The Sun. — London, England, 1858-08-03 00:00:00

- _-,,,-- -v i _ .._ • . • • . .. THE SUN , LONDON, ri MONEY MARKET ante in Kensington-gardens, and the latter with an assault P 521143311N0P1 FHABEB-(Oontinaeo.) on park constable Browning. _ - It appears that for some evenings past attempts have been neatnee made to purify the Serpentine, by throwing intoit quantities eh , re. I.allway% Paid. Gloving Prieto Dr „ . h " CITY, Two O'CLOCK. of li me, w hi c h has the effect of cau s i ng th e ee l s an d fi s h to rush from the part where the lime is thrown in to the parts '- ' ''''''''''''''''''''"" l """'" '''''''''' '''''" e'''''''''"""e--- Res •-• ge a - eV eveentreeneW pref. all ••• (•• re - where the water is clear, and also affords a ready m eans of . During the last few days there has been a mode *TR 7 - Dt Nii Debenture lOO - ee t, catching them. This latter fact having become knownf 3terk .oe. • S 1• p. ' e. pref. etoCk, lOO 71 76 rate business done in the market for Foreign and on the previous evening a large number of persons, most o, s.tneic Do. do. Aber. R. Rp. e l.OO 129 112 ig 1- • Colonial Produce, rtrul prices generally have been them of the lowest description, assembled by the waterside, and although it was some time aft er th e h our a t w hi c h the Steck Do: 7 p. c. pref. stock 100 125 117 1 •s. Reath Devon rs well supported. Tea has been in rather bett e r re- gate closed they defied the efforts of the park-keepers , 1 „ 0 „ 2 % 54 . 4 t,Pg. r ,,,,,,n t L e ~,,,,,,,,,, a ll ' 0 " . 0 - i 2 - 0 . i 24 IC quest, and common Congou has improved to lOci. to clear the park. Every time a fresh supply of lime was 6 y r ;,i 'L • ,..' f ',:i 9 r - e n,:a' -•' "'' 1 a 0; lot - is esl put in, the eels rushed to another part of the water, and per lb. For the better qualities of sugar there Store: Leo tliel Op cent 13tier leo ' 101 101 the mob followed, shouting and hallooing at the top of their Stock Do. New 41P. ceni. 2d is. 100 h y has been a moderate inquiry for h ome u se, and voices, and using all sor t s o f means to get at t h e ee l s. The tt ,, i Routh Wales guar, 4p. et. } 100 ee• •••• first - named prisoner at length became so violent and noisy, c Do. do. 41 per cent - - •- in the Refined Market shipping qualities have that the park-keeper tried to eject him, upon which he set 22 Sh.Yorkehlre, 4p. ot.gua, all 161 171 d been in increased demand, at full values. up a cry of " Murder !" and the mob, being thus incited, xe Stockton & Darling. sp. c all 28f 29* (5 Do. do. 6 percent 23 -•-• Pm IS . commenced yelling and hooting. He was, however, taken at,ce Foy. t rev,- y 6 port, 100 to 45 In coffee a moderate business has been done chiefly in -- - tt into custody. In the second case, the prisoner, not satis good qualities of Plantation Ceylon, which have fled with being there on the previous night, bad gone again COLONIAL AND YOB I AIGN. this morning, and, on being ordered away , said to the park r, realised fully former values. Rice and rum have keeper, " You --, I've as much right here as you," gave ~,,,,,,,, Bellways. Feld. easing Fr/eel. Dom,. I Engines a been quiet. Saltpetre has been in fair request, and hi m a v i o l en t bl ow, an d near l y k noc k e d hi m i nto t h e water. - ; Mr. Beadon said he would . put an end to . such . violent - ' e u'''"e"*"'eee''' • ---""' '""'""'"'"'".."'". prices have been steady. The public sales of foreign to conduct, end fined the prisoners 40s. each, or imprisonment 100 4.tlentio & St. Lawrence, a'l -- -• t and colonial wool are proceeding with animation, for 14 days. 18 3onnßaroia,& Con. Indie 9 par IPm • . all •-•-• e and the rates established at the opening of the is 18 lip . Additional Capital B. 41 par Ipm !el 1 : 1 series are fully supported. Tallow has been flue- LONDON' B.IIARR MARKET .- Y es t erday. o 201 Butelale & Lake Huron ell 8 a 8 1 20* Do. New d 13affalo,Brmat, & Goderiee /00. 1 85 93 tuating, the market having been influenced by time --, 0 ORDINARY SPARES AND STOCKS. ,„ e 6 1 p. c. be.e. 1 Aug. 1872 bargains. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 495. ; last Is - iDo. do. 1 July, 1878 lOO 77 82 , Do. do. 1 June, 1874_ 100 75 80 three months, 495. 6cl. ; and January to March, Share. Raliweyr e 1 lam c y ., e , s i t n e ‘ rd , a l y o. ' , sl pz.„001::.5-e -20 !Calcutta &8. Eastern .. be. -•-• Pm • I ,e 455. to 50s. per cwt. _. t .,„,,,„.„„..,„„,„,,,,,,,„...„„, .---,-... ------,-- - , ==se.ese-- 20 Co entral Oude (Limited) 2 B. ficl. "" .". 10 2 1 11 pm 3* S all ••••• •- Our letter from Liverpool reports that the Cotton is 1 , i Lmeess., NGttitoe.. Post., 171 Demerara C and . ftetisrn Junettr, a- 10 61 61 61 1 10 eastern Bengal C market yesterday closed with a very animated ap- so Wee, and 11e1 one „. all -•- Stock 'Beet Indian ..... -- 13 14 SIG. , Wel & oer V ; 7, pearance, and prices of most descriptions tended u p - - " - Stock Ent., Lae., & St C alley all 71 81 ues. Jute.' 1020 Do. o shares all - Pro Do. E shares Exton- 5 i 1} pm 6 1 s wards. The sales were estimated at 12 , 000 b a l es, ess 100 68 70 100 no.4*-p.e.Bonds,pay.'s9. an - - 25 Blackburn . ail I 8 16 1 181 2,N0 of which were taken on speculation and so Blyte. e. Tyro original 1 , ,11 all 20* 274 pier, 5 per cent. f Stock Geelong Corporation 6 p. a • , , 2,000 for export. In the R a il wa y Sh are M ar k e t a Stock Brietol end :enter ,„.„...1 109 91 t 3 cent. Bonds - -- , moderate business was transacted and the quota- Stock Grand Trunk of Ornade. „ 190 89 41 40 1 11 40 , 10t00k aaaelaat„ , tions were fully supported. Stock Cheetarana Holyhead...., 100 t 33 40 100 Do. I'ropor. issued of the r i From the report issued by the directors of the 60 Irlerk nedßeadoe..... . all - - 2,000,000 6p. c. Prof . Ln. 60 6 4 die so I Core,Blaceroek,&Pas sage all -- 9 0 rireat Indian Peninsale„, all 201 21* 111 1 1 e lei 4 5 10 Do, New 5 pet cent 4 * 1 out Bank of Egypt it appears that the net profits for 19 °°l7lWall ~„,. 20 Do. do 3 4 Ipm 0 4 ' 1 a ete di le DO. A ' • ` - e -m ° - _ - ell .... ~„.* 10 4 direst 7 eidern of Canada all 17 / 181 t 8 the half year are £16,402 15s. 6d., out of which a 10 I Do, T.; it , ntilt. p.e,perenn a " , h.B oeen paid tell. ' 10 1 Do,no'c l2 3 21 die dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum is 50 ' Dublin eel Bel'ast Jung all - 100 Da.bonds payable '76 ~,,, t Proposed. £3,000 will be applied to preliminary 15 IDU2.,rGrin, it Aber. Jun sell 71 81 100 Do. do. '76, do. '6O 100 Do. do. '73, withee i opt eil 105 106 1051 expenses, and £6,026 16s. 3d. to be carried to th e :)loci Aast Anglian , c ac, e steel. Mastem „„•• Counties lOO 63 64 631 2- 3 10 Do , new, do. 5 per wet.- all 20* 24,1 e next account. Sleek Beetern Union Stook,,-. 104 45 47 Stock Do. Do, B. Sleek „...,..... 100 11 93 29 1)e. if p. i. Eaten. , „ ... ~. 15 1 01 dis of The further 24 Do. third Exton, g. sp. o. b par 4pm payment of 25 per cent., yesterday, 25 Do. New A. (inter:al, sr..) Sit ••- •" 10 Do. fourth do 5 par I pm 25 East Kent all -•-• 30 c New Brunswick, &c. (11m.) 10 2 if die 1• towards the Brazilian Loan, the preparations for the Stock Heat Lancashire .c., • 100 91 93 e Do. do. 73 Capital 8 4 8 dim a eemtnereial bills due to-morrow, and for the Consol 10 East Suffolk ,c.. 0... au ~,, ~,,„ 10 6cindo, guar. Ap. c ...... , l5 10 Do,Now . 5 1 #pm S 1 1 pm e 10 Po, - ,-, settlement on Thursday, have cre a t e d muc h d eman d Sleek Rdinb urg h and Cliaggee " 100 61 " 10 20 Punjaub Klin e Perth, and Drenthe 100 6 89 $ - .Andrew and (11teeec A IS 10 Trinidad, Limited, Scrip-. 1 1 die ms } 8 pm 0 10 Perth and Clyde Junotier all - "'" I pix il for accommodation. Still the applications have in- Stock creased, both in Lombard-st ree t , an d at t h e Bank, 26 26 4 2 10 Antwerp and Botterdem. ell 5/ 51 100 - -* but in consequence of the excessive abundance of Stock k G r iss Ur fg 4 flout . W3Wri 1 " 91 as 10 Ardennes all •-, -pm y S Beleslen Eeetern Jneetlon ell 1 I* El capital, the amounts required are readily pro- 'to Groat North ofacotland., al l 10 19 4 e - 101 105 104 10 Beaters `co Graiseessee.„ , all •-• .... 6 Carmentir &Toulouse Ceal a vided, and the absorption fails to influence the ~, - 9reat Northern .." "82 84 824 Mine end Railway .2, I De. Do. A. R 0c k .,...,,,,,. 1 current terms. l ' ol 131 133 10 Dutch Rhenish l5 44 40 din 104 x d Do Do B Rock ra• • • 29 taatern of Prance.....,,, - all 151 261 e There is an impression that a moderate proportion 100 491 501 491 1 1 19 Dept rates Valley 25. - - „..,, e of the specie announced yesterday, exceeding half ue stack o.segt_seria.3lwe.leol , 100 103 105 101 30 "heat Central of Prance- all ... .._ ' million sterling, will be sent into the Bank. Thea •, I ,,cs i k " D rea e.e t to W ur es V t e e rnall. 05. 0 - 103 56 58 12 Irish South Fasters,,,.,,, an -. .... 10 qt. Lniremticiarg, eon. rho all 71 84 cee .... t silver will be sufficient to supply the wants of the a 0 feencaster end Carl; 'e ...,. all 87 PO 10 Italian Junction 6 - tee Do. Ttirde .„ 144 111 12* ter pm 10 Late Constance and Beek all -... ...,, t shi ppers to the East, which continue very moderate , I s 181 D e . N ow Thi r d s l6 lls 12 e re 10 feerre end Turnhout ell - - f f or some time to come. To-mor row th e s t eamer Inns Lancashire and Yorket!r 100 914 934 921 4 i 16 Do. do. F. 2.16„.„ 6 1/ Of et a 5 Lam ste 80 lenabardo Ven 8 etian . 6 21 am a& Pl a, 5 y.e.proe 11 1 .... , i _ . Indus will leave for India and China with only 9 Do. do. k 9 share!. 7 1 1 0 /0 hvens and Genera . ..... ~ ell 221 281 , ,1 et98,262-Vie. £21,050 for the Mauritius, £20,922 1 00. West Biding Them a- i """ •-•• 111 Marie Antonia all •••• ... zit - - 1 ri for India, and £56,290 for China and the Straits. Owing 10 (Anne, Crosby, & goatee. all - - 11 6 8 4011(lon and Blackevel.. a ll 5 4 6 1 10 Do. do.neer 30 Nemur & Litge ell 91 Pi 1 to Do, do, 6 per cent. pref ell 211 31# ) tO the limited exportation of gold to the 11 6 s Do. New „..... ~... 4i - - all 86i 364 I continent, the remaining portion, viz., £40,000, of 8140 k lion., Brighton, & 13. Co"' 100 108 103 1071 I 0 16 fort-hem or rran3 0 !Reek tendon & North-Keeley - 101 931 94* 93/ 4sl 20 Do.new l2 -•-• am s the American remittance by the steamer City of 14 Do.Elghths .