The Sun. — London, England, 1869-08-26 00:00:00

'01Y: rED.%rSDAIr• itish Associa• here has been have been as ve been `pith Ind in oval wpy recollec• Museum , 143 h it closebr rrow many , 'avern, Na il° as of interest d these Were papers which 3n erally w ere ed to the all' were read by Int a Pen clidl A t , t the 10 ' .'as fatal to Ilg. of sole the er han sevelitY Lords rol' t, and other° econd Pap e : eculiarlYs° va a penu A an-t uantity of °1 r Section vr° f , another 0: opi.e ; cai aatherasw discussed is d no poPulA'r read by tP6 ij3inion of t he e to inven, t° or posco nts aclootceoti ontinuOce 0 oas Trees ~.t ot otanY, uh" ,oecl 17' t gre' •go )y th e to dOW O S the e A ril that indis R i tivec 3 o f wpthorne,.l,o t ghan , °f uul the 0113 f r ankin cense F.1 3 . 8 •' 13ti .0i found red flowe , co br h the P or e ter there red' apP ea do e iot , '' • is g , re y i eg P 3 ` l ts llet ipch 4 l ,witlb - nOte 4. li e the OA to t to be li , sub, tpod a 0 J to e di , 0 clA9* of , Y ee t, P let° r rato- co : frt t 18 ° t ool' 10 7 0 1 " „ 3 001 300 At La ing', 0 0 )n Ociu od of os, tiv i 6S S Is. 111 PI So t Id too- Lie - 1- t 03- rvo' r osc n oe git." gtere il i L I LT P i Ile e Lig e ' ~I t h ortS ll3 f - i a filie" ;0 113 b )0, Se arlett' abS ei) ° TcIAY [301;11364 t. CaP )r, 133 ply' : f w e l. 1. Hope: joie tilo I will iVi.O-14EY MARKET AND COAIMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Bank dircctots at their meeting to-day have made no alteration in the rate of discount. There, i 8 no demand for money to-day, and prices arc un alteted. Continental advices this morning report Continued weakness in the grain markets. Consols are steady to-day at 931 1 for money; ditto, for Account, 93a Three per Cent. Re duced, 9 34 New Tree per Cents, 931 1 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 8 prem. ; June, 6 ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March, Pre m. June, prem. ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 246. I ndia Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, ; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1131 13 ; ditto 4 Per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1011 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 5 per Cent., 1882, 106. In Foreign Stocks there is a rise of 1 in Russian Railways and in Italian. Turkish Five per Cents. are quoted at 441 to 441; Spanish New Th ree per Cents., 281 to 281 ; Peruvian Five per Cen ts., 791 to 791 ; Mexican Three per Cents., 111 to 12 ; Egyptian (1868), 91 to 92 ; ditto (1868), 77 1 to 78 ; Italian Five per Cents., 551 to 55 .1 ; and Argentine Six per Cents., 791 to 80. American Five-Twenty Bonds are 83# to 831; Erie Sha res, 191 to 201, an improvement of 1; . `dinois have fallen 1, at 94k to 95. In English Railway Shares Metropolitan's have recovered 1. Caledonian, are 801 to 801 ; Great Eastern, 37} to 38 ex div. ; Great Northern, 106 t °lO7 ; ditto (A), 1041 to 1051 ; Great 'Western, 6,1 t ° 53 1 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 127 to 1271; Lon don and Brighton, 441 to 441 ; Londcn, Chat - 1 ; 41 ) and Dover, 161 to 161 ; London and North -I,etern, 119 to 1191; London and South Western, `)°l to 891; Metropolitan, 93 to 931 ; Midland, 118 1 to 1181 ; and South-Eastern, 761 to 77. In Bank Sh ares th ere i s a f a ll o f 10 s . i n Lo n d on and Westminster, the price being now 551 to 56k. F rench Cabl e Sh ares are 181 to 184, being a de eii.l)4.ie of Anglo-American is steady, at 201 to ( e 4 div. ; and Telegraph Construction is 1 better, at 2 81 to 22. We have to contradict, in the strongest possible b er h lB ) the report of the failure of Mr. Stanley aldw i, which appeared in our City Article of Yesterday, and to state it is utterly untrue. T he Bum of £22,000 i n gold was withdrawn from th e Rank yesterday, and the operations of the week ia , ce the date o f th e l as t re tu rn h a ve resulted ou ba l a nce in au influx of only £lO,OOO. Anf undertaking, it appears, h in course of euorr e ation for ca r ryi n g out submarine telegraphs in e lirantunication from Rangoon to Singapore, Java, n g ,- Kong, Amoy, and Shanghae. 1 t is und erstoo d t h a t severa l hi g hly res p ec t a bl e ca pitalists_ h ave secured a concess i on g i v i ng t h em a " ) oepoly of the whole of the Persian railways and 0%1 mines for a period of 25 years. fell he Levant Herald of the 18th inst. contains the ° ,wing with reference to the proposed new terms of Loan :—" No official intimation of the 1 ; 411 of the new £12,000,000 loan has yet been ... a delbut it is understood that its cost to the Trea- LarY will be 12 per cent. The Societe Generale, it 0 said, takes 70 per cent. o f t h e amount, an d t h e tak e inan Bank the remainder. The contractors atit at 58, with th e r i g ht o f i ssue t o th e p u bli c 62 . e ta th meeting of the Southampton Dock Company, directors' report, w hi c h wa s adopted, recom mended a dividend for the half-year at the rate of Per cent. per annum, lea v ing £1,130 to be carried fo rward, T he Midland R a il way t ra ffi c re turn shows this Wee k an inc rease of £9,220, compared with the Corre sponding period of last year ; the London a nd no r th Western an increase of £6,40 6 4 t h e and E as t ern an increase of £6,406 ; the London „ 14 South Weste r n an increase of £3,954 ; and the Great Northern a decrease of £3,217. 8 It i 8 annou nce d th a t 516 Greek Bonds of the : I les guaranteed by England, 471 of the series guaranteed by France, and 524 of the series bon ds, by Russia, making a total of 1,511 have been drawn by lot, and will be paid off 0 the Ist of September. A Joint meeting was held at Leeds yesterday of the Credito r s of three firms of that town who have fill ed --viz., Messrs. Newsome and IVailis, with lia bilities of £15,000, who male an offer of 13 s. 4 d. i ; 11 the pound ; Messrs. R. and J. Newsome , w ho se ; a bilities are £12,000, who made a proposition of a. to the pound ; and Mr. John Wailes, with - 4 ' o oo liabilities, who also offered 7s. in the pound. t hese proposals were not accompanied by any offer of security, the meeting wAs adjourned to eil t ve the respective debtors an opportunity to pro re such assistance. oasi.‘,Proposal has been issued by the provisional lal liquidators of the Albert Assurance Cora 134hY the Mr. S. L. Price and Mr. A. R. Kirby, for amountngement of the company's liabilities. The j eet a policies outstanding is £8,207,041, sub oiiit.te annual premiums of £312,657, and the an on payable Payable are £19,307. The actual liability arld " t e i Policies, assuming the office to be broken up Pre eli lat they could rank for the full amount of the t 3 ,0 0 ,11418 Paid as on a broken contract, would be `-', O OO, the value of the annuities would be 000 atn lo i t . and in addition there are claims admitted, xl ic , 'es overdue, and general debts amounting to u ' ° k' of z ; ina an aggregate immediate liability 4 ,260 0 00 11114eluiti ; ,to meet wnich there are assets do e , _ p e g to only £210,000, and the possible pro pthaeicteuounlveaanlylsbuepinogn the shareholders (the capital of £600,000, of which £170,000 is beht up) an y such calls under an absolute liquidation We 'mated to yield not more than £lOO,OOO. tlettia"`"e) therefore, a total of £310,000 to meet nds f o . p. 4t • Arth . 