The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-07 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Business to-day on the Stock Exchange though far from active was firm. Prices were a shade lower in the early part of the day, but most of them recovered their decline. In Foreign Stocks the quotations remain the same as yesterday, but Ame ricans are not so good. There is more activity in Telegraph shares, more especially in Construction and Maintenance. Consols are now at 92f to 92 for money ; ditto, for Account, 92; ; Three per Cent. Re duced, 921 2 ; New Tree per Cents, 92 i t ; Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, March, 5 prem. ; June, 2 7 prem. ; ditto £lOO, £2OO, and £5OO, March, 5 prem. ; June, prem. ; Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent., 238. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, —; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 112 1 111 ; ditto 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 61 per Cent., ; ditto Debentures, 1031. In Foreign Market, Spanish opened at 271 sellers, but afterwards receded 1 ; Mexican is 1 better, at 131 to 13/ ; Egyptian (1868) is 771 to 771 ; Orel is quoted 811 to 82 ; and Charkoff, at 80k to 81, being an improvement of f in each ; Tur kish (1865) is steady, at 431 to 44 ; and Argentine, at 85; to 851. American Five-Twenty Bonds are now 851 to 86 ; the 18E5 Bonds, 841 to 83 ; the 1867, 861 to 861; and the Ten-Forties, 811 to 81/. Erie Shares ara!2ol to 201. Great Luxemburg remans at 121 to 121; and Lombardo-Venetian, at 201 to 201. In Bank Shares prices are steady :—Agra (A) is firmer, at 101 to 11; Alliance is unaltered, at 121 to 131 ; Anglo-Austrian, 10 to 12 prem. ; Chartered Mercantile, 31 to 32 ; Imperial, 16 to 17 ; London and County, 47 to 48 ; London and Westminster, 581 to 591. Telegraph and French Cable is 1 higher at 15/ to 16 ; Anglo-American is dealt in at 191 to 2U ; Atlantic Eight per Cents., 21 to 21; Construction and Maintenace is 33 to 331, being a rise of 1. In the Railway Market the prices are as follows Caledonian, 781 to 791; Great Eastern, 361 to 361; Great Northern, 1061 to 1071; do. (A), 1081 to 109; Great Western, 551 to 551; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1261 to 1261; London and Brighton, 461 to 46i ; Chatham, 151 to 151 ; London and North Western, 1211 to 1211 ; London and South Western, 93 to 94 ; Metropolitan, 83/ to 831; Midland, 119 to 1191 ; Berwick, 1191 to 1201; and South Eastern, 761 to 77. There were no gold operations at the Bank yesterday. The Pera, from Alexandria, has brought £539,333, and the Arno, from Brazil, £33,000. Owing to an improvement in the French Ex change, it is probable that a considerable por tion of these arrivals may be taken to the Bank. The Humboldt from the River Plate and Brazil has been telegraped at Lisbon. She brings dates later than those of the Arno, but no alteration is quoted in the rate of exchange. With reference to some reports recently cur rent that the money due from the Canadian Go vernment on the Ist instant for the Hudson's Bay purchase bad not been paid owing to a diffi culty as to the title, it is stated that the sum has been deposited, but that its payment to the com pany is delayed in consequence of the Red River disturbances. The list for the guaranteed bonds of the Dutch- Indian Railway has closed, and the applications amounted to double the sum required. It is understood that the Turkish Government have this week caused to be burnt £BOO,OOO of the sum of £3,500,000 of the Five per cent. Stock created at the consolidation of the general debt which still remained at their disposal. Financial advices from Buenos Ayres state that the late project of Government. for the emission of $6,000,000 in consolidated public stock, to cover the expenses of the Paraguayan war, was received with great disfavour by .the public, and caused a sudden fall in the price of Argentine Securities (from 70 to 55), the measure having been quite un expected. The Government soon perceived their error, and as they are anxious to maintain public credit they will not persist in the intended opera tion, but will, it is assumed, adopt other means for supplying their wants. At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. Abraham Akeroyd, manufacturer, of Bradford, the balance sheet showed liabilities for about £B,OOO, and an offer was made of 7s. 6d. in the pound, but after some discussion the meeting was adjourned without coming to a decision. At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Hallo well and Son, worsted manufacturers at Bradford, the liabilities were represented at £3,690, and a composition of ss. 6d. iu the pound was accepted. At a meeting held at Bristol of the creditors of Messrs. Hennet and Spink, of the Bridgwater Iron Foundry, it was resolved to continue the business under a deed of assignment. The liabilities amount to £20,000. A company is in course of formation, to be called the Anglo-Australian and China Telegraph Com pany. They propose to establish a submarine tele graph between Calcutta and the Australian colonies, with intermediate stations at Penang, Malacca, Singapore, Batavia, and the Dutch settlement at Macassar, the cable terminating in Queensland, at the bead of Gulf Carpentaria, to which point the telegraph system of Australia will be completed in 1870. The Journal of St. Petersburg of the Ist instant states that on the 29th of November the Tamboff- Kozloff Railway had been provisionally opened, that the first train passed from Kozloff to Tamboff in the presence of a large concourse of people and of the troops of the garrison, and that the regular service of the line will commence very shortly. The quotation to-day for the New Danubian Loan is to to 11 prem. BRUME FUND'S —TWO VOLUME. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. per Cent. Consols 94 i Ditto for Account, Jan. 6 S per Cent. Reduced 92k 2 . .: New 3 per Cent N ow 2} per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 5 per Oen J an. 1873 Linnuities, 80 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908 — Exchequ:n.r Bills, Xl,OUn, 2} p. Ct. March p m Da. 3 do. June Do. £lOO, £2OO & £5OO 5 pm Bank of England Stock, 41 per Cent Do. opening — Canada 4 per Cent. Bonds . Inter-Colonial Uranium INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES lndli ilt.ocir, 101 per Cent., April 1874 — Opening, for Account — l'o. o per Cent. July, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent. Oct. 1888 Do. Certificates — Do. Enfaced rape. 4 per °Ant...« — Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 -• .... Do. 5k per Cent. May 1879 Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872 — Do do. 1877 Do. do. 1882 thi. Deb., 5 per Cent., Ang. 1873 Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO Do. under £l.OOO FOREIGN SINDEF— TWO O'CLOCK. A.sgentine Republic, 6 per Cent B4 1 u itrian Bonds 5 per cent ...,.......