The Sun. — London, England, 1858-07-17 00:00:00

111 , !ek ircl ces Ls. rag er, blic sert igh igth ;Et of iuld the you seen lion the IaVO On MONEY MARKET AND 0 014BIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'Cnocal. The return from the Bank of England, for the week ending the 14th inst., shows some important . variations. In the bullion there is a decrease .of about half a million, consequent upon tl:e late large shipments to the continent and the tardy arrival of supplies from Australia. The public deposits show a considerable decline, owing to the payment of the usual half yearly divi dends, while in the private deposits there is a large accumulation. The private securities, owing to the repayments of the advances made by the establishment during the closing of the transfer books, show a very large decrease. In the reserve of notes there is a falling off of about three quarters of a million, and the actual circulation has been extended to about a-quarter of a million. In the other items of the balance-sheet there is little alteration requiring special comment—they will be Been in the following table : Active circulation Increase24s 590 Bullion Decrease 509,991 Rest Increase Public deposits Decrease 4 469,639 Other deposits 15,616,388 Increase Seven-day and other bills Increase Government securities Decrease .. 104,941 Other securities Decrease Notes unemploy—e — ri ........................... 9,938,235 Decrease The Specie . movement is at the present moment attracting considerable attention among the specu lators at the Stock Exchange and others interested in the subject. Besides the 405,0001. brought by the Royal Charter, about 166,4001. has just ueen announced by the Shooting Star, also from Victoria, and in a few days 138,8001. in Australian gold, via Suez, will be received by the European. The announcement of these supplies, a large por tion of which will, no doubt, be absorbed for ex portation to the Continent, has not stopped the eMux from the Bank, but it haa checked it, only 12,0001. having been taken from that estab lishment yesterday. The Orinoco, which is ap- Pointed to leave for the West Indies to-day, takes out 8,800/., but the Magdalena, just in from that quar ter, has, it is believed, brought a large amount. There is a limited demand for that metal on Eastern account, and the Colombo, on the 20th, is not ex pected to take out more than 50,0001. or 60,0001. The decline shown in the stock of the precious metals at the Bank is larger than was expected ; but the partial employment of coin in the pay- Ment of the dividends has no doubt assisted to increase the outward movement. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed q u ietly, but prices were fully supported. The sales were estimated at 8,000 bales, 1,500 of which were taken on speculation and for export. It has just been mention©d that the Magdalena, from the West Indies, has brought $1,194,000, or about 240,0001., and the Persia, from New 1.(3 k3 $570,180/., or 114,0361. Si nce Monday last the imports of specie have ueer t about 922,9921., and the exports 8801., exclu sive of the following shipments direct from London to the Continent during the week ending Thursday last Gold Coin Boulogne ... 340 Ozs. Silver „ 7, Bars Hambro' ... 600 ,/ The Market for English Securities has been very firra to-day, and the few transactions which have taken place have been at enhanced rates. Consols have been 951 I for money, and 952 8 for account, bein g a rise of 8 per cent. A few purchases for investment caused this advance. The New Three Per Cents are 95/ 96 ; the Reduced, 95/ 1. The N ew' Two- and-a-half per Cents 791. India De bentures, 992. The March Exchequer Bills, 305 . prem. ; and the June ditto 225. to 25e. prem. Bank Stock is 222 to 221. A fair amount of business has been transacted in the Foreigm. Stock Market, and prices are steady. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 95/ i; ditto 4 per Cents., 104/ 105; Spanish 3 per Cents., 433 e 4 ; Sardinian 6 per Cents., 89/ ; Brazilian 5 per Cents., 103 ; ditto, 4i per Cents., 98 ; ditto Scrip, 4 to'/ dis. ; Bu enos Ayres 6 per Cents., 804 ; and Venezue l a 6 per Cents., 351. ' in the Railway Share Market this morning a very limited business has been done. With one or two exceptions, prices have been well maintained. Caledonians have declined about 1/., and Great western 10s. ; North - Western improved 155,, and ellth-Western, North British, and North-Eastern (York), 10s. Great Northern, Brighton, and several others, were at previous quotations. In the Foreign and Colonial market there is little alteration to report, with the exception of Grand Trunk of C anada, whi c h h ave declined about 11. 10s. East - uclien have receded 10s., and Geelong and Mel bourne 10s. j eiet• stock Bank and Miscelleneens SLares 'aye be en i n moderate request, and realised a Cight advance on previous rates. British North IZerican improved ss. ; London and Westminster, ~8* Electric Telegraph, 15 s . ; an d R oya l M e ii mteep l, los. 1311,1 1 1811 FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY. (From the Official List;) 222 4 'tank Stock T 951 3 pe e Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 95i 1 New " 11 ~,intioir Annuities 95i 1 6 11 ...." 7 Lnree per Cent. Annuities 79A iivit2:oper Cent. Annuities •• On g Annuities , exp ire sth Jan. 1860 — 3)* ;1 0 0 4d Y s e , a ' ls io e o m o p ire: . 5 . t . 1 . i.. A .. ...... . ' : i . B'f 1 .1: i l i i n ti d .i . t . ' up , ler 11l olio .., 0 la Loan Debentures n sols for A ccount 90_ x,xch eonerßill s March. June. 4000 . .. ...... I 25 22 Saint ................................................................ 35 / 22 Brazilian FOREIGN FUNDS.—THIS DAY. r Cent Ditto 1852, pe 4A per Cent. I ueno D itto Scrip, 185 3 ... • Zs Ayre s Bonds , p er 6 '9B Cent. — d Ditto Account, 2 ......... ** V i D itto Deferred.. ....... x.... : i)ctuador N ew Consolidated .................• 14 I ortugu,se 3 per Cent., 1853 .. . Ditto Acc0unt......... ... ............ -- Rardinia n 5 per Cent, 41........................ Ditto sh Ben nis, cou 3 per wit. .......... Bv4 kish ......... ,Ac ().. 43A i Tur Bonds nt 6 per ...... .... *************** Ditto Guaranteed 4 per Cent: ************** 17341 Ditto Account ***** . . 105 ******* •Vanczuela Bonds ,s per Ve.a."---- 3BA Dividends on the above payable in London. TWO (YOLOCK. Consols, money Ditto account. sii9 ....t4•............7.n.m.newa5......ammark, of APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following are the names ri. Centlemen who passed their examination in the fmce and practice of medicine, and received certifi 'Mn to practice, on Thursday, July 15, 1858 :—William Nt. Ellan Lynn, Norfolk ; Frederick Hezekiah Hargood, llabary place Islington ; David Corliet, Orsett, 88, tx • Jilin. Trylor Featherstone, Bristol ; Edward Lbl'C'Otn'er; ' herusey 'John George Braden, Kelvedon, es ex ; Alexander Richard Croucher, High-street, ''' ll , 1 telwell ; Samuel Picken, Plymouth ; William Daniel ',I Man,German'. Paul Belcher, Burton-on-Trent ; ''',,,phen John Frederick Stafford. Beeeles ; Robert "4";friolds, Dowondora, near MelLourne, Victoria. r., 7 . I . O ANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE s ' A l\ rIL SERVlCE.—TheForeicin Department : Mr. Charles 4,1,11150 n, secretary of embassy , Constantinople, has f" ety n appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minis- Cr Pl enipotentiary at Teheran, Persia, vice the Hon. N. Murray, C.B. The Dome Department: Ti.eyn *Pe.storship of coal mines for AlOntnCUtb, G louces te r, ,a,nd Somerset, has become vacant by the death fM r. -°1 e rbert Francis Mackworth.