The Sun. — London, England, 1869-07-21 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. Consols declined to-day, at 93 2k for money ; ditto, for Ac3ount, 92k 3 ; Three per Cent. Re duced, 92k ; New Tree per Cents, 92j ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 7 prem. ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, —; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 12; ditto 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 101 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 5 pa- Cent., 1051 ; ditto Debentures, 104 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 20 prem. In the Foreign Stock Market prices are as as follow :—Argentine, 801 to 81; Egyptian (1864), 911 to 92,1 ; ditto (1868), 78 to 781 ; Viceroy Seven per Cents., 814 to 821 ; ditto Nine per Cent., 97/ to 98 ; Brazilian, 84+ to 851 ; Italian, 534 to 55; Mexican, 121 to 124 ; Peruvian, 771 to 78 ; Rus sian (1866), 921 to 94 ; Orel-Vitebsk, 83 to 831 ; Charkof, 811 to Bi 2 ; Moscow, 81+ to 814 ; Nicolas, 671 to 68; Spanish, 291 to 291; Turkish Five per Cents., 441 to 441 ; and Turkish Six per Censt., 661 to 661. American 5-20's are 821 to 831, and Eries 184 to 194. In Hallway shares business is dull, and prices are marked as follows :—Caledonian, 814 to 821 ; Great Eastern, 38a to 381 ; Great Northern, 107 to 108 ; Great Northern (A), are at 106 to 107 ; Great Western, 504 to 511; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 126 to 1261 ; London and Brighton, 451 to 454 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 164 to 171 ; London and North-Western, 118+ to 119+ ; London and South Western, 89 to 91 ; Metropoli tan, 100 to 1001 ; Midland, 117/ to 1174 ; North Eastern (Berwick), 1084 to 1091; and South Eastern ; 764 to 77+. In Bank Shares Consolidated are 1 better, at 44 to 44.; while Imperial Ottoman is 1 lower, at 3 to 34 prem. ; Anglo-Austrian, 18 to 20 prem. ; Alliance, 141 to 151 ; Imperial, 161 to 164 ; Lon don and Westminster, 591 to 60; Oriental, 42 to 43 ; London Joint Stock, 31fr to 321; and Union of London, 35 to 36 ex div. Anglo-American Telegraph is quoted at 211 to 22 ; Atlantic Telegraph, 21f to 22i ; ditto Eight per Cent. Preference, 34 to 31 ; French Cable, 21 to 221. In Miscellaneous Securities there is a decline of 1 in Royal Mail Steam ; Peninsular and Oriental are 46 to 48 ; Hudson's Bay, 12} to 12i ex div. The principal country markets have declined ls. to 28. since Monday. Floating cargoes off coast are difficult to sell, except:at easier rates. At Mark lane to-day prices are drooping, both English and foreign wheats were difficult to sell, at Monday's decline. Barley maintains its value. Beans and peas, of which the crops are not favourable, still tends upwards in value. The Court of Chancery has granted an order to the debenture trustees of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway to distribute among the holders the sum of £35,000. Arrangements, it is stated, are also nearly completed whereby, from the sale of certain securities by the trustees, a further amount will be divided. A telegram has been received by the French Cable Company to the ffect that permission for landing the cable has been given by the Government of the United States, on conditions accepted by the agents of the company in America. The su►n of £70,000 in gold was taken to the Bank yesterday. The City of Boston, which left New York on Saturday, has on board £55,000 for England. The Manchester markets this week have opened nominally without alteration, but in consequence of the Royal visit there has been scarcely any busi ness. The report of the London Financial Association (Limited), to be presented on the 26th inst., states that the total liabilities have been reduced to £219,000, which is £23,000 less than at the last half -yearly meeting. On the whole, the position of the association is regarded by the directors as being One of gradual improvement. The spirit of intolerance on the part of the opera tive classes which has so long been a serious draw back to the progress of Australia and Canada seems to have been aroused to a more than ordinary point in California by the ability displayed by Chines€ immigrauts to compete satisfactorily in the labour Market. Acoording to the last accounts, the Miners' Union of Virginia City anl Gold Hid, Nevada, hue called a working men's mass meeting to re sist the introduction into the mines of Chinese Coolies, who, it is asserted, are sapplanting white men in every occupation in the Pacific States. The Committee of the Stock Exchange have this day appointed Friday, the 23d inst., a special settling day in the Five per Cent. Preference Stock, 25 per cent. paid, of the Great Westerc of Canada Railway Company, which is to be marked in the official list. The Committee have also Or dered the Mauritius Government £lOO,OOO Loan °F January, 1'869, and the shares of the Brazilian St reet Rail way Company (Limited), to be officially quoted—.the latter iu the twice a week list only. The Metropolitan Railway traffic return this Week shows an increase of £2,648 over the correa -I)"aing week of last year. e meeting of the Westminster Palace Hotel ° l nPany (Limited) is called for the 27th instant, When a dividend is to be considered. 1-)lvidend warrants, at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, for the half-year ending the 30th lul e , have been issued by the St. J a mes H o t e l Com pany (Limited). A petition for the winding up of the Consoli dated" Land C ompany o f F rance (Li m it e d) i s to b e I'd before Vi ce -Ch ance ll or M a lins on the 23d instant. „ te petition for the winding up of the North Kent nsion Railway Company is to be heard before Vice- Chancellor James on the 28th inst. BAt the h a lf- year l y meet i ng o f t h e I mper i a l a nk (Limited) the report was adopted. In reply a shareholder, the chairman, Mr. Alderman n 11 *) M.P., stat e d th a t it was ne ith er a d v i sa bl e t he necessary t o re d uce t h e li a bili ty ex i st i ng upon shares, and he discouraged the mooting of the q ue stion. The proposed dividend of the City Bank was a greed to at the meeting of shareholders held yes terday. 1:110 half-yearly meeting of proprietors of the a nk of A ustralas i a i s convened f or t h e 16 t h o f Augu4t, BRITISH FUNDS-TWO O'CLOCK. a (10VERNKENT FUNDS.' P!'w Cant. Con so l s a 4'itto for Account, July 7 I „,. ew P4)r ()ow. Iteduc e d 32/ 1 Ne w per ()eat ,-, per Cent. Jan. 1894 4,'". per Oen J an. 1873 Pc'. ior 30 ' • sth April 1885 — t gra, aspire 4 ' o (lied Sea Telehraph), Aug., 1908 — /cello:1113r Hills, 41,000, 2/ p. Ct. March D 1)0 o. 420 Cent 3 .tdo4soBJune /3 44 k of E ngland Stock, 1/ per Da C ' opening — 1 411 4 4 per Cent. Bon Indi a max GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. h Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 — -'-',,Q• (honing, for Account — De ' 0 Per tient. Oct 1880 -°* 4 Pet' Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Dixfaced Pape. 4 per Cant..,.... — 13 1) ° °' ' 1872 ... lO5l 11.-•) 1.% i _.p er Coat. May 1679 '" per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 .0 0 — do 1877 188' Do. toads, ., 4 per Cont., 41,000 130. undrir 41.000 FOREIGN FUNDS- TWO O'CLOCK. 41;rg e ntine Rep u bl ic, 6 per Cent 3 • 11 itrian Bonds 5 par cent — Do. lhariliaii 6 per CentlBs9 Cl 'a• 4i per Cent '9 (Pm , en%.. 1852 Po. do _. are. 1858....• 73i 4 a,,. 186 " 72 3 Do. do., 1 863 — Po• 5 per Cent., 1865 T 1 'Jo A t , ti 'exiou Agreeeco per Cent. Cis derCent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Cnt. ket geakp. ttttt mfinfitimilitum Do. 4} per Cent. — Do. 3 per Cent., Po. 6 per cot , t. 1867 — Do. 7 per Cent., 1866 CI lombian, 6 per Cent. Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825 , — Datr.lian Principalities, 7 ler Cent B3 Do 8 per Cent., 1867 ... Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent. Egyptian, 7 per C0nt..... B6} 1.43 ,Second issue •• — Do. £5O(, Bonds — D0..£100 Bonds ••••., Do. 1864 — Do. Account Do. £5OO Bonds Do. 4100 Bonds Do. 7 per Cont., 1868 tiov,truntont Ilailwav oohniturei ..... 98} Gros 5 per °cut., 1824 5, ex Coups — D,. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account /aatemala 5 per Cent .. — Honduras Gov Rail.Loon.,lop. Ct.,allpd 83} It4lian 5 per rent., 1865 — a Jo. Account . — Do l'ilstremmana Railway — Xsaicas 3 per Cent — Ditto fcr Account Do. 1864 — Do 6 p'r Cont. Anglo-French — dontevidwan 6 per Cent .. — Vic crish Imperial 5 per Cent Xew G'rana.la — Do 3 per Con Do. Deftirred Po •nrian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account.... Do 4i per Cont. (111:iiarreu) Do 4i per Ci2nt., 1862 -. — Do Account — Por sguc,se; i per Ct., lt-si;, '6, 7,';0,'60,'2.': 331 Do. do. 1867 Do. do. Scrip, £2O pail — RISSiAII 5 per Cent., 152?,, X Si. Do 4} per Cent 1850 Do 4f per Cont., 1860 Do 3 per Cont., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 ... Do :do, Scrip — Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Booth-. Do. do. £B4 15s. do — Do.. 1866, £lOO Bonds 9l} DJ. do £B4 los do — Do Nicolas Railway 6l Sarlinian 5 pia Cent Spanish 3 per Con . — Do. Ace/Aunt 3l Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferrea — Do. Account Do. Passive — Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Turkish 6 per Obnt. ••• . .. Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account - - Do £lOO Bonds — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 6Bk Do 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1860 66i f Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Venezuela 3 per Cent. — Do. Accbunt Po 6 per Cont., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 — Dividends on the abore payable in London. Austrian o par Cent. Ex 10 Florine - Belgian 4} per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch if per Cent. Ex. 12 GO Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates 561- Do. Account French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — Jt•ilian 5 per Cent. 1861, Ex. Zsi. - Do Account 5ll 5 IWO O'CLOCK. 3onsols, Money •• O 921 Do. Account, August 5 IAL IMPERIAL 2ARL IA ME T HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Tins DAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. A number of petitions were presented, praying the hoes not to agree to the Lards' amendments in the Irish Church Bill. THE HUSH CHURCH DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. Mr. MILBANK said he:wished to put a question on a point of order; it was whether any apology or redress could be demanded in the House of Commons from a peer who, in his place in the House of Lords, uses language of an insulring nature to the Prime Minister as the leader of a groat party, and insulting to the dignity of the House of Commons. The SPEAKER said it was necessary that the hon. member should give notice of his intention to do so. Mr. MILBA/4li said he wished to put the question on a po:nt of order and privilege. The SPEAKER informed the hon. member that it was neither a point of order nor a point of privilege, and such a question as that of the hon. member could not with pro piety be addressed to him. The hon. member ought to be aware that this house is not supposed to be cognizant of anything that passed in the course of any debate which took place in another place, but quite the c3ntrary. HyroTLIEO ABOLITION (SCOTLAND) BILL. The adjourned debate on this bill was resua;od. MA 1? KE7 S-2 H/S Di! I'. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. July 21.—Sales probably 8,000 bales. The market quiet. BANK OF FRANCE. --+ PARTS, July 15. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. July 15.: July 8. fr. c. fr. c. Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve of landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation Banknotes to orderand receipts payable at sight 36,713,186 85 36,010,170 60 Treasury account cur rent creditor 186,139,238 87 176,504,464 97 Current accounts, Paris 276,912,647 54 310,254,485 16 Do. branch banks 40,485,743 44,266,878 Dividends payable 4,326,835 6,075,789 —: Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distribteed — Sundries Total CREDITOR. July 15. July 8. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. Branch banks Commercial bills over due Commercial bills dis- counted, not yet due 330,573,988 87 327,231,923 16 Do. branch banks 266,111,535 269,395,863 Advances on deposit of bullion 8,640,200 8,364,300 Do. branch banks 7,210,500 7,711,700 Do. on French Public Securities 14,319,200 14,176,300 Do. by branch banks 6,814,409 6,787,400 Do. on railway shares and debentures Do. branch banks Do. on Credit Fancier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Government Stock re- serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Rontes Immobalisees (Law, Juno 2, 1857) 1C0,000,000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the 13&nk and landed propel ty branches 8,977,115 8,970,737 Expenses of manage ment 101,583 10 6,515,7 87 Sundries Total The trial of the Catrington-Murray case will come on at the Middlesex Session on Friday. The great fete of the Royal Dramatic College will be held at the Crystal Palace on Saturday next, under entirely new arrangements, and in the presence of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of • Wales. Selections from ten of the most popular plays will be given on the great stage, in which Mdlle. Schneider, Mrs. Stir ling, Miss Amy Sedgwick, Mrs. Mellon, Mrs. Herman Vezin, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss E. Darren, Miss M. Oliver, Miss C. Saunders, Miss Lydia Maitland, Miss Amy Sheridan, Miss E. Balton, Miss Claire, Miss 11. Hodson &c. ; Messrs. Benjamin Webster, C. Santloy, J. Clarke, J. L. Toole, Barry Sullivan, F. Matthews, D. James, T. Thorne, J. C. Cowper, W. H. Stephens, J. Maclean, Joseph Eldred, R. Soutar, &c., will appear in character. After the presentation of purses to the Princess of Wales, the most brilliant display of fireworks over given at the Palace will take place. D wit-tux and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Desurprtrbuildings,StrDald,r49l2d9l:l, [A.d yes titleanat, RAILWAYS.-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. With Dividends contingent ou tho Profits of each separate year. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, J ULY 21, 1869 JOINT-STOCK B ANKS. Closing Business Share NAME. Paid. Price. done 10 Agra Limited, A all 104 1i 1 19 Do B lO 24 34 50 Albion 00 Alliance, Limited 20 Anglo Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 201 214 20 Anglo-Hungarian 8 11 2 9i 20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 .51 41 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia all 10 12 20 Do issued at 2 pm....., 5 5 4 25 Bank of Egypt 20 Bank of Otago, lim. 25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32 50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39 10 Bank of New Zealand all 16 17 50 British North American 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, .nd China all 13 19 25 Chartered Mere. of India London, and China. all 32 31 30 } 20 City 1 ) 11 12 111 100 Colonial '2s 38 41 10 Consolidated, lim 50 Delhi and London, lim 50 East London, lim 20 English and American, lira 10 ... ..