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

MONEY MARKET' AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Business was not over brisk to-day, and the re sult was that Consols receeded slightly. In foreign stocks there was rather more doing than is usual on Saturday, and in railway shares few alterations were made in the prices of some of the principa lines. Consols are 93 2-1 for money; ditto, for Ac count, —; Three per Cent. Reduced, 93i; New 'Three per. Cents, 931 8 s ; ditto Annuities, April, 1885, 12. ; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., 244 2. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 213 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 51 per Cent., May, 1870, 1104 ; ditto Bonds £l,OOO, 22 preen. ; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 18 prem. In the Foreign Market the quotations were as follows :—Argentine, 891 to 81 ; Brazilian of 1865, 831 to 84 ; Chilian of 1867, 94 to 95 ; Egyptian of 1864, 871 to 881 ; ditto:of 1868, 74,1 to s ;:Italian of 1861, 561 to g ; ditto Tobacco Loan, 51 to 6 prem. ; Mexican, 151 to f ; Peruvian of 1865, 771 tog ; Russian of 1866, 93 to 94 ; ditto Nicolai, 67 to 1 ; ditto Orel, 821 to 83 ; ditto Moscow, 801 to 81; ditto Charkof-Azof, 811 to 4 ; Charcow•lire mentschug, 81 to 1 ; Spanish of 1867, 304 to 31 ; Turkish of 1858, 67 to 68 ; ditto of 1862, 66 to G 6 ; and ditto of 1865, 401 to 1. In the railway market, London and North Western are 1211 to 1 ; Great Western, 53 to I; Midland, 1221 to b ; London aid South Western, 91 to 93 ; Brighton, 52 to 1, ex div. ; South Eastern, 821 to 83/ ; Metropolitan, 1121 to 1 ; Great Northern, 1131 to 4 ; ditto A, 1121 to 113 ; and London, Chatham, and Dover, 171 to 4. American 5-20 Bonds have risen s per cent., the price being now 774 to 78. Erie Railway shares are 241 to 25. In Banking and Miscellaneous shares prices are the same as yesterday. There were no gold operations at the Bank yes terday. The Holsatia, from New York, has brought £107,000. On 'Change there has been an apparent diminu tion in the deniand for bills upon the Continent, and the rates upon France, Holland, and Austria were decidedly more favourable to this country. It has been announced in the usual way that one of the members of the Stock Exchange had, at the settlement just concluded, failed to make good his differences in recent transactions. This embar rassment was anticipated, as the party in question had sold a large amount of Turkish and other secu rities, and was unable to buy them back except at a heavy loss. his total liabilities are believed to represent about £250,000. Messrs. Alexanders, Cunliffes, and Co., the Na tional Discount Company, and some other esta blishments have raised their rate for dLposits at 14 days' call from 21 to 2i per cent. The half-yearly accounts of the Great Eastern Railway show, subject to audit, a balance of about £51,000, which is equal to rather more than 1i per cent. It is understoo3, however, that the directors intend to recommend that, in view of the difficul ties through which the company has been passing, the shareholders should abstain from dividing this surplus for the present, and should carry it over as a reserve to the accounts of the current half-year. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Royal Mail Steam Packet Company a resolution was unanimously adopted authorising the managers to take the neces sary proceedings for winding up the affairs of the company. Mr. J. Young, of Turquand, Youngs, and Co., was appointed liquidator. The half-yearly meeting of the Great Western Railway Company will be held on the 12th of March. A general court of the London Assurance Corpo ration is called for the 17th of March, " to consider of a dividend on the consolidated capital stock for the half year ending at Lady-day next." A petition for the winding up of the City Dis count Company (Limited and Reduced) is to be heard before Vice-Chancellor Mathis on the 26th instant. The ordinary general meeting of the Anglo lonian Steam Navigation .Company (Limited) is called for the 25th inst. The ordinary general meeting of the Bahia Steam Navigation Company (Limited) is convened for the 19th inst. We are officially informed that there is much exaggeration in the reported misunderstanding between the Republics of Honduras and Salvador. The works on the first section of the Honduras Interoceanic Railway from Puerto Caballos to Santiago, are in progress under the supervision of Mr. Henry O'Hagan, engineer, and Mr. Ransom, assistant engineer ; and the Betsy Morris sailed last Month from Cardiff with a large cargo of rails and railway materials, shipped by the contractors of the line, Messrs. Waring Brothers and M'Cand lish. Messrs. Bischoffsheim and G-oldschmidt have just received by the Neva advice of a consignment Of silver bars from the mines of Aramacina and St. Lucia mortgaged to the English bondholders of the llonduras Railway Loan. Letters received by this West India mail state that the Commissioner intrusted with the nego tiations for a transfer of some millions of acres of land from the Nicaraguan Government to the Mos quito land security holders was, by last advices, about to proceed to Managua, the capital of the BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. , UOVERNMENT FUNDS.; ° Per Ceut. Consols ... 93 21 . Ditto for Account, ~,,o per Cent. R e d uce d .. 931 New 3 per Cent N evr 1 er Centn. 1894 . 1)0 . 2 5 p er Cen. Ja J an. 1873 ...tumities,p 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 l2i „... Do (Red S ea T e l egrap h) , A ug., 1908 — E xehequor Bills, £l,OOO, 2i per Ct. Do. .£5OO Do. £lOO & £2OO — B ank of England Stock, 4 per Cent Do. account Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds — I nter -Colonial Omnium INDIAN dOVERNMENT BECURITIES. India stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 213 Do. Op en i ng , for Account Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Do, 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enfaced Pap. 4 per CAut — Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 DO. 54 per C-nt. May 1879 llO4 Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 — Do do. 1877 — ID O. do. 1882 — D. Deb., 5 per Cent, Aug. 1873 .„ — Jo. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO Do. under £l,OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 4r,t;entine Republic, 6 per Cent _ A 00 ., Scrip £45 paid .. . _ Anitrian Bonds 5 per cent Do. 1859 ... 64 tra.zilian 5 per Cent — 00. 41 .1 per Cent., 1852 1 , 31 , 0 . do. 1858.... , - ,' o . do., 1860 _ T .," ) . do 1863 _ ~ ''''„°. 5 per Cent., 1865 _ , lio Account B3l 4 .ur,enos Ayres 6 per Cent. r , Do 2 Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) ;4 11 b 9 .1 6 per Cent. Jailian 6 per Cent f i ,0. 4i. per Cent.... _ -uo•Cent 1 ~ 941 ;°. 