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CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 156, musortos 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85, ALDGATE 86, ALDGAT] 87, ALDGATE 88. ALDGAT R 49, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. SOO, NEW OXFORD-STREET 107, NEW OXFORD-STREET , 08, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COCKY-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTENHAM-COUE.T-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch : 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS, fIIEATRE ROYAL, IT A YMARKET Sole Lessee, Mr. rrekstnne. THIS F.vr.. - Ni NG, AN ALARYING SACRIFICE: Bttk.stone. jun.. and M e s Fanny Wright. After wh!ch, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Comp ion. A st!e. &e.: Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Eill, With A 'REGULAR FIX. Mr. Sothern. _ _ . And HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIP S. Messrs. Buekstone Howe, Kendal, Clark, Gordon, &e.; Mesdames Laws, Wright Gwynn. l'olernan, &c. Boa-office open daily. Commence at Seven. rHEATRE ROYAL, ADELPH I . I- Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. WETtSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred 7%Tellon. THIS EVENING. at 7. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr G. Bel more and Mrs... Leigh 3lurray. At S, THE DEAD HEART. Mr. Den iamin Webster • Messrs Arthur Stirling, G. Delmore. Stuart, R. Philips, Ashley, Romer: Mrs Alfred Miss Nelly Harris, &c. R OYAL PRINCESS'S 'I'IIEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining Last Week of the Sesion. THIS EVENING. a New Drama.. hp Dion Roneicati7t. entitle? PRE , IivirTIVE EVIDENCE. in wh'ehlan - :e &este. Iltiss Louisa Moore, Miss Emma. Burnett. Mr. W. Eignold Mr. J. 4 - ; Shore. Mr G. F. NeviPe, 3loreland, Yr. Parselle and .1! r Dominick Murray will aprear. • To be preceded by THE ITOTT!'s.E. ON TILE nrrrpcp , , in hich Madame Celeste will give her celebrated impersonations _Ernest de la Garde and Zambaro. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office nun from 10 till 5. nrIHEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. Legitimate Success!—Fourth Week of " MONEY. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE MI STIZESS OF THE MILL. At 8 o'clock, Lord Lytton's Grc•at Play (in five acts) of MONEY, Parry Sullivan. T. C. Cowper, George Honey, W. H. Stephens. Charles Coglan, Lin Payne, A. Bernard, W. Arthur and E Dyas; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Louisa Thorne, and Mrs Charles HorElnan OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs , wanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.20, FrX r. (10()SE. Messrs. `2.lirlze and Belford; Mesdames Btifton and Hughes. After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne. James. Fen ton, Turner, Chamberlains; Mesdames Bufton, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude with HUE AND DYE Lol>E II E A T E-!'; 0 Y A L. f3Ol, Propietor awl Manr,.n•r. Mr. Sefto n THIS EVENING, at 7. NAVAL ENGACE‘TEN — F-1. At fI."P IL I'vron'., new erand Btorleson,. entitled TETE CORSICA N " B , TIIERS:" or. The Troublesome Twit.. 'I o conelnie with T. W. Rot ertson's Comic Drama. A BBFACTI OF P , •01l1 , F : Mesdamsti Lydia Foote, Brennan. if nehes. &ephens. Fermi, Thorne. 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IQ6B 3 SG —£14,210 1869 ... 3 ... 108 18,481 Excess 22 Z4,2:11 In 52 weeks ending April 7th, 1569 ... 3,105 —.C539,442 NGLO-AUSTRIAN BANK. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the GENE RAL COUNCIL of the ANGLO-AUSTRIAN BANK have made a CALL upon the Shares of the Bank of £2 10s., or 25 florins Austrian currency, in silver, per share, payab'e on or before the Ist of July, 1869, at the Offices of the Anolo-Anstrian Bank in Vienna or London. As the Ctill will be actually made by the 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. ATTRACTIVE SPECULATIONS. UNBIVALLED SUCCESS. You cool l never meet with a more advisable opportunity to try the favours of Dame Fortune. With a S!ngle Stake of £1 you can realise V 20,010!! with £2 £27,(00!! with £8 £4?,C00! ! with le 10 £45,000!! For Prospectuses apply without delay to EUGENE TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THI3 LVENINg. AN ALA EMI SACRIFICE.: Buekstotw, jun. ; F. Wright. .Mter which. HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chipperv'n Te, &c. : Mesanmes Cavendish, MP. &c Followed 1, A REG FLA ' FIX: r. - othern. Coneln , ling with HMG ii LIFE B LOW STAIRS: Messrs. Euckstone, Howe, Clark, Bc. Commenef, at 7. PRINCESS S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. TIM EVENING, at 7, THE HOU-E 4 N THE BRIDGE: Madame Celeste. Concludlnr with PRESUMI"IIVF EVI DE • CE: Madame Celeste, Louisa Moore, S:c.; Messrs. Rignold, Shore, Dominick Murray, &e. THEATI:E-ROYAL, ADELPITI. Tills EVENTNG, at 7, DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo Bel more and Mrs Leigh Murray. At 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr Beni:lmin Webster, Mr A. Stirling, an Stuart, Mr Ashley, Mr G. Ealmc•re, Mrs Alfred Mellon, &e. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWanhOrOugh. Tins EVENING. at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke ; Miss Bufton. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; • esdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Bufton. To eon elude with BETE AND [WE GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. F.VENING, mt 7, N , k VAT, ENGAGEMENT,. At P. ^,a, rho now bar'esque 'l'll • CORSICAN !OT HERS. A sal BREA(' OF PROMISE. Me:•.:rr.. Mtd•shall. David Fisher, Awirews, Tiu dale, Thirlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Lydia oote, Hughes, Berend, C. Thorne THEATI:E- LOYAL, 1101,B01:N. THIS EVE \ ING, THE MiSTRESS OF THE MILL. After which MONEY: Bally Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mr. G. Honey, Yrs. C. Horsmfm, ROYALTY TII E ATI: E. Cl /vier the Msnn:zement of tl)s o;lver. 'FITTS ENINn. at 0. I \ FOR AID .L 11) A 'ROVING COMMISSION. And THE MILL TARY BILLY TAYLOR. To conclude with CLAUDE DUVAL: Mr. Day, Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers, Mies M. Oliver, Mies K. Bishop. PRTNCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tins EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addicon, Glover. and Bancroft: Mrs. liuehing,ham White. Miss C. Addison, and Miss Mnrie Wilton. After which, A WiI , TNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET TINS F.VENTNO, M S. THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment. Immense Success of BARBE FLUE. The Only Leon CD RISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's 11211, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL FIAMB it A PALACE. THREE BALLET Promenade Concert. Band of O. Begin at 9. ls. Box-offict open from 11 to 4. Our Correspondent A. G.'s communication on "The Land Question in Ireland " we shall find room for in The Sun of to-morrow evening. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1869. A Financial Problem is propounded by Mr. LowE with the airy lightness of a conundrum. His Budget was for all the world like a conjuring trick. What he set himself to do in making his statement was this —Out of Nothing to produce Something. And he did it! Whatever surplus there would have been under ordinary circumstances, he showed clearly enough—only too clearly—was drained away by the Abyssinian expedition. Nevertheless said the 1 newly installed Chancellor of the Exolminer—Hoeua. pocus! Presto ! Iligh-cock-a-lorum !---under his manipulation of the figures, there was an :fissured balance guaranteed at the end of the financial year, and very nearly three millions ster ling (to be precise £2,910,000) of taxa, tion remitted. Th e H ouse, hearkening to his won t drous revelation as he unfolded it to them on the memorable evening of his Budget Speech—towards the close of it--like MILTON'S night, " listened de lighted." Depressed at the outset by a vivid realisa tion of the cost of our triumph under the walls of Magdala, the Commons were naturally exhilarated when they were shown that, after all, the glory won by our arms, or rather by our daring strategy, i n the advance of Lord NAPIER into the heart of Abyssinia, in no way denied us the always longed-for luxury of a surplus of Income over Expenditure, and at the same time in no way denied us the yet greater Inxury of ensuring to ourselves a more than usually considerable remission upon the amount of our annual taxation. The Budget was a surprise. People were almost bewildered at the first as to the way in which such happy results were arrived at. It was very much as if after all the Wizard LOWE had succeeded in extracting sunbeams from. cucumbers. Cynics contented themselves by muttering disparag ingly- of the Budget, that it was too clever by half. And very soon, indeed, when it came to be looked at is cAd blood, and when the glamour of the voice ~ f the charmer had in some measure faded away-3vei y one rec..pgnised very clearly in dee.] that a Bu''.Btet success like this could never by any 1 os-,ibility be re{ eated. And for this simple reason that it was a success acHeved by the matter of fact process of drawing lit the proceeds of the in come tax by antic;pation. Had a propositft ti of that VIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 28, _1869. nature b€en introduced into a Budget of Mr. Drs RAELI'S contrivance, we shoutd never have beard tl e last of it. The suggestion, coming from the right hon. member for Bucks, would have been scouted as simply ridiculous. It emanated, however, from tb philosophical mind of the bran new financier induc . .ed into office, only a few months previously, as Mr. GLADSTONE'S Chancellor of the Exchequer. Coming from Mr. DISRAELI, the notion would have been re garded as a dodge. Coming from Mr. LOW E, it was considered in the light of a most sagacious contriv- THE GENER4L ELECTIONS IN Fla NOE, (nom OVI OWN CORRESPONDENT.) A PARIS, THURSDAY. In England, after the turmoil of the great electoral battle, a period of unnatural quiet follows. Parties rest themselves after the extreme tension of the conflict, and employ their exhausted energies in the light task of estimating the issue of the battle. Owing to the double ballot system we enjoy no such repose at present here in France. The struggle is still raging with almost all the energy which marked the first onset. The papers are full of intelligence from the fifty nine circumscriptions which remain to be decided. This is indeed the most important part of the contest, for it is just in these districts that the Opposition will gain or lose. The authorities, there is no doubt, aro making desperate efforts to turn the tide at the second ballot ; the " screw " is being applied unspar ingly, and the Imperial election screw, as you know, is a complicated machine. The Opposition, on the other hand, is not less active. But amid this renewed uproar the different parties find time to count their gains. The Rappel believes that the total strength of the Opposition will be not less than 113 ! It estimates the number of the Left already elected at 24, and the Third Party, includ ing Independents, men who hold to the formula of " Liberty under the Empire," and Moderates of all kinds, at 37, Out of the elections to be decided, it calculates, and I think with some plausibility, that the +Left will get 31, and the Third Party 21. Thus the total strength of the Left will be 55 ; of the Third Party, 53 ; and of official deputies, 171. Of course it is always hazardous to make such calculations ; but this estimate is at any rate impartial, and the result here predicted is very probable. It is scarcely within the bounds of possi bility that the figures can differ greatly from these. But the weak point of the Rappel's argument, and of similar arguments which I find in other papers, is the assumption that the Left and the Third Party will coalesce into one compact hostile force. For some purposes they un doubtedly will do so. Such an Imperialist scheme as the expedition to Mexico would be resisted to the death by Third Party and Left alike. But the Third Party cannot be counted on for joining unreservedly with the Left. Had a Moderate Opposition been elected, a union between the two would be possible ; but the very greatness of the Red victory frustrates this end. How can the Third Party go hand in hand with the Reds when their chief representative, Emile 011ivier, was savagely opposed and rejected in Paris by the Republicans themselves? The Rappel itself aided largely to overthrow M. 011ivier, and yet it now confidently counts upon him to bring over his party en masse to recruit the Left. The Third Party are, it is true, opposed to personal Government, but they are not less opposed to revolution. The victory of the Liberals, as it is, is a very great one, and there is nothing to be gained by over-rating it. If the Emperor were to grant a responsible Ministry, the Third Party would at once turn decisively against the Left. " What does the Emperor think of the elections? " is a question much more interesting to ask than easy to answer. One writer asserts that the issue has given great satisfaction in Government circles. "As the intermediate shades have disappeared, the ruling power calculates on being placed face to face with the Radical revolution, and therefore on having greater freedom of action," I do not see any cause for this " great satisfaction." The Repub. licans, who were yesterday a contemptible handful, are now a great party in the State. Their repre sentatives are actually members of the Corps L6gislatif, and there is but one way by which the Emperor's "freedom of action" can dispose of them—another coup d'etat. Very likely this resource is within the sovereign's power, but it is a very disagreeable and highly -dangerous alternative, one, in short, which a man in the autumn of life is not likely to eagerly embrace. TLe decline of the Emperor's influence and power is most unmistakeably shewn by this triumph of the Reds. The great towns have passed a vote of "No