• 20 English Bank of Rio de Ja neiro, lim . 10 pr 1p 20 English, Scottish, and Ails. tralian Chartered - all 64 17 101 281 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation ~ all 36 33 281 Do n0w......... 54 2/ 24 100 Imperial, Una 2O 15 16 20 Imperial Ottoman lO 21 zi 13} i s 5 lonian. all 19 22 25 Do new 5 6 3 Lad Mortgge of India, lira 4 04 31 i 100 Dos p. c. Debs.l36l, 30 all 76 76 80 100 London Banki of Mexico and South America, lira. 20 7 6 in 100 London and Brazilian, lira. 45 30 27 20 Do ne w 71 0 41 100 London & River Plate, lim. 40 6 8 25 Do new 10 If 2 p 114 20 London Chart. of Australia all 2s ; 2.if 20 London and C0unty........, 20 491 001 50 Do now, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd. II ... .. London Joint 5t0ck........, 1 311 324 Loudon and South African al 8; 9 t 100 London &S.-Western, lira, 20 13 11 50 London & Venezuela, Km_ 121 . ... 100 London and Westminst er. 2 0 61 62 100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O ... ... 100 Merchant, lim 25 6 5 10 Metropolitan, lim all 7/ 74 00 Midland, lim . 5 National of Australia 25 National of Liverpool, lim l5 3d 1p 00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ... 10 Do . . 42 ... ... 41 50 National. 3O ... .. 20 New South Wales all 41 43 20 North-Western 25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 4 t 42 50 Provine. Bank. Corpo., lira lO 61 51 30 Provincial of Ireland 25 9) 92 10 Do new, all ... 100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, Ihn 25 14 1 i 100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6 25 Union of Australia all 47 ti 100 Union of Ireland, lim 110 Union of Loadou l3 371 381 TILE GREAT METEOR. The great meteor which Mr. Herschel described in the Times on Monday was seen by the Duke of Argyll. His Grace writes to the Times :—" On last Friday night I hap- pened to be looking at the sky at the moment of the appearance of the great meteor which is described by Mr. Herschel. As the night was clear, I had an unusually perfect view of the whole course of the meteor. It began in a thin streak of red sparks, very liken common rocket, but as it advanced, which it did with immense velocity, the light became more and more brilliant until it rose to that of an intense white heat.' It gave off jets or sputterings of light along the whole of its Course, and from both sides of its body. These were partictilarly remarkable when the meteor was at its maximum of splendour. Its disappear ance was extremely sudden, as if its substance were wholly consumed. For a second there was left a train of sparks. I could hear no sound. It began not far from the zenith, and the dirt;ction of its path was from N.N.W to S.S.E., but the whole course was very short." Another observer of the meteor writes :—" Its path was not continuously illuminated, but appeared broken, for quite half the length of its flight, into a train of brilliant sparks. Its termination was marked by an explosion and a display of incandescence which lighted up the objects around us as in full moonshine. The smaller meteoric bodies into which the principal mass became divided were very quickly extinguished, end I looked in vain for the luminous track in the heavens which sometimes lingers after these brighter kinds of meteoric displays." SHARE LIST. StiDLN AM" aitattlo3 AND STOCK& .hare fiatlwxys. Paid. Closing i3L sine!! Price. Gene. at liriatol and Exeter 100 77 70 at Caledonian ....ft.... 110 $2 82j 82 11 at Cambrian 23 Cornwall. at Dublin & Belfast June lOO 7 . 7 79 st Dun„Perth.&Ab.Junc ;00 70 72 2) East London all 61 74 20 Do 15 Do 10 at Glasgow .1c S. Western lO3 10:1 105 at Great Eastern .. 1 03 385 33 331 1 st Do. E. Aug]. No. 2 lOO ... st tircat North of Scotlaw4 lOO 16 11 at Great Northern ... 100 107 on.; s 1 Do. A stock. tit Do. 11 stock 11:0 81 MS. and W. 04 Irewri.t lOO s 5 81 lit. We,:tern -Original lOO 51 51i 511 st Do. South Wales leo 54 56 st Do. W. ',llld.—Uxtord ll,O 20 27 st Do. Newport lOO 175 SO st Lancashire a Yorkshire lOO 1255 .264 1244 et Lon., Brigh.ott S.Coaet lOO 45 454 45} 0) Do Scrip ....• all at I on., Chat., and Dover lOO 16/ 174 31 Do. Metrop. Ex. A at Lon. North Western lOO 1:1 114 11 7 et Lon. do South NI ectern lOO 8o Si , t Zlsn., Shot., & Lincoln lOO 56 57 561 it St..troi.oiltmt st Do Eatonsi .n 100 :,101 1)1 5 Du. New rd id st Me ~opolitan Dintrict. all hletrop :it. John's 11 oo I 8 - st st 00, iSirdon..K I).r by at N British st Do. 11.1:1., i'th. . & Dui,. 103 st or. 4 :astern--I;erwick.. 100 103 10) 23 Do. (1. N. 51 purchast t6.11.i st Do Leeds. 63 05 at Do York lOO 58 19 st Do Carli,le .. . st Do Stoc . •ik Darling 'CO 136 128 st North Lou ton 10 Do Aew 18'8 st North Staffordshire [CO 57 59 st North and S.-W. Junction 100 V 3 100 10 Do New .1:10 shares 7 ... • • st Rhymney st Shropshire. Uniun 1(0 531 5 i st South Devon'.. st South Eastern lOO 771 7.,/ 77 & st Staines, Wok'ham, & Wok all 12 13 st 'Call V ele luo 152 155 -- Do. (3 .. - - Waterford & Kilkenny 1(0 - 10 Waterloo & Whitelta:l 6 RAILWAYS-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. st Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 86 88 st Caledonian Qrs., No. 2 lOO ... st Do. Scot. N.E., 4y per cent lOO st Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c lOO ... st Do. do. 7 per cent lOO ... st D'). do. Ordinary lOO 76 82 st Do. Midland at Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent gua... all ... st Dundee, Perth, and Aber- dcen junctioh lOO 105 107 at Do. let Class preference lOO at Was. & S.W. gua. 5 per ct lOO st ult. Eastern, E.G Ex. No.l 100 9J 101 at Do do N 0.2 100 97 100 st Do do 6 per cent 100 107 110 st Do East Anglian Asp. c. 100 ... st Do do B 6 do. 100 at Do do C 7 do. 103 ... at Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 ... at Do E. Union 4p. c. gua. 100 70 75 at Do Norfolk 5 p.c. Ex. 1646 100 ... st Do do 5 p.c.Wa5.V9.1.1847 100 ... at Great Northern, 5 per cent 10 , at Do 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. c. pm. 100 Do 41 do do do 100 at Do 5 do at sp. c. pm. 100 ... st Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent lOO ... st Gt. Nrth of Scotland, let pf 100 st Great South. and Westeru (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 96 97 at Gt.Weat.—Orig.&Jut.-Rent chg., per gua.s p.c lOO 102 104 at Do. Orig. (B. &H. Ex). 5 p.c lOO 95 100 at Do do 41 per cent. 1850 lOO 87 89 at Do do 4 do do at Do do 5 per cent. redom lOO 95 97 st Do do Birmingham gua lOO 63 72 at Do do do pref lOO at Do do Chester gua lOO 85 9 ) at Do do do 8 per cent lOO st Do do do 5 do 100 95 100 at Do South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 .., at Do do 41 p.c lOO at Do do 41 1859 lOO at Do do 5 at Do West Mid. Oxford Ist g IOJ 110 112 at Do do 2d gua lOO 107 111 at Do Newport, lstg. 5 p.c lOO 90 92 st Do do 2,1 do 100 97 10.) at Do gua. 51 per cent. 1853 100 00 Lancaster & Carlisle 41 p.c. all at Lancash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1 3 135 at Do Barnsley, £5 3s 10d p.a. DJ at Do 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 130 115 at Do 41 (Blackburn parch). 100 98 100 at; London & Brighton, 5 p.c. guaranteed, No 1 lOO at ; Do 5 per cent. gut". No. 2. 100 „. at Do 6 do do lOO ... st Do 5 do N).l lOO ... st Do 7 per cent l4O st Do 6 do (W.E. 0.. e.) 100 _ _ st Da 4 do 10k) st London, Chatham, 64 Dover 5 per Cent ICO st Loudon and U. and Nuneaton 5 per cent lOO 11J II: st Do Bedford &thranbridge lOO st DJ Shrewsb'y & WeWilla lO3 st Laudon an W. 7 p,c late 3,1 shares, — 100 140 150 Do (Portsm.perpaas 256,1) ... . . a AlLit;., Sher., &,..l.ditelu. G p.c 100 ... Do .gg all par i pat a Do 31 per cent NO GO 65 1 Do redeem. 