- 74 I* I dis W 11' S tock London & fsouth- Wester - tee 911 851 95 1 5 10 Norwegian Trnnk Prefer. all 84 91 20 Paris and Lyons ..... all 301 804 1 as ington, was taken into the Bank yesterday an 49 Si ,a_fte,rnoon. The Dolphin, from Antwerp, is reported 15 London reel Coleralee all ee ••••• 10 Pees and Orleans I C 15 London and Enniskillen.. all ee - 19 Recife a San Free., g. 7 p.c 9 i 1 plik ), to with £68,000 in silver. St ock tanehes-Shef., a Lincoln- 100 15 S 6 10 Riga & Dunaburg 2 all -•-• 4 1.1 The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of London 10 Metropolitan Mock blldiand 3 2 1 die 100 P4l 951 944 e 1 10 'Rome and Frascati 30 !Royal Danish „, all - - 1 has just been held, Sir John Shelley, Bart., in the neck Do. Birteinghsan a Derr. ) leo es 67 5 Royal Swedish „, al e- - I chair, The report stated that the half-yearly profits 50 slid-Gt.Wost.(lrelanel).„ all ••••• ••••• 10 Sambre and Meuse all 74 71 71 1 10 Do, 51 per cent. pref all 81 9 i 25 Do. f Shares all •e••• e Were £24 , 631 1 8s. 2 d ., f rom which £3,320 was taken soo Newcastle and Carlisle , all ee •-• 10 Southern of France e t o increase the reserve fund, now £B,OOO, and the 15 Newport, Abarge, ' Home all - - • 81 West Flanders ell 44 51 1 Newry and Armagh (dee 9 - e•• 10 Doctifpereent.Pref all 9 fee e• b alance, after various deductions to the payment of a 20 ii, ow _ ry, w arrimpt „ .6 B ow. a ll ,-,. - 10 West.* Northri.of France all 28 24 4 it dividend at the rate of £5 per cent. per annum. Rock Norfolk lOO 61 63 Western of Austria tel - .••• The total of assets and liabilities was on both sides 50 Northern Counties Unior• 11; ' 29 5 die 59 Western of Switzerland., tel "'" "'• I I, Stock North British •••• ® f £1,388,663 105. Bd. After a short discussion the Rik. North Devon Rein&Dk . . ' Bl( 100 ee •••. . _to • .1 report was adopted. 111 k. Do.A Stk . -A recv. no d i v. ----_______. c until 6 p.c.has teen pd ?I if) - "" MINES, f There was also a special meeting of the English • Stk. Do. B Stock ........ -....... 100 -- -- ------ s S and Australian Copper Company to-day, when it Rock North Eastern-E ' er:vie:A 100 92 1 13 1 i f Was agreed to pay a dividend of 2s. 6d. per share out 25 Do, do. G.N.E. Percher , .6.1)1,4 I f la (14 dis Sh ure , ' Mines. Paid. amen Fatale. 7113111611 11 $ teck Do. Lewis lOO 1 ? 17 1 Dona. a Of the assets in hand and about to be realised. It Stock Do. York ti e w as expected that the report of the committee would honk North 11 " ci " 10;) 07 99 SO Avetralian. ... 7i t i I be f orthcoming in February next. 10 N. &INS' estn„Hampstee. , 1 Bon Accord Copper, limd. 10s. 1 tpm n and, City Junction lf. la. - •••• x d IS ' Brarilk.ri Imp. tut. at 54. p.) 27 1 14 c 1 The market for the English funds remains in a SO North Sta - Tordshire l7e 51 5* dis Tliet and steady position. An occasional change of 20 North Western e 74 81 10 • Do. St. John del Rey l6 11 12 si 5 i)o. Land & Mining Co„, ell 1 1 21 e 10 Sort .11 Son. West. Jaen * au 8 9 1 R or i per cent. occurs ; but the general character of litoek. , )elord, Wore., a Wolfer' , 100 161 27 1 Caarendon gone. Min. Co.' I .... - di s ti the . 10 Peeble? . all - 40 O o b re Copper A l l 40 42 market shows little alteration. For the moment a .... Ooplapo. l4 12 18 • attention is absorbed in the liquidation, and Portsmouth 1 2 0 0 Elwin ney . 19 7 4 dis 10 - .- 2 ; Fortuna all 11 24 01 a _ f ew operations connected with September account Stock 'Booth& Central . 100 109 111 20 ,General • ell 14 20 .' I p i O re recorded. Purchases for investment are also Stock Scottish N.F., Aber. ink 100 16 1 2 7 1 1 ,Xinares • • Ali 9} 91 5 iLusitanien ! 11 14 1 die a Stock Do acottish 1111 d. Btock ICO 81 8a •, Co nducted on a smaller scale, but the quotations con- S --abr:opshire Union. lOO 44 46 1 Maricealts ...... ~ .. . all I 1 ad be 1, Billie strop.. owing to the favourable influences 10 Sittlngbe. & Sheerness .. all 3 2 dli, 1 Now Granada all I 4 I / 10 Pontgibaud Silver, lio, 1 all 6 7 ) n •Stock leouth Devon lOO 55 8 0 created by the state of the money market, and the Steck sauna-I , l:astern -„ Ifto 70 71 3 Fort Philip.. ! 1 it I Cl e xcellent agric u lt ura l an d commerc i a l prospects. Stock 'ecrath 7'elea lO. GO, St 81 so Santiago de Cabs l6f e 1 18 28/ United 31exIcan , all 3 81 hi Consols are about 96-!- si - for money, and 96 1 ? for 4 s 2O South I. orks. & Myer Ihe all 14 15 , 10 Do. Do lB 6 4 d.• e- ;Alfred Comets (13111aek) 2.11.1( 8 9 the 0 ' ti oeptember account being decidedly firmer , IS Staines Woein. & Woki-g ah 9 It 20 Britieh Iron 'l4 1 8 119111( St 1 e ' - - ' IS Stockton and Darlingte - r all 85 36 85a e ' Condurrow (Cambonie) 1 20 50 60 m 0 , 0 _ 1 Oc cat 22,.a . , the New 3 per Cents. are 10 Po do 14' . . e ee ••••• 10 Devon Great Consols , 1 165 475 a 0 cc - 4- ' and thy -Reduced Annuities 96-a ;1; Long E. De.. do.. 155 ' 5 4 .7. ' : - 7 0 r- •••• ••• East ' Bassett (Illogan) „, I SO 90 45 0 ' A un'iVitieco 18 I India Stock remained firm - Stockt o n and Hartlepool let -- ee ..., Great South Tolgue ...e 17s. 15 16 et - ' at 217 t L '„ Stook Tee Vale lee - - - elortridge Consols Min. Co.' Os. 1 11 RI Bills 0 -20 ; ditt6 Debentures, 991 ; Exchequer neee Do. Preference, No. 1 ioo I - - 6 ,Terear silver and Lead ) Arareh, 355. to 395.; and the Bonds, 10Q. 15 Thames Ilevon Ilk. a Brae et 1 - - I mining co I 4 4 1 I ni Stock Tale of Neath - West Basset (Mogan) , I if so 22 SS Sa . ti . 0 Stock Waterford and Kilkenny 00 - - ht 1. e Yant, at ;1 to "I premium. Numerous applications s') Weterforel and LimerteS. all -•-• - -- hi fop allotments are being sent in. se sot Comw ail all -e - JOINT STOOK BANKS. ts io W . E. of Lou. di Cry.Pelnce all ... -. __ ht iemoderate amount of business is recorded in the 5 D3•A 'receiving nodiv. ~ ,,i 21 et I e O /0 till 7 pr. ct. has 011 04 64 Inslnetr fir s; Stock Market, and pr i ces are steady. no.B Share. Joint Stock Bank!. laid. I (Ilefileg Fri- le. Dane, l'iir kisil G Cents. Spanish Cents. 3 been paid to 8.,. ' ' ex 4, ' . per ents. are 97 ;3 per, so West London • all •-., ..., .ffewers..- PC",r.g1..m0aarir.8.......r.. .........1 , 2312.110 . 113.,..,11, .ealinalab . 0 10p '; Ditto Deferred, 271 1 4 i ; Russian 41 per Cents., 10 Do. let Class all ae ..• 100 Agra &United Service Bk 50 .... - • s i t 5 5 ~8 l • Sardinian 5 per Cents., 9q ; Brazilian Scrip, 25 Do. 29 si. 1 a ll WIS .... 4 0 Australasia se F 6 88 58 da .., I 15 I Beak of Egypt alt 231 23/ - 4 . prem. • Equador New Consolidated, Iz4 Mexi- th too Bank of London ....... ..... 10 48 50 Can ,--, r.. 0 per Cents., 203: el ; Peruvian 4} per Cents., 90; 69 Brit. Col. Bank & Loan 00. ell - _.. dl , s uittn Dollar Bonds, 80+ 1- ; Frencli 4 V per Cents., - , , - 0 \ ' s f, 50c. , o v sn e c r . y , and Venezuela 16. ' 4 , e _ ail sh business has been done to-day in ..." ,, ,,,... , oAmexpCnrli,,..... -• •••••••,...., ...................... ...Mous* msr.s,ro SCVNIIItiI.a. 100 , 011 1' an 1 . ..er.. & N. 7 rel e••• •-• ' i ° o e n( way , are Market, and most of the leading Sarkinettamuhire . . 100 Lon. aN.W W. too iO2 I 'n es SilOW a downward tendency. Edinbureh, niydeelalo Juvetion e 10e Celodoreee... 103 10317 1 23 30 i t o : , Chartd.Bank of LON, ae 10 8 24 die [ Colonial 150 ;Commercial ot London,- 20 18 20 20.11 ICominer. Bank * of Canada . e 5 l O l 1 •••• 58 7 - e 0 /Meet, Scottish, a Jeer. all 171 16 291 1 . 4 i c, ar qt P w i ~ talesale e,,0-1,41::::::k.7,.., 1,41::::::k.7,.., nut notan ,„ \;.; Yesterday's ' niz):ntrzar 60 ; feritieh North Amenraine e l 55 57 a e li n e ftil, and Dundee have receded ss. ;Eastern Conn- lolehee-ter, Stour Val.„. all E. tin. &E.C. 14 16 I J.Llaooln3lllre,g.o p.c. 100 Gt. Northere 139 lel 19 gen. Ek of Switzerland._ al - -- In 10 Loullhfir.l3enkof Anstral. all 20 201 ad x r " and Midland, 10s.; Caledonian and Great 3, Union, Harwich She. all E. Courtiee„ 4 5 50 London and County O 9 18 30 Be e 1 -rortbern 15s • and Great Western and Lancashire llas.Earr,kNeibelhreet. 100 Caledonian- -- ••••• el) iteo•. - ..don Joint Pleck..„-, 10 30 35 31/ and , • 7 Do. New lOO D0e,.....,....„ es• •••• 1 1 - el- Yorkshire , XI.; Edinburgh and Glasgow, ;Immo& & Dean Foriet all art. Western -.- 100 London et Westminster.. 10 45 47 16 t cc be s inn rte ' - Eastern , York, and Stockton and Darlington lartlepoel Dock. & Beef! all Fk. N. a Ben •-•.-- lee Natioe el Frey. of Englen . e 85 •e• .- no 10 Do. new lO --, •-• lan and ekelby all Ylc.a N. Mid. 11l 113 kr rov e ., - doli ,-,. , as. The foreign lines have been 00. f Shares - 40 National Bank IS 'New South Wales , t 6 ee - all 43 47 th oo.* Sha r es all Do - - port and prices show no alteration of im- London and Greenwich all eth• Enetere 13 14 15 ,orient. Bank Corporation all 37 se 37/ I ',1, , ,, n ee. In the Colonial Market Grand eso, reverence ~ all no • . 231 24e 20 Ottoman Bank ...,.. ...... all 16/ 164 161 1 Hi a unit of too Peovinrial of Ireland .... 15 62 61 teon., Ti thy. ~V! , with' a; -1 100 Peto 4s N... , 92 95 mi and Great Canada declined 10s.; East Indian, ss. ; eo. eerking elie.rca.„-, all Do. - 14 Do , new all •-• ee 24 Joint Western of Canada, is. $5 Reete Anstralle ell c,.., .... to itOweetoit, guts. 4 per 'le 100 "'lca- - "" atil Stock and Miscellaneous Shares are inactive, Do. Do. e per cant lOO De.... , . ••• 25 Do. new -•-• a daechee., Bus., I Metl, ail L.& N.W AEA 21 11 Si ,Union of Australia.... --• ell 51 54 511 10an,'"ove little variation from previous quotations. 15 ilo. New 2O 45 47 WI a diddlesb ro' a Rodoer. , all Stoek.& Dale e- - Iv ''' of Australia advanced 11., and London and Ildland Enel'ord....„.. 100 fdidbind.... a . 97 99 50 Union of London ....... , au 24 24 fir t , es ... 101 Ileity Mutual , . SO - e- 24, Ire tini slster 55.; Peninsular and Oriental Steam Ne wkt.By. Ex, g - a. 6 p.c. 51,6e.6 En. °eine tiea 1 4 Pre pm 100 Western Dank of Londor 59 21 19 die sti a - .Prov e d ii. Northern and Eastern all T:ct 5B 60 f Do, 6 per cent all Do . WTI vi... 1 C r , Do. RIO 5 per coal - a frost.= and Wyee all L. aN. W t.... .... ..., hit DOOKR, - Do. 1 Shares A.. ..... ..••• all Do -. e e ho • f o.eyaten, Intent, and STOCK LISTS,--.This Day. Shepreth /Rock llO lelt.Nortl•.s. 133 142 Share 1 Docks. Fold. ()losing MOM Butner it/ Pm, I c p.-- gm; Roth., and flool , s gam'. 5 per cent.- 10.11.61,an.11 York ---..- ...,....... ...4.4,4...-,................' memses.l iMP1R........1 Ornrill.e, flu Stork East and West India lOO •••• ••• co 3 terewebury &Hereford. • all Iller.T.Breese• 84 01 Ba tik ~, FNGLIBII FU DP, Mock London lOO ... ..., 1 ril QLOCk, 2051 loath Statfordeedee..... all 'Mr. M'Cleta 10 101 a d ii Stock Ot. Katharine lOO ••• ...., ran Per Cent ' . iLduced Annuities, 961 1 , wear Valley all ,etook. a Der - ... ue Per Cent, Comets Annuities. 