0 ) -4 60,000. But Mr. Jellicoe and that is u r Bailey, the actuaries, are of opinion veer lite office can be maintained as a going ''ut and the policy su bmit t o _ Icy holders will on the average Of th , s , 4 r eduction of 25 per cent. in the amount 4 t.,,,`Lr Policies and the annuitants and creditors to i„ ' 4 actio rt - 1 4 a p osit . " 5 0 per cent., it will then be placed tc . ea of perfect safety. This reduction, old er press with extreme hardship on the exte n relea, since in their case it must be to the Poia t of about 40 10 to sto 10 per cent., ranging from that .1 to k ea lvy out per cent. on the youngest policies. ue c o y out these arrangements a new company is Its kaset_4tttated to take over from the old one all of B:at'lld undertake all its liabilities on the re af fot tire such company to have 20 per cent. out 14 to go t o Pr?fits, while the remaining 80 per cent. _ curio_ t he Policy holders. ellc e of i Lis fact has transpired showing the differ kfe hconoe derived from two securities, equally dealilivestmenta) though the one is not as freely Ile ly t T ili hr t the other. An investment of £lOO,OOO 4) 1 ! £3 ,000 " Per Cents,, ' v oln. a Year, which produced an income tair. Per l Canadavias changed the other day into 't l at the Guaranteed Bonds, which, Ora ; the , a. price current, return £3,550 per an tui ally a (: latter being the same as the former, vir- Onal adv ! v ernment stock, with even the addi ,?ldera w , 4 tage, would be invaluable, as the s~anada Dour be then sure to receive their money. ?el: Cent, Guarant ee d B on d s are the ' 'r lPtion of investment adopted by aookinc, assu rance offices, and other institutions a Permanent and steady return for their i w 0 O'CI,OUIC• traTiti IE r U.N DS —' 2 ( iov b . t i , i . , ,11NNILNT PUNDS.; Nti ji , 'Alt. Coursok .. ....................... 9,) : 2; i Lto fur =locoing Sc - pt 8 k,': ()out. Reduced 1,:3 1 1 i v? 121 Per Ceill, ............................ 1 ) - Per Ceut. Jan. 1881 CI °. . 6 Per ecu lB73 1)0. for!s Yrs, oxi 4111 " o so Are sth Jan. 1880. isss — 1.) 0 yrs, expire sth April , ___ 0 (ted Spa Tel ..1 II) Aug., 1908 — el 1 "" .March ktccluar Rills, .£l,OOO, 21 p. Lit._ ...... 130 Do, ' TIT " pm II 0 1 1( 01 England4Sl°to'cit,2°4ti) p 6'. er .Cs C Cl. e o u . t ... . oluinn• .............. .....- -11.11 Liu ................. orb leer Bonds nial Cranium txt,i." ~, t eal, F, %.+OVF4t.I,IIIENT BEC.I2IIITIES. D oloclr 10f per Cout., Aim 11 1874 — 1) ' Polling, for Account 13 D 5 per Ceut. .111137,1880 1011 1;°. I ot. Cott., Oct. 1888 15* Certificates %WE. Do. Enfacod Pape. 4 pm. Cant....... -,- Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ~..„,c „ — Ito. 5i par Cent. May 16 - i9 — D.) 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 — .Do do 1877 — Do. do. 1882 lO6 .1.):, Deb., 5 per Cant., Aug. 1873 Do. Bonds % 4 per Cont., £l,OOO Do. under £l.OOO — FOREIGN FUNDS- TWO O'CLOCK. Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent ... BO 79/ I u Arian Bonds 5 per cent .. — Do. 1859 Brazilian 5 par Cent — Oa. 41 per Cent. 1852 — Do. do 1858.... Do. au 186') — Do. do., 1863 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do Account ~coos Ayres 6 per Coot. . _ . . Do 2 per CenC(Deferred 3 per Cent.) -- Cn'n, 6 per Cont. Owßan 6 per Cent — Do. 4/ per Cent — Do. 3 per Cent., Lo. 7 per Cont., 1866 l'o. 6 per ce-t. 1867... — C lombian, 6 per Cent. Dauisn, 3 per Cent., 1825........ Dan. , nitin Principalities, 7 per Cent Bl,l Do 8 per Cent:, 1867 Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent Egyptian, 7 per Cent BB_7l Do Second Issue ... — Do. .£5Ol Bonds — Do. £lOO Bonds ..... 90 Do. 1864 Do. Account Do. #l,OO Bonds Do. ilo6 Bonds — _ Do. 7 per Cent., 1868 Government Itailwav Debentures GreeK 5 per Cunt., 1824 5, ex Coups — Acecunt Do. Cool - 701,g -- Do. Account atemala 5 per Ceut .. Fionduras Gov Rail. Loan., 10 p. Ct., all pd ttllian 5 per Cent., 1865 Do. Account Do Marommana Railway Ll,xicat 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Dn. 1864 - Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — dontevidean 6 per Cent. .. — Llocrish Imperial 5 per Cent — gew Granada l7! Do 3 per Oen, — Do. Deferred Pe:avian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account .. 791 Do 4i per Cent. (Ui:vairren) Do 44 per Cent., 1862 . — Do Account Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853,'6, 7,'9,'60,'2,':' 341- Do. do. 1867 • Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid : Russian 5 ~or Cent., 1822, £ St Do 44 per Cent , 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 8 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 ... 871/ Do 'do, Scrip — Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds.. 911 Do. do. £B4 15s. do. Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds — Do. do £B4 15s. do 92 Do Nicolas Railway 6Bl Sarlinian 5 per Cent — Spanish 3 per Cen ... ... Do. Account — 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 Turkish 6 per Cent. Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — Do Account .• . Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do. Account 661 Do 5 per Cent. 1865 — Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1860 Do 4 por Cent., Guaranteed Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) Venezuela 3 per Cont. — ,Do. Accinut ' Do 6 per Cent. 1861 - Do Account Dividends on the above payable in London Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian, 4-i per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch A per Cent. Ex. 12 Gui! 551 Do £lOO Bonds — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... — French Routes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f. — ltilian 5 per Cent. 1851, E::. 251. — Do Account TWO O'CLOCK. Jonsols, Money 934 Do. Account, Sept. 8 ~... 28 COURSE 01! EXCHANGE. Amsterdam Short ... 11 191 ... 12 Do Rotterdam — ... 12 2 ... 12 2k. Antwerp — ... 25 40 ... 25 45 Brussels Hamburg h — ... 13 11} ... 13 11} Paris Ditto Marsoilles Frankfort-on-the-Main: ... 121 i ... 121 PARIS CORRESPONDENCE. WEDNESDAY. It is needless to refer to the report of M. Devienne, read to-day before the Senate, as you will have already learned the full particulars by telegraph. There is little more to be said on this important subject until the opening of the debate, which will be full of interest. The papers are still busy discussing possible and desirable extensions of the Constitutional reforms, and are apparently endeavouring, by their activity on this subject, to atone for the admitted dulness of the Presidential addresses to the Conseils G6ms - Whether the speakers have been embarrassed by the consciousness that their words would be watched and 'weighed by the public, or whether they were apprehen sive of giving offence in high quarters by verbal indis cretions, may afford matter for speculation ; but, like children called upon to display themselves to the best ad vantage, they have completely disappointed their friends. I think you will admit that such summaries of the speeches as have yet reached you are not likely to throw much light nn a great Constitutional crisis. M. de Persigny may perhaps be considered an exception to the rule. He was bold enough to touch at once on the all-engrossing topic, and declared that the Senatus-Consultum bad his full sup port. He attached great importance to the introduction of a new generation of young and energetic men into the conduct of public affairs—men who are strangers to the quarrels of the past, and who will therefore be able to consolidate the Empire. M. de Persigny dwelt at some length on the question of Ministerial responsibility. An irresponsible sovereign, he said, belonged to absolute monarchy. Irresponsible Ministers hidden behind the throne had tarnished the splendour of the Empire, and had given to this grand movement, which had surprised Europe, the appearance of weakness and indecision. Henceforward, according to M. Persigny, we are to have a sovereign responsible vis-a-vis to the nation, and Minis ters responsible vis-a-vis to the Chambers. The Temps of this morning thinks that M. de Persigny's love of