6 per cent 5 ... ... st Ilid. Consolidated., 6p. c... 100 13.) 135 s Do Bristol p. CDO 1 2 131 s Do 41 per cent. redeem DO 1:8 luJ s Do 4,-; per cent. irredeeln 100 93 lio Et Do Leicester ,tl.l'chn,4 p.c. 100 8,) t'l st North British, 5 p.c. No. 1 st Do E. d; U. 4p.c.S. & D at Do N. 8., N 0.2, 5 per con.t lot at Do Border Union, 5: 1 p.c let) st N.-Eastern—Coas. , 1 2 p.c 100 87 85 st Do 41 per cent. redeem luJ 97 1g) st Do U N.E. 4 per cent., lot) 17 Do Berwick capital Do York, &a. purchase. 10 ill Itll Do Stektn 5; Drling. A. 5 p.c. 100 106 106 st Do NV, tlartlepool if. and It 100 81 86 20 North Staffordshire 10s t_4. Devon Annuities, Ls an 9 10 10s Do Tavistock Anus., 10s all S 9 10a Do Fixed 41 per cent all 8 8 1 0.6. S. Last. (ltead..&nus., 1.0.6) all 22 23 st Do 41 per cent lOO st Do Fixed 41 per cent lOO ••• ••• st Taff Vale No.l lOO 11 , 153 st Waterford St Kilkenny, 6pc 100 43 45 et Caledonian 41 p c gua. st Do Scot. Ceu. min. 7p c lOO ... st Do 41 p all at Do 4p e con. issued at 80 65 st Great Eastern 41 per cent. 100 77 Si st Do 5 do, 1862 lOO 87 by st Do New 5 do, 1863 lOO 85 a st Do do 5 do, 1861— 100 f 34 86 st Great Northern, 5p c irred. 100 st Do Permanent 5 per cent. 100 ... st Do Boston & Sleafd, 4f pc 100 ... st Great West., W. liidl., 5p o 100 st Do Joint I,erpe. 5 p c,1865 100 88 92 st Do do 6p c irred., 1866 100 103 103 20 Do Vale N oath peril. 5p e all 19 20 st Kent Coast, 6 per cent, B lOO ... 5 Lane. and York New 41 per cent till July, 1871 2 1p st Loud., Brig &c., 41 pc, 1858 100 ... st Do do 4 do, 1860 100 st Do do 41 do, 1861 100 ... st Da do 41 do, 1863 100 ... st Do do b do, 1865 100 st Do No. 6 5 do, 1866 100 st Do No. 7 sdo st Loud , Chat., &c., 2d, 6 p.c., lOO st 110 Metrop. Ex., B 6 p.e 100 ... Do do C 6 p.c at London& N. Western, 5p e 100 110 112 st London &S. Western, 41 p o 100 t 3 95 10 Man. Shef. & Lin., 5 pc, 1865 all 81 81 st Metropolitan 5 per cent lOO 1.)0 102 st Midland, A 5 per cent pref lOO 107 100 at Do B 5 do 100 107 109 18 Do 5p c opt. to cony. to Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1860 all 201 211 18 Do Inconv. New Shares all 19 191 19/ 22 Do 5p c con, into Old StkrAu v•LL 81 11 21p st North Britian, E. and (1 No. 1, 5 per cent ...... 100 ... at Do £lO guaranteed, 1861 100 ... Do E 2d,4 pc 100 ... at Do 14:.& G , N 0.2, 5 p.c ... 100 ... at Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1862 100 at Do E. & G., No. 3, 5 p.c ... 100 at Do E. & G., (Ordiry) 41 p c 100 st North Eastern, 41 per cent 100 85 97 at Do Stock. & D 100 in 113 at North London, 4, per cent (Max. 5 per Cent)" at North Staffordshire 5p e lOO ... ... at South Eastern, 44 pe, 1850 100 ... ... st Do 5 do 1361 100 ... ..„ at Do sdo (Oh. Cross) 1863 100 .. "'at Do 5 do, 1864 ••• ••• at Victoria St. & Pimlico, 4a pc 100 ... ... RAILWAYS.-LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS] st Bin/ennead IOU 9z 9 lop Do. 41 per cent. Prefer.., all 100 102 at Buckinghamshire et Chester and Holyhead lOO 51 56 st Do. 51 per cent. st Do. 5 do. ... st Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO et Colchester Stour Valley at East Lincoln, gua. 6p. c lOO 132 134 20 Gloster and Dean Forest an ..„ s Gt. Easu., Newm., &c., 5 p.c 100 a Do. E. 11. Harwich, 4 p.c 100 st Do. do. Woodbrg. Ex., do 100 st Gt. West ,W. Mid., Here! 100 96 9 3 50 Hull and Selby all 110 111 st Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 212 2 6 st London and Blackwall lOO 93 9 5 at Do. 41 per cent lOO st London, Chat., &C., 41 p c st - Do. Com. Fund, 5 do 100 at London and Greenwich st Do. do Preference lOO st London, Tilbury, & South 100 so st Lowcatof t, gua 4 per cent lOO 79 81 st Do. do. 6 do. 5} Manch., Buxton ; &Matlk at 51 idlaud, Bradford, Pref lOO 94 94 10 Mid Kent Cray Line) Su Northern& East.,s percent all 53 56 so Do. do. 6 do. all at N. Easters—Hartlep00l at N.West. A peril. pref, 5p c lO9 107 109 st Do B minimum 1,1 p.c lOO ct Betting. S. - (*mutt. li. & C lOO 91 92 23 Preston and Wyre.. ....... all 44 46 ... Roy aton, Hitch., and Step. 100 132 134 1321 st Snrewsbury and Hereford 100 132 131 10 Do do 8 2 21p at S. Yorksh. and River Dun 100 97 99 st De 4 per cent gua lO 78 80 st Do 5 do st Viet. Station and Pimlico lOO 175 Ifo st West Cornwall lOO 57 5i 20 West London, Class A all 13 14 20 Do do B all 20 Du do C all at Weymouth and Portland lOO st Wilts and Somerset DOCKS. et East and Westlndia lO9 111 121. st London and St. Katherine lOO 94 46 100 D oDeb. stock, 4 per cent all Millwall Freehold Land st Dock lOO 30 34 et Southampton lOO OS 70 65i at Surrey OQuipaorcial ~,,,, •• (*() Y :ziNA bis:UIJILIT 1 tritivb Columbia, 0 per 0ent.,1872 100 _ Uo. 181.5 l9O —.— • Can.li3v.6 p.c.Jan. , &J my 1877-81 • Do. 6p. 0 7e13. & Aug lOO 102 11.)5 Do. sp. 0. Mar. .t Sept lOO 102 164 Do. 6p. 0. Jan. & July lOO isB i.O 93 Do. sp. c. Inscribed sk lOO 90 92 Cape (3.110pe, 6 p. 0.1 87 3.• 10e 102 101 Do.Ap1.&001 1890-1900 lOO 111 113 Do. do 1880-90 lOO 107 109 Do. Jan.&July. 1891 Do. 5 per oent. 15 April and 16 Dot., 1900 lOO 98 100 Ceylon. Nov 1878, 6 p.c lOO 108 lit Do. 1872, do lOO 105 ldr Mauritius, 6p. 0, 1 871 0 Jan. and July Do. 1878 ... ........ Do. 1882, May and NO. Do. 1895, Feb. & An 2...• lO 1)6 103 Melbourne Corporate., 1867-75, 6 per cent..." 1(0 100 100 N.8.G0v.6 p.c.Ja.&July lOO 103 11.4 10, 110! ,88 107 f Natal 0p a, Apl& Oct O3 --.— Do 6p a. May & Nov l .O 1 , -6 10b N. S.W. 5 p •c., '7l to ' 73 .. 100 99 101 -- Do. 5 p.o. 1868 to 1 396 lO3 98 1 3 91 32/ i Do. 5 p.c. rd.'67 to ' 75 N.Zcaland, 6p. 0t.1891.. 100 __ Do. 6 percent.... - DoJan,Ap-I,July, Oct lOO 93 94 91 i Do 6p c. Mar & kept '9l lOO 103 1 1 0 Do J tine & Deo , 1 - 9 1 iDo rrov. • 1 Auckld. 1 li 0 —.— ( k(rie 1& 2, 1e95... Nova Scotia 6p. c.Jan... —... Do en l B B l 9 n i d .. 5 and Jnly. 1875 Do 1356.. ......... Q u p . ... c . :8 . 2Z ll O OO Tasmanian 6 per c. 1895 . • 064 107 i Du ~9s '97 . , ... Victoria 6 ter cent l,k l l '"O lIS t' 6 Do. April and 0ctri...,.... *3 3 111 112 111+ TELEGRAPH CO3IPA NI ES. /0 • SEgloalherican Tel., Inn all 211 24 :42 10 Anglo Mediter Te1.,1105...: , 0 151 16 st Atlantic Telegraph lO 20 25 st Do. 8 per cent. lOO 65 70 st B. and I. Magnetic Tel., Rm. 'lOO 172 177 st Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 262 2.7 10 Do. New 8 12 14p 25 Indo-European Tel., Rm lO ... ... 5 Loud. Provincial Tel. lim all 31 4 1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all 1 ip 10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., lint all 5 6 761 25 iteuter's 'Telegram all 71 7.1 721 20 Societe Transatlant., Wu all 21 211 21, 21 st Submarine Telegraph 1 Do. Scrip all If If 20 Telegraph Con. &3:lain.,liin all 251 .1 21 5 U. Kingdom Tel. Co., b i n all 61 7 _ 6/ 5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all .1 4, p MISCELLA NEOUS. 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint all 15 lui 25 Australian Agricultural 25 Australian Mort. Land and Finance.lim. 10 Baugarah Tea EstateA, lint 3 45,1 10 Berlin Water Works, Hui all 14 lit 10 Do. New all 131 141 100 Bolckow Vaughan, Lim. 5 Bombay Gas, lien. 5 Do. New 4 11 id 5) British A m:lrican 'Anti 4l 15 17 20 British Indian Tea, li:n. 20 British Ship Owners 29 Canada Company all GG 70 10 Canadian Loan and Invest ment, Ii n 2l 20 Ceylon Company, Him._ 10 . 