The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-27 00:00:00

7 - .47. - -7 - *- - -:::-....- -- -s.ii - - -- . - == -- ; .._-..;- _ _ 1-- 0 R 'T H E li ACE — S .‘ - 2 -: - DIIS 'IT .R. GOV "add - IN:AT ER PRO OF COATS in great variety, raady made or made t., measure, at un uFnally low prices —E. MOSES and EON. For addresses, Fee following advertisement. RARE COMBINATION. The RAPE COMBINATION of EXCELLENCE with C t EAPNESS will be foun I in every art:cle sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready rnlde, or made to Pleasure, for all ages, all occupations, and all classes. Commodious apartments for measuring and fitting ad join the spacious and elegant Show Rooms, which con tain a very large and diversified stock of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompanying their Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentle men's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctua• lily, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure in• troduced by E. MOSES and SON, enables them to gua rantee a faultless fit. 1 Orch , rs horn persona who are not known to the firm should be accompanied by a remittance, or a London reference. Any article not approved of will be cheerfully ex changed. or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Goods aro marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats an l raps, and Boots and Shoes, is unequalled for magnitude, variety, and cheapness. Compl;te Outfits for all Climates, with every rcquis:te for the voyage. Lists of Piicys, with Rules fo: Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and poet-'rre. E. 1 110SES and SON'S Establ'slon, nts are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Satnrday evening at sun set, when tusiness is resumed until eleven o'clock. _ _ E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Jlespoko Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrnpers, Hatters. Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. 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HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. 2- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING. at 7. no ESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. P.el- Imre and Mrs. Leigh 3lurray. At 8, THE DEAD HEART Mr. Beniamin Webster- Messrs Arthur Stirling, G. Belmore, stuart, R. Philips, Ashley, Romer; Mrs Alfred Mies Nelly Harris, &e. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Last Week of the Season. THIS EVENING. a New Drama. by Dion Roucican7t, entitled PRE , UIIPTIVE EVIDENCE, in wh'ch Madame' e'este. Miss Louisa Moore, Miss Emma Barnett. Mr. W. Ilignold. Mr. J. G. Shore. Mr G. P. Nevil!e, eir. Moreland, Mr. Parselle, and 31r Dominick Murray will appear. • To be preceded by THE HOUSE ON THE BTIIDGIe, in hich Madame Celeste will give her celebrated impersonations _Ernest de la Garde and Zambaro. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. from 10 till 5, Box-office open THEATRE-ROYAL, 110LBO.RN. 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Ic6B ... 3 ... .. 86 —L14,250 18G9 ... 3 .. 108 19,481 txces. .. 22 £4,231 In 52 weeks ending April 7th, lif9 ...:3.105 --0539,442 AA NGLO-AUSTRIAN BANK. NOTICE IS lIETEBY GIVEN, That the GENE RAL. COUNCIL of the ANGLO-AUSTRIAN BANK ve made a CALL upon the shares of the Bank of .£2 105., or 25 florins Austrian currency, in silver, per share, payab7e on or before the Ist of July, 1869, at the Offices of Cie Anglo-Austrian Bark in Vienna or London. As the Call will be actually made by tho deduction of a corresponding. amount from the dividend Coupon payable on the Ist July, 1869, it will be necessary for all share holders to present their provisional Share Certificates with the Coupons for July, 1869, at one of the before-mentioned Offices, that the receipt for the Call may be stamped upon the Certificate. By order of the General Council. Vienna, 26th May, 1869. A TTRACTIVE SPECULATION S. UNPISTALLED SUCCESS. Yon coal never meet with a more advisable opportunity to try the favours of Dame Fortune. With a S'ngte Stake of £1 you can realise £20,00!! with £2 £27,(00!! with £8 £4t,000!! with t £45,000!! For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TILLOT, General lferchant, Guernsey. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. EvENING, AN ALARIIIvG SACRIFICE: Buckstone, jun.: Mis+ F. Wright. After which. HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippensle, &c.: Nlesdaines Cavendish, hill. kc. Followed bj A REG FLA 1 ? FIN : r. ^ ()therm. Concluding with HIGH LIFE 81 , LOW STAIRS: Messrs. Buckstone, Howe, Clark, &c. Connnench at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining, Tilts EVENING, at 7, THE HOU -E .N THE BRIDGE: IV adorns Celeste. Concludine• with. P ttESU PTIV EVI DE CE: Madame Celeste, Louisa Moore, &c.; Messrs. Rignold, Shore, Dominick Murray, &c. THEATR E-ROTAL, ADELPHT. 'Tars EVENING. at 7. DOMESTIC ECONOMY : Mr Geo Del more and Mrs Leigh Murray. At 3, THE DEAD HEART: Mfr Benjamin Webster, Mr A. Stirling, MI Stuart, Mr Ashley, Mr G. Bolmcre, Mrs Alfred Mellon. S:e.. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. Tins EN - ENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke MisS Bufton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton: • esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To conclude with HIE AND DYE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tins VvENIN(3. at 7, NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS. At Q. 30, the DPW bueesque CORSICAN COT 11ERS. And I IREAC IL OF PROMISE. Messrs. 9farshall. David Fisher, Andrews, Tin riale, ITilrist.ine. .1. Clarke; 3lesdarnes Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, C. Thorne THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Tnrs EVE• TNG, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. After which MONEY: Yr. BarivSullirnn, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mr. 0. Honey, Yrs. C. Horsman, &e. ROYALTY THEATI:E. tinder the Management of Miss M Oliver. 'furs E, at 7.n0. IVFOR A +Y. Followed by A ROVING coy' mISSION. And TILE .MILIrARY BILLY 'T'AY'LOR. To enreincle with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Miss M. Oliver, Miss K. Bishop. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Nliss Marie Wilton nos EVRNING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, IL J. Montague, Addison, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Misa C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. TAie EVENTN(I, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment. Immense Success of BARBE .bLUE. The Only Leon ! CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and, Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL lIAMB K A PALACE. THREE BALLET i Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. BOX-OffICI open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regebralatk, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mendays, 6d. Children under twelve, Sd 0:1 IP • L - 64 ..r.. 4 \e. • Lfj c..JA., lilt LO? DOW, 271URSDAY, MAY 27, 1869. The Opposition Deputies already elected number lonly three more than in the last Corps Legislatif. This—out of 2 90 elections. As many as fifty-nine of those elections having been abortive, a fresh ballot is necessitated. It is almost certain therefore that several additional Opposition Deputies will, in conse quence, be returned. The advocates of responsible ; Government are therefore clearly gaining strength, are gradually winning their way at any rate to larger importance within the walls of the Imperial Legisla ture. A liaise, however, has in the thick of the elec tioneering contests been perpetrated by the fore most of all the leaders of the late Opposition. M. TIIIERS has blundered. Evidently he has been ill advised. We sincerely regret this, but the fact Lis undeniable. The suspicions of M. THIERS having been aroused as to whether the ballot boxes, or electoral urns, had been tampered with, the his torian of the Empire, on Saturday night, accompanied • by two persons, went at eleven o'clock, it appears, to the - Mairie of the Seventeenth Arrondissement, that of the Batignolles, and there demand<<d permission to examine, fcr hilhself, the condition of these same electoral urns or ballot boxes. The keenest scrutiny was applied to the seals—without, however, the de tection of a single flaw. The sacred depositories of the voting papers were found to be intact. The self-appointed scrutineers one of them the most illustrious of all the candidates of the Opposition baffled in their search, in oue sense, even, disappointed in their expectations, with drew. Upon tl:e Place dc la Maine a considerable throng had—hearing of M. TusEns' visitLassemLled together. ILearing of what had occurred, no wonder that, on the following morning, the outraged because the suspected Mayor of the arrondissement wrote thus indignantly to the great author and statesman— " I learn, sir," wrote M. BALAGNY, " that you called at the Mairie of the Batignolles last night to examine the room where electoral urns were deposited. Without raising any questions as to the ille gality of that visit, mate in my absence, and without previous notice, I may observe, with all the deference due to you, that your proceeding, besides being unusual, has deeply wounded me, inasmuch as it would imply that my delicacy or my attention 'E stTN, LONDON, TFIUMAY EVEI'ING, MAY 27, ISM, ought to suspected. lam convinced that after a little reflection you will regret the step you have taken." Than this remonstrance noubing surely could be more dignified or more temperate. We shall be curious to observe bow it will be responded to by its distinguished recipient. Not only has the indignation of M. BALAGIY, the mayor of the arrondissement of the Batignolles, been excited by this extraordinary pro ceeding on the part of M. TRIERS, but the incident is said to have produced an exceedingly unpleasant impression (and no wonder !) upon the National Guard on duty at the Mairic. Bear in mind, more over, the fact, that the result of the first ballot has so far proved unfavourable to M. TRIERS that, although placing him at the head of the list of candidates voted for in the Second Cir cumscription, by reason of his having obtained 13,333 suffrages out of the 32,683 electors making up the aggregate of the constituency, it still leaves him 3,009 below the required absolute majority of 16,312 ! Bear that in mind, and it may be under stood at once how very indiscreetly M. TIMERS has acted. With a fresh ballot before him, he has wan tonly and evidently quite causelessly awakened this angry feeling, not simply in the mind of the Mayor of Batignolles, but among the National Guard of the arrondissement. It is to be hoped that it may not prove fatal to his interests in the new election now immediately impending. `Whatever may be the numerical strength, or rather weakness, of the Opposition in the Corps Legislatif, there cannot be two opinions as to its force in tellectually, 'any more than there can be an in-- stant's doubt as to the formidable character it de riveh tr im the glaring tact tnat . . nation from Paris and from the other leading consti tuencies. This is a fact which we are certain is thoroughly appreciated throughout Europe, and by no one in Europe more thoroughly than by his Ma jesty the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. THE word of command has been given, and meet ings are being held up and down the country in order to screw the courage of the Peers up to the fighting point. The meeting at Belfast has just been succeeded by one at Birmingham, and both were distinguished by a fine display of Kentish fire and bad logic. That very respectable nobleman the Earl of llAnnowny presided at the English gathering, and he was followed by Mr. NEWDEGATE, M.P., Mr. CHARLEY, ALP., Mr. LLOYD, and Dr. EVANS, the defeated candi dates at the general election, and a certain Mr. BREWIN GRANT, who is just now the hero of a storm in teacup. One member of the Upper House, two members and two would-be members of the Lower House, and a Dissenting minister who has quarrelled with his co-religionists, are not a very formidable phalanx. The Lords are scarcely likely to mistake this " demonstra tion " as the voice of Birmingham, still less as the voice of England. If the Opposition cannot do better than this they will be wise in refraining from any further demonstrations. The only thing they demonstrate is the smallness and the insigni ficance of the Opposition. " LOST, somewhere between Mercury and Saturn, a balloon. Any comet giving such information as will lead to the recovery of the said balloon, shall be handsomely rewarded." Did our readers chance to notice this announcement in any of yesterday's papers ? A " captive balloon " has for some days past been soaring above the chimneys of London. Every afternoon it has been cheated with the pretence of freedom. It has been allowed to rise to a certain height, but its upward progress has always been checked by ropes. On Tuesday, favoured by a strong wind, it burst its bonds and shot aloft. All night it went joyously careering through the heavens like " a rejoicing native of the infinite," to quote " Festus " BAILEY. All night it cleft the clouds, and laughed at the rain, and went dodging about through the constellations, taking care to avoid collision with meteors, and to escape entanglement in comets' tails. There was no one in it, o one to check this triumphant march by pulling at valve-strings. Whit fun it would have been if there had been just one person inside, or say two—a pair of lovers, for instance— blissfully ignorant of balloon management, and carried hither and thither among the planets and the stars, whither they had so often soared together in imagination. Only fancy their feelings in being thus