political abstractions has led him to mistake for mulas for facts, and is anything but sanguine. It asks, What resource remains to the national repre sentatives, if the sovereign chooses to ignore their . rights ? There is nothing between a coup cre'tat and a revolution. The responsibility of Ministers might in reality have been a fact long since if the Corps Legislatif had bad the courage really to control the finances ; whereas the Senatns-Consultrim will be no protection against the arbitrary authority of the Throne so long as the official candidates continue to force the elections, and the Corps Ltislatif consults les convenances, and listens to the suggestions of personal government. All seems uncertain respecting the future movements of the Empress. The Gautois furnishes some curious details in connection rith the subject. It says that a waggon containing the Empress's luggage for the Eastern excur sion was attached to the Imperial train the other day. A telegram was sent yesterday from Saint Cloud to Fontainebleau, and from thence to Paris, and it was after wards intimated that the waggon containing the prepara tions for the East should be taken from the train. Mention is made of a mysterious incident that took place at Darmstadt on the occasion of King William reviewing the Hessian troops. The Grand Duke of Hesse was to have been present at this ceremony, and an ex press train was got ready for him, but at the last moment a countermand was sent, and the Grand Duke failed to pay his respects to his ally. The Ireneli amnesty has produced a serious impression at Berlin. All the most influential journals have felici tated the Emperor Napoleon. 'I heir reMarks seem to imply that an amnesty on that side of the Phine is all very well, but hi INV WOlll , l it be on the Fra:,ce can have no better security againA than that of liberty at home ; and if France and Austria continue to give free scope to liberal institutions, the Prussian autho rities will lose much of their influence. M. Chigi will shortly leave. He will be raised to the dignity of cardinal in the autumn, and cannot, therefore, retain the position of Nuncio. Besides this, it will be incumbent on him to resole at Rome. The prelate has hitherto declined the honour reserved forhim, but he can do so no lcuget, and must leave a city where he has made many friends, and which he found most agreeable to sojourn in. Malamo Niel has left the Ministry of War and gone to Versailles with her family. The day before yesterday General Codrington had the honour of breakfasting with the Emperor and the Empress at St. Cloud. The Public affirms that he found under his cover the Order of Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY .EVENING, AtiallST 26, 1.E69. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. l. ~ ,, , t og I;tl,liteii9 Share NA4IE. Paid. Price. dote 10 Agra Limited, A all 11 111 111 i 9 Do B lO 31 44 4 50 Albion 00 Alliance, Limited . 25 121 151 20 Anglo Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 221 .211 p 231 20 A uglo-liungarian 20 Anglo-Italian 1865, limited 10 5 4 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia all 11 13 20 Do issued at '2 pm ~.. 5 5 4 25 Bank of Egypt 20 Bank of Otago, lint. 25 Bank of South Australia • all 30 ;J•2 50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39 10 Bank of New Zealand ail 11;1 161 154 50 British North American 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, ind China all 16 19 25 Chartered Mere. of India. London, and China a ll 321 3CI Z2l 20 City lO 11 12 101 100 Colonial 25 38 40 10 Consolidated, Kin. 50 Delhi and London, lim 50 East London, lint 20 English and An.wriettn, lint 10 ... ... 20 English Bank of Itio do Ja neiro. lint ..... 10 pr Ip 20 English, scottish, and Aus tralian Chartered 284 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation all 35 18 281 Do new lll 4,5 100 Imperial, lim 2O 15 16,1 20 Imperial Ottoman lO 21 2a 131 4 z 5 lonianall 10 29 25 Do new 5 9 3 Lud Mortgage of India, lim 4 %4 11 100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB64, 30 all 76 76 10 100 London Bank] of Mexico and South America, lim. 20 7 6 100 Loudon and Brazilian, lim. 45 30 27 20 Do new 71 5 45 100 Loudon &River Plate, Bur. 40 6 8 25 Do new 10 11 2 p 20 London Chart. of Australia all 231 244 20 London and County 2O 495 Sol 60 Du new, issat 20 p.m, 16 pd. 1.1 ... . • London Joint Stock 1 311 391 504 London and South African al 8 9 100 London &S.-Western, lint, 20 13 11 50 London it Venezuela, lim l2l ... ••• 100 London and Westminster '2o 571 54 100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pin 2O 100 Merchant, lint 25 61 5 4 10 Metropolitan, lim all 74 74 00 Midland, lim 2O 11 4 5 National of Australia 25 National of Liverpool, lim l5 ad Ip 00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 49 ... ... 1401 10 Do • ...... .. 4 2 ... 50 National. 20 New South Wales all 41 43 20 North-Western 7l 25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 4l 42 50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lim lO 61 51 30 Provincial of Ireland 2.5 I,IJ 9.2 10 Do new, all ••• ••• 100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, inn 25 11 IS 100 Do issued at 6 pin lO 8 6 25 Union of Australia all 43 4; 431 71 100 Union of Ireland, lim 50 Union of London l5 35 36 351 4 SHARE LIST. OEDINAKT ilAtilt:S A,ND STOCKS. share Railways. p al d. Closing Business Prise. done. et Bristol and Exeter ...... 100 et Caledonian luo 80 804; '0! at I..)a,ituriau 20 Corn wAli .... all 21 3 it Dublin .t I3ellart J 104 77 79 st Dun„L'erth, & Ab.J WO 70 72 2) East Loudon all 7 8 tO Do 15 2) Do 10 et Glasgow tS. Western lou 102 104 st Great pastern .. at Do. E. Antic. No. 2.... 100 ... at tireat Nortuel Scotlantl.. 100 15 ld st Great Northern lOO 100 tOT 1014 at Do. A stock 11)0 1041 1051 tt 110..11 stuck lOO et GtS, and W. of Ire/ann Ito) iti 6 61 (it. Western —Original lOO 5.4 531 1;21 31 st Do. South Wales lOO 5, 57 at Do. W. 51.1d.—Oxford lOO 30 3t 31 St Do. Newport IOU ) 32 at Lancashire. Yorlsturc lOO 127 WI 127 t at Lon., Brigh.,4 S.Cuttst lOO 441 44i 03 Do Scrip at •Lou., Chat., and Dover ltou 161 17 161 at Du. Metrup. Ex. A et Lou. .0 Aunts Western lOO 1.3 19 1191 at Lou.. South Western lOO 83 .90 Man., Shel., & Lincoln 100 54 511 at Metropolitan ..... lOO 04 9 at Do Extension lOO it 03 5 Do. New rd all 41 41 st Metropolitan District. ail " 10 Motrop. St. John's 11 oo 1 6 at Midland at Do, Litman. & Dui by lOO t 5 57 st Nsrth at Do. Ed., Yth., & Dun— llO at Nor. Itlastern—Berwick 1(0 1 14 115 1151 1 25 Do. G. N.lt: at Do Leeds . ....... luo 701 711 72111 at Do York lOO 100) 1071 at Do Carlisle .... at Do Stoec. & Darling 1(0 141 143 at North Lou ion 10 Do New 18.18 . . 4 11 21 4 ) at North Staffordshire ivy :55 57 st North ano "8.-W. Junction 100 101 le3 10 Do New £lO shares 7 •• at Ild , :oxiney st tihropshire Union lOO 581 591 at South Devon'.. st South Eastern lOO 701 77 77 at Statues, Wok'haut, & Wok l2 13 at 'tail Vale lOO 153 136 • Do. C .. G - Waterlord & Kilkenny.. 1(0 10 Waterloo & Whitcha,l.. 6 RAILVIAYS-PREFERENCE SIIAILES AND STOCKS, ' at Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 86 88 st Caledonian Qrs., No. *, lOO ... ... at Do. Scot. N.E., 45 per cent 100 ••• ... st Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c 100 ... .., at Do. do. 7 per cent 100 ••• ... st D. do. Ordinary 100 73 82 at Do. Midland st Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 ... ... 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent gum.— all .. at, Dundee, Perth, and Aber deen Junction lOO 105 107 at Do. Ist Class preference lOO ~. .