6 per co t. 1867 102 r , ' 0 . 7 per Cent., 1856 D'10; übiln, 6 per Cent._ — D itu sti, 3 per Cent., 1820 art,l"Hian Principalities, 7 i.er Cent 7 71 1 ., - uo 8 per Cent, 1867 — ~,‘ quador New Consolidated 1 per Cent. Rill' 1.• bYp aan, 7 per Cent ... °1 second issue A O. 45th, Bo n d s .. Do• .£lOO Bonds B5 Do. ' 1864 D,- JO. Account Do. £5OO - Bonds 0 0. £lO O Bonds B9f 1 English Scrip, 1868 Do do. £.15 pd — , Governteeni 11tilwv Debentures vreek 5 per Ccut., 182 , 1 5, ex Coups —Do. Acceun t UO. tiimi one Onatenaila o per (lent . — Ifonduras Gov.riail. Loan , 10p. Ct., all p,d 87 it 5 per rer t., 1865 . —k. D o. Accourit . .., ,86 Do ltinrrommana Itaiiway — ‘l , ,x lean 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Dn. 1864 - — Do g per Cont. Anglo-French — qontevidortu 0 per Cent. . — Vic )risk Imperial 5 per Cent low Granada l5- Do 3 per Con — ___ Do. Deferred Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1365 Account 77i Do 41- per Cent. (Uribarren) ... Du 1 per Cent., 1b62 Do Account P.ui:igutese 3 per Ct., 1853 7 '6, 7, '!),'6!,'2...% 361 Do. do. 1867 Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid — Russian 5 per Cent., 182 z, £ St 0 4i per Cent , 1850 Di 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cont., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 ..- ..... ... 861 71 Do. Auglo-Dutch, 1861, £l.OO 80nd5... ; 931 Do. dO. £B4 15s. d 0... ./ Do 1866 / £lOO Bonds 9 31 -I Do. do .£B4 15s. do — Do Nicolas Railway 671 7 Sarlinian 5 per Cent 7'l Spanish 3 per Cen .- •-- Do. Acc , ,unt .... 3 21 Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferred — Do. Account Do. Passive Do. Com. Cert. of Cour. not funded ... Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan — Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Do do, Scrip — Pr- Turkish 6 per Cent" — .....,„ DJ Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 — - Do Account Do £lOO Bonds 74 Do 6 per Cent., 1862 — Do Account lie .£IOC Bonds 67 1 Do 5 per Cent. 1865 D., Account - 1 Do 6 per Cont., 1865 64} 51 Do 1 per Cent., Guaranteed Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) Venezuela 3 per Cent. — Do. Account Dividends on the above payable in ;,ondon. Austrian o par Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 4 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil„ — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ...., — Do. Account — French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 251. — Italian 5 per Cent. 1851, Ex. Zsi. Do Account 57 I ; CLOSING PRICES. Jonsols, Money 92k 3 Do. Account, Dlarch 4, 9 3 1 lirtt 4, r i t - 4 4 , MI Uri HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Feb. 12. The Queen, accompanied by. Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole, drove out yesterday afternoon. AMERICA. E\V YORK, Feb. 12. According to Mr. Adam Moffat's Report the week's receipts of cotton at American ports amounted to 71,000 bales. Total since the Ist of September and taken by American spin ners, direct, 1,720,000, and the shipments to England 31,000, to France 1,000, and to the Con tinent 6,000. Total shipments since the Ist of September, 740,000 bales. Stock, 410,000 bales, Market quiet, and tending easier. Middling Up cost and freight per steamer. land, Hi ; LOCAL TAXATION'. An influential deputation waited upon the Prime Minister yestday afternoon, in order to bring before him a very important matter. It consisted of representatives of the various Chambers of Agriculture through out the kingdom, introduced by Mr. Clare Sewell Read, M.P. for South Norfolk, and its object was to call the attention of the Government to the question of local taxation. There were present Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Goschen, President of the Poor-law Board, and Mr. Knatchhull-Hugessen, Under Secretary for the Home Department. The speakers detailed the proceedings of the recent Conference of Chambers at the Salisbury Hotel, and urged that the present way of assessing local taxation was excessively burdensome to the owners of real property. They expressed a wish that the poor rate should be equalised, and that the localities should have some means of being represented at the boards charged with the distribution of sick funds. They further asked that Mr. Gladstone would advise the Queen to consent to the appointment of a Royal Commis sion to consider the whole subject. In reply, Mr. Gladstone said that not only he but his colleagues were of opinion that this was a matter deserving of the most serious consideration, and that it was one for the delibera tion of the whole Cabinet. It was also an imperial question, and Ministers would have to consider if the changes they might be hereafter disposed to make in the raising of local taxation should be extended to the whole kingdom or confined only to England. He was not prepared to say whether a Royal Commission or a select committee would be the best way of acquir ing the necessary information, but he had no hesitation in promising the deputation that the matter should receive the most careful consideration from the Ministry. The deputation then withdrew, much pleased at the cordial reception it had met with, and the assurance that the Government would take the matter in band. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. BRADFORD.—Mr. W. M. Thompson, having been chosen by the " independent " Liberals as their candidate for the seat vacant by the unseating of Mr. Ripley, has issu shod address, in which he asserts that he does n ot believe in sectarianism or class legislation. "On all questi ons relati▪ ng to Ireland," he says, " I shall endeavour to form a judg rnent from the Irishman's point of view, anxious to mai▪ n tain the union between the two countries for the good of both, and, above all, to do what is just." DUBLIN.—A large meeting, comprising the different sec tions of the Liberal party in the city of Dublin, has been held for the purpose of choosing a candidate in the room of Sir Arthur Guinness. The Lord Mayor presided. It was unanimously resolved that. Sir Dominic Corrigan should be the Liberal champion, and a subscription list was immediately opened to defray the expenses. Nearly £2,000 was subscribed in the room. The Conservatives have not yet succeeded in obtaining a candidate. Sir Edward Grogan, who contested Dublin University a)/ the last election, has declined to come forward. CITY OF LONDON.