The Sun. — London, England, 1869-02-06 00:00:00

DI 0 E MAR K E T AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. , Two o'CLOCK. The transactions t o -d a y on CITY the Stock Exchange have been very limited, but Consols have recovered the slight fall experienced yesterday . Foreign Se curities are dull, but Railway shares are improving. The rate of discount is 2,-+ per cent. Consols are 93 for money ; ditto, for Ac count, 93 4 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 931 1 ; New Three per Cents, 93a 111 ; Exchequer Bills £ l ,OOO, 2/ per Cent., 10. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 213 ; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 1121 ; ditto 4 per per Cent., Oct., 1883, 1021 ; ditto Debentures, 5 per Cent., Aug., 1873 , 1041 ; ditto Bonds £ l,OOO, 2 1 26 prem. b In the Foreign Stock Market Italians and Turk ish have receded k, while Brazilians have improved i• Prices are :—Chilian of 1867, 94 95 ; Egyptian of 1 864, 87 to 88 ; ditto of 1868, 73 to 1 ; Italian of 1 861, 55/ to 1 ; ditto Tobacco Losn, 41 to 5 P r em. ; Mexican, 151 to if; Peruvian of 1865, 76 to 761 ; R uss i an o f 1866, 92 to ; di tto Nicolai, 67 to 1 ; ditto Orel, 811 to / ; ditto MOSCOW, 791 to 801 ; ditto Charkof-Azof, 801 to ; Charcow-Krementschug, 80 to •2. In the railway share market there has been a rise of 1 per cent, in Great Northern A, viz., to 11 4 to 112. London and North Western are 119 ; - , to 120 ; Great Western, 531 to ; Midland 119 to 4 ; London and South Western, 90 92 ; Great Eastern, 42/ to 11 ; Brighton, 52 t4 ll ; South Eastern, 82} to ; Metropolitan, 1101 to ; Great Northern, 1111 to 112 ; Caledonian, B°l to ; and London, Chatham, and Dover, 171 American 5-20 Bonds are 764 to f, but Erie Railway shares have improved lf per cent., the present price being 25i to Illinois Central, 93 1 to 94 ; Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures, 37 to 38 ; and the Consolidated Mort gage Bonds, 39i to 40. Bankingand miscellaneous shares are without 'ariation, in the absance of dealings of importance. There was no bullion operations at the Bank yes terday, but £41,000 received from Australia by the 441ghtning was purchased for the Continent. The steamer Massilia took out yesterday £126,717 in Specie for the East. The particulars are as fol lows For Ceylon, gold £2,934 ; Bombay, gold, £13 ,900 ; and silver, £Bl,OOO ; Madras, silver, 42,000 ; and gold, £1,195; Hongkong, silver, £25,68 8. T he Netherl an d s T ra di ng C ompany ' s fi rst co ff ee sale of the year is not yet announced. • The holders of the bonds of the Italian Tobacco Loan are to exercise the option between Monday next and the 20th i ns t. o f t a ki ng one s h are o f 500 lire with every 5,000 lire obligation. , At the meet i ng of the Credit Foncier of Eng land (Limited) the report of the directors was unanimously adopted, and they were authorised to effect a settlement with the former directors of the comp any. s At the m ee ti ng of Canal Cavour Septenn i al bond holders to-day the report of the retiring committee Was adopted, and a permanent committee was ap pointed to watch over the interests of the bond- Lelders. The report of the Australiau Agricultural Corn 14°Y, to be presented on the 9th inst., recommends an increase of 2s. 6d. per share in the interim divi dend. The following dividends have been declared : 'he General Credit and Discount Company (Limited), a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per ann um ; the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile A gency Company (Limited), a dividend of 10 per coat. for the past year ; the Telegraph to India Company, a dividend at the rate of 2k per cent. per annum ; the Electric and International Telegraph Company, a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared. The following are the dividends on the North astern lines :—Berwick, 6 per cent. per annum ; York, 51 per cent. ; Leeds, 31 per cent. ; Carlisle, 8 per cent. ; Darlington, 81 per cent. Au extraordinary meeting of the Metropolitan District Railway Company will be held on the 18th i nstant. The half-yearly meeting of the Great Eastern Railway Company will be held on the 26th inst. The half-yearly meeting of the Midland Railway e erepany is called for the 22d inst. A. bill for the appointment of a financial agent ' 1 foreign countries, who will have the function of ( 1 ; Uni ted all expenditures on account of the States on the continent of Europe, and for . he support of the American navy in the adjacent S f a B , upon con di t i on that he shall d i s b urse the funds t such expe n dit ure w i t h out expense to t h e U n i te d tates, is under consideration at Washington. With regard to the Nictheroy (Brazil) Gas Corn -I),an3r, it is st a t e d t h at the concession for lighting ;he city of Nictheroy with gas, though only granted or 2 0 year s , h as at the expiration of that period to be r j ne wed, or the works must be purchased by the 4, "eminent at a valuation t o b e fi xe d by arbitra tion.ln this, as i n a ll it s con diti ons, the conces -11 is nearly identical with that of the Rio Gas (Limited). „ T he Lan cas hi re papers express dissatisfaction at h 'uo fact n that the recent frauds at th e Ri o C us t om - L ou se, i which some English firms are believed t o ave b een implicated, appear to have bee n compro ba' ised without the names of the parties being made t l , b , li e, and suggest that the matter might b e use "Y take n up b y the Manchester Chamber of Corn- M ere e. e. B RITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES. ......._,........ ____ ______. a (40171tNAIEXT FUND&. Cons o l s Per Cent Ditto for Account, 14:61' Cent. Red uce d 93i 1- N e w 3 per Cent : 2 i 0 Per Cent. J an. 1894 ...., 4 4 ',. per Cen J an. 1873 Doo. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — t (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — 110,IchcqUar Bills, £l,OOO, 211 per Ct. .1) c 50 ta.„, • ,-;•'' of England Stock, 4per Cent - - pm vrt,lo. account — 1 4 aila per Cent. Bonds — hter-Colonial (Minium. .. - ii o a tOck, 10} par Cent., April 11874 213 ü • Account o ° • Opening 5 per Cent. July, 1880 Ll °. 4 pee Cent., Oct. 1888 D 0 0• C ertificates , — Do. Enfaoed Pape. 4 per Cent — D°.°. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 , — D 0 5 f per Oczat. May 1879 — Duet Cent Ru Deb. 1872 Cent., P• do, 1877. — 121, Do • do. 1882 — be• u ,nder£l nob., 5 per C ent., Aug. 1873 80. U onds, 4 per Cent., £I,OJO rOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. •kr,„,, '6O-‘1,116 Republic, 6 per 0 int ... .. 76 i I ~._ Au trlan__Biol)nti4ss opaid S per cent _ ar t • • lio. 1859 63 8 0 4111 alt 5 Cent 3. , , per , _ D o It Per Coat., 1852 • • b o • do D 01858.— . do., 1860 _ Do . A do., 1863 72 k .) Aper Cent., 1865 11 ;5 ° cenun t '' no s A 00 ..yres 6 per Cent. eeb, 4 2 o Per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) o,,ii i - ', E Z ~Por Cent. 1 - 1 0 Per Cent Do, 4 1 Per Cent —o. 8 - 1, 0. o Per Cent. Do, Per oe 't. 1867 9ll 4 D l o' ,, 7 per Cent., 1866 Dzo a l ari, 6 per Cent. Daoolti.: 3 per Cent. 1825 4.1) 0 Po Principalities, 7 ler Cent 77 , a" Per Cent., 1867 /14"*.d. ...-' 4 ,4'„°l' I\reNv Consolidated, 1 pa' Cent 83i 11,, 1) ",,"ti, 7 pt-r Cent — 80, oeyoud Issue Do. . 45 01, B onds ... Do 4loo Bonds, B5 • • ••• 1864 Ll °. 0. ~ , Account 0 -,,.),i0 Bonds . Eo c , i . ionds 9O e !eh Senn 1868 73 1 b o Senn ,l GrolEleci,v?.roluenl 'tail way Debeu p tureS . ••• 96 dis _". Ac 0 per ccunt Coat., 1824 5, ox Coups — DO' 4 ,. e. u ou , 0 11 T . c, I. • -- q., • 4tccount . 40ilmeniala 5 p er Cent .. •• Ittiii4cilaur' ''s a ov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., a ll pd 861 Per Cent., 1865 — - - _ ..Iceouut . -- Do Iffirerumana Ruiiway — loxicaK 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Do rl per Cont. Anglo-French — - 4ontevideau 6 per Cent. .