&Cent Ind Gu. 5 percent... Do, Do. Buffalo and Lake Huron Do. New Do. Preference Buffalo,Brant&Godrich 6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1, 1873 Do. do. June 1, 1874 Clcutta.& S. Eastn. (Lim) Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.) Cape Town & Dock Scrip Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c. Demerara Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p c East Indian, gu. 5 p. c. Do. F Shares Ext..... Do. Jubbulpore Do. 44 p e. - Debentrs Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864 Geelong & Melbourne Geelong_ Corporation 6 per cexit. BOnds Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref. Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. Do. 7 per cent. 1862. . Do. do. 1867 Do. do. 1872 G t. IndiaPenin. 1;:m. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South.of India (Lim) rcuaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New ....... Do. Bonds pay. '76, with opt, till '6O Do. do. '73 till '6O Do. do. '73 without opt. 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EMBEZZLEMENT BY A TRAVELLER COMPLICATED ACCOUNTS.—George Frederick Aldridge, aged 26, of 29, Queen-street, Stepney, commercial traveller, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with feloniously embugaling various sums of money he had received for and on account of Mrs. Charlotte Armstrong, -china, glass, and earthenware dealer, of 8, Cock-hill, Ratcliri. It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Armstrong, a most respectable woman, who is a widow, and has been estab lished in business in Ratcliff nearly half a century, that the prisoner had been in her service as traveller up to the 13th of January, when he left her, having previously re ceived a month's notice. His salary was £1 per week with breakfast, supper, and lodging, and she always paid his out-door expenses when he came home sober. Since the pri soner had quitted the service of the prosecutrix, she had demanded payments of outstanding bills for goods delivered to several customers, and ascertained that the prisoner had already beck paid. Mrs. Armstrong produced receipts to the amount of £9 signed by the prisoner, and said he had not accounted for the same. That was only a small por tion of the prisoner's defalcations. A witness whom she had sued for the recovery of money which the prisoner led her to believe had not been paid would not attend to give evidence. Mr. Yardley—Then he must be made to attend. Stimpson, a police sergeant, No. 21 K, said that a cus tomer, named Lucas, of the Old Kent-road, who had paid the prisoner money, which he had not accounted for to his mistress, said the receipts given by the prisoner were in the hands of his lawyer. Mr. Yardley—They must be brought here, and, if neces sary, a summons must issue for the attendance of Lucas. Mr. W. Kemp produced receipts for money paid to the prisoner on behalf of Mrs. Armstrong, and which had not been paid over to her. Mr. Yardley said the receipts were not dated, which was rather a loose mode of doing business. Mrs. Armstrong—That was the prisoner's fault. _ _ Mr. Yardley looked over Mrs. Armstrong's trade books, and in answer to his questions she said the prisoner kept the ledger while he was in her service, and her daughter kept the other books. The prisoner, in defence, said that Mrs. Armstrong knew he had taken money and appropriated it t 9 his own use while in her service, and had overlooked it. Mrs. Armstrong denied this. On one occasion 20s. was not accounted for, and the prisoner said it was a mistake, and she allowed it to be paid by instalments. Mr. Yardley said the accounts were so complicated that he had not time to disentangle them, and he thought an attorney ought to be retained•in this case. He remanded the prisoner until Friday, and expected the case to be put before him in a proper shape. SUMMER ASSIZES. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WINCHESTER, July 16. (Before Mr. Justice Keating.) Michael Hynes was indicted for the wilful mur der of Ann Skein, at Gosport, on the 9th of March last. Mr. Poulden and Mr. Beetham were counsel for the prosecution ; and Mr. W. M. Cooke defended the prisoner. • It appeared that the prisoner was a sergeant in the 16th Foot stationed at Aldershott, but in March he was on furlough at Gosport, at the house of his father-in Jaw, named Clarke, who lived next door to the deceased. On Friday, March 9, he had been out drinking ; he returned about 7 o'clock, and was then the worse for liquor. Mrs. Clarke endeavoured to induce the prisoner to remain in the house, but he insisted upon going out again, and Clarke accompa nied him. They meta person named Brown, who in vited them to have some of the " best" in Gosport, and they all three went to the Rummer public. house. Brown ordered some beer, which they drank. brown went away, and after he was gone Clarke and the prisoner had four glasses of gin, and then the prisoner had one glass of whisky, and he then became thoroughly intoxicated. .Clarke and the prisoner then returned to Clarke's house. The prisoner was then in a state of great excitement. Mrs. Clarke endeavoured to keep him quiet, and sent her husband out of doors, as they had been struggling together. The prisoner then took down his sword, which was hanging up in the room. Mrs. Clarke called for assistance, and Mrs. Skein came in and tried to