The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-13 00:00:00

MO.NEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocic. Business was not over brisk to-day, and the re sult was that Consols receeded slightly. In foreign stocks there was rather more doing than is usual on Saturday, and in railway shares few alterations were made in the prices of some of the principa lines. Consols are 93 28 for money ; ditto, for Ac count, —; Three per Cent. Reduced, 93f ; New flree per Cents, 931 1 s ; ditto Annuities, April, 1885, 121 ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 244 2. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 213 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 51 per Cent., May, 1870, 1104 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 22 pram. ; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 18 prem. In the Foreign Market the quotations were as follows :—Argentine, 891 to 81 ; Brazilian of 1865, 831 to 84 ; Chilian of 1867, 94 to 95 ; Egyptian of 1 864, 871 to 881 ; ditto:of 1868, 741t0 e ;;Italian of 1861, 561 to I ; ditto Tobacco Loan, 51 to 6 prem. ; Mexican, 151 to 1 ; Peruvian of 1865, 778 to ; Russian of 1866, 93 to 94 ; ditto Nicolai, 67 to ; ditto Orel, 821 to 83 ; ditto Moscow, 801 to 81; ditto Charkof-Azof, 811 to 1 ; Charcow-Kre mentschug, 81 toe ; Spanish of 1867, 30 to 31; Turkish of 1858, 67 to 68 ; ditto of 1862, 66 to 66 ; and ditto of 1865, 40i to I. In the railway market, London and North Western are 1211 to I ; Great Western, 53 to 1 ; Midland, 122/ to f ; London aid South Western, 91 to 93 ; Brighton, 52 to 1, ex div. ; South Eastern,' 821 to 831 ; Metropolitan, 1121 to / ; Great Northern, 1131 to f ; ditto A, 1121 to 113 ; and London, Chatham, and Dover, 171 to 4. American 5-20 Bonds have risen 4 per cent., the price being now 77.1 to 78. Erie Railway shares are 241 to 25. In Banking and Miscellaneous shares prices are the same as yesterday. There were no gold operations at the Bank yes terday. The Holsatia, from New York, has brought £107,000. On 'Change there has been an apparent diminu tion in the demand for bills upon the Continent, and the rates upon France, Holland, and Austria Were decidedly more favourable to this country. It has been announced in the usual way that one of the members of the Stock Exchange had, at the settlement just concluded, failed to make good his differences in recent transactions. This embar rassment was anticipated, as the party in question had sold a large amount of Turkish and other secu rities, and was unable to buy them back except at a heavy loss. His total liabilities are believed to represent about £250,000. Messrs. Alexanders, Cunliffes, and Co., the Na tional Discount Company, and some other esta blishments have raised their rate for deposits at 14 days' call from 21 to 21 per cent. The half-yearly accounts of the Great Eastern Railway show, subject to audit, a balance of about £ 51 ,000, which is equal to rather more than 11 per cent. It is understood, however, that the directors intend to recommend that, in view of the . difficul ties through which the company has been passing, the shareholders should abstain from dividing this surplus for the present, and should carry it over as a reserve to the accounts of the current half-year. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Royal Mail Steam Packet Company a resolution was unanimously adopted authorising the managers to take the neces sary proceedings for winding up the affairs of the company. Mr. J. Young, of Turquand, Youngs, and Co., was appointed liquidator. The half-yearly meeting of the Great Western Railway Company will be held on the 12th of Uarch. A general court of the London Assurance Corpo ration is called for the 17th of March, " to consider of a dividend on the consolidated capital stock for the half year ending at Lady-day next." A petition for the - winding up of the City Dis count Company (Limited and Reduced) is to be heard before Vice-Chancellor Malins on the 26th instant. • The ordinary general meeting of the Anglo lonian Steam Navigation Company (Limited) is Called for the 25th inst. The ordinary general meeting of the Bahia Steam Navigation Comp any (Limited) is convened for the 19th inst. We are officially informed that there is much e xaggeration in the reported misunderstanding between the Republics of Honduras and Salvador. The works on the first section of the Honduras Interoceanic Railway from Puerto Caballos to , 6 antiago, are i n progress un d er th e su p erv i s ion of Mr. Henry O'Hagan, engineer, and Mr. Ransom, assistant engineer ; and the Betsy Morris sailed last !I:tenth from Cardiff with a large cargo of rails and railway— materials, shipped by the contractors of the line, Messrs. Waring Brothers and M'Cand ,is• h• Messrs. Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt have last received by the Neva advice of a consignment of r silver b ars f rom th e m i n es of A ramac i na an d S t. Lu cia mortgaged to the English bondholders of the ' l4 aduras Railway Loan. Letters received by this West India mail state t hat the C omm i ss i oner i n t r usted with th e nego tiations for a transfer of some millions of acres of 'and from the Nicaraguan Government to the Mos quito land security holders was, by last advices, about to proceed to Managua, the capital of the BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. , OOVERNMEXT FUNDS.; a Per Cent. Consols ... 93 2/ . Di tto for A ccoun t, t. Per Cent. Reduced ... 23; Kew 3 p er C ent D o 2 i per Cent. Jan. 1894 "" 0 5 per Cen ) au. 1873 'Annuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 l2/ t.„ (Red Sea Telek,raph), Aug., 1908 — ' c heep= Bills, £l,OOO, 21 per Gt. Do. £5OO Do . £lOO & £2OO - Ilali'of Engl an d St oc k, 4 per C en t r , Do. account r t tleda 4 per Cent. Bonds — "Ater-Colonial Cranium — T „INDIAN CIrOTEENMENT SECURITIES. Thum hock 101 per Cent., April 1874 213 D. Opening, for Account - . 5 p er C en t. July, 1880 D 0.4 Per Cent.,Oct.Oct 1888 - -0 . Certificates — D o. Effaced Papui 4 por Cent , 1) 1 ,°- 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 . — DJ ''°. 5 / per o:mt. May 1879 llO/ 5 per Cent Rup. Deb. 1872 — .1 Do do. 1877 — b Do. d o . 1882 — '" 1 ). Deb., 5 per Cent. , Aug. 1873 " .,, ,, O. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,000 o.'under .£l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Ar gentiue Republic, 6 per Cent ... .. B Ol i 1 4 ~ Scrip .£45 paid OO .. ... 41t riaa Bonds 5 per cent ti t , o 1859 6l iliatz 6 per Cent — il ° ' li per Cent., 1852 — -°' do. 1858.... _ Do, do 1860 I, l)° ' 'd " 1863 — ..q. 5 19 " 1 )0 * per Cent., 1865 t •Account B3l 4i 1 -3 130 s Ayres 6 per Cent. C u : 2 ,, Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) O tt e ' per Cont. .I.)luti 6 per Cent — ])o•"• 4 1 Per Cent — Do. 3 per Cent., — D ° 6 Per cent. 1867 7 102 C D ,per Cent., 1866 aZ,, al bi 9l 3, 6 per Cent. _ D a 'ill., 3 per Cent., 1823........ •• ....... " 1 irbtan Principalities, 7 ler Cent 77, ail ° . , B Per Cont., 1867 — kli t ,,, a f New - Oonsolidated, 1 per Cent — 7, 1 ?" 81 ') 7 per Cent ••• ~,e " SPe °' £ sii t oud Is sue ••••• •• 000000 - Bo d Do ' 11 8 • .£lOO Bonds ..... 85/ Do. 1864 — Do too. R 50.0 Bond A s ccount En l) °. 10,1 B c m ~ on 'Gush Scrip, 1868 n o Gov e do. £45 pd — die gr_. rntilent Railway Debentures T ',"K per Ccat., 1824 5, ex Coups -,0. Account • 0 0. c ouroos . ~ 0112. Account - ri_nereala 5 per Cent .. Ita r "Gov.liail. Loan., 10p. Ct., all pd 87 0 4 6 er Accountant.,lB6s . ........., . 1. ' ' - • • 86 Do Almommana Railway — , --vicar. 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Dn. 1864 — Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French guntovideau 6 per Cent. .. — Moorish Imperial 5 por Cent New Granada l5l Do 3 per Con,. — Do. Deferred Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 — Do Account - .. 771 i Do 4f per Cent. (llribarron) Do 4 per Cent., 1862 Do Account --- Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2.') 361 Do. do. 1867 — Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid — Itussia,n 5 per Cent., 182; £ St — Do 4} per Cent . 1850 Dn 4- per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 por Cent., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1861, XlOO Bolide.% 931 Do. do. £B4 13s. do — Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 931 i Do: do £Bl 15s. do — Do Nicolas Railway 671 7 Sarlinian b per Cent 72-i Spanish 3 per Con .. --- Do. Acc , .,unt .... 321 Do. 1807 - Do. Account Do. New Deferred — Do. Account Do. Passive Do. Corn. C'rt. of Coui. nut funded ... Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Do do, Scrip — pn.. Turkish 6 per Cent.l ., ~.... . — Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 74 Do 6 per Cent., 1862 — Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 67 } Do 5 per Cent. 1865 • — Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1866 64}. 6} Do I per Cent.,. Guaranteed Do Land Warrants (Hectares) .... Venezuela 3 per Cent.: — Do. Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins 52 Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21 per Cont. .F.x. 12 Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... Do. Account French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. z5l. Do Account 57 i CLOSING PRICES. Jonsols, Money 92i 3 Do. Account, March 4 .. 93 i.C7 " 'Vt . e4 e. 5 0 117 ,cv irathir LIER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 12. The Queen, accompanied bylPrincess Beatrice, and attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole, drove out yesterday afternoon. AMERICA. .NEW YORK, Feb. 12. According to Mr. Adam Moffat's Report the week's receipts of cotton at American ports amounted to 71,000 bales. Total since the Ist of September and taken by American spin ners, direct, 1,720,000, and the shipments to England 31,000, to France 1,000, and to the Con tinent 6,000. Total shipments since the Ist of September, 740,000 bales. Stock, 410,000 bales. Market quiet, and tending easier. Middling Up land, llf ; cost and freight per steamer. LOCAL TAXATION.' Att influential deputation waited upon the Prime Minister yestday afternoon, in order to bring before him a very important matter. It consisted of representatives of the various Chambers of Agriculture through . out the kingdom, introduced by Mr. Clare Sewell Read, M. P. for South Norfolk, and its o bj ec t was to call the attention of the Government to `the question of local taxation. There were present Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Goschen, President of the Poor-law Board, and Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, Under Secretary for the Home Department. The speakers detailed the proceedings of the recent Conference of Chambers at the Salisbury Hotel, and urged that the present way of assessing local taxation was excessively burdensome to the owners of real property. They expressed a wish that the poor rate should be equalised, and that the localities should have some means of being represented at the boards charged with the distribution of sick funds. They further asked that Mr. Gladstone would advise the Queen to consent to the appointment of a Royal Commis sion to consider the whole subject. In reply, Mr. Gladstone said that not only he but his colleagues were of opinion that this was a matter deserving of the most serious consideration, and that it was one for the delibera tion of the whole Cabinet. It was also an imperial question, and Ministers would have to consider if the changes they might be hereafter disposed to make in the raising of local taxation should be extended to the whole kingdom or confined only to England. He was not prepared to say whether a Royal Commission or a select committee would be the best way of acquir ing the necessary information, but he had no hesitation in promising the deputation that the matter should receive the most careful consideration from the Ministry. The deputation then withdrew, much pleased at the cordial reception it had met with, and the assurance that the Government would take the matter in hand. JLECTION INTELLIGEIVCE. BRADFORD.—Mr. W. M. Thompson, having been chosen by the " independent " Liberals as their candidate for the seat vacant by the unseating of Mr. Ripley, has issued his address, in which he asserts that he does not believe in sectarianism or class legislation. "On all questions relating to Ireland," he says, " I shall endeavour to form a judg ment from the Irishman's point of view, anxious to main tain the union between the two countries for the good of both, and, above all, to do what is just." DUBLIN.—A large meeting, comprising the different sec tions of the Liberal party in the city of Dublin, has been held for the purpose of choosing a candidate in the room of Sir Arthur Guinness. The Lord Mayor presided. It was unanimously resolved that Sir Dominic Corrigan should be the Liberal champion, and a subscription list was immediately opened to defray the expenses. Nearly £2,000 was subscribed in the room. The Conservatives have not yet succeeded in obtaining a candidate. Sir . :dward Grogan, who contested Dublin University Of the last election, has declined to come forward. CITY OF LONDON.