—The Star denies that Baron Roth schild has been selected as the Liberal candidate. Our contemporary states that Sir Benj. Phillips, Mr. Kirkman Hodgson, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., and Mr. Thomson Hankey have also been respectively mentioned as eligible candidates. A meeting is to be held on Monday next, when it is probable that Baron Rothschild will be selected. The Bishop of Ossory (Dr. O'Brien) has issued a circular to his clergy, stating that ho cannot comply with their request to appoint a day of humiliation in view of the present circumstances of the Irish Church, " legal ob fections" being an obstacle in the way ; but he advises, as the Archbishop of Dublin has also done, that on the first Sunday in Lent, "that which immediately precedes the as rambling of Parliament," the people should be urged, in ,heir church and family devotions, to pray specially that, by the consultations of the Legislature, all things may be "so ordered and settled that religion and piety may be esta blished among us for all generations." A very singular charge of libel was beard on Thurs day at the Sheffield Police Court. The defendant was Thomas Orton, secretary of an anti-compulsory vaccination •:ommittee, and he was summoned for the publication of an anti-vaccination handbill, in which libellous state ments were made about Alderman Saunders, the late chair man of the Sheffield board of guardians, on account of his attempts to enforce the Vaccination Act. The handbill made out vaccination to be the mark of the beast spoken of in Revelation ; and described Alderman Saunders as a wholesale murde-rer, urging on, like another Herod, the slaughter of the innocents. The bench held the handbill to be a libel, and publication being proved, they committed the defendant to the assizes for trial. A rather novel experiment is to be made at iteen dale. At a public meeting on Thursday held in that town, the Leeds Mercury states, it was dotennined to erect a new In- Ermary in connection with the Dispensary already in existence, and £3,550 was subscribed l‘y the gentlemen present towards the expenditure which the enlargement will entail. A resolution was proposed, and, after a warm discussion, adopted, deciding that ono ward in the new building shall bo set apart for treatment of Patients on the homoeopathic principle. Some of the speakers expressed their conviction that this concession would produce an addition to the funds of the charity, but one of the medical gentlemen present declared that he would not take office in an institution in which a homoeopathic Imrd yam termed. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVRNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1869. ,SHARE LIST. OILDINA.IIY 61:4kisis*.b AND STOCKS. ihaze Hailwaye. Paid. Closing /Sunman, Prioe. done. at Bristol and Exeter ...... 10) 78 82 st Caledonian lt/0 8 1 811 sq. 13 81 20 Corn w tll. . all 21 31 st Dublin & Belfast Juno lOO 79 81 st •Dun„Perth, & Ab. 3 0 70 72 2, East London_ all 7 a 0 t , o 15 2) Do 10 Gia3;ow & S. Western lOO 98 1(0 at Great Eastern .. at Do. E. Angl. /No. 2 lOO 7 U st Urc at North ol Scotland lOO 15 6 at Great Northern lOO 1124 :131 113 at Do. A stock lOO 112 )141 1121 13 Et Do. B stuck lOO 125 1:7 st GtS, and W. of Ireland lOO a 9 s( Gt. ‘Vestern -Original lOO 53 531 53 it Do. South Wales luU 58 6, t Do. W. Mid.—Uxiore lOO (18 tO at Do. Newport lOO 28 11 tit Lancashire & Yorkshire lOO 1231 30 1291 at Lon., Brigh.,& S.Coast lOO 521 0) Do Scrip at Lou., Chat., and Dover l9O 174 171 st Do. Metrop. Ex. A lOO at Lun. & North Western lOO 1191 20 1201 6 at Lon. do South Western lOO 91 93 112 at Man., Shef., & Lincoln lOO 501 5 -1- 50 4 11 st Metropolitan st Do Extensim 10 Do. New rd. 10 1 0 1 1 st Metropolitan District. all 53 57 10 Metrop. St. John's 11 00. l 6 - st Mid:and st Do, Birmin. & Derby st North British ...... 100 35 36 364 st Do. Ed., Pth., /St Dun lOO st Nor.Eastern—Berwick.. 1( 0 106 1061 1064 1 25 Do. G. N.E purchase 16.13.1 st Do Leeds lOO 59 61 61 st Do York lt 0 951 931 974 st Do Carlisle . st Do Stoe2. & Darling lOO 13: 133 at North Lon ion .. lOO 123 :25 10 Do Amy 1868 . 2 11 2 p at North Staffordshire__ 100 58 60 584 st North and S.-W. Jnnction 100 103 105 10 Do New XlO shares 7 ••• st Rhymuey st Shropshire Union lOO 59 60 at South Devon st South Eastern lOO 82 8:1 53 21 at Staines, Wok'h.tin,& Wok all 12 13 st 'C&±l Vale... lOO 115 100 - Do. C Waterlord & Kilkenny.. 100 -- 10 Waterloo & Whiteha.l.. 6 RAILWAYS-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. st Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 86 88 at Caledonian Qrs., No. 2 lOO ... st Do. Scot. N.E., 41 per cent lOO at Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c lOO ... st Do. do. 7 per cent lOO ... at Do. do. Ordinary lOO 80 82 st Do. Midland st Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 ... 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent gua all ... st, Dundee, Perth, and Aber deen Junction lOO 105 107 st Do. Ist Class preference lOO ... at alas. & S.W. gua. 5 per ct lOO ... at Gt. Eastern, E.C. Ex. No.l 100 99 102 99 st Do do N 0.2 100 99 102 st Do do 6 per cent 100 102 108 at Do East Anglian Asp. c. 100 100 103 at Do do B 6 do. 100 ... st Do do C 7 do. 100 ... at Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 lOU 103 St Do E. Union 4p. c. gua. 100 09 71 st Do Nor folk 5 p.c. Ex. 1346 100 ... st Do do 5 p.c.Way.Val. 18'47 100 st Great Northern, 5 per cent 10 ... at Do 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. c. pm. 100 ... st 110 4 1 du do du 100 at Do 5 do at sp. c. pin lOO at Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent lOO _ sti Gt. Nrth of Scotland, Ist pf 100 „, stj Great South. and Western (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 96 97 stJ G t.West.—Orig.S.:Jut. - lteut chg., per gua. 5 p.c lOO 103 105 st Do. Orig. (B.& H. Ex). 5 p.c. 100 95 100 at Do du 4, per cent. 1830 100 83 91 at Do do 4 do do ... 100 78 80 St LO do 5 per cent. redem. 100 9 i 97 st Do do Biriniugham gnu-. 100 63 70 st Do do do pref... 100 st Do do Chester gua lOO ;2 73 st Du do do 8 per cent lOO st Do du du 5 do 100 55 100 st Do South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 _ st Do do 41 p.c lOO st Do do 41 1330.- 100 „, st Do do 5 st Do West Mid. Oxford 151 g lOl 11: 116 st Do do 2,1 gua lOO 110 112 at Do Newport, Ist g. 5 p.e lOO 52 91 at Do do 2d du 100 100 101 st Do gua. 51 per cent. 1863 100 100 Lancaster & Carlisle p.c all st Lancash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1 U 135 st Du Barnsley, 3s 10d p.c. 100 st Do 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 130 135 st Do 41 (Blackburn purch). 100 93 102 at Loudon & Brighton, sp. e. guaranteed, No. 1 lOO ,„ st Do 5 per cent. gua. No. 2 lOO „, at Do 6 do do lOO „, st Do 5 do NJ. 4 ',.+oo ,„ at Do 7 per cent 1:0 st Do 6 du (W.E. 31 C.Y.) 1.00 ,„ at Do 4 do 1359 lOO at Loudon, Chatham, & Dower 5 per cent lOO ••• ••• at London and n'N., C. and Nuneaton 5 per cent lOO 10 + 111 st Do Bedford &Cambridge lOO „, st Do Shrewsb'Y & Welchp'l lOO „, at London and p,c late 3d shares, lOO 145 'l5) 2i 6d. Do (Portsm. p6rp ans. 2563) all at Man., Shef., &Linclu. 