The Sun. — London, England, 1869-01-28 00:00:00

rm. gE, Jan. 27. :e Leopold and ady Churchill, Ids this morn :e. mished his house rib waiters don't :: "What's this' , 11, that's a good `,o wait two hours tico inquiry there y, when a witness the alleged wad y, without even Tliot of boneless ng now ? abankment won't ,ed? - communication Lilway? made and used? ved? can be dealt with s 2,3, 4, 5, 6, we t or fearful crisia tubers of a stand• opionship•of the •-mi11? minute is very First Lord, gr• . :.hange, the most ut. ho has hired St called him the ne he'shadfor the ke a respectable PEDES." to attend the le Public Preis: , now in the in• markable for the ide Public Fresh :CORIIII.-A fisg ENT. —When the tive Motto—"l4' to be thorough l y !edles in his f 044 , I insist on r ut of have asked for so big, Ina?" ok so big." , ho at the awl lg office declared en aware that he :enwich. 'ea ten, barin g of a rheumat ic up Good Wor ds he north win d o , d not a muster% MMITTEE. sees the position nittee, which 1 0 w important the cision on wh 3t rmy and nall r. here must be )rs. In the 15e " , cide on each Par f a changing c °llP Lance, and at the fixed committee worked Was as f his brain befo re 'or consideration discussing ! l i r. ,he Masten . 11 ° . " the business 0° ght under th e considered the new grievance ary Comm' tteP • But that WO committee 01 1. rn hands. P it ,n 1855 had to be j being ren al if the commit tee. _ lished becau se o ee, the disag reef, tence of some e' :onvincal of the new commi e s, t e e, forming a 11 . mportance o " committee P. ers of artillerl! y stores for lanci t .val officer M ue ions are P artly such as the e nv d • ,oint the o a this — w hethe r ; 'f the questio.t , or whateveri:e h while to ma od to ensure °"• rom all branches io case. The re I small ece2l°° :NED IN A colliery, Gr ee t: . terrible diseste cutting °f l Lty-eight re en t ring another. 1:g Igram wee 6r ueo ards long, directions , 0- 4 . The prin 6 P 3 1 ' ,eion g ing [(idle of 01db i l. 0 bounded off 10 0 Dpposite a Ow .. 6 )wri. of age, 6 a ;ion he Ipo the ig towards art of the 1 0 ,7, ately aftervat.or.., of the build i ; 6 hi m to see the he efforts of vv ci the in3Pr iii°ll D ut e got out ; noe i a dilato r 9 i t r used at the !to Ls at once In' o a of the Ine rt li t he not equal t n ! w as anger, and i the neigh'nel nt has beP,P, e , ir cli aw t o wn CP. -Lord 1481:4,11 , who is real r aa l out iship was a to distant , a u op e of the leg. _of 5 n ear, and 9 fe d p WAS couv e oy an d the I"°' MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. Business is firm to-day, and the usual meeting of the directors in the Bank parlour has not led to any alteraticn in the rate of discount. Consols are 931 for money ; ditto, for Ac count, —; Three per Cent. Reduced, 938 ; New Three per Cents, 938 i; ditto 2i per Cent., Jan., 1894, 75 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 21- per Cent., 14 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, 10 prem. ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent. 2421 4. India Stock, 108 per Cent., April, 1874, 2111 ; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121 1-; ditto 4 per Cent., Oct , 1888, 1021 i; ditto Bonds 4 per Cent. £l,OOO, 24 prem. ; ditto under 11,000, 24 prom. In the Foreign Market, Italian Five per Cents.. Mexican Bonds, and Turkish Five per Cents. rose ; and New Spanish Three per Cents. 1-16 ; Italian is 51; 4 ; Mexican, 151 16 ; Greek, 111 12; New Spanish, 31 311 ; and Turkish, 381 ; 38 4 . Egyptian 7 per Cent. Loan of 1868 has gone up to 721 73 ex div., and the Honduras Loan is 86 88 ex coupon. The Italian Tobacco Loan is now 24 3 prem. ; and the last Russian Railway Loan is 4 dis., par. Great Indian Peninsula Railway New Four per Cent. Debenture Stock is 90 91 ex div. American Five-Twenties show a fractional de cline, at 751 751 ; the Bonds of 1885 are 4 lower, at 734 74 ; and the Ten-Forty Bonds remain at 724 721. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Deben tures are firm at 414 424, and Eries have improved 4, to 26 264. In the railway market Great Westerns have im proved 4 ; Great Northern, 4 ; Metropolitan, 4 ; North British, 4 ; and South Eastern, 4 ; Metropolitan Extension, 4 lower. The prices are as follows :—Caledonian, 79 4 ; Great Western, 52 4 ; Great Eastern, 42/ 4 ; Great Northern, 108 9 ; ditto A, 1094 104 ; Lancashire, 1304 ; Metropolitan, 1094 4 ; ditto Extension, 1041 5 ; Midla4l, 1164 4 ; Sheffield, 48 4 ; Brighton, 524 4; North British, 354 4 ; North Western, 1174 4 ; North Eastern (Berwick), 1034 41 ; South Eastern, 824 34 ; Chatham and Dover, 174 1. In banking and miscellaneous share prices are as last quoted. The sum of 35,000 sovereigns was withdrawn yesterday for Brazil, and £45,000 in bar gold for the Continent—the latter to pay for recent pur chases of silver. " The operations of the week since the date of the last return have resulted on balance in a withdrawal of £57,000. The Ballarat left Auckland on the 6th of Novem ber for London, with £BO,OOO in gold. Additional shipments of gold from New York for Europe are announced to the extent of £llO,OOO. The Post-office authorities notify that no mails will be made up on the Ist of February for Sydney and New Zealand, via Panama, in consequence of the Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Royal Mail Company not being able to furnish a steamer. It is understood that the service of the company has ceased, owing to various difficulties, chiefly in the colonies. It appears that several of the Greek firms are again taking up ships for the consignment of goods to Constantinople, a circumstance tending to con firm the impression that all danger from the Eastern complication is at an end. The second instalment of £lO per cent. upon the New South Wales Government loan for £1,000,000 (negotiated last October by Messrs. Rothschild and the Bank of New South Wales) becomes payable on Monday next. It is stated in the Levant Times that the Porte has recently abolished a number of taxes which pressed heavily upon the population in the pro vinces, without bringing any profit to the Im perial Treasury. Among them were the tax upon slaughtering cattle for food, on travellers for the guards employed on the passes, on dealers at fairs, on calendering, on coffee-crushing, and on hawkers. • According to the last letters from Rio de Janeiro, the fire at the Custom-house in that city had oc curred in the quarter where the German and French goods were :principally stored, and the loss was estimated to be less than £50,0)0. it is under stood that in the quarter where the English goods are stored there had been no damage except by water. Strong suspicions were entertained that the fire was the act of an incendiary, to prevent expo sures in connection with the recent Customs' frauds. The following letter from Mr. J. 0. Levor, late M.P. for Galway, refers to the affairs of the At lantic Royal Mail Company, and the evidence re cently given by Mr. Edwards. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. (Overend, Gurney, and Co.) SIR—My name having been mentioned in the late inquiry in connection with the affairs of the Atlantic Royal Mail Company (Galway Line), of which I was the founder, may I ask the favour of the inser tion of these few lines ? When I and my friends left this concern in June, 1860, it was perfectly solvent ; its management then remained in the hands of Mr. D. W. Chapman and Mr. E. W. Edwards. During the first two years while I was connected with the management about the same number of voyages were made by the company's vessels as during the subsequent management. In the former period a profit was made, without subsidy, which Was not then due, and a sum of £220,000 was offered for the contract and goodwill of the line by another company. In the latter period, notwith standing a subsidy of £91,000 per annum, which bad then become avail Lble, the loss incurred appears to have been £840,000.