The Sun. — London, England, 1869-01-19 00:00:00

ONLY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two oCLoc K. The market for Government Securities was in a very quiet state, but what business was done was transacted at yesterday's prices. There has been a shade of improvement both in Foreign Securities and Railway Shares. Money in the open market is -not to be had under 2i to 24. Consols are 92i :I t for money ; ditto, for Ac count, 924 4 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 934 3; New Tkree per Cents, 934 3 ; ditto April, 1885, 124 ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 244. India Stock, 104 per Cent., April, 1874, 211 ; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 112 k 4 ; ditto Bonds tinder El,OOO, 22 prem. In the Foreign Market Turkish Five per Cents. have risen to 38 384 ex div., and New Spanish Three per Cents. have improved to 304 30 k ex div. Italian Five per Cents. remain steady at 534 531 ; Greek at 114 12 ; and Mexican at 15i 15k. Italian Scrip is 1 14 prem. ; and the last Russian Railway Loan at 1 dis., par ; Egyptian Seven per Cent. is 714 714 ex div. ; and the Honduras Loan 43 improved, to 86 87 ex coupon. an the railway market Great Westerns are 4 better, Great Northern A 1 ; Metropolitan, 4 ; Brighton, 1 ; North Western, 1 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire are 1 lower. The quotations are : Caledonian, 78 4 ; Great Western, 49 to ; Great Eastern, 414 to 2 ; Great Northern, 107 to 108 ; ditto A, 1081 to 109 ; Lancashire, 1294 ; Metropolitan, 1081 4 ; Midland, 1144 ; Sheffield, 474 8 ; Brighton, 52 to 524 ; North British, 334 41 ; North Western, 1144 151 ; North Eastern, 1034 44 ; South Eastern, 80 1 ; Chatham and Dover, 171 171. Great India Peninsular Railway New Four per Cent. Debenture Stock is 90 91 ex div. American Five-Twenties are 4- better than Yesterday, being now 754 75i ; the Bonds of 1885 are s higher, at 73 : 1 74 ; and the Ten-Forty Bonds remain at 72 711. Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures are firm, at 41 414, and the Consolidated Mort gage Bonds at 456 46f. Eries have risene, to 26; 27 ; and Illinois Central stock is unchanged, at 924 93 ex div. In Banking and Miscellaneous shares prices are as last quoted. At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Imperial Bank, held to-day at the City Ter i/14ms Hotel, the report of the directors recom nlending the payment of a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent per annum, free of income-tax, was, after some discussion, adopted. At the half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the City Bank, held this day in the London Tavern ; the report presented by the directors declaring a d ividend at the rate of £7 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, was adopted. No bullion operations of importance took place Yesterday at the Bank. The Weser, from New York, has 'brought 9 4,000 in specie. The Washington, from Vera Cruz, has also reached St. Nazaire, with £440,000, Of which £312,000 is for London. The directo r s of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company propose to pay a dividend for the half year ending December last, at the rate of 24 per cert. per annum. The directors of the New Zealand Trust and Loan Company (Limited) have resolved to de clara an interim dividend of ss. per share, being at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum. At the meeting of the New Consolidated Dis count Company, Limited, a dividend was declared at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, free of in come tax. At a meeting of the creditors of the Commercial Bank Corporation of India and the East it was de cided to accept 17s. in the pound, in settlement of all claims, and with a view to all further litigation being stopped. An extraordinary general meeting of the share holders of the General Exchange Bank, Limited, is called for the 3d of February, to appoint a share holder to act on the Permanent Committe-3 of super vision, in the room and stead of William Culver Bennett, deceased. The second ordinary general meeting of the No -7a Scotia and New Brunswick (Intercolonial Rail ways Company (Limited) is called for the 25th of February. The ordinary meeting of the British Shipowners' Company (Limited) is convened for the 25th inst. St Liverpool. Parr's Banking Company (Limited), having Its head office at Warrington, reports the net profits of 'aSt year to have been £36,996, out of which a di i.clencl of 8 per cent. per annum is declared. The traffic return of the South-Eastern Railway exh ibits an increase of £2,259 ; and that of 01 , 3 Great Western of Canada an increase of £4,153. T he Brighton Railway traffic return shows this reek an increase of £2,269 over the corresponding w eek of last year, and the South Eastern an in cease of £2,259. The traffic re t urn o f th e G rea t W es t ern R a il wa y ot „_ Canada for th e wee k en di ng the 15th i ns t. s ho w s "'.l increase of £4,153 over the corresponding period ° f 1 868. 03 111 3 project for a new Brighton line, although „.: aalcloned for this year, will be revived next ses- The failure is announced of Messrs. Morgan, 'el.bourn, and Co., merchants, with liabilities esti tilated at about £500,000. The firm, which has boPied a very respectable position, was established ut half a century ago in Batavia, but the branch establishment here has not been in existence more t au thr ee or four years. The creditors are chiefly i ' nth e East. The losses are stated to have been 14111,c i pally in produce. I he disa s t rous hi s t ory o f O ver end, Gurney, and Co ' h as advanced one step more. The impoverished shar eholders h ave b een i n f or med by the official liqui dator that a f urt h er an d i mme di a t e ca ll of £5 per 13 are is necess ar y to meet the liabilities falling due 04 th e 15th o f M arc h. Th e f ur th er sum of £5 per share now demanded does not close the vista of pro pl,. a ble calls, a further call "of some amount " Il s l g foreshadowed as " possible " in August e4t . The sh are s i n this notorious concern were ori ginally of £5O each, upon which £l5 was paid duri ng the b r i e f duration—about nine months— of d th e limit e d company . Si nce it passe d i nto liqui dation two calls of £lO have been levied, making £3 5 . Paid, and leaving £l5 still to be met, of which t nONV required. Thus £ , lO out of the original I ° , ll tal of £5O may be regarded as already engulphed. ° li quidators have under the advice of emicent :tinsel filed a bill against the directors of the com pany, with a v i ew o f ma ki ng th em respons ibl e f or the los ses sust a i ne d b y t h e s h are h o ld ers ar i s i ng ou t of va t l'e Purchase of the " old firm," and the mode in ich the ar rangements for effecting that purchase Wa s carried out. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. QOVERNMENT FUNDS: 92i per h , C ent. Consols 92* i i , ''''ttto for Account, 93i 3 8 ;,',Pr Cent. Reduced 93i 3 t i,,LSW 3 Per Cent 17 0 2 5 1 per Cent. Jan. 1894 ... 4 . per Co.nt J In. 1873 gilUities, SO yrs, expire sth Jan, bo. for 30 Sea ' ' • "th April 1885 ' 1880 — E l2l bo Rod Y ,1 4 'xpue ° xut ( Sea lelekraph), Aug , ., 1908 ____-- icquer Bills, .CAO, 2 per Ct Pm 1.) 0 . £5OO „ Do. _ £lOO & £2OO 2-14 DJ Pm .I'Llit. of England Stock, 4 per Cent ho. account _ _ t.a.tiada per Cent. Bowls _ InterColouial Ornniutn Im.INIMAN GOVEUNMENT bECtitITIE , _ Dkua S'tock, 10' or Cent., April 1874 2ll o. r, . 