The Sun. — London, England, 1869-04-23 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. Consols are 93 1 for money; ditto, for Ac count, ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 911 1; New Three per Cents, 91/ ; Exchequer Bills £ l ,OOO, 2 3 prem. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April, 1874, 210 12 ; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 114 1 ; ditto 4 per Cent., Oct., 1888, 1001 ; ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent., ; ditto Bonds under £l,OOO, 12 prem. The Foreign Stock Market is firmer, though the changes are not material. Turkish and Spanish have advahced 1 per cent. The Five per Cents. of the former are 421 to 421, and the Six per Cents., 661 to 661. Spanish have recovered to 331. Ita lian is steady, at 55i to 551. In American Securities the principal feature is the extreme heaviness of Atlantic and Great Wes tern Railway Securities, though the price current at this moment is hardly the lowest. English Railway Shares ale quiet, and with the exception of an advance of 1 in Metropolitan Ex tension, the price being ICO to 101, quotations show little or no variation. Dealings in Miscellaneous Shares are again very limited, and the only movement in prices is an im provement of 1 in Anglo-American Telegraph, the prices being:22l to /. More business is doing in Bank Shares, and in s ome cases prices are firmer. Chartered Mercantile, and London Joint Stock each advanced 10s., the former being quoted at 28 to 29, and the latter at 321 co 331. On the other hand London and County is 108. lower, at 491 501 ; London and Westminster, 6 3 to 64, and Union of London, 351 to 361. The Great Luxembourg Railway dividend is offi cially announced at the rate of 4s. per share, or 2 per cent. per annum, against 11 for the correspond ing period of the previous year. At a meeting of the proprietors of the Oriental Bank, an interim dividend at the rate of 12 per cent, per annum was declared. A meeting of the shareholders of the Socidte Agrieole et Industrielle d'Egypte is called for the 26th inst., " when the Committee will report pro gress." A petition for the winding up of the Anglo- Egyptian Navigation Company (Limited) is to be heard before Vice-Chancellor James on the let of May. The sum of £3,000 in gold was taken to the Bank yesterday, and £50,000 was withdrawn for Malta. The Sussex, from Melbourne, has brought 251,000. The Bank of France return for the week shows an increase of £293,000 in the bullion. The Secretary of State for India in Council has given notice that tenders for bills of exchange on Calcutta and Madras will be received at the Bank of England on Wednesday, the sth May next, on the terms stated on the 10th of November, 1863, to the amount of 55,00,000 rupees. At an adjourned meeting of the creditors of Mr. John Crossley, in the wool trade, of Halifax, the liabilities were computed at £38,000, and the assets at £14,000. It was decided that the estate shall be wound up under trustees. The list for the new Spanish Loan will be closed by Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co. this afternoon. The subscriptions at Paris are stated to have been large. According to arrangements just completed, the United States' mails for Great Britain, conveyed on Tuesdays by the Hamburg-American Steamship Company, will in future be landed at Plymouth instead of Southampton, thus effecting a saving of several hours. The steamers will proceed from Plymouth to Cherbourg to land the French mails and passengers. The Hammonia, from New York on the 13th inst., is the first vessel under the new System. The colonial wool sales arc fixed to commence on Thursday, the 6th May. The fresh importa tions up to the present date, since the beginning of last sales, comprise 181,476 bales, viz.:—New South Wales and Queensland, 24,966 ; Victoria, 94,406 ; Tasmania, 4,053; South.Ausu-alia, 15,481 ; West Australia, 1,870 New Zealand, 13,035 ; Total Australa,ian, 153,841 ; Cape, 27,635. Total colonial, 185,476 bales. Further arrivals are daisy expected. The Lords of the Admiralty have aceepted the tender of the Australian Meat Company (Limited), for whom Messrs. John M'Call and Co. are the London agents, for the supply of 200,0001b5. of Australian preserved beef. When it was mentioned a few days back that the foreign loans, actual and prospective, of the present season might be estimated at 50 mil lions sterling, the tctal was irrespective of any ad ditions that had not thus far been suggested. Yesterday a Roumanian railway loan of £1,500,000 Was announced by the Anglo-Austrian Bank, being part of an authorized issue of £6,000,000 for the The of a line from Galatz to Bucharezt. Ile Bonds are to bear a guaranteed interest of 7} Per cent., and are to be issued at the 'price of 71/. A deposit of 10 per cent. is to be made on applica tion, and the whole of the balance is to be paid by the 15th of next month. The lists are to be open in London on the 28th and 29th inst., and simulta neously in the principal towns of Prussia, Austria, 11unga r y, and the Danubian Principalities. The ship Ida Ziegler, homeward bound from New Zealand to London, has been reported at Lloyd's, by telegram via Point de Galle, totally lost in tlawkes Bay. She is stated to be heavily insured in the room and among the offices. The Bankers' Protection Association have insti tuted a prosecution against one of the clerks in the house of Messrs. Baring Brothers, named Alexander Dyce, on the charge of forging a cheque purporting to be signed by Mr. Moss W ynan, and endorsed by Messrs. Baring, on Messrs. Martins, bankers, in Lombard-street. The extent of his defalcations are represented to be under £1,500. The return from the Bank of England for the week ended the 21st of April gives the following results when compared with the previous week : Rest PuLlio deposits Other deposits 17,659,278 ... Decrease 452,286 On the other side of the account : government securi ties £15,020,798 ... N o change. Other securities 37,370,006 ... lacrosse ... 112 Notes unemployed 7,256,175 ... Increase 154,155 The amount of notes in circulation is £23,637,950, being a decrease of £150,035 ; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £ 17 ,030,151, h an increase of £61,429 when compared with the preceding return. Subjoined is a comparison of the present position of the Bank of England and the prices of Consols and French Rentes with the corresponding week of last year Same Week At Present. last Year. Bullion 8 Reserve ... 201 ... 11, 587 , 080 Notes in ci rcu l at i on 23 637 950 23,940,020 Bate of discount Consols Frsnali Relates BRITIBII FUNDS-TWO O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 per Cent. Console Ditto for Account, S per Cent. Reduced New 3 per Cent New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 Do. 6 per Cen Jan. 1873 Annuitie , 4, SO yrs, •27 pi re sth Jan., 1880 — Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — Do (Red Sea Teleh,raph), Aug., 1908 — Each() iur Bills, 41,000, 2i per Ct. D 3 £5OO Do. £lOO & £2OO — Bank of England Stock, 44 par Cent 14). opening — Canada 4 per Cont. Bonds Inter -Colonial Uranium INDIAN GovsnNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 104 per Cent., April 1874 2lO 12 Do. Opening, for Account Do. 5 per Cent..fuly, 1880 Do. 4 per Cent., Oot. 1888 Do. Certificates Do. Enlaced Pape. 4 per Cent..,... Do. 5 per Cost., Jan. 1872 -,,,., Do. 54 per Cent. May 1879 — Da 5 per Cent., Rup. Deb. 1872..., — Do do. 1877 — DO. do. 1 882 ,„a,,,, -- win April 22. ; Christian, s Beatrice, Prince and s. ENCE April 23. r'; steamer cd here at n Bonalg ►pril 23• )il At mid- kpril 22. ale to enter the Porte. y, hitherto pril 22• y's steam ed here at ad-vtiuds 1, 117,000 ri ncen t 011 April 1. nander of 30th ult. :d o n the d a sub- of March , s ; vod 7,800 to ranee no' 50s. ; t° rch 26. nce, 5.40 rch 13. , 42a. 6 c l. Ly bills. Aril 22. iuotation 1., S ter- ;-Twent/ o, 18 85, 3, 1061 ; nig UP ite, 3 3e ' !orn—old Day. a roUgtl• )eforo Ur. 1 a plll,li° Mrs. Jan° 'ace, TN" torth ) Tavern 1 103. 