confidence" in him. There is very little material for satisfaction here. The Empress, a very good authority informs me, is by no means satisfied. Her Majesty has not been able to restrain expressions of profound regret at the issue. The general impression is that great changes in the system of overnment will now be necessary. Personal government in the face of 100 independent deputies may safely be pronounced impracticable, Even the miserable fragment of an Opposition in the last Chamber on more than one occasion almost proved too much for M. Rouher. The total number of votes polled by the official candi dates was 4,053,056 ; for all candidates opposed by the prefects 3,248,885. The Liberals, it will he seen, have gained in votes even more than in seats. Mr. Layard and Mr. Grant Duff visited Paris for the purpose of watching this memorable contest. No doubt they would 010001 3 - the woikiv a of the Ballot. If they did, they could not fail to be struck with the admirable order, absence of drunkenness, and general facility secured by secret voting. Such an election as that in Paris could never be possible where the voting is open, and where returns are published as the struggle goes on. We are told by the Libo* that the concentration of war material and provisions goes on at the Eastern frontier without interruption, notwithstanding the elections. Some think that the Emperor will try the effect of a war as a means of strengthening him self ; but this, I need hardly say, is purely speculation. Further accounts of the riots at St. Etienne, and other places, have been received. The details add little to what is already known. At no place, say the authori ties, was a shot fired or a wound inflicted by the troops. At Poitiers there was an earthquake during the polling. On Thursday an accident occurred to Mr. Williams, of Stamford Villa, Clapham, whilst ho was riding a veloci pede in the Blackfriars-road. In trying to avoid an omnibus the machine toppled over. Ile fell to the ground with much force, and was insensible for some time. On Wednesday a velocipede rider ran into a cab near the Elephant Castle, and received such injuries as to necessitate his removal toCuy's Hospital. The borough of Sunderland, which he represented in his days of prosperity, has commenced a subscription for the purpose of providing an annuity for the ex-Railway King. On Wednesday, at a meeting of the River Wear Commissioners, it was stated that Mr. Hudson is suffering great destitution, and hid scarcely the means of subsistence. Two sums of 100 guineas were given, one by Mr. Elliott, who had net Mr. Hudson in Paris, and was struck by his destitute condition, and it is proposed to raise about £3,000, which will provide au annuity of £4OO. The death is announced on Thursday of Admiral Sir Charles Howe Fremantle, G.C.8., a brother of the Right /lon. Sir Thomas Fremantle, the first baronet. He was born in 1800, and at thirteen years of age, entered the Royal Navy, and served in the Mediterranean, at the Cape of Good Hope, and on the North American station. Ho served with much distinction in the Russian war, and for his services was created K.C.B. in 1857. Be was for some years com mander-in-chief at Devonport. The late admiral was married in 183 G to a daughter of Mr. James Wedderburn. On Wednesday Mr. Elihu Burritt, who has been for four years American Consul at Birmingham, was presented with a copy of Shakspere's works, and a complimentary address by the inhabitants of Harborne, where he has resided, on his approaching return to America. Mr. Burritt feelingly acknowledged the presentatlou, tinna that the tame sen timents of affection might exist between England and Amo. tnerica as had been expressed towards himself during his four years' residence in Birmingham, and said it would be the crowning remembrance of his life that he bad laboured to bring about this state of feeling between England and America. Dr. Cumming delivered his second lecture in Manchester on Wednesday on "The Signs of the Last Times." In the course of his lecture be stated that if the con clusions of certain interpreters of prophecy to whom he had referred were correct, we should shortly be treated to the following programme of novel sensations; convulsions most stupendous ; changes most rapid ; evolu tion of scenes most startling; the disappearance of tho crescent ; the restoration of the Jews ; Jerusalem inhabited ; the fulness of the Gentiles; and streaks on the horizon of that glory that shall fill heaven and earth, and shall neither know cloud, suspension, nor eclipse. The doctor also divulged another singular discovery. The Marquis of Bute has given to the Pope 1,260 sovereigns in the shape of Peter's pence; and Dr. Gumming declares that it is "mar venous to find that that precise number had been selected, because it represented, in the opinion of students of prophecy, the duration of Papacy on earth." - - A point highly interesting to the members of Volunteer corps has been brought before the Sheffield magistrates. Au ex-sergeant-major in the late volunteer artillery sumniDned the commanding officer, Lieut.- Colonel Creswiek, for refusing to strike him off the muster roll of the brigade after the usual fourteen days' notice had Leon given. The notice was not disputed, but it was urged that the resignation could not be accepted till the com plainant Lad Landed over a badge which on Lis part it was contended was his private propel ty. The complainant had formed one of a detachment from Sheffield, who in 1867 shot as non-competitors for the challenge cup offered by the Scottish Association, and having made the highest score, were each rewarded by an officer connected w:th the Asso ciation with a silver bfidza worth between .£3 and £4, to mark his estimate of their skill. This was the badge in dis pute. The Bench, however, held that proper notice had been given, and the Volunteer was therefore entitled to his discharge, but said that this would not prevent the Colonel from taking action in another 000.. TEE JPEUSALEM EXCAVATIONS. 