• do )rich Imperial 5 per Cent gess- Granida Do 3 per Oen Do. Deferred Pert:den 5 per Ceut. 1865 Do Account Do 4} per Cent. (Uribarren) Do 4} per Cent.. 1862 Do Account P..irtsguesa 3 per Ct., 1853, '(i, 7, Do. do.. 1867 Do. do. Scrip, £2O pail — Russian 5 per Cant., 1822, £ St Do 4} per Cent 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 ..• 861-a Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO 92i Do. do. £B4 15s. do. Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds Do. do £B4 15e. do Do Nicolas Railway Sar linian 5 per Cent...., Spanish 3 per Cen .'...... Do. Acc'.unt Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferree Do. Account Do. Passive Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. nut funded Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Do do, Scrip Turkish 6 per Cent. DJ Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do £loe Bonds Do 5 per Cent. 1865 DJ Account Do 6 per Cont., 186 0 62 Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) Venezuela 3 per Cent.: Do. Acca ant Do 6 per Cent. 1864 Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Dividends on the above payable iu London. Austrian o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 21 per Cent. .Ex. 12 Guil• Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates Do. Account French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex 251. 5 per Cent. 1831, Ea. 25f. Do Account ssk CLOSING PRICES Consols,llMoney 93 Do. Account, March 4 931 673 73 301 3O TOTAL DESTRUCTION OP 2HE HULL THEATRE ROYAL. Scarcely had the excitement, consequent upon the great conflagration at Messrs. Hodges oil mill a few nights ago subsided, than the town was startled by a report, at first received with incredulity, but which was unfortunately confirmed by the fact that the Theatre Royal, Humber street, was on fire. The rumour rapidly spread through the town, and though just upon the stroke of twelve thousands uFon thousands were seen hurrying to the spot, all or more less exhibiting that peculiar state of ex citement which is eaused by a fire. The -cane which was presentea to the view of the epeetators at half-past twelve admits of no description. It is impossible to give even an approximate estimate of the damage. Very little pro perty was saved from the flames. The old Theatre Royal was destroyed by fire in October, 1859. It is strange, but true that it was a common saying in Hull, that the Theatre Royal was doomed, that it would never pay as a dramatic establishment, or that it would be burnt down. The latter prognostication has been unfor tunate verified. Various rumours are, of course, prevalent, as to the ex tent of insurance on the building ; but we are in a position to state the North British and Mercantile Insurance Com pany (represented by Mr. F. B. Grotrion) is liable to the extent of £2,000. MARKE7 8-2 WS DAY. LIVERPOOL COTTON. February 6.—Sales probably 15,000 bales. firm and advancing. Marko SMITtiFIELD lIAY MARKET. Prime clover, from 115 s to 126 s ; inferior do, 90s to 100 s prim 3 bay, 107 s 6d to 115 s; inferior do, 90s to 100 s ; straw 30s to 365. TALLOW. The market is firm. Town tsllow, 44s Od ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 46s 3d ; March, 46s 3d to 46s 9d ; April to June, 45s 9d 46s ; October to December, 46s 6d. COVENT GARDEN. The supplies generally have been more equal to the de mand, being influenced a groat deal by the late boisterous weather. Strawberries have been selling at 3s per oz Very fine onions front Bordeaux, at 12s to 14s per cwt. Potato trade is dull, except for boat samples, of which there is a scanty supply. THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL DIEMS. At Mr. E. T. Smith's benefit, at tho Lyceum, on the 11th and 12th inst., Mr. and Mrs. H. Vezin will ro-appear. "Marie Antoinette" is to be produced at the i 3 rincess's next Thursday. "Not Guilty" is to be produced at the Queen's on the 11th inst. Mr D. Coyne has finished his late father's drama, the "Home Wreck," and it will shortly be produced at the Surrey. Mr. Sims Reeves is about to commence a dramatic tour. Mrs. Howard Paul appears on the 22d at Drury Lane, on which occasion she will double the parts of Hecate and Lady Macbeth. Mrs. Stirling has been playing with great success at Liverpool. She is to real Shakespere's "Midsummer Night's Dream" at Brighton on the 24th. (From the Musical Standard.) Wagner's "Master Singers of Nuremburg" has been produced at Dresden. Madame Lucca is now said to be recovering from her late serious illness. Miss Agatha States, a New York lady, made recently a first (and successf u l) a pp ea rance on the lyric stage in Boston in the opera of " Trovatore." . For singing 2150 times at the Paris Varieties, during last year, Mdlle. Schneider received (according to the Continental Gazette), 90,000 fr. To this amount may be added 40,000 fr. received in the provinces during her vaca tion, making a total annual income of 130,000 fr. A short time ago the congregation of Christ Church, New York, gave a series of tableaux vivants at the Lyric hall. The elite of New York Society attended, and the attempt was considered highly successful. The pecuniary benefit of the church was the object of this very curious soiree. Mdlle. Schneider has been suco3edad at the Varietes by Mdlle. Silly, in" La Roulette." She appears in the character of Chinchilla, and wears a costume in the third act, of which it may be said that it was invented for the display of plastic beauty. The Price of Gold. The quotatiln of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 2M. 15e. per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that At this rate there is no profit on the importation of gold from the Uni:cd btates. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at sO days' sk'ht was on the last date about 1091 percent. gold at the above price is about 140th per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via B oatlaamptol.....Feb. 27. Ditto, via 3." Arsenics ..... ....Feb. 22 Ditto, via PaLama ........ ........ ......... ...Feb —. Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Mar. 7. Ditto, by French packet Cape Vads, by Brazil packet ...... Cape of Good Elope. Ascension, and St. Helena Feb. 12. China, Penang, and Singapore. via Sou thampton Feb. 13. Gibraltar, via Southampton Feb 6 India, via Southampton Feb. 6. vitto, via Marseilles Malta, Egypt, do. Feb. 8. Ditto, Marseilles Feb. 16 Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Scuthams ton Ditto, Marseilles . _ Feb. 1,1. Newfoundland . ...... 10 Portugal .... • . .. . Mar. 7. United States, anada, Cilitornia, Sze., by British packet Feb 6 Ditto, by Canadian packet ..... . ..... Ditto, by L Lited States packet Feb 3 Ditto dittc (Baltimore) West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ~ Feb. 16. West Indies and (except Mexico and Baba- . - mas) - Feb 13 Fatkland Islands •..... O Mar. 7. Cub t and Mexico .... .... liar. 1. Bermuda, via Halifax. .... Bahamas, via New York GREENWICH HosmAL.—The Greenwich Hospi tal pension of £BO a-year, vacant by the death of Colonel T. I). Posbroke, of the Royal Marines, has been awarded to retired Major-General James Clarke. The lablet states that Mrs. De Burgh, the wife of the vicar of West Drayton, has joined the Church of Rome. LONGEVITY.—In four adjoining tenements at St. Buryan, iu the Laud's-end district, there are living nine persons, whose average ages somewhat exceed seventy four years. THE SitTN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 0, 1869. ;HARE LIST. MISCELLANEOUS. ' 10 Anglo-American Tel., Bin all 221 221 22:1 1 10 Anglo-Mediter. Tel., 1im.... 10 13 131 131 10 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint.......,, all 161 171 at Atlantic Telegraph lO 34 36 324 3 at Do. 8 per cent. ........