„, st Ulas. & S.W. gua. 5 per et lOO ... ... at (4t. Eastern, E.O Ni. No.l 100 97 10J at Do do N 0.2 100 96 90 at Do do 6 per cent 100 10; ILO at Do East Anglian A 5 p. c. 100 ... ~, at Do do B 6 do. 100 ..„ ... at Do . do C 7 do. 100 ... ~, at Du do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 ... ~ st Do E. Union 4 p.c. gua. 100 63 . 72 al, Do d DoN O osipfo.ew.v lksf v .c.E a x i. . l7 1:146 100100 ::: ... s st Great Not thern, 5 per cent 10) .., ... at Do 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. c. pin. 100 .., ... Do 4 4 do do du 100 .., ... at Do 5 do at s p.c. pm lot) ~, ~ at Do Leeds, Bradford, and Ilalifax, 6 per cent at Gt. Nrth of Scotland, Ist pf 100 .., ... st Great South. and Western (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 97 19 stl 0 t.Wcst.—Orig.&Jut.-Itent chg., per gua.s p.c lOO 104 1( 6 at Do. Urig. B. IL Es). 5 p.c ll/0 95 1 00 at Do du 4, per cent. 185 J IJJ s 7 8J at Do do 4 do du at Do do 5 per cent. rudem lOO 14 16 st Do do Birmingham gua 10,) 06 7 0 at Du do do pref lOO ..„ .. at Du do Chester g u a . IJO b 5 8i st Do do do 8 per cent. 100 .., ... at Do do du 5 du 100 95 1.06 at Do South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. lOU ~, ... at Do do 4 1 Im , lOO ... ... st Do do 41 1852 lOO ~, ~. at Do du 5 at Du West Mid. Oxford lat g lO2 110 112 st Do do 25 gua lOO 107 111 at Du Newport, Ist g. 3 p.c WO 99 92 st Do do 25 du 100 97 IVO st Do gua. 51 per cent. 1863 100 ... ... 00 Lancaster .3; Carlisle 41 p.c. all ••• ... at Laueash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1 3 135 at Du Barnsley, £5 Is 10.1 p.e. 100 e L d n ' t. No guit i . Nu. 2. 100 ... at Du 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) WO 130 17;4 st Do 45 (Blackburn pureh). 199 98 100 ati Loudon & Briuttou, 5 p.c 100 ••• ••• std 1 at Do 6 do do lOO ... at Do 5 do Ni. 4 lOO ... ••• ... ••• at Do 6 do (W.E. & C.Y.) 1000 1 at st Do 7 per cent Do gu3 s r p d per t. luo 10 114 Di 4do 1859 WO ••• ••• s t Loudon, Chatham, & Dover ... • ... 5 per cent lOO sti London and 21 . W., 0. and ••• ••• Nuneaton 5 per cent 0 at D o Bedford &Cambridge lOO at Do Shrovsli'y & Welcup'l lO6 ... •• ... • at London and S W. 7 p,c ••• late 3d shares, lOO 140 153 a 11.1)aun(.1,°61111:fillel ~ & P Lileln. 6 p.e. lot/ . athS 2stid) a a l l l l par •• •• Do .1:1; I pin 6 13 16 s Do 31 per cent lOO 60 63 1 Du redeem. 6 per cent 5 st Mid. Consolidated., 6p. c lOO 130 1:;5 a Du Bristol& Birm., 6p. c luJ 162 131 a Do 45 per cent. redeem lO3 by lot a Do 45 per cent. irredoeiu lOO 99 1.1 a Du Leicester .t ll'emi, 1 P.C lOO so V 1 at North British, 5 p.c. No. 1 tot) at Du E. dz G. 4p. e. S.& ll.„ km ::: ::• st Du N. 8., N 0.2, 5 Per eou.t lO2 ... .., ,•. t t N D .u. BorderEastern—Cony. ru _ e Union, o . 5 4 5 pp e . c . : : st 87 ;,, at 1.1,1 45 per cent. redee.n lO2 97 99 at Do (.4 N.E. 4 per cent., 10) ... ... 17 Do Berwick capital Do York, H. &S. purchase lO 10 104 Do Stcktu & Drling. A 5 p.c lOO 107 10J at Do W, liartlepool 11. and It 100 87 89 20 North Staffordshire lUs S. Devon Annuities, 1 s all 9 10 lOs Do Tavistock Anna., 10a all 81 91 106 Do Fixed 41 per cent all S 81 1.0.6. S. East. (Read. Anus., 1.0.6) all 22 23 et Do 41 per cent lOO ,„ ~. at Do Fixed 41 per Cent IOU at Taff Vale No.l lOO 150 153 et Waterford & Kilkenny, 6pc 100 43 45 RAILWAYS.-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOOKS. With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate year. st Caledonian 41 p c gua. st Do Scot. Cen. rum. 7 p c lOO ... st Do 41 p irredeem all ... st Do 4p e con. issued at 80 65 ... st Great Eastern 41 per cent. 100 7; 8u at Do 5 do, 1862 lOO 86 s 8 et Do New 5 do, 1863 lOO 81 86 at Do do 5 do, 1861— 100 84 86 at Great Northern, 5p c irred. 100 st Do Permanent 5 per cent. 100 ... st Do Boston & Sloald, 41 pc 100 st Great West., W. Jfidl., 5p c 100 _. st Do Joint perpe. 5 p c,186; 100 88 9: st Do do 6p c irred., 1866 100 133 108 106 20 Do Vale N eath peril. 5p c all 19 20 st Kent Coast, 6 per cent, 14 lOO L 5 Lane. and York New 41 per cent till July, 1871 2 1 1 p st Lond., Brig &c., 41 pc, 1858 100 at Do do 4 do, 1860 100 ..„ st Do do 41 do, 1861 100 „. at Do do 41 do, 1863 100 at Do do 5 do, 1865 100 st Do No. 6 5 do, 1866 100 st Do No. 7 5 do st Lond , Chat., &c., 2d, 6 p.c st Do Metrop. Ex., B 6 p.c Do do C 6 p.c at London &N. Western, 5p c 100 110 112 st London &S. Western, 41 p e 100 93 95 10 Man. Shef. & Lin., 5 pc, 1865 all 81 84 at Metropolitan 5 per cent lOO 100 102 at Midland, A 5 per cent pref lOO 107 109 st Do B 5 do 100 107 109 18 Do 5p e opt. to cony. to Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1869 all 201 21} 18 Do Imolai% New Shares all 19 Di 22 Do 5p c con, into Old Stk., Aug. 31, 1872 ... . 81 14 24p at North British, E. and • No. 1, 5 per cent at Do £lO guaranteed, 1861 100 ... Do E ,P., & Dun., 2d, 4p c 100 ... st Do E.& G , No. 2, 5 p.c ... at Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1862 100 ... st Do E. & G., N 0.3, 5 p.c st Do E. & G., (OrdirY) 4i P c 100 at North Eastern, 41 per cen t 100 97 99 at Do Stock. & Darl., D st North London, 41, per cent (Max. 5 per cent) st North Staffordshire 5 p c.., 100 st South Eastern, 41 pc, MO 100 at Do 5 do 1861 100 ..• ••• st Do sdo (Ch. Cross) 1863 100 • •.. at Do 5 do, 1864 st Victoria St.& Pimlico, 41 Pe 100 RAILWAYS.-LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS at Birkenhead 100 vi 63 100 Do. 41 per cent. Prefer... all 96 100 st Buckinghamshire at Chester and Holyhead lOO 5k 56 at Do. 5 4 Per cent. st Do. 5 do. 100 HG 112 st c Clydesdale,ieheter S guaranteed Valley 1 1 0060 st East Lincoln, gua. 6p. c lOO 1 -: 2 20 Gloster and Dean Forest all 8 Gt. Easli., Newm., Ztc., 5 p.c 100 *** Do. E. U. Harwich, 4 p.c 100 st Do. do. Woodbrg. Ex., do 100 st Gt. West, W. Mid., Herat 100 96 i L; 50 Hull and Selby all 110 112 st Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 212 2,6 at Loudon and Blackwall lOO 93 95 a t Do. 41 per cent lOO at Loudon, Chat., &c., 41 pc. 100 at Do. Cu. Fund, du 100 ". Cum. at Loudon and Greenwich at Do. do Preference lOO at Loudon, Tilbury, & South 100 8:1 st Lowestoft, gua 4 percent lOO 79 81 at Du. du. 6 du. 51 Manch.. Bustou, &Matlk at Dlidlaud, Bradford, Pref lOO 10 Mid Kent Cray Line) So Northern& East., 5 per cunt all 53 511 .50 Du. du. 6 du. all st N. Eahtera— Hartlepool lOO ::: •:: at N. West. A poll). pret, 5p c lOU 107 109 st Do B minimum 1 p.c lOU ... ... at Notting. &al ratan. IL& C 100 01 0:1 25 Preston and 11 yro all 41 It; ... ltuyaon, Ditch., and Shep lOO 132 131 at Shrewsbury and Hereford DIU 132 14 10 Do do 8 2 `./Ip at S. Yorksh. and River Dun 100 07 ill/ t Dc 4 per cent gua lO i 78 80 st Do 5 do st Vict. Station and Pimlico lOO - st West Cornwall 20 West London, Class A all 13 14 ' 0 Do do C 2 Do do B all ... ... ... a t Weymouth and Portland lOO ...... . s t Wilts and Somerset DOCKS. st East and West India lOO 118 121 Lordou and St. Katherine lOO 99 31 100 D (Tel). stock, 4 per cent all ~„ Millwall Freehold Land st Dock lOO 27 32 stliSouthampton lOO ISS 70 ot,i Surrey 0.411113 , mgal lOO 1081 1091 TELEGRAPH COM PA. N I F.S. 10 knglo-Annerican Tel., liml all p/ 201 20 10 Anglo Mediter Tel., 10 1 , 1 IGI 151 14/ st Atlantic Telegraph lO is 10 st Do. 8 per cent. lOO 55 6) 581 at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim. 100 163 175 st Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 265 270 10 Do., New 8 12 14p 25 Indo-European Tel., lim lO Id pr 5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lim all 31 4 1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all I p 10 Mediterra. Exten. Tel., lim all II G 25 Reuter's Telegram all 79 8 4 20 Societe Transatlant., lim all 101 201 12 j 18/ st Submarine Telegraph Do. • Scrip all lf 11 SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim all ti 7 1 6 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all . p MISCELLANEOUS. 