21r. Emmanuel Deutsch, the writer of the Talmud article in the Quarterly, has prepared a report on the ope• rations of the Palestine Exploration Fund in Jerusalem and elsewhere. He holds that, important as are the results already obtained, the labours of the explorers are only in their infancy, and ought to be carried out on a far more extensive footing. The chief interest of Mr. Deutsch's report lies in his observations on the singular marks dis covered on the foundation courses of the great wall of underground Jerusalem, ninety feet below the present surface :—" I have come to the following conclusions :-1, The signs cut or painted were on the stones when they were first laid in their present places ; 2, they do not represent any inscription ;' 3, they are Phoenician. I consider them to be partly letters, partly numerals, and partly special masons' or quarry signs. Some of them were recognisable at once as well-known Phoenician characters ; others, hitherto unknown in Phoenician epigraphy, I had the rare satisfaction of being able to identify on absolutely undoubted antique Phoenician structures in Syria, such as the primitive substructures of the haibour at Sidon. No less did I observe them on the `bevelled' stones taken from ancient edifices and built into later work throughout Phoenicia. It may not be superfluous to add that, though I found extremely well-preserved painted frescoes in Phoenician tombs. I think all attempts to determine the exact meaning of each and all these technical signs would, at least at this stage, be premature. If the excavations are properly carried on, I venture to predict the occurrence of similar signs on corresponding rows of the wall—signs which conjointly with those now discovered may contain not only a full explanation of their own purport, but also solve perhaps some other vital question regarding the plan of the whole building." ance. Startling as the Budget Speech of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer was, however, it was by no means so startling as several of the statements set forth by Mr. LowE last evening in support of it. So astounding were some of these that the House could only laugh as theatre-goers laugh at the more bizarre and incomprehensible puns in a burlesque. According to the argument of Mr. LOWE—an argu ment, serious ? comic? or serio-comic ? which is it ? —five quarters' income tax are always collected in every twelvemonth ! According to Mr. LOWE—the payment of five quarters' income tax is not a bit more onerous to the taxpayer than the payment of four quarters ! According to Mr. LOWE—five quar ters being paid in one year, the number of quarters paid in two years would be nine! And so on. No wonder the House laughed. No wonder the Gover nor of the Bank of England, who rose immediately after Mr. LOWE bad resumed his teat—no wonder, we say, that Mr. CRAWFORD began his remarks upon the right hon. gentleman's astounding state ments, by saying that it was rather a fortunate thing for him that he had not had to undergo a Civil Service Examination before assuming office as Chancellor of the Exchequer. But, seriously, all this is past joking about. What, in the name of common sense, is the meaning of observations such as those coolly articulated yesterday by the lips of the Chancellor of the Exchequer? Fribbling quips and cranks like those are about as relevant as the inco herent words of JACK BEINSBY when called in by Cap tain CUTTLE to pronounce as to the fate of Mr. DOaEBEY'S missing ship, the " Son and Heir." The " bearing of the observations" may provoke a laugh by their very absurdity ; but the laugh is empty. and, when it is over, the listeners are left quite as_ much at sea as ever even in their conjectures. With something like au aspect of rebuke, and cer tainly in words of solemnity, Mr. CRAWFORD. as Governor of the Bank of England, and as member for the City of London, depre cated the "airy tone" in which Mr. LowE repu diated anything like official responsibility, on his part, in regard 1.0 the Money Market. The Money Market, said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, must take care itself ! The Bank of England was not to be cockerel up by the Government ! " Cockered" is Mr. LOWE'S own phrase. Yet, hardly can it be thought as pos sible in any way to apply to hitnsylf—he who, in violation, or in defiance of the elementary dictum of CocKErz, that two and two in ke four, startles the House of Commons into a laugh, by insisting (as though he himself were an Iris', man) that in one sense the year always has jive quartos, and---imin_•- (lately thereupon—that twice five make nine ! IT was a foregone conclusion that the general elec tion in France should terminate in the return of a large majority of Imperialists. So powerful is the influence of the Government in the rural districts—so unsparing is the labour, so un scrupulous the agencies employed to preserve and strengthen it—that except in town constitu encies, the opponents of the Empire enter the lists with very meagre chances of success. The rustic representatives of universal suffrage are bribed by the prefects, exhorted by their priests, and bullied by their employers into voting for the official candidates. The secrecy Uf the Ballot is viol.tted, for the voting ticket 3 are, in the country, supplied to the elector in front of the urn, the authorities watch every voter, and the name he deposits in the box can always be known. If lie votes for the " wrong man," i.e., for the Opposition candidate, he loses the situation which the Prefect or Maire had promised to him or to his son. The priest discountenances him. lle is in great danger of being dismissed by his employer. Knowing and caring little about politics, it is hardly likely that he will sacrifice any material interest for the Liberal cause, and hence universal suffrage in the vast majority of French constituencies is only an Imperial tool. The contest is therefore only a rela tive one. The Imperialists must have a large majority ; the Opposition can gain only in the sense of increasing their diminutive force. This sort of success they have undoubtedly attained. In the first Parliament under the Empire the Left was so small that all its members could have been com fortably conveyed in a hackney coach. In 1857 this forlorn hope had increased, in 1863 it was much greater, and in 1869, though the contest is not yet over, there can be no doubt that it will be larger than in any previous Chamber. More than this could not be expected. So far as regards the respective forces of the Government and its various opponents, the contest of 1869 has achieved no remarkable result. But with respect to the principles advocated by the Opposition, a singularly decisive change has been effected. The Empire was founded in 180 in face of the hostility of three important parties. The Republicans had just been overthrown by the coup cretat; the Orleanists had fallen when Louis PHILIPPE, the chief of the Orlesnist House, was driven from France; and the hopes of the Legiti mists—the supporters of the direct line of the Bour bons—had been wrecked at a still more remote date, at the revolution of 1830. But all these parties have up to the present time preserved more or less of vitality, and each. of them has contrived to secure a certain influence in the Corps L6gislatif. The general election of 1860 will ever be memor able for the final downfall of the two royalist sections. France has finally renounced her allegiance to both branches of the House of BOURBON. The Orleanists, who were re presented by numerous candidates in different parts of France, have everywhere been beaten by large majorities. Of more than a dozen repre sentatives it is probable that only one, M. THIERS, will get a seat in the Corps Legislatif. Of the Legitimists but two, to all appearance, will be successful. The minority against the Empire has not only slightly increased, but it has gained strength by concentration. The Opposition, small as it is, will gather under one standard. The French electors have rejected the claims of the Royal