96 1. Do. do ell Do .. . ... .., $2l 151 Rock I st. 100 ...• •••• if, stock Victoria l6O 98 100 el Three firilliatn4 Born ereet-,-, 104 Grt. Wester; 59 91 ell 4 lo e Annuities, Per Cent. Annuities, on 1 11. CO , Do. new , 16 f die par I Wimbledon a Croydon all Lon. k Brig? . 8 9 nicip 30 years, expire April 5, 1885, 18 9-161,--- -- - vi' 1 India L oan 217 20, PB.IIIIIII.IINON SHAM. Yesterday's 11 ,,„ 1 - --- - r _ pan Debentures, 991. suaenumuous. inl i x e c l e is , for Account, 06e. of , Neoh,,V e r r i ne. l . oo ol., 21d., March, 39 5 pm-Juno, 0 pm, Yen °toeing fr.oei, /gage.'"msa §2hequer Mlles,' fk ere, BailWay3. 1 ~5 , m 30 041 . 2 1 1 8 : 15 .. ,., M arch 0 pm-June, 24 pm them Miseellaneous. I raid. I (Peeing Fines. 1 71 V i l lin an eleehequer Bonds, 1859, Wen% March', 0 pm-June 26 pm . . et per Cent., 1004 . eeceee..e.--reereeee..mmin,lr7,r, ' ...... ‘ OZSTIT.TVegi,,,,,,, ...,.... ...sm.- • , ...11 , -Mixr.rurarmeassausanw i ...,... - ..friftveznarreirmet. .111111rIgi. fot 15 Myth and Tyne 10 • per O. t ;rat (issued at 450..... all 48 50 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint ; all 14 16 fle FOREIGN FUNDS D' l lr•ancl-a-Half per Cent. Brazilian, , Mk. Gria .2 Exet.4 p.a. Steo` 100 94 16 1000 Atlantic ielegh. (limitedo all - - ba 1858, Serie, 1 pm. t3O Do. do. do. Shares 9 ee. .... 35 Australian Agricultural...l 19 291 301 • E quador New Consolidated, lie. ~tock Caledonian 101., 41 p. o lOO 102 104 10 ttretralian Royal Ma 1.... all 1 le tb( i 4 ,"T e e r P a• Cent. Mexican Bonds, Acct., l3 .01 .0 12.10 ;Do.l shares, No. 2 7.10 ••• •••• 10 Berlin Water Werke all 31 4 er i per Cent. Peruvian , Acct., Aug. 13, 90. Aug. ' •' 4 • r Chaster &Holyhead, 64pc 100 c•••• •••• 10 Do. New 2 ••• - Stk., thi ph7 e elle-Ilaie per Cent. Russian 1001. ~ , Do. do. 5 per cent .. - 100 ••• • 50 Britten American Lind-. 40 40 42 l Thr ee Cent, Sardinian, 901. cu. nork and Bandon, 51 p, o all •••• •- 100 Canada Land 2ll 115 120 im, re ee . ' per Cent , Spanish :lends, 44. 61 Dun„Ferth, & Aber. June. all 51 6 . Stock Coy. Miners of Englend„ all 25 30 . a bt yeper pent. • Spanish Bonds, NewDeferred,27l 4. Stock S.Anglian Muse A Shure , 100 ••• - 35 Do.PriVerencen perm!. all 35 17 he ; Ny r cent. Turkish Acct., Aug. 13, 97 6 1 . Stock Do. Class B 6 per cent. ~ • 100 110 115 6 Crystal Palace an I* I# lf W 4 e Per Cent. Vonezu , ela, Deferred, 16. * Do. Glass C 7 per cent. ...' 110 103 10F1 6 Do. preference all 4# 5 E. Coe.m. ELS p. et. No. 1; 100 115 118 30 Eastern Steam all 24 3 the • Stk j• Do No. •I 100 114 116 Stock Electrio Telegraph 1100 108 110 110 to 1 _ _77_=_ Do. New 6 per cent.Btoc; I 100 132 114 5 'English and Austl.oopper, all 11 11 11 Stock teen Union, 4 p.ct llOO 79 81 10 European & Indian June.' of f OTr --CE INTELLIGENCE:-Aug. 3 . Stock &Lan., 6 per cent lOO - •s. Telegraph. ...! 101. - - 5 11. aIT t. York. jun c.flfth• all ea - 9 Suro.&AmenSteam(Lim.), all if 3 fact Stock Ealn. & Glas. 5 p.c. share. 10 0 - .... 90 General Iron ScrewOollieri all -- - bell 'rtr Au, _... 4 ,,_____ nO:k MITI., Perth, and Dunde, 100 - -. 15 General Steam Navigettiot ; 14 - - not (.4, 11 , '''-0•0.--THE PASSPORT SYSTEM.-The Rev. A Stock Furness 5 percents,. lOO e- e- 20 London Discount ........... 1 6 le 01 die • ;tea 'Res. & S.Weet.gue. b p.er. • 10G ••••• •••• 4 Len. Gen. Omnibus • C0...1 an 21 24 we , bef---7.. 74, a Dissenting minister, residing in Deptferd, came, Stock Greet Northern, 5 potent . 100 120 122 la Neditern.Elec. Telecrapb' all .... .... fact f o ' r e Mr. Yardley and asked him for a recommendation nor)... Dreap.o.Releemable,lop.c. 100 112 114 10 Do. Eaten. (Limited)...' all 71 71. 7 1 i 141,1).assport to enable hien to proceed to France, 107 15 National Discount Co 1 by Mock Do. 4/ per cent. d 0...- 100 105 107 5 1 04 dig te nt Yardley said he did not know the applicant, who 100 Do , e p.c. Feri p, rea.at spe 60 f 5 67 10 Netherlands Leed I 6 ._ ee , tI and 10 Do. do an 1 2 0 0 ,, , , , to have made the application to a magistrate on his and 10 Geeti.of Bee tl4ndast prof all 11 111 5 no, Bp. c. pronto. at I die' all I/ If 11 . 1 7, si de of the water. 20 Gt.bre&Wn. (Ireland) 41 all ~. ~... gap per cent. pi ef.Stoek.. j lati'ae Rev, Mr. Graham said his chapel was ha Old Gravel- 59 41E,, Vr,ee'lierClejCarktje.ll.. P er0t....... --' 199 N. Br. and N. Scotia Gland go ,_ „., 1 N . B. Auetrala.inn all 1 i peat , to:e. t. George's-in-the - East, and his business on the 10 North of Europe. Stearn„. all 24 8 ano nark De. Oon.&11-edie.41 el Sid e of the Thames. personal knowledge of tbe Stock Stttk do. 4 per cent. 109 81 83 I Do. " Now Shares" . , 15s. * die Ip m part r. v azadley said lie had no 5 Peel River Laud &Mineral, all 2 It ful, D t)') O,lrredeeraeble 4 pest . 100 82 84 v 4 verer i a Do. e err et. redeem. pref. 100 96 98 50 Petill. and Oriental Steaul ' all 79 81 tiscentlemaD, and he was under the necessity of being 8 Do. Birming. pro', shares all 91 10 791 80 s er Y Par 50 io. new , 10 71 8 or /0 alt ilesPert.ular before he could give a recommendation for 10 Do. Chester s peepraheees all 113 17 50 ribyinney Iron all 111 221 yea] 4 ,,..he R ev. , 10 Do. do. 5 per tent. do all 91 10* 15 no. New . ' all e 1 60 ii ghly e ; Aye r. Graham put in a letter from Mr. Crowder, !took Do. Birranr. guar. stock lOO 781 74* 100 i 'loyal MeilF,team I 60 60 62 tine ~, t y, wh Pectahle chemist and druggist in Rateliff-high- 161 Do. Chester guar. shares.. all 2 13 0 e D D o o . . d d o o : d (1 0 0.. . mss eat ,- ose h all 9 94 25 south Australian Lend-, all 36 37 oon wao h andwriting ' was identified, and the recomtnen al! 131 144 1 eebmarine Teleg. ecrip...l a ll 4 14 othe , 4e s , -at on ce I at Arius labs Tr granted. -stock Lan. & Yorkshire 6 per c. 100 137 139 a 0 1 Crust o.re• axes • s'e tab -1- ' O N A CRIPPLE. - Wi ll iant Demcrey, an I teek Londat Brigh. gutt.s. p. co leo • -.• ce• e 1 0 • & Lonn Ce., Oanade I 5 • -- i ....l ii wit h ourer v, eteck Do Prof 5 D ct. Stocklen ee. e lee I Pen Diemen'e Land.- 214 110 12 not fio , com m ., ~ as brought before Mr Yardley, charged ;too( Do.' • -• • ... - •""' Now gear. G For cent. 100 - - " , drac ( der li tmg a violent assault on David Counor, a ' „ Th e i , Stock Do. do. 5 per cent lOO - ••••• e Stock Len. & N.W.,Cov.& Nttnea- MARKET INTELLIGENCE. he ( ukeri3etres‘e-Zplisaiinant is a crippled dwarf, who has lost the en- Stock . ton, 5 per cent i .: o onden and S.West. 7 p.c. 1 1 0 0 0 0 /760 18; a nun , i is s , h i a a r b t . al all i : -. .04.- and hind are vet,ege for nine years, and whose means of loco- HAY AND IYPRAW. t , hi n ,V singular. His feet are turned inwards be- 1-1 by a ndondy, n C e l e '') Me- ' arid be moves or rather shuffles along the streets iet l e 2 c l a 1411 a u rt d . , r r aln.,.. .......... 100 120 122 Smithfield-01d meadow hay, 60s to 84s ; new do., 60s to 80s; orde iltt4orehin7saotfatnwocia-iileces of wood strapped to his hands. This e Do. 61 cti 4 1 Iri 122 old clover, 54.1 to 100.; new do., 805 to 90s; and straw, 294 to S4s per load. A good supply, and a heavy demand, at our quotations, goal 7 : h lt e, c r , l s st i o n o g he a r vv - hour there was an Irishman singing it.:nk Do. 31 per ceat 0 .....„ e,„. 100 69 71 Cumberland-Old meadow hay, 638 to F4s; new do., 60s to Bee; cou r r y t ay i Rosemary-lane, and the fiddler called 124 eleryport and Carl. 4p.c. ~ ~. ._ old clover, 4, 0 s to loos ; new do., f 25 to 91s; end straw, so, to 35s deve r(l,astMuws li.ke, I'll be chorus with my fiddle." ernw,...oka the prisoner, a hard-working and very in- u,tripis. lo l* ... ..,, week's prices the ew became --,,,',' wno called out, " Stop that noise," but the Ned the fiddle°r"eafloo 103 105 221 .1: 1 : 7, 0 0 03L . .0 4• 4 d8 0: °- n . p li-4 . : 0 6 r 1:7: . r r l o cc f ß ee . i tt . . .6Bt•. Stock ' e c t k ,'l 100 gas - 117; Whitechapel-Old meadow hay, 58s to 945; new ditto, 60s to 80s ; Demers expostulated in vain, 5 - -' 2 Stocko° c c k - D . . " old clover, 7'e to 100 s; new do., fOs to 83x; and straw, 293 to 34s evict , ,rangernan's bastard the r il prisoner an Orangeman and an per load. A slow trade, on rather lower terms. cesSl I•o %vd below, but 6 Do. with option 1..111 , 186 , 0, n r i_ o 111, i t forthe prisoner then threw a pot at the Reek Do. Leic. and Fat. en.f.a 1 10 3 0 93 * 95 * am COLONIAL. wan . ~a ner then partially e" t elY did not !ti t any one. T h e all 111 114 TEA.-The market has exhibited rather more activity, coati urt and i no ~, struck Con nor a himself, descended into the and there is a disposition shown by the trade to purchase antic , and the the L,to bleed profusely, elj t , ole ot blow on the head, cans - 10 lor`olk Debenture Ste.efo ell 84 91 10 Newport, Aeon &c.pree „ all - _ extensively, but traders decline increased rates. Common u .udie was broken -e row tie ltock re). 5 per C. L'l. Bk., 1W ltle - - s" is4p. o. Pree fit., lee, 100 ••• e. congou has improved 10d per lb. The the .„l .l ot. eel became general, Clock . police were called to quell owith said everybody wa s z. Yardley Stock De • .s,p.c.%l7tv.Vel.Ex.ek „ 110 •-* ee 00 lOS 110 SUGAR.-A very limited amount of business has been pare hole e indulgence, but h rniddl disP°Sed Steck North British -,,, done, but prices are firm, the finer qualities suitable f®r Chri 01 and arouse people in the ~ 7 Do. 71. Pre'erence 98 99 home consumption being in most demand. In the refined siting e iin to treat the Stork Nh. Efteleern-Ber, 1 p.c, e„. 100 _-, ust not make use of his ''') market shipping descriptions are in some request, and char the • Stock Da, do. do. 18 II 4 ian Par es untie le prisoner. eof the night. He dis - 17 De, Looes 4 par ct tie, et •••‘ ''"'• crushed attracted more attention. kArte 20 Do, Co ()en( tere. loss s •-• ••"' COFFEE.-Plantation Ceylon continues in fair demand, ant i.t,_ ..Boßor, lit Due In! rH.I 8 , Aria. 10 f alit Par at full values ; other descriptions are dull. use a'rreo 3. ___ D OUCH-STREET.- e 11 11 e ee ISTUREANCIee er PUR IFYING THE SER- 25 I North et efforlee re .. all 5 6 24 RICE .The market remains very dull, and only a small hand Sego Trig -- I- KENSINGTON GAR- 10 jOef e Woi., &WM. : 6 re... 1 g. 104 120 122 quantity has been sold at barely previous values. s, We_ c.vend John Purl t ttolk rpo. do. 6p.r. 2d so. ICO 105 107 Mani Were laargea--the form ,wo rough-looking gs -'D 44 Debenture S - eels , o, p. C. lOO 98 100 Rum.