The Sun. — London, England, 1869-06-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocx. Consols fell 1 to-day, at 921 1 1 for money ; ditto, for Account, 92/ ; Three per Cent. Re duced, 921 4; New Thee per Cents, 921 3 ; Red Sea Telegraph, 19/ ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 5 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, —; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Ceut., Mlndia Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, shut ; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1111 12 ; ditto 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, —; ditto Enfaced Paper, 51 per per Cent., 1101. In the Foreign Market prices are as follows : Argentine, 801 to 811; Egyptian (1864), 88 to 89; ditto (1868), 781 to 791 ; Viceroy Seven per Cents., 821 to 821 ; ditto Nine per Cents., 941 to 951 Italian, 55/ to 56 ; Mexican, 121 to 12i ; Peruvian,! 79 to 791. United States Government Bonds are fiat. The Five-Twenty are 1 lower, 801 to 80/ ; Erie, at 191 to 19/ ; and Illinois, at 941 to 944, show no change. _ la - the railway market prices are as follows : Caledonian, 77fr to 78 ; Great Eastern, 381 to 38i ; Great Northern, 108 to 109 ; Great Northern (A) 107 to 108 ; Great Western, 501 to 51 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1251 to 126 ; Lon don and Brighton, 441 to 45 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 161 to 171; London and North Wes tern, 1184 to 119 ; London and South Western, 89 to 91; Metropolitan, 974 to 98 ; Midland, 1771 to 117/ ; North Eastern (Berwick) 1054 to 1061 ; and South Eastern, 774 to 784. The sum of £30,000 in sovereigns, from Egypt, was taken to the Bank yesterday. The Atrato, from the West Endies, has brought £114,680 ; the Oneida is telegraphed at Liston, from Brazil, with £93,254, and the Donau has arrived with £9,388, making a total of £217,322. The Anglo-Austrian Bank has announced the payment of the dividend coupon No. 7, due Ist July next, on and after that date. It is notified that the coupons due on the Ist July next of the 7 per Cent. Debentures of the Cen tral Argentine Railway Company will be paid oa presentation at the London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury. A prospectus has been issued of the Great North. ern Telegraph Company by Messrs. C. and J. Hambro and Son, to be constituted under Danish law, with limited liability, for the purpose of amal gamating into one system and working under a single management the five cable lines which are to give communication between this country and Russia, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, as well as between these countries themselves, and of which three are already working. The capital is to be £400,000, in shares of .£lO, but only £lOO,OOO i 3 to be subscribed in London, the whole of the remainder having been already taken, chiefly at Copenhagen. The concessions give exclusive privileges for 30 years, when the lines will still belong to the companies, and the Russian concession further provides a subvention of If. on the greater number of messages transmitted by it. In this country the several lines are at present worked by the United Kingdom Telegraph Cotnpary under an agreement recognised by the Post-office, and which will be maintained on the transfer of that company to the Government. The South Eastern Railway traffic return shows this week a decrease of £1,122, compared with the corresponding period of last year, and the Brighton a decrease of £839. The traffic return of the Great Western Railway of Canada for the week ending the 25th inst. shows an increase of £1,978 over last year. The directors of the National Steamship Com pany (Limited) have declared an interim dividend of 102. per share on the original, and ls. on the pre ferential shares, free of income tax, being at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum. Various questions are believed to be under con sideration at the Bank of England in connection with suggestions from the Chancellor of the Ex chequer for giving increased facilities to the public with respect to the times and modes of their receipt of the dividends. Meanwhile a statement has been circulated that Mr. Lowe has under consideration " offers from two joint-stock banks to undertake the duty at half the sum now paid to the Bank.' It would be matter of interest in the city to learn the names of these bold establishments. Doubts are entertained as to the likelihood of any of the old and respectable ones having made such an offer, and if the proposals of inferior concerns are to be taken " under consideration," it may be appre hended the Government will before long be called upon to give similar attention to offers of perform ing all its own functions, from .those of a Cabinet Minister downward, at a cost not exceeding a tenth part of that at present incurred. BRITISH FUNDS-TWO O'CLOCK. GOVER,NMENT fUNDS. 3 per, Cent. Consols Ditto for Account, July 7 3 per Cent. Reduced 92f Nett , 3 per Cent New 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 6 per Cen J an. 187 3 Annuities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 -- Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 l9i Exclicqu:tr Bills, £l,OOO, 2f & 3 per Ct Do £lOO, £2ou & £5OO B Aqk of England Stock, 4 k per Cent Do. opening — Caoada 4 per Cent. Bonds — Inter-Colonial Omnium — INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES In,lia itock, 10k per Cent., April 1874 — Do. Openiu, for Account — Do. sper Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 pez- Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced Pape. 4 per Cent„,..,. — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 ....,... — D. 51 per Cent. May 1879 llo} Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 — Do do 1877 — Do. do. 1882 — I,L Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 — Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO Do. under £l.OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK. Arpntine Republic, 6 per Cent luitrian Bonds 5 per cent — Do. 1859 — Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 4} per Cent. 1852 — Do. do 1858.—• — Do. au. 1869 — Do. do., 1863 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 Do Account — ._ B.:•ent; Ayres 6 per Cent. Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Caha, 6 per Cent. Cailian 6 per Cent — Do. 4 3 / 4 per Cent — Do. 3 per Cent., I`o. 6 per cent. 1867 — Do. 7 per Cent., 1866 C 10 übian, 6 per Cent. Danisn, 3 per Cent., 1825 Dann bian Principalities, 7 ler Cent Do 8 per Cent., 1867 ... Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent 14yFtian, 7 per Cent... D 0 Setoad Issue ............... tto..coia, Bonds .............................. D0..£1.00 Bonds ........................ ..... Do. 1864 ... Do. Account .................. 89 Do. £5OO Bonds ........................... Do. £lO6 Bonds 9Ol Do. 7 per Cent., 1868 G ove rnment Railway Deb e ntures Greeir 5 por Cent., 1824 5, ex Coups — Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account ... -- fianternala 5 per Cent . — Honduras Gov Rail. Los n., 10p. Ct., all pd It9iian 5 per rent., 1865 — Do. Account . - Do Ihrennuana Hallway Id exicaL 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Dr.. 1864 s, l i. Do 6 per Cont. Anglo - Frenc h - aiontevidynn 6 per Cent. . --- Mcorish impel ial 5 per Cent New Granada Do 3 per Con — Do. Deferred r. •trriaL b per Cent. 1865 .................. 7918 i Do Account Do 4i per Cent. (Ut:' , arren) Do 4} per Cent., 1862 - Do Account Port F guese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7, '9,'60,'2.' Do. do. 1867 - - Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid — Russian 5 e st . Cent., 1.522, £ St Do 4Z per Cent 1t.'50 Do 4i- per (Init., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do do, Scrip — Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO 'Sonde., 90 Do. do. £B4 15s. do - Do., 1866, 4100 Bonds 9Ol DJ. • do £Bl 15s. do — • Do Nicolas Railway Sarlinian 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Con . Do. Account Do. 1867 1)o. Account Do. Now Deferred Do. Account Do. Ps ssi vc Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. nut funded ... Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1864 Do dc, 1868 Turkish 6 per Cent. . Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 ••• Do Account Do £l.OO Bonds Do 6 por Cent., 1862 Do Account Do .£10( Bonds Do 5 por Cent. 1865 Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1860 Doi per Cent., Guaranteed Do La,.id Warrants (Hectares) Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do. Ace. ant Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1604 Dividends on the above payable in 1. , lid o t 6 • Austrtan o por Cent. Ex 10 Florins ... 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch i 1 per Cant. Ex. 12 GO Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates . B7 Do Account 551 TWO O'CLOCK. Jonso!s, Money 9 2 ,- xd Do. Account, July ............ POLICE INTELLIGENCE. -7 his Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN THE STREETS.—AIfred Jove, a gas fitter, of Rose-street, Long-acre, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with attempting to commit suicide in Dor set-plade, Police-constable Whittock, 282 A, said that about ten o'clock last night seeing a crowd collected in Dorset place, Pall-mall, be went to ascertain the cause, and found the prisoner lying on the ground, and was informed by some of the bystanders that he had thrown himself under a van, and that one of the wheels had gone over his leg. He took the prisoner to the Charing-cross Hospital, where the burgeon stated that although the prisoner's leg was hurt no bones were broken. The prisoner said he did it in a fit of desperation. The constable said the prisoner told him that he in tended the wheel to have gone over his head. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner had had a narrow escape, and in the state of mind he appeared to ba in he thought the bust thing would be to remand him for a week. THAMES. AN ABOMINABLE NUISANCE IN S HADWELL.—James Madden, of No. 31, Lower Shadwell, labourer, Henry Dove, of No. 5, Popes-hill, Shadwell, waterman, and Wm. Street, of No. 1, Monmouth-street, Shad well, lighterman, were brought before Mr. Benson, the two first with un lawfully knocking at the doors of several houses in Sun Tavern-gap, Shadwell, without lawful excuse, and the last-named with stealing a hat off the head of Thomas Cook, of No. 17, Juniper-row, Shadwell. A great nuisance has for some time existed in Shadwell, near the Old Wooden Bridge," a suspension one, of many years standing, constructed only for foot passengers, although the direct thoroughtlre from the Commercial road to the pier head of the London Dock and Wapping wall; the traffic is consequently large, but it is still allowed to remain a dangerous and inconvenient old struc ture, having twelve steps, eight of which are of iron, to descend eu route b•oin the Commercial-road. This bridge has been the cause of frequent accidents, and is infested with a number of ragamuffins and bullies who dwell in its low vicinity. They annoy and frequently ill-use and rob passers-by, conceal themselves below the steps, and commit gross outrages while females are passing up and down the steps. The Board of Works of the district and the police have determined to interfere and put down the nuisance as far as practicable. The prisoners, each aged 18 years, were at au unseasonable Lour knocking at the doors of the inhabitants in Juniper-row, better known as Sun Tavern Gap, and aroused a great many inhabitants from their sleep. One of the prisoners (street) assaulted Mr. Cook, and took his hat from his head. The prisoners said they had been to a raffle, and were on their way home and larking. They made an apology, and promised not to repeat the offence. Mr. Benson said the conduct of the prisoners was highly disgraceful. He fined Madden and Dove 2s. Gd. each for unlawfully knocking at people's doors, and the fines were paid. Mr. Benson then called for the witnesses in the case of felony, when the:prosecutor said he woul I not press the charge as a new hat had been provided for him. Mr. Benson—This is a most reprehensible pr3ceeding, stealing a hat off a man's bead in the middle of the night ; and, if the prosecutor had pressed the case, 1 should cer tainly have committed the prisoner for Ilial. There must certainly be a discontinuance of these lawless acts. The prisoner is discharged. Ho had better not go near the old wooden bridge again. WESTMINSTER. SINGULAR APPLICATION.— A respectable-looking . man came before Mr. Selfe this morning and said he wantid his assistance to protect him and some neighbours from a most intolerable nuisance. Mr. Selfe—What is it? Applicant—Dog barking. Mr. Selfe—Well ? Applicant—Great noise with cocks and hens. Mr. Sella —Yos. Applicant—Very offensive smell from dung. Mr. Selfe—Well. Applicant—Noise from a blacksmith's forge. Mr. Selfe—Yes. Applicant —Well, that is all. I ain't the only person who complains. There are others as well as lne. The dog's the worst of all. He barks all the night. There's no getting any rest. A lady at the back of our house had to get up last night and send for a policeman. Mr. Salle —What for? Applicant—To stop the dog's barking. Mr. Selfe —How in the name of goodness was he to do that? He must be a clever policeman to stop a dog bark ing. They may prevent a great many things, but to pre vent a dog barking is rather beyond their capacity. A mutton chop might stop it for the time. Applicant Cant't you help me ? It's a great nuisance he's always barking. Mr. Selfe I can't help you. I can't make the dog quiet. Applicant—What am Ito do? I can't go on in this way. I must do something to prevent this going on any longer. Mr. Selfe—lt is not such a nuisance as I can interfere with. You must consult an attorney. The Lancet states that the following notice has been put up at the entrance for out-patients at St. George's Hospital : —" The benefits of this institution being intended for the really poor only, persons not in that condition will be rejected." ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.—Within our know ledge not a single brick has been added to the block nearest Westminster -bridge for the last couple of months. The interest of the sick poor demands a greater activity than has been exemplified up to the present time in the rearing of the edifice at Stangate.—The Lancet. A WHALE CAPTURED AT TYNEMOUTII.-01 1 Saturday afternoon a whale, measuring about 15 feet long, went ashore, alive, at Tynemoutb, near the base of the Lighthouse Cliffs. Being observed dodging about the rocks, it was captured by some fishermen, and killed by a sDldier sticking his bayonet through it. MURDER AT HULL.—James Duffy, an Irishman, is in custody at Hull, charged with having murdered his wife in that town on Saturday night. When he was in furiated with drink he pulled the poor woman out of bed and kicked her oa the head, inflicting such injuries as caused her death. _ _ vM PRESENTATION OF A TESTIMONIAL TO MR. R. J. Wool).