The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-07 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. Consols are 93 k for money; ditto, for Ac count, 93 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 g ; New Three per Cents, 91i i ; ditto 2f per Cent., Jan., 1894, 741 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 5; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 240. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 113 ; ditto 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1004 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent., 924 ; ditto Debentures, 1034 The announcement from Berlin that Messrs. Baring have contracted for a new Russian Railway loan has caused small sales to be made of the older issues, and there is a decline of 1 in Nicolas Four per Cent. Stock at 661, and 1 in Orel at 82. The 1862 Government Loan is unaltered at 861; Moscow, 79i ; and Charkof, 771. Spanish, which closed s better yesterday upon the announcement concerning the monarchy, have relapsed -I, to 311, upon this morning's telegrams. Turkish Five per Cents, are stronger, at 41}; Chilian, at 951, show an advance of 1 ; Brazilian, at 801, an advance of ; and Peruvian, at 79, an advance of 4. Italian are quiet but steady, at 554 554 ; Egpptian stocks are quiet, and rather dull ; Danubian Guaranteed are 1 to 1 prem. ; and Honduras, 82 to 83. Railway shares are quiet, and show a further downward tendency. A fall of is marked in Caledonian, at 79/ to 80 ; Great Eastern, 374 to 374 ; Great Western, at 49 to 494, ex div. ; Me tropolitan, at 1011 to 102; and Midland, at 1164 to 1164. United States stocks and shares are dull. The 5-20's are 831 to 831; Erie, 24 to 241 ; 96i to 97 ; Atlantic Bonds, 31 to 32k; and the Debentures, 32k to 33. Not much business of importance is doing in Bank shares, and prices are without movement. The transactions in miscellaneous securities are unimportant,. There were no gold operations at the Bank yes terday. The Moravian, from Melbourne, has brought £47,552. With reference to the criminal proceedings against the directors of Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited), it appears that the whole of the defendants must lodge their pleas at the Crown office by the first day of Easter Term, the 15th inst. Shortly afterwards an application will be made to fix a day for the hearing of the trial in the Court of Queen's Bench, the object being to get the case disposed of as quickly as possible. With regard to the rumours which have been in circulation for some weeks regarding an amalgama tion or arrangement between the Great Northern and Sheffield Companies, we learn that no official negotiations have taken place on the subject. The rumours have arisen from the fact that certain large shareholders are agitating to bring about such an arrangement, on the ground that it is both natural and desirable. The Manchester Examiner reports the failure of Messrs. Passmore, Smith, and Co., of Bombay. Their liabilities in this country are believed to be inconsiderable. The Crown Agents for the Colonies will receive tenders on 'Thursday for bills of exchange on the Government of Ceylon to the amount of £25,000. The Metropolitan Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of £3,078 over last year. At the meeting of the Credit Foncier of Eng land (Limited) a resolution was passed in favour of the issue of £200,000 of Eight per Cent. De bentures, repayable, with a bonus of 10 per cent., in quarterly drawings of £40,000, the first to take place in May. At public sale at the Open Stock Exchange Yesterday, Alhambra Company (Limited), £lO fully paid, sold at £9 6s. to £9 7s. per share ; Guildhall Taverns Company (Limited), £lO fully paid 50s. ; London Necropolis Company, £lO fully paid, £2 15s. ; London, Chatham, and Dover Rail way, Interest 'Warrant, £6 due Ist January, 1869, 108. per coupon. A serious loss to the Underwriters has been tele graphed from Calcutta, namely, of the iron ship Indian Empire, 1,515 tons, ho.rieward bound from Calcutta. It is reported t) have occurred iu the river llooghly on the 3d inst. The subscription list for the 6 per cent. Guate mala Loan was closed yesterday, and the applica tions reached nearly double the amount proposed. The closing quotation was premium. A monthly statement of the Austrian nationa floating debt is now published by the Committee of the Reichsrathl In the Frankfort correspondence on Saturday reference was made to a " new issue of GOO,OOO preference shares of the Lombard Railway reported from Paris," but advices from the latter city state that no such issue is contemplated, and moreover that it is believed that no financial measure will be adopted till the meeting of the shareholders on the 28th inst. The statement that Senor Olozaga will go to Lisbon "to offer the Crown of Spain to the ex- King Ferdinand" has produced scarcely any effect on Spanish stock. Neither in political nor commer cial quarters has anything yet been allowed to transpire here on the subject, and it should prove that negociAtions have been carried on successfully, an almost unprecedented amount of discretion must have been exercised for the preservation of secrecy. Bonds are now at 311 to I. A further communication has been received, in which it is still contended that, making all allow ances for contingenciep, &c., the results of the re venue account of the Atlantic Telegraph Company should be very different as regards the old Atlantic shareholders from that indicated in the recent speech of the chairman. The point, however, is one on which those who have access to the books can alone speak with authority. The Anglo-Austrian Bank notify that they are prepared to exchange the scrip certificates of the Royal Privileged Hungarian North-east Railway Company against shares with coupons, payable January and July, and the interest at 5 per cent. per annum to 31st December, 1868, will at the same time be paid thereon. BRITISH FUNDS— CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Consols ........ Ditto for Account 93 i 3 per Cent. Reduced .... . 93 New 3 per Cent 9ll I 91i 1 New 2k per Cent. Jan. 1894 741 - Do. per Oen Jan. 1873 ...... Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 _... Do (Red Sea Televaph), Aug., 1908 _ Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2} per Ct. Do £5OO Do. £lOO & £2OO 5 Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent De. opening — Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds — Inter-Colonial Omnium INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES India stock 10} per Cent., April 1874 — Do. Opening, for Account - - Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1883 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Pape.'4 per C5nt...~. Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 .....3... — Do. 5} per Cent. May 1879 — Do 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 — Do do 1877 — Do. do. 1882 DJ. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ lO3l Do. Bond s, 4 per Cent., .£l,OOO Do. und er .El.OOO FOREIGN FIINDS—CLOSING PRICES: Ar4entine Republic, 6 per Cent Do., Scrip £45 paid .. Austrian Bonds 5 per cent .. o. 1859 _ Brazilian D 5 per Cent — Da. 4i per Cent. 1852 Do. do. 18 6 1 ...... — Du. do., 1863 Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 + ) o+ ) oAccount . 80} B p..er....Cen t SUi I..enos Ayres i CDu 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) üba., 6 per Cent. ()alien 6 per C en t .. ............... .. Du. 41 per C0nt..... ......... ~. Do. 3 per Cent., ... 00000000000000 6 per cent. 1867..... 