—Civil Service Gazette. n 21:MR01:LUNT LEGAL DECISION AFFECTING COTTIGE rrlEllS.—During the past week the Liverpool btipen l",jell _7, Mr. Man s fi e ld , has been considering a case, i n Mr. Henry Rooks, t h e owner cf a cons id era bi e t i i.i , eunt o f cottage property, is the defendant, and the -141 t.orpo o l C orporation the plainti ff s. Mr. Rooke seeks *34 e toption from the payment of water sate on certain 'we, ikly rentals.of 4s. 6d. (though willing to pay the rate -, ll Pi in 4 5 .), on the ground that though he receives 43. 6d., t he odd s i xpence is absorbed by other rate charges, and the ,t 4s. is the nett weekly value of the property to him. N',l,lterday Mr. Mansfield decided in favour of the cog. m of the Corporation, observing that the act re shed the "annual value" as the basis cf assess n?ei at, and that the actual rent paid must be con saidered as the oLly true and legal measure of lie h annual value. This decision, by consent of Mr. (3.o.ke's soli c it or, was applied to other cases, in which t he principle was the same though the rents wire diffe tett' t. The solicitor for Mr Rooke announced his intention 14, s,ppealing against the *decision to a superior court. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY '!`' EVENINT, JULY 17, 1858: SHARE MARKETS (This Day). RAILWAYS. Basizetsa dote this day. Pald I RAILWAY . .) , Ambg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. IBelfast & Ballymen , Birmng. Wolve!h. Stour Valley Birkcnhd. Lanes',. Cheshire June' Blackburn Blyth & Tyne origina £25 (iss. at £45) , Bristol & Exeter__ Caledonian Chester & flolyhea , ' 'Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall Ds. A Do. B Dublin&BelfastJunc Dun. P. &Aber Juno. East Anglian Eastern Counties EasternUnion,A.. stk. Do., do. B. !Do. New A East Kent East Lancashire East Suffolk Do. Edinburgh & Glasgov , lEdinb.Prth.&Duncl. IForth and Clyde Juno. Furness Glasgow & S.Western ; Great N. of Scotland Great Northern IDo., A. Stock IDo., B. Stock lat. Bth. &West. (Ire) Great Western. Do. Str.V.R. gua. St Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisle. Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshirt Do. do. F £l6 , .£9 Do., Wst. Riding Un Do. Southport.... London & Blackwar ,Do. Now, iss. 5/. 10s. Lond.Bright.&S.Cst. , London &N. Wester, Do. Eighths London & S.Western Lndndrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Shef.&Lincln. Metropolitan Midland ..... . Do. Birming. & Derb Midland G.West.(lr.' Do. Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newpt..A berg.&Hrfd Newry & Armagh Newry, Warrenpoini & Rostrevor Norfolk. Northn. Counties LTn Ncrth British North Devon, Rail & ,Dock Stock !Do. ,A Stock ....... Do., B Stock ..... IN.astern— Berwick Dodo. G.N.E.Pu reh. IDo. Leeds Do. York North L0nd0n........ N. & S. Wstn., Ilamp• stead, and City Jn. North Staffordshire.. North Western........ N. & S. Westrn. June lOxford Worcester & Wolverhampton" all peobies 19 Portsmouth 10 Rhymney 100 Scottish - Central ...... 100 Scr.t. N.E.Abrdn. St 100 , Do. Scot. Mid. Stock 100 Shropshire Union . . all Sit i ngbourne &Sheer. 100 South Devon ICO South Eastern 100 , South Wales all ;S. Yorksh. River Dun IS 'Do. all Staines,Wok.,&Wok. all Stockton Si Darling 20 i Do. do., 1854 7 Do. do., 1855 16i ,Stockton & llartlopl 100 Taff Vale... 100 IDo. Pref., No. 22 ! inames Hay. D. &R. 100 Vale of 100 Watorfd. & Kilkenny ail Waterford&Limerick all West Col nwa11........, all ;West End of London and Crystal Palace... all Do. A all Do. B all West London all Do. First Class all Do. Second Class Closing Pries. this day 6 - Ci 7i - 8i 67 - 69 11 - 12 263 - 273 88 - 90 78 - 781' 36 - 38- 4 - 5 75 - 8 - 16A4 60 j - 61 44 - 46 29 - 31 14 : lii 90 - 92 62 - 63 25 - 26 90 - 92 91 - 10 101 - 102 79 - 81 128 - 130 102 - 104 49A - 49} 56 - 58 87 -- 90 1 11i 12ip 114 -- 121 9 1 -91 i 1.1 -- d 1 a 5i - 6i 1109 110 901 91 lad 931 —94 i 35i 36 2 id 921 93 61 66 ... - ... 59 - 61 32 2 - - 3 48,1 - 49i1 9i - 92 2 - 1 40 - 47 72 - 73 90 - 98 61 - 7.i - 86 8 - - 9 27 - 29 ..• .. . 7 4 d 109 -110' 26 - 27 81. - 83 42 - 44 3 - 2 34 - : 4 5 67 - 674 78 - 80 14 - 15 6 - 4 9 - 11 24 - 35 ••• - ••• 96 - 98 ••• 2i - 34 64 - 6i N E S LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. 2; ! 50 25 12A' 12i 20 St. 10 5i 100 100 all 100 all 100 100 54 Leasing Closing Price Companies yesterday 50' all 50 all 25 all 12i all St. 100 10 all 12 all 50 all 25 all St. 100 St. 8i St. St. 25 10 1.0.6, 100 1 100 1 10 e 1100 1100 all j all IV 12 61 6s. 112561 Ln.&N.W. Caledon... E.U.diE.O Gt.Northn E. Count. Caldonian. Do t. Westn. Y.& Do Do S. Eastern Do Peto &Co Do Ln. &N. W. Midld. E. Count Do Do Gt. Northn T. Brassey 11. MClean Stk.&Dar Do Gt. West n. 100 - 102 102 - 104 13 - 15 139 - 141 4 - 5 • •6 lila 112 13 -14 23i - 24 93 - 96 2i - 2i 97 - 99 i • iP 58 - 60 - 142 8i -8 10 - 10 32A -33 i, 89 ..;.; 91 1 - ... - 121 - 114 64 -- CO 114 -- 114 - 91 - 98 - 10 -166 - 74 - - 14 - 141 1160 - 165 121. - 123 61 -: 6 133 - 141 102 - 101 92 - 94 11 - 11$ - 9i 10 =ll6 97 - 99 4 - I - iP 23 - 24 118 - 120 105 - 107 08 - 160 118 -- 120 125 -- 130 73 -- 75 101 -- lt4 231 - 241 101 - 133 101 - 103 100 - 102 16i -1.7 i 23 - 29 40 7 i'n MINES. 9 19 3 60 70 . 1479, 4so . 90 14 - 15 5i 6 2 , 7 8 I 8 17 - 171 1191 1121 100 - 1$ 390 -. 400 - !230 240 i 3 - 34 70 - 90 ' lh 23 - 24 , - 105 180 - 2_6 - 2 20040 41 - ) 8. - 951 ) 46 - 48 ) 24 - It 78' RimyAxe. Bnekghamsh. 'Clydesdale Jc Col.Stour .Vy. E.Un. g. 6 p. , E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct. Do. New Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hull & Selby Do. Shares Do. 1 Shares Lon. &Greenw Do. Preference !Lon. Til., &S. Do. Bark. Sh. Manch.Bxton. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. N.&Est.s p.c. !Do. 6 per ct Do. Fixed sp. c Prest. & Wyre Do. Shrs. A Boys tn. & Hit. ; Shrews . St Her I S. Staffordsh WearVal.g6pc 'Do.. ! Wilts &Sonaret IDo Blyth and Tyne 10 p. c.pref. (issd.at 501.) Bris.&Ex.4 P.C. St. 'Do. 4 per c. Shares Caledn. £lO p. c Ches. & Ho. 51 p.c Do. do. 5 per cent_ Cork &Bandonsip.c. Dun.Perth.&Aber.J. IE. Anglian Cls. A Sh. 'Do, do. Cls. B Op. c. Do, do. Cls. C 7 p. c. Eas.Co.Ex,sp.c No.l Do. No. 2 Do. New 6 pr. c. St East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51., 10 per cent. Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. }Do. do. 4 per cent East Lane ash. 6 p.cts E.4W. York. J. sth, rEdin.& Gl. sp. e. Sh. Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.c. Furness, 5 p. c & 5.W.G.5 p.c Great Northn. 5 p.c. IDo. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. C. prem.... Do. 4 per cent Do. 5 p.c., Rod. atr p. c. prem. Gt.N. ofScot. Ist Prc Gt. S St W. (Ireland:. Do. 4 per c. Pref. St Gt.W.(B.&H.Ex.spc IDo. con. red. 4i p.c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irrod. 4 per tent. Do. 5 p. c. red. pref. Do. Birin. Pref. Sh Do. Chester Sp. c. P. S. Do, do, sp. c. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Chesh, Gua. Sh Do. do, do Do. do. do. Lan.& York. 6 pc.St. Lon. &B. G. 5 pc.No 1 D 0.,P., 5 p. c.St.No.S Do. New Guar. 6p. c. Do. do. 513. c., No.!. Lon. & N.W., Cov. Nuneaton 5 r. et_ Lon. & S.W. 7 per et. late 3d Shares Londy.& Color. Sh Londy.&Ennis. Sh M., S., &L. 6 p. Do. do. do. £6 Cent. Do. do. 31 per cent. Marypt. & Carl, 4 p. c. Do. 4. per ceat Do. do. 43 - 50 93 - 95 ••• - 103 ..