-1 am, sir, yours, faithfully, J. ORnELL LEVER. Brighton, Jan 27. _ _ At the meeting of the New Zealand Trust and Loan Company a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared. At the meeting of the Lancaster Banking Com pany; a dividend and bonus, together equal to 5 per cent. for the year, were declared. A dividend of £5 per share has been declared by the directors of the Birmingham and Midland Bank for the past half-year. The directors of the Birmingham Joint Stock Bank (Limited) recommend a dividend at the rate of 20 per cent. per annum. The report of the Lion Brewery Company (Limited) recommends a dividend for the six months at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum. The report of the Birmingham Financial Com pany, Limited, recommends a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. The London and North Western Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of £7,735 over last year; the Midland an increase of £9,873 ; and the Great Eastern an increase of £1,145. At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. A. Winter bottom, in the stuff trade, held at Manchester yes terday, the liabilities were stated at £49,337, and the assets at £28,061. It was decided to accept a eempositEon of 10s. in the pound, payable in instal ments extending over 15 months. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. a Per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account, 3 per Cent. Reduced 931 i New 3 per Cent New. 24 per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Cen .1 an. 187 3 Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1881' — Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 188 f, -- Do (Red Sea Tele6raph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21!per Gt. Do. £5OO Do. £lOO & £2OO — Bank of England Stock, 4por Cent Do. account .. — Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds — In ter -Colonial Omnium — " btolAeri jOVERNMENT 6ECURITihe. India : rock 104 per Cent., April 11874 2lli Do. Opening, for Account - D o. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 pet. Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Pep,. 4 per Cent — Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 Do. 54 per Cent. May 1879 DO 5 pet Cent., sap. Deb. 1872,,....... Do, do. 1877 — Do. do. 1882 — D.,. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ — Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,000 )o. under £l,OOO 20 FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent Do., Scrip £45 paid Au-Arian Bonds 5 per cent Do. 1859 63k Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 4i per Cent., 1852 — Do. do. 1858.... ............. Do. do., 1860 — Do. do., 1863 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 ' — Do Account — B .ei.os Ayres 6 por Cent. " D., 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Cu')3., 6 per Cent. o..ii,an 6 per Cent — Jo. 4A per Cent..„.... — ..-. ~-. ... Do. 3'per Cent., Lo. 6 per co t. 1867 — o. 7 per Cent., 1866 C lo abian, 6 par Cent. - - Dan sn. 3 p,r Cent., 1823.... — Dan it,ian Principalities, 7 for Cent 76 51 D i 8 par Cent., 1867 .. Equador New Conzolitutted, I pca- Cent '.:, 6 yptian, 7 per Cent ... tit) Se.•ood Dine 90. .45 il. Ecuds , B, . "4 Do. £lOO Bonds ..... 84 5 De. 1864 Do. Account D.N. £s:iu Bonds Do. 4106 Bonds 9U English Scrip,:lB63 720 Do do. £l5 pd . _. die Government Railway Dcidt7ntures: 96 51 Greet 5 per Coat., 18'21 5, ex Coups Do. Account Do. CouronE Do. Acciunt Gl:item:lla 5 per Cent Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., lop. Ct., all pd 10iian 5 per Cent., 1665 Do Account Do Mnreininana. Railway ‘lexicar, 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Dn. 1864 Bl Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French — , touteN idean 6 per Cent. . — ‘lc orish imperial 5 per Cent Ne w Granada l5 Do 3 per Cen Do. Doforred Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account .. Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarreu) Do 41 per Cent., 1862 -, — Do Account Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853;6, 7,'9,'60,'2.% , 361- Do. do. 1867 36} Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid — 1 - tassian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Do 41 per Cent, 1850 Do 41 per Cont., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do. Auglo-Duteb, 1861, £lOO Bonds.,, Do. do. £B4 15s. do.. ` , Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 914 Do. do £B4 los. do Do Nicolas Railway Sar innau a per Cent Spanish 3 per Cen . - Do. Acc , Junt Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferred - Do. Account Do. Passive Do. Coin. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Do do, Scrip Turkish 6 per Cent. U., Account Do 6 per Cont. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do £IOC Bonds Do 5 per Cent. 1865 3'l Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1860 6l Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed Do Lhod Warrants (Hectares) Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do. Acc.unt Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Dividends on the above payable in London Austrisu e per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian. 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch '2.3. per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil, Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... Do. Account French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. 'Winn 5 per tient. 1831, Ex. 25f. Do Account 541. CLOSING PRICES. Consols, Money 93} Do. Account, Feb. 4 93f POLICE IiNTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. POLICE EVIDENCE.—A CASE FOR THE COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE.—Mr. Richard Lord, journalist, of No. 10, Notting ham place, St. Marylebone, was charged before Mr. Knox with bAriving in a disorderly manner in Rogeut-street. Police-constable Squire, 34 C 11, said—This m~ruing, just before two o'clock, 1 saw the defendant standing at the top of the Haymarket with conic prostitutes. 1 re quested him to go away, and ho did so. The prostitutes took him by the arms and walked along with him down Piccadilly, the prostitutes laughing and making a great noise. The females wanted to go away, but he would not let them. I told him that if he did not go away I would take him into custody, and ho then said that ho know more about police duties than I did, and knocked off my helmet with his umbrella. I picked up my helmet, and then took the de fendant into custody. The defendant had been drinking. The Defendant said—l had been to the Raleigh Club to see a friend, and while waiting for a moment, consider ing whether I should take a cab or walk home, I was first annoyed by one prostitute and then by another, and as soon as I had got rid of them the constable came up and said in an offensive manner, "Walk off." I told him to be steady, and he then pushed me. I said I would take his number, and he then pushed me again, but I never at tempted to strike him at all. I have a gentleman present whom I had been with, and he will state that I was per fectly sober, and at the station the inspector said that I was not intoxicated, as the constable wanted to make out. The constable has been guilty of gross perjury and of a downright lie. Ile pushed and dragged me because he said that 1 had my pocket-book in my hand and that I was taking his number, which 1 have here written down, the straps of my pocket-book being broken, and because he said that I meant to report him—which I certainly intended to do this morning—he thought he would take the bull by the horns and charge me. I again say that he has been guilty of perjury. Mr. Horace Mayhew, of Lancaster-gardens, West, said —I left Mr. Lord a few minutes More the time spoken of, and he was perfectly sober, and not in the least degree under the influence of drink. lie was quite collected in his manner, and I can speak with the greatest confidence of knowing him to be perfectly conscious of the danger of interfering with the police. Mr. Knox—The defendant is discharged, and let the case be reported to the Commissioners of Police. Mr. Lord, you have two remedies. You may either take out a sum mons at this court or apply to Scotland-yard. The Defendant—l should like to charge the constable with perjury, and I certainly intend to proceed in the matter. WESTMINSTER. A TICKET-OF-LEAVE-MAN AND HIS PROSPECTS.