____ Do. 1859 Brazilian 5 per Cent — Do. 4i per Cent. 1852 Do. do 1858.... Do. at, 1860 — Do. do., 1863 — Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 Dc. Account B -ienos Ayres 6 per Cent. Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Cuba, 6 per Cent. Ouilian 6 per Cent — `'o. 4i por Cent — Do. 3 per Cent., Do. 7 per Cent., 1866 Do. 6 per cent. 1867... 9Bl 9 0 10.nbian, 6 per Cent. Danist, 3 per Cent., 1825 Dan.‘bian Principalities, 7 per Cout B5l _ Do. Acccunt Do 8 per Cent., 1867 — Ecuador Now Uon3olidated, 1 per Cent EvEtian, 7 per Cent...,. - 6a Sec . :o.id Issue .. ..._ U0..£50t. Bonds Do. 1861 — Do. Account D0..£500 Bonds . . ••••• Doe £lOO Boridgesisittarsiatasiomommiti .0., t. Do. 7 per Cent., 1868 Do..tiUu Bou6 • •••• Goverunl6nt 'Railway Debentures — Greek 5 per C0ut.,1824 5, ex Coups Du. Coupons Do. Account Gu Ltemala 6 per Cent . — Honduras Gov Rail.Loan.,lop.,Ct.,allpd 85 1 Italian 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do. Account ~ — Do Maremmana Railway Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto for Account Do. 1864 — Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — siontevidean 6 per Cent. .. — Mccrish imperial 5 per Cent — New Granada — Do 8 per Cen, — Do. Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account .. 844 Do 44 per Cent. (Ut:harren) Do 4f per Cent., 1862 - Do Account Portaguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7, '9,'60,'2,'b Do. do. 1867 33 i Do. do. Scrip, cp, ..i/U paid — Russian 5 ~er Cent., 182 z, X St Do 44 per Cent 185 U Do 4i per Cent. , 1860 Do 3 - ier Cont.; 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do 'do, Scrip — Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO lioudk... 92,1 Do. du. £B4 156. do — Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds Do. do £B4 15s. do — Do Nicolas Railway 66 51 Sardinian b per Cent. — Spanish 3 per Cen . — Do. Account — Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferr,u — Do. Account Do. Passive — Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan — Do Government, 1864 — Do do, .1868 TnrkiEli 6 per Cent ~„ Do Account ' _ 801 Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account Do .£IOC Bonds — Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do. Account 66i Do £lOO Bonds — Do 5 per Cent. 1865 — Do Account Do 6 per Cent., 1860 Do. Aec.unt DJ 4 per Cent., Guaranteed — Venezuela 3 per Cent. — do 6 per Cent., 1862 l9i Dividends on the above payable iu L.,,n0,, Austrian o par Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian, 4} per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 2* per CAnt. Ex. 12 Guil — Do. 4 por Cent. Certificates .... French Rentes, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 25f. — I Wien 5 per ent. 1851, Ex. 25f — Do Account s4i i IWO 0 1 4.7.4)01C. Oonsols, Money .. 921 Do. Account, Jan. 6 921 1 mei HE AMERICAN PRESS. The Nation thus criticises two interesting articles in the North American Review for October :—" By far the most striking and readable of the long arti cles in the last North American is that of Mr. Henry Brooks Adams, who has by this and one or two similar essays made for himself an enviable reputa tion as a courageous politician in the best sense of the term, and as an excellently clear and for3ible writer. Mr. Adams's essay has for its main pur pose to show that, as regards appointments to office, we have subverted that principle of the Constitu tion which prohibits the absorption by one depart ment of the Government of the powers of any other. The Senate, he charges, has got into its hands a great share of the power of the Executive ' • and no one can doubt, we think, that this is indeed so. But we think, too, that in his desire to make us return to the fundamental principles of the Go vernment, to make us see how much violence we have done the true spirit of our institutions, Mr. Adams neglects to pay due attention, or to give sufficient prominence, to a fact that every one who calls himself, and is, a practical man,' will be likely to think a chief thing to be considered. And that is this, that in practice it was, we may say, inevitable that the theory of the Constitution should, in this particular mat ter, go by the Board, because to carry it into practice has became au impossibility. Let a President throw himself ever so unreservedly on that popular feeling which, as an American, is ready to sustain any President who shall Emily declare that he will not permit offices to be parcelled out asspoils; let him even win against the Senate the victory which last spring, when the Tenure-of- Office' Act was under discussion, Grant tried hard and honestly, but possibly not with sufficient ob stinacy, to win ; let him get back into the hands of the Executive the power which has been taken away to be used by men like Fenton and Cameron, Pomeroy and Butter, for the building up of their own political fortunes ; let him do this, and much as would thereby be done for the theory of our Government—for carrying out on paper the inten tions of its founders, what after all would b the practical difference ? It is, SO far as we can see, .simply impossible that any one man could properly make all our appointments. Should he try ever so hard, Senators and Representatives would still he the President's advisers as to the fitness of candidates ; they would still be men to be con ciliated, the exercise of the advis)ry power would still have its corrupting influences, and we should still be where we are. Some supplementary device is still to seek after we have given back to the Exe cutive the appointing power in its integrity. We are glad, let us say in taking leave of this article, that it came in Mr. Adams's way to make this re mark :—" Although much has been said against the President for the selection of personal friends and relatives for office, so far as this choice had any political meaning it was rather deserving of praise and support as the last remnant of the President's defeated purpose of rescuing the public service from the taint of po litical corruption." And then follows a word or two which suggest the improbability—practically innate—of any one man's being able, unaided by some machinery not now in existence, thus to rescue the public service : " If a similar process of selec tion," says Mr. Adams, " had been carried with proper care and a wide acquaintance with men through all the public service, one principal source of corruption would have been greatly checked." We have been much interested in Mr. Lewis H. Morgan's paper on The Indian Migrations.' It is to be followed by another, and the two together are intended to present such evidence bearing on the movements of our aborigines as may be drawn from a consideration of the physical conditions under which they live, and from their systems of consanguinity, their languages, and so forth. Mr. Morgan's inquiry will include the subject of the origiu of the North and South American Indians, and probably no one is better fitted than he