1 P - U ° opening, for AccouLt 112* i i';' ) . 5 per Cent. July, lstto nr, ° ' 1 Pe.= Cent , Oct, 1888 • Cnortiticat.B _ _ ii".o.: tufaced l'apt, 4 per Cont. 14' 5 ,. Per Cert., Jan. 1871 13 ,) * `',ll - Per Cent. May 1879 — '-' per Cont., Rup. Deb. 1872 _ _ De. do. 1877 Do D • do. 1882 — Do.-• bob.. 5 Der Cent., Aug. 73 ~.... -- ,-, , . , ,-,- Pm , uonds 4 per Cent., £l,OOO ...... ... 22 ',O- under'.£l,ooo IfOREIGN FUNDS. CLOSING P " CLOSINRICES. A Ar ri e l lltine Republi c , 6 per Cent 7si 6 ti' 4 4 .l 8 41 B on ds) c p aid .. 6 per cent .., — Do. 1859.. -s Brlzilian 5 per Cent lOO4 30. 41 per Coat., 1852 — Do. do. 1858.... ............. Do. do., 1860 Do. do., 1863 69 Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 uo Account 79- 801 13.e.t.0s Ayres 6 per Cent. Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Cut)a, 6 per Cent. Cullum 6 per Cent 90. 4i- per Cent Do. 3 per Cent., 1 o. 6 per co .t. 1867 914 I'o. 7 per Cent., 1866 C lo ulna», 6 per Cent. Dau•sii, 3 per Cent., 1825 Danutian Principalities, 7 per Cent — Do 8 per Cent., 1867 • 00000 -- Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent Lgyptian, 7 per Cent ..• Do Second Issue tio.lsit. Bonds Do. £lOO Bonds .••.. Do. 1864 Do. Account Do. £suo Bonds DO. £11)1, Bwids qOl English Scrip,llB6B . 7l Du do. £l5 pd Government Thilwav Debentures Greea - 5 per Cent., 1824 5, ex Coups Do. Account Do. Coupons Do. Account ..• guateinala 5 per Cent Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., all pd It, aau o per rent., 1865 .10. Account . Do Ilitreinmana Itaiiway \lexi(7:ti: 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Dn. 1864 — Do g per Cont. Anglo-French — iontovichittu G per Cont. toorish Imperial 5 per Cent Now Granada l5 Do 3 per Cen. 36 Do. Deferred P ,rt,lguese 3 per Ct., 1853,'6, 7, 364 Do. do. 1867 Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid — Itassian 5 per Cent., 1822, St Do 44 per Cent , 1850 Do 44 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do. A.nglo-Dutcb, 1861, £lOO 130ndE.., 904 Do. de. £B4 15s. do. Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds Do. do £B4 15s. do — Do Nicolas Railway 604 Sardinian b per Cent Spanish 3 per Cen Do. Acc , ,uni. --2 Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferred Do. Account Do. Passive Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Do do, Scrip — Turkish 6 per Cent. Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 ... Do Account j Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 180 Do Account Do .£IOC Bonds 64 • Do 5 per Cent. 1865 -- DJ Account Do 6 per Cent., 1866 6O Do 4 nor Cent., Guaranteed Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do. loci ant Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Do 6 per Cent., 1832 Dividends on the above payable in u. Austrian a per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 2A. per (lent.. Ex. 12 Gail,: Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates Do. Account French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. 'Whin 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f. Do Account CLOSING PRICES. CODE o's, Money 924 Do. Account, Feb. 4 .. 924 RAIL WA Y COLLISION A 7 IVALI .1.11- GREEN -THIS DAY. This morning, between twelve and one o'clock, considerable sensation was created in the neigh bourhood of Walham-green, in consequence of a fearful collision of railway carriages filled with passengers. The station-master and other offi cials had the passengers extricated as soon as pos sible. Surgical aid was sent for, and promptly attended, and the injured persons were conveyed to their homes after their injuries had been seen to. Mrs. Morgan, a lady from Sheffield, who was on a visit to her friends at Clifton Villa, Camden-square, was found to have had both legs broken, besides other injuries. She was taken to St. George's Hospital. A MAN DECAPI7 A 7 ED ON THE METRO- POLITAN RAILWAF.—(This Day.) This morning the headless body of a young man named George Whittington, a platelayer, aged eighteen, was found on the metals at the Praed street junction of the Metropolitan Railway. It appears that the unfortunate young man was at seven o'clock this morning sent by his ganger to screw up some of the rails. The ganger finding he did not return to breakfast became anxious, and went in search of him. On arriving at the junction he saw the body of the deceased lying across the metals of the down lines, with the head entirely severed from the body. At the crossing one of the boots of deceased was found, giving rise to a suspicion that the deceased, in endeavouring to escape train, had caught his foot against one of the rails. The mutilated body was conveyed to St. Mary's Hospital, where, in addition to the decapitation, it was found that both legs were broken. The body awaits the inquest. TILE HAMBURG-AMERICAL , T COMPANY AND THE UNITED STATES MAILS.—A memorial, of which the fol lowing is a copy, has been signed by some of the London merchants, and presented to the First Lord of the Trea sury :—London, 7th January, 1869. Sir, —We wish to draw your attention to the extraordinary conduct of the Post-office as regards the new arrangements for the mails to the United States. The arrangements existing in 1868 for the despatch of the mails on Monday by the Bremen boats, on Wednesday by the Inman boats, and on Saturday by the Cunard boats, have been continued for 1869, and very properly. On the other hand they have not renewed the contract with the Hamburg-American Company, whose boats left every Friday, and which are among the very fastest afloat, and they have concluded a new contract with the Cunard Company for a mail by their slow cargo boats on Tues day. if these latter were capable of performing the voy age with anything like reasonable speed, there would be nothing to be said on the subject, except that the sum paid for the service was exorbitant, being, we under stand, some £30,000 a year (in addition to the sum paid for the Cunard New York service); but when we see this large sum given for the conveyance of mails by slow cargo boats, wo can only say that it is a scandalous waste of public money. And this becomes still more evident, when it appears that the contract with the Cunard Company, and the Inman Halifax lia are the only ones where a fixed sum is the other contracts f r the American mail service are paid for the weight actually carried ; thus the mercantile public send more letters by the fast boats than by the slow boats ; so that every other line, being paid for according to the ex cellence of its work, has every inducement to mantain a high rate of sped, which is entirely wanting iu the case of the Cunard Company; indeed, in the case of their slow cargo boats for the Tuesday's service, they cannot at tain a high rate of speed if they tried, and the mails sent by the Inman boats on Wednesday will always reach their destination before those sent by the Cunard slow cargo boats on Tuesday. The steamers of the Hamburg American Company are, as above stated, amongst the very fastest afloat ; and leaving Southampton for New York every Friday, they offered a most desirable opportunity for the mercantile community to avail themselves of ; but for reasons known only to the Post-office officials they have no contract for the mails this year, and have consequently gone to Havre instead of Southampton as their port of call—thus those inte rested in the trade