transported beyond this sordid, mun dane, commonplace region into the infinite abyss of light and joy. A little cold, perhaps, now and then; but it is only to go a few thousand miles nearer the sun to get warm again. Rather hungry work, do you say ? Who would think of eating and drinking when listening to the music of the spheres ? Or supposing it bad been Mr. CARLYLE who, tempted by the near proximity of the captive balloon to his Chelsea home, had seated sa h ic i t m qieu s sa e; at i an i n i de th teh e we ca it,h r :etth :N er l i h i, a tis t ei a lse n ,n,— o c p eas p : o ;d r a t n u wd nt h i ta . h y te f or making a " story min e he would have had to tell on his descent, supposing he ever did descend ! Even his German-English would be inadequate to the telling of it. He would have had to invent some new linguistic combina tion compared to which " Sartor Result's " would be easy and pleasant reading. What an opportunity has been lost ! If poor EDGAR ALLAN Poi had been alive he would not have lost it. 6111-0 Erri Ist , 1 rfnft L.LTE,RATURE• Familiar Quotations. One Vol. Pp. 524 George Routledge. The compiler of this very excellent gabring to gether of Familiar Quotations, Mr. Johtßartlett, may be congratulated. It is beyond an question the best collection of the kind we have eventamined. It is the most copious, the most accurate, al the most admirably well-arranged compendium of Familiar Quotations," to our thinking, that ha ever yet been published. " Passages and Phras3 in Com mon Use" is the sub-title of the book. fhe words, in effect, here given in inverted comma, arc taken from Mr. Bartlett's title-page. To ay that the volume embraces within it all sub phrases and passages would be, of tours, to write an obvious absurdity. An absolutly complete collection must always remain a ?stilt to be aimed at, never to be accomplished. Supposing the work to run through any number of editions, each edition being revised and added o with every conceivable amount of care—somethhg, we may be certain, must still remain forgoten or over looked, in spite of all the enegy and all the caution of the original coupiler or of his successors. One distinguishing peculiarity of the collection here under notice 's this, that it is accompanied by an Index so considerable that any passage or phrase in the volume can be turned to at once with the utmost facility. How consi derable the Index is, may be best indicated perhaps by our mentioning the fact that out of the 524 pages making up the book, nearly 200 are devoted simply to that same Index. In point of fact, there are 174 pages of Index to 350 pages of Quotations. Whenever a reader wants to trace borne to its right author any familiar phrase, any familiar line, any familiar passage, whether of prose or poetry, he has but to turn to the alphabetical Index here pro _ _ , , book in which it may be found will Wearudaaka upon the instant. The volume is as acceptable an addition to any library in the land as the new number of Bradshaw, with all its faults, is to a Railway Traveller, or as Murray is to any tra veler oa the American Continent. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations in effect is a handbook to all that is best, or at any rate, to all that is most epi gratnatically felicitious in English Literature. GOLDEN ' , mut;Es—Cassell, Petter, and Galpin. —A graceful little brochure, so entitled, compris ing within it ten harmonious fragments of verse, and numbering altogether less than thirty pages of letterpress, here brings to us, evidently enough, the first effusions of a sensiti ye and poetical temperament. It is a promise, not a fulfilment. It is a harbinger, like the earliest budding of a young tree in spring. The writer disdains to appear anonymously, and therefore unaffectedly inscribes his name upon his title- page,. as William Gordon Stnythies. The superscription he has chosen is explained by the very motto on the title-page—namely, these three melodious lines from Longfellow omy songs! whose welcome moasures • Filled my heart with s..cret rapture! Cilildren of my golden leisurcs !" A beautiful green nook in Glouceitershire , gives its name—" Bisley"—to the fiat piJce in the little pamphlet ; a poem inscribed, under date 29th July, 1863, to the widow of the venerat •d author of " The Christian Year." The sorrowful atm • sphere of death breathes throughout the remainder--as evidence the very titles of some—" Take Them " Adieu !" " Gone Home!" " Consolation !" again, is the heading to some lines on the loath of J. H. G., dead in Australia. Another, the second piece, is an eulogistic memento of Charles Kean, the Trage lian. "At Last" has referent! to one beloved but long passed away. " Springtime," apparently a more hopeful title, in its pmultimate stanza utters the lamentation— " I see again that sunny Spring When with suspended breath, I saw her spirit take its wing Into the realms of death." " The Old Letter," also, is suggestive of the ejacu lation— " Oh, thou dearly loved old leer, Thou en crumbling into dust ! As the hand that wrote the ha, dAnn As the Lan I now writing—must." Even when the wri er chaunts a Hymn, to the re fraiu " Trust in God," one of his earliest adjurations is to the of .!et— '• When the friewls you love and cherish, In your heart's d, , cp inmost core, Pie•or let th✓ir friendship perish, And are fr:euds to you no more Trust in God." Death, or rather the sense of death, so perva les the whole, that, vernal though dine lines are, it is as if there were the canker of death upon each of them. There is enough of promise for the future, however, in them all, to admit of our hoping for happier re sults from the next budding, or, better still, from a later efflorescence. 7HE RULE OF THE 110.4 D AT SEA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The two letters of Mr. Gray and Admiral Sullivan on the " Fresh Steam-hip" collision ought not to go unchallenged, although they will be satis factory to the public, as showing what the authors of the existing rules have to say by way of ex planation of the subject. It is quite evident that some competent tribunal must now be appointed to take this question into consideration. Will you in the meantime permit me to observe that the authors of these regulations have no power to put an authoritative construction upon them— but that we must look to the construction that is put upon them by the decisions of the Admiralty Courts, and their general acceptation by the public. Th e mean ing of " end on" is, I presume, on a line with the keel, but the meaning of " nearly end on" is indefinite and incomprehensible. In the case of the Louisa and the City of Paris, brought before the Admiralty Court in Ireland, Judge Kelly said—" But when it is recollected that the order to hard-a-starboard was given by the steamer when the tug was but two points on her starboard bow, it seems clear that the proper article to apply