• 100 80 81 824 25 Australian Agricultural 25 Australian Mort. Land and Finance, lim. 10 Baugarah Tea Estates, lien 9 7 5d 10 Berlin Water Works, line, all 134 144 144 10 Do. New 6 3 31 100 Bolckow Vaughan, lien. 5 Bombay Gas, lim 5 Do. New 4 11 Id • 5 ) British American Laud 44 IGI ISS st B. and I. Magnetic Tel., Bin lOO 166 171 20 British Indian Tea, an— all 2 3 20 British Ship Owners ... 29 Canada Company all 64 6i 10 Canadian Loan and Invest ment, lim 2l 21 115 20 Ceylon Company, lien lu $ 3 d 20 Do. A shares 10 City Discount, lim 5 41 34 25 City of London Beal Pro perty, lim 8 41 315 30 City of Milan Improv. lim all 510 5 2 0 5 Cit y Cityoof ffies, Moscow lim 23 Gas, Ilan— a l l , 231 24 23 I 10 Colonial, Urn. Do. 30 Commercia; Union (Assar) 1 4 ' - i p 20 Continen 10 Company of African Mer- chants,tal U lim nion Gas lim. 3 15. p , 25 Copper Miners of England, all is i v pref. 71 per cent. 100 Corporation of London Bonds, 1877, 41 per cent. all 101 1 05 100 Do.. 1879, 4 1 per cent, all 1041 1051 100 • Do. 1882, 41 per cent. all 1031 1041 10 Credit F p o . n e . o p f e E i el p g e l t a u n a d i , D li e m b 11000a911 1,04 2 4 1 14 2 , 1 2 10 5 9 -16 1 50 Credit Fon.of Mauritius lim lO 3j 215 at Crystal Palace lOO 1.• 21 at Do. Preference ..• ••• 50 1E2 East aaaa D inttj o dee . re 61.1 Indian Finance, ndgia, Jim. Assam,lim Jim. all 1 1 4 17 .1..8d C Credit anal 8 6 4d Coal, lim 3220 EbbwEast lndiava V ale Steel, Iron, 271 111 1115 100 Egyptian 9 per cent. V'roy. u l d rOn, and Gua. by Egypt. Gov all 921 931 pa i 20 Egyptian Conf.& Trad. lim 6 41 45 at Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 255 2C5 10 Do. New 8 10 121) 3 Eng. & Austral. Copper, line 2 i i 15 English and Foreign Credit 7 4 5 4d 100 Eng. and Scot. Marine, lim. 8 „ ... d 10 Fairbairn Engineering 5 11 115 20 Fore-street Warehousedim l2 pr 1p 13 100 For. & Col. Gov. Trust and Loan Scrip, issued at .CB5 all 86 88 SS f 50 Gellivara, lien . 1 1 3 0 G G e e n n e e r r a a l l C s r te e au dit i & N D av is ig ., a l t i i m w . , 1 7 4 1 2 11 2 1 0 4 51 50 Horns &Col Marine In. line 5 41 315 10 Hong Kong and China Gas all ... ... 20 Hudson's gay all 131 134 131 20 Imperial Land Co. of Mar seilles, lien. ... .... . . ..... 121 ... .. 25 Indo-European Tel. , 1im.. ,, 10 20 Interna. Financi a l Soc. lim 5 20 Internet. Land Credit, lien 6 50 Italian Land. 20 Italian Irri. (Canal davour) all 100 Do. 6p. c. Bds,, redeem IS7O, issued 90•,,,,,,••,•, all 5 2 5 150 5: 1 , OL L a i, c,soo. n n npdd .d d d . . o oeFE. n n. Secur ities, irbnocaonAfricani:cnic India. aital Provi ncial Trading,,, l r aos a eno d vj I d, i n l ig a: l, d , 10 5 25 Loßnu.il&dit'ugal,eldim. M .g. a .E rii g e :.in. lini ee r 64 3 a o ll 1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent, all 4 Lond.Gen.Ominibus.C;).llm. all 50 Lond, and Glas and Iron Saip, min . 25 20 Loud. & Provincial . Marine 2 at' Madras Irriga. & Caul, (ha 10 Mediterra. Exten. ier,l6 all 50 Merchant Shipping, lin). ~, all s C e o b . s , r i wa in cai i ,a . m, ......... 1. all 9 2 211 5 50: National NNA i Mauritius aaititaiiAgency,owln zi a ri aLa ue l ee ulal Zealand r n Al I L ll ; o l4Bdn v an a . ' e n L d in Di sc ount . Mari ne , y .Wd' Trusto .Credit, aoTi. uraC olonisa tionrCekaa.. . . s.,. W or ks, . la. ll. lien. i i and i rte n r .. . 72 6462 1 1: 12 1 055 0 National NNNoee rtww hQze 20 Nerbudda Coal & Iron lien. im. 6 10 New Consolidated Dis ' . lint. 3 4 4 0 25 Ne e r t Loan, lim ... • . 5 10 l im, Do. B . . ..... at North Brit. Aus tr a l; , ........ ... all . 100 50 North Brit. & Merca. h„. 61 25 Ocean Mariners (Insurance) 5 50 Oriental Financial ...... 11 5 Oriental Gas, lir% . all 5 Do. New ... ..... • .... ...., .. 1 10 Otago and Southlan d' la , vestment, lien •, 2 5 Ottoman Gas, lina.7-. ...... all 10 Panama, New Zeal a n d' and Australian R. Mail line all 11 1 5 Do. do. 11 at Peel R. Land & Mine1 : 1,111• . 100 34 3 1 50 Peninsu. & Oriental Steam all 47 49 50 Do. New 1867 ... 10 24 .115 74 25 Reuter's Telegram, ......... all 61 66 50 Rhymney Iron .... .... 15 all 19 21 .......... Do. New ..... . al 6 25 Rio de Janeiro City . all ........ .... all 17 18 .... 20 Do. Gas, lim all 231 241 100 Royal Mail Stesan 6O 40 41 401 at Scottish Aust. Invent. li m. -: 100 83 88 gypte, lb, 20 at Societ Doe Fin. . 6 p• c•'E Gear. Prof. 100 ..• d . 20 Societe Gen.de 1 50 S. African Most & Inv, Um. 6 .. 'Empire Ot lO ; ` 6lc P t 25 South Australi an Land ~, all 34 36 1 at Submarine Telegraph llOO 100 110 110 1 Do. Scrip all f 1 20 Telegraph Con. &Main ,lim all I'4 l 18 4 20 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lim 2 20 Trinidad Petroleum, Um_ 84 ... 10 Trust & Agency of A.us.,lim• 1 .. 4 1p 10 D all o do. do. .., 20 Trust & Loan Co., U. Canada 5 1d .., p 50 Union Marine L'pool, lim. 5 4 41p 20 Union Steam Ship, lim all 22 24 15 United Diacount Corp., lien 6 Id p /U. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim. all 54 64 5 Do. 10 per cent. Prof. all 3. 1 34a 20 Universal Marine(lu.), Hill. 6 1 lip 10 Upper Assam Tea, line. all 21 34 30 Van Dieman's Land 2Bl 7 8 00 Viceroy of Egypt, 7 per cent. (Mortgage) Lnan all ;74 78 5 774 i 50 Warrant Finance, lien l2 12 104 ' 50 West India and Pacific Steam, lim. 2O 24 11 20 West London Wharves and Warehouses lO 11 11 4tl 11 Itl 31 4 63 f 5 3} 2f d 7 5d ip 22 20. lj 2 2 5-13 22 17d ld pr 104 105 1031 id 4 44 32 37 3 111 12; 4 3,1 81 91 4 3(1 11 11 41 31 I il) 11 11 7 5 1 2 47 52 19 20 14k 15 7f 71 I iP Id ip If 21 21 2f COLONIAL OOVERNMENT SECURITIES - British Columbia, 6 per --"-------------- 0cnt.,1872.....••••••••• 100 .... -- Do. 1895 . lOO Can.Uov.6p.oJeu,&JulY 1877-8 i - Do. 6p. 0. Feb, Aug luo 114 106 104 I - Do. sp. 0. Mar. it Sept lOO 11:4 l(g - Do. sp. o. Jan. de July lOO 95 96 95i - Do. p. C. Inscribed sk lOO 90 92 - Cape G. 6 p.c. 1873.• toe 102 104 ••• Do.Apl.&Oot 1690-1900 lOO 111 113 - Do. do 1880.90 lOO 107 109 - Do. Jan..4eJuly, 1891 Do. 5 per ocut. 13 April and 16 Got., 1900 lOO 100 102 - Co, lon, Nov 1878.6 P.c.- 100 108 110 Do. 1872, do lOO 105 107 - 1 Mauritius, 6 p. 0, 1873, - Jan. and July Do. 1878 .. -- Do. 1882, M ay and Nov 1)0 106 108 - Do. 1895, Fa , . .1; Aug lO 106 193 - Melbourn , Corporate., 1 867•75, 6 per ctm..•-• 1(0 100 100 - N.8.G0v.6 p.o.Jadauly lOO 104 Iks 1014 5 - Natal 6 p et, Apl /a Oct... 10) -_ - Do 6p c. M . y s e N0v..... 1 0 1(6 108 - N. S. W. 5 p•c., '7l to '76.. 190 99 1, - Do. 5 p.o. 1888 to 1896.. 133 99 1, 5 09 1 - Do. 5 p.0.rd.'67 to '75.. - N.Zealand, 6p. ot. 1891.. 100 -_ - Do. 5 percent.... ..... 1(0 DoJati, Air), Jtey, 0 t.• • 100 935 1 -4 1 93; Do 6p c. Mar & Sept '91.. ;CO 108 110 - Do June .1L Deo, 1 - 91 •••• I CO 109 .11 Do rrov. f At.oild. 1 0 • t ► t rie Idc2, 1.7:96 .. - Nova Scotia 6p. c.Jan... and Jniy, 1875 100 0 - Queensind. 6p. ' B2 11 103 100 106 107; ItCl - Do 189 ........100 1054 loo t - Do. 6 p 0.1869.. - to. A 2 . 100 108 110 - Do rd. 1093... , lO3 107 108 - Victoria 6 p.O. 100 111 1a Closing Busin ess Share NAttE, Paid. Price. done 10 Agra Limited, A -, a 1 a 10 1), B loll 1 4 11 50 A1bi0n....... if 15 6 4 100 Alliance, Limited 20 Anglo-Austrian 20 Anglo - Egyptian, lint all 1 10 20 Angle-Hungarian 8 2 3 20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 6 5 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columsi.a all 1) 1: 20 Po issued at 2pm ~.• 5 '• 25 Bank of E g y pt 20 Bank of Otago, lint. 50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 3J 10 Bank of New Zealand all 17 13 50 British North American 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, nd China all 201 21$ 25 Chartered Mere, of India, London, and China all 29 301 20 City ............... 100 Colonial ...... . 10 Consolidated, lint. 4 1 I 50 Delhi and London 1 lim 50 East Lond on, lint ' 20 English and American, lint 10 ... 20 English Bank of ltio de Ja neiro. Ihn lO Id pr 20 English, z-cottish and Aug tralian Chartered 281 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation all .. 