have the mortification of seeing these fast and si leudid ships driven from a British port, solely through the perversity of the Post-c ffice. It is right to acid, that the mails of the United States from Now York to this country aro carried by most of the same st .ainers as those employed by the B..itish Past office, but the United States Post• office pays only fifteen cents currency (about sixpence sterling) per oz., whilst the British Post-oft - tie pays one shilling per oz. to the Bremen and Inman direct Now York line, and a large fixed sum to the Cunard line and the Inman Halifax lice. From this it is evident that the rates paid by the British Post-office aro at least double those paid by the United States Post-office for the same services. It would be a great boon to those interested in the American trade if the Hamburg-American Company could be induced to resume the weekly voyages from Southampton, carrying the Friday morning mails, and we presume that they would be willing to do so on reasonable terms, especially as this company actually has the mail contract for 1869 with the United States Government, bringing the Tuesday mail from New York.—Wo are, your obedient servants. SHARE LIST. oiLDINAKY dlia.u.niS AND STOCKS. Share Railways. Paid. Closing Businesl Price. done. et Bristol and Exeter 100 76 78 at Uadectunian ... 100 78 7.4 781 s. I ,4inUri.il.l 23 Corn w.. 11 all 3 l'•1 ~t Dublin & Bellast June lO9 79 81 at uu„rertli, & Ab.Junc lOO 70 72 2 , East London all 7 9 20 uo 1 5 -- 21 Do 10 -,-- Glasgow &S. Western lO4 lis 97 961 IA 4 Great Eastern .. t Do. E. Aug]. N 0....... 103 7 at GreatNortilol Scotlans.. 100 15 6 t Great Northern lOO 107 108 1071 at Du. A stock ltre :08 109 1081 4 st Do. B stuck lOO 124 126 st GAS, and W. 01 lrelann lov i 7 99 at (it. Western —Urig - inal lOO 4s 494 49 1 et Do. South Wales lOl 17 18 Do. W. stiil.—W.tore IOJ 5 27 a Do. Newport too '2B 21 st Enac:shire eh I orkshiro lOO i 291 21)4 120 i at Lon., Itrigli.,4 S. Coast lOO Lill 02 4 514 21 11 ; 0i Do Scrip at I •on., Chat., and Doves lO2 17 17 1 174 I at Do. Metrop. Ex. A lov - st Lon. & Nortn Western lOO 1.44 1.54 1141 14 at Lon. az South Wester,, be 90 at Man., Shel., Liecolu at Metropolitan ...,. lOO 108 aBl Iva 74 81 st Do Exton:AM 1 3 1. 4 10 Du. New rd 10 1 st Me t.rupolitan District. all 6J 01 10 Metrop. St. John's W 00l 6 - st MuLaisd st Do, ilirwin..o Darby 100 82 14 st North British st Do. Ed., Yth., & Dun IU9 st I', or. eastern--Berwick lOO 103 105 25 Do. G. N.E purchase-16.133 at Do Leeds ....... at Do York lOO 90 9 • 91 at Do Carlisle . lOO 125 130 at Do Stock. & 100 leg 131 at North London 10 Do New 1868 . 2 14 2j, at North Staffordshire lOO 55 57 561 5 at North and S.-W. Jnnctiou ,vu 103 105 10 Do New .010 shares 7 at Ithyniney at Shropshire Union 1 ,•0 55 51 st South Devon at South Eastern lOO 794 94 80 '2O Staines, Wok'haul,& Wok all 12 13 100 ;15 1,0 U Do. at ateriord & 100 - i 0 aterlQo Whitelia.l.. 6 RAILWAYS-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. at Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 80 88 st Caledonian Qrs., No. 2 lOO ... at Du. Scot. N.E., 4 per cant lOO ... at Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c lOO at Do. do. 7 per cent lOO at D.J. du. Ordinary lOO 78 80 at Do. Midland at Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 :20 Cornwall, 5 per cent gua all at i Dundee, Perth, and Aber deen J unction lOO 105 107 st Do. Ist Class preference lOO ... at Olas. & S.W. gua. 5 per et lOO at Gt. Eastern, E.C. Ex. No. 1 100 90 101 st Do do N 0.2 100 97 100 St Do do 6 per cent 10 103 108 at Do East Anglian Asp. c. 100 100 103 at Do do B 6 du. 100 st Do do C 7 do. 100 ... at Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 100 108 St Do E. Union 4p. c. gua. 100 " 69 71 st Du Nor folk 5 p.c. Ex. 1546 100 at Du do 5 p.c.Way.Va1.1647 100 ... St Ureat Noi them, 5 per cent 10 st Do 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. c. pm. 100 ... at Do 4 j do do do 100 ... st Do 5 do at sp.c. pm lOO st Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent lOO ... 511 Gt. Nrth of Scotland, Ist pf 100 std Crest South. and Western (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 96 97 stj G t.West.—Orig.&Jut.-ltent (Mg., per gua. 5 p.c lOO 103 105 st Do. Orig. (1.1.& Li. Ex). 5 p.c. 100 95 103 st Do du 4, per cent. 1650 100 8 85 at Do do 4 do do ... 103 70 78 st Lo do 5 per cent. redetn. 100 94 9 ; at Do do Birtnin,giaam gua 100 60 72 at Do do do pref... 100 st Do do Chester gua. lOO st Du do do 8 per cent. 103 153 la st Do do do 5 do 100 95 100 at Do South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 ~„ at Du do 41 p.c IOJ at Do du 4 z 1650 lO3 at Do do 5 at Du West Slid. Oxford Ist g lOl 107 109 at Do du 2d gua lOO 100 105 at Do Newport, Ist p.e lOO 58 92 at Do do 20 du 100 1A) 103 at Do gua. 53 per cent. 1563 100 ... 100 Lancaster & Carlisle 41 p.c. all ... at Laucash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1 6 135 st Do Barnsley, £5 Os 100 p.c. DU at Do 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 130 135 st Do 41 (Blackburn purch). 100 98 102 at London & Brighton, 5 p.c. guaranteed, No. 1 lOO ... at Do 5 per cent. gua. No. 2 lOO ... at Do 6 do do lOO st Do 5 do NJ. 4 lOO st Do 7 per cent at Do 6 do (W.E. & C.P ) 100 ,„ at Do 4 do 1659 lOO at London, Chatham, & Dover 5 per cent at London and 11. W., O. and Nuneaton 5 per cent. lOO 108 110 at Do Bedford &Cambridge lOO 8 91 at Do Shrewob'y & Welehp'l lOO 83 91 at London and p,c late 3d shares lOO 141 146 2s 60. Do (Forum. peril ans. 256.1) all ,„ et Man., Sher., 6; Litwin. 6 p.c lOO 11 t 117 6 Do at Do 31 per cent lOO 60 65 10 Do redeem. 6 percent 5 st Mid. Consolidated., 6p. at Do Bristol& Dims., 6p. c lOO 1 2 1;:5 132 at Do 41 per cent. redeem lOO 97 00 sti Do 41 per cent. irredeem too 97 9J at Du Leicester &IPchn, 4 p.c lOO 89 91 st North British, 5 p.c. 100 ... t D o s ea t t Do ° Border B r & ti e G-N r °1.4121. c . S i o s n esr. 6' D 0 I c p e a e 1 11 ( 0° )0 0 at ttt DotN. Do - 1 4 N.-Eastern—Cons. e . e t r r n . cent. u C p t e o . L n . r es cent. e4e 1 1 p.c 1 0 ( ° )0 i ° 1 U s s o 97 wick 8 10 1 0 3.4. 10 ... 6 110 3.8. 2 1 t0t 5 7 s sp l D p .) .o o: Dsl l3e l v ' et u e, :i i ( 18 1 r . c 1 , 7 , 3, 10 10 1(11 100artlepool and li all 9 7 1 8: 01 S is tu to lf :k rd A sli n i u r s e , all t 2 , 0 . 1 2 0 1 . 1 2 0 0 ,3 D N o ur T th av 10s Do Fixed 41 per cent all 8 9 10.6. S. East. (Read. Anus., 1.0.6) all 22 23 st Do 41 percent 10() at Do Fixed 43 per cent lOO ••• ••• at Taff Vale No.l •"' 100 145 150 st Waterford & Kilkenny, 6pc 100 41 43 RAILWayS.—PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate year. et Caledonian 41 p c gam• lOO -...... st Do Scot. d en. nn ... ...u. 7p c lOO ... ... sit Do 41 p irreticein st Do 4p c eon. issued at 80 65 ... ... at Great Eastern 41 per cent lOO 77 81 et Do 5 do, 1862 lOO 87 t 0 st Du Ne w 5 du, 1663.- 100 8$ 90 at Do du 5 do, 1 864 lOO b 4 Si at Great Norther n, 5 e irred lOO at Du Per 5 p per cent lOO ... ... st Du Boston & Sl eald, 41 pc lOU ... ...... ... st Great West., W. Ilidl., 5p c 100 86 90 st Do .loiuti,erpe. 5p c, 1865 100 85 90 at Do do 6p c irred., 1866 lOU 103 105 1r.13f 4 1 2J Do Vale N eath perp. 5p c all 191 201 st Kent Coast, 6 per cent, B lOO L s Lane. and Y or k . N ew 41 per ..• "' cent till July, 187 1 2 I 1 st Loud., Brig., &c., 41 pc, 185 8 100 ... et Do du 4 d o, 1 860 100 ••• ... at Do do 41 do, 1861 100 ... st Do do 41 d o, 1863 100 ..