to the position is the 13th ;" and again, " We attribute the collision to the City of Paris for not having ported, slowed, and reversed in time, when she bad the tug two points on her starboard how." In the case of the Thames v. the Stork the Court said, " In order to excuse her from porting, it must be quite clear that there are three points of differ ence, and not less ; for surely it would never do to contend, where they were so nearly meeting end on, that if the evidence should be that it was only one or two points only in the direction they were meet ing, that that would be sufficient to dispense with the observance of this rule." _ _ And in the case of the Printer v. the Fingal the Court said, " Part of the evidence says_ that they were within two points of meeting end on. I should consider that if they were within two points of meeting end on, they would fall in with the latter part of the statement nearly end on.'" Now what is the plain English of this construc tion of the law, but that if two steamers are Meet ing, instead of keeping put of the way, they shall adopt the only comrse which will endange'r a collision, and, as Sir John Hay in his letter to Mr. Bright very truly says—" It must be recollected that two oce?n steamers probably may not see each other's lights until within two miles of each other, and that each steaming 12 knots they pass each other in five minutes. The attempt for two long ships to cross each other under such circumstances must be haz irdons, and if any hesitation aril 2s on the part of the officer in charge of either ship, a colli sion is almost sure to ensue. How much better then that the officer iu &large should know that in all cases, he will do right by turning the ship's head away from the approaching vessel," Will reference to Admiral Sullivan's explana tion of the collision between the Amazon and the Osprey, the officer of the watch was cashiered, not for whatafterwardshappenel—but because "he put the helm of the Amazon to starboard, instead of to port, when first sighting the light of the Osprey— in contravention of the Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea"—the ships being then five miles apart, and as the sails of the Amazon were lifting, it was more convenient for her at that time to bear day. away to the southward. This finding and sentence were ordered to be read on board all her Majesty ships in commission. If such is to remain the law, I can only say that the seas will not be navigable.—Yours obediently, WILLIAM STIRLING LACON. London, 25th May, 1869. LATEST INTELL MENGE (REU'ER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, May 26. The National Steamship France arrived out to- COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1391 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 140:1 ; the lowest, 1391. - - Sterling Exchange on London lO9l. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 l2l/. t 4 " 1885 ll7l. 1867 llB4. 10-40 ifi Illinois Erie 2Bl. Cotton—Mid. upland 2Blc. Petroleum—Standard White 3lc. Flour, extra state, $5.70e. to $6.30c. Corn, old mixed, 96c. (11m.:ElqsTowN, May 27. The National Steamship Company's steamship Helvetia, from New York, arrived here at 7 a.m to-day. She landed passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool. All well. - • The Guion steamship Idaho arrived here from v - • _ „,,,, I,ked passengers, and sailed at 11.30 a.m. for New York. All well BOMBAY, May 25. Official reports from Pcshawur state that the Atneer Badukshan was collecting an arniy of 4,000 men in the interest of Shere Ali, hoping to subdue Turkestan without the assistance of the latter. Shere Ali reached Cabul on the 10th inst., and had au interview with Yakoob Khan in the presence of all the Sirdars and the army. Rumours have come from Bokhari to the effect that the Russians were moving against Kokhand and ColQb (?) HER► MAJESTY. BALMORAL, May 24. This being her Majesty's 50th birthday she spent it quietly with the Royal Family. Her Majesty invested Prince Arthur with the Order of the Thistle, and Prince Leopold with the Garter. The Prince and Priucess of Wales went to Epsom races yesterday. THE LATE SIR WENTWORTH DILKE.—WO be lieve that the remains of the late Sir Wentworth Dilke will reach London, from St. Petersburg, on Friday, and that the interment will ,tke place at the Konsal-green Cemetery, on Al onday, at 12 o'clock. It appears that the report last Saturday of the arrival the Essex from Australia with £72,000 was erroneous. She has been 88 days out, detained most probably by the easterly winds lately preva lent. ROSSINI'S LIST Wont:-.--All the world, musical and otherwise, are crowding, in Paris and Loudon, to listen to Rossini's last great we rk, the "Masse So!enuelie." In. regard to this s u bli me pro d act i on ( t h e f arewe ll to his d reason., e a a t s t its eillusetrreioetis cent Ci action. nlp o ser), there has, for ob vious All the music pub lishers have been in the field . about it. Very large sums are spoken of as having been p aid even for limited copy right. The important houses s-'f Rieordi and Co., muiic publishers of Milan, and 1 - 131 m an (another well-known spectlator), whose large veutturt .s, and larger success, are well-known, have competed. Sums like 75,000 f., 95,000 f., anl 170,600 f. are mentioned sts pa, 1 for proprietary rights in different directions. It fin now definitely - understood that this great work is secured for England, the proprietor of the copyright (far purposes of publication in England) being Mr. Thome:4 -•?lhappell. Rossini's Mass has been produced by the three, 'ors of the United Opera, London, in a locale (St..Taraes's 1 lad). that will lend to this "Mesas Solennellq," its due eft jets of fullest majesty. Nothing will therefore exceed the i iterest that will attach to this great production when inns traaed by the talents of the first vocal artistes ; when the • claurnses are sung by a body of choristers who are unriva, 'led And when the grand orchestral effects rest in the lieu ids Of the fine band belonging t-) the Royal Italian Opera We really think that we supply (in the above) most wehi )ea e news to all music lovers in this country. And §ucli Ise are sure will be admitted. SPAIN. MADRID, May 26. In to-day's sitting the Constituent Cortes closed the discussion on the Constitution by the adoption of the remaining clauies. There will be no sittiag to-morrow in consequence of its being a fete. On Friday, however, the Eolernn promulgation of the Constitutional Charter will take place at the meet ing of the Cortes, when the leaders of the different political parties will make speeches appropriate to the occasion. The Ii publicans of the four provinces of Anda lusia, Estremadura, Alicante, and Murcia, intend to hold a meeting on the 4th inst., when they will sign a federal pact. May 27. The introduction of an additional article to the Constitution suspending the clause organising the judiciary until the organic law fedi la ing the tribunals shall Lave been sanc tioned has been the cause of disunion among the majority of the commission. The matter has been settled by a compromise, but Senor 'lower() Orbz, the Minister of Justice, has given in his re signation. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, May 27. The Imperial Commis,ion for the Control of the - Public Debt publish their report for the period end ing Dec tuber, 1868. The cot. soli ;ated doh; amounted to 2,558,229,378 florins, bearing al annu d interest of 101,898 ; 023 florins. The amount of the, floating debt not chargeable to the whole of the Empire was 118,711,221. Total amount of the public debt 209,206,316 florins, bearing an annual interest of 106,368,170 florins, anlshowing if com pared with the total amount in the previous year the following reduction :—Consolidated debt reduc tion, 26,460,750 florins ; floating debt reduction 20,112,141. The floating debt chargeable to the whole of the Empire is given as 307,924,761 florins. FRANCE. Pmus, May 27. The official journal of this morning publishes an Imperial decree, dated the Bth inst., approving on grounds of public utility a telegraphic line to be established between Poulizar and Brest, the same to serve as a land line in continuation of the sub marine cable between France and the United States. The decree gives full powers to Baron Erlanger of Paris, and Mr. Julius Reuter of London for the acquisition of the land necessary for the construc tion of that line. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilde re ceived Mr. Washburne, the New American Alinis- ter, yesterday. Bo URSE, May 26.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :- 4i per Cent. End of month - Ital , an Fives 57 85 3 per Cent End of month 7l 82 Mexican Loan ... Credit Mobilier 256 25 - Do. Bonds ...... 1 61 End of month 255 --Spanish Threes 29 75 Credit Foncior 1625 ---Home Debt...... End of month — Deferred ......... 28 RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans ..................................... 9121 Northern ...... 1076 i 945 Lyons and Mediterranean ............... Southern..... ................................. 6 tii Western ....................................... b 7 7i Eastern .. ........................ Sardinian .................................... 50 Austrian 760 Lombard 4Blf, North of Spain 72 Saragossa 65 Roman SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (BY TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived.—Baron Osy, steamer, from Antwerp; Aurora, steamer, from Rotterdam; Argos, and Velocity, steamers , from Calais ; Panther, steamer, from Boulogne. Sailed.—Oriana, steamer, from Hamburg; Runnymede, for Hobart Town; Bury St. Edmunds, for Mauritius; Blonde, steamer, for Dunkirk; Cologne, steamer, for Boulogne. DEAL, Thursday Morning. Passe3.—William Carvill, of St. John's, from Lond on , fur the west. Sailed.—Elmstone, for Hongkong. MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—Among the most interest ing. sights of the metropolis during the Whitsuntide Un days none appeared to be more generally patronised, and gave greater satisfaction to the sightseers, than the re nowned and popular wax work galleries in Baker-street, The exhibition has been crowded with visitors ; and the sombre chamber of horrors, containing, as it does, models of most of the notorious criminals who expiated their crimes on the gallows, appeared to be not the least attrac tive to the sightseers. The traffic of the Grand Trunk Railway of Ca nala for the week ending the Bth instant was .£32,605, being £5,119 more than in the corre • sponding week of last year. [ ADVERTISEMENTd— llama* Pills.—Liver Com plaints and Disorders of the Bowels.—lt is impossible to exaggerate the extraordinary virtues of this medicine in the treatment of all affections of the liver or irregularities of the bowels. In case of depraved or superabundant bile the Pills taken freely have never been known to fail. In bowel complaints they are equally efficacious, but they should then be taken rather more sparingly, for every me dicine in the form of an aperient requires caution when the bowels are disordered, though a gentle or more genial aperient than these Pills, in moderate doses, has never yet been discovered. If taken according to the printed in kructions they not only cure the complaint, but improve the whole system. SPIRIT OF TEE PUBLIC JOUTINL3/41,5, Except on the supposition that amusement must be pro vided for the Whitsuntide recess, the Times cannot per ceive what advantage can be gained by the "great demonstrations " which are being just now organised against the Irish Church Bill. The Times has too high an opinion of the prudence and political discernment of the House of Lords to believe that they will allow them selves to be influenced by such demonstrations as have been got up on this subject. There is an intuitive judgment, a political instinct, among people con versant with affairs which tells them when the country is in earnest, when resistance is useless ; and the most dignified course is to yield gracefully. The Lords have thrown out bills year after year which had the support of the educated Liberals, because they felt there was no strong popular feeling to back the measures. Such, for instance, was the bill for permitting Jews to sit in Parliament, which lingered on for eleven years, and until a Conservative Government shrank from the responsibility of opposing it further. The Lords will not shrink from asserting - their liberty, even at the cost of provoking highly respectable classes ; but when the deliberate verdict of the country has been taken as in this matter of the Irish Church, they will, we are sure, respect it. We should have, indeed, to go back to the rejection of the Reform Bill in the autumn of 1831 for an instance of such blind imprudence and its consequences as would be involved in the rejection of the Irish Church Bill. In those days the Lords, as it were, turned at bay. They were led by the great soldier - and the great lawyer of the time to try the policy of daunting agitation by the display of patrician firmness. The result was a lesson for ever. It might be thought ominous if we were to do more than allude to the events which in a tew months made it absolutely necessary the bill should pass. Do the organisers of Protestant demon strations really desire the Lords again to place themselves in such a position, and bring the State into such danger? Do they believe the prudent peers of England will shout " No Surrender ! " at the bidding of men uniformly irresponsible and generally-ebscaro? Even Mr. Newdegate and Mr. Whalley must see that the Lords cannot reverse the verdict of the country and its representatives ; they ought, then, also to see that the j-l_-' i€should lin.ve been addressed to the constituencies six months ago, or at least to the Commons