The Sun. — London, England, 1869-03-01 00:00:00

: s g arde" exceed' ' , round s s tate' al as e l ' uutil ,tiy and i is stoo d They en they tna ttere re then ,his cast at they TeeP°.n. ere, th e e the° inSg iß A . ,211 presentzt thel that Hol' under • ;he 1° :, w ow ess f ur not b e lic s ‘ es of 10 : ' e Addl. torg of ode -0 be ivg Cll' irch 0 do' rde reci or CO' ts coa . ,e le eleoti°! of tbelt o 1 1)" tll° -,0 b of 0 5 no r cs% ng Y ° 11 12'eile1 til U$ I: ,11- to o to .ictll MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. According to Reuter's telegram from Paris to day, the French Rentes were 71f. 35c. ; C onsols are 93 f 3 for money ; ditto, for Ac tout, Three iper Cent. Reduced, 93 f ; dew Three per Cents, 93- 11. iftlndia Stock, 10f per Cent., April, 1874, 211 12f ; ditto 5 per Cent., July, 1880, 112-1 ; ditto 4 per Cent., O c t., 1888, 1021 ; ditto Debentures, Aug., 1873 , 104. In the Foreign Market stocks are dull, at a re duction of nearly in New Spanish Three per Cents.. in :Mexican Bonds, and Turkish Five per Cent. Bonds are fractionally lower ; Italian Five 13( r Cents. are slightly better, at 56f 561; Greek Bonds are 12 12f ; Mexican, 151 to 15f Spanish Three per Cents., 321 32}; Turkish !: i ve per Cents., 411 ; Honduras Ittilway Lo an, 85 87 ex c. ; and Russian (Nz 4f) Railway L oan, 81 82. 111 the Railway Market prices continue steady, Without much alteration. Great Eastern has risen 1 per cent., Metropolitan Original ;I, Caledonian, Sheffield, and North British 4, and 13 , t ightona are * better. On the other hand, North Easterns have receded 1, and Midland, i Great W estern, an d S ou th E as terns are lower. The following are the quotations : Caledonian 764 7 ; Great Western, 494 ; Great Eastern, 38i 1 ; Great Northern, 107 8 ; ditto 105 1; Lancashire, 1241 54 ; Metropoliian, 106* 1061; ditto Extension, 1031 4i ; Midland, 117/ 18 ; Sheffield, 53 1 541,- ; Brighton, 501 5 1 4 ; North Briti s h , 364 1 ; North Western, 115 1 ; North Eastern 1021 ; South Eastern, 78,1 pi ; Chat ham and Dover, 164 174. United States Five-Twenties are in demand, and have advanced 1, to 821 to 821; the Bonds of 1885 4, to 81 to 81; ; but the Ten-Forty Bonds are 4 lower, at 74* 74i. Erie Railway Shares are b iter, at 244 to 251- ; and Illinois Central stock is not quite so firm, at 961 to 97. Atlantic Telegraph Original stock is unaltered a t 3 4 35 ; the Eight per Cent. Preference shares remain at 4i 44 ; and Anglo-American Telegraph shares at 224 4. A sum of £26,000 in bar gold has been taken fr om the Bank for shipment to Paris. Letters from Paris state that the Turkish Loan tco . be b roug h t ou t t h ere by th e S oc i e te Ge nera l e will be in obligations of 400 f. each, bearing 30f. Interest, and redeemable at 500 f., in four drawings, to take p l ace i n A pr il an d O c t o b er , 1872 an d 1878 • Subscriptions will be invited in London and Vienna. An interim dividend, at the rate of 12 per cent. Per annum, has been declared by the directors of lcomb and Co. (Limited). Advices from Manchester announce the failure of Mr. John Pennington, spinner and manufacturer °f Walk Mill, Colne, with liabilities estimated at 45 ,000, and assets at £25,000. An adjourned meeting of the creditors of Messrs. c 'he Sparrow and Co., cotton spinners and manu facturers, an offer of ss. in the pound was made, bu rejected. Ultimately a proposal to accept 6s. Bcl. ‘ 13. ) s s. in three months, and ls. Bd. in six months 'Was agreed to, the executors promising to carry this out, if practicable. It appears from the last American advices that the treaty negotiated by the United States with the Governme n t o f C o l um bi a (N ew G rena d a ) conce d e s t the United States the exclusive right to construct an i nter-oceanic canal across the Isthmus of Darien 1 ! t any point which may be selected by the United S tates, The Colombian Government cede six Miles of land on each side of the canal, and are to receive 10 per cent. of the net income for the firs t 1 0 years, and after the canal is paid for, 25 Per cent, of the net profits. The treaty is to be r atified by the U n it e d States within 10 months, tee surveys to be made within two years after the ra tification, the canal begun within five years and finished within 15 years after the ratification otherwise the charter fails. It is estimated to cost $100,000,00 0. The following notice regarding the Atlantic an Great Western Railway Company has been poste in the Stock Exchange : February 27. _ " I have now to advise the receipt of information to the effect that the Erie Railway Company has served an injunction, with the view, it is under stood, of preventing the issue of income bonds, &c. The interests of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway are in able bands, and energetic measures have been adopted to remove all difficulties. The programme of July last will be proceeded with im raadiately. "L. J. WOODMAN, Secretary. " P.S.—No intimation of Mr. Stebbins's resigna tion has been received." Accounts from San Francisco continue to express Strong anticipations as to the supply of wheat likely to be furnished this year from California. The rains have been very copious, and are considered to give an assurance of a most abundant harvest. It i 8 estimated that the yield for 1869 will be greatly ln excess of any former year. The directors of the Russian (Vyksounsky) Iron w orks Company (Limited) have made a call of £2 er share, 10s. of which is payable on the 6th of M arch, and £1 10s. on the 15th of May. They also also announce that " they are on the eve of settling , a satisfactory arrangement with the debenture holders generally." V ice -Chancello r Si r W. M. James has appointed Mr. Arthur Coop er p rov i s i ona l official liquidator of the CaY of Mosco w G as C om pany (Limited). TheL anal instalment of £5 is to ba paid on the , Extension shares of the East Indian Railway '°,l3lpany by th e 30 t h o f M arc h. - Uhe total amount of calls due in March upon En g l ish and F ore i gn R a il wa y an d Miscellaneous shares is about £467,600. BRITISH FUN UN —ULUbINU PRICES. al itstir ( t 4 teo 0 6 1: not it r. NMENT FUNDS. A Cs ec n o s u ol n s t, 9Bl 3 NPer Cent. Reduced 93i 1 New 3 per Cent 41 1Y 1 r 2 i per Cent. Jan. 1894 — 4". per C0n1873 11!liiities, SO Trs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — D 0 • for 30 yrs, expire sth April 1885 — t o (lied Sea Tolevaph), Aug., 190 e — bo l4s r£l,ooo, 2f per Ct. ( 1 1 0- Bills , £5OO — l to ' £lOO & £2OO U— liok of England Stock, 4 per Cent i.,_ • acconot — reedit 4 per Cent. Rends — *tor-Colonial Otnnium Itnii iN t l4 -14 40VERNhiENT SECURITIES -41 aNt it 10f Cent., April 1874 2ll 12} bo "-I per 1.) • Opening, for Account - b e. O per Cent. July 18 " bo. o. l us p r e t r if F ete e n at „ . • Oct. , 1888 - _ Do t, . ~,rtfaced Pape. 4 per CAnt — 0° • 6 per C ent ., J an. 1872 , — Da D 6 t pr ay 1879 eb k - 'PC e ~ Cent Ru M Dp. . 