—James Butler, a ticket-of-leave man, was charged with violating the conditions upon which he had boon sot at large. Inspector Arnold, B division, said that on the 10th of September the prisoner was allowed a license from Mill bank Prison. lie was convicted of felony on the 31st of March, 1864, and sentenced to live years' penal servitude. On the 11th of September, 1868, ho reported himself to mo at this station, giving his address at Reading's lodging house, Great Peter-street, Westminster. I read his license or ticket-of-leave to him, and gave him a copy of this form after having read it to him. The form stipulated that he should report himself monthly to the police of the district where he resided, and also notifying any change of abode to them. Mr. Arnold—Which offence is he charged with ? Inspector—He might be charged with both. Mr. Arnold—How did he get into custody? Inspector Arnold—He was apprehended in Wales as an escaped convict? Mr. Arnold—When did he last report himself ? Inspector—Not since September. Mr. Arnold—l see he was convicted of robbery, with violence to the person. Inspector—His term would ha lo expired this March. Ho was sent from Dartmoor here to Millbank to receive his license. Mr. Arnold (to prisoner) —What have you to say to the charge against you ? Prisoner-1 could got no work in this town when 1 had got my ticket. I could not live upon nothing, and it was no good staying here to starve. Arnold--You did not report yourself when you went away, which you were bound to do. Prisoner—l went away to see what I could do for my self. Prisoner was remanded. TB AMES. A QUIET DAY IN 001-ULT.-Mr. Paget took his seat on the bench at 10 o'clock precisely with his usual punctua lity, and it would be very beneficial to the public if all other gentlemen of the worshipful bench imitated his ex ample. There were a few night charges of not the slightest public importance, and these were disposed of in half an hour. He then heard numerous applications, and at 11 o'clock the ,remanded cases (four in number) not being ready, in consequence of the non-arrival of the prison van, he directed the court to be cleared, and adjuurhed for an hOUr. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1860. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Closing Business Share NA3311. Paid. Price. done 10 Agra Limited, A all 114 12 30 Do B lO 4 5 50 Albi on 100 Allia nee, Limited 20 Anglo -Austrian 20 Anglo- Egyptian, lim all 1 9 20 Anglo- Hungarian 20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 6 5 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia all 10 32 20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. '5 ... ... 25 Bank of Egypt 20 Bank of Otago, lira. 25 Bank of South Australia all 31 ;_3 50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 30 10 Bank of New Zealand all 17 19 50 British North American 20 Chartered of In dia, Austra lia, rnd China all 201 214 25 Chartered Me rc. of India, London, and China all 29 301 20 City 100 Colonial '2s 40 42 10 Consoli dated, lim. 50 Delhi and London, lim 50 East London, lim 5 11 0; 20 English and American, lim 10 ... ... 20 English Bank of llio de Ja n air°. lim lO 15 pr 20 English, ; cot tish, and Aus tralian Chartered 28:i long Bong and Shanghai Bank Corporation all .. 281 Do ne w ; 51 . 4 . + 100 Imperial, Um 2) 17 18 171 '2O Imperial Ottomln lO 1 11 <5 lonian 25 Do new 20 Lnd Mortgage of India, lira 4 3i 3 3 100 Do sp. c. Debs.l36l, 30 all 76 75 73 30 London Bank of Mexico and South America, lim. 20 6 4 100 London and Brazilian, lira. 45 32 23 20 Do new 71 64 5 4 100 London &River Plate, lim. 40 7 9 25 Do new 10 14 11 20 London Chart. of Australia all 221 231 23 50 London and County 2O 491 501 20 Do new. iss o.t 20 p.m, 16 pil ll ... ... 50 London Joint Stock 1 35 36 33 21 20 London and South African al 1) 12 100 London &S.-Western, lim, 20 ... ... 50 London & Venezuela, lim l2l ... ••• 103 London and Westminster 2O 63 64 100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O 6 ) 62 61 100 Merchant, lim 25 6 4 10 Metropolitan, lim all 6/ 74 71 100 Midland, lina. 5 National of Australia 25 National of Liverpool, lim l5 3 1 d 100 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... "' 186 10 Do . 42 . • 40 t 0 National. 20 New South Wales all 42 43 20 North-Western 25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42 42! 1 50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim lO 6 51 100 Provincial of Ireland 25 88 90 10 Do new. all ... ... 100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 15 11 100 Do issued at 6 pm. 10 ... ... 25 Union of Australia all 45 47 100 Union of Ireland, lim 50 Union of London SHARE LIST. ItDIAAitY aii.n.t. AND BTOCiib ihars Railways. Paid. Closing Sueniess rms. done. et Bristol and Exeter ...... 100 77 79 at Caledonian lOO 791 794 • St Cambrian 20 Cornwail all 3 81 st Dublin & Belfast June lO 79 81 st Dun„Perth,&Ab.Junc, WO 70 72 2) East London all 7 9 20 15 - 21 Do 10 - - at Glasgow &S. Western lOO 96 98 et Great Eastern 'O3 421 43 421 at Do. E. Angl. No. 2 lOO 7 9 st Great North of Scotland lOO 15 ;6 at Great Nortnern lO2 1) 81 1191 1081 at Do. A stock at Do. B stuck luo 125 1:7 at Gta, and W. 01 Ireland IOC, in, 100 a , Gt. Western -Originai 3Q6 52 53 52 et Do. South IValeti - Do. W. s D. Newport lOO 18 11 at Lancashire& 100 31 301 at Lon.,l3righ. o l2 S.Comst 1(0 524 524 521 0' Do Scrip .... - - 3t I ou., and Dove: iv.) 17 171 •t Do. Metro!). Ex. A lcu - Lou.t & North Westeri iv)) 1.71 174 1171 )t Lon. du 601101 IVeMerz tlA) ;9 , 131 at Kan., Shel., a, Lincoln .)71 461 st Metropolitan . I1:0 I(S} 1,84 108 at Do Extensi )a 100 1 3 1 4 10 LIU. r .. lo 10 1 1 at Me - ,rodoiitan Dia trlct. all 53 0, 10 Metrop..3t. John's 1\ oo 1 6 - - at 11 at Do, dirinin. A Dtict.); st N Irt British . ..... 100 .3 .5 st Do. Ed., Yth., & st Nor. , f;ast ern-Berwici; 2.5 Do. .3. N.E purcinuse 16.13.1 - - st Do Leeds at Do York . 100 1)0 9 i st Do Carli ile st Do Stoc r. & Darling l.O 14 131 st North Lon ion 10 Do \ew 1868 . 2 2 p st North Staffordshire lOO 55 57 st North and S.-W. Junction WO 103 105 10 Do Now £lO shares 7 st Rhymney st Shropshire Union 1 0 57 53 st South Devon .. st South Eastern lOO 814 82 st Staines, Wok'ham, & Wok all 12 13 st 'L au V al e lOO 145 150 - Do.o .. Waterford & Kilkenny.... IOU Waterloo & Whiteha.l.. 6 RAILWAYS-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. st Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 86 88 et Caledonian Qrs., No. 2 lOO ... st Do. Scot. N.E., 44 per cent lOO st Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c lOO ... st Do. do. 7 per cent lOO st Do. do. Ordinary IOU 80 82 st Do. Midland st Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent guy,— all st Dundee, Perth, and Aber deen Junction lOO 105 107 st Do. Ist Class preference lOO ... st Glas. & S.W. gua. 5 per ct lOO ... st Gt. Eastern, B.C. Ex. No.l 100 99 102 et Do do N 0.2 100 93 101 st Do ' do 6 per cent 100 103 108 st Do East Anglian Asp. c. 100 100 103 st Do do B 6 do. 100 ... st Do do 0 7 do. 100 ... ..• St Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 lOU 103 st Do E. Union 4p. c. gua. 100 69 71 t Do Norfolk 5 p.c. Ex. 1846 100 ... st Do do 5 p.c.Way.Val.lB47 100 et Great Northern, 5 per cent 10 ... st Do 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. c. pm. 100 ... st Do 4 1 do do do 100 st Do 5 do at sp. c. pm. 100 ... st Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent lOO ... st Gt. Nrth of Scotland, Ist pf 100 st Great South. and Western (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 96 97 st G t.West.— Orig.& int.-Rent chg., per gua. 5 p.c lOO 'lO4 103 at Do. Orig. (B. Sr H. Ex). 5 p.c 100 95 103 st Do do 4 4 per cent. 1830— 100 87 89 at Do do 4 do do at Do do 5 per cent. redem 100 96 97 at Do do Birmingham gua• 100 68 72 st Do do do pref 100 m st Do do Chester gua lOO ... ... at Do do -do 8 per cent lOO 150 160 at Do do do 5 do 100 95 100 at Do South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 ... ... st Do do 44 p.c lOO ••• ••• st Do do 41 1859 lOO ... ... at Do do 5 at Do West Mid. Oxford I st g I OJ 107 1.09 st Do do 2d gua lOO 106 108 at Do Newport, lat g. 5 p.c lOO 88 92 at Do do 2d do 100 100 103 st Do gua. 54 per cent. 1863 100 ... ... 100 Lancaster & Carlisle 41 p.c. all ... ... . st Lancash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1 0 135 st Do Barnsley, £5 3810 d p.c. 100 ... ... st Do 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 130 135 St Do 41 (Blackburn porch). 100 98 102 st London & Brighton, sp. c. guaranteed, No. 1 lOO ... ... st Do 5 per cent. gua. No. 2. 