1 21d 20 Do. A shares 10 City Discount, lim 5 25 City of London Real Pro perty, lim 9 51 41.1 30 City of Milan Improv. lim. all 5 6 25 City of Moscow Gas, lim all 50 City Offices, lira '2s 211 2511 50 Colonial, lim. Do. 50 Commercial Vision (Assur) 5 pr p 10 Company of African Mer chants, lim 20 Continental Union Gas, lim all 23 21 25 Copper Miners of England, prof. 71 per cent. 100 Corporation of Loudon Bonds, 1577, 41 per cent. all 1031 1011 100 Do. 1879, 4/ por cent. all 1011 1051 100 Do. 1882, 4/- per cent. ail 1031 1041 10 Credit Fon. of England, lint. all '2l 24 2 11 16 50 Credit Fon.of Mauritius lim. 10 31 24d st Crystal Palace lOO 23 2i st Do. Preference lOO 92 97 at Do. 6p. c Perpetual Deb lO9 102 110 20 Darjeeling, lim I 0 Eastern Assam, lien. 6l ...d 50 East Indian Land Credit and Finance, line, 20 East India Irriga, & Canal all 32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and Coal, lim. 100 Egyptian 9 per cent. V'roy. Gua. by Egypt. Gov all 971 98 1 98 71 20 Egyptian Com. & Tract. Rm 6 .. • • 3 Eng. & Aust rad. Copper, lim 21 1 15 English and Foreign Credit 71 41 31d 100 Eng. and Scot. Marine, lint. 8 ... 10 Fairbairn Engineering 5 3 25 20 Fore-streetWarohouse,lim l2 1 2 p , 100 For. & Col. Gov. Trust and Loan Scrip, issued at .£B5 all 88 83 50 Gallivant, lim. 2O ... 10 General Credit & Dis., lim 71 1 ad 15 General Steam Navigation 11 27 29 50 Home & Col Marine In. lira. 5 21 2 d 10 Hong Kong and China Gas all ... 20 Hudson's Bay all 12/ 13/ 121 20 Imperial Land Co. of Mar seilles, lim. 20 Interna. Financial Soc. lira 5 2 11 20 Interna. Land Credit, lim 6 6 4d 59 Italian Land 5 ld p 20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all 3 31 100 Do. 6 p. c. Bds., redeem 1870, issued 90 all 65 67 50 Land Securities,lim 5 21 11d 25 London African Trading lO 7 5d 25 Lon. & Caled. liarine, lim 6 ... ...d 10 London County Land and Building, 4 . . ...d 50 Loud. Financial Asso., 11w 30 911 20i Pi 4 Lond.Gen.Omnibus.Co.lim. all 2 25 50 Loud, and Glasg. Engineer and Iron Ship, lira 25 21 16d 20 Lond. & Provincial Marine 2 id pr st Madras Irriga. & Caul. Gila -sp.c. by India Gov. lOO 103 104 10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, lira. .. ll 11 Id 50 Merchant Shipping, lint ••• all 82 37 60 Millwall Iron Works, lira. 121 10 Natal Land and Colonisa tion Co, Rm. 25 National Discount Co., has 5 11 115 25 National Prov. Marine, Has. 4 10 National Steam Ship, lir all 91 101 20 Nerbudda Coal& Iron, Hai. 6 34 3d 10 New Consolidated Die. lim 3 if lid 5 Now Quebrada, lim 4.9.0 44 44 25 New Zealand Loan & Mer. cantile Agency,lim ...... 21 ip 25 New Zealand Trust and Loan, lim 5 11 11 10 Northern Assam Tea, lira 5 7 10 Do. B st North Brit. Austral., lira— 100 48 53 50 North Brit. & Mercan. In 6l 8 194 25 Ocean. Marine (Insurance) 5 13 14 50 Oriental Financial, lim ll S Oriental Gas, lim Do. New 1 1p 10 Otago and Southland In• vestment, lim 3df p 5 Ottoman Gas, lira lf 25 10 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian R. Mail lim -- 5 Do, do. et Peel R. Land & Miner', lira 100 3l 34 50 Peuinsu. & Oriental Steam all 46 43 50 Do. New 1867 lO 3 28 60 Rhymney Iron 1 Do. New 2 Rio de Janeiro City all 17 18 18k Do. Gas, lim all 21 25 100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 4: 44 Scottish Aust. Invest., Um lOO 78 8 $ Do. 6 p. c. Guar. I'rel 10 0 • Societe Fin. d'Egypte, list lO 7 ed Societe oen.de l'Empirc 01 8 21 31 50 S. African Mort. & Inv., link 6 25 South Australian Laud all 33•34 20 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lira 2 24 3 20 Trinidad Petroleum, lim Bl 1.0 Trust & Agency of Aus„liir, 1 4*fp 10 Do do. do. all 20 Trust & Loan Co., U. Canaea 5 50 Union Marine L'pool, lira 5 45 5 p 20 Union Steam Ship, all 22 24 15 United Discount Corp., linl. 6 11 id 20 Universal Marine(lu.), lira 5 1 2 p 10 Upper Assam Tea, lim all 11 2 30 Van Diemar's Land 2Bl a 7 100 Viceroy of Egypt, 7 pe r cent. (Mortgage) Loan., all 821 835 811 21 50 Warrant Finance, 1im..... 12 11 10d 50 West India and Pacill; Steam, lira 2O 5 :3 20 West London Wharves ancl WarehOugiluttp.fiwtm. t 10 ~, 1,0 TH E CROPS. The Mark Lane Express, in its review of the grain trade during the past wet k, says :—" Anw her week, after opening with a thunderstotm, has brought exactly the weather we needed to hasten to matu. ity our backward harvest, and it seems likely to give us a full week or more of benefit as to reaching maturity. But the gardeners and the graziors are b. ginning to cry out for rair, and so it is in sev e ral parts of Europe. TLo rew crop of hay will therefore soon be drawn upon, and we are sorry to hear there are many stocks heated, the sap in the grass this season being more abundant than calculated by some who were hasty in getting it up. Oats, too, and barley would be benefted by general showers, and the wheat might work more kindly." The Nenagh Guardian, speaking of the crops of Tipperary, says " The farmers in this district are manifesting the most painful anxiety for rain, Experienced farmers, how ever, state that there need be no cause for apprch nsion for a fortnight to come. The present weather has been most servicuble to potato growing and hay making ; the potatoes have grown as if in a hotbed, and the meadows in this part of the country having been nearly all mown and the hay cocked. Cereals promise to be an average crop, the ea: s of wheat and oats looking very full and healthy; po tatoes, if spared the blight, and there is not, we are happy to state, the smallest whisper of it here, will show a good return, both as to quality and quantity; and as for fodder there will be no dearth, as any shortness in straw will be compensated by the abundant yield. The harvest will be a fortnight later than last year's." A Sligo paper says :—" We regret to say that the weather is not at all as favourable as farmers would wish it to be. However, the crops look well, but want a supply of the sun's warmth to ripen them. New potatoes are now plentiful in our markets, and are selling at bd. and 6d. per stone. There is no appearance of the blight whatever, but the late north-westerly wind Las done some damage to the stalks." AGE ICUL7 URAL STATISTICS. The statistics of importation quoted the other week prove that the population of the United Kingdom is becoming more and more dependent upon foreign supplies. The question then arises, are we falling behind in our own production absolutely or only relatively to the rapidly-growing demand ? It is at this point that we feel the want of agricultural statistics. The abstract which has been lately issued states that the acreage under grain in the United Kingdom has increased from 11,459,296 acres in 1866 to 11,660,049 in IE6B, an improve ment of less than 2 per cent. in three years. The acreage under green crops shews much worse results, having actually fallen from 5,064,358 in 1E66 to 4,864,877 in 18f78. The number cf cattle has increased from 8,50,693 to 9,083,416, an advance of 6 per cent. ; sheep from 26,380,248 to 35,607,812, an increase of more than 33 per cent. ; while pigs have fallen elf from 3,997,780 to 3,189,167. But the tables are unsafe guides for several reasons—they only include the last three years, and they are notoriously defective in the returns from particular districts, And as for the live stock, the comparison does not hold good between the 'first return taken before the lamb ing season was over, and time last return, which includes all the lambs, except those which had been killtd and eaten. On referring to the elaborate pamphlet issued some time back by 'Messrs. J. 13. Laves and J. IM. Gilbert, on the " Home Produce, Imports, and Consumption of Wheat," we