--On Saturday evening last a numerous gathering of the friends of Mr. R. J. Wood dined together at Willis's Rooms under the presidency of Mr. Pierce Egan, the oc casion being the presentation of a testimonial to the for mer gentleman, the subscription list for providing which was responded to with such hearty spontaneity by a large circle of friends, including, among others, W. H. Smith, Esq., M.P., Stephen Blair, Esq. (late M.P. for Bolton), Alderman R. Beshey, Messrs. C. Vermeil, C. Nugent, F. B. Chatterton, J. L. Toole, (to., that about £l5O were col lected in the course of the few weeks that the list was kept open. The chairman, in making the presentation, alluded in felicitous terms to his long acquaintance with Mr. Wood, and bore testimony to the business capacities which he had displayed during his connection with the Weekly Dispatch The chairman concluded by formally presenting the testimonial, which consisted of an elegant and massive silver-gilt loving cup, and a pair of splendid goblets to match, bearing the following inscription, viz. : —" To Richard J. Wood, Esq., for nearly fifty years closely identified with the management of the Weekly Dispatch , this testimonial was presented June 20 , 180 9, by many of his oldest and most attached friends, who have combined to mark by this offering their high appreciation of those valuable qualifications displayed in ail his business rela tions, which have won their respect and esteem, and, as well, have endeared him to them as a warm, genial, and sincere friend throughout his lougand unblemished career." Mr. Wood accepted the testimonial amid much applause, and feelingly responded. Amon,, t h o se who have signified their intention to be present ' at th, ecutenuial celebration at Dartmouth College are President Grant, General Snerman, Chat Justice Chase - a graduate in the class of 1826—Mr. Thorn ton, British Minister to the United States, Senator Grimes of lima, John Wentworth of Chicago, Go ternor Jewell of Connecticut, Governor Stearns, of New Hampshire, and Senator Fenton, of Now York. The present Earl Dartmouth—a lineal descendant of the patron from whom the college derives its name—has not as yet returned a decisive answer to the invitation extended him. RAILWAYS.—PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOOKS. With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate year. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY SHARE LIST. )RDINAILI dLi.A.iit'.B AND STOCKS. Closing Busineln Fold. Prioe. done. :hare riallwkye. et Brietcland Exeter...... 103 77 70 et Caledonian .. 100 771 78 st Cainttrlau 2J Cornwall all 21 3 yt Duu•in st Beliast J 100 77 79 at Diin„l'erth..lrAb.Junc i.oo 70 72 2 East London all 6 7 20 1)o 15 - Do 10 - - st Glasgow &S. Western IOJ 101 103 st Great Eastern .. st Do. E. Augl. N 0 2. 100 at tircztt NOrttl 01 Scotland lOO 15 6 at Great Northern lOO 108 103 at Do. A stock at Do. B at.oc et CRS, and W. ol Ireland lou 95 7 pc Gt. Western -Original lOO 50 s'l st Do. South Wales et Da. W. Altd.-Oxioril lOO 25 17 st Do. Newport O, t:5 :0 st Lama:maitre zz lurks:llr,-. 100 i 2 5/ 2111 1.51 at Lou., S.Cuast.. 100 441 45 0) DJ Oerip ...... - - st 1 on., Chat., and Wyo.. 10 161 In 4t Do. Sletrvp. .c.x. A.... mu 11 11 st Lon. North Western.. 100 181 1181 et Lon. ds South Western.. 100 80 Si u 0 et Man., Shei., is Lincoln.. ICO 5 551 et Metropolitan st Do ExteusiJu 10 Do. New rd 10 1 1,1 at Metropolitan District. all - - 10 Metrop. St. John's 15 oo 1 6 - - at Midland at Do, Ilirmin..% Dsrbj at North British ...... 100 331 141 331 at Do. Ed., l'th., & 100 - - at N °nig:astern-Berwick lOO 1151 1(61 106 25 Do. G. N. E purohast - - st Do Leeds. ...... st Do York lOO 96 t 8 st Do Carlisle . - - at Do Stoer. & Darling HO 134 :3G at North Lon ion 10 Do New 18f8 at North Staffordshire . . 100 57 59 at North and S.-W. Junction 100 93 100 10 Do New £lO shares 7 .•• • • at Bhp:alley st Shropshire Union 1(0 58/ .4 st South Devon' at South Eastern lOO 78 781 771 ; at Staines, Wok'hatu,& Wok all 12 13 st Tad Vale lOO 148 153 -- Do. C - WateriorZ& Kilkenny.. ICu - Waterloe,k Whitehall.. 6 RAILWAYS-PREFER ENCE SEIA Lt ES AN IISTOCII.S st Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 86 88 st Caledonian Qrs., No. 2 lOO ... st Do. Scot. N.E., 4. per cent lOO st Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c lOO st Do. do. 7 per cent lOO tit Do. do. Ordinary lOO 73 82 st Do. Midland st Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent gua all st Dundee, Perth, and Aber deen Junction lOO 105 107 st Do. Ist Class preference lOO ... st Glas. & S.W. gua. 5 per et lOO st git. Eastern, E.G Ex. No.l 100 9 i 00 st Do do N 0.2 100 95 03 at Do do G per cent 100 10.1 11l st Do East Anglian A. 5 p. c. 100 ... st Do do B 6 do. 100 ,„ st Do do 0 7 do. 100 st Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 st Do E. Union 4p. c. gua. 100 7u 75 at Do No' folk 5 p.c. Ex. 1816 100 „, st Do do 5 p.e.Way.Val.lBl7 100 „, st Great Not thorn, 5 per cent 10 st Do 5 p.c., rd at 1U p. c. pin. 100 „, st Do 4 1 do do du 100 10) st Du S do at sp. c. pin lOO „, „, st Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax 6 per cent lOO st Gt. Nrth (.;f Sjutland, Ist pi 100 st Great South. ant Western (lrelaudj 4 per eeut lOO 96 97 st G t.West.-Orfg.& Jut.-iteut chg., per gua. 5 p.c lOO 102 104 10t st Do. Orig. (B.& 11. Ex). 5 p.c lOO 95 100 st Do du 4, per coat. 1350 lOO 87 89 st Do do 4 du du st 1.0 do 5 per cent. redem lOO 95 97 st Do do Birmingham guy lOO 63 72 st Do do do pref lOO st Do do Chester gua lOO t 5 9) st Do do do 8 per coat. 100 st Du do do 5 do 103 95 100 st D 0 South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 st Do do 41 p.c lOO st Do do 4 s 1859 lOO st Do do 5 st Do West Mid. Oxford Ist g IOJ 110 112 at Do do 25 gni lOO 107 111 st Do Newport, Ist g. 5 p.c lot) 90 02 st Do do 25 du 100 07 103 st llu gum. 51 per cent. 1863 100 00 Lancaster & Carlisle 11 p.c. all .. st Lane:ash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1 3 135 st Do Barnsley, £5 Is 105 p.c. 100 ... st Do 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 130 1.55 st Do 41 (Blackburn purch). 100 1).8 100 at London & Brjghton. 5 p.c rantgu eed, No 1 l9O st; Do 5 per cent. gua. No. 2 lOO st Do 6 do •do lOO st Do 5 do NJ. 4 lOO st Do 7 per cent l/0 s t Do 6 do (W.E. & C.P.) 1)U st D.) 4 do 1850 lOO $t London, (Jhatham, & Dover 5 per cent MO at Loudon still 1;2.V., C. and Nuneaton 5 per cent lOl 11) 11 t st Do Bed fnrd &Cambridge IOJ st Do Shrewsli'y & Welchp'l lO3 st Loudon and o W. 7 p,c late 35 shares lOO 110 159 a Du (Portsin.perp aus 2365) all a Man., Sher., &Lilian. 6 p.c lOO Do s Du 31 per cent lOO 6.) 65 1 Do relecin. 6 percent. 5 st Mid. Cousulidated., 6p. c lOO 13 , 1 135 s Do lfriscul&Birat., 6p. c 10) 1 2 131 s Du 41 per cent. redeem lOO t 8 loi a Do 41 per cent. irrodcent lOO 1/6 1 ; a Do Leicester& irehn, 1 p.c. 10/ 8J V 1 91 st North British, 5 p.c. No. L lOO st DoE. 41 4p.e.S. & D lOO st Do N. 8., N 0.2 5 per cent . 10) st Du Border Union, 51 p.c lOO st N.-Eastern—Cons. 4 p.c lOO 87 80 st Du 41 per cent. redeeni lOO 97 t. 9 st Du G N.E. 4 per cent., lOO 17 Do Ber,vick capital 8.13.4. ... Do York, 1.1. &S. purchase lO 10 111 Do Stektu & Drling. A 5 p.c. 101 106 106 st Do W, Llartlepoul IL and li 103 84 86 20 North Staffordshire lOs S. Devon Annuities, Ls all 0 10 10s Do Tavistock Anus., 10s all 8 108 Du Fixed 41 per cent all 8 81 0.6. S. Last. (Read. Anus., 1.0.6) all 22 23 at Do 41 percent lOO at Do Fixed 41 per cent lOO st Taff Vale No.l lOO 14, 153 at Waterford & Kilkenny, 6pc 100 43 45 at Caledonian 41 p c gua lOO st Do Scot.Cen. min. 7 p c lOO st Do 44 p irredeem all st Do 4p c con. issued at 80 65 at Great Eastern 44 per cont. 100 77 • 8.. st Do 5 do, 1862 lOO 85 68 at Do New 5 do, 1863 100 83 s 6 st Do do 5 do, 1864 lOO b 2 85 at Great Northern, 5 p cirred lOO at Do Permanent 5 per cent lOO at Do Boston &Sleafd, 41 pc 100 at Great West., W. Jiidl., 5p c 100 at Do Joint perpe. 5p c, 1665 100 88 316 at Do do Gp c irred., 1863 100 103 108 20 Do Vale Neath peril. 