18,_ 2 o do 1877 — D Do. do. 1882 — 24 Deb., 5 per Cent.,1873 i ) u . bonds, 4 per Cent., £l,OOO .* Under £l.000 argentit: I:N S FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. 811 1 tas Republic, ti per Cent 4 11 °•, Scrip 445 paid .. k_ Do . 1859 pe per mat . — 631 8 rizilian 6 1 , per Cent — no. 4 i per Cont. 1852 — U 0 : do, 1818.... ............. 1) ° j _ 186 , _ -1 1 , ‘ d . o . ''''‘Z.4.6,„eroeur,:bt Cent., 1 1 8 8 6 6 5 3 — 801 7 . 0 e Ayre s 6 per Cent. N, . 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent '"ltti 0 ' ,' L l i 6 Pe: Cent, .4, ki per Cent — to • 41 per C ent..„ — L ° ' 3 Pir C ent., — u e. 6 per ce t. 1867 — D I ° ' 7 .Per ent., 186 G e ahi 6 , . all, per Gent. b a • 11 ' 8 )1, 3 p,,r Cent., 1825 D o ‘ijan P rincipalities, 7 ler Cent 76 aqua ° Per Cent., 1867 . ••••.- 9ior New Consolidated, 1 per Cent ', t ,,an, 7 per Cent.... ••• n Necond Issue D 0• tOOG B DO. . ends B2l .$O. 410 d Bonds ..... 87 lin. DJ'4 4 e. • BondAs clcB°6u4ut 11 5 891 urn. 10 B9O Bo n d s 9O i h eilsh Scrip,:ld6B 77i Do do. ..£45 pd — (3 oroDrimetit fZ.:Lilwav Debentures Creed 5 per Coat., 1824 5, ex Coups — (10. Ake cunt Do oupou . C " Do. Account 911 I "'Ai aI n 0 per Cent. .. — Honduras Gov. Rail. Loan., 10p. Ct., all pd 85 . 1 ltJiian 5 per Cert., 18t35 — ,-)o. Accountil . - Do litremmana Railway — Mexican 3 per Gent — Ditto for Account Dn. 1861 — Do g per Cent. Anglo-French — tiontevideati a per Cent. .. — Moorish imperial 5 per Cent ow Granada l6k Do 3 per Gen Do. Deferred Porn: iar. 5 per Cent. IFtiv Ito Accoun• _. .. ;)o wr Cont. (Liriburroti) i)o .1i p€r Cent., Do Account P,rtiguose 3 per CA., IK3, 't;, 7, 37} !Do. do. 1467 Do. do. Scrip, £2O pail 77_ tssian 5 po,r Cent., 18 - 2 z, . 9O,E 44 pel. Cent . 1850 Do 41 per Cent., 1860 1).) 3 per Cent., 1839 3 per Cent., 1862 ............ 87i Do. Anglu-Duteli, 1861, 4:100.1; on th.. Do. du. £ 13'8. do. Jo., 1866, £lO3 80nd5....... . .. Do. (1-.) £Bl Do Nicolas Railway 671 7 Sar tiniasi a pk,r Spalish 3 per Con . Do. Acc',unt D.). 1867 Do. Account Do. New Deferrea Do. Account Do. Passive Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup, not funded ... Do. Account Swedish Provincial - Mortgage Loan Do Government, 1861 Do do, 1868 Do do, Scrip — pn. Turkish 6 per Cent.i Do Account L'o 6 per Csnt. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds L)o 6 per Cent., 186'2 Do Acoount. 32i Do .£10( Bonds Do 5 per ‘..lent. 1865 DJ Account Do 6 per Cont., 1860 D.) 1 nor Cent., Guarantood ' ).) La.oo Warn)nts (tle,q).t.res) Venezuela 3 per Cent. Do. Acceant —.. , iiu 6 per Cent. 1864 Do 6 per Cont., 1862 Dividends on the above pay A nle in London. Austrizoi o pot Cent.. Ex 10 Fiorillo ... Belgian, 44 4 . per cent.,Ex. 25f. Dutch 'L# per o.lit. - ...x. 12 Gull,. — Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .... Do. Account — French Routes, 3 nor Cunt., Ex. 25f. lt.tlitin 5 per Cent. 1831, E.:: - . 25f. Do Account CLOSING PRICES. Oonso:s, Money )2i 3 921,- 3 Do. Account, March 4 LATEST INTELL MENGE (R E UTE R'S TELEGRAMS.) LIVERPOOL, March 1. The Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate Com pany's steamer Copernicus, Captain Carkwell, left the Mersey yesterday with ship-letter mails, 13 passengers, a small amount in specie, and a general cargo direct for Rio de Janeiro, Monte Video, and Buenos Ayres. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. SOUTIIAMPTON, March 1. The North German Lloyd's steamer Ameri ca , from New York, has arrived here. She brings 46 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, 42 sacks of mails for London, and a full cargo. N o specie. _ . PORTUGAL. LISBON, Feb. 28. The British ironclad Hercules has arrived here. All well. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAILS OF 13-19 TR FEBRUARY. SUEZ, Feb. 28. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sumatra sailed for Bombay at 5 p.m. yesterday. PR USSIA. BERLIN, March 1. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the bill relative to the convention concluded between the Prassian Government and the town of Frankfort was passed almost unani mously. No debate took place, and the bill was adopted in accordance with the proposals of the committee appointed to report upon the same. FRANCE. BOURSE, Feb. 27.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : Bank Shares 2965 haFan Fives 57 50 End of mouth — Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred — Cash Orleans Northern )180 .... Lyons and Mediterraoean Southern..... 62l} Western Eastern 585 .• Sardinian Austrian Lombard 4831 North of Spain Saragossa Roman 5O 41 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month— 71 421 Credit Mobilier 291 50 End of month 293 75 Credit Funnier 1620 --- End of month — - RAILWAY CENTRAL CRLIIINAL COURT—(This Day.) The Central Criminal Court resumed its sittings this morning before the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, and Aldermen. THE MERCHANTS' COMPANY. Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., said he was instructed on the part of the prosecution in the case of Mr. Richard Stuart Lane and Mr. James Childs to apply to the court for per mission for the witnesses to b 3 allowed not to go before the grand jury, and that the recognisances of the wit nesses for the prosecution should be discharged. The Recorder said that he had read the depositions very carefully, and he must say that the conclusion he had arrived at was that unless there was some additional evidence to that which appeared in the depositions, it was hopeless to expect a conviction of the defendants upon the the charge made. lie therefore consented to the applica tion that the prosecution should not he required to go before the grand jury. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A RAILWAY PICKPOCKET.—WiIIiam Bishop, &scribing himself as a greengrocer, of 47, Pearson-street, Kingsland road, was charged More Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a purse containing money from the person of Mrs. Mary Ann Lamb, of 53, Great Titchfield-street, while on the platform of the Great Portland-street station of the Metro politan Railway. Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner. WESTMINSTER. ROBI3ERT OF A MEMBER OF THE REFORM CL 88. Rowland Fanchild, a cabman, was charged with stealing a black leather bag with valuable contents. Mr. Octavius Henry Smith said he hired a cab at the Reform Club on Monday evening, and was driven to his house, 44, Princes-street, Kensington. After he had got in-doors he found he had left his bag in the cab. He sent out his servant and found the cab was gone. Prisoner—lt is all a•mistake. The prisoner was remanded until Saturday. TB AMES. DESPERATE ENcOUNTER.