prevail upon the prisoner to sit down and be still, but he pushed Mrs. Clarke out of doors, and locked the door, Mrs. Skein and the 'prisoner still being in the house. Mr. Clarke's daughter, who was upstairs, came down, and saw the prisoner standing near the deceased with his sword sheathed. She ran upstairs, called out loudly, and then jumped out of the window. Some persons came and looked into the room where the prisoner and the deceased were, and they saw the prisoner " hacking" with his sword at something on the floor. They then proceeded to break open the door, and the prisoner rushed out with his sword reeking with blood. Upon their going into the room they found the deceased lying on the floor with her head most dreadfully cut. She, however, lingered for two months, and then died from the wounds she had received. These facts having been proved, Mr. Cooke addressed the jury for the prisoner, contending that th ere was no mal i ce in the mind , of the prisoner towards the deceased, but that he was in that state of mad excitement that the of race amounted only to manslaughter, and not to murder. The intention of the party must be judged of by his state of mind at the time. The position of the prisoner—having rises from the rank of a private soldier to that of a sergeant in her Majesty's ser vice—was evidence of his good character, and men did not at one moment jump to the commie}ran of the most serious offence. The prisoner lead a go o d ch arac t er g i ven hi m b y the officers of his regiment. The learned Judge having summed up the evi dence, • Thejury returned a verdict of guilty, but most strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy. The learned Judge, having put on the black cap, addressed the p ris oner —Michael Hynes, you have been convicted of the crime of murder, and it was impossible that the jury, upon reflection, could find any other verdict upon th e evidence ;aid before them. Your case is, indeed, a sad one. Yon might have been fitted for better things, but unfortu nately, by giving way to i n t emperance upon th i s occasion, you were incited to th e comm i ssion o f a crime which forfeits your life. The liquor that you took appears to have • reduced you to the state of a frantic being, and the sword which was intrusted to you to use against the enemies of your country you employed in depriving an aged, a helpless, an unprotected woman of the few re maining years of her life. The jury have accom panied their verdict by a strong recommendation to mercy. I have no discretion to give any effect to such a recommendation, and let me entreat you not to be sanguine that even that recommendation ad dressed to the Throne will, when the circnmeta llees are known, as they must be, hEtTe the effect of saving your up. As it is, I nave no discretion but to pro. nounce upon you the sentence which the law awards to such a crime. It is net my sontenee, but the sen tenee of that law. The learned judge then pasaed upon the prisoner the awful sentence of death. The prisoner, who is a vemarkalily fine man, and who had stood up firmly during the trial, .now seemed completely prostrated, and would have fallen if not supported by the officers of the prison. QUEEN AT EDINBUIIGII.—We REVIEW DV' THE have authority to state that her Majesty has been pl e a se d to intimate her intention to hold a review of volunteer corps on the 6th August. The commanding officers :f t cEocripiusbduersgiriling to attend must intimate their wish to the Secretary of State for War, through the lords•lieutenant of d e mi o t o te 7ti as es, beafosresp far the Ist August, and they N t v h i e u ir th r e e n Spe be et a l ace and numbers will per Immediately after receiving this application each corps will be informed whether it will be possible to accept the offor, . .„_. DIAMONDS IN AIISTRALIA.—An interesting dis covery, namely, the existence of n a ti ve diamonds, has been made. The stone was discovered in the black sand of the ovens district by all Irish miner, named O'Neill. Rubies and other gems of very . small size had previously 'been found in the same derstt,—Alestralian and New Zealand gazette, 88 961 6 8 2i 231 5f 6 the noble marquis. At the same time, the subject to which the motion related was of a most extensive character, and he gathered from the silence which had been observed by noble lords opposite that there was no disposition to discuss it at any considerable length. He could not but admit the force of the observations which had fallen from his noble friend (Lord Wolehouse) in support of the views of her Majesty's Government, but he must be allowed to observe that the subject was so much bestt with danger, that there was so much of delicacy in everything appertaining to it—(hear) — and that there was so little certainty as to the results of the conference, that it would have been satisfactory to have learned from the Government that it was their intention to come to some understanding with France before any fur ther steps were taken. He thought that by going into the conference they were exposed to the dangers of appearing to give their sanction to the annexation of Savoy to France, or of increasing the coolness and estrangement which had lately taken place between this country and France. He was of opinion that whit this country was called upon to do was to maintain as far as possible, consistent with the dignity