100 ... ... at Do 6 do do lOO ... ... st Do 5 do No. 4 lOO ... .., at Do 7 per cent l9O ... ... at Do 6 do (W.E. & C.P ) 100 ... ... st Do 4 do 1859 lOO ... ... st Loudon, Chatham, & Dover 5 per cent lOO ... ... st London and M.W., C. and Nuneaton 5 per cent lOO 108 110 st Do Bedford &Cambridge- lOO 8 91 st Do Shrewsb'y & Welchp'l lOO 83 91 at London and S.W. 7 p,c late 3d shares, lOO 143 146 2s 61 Do (Portsm. perp ans. 286 d) all ... ... st Man., Shef., &Lincln. 6 p.c lOO 111 117 6 Do £6 all par ipm at Do 31 per cent lOO 60 65 10 Do redeem. 6 per cent 5 ... ... st Mid. Consolidated., 6p. c lOO 130 135 st Do Bristol& Birin., 6p. c lOO 1 2 135 135 5 at Do 41 per cent. redeem lOO 97 iil st. Do 41 per cent. irredeena lOO 97 9.1 st Do Leicester &11'clin;4 p c lOO 80 91 at North British, 5 p.c. No. 1 lOO ... ... st Du E. &U. 4p. c. S. & D lOO ... ... st Do N. 8., N 0.2, 5 per cen.t lOO ... ... st Do Border Union, 54 p.c lOO ... ... st N.-Eastern-o)ns. 4 p.c lOO 86 81 at 1)o 44 per cent. redeem lOO 95 97 - at Do U A.E. 4 per cent., lOO ... ... 17 Do Berwick capital 8 13.4. ... ... 25 Do York, H. &S. purchase lO 1,) 101 st Do Stuktn & Drling. A. 5 p.c lOO 108 110 at Du W, Hartlepool if. and 11 lOO 87 8) 20 North Staffordshire lOs 6. Devon Annuities, 1 s all 91 Di lUs Do Tavistock Anus., 10s all 910 lOs Do Fixed 44 per cent all 8 9 1 ; 0.6. S. Last. (Read. Anns., 1.0.6) all 22 23 at Do 44 percent lOO .. st Do Fixed 41 per cent lOO ... . ...... st Taff Vale No. I lOO 145 150 st Waterford & Kilkenny, 6pc lOU 41 43 R AILWAYS.-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOOKS. With Dividends Contingent on the Profits of each separate year. st Caledonian 44 p c gee. st Do Scot. Cen. min. 7p c lOO st Do 41 p irredeem all ... • st Do 4p c con. issued at 80 65 st Great Eastern 44 p er cent. 100 77 81 st Do 5 do, 1862 lOO 87 to st Do New 5 do, 1863 lOO 86 90 st Do do 5 do, 1864 lOO 84 88 st Great Northern, 5p c irred lOO a Do Permanent 5 per cent lOO ... •sit Do Boston &Sl ea ld , 41 pc 100 . . • • st Great West., W. dl., 5p c 100 36 91) st Do Joint perpe. 5 p c,1865 100 88 52 st Do do 6p c irred., 1866 100 104 106 2.1 Do Vale N eath perp. 5p c all 194 204 st Kent Coast, 6 per cent, B lOO ... ..• 5 Lanc. and York. New 44 per cent till July, 1871 2 I 1 st Loud., Brig., &c., 44 pc, 1858 100 ... st Do do 4 do, 1860 100 st Do do 41 do, 1861 100 ... st Da do 44 do, 1863 100 ... st Do do 5 do, 1865 100 ... st Do No. 6 5 do, 1866 100 ... st Do No. 7 sdo st Lond , Chat., &c., 2d, 6 p.c 100 st Do Metrop. Ex., B 6 p.c 100 Do do C 6 p.c st London& N. Western, 5p c 100 10.5 110 st London &S. Western, 41 p c 100 94 96 10 Man. 6hef. &Lin., 5 pc, 1865 all Bet st Metropolitan 5 per cent .... . . 100 . . st Midland, A 5 per ce n t prof. 100 168 110 st B 5 do 18 Do 5p c opt. to cony. to 100 108 110 Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1869 all 11 lfp jg Do Incony. New Shares 16 ip 22 Do 5p c con. into Old Stk., Aug. 31, 1872 ... . 84 1 11p et North British, E. and. CI No. 1, 5 per cent ... . . 100 st Do £ l O guaranteed, 1861 100 •,. st Do R, P., & Dun., 2d, 4pc 100 „. st Do E.& U- , No. 2, 5 p.c st Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1862 100 st R & G., 5 lax 100 *** E. & G., (Orsury) 41 p c 100 5; Do st st North Eastern, 41 per cent 100 s 7 99 s t Do Stock. & Darl., D 100 1 11 111 s t North London, 4 4 , per cent (Max. 5 per cent) st North Staffordshire 5p e lOO 4 c, 1859 100 st South Eastern, I do Do 5 d 1861 100 • st at Do sdo (Ch. Cross) 1863 100 st Do 5 do, 18 6 4 ••• ••• st• Victoria St. & Pimlico, 44 pc 100 RAIL WAYS. —LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALs St Billiellheild lOO 7,3 95 03 100 Do. 41 per cent. Prefer all 101 103 at Buckinghamshire at Chester and Holyh ead lOO 54 6; at Do. 51 per cent. at Do. 5 do. at Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO -.... . " st Colchester Stour Vall e y at East Lincoln, gua. 6p. c lOO 13 . 3 135 20 Gloster and Dean Forest all s Gt. Easn., Newm. , &c., 5 p.c 100 ... ." a Do. E. U. Harwic h, 4pc 100 6j 7 . 2" st Do. do. Woodbrg. Ex., do. 100 69 72 at Gt. West ,W. Mid., Herat 100 95 97 50 Hull and Selby all 109 1 11 at Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 21 • 213 at London and Blackwall lOO 93 95 at Do. 41 per cent lOO ••• ••• at London, Chat., &c. , 4 1 p c lOO ~, • .. at Do. Com. Fund, 5 do 100 ... : at London and Greenwich at Do. do. Preference lOO ~, . '' st London, Tilbury, & S outh 100 78 to st Lowestoft, gua 4 per cent lOO 79 83 at Do. do. 6 do. ••• 51 blanch., Buxton, &Matlk all 5 51 st Midland, Bradford, Prof lOO 93 96 0 _ i 10 Mid Kent Cray L ine ) ... ... 50 Northern& East., 5 per cent all 53 56 60 Do. do. 6 do. all „, at N. Eastern —Hartlepool at N.West. A perp. prof, sp. C. 100 10i 110 st Do B minimum 11 p.c lOO ••• ••• at Notting. &Grauth. R. &O lOO 92 , 4 25 Preston and 11 yre. all 44 46 ... ltoyaton, Hitch., and Shep. 100 133 135 st Shrewsbury and Here f o rd 100 133 1 Z 1. 5 'lO Do do 8 24 2 , at S. Yorksh. and R iver Dun 100 98 100- st Do 4 per cent gua lO 79 dl st Do 5 do at Viet. Station and Pimlico lOO 175 180 st West Cornwall 20 West London, Class A all 13 14 20 Do do B all „ ~. 20 Do do C all GA 7t at Weymouth and Portland lOO .., .. st Wilts and Somerset 100 tl 83 DOCKS. st East and West India lOO 117 119 st London and St. Katherine lOO 49 51 49 50 100 D oDeb. stock, 4 per cent all m ... Mil! wall Freehold Land st Dock lOO 31 32 st Southampton lOO 7 i 76 at surrey Quxuraoreie4 u m n• *lt MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Anglo-American Tel., lira all 221 221 10 Anglo-Mediter. Tel., lira.— 10 141 144 141 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint all 151 161 et Atlantic Telegraph lO 37 39 35/ C at Do. 8 per cent. lOO 85 90 86i 5 25 Australian Agricultural 25 Australian Mort. Land and Finance, lim 10 Baugarah Tea Estates, lim 9 7 od 10 Berlin Water Works, lira all 134 14/ 14 10 Do. New 6 3 31 111 100 Bolckow Vaughan, Rm. 5 Bombay Gas, Rm. all 31 4 5 Do: New 4 11 ld 51 British American Land 44 16 18 et B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim lOO 166 171 20 British Indian Tea, lira: all 2 3 20 British Ship Owners 7l 29 Canada Company all 61 68 10 Canadian Loan and Invest ment, lim 2l 21 11d 20 Ceylon Company, lim. 20 Do. A shares 10 City Discount, lim 5 45 3.1 25 City of London Real Pro perty, lim 8 41 35d 30 City of Milan Improv. lira all 510 25 City of Moscow Gas, lim.., all 2 3 50 City Offices, lim 25 231 2211 50 Colonial, lim. Do. .. 50 Commercial Union (Assur) 5 l 5, 10 Company of African Mer chants, lim 20 Continental Union Gas, lira all 18 19 25 Copper Miners of England, pref. 71 per cent. 100 Corporation of London Bonds, 1877, 44 per cent. all 104 105 100 Do. 1879,11 per cent. all 1041 1051 100 Do. 1882, 44 per cent. all 1035 1 015 10 Credit Fon. of England, lim. all 24 21 50 Credit Fon.of Mauritius lim lO 31 21d at Crystal Palace lOO 19 21 201 at Do. Preference lOO 91 99 st Do. 6p. c Perpetual Deb lO9 105 101 20 Darjeeling, Urn IO Eastern Assam, lim. 6l ... ..d _ 50 East Indian Land Credit and Finance, Urn 20 East India Irriga, & Canal all 17 18 32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and Coal, lim 100 Egyptian 9 per cent. V'roy Gua. by Egypt. Gov all 92 93 92 20 Egyptian Com. et Trad. lim 6 4/ 4d at Electric & Inter: Telegraph 100 241 246 10 Do. New 8 10 12p 3 Eng. & Austral. Copper, lira 21 i k 15 English and Foreign Credit 75 5 4,1 100 Eng. and Scot. Marine, lim. 8 .. ... d 10 Fairbairn Engineering 5 14 lid 20 Fore-streetWarehouse,lim l2 pr 1p 100 For. & Col. Gov. Trust and _ ._ .. - Loan Scrip, issued at £B5 all 86 88 871 6 50 Gellivara, lim. 2O ... ... 10 General Credit & Dis., lint 71 11 14 15 General Steam Navigation 14 28 29 50 Hems & Col. Marine In. lim. 5 41 31d 10 Hong Kong and China Gas all ... ... 20 Hudson's Bay all 13,1 131 iti 20 Imperial Land Co. of Mar seilles, lim. 25 Indo-European Tel., Jim lO ... 20 Interna. Financial Soc. lim 5 11 I ; 1 20 Interns. Land Credit, lim 6 6 4 ' l 50 Italian Land 5 11 la 20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all 3 1 4 100 Do. 6p. c. Bds., redeem 1870, issued 20 all 63 15 50 Laud Securities, nun 5 31 244 25 London African Trading lO 7 5a 25 Lon. & Caled. llarine, lint 6 — - 0 d 10 London County Land and Building, lim 5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lim all •31 3 1 1 Do: Prefer. 