to gi're an opinion. In the article he points out, what many of us had forgotten, that it is not so very long since the Indian was a hunter without a horse, and that therefore the prairies were of little use to him as hunting-grounds ; that the forest portions of the continent were not his best habitat, and that, as he was not an agriculturist to any great extent —at least in the region this side of Mexico—good fishing-places were the main necessity for him. The essay then sur veys the continent and marks out the seats of Indian occupation, and seems to indicate that Mr. Morgan will fix upon the neighbourhood of Puget Sound and the Columbia River as the cradle of the cop - per-coloured race, though as to where he will put its birth-place he makes no certain sign. There are other things given us by the author, notably an account, seemingly very reasonable and careful, of the Aztec civilization, about which so much has been said—so much too much, we may perhaps say. And there is what appears to us a very plausible theory as to the true character of the Mound Builders, so called, who have seemed to be fairly installed in the position in our archeology which is occupied in Ireland by the famous round towers. They were, perhaps, Village Indians, says Mr. Morgan, who came from New Mexico, and found that their system Of. house-building would not answer in their new home. They had been a ccustomed to use adobe brick in the construction of their baildings, and, for reasons of defence, to close iu the storey next the ground, and to enter the house—which, by the way, was an immense communal dwelling—by means of ladders reachi ng to the flat roof. Now, on reaching the region of the Ohio River, they would find that the frost s , and rains, and snows of that climate were destruc tive of the sun-baked bricks, and they would have to consider the question of how to build. To make out of poles and bark a house resting on the na tural level of the ground would be to change al together their mode of building—a thing not lightly to be done, especially as their house was also their fortress. They decided then to substitute for the first closed storey an embankment On which this house of poles and bark might be set up in safety ; and it is thus that we have the mounds. This seems to us far from being an unreasonable supposition, and we sincerely trust it may be estab lished as the true one. In the interest of future generations, it is to be hoped somebody may go out and deposit on the top of some of all of them a judici ous, plausible quantity of the " charcoal and ashes, the remnants of fire-hits," the discovery of which would, as Mr. Mcirga4 says, strengthen his theory a good deal—enough, it is likely, to shut the mouths of many ardwologiste pt unborn, RAILWAYS.-PREFERENCE SIIARES AND STOCKS. With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate year THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1869 SHARE LIST. ..IAILKS AND STOCKS. Paid. ti 108134 i3nslness ial~way.. Prise. done. et Bi istol and Exeter 106 73 75 744 it Caledonian lOO 79 794 794 9 et Cambrian .. 20 Cornwall all 2 3 et Dublin .t Belfast Juno lO9 et Dun„Perth, & Ab. June lOO 70 72 2J East London all 6 7 YO Uo 16 26 Do 10 et Glasgow .t S. Western lOO 104 106 st Great Eastern . OO 30 37 354 I et Do. E. Angl. No. 2.... 100 64 7 et Great North of Scotland.. 100 12 16 it Great Northern lOO • 107 iOB et Do. A stock.-- et Do, 1.1 stook— et UtS, and W. or lrelaud lO6 15 100 et Gt. Western. —Original lOO 504 56 st Do. South Wales D i u 67 Li et Do. W. Mid.—Oxlord lOO 33 36 et Do. Newport lOO 32 I et Lancashire a Yurkshirv wo 1264 06i 127 st Lon., lirigh.,44 S.Coast lOO 4.54 45; 164 6 0.1 Do &rip et lon., Uhat., and Dov,r lou Di 16 et Do. Metrup. Ex. A lOO 10 12 it 1. 'AL $ ur tu esteru lol 1.1 :2' et Lou. dt Soutu W esteru ltio 98 9. 931 Man., Shia., Lincoln:. 100 1 0 3 531 st Metropolitan lOO b2l i:3} 831 I et Do Extousiun 100 bl 5 Do. .N ey.' rd all et Metropolitan District. all 311 321 301 10 Metrop. St. John's Woo 1 0— at M:ui and at D 9, tiirntin, & 1)W 1 hi et Nur th British 100 . 43 41 et 1) rtn., & Dun lOl et Nor Nauteru —Berwick ICO 118 119 1201 20 25 D puroh.se 16.13.1 at 1); Leeds ....... st 1) ulCcrli at 1) oCarlisle . et D °Stock. & Darling lOO 136 158 at North .Londou 10 Do _New 11388 • 4 11 2 p et North Staffordshire." lOO 37 510 6$ st North auO Junction 100 91 101 10 Do Nett /AO shares 7 . st R 1 coney . IGO . 52 64 et lihropshire Union - lOO 59 00i at South Devon;.. • lOO 43 46 at South Elia-ern lOO 761 77 at Staines, Wok'haniot Wok all 13 14 at Tan V ale lto 184 158 -- Do. C . ... . Waterlord iCv 10 Virktterlvo JS Whiteha.l 0 LtAILWAYS-PREFER ENCE, Silk ICES AN!) PITOCKS. at Bristol and Exeter 4 p.ceut. 100 84 88 at Caledonian Qrs., No. 2 lOO ... at Do. Scot. N.E., 4/ per cent lOO at Do. Aberdeen, gua. 6 p.c lOO st Do. do. 7 per cent, lei at Do. do. • Ordinary lie 74 82 at Du. Midland at Do. Duudge and Arbroath 100 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent gua all at, Dundee, Perth, and Aber deen J unction lOO 145 107 at Do. Ist Class preference IOU • at Was. & S.W. gua. 5 per et l4O ... st Gt. Eastern, E.(.1 Ex. Nu. 1 140 98 10J at Do dv N 0.2 100 /7 00 at Do du 6 per cent 100 Ili 113 at Do East Angliau A 4 p. c. 100 ... at Do do B 6 du. IUU at Do do C 7 do. lOU at Do do No. 1, 3 luo at Do E. Union 4p. c. gua. 100 6 . 8 72 at Do Norfolk 5 p.c.Ex.1846 100 at Do do 5 p.e.WaT.Val.lBl7 100 at Great Northern, 5 per coat 10J at Do 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. e. pm. 100 Do 4/ do do du 1011 at Do 5 do at sp. 100 at Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent. lOO .„ at Gt. Nrth of Scotland, Ist pl 100 at Great South. and Western (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO /6 98 at G t.West.—Orig.& ut.-lteut chg., per gua. a p.c lOO 104 106 at Do. Orig. (B. &H. Ex). 5 p.c lOO 95 100 st Do du 4/ per cent. 1830 DU 90 02, st Do do 4 do do st Do do 5 per cent. redem IOJ 07 /9 at Do do Bulninghaur gua lOO GS 12 at Do do do pref lOO at Do do Chester gua lOO 85 9J at Do do do 8 per cent. 100 at Do do do b du 100 03 .10E, at Do South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 at Do do 44 p.c l.OO at Do do 41 1850 lOO at Do do 5 at Do West Mid. Oxford Ist g lllO H 8 HS, t Do do 2d gua. 100. It 3 116 at Do Newport, lstg. 5 p.e. 100 96 06 st Do do 2J. do 100 ••• •• at Do gua. 51 per cent. 1863 lOU .„, 00 Lancaster & Carlisle 41 p.c. all st Lancash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1.3 134 at Do 13arusley,X3 Is 10€1 p.c. 100 at Du 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 130 135 at Do 41- (Blackburn purch). lug 98 10 0 atj London & Brighton, 5 P.C. guarantead, No 1 _ lOO at' Du 5 per cent. gua No. 2 Du at Do 6 do do lOO st Do 6 . do NJ. 4 lOO at Do 7 per cent IOU st Do 6 do (W.E. & C.Y ). 