find that they estimate the area under that cereal to have diminished from 4,006,t;69 in 1854 5 to 3,750,812 in 1868.9, and these last figures do not greatly differ from what the official return, so far as it goes, tells us. The latter, however, gives an estimate of increase in all grain, wheat included ; and, as the point is of some importance, our regret is all the greater that reluctance to give information of slid' interest should deprive us of all means of .arriving at the exact truth. We are afraid, however, the figures tell us quite enough for our purpose; urproximative as they may be, they seem to shew be- yond dispute that while our home production of food has, on the whole, increased, it has in no instance kept pace with the increase' in consumption of im ported food, while in some respects it has fallen back. Absolutely .t here is an augmentation ; relatively to demand we are sure there is • not. But if we consume more and more every year of food from abroad, while our own agri culturists are also producing more largely, what is the inference? The import is increasing because the home market is . constantly getting snore clamorous for supplies. We receive more because the demand is greater.— chamber of Agriculture Tovrnal. Said one gentleman of honour to another, "If you don't accept my challenge, I shall post you in the apers." "Go ahead," said the other, "I had rather fill a dozen papers than one coffin." No arrest has been made in the matter of the out rage on Mr. Warburton, High Sheriff. of Quo'n's county. 'rho county magistrates have held a meeting and excressed a determination to use their ntmost effort to bring the per petrator of the outrage to justice. Mr. Warburton is only twenty-six years of ego. Ilse advowson and next ptnentation to the Rectory of Onilury, near Ludlow, is to be Fold by auction on Tuevcbty, August 3. It is stated that "the United Pack and the Ludlow hounds hunt in the neighbourhood." The living is worth £530 a year. The r ment rector is sixty four years of age, and the ratron is the Earl of Craven. It is whispered that Mr. Rupert Kettle's services as an arbitrator in trade disputes, which have hitherto been gratuitously rendered by that gentleman pro bono publico, are not unlikely to be recognised by the Government, and it is just possible that henceforth, when, instead of " striking," the workpeople are disposed, as Punch advises them, to "put the Kettle on," they may do so under the official sanction of the State. A Select Committee on Parliamentary and Muni cipal Elections concluded the examination of witnesses earlier than was anticipated. Mr. JustiCe Keogh was to have been examined respecting the late election inquiries in Ireland over which his lordship presided, but in consequence of the learned judge being on circuit, his evidence has been dis pensed with. The committee will meet on Friday next to "consider on a report," but it is generally understood that the committee will be reappointed next session. THE PROPOSED DEPUTATION TO MR. GLAD STONE.—The deputation which it was announced would wait upon the Prime Minister to present the mass of reso lutions passed all over the country condemnatory of the Lords' amendments has been postponed. The following extract from a circular issued by the Birmingham Liberal Association explains the reason :—" In consequence of the prompt and decisive action in the House of Commons, we have decided not to hold the intended conference, but to wait the course of events." INSPECTOR TANNER.—After 20 years' service in the Detective Department of Scotland-yard, Inspector Tan ner has retired from the police force on a pension of £lOO a year. In the course of his connection with the police Mr. Tanner has been very successful in tracing and arresting celebrated criminals. Among those whom be apprehended were Mullins, who murdered Mrs Emsley ; Forward, the murderer of three children in a coffee-house at Holborn ; llunt, who committed murder in a cab ; and who killed Mr. Briggs on the North London Railway, having arrested him in New York. The Birmingham papers publish a note from Mr. Plant, tho well-known metcorologist: —The weather became suddenly hot on Saturday afternoon, ho remarks. The thermometer registered 86 degrees in the shade at Moseley. The air was calm and the heat was very op lre.•sive all Saturday night, the lowest reading being 63 degrees. By eight a.m. on Sunday the thermometer was 80 degrees, and at 3 p.m. 88 degrees (in the shade). Suddenly the wind, which had been southelly to south. west, veered to the north-north-west, blowing a gale from that quarter, and by sunset the thermometer had receded to 621 degrees. The rainfall iu Birmingham for the 80 days since the 18th of Juno is almost nil. A Cabinet Cohneil was held this morning at the official residence of the Fiat Lord of the Treas ury D9Tflag-Italt. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times asks if it is too late to implore all who value the interest of the nation and the pacific development of our institutions to escape from the heated atmosphere of Tuesday's excitement into the cooler regions of common sense? It can be to the advantage of no one that the Irish Church Bill should be withdrawn for a season after an outburst of every angrypassion that can disturb human reason. The result would certainly not redound to the honour of the. Ministry. It would be as little creditable to the discretion of the Opposition ; and the Irish Church men, who are most interested in the issue of the present crisis, must feel that the postpone ment of their fate to another session would be too certainly an exchange of whips for scorpions. If the Ministry were to resolve upon withdrawing the bill upon Tuesday night's division, the sense of the country would not approve their precipitation. The Tiines is satisfied the bill may be carried and become law this session, if the principal agents on both sides could divest themselves of the passions and prejudices at present inflaming them. As it is we have Mr. Gladstone speaking in one House with an intolerant majority at his back tending in no degree to soften the asperity of command, and Lord Salisbury in the other with a majority equally assured of its strength, and almost as much disposed to rely upon it. If the political imagination could compass such a fancy as shutting up Mr. Gladstone and the Duke of Argyll, as representatives of one side, and Lords Salisbury and Cairns, as champions of the other, in one room, who can doubt that they would contrive between them to settle the terms of a solution already almost completed? Removed from the excitement of friendly assemblies, they would yield to the power of reason, and Mr. Bright him self might be chosen as their arbiter without • danger of partial judgment. But the peril—and we acknowledge that it is imminent—is that the heat of Parliament may be carried into the Cabinet, and a hasty resolution taken, deferring the further progress of the bill till another session, to the distraction of the country at large, and to the immeasurable detriment of the Irish Church itself. The Standard declares that the House of Lords had a duty to perform to itself far transcending in importance its obligations to the Irish Church. The reception given by the House of Commons, at the instigation of Mr. Gladstone, to their lordships' amendments, had rendered the question of the degree of disendowment of that Church, before the chief and engrossing one, secondary and subordinate. The great issue was whether the Peers should maintain