6 p.c lOO 114 117 6 Do st Do 31 per cent lOO 60 63 10 Do redeem. 6 percent 5 ... st Slid. Consolidated., 6p. c lOO 133 140 st Do Bristol & Birm., 6p. c lOO 1 3 136 st Do 41 per cent. redeem lOO 100 102 stj Do 41 per cent. irredeein lOO 100 1 2 at Du Leicester & 100 90 92 at, North British, 5 p.c. N u.l lOO st Do E. &G.4p.e. S. & D lOO ,„ ,„ st Do N. 8., N 0.2, 5 per cen.t lOO at Do Border Union, 51 p.c lOO .-E ..." st Nastern—Cons. 4 p.c lOO 86 Bs a st Do 41 per cent. redeem__ 100 93 97 at Do CI N.E. 4 per cent., lOO _ 17 Do Berwick capital 8 13.4. ... '5 Do York, H.& S. purchase lO 10 101 at Do Stcktu & Drliug. A 5 p.c lOO 108 11U at Do W, liartlepool H. and 11 lOO 87 8) 20 North Staffordshire 10s S. Devon Annuities, 1 s all 91 101 lOs Do Tavistock Anns., 10s all 9 10 lOs Do Fixed 41 per cent all 8 9 1 0.6. S. East. (Read. Anus., 1.0.6) all 22 23 st Do 41 per cent lOO st Do Fixed 41 per cent lOO at Taff Vale No.l lOO 145 150 at Waterford& Kilkenny, 6pc 100 41 43 RAILWAYS.-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate year. st Caledonian 41 p c gua.. lOO st Do Scot. Gen. mi n . 7p c 100 ... ... ... ... et Do 41 p irred eem all st Do 4p c con. issued at 80 65 ••• st Great Eastern 41 per cent 100 .... —. st Do 5 do, 1862 100 9:1 a 8) st Do New 5 do, 1863 100 89 92 st Do do 5 do, 1864 100 84 83 84 et Great Northern, 5p c irred 100 ~, ~, st Do Permanent 5 per cent 100 ~, ... st Do Boston & Sleafd, 41 pc 100 ~, ~, st Great West., W. Ilidl., 5p c 100 st Do Joint perpe. 5 p c,1865 100 86 r 0 st Do do 6p c irred., 1866 100 105 107 20 Do Vale N eath perp. 5p c all 19 20 st Kent Coast, 6 per cent, B 100 ... ... 5 Lanc. and York. New 41 per cent till July, 1871 2 1 1 st Lund., Brig., &c., 41 pc, 1858 100 ... ... st Do do 4 do, 1860 100 .. st Do do 44 do, 1861 111 1 ;00 0 100 0 1 19 . 0.4 . 8 . ; 18;04 .. 6 st Do 'do 41 do, 1863 100 ... ... st Do do 5 do, 1865 100 ... ... st Do No. 6 5 do, 1866 100 ... ... st Do No. 7 sdo st Loud , Chat., &c., 2d, 6 p.c st Do Metrop, Ex., B 6 p.c 1 : tot LondonLM o . D n . d o . on h a&e chef. d e c. N. oi Western,n.Western, , s e p 6 c P 4, 5 . 14 e 8 p p6 . . se c . st; Metropolitan 3 per ceut st Midland, A 5 per cent pref lOO 108 110 18 st Do B 5 do 100 108 110 ' Do 5 p c opt. to cony. to Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1869 all 11 14p 13 Do Inconv. Now Shares 16 J I 2. .1 ) 22 Do st s k., p A c n c . o 3 n i: l in B7 to 2 81 1 11p St North British, E. and (1 No. 1, 5 per cent ... ••• 100 st Do .£lO guaranteed, 1861 100 ••• "• -* 0 t Do B. P., & Dun., 2 d, 4pc 100 • • "'st Do E. &CI , N 0.2, 5 p.c *** Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1862 l OU st Do Do E. & G., N 0 . 3, 5 P.c -* 4 4 P e 100 ,;* • &9 St North Eastern, 41 per cent Ina --... 5,7 03 st Do Stock. & Darl., D •••• 100 jai 113 t N or th London, 41, per cent - (Max. 5 per cent) Eastern,Staffordshire 4i p 5 C , p 1 c 8 . 5 . 9 l OO OO :: : ... 5 do 1861 100 • st ••• ..• 5 do (Ch. Cross) • 1863 100 ... .. St Do 100 . Do 5 do, 1864 st • st & Pimlico, 41 pc 100 st Victoria • „• s s t t North South D 0 RAIL WAYS.-LDTES LEA SED AT FIg ERENTALS ----D ---------- st Birkenhead .I(a. - 100 Do. 41 per cent. Prefer an 101 95 ,i 103 st Buckinghamshire st Chester and Ho l y head lOO b 4 96 56 st Do. 51 per cent. st Do. 5 do. ••••• 100 111 113 st Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO •„ st Colchester Stour V alle y .. 100 ;"' s t East Lincoln, gut)... 6p. c lOO 133 1;;;; 20 Gloster and Dean Forest all "' s Gt. Easn., New m., &c., 5 p.c s Do. E. U. Harwich, 4 p.c 100 69 y.'2' do. W oo dbrg. Ex., do. 100 69 72 st Do. st Gt. West, W. Mid., Heref 100 95 07 50 Hull and Selby all 109 111 st Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 215 223 at Loudon and Blackwall lOO 98 93 st Do. 41 per cent lOO .„. st London, Chat., &c., 41 p C lOO ... st Do. Com. Fund, sdo 100 .., "' st London and Greenwich at Do. do. Preference lOO ... " s t London, Tilbu r y , & South 100 78 a 0 st st Lowestoft, gua. 4 percent lOO 79 83 st Do. do. 6 do. 51 Blanch., Buxton, &111atlk all i ',Fa st Midland, Bradford, Pref lOO 93 95 ' 10 Slid Kent Cray Line) 50 Northerut East., 5 percent all 59 56 5u Do. do. 6 do. all ... . st N. Eastara —.Hartlepool .' .: st N.West. A perp. p ret, sp. C. 100 101 110 Fit Do B minimum 11 p.c lOO ... . . lit Notting. & Grauth. R. & C lOO 92 9 4 25 Preston and V% yre. all 44 46 ... Royston, Hitch. and Shep. 100 133 L 35 s t Shrewsbury audller 00 efuni 1 133 135 10 Do do 8 2i , p St S. Yorksh. and River Dun 100 98 1 00 st Do 4 per cent ;pa lO 79 91 st Do 5 do st Viet. Station and Pimlico lOO 175 ISO st West Cornwall 20 West Loudon, Class 13 14 20 Do do : A B 20 Do do C all 4.4 71 at Weymouth and Portland lOO ... ... st Wilts and Somerset DOCKS. st East and West India lOO 116 120 st London and St. Katherine 100 48 60 100 D oDeb. stock, 4 per cent all ... ... Millwall Freehold Land 100 32 84 at Dock st Southampton lOO 71 76 at Surrey Coutuaereial 1 At 911 Closing Business Share NemE. • Paid. Price. done 10 Agra Limited. A all 11 111 al Do ' B lO 4 41 44 60 Albion a 100 Alliance, Limited 20 Anglo - Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian, Um all 14 19 181 1 20 Anglo - llungarian 20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 6 5 4 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia all Li I?, '2O Du issued at 2pm ~.. 5 ... •• 25 Bank of Egypt 20 Bank of Otago, lim. 25 Bank of South Australia all 31 3 t 50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39 10 Bank of New Zealand all 17 19 50 British North American 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, nd China all 201 211 25 Chartered Mere. of India, London, and China 20 City lO 11, 121 100 Colonial 25 39 41 10 Consolidated, lint 4 / 1 50 Delhi and London, lint 50 East London, lint 5 11 01 20 English and American, lint 10 ••• ••• 20 English Bank of Rio de Ja neiro lim lO Id.: pr 20 English, z• coltish, and Aus - tralian Chartered 281 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation all ... ••• 281 Do new 5l 1 100 Imperial, lint 2O 17 18 20 Imperial Ottoman lO , 1 14 121 15 lonian all 25 27 25 Do new 5 pr 1p 20 Lnd Mortgage of India, lint 4 3 : 3 1 1 3 0 0 0 L D o o n s dp p oo . n e. 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A 2 ... 