-The inquiry has been very inactive, and but forager with creating It disturb - * little alteration can be noted in prices, prop k AWIRT, PC",r9 , 11.. 100 Agra & United Service Bk 50 40 Australasia ski P 8 88 28 15 ! nark of Egypt Mt 231 232 1.09 MBank of London ....... 10 48 50 69 I SM. Col. Bank te Loan On. Ci 60 ilritish North Amoricao— a.l 55 57 10 ;Chartd.Dank of India, Ac 10 8 21 Ms 100 (11.ty . 80 I 58 20 a 6 100 Colonial 20.11 ICommer. Bank of Canada ell 100 Commercial of London,— /0 18 20 20 En;.7l'.gt, Scottish, r Ar,:?. all 171 18 1 19 ( len. Ek of Switzerland._ al - 19 Lou.Char.l3onkof Anstral. till 20 201 80 London and County 59 18 30 50 Joint Pteck..„...., 10 30 33 311 100 London & lrostmineter SO 45 47 468 „ 109 .Nation al Frov. of Englan4: 10 Do. new lO 50 National Bank , 58 II 'New South Wales all 45 47 15 ,Orient. Bank Corporatior all 37 38 372 10 Ottoman Bank 100 Provincial of Ireland 16 62 61 10 Do. new 24 $5 Pontsi A.nstralla 4ll ~.., 25 Do. new 15 ,Union of Australis.... -• all 51 54 611 15 New 2O 45 47 50 Dalton of L0nd0n......., au 14 24 100 Crlty Mutual _... SO -- 21 100 'Postern Bank Londor 51 21 19 die DOCKS. Paid. Closing Priori. " p l a in ::: Ob.are 1 Docks. memsana • 3tock Beet and West India lOO Mock London lOO Stook 9A llEatharir.e nook 9osithampton Rion Victoria lO4l 98 100 SO , Do. new ; 16 2 die par LINEIiABED AT PIXED 1112NTAke. liesenti ; Y e sterday's ; Railways Pald. 1 01os , uc tre.v Dona. iodlerd & Mat ohle7 all Len. & NAV r.l -- Snctln;hamuhiro • lee Lon. N. W. 100 102 ' Oiydeadalo Juvetion 100 Colodorlaa... las 105 lolthegter, Stour Val ,:. all FL tln. &E. C. 14 16 ,I.l.lLoollialdro, 8.6 pc. 100 Clt, Northern 139 141 3, Unloa, Harwich 81 Ir.. all E. Countleo., 4 5 llas.Earr,tNeile.Direot. 100 Caledonian... Do. New lOO ....... ....„ ilnuaos. & Dean Yor st a l art. western. lartlepool Dock. & 11,711 all Ik. N. 4 Ben •-• inn and Ekolby all Ylc.& N. Mid. 111 113 00.1 Ehares all Do , Do. 1 Bhures all Do •••• .1•1 . London and Oreer.wlol; all 3th. Easter, 13 14 Do. FrOfErence •,.. all Do . 231 064 ,eon., Tilby.,&.outhet;•l. 100 Pete & 92 95 narking tiharca..„..• all Do. leOweSto:t, gita. 4 kei 100 ig " l. ° l -k" Do. Do. 6 per aunt lOO D 0.... lanchee., Buz., & ail L.& N.W M 2/ 1 diddleabro' & P.odo , r. , all Bter,k.&Da7l Ildland 100 ND 97 09 lrewkt.By.Ea,gn.6p.c. 51,5A.6 sn. Cone tick pto pm Northern and Dilatant la •,;(, 56 60 D 0.6 per Cent all Do WTI Fixed 5 per nor t.. . all trasten and Wyre all L.& N. Wt.... Do. t Shares ...... ..• • • all Do n. Uy3t4311. Etitehin, a!i Shepreth Stock 1"0 I qt. Northe - 133 112 gm; Roth., and noels guar. 5 per cent...—. 15.11.6' Lan. Al York 4.trewebury & Hereford. • all Illfr.T.Bratao, 81 91 tonth StaDordohlze all IMr. M'Cles. 10 101 vicar Valley , all ;took.& Dar Do. do all Do. ........ 321 131 fillte and, Born erpot 100 Gra. Wester; s 9 9 ► atimbladon & Croydon; all Don. .% Brig?: 8 a THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1858 BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. EDINBURGH, JULY 30. The proceedings commenced at eight o'clock this morn ing with a public breakfast in the Royal Hotel. At half past nine the newly-elected council met for the transac tion of business. At 10 o'clock the general meeting was opened in the natural philosophy class room, which, as on the previous day, was quite full. Various routine and minor matters were quickly disposed of. Mr. Newnham, the late treasurer of the Medical Benevolent Fund, was unani mously elected an honorary member on the motion of Mr. B. EDDISON, of Nottingham, seconded by Mr. HATTON of Maachester. NEXT ANNUAL MEETING. Liverpool was fixed as the place for the next annual meet ing, upon the motion of Dr. WATERS of Liverpool, seconded by Dr. C. R. HALL, of Torquay. Dr. LANKESTER, of London, did not oppose the motion, but could not resist expressing regret that Dublin had not been selected. He said it ought to be the policy of the British Medical Association to break new ground. Annual meet_ ings have already been held in Liverpool, but there has never been a meeting in Dublin, and in that city the asso ciation had only two members. Many new members would be added to the list if the association met in Ireland, and it is by increasing numbers and embracing the great mass of the profession in the three kingdoms that power and influ ence will be gained and good achieved. Professor SIMPSON supported Dr. Lankester's views, and expressed a hope that in 1860 the meeting would be in Dublin. Dr. LEES, of Dublin, thought that if everything were satisfactorily arranged a prosperous meeting might be held in Dublin ; but it was not to be concealed that mistaken ideas were entertained in Dublin as to the part which the British Medical Association had taken in regard to the recent medical reform agitation. " I fear," said Dr. Lees, " that it is felt in Dublin that your triumph is our defeat." Dr. Lees proceeded to say that so far as he had the power he wosild endeavour to promote a comfortable and success-. ful meeting in Dublin in 1860. Dr. MAHOOD, of Enniskillen, said that Dr. Lees had spoken as if the whole Irish profeiSion was represented by the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of Dublin. This was not the case—the fellows of these bodies were very far from being the majority, and, indeed, were not even the minority. (Roars of laughter.) In Ireland the profession, as a whole, were three to one in favour of the Medical Reform Bill, which had been carried through the influence of the association, and they would all unite in giving a righ► hearty welcome to the British Medical Association when ever it should come to Dublin. (Cheers.) It seemed to be understood, after some further conversa tion, that in 1860 the association would meet in Dublin. PRESENT STATE OF THERAPEUTIC SCIENCE. Dr. ClintszisoN, amidst immense applause, commenced his address on the present stale of therapeutics. We regret that we can only give an outline of the masterly and most interesting discourse of the learned professor. He said when the council of this association did him the honour of inviting him to deliver an address on the occasion of its visit to Edinburgh, and confided to him the selection of a subject, his choice fell where it may appear to many to have been too ambitious. Therapeutics —the doc trine of remedies—the theory and practice of cures, the final and most effectual part of the art of healing— that branch of medical learning to which every other is merely prefatory, subordinate, or fundamental ; without which everything else in physic, anatomy, physiology, pathology, nosology, are all alike practically useless —the science which teaches the actions and modes of action, the effects on health and disease, the special uses of the thousand articles, medicinal, dietetic, and regiminal, which have been estab lished as the tools of the physician during the experience of 2,000 years,—that was the subject, which in its widest sense he was called on to discuss, according to his fancy, on that occasion. If any physician of experience and candour will dispassionately examine himself, he cannot fail to confess, if he have not previously come to the conclu sion, that therapeutics, considered as a branch whether of medical science or of medical art, and compared with the ether branches of medicine, whether fundamental or prac tical, is in a backward and unsatisfactory condition. It is not enough to admit that for a good many years past medi cine can point neither to a single great authority, nor to a single plausible or generally admitted theory as to the ac tions of remedies. Even our therapeutic facts are far too often scanty, vague, or insecurely founded. In the history of physic it was long the fashion to be never without a popular therapeutic theory. As every one knows, there was a time when the medical world, almost with one accord, believed in the doctrines of solidism, as ruling the nature of diseases, and not less the mode o curing them. At another time the doctrines of humoralism, not less prevalent, concentrated the atten tion on the fluids of the body as the seat of diseases, and the medium to be influenced by remedies. Afterwards in this country the theory of Cullen taught us to look to peculiar states of the capillary circulation as the source of disease, and the proper object of the action of rerned!es, and to the nervous system as the mechanism for developing the neces- nary action. A great revulsion had followed, and facts alone had come into demand,and though a tendency had been ex hibited, in regard to some diseases, to fall back on a kind of humoralism,no therapeutic theory had for many years taken firm hold of professional favour, or outlived an ephemeral existence. It was to this unpreoccupied state of the profes sional world that they owed the partial success in these days of the grandest imposture in the history of modern therapeutics. (Hear, hear.) All other quackeries which daily flourished and perished before them were simply cm- pirical quackeries of the coarsest kind, and success with them was a compound ratio of fortunate lying and !lavish advertising. Hence it was that such quackeries presented little or no attraction to the medical mind ; it was rare that a medical man had adopted any quack nostrum except his own. (Laughter. But the famous author of homoeopathy took his measures better. He came at a lucky hour when neither his creed nor be himself bad any popular rival to contend with. He knew medical human nature well, and was quite aware that the theoretical bad invincible charms for the imaginative He had a prurient invention, and struck out at once what must be admitted to be a grand hypothesis—that like was to be cured by like —that disease was to be encountered by a parallel—and therefore neutralising artificial disease. l was true that he had tremendous errors to maintain in order first to found, and afterwards to apply this hypothesis. But still they were not so great as to be beyond reception by the credulous, and, had he been content with stopping there, his Homion Pathos might have flourished. Intoxicated, however, with his first success, he ventured a bolder stroke, and professed also the doctrine of doses so in finitely attenuated as to defy the external senses, surpass comprehension, and outrage common sense. (Applause.) Had he been somewhat more temperate in his " dilutions ;' if, instead of dealing with billionths, trillionths, and de cillionths of a grain, he had been content with palpable and visible hundred tbsor even thousandths, Hahnemann escap ing the shafts of ridicule, and descending from the heights of impossibility would have made many more converts among the credulous in his profession. He might have founded a long-lived sect instead of finding only a few fleeting admirers. Instead of a passing meteor he might have become a comet in the firmament of physic, brilliant though erratic, nebulous, indeed, and unsubstantial, but "perplexing nations." (Laughter.) Let them be thankful that this extravagance of his pretensions had laid bare their imposture; and let them leave him to the repose into which he and his doctrines were quietly subsiding. (Applause.) We can scarcely say what is the prevailing theory of therapeutics in the present day. In these times a theory, to be attractive and lasting, must be a faithful generalisation of facts, but he (Professor Christison) was afraid that the facts of therapeutics must be allowed to accumulate before they can be generalised into a sound theory. It i s not enough to admit that we have no well established theory, we must also confess that our facts are far from being satis factory. Here Professor Christison illustrated his meaning by reference to some examples. He pointed out great and serious gaps in the existing knowledge of the important and familiar remedy—foxglove; and then stated that these gaps arise simply from ignorance of facts, which dp not ap pear particularly difficult to settle. He took colchicum as another example :-1. We do not positively know which part of the plant, the seed or the bulb, is the more power ful, and which the more. uniform. 2. We do not know, although it is assumed that we know, the season of the year at which the bulb is most active. 3. Some prefer a tincture of the seeds—and this preparation is probably both most energetic and most easily made uniform in energy others prefer a vinous solution of the bulb; others an ascetic solution of the bulb; others of the seed; and we do not yet positively know who is right. 4. Some administer drachm doses several times a-day, which others—of whom he (Dr. Christison) was one—have found to he dangerous; ad some obtain all the benefits for which colchicum is given by administering doses of one-third of that amount. 5. In order to attain its curative influenc sin acute rheumatism and goat, some have observed that it must be given so as to develop in a moderate degree its well-known physiological action on the bowels, not that this action is necessary for the therapeutic action, but merely because it is the best evidence of the remedy having been administered to the ne cessary amount. Others again say that no such evidence is wanted, and that the action of colchicum in gout and rheu matism is something peculiar and specific —a therapeutic action quite apart from all apparent physiological influences. The world is not yet agreed as to the safety of arresting the paroxysm of gout by colchicum. This appeared to him (Dr. Christison) to be au error, but every one knows that many phy sicians of credit have supposed that ultimately the practice undermines the constitution. Thus here again is a vvhole string of unascertained facts, of great importance to the successful use of a remedy which has been very long in everybody's hands. Professor Christison then illustrated in a similar manner the want of agreement among physicians as to the properties of sarsaparilla, &c. He likewise touched upoa the sources of fallacy arising from the shameful adulteration of many drugs, and glanced at the wonderful uses of anwsthesca as an illustration of progress in our knowi e o ge of the useful application of some the most potent az Veles of the Materia Medics. He attributed the present low con dition of therapeutics simply to the want of cultivators. The truth was that the extraordinary interest excited for some time past by the science of pathology had attracted to that branch of the practice of physic almost every original inquirer of note who had appeared in the ranks of medical practice for fully 40 years. Pathology 40 years ago was in a deplorably backward state, but now it stood out prominent, with the dignity of a systematic and favoured science; and it was well that things had so fallen out, inasmuch as the thorough cultivation of pathology was an essential prelimi nary to the thorough cultivation of therapeutics; and what might they not hope for therapeutics should the time arrive when the same engrossing ardour which had been long applied to pathological researches should be turned in the direction of therapeutic physiology and practice. As yet, however, this transfer had not begun to take place; hut, on the con trary, great discouragement had been held out in this country from the highest quarters to the cultivation of therapeutics. Ever since the foundation of medical schools in the Univer sities of Scotland, therapeutics, as the principal branch of the Materia Medica, had occupied a conspicuous place in medical tuition ; and in this University, in which the course of instruction in Materia Medica had invariably been a six months' course, one should think that the department of therapeutics must occupy about two-thirds of it. In the hands of Cullen the chair of Materia Medica became little else than a chair of therapeutics. About thirty-five years ago, the Edinburgh College of Surgeons for the first time added Materia Modica to the requirements for its diploma, and the example was afterwards followed by the Londo❑ colleges. But more recently the Londo❑ boards of educa tion resolved on a sudden that they had hitherto attached too much consequence to this department, and declared by their regulations that a three months' course in summer was sufficient for the teaching of Materia Medics— equivalent to about one-sixteenth of the whole medical curriculum. I t was simply ridiculous to talk of teaching a subject so comprehensive in the space of three months. But to add to the discouragemcnts thereby given to • therapeutics, it must also be confessed that it was a branch of medical science peculiarly difficult to cultivate. After adverting to the numerous difficulties of the phartnaeopoeist Professor Christison went on to say that the difficulties which arose in the way of therapeutics from the condition of its accessory branches of knowledge, were as nothing from those inseparable from the observation of the essential phenomena of therapeutic action itself, arid from the fact t hat the results had to be contributed by a multitude of un connected observers, differing in accuracy of observation, soundness of judgment, mental culture, in prejudices to be overcome, and in fidelity and conscientiousness to record. The wonder, after all, rather was that so much had been done to elevate therapeutics to the rank of a medical science; and, had time permitted, lie might have consoled them with a retrospect of much that had been accomplished, in spite of many and great impediments. In conclusion, he expressed his belief that important discoveries awaited him who would now enter expressly on therapeutic inquiry, uninfluenced by the seductions of pathology, by the prejudices of educa tional boards, or by the inhtrent difficulties of the haves gation. Dr. CONOLLY, in brief and eloquent terms, proposed a vote of thanks to Dr. Christison for his very able address. It exhibited the same love of truth, and the same high talent which had characterised the author from his student life onwards. Dr. DAVIES, of Bath, seconded the motion. To all pre sent the address of Dr. Christison bad afforded great grati fication, as it was an exposition of the most important department of medical science by one who was ackaowleged to be the greatest living authority in it. To those who had like him (Dr. Davies) listened in former years to the academic and hospital lectures of Dr. Christison on the materia medica and therapentics, the 'present address had recalled old days most pleasantly. The PRESIDENT then in due form returned the thanks of the association to Dr. Christison. VARIOUS PAPERS. Papers were read by Mr. Humphrey, of Cambridge, on the proportions of the human frame at different periods of life; by Dr. Alexander Wood, of Edinburgh, on the treat ment of neuralgic pains by narcotic injections; by Mr. Jonathan Hutchinson, of London, on the means of recog nising in after life the subjects of inherited syphilis; by Mr. G. L. Bonner, of Cupar Fife, on the topical treatment of neuralgia; by Dr. Edward Smith, on the effect of tem perature upon the system in relation to food; and by Mr I. B. Brown, on vesico-vaginal fistula. MEDICAL BENEVOLENT FUND. The report, signed by the president of the fund, Sir James Clark, was read by the secretary, and was to the following effect : "Commencing the year with a debt of about £l5 to their late respected treasurer, Mr. Newnham, the committee were soon released froai all difficulty by a munificent gift of 500 guineas from Mr. Toynbee. With a plentiful balance to resort to, your committee have thus been able to deal out bountiful aid in these dis tressing cases where immediate and liberal .pecuniary assistance can alone he of service. They have accordingly ventured to bestow larger grants than formerly, at the same time that they have increased the numbers of the recipients of their charity. In one instance they gave the sum of £5O; it was to the widow and family of a medical man, who, having struggled hard but unsuccessfully in ill-health and in misfortune, died, !caving wholly unprovidcd for 11 orphans, and his poor widow about again to become a mother. £3O was voted to each of two other cases, and 5 to each of two more. The sum of 1792 10s. was expended in the assistance of urgent cases during the year, while 1214 was given to annuitants, six of whom are living rent free in Mr. Bailey's comfortable houses at Chippenham. " Your committee have also the grateful satisfaction of knowing that, by the careful investigation of the cases brought before them, and then by placing the money they have voted in the bands of some friend, who watched over its disposal, they have been enabled to uplift the fallen from a condition of degradation and misery, to one in which they have successfully struggled to obtain a livelihood for them selves and their