their dignity and vindicate their indepen dence by insisting upon some at least of the amendments so insolently rejected by the Minister, or whether, by abandoning them en bloc, they should definitively accept the position of a mere court for the registration of the decisions of the House of Commons. There was no possi bility of blinking the question. The Prime Minister had taken care that the Peers should find no opportunity, in any concessions on his part, for retiring with honour from their position, and the language of his supporters at public meetings and in the press forced upon every mind the fact stated by Lord Grey, that his object was not so much to carry the bill as to humiliate the Upper House. The practical effect, if not the intended effect,. of,the adoption of the preamble and the 68th clause in the jliape in which they appear in the bill returned to the • Lords, would be to place at the disposition of the Govern- • ment an immense sum, which they could dangle before the eyes of the Irish people, and so promote their political, purposes. Such a power should not be given to any government. Parliament ought to reserve to itself the full and entire control of thii property ; and the fact that the House of Commons has neglected its duty in this matter is but another proof of the necessity for another • Chamber, composed of really independent men. The Post observes that the issue raised by Lord Cairns in replying to the ereech with which Earl Granville moved that the Peers should not insist on those amend ments to which the Commons had disagreed was clear and decisive. And this issue virtually was whether the Upper House should insist on richly endowing the disestablished Church, and also whether the ultimate disposal of the surplus property should be postponed for future considera tion. On three, if not on four, of the rejected amend ments the noble and learned lord invited the Peers to insist. The preamble, as originally frameZ by the Government, and as subsequently insisted on by the Commons, affirmed two distinct propositions— first, that the proceeds of the Church property should not be applied to religious uses; secondly, that it should be applied in a secular manner as prescribed by one of the clauses of the bill. The preamble as selecting the Lords omitted all reservation of the uses to which ties° surplus might be applied, and left that question in all its bearings open for future consideration. The other amend ments dealt with the partial endowment of the Irish Church. All the points in issue were practically discussed in the debate on the rejection of the amendment to the preamble, and, consequently, the public are in as good a position to form an opinion of the scheme on which the Lords insisted as if divisions had takenplace on the subse quent amendments. With the Lords will rest the respon sibility of the course they have pursued. The Dail!! Xcsrs thinks that the country is in the midst, not of a parliamentary, Lot of a constitutional crisis. The Melee of Lords, giving full swing to its reck less impulses, has rushed into collision with the Govern ment, the Commons, and the country. The Upper Chamber Las, by a majerity of 7s, once more struck out of the preamble of the Lid the vital words which the Commons bad re-insetted by a majority of 124. Its first vote, and, as it tinned out, its last, was given on Tuesday evening in favour of removing the declara tion against the application of the surplus eccle siastical revenues of Ireland " for the maintenance of any Church, or clergy, or other ministry, or for the teaching of religion." No sooner had the Lord Chancellor announced the numbers than Lord Granville moved the postponement of the consideration of the remaining amendments. The mis chievous results which may follow from the courses which the Lords have taken were very frankly stated by Lord Shaftesbury, who declared that the conduct of the Peers would be fraught with injury, not only to the Irish Church, lint to the Established Churches of - England and Scotland also, and to the position of their Lordship's House. The cheers which greeted Mr. Gladstone when he entered the House of Commons on Tuesday night, after the Peers' decision was known, are significant. It is fox the country to say whether it will allow an irresponsible debating society to stand between it and its deliberate purposes and convictions, constitutionally expressed.' If this question should be answered in a sense disagreeable V the Peere, they will have Lord Salisbury, Lord Grey, and Lord Russell, who has persistently played into the hands of the Opposition, chiefly to thank. It can hardly be denied, says the Herald, that if the House of Lords were not to surrender at discretion it could hardly have conceded more, or chosen the points for concession and for resistance more wisely, justly, and judiciously than has been done by Lord Cairns. And, iv truth, a surrender at discretion was impossible. It would, under the circumstances, have involved that which, as Lord Grey obierved, is the worst calamity that can befal an individuel or an order- a loss of honour. When such a hint is e.roven out by a man of Lord Grey's cold temper, great ex:,erience, and statesmanlike moderation, who des sires te see the bill passed into law, it is plain to candid and impartial minds tha.tgreat pro vocation must have been given. The Lords had to deal not only with a bill that they dislike, but with a faction that dislikes them ; not only with an affront put upon them by the House of Commons, but with a set purpose to mortify and degrade them want felted by the First Minister of the Crown. To have yielded under such circumstances would have involved a sacrifice of prestige and of power quite as great as would follow a pitched battle and a total defeat. Happily, the Lords were not swayed by the argument of fear. By majority of almost two to one--a majority in which Earle Russell and Grey went into the lobby with Lord Salisbury and Lord Cairns—the Peers decided to insist on their amendment to the preamble of the bill. The Star affirms that the House of Lords have rushee upon the certain consequences of defying the national will. Before midnight they came by a majority of 78 to a decision adverse to the Government. It revealed the spirit in which the bill was to be opposed, and the munerl cal strength which would be arrayed against it. Lore Granville, whose demeanour had throughout the night been most exemplary under the most trying circumstances, at once took the only course pos• sible at such a crisis. He stopped the bill, and nothing will now be known until the Cabinet have deliberated upon this extraordinary vote. The Lord Chancellor, with great energy and enthusiasm, spoke in indignant repudiation of the aspersions on the Government, and in lofty censure of the flippant reckless Hess with which Lord Salisbury had risked a schism be• tween the two Houses. Shortly after—when the Earl of Winchilsea had, with profuse 'action, declared himself preparediFjrestlt v ifoN e for the block or the rope—the House divided. have already stated. Lord Cairns had pre i viously announced the amendments on which lie was pre pared to insist, but this declaration passes at once into insignificance in the great crisis upon which her Majesty', Government have now to deliberate. The Telegraph believes that since, at the eleventh hour, tne obstructors have refused to abandon the fatal ground which they have occupied—the bill mud be regarded as lost for this session. Months of discussion will have been