281 Do new 5,1 . 4 ... 100 Imperial, lint... 20 Imperial Otto 5 lonian ......... . 25 Do n ew 5 pr 1p 20 Lnd Mort g a ge of India, Urn 4 3 : 3t 1 100 Do sp. c. Debs.lB6 I 30 all 76 75 71 30 London B an k of Mexico and South America, lint. 20 6 4 100 London and Brazilian, lint. 45 32 28 20 Do new 71 61 5 1 100 London &River Plate, lint 4O 6 8 25 Do new 10 11 11 20 London Chart, of Australia all 221 231 50 London and County 2O 491 501 20 Do new. iss at 20 pin, 18 pd ll 50 London Joint Stock 1 32 33 321 2 20 London and South African al 11 12 100 London & S. - Western, lint, 20 ... ... 50 London & Venezuela lint l2l ... 100 London and Westminster 2O 61 63 61 1 100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O 59 61 100 Merchant, lint 10 Metropolitan, lint all 6/ 71 100 Midland, lint.... 5 National of A ustralia 25 National of Liverpool, lint l5 3 1 d 100 National .Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ••• 10 Do . 42 ... ... 401 50 National, 3O 46 48 _ 20 New South Wales all 42 43 20 North-Western 7l ... ... 25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 411 421 50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lint lO 6 51 100 Provincial of Ireland 25 88 90 10 Do new.. all ... ... 100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lint 25 15 11 100 Do issued at 6 pm. 10 ... ... 25 Union of Australia all 45 47 451 100 Union of Ireland, Bin I 50 Union of Lyndon OROINAILY SaAis - E8 AND STOCKS. Share :Lail ofa,ye. s t Bristol and Excter ...... 10) ;7 ;9 at Caledonian lOO 79.; act B,i 1 at CaftlOrLid. 2) Corn vv.ill. et Dub:iu & I.lclLast j enc lOO i 9 81 Et Dun., l'ertli, & Ab.d 100 70 72 2, East temdon 10 do 15 - 2 I Do 10 - Glasgow &S. Western We 100 1.C2 at Great Eastern .. at Do. E. Angl. No. 2 lO3 7 9 81 airs:at North of Scotland l9O 15 ;0 et Great Northern. l9O 112 313 at Du. N. stock...-. lOO 1111 312 1111 at Do, 11 atoct et GtS, and W. of Ireland IOU Hei 103 4.61 st (i t. Western -Original l6O 531 51 53f 1 at Do. South Wales lOO 57 58 Do. W. Mid.-Oxford lOO k 8 29 29 at Do. Newport lOO 28 31 at LanOashire St Yorkshire lOO 133 1301 at Lon., lirigh.,& S.Coast lOO •52j 54 52 0) Do Scrip ..... all - - et Lon., Chat., and Dover lOO 17; 181 171 at . Do. hletrop. Ex. A lOO - st Lon. & North Western lOO 118 118/ 1191 at Lou. South Weateru lOO 9 92 at Man., Shel., & Lincoln lOO +7l 471 471 st Itletrovolltan at Do Eaten:din 100 L5l 101 10 uo. New rd 10 10 1 1 10 at Metropolitan District. all 53 57 10 Aletrop, St. John's % 00l 6 - - et M.alaud at Uo, liirtuin. & Derby lO3 85 t 7 at N ,rtu British . ..... 100 1,1 st Do. ILd., rth., & Dun._ 102 - - st 7 or.ll:astern-l3erwlck lOO 104 1051 151 25 Do. G. N.E purohliat 10.13.1 - - et Do Leeds. ... 100 57 19 at Do York lOO L 4 9, 91.1 I at Do Carlisle •••• at Do Stoc & 100 1 3 1:2 at North Lon ton 10 Do New 18'8 .. 2 11 2 p at North Staffordshire . . 100 57 59 571 at North and S.-W. Junction 100 103 105 10 Do Now £lO shares 7 at Ithymney . too 51 63 at Shropshire Union i‘ 0 5.) ou st South Devon • at South Eastern lO3 831 81 821 at Staines, Wok'ham, & Wok, all 12 13 at 'eau Vale tuo 115 150 -- Do. - Waterford & Kiikenny lOO - - 10 Waterloo & Whitelia,l 6 - - RAILWAYS-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. at Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 88 88 st Caledonian Qrs., No. 2 lOO at Do. Scot. N.E., 41 per cent lOO ..• st Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c lOO at Do. do. 7 per cent lOO st Do. do. Ordinary lOO 80 82 at Do. Midland st Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent gua all ... ok Dundee, Perth, and Aber deen Junction lOO 105 107 at Do. Ist Class preference lOO at Glas. & S.W. gua. 5 per et lOO .. st (It. Eastern, E.C. Ex. No.l 100 99 102 1011 st Do do N 0.2 100 99 lu2 st Do do 6 per cent 100 10d 108 et Do East Anglian Asp. C. 100 100 103 at Do do 13 6 do. 100 at Do do 0 7 do. 100 st Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 100 103 02 Do E. Union 4p. c. gua. 100 69 71 at Do Not folk 5 p.c. Ex. 1846 100 st Do do 5 p.c.Way.Val.lB47 100 ••• at Great Not thern, 5 per cent 10 st Do 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. c. pm. 100 at Do 4 1 do do do 100 at Do 5 do at sp.c. pm lOO et Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent lOO at Gt. Nrth of Scotland, Ist pf 100 et: Great South. and Western (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 96 97 at G t•West.— Orig.& Jnt.-ltent chg., per gua. 5 p.c lOO 102 104 1:4 at Do. Orig. (B.& H. Ex). 5 p.c 100 95 100 st Do do 4 1 per cent. 185 J 100 87 89 at Do do 4 do do lOO 78 8J st Lo do 5 per cent. redom. 100 9.i 97 at Do do Birmingham gua.. 100 66 79 st Do do do pref... 100 st Do do Chester gua lOO 7d st Do do do 8 per cent lOO st Do do do 6 do 100 95 100 at Do South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 at Do do 43 p.c lOO •.. ••• at Do do 4 1 1350 lOO at Do [do 5 at Do West Mid. Oxford Ist g IOJ 111. 116 et Do do 2d gua lOO 110 112 et Do Newport, Ist g. 5 p.c lOO 92 9* at Do do 2d do 100 10U 103 et Do gua. 51 per cent. 1863 100 100 Lancaster & Carlisle 41 p.c. all at Laucash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1 0 136 at Do Barnsley, £5 3s 10d p.c. 100 et Du 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 130 135 st Do 41 (Blackburn purch). 100 98 102 st London & Brighton, sp. c. guaranteed, No.l lOO st Do 5 per cent. gild.. No. 2 lOO et Do 6 do do lOO et Do 5 do No. 4 lOO at Do 7 per cent IJO st Do 6 do (W.E. & C.P.) 100 at Da 4 do 1859 lOO et London, Chatham, & Dovcr 5 per cent 1100 et London and C. and Nuneaton 5 per cent lOO 10) 111 st Do Bedford & Cambridge lOO st Do Slarewsb'y & Welchp'l lOO at London and 7 p,c late 3d shares, lOO 145 15) 2s 6d. Do (Portsm. perp ans. 2564) all st Man., Shef., &Lincln. 6 p.c lOO 111 117 6 Do xU all par Ipm st Do 31 per cent lOO 60 65 10 Do redeem. 6 per cent 5 st Mid. Consolidated., 6p. e lOO 135 140 at Do Bristol & Birm., 6p. c lOO 1 3 136 at Do 41 per cent. redeem lOO 10) 102 MI Do 41 per cent. irredeem lOO 100 102 at Do Leicester & Irchn, qp.e lOO 90 92 t North British, 5 p.c. No.l lOO eat at ) o o N E :It, cent. Union, ,cop. redeem...,, le & c , op e D . n . c. t . : 1 :1 00 0 0 00 0 0 :• 82ssI s a tstt t: DDDD N D D OOOO : E a wy ß i ° 3(43.se:N s r r rap t wk d . e zE :r iro n r . k — C 4 op. t a s o el n 4 t p . c 110000 95 97 56 84 st Do Stektn r il & t ; e D & po r S i o in t p g:..A . e n h s d a p s ii 8 1 10 0 1 0 0 o". 8 0 i.6 1 1 .•• ••. 0 1 2 0 0 s sNorth Devon Annuities, 1 s. . . l a aa Il l! 2 2 9 0 28 u. 1 2 21 10 309 1 1 I. :06.s S. o t. T a a s N t r . s( (Read. o e c a k d . A A ri nu Anna., , 1 1 0 .0 s 6 . .) sa l tt O s DD D 00 0 Fixed Fixed percente d 44 4} per o p e r ; . cent 00 a 0 1 1 1 1 at Taff Vale No.l . ..•••••••••••••• 100 145 155 st Waterford & Kilkenny, 6pc 100 41 43 ... ... 103 ••• ••• 1::11 RAILWAYS.—PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate year. - . _ at Caledonian 41 p e go,--.—-- at Do Scot. Cen. min. 7p e. 100 at Do 41 p irredeem..- all *** -* at Do 4p c con. issu e d at 80 65 -. — at Great Eastern 41 per cent. 100 77 it . l at Do 5 do, 1862.- 100 87 60 at Do New 5 do, 1863 100 84 60 st Do do 5 do, 1864 100 84 83 st Great Northern, 5p c irre. 100 at Do Permanent 5 per ce n t 100 ... ...... ... at Do _Boston /4 Sleafd, 41 pc 100 ... ... st Great West., W. 31id1., 5p c 100 86 90 at Do Joint perpe. 5 p c,1865 100 88 92 at Do do 6p c irred., 1866 100 104 105 1051 20 Do Vale Neath peril. 5p c all 101 201 at Sent Coast, 6 per cent, B 100 ... 6 Lane. and York. N ew 41 per ..• cent till July, 1871 2 2 1 at Lond., Brig., &e., 41 pc, 1858 100 ... ... 891 at Do do 4 do, 1860 100 •••... at Do do 41 do, 1861 100 at Do .do 41 do, 1863 100 ... at Do do b do, 1865 100 •••• st Do No. 6 5 d o , 18 66 100 •• ••• st Do No. 7 sd o at Lond , Chat., &C., 2d, 6 p.c -* at Do Metrop. Ex., 136 p.c Do do 0 6 p.c at London& N. Western, 5p c 100 10 . 