1u Auglo-Mexican Mint all lot 25 Australian Agricultural 201 16 17 25 Australian Mort. Land and Pittance, lint. 10 Baugarah Tea Estates, lint 3 51 10 Berlin Water Works, lint all 141 15 15 14f 10 Do. Now all 111 15 100 Botckow Vaughan, lien. 5 Bombay (pas, litn. 5 Do. No w 4 1,1 id 5) British American Land 4l 15 ii 20 British Indian Tea, limo all 21 2 4 20 British Ship Owners 7l ...- '29 Canada Company • - all Gi , G 10 Canadian Loan and Invest ment, Jim 2l • • •• 20 Ceylon Company, lim 20 Do. A shares 21 2*-I d 121 1 5 3 2 d 10 City Discount, lim 5 '23 City of London heal Pro perty, lint 9 51 ild 30 City o f Milan Improv. limo all 5 6 25 City of Moscow (pas, Mu._ a ., ] I 50 City Offices, lint r, 50 Colonial, Lim. Do. 50 Common:la.; Union (Assur) 11 p r , p 10 Company of African Mer chants, lint. 20 Continental Union Gas, lint - all 23 24 211 25 Copper Miners of England, pref. 71 per cent. 109 Corporation of Loudon Bonds, 1877, 41 per cent. all 1031 1011 100 Do, 187 9 , 4 1 per cent. all 1011 1051 100 Do. 1882, 4t per cent. all 103 101 10 Credit Fon. of England, lint. all 21 21 21 50 Credit Fon.of Mauritiuslim. 10 31 2! . ii at Crystal Palace lOO 21 24 et Do. Preference lOO 92 97 st Do. 6p. c Perpetual Deb lO9 105 110 20 Darjeeling, lien. ... ... 10 Eastern Assam, lint. 6l ... ...d 50 East Indian Laud Credit -- — and Finance, . 8 414 20 East India trriga. Canal all 32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and Coal, ihn. 100 Xsyptiau J per cent. V'roy. (Inc. by Egypt. Guy all 934 971 981 20 Egyptian Cum.& Trad. lint, 6 ii Eug.S; Austral. Copper, lieu 24 t Euglish and Fureigu Credit 74 4! 3)(1 100 Eug. and Scot. urine, litre. 8 ... 41 10 Fait-Lk/Ara Engincoriug 5 . 2,1 20 Fora-street NV,rolionsu, Mu l2 1 100 For. ,St Col. Cloy. Trust arid - I.oitn Scrip, issue/hit r.as all 90 91 50 Gellivara, lint. . ,0 - ... ... 10 General Credit & Dis., lint 71 11 1 t a 1 a 15 General Steam Navigation 14 27 2J 50 Horna & Col Marine In. lim. 5 21 24 10 Hung Kong and China Gus all ... ... 20 Hudson's Bay all 14 13 121 20 imperial Land Co. of Mar seilles, lint. 20 Interna.FinancialSo c . lint 5 2 14 20 Interim. Land Credit, lint 6 6 44 50 Italian Land 5 1,1 p 20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all 3 4 100 Do. 6p. c. Bds., redeem 1870, issued 00 all 61 03 50 Land Securities, lim 2l 11d 34 25 London African Trading lO 7 5 1 25 Lou. & Caled. Marine, lint 6 ••• —" 10 London County Land and Building, lint. 50 Lond. Financial Asso., lint 30 22 21 4 Lond.Gen.Omnibus.Co.lim. all 2 2 4 50 Loud. and Glasg. Engineer and Iron Ship, 1int.....,,,,, 25 21 16,1 20 Lond. & Provincial Marine 2 F 1 pr at Madras Irriga. & Caul. Gus. sp.c. by India Gov. lOO 1031 1041 10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, 1im...... .......... ll 1( 1 50 Merchant Shippi ng, m . all 32 37 60 Millwall Iron Works, u lint. 124 ••• ••• 10 Natal Land and Colonisa tion Co., lint. 25 National Discount Co., lint 5 11 111 104 25 National Prov. Marine, lint. 4 ..! • • 10 National Steam Ship, lint, all 91 104 20 Nerbudda Coal& Iron, lint. 6 31 34 10 New Consolidated Dis. lim. 3 14 144 5 I\ ew Quebrada, Jim 25 New Zealand Loan & Mer . cantile Agency,lim lll i IP 25 New Zealand Trust and Loan, lim 10 Northern Assam Tea, lim. 5 ' ' 10 Do. B ....... all 9 8 at North Brit. Austral., Rm lOO 48 5. 1 50 North Brit. & Mercan. In , 61 U 191 25 Ocean Marine (Insurance) 5 13 14 50 Oriental Financial, lim ll ••• ••• 5 Oriental Gas, lint. 5 Do. New 10 Otago and Southland In. vestment, 1int....... . 1d 4P 5 Ottoman Gas, lira li 24 10 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian R. Mail lint 5 Do. do. at Peel R. Land & Minerl lint 100 31 34 50 Peninsu. & Oriental Steam all 46 43 461 i 50 Do. New 1367 lO 3 2,1 Do. New ......... .... all 6 4 7 5 1 0 Rhymney Iron 2 Rio de Janeiro City Im.,lim all 1 8 19 13 Do. Gas, li nt :P I 43 251 1 2 5 54 4 2 4! i 100 Royal Mail Steam Scottish Aust. Invest., lint lOO 78 83 Do. 6p. c. Guar. Pref lOO ••• ••• Societe Fin. d'Egypte, lint lO 7 64 Societe Gen.de l'Empire Ot 8 21 31 50 S. African Mort. & Inv., lint 6 • - 25 South Australian Land 20 Telogra,ph Con. &Main.,lint all 274 X B4 284 01 84 20 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lint 2 21 3 a 5 511 22 441 . 2 .5i 4 PP 20 Trinidad Petroleum, lint Bl ... ... 10 Trust &Agency of Aus.,lim 1 i 1p 10 Do do. do. all .. 15 United Discount Corp., l . 5 6 un. . 11 44 204- 814 814 14 2 DI 5 2 22 0 000 Trustu UniversalnUnionio n & Steam Lo am Loan MarineC rsi o to . oi , pp U (O; U. Canada.)lllinti.m 10 Upper Assam Tea, lint all ti 2'- 281 0 7 30 Van Diernav's Laud 7 Finance, lim l2 11 104 e)Loan p . e . r 20all 3 Steam, lint 5 3 London Wharves and 20 West 10 Warehouses ••• •.• 1 65 0 00 0 Iv ViceroysWarrantot t. (Mortga ge ) India ratg Egypt, a and Pacific COLONIAL GOVICENISLIIINT siccußruncts -- & W e b Columbia, 6 per 0ent.,1172.... • 100 ..... _ po. 1895 .. l9O —• ..... Can.(lov.6p.o.Jan.,&July 1877-84 Do. 6p. o Yeb. & Aug lOO 10 5 .I -107 . . -.- Do. sp. 0. Mar. & Sept lOO 102 1 04 Do. p. 0. Jan. t July lOO 02' 93i 931 Do. 6D. c. lneor ibed et lOO 90 92 ..... cape ajlope, 6 p• 0• 187 3.• 100 102 10 4 D0.Ap1.&0131. 1390-1900 lOO 11 l 113 Do. Do. Jan.&" , 1 1 8 8:1. 0-90 10 0 107 109 July, 100 los l it Do. 6 per pent. 13 A p ril and 16 Oct., 1900 lOO 03 100 Ceylon, Nov 1878, 6 p.c lOO 108 110 Do. um, do lOO 105 iby Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873, Jan. and July Do. 1878 ... ....... Do. 'SS?, May and NC( Do. 1893, Feb. & Aug lO 106 1, ) , 3 blv:bourne C.)rporatn., 1667-75, 6 per cent...." ICO 100 100 N.8.G0v.6 p.0../a.C....1u1) ~ lon • 103 104 Nitta! 6 p ot, Apl t Oct OO _ Do op c. 31, 3 ,7 & Nov 1 0 1 G los N. S. W. 5 vc., '7l to '74 lOO 09 101 101 Do. 5 p.c. 18t8 to 1890... 100 1.9 100 L9l Do. 5 p.c. rd.'67 to '75 N.Zettlaud, 6p. ;A. 1291 ICO Do. 5 per cent..... - Do dan , A p! - I,J uly, O. t Do 6 p 2.. Mar ‘it Sept '9l lOO lOs 110 Do June & Dec , 1-91 .• lOO 109 ,11 jDo Prov. I lit.ok Id. / j u ic, ( Et rice I &2, 1,... , .5 .. -- boys. Scotia 6 p o.Jan and July, 1876 Do 15a6 l3O 102 104 Qn-enslnd. 6p. c. 'B2-6 lOO 107 1(8 1071 f Do 1891 ... • lOO 107 1(8 107' Tasmanian 6pet c. 1895 .. 106 107 Do ib93 '97 . ..... Victoria 6I er cont. 1691 lOO 115 1t 6 Do. Aprilancl Oct ......... /14 112 113 111 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. —nis Day. DO W-ST DEBT. DEFRAUDING THE EXCISE.—HEAVY FINE. Jc:6eph White, of 107,.8, 9, and 10, High-street, Borough, of the firm of White, Fairchild, and Co., was summoned by the Inland Revenue to answer the three following charges, viz , that he the said Joseph White, a dryer and roaster of chicory, and within six calendar months before the day of exhibiting the information, to wit, the Bth of June, made use of a certain building for the purpose of drying, roasting, keeping and storing chicory without having made entry thereof as required by law, whereby he had incurred a penalty of £2OO. Secondly, that ho had in his possession on the Bth of June, in certain premises required to be entered, but not entered, a quantity of chicory exceeding 14Ibs. weight, to wit, 20cwt., by which he had incurred a penalty of £lOO ; and, thirdly, that the defendant, a dealer in coffee, had in his possession ou the 15th of Jun; 16 cwt. of roasted vegetable matter other than coffee—to wit, locust beans prepared and manufactured to resemble coffee, and to serve as a substitute for coffee, the penalty of which was £lOO. Mr. D welly, the solicitor for the Excise, called the excise ()dicers who visited the premises and found the locust beans, so manufactured and made up as to resemble coffee. Mr. Lewis, for the defendant, said he could not deny the evidence of the officers, but ho trusted that the magistrate would not inflict upon his client the full penalties laid down in the Act. Ilis client had never before, he believed, infringed the provisions and directions of the Act of Parliament. Mr. D welly said it was not quite so, as the de fendant had been summoned three times before. Sir T. Henry thought the whole of the charges had been clearly proved, and therefore he had no alternative but to inflict the full penalties men tioned by the Act—for the first count the fine would be £2OO ; foi the second, £lOO ; and the third, .