The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-31 00:00:00

iritnigt ,AL, May 28. n. Royal sigh' the morning• ter in the after' mike. Wales attended in the Chapel fGE 55 1 .) gm, May 30• City of Pari'4 well. )w N, May 3 1. T Aleppo, from n. to-dav, wi th patches and 11 verpool at 6.40 .om New 1.04' th 113 pos en ; and proceed roar, May 3 1. 3ip Union, frOnl She briv! and $2 , 3 00 .3 3remen. y 31, 11 a. O. Brooklyn, f ro ' ' , sing Browbeat' awn. 3ASSAPUR• May'3 l • [no' Mr. Mot le/ [resses from the of Commerce' )y . leading rec ur ial welcome 1 1 nerican Coes tl ' imerica Chaff, inerican DI ry to read the r congratulate earnest del re l a tions, 313 !hamber to the be made use ful ; 3 hearty thse% H e as sured til d rnest hope an e of the Uol t 5 iendly rela tl°P f advanceme nt t) , the inai llt ; , but espe ir ; w h ose conlin ° ;ad of conllerco i arty ineute beil i4 tmbers that be devoted to tb co tween the " r ce, and 11 00 ke necessarf f ;, Ind indi 1 1 ,mber on b eb3 ;onally for tileir te oduc,.ed the r Commerce, LCO, and eoc I P O , literary at t3i f, ,i amber then r ep inde, to the a t i he prosper iti oe itenance of To o Govern °3e 2 d that 14 9 1 ° 16 ma t e both 51° 01 ; r ed to the b° ° dec i a ddress an d cv • of Eng h/il ot , pe that Alr• l o i about rec i P r° t be ley thank ed a d A welcon 3e t so ip evince d ' s o lice in suPP ° 3O ., to a good u ll a b y ;11 are boll ° . De: t tory. I he i lJ ernmenls p. The Al ijeri o •3 now and 1/IW oc e the main te°3 o founded nP° for mate rtV rci Aber. l ie 13 0 ,0' ':erasion 0 6 - 60 1 functions , o f • the 113111`5 iks for the f O esi nd, after ; a . Ind left for 9. AMS, r y t ,t k—Tbe /115 29 1 - 3 9° res ...... .yes ....... montll.,. 5 Loan • ...... ..• )obt ...... ...... 92 0 108?1 ...... 94i$ ....... 620 ....... 00 ....... 5- ....... 7 681 01 , ....... 4,5 , ....... 55 ....... ......, ....... bane J° iissUeci,,i )er of ship/rec s 7 year 1866, toga' 'ative perceotaga ears the a` add of aneherS 11134 I 748, as aril:" 867 the average )3, w hile in 1565 'aving o f 877. E, AND 0011A,1 id an election Will orna t e (either 11151 e ";bild to the 011161 S. ;ssisct neve r f eed olio to outhful colour do g lnss o od Y stops the 11:3,1r ftQl laxario.tit grolvtli; ns no. It retnoces all In lama Boalos ate and Ferfaxue,rof CONEY `MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Consols are dull to-clay, at 941 for money; ditto, for Acc)unt, 93! ; Three per Cent. Re duced, 921; New Thee per Cents, 921 ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, par; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, par; Bank of England Stock, 4 per Cent., —. India Stock, 10i per Cent., April, 1874, 2121 ; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1141 ; ditto 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 100 i ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent., 92 ; ditto 5 per Cent., 105 ; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, AR was to be expected from the continued un settled weather, both English and foreig❑ wheat is 1)- day is to 2s dearer than this day week. Fortign stock are considerably firmer, prices in most instances showing an improvement. Danu bian is higher, at 76 to 77, and the Eight per Cent. is quoted at 89 to 90. Egyptian 1864, and do. Railway Debentures, are also better ; the for mer Ling marked at 86 to 87, and the latter at 99 to 100. In American Secutitie7, Unitei States Five- Twenties are I hetttr, at 791 to 79i. Erie Shares are also a higher, at 181 to 19. Illinois are with out change, at 95 to 96. Beyond a slight improvement in Caledonian, the changes in railways are rather adverse as compared With the unofficial close on Saturday. No change whatever has occurred in the prices of Bank Shares. Agra are 101 10; ; Alliance, 13 14 ; Anglo-A us t r i an , 18 19 p rem . ; Chartered Mercan tile, 31 32 ; Consolidated, 41 4k ; Imperial Bank, 15 i 16+ ; Imperial Ottoman, 21 21 prem. ; Lon don and County, 50 to 51 ; London and Westmin ster, 62f to 63/ ; Oriental, 41 to 42 ; London Joint Stock, 31 to 32 ; and Union of London, 341 to 35i. Lombardo-Venetian Railway Shares aru uual tered, at 19 to 191, and Great Luxemburg are 94 to 10 . Credit Shares are quiet. The prices are :—Na tional Discount 11- to International Finance, 2to 1 dis. ; and General Gredit, 2 to 1{ dis. Anglo-American Telegraph Shares are quoted 24 to 21/, and Hudsons Bay, 121 to 12g. The sum of £55,000 in gold was taken to the Bank on Saturday, including 25,000 sovereigns fron t E gypt. The Douro, at Lisbon, from Brazil, brings 14,500. It is to be hoped, from the currency discussion of Thursday evening, that the Government intend in futur e to act upon the principle laid down by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that it is no part of their business to provide, either during panics or at any other time, for means of " accommodating the mercantile community," or to assist the Bank in getting up " storm signals." Mr. Lowe stated that Government do not interfere with the conduct of any business other than banking, and he rightly points out that there is no ground for an exception bung made in that case, although perhaps the a nticipation that might thus be raised as to the Prospects of a wiser course for the future may be clamped by their persistence in constituting them selves bankers for the humbler classes, and their r ecent attempt to extend their operations in this ! l ull up to the level of persons having £3OO of float ing cash on hand. But, as a new panic may cer tainly be expected in 1876, it is important, before the memory of the last one has died out, that the nation should come to an understanding as to whether they will sanction the views thus laid down, or whether we are to go on upon the plan that whenever the consequences of wild speculation fall upon us the commercial community, instead of re lying upon the exercise of their own intelligence for the best method of dealing with it, are to depend Upon aid from Downing-street. The tone of affairs in the Produce Markets is not very satisfactory. The late tendency to animation has quite disappeared, and there is now a gradual process of reaction. Large losses are being made on a variety of imported articles, and the sales effected coutinu3 to show increased depreciation. The late failures in the tallow and oil trades indi • eat.; the consequences of the late movements in price. At the same time the fall in grain, with the depression in hops, likewise mark the unsatisfactory state of things in those depactments. If the rates of money should however only continue moderate we may yet experience a recovery. A general meeting of shareholders in the Suez Canal Company is called for the 21 of August at The liquidators of