3 . 116 at London &S. Western, 4/ P c 100 94 96 10 Man. chef. & Lin., 5 pc,1865 all 881 at Metropolitan 5 per cent. ... . . 100 at Midland, A 5 per cent pref. 100 10; 1.1. i; at Do B 5 do 100 1 08 110 13 D o 5p c opt. to cony. to Ord. 18 Do Incony. Stk., Ne pt w Shares Se. 1 16l 1 1 lfp 201 1 al6 22 Do 5p c con. into Old i fp Stk., Aug. 31, 1872,,,, . 81 1 11p 101 at North British, E. and (..4 cent, 1862 . 1 c 8 . 6 . 2 . 100100 ... ... No. 1, 5 per cent ... .. 100 a t Do £lO guaranteed, 18 . 61 100 "• at Do B. P. &Dun, 2d, 4pc 100 ••• *** Do E A ; G , No. 2, 5 p.e ... 100 *** *** st ••• ••• at D o B. & G., (Ordiry) 41 p c 100 a ii at North Eastern, 41 per cent 100 V 7 99 Do Stock. & Dart., D •••• 100 in lis & B. G . s ., Pe No r . e 3 e , at bt North London, 41, per cent at Do E. E N : (Max. 5 per cent) ••• ••• South Eastern, 41 pc, 1859 100 • ... ... at 5 do 1861 100 Do 4." ... St Oh Cross) 1863 100 ... .. st Do sdo ( . • 100 at North Staffordshire 5p c lOO at Do 5 do, 1864 . 100 ... ... at Victoria St. & Pimlico, 41 pc ... ... RAILWAYS. -LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS! st Birkenhead DU $O,; 100 Do. 41 per cent. Prefer all 101 103 st Buckinghamshire st Chester and Holyhead lOO 54 56 st Do. 51 per cent. et Do. 5 do. st Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO ... ... st Colchester Stour Valley st East Lincoln, gua. 6p. c lOO 133 1 . 5 . 5 20 Gloster and Dean Forest all ... .. a Gt. Easn., Newm., &c., 5 p.c 100 ... ... • a Do. E. U. Harwich, 4 p.c 100 6) 72 st Do. do. Woodbrg.lix., do. 100 69 72 st Gt. West, W. Mid., fferef 100 95 :17 50 Hull and Selby all 109 111 st Landaster and Carlisle lOO 215 22) st Loudon and Black wall lOO 96 93 87. st Do. 41 per cent lOO ... .., st London, Chat., &c., 41 pc. 100 .., ... st Do. Com. Fund, sdo 100 ... ... at London and Greenwich at Do. do. Preference lOO ... . . st London, Tilbury, & South 100 73 b.O st Lowestoft, gua 4 percent lOO 79 8 4 st Do. do. 6 do. lOO 51 Manch., Buxton, & Matlk all st Midland, Bradford, Pref lOO 10 Mid Rent Cray Line) 50 Northern& East., 5 percent all 53 56 50 Do. do. 6 do. all ..., .. . st N. Eastern—Hartlepool .. st N. West. A perp. prof, s p. c lOO DJ 110 st Do B minimum 11 p.c lOO ... ... at Notting. &Li ranth. R. a; C lOO 92 94 25 Preston and % yre all 44 46 ... Royston, Hitch., and Shep lOO 133 135 st Stirewsbur.) an Hereford 100 133 .135 10 Do do 5 24 2 p at S. Yorksh. and Myer Dun 100 93 lOU at Do 4 per cent gua lO 79 81 st Do 5 du st Viet. Station and Pimlico lOO 175 180 st West Cornwall 20 West Loudon, Class A all 13 14 20 Do do B all 20 Do do C all st Weymouth and Portland lOO ... ... at Wilts and Somerset ....' 10) tl 83 - el 93 95 64 74 DOCKS. st East and West India loo,a 116 120 121 st Loudon and St. Katherine lOO 43 50 100 D oDeb. stock, 4 per cent all Freehold Land st Dock lOO 32 :14 at Southampton lOO 71 70 at Surrey Coutulorcial raid. C lo9lll g Business Price. acne. THE ARCIIBISHOP OF YORK ON WORKING MEN. The Archbishop of York has just denverea an inte resting address to working men at Sheffield. Referring to the fact of the great power of Christianity, he shewed what the world was at the time of the coming of Our Lord. The whole world was in subjection to one State—Rome. Many, other States were distinguished for one thing and another, but Palestine was famous for nothing. It laboured under many disabilities, and was not renowned for lite rature; yet from a little place called Nazareth, a town scarcely more than a village, there' came forth a young man who spoke words that made the great Roman world, with all its power, shake to the founda tions ; who spoke words that before a hundred had as yea it rs we w r e e re un o d ve e i; hisfe i c ) , L t tt I tl l ie ere ve i l s . y i) Rc e m a a: e n lik E e m t p l i i r .s e, because the great victory was not gained by force of arms, but by telling all men that they were sinners. The gospel which was preached last week at Oxford is the same gospel which was preached to these people, and we must not call that small now which was so great and exercised 1 so vast an influence in the time of the Emperor Trajan. The Archbishop then went on toshew thatthe spirit of inde pendence might lead men wrong as well as right, if they were notcareful of the direction which they took. From determining not to be coerced, they sometimes came to the conclusion that they would not be taught. The two things were in reality very different, because the man who has a true religion can stand better on his feet as regards this world than the one who has not. REGISTRARS' NOTES ON HEALTH. The returns made by the local registrars of England continue to indicate the large amount of preventible disease and mortality. In the returns for the last quarter of 1868 the registrar of Cawthorne, Yorkshire; reports deaths from measles, scarlatina, andlfever, and adds : "Nearly all occurred in one part of my district where drainage and sanitary improvements are not regarded." In 1867 the continued epidemic of fever in the little town of Winterton, in Lincolnshire, caused the Privy Council to instruct Dr. Thorne to inspect the place, and he reported " the cause of all this terrible sickness and mortality was evident at . a glance—it was the merest question of filth ; " and now, at the end of 1868, the registrar has to report : "In the last two years I have had 400 cases of typhoid fever under my care alone ; I have never had less than five ; at the present time I have twenty ; the death-rate in the parish of Winterton in 1868 (population 1,780) has been twenty-six in a thousand." The death-rate in the small town and country parishes of England averaged between nineteen and twenty in a thousand in 1868 ; so Winterton added a third to its share. The registrar of Hess;e, Yorkshire, reports epidemic diseases considerably on the Increase in a portion of his district, where there is an wen sewer, full and stagnant, and he believes the bad sani tary state of the place to be the principal cause of such iisease. Deaths from scarlatina and typhus in two cottages at Moulton, Lincolnshire, are reported, with a note that there was a cesspool against the door of one and against ;he window of the other. The registrar of Gloucester, South Hamlet, mentions that there are newly-built houses there !badly supplied with water, and almost totally destitute of drains and sewers. The registrar of Bramharn, Yorkshire, notes as a pretence of improvement the substitution for old surface drains of underground drains with no means of flushing them, and in which the sewage is allowed to decompose, and the collected poisonous gases escape through open gratings before the houses and through untrapped sink pipes into the houses. On the other hand, such returns as the following are equally instructive : Howard-street Sub-district, Liverpool.—" Deaths 163, being 116 less than the average of this quarter cf the year;' the decrease is accounted for by decrease of population and by sanitary improvements, such as regulations to pre vent overcrowding and the closing of cellars." Car narvon.—" Deaths considerably below the average ; last year the authorities brought a plentiful supply of pure water to the town, and also thoroughly drained the town and removed all nuisances." Of smallpox we have such reports as these :—Eccleshall, Bierlow, Yorkshire.— "Eighteen deaths from smallpox of persons of whom fifteen are known to have been unvaccinated." West Shef field.