• ...... ... et Do do 5 do, 1865 100 ... ... a t Do No. 6 5 do, ... ... 18 66 100 at Do No. 7 s do ... et Loud , Chat., & ...c., 2d, 6 p.c 11: • 125 . 1 . 1109j . ,43 . 7 .. 102 at Do Metrup. Lx., B 6 p.e Do do C 6 p.e et London &N. Western, 5p e 100 103 110 et Loudon &S. Western, 41 p e 10U 04 86 I , m an . ohef. 8; Lin., 5 pc, 1865 all 881 st Metropolitan 5 per cent st Midland, A 5 per cent pref DO 106 103 et Do B 5 do 100 106 103 is D o 5p c opt. to way. to Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1869 all 11 Up Do ineonv. New Share's 16 1 ip 13 Do 5 p c con. into Uhl 22 Stk., Aug. 11, 1872 St N o rth British, E. and ti No. 1, 5 per cent ... • lOO ••• ... £lO guaranteed, 1861 100 .. t D 0 0 i)0 E., P., & Dun., 2d, 4pc 100 ••• •• at "' &u r Nu2 5 p c 100 ••• ". Do 1, - ' • ' •-* ... . et Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1862 100 ... st Do _ p_n_.o: ! :: &. :3 : :: ,: orp o da . i 3 ir.i , y. s ), p4.1).1c.p :1000000 5 . 3 5 .. ; St North Eastern, 41 per cent 100 et - -,. London, 41, per cent t Norf.. 5 per cent) ......... 100 ila tt t : sNorth., . ~ p,u( t h..a (;SD: Eastern, .-( c) ~ s r ai ii p, i s i 1 i.ciirir Cross) e ve sd, u )s r eo, p 411158 c 88p6 . 65 . 3091 . 1 11 0 (0000) 0 000(0) ... . . ••• -• st Victoria St.,. NTALS RAIL WAYS. —LINES LEASED AT FIXED nE st Birkenhead .loi. 10 Do. 41 per cent. Prefer all 101 103 st Buckinghamshire lOO 92 tht at Chester and Holyhead lOO 44 66 a* Du. 51 per cent. st Do. 4 do. st Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO ... .. at Colchester Stour Valley st East Lincoln, gua. 6 p . c lOO 133 196 20 Gloster and Dean Forest all ... ... s (it. Easu., NeWlll., &C., 5 p.c 100 ... ... 8 Do. E. U. Harwich, 4 p.c 100 6.) 72 st Do. do. Woodbrg.Ex., do. 100 (A) 72 st Gt. West, W. Mid., Herd 100 95 97 50 Hull and Selby all 109 111 1101 at Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 21 i 213 st Loudon and Black Wall lOO 93 96 ~ i st Do. 41 per cent lOO ... .„ st London, Coat., &c., 41 pc. IMO ..,, ... at Do. Coin. k'uud, 5 do. 105 ... ... st London and Greenwich st Du. do. Preference lOO ... ... st London, Tilbury, & South 100 78 t o st Lowestoft, gua 4 per cent lOO 79 83 at Do. du. 6 du. 51 Manch., Buxton, Lt Matlk all b 51 st Midland, Bradford, Pref lOO 92 94 10 Mid Kent Cray Line) ... 50 Northern:. : East , 5 per cent all . 56 50 Du. do. 6 do. all ... ... at N. Eastern—Hartlepool ... st N. West. A perp. prat . , Op. c lOO 10, 110 6 t Do B Illillillllllll 14 p.c lOO ... ... at Notting. &Grauth. 1t.6:0 lOO 92 94 25 Preston and n yre. • all 44 46 ... Royston, Hitch. and Steep lOO 134 4 35 s t Shrewsbury and Hereford 10U 1;;;; 1 ;15 1J Do ou 8 24 2, p St S. Yorksh. and Rive r Dun 100 98 lOU st Do 4 per cent gua IS , 79 31 st Du b du at Vict. Station and Pimlico lOO 175 180 st West Cornwall 20 West Loudon, Class A all 14 14 2U Du do B all ... ... 20 Du do C all 64 7, at Weymouth and Portland lOO ... ... at \Vilts and Somerset DOCKS. st East and West India lOO 117 1193 st London and St. Katherine lOO 53 55 100 :1) ()Deb. stock, 4 par cent al.' Freehold Land at Dock lOO 31 32 st Southampton lOO 7i 76 st Surrey commercial JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Closing Bushiest. Sharo NAME. Paid. Price. done 10 Agra Limited, A all 111 121 AO Do B lO 41 51 41 50 Albion 100 Alliance, Limited '2O Anglo-Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian, Hui all 17 13 1 20 Anglo-Hungarian 20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 6 5 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia all 11 13 20 Do issued at 2 5 ~. 25 Bank of Egypt 20 Bank of Otago, lint lO 25 Bank of South Australia all 50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 10 Bank of few Zealand all 50 British North American all 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, nd China 25 Chartered Mere. of India, London, and China 20 City 100 Colonial 25 1U Consolidated, lim. 50 Delhi and Loudon, lim 25 50 East London, lint 20 English and American, lim 10 20 English Bank of Rio do Ja neiro. lim 20 English, :.- coltish, and Aus trelian Chartered £Bl Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank C0rp0rati0n.......,, all 281 Do new 5l 100 Imperial, lim 20 Imperial 0tt0man............ 10 25 lonianall 25 Do new 20 Lnd Mortgage of India, Hui 4 100 Do sp. e. Dehs.lB6l, 30 all 76 30 London Bank of Mexico - and South America, lint. 20 100 Loudon and Brazilian, lira. 45 20 Do now 71 100 London &River Plate, Hui. 40 25 Do new 10 20 London Chart. of Australia, all 50 London and C0unty,,,,,, ,.. 20 5200 London Donew Jointi ss t 2 6 0 t o p , . IGpd. 11 1 20 London and South African al 100 London & S.-Western, 'lin, 20 50 London & Venezuela, Um._ 121 100 London and Westminster. 20 100 Do Scrip, iss at it/ pm.. ....... 20 100 Merchant, lim .................. 25 10 Metropolitan, lint ............. all 100 Midland, .............. 20 5 National of Australia ...... 4 25 National of Liverpool, lint. lg 100 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 10 Do • ...... 42 10 National. 2O 20 New South Wa1e5............ all . 20 North-Western 74 25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 421 421 50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lint lO 6 54 100 Provincial of Ireland 25 80 01 831 91 10 Do new. all 100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lint 25 15 1 t 100 Do issued at 6pm lO 25 Union of Australia all 441 454 47 100 Union of Ireland, lim 50 Union of London 33 4 i ;:31 5 4 31 33 32 I 37 34 17 19 19 .51 201 211 21! 1 29 901 11 1 121 40 4: 4 1 5 1-16 11 Ii Id pr IC4 lii 301 17 16 1 11 111 27 29 pr 1p 31 73 7d 76 9 7 32 28 15 6' 0 7 9 1,1/ 2ji 2:4 23 491 504 60k 35 36 1' 12 63: 65 651 61 63 63 7 6 6} 71 74 id pr 2 it 6} 8 1 d MISCELLANEOUS, 10 Anglo-American Tel., lint all] 211 211 211 1 10 Anglo-Meditor. Tol., lira 10 1 IPI 1 1 1 I 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint all 15 16 st Atlantic Telegraph lO 29 31 st Do. 8 per cent. 25 Australian Agricultural 25 Australian Mort. Laud Agricultural, Finance, lint. 10 Baugarah Tsa Estates, lint 9 7 5 d 10 Berlin Water Works, lint all 131 14 13/ 10 Do. New 6 $ 111 100 Bolckow Vaughan, lint. ..• 31 7 10 5 Bombay Gas, lint. all $ 4 6 Do. New 4 11 Id 5 ) British Am.,rican Land 44 16 IS st B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lint lOO 167 172 20 British I /Alan Tea, lint all 2 3 20 British Ship Owners 7l 20 Canada Company all 61 63 10 Canadian Loan and Invest ment, lim 2l 21 lid 20 Ceylon Company, lint. 20 Do. A shares 10 City Discount, lint 5 41 31 25 City of Loudon Beal Pro perty, lint 8 41 31d 30 City of Milan lmprov. inn all 5 10 '25 City of Moscow (las, lint all 2 8 31 50 City Offices, lint 25 21 23 d 7 10 Colonial, lint. Do. 50 Commercial Union (Assur) 5 1 p 10 Company of African Mer chants, lint. 3 i 1 P 20 Continental Union Gas, lint all 18 1i 181 25 Copper Miners of England, __ pref 74 per cent. 100 Corporation of Loudon Bonds, 1877, 41 per cent. all 104 105 100 Do. 1879, 41 per cent. all 104 1051 100 Do. 1882, 41 per cent, all 1031 1041 1011 10 Credit Fon. of England, lint. all 23 24 50 Credit Fon.of Mauritius lint lO 3/ 21 d st Crystal Palace lOO 1. 21 201 1 at Do. Preference lOO 93 98 st Do. 6p. c Perpetual Deb lO9 104 It,B 20 Darjeeling, lim. IO Eastern Assam, lim. 6l 50 East ludia,n Laud Credit and Finance, lint. 20 East India Irriga. & Canal all 17 18 32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and Coal liar. 9 1. per cent. V'roy. 271 131 121 d 100 E T (Ica. by Egypt. Gov all 91 92 911 20 Egyptian Cour. & Trad. lim 6 41 43 gia liii st Electric &Inter. Telegraph 100 238 24 t 10 Do. New 8 10 12p 3 Eng.