the. West London Wharves and Warehouses Company (Limited) have an nounced a second dividend at the rate of ss. in the Pound on the amount of the claims which have been admitted. The City Officeis Company (Limited) have given notie,e that the debentures which are not to be ex changed for bonds of the new issue of £200,000 will be paid off, with the coupon due the Ist of July. The Manchester Courier states that at a meet ing of the creditors of Messrs. Carter and Garth- Waite, Manchester warehousemen, of London, held at the Clarence Hotel, in Manchester, on Saturday afternoon, a composition of 83. in the pound was accepted, payable in ono sum. The liabilities do net exceed £B,OOO. It is understood that Mr. Baxter has returned to his official duties at the Admiralty from an in spection of the dockyards at Pembroke and Devon- Port, and that an entirely new system in the manner Of Obtaining and selling stores is expected shortly to be inaugurated. The following, with regard to the Anglo-Austrian fonds, is from the Cauncil of Foreign Bondholders: "Lord Clarendon has informed the Council of Foreign Bondholders that the Austrian Government h ave declared their inability to depart, in favour of foreig n bondholders, from the law imposing the com pulsory conversion of the Austrian debt, and that it is imperative on them to utilize every source Gf revenue to bring the country through its pecuniary e mbarrassment, and they argue that if the foreign b ondholders were desirous of disposing of their Austrian paper they have had more than one oppor tunity of doing so to great advantage. The Coun cil of Foreign Bondholders has therefore called a meeting of Anglo-Austrian bondholders, to be held at the London Tavern on Thursday nest at 12 O'clock precisely, for the purpose of appointing a committee of Anglo-Austrian bondholders, to be charged with authority to take the nccessary mea sures for the protection of the bondholders' late -1'04." BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. ▪ GOV ERNME NT FUNDS. . D itto Cent. Consols I.)itto for Account, - I 3 1,1 Per Cent. Reduced 9i ." 7 3 per Cent •al evr 2i per Cant. Jau. 1894 D° per Con .1 sn. 1873 A nnuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880, Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 -- FD o (Rod Sea Televaphl. A ug., 190 8 -- 4 hequ-_ , r Bills, £l,OOO, 2/ k 3 per Ct — Do £l6O, X 20 1 ,, & .£5OO — Bank of England Stock, 44 per Cent 0, -• opening '-'alada 4 por Cent. Bonds — 14ter-Colonial Onannun India GOVERNMENT Apr 11 stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874... 2124 110 . Opening, for Account ;Jo. 5 par Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 p ee C en t ., O c t. 1888 o. Certificates Do. Enfaced Papa, 4 per Cent...„ 92 Do. 5 per Cert., Jan. 1872 ....,. r . lO5 ! " 3 . 54 per ( 1 -'nt. May 18 - N DJ 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 Do do 1877 Do, do. 1882 — I!:-• Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873 ~ — uo. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO 1) 0. ur:der £l.OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSINC :PRICES. Ar, • ,eutine Republic, t per Cent ..... luitrian Bonds 5 per cent Do. 1859 — rizilian 5 per Cent — , --11 . 44 per Cent. 1852 — "„ 0 - do. 1858.... 'Jo. do. 1861 Do. do 1863 ko. 5 per * bent., 1865 B 14 0 Amin o - 81 Tenet; Ayres 6 per Cent. ,„ t D,4 2 p er C ent. (Deferred 3 per Cont ) idea, per Cent. "Wan 6 Cent — /)0. 4 4 per Cent., tt 1044 Russian, 5 par Cent., 1822, .£ St Do 4} per Omit . 1850 Sar.linian 5 per Cent - Spanish 3 per Con . Do. Account Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferrou Do. Account Do. Passive Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan !-, Do Government, 1864 liDo do, 1868 Turkish 6 per Cent.. Do Account (.'o 6 ptr Cent. 185 ti Do Account. Do-£lOO Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do .£10( Pow'. Do 5 per °cut. 1865 DJ Account Do 6 per Cent., 1860 66i } Do # per Cent., Guaranteed. )0 I.6r.kt Warrsutb (I lectures) Venezuela 3 per Cent..... Do. Ace. nut Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Dividends on the above payable in Loadou Austrian o per (lent. Ex 10 Florins ... Belgien, 4-i per cent., Ex. 2 if. Dutch i*rer 12 Gull, Do. 4 per Cent. Certillcatob Do. Account wrench Routes, 3 uer Cent., Ex •:6f. !Winn b per Cent. 1831, Ea.. Do Account s6i } TWO O'CLOCK. 67f 691 Jonsols, Money 9Bl f Do. Account, June 1 931 'POLICE INTELLIGEIVCE.-7his Day. -..---- ,- MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—Salvador Russo, an Italian bootmaker, was charged before Mr. Tyrwbitt with at tempting to set firo to the dwelling-house of Mr. George Cronange, professor of languages, No. 38, Gerrard street, Soho. Mr. Cronange said that on Wednesday last he put the broker into Om priconor'ra room, tlao priconor u-rrias five mouths' rent ; but afterwards, on the prisoner promis ing to go away he withdrew the broker, and told him that he would not touch his things, and would give him 2s. Subsequently tho prisoner asked him to let him stay a little longer, and he allowed him to do so, and for a day or two the prisoner kept up a constant annoyance by throwing his lasts about the room. Mr. Cronange said the prisoner threatened to cut his throat, and then set to hammering the door with a last. On Saturday night he (Mr. Cronange) went out for a short time, and on returning home found the street in an uproar, persons saying the house Ras on fire. He got a constable and wont to the prisoner's room, and got the door partly open, and then received a volley of lasts and kottles, and on getting into the room found a heap of paper burning in the middle of the floor, and a number of matches lying about the room. At the station the prisoner again threat ened to have his life, and said that why Le made the fire was because he was cold. The prisoner, who behaved in a very excited manner, said he had a charge 10 make against the complainant. Mr. Ty rwhitt told him that he would first have to answer the charge preferred against himself. S o me other evidence having been given, the prisoner, whose mind is evidently affected, was remanded. WESTMINSTER. John Cutler, a man of most repulsive appearance, was charged with the following outrageous conduct : William Coombos, porter at Chelsea Workhouse, said that defendant was admitted into the tramp ward on Sa turday night and maintained until this morning. At half past 7 witness found him in bed, and told him he must get up. Defendant refused, and said he was ill. Witne ss told him that he must got up and go to the next ward, where he would sae the doctor, and in older to iudu:e h:m to get up pulled the rug off the bed. Defen dant immediately said he would go before a magistrate, and jumping out of bed rushed through a passage where ho seized a shovel, and having raced round and knocked complainant down with it, he then 'struck him in the face, discoloured his eye, and made his mouth and nose bleed. Mr. SeHe committed defendant for two months' to the House of Correction. T lIAMES. THE VICISSITUDES OF A WIFE.