— Frederick Rose, a stout young fellow, about 20 years of age, was brought up on remand, charged with assaulting and wounding police constable Alfred Sturgeon, of the K division, and sen tenced to two months' hard labour. MARKE7 S-1 Ills DAY. MARK-LANE. At Mark-lane this morning there was a full attendance of the trade. The demand continues very quiet for all descriptions. Wheat sells slowly, and here and there lower prices were accepted. Flour without much change. SMITHFIELD AND LEADENHALL. The dead meat market is steady at previous rates : - Beef, 3s 4d to 5s 2d ; veal, 4s 6d to 5s 6d ; mutton, 3 / 3 4d to 5s 2d ; large pork, 3s 2d to 3s 10d ; small ditto, 48 to 56 per stone. There is no change of importance to report in the poultry market. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1869. SHARE LIST. ,AlO Jti,“.•.A.13 AND BTOCivo Paid. ClOB ing BUsilieei ,efire 4s.liway b. Friee. clone. 81 Bristol and Exeter ...... 100 77 79 at Caledonian llO 75 77 761 11 1 8 Cazoortati 20 Cornwall ' all 2 st Dublin itt Beliamt Juno lOO 77 79 fit Den„l'erth, Ab• June lOO 70 72 2/ East London all 7 9 tO 1,0 16 2) Do 10 ,t Glasgow it S. Western 10i; 98 100 st Great Eastern .. st Do. E. Aug]. So. L l4O 7 !I t Grcat Nortliul 6coth:nsl WO 1$ tl st Great Northern IOC 107; !OS; 108 st Do. A stud ...... ill :04; 165 103 1 it Lo. 1•25 1:7 at G L;S, anti iv'. 01 7 e• Gt. Vccfitein 19 2 i 9. 491 i I south IVAies 8t I JO. W . ' LAO. I‘i e wvoi t iuo .t Lancashire& itn WU 141 1:61 12/1 41 5 fit Lou., ill-404. 0 4 110 5 1 501 601 1 E .l 0: DJ Scrip -on., coo ivy 111 171 it DO. Aletrop. st Lou. 6z :North Wusiial lut) 1141 151 11'1 1 . t Lou. South Wefitel.„„ i.A; 8, 90 1:81 61 541 1;0 it Aitqropolitsat ... • lto 1041 116 106 I 1 st Do Extousl 1,1 1 0 10, ti ; 10 k iv. :A. .. 14) 1 1 St Diets 4,1. 45 1,4 g 5 ! I lo Metro? ,t. John's Ico 6 Ito 11:1 171 118 171 1 1 st lu, 85 b 7 811 st N ;ad i.tritish St Llo. flit., st I\ or. , ;I,tern—bei wica.. Ijo 100 it 4 13 .4 25 Do. ii. ti.E purchs,a at Do Lf.,.cds ...... ........ Ivo CO 6: at Do York st Do Carlisle . st Do Stoe ICO 1 81 i 34 st North Lon lou 10 Do New 16(8 . 2 11 2 p st North Stafforashlro 59 6U st North and S.-W. Jnuction 100 102 101 10 Do New £lO sharos.l 7 st Rhyinney st Shropshire Union I 0 58 5J at Suutn Devon at South Eastern lOO e 2 8 4 7)k I st Staines, Wolehain, , t Wok all 10 10 at t .• • u 3 aterioro. alt Kiiktuicy „. iuo lu iti J.ICIIOO Os Whiteha RAILWAYS-PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. at Bristol and Exeter 4 p.cent. 100 86 88 st Caledonian ears., No. 2 lOO ... ••. at Do. Scot. N.E., 41 per cent lOO ••• ... at Do. Aberdeen, gua, 6 p.c lOO ... ... at Do. do. 7 per cent lOO ... ..• at Do. do. Ordinary lOO 80 83 at Do. Midland st Do. Dundee and Arbroath 100 ... ... 20 Cornwall, 5 per cent gua all ... ... [Ai Dundee, rerth, and Aber deen Junction lOO 105 107 at Do. Ist Class preference lOO ... ... st Glee. d S.W. gua.s per et lOO ... ..• at t4t. Eastern, E.C. Ex. No.l 100 99 102 at Do do N 0.2 100 98 100 at Do du 6 per cent 100 IU; 112 st Do East Anglian Asp. c. 100 ... ... st Do du B 6 do. 100 ... ~, st Do do C 7 do. 11)0 ... .., at Do do No. 1, 5 p.c. 100 ... ... at Do E. Union 4 p.c. gua. 100 71 73 st Do Nor folk 5 p.c. Ex. 1846 100 ... ... at Do do 5 p.c.Way.Val.lB 47 100 ... ... at Great Northern, ()per cent 10 ... ... st Do 5 p.c., rd at 1U p. c. pm. 100 ... ... at 2,:D0 4, do do du 100 ... ... at Do 5 do at sp. c. pm. 100 ... ... st Do Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax, 6 per cent lOO ... ... atj Gt. Nrth of Scotland, Ist pf 100 ... ... at, Great South. and \ Vesteru (Ireland) 4 per cent lOO 96 97 at; G tWest.— Orig.& Jnt.-11ent chg., per gua. 5 p.c lOO 103 103 st Do. Orig. (B. it H. Ex). 5 p.c lOO 95 100 at Do do 4, per cent. 1850 lOO 88 9) at Do do 4 do do st Do do 5 per cent. redem lOO 9i 97 57 at Du do Birmingham gua lOO 60 70 at Do do do pref lOO ... ~, at 1)u do Chester gua lOO 72 76 at Do do do S per cent lOO ... at Do do do 5 do 100 95 100 at Du South Wales, gua. 4 p.c. 100 ... .., at Do do 41 p.c lOO ... ~, at Do do 41 1859 lOO ... ~, at Do do 5 at Do West Mid. Oxford lag lOO 111 116 st Do do 2d gua lOO 110 112 at Do Newport, lstg.s p.c lOO v.) 9 i st Do do 20 do 100 100 103 at Do gua. 51 per cent. 1563 100 ... ... 100 Lancaster & Carlisle 41 p.c. all ... ~ st Lancash. & Yorksh. 6 p.c. 100 1 • 135 st Do Barnsley, £5 aa 100 p.c. 100 ~, ... at Do 6 p.c. (East Lancashire) 100 130 135 st Do 41 (Blackburn purch). 100 sd 102 at London & Brighton, 5 P.C. guaranteed, No. 1 lOO ... ... at Do 5 per cent. gua. Nu. 2. 100 ... ... st Do 6 do do lOO ~, ... at Du .5 do No. 4. 100 ... ... at Do 7 per cent l,O ••• ... at Do 6 do (W .E. & (LP ) 100 • ~, ••. at Do 4 do 1859 lOO ... ... st London, Chatham, & Dover 5 per cent lOO ••• •.• st London and 1;.W., C. and Nuneaton 5 per cent lOO 10.) 111 at Do Bedford .0 Cambridge lOO ... „, st Do Shrewsb'y & Welchp'l lOO ... .., st Loudon and :....-W. 7 p,c late 3d share , : 2a Gd. Du (rortsuo. perp ans. 2s6d) all ... .., st Man., Slid., &Linda. 6 p.c. 100 llt 117 6 Do .E 6 all par 1 pin at Do 31 per cent lOO 60 65 10 Do redeem. 6 percent. 5 st Mid. Consolidated., 6p. c lOO 133 140 at Do Briatol&Birm., 6p. c lOO 133 136 at 1)o 41 per cent. redeem lOO 10) 102 ' at 1)o 41 per cent. irredeem lOO 100 1 2 at Do Leicester & Irchn, 4 . p.e. 100 90 92 at North British, 3 p.c. No.l lOO ... ..• at Do E. it G. 4p.e.S. & D lOO ... ... at Do N. 8., N 0.2, 5 per cen.t.. 100 ... ... at Do Border Union, .51 p.c lOO ... .. ; .- at NEaatern—Cous. 4p c lOO 86 8i - at Do 4 per cent. rode.;: lOO 95 97 at Do Li .N.E. 4 per cent., lOO ... ... 17 Do Berwick capital 8 13.4. ... ... 10 1 . 0 6 5 . 5 ,.. 2 Do York, IL& S. purchase. 10 10 Di a Do Stektn & lining. & 5 p.c. 100 103 110 ~.,a Devon iat . (ad. Annuities, . , st Do W, Hartlepool ti. and It. 100 87 8.) 20 North StutTordshire lus Do Ta.vistock Anus., 108 10a Du Fixed 41 per cent 11.08.'6 ) all i l 2 9 2 4 1 2 0 3 4 all 8 9 at Do 41 percent lOO •• at Do Fixed 41 per cent • • .. at Taff Vale N o .l lOO , ~. at Waterford &liiike 100 145 1.50 tiny, 6pc NO 41 43 RAILWAYS.—PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. With Dividends contingent on the Profits of each separate year. at Caledonian 41 p c gun. st tio Scot.Ueu. min. 7p c lOO st Do 41 p irredeetn all st Do 4p e eon. issued at 80 65 st Great Lantern 41 per cent. 100 at Do 5 du, 1862 MO S . B st Du New 5 do, 1863 lOO 87 59 st Do do 5 do, 1864 IOU 82 86 st Great Northern, 5p c irred lOO at Du Permanent 5 per cent lOO st Do Boston & Stead, 41 pc 100 st Great West., W. Nlidl., 5p c 100 st Do Joint I.erpe. 5 p c,1865 lOU 86 a 3 at Du du 6p c irred., 1866 10) 106 103 23 Do Vale Neath 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 st Loud., Brig., &c., 41 pc, 1858 100 at Do du 4 do, 1860 100 at Do do 41 do, 1861 100 at Di do 41 do, 1863 100 ... st Do do do, 1865 100 st Do No. 6 5 du, 1866 100 st Do No. 7 sdo st Loud . Chat., &c., 2d, 6 p.c 100 at Du Metrop. Ex., B 6 p.c 100 Do do C 6 p.c st London& N. Western, 5p c 100 10; 111 at Loudon &S. Western, 41 p c 100 94 96 10 Mau. chef. &Lin., 5 pc, 1865 all 881 at Metropolitan u per cent lOO at Midland, A 5 per cent pref lOO 10 i 110 at Du B 5 do 100 108 110 is •Dos p c opt. to COOT. to Ord. Stk., Sept. 1, 1860 all 21 211 18 Do Incony. New Shares all 194 191 22 Do 5p c eon. into Old Stk., Aug. 31, 1872 at North Britisu, E. and (4- - No. 1, 5 per cent ... lOO st Du £l O guaranteed, 1 661 100 *** et Do E., P., & Dun., 2d, 4pc 100 St Do L.&U, No. ' 2 , 5P.c 100 "' st Du N. 8.. 5 per cent, 1662 100 *** "' st Do E. & U., N 0.3, 5 p.c lOO *" '" s t Do E. & (Ordiry) 41P 1 0 0 •• ••• st North Eastern, 44 per cent 100 s t Do Stock. & Dart., n lOO i " 113 st North Loudon , 41, p er cent (Max. 5 per cent) st North Staffordshire 5p e lOO st South Eastern, 41 pe, 1859 100 •" st 5 do 1861 100 st Do sdo (Oh. Cross) 1663 100 s t Do 5 do, 1664 st Victoria St.& Finnic°, 41 pc 100 RAI L wAYS.-LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALSJ I(7,[l3lit.'l4lrial cent. Prefer : II :7 0 1 00 1 1 1 0 4:3 1 : 1! - 1 3: 2 es S ttt Chesterß U v e k o . i t 1 g a l 1 : a 11 l a s h Holyhead irdco. .. . st Do. 6i per cent. 100 117 112 et Clydesdale, guaranteed lOO ... "' et Colchester Stour Va ll ey :. s t East Linco ln, km 6p. c lOO 14, & 1:;f1 20 Gloster and Lean Forest all . a Gt. ESSU., NOSTIII.,&c.,b p.c 100 " •': s Do. E. U. Harwich, 4 p.c 100 13; 72 st 1)o. do. Woodbrg.Ex., do. 100 6 9 72 fit Gt. West ,W. Mid., Heref 100 98 100 50 Hull and Selby all 111 113 st Lancaster and Carlisle lOO 216 22) at London and Blackwall lOO 94 9 8 s t Do. 4, 1 - per cent lOO ••• .„ st London, Coat., itc., pc. 100 ... .. st Do. Corn. Fund, sdo 100 . . • - at Loudon and Gree nwich ofDu. do Preference lOO ••• a: ... a t Loudon, Tilbury, South 100 81 b 3 st Lowestoft, guo, 4 per cent—. LOU 3-0 82 st Do. do. 6 do. . . Si Mauc h., Buxton ; & Matlk all 6 4-, 1 st ;Midland, bradford, Pref lOO 93 94 . 10 Mid lient Cray Line) 10 Northeruk East , 5 per cent all bil bd 1,,) Du. do. 6 du. all ... ... st N. Easter,'--Hartlepool ... st N.West. A peril. prel, sp. c. 100 10, 110 st Du B nuninnun 1# p.c lOO ... ... st Notting. &Grauth. lt.s; C lOO 92 , b 25 Preston and b% yre • . ......... all 41 48' . Royston, Hitch.' a nd Shep. 100 133 138 st Shrewabury audllereford 100 133 lib 10 Do do 8 21 7 . p at S. Yorksh. and hirer Dun 100 98 100 st Dc 4 per cent gua lO 79 bi st Do i do st Viet. Station and Pimlico lOO 175 180 at West Cornwall C 00 61 14 14 L 7 20 West Loudon, lass Al z 0 Do du B all ... ... 20 Do do C all 61 % St Weymouth and Portland lOO ... ... at Wins and Somerset lOO r 1 83 DOCKS. st East and West India lO3 120 123 st London and St. Katherine lOO 4s) 61 100 D oDeb. stork, 4 per cent all 48i Milligan Freehold Land 100 31 33 st Dock st Southampton lOO 76 76 st SuiTay cgllllll‘Vi 4l 4 AS 60 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Closing Business Share NAmE. Paid. Price. done 10 Agra Limited, A all 114 121 121 )419i_ Do B lO 41 5 44 50 Albion 100 Alliance. 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'6'2 •• 100 10E1 101 107 D i) 0 0. 18 6 9 110000 I_os. 1082 - $ do. Az .• • • 100 108 110 Do rd. Lt 94 ..• ••••••• mi. 103 107 108 Victoria, 6,p.0. 16914. N.: 100 113 W ' SPIRIT OF TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times remarks that the army estimates of the pre sent year have been anticipated with more than ordinary interest, and forestalled with more than ordinary confider co. No very ambitious programme of reform is propounded in these estimates. They do not even imply or foreshadow any important alteration in the relations between the regular army, the militia, and the volunteers ; still less do they indicate any departure from English principjei of military organisation. At the same time the measures they presuppose will assuredly facilitate the introduction of salutary improvements into our system. National defence is the question that preoccupies and ought to preoccupy the mind of an English 'War Minister. The Times combats the principle maintained by some politicians that Great Britain must lose her place among the nations unless she is prepared to compete with the overgrown armaments of foreign Powers. If our national existence depends upon it, we must either resort to conscription or raise by taxes whatever may be required to support a force of 300,000 or 400,000 combatants, recruited by voluntary enlistment, in a country where the cost of labour is excessive. But we confidently deny that our national existence, or even our national honour, depends upon these conditions. That which commands the respect of warlike neighbours, and constitutes the security of a free country against aggres sion, is not only the strength of its standing army, but the porsession of irresistible resources, both moral and mate rial, capable of being called forth at the shortest notice in case of emergency. A reduction in the visible military force of these islands is consistent with a vast augmenta tion of the reserve forces in which consists their last and almost impregnable line of defence. To reconcile these distinct but not conflicting objects is the first duty of the House of Commons in discussing the army estimates. The Standard thinks that Mr. Gladstone will hardly feel himself strengthened for the work he has in hand by the fact that the accredited representatives of the English Church, through her bishops and clergy assembled in Convocation, have formally recorded their judgment against the policy of disestablishment and disendowment. Enough has been done by the addresses from the two bodies representing the bishops and clergy of the Church of England to convince the Government that the clergy are, with very few exceptions, rootedly hostile to their policy in regard to the Irish Church. It is vain to seek to minimise the importance of this fact, or to laugh out of court the channel through which it is made manifest. Convocation is the only appointed organ of the clergy known to the Constitution, and although its representative system needs expansion, it has as much right to speak for the clergy in the mean while as the House of Commons had to speak and legislate for the country when it was elected by the ten - potmders. It was never so active and vigorous as it is now, and never since its active life has been restored has the honour of a seat in the representative chamber been more earnestly sought or more keenly contested. The result, as we have seen in the action of the