wasted, and al; the beginning of a new suasion the work must be begun again. But it wig nut begin under the same circumstances. The whole country will be agitated by mcetingl. which will insist on any measures that in,y be needed to accomplish the disestablishmeut and dieendowment of the Irish Church In a more stringent form than that which it at present wears, another ball will be passed aro - ngl House of Commons and presented to the Peers. That bill anus! accepted—but accepted under conditions which will compel the Peers to drive a bad bargain foz their clients. If anything bad been needed to damage the interests cf the Irish Church, and to rouse the coon try into an attitude of passionate resistar , T, it would have been furnished by the reckless debate of Tuesday Some Peers seemed to have lost all sense of responsi bility. Lori Salisbury, in particular, by attribut ing the measure to the will of " one arrogant man," did his best to provoke a storm of indignation throughout the nation, of which Mr. Gladstone is the chosen leader ; and an emphatic response was given to Rich denunciations by the deafening cheer with which the Prime Minister was greeted when, after the division, he entered the House of Commons. The country has reached a great crisis, and Ministers must determine the course which they will pursue ; but after the fatal division of Tuesday night, the nature of that course can admit Om • _-• ^ • SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTINGDON MEETING—YEsTERDAT. TWO-Ylt-OLD STAKES. Arcanum Amazon filly Wistaria • 8 Four rap. PEEL HANDICAP. Miss Gladiateur . Maeswerden.. Kingsland Seven ran. HINCHINGBROOK STAKES Hawthorndun Pander° Cestus Six ran. HUNTINGDONSHIRE STAKES. Spy Kidderminster Fortunio Seven rau. KIMBOLTON CUP. Sister to Parma Horoscope Post kluru . Five ran. FrrzwiwAim. SELLING STAKES Mamniifer Verity . Chivalry e• MEMBERS' PLATE. Pannasina Mysotis Night Stroller Five ran. GOODWOOD STAKES. 5 to 1 agst Adolphus (taken) sto 1 agst Bete Noir (taken) 6to 1 agst Robespierre (taken) 7to 1 agst War (taken) Bto 1 agst Starter (taken) 100 to 7 agst Make Haste (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Acaster (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Judge (taken) RACING FIXTURES. JI.LY Stamford ... '2, 23 AUG Deauville 1 Ripon 2 Brighton 3, 4 Tiverton 4 Brighton Club 5 Lewes 6, 7 ligham lO, II Wolverhairpton lO, 11 Windsor 12, 13 Bromley 17, 18 I Stockton 18, 19, 20 Dover 18 1 SEPT Margate 2 Ipswich 2 West Drayton 3 Warwick... 7, 8 Curragh (Royal) 7,8, 9 Abingdon 9, 10 Doncaster 14, 15, 16, 17 Hampton 9 1, 22 OCT , Bedford 5, 6 Edinburgh 6, 7, 8 Leicester 7, 8 Bromley 7 8 Newmarket 2d 0ct...11, &c. Chelmsford l9 20 Kelso 19 20 NOV} Harrow ,..2, 3 Worcester 3, 4 St. Albans 5, 6 Cheltenham 19.2€ Curragh l9, 2(i, 11 West Drayton .........21, 22 Hereford 2l, 22 Monmouth 23, 24 Newmarki.t Wton „-25, fro. 1 2 3 1 Goodwood 9 1, 28, ZU, . . . UST. Oxford Hungerford 24 York ' , 4, 25, 26 1 Croydon Plymouth 26, 27 Searbormigh 30, 31 Baden Baden 3l Great Yarmouth 31 Derby Summer ...31, Sep. 1 IWeymouth 31, Sep. 1 Canterbury ..... 3l, Sep. 1 1113 ER. Richmond 21, 22 Lichfield Western (Ayr) 22, 23 Hendon 23 24 Monmouth... 23, 24 Newmarket Ist Oct 28, &c. Lanark 29 30 IBER. :11BER. Eglinton Iluut 6 7 Liverpool ii, 10, 11 Shrewsbury ... STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES ocToßEtt. Bromley 7 j West Drayton .. 21, 22 NOVEMBER. Worcester 2,3, 4 Shrewsbury 16, 2I Barrow , 3 Leamington 1ivat....23 &c Lverpool 9 10, 11, 12 I COURSING FIXTURES. AUG UST. St. Albans.., OOTOBER. Aucaster and Willoughby, Lincolnshire 5, 6. Onnesby 19, kc Huntingdon Club.. 26, 27 • GOODWOOD ME Weights for the Goodwood I Calculate .ETING-JULY 29. Cup; two miles and 'd to date.] Age at lb Kt. of the Garter... 5 9 7 Trocadero ... 5 9 7 Portunio ... 5 9 7 Blinkhoolio 5 9 7 The Rake 5 9 7 See-Saw ... 4 9 0 Rosicruei.iu ... 4 9 0 Tabouret 4 9 0 Rertitution ... 4 9 0 Blueskin ... 4 8 10 Brigantine... 3 7 10, The Goodwood Stakes (Handicap) of 25 sots each, 15 ft, and only sif declared, with 100 added. 211 miles. 51 subs, 2ti of whom declaree Age et lb o 9 9 5 8 9 4 8 7 Lot d Hawthorn Age at ... 3 7 7 St Muugo 3 7 7 The Drummer ... 3 7 7 Provider ... 3 7 7 Typhon ... ... 3 7 7 Martyrdom ... 3 7 7 litaiespierre 3 7 7 Thor walsden 3 7 7 Rupert ... • ... 7 7 Lancet ... 5 7 7 Blinkhool:e The Bake ... Cecil ... aLan PLokus Alpenstock Islam Bracken ... Robespierre War ... Age st lb Miss Gratwicke 6 10 Provider 3 6 10 Vallation g ... 4 6 6 (Aloud 6 6 Y. Fenton... ... 3 6 6 Adolphus ... 3 6 2 Stortu King ... 3 6 0 Hobart ... 3 5 12 Queen of theForez.t, by Atherstone 3 510 'Starter ... 3 51) Vacuum ... ...3 5 9 Aubade 3 5 7 Judge ... 3 5 ... 5 8 ... 4 8 2 ... 3 7 12 3 7 -. 5 7 7 ... 3 7 2 6 7 Assineboiuu ... 5 7 0 Our Mary Ann ... 4 6 12 liete.Noire ... 3 6 12 Make Haste ... 4 6 12 Acaster ... 3 6 10 YACHTING FIXTURES. JULY. 21, 22—Dublin Bay Regatta 24—Prince Alfred Yacht Club: First Class Match 23 (?)—Kingstown Regatta 27, 28 - Royal Western Yacht Club and Plymouth Royal Regatta 30—Royal Welsh Yacht Club Regatta AUGUST. 1, 2 —Havre Regatta 2—Temple Yacht Club: Second Match 3—Victoria Model Yacht Club : First Class Match 3,4, 5, 6—Royal Yacht Squadron Regatta s—Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club : Regatta at Oulton 7—Cheshire Yacht Club: Third Match 9-14—Royal Victoria Y..cht Club Regatta 10—Great Yarmouth Regatta la—Shoreham Regatta 21—Clyde Yacht Club: Corinthian Match 21—Cheshire Yacht Club : Fourth Match 24, 25--Dartmouth Regatta, 28—Clyde Yacht Club : Closing Cruise 27 Torbay Royal Regatta REGATTAS AND MATCHES TO COME. JULY. 22—Staines Amateur Regatta 22 Evesham Regatta 23—North Eastern London Rowing Club: Open Pairs 24 —Rope Rowing Club : Junior Sculls 27—A.lexaudra Rowing Club : Senior Fours, River Lea 23—Vesper Rowing Club: Trial Fours, River Lea 29—North East London Roudon Club v. Orion Club Fours 29—Wingfield Sculls: Challenger's Heat 30—Pbcenix Rowing Club: Senior and ;Junior Pairs, River Lea 30—London Rowing Club : Eights 31—Wingfield Sculls: Final Heat 31—Staines Amateur Regatta AUGUST. •Alexandra Rowing Club: Senior Sculls, River Lea -'Tewkesbury Regatta •Orion Boning Club: Junior Pairs, R:ver Lea Kingston Town Rowing Club Regatta -Ariel Rowing Club: Sculls, River Lea Worcester Regatta •Albion Rowing Club; Senior Sculls, River Lea -Sunderland Regatta .Barnes and Mortlake Amateur Regatta -Wakefield Regatta 4_ - THE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) WASHINGTON, July 19 (Evening). Secretary Fish has agreed to permit the landing of the French Atlartic Caole upon the coast of the United States, upon the company comforming until Congress meets, to the terms of the Tele graph Bill reporte 1 last session, by Mr. Sumner, from the Congressional Committee on Foreign relations. The agent 'of the French Atlantic Telegraph Company hal given an undertaking to that effect. SPAIN. MADRID, July 20. Arrests have been made here, and at Valladolid, Barcelona, awl Cordova. Generals Yuelan, Yues tal, and Olona, and Colonels Alberibi and Carbon nel, are among those who have been arrested. The Official Gazette of to-day announces the withdrawal of the judicial decree of Senor Herrera. LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening. ADMIRALTY, JULY 17. Rear-Admiral George Greville Wellesley to be Vice- Admiral in her Majesty's Fleet from the date wh en b o enters the limits of and whilst employed as Commander in-Chief of her Majesty's ships and yeesele on the kivrth Americas Paid WOO IXtdigll API \