houses. They have chosen only the most extreme Radicals to sit on the Left of the Chamber ; and the issue is now reduced to a contest between the Republic and ' the Empire. This is the chief result of the elections of 1869. SPANISH INTRIGUES. It has long been known, on the cmfes3lon of the impru dent Admiral Topete, that the Dukc of Montpensier took a leading, though secret, pert in the overthrow o f Queen Isabella. Since then the Dt.ke las not c,:;sel 'o aspire to the throne from which he assisted to expel his sister•in law, and the Orleanist family in England have given him cordial support in the shape of money. But the Duke has apparently very little chance at present. The London correspondent of the lifertellester Guardian says the Orleanists in England are "much excited" at the ill success of their intrigues. Moreover, the discovery that the agents of the Duke de Montpensier ;mid been actively engaged in plotting the overthrow of Queen Isabella's throne has stimulated, if not in some degree justified, the altered attitude of the French_ Government. The Emperor is nolouger spoken of in diplomatic circles, or in the journals under his influence, as inflexibly neutral. His visits to the exiled Queen are more frequently and osten7 tationsly made than formerly, and her partisans are loud in his praise. LIFE IN ITALY. A trial that has just been held before the Correctional Tribunal of Milan has excited strong interest by the dramatic circumstances disclosed. A married woman, 25 years of age, bearing the rather remarkable name of Caroline of Aragon, and whose husband had abandoned her, became enamoured of an Englishman, named Edmund Howard, who lived in Milan, and gave lessons in English. His position in the Lombard capital seems to have been good, but he abandoned it for her sake, and they travelled together, and early in the present year were at Venice. While there her family, which for five years had taken no notice of her, suddenly applied to the Milan police to haveher brought back to her father's house. She was arrested, taken to Milan, and placed as a prisoner in her father's hands. Howard applied for her freedom to the King's Procurator, who summoned the D'Aragonas, father and daughter, to appear before him at noon on the 11th of February. It was the wedding-day of one of her brothers. By signs from her window she contrived to inform Howard that she was going out at noon, and when at that hour she and her father got into a carriage, he appeared at the door, touched her on the arm, and asked her where she was going. A horrible scene ensued, which Caroline herself vividly describes:—" The words were hardly spoken when my brother Luigi and his father-in-law fell upon him, seized him furiously bythe beard, and dragged him back under the gateway of the house. Then he was assailed by a crowd of bystanders, and a tre mendous struggle began. Howard, seeing himself over whelmed with insults and by the number of his adversaries, drew a six-barrelled revolver from his pocket and warned his assailants to stand back or he would fire upon them. Seeing that the warning was fruitless, he fired three or four shots in the air, as I myself saw, with no other object, I am profoundly convinced, than to clear a space around him and so rejoin me. All this was the work of a moment. As if with a presentiment of what was about to happen, I jumped out of the carriage and hastened to join him, but, alas, too late, for he already lay upon the ground, bathed in his own blood. Stooping over him, and just as he had spoken the words, "Jenzeurs pour toi et je recline," a kick given, I cannot say by whom, forced his eye out of the socket, and it fell down over his cheek. Covered with his blood, and almost frantic, I was forced again into the carriage and carried before the Royal Procurator, to whom those fresh blood-stains attested the deplorable fact that had just occurred." It appears that when Howard fired his revolver in the air, one of the D'Aaragonas, either from fright or in trying to get away, slipped and fell. Howard thought he had killed him, and, seized with despair, put his pistol to his head and shot himself. He appeared in court with a black bandage round his head, having lost his right eye. The papers describe him as a man of six-and-thirty, of gentlemanly appearance. When Caroline d'Aragona came into court to give evidence, he advanced to m e et h er , an d they clasped hands with great emotion. The tribunal ac- Quitted him on the charee of firing with malicious intent ; he was fined 50 francs for carrying the revolver, and immediately released. A CHARGE OF Dun- —ln the Bail Court, on Thursday, a curious case was beard. A City clerk named Houston, who had entered Madame Rachel's shop in June last, was suddenly arrested at her instance, and charged with having assaulted her. The magistrate dismissed the case, when Madame Rachel caused a placard to be issued, charging the plaintiff with conspiracy. He has now brought an action against the printer of the hand bill for libel, and obtained 210 damages. LARGE ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES.—The Marquis of Anglesey is one of a family of 18 brothers and sisters ; the Marquis of Huntley, of 14 ; Earl Fitzwilliam is one of 13, and has 13 of his own ; Earl Grey is one of 15 ; the late Lord Denman left 15; the Duke of Argyll has 12, and the Duke of Leinster is one of 13, and the father of the Duke of Buccleuch left 11, the Earl of Minto left 14 ; the Earl of Bessborough has 14. There are other English noblemen with 14 and 15 children, and the list of families numbering 11 and 12 is very large. NEW RAILWAYS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMEltlCA.—Messrs. Overmann, Freund, and Co., of New York, have just closed a negotiation in London for building the Fulton and Cairo railroad, running from Chalk Bluff lo Little Rock, and thence to Texiana through the State of Arkansas. The line will be 300 miles in length, and form a link connecting St. Louis with Texas, and thence probably forming a South Pacific line through Texas to Mexico. The scheme for the Southern connection has been introduced into the Paris markets. The same firm has also made a contract with a London house to build the New York and Northern Hausatonic Railroad from White Plains to Danbury. SHOCKING DEATH OF A BURGLAR.—A coroner's inquest was held recently at Chester, on the body of a young man named John Shires. On t he morning of the 17th of July last, at about five o'clock, the deceased was found fearfully injured at the foot of the precipice at Heron Bridge, about one mile from Chester. His face was covered with blood, one jaw was broken and his spine fractured. He was immediately taken to the infirmary, but the doctors stated that it was impossible for him to recover. All the lower part of his body was Paralysed. The city magistra te ying depositions, but he saidbeawttoeunlddedrattioiertankoet say how as a b the u accident rglaan r anda e t happened.ting n lt was aster. o 1d a tamed n t g h a a t st he n w Ford, London. A jemmy, oa ken wedge, a large chisel, a palette-knife, a box of matches, two lengths of cord, a betting-book, and a clasp-knife were found upon him. auo.iay ueiore ne was touna at tne toot, or tne rock ne bad effected an entrance to the house of Mr. 