two provinces last week, was the election of a clerical Parliament which has signalised the first days of its first session by recording its unfeigned reprobation of the Church policy of Mr. Gladstone. The Daily News says that Bridgwater, that ancient and unrepentant roue, grown hoary in all the trespasses and sins of electoral corruption, has now, it may be hoped, filled up even to overflowing the cup of its abominations, and is destined to the fate, as it has long gone the way, of Yarmouth. There is a rugged simplicity in the confes sions of those sturdy Somersetshire rustics and " retired mariners" on the banks of the Parrott which, as extremes meet, almost deserves the name of honesty. The borough has been convicted before, but whether from despair of recovering a good name (if it ever had one), or from an innate vicious propensity, or from that obduracy which is so commonly found among criminals who have been convicted and released, and recon victed, it seems never to have set all the outward decencies at defiance with such roystering cynicism as at the last election. The result has been that even the most lenient and indulgent of election judges has unseated both members, and signified his intention to report to the Speaker the prevalence of corruption in the borough, although he has accepted the declarations of Mr. Vanderbyl and Mr. Kinglake that the corrupt practices which have forfeited their seats and saddled them with the costs of a petition were as completely unknown to them as notorious to everybody else. The Herald refers to the immense sums that-are spent in elections, and asks, Are we, then, to rest contented, and to sit still under the knowledge that without an expendi ture every four years, on an average, of thousands of pounds, a man cannot procure and retain a seat in the House of Commons? It is simply impossible that the moral sense of the earnest and reflective portion of the public should not be exasperated by the increasing difficul ties which beset men of moderate means, even if of rare or splendid abilities, in their natural and laudable ambition to serve their country and exalt their own fair fame within the honourable walls of Parliament. But we maintain that the State is a greater loser by far than Cc individual could eser be. Everything that deters good men from seeking admittance to the House of Com mons, or that gratuitously bars the way when they do seek it, is a national mischief ; nor will the nation be compen sated by their finding openings fur their intellectual energy in the very highest forms of journalism. Once let the press become too obviously and glaringly a better exponent of cultivated public opinion than the House of Commons, be.transparently a more favourite medium for thoughtful expression, the chosen or even accepted field for the pro mising brain of the generation, and once let men become accustomed to regard Parliament as an inferior political tribunal instead of the highest political tribunal in the land, and we shall have seen the beginning of the end of real representative government. Men will not long endure to be ruled by their inferiors. We want the best of the nation in the Legislature in order that the rest of the nation may gladly and without humiliation acquiesce in its decision. The Star declares that the present Government has come into power pledged to effect large and immediate reduc tions in the public expenditure ; and Mr. Childers's presence at the Board of Admiralty has been considered by the public generally a guarantee that the promises of the Liberal party while out of place will not be forgotten, so far, at least, as the navy is concerned, by a Liberal Administration. The navy estimates, which have just been presented to Parliament, and as published by order of the House of Commons, contain Mr. Childers's fulfil ment of his pledges. On the whole, we think the spirit of clearsighted and prudent economy exhibited in the details of the financial policy unfolded by the First Lord of the Admiralty will gratify, even though it may not altogether satisfy, the anxieties of the British taxpayer. Of course, it was not possible for Mr. Gladstone's Govern ment, having acceded so lately to power, to deal as thoroughly as the public desires with the expenditure of the country. In the navy, and the departments subsidiary to it, where great numbers of men are employed by Govern ment, it is peculiarly difficult to pursue the work of retrenchment quickly. Notwithstanding these obstacles, Mr. Childers has been able to effect a very substantial saving, as the estimates shew, without materially touching the efficiency of the service. Important, however, as the reduced expenditure is in itself, it is still more important as evidence of the spirit in which the. Liberal Government have approached their work, and of their resolution to do that work thoroughly. The Telegraph, in remarking on the Saurin case, observes that the rivalry between secluded life and the life of the world is no mean war; it is almost as old as society itself. But time has produced great changes. There is not a single unchanged mediaeval institution in England or elsewhere, intended for perpetual good, that has not fallen away from its original idea and become a ghastly skeleton or a kind of mummy, intact because it is guarded from the open air. Our endowed schools, our universities, our local charities are home examples ; and the evil is not confined to convent walls. For it sets a stigma of comparative irreligion on all without, and does its best to make the great majority of the Christian world feel that from them a lower kind of morality, a less pure religion, a less ardent devotion is expected. The Sabbatarians err in the same way when they so emphasise the holiness of one day in the week, that their hearers half believe sin and world liness to be natural rather than otherwise, from Monday morning to Saturday night. In protest against that Puritan falsehood—in protest against the Popish doctrine of peculiar sanctity within a convent and a kind of license for worldliness without—the true creed is, that if religion is to be the real guide of our life, it must guide it all ; it must make our public men disdain ignoble party decep tions ; it must stand by the merchant, the city man, the shopkeeper, and forbid fraud ; it must be as potent on week days as on Sundays ; it must guide even Pro testant clergymen and Popish nuns iu their controversies and disputes. GREAT FIRE IN NEW ZEALAND. Letters re ceived from New Zealand record a great fire breaking out on the 7th of December at Timaru. It happened that a strong gale from the north-west was blowing at the time, in consequence of which the fire spread with amazing rapidity, almost entirely destroying the town. THE CASE OF " Sex gni v. STARR."