—Mr. Turner, solicitor, of Leadenhall-street, came before before Mr. Paget with a married woman, named Susannah Clarke, who wanted a protection order to preserve her goods, chattels, and money from her husband, who had abandoned her. She was the daughter of Mr. John James llarris, watchmaker and rate collector, of Upper East Smith:l:ld. Ile was a somewhat eccentric individual, or as Mrs. Turner described him, the exkraordinary Mr. Harris. On a former day Mrs. Clarke gave a somewhat confused and rambling account of the property left by her father, and that she had becJrno a seamstress, afterwards living in a good house, with comforts about her, was dreadfully ill-usel by her husb.►ad when he could not get possession of her property, ab•tndoued by 'aim and driven with her children lute the Mile-ead Wc,rk house. The guar liaus compelled him to take her out of the workhouse, and the estate was about to be wouni up. Me. Fart said it appeared the woman gut her living and maintained hur family by her own exertions, and as she was likely to coma into possession of property after the 29th of September next he would grant Ler an order of protection to commence at once. QUEENS THEATRE. On Saturday a drama from the pen of Mr. Bur nand, in four acts and eight tableaux, founded on Mrs. Edwards's novel, " The Morals of Mayfair," entitled " The Turn of the Tide," was produced at this theatre, and, we should have been pleased to have added, with great success ; but the extreme length of the play, and the dullness of the writing, induced the audience to received the piece with but very questionable approval. It must not be inferred there was not an abundance of applause ; quite the contrary, the friends of the parties inte rested in the success of the piece kept their hands in almost continual motion, and shouted loudly enough at the end of the acts for the " author," but notwithstanding theca exer tions of the .lacquers the piece cannot be said to be a success. We regret the circumstance, because the management had spared neither expense nor trouble in mounting the play, and, if we must speak the plain truth, the scenery was about the best thing in the;piece. The ladies' dresses were par ticularly dashing and numerous, but, making every allowance for the absurdity of fashion, they were rather in advance of May Fair, and it is rather questionable whether they will serve the purpose of the advertising West-end milliner who produced them. The plot of the play turns upon the unfortunate marriage of Phillip Earns cliffe, the adopted son of an Indian millionaire, with the daughter of a ruined nobleman. The marriage is in the first instance brought about by the mother of the girl, who does not mind sacrificing the happiness of her child, provided she, the mother, does not suffer Liao inc.)nrenierie4 of runn i wz short of cash. After the ceremony Phillip Earnscliffe and his wife reside with Lord and Lady Temple more, and thus the aristocratic lady gets com mand of the " ways and means." Of course the union results in wretchedness to both, a separation takes place, Phillip goer to Brittany, where he meets with Margaret Ashton, and they become lovers. Phillip tells Margaret, when it is too late, the exact position of his affairs; a parting takes place, and after a lapse of time Margaret accepts the offer of an elderly gentleman who has been her guardian after the death of her father. The acceptance of the offer brings on an Hines; and . Margaret's marriage is thus delayed. Phillip has gone to Switzerland, and whilst th ere h o witnesses an accident to an English traveller. The carriage falls over a precipice, and the unfortunate inmate ' who is killed is Phillip's wife. This circumstance sets Phillip free, the guardian of Margaret forgoes his claim on her hand, and after un!eard-of difficulties and suffering Phillip and Margaret are married. The artistes engaged in the performance of the play did all that was possible for their respective parts, but none had a character to represent that male the slightest call on their talents. Mr. Vezin was Phil lip and Miss H. Hodson Margaret. Two bet ter actors there does not exist on the stage, but the words put into their mouths were twaddle from h , ginning to end. Mr. Clayton, another good actor, had a slight part, a friend of Phillips', and Mr. Ryder played the guardian of Margaret. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews and Miss Larkin helped to strengthen the caste, but the only result arrived at was a very questionable success. The scenery was exceedingly beautiful. We sin cerely hope that the tide of non , success will soon turn at the Queen's, and that we shall in a short time have plays worthy the acknowledged talents of the excellent company which the management has now banded together. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY IVEN 3 G, MAY 31, 1869. SHARE LIST. Ai11) STOCKS. - -- Paid . Closing 8U51T143 , 2 hare !tallway.s. Price. done. 8t /instal and 1:x ter 1 0 . 77 79 st Osteqonian . lOO 7.4 771 771 et, U4..,0rlau Cornwall. all 24 3 st Dublin & Belfast June 100 ;7 79 at Dun„l'ertli,& 1 .00 70 72 2) East London.... tO 00 15 2: Do 10 ,t Glasgow tS. Western 10.: 97 93 it Great Eastern .. st Do. E. Augl. Neu.: lOO ... t tircat North 01 Soothing— 100 14 6 et Great Northern lOO 107 108 10:4 7 at Du. A stook .. 100 1074 1084 1 8 a' 00, 11 stoce lOO at Gt. 8, and IV. of Ireland lOO US 7 a , Gt. Western -Ori4inal lO 41 194 49 • t Do. South Wales luU 53 55 s; Do. W. 61.141.-lixtorth l.OO 25 27 st Do. Newport 'OJ ^5 r 0 at Lancashire& lorkshirs.. 100 123 ,134 12'4 st Lon., Brigh.,& S,Coast.. 100 414 45 45., 01 DJ Scrip . ...... all st I on., unat., and Dover.. I.w 161 154 Ai I at Do. IJetrop. Ex. A .... 160 9 11 et Len. & North Western.. 100 174 1 i 1174 it Lon. & South Western.. 100 S, 9 si) it Man., Bhe/., & Lincoln.. 100 241 34: .511 at 61.•trot.olit an at Do Extonsi)n 10 Do. Nee, r • • st Me:,:upelktie itit.t. uli 4, - ) 1.) Metro') :it. Jvliu'r 00 1 - 106 1114 164 116 ;51 16 at st On, dirmiu. ¢ Darby.. 100 at is to British st rth., & 10'; at Nor. ":astern—lierwieli NU 1144 lc 54 10 25 Do. purchs,e 16.11.4 at Do Leeds. ...... st Do York •0 , 9 1 is st Lo Oarli ,fe st Do Stoe c. & Darling l2O 131 133 at North Lon 10n 10 Do New 1808 st North Staffordshire . iOO 55 57 at North and S.