£lOO ; making in all £4OO. Mr. Lewis again asked for a mitigation, but Sir Thomas told him the proper quarter to apply for a mitigation of the fine would be the Board of Inland Revenue. MARLBOROUGH STREET. SUSPICIOUS POSSESSION OF AUSTRALIAN NOTES.— George Knight, a young man, was charged before Mr. Knox, with having suspiciously in his posses sion 6i one-pound notes of the Bank of Australia. Butcher, a detective of the C Division, met the prisoner, and, knowing him, asked him what he had got about him, and on Beechey, another constable, taking off the prisoner's hat, he found in it 6k one pound notes of the Bonk of Australia, and as the prisoner could not give a satisfactory account of how he became possessed of them, he took him into custody. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said he had had the notes in his possession three months, and that they were given to him by a boy, and that he had given thou to a young man, who said they were of no value. Mr. Knox rem tudel the prisoner. WESTMINSTER. • STEALING THE QUEEN - S PROPERTY.—CharIes Craekael, lkte a private ia the Coldstream. Guards, was charged with stealing a colour-sergeatit's tunic, value £4 93. Gill, the property of her Majesty the Queen. A summons had been issued koinst a Mis. llyas for buying the coat, and for her Mr. W. D. Smyth, of Rochester-row, watched the case. The coat belonged to Colour-Sergeant Alfred Hardy, of the Ist Battalion Coldstream Guards, and the prisoner was suspected of stealing it, as he had been in the barracks at the time it was missed ; however, he took the coat shorn of all its buttons and ornaments to Mt s. I)yas's, and, stating it was his own, sold it to her for 25., she after wards selling it for 4s. in lloundsditch. (The coat was produced, and it was nearly new.) Pi ironer had nothing to Ray, and was remanded in order that the summons against Dyas might be heard with it. THAMES. POOR MARY ANS. —Mary COghlall, an Irish woman, carrying a b.‘by iu her arms, was brought before Mr. Benson, on remand, charged with un lawfully wounding Joh❑ Driscoll. The complainaut, a young man, dwelling in Dock-street, Poi lar, opposite the prisoner, was coming home at one o'clock in the morning of the 25th of July, and singing a song which he had heard at a music hall about Mary Anu. The pri soner, whose baby had been baptized and named Mary Ann, took offence at the harmless ditty which her countryman was singing, and told him to go to the devil. Fie asked her what for, and she abused him, and told him not to ridicule her child if it was named Mary Ann. The complainant's sister said there were more Mary Anns in the world than her Mary Ann. The prisoner still objected to the song, went indoors, put her Mary Ann in bel, and returned into the street with a poker, with which she beat Driscoll over the head, and then struck him with a stone. She rendered him perfectly insensible, and inflicted serious wounds on his temple and body. Ile was carried to the Poplar Hospital, and was under medical treatment there a week. He has been very ill ever since ; he lost a large quantity of blood, and his cure will be a loag one. Mr. Benson said if the complainant was singing the old ballad of " Poor Mary Ann," it was a very plaintive and beautiful one, which he had often heard with delight. The complainant —I heard Mary Ann at a music hall. Mr. Benson—You had a right to sing it before your own door. Two witnesses confirmed the statement of the complainant. The poker, a formidable weapon, was produced. The prisoner, who kept up a continual clamour, said the complainant called her very offensive names. She denied striking him at all, but she intended to do it. The complainant was drunk when the affray occurred. Driscoll said he was only half drunk, and de clared that he called the woman no names. Mr. Benson said it was a great absurity to be offended with the song of 4' Poor Mary Ann." He committed the prisoner for trial. The French Atlantic Cable, it is stated, will be operated by means of the instruments so recently invented, to communicate delicate signals with the least expenditure of electro-magnetic fluid. Thus it is asserted that the ocean wire is not connected with an ordinary telegraph instrument, but is attached to a " condenser." This condenser consists of two metallic plates, separated from each other by about the two-hundredth pare of an inch, one being soldered to the cable and the other to the wire connecting with the "speaking" or receiving instrument, so that when the electric signal ar rives at the cable plate it exerts an influence upon the speaking plate, but does not pass to it. Mr. Cromwell Farley, the inventor of the instrument, states that " the induction of the condenser enables the operator to work by the increment and decrement of the electric charge, and not by the electric current itself." The advantages of this method are that by its use the disturbing influences of earth currents are avoided, and the transmission and read ing of messages is increased and facilitated. The Volage, newly-built (composite) wooden cased iron ship, of 2,338 tons and 600-horse power arrived at Portsmouth yesterday in charge of Staff- Commander Roberts, Assistant Master-Attendant at Sheerness Dockyard, and a party of men from the flagship. The Volage was built after the de sign of Mr. Recd, Chief Constructor of the Navy, at Millwall by the Thames Ironworks Company, and promises to rival if not surpass the Inconstant. ller engines are from Messrs. Penn's, and during the trip worked exceedingly well, being under the charge of Mr. Anderson and a party of men from the works. She will be taken into dock in a few days. tier Majesty's screw steam corvette Malacca, 13, Capt. Oldfield, from the Pacific, passed up Chan nel, near the Eddystone, at 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning. The eastern side of the cavalry barracks at Col chester is being enclosed with brick and iron palls ading. Commanding officers' quarters are also in course of erect: on. SPIRIT OP TILE ED.BLIC JOURNALS, .0.