• -•-• .... 51. --.• 6 .... 115 - 108 118 - 117 - 134 - V 110 -, 103 115 - 115 132 13j 139 Hid. Consol. 6 p.c. St. D o.Con.Br.Bir.6p.c Do. 4i p. c. Prof. St. Do. L. 411. Pref. St. New., Aber., &c., p r 5 p. c. red. 5 p. c. pm Do. Perpet. 6 pr. et NT° rfk. D eb. 4 p. c . Sh Do. 5 p. o. Ext. 1816 Do. 5i p.c. pf , 1817 Do.Wv.V.sp. ‘.,1847 North British Do. 7L Preference N.B. Borw. 4 p. c. Pd Do. do. do , Do. Leeds 6 pa. No. 1 I Do. do. Qrs., 1848 Do. York J.I. & S. Par North Statibrdshire :Ox , Wor 4 Wolv. 6 1 p.c.,. Ist . guar. Do. 6 p. c. 2d gnar Do. do. Debeutr. St Scot. eent.New Pret ISc.N.E.Aber.g.6p.c. :Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. Do. d0.3l p.c. pf. St (South Devon I Do. fixed 4i pr cent I S. Eastern £lO s. 6d. g I.nn. o, 4i per cent Do. Fixed 4i p.c. Sh Do. New 4i pr. cent S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c. Do. do. 4i p. c S.Yorksh.4 p.c.Guar Stock. &Dar., 5 p. c Do. do. do. i Waterid&Kilk. 6 pc PREFERENCE SHARES. BRITISII Alfred Cons. (Philk.) British Iron Condurow (Calubrn.)l IDev. Gt. Cnsls. (Tay.)l East Basset (Mogan)) Great South Tolgus.. 'Grt.W.Alfrd.(Philk.) Vor (lielstn.) ILady B ertha • ......... N. Frances (Illogan) N.W.Basset (Illogaa), iNorth Wheal Crafty Par. Cons. (St. W 'Ay rorkellis C. (Weld.) Sort. Cons. Min. Co. S. Caradon (St. Cleer S. Cam Brea (Illogn. S.W. Fra.nees(lllogn.) Tam. S. k L. Min. Co Tin Croft Un. Mines (Giyennap) V. of Towoy (Camay.) W. Basset (Illogan) W. Caradon (Liskrd.) Wh. Basset (Illogan). Wh. Buller (Rdruth). Wh. Edward(Calstek: Wh. Kitty (U. Llant I Wh. Ma. Ann (Menht. j Trelavrney (Lis. ) FOILEIGN Australian 'Bon Accord Cop. (li. ) Brazilian Imp. (issued at £5 pm) Do. Comes & Cuiada Do. St. John Dol Ray Claremion Con. Min., Co. of Jamaica Cobre Copper Copiapo Dun Mountain Cop-, per Mining Co. Fortuna General Linares Lusitanian Mariquita New Granada Novean Monde Pont. Sil. MM. dg Smit Port Philip Santiago de Cuba United Mexican 611LNLrti. - 1 - li 11 - 12 40 - 42 12 - 13 - lk - 2t ly 25 9i -- - 1 d 5 - 7 3 / 4 - i i - 1 3i - 3# MISCELLANEOUS. 1000 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Limo , ... ... 25 19 (Australian Agricult 284 —29 j 10 all lAustraln. Royal Mail 1 ...... 1/ 10 all ißerlin Water Works. 34 44 10 2 jDo. New iss. at 5/. d ... ... 50 40 Brit. American Land ... ... 100 326,Canada ll7 122 St. 100 Do.Go.6pe.Jan&July 113 114 113 i St. all Copper Min. of Eng. 25 30 25 all Do. Pref. 71 p. cent. 25 27 5 all .Crystal Palace l/ 1$ 141 5 all ;Do. Preference 4 all Crystal Pal, of France ... „. 20 all :Dastern Steam , 2A 3 2i St. 100 Electric Telegraph lO - 109 1071 7 1 all Electric Tel, of Irel ... .. 6 all Eu.6rAust.Cop•SmCo 1/ 1: e : 10 10e. Eur. Sc Ind.Jictn. Tel, _ _. .: 9 a ll Eur.SLAm•Stm.(limj 3 3.,i 20 i 111 Gen. Ir.Sc.Col.(lim.) „, ...... .. 15 1.4 Gen. Steam Navigat. ... ._ ..: 20 5 London Discount _ i _.i 0 4. all Loud. Gen. Ournibu , 24 24 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig • ••• .. „. ... 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tol. 7i 8 10 all 1)o. Ertension Tele& 10 all Mexican& S.Aniericn _ _ ... 25 5 . ISrat. Discount Co i aJ 41 10 - 6 Netherlands Land • • .. 26 10 all Do. Do. 5 all !Da.B p.e.Pf.is.at Id. 1 1.4 5 3 Do , Do. 100 80 New B. &N. S. Land 14 17 St. 100 N.S.W. Gov.t; p.c.D. 9 ) —os 991 1 - all 1 , 7„ B. An l tralaisiau... $ _ 1 . 20 a ]llNrth.ofEuropci 3 tean 2i 3:1 1 all Oriental Gas ........ 1 1 10s. illo New Shares id -- ir 5 all IPeel Hr. I,d. Sr Minrl, 2 21 50 all 'Peninsular& Oriental 784 79.; 79. 50 10 Do. New .. 50 all Rhymuey Iron . 21 22 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 59 - 61 60 1 all Scot. Austral. invost. 11 14 St. 100 S. Au% Gov. 6 p.c.bds. 101 109 1 .1081 26 all south Austral. Land -36 3T 1 all Snlanarino Tel. Seripl 1 1 all Do. Registered ...... i 1 20 5 ITrus. Lir. Co. Up. Can. ... -- ... of.: I. 2? A i s Van Dicmel,'s Laud.. 104 .•••• 11 Badness this day. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.) COURT OF CHANCERY. The Lord Chancellor did not sit in court to-day. COURT OF APPEAL. (Th.fore the Loris Justices.) LACE V. LEE-JUDGMENT. The parties in this case were partners carrying on business in Liverpool. The plaintiff filed his bill of indemnity for payment of 2,2581. Bs. 3d., paid by him under the defendent's letter of agreement, dated 11th July, 1856. By that agreement the defendant became bound to indemnify the plaintiff against any claim or demand that might be made against him, in respect of the leasehold premises in which their business was carried on, or any legal contract cr obligation entered into by mortgage or otherwise to that extent. The defendant alleged that the agreement was obtained by fraud and misrepresentation, and therefore void. Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart by his decree de clared that the plaintiff was entitled to credit, and to be indemnified of the sum claimed of 2,2581. 84. 3d., and to be relieved cf any legal obligations entered into by him in respect of that agreement, Against this decision the appellant appealed. Lord Justice Knight Bruce and Lord Justice Turner, in delivering judgment this morning, were of opinion that the defendant had not proved either fraud or misrepre sentation before the agreement was entered into, and that the plaintiff was entitled to the relief and indemni fication asked by his bill. Their lordship - s affirmed the decree of Vice-Chancellor Sir John Stuart, and dismissed the appeal with costs, subject to modification. Costs to be arranged by counsel in the cause. CITY POLICE COMMITTEE. (Before Sir F. G. Moon.) IMPORTANT CONVICTION.--A POPULAR ERROR.-Mr. John Brown, of Fore•str:et, was summoned before the presiding Alderman, and charged with having unlaw fully beaten a large carpet at a quarter-past 11 o'cLck at night on Monday last. The officer stated that he warned the defendant nut to beat the carpets, but defendant in sisted that he had the right to do so after 10 o'clock at night. On the present occasion defendant expressed his conviction that he was allowed by Act of Parliament to shake his carpets before 8 in the morning and after 10 at night. Th; Alderman informed defendant that the Act ex pressly forbade shaking carpets at night—it only allowed door-mats to be beaten. As the defendant had evidently erred through ignorance, he would only be fined the costs. It was only right that the public should know the law. Too FAST AND TOO SLOW. —The driver of one of MAC samara's omnibuses was charged with furious driving. Mr. Thomas Beard, fur defendant, said he had a jibbing horse, which bolted. Too Alderman said it was an ingenious defence, and he would only fine defendant the coats. Another officer then charged the defendant with driving too slowly. Mr. Beard—You're very hard to please. (Laughter.) The Alderman dismissed the summons. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) THA:vIES. DARING HIGHWAY RcnzßY.