-W. Junction 100 Vii 100 10 Do New £lO shares 7 st Rhymncy at Shropshire Union lOO 57 58 st South Devon at South Eastern lOO 714 at Staines, Wok'hain, & Wok all 12 13 st Tao ‘o , ale lOO 148 153 • 00. C .. • . Waterford &•hilkent•y le Waterloo & pATT W A In: on i.•.IR R ENCIE gliAltkS AND STOOKS. st Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 86 88 et Caledonian Qrs., No. 2 lOO ... et Do. Siot. N.E., 4; per cent lOO ... st Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c lOO ... at Do. do. 7 per cent lOO ... et Do. do. Ordinary lOO 78 82 st. Do. Midland at Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent gua all at Dundee, Perth, and Aber- _ deep junctioli lOO 105 107 st Do. Ist Class preference lOO ... st Glas. & S.W. gua. 5 per et lOO .. st qt. Eastern, E.G Ex. No.l 100 9 i 99 at Do do N 0.2 100 91 93 at Do do 6 per cent 100 103 112 at Do East Anglian A 5 p. c. 100 at Do do B 6 do. 100 ... st Do do C 7 do. 100 st Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 ... st Do E. Union 4 p.c. gua. 100 70 75 at Do Norfolk 5 p.c.Ex.1846 100 ... st Do do 5 p.e.Way.Va1.1647 100 st Great Not thorn, 5 par cent 10 ... at Du 5 p.c., Hatlop. c. pm. 100 ... at Do 4i do do do 100 ... st Do 5 do at sp. c. pin. 100 ... st Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent lOO ... st Gt. Nrth of Scotland, Ist pf 100 ... st Great South. and Western (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 96 97 st Gt.West.—Orig.dtJut.-Rent chg., per gua.s p.c lOO 101 103 st Do. Orig. (B. & 11. Ex). 5 p.c lOO 95 100 at Do do 4 1 per cent. 1850 lOO 87 89 st Do do 4 do do at Do do 5 per cent. redem lOO 95 97 st Do do Birmingham gua lOO 60 70 st Do do do pref lOO ... at Do do Chester gua. lOO b 0 85 st Do do do 8 per cent. 100 st Do do do 5 do 100 95 100 st Do South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 ... st Do do 44 p.c lOO ... st Do do 41 1850 lOO ... st Do do 5 st Do West Mid. Oxford Ist glO ► 111 113 st Do do 21 gua lOO 107 111 st Do Newport, Ist g. 5 p.c lOO 90 92 st Do do 2d do 100 97 [O3 at Do gua. 5) per cent. 1863 100 ... 00 Lancaster & Carlisle 41 p.c. all st Lancash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1 3 135 st Do Barnsley, as Is 10d p.c. 100 at Do 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 130 I s ci at Do 4) (Blackburn purch). 100 93 100 at. London & Brighton, 5 P.C. guaranteed, No 1 lOO ... st Do b per cent. gua. No. 2. 100 ... st Do 6 du do lOO ... at Do 5 do . NJ. • 4. 100 ... st Do 7 per cent lOO at Do 6 do (W.E. & U.P.) 100 ... st Do 4 do 185) lOO ... st London, Chatham, & Dover 5 per cent lOO ... st London and 11,W., C. and Nuneaton 5 per cent lOO 103 110 st Do Bedfohl &Cambridge lOO st Do Shrewsb'y & 100 ... st Loudon and b W. 7 p,c late lid shares lOO 140 150 2s Do (Purtsm. perp ans 2s6d) all ... s Mau., Shcf., Litwin. 6 p.c lOO 11 t 117 Do LC all par Ipm s Do 3 per cent lOO 60 60 I Do redeem. 6 per cent 5 Consolulate , d., 6p. c lOO 130 135 Do liroxtol & limn., 6p. c lOO 1;2 134 a Do 4) per cent. redeem lOO t 8 100 Do 13 per cent. irredecru lOO 93 1)) if Do Leicester & Wenn, 4 p.c lOO 8) 11 st North kiraisil, 5 p.c. Nu. 1 1..13 et Do E. &li. 4p.c. S. D lOO at Do N. 1.3., N 0.2, 5 per ce.u.t 10) at Do Border iluioa, 51 p.c DU st ~N.-Lasteru—Cluas. 4 p.c lOO 87 $J at Du 45 per cent. rodoo.n lOO 95 97 at Do 4 per cent., lOO 17 Do Berwick capital 8.13.4. ... Do York, 1.1..& S. pun:Luse lO 10 10i Do Stcktu & Urliug. A 5 p.c lOO 106 108 st Do W, tlartlepuulll. and It lOU 81 66 20 North Staffordshire 10s .7. Devon Aunuitios, 1 1 all 910 10s Do Tavistock Anns., Ds— all 8 10s Du Fixed 41 per cent all 8 81 10.6. S. Last. (Read. Anus., 1.0.6) all 22 23 st Do 41 percent lOO ... ..„ at Do Fixed 45 per cent lOO at Taff Vale No.l lOO 14 , 153 at Waterford& 6pe 100 41 43 RAILWAYS.-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOOKS. With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate year. bt Caledonian 41 p c gun. st vu Scot.Ceu. loin. ip c lOO st Do 41 p a n ••• st Do 4p c con. issued at 30 65 1 . 1 • st Great Eastern 41 per cen. 103 . 7 B — j s t Do 5 do, 1362.. t. 10) 85 as at DO. New 5 du, 1361 lOO S 4 87 at Do ao 5 do, 1364 lOO b 3 86 st Great Northern, 5p c irred. 100 st Du Per 5 per cent. 100 —• at Do Boston &Sleafd, 41 pe 100 ••• 90 st Grea. t West., W. 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The meeting of the Jockey Club, announced for May 29, I was held at Messrs. Weatherby's on Saturday. Sir Joseph Hawley's motion to the effect that no two year-old shall run in any race before the Ist of July, was lost by a majority of five, but a substantive resolution by Colonel Forester, that no two-year-old race should be per mitted before the Ist of May, was carried, the latter, however, more in the shape of a compromise than other wise. THE HORSE SHOW. The sixth annual horse show was opened at the Agri cultural Hall at ten o'clock on Saturday morning. Inside the building, by the erection of temporary galleries and the division of the permanent onus into boxes, increased provision has been made for the comfort of the numerous visitors who are expected to be attracted to an exhibition which bids fair to prove more successful than any of the kind yet held at Islington. The total number of entries this year, with U.e extra classes, is about 360, the animals exhibited including hunters, riding horses, cover backs, roadsters, park hacks, ladies' horses, harness horses, high-stepping cobs, ponies, and stallions. Amongst the most attractive of the entries are a noted Russian trotter of the Orloff breed and five Arabs. Of the latter, one, named Pacha, is the property of Mr. Adrian Hope, and according to its Arabic pedigree is a descendant of a filly once borrowed by the prophet Mahommed from an old woman in his tribe, which carried him so satisfactorily that be placed some kohl on the creature's eyes as an act of endearment, whence originated its name, Kuhedet el Ajitz, or the old woman's painted eyed mare, and of which the prophet said, " On her back is majesty, and in her womb a treasure." - _ The judges for the present show are, for hunters, the Earl of Macclesfield, Viscount Combermere, and Captain Percy Williams, the duty of deciding upon the merits of hacks and harness horses being undertaken by Colonel Kingscote, M.P., and Captain Bastard. In addition to theusual hurdle jumping—which, if itdoes not do much to test tho merits of the:competitors, is, at all events, amusing to the public—there will be a new feature this year in the shape of a water leap. There will also be Ernttinfr and tandem driving, and a daily parade of the horses who have taken prizes. Thu attend. ance to-day was large, and comprised many more ladies than have usually honoured the opening of the show with their presence. The judging was con fined to hunters, stallions, and hacks. For Class 1, consisting of weight-carriers equal to