10 per cent. all 1 1P 50 Lond. Financial Asso., lint 30 23 221 4 Lond.Gen.Omnibus.Co.lim. all 11 2 50 Loud, and Glasg. Engineer and Iron Ship, li m 25 22 17d 20 Lond. & Provincial Marine 2 ld pr at Madras Irriga. & Canl. Gua. sp.c. by India Gov. lOO 104 105 10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, lim. ... ll 4 Ic l 10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., lim. all 4 41 50 Merchant Shipping, lint all 32 37 80 Millwall Iron Works, btu, 121 ... 10 Natal Land and Colonisa tion Co., lim. ............ 9 31 21d 25 National Disco unt Co., lint 5 114 121 25 National Prov. Marine, Jim. 4 4 3d 10 National Stearn Ship, lint. all 81 9 1 20 Nerbudda Coal & Iron, lim. 6 4 3 ' l 10 New Consolidated Dis. lint 3 11 1d 5 I\ ew Quebrada, lint 4.4.0 41 si 25 New Zealand Loan & Mer cantile Agency,lim 2l 1 IP 25 New Zealand Trust and Loan, 1int........... 5 1 1 11 10 Northern Ass am Tea, lint. 5 7 1 ; 10 Do. B st North Brit. Austral. lim lOO 47 52 50 North Brit. & Moreau. In 6l 19 20 25 Ocean Marine (Insurance) 5 141 15 50 Oriental Financial, lint ll ... ...d 5 Oriental Gas, li m 5 Do. New ........ 1 1 1P 10 Otago and Southland In vestment, lint 2 Id 11) 5 Ottoman Gas, lint all 14 21 10 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian R. Mail lint all 11 5 Do do. st Peel It. Land & Minerl, lim 100 34 3 i 50 Peninsu. & Oriental Steam all 48 5) 50 Do. New 1867 lO 21 1 1d 25 Reuter's Telegram all 61 06 50 Rhymney Iron 15 Do. New 25 Rio de Janeiro City lin.,lim all 17 18 20 Do. Gas, lint all '231 241 100 Royal Mail Ste am 6O 4s 45 st Scottish Aust. Invest., lint lOO 73 85 • st Do. 6p. c. Guar. Pref. 100 ... 20 Societe Fin. d'Egypte, lim. 10 7 6(1 20 Societe Gen.de l'Empire Ot. 8 3 4p 50 S. African Mort. & Inv., lint. 6 25 South Australian Land at Submarine Telegraph I Do. S cr i p all 1 11 20 Telegraph Con. & Main.,lim all 181 19 18; 4 20 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lint 2 21 24 20 Trinidad Petroleum, lim Bl ... 10 Trust & Agency of A us .,li m 1 1 ill 10 Do do. do. all 20 Trust & Loan Co., U. Canada 5 id p 50 Union Marine L'pool, lim. .5 4 41p 20 Union Steam Ship, lint all 22 24 15 United Discount Corp., lint 6 id p 5 U. Kingdom Tel. Co., Jim all b 4 61 5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 31 34p 20 Universal Marine (In.), Um 5 1 lip 10 Upper Assam Tea, lint. all 21 31 30 Van Diemoas Land 2B l. 7 a 00 Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per cent. (Mortgage) Loan— all 78 79 774 81 50 Warrant Finance, lint , 12 12 10d 50 West India and Pacific Steam, lint. 2O 21 11 20 West London Wharves and Warehouses COLONIAL UOVIGUNMENT SEOURITII+;6 British Columbia, 6 per 0ent.,1872......... lOO - 1)o. 1895.. lOO - Can.(iov.6 p.c.Jen, , & July 1877-84 Do, 6p. o. Feb. & Aug lOO 106 108 Do. sp. 0. 7tiar. & Sept lOO 104 luo Do. sp. 0. Jan. A July— 100 93 94 956 i I Do. sp. c. Inscribed Bk NO 90 92 Caps G.llope, 6 p.c•1873.• 100 102 104 Do.Ap1.&001 18904900 lOO 11/ 113 Do. do 1880-9 e lOO 107 109 Do. Jan.&July, 1891 •••• 100 108 lie Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 ..... •• 100 100 102 Ceylon, Nov 1878, 0 p.(•• 100 108 110 Do. 1872, do lOO 105 107 Mauritius, 6p. 0, 1873, Jun. and July Do. 1878 ... . 1 00 106 108 Do. 1882, May and Nov lOO 106 l os Do. 1895, Feb. & Aug.," 100 106 19.3 JsLeibourne Corporate , , 1867-75, 6 per ccw, 100 N.8.G0v.6 p.c.Ja.&July lOO 102 101 1031 /Natal 6 p or, Apl & Oct lOO Do 6p c. Miy & Nov lOO 108 les - S. W. 5 ire., '7l to '76 lOO 99 101 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1890 lOO 99 108 till 9 Do. 5 p.c. rd.'67 to '25 lOO 119 101 N.Zealand, 6p. 01.1891 lOO -- Do. 5 percent.... DoJan,Aprl, July, 0 t lOO 976 986 936 Da 6p 0. Mar & Sept '9l lOO 108 110 -- Do June & Dec, 1 , 91 100 109 lil IDo erov. , 1 Ataiild. 1 _ eerie; &2, 1196 ..S 0 - 0v a Scotia 6 p. °Jay... and July. 1875 - Do 18.6 lOO 101 103 Queenelnd. 6p. c. 100 1(5 ' 106 106 ; Do 1891 • • Do. 6 p 0 . 1869 lOO -- -- Do. do. A 2...... •••• 100 108 110 Do rd. 1E93 .......... ▪ Y 10 1 ,91149 p. 9. 1695, n 100 106 107 SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times observes that the preliminary inquiry into the charge of conspiracy brought against the directors of Overend, Gurney, and Co. has terminated in the only way which was possible after such disclosures as it has elicited. It admits that it is quite possible the directors may have believed their embarrassments to be but temporary, and that shareholders could not lose by joining a business like theirs, which could, they imagined, right itself whenever its managers chose. Be it so. Yet nothing is clearer than that men are not justified in deceiving others because they think these others will not lose in the end. The acts of the directors were, there can be little doubt, fraudulent in equity ; and the line of distinction which separates such conduct from fraud at law must be, if any there be, .very fine. The gravest article in the charge is the suppression of the real character of the £4,213,000 of bad, or at any rate very doubtful, debts reserved as such for the old firm itself to try to collect. But grant that the intention of these gentlemen was nut malevolent—that they did not desire to injure any one in the end. Nevertheless, this is nothing to tl:e point if it appears that they did desire to deceive others, conscious'y betraying them into taking a risk which the directors knew the public did not mean to accept; and had n,> light to sus pect was even being offered to its choice. Mr. Serjeant Ballantine himself seems unable to dispute that this was the truth, so far as the shareholders were concerned, and that at any rate they were deceived. We arc reluc tantly forced to the conclusion that a priind facie case abundantly sufficient to justify a committal for trial has been established against the directors as a bay, and that they have not in the least disproved the charge of having acted in a way from which the law cannot but infer an intention to defraud. The proof of the absence of moral sensibility is stronger as against some of them than .as against others. It is strongest against those who were partners in the old firm, and there is a difference in degree among the rest. But all were directors alike, with equal means of knowledge. The sooner the dangerous fallacy is exploded that a person can accept the rank and emolu ments of a dirCctor, and evade by mere negligence respon sibility for breaches of trust committed by his brother trustees, the better for the public interest. The Telegraph, in alluding to the important trial of the directors, declares that on Wednesday a scene that is happily unusual in City experience was enacted before the chief magistrate at Guildhall. After an inquiry which has been protracted over weeks, and amid boisterous and ill-timed manifestations of satisfaction on the part of the audience, the Lord Mayor committed for trial, on the charge of conspiring to defraud, six gentlemen whose names had been for years familiar to City people as house hold words, who had gone in and out among the walks of business the reputed possessors of ample wealth and unblemished renown, who bad been the heads of prosperous institutions, the supports of credit, the admired of every shareholder, the trusted of every depositor, whose word was never doubted, and to whose opinion less experienced men clung with confidence of safety amid the stormy vicissitudes that beset our commerce. The good name of our merchant princes has been a thing of pride to every Englishman ; it was the common posses sion of us all. What, then, has become of that priceless treasure, the heritage of a noble race—that pure integrity which once shone as a diadem on the brows of the British trader, so that even the desert Arab would swear " by the word of an Englishman"—when individuals who were the very impersonations of our good faith have their probity called in question? Was the traditional belief nothing but a pleasant dream, or has the " quality of justice" been unexpectedly strained. We must have more daylight thrown on these mysteries of finance ; and were it for no other reason than the partial accomplishment of this end the Lord Mayor's decision is to be welcomed: The Daily News declares that the Lord Mayor has dis charged a painful duty by committing the directors of Overend, Gurney, and Company (Limited) to take tbeir trial for conspiracy to defraud. Strong as the disposition of the public has been to hope favourably of men who had long been respected in high positions, the