'Watson, Queen's Park, but an alarm was raised, and he de- camped. It is supposed that, through the darkness of the night, and his being a stranger to the neighbourhood, he had fallen over the precipice, and thus sustained the injuries which proved fatal on Tuesday last. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts. DEATH OF THE LAST NATIVE OF TASMANIA : A REVOLTING AFFAIR.—The death of Lanney, the last male aboriginal of Tasmania, has already been announced. The most extraordinary part of his history has been the fight over his remains. Dr. Crowther applied to the Colo ' nial Secretary for the body, in order that he might send the skeleton to the London College of Surgeons. The Colonial Secretary bad previously promised it to the Tasmanian Royal Society, but Dr. Crowther was determined not to be baffled by a mere official refusal. He invited the hospital surgeon, Dr. Stokell, to take tea at his house. Dr. Stokell went, was kept in conversation by Mrs. Crowther for a considerable time, but did not se e D r . Crowther. Suspecting that he had been dec e i ve d , h e went to the hospital where he had left the body o f L anney, and found that some one had been there, that Lanney's head had been cut off, that another body had beenB similarly treated, and that head number t wo h a d b een i aat attached to Lanney's body, and covered with Lanney'sn scalp. Dr. Stokell thereupon cut off th e hands footlessand th feet, the burialand retained service read dr over the Lanney's y a l trunk, Society, so t hat handless, and furnished with another man's head. The mutilated remains wero subsequently removed from the grave, it is said, by Dr. Stokell's orders. Just at this Ministrys a c o a f n did g et a t t i e n g f theup the U t p a p l e e r against o u s e H. hi r in e t accusedtime Crowther til e fur political purposes. He won his election, and at the d ofinaendt him speech t o appear ttga i n s t b the r e G a o v e e o r n n i .• e e c n l a t r , a w t i b o i n e h n i l i a a c d l e su a mm de mission appointed to inquire into the facts, and acknow. ledged the capture of the skull. His partisans took the horses out of the cab in which he sat, and drew him in triumph through the streets. On the box sat a black man, while another went through the pantomime of cutting off his head. It i s unnecessary to character i se the whole o f th e procee di ngs as disgusting and graceful. RITUALIST PRACTICES. -C. In the Court of Arches yesterday morning, before th Right Hon. Sir R. Phillimore, an application was made on the part of the Bishop of Winchester, who had promoted the office of the judge, to his lordship to accept letters of request against the Rev. Richard Hooker Edward Wix, the vicar of the parish of St. Michael and All Angels, Swaumore, in the Isle of Wight, for ritualistic practices adopted in his church. The suit was commenced under the Church Discipline Act. Sir R. Pbillimore said the Bishop of Winchester had assigned various reasons for requesting that the case should be tried in the Court of the Archbishop of the Province. It was unnecessary to mention more than one—his bodily infirmity—which Sir It Phillimore much regretted. He had no doubt it was his duty to accept the letters of request. THE IRISH CHURCH BILL AND THE LORDS. What the Lords will do with the Bill, is still the undetermined question at the clubs. The latest gossip is that Lord Cairns has soothed his party in Ireland, and that such leaders of the Opposition as himself, Lord Derby, and the Marquis of Salisbury are desi rous of not rejecting the bill on the second reading, and are disposed to be absent on that occasion. Mr. Disraeli, we understand, is inclined to this course, but there is much difficulty experienced in commending it to the violent spirits of the Tory party, who feel that they are always abandoned by their leaders when the day of battle arrives. If this is to happen, people begin to ask, " Who, then, will be present?" and, as a stopgap, the Duke of Wellington is mentioned. The report is still current that most of the bishops will be con spicuous by their absence on the occasion of the second reading, which, in its way, will be an ecclesiastical event, and this bit of gossip causes the Carlton Club to ask—" If the heads of the Church dare not act on this occasion, when will they?" The cynical remark is heard that the Bishop of Peter borough, who was so lately Dean of Cork, " intends to speak rather as a good Christian than as an Orange. man ;" and, lastly, it is repeated that Lord Westbury is to appear as the friend of the absent bishops, while it is whispered that the Bishop of Oxford will make his first appearance in the interesting character, and quite new part, performed by him for the first time, of a friend to religious liberty and to the Government. —Echo. MR. MUNDELLA ON TRADES UMONS. On Wednesday night Mr. Mundella, M.P., at the request of the trades unionists of Nottingham, made a speech on the Trades Union Bill, in the Mechanics' Hall in their town. He entered at some length into the history of trades unionism, pointing out that its excesses had been caused, in a great measure, by the unjust laws, which refused to workmen that power of combination of which they could not deprive their employers. He sketched the progress of the present bill, whose parentage was of a character which war ranted the goodness of the offspring. Hughes Harrison, Crompton, and many of the ablest lawyers and of the largest capitalists in England (including Mr. Brassey, the member for Hastings) had devoted to it their best abilities. He explained the provisions of the bill, which would allow trades unions to be registered, protecting their funds, and which would place capital and labour upon an equalfooting. He had conferred with many members on both sides of the House, and did not fear any opposition from the great employers of labour, many of whom were doing their best to advance the measure. The Tory landlords would give the most opposition, as it was a new idea to them that masters and men could bargain upon equal terms, and they thought possible there might come to be unions among agricultural labourers. He hoped to live to see such unions which would make the illused labourers of Dorsetshire, who sustained a miserable existence on nine or ten shillings a week, more like the stalwart Northumberland labourers' who earned twenty shillings. In conclusion, Mr. Mundella severely reproved thoie among the unionists who sought to exclude machinery, to keep the stone from being hewed at the quarry, or who refused to submit their disputes to arbitration. The principle of arbitration was spreading very fast, and he had the pleasure of receiving since his present visit to Nottingham a letter from Louis Philippe (who might yet be Emperor of France), and who was the author of a recent