not leas than 15st., there were thirty-two entries. The first prize of £BO was awarded to a bay gelding, 16h. 2in. high, and Byrs. old, the property of Mr. David Macintosh, of Havering Park, Romford. This horse is Yorkshire bred, and is well known with the hounds of that county, and also with those of Essex. The second prize, value £4O, fell to the lot of Harkaway, a five-year old chesnut, the same height as the last, exhibited by Mr. T. W. Potter, East Court, Cheltenham. The third prize of £2O was awarded to Kildare, a bay gelding, 15h. 3in. high, the property of Mr. James Bredin, Fenwick street, Liverpool. The second class judged consisted of hunters entered without conditions as to weight. The first prize of £5O was taken by Major Quentin's Placid, a six-year-old bay gelding, standing 1611. ; the second prize of £25 being awarded to Captain Barlow's Topstall, a brown horse, 8 yrs. of uge, and 15h. 31in. high ; and the third prize, of the value of £l5, going to Mr. Henry Sanders's Playmate, a five-year-old bay, 15h. 3in. high. In Class 3 two prizes only were given. The first, value £4O, was adjudged to Mischief, a bay, 9373. old, and standing 151 the property of Mr. J. Stanley Mott, of Barringham, Norfolk ; and the second prize, value £3O, to Spanton, a chesnut, 15h. 2in. high, exhibited by Messrs. E. and A. Stanford, Steyning, Sussex. The first prize of £5O in the 4th Class, bunters, was carried off by a Cumberland horse named Commissioner, exhibited by Mr. Joseph Casson, of Burgh-by-Sands, Carlisle. The second prize of £25 was taken by Mr. Leonard Longwood, Master of the East Sussex Foxhounds, for his brown horse Handcuff. The gold medal for hunters was awarded to Mr. Casson's Commissioner. " S. G. 0." ON COUNTY GOVERNMENT. A Chamber of Agriculture was last week formed in Dorset. A county meeting was held in Dorchester, Lord Ashley in the chair, and there were also present Lord Sidney Godolphin Osborne and Mr. Floyer, M.P. On the motion of Lord S. G. Osborne, a petition to Parliament was adopted, setting forth that the present system of local taxation is unjust, being exclusively levied on. the owners and occupiers of real property, and that many of the charges thereon, such as maintenance of highways, the police, registration, vaccination, and maintenance of lunatics and idiots in asylums, might be fairly con sidered of a national character, and should lie transfe:red to the general taxes of the country. his lordship in the course of his speech slid that the formation of county chambers of agriculture was natural and wise. Regarding the increase of the poor rate, be was convinced that at last it must force itself on the attention of statesmen, whether Whigs or Tories, in or out of office. It was also his firm conviction, however unpopular it might be, that there had been more honesty, economy, and close adherence to the spirit of the law in dealing with the funds expended by the magistrates than in the management of the funds expended by the boards of guardians. Tie thought the time had come when the country must awaken to the conviction that, however difficult the subject might be, it was grossly unfair that because the land would not run away, and he who tilled it was ever to be found with his stock and capital ever ready to be taxed, he should be the most taxed of all people. lle doubted whether they could get justice till the assessments were made by independent men. THE CHATHAM AND DOVER RAILIV AY AND ITS SOLICITORS. MESSRS. BAXTER, ROSE, AND NORTON. Messrs. Baxter, Rose, and Norton defend themselves in a letter to the Times against the observations made by Vice- Chancellor Stuart, in giving judgment on the case of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. They were called in to act for the company, they say, when its embarrassments compelled it to seek, the protection of the Court of Chancery, and when its original sclicitors, Messrs. Freshfield and New man, felt a difficulty in continu . ng to be their advisers. They were requested to undertake the task of obtaining Parlia mentary powors,and this they successfully carried through. A member of the firm had been called upon by clients of ante rior connection, the General Credit, to represent them in P. claim against the company before the Court of Chancery, and in consequence Messrs. Baxter, Rose, and Norton ceased in that suit to advise the company. But a strong desire was expressed that the firm should not on that account cease to aid the company in the totally different court of Parliament. Upon the pa ash, g of this Act the new directors transferred their legal business to a law clerk, at the sime time expressing their sorrow that, although they were under the greatest obliga tions to Messrs. Baxter, yet the Act only authorised them to pay those bills which were on account of the Arrangement Act. "Having thus,we trust," the letter proceeds," discharged our duty, and being roleaced with thanks—which perhaps would have been more emphatic had they been accompanied by the payment of our bills—we were certainly at liberty to accept a retainer against the company. In the bill now be fore Parliament we are acting on behalf of independent shareholders and mortgagees. However valuable may be the privilege of resorting to the Court of Chancery, and how ever great the benefit which it had derived from the inter vention of that court, the litigation has become ton error mous to be practically resolved there. and that it would be better that the m hole of the difficulties of the company should be remitted to the arbitration of tin Marquis of Salis bury and Lord Cairns." THE EQUITY OF THE CASE. The Solicitors' Journal criticises the judgment of Vice. Chancellor Stuart lin another direction—that of the power of Chancery over Parliament. It is well settled, it says, that the Court of Chancery has jurisdiction to restrain an application to Parliament. The Court, in imposing such restraint, acts purely in personanz. It does not interfere with the other tribunal, but restrains the individual. Sue.