—The Lord Mayor has received the following letter from a gentleman, benevolent in his intentions, mild in his complaints, who acted as one of the jurymen in the convent case which has just been concluded :—" As one of the unfortunate 12 on the jury—` Sauna v. Starr '—l beg to hand you, for the benefit of the poor box, a juryman's fee of one guinea for 20 days' attendance. I enclose my card, but would rather my name did not appear in the acknowledgnento l the sum. To the Right ton. the Lord Mayor7-Attuidv ZISQ: Zdrii.XY Ut", t tit Tir4 TEL LIGENCE-111,:. . , VICTORIA CLUB.—THIS DAT. GRAND NATIONAL. 13 to 2 agst Despatch (taken) 7to 1 agst Fortunatrts (taken and offered) 11 to 1 agst Guy of Warwick (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Colonel (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Fan (offered) 100 to 8 agst Pearl Diver (taken and offered) 100 to 7 agst Tathwell (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Q. C. (offered-20 taken and wanted) 20 to 1 agst The Nun (taken freely) 20 to 1 agst Alcibiade (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Globule (taken and offered) 2 to 1 agst Harcourt (taken) 33 to 1 agat Knave of Trumps (taken) 33 to 1 agst Barbarian (taken) 40 to 1 agst Orne (taken) 50 to 1 agst Havelock (offered) 66 to 1 agst Plum Cake (taken and offered) 1000 to 10 agat Hall Court (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Dick Turpin (offered) 2000 to 30 aget Dick Turpiu (with ft start—taken) sto 1 :Tat Brayley'it lot (taken) 15 to 1 agst 'Holman's lot (offered) LIVERPOOL SPRING CU!'. 7 to 4 agst Kiiight of the Gaiter (taken` 4to 1 agst Tr.trnp (taken and offered) 6to 1 agst Ajax (taken and offered) 8 to 1 agst Vortigern (taken and offered). SPORTING NOTES. At Nottingham, Mr. Pryor was very fortunate in car rying off six of the principal races. Old Friday, who ran as roguish as ever, won the Handicap, after a rattling finish with the non-staying Hatelment. For this victory, however, Mr. Pryor may thank Parry, who never rode a finer race. Sister to Veda, who is wonderfully fast, scat tered her nine opponents in the Little John Stakes, and she is likely to hold her own for some weeks to come over short distances, whatever her fate may be on long courses. The racing at Nottingham and that at Derby were scarcely up to the average, and had it not been for The Colonel winning the Hurdle Handicap at the former place, the sport would have told us nothing concerning the Grand National, as no horse opposed Greenland for the great Midland Steeplechase at Derby. Opinions as to the style in which The Colonel won were divided, his partisans averring that he beat Ada Penelopa in a canter, whilst other individuals thought he won with about 71b in hand. The success of The Colonel, however, did not make him any better a favourite for the Liverpool event than he was before. The Liverpool Meeting will be held on Tuesday and two following days. For this important gathering the Messrs. Topham have published one of their usual attrac tive lists, and if all the proposed items therein fill twenty three races will b 3 decided. Seven out of the eight events in Tuesday's card are completed, and the Spring Flying Stakes (four furlongs) has secured forty-five nominations the most noteworthy of which are Marshal Ney, 7st 81b ; Mr Pitt, ist 81b ; Dawdle, 7st 61b ; Ajax, Est 61b ; and Soubrette, sst 71b. Dawdle invariably runs well over Aintree, and I can select no horse capable of beating her, unless Mr Pitt is sent to Liverpool. There are 18 entries for the Tyro Stakes (four furlongs), but, as nearly all the two year olds that have been engaged are "dark," we can only point to Coutts and Little Lady filly as being danger ous. The Trial Stakes (about six furlongs), with its penal ties and allowances, reads more like a handicap than a weight for age race. Albion end Raunds are each entitled to a 71b allowance, and the better of the pair should win. In the Mersey Cup (one mile) Vespasian and Voda are the most attractive names ; and in the United Hunters' Race (two miles) Delaware and Royal Irish Fusilier will beat the field, though it may include New Oswestry, Traveller, Aurifera, Lord Zetland, Costa, and Nebsworth. For the Molyneux Handicap Steeplechase (about two miles and a quarter) we prefer Ada and L.S.D., as they are quick jumpers, and will like the distance. Several clever horses have been named for the Hurdle Handicap (two miles), but of those likely to run the l.est may be discovered in Cho rister and Barnabo. Wednesday is the Grand National day, and that popular cross-country event will attract a vast number of visitors to Aintree. As a betting race the present year's Grand National never had its equal, for upwards of fifty horses have figured in the list of quotatious. Still we do not ex pect to find more than 30 competitors face Mr. M'George. Mr. Brayley will run three—Pearl Diver, Fortuuatus, and Sea King. All these horses, more particularly Pearl Diver and Fortunatus, have been supported by their owner, and the best, which we take to be the Diver, must be dangerous. In the final run home, however, some of the light-weighted horses will wear Pearl Diver down, and we do not believe the best of Mr. Brayley's trio will be so near winning this year as the fine son of Marsyas and Pearl was last anniversary. Philosopher and the Nun are overweighted ; and the French mare Astrolabe, clever though she is, will find it difficult to beat the horses that will be brought out against her at Liverpool, as she is rather on the small side. Alcibiade is old and slow, and but for Harcourt, who &so belongs to the Lublienham division, being stopped iu his work -owing to an aczi dent sustained a short Here since -I do nut apprehend that Alcibiade would ever have been quoted at 100 to 8 for this race. Havelock is likely to run forward, as he i, fast on the the, and jumps well. Mr Morgan may start Globule, Brack, and Huntsman's Daughter; but the only horse I fancy in this trio is Globu'e—a natural jum per, and a good animal—as Brick and Huntsman's Daugh ter will nut, in our opinion, stay the course. Hall Court and Knave of Trumps are in Golby's stable, but The Nun will be the trusted one of this strieg. Tathwell, from his trials with Greenland and Barbarian, is known to be a good horse, and a better -looking one or a surer fencer will not take part in the Grand National contest. Q. C. hails from a dangerous quarter, but this son of Rataplan will improve with age, though ho may this time of asking b ea t more than one of the leading favourites over the Liverpool ground. Despatch is said to have cleaned out all Lord Poulett's lot, and, if so, he must be bad to beat, as the " trying tackle" is reliable. Hitherto Despatch has been set down as a non-stayer ; and