—The Star denies that Baron Roth schild has been selected as the Liberal candidate. Our contemporary states that Sir Benj. Phillips, Mr. Kirkman Hodgson, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., and Mr. Thomson Hankey have also been respectively mentioned as eligible candidates. A meeting is to be held on Moniay next, when it is probable that Baron Rothschild will be selected. The Bishop of Ossory (Dr. O'Brien) has issued a circular to his clergy, stating that he cannot comply with their request to appoint a day of humiliation in view of the present circumstances of the Irish Church, " legal ob jections" being an obstacle in the way; but he advises, as the Archbishop of Dublin has also done, tbat on the first Sunday in Lent, "that which immediately precedes the as rembling of Parliament," the people should be urged, in .heir church and family devotions, to pray specially that, by the consultations of the Legislature, all things may bo "so ordered and settled that religion and piety may be esta blished among us for all generations." A very singular charge of libel was heard on Thurs day at the Sheffield Police Court. The defendant 'was Thomas Orton, secretary of an anti-compulsory vaccination , :ommittee, and he was summoned for the publication of an anti-vaccination handbill, in which libellous state ments were made about Alderman Saunders, the late chair man of the Sheffield board of guardians, on account of his attempts to enforce the Vaccination Act. The handbill made out vaccination to be the mark of the beast spoken of in Revelation ; and described Alderman Saunders as a wholesale murderer, urging on, liko another Herod, the slaughter of the innocents. The bench held the handbill to be a libel, and publication being proved, they committed the defendant to the assizes for trial. A rather novel experiment is to be made at Itocn dale. At a public meeting on Thursday held in that town, the Leeds Mercury states, it was determined to erect a new In firmary in connection with the Dispensary already in existence, and £3,550 was subscribed by the gattlemen present towards the expenditure which the enlargement will entail. A resolution was proposed, and, after a warm discussion, adopted, deciding that one ward in the now building shall be sot apart for treatment of patients on the homcoopathic principle. Some of the speakers expressed their conviction that this concession would produce an addition to the funds of the charity, but ono of the medical gentlemen present declared that he would not take office in an institution in which a homoeopathic . yrArd THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1869. SHARE LIST. ORDINARY tiklAn/g8 AND BTOCIEB. ihare Railways. Closing Business Paid. Prioe. dens. at Bristol and Exeter 103 78 82 at Caledonian WO 801 811 801 11 t Cambrian 20 Cornwall...-. at Dublin & Belfast Juno lOO 79 81 st Dun„Perth, & Ab. Juno l6O 70 72 2.) East London all 7 9 20 Do 15 2) Do 10 st Glasgow A. S. Western lOO 98 ICO at Great Eastern .._ lOO 421 421 421 at Do. E. Angl. No. 2 lOO 7 9 at Great North of Scotland lOO 16 16 st Great Northern ... 100 1121 1131 11.1 1 st Do. A 5t0ck...... lOO 112 1121 112/ 13 st Do. B stook lOO 125 1:7 it GtS. and W. of Ireland lOO 97 19 st Ut. Western —Original lOO 53 531 53 at Do. South Wales lOO 58 6 st Do. W. Mid.—Oxiord lOO 28 •49 at Do. Newport lOO 28 31 st Lancashire & Yorkshire lOO 1291 30 1291 at Lon., Brigh.,& S. Coast lOO 52 524 01 Do Scrip at Lon., Chat., and Dover LOU 17; 174 at Do. Metrop. Ex. A Lon. A. North Western lOO 1101 20 1201 at Lou. A. South Wesicru lOO 9. 93 92 1 at Man., Shel., & Li1:100111 lOO 50; 5 4 50., 14 at Metropolitan . lOO 111 1 1 1121 at Do Extension 10 Do. New rd 10 10 1 1 at Metropolitan Dliktrict. all 53 57 10 Metrop. at. John's Woo 1 6 at M...i.aud at Do, Birnain. S. Dwrby 100 8o 91 lit at N irth 13rittah at Do. lid., Pth., & Dun 100 st Nor.Eastern—Berwiek IC 0 105 1061 106 f 1 25 Do. 'L N.E purchase 1611.4 at Do Leeds. ...... st Do York l.O 95 , 94 971 at Do Carliile . ILO 125 ' )20 at Do Stock. & Darling lOO 131 133 st North Lon ion 10 Do New 1868 . 2 11 2 p at North Staffordshire lOO 58 60 581 at North and Junction 100 103 105 10 Do Now £lO shares 7 ... • • at Rhymney st Shropshire Union ICO 59 60 at South Devon .. st South Eastern lOO 82 84 83 21 st Staines, Wok'ham, & Wok all 12 13 at Tad V ale lOO 145 150 • Do. 0 ... ... 5 3 4 Waterford A. Kilkenny lOO 1u Waterloo A. Whiteha.l 0 RAILWAYS-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. at Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 86 88 at Caledonian Qrs., No. 2 lOO ... .., at Do. Scot. N.E., 41 per cent lOO ... ... st Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c lOO ... ... at Do. do. 7 per cent lOO . . ... at D% do. Ordinary lOO 80 82 st Do. Midland at Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 .., ... 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent gua all ... ... sti Dundee, Perth, and Aber deen Junction lOO 105 107 st Do. Ist Class preference lOO ~. .., at Wis. & S.W. gua. 5 per et lOO ... ... st (lt. Eastern, E.C. Ex. No.l 100 99 102 99 st Do do N 0.2 100 99 102 st Do do 6 per cent 100 105 108 st Do East Anglian Asp. c. 100 100 103 at Do do B 6 do. 100 ... ... st Do do 0 7 do. 100 ... ... st Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 100 103 at Do E. Union 4p. c. gua. 100 09 71 st Do Norfolk 5 p.c. Ex. 1846 100 ... ... st Do do 5 p.c.Wa,v.Va1. 1847 100 ... .., st Great Northern, 5 per cent 10 , ... ... at Do 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. c. pm. 100 ... .., st Do 4 1 do do do 100 .., ... st Do 5 do at sp. c. pm. 100 ... ... at Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent. lOO ... ... stj Gt. Nrth of Scotland, Ist pf 100 ... ... 84 Great South. and Western (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 9G 97 St) GLWest.—Orig.&Jut. - Rent chg., per gua. 5 p.c lOO 103 105 st Do. Orig. (B. &H. Ex). 5 p.c. 100 95 100 st Do do 4 1 per cent. 1850 100 88 9) at Do do 4 do do ... 100 78 80 st Do do 5 per cent. redem. 100 93 97 st Do do Birmingham gua 100 63 70 st Do do do pref... 100 . .. at Do do Chester gua lOO 72 75 st Do do do 8 per cent lOO ... . . st Do do do 6 do 100 95 100 at Do South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 ... ... at Do do 41 p.c lOO ... ... at Do do 41 1859 lOO ... ... st Do do 5 st Do West Mid. Oxford I st g 10) iii 116 st Do do 2il gua lOO 110 112 at Do Newport, ls tg. 5 p.c lOO 92 9 k st Do do 2d do 100 100 101 at Do gua. si per cent. 1863 100 ... ... 100 Lancaster & Carlisle 41 p.c. all .., . at Lancash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1 0 135 st Do Barnsley, £5 30103 p.c. 100 „.. ... at Do 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 130 135 st Do 41 (Blackburn purch). 100 98 102 at Loudon & Brighton, sp. c. guaranteed, No. 1 lOO .., ... at Do 5 per cent. gua. No. 2 lOO ... ... at Do 6 do do lOO ... ... st Do 5 do No. 4 lOO ••• ••• at Do 7 per cent . st Do 6 do (W.E. & C.P.) 100 ... ... at Do 4 do 1859 lOO at London, Chatham, &Dover 5 per cent ICO ... .. • st London and IT.W., C. and Nuneaton 5 per cent lOO 10) 111 at Do Bedford & Cambridge lOO ... .. . st Do Shrewsb'y & We lch p' l lOO ... ... st London and .`„ , .-W. 7 p,c late 3d shares, lOO 145 15) 21 6d. Do (Portsm. perp ans. 2s6d) all ... ... at Man., Shef., &Lineln. 6 p.c lOO 1H 117 6 Do £6 all par Ipm st Do 3/ per cent lOO 60 65 10 Do redeem. 6 percent 5 m ... at Mid. Consolidated., 6p. c— 100 135 110 st Do Bristol& Birm., Cp. c lOO 1•3 136 st Do 41 per cent. redeem lOO 100 102 sti Do 41 per cent. irredeem lOO 100 1 2 st Du Leicester & lichn,4;pe 100 110 92 st North British, 5 p.c. No. 1 lOO *** st Do E. &G.4p.c. S. Si D ... 