0000000 C11)o. 7 p er C ent., 1866 .................... 951 ................... Dtembian, 6 per Cent. ........... ........ an - rgn, 3 pm- Cent., 1825.. ...... ............ Danubian Principalities, 7 I.er Cent...... 76 2. Du 8 pe r C ont., 1867 ................Bt3 re .rt (ars ?MACE, April 6. Princess L ou ise, ...atrice, left Wind• arter-past ii, and Princess Louise, al this afternoon. xer of London. L IGENC% Nis.) n\TAR D. YORK, April 7. d suddenly, from !veiling. lie was rtner in the house elver, the steam' A--The market ros 2850 -... Ives 55 80 month --- Loan 241 ids - 'limes )ebt — --- Li Cash 948-} 31121 9 , 14 • 613 k • 595 511 475 ..... - . ..... 78 ..... 55 [N, Tuesday. it. Excellencies y at 12 o'clock by the speota lions, and the [so warmly re was unfavour large as last won by Fer- guests at the ?his Day. porter, in the L photographic ederick Smith/ ud brother-ie' Tyrwhitt, the f property be' t receiving the onsequence of )f property the watching the setts was soo o d Police-con' premises 5 0 ets by mean o nto the shoe, ome back and - ..!er then took ho station be in the shot ,ing opened it n•'s propertf. h being the ,veral articles ;h wore idea' when Smith said he hai the articles , ric. it Tyrwhitt o state ao)— they would a stoker 0 0 th violently n her arms , whose con" land cruel, on, Roznati r, for the' a Romisb and there Iso been in Lg the bed uncovered the head n the rib* el with big 's part be he woman ade seven m she did member 01 cure meat ,h dinner ars in the man, and taunting o quarrol Dr along• Roman outwit ag Lwkwartl th about Y would Iner wag Do often he outer e. The he woe te, and Drutalip of her atment• in for A )ry long in £lO ler 31a- ;ed on Lsioned le.quador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —. Egyptian, 7 per Coat Da Second Issue ..... Bl Do. £sot, Bonds Do. £lOO Bonds :Do. 1864 Do. Account Do. £suo Bonds Do. fIOG Bonds B7l 1- English Scrip, 1868 Da do. :£45 pd — dis Government Railway Debentures Greek 5 per Cont., 1824 5, ex Coups • Do. Coupons . —_ Do. Account qua.teina la 5 pe r C ent . — Honduras Gov Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., all pd haiku 5 per Cert., 1865 .Do. Account .. — Do Mareminana Railway ilex Car. 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French — A outevideau 6 por Cent. Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent - New Granada .. 17f 1 Do 3 per Con — Do. Deferred Peruvian 5 per Cont. 1865 Do Account .. 791 8{ Do 41 per Cent. (Ili:barren) Do 4f per Cent., 1862 -• — Do Account P ortu guese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7 , '9 , '60 , '2 . ' 3 36 Do. do. 1867 — Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid — Rassian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Do 4} per Cent , 1450 Do 41- per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 ..• 861 1 1 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864 , £lOO Bonds., 91± Do. do. £B4 15s. d 0.... Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds — Do. do £B4 15s. do — Do Nicolas Railway 66 it Sardinian 5 per Cent — Spanish 3 per Con .:•• . — Do. Accf,unt — Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferred — Do. Account Do. Passive — Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan — Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Do do, Scrip — Pm Turkish 6 per Cent.! ...... . — Do Account Do 6 per Cont. 1858 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 ••• Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 69} 691 Do 5 per Cent. 1865 — Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1866 •• - 1 Do 1 per Cent., Guaranteed Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Venezuela 3 per Cent. — Do. Account Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 — Dividends on the above payable in London Austrian o par Cent. Ex 10 Florins 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch i 4 per Cont. Ex. 12 Guil „ — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... Do. Account French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 23f. Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, •25f. Du Account 55,1 CLOSING PRICES. mo's, M - Jney 93 Do. Account, April 8 CEN7 RAL CRIMINAL COURT—Clhis Day In accordance with an application his lordship fixed the trial of Rumbold and Gambier (the latter a clerk in the Admiralty Office), on a charge of conspiracy, for Friday morning. OFFENCE AGAINST THE BANKRUPTCY LAW& John Reed, a dealer, aged 46, was charged for " that he, being a bankrupt, unlawfully did conceal and embezzle one watch and one ring, and divers moneys, value £lOO, with intent to defraud his creditors. Mr. Sergeant Sleigh and Mr. Warner Sleigh appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner read a written defence, in which he had set down his biography, and he commented in no measured terms on the repeated misdeeds of the witness, Mr. Stan ley, who indignantly repelled the accusations. (Before Mr. Justice Blett.) THE EXTRAORDINARY MUTILATION CASE. Ellen Cook, a very robust-looking woman, 44 years of age, was indicted for feloniously wounding her husband, James Cook, with intent to murder him. The first witness was Inspector Turpiu, who described the state of the room in which the crime was perpetrated and produced a rope and a large table knife, on which there was blood, and which he found in the room. The prosecutor was then brought into the witness-box in a chair. His head was bandaged, and he seemed very pale and weak. Ile had been brought from Guy's Hospital, to which he was taken back of ter being examined. The witness described the outrage that had been com mitted upon him, which was of a more diabolical nature than can well bo conceived. The prisoner afterwards fell upon him and attempted to gouge out his eyes, and then want away and he managed to free himself, and was con veyed to the hospital. Mr. Montague Williams addressed the jury for the de fence, and contended there was nu evidence on which the jury could convict the prisoner. The learned judge then summed up, and the jury imme diately found the prisoner guilty of the secund count. She was sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude. THE ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT BY THE ACCOUNTANT OF THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. Mr. Metcalfe stated that as the case had been already fully investigated the Metropolitan Board had instructed him to withdaw from offering any evidence in support of tie other indictments against the defendant. MARKE7 S-2111S DAY. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. April 7.—Sales probably 8,000 bales. Market quiet unchanged. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam Short 12 1} ... 12 n 3Ms 12 3 12 3*- Rotterdam - 12 3 ... 12 3 1 Antwerp - 25 37} 25 45 Brussels 25 37* ... 25 45 Hamburgh — 13211 ... 13 11* Paris Ditto • 3 Ms. ... 25 35 25 40 Marseilles ................ 25 35 25 40 Frankfor t - on - the-Main —120 k Vienna ..................... 12 7u 12 80 Trieste ..................... ... 12 70 12 80 Petersburg ............... 301 31} Copenhagen ........... 920 9 23 Berlin 6 27 6 27* Madrid.. - ... 49 ... 4 9i Cadiz 49 ... 49 1 Leghorn ... 26 471 26 55 Milan — ... 26 47 26 55 Genoa 26 47* 26 55 Naples Palermo ... 26 47* 26 55 Messina Lisbon — 52* 521- Oporto — 52* 52} Rio Janeiro — •.• New York 1104 PRICE OF GOLD. The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 251. l6fo. per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 lis. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold at the above price is of about the same value in Lon don and Paris. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 80 days' sight was on the last date about 1.8 percent. At this rate there is no profit on the importation of gold from the Uniird States. Plymouth last night WRECK or AN A MERICAN Slur —A telegram from Harding, f rom Antwerp' iia. -1 ballasthe . f American ship Minnie ashore n ear Porthleven to-day. states • " ' T he o e r ro C w a , r 2 d B iff i , n h n a u s m g b o e n r e , were saved. Hor masts are gone, and she is likely to prove Canterbury Multi a total w rec k:, MUSIC-HALL.— FIR% Performance on Saturday evening at the During sheTTUE CANTERBURY became ,which for o-liall an accident occurred on the stage by fire time excited much alarm among the i a n u d d i e e p n t c h e : ncnrtain, about 25 feet long by 20 feet effect to the scenery, yited through burning red fire to give young ladies Performi ng q uic kly_ fell in flames on two Moore and Lydia Moore, eaTh the ballet —namely, Nelly of whom were slightly burned. dbout 18 years of age , b o th s lightly injured and taken to the T. Bertram Was also l i mme diately got under with ou t doiirspital. Th e fi re was Among the passengers who argriavneyd further dama ge . on Monday, March 15, by the City qf 87/tire, at New Y or k , G ar d e n, from Liverpool, was the Queen m o o f at Castle 0 of the south-west of England. Her name the Gipsies plionoties diff i culty — some thing like liickbacazo, she was I to pronounce twice alik e. As she sat cla.l in all l able the colours of the rainbow b ehind 15 inches of clay, puffi. g at intervals, she informed th e ba gg a g e maste r , in reply t o his queries as to her effects, destination, &c., that she h a d been dethroned, by some of her turbulent subjects in Eng_ land, and was about proceeding to Philadelphia with a few aithful adherents to hold the sceptre on free American soil. LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL lIAIR.—MRS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER Olt DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from falling off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles - Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfuntors Depot 260, High Uolborn (' THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, 1869. SHARE LIST. onDINARX cstta►tSB AND STOCKS. raid. Closing MU ince. 'bare itatiwaye. Price. deue. et Bristol and Exeter ...... 103 77 79 at Caledonian lxo 791 SO4 74 . 83 79k at Cambrian 23 Cornwall all 24 1,1 et Dublin & Belfast June lOO 77 79 at Dun„Pcrth, Ab.Junc, lOO 70 72 2) East London all 6 , SO - Do 10 - - it Glasgow &S. Western lOO 97 99 it Great Eastern .. , 00 37 071 371 at Do. E. Angi. No. 2 lO3 at Great North of Scotland lOO 15 6 et Great Northern lOO 107 'OB at Do. A stock lO O. 109. 10 et Do. 13 stock lOO ... 124 st Gt S, and W. 01 Ireland lOO 08 . 7 8( (it. Western -Original lto 41 491 st Do. South Wales lOO 54 56 et Do. W. aid.-uxiont lOO 25 27 at Do. Newport lOO 28 10 at Lancashire & Yorkshire lOO 1224 'kill 12 4 3 at Lou., Brtgh.,& S. Coast lOO 484 464 / Do Scrip - - at I on., Chat., and Dover lOO 165 17 lif st Do. Metrop. Ex. A lOO - - at Lon. dr North Western lOO 1154 154 1151 st Lon. & South Western lOO Si 1.9 hi* st Man., Sliel., & Lincoln lOO 561 57 47 7 at Metropolitan at Do Extension 10 Do. New rd 10 1 , 1 41) 10 at Metropolitan District. all 50 52 10 Metrop. St. J ohn's 11 00 1 6 - - at Miuiaud at Do, BJIIIIIII. & Derbi 100 8-$ SO at Nirtll British ...... 100 3sl 351 ! .,511 5 1 at Do. lLd. , l'th., Duo lOO - - at Nor.Eastern-Berwlea.. 100 1021 1031 303 25 Do. G. N.E purolisst - - at Do Leeds. ...... ....... 100 58 59 at Do York lOO 921 934 at Do Carliile at Do Stoe dr Darling lOO 131 131 1134 at North Lon lon 10 Do New 1868 Pt North Staffordshire ..... at North and S.-W. Junction 100 9,1 100 10 Do New £lO shares 7 ... st Rhymney at Shropshire Union I. 0 87 58 at South Devon - ,.. at South Eastern lOO 754 754 751 at Staines, Wok'harn, & Wok all 12 13 at 'tau Yale too 14s 1..3 • - Do. C VVateriord At Kilkenny lOO - l 0 Waterloo & Whiteha.l 6 - RAILWAYS-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. st Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 86 88 st Caledonian Qrs., Nu. 0 lOO at Do. Scot. N.E., 41 per cent. 100 st Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c 100 ... st Do: do. 7 per cent 100 ... at Do. do. Ordinary 100 bU 82 at Do. Midland st Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent gua all ... 20 st i Dundee, Perth, aud Aber deen Junction lOO 105 107 st Do. Ist Class preference lOO ... St Was. & S.W. gua. 5 per et IOU at Gt. Eastern, E.C. Ex. No.l 100 9 i 99 st Do do N 0.2 100 95 93 st Do do 6 per cent 100 10) 112 St Du East Anglian Asp. c. 100 ... st Do do B 6 do. 100 ... st Do do C 7 do. 100 ... st Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 .. at Do E. Union 4 p.c. gua. 100 70 75 at Do Norfolk 5 p.e.Ex.1846 100 ... st Do do 5 p.c.Way.Val. 1847 100 at Great Not thorn, 5 per cent 10 st Do 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. c. pm. 100 ... at Do 4 3 do do do 100 ... st Do 5 do at sp. c. pin. 100 ... St . Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent lOO ... et' Gt. Nrth of Scotland, Ist pf 100 St. Great South. and Western (Ireland) 4 por cent lOO 96 97 st (it. West.— Orig.& J ut.-Itent dig., per gua. 5 p.c lOO 102 103 st Du. Urig.(B. & 11. Ex). 5 p.c lOO 95 10) st Du do 4, per cent. 1650... 10J 88 9 at Do do 4 do do ... 100 78 80 st t.o do 5 per cent. radon. 10J 25 97 95 st Du du Birmingham gnu.. 100 60 78 st Du do du pref... 100 St DO do Chester gua, IOJ tto 85 at Do do do 8 per cent lOO st Do do do 5 do 100 95 100 st Do South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 at Do do p.c lOO st Do do 4 s 1859 IOU ... St Do do 5 at Du West Mid. Oxford Ist g. 10J 111 113 st 2d gua. 100 107 111 st Do Newport, Ist g. 5 p.c. 100 8 90 st Do do 95 du 100 97 10J at Do gua. 51 per cent. 1863 100 100 Lancaster & Carlisle 41 p.c. ail at Lancash. di Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1 3 135 st Du Barnsley, .tis Os loa p.c. 100 st Do 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 130 1.05 st Do 41 (Blackburn purch). 100 98 100 at London & Brighton, 5 p.c. guaranteed, Nu 1 lOO at Do 5 per cent. gnu.. No. 2. 100 st Do 6 du do lOO st Do 5 do NJ. 4 IOU st Do 7 per cent luo at Du 6 do (W.E. & C.P.) 100 st DJ 4 do 1859 IOU ... at Loudon, Chatham, & Dover 5 per cent ll O... St; London and /1.W., C. and Nuneaton 5 per cent lOO 108 110 st Du Bedford & Cambridge lOO at Do Shrewsb'y & Welchp'l lOO st Loudon and S W. 7 p,e late 3d shares, lOO 140 150 2s 65. Do (Portsm. peril alas. 2s6cl) all at Man., Shef., &.Linclu. 6 p.c. lOU 115 117 6 Do .t:4 all par 1 pin at Do 35 per cent IOU 60 65 10 Do redeem. 6 percent 5 at Mid. Consolidated., 6p. c lOO 130 135 st Do Bristol& Birm., 6p. e lOO 112 134 st Do 41 per cent. redeem lOO 18 100 100 st Do 41 per cent. irredeent lOO 98 L n st Do Leicester & Irchu, 4 p.c lOO 80 91 st North i3ritish, 5 p.c. N 0.1.., 100 ~„ st Do E. &G. 4p.e.S. & D lOO ..„ st Do N. 8., N 0.2, 5 per cen.t lOO „„. st Do Border Union, 04 p.c lOO at ti.-Eastern--Cons. 4 p.c lO9 87 8J st Do 41 per cent. redeem lOO 95 97 at Do U N.B. 4 per cent., lOO 17 Do Berwick capital 8 13,4, Du York, U. Q. S. purchase lO 10 101 Do Stektn & Drling. A. 5 p.c lOO 106 108 st Du W, liartlepoolll. and It lOO 84 86 115 20 North Staffordshire all 201 21i I.os S. Devon Annuities, 1 s all 910 108 Do Tavistock Anus., 10s all 81 91 lOs Do Fixed 41 per cent all ts 8 1 0.6. S. East. (Read. Anus., 1.0.6) all 22 23 2 4 st Do 44 percent lOO tit Do Fixed 41 per cent lOO st Taff Vale No.l lOO 148 153 st Waterford & Kilkenny, 6Pc 100 41 43 RAILWA.YS.