work on trades unions, stating that his time had never been more usefully employed than in making known in France what arbitration had accomplished in Nottingham. Mr. Mundella was received with great enthusiasm by the audience which crowded the room, and resolutions in favour of the bill were adopted unanimously. THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN MO2 MOUTHSHIRE. The details of the colliery explosion confirm the report we published' yesterday. The pit is called the Sinking Pit at Cwmnantdda, about two miles from Pontypool, Monmouthshire. It belongs to the Ebbw Vale Com pany, and Mr. Evan Jones is contractor for it, Between 300 and 400 men are employed in it, and it is fortunate that when the explosion took place all but a few had left work. The workings are generally supposed to be free from gas, and, after being tested with a safety lamp, are used with open lights. At the time named some ten men were down, making roads in what is called " the deep," some 700 or 800 yards from the bottom of the shaft. It appears from the accounts in the several local papers, that about twenty minutes past eight o'clock on Tuesday night, three men were working some distance higher up in the pit than where some of the headings in the lower are situated. Just before the explo sion, the three men referred to noticed a quantity of sul phur in the air, and they at once made their escape, and directly after an explosion was heard in one of the headings in the lower vein by a man named Charles George, and he at once repaired to the spot ; but owing to the " after choke" he had to heat a hasty retreat. The two horses (with the three men in the higher part of the pit) and a donkey were killed, but the men fortunately escaped. At twelve o'clock at night search was made for the missing men in the lower vein, and six dead bodies were discovered before three in the morning, all of them being burnt and dis figured in a very shocking manner. The names of those discovered are : Thomas Williams, John Jones, and Evan Rees (single), and William Cooke, Alfred Davies, and David Rees (married). Soon after the bodies of the above men were recovered it was ascertained that Anniah Williams was missing, and it was supposed he was work ing with the unfortunate men at the time of the explosion. Another search was made, and soon after his lifeless body was discovered under one of the dead horses, but so fright fully burnt and disfigured that scarcely a feature was recognisable. Like many other similar accidents, there is no knowing at present how the accident happened, all the poor fellows who were working in the heading where the accident occurred having lost their lives. There were only a few men working in the pit at the time of the accident, which, had it occurred in the day. time, not less than fifty lives would doubtless have been sacrificed. The bodies now await the coroner's inquiry, which will probably throw some light as to how the accident occurred. A Cabinet Council will be held on Saturday at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence, Downing street. The Judges assembled on Thursday at Westmin ter, and made the following arrangements for the Summer Assizes : —Norfolk—Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Mr. Justice Byles. Home.—The Lord Chief B ron and Mr. Justice Mellor. Western.—Mr. Justice Keating and Mr. Justice Lush. Oxford—Mr Baron Pigott and Mr Justice Smith. Northern—Mr. Justice Hannen and Mr. Justice -Hayes. Midland Mr. Justice Brett and Mr. Baron Cleasby. North Wales - Lord Chief Justice Bovill. South Wales— Mr. Baron Channel'. Mr. Baron Bramwell remains in town. The three judges selected to try election petitions for the year ending the 2d of November next, namely, Justice Blackburn, Justice Willes, and Mr. Baron Mar tin, having now nearly concluded their labours, will have a holiday till next Michaelmas Term, when throe fresh elec tion judges will bo chosen for the ensuing twelvemontb, which in all probability will be the next seniors, viz., Jus tice Mellor, Justice Byles, and Mr Baron Bramwell. Un less there should be a general election their duties must be necessarily very light, as it is quite opti , Alal with the learned judges themselves whether they sit iu Westminster Rail or not during their twelvemonth's tenure of office as Election Judges. On Wednesday a meeting of the operative joiners and carpenters of Leeds was held, for the pui pose of discussing what they declared to be a "flagrant violation " of the deci sion given by Mr. Rupert Kettle in the arbitration of the dispute with their employers last year. That decision was to the effect that men of fair average skill should be paid Cid. per hour, and that this rate should be in force for two years. The mon say that out of GOO or 700 joiners in the town there are only about seventy receiving Gid., and they therefore contend that the agreement has not been carried out. A resolution was passed by the meeting, de puting the chairman to request Mr. Jowett, the umpire appointed at the arbitration, to call together the Board of Conciliation, and instructing the representatives of the joiners to demand a fulfilment of the agreement on the part of the employers,..or the dissolution of t4 o j3 „ 9.4r4 Of Arbitration. Cavil HER 21/.41E6'7'1'. BALMORAL ) May 25. Her Majesty drove out in the morning, a e " companied by Princess Beatrice and the Dowag er Duchess of Athole. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High• uesscs Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, an 1 Princ e Leopold, with the ladies and gentlemen in waiting' were present at the dance given in honour of be t Majesty's birthday to the servants, tenants, Sze.) O the estates. The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday fate, noon, attended by Major Grey, and accompanl' by the Crown Prince of Denmark. LATEST INTELL fa-ENO (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, May 21. The North German Lloyd steamship A m erica arrived at 11 a.m. to-day, and the Hamburg and American steamship Allemannia at 3 p.m. The Allan steamship Damascus arrived ° I Quebec to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1391; the highest quotation cit it ' ing the clay was 1391; the lowest, 1391. Sterling Exchange on London lO9l. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 l2ll. 44 " 1885 118• " 1867 ll9l. 10-40 44 Illinois 146. Erie 2Bl. Cotton —Mid. upland 2Blcs Petroleum—Standard White 3ole' Flour, extra state, $5.70e. to $6.30c. Corn, ° ld mixed, 96e. SPAIN. GIBRALTAR, May 23 ' a Six hundred volunteers had embarked at 0' for llavanah. An imposing demonstration in favour of the Duke of Montpensier was expected at Seville. The crops in the province of Castille arc Pr' r , misiug, and a n a b un d an t h arvest i s exp ected Heavy rains continue throughout Spain. The barque Wan, of South Shields, caught f ° and was scuttled close to the shore. Exchange on L on d on , 491 ; P ar i s , 0.' 