and honour of the country, a state of peace and good feeling towards Fiance. He did not entirely concur with his noble friend (the Marquis of Clanricarde) that it was to the permanent interest of this country to main tain a close and formal alliance with France, though he believed that it was for the general advantage of Europe that the two countries should remain in a state of general amity, each evincing a desire to consult the interests and honour of both.. Such relations would in his opinion be much more conducive to a lasting good understanding be tween the two countries than the more formal, close, and intimate alliance suggested by the noble marquis. Such an understanding existed at this moment in reference t o opera tions at a distant part of the world, and in another quarter not so remote, and all that was desirable for the future was that such a state of relations should be maintained as should lead to cordial amity upon all matters concerning the gene ral interests of Europe. With regard to the position of Switzerland, he could assure their lordships that no one could admire more than he did the conduct of the distin guished confederacy of that country. Having been formerly connected with that country in an official capacity, and having had an opportunity of remarking the historic virtues of the people perpetuated through so many generations, he could not but feel satisfaction at the reasonable demands the confederacy had made in stepping forward in defence of what they considered their just rights, and he should be glad to see her Majesty's Government enabled to give t*m as much countenance as the circumstances of the case would permit. He did not think that in the present debate full justice had been done to the position in which Switzer land stood, and to the great qualities which her people possessed. When he saw a country with such a limited population bringing an army into the field of not less than 100,000 men, and artillery in proportion ; when he learned from good authority that they were prepared to back up that force if necessary by a fresh demonstration to a similar extent ; and when he considered the limited means at their disposal, he felt it impossible not to entertain the highest esteem for their character. He did not agree with an opinion which had been expressed on a former occasion, that the acquisition of Savoy by France was a light matter, but at the same time he did not believe that the acquisition was of such a nature as to compromise the general intel - esf s of Europe or imperil the neutrality of Switzerlaut. No event could have shown in a more striking degree the power'of France, and perhaps allowance ought to be made for the distrust and apprehension which Switzerland had manifested in reference to the ulterior designs of her more powerful neighbour. He was anxious that her Majesty's Government should be enabled to carry out their present European policy, of which he entirely approved, but he was afraid that the result of the conference would add to their difficulties rather than diminish them. (Hear, hear.) Lord BROUGHAM expressed his entire approval of the remarks which had fallen from the noble lord the Under Secretary (Lord Wodehouse), and commented in strong terms upon the nature of the interference of France in the general affairs of Italy. He thought the heat policy both for France and this country was a policy of non-interven e tion, and he deeply regretted that it had been departed from. France Complained that her motives were impro• perly suspected ; but the best way to prevent suspicion was to tyke care that her conduct was honest. He thought it would be much more advantageous both to the interests of France and England that there should be a good under standing between the two countries, than that each should be in a state of constant, unceasing, and vigilant prepara tim for the worst. (Hear, hear.) The subject then dropped. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION BILL. On the order for the house going into committee on this bill, The Earl of CHICHESTER moved an amendment that the house should go into committee on this bill that day three months. The amendment was agreed to without a division, and the bill was consequently lost. METROPOLITAN BUILDING ACT (AMEND MENT) BILL. This bill passed the second reading. LEITH HARBOUR AND DOCKS BILL. Thia bill was also read a second time. BLEACHING AND DYEING WORKS BILL. This bill was read a second time. LOCAL TAXATION BILL. This bill passed through committee. JEWS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE ESTATES BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. CENSUS (ENGLAND, &c.) BILL. This bill was brought up from the House of Commons and read a first time; as was also the Census (Ireland) Bill. INDEMNITY BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.) WAYS AND MEANS. The house then went into Committee of Ways and Meaas. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Sir, upon a recent evening, the right hon. baronet the member for Dreitwich raised very fairly an issue with respect to the conduct of her Majesty's Government in regard to the finances of the country, and said that in the state and pro spects of the public expenditure, it was not just for them to have dealt with, or as he expressed it, to have tampered with, the finances is the month of February last. I only refer to that for the purposa of saying that I think no more proper subject of discussion coald be raised, and that I hink the opportunity has arrived for discussing it. But with these matters of attack and defence I have no concern. I shall confine myself entirely to matters of business, and to the provision which her Majesty's Government propose to the house to make in order to meet the expenditure which has been voted in supply. The committee will have per ceived that there stand upon the paper two motions in my name. One relates to a set of resolutions which have not before been printed; the other to a set which the commit tee have seen printed for a length of time. One set of reso lutions is to provide for the recent vote of supply with re gard to China ; the second is that portion to which the right hon. gentleman has just alluded, which has not 'yet been sanctioned, of the financial measures of the month of Feb ruary last. Sir, the latter I dismiss entirely at present ; and I confine myself to an explanation of the former. I wish to lay before the committee the exact state of the case with regard to the charges, as far as we are able to state them, that have now beer incurred with regayd to China ; because on a former sccasion I fear I was in some degree to blame for not having clearly explained them, and her Majesty's Go vernment are desirous that no misapprehension should exist. In February last the provision made for the Chinese cape dition was £850,000., to be charged on the finances of theyear then expiring, 1859-60, and a further sum of about double that amount, namely X 1,700,000, to be charged on the ways and means of the financial year then about to commence, 1860-61. These sums together amounted to £2,250,000. I confine myself to round numbers for the convenience of the committee, and that was the whole provision which it was proposed to the house to make on account of the expe dition to China, whilst it was still an expedition only, and before we had any knowledge that it would necessarily have a directly warlike operation. The sum that is now further proposed on account of the warlike operations of the same expedition is a sum of somewhat greater amount, namely, £2,850,000. The vote upon the table is indeed somewhat larger than this; but two items are comprehended in the figures I have just stated. They include a sum of £500,000, a provision which was made in the financial arrangements of February, though the vote of supply was only taken last week, and also a sum of £lOO,OOO on account of the previous war in China, which may be called the war of 1857, a charge of which we had no km.wledge that it would occur in February, and for which no financial provision has been made. Therefore the whole charge of the present expedition to China, arising from the occurrences at the mouth of the Peiho down to the present period, so far as the Government can state or conjecture them, is £5,400,000, to which is to be added the sum of £150,000 :due to the former war. And perhaps it may be a matter of interest to the committee that I should state, in passing, the expense of a former war with China,'in order that they may understand, along with other matters applicable to the subject, the tendency to a great increase of charge which is attendant upon the course of our present operations. The war at 1840 must have lasted, I think, between two and three years. I believe that Sir H. Pottinger's treaty Nvas in 1842, so that the war would last about two-andsa-lalf years ; and the whole expense of that war chargeable to this country was no more than 4 3 ,200,000. So that the whole expense of that war, carried en for the length of time I have described, was no more than 4700,000 in excess of the sum which the Govern ment invited this house to provide for the present expedi tion, even while the occurrence of a war was a matter entirely problematical. The whole expense of that war to thi s country, because a portion of i t was borne by the East Indi a Company, was only £1,200,000—a sum less by £1,200 , 0 00 than that which the house will have provided—has, I may say, provided—at least consented to charge during the pre sent session, on acco unt of the wa r that has now co mmence d. h at i s the state of the ease as regards the amount of charge on account of the present expedition, and 050 3 500 on account of the war of 1867, making together , £5,850,000. I have no means of stating to the eommittee what has been the total charge of the war of 1857, because, although there were certain votes, not amounting to large sums, taken as votes of credit, yet the main portions of the expenditure were probably borne upon the estimates under the ordinary heads of charge; and I have no means now of separating them from what was duo to the general service of the country. 