-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate year. at Caledonian 44 p c gua. st Do Scot. Oen. mi n . 7 p c lOO *; at Do 44 p irredeem all ** st Do 4p c con. issued at 8U 65 at Great Eastern 41 per cent. 100 ;•• '" at Do 5 do, 1862 lOO i t ;ag at Do New 5 do, 1863 lOO 8 5 t 8 66 7 at Do do 5 do, 1864 lOO 82 86 st Great Northern, 5p e irred lOO at Do Permanent 5 per cent lOO 106 st Do Boston 1 Sleafd, 44 pc 100 at Great West., W. Midl., 5p c 100 at Do Jointperpe. 5 p c, 1865 100 88 yG at Do do 6p c irred., 1866 100 103 102 20 Do Vale N eath perp. 5p c all 19 20 st Kent Coast, 6 per cent, B lOO L 5 Lane. and York. New 44 per ••• cent till July, 1871 2 I at Loud., Brig., &c., 41 pc, 1858 100 '" at Do do 4 d o, 1860 100 ..• st Do do 44 do, 1861 100 st D 3 do 44 do, 1803 100 at Do do 5 do, 1865 10U st 110 No. 6 5 do, 1866 100 st Do sdo at Loud , Chat., &c., 2d, 6 p.c at Do Metrop. Ex., B 6 p.c Do do C 6 p.c st London &N. Western, 5p c 100 10S 110 at Loudon &S. Western , 41 p 100 6 , 10 Man. bile!. &Liu., 5 pc, 1865 all 884 at Metropolitan 5 per cent lOO at Midland, A 5 per cent pref lOO 106 108 at Do B 5 do 100 106 108 18 Do 5p c opt. to cony. to Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1869 all 204 204 18 Do Inconv. New Shares all 18. 194 22 Do .5 p c con. into Old Stk., Aug. 31, 1872 B4 14 21 p st North British, E. and No. 1, 5 per cent ... 100 et Do £lO guaranteed, 1861 100 Do E., P. & Dun., 2d, 4pc 100 ••• st Do E. & , No. 2, 5 p.c et Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1862 100 at Do E. & G., No. 3, 5 p.c 100 • '" st Do E. & G., (Ordiry) 4 4 p c 100 st North Eastern, 44 per cent 100 i 5 bT st Do Stock. & Darl., D 100 110 112 st North London, 44, per cent (Max. 5 per cent) st North Staffordshire 5p c lOO *** at South Eastern, 44 pc, 1859 100 *** at Do 5 do 1861 109 at Do sdo (Ch. Cross) 1863 100 • ••• at Do 5 do, 1864 at Victoria St. &Pimlico, 41 pc 100 RAIL WAYS.-LINES LEASED AT FIXED ItENTALSji at Bri WO ad V 5 lentlead 100 Do. 41 per cent. Prefer all 99 101 st Buckinghamshire at Chester and Holyhead lOO 61 56 at Do. 51 per cent. at Du. b do. at Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO ... at Colchester Stour Valley 100 t L e r i n a c n o a l n i) , ge Dean 1 6 , p r a c t ' : lOO !;.j. ► !!.6 a Gt. Easn., Newm., &c., 5 p.c 100 ••• 2 ;; 0 t G Ea lo s s t a Do. E. U. Harwich, 4 p.c 100 60 72 at Dodo. Woodbrg.Ex., do. 100 69 72 at Gt. West, W. Mid., Hera 100 97 90 50 Hull and Selby all 110 112 at Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 210 2 5 at London and Blackwall lOO 93 95 at Do. 41 per cent lOO ••• at London, Gnat., &c., 41 p c lOO ... at Do. Com. Fund, 5 do lOU at London and Greenwich st Do. du Preference lOO at London, Tilbury, & South 100 83 55 st Lowestoft, gua 4 percent IOU 80 82 at Do. du. 6 do. 51 Manch., Buxton, &Matlk all 5 51 at Midland, Bradford, Pref lOO 92 94 10 Mid Kent Cray Line) 50 NortherntEast.,s per cent all 53 56 SO Do. do. 6 do. all at N. Eastern—Hartlep00l at N.West. A perp. prey, 5p c lOO 107 109 1 9 st Do B minimum 14 p.c lOO at Notting. &Grauth. It.& O lOO 90 913 25 Preston and 11' yre. ... Royston, Hitch., and Shep lOO 112 114 at Shrewsbury an Hereford 100 111 in 10 Do du 8 2 2ip st S. Yorksh. an d Ri ver Dun 100 95 98 961 at Dc 4 per cent gull lO, 73 30 tti baa2 s a tutt Wilts t S o uL t u a od t u i so6dno Loudon 1: 1 ) 41 , s i u m s , 1 ‘ c o 10 8 0 1 l 17 9 5 5 9 18 ; 0 at West Cornwall all 11 14 20 Du do B all 20 do C ... • all 61 st Weymouth and Portland lOO 100 50 82 DOCKS. st East and We s t st London and St. erino. 100 100 12e rts 48 100 D oDeb. stock, 4 por cont all ... Freehold Land st Dock .......... lOO 2i 31 Stst Southampton lOO 74 76 urreY Gol3llloorvial JOINT-STOCK BANKS. (To - sitig, business Share NAME. Paid. Price. done 10 Agra Limited, A all 11 12 11l 40 Do B lO 21 31 3 1 50 Albion 00 Alliance, Limited 20 Auglo-Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian, lion all 191 2 1 201 20 Anglo - Rungarian 20 Auglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 51 41 41 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia all 10 13 20 Do issued at 2 pm....., 5 5 4 25 Bank of Egypt 20 Bank of Otago, lino. 25 Bank of South Australia._ all 30 32 50 Bank of Victoria, Australia, 25 37 33 10 Bank of New Zealand all 17 18 50 British North American 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, ,nd China 25 Chartered Mere. of India, London, and China all 191 301 '29k 20 City l, 12 121 100 Colonial 25 39 40 10 Consolidated, lion. 50 Delhi and London, lim 50 East London, lion 20 English and American, urn 10 ... ••• 20 English Bank of Rio de Ja neiro. lim lO pr 1 p 20 English, Scottish, and Aus • tralian Chartered 281 Hong Kong and Shanghai • Bank Corporation 281 Do new Li 14 21 100 Imperial, lino 20 Imperial Ottoman ..••• 10 2 , 1 121 •.:5 lonian all 21 26 25 Do ne w ...... . 20 Lud Mortgage of India, lint 4 31 3 1 100 Do sp. c. Debs.l364, 30 all 76 75 78 30 London Bank' of Mexico and South America, lion. 20 5 i 100 Loudon and Brazilian, lim. 45 30 27 20 Do new 71 51 41 100 London & River Plate, lion. 40 9 11 25 Do new 10 21 2 W 20 London Chart. of Australia all 241 25 20 London and County 60 Do new, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd. 11 London Joint 5t0ck......... 1 32 33 London and South African al 81 91 00 London & S. - Western, lim, 20 1 1 9 15U Loudon & Venezuela, lion l2l •••• ••• 100 Loudon and Westminster. 20 64 65 6 1 1 100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O 100 Merchant, lim 10 Metropolitan, 1in0....... all 71 7t 100 Midland, bun. ................ 20 1 1 i 5 National of Australia 25 National of Liverpool, lion l5 ld 1p 100 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ••• ••• 10 Do • ...... . 42 ... ... 44 50 National.. 20 New South Wales all 41 43 20 North-Western 25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 43 44 43 50 Pro vine.. Bank. Corpo., lim lO 6 5 00 Provincial of Ireland 25 83 90 10 Do new.. all ... ••• 100 Stand, of Brit. S. Africa, urn 2.5 15 1t 100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6 25 Union of Australia all 47 48 100 Union of Ireland, lim 50 Union of London 15 36 37 114 7 TELEGRAPH COM PAN I ES. 10 Anglo-American Tel., lim all 22,1 22t 10 Anglo Mediter Tel., 1im.... 10 11i 12i 12 st Atlantic Telegraph lO 26 28 26 at Do. 8 per cent. st B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim lOO 160 165 1601 st Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 2 0 2:,0 10 Do. New 8 0 llp 25 Indo-European Tel., lim lO ... ... 5 Loud. Provincial Tel. lim all 3 31 1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent. all 10 Mediterra. Exton. Tel., lim all 3 1 4 in 25 Reuter's Telegram all 50 55 :0 Societe Transatlant., lim l4 4 3 st Submarine Telegraph 1 Do. Scrip . all 111 1 k 20 Telegraph Con. & Main.,lirn all 16/ 17-1 SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim all 51 6 5j 5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 3, 4 p MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint all 15 16 ,5; 25 Australian Agricultural ..• 201 151 41 25 Australian Mort. Laud and Finance, 10 Baugarah Tea Estates, Bin 9 7 bd 10 Berlin Water Works, lint all 1t l 144 11 10 Do. New 6 3 4 100 Boickuw Vaughan, lint. 5 Bombay Gas, lint - 4 4 5 Do. New 4 14 4d 5) British Ant .rican Land 4l 1G 18 20 British Indian Tea, lint all 21 31 20 British Snip Owners 73 29 Canala Company 10 Canadian Loan and Invest ment, 20 Ceylon Company, lint. 20 Do. A shares 10 City Discount, lint __, 25 City of London Real Pro perty, Ihn 30 City of Milan Improv, lint all 6 u 25 City of Moscow Gas, all 50 City Offices, hut ................ 