—" Nine persons died of smallpox, seven of whom are stated to have been unvaccinated." The returns from Dudley tell of hundreds of empty houses owing to the bad state of trade and a high rate of mortality thought to be partly attributable to scarcity of work and want of sufficient food ; but from Redruth, Cornwall, we learn ;hat " there has been considerably less emigration, owin Go the improved prospects in mining and other employ. meat." The registrar of Braunton, Barnstaple, rep - arts the death of a woman at ceorgeham a hundred years old ; and the registrar at Balmer, Suffolk, a death "at the sme (as stated) of 106." ELECTION - PE'TITIOXS. IMr. Baron Martin's protest at Bradford against having to try election petitions has attracted some attention. The Times has a leaderupon it, but does not think it will do much to influence public opinion. But in one point, says our contemporary, everybody w ill sympathise with Mr. Baron Martin. He is in this painfully anomalous position, that what he does is as telling an argument as any antagonist need be at the trouble to produce against what he says. He protests against the present system as unsatisfactory, while he is himself acting upon it in such a way that everybody is satisfied. Indeed, " satisfied " is far too mild a word to use. The way in which Mr. Baron Martin and his brother judges have discharged their new duties has won for them the admiration and gratitude of the country. Mr. Baron Martin is, indeed, a touching instance of the half-cruel, half-sportive irony of fate. If it is hard to have to carry out in your own person a system you cordially dislike and disapprove, what must it be to feel that under the iron pressure of deity you are carrying it out in such a way as to make everybody else delighted with it ? Mr. Justice Willes had rather a curious point to decide at Westbury. It was admitted by the respondent that an employer of labour in the town had used his influence unduly amongst his workmen. But it was argued that such an act would not vitiate an election. As Serjeant Parry put it in his address to the judge, " The act of a single man among the people employedwithin the walls of his own factory, and without the knowledge or sanction of the sitting member, was not an act upon which his lordship was necessarily bound to void the election.' , It seems, too, that several of the cases thought by the betitioners to be cases of b r ib ery were merely matters of usiness, having nothing to do with the election. Then Mr. Justice Willes has to decide also what amount of rioting and intimidation would upset an election. One case of bribery, it has been laid down by Mr. Baron Martin, would void an election ; but Mr. Serjeant Parry contended that this would not be the case with reference to treating or undue influence. In the cases of intimidation heretofore decided by committees, the proof had usually been that there.had been riotous and disorderly proceedings, or, as in some of the Irish cases, denunciations by priests addressed to large numbers. Surely his lordship would nut say that the act of fifteen or twenty persons surrounding and intimidating a voter would be enough to void an election? In answer to this query his lordship said : "That is a question of law which would have to be decided. I may say this, that I shall struggle to maintain a well-conducted election, unless lam con vinced beyond any conceivable doubt of an act which does not of itself affect the result of the poll, but which techni cally destroys the transaction." Notwithstanding the arguments of the learned serjeant, the judge decided for the petitioner, voiding the election. He declared that the intimidation by Mr. llarrop on the employer was suffi cient to make the election of no effect. This, however, neither affected the character of the sitting member or the character generally of the town. No order was made as t costs. Some remarks of Mr. Justice Blackburn on the \Val lingford petition may be interesting. He agreed with Baron Martin and Mr. Justice 'Willes that the statute meant that treating with a corrupt intent would void the election ; and that, as one of them had said, if a single thimbleful of liquor was given with a corrupt intention, it would be enough to void the election. But if only a thimble ful had been given, no man would find it out as a fact. Therefore it was a question of amount and degree. If this case stood alone, no one would think it was done with a corrupt intention. All the things must be taken together. Again, his lordship defined corrupt treating. Drink or entertainment given in such a way as to influence the election, considerable entertainments to gain popularity or to avoid unpopularity, would come within the statute ; but it was a question of degree. His impression was that it was clearly settled by the previous decisions in election petitions that an election was void where an agent had, even contrary to the wish of his employer, been guilty of a corrupt act, provided it was done by colour of the agency. "Where money had been given to an agent with an intimation that no inquiry would be made as to its application, or where the agent was able after the election to ask to be repaid money he had expended, there would be sufficient to invalidate the election. At the Derry election, bribery having been attempted to be proved, a letter was put in from Mr. Serjeant Dowse, M.P., who won the election in which he said to his agent, " One thing we must all bear in mind, that no expenditure that is legal will be wanting. Anything beyond that I will never in any manner sanction." The Bishop of Bath and Wells has collated the Right Rev. J. Chapman, D.D., late Bishop of Colombo, to the prebendal stall of Warminster in WelLs Gotha. Iral. Lord Byron, says the London Review, accused Braham, the singer, of pronouncing the word " enthusiasm" as if it were written "entoosymoosy." The London Revieu holds that it would be a good thing if such a word were recognised by our dictionaries, as distinguishing the coun terfeit from the real article. There are plenty of people In the world the whole of whose creeds and tastes are second-hand. Their religious opinions are determined 1:) , accidents of personal proximity ; and as for pictures and music, they go about in the most barefaced manner, asking those whom they consider experts what is the proper thing to admire. And then they admire it. Nor is that the end of the puzzle ; for, apparently unconscious of the fact that their own entoosymoosy is only of yesterday, and quite a borrowed article, they will look down upon and abuse others who are not entoosymoosyastica] in the same directions. This power of gettin g up feeling is probably in some way connected with queer ideas of moral duty; for you will often find it in conscientious people. Yet, do they deceive themselves I Does the honest gentleman who has got up entoosymoosy about a poem, a picture, or a sonata really and traly fancy that his second-hand feelings have become incorporated into his own very being, like the victuals he ate yesterday! If he does, it must be because entoosymoosy is a thing of crowds. It cannot exist without society, or, if it does, it drives its subject crazy. Take old books, take articles at verM, take snuff-boxes, take Shakespeare and the musical glasses—what a world of entoosymoosy there is afloat in the world about Shakespeare ! The same about Chaucer. The same, again, about Shelley. But if we would all of us learn to feign nothing, to express no more than we feel, and to proportion our beliefs to the proofs of them, we should find—at first—that our lives were made a little more difficult, and that some of the accustomed flutter and fuse were missing ; but there would be the comfort of feeling that such beliefs as we really cherished were solid, and that when we did get excited, it was with enthusiasm, and not with entoosymoosy. The John Bull thinks that the game of "Beggar my Neighbour" is sometimes played by statesmen, ani curiously all the tricks change, and the Court cards shift backwards and forwards. At present the game is more interesting than