100 at Do 4 do 1639 - lOU at Loudon, Chatham, & Dover 6 per cent lOO MI London and 1.1. W., C. and - Nuneatou 5 I>er cent lOO 110 11 - 4 at Do Bedford &Cambridge loo at Do Shrewsliy di Welchp'i st London and 6 - W. 7 p,c late 3d shares, lOO no 150 Do (Portsin.perpaus 286 d) all a Mau., Shef.,&,Linclu. u p.c lOO Du £6 all par Ipm a Do 31 per cut IUO 64 66 1 Do re-teem. 6 percent 6 at Mid. Consolidated., p. e lOO lzle 135 a Do .13ristul&Isirin., 6p. c lOO 112 134 a Du 41 per cent. redeem lO6 V 8 100 a Do 41 per cent. irredeein lOO 36 I J.) a Du Leicester& ll'elm,4 p.c 100 89 91 90 at North Uritish, 5 p.c. Nu. 100 ... at Do E. &U.4p.c. S. a D 1 at Do N. 13., Nu. 2, 5 per cen.t lOO at Do Border Uuluu, 51 p.c lOO st N.-Eastern—Cons. 4 p.c IOU 67 69 at Du 41 per cent.. 100 97 03 et Du C- N.E. 4 per cent., lOO 17 Du Lerwick capital 8.13.4. Do York, It &S. purchase lO 10 101 Do Stektu Drlin,g. A 5 p.c lOO 107 at Do W, Liarth3puul ti. and It WU 84 611 20 North Staffordshire all 201 211 lOs b. Devon Annuities, Lc all 3 IU lOs Do Tavistock Aims., 10s all 81 91 10s Du Fixed 41 per cent all 8 Si 10.6. S. East. (stead. Anus., 1.0.6) all 22 23 at Do 41 percent IOU at Do Fixed 41 per coat lOO at Taff Vale No.l lOO 154 108 st Waterford & li.ilkenuy, 6pc 100 .. at Caledonian 4p c gua. st Du Seot.Ceu. min. 7p c lOO at Do 4i p irreduezn sill at Do 4pc con. issuedat 60 65 ... at Great Eastern 4i par cent. 101) 77 80 st Do 5 do, 1862 lOO 87 90 at Do New 5 do, 1863 lOO 86 88 st Do do 5 do, 1861 DO 83 86 et Great Northern, 5 p cirred lOO et Du Permanent 5 per cent lOO at Do Boston & Stead., 41 pe 100 st Great West., W. p c 100 at Du Jointperpe. 5p c,1665 100 86 at st Du do 6p e irred. , 1855 100 110 112 2u Du Vale N oath perp. 5p c all at Kent Coast, 6 per cent, 14 lOO 6 Lane. and York New 41 per cent till July, 1871 2 f Op at Loud., Brig ac., 41 pc, 1853 100 at Du do 4 do, 1860 100 at Do do 41 du, 1801 11') at Do do 41 do, 1660 100 st Do do 5 do, 1865 100 st Do No. 6 5 do, 1866 100 at Do No. 7 ido at Loud, Chat., &c., 2d, 6 p.c 100. at Du Metro!). Ex., B 6 p.c 100 Do do C 6 p.c at Loudon & N Western, 5p c 100 108 110 st Loudon& S. Western, 41 p c 100 4,3 05 10 Man. sher.& Lin., 5 pc,1865 all SI 55 st Metropolitan 5 per cent lOO 100 EU at Midland, li 5 per cent pref lOO 107 10 at Do B 5 do 100 107 105 15 Do 5p c opt. to cony. to Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1569 all 201 211 18 Do IncouY. New Snared all 19 191 22 Do 5p c con. into Old Stk., Aug. 31,1872 Bl If 24 at North British, E. and. (.1 No. 1, 5 per cent at Do £lO guaranteed, 1361 100 Do. E ,P., &Dun., 2d, 4 pe 100 at Do E.& (1. , N 0.2, 5 p.c 100 at Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1662 100 at Do E. & G. , N 0.3, 5 p.c at Do E.& G., (Ordiry) 41 p c 100 st North Eastern, 45 per cent 100 07 09 at Do Stock. & Darl., D 100 112 113 at North Loudon, 41, per cent (Max. 5 per cent) Bt North Staffordshire 5p e lOO at South Eastern, 41 pc, 1859 100 at Do 5 do 1861 100 st Do sdo (Oh. Cross) 1663 100 at Do 5 do, 1364 .............. 100 st Victoria St. &Pimlico, 41 pc 100 . „. BAIL WAYS.-LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS st Birkenhead lOO 91 92 94 00 DO. 44 per cent. Prefer.., all 103 100 at Buckinghamshire at Chester and Holyhead ..... at Do. 54 per cent. at D o . 5 do. llO.. 116 112 at Colchester Stour Valley st t Clydesdale, E astguaranteed lOO Lincoln, gun. 6p. c lOO 13:/ 134 20 (Boater and Lean Forma all ~„ a Gt. Eusa• !. Nownl., 6 :0-• 5 p.c 100 a Do. E. Harwich, 4 p.c 100 at Do. do. Woodbrg.Ex., do 100 at CU. West, W. Slid., Herd 100 96 os 60 Hull and Selby .... all 110 112 at Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 212 216 at London and /3lackwadl lOO 93 95 at Do. 44 per cent lOO at London, Chat., ttc., 44 p. C lOO ••• ••• at Do. Coin. Fund, 5 do 100 at London and Greenwich at Do. do Preference loo' at London, Tilbury, 5; South 100 83 85 st Lowestoft,gua 4 percent lOO 79 81 at Do. d' do 100 Ot Manch., Bi.- a Ma all ••• ••• at Midland, Brallord, Pref lOO 92 94 10 Mid Kent Cray 50 Northern& East.,s per coat all 53 so SO Do. do. b do. all at N. Eastern—Hartlep00l st N.Weat.A perp. prof, 5p c lOO 107 109 at Do B m odolLun 14 p.c lO9 at Notting. & Uranth. 11.Ot 100 91 . 91 24 Preston and Wyro. all 44 46 Royston, Hitch. ' anti Shep. 100 132 134 at Shrewsbury - and Hereford 100 132 134 10 Do do g 2 24p a S. Yorksh. and River D un 1 00 97 gyp a 4 per cent gua IOJ Td - 5 do all 08 100 st Vict. Station and Pimlico lOO st West Cornwall 'lO West London, Class A all 43 14 20 Do du B all 20 Do do C all at Weymouth and Portland IOU st Wilts and Somerset DOCKS, et Eaat.and Wea I. India lOO. 122 125 124 London and St. Katherine lOO 100 D cDeb. stock, 4 per cent 'all Millwall Freehold Land • st Dock lOO 23 23 St Southamptou lOO 72 75 . UurreY Coaunrcia 108 Ili JOINT-STOCK RANKS. Closing Business Share; NAME. :Paid. Price done 10 Agra Limited, A., Lall 101 11 10 Do B lO 31 4 41 50 Albion l5 10 8 00 Alliance, Limited 20 Anglo Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 22 221 P 20 Anglo-Hungarian 20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 6 4 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia all 12 13 20 Do issued at 2 pm.— , 5 5 4 25 Bank of Egypt 20 Bank of Otago, lim. 25 Bank of South Australia all 30 32 50 Bank of Victoria, Australia 25 37 39 10 Bank of New Zealand all 151 161 50 British North American 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, e nd China all 17 18 25 Chartered Mere. of India. London, and China all 31 32 20 City lO 18 11 100 Colonial 25 36 37 421 10 Consolidated, lint 50 Delhi and Loudon, lien 60 East London, lint 5 21 11 20 English and Amorican, lien IS ••• ••• 20 English Bank of Rio do Ja neiro. lim li pr 1p 20 English, Scottish, and Aus• tralian Chartered ••,• all 161 161 281 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation all 36 38 281 Do new lll 4 5 100 Imperial, lien 2O 15 16 20 Imperial Ottoman lO '2l 2i 1' f z 5 lonian nd Mortgage of India, lim 4 31 31 7-16 all 19 32 25 Do new a 6 3 L 100 Do sp. c. Debs.H.464, 30 all 76 l6 bo 100 London Bankj of Mexico and South America, lien. 20 5 4 100 London and Brazilian, lim. 45 3.5 30 20 Do new 7* 4 41 100 London & River Plate, lim, 40 11 13 25 Do new 10 11 2 p 20 London Chart. of Australia all 231 241 20 London and County 2B 491 501 50 Do new, iss at 20 pan, 1G pd. 11 ... • London Joint Sto c k.., ~ ,,• 311 321 - London and South African al 3 9 100 London it S.-Western, lien, 20 13 11 7 50 London & Venezuela, lim l2l ... ... 100 London and Westminster. 20 571 581 68 I 100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O 100 Merchant, lien 25 61 54 10 Metropolitan, lien all 71 71 911 00 Midland, lim 2O 11 1 6 National of Australia 25 National of Liverpool, line l5 3d Ip 00 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 ... ... 10 Do 50 National. 3O ... .. 20 New South Wales all 41 43 20 North-Western 74 25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 41 42 411 50 Provinc. Bank. Corpo., lien lO 61 61 30 Provincial of Ireland 25 90 92 10 Do new. all ••• ••• 109 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lim 25 14 14 100 Do issued at 6pm lO 8 6 25 Union of Australia all 46 43 471 100 Union of Ireland, lieu 50 Union of Loudon l5 361 371 37.1 TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. 