families. "The experience of your committee confirms more and more deeply the wisdom and beneficence of the founders of the Medical Benevolent Fund and its subsequent sup porters, in delegating to a committee the duty of investi gating the applications for relief, and of distributing the funds. Conscious that they are influenced only by a strong desire to do 101 l justice to all, by giving aid according to the real necessities of each case, they venture to express their conviction that in selecting the true and worthy objects of charity, by aiding them silently and as liberally as their means permit, and afterwards by watching over them, the Medical Benevolent Fund Approaehes,as near as a publiecharitycan ap proach, to that which it trusts never to supersede—the private Christian charity which letteth not the left hand know what the right hand doeth." Further than this, your committee are happy in feeling that instead of superseding private charity their operations tend to call it forth and foster it; for in many instances the expression of their intention to give aid, only as an addition to any that may be supplied by friends, has called forth friends and their effective assistance. "The committee, nevertheless, do not conceal from them selves the serious difficulties which beset them in the perfor mance of their duties. To investigate every month the cha racter of so large a number of applicants for relief as come before them, to decide upon those that are worthy of aid, and then to administer the funds according to the claims of the several cases, are duties attended by no ordinary anxiety and responsibility; and the committee wish to impress upon the subscribers and friends to the fund, that these difficulties are greatly increased when the funds at their disposal are very small. "Sincerely thanking the subscribers for their liberal assist ance, the committee urge the necessity of constant exertion on the part of those who have confidence in the unobtrusive principles upon which the Medical Benevolent Fund is con ducted ; and they especially suggest to medical men that they may do essential service by laying the present repert before their friends and patients. By means of Mr. Toyn bee's large donation during the past year, and by the in crease of funds arising from the recent festival, at which its chairman, Earl Granville, with equal sympathy and elo quence, most successfully advocated the claims of the fund, the committee have at present, as will be seen by the trea surer's report, a considerable balance in band. This balance is, however, liable to disappear, or at least to be greatly diminished at any meeting where numerous and urgent cases are brought forward, demanding large and liberal aid. It is evident that without abundant means the committee can no longer bestow the assistance which has sa often elicited the touching, because heartfelt, ex pressions of gratitude from the downcast medical man, his destitute widow, or orphan children; expressions of gratitude, of which some are quoted in an appendix, be cause the committee wish the subscribers to feel, that as they provide the bountiful aid, they also can enjoy the in expressible consolation of knowing " That they have been Themselves the fathers and the dealers out Of some small blessings have been kind to such As needed kindness." ADDRESS ON THE PRESENT STATE OP SURGICAL SCIENCE Professor MILLER gave a most interesting sketch of the vast progress of surgical science in later times, and dwelt with great effect upon the achievements of c onservative i sur gery. In one respect, however, h e remar k e d the knife is busier now than before—namely, in remov i ng diseased portions of a part in order to preserve the whole. Operative surgery, mutilating or destructive, we desire to curb; and as our art truly advances, this deparment of it will be found within still narrowing limits ; but operative surgery, which is conservative, is widening its field of work, and with the happiest results. In surgery, as in medicine, and perhaps more especially, we have to guard against a common error in believing that progress and 'amendment are necessarily connected with the discovery of what is striking and new. The flash of novelty is one thing—the steady light of progress is quite another thing. The foremost wan is not he who jerks himself into the front by some royal road or short cut, but he who has come by the old ways, and uses these as his basis of operations in advance. To he safe we must occupy a space between two extremes —not blind to inno vation on the one hand, not blinded by innovation on the other. The rule of conduct is plain and infallible—" Prove all things; hold fast that which is'good." (Cheers.) Pro fessor Miller then referred to one or two points of recent interest. With regard to the painless operation, lie said— In the ease of children the amesthetie use of chloroform is almost all that could be desired. Its effect is both rapid and easy. It annihilates an agony which etherwise would have proved a sad penance to both surgeon and patient ; and we are seldom troubled with anxiety or alarm in its working. Formerly one of the most painfal tasks con nected with our art was the diagnosis of injuries and performance of operations on patients of tender years; and sometimes the symptales of our common nature _ . may have temptel to a hasty and imperfect execu tion of the task, out of mere compassion to the writhing sufferer. Now, the utmost deliberation and care are in all cases within our reach ; the patient passionless ; and the risk of casualty notoriously small. In the case of adults, I desire to express my own conviction that a complete anms thesis by inhalation ought to be had recourse to only in obedience to the requirement of stern necessity. My belief is unqualified in the law of tolerance here. If the circum stances are such as to demand the remedial agent, that may be readily administered, in the expectation that the system will not suffer permanent damage in its use, and that the ultimate result will be in no respect untoward. But if the circumstances of the case be not so imperative, then I have no confidence in the anmsthelic, and will fear a casualty at every turn. This is no fancy or superstition. It is the working out of a law of Nature which permeates the whole range. " Quod necessarium, tutum." The thera peutic objects of the anaesthetic agent I take to be—the abrogation of intense and exhausting pain, the diminution of shcck, and the relaxation of muscular action; the last, perhaps not the least important. In any formidable sur gical procedure in which the attainment of one or all of these objects seems highly expedient, if not absolutely neces sary—as in amputations, lithotomy, dislccations, hernia, &c., I would not hesitate to anaesthetise ; but in any minor procedure in which pain or risk of shock is inconsiderable, or in which muscular relaxation and absolute impassivity are not required, I would be slow to humour the patient's fancy, or quiet his unnecessary alarm at the expense of running counter to the law of tolerance, and so incurring ri-k of serious casualty. It become s me to take this oppor tunity of stating that when chloroform was first brought into use here, I was a great enthu s i as t i n it s pra i se. I esteemed it to be as safe and manageable as it was bene ficial, and thought that it could hardly be used too often or too freely. I committed these thoughts to written words, and, as I wrote, my pen warmed with an honest enthusiasm. But subsequent events have chastened and subdued my tone ; and my present " surgical experience of chloroform" amounts to this—never to withhold its use when that use seems to be imperatively required, and never to sanction its use unless this seems to be absolutely demanded, always con ducting its administration with the utmost prudence and caution, so as to avoid those terrible results which error or excess, even under the protection of an existing tolerance, may not fail to produce, and from which, as experience has too fully shown, even faultless administration is not altoge ther free. Into the question as to whether ether or chloro form be the safer antesthetic, Ido not enter. Both are im perfect; and ere long an agent superior to both may pro bably be discovered. At half-past eight p.m. a convemazione was held at the College of Physicians. The spacious rooms were overflow ing. Tim excellence of the entertainment both to mind and body gave universal satisfaction. In the course of ;the evening Dr. G. Wilson, professor of technology in the uni versity, delivered a brilliant lecture upon the " Indestructi bility of Force." Force might be transmuted or trans ferred, or lost, so far as its use and application were concerned, but it was never lost in the sense of its being annihilated. He illustrated his remarks by a comprehen sive analysis of the investigations into the laws of beat, electricity, &c., from the period of Rumford and Davy down to the time of Herschel!, Faraday, Joule, and W. H. Thompson. The general con c l us i on from these inquiries being that terrestrial force was almost entirely derived from solar heat; the last-named philosopher having carried his investigations so far as even to compute how long that source of power might last. JULY 31. The Medical Missionary Society and a numerous party of the British Medical Association breakfasted together at eight a.m. At 11 o'clock the association reassembled. ADDRESS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF MIDWIFERY. Dr. SnarsoN delivered an address on " The Progress of Midwifery." He began by describing the careers of three neighbouring country doctors established in Hamilton and Lanark 130 years ago—viz., Dr. William Cullen, Dr. Wil liam Hunter, and Dr. Smellie, and by showing that the two last were the founders of the modern school of British Mid wiferyt He proceeded to trace in rapid succession the various advances in the science and art of obstetric medicine and surgery from Smellie's day to our own, and specially insisted on the fact that gradually from an increased know ledge of obstetric physiology there was less and less meddle some interference in the way of obstetric practice. He dwelt at some length on the history of the introduction of anmst he tics into midwifery. If their use was irreligious, then modern agriculture was irreligious too, because it made use of many implements