before they accepted the present measure by a majority so decisive. The Herald observes that the present Government must, as it has more than once pointed out, consent to be judged by their Irish policy. This is their own chosen ground. Upon that scheme they went to the country, and pre vailed. It does not, therefore, lie in their mouth to say that the evils of Ireland are chronic and incurable ; they pledged themselves to cure them. If they fail to do so, they have ousted Mr. Disraeli on false pretences. It is not for them to palliate the extent and severity of evils which have certainly increased and assumed an aggavated form since February 1863. They are bound to " conci liate " Ireland or to confess themselves wrongdoers and usurpers. And so far conciliation has certainly proved a signal failure. It is not only that the peasantry have taken up wilder notions and are enforcing them by more indiscriminate atrocities than usual ; that agrarian dis content is more formidable than ever, and has assumed a more Socialistic character. It is that all the doubtful and disloyal portion of Irish society is more offensive, auda cious, and deliberate in its seditious demonstrations than ever ; that it has received the release of the Fenian pri soners as a testimony either to the fear or the sympathy of Ministers—either to the strength or the goodness of their cause ; that it has accepted the sacrifice of the Irish Church in the same spirit. Is it at all probable that these things will mend ; that a sacrifice which is anticipated without thanks will be received when complete with earnest gratitude; that evils which have been exasperated by the promise of a Liberal policy will be healed by the performance? The Standard thinks that the agitation against the Irish Church Bill is increasing in intensity. Even while the bill is on the eve of passing through its third reading its opponents are demonstrating with renewed energy their intention to resist it to the uttermost. There is scarcely a town in the -United Kingdom-which-Las - not sent up its protest to the House of Commons, and this week we have had to record a series of imposing manifes tations in several of the leading towns of Yorkshire, at Birmingham, at Belfast, and at Armagh. The meeting at • Belfast, both as regards its character and its numerical strength, was one of exceptional importance. It is a striking commentary on the taunt about the "handful of Protestants," that in a single town in Ireland it should be possible to array a body of persons estimated at between 80,000 and 100,000 strong in opposition to the bill. It is constantly told that in all Ireland there are not more than 700,000 of the popu lation who are in any way interested in the Irish Church, yet here we find considerably more than a tenth of the sum total assembled at one spot to give a practical refuta tion to the fallacy. It was the fashion in the earlier days of the bill to protest against its abstract principle ; but the Protestants of Pradfird, Wakefield, and Birmingham feel that the time has come when more emphatic language is needed, and hence we find them uniformly memo rialising the House of Lords to reject the bill, en I,loc. It has already pointed out the grave embarrassments which might arise from such a course of conduct, but it can hardly wonder that English Protestants should not shrink from recommending it. The Star, in remarking that the first parliamentary work to be done after the holidays is to dispose of the bill embodying the proposals of the Budget, says that pro bably the House of Commons, even were the proposals of doubtful utility, would not be disposed to examine in a very hostile spirit the arrangements of a Chancellor of the Exchequer who has brought forth a surplus out of the most unpromising materials. The reforms, however, are in themselves both reasonable and beneficial. Upon the adoption of them depends the reduction of a penny on the income tax ; and indeed the abolition of the fire insurance duty, the duty on hackney carriages, the license duty to let post horses, and the Customs' duty on corn. The Chancellor of the Exchequer did not disguise that his surplus was obtained by the re arrangement of the times and modes of paying the assessed and income taxes, and the economy expected to result therefrom. We thus cannot receive the benefit of the reductions permitted by the surplus, and at the — iiame time attack the mode of obtaining the surplus itself. The House must make up its mind either to enjoy reductions of taxation, or to lose them by refusing to carry out the necessary re -arrangements. We have no doubt of the result, which will be to set the seal of approval to the first Budget of a Chancellor of the Exchequer who has proved himself capable of grasping both principles and details, and raised hopes of a brilliant financial career for the Ministry of which he is so important a member. The Daily News remarks that the parliamentary session of 1869 is already half finished. A good deal of work has been put in train for accomplishment. How much of it will be actually done, he who survives to the middle of next August will be in a position to say. Practically, the Irish Church Bill has passed the House of Commons. The Conservative party will formally take the sense of the House—it wishes there were any means of communi cating a portion of it to them—on the third reading of the bill next Monday. To Mr. Holt, the member for North Lancashire, the task has been seriously confided of moving that the bill be read a third time that day six months. The Liberal party can have no — objection to making another signal manifestation of their strength, at the particular request of their Conservative friends, on that day. Their unanimity and force have been sufficiently displayed before. But if Mr. Disraeli, or any other member of the Conservative party, thinks that the Lords will approach the consideration of the Irish Church Bill in a more rational temper if they are spared the necessity of looking back over the Whitsun tide recess for an overwhelming declaration of opinion and purpose, by all means let them have the desired reminder. It does not think they need it. The Lords will shew their patriotism as well as their prudence in not protracting a losing battle. The more sensible and influential organs of Conservative opinion admit that the peers are bound in common sense to accept the bill. Of course they have a constitutional right to reject it. But some constitutional rights continue to exist only because they are prudently exercised. Eco nomy in the use of them is an essential con dition of their endurance. The Lords are notasked to take any course which is humiliating or ignoble. A disap proval of the Irish Church Bill in the abstract is compa tible with a recognition of the fact that now that the country, at the polling-bntlis and by the votes of its representa tives in the House of