100 ... at Do N. 8., N 0.2, 5 per cen.t 100 st Do Border Union, 51 p.c lOO :.. .. .....: st N.-Eastern—Cons. 4p c lOO 86 8; at Do 41 per cent. redeem lOO 95 97 at Do G Y.E. 4 per cent., lOO 17 Do Berwick capital 8 13.1. . . ... 25 Do York, H.& S. purchase lO 10 101 st Do Stcktn & Drling. A 5 P.C lOO 108 110 at Do W. liartlepoolll. and U lOO 87 8) 1 0 1 . 0 6. 8 s D ,. oZi ( s ge toc a lc d. A An nu . s., 10s allat l 2 9 2 271 1 10s Do Fixed 41 per cent all 8 9 at Waterford & Kilkenn" 1.0.6) 100 st Do Fixed 41 per cent ••• •.. 100 ... ... st Taff Vale No.l lOO 145 150 y, 6pc 100 41 43 RAILWAYS.—PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. With Dividends contingent on the ?roilts of each separate year. at Caledonian 41 p c gua. at Do Scot. Cen. Min. 7p c lOO ... ... st Do 41 p irredeem.." all ••• ••• . ... st Do 4p c con. issued at 80 65 • st Great Eastern 41 per cent. 100 • .. : 3. . . at Do 5 do, 1862 lOO 9j 8) st Do New 5 do, 1863,, lOO 8o srl st Do do 5 do, 1861 lOO 84 88 84 st Great Northern, 5p c irred lOO ... ... st Do Permanent 5 per cent lOO at Do Boston &Sleald, 41 pc 100 ._ ... at GreatWest.,W. Midi., 5p c 100 ... .. at Do Joint i.erpe. 5p c, 1865 100 86 1 0 st Do do 6p c irred., 1866 100 103 107 2J Do Vale N eath perp. 5p c all 19 20 st Kent Coast, 6 per cent, B lOO ... ... 0 Lane. and York. New 41 per cent till July, 1871 2 1 1 st Loud., Brig., &c., 41 pc, 1858 100 ... ... at Do do 4 do, 1860 100 —• ... st Do do 41 do, 1861 100 ... ... st D 3 do 41 do, 1863 100 ... ... at Do do 5 do, 1865 100 ... ... at Do No. 6 5 d o, 1866 100 ... ... at at Lo p , O N- 11 a ° d i. o , 7 &c ~ 5 2 d c , d 6 6 0 p p .1 . 1e . c . 8 :. 6. ... 5 :.: 1 11 1 :0 0 0 :0 01 : :: . 4 : : . 8 : : : :6 2'l at Do Metrop. Ex., B 6 p.c .. at London& N. IVestern, 5p c 100 1(1; 11 . 0 a l. to ldDian. chef. London f S . 6t. Lin.,Western, S p C ., at; Metropolitan 5 per cent st Midland, A 5 per cent pref lOO 10i 110 . at Do B 5 do 100 108 110 18 •Dos p c opt. to cony. to Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1869 all 11 lip 18 Do Inconv. New Shares 16 i il) 22 Do 5p c con, into Old Stk., Aug. 31, 1872 ... .. . 81 1 11 p st North British, E. and bl• st Do E. & 0., No. 3, 5 p. , c No. 1, 5 per cent ... at Do £lO guaranteed, 1861 100 ... st Do E. P., & Dun., 2d, 4pc 100 — st D o E.& (1 , N 0.2, 5 p p .c 110000 111 1: B y Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1862 100 "' ••• 102 104 . st N p ort o h Ed s G te . r , n (0 , r 4i ir p y e ) : 4g ccee P nn e tt 10 0 0 5 1 4 59; Do 5 do 1861 100 st as e l i at North N S o o D u( r lith t h a xES London,Stock.l a : s fStaffordshire ,&d cent) s D h 4l l a ir, r e p i t ) . e 5, c , P 1 es .5.9 100::: 100 at D DO o at st Victoria St. & Pimlico, ‘h pc 100 ... . : d d o o , 1 (03 864 . Cross) 1 , 863 100 ... ... BALL WAYS. -LINES LE A SED AT FIXED ---- RENTALS Birkenhead cent. Prefer 1 171 10 °; 1 j . Iti3 -5 100 stt Do. at Buckinghamshire at Chester and Holyhead lOO 51 56 at Do. 51 per cent. st Do. 5 do. at Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO ... a t Colchester Stour Valley ••• st East Lincoln, gua. 6p. c lOO 133 135 20 Gloater and Dean Forest aU . . "' a Gt. Easn., Ne wm., & c., 5 p.c 100 : s Do. E. U. Harwich, 4 p.c 100 69 71 at Do. do. Woodbrg. Ex., do. 100 69 72 at Gt. West, W. Mid., Herd 100 95 97 50 Hull and Selby all 109 111 at Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 215 221 at London and Blackwall lOO 96 vi at Do. 41 per cent lOO ... ... at London, Chat., &c., 41 p c lOO ~. '". at Do. Com. F und, 5 do 100 ... . at London and G reenwich at Do. do. Preference lOO ~, at London, Tilbury, & South 100 78 b "6 at Lowestoft, gua 4 per cent lOO 79 83 at Do. do. 6 do. 31 Manch., Buxton,all "l st Midland, Bradford, Prof lOO 93 94 -. 10 Mid Kent Cray Line) 30 Northern& East, 5 per cent all 5j 58 50 Do. do. 6 do. all „, at N. Eastern —Hartlepool at N. West. A peril. pref, 3p. c lOO 105 110 at Do B minixnunt 11 p.c lOO ,„ . ' at Notting. &Granth. 1.1.5 0 lOO 92 9 .1 25 Preston and ►1 yre. all 41 46 ... Royston, Hitch., and Shop. 100 133 13 . 5 st Shrewsbury and Hereford 100 133 135 10 Do do 8 21 2 p at S. Yorksh. an d River Dun 100 98 100 at De 4 per cent gua lO . 79 81 at Do 5 do st Vict. Station and Pimlico lOO 17 3 1 0 at W es t Cornwall 20 West London, Class A all 13 14 20 Do do B all „, 61 .. 20 Do do C all 7; at Weymouth and Portland lOO st Wilts and Somerset 81 83 DOCKS, st East and West India ...... 100 116 1W st Loudon and St. Katherine 100 48 SO 100 D oPeb. stock, 4 per cent all „. Freehold Land st Dock lOO 32 34 st Southampton . 100 71 75 /It surrey g9llllllOrciikl JOINT-STOCK BANKS Share NAME , 10 Agra Limited, A all Ito Do B paid.:ls 41 0: v s iii i i n ee g . 4 :u d si o n n e o s s 50 Albion 1100 Alliance, Limited 20 Anglo-Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all Li 19 Ist 1 20 Anglo-Hungarian 8 2 3 20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 8 5 4 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia all 10 12 20 Do issued at 2 pm....., 5 ... ••• 25 Bank of Egypt 20 Bank of Otago, lim. 25 Bank of South Australia all 31 31 50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39 10 Bank of New Zealand all 17 19 50 British North American 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, and China all 201 211 25 Chartered Mere. of India, London, and China all 29 301 20 City lO lls 1 2 4 100 Colonial 25 39 41 10 Consolidated, lim. 50 Delhi and London, lim 50 East London, Hill 5 11 05 20 English and American, lim 10 ... ••• 20 English Bank of Rio de Ja neiro, lim lO 1d; pr 20 English, , sottish, and Aus tralian Chartered 281 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation all ... 281 Do new 5l 4 I 100 Imperial, lim 2O 17 18 20 Imperial Ottoman lO 1 14 12 1 :.5 lonian. all 25 27 25 Do new .. . . ........ . 20 Lnd Mortgage oil/Ala, lint 4 31 3! 100 Do sp. c. 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Mar &Sept '9l lOO 108 110 Do June & Deo , 1.91 I Do Prost. ,1 AucYld. 1 -' - • ( erietl& 2, 169 6 j Nova Scotia 6D. o•Jan... and July. 1875 Do 1866 lOO 101 113 Queensind. 6p. e. '825 lOO 106 107 1(64 Do 1891 ...••••••••• lOO 1054 1064 Do. 6 p 6.1860.. -- Do. do. A 2 .... 100 108 110 Do rd. 1E93 ..... •••• •••• 101 107 168 ▪ Victoria 6.P.0. 