10 Anglo-American lei., inn all 1,4 ,oi 10 Anglo Mediter Tel., 1im.... 10 17.1 17 1 vi at Atlantic Telegraph le 14; 14 at Do. 8 per cent. at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lim lOO 115 11 , 3 at Electric at Inter. Telegraph 100 2es 20 10 Do. New 8 12 13p 25 Indo-European Tel., Um— lO ld pr 5 Lond. Provincial Tel. lim all 21. 4 1 Do. Prefer. 10 per cent all 4 1p 10 Mediterra. Exteu. Tel., Jim all 64 74 25 Reuter's Telegram all 79 81 20 Societe Transatlaut., Um— all 15 15; 15f a at Submarine Telegraph 1 Do. Scrip All 1; 1; 5 11. Kingdom Tel. Co., lim all 7 74 • s Do. 10 per cont. Prof all i i 6 p MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Anglo-Mexican Mint all 141 15 25 Australian Agricultural 25 Australian Mort. Laud and Finance, lim. 10 Baugarah Tea Estates, btu a ad 10 Berlin Water Works, Um all lit 141 10 Do. New all 100 Bolckow Vaughan, lin). 5 Bombay Gas, lim. 5 Do. New 4 11 id 4 10 British American Laud 44 15 17 20 British Indian Tea, lim all 21, 31 20 British Ship Owners 7l ..; ..; 29 Canada Company all 63 t 6 10 Canadian Loan and Invest ment, lim 2l .. ... 20 Ceylon Company, Um. lO 31 20 61 sylon ...... _ . 20 Do. A shdres -, 2d 10 City Discount, lim b - 25 City of London Real Pro perty, lim 9 51 41,1 30 City of Milan Impror. lint all i 6 25 City of Moscow Gas, lim all 50 City Oftices, lim 25 23 22 d 50 Colonial, lim. ... 2O 3 ld Do. 50 Commercial ;Talon (Assur) 6 pr 4,, p 10 Company of African Mer chants, lim 20 Continental Union Gas, lim all N n 25 Copper Miners of England, prof. 71 per cent. 100 Corporation of London Bonds, 1877, 41 per cent. all 1031 1041 100 Do. 1879 4/ per cent. all loii 1051 100 Do. 1882, 41 percent. all 103 104 10 Credit Fon. of England, Bin. all 21 21 21 1 50 Credit Fon.of Mauritiuslim lO si 21,t st Crystal Palace lOO 21 23 st Do. Preference lOO 95 100 st Do. 6p. c Perpetual Deb lO9 107 112 20 Darjeeling, lim 10 Eastern Assam, lim. 50 East Indian Laud Credit and Finance,llm. 20 East India Irriga. & Canal all 32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and Cosi, lien. 100 Egyptian 9 per cent. V'roy. Gua. by Egypt. Goy allj tit 95 94f 20 Egyptian Coto. St Trad. lira 6 3 Eng. & Gust ral. Copper, lizn 21 15 English and Foreign Crodit 7# 41 31d 100 Eng. and Scot. Marino, inn. 8 ...d 10 Fairintirn Engineering 5 3 2d 20 Fore-street Wlrehouse,liin l2 1 2 p 100 For. & Col. Goy. Trust and --- - Loan Scrip, issuedto ;.: .-- 38 all 83 10 50 Gallivant, lim 2O 10 General Credit & Dis., lim 71 1; 14 64 15 General Steam Navigation 14 27 29 50 Hums &Cul Marino lu. lim. .5 24 ad 10 Hong Kong and China Gas all ••• ••• 20 Hudson's Bay all 12f 13 20 Imperial Laud Co. of Mar soilles, lint. 20 Interna. Financial Soc. li m 5 2 1 1 2 20 Interna. Laud Credit, lim 6 6 4d 80 Italian Land 5 Id p 20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all 3 Si 100 Do. 6 p. c. Bds., redeem 1870, issued 90 all 67 69 50 Land Securities, lim 2l 11 25 London African Tradin g 25 Lon. & Caled. Marius, lira 6 ••• "' d 10 London County Laud and Building, lim. 50 Loud. Financial Asso., lim 80 22 21 4 Lond.Gan.Omnibus.Colim. all 2 21 60 Lend. and Glaeg. Engineer and Iron Ship, lira 25 21 lld 20 Lond. & Provincial Marine ' 2 id pr 2 st Madras Irriga. & Caul. Gua. 5p.C. by India Go v . 10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, Um... 50 Merchant Shipping, lim 80 Millwall Iron Works, lim 124 '" "' 10 Natal Laud and Colonisa tion Co., lint 25 National Discount C 0.,. ii i , 5 104 114 25 National Prey. Marine, Lim. 4 ••• • • 10 National Steam Ship, lint all 9 1 10 1 20 Nerbudda Coal a; Iron, hut 6 3 3 I() New Consolidated Die, lint 3 1 4 lid 5 I\ ew Quebrada, lira 4B 0 4 4 4 1 25 Now Zealand Loan & Mer candle Agency,lim ni f ip 25 New Zealand Trust and Loan, lim 5 14 11 10 Northern Assam Tea, lim. 5 7 5 10 Do. B st North Brit. Austral., Um lOO 48 53 50 North Brit. & Mercan. 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C ana da 6 • 1 a _ 50 Union Marine L'pool, lim 5 44 rp 20 Union Steam Ship, lim all 22 24 15 United Discount Corp., lim 6 „ . a . 20 Universal Marine(l n .) , li m . 5 i 2 l ” M of ort E g g a y g p e) t, Loan all 804 814 51 4 i i 10 Upper Assam Tea , l im all l 4 2 4 " 30 Van Dieraar'a Laud 2 Bl 6 7 7 per 50 West India and Pac if ic 1 5 0 0 0 vi Vi Steam, lim 20 WestLonaon Wharves and canta ce r r r o a . y ii( t Finance, lira. l2 11 le Warehouses .. • COLONIAL GOVIORNMIINT SECURITIE Cgolumbia. 6 per 0ent.,18 72 .• • • •••••••••••• 100 —, ..... Do. 1895.. lOO .... Can.Gov.6p.o.Jan!&July 100 00 , :4: 11:47i 1877-84 Do. 6p. o 7eb. Aug & 100 102 " p, 0. Jan. .t July lOO 921 03/ 961 Do. sp. C. Inscribed ek lOO 90 92 cape G.llOPc , 0 PAL 1873 -• 109 102 lei : D p o o. . 6p. o. Mar. & Sept 0 1 1 9 5 00 April Ca Do.Apl.&oo 1890-1900 lOO 111 In 4 Do. do 18800 lOO 107 1 09 Do. 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Victoria 6 rer cent. 1691.. 100 114 111 ... P 9. 4:1111/34 Oct ft.,. tog 14 1 14 141 . PARIS CORRESPONDENCE. MONDAY. The Right Centre and the Left Centre have each put forth a manifesto, the full text of which is given in the journals to-day. The Right, which, of course, numbers Emile 011ivier among its signatories, declares its attachment to parliamentary Government, which implies a free press and free elections, a responsible Ministry, and a compact majority with definite principles. It then proceeds to summarise the most needed reforms, such as the abrogation of the law of public safety, the adoption of a system of decen tralisation, electoral and municipal reform, the modification of Article 75, the trial of press offences by jury, the alteration of the stamp duty into a postal charge, the suppression of the prefectorial right to select the journals which shall have official news, gratuitous education of the superior grade, and parlia mentary inquiries into treaties of commerce. The last item, you will perceive, is a bonne bouche for the Protectionists, and will no doubt help to confirm some wavering supporters. One hundred and fourteen names aro attached to this document, among which are many who have played a prominent part in the crisis. Thirty-seven members of the Left Centre have as yet signed the rival manifesto, but others are expected to join it. The most remarkable feature in this programme of the Left is its similarity to the programme of the Right. In fact, the framers of the mix - 1s; declare that they are, for the roost part, nearly identical. The Left, however, remarks that the programme cannot be caried out without constitutional changes, more especially those which refer to the electoral districts, and the nomination of the mayors, and they demand that the Government shall use its initiative to effect the admission of the popular representatives to a share in these necessary