3 Madrid, discount. _ BP.EST, May 27 ' The ironclad corvette Belliqueuse returned terday from a voyage round the world. Til i3 i s the first vessel of this description which has P i. j e formed so long a voyage. The Belliqueus e sustained no damage. BOMBAY MAILS. ______ SOUTHAMPTON, May 28. e t The Peninsular and Oriental Company's ste am Poonab, with the heavy portion of the 1: 305° ,0 i mail, arrived here this morning. She brings lj . passengers, £3,669 in specie, and a general cargo FRANCE. BOURSE, May 27.—Three o'clock—The U 1 closed as follows : per Cent. End of month — Its Fan Fives •J , s per Cent End of month 7l 90 Mexican Loan . • Credit Mobilier End of month... 255 S pan i s h Th rees Credit Foucier _1620 Home Debt.. Eud of month... Deferred ...- U :ILWYS. Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean ... Southern-- Western Eastern e• Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman C;a•li Vl7l 108 0 950 • 6 b7Bl 50 0 POLICE .INTELLIGENCE.-71eis pall. MARLBOUG-STREET. CARRIAGE ROBBERY.— OR George H Chandler, a low l'i young fellow, and a well known thief, was charge d v rti Tyrwhitt with stealing a silver card case, the P r° ' of Mrs. Clyke, of No. 7, Saekville-street. Thomas Hunt, a coachman, said that yesterday ";"( or he was waiting with hi s carr i age f or th e proseee tr i :ol l posito Parkins and Gott o 's, in Oxford-str ee t, when the prisoner take th e ca r d case pr o d uce d from n il „ s ‘ l 6 no t in the carriage and take hold of a shawl. He 011`-i)01 to the prisoner, who made off with the card 094' dropped the shawl. the Police-constable Loosley, 46 C, proved pursnil l ° dor prisoner and seeing him entering the house No. 7, rr Y A I P,O court, St. Anns. Having borrowed a light he 'mer it , - 0 0 into the kitchen and found the prisoner concealed 1%0 kitchen On taking the prisoner into custody lie s A i ici ve if he (the const a bl e ) h a d not had a light he would broken his neck down the stairs. In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, lock il3 the The constable said that although only five o'ck afternoon the place was very dark. o° 4'l Barnes the gaoler said the prisone r had bee° times in custody. OP Loosley said the prisoner had been t r i e d at t -- he Bailey, and sentenced to six month's imprisonment. The prisoner was remanded. HAMES. THE MUTE AND HIS DEFENCE.—Joseph Brent, it to e lore, who is deaf and dumb, was charged with se rgi— g . le' John Foster, his uncle, an d o th ers . Th e pr i s oner o f oii t oxicated yesterday evening, and went to the house °, uncle, an old man, an d k noc k e d hi m down. 'llltiltd , e sonar's aunt w en t t o th e ass i s t ance o f th e h us band , "" t teit knocked her down. Sev e r a l oth er s w ho came t ° roo, assistance shared the same fate. The prisone r 0 01' 1 a-muck and struck at every person he met Wi th some one tripped him up and secured him. o ter Chandler, a police-constable, No. 117 H, havieg A ti se preted the evidence to the prisoner by signs, ho 0 ;0, of some very expressive pantomimic actions ItP re t i " e , d p his sorrow fur what he had done, and that he sho t ', ue an enemy into his mouth to steal away his WO' 06 would not get drunk any more, but with every r et fi ll of, ° ' morning make a vow to refrain from strong drinitg' honour, and assist his dear relative, and cherish t l ' e of his bosom. s4 4teo t His uncle said that he was a good and steady 011- 4 .pcx' sober. The first wife of the prisoner was a veil re i d able woman, but since the prisoner had been 33 31 ' r ' 4 .0 0 ' second time he had given way to intoxication and elle/ A well-dressed and comfortable-looking vl olllB .ol °ll stepped into the witness box, and said—l can se ti the second wife is also a respectable woman. Mr. Paget—No one has said she is not. You second wife ? The woman—l am, sir. hii - 03 Mr. Paget —You must do all you can to keel' 8 40 fortunate husband of yours sober. He is a'- when drunk. He is remanded for a week. ~,,eif: 4 ; The prisoner again d e li vere d hi mse l f earne stly t and asked for mercy. He was told by Chandler th volf case would be mercifully considered, and he wa de and withdrew with the gaoler. WESTMINSTER. A DituNKEN CLERGYMAN.—Mr. George JAI' , ° sl i; Warwick- street, Pimlico, a clergyman, was charged being drunk and incapable of takin ca re of billoelf. ziP t ' nt Jaes Macken nan y, 220 B , proved finding the de n: ir : unk and incapable iu Vauxhall Bridge-roa d ' luito drunk, without fear of mistake George Butch er , 109 B, th e reserve man at the said he was very drunk, and smelt strong'y of li I(3'L et Defendant sa id L e h a d b een su ffering fora ly time from nervous d e Lility, and that was wh at the -l) ° lied mistaken for drunkenness. Mr. Charles Sager and Mrs. Poole, the defendant s lady, proved that he Lad Leen very ill for a lengtl,olodoce at:t.l single glass of brandy and water would Pr drunkenness; Mrs. Poole said further that 1 10 w$ yo terclay. n for L is Mr. Selfe said his illness was all the less csols" , conduct, without having regard to his position "" Lie should fine him ss. for being drunk. NONE COMMERC Consols have ix for money ; diti Cent. Reduced, 921 2 ; Excheque £2OO, and 1,500, per Cent., 244 6. India Stock, ditto 5 per Cent., Cent., Oct., 188 per Cent., In the Foreign Five pir Cents.. per Cents. show Five per Cents. Greek, 101 104. 281 to 284 ; Tur Peruvian Five pE The Ilondura: ex coupon. In the Rails% proved 1 and So are *, Great E:u Lancashire North British Eastern 1, and The quotations Western, 481 ; thern,losl a ; 123 ; I%letropolii Midland, 1131 451 a; North B North Eastern Chatham, and ] American Fig the Ten-Forties are 1 1 better, at unchanged, at 'lightly better The Atlantic 22 ; the Eight to 3i ; and An to 22. The sum of nuk yesterda3 The Tasma brought £49,0N The suspensi of Ipswich, in The total Habil Cola of which other parties p hands of Mess liquidation of expected. Edinburgh ri shire, has just ke! lie, of Lox The report I atect Compan w ends a divid, A public inc held on the 10 the committee British GJver Burgs as way I The Man cl T. A. Wilson, manufacturer: creditors. TI fleeted with 11 The genera have made a 10s., or 251 payable on ox The mail fi tance of 147 debt of Ecuac The, return week ended results when Rest Put,lic deposits Other deposits On di other Government 2 ties Other securiti, Notes unemph The amount being a dcci bullion in bot an increase c preceding re Subjoined of the i3ank and French last sear Bullion ... Reserve .... Notes in cir Rate of disc Consols .... French Iter The folio' atid bills ele the week en 'rliursl Friday Baturd blonds Tueed Wedul Advices In the g o ld lation in Ai ties of bon tak en up, action, but Were BO OV a part of realise the serious jay small Prus 3,000,000 wh, begin to The Portu brought of shall have Russian G allow any of this yea It is rel warding o to Brindis Engl tud The rep to be pt.( deud at t bonus of 1 Govzi PoX Cent • - bitto foi 3 a pe r New Nnar 21. pc Do. 5 p kunuities, Do. for Do (Re c Exehoqu Do 13 tuk of T: De. o p c Canals 4 Tutor-Coli INDIA I I iit V to( Do. Opc Do. 5 p Do. 4 p, Do. Col Do. 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