6d• )1 her and eava her, J ohnson , loner and le a bola oy, ;cuticula.' lowa th e he Long )trace bla johnsoil ling w ith ping jar I the pri - StepoP Wet WA purse or walkiog e officer' lief, and se e ver,/ afore be I well to f volun' some in" the VI- 13, w 0 liotropo- )ark sts prisoner ; 6 A 1 1 0" By wer e 1 on the stone is Iplained ) Metro' neat the hi s veil ;Tear the )n to the rers and iuld 111:4 the pri or with' severa r to hie Ling this 1 to meal PANY• ,donisn stealing 'orthern o f the (Ace is 1 pack sealent' nd sn's y vpos ite )ick ttp wator- im in $ 1 of the hiut 12 9 stealiog ie bead ttache 1. 3 office/ of th• r Moen said he set had he had r i so ner Ickae -day. Mi. Deb., 5 per cent., Aug. 1878 — Do. Bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO Do. under £l.OOO FOREIGN FUNDS—TWO O'CLOCK. Argentine Republic, 8 per Cent ... .. Do., Scrip £45 paid .. Au nrian Bonds 5 per cent Do. 1E59 — Bra Lilian 5 per Cent — Do. q per Cent. 1852 — Do. do. 1858.... Do. do. 186 , 1 — Do. do., 1868 63 Do. 5 per Cent., 1865 — Do Account Boi i 80 B mines Ayres 6 per Cent. Do 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent ) Cuba, 6 per Cent. (Lillian 6 per Cent — Do. 4/ per Cent...,....... Do. 3 per Cent., l'o. 6 per cert.. 1867 96i I Po. 7 per Cent., 186 G C lo nbian, 6 per Cent. Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825 Dan , t.daii Principalities, 7 ler Cent 76 Do 8 per Cent., 1867 _ I.:'quador New Uoniolidated, 1 per Cent Egyrtiau, 7 per Cent.... ' I , Z) :•• 4 ,coda Issue De. 1501 Bonds Do. £lOO Bonds • •••• 1)n. 1864 Do. Account Do X5OO Bonds • __ • Do. Lim; Bonds B7l i English Scrip, 1868 Do do. £45 pd — Governn'ent Railway Doh..niuro, — Groctc 5 per Cont., 182.1 5, ox Coups. — Do. Account 1)o. Coupong Do. Account Guatemala 5 per Cont . — Honduras Gov Rail. Los n.,10 p. Ct., all pd its iian 5 per Cert., 1865 — Do. Account ~. Do Maremmana Railway 56 Slexicat 3 per Cent — Ditto for Account — Do. 1864 — Do 6 per Cont. Anglo-French — qonteridvau 6 per Cont. Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent - New Granada l7l Do 3 por Con 37 1; Do. Deferred POrtlTittU 5 per Cont. 1865 Do Account ~ .. 781 ii f Do 4} per Cent. (th;' , arren) Do 4 per Cent.. 1862 - Do Account Portsguese 3 per Ct.,1853,'6, 7,'9,'60,'2,% , 35} Do. do. 1867 Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid — Russian 5 fr per Cent., 1822, £ St Do 4} per Cent , 1850 Do 4} per Cent., 1860 Do 3 per Cent., 1859 Do 5 per Cent., 1862 Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds , Do. du. £B4 15s. do — Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds Do. do £B4 158 do — Do Nicolas Railway 651 Sardinian 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Cen Do. Account Do. 1867 Do. Account Do. Now Deferred Do. Account Do. Passive Do. Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded — Do. Account Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1864 Do do, 1868 Do de, Scrip Turkish 6 per Cent.: . Do Account Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds _ Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do Account Do .#lOO Bonds 7oi Do 5 per Cent. 1865 Do Account Do G per Cent., 1 865 661 Do 4 por Cent., Guaranteed ••.. Do Laud Warrants (Hectares) Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do. Account Do 6 per Cent., 1862 Do 6 por Cent. 1864 Dividends on the above payable in London. Austria o per Cent. Ex 10 Florins Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f. Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates Do. Account — French Rentes, 3 per Cent.. Ex. 25f. — TWO O'CLOCK. Jonsols, Money 93 Do. Account, May 6 93} BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, April 22. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. April 22. fr. c. 182,500,000 April 15. 182,500,000 - Capital of the Bank Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 11 22,105,750 11 Reserve of landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation Banknotes to orderand receipts payable at sight Treasury account cur- 35,547,168 16 35,940,463 22 155,608,230 14 216,648,475 44 41,970,021 - 979,540 - 5,511,463 96 933,790 85 rent cieditJr Current accounts, Paris Do. branch banks Dividends payable Discounts and sundry 157,360,931 24 247,833,298 67 41,825,856 - 898,245 - 5,800,763 02 933,790 85 interests Rediscounted the last six months Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries 8,495,017 35 9,223,820 39 Total CREDITOR. April 22. fr. April 15. fr. BOURSE, April 22.—Th closed as follows : 4} per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7l 15 Credit Mobilier 253 75 End of month 253 75 Credit Foncier 1485 End of month — RAILWA Cash in hand and in Branch banks Commercial bills over due Commercial bills dis- 190,525 91 196,221 62 counted, not yet due 213,997,550 91. 263,534,069 8 Do. branch banks 234,108,770 236,875,068 Advances on deposit of bullion Do. branch banks Do. on French Public Securities Do. by branch banks Do. on railway shares and debentures Do. branch banks Do. on Credit Fencier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) Government Stock re- 17,266,550 - 17,605,200 - 2,341,000 - 2;56000 - 13,639,300 - 6,498,080 - 13,701,900 - 6,4(6,580 - 38,440,000 - 28,256,200 - 38,611,600 - 28,319,300 - 989,300 - 995,800 - 951,500 - 9.59,500 - 60,000,000 -- 60,000,000 - serve Do. disposable [lentos Immobalisees (Law, June '2, 1857) Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches Expenses of manage- 12,980,750 14 80,627,187 21. 12,980,750 14 80,627,187 2 11,0,000,000 - 100,000,000 - 9,012,473 - 9,022,395 - inent Sundries 1,193,571 27 1,174,503 92 9,385,403 56 10,855,566 56 Total Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France. Ro ULAND. •ee o'clock—The marke Bank Shares 2930 Ital , an Fives 55 95 End of month — Mexican Loan 25 25 Do. Bonds Spanish Threes 30 25 Home Debt Deferred Cash. Orleans Northern .4. 10721 Lyons and Medit erranean Southern..... 615 Western 576 i Eastern ............ Sardinian Austrian s li 687* Lombard North of Spain 477* 59 Saragossa 5 Roman s2} W ILL IAM BRADBURY.—Those who pro duce P e riodical desire that it should contain a record this a ffectionate regard for o ne, who, a t a good old ag e, of and their in ieir pos session of all the rewards due to an upright a nd ener getic life, has just pass ed to his rest. Mr. Bradbury.fron he early moment when ha became associated with this Journal, devoted himself to its interests in a spirit of no mere commercial venture : he rejoiced in all its successes. and to contribute to them was at cues to become the friend of a man with whom friendship was no idle name. His genial presence at the meetings of the Contributors was ever welcome, and his hearty co-operation in matters of business was not more appreciated by them than his avowed pride in the fortunes of the work, or his brotherly sympathy with all engaged upon it. They will not soon forget the good man, and good friend, who has peacefully passed away. —Punch. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Suppliedin casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application !to Messrs. Danville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Besmort r buudings, Strand, London, W.Q....[Ad verti.soment. (Signed) THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVLNING, APRIL, 23, 1869. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Closing Business Share NAME. Paid. Price. done 10 Agra Limited, A all 11 12 11 101 AO Du B lO 21 31 50 Albion 00 Alliance, Limited 20 Anglo-Austrian 20 Anglo-Egyptian, lim all 20 21 20 Anglo-Hungarian 8 2 24 20 Anglo-Italian 1866, limited 10 51 41 40 Australasian 20 Bank of British Columbia.. all 11 13 20 Do issued at 2pm ~.. 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 2.5 37 30 10 Bank of New Zealand all 17 18 50 British North American 20 Chartered of India, Austra lia, r ud China all 25 Chartered Mere. of India. • London ; and China all 20 City 100 Colonial 25 10 Consolidated, Jim. 50 Delhi and London, lint 59 East London, lim 5 20 English and American, lint 19 20 English Bank of Rio de Ja neiro. lint lO 20 English, :coltish, and Aus - traliau Chartered 281 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation all 281 Do new a. - ' 10u Imperial, lim 20 Imperial Ottoman lO s 5 lonian all 25 Do new 5 20 Lnd Mortgage of India, lint 4 too D 4, sp. e. Debs.lB6 I, 30 all 76 30 London Batik; of Mexico and South America, lim. 20 100 Loudon and Brazilian, Jim. 45 20 Do new 71 Do London &River Plate, lim. 40 23 Do new 10 20 Loudon Chart. of Australia all 20 London and County 2O 50 Do new, iss at 20 p.m, 16 pd ll Loudon Joint Stock 1 London and South African al 00 London & S.-Western, lim, 20 150 London & Venezuela, lim l2l 100 London and Westminster 2O 100 Do Scrip, iss at 10 pm 2O 100 Merchant, lint 25 10 Metropolitan, lim all 100 Midland, lim 2O 5 National of Australia 25 National of Liverpool, lim. 15 100 National Provinc. of Eng'd 42 10 Do . 42 50 National. 2O 20 New South Wales all 20 North-Western 7l 25 Oriental Bank Corporation all 50 I'rovinc. Bank. Corpo., lint lO 00 Provincial of Ireland 25 10 Do new. ' -all 100 Stand. of Brit. S. Africa, lint 25 100 Do issued at 6 pm, 10 25 Union of Australia all 100 Union of Ireland, lim 50 Union of London l5 20 21 `.91 301 27f 12 121 39 40 I 1 pr 1p 161 17 36 38 2/ 16 17 2 zi 121 21 26 14 ip n 34 75 73 61 51 30 27 5 1 44 0 11 21 Zip 244 25 60 61 .:t . 21 . :3 . 31 321 81 9i lt 12 ••• ••• 63 61 63.1 I 4 11 7* Ti ld ip ▪ 14$ • If} 41 43 421 4s} 6 6 88 90 i ii 8 6 47 48 iii 3t 34 TELEGRAP II COMPANI ES. CO Anglo-American Tel., lien all 22; 22; 22; 10 Anglo Mediter Tel., 1im.... 10 11; 12; at Atlantic Telegraph lO 2 k 26 24 st Do. 8 per cent. lOO 71 74 72 at B. and I. Magnetic Tel., lira. 100 160 165 at Electric & Inter. Telegraph 100 2,0 245 10 Do. New ... . 25 Indo-European Tel., lira lO . ... 3 Loud. Provincial Tel. lira all a gi 1 Do. Prefer. 1 0 per cen t . a l l 10 Mediterra. Eaten. Tel., lira. all $ 41 r• 23 Reuter's Telegram all 50 54 20 Societe Transatlant., lira... 14 4 3 15 at Submarine Telegraph 1 Do. Scrip all 1 If 20 Telegraph Con. & Main.,lirri all lii; 171 17; * SU. Kingdom Tel. Co., lira all 61 6 4 Do. 10 per cent. Pref all 31 4 p SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times thinks that the House of Commons is to be congratulated on having gone through another section of the Ministerial Bill on Thursday night, and on having entirely disposed of the clauses granting compensation to persons deprived of income by the measure. The divi sions in the course of the evening were marked by the usual majorities of 100 to 115 on the side of the Govern ment, and we believe that if any supporter of the Minis try felt any compunction in supporting the terms of com pensation proposed by the bill it would be more than dispelled upon due consideration of the facts of the case. Irish rectors and Irish curates will be secured in the enjoyment of such incomes as they have hitherto received, and this is no slight matter ; but it is scarcely necessary to add that the Free Irish Episcopal Church of the future will be neither poor in wealth nor weak in spirit. The landowners of Ireland are Protestant, and it cannot be supposed that the Irish gentry will be slack to support the ministers of the communion to which they belong. The Church body will be endowed with churches, with ecclesiastical residences, and with commu tations, and the reconstruction of the Irish Church will enable its governing committee or trustees to promote the claims of merit and of zeal in a degree little inferior to that hitherto impossible under the organisation of the Irish Establishment. Some economy in administration will, of course, be effected, tut it will be economy of a character the propriety of which co one will deny. It will be an incident of reorganisation that unnecessary offices will be suppressed and over-paid duties reduced ; but whatever charge may be inflicted, and justly inflicted, on the Protestant laity of Ireland in requiring them to pay in the future for privileges hitherto enjoyed at the public expense, the clergy of the Episcopal Church will have cause to acknowledge that no revolution of similar moment has ever been effected with such an absence of trial and suffering to the clergy themselves. The Telegraph observes that Englishmen are pro verbially jealous of the slightest interference with what they call vested interests ; and hence not the least ticklish part of the Irish Church Bill is that which falls under the head of " compensation to persons deprived of income." However, the Commons have cut off the heads of the principal difficulties. Mr. Gladstone asserts that, on an average, each of the permanent curates will receive as compensation a sum of £1,300 or £1,400 ; and if they can get permission from the incumbent of the parish—which many will do by " compounding " with him for the loss of their services, or in other words, by giving a con siderable share of the prize—they are free to roam the wide world over in search of curacies, with perhaps £7OO or £BOO in their pockets to pay the expenses. As for the non-permanent brethren, they may go where they like without asking leave from anybody, and take their whole prize-money in their pockets. If not wanted in Ireland, they can go to England, Scotland, the United States, Canada, India, Australia, or any other country which possesses a branch of the Protestant Epis copal Church. But Conservative members are too prone to fancy that a crowd of curates will be cast adrift from their Irish moorings. The idea, we repeat, is a libel on the generosity of the Irish Protestants—a libelwhich finds its best refutation in the vast wealth that has been poured into the ecclesiastical treasury of Scotland by the Pro testant Free Churchmen in that country. The Irish curates have no reason to despair. They are to be left in clover. May we add the fervent hope that, since the recital of their woes is singularly dry, and since their fate has now been settled, the House of Commons has heard the last of their troubles ! The Daily News foresees that the permanent curate of Ireland will succeed the compound householder of England as the great parliamentary bore. He is the text and subject of lay sermons in St. Stephen's as fearful in them selveland in their probable consequences as any that the imagination of Sidney Smith could conceive as proceeding from the wildest of his order. The House of Commons is not yet preached dead ; but the long continuance of the two nights' discussion, of which the permanent curate has been the principal theme, would be execution by process of slow torture. The dropping of