—Thomas Jones, a tall and athletic young man, well known to the police, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with highway rob bery. Mrs. Celia Faller, a lady resijing at No. 7, Sidney street, Commercial road East, stated that last night, about half past ten o'clock, she was passinc: along Sidney. street, with a new dress tied up in a handkerchief in her hand, when the prisoner snatched the new dress from her and ran away.. A. boy, whe was in the prisoner's company, said, "bon't call out, marrn ; I'll halloo for you." Notwithstanding what the boy said, she screamed aloud for help, and called out " Step thief." The pri• soner then threw away the bundle, and was soon alter waidt stopped. The dress was worth 20s. Mr. Charles Irons said he heard the cry of stop thief, and paw the prisoner running as fast as he was able, and throw away the dress. The prisoner was stopped by a neighbour, and witness picked up the dress and handed it to a police constable. Charles Abbott, a police-c3nstable, No. 504 K, stated that he found the prisoner in North-street, Mile-end, surrounded by upwards of 100 persons. The prisoner said he had done nothing. He took him to the lady, who was some distance off, and she immediately identi fied him. Roche, the gaoler of the court, said—The prisoner bas passed through my hands for a similar offenca before. fie is a very desperate thief, Mr, Yardley naked the prisoner if he would plead or be sent for trial ? The prisoner refused to plead, and was committed to a jury for trial. AN IRISH EJECTMENT.—Jeremiah Mahoney, an Irish shoemaker, a most vio!ent fellow,"was charged with as saulting Jame.; Harris and John Coombes, brokers' men. The prisoner has been for some time dwelling in a court in Rosemary-lane, and bas kept the neighbourhood in continual uproar by his abusive tongue and his dis position for rows. He was held to bail to keep the peace for two years by Mr. Selfe on Saturday the 10th inst., and it then appeared he got very drunk, threatened his neigh hours, land broke a good deal of crockery and sundry panes of glass. He did not keep the peaoe long, and on Monday broke out again, gut drunk, and was ejected from a public-house where he was disturbing the landlord and his guests. Yesterday a distress was levied on the prisoner's goods and chattels for non payment of rent. While the broker and his man were making out an inventory, the prisoner got into a vio lent passion, swore he would be revenged, broke up a table and chair, seed made a furious attack on the complainants, etrikiog both wish the leg of a table, and tj tet.ing them from the house. Both complainants were severely iejered. The prisoner said he ej.Dcted the two men from his house because the di-trese was angel. The magistrate saki that such lawless proceedings could not be toleratt din thi country. It the distress was unlawful there was a legal remedy. He fined the prisoner 51 , and, in default of payment, two months' imprisonment in the House cf Correction. PUBLIC OPIATIOY. The mischievous article published by the Times, on the Queen's visit to Cherbourg, has produced a great and it may be said a painful sensation inParis. In the ignorance which prevails in France of Eng lish affairs, the public here, judging of the Times by its farmer reputation, fancy that the opinion of England is faithfully represented by that most dis hoeest and fickle of journals. They are not aware that ever since the Clitnean war the Times is ab solutely drunk with vanity, and that its absurd pretensions to be the eupreme arbiter of the des tinies_ of policy of England are not worthy of more consideration than the bombast of a man suffer ing om delirium tremens. The very small minority of Frenchtnen who have a real know ledge of the state of affairs in England, however, are well aware of the motive which leads your ex-leading contemporary to lose no opportunity to excite the two nations against each other—Cher bourg is only a pretext. The real cause is the bitter disappoinment of the chief Palmetatonian organ in being compelled to witness that the present Minis try, notwithstanding the many difficulties which beset them on their coming into office, have suc ceeded in doing that which Lord Palmerston, with all his old experience and all his finessing, was un able to accomplish—establishing the alliance ,with France upon a broad and solid basis—that of mutual esteem and confidence, not of concessiona of national dignity and self-respect. As to the threat which your contemporary pretends to sea in the opening of an additional dock at Cherbourg, it is too ridi culous to be replied tc seriou-ly. Even before the opening of this new dock, and the comp l e ti on of the railway which places Cherbourg i n di rect communication with the capital, its defences entitled it to be c. ns'clered as the Sebastopol of combined fleets of Europe France. might have found a shelter behind it sea wall any time d ur i ng the last ten years, and, though the new dock will afford additional capabilities for the r e p a i r o f s hi ps and the embarkation of troops, before the new dock was com'nenced Cherbourg was more formidably fortified than Poitsm c utle This is a f ac t w hi c h i s not, I believe, generally known ; but I can vouch for its authority, riot ouly from personal inspection, but ou the authority of competent military and naval judges. What has created a very bad ine is the insolent preeti„n here, hoa!eyer, miscon struction put upon the invitation a dd resse d b y the Emperor to her most gracious Majesty. After the ill-feeling and the appreh ens i ons o f a rupture created both here and in England by the indiscreet lang ua ge of the press on b o th s id es of the Channel, w h a t better plan could possibly be adopted to show that all these sinister reports were wholly without foundation, than that the two sove reigns should protest against them by a cor di a l an d friendly meeting? It is, moreover, poi n t e d ou t hero that the clamour of the Times for a Channel fleet seems hardly barite out by the announcement which it publishes in its number of yesterday, from which it appears that the squadron of honour ap pointed to escort her Majesty—a squadron collected without the least effort on our part, and, as it were , at a moment's notice, mounts no less\ than 78G guns — a number which I have reason to believe will though. it may p o s s ibly b a not be surpassed, equalled, by the French squadron which has been under orders for this inauguration tor the last four months ! and which is formed with th e e lit e o f th e Toulon, Brest, an d Cherbourg fleets.. Th ese f ew facts way possibly be useful in dispelling the effect produced by the vapid dot:lunation of t` l e Times. Standard. rbirb 92tfittort SUN OFFICE, ,six o'Clo(k AUSTRIA. A Vienna letter says :—" Cardinal Silvestri has arrived here from Rome and taken up his resi dence in the monastery of the Mechitarstq, where he received a visit from the Papal Nuncio on the day after his arrival. The cardinal subsequently returned his visit, and the two prelatrs went to tgether to the country-house of the Cardinal Arch hi-hop, de Rauscher. The arrival of Car dinal Silvestri Las very naturally given rise to a variety of suppositions. But I under stand from a grod source that his eminence has been charged to present to the Emperor ard Empress, in the name of the Holy Father, sr me valuable relics." The same letter says :—" The Emperor has authorised the c-)nvo cation of a synod of I:)shops of the non-united Greek Church. The bishops of the Bukowine, of Dalmatia, and of Transylvania will take part in this synod. General Count Coronini will al•o be present in the capacity of Imperial dommissioner." Further accounts state that Cardinal Silvestri had been received by the Emperor and treated with great consideration. CASE OF MARGARET ROBINSON. GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.) Inspector Hamilton this afternoon informed Sir P. Laurie that he had made the inquiries he bad directed as to the extraordinary statement made be fore him on Thursday last by the girl