- e,essive Lord Chancellors have, however, declined to define the circumstances under which this jurisdiction should be exercised. It has been settled that the Court will not restrain an application to Parliament, even at the instance of a person with whom the de fendant had expressly contracted not to apply to Par liament. Lord Cottenbam said that such an injunction could not be granted on the ground that the act applied for would interfere with existing rights. Vice-Chancellor Stuart, however, has granted an injunction restraining the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company from further proceeding with the bill now before Parliament. The bill in que:Tpn has passed the Commons, has gone into the hands of the Parliament itself. Lord Cottenharn decided the very point. lie declared that when either house had entertained the bill " it became the act of the house and not the act of the party." Vice-Chancellor Stuart's judg ment is quite counter to the principle laid down in all pre vious cases. Respecting the dispute in the building trade in Manchester, it is stated, on the authority of the master masons, that they have now 130 men at work, and that with out any effort on the part of the masters the non-unionists are " coming in" at the rate of ten every day. The em ployers have resolved to take active measures with a view of securing the services of men not connected with the union. It, is stated in a report issued by the Operative Masons' Assotiation that. there aro now strikes pending in six I toiy-Us' end lock-outs - mort 9r lee. partial in nip) 4thorN, • TH. IRISH CHURCH. Deputations representing various Protestant Associa tions of the United Kingdom opposed to the Irish Church Bill waited on the Duke of Abercorn, K.G., and other members of the Upper House, at the residence of his Grace, Chesterfield House, Mayfair, on Saturday after noon. The deputations numbered upwards of 300 persons, and included members of Parliament, and other gentlemen of position and influence. The peers present were—The Duke of Abercorn, the Primate, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of Derry, Lord Redesdale, Lord Malmesbury, Lord Huntingdon, Lord Erne, Lord Bandon, Lord Water- ford, Lord Digby, Lord Salisbury, Lord Goff, &c. An address uas presented on behalf of the Church Con ference of Ireland. It commenced by claiming to proceed from a body having the full authority of the Irish Church, and proceeded to set forth nine reasons why the Lords should not pass the Irish Church Bill. These were that the proposed measure would create a diffe rence between Ireland and the United Kingdom kith regard to the State Church ; it would tend to subvert parochial organisations, by which the minis trations of are extended to all without distinction ; it would tend to AVCalil:ll the union between Church and State in Englt.nd and Scotland ; it ignores the rights of the laity of Ireland ; it strikes at the Royal Supremacy and the Act of Union ; it destroys a title of three centuries, and thus unsettles property ; there is no allegation that the property to be sequestrated has been misapplied ; it is inconsistent with the dignity of the empire to commit confiscation and to alter the Constitution ; and, finally, because the bill will utterly fail to pacify Ireland. Dr. Tnain supported the address in an able speech, ana was followed by Mr. WCROREY, who addressed their lordships on behalf of the Presbyterians of Ulster. Addresses were also presented by the Central • Protestant Defence Association of Ireland and the Ulster Protestant Defence Association, which were supported respectively by Sir Edward Grogan, Bart., and Sir John Stuart, and Mr. S. Blacker. Captain Petrie spoke on behalf of the Church Institution of Ire- land, and Mr. Richard Nugent on behalf of the National Protestantism. The object of the several speeches was to urge their lordships to throw out the bill on the second _ _ The Duke of ABERCORN, in reply, expressed his pleasure at receiving such influential deputations from the whole of Ireland, and remarked that the opinions of such bodies could not fail to carry great weight. He would take care to lay all their views before those Peers with whom he had the honour to be associated, at an early meeting to be held next week, or as soon as the Irish Church Bill was sent up to the House of Lords. The deputation then withdrew. The proceedings, to which the representatives of the press were not admitted, occupied over two hours. THE EARL OF DERBY 021 , THE TURF. The Earl of Derby has written a letter to Sir Joseph Frawley on the Turf, d, proposof the motion for the altera tion of rules concerning two-year-olds. The letter is dated from St. James's-square, May 28, and runs as follows " Dear Ha\Cley,—l have so entirely, and for so many years, abandoned the Turf, that I should hardly feel jus tified in attending the meeting of the Jockey Club to morrow to vote upon your proposed resolutions ; but I have no hesitation in saying that if I were present I should cordially support your three first resolutions (I have some doubt about the fourth, which I think would be better omitted). I should even go further than you propose to do, and would gladly see the close time' extended, as in France, to the let of August, or even of September. Wherever you draw the line you must inter fere with some meeting or other; but, in my opinion, a promising two-year-old should never make his public appearance before autumn. But I cannot conceal my opinion that your resolutions deal with only one of the vices which, as it seems to me, are yearly lowering the character of the Turf. I know that some persons consider the multi plication of races and of starters a sign of success—l look on them as the very opposite, and I should hail with satis faction the disappearance from the calendar of one-half of the present meetings. I take it that the deteriora tion of the Turf in public estimation, of which there is no doubt, is mainly owing to the fact that the majority of horses are now in the -possession of men who run for profit and not for sport—who care nothing for the animal horse—who cannot afford to wait for a return of their money, but who, in the language of the Manchester school, prefer ` a nimble ninepence to a slow shilling,' and in whose bands a wretched animal, especially if not quite so wretched as he is thought, is as valuable as one of a high class, if not more so. This vicious system is mainly fostered—First, by the prema ture running of two-year-olds ; secondly, by the multiplication of short rac. s, which enables horses to be brought out oftener, and so afford more frequent oppor tunities of gambling; and, thirdly, 1,3 the great prepon clerance of handicaps. 