had he not belonged to Mr. Studd we should not have entertained his Grand National chance. We are, however, bound to hold Despatch harm less, and place him on my reserve list. Goldfinder has no chance; neither have Belmontine nor Billy Gladstone, although the Irish division, as usual, swear by their champions. Captain Crosstree, if he were thoroughly sound, would possess a winning chance second to that of no horse engaged in the Grand National. As he has, however, been on the infirm list this spring, I pass him over. The Colonel, that he-has never run in a s t eep l ec h ase, except a consideringino gstalot of farmers' horses at Birmi ng h am, i s one of the firmest favourites ever known; and that he is a useful horse I do not deny, though I fear he will not this year be registered winner of he Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase, as his best form is not good enough to win. Fan knows the course, and will be found in the van at the finish, as her owner, who is not a novice at the game, fancies her chance, notwithstanding the indifferent runniug of the mare at Warwick last autumn. Bristles and The Plover were once fair horses, but I fear their best days are over. Bishopton has a respectable outside chance,as he won a good trial with A ce o f T rumps and others over Kingsbury Course. Guy of War wick is a vastly improved horse, and, as he beat &da Penelope at Lincoln far easier than The Colonel did at Nottingham, he ought to be an equal, if not a better, favourite than the half-bred son of Knight of Kars and Boadicea. Dick Turpin is the most leniently-weighted horse in the handicap; and when it is remembered that he has met and defeated Globule, Philosopher, Shakespeare, Pearl Diver, The Doctor, Shangarry, Despatch, Sea King, Havelock, Ace of Trumps, and Greenland, the " feather" in the Grand National must bo pronounced formidable. From the present tone of the market, however, I fear that this horse must have gone amiss. Plum Cake would not look at a fence when ho ran at Manchester, and will be useless over the Liverpool country. In the doubtful list there is a good horse called The Robber, but he may not run on this occasion. Despatch, Fau, Tathwell, Alcibiade, and Guy of Warwick are the candidates that I mast esteem, and in retaining two, my choice falls on TATHWELL AND DESPATCH. In the Sefton Handicap (about six furlongs) thirty-six horses have been engaged, and Virittis could scarcely lose, if sent. Should Mr. Bennett's mare, however, be reserved for future engagements, Soubrette or Miss Theo may prove equal to the task of winning. The March Stakes (4 fur longs) will be secured by Pate or Hollandaise ; and the Welter Cup (1 miles) by Three per Cent. or Sister to Vedette. The only closed races for Friday are the Spring Cup, the Scurry Welter Handicap, aud the Sefton Handicap Steeplechase. The Spring Cup (14 miles) is a fail ure hi point of acceptance, as only twenty horses have remained in, although sixty-seven were originally handbapped for it. Knight of the Garter is the highest weighted horse entered, and he is quite capable of winning, if Lord Cal thorpe considers the stake worth acc e p tin g . In case the Knight, however, is an absentee, Vortigern or Ajax may be found worth trusting, as bot h horses are well in. In the Scurry Welter Handicap ( about six furlongs) Fairfax is the best of a moderate lot.. The Sefton Steeplechase will be partially decided by the running in the Grand Na tional ou Wednesday. The Shrewsbury Spring Meeting Will take place on Friday and Saturday. The principal closed races in Mr. Frail's progratyme are the Spring Cup and Middleton Plate on Friday, and the County Handicap and Steeple chase on Saturday. Seve nteen horses have acce p ted for the Spring Cup (if mile s ) , and, in the presumed absence of Ecarte, it will be won by King of the Fairies. There are twenty-throe nominations for the Middleton Plate (about four furlongs), and unless there is a tolerably smart juvenile iu the dark division, Hollandaise or Vibration will be victorious. In the County Handicap (1 mile), Last Rose of Summer and Veda seem most like wincing names ' • a nd for the Spring Steeplechase (about 131 miles) Ends leg Liverpool appears G r a n w d e 11 Nationaltre at treated, , will u probably b the a bl v pointu n uin c g leu in rly the to r the wiuner of the Shrewsbury event. A ruse liAlir. k EDI °107 , 7 I 4 1 , f SUN OFFICE, 6 o'CLocK. TATTERSALL'S—This Evening. GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. 6to 1 agst Despatch (taken and offered) Bto 1 agst Fortunatus (taken and offered) 12 to 1 agst Fan (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Colonel (taken) 13 to 1 agst Pearl Diver (taken) 100 to 7 agst Guy of Wartvick (taken) 100 to 7 agst Tathwell (taken and offered) 100 to 6 agst Q.C. (taken and wanted) 100 to 6 agst Aleibiade (off—take 20 to 1) 20 to 1 agat The Nun (offered) 1000 to 30 agst Huntsman's Daughter (taken and off 1000 to 30 agat Globule (taken and offered) 40 to 1 agst Orne (taken) 50 to l agst Plum Cake (taken and offered) 50 to 1 fist t Havelock (taken and offered) 50 to 1 agst Billy Gladstone (offered) 500 to 4 agst The Robber (taken) DERBY. 4 to 1 aget Pero Gomez (offered) Sto 1 agitll,drunt (t cic,rn) 4U to 1 ng,t Boulogo° (taken arid offered) CHEST Elt CUP. 1000 0 70 ngst The 2Ege.in (tak,n) DEATH OF 111. GAMAR7'INE AND All. TRIPLONG. PARIS, March 1. MM. Triplong and Lamartine died last night. It is stated that M. de Lagu9rronniere will leave Paris this evening for Brussels. IMPERIAL PARLIAIAENT HOUSE OF LORDS-THIS EVENING. Their lordships assembled shorly after four o'clock, and having disposed cf a few private bills, immediately ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Ms EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour, at which time every seat on the Government side of the house was filled. In the galleries set aside for the use of distin guished persons were the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Duke of Argyll, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Dean of Westminster, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Bough ton, the Earl of liarrowby, Lord Stratford de Radcliffe, Hr. Reveroy Johnson (the American Minister), Right Hon. T. O'Hegan, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, &c. NEW MEMBERS. The Harquis of Hartiugton, Mr. Phipps, and Mr. DeYe— reux took the or th and their seats for the Radnor boroughs, Westbury aad Wrexford. PETITIONS. A great number of petitions were presented by bon members on the Ministerial benches in favour of the die_ establishment of the Irish Church. ELECTIONS. Mr. BRUCE gave notice that, on Thursday next, he should move for a select committee to inquire into the pre sent mode of conducting Parliamentary and municipal