and appliances to diminish or do away with that curse which permitted man to till the ground "in the sweat of his brow" alone. In this way, irreligion was the characteristic of all the studies of the physician that tended to annul those pains which the curse entailed, and to avert that death which was its peculiar sting. And in this way, irreligion must be charged against divines, whose earnest life-long labours were directed towards the abolition of sin, and so to the abroga tion of the primeval curse. Nor was the practice more unnatural or more an unnecessary interference with pro videntially arranged functions, as some had averred, than , were any of the practices of civilisation, for they ell appeared at first unnatural, and they all interfered with functions providentially arranged. Pain in labour was no more " salutary and conservative" than pain in other circumstances; in fact, it could most easily be statistically shown here to be dangerous and destructive. The mission of the physician was twofold—to preserve human life, and to alleviate human suffering, and be who in any case omitted to do the latter, failed in his duty to his patient, and wil lingly descended from the high platform of active philan thropy on which members of the medical profession should ever stand. No one dared refuse his skill to remove other pains; why did any one hesitate to remove the pains of la bour? The probability was, that with this as with other beneficent innovations, the reform in practice from which the profession held back would be forced on them in the end by their suffering patients, in the same way as the punish ments of crime had been mitigated at the unanimous de mand of a people, and in opposition to the stern re_ sistance of chancellors and lawyers who thought the Bri tish constitution must have gone to ruin if a petty ieft were punished by a milder means than the hangman's rope; and as, but for the laity, the clergy might still be firing the faggot round the heretic's stake. Some of the medical objections—such as that anaesthesia in labour would lead to idiotcy, puerperal fever, mania, and compli cations of all kinds, experience had shown to bo utterly unfounded; and as for the convulsions which chloroform was to have produced, chloroform had proved itself the most certain remedy for the disease. The dread that it would often prove fatal bad turned out to be unfounded as far as regarded its administration in labour, for not one fatal case had ,been reported from among the many thou sands in which it had been used ; and in some of those surgical cases where anaesthesia had been blamed for the fatal issue, the blame might have been unjust, seeing that patients had not unfrequently died on the operating table suddenly, and without a sign, to whom no anaesthetic had been administered. That chloroform would cause death, he (Dr. Simpson) had shown in his earliest paper on the subject; but so could opium, Epsom salts, and almost every other drug when used in large full doses. It had now become a domestic remedy with many families in Scot land ; and with due care it might be used with as much confidence as most other drugs in the pharmacopoeia. Many practitioners who had at first opposed it had now come to employ it in natural labour, either from the con viction of its utility or on the compulsion of their patients. After making some observations on the triode of its admi nistration in labour, Dr. Simpson concluded his address by laying down a few rules to be observed in using it, insist ing particularly on this, that the vapour should be exhibited only during a pain, and should be removed entirely during the intervals. During the delivery of his address Professor Simpson was repeatedly interrupted by bursts of applause. From the strictly professional character of some parts of it our analysis is necessarily imperfect. A vote of thanks was given to Dr. Simpson on the s m T o r ti D. motion of Mr. I. B. BROWN of London, seconded by Mr. MAN of Guildford. VISIT TO THE BOTANIC GARDENS. The party assembled in the class-room where Professor Balfour exhibited and described drawings of many inter esting medicinal and economical plants. On the tables were placed living specimens of the British ferns, including the rarer Scottish species. There were also on the tables some most interesting alpine plants of Scotland. The Botanical Museum was examined, the general arrangement of the gardens, and various indoor collections were visited. The scammony plant was seen covered with flowers in the open ground, also the jalap plant with numseetreoonguesatnhfldeorwfeielnrt buds. The weather was p ro p itious and the great natural an d scientific attractions of the mgaermdebnss dined were in great perfection. At six p.m. a large party of members the Hopetoun Rooms. Professor Chistison presided, the ores' excitement 'dent's health being too feebl e f or the necess arilywonnected with such a duty. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. The ordinary meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works was held on Friday, in the Council Chamber, Guildhall—Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair. The financial statement was presented, which showed a total general balance of £99,123 4s. 3d. THE METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT ACT AMEND- M ENT . The CHAIRMA N rose and said that the bill for amending the Metropolis Local Management Act bad last night passed its third reading in the House of Lards. During its pro gress to that last stage a large number of clauses were at tempted to he introduced, a most inconvenient course in such a stage of the hill. One clause was attempted by the commislioners exercising jurisdiction over various levels on the north side of the Thames, which was called a saving cause, for the purpose of protecting their rights and inter ests. Now, he considered that that clause would be most per nicious, and calculated to hamper them in the execution of their works, and they took steps for the purpose of preventing that clause from forming part of the bill. He (the chairman) had several communications with the Government, and he must say that they had acted most handsomely in resisting those clauses which the board considered would be adverse to their interests. Last night Lord Derby successfully resisted such clauses, and the bill passed as it was presented to the House of Lords, with the exception of one clause promoted by the trustees of the river Lea, at the head of which was Lord Salisbury. To the clause as proposed they had a strong objection ; but after an interview and consultation they at length agreed to a clause which gave full satisfaction to Lord Salisbury on the part of the trustees of the river Lee, and equally satisfactory to that board. That clause was to the following effect :—" No works under or over the main navigable channel of the river Lea shall at any time be com menced or executed under the provisions of this act without leaving the top of any work under the navigation not less than 12 feet below high-water, Trinity standard; and for any work over any part of the navigation without leaving the soffit of such work not less than 8 feet 6 inches above high water, Trinity standard, with a clear span over the said river, inclusive of the towing path thereof, of not less than 31 feet. Provided that it shall be lawful for the said trus tees of the river Lea by writing under their common seal, on ~ ~ .........7 .--- the application of the Metropolitan Board of Works, to consent to an alteration or variation of the said dimensions or either of them." He bad on the part of the board signed that clause, and although it would have to go down to the Commons as an amendment, that would be a mere matter of form, as it had been ag ree d to b y both parties. Therefore they might consider the measure as practically passed. He congratulated the board on the success of the measure, as they should now enjoy that freedom in their operations which they had so long desired, and without which it would be impossible to carry on their works. At the same time he could not conceal from himself that by this bill they Were called upon to shoulder a large amount of respon sibility, but he ' for one was prepared to take upon himself his share of that responsibility. As soon as the bill had received the royal assent, it had suggested itself to his mind that they should have a meeting on an early day to consider and finally determine upon the plan for the main drainage of London. Mr. BIDGOOD said he found in the .Daily News a state ment made by the Duke of Newcastle that the City of Lon don would have a veto on any plan for the drainage of London, and he was glad to hear from the chairman that such was nut the case. The CHAIRMAN said the Duke of Newcastle had alluded to the clause saving the rights of the conservators of the river Thames, and as the City members were in a majority in that board, it gave them a practical veto upon that board. A N NUAL REPORT. The annual report THE ANNUAL REPORT. - The annual report of the proceedings of the board was presented and read in extenso by Mr. Woolrych, the clerk. It was of great length, and minutely stated what had been done by the board during the year. It was received and ordered to be printed. After some other business of a routine character had been disposed of the board adjourned. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The half-yearly report of the directors, to be presented at the meeting of Saturday, was issued yesterday. It states the half-year's accounts now submitted show the net re venue for the six months ending June 30, 18587Z e deducting interest on loans, and all other preferential charges, to be £150,573 6s. 9d. ; to which is to be added surplus at December 31, 1857, £7,234135. 4d.; leaving a balance available for dividend of £157,808 Os. ld. From the above sum the directors recommend that a dividend at the rate of £4 ss. per cent. per annum, payable on the 21st day of August, be dechred, amounting on £7,197,850115. 