100 112 113 1124 BFIEUT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Saturday Review, in surveying the prospects of the coming session, observes that there never was an opportunity when a Prime Minister had it more in his power, by rising to the height of the occasion, to give meaning and consistency to the action of his supporters, and to place the policy of his party on a serious and solid basis. On s number of great questions—on retrenchment, army reform , education, the treatment of the poor, the treatment ci criminals, law reform, the relations of capital to labour, the relations of the mother-country to the colonies, and many other subjects of scarcely less moment, the Liberal party, and the country which the Liberal party may be fairly taken to represent, are waiting to be guided. They long for a policy to be indicated on points like these, which shall be bold and decisive without being revolu tionary. Unless the Ministry shews itself equal to the task of indicating the general grooves in which on the great questions of the day its party should move, it will only hold a second-rate position, and will soon pay the penalty exacted from all Ministries that arc inferior tc what is expected from them. It will be supported, but it will be supported without confidence and without enthusiasm. To be really powerful, it must show itself capable, not of decent administration and of carrying out in a bungling way the suggestions of random thinkers, but of itself forming the ideas of the public. Retrenchment is popular, but no one knows what retrench ment means. Army reform is popular, but a subordinate member of the Ministry has already been made to eat humble-pie, because ho indiscreetly expressed an opinion about the chief command of the army. The London public is in a panic at the thought of the legion of expe rienced criminals whom it generously shelters in its bosom; but no one has any notion how to reconcile the surveillance of the police with the traditional liberty of the subject. Every one wants education to be much more diffused than it is at present, but no one knows how to diffuse it with out offending the clergy, or how to replace the clergy if they are offended. In all directions men are looking for guidance, and are waiting to see whether the present Ministry can guide them. Beyond even the Irish Church in . importance. the Saturday Review ranks the question of the position to be held by the House of Lords. The Archbishop of York has proclaimed the theory that the Commons are to initiate and the Lords to scrutinise. Il this doctrine were accepted, it would involve important consequences. No one can doubt that the Peers would be specially fitted for such an office, but the question is whether they will recognise it as their function. The truth is that the House of Lords is rapidly tending in the direction indicated by the Archbishop, though whether they will accept their new position without further struggle is a doubtful question. The Spectator says that the approaching session will be an anxious one in many respects, and that there is enough to do to keep Parliament in good health, even without recording dreams, and we have more than usual confidence that Parliament will do it. It is a new Parliamen s t; .it should be a fearless one, and its action will be very littli hampered by the " interests," which have never recovered the collapse of the paper fortunes caused by the failure of Overend, Gurney, and Co. The grand danger of the session is that all its great measures, and more particu , larly the measure the House was elected to carry, involve details so minute, and, to certain persons, so interesting, that action may be lost sight of in unintermittent discus. sion ; that night after night will he wasted about clauses which follow of necessity from principles already accepted. Great tact and great firmness will be required to keep the House to its task, and great forbearance and energy within the House itself. Of the tact and the firmness we are nearly secure, and the forbearance and the energy may also be displayed if the House will but remember that the one doubt in the public mind as to parliamentary govern. ment, the one cause which is so visibly alarming the " philosophers " who influence the masses, is the excessive, sometimes the intolerable, lumberingness of its action. That doubt signified nothing while the evil could be explained to be a result of a restricted suffrage, but it may matter much now that the nation, for the first time in its history, directly legislates for itself. The London Review observes that a recess unprecedented in our Parliamentary history is about to close, and that the House of Commons which Mr. Gladstone will meet next Tuesday is an anomalous product of an anomalous election, and it is summoned expressly to perform an anomalous act of State. We in this country have no written constitution to alter, but the business of the coming session nearly corresponds to one of those constitutional amendments with which the late troubles of the United States have familiarised us. The separation of the Church from the State in Ireland is a ehanze as fundamental, politically, if not socially, as the abolition of slavery in the South. Its proposal raised constitutional questions of the gravest character abcut royal oaths and obligations. In commenting upon the mealberi of the new House of Commons, it declares that the great interests committed to the charge of the new Parlia- ment are not likely to suffer in the hands to which they have been entrusted. The Parliament Las not deteriora'ed, and the great leaders who, in over-zeal, if not otherwise, might have interfered with the prosperity of Mr. Gladstone's Administration, are happily included harmoniously within it. Nor is anything to be feared from little foes. Mr. l3ouverie will be powerless, even if lie wished to make mischief. Lord Elcho is now simply a Tory who has • beaten a Liberal in a Scotch county ; a tenfold pressure (if his imperti• nonce and arrogance is not likely even to attract the attention of the strong Government now in power. In the Cabinet there are no known elements of discord on the great question of the day, and even on the vexed question of foreign affairs there is concurrence se far as the necessity of peace is concerned. With a House of Commons at once of average abilities and not likely tc be troubled by eroteheteers, and with a Ministry reso. lutely and unitedly bent on a settled and uncompromising policy, the country may hope to see Mr. Gladstone's great " Constitutional Amendment " prosperously carried by the " House of Representatives," however it may fare in the " Senate." The Senate must pass it sooner or later, and we are so much more republican than the Republicans, that a " Presidential veto " is a thing unknown amongst us and impossible. The Saturday Review considers that due deference should should be paid to the decision of the Chief Justice respect ing the press and the courts of law, and declares that it is better to err on the side, were it necessary, of unreasoning deference to one who holds Sir Alexander Cockburn's place than to canvass minutely or strictly even his obiter dicta. A judge conducting a great trial in the Queen's Bench may be excused for an excess of scrupulousness, especially while presiding over such a case as that of Saurin v. Starr. Whatever safeguards he can secure both for his own and the jury's impartiality during the trial, however wearisome and needlessly