100 108 110 Do rd. 1693 Victoria 6 p.O. 100 112 113 1121 SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURZTALS. The Saturday Review, in surveying the prospects of the coming session, observes that there never was an opportunity when a Prime Minister had it more in his power, by rising to the height of the occasion, to give meaning and consistency to the action of his supporters, and to place the policy of his party on a serious and solid basis. On a number of great questions —on retrenchment, armyreform, education, the treatment of the poor, the treatment of criminals, law reform, the relations of capital to labour ; the relations of the mother-country to the colonies, and many other subjects of scarcely less moment, the Liberal party, and the country which the Liberal party may be fairly taken to represent, are waiting to be guided. They long for a policy to be indicated on points like these, which shall be bold and decisive without being revolu tionary. Unless the Ministry skews itself equal to the task of indicating the general grooves in which on the great questions of the day its party should move, it wil: only hold a second-rate position, and will soon pay the penalty exacted from all Ministries that are inferior tc what is expected from them. It will be supported, but it will be supported without confidence and without enthusiasm. To be really powerful, it must shew itself capable, not of decent administration and of carrying out in a bungling way the suggestions of random thinkers, but of itself forming the ideas of the public. Retrenchment is popular, but no one knows what retrench ment means. Army refoim is popular, but a subordinate member of the Ministry has already been made to eat humble-pie, because he indiscreetly expressed an opinion about the chief command of the army. The London public is in a panic at the thought of the legion of expe rienced criminals whom it generously shelters in its bosom but no one has any notion how to reconcile the surveillance of the police with the traditional liberty of the subject. Every one wants education to be much more diffused than it is at present, but no one knows how to diffuse it with out offending the clergy, or how to replace the clergy if they are offended. In all directions men are looking fog guidance, and are waiting to see whether the present . Ministry can guide them. Beyond even the Irish Church in importance, the Saturday Review ranks the question of the position to be held by the House of Lords. The Archbishop of York has proclaimed the theory that the Commons are to initiate and the Lords to scrutinise. If this doctrine were accepted, it would involve important consequences. No one can doubt that the Peers would be specially fitted for such an office, but the question is whether they will recognise it as their function. The truth is that the House of Lords is rapidly tending in the direction indicated by the Archbishop, though whethez they will accept their new position without further struggle is a doubtful question. The Speeator says that the approaching session will be an anxious one in many respects, and that there is enough to do to keep Parliament in good health, even without recording dreams, and we have more than usual confidence that Parliament will do it. It is a ner Parliament; It should be a fearless one, and its action will be very little hampered by the " interests," which have never recovered the collapse of the paper fortunes caused by tlie failure of 0 vereud, Gurney, and Co. The grand danger of the session is that all its great measures, and more particle larly the measure the House was elected to carry, involvi details so minute, and, to certain persons, so interesting, that action may be lost sight of in unintermittent discus sion ; that night after night will he wasted about clauses which follow of necessity from principles already accepted. Great tact and great firmness will be required to keep the House to its task, and great forbearance and energy within the House itself. Of the tact and the firmness we are nearly secure, and the forbearance and the energy may also be displayed if the House will but remember that the one doubt in the public mind as to parliamentary govern. ment, the one cause which is so visibly alarming the " philosophers " who influence the masses, is the excessive, sometimes the intolerable, lumberingness of its action. That doubt signified nothing while the evil could be explained to be a result of a restricted suffrage, but it may matter much now that the nation, for the first time in its history, directly legislates for itself. The London Review observes that a recess unprecedented in our Parliamentary history is about to close, and that the House of Commons which Mr. Gladstone will meet next Tuesday is an anomalous product of an anomalous election, and it is summoned expressly to perform an anomalous act of State. We in this country have no written constitution to alter, but the business of the coming session nearly corresponds to one of those constitutional amendments with which the late troubles of the United States have familiarised us. The separation of the Church from the State in Ireland is a chancre as fundamental, politically, if not socially, as the abolition of slavery in the South. Its proposal raised constitutional questions of the gravest character about royal oaths and obligations. In commenting upon the members of the new House of Commons, it declares that the great interests committed to the charge of the new Parlia ment are not likely to suffer in the hands to which they have been entrusted. The Parliament has not deteriorated, and the great leaders who, in over-zeal, if not otherwise, might have interfered with the prosperity of Mr. Gladstone's Administration, are happily included harmoniously within it. Nor is anything to be feared from little foes. Mr. Bouverie will be powerless, oven if he wished to make mischief. Lord Elcho is now simply a Tory who has beaten a Liberal in a Scotch county ; a tenfold pressure of his imperti nence and arrogance is not likely even to attract the attention of the strong Government now in power. In the Cabinet there are no known elements of discord on the great question of the day, and even on the vexed question of foreign affairs there is concurrence ac far as the necessity of peace is concerned. With a House of Commons at once of average abilities and not likely tc be troubled by crotcheteers, and with a Ministry reso lutely and unitedly bent on a settled and uncompromising policy, the country may hope to see Mr. Gladstone's great "Constitutional Amendment " prosperously carried by the " House of Representatives," however it may fare in the " Senate." The Senate must pass it sooner or later, and we are so much more republican-than the Republicans, that a " Presidential veto" is a thing unknown amongst us and impossible. The Saturday Review considers that due deference should should be paid to the decision of the Chief Justice respect. ing the press and the courts of law, and declares that it is better to err on the side, were it necessary, of unreasoning deference to one who holds Sir Alexander Cockburn'e place than to canvass minutely or strictly even his ()biter dicta. A judge conducting a great trial in the Queen's Bench may be excused for an excess of scrupulousness, especially while presiding over such a case as that of