Margaret Robinson of her having been inveigled from Scotland by a woman named Da Silva for im moral purposeP, and found the whole of the state ment of the girl on that point altogether untrue. Since she was in Court she had made another statement, which she said was as correct as the other was false. The statement No. 2 was_ then read. It attri buted the present condition of the writer to the unkindness and unnatural conduct of her sister, to escape from whom she was glad to undergo any privation. It then entered at length into the manner in which she had been admitted into one cf the charitable institu tions in Scotland, and, on the representation of a clergyman residing at Renfrew, had been sent from thence to the Westminster Reforma tory, where she remained for a short time, but ultimately she left the institution of her own accord. The paper next alluded to the extraordinary story she had told to the policeman on London-bridge, about her having, been brought from Scot land by a woman named Da Silva, and taken by her to a brothel in London. Tbis was altogether untrue, nothing of the kind ever hap pened to her, and how she happened to think of the tale was in consequence of a story in every re spect similar having been t3ld her by a girl named Porter, and she (Robinson)thought if shesubAituted her own name for that mentioned by Porter she should be sent home by the authorities in Lan don. The only object she had in view was to return to Scotland. . Miss Davenport, a hay connected with the Westatinister Reformatory, confirmed the state ment about the girl having been in that institu tion, and having left of her own accord, and that she had been admitted on the representations of a gentleman residing in Renfmwshire. Sir P. Laurie said he had received the follow ing letter from the girl : Dear Sir, —I am extremely sorry for having told you the story I did, and I am glid it's all found out. I feel happy now I have told the truth ; I have much to answer for, and I hope you will forgive me. I leave my case in your hands and those of the other gentlemen. " Your humble servant, MAB.GARBT ROBINSON." The girl refuses to return to the reformatory, and for the present she remains in the City of London Workhou:e. MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Mining Journal of this day.) We have upon several occasions remarked upon the injury done to mining and to the Mining Mar ket by speculating for the " account." It induces numbers of pirsons to speculate beyond their means ; it partakes largely of the nature of gamb ling ; and, too often, some of those who operate in this manner, whilst ready enough to receive profits if they win, are not always capable of paying if they lose to any extent. The loss in Wheal Har riett, which has - been the all-absorbing topic of the week, has, it is understood, fallen not so much upon the public as upon some of the dealers in the market, who had purchased largly for cash, and to a still greater ex•ent for the " ac count," at 2 ...to 21 par share ; and when the news arrived tint the lode had failed, shares dropped in a moment to 20s , and a panic seized the market ; good shares, in consequence, have been sacrificed, and mines, which were rising in price, as well as in public estimation, received a blow, declined in market value, and a general stag nation ensued. We understand that more than a dozen experienced agents inspected the ccurse of ore at the 74, and concurred in valuing it at 601. per fathom ; and although at first the suddenness of the . change was con sidered unprecedented, we learn that at Condur row, the adjoining mine, the same thing once hap pened, and the lode afterwards became rich again. Here, then, is comfort for Wheal Harriett, and probably the holders may again see the shares rise when the effects of the panel° are over. Two hours before the ore failed, it is said, a Cam borne agent went underground and inspected it, and on getting to the surface purchased shares at 40s. each, which showed his opinion of it. The shares opened at 20s. to 215., have fluctuated from 17s. 6d. to 205., and leave off at 20s. to 225., and firmer. North Roskear have been in request, and advanced to 305., 325. ; a lode having been cut worth 601. per fm. in the 60 cross-cut in the whole ground. South Frances, 230, and very little doing. • North Frances, owing to the number of sellers, have declined from 8i to 7/, 8 ; the lode, valued at 301. per fm., is not looking so well, and many parties have been selling " bears " in consequence ; the position and pro spects of the mine, however, are such as to beat the market in time. STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER, July 16.—The market continues to experience the check which was reported on Tuesday. The accounts from India, although favourable on the whole, have not led to the amount of business in manufactured goods that was antici pated, and a fe?ling of disappointment prevails. A downward movement appears to be apprehended at Calcutta, and the impression is that there is no prospect of any speedy improvement in the market here. There is less business doing in cloths than at the commencement of the week ; but prices are about as they were. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.—Yesterday an inquest Was held at North Woolwich on the body of a married woman, named Jane Nightingale, who committed suicide, by drowning, on the previous Tuesday. The facts of the case as detailed in evidence were of a melan choly description. It appears that the husband of the deceased had been employed as a eellermau, at a tavern in the locality, but having been recently discharged, was reduced with his family to much distress. At four ' o'clock on the previous Tuesday morning the deceased attired her children in their Sunday clothes ' and, after affectionately taking farewell of each, rushed out of the house, and doubtless plunged into the river, as her life less body was found on the shore about four hours after. The husband, on hearing of the suicide, inflicted a fright ful wound on his throat with a ras )r. Mr. Welker, a surgeon, of Woolwich, promptly att. wield, and left the man in the care of the police as ho was in a state bur dening on insanity. The inquest is adjourned. SUPPOSED MURDER AT HAMPSTEAD. —YeEterday in. formation was received by the police that the dead body of a man of respectable appearance had been lotted in a field near Hampstead under eircamstances that lead to the belief that a murder has been committed. There are marks of extreme vielance about the body and heed, the whole of the front teeth being knocked out of the deceased man's upper jaw ; there are also ever of severe cuts about the knees and legs. The body it that of a man about 50, clad in a suit of black clothes, nea l y new ; the' linen being marked ' W. D. in red silk. Nothing wa I found on the person to lead to identity, nor any article of value ; and the remains were t liken to Hampstead wori 4 ho cks. MAN KILLED By AN ENGINE.WREEL.