25 26 251 4 11-16 50 Colonial, lint. Do. 50 Commercia. Union (Assur) b •i• p 51 10 Company of African Mer chants, lint. 20 Continental Union Gas, lint all '2O 21 25 Copper Miners of England, prof 71 per cent. 100 Corporation of London Bonds, 1877, 41 per cont. all 104 105 100 Do. 1879, 4 t per cent. all 1041 1051 100 Do. 1882, 44 per cent. all 1034 1041 10 Credit Fon. of England, lint. all 2,1 24 24 50 CreditFou.of Mauritiuslim lO 3 4 24(1 ti st Crystal Palace lOO 1,1 21 at Do. Preference lOO 93 101 at Do. 6p. c Pei pctual Deb lO9 107 let 20 Darjeeling, lint, 10 Eastern Assam, lint 50 East Indian Laud Credit and Finance, lint. 20 East India Irriga. & Canal all 32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and Coal, lint. 100 Egyptian 9 per cent. V'roy CILL, by Egypt. Gov all 95: 96 1.6 1 1 20 Egyptian Cunt. & 'aut. Hun 6 „ 3 Eng.& Aust rat. Copper, lint • g 15 English and Foreign Credit 71 41 3,ti 100 Eng. and Scot. Marine., lint. 8..• ...d 10 Fairbairn Engineering 5 2 Id 20 Fore-street Warehouse,lim l2 1 1 1P 13 1 100 For. & Col. Gov. Trust and Loan Scrip, issued at .t:63 all 85 87 86 1 50 Chilli Ta ra, lien.. 10 General Credit & Dis., lint 7l 11 1 4 15 General Steam Navigation 14 27 29 50 Hums & Col Marine In. lint. 5 3 24t1 24 10 Hung Kong and China Gas all ••• ••• 20 Hudson's Bay 20 Imperial Laud Co. of Mar seilles, litn. ................. 121 •••, ••• 20 Interna. Financial S oc. lint. . 5 lk 1 1 20 Interna. Laud Credit, lim. 6 6 4d 50 Italian Land 20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all 3 3 i 3 5 ' 16 100 Do. 6p. c. Bds., redeem 1870, issued 10,, , , all 81 83 50 Land Securities,li m 25 London African Trading._ 10 7 SLI 25 Lon. & Caled. Marine lilt. 6 ••• "*",, 10 London County L and and Building, lice 50 Lond. Financial Asso , lint 30 4 Lond.Gen.Omnibus.lim. all 211 .04 2 21 SO Loud. and Glaag. Engineer and Iron Ship, 2.5 12 16d 20 Lond. & Provincial 25.1;t.i.•i 1ira.,,,, 25 2 13 pr 14 st Madras Irriga. & Canl. Una. sp.c. by India Gov. lOO 103 104 10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, .. •. 1 ill so Merchant Shipping, . 50 Millwall Iron Works, litre l2l •'• ••• 10 Natal Land and Colonisa tion Co., lint. ....... 9 51 44t1 25 National Discount Co.lint 5 111 1•2 111 25 National Prov. Marine'' lint. 4 4 3 d 10 National Steam Ship Rm. all 9 4 1 01 20 Nerbudda Coal & I ron ' , 14 lim. 6 31 3 4, 1 10 New Consolidat e d Dis. lint. 3 5 New Quebrada, lira 4 4 0 4 5 4 25 New Zealand Loan & Met'. candle Agency,lim .... •21 1 IP 25 New Zealand Trust ... ud Loan, lim. ..... ....... 5 1 1 1 10 Northern Assam Tea; . 5 7 5 10 Do. B ......... 11 9 8 .......... a st' North Brit. Austr a l . . . 100 48 51 56 North Brit. & Mercan. Tn... 64 19 20 25 Ocean Marine (Insurance) b 12 11 174 50 Oriental Financial, ...... 11 •••• •••' 1 5 Oriental Gas, li nt .... a 7 8 5 Do. New ................. 1 s 1p 10 Otago and Southland .Iu vestment, 1int.,,,,, 2 4t l ip 5 Ottoman Gas, lim .................. a ll 14 21 10 Panama, Now Zealand', ally.. Australian R. Mail lint all r 2 .,, 5 Do do. .... o • a st Peel R. Land & Mineri,ll ... 100 31 34 50 Peninsu. & Oriental Steam all 491 501 50 Do. New 1867 lO 14d 04 81 50 Rhymney Iron .............. all 22 24 15 Do. New ............ ............ all 61 7 25 Rio de Janeiro City Imo, dint, all 181 19 20 Do. Gas, ...... all 24 6 100 Royal Mail Steam ............ 60 41 L'a 41 st Scottish Aust. Invest., Jim. 100 Si 9B s t Do. 6p. c. Guar. Pref. 100 • 2 2 0 0 s S o u c e i l e e t i ci F e i n a :d d e 'E r g u p_te, lim. 10 -7 •6(1 vire Gt. 8 24 34 50 S. African Mort. & Inv., lint. 6 ••• •• • 25 South Australian Land all 351 361 20 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), 1int.......... 2 21 3 20 Trinidad Petroleum, lift 81 10 Trust & Agency of Aus.,litu, 1 ip io Do do. do. all 20 Trust & Loan Co., U. Canada 5 „ 50 Union Marine L'pool, lint 5 41 5 p 20 Union Steam Ship, lint .•.... a ll 22 24 15 United Discount Corp.,lim• 6 20 Universal Marineau.), lint• b i f 2 p 10 Upper Assam Tea, Jim all II 2 30 Van Diemar's Land 2Bl 61. 7i 00 Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per cent. (Mortgage) Loan.., allsli 10d 824 82 i 14 50 Warrant Finance, lint• l2 12 50 West India and Pacific Steam, lim. 20 West London Wharves and Warehouses __ COLONIAL GO VI4IIIIII - S QXT sEcuiciTiEs British Columbia, 6 per 0ent.,1672.... 1)0. 1805...... ..... .:• 110 ~.. - Can.tiov.6p.o.Jan. / . 30 u Y 1877-84 Do. 6p. c 'eb. & Aug lOO 10 , 1 , 4 Do. sp. o. Mar. it Sept lOO 102 114 Do. 6p. C. Jan. & JulY•• 100 93 04 921 31 Do. sp. C. Inscribed sk lOO 00 92 Cap', G.llope. 6 P• 0 • 1873 '• 100 102 104 Do.Apl.&001, 18904900 lOO 111 113 Do. do 1880-9 0 lOO 107 (09 Do. Jan.&July, 18191 ...• 100 108 lie Do. 5 per oent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 lOO 100 102 102/ Ceylon, Nov 1878,6 P." - 100 108 110 Do. 1872, do lOO 105 107 Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873." Jan. and July Do. IS7B .. . ..... 110 100 108 De. 1882, May and NC' .• 00 106 108 1)o. 1895, Feb. Aug .•••• 10 106 I')d ISl , lbourna Uorporatn., 1807-75, 6 per ant. .-•• 1(0 100 100 N.8.(10v.6 p.o.Ja.&. l uly•• lOU lu.i 144 Natal 6 p ct, Apl,t Oct—. 10) —Do pa. Hay .% Nov 1 1;0 108 N. S. W. 5 p•c., '7l to '7.i• • 109 . 4) It 1 Do. 5 p.c. 1/48 to 180 1 ‘. • • 1../3 981 991 t 83 f Do. 5 p.c. rd.'67 to `7s• • N.leaiand, 6p. ct. ie,ll l' 0 Do. 5 per cent...• 1 0 - DoJan,Apil,July, 0 t ILO 9 3 94 Hi I Da 6p e. Mar tept '9I• • 100 108 110 Do June & Deo ,1 9 1 • • 100 109 iil - Do I'rov. of Auer ld. j un 'Aria+ 1 &2, 1896..) v - Nova Scotia 6p. u.Jan... - and July. 1875 - Do 1886 lOO 102 114 Queenslnd. tip. 0. '82.5 100 1061 104 1071 Do 1891 Tasmanian 6 per c 1895 .• 1061 1071 1071 Do it 9 z-'97 . ..... 100 100 4 107 Victoria 61 er cent. 1891 l, 0 1 3 114 -• Do. A pril and Oct THE FABLE CONCERNING 7'HE PELICAN Mr. Bartlett, the superintendent of the Zoological Gardens, has been investigating the origin of the fable that the pelican feeds its young with its own blood. He has discovered that it has its foundation in the characters on some Egyptian monuments. These drawings, however, he has been told, are more like the flamingo than the pelican ; and he has, therefore, took occasion to watch the flamingo to see from what it was likely to originate. Tho following, written to Land and Water, from the Zoological Gardens, is the result of his observations :—" The flamin goes in the Gardens have frequently shewn signs of breed ing-, and have been supplied with heaps of sand to form their aests,but without result; tevertheless they appear to take -;onsiderable notice of a pair of cariamas in the same aviary. These birds have a habit of bending back their heads, and with open gaping mouths utter lou d and somewhat distressing sounds. This habit at once attracts the flamingoes, and very frequently one or more of them advances towards the eariamas, and standing erect over the bird, by a slight up and down movement of the head, raise up into its mouth a considerable quantity of red coloured fluid ; as soon as the upper part of the throat and mouth becomes Tilled it will drop or run down from the corners of the flamingo's mouth ; the flamingo then bends its long neck over the gaping cariama and pours this fluid into the mouth, and as frequently on the back of the cariama. Having seen this repeatedly, I took an opportunity of obtaining a portion of this fluid and sub mitted it to the examination of Dr. Murie. We placed it under the microscope, and