Saurin v. Starr. Whatever safeguards he can secure both for his own and the jury's impartiality during the trial, however wearisome and needlessly protracted, the presiding judge is bound to secure. As it is not now in England, as was the case in Coke's time, and as it is still in France, the judge's business to help either one side or the other, and as it is contrary to our sense of justice that the judge should exhibit any bias either way, especially in cases in which disputed points in religion are involved, and as we ask that he should not permit his own convictions to be unmistakeably plain before a case is concluded, we have reason to be thankful that the highest judge on the bench imposes on us all that severe impartiality and rigid abstinence from all comments, or the expression of any opinion on pending trials, which in common, of course, with all his brethren, he is bound to shew. The Chief Justice has certainly laid down a very broad rule ; and the circumstances under which it fell, or perhaps rather was elicited, from him are curious. However, perhaps it is as well to have got this authoritative judg ment, though somewhat broadly expressed. The silence thus summarily enforced on the press is, it may be, for the best. At any rate we bow to the Chief Justice's decision, and accept his principle, as in entire accord ance with justice, fair judgment, and right dealing between man and man. Its incidence is wide, and it applies to other things than newspaper articles, and was perhaps intended to do so. Parties to a suit may find their feelings hurt, and juries certainly may be biassed, or even intimidated or coerced, not only by the public press, but by other influences on which it is not so easy to lay a finger, still less to denounce. The John Bull thinks that Mr. Gladstone's speech to the Fishmongers was lugubrious to a degree. If the Government carried their measure, great would be the triumph, but failure was clearly felt to be on the cards. Mr. Gladstone felt, no doubt, that notwithstanding his splendid following, and the majority of the organs of public opinion in his favour (notably that with the largest circulation in the world), his task was a herculean one. It was his policy, having regard to the rumours as to Whig defections, to deny that the Ministry had any intention of giving up their policy, which still would be pursued with prudence and consideration. The Prime Minister was quite right not to disclose that policy, but be would have shewn more confidence in his cause if he had not pro tested over much. Mr. Gladstone has staked everything on one card. It has just begun to strike him that he may lose. If Conservatives will only have courage, faith in their own principles, and not despair when things look blackest, they may yet turn the tide. Mr. Buxton may afford to treat the idea of the House of Lords interfering as ridiculous, but he will find out his mistake. As Mr. Bell, the late Conservative member for the City (the pre- filature close of whose promising career we are all de ploring) well said, there is behind the House of Lords the power of the people of England. The Weekly Register announces that the Rev. W. Ltartin Hunnybun, vicar of Bichnolles, Soniersetahire, and late curate of All Saints', Margaret-street, was received into he Church pf ;Rome last week, by Father Maude, of the 7 R.,..1.N.1NU REPORTS. Ktxosettttz, Thurzday.—The whole of the horses were out. Nyl Gan, who I noticed has been fired round both her coronets, appears now sound, and has thickened very much indeed. Blue Stocking and Nyl Gan_ walked by themselves. Morns cantered a mile and a half, followed at some distance by Lictor. The Palmer led Pero Gomez over the same courEe. Vagabond cantered, with the Miami colt following. Blue Gown cantered gently by himself, followed at some distance by King Cophetua. Siderolito led the Madame Eglantine filly, Girasol, Salamis, and Waif a mile and a half, followed by Masterstroke and Rosicrucian. After walking for some time all repeated their canter, with the exception of Siderolite, Lictor, Masterstroke, and Rosicrucian, who joined Nyl Gau and Blue Stocking in the hollow. The morning's work was finished by all walking at the end of the downs for ai, hour. NEWMARKET.—The following horses are engaged at Lincoln, and have done good work: —Sycee, Sagittarius, Acaster, Vanichka, Yerinak, Ruckenham's dam filly, Neu chatel, Silenus, Typhceas, Friday, Jenny, Fairfax, The Returned, Islam, Border Knight, King Richard, Conjuror, St. Agnes colt, Reindeer. Harebell, Sphynx, Matilda, Ain tree, Mrs. O'Rourke filly, Sister to Veda, The Rajah, Troy, Artesian, Guy of Warwick, Demonstration, filly by Kettle drum out of Ellermire (2 yrs), Raligieuse (2 yrs), Phantom Lass (2 yza), Florian (2 yrs), Roquefort (2 yrs), Lady Betty (2 yrs), Rosaura. colt (2 yrs), Theodora colt (2 yrs), and Archeress filly (2 yrs). Van Amburgh Ido not con sider fit to run, as he has not been doing a great amount of work till the last ten or twelve days, previous to which he had been stopped flora a fortnight to three weeks, being lame with a bad curb. The Hermione colt I have not seen out this week. My selections for the Lincoln events are as follows :—Trial Stakes_Whichever Mr Savile runs. Lincolnshire Handicap --I shall expect Islam to win, and Silenus to get a place. Brocklesby Trial Handicap-- Reindeer or Sphynx. BrocklesbY StakeS—Lady Betty will take a deal of beating. City Handicap—The best of Captai❑ Machell's will about win, Blankney Stakes— The French stable will be vary formidable, I believe, with Roquefort. ILSI;EY.—We have Hatehment in the Lincolnshire Han dicap. She is well and doing good work, and goes as well as ever I saw her. She is sure to run well, but I don't think her class enough to win, though she might run into a place. Of Hereford, Dawdle, and Claymore, in the Brocklesby Trial Handicap, I like the first named's chance the best, as be is very well and goes in good form. Pal staff, in the City Handicap, is well and fit to run, and has much improved since last year. If he runs he will take his own part. Eugenie, in the Blankney Stakes, is a use ful filly, and will run well, but as there are so many dark two year olds in the race it is hard to say what will win. Honfleur, Hyacinth, and Hollandaise are well, and doing good work for the Lincoln Club Cup, and whichever runs will be worth standing. STOCKBRIDGE.—At Lincoln, for the Brocklesby Trial Handicap, Retty is very well, and, should she be sent, will as near win as possible. Brocklesby Stakes—Lady Louisa colt, Yule Cake colt, Grillade colt, Stanhope, and Figleaf are in, and all are well. Whichever they ask will about win. The same lot are in the Lincoln Club Cup, but they will depend on previous running. Blaukney Stakes—The colt by Master Bigot out of Grillade is in, but I do not think much of his chance. ClifuroN.