modifications of the Constitution. A special law adm;t:;ing the communes to a sufficient parti cipation in the choice of the magistrates is the other reservation which the Marquis d'Andelarre and his followers think it necessary to make with regard to the programme of the Right Centre. They conclude with the expression of their conviction that unanimity of action between all the sections of the Liberal-Conser vative party is most desirable. You will readily see that there is good reason for the general satisfaction expressed at the prospect of forming a strong and united Liberal party. There was good cause to fear from the dis organisation of political parties that the Reformers would lose the vantage ground they had gained by the events of the year, in petty differences and jealousies between their leaders. The Government, we may be very sure, would not be slow to take advantage of this, and whether it granted a new lease of life to personal power, or produced a revolutionary reaction, it would certainly not conduce to the establishment of constitutional government. The chief organs of the press are rejoicing. Even the Patric hopes that there is an end to the division between the two Centres. The Temps looks hopefully to the result of the new experiment, a representative regime with universal suffrage under the empire. The Journal des Dibats observes that the ques tions which unite the two groups of the Centre are more numerous than those which divide them, and that the extreme Right and extreme Left are reduced to isolated and powerless minorities. The Figaro has received a letter from Baron Jerome David, Vice-President of the Corps Legislatif, contradicting the statement that he had refused to sign the programme of the Right Centre. He was not, he states, invited to the meeting at M. Josseau's, and only heard of the manifesto indirectly. He and his friends wish to avoid the schisms which have already compromised the majority, and the divisions which may occur will be in spite of their efforts. M. Emile Girardin, who had kept silent on the subject of M. Emile 011ivier's scheme to reconstitute the majo rity in the Corps Legislatif, has just written an article very much in favour of the honourable deputy's proposal. At a private nhinion which took place the other day at the Salle Moli(:.re, M. Crbmieux declared that a project of electoral law would shortly be prepared by the Left. In the first place, it will suppress all official candidatures, and it also enacts severe penalties against all official agents who meddle inthe elections. OA the fifteenth of this month a new daily paper will apiekt: It is to be called the Cloche, and will be conducted by M. Louis Ulbach. It is to be the real representative of the opinions of the Left. M. Ulbach has met with a great deal of support both in the literary and political world. Joseph Mazzini is travelling in Germany, and seeking to realise his grand idea of the fusion of the Latin races— It Tian, French, and Iberian—under a Republican Govern ment. The Liberte states that Count Codfroi de la Tour d'Auvergne has arrived in Rome, and been most,graciously received by the Pope. The Pontiff desired him, in writing to his father, to convey to him his benedic tion. The good relations that exist between the Court of Rome, and the family of Tour d'Auvergne are well known. The French Minister for Foreign Affairs received his title of Prince from the Holy See. A cache has just been established in the Avenue d'Eylau, under the patronage of the Prince Imperial. Tho model of the institution was in the Exhibition of 1867, and the young prince wrote his name in the book placed there for strangers who were interested in the affair. The inauguration of this creche raises the number of these useful asylums in Paris to seventeen. The Archbishop of Rouen has contradicted the report that he had carried with him to Rome libretto of all the operas in order that the Council might examine them in a theological point of view. ATTACK BY PIRATES. According to news from Hongkong, the North-German merchant barque Apenrade, sailing under Captain H. Davidsen, was attacked by pirates in the Chinese waters, near Macao, on the 24th September. The crow of the barque consisted of the captain, the pilot, and twelve men, while the number of her assail ants was about a hundred. Yet the Germans defended themselves with such resolution that one man was slain, and all the rest were injured, the wounds of the captain and pilot having been of a very severe description. No bravery could, of course, successfully contend with such odds. The pirates were, however, disturbed in their work of plunder by tho approach of a steam vessel and the Apenrade escaped to the harbour of Macao. The system of appointing navigating officers to ships in tho steam reserve is, we are informed, to be die= continued. The Lords of the Admiralty paid an official visit to Chatham dockyard on Saturday. No display of any kind by way of reception was made on the arrival of the mem bers of the Board. The Globe states that the Lords of the Admiralty have determined that officers in the Navy shall not hold their appointments on full pay for a longer term than three years. Mr. Candlish and Captain Beaumont, members of the Abyssinian Inquiry Commission ; have arrived at Bom bay. Captain Beaumont now intends to return home in December by the Euphrates valley route. Messrs. Harper and Brothers, the Amerizan pub lishers, have, at their own expense, engaged Hiram Powers, the sculptor, to erect a suitable tombstone over the grave of the hibtorian Hildreth, late American Consul at Trieste, who is buried in the Protestant cemetery at Florence. A telegram was received in Aberdeen on Saturday from Mr. Grant Duff, M.P , consenting, though unwillingly, to contest the Rectorship of the University with Sir William Stirling Maxwell, if the latter was put forward by educa tional obstruotives and allowed his name to be used by them. H that is not the case, Mr. Grant Duff will retire. The Secretary of State for War has decided to call in all the rifles at present in use by the volunteers except such as have been specially issued for prize shooting at Wimbledon. The arms will not be required to be sent in all at once, but by districts, and the localities named to send in their arms first aro Nos. 6,8, and 10. On Saturday night a soldier of 72d Regiment, named Macleish, who is on furlough, killed a man named Lynch, at Glasgow. The soldier was drunk, and stag gered against Lynch, who remonstrated with him. Some one else struck the soldier, who drew his dirk and stabbed Lynch in the groin. He died before help could be got. The soldier is in custody. A mock auction swindler received a heavy sentence at the Liverpool borough sessions an Saturday. He was found guilty in August last of defrauding a woman of 265., Lut as he gave notice of appeal sentence was deferred. The verdict of the jury was confirmed by tho Court above, and on Saturday the mock auctioneer was sent to penal servitude for seven years. A strike at the Tyldes'ey collieries, through which a large number of men have been unemployed for between four and five months, has been settled. The men struck because larger tubs were introduced without a correspond ing increase in tho rate of payment. An increa,3o has now been agreed to by the employers, and the men will no doubt return to work. During the dispute nearly 200 mon have been supported by the poor-law guardians. According tl:e Cit4lian, Mr. Hartog, the senior wrangler, is not likely to remain long a member of the Civil Service. The appointment to which ha was presented by the Chancellor of the Exchequer is of a temporary character, and lie has decided to devote himself to the study of the law. Mr. Hartog's stipend at the Treasury was, it is stated, fixed at £.150 per annum, but a reduction of £3O a year has alv e s been made on o= o 4o of his sbsonce en 4.lLidap. _. _.._..