find it composed of little else than blood ; in fact, the red blood corpuscles are wonder. fully abundant in the otherwise clear and almost transpa rent glutinous fluid. This does not proceed from any disease or injury done to the flamingo, nor arise or is produced by any portion or part of the food taken by them. lam perfectly certain, for the birds are in the most vigorous health and condition ; but I believe that it is an attempt to supply food to the cariamas, just as the hedge•sparrow and other birds supply food to the young cuckoo; and I have no doubt if a careful observer had the opportunity of watching the flamingoes on their breeding ground, he would find that this is the mode of feeding their young. No doubt other food is also provided, but most likely mixed with this secretion. I think it highly probable that this habit was noticed in ancient Egypt, and, by the confusion of names in translation, the pelican was supposed to be the Bird intended." THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. From the annual report of this excellent institution, which has just been printed, we are glad to perceive that the good work which the society has in view is being pro secuted with the utmost vigour. They are now in pos session of 200 lifeboats, and during the past year these were instrumental in saving no less than 603 persons r.rom various shipwrecks, nearly the whole of whom were rescued under circumstances •in which they :ould not have been by any ordinary description of boat. It is a source of much satisfaction to the committee that the crews of the several lifeboats still merit the utmost mfidence. This confidence is undoubtedly fully justified Dy the very small number of lives which (considering the ?erilous character of the lifeboat work) have been lost 'rom them, amounting to less than an average of one in each year since the institution, in the year 1852, under took the work of providing our coasts with improved life )oats. But in spite of the many lives saved, it is distressing :o know that a large number of persons perish every year through shipwreck. Year after year our coasts are strewn with wrecks to the number of nearly 2,000, by which the lives of at least 5,000 or 6,000 men are placed in jeopardy. The number of lives thus imperilled during the past year was fully up to this average. The majority of these would undoubtedly have perished had it not been for the exertions which are promptly and unceasingly put forth )n such occasions by the lifeboats as well as by shore loath, the rocket and mortar apparatus of the Board of Trade, and other available and practical means. Not withstanding these exertions, nearly 700 persons perished !corn shipwrecks on the coasts of the United Kingdom :wring the past year ;in the previous year this death-list 1 , was no less than 1,333—a fact which affords every encouragement to the society. From the establishment )f the institution, in 1824, to the end of 1868, the number )f lives saved was 17.829, the largest number being in [867, the number standing at 1,086. This, as the annual •eport truly says, is a glorious life-saving record, of which nu- country may well be proud, reflecting honour, as it foes, alike on those who have personally by their 'ntrepidity and exertions contributed to the happy result, tnd on those who have, by their liberality, enabled the institution to effect and encourage its acclmplishment. During the past year thirteen silver medals, fifteen votes of . thanks, inscribed . ,.an vellum and parchment, and £2,431 have been granted for saving the lives of 862 persons by lifeboat, shore, and fishing boats, and other means, on the coasts and outlying banks of the United ringdom. Since the formation of the ib h.., expended on lifeboat establishments £218,163, and voted 40 gold and 802 silver medals for sating life, and pecuniary rewards to the amount of £29,976. The total amount of receipts during the year 180 S was £31,668 Os. Sd. Of this sum no less than £6,713 Os. 2d. were special gifts to defray the cost of thirteen lifeboats. The committee cannot help thanking the ladies for much of their prosperity. It is certainly a gratifying fact, and one which will be ' highly appreciated by every person in the king iom, that ladies have contributed £22,9-10 to defray the cost of sixty-four lifeboats, which every winter save a large number of lives. During the year just past £10,834 was expended on additional lifeboats, transporting car riages, boathouses, and necessary gear ; £6,513 on the expenses of repairs, painting, refitting, &c.; and £6,573 (n rewards for services to shipwrecked crews, coxswains' salaries, and quarterly practice of the crews ; making altogether, including liabilities amounting- to £4,668 68. Gd. for stations now in course of formation, and other ex penses, a total of £31,585, At the Lancaster Quarter Sessions on Monday it was resolved that "it was most desirable to memorialise Government that in any future legislation on the subject of licensing beerhouses full and ample control be placed in the hands of the magistrates, and that no such licenses be granted without the consent of the magistrates." THE STRIKE AT PRESTON.-011 Tuesday an inter view took place between the secretary of the Associated Masters and the secretaries of the Preston, North Lanca shire and East Lancashire weavers with reference to the "wheel dividend" system, that being the only matter now in dispute between the masters and the operative weavers. The secretaries of the operatives stated that they were willing to withdraw the resolution passed at the delegate meeting on Sunday, and confirmed by the operatives on Monday night, in favour of submitting the question to arbitrators representing each side, with an independent umpire, and that they would now agree to have the point in dispute talked over the masters' and operatives' committees, and, if possible, settled by them. A HERON'S CROP.—Two male herons arrived from Norfolk lately at Mr. Swaysland's, naturalist, to be stuffed. The first had stowed away in his oesophagus eleven perch, some of them five inches long, regardless of the sharp dorsal fin of that species; one of them has been preserved as a memento. The other heron had regaled himself with a nice little pike of eighteen inches in length, setting some formidable teeth at defiance ; inside the pike again was another fish half digested, which appeared to be a roach of some five inches. The pike apparently had not long bolted his prey before " a long-winged heron great Minerva sent," but not with good omen. The roach in his turn bad feasted on something; but, having followed the subject from its ardeine commencement, I here let it drop, as it was becoming rather nasty, though I believe it might have been pursued, according to what philosophers call the " sequence of events," somewhat further, Field. " Accounts R elating to Printed Books " is the title of a parliamentary paper distributed on Tuesday. The return was moved for by Mr. Macfie, and it has been prepared by the statistical department of the Board of Trade. It shews the quantities of books printed in foreign countries and British posses sions imported into and re-exported from the United Kingdom in the years 1828, '3B, '4B, '5B, and '6B, and the real value of those imported and exported in 1858 and 1868. The aggregate value of the books imported in 1858 was £83,598; in 1868 it had risen to £137,580. The re-exportations in 1858 were valued at £6,506 ; in 1868 at £9,980. A statement is likewise given of the quantities and value of the books printed in the United Kingdom, and exported therefrom in the same years. Ir 1828, 4,118 cwt. (valued at £101,114) were exported, 1868 the exportations had risen to 61,408 cwt. (valued at £684,243). DISCOVERY OP HIDDEN PROPERTY.