'With respect to the raode of provision that has been adopted by the Government, and proposed tc the house, in respect to the portion of the charge that was made known, to the house, and within the knowledge of the Go vernment in February, it is as follows;—£8.50,000, as I have stated, were charged upon the finances of 1859-GO. Happily the provision made by the house in rest July for the expenditure of that year was so liberal, that the whole of that £850,000 has been paid from the proceeds of the taxes, and not out of temporary resources. It pleased the house, towards the close of last session, to supply us with temporary means, in addition to the taxes that were then voted, by taking up one of the terms of the melt credit. The proceeds of that operation were somewhere about - eBOO,OOO or a million, But the revenue of the year was so productive, that even it' that malt credit had not beer& granted we should have been able to pay the adtlifienell charge included in the item on account of China, and, still have had a surplus. As it was, notwithstanding the consi derable addition made at so late a date to the charge of the year, by taking £350,000 for the malt credit, the surplus of income over expenditure on the 31st March amounted.to no less than £1,587,000. Therefore it may be justly said as re gards that suns of £850,000, that full provision was Lnade for it out of the taxes of the country; and the temporary resource which enabled us to draw an alleviation from the malt credit, together with £250,000 which came in as a casual and unexpected payment from Spain, and applicable to the charges of last year, both contributed to swell that surplus of £1,250,000, and were, therefore) made applicable, to the reduction of the debt. With respect to the £1,700,000 which the Government proposed to charge upon the finance, of the present year in February, last the case stood dif ferently. I cannot say that we proposed to provide foe more than about £500,000 of that sum out of the taxes of the country. For if, on the one hand, we deduot that charge from the anticipated expenditure of the, country as it then stood, and if, on the other, we dedN i ct from the anticipated revenue of the country, the pioreeeds of the malt and hop credits and the furthee payment from the Spanish Govern ment, the case stands thus—that each of those two sums very nearly balances the other, the charge for China being £1, 7 00,000, and the amount of the malt and hop credit, with the Spanish payment, being about £1,650,000. It follows, therefore, that the provision made by means of taxation to meet the expenditure on account of China, accordeseh e plans of the Government as explained in Februa:7ast, was very little more than the surplus of revenue over ex penditure which was then stated upon the estimate, or in round numbers ablaut half h million of money. So stands the case as to the pro-vision made for that portion of the charge for the Cb:lna expedition with regard to which the houen was ir-vited to take it into its consideration in Fe bruary last. I now come to the question how we are to make provision for the remaining portion of the charge. The remaining portion of the charge is £ 3 , 3 00,000--the vote authorised last week being £3,800,000, but £500,000 of that sum having been included in the financial statement of February, and in the provision that was then made. I have therefore to go back to the period of February, as the basis of calculation of the means by which this sum is to be provided; and I think there is no reason why I should depart from the estimates either of revenue or expenditure that were then made. As respects the re venue of the country, estimating it by its proceeds up to the close of June, I think that, considering its' circumstances, the condition of that revenue is eminently satisfactory. It is very difficult—and indeed it would be hazardous—to form an anticipation of the year's revenue from the revenue of the quarter, and especially in a year when very considerable changes, reductions, and commutations, so to call them, of taxes have been made. But the result of it, I think, entirely comes up to, and even exceeds the expectations of Govern ment. Still I should not recommend the committee, and I should not think it consistent with the rules of prudence, to improve upon the estimates of revenue which I ventured to submit in February. Because there is, in the first place, a tendency to partial stagnation in some descriptions of in dustry, connected either with the actual condition of the times or with the temper in which men's minds are dis posed to view them ; and there is likewise the important ele ment of a harvest that must certainly be late, and may too probably be defective; which, though they might not act very seriously upon the anticipated amount of the general income, yet I think would render it unsafe for us to make those additions to the estimates of February last which under more favourable circumstances I should not at all have hesitated or scrupled to recommend. Then, starting from the estimated revenue of February last, I have now to state to the committee the manner in which the Government propose to provide for the charge which has just been voted by the committee of supply. The total of that charge is £3,800,000, taking the votes as they stand and have been sanctioned. ,I first deduct from that amount the sum of £500,000, which as I have already stated was included in the provision of February last, and I then come to the ques fleet how far the:small surplus, which was then estimated as likely to arise upon the revenue of the year above the expenditure, remains still available. That surplus, as was to be expected in a course of long and detailed financial dis cussions, almost of necessity involving a variety of o t hanges more or less important, while the measures of the year were passing through this house, has undergone some vicissitude. It is not however altogether