~:r -- rY NAVAL AND MILI7ARY IN2ELLIGENCE. Telegrams received from Alexandria state that her Majesty's Indian troopship Serapis left that port for Portsmouth on the 4th inst., all well ; and that the Crocodile arrived there from Portsmouth on the sth inst., all well. By the courtesy of Capt. the Hon. A. A. Coch rane, C. 8., superintendent, and other chief officials of Sheerness dockyard, our correspondent is enabled to send us the results of the competitive trials on board her Majesty's corvette Druid, 1,322 tons, to ascertain the relative merits of the Griffiths' (Maudslay and Co.) propeller, as against those of Vansittart, or Lowe's blades. As the ultimat deci sion is a matter of the highest importance, we give the comparative results, as to speed, wear and tear, mean revolution, and consumption of coal, &c., is detail. The trial of the Griffiths-Maudslay propel ler was made on the 2ith Nov. last, and iu that re port some of the trials were given, but in order that our nautical anl scientific readers may clearly understand the difference between the working of the two propellers we give the details concerning each. The mean revolutions of the shaft per mile, at full-bciler power, was, with the Griffiths- Maudslay, on the day just named, 452, the figures for six runs ranging from 307 to 515 ; the mean of revolutions per minute was 96.80 ; the range of the figures for the same number of .runs being from 98.51 to 95.80 ; the time of the mile run ranged from 4tnin. 3sec. to smin. 20sec. ; the mean of speed being 12.986 ; ranging, as worked out, from 11.250 knots to 13.075. These results were ob tained, as we have before reported, at an expen diture of coal, and with such an amount of oscilla tion and vibration—from 7 to 8 by index--as would lead to a cost in money utterly incommen surate, and which would therefore lead to a loss of very serious amount in the course of each twelve month's steaming. These defects were removed in the Vansittart trial, which, at full-boiler power, on Thursday last, showed the following re sults :—The mean of revolutions of shaft per mile, for six runs, was from 382 to 535, averag ing 453.6 ; the mean of revolutions per mi nute was, for six runs, 96.61, ranging from 95.53 to 96.98 ; the time of each mile ranged from 3 min. 57 sec. to 5 min. 36 sec. ; the mean of speed being 12 861, ranging, as worked out, from 10.714 knots to 15.190 knots. These results were obtained at a much less expenditure of coal, and with the most satisfactory diminution of vibration and oscil lation, this ranging from 4 to 5 by index, as against 7to 8 with the Griffiths-Maudslay. The half boiler traffic of Vansittart's propeller were equally satisfactory, and these results were commented on with some astonishment by the officials on board, among whom were the Hon. Captain Cochrane, C. 8., Mr. J. Steele, Admiralty inspector of steam machinery afloat (who was sent from Whitehall ex pressly for this trial), Mr. Warrener, of the firm of Maudslay, Sons, and Field (who supplied the boilers and machinery), &c. As regards the Vansittart blades this may be regarded as being only a pre liminary trial, the Admiralty having issued a peremptory order that, if necessary, the Vansit tart may have two more runs with the screw at a different angle of pitch : the Griffiths Maudslay pitch having been 15ft. 2in., against 13ft. 3iin. of the Vansittart. The Vansittart blades were fitted to the Maudslay " boss," although' by preference the boss for the blades should be of a spherical form, which gives greater scope to the curves, which are carried from the point of the front edges of the blades close into the boss on the oppo site face of each blade. A curved line can also be seen on the front edges of the blade, the curves playing an important part by preventing that in jurious vibration of the ship to which we have before alluded. They also have the long-sought-for effect of keeping the ship steady at the highest rate of speed. Still speaking of the Vansittart, it may be added, that in consepuence of the duration of a fog which obscured the Maplin-mile beacons, the ad vantage of making the runs at full-boiler power at high tide, when the surface of the water was smooth, was lost, and the runs had to be taken on a strong ebb tile, which is not favourable for realizing a high rate of speed. The wind, too, which had lifted the fog, also began to rise, and it was the opinion of many on board that had two extra runs been taken in lieu of the two first ones a much higher result would have been obtained, as the fires were drawing well and there was a plentiful supply of steam, which, in consequence of wait ing for the fog to lift, had gone down a little. Time, however, did not allow of this being done. Thera can be no doubt that the problem as regards the iteration of the ship, and its consequent discom fort to the crew and loss of money in repairs to the country, has at length been solved by Mrs. Van sittart's improvements upon her father's, the late Mr. Lowe's, inventions ; and as our ships are now engined with an amount of power which renders them susceptible of vibration and oscillation, care should be taken to provide them with screw pro pellers free from this defect. That this has now been accomplished by the " Lowe-Vausittart" pro peller is proved beyond all doubt, for the indicated horse-power with the last-named screw was 2,141, while with the Griffiths-Maudslay it was not less than 2,374 horses, giving a difference of 233 horses in favour of the Vansittart, while as high, if not higher, average of speed was obtained. Another great advantage gained by the Vansittart propeller over its competitors is the extraordinary backing power which it gives. The vessel having been brought to a standstill, steam was put on to one third only, when the ship went astern in a manner that was never before witnessed. The circles, too, at full and half boiler power, were made with the utmost facility ; in fact, with the Vansittart propeller the ship gave twice the helm she