—On Tuesday morning, as two lads, named lfenry Williams and William Saunders, were looking for birds' nests on the Portsmouth ramparts at the back of Colewort Barracks, one of them thrust his arm up a gully hole, and in doing so found a collar-box in which were two gold Albert chains, twenty gold finger-rings, and twenty-three gold earrings, all new. The boys took the property to the father of Saunders, who, with them, proceeded to the police-station. The property is supposed to be part of the proceeds of a burglary effected at the house of Mr. Prior, a jeweller, living at Hanover-street, Portsea, whose premises were entered on the night of the Oth of September, 18G8, and on which occasion 135 gold finger-rings, 28 gold earrings, and 11 gold chains were stolen. A seaman, named Smith, was tried for that robbery before the borough recorder, Mr. Serjeant Cox, at the last Michaelmas quarter sessions Portspou% and sentenced to ten years' penal ser vitude. RA IL IVA.Y AND U. 7 lILP COMPANIES. SURREY CONSUMERS' GAS, The directors' report s!atts that the net profits for the half-year, including balance brought for ward, amounted to £10,817 53. 2d., out of which is recommended a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, carrying to next account £317 ss. 2d. GLOUCESTER AND BERKELEY CANAL. The report of the directors states that it is im possible that the present rate of increase in the trade of the port can be sustained unless some en largement of the works be made. The attention of the directors has been specially drawn by the com pany's engineer, Mr. Clegratn, to the advantages of making a new entrance of thoroughly adequate dimensions within three-quarters of a mile of Sharpness, and they have authorised him to make a complete survey of the locality. The trade in the past half year has been larger than in any previous one since the canal was opened. Th e balance of revenue amounts to £10,073, of which £728 belongs to the 65 unconverted 10 per cent. shares, and the remainder, £9,344, to the original and consolidated shares. This will enable the company to pay a dividend of 33g. Gd. per share for the past half-year ending the 25th of March, making for the whole year 555. Gd. per share, free of income tax. The expenditure on capital account to the 25th of March amounted to £470,8'31. BUENOS AYRES GREAT SOUTHERN. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the two weeks ending the 21st of February showed an increase of £2,180 as compared with those of the corresponding two weeks of last year. The aggre gate traffic receipts from the Ist of January to the 21st of February amounted to £19,376 against £11,826 in the corresponding period last year, showing an increase of £7,550, or nearly 64 per cent. ROBERT AEELEY. As we write, we hear again the airy inflexions of Keeley's voice in Dogberry, and see again the wonderful expression of his face, at the supreme moment when he was called an Ass! No other catastrophe on earth, or in the waters under it, could have aroused in living man such an amazing exposition of stupendous astonishment, indignation, and incredulity, as that insult wrung from Dogberry as Keeley drew him. But his Verges was even finer. By the force of his profound belief in Dogberry, one may say he absorbed that .Jackass into himself, sublimate) and enhanced the drollery of the character, and made it all his own. The more preposterous Dog berry, the more steeped and lost in admiration he. When Dogberry was most ridiculous, Verges wan dered away through the broadest realms of specula tion, how the Heavens ever came to make a man so wondrous wise. It was a true triumph of art. Con sidered with a reference to the very few words set down for Verges, it was certainly the most finished aad thoughtful pieco of suggestive comic acting that one can easily imagine possible. And it culminated when his asinine eliLf patted him o❑ the head, and he first bent under the honour, and then became the tal!er for it, gazing into his patron's face with an expression of fatuous contentment perfectly marvellous.—Dickens's " All the Year Round." FEARFUL DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. A labourer, named Panier, about 50 years of age, living at _A tnanze (Saone-et-Loire), suddenly seized a hatchet three days back, and killed two of his children, a boy of five and a girl of three, lie then turned upon another son about nine, and after a struggle struck him on the temple with the same weapon, inflicting a mortal wound. A neighbour who heard the cries of the victims hastened to their assistance, but he also was felled to the ground, and died shortly after. The gendarnies in the evening arrested Panier, who, with out any doubt, is insane. THE I?L'ORGANIS ITION OF THE wAr: OFFICE. The fireb innt.troont of the measures for the reorgarusa t7on of the War OtEco was, says a contemporary actually carried into effect on Monday, by the re modelling of the branch for warlike stores, which has been reduced from twenty-one to fifteen gentlemen, causing a decrease of expense amounting to between £2,000 and £3,000 a year. Soldier clerks will supply the remainder of the numbers necessary for the efficient dis charge of the business of the branch. It is satisfactory to learn that it has not been found necessary to die pense with the services of the gentlemen reduced, employment having been found for them else where. We are ready to believe that this measure has been well-designed, and it is certainly worthy of remark that the carrying out of this long-talked-of reor ganisation has commenced in a branch " attached to the Controller-in -Chief." It also seems to shew that General Balfour's practical and economical convictions arc pro ducing their effect. .ANOTHER GRAND CANAL. The crowning triumph of the Suez Canal scheme has given an impetus to a new engineering enterprise. The Isthmus of Darien, despite the adverse decision of the Columbian Government, is destined ere long to be pierced by a canal ; and we now learn of the contemplated junction of two seas in closer proximity to this country. It is stated that the North German Reichstag will soon deliberate on the project for joining the North Sea and the Baltic by means of a canal. Although Mr. Schonfeldt has surveyed and measured the country, and submitted hisreport to the representatives of North Schleswig with a view to its being considered in influential circles, no direct assent has been obtained from the Government. Should the expense of the undertaking be an obstacle in the way of its com pletion, it is said to be probable that private persons may be induced to favour the scheme. There is nothing impracticable in a canal across North Schleswig, for it would be less than half the length of that across the Isthmus of Suez. Nor is it so unlikely of accom plishment as some may imagine, seeing that it is consistent with Prussian policy, and unites political with commercial advantages for North Germany. A canal across Schleswig would virtually incorporate the Danish Duchies with the Prussian system, and settle the boundary difficulty, leaving Denmark and Jutland islands In the ocean, and enabling the Prussian marine to avoid the Cattegat and the Sound in navigating from the Baltic to the North Sea.. Mr. Disraeli has given notice that on Thursday next he will ask the First Lord of the Treasury to state at once the number and names of the persons proposed to be appointed Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ire land under section 8 of the Irish Church Bill. Mr. Disraeli, in the discussion on Civil Service ap pointments, averred that the establishment in question was In an unsatisfactory state. This statement is contradicted by the superior officers of the Mint, who declare it to bo totally groundless, and merely prompted by the necessity of justifying a recent appointment. At a mass meeting of the South Yorkshire miners, It has been resolved that circulars bo issued to tll the South Yorkshire colliery proprietors, asking their co-operation in the formation of Courts of Arbitration and .... ....