—An i nquest was held at the Five Bell s, St Mary Cray, on Wu: ode r , on the body of Edward Bunk, a man Ilea arde Lf 80 years of age, w ho was employe d in the paper factory o f M essrs. Toynson of that pla ce. The deccaieel was at work in the there: r a k pit about fi ve f ee t d eep sfotorktehleroelen,giirce.wht to w which i In this pit he was found quite dead, with one of his legs cut off by the wheel. I t i s supposed that he etumblee esgainst a wooden protectiou te an enginee.haft which is placed . and in recovering him self five feet from the wheel self fell into the pit. The jury retuned a verdict of accidental death, at the Same time censuring the unprottoted state of tbe pit, I THAT PRINCE NAPOLEON JEROME. (Front the Daily News.) The Prince Napoleon Jerome has just given ut terance to some very important truths, indicative of the independent view which he is known to take of political and social questions. It was at the opening of the Cent ra l o f F rance E x hibiti on , g ot up chiely by the citizens of Limoge., whom the Prince congratulated upon conceiving and accom plishing a scheme of the kind by their own activity and resources, without being indebted to Govern ment for either suggestions or aid. " What we ought to fear," observed the Prince, "is the ab sorption of individual energies by collective power, the substitution of the Govermneat for the citizen in every art of social life, the enfeebling of all per sonal initiative und er the tutelage of an exaggerated administrative centralisation." This is the language, not of Imperialism, but of sound sense ; it is in direct and pointed variance with the cuckoo-csy of French G. vermraent jour nalism. The most notable fact of the epoch is, that what the French call the haute commerce—that is, large commercial speculations which look through years for a return—have never revived since 1848; and that no capitalist now thinks of investing money except on such enterprises as the State sug gests and upholds. Thus the French have become manufacturers of money rather than creators of wealth. Agriculture pine; foreign trade progresses in no marked degree. There is but one suurce of impulse in the country, that of the Government, which, however equal to the great works of 93dile ship, can never direct individual energy in the creation of wealth. No person can be in a better position of being made sensible of this than the man who has under taken the administration of the French Colonies. The colonial failures of our neighbours have been avowedly owing to the total dependence on the Home Government, and c rresponding mistrust and discontinuance of all exertion not prompted by it. The result of such a system is, that Go vernment itself must shrink from adding to its burdens and desiring new colonies. To render Algeria, for example, self-subsistent, must be the first achievement and the principal aim of a pru dent French Government. Napoleon Jerome has undertaken this enterprise. It will, no doubt, task his utmost energies. But hisspeeeh at Limoges certainly indicates a knowledge of where the defect, lies, and whence the remedy should come.' Much conjecture has been expended to account for the high functions and position recently be stowed upon the Prince. Since he threw up the Madrid Embassy, rather than carry out certain in structions which he deemed unworthy and illiberal, Princ© Napoleon Jerome has merely held military command, and that of a subordinate kind, in the Crimea. Since his return, he has given himself to dissipation one day, and scientific research the next, avoiding politics as a sort of forbidden ground. Several efforts to marry him to the daughter of some reigning family have failed. Lat terly be became embarrassed, and it is probable that on applying for the means of ridding himself of these embarrassments, the Emperor offered to him an occupation and a prisition somewhat aloof from active politics, but still with sufficient scope to satisfy an ambitious and original mind. The motives of the Prince for accepting such a position are obvious enough. The views of the Em peror have been differently interpreted. Some re call a famous sreech made t nce in V,e Chamber of Deputies by M. Thiers. That statee-oian, when questioned as to the use of Algiers to France, re plied that its chief use was the great facility which it afforded of transporting 50,000 French soldiers to any point within the Mediterranean before the rest of Europe could be aware even of their em barkation. This notable revelation of M. niers, accompanied by the circumstance of the new Go vernor of Algeria being responsible to the Emperor alone, and holding communication solely with him, have lad certain parties to imagine that a great coup or expedition is meditated some day or other, however distant. On the other hand, however, the Prince in ques tion has not shown any military geniul, nor is he a grout favourite with the soldiery. Re is more over strongly opposed to Russia and the politics of the Russian party, in concert with whom alone such an expedition might be planned. M. Tillers' tastes are civic and his tendencies liberal, and he does not swim at all in the same water with M. De Morny. On these grounds we reject altogether the notion that the appointment of the Governor of Algeria has had any connection with any of those schemes which timidly ingenuous people are fund of attri buting to the French Emperor. We should rather consider his policy to proceed from a desire to place his rotative in that prominent and powerful position which would best enable him to hold a protecting arm over the young son of the Emperor, should any cataAnphe or untoward event call that son prematurely to the throne. Nothing ought to be more unsatisfactory to the Imperial mind than a survey of the men who now hold high dignities, offices, and commands in the Imperial rigilne. Moro than half of them have been professed and zealous Orleanists or Legitimists. And their antecedents are net such as to lead any one to sup pose that they would make any great sacrifice to their more recent loyalty. Much comment was made in Fi an ce onthe fact of the Duke of Malakhoff embracing the Duke D'Aumale and dining with him. Such conduct was honest and generous on the part of the old soldier, and by no means neces sarily evinced any want of fidelity to the Emperor, under whose banner he c nquered. Still eueth cir cumstances give rise to doubt and. to thought. People ask, what would be the conduct of the Ba roche:i and the Castellanes on certain occasions and in certain crises. And CO one is surprised to find that the Emperor thinks fit to put high trust in his own relative as the most efficient protector and na tural guardian of the Prince, should it be his fate to succeed whilst yet in his minori'y. The wisdom and liberality of the sentiments de livered by the Prince at Limoges; the apparent sin gularity of such an enlightened eulogiuin on the vita lity and value of local institutions under a system which is generally regarded as the very climax of centralisation—ale not, perhaps, unsusceptiblo of explanation. The expressions are the genuine ex pressions of him by whom they were uttered, but they would hardly have been uttered thus publicly, without some previous understanding with the Emperor. It will not be the first time that Louis Napoleon has sought by indirect Inc:ins to hold up before his people two separate aspects of his Go vernment, and it may easily be that after the recent epoch of terror and repression he is more than ever desirous of showing that the Imperial regime is not absolutely intolerant of philosophio views and I.beral sentiments. LLOID7.I SHIPPING..--(Thia Day.) LONDON, July 17. —Wind this day at noon, N.W. ; light breeze, and very fine. PENZANCE, July 17.—Wind NW. —Arrived—Marquis of Chaudos, from Quebec. HOLYHEAD, July 16.—Wind W.S.W.— Arrived —Lady Milton, from Liverpool for St. Thomas's, towed in by steam tugs, leaky, and pumps choked. OFF DARTMOUTH, July 16.