conviction has grown within the last ten days that such a course Was inevitable. That the defendants may be able to offer a good defence is earnestly to be hoped ; but that their conduct should undergo the strictest investigation before an august tribunal is most necessary, after the revelations made at the Mansion House. Although the proceedings before the Lord Mayor have extended over many days, the general result may be briefly stated. The defence of the accused amounts to this—that if they erred they were self-deceived ; that they had no guilty intent ; that, however grossly they may have blundered, they are not chargeable with a crime. It is difficult to take a dispassionate survey of a case involving so much suffering to these who placed reliance on the correctness of a prospectus and the integrity of long-trusted and honoured names. Yet all parties should be animated with the desire that even-handed justice should prevail, and the law Le administered without partiality or fear. The question still unanswered is the legal guilt of the accused. Although com mitted for trial, they may yet succeed in proving that in the eye of the law they are innocent. Nothin7 is more difficult to determine than the length to which reckless commercial men may go in the path which leads to their own enrichment at the expense of the igncrant and the confiding without committing a criminal offence, It is for the ad vantage of the public that this legal boun dary line should be marked out with precision. When the late directors of Overend, Gurney, and Company are placed in the dock of the Central Criminal Court, the law of England will likewise he II ut on its trial. The Post, in dealing with the question of bribery, declares that it is a mistake to think that everyone would give an unbiassed vote if left alone, for too many are quite indifferent to the principle of the thing. Look at the witnesses and culprits brought with so much circumstance before a judge in ermine. How can it be hoped that they will not be influenced by beer, or a pound, or ten shillings, or five shillings? They are not politicians, they are consumers—eaters of beef and drinkers of beer ; while even those who have political feelings possess them only derivatively, a-.d identify them, not with the policy of Mr. Gladstone or of Mr. Disraeli, but with some colours of local establishment, attach ment to which they have inherited with the family clock and kitchen dresser. Wherein are such poor things good but to taste beer and drink it? And how can any man with common sense expect that they will form or act upon abstract political ideas ? Such petty delinquencies as these beer-drinkings and half-crown inducements to vote might surely be dealt with much more efficiently at the moment of commission by a magis trate sitting in a police-office than by a judge of a high court in wig and ermine. We treat these petty offences with too much dignity and give them too much importance. A month of hard labour would have far more effect in repression than any deprivation of the power of voting, whether by suspension or by absolute abrogation. The Standard says that twice already within the last twelve months has Lord Russell delivered himself upon the Irish question ; and now there is a third letter upon the same subject. It is highly characteristic of the Whig Mentor that each of these performances differs widely from every other, and that they are all of them almost equally impracticable, if not equally foolish. In the first letter Lord Russell gave many weighty reasons, drawn from universal history and Whig policy, why the Irish Church should not be altogether disestablished. He was decidedly in favour of equalising the revenues of the three religions. In his second epistle he withdrew all these proposals, and declared that nothing short of a total separation of the Church from the State would satisfy the necessities of the occasion and the sentiment of true Liberalism. And now there is a third set of proposi tions, differing materially from the other two, but equally fortified by the inevitable references to universal history and to Whig tradition. Of. these present proposals it is enough to say that they will not satisfy the hopes which the Government have raised among the Irish people, and that if they do satisfy the Irish people they will certainly not content the British Parliament. In the first place, we have Mr. Gladstone's express pledge, on the strength of which be won his late majority at the elections, that under no circumstances would he consent to any • endow ment of the Roman Catholic Church. In the second place, even if we can suppose Mr. Gladstone is able to get rid of this slight obstacle, and .to discover some means of satisfying his conscience that he has a right to do to morrow that which he positively pledged himself not to do yesterday, there would still be a large section of the Liberal party, including all the Scotch and the Dissenting mem bers, to be converted to this scheme of Papal endowment. In the third place, which ought in itself to be a sufficient objection, the Irish Roman Catholics have declared, through their only legitimate voice, the priesthood, that they wi 1 not accept any support from the State. In the face of these three obstacles it seems a waste of time to go into any further examination of a plan, one conspicuous feature of which is, that the surplus of the Irish Fund, after endowing the three Churches, is to go towards a national system of drainage. THE NATIONAL INCOME-TAX ASSOCIATION. —A t Leamington, on Wednesday, James Martin and Edward Crofton, two of the agents of the so-called National In come-tax Association, were committed for trial on a charge of obtaining several sums of money by false pre• tences. THE BALLOT SOCIETY.— At the weekly meeting (1 the committee on Tuesday last, it was determined tha' a circular then submitted be issued to the leading friend, of tho Ballot throughout the United Kingdom, soliciting pubscriptione to a fund of at least 81,000 for the energetic proyputip or the Ball9t moyemegt In tat EV sentiiil6 MR. LOWE AT GLOUCESTER. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's response to the toast of " Her Majesty's Ministers," at Gloucester, was one of his happiest speeches. On the question of the Irish Church he said little that was new, observing that whilst depriving the Church of Ireland of its connection with the State, the Government would not impose upon it any fresh fetter whatever, but leave it to determine in the freest manner possible its own destinies. The right hon. gentleman spoke decisively in favour of peace, urging hat it was ridiculous for persons to call themselves the friends of peace when they indulged in puerile sympathies and antipathies, and allowed themselves to Ate hurried into support of unworthy causes by schoolboy recol lections and prejudices, picked up from a state of things which had vanished thousands of years ago. Naturally enough, however, the chief attention of the right hon. gentleman was given to matters of finance. He said that on the question of economy the laurels of the Government were all to win. "My friends the Secretary for War and the First Lord of the Admiralty are dili- E ; el:Vy endeavouring to cut down whatever is superfluous ii the establishments over which they preside ; but I am sure it is not the wish of the Government, any more than it would be necessary, to mar the efficiency of the service. The princVe cn which they me going, and which has my c.:rdial approbation, if I may describe it in one word, is that of concentration—that of drawing our forces together to that one point where they will be rendered most available for the defence of the country, instead of being scattered and rendered useless by being distributed all over the world. With regard to the navy, the principle on which we propose to act is to con centrate the expense upon fewer dockyards, and save the expense which would be occasioned by keeping up smaller and less efficient establishments. How far these plans may succeed remains to be seen. We must be jtu'ged, not by our words, but by our acts, and to those acts I must refer you in regard to these matters. Perhaps you expect that I should say a few words about my own department.. Gentlemen, the late Mr. Cobbett said that for £.500 be was willing to undertake the task