-- The Times. remarks that the son of the labourer in our -agricultural districts, such as that now visitimd by the British Association, is under singular disadvantages and difficulties. Canon Girdlestone may well put it to the assembled wisdom of the empire —Who is to educate him? At whose expense? And what is he to be taught? If the education of the working poor be a duty, whose duty is it ? There are various answers to the question. The Canon answers, with many others, " The localproprietors and occupiers." Farmers, however, say they want labourers able to do their Work, and glad to take it on the wages offered, not educated persons with opened minds and prospects, and with the world to choose from. If it is the interest and the duty of the State that all should be educated to time extent of their powers and opportunities, it is, then, the duty of the State to pro. vide the schools and advance the funds. That, indeed, is what the State does already in the much less necessary cases of towns and populous villages, where there are plenty of schools already, and where the intervention of the State, beneficial as it has been, has certainly destroyed mammy fair schools as well as made some good ones. If there be a question as to the amount of instruction to be given to village lads, we should think the Education Committee much more likely to meet Canon Girdlestone's views than most village vestries or most masters of their appointing. As we have observed, it is no fault of theirs if they are disposed to teach only what is necessary to a man's station in life. They have good reasons for not liking over-educated persons—that is, persons burdened with more knowledge than they can handle wisely and profitably. They have good reason to be shy, too, of sharp wits without the tie of local responsi bility. Nevertheless, the State has row long ago recog nised the importance of giving everybody the best educa tion possible under the circumstance. Instead, thou, of fighting for a share of the rates, and, by consequence, for the intervention of the ratepayers, the Canon had better insist upon the duty of the State to carry out its promise of a national system. The Post thinks that a particular point which the great race will probably clear up is that of training. The Americans have unquestionably done more hard work, and for a longer time, than the Oxonians. Which of the crews, then, is the better fitted to row four and a quarter miles at racing pace? Friday will decide the question. But the recent trial seems to us tolerably conclusive on the matter. The Harvard crew could not possibly shew distress from under-training, and yet on Tuesday they unquestionably exhibited more marked signs of labour just undergone than the Oxonians did. This leads to the conclusion that they are rather over-trained, as distress can of course arise from that cause as well as the other. It will be gathered from these remarks that, putting accidents out of the question, we fully expect that Oxford will be victorious in the great race. At the same time defeat will be no disgrace to the gallant Harvardians. If they could have had con fidence in their own boats and style of rowing the case would be different. But to pull in an outrigger new to them, and— abandoning the style in which they have been nurtured—to adopt a mode of rowing foreign to their experience, is to face disadvantages which all the pluck, determination, and physical power they have exhibited could not be expected to counterbalance when opposed to such a strong and skilled crew as that of Oxford ; and should our prognostications, based on an unbiassed investi gation of the case, prove to be fallacious, we shall heartily join in tendering to the Harvard oarsmen our sincere con gratulations on their almost too-well-merited success. They will have the fairest of fair play ; and where lusiote and endurance are so equally matched, the best style of rowing will win. The Daily News, in examining the recent speech of the member fur Sheffield, says that on the questions of the future Mr. Mundella takes a moderate tone. In his view, and in the view of those whom he represents, the greatest of these is the question of National Education. Mr. Mundella himself is for a national system, but expresses his willingness to take every possible step towards it, and to-work for more. Ife is, of course, for the Ballot—who could win popular suffrage and go against it?--and for the Married Women's Property Bill, and that for legalising Marriages with the Sisters of Deceased 'Wives, which are' also working-class questions, and must soon be settled in the Liberal sense. The abolition of Capital Punishment, and the important bill for applying a kind of Factory Act to Mines, as might be expected, received his support. But what may be a little unexpected is that Mr. Mundella not only voted for the Permissive Bill, as it is somewhat quaintly called, but stood up to justify his vote before the men of Sheffield. Indeed, he did more ; he named the question of licensing as among the most important questions of the future, and it is suggestive of thought that the Sheffield democracy endorsed his opinions. There are some evils with which the working classes are evidently inclined to deal in a rough and ready way. We arc not quite sure that among these evils the obstructive tendency of the House of Lords does not occupy a place. From Mr. Roebuck to Mr. Mundella is a long d:stance, but every step of the distance is an upward one. Mr. Mundclla's speech is not as readable as one of Mr. Roebuck's would have been, but it tells us something we needed to know, which Mr. Roebuck never did. Ile is not half as clever as his pro decessor, but he is twice as strong ; not nearly so sharp, but then be is honest and earnest.. Mr. Mundella feels with the people, and speaks for them, and we only rejoice that Sheffield democracy should be such that a man of Mr. Mundella's character and power should fitly repre sent it. The Standard says that poor Lucas, the lion tamer, has paid the usual penalty of his profession, and has died of the injuries inflicted upon him during his recent pester. mance in Paris. The gallantry of his servant, Jose Mendez, who rushed into the den and rescued him from the two infuriated beasts between whom he was torn to pieces, has been unavailing, and all that the brave Spaniard achieved was to prolong his master's life for a few wretched days. This is always the end of lion-taming stories. Van Ambergh did indeed pass successfully through the Valleyof the Shadow of Death, but the betting in such matters must always be something like twenty to one on the lions in the long run. Does it seem very horrible to calculate the odds on a man's death in this cold-blooded way? Indeed, we think so. It is only a little less horrible than it is to encourage such demoralising entertainments as that with which poor Lucas will never more offend public morality. Can any. one who " assists," as the Frenchphrase suns, at such a spectacle, feel that he is much m advance of the crowds who used to gloat over similar shows when gladiators were " butchered to make a Roman holiday," and the Chris tian religion was a new idea, that seemed for the moment to have failed ? Lion-taming shows are lessons in ferocity. The animal courage they call forth makes the man who performs at them a hero for the moment in the people's eyes, and always in his own ; and in this way the lowest qualities of humanity, those in which it most resembles brutality, are held up in admiration and glorified, and every lad who looks on and thinks what a splendid thing it would be to be a lion tamer is made just in proportion to the intensity of his admiration a worse man, a coarser and a lower creature in the scale of humanity than he might have been otherwise. If we speak of Lucas's death in a manner which seems a little unfeeling, it is because reflection on the mqtter shows how much harm such men do unconsciously by their lives. The shame of this, however, rests with the authorities who permit their exhibitions, and it may be acknowledged that with the men themselves, at all events, rests such glory as can accrue from mere brute courage and the penalty which is always in reserve. The Telegraph declares that it is an excellent thing to find a representative working man like Mr. Potter telling the trades unions the truth about the gigantic vice of his own class. How vast, how momentous the topic is, may be gathered from the fact cited, that every year £228,000,000 sterling is spent in Britain upon intoxicating drinks. The speaker did not fall into the error of advo cating either total abstinence or Parliamentary restrictions; he knew how to distinguish