usual, for it concerns Ireland and her Church. The popular cry, now, is all for complete equality ; that no one Church or creed should in any way find favour more than another ; in fact, that you should not favour what you believe to be right, any more than that you believe to be wrong. Not only this. You are asked to take away the lawful and time-honoured revenues of your own Church—not in order to give them to another claimant, but simply that your Church should be no better off than the poorest sect in the United Kingdom. You Are asked to take them away from the Anglican Church in Ireland, because the mass of Irish people are Roman Catholic and because the Church of Rome is said to have a prior right to them. But are the people to be absolved from paying the amount of their rates and tithes, or are they to be given back to the Church of Rome ? By no means. They are to be collected and disposed of by fovernment, probably to promote " secular education." How this is to relieve the people, or satisfy the "prior claims" of the Church of Rome, it is not easy to see. The Saturday Review draws attention to the difficulties of Mr. Cardwell's position, and trusts that he is making up his mind to do the work of reform in earnest. It does not believe that he will find it so impossible to deal with the Horse Guards as some imagine that he will. In the near relations which exist between the executive head of the army and the throne it has been supposed that any reformer would find a grave source of embarrassment ; but this is an entire delusion. No appeal would be needed to the sound constitutional principles which have always governed the conduct of her Majesty, for no one who ever held the command in chief has acknowledged more frankly than the Duke of Cambridge that the War Minister ought to be supreme, and that the proper function of . the Commander-in-Chief is to act as his principal adviser in military matters. The Horse Guards plotters are much more zealous for soldier-supremacy than the head of the Horse Guards has ever shewn himself to be. That the time has come for the reorganisation of the War Department, with an unflinching regard to sound principles of administration and to nothing else, we are profundly convinced; and if Mr. Cardwell appreciates the importance of the crisis, it is no wonder that he should pause to mature his plans before committing himself to definite action. If, on the other hand, he shrinks from the plain duty before him, and limits his aspirations to that heaven of feeble Ministers —a plausible compromise sufficient to last his time—he may well hesitate before choosing between conflicting schemes which differ only in being more or less ephemeral and inefficient. Still there are modes and degrees of Ministertem porising, i who cisive actionis c may,ont content n tl nle course, rely transmit the difficulty to his successors no t much more s P t ° a l v .i i s i i l n g g o ' ff ae nd a day , of formidable than he found it himself, whileby another remediless except by a reform little short of revo he may so aggravate the confusion as to leave iltutaiohnn.ost The Conservative ladies of Burnley have grace fully recognised the services which Lieutenant-General the lion. Sir J. Y. Scar lett had rendered at the recent elec tion, by contesting the borough on Conservative principles, by presenting to Lady Scarlat a magnificent silver-gilt vase, which had cost £3,10, and which had been entirely snlocribed for by the ladies themselves. STRIKE OF SEAMEN AT NEW YORK.—The seamen of this port are on a strike for hi g h er wages, and a pro cession of about 1,200 of them paraded the lower streets yesterday. A meeting was afterwards held, and several speeches were made. The strike is intended to operate against shipping masters and boarding-house keepers, who are demanding a heavier commission for shipping New York Herald. Jan, 20. 8-J."1BIT or TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Saturday Review thinks that London ought to feel a little more secure than it does at present. It ought not to be possible that, in a long, populous, and frequented street, houses should be entered by means of ladders between six , and eight in the evening, two or three rooms stripped of their most valuable contents, and the thieves get away with the same case, safety, and celerity with which they entered. It ought not to be possible for a man to go up to a gentleman's house and carry off a pet dog in broad midday; and that a policeman patrolling close to the scene of theft, when appealed to by a spectator, should calmly plead his instructions as an excuse for not interfering. It ought to be impossible to point out showy shops owned by respectable ratepayers, whose principal traffic noto riously consists in the purchase and sale of stolen jewellery. It ought to be impossible to point out in a body of skilled artisans one or two men—" intelligent operatives" and electors of the British 'Parliament, who are known to combine the profession of crime with their other industry. But these things, which ought to be impossible, are far from being infrequent. They happen, not rarely and exceptionally, but at least every week. Most people are convinced that even without an Act of Parliament something more might be done than is now done for repressing the criminal expert. To effectually deal with the ticket-of -leave man, to deter him from going on with his profession, to keep him from corrupting others and to keep others from associating with him, requires a special knowledge and experience. Such a knowledge is possessed by Colonel Henderson. He knows the convict, from the virgin wickedness of his Australian nonage to the full-blooded depravity of his ticket-of-leave matarity. He knows the reclaimable and the irreclaimable; those in whom some spark of virtue still lingers, and those who hays lost even the grace of hypocrisy. This knoWledge will be of use, whether the police be armed with new powers or left only to a wider use of their present powers. And it will be one of the most important duties of the new chief to suggest to the Government such changes in the law as, without offending the prejudices of the people, may empower the splice to act efficiently, not only for the arrest of detected criminals, but for the prevention of meditated crime. The Spectator, in considering the working of the new Bribery Act, renders ample justice to the ex-Premier for the part he played in the transaction We do not think that Mr. Disraeli has had sufficient credit for the Act which transferred this duty to the reluctant judges —an Act which will, we suspect, do more for the English electoral system than any other reform we have either conceived or carried out for years. We believe, too, that Mr. Disraeli proposed what he did with a deal understanding of its result, and a sincere desire to bring that result about—a clear understanding which does no less credit to his intellect than the desire to effect it does to his political sincerity. As we have never shrunk from expressing our generally very low opinion of Mr. Disraeli's political morality, it is more than ever our duty to do the fullest justice to him on an achievement like this, which was unquestionably his achievement —unquestionably effected with an intelligent conception of what he was about, and which has still more unquestionably stood the test of trial. It is worth while noting, however, how im measurably more important the change of method has been, in trying the corrupt practices, than the change of penalty for these corrupt practices. In no case, we believe, as yet, has the law of last session been put in force for bribery. Almost all the legal questions of the various election trials have been legal questions under the old , Acts, and not u n d er th e new . Th e grea t an d on ly great . alteration has been in the method of .procedure, and that has been everything. had the nolo episcopari of the judges been listened to, and the cld procedure left un• changed, no good would have been effected at all by the mere increased severity of penalty." NOTICE. AMERICA. C.1.2L2.3 BILL. VICTORIA CLUB -THIS DAY. LINCOLN HANDICAP. 