water upon the exposed head of the victim is described as, in its cumulative effect, the most terrible infliction which inquisitorial cruelty devised. The dropping of words is almost as bad. The dreary theme is not sensibly relieved by the laboured jocularity of Mr. Vernon Harcourt, nor the apt grace of classical allusion which enables Mr. Beresford Hope to find in Mr. Synan, the member for Limerick, the counter part of the Sinon, whose treacherous wiles brought the fatal horse within the walls of sacred Troy. The per manent curate is an entity whom it seems as difficult to apprehend as the abstract idea of a Lord Mayor. He evades definition and arrest with Protean versatility. He is carcely to be caught by gold ; and the promise of some thing to his advantage hardly succeeds in making him enter an appearance. But though he will not come in his proper time and place, he is always intruding where he has no business to be. If Mr. Gladstone's calculations be correct, Mr. Vernon Harcourt's complaints that the curates arc scurvily treated seem without ground. His protestation that they were as well entitled to the consideration of Government as Irish lunatics and idiots gives up the whole principle of the bill, and asserts the claims of a sectarian minority to a portion, at least, of the funds intended for the whole Irish nation, without distinc tion of sect. He did not succeed in modifying the clause, which passed without opposition, as did the sections defining the compensation due to diocesan schoolmasters, rectors, vergers, organists, and others. The Standard says the Home Secretary has explained the grounds upon . which he reprieved Wiltshire, and has vindicated generally the recommendations by which he has guided the exercise of the royal prerogative of pardon. We cannot say that Mr. Bruce's statement, for eliciting which the country is indebted to Sir George Jenkinson, is at all satisfactory. If we regard it as justifying Mr. Bruce's own proceedings, we can only do so by allowing that a failure of justice may be expected to occur in one at least of every two trials for murder. Talk about legal reforms, indeed. Here is one to which Parliament should give its immediate attention. Human life is, it seems, according to the Home Secretary, the sport of our present tribunals ; and for every murderer convicted and sen tenced an innocent man is put in danger of his life. But the real question as to Mr. Bruce's exercise of the power which his office gives him was not raised. Grant that it was right to reprieve the brute Wiltshire, and the injustice of executing Sheward becomes all the more apparent. The execution of the latter was not needed to impress upon the people a respect for the sanc tity of human life. The verdict which found him guilty of the crime for which he was sentenced rested entirely , upon his own confession, and not even sir. Bruce could have felt any confidence in the justice of that verdict unless it had, subsequent to the trial, been supplemented by another confession. Certainly, if there was any justi fication for the exercise of the prerogative of mercy in the cases in which Mr. Bruce has exercised it, there was a far stronger justification in the case of Sheward, and although there can be no doubt, and we allow it most unhesita tingly, that Mr. Bruce has anxiously weighed every one of those cases, and decided according to his sense of puulic duty, the public will, we fear, be inclined to suspect that Sheward was r eally hung in order to make the account between execiftions and reprieves look a little better. The Herald considers that the Liberal party has been reduced to absolute subjection, and that none of its members dare express an independent opinion on the clauses of the Irish Church Bill. No one could have believed that the bonds of party discipline would be so tightly strained, and the obligations of hustings pledges so lightly regarded, that every Liberal should be held bound to vote for every detail of a measure which violated one entire moiety, and that not the least important, of the promises given during the session and the canvass of 1808. I3ut it has proved that the system of terrorism instituted by Mr. Gladstone, the rejection of so many of the more independent membersof the party, and the signal examples of such men as Mr. Laing, Mr. Roebuck, and Arr. Horsman, have done' their work only too Nvell. The Liberals are as thoroughly cowed as the .subjects of Robespierre —as mere machines as a Russian soldiery. They must come down when they are bid ; hold their tongues at the word of command, and vote for every word in the bill, and against every proposal that emanates from an independent or Conservative member. They dare not fancy f or a mo m ent that their seats, their votes, or their sou ls are their own. They . must give the lie to their clearest convictions and the F most definite promises. The only l i berty left to them is that of shouting ; and depri ved of al l freedom of inaction. every other direction, they vent their feelings in hooting and laughing to an extent as unusual as the pressure to which they are subjected. Under such circumstances it is simply useless to persevere in any amendment that is Government, - not at once accepted by the and impossible to carry the slight est alteration that would do more than correct their many . oversights ; while it requires all the authority of the chair to secure a patient hearing for any Opposition speaker who ventures to occupy more than five minutes in the discussion of the most important ma tters, whether of principle or of practice. The Star remarks that the vexed question of primary education in Ireland must, sooner or later. come to be reconsidered by Parliament. The general resu.t, however, of Mr. Foster's inquiries must be regarded as eminently satisfactory. It is agreed, in the first place, that there is no lack of machinery for public instruction in Ireland, although in some parts of the country a redistri bution of schools is desiderated. Again, it is acknowledged that the atlendance of children is not practically checked by any of those causes the commanding influence of which we have unhappily to deplore in this country. The opinion of the monsters, however, appears to incline in favour of an educational poll-tax, with compulsory instruc • tion as a condition of it. But the real gist of the educa tion difficulty in Ireland is the question of religion. Is the national system of non-sectarian teaching approved by the people or not? Among the ecclesiastics on Loth sides there are some excellent men, but the sacerdotal temper is the same all over the world. and the opposition of clerical fanaticism to every measure tending to break down the partition walls between sects was a consequence which must always be taken into account by statesmen. For all that, the Irish national system of education, displaying such healthy pro gress as is evident from the testimonies put forward by Mr. Foster, ought not to be rashly abandoned in deference to clerical clamour. To establish denominational instruc tion in Ireland would be a work of much difficulty, incon sistent in many respects with what has been achieved by the disestablishment of the Irish Church ; it would arouse much discontent and create some hardship ; it would only • satisfy the clergy at the expense of inconvenience_ to . the peoples and and ittf resin u vi,944). be, 4204\4 . RI, at -sat, SHARE LIST. ORDINARY tsILAKNS AND STOCKS. ihare Railways. Paid. Closing Business Prim done. at Bristol and Exeter ...... 103 77 79 at Caledonian ..... ............ 