& Austral. Copper, lim 21 1 15 English and Foreign Credit 71 5 4, 1 100 En , . and Scot. at urine, lint. 8 ... ...d 10 Fairbairn Engineering 5 11 113 20 Fore-street Warehouse,lim l2 pr 1p 131 100 For. & Col. Gov. Trust and Loan Scrip, issued at 1.:35 all 831 841 10 Gellivara, lint. 2O 10 General Credit & Die., lint. 71 2 11 15 General Steam Navigation 11 24 2c • 50 Home & Col Marine lu. lint 5 41 313 10 Hong Kong and China Gas all 20 Hudson's Bay all 13,1 131 20 Imperial Laud Co. of Mar seilles, Bin. 25 Indo-European Tel., lint lO ••• ••• 20 Interns,. Financial S oc . li m 5 1 1 1 1 3/ 20 Interns. Land Credit, lint, 6 6 4,1 50 Italian Lanl 5 11 id 20 Italian lrri. (Canal Cavour) all 31 4 31 100 Do. 6p. c Bds., redeem 1870, issuj3 90 all 63 05 50 Land Securitiesdirn 25 London African Trading,,, is 7 5,1 25 Lon. & Caled. Marine, lint. 6 ••• ••• ,1 10 Loudon County Land and Building, lim. 5 Loud. Provincial Tel• lint all 31 sf 1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent, all fl) 50 Lond. Financial Asso., lint 30 23 '221 4 Lond.Gen.Orunibus.Co.lim. all 14 2 21 50 Loud, and Glasg. Engineer and Iron Ship, lim 25 22 17d 20 Lond. & Provincial Marine 2 LI pr 11 st Madras Irriga. & Cani. (Ice. sp.c. by India G0v...... 100 104 105 1031 44 10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, lint 10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., lim all 4 41 50 Merchant Shipping, Jim, all 33 38 50 Millwall Iron Works, lint. 121 ••• ••• 10 Natal Land and, Colonisa tion Co., lim. 25 National Discount Co., lint 5 111 121 11 114 25 National Prov. Marine, lint. 4 4 33 10 National Steam Ship, lint. all 81 95 20 Nerbtulda, Coal & Iron, Um, 6 4 31 211 2 10 New Consolidated Dis. lint. 3 11 5 New Quebrada, Jun. ,, ,,,,.,. 4.4.0 41 31 25 New Zealand Loan & Mer. cantile Agency,lim ........ 21 . 4 11 ) 25 New Zealand Trust and Loan, lim 10 Northern Assam Tea, lint 5 7 4 10 Do. B ................... all 1 2 st North Brit. Austral., lim lOO 48 53 50 North Brit. & Moreau. In._ 61 19 191 25 Ocean Marine (Insurance) 5 141 151 50 Oriental Financial, lint ll •••d 5 Oriental Gas, li m 5 Do. New 10 Otago and Southland In vestment, lim 2 Id IP 5 Ottoman Gas, lint all 14 2 4 10 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian R. Mail lint all 15 lf 5 Do do. st Peel R. Land & Mitierldim 100 30 32 50 Peninsu. & Oriental Steam all 48 5) 48 50 Do. New 1867.....,,, 10 2 111 25 Reuter's Telegram 24 27 30p 59 5 50 Ithymney Iron 15 Do. New 25 Rio de Janeiro City Im.,lim all 17 18 20 Do. Gas, 100 Royal Mail Steam at Scottish Aust. Invest., lim. 100 107 112 at Do. 6p. c. Guar. Prof. 100 ••• ••• 20 Societe Fin. d'Egypte, Jim. 10 7 63 20 Societe Gen.de l'Ernpire Ot. 8 3 4p 50 S. African Mort. & Inv., lim. 6 ••• ••• 25 South Australian Land all 354 364 st Submarine Telegraph Do. 5crip............, all 114 11-16 20 Telegraph Con. & .Main., lint, all 16/ 17 161 20 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lim 2 21 21 20 Trinidad Petroleum, Jim.— 81 10 Trust &Agency of Aus.,lim. 1 4lp 10 Do do. do. all ••• f 20 Trust &Loan Co., U. Canada 5 53p 50 Union Marine L'pool, lint 5 4 41p 20 Union Steam Ship, lint ' all 22 24 15 United Discount Corp., lint, 6 11 01,1 SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim. all 51 61 51 5 Do. 10 per cent. Prof. all 31 34p 81 20 Universal Marine(ln.), lint 5 1 lip 61 10 Upper Assam Tea, lim all 21 34 30 Van Dieman's Laud 2 84 7 a 00 Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per cent. (Mortgage) Loan all 74 75 73 41 51 50 Warrant Finance, lint. l2 12 103 50 West India and Pacific Steam, lint. 2O 4 3a 20 West London Wharves and Warehouses lO COLONIAL GOVNIMMNNT SECUKITIj British Columbia, 6 per 100 Do. 1895.. lOO - Can.Gov.6 p.c.Jan. , a:July 1b77-84 Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug.— 190 Its 317 Do. sp. c. Mar. et Sept lOO 104 lt 6 Do. sp. c. Jan. t July lOO 93 L 4 911 Do. sp. c. Inscribed sk lOO 90 92 94 Cape (I.llope, 0 p.c.1873 l O9 102 104 - Do.Api.,StOct 1890-1000 lOO 111 113 Do. do 1880-90 lOO 107 109 Do. Jan.&July, 1891 •••• 100 108 11e Do. 5 per cent. 15 April and 15 Oct., 1900 .. 100 100 102 Ceylon, Nov 1678, 6 p.c.. 100 108 110 Do. 1872, do.-- 100 105 107 Mauritius, 6p. a, 1873,- Jan. and July ........ 100 104 106 Do. 1878 . Do. 1882, May and Nov lOO 106 108 Do. 1895, Feb. .4t Aug lOO 106 104 312.1bourno Corporatn 18 , 17-75, 6 per 103 _ N.8.G0v.0 Natal 6 p or, Apl. Oct lOO i Do 6pc. M y & Nor lOO 104 108 -- N. S. W. 5 p•c., '7l to '7l luu 99 1 0 1 Do. 5 p.c. 1888 to 1896 lOO 99 103 934 8 Do. 5 p.c. rd. 67 to is lOO yj l o t - N.Zealand, 6p. et. i6tll lOO __ Do. 5 percent.... DoJan,Ap I,J u'y, 0 t 100 974 984 011 pe. Mar ,12:.eyt %C :CO 108 (10 - Do J uc.e & Dee ,191 • • • 1(0 10i) Do Prov.. 1 At.cild. j 1 0 ptriei 1 dt 2, 1296 .. Noes Scotia 6p. c.Jan... ani July. 1875 - Do 1326.. 'oo 101 103 Quecuslnd. ep. C. 'B2 5.. 100 1, 5 106 105 i. Do 189: - L•o. 1801 6) o. 188) lOO - -- D 0r... A ...... Do rd. 1t93 10) 107 108 - Victor:a9p.o. 100 106 107 46 48 4'2 12 NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Telegrams have been received of the arrival at Malta, on Sunday last, of the screw steamer Ilel vetia, " all well," and of the departure from Suez, for Bombay, on the same day, of her Majesty's Indian troopship Euphrates; the later having on board the 62d Regiment, and the other troops con veyed in the Serapis to Alexandria. The Serapis (alid not the Helvetia) will bring home the 101st Regiment, and others which arrived at Suez in the Malabar on the 16th instant. Twouty of the discharged artisans from the Go vernment establishment included in the late reduc. tions at Woolwich will proceel to Queensland on Wednesday next, as einigrants, the Relief Com mittee paying £2 per head, and the Emigration Commissioners furnishing them with a passage. The distress in Woolwich is still very great, and likely to be considerably augmented by the further reduction in contemplation of the Government ego.- blishmouts. Tae Woolwich division of the Royal Marines will cease to exist on the Ist of April next, and the closing of the Royal Dockyards is expected to follow soon afterwards. Yesterday the hired troopship Theresa, which has been chartered by the Government for the corivey auee of troops to Jamaica and the other 'West India Islands, embarked at Gravesend 16 non-commis sioned officers and gunners of the Royal Artillery, with one soldier's wife and child, from Wool wich ; 50 non-commissioned officers and men and three soldiers' wives of the 47th Regiment, from Pembroke ; one hundred non-commissioned offi cers and privates, two soldiers' wives, and one child, of the 84th Regiment, from Colchester ; one sergeant-major of the 2d West India Regiment and one sergeant-major and one man of the 3d West India Regiment, from Chatham. The fol lowing officers embarked with the troops :—Capt. P. A. Riley, 47th Regiment ; Lieut. E. Hamilton, 84th Regiment ; and Staff Assist.