—On Tuesday nearly forty horses showed out, the most conspicuous iu their work being Actiea, Osprey, M.A., Cameroon, Gulnare, Virginia Creeper, Out-aud- Outer, Minn's, Edna, and the Hippodamia filly. Wednes day—The following went a mile and a half :—Auta 3 Osprey, Creeper, and Camiroon ; and M.A., Maid of the Mill, Gulnare, Edna, Chateau Margaux, Out-and- Outer, and Alathma a tulle. Minus, Candia, Precious Metal, and the Hippodamia filly were sent a duster over half a mile, Miinus having it all his own way. 'Thurs day—All the above-mentioned horses were again put through good work from a mile to a mile and a half. Amongst the entries for the Brocklesby Stakes I observe Minus, and ha is also in the Lincoln Club Cup. He is a fine colt aL d in good condition, and if brought out it will take a clipper to beat him. :HALTON - . Our horses engaged at Lincoln are doing as well as they can be. In the Lincoln Handicap we have George Osbaldeston, Queen of York, and Lady Zetlaud. They are all well anct fit to run, but I shall stick to my first impression, and give my vote t George Osbaldeston. Brocklesby Trial Handicap—Soubrette is well, and has undergone a strong preparation; I think her worth a place investment. City Handicap—Lady Zetland and Queen of York are in, and at the weights " the Lady" will be our best. 131ankney Stakes—Di Spanker is very tit to run. This day (Thursday), George Osbaldeston was sent a splendid sweat of four miles, led by Bcotchman's Pride, pulling up sound and well. LAmnotatNE.-- I see we have the following horses en gaged at Lincoln :—April Morn, Eadith, Lady nosehill, King of the Rovers, Otioico, and a colt by Marsyas out of Symmetry. They are all in the bloom of health and doing good work. Eadith is in the Trial Stakes, but I don't think that she will ha anywhere near the winner. Lin colnshire Handicap.—We have Lady Rosehill in, and she is well, but I don't think much of her chance. King of the Rovers and April Morn are in the Brocklesby Trial Han dicap, and I think the distance will suit " the King" the best, as he is a hot-headed gentleman. LEWES.—In the Trial Stakes at Lincoln, Provider, Choral, and the filly by Buccaneer out of The Dart's dam are engaged. Chural could win, but she will most likely be kept for the Handicap. They have all been doing good work, and one of them will run. Lincoln Handicap.—Uhural and Provider are in, and I think the mare will be our best, and nearly win. Brocklesby Trialllandicap.—Astracan, The Scout, and Wanderer are our lot. They are looking fit and well, and I think Astracan the best at the weights. City Handicap—We have Choral, Provider, and Wrestler, and I have most fancy for Choral, as I never saw her go so well as she does this year. Blankney Stakes—The Scout will be our best. Lincoln Club Cup — lronstone and Elsham are in. The first-named will most likely run, as he has beer. doing some good work, but I think he is only moderate, and the other has only been walking and trot ting about for some time. FINDON.—At the Lincoln Meeting our horses engaged in the various events are as follows :—Lincolnshire Handi cap—Sister to Vedette, John Leech, and Cocoanut. Brocklesby Trial Handicap—Mistletoe, and Betty. City Handicap—John Leech, and Pompeii. Blank ney Stakes—The Shunamite, colt by Master Begot out of Grillade, and Ace of Clubs colt. Lincoln Club Cup—Colt by Master Bagot out of Grillade, and filly by Artillery. The above aro all doing well, which is all I can say of them at present, not knowing the stable intentions. MIDDLEHAL—Honesty has two engagements at Lin coln—in the Lincoln Handicap and City Handicap. He has done a lot of work, but appears to be very big yet, so I cannot stand him this journey. Vintner, engaged in the Blankney Stakes, is a very nice horse, and it will take a pretty good one to beat him. The Better Half, engaged in the Club Cup, is a smart, compact filly, and can gallop, but I think is not quite fit yet. Woodbine, Bertha, Queen of Beauty, and Artichoke are all fit to run, and likely to go to Pontefract and pick up a race there. Ersom.—ln looking over the Lincoln programme, I find Bonnie Katie engaged in the Trial Stakes, and if she goes she will about secure this stake. In the Brocklesby Trial Handicap, Nightingall has Warlike, Laird of Scotland, and Glen Stuart, and whichever represents him will be worth following. We have only Slowman in the Lincoln shire Handicap, and his chance is hopeless. We have Red cap, Roquefort, and Aurifera in the Hurdle Race, but I don't know which will be sent. STANTON. — We have the Attack gelding engaged in the Lincolnshire Handicap, but your subscribers had better see the numbers up before they back him. Brocklesby Trial Handicap—Salliet and Parma are entered, and the last-named will be the best. Orne and Ada Penelope are in the Hurdle Race. The first -named is put out of court with his weight, but Ada Penelope will about win. Salliet and Jeanie Deans are in the City Handicap, and the last named ought to about land. Palmitine will win the Blank ney Stakes. HEDNESFORD. —At Lincoln we have Uncas and Mean wood engaged. The latter has so lately performed that any comment from me would bo unnecessary, but he goes as well as ever at home. Uncas is in the Lincoln Handi cap, and I must say he is doing very well in company with Orion and Albion. No horse can be better. We have some others likely to go, but I don't fancy them. FIFIELD.—For the Lincolnshire Handicap, Make Haste is very well, but I have no fancy for him on this occasion. He is engaged in several of the Spring handicaps. and I think it is quite likely he will pull off one later. Brocklesby Trial llandciap—Marshal Ney is well, and with his little weight ought to run forward. UICHNIOND.—We have only Last Rose of Summer en gaged at Lincoln, but though she is remarkably well, I believe she will not be sent. Our other horses are doing very well. POLICE IVTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Thomas Burns, a rough powerful-looking fellow, was charged before Mr. Knox with begging, and also with as saulting police-constable Xcech, No. '2 C. The prisoner was committed for trial. EVESWESTMINSTER. DISGRACEFUL TEICK.-JOilu :Smith, a robust, powerful, hearty-looking fellow, was charged with being drunk and begging. William Cowell, 338 B, said that last evening ho saw defendant and another man knocking at the doors of houses in Lawrence-street, Chelsea. Defendant was begging with a written petition, and witness followed him to Onslow- square, where he heard him ask for money for a poor widow of one of his mates who was killed at work. Witness went up to take them into custody, when prisoners companion made off, and as prisoner w: -. ls f , — oin to the station he threw the policem an d own au are 4. Pri soner and his companion were both drunk. Prisoner was remanded till Friday , OURT OF (4,T81-(.1-fiT-1—rae cros,s-examina tion of Mrs. Star occupied the Court the whole of to-day. -t;i4; V 1 1.10 E DInON s TICh. The Third Edition of " The San" of last EvQ.alug was published in time for delivery in town.ftt 7.15 p.ui. SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLocK. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. SO UTII A MPTON, Jan. 13. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Peru, with the (heavy) India and China mails, passed the Needles at 1.45 p.m. to-day. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This ray VICTORIA CLUB.—THis DAY. LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP. Bto 1 agst Syeee (taken) 9to 1 agst Monarch of the Glen (taken) 10 to 1 agst Silenus (taken) 100 to 7 agst George Osbaldeston (offered) 100 to G agst Vacuum (taken) 20 to 1 agst Warrington (taken freely) • 20 to 1 agst Friday (taken) 20 to 1 agst Van Amburgh (offered) 20 to 1 agst Uncas (taken and offered) LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL. 100 to 6 agst Tathvvell (offered) 100 to 6 agst Fan offered) 25 to 1 agst Dick Turpin (taken) 83 to 1 agst Fortunatus (taken) 33 to 1 agst Guy of Warwick (taken) 33 to 1 agst The Lamb (taken and offered) 33 to 1 agst Despatch (taken) 50 to 1 agst Barbarian (offered) 20 to 1 agst Choral (offered) 25 to 1 agst Veda (taken) 500 to 15 agst Anlace (offered) 500 to 10 agst St. Agnes g (wanted) 1000 to 10 agst The Earl (taken) CHESTER CUP. 1000 to 35 agst George Osbaldeston (offered) SPOR7ING PROPHECIES. At o . THE LINCOLN SPRING MEETING. " BELL'S LIFE." Trial Stakes—Sister to Marksman, Acaster (or Sagitta rius), and Bonnie Katie. Brocklesby Trial Handicap—. Hinton, Carita, and Retty. Handicap Hurdle Race—Ada, Penelope, and Demonstration. Brocklesby Stakes—Mat thew Dawson's or T. Jennings's stable. Lincoln Handi cap—Mr. Graham's best and Silenus ; Sycee and Monarch of the Glen for place. " THE ERA." Lincoln Handicap—Monarch of the Glen, Sliming, Fri day, and Sycee. Trial Stakes—Acaster and Bonnie Katie. Brocklesby Trial Handicap —Ratty or Carita. Brocklesby Stakes -Phantom Lass and Stephanotis. The Handicap Hurdle Race—Guy of Warwick and Turmoil. Full Cry Steeplechase —Cut3wold. City Handicap—Reindeer. The Grand Steeplechase—Ace of Trumps. " SPORTING GAZETTE." --- Trial Stakes-,-Bonnie Katie, Acaster, or Sagittarius. Lincoln Handicap —Sycee and Monarch of the Glen. The Hurdle Race—Turmoil or Guy of Warwick, Full Cry Stee plechase—Cornerstone Gelding. The Grand Steeple chase —Ace of Trumps or Fuuny Man. Blankney Stakes —Bonnie Katie. Gone Away Plate—Scarrington. The Grand Handicap Steeplechase—Greenland. " Tim SPORTSMAN." Trial Stakes—Bonnie Katie or Acaster. Lincoln Handi cap—Formosa and tJacas; Choral and Sycee close up. " SPORTING LIFE." Lincoln Handicap—Sileans and Monarch of the Glen ; Choral and George Osbaldeston for place. The Brocklesby Stikes—Lady Betty. Trial Stakes—Bonnie Katie or Fly ing Scud. Brocklesby Trial Handicap—Joseph Dawson's best or Reindeer. Handicap Hurdle Race—Guy of War wick or Irish Fusilier. Full Cry Steeplechase—Corner stone Gelding. Grand Steeplechase—Ace of Trumps and Tennyson. " SPORTING TIMES." Trial Stakes—Provider and Saggitarius. Brocklesby Trial Handicap—Reindeer. Brocklesby Sta.kes—Reli gieuse, Stephanotis, and Pate. Lincoln Ilandbap —Bessie Dixon and Monarch of the Glen ; Veda for a place. The Handicap Hurdle Race—Aurifera. Full Cry Steeplechase Harbinger. Blankney Stakes—Neuchatel. Grand Stee plechase - Tennyson, Ace of Trumps, and Juryman. " SUNDAY TIMES." Trial Stakes—Aleaster. Lincoln Handicap—Silenus or George Osbaldeston. " TIIE FIELD." Lincoln Handicap—Van Amburgh or Silenus. The Brocklesby Stakes—Phantom Lass or Stephanotis. The Brocklesby Trial Handicap—Pericles and Salliet. Handi cap Hurdle Race—Ada, Penelope, and Aurifera. Full Cry Steeplechase—Corner Stone Gelding or Cotswold. City Haadicap—Historian and Lady Zetland. LINCOLN SPR Age st lb Formosa ... 9 2 Silenus 5 8 10 Bel Giorno 4 8 5 Van Amburgh ... 5 8 0 Typhoeus 4 8 0 Uncas 4 8 0 Honesty 6 7 13 Lady;Uoventry 4 7 12 Lady Zetland ... 4 711 Friday ... a 710 Sister to Vedette... 5 7 10 Monarchof the Glen 6' 7 9 Blacklock 4 7 7 The Samuel. ... 4 7 7 Mr Pitt ... ... 6 7 7 John Leech ... 4 7 6 'N G HANDICAP. Age st lb Brunehaut... 5 6 12 Lady Rosehill 5 6 10 liatchment 4 6 10 Cocoa Nut... 3 6 1U Acaster 3 6 9 Queen of York 4 6 8 Attack g. ... 5 6 8 The Returned 4 6 7 Veda 4 6 5 Bessie Dixon 4 6 4 Islam 3 6 2 Walmer 3 6 2 Border Knight 3 6 0 Bro. to Chattanooga 3 6 0 Tha Drummer ... 3 6 0 King Richard 3 5 11 Provider 3 5 11 Amity 3 5 10 Showman 3 5 10 Aulaca 3 5 10 George Osbaldestou 3 ' 5 9 Vacuum ... 3 5 8 Ceres ... ... 3 5 7 Conjuror 3 5 7 St. Agnes g. 3 5 7 Vanichka 3 5 7 Yarmak 3 5 7 Backenham's dam f 3 5 7 GRAND STEEPLECHASE. Historian ... a 7 5 Eastley 4 7 5 Make Haste • 4 7 3 Harvester ... 4 7 3 Jenny 4 7 2 Ben Nevis.: ... 5 7 0 Fairfax . ... 4 7 0 Our Mary Ann 4 7 0 Sycee 5 6 13 Choral 4 6 13 Warrington 4 6 13 Age st lb The Lamb... a 12 7 Mean wood ... a 11 5 Surney a 10 10 Snowstorm 6 10 10 Ace of Trumps a 10 9 Juryman ... 6 10 9 Wings of the Wind a 10 9 Tennyson „. a 10 9 Age st ]b Bannockburn ... a 10 8 Ada ... ... 5 10 8 Little Ben ... ... 5 10 8 Flatcatcher ... 6 10 7 Barbarian (h-b) ... 6 10 6 The Lion ... a 10 5 L.S.D. a 10 2 Funny Man 5 10 0 ,ANDTCAP. Compromise Meteor .. Age et lb ... 3 6 4 ... 3 6 4 ... 3 6 2 ... 3 6 2 ... 3 6 0 ... 3 5 12 - St Agnes g Honor . Lampoon ::: Sandboy ... CHEMIER Age st lb Lady Coventry 4 8 12 Mount Palatine .. 6 8 6 Lionel ... .. 4 8 2 Miss Whip filly .. 4 8 0 Choral 4 8 0 Matilda ... .. 3 7 6 Demonstration 4 7 0 THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL MEALS. Miss Neilson will very shortly appear at the Lyceum Theatre in a new drama by Dr. Westland Marston. The production of the new drama by Mr Watts Phillips, at the Holborn, has has been postponed until Wednesday next. " Marie Antoinette" will positively be produced at the Princess's on Menday next. Miss Marriott appears for six nights only at Sadler's Wells, commencing on Monday night. Mr. Edmund Phelps has been performing the part of Macbeth with much success in the provinces. (Front the Musical Standard.) " Le Propbete" Las been given with success at Con stantinople. Gounod's " Tobias" has been performed at Amsterdam. The work was coldly received. A new opera bouffe, by F. Ricci, entitled " Uue Folie Rome," has been produced witn success at Paris. EXETER HALL.—" ELIJAII."—Mr. Lander, the new bass, who made so successful a claw in " Judas Mac cabams" on the 23d instant, will make his second appear ance in the National Choral Society's performance o. "Elijah" on Wednesday next. Conductor, Mr. G. w Martin. 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