103 Ts 751 78 at Cambrian ........ 100 18 43 20 Cornwall.-- ....... ... all 2 1 3 1 st Dublin & Belfast June... 100 77 79 st Dun,.l'erth,& Ab.Junc... 100 70 72 21 East London all 6 .. 7 SO Do 15 2J Do 10 et Glasgow .t S. Western lOO 116 93 at Great Eastern .. .02 371 371 371 st Do. E. Angi. No. 2 lOO ... ... at Urtat North ol Scotland lOO 15 6 at Great Northern lOO 106 108 106 1 at Do. A stock it Do. B stock... at UtS, and W. 01 Ireland lOO 81 . 7 iy. (it. Western —Original lOO 4 • 01 48; 9 st Do. South IVales 'CO 54 56 at Do. W. Alld.—Oxford lOO 25 27 St Do. Newport 00 •;8 :0 et Lancashire .2 iurkehirv.. 100 123 121 12.11 1 et Lon., Brigh., & S.Cuitst.. IGO 47; 4al 48 0,1 Do Scrip st Lon., Chat., and Dover lOO 171 171 171 st Ito. Metrop. Ex. A lOO 1u st Lou. £ North Western lOO 151 151 1151 15 st Lou. az South Western lOO 87 et) st Man., Shat., & Lincoln lOO 56 561 56 at Metroi oatan ... • lOO 103 104 i bni st Do Exteusi in .. 10 Do. zit/iv rd .. at Moiropolitan District. all 45 .5J 10 51etrop 3t. John'. 1% oo I 6 at 31,.......d st 00, ifiriniu. 5. Duct"; ioo S 2 04 st North Uri tleill --.. • • at Uo. Ed., l'th.. & Dun WA; -- at IN or. Eastern—Berwice— 100 1021 1031 25 Do. U. N.E purcheet 16.13,0 at Do Leeds ...... ... • lOO 58 59 st Do York st Do Cara .1c .... st Do Stoc .. & Darling l.O 131 131 1311 at North Lou ion 10 Do iSew ititß at North Staffordshire ..... at North and S.-W. Junction 100 93 100 10 Do New £lO shares 1 7 0 5 .• at Rhymney . ito St 53 at Shropshire Union P 0 57 58 st South Devon' at South Easterh lOO 761 761 731 I at Staines, Wok'hitin,& Wok all 12 13 at 'tail V ale ...... • Do. C ... Weteriord & Kilkenny l%O -- 10 Waterloo & Whitella.l 6 RAILWAYS-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. at Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 at Caledonian Qrs., No. 2 lOO st Do. Scot. N.E., 48 per cent lOO st Do. Aberdeen, gua 6 p.c lOO st Do. do. 7 per cent lOO at Do. do. Ordinary lOO at Do. Midland at Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent gua all ate Dundee Perth, and Aber deen Junction lOO at Do. Ist Class preference lOO at Glas. & S.W. gua. 5 per ct lOO at Gt. Eastern, E.C. Ex. No. 1 100 st Do do No. 2 100 st Do do 6 per cent 100 at Do East Anglian A 5 p. c. 100 at Do do B 6 do. 100 at Do do C 7 do. 100 st Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 st Do E. Union 4 p. c. gua. 100 t Do Nor folk 5 p.c. Ex. 1646 100 at Do do 5 p.c.Way.Val.lB47 100 at Great Northern, 5 per cent 10 st Do 5 p.c., rd at 10 p. c. pm. 100 at Do 4 8 do do do 100 at Do 5 do at sp.c. pm lOO at Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent lOO sti GL Nrth of Scotland, Ist pf 100 at; Great South. and Western (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO at! Gt. W est.— Orig.& Jnt-Iteut chg., per gua. 5 p.c lOO at Do. Orig. (B. &H. Ex). 5 p.c lOO st Do do 4 1 por cent. 1850 lOO st Do do 4 do do at Do do 5 per cent. redem lOO at Do do Birmingham gua lOO st Do do do prof lOO at Do do Chester gua lOO at Do do do 8 per cent lOO at Do do do 5 do 100 at Do South Walos, gum. 4 p.c. 100 at Do do 48 p.c lOO at Do do 48 1850 lOO st Do do 5 at Do West Mid. Oxford Ist g lO2 at Do do 2d gua lOO at Do Newport, Ist g. P.C lOO at Do do '2d do 100 at Do gua. 51 per cent. 1863 100 00 Lancaster & Carlisle 41 p.c. ail at Lancash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 at Do Barnsley, £5 3s 10d p.c. 100 st Do 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 at Do 41 (Blackburn purch). 100 at' Loudon & Brighton, sp. c. guaranteed, No 1 lOO st Do 5 per cent. gua. No. 2. 100 at Do 6 do do lOO at Do 5 do No. 4 lOO at Do 7 per cent lOO at Do 6 do (W.E. & C.P.) 100 at DJ 4 do 1850 lOO at London, Chatham, & Dover 5 per cent. lOO at, Loudon and /LW., C. and Nuneaton 5 per cent lOO at Do Bedford &Cambridge lOO at Do Shrewsb'y & Welchp'l lOO at London and S W. 7 p,c 86 88 81 W 4 96 97 101 103 95 104 87 89 77 79 95 97 65 70 ho 85 98 100 111 113 107 111 90 92 97 WO 1 3 135 130 I.i•► 98 100 105 107 96 99 95 93 109 112 70 75 108 110 140 150 late 3d shares, 2s 6d. Do (Purism. perp sus. 2s6d) all ... ... st Mau., Slid., &Lnieln. 6 p.c 100 111 117 6 Do X 6 all par 1 pin at Do 31 per cent lOO 60 65 10 Do redeem. 6 percent 5 ... ... st Slid. Consolidated., 6p. c lOO 130 135 st Do Bristol& tint., 6p. c lOO 1 2 136 1111 st Do 41 per coat. re teem lOO s$ 101 at Do 41 per coat. irredee in— 100 9,1 1i i st Do Leicester & ll'elni, 1 p.c. 100 89 91 st North liritish, 5 p.c. No.l lOO ... ... st Do E. &U. 4p.c.S. & D lOO ... „.. at Do N. 13., N 0.2, a per cen.t lOO ... ... st Do Border Union, 51 p.c ll O... ... st N.-Eastern—Uona. 4 p.c lOO 87 89 st Do 44 per cent. redeem.— 100 9.3 97 st Do li N.E. 4 per cent., lOO ... ... 17 Do Berwick capital 8 13.1. ... ... Do York, 11. &S. purchase lO 10 101 Do Stektn & Drling. A 5 p.c lOO 106 P 8 at Do W, Liartlepoul li. audit 100 84 86 20 North Staffordshire lOs 6. Devon Annuities, 1 a all 9 10 lOs Do Tavistock Anns., 10s all 81 91 lOs Du Fixed 44 per cent all $ 81 1,0.6. S. Last. (Read. Anus., 1.0.6) all 22 23 at Do 41 percent lOO ... ... st Do Fixed 41 per cent lOO ... ... st Taff Vale No.l lOO 14, 153 at Waterford & Kilkenny, 6pc 100 41 43 RAILWAYS. -PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate year. st Caledonian 41 p c gna. st Do Scot. Cen. win. 7p c lOO st Do 41 p irredeem all st Do 4p c con. issued at 80 65 at Great Eastern 41 per ce tn. 100 at Do 5 do, 1862 lOO at Do New 5 do, 1863 lOO st Do do 5 do, 1864 lOO et Great Northern, p c irred. 100 at Do Permanent 5 per cent. 100 at Do Boston & Sleald, 41 pc 100 st GroatWcst., W. 5p C 100 at Du Jointi erpc. 5p c, 1865 100 ; 83 4 at Do do 6p c irred., 1866 100 103 103 20 Do Vale N oa th perp. 5p c all 19 20 at Kent Coast, 6 per cent, B lOO 5 Lane. and York. New 41 per cent till July, 1871 2 at Loud., Brig &c., pc, 1858 100 at Do do 4 do, 1860 100 at Do do 41 do, 1861 100 at Do do 41 do, 1863 100 st Do do 5 do, 1860 100 st Do No. 6 5 do, 1866 100 st Do No. 7 sdo at Loud , Chat., &c., 2d, 6 p.c st Do Metrop. Ex.„13 6 p.c lOO Do du C c st London & IVestern, p. 5p c 100 106 110 1101 at London &S. Western, 41 p c 100 t 2 Di 10 Man. .t,lief.& Lin., 5 pc, 1865 all 8 8 1 st Metropolitan 9 per cent at Midland, A 5 per cent pref lOO 106 st Do B 5 do 100 106 103 18 Do 5p c opt. to cony. to Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1669 all 201 201 18 Do Ineonv. New Shares all 184 181 22 Do 5p c con. into Old Stk., Aug. 31, 1872 Bl 11 2113 at Worth British, E. and G No. 1, 5 per cent at Do £lO guaranteed, 1861 100 „. Do E., P., & Dun., 2d, 4pc 100 at Do E. &G , N 0.2, 4 p.c at Do N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1862 100 st Do E. & G., N 0.3, 5 p.c at Do E. & G., (Ordiry) 41 p c 100 at North Eastern, 41 per cent 1 00 I 5 ;7 st Do Stock. itDarl., D 100 111 112 at North London, 41, per cent (Max. per cent) at North Staffordshire 5p C lOO at. South Eastern, 41 po, 1859 100 at Do 5 do 1861 100 st Do sdo (Ch. Cross) 1863 100 at Do 5 du, 18 64 at Victoria St. & Pimlico, 41 pc 100 78 84 8G 88 86 i 8 82 86 1 p RAIL WAYS.-LLNES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS at IrtitenEead lOO 1,3 97 - , 100 Do. 41 per cent. Prefer all 99 101 st Buckinghamshire at Chester and Holyhead lOO All 5d st Do. 51 per cent. st Do. 4 do. 100 11C 113 at Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO ... st Colchester Stour Valley 100 ... st East Lincoln, gua. 6p. c lOO 151 134 20 Gloster and Dean Forest all ... Gt. Easn., Newm., &c., 5 p.c 100 ... a Do. E. U. Harwich, 4 p.c 100 st Do. do. Woodbrg.Ex., do. 100 .. at Gt. West, W. Mid., lieref 100 96 98 50 Hull and Selby all 110 112 at Lancaster and Carlisle lO3 210 2 5 st Loudon and Blackwall lOO 93 93 st Du. 41 per cent lOO st London, Chat., &c., 41 pc. 100 st Do. Com. Fund, 5 do 100 st London and Greenwich ... 