—Arrived—Queen, from Calcutta ; Margaret Evans,- from New York; Maple Leaf, from Quebec for London. GLOUCESTER, July 16.—Arrived -- Catherine, from Huelva. SWANS:a, July 16.—Wind S. Vir.--Anived — Charlotte Harrison, from Quebec. LEITH, July 16. —Wind N.E..--Sailcd—Wanderer, for Quebec. GRIMSBY, 'July 16. —Wind rrived—Sappho, from Pornambuco. (BY ELUGrip.lO TELEGRAPH.) So uTuAlurroN, Saturday Morning. Wind calm. Arrived—llsoiroonia, steamer, from Hambnrgh ; Hiram, Portsmouth ; Conri , er, and South-Weitern, steamer, Jersey; May, Odense ; Patrie, Swart w i c k ; Ch ar l o t te, Guernsey. Sailed—La Pc,ule, for Cherbourg; Dispatch, steamer, Jersey ; Havre, steamer, Havre. LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. 'Wind W.Nr.Vir. Arrived, Jaly IC—Martaban and Atracan, from Cal crAta; Port rand, Apalachicola.; Majestic, Savannah; Sonanautb, Welvoet. Arrived, Jul,y 17.—W. 11. Wharton, from Galveston ; Li'zie Harivot Ki and Robert, New Orleans; Lancas, Phi ladelphia ; Colrinthian, screw steamer, Trieste ; Levanter, S. John's, - tT.B. ; Cerro Gordo, St. George's, N.B. ; Lotus, Quit is ; Corrienaubzie, Singapore ; Songster, Rot terdam -b v , S ; a , , I G , --Arlington, end Crown Point, for ; Orixa, Calcutta ; Tajo, screw steamer, Corunna ; Adam, Riga ; New England, New York; Fenno°, Narr•ea; Mockinaw, Charleston; Natal ir a, Malta ; Ruby, :Jlanabro ; Barth, and Elliot, Cron stadt ; E m ily Augustr, New Orleans ; Hindoo, and Trio culo, Pernatthum. (BY SUBS JARINE AND BRiTISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Wind W. ; tide three hours' ebb ;weather fine. Arrived, July W.—Dolphin, fromNynstadt ; Vankyren, New Orleans ; Victor, Cronstadt ; Trident, Terming; Swallow, (e.g.); Tonnirig ; Adle, (s.), Bremen. Sailed, July 7_G—S4ue et Tharnise steamer, for Paris. Sailed, Jul y (e.), for Hamburg; Vesta, Oporto; Donn is trk, t?.), Calais. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Wind N.W.,,lncsderate. (s.s.), for Genoa; Seine of Thamise, (8;s.), Lotted?'; Mogador • Concordia, barque, Pei namhnoo----! :rum London ; 'Abbey Lands, from Shields, for G renacla; Harbinger, from D3merars, for London. TUE LAW (PR FALSE PRETENCES.—A bill brought down from the livrds enacts that any ptrson obtaining the signature c l waother to any Li:l of exchange or Pio tnia6oz y note, with intent to cheat or defraud, will he guilty of a &nisi .eanour, and pnni,habla by pal certi tude fir the tern of four years. /00 100 100 0.11 all all all all St. St. St. 50 20 10 10 5D 10 all St. 100 100 '0 all St. 'lOO st. 1100 10 I all St. 100 st. 'lOO St. 'lOO St. 100 St. 'lOO St. ; 100 12 ' all 50 all 1611 14f, 164' 15 Bt. 100 16 1 6 9! 7I , 1 20 all t 1 all 11A St. 100 , St. 100 12i 73 St. 100 -5 all 25 all St. 100 10; 3 St. 100 St. 100 50 all 25 all 100 all 25 all 10 9 20 all St. 100 60 Si St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St, 100 25 163 St. 100 St too St. [OO 10 31.1 20 17. 20 all 10 all St. 100 6 i 4 BRITISH POSSESSIONS. 100 all Atian. and St. Law. 18 9 Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.ind,guar. 5 p.c. id— id 18 all Do. 18 all Do. Additional A 1d 201 all Buffalo & Lake slur. 6A 71 100 t 100 Buff., Brnt. & Godch. 1 82 87 100 103 6 p.c.bds.,l Aug..'72 Do. do. 1 July, '73 75 80 100 100 De. do., 1 June '74 74 78 20 2s. Calcutta and S. East. 20 2s6d Central Oude (Lim. ... 20 2 Ceylon A shares g ; 2 171 all Demerara. 20 2s. Eastern Bengal St. 100 East Indian 102 1021, 102 20 all Do. C Shares 20 5 Do. E. do. 6 ap 100 ail 20 all Geelon. , St Melbourne gua.r.% per cent. 161 171 171 17 St. 100 Gil. Trunk. of Canada 38 40 401 396 a 100 all Do. 6p. c. Deben 74 76 761 6 29 all Gt, in, Pen. g. 5 perc. 201 201, 201 20 1 Do. New. guar. 5 p.c. 201 al] Gt. Westn. of Canada 18 181 1 181 3 20* 13 Do. New LA) 111 Do. lkla. al,lo '57... 100 all Do. do., 76, p. '6O 1 105 108 100 all Do. do., '73, do. 100 ail Do. do., '73, without ) • option 104 106 20 all Nla.dras, guar. 41 p.c. 170 181 20 all Do. do., 5 per C. 191 20 20 15 Do. 43 p. c. Eaten.' lid lid 20 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c ad id 20 5 Do. 4th Ex., d 0.... d d 20 ss. Dude (Limited.) 20 15 S'clude, guar. ., per c par 1 I, 20 all Do FOREIGN. LO all Antwrp &Rotterdam 51 53 20 all Ardennes ••• •• 20 3 Bahia ez Francisco., id --- par 5 all Belgian East. Juliet — IA 20 all Beziersto Graissessac ••• C all Carmeauxdi Toulouso Coal Mines and Ry. 21 2i 20 15 Dutch Rhenish 20 all Eastern of France „ 25 20 2s. Euphrates Valley 20 all Gt. Central of France ... 20 all Great Luxembourg... 73 73 10 6 Italian Junction 20 all L.Ke Const. & Bale ~. 20 all Lierre and Turnhout ..„ ...d 20 6 Lombardo-Venetian 3 3b 5 nil Lucca dr Pist.sp.c.p. ••• 20 all Lyons and Geneva 221 231 33 all Maria Anteuia 10 all Do. New 20 all Namur & Liege 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Pref 2l 211) 16 • all Northern of France 363 341 20 8 Do. New 10 all NorwegianTrnk.Fref 81 91 20 all Paris and Lyons 303 303 303 20 all Ditto New 20 all Paris and Orleans 49 51 23 9 Recife & San Fran , (Pernam.) g. 7p. c a d 20 11 Riga and Dunaburg 10 all Rome and Frascati — 20 Ali Royal Danish ...... ••• ••• 5 all Royal Swedish .•• ••• 4 all Do. 7 per cent.... all Sambre and Meuse_ 73 73 10 all Do. 51 per cent. pref. 81 -- 9 1 1 20 all Southern of France.. 20 200 all West Flanders 93 5 10 all Do. 51 per c. Prof . 9 9 .1 20 all W.&14.W. of France 23 24 20 6 Western of Austria._ „, I 20 all West. of Switzerland 6 all \ ..csl aden . 6 all Do. 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Yesterday, Mr. Sergeant Payne, coroner for the city of London and Southwark, and a highly re spectaH,e jury, wsembled in the board-room of St. George's Workhouse, to inquire into the circum stinces attending the death of Sarah Aun Vaughan Williams and Caroline Bridges, who lost their lives at iho late explosion of Madame boton's and Mr. Gibson's firework manufactories in the Westmin ster-road. The Coroner, in opening the case, alluded to an old act of Parliament passed in the reign of William 111., and stated that it would be probable that after hearing the evidence he might find it his duty to charge the gentlemen of the jury to prefer a charge of manslaughter against some [erson or persons. There were other firework manufactories in the neighbourhood where the explosion took Owe, and he could assure them that the law was quite ample, if properly carried out, quite as much so as when the act was passed in the reign of Wil liam 111. Willi un Holloway said—l am an engineer of the Fire Brigade. I found the body of Sarah Ann Williams at No. 1, Melina-place, Westminster road, the house of Mr. Gibson. The body was dreadfully burned. The day previous there had been an explosion at a firewc•rk manu factory opposite to Mr. Gibsou'F, atout forty feet off. I cannot give an opinion as to the cause of the explosion. Valentine W. Vaughan-Williams identified the I.ody of the deceased Sarah Ann Vaughan Wil liams, and stated Ler age to be 11. - James Anderton Jones, No. 4, Charles-str ee t, Westminster-road, seaman, said—On Mondayafter noon last I was in the back yard. I could see the back windows of the house where the first explo sion took place (Mme. Coton's). I all at once heard rn explosion, and one of the windows was blown oat. I then ran into the street, and the first thing that took my attention was Mme. Coton coming out of the house with her clothes on fire. With assistance I got her into a cab, and sent her ,o the hospital. about ten minuies afterwards there was