5p c all 19 20 at Kent Coast, 6 per cent, B lOO 5 Lane. and York New 41 per cent till July, 1871 2 ip at Loud., Brig &c., 41 pc, 18584100 at Do do 4 do, 1860 100 „.. at Do do 41 do, 1861 100 et Di do 41 do, 1363 100 at Do do 5 do, 1865 100 et Do No. 6 5 do, 1866 100 et Do No. 7 5 do et Loud , Chat., &c., 2d, 6 p.c 100 at Do Metrop. Ex., B 6 p.c Do do C 6 p.c 100 at Loudon &N. Western, 5p c 100 110 112 at London &S. Western, 41 p c 100 V 3 95 10 Man. Shef. & Lin., 5 pc, 1865 all 84 84 at Metropolitan 5 per cent lOO luu 102 at Midland, A 5 per cent prof lOO 107 102 et Do B 5 do 100 107 109 18 Do 5p c opt. to cony. to Ord. Stk., Sopt. 1, 1869 all 202 21 1 2)1 18 Do Inconv. New Shares all 19 191 4 22 Do 5p C COLL into Old Stk., Aug. 31, 1872 Bl 14 21p at North British, E. and G No. 1, 5 per cent at Do , .10 p . 6t D o. guaranteed, 2d 18614p0 0 1 10 0 0 Do at Do E. &G , N 0.2, 5 p.c st Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1862 100 st Do E. & G., No. 3, 5 p.c st Do E.& G., (Ordiry) 41 p c 100 st North Eastern, 41 per cent 100 9.5 g 7 st Do Stock. & Darl., D st North London, 44, per cent (Max. 5 per cent) 8 8 t t North South D Est Staffordshire er 4 l do p ii , p l c Bs . . 0 . 100 et o n, 5 1861 100 ... at Do sdo (Ch. Cross) 1863 100 st Do 5 do, 1864 st Victoria St. & Pimlico, 41 pc 100 RAILWAYS. -LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS/ ritTiMea d IIJO, az 91 Vil 100 Du. 41 per cent. Prefer all 100 102 st Buckinghamshire Bt Chester and Holyhead lOO 51 59 at Do. 51 per cent. st Do. 5 do. ... 100 116 112 st Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO „. at Colchester Stour Valley at East Lincoln, gua. 6p. c lOO 132 131 20 Gloster and Dean Forest all „. s Gt. Easn., Newm., &c., 5 p.c 100 „. a Do. E. U. Harwich, 4 p.c 100 at Do. do. Woodbrg. Ex., do 100 st Gt. West, W. Mid., Heref 100 06 98 50 Hull and Selby all 110 112 at Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 212 2.6 at London and Blackwall lOO 94 95 st Du. 41 per cent lOO at Loudon, Chat., &c., 41 pc. 100 ... at Do. Cone. Fund, .5 do 100 ... st _Loudon and fireenwich st Do. du Preference lOO ... at Loudon, Tilbury, & South 100 83 85 st Lowestoft, gua 4 percent lOO 79 81 at Do. do. 6 do. 51 Manch., Buxton, & Matlk all at slidlaud, Bralford, Pref lOO 94 9 1 10 Slid Kent ;;ray Line) 50 Northern& East., 5 per coat all 53 56 so D o . 30. 6 do. all st N. EAStaral— Hartlep00l st N.West.A perp. prof, &p c. 100 107 109 st Du B minimum 11 p.c.... 10U st Notting. & R. & C IOU 91 93 25 Preston and Wyre. Royston, Hitch., and Shep. 100 132 134 at Shrewsbury and Hereford 100 134 134 10 Do do S 2 2ip at S. Yorksh. and River Dun 100 97 VU at De 4 per cent gull._ 10 , 78 30 at Do 5 du at Vict. Station and Pimlico lOO 175 'if at West Cornwall 20 West Loudon, Class A all Li 14 20 du B all 20 Do du C all st Weymouth and Portland lOO st Wilts and Somerset DOCKS. st East and West India lOO 11? 121 st London and St. Katherine 100 43 45 100 D oDeb. stock, 4 per cent all Millwall Freehold Land st Dock lOO 26 30 et SOUthaulptua et Surrey coniumrciad EVENING, JUNE 29, 1F69. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Cloeing thisineme Share NAME. Paid. Price. done 10 Agra Limited, A all 10 101 10 Do B lO 31 34 3} 50 Albion l5 8 7 00 Alliance, Limited 20 Anglo Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian, lien all 201 211 20 Anglo-Hungarian 20 Auslo-Italian 13GG, limited 10 51 41 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia all 10 1: 20 Do issued at '2 5 4 25 Bank of Egypt 20 Bank of Otago, lint. 25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32 50 Bank of Victoria, Australia '25 37 39 10 Bank of New Zealand an 1 i 17 50 British North American 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, nd China all 18 10 He 25 Chartered Mere. of India, London, and China all 32 33 20' City 100 Colonial 25 38 4O 10 Consolidated, lint. 50 Delhi and London, lint 25 50 East London, lien 5 21 11 20 English and American, him 10 ... 20 English Bank el Rio &Ma neiro. lim lO pr 1p 20 English, :_-cottish, and Aus .. tralian Chartered 281 Hong Kong and Shanghai Balk Corporation an 36 38 281 Do now 54 2/ 21 100 Imperial, lim 2O 15 16,, 20 Imperial Ottoman lO 21 21 12 25 lonian all 19 22 25 Do new 5 8 8 Lnd Mortgage of lutlia ' lim 4 31 31 100 Do 5 p. c. Debs.lB64, 30 all 76 76 88 100 London Batik! of Mexico and South America, Rm. 20 7 6 100 London and Brazilian, Hut 45 80 27 20 Do new 74 5 41 100 London & River Plate, Hui. 40 6 8 25 Do new 10 11 2 p 20 Loudon Chart. of Australia all 231 244 23J , 20 London and County 2O 4111 501 60 Do new, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll ... Loudon Joint Stock—. 1 311 821 3: London and South African al 8: 5. 100 London & S.-Western, lim, 20 13 11 60 London t Venezuela, Hai_ 121 100 London and Westminster. 20 61 62 61 100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O ... 100 Merchant, lim 25 6 5 10 Metropolitan, lim. 00 Midland, lim.. 5 National of Australia 25 National of Liverpool, lim. 15 3d a lp 00 National I'rovinc. of Eng'd 10 10 National. 3O 20 New South Wales all 41 43 20 North-Western 25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42 41 50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim lO 64 81 30 Provincial of Ireland 25 90 92 10 Do new. all ••• 100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa,llm 25 14 1.1 100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6 25 Union of Australis, all 47 43 100 Union of Ireland, lim 50 Union of Loudon TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. 10 Ariao-Americau 'AI., Hui all 20S •!0 - i 201 10 Anglo Mediter Te1.,1ina.... 10 13i 14} at Atlantic Telegraph lO 20 •.:2 St Do. S per cent. at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim lOO 168 173 at Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 250 255 10 Do. New 8 it 13) 25 Indo-European Tel., lint lO ... ... 5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lint all 3} st 31 1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all i i p 10 Mediterra. Exteu. Tel., lim all 4 41 25 Reuter's Telegram all 65 6i 70 89 10 Societe Transatlant., Um— all 18/ 19 10 et Submarine Telegraph 1 Do. Scrip all ii 1 i 20 Telegraph Con. & Main.,lim all 201 z 1 5 U. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim all 61 64 5 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 4 t . 4xp DIISCELLA3 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint all 141 151 25 Australian Agricultural 25 Australian Mort. Laud and Finance, lint. 10 Baugarah Tea Estates, Rm 9 3 51 10 Berlin Water Works, lint all 14 11/ 10 Do. Now 6 3 4 . 100 Bolckow Vaughan, limn. 5 Bombay Gas, lim. 5 Do. New 4 1! ad 5j British American Laud 44 15 17 20 British Indian Tea, lim all 21 31 20 British Ship Owners 7' 29 Canada Company all (A; 71 10 Canadian Loan and Invest ment, limn 2l .. ... 20 Ceylon Company, lim. 20 Do. A shares 10 City Discount, limn 6 ___ _ 25 City of Loudon Real Pro perty, lim 9 5 .1 411 30 City of Milan Improv. lim all 5 6 25 City of Moscow Gas, lim all 50 City Offices, lim 25 27 261 50 Colonial, lim. Do. 50 Commercia: 'Mimi (Assur) 5 p r s p 10 Company of African Mer chants, limn. 20 Continental Union Gas, limn all 20 21 25 Copper Miners of England, pref 71 per cent. 100 Corporation of Loudon Bonds, 1877, 41 per cent. all 1031 1011 100 Do. ' 1879, 4; per cent. all 1011 105.1 100 Do. 1882, -li pet cent. all 1041 1011 10 Credit run. of England, lint. all 21 2/ 21 1 50 Credit Fou.of Mauritius lim lO 31 21d st Crystal Palace lOO 22 24 23 st Do. Preference lOO y , to ; st Do. Gp. c Pet petual Deb. 109 108 112 20 Darjeeling, lint. I 0 Eastern Assam, limn. 50 East Indian Land Credit and Finance, Ern. -1 411 20 East India lrriga. & Canal all „. 32 Ebbw Vale Steel, lrou, au& Coal, lint. 100 Egyptian 9 per cent. V'roy. Gus. by Egypt. Cloy all 15 151 151 20 Egyptian Cum.& Trail. lim C 3 Eng. & Austral. Copper, lint 21 15 English and Foreign Credit 71 41 3,(1 100 Eng. and Scot. %. urine, lint. 8 ... ...d 10 Fairbadru Engineering 5 3 2tl 20 Fore-streetWltrehouse,lint l2 1 2 p 131 100 For. & Cul. (loy. Trust and Loau Scrip, issued at .685 all 871 881 80 Gellivara, lim. 10 General Credit & Die., line. 71 11 11 6 1 15 General Steam Navigation 11 27 22 2 1 50 Home &Col Marine In. lieu. 5 2. 