of Prime Minister of England; but every man thinks he can be Chancellor of the Exchequer without any salary at ail. I have been endeavouring to gain instruction in the duties of my office from the numerous gentlemen who favour me with their correspondence every morning, and the result of their correspondence is very different from what I think any of you would expect. You may suppose that I should be overwhelmed with applications for the removal of taxes. Not at all. That is .the least view which is taken. The view of the British public is that it is the whole duty and busi ness of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to devise the imposition of new taxes, for almost every letter that is received by him is not a request for the repeal of old taxes, but a suggestion for the imposition of new taxes. It appears to me that the amount of atten tion devoted by the mind of England to this subject is perfectly portentous--it forms part of the people's daily life, and is associated with their most intimate convictions and ideas. If a child burns its finger with a lucifer match, the father at once writes a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and suggests that an adhesive stamp should be applied to lucifer matches. If a gentleman on whose birth Venus and the Graces have not happily smiled finds in a photograph his features depicted in a manner more truthful than flattering, he writes off to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and suggests that an adhesive stamp should be applied to photographs. If a man has a neighbour who plays upon the pianoforte when he wishes to go to sleep, he suggests a heavy duty upon pianofortes, commending it with the remark that the duty will be easily collected because they make such S row. Now, gentlemen, my business is to be guided by public opinion, but I must frankly tell you that this opinion does not agree with mine. Every man has his beau-ideal of what he would like to do, but my beau-ideal of a happy Chancellor of the Exchequer is a man who does not like to impose new taxes, but to take off old ones. In the present highly developed and completely finished state of the science of taxation, I should as little think of taking credit for inventing a new tax as for inventing a new torture ; that is my ideal, my aspiration, but I dare not say it is my intention, for I can assure yon my wings are very closely clipped indeed, and I must tell you not to form on these expressions of mine any hopes or wishes which may lead you very far from the fact. We are indebted to Abyssinia for the carat with which we weigh our gold ; that country has not only taught us how to weigh our gold, but how to spend it. There is a small bill in this matter which will prevent me from gratifying the philanthropic inspirations with which .1 have been endeavouring to gain credit with you. I fear that you must be content with these expres sions of my good will, which I fear will not go far. I will only say that I mn of opinion that all highly-refined and complicated financial operations avail very little, and that there is only one secret to insure prosperity, and that is, to spend much less than you receive. I will endeavour, as far as I can— and perhaps there is some little that I can do in that way—to watch the expenditure of the country, and to throw the weight of ray of; in the sale when retrenchment is pursued in any part of the public service; that I will promise you faithfully to do. A tendency is growing up in the country to make the Govern ment do everything. If there is an enterprise to be performed the benefit of which is for some local community, the first thing is to come to tl.e Government for a guarantee, and, if they can't get a guarantee, for a grant pound for pound for what they will suscribe. I strongly disapprove this proceeding. I think it is is not just to the general taxpayer, and I sincerely hope it may be in my power to restrict the province of the Government to what I conceive to be its legitimate duties, and to prevent it from embarking in a'l enter p ises fer which any person thinks fit to invoke its aid. I can't say much as to my hops of a prosperous administration, but these two things I will do, and if I can save any money it will give me heartfelt pleasure to give you the benefit of it in the remission of taxation. Before I sit down I ought to notice, though very briefly, certain very hard things which have been said of us, or rather of our leader ,in this county, by a person of great weight and distinction in it. Mr. Gladstone has been denounced as unscrupulous and insidious, as not being a straightforward Englishman, as a man actuated by the meanest feelings of revenge, as a person who said he would . destroy every country gentle man he saw, and kept his word (which, I am happy to say, can hardly be literally true), and who, having been expelled the University of Oxford, wishes to disestablish the Irish Church out of sheer spite. I can't pretend to enter into these charges except so far as this— that I should like the eminent person who made them to state, the next time ho feels inclined to address a meeting on such a subject, where and to whom Mr. Gladstone said he would, destroy the country gentlemen, or that he would avenge himself by the dises tablishment of the Church of Ireland. If that noble person is not able to give that information —and I think he would have given it before now, for the matter has not passed wholly unobserved, if he had been able to do so —I would venture to offer to his consideration, with great humility, one remark. The French say noblesse oblige, which I take +o mean nobility is bound, not only to keep the peace, but at any rate to observe the decencies and proprieties of life. The characters of illustrious public men, and I may A l s o say of great noblemen, are not things to be lightly sported with. The public has an interest in them ; and if they do not respect them for their own sake, they ought to do so for the sake of their country. Men of "nark and distinction are not to be accused in this manner without some proof being furnished of the truth of the charges which are made; the only truth, so far as I know, in this matter being that Mr. Gladstone—whether wisely or not it matters not—thought fit in the execution of his duty to impose a succession tax as countervailing to the tax already put on probate to wills, so that land and personal property might be placed on the same footing. That may be a wise or unwise law, but it deserves none of the epithets which have been applied to it ; and as to its not being straightforward or scrupulous, there is not a man who knows Mr. Gladstone who does not know that if he has a fault it is that his conscience is too tender, and if he has a weakness it is that if he thinks he has made a mistake (as in what he said about the Southern States of America) he cannot help letting all the world know what he thinks of them. In proposing " Success to the Liberal Party," Mr. Low, made a second lengthy speech, entering at length into the causes which had led to the Liberal triumph at the last election. He said : If we are to wish success to the Liberal party, what success are we to wish it? I tell you very plainly that the first wish that I have for us is that we may keep the Tories out ; and I will tell you why Of course the Tories or some kind of opposition is a greet good and a necessity in this country. 