a second explosion, mare violent than the last, and fireworks flew about in all directions. I then saw a rocket fiy through one of the windows of Mr. Gibson, who is also a firework maker, and w shortly afterwards that house also caught fire. ilme. Coton's premises were nearly destroyed, and Mr. Gibson's house was burnt. There were three ex plosions altogether, the whole of them at Madame Co' on':;. By a Juror—l to not know whether Mme. Coton is a married woman, and that her husband's name is Bennett. Mr. Lewis here entered the court, and said that he appeared to watch the proceedings on behalf of Mr. Bennett, but The Coroner requested him to withdraw, as Mr. Bennett was riot present. _ _ \lr. Henry Gibson s - aid—l am a firework-maker, and up to Monday last I resided at the corner of Charles-street, Westminster-road. I know Mr. Bennett. He is man ied, I belieue, to Mme. Cutcn, and carried on the business of a firework-maker, al though the name of Cotcn was pllced over the door of the house. On the Monday evening I observed some smoke issuing from Mine. Cuton's, and I cl , ..secl my own shop. Soon afterwards two little boys came out of the house with their arms slightly burnt, avid on asking them how it bad happened they said they had been charging some starlights. I was standing at the door with my wife when the explo sion took place, and she was blown a wa y some yards and her clothes were set on fire. Directly after that I observed that my own house was on fire. I did not see the deceased girl Williams at that time. There were several explosions altogether, By a Juror-1 bad not more than 53. worth of fireworks on my premises, which I kept for sam ples to show gentlemen. I had not more than a quarter of a pound of gunp•Jwder in the house. The goods in the shop window were all dummies, merely being made of paper and stiing. By tie Coroner—One of the little boys who came out of Madame Coton's had a tool in his hand, called a "former," used in charging cAoured stars, which he said he bad been doing. William Bray, a little boy, said—l am 13 years of age, and reside at 4, Park-street, Kennington cross. On Monday last I was at work at Madame Coton's. 1 believe her real name is Bennett. At the time of the explosion I was in the house with my brother David, Mis. Bennett, a boy named Jack Watson, Mr. Bennett's mother, the servant, and. a young girl working there. CorOner=bo you kuvf the cause of the explo sion ? Witness—Some red fire caught alight in the back kitchen. I was there by myself filling some fire works called asteroids. ThEre were three colours —purple, red, and green. The red and the green were in the lids of the canisters, and the pur ple iii a plate. Mrs. Bennett and the boy, Jack Watson, and my brother were in the middle room at the time. The red-fire caught light, but I cannot say bow, as there was no light in the room. Mrs. Bennett bad told me that the coloured fire would light by itself. I called out to Mrs. Bennett that the coloured fire was alight, and ran out, fellowed by my brother and the bDy Watson. I only had my hair singed and a sight burn on the elbow. Ido not know how Mrs. Bennett got out. The canisters were nearly full of coloured fire. The Coroner then said that the jury must pro ceed to Guy's Hospital. Whit he would propose was, tlim the inquiry should be ultimately ad journed ; and as it might probably turn out a case of manslaughter, he would not advise' a short ad journment, which might send the case to the assizes, which commence on the 2d of August, and would en'ail great expense. He would propose adjourn ing to the Otb. The jury then adjourned to Guy's Hospital, with a conoitiou that they should re-assemble at two o'clock. INQUEST ON THE BODY OF CAROLINE BRIDGES AT GUY'S HOSPITAL. The jury re-assembled at two o'clock, when after the ordinary obserra,tious, George Pike, L 93, proved the finding of tha body of the deceased, who was blown across the road towards Mr. Gibson's house. Did not see what struck her, but had no doubt the injuries were occasioned by the explosion at Mine. Coton's. He picked up the child, and finding it much burnt, took it to the hospital. Mr. Bridges, the father of the child, identified the body as that of his daughter. She was about 11 years of ago. Mr. W. Venour, house surgeon of Guy's Hospi tal, deposed to the fact that the deceased Caroline Bridges was received into the hospital on Monday evening, about a quarter to seven. She was se verely burnt about the arms, neck, and legs. After she was received into the hospital she appealed to rally, but afterwards relapsed. There was no doubt she died from the effects of burns. The Coroner, to Mr. Bridges—Was your daughter a healthy girl / Mr. Bridges said before this accident she was a very healthy girl. A juror desired to know whether the coroner could not prevent the rebuilding of the premises if the inquiry was adjourned ? The Coroner said he had no such power. Mr. Clothier, churchwarden, asked whether it would affect the inqury if the pari h authorities applied to the Secretary of State to prevent the manufacture of fireworks in so crowded a neigh bourhood The Coroner said, certainly not; he was of opin ion that the law was strong enough, if those whose duty it was would put in motion, to prevent a re petition of such accidents. After a lengthened conversation, The Coroner advised an adjournment, as it was ptobable they might come to the conclusion of a verdict of manslaughter, to such a day that it would pass over the assizes. He would therefore propose that, as the assizes would take place on the 2d of August, they should adjourn until the Gth of August. The, inquiry was accordingly adjourned until that day. Mr. Venour, the house surgeon, in reply to a juror, said that Mrs. Bennett (Magame Coon) was still alive, but in a mist dangerous state, in fact, he considered her recovery hopeless. The other sufferers. in St. Thomas and Guy's Hospitals are pi ogressiug favourably. THE EXPLOSIONS IN TUE WESTMINSTER ROAD.—i PUBLIC MEETING.—A meeting of the ratepayers of Sr. George the Martyr, Southwark, was field last night in reference to the recent explosions at the firework fac tories in the Westuainstei-road. The Bev. Mr. Howlett presided. It was uranbnuusly agreed that the following memorial should be p r esented to the S ecretar y of State for the Home Depa r t m ent :--"Sir,—We, the under signed, incumbent and householders of St. Patin:, South wark, beg to a , ,k your ei.pccial notice at d attention to the awful explaionn frequently occurring i n t hi s micp.h. bourhood, but more particularly to Monday, the 12th of July instant, on which o ccasion - no fev e r than 315 per sons w ere in cra cr less injured, some suppose d to be mot - tally I;:venbleateurc woundsed tLd r e e a c t e h iv i e n d t h on e t p s r i d e e m ; is e e t' v ' e r e y n do otherua e .n of t h the aforesaid e xp!osions arising f rom ' au accumulation of fire works in firewor k malteis' premises situated in the Westminster-road, in the above mea , urea may be adopt e d 4 7 iuorialists therefore bumbl district. Your me only tie sale, but th e beg that very stringent Government to preVent not commodities in the, Ceiniti zz of tnanufacl we of such dangerous 1 üblic roads and inhabited of an ay the en and han COS WD. and g a tha the the tan the ver, the all ited the g a and urha, dee more rhich f the titan, host 3 [ and amel n the iestr. and those ation. ights 'ould u riy the tulle iking e, eer rhich I,nu- 4si 9 1091 67 7i 10s.