elections. CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS. Mr. BRUCE, in reply to Mr. V. Harcourt, said he could not produce the various judgments given during the trial of erection petitions as they were not under his control. With respect to what course the Government intended to take, that was indicated in the notice he had already given on the subject. PAYMENT OF RATES. Iu reply to Mr. LIDDELL, Mr. UOSULIEN said there was no legal indemnity that could be given to the owners of house property who un dertook the payment of rates for occupiers. - - THE PUBLIC PARKS. In reply to Sir 11. HOAR; Mr. LA YARD said steps were being taken to restore the grass in the open parts of tho public parks, but with respect to the supervision of the persons frequenting those places that was under the superintendence of the police. It was even possible tor the police to detect criminals merely by their dress. (Laughter.) THE IRISH CHURCH. On the order of the day being read, Mr. GLADSTONE rose amidst loud cheers to move that the acts relating to the Irish Church be read., The Chief Clerk of the House (Sir D. Le Merchant) having dune so, Mr. GLADSTONE then moved that the house resolve itself into committee to consider those acts. The motion having been agreed to, and the house Lavine... gone into committee, Mr. GLADSTONE said that the motion he should eon elude with would ba that the chairman be directed to move the house that leave be given to bring in a bill to put an end to the establishment of the Church in Ireland and to make provision tberefor,and in respect to the royal college of Maynooth. He then said that the subject which he proposed to submit to the house was one of the greatest difficulty ant importauc., but he thought if the house gave him their patience be should be able to show that the time for the disestablishment of the Irish Church had arrived-- (hear, hear) -the more especially so as the church popu lation iu that country was in many parts merely official, co .sisther of that of toe clergymen, the clerk, and sexton. Ile could not but think that many agreed with him that they cool t not look back to the position of matters in that country without shame - (hear, h: ar)—but for the resto ration of peace and prosperity it was now above all neces s try to take away that token and symbol of ascendancy which, as long as it was allowed to remain, would neu tralize all efforts for the improvement of the country. In proceeding with the question at that ruJiiltutt they were taking up the unfinished work of last year, and dealing with a question which had been clearly put and definitively announced by the last election. To that answer he would add the resignation of the late Ministry, but on that subject he did not desire to pass one word of censure beyond saying that it bore emphatic testimony to the charaAer of the judgment of the people. lie knew he should be met with objections that the proposal he was about to submit to Par liament was adverse to the principles of Protestantism, but that was open to debate ; and it would also be contended that the proposition was against the Act of Union, but he contended that the proposal he should have the honour to submit was, on the contrary, confirming its general principle. (Hear, hear.) In carrying out the die establishment of the Irish Church, it was above all neces sary that the matter should be dealt with in a prompt and rapid manner, for it was not the proper course to pursue and subject that establishment to a slow and lingering death. It was above all necessary that their legisla tion should be perfect and final, and that the great disturbing question should pass for ever out of sight, out of mind, and thus a new era he hoped would dawn on Ire land. It was not sought to inflict any penalty or pain upon any one by the Act they hoped would become Jaw: (Hear, hear.) One of the first matters that would occur after the passing of the bill would be the winding up of the present Ecclesiastical Commission in that country and the formation of a new ono to exist for 10 years, to which all questions would be submitted, and the opi nion of Parliament would be taken on all mat t ters. With respect to the appointments it was pro posed such might be made for a ited period biota without giving the person so appoin the freehold. With respect to episcopal appointmentsin was thought advisable to separate the Crown and all other appoint ments made during the term he had mentioned, but that no vested interests should be created. Those proposals he believed would be all that would be necessary to be done in the intermediate period and would take the place of the Suspensory Bill of last year. The Commision would be precluded from laying out money for the erection of new churches ; but in the expenditure of the funds committed to their charge they would be strictly confined to making the necessary repairs. During the intervening period before the full operation of the bill it proposed that the people should do that which the people of other countries have done, viz., constitute for themselves some sort of governing body ; and, when such a body had been formed, power would be taken for its legal recognition. (Hear. hear.) It was proposed that all these provisions should come into operation on the day mentioned in the bill, the let of January, 1871, and on that day the union between the English and Irish Church would be dissolved, and from that day the Church of Ireland should cease to be established by law, and be entirely and wholly disestablished. (Hear, hear.) He should have to detain the house some time whilst ho prOceeded to state how it was proposed to deal with the vested interests of the Irish Church, because they embraced various matters from the highest objects down to the life interest in grave yards. (Laughter.) There was also the necessity for winding up the matters sale eh of r hetsprcthtuorethhe lands, andol,lege of l i t :1 11 3 017o t w h o , u a ld n d c a a l l s i o f foorr the uttuost care being exercised. (LEFT SPEAKING.) THE MUTILATION OF A HUSBAND BY HIS WIFE. At the Southwark Police-court, shortly before twelve o'clock, the prisoner was placed at the bar before Mr. Burnham. The charge was ntered as follows: —" Ellen Cook, 44, of 42, Star-corner,e Bermondsey, charged with cutting and wounding James Cook, her husband, with in.. tent, Scc." Dr. Rendle, the house surgeon of Guy's Hospital, sail that James Cook was in that state that he would be unable to attend for many weeks. The prisoner was formally remanded until Wednesday, to ascertain the progress of the injured man. She seemed to take the whole affair very coolly, and left the court smiling. DE.STRUCTIVE STURM Al ORKNEY. Wicx, Monday Morning. 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