1t is not desirable that we should all be on one side, even if it were possible. The presence of a powerful Opposition— of an Oppo sition powerful in intelligence, if it call be procured — moderates the insolence which is apt to he eng,cn. derctl by too great prosperity. Its criticisms point o:it the weakness which may otherwise remain unobserved, and the fear of its taking advantage of errors binds the party together and perfects its discipline. It is part of the working of the English Constitution that there should be such a thing, and therefore, so long as the Tories are out, they are not only very good fellows,.but very useful people. But, gentlemen, how is it when they come in? That is what I want to consider. lam sitting judicially on the question, totally uninfluenced by the fact that I happen to be in office myself, and I pronounce this verdict, that although the Tories are very good people when they are out, they are very indifferent people when they come in. These arc general words, but are they not borne out by the facts ? You know what happened with respect to Roman Catholic Emancipation. It was declared to be the ruin and destruction of the constitution anal the country; and the Duke of Wellington ca me in and carried it. You know what happened with respect to the corn laws. Parliament was dissolved, -- e - ned and Sir Robert Peel came in and repealed them n know what happened with respect to the emancipationYo of the Jews. lt was announced that it would unchris tiauise the Legislature, until Lord Derby had t o between going out of office or sacrificin g his t prui ch pr e es . And you know what happened with n r g spec tatat ika il Lord Derl4 vilpa: • F - • ' AUz°ll 1 - - m1.544-40ThOklathkol itril D E NOTICB. The Third Edition of " The Sun " of last Evauing was published in time for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocx. ANOTIIER ASSASSINATION IN IRELAND, (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CORK, Thursday. A man named Tracey was waylaid on the road from Tipperary to the Limerick Junction last night, murdere I, and robbed cf a large sum of money. Two persons hal - e b. ea arre3ted. Bank of Eng: .aid Returns. An Account., pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1868. ' 4 RTMENT. (level-nut. Debt-£1.1,015,1(.4 Other Securities.. 3,984,900 Gold Coin and ......... 1 7,749,274 Silver llulliun ISSUE DE Notes issued ......C32,70,275 .E. 32,719,275 BANKING 1) , - .C:2,744,275 I`roprietors'Capi ta.l £1.4,553,000 Best f.FARTMENT. Governint. Seen rities(including Dead Weight Annuity) .... £15,134,710 Other Securities 16,920,136 Notes 9,234,395 Gold and Silver Coin ... 1,076,82% Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commipsioners of National Debt, and Div. Accounts 4,023,377 Other Deposits 19,956,168 Seven Days and other Bills 501,004 £42,366,063 GEOR £42,366,063 FB FORBES, Chief Cashier. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Dal BENTINUK CLUB—Tins DAY. WATERLOO CL P. 6 to 1 agst Lord Lurgan's nomination (taken) 14 to 1 agst Mr. Blanchard's nomination (taken) 15 to 1 agst Mr. Paterson's nomination (t. and off.) 25 to 1 agst Mr. Croft's nomination (taken) 25 to 1 agst Mr. Jones's nomination (taken) LINCOLN HANDICAP. 12 to 1 agst Sycee taken and (offered) 20 to 1 agst Monarch of the Glen (taken freely) 20 to 1 agst Lady Coventry taken and wanted) 20 to 1 agst Van Amburgh (offered) 20 to 1 agst 'slant (taken and wanted) LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL. 12 to 1 agst Colonel (offered) 15 to 1 agst Fan (taken and offered) 20 to 1 agst Sultan (taken) 25 to 1 agst Globule (taken and offerd) 25 to 1 agst Fortunatus (taken) VICTORIA CLUB BETTING--THIS DAY. LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP. 100 to 8 agst Sycee (offered) 20 to 1 agst Lady Coventry (taken) 20 to 1 agst Typhcens (taken and offered) 22 to 1 agst George Osbaldiston (taken) 50 to 1 agst John Leech (offered) CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst St. Mungo (taken and offered) 1000 to 40 agst Vagabond (offered—take 1000 to 30) 1000 to 40 agst Palmer (offered—take 1000 to 30) 200 to 6 agst Mandrake (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 1000 to 400 agst Wild Oats (offered) 3to 1 agst Belladrum (offered) DERBY. 11 to 2 agst Pero Gomez (offered) 6to 1 agst Belladrum (offered) 1400 to 200 agst Wild Oats (taken) LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL. 100 to 9 agst The Colonel (take 100 to 8) 100 to 6 agst Globule (taken) 20 to 1 agst Tathwell (offered) 25 to 1 agst Pearl Diver (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Despatch (off—take 28 to 1) 33 to 1 agst Clansman (taken) 40 to 1 agst Fairyland (taken) 40 to 1 agst Brick (offered) 50 to 1 agst Surney (offered) 66 to 1 agst Beadle (offered). RACING FIXTURES. FEBRUARY. Lincoln Sudbury .2, 3 Pontefract lB, 19 .... _ Nottingham Spring... 2 3,, , 2i IL►rrow Alansfiel.l 18; 19 I 18 Chebukord.... - 2.5, 26 Derby Spring 25, 26 MAE Liverpool Spring 2,3, 4 Shrewsbury Spring 5, 6 Dewupatrick Warwick 9, 10, 11 Hendon. .... l2, 13 West Somerset 15, 16 Northampton 16, 17 I ;C LT. West Drayton lB, 19 Baldryle First Spring 18, 19 Mz►rgato 20 13evdrley 20 Durham 29, 30 Epsom 80, at APRIL. Ahergavenny l, 2 1 I Newmazket Craven..',l2, ttc _, . Bromley 1, 2 Knighton 13, 14 Ald ers hot l, 2 1 Ludlow 15 16 Catterick Bridge... l, 2 1 Eastbourne l9 Thirsk ... 6, 7 1 Lewes ~ . ..20 21 Hungerford 6, Lichfield 6, Curragh .20, 21, 22 Croydon... 22, 23 . . Cambridge 7 8 Creston Park .. 8 I Streatham 8, 9 1 Novimarket Ist Spring 26, thl ANOTHER CHARGE AGAINST DIRECTORS MANSION-HOUSE-THIS DAY. At the Justice Room of the Mansion-llouse to-day Mr. Richard Stuart Lane and Mr. James Childs, directors of the Merchants Company (Limited), appeared before the Lord Mayor to answer a summons charging them with having, on the Vith May, 1866, published a ciroular accompanying a call upon the shareholders, they well knowing the same to be false in a material particular, with intent to defraud. The summons was issued at the instance of Mr. John. Land, of Litchurcb, in the county of Derby. Mr. Straight, the counsel for the prosecution, explained the specific charge imputed to the defendants, which was hat they, while directors of the Merchants Company, had. issued to • the public a false prospectus, is which they stated that the business of Lane, Hankey, and Company, of which the defendant, Mr. Lane, was the principal partner, was in a p er _ fectly solvent condition, and had not made ny losses, and was, in point of fact, in a flourishing condition, and the effect of which was that the public were induced. to take shares to a large amount, and a very considerable loss was incurred. It will be unnecessary to go into details of the particular facts relied upon to support the charge, as they were nearly the same as had been adduced in sup port of the charge against Mr. Lane, Mr. Chapman, and Mr. Helbert. The prosecutor in this case was a gentle man named Land, residing at Derby. The learned counsel proceeded at some length to detail the particulars connected with the position of the different houses that had done business with Lane, Hankey, and Co., and the Merchant Company, whose estates were sub sequently wound up, causing considerable loss to the latter, with a view to make out the charge of fraud, and called witnesses to bear out his statement. The hearing was adjourned. TWO HUNDRED AND EIGH7Y-TWO MEN IMPRISONED IN A MINE. The Aldwarke Main Colliery, belonging to M essrs . Waring, Shaw, and Co., and situated at Rawmarsb, about two miles from Rotherham, was yesterday the scene of a fearful boiler explosion, which, though not of a fatal character, has yet been attended with disastrous conse quences. The drawing apparatus at the pit mouth was of a somewhat extensive nature, and worked by a powerful en. gine, which was fed with steam by three large boilers, 36ft. by Sift., lying parallel to each other alongside the engine-house. Early yesterday morning 282 out of the 350 miners employed at the colliery were lowered into the mine as usual, and all went on well until a few minutes before twelve o'clock, when the boiler nearest the engine-house burst with a fearful report, which was heard several miles away. In a moment the engine.. house became a mass of ruins, and the gearing at the pit mouth was blown away, bricks and timber flying about in all directions. There was great alarm as to the 282 miners in the pit below, com • catien with whom was found t o b e i mpossible till mul l; ea 5 o'clock, when the first batch was brought up, a tempo• manual labour, hay rary apparatus, worked by horse ad ing been fixed. It was estimated that it would take all the night to rescue the whole of the men. MARKE7 S-21118 DAY. LIVERPOOL COTTON. January 28.—Sales proLably 10,000 bales or more. Market steady. MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—We have much pleasure in calling special attention to the hosts of visitors who aro daily flocking to the memorable wax-work exhibition itx Baker-street, to the numerous life-size portrait models which are being continually placed iu the Hall of Kings, of the most renowned personages of the day. An evening may be well spent in viewing the great 'curiosities relative to bye-gone days which are therein deposited.