-...._ THIRD E DITIO N NOTICE. The Third Edition of " The Su..l " of last Evening was published in time for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. SPORTING INTELLIGENOE—This Day STREATIIAH RACES—This DAY. SUBURBAN PLATE. Primula„ W.O. COMMITTEE PLATE. ' Order • Lord Walde g r a v c 2 Three rau. SELLING STEEPLECHASE. Owen Swift 1 Wade Ilarringtou •• 3 Four ran. HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE. Lucy w.o. CROXTON PARK MEETING_THIS DAY. BELVOIR CASTLE STAKES. Provider 1 Tim Bobbin Lancet Five ran. 3 BILLESDON COPLOW STAKES. Chorister 1 Foot Ball •• 2 Acceptance Six ran. GRANBY HANDICAP. Provider Lancet.... Viscount St. Albans Six rau. FOURTH EDITION. SUN OFFICE, 7.45 P.M. THERSK itACES—Tms DAL SCURRY HANDICAP. Colonel P. Fair Elisa TYRO STA KES. Guilty ~., 1 Pink filly Little Julia...., 2 FALCON PLATE. Honesty Clarionette Little Bo Peep 3 Thirteen ran. SILVER CUP. Snowflake 1 Mavourneen Girl Graduate 3 Eight ran. BO ROUG STAKES. Maraquita 2 La , ly Tholth or p o . 3 :'lying Jib Nine ran. TIIIUSK HANDICAP. Pretty John llonestisn Meliora ...... 1 Four ran. STREATHAM RACES—This DAY. NORBURY PLATE. Little Coates Silk 2 Claymore Pour ran. HUNTERS' - STEEPLECHASE. Leotard Panther 2 Throe ran. CROXTON PARK RACES—Tuts DAY. CROXTON PARK PLATE. . _ Foresight Veda Jeannie Deans 1 Four rau. ... SCURRY STAKES. Twigg Saturnalia Glenlivat •• 3 1 Six rau. THE CUP. g St. Albans. Esparto.. • • •• Flve, tan. ALT HAM PLATE. - Freeman Miss Bosquet Three ran. FARMERS' PLATE Casse Teto.. Emma......... Martha 1 1 2 2 U 3 Four ran, TWO THOUSAND. 11 to 1 agst Alpenstock (taken) VICTORIA CLUB BETTING-I'ms DAT. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 100 to 30 agst Marquis of Carabas (offered-4 to 1 taken and wanted) sto 1 agst Alpenstock (offered—take 6to 1) 9to 1 agst Gondolier (taken) 10 to 1 agst Geant des Battailes (taken) 100 to 8 agst See-Saw (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Restitution (taken and wanted) 25 to 1 agst Cork Jacket (taken) CHESTER CUP. 100 to 12 agst Paul Jones (offered—take 9 to 1) 20 to 1 agst Knight of the Garter (taken) 22 to 7 agst St. Mungo (taken) 25 to 1 agst Dalby (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 100 to 40 agst Wild Oats (taken and offered) 5 to 1 agst Belladrum (offered— take 11 to 2) sto 1 agst Pretender (offered) 100 to 9 agst Alpenstock (taken and offered) 100 to 5 agst Martyrdom (taken) 100 to 3 agst Tasman (taken and offered) DI3RBY. 3to 1 agst Pero Gomez (offered—take 325 to 100) 1000 to 60 agst Ladas (taken) 5000 to 300 agst Belladrum (taken) 15 to 1 agst Ryshworth (offered) 20 to 1 agst Duko of Beaufort (taken) 20 to 1 agst Drummer (taken) 28 to 1 agst Alpenstock (taken and offered) 1000 to 30 agst Martyrdom (offered) 2000 to 30 agst Vagabond (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Royal Rake (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Treason (taken) IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—THIS DAY. The SPELLER took the chair at 12 o'clock. LICENSING BEEREIOUSES. Mr. KAVANAGH asked the Chief Secretary for Ire land whether ho would object to have the provisions of the bill to amend the law for licensing beerhouses ex tended to Ireland. Mr. C. FORTESCUE said he had examined the bill now before tho House with a view to ascertain whether its provisions could be extended t 3 Ireland, but he thought it somewhat premature at present, before the bill had passed through committee, to state whether it would be better to make the bill applicable to, or to legislate separately for Ireland. POOR LAW (IRELAND) AMENDMENT BILL. Mr. MACUALION moved the second reading of this bill, and in doiu3 so the hon. gentleman said it was almost similar to s. bill introduced to the house in 1866. The chief object of the bill was to extend the area of taxa tion for rating to the relief of the poor, and thus relieve Conciliation for the settlement of the present and future the towns from the burden of maintaining the poor driven disputes. into them by eviction from the rural districts. Ile con- Mr. Whalley's Bill for the abolition of turnpike tended, therefore, that there ought to be in Ireland the old trusts has been published. The bill gives power to law of removal and settlement as it prevailed in Eng land, or a system of union rating. two-thirds of the ratepayers in any parish to abolish any turnpike trust or bridge within that parish. After the abo- Mr. BRUEN strongly opposed tins bill, and m oved that lition of the turnpike trust the road is to be maintained as it be read a second time that day six months . public highway. Mr. KNIGHT seconded the amendment ,an pe d lt u e rg f e a d il t u h r a e t , union rating in England had prove d a complete A return just published shows th a t be tween the 7th of March, 1861, and the 26th o f August, 1835, owing prevailed t o h tine parishes absenco of w t h h e a r t e evsystemery7o:flotaiiyrsupervisionedrenh sa d a d which irect tdvancos to the amount of £18,700 were ma d e to Maynooth personal interest in keeping down th : t l Ire o lLd should be placed College by the Commissioners o f P u bli c W or k s. Of t hi s Mr. KAVANAGH u r g ed sum £5,304 has been repaid u p on th e p r i nc i p l e o f an annuity. l i n u n lespect to its poor la ws upon the same footing as En,. 111. T. C. FOIITE3CI admitted the existence of great Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal High- irrularities in various electoral divisions in Ireland, aesses Princesses Louise and Beatrice and Prince Leopold, and thought that further information was desirable. He left Windsor Ca s tle on Tuesday for Slough Station, whence should therefore support the second reading of the bill with t h e view of referring it subsequently to a select tom - the travelled by special trian on the Gr e at W es te rn Itailway lo Paddington. Her Msjesty was there received by the mit"' . !Ike DO \N NING denied the necessity of further inquiry, Erectors and an escort of Lancers, and proceeded to Buck- • the..,ffect tf which would be merely to shelve the question incham Palace. for another session. On Monday, at the Bristol Assize Court, George Mr. GREGORY thought the wholo subject should be Radford Webb was found guilty of having committed per- de reYred until next session, as Parliament had quite jury as a witness against Mr. W. T. P. Watkins, when that e n 37.igh to do at present to settle the question of the Irish gentleman was charged before the magistrates with cloth g Cl at rch. an the palling day. The trial lasted all day, and the ver- Lord C. J. HAMILTON spoke until a quarter to six, iict was given after the jury had been locked up two hours w'hain in accordance with the rules of the House the de tnd a half. The juige was at his lodgings when the ver- brae. closed. list was returned ; conseqaently sentence was deferred. j ".IChle house adjourned at a few minutes before six. Learly en 80 ;in it S the hers fl,.q to Victor 1 1 1