disposed of. I could not under take to enter into very minute details with regard to the estimates of minor taxes, in respect to which great exacti tude and great confidence in each particular are totally im practicable, and where the best that can be hoped is, after using every care and attention, that the general result may not be far wide of the mark. Proceeding upon that prin ciple, I would say that we stand thus with respect to the surplus that I estimated in February last. It then stood at the sum of £464,000. But in the estimate for the collectio of the revenue which was then furnished to me, and which did not take into eonsideratien the practical effect of some of the financial measures of the year, particularly of the in crease of the income tax, there was an error not immaterial. That estimate of the expense of the collection of the re venue was too low by above £200,000. The committee will also remember that an important item in the general re sults of the revenue was made up of a variety of new charges that were about to be imposed. In the dis cussion,of those new charges, with a view of mitigating their pressure upon the commercial community, who were called upon to submit to a number of minor taxes, almost all of which fell directly upon the profits of trade—with a view to make those charges as little onerous as possible various modifications were introduced, which led upon the whole to a loss, as compared with the estimate I made in. February, of about£lBo,ooo a-year. Taking together those two items on the adverse side of the account, they require us to deduct from the surplus of £464,000 about £400,000. But on the other side of the acconnt, whereas it was first proposed that the abolition of the paper duty should take place from the Ist of July, it was found more convenient, for several reasons, that it should be postponed to the 15th of August ; and the effect of that postponement was to relieve the Exchequer by the sum of about £200,000. Therefore the total lose upon the surplus estimated in February is about £200,000, after balancing those various items that I have now mentioned ; and there remains in fact a sum of about a quarter of a million, or more—£264,ooo—which is available in part to meet the charge of the Chinese war. I come then to the proceeds of the paper duty—assuming that it should be the pleasure of the house that it be retained throughout the financial year. (Hear, hear, from the Opposition.) And if that be so, of course it will make an addition not immaterial to our re sources. (Opposition cheers.) The loss estimated to arise upon the remission of the paper duty as proposed in Feb ruary last would have been a million. The loss which would have arisen in consequence of abandoning that duty, accord ing to the terms of the bill which passed through this house, would have been £BOO,OOO. I cannot say how much of that. will be recovered in consequence of the rejection of the bill. I doubt whether the whole of it will be recovered ; but I think it very possible that £600,000, or perhaps £700,000, will be recovered. That is upon the presumption that the duty remains payable to the close of the financial year. And, therefore, if it is the pleasure of the House of Com mons that that duty should continue to be levied through out the financial year, a sum of £700,000 in addition to what I have previously named may be taken as available in part to meet the charges of the Chinese war. These three items —£500,000 for the malt credits, £250,000 for the Spanish payments, and £700,000 in respect of the paper duty—give a total of £1,464,000, and d e d uc ti ng th a t a mount from t he total which the house has auth or i se d in "mmit for, to tsup ply, £3,800,000, th e sum rema i n i ng to be providedee of r, a iswhicha sum of ha 72, 330now6t0o0i. The n v i sum o t e th e x 2,6 attention 64 ,0 0f o tohbeeci ng almirtetadeey, plrporTeividedous;oyr will, I believe, provided for, the sum of £2, 336,000 remains to be provided. for ; and those two sums takentogether i o th f ththeesutmotal alwrehaidelly be found to correspond with sum of L 1,478,000 has been taken out of the taxes of the respective financial years ; and a sum of — ga 2,664 th ,O e oo— em th m e ittee _ £1,186,000, according to the statement made in FebruarYt and th e plan of provision then proposed, would not have been taken from the taxes of the year, but would/have been chargeable upon thoso extraordinary resources which the Government invited the house to call in aid under the peculiar circumstances of the times. We propose to apply the same principle of a divided method of provision to the sum that we still require, which we used in regard to the sum, with which 'we have already dealt—that is to say, bo ask the committee to give authority for raising that sum i'a part by taxation and in part from sources other than taxation. In so doing we follow the rule which is commonly applicable to war expenditure. It is the opinion of her Majesty's Go vernment that that is the rule which ought justly to be ap plied to a case like that of China. First of all, because the scale of the expenditure is such—especially when it comes to a mode of charge rapidly growing under other heads -- that the country can hardly be expected to pro vide the whole from the proceeds of the year's taxes. (Hear.) 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