Commons, has declared in favour of it, regard to national interests requires that it should be accepted. In a sense of public duty, the egotism of per sonal opinion will b e swa llowed up. The in will silently pa ss a se lf-d en yi n g ordinance ; and n sodoing will skew that the unerring instinct which .11.1 r. Disraeli attributes to the Commons is not monopolised by the Lower House. The Herald looks with disfavour on the County Administration Dill, which it considers gives no new power to the ratepayers and only hampers the magistrates The ratepayers, in fact, looking at it minutely, will find that they are complimented by being introduced upon the boards in a hopeless and permanent minority. The pretence was that a power should be granted to the ratepayers. The fact is that no such power is granted. But the most mischievous feature of the scheme consists in its supplemental arrangement. Under this the new board is made a nullity altogether. Its jurisdiction is left entirely undetermined. It may, er it may not, be kept in conflict with the court of quarter sessions. The Legislature absolutely refuses to say how far, or in what Erections, its powers shall extend. It provides, instead, a complicated system of appeal. It sets the board, beforehand, deliberately at variance with the court. It even leaves elections open. It creates a vast machinery Df affidavits, proofs, and allegations. Public and private expenditure, upon a wasteful scale, follow, so a matter of course. Whatever is " properly" incurred must be paid by the county—and here we may suggest that the counties should feel particularly grateful to their new taxing masters ; whatever is not properly incurred must be defrayed by the board, or, the rate payers, under another name. And, as if the embarrass ments created by the bill did not suffice, the Board of Trade is made a court of appeal on questions of boundary. Not only oa these questions—on disputed amounts of rental also. The lawyers will find some employment if ever the " County Administration Bill" of 1569 conies into operation. THE COMIC PAPERS. (From Punch.) "FENCE."—SweII (screwing himself up for the contest): "How much ?"—Cabby (with a rush) : "Five shillings. sir !"—Swell : " Oh, nonsense! I don't want to buy your horse ! What's your fare, I mean !" Cabby gives in. A.M. on P.M. ?—" The royal train arrived at Perth St 8.30 on Saturday evening. . . The royal party break' fasted in the station refreshment rooms." How exhausted the royal party must have been, going without their breakfast until half-past eight at night! Or is this nor the fashionable hour for that meal? (From Fun.) CHARLIE IS MY DORLING.-110 who trusts his fortune% to Royal Oak will, like King Charles, be up a tree. SPECULATIVE.—The Deptford Racing Spec is a thing of the past. When shall we be able to say the same of another speck—or rather foul blot—on our social system—the well nigh chronic distress at the East-end? - LESSON FOR LANCASHIRE. Unimpeachable intelli• Bence, from the north, apprises us that " Gladstone wa 9 defeated by a short head ;" so, perhaps, Messrs. Cross alla Turner are not, after all, such very long-headed fellow& On second thoughts, though, the informant quoted is not likely to be a Liberal, for he malignantly adds, " bad third." Note by our betting P. D.—" Please, sir, the gents' been and mistook the Times's report of the Don• caster races for a plitical article." (From Judy.) THE FIRST BOOK OF EUCLID--HlB Primer, we presume , for he must have made a beginning. STRANGE, AT FIRST GLANCE.---There is perfect una; nimity among the Conservative members of "the House, although they are " Diz "-united ! LORD SYDNEY AGAIN.—We announced that this noble' man had determined to give Mr. D. O'Sullivan a "dreg' sing." His lordship has written to say that it is to take the form of a " cork-jacketing !" ECCLESIASTICAL.—Everyone has heard of the church mouse ; and as Mr, Gladstone has, in the last year or two, altered his views of ecclesiastical matters so materially, he may fairly be called the Church Rat! MB MONSTER BALLOON. This balloon, which started from Ashburnham Park , adjoining Cremorne Gardens, on Tuesday afternool3, and for the safety of which considerable al pre . pensions were entertained, has been secured' though not without some injury, near Aylesbury' The balloon came on Tuesday afternoon from th e direction of Aston Clinton and Tring, and passed a little to the north of the town of Aylesbury, going westvvard• Many persons assembled in the streets, and telescope° were brought to bear upon the monster, the general opinio n of the persons who viewed it being that there were tWo persons inside. It bore for the Waddesdon and Winche r don range of hills, and by Tring House, Hogshaw, and North Malston, past the Grandborough-road Station, on the Aylesbury and Buckingham line of railway, to afar occupied by Mr. Hornby, i n th e p ar i s h o f Botolpo -Claydow. The balloon, after passing the Winchendoo Hills, shewed signs of partial exhaustion, and for four or five miles the thick rope attached to it flapped along th e fields and against the hedges. It then proceeded 0 again, coming into contact with some large elm trees 0 ° Bernwood Farm, on the estate of Sir Harry Verney: with which, after tearing away some large Lranches, it became entangled. By this time some fifty or sixty rustics, who had followed the ballon, had assembled, and atten 3 l: 444 were made to secure it by lashing the rope round the trunks of the trees, which was eventually done. Sir Harr/ Verney and Colonel Pratt were among the earliest arrivals, and under their directions precautions were taken to preven t the balloon being injured ; Colonel Pratt placing fiftee n men belonging to the Bucks Militia, of which he is colone l ' and who happened to be present, to keep guard over 3 during the night. Upon seeing the account in the m ornia papers of the CE cape of the balloon from Ashburnhani Par k on Tuesday, Mr. Field, watchmaker, of Aylesbury, tele' graphed to M. Fon, and received a reply in the course ° 1 the afternoon a s ki ng hi m t o t a k e care o f t h e b a ll oon , and that he would send down some men for it in the evenio`b M. Fou's men arrived at Aylesbury by the 5.20 P• 111. train, and proceeded to Botolph Claydow to take charg e of the balloon. There have been 200 patents issued at tb e Patent Office:Washington, for velocipedes during the P 3 s t twelve months. Some idea may be formed of the state of villa' tion in a village in Hampshire, when it is stated that 0 14 of thirteen jurymen summoned at an inquest last week' only four could write their names. PROPOSED WELCOME TO MR. MOTLEY AT Li l7°' rooL.