4d. of capital paid up to £152,954 Gs. 5d.; leaving to be carried over to next half-year, £4,853 13s. Bd. The decrease in the gross revenue for the half-year, in comparison with the corresponding period in 1857, is £13,514. The prolonged depression in trade bas continued to exercise an unfavourable influence on the traffic of the last half-year, but the receipts of this company will bear a favourable comparison with those of other metropolitan lines. A revival of trade, which may be reasonably anticipated, will materially increase the traffic re ceipts. At the half-yearly meeting in August, 1856, discre tionary powers were conferred on the directors for the disposal of the share capital then remaining unissued, and a consider able portion was immediately afterwards allotted to the proprietors. It has now become nece'sary to take further action respecting the still remaining share capital, when ever the directors may consider the state of the money mar ket and other circumstances favourable. It is therefore proposed at this meeting to revive the powers delegated to the directors in 1856, and to extend their application to the capital as authorised and settled by the Amendment Acts of 1857 and 1858. A resolution to effect this will be submitted to the meeting. The total paid-up capital of the company in consolidated stock at the present time i5:17,713,650 ; the preferential stocks, £185,676; the ordinary debenture debt, 22,850,176 ; the amount raised on the perpetual 4 per cent. debenture stock is £47,862 ' • the amount of consolidated stock remaining unissued i s £515,799 18s. Bd. The report of the locomotive superintendent shows a diminution of the expenses chargeable against the revenue in that depart ment of £2,491 12s. 4d., notwithstanding that two engines have been built at the expense of revenue during the half year, and added to the stock. The permanent way has been maintained in good working condition. Although the amount of expense incurred during the present, exceeds that of the corresponding period of 1857, it will be ob served that £8,802 have been expended in relaying portions of the line during the latter half-year at the expense of re venue. The doubling of the Southampton and Dorchester line has progressed rapidly, and will be completed within the time reported to the Board of Trade. The works oa the Exeter extension line are also proceeding satisfactorily. The bill introduced by the company into Parliament for authorising the several objects sanctioned by the share holders at their special meeting in December last, has re ceived the royal assent, and in addition to those objects other powers of practical value have been incidentally secured to the company. The Northam Junction line au thorised by the above act is completed, and will effect a saving of time of about half an hour in the journey between London and Weymouth. This saving will be increased so soon as the double portion of the Dorchester line is finished. The works on the Topsham branch must in terms of the act be completed in two years, and as they can be executed with greater economy whilst the Exeter extension is in progress, the directors have agreed with the contractor for that line for the construction of the principal part of the works on the branch, including the purchasing of the land neces sary for them. The directors see no reason to doubt that the branch will be completed for £60,000. The respec tive working arrangements provisionally entered into, under the sanction of the shareholders, with the companies who own the lines from Topsham to !Exmouth, and from Wim bledon to Epsom, including a subscription of £.30,000 to wards the share capital of the latter, are now, under the powers of the Act of 1858, capable of being finally concluded. Resolutions will be submitted to the meeting for effecting these objects. Parliament has extended the time for the completion of the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway and has authorised the sale or lease thereof to this company. By the Salisbury and Yeovil Company's Act of 1857, this company is authorised to guarantee the debenture debt of the Salisbury and Yeovil Company. The proprietors sanctioned the acquisition of these powers, and, subject to their approval, the directors have agreed to act on them, the Salisbury and Yeovil Com pany being now in a position to exercise their borrowing powers, and having applied for the guarantee of this com pany, so as to enable them to borrow on better terms, a result which will be beneficial to both companies. A resolu tion authorising the completion of this arrangement will be submitted to the meeting. The directors anticipated that they would be able to submit to the meeting a provisional agreement with the Stokes Bay Railway and the Isle of Wight Ferry Companies for the working of this company t.f the Stokes Bay Railway, and securing a punctual and efficient sea service to the island in connection with it. Circumstances, beyond the control of the directors, have prevented the completion of ibis arrangement, and the board, instead of submitting such an agreement as they anticipated, will ask of the meeting discretionary powers fir making one so soon as satisfactory terms can be con cluded. In the district of Brentford and Richmond the com pany have succeeded, after a protracted contest, in pro curing the rejection of a bill, by which the broad gauge would have been extended to Richmond, and a hostile company have been established to compete unnecessarily for the traffic between Richmond and the north and north eastern parts of London. In connection with this question, the directors, in or-ler to show the company's disposition to facilitate every proper public requirement in their own dis trict, established au additional service of trains, to run (via Barnes) between the terminus of the North and South- Western Junction line and Richmond, and for the purpose of improving this service the directors contemplate the execution of certain works at the Kew and Barnes Junc tions. These will provide the best answer to any renewed proposal of the rejected scheme, should such be attempted. The bill for converting the Andover Canal into a railway has received the sanction of Parliament. This line of rail way, when made, will for its entire length of 24 miles be parallel to the company's main line between Basingstoke and Southampton. The directors offered every opposition in their power to the bill in its progress through Parlia ment, being convinced that, al though. as a merely local li ne , which its promoters were careful to charactise it in Perlis went, it could do le mischief except to those w h o might subscribe theif mig capital lilt force e n h s i t e r f ucting it, yet th a t , i f once sanctioned, ht afford a pretenc e f or a more direct aggression on this company's interests. The directors con tinue so to regard it, and it will be the imperative duty of the company, by readily according e very acco mmodation w hich the public can reasonably de man d , and by watching to anticipate an d prevent the success aggression. y newauc such neighbours, attempted of fealnr COLCHESTER AND STOUR VALLEY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday, at the offices, Colchester—Mr. T. L. Ewen in the chair. Mr. PHILBRICK, the secretary, read the report, which stated that the whole bonded debt of the company bad now been paid off. There had been received during the past half-year from the Eastern Counties Railway Company £4,630, from which, however, £620 for interest on pre ference shares, and £l2O for rent, &c., had to be deducted, leaving a balance of £3,890. There were 9,417 shares to take dividend, which at Bs. 4d. a share, the amount pro posed by the directors, would make £3,811, leaving a balance to the credit of the next half-year of £79. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. TUR NER, the report was adopted, and the dividend declared. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW. At a special meeting of this company held on Tuesday at Glasgow —Mr. P. Blackburn, M.P., in the chair—the direc tors were authorised to create a 4 per cent. guaranteed stock to the amount of £480,000, under the powers of the Edinburgh and Glasgow and Stirling and Dunfermline Act of 1838, and to borrow £160,000, for the purpose of paving off the debenture bonds issued by the Stirling and Dun fermline Railway Company. KILLARNEY JUNCTION. tam A special meeting of this company was held in Dublin on Wednesday, and it was agreed to subscribe £24,000 to the Tralec and Killarney Railway Company, in addition to the sum of £26,000 already subscribed, making the company's übscription £50,000 to that railway. It was stated that a call of £ . 2 per share would be required in two payments, on the Ist September and the Ist No vember next. The meeting then separated. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON The directors of this company have just issued their report. It states that the total revenue from all sources, including the receipts of the Stourbridge and Stratford upon-Avon Canals of £106,352, and a total expenditure Gf £45,611, leaving a balance of £60,741 ; which sum, after deduction of £26,954 for interest on debenture bonds. loans, &c., £3,552 for interest on debenture stock, and £3,601 for Stratford Canal fixed charges, enables the direc tors to propose a dividend of 6 per cent. per annum on the First Guaranteed Stock, amounting to £25,439, and , of per cent. per annum upon the Second Guaranteed Stock, amounting to £1,462. A comparison of the. correspond inging half-year of 1857 pr results:— The gross receipts for the half-year ending the 30th o 107 3a9 • those for the June, 1857, were £ ? presents the follow present half-year, periods. were, in 1857, exclusive of the Stratford . Cana , are £102,494; the dif ference being £4,865 against the present half-year. The £49,952; and, in 1858, £45,611 , being less in the present expenses . for the same a difference of only £524 in the net receipts. Omitting the receipts and expendi ture of the Stratford Canal, which were not included in half- k :e n a g r by £4,341, shoeing the corresponding period, there would remain an increase in the net receipts of £303. The working expenses for the half-year ending June, 1856, were 67.34 per cent. of t h e receipts; ending December, 1856, 50 . 93 per cent.; ending 30th of June, 1857,'46.53 per cent.; ending the 31st of De cember, 1857, 43 . 30 tier cent.; and ending the 30th ofJune, 1858, 42.89 per cent. The amounts applicable to payment of fixed charges, interest, and dividend were, for the fore going half-years respectively, £28,414, £54,842, £57,407, £69,614, and £60,741. The two latter includes the net receipts of the Stratford Canal of £2,974 and £3,030 respectively.