'these last are a necessary evil; but their avowed purpose is to place the best and the worst horses on an equal footing, and thus to encourage the breed of the latter, at least equally with the former. Now I know that handicaps eanrfot be dispensed with, but I think the evil may be greatly mitigated by fixing a maxi mum and a 111111hr:1= -weight, and 1 do not hesitate to ex press my opinion that horses which cannot meet the best likely to be entered at a difference of 4st., or 4st. 71b., have have no business in important handicaps. I cannot refrain from mentioning two other points which deserve the serious consideration of the Jockey Club—l mean the employment of touts and others, not merely to watch horses, but to obtain illicit information by the corruption of stable boys; and the practice, now so common as hardly to be repro bated, of running horses not to win, leading to such corn ; ments in the papers as if he meant,' `it is not his journey,' &c. My ideas may be considered Utopian, and I do not doubt that each and all of themwill be vehemently opposed by clerks of the course and others pecuniarily interested in country meetings, but I am satisfied that unless the Jockey Club apply themselves vigorously to check the acknowledged abuses of the Turf, not only will there be an increasing secession of men of station and character, and an increasing accession of those who have neither, but they themselves will lose ground in public estimation, and public opinion will ere long demand and enforce a sweeping suppression of abuses by external authority. I think nothing of the argument that the Jockey Club have no power over local meetings. I have no doubt that their decisions would be readily accepted; and if they were not, the disqualification of horses, run ning in violation of their rules, from running at any meet ing over which they have direct control, would place a very effective weapon in their bands. Pray excuse this long letter, which goes so far beyond the object in your resolutions, and exercise your own discretion as to using it in any way you like, or not at all." The Queen will return to Windsor Castle from Balmoral on Tuesday, the 15th of June. CABINET COUNCIL. —At the Cabinet Council held in Downing-street on Saturday, the Ministers present were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chan. cellor, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Right llon. G. J. Goschen, the Marquis of Harting tun, and the Right Hon. C. Fortescue. CHRISTOLOGIES.— Mr. Henry Ward Beecher not long binco announced his intention of writing a life of the Saviour. Instantly every minister in the Union who thought himself celebrated, or wished to become so, undertook a life of the Saviour. The competition among publishers for clergymen who could write lives of the Saviour became fierce and furious. One firm, more enter prising than the rest, wrote to Mr. Spurgeon, and made him a very liberal offer for a life of the Saviour. Mr. Spurgeon replied " Such a work is beyond my ability ; I have also no time at my disposal ; and, thirdly, it would not be to my taste. The only life of Christ worth a cent is the New Testament." EXAMINING THE lIIIIL—A short time previous to the introduction of the chignon, some of the ladies adopted masculine manners and dress. This combination might have an awkward result if they were put in the position of a woman who, at Belfast, the other day, wall thought to be a man because she had, the report says, " masculine appearance, spoke like a man, and smoked a pipe." The police were called in, and with their usual sagacity, after examining the woman's face, declared, as does Signor Bosco, that there was "no deception." Alas! should they be called upon to decide whether a "girl of the period," who talked slangy and looked masculine, was an impostor, the examination of the hair would be a most unsatisfactory proceeding.—Manchester Courier. FASHION AELE AND POLITICAL.— The Premier will entertain a full-dress party, nnmbering upwards of thirty, Lt dinner on Wednesday next, in celebration of her Majesty's birthday; after which Mrs. Gladstone will have an evening party, for which several hundreds of invitations have been issued. The Earl of Clarendon, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, will give a full dress banquet to the whole of the foreign diplomatic corps on Wednesday, at the Foreign Office. Later in the even ing the Countess of Clarendon will have a reception, tc which a large company are invited. The Countess will also have an assembly on the 16th instant. The Firs or t Lord of the Admiral t y will give a f u ll-dress banquet Wednesday at the Admiralty, Whitehall, after which Mrs. Childers will have - au assembly. The Right Hon. tits gorae Secretary will give an entertaimnent to the lad Wygs_p_s_lejlLdS aon«winecigq mxt, t .b SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK. SPORTING IN TEL L IGE NOE —TWs Day TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING. No betting. VICTORIA CLUB.—Turs DAT. No Betting. THE DERBY. Sir Joseph Hawley has lodged an objection against the winner on the ground that the nominator of Pretender (Mr. W. Sadler) is reported to have died before the race was run. The settling remains in abeyance. Race Glasses, I.v Voiglind, are now 140 longer the ex clusive luxury of the rich. Since the great demand for photographic lenses has diminished, au opportunity has been afforded for applying mechanical power with the greatest sucees , , whereby the cost of ilv•se beautiful and most perfect instruments is reduced in price in some instances to as much as 2U per cent. In fact they to tow no dearer than those of the best French or English makers. At the depot Aallogiar,, 23A, New Bond-street, corner of Go.dait- street, the patrons of the Derby may indulge their taste in the possessioa of a veritable Volgtla,,der at comparaively trifling cost. It is superfluous to say the quality is as ev, r luatch!ess. RACING nxTuRES. J rick:. Croydun 2,3, 4 , .Neweastle "2, 23, 24 Newton 9 , 3, 4 I Udilnun 22 Newark 3 1 Bibury Club 23 Barestap!e 3 1 Swekbridve "4, 25, 26 Ascot ...8, 9, 10, 11 New Forest Iluut Beveley __ . (Lyudburst) 28 Windsor 15, 16 Hampton l7, 18 Curragll 22,23,24 01;eliusford Liverpool Summer 29, 30 Suttuu Park Worcester l, 2 1 New►narket July 6, &c. Carlisle Ilendon ..... 9, 10 I Pontefract l2, 13 Nottingham 13, 14 Southampton 13, 14 AUG Down Royal Corpo. l4 Airdrie 15 Reading 15, 16 Knutsford 16 Huntingdon 2O, 21 Stamford ... Goodwood 27, 28, 29, 30 LIST. Deauville 1 Ripon 2 Brighton 3, 4 Tiverton .1 Brighton Club 5 Lewes 6, 7 Eg Lem lO, 11 Wolverliturpton lO, 11 Windsor 12, 13 Bromley 17, 18 5t0ckt0n....... lB, 19, 20 Dover .... 18 SEPT: Oxford Hungerford 24 York 24, 25, 26 Croydon Plymouth 23, ?7 Scarborough 30, 31 Baden Baden 3l Great Yarmouth 31 Derby Summer .. 31, Sep. 1 Weymouth 81, Sep. 1 Canterbury: .... 3l, Sep. 1 Itfargate 2 Ipswich " 2 West Drayton ... 3 Warwick... 7, 8 Curragh (Royal) 7,8, 9 Abingdon 9, 10 Doncaster 14, 15, 16, 17 Hampton 2l, 22 OCT Bedford 5, 6 Edinburgh 6, 7, 8 Leicester 7, 8 Bromley 7 8 Newmarket 2d 0ct...11, &c. Chelmsford l9 20 Kelso 19 20 NOV M BER. Richmond 21, 22 Lichfield • 21, 22 Western (Ayr) 22, 23 /London 23 21 Monmouth 23, 24 Newmarket Ist 0ct....28, &c. Lanark... 