—At the monthly meeting of the Chamber of C° ll3. coerce it was agreed to present to Mr. Motley an addl es ; on his arrival as the Am er i can Mi n i s t er . It i s ex pect° that there will also be a grand banquet. The cotton spinners in the district ranging W ill : Hyde to Glossop and Hadfield, and embracing those porti° ° ; of Cheshire and De r by s hi re w hi c h li e on th e so uth-ea st borders of Lanca s hi re , hav e de c id e d to re d uce th e wages °f the operatives 5 per cent. in all branches of the cottox nion ly facturing business on and after the 19th of June next. CURIOUS STATISTICS.—Some curious statistic° have recently been issued in Paris. In that city (so 0 6 3 4 the report) the entire population amounts to 1,700, 00 : a 750,000 men, 700,000 women, 250,000 children; 400, of these men, women, and children live on ther own income (rcntes) or are professional. 10 0 # 0 are in schools, hospitals, and charitable ins titil. tions, 200,000 are wholesale and retail trader", 1,000,000 are mechanics, 35,000 are soldiers. There °• 143 416,811 individuals who represent th e manu f ac t u re 1).1 what are called " articles of Paris." These " 1 ' 313 1 workers" consist of 285,861 m en, 10 5,410 women, 25,i' children. THE NEW OFFICIAL ASSIONEE. Arrangettlent6 have been made for the appointment of Mr. Philip Pag et ' who for many years was chief clerk to Mr. Ectio:'i Watkin Edwards, the late official assignee, to he an offlel s assignee until further order. Since the dismissal of AiP t Edwards, Mr. H. 11. Stansfeld, who, from the retire:oer? of Mr. Sturgis, acted as provisional assignee 1/1 insolvent matters, has superintended the business of g r ; Edwards's office ; but this has been found to Produce li great inconvenience, and Mr. Paget will now receive t . temporary appointment, foregoing all claim to a Pe rlB , l° o i as official assignee. It may be added that the BankruP" Bill before Parliament proposes the abolition of the otile of official assignee. —Post. A case ;hich is likely to lead to some curious d is : l closures was before Lord Penzance in the Probate Cou rt ° t , Wednesday. The will of a Mr. Dickenson, farmer, late of - Albans, is disputed on the ground that the signatures to it sl.° forgeries. For some short time after the testator's dea th , tl , ° will could be found, but ultimately swill was discovered , chefioneer, bequeathing the property to the wife duriog ai r lifetime, and directing at her death it should be equally vided amongst the children or their issue. The wi ll ( " 2 . - apparently duly attested by two witnesses, who wer e : mers in the neighbourhood. The plaintiffs, however, BP :": that the signatures of the testator and the two wit uess° l are forgeries. Dr. Deane, Q.C., and D r . S wa b e y are coinise for the plaintiff ; and Dr. S inks " , and Dr. V istto for the_will. A witness was called wi: ra o deposed to lindirg the will in the mar ner menti one d. H e a l so s t a ted 1 115 t c : l3e of the attesting witnesses was b e li eve d t o b e i n Califor nia' but the whereabouts of the other was not ascertained . AN EX-EMPRESS. —The French journals tell i ll painful a story. A few nd clays back a lady, elegantly dreseu! wearing many diamonds drove up to the house of gentleman at Enghien, a village near Paris, and, Pr es ' l' to ing herself as the Queen of Spain, said that she desiredoc rent his hou se , an d w i s h ed to b e allowe d t o visit it. proceeded t o s h ew h er over i t, b ut h er manne r was stravglet and after awhil e s h e a dd resse d hi m as "Si re 1" ife nstar b g a l came to the c onc l us i on th a t s h e was a l una tic, but was etti-tiv rassed as to what he should do. Presently, bowe ver, . c , theyon men arr i ve d. Th e l a dy at first stabrte; on seeing them, but followed them quietly, an d took her aw a y. They told the gentleman t h a t she that a very great lady, that her mind was affected, and ea , she had es ca p e d fivin Paris on her way to the PYr en en . where she had been ordered by her physicians. The_gson. tleman subsequently learned that she was no less a P s e : s ter• agt than the sister of the King of the Belgians, the in-law of the Emperor of Austria, the cousin of the Que eri g of England—she was the widow of Maximilian, 1 : 1913e ° of Mexico. She is, it appears, hopelessly mad. Ti 0 N E 3 COMMERCI, director of t rated without minimum. According to Re day, the French decided. Coneo!s have int for money ; ditto, I Cent. Reduced, 9 921 •:4 ; Exchequer £2OO, and £5OO, per' Cent., —. India Stock, 10} ditto 5 per Cent., J . Cent., Oct., 1888, per Cent., --• In the Foreign 1861 have itnprov Spanish New Titre 1868 Argentine the Honduras Rail ex coupon ; the 79 ; Nicolai Bo: Argentine Six pel Seven per Cents. per Cents., 921 - to 1 868, 761 to 76i ; 57 1 - ; Mexican, 12 Cents., 781 to 78.1 28i to 284. In the Railwa3 lows :—Brighton, 77 ; Great Easte 48 i to 421; ( 107 1 ; Llneashire Londo n and Nor Chatham, and I 98 ; Midland, 118 a stern, 75f 6 ; become in favour 98 Colonial Gove: Bank and Mi,.e4 changed. Atn:r:c The sum of £ Batik yesterday, 1 1 the week since the The City of Br brought £ll,OOO. Although the i appears for the I "nay be as well nt steady suppl y of 11CNV ert2ations, Combinations of loans—asjor iust ably below those tunity offers, the 3 thu s be fairly iuft in the foreign st Judicial effect up( to turn the exc favou r of this cot It is understoo, enl to the long-( Metropolitan lta company last wet to call in any pro ing whom they 11 into a thorough t to report before 1 also stated that garl to the decla vious concurrent amount that shot as possible all gi It appears th that the United Income-tax from that the sums alt It is stated that fort, Berlin, an(. Paper they select in bills at low r but the characte acceptances t,f s( off at a quarter through the rep Ilouse and else and the questio canvassed. Fir: BAring's, and otl of the :second quently rejected distrust. An extraordir Stearn Navigati( the 7th of June on the 2lit inst The annual C ompany is fix( The first ordi Mediterranean called for the 8 declared. At the ince Conapany (Lin Was adopted, £lO,OOO in thi Previous year. The half-yea any is fixed fo. Is to be declare Messrs. w. the official liciu onlpa n y ( Lin to settle the lis Creditors of way Company Particulars of t 23 rd of July cellor Mal ins 1 BRITIS t OVERNDIEN Per Cent. Con: S Ditto for Acco N Per Cent. R e d i w 3 per Cent ° T IT 1 per Con k• A 4 " 0 . 5 r Cet uxitlitiespe SO vi DO. for 30 yrs t= 13 (Red Seal ~4 oq uor Bills u 0 ▪ 4 ,uk of Englan a jul lt \ 11 4 ,zOO l . l . i o .:os:Durin i) ti 4 iopo) : I ilooeer o ene pn d. sbtur n rsdi e e i r rsnci l jo t e t g ,sg l e zet te041 . 11 ( t ( Vtock, • Po. 5 per eet Do. Enfaced Do 5i per C; 4, -.) 5 - per Cat 011E11 argentine Re De • —erip .trian Bond Do, er n 'j3 * 4 i per C do. `'°' do . 8 0 . i fj °. 5 per . (3 II 0 Account. enOs Ayres Curl 2 per Ow 6 per Of . 1 1 " n 6 per .1, ( 1 "• 4 i per c - 3 Por C • 6 , pe o per C 0 ulnae, 6 -uart.. sh 3 ian pe r lri Do n n 1 D_ 7 6 per Ce squalor N eR E • iYitnin, 7 p ( I'C Second Do. Lout B D 0.4100 1.1 Do. Do. Do. 4500 B e. 410 C B English Sc : Do Covernu el ' ree k 5 Per ( Do. Acccul