-Surgeon Smith, in medical charge. The Theresa left the Thames to day. Capt. T. A. Campbell was yesterday appointed to the Ariadne, vice Capt. Colin A. Campbell, ill. The following officers who have completed their course of study at the Staff CAlege, and passed the final examination, are ordered to undergo a special course of instruction under the superintend ence of the Director of Artillery Studies, Royal Artillery :—Major J. Aytoun, half-pay, late 85th Regiment; Captain G. M. Cardew, 67th Regi ment; Captain A. L. Walker, 99th Regiment; Captain J. G. Image, Ist Battalion of the 21st Fusiliers; Captain N. X. Gwynne, 77th Regiment; Capt. J. N. Crealock, 95th Regiment ; Capt. G. D. Webber, 2d West India Regiment ; Capt. R. 11. Fawcett, 33d Regiment ; Lieut. A. L. E. H. Holmes, 79th Highlanders ; Lieut. L. F. B. Cary, 2d Battalion of the Rifle Brigade ; Lieut. F. C. Lewin, 85. h Regiment; and Lieut. S. Flower, 2d Battalion of the 13th Light Infantry. During the time the above officers are under insttuction they will be posted to the briodes of R )yal Artillery in garrison. The following appointments were made yester• day at the Admiralty : —Sub-Lieutenant Charles C. Woad to the Hercules, Cecil E. Willoughby, midshipman, to the Hercules; and Frederick W. E. H. Smith, navigating midshipman, to the Her cules. BRUSH WITH PIRATES. Lately a schooner, sailing under the British flag, and belonging to a Chinese trader of Labuan, was captured near Mulluda Bay by pirates, in fifteen prahus, who tore down the British flag and killed three of the crew. When intelligence of this outrage reached Labuan, Governor Hennessy started in pursuit in the Dwarf, armed with his consular authority and with a firman from the Sultan of Sooloo, to punish the marauders. Led by a notorious pirate of the name of Ati Bunding, they made a stand on the island of 'Glean, their chief retreat. in those seas. After trying by fair means to induce them to deliver up their leader, Governor Hennessy, with forty seamen and marines of the Dwarf, armed with the Snider and gusded by an officer of the Sultan of Sooloo, lauded and burned their village to the ground. The pirates were so humbled that Mr. Hennessy considered it safe to leave the Sooloo official behind, to arrange about compensation for sundry piratical incursions. WOMA N AND TILE CIVIL. SERVICE. Miss Cobbe, the well known advoc,te of Women's Suf frage, writes to the Ec4o on "the question whether the Government (if it assume the direction of the telegraphs) will continuo to employ female clerks, or will discharge the two or three hundred now engaged." "Those young women," she says, "receiving from Ge. to 12s. a week in the small stations, and from 10s. to 20s. at Mrs. Craig's large establishment at Lothbury, will, in the grievous dearth and paucity of female employments, find it hard to earn their living elsewhere. But the more serious question is, will the English Liberal Government adopt generally a generous course towards women, taking into consideration their many naturaland artificial disabilities, and bhow thorn such favour as may be consonant with the public service? In a very striking article in a recent number of the Contemporary Review, on the " Condition of Women in France," Miss J. Boucherett described how the Imperial Government has been gradually getting rid for years back of all its female employees, because they could record no votes for the Ministerial candidates. The position of women had thus rapidly altered for the worse under the so-called liberalism of universal (male) suffrage. I would fain hope that, as the English franchise is widened, no such tendencies will come into play. The trades'-unionism of sex is the cruellest trades' union of all. 'Live and lot live' may surely be accounted a fair principle for the weaker as for the stronger half of humanity." CHARGE AGAINST THE DIRECTORS OF THE MERCHANTS' COMPANY. At the Mansion House on Monday Mr. Richard Stuart lane, of No. 8, Chesham-placo, Belgrave-square ; Mr. Horace Edward Chapman, of Roehampton ; and John Hulbert Hulbert, of 23, New Bond-street, were summoned by Mr. John Summerville, commisaion agent. of Cathedral-street, Glasgow, for that they, in the month of November, and, at divers other times during the year 1865, unlawfully did conspire together, by divers false pretences and representations, to deceive and defraud the complainant and divers other parsons with the intent to induce them to become share holders in a certain company called the "Merchants' Com pany (Limited.)" There was a second summons against the same defendants, charging them with conspiring together to publish a false prospectus relating to the same company. There was also a summons against Mr. Richard Stuart I sue and Mr. James Childs, at the instance of Mr. John Land, of Litchurch, in the county of Derby, charging them with publishing a false circular accompanying a call relating to the same company. Mr. Humphreys (Humphreys and Morgan) appeared for the prosecution. The defendants were represented by Mr. Metcalfe, Mr. Montague Williams, Mr. James, and Mr. G. Lewis. The presiding magistrates were the Lord Mayor and Alderman Sir Benjamin Phillips. The pro ' ceedings appeared to create great interest. Mr. Humphreys said he had to prosecute the defendants for a serious and fearful fraud upon the complainant and a uumber of other persons. Mr. Somerville was a share holder in the Merchants' Company, and he came for ward as a prosecutor in that capacity. Mr. Lane was fcrmorly a member of the firm of Hoare, Buxton, and Co., which failed in the year 1856. Ho subsequently received a sum of £4,000 from Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co., snd owed them a large sum of money at the time of the failure. The charge against the defendants was framed under the statute which enacted that any director who should make a false statement, or cause a prospectus containing any false statements with intent to induce persons to become shareholders with intent to defraud, should be deemed guilty of misdemeanour and be liable to penal servitude, or to be imprisoned with hard labour, or bo sentenced to solitary confinement. The offence imputed to them would be that of publishing a false prospectus and a false balance-sheet with intent to defraud the complainant and the public gene rally, and he thought he ought to state that it was extremely probable tnat on a future day other persons would bo in cluded in the charge. He was then about to read the pro spectuq, but Mr. Metcalfe end Mr. J. Lewis interposed, and contenuen that some definite charge should be made against the de fendants. The Lord Mayor, under the advice of Mr. Oke, ruled that Mr. Humphreys was entitled to state all the facts. Mr. Humphreys went on to show where, in his opinion, the prisoners had acted fraudulently. After evidence had been given in support of the opening /statement, the inquiry was adjourned. We have to record the death of Sir henry Ellis, LH. On Saturday afternoon the bodie3 of two men were recovorod from the workings of the Oak Colliery. MIDDLESEX• SESSION.—(This Day.) A CAT SKINNER AND TRAINER OF YOUNG THIEVES, Robert Smith, 20, was indicted for embezzling sums of money, received by him for and on account of Edward Lawrence, his master. Ile pleaded guilty. Thomas Knowles, 200 G, said that he had known the prisoner for some years by the name of " Cat Skinner," ho having been guilty of that atrocious cruelty. He was sentenced to penal servitude for five years. Appridi Francesco, 25, and Jospeh Ayant, 43, both described a 3 Italians. who were convicted last sessions of stealing a watch, a guard, and an um brella, the property of William Al'Alutray, were brought up for judgment. Francesco was sentenced to five years' penal servitude, and Ayant to two years' imprisonment, with hard labour. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. RACING FIXT RES FOR 1869. FEBR . Sudbury 9 , 3 Lincoln l6, 17 Harrow lB, 19 Mansfield 18 MA] Liverpool Spring 2,3, 4 Shrewsbury Spring 5, 6 Downpatrick 9 Warwick. 9, 10, 11 Hendon 12, 13 West Somerset 15, 16 Northampton 16, 17 ,tiARY. Pontefract lB, 19 Nottingham Spring 23, 24 Chelmsford.... 25, 26 Derby Spring 26, 26 Re fl. West Drayton lB, 19 Baldnyle First Spring 18, 19 Margate 20 Beverley 20 Durham 29, 30 Epsom 30, 31 AP] Abergavenny l, 2 Bromley 1, 2 Aldershot l, 2 Catterick Bridge... ... . l, 2 Thirsk ... 6 7 Hungerford 6, 7 Lichfield 6, 7 Cambridge 7 8 Croxton Park .. 8 Streatham 8, 9 11/ Chester 4, 5,6, 7 Eglinton Hunt 6, 7 Winchester ll, 12 York 11, 12 Baldoyle 2nd Spring, 11, 12 St. Albans 13, 14 Salisbury l3, 14 Newmarket Craven...l2, dm Knighton... l3, 14 Ludlow 15, 16 Eastbourne l9 Lewos 20 21 Curragh ...20, 21, 22 Croydon . 22, 23 Newmarket Ist 46126_ Y 6, &c I Doncaster 13, 11 ! West Drayton l7, 18 Bath 18, 19 Manchester l9, 20, 21 Croydon 19, 21 IHarpenden qi Epsom Summer .....20, &a NE. Croydon 2,3, 4 Newton 2,3, 4 Ascot .....8, 9, 10, 11 Liverpool Summer ...15, 16 Windsor 15, 16 Hampton l7, 18 Curragli 22, 23, 21 Newcastle 22, 23, 24 Oldham 22 Bibury Club 23 Stockbridge 24, 25, 26 Chelmsford Sutton Park ....,29, 3e Jl_ , Worcester l, 2 Newmarket July 6, &c. Carlisle • 6, 7 Pontefract Hendon ..... 12, 13 Nottingham l3, 14 AUG : Brighton 3, 4 1 Brighton Club 5 Lewes Eguam lO, 11 I Wolverhampton lO, I 1 Windsor 12, 13 St. Albans l7, 18 1 Stockton lB, 19, 20 SEPT: Warwick... 7, 8 Curragli (loyal) 7,8, 9 A biugdou 1,, 10 Doucaster 14,15, 16, 17 Richmond 21, 22 Lichfield OCT , Bedford 5, 6 Ediu burgh 6, 7, 8 Leicester 7, 8 Bromley 7, 8 Nowtua.rket 2d Uct...11, &c. Chelmsford l9, 20 Kelso 19, 20 N OVJ Worcester 2,3, 4 Harrow 2, 3 Liverpool 9, 10, 11, 12 STEEPLECHA: FEBR Wolverhampton 2 Carmarthen 3, 4 Edgeware Tenby • 5 Birmingham ~ 9 Chippenham 10, 11 Streatham 11, 12 j N• wbriage 15 Lincoln ld, 17 MAJ Liverpool 3 Shrewsbury ..... 5, 6 Malton Rugby (Grand Mil.) 8, 9 Kingsbury 12, 13 West Somerset 15, 16 York 17 Crewkerne lB, 19 Chepstow 'Y.), 30 . . APRIL. Aldershot 1, 2 I Streatham B, 9 Bromley 1, 2 Royal Artily., Woolwien...B Aborgavonny . 1, 2 Kniglitoa I Lientield Southdown limit .7 Tenbury... 91 Cambridge 7, 8 Croydon Cheltenham 7, 8 Co. Louth & A.rdee...27 28 1,1A.Y.; Limerick Hunt 4 I St. Albans Eglinton Hunt 6, 7 f West Draytou ..._„, l7 JULY. Kingsbury AUGUST St. Albans .............................................................17 OCTOBER. Bromley 7 I West Drayton 2l, 22 NOVEMBER. Harrow 2, 3 Eglinton Htzut a, 7 Worcester 3, 4 I Liverpool ... 9, 10 11 St. Albans 5, 6 Shrewsbury l5, 19 COURSING FIXTURES. JANUARY. Baldock Club, Herts 20, 21. Spelthorne Club (Ashdown Park) 2l, &c. Barton-on - Humber , Lincolnshire 25. Ridgway Club (Lytham), Lancashire 27, &c. Creagh Open, Ireland 27. FEBRUARY. Powderham 2. Everleigh Club, Wilts 2, 3 Raiford Open, Lancashire Cardington, Beds ............. 3, & Wenvue Castle Ludham, Norfolk 11, 12 Brampton, Cumberland ll 1/ Waterloo (Altcar), Lancashire l7, Jzo _. . ........ £260 £lOO MARCH. Ashdown Park, Herts 2, &a Fourth S. Lancashire (Champion) County Louth (Champion), Ireland,,, 18, itc Scottish National Open, Lanark 3U itc. OCTOBER. Ancaster and Willoughby, Lincolnshire 5, 6. Orrnesby l9, &c. Hu n tingdon Club.. 26, 27. NOVEMBER. - - Sundorne, Salop 2, 3. Cothan and Eston 9, eto. WATERLOO ME (Over 1 Patron-Right Hon. The Waterloo Cup, value £l, of £25 each ; 64 subs; the the second £2OO. 1. Mr C. F. Allison 83. Mr J. Ingleby 2. Mr J. F. Armistead 34. Mr R. Jardine 3. Mr J. Bake 35. Mr F. Johnston 4. Mr W. J. Barden 36. Mr J. Johnston 5. Mr F. Bartholomew 37. Mr H. B. Jones 6. Lord Binning 88. Mr W. J. Legh 7. Mr J. Blackstock 39. Mr S. C. Lister 8. Mr J. S. Bland 40. Mr J. Lonsdale 9. Mr G. Blanshard 41. Lord Lurgan 10. Mr W. G. Borron 42. Mr S. Mallabey 11. Mr T. Brocklebank 43. Mr 0. E. Marfleet 12. Mr J. Brundrit 44. Mr W. H. Massey 13. Mr R. B. Carruthers 45. Sir C. Molyneux 14. Mr C. J. Chesshyre 46. tlon. C. C. Molyneux 15. Mr W.ll. Clark 47. Mr T. Neville 16. Mr E. Croft 48. Mr R. Paterson 17. Mr J. Cunningham 49. Mr T. L. Reed 18. Mr W. D. Deighton 50. Dr Richardson 19. Mr James Dunlop 51. Mr J. Savage 20. Mr J. Evans 52. Mr N. Saxton 21. Lord Garlies 53. Lord Sefton 22. Mr J. Gibson 54. Mr T. Smith 23. Mr W. M. Gilmour 55. Mr J. Spinks 24. Col. Goodlake 56. Lord Stair 25. Mr A. Graham 57. Mr E. W. Stocker 26. Mr T. Green 58. Mr S. Swiuburne 27. Mr C. A. Hailey 59. Mr G. A. Thompson 28. Capt. Hathorn 60. Mr R. Todd 29. Mr J. Haywood 61. Mr B. W. Trinder 30. Mr J. Hodson 62. Mr It. C. Vyner 31. Mr J. Hole 63. Mr R. 11. Williams 32. Mr J. Hyslop 64. Capt. Wyndham The Waterloo Purse, value £260, in specie, taken from th Cup Stake, for the 32 beaten dogs in the first round for the Cup; the winner to receive £l9O. The Waterloo Purse, for the 32 dogs beaten in the first course for the Waterloo Cup, amounting to £260, to be divided as under:- 1. Winner to receive ... 1. Second ditto ... 2. Dogs to receive £l. each... 4. Ditto ditto 10 ditto... 8. Ditto ditto 5 ditto... :ETING —FEB. 17. A.licar.) . the Earl of Sefton. ,600 in specie, by subsoriptioi wiuner to receive £5OO, and .. £lOO The Waterloo Plato for the 16 dogs beaten in the second ties for the Cup, a nounting to £lOO, to be divided as under: - 1. Winner o receive 1 cond ditto _••• 2. Dogs to receive £ 7 lOs cacti 4. Ditto ditto 5 ditto ... £lO ... 25 ... 15 ... 20 The double screw composite gun vessel Ply, 4, Commander H. Knocker, sailed from Plymouth on Sunday for the West Coast of Africa. THIRD EDFMINI NOTICE. The Third Edition of " The Sun " of last Evening was published in tim3 for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m. SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK. LuNDON GAZETTE-THIS EVENING'. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JAN. D. - Commissariat Department —Ensign Martin Day Sayers, 67th Foot, to be Assistant Commissary in the African Commissariat Department. LY. Southampton 13, 14 Reading 15, 16 Huntingdon 2O, 21 Stamford ... As2, 23 Goodwood 27, 28, 29, 30 LIST. Oxford York 24, 25, 26 Plymouth z6, 27 Scarborough ...30, 31 Derby Summer .. 31, Sep. 1 Weymouth 31, Sep. 1 Cauterbury...,. - 31, Sep. 1 IBER. Hampton 2l, ?l Western (Ayr) 22, 23 Hendon 23, 24 Monmouth— • . 23, 24 Newmarket ' st Uct 28, &c. Lanark... 29, 30 IBER. Cheltenham l9, 20 Curragh l9, 20, 21 West Drayton 2l, 22 Hereford 2l, 22 Monmouth ... 9 3, 24 Newmarket irtou ...25, Sm. :MI ER. Shrewsbury 15, /cc Leamington Hunt 23, etc. E FIXTURES. ARY. Morton-in-31arsh lB Harrow lB, 19 Poutefract 18, 19 Boston Windsor 22,23 St. Albans 23, 24 Derby .. 23 Baschurch 2G RC FL ADMIRALTY, JAN. 15. The undermsntionel officers have this day been pro moted to the rank of Paymaster in her Majesty's Fleet : Henry de ladder, Esq. ; Francis Henry Chown, Esq. BREVET. Colonel John Henry Lefroy, Royal Artillery, at present serving with the temporary rank of Brigadier-General, to have the temporary rank of Major. General whilst em ployed as Director -General of Ordnanco. COURSE OF EXCHANGE-7his Evening. Amsterdam Short ... 11 191 ... 11 191 Do Rotterdam — ... 12 1 12 14 •.• Antwerp ... 25 35 ... 25 40 Brussels — ... 25 35 . 25 40 Ramburgit — ... 13 101 . .. l3 101 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort-on-the-Main .., 120 ... 