100 at Do. do Preference... 100 ii 63 et London, Tilbury, & south 100 st Lowestoft, gint 4 per cent... 100 ... 100 Si Manch., Buxton, &Matlk::: all st Midland, BwifOrd, Pref 100 10 Mid Kent Cray Line) all 83, t. 5 80 82 i ii 92 94 50 Northern& Emit., 5 per cent all bt) Do. do. 6 do. all st N. Eastern--Hartlepool lOO ... ... st N.West. A pail,. prof, 5p c 100 107 109 st Du .11 111i111111U11111 p.c 100 st Notting. &Granth. It. &C 1 00 90. 92. 25. Preston and %I .y re . ... Royston, Hitch., and Shop lOO 132 134 et Shrewsbury and Hereford lOU 131 131 10 Do du 8 2 21p st S. Yorksh. and River Dun 100 96 t et Dc 4 per cent gua lOl 78 80 et Do 5 do st Vict. Station and Pimlico lOO 175 180 at West Cornwall 20 \Vest London, Class A all 13 14 20 DO do B all ..• 20 Do d o 0 all . . 64 7: at Weymouth and Portland lOO ... ... at Wilts and Somerset 53 56 DOCKS. et East and West India lOO 12e 125 st London'and St. Katherine lOO 45 47 100 D oDeb. stock, 4 per cent all ... .-. Millwall Freehold Land at , Dock lOO 28 31 st Southampton lOO 74 713 pt Surrey curamorciel , ~,,, ~,., ~, MISCELLANEOUS. 10 Anglo-lexican Mint all 151 161 25 Australian Agricultural 25 Australian Mort. Land and 5 1d pr Finance, lim. 10 Baugarah Tea Estates, lim 9 7 5 , 1 10 Berlin Water Works, lim all 111 141 10 Do. New ................... 100 Bolckow Vaughan, lim. 5 Bombay Gas, lim 44 15 17 20 British Indian Tea , lim all 2 1 3 1 20 British Ship Owners 29 Canada Company all 64 7j 10 Canadian Loan and Invest ment, American e;ica ... n .. . .......... .. 4 54 id & S O 10 4 31c1 20 Do. A shares 10 C Ceylon ,li m i Company,. .... .. 20C City i t y y n Discount, lim S 25 City of Loudon R eal Pro -9 41 34,1 30 City of Milan Impr ov. lim. all 5 6 Gas 25 City of Moscow , lim all 50 City Offices, 20 3 2 lim 25 26 253 50 Colonial, lint. perry, Jim .. . ... 50 Commercia; V nioo (Assur) 5 f, i p 10 Company of Afr ican Mer chants, lint. 20 Continental Union Gas, Jim all 191 201 201 Do. ...... ~.............. ... t n . all 1041 1051 100 Corporatiolll777l,,o4:ll 25 Copper Miners of England, perpro London Bonds, all pref. 71 per cent. 110000 107 1 a 111 21 4f per cent. all 1031 1041 10 Credit Foa. of England, lint. all 21 3 24 50 Credit Fon.of Mauritius lint. 10 31 213 100 1 a610 CD ra DD:r. Crystal te. .. :ll i Palace g 1 , S lira. S 2 Preference, 100 95 10 ) :a p in et , pe ihn tu . al Deb 64...... d all ... ... and Finance, lim. 20 East India Irriga. & Canal all • • • • 32 Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron, and at t 0) E Ea a ps s t t °e.r6 l n n PA t . lian Land Credit Coal, lim. 100 Egyptian 9 per cent. V'roy. Gua. by Egypt. Gov all 96; 971 97 1 1 20 Egyptian Cum.& Trad. lien. 6 . .. 3 Eug. & Austral. Copper, lint 21 f ; i 15 English said Fore4ai Credit 71 41 3,d 100 Eng. and Scot. N urine, Jim. 8 ... -al 10 Fuirbairu Engineering 5 2 hi 20 Fore-street Warehouse,lirn l2 i Ila 100 For. & Out. Guy. Trust and Loan Scrip, issued at £B5 all 86 87 . 50 Gallivant, lint. 10 General Credit & Dis limn. 71 1 4 1 4 15 General Steam Navi gation 14 27 29 50 Horns &Col Marino In. lira. 5 3 243 10 Hong Kong and China Gas all -- ••• 20 Hudson's Bay all 1 3 1 1 3 1 13 1 1 20 Imperial Land Co. of Mar seilles, Bin. 20 Intorna.Financial S oc. lirn 5 1 ) li "1 d 20 Interns. Land Credit, lim. 6 - "- 50 Italian Land s ld p 20 Italian Irri. (Canal Cavour) all 3 3 1 100 Do. 6p. c. Bds., redeem 1870, issued 20 all 61 63 50 Land Securities, li m 5 21 lid 25 London African Trading lO 7 M a 25 Lon. & Caled. M ar i ne, li m . 6 "' —-- 10 London County Land and Building, Jim. 50 Lond. Financial Asso , lim 30 2 1 1 t O 4 4 Londalen.Omnibus.Co..lim. all 2 24 21 50 Loud. and Glasg. Engineer and Iron Ship, lim 25 21 16d 20 Loud. & Provincial Marine 2 id pr at Iladras Irriga. & Canl. Gus. sp.c. by India Goy. lOO 102 104 103 10 Mauritius Land, Credit, and Agency, 5im..... ll 1 Id 50 Merchant Shipping, Sim all 33 38 50 Millwall Iron Works, lim 121 ••• ••• 10 Natal Land and Colonisa tion Co., lint. 25 National Discount Co., lira 5 114 lli Ni\NaeetwwiocQnoauiLlesPborriaoidtviaa. Consolidated od ari D n is e : I l i :. 3 4 . 1 1 ,3 1 , 3:1 ,. 'Zealand a C n o d a llt Loanl lint r° n & , a ll l n e: 4 . "4.60 3:4 3d 10 NewN e r b u z d 10 National Steam Ship, lint. all 91 101 22 2 10 : 55 cantile Agency,lim 2l 1 IP 25 New Zealand Trust and Loan, Bin 5 11 11 10 Northern Assam Tea, lim. 5 7 4 10 Do. B et North Brit. Austral. n , Jim lOO 48 51 RI North Brit. & Merca. In al v2O 25 Ocean Marine (Insurance) 5 12 1 50 Oriental Financial, lim ll 5 Oriental Gas, lim 5 Do. New i 4 1p 10 Otago and Southl an d I n vestment, lint 2 Id 4p 5 Ottoman Gas, li m all 14 24 Australian R. Mail lint all I : 5 Do do. at Peel R.Land&llinerl lim 100 3 1 34 50 Peniusu , & Oriental Steam all 4 9 50 50 Do. New 18 67 lO 11d Of 50 Rhymney Iron 10 Panama, New Z ealand, and 15 Do. New 25 Rio de Janeiro City Im ,lim. all 1 8 1 19 20 Do. G as, Hal all 24 6 100 Royal Mail Steam 6O 41 43 at Scottish Aust. Invest. , lint lOO 85 90 at Do. 6 P. C. Guar. Prof. 100 .•• ••• 20 Societe Fin. d'E g y pte, l i m. 10 7 " 20 Societe Gen.de l'Empire Ot. 8 21 3 4 50 S. African Mort. & Inv. , lint. 6 ••• •" 25 South Australian Land 20 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lint._ ........ 2 2f 3 20 Trinidad Petroleum, lint.,, 81 10 Trust & Agency of Aus.,lini. 1 10 De do. do. all ~, ... 20 Trust & Loan Co., U. Canada 5 1 11: 1 50 Union Marine L'pool, lini 5 44 , p 20 Union Steam Ship, 1int...... all 22 24 15 United Discount CorP.,lim. 6 „ ,„, 20 Universal Marineau.) , lim. a l i r p all 11 2 3010 UpperVa n eAssammp 28 4 6 1 00 Viceroy of Egyp t, 7 per c ent. Mortgage) Loan... all 80 81 50 Warrant Finance , 5u n. ...... 12 12 10d 50 West India an d Paci fic p lal i Tea,La Land Sim Steam, lim 2O 4 2 20 West London Wharves and Warehouses lO i IP COLOffIAL GOVICHNMNLYT SECUItITINIS British Columbia, 6 per ----- eent.,1672.......« ..... 100 —.— . _ Uo. , 1895.. lOO -.. Z. — . Can.tiov.6 P.c j". 100 If4l 1061 1051 - Do. 6p. 0 Yet).* Aug 100 104 1,.. .... 1877-84 ....... . - Do. 5 1). 0. Mar. 3 Sept 100 102 104 D D o o . . 66 p.p. o. c. I J n a e n c i i & be J d u e l Y t • .• • hog 9 9 0 3 9,91 93 a Cape G.llope• 69.0.1673" 106 102 104 - Do.Apl.&001 169049 00 100 111 113 Do. do 1 880 ' 90 . • 100 107 109 Do. Jan.&July. 189 1 lOO 108 110 Do. 6 per oent. 15 April and 16 Uot, 1900 .. 100 100 102 Ceylon, N o v 1878, 6 P•c•• 100 108 110 Do. 1872, d 0.... 100 105 107 Illaurittue• 6 p• 0, 1873,..• 110 104 100 1 Do. 1878 ... ... 1/0 106 104 D 0.1882, may and NO • • 00 100 108 Jan. and July ... Do. 1895, Feb. & Augr.•• • 10 106 14)8 Illi,ibourne Corporate.,.. -- N. 1 1 6 3 6. 0 7- 0 7 1 5 -: 6 6 p p . o e . r .J c a € . n •JJ n . 1y . ... 1 1 ( 0 ° 0 103 1t 4 106 00 Natal 6 p at, Apt & Oct... OD ...... _ ice} Do 6pc.Al . y & 0 1 . , 0 1, 6 108 N. S. W. 5 ire., 'II to '75 lOO 01) 1. 1. Do. 5 p.c. 1883 to 1t 00... in t.i 9 0 i Do. 5 p.c. rd.'s7 to 'is , 11:Z e aland, 6p. 0t.1891 lOO _ Do. 5 percent....• - DoJan,Aprl,July,Oet lOO 93 94 951 Do 6p c. Mar & Sept '9l lOO 108 110 Do J uoe & Deo., 1 . ' 91 •• lOO 109 in fDo Prot , . el Atiolcid. ICO .... ( t.t He+ 1& 2, 1896 •• Nova Scotia 6 p. o•Jar and Jnly. 1875 Do lord.. •.• • Queensind. 6p. O. 'B2 -5 100 1061 1073 .... Do 18 9 1 ......... Tasmanian 6. per c. 1895 .. 1061.1071 108 Do it 9J.