protracted, the presiding judge is bound to secure. As it is not now in England, as was the case in Coke's time, and as it is still in France, the judge's business to help either one side or the other, and as it is contrary to our sense of justice that the judge should exhibit any bias either way, especially in cases in which disputed points in religion are involved, and as we ask that be should not permit his own convictions to be unmistakeably plain before a case is concluded, we have reason to be thankful that the highest judge on the bench imposes on us all that severe impartiality and rigid abstinence from all comments, or the expression of any opinion on pending trials, which in common, of course, with all his brethren, he is bound to shew. The Chief Justice has certainly laid down a very broad rule ; and the circumstances under which it fell, or perhaps rather was elicited, from him are curious. However, perhaps it is as well to have got this authoritative judg ment, though somewhat broadly expressed. The silence thus summarily enforced on the press is, it may be, for the best. At any rate we bow to the Chief Justice's decision, and accept his principle, as in entire accord ance with justice, fair judgment, and right dealing between man and man. Its incidence is wide, and it applies to other things than newspaper articles, and was perhaps intended to do so. Parties to a suit may find their feelings hurt, and juries certainly may be biassed, or even intimidated or coerced, not only by the public press, but by other influences on which it is not so easy to lay a finger, still less to denounce. The John Bull thinks that Mr. Gladstone's speech to the Fishmongers was lugubrious to a degree. If the Government carried their measure, great would be the triumph, but failure was clearly felt to be on the cards. Mr. Gladstone felt, no doubt, that notwithstanding his splendid following, and the majority of the organs of public opinion in his favour (notably that with the largest circulation in the world), his task was a herculean one. It was his policy, having regard to the rumours as to Whig defections, to deny that the Ministry had any intention of giving up their policy, which still would be pursued with prudence and consideration. The Prime Minister was quite right not to disclose that policy, but he would have shewn more confidence in his cause if he had not pro tested over much. Mr. Gladstone has staked everything on one card. It has just begun to strike him that he may lose. If Conservatives will only have courage, faith in their own principles, and not despair when things look blackest, they may yet turn the tide. Mr. Buxton may afford to treat the idea of the House of Lords interfering as ridiculous, but he will find out his mistake. As Mr. Bell, the late Conservative member for the City (the pre mature close of whose promising career we are all de ploring) well said, there is behind the House of Lords the power of the people of England. The Weekly Register announces that the Rev. W. Scfartin Hunnybun, vicar of Biehnolles, Somersetshire, and late curate of All Saints', Margaret-street, was received, into ;he Church cl__;gonae last week, by Father Maude, s 4 f [RAJIV ING REPORTS. ICrsGsmzur, Thursday. —The whole of the horses were out. Nyl Gau, who I noticed has been fired round both her coronets, appears now sound, and has thickened very much indeed. Blue Stocking and Nyl Gau walked by themselves. Morns cantered a mile and a half, followed at some distance by Lictor. The Palmer led Pero Gomez over the same course. Vagabond cantered, with the Miami colt following. Blue Gown cantered gently by himself, followed at some distance by King Cophetua. Siderolite led the Madame Eglantine filly, Girasol, Salamis, and Waif a mile and a half, followed by Masterstroke and Rosicrucian. After walking for some time all repeated their canter, with the exception of Siderolite, ' Lictor, Masterstroke, and Rosicrucian, who joined Nyl Gau and Blue Stocking in the hollow. The morning's work was finished by all walking at the end of the downs for at. hour. NEWMAREET.—The following horses are engaged at Lincoln, and have done good work: -Sycee, Sagittarius, Acaster, Vanichka, Yer:nak, Ituckenhau's dam filly, Neu chatel, Silenus, Typliceas, Friday, ..I",nuy, Fairfax, The Returned, Islam, Border Knig!it, King Richard, Conjuror, St. Agnes colt, Reindeer. Harebell, Sphynx, Matilda, Ain tree, Mrs. O'Rourke filly, Sister to Veda, The Rajah, Troy, Artesian, Guy of Warwick, Demonstration, filly by Kettle drum out of Ellermice (2 yrs), 11,..digieuse (2 yrs), Phanto:n Lass (2 yts), Florian. (2 yrs), Roquefort ( - 2 yrs), Lady Betty (2 yrs), Rosaura colt (2 yrs), Theodora colt (2 yrs), and Archeress filly (2 yrs). Van Amburgia Idi not con sidor fit to run, as he has not been doing a great amount of work till the last ten or twelve days, previous to,which he had been stopped from a fortnight to three weeks, being lame with a bad curb. The Hermione colt I have not seen out this week. My selections for the Lincoln events are as follows :-Trial Stakes-Whichever Mr Savile runs. Lincolnshire Handicap-I shall expect Islam to win, and Silenus to get a place. Brocklesby Trial Handicap-. Reindeer or Sphyux. Brocklesby Stakes-Lady Betty will take a deal of beating. City Handicap-The best of Captain Machell's will about win. Blankney Stakes- The French stable will be very formidable, I believe, with Roquefort. Insnzr.-We have Hatchment in the Lincolnshire Han dicap. She is well and doing good work, and goes as well as ever I saw her. She is sure to run well, but I don't think her class enough to win, though she might run into a place. Of Hereford, Dawdle, and Claymore, in the Brocklesby Trial Handicap, I like the first named's chance the best, as he is very well and goes in good form. Fal staff, in the City Handicap, is well and fit to run, and has much improved since last year. If he runs he will take his own part. Eugenie, in the Blankney Stakes, is a use ful filly, and will run well, but as there are so many dark two year olds in the race it is hard to say what will win. Honffeur, Hyacinth, and Hollandaise are well, and doing good work for the Lincoln Club Cup, and whichever runs will be worth standing. STocKintIDGE.—At Lincoln, for the Brocklesby Trial Handicap, Retty is very well, and, should she be sent, will as near win as possible. Brocklesby Stakes—Lady Louisa colt, Yule Cake colt, Grillade colt, Stanhope, and Figleaf are in, and all are well. Whichever they ask will about win. The same lot are in the Lincoln Club Cup, but they will depend on previous running. Blankney Stakes—The colt by Master Bagot out of Grillads is in, but I do not think much of his chance. CHILTON.