1201 Vienna — ... 12 25 ... 12 3u Trieste — ... 12 25 ... 12 30 Petersburg Copenhagen... ....... Berlin Madrid.. Cadiz — ... 48 ... 484 Leghorn Milan — ~. 27 5 ... 27 74 Genoa — ... 27 0 ... 27 74 Naples Palermo — ... 27 5 ..• 27 .74 Messina Lisbon — ... 52 ... 52 1 , Oporto — ... 52 ... b2f Rio Janeiro — ••• ..• Ne vv York SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived; Jan. 18—Caledonian, from Demerara; Amber Nymph, from Bernice. Arrived, Jan 19 - Souvenir, steamer, from Brussels; Metropoliton, steamer, from Efumburg. DEAL, Tuesday Morning:- Passed—Nestor, screw steamer, from the Mauritius, for London. Sailed—Century, for Altona. MARKET S-21718 DAY. COLONIAL. Sugar—lnquiries are for brown qualities, and some business has taken place. Coffee—The market remains steady, at previous quo tations. Tea—A very quiet business is in progress, with uo change in prices. Foreign Mail fait MAILS D LIE. ustralik and Nev Zcaiand, via SQUthzmptaa Jan. 3). Ditto, via Y Araeilles Ja a 25 Ditto, via a,- ama • •• • ...Jan 28 Brasil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Feb. 3. Ditto, by French packet .7. n. Cape Verds, by Brazil packet . l. ••.. . Feb. 3 Cape of Good LLpe. Ascension, and St. Helena.... Jan. 27. china, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton,. Jan. 25. Gibraltar. via Southampton Jan 15 India,via Southainoton ...... ......... tittto, via Marseti.es Malta, Egypt, Szo. ................. Jan Li. Ditto, Marseilles. Jan. 17 Mauritius, Cape of Good II )pe, and Natal, via Southams too Ditto, Mareeiltes _ Jan. Newfoundland Portugal United States, c anada, California, dEc., by British packet Ditto, by Canadian packet .... ....Jan f.. 2 Ditto, by L. Lited States packet Ditto (Mk (Baltimore) •• West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teueriffe Feb. 16 West Indies and raz,ific (except Mexico and Baha mas) Jan 23 Falkland Islands Cub i and Mexico .... ......... Jan. 28. Bermuda, via Halifax. . Feb. 1). B.naahas, via New York Jan. MONEY .IND BUSINESS. (From the Phi!a(lrrphi. l Ledser,D,c. 3(1.) We learn through the medium of correspondence from Washington that the Committee on Banking and Currency have under consideration the recommendations contained in. the report of the Comptroller of the Currency in rela tion to Bank reports, banks in voluntary liquidation, the periodical stringency in New Yak city, panics, specie payments, and free banking. It is reported that the majority of the committee seem to be in favour of the Comptroller's plan of remedying the system of requiring quarterly bank reports to be made on a specified day, by which the letter, and not the spirit, of the law has been very easily complied with, the banks being careful to ex hibit the required amount of reserve at that time. The Comptroller contends that the actual working condition of the banks can hardly be expected to be shown when the day of making the report is known in advance, and re commends that section 34 of the Currency Act be so amended as to authorize the Comptroller to call upon the banks for five detailed statements or reports during each year,fixing upon some day that ispast,as such a change would bar the prepara tions now made about the end of each quarter, and pre vent outside operators from conspiring against the bank and the honest trade. The evils of the present arrange ment mentioned are no doubt true, and the remedy sug gested, it is believed, would be adequate to the end. The committee, we understand through the same medium also, seem favourably inclined to the proposition of the Comptrol ler that banking associations going into voluntary liquidation be required to provide for their out standing circulation in lawful money, and take up their bonds within three months, under penalty of having their bonds sold at auction in New York city, and to pay such association the excess of the amount required to pay its outstanding circulation. This, he claims, will remedy the present partial system authorized by section 42 of the Currency Act, by which a banking association may go into liquidation, pay off its creditors, do no business, and yet reap all the benefits of a circulation guaranteed by the Government. In some cases two or three have owned a bank, gone into liquidation, done business as private bankers, avoided taxation, evaded the requirements of the Currency Act, and still retained the most profitable feature of a National bank. The establish ment of a central redeeming agency is not so generally favoured. Pretty much all outside of New York will op pose it. In regard to the periodical stringencies in New York, and the loaning of money by the banks in large amounts on call, by which the reserve fund is handed over to the tender mercies of Wall-street and its purlieus, decisive action will be recommended by the committee, but exactly what is unknown. The same may be said of the proposed squelching of the causes that bring about a panic, no theory of the number advanced seeming to carry with it sufficient power of conviction to be called the plan, though Comptroller Hulburd's idea of bolding in re serve a certain amount of Legal-Tender notes in excess of the amount of money in regular circulation is the ono most discussed, and has the most supporters and the most opponents. Regarding a return to specie payments and free banking, an attempt to enumerate the various theories by which the former desirable object may be attained would lead too far into the mazy labyrinth of financial propositions; while it may be safely said that the com mittee aro disposed to act favourably upon the most of the recommendations of the Comptroller, but the question of specie payments being such a vexed one, it is not at all likely that the report will favour his propositions un amended. (From the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Jan. 1.) It is stated that Mr. Commissioner Wells, in his forth_ Doming saving in g of additionthy millions l t i h o e n s thirty_ m o five e i l o x l n e p P s:s t r . t t i t r ' t p h l v i u s i surplus will a l h i r i o c h the Government had last year, w on various accounts, among which are the finishing up of the bounties, the reduction of interest from conversions, and the withdrawal of the compound interest notes, and the surrender of pensions. Mr. Wells further estimates that an increase of thirty millions of receipts from the same source of revenue may fairly be looked for, with an ordi nary efficient collection, awl an ordinary honest adminis tration. He believes therefore that it is within bounds to regard the Treasury as master of a clear yearly surplus, from this time fcrward, of one hundred millions. A val .uable library of books in reference to the history of the Pacific Coast of the United States, it is re ported, has for the last three years been in the course of format:on by a gentleman of San Francisco. The history of the Early Discovery of Upper and Lower California, West,Ta M xieo, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska, is amply supplied by works iu English, French, Spanish, and German. The collection numbers over three thou sand volumes, and is said to b 3 the largest and best in the world. Dux va.LE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunvillo and Co., Belfast; or 4, fort-buildings, Strand, London W.Q—[Ad vertiscuieut TIM SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 18G9