-'97 . ..... Victoria 6t er cent h9l lt 0 113 114 --.! P. AprilandOCt__...., lO9 .9il um Loi 4 . 131 - I, 3 ERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS.-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR rook his sea on the woolsack At five o'clock. INCREASE OF THE EPISCOPATE BILL. Lord LYTTELTON moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to enable the ecclesiastical commissioners to recommend a scheme for increasing the episcopate, subject to the approval of the Queen in Council. The income for the endowment from any bishopric that might be established was not to exceed £2,500 a year, and to bo raised I , y voluntary sub.cription. Tho Archbishop of CANTERBURY could only give a qualified support to the bill, Ircause it did not deal with the real evil. The scheme of Earl Russell wzts greatly to be preferred. On a division the bill was rejected by a majority of 43 to 20. Seven bi.hops and several lay peers retrained from voting. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. -LAST EVENING. The SrEAKEIt took the chair at 4 o'clock. THE CATERHAM ASYLUM. Mr. "'OMENS asked the President of the Poor Law Board the question be had given notice of respecting the laying the foundation stone of tho Metropolitan Asylum at Caterham, and the sumptu ins breakfast given on the occasion. Mr. GOSCIIEN said his attention had been drawn to the ci) cumstances doubtless through the same channel as that by which the hon member had received his, viz., the newspapers. With respect to the hon. gentleman's in quiry as to whether the sumptuous entertainment given on the occasion would be paid out of the metropolitan rate, or, as he facetiously put it, the civil contingencies, he could not say, but he had no doubt that if it was charged to the metropolitan rate the auditor would at once disallow the charge. How it was to be paid he did not know; but be believed the contractors generally dis charged similar charges, and he believed, though he did not know officially, that such was the course pursued on the occasion. At all events, the charge of the sumptuous breakfast would not be paid for out of the county rate. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. Mr. BRUCE, iu reply to Sir George Jenkinson, who asked a question as to whether he would state the grounds upon which he had granted a respite of punishment to Wilshire who had been found guity of the wilful murder of a woman under the most atrocious circumstances, said since ho had been in office, 11 cases of sentences of death had been submitted to him. He exercised the prerogative of mercy in two cases, and in each of which it was called a miscarriage of justice. Of the eleven cases in six the capital sentence had been carried out, two were proved to be insane, and one innocent, which loft the two cases of Nl'Donald and Wilshire. The former was re prieved on the recommendation of the judge— (hear, hear)—and with respect to Wilshire, although it was proved that the woman had been most cruelly treated by the prisoner, yet there was a verdict that the death of the woman was not to be imputed to tho violence of Wilshire, but to intemperance and exposure to the weather. He had taken the greatest precaution before the sentence was commuted, and he felt quite certain the whole of the facts of the case, when properly known would prove his best justification. (Hear, hear.) RANGOON AND CIIINA, Mr. G. DUFF, in reply to Colonel Grey, said nothing further with respect to the improvement of the commu nication between Rangoon and China, had occurred since the survey was discontinued in the year 1867. IRISH CHURCH BILL. Mr. GLADSTONE, in reply to Sir F. lleygate, said he did not think the Irish Church Bill would be the best place to introduce a clause enabling limited owners of land to borrow, and the Commissioners for Public Works to lend sums not exceeding a fixed per centage of the value of such land repayable upon the principal of thu loans for drainage, farm buildings and labourers houses, for the purpose of assisting in the erection of churches, chapels, and places of worship. Ile thought l it best to deal with the matter in a separate bill, and as soon as the committee on the Irish Church Bill had been concluded a bill would be brought in to carry out such a proposal. The house then resumed the Committee on the bill pro moted by her Majesty's Government. Sir G. JENKIN SON moved au amendment to provide for the case of a vacancy in a parish taking place within a few months of the passing of the act in parishes which had hitherto been well cared for, so as to provide for the parish not being left without any spiritual in structor. The college of Maynooth was the only permanent endowment which bad boon made by the bill, but be hoped the First Lord of the Treasury would adopt the spirit of the amendment if ho objected to the words in _ . which ho had expressed it. Mr. GLADSTONE denied that any permanent endow ment had been made to the Collego of Maynooth. lle could not accept the amendment of the hon. litrouot op posite, because if he were to do so it would be creating a perpetual endowment in every parish. The amendment was eventually peg-dived without a Mr. yin then moved an amendment t the effect that where tho haler of benefices which did not at pre sent produce .£25(), the commissioners should, in the event of his b2ing twenty-five years in the Church, give hint annuity to that extent, as the present measure cut him off from all future preferment. Mr. GLADSTONE said ho couli not agree to the amendment. He could not undertake to provide for the loss of all prosp3ct of promotion, because the prospects were so extremely indefinite. After a long conversation the amendment was with drawn. Two additions were made to the clause on Mr. Gla stone's motion, modifying the conditions under which the annuities to curates are to be deducted from the life inte rests of incumbents, and providing that when the curate dies his annuity shall revert to the incumbent. They gave rise to much discussion, and an amendment, moved by Sir Roundell Palmer, to make it certain that the curate to be compensated out of the incumbent's annuity shall b., a permanent curate, vas rejected by a majority of 93 (22l to 128). Clause 15, which regulates the compensation to curates, was also discussed at great length. Numerous verbal amendments were made, and it was long past 10 o'clock before it was finally agreed to. On clause 16, an amendment moved by Mr. Charley was defeated by 115-311 to 199. In the middle of clause 18 a motion was made to report progress and defeated by a majurity of 113-289 to 176 ; but Mr. Gladstone yielded to a second motion to the s tine effect, and the Committee was adjourned soon after mid night until to-night. Several bills were forwarded a stage, and the house ad journed at 25 minutes past 1 o'clock. COURSE OF EXCHANGE. A ms t er d a m Short ... 12 11 ... 12 1 2 D o Rotterdam — ... 12 31 ... 12 31 Antwerp ...... ... 25 40 ... 25 4 7 1 B r ussels — ... 25 40 ... 25 471 Ramburgu — ••• 13 11 ... 13 111 Paris Ditto Marseilles Frankfort-on -the - Main ... 1201 ... 121 Vienna — ... 12 70 ... 12 77i Trieste — ... 12 70 ... 12 771 Petersburg Copenhagen.. Berlin Madrid.. Cadiz — ... 49 Leghorn 27 48j Maim 26 . 67 • Es- Gunott — ... 26 54 ... 26 r,21 26 r 7 2 6 f) Naples Palermo — 26 524 26 57 Messina Lisbon , . Oporto — Rio Janeiro — .. 26 52i 26 . 57 ... 52} - ••• ... 52} ... Now York — • . Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. tustralla and New Zealand. via Southampton-- April 2 L. ----- __ Ditto, via Y•traailles ...... .........May 17 Brazil. Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Slay 4 Ditto, by Frenob paoket . Cape Verds, by Brazil packet ...... Cape of Good Ll:pe. Asoenslon. and St. Helena April 27. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.. April 21. Jobraltar, via Southampton April 21 ludia.via Southampton . ..... ....April 24 vitto, via Marsethes ... .... April 28. Malta, Egypt, &o. Ditto, Marseilles April 22 Sewioundla nd .. . May 5 Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Scuthamiton Ditto, Marseilles ~ Vay 9 eortugal .... , May 4. United States, t anadi, California, &c., by British packet . April 21 Ditto, by Canadian packet .... Ditto, by L i ited States packet April 2S Ditto ditto (Baltimore) Test Coast of A frt. a. Madeira, and Teneriffe .....May 3 liatiainas, via New 1 ork . %Vest Indies aticl Piwilio ,except Mexico and Baha- Apiii 23 mas) Cuba and Mexico ... ,.. .Ap:il 23 Bermuda, via 11 a11fax....... . .., • May A TILE " GAIETY" RESTAURANT.— Mr. John Hol lingshoad appealed to the justices of the Middlesex Ses sions yesterday against the refusal of the Holborn division of magistrates to grant a license to the house and pre mises known as The Gaiety Restaurant, in the Strand. The license was granted by a large majority, only four lando haying been held up agaiuot it. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE--This Day VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—This DAT. TWO THOUSAND. 100 to 30 agst Pretender (take-7 to 2) 4to 1 agst Duke of Beaufort (taken and offered) 9to 2 agst Drummer (offered) sto 1 agst Bolladrum (taken and offered) 33 to 1 agst Typhon (offered) CHESTER CUP. 9 to 2 agst Egean (taken and offered) 9 to 2 agst Paul Jones (taken and offered) 100 to 15 agst Romping Girl (offered-7 to 1 taken) 10 to 1 agst Knight of the Garter (taken) 11 to 1 agst Man'lrake (offered--100 to 8 taken) 100 to 8 agst Fairu'ind (offered-100 to 6 taken) 20 to 1 agst St. llungo (taken) 20 to 1 ag . st Dalby (taken) 33 to 1 agst Birthday (offered—take 50 to 1) 500 to 2 agst Clemence (offered) DERBY. sto 2 agst Pero Gomez (offered) 100 to 8 agst Pretender (offered) 13 to 1 agst Drummer (taken and offered) 17,10 1 agst Ethua (offered-16 to 1 taken previ uualy to £500) 20 t.) 1 ngst Bellih . uni (offered) 1000 to .44 agst Thorwaldsen (taken) 10J to 33 agst Rysh worth (offered) SPORTING INrELLIGENCE. CROYDON MEETING -YESTERDAY. WOODSIDE PLATE. Gipsy • • 1 First Emperor Mrs. Thomas Sixteen ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 5 SOVS. King Richard . 1 Lily Lye Kingsley 3 Ten ran. STEEPLECHASE SWEEPSTAKES.; Balder Freedom Six ran. GRAND HURDLE RACE. Barnabo Brick 0rne..... ... Tribune SELLING STAKES Aversion 000000000000000000000 .•••••• ••• f• • ••• •• O. 1 Kingsley 2 Claribel 3 Ten ran. CROYDON STEEPLECII ASE. Black Prince Lord Waldegrave 2 Chevy Chase 3 Six ran. HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE. AIENTS. April 15, at 11.20 a.m., Behnontine, out of Croydon en gagement s. April 16, at 5 p.m., Q. C. and Count Horn, out of the Surrey Grand Open Steeplechase at Croydon. April 17, at 9 a.m., all Mr. E. Green's and Mr. Golby's horses, out of Croydon engagements. April 17, a.m., Black Boy, out of the Craven Handicap, Lewes, and Woodside Plato at Croydon. April 19, at 9 a.m., The Skipper, out of the Town Flato, Lewes. April 19, at 9 a.m., Warlike and Laird of Scotland, out of Lowes engagements. April 19, at 9 a.m., The Slobber and Frost, out of all engagements. . April 20, at 9 a.m., Atonement, out of Chester engage ments. April 20, at 9 a.m., F by Prim*. Minister, out of Cruci fixion (dead), out of all engagements. April 20, at 9 a.m.. Cape Race, out of 2,000 gs stakes, Newmarket. April 20, at 10.36 a.m., Philosopher, out of the West of Scotland Grand National at Egliuton Hunt. April 22, at 9 a.m., Pladda, out of Prince of Wales's Stakes, Newmarket. April 22, at 9 a.m., Albrighton, out of Croydon en gagements. RACING FIXTURES. MAY. Chester 4, 5,6, 7 Eglintou Hunt 6, 7 ,1 Winchester ll, 12 1 York 11, 12 1 St. Albans 17 18 West Drayton l7, 18 Bath 18, 19 Ileuchester l9, 20, 21 13aldoyle 2nd Spring 11 . 12 Salisbury l3 11 Doneabter 13, 14 I • . Croydon 19, 21 Harpenden 2l Ept.nn Summer .....25, ac. JI[NE. Croydon 2,3, 4 Newton 2,3, 4 I A s c o t ...ti, If, 10, 11 Liverpuut Summer —l5, Pi WM o r 15, 16 Hampton t,, P 3 Curragli '", 23, 21 i JU LY Newcastle 0 2, 23, 24 Oldham 22 Bioury Club 23 S luck - midge 24, 25, 2ti Chelmsford Sut tuu Park ‘Vorcester l, 2 , Newivarket July ti, ,tc. Carl islu ti 7 I'outefract 'J, 10 Hendon l2, 13 I Southampton 13,13 Itoadiug 15, 16 Huntingdon 2O, 2L Stamford ... "2 23 lioudwuod 27, 28,29, 80 Nottingham l3; 14 AUGUST. Brighton 3, 4 Oxford Brighton Club 5 York 24, 25, 26 Lewes t;, 7 Plymouth 26, 27 EVAIII lO, 11 Scarborough 30, 31 Wolverhair pton lO I, 11 Derby Summer _3l, Sep 1 Windsor 12, 13 I Weymouth 31, Sep 1 St. Albans l7, 18 I Canterbury .........31, Sep. 1 Stockton lB, 111, 2U 1 SEPTEMBER. Warwick 7, 8 Hampton 2l, 2 Curragh (R I (Royal) 7,6, 9 Western (Ayr)........22, 23 Abingdon 9, 10 I Hendon Doncaster l4, 1 5 , 16 , 17 Monmouth... 23, 24 Richmond 2l, 22 Newmarket lat 0ct....28, dm. Lichfield OCTOBER. Bedford 5, 6 Ch e lt en ham IP. 20 Edii i iburgh 6, 7 , 8 I Curragh l9, 2‘, i 1 Leicester 7, 8 I West Praytou .........21, 22 Bromley 7 8 I Hereford ..... ......... 21, 22 Newmarket 2d 0ct...1 1 , 4:o. Monmouth 28, 24 Chelmsford l9 20 Newinark.t 11'ton ...25, dm. I Kelso 19 20 NOVEMBER. Harrow ...2, 3 Egliuton Hunt 6, 7 W I Worcester 3, 4 Liverpool 9, 1(1, 11 St. Albans 5, 6 Shrewsbury ..... l5, 16 STEEPLECILISE FIXTURES. MAY. Limerick Hunt 4 St. Albans .. 13 E g linton Runt ......6, 7 I '‘' .st Drayton 1 JULY. Kingsbury . OU'rolilitt. Bromley 7 j West Drayton 2l, 22 NOVEMBER. Worcester 2,3, 4 1 Shrewsbury 15, Harrow 2, 3 1 Leamington Hunt ....23 he Lyerpool 2, 10, 11, 12 COURSING FIXTURES• AUGUST. St. Albans 17 OCTOBER. Incaster and Willoughby, Lincolnshire 5, 6. Orruosby 19, &a Huntingdon Club.. 26, 27. Bank of England Returns, An Account., pursuant to t: cap. 32, for the week ending ie Act ith and Bth Victoria Vednesday, April 21, 1869. ISSUE PEP A.RTMENT. Notes issued .....£30,891,125 Govornmt. Dobt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities 3,984,900 Gold Coin and Bullion Silver Bullion £30,891,125 .C 30,894,125 / BANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors' Capi tal £14,553,000 Rest Public Deposits (including Ex chequer, Sav ings' Banks, Commi9sioners of National Debt, and Div. Accounts Other Deposits 17,592,278 Seven Days and othor Bills 483,040 Governmt. Secu rities(including Dead Weight Auuuity) 415,020,798 Other Securities 17,370,006 Notes 7,256,175 Cold aud Silver Coin £40,783,003 GEORi £40,788,005 FB FORBES, Chief Cushier. 111,41?KE7 8-71115 D.IY. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. April 21—Sales probably 8,000 bales., The marke steady. THEATRE ROYAL, NIANCIIESITR.--MiSS Bateman commenced an engag,nrmt of twelve nights on Monday evening, w hen she appeared in he r well - known imper sonation of Leah in Dr. Mosenthal's play of that name. Th o performance throughout was received by a large audience with evident satisfaction, testified by repeated " calls" and judicious applfinse. EDUCATION. --A Lady wishes to receive Ten Young Ladies, to whom she offers a Refined Home and superior Education. English and Foreign Governesses; also eminent Professors. Every maternal care taken of Young Ladies whose Parents reside abroad.— Address, for prospectus and interview, Lady Principal, Fenton's, Post-office, Brixton, S.