did with the Griffiths. The pendulum at half-boiler power with the Vansittart showed an oscillation of only 0 to 1, while with the Griffiths it reached 5 to 6, as much as with the first named at full boiler power. All these results prove that greater economy, as well as comfort of the crew, combined with as high a rate of speed, is obtained with the Vansittart as compared with the Griffiths, and this is a truth that cannot be too strongly im pressed OR those members of the Government to whom the management of our naval affairs has been intrusted. With reference to the paragraph which appeared on Friday last as to the gunvessel Teazer, appointed to take the place of the unfortunate Thistle, our correspondent at Sheerness assures that no repairs of importance were effected on board the Teazer at that dockyard. The facts are these :—The Teazer was ordered from Portsmouth to Sheerness to take on board the officers and crew of the Thistle, and that was all. Any defect, either of hull or machiney, should have been detected at Portsmouth for why the officials at that dockyard should have sent a de fective ship to Sheerness, to receive on board a crew intended for a foreign station, it is hard to imagine, although the explanation would be welcomed by the nation at large. A circular has been issued by direction of the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief relative to the custom of certain tradesmen, especially tailors, to give credit for goods supplied and even to lend money to gentlemen cadets at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. The order points out the evil =sequences of these practices, and requests the parents and guardians of gentlemen cadets at Woolwich not to pay any debt contracted by a cadet without their sanction, or any running account beyond a stated limit of amount fixed by them. It became known at Chatham yesterday that the finding and sentence of the general court-martial that assembled at that garrison a short time back, for the trial of Lieut. George Frederick Henry Rule, of the Chatham Voilgon of Royal Marines, and formerly of the Woolwich Division, had been n 1);, proved by the Queen. The charge upon which Lieutenant Rule was brought to trial was for st-Z -dalous conduct in having appropriated to his own use the sum of £75 that had been intrusted to him by Private Francis Rowsell, of the Plymouth Divi sion, to be deposited in the Post-office Savings bank, Lieut. Rule having been in command of the detachment of Royal Marines that was doing duty on board the Octavia, 35, and to which the man Rowsell was attached. The Court found the pri §oner guilty, and acatence4 him to be cashiered. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CROYDON RACES-YSTBRDAY. STAND PLATE. 1 Goodfellow.. Black Prince Droxford.. •• 3 Five ran. SELLING STEEPLECHASE. Casse Tete 3leerschaum.... Kingfisher Five ran. 1 ••.. 2 3 GRAND METROPOLITAN STEEPLECHASE. Chovy Chase 1 Gardeuer - Scarring ton 3 Four ran. Brick and Globule wero scratched at 1.30, and Pearl Diver at 1.35. MAIDEN STEEPLECHASE. Droxford Jack of Clubs E:uula .-r. 1 'Three ran. 'RACING FIXTURES-1870. FEBRUARY. Derby 10, 11 Newton 25, Harr° NV 17, 18 I Al ARCH. Nottiugham l, 2 1 Epsom 29, N. Liverpool B, 9, 10 1 Bromley 31, A pril 1 War wick 22, 23, 21 1 A PRIL. Northampton 5, 6 I Lewes .. 26, 27 \Vest. Drayton 7, 8 I Croydon 28. 29 Newmarket Craven th to 21 Newmarket Ist S 2 to 5 Chester lO to 13 Winchester 10, 11 Salisbury l2, 13 114rponden 9 0 21 lifttn ')-1, •,o Stamford 26, 27 Croydon 26, 27 Epsom... 31 to June 3 York - 17 18 Doncaster 19, 20 Jl7: Croydon 8, 9 Manchester 8,9, 10 Ascot ll to 17 I Windsor 21, 22 Newmarket 5 to 8 Nottingham l2, 13 Ctielinstord l2, 13 Reading 12, 13 AU( Brighton 2, 3 Brighton Club 4 Lewes 5, 6 Egham 9, 10 Windsor 11, 12 Bromley 16, 17 SEPT Warwick Abingdon ...8, 9 Doncaster l3 to 16 Hampton 20, 21 OC' Bedford 4, 5 Leicester 6, 7 Bromley 6, 7 ki 0 V 1 Liverpool 8 to 11 I Newton 22, 28 I Hampton 23, 24 1 Bibury Club 29 1 Stockbridge...3U, and July 1 FLY. West Drayton l4, 13 Huntingdon l9, 20 Kingsbury 21, 22 Goodwood 2G to 29 I T S T. Stockton 17 to 19 Oxford 13, 19 York 23 to 25 Plymouth 25, 2j Derby 3u, 3/ Weymouth 30, 31. MBEIt. Richmond 2O, 21 Western Meet. (Ayr) 21, 23 Hendon 22, 23 Newmarket Ist Uct..27 to 30 'OBER. Newmarket 2n:: 0ct..10 to 14 Cheltenham 18, 19 Newmarket H0t'u...24 to 29 Shrewsbury 14 to 18 STEEPLECHASE FIXTURES-1870. FEBRUARY. Birmingham 8, 9 Harrow I Derby 19, 11 Newton 25, 21 MARCH. Liverpool 8,9, 10 I Bromley 31 and April 1 West Somerset 16, 17 Caelteuliain...3l stud April 1 Warwick 22 to 24 Aldershot 7, 8 I Kingsbury lB, 19 MARKETS.-7 his Day. LIVERPOOL COTTON. Doe. 7.—Sides pr)bably 10,000 bales.] The market steady. PRICE OF GOLD. The quotation of gold at Paris is about at par, and the short exchange on London is 251. 13c. per £1 sterling On comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3 1;5.100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold at the above price Is slightly 'dearer in Paris than in L )thior L 157 FOR THE USE OF VISITORS TO T.HE METROPOLIS. Bf U SE U MS. Antiquarian—Somerset House. Admission by application to the secretary. Botanic —Royal Botanic Society of London. Regent's park. Admission daily by orders from fellows. Royal Gardens, Kew. 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Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in tin-lined packets, labelled JAMES EPPS and Co., lionicoopathic Chemists, London. Du BARRY'S Delicious Health Restoring' 'Revalenta Arabica Food, which contains three times the nourishment of the best meat, saves fifty tilted its cost in other remedies, restores perfect digestion. strong nerves, sound lungs. healthy liver, re freshing sleep, fwactioEfd regularity, and energy to the most, enfeebled, removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dys pepsia), habitual constipation, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sort throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia. irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, h ea d_ ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness, sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis, incipient consumption, scrofula, tightness of the Chest, pains at the pit of the stomach, between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few out of 5 8,('00 cures —rife Pope's health restores by Du Barry's Food, Cure No. x 8,410. Rome, July 21, 1868. —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revel. nta Arabica Food. of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too hizhly."—From the Dazette du Milli, July 25. Cure No. 10,832: " Fifty yatir3 indeßtlibable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach 14iaria Jolly. o t h r t h j a a m c Ling, near N az , N i c o a r r f a o g l Norfolk and von. Cure No. 47,121: _ •-•, extreme nervousness, indigestion Waltham Cross, Herts, —; fancies. 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