29 30 Harrow ,..2, 3 Worcester 3, 4 St. Albans 5, 6 IBER. Cheltenham 1Q 2t Curragh l9, 2iy, 11 West Drayton 22 Hereford 2l, 22 Monmouth 23, 21 Newmark.t 11'ton —.25, &e. :11BEIt. JULY Kingsbury, STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES. I Eglinton Hunt Liverpool 6, 7 9, 10, 11 i Shrowsbury . . l5, 16 OCTOBELL Bromley J. 7 West Drayton "1, 32 NOVEMBER. Worcester 2,3, 4 Shrewsbury 16, I Harrow 2, 3 Leaulingtou iiuut ....23 .to L verpool 9, 10, 11, 12 I COURSING FIXTURES. AUGUST. St. Albans.. OCTOBER. Ancastor and Willoughby, Lincolushiro G. Orraesby &e. Huntingdon Club.. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS—Ims EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his se.,t on the woolsack at five o'clock. NEWSPAPERS' BILL. Thu Marquis of LL7kNOVER moved the second read ing of this bill, the object of which was to repeal . certain rebtrictive euttetnieuts which bad now Leconte übselete, Lord CAIRNS did not °prose the bill, but une of tho laws prop° ed to lco: repealed had recently been put in force to Frovcnt the lecturing of a person named Murphy. Atter observations by the Laid Chancellor i.nd the Earl of Sonlets •t, the bid was read a becon t links. Their then adjourned. HOUSE OF COAINIONS.—This EVENING. The SITAKER took tile chair at 4 o'clock. A I,E, SAINTS 1 isTit.oT BISHOPSGATE BILL. his was a 101 l to tnable the railway companies to pur clise the site of the church of All r.. , a.uts, li:shopsgat for a stun of .C,500, and also tied a sire to erect another church. It was also proposed to erect schools, at tached to which would t,e a clripel to be licensed for the c,lebration of divine worship. M.r. W. H. Smith op posed the second reading of the bill. Mr. Tite sup;_oried it, and said it was of posed by the Archbishop cf Canter bury and the Bishop of London. The Solicitor-General opposed the bill, because it was proposed to give £3OO a year to a clergyman for doing nothing, but Mr. Bruce, the Home Scretary, supported it. Mr. Adair su g gested that the bill should be referr«l to a select committee. Mr. Crawford said the rtal ques tion to be decided by the division was whether they would re-erect a church to which the people would not go, or whether they would erect a sc'teol-house, with a chapel attached, which the people would most readily attend. The house divided, when there appeared— For the second reading Against it Majority in favour of the bill —36 TREATY WITH AUSTIIIA. Mr. OT WAY, in reply to Mr. Egerton, said en arrange ment bad been come to with Austria with reference to the outstanding points of the treaty of 1865, but the arrange ments were not yet quite completed. FINING CHILDREN. Mr. BRUCE said it was quite true that two young chil dren had been fined by the Brantford magistrates for biestk leg down a fence, but the flue had been inflicted in order to reach the parent=, who, it was believad, sent the chil dren out to do as . they had done. The parents were in court when the sentobco was passed. GRAND JURY LAWS (IRELAND). _ _ _ _ _ Mr. C. FORTESCUII said he did not think it would be possible to introduce any Lill un the subject during the present session. CHAPLAINS IN PRISONS. Mr. GLADSTONE, in reply to Mr. Verner, said he did not contemplate that the passing of the Disestablisbinent of the Irish Church Bill would create any difficu:ty with respect to the appointment of chaplains of the Established Church. The subject would, of courts . . receive considera tion, and in the event of any difficulty arising a bill, of course, would be introduced to meet the case. THE IRISH CHURCH BILL. On themoTionEr the third reading of this bill, Mr. HOLT said the alterations that had taken place in the bill had not improved the measure iu the slightest, and the more the gentlemen on his side of the house saw of the bill the more they disliked it. (Hear, hear.) In order, therefore, t hat:they might again re d their dislike to the measure, he bad felt it his duty to move the negative of the bill, and those who agreed with him would then have done all that it %yea possible to do, and they would also have the satisfaction of knowing that they had discharged their duty with a clear con science and clean bands. The hon. gentleman then pro ceeded to say that the Voluntary system of Scotland that had been so f re penny referred to during the discussion of the bill was not the success that it had been said to have been, and read certain extracts to show the smallness of the sums received for the support of the clergymen from some of the Wallhurst and largest places in that country. lie next referred to the legal r.rgument put forward by the tight ton. member for Richmond (Sir R. Palmer), and said it was tvident that the First Lord of the Trea sury and the Solicitor-General felt the force of the points raised. The statements that had been put forward with respect to the position of the Church in New York were equally transparent, and in support of his argument ho read an extract from a decision of Judge Story with respect to a church in Virginia when he said they might disestablish it, but they had no right to confiscate its property. (Hear, hear.) He could only say that the Lill was promoted by a majority in that house, but not of the .country—that majority said, "We can and NVO will," and thus the bill had passed through neatly all its stages, and to-night they w ere asked to give it e finishing touch, in order that it might be removed for con ; sideration iu another place, but he did hope iibe was no successful with his motion a resu lt different to that expected ear by her Majesty's Government would be arrived at. ' hear) lie ridiculed the idea that the bill w as based on religious equality. Jt was equality such as never would be tolerated by tl . l be o r n al omueemsbaidres, had most odious the hens?. (Hear, Erich a measure proceede)d f r omrj,be trheLOltpopfo_ sittbioenmseiadseuroof iral form of religious rancour i ' i discord tgm i he believed would end b in n th d e i r b e te ‘ - onlv exercised their liberality by giviug awa that which and, with respect to .liberality,the Liberal Ministers bad belonged to others. lie, therefore, moved that y the bill be d nde the motion. read a third time tha t da y six mont h s. L or d ELCHO se co [LIFT SPEAKING. Governor Curtin, Minister to Russia, has taken places for himself and family in the North German Llo‘ d steamer of June I.7th. He will remain a few weeks 'its Germany before taking charge of the Legation. Mr. Coffey, his Secretary, will accompany Governor Curtin and family. _ _ _ _ - - The losses by fire in the United States daring April, 1869, where the property destroyed was 7alued at $20,000 and upwards, are reported to amount to $3,880,000, against $2,890,000 in April, 1868. The losses during the first three months of 1869 respectively, are estimated as follows : January, $3,294,000 ; February, $2,037,000 ; March, $2,892,000. The total for the first four mouths is $12,703,000, or $158,553 a day.