100 to 12 agst Sycee (offered—take 9to 1) ICO to 9 agst Monarch of the Glen (taken) 100 to 7 agst Lady Coventry (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst Silenus (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Friday (taken) 100 to 6 agst George Osbaldeston (taken) 20 to 1 agst Typhoeus (taken) 20 to 1 agst Anlace (offered-25 to 1 wanted) 25 to 1 agst Hatclunent (taken and offered) 83 to 1 agst Blacklock (offered) LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL. 9to 1 agst Colonel (offered-10 to 1 wanted) 100 to 8 agst Harcourt (offered) 100 to 6 agat Fan (taken) 25 to 1 agat Despatch (offered—take 30 to 1) 30 to 1 agst Q.C. (taken) 33 to 1 agst Bishopton (taken and offered) 1000 to 30 agst Sultan (offered—take 500 to 10) 85 to 1 agst Alcibiade (taken) 1000 to 20 agst Pensioner (offered-1000 to 15 vented) 1000 to 15 agst Bristles (offered—take 1000 to 10) 1000 to 15 agst Billy Gladstone (taken and wanted) CIIEB TER CUP. 1000 to 70 Palmer (offered) 100 to 6 Romping Gill (taken) 20 to 1 agst St Mungo (offered) 1000 to 30 agst Gondolier (taken and wanted) 50 to 1 agst Viridis (offered—take 60 to 1) TWO THOUSAND. 9to 4 agst 'Wild Oats (offered—take sto 2) 9to 1 agst Pretender (offered) THE DERBY. 15 t . ) 2 agst Belladrum (taken to £400) 13 to 1 agat Pretender (offered) 25 to 1 agst Tborivaldsen (offered) 25 to 1 agst Martyrdom (offered) RACING FIXTURES. FEBRUARY. 16, 17 I Nottingham Spring... 23, 21 Lincoln 2,5, 26 li.crrow 18 I Derby Spring 2.5, 26 Mansfield 18, 19 J Pontefract MARCH. Liverpool Spring 2,3, 4 West Drayton .........18, 19 Shrewsbury spring 5, 6 Baldnyle First Spring 18, 19 Downpatrick 9 II Margate ........................ 20 Warwick 9, 10, 11 Beverley ...................... 20 Hendon l2, 13 Durham... ............... 29, 30 West Somerset 15 16 Epsom,,, Northampton 16, 17 ................. 3 0, 34. THE FUIURE OF THE OPERAS. Perhaps there was never a time of greater inte rest in regard to the destinies of the Opera than the present. We make no exception for any period during the past fifty years. The circle of events reminds one of this same eventful time last year, when gossip, with its innumerable tongues, was busy with the operatic future over all the country. It is now exactly a twelvemonth since than a mag nificent operatic speculation was given to the work! on paper in the form of a " United Limited Opera Company," with the usual apparatus of directors and lofty promises, involving impossibilities to those who are acquainted with the management of Opera houses, to which boards and committees have al ways proved ruinous. The public felt relief, and the friends of Opera in this country rejoiced when this Stock-Exchange scheme was relegated to that limbo to which all ill-digested designs, sooner or later, revert. The government of Opera is strictly monarchical. Di vided counsels never prosper with it. In this " United Opera" speculation, as there was no sin gle responsible head, the enterprise must have ended in contradictory objects, the attempt to amalgamate which would very possibly have termi nated in the general upset. But although the design on the whole could not prosperously be carried to market (to nse the mer chantable figure), it does not at all follow that there were not some very excellent ideas com prised in the scheme. Prominent in this regard is the fact that we should have secured the union of all the operatic talent in one establishment. A source of inevitable disappointment has been the fact that since the formation of a rival opera the great talents have been divided be tween the two houses, that the operatic stars (as was natural under the circumstances), could never be brought to shine in the same hemisphere, or under the same cope or roof. For years and years Her Majesty's Theatre and the Royal Italian "Opera, Covent Garden, have been labouring to un dermine, and eventually to remove, the ground from under each other's foundation—to speak the fact mildly—not simply to pronounce the plain word— destroy. Now, the question may be fairly asked, is it really necessary that London should have two Opera Houses?—that is, in rivalry. Is it indispensable that nightafter night they shouldfollow suit, merelyout of opposition, in playing the same operas? It has often happened, and it was conspicuously the case during last season, that the same opera was being played at both houses on the same evening, with some special point at each of extraordinary attrac tion in which the other happened at the moment to be notoriously deficient, and which was therefore a p r l a ti c s e t d e w a t as a h g ea r rd eat to d_is n a ig d h v t a i n n ta a g artiste to be heard at the opposite establishment. p e. art P ic e u r l h ar aPs cha a ra gr et e e a r t , and the same night there would be an equally great One time a celebrated opera has been pre- pared at enormous expense for one operatic esta blishment, which in the lapse of a very few days has been offered at the other. Now amidst all this dealing out of the self-same cards, and the staking of the trumps—perhaps of equal value at the rival establishment, the experienced operatic eye has dis- tinctly seen that the real interest of "art" in its totality is completely overlooked—that strife and n co e s n s et s a t n a d r e c r o o m b b p i l n e g t e t n h e e s opera s r a n o d f its th a possible p l y sing b l e e . - cause two great places are doing battle, that the magnificent forces on either side are being sacri ficed in alternately great, but as equally:alternately outdone, charges. Now we speak in the interest of art when we say that this ought not to be. Moreover, there is no need this mutually de stroying system should be persisted in any longer It would surely be better to conquer the public approbation under one flag than under two —with one operatic company than two independent ones. No .I.' what a splendid cast for any of those trail - scendent musical works which have delighted the world would be possible in the hands of the manage ment that could make the choice in filling-in with the great names from both Operas. We can only imagine the irrepressible eagerness of the crowds, titled and untitled, who night after night wouid fill the fortunate theatre where all the great singers could be heard at once--each in his or her ly.!st character, and in the Opera, and in the part, that is the talk of the world. We can imagine, in the public interest, ti►hat such a representation would be, and what au era would be created in the annals of Opera. 1111 RD EDITION, The Third Edition of " The Sergi " of last Evening was published in tiinJ for delivery in town at 7.15 p.m. SUN OFFICE, 6 O'CLOCK. Messrs. Pope, Pee, and Al'Lan have received the following per Atlantic cable : WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. A bill on this subject has been reported, and (be committee on ioreign relations discharged fran further consideration of Sumner's, Morton's, and Doclittle's Bills upon Submarine Cables. Mr. Sumner, from the committee on foreign re lations, reported a bill relating to telegraph com munication between the United States and a foreign country. It provides that whenever telegraphic communi cation shall hereafter be established between the United States and any foreign country by means of lines or cables, of which any portions are within the jurisdiction of the United States, the same shall be subject to certain stipulations and reservations. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —This Daj