—On Tuesday nearly forty horses showed out, the most conspicuous in their work being Actin; Osprey, M.A., Cameroon, Gulnare, Virginia Creeper, Out-and- Outer, Mimus, Edna, and the Hippodamia filly. Wednes day—The following went a mile and a half :—Actin,, Osprey, Virginia Creeper, and Cameroon ; and M.A., Maid of the Mill, Gulnare, Edna, Chateau Margaux, Out-and- Outer, and Alathaaa a mile. Mimus, Precious Metal, and the Hippodamia filly were sent a duster over half a mile, Mimus having it all his own way. Thurs day—All the above-mentioned horses were again put through good work from a mile to a mile and a half. Amongst the entries for the Brocklosby Stakes I observe Mimus, and he is also in the Lincoln Club Cut, He is a tine colt aEd in good condition, and if brought out it will take a clipper to beat him. MALTON.—Our horses engaged at Lincoln are doing as well as they can be. In the Lincoln Handicap we have George Osbaldeston, Queen of York, and Lady Zetland. Thf•y arc all well and fit to run, but I shall stick to my first impression, and give my vote t George Osbaldeston. Brocklesby Trial Handicap—Soubrette is well, and has undergone a strong preparation ; I think her worth a place investment. City Handicap—Lady Zetland and Queen of York are in, and at the weights " the Lady" will be our best. Blankney Stakes—Di Spanker is very fit to run. This day (Thursday), George Osbaldeston was sent a splendid sweat of four miles, led by Scotobman's Pride, pulling up sound and well. LAMBoIatNE.--I see we have the following horses en gaged at Lincoln :—April Morn, Eadith, Lady Rosehill, King of the Rovers, ()twice, and a cult by Marsyas out of Symmetry. They are all iu the bloom of health aad doing good work. Eadith is in thu Trial Stakes, but I don't think that she will b 3 anywhere near the winner. Lin colnshire Bandicap.—We have Lady Rosehill in, and she is well, but I don't think much of her chance. King of the Rovers and April Morn are iu 11. - ocklesby Trial Han dicap, and I think the distanca will suit " the King" the best, as ha is a hoe-headed gentleman. ',Ewes. -In the Trial Stakes at Lincoln, Provider, Choral, and the filly by Buccaneer out of The Dart's dam are engaged. Choral coald win, but she will most likely be kept for the Handicap. They have all been *lcing good work, and one of thorn will rue. Lincoln Handicap.—Choral and Provider are in, and I thick the mare will be our best, and nearly win. Brocklesby Trial Haniicap.—Astracan,T h e Scout, and Wanderer are oar lot. They are looking fit and well, and I think Astracan the best at the weights. City Haudicap—Wo have Choral, Provider, and Wrestler, and I have must fancy for Choral, as I never saw her go so well as she does this year. Blankney Stakes—The Scout will be our best. Lincoln Club Cup—lronstone and Elsham are in. The first-named will most likely run, as he has been doing some good walk, but I think he is only moderate, and the other has only been walking and trot ting about for some time. FINDON.—At the Lincoln Meeting our horses engaged in the various events are as follows : —Lincolnshire Handi cap—Sister to Vedette, John Leech, and Cocoanut. Brocklesby Trial Handicap—Mistletoe, Fal-lal, and Betty. City Handicap—John Leech, Fal-lal, and Pompeii. Blank ney Stakes—The Shunatnite, colt by Master Bagot out of Grillade, and Ace of Clubs colt. Lincoln Club Cup—Colt by Master Bagot out of Grillade, and filly by Artillery. The above are all doing well, which is all I can say of them at present, not knowing the stable intentions. MlDDLEHAM.—lioneety has two engagements at Lin coln—in the Lincoln Handicap and City Handicap. He has done a lot of work, but appears to be very big yet, so I cannot stand him this journey. Vintner, engaged in the Blankney Stakes, is a very nice horse, and it will take a pretty good one to beat him. The Better Half, engaged in the Club Cup, is a smart, compact filly, and can gallop, but I think is not quite fit yet. Woodbine, Bertha, Queen of Beauty, and Artichoke are all fit to run, and likely to go to Pontefract and pick up a race there. Ersom.—ln looking over the Lincoln programme, I find Bonnie Katie engaged in the Trial Stakes, and if she goes she will about secure this stake. In the Brocklesby Trial Handicap, Nightingall has Warlike, Laird of Scotland, and Glen Stuart, and whichever represents him will bs worth following. We have only Slowinan in the Lincoln shire Handicap, and his chance is hopeless. We have Red cap, Roquefort, and Aurifera in the Hurdle Race, but I don't know which will be sent. STANTON.—We have the Attack gelding engaged in the Lincolnshire Handicap, but your subscribers had better see the numbers up before they back him. Brocklesby Trial Handicap—Salliet and Parma are entered, and the last-named will be the best. Orne and Ada Penelope are in the Hurdle Race. The first-named is put out of court with his weight, but Ada Penelope will about win. SaMet and Jeanie Deans are in the City Handicap, and the last named ought to about land. Palmitine will win the Blank ney Stakes. ' ITEDNESFORD. —At Lincoln we have Uncas and Mean wood engaged. The latter has so lately performed that any comment from me would be unnecessary, but he goes as well as ever at home. Uncas is in the Lincoln Handi cap, and I must say he is doing very well in company with Orion and Albion: No horse can be bettor. We have some others likely to go, but I don't fancy them. FIFIELD.—For the Lincolnshire Handicap, Make Haste is very well, but I have no fancy for him on this occasion. He is engaged in several of the Spring handicaps ; and I think it is quite likely ho will pull off one later. Brocklesby Trial Handciap—Marshal Ney is well, and with his little weight ought to run forward. IticumoND.—We have only Last Rose of Summer en gaged at Lincoln, but though she is remarkably well, I believe she will not be sent. Our other horses are doing very well. POLICE INTELLIGENCE —This Day. MARLBOROUGH-S TREE T. Thomas Burns, a rough powerful-lookiug fellow, was charged before Mr. Knox with begging, and also with as saulting police-constable Keoch, No. 2 0. The prisoner was committed for trial. WESTMINSTER. DISGRACEFUL TRICK. —John Smith, a robust, powerful, hearty-looking fellow, was charged with being drunk and begging. William Cowell, 333 B, said that last evening he saw defendant and another man knocking at the doors of houses in Lawrence-street, Chelsea. Defendant was begging with a written petition, and witness followed him to Onslow• square, where he heard him ask for money for a poor widow of one of his mates who was killed at work. Witness went up to take them into custody, when prisoners companion mad© off, and as prisoner was going to the station he throw the policeman down an area. Pri soner and his companion wore both drunk. Prisoner was remanded till Friday. ' COURT OF QUEEN'S BENC H.—The cross-examina tion of Mrs. Star occupied the Court the whole of to-day. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Day VICTORIA CLUB—Tms DAT. LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP. Bto 1 agst Syceo (taken) 9to 1 agst Monarch of the Glen (taken) 10 to 1 agst Silenus (taken) • 100 to 7 agst George Osbaldeston (offered) 100 to 6 agst Vacuum (taken) 20 to 1 agst Warrington (taken freely) 20 to 1 agst Friday (taken) 20 to 1 agst Van Amburgh (offered) 20 to 1 agst 'Micas (taken and offered) LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL. 100 to 6 agst Tathwell (offered) 100 to 6 agst Fan offered) 23 to 1 agst Dick Turpin (taken) 33 to 1 agst Fortunatus (taken) 33 to 1 agst Guy of Warwick (taken) .33 to 1 agst The Lamb (taken and offered) 53 0 1 agst Despatch (t tkea) 50 to 1 agst Barbarian (offers d) 20 to 1 agst Choral (offered) 25 to 1 ag,.t Veda (taken) 500 to 15 agst Anlace (offered) SUO to 10 agst St. Agues g (wanted) 1000 to 10 agst The Earl (taken) CHESTER CUP. 1000 to 35 agst George Osbaldeston (offered) STREATHAM RACES-YESTERDAY. SUBURBAN PLATE. Vivandiere King of Spades Rod in Pickle ... 1 -. 3 ...... Seven ran. Winner objected to, but overruled, and Vivandiere gets the stakes. HUNTERS' STEEPLECHASE. . 1 Wade Kingfisher Four ran. SELLING HANDICAP. Rapture SELLING STEEPLECHASE. 1 Patcham.. Gannymede 2 SPOR7INO PROPHECIES. THE LINCOLN SPRING MEETING. " BELL'S LIFE." Trial Stakes—Sister to Marksman, Acaster (or Sagitta rius), and Bonnie Katie. Brocklesby Trial Handicap— Hinton, Carita, and Betty. Handicap Hurdle Race—Ada, Penelope, and Demonstration. Brocklesby Stakes —Mat thew Dawson's or T. Jennings's stable. Lincoln Handi cap—Mr. Graham's best and Silenus ; Sycee and Monarch of the Glen for place. " THE ERA." Lincoln Handicap—Monarch of the Glen, Silent's, Fri day, and Syc3e. Trial Stakes—Acaster and Bonnie Katie. Brocklesby Trial Handicap—Betty or Carita. Brocklesby Stakes—Phantom Lass and Stephanotis. The Handicap Hurdle Race—Guy of Warwick and TurmoiL Full Cry Steeplecbase—Cotswold. City Handicap—Reindeer. The Grand Steeplechase—Ace of Trumps. " SPORTING GAZETTE." Trial Stakes—Bonnie Katie, Acastsr, or Sagittarius. Lincoln Handicap—Sycee and Monarch of the Glen. The Hurdle Race—Turmoil or Guy of Warwick. Full Cry Steeplechase—Cornerstone Gelding. The Grand Steeple chase —Ace of Trumps or Funny Man. Blankney Stakes —Bonnie Katie. Gone Away Plate—Scarrington. The Grand Handicap Steeplechase—Greenland. " THE SPORTSMAN." Trial Stakes—Bonnie Katie or Acaster. Lincoln Handi cap—Formosa and Uncas; Choral and Byes° close up. " SPORTING LIFE." Lincoln Handicap—Silimns and Monarch of the Glen ; Choral and George Osbaldeston for place. The Brocklesby Stakes—Lady Betty. Trial Stakes—Bonnie Katie or Fly ing Scud. Brocklesby Trial Handicap—Joseph Dawson's best or Reindeer. Handicap Hurdle Race —Guy of War wick or Irish Fusilier. Full Cry Steeplechase—Corner stone Gelding. Grand Steeplechase—Ace of Trumps and Tennyson. "SPORTING TIMES." Trial Stakes—Provider and Saggitarius. Brocklesby Trial Handicap--Reindeer. Brocklesby Stakes—Reli gieuse, Stephanotis, and Pate. Lincoln Handicap—Bessie Dixon and Monarch of the Glon ; Veda for a place. The Handicap Hurdle Race —Aurifera. Full Cry Steeplechase Harbinger. Blankney Stakos—Neuchatel. Grand Stee plechase -Tennyson, Ace of Trumps, and Juryman. " SUNDAY TIMES." Trial Stakes—Alcaster. Lincoln Handicap—Silanus or George Osbaltleston. ,4 THE FIELD." Lincoln Handicap—Van Amburgh or Silenus. The Brocklesby Stakes—Phantom Lass or Stephanotis. The Brocklesby Trial Handicap —Pericles and Salliet. Handi cap Hurdle Pace—Ada, Penelope, and Aurifera. Full Cry Steeplechase—Corner Stone Gelding or Cotswold. City Handicap—Historian and Lady Zetland. LINCOLN SPR Age st lb Formosa ... 4 9 2 Silenus ... 5 8 10 Bel Giorno ... 4 8 5 Vau Amburgh ... 5 8 0 Typhoeus ... 4 8 0 Uue.is ... 4 8 0 Honesty ... 6 7 13 Lady:l.oventry 4 7 12 Lady Zetlaud 4 7 11 Friday a 7 10 Sister to Vedette... 5 7 10 Monarchof tho Glen 6 7 9 Blacklock 4 7 7 Tho Sawyer ... 4 7 7 Mr Pitt 6 7 7 John Leech ... 4 7 6 Historian ... a 7 5 Eastley ... 4 7. 5 Make Haste ... 4 7 31, harvester ... 4 7 3 Jenny ... 4 7 2 Ben Nevis... ... 5 7 0 Fairfax ...4 7 0 Our Mary Ann 4 7 0 Sycee 5 613 Choral 4 6 13 Warringtou ... 4 6 13 :NG HANDICAP. Age et lb Brunehaut... ... 5 6 12 Lady Ilasehill ... 5 610 llatchment ... 4 6 10 Cocoa Nut... ... 3 6 10 Acaster ... 3 6 9 Queen of York ... 4 6 8 Attack g. ... 5 6 8 The Returned ... 4 6 7 Veda 4 6 5 Bessie Dixou ... 4 6 4 Islam ... 3 6 2 Warner ... 3 6 2 Border Knight ... 3 6 0 Bro. to Chattanooga 3 6 0 The Drummer ... 3 6 0 King Richard ... 3 511 Provider ... ... 3 5 11 Amity ... 3 5 10 Slowman ... 3 b 10 Anlaci ... 3 5 10 George Osbaldeston 3 5 9 Vacuum ... 3 5 8 Ceres 3 5 7 Conjuror ... 3 5 7 St. Agnes g. 3 5 7 Vanichka 3 5 7 Yarmak .• • 3' 5 7 Bsckenham's dam f 3 5 7 THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL HEMS. Miss Neilson will very shortly appear at the Lyceum Theatre in a new drama by Dr. Westland Marston. The production of the new drama by Mr Watts Phillips, at the Holborn, has has been postponed until Wednesday next. _ _ _ " Marie Antoinette" will positively be produced at the Princess's on Monday next. Miss Marriott appears for six nights only at Sadler's Wells, commencing on Monday night. Mr. Edmund Phelps has been performing the part of Macbeth with much success in tho provinces. (From the Musical Standard.) " Le Prophete" has been given with success at Con stantinople. Gounod's " Tobias" has been performed at Amsterdam. The work was coldly received. A new opera bouffe, by F. Ricci, entitled " Uue Fulie k Rome," has been produced with success at Paris. LONDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING• ADMIRALTY, FEB. 9. Commander Frederick Hildebrand Stevens has been promoted to be Retired Captain under the provisions of her Majesty's Orders in Council of Ist August, 1860, 9th July, 1864, and 24th March, 1866, from the 10th of January last. EXETER TIALL.—"ELIJAH."—AIr. Lander, tho now bass, who made so successful a dad in " Judas Mac cabreus" on the 23d instant, will make his second appear ance in the National Choral Society's performance o. ' , Elijah" on Wednesday next. Conductor, Mr. G. W Martin. TILE MERCHANTS' COMPANY (LIMITED),—No fur- nthaetiropnroofgrteshesawccasoumntadsoerwdeitrhedt n hi o s t cas hav e in to g -da be y en , c th o e m e p z le a tet STALEYBRIDGE ELECTION INQUIRY.--Saturday Morning. —Mr. Justice Blackburn gave judgment this morning, declaring that Mr. Sidebottom had been duly elected, and ordering the costs to be paid by the petitioner. ROYAL , SCOTTISH ACADEMY.—On Wednesday Mr. Hugh Cameron and Mr. R. T. Ross wore elected Academicians. in room of the late Mr. John Stevens and Mr. W. B. Johnstone. PROVINCIAL BANKING. —The net profits of the Bradford Banking Company for 1868 amounted to £49,785 ; out of this sum the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 19 per share, absorbing £t7,511 The Union Pauk of Liverpool pays 10 per cent. for 1868,; the total profits of the year were £57,620. The reserved surplus fund was increased from £189,393 to £200,712 during 1868. 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