between the "productive" glass of ale, which invigorates and sustains, and that " unproduc tive" swilling, which ruins health, impoverishes the pocket, and makes the home squalid, unhappy, and quarrel some. But none the less he asked the new age of house hold suffrage to disestablish by its own action beerhouses and gin-palaces ; for these " destroy what we want to save, and save what we want to destroy." Mr. Potter accused his order of guilty folly in not recognising the truth, that they laboured under no worse incumbus than the habit of drinking for drinking's sake. Money spent in this vice, he went on, "is waste of land, capital, and labour, in producing drink ; loss of labour and time by destruction and theft, by pauperism, destitution, sickness, insanity, premature death, police, prosecutions , courts of justice, support of criminals, &c. This simple item of expenditure would pay off the national debt in less than five years, and lessen taxation for ever." It would! yet we . all know that th ose wor d s will receive the comment of just the same baleful statistics of drunkenness next year—just the same consequent pauperism, the same . bodily and mental loss, the same Aquandered opportunities on the part of the six millions , )f working people taken as a class. No sensibl e wor ki ng man but will admit the amazing mistake of this passion for strong liquor, whether he looks at it as th e v i ce of the individuol or as the opprobrium and obstacle of the order. With few exceptions everybody at the Congress acknow ledged the transcendant importance of Mr. Potter's facts, and confessed that trades unions could not make in dustry free and strong, unless something else made it sober. The Herald refers to the recent admission of two Ben• galee ladies to the Calcutta University. Female educa tion in India has made great way of late years so far as children are concerned, and the n.aterial cannot, of course, be employed too early. But the demonstration to which we have called attention is far more important than the acquisition of any number of children to local schools, on account of the influence which it exercises upon the thought of the country. We do not here allude to the movement in connection with Christianity. In the face of facts of this kind religion may be left an open question. But of this we may be assured—that whenever women in the East shall be raised to the position of women in the West, changes for good of the highest possible importance will inevitably come. And by the position of women in the West we mean the position of women as they are, not women as Mr. Mill wants them to be. The Bengalee girl graduates have gone to an extreme for which we at home are scarcely prepared ; but initiatory measures must be strong to be effective, and it is in this light that we have to regard tinir Aspiration to . Uuiveraitar honours. EP . OATING INSTMLIGENC3-7 his D-17 MEETING—This DAI (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) KNAVESMIRE STAKES. Fecialis ......, Nutbruakor.. Zeuanv CITY BE rTING.—Turs DAY. ST. LEGER. 7 to 4 agst Pretender (offered) 9to '2 agst Drummer (taken and offered) 9 to 1 agst Martyrdom (taken) 100 to 5 agst Ryshworth (offered) 33 to 1 agst Brennus (offered) 40 to 1 agst Starter (offered) CESAREWITOIL 40 to 1 agst Starter (offered) 100 u to 15 agst Paganiui (taken) 1000 to 15 aget `Vanier (taken) 1000 to 15 agst Judge (offered) 500 to i► t tq;st Aulace (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Stork (offered) DERBY. 10 to - 1 agst Sunshine (offered) 1230 to 50 agst Macgregor (taken) INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACK 2to lon Oxford (offered) YORK RACES-YESTERDAY. GLASGOW STAKES. Pistache King Cole FO U RTEENTII BIENNIAL Sunshine Normanby ........ Preluda c 3 Five ran. LONDESBOROUGH CUP. Nine Elms .. 1 _._ Calypso 2 Stafford's dam horse • • Five ran. HOPEFUL STAKES. No race. TIIE GREAT EBOR. Fortunio 1 The Laird 2 War 3 Eleven ran. FILLY SAPLING STAKES. Basque f 1 Agility La Catonne 8 LOTTERY S TAKES. Fiction f Hop-picker Lady Mary Clifden ..... Five ran. EBOR ST. LEGER. Vaniclika W.O. PRINCE OF WALES'S STAKES. Hester.. Sunlight Flyaway Jack Acaster llonest ish Brennus Eight ran. RAWCIAFFE STAKES. No race. IIER MAJESTY'S PLATE. Four ran. lIUNGERFORD RAC ES-YESTERDAT. STAND PLATE. .2 3 Clarionetto . Darlcie nog ula JACK O'NEWEURX HANDICAP. Barcelona Venetia Ilyndhopo .. 1 Nina ran. SELLING PLATE. Scuff Paris . Rtnuus . 3 NURSERY STAKES. Masques ado f ldstoUo Cauldron Ten ran. KINTBURY STAKES. Playmate liynclhopo Ma:terstruke Five ran. JOHN O'GAUNT STAKES Morgan La Faye Standard Bearer Actress RACING FIXTURES. AUGUST. Croydon Pb tuout h z6,17 Great Yarmouth 31 Canterbury..., 30 Derby Summer .. 31, Sep. 1 SearborJugh - —JO, 31 i Weymouth 31, Sop. 1 . - SEPTEAIBER. . Ipswich 2 Richmond .....21 22 I Margate 3 Lichfield West Drayton 3 I Western (Ayr).....,,. 22 , 23 Warwick... 7, 8 j liondon 23 24 Curragh (Royal) 7,8, 9 Monmouth 23 , 24 I Abingdon 9, 10 Newmarket Ist 0ct....28, .to. Doncaster 14, 15, 16, 17 Lanark... 29 ate Hampton 21, 22 I OCTOBER. Bedford 5, 6 Cheltenham l9 21 I Edinburgh 6, 7, 8 Curragh l9, 2b al Leicester Bromley 7 8 I Hereford 2l, 22 Newmarket 2d 0ct...11, &c. Monmouth 23, 24 Chelmsford l9 20 I Newmarket ll'ton ...25, ' .Yu. Kelso 19 20 1 NOVEMBER. Harrow ...2, 3 Eglinton Hunt I Worcester 3, 4 Liverpool St. Albans 5, 6 Shr ews b ury l5, 16 STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES, ocToßEit. Bromley 7 I West Drayton 2l, 22 COURSING FIXTURES. OCTOBER. Ancaster and Willoughby, Lincolnshire 5, 6 Ormosby 19, . etc. Huntingdon Club.. 26, 21 NOVEMBER. _ _ • Worcester I Shrewsbury 15, Harrow 2, 3 Leamington Hunt ....23 Lverpool 9 10, 11, 12 REGATTAS AND MATCHES TO CO IE. AUGUST 25—Vesper Rowing Club: Senior Fours, River Loa 27—Albion Rowing Club: Senior Fours, River Lea 28—Oscillators Rowing Club: Senior Sculls 28—Lurline Boating Club: Senior Sculls 30—Thames Rowing Club : Four-oared Gigs 30—West London Rowing Club: Senior Sculls 3 1—KingstonTown Rowing Club: Junior Sculls SEPTEMBER. 4—Hope Rowing Club: Eights 4—Oscillators Rowing Club : Junior Sculls B—Orion Rowing Club : Senior Pairs, River Lea INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE. PVTNEY, This day. Both crews are well, and are walking about the town, but will net go out until the evening, when they are only expected to have a paddle. The heat of the sun here is so great that the crews carefully avoid it. Mr. Lord, Thames Conservancy super intendent, is making the necessary arrangemeute this morning on the river for the race. AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW Your, Aug. 25- The 'Massachusetts Democratie Suite Convention have nominated Mr. J. Q. Adams, as Governor. They have also adopted resolutions denouncing the pressu.o system of taxation and the high tariff, and favour ing the early return of specie payments. The en forcement of the Monroe doctrine and complete protection of the rights of naturalised citizons abroad—no mention is made of the national debt. Numerous American journa:s express surprise and regret at the report that Prince Arthur will not visit the United States. The New York Herald says the reception of the Prince of Wales here, and the general regard for the Queen throughout the country were guarantees that the Prince would be cordially welcomed. HALIFAX, Aug. 25. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur was yes er. day the guest of the Bishop of Halifax. ITALY. FLORENCE, Aug. 25. The Nazione of to-day contradicts the rumour that Count Cambray-Digny has concluded a financial operation of 300,000,000 fires with certain banking firms on the security of the Ecclebiasticul property.