4id 10 Hong Kong and China Gus all ... 20 Hudson's Bay all 121 121 20 Imperial Laud CO. of Mar seilles, Bin. 20 Interus.FinancialSoc. hut. 5 2 11 3j 20 Interns,. Land Credit, lien 6 6 4d 50 Italian Land 5 Id p 20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all 3 31 100 Do. 6 p. c. Bds., redeem 1870, issued 80 ...... all 65 67 50 Land Securities, ........., 5 21 lid 25 London African Trading lO 7 5.1 25 Lou. & Caled. Marine, inn 6 ... ...d 10 London County Land and Building, lim. ............ 4 ... 50 Lond. Financial As so., line 30 23 %I 4 Lond.Gen.Omnibus.Cu.lhu. all 2 21 50 Loud. and Glasg. Engineer and Iron Ship, lim. 25 21 161 20 Lond. & Provincial Marine 2 1 1 pr at Madras Irriga. & Can]. Gua. .5 p. c. by India Gov. lOO 104 106 10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, 1im...... ........ 11 11 Id 50 Merchant Shipping, all 32 37 80 Millwall Iron Works, him 121 ... 10 Natal Laud end Colonisa tion Co., lim. 9 7 6 d 25 National Discount Co., lim 5 11 llf 25 National Prov. Marine, lies. 4 ... 10 National Steam Strip, lira, all 91 101 20 Nerbudda, Coal & Iron, Rm. 6 3} 3d 10 New Consolidated Dis. lim. 3 If 5 New Quebrada, lim. .... . .A. 4.0 4 1 4 25 New Zealand Loan & Xer. candle Agency,lim ........ 2l 1 IP 25 New Zealand Trust Lnd Loan, lim 5 11 11 30 Northern Assam Tea, nm, 5 7 5 10 Do. B et" North Brit. Austral., Ihn... 100 48 51 56 North Brit. & Moreau. 61 V 191 25 Ocean Marine (Insuraree) 5 13 14 50 Oriental Financial, 11 ... 5 Oriental Gas, lim. 5 Do. New 1 t 1P 10. Otago and Southland In. vestment, lim •• id 11) 5 Ottoman Gas, 1im...,., ~ 1= 2i 10 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian R. Mail lim 5 Do do. ............ 1 0 at Peel R. Land & Miner', lim 100 31 34 50 Peninsu. & Oriental Steam all 48 50 50 Do. New 1867 ......... 10 lid 01 50 Rhymney Iron ............... all 22 24 251 1 Do. New .............. all 6 1 7 7 Ina.,lins all 17 18 Gas, lim all 21 6 100 Royal Mail Steam 2 Rio d p e o .l . aneiro City Scottish Aust. Invest., lim. 100 78 83 Do. 6p. c. Guar. Pref. 100 ... . Societe Fin. d'Egypte, lim. 10 7 • g a Societe Gen.de l'Empire Ot. 8 2/ 31 50 S. African Mort. & Inv ., lim. 6 25 South Australian Land 20 Thames and Mersey Marine . - - (Insurance), inn 2 2 1 3 20 Trinidad Petroleum, lira Bl 10 Trust & Agency of Aus.,lim 1 . 1 'y 10 Do do. do. all 20 Trust &Loan Co., U. Canada 5 i p 5 4 50 Uuion Marine L'pool, Jim 5 4 . 1 5 p 20 Union Steam Ship, lim all 22 24 15 United Discount Corp., lim 6 11 id 20 Universal Marine(ln.), lira 5 it 2 p 10 Upper Assam Tea, lim. all 11 2 30 Van Diemar's Laud 100 Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per cent. (Mortgage) Loan all 82 821 821 50 Warrant Finance, lim l2 11 104 50 West India and Pacific Steam, lim 2O 4 2 20 West London Wharves and Warehouses 6oLoril.a.L GOVOIikihINNT 81CCUILITIXIS Ilritiab Columbia, 0 per ..... 100 180 - Can.Gov.6p.o.Jan.v&July 1877-84 Do. 6p. o 7eb. & Aug lco 102 106 Do. sp. c. Mar. & Sept lOO 102 104 Do. 6p. o. Jan. & July lOO 68 00 931 41 Do. sp. c. Inscribed sk ICO 90 92 Cape U. Hope, 6 p. 0.1873 lOO 102 101 Do.Apl.&Oot 16904900 lOO 111 113 Do. do 1880-90 lOO 107 109 Do. Jan.&July, 1891 Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 16 Oct., 1900. ..... . 100 98 !CO - Ceylon, Nov 1878,0 p.c lOO 108 116 Do. 1872, do lOO 105 10/ Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July . lOO 104 106 Do. 1878 DO 106 IOS Do. 1882, May and NC% Do. 1895, Feb. & 10 106 108 - Melbourne Corporate., 1 , 607.;:), 6 per colt. 'CO 100 100 N.8.G0v.6 p.o.Ja.&July Natal 6 p et, Apl& Oct OO Do 6p a. 513 y & Nov 1 0 It 6 108 N. S. W. 5 p•c., '7l to '76 lOO 99 i• 1 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1896... 103 vbl 991 ICOI Do. 5 p.c. rd.'67 to '75 N.Zealaud, 6p. 0t.1891 lOO Do. 5 per cent.. DoJan, Ap•l, .1 uly, 0 t lOO 93 94 951 4: Da 6p o. Mar & wept '9l :00 108 1101 Do J atte & Dec , 1-91 ICO 109 ill IDo l'rov. , 1 Auceld. 1 1.0 1 &2, 1tt05... nova Scotia 6p. o.Jan ani July, 1675 - Ito ISt6. . ....... . 100 I'2 1(4 Qu , Tusind. s p..c. 100 1071 tCBI 11 1 . Do 18 , J. Tasmanian 6 per 0.1895 ,. 061 1071 Do ..95'97 . . 100 1151 It.? Victoria 6t er cent.l39l lt,o 115 6 Do. April and Oct ~ 9a 111 lt 2 SPIRIT OF TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times, in referring to the Lords' amendments, ob serves that anything like recasting the Irish Church Bill from the beginning is quite out of the question. Anything conceived on such a large scale as to come under the defi nition of concurrent endowment is equally hopeless. Anything involving permanent relations in the nature of a Concordat between England and the See of Rome would be at once repudiated by the national senti ment. But those who go on to say that the verdict of the. country at the hustings has pronounced against a modest proposal to erect residences and to assign glebes of ten acres with them to the Presbyterian and Roman Catholic clergymen as an equivalent for equal benefits retained to the clergy of the Disestablished Church speak without any warrant from facts. In truth, the evidence in favour of the Duke of Cleveland's proposal increases every hour, while the argument in favour of its policy has never been met. The Tines believes the Duke's suggestion will appear on reflection to possess the greatest recommendations with the fewest drawbacks. It is moderate. It is just. It excites to passion. It would induce no prolonged con troversies. It would involve no protracted relations between the commissioners and the religious communion: of Ireland. The commissioners would be authorised to receive applications from parishes where the ministers of religion possess no house and glebe, and upon proof of the truth to supply ascertained deficiencies. The religious communions of Ireland would remain afterwards as before, entirely free and unaffected by State alliance or State control, while all vestiges of predominance and inequality would have vanished. The Star discusses the propositions of concurrent endowment, and believes that when they come to be seriously considered, the proposals to give the Irish priests and clergy churches, residences, and glebe lands, or the residences and glebes without the churches, will be found impossible expedients. It would be far easier to remit the building charge of the Irish Church clergy out of goodwill and favour than attempt to shield the . process under cover of a general endowment. The history of the present movement has been strangely forgotten. To judge from the new praises of levelling up, and the ardour of some peers in that course, there is little enough memory of the time when " levelling up '' and " disendowment" were the opposing watchwords of party conflict. But the causes which made so much turn upon the opposition of these watchwords are as potent as ever they were. The Roman Catholics of Ireland are still demanding religious equality through dis endowment, and not through the opposite process. The Nonconformists of England and Wales, the Presbyterians of Scotland and Ireland, and the most ardent defenders of the Irish Church itself, are all bitterly hostile to indiscri minate endowment, and especially to the endowment of the Roman Catholic Church. However the fact may be disliked, the sentiment of the people of the United King dom is arrayed in the most unmistakable manner against the course which finds so much favour. That it animates the best part of the Opposi tion, as well as of the Government majority, makes the proposal a certain failure, but the Liberal majority is so composed that the Government must resist it to the uttermost. Nut only the Dissenters, but the voluntaries among their supporters, are sufficiently numerous to make any favour shewn to indiscriminate endowment the cause of a fatal breach in the party. There has been quite enough grumbling as it is at the alleged favour shewn to Maynooth in the arrangements of the bill. To go farther and give the priests parsonages and glebes, to encourage in this way the " teaching of error," would deprive the Liberal party of all confidence in its leaders. The Standard -says that it is ail - remit to conceive any living man carrying his memory back to such days 01 cruelty aid horror as were described by the Lord Chan cellor at the Haberdashers' Hall banquet to the judges on Saturday evening. Most of us live in times so different, under laws so changed, and surrounded by a social spirit so utterly in contrast with that of fifty years ago, that we are apt to exaggerate the distance between ourselves and them. Yet younger persons than Lord Hatherley might recall to mind similarly fearful scenes enacted in the name of civilised justice. The Lord Chancellor told his audience that once, hen a. boy, he was present in the Central Criminal Court when seventy-five persons— men and women—were condemned to death in a batch. Not all were to be hanged, and many of them knew it— knew that their lives were to be spared, N.:bile others were to be inexorably left for execution. Thes e l aug h e d an d gibed as they passed out of the dock at their more miserable fellows in crime who were sure to die. No more frightful pcture, no more humiliating illustration of human nature in its lowest state, could be imagined. But it was in the nine teenth century, nevertheless. It seems a dream to us now, as remote from our practical thoughts as the eontre.versies of the schools. Yet these Draconic statutes were not r, periltd wholly on grounds of humanity ; they were only abolished when they lost their meaning and had ceased to operate. The Consolidation Act of a few years ago swept them clean off the statute book, so that the letter of the law has been purged not less than its practice. But it is as well that we should be reminded now and then about the monstrosities of which our civilisation was capable, not so long ago hut that a living Lord Chancellor can remember being a spectator of those awful scenes, and can tell of them, as an eye-witness, when responding to a toast at a civic banquet. The Telegraph thinks that it is so far satisfactory that the attention already drawn to the case of Overend, Gurney, and Co. has cleared up a little doubt which at tached to one or two points, and has aroused some of the public to comprehend the extreme importance of the issues at stake. Dr. Thom has all along intended to con duct his own case, and will appear before the Lord Chief Justice on Friday—not as a last resort, merely because the Government has declined to aid him, but in pursuance of his original design. The re solution does the public-spirited gentleman great credit, but it by no means lessens the responsibility of the Government or the public. It is not by amateur labour, however zealous, that the prosecution can be exhaustively carried out, and a satisfactory decision reached ; and a possible failure through well•intentioned mistakes is as unpleasant to contemplate as the absence of any trial at all. To obtain the means of effectively carrying on the case is therefore indispensable; and we are glad to see that the fact is beginning to be recognised. Mr. Darby Griffith offers a subscription of £lOO towards the costs ; and there can be little doubt that his sentiments will be shared by many who have been less prompt in giving them utterance. It depends, then, on the disposition of the public to follow the example of Mr. Griffith, whether the prosecution shall have full justice done to it or not. It is to be hoped should other means fail, that it is not yet too late for Mr. Bruce to interfere, and thus to arrest the grave scandal which must arise if the most important commercial prosecution which our time has witnessed fail through mere misadventure. Effectively handled, whatever its results, the trial would place on record one of the most valuable representative cases which our judicial procedure has yet supplied for the guidance of the mercantile world. The Daily Nears declares that the money epidemic seems to be clearing London society, as twenty years ago the potato disease swept away the population of Ireland. Just as the East and its speculators are beginning to fancy that they see the dawn of a calm day, a storm, growing rapidly to the dimensions of a hurric ane , h as burst upon the astonished West. What is to be the end of the fashionable crisis? In the mercantile crisis the ruin began at the other ,end of the system. The great dealers in money-lending and discounts suddenly fell to pieces, and with them fell the companies they had created, the enterprises they had fostered, and all the minor traders in speculation who had lived by picking up the crumbs that fell from their table. In the fashionable difficulty the case has been inverted. The customers and the borrowers have gone first, and it remains yet to he seen whether those on whose means they floated will not join them in the great maelstrom where they are whirling, or will contrive to keep a footing outside and save themselves alive. What effect will these events have on the Turf, and what has now, unhappily, become the soul of the Turf—the Ring ? The Ring, it may be presumed, whether it goes with a crash or dwindles away from want of sus teeance, will be eliminated from the racing system. When this change has taken place we may possibly see the old character of racing restored as it existed when Lord Derby, Lard Exeter, Lord Glasgow, Lord Palmerston, and General Peel were its leading patrons, and when men of wealth and position did not shrink from running horses in their own names ; but if no t, we indulge a hope that we shall not much longer see the names of noble gentlemen bandied about like shuttlecocks in discreditable contests in courts of law, which drag into the strife even their wives and their mothers. In referring to the recent catastrophe in Hosi er -l ane, the Herald says that such silent slaughter in the midst of a great city, on a Sabbath evening, strik es th e m i n d almost with a fee lin g of awe. That a whol e f am il y s h ould be thus swept o ff in a night—the man in th e p r i me o f hi s his days, and the babe as it lay in the cot—i s an i nc id ent which may well excite unmitigated horror. Such a merci less sacrifice of human life would seem to demand some overpowering motive. Yet, in this case, we can trace nothing but the exaggerated impulse of insanity. Still there was enough of reason to enable the man—at some time or another—to indite a couple of letters, duly directed and posted, es if in relation to the most ordinary affairs of every-day existence. When such hideous tra gedies as this start up in the midst of our bu s y lif e it prompts the question whether, by some mysterious derangement of the intellect, the most amiable and affectionate of men may suddenly be transformed into the most ferocious murderers and determined suicides. Does it only need the brain to be unduly wrought upon, whether by physical agony or by overwork, or by the mere pressure of care, in order for the husband to slay wife, children, and self—quenching the tire upon the hearth as with a deluge of blood? We are inclined to believe that deeds so murderous and monstrous, even where insanity is present, are not wholly unconnected with previous degeneracy of character. Suicide may be perpetrated by the best of men in a moment o f hallucination ; but we would fain hope that the wise and virtuous do not become as demons the niomeht reason totters on its throne. The frequency of murder and suicide in the present day seems to us to indicate a moral as well as a mental and physical cause. It may be a moot question, but we are inclined to think that even insanity does not wholly obliterate character. It is a dark subject, and eight corpses in one house make it a matter of rainful interest, IMPERIAL PARMA MENT HOUSE OF COMMONS—This D.Y. The SPEAKER took the chair at two o'clock. DIFIIISONMENT FOIL DEBT BILL. On this bill being considered, the ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the insertion of a clause waking the act applicable to the Vexatious Indictment Act, and to provide for the case of a justice of the peace becoming bankrupt or arranging with his creditor, in which event be should become incapable as a justice of the peace for five years. - The next clause was agreed ti. Mr. Sergeant SIMON moved the omission of the first paragraph iu clause 5, which instituted an entire new sys tem of jurisprudence. The enactment of the fifth clause perilled a man's liberty, for the proviso, as it stood on affidavit, might be cooked up in an attorney's office be hind the unfortunate man's back, and thus he might be kept in prison for the space of 40 cloys. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the motion. The cause had been discussed three times by the house in committee, and the object of it was merely to sustain the county court jurisdiction which was extended by the bill to the superior courts. If the clause was omitted he thought they might as well give up the bill and take nu further trouble in the matter. Mr. HADFIELD thought it would be worth the while of the custodians of the public revenue to pay many of the misLrable debts of a few shillings for which people might be sent to prison under this act, rather than incur the expense of maintaining the poor creatures in prison for the term sot out in the act. Afte: a short discussion the proposition was negatived. [LEFT SITTING. I HOUSE OF LORDS.— LAST EVENING. The Lonn CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from the Governors of Christ's Hospital against the Endowed Schools Bill. The Poor Law Act Amendment Bill was read a third time and passed. THE ENDOWED SCHOOLS BILL. Earl DE GREY and RIPON moved that this bill be read a second time. He thought their lordships would agree with him that the present state of many of the en dowed schools in this country was not in a satisfactory condition. The bill proposed to carry out certain preli minary work—to examine into the condition of the schools, and to arrange the authority under which they were to be governe(L After some conversation tho bill was read a second time, and Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMNIONS.—LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. THE TELEGRAPH BILL. Mr. GRIEVE asked the Postmaster-General whether it was the intention of the Government to bring in a bill to carry out the provisions of the Telegraph Act of 1868. The Marquis of HART INGTON stated that a bill was prepared, and would shortly be submitted to the house for the purpose of providing for the transference of the tele graphs to the Government. A clause would be inserted to give a monopoly to the Government as at the Post office. Mr. GOURKE asked the Attorney-General whether, in the event of the house agreeing to the secand reading of the Dublin Freemen Disfranchise! cent Bill, it was Lis in tention to bring in a UN to dis!'ranchisi the ward of the borough of BradfJrd respecting which Mr. Baron Martin has reported to the Sp..alter that, being '• inhabited prin cipilly by Lishmen of the working class, large numbers" therein "were influenced by corrupt practices" at the: late election. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL answered in the nega tive, the two cases, in his opinion, not being at all similar (Hear, heir.) THE BXNKRU'I'FCY BILL. This bill was real a third kiln° and passed, amid loud cheers from the NEuisterial side of thb houie. THE CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES. Mr. CANDLISH. rose to call attertiou to the imperfect audit of the public acamuts, and to the failure of the departments to l:ty their aecouuts before the Auditor- General. The hozlse then went into Committee of Supply on the Civil Service Estimates. A number of votes relating to Royal palaces, the public offices, Sc., were agreed to, and the house resumel. After a desultory discussion, several bills wore formally advanced a stage. The house then adjiurned. DECISION UNDER. THE BETTING ACT. At the Marlborough-street Polite-court, yester day, Mr. T. Hawkins, tobacconist, Oxford-street, who wa: charged with keeping and using his house as a betting-house, contrary to the 16th and 17th Vict., cap. 119, appeared before Mr. Tyrw•hitt to learn the decision of the magistrate. Mr. Beard appeared for the defendant. The evidence was to the effect that the police went to the defendant's house, asked the price of horses, and, having offerel to make bets, were told to go outside the shop, and on doing so they made bets and gave money to the defendant. They also made bets in the shop, and received money which they had won by betting. Mr. Tyrwhitt—•l adjourned the case when before me last week as I wished to look into the law, this being the first case of the kind before me. I am now prepared to give my decision. The Betting house Act, 16th and 17th Vict., cap. 119, passed in 1853. After a long abeyance recent events appear to have revived its action. That its enactments may be put in force against the class of smaller offenders is evinced by the present prosecution, but little more can be said for the instituting it, for the Legislature seems to have contemplated establish ments where, as a matter of (regular money-hunt ing trade or business, betting was carried on sys temically in the ways descriUed in the act, and have accordingly attached corresponding penalties of large amount. Thus in many of the cases where magistrates in the north have convicted under this act, regular betting-house tackle has been produced in evidence, such as a business like array of account or betting books, with receipts or documents in the nature of " assurances to pay or give hereafter money, &c., on an event relating to a horse-race" (the words of the act). Now, in this case the close search of the whole premises produced only club subscription cards, telegraph messages, and memoranda relating to them, with one solitary card, headed " Newmarket Craven Meeting." We must not exclude that evi dence when we come to consider that of the detec tives, who bought cigars from the defendant, and afterwards offered to bet, leading him on to take their bets at first elsewhere, and on a later day, one or two in the shop itself. Ido not say that a cigar shop, or any other shop, may not be brought within the act if the surrounding circum stances showed distinctly that the trade was only a blind for the real business of the place, if that real business was the " using" that shop for the purpose of the occupier betting with persons resorting thereto for that purpose. But is there here sufficient evi dence to show that any such colourable keeping of the shop existed ? and, on the whole, I think there is not. Putting an end to betting pure and simple has not, I apprehend, been attempted by this act, nor does it seem to have contemplated a bet with a person who buys a cigar in a shop, and by thus making the shopkeeper's acquaintance in duces him to bet, but was intended to repress the mercenary pursuit of gain on a business scale by , 4 opening places as betting-houses or offices in the way of gaming -houses" (the words in the preamble). However, if acts of betting con tinue to take:place in any part of the defendant's premises they will afford strong evidence of the place being used in an illegal way. I therefore caution the defendant as to his future conduct, but dismiss the charge. I have arrived at this conclu sion after some doubt, but without affecting to lay down anything out of this case ; it is enough to say that it does not appear to me to be one which were I to convict my decision would be confirmed on appeal to the sessions. Charge dismissed. THE FOREIGN MAILS.—The number of letters passing through the New Ycrk Post-office during the last fiscal year amounted to 11,128,532, an increase of 830,298 over the preceding year. Of these 5,228,223 an increase of 212,392 were received, and 5,900,307, an in crease of 587,906, were forwarded. In 1868-69 the groat steamship companies carried 9,532,252 let:ers, distributed as folews :—Cunard line, 2,880,553 ; German Lloyd, ?,664,258 ; Inman, 2.063,862 ; Hamburg, 1,600,387 ; French Direct, 323,292. The number of letters received from tud forwarded to the principal countries with which corre ,pondence is maintained by the United States is as fol lows: —Great Britain, 4,680,822 ; France, 1,799,949 ; Bre men, 1,416,412 ; Prussia, 1,104,216 ; Hamburg]; 899,242 ; West Indies, 647,055. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Pay LIVERPOOL MEETING—Trus DAY. (Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH) JUVENILE PLATE. Ptarmigan Mrs Croft filly 2 My Honey Seven z an. TATTERALL'S—Last Evening. LIVEEPOOL CUP. ö to 4 agst The Spy (taken and offered) 4to 1 aget Ploughboy (offered) 7to 1 agst The Laird (taken) Bto 1 agst Romping Girl (offered) GOOD WOOD CUP. 7 to 4 agst Brigantine (taken) sto 1 agst Drummer (taken) sto 1 agst Rupert (offered) GOODWOOD STAKES. 100 to 12 agst Robespierre (taken and offered) 100 to 12 agst Alphenstock (offered-9 to 1 taken) 9to 1 agst Starter (taken) 10 to 1 art Adolphus (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agst Bete Noir (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agst Make Haste (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst Storm King (taken) 20 to 1 agst Assinoboine (offered-25 to 1 taken) 20 to 1 agst War (offered) 20 to 1 agst Provider (offered) 1000 to 25 agst Blinkhoolio (taken) ST. LEGER. 2to 1 agst Pretender (off-9 to 4 taken) 4to 1 agst Pero Gomez (off-450 to 100 taken) 12 to 1 agst Dunbar (taken and wanted) 25 to 1 agst George Osbaldeston (taken and off) DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Sunshine (taken) LIVERPOOL SUMMER MEETING. THURSDAY, July 1. The Liverpool Cup of 200 sovs in specie, added to a sweepstakes of 25 sovs each ; certain winners extra One mile and a half. 0 subs, 50 of whom pay 3 Bove each to the fund. Age st lb Romping Girl ... 5 8 12 Fortuuio ... 5 8 lu Tabouret ..; 4 8 7 Cecil ... 4 7 13 Ploughboy 5 7 13 'rb.. Spy ... 4 7 9 St. Mungo... ... 3 7 9 Fair Wind... 5 7 7 Mount Palatine ... 6 7 1 Islam .. 3 7 1 Age st lb King of the Fairies 5 7 1 Minster Bell, ... 5 7 1 The Laird... ... 4 6 13 Acaster ... 3 6 10 Bete Noir ... 3 6 9 Stella ... ... 4 6 7 Crocus ... ... 3 (pd) Aftermath... ... 3 6 5 Sportsman... 6 6 2 GOOD WOOD ME Weights for the Goodwood (Calculate; Age st lb Kt. of the Garter... 5 9 7 Trocadero ... 5 9 7 Fortunio ... 5 9 7 Blinkhoolie ... 5 9 7 The Rake ... 5 9 7 See-Saw ... 4 9 0 Rusicrucian ... 4 9 0 Tabouret ... 4 9 0 Re6titution ... 4 9 0 Blueskin 4 8 10 Brigantine... ... 3 7 10 The Goodwood Stakes (liar and only 5 if declared, wi subs, 26 of whom declared - Age st lb, Blinkhoolio 5 9 0 The Rake 5 8 Cecil „. 4 8 7 Taraban ... 5 8 5 Pticelms ... 4 8 '2 Alpenstock ... 3 7 12 , Islam 3 7 91 Bracken ... 5 7 71 Robespierre ... 3 7 2 War 6 7 Assiueboiuu ... 5 7 0 Our Mary Also ... 4 6 12 Bete N ... 3 6 12 Make Haste ... 4 6 12 Acaster ... 3 6 10 TINU - J CLIC 29. Cup ; two miles and a half. .d to date.] . . Age st lb Laid Hawthorn ... 3 7 7 St Mungo 3 7 7 The Drummer ... 3 7 7 Provider ... 3 7 7 Typhon . 3 7 7 Martyrdom ... 3 7 7 Robespierre 3 7 7 Thor waleden 3 7 7 Rucett ... 3 7 Lancet S 7 idicap) of 23 ovs each, 15 ft, th 100 added. 2i miles. 51 Age et lb IMiss Gratwieke ... 4 6 10 Provider ... 3 6 10 I Vallation g 4 6 6 IChural 4 6 6 Y. Fenton_ 3 6 6 Adolphus ... 3 6 2 !Storm King ... 3 6 0 Hobart ... 3 5 12 Queen of theForeat, by Atherstoue 3 5 10 Starter 3 5 10 Vacuum 3 5 Aub.tde 3 5 7 Judge - ... 5 7 RACING F Worcester l, 2 Newmarket July 6, Sc. Carlisle 6, 7 Hendon ..... Pontefract l2, 13 Nottingham l3, 14 Southampton 13, 14 SEPT: liirgate Ipswich 2 \Vest Drayton 3 Warwick... 7, 8 Curragh (Royal) 7,8, 'J Abingdon U, It► Doncaster 14, 15, 16, 17 Hampton 21, 22 A LTG Deauville 1 Ripon 2 ' Br►ghton 3, 4 Tiverton 4 lirigl►ton Club 5 Lewes 6, 7 Egutun to, II \Volverhan• peon lO, II Windsor 12, 13 Bromley 17, 18 Stockton lB, 19, 20 Dover 18 OCT( Bedford 5, Edinburgh 6, 7, 8 Leicester 7, 8 Bromley 7 8 Newmarket 2d 0ct...11, &c. Chelmsford l9 2 1 0 Kelso 19 20 NO VI Harrow ...2, Worcester 3, 4 St. Albans 5, 6 Oxford Ilungetfot d 24 York 24, 25, 26 Croydon P 1) mow h i6, •)7 Scarbor.mgh 30, 31 Badsan 11Adeu 3l Groat Yarmouth 31 Dorby Summer .. 31, Sop 1 Weymouth 31, Sep. 1 Canterbury 3l, Sep. 1 Cheltenham 19.2€ Curragh l9, 2G, 11 West Drayton ........21, 22 Hereford 2l, 22 Monmouth 23, 24 Newmark .t H'ton ...25, &o. IXTURES. Down Royal Corpo. l4 Airdrie LI Ituading I.i, lti Kiiiitsfurd 1G llmitiugdou 91i, 21 Stamford ... - ..,13 Goodwood 27, 28, 29, 30 NIDER. Richmond 21, 22 Lichfield Western (Ayr)........22, 23 Ileudun 23 24 Monmouth... • 23, 24 Newmarket Ist 0ct....28, &c. Lanark... 29 31/ UST. B Elt. iMBER. Eglintonllutit I L iverpool 9, 10, 11 i Shrewsbury ..... l5, 16 STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES. JULY. Kingsbury. 9 OCTOBER. Bromley 7 1 West Drayton 2l, 22 _ N OVEMBER. Worcester 0 , 3, 4 1 Shrewsbury 16, Harrow 2, 3 f Leamington. Haut ....23 &a Lverpool 9 10, 11, 12 I COURSING FIXTURES. AUGUST. St. Albans 17 OCTOBER. Ancaster and Willoughby, Lincolnshire 5 , 6 . Ormesby 19, ac Huntingdon Club.. 26, 27 AMERICA. WASHINGTON, June 28. The State Department has sent a special agent to Cuba to ascertain the strength and prospects of the insurgents. The ex-President, Mr. Andrew Johnson, is in Washington. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. BY TELEGRAPH. GRAVESEND, TtlOSday Morning. Arrived, June 28.—Severn, steamer, from St. Übe's ; May Queen, steamer, from Mogador ; Cortes, steamer, from Vigo ; Cosmopolitan, steamer, from Hamburg ; Sovinto, from Bjorneborg ; George, and Emanuel, from Soderham. Arrived, June 29.—Robert and liaanah, from Christian sand; Eolus, from Frederickstad ; Soderham, from Sunda wall; Westley, from Cherbourg; Impetuous and John Murray, from Guernsey; Verwissertin, from Norkoping ; Cassandra, from Memel ; Love Bird, from Dantzic ; Au rora, steamer, from Lisbon. Sailed—Penther, steamer, for Boulogne; Martinus Henrietta, for Dordt. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Anchored, June 28—Hecamode, of Portsmouth, from the West for the north. _ Passed, June 28—Lady Aberdour, brig, from the north for the west ; Fison, barque, from Shields, for Genoa ; Launceston, ship, from Shields, for Aden; Olivier Made line, from London, for Bordeaux; Laagstone, from Sun derland, for Bombay. Passed, June 29. General Havelock, of Portsmouth, from the north, for the west. Foreign Nail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptol.m.July 12. Ditto, via If Nrseilles . July 14 Brasil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video July 4. Ditto, by Irreneh packet Cape Verde, by Brazil paotet page of Good [lope. Ascension. and St. Melena....June 27. China. Penang, and Singapore, via Bouthampton..July 3. ulbraltar. via Southampton... India. is Southampton unto. via Monet .......... . June 2$ Malta, Egypt, &o. Juno 23 Di cs: Itiar June a Newfouudlana .... ~„„June 30 Mat.ritius, Capo of Good Hope, and Natal, via Scutliami ton Ditto, iaraeilles July I Portugal United States, Ci.nada, Calitornia, ckc., by British packet.... _Juno 26 Ditto di kW (Baltimore) Ditto, by 1 lilted States packet Ditto, by lu paoltet